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The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-08-17
Universal Condemnation.
Philadelphia Press.]

No congress ever passed a meas
ure more universally condemned by
press and public than the river and
harbor bill of this year. The port of
Philadelphia, the third in the coun-
try. and commanding the commerce
of the second city and state in the
union, receives under the bill less
than three per cent of the total, and
hardly tenth as much as 1t pays
into the treasury annually. But if
Pennsylvania were to get full, fair
share the appropriation would still
be a scandal. More than half of the
millions to be spent under its pro-
visions Is worse than buried in the
ground. fit were sunk beyond re-
covery, that would be the last of it.
but, as il is, it will probably help
to keep the leeches alive long
enough to come back again for an
other pull at the public teat.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-08-17
The Perverted Purpose.
TChioapn Times

1t has been written by one of the
ablest enquirers concerning Repub-
lican forms of government Mr.. MilD
that "when the people want either
the will or the capacity to fulfill the
part which belongs to them in a rep
resentative constitution, they will
seldom make any use of the suffrage
but to serve their private interest, or
the interest of their locality, or of
some one with whom they are con-
nected as adherents or dependents.
The small class who, in this state of
public feeling, gain command of the
representative body, for the most
part use it solely as means of seek
ing their fortune" Is America
brought at last to such candition
To say the least, appearances look
that WaY.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-08-17

THE colored people of Texas may
talk and resolve as much as they
please about having proper repre-
sentatIon on the state ticket, but
they had just as well give up. Ex-
Governor Davis has already prom
ised the colored voters support to
the white independents, and he calls
the convention at Austin purely
to ratify the transaction. The col
ored people are really left without a
party, and were it not for the settled
purpose of the Democrats of Texas
to do them full justice IN all things
pertaining to government, their con-
dition would be pitiable indeed.
The Democrats have given the col
ored people protection under the
law with all other people, and it has
especially provided them with
school facilities for 10 wer and higher
education similar to any extended
the whites. The Democratic party
has never had the support of the
colored voters, but is composed of a
people who are their truest friends
and their most efficient protectors.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-08-17

The Free Press, a German paper
published at San Antonio, repro
duces a joke the STATESMAN perpe-
trated on Hon. John Ireland away
back in 1873. The STATEsMAN's
choice at the time between the two
Democrats put in the field for con-
gress was Gustav Schleicher. AT
New Braunfels the two con-
testants met, and Schleicher,
speaking in German to his German
friends, had decidedly the advantage
of Judge Ireland. What Ireland
said in reply we do not know, for
there were no newspaper reporters
present, and the entire discussion was
lost except to those who heard it.
1t was then that the STATESMAN per-
petrated joke on Ireland by putting
into his mouth the words of Francis
the First, who said: "Gentlemen
should talk to women in Italian, to
courtiers in French, to statesmen in
English, and in German to horses.''
A kingly tongue, and not John Ire
land, was responsible for these
words, and the Free Press under
stood it as mere joke perpetrated
on the contestants. Had John Ireland
really made the quotation in his de-
fense, when thus taken advantage of
by the powerful Schleicher, it could
have been no afIrOnt, and the STATES
NAN meant it not as such. Ger
tainly the language for women was
not what should have been used by
the powerful TeutoD, nor that
for courtiers-Doth full of folly
and flattery. Statesmen often
speak fasehood, but the Ian
guage addressed TO horses must
be truthful and houest, Tor no living
thing is sooner affected by baseness
in language than that noblest COM
panion of man, the horse. "Horse
sense" is the synonym of honesty
in thought. But we never
dreamed that four years after the
STATESMAN porpetrated this Joke,
which was so well understood as
such, that it would be revived as a
real utterance of Judge Ireland. Ii
simply shows how desperate his op-
ponents are to find something 10
charge against him.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-08-17

THE anti Chinese law is now in
effect, and no more immigrants from
the celestial empire will for ten
years be allowed to enter the United
States as laborers. Whether China
will adopt retaliatory measures is
to be seen. The Chinese govern
ment may prohibit Americans from
entering its ports, and may grant
exclusive privileges to the English
and French, who are both anxious
to monopolize the trade of China.
There is no use after the enforce
ment OF the Chinese bill to talk
about an existing treaty. What is
disregarded by one contracting par
ty may be set aside by the
other, and if such be the result, it
may even be that congress will be
called upon in the interest of CON-
merce to undo what has been done.
And yet this might not affect any
relief, since the old treaty being void
a new one would have to be made,
and China might not feel wonderful
ly we'll disposed to treat with a coun-
try that does not respect treaties.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-08-17
PERSONAL.

1t is said that the star route trial
is Colonel IngersolPs farewell per-
formance in the law show business.
1t is whispered that the Marquis
of Loweville hopes to marry Mrs.
Frank Leslie, and carry ON business
at the old stand.
James Redpath has denied the
charge that he wrote letters to the
newspapers encouraging the murder
of landlords in Ireland.
General Bate, the Debt-Compro-
mise candidate for governor OF Ten
nessee, was at one time cabin boy on
a Mississippi river steamboat.
Dawes tried to improve on Web
ster's defense of New England the
other day. II was like dwarf try
ing to find himself in the old clothes
of a giant.
Colonel Alfred M. Waddell, for
merly Democratic member of con-
gress, will establish a daily newspa-
per in Charlotte, North Carolina,
August 20.
SO little has been heard of How
gate for the past few weeks that he
threatens to become as obscure and
badly forgotten individual as Ruth
erford b. Hayes.
Mr.. Stephens will make only four
speeches during the canvass -one
each at Augusta, Atlanta, Ameri-
Gus and Savannah. Many people In
the lower part of Georgia have new
er seen him.
M. DeLesseps is an old boy near
eighty and is full OF youths enthusi-
asm. lie has prohibited the English
navy from patrolling the Suez canal
and threatens to call TO his assistance
a tribe ofBedouins should his orders
be dlsobeyed.
Mrs. Julia Ward Howe, Of whom
somebody says she breaches, lee
lures, writes poetry, plays in anna
teur theatrica!s, and leads the van
guard of thought in all progressive
movements, is a sweet-faced, bright
looking elderly lady, with snow
white hair.
General Skobelef died possessed
of large fortune. His annual in
come from IL is reckoned to have
been about 100000 rubles. By his
will he gave but small sum TO his
divorced wife; the remainder>
divided in equal shares among'e
three sisters.
1t is rumored once again, and gem
orally stated throughout the eastern
press, that John Bright is about to
visit the United States. Some years
ago he stated that he dreaded the
sea, and would not under any con-
sideration undertake the voyage.
The story of his coming, therefore,
may be unfounded.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-08-17

THE Republican papers have been
printing and circulating maps show
ing the manner in which the Demo-
Gratis gerrymaudered South Coroli-
ma. The Charleston Ne,cS and CoW-
rier retaliated by publishing a
diagram showing how the Republi-
cans gerrymandered Connecticut.
After viewing, observes the Savan-
nah NeUS, the devious ways and
curious lines which mark the nato-
rial districts of that state as laid out
by the Republican legislature last
year, the most prejudiced observer
must conclude that the Republicans
live in too brittle a glass house to
profitably throw stones. The eighth
Massachusetts district especially is a
curiosity. 1t has the appearance of
being cut bodily out of the centre
of the seventh, and looks like an is
land in the middle of the ocean.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-08-17

The mandamus proceedings insti-
tuted in the New York supreme
court to compel the railroad COM
panies to receive and transport
freight sent them for shipment, haye
terminated IN decision in favor of
the railroads. The court held that
If the power sought to be exercised
existed, it resided in the legislative
and not in the judicial branch of the
state government. The decision inn
phed, however, that the citizen who
suffers loss from the refusal or neg
lect of the railroad companies to
transport freight rendered to them,
has valid cause for an action for
damages, and that he can recover
for all the loss thus sustained. The
shippers will now probably resort to
this method ofapplying the law. and
the railroad companies will be over
whelmed with suits for damages.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-08-17
Acting with LiberaIity.
baltimore Herald


Congress has acted literally this
session. The fourteen regular ap-
preparation bills, including only the
ordinary expenses of the govern
ment, excluding payments OF prin-
cipal or interest on the national
debt, amount to $294,513, ,639, which
sum is seventy-eight millions more
than last years appropriations,
which were by no means niggardly.
If this liberality increases in the
same ratio for few years more it
will be totally unnecessary for the
tariff commission to devise ways and
meaus to reduce the revenues, as ad-
ditional taxes will have to be i'm
posed to furnish supplies for such
reckless extravaganza.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-08-17
LOMBRIZ.
Nature and Habits of StranguIus
COntortus.
rTexas Wool Grower.1

ITeXas WOOL grower
The little hair like lombriz worm,
which has proven so fatal to sheep
in southwest Texas, making its
place of abode in the fourth stomach
of the animal, is in itself great
curiosity. No other worm or para
site could live in this organ; the
gastric juices which, we might say,
were manufactured there, would
destroy most any animal life; it
would dissolve most any other sub
stance. This fourth stomach is
known as that part of the animal
which furnishes the re,net, used in
making cheese, and also pepsln, used
in medicine as a powerful tonic.
Here it makes its home, subsisting
on an article of diet that would de-
stroy any other parasite. 1t de-
stroys the sheep by preventing the
manufacturing process of that organ
from performing its functions. The
surface of that organ becomes dis
eased and irritated and is no longer
able to furnish gastric Juices to dis
solve the food necessary to sustain
life. They are Mormons in
habit, there being about seven
females to every male, and
their powers of reproduction
are simply wonderful, a female
frequently producing 200 little
worms in embryo. These embryo
worms are enveloped in thick mu-
cilaginous coating and are passed
from the stomach of the sheep with
the feces, where many of them perish
if the weather is dry; but where, if
heavy rains come, they are carried
to low, damp localities, and are
again taken into the stomachs of
sheep either in drinking or feeding,
III a condition to break through
their softened shell and commence
their work of destruction. The
average life of the lombriz worm
is twenty DAYS. After they have
performed their mission of repro
duction they are passed through the
intestines of. the animal and perish.
Frequently the large numbers which
are ready to leave the sheep gather
in balls and may thus cause a stop
page in the intestines, producing
death from mechanical action alone.
In strong, vigorous sheep the rapid
action OF the fourth stomach pre-
vents the accumulation of the
worms in sufficient numbers to
effect any serious results; but If
from any cause the sheep is deli.
cate and the action of the stom-
ach is impaired, the worms effect a
lodgment and aggravate the disease
by injuring the organ where the
gastric Juices are secreted. If q
sheep could get green grass all the
time the lombriz worm would effect
no injury, the green tender grass
being easily digested, and having
more fluids in it composition, would
keep the functions of the stomach
and bowels In a healthy condition.
But if the sheep is forced to subsist
on dry food, sun-burnt grass, which
is more difficult of digestion because
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-08-17

CARLETON HUNT, who received
the Democratic nomination for con-
gressman in the first Louisiana dis
trictis said to be gentleman of de
cideda bility. He will take the place
when elected, of General Randall l..
Gibson, who is United States sena-
tor elect.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-08-17

The STATESMAN is for Terrell for
the senatorship, first, last, and all the
time; and it is for him, because he
has considered so well, as senator,
the public interests. The people of
the district desire his denomination,
and hence the STATESMAN raised
the alarm as to a miserable little eff
fort which was to be made to stock
the primaries against him. The
primaries will meet to-day and the
attendance should be such as to
make them reflect the popular SEN
timent.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-08-17

SINCE the Independent Republi-
cans of Pennsylvania have firmly and
finally rejected the peace PROPOSE
tions of the stalwarts, the latter con-
sole themselves with the conclusion
that union was not particularly de-
sirable anyhow. The stalwart chair
man ridicules the independents, and
says their strength is absurdly small
that they never imperilled General
Beavers election, and will only effect
a microscopic reduction in his ma
jority. In view of the persistent
efforts of the stalwarts to coax the
independents over to them, this talk
of Chairman Cooper looks very
much like case ofsour grapes. The
independents had climbed too high
for the stalwarts to reach them.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-08-17
sheep culture.

The profits on sheep are aclInowl-
edged by everybody, but few of
these seldom think OF the actual
profits. Take the following tabular
statement for instance. General
Frank Cheatham, of Tennessee, in
the fall of 1866 bought eleven ewes
and buck, paying for them S;24.
Since then his family, which is a
large one, have had all the requisite
mutton and lamb for table use and
have sold sheep aud wool as follows:
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-08-17

The four officers of the Austrian
army highest in command in Bos-
mia are Irishmen. The governor OF
Livino is Major General O'Reilly
The second in command of the cav
airy is Colonel O'Herlihy, and there
are two Captain O'Sullivans under
him. One of the generals of brigade
Is Rudolph Oliver Swanston, who
comes of q west Cork family. 1t
seems that still in far foreign fields,
from Dunkirk to Belgrade, the Irish
soldier is foremost in path of honor
glory and small pay.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-08-17

A APHILADELPHIA physician named
Tiedemann was recently called on to
prescribe for woman who had
taken q dose of poison. He prompt
ly wrote out prescription and de-
manded So before handing it over,
which the woman was unable to
raise. whereupon the doctor delib-
erately tore the prescription to
pieces, turned on his heel and walk
ed of, leaving the woman to die.
There is no law for hanging DIR.
Tiedemann, which goes to show how
imperfect after all human laws are.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-08-17

THE powers continue to decline to
pronounce Arabi rebel. while Eng
land considers this declaration as of
quite as much import as protection
for the Suez canal. She desires
Tewfik to be acknowledged and
maintained as khedive, because he
is really her creature, and this is the
only course which will ensure her
the protectorate over Egypt which
she so ardently desires. From the
facts that the porte is so manifestly
reluctant to comply with England's
wishes in this regard, and that the
other powers of Europe are perfectly
Indifferent about the matter, it GER
tainly looks as if the latter did not
feel particularly friendly to Eng
lands schemes. Arab is evidently
a power, even if he be a rebel.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-08-17

A Wyoming man saw a Texas
steer standing on the railroad track,
and knowing that the express train
was due, he tried to induce the beast
TO move. Several pieces OF board
thrown at the ferociocs monster
failed to move it, until at last, as the
train rushed down the track at
lightning speed, he seized the steer
by the tail and twisted it like wet
towel. AT this moment the train
struck them both, and the result was
stupendous. The steer was found
two days afterward browsing peace
fully in cornfield with two driving
wheels hung on its horns. No trace
of either the man or the engine has
been heard of since.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-08-17
Total. .sa,a4O.4s

In conclusion, the general says: ~
now, March 1, 1882, have on hand, in
fine condition, 160 head of young
healthy ewes, 100 of which win
bring lambs during the next six
weeks. have rarely ever fed my
sheep during the winter, only when
the ground was covered with snow,
when / have given them bundle of
Oatsv
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-08-17

SOME time ago the governor of
tered a reward for the arrest Of
a highwaymen who robbed a store
near the Burnet county line. Was
the dignity of the law more insulted
then by the taking of rich mans
goods than it has been in the last
iew days by the shooting of these
poor friendless Mexicans?
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-08-17

For time it looked as though
Keiter would fail to get renomlna-
ton IN his district, but he did get it,
and he may be elected. 1t is said the
bosses begun TO send in the money
and il made the political mare go ac-
cording to their grinding.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-08-17
TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION.

The governors knowledge of yell
low fever and of quarantine ought
to enable him to endure the absence
of the state health officer who, ac-
cording to an official dispatch, is
" "bottledn at Brownsville.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-08-17
"AusgespieIt."
TBrepham Banner.1

The last issue of the Teas Chris
tian AdUocdte devotes three columns
to the Germans. The gist of Its re-
marks are contained in these words
"They intend to introduce their
German customs of Sunday revelry
and beer drinking into our land,
regardless of the moral sense OF
their American neighbors." Icsays
the Germans are consolidated
against the Sunday law. and it con-
ciudes by asking "Where will the
law-abiding citizen stand on these
uuestionsw The AdUocdte does not
seem to have learned that the SUM-
day law is "ausgespielt."
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-08-17

Mr.. Ii. W. z. Wilson finds that in
many plants the excretion of car
bonic acid decreases at once If sup
ply OF oxygen is excluded. Hence
the view that the carbonic acid ex-
hailed by plants has its origin in in
ter-molecular decompositions, inde-
pendent of oxygen of the air, is not
OF all tenable.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-08-17

The steamer Fanny Dugan, which
lett New Orleans about a month ago
to coast it around to the st. Johns
river, has not been heard from since
she left Punta Rassa, Charlotte's
harbor, some two weeks ago, and
great anxiety is felt for her safety in
Jacksonville.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-08-17

Captain Paddock, late of the Fort
Worth Democrat-41dvance, is editor
of the Gazette.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-08-17

A catfish eight feet long was re-
Gently caught at Tampa, Florida.
The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1882-07-29

posal Of the boys, The attendance was not
so large rs it should have been, but was
large enough to show that the organization
IS TO be one Of continued vitality. Presi-
dent Lock occupied The chair, and Secretary
Blake occupied two,
The proceedings consisted principally of
periectng permanent organization. The
report of the committee on bylaws was
received and adopted by sections. The
name of the club remains unchanged; the
object is To organize the young Demo-
craCy in the city for the purpose Of
promoting the interests of the Democratic
party; the meetings are to be held on the
first aud third Mondays of every month the
age Of members is limited to between 90
and 35 years, and the organization is to be
governed in It's deliberations by Robinsons
rules of order.
For vice president, NIT NJ. Lovett was
elected, and as an executive committee,
Messrs. Guy Morse, Phil Saup and b. F.
Blake. The other officers Of the club are
President Leek, Secretary Blake and Treas
uTer Morse.
The executive committee was instructed
to procure a speaker mot a candidate) to
entertain the club at its next regular meet
ing which occurs Monday after next.
The meeting was very interesting, bar
monioUs and enthusiastic one.
The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1882-07-29
WHY THERE WILL BE MORE EARTH.
QUAKES IN THE U. s.

In view of the late earthquake at Casro
the following will prove interesting. Octo.
Der lth 1877, was superior planetary con
junction, there was then a change in the
inclination of the earth to the sun--in the
INCLINATION of the axis Of the earth to the
SUM- The zones Of the earth were changed.
The new equatorial line strikes the Missis-
sippi river Just below Cairo, strikes Cleve-
land, Buffalo, Boston and the English chan.
mel. The entire United States is in the
torrid zone. Ia 1877, A. NJ. Blake, astrono.
mer, lecturej and predlcted the increase
in earthquakes, aud in view Of its strange
fui.ments, the proof is here presented
from said lecture
Let US see what influenced the conjunc-
ton and the changed zones of the earth
sill have upon the occurrence Of earth.
qlakes. They will change and increase.
The earth being an oblate spheroid slightly
flattened Mt the poles, its circumference
greatest round the equator it follows =
prori that the new poles OF the earth will
contract will shrink 26 miles and, in con
tracing, cause earth tremblings, earth con
vuIsions and earthquakes. The earth being
a spheroid, there is ptotuberaDce at the
equator This equatorial enlargement
enlongment-pro tuberance--is due to the
relation Of the earth on its axis, by which
the equatorial paris bulge out 10y centri.
iugal force
Boston, New York, Philadelphia Balti-
moreand Washington City will be convulsed
by earthquakes at lengthy intervals OF time,
because the earthquake band running all
right angles with the new equational line
now underlies them. The entire United
States will experience repeated shocks,
tremblings, low subteuanean, Of falling
houses and the death Of their inmates.
Houses are so high and slightly built that
the damage will be incalculable. The con-
vulsions throughout the world since 1877
have been more numerous than formerly
as they know who keep the records. The
eastern states have been aih1nished by
several earth vibrations II follows that
volcanoes will necessarily break out in
places where heretofore they have been