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The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1881-04-21
San Diego, CAL, as Racific Port.

The California Southern railroad
project is one of the Boston schemes
controlled by gentlemen long identi-
fed with the Atlantic and Pacific,
and the Atchison, Topeka and Santa
Fee, and now directly concerned in
the Mexican enterprises. It's OBJ
ject is to make San Diego, the only
natural harbOr on the Pacific coast
south of San Francisco, from which
tits distant about five hundred miles,
and whose advantages have long
been recognized; the Pacific Ocean
terminus for the Southern system of
trans-continetnal roads, aflording a
route between the two oceans some
four hundred miles shorter than by
way of San Francisco. The line of
the new road is remarkably well To-
Gated TO command the best and most
prominent points in Southern Cali
fornia, and, what is of more import
ance to form a link with not only
the Atlantic and Pacific but the
Southern Pacitic-respectively the
thirty-fifth and thirty-second paral-
lei roads-and the entire elaborate
Southern and Mexican system of
roads.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1881-04-21

A correspondent writes to the Nc
Kinney AdUOcdte as follows: ga
fact hot generally known to farmers
and one of great importance has re-
Gently been demonstrated in Europe,
that freezing does not kill vegeta-
tion-it is the subsequent and sud-
den thawing. The late freeze en-
abled me TO make an experiment in
support of that fact. transplanted
the night previous to the freeze some
tomatoes and cabbages, covering up
some tc protect them from the cold
and leaving the others exposed. The
next day L uncovered some of those
1 had previously protected, and shell
tered from the sun some ofthe frozen
plants, with the following result :
AL the tomato plants protected from
the sun after freezing, are now strong
and growing and not a vestige re-
mains of the others. None of the
cabbage were hurt The saved
plants are now, all of them, unshel-
tereQ!t - sIi : ttiH 4. ft .fGt DO
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1881-04-21

DIR. LEIDY has created stir in
Philadelphia by publishing a letter
on the subject of trichine, not that
people do not already know that a
too indiscriminate use of pork may
cause the human from divine to be
devoured, while yet alive, by mill
lions of worms, but because he tells
in conjunction Herewith tale
almost as terrible about the dangers
which beset people in cities from
the use of dirt and filth in food. The
Doctor says eve inhale it, we drink
it and eat it." and that the danger
Gus results from such wholesale ap-
preparation of filth ought to be OBJ
vious to anybody. He says.
"If our food just brought. from
market or the provision store is ex-
amined with the microscope, it is
found TO TEEN with particles of dust,
consisting of fine sand, bits of hay
and straw, filaments of cotton from
old paper and rags, wood tibres,
hairs and scurf scales of man and
beast, spores, etc. Recent investi-
cations render it probable that dust
contains the germs of decomposition,
gangrene and contagious diseases"
These dusty days, then, which we
have lately experienced in Austin,
and which are calculated. ON many
occasions, 10 make the sinner espe-
cially sinful, ought TO cause sober
thought-that we are mortal, born
to die, and that too free use of dirt
only hastens the end, and that
there is, therefore, greater need for
piety than for sinful imprecations
at the dust filing ones eyes and
lungs, and at hats emulating the sail
ing propensity OF kites. We may take
a piece ofpork, alive with trychina,
and by subiecting it TO heat convert
ii into toothsome steaks, and roasts
and stews, but this awful dust is
floating, penetrating poison, finding
its way to lungs and stomachs as GER
tain as we breathe and eat. IL is
healthy in more than one sense,
therefore, that city real estate should
be kept down, and not be permitted
TO rise. This theory is beneficial, not
only to the growth of a city,
but to the physical growth
and health of its people. DIR.
Leidy's wisdom and researches
are worth something, but when il
comes to the prevention of an
evil he is absurd enough to talk
about a clean city. A search after
Utopiawould be crowned with great
er success than for city without
filth; and in this filth there
is all that will exhaust the catalogue
of things that are vile. The winds
of heaven will float the filth of cities,
and city, would soon be rocking
mass of corruption, with pestilence
enough to destroy all vitality but
that which. becomes most active and
most dangerouswhen fed upon filth,
were it not that the winds prevail
But there may be much greater
cleanliness In cities, and no task
assumed by our city council would
give greater comfort to a distressed
and beset humanity than to make
Austin, eIiieciaily, at this season. as
clean ans, - pure as possible, ~
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1881-04-21

by reference to our local report
of meeting, held in this city Tues
day afternoon, it will be seen that
Austin now has splendid opportu-
nifty offered, for Immediately secur-
ing much that has been lost to it,.
For years the STATESMAN has been
urging upon these people the imper-
alive necessity for building rail-
way towards the northwest, but that
great requisite, for making the loco
motive as well rs the mare 90, has
been wanting on every occasion
when the subject has been mooted,
and so Austin's interests have de-
clined, while the business interests
of almost every other portion of the
state have advanced beyond
measure. The opportunity now
presented, as stated, for us
to secure the building of this rail
way, and TO insure its immediate
construction il becomes necessary
for our people to lend a little sup
port to the enterprise. The gentle
men proposing to build the road
offer to construct fifty miles of it
within six months, if the people of
this city will subscribe. either in
stock or donations, the sum of$5O,-
900, TO be paid as the work is
completed by sections, the work
of construction will begin. The
building of fifty miles of this road
would insure the construction of
trunk line towards the northwest,
which would secure a vast deal of
trade for Austin. Can these people
refuse to put the paltry sum of $780,
600 into an enterprise that will save
them hundreds of thousands of dol
lars! The plan is to make this road
an Austin enterprise, to be con-
trOlled and operated in the interest
of the Capital City, which should at
this critical period in its history
begin TO clothe itself in some shape
with dignity, at least commensu-
rate with the smaller cities and
towns of the interior. We are to
have a great capitol building erect
ed, and Austin bids to be the seat of
what ought to be made the greatest
Institution of learning in the South.
She should make herself worthy
of these hOnors by taking stock now
in an enterprise opening the way to
one of the grandest sections of the
state. 1t is such iron links as this
which will bind the Capital City to
the people, and make Texas
one and indivisible. The structure
that crowns Capitol hill should be
dressed in the snowy marbles of
Burnet county, and when the people
of Texas point to the structure with
pride they should realize that Aus
tin has lent a helping hand, when
needed, in securing this pure stone
for its Establishment. Self. interest
dictates course, but pride in our
station, and determination to
maintain tins station before the
people of Texas, demands the i'm
mediate successful elimination of
this railroad scheme. Who will re-
fuse TO lend aid to il?
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1881-04-21
THE Denver & Rio Grande Rail-

TIE Denver & Rio Grands Rail-
road Company have begun to lay IA
third rail over a portion of their
line. Ii is to make n broad gauge
connection for the Atchison, Topeka
a. Santa Fe railway. The construc-
o. railways is doing wonders in de-
veloping the upper Rio Grande
country. Santa Fe, the great center
of the rich mining country of New
Mexico, is being rapidly filled up
by enterprising men from the East.
1t is only recently that its gold and
silver has been accessible enough to
warrant large operations, but now
the a., I. IL S. f. railway is trans
porting thousands oftravelers down
the rich valley of the Rio Grande.
In the region of that river, where
but short time ago The silence of
nature reigned supreme, freight
trains heavily loaded with ore and
silver bricks are now rumbling
along. Towns of easy access to
mountains full ofprecious metals are,
as it were, springing up in a night.
As soon as the Texas Il Pacific and
the Southern Pacific railways are
completed, all this region will be-
come tributary to Texas, and then;
too, the rich silver fields of Preside
will be developed, and the govern
ment will require a mint in the
Southwest to convert these rich
ores into coin. Sometime ago ref
erence was made to this subject, and
the probability of a mint being
established at Austin was discussed.
Could there be one other chain
of connection, railway from Aus
tin towards Denver, this object
could be easily secured. In such an
undertaking there should be no de-
lay. A railway from Austin to Lam
pasas, and thence through Brown
and Taylor counties, toward the Pan
Handle and New Mexico, would de-
velop one of the most productive
regions on the globe. Every
mile of railway from Austin
to the county of Taylor would
pay if in operation to-day, and in
the future it would become one of
the most important lines in the state.
1t would make the shortest line from
Santa Fe or Denver to the ocean,
and the wonder is, while the people
of Austin have felt unable to I'M
dertake such a work, that outside
capital, seeking the most profitable
investment, has not pitched upon
this scheme. Other and similar I'M
dertakings have been inaugurated
i'll Texas, promising, by far, less than
the building of an airline railway
from Austin to the silver fields of
New Mexico.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1881-04-21

THE Sacramento Record, though
Republican, is not a creature of the
trading element in the United
States Senate. It declares that the
Malone business is productive of
mischief to the Republican party
and to the country and says: E
at has long been apparent that
the Republican Senators had made
a fatal. blunder in trafficking with
the Virginia repudiator and turn
coat. Had their purpose been in any
way respectable one the country
might not have viewed the proceed
ing SO severely, but when it is con-
sidered that all this humiliation
and degradation has been incurred
for the sake of fixing an indelible
insult upon the Republican party of
California, not to speak of the re-
suit upon the national party of put
ting such man as Gorham in a post
of honor and responsibility, the
whole incident seems fatuous and
perverse in the extreme" 'l
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1881-04-21
Miscellaneous Advertisements.
ELECTION NOTICE.

Whereas, the Commissioner,s Cont of Trav;a
county, AZ the meeting of said term. held in
ne 18TH 4 March, 1881, upon the neiiiinn Of +
Is. Kemp. James ID. Easton, Georoc Snssmsn
and others, more than twenty frreho. ders ~
said county, asking said court to order nm elac-
ton In the following subdivision. to-,xit. that
scope OF country lying between The Two roans
lea, ing from Austin 10 Round Rock com mencin,
at thc line OF Precinct No. 4, on the road Lead
ing from Austin 10 Round Rock via Fiskville.
thence with said road to the county line thence
with the county line to the Austin and Ronnd
Rock road, via Merrilltown; thence with said
road, via MerrilltOwn, 10 the precinct line where
u crosses said road: thence with the piecinct
line TO the beginning; asking that an election
be ordered in said subdivision by the free
holders thereof 10 determine whether hoOs
sheep and goats shall I've permitted 10 run at
large In said subdivision, and, whereas. the ne.
tition was granted.
Now, therefore, il Is hereby ordered by the
undersigned authority that an election be held
at Summit, in said subdivision, on Saturday
the '~:Id day OF April, A. ID 1881, for the pur,
poses aforesaid, by the freeholders living within
sad subdivision, said election TO be Conducted
and returns thereof made IN accordance with
the law regulating general elections, so far as
the same may be applicable, and j. B. Kemp,
george Sussman anu X. 3. Gault are appointed
managers of the same.
county court.
I. 81 of Travis county, Texas, this, IN O
lSth day OF March, 1881
Y. T. FILLMORE,
County Judge Travis county, Texas
mar.S dltAw4t
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1881-04-21

BoTH DIR. Clopton, of Jefierson,
and DIR. Haden, of Galveston, have
declined the superintendency of the
. Lunatic Asylum, and the Governor
is still looking after some one bfatS
enough to take the place. The Iste-
phone thinks the place, one that
many first class physicians could
well afford TO accept, but itEsays
that @when DIR. Saunders resigned
it.. he established precedent, that
) most of the doctors will shrink from
violating, because of the dreaded
criticisms Of their fellow-doctors.
II DR. Saunders i, determined to va VI
.cRte the place, there isafine opening
there for competent doctor with
some moral courage who feels that
he needs that $1,000 and is not
ashamed to own his necessity
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1881-04-21

aq,THE Republican legislature of
Wisconsin has framed a very sue
cessful apportionment for that State.
It's gerrymander ofthe first water.
1t will now take 61,113 inhabitants
in democratic counties to elect as
many senator's as.SO,921 persons re-
siding in Republican districts. The
Republicans claim that it will secure
them the state until another census
comes around. .tst
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1881-04-21

THE convention of cotton planters
of the South at Memphis, on the
25th of May, is looked forward to
with much interest. Cotton plant
ers of Texas should either join this
organization, or form one of their
own, with purposes similar to the
Mississippi Valley Association. This
association was inaugurated only
two years ago, and to-day, it is one
of the most influential organizations
in the South. 1t has drawn together
a great many intelligent men en-
gagged in the cultivation of cotton,
and their consultations have
certainly effected. great good. q 1t
is by such meetings as this
meeting at Memphis that the Texas
cotton interest might be greatly de-
veloped. Now, Texas raises it's
100000 bales of cotton, valued at
$50,000,000. Instead of returning to
farm labor this sum of money, the
Texas crop should he made to pay
a much greater sum to mechanical
labor, employed in the factory. Capt
ital and labor combined in Texas
ought to make such a crop as
was grown in 1880 produce $780,
10000 instead of 100000 600 and
a Texas cotton growers assoc
citation could take the initiatory
step in bringing about such a COM
summation. Every bale of cotton
produced in Texas ought to be con-
verted into yarns and cloth before
being shipped beyond its limits.
Bysuch means may Texans growoin-
dependent beyond measure li5dl |
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1881-04-21

foe PRESIDENT GARFIELD could not
help kissing his mother during the
A hour Ofinauguration ceremonies, but
1.-THE old lady is going to leave the
"a dear boy aud go back to Mentor. All
this, too, after the story has been
sent all around in the press that the
rule between the two is to never re-
main separated.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1881-04-21

The editor ofthe Groesbeeck Ne,c
Era is member of the present Leg
islatnre, and he has made us d good
one. The following item from that
paper is suggestive 1t says: "There
were too many men in the Legisla-
ture who wanted to either cut out a
district for themselves or friends
under the new iapportionment.
There is war to the very hilt brew
ing oyer this very question. The
ambition of some men who think
they were born to go to Congress is
going to stand very much in the way
CT a peaceable and satisfactory reap
portionment of the state.pseF r11
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1881-04-21

LATE experiments in mesmerism
begin to satisfy people that there is
something in the matter beyond Or
binary knowledge. DIR. Hammond
of New York las given a new turn
to thought in this direction by a
lecture, diversified by experiments.
A sensitive or subject, put Under
the conditions of magnetism by the
will of the manipulation was made
to rob a house as a burglar, forge a
note and commit a murder, all under
assumed circumstances which were
apparently real to the subject. The
doctor drew the conclusion that the
practice of mesmerism should at
once be put under the control of
law, for fear of dangerous conse-
l. ..
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1881-04-21

y INTEREST in Mexico is increased,
when il is known that the pyramid
ofPueblo in Mexico is larger than
1.-THE great pyramid of Cheops in
EGYPT. The latter covers only four
teen acres, while the Mexican one
, epyers forty acres of ground, and
was originally six hundred feet
high. 1t is made of sun-dried brick,
and is supposed to have been built
one thousand years ago.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1881-04-21

~" GRANT was failure as president
Of the New York Worlds Fair,
and now it looks rs though Jay
Gould has committed a fatal blum
der in making him president of a
railway, for his supposed influence
! In Mexico. Grant has been most
coldly received, the Mexicans alp
peariIg to understand rs well as any
body that his mission and his hon
ors are of purely mercenary ma
ture. .E
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1881-04-21

JAY GoULD's life is being applied
to the greatest profit on $3OO,OO0,OO0
of capital, with which he is oper-
ating, entrusted with him by men
and women and children who have
either not the time or not the .abil-
ity to speculate and to make invest
ments properly. To this great trust
he applies himself night and day.
He travels from one part of the
country in his own special convey
ance, transacting business, even as
he goes, in New York and st.
Louis and Texas and Mexico,
and in Europe, by telegraph.
He has the consideration of
hundreds of millions of property
all the while before him. He has
his own millions in the pool with
those of his associates, and when he
counts his gains, millions are added
to their wealth. 1t is the grandest
combination of capital yet known
in this country, and reasonably, no
one has any right to object to it,
unless it be used as means of I'M
justly expressing people. Members
of this syndicate have a perfect
right to employ Mr.. Gould to
operate with $3OO,OOO,OO0 or with
SS,000,OO0,O0O if they could COM
mand the greater sum. The
employment is a noble tribute, not
only to the mastery ability of Mr..
Gould, but to his honesty. lie
serves others better than himself,
for, with all the mental labor requi-
site to the proper direction of these
hundreds of millions, unless his en-
durance be greater than that of any
other man, his body must. after
awhile, succumb to mental strain.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1881-04-21

THE death of Miss DUEL was pre-
meditated suicide by starvation.
She had been a great sufferer from
neuralgia and other nervous dis
eases, and determined to put an
end to a miserable existence.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1881-04-21

N The D.hygr Tribune, (Rep, treats
the dea,..h'rk In the Senate as tits
treated ~ 70 great many other Re-
publican organs. 1t says: ,A = 2di !
@Tbe humiliating spectacle of.the
United States Senate squabbling fof
days over the appointment Of 1
|, a nj s. sss5et a eis still
tail of small SQUAD bling, There may
be a great principle involved in, the
struggle somewhere but If so 1t il
1t can hardly be called q party cues
ton, since, neither Riddlsbarger
nor Gorham is = party man. - The
one is q Virginia repndiationist and
the other stumped against the. last
Republican state tick in o lifornia
l.-vf al sfflo aufrfo adf
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1881-04-21

10 GEN. GRANT says that the tcrmini
:. of the Mexican Southern railroad
are to be the City of Mexico and
r. Tehauntepec. He thinks that fifty
)ndhousand laborers will be at work
/, on the railroads in Mexico before
the end of the year.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1881-04-21
. THE GREATEST BLEssINe

A simple, pure, harmless remedy, that
cures every time, and prevents disease by
keeping the blood pure, stomach regular,
Kidneys and liver active, is the greatest
blessing ever conferred upon man. Hon
Bitters is that remedy, and its proprietors
are being blessed by thousands who have
been saved and cured by it, nWillyoufry
it, See another column; sas go
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1881-04-21

Nor only Republicans. bit many
Democrats, may learn a lesson from
the official condhcto MIR! Hunt, the
Democrat lately elected mayor OF
Philadelphia. lie says: " -. 'o
~ 81 do not propose even so much as
to take clerks of my own appoint
ment in with me. i donOt, think the
mayor of the qcity needs confiden-
tial persons around him. After /
get settled and familiar with affairs,
whenever / see changes arc needed,
L will make them. L have mo pa
tience with this idea so, prevalent
that when AN executive officer goes
in he must turn out everybody UNI
der him and put his friends in their
pidCeS. d.. sE.t. q p. tt-f .ttr,.f .t.rf.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1881-04-21

a- CHIC, the island of the Grecian
archipelago which has been destroy
ed by an earthquake, was the an
cient 'Chios, and was one of the
seven cities that claimed the honor
of being the birthplace of Homer.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1881-04-21

AND now the British House of
Commons is inquiring into the ex-
cessive charges of railroad compa-
MES, especially as to agricultural
products.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1881-04-21

THIS week the grading of the
i,Missouri-Pacific between Fort
'h Worth and Waco, will be completed.
1t was only the other day that it
was begun. Such is the magical
touch.of capital, now opening all
Texas to all the world.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1881-04-21

-l"Yes, sir;a said Gallagher, sc was
funnyr enough to make "a donkey
laugh, Il laughed till ! cried" and
then he SAW q smile go round the
room, he grew. redfin the face and
vent away mad d 51Eiq s9.es an t0I
.Ira4sni faEs adj Val
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1881-04-21

'd THE VIRGINIANs are promising
all sorts of attractions for the York
town Centennial. There is going to
10 be speech from the President, a
iigrand militia review, a parade on
the order of Mardi Gras demonstra-
,tions, and other attractions.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1881-04-21

SEATS on the New York Stock
Exchange have fallen from $4,000
to $4,000. Even the latter price is
largely fictitious, since all the real
estate of the Exchange is only 3d.
100000, or $4,000 to each member.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1881-04-21

MAJOR JAMES w. PEaRAM, who
died in Atlanta, Georgia, few days
ago, belonged to the famous eight
ing Pegram family" lie had two
brothers, both of whom were IN the
Confederate army, and ''the ten sons
of the elder Pegrams" also entered
the Confederate service. OF the ten
young Pegrams five were killed in
battle and one was So severely
wounded that the amputation of ms
leg was necessary. 'i4 3....' \