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The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1881-09-01


JUDGE JERRE BLACK would dis.
connect his name from that of Presi.
dent Buchanan. He was Mr.. Buch-
anan's encouragement, and he is
engaged in an attempt to prove
himself" loyal" at all times to the
government, no one having proven
that Mr.. Buchanan was disloyal.
But Judge Black is distressingly
anxious about the matter, and,
while he admits he denied the
power of the government to wage
aggressive war, that he maintained
the right to enforce, the laws and
defend the Union against every as
sault. just how to enforce the laws.
in the case of the seeding states,
without waging offensive war
against them, was a problem that a
good many federal generals under
took to solve, but failed. Whether
Judge Black would have succeeded
in solving that knotty problem, of
course will never be known, as he
did not have an opportunity to
work it out. According to his own
story, he urged the reinforcement of
Major Anderson, and insisted upon
holding every fort against the rebels !;
that he drove out the rebel members
of the cabinet, and compelled Buch-
anan to repel the South Carolina
commissioners, and hand over the
government intact to Lincoln's ad-
ministration. And now the ques-
ton arises, what does Judge Black
want of his countrvmen.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1881-09-01
THE three union officers of highest

THE three union officers of highest
rank in the late war were Grant
Sherman and Sheridan, in the order
of their names. The three highest
now are Gen. Sherman, Lieut. Gen
Sheridan and Major General Han.
cock-the pay of general being
$13,5OO a year, acknowledgement
1000 a year, and Encouragement
81 800 year-each with liberal al
lowances for forage and quarters
The salary of vice president is the
same as that of a cabinet officer, 49,
600 a year. Senators and repre-
sentatlves are paid the same salary,
$4,000 year and twenty cents per
mile of travel to and from Washing
ton. The presidents salary is $50,
600 a year.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1881-09-01

SOUTH CAROLINA has an agricul-
tural bureau, which, upon complete
investigation, unqualifiedly con-
dennis the tenant system of working
lands in that state, and it is believed
the objections will apply to the entire
southern agricultural country. The
tenant system is running some of the
finest lands in the state, a late report
says, and destroying a large amount
of stock 1t is decreasing not only
the labor supply, but the production
of the state, since, if hand once
begins renting land he never will
give up this system and work for
another person. The trouble with
the tenant system, the bureau thinks,
is that the negro has never enough
capital to carry it on. At the end of
the year, after he has paid his debts,
there is not enough money left to
feed his mule, and the animal is half
starved or fed on spoiled western
corn; is able to dc less work, and
what with this and thriftless farm
ing the crop is failure. Thus the
land is impoverished and the labor
supply cut short without a single
advantage to show Cor this system
of cultivation.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1881-09-01
SOUTHERN NEWS AND NOTES


The trustees of the University of
tennessee, at Knoxville, have final
ly decided not to admit negroes as
students.
The Arkansas Eagle snatches time
by the'forelOck and announces itself
solid for Tilden, S. j., and Black,
Jere, in 1884.
A popularity of the lynching of
Charles Stewart, a Mississippi wife
murderer, was that his father-in-law
prayed for him and helped to adj
just the moose.
A thorough investigation of the
peach crop in Delaware proves that
the yield will not be more than 12O,-
600 bushels. The usual yield is 4OO,-
600 bushels.
The poor black folks at Memphis
are being victimized by a vOudoo
doctor.
The fiendish incendiaries in
Wheeling, Virginia, have been found
to be the bad small boys.
A desperate in Arkansas named
John Stewart shot and killed two
men in Scott county. Drunk and
gambling the cause.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1881-09-01

IT is stated the presidents physi-
clans decided some time ago to
charge 300 a day each for their SER
vices during the time of the presi-
dents illness. As bulletin writer's
they earned their money; that is, the
vast expense to which they have
driven newspaper men would go to
prove they are worth something.
THE ecumenical conference of
Methodists, soon to convene in Lon
don, promises to be the most impor-
tant religious gathering since the
days of Wesley. Over 400 delegates
will be present, half of whom
have gone from the United States
and Canada.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1881-09-01

1T LOOKS little as if Gould and
Vanderbilt were fixing up treaty
of peace. They have been hobnob-
bling at Saratoga, and something
will come of it. Gould induced
Garrett to keep his mouth shut and
not tell Vanderbilt he lied. Hot
words interfere with dividends and
profits, and unless these railroad
kings behave themselves better to-
wards the people and each other,
many states will soon follow the ex-
amples of Massachusetts, Georgia
and Alabama, in creating railway
commissions. By such means peo-
pie are kept from murmuring, and
railroad kings are made friendly
sovereigns-
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1881-09-01

Mr.. Il. B. Connery, who has been
the managing editor of the New
York Herald tor a number of years,
is to be retired upon a pension, and
the Hon. Francis Lawler, now one OF
the editors OF the London Telegraph,
is to succeed him in the management
of the Herald at salary of$20,000.
The city editor of the Herald,
Mr.. Meighan, goes to London
to represent his paper there.
Mr.. Charles Nordhoff will be
the principal editorial writer,
in the place of the late Mr..
Chamberlain, with the aid of John
Russell Young and Mr.. Joseph How
ard, jr. The new managing editor
was at one time a member of parlia-
ment, and was also private secretary
of Mr.. Gladstone. He was sent to
the Confederate states by the Lon
don Times during the civil war as its
correspondent, and returned to Eu-
rope without visiting the north,
though he has since then made the
now usual transatlantic trip.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1881-09-01

PRENTICE MULFoRD says that two
hours work about q hot stove ex-
hausts more than four hours work
out of doors. Americans in Europe
are shocked, or pretend to be, at
the sight of women doing mems
work in the fields. He contends
they are much better off than the
American woman, five-sixths of
whose life is spent in the kitchen.
The outdoor woman shows healthy
blood through the tan on her cheeks
the American kitchen housewife is
sallow and blesched out.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1881-09-01

ACTING on a theory that human
beings were made to stand upright
aud therefore ought never to Ii,
down, Californian sleeps in an ap.
paratus which sustains him com.
fortably in q perpendicular position
A Nebraska physician is equally
certain that the vital organs are in.
iuriously affected By being jolted
downward in walking, and to coun.
teract this, he gravsly stands on his
head Eve minutes every day. DIR
Bliss advocates horizontal repose-
five feet under the sod.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1881-09-01

The sixth of September will soon
be here, when the people of Texas
will be called upon to vote on sew
eral most important propositions.
Two amendments to the constitu-
ton are proposed, one affecting the
Judiciary and the other the legisla-
tive system. The judiciary article
and acts now in force divide the SUI
preme court into several bodies,
employing in all nine judges. The
amendment proposed provides for
one chief justice and six associate
Justices, TO constitute the supreme
court, which shall have Jurisdiction
in all civil and criminal appeals. The
jurisdiction of district courts would
also be enlarged by the adoption of
this amendment, while the powers of
the lower courts would, as they
should, be curtailed. Not only in
the interest of economy, but that the
work of the supreme court may be
more prompt, and therefore more
satisfactory, the judiciary amend
ment should receive the favorable
support of voters.
The other constitutional amend
ment, submitted, provides for
q change in the legislative
system. Legislators now receive,
during regular sessions, So per diem
for sixty days and So thereafter.
The amendment proposes that legis-
latures may sit, without such limita-
ton, for one hundred days. In the
interest of defeating hasty legisla-
ton, this amendment should also
be adopted.
The location of the state uni
versity is the third impor-
tant question presented to the
people for their decision. 1t is
needless to say the STATEsMAN's
choice is Austin and an undivided
university, and 1t urges, in the in
terest of a grand institution and of
the unity and grandeur of our be-
loved Texas, that ballots be cast
against division and for Austin.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1881-09-01

ESTRAY NOTlCE-Taken up by j. II. Bur
Lditt, and estrayed before FRITZ Tegener. jus-
tice OF the peace, Travis county, July I'd, 1881,
one sorrel mare, about 14Ia hands high, about
years old, two hind feet white, and branded
TIL (connected) on left shoulder and ii on left
jaw; also a bay mare, about years old, about
14h hands high, branded 4 with quarter cir
Gle over it) on right shoulder; also u bay mare,
little roam on hips, about or 8 years old,
about 14h hands high, and branded + J on left
shoulder; also a dun mare, about ID hands high,
about 10 or ~ years old, branded three times
with a figure crossed at top by upper part of
letter It, placed one above the other, on left
shoulder, and counter branded 81 on right shoul-
der. Appraised at 1890 each.
au3,watF FRANK Brown, elk, G. c. Travis Co.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1881-09-01
CITATION BY PUBLICATION.
~ The STATE OF TEXAS.
To the Sheriff, or any constable Of Travis conn

~ The STATE OF TEXAS.
To the sheriff, or any constable Of Travis conn
70, greeting:
You are hereby commanded that. nv making
publication OF this citation in some ncwspaper
published In the county of Travis, once in
eaeh week Tor four consecutive weeks, previous
70 the return day hereof Won summon Joseph
Wagner, whose residence Il unknown, 10 be
and appear before the district court, at It's next
regular term, 10 be holden In and for the county
OF Travis at the court house thereof In the city
otAustin on the first Monday I'm October A D.
Isl, then and there To answer the petition OF
Catherine Wagner for divorce In cause DI57
wherein Catherine Wa~ouer a. plaintid and
Joseph wagner IL DEF -ndant filed in said court
against the said Joseph Wagner on the 25th
o. august, ISL, and alleging In substance, m
and Joseph Wagner were legally married on tho
18th day OF June, A.. D., 1857, and lived together
as man and wife until the 3rd day Of February,
a, y, 1875, at which said time the defendant,
her husband, voluntarily, and wi Ia the intent 10
abandon petitioner, did leave, desert aud aban-
don petitioner, his wife, and that eince said
uhte last mentioned has never returned 20 live
win your petitioner, nor has he at any time
alqed IN any way In supporting his family since
i sslu my hained date. That there are three
| living children by said marriage, who have re
sided with and been supported by your petit.
TONER, and nj the time OF the descrtion and
n no,i,s me only property owned by your
Peluoner ana defendant was about sixteen
acres Of land, situated in Travis county, Texas,
and occupied by them AZ their homesiead and
That petitioner, since said date has occupied
and used said property A. her home, and that the
money paid for said property was her own indi-
Nidual and separate funds. Petitioner further
pra{s that she have the custody and control OF
their three children, viz: Mary aged 70 years
years.
Herein fail not, but have YOU then and there
before said court, this writ, with your return
same.
Witness, r. Hallmann, clerk Of the district
Given under my hand and the seal of said
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1881-09-01
ELECTION NOTICE.

WHEREAS, The commissioners court Of
Travis county nj meeting of said court held ON
the 9th day of August, 1881, upon the petition
of George Keimpel and Others, twenty qualified
voters OF said county, asking that an election
be ordered TO determine whether or not the
sale OF Intoxicating liquors or medicated bit
tiers, producing intoxication, shall be prohibit
cd I'm justices precinct No Of said county;
and
Whereas, Said petition was signed by the re-
quisite number of qualified voters and In due
form, and 1t being ordered by said court that an
election be held on Tuesday the 26th day Of
September, 1881, throughout said precinct for
the purposes aforesaid.
Now, therefore, u Is ordered by the under
signed authority that an election be held at
Manor in said precinct No. ., ON Tuesday the
26th day OF September, 1881, 10 determine
whether or not the sale Of intoxicating liquors
or medicated bitters, producing intoxioation,
shall be prohibited in said precinct and John
Lancaster, George Keimpel and A. @. Hill are
hereby appointed managers OF said election,
which is to be conducted in accordance with
the law regulating general elections.
Witness my hand and the seal of the county
court OF Travis county, this the 29th day Of An-
gust, 1881.
IT. FILLMORE,
lh'9'l County Judge 7. G. II.
au3O- div
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1881-09-01

THE Bolton Journal is satisfied
that when San Antonian votes for
Tyler for the university, the millen-
ium will speedily follow. Not so,
the location of the entire university
win soon be declared at Austin, aud
the people will be happy that the
wisdom of the fathers is approved.
II is simply jubilee we are going
to have, with the aid of the good
voters of San Antonio.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1881-09-01

Nat Q. Henderson, in a public
meeting held at Georgetown, a few
days ago, to consider the thanks
giving business, publicly denounced
Governor Roberts as being an inf
del, and asked the people if they
wanted such a man to rule over
them.-PdnolG Wdtchmdn. And the
Gnat Curious did this in religious
meeting, of which he was secretary
aud principal conductor. 1t may be
supposed the people of Texas de-
sire to be led by such q christian as
this quaint and curious Gnat.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1881-09-01

1T is said that Grant, guided by
Jay Gould, has made since he came
from Mexico $4,000 in stock specu-
lations. He begins to put ON the
air of swell, wears cloud" panta-
looms and gaudy cravats, and drives
one of the fastest and most stylish
teams at Long Branch.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1881-09-01

G. p. HUNTINGTON, it is said, will
build a railway from Houston to
Memphis, to connect his Southern
Pacific lines with those which he has
lately purchased from Memphis
east. His eastern purchases are
The Memphis and Paducah, the
Memphis and Elizabethtown, and
The Chesapeake and Ohio roads, a
short gap of which has yet to be
completed on the Memphis and
Paducah line, and a gap filled up be-
tween Elizabethtown and Lexing-
ton, Kentucky, a survey of which
has just been completed, with a
branch road running into Louis
vile. Huntington will soon be as
largely interested in Texas roads as
Jay Gould.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1881-09-01

SENATOR DAVID DAVIS decline
has been great. He now weighs
only 307 pounds, having fallen away
sixty-two pounds this summer. 1t
is understood that just at this time
Dick Hubbard outweighs him, and
yet they talk about the meat crop in
Texas being short.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1881-09-01
A DEMONSTRATION NOTICE.

WHEREAS, On the Esd day Of July, A. ID. 1881
we, John Il. Haynes and Thomas E. Rowe
were by the county court Of Travis county
Texas, duly appointed executors OF the last
Will and testament of james Manor, deceased.
And notice is hereby given TO all persons having
claims against the estate ofJames Manor, de-
ceased, to present the same for allowance and
approval by the court withnthe time prescrlb-
ed by law.
Our residence and postoflce address IL Round
Rock, Williamson county, Texas. -
JOHN Il. HAYNES,
THOMAS 4. ROWE,
Executors of the last will and Testament OF
James Manor. deceased. auIS-w4t
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1881-09-01

We wish 1t particularly under
stood, DIR. Bliss opinion to the con-
trary Notwithstanding, that the
president is not dead nor dying, but
that he is improving, and that there
is fair prospect of Guiteau's life not
being taken, all in consequence OF
blissful Irregularities.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1881-09-01

Col. CASH, who killed Col. Shan
non in duel, in South Carolina, is
just now running a relentless war
against the editor of the Charleston
Neacs and Courier, whom he de-
nounces in print as an impotent
turnkey and notorious cuckold." 1t
may be remembered that Col. Shan
non INDUCED in similar SANDER,
which led to his death, and that
since the code still lives in South
Carolina, the next bullet directed at
Cash may do more than scatter sand
in his face.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1881-09-01

A NORTHERN paper says: "The
school fund of Texas will at no dis
Iant day be enormous. This state
has yet unsold 100000 acres OF
sohool land, which will probably
ing to her public school fund
00. 600, 900, sum equal to the COM
ned school funds of all the other
States OF the Union. The university
Of Texas, soon to be established
has more than $4,000 with which
to erect buildings, and a perma-
nent endowment of between $2,-
100000 and Ss.0OOO00.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1881-09-01

BUTTER MILK has become fash.
ionable drink, and, it is said, is an
excellent tonic and good for dispep.
tics and nervous people. No mat.
ter, were it dead sure to kill in one
case out of ten, "style" would put
il in demand. However, it is a
healthful drink, and admirably
suited 10 the hot season. It is an
Improvement on "koumiss."
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1881-09-01

The r-Ocean has probably
paid the highest compliment tc
Texas concerning its school fund
II says: "Texas will soon have a
school fund that will be the wonder
OF the world and the envy of the
rest of the Union" Itpredicts that
IL properly looked after it must
after a while amount to at least
e1O0,O0O,0OO.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1881-09-01

In order to accustom Grecian SOL
diers to the Opaque atmosphere of a
Settle-field, when at musketry prac-
tics clouds of smoke are produced,
by bernIsg furze and wet grasses,
or By othts means, between the
marksinen and their targets. ;, The
Pail Mall Gazette commends the
advantages of this system over the
English custom of shooting in a
clear air, and relates how the sol
diers at Wimbledon had chance to
try the German plan when the furze
on that common accidentally tool
IRE during the late encampment.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1881-09-01

THE Navasota Tablet circulates an
original fabrication that Austin has
voted on the municipal school tax,
and that the proposition has been
defeated. No such election has ever
been held in Austin.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1881-09-01

RICHMOND doctors contend that
the healthiest men are those who
habitually work in the sewers, and
that the high rate of mortality in
southern cities is due to the pres
ence and thriftlessness of the col
ored people.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1881-09-01
WHO rs REsPoSsrBLEs

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For eight long weeks the presi-
dent has lain upon his bed, overcome
with affiiction, and the members
OF Borrowing household and an
anxious people have watched with
interest, first his ascending and then
his descending physical condition
During these eight long weeks DIR
Bliss and his corps have contended
that the presidents wound was not
in the way ofhis recovery, and they
have dociored and physiced the pa
tient until at last he fell from a TO.
bust mans lofty estate to worse
than the condition of a new born
babe. Day after day the statement
has been made that Guiteau's ball is
inscysted; that the wound was heal
ing; that ii had healed to the very
surface; that the patient was doing
nicely, and that he was recovering
rapidly. In spite of all these re-
peated statements the president has
steadily lost flesh and strength, and
the man of magnificent physique
has become a shadow OF his former
self. Climax after climax in his case
have marked the descending scale of
the presidents health, and when the
last dread. Saturday came the sink
ing condition of Mr.. Garfield was
wired over the civilized world, and
1t was told that the president was
dying. DR.. Bliss said he was dying,
and then the STATESMAN said so, too,
and so did every paper in the land
that takes the press dispatches.
The dying president was done
up and laid away over
Sunday, and, anticipating the
consequences before Tuesday morn
ing, we gave assent TO the induc-
ton of Mr.. Arthur into office, and
pictured the changes that come with
changing administrations. DIR. Bliss
was the cause of it all. His
nice little bulletin said Garfield
would die, and the STATESMAN
has been, for eight weeks, telling
what DR.. Bliss thinks of the presi-
dents condition. DR.. Bliss said he
would die, and he sent it out in his
bulletin and thereupon, it may be
presumed, he took up his saddle
bags and went away from the White
House to make out his bill. No
sooner had he given up the case, and
abandoned the president to the
Arthur succession, than the sick
man began to grow better, and now
he is in fair way TO get we'll. He
simply had too much Bliss, and,
when the dapper little medi-
cine man took his departure
from the White House to
count his gains, the wounded man
rallied under relief, and the country
is going to be saved any dlsgraceful
dispute as to whether the vice presi-
dent is a constitutional or an uncon-
stitutional being. We are glad of it,
for more than one reason; glad, be-
cause an unoffending man is not
to meet death at the hand of an
assassin; glad, because the assassi-
nation of presidents is great crime !;
glad, because it makes many hearts
happy; and particularly are we
glad, because we do hope this man
Bliss has been dethroned in his opin-
ions and practices, and because it is
presumed he will now not continue
to keep up this impertinent stuff in
the press reports. We have had
enough of Bliss, and if he will Just
give the press reporter q rest, and
allowed the president, to begin to
retrace his steps towards normal
condition, we will be satisfied.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1881-09-01

The finance committee of the
Georgia legislature recommends
that the proposition for building a
new capitol, costing $1,OO0,0OO, be
paid for in annual instalments OF
100000.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1881-09-01

THEnewspapers continue to assert
that the prohibition law in Kansas
is practically imperative, while the
governor stoutly maintains that the
law is strictly enforced everywhere.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1881-09-01

EVERY citizen of Travis county
owes it to himself to vote for Austin
for the university. A vast deal
might be accomplished by few
hundred of the citizens of Austin
going out along the lines OF the
railways on the 9th? Who will thus
show his Patriotism.