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The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1881-09-15
EDITORIAL NOTES.

Benjamin Israel Butler, son of
General B. F. Butler, of Massachu-
setts, died on Thursday of kidney
disease. He was aged 27, and a
graduate of West Point. He served
with his regiment, the Eighth Cav
airy, in Texas for q short time,
when he resigned and was admitted
to the bar in Boston.
Mr.. Evarts has returned from the
International monetary conference
at Paris. He says the general con-
dition of Europe as regards CONNER
cial values in relation to the United
States is that of anxiety. They are
watching with solicitude the drain
on them for gold in which the
necessities of their consumption of
American products will involve
them.
The Right Rev. DIR. Wegger, of
Madison, New Jersey, has received
the pontifical bull appointing him
bishop of the diocese of Newark.
The Rev. M. j. O'Farrel has also re-
ceived his formal appointment as
bishop of the new diocese of Tren-
ton, and will be consecrated by Car
dinal McCloskey in New York on
the first of November.
One of the devices OF the czar
and his advisers 10 win the heart of
the nation is the publication of a
newspaper by the government,
which is to be issued gratuitously
every Sunday, three of four copies
being sent to each village, and there
read aloud to the inhabitants, Poll
tics, history, science and news will,
of course, be manufactured at court
to train up the popular miHd of
Russia in the way in which the czar
proposes it to go.
Virginia promises to make cred
liable military display at the York
town centennial. The uniformed
companies have been brigaded un-
der the command of General Fitz-
hugh Lee. The first regiment will
be commanded by Colonel j. b. Pur-
cell, of Richmond; the second by
Colonel Bumgardner, of Stanton,
and the third by Colonel Werten-
baker, of Charlottesville. In addi-
ton, there will be eight full unat-
tached companies and two battal-
ions, five companies of colored
troops of forty men each. The ag-
gregate will be about 5000 men.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1881-09-15

The art Amateur for September
gives an unusual profusion of de-
signs for china painting, embroid-
cry and other art-work, Including a
placque-" House Sparrows by
Camille Piton, and charming series
of birthday cards, by Geo. r.
Hahn. An illustrated First lesson
in Etching" will be found invaluable
to the many who are interested in
this branch of art. The articles on
Landscape Paintingin in Oil Colors," )"
"About COlors in China Painting
and the Embroidery France are
also of special practical value. and
the editorial Hints to Novices in
Picture Buying" are alone worth the
price of the number. "Ciceronen
gives delightful description of the
pictures in r.. l.. Cuttings gallery,
"Greta" describes Quincy A. Shaw's
wonderful collection of millets,
"Shiley Dare" furnishes a delicious
"Study for a Country Home,v and
Clarence Cook criticises Director
Di Cesnola, of the Metropolitan
museum, most unsparingly. Inter-
esting articles on "Japanesque Dec
Grafton" and Curious Ivoriesr are
lavishly illustrated. Among the
other striking illustrations are some
decorative designs by Walter Crane,
a German "Ideal Kitchen and a
page of iniLlitablc cats. by L. E.
Lambert. Price, "a year; 35 cents
a number. Montague Marks, pub
Usher. % Union Square. New York.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1881-09-15

| The tide of emigration from Ger
many continues to attract a large
share OF attention The Handels-
blatt, of Hamburg, after informing
its readers that the number of i'm
migrants landed in the United
States in 1878 was 153, ,207, in 1879
250,565, and in 1880 5S6,068, goes on
to calculate that each individual
brings in his labor a capital of 81 200,
and that the total value of the labor
thus conveyed to the United States
during the last five years has been
about s7O0,000,O00. "No WONDER"
exclaims the Handeksbldtt, "that the
United States of America pros
pers % The FIdndenbldtt, of the
same city, in its correspondence
from Schleswig, where the emigra-
ton movement has assumed large
proportions, suggests some of the
motives influencing the people who
go. "Fathers with their sons, and q
great many more sons alone, leave
the country to escape the burden of
three years. military service"
These people express that "only
an idiot is unable to learn
the required drilling and shoot
ing in two years. and that
"a strong man, with sound sense,
can learn the whole affair in one
year." But for this enforced SER
vice, ii is said, Germany would re-
tain thousands of able-bodied,
strong young men, who now turn
their strength and fortunes to a
new home on the other side of the
Atlantic. An example OF the de-
crease in wages afforded in the
manufacture of certain kind
of velvet which, in the five years
from 1869 to 1874, paid the weaver
for his labor at the rate of from &C
to ~ cents yard. At present for
the same labor the weaver gets but
SO cents, and from some -manufac-
tures but %. Prince Bismark's
protective tariff has much TO
do If it is destined to cure
this state of things. 1t might
be supposed that this scantiness of
wages is counterbalanced by cor
responding cheapness of food. But
this is not the case. A laborer, for
example, who works eleven hours a
day, getting 66 cents per day, pays
10 cents a dozen for eggs, about 20
cents a pound for butter, $3.50 per
barrel for flour and 13 cents per
pound for mutton.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1881-09-15

The polygamlc feature of Nor
manism is unspeakably hateful to
American christians but it is a
great mistake to conclude that it is
universally practiced among Nor
mons. The census of Utah has been
thus returned: Total. 143, ,907. Males,
"a, All ; females, 69,4S6. Native born,
1894; foreign born, 1898. There
are 5035 more males than females in
this community, where every man is
supposed to own a hareml OF the
whole population 10000 in round
numbers are gentiles, leaving 124, 900
Mormons. Of these it has been care
fully computed that about 5000 of
the.lnales and 1000 of the females,
the majority of them old people, are
living in state of polygamy. Does
it not appear, therefore, that polvg-
amy is dying out ofits own immoral
weight.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1881-09-15

WHEN the presidential Office is
vacant by removal, death or resig-
nation of the incumbent, the vice
president surviving, his succession
for the remnant of the term is un-
disputed and it is equally clear that
in case ofthe inability of the prssi-
dent to discharge the powers and
duties of the Office, the constitution
devolves them upon the vice presi-
dent. But Mr.. Blaine has usurped
the powers of governments, and in
tends to hold on until the presidents
death makes his tenure impossible
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1881-09-15

GLASS TYPE.-The experiments
which have been made in France
with view to toughened glass in
place of those of metal, have proved
quite encouraging. The advantages
in point of cleanliness would, it is
alleged, be not insufficient. The
toughened glass is naturally much
harder than the usual metallic COM
position, and can hardly be crushed
out of shape by those small acci.
dents which shorten the life and
mar the beauty of the type now en-
ployed. The glass, too, is capable oil
being cast into more delicate shapes
than metal, so that the difference
between the thin and thick strokes
can be more clearly defined. Chris,
,tiaa. Istsfige7cer.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1881-09-15

TEN thousand people are directly
or indirectly connected with the
municipal machinery of New York
City, drawing salaries from the CITY
treasury, including the police and
political laborers that are ALWAYS
making believe they are at work on
the up town avenues and boulevards
that is to say, 1000 more men than
Gen. Scott had when he entered the
Mexican capital somc thirty years
ago. Comptroller Campbell says
there are sinecures in the various de-
partments which have been created
by the politicians, and he calls upon
the "heads' accordingly to suppress
them in the interest of municipal
economy.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1881-09-15
POLITICAL WAR IN VIRGINIA.

A letter from Warrenton, Vir-
ginia, says: "James Scott and Rob-
ert r. Campbell, young lawyers
here, left town with view to a hos
tile meeting, near Warrenton, this
evening. Campbell went to War
renton this morning. This afternoon
Scott suddenly mounted a horse
on Main street and darted off, with
two special constables deputed by
Judge Keith quickly following him.
Both gentlemen were under heavy
bonds. Alexander Hunter is re-
ported as Campbelps second, and
Richard Scott, of Petersburg, that of
James Scott. A meeting was ar
ranged to take place Thursday even
ing at the bridge at the Fsuquier
White Sulphur, but did not come off
Campbell is the son. in-law of Col.
j. S. Mosby. The parties met about z
o'clock this evening at the Double
Poplars, three miles from Warren
ton, and at ten PAGES fired, Scott
with. an English "bull dog" and
Campbell with a Colts army. Scott
was shot through the left hand.
Scott claimed another shot,
which Campbell acceded to, but
Hunter, the second, took the pistols
from the combatants and fired them
in the air. Campbell is the readjus-
ter nominee for the house of dele
gates from Franquier. The duel
grew out of insulting language used
in a political dispute"
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1881-09-15

The st. Louis Globe Democrat.
Washington correspondent, in com.
menting upon the late features in
the presidents case, says:
CDR. Boynton was asked by your
correspondent this evening with
reference to the new trouble. He
had nothing to say on that subject,
but insisted there were no signs OF
pyaemia. The second -Tolume of a
medical work, now being published
by Agnew, is said to contain a re-
port of case of gunshot wound
almost similar to Garfield's. which
terminated fatally, the final symp-
toms in the case being arrangement
of the stomach, failing to assimilate
food, followed by Inflammation of
the parotid gland. DR.. Agnew's
comment on the case in the book are
that where these symptoms inter-
vene there is hardly any hope of re-
covery."
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1881-09-15

On the 5th the Dallas Times per-
petrated the following, which we do
know it knew was untrue:
'Don't forget tnat rumor hath it
that Austin refused to tax herself
for the support of her free schools,
Austin thinks she'is the pet child of
the government, and should al
ways be presented with the first,
prettiest and largest stick of candy.
1t is about time to let her know that
she is not the only town in the
state"
Austin had never voted on such a
proposition before the 9th, and
then the proposition to tax for
public free schools in the city was
carried by over six to one. Probably
a few misinformed people were led
to vote against Austin by the mali
clous statement
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1881-09-15

SCIENTISTS assert that, in a few
years, there will be no need for that
second noblest work of natuIe-the
horse; that inventions have been
perfected which will give us artifi.
cial locomotion, and that we CO. fdo
without the quadrupeds. Improved
bycicles are now being used in travel.
ing all over the country; but the
new machines that are to super.
cede the use of the horse are run by
a kind of air pump, and have al.
ready been tried in England. Colo.
mel Beaumont, the inventor, has sue.
ceeded in hauling twelve tons
twenty miles with only one charge
of air. The machine is noiseless
and looks like large tank on
wheels, with handles on top, where
the driver is placed. This engine,
it is thought, is capable of immense
accomplishments, and may not only
replace horses, but dispense, in a
measure, with railroads.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1881-09-15

SOME idea of what the Missouri
immigration society is doing in
Germany, may be gained from the
fact that it has just been found nee
essary to order an additional supply
of 10000 copies of the handbook of
Missouri, printed in German, to meet
the demand which has been created
by European agencies. Texas has
given the railways $4,000 acres of
land, and they are, in return, at
tending to immigration affairs for
Texas.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1881-09-15

THERE are certain gentlemen
in the city of Austin who accuse, to
use their pet language, "the STATES
MAN and the Dutch" with injuring
the university cause for Austin. The
STATESMAN rests its cause upon hon.
or and consistency, and the 'Dutch'
are able to defend themselves. Had
the STATESMAN and the Dutch" not
been endorsed by twenty to one, in
Travis county, they might have felt
badly when laPoring under the ac-
cusation, but when it appears that
votes for the entire university saved
Austin, as we are satisfied twill ap-
pear in the end, the STATESMAN win
be generous andnot become spitefnl,
by showing what awful blunders
came near doing for xuuu1|
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1881-09-15

Mr.. DANIEL, the candidate of the
Virginia debtpayers, startled his op-
ponent, Cameron, now the candidate
of the repudiators, by reading the
declaration that Virginia should
"pay to the uttermost farthing, pay
to the last pound of flesh and the
last drop of blood. Reputation is
robbery nothing more, nothing
less" Then turning to Cameron he
asked: ."Who said this?" and an
swered the question, pointing to the
Colonel: "As Nathan said unto Da-
vid, thou art the man."
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1881-09-15

sTHE STATESMAN and the Dutch
and the Swedes and the Irish and
the Mexicans, to say nothing of the
Americans. colored and rncoloredi
throughout Travis county, are solid
for Austin and who dares insult all
these for making united effort to
save this lovely Capital City. These
and their friends have saved it.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1881-09-15

COLONEL BEN KING, the Green
back-Republican candidate for gov
ernor of Mississippi, shouts, like
Malone, for "a free ballot and fair
count" He says that he relies upon
the "little six-barreled codes" of
himself and his associate freebooters
to get it.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1881-09-15

FLIPPER's troubles have lead his
friends to flip over the necessary
cash to entitle him to at least ordi-
nary arrest instead of durance vile.
Colonel Shafter helped him out, and
small sum of money was recovered
from the one whom the dispatches
call his servant girl.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1881-09-15
Unless anacre of land will produc,

Unless anacre ofland will produce
over fifty bushels of corn the grain
will cost when shclled and sacked,
with farm labor at $15 per month
and sacks at eight and q half cents,
between forty-fve and fifty cents,
counting the interest on the invest
ment at six per cent. ON $40. The
less number of bushels the acre pro-
duces the more it will cost per bushel
to raise it until at twenty bushels
per acre, with prices as above, 1t
will bring the farmer in debt, unless
he gets eighty cents per bushcl- An
acre producing 80 bushels, ata60
cents, is as profitable as one produc-
ing 20 bushels at S1.20, because the
expenses per bushel upon the latter
are double what they are upon the
former.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1881-09-15

THE iron and steel corporations of
this country are closely united by
agreements. The eleven steel cor
porations boast of producing 1,0O0,-
600 tons of rail, upon which protec-
ton grants them a bonus of 1928 per
ton, or $28, 100000 per annum. The
expense ofa few millions therefore by
these corporations, to maintain high
protection, is money in their treas
uries, and they may, besides, effectu-
ally crush out any competition.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1881-09-15

The Telephone leans to the belief
that trade was made between the
friends of Maxey and Reagan, when
the seventeenth legislature chose a
senator. Yes, it was probably de-
termined then TO cook Coke's goose,
but how well the job mag be done
is vet to be seem The Telephone, as
Coke's friend, Is NOT badly scared
because of the combination.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1881-09-15

A CALL for a national convention
of state railway commissioners, to
be held at Atlanta, Georgia, October
11th, has been issued by General
James Hardin, of Missouri, chairman
of the executive committee, appoin-
ted by the convention of state COM
missioners at Saratoga last year.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1881-09-15

The secretary of the treasury
makes the statement that there is no
provision for the redemption by the
government of mutilated coin, bnt
it may be exchanged at the treasury
onlyas bullion. Between mutilated
coin and worn money there is q DIS
tinction; for the wear of metallic
currency in use is overlooked by the
government as long as there :, is
enough of the inscription left to sig
nifty the denomination. Mutilation,
however, is willful and not acciden-
tai, and the loss must be sustained
by the holder. The real discount
upon mutilated coin should be very
small, however. The discount of
100 per cent on a 10 cent piece with
a hole in it is outrageous.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1881-09-15

WHEN the STATESMAN, as does
the Post Dispatch, offers prize for
the best original poem, offering to
print all forwarded for competition,
we want DR.. Graham, of the luna
tic asylum, to prepare for one more
unfortunate.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1881-09-15

The New Orleans Democrat states
that not drop of the water of Red
river now runs into the Mississippi,
but all goes to swell the Atchafa-
lays, (which, reinforced by a large
percentage of Mississippi watersis
daily increasing in size, and con-
shtutes a direct menace to the
future of New Orleans"
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1881-09-15

MARVELLOUS gold discoveries are
reported from the Central Hills,
thirty miles from Deadwood. A
vein four feet wide is said to con-
tain more precious metal than
quartz. 1t is said that it runs $780,
900 to the ton in the foundation.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1881-09-15

THE prudent editor keeps his
obituary carefully laid away in a
galley, while poor Hawkins calls for
the funeral procession to begin. 1t
is simply evidence that the newspa-
per man hankereth not for loaves
and fishes, and is satisfied to give
his eaders the truth at all hazards.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1881-09-15

THE Express is trying to devise a
plan for populating Bexar county,
just as though every man over there
has not been engaged in such an un-
dertaking long before the Express
existed.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1881-09-15

LORENZO DELMoNICo, the famed
New York restaurateur, will set no
more dinners for millionaires. He
lived high and contracted gout and
Inflammation of the stomach, and
died rich.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1881-09-15

WITH the supposed changefor the
better in the presidents condition,
gubernatorial heads began to pop
up, calling for day of prayer If
Mr.. Garfield should get wen, the
Pennsylvania governor viii be
claiming the cure, by the grace of
Blaine. Charlie Foster and Tennessee
Hawkins are for the time nonplused,
but the schemes Of the aspiring poll
tician are fruitful and continue to
multiply.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1881-09-15

BAD surgery can not be urged IN
defense of murderer where the
wound is serious and inflicted in
malice. That is the common law.
and it will convict Guiteau instead
of Bliss.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1881-09-15

WHEN the Iowa state Democratic
convention came to the considera-
tion of free trade there was thunder
GUS applause. 1t was the muttering
storm in the distance, and fierce
lightning will accompany it as it adj
Vances.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1881-09-15

THE fellow who has been playing
Leo Hartmann in New York is Il
fraud, fixed up to personate the real
Nihilist, who is moving ircognito
i'm other Darts.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1881-09-15

WHILE the Apaches were killing
people in Arizona and New Mex
leo Gen. Pope end staff were attend
a soldiers reunion in Bloomington,
Illinois.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1881-09-15

THE Yorktown centennial COM
mission. and the citizens of Wash
ington and Baltimore, have decided
to entertain the country's foreign
guests at Baltimore on the tenth,
eleventh and twelfth of October, and
at Washington on the thirteenth,
fourteenth and fifteenth of the same
month. 1t is expected that twenty
distinguished guests from France
will be present on these occasions.
1t is also expected that the French
government will send over two large
war vessels with troops. The troops
will arrive about the fifth of Octo-
Der, and the centennial commission
ers have determined to invite the Of
ficers to attend the various enter
tainments. The spread of republi-
canism in France has made French
men more disposed than ever to join
US in celebrating the acts of the he
roic.fathers, who were so much in
debted to France.