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The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1881-02-24
From Erath County.
GAINES Rancho, Dec. 30, 1880.

dA1NES' hANCHE, Dec. %, 1851.
Editor Democratic Statesman:
thought perhaps you would like to
know something about our county. The
county is thirty miles square, and con-
tains large bodies of the finest lands. The
soil varies, aud the eastern part of the
county is an open and rolling country.
The soil is of black nature, like You
have around your city, only more sandy.
The other parts are sandy with 4 clay
foundation, which makes It more produc-
tive. Timber, as yet, is not scarce AZ
ticle, but in the course of four or five
years It will be an object. The average
per acre of the different crops, as far as /
am able TO learn, are, wheat, 10 to %
bushel corn, 80 to 80; oats, so to 70;
millet, 9 to tons. The cotton crop was
not as good as usual last year, owing to
the boil worm and the early freeze;
nevertheless, most of our farmers made
from half to .three-quarters of n bale TO
the acre. The country is very well set
tied up with good substantial citizens,
most all of whom have comfortable i'm
provements and are doing well. Our
county seat, Stephensville. is a charming
little place, with about 1000 Inhabitants,
and there are several excellent business
houses which do a handsome trade. and
are conducted by gentlemen who would be
an honor to the society of any place.
mere are Two cuuTCleS anu one school
The health of our county is most
excellent, and l can say, without fear of
contradiction, that for health we
cannot be exeelled by any other
portion of Texas. We have two rail
roads running in convenient distance of
us, the Texas Pacific on our north, which
is about twenty miles, the Houston &
Texas Central on our south, which is
about five miles distant. The society of
our county is not the best, but 1t will i'm
prove Us time rolls on. We have plenty
of room for good, honest and Industrious
people, and nowhere will that class of
persons receive a more cordial welcome,
than among the Woodworking citizens of
Grath county. 1t makes no difference
where q man comes from, whether he be
a Northern, or Western, or a Southern
man, or from across the broad Atlantic,
if he will just make q useful man, and
law abiding citizen we welcome him.
Once settled in our county he will never
leave 1t. Like most western counties
portion of ours is adapted TO stock,
being well watered, and having fine
grasses. To the stOckman we extend
welcome hand. ID. z, GAINES
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The onslaught on Ingerson made
by Chief Justice Comegys, at Will
mington, Del, was from the bench,
and the remarks were addressed to
a grand jury. Ingersoll had lately
lectured in the place. Th8 Judge
said: "Blasphemous language was
used near where we are assembled
by an audacious disciple of the de-.
famers of revealed religion, for the
purpose of exposing its doctrines to
contempt and ridicule; and to what
some consider the reproach of the
people of this city, no man
stepped forward to call him to ac-
count for his defiance of the law of
the state. | say to you that the law
of this state is against the Insult
ing of God by reproachfnl or
derogatory language or express
sions, and exciting the passions of
the people by treating their religion,
with contempt. No community such
as ours can exist as healthy moral
organization, where men areallowed
to speak without challenge against
the very and only foundation upon
which it surely. rests-the overflow
ing power of God. When we de-
throne His majesty ana erect in
His place our own notions of
right and wrong, we shall soon pass
into state of life not restraining,
but in effect promoting,,our inherent
propensity to evil, for no candid
man can pretend that our impulses
are not toward the qualification
rather than in restraint of our pas 1
sions." His honor added that bias
phemy was an ancient common-law
offense, and was also made crime
by q Delaware statute as long ago as
1740. The punishment until 1925
was the pillory, the brand and the |
whip. He said that Ingersoll might
be arrested by any officer without a
warrant, and added sit is, 1 hope,
hardly necessary to say to this COM
munity, and to assure the people of
it, that if any one shall be convicted
of the CRIME of blasphemyI there
shall be no stint of the full measure
of punishment the law now pre-
scribes. And we shall in nowise |
be deferred from the performance
of our duty by the sneers of the
devotees of any other faith than |
that of the body of the people of
this state, or the deprecatory expires. |
sions of those who. think the right |
of free speech will be infringed |
thereby" 81 i
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The Q arepFesented District.
BRAzoRIA, Tex, Feb. IL, 1881.

BRAzoRIA, Tex. Feb. IL, 1881.
Editor. STATESMAN; r. -a '-
q Permit me again to trespass upon
yonr columns, in behalf of the coast
of Texas, particularly that part
known as the counties of BraZoria
and Matagorda! The beginning of
work at the mouth of the Brazos
river has revived our. tagging
spirits. and, with fair crops the past
year, I'VE enter upon another with
renewed hope that the life in the
t"old fandp will vet grow into great
Developments, and result in giving
to Texas and the great new west a
magnificent land-locked harbor free
from the demands of wharf conn
panies. r.t ..:.t.-., '
In aid of our works of develop
ment appeal is made to the legisla-
ture through the medium of your
paper, our section being without
representation to- make our re.
sources known and to object to I'M
! friendly and district legislation.
This can bel done only by cutting
this section loose from Galyeston's
control, and by giving ms separate
representative district. a.r- o.
petition has been forwarded to
Senator Patton Setting sout our
grievances arising from associations
with Galveston, and asking, in the
event of a new appOrtion-
menty that we be entirely re-
leased from Galveston, both in
senatorial and representative dis
tricts; but If no new superintendent
be made, then we would have an
amendment passed, abolishipg the.
Pictorial district sof Galveston, Bra
zoria and Matagorda, and making
BraZoria and Matagorda alone con-
stitute the thirty-sixth representa-
tive district. This is fair. Calves
ton, with 700 people, has two rep.
resentatives and the fioater as well
as the Senator. Brazoria and Malta
CORA, with $4,000 people, are without
a voice In the Legislative assembly
of the state. ~
Galveston has hitherto urged her
Democratic majority of votes as our
salvation, but as Gaiveston's DEM
ocratic majority prefers Galveston
Republican to a Brazoria Democrat
we prefer, if we have to take Re-.
publican member, that he be home
made one, and not borrowed for the
Occasion without DUR asking.
3 The favorable consideration of the
Legislature of this petition Is asked,
and in common with our people,
Democrats and. Republicans, the
hope is expressed that 1t will pass
that we may have relief songht.
JERRH WARREN.
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To the Sheriff or any Constable Of Travis eoun.
WdEREAs, Mary Mcoowsn, on tho lO,h De.
cember 1870, fled her petition In the County
Court OF Travis county, numbered 06s, against
geo. b. Zimpelmap, alleging Ia substance 81
ioliows; That on the 2ist day Of March, 1877,
John McGowan departed this life, leaving petit,
TONER who was his wife, his only heir NJ law,
and next OF kin surviving; that said John Me-
Gowan was the owner OF one carriage, of the
value OF 1900, one black mare valued at 500,
one gray horse valued at 1870, one pony valued
at s5O, eight lanterns valued OF &C. one wheel,
barrow valued at %, one set single harness
valued at tlO, one SGT carriage harness valued at
500, one box sundries valued at SO four shoyels
or spades valued at 50, one rake value a. three
curry cSmbs and brushes value So one'lutnp and
one lantern value y one bucket and one can
value w, one book OF accounts value 5000 one
pair OF gold Bpectacles value s25, one watch
value $40. All OF which property was then Ia
Travis county, and at the death OF said John
McGowen wns the only property be posses sed
That on the elst March, 1871, said Geo b. Zim.
pelham took out letters Of administration upon
the estate OF said James MCGOWAN, and without
the consent OF plaintiff, took all Of said prop,
erty into his possession and converted the same
TO plaintiffs damage $500. That all Of saId
property, upon the death u said John McGow
an .ia imm nm became ! property OF plain
exempt from forced sale by execution Plain.
tiR prays for judgment against the defendant for
the value Of said property, for damages and for
Wherefore we command you to- sdfnrnon tho
said Geo. b. zimpelmAD, by causing this cita
ton 10 be published for four successive weeks
prior 70 the return day hereof, In SOME nawapa.
per pa blishee in Travis county, TO appear be-
fore the County Court Of Travis county, Texas
TO be held at the courthouse In Ahstfi, on the
third Monday In March, 1881, then aud there TO
answer the petition Of the said Mary MCGOWAN,
brief statement of which Is set out herein,
when and whore You shall make known, how
you have executed this WRIT
Witness, Frank Brown, clerk Of said court.
Isl and the seal thereof attached January n,
1881. =
jans2w4 FRANK BROWN, G. o.T.c.
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az YiIE sum total of Mexican sub
MENTIONS, made to railway lines, to
be built and controlled by Gould.
Sage. Huntington, Nickerson and
other citizens of the United States,
is S96,OO0,0O0. The grants convey
power to these men to build roads
over the most important parts of
Mexico, and to hold it until il may
be occupied by our people; and it is
no speculation to say, that in a short
lime its fertile lands and its rich
grazing and mining districts
will be in possession of Americans.
Although the grants amount to quite
tlO0,0O0,O 900, Mexico has not a dollar
with which to pay, and the claims
must therefore remain as a mort
gage upon its territory. II is sug-
gested that the favored corporations
when they shall have built their
works, will demand the subsidies,
and falling 10 receive them, will
call upon their government to exact
them, in the same way as the French
J government attempted to enforce
the Jecker claims IN ls64-by war.
SO tho inevitable problem works
out its own solution.
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cessity abandoning their business.
and if abandoned they sacrifice what
they have already done. The re-
suit would be that our people viii
be compelled to plant Northern
trees, peddfed over the country by
irresponsible tree vendors, or IDEAL
ers," rs they denominate themselves.
The few nurseries in the state able
to pay this exorbitant tax cannot
furnish one-fourth the number of
trees required. Northern wholesale
nurserymen can we'll afford TO pay
the 500, and turn loose IRON twenty
five 10 fifty agents on our people. as
some of them are now doing, To sell
their worthless sprouts by the thou
sands and carry our money home
with them. 1t was asked as amatter
of justice that the small nurseryman
shall not be unnecessarily oppressed.
The nurseryman's trees are his crop,
planted and grown as the cotton
planter grows his crop from the soil.
and whoever thought of requiring
of the farmer an occupation tax, to
allow him TO market his cotton.
One man can be found in every rail-
road town, who can buy all the
cotton the farmer can make, but the
nurseryman must hunt up hundred
towns and a thousand buyers TO
market his crop. When he is at all
this Inconvenience and cost, why
pass discriminating tax on his
labor.
Our people have planted Northern
trees until they are tired of
being deceived and disappoint-
ed in the fruits. The people
do not generally know the names
of the fruits and must depend upon
the honesty (O ola Aorthern peddlar
for the kinds they plant. In justice
to the farmers and planters of fruit
treer, we insist that Mr.. Woods bin
become law. n. A. d.
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hENrs RRQuIRED N ITS CONTRIBUTION.
Editor Statesman:
As you are about to publish a
special edition of your paper, special
ly ofinterest to parties or persons
contemplating investments or immi-
grating ..to this state, L would like
TO say few words TO encourage the
| development of our mineral and
geological products, especially nee
essary for the building up of our
future cities, houses and public
structures.-T Tho building of the
state capitol and the competition
which will result therefrom, must
contemplate the development of
material, new to the building trade
as products ofthe state of Texas,
and of many others which must.take
the place of that which is now i'm
ported into the state at great
cost; also the improvement
in tho mode of obtaining that now
in common use, and improving its
quality and increasing its quantity.
Enterprising manufactures and con-
tractors will do this. Cement and
lime can be produced from the rock
hereabouts that will excel in quail
ty any cement known in this coun-
try. Provision must be made and
capital expended to secure kilns, fur
naces and mills toIproduce these ar
ticles in large quantity to supply the
trade which is now controlled by
Kentucky Tennessee and New
York, and even England, bricks of
such quality for furnace work and
Of q better quality for building;
building rock must be quarried with
more skill, and a better quality Sc
cured to the market. F
Lime stone of the best quality with
crushing strength equal to the
indestruetible limestone hsof Ken
lucky and Indiana, can be obtained
here, ola fine, unfading color, and
of ready access and frec-cutting
quality. Marbles ofvaried hue have
been found, equal to the Vermont
white, Irish and Belgium black, and
Sienna, the beautiful rose brocatelle
of Italy; gypsum, for plaster of paris,
equal TO Michigan and for por-
celain and polished plate-glass clay
and sand have been found, which
abound in quantities, one producing
the kaolin, from which porcelain
can be manufactured equal to Sevres,
or French. From the sand can be
made the famous polished plate-glass
which can only be produced by the
French, for the purpose of making
the finest silver-plated mirrors.
This glass requires to be
colorless. No glass equal to it has
yet been manufactured elsewhere,
either in Belgium, England or
America. Various are the advan-
tages which such building and the
expenditure of SO much money con-
templated to be expended by the
state in its erection will bring. Va
rious win be the mechanical skill
and genius which viii develop in the |
course of its erection. We must |
hail the time as looking to the |
interest of the entire state. The |
capitol building will be COM
and the money cireu-
lated through the channels of
industry and CONNER
cial marts, for the produce to sustain
the bone and sinew required to de-
velope its structural beauty; and the
mighty influence of its solid portal,
md elegant halls and corridors will
DO q monument to the progress and
the Development of our industries
Gents furnishing goods at prices that
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THE DEATH OF HOOD.

The MANNED and broken warrior lay,
BY his last focman brought 10 bay.
No sounds of battlefield were there
Inc drum deep bass, the trumpet's blare,
No lines of swart battalions broke
Infuriate, thro' the sulphurous smoke.
But silence held the tainted room
An ominous hush, an awful gloom
Save when, with feyerish moan, he stirred,
And dropped come faint, half muttered word,
Or outlined in vague, shadowy phrase.
The changeful scenes or persisted days
What thoughts on his bewildered brain.
Must then have flashed their binding pain
The Past and Future, blent in one. L.
Wild chaos round life's setting sun.
But most his spirits yearning gaze
Was fain TO pierce the Futures haze,
And haply view what fate should find
The tender Loves he left behind.
80 God! outworn, Respondent. poor
tsrry at Deaths opening door,
While subtlest ties of sacred birth
Still bind me TO the lives OF earth
How can l in calm courage die,
Thrilled by the anguish of cry
know from orphaned lips shall start .
Above fathers pulseless hearth:
His eyes, by lingering langours kissed,
ShOne like sad stsrs thro' autumn misr:
And all his being felt the stress
of helpless passions bitterness. &C..
When, from the fever-haunted room, -
The president hush, the dreary gloom.
A blissful hope divinely stole ...
Der the vexed waters of his soul,
That sank as sank that stormy sea. go
Subdued by Christ in Galilee.
1t whispered low, with smiling mouth,
a." She is not dead THY queenly South.
And since for her each liberal vein
Lavished thy life, like vintage rain, -
When round the bursting wine-press meet
The lonian harvester's cri msoned feet:
And since for her no CALLING curb
Could! bind thy patriot will superb.
Yea! since for her thine all was spent,
unmeasured, with grand content
Soldier, thine orphaned ones shall rest,
Serene, on her imperial breast. -.
Her faithful arms shall he their fold,
In summers heat, in winters cold;
And her proud beauty melt above
Their weakness In majestic lOve!''
All then the expiring hero's face, =
Like Stephens, glowed with rapturous g1ae
Mad missiles of a morbid mood,
Hurled at his head in solitude, ....
No longer wounding, round It fell
Peace sweetenod his supreme farewellI
For sure the harmonious hope was true
o SOUTH he leaned his faith on you'll
And in clear vision, ere he died,
Saw its pure promise justified.
PAUL HAMILTON HArER.
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ESTRAY NOTICE.

State OF Texas, Comfy Of Travis
To the honorable county clerk Of Travis eoun-
ty. The undersigned would respectfully an.
nounee the following sstrays, to-wit:
One dark brown horse about Is hands high,
branded il on the shoulder, and small white
dot In the forshssd, about 10 years Old, collar
mark.
One sorrel horse, hind feet white about four
inches about the ankle, about ID bands high,
white dot In forehead, branded on shoulder X
with eurl.)
One sorrel mare, about II hands high, hind
feet white eight inches about the ankle, right
forefoot little white, a little dot in forehead,
One bay ally about years old, 70 hands high,
hind feet white, rope around the neck, small
spot In the forehead, branded on the shoulder
FRY (perpendicular.)
The above described horses run noar Buass'
ranch on Perdinalss.
One gray mare ltI< hands high, branded D 90
the shoulder, on the thigh, eight years old,
GEORGE n. HEISSNER,
County COmmigaioneY
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The Telephones crfticises the
printing board for using public
document to make personal attack.
1t says: "The medium of reply was
not we'll chosen and the officials had
no right to use public documents to
crafty their pique against Mr..
Shaw. His criticisms and the re-
iolnder of the board were purely
personal matters, outside the scope
of public documents. Had the Leg.
islature acted right it would have
rejected the report until the board
expunged the personal matter.
With equal propriety Gov Roberts
might, in his annual message, have
alluded to the bitter personal at
tacks made on him during the cam-
paign by some of the nswspapers.'
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Ohio is waking up to the excel
lences of the taxation plan of deal
ing with temperance. A bill has
been introduced in the State Senate
which provides for the taxation
upon a aiding scale of all persons
engaging in the traffic in intoxicat-
ing liquors. The dealer whose place
of business Is located outside OF the
limits of any village or city, and not
within one mile thereof, is to pay
500 per annum; dealers within a
village having population of 1000
or within one mile thereof, 500;
within any city Of the second-class
or within one mile thereof. $500;
within any city of the first-class, or
within one mile thereof, $1,000. All
the funds arising from the act are to
be applied to the relief of the poor
whose destitution has arisen from
the use ofor traffic in intoxicating
liquors and other poor.
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The Care of the Ear.

Only the softest materials and the
gentlest pressure should be used in
cleaning the ear. In recent elm
ical lecture DR.. Wilson gives, IN
popular form, some very useful and
practical information touching the
removal Of earwax. If the ticking
of q watch can be heard at distance
of twenty-eight inches the hearing
is good. Each ear should be tested
separately. Noises in the head,
sometimes ringing, frequently are
due to hardened wax in the ear.
Sudden deafness is sometimes
caused as follows: A small mass of
wax, from Ill health or uncIeanli-
ness, becomes hard. A continued
secretion of wax then blocks up the
ear tube still more. An injudicious
attempt is then made to remove
the wax by introducing perhaps
match-end, a pin-head or pen
holder, which, instead of removing,
pushes down the wax. and packs 1t
against the tympanum; or by sud
den draught or the act of swallow
ing the wax is suddenly pressed
against the membrane, and loss. of
hearing Immediately ensues, be-
cause the membrane can 10 longer
vibrate. The removal of the wax in
some cases, especially those of long
er standing, somewhat difficult, but
with gentle treatment and patience,
may be finally accomplished, and the
hearing fully restored. The best
means for removing wax, when not
badly oompacted, are half a drschm
of sodium carbonate dissolved in an
ounce of water, applied lightly by
means of bit of absorbent cotton
or sponge attached to a suitable
handle. When the wax Is much
compacted, it may be softened by
means of water, quite warm, and a
syringe.-Scientifc american .
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Legislation on Home Nurseries.
iJAcKsoSvILLn, TEXAS.

ihn lJAcKsoNviLLE, Texas.
Editor Statesman 81 = a--- .,l-
We notice in your excellent paper
that Mr. Woods, of the House of
Representatives, has introduced 3
bill in reference to the tax on .nur-
series. The occupation tax requires
nurserymen, for the privilege Of sell
ling their trees, either in person or
by agent, to pay, Q tax of $500. There
are now o great many nnrserymen
Just beginning this business on a
small scale in onf state, the great
demand for home grown trees hav-
ing encouraged them to do so.
Most of them are poor men.
The small business they are able to
carry-on win not bear such a tax,
and If the law be not repealed or
modified they Will be under the ne
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TIE Brennan Banner concludes
argument enforcement of
punishment for crime by saying that
whenever It is once thoroughly
understood that the penalties at
tached to certain crimes viii be
.-rigidly enforced, that murderers
will surely be hanged and thieves
,SentIo the penitentiary,. men will
stop aud weigh carefully the conse-
auenees before doing u felonious
acfr
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THE Senate's Committee on FL
nance has amended the Houses
funding bill, by changing the rate of
interest, for both bonds and treasury
notes, from three to three and one
half per cent, and by removing the
provision which required national
banks to keep on deposit in the
treasury, government bonds to the
amount of one-third of their capt.
tai.
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ESFRAY NOTICE.

Estrsyed, by. Henry Holman before Fritz
Tegenef, J. P. 7. c., January %, 1881, black
horse mule, about II hands high, about Is years
FRANK BROWN, Clerk c. c. T. C.
fel6w3tf
Rstrayed BY John Vincent, before W. o.
Crockett, J., p, T. G., January 90, 1881, one
about years old, branded, 24(connected), one
white hind foot, appraised at 81.
FRANK BROWN, clerck c. @. T. G.