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A quick and Hard Hitter.
lStocKton Herald

DR.. w. Il, Browne, of Stockton,
California, has recently perfected a
rotary hammer that promises to rev.
olutionize those branches of indus
try 10 which the hammer plays an
important part. 1t consists of Sc
ries of hammers arranged so that
their faces extend beyond the peri
phery of q wheel and strike sliding
rod, to which is adjusted a drill, a
hammer or quartz crusher or what
ever device is needed to accomplish
the desired work. When these ham,
mers strike the drill = the machine
now on exhibition is fixed to drill
rock-they slide off out of the way
in the most remarkable manner,
without perceptibly decreasing the
velocity of the wheel. They spring
into position again and never miss a
stroke.
The machine now in operation
contains eight hammers, and one
man turning 1t can deliver 400 pow-
erful blows q minute. Two pieces
of rock show the work that the ma.
chine does drilling. In freestone q
man drills an inch a minute, turning
the machine leisurely. A ratchet
turns the drill small fraction of an
inch at each stroke, and all the
driller has to do is to turn the crank.
In granite rock from half an inch to
an inch can be drilled in minute.
The individual hammers each weigh
eleven pounds. Turning the wheel
forty revolutions a minute the
machine delivers 800 blows of sixty
six pounds each; fifty revolutions
give 400 blows of eighty-two pounds
each, and sixty revolutions give 480
blows of ninety-nine pounds each,
aggregatiDg over twenty a minute.
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squandering the public money alone
in personal support.
Declaration four reads:
To provide for the protection of
the school fund, by securing proper
and paying investment for the funds
thereof, and by selling the school
lands to the highest bidders, giving
actual settlers the preference, IN
stead of squandering them as under
the present system.
Republicanlsm protected the school
fund of Texas with a vim. In four
years it was depleted, and the reye-
nues of the state were drawn upon
by a Democratic administration to
make the claims of destitute teach
crs good. Democrats have now devel-
oped this fund until it assumes pro-
portions inviting to adventures.
The Democratic party pledged itself
at Galveston to sell school lands at
the highest value. and many years
ago its policy secured a permanent
statute, giving actual settlers the
preference to buy school lands over
all others.
Declaration five, making up the
sum total of this platform and poll
cy," reads:
To reduce the taxes, state and
county, to the lowest figure suffi-
Client to the maintenance of the gov
eminent.
Under Mr.. Davis administration
taxation was raised to the highest
rate that ever prevailed in the state.
and an unconstitutional statute was
made, and to a considerable extent
enforced, making the tax to be paid
direct to the. state, outside of all
county and municipal taxation, one
and one-half per cent on the value
of all property. This was defeated
through appeal to the courts, and
the Democrats, on taking the state
government from Mr.. Davis, found
0LlC IdtC Va bhA OhC-holA Va inv pa
cent. This was reduced to forty
cents on the hundred dol
lars, aud the seventeenth leg
islature made a still further reduc-
ton to thirty cents. So we are grad
ually returning to the minimum of
taxation-thanks to the fact that the
Republican party ceased to have any
political power in Texas. The &C
cumulauon of wealth by the state,
the vast funds she is called upon to
handle, is rich prize owards which
the eyes of these Republicans turn
with longing gaze. Hence the
people are going to continue their
trusts in safe hands.
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The Public Debt.

On July l, 1882. the total interest
bearing debt of the United States
was 81, 463,S1O,4OO, and the annual
interest charge $57, 360,11O, the
monthly interest charge being
$5,780,009. The debt bearing no in
terest amounted to $43S, pa, 1888.
The population of the United States
at that time is given at 81, 799, 900,
which made the total public debt
S31.32 per capita, the annual interest
charge per capita being $109. The
debt was largest August 81, 1865,
$2,381, 530.294, the annual interest
charge being $150,977, 697. The debt
bearing no interest then was $461,-
616,311. The population of the
country then was 34,748,000, the
debt per capita was $78.25, aud the
interest charge per capita $4.29. The
the total debt, less cash in the treas
ury. August 81, 1865, was 1885,
34l,751 on July 1, 1882, il was
81, 675, 023, 474, which means that debt
has been reduced $l,08l, 408,097 in
seventeen years.
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MANUFACTURING NOTES.
Augusta, Georgia has 100000

Augusta, Georgia has $6.0OO,0O0
invested in manufactures.
Valuable sand for the manufacture
of glass has been found In the vicin-
ity of Carabelle, Florida.
The Newton cotton mills, Newton,
North Carolina, are rapidly being
equipped, and will soon receive their
machinery.
Danville, Virginia, is putting
down the third cotton mill founda-
ton this season. The factory will
measure ITO feet by rs, and will be
three stories high.
In Winston, Noxubee and other
counties in Mississippi excellent
stone ware is made from the best of
clay that exists in large quantities.
The clay is also adapted to terra
Gotta work.
The furnaces at the Shelby iron
works, Shelby, Alabama, are turn
ing out large quantities of metal.
Eighty-three tons in one day last
week is reported; also eighty-two
tons at one run on single day.
Machinery has been bought for
the new Raccoon cotton mills, now
being erected ON Raccoon creek,
three miles from Summerville, Geor-
gia, with a cash capital of $4,000.
Work is being pnshed forward very
rapidly.
The Wilson cotton mills, Wilson
North Carolina, are having the
plans for their new mill and machin-
cry prepared by the Bridesburg
manufacturing company, Philadel-
phia. The outfit includes thirty
Foss and Pevey cards, spinning and
drawing frames and other necessary
machinery.
At Columbus, Georgia, the Eagle
and Phoenix manufacturing COM
pany take the lead, They have
three cotton mills and one wooden
mill, all running to their fullest
capacity, and giving employment. to
1000 operatives, the capital being in
creased to over $2,000.000. The
Muscogee' manufacturing company
are doing a comparatively immense
business, and the Columbus manu-
featuring company, formerly known
as Clapp's factory, are also doing
fine work in the line of sheetings
and domestics. The water power
of this mill has sufficient force to
run eight or ten mills of its equal i'll
size.
lron-stOne china is made in con-
siderable quantities at Cape Girar-
deau, Missouri, and the clay is also
shipped from chat point to Ohio
and other states. The first run of
ware has been confined to toilet sets,
and they are in point of finish and
workmanship equal to any Ameri-
can or English productions of SINH
lar kind. The Ingredients used are
the native clay, flint and feld-spar.
The ware is of light blue, highly
polished, and does not "craze."
Within a few weeks the company
will commence the erection of a new
kiln. This Is the only pottery of
iron-stone china west of the Missis-
sippi river.
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TEYAS POLITICS.


Judge Ireland's probable majority
is estimated all the way from 25,-
900 to $4,000.
Trinity county delegates are in
structed to use all honorable means
to obtain the nomination of Captain
Hutchinson for congress.
The Calvert Courier thinks Rob-
ertson county will give Wash. Jones
1000 majority this fall. Perhaps, be-
cause it is a Republican county.
The Republicans of Navarro
county, in convention at Corsicana,
a few days ago, adopted resolution
endorsing the course of Ex-Governor
E. j. Davis.
The GAINESVILLE Standard thinks
the good people of Texas should sit
down on the Independent, Green
back Republican fellows running
rampant over the country for office.
Up about Whilesboro they have
recommended Colonel George R.
Reeves for floater, DR.. W. E. Saudi
ders, of Sherman, and Hon. r. G.
Foster, of Denison, for local repre-
sentatives.
The Democratic Pictorial conven-
ton to select a candidate for the
fioater representative for the coun-
ties of Ellis, Navarro, johnson and
Hill, will be held at Corslcana, on
Tuesday, August Is.
The Fort Worth Democrat-Ad-
Uance thinks the Democracy have
done well in placing Hon. W. j.
Swain before the people for the i'm
portant Office of comptroller, and
asserts that bis administration will
be marked with credit and ability.
The Floresville Chronicle saws:
Let the voters of Texas support no
man for the legislature who will not
promise to vote and work for SUBJ
hitting a constitutional amendment
10 the people prohibiting the impor-
tation, manufacture or sale of alco-
holic beverages within the state.
The Hubbard City Herald wants
to know, "Why is it that the Green
back party, claiming as it does, to be
so much opposed to the records of
the Republican party, invariably
coalesce with it whenever an oppor-
tunity offers itself? when it is an
undeniable fact that Republican
party in the south is made up ofthe
most ignorant classes, principally
negroes"
The Luling Signal says: The
prospects for the nomination of the
Hon. james f. Miller, on the first
ballot, are exceedingly fiattering.
Reports from all parts of the dis
trict show him to be decidedly the
favorite; if he is elected, this district
will be ably and honorably repre-
sented in the congress of the United
States, where at this time we need
men of firmness and ability.
The Lampasas Dispatch has "every
confidence IN the success of the ticket
by forty to sixty thousand majority.
All the combinations that can be
made of Radicals, Greenbackers, and
disaffected Democrats cannot effect
the result-all the opposition to the
Democracy combined cannot poll
enough votes to make the race q
close One-still it is the duty of every
lover of his country to work for the
success of the good and true men
whose past history would be clear
indication of their future conduct.
Rally TO the standard of Ireland and
Martin"
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-08-03

THE supreme court of the United
States has decided that "to lay with
one hand the power of the govern
ment on the property of the citizen,
and with the other bestow it upon
favored individuals to aid private
enterprises and build up private
fortunes, is none the less robbery be-
cause it is done under the forms of
law and is called taxation. 1t is a
decree under legislative FORMS" The
present war tariff is such robbery.
1t enables the Pennsylvania state
company to divide profits of 213 per
cent on capital of $2,200,O00, dur
ing the last three years
enables wooden manufactures to
divide thirty-five per cent profit
on a capital of $150,OOO,OOO, and so
on. This money, wrenched from
the people, builds up monopolies
facilitates the control by these mo-
nopolies of legislation nulllties the
will of the people at the polls. The
tariff commission should be forced
to go exhaustively into the subject
of the wrongs of war taxation in
time of peace. The commission was
conceived in iniquity. 1t was in
tended to be a sham, but it should
be forced to make public such over
whelming evidence of the iniquity
of tariff robbery that it will not dare
to make mere record of the will of
the barons and call it a report.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-08-03

THE New York state fire and ma
rine insurance companies make a
showing of their business for the
year ending June 80, 1882, which
must be anything but satisfactory to
their stockholders. Of fitty-nine
companies officially reported, fifty
paid out good deal more than they
took in, and the aggregate expendi-
lures of the whole number were
$685., 1909 more than the aggregate in
come. OF the expenditures, $685.
900 was for losses, and $1,202, 200
was for dividends. The entire ex-
penditnres were $12,975,000. Five
companies paid no dividends at all,
and those distributed by eight or
ten others were 2 to 5 per cent less
than usual.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-08-03
Words from the Border OF Eternity

Macon Telegraph and Messenger
A few days since, in company with
friend. we called upon Senator
Hill. We had not seen him since
the early days of the Hancock CAM
paign, at a time when his grievous
affiiction had not begun to excite
apprehension.
Met at the door by the faithful son
who bears his name, we were in
formed that we could but pass into
his room and shake his hand, as his
strength was going with the Deep
ening shadows of the close OF a
summer day.
In comfortable sitting room near
window sat the great orator in an
inyalid's chair, while the tender
hands of a daughter famed his fe.
vered brow.
There is nothing left of Ben Hill
but the great gaunt form and the
luminous eyes. These, made larger
by pain and suffering, seemed to be
surcharged with his soul, and almost
capable of speech.
With his collar thrown open at the
neck, his hands hanging listlessly
upon the arms of the chair and
his head slightly inclined down
and forward, he reminded
US of the dying Napo-
leon, as illustrated in the celebrated
statue in the Corcoran art gallery,
while his eye followed one with a
sad and questioning power like unto
those of Charlotte Corday peering
through the bars of her prison win
dow.
Motioning us to a chair near his
own, he grasped our hand and sat
for many moments fixedly gazing
into our face, as if to read our
thoughts.
Suddenly he raised himself, and,
fronting us fully with a mighty eff
fort he SAID:
81 had desired to live for two rea-
sons, chief among which was that
might have made a speech, which
had partly prepared, to the people
of this whole country, upon the re-
lations between the white man and
the black man. have always been
IN favor of giving the negro equal
and exact justice-nothing more and
nothing less. Ny friend, we cannot
have good government or stable So
ciety in this land when one party
seeks to dominate the other by the
use of the negro vote"
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NERVOUS DEBILITY.

We warrant SIX boxes Of DR.. Z. G. Vests
Nerve and Brain Treatment TO cure any nervous
disease, either male or female, Of whatever ma
bility, Loss Of Memory, Spermatorrhea, and In
voluntary Emissions, caused by oyerwork Of
the brain, 6elf-abuse, etc, and viii give writ
refund the money II the treatment does not ef
feet Gu re in SIX months Price. 81 per box; six
boxes, IS. Sent, prepaid, BY mail, oD receipt
OF price. Guarantees issued by II. FRED
ERICKSON, Wholesale and Retail DRUG
get. New Orleans, La. Orders by mail at reg1-
iar price. may7-d4w-1y
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The Change of Zones and Earth
quakes.
CGlobe-Democrat.1


In view of the vibration of the
earthquake in Mexico, which reached
the valley of the Mississippi, the fol-
lowing will prove interesting, writ
ten by the astronomer Blake in 1878:
Owing to the change in the parallel
ISM of the axis of rotation of the
earth, which took place during a SUI
perior planetary conjunction, OctO-
Der IL, 1877, the new equatorial line
passes right through the United
States. The entire United States is
in the torrid zone. Let us see what
influence the conjunction and the
changed zones of the earth will
have upon the occurrence of
earthquakes. They will change-in-
crease, augment in severity. The
earth being an oblate spherold there
is a protuberance at the equator.
This equatorial enlargement-pro
tuberance-is due to the rotation of
the earth on its axas, by which the
equatorial parts bulge out by centri-
fugal force. Boston, New York,
Philadelphia, Baltimore and Wash
ington City will be convulsed by
earthquakes at lengthy intervals Of
time, because the earthquake band
running at right angles with the
new equatorial line now underlies
them. The entire United States will
experience repeated shocks, tremb-
lings, low subterranean rum
bling thunder sounds, accom-
panied by the usual destruc-
ton of falling houses, and the
death of their inmates. Houses are
so high and slightly built that the
damage will be incalculable. The
commissions in the world since 1877
have been more numerous than
formerly, as they know who keep
the records. The eastern states
have been admonished by several
earth vibrations. 1t follows that
volcanoes will necessarily break out
in places where heretofore they have
been unknown, in the decades to
come. Two hundred aud forty-four
earthquakes are known TO have
occurred during the year 1881, of
which sc were in winter, 81 in
autumn, 66 in spring, and Al in sum-
mer.
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Mr.. HUBBELL now says that it
was merely a "clerical error " hich
led to the assessment of the en-
ployes at the government school for
Indians in Pennsylvania for tho Re
publican campaign fund. 1t is not
known whether Mr.. Hubbell has
withdrawn that assessment or not ;
probably not. On his principle he
should levy tax on every pensioner
and every roustabout who gets
marine hospital benefits and every
soldier aud sailor in the army and
navy.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-08-03
Sheep Do Not Always Pay.

In the Argentine Republic a long
drought, ending in a cold, bolster
Gus rain, caused the death of mil
lions ofyoung lambs, and the sheep
growers are prOportionately de-
spondent, though their wool clip is
said to be $4,000 bales in excess OF
last years. the principal export
this season is corn, but sugar, alco-
hol and wine are greatly increased
in production, and are sent abroad
in large quantities. 1t is only lately
that these industries have attracted
much attention there, aud farmers
find in them a rich field that we'll re-
pays the working. The principal
public square of Buenos Ayres is IL
Iumined by the electric light.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-08-03

The business of collecting politi-
cal assessments from federal en-
ployes by the bashi-bazouks of the
Republican congressional committee
was begun under a Republican ad-
ministration eight years ago. Under
Democratic administrations Hub
bellry was unknown. The pretense
of the Republicans that they are
only doing what the Democrats used
to do is simply absurd.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-08-03

OVER two thousand applications
have been received by Secretary
Teller for the eight hundred clerk
ships of the pension Office, and more
are coming every day. Teller might
introduce some civil service reform
at this juncture and exclude every
applicant who cannot stand posi-
lively on his or her own business
merits.
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Railroad C0IlIsion-Seven TramPs
I'm the Ruins.
SouTH BEND. lND.. August L.

SOUTH BEND, IND, August l.
Two freight trains collided on the
Lake Shore railroad, just west of
this city this morning. Cars to the
number of sixty were piled upon the
the engines, and taking fire were
burned up. The engineers were
buried under the debris, but were
rescued just before the flames reach
ed them. There were some tramps
on the trains, and four of them in
sist that seven OF their comrades are
in the burning mass. Loss estimated
at $4,000.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-08-03

THE tariff commission evidently
think that tariff reform means more
protection. They haven't thought
yet of inquiring what duties can be
taken of, but have started in most
vigorously from the word go, to find
out what new duties can be created
and what old ones can be increased.
That is the Republican party's idea
of reform, and it is swift confirma-
ton of the worst the Democrats in
congress said of the commission
frand.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-08-03

THE new national bank notes to
belssued by the national banks that
have had their charters extended
are now being printed by the bu-
reau of engraving and printing.
Their backs are printed with brown
ink instead of the usual green ink.
They will be known as brown backs,
which will Indicate money issued
by banks whose original charter has
expired and been extended. Inevery
other respect they are like the ordi-
nary national bank note.
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appointed season for the time server
to prepare for salvation borrowing
Burts application we would say,
those hoping to pick up crumbs will
take time by the forelock IN at once
buying tickets to the Democratic
dining chamber.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-08-03

SIXTEEN steamships of the regular
transatlantic lines have been char
tered by the British government to
take troops to Egypt. These vessels
are able to accommodate 1890 SOL
diers, and they are paid at the rate
of $4,000 month, the British gov
ernment paying the necessary ex-
penses except salaries of officers aud
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THE goodly fellowship of the Re-
publicans and the Greenbackers is
truly refreshing. The gigantic IN
tellect with which the twins are
blessed, is now being concentrated
on the probabilities of getting a
portion of Hubbelrs assessments to
pay campaign expenses.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-08-03

Vicksburg is still agitated over
her harbOr. The receding of the
Mississippi river leaving only lake
of still water in front of the city
where the river once flowed, has a
threatening aspect to the prosperity
of Vicksburg, and her citizens are
anxiously inquiring what is to be
done TO preserve the harbor.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-08-03

IT seems to be definitely settled
that Cornell is to be the Republican
candidate for governor ofNew York.
1t also seems definitely settled that
Jones is to be the Radical Greenback
candidate for governor of Texas.
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NOTWITHSTANDING its avowed
stalwartism, the Chicago Inter- Ocean
is opposed to the exercise of bossism
by Logan IN Illinois. Thus on all
sides, and everywhere, does a pro-
test go up against bossism, which
will result Inevitably in its defeat
wherever manifest, and consequent
~ Of the Republican party.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-08-03

COMMISSIONER BOWMAN thinks
the Kentucky wheat crop this year
will be 100000 or II, 100000 BUSH
els, against 11,356,l13 bushels in
1880, the largest previous crop rals-
ed
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Mr.. DAVIS had concluded to run
for congress therefore it was that
Hon. George Washington Jones had
to content himself with being sscri-
feed as a gubernatorial candidate.
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WESLEXAN FEMALE INSTI-
w TUTE.
STAUNTON vTRGINIA

STAUNTON, VIRGINIA.
Opens September 20, 1882. One Of the FIRST
SCHOOLS FOR You've LADIES IN THE UNITED
STATES. Surroundings beautiful. Climate un-
surpassed. Pupils from eighteen states
TERMS AMONG THE BEST IN THE
UNION. Board, washing, English course,
Latin, French. German, Instrumental Music,
June, $236. For catalogues write 70
REV. WIN. A. HARRIS, D. D., Pres,
july4 d2w&w1mol Stanton, Va.
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THERE are seventY-seyen ele-
plants in the United States, not
counting the one the Republican
Greenbackers of Texas now have on
their hands.
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CHICAGO reports fifteen fatal cases
of lockjaw from the use of the toy
pistol since the Fourth of July, and
in consequence of this enterprise she
turns up her nose at st. Louis.