The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1881-03-10
EDITORIAL PARAGRAPHS.
DIR. II. NJ. SwEARINGEN has been

DIR. II. NJ. SwEARINGEN has been
appointed State Health Officer.
THE Courier-JoH,Tdl places a
poor estimate on Gov. Hawkins, OF
Tennessee, whom 1t calls "pighead-
ed"
REV. DEWITT TALMAoE promises
to visit Bell county to take part in a
Presbyterian campmeeting to be
held there before great while.
WOULD it not be wisdom in the
states reapportionment TO allow the
legislature to remain as it is? Large
legislative bodies are Improbable.
AN agreement to adjourn on the
fifteenth was not at all displeasing
to the railroad men, who now see
that railroad legislation may be de-
feated for want of time.
AND now the Greenbackers are
debating their ability to name the
next Speaker of the House. If they
should organize for such purpose it
seems probable they may designate
the man.
CONGRESSMAN Cox must be q very
hopeful man. He believes the APP
portionment bill will pass before the
session closes. 1t would have passed
before now had Democrats perform
ed their duty.
WHAT says the country TO Uncle
Sammy Tilden succeeding Fernando
Wood in Congress. The old fellow
could thus prove himself hundred
times better man, physically, than
\. II. Stephens.
ATLANTA is making much prepa-
ration for its great cotton cXposi-
non. Many northern and foreign
manufacturers have signified their
intention to place on exhibition ma
chinery and goods.
The AdrdRce boasts of Il Texas
menageric in Fort Worth; and we
want to know why one should he
asked to go all the way from Austin
to Fort Worth 10 see something. by
no means curiosity here.
THE Swiss cantons have been
shipping criminals and paupers to
the United States, and the S,ciSS
Times, published in Switzerland, de-
mands that this infamous and ont
rageous conduct be stopped.
SENATOR Houston, as the Express
says, catches it from the papers ev-
erywhcro. They ought to let him
alone. There were only seven Scna-
tors on his side, and they were not
led, but acted on honest convictions.
For doublets commend us to the
Express of the 2nd instant. But the
Express presents many things that
will bear printing twice, even in the
same paper, and, therefore, the
STATESMAN always copies freely
from it.
1T is more than probable that EX-
Governor Davis will be offered the
Mexican mission. lie certainly de-
serves more consideration from the
Republican party than he has here
tofore received. Mr.. Davis speaks
Spanish fluently.
A JOINT resolution has passed the
lower house of the Arkansas Legis-
lature, proposing q constitutional
amendment, to be submitted to the
people, prohibiting the sale of liquor
in that state. The vote stood sixty
six to seventeen.
IT is proposed at Washington to
build the President a summer palace
that with its beautiful gardens and
conservatories and shades, the
White House, as home, all
the year round, does not comporI
with royal dignity, which our peo-
pie now ape.
THE financial disturbances in New
York, created by the banks, arose
not in the fact that the refunding bill
provided tor the issuance of pei
cent. bonds, but because of the re.
quirement that the banks be com.
PEELED to keep one-third of their
capital stock deposited in bonds.
THE bill adopted by the House,
providing for the advertisement in
newspapers of lands to be sold for
taxes, provides that for each tract
twenty-five cents shall be the price
authorized. The Senate bill for
which the House presents this SUBJ
stitute, fixed the price at one dollar.
President Hayes was compelled to
wait till nearly the close of his term
before the title of LII. ID. was con-
ferred upon him by Johns Hopkins
University. President-elect Gar
field will go into office with the title
already at his servlce-kindly mail
postage free, by the University OF
Pennsylvania.
THE high-tariff, free-school men
now have the consolation of know
ing that President Garfield is pat
ting them Justify on their backs
and yet they need not conclude, all
at one time, that federal offices are
reserved for them. Those of Dem
ocratic persuasion will have to wait
until Republicans all fill at mp the
first table.
JAY GOULD is In Texas and he will
probably be at the Capital, Monday.
He is accompanied by Il. L. Eckhart,
A. A. Talmage, ii. G.. Marquand, A.
w. Soper and y. l.. Hopkins, prin-
cipal officers of the Union Pacific,
Wabash, Missouri-Pacific, and Iron
Mountain railways, and, by Henry
Whelan ofPhiladelphia, and Samuel
Sheppard and Nj. Sloan of New
York.
A BILL, presented by Mr.. Linn
proposes that surplus money in
the treasury shall be used in redeem