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The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-06-22
PERSONAL.

Edward Burr, who graduated first
in his class at West Point this year
is the son of William E. Burr, presi-
dent of the st. Louis national bank,
aud is of Kentucky stock.
One of Miss Bertha Won Hillern's
paintings has been hung in the Cor
coran art gallery at Washington.
She finds painting much nicer than
tramping in walking match.
A Kingston, Jamaica, dispatch
says: Sir Anthony Musgrave, gov
ernor of Jamaica and its depend
epcies, will sail for New York on
June IS on the steamer Andes.
Dom Pedro, emperor of Brazil,
who has not been heard of for some
time, has been writing a book about
his travels, which is to be published
in French under the title of "Impres-
sions de Voyage"
The health of Pope Leo Kill,
long i'll an unsatisfactory state, is
said to have improved very much
lately. He suffers from a nervous
irritability, which causes all opposi-
ton to tell unfavorably on his
health.
The name of David E. Twiggs, of
Georgia, will now reappear in the
army register, as nephew of the
late General Twiggs, who bears his
name, has been appointed from Au-
gusta, Georgia, to the West Point
military academy.
Mr.. West, the British minister,
who is much pleased with his Amer.
lean surroundings, proposes to give
a substantial token of his good will
to this country by presenting the
city of Philadelphia with a portrait
of his ancestor, the Lord de la Ware,
for whom the state of Delaware was
named.
A dispatch from Columbus, Ohio,
June IL, says: Ex-Governor Dem
nison, whose condition was reported
somewhat improved last night, is
said to have failed rapidly. to-day,
and his death is only question of a
few days. His son. Allen Dennison,
of New York, reached home this
evening, and other members of the
family not now here have been sent
for"
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-06-22

the hills and the sky and the water,
had also made a few harps and
flutes for the lovers of music in
Heaven. For those who have a mill
tary spirit there is in Heaven a celes
tial army which has grand parade
days when the King reviews the
troops, and there are painless, blood
less aud grOanless battles. Explo-
rers, he said, will have explorations
10 make in Heaven, and will find what
they are in search Of Historians IN
Heaven are studying history, and
astronomers are delightfully."- ell
gagged. DR.. Talmage told what the
doctors i'll Heaven are doing and
what the lawyers are doing, and
then shouted suddenly: "Oh, what
place for visiting! Think of our
departed friend who was fond of
flowersturned into Paradise! Think
of our departed friend who was
fond of fruit turned into the
orchard where there are trees bear
ing twelve kinds of fruit at the
same time all the year round. The
cathedral bell calls meeting in the
Temple. Christ is there. The SOL
diers come in TO see their captain
The doctors are there to see his
wounds! The mathematicians are
there to count the years of his reign
The astronomers are there to see the
morning start The lovers of music
are there to hear his voice! Let us
pray"
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-06-22

A SYNDICATE of Boston capitalists
are projecting another Mexican rail-
way, which is destined to play a
most important part IN the develop
ment of northern Mexico. 1t begins
at National City, three miles from
San Diego, California, at the present
terminus of the California Southern
railroad, and runs southeast through
northern Mexico 40 miles to Gala
basas, in Arizona, running only
twelve in the United States at the
west end. Crossing lower Cali
fornia at the mouth of the Colorado
Hyer thence across Northern Sonora
and leaving it near the eastern line,
it enters Arizona and runs twenty
four miles to Calabasas, where it
will connect with the Sonora rail-
road from Guaymas, running north
east to connection with the main
line of the Atchison, Topeka and
Santa Fe railroad, at or near Bens-
ton, and will have an extension
north from Calabasas to the main
line of the Atlantic and Pacific rail-
road by way of Prescott
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-06-22

COLONEL PFOUTs, of the Dallas
Herald, who was in Austin yester-
day, thinks, as the STATESMAN has
been led to judge, that Colonel
Crawford will be the next congress
man from the Dallas district. Colo
mel q. is certainly one of the most
talented men in the state, and should
he be sent to congress, it will be, not
for one term, but for long series
OF terms. Give him the experience,
and his force will be felt i'll contact
with the most brilliant men of the
country. lie will make represent
alive of whom every Texan would
be proud.
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Truths slowly Deyeiope.

Some of the Washington corre-
spondents are telling curious stories
regarding the closing days of the
Garfield administration. The Chi
cagO Times has what it terms "bit
OF history" which places the men,
bers of the chum cabinet in an un-
enviable light. Swain and Rock
well were bitterly opposed to Blaine.
They did all in their power TO nue.
tralize his influence and, had Gar
field lived, they would have eventu-
ally made his administration as no.
torious as Grants when the ring
about him was at the height of
power. Already Swain and Rock
well controlled to great extent the
army appointments and patronage.
They even went SO far as TO estab-
fish a firm for the dispensation
of patronage. Their agent in
New York was q weigher in
the custom house named Dag
gett, who, through his connec-
ton with the chums, supplied Wall
street with bulletins from the sick
chamber. But the most Infamous
piece OF business was the attempt of
Rockwell to promote himself A.
few days before the dying president
was removed to Elberon he wrote
out a commission for himself as
quartermaster-gener of the army,
told Mrs. Garfield that the president
had promised to appoint hIin, and
said It would probably be- better to
get him TO attend to II lille he was
able. The president was lying un-
conscious at the time. Mrs. Gar
fled took the commission to Mr..
Blaine. who is represented as tear
ing it into bits in a fit of indlgna-
ton. 1t was the intention of these
chums to force Blaine from the.
cabinet and through their friend
slips control the administration.
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Live Topics from the Pulpit.

- Baltimore Herald.
The sick man is sometimes tempt
ed to make wry face at the med
icine prescribed by the regular ply
siclans, and perchance give him his
conga ultimately, so that they can
test the virtue of empiricism to save
their health by nostrums and patent
processes. He presumes to know
more that the practitioner, and
thinks he can heal himself without
diagnosing the ailment. The doc.
tor of divinity, as well as the NJ. d.,
is not infrequently harassed by the
souls that need healthy mimstra-
lions and desire to be saved accord
ing to their own fashion. The min
lister has to provide theological
regimen suitable to all ages and con-
ditions, and grade his sermons &C
cording to the intellect of his
hearers. Some object to his dis
courses as being too unpalatable,
too highly favored with sui
pher, and so unpleasantly heated
with subterranean fires as to shock
good taste and create disagreeable
anticipations for the future. Other
members of the flock think the pas
tor is TOO prone to dogmatize and
assert without proof positive. They,
therefore, feel more inclined to
argue with their spiritual guide
than to SIT as patient hearers OF the
word; and others again suppose
that the preacher is more disposed
to show that he has the gift of
tongues or is thoroughly conVersant
with familiar doctrines than i'll pro-
pounding new truths. Some wish
the pulpit to be converted into ros-
trum and the church into lecture
room, where the congregation might
be instructed in terrestrial as well
as heavenly affairs, which are above
their heads and their comprehen-
sion. AT a recent Baptist meet
ing one of the brethren de-
livered an address on a topic
upon which all the sect
were a unit in creed. AS no new
ideas were preached in that dis
course certain degree ofl;stlessness
and WEAKNESS was apparent OIL the
countenances of the hearers, who
were more gratified at the concIu-
sion than at the progress of the SER
mon. One well-meaniug brother
acting as the spokesman OF the others
whose wishes he represented, VEN
tured to suggest that as they were
all i'll unison on the subject of i'm
mersion it might be as well if the
preacher would take live topics as
his text, and irreverently suggested
Arctic disasters and Irish assassina-
lions as worthy themes for pulpit
orators. Beecher, Talmage and
Newman have succeeded in attracting
large audiences and building up
large churches by what may be con-
sidered practical sermons for every.
day life. Cannot other ministers do
like-wisa
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oscar Wilde ar New Orleans.
Times-Democrat1

If the colonel, the major and the
duke, who created so much amuse-
ment i'll their stained glass attitudes,
in the recent performance of "Pa-
tience," had only seen Mr.. Oscar
Wilde before they could have
brought down the house in round
after round of thunderous applause.
Their extravagant and ridiculous
poses were positively graceful and
easy compared with the hibitual
pose of the great aesthetic himself,
who manages to twist q naturally
fine form into Il shape that, when
first seen, eXcites irrepressible laugh
ter, and then creates q longing on
the part of the lOoker-on to give Mr..
Wilde shock that would startle him
into being natural if only for a mo-
ment.
AS the self.proclaimed expounder
and apostle of the beautiful in nature
and art, Mr.. Wilde owes ikas a duty
to the beautiful world he lives in to
study how not to distort and make
ugly the beautiful form that benefi-
cent nature has given him. Certain
ly no disciple listening to his lecture
last night could, without positive in
jury TO himself. aud the public, at
tempt TO emulate his poses. his jes-
lures, his euunciatiou, hls infection,
his rapidity of utterance, or any
thing aside from the matter of his
address, which, very much of il at
least, was excellent, though some
thing trite.
We say this in no spirit of petty
fault finding, but because we think
Mr.. Wilde with his fine mind, great
culture, with his aesthetic and natur-
ally graceful figure, could accom-
plish infinitely more for the cause OF
which he is the champion, by study
lug those graces OF manner and of
diction without which the finest lee
ture must fall fiat and unappreciated
upon even the most cultured audi
ence.
Let him study not only to look in
teresting to rapturous and foolish
maidens, but 10 put on an air of dig
beauty Of a mana man
who, having ideas, is not afraid or
to present them clearly and
forcibly to his hearers.
Nine-tenths of the people who
went to see and hear Mr.. Wilde last
evening were dissatisfied with what
they saw, and did not hear one.half
of what was said. That was GER
talnly not in accordance with any
known law of art or beauty or com
mon sense.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-06-22

The DrOverS' Journal contends
that permanent Improvement in
cattle is something not to be
hurriedly attained, and for that
reason every man who has to
do with cattle breeding ought
to commence improvement without
delay. Their own and their coun-
try's interests demand it. To go on
from year to year sending to mar
ket badly bred and worse fed stock
is simply outrageous, and it is a
matter of great wonder how so
many people can be content in this
year 1882 to have stock but little ls
any better than that raised by their
forty or fifty years ago. In
these times of Improvement in every
line of work there is no excuse for
having scrub sires at the head of
herds. In times past fine stock was
chiefly for the pleasure of the
but now there is no surer
way for poor man to get rich than
to become judicious breeder and
feeder of fine stock.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-06-22

and, being a statesman adhering
to principle and to true and well
tried doctrine, we feel licensed to
preach, we feel Scaled" to the po-
litical ministry to save, if possible,
erring trading mortals, these tricky,
servy men, from perdition. There
is nothing damning in politics
if one pursue the course of
honesty IN the party to which he
belong. The Democrat, who holds
firmly to the cardinal principles of
his faith may be saved; the Repub-
lican who can so far strain his imag-
ination as to believe his party is
possessed of honest purposes, and
who advocates Republicanism on
this ground, stands about as much
chance for salvation as Dives; the
Greenbacker whose mind is so
warped, so diseased, as to accept as
true the doctrines of Greenbackism,
may be saved through compassion !;
but the man who calls himself an
Independent, who is therefore
treacherous to all political faith,
who adheres to no doctrine, but
who takes in all doctrines or no
doctrine at all, exhausts every
possibility of salvation. Especially
is heaven free from the tricky pCli-
tician, because he never means what
be says, or, which is the same, he
always leaves hole to creep out of,
and even if the hole be no bigger
than the eye of the finest needle, he
walks right through with all ease.
Therefore, there must be something
satanic about him. He NAV de-
clare that he does not want all Office,
that he will not have an office, that
he is surfeited with office, that he is
worn out in the public service: and
then, straightway, while the unsus-
pecting come to the front, he pro-
ceeds with every force that may be
applied TO win the very Office he has
said he would not take. lie deceives,
that he may gain points unobserved,
clerically speaking, puts on the livery
of heaven that he may serve the
devil, and so the demagogue may
win. Were such men not refused
admi;tance to heaven, they would
sow discussion among the angels;
were each one of them turned loose
in all Eden of his own, he would
make it the abode of vipers and of
demons. Not yet being trusted
among the blessed, we turn our at
tention to destroying the race, that
good men may be raised up in their
stead. Trust not the wicked, and if
We know not who the wicked in
politics are, watch closely, and when
one is discovered in false
hood know that he is unworthy
and cast him aside. To redeem one
is too great task for the unspirit-
ual preacher. We would say, cut
him down-root ana branch-and
plant in his place a man that will
not prevaricate, whose statement
is his bond, and then give room to
q race whose salvation it is possible
to accomplish. The people are mas
ters of the situation; they are the
natural enemy of the political trick
ster, and the STATESMAN only de-
sires to make all detectives in the
wake of all politicians.
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CLOSE figuring by Democratic con-
gressmen, who have been comparing
views on the next congress, is the
basis of a statement from Washing
ton that there is but one state in the
Union in which there is any danger
of smaller Democratic representa-
ton IN the forty.eighth than there
is in the forty-seventh congress.
This one state is Nevada, which the
chances are will go Republican.
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The Glorious Home of the Good.


Mr.. Talmage says that the Chebar
is not river at all but a royal
canal, and that at the time the vision
appeared to Ezekiel he and a num-
Der of other serfs were digging the
banks of the canal by the order of
NebuchadneZzar, who had condemn
ed them to be slaves. The brightest
visions of heaven, Mr.. Talmage said,
do not always come to the rich, but
come just as often to the poor Some
people, he said, believe it to be a
stately, formal place, and if it be as
thus described one would not care
to live there forever. "The church
is nice place, but you would not
care to stay in even here from now
till Christmas" The artists. he said,
would not find in heaven grander
studio than they could imagine,
VIII re they might paint forever with
much finer materials and more beau
tlful subjects than it is possible for
them to find on earth. Mr.. Talmage
thought there must be music in
heaven, because the Bible speaks of
it, AS to musical instruments, wise
acres, he said, say there are none in
heaven. AS for himself, he did not
know; but he would not be in the
least surprised if God,who had made
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-06-22

FRANK HURD, an out-and-out free
trade Democrat, will run for con-
gress in the Toledo, Ohio, district.
That is what we want to see through
out all the states of the union. A
tariff for revenue only ought to be
the war-cry from one end of the
union to the other. Protection has
protected a small favored class for
many years, and the oppression thus
exercised upon the great mass of the
people ought to be endured no
longer. 1t is not right that n
favored minority should govern this
country through unheard-of conces-
sions made to it by congress. Those
constituting this minority have
grown rich beyond what is legiti-
mate in the balance between classes,
and this has been accomplished
alone upon special exemptions made
in their favor by the government.
Yet the constitution opposes class
legislation, while the empty promise
is made in this same fundamental
law, that taxation shall be equal and
uniform. Protection is in antagon-
ism to both these provisions, and the
Democratic party must make unit
ed and desperate effort in behalf
of the people, or they may forever
be denied relief. 1t is this discrim-
nation against the masses which
makes labor troubles at the north.
The laborers know they are not get
ting a share of the profits secured by
protection, and they do know that
the manufacturers are boarding the
wealth of the country. Mr.. Hurd
should have all the support that can
be given him by Democrats in all
parts OF the country. The party has
adjusted itself to expediency until it
has lost all its ancient prestige, and the
declaration OF this gentleman shows
that there is returning hope and
confidence. The Galveston conven-
ton will be called upon to align
itself with the federal party, and the
congressional conventions will be
required to fall into line as of old.
There must be no lodging; and
until there Is none, Democrats will
have to submit TO defeat, because of
lack Of confidence in its purposes.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-06-22

We SEE from the Burnet Bulletin
that Judge Terrell. though opposed,
as he always has been, to prohibit
ton, believes that the question has
assumed such Importance that sound
craftsmanship now requires that it
should be settled by submitting it
to a vote of the people. His own
views remain unchanged as to the
policy and principle involved in
such laws, and he would vote against
it at the ballot box. The STATES
MAN differed with Senator Terrell
when that subject was before
the legislature, but did
not agree with those who censured
him for not then submitting it to the
people. When that legislature was
elected the subject was not before
the people, and as this district had
voted down local option in most of
the counties, he, no doubt, felt he
had right to take that vote as in
structions. The question has since
then assumed a more important
phase, and will disturb state politics
until disposed Of
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The relics of vanished races in
America are constantly coming to
light in one quarter and another,
and every new discovery increases
interest in American archa IlnIogy.
The ruins of prehistoric civiliza-
ton in Mexico and Central Anterior.
and mounds in the United States,
probably have a connected history,
if the explorers of these antiquities
should ever be able to trace it. An
other link has just been discovered
in Florida by the diggers of canal
to connect Lakes Eustis aud Dora.
1t is reported that about four feet
below the level of Lake Dora
mound was discovered, also a clear
ly-defined wall composed of sand
stone. The wall appears to have
been the side of fertilization. The
exploration had not gone very far
at last accounts, but enough was un-
earthed to suggest that on the north
western shore of Lake Dora is a
submerged city or fertilization, older
by centuries than anything vet dis
covered in this portion of Florida.
Pottery of curious shades, and uten-
sils and spear-heads were also found
among these ruins.
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GENERAL HORACE PORTER deliv-
cred the address to the graduating
class at West Point this, year. He
was especially severe upon the So
called aesthetic tendencies of the
present age, abiding to the teach
lngs of Oscar Wilde as "a new
school of mawkish sentimentality,
upsetting manhood abroad as well
as here in the name of aesthetic
culture, which results in everything
hideous." General Porter was GER
tainly timely in attacking this evil
for it is one debasing to those who
attempt to indulge in a fools,
fashions.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-06-22

In THE United States circuit court
at Leavenworth, Kansas, a few days
since, Messrs. Whitewater 81 King,
of Atchison, obtained a Judgment in
damages against the Western Union
telegraph company for $1135.3 3, for
a mistake in the transmission of a
message. The dispatch was written,
"Sell fifteen July wheat" and was
received, "Sell fifty July wheat"
The company claimed that the mes
sage not having been repeated they
were not liable.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-06-22

IT is SAID the land agents OF
northern Texas, with ramifications
throughout the state, are organizing
to defeat Commissioner Walsh for
the nomination. Is this because he
has been the devoted friend of the
public cause; because he has held
lands otthe state against the designs
of these agents? If these be the
reasons why they oppose him, will
the people join in aiding them id
their unholY purpose?
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-06-22

THE government owns and op-
crates the public water works at
Washington, but the city has been
required from time to time to add
to the mains, the government be-
coming the possessor of any i'm
provement added by the city. The
government collects dues from all
water tanks, and therefore the WASH
ington Post properly enough thinks
the city should be called upon TO add
nothing more to the works without
acquiring little interest in them.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-06-22

MAINE correspondence says that
there are but two political parties in
that state-one which wishes to
abolish the governor, and the other
which desires to abolish the council ::
also, that a warranted majority of
voters in that state are unable ex-
actly TO state to what party they be-
long, but are very free in declaring
that they are not Republicans.
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The Washington correspondent of

1ue w deulbEIOu correspondent OF
the New York Sun fully under
stands the true inwardness of the
recent radical outrages in the house.
He hits the nail squarely on the
head when he writes: "The hand
writing on the wall is not mysteri-
GUS, but it attracts no atten ton.
He may read it plainly who runs
fast. The majority, led by Secor
Robson, and ruled by automaton
keifer, have come for a revel, and
they mean to have tout without re-
gard to cost. They see an enormous
surplus in the treasury, and the OBJ
jective point of their legislation is
to reduce the pile, and to put the re-
duction where it will do most good
to themselves and to the party"