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The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-12-21
DALLAS.
BurglariOus-Released on Bail-A
Railroad Mulcted-'Bless You,
Children.o
[snecial to The Statesman


DALLAS, Dec. 16.-Burglars entered
the gun store of Jacob OFT last night
and stole over three hundred dollars
worth of firearms. No clue to the
burglars.
Samuel Parker, on trial the past
three days on habeas corpus proceed
ings, charged with numbering Samuel
Varnon for alleged criminal intimacy
with Mrs. Parker, was released from
iail tonight on $500 bond for appear
ance before the district court.
To-day was tried the case OF Mrs.
Cynthia Chapman against the Waxa-
hachie Tap railway, now a part OF the
Houston and Texas Central system.
She sued for damages for the killing
of her husband by that road in Waxa-
hachie, where she lives, about the
middle of December, 1881. The yer-
dict gave her ten thousand dollars.
Ex-Congressman Phillips, law part.
ner of Senator Vest, of Missouri, Is
here attending United States court.
j. G. Burke, chief clerk of the
Grand Windsor hotel, has resigned
He is probably the best known hote
clerk among travelling men IN Texas
| William Nichol, who was charged
with running Miss Bertha Wolfe
last April, and was jailed, charged
with rape, yesterday, was re
leased on bond last night. He pro
posed to the authorities to marry tn
girl if the prosecution was discon
tinued. Miss Wolfe agreed, and tn
parties were married last night.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-12-21

The pontiff is elected by the col
lege of cardinals, and the kings of the
earth have no voice in that assembly.
But the primate of the Anglican
church owes his appointment as much
to cabinet influences and the grace of
the English sovereign as to his bril-
liant talents and evangelical merits.
AS the Anglican church is now
divided into two sections, the High
and the Low parties, a churchman OF
moderate views, while he may not be
the choice of the Jealous ultraists OF
either wing, would be most accept
able TO those who regret the dissen'
sions in the church and earnestly de
sire to see them reconciled.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-12-21
SOME TARIFF WORK.

Under the head of chemicals, in the
tariff bill, the ways and means COM
mittee have agreed to import duties
as follows:
Glue, 20 per centum ad valorem;
beeswax, 20 ad valerem; gelatine and
all similar preparations 80 ad valorem;
soap. hard and soft, all which IS not
otherwise specially enumerated or
provided for in this act, and CASTLE
soap, 2 cents a pound; fancy, per-
fumed and all descriptions OF toilet
soaps, 10 cents "a pound: spongeS, ~
per centum ad valorem; sumac, one
half of l cent per pound; acid, acetlc,
acetous or pyrolignous acid, not eX-
ceeding a specific gravity OF one and
forty-seven one-thOusandthS,2 2 cents a
pound; exceeding a specific gravity of
one and forty-seven One-thousandths,
10 cents a pound; acid, citric, 10
cents a pound; acid, tartarita, 10
cents a pound; camphor, refined, D
cents a pound; castor oil 90 cents a
gallon; cream-tartar, 8 cents pound;
deXtrine, burnt starch, gum substitute
or British gum, 10 per centum ad
valorem; glucose or grape sugar, %
per centum ad valorem; indigo, eX-
tracts of and carmined, 10 per centum
ad valorem; iodine resublimed, 40
cents pound; licorice, paste or roll, 8
cents pound; licorice juice, 3 cents
pound; oil of bay leaves, essential or
Day rum essence or oil. $3.50 per
pound; oil, croton, 90 cents pound;
hempseed and rapeseed oil, 10 cents
gallon; strychina or strychnine and
all salts thereof, so cents an
ounce; tartars partly refined, in
cluding Lees crystals, cents a
pound acidulated phosphate of lime,
ammoniated or otherwise, So a ton
alumina alum, patent alum, alum sub
Stituted for sulphate of alumina and
aluminous cake, and alum in crystals
or ground, 60 cents hundred pounds;
ammonia anhydrous, Gquitied by
pressure, 20 per centum ad valorem /;
ammonia aqua or water OF ammonia,
70 cents ad valorem ammonia, mu-
riate of, or sal ammoniac, 10 per cent
I'd yalorem ammonia, carbonate OF,
70 per cent ad ValOrem ammonia,
sulphate of, 20 per cent ad valorem ;
all limitations of natural mineral
waters and all artificial mineral
waters, 30 per cent ad valorem /;
.lsbeStos, manufactured, 20 per cent
ad valorem: baryta, sulphate of, or
oarytes manufactured, 10 per cent
ad valorem; bartya, sulphate of, or
Oarytes manufactured, 20 per cent ad
valorem; refined boraX, 3 cents per
pound; cement, Roman, Portland and
all others, 20 per cent ad valorem.
The committee disapproved of the
commissions change of the tariff rate
on flax seed and linseed oil, which was
put at % cents gallon, and restored
it to the old rate, 30 cents.
The following items passed for fur
ther inquiry: Glycerine, crude and
refined phosphorus, castor beans, soda
and potassa, tartrate or Rochelle salts.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-12-21
A Cure for "Logrolling."


The Republican party has always
been reckless and lavish in its DISPOSE
ton of the public revenues. 1t has
thriven largely by its partiality to
jobs, and by its conduct in the matter
of expenditures has set an example
that is followed more or less faithful
ly by state legislatures and municipal
councils. Local abuses have been cor
rected to a great extent by empower
ing the executive to veto an objection
able provision of an appropriation bill
while approving of its remaining fea-
lures. But as to federal expenditures
there is no check to wasteful grants OF
money save veto of an entire meas
ure. Very often necessary appropria-
tions are linked with downright jobs,
and the president has to choose at
times between refusing to approve a
uill or permitting it to pass, notwith-
standing its Objectionable features,
which, if separated, could not be de-
| Tended.
The president calls attention to this
subject, and invites congress to take
the necessary step towards remedying
the evil. Once the executive is given
power to disapprove of improper ap-
propriations he will be clothed with
responsibility that does now rest upon
| him.
"Logrolling," or the pooling OF loca
interests among congressman. is nttls
better than conspiracy to defraud M
people. just and necessary approprla
tions are often made contingent upon
the support of others for trivial ane
indefensible objects, and the treas
ury is mulcted of sums far In exces
of the actual needs of the. people
The measure suggested by the, pres
ident would check this coilusiol
! on the part of our represents
tives. and compel every one OF tnen
| to be open and above board IN tne de
mands he might make upon tne treas
|, nry for the benefit of his constituents
: Al iobs would have to bear the ligh
. Of criticism, and their number woul
largely decrease. Every. safeguar
! % that can be devised to protect Il
! tna treasnry from "rakers" should |
. sdouted. The suggestion Of the pres
dent. if adopted, would afford larf
= measure of protection to the publ
revenues, would compel self-respe'
! from our representatives, and woul
p add to the executive Office a hlgn'
! sense Of dignity and responsibility
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-12-21

EX-SENATOR SPENCER, whom
President Arthur recently dismissed
from the Office of government director
of the Pacific railways, has found him
self in New York. He was known at
the late star route trial as the "miss-
ing witness" He has now got "blood
in his eye" and is willing to testify,
not only sufficiently to convict Dor
sey and Brady, but also that he ran
away at the instance of the govern
ment counsel. Advantage, he says,
was then taken of his absence to turn
him out of Office.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-12-21
MISCELLANEOUS MATTERS AND
THINGS.

Shiawassee county, Michigan, has a
coal-bearing territory of about 25.O0O
acres, and veins ranging from three TO
six feet in thickness are found tif,
through the central, northern and cas-
tern part Of the county. Large for
tunes evidently await individuals who
will go there and pick up the claims.
The new heir to the Swedish crown,
SON of the crown prince, will be called
Prince Oscar Frederick William Olaf
Augustus Adolphus, Duke of Shoon-
en-. Had he been born week earlier
his birthday would have fallen on his
great namesake's 250th anniversary,
which would have been thought a
happy one.
a terrible snow storm has obstruct
ed travel in every portion of the
United Kingdom. An entire train
was lost in the snow in Wales. 1t
was searched for by men on horseback
and was finally found nearly covered
by snow drift fifteen feet deep. The
passengers had suffered for eighteen
hours in the unheated cars. 1t took
day and half to dig out the train.
A Paris actress AYERS that each per
fume has its special moral and physi-
cal qualities, which-so far as her OBJ
servations have gone-she states as
follows: Musk predisposes to sensi-
bility and amiability; rose, to audacity,
avarice and pride; geranium to ten
derness; violet, to mystici m and
piety; benZoin, to dreams, poeLiy and
Inconsistency; mint and verbena, to a
taste for the he'beautiful arts; camphor,
to stupidity and brutality; Russia
leather, to incidence; while ylangylang
is the most dangerous of all.
Much trepidation is felt in New
York because the government has or
dered to the Brooklyn navy yard the
monitor Nantucket, which few
weeks ago sunk steamer in the
North river by collision. Various
plans are suggested for saving the
shipping when the representative of
our unconquered navy starts for her
destination. Twenty-four hours no
tice is called for, so that vessels and
human beings may get out of the way.
1t might be better to move the moni-
tor overland, us the obelisk was trans
ported through New York streets.
The proposition to sell the monitor
for old iron is not yet in order.
Jay UOulu , uJJlc CtIllcIeIy Dtu dJ
Woodlawn is to cost $4,000. That,
however, only means forty plats at
$1,000 each, for he is, it seems, TO build
vaults for his own and his wife's kin
dred there. Yet he is exceeded by
famous Fifth avenue haberdasher--a
Scotch bachelor named John johnson,
whose shop over-shadows the Lotos
and Union clubs - who owns plat
with vaults, chapel and cenotaph,
in the Catholic cemetery named Cal
vary. BY the way, what inscription
will Mr.. Gould put over his little ham
let of the deadp Will it be to the
memory of Jason-for by that name
it is said he was christened in village
not far from where Thurlow Weed
was born. And if so, will it be dedi-.
Gated to some golden (not by any
means to add Goulden) fleeceY And II
so, as chancery interrogations run,
how many, and what particular
deeces in or out of Wall street p-Bos-
| ton Advertiser.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-12-21
EDITORIAL NOTES.

The idea of placing electric wires
under ground is growing in favor
everywhere. The commissioners of
the District of Columbia have recon-
mended that such action on the part
of the telegraph and other companies
be made compulsory. This action
will probably be promptly followed in
other localities.
Hereafter in New York when man
wants to kill himself he will be apt to
make sure work of it, Under the new
penal code of that state attempted su-
Icide is made felony to be rigidly
punished. \ plumber of that city
tried to put an end to himself few
days ago, by inhaling the fumes OF
charcoal. He was rescued, brought to
trial and committed to Jail in default
of $1,000 bail.
The municipal council of Paris has
decided to revive the former glOrieS
of the Palais Royal by giving increas-
ed facilities for access to the garden.
1t has been resolved to throw open an
entrance to the garden at the bot
ION of the Rue Vivienna, and to
clear away the rookery of ram
Shackle houses which cucumber the
Rue Radziwiu and Rue de ValOiS.
One of the houses marked for de
Struction is noted as the loftieSt in
Paris, as it consists OF nine stories.
1t is contemplated to open up an
entrance at the other extremity, at
the Galerie d'OrleanS. The cost will
be considerable, as the ground in the
immediate vicinity of the bank Is
valued at $500 francs the square
metre but the effect of these changes
will be to increase the value OF prop
erty to an incalculable extent, and to
resuScitate the long faded splendOr Oh
these gardens, formerly so famous i'll
French history.
Food is much adulterated in Paris.
Out OF SiXty-two samples OF buttel
analysed at the municipal laboratory
last month only eleven were found to
De pure. Most of this bad butter Is
oleomargarine, large quantities OF
which are shipped from Holland to
ports in Normandy and thence sent up
TO the Paris market. Flour, of which
more than 1900 tons are used daily
in France, is very generally
adulterated; and only eighteen
out of thirty-One samples Were
found to be free from any ad-
mixture. The most common form OF
adulteration consists in the mixture
of flour made from beans, peas, lentils
and Indian corn with the wheaton
1iour; but in some cases it has been
found that the flour has been adulter-
ated with deleterious substances, such
as composites of lead, copper and zinc,
sulphate of lime and chalk; and it is
reported by the official analyzer that a
steady trade is done at Rot
terdam in corn adulterated
with thirty per cent of plas-
ter, for importation into France.
Chocolate is ddulterated by the addi-
ton of bean meal, powdered date
stones, and mineral substances; and
coffee is very rarely to be had pure
when purchased ground. There is nc
certainty of getting pure coffee, even
by buying it whole. for short time
ago there was an establishment in one
of the suburbs of Paris where artiti.
cial coffee berries were made from d
paste composed of ground acorns
burned wheat and coffee dregs.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-12-21
That Little Word /" IT,"

New York Herald.
If the Republicans had at the last
session of congress taken Mr.. Arthur's
message us the guide of their action,
If they had framed and adopted such
legislation as he recommended-an
there rested-it is now clear to most of
them that they would have saved
themselves the mortifying defeat of
last month. They return to Washing
ton depressed, and rightly so, for
they have been made TO feel the
just anger of the people. If they
nave learned wisdom from defeat
they will now take this present
message of Mr.. Arthur as their text
book and conform their action to every
one of its several wise and useful
recommendations. Partly out of
fractional resentments, partly out of a
vehement predisposition to jobbery,
they treated their presidents advice
with boorish contempt last year. They
cannot afford to do this again. Those
of them who have not lost their polit-
ical judgment must see in the pro-
gramme of legislation laid down by
Mr.. Arthur precisely what is needed
to reinstate their party, if that is pos
| sible, in the public confidence.
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One Point Of Argument.
Boston Advertiser.l !

On one point, then, all are agreed.
Unfortunately it is only one point.
For it is very certain that when Mr..
Kelley says that he favors a revision
Of the tariff at the coming session, he
means very different thing from that
which most of the other Republicans
intend to imply in the use of the same
formula, and that Mr.. Carlisle has a
standard of action different from both.
Under such circumstances what is to
oe done? If each member insists
upon the adoption of his own plan,
every plan will fail inevita-
bly. Moreover, if any tariff scheme
be made in an offensive sense
a party measure, nothing will be done.
For the Democrats will in that case
unite against it, and they will have
the support of enough Republicans,
who will fancy that the special in
terests in their charge are likely to be
injured, to constitute majority.
Consequently, all the members should
prepare themselves to accept a meas
ure which does not commend itself
altogether to their respective judg-
ments and they should also resolve
that in this matter the country shall
be preferred to party.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-12-21

DIR. WIeGINs, who predicts great
storm disaster on the 9th of March
next, lives in the province of New
Brunswick. His previous prophecies
have all been fulfilled. People south
of the forty-fifth parallel may wish
that the doctors idea is incorrect, but
we are assured thas his neighbors re-
gard him as a leyel-headed man and
anything but a crank. He is the au-
thor of work on astronomy and of
one on grammar. What is Galveston
going to do about it?
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THERE is no railway company in
the world which would not, at its own
expense, built a track several miles
long to carry the amount of material
necessary for building the new capitol.
The capitol syndicate has not stated
that the expense will fall upon it, and
should it do so, the fact would be a
singular thing in the history of the
carrying trade. The Central railway
proposed to build a track to the Color
ado mills, below the city, if the
mills would continue to turn
out flour without intermission. One
carload per day would more than keep
the mill going, and the capitol build
ers say that they will require the ma
terial that it would take two or three
heavy freight trains to Carry daily. Is
it reasonable to even suppose that the
expense of building the line to the
capitol site will fall upon the capito
syndicatep
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AUSTIN TEXAS, THURSDAY. DCEMBER 21, 1882.

the canal after it shall be con-
structed. 1t is easy to say it shall be
neutral. What does neutrality mean
as relating to work of such vast i'm
portance as an interoceanic canal? To
begin an enterprise of this magnitude
while all these questions are unsettled
and the whole subject is enmeshed in
international complications, is to in
vite international difficulties and
might end in war. Besides all this, as
we have shown before, there is a big
job in this proposition by which the
projectors, among them U. S. Grant,
expect to clear $3O,OOO,OOO simply on
the guarantees of the government, and
it is the duty of all honest congress
men to oppose it.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-12-21
TYLER.
Suicide of an Aged Man-Struck by
NOrther.
Especial to the Statesman.l

TYLER, Dec. 16.-An old gentleman
by the name of Boyd, formerly of Cor
sicana but who has been living for the
past year with his son-in-law, j. j.
Robinson of this city, took an ounce
of morphine last night and died early
this morning. 1t has not been ascer-
tanned whether it was accidental or
whether it was suicidal. He was
taken to Corsicana for interment this
afternoon. If it was suicidal no cause
is assigned for the rash act.
A severe north struck Tyler yester-
day morning.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-12-21
GALVESTON.
Especial to the Statesman.l

GALVESTON, Dec. 16.-Geo. Stock
ley, the grocery man who made an as
signment a week ago, was arrested
to-day by Detective Henessey, on a
charge Of swindling his creditors.
This case has excited much interest
here.
The average attendance at the pub
lie schools for the week was, whites
1413, colored 479.
Marriage licenses issued this week,
nine. Deaths for the week, children
ten, adults seven. Real estate trans
fers for the week amounted to $3.50.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-12-21
Like the Suburban Trains.
New York World. I

If all the reports from Washington
be correct about Mahone's operations
in the political assessment line during
the summer, he must have squeezed
some $4,000 or 100000 out OF the
clerks and Hubbell's committee. IL
all the reports from Virginia be cor
rect. the Readjusters were SO short of
money when polling day carae that
they had to issue reams of phantom
tax receipts, upon which their voters
voted, the forged papers being after
wards destroyed. The Malone cam
paign fund seems to have resembed
those suburban trains which leave
New York every quarter OF an hour
and reach their destination every
twenty minutes. 1t is gratifying
to observe that Malone has -pur-
chased large interest in a Mexl,
can silver mine.' What a beautlIul
example of thrift is thus set 70 Ameri'
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Strongly Unanimous.

IPhladelphia Record
Several Republican members of con-
gress have given the Boston Herald
their views on tariff reform. They
are convinced of the necessity of re-
vising the tariff and reducing revenues
at the present session; they express
with singular unanimity the fear that
the Democratic minority will obstruct
any legislation for the purpose. They
have too bad an opinion of their politi-
cal opponents. Let them go on with
the work of tariff reform without
troubling themselves in advance with
such fears. The people will hold to a
stern responsibility the party and the
men who shall undertake to obstruct
the legislation which is so plainly de-
manded by the public interests.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-12-21

CAPT. FERG. KYLE wants to be re-
elected sergeant-at-arms of the senate,
and the bare fact of his thus wanting
the place makes it settled fact that
he will get it. The truth is, Capt.
Kyle made one of the best officers ever
attached to any legislative body, and
his experience is worth a great deal.
Besides being a splendid officer he is a
courteous gentleman, with q stock of
nerve power sufficient for the most
irving emergencies.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-12-21
NEW RAILROAD OFFICIALS.

NEW YORK, Dec. 16.-At meeting
of the board of directors of the Omaha
railroad, held to-day, II. ii. Porter re-
signed the presidency and Marion
Hughett was elected in his place. NJ.
l.. Sykes was elected vice president, in
place of Philetus Sawyer, and he was
also elected treasurer and assistant
secretary. Many changes were made
in the board of directors. w. II. Van
derbilt, Cornelius Vanderbilt, Angus
tus Schell, NJ. l.. Sykes, H. Nick.
Twombley, Albert Keep, John C..
Spooner and Marion Hughett were
elected new members.
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What We Earn and What We Spend.

Arkansas Gazette.
1t is the purchasing power of a dol
lar that counts, and if English opera
tives receive fraction less in wages
than their brethren in the United
States they are not compelled by the
operations of a protective tariff to
pay from 40 to 100 per cent more for
articles of prime necessity than these
are worth. In this country the tariff
laws which add 10 or 10 per cent to
wages increase the cost of living 30,
40, or even 100 per cent.
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NO. 20

cans in humber stations by this great
man! Out of his small salary of 5000
year he is not only able to spare the
funds for running political bureau
occupying three story and basement
house, but he can lay by enough to
buy silver mine. The only parallel
instance we can now recall is that of
one of our bonanza kings who saved
$178,0O0 during the first year of his
superintendency of a great mining
enterprise, at salary of $500 a month,
and even in his case it was observed
that it was hard for a man to do this
unless he combined with fine talents
for economy the handling of the ANAL
gam
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A curious old gentleman in New
York has been collecting sermons un-
til he now has about twelve thousand
of all sorts. He began nearly thirty
years ago. He laid up bound volumes
at first, but later he preserved the ser
mons he found in pamphlets or fully
printed in periodicals. In order that
he might arrange his material he
learned book-binding and for all these
years he has given his nights and hol-i
idays to the work of arranging, in
dexing and systematizing his material