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The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1881-01-13
ANOTHER CHANCE.
10000 ACRES
Capitol Lands for Sale

The Board having rejected all bids offered
December 10th, 1852, for the purchase of above
lands, considering said bids In the selection of
| certain leagues ms Ereiudicial 10 the public do
I'll IL NJ, February LIST, 1881, for the pur-
chase OF fifty thousand acres of the land NJ.
served, located and surveyed for the purposed
paying Tor the construction Of new public build
ings for the state OF Texas under an act of the
Legislature, approved February 20th, 1879.
These lands comprise three millions and ffty
thousand acres OF fine farming and grazing
lands, situated In the following counties: Da!-
lam, Hartley, Oldham, Deaf Smith, Farmer.
Castro, Bailey, Lamb, Cochran aud Hockey. the
have been selected ana surveyed under the d.
rection OF Col. n. l.. Norton, Com missioner of
the State, into league tracts. Maps aud plats of
SAID surveys be seen at the General Land
Office In Austin.
These ffiy thousand acres are offered for sale 10
pay the expenses OF the location aud survey
Of the whole reservation, and bidders must
specify the boundaries Of the ffIy thou-
sand acres upon which they bid, which
must be selected from the whole In one contiu-
uous compact body AZ near possible, and at a
price Of not les1 than iity cents per acre In
cash. Proposals must be addressed 10 w. @.
Walsh, Commissioner General Land Office
Austin, Texas, and endorsed ''hids for purchase
OF fifty Thousand acres of Capitol lands" mnst
be accompanied with the written guarantee of AZ
bidder II awarded the land at HE bid he will
comply with the terms thereof aud nav the
price bid within twenty days after the award by
the Capitol Land Board.
The Board reserves the right 10 reject any and
all bids, and TO make the award TO that bidder
selecting lands, the sale OF which may be
deemed most advantageous TO the state
w &. WALSH.
Commissioner General Land Office aud Secrc-
tarY Of Board. decl5 tilfeb1
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1881-01-13

Mr.. Thomas Allen returned from
New York yesterday having con-
Guided his sale of stock in the Ii on
Mountain railroad to Jay GOuld.
He went there on a telegram invit-
ing him to close the transaction.
Having arrived in the eastern me-
tropolis, he made his way, after
breakfast in the morning, To Jay
GOuld's Office. There lac met the
railroad king and told him the exact
number of shares he held. The fig
uring was only the work of n mo-
ment--so many AT so much u share,
amounting to so much,
Mr.. Gould produced his check
book and filled out a check for the
full amonnt-something more than
s.. 600 0o0-which he handed to aIr.
Allen.
Mr.. Allen took the check. careful
ly examined il. and said: This is a
large amount 10 have in one bank.
Is there this much t0your credit,
ON said afr. Gould. @perhspa
you would like TO have it certified. -
-les, yes said Mr., Allen, Il
think would
Mr.. Gould sent his confidential
clerk to the bank. and the check was
brought back in lew moments
duly certified.
Thanks said Mr.. Allen, as he
picked up the check, put il in his
pocket book and walked out Of Mr..
Gould's oftice.-G Globe Democrat.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1881-01-13
TEXAS FACTS AND FANcIEs.
BURGLAR are working Dallas.


Burglars are working Dallas.
And now Mrs. Hall wants a State
Normal school.
Corn is only forty cents per bushel
in Gonzales county.
There were eleven deaths in Mar
shall during December.
Stock have suffered terribly from
weather down about GOliad.
What viii the legislature do with
the bell-punch? is question pro-
pounded.
a good deal OF cotton yet re-
mains TO be gathered i'll the fields OF
Dewitt county.
In Bexar county sweet potatoes
are selling tor soc per bushcl, and
hay $40 per ton.
Youngsport. Bell county. will now
have postOfiice. Mr.. +. u. Kellam
will be postmaster.
Gambling in Cucro has been eff
fectually broken up by the vigi-
lance of the officers.
WhitesborO is now Il flourishing
railroad town with twenty business
houses and two hotels.
One man i'll Goliad county re-
Gently sold a flock of 10000 ewes at
three dollars per head.
A San Antonio society blood
skipped that town with the proceeds
of Christmas eve ball.
III. G.. Rogers, a Walker county
farmer, was killed by one Pickering,
from Alabama, the other day.
AT Dallas. the other day, q young
man named Walter Bowers died
while calling off keno numbers.
The Texas Wool Growers Associ-
alton will hold their annual meeting
at San Antonio on the 10Th inst.
For the want of gins about seventy
bales of cotton were shipped from
Goliad and Bee counties 10 Calves
ton in the seed.
And now AtascOsa county has
stepped to the front with turnip
weighing ten pounds and measuring
two feet in circumference.
The criminal district court of Gal
weston last year collected and paid
into the treasury $3.50 more than the
amount of jury scrip issued by it.
Edwards county has but one ne
gro inhabitant, and this darkey was
Kidding on cattle trail when the
census man took a spy glass view of
him.
Kennedy, the South Texas cattle
king, who recently sold out TO an
English company. had one of the
largest ranches in the state, having
100000 acres of land under fence,
upon which he fed 10000 head of
cattle and 10000 head Of horses.
Near Bracket the other day, Mr..
John Davis routed twenty bears in
one thicket, on the Sycamore. and
killed four of them. Mr. j. Snoody,
of the same party, killed one the day
previous with siI-shoOter. Mr..
Snoody says he never saw game
more plentiful. Turkeys were so
numerous that he could have killed
wagon loads of them with scarcely
any effort at all.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1881-01-13
A GOOD BEGISN,NG.

Contrary to the report that Col.
Reeves name would not be placed
before theIIouse for the speakership
his friends brought him to the front
yesterday and, leading from the
first. he was elected on the third
ballot, by a good majority. In this
race for the speakcrship excellent
material was presented from which
TO elect, and the honor paid
to Col. Reeves is high
one. Col. Finlay or Mr.. Baker or
Mr.. McComb or Mr.. Wurzbach
would have presided over the body,
each of them, with singular ability,
and their defeat was not in conse-
quence of unfitness for the place, but
because of a desire on the part of
members TO pay tribute to the worth
and tie merits of a gentleman
who has devoted twenty-five years
of his life to the public service
of his state, asking no honor but
that always conferred upon him by
the people of his own section, and
coyeting no other distinction than
TO be known as the earnest and de-
voted adherent TO the interest of
his immediate constituents. In
the presiding officer, Col. Reeves
embodies the same purposes that
have all the time characterized him
as legislator. Earnest in his work
devoted to the accomplishment of
ends most advantageous TO the pub
lie good, n conscientious, upright
man, of conservative mind, and
withall fine parliamentarian and
an experienced legislator, the OPP
pOnents of Col. Reeves will have no
reason to regret the selection
the House has made in naming its
chief officer. The STATESMAN pre-
diets for the House, and under SINH
lar influences in the Senate, an har-
monious session, and one fraught
with GOO d work for the good people
of Texas.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1881-01-13

THE Herald says: "Many impOr-
tant questions will claim the atten-
ton of the Legislature, among which
are the necessary changes in the ju-
dietary system. The public schools
embracing specially the establishing
of at least two more Normal schools
in the state. The Sunday law re-
quires amending in some important
features; the abominable bell punch
which has been more profitable to
the inventor of the machine, and no
doubt to the originator of the bill
than to the revenue OF the state
should be repealed and some dispo,
sition made of the machines. The
tax law needs careful work, SO that
there may be more equal and uni
form taxation"
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1881-01-13

GovERSoR CORNELL of New
York, comes to the front and enters
formal protest against friends using
his name in connection with the
United States senatorship. He says
there are enough worthy men for
the place, without his name being
dragged into the contest. This Is
the way the "Alcalden has talked
about the contest in Texas. He is
not dark horse and is not going TO
allow himself TO be even led out OF
his stable. Maxey and Throckmor-
ton may run at their viii and should
they both break down the " Alcslde'
will stand faithfully at the executive
rack till the entire show is over.
His enemies have tried TO make il
appear otherwise.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1881-01-13

WEIrs-FARGo's annual report of
precious metals produced west of
the Missouri river, including British
Columbia, and the receipts in San
Francisco by express from the west
coast of Mexico. aggregate for 1880 :
Gold, SIS, 5e2, is2; silver, $40,O05, S64 ;
lead, $5,752,S90; copper, $sss,OoO.
Colorado leads, with total of $2l,-
80. sse California, Sls.276, loo; Utah,
$e,450, 95S; Arizona, $i.472,47l. In
comparison with the product for
1873. California shows an increase in
gold Of $57s,55e. and decrease in
silver of SS6asTS Nevada shows a
total falling OF of SS,s66, 09S.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1881-01-13
CONTINUOUs CONNECTIoNs

CON 1ON
At Little Rock, Arkansas, and ut Columbus
Kentucky, via Poplar Bldl) for the southeast
and in the Union Depot, st. Louis, with Morn
ing Express Trains in all directions.
Pullman Palace Sleeping Cars between Hons
ton anil ST. Louis without change.
Dining cars between Houston and Willis.
St. Louis and Texas Fast Freight Lines
Through Carsl No Trans shipment Quick
Time! Special Inducements 10
IMMIGRANTS.
They will find 1t TO their interest To see the
country along this line before deciding 10 settle
elsewhere.
ar For Through Tickets and information,
apply to
j. II. MILLER, Ticket Agent, corner fremont
and Market streets, Galveston.
j. =. Landry, Ticket Clerk, Union Depot
Houston.
A. A. GALLAGHER, Ticket Clerk, Heerue.
X. :. HAYES, President.
Ii. NJ. HOxIE, Vice President and Gcner
Superintendent.
ALLEN Mccoy, General Freight and Passen-
ger Agent.
General Offices Palestine, Texas. marco
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1881-01-13

Telephone "They had a church
festival at Dallas last week, and
everything was going on Just too
awfully lovely as one of the young
ladies at the oyster table expressed
1t, when a mans rough voice rang
through the room: Here! there's
something in this soupr a crowd
gathered around the man in no
time, where he stood holding a
spoon aloft and gazing wonderingly
at its contents. A brawny deacon
seized the offender by the shoulder
and between alternate shakes and
kicks asked: what do you mean,
sir, by casting out your in
situation and disturbing this as
semblage gathered here for the adj
vancement of religion? What's the
matter with that soup, sir? Speak
you carnal bond of iniquity." And
the victim dropped the spoon
writhed under another kick from the
deacOn's boot and spoke: ats actu-
ally got an oyster i'll ii, something
never saw in church festival soup
before-that is, hardly ever The
silence was appalling, and the dis
coverer retreated in good order
kicked, IL is true, but still discOv-
erer. The pallas papers suppressed
this affair, but FIT. Worth man
who was there vouches for its nc.
curacy."
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1881-01-13

THE latest statement of Mahone's
purposes purports to come from
Republican sources" which hold
close personal relations with him
and is to the effect that he intends
to unite the Readjuster and Repub.
lican parties of Virginia in opposi-
ton to the Funder Democrats, to
support Garfield's administration,
and, eventually, to revolutionize
the. entire South, politically. The
one great obstacle to any utilization
between the Readjusters and the
Republican party is the same that
has separated them from the De-
mocracy,-viz., the faint of repudi-
alton which has been attached TO
the Readjusters. Reputation is
held in such detestation in this
country that no political organiza-
ton having any responsibility can
even accept indirect aid from repu-
diators and maintain its status. The
reported plan of union between Vir-
ginia Readjusters and Republicans
involves first an entire removal OF
this faint from the former. .This,it is
said, General MBhone intends to ac-
complish by the publication of a
statement of the position of the read
justers upon the debt question, in
which he will demonstrate to
the country that Notwithstanding
the Significance ofits title, never did
and never will favor reputation,
that, on the contrary, his is the par
ty that really opposes reputation
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1881-01-13

-WKBR's Digest of Criminal Law"
i the title of very superior and
exhaustive digest upon the criminal
law Of Texas, as adjudieated by the
Supreme Court. by Mr.. b. r. Webb
81 Breckenridge, Texas. II has
many superior features over any
work heretofore issued npon this
subject, chief among which is the
ready facility Of reference given to
shy point desired. While it gives on
= brief statement Of each subject
treated, yet the references are thor
oneh and exhaustive, giving the
! ,eW - laid down by the court. This
facility Of reference viii highly re-
commend t;ae work TO those wto
understand the necessity of read
~ posting themselves upon points
sprung in the haste of trial,
R[r. Webb Is a Texas lawyer. thor
nnf1Iy prepared 70 edit = work Of
this kind. Upon examination. i,
uill be found BY lawyers to Be :
most valuable book.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1881-01-13

CAPT. EADs is assured of the
success of his ship railroad across
the isihmus of Panama. The Next
can government makes liberal con-
cessions, viii give Capt. Eads' COM
pany the right to build the railway,
grants il over 100000 acres of land
on the shore of the Pacific, and EN-
powers il To charge and collect a
toll of Eve dollars per ton on the
weight of every ship and cargo
passing over the road. Right is also
given to build branch of auxiliary
railroad and telegraph line, on
which only customary rates can be
charged. In return Capt. Eads
agrees 10 carry over the railroad all
ships of war, munitions, mails, etc,
free OF charge. The building OF
the road must be commenced within
two years, and completed in ten
years from MAY l, 1881.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1881-01-13
FoRFIGN NOTES.

The Beers of the Transvaal are
growing stronger daily.
The colonial forces of the Cape
Colony have defeated the Tombo-
rookie rebels with severe loss.
DR.. Schlieman has presented his
collection of Trojan antiquities TO
the Emperor of Germany to be
placed in the museum at Berlin.
The scheme to settle the bound
airy dispute between Turkey and
Greece by arbitration has failed, and
war is inevitable.
The German Government con-
templaies-takiing advantage of the
action of Russia in increasing duties
on imports, to urge Parliament to
adopt the custom war duties which
it has hitherto refused to sanction.
In Greece the waIlikc senti-
ment continues to predominant.
Thirty-two thousand reserves and
all the national guards between the
ages of thirty and forty years will
soon be called out.
English cablegrams announce
the deaths of John StenhOuse. Ii.
d., F. r. s.. the chemist; John
Thomas Townsen, scientific writer
ON navigation; Baron Simon Won
Oppenheim, head of the great bank
ing firm of Oppenheim, & Sons,
London. is dead, and Rev. DR.. Fred
erick James Robson, an eminent
Methodist divine, of England, is
dead.
"A dispatch from Birmingham
states that inquiries have been made
of leading gun makers there, and
replies confirm the reports of the
expectation of arms to Ireland
Large orders have been and are now
being executed. There has been
also brisk demand for revolvers.
One of the principal gun makers
states that more revOlvers have
been sent to Ireland from Birming-
ham the past two months than dur
ing the preceding two years.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1881-01-13

IT HAS been found that 10000
newspapers are published, includ-
ing nnder that name periodicals OF
all kinds. About one-half of these
are published in the English Ian
guage, the United States contribut.
ing no less than $500; Germany
comes second, then Great Britain,
followed by France and Italy. The
greatest newspaper city in the
world is Paris, where no less thar
1900 are published. London is but
little behind while the largest Amer
lean city, New York, is responsible
for only 500 newspapers
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1881-01-13

THE cost of the country of the ar
rears of pensions bill is now esti-
mated at S224,0O0,O0O. An effort
win be made in Congress to stop
this immense drain of our treasury,
and to that end bill has been in
troduced not allowing the claims OF
applicants who have only put them
in since July l last.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1881-01-13

The Waxahachie Mirror is new
weekly publication. 1t is a hand
some thirtystwo column weekly,
published by f. C. Huckabee, and il
IL said that the honorable member
OF the House, Mr.. c. II. Gibson, of
Waxahachie, has done much in an
editorial way to add interest to ITS
Veiy attractive columns.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1881-01-13

THE Pamela Wdtchmdn announces
that It will pass out from the field
of politics and devote its energy to
local advancement We do hope
that Bowers has not been standing
up too straight for the maintain
ance of his equilibrium.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1881-01-13

Iris surmised at Dallas that Gould
has swallowed the Santa Fe railway.
Into his rapacious nav has already
passed 10000 miles of railway, and
he has not yet gotten fairly through
breakfasting on his favorite diet.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1881-01-13

BLAINEE,~it Is declared, will be
>6affields Secretary of State; and
now the Grant faction say they must
have control of the Treasury. They
had control of it for many years to
the detriment of the public.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1881-01-13

The NJ, X. & Il. extension from
Greenville, Hunt county to Mineola
has Deen contracted to John Soul
Inns. Work is begun and it is to be
completed in one hundred days. Al
Mineola it viii intersect the Il. <
i. and connect with the present
northern terminus of the !. & G. N.
giving a through route from Hous
ton to DenisOn, thence to st. Louis
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1881-01-13

THE withdrawal of Frye from the
senatorial contest in Maine so as to
leave an uncontested field to Eugene
Hale, "Blaine's little pup as Sunset
Cox called him, makes it quite GER
tain that the appointment of Blaine
to the Garfield cabinet has been
finally determined on.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1881-01-13

The LaGrange .SoaFaG! says: AL
though the railrod has only been al
the town a week, the place is putting
on a new appearance Dozens OF
strange faces are seep on thestreets
hotels are full, and everything is on
a boom.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1881-01-13

THE memorial of one Moore, has
been presented to the Senate, in
which it is set forth that this self,
same Moore was paid $500 to vote
for Kellogg, the Fraudulent Louisi-
ana senator.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1881-01-13

The Houston Age is of the opin-
ion that there are entirely too many
divorce suits in our courts, and dOn't
like this accommodating way the
Texas courts are getting into Of I'M
splicing those that divine law makes
one
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1881-01-13

GEN. ORR will, probably, be
placed on the retired list rs a Major
General instead of as Brigadier
General.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1881-01-13

The Telephone is solicitous about
ex-Gov. Davis, and advises him by
al means to take $4,000 office, and
quit pretending to be a lawyer.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1881-01-13

The coinage executed at the
United States minis during the cal
endar year of 1880 amounts to $780,
2SS,279 gold and 1921, 4O9,706 silver.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1881-01-13

WHAT are we going to do with
the bell punch, that prodigy which
long ago ceased giving forth its mu-
steal registration?
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1881-01-13

THE STATESMAN is the only
democratic paper published at the
Capitol.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1881-01-13

II looks as though Senator Gooch
or Senator Houston will be pro team
president of the Senate.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1881-01-13

John Clay, brother of Henry Clay
is living in Kentucky, and is still q
strong and active man.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1881-01-13

TWENTY-FIVE members of the Six
teenth Legislature have been re-
turned to the Seventeenth.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1881-01-13

How would it do for Texas to
ship coal TO the cold millions of the
North.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1881-01-13

jim kennedy, railroad laborer,
committed suicide in Houston by
cutting his throat with a duh case
knife. He was full Of whiskey.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1881-01-13

The Cnero Baueiia contains a
lengthy editorial on the vice of
gambling and il concludes that the
law Is impotent to suppress il. Bet
ter training is needed.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1881-01-13

Galveston wants deep water-thaI
is, in the event Senator Maxey is
reelected.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1881-01-13

IT is estimated that the total num-
Der of Jews in the world is 100000.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1881-01-13

e.
South. .... r9,S10429 l4.S19O95 "a
North ... .3N,3lS,'4 e3,679,l7G %
The most popular ratio of appor-
tionment suggested is one member
for every 1906 inhabitants, which
would give us a house of about 800
members. Under this the congress
sional gains and losses would-b
Gains: Arkansas J. california /,
Iowa lekaAsas 3, Michigan l, Ne
!5TFaska 2, North Carolina l, Missis-
sippi l, South Carolina and Texas
4. Losses: Indiana l, Illinois l,
Maine /, New Hampshire l, New
York 8, Ohio l, Pennsylvania 2,
Tennessee l and Vermont /. Net
gain for the South z; net loss for
the North 3. Ifsome other ratio be
agreed on it will not change the
general result, and the South will
be stronger in the new Congress
than ever before.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1881-01-13

TIE conclusion of the census est.
mates on population will now enable
Congress TO proceed with the new
congressional appOrtionment. The
total population is 5O,152, $50, an in
crease of 80 per cent. in the last ten
years. The following is the percent
age e increase i'll the various
States: Alabama %, Arkansas Ga,
California 81, Connecticut II, Della
ware II, Florida AZ, Georgia 80, Hi
nois 10, Indiana 1S, Iowa SO, Kansas
1GI, Kentucky q, Louisiana 80
Maine 3, Maryland 20, Massachusetts,
-, Michigan A, Minnesota 7s, Mis-
sissippi Sc, Missouri 20, Nebraska
$50, Nevada g.. New Hampshire 8,
New Jersey %, New Yerk 16, North
Carolina 81, Ohio 20, Oregon 70,
Pennsylvania 20, Rhode Island 81,
South Carolina Al, Tennessee ~,
Texas 50, Vermont !, Virginia %,
West Virginia 40 and Wisconsin %.
The population of the two sections
compares rs follows