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The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1881-07-28

WHILE the entire south sympa-
thizes with President Garfield be-
cause of his unnecessary affiiction
caused by the murderous purpose Of
a stalwart, he has as yet, authorized
no one to send a message over the
wires to those southern people re-
GREETING that he charged the crime
of Mr.. Lincoln's assassination to the
entire south.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1881-07-28

THERE has been no end of florid
word-painting and sickly sentimen-
tality printed by the newspapers
upon the presidential assassination
but the sloppiest gush we have
noticed yet comes from the Mem
phis appeal. That paper proposes
a presidential ticket tor 1884, and in
view of Garfield's accident he is Civ
en- the first place on the ticket, while
local pride is satisfied by placing
Senator Harris on as candidate for
the vice-presidency.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1881-07-28
Especial to the Statesman.

TAYLOR, July 21.-A shoot
ing scrape occurred here last even
ing between two negroes, named
Albert Napier and Ed. Sampson,
which resulted in the death of the
former. They had been quarreling
about a girl during the day. At
about dark, Napier went to the bar
Der shop of Sampson, when Samp-
son struck him and fired ON him,
and then seven or eight shots were
fired in rapid succession, three TAX
ing effect in the body of Napier.
Sampson was only shot in the foot.
Napier is considered bad negro,
and the town is the gamer by his
death.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1881-07-28


THE Atlanta cotton exposition, as
before stated, begins October 6, and
lasts till the end of the year. Direc-
tor General Kimball announces that
the enterprise is now assured as a
great success, since every part of the
available room prepared has
been taken, and that the
management is engaged in adding
largely to its building capacity. 1t
has been decided now to charge
nothing for space, and the demand
will be only for the entrance fee
first decided upon. 1t is q matter
of money to the people ofthe south
that they take interest in this purely
southern exposition. People viii
be at Atlanta from all portions of
the world, and they should be re-
minded, when there and looking at
the native and manufactured pro
ducts ofthe south, that Texas is no
small component part of the whole.
in industry and production, as well
as in domain and richness of soils.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1881-07-28

THE national cotton exchange
met at st. Louis yesterday in bien-
nial session. About $50 delegates
are present, from the cities of New
York, New Orleans, Galveston,
Houston, Memphis, Mobile, Charles
ton. Atlanta, Savannah, Norfolk and
Nashville. The object of the meet
ing is to transact business and ex-
change ideas relative to the produc-
ton and shipment of cotton, and
each city has delegates in proportion
to the amount of the staple shipped.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1881-07-28

We have had big rains lately in
this section.
This place is sanguine of the two
railroads, the Grant and Rockport,
the San Antonio and Fredericks-
burg, in the next fifteen months.
The streams here have all been
up, and the stage was delayed six
hou at the Llano river, coming
down,
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1881-07-28

TOUCHING the fund proposed to
be raised for Mrs. Garfield, the New
York Star says:
"Although Mr.. Field at first ap-
pealed only to millionaires, it is
noticeable that two of the richest
men in the country took precisely
the same view as the large majority
of the people. w. III. Vanderbilt
stated that he would give $4,000 if
the president died; but not a cent
in advance. Mackey, the California
Cresus, said that he would come to
the front if the president did not
recover; and yet Mr.. Field had prob
ably relied upon Mackey for at least
$4,000. Such as it is, however, the
subscription has shown that the
people may henceforth be relied upon
to provide literally for the family of
any president who dies in Office, and
that the sad experiences of Mrs.
Lincoln will not be repeated. If it
had accomplished nothing but this,
the Mrs. Garfield fund would not be
without its value and Importance"
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1881-07-28

fusal to cooperate with Foster in
the thanksgiving matter, the fol-
lowing resolutions were adopted
with three rousing cheers for Rob-
erts.
WHEREAS, Governor o. M. Rob-
erts has respectfully declined to CO.
operate. with Governor Foster, of
Ohio, in designating day in
general thanksgiving for the recove-
ry of President Garfield, which act
we DO not regard as any violation of
his dntyto the state ofTexas; there
fore, be it
Resolced, That we, representing a
portion of the people OF Ft. Worth,
Will recognize and respect day of
thanksgiving, the day designated by
Governor Foster, Just as if 1t had
been designated by proclamation
issued by the governor of Texas;
and
ReSoIUed. That q copy of the re-
solutions duly attested by the
chairman and secretary of this
Meeting, be sent to the Governor of
Ohio.
Resolved, That the city papers be
requested to publish the resolutions.
Signed by w. A. Hoffman, j. G.
Hogset and John ID. Templeton.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1881-07-28

thanksgiving and prayer. All the
papers here have condemned the re-
fusal in strong terms except the
Times.
Petty thieves are raiding again,
and much complaint has been made
the past few months about the water
furnished by the water works COM
pany. DR.. Cupples analysed and
sampled it yesterday, and found it
perfectly pure.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1881-07-28

Waco, July 21.-The Baptist gen.
eral association met at IL A. NJ, in
the Baptist Church. Rev. b. II. Car
roll, ID. ID. delivered the address of
welcome, which was responded
to by General S. b. Maxey.
Rev. r. G. Buckner, of Dali
las, was elected president. About
800 are in attendance. The
Sunday school convention has con-
cluded its business and adjourned.
Several distinguished visitors from
abroad, and among them is the Rey.
j. r. Graves, ID. d., of Tenn, who is
working hard for the university.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1881-07-28
Especial to the statesmnn.l

MASON, July Give had a glori-
Gus rain on Sunday, which has
revived vegetation wonderfully.
The prospects are now good for an
abundant yield of cotton and at least
half a crop of corn.
A young stranger was drowned in
the Llano a few days ago.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1881-07-28

OUR kilograms have told us that
in one week during this heated term
four hundred and fifty-four persons
died in Cincinnati, two hundred and
sixty-four of sunstroke. This is over
sixty-four day, and is at the rate
of an annual defamation the entire
population, or two deaths weekly to
the thousand. An epidemic of yel-
low fever in southern city is
hardly more fatal than these heated
seasons in the northern cities.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1881-07-28

SOME of the papers have been
worrying considerably of late over
the question of the presidential sue
cession. The Philadelphia Press
suggests a solution to the vexed
question, and thinks that in case of
the death or resignation of both
president and vice-president, the
governor of Ohio should step into
the White House. This is evidently
the idea entertained by most citi-
zens of the "Buckeye State"
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1881-07-28
Especial to the Statesman. ]

CoNCHo, July 21.-Your reporter
met here to-day Mr.. Aug. Cotera,
formerly engineer at government
headquarters, who left San Antonio
last Friday in the interest of the
Corralitos mining company, Mexico.
They are working twelve mines $50
miles southwest of FL Paso, and
have met with splendid success. He
reports that the two men killed near
Quitman canon were undoubtedly
killed by the red skins. He goes af-
ter his family in San Antonio, and
will return in a few days to the
mines. lie reports business boom
ing at Ell Paso.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1881-07-28

THE Chicago Lnter-Ocean sug-
gests that the following prayer,
once delivered by a western chap
lain, be offered at Albany:
"Lord, Thou knowest, that these
men are going home. Forgive the
sins they have committed while they
have been in these legislative halls,
and send them home in safety, and
then, Lord, grant that these men or
men like them may never again
come here to make laws for the peo-
pie"
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1881-07-28

The new half-breed senator sets
ont with all the compliments. Here
is the latest, from the Philadelphia
Times:
ITO speak plainly and truthfully,
Warner Miller is disgrace to con-
gress, and the newspapers of the
country, the present half-breed or
gans among them, united in holding
him up as an example of all that IS
pernicious in the national legisla-
ture. He confessedly became a
member of. the House of Represen-
tatives in order to protect his wood
pulp monopoly from a reduction of
duty. His first appearance was be-
fore the ways and means commit
tee as an agent for his own pecuni-
ary interests, and the most active
work he did in congress was as a
lobbyist ON the floor, and yet he un-
blushingly receives his salary from
the government. These are the facts
against Warner Miller, and no
amount of leading articles calling
him a statesman because he led a
faction in an Albany speakership
fight can CLOSE them over HE Is
already a disgrace to the House of
Representatives, and the half breeds
propose to make him disgrace to
the Senate"
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fspecial to the statesman.1

SAN ANTONIO, July 21.-A private
postal card from Mexico says the
mail which left FL Paso on the first
inst. for that city was burned and
destroyed by Indians.
A public meeting is called for to-
morrow night to endorse Governor
Roberts in not appointing a day for
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1881-07-28

A recent publication by the CEN
sus Office gives the statistics Of pop
ulation of fifty-seven counties in
Texas; of these, fifteen do not con-
tain an inhabltant, while the othere
range from throe up to five hun
dred.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1881-07-28
JUST OPENED.

A fresh stock Of genersl groceries. cigars and
tobacco at the old city brewery, which will sell
low for cash or country produce
- H. sAMuKLsoHN..
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1881-07-28

Z Mr.. William Black, an Did TexxassF T Z s
printer, and foreman of the Housto n
Post died very suddenly the othe
day.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1881-07-28

: THEGalveston Nea0S is outraged at
Governor Roberts, because he would
not tumble to the call for thanks
giving and prayer. The reflection
upon Texas, it thinks, is a sad one,
and it is to work great hardship
upon Galveston. "Deep water" is
the only sort of water Galvesto-
nian wants, and the Neaos lays strong
condemnation on the governors
course, because, when the next aps
preparations come up in con-
gress, Garfield will be mad
about what the "Old Alcal-
de" did. The Ne,os should more
properly "cuss" a little, because
Garfield did not die, that the "deep
water" senator from Texas might
have directed his special friend,
Conkling, to have his special friend
as president, refuse to sign
any appropriation bill, not contain
ing an item of $5,O0O,OO0 for deep
water at Galveston. What clumsy
Providence! What desperate
NelCsi
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1881-07-28

Major Ras Redwlne, one of the
foremost men of east Texas. is dssld.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1881-07-28

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Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1881-08-09
IROOUOIS.

The Yankee came down with long Fred on
his back,
And his colors were cleaning with cherry and
black,
He flashed to the front, and the British star
paled,
AS the field died away and the favorite failed.
Like the leaves of the Summer when Summer
is green
The faces of Peregrine's hackers were seen;
Like the leaves of the Autumn when Autumn
is red
Flushed the cheeks OF the Yanks as tnelI
champion led.
Iroouois!!! Then the shoutings shook heav.
ems blue dome,
AS the legs of the Tinman safe lifted him home
Oh, A was an Archer, AL at this fun,
And A was an American too-and A WON'T
AB was the Briton who, ready to melt,
A sort of je ne sais [Iro)- quois felt.
To see his blue riband to Yankeeland go,
B too, none the less, was the hearty "Bravo"
Which per Punch. he dispatched to 'our XII
DER the sea-"
Who, for not the first time, got the pull of ].
The brokers of Wall street are loud in delight
And the bellies OF New York grow more beam
ingly bright;
surf,
And Punch brims his beaker in sparklin
champagne
Your health, Brother J! Come and beat u
again!
And cold grudge at victory honestly scored
Melts away like the snow when the wine
Punch
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1881-08-09

BISHOP DUDLEY's TRIB UTE TO DEAN
STANLEY. New York Her0ld's
London dispatch giving an account of
the funeral of Dean Stanley says:
"The esteem in which the memory Of
the divine whose ashes were placed
in England's national walhalla, in the
company of kings, will ever be held
by Americans was well expressed by
DR. Dudley, assistant Bishop of Ken
lucky. Speaking from text in the first
epistle to Timothy, he said that he had
come as foreigner to speak words OF
kindly remembrance of him whom they
all mourned, and who was one of the
most tolerant of the men of this genera
ton. He was never even privileged to
grasp his hand or to look into his eye,
but he came with sweet memory that
one of the last letters that the Dean ever
wrote was one inviting him, q stranger
to his ever open house and to kneel be-
side him in the Abbey. More than that,
he came as an American to speak of him
as one who ever labOred to bring closer
and closer together the men and women
of two nations of common lineage and
common language. 1t was in that spirit
that he paid honor to two of her repre-
sentative men, Bishop McIlvaine and
MT. FeaDOuy, the pnllautAlOplStD y CIV
ing to their bodies resting-place in
Westminster Abbey until they were re
moved to their own country. In thou
sands of hearts in America there would
be on that day profound grief at his
death and grateful recollections of the
kindly welcome he extended to multi
tudes who came to see the glories of the
mothesland. In conclusion, he called
on them to bow the head and bless God
for the gift of His servant, whom He
had taken away, and to pray that what
ever they might be all who named the
name of Christ might speak the truth
in love as Dean Stanley did,"
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1881-08-09
AMONG all the various incidents Of the

AMONG all the various incidents of the
attempted assassination of the Presi-
dent none has been more noticeable to
Southern observers than the effect pro-
duced upon the negroes by the unani-
NOUS depreciation Of that outrage by the
white people of the South. They don't
understand why such sorrow, regret and
indignation as they see exhibited every
where in the South should be manifested
for the attempted murder of man they
had previously looked upon as their
President, and consequently, according
| to their belief. their white neighbors'
enemy. Having been taught to believe
that republican presidents are the only
means by which the South can be con-
trolled and their own freedom main
tanned, and that the cherished objects OF
the white people of the South are to de-
stroy the Union and restore slavery,
they don't comprehend the adherence
the latter entertain for the attempted
murder of President Garfield, whose
election last November they are con-
WINGED alone prevented the accomplish.
ment of these objects. They are there
i fore uncertain concerning the possible
effect the recovery of the President will
have upon themselves, and consequent
" are somewhat at loss to know ex'
actly what to say regarding the at
tempted assassination. The Pittsylva
mia Tribune had its attention called to
this incident by hearing negro. who
J was walking away from crowd O
white men to whose remarks about thu
attempted assassination he had been lis
J tening, mutter, something wrong dar
Use done with Garfield; if he was fol-
the colored people, dem white folk
wouldn't be for his getting well SO fast. ;
What the negro at Pittsylvania Copr
House muttered expressed the feelings
not of the intelligent and well-informed
but of the immense majority OF his race
+, They have been taught to believe tina
the Southern white man is their enemy
and SO believing they naturally lool
with fear and suspicion upon ever,
; thing that affords him qualification AM
oppose almost everything that he de
! sires to accomplish. They hold to thi
belief as tenaciously as they do to tina
respecting the baneful effects of spell
and the efficiency of charms, and tn
: acquisition of the mere ability to rea'
Q and write dosn't seem to destroy thei
e faith in either. They have been i'm
Q pressed with the silly and errOneOu
conviction that what the Southern whit
: man desires must of necessity redoun
to their disadvantage, and acting unde
this conviction they oppose the gratif
: cation of such desires whenever oppol
tunity for SO doing is presented them.-
;. Alec. Gazette.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1881-08-09
About to Retire.

The Mahoneites in Virginia are evil
IDENTIFY in distress, and almost ready to
give up the fight. Their leading organ,
the WING, gives forth the following
plaintive notes of the dying swan:
1.-THE Bourbon Funders game is to
draw the color-line and frighten or en-.
tice all white voters to the Bourbon
Funder side of this line, without regard
to true principles or wise policy-only
having regard to race, color and prevl-
GUS condition. It is seen that il such q
game succeeds, not only are the Read
iusters overwhelmed as to the debt, the
suffrage and the schools, but they are
actually forced to withdraw from the
fght,-leaving the colored people in a
helpless minority, and in worse con-
dition than heretofore"
That's to say, that unless the negro
Republicans of the State come to the res
cue of "Cassius, :" that noble hero sinks
never to raise again Unless so, 600 col
ored Republicans will abandon their
principles, professions and party, and
ioin faction of Readjusters the bogus
ticket of Cameron and Lewis and Blair
will have to be retired in humiliation
and disgrace from the field.
Well, let them retire. No honest man
or true Virginian should regret it. The
Democratic and Republican parties will,
at least, preserve the honor and save the
credit of the State, whether the one OF
the other shall succeed. The 80, 900 col
ored people will have honor enough left
s'to pay for breakf FAST" even if they
are defeated which is more than the
Mahoneites will have if Victorious
While the Democrats will preserve un,
sulied the integrity of their party and
State, even should they be unsuccessful
In either event the regulators will be
"overwhelmed' and "forced to with.
draw from the fight" into the shade O
disgrace and oblivion.
That will be glory enough for on'
campaign, and at least our public hon
or, and credit, and schools and suffrage
we'll and amply protected.-Lyachbosry
NeaUS.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1881-08-09

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Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1881-08-09

A STALwART FAMILY.-Four men
and two women of the Lingle family
are still living in Dauphin county, Pa.
Paul Lingle, the father. remarkably
peaceable and good-natured man, was
six feet four inches high. He had eight
sons and two daughters, all of whom in
herited his stalwart frame. Two of the
sons, now deceased, were six feet four
inches in height and third six feet
three and a-half inches. The other
three range from six feet one inch to
six feet two inches. The daughters are
five feet nine inches and five feet nine
and a half inches, respectively.