The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1881-03-17
EDITORIAL PARAGRAPHS.

IIIE new cable from DTOWnsNl1c
to Vera Cruz and Tampico has been
opened for business.
The adoption of that orphan boy,
Lincoln, by Mr.. Garfield, shows the
Christian spirit of our new Presi-
dent.
VANDERBILT's maxim for life is
"Do what you think is right and fair
to others regardless of what people
may think"
JAY GOULD Is opposed, as he has
lately stated, TO governm ents subsi-
dizing railway, steamship, and tele-
graph companies.
Our new President appreciates
legal genius. Every member Of
his cabinet excepting Blaine and
James has hung up a legal shingle.
The latest Mexican railway enter
prise reported is n road to be built
by the Palmer-Sullivan party, be-
tween Vera Cruz and ChalchecOm-
erla.
Col. s. III. RUSSELL is in Wash
ington looking after an appoint
ment as assistant postmaster gen.
cral. What will become of the
country without Star Service Brady
VICE PRESIDENT Arthur refused
to dine with the Outgoing and the
incoming President and Mr.. Vince
Ter. II was intended rs an afiront
10 Mr.. Hayes, but officially it must
be recognized as such to ali.
THE Excelsior cotton factory, at
Cuero will begin operations in
about one month, and it viii do
more towards making that place
solid than any other enterprise
that could have been started.
THE French senate has. voted that
the duty ON cattle imported INTO
France shall be advanced from 200
to 500 per cent. This evinces a de-
termination to force the French poo
pie into raising all their own meat
A WASHINGTON dispatch says
Judge Davis of the court of claims
has been offered and has accepted
the assistant secretaryship of state
He held that position during Grants
Il mi - rntfAN, aud olon Minis
ter TO Berlin.
THE report of Hon. John ID. Tenn
pleton, retiring Secretary of State,
is one of the most valuable books OF
reference ever compiled at Austin
II contains world of governmental
and statistical information, rarely
seen in such works.
EX-PREsIDENT HAYES left Wash
ington for his home in Ohio, and
the train upon which he was tray
cling collided with another OH the
Baltimore & Potomac railway. Two
men were instantly killed and many
more were seriously injured.
PEOPLE naturally conclude that
Gould can not live day without
gobbling up some railway. There
was q big excitement at Houston
the other day, because, as 1t was
supposed, he had devoured, at one
fell scoop, the New Orleans road.
MAcVEAeH, though an earnest
Republican, is considered too con-
servatlve by the stalwarts. His APP
pointment is concession, for which
they condemn Mr.. Garfield. Blaine
Window and the rest of the crew
ought TO satisfy the fiercest of these
buccaneers.
EVIDENTLY Mr.. Garfield does not
approve of administrative ability II
the treasury department. Sherman'i
great financial feats are admitted
and the President would have nc
moro such brilliant achievements
lie don't believe in them, and con
cluded TO Window up.
THAT corrupt ring of Philadel
phia politicians was defeated will
Democrat for mayor at the las
city election, and now the courts
are bringing them to grief. Three
members of the gang have alread!
been sentenced to the peniteDtiar!
for their fraudulent acts.
The Indiana Republicans are
warmed up at the slight Mr.. Gar
field has given the Hoosier state
Not a Republican in all Indiana wa
found worthy of place in the cab
met, and yet it was in Indiana tina
the tidal wave started thatbore Gar
field into the White House.
THE ball moves in one other di
rection. No more whisky is to b.
sold in government posts hereafter
abillhaving passed Congress prohib
iting suffers from retailing whisky
A private letter to aparty in Sal
Antonio, from Fort Clark, says til
law has been put into effect there.
FIFTY ladies, members of the Ma
tional Women's Christian Temper
-ance Union, waited ON Presiden
Garfield. ON the 9th. and presente
him, as President, with a portrait Q
Mrs. Hayes, which will hereafter oC
cupy prominent place on the wall
of one of the most prominent Whit
House rooms.
DIR. WEssrMoRELANp, of Atlantis
Georgia, who attended Sara Bern
hardt in her illness while in ths
city, told her she had gastritis, an
that she must either quit work G
die. Sara has gone through the d,
ing process so often and so success
fully, however, that she may nC
care much for the reality.
A SUBSTITUTE for the regulatio
railway bill is before the House,
followed the course recommends
in tho Governors message, regardin
railways, which appeared in u
STATESMAN few days ago. 1t
so late in the session, however, it