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The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1881-04-21
POLITICAL NOTES.

The rumor was again circulated
in Washington Oh Wednesday that
if the deadlock, continues much
longer the President will call an ex-
ira session of Congress, but it is not
credited.
During the Chicago election ex-
element, the Woman's Temperance
Union held all-day sessions Ofprayer.
They prayed that drunkenness and
other vices would be rooted out of
Chicago.
Hayes, on his way to Cincinnati
Monday, was confronted by "a Cleve-
land reporter, to whom he remark
ed: ii am in private life now, and
prefer not to talk about govern
mental affairs"
The law in Rhode Island against
intermarriage between blacks and
whites has been repealed. There is
now no such statute in New Eng
land, but several of the Northern
States still prohibit such marriages.
The negro exodus from the South
has revived. more than 500 persons
leaving Huntington, Tenn, during
the past few weeks. 1t is to be not
ed, however, that these emigrants
leave the only Southern state which
has Republican governor, and are
emigrating from the very country
where that Governor, Hawkins, re-
sides.
+ The Ohio legislature has passed
the bill submitting to the popular
vote an amendment 10 the constitu-
ton prohibiting the sale ofliquor in
the state. 1t is probable that it will
be carried, as the Cincinnati election
shows the temperance people to be
very strong in the state. Even if it
is not, it will split up the Republi-
cans on the liquor question and give
the state to the Democrats. Such is
the feeling in Ohio.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1881-04-21
WIZ AND WISDOM.

Guida: Some lies are blessed as truth.
Dickens: The children of the very poor
are not brought up, but dragged up.
DR.. John Lord: She trusted him. like 4
woman; he betrayed her, like man.
george Elllot: Genlus at nrst Is nttle
more than great capacity for receiving
discipline.
Bunyan: Old truths are always new to
us if they come with the smell of heaven
upon them.
May Agnes Fleming: 1t is more COM
mon for women to feel enthusiasm than
to inspire it.
Hilda Kruger: Joys are never fully APP
preciated until seen through the magni-
flying glass ofthe past.
King Francis L.: A royal court without
women is like year without spring. a
spring without flowers.
Alexander Dumas: We have allknown
happy days in our childhood, whatever
we may have known since.
Ingersoll: To build a school is to con-
struct fort. To teach the alphabet is to
inaugurate revolution.
Prof. March: The great thinker is sell
dom 4 disputant. He answers other mems
arguments by stating the truth as he sees
it.
Auerbach: Oh, if people would only
show each other half as much love during
life as they do when one dies or moves
away.
George Eliot No story is the same to
US after the lapse of time; or, rather. we
who read it are no longer the same inter-
prefers.
Hilda Kruger: A pretty foot is very
like those pocket-books we see advertised
as lost, "of no value to anyone except the
owner"
Anon There is nothing SO terrible to
strong, earnest natures as to have any in
sufficiency in themselves brought keenly
home to them.
Scott: He that does good. having un-
limited power to do evil, deserves praise
not only for the good he performs, but for
the evil he forbears,
Anon 1t may serve as a comfort to us
all IN our calamities and Affections that
he that loses anything and gets wisdom by
it is gamer by the loss.
Mary w. Shelley: How much happier
that man is who believes his native town
to be the world, than he who aspires to
become greater than his nature will allow.
Dickens The old, old fashion! the
fashion that came in with our first gar
ments, will last unchanged until our race
has run its course, and the wide frma-
ment is rolled up like scroll; the old, old
fashion-Death
Anon: When you see woman partic-
ularly polite and forgiving to her female
friends, take care for, as Mark Tapley
said OF a rattlesnake curling itself up like
Il corkscrew at the side of your bed, sit
means venom"
Alexander Dumas. We must needs
have been very sinful before we were
born, or we must enjoy great happiness
after death, since God permits us in this
life to endure all the pains of temptation
and all the fortunes of expiration.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1881-04-21
PERSONAL NOTES.

Secretary Blaine suffers from
rheumatism.
Mrs. Garfield, Mrs. Blaine and
Mrs. Window were school teachers
in early life.
Senator Anthony, of Rhode
Island, completed his sixty-sixth
year on the 1st instant.
Col. Jerome n. Bonaparte. of
Baltimore, is to build a residence
for himself in Washington.
Mrs. Kate Sprague Is said to be
dwindling away by degrees. She is
reported to be the picture ofsorrow.
M. Hughes Merle, the painter
of the pathetic "Marguerite," so
often seen in photograph, has lately
died.
Mary Anderson is twenty-five
years old and was born in Cali
fornia. Her father was killed in the
Confederate service. Joseph An
derson is her brother.
Mrs. Della Prescott, of Massa-
chusetts, and Mrs. Mary Clark, of
Maine, who are twin sisters, re-
Gently celebrated their eighty-tifth
birthday together at the old home
stead in New Hampshire.
Senator Joe Brown of Georgia
has more real humor than all the
other Southern Representatives put
together, but he is hardly what one
would call solid. He is much ike
some of the soda water which one
sees drawn into large glasses.
Miss Leila Morse, daughter of
Prof. Morse, of telegraph fame, was
married on the 4th, at Poughkeep-
sic, N. Y to Franz Rummell, the dis
tinguished pianist. Thebrlde receiv-
ed many presents, one of them a
check of $4,000 from Samuel j. Til
den, a lifetime friend of her father.
The family of Col. Bob Ingersoll
are happy, jolly, light-hearted and
cultured people. The daughters
have never been at school, but have
been educated at home. One of
them, who is a handsome girl of
the English type, has a rich contralto
voice In IngersolPS library Shak-
speare is regarded as his bible and
Burns as his hymn book.
The German Emperor was
greatly pleased by the popular at
tachment shown to him on his birth
day. He declared in a note Of thanks
that in giving expression to the joy
these demonstrations gave him he
only satisfied the craving of his
heart. "At time," he added, "when
1 felt deeply aggrieved at the sudden
death of my most faithful friend and
relative, my sorrow has been allevi-
ated by seeing my birthday marked
in this affectionate manner.
-Genevieve Ward, the actress, de-
mandss separate sleeping cars Tor
women. ~ think it is perfectly
shocking," she says. "the way ladies
and men are huddled together like
animals in these sleeping cars, with
nothing but curtin hanging be.
tween them. 1t shocks II modest
woman frightfully to have to Ell,
dure this ordeal. Where is the much.
daunted decency of the American
people, that it does not rise against
this infringement of propriety and
| self-resDectW
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1881-04-21
A Curious Custom in Syria.

In Syria people never take of
their caps or turbans when entering
a house or visiting a friend, but they
always leave their shoes at the door.
The reason is that their floors are
covered with clean mats and rugs,
and in the Moslem houses the men
kneel on the rugs to pray, and press
their foreheads to the floor, so that
it would not be decent or respectful
to walk in with dirty shoes and soil
the SHADY on which they kneel TO
pray. They have no foot mat or
scrapers. and it is much simpler and
cheaper to leave the shoes, dirt and
all, at the door. 1t is very curious
20 go to the Syrian school houses and
see the piles of shoes at the door.
There are new, bright red shoes, and
old, tattered shoes, and kob kobs,
and black shoes, and sometimes yell
low shoes. The kobs are wooden
clogs, made to raise the feet out of
the mud and water, having little
strap over the toe to keep it on the
foot. You will often see little boys
and girls running down steps and
paved streets on these dangerous
kob kobs. Sometimes they slip, and
then down they go on their noses,
kob kobs fly off and go rafting over
the stones, and little Ali or Yusef,
or whatever his name is, begins to
shout: "Ya imme! va imme !" ooh,
my mother ~ and cries just like the
little children in other countries
But the funniest part is to see the
boys when they come ont of school
and try to find their shoes. There
will be fifty boys, and, of course, a
hundred shoes, all mixed together
in one pile. When school is out the
boys make rush for the door. Then
comes the tug ofwar. A dozen boys
are standing and shuffiing on the
pile of shoes, looking down, kicking
away the other shoes, running their
toes into their own, stumbling over
the kob kobs, and then making a
dash to get out Of the crowd. Some
times shins will be kicked and hair
pulled, and tarbooshes thrown Off
and a great screaming follow, which
will only cease when the teacher
comes with "Asia," or q stick, and
quells the.s That pile of shoes
will haye to answer fer good many
school boy fights, and bruised noses
and hard feelings in Syria. You
viii wonder how they can tell their
own shoes. so do /. And the boys
often wear off each others shoes by
mistake or on purpose, and then you
will see Selim running with one shoe
on and one of Ibrahim's in his hand.
shouting and cursing Ibrahim's
father and his grandfather until he
gets back his lost property.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1881-04-21
FOREIGN NOTES.


England has declined to attend
the Monetary Conference.
The Spanish cabinet has decided
to apply the Spanish constitution
and press laws to Cuba and Porto
Rico.
g. 1t is officially announced that
the marriage OF Crown Prince Ru-
dolph and the Princess Stephanie,
of Belgium, is fixed for May 10.
The Berlin correspondent of the
Standard says that the dispatch of
foreign newspapers to Russia has
been limited TO persons specially
privileged and provided with police
permits.
The journal de 81. Petersburg,
replying to the remarks of the for
eign press OH the refugee question,
SAYS the only thing desired is TO pre-
vent cold bloOded plotting Of assas-
sination by measures which no state
would refuse, ifthe protection simply
of private persons were concerned.
In the Italian Chamber ofDepu-
ties, on the second, Signor Magliani,
Minister of Finance, in making the
budget statement, said the budget of
1881 showed a surplus of fifteen mil
lion lire (about S3,000,00O. Italy
would take part in the Monetary
Conference, and hoped arrangements
would be agreed to which would OBJ
tain for silver the widest possible
market on the same terms as gold.
A4 ~ lot
Cuba, was opened by Captain Gen
eral Blanco, on the third. Exery-
thing is incomplete, there being few
exhibits yet in place, and it is ru-
mOred that, on account of the late
ness of the season, the exhibition
will be closed in two months, and
reopened next winter. The United
States are fairly represented in hard
ware, machinery and agricultural
products.
AT an extraordinary meeting of
the Slavophil Society, at st. Peters
burg, on the fourth, NJ. Aksakoff,
editor of the Moscoto Russ, maintain
ed that the country did not require
q constitution, on account of the in
innate connection between the mon
arch and the people, which did not
exist in Western Europe. Prince
Imeritinski and Attorney-G General
Pobedouosstseff were present and
drew up and address to the Emperor,
which was numerously signed.
There is some advantage in
husband, sometimes, Sonora BaldoS
mera opened q bank in Madrid,
Spain, for her poor neighbors.
When 100000 francs were deposit
ted, she made off with the money to
Paris, but was capturedand brought
back to Spain. The court decides
that q woman can not carry on a
banking business without her hus-
bands authority, and, therefore.
Sonora Baldomera's operationswere
irregular. The depositors win not
get 9 cent, and the Sonora can spend
her money with impunity, whereas,
If women had their rights in Spain,
she would probably spend the re-
maindsr Of her life in . penitentiary.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1881-04-21

The Atchison, Topeka s Santa Fe
railway has concluded not to com
pete, for the present, for California
through trade. The same men own
the Union Pacific and the Southern
Pacific, with the latter of which
the A. t. Il S. +. connects, aud it
therefore becomes impossible for
any attempt at competition to be
made. 1t win be the Same when the
Texas roads connect with the South
ern Pacific and competition win not
begin until the At. q S. f. and the
international and other lines run
ming through Mexico, make theiI
Pacific connection siaa ~
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1881-04-21

AN EFFORT to abduct a little girl,
the daughter Of l.. Strasburger, a
rich merchant of New York, was de-
feated by the caution of her teacher,
who wonld not permit her to leave
school, ON forged summons from
her father, without attendance.
The would-be abductors were set
upon by the police, and one was ac-
cidentally but properly killed.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1881-04-21

A NEW law of Tennessee forfeits
a sherif7s office when he permits a
prisoner to be taken from his Gus
tody. 1t is based upon the theory
that officers can prevent mob vio-
lence if theY will.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1881-04-21

THE New York Star of the ninth,
predicts, that, unless the dead lock
in the Senate be broken by Republic
cans in two weeks, President Gar
field viii send in his message with
drawing all the nominations, and
thus throw the onus of failure on
Conkling and the other stalwarts
With, nothing before it, will the
Senate sit perpetually to defeat
nominations in vacation? n
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1881-04-21

THE Ohio man is alarmed since it
has been discovered that the Secre-
tary of the Interior, the Commits
sioner of Public Lands and the In
dian Commissioner are Iowa men.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1881-04-21

ja' BEN BUTLER was driven out of
the Republican party by Senator
Hawley, because he tolerated repu-
diation even to the extent of en-
dorsing the Greenbackers. Now the
Republican party goes over to Ma
hone because he is genuine repu-
diator, and Hawley is one of the
Republican leaders, who has helped
to put his party into so small q COM
pass.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1881-04-21

THE catastrophe at Chic sur
passes anything of the kind hereto
fore known. The number killed
Hand wounded bythe earthquake was
over $4,000; and now a pestilence is
feared. Forty thousand persons are
naked, homeless and. starving, on
j the ravagedisland heretofore known
J as the paradise of the Levant."
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1881-04-21

BEAUMONT BUCK has been tried
and acquitted, on the ground that
"hazing" at West Point is an evil
practice, and because his treatment
in such instances produced reason
for shooting a fellow cadet.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1881-04-21

A MOVEMENT is on foot to prevent
d DIR. Stone, the newly elected mayor
of Dallas, from taking his seat, on
the ground that he has not been q
citizen of Dallas for twelve months.
1t appears that he has been living at
Dallas for more than one year, but
that during part of this time, he has
lived out side the corporate limits.
he is of the firm of Stone Il Keat-
y ing.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1881-04-21

YESTERDAY ended Holy Week,
gand to-day is Easter Sunday. Palm
10 Sunday was the beginning of Holy
Week, and is commemorative of the
triumphant entry of Jesus into Je-
\ rusalem. Good Friday commence
,drates the day of the Savior's cruel
Q fixion, and to-day the resurrection.
The Lenten season is ended.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1881-04-21

10 THE Palmer-Sullivan engineers
have been ordered, it is said, to look
after the survey and location of the
line of the New York, Texas & Mex
lean railway, the road begun in Fort
Bend county and to run to Browns
VILE.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1881-04-21

TENNESSEE, Southern state, pays
all its debts, while Minnesota, after
long dispute provides for paying
fifty cents ON the dollar. Minnesota
s the banner Republican state OF
the West, and Virginia would be
the banner Republican state of the
South if the good debtipaying peo-
pie of that state could be conveyed
on that nice little Mahone-Riddle-
bargain.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1881-04-21

THE body of Miss Beuel, who died
the other day after starving for
forty-seven days, was examined af-
ter death and no blood was found in
it. 1t is reasonable to suppose
not much of anything else was found.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1881-04-21

THE value of the Republican par
ty may be understood when it is
known that its leaders hold the
subordinate officers of the Senate of
moro Importance than the obliga-
lions of states, in fact make the
financial standing of states subserv-
h lent to these notify places. =
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1881-04-21
MANHOOD RESTORED.

"A victim Of early imprudehce, causing ner
vous debility, premature decay, etc., having
tried in vain every known remedy, has discover
ed simple means OF self-cure, which, he vii
send free to his fellow-suferers. Address J. II
REEVES, IS Chatham street, N. z:
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is some doubt if the war
in Southern Africa is over. The
success of the Beers has made them
most insolent and arrogant, and it
is possible that there will have to be
more fighting before the English
settlers are relieved from the impo-
sitions of these victorious Beers.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1881-04-21

Mr.. McVEAGH says that "the APP
pointments i'll the South will, as far
as possible, be ofnative Republicans,
unobjectionable to the Democratic
Senators and Representatives"
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1881-04-21

ALCoRN will become II candidate
for Governor Of Mississippi, encour-
aged at the ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS,
that has been entered into at Wash
ington.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1881-04-21

THE absolute amount of money,
expended by the Western Union
Telegraph Company, is s2,OOO,OOO.
The balance of the $sO,OO0,O00 in
capital stock is water.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1881-04-21
NnrICEfNnTICEit

Letters Of Administrations with the viii an
nexed OF abe estate Of Martha w. Holman, de-
ceased was granted TO me by the probate court
Of Travis county, Texas, on the 9th day Of April,
A. ID. 1881, and all persons holding claims
against the estate will present them 70 me az my
Ofiice in room No. 3, Of new Hancock BnildinR,
Austin city, Travis county, Texae, AZ once for
approval and payment In due course Of admins
tration. III .E.l .fuaIt.f .lr. 1tTf
Austin, April Z, A. D. 1851. 81. ! 80.
Administrator wfth the Will annexed Of e.
tate ofMnrtha w Holman, deceased. ap7w4t
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NOTICE

Is hereby given that the Regular Annual Meeting
81 tnf Directors and Of the stoekholders of the
HHOD5TON a TEXAS CENTRAL RAILWAY
COMPANY will be held at the Companv's
once IN the city OF Houston, on Monday. Nav
"a 1881, st which time among other things win
proposition 70 change Section 5, OF Article n Of
s .nsa BYLAW Of the. Company so that Il shall
Sections :. The Board OF Directors shall hold
on the first Monday In each month.
a; b, RICHARDSON, Secretary.
HOUSTON, March ~, 1881. marz4 Wtomaya
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MARCH, with its ocean storms,
brought $4,000 immigrants to Castle
Garden. The promise is a half mil
lion before the end of the year.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1881-04-21

VTJANTED-A plan for a school building at
w San Saba, Texas. Walls to be of lime
stone, hammer dressed and plastered inside, 70
cost about $500. The plan selected viii be paid
for. Address n. 8. RECTOR, Secretary Board.
Trustees, San Saba Male and Female Academy:
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1881-04-21

SENATOR DAVID DAVIS declares
that he would not live insstate that
requires Of persons wishing to ret
married . license to do so.
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THE 0NLY TRUR EkLARAL ANTIllTR.


DR. HoLMAs' PAD Is no Rness work remedy
no feeble initiative experimentation purloined
hodge .podge of some other inventors ideas; IL
IL the original and only Genuine Curative Pad,
the only reaedy that has an honestly acquired
right to use the title word ''PAD" in connection
with treatment for chronic diseases OF the
Stomach, Liver and Spleen -- -.. z.-.- b..
BY recently perfected Improvement, DR.
HOLMAN has greatly increased the scope Of the
Pads usefulness, and. appTeciably augmented
its active curative power.
This great improvement gives HoISIAN's PAD
with Its Adiuyants) complete andunfailine con-
troll over the most persistent and unyielding
forms Of Chronic Disease Of the Stomach and
Liver, as well as Malarial Blood poisoning. .
HoLMAs-s PADS have cured-and are daily
curing-diseases of so many kinds, that the ,list
lie well nigh interninable. 1t includes Malar-
ial Poison of every type, from Aching Bones
and Low Fevers to Chilli and Dumb Aaue !;
Stomach Diseases, such as Dyspepsia, Indiges-
ton, Sour Stomach, Chronic Diarrh9a, Flatu-
like Biliousnessy Billions Collie, Dangerous Fe-
vers, Sick Headache, Pains in the Side, Bilious
Feyers, Torpid Liver, etc, etc. Well does this
mighty remedy Justify the eminent Professor
LOOMS high encomium: ''It Is nearer a Uni
versal Panacea than anything in Medicine
The success of HoLNAS's PADS has inspired
imitators who offer Pads similar in form and
odor to the genuine Holman Pad. Beware Of
these bogus and imitation Pads, gotten up only
to sell ON the reputation OF thee6bNOlNh
HOLMAN PAD. 500,
Each Genuine Holman Pad bears the Private
Revenue Stamp OF the HOLMAN PAD COMPANY
with ths above trade Mark, printed N green
FOR SALE BY ALI FRS CLASS DRUG
GISTS, or sent by mail, post paid, ON receipt Of
P. o. Box2lle 90 William St, New York.
Jana eod&w3m' -f.Ll q. G.ff rrf ~ al
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Black walnut lumber is now being
shipped from Texas TO Germany.
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Mrs. Cross, of San Antonio, holds
on to the Thousand dollars obtained
from Feltman. the man who died in
her boarding house. An Austin
furniture dealer has Just had a
mortgage upon furniture sold her
satisfied; "and no is happy" sa
Cattle buyers in Kimble county
are paying from So to So for year
1ings, SIS and SIG for dry cows and
$50 for large, fat beeves. In. De-
Wilt county the prices are: Year
lings, 81; two-yeaf-olds, $40; three
year-olds, $12 and fours $14. a.ss +.
ThehPoSt is a funny paper. Some
gay and festive youths came into
Houston and fired off their pistols,
and the Post absolutely wants them
arrested. The STATRsMAN'slong resi-
dence in Austin has learned il TO re
gard such impertinence IS cool be-
You'd comprehension. rs, {. .-.,.s-r
A county officer counted thirteen
ex.penitentiary icohvicts ON the
streets of Brenham in. one day, and
this probably was not all who were
ON hand. They went to tine peniten-
tiary for horse stealing; theft from
houses, hog stealing, murder and as
sa,ilt with intent to murder. ~
Goring S.sGough, aged IL wears.
son of 81 q. Cough of Hill county.
| poured Oil from a kerosene can and
when he turned it DIP the, tube Zen
into the can, and it. Exploded The
little fellow was burned to death,