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The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-04-13
LIQUOR Legislation i'm Ohio.

The passage of what is styled the
Pond bill by the Ohio Legislature
has stirred a portion of the people
of that state into a fever of indigna-
ton. The reception of the news OF
the action Of the legislature in Gin.
cinnati is thus told by the Enquirer
"The brewers are thoroughly
aroused. Yesterday the Brewers
association held a meeting that was
very largely attended, and, as might
have been expected, the subject OF
the Pond bill came in for share OF
attention. The anathemas hurled
against the bill were simply
frightful. After every man had
had his say, a resolution was
adopted unanimously to vote
for the entire Democratic ticket, the
ward officers included. Another
resolution was passed TO enjoIn the
authorities from enforcing the Pond
bill. There is bitter fight to come
off on this question, and the brewers
will spare no money or work TO de-
feat Whist they consider a direct and
damaging blow at their legitimate
business.
II held a brief conversation yes
terday with one of the boss brewers.
He, like two-thirds of his fellow
brewers, was a Republican until re
Gently, but now he is a radical Dem.
ocrat, or, at least the determined
opponent of anything that smackE
of Republicanism. He said:
"We brewers are done with the
Republicans. We never have haC
any fair treatment from that party
and never will. We have stuck tC
the party, hoping that they would
learn some sense and treat US witt
common justice, but we see now
that there Is no longer any hope
The brewers have always donated
literally to The cause of Republican,
ism, not only in this city, but We
have been taxed for state campaigns
and even for Mahoneism in Vir
giDia.'
w What?'
"' Yes, sir. There were men who
came 10 US during the coDfllc
of the Readjusters in Virginia anC
represented to US that they were il
need of funds 10 carry on the cam
paign, and we gave literally. Every
time we have put up our money and
did all we could for the party
Now we are dOne.'
"Can YOU take your employees
with you?'
"'We can aud we will
"'Will you stay with the Demo
cracy?'
eyes, we will. Ttis is not a tenn
porary furry. We have come t.
stay. Why, the next thing that W,
expect is that the Republican party
will pass laws entirely prohibiting
the manufacture of beer. 1t is no
unreasonable TO expect it. The
party is capable of doing almos
anything. We have determined t.
no longer act and vote with mel
who wish to ruin our business"
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-04-13
OUR PUBLIC LANDS AND THE
LAND SPECTATORS.

One of the most important ques-
tions to come before the legislature
now in session is the setting apart
of a large amount of land as an en-
dOwment for our university, which
promises to be one of the finest in
situations in the south. The first
question which will naturally arise
is, where is the land to come from?
The act of the legislature approved
July IA, 1879, which provides for the
sale of the unappropriated public
lands of the state of Texas at fifty
cents per acre, and the investment
of the proceeds of such SALE. and
the act amendatory thereof,
approved April IL, 1881, it
seems, precludes the possibility
at present of securing any further
landed endowments for the stale
university, if recent files under said
acts are to be respected. Under the
act above referred to, parties have
filed on all the land reserved under
said acts from location, whether in
the Texas Pacific reservation or the
Panhandle. For the most part
the parties who have filed on
the land in said reservations,
have done so without expense.
They have sought, by simply filing
on the lands, to appropriate vast
amounts thereof for speculative pur-
poses, without the means or inten-
ton, in most instances, of paying
for one section. The surveyors
readily lent themselves to the pur-
poses of such spectators, when it
became apparent that the governor
and legislature designed the land
of that section for the univer-
sity, and the school land of
the unorganized counties out of
which they expected no surveying
or Office fees. viii the legislature
tolerate such speculative files under
the pretence of vested rights,
and thereby rob the counties of their
school land and the university of its
endowment Under the law a sur
veyor can now charge nothing for
filing on land. (See revised stat
utes, article 2406.) The law of July
IA, 1879, page 4S, under which the
public lands can be purchased reads
as follows: "Section 2. That any
person, firm or corporation desiring
to purchase any of the unappro-
priated lands herein set apart and
reserved for sale, may do so by
causing the tract or tracts which
such person, firm or corporation de-
sire to purchase, to be surveyed by
the authorized public surveyor of
the county or district in which
said land is situated" The
difference between file on
land under a valid certificate,
and an application for land under
this law, is marked. Under
the certificate, the owner thereof,
who before was an equitable owner
of an undivided interest in the pub
lie lands, by. file sewers the
land from the public domain,
and the statute comes to his
relief and vests and recognizes his
interest and, enables HIM to main-
tain an action of trespass thereon.
See revised statutes, article
4795, and article 530S, P. d.
Under the law of July IA, 1879, the
purchaser does not hold the states
scrip emitting him to land, but pro-
poses to buy under general propo-
sition or offer by the state to sell.
The preliminary steps in selecting
the land, such as filing and survey.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-04-13
PERSONAL.

Mile. Rhea, the French actress,
has achieved a grand success socially
as well as dramatically at Washing
ton.
Cardinal Zigliara, it is announced
by the Liberia, of Rome, will sue
coed Cardinal Jacobini as papal Sec
rotary of state.
Mr.. Arthur was presented the
other day with a petition a mile
long. It's $4,000 signers want
Mason pardoned.
Baron Kurd Won Schleger, late
minister TO the United States, is
officially gazetted in Berlin as Prus-
sian minister to the Vatican.
General John NJ. Schofield, who
has been in Europe, is on his way
home There is considerable inter
est in army circles i'll regard to bis
next post OF duty.
Ex-Delegate Hooper, of Utah, is a
Mormon, but not pOlygamist. lie
says that about 1000 of the Mormon
men are polygamists. The wealthIest
men have a dozen wives.
General Butler will address the
Lowell land league some time this
month or early i'll May upon the
subject of the detention of American
citizens in British prisons.
Miss Eleanor Ewing, a daughter OF
General Hugh Ewing, of Ohio, and
niece of General Sherman, took the
white veil at the convent SOf the
sisters of mercy at Pitt last week.
Ex-Governor Fairchild, recently
minister to Spain, is visiting in
Washington. 1t is mentioned in Wis
consin that he may be a candidate
for the United States senate in 1885
Mrs. Daniel Slower, with her son
and two daughters, is running a
rancho" in Shackelfurd county
Texas. She will be remembered as
the daughter of the late President
johnson.
According to a Paris dispatch to
the London Times there have lately
been rumOrs of the intention of M
Gambetta's friends "to buy up sew
eral of the Republican papers now
hostile to him."
Mr.. John Russell Young is forty
years of age and a widower. 1t IL
announced that before leaving upon
his mission for China he will lead tC
the alter Mis- Julia Coleman, a niece
of ex-Gov. Jewell, of New Haven
Conn. Miss Coleman, who was edu'
Gated abroad, is very young, very
beautiful and accomplished, and 8
thorough society girl.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-04-13

THE Austrian government has
demanded of the Austrian and
Hungarian delegation about $12,-
100000 more to carry on the war in
Herzegovina and Bosnia. General
Javonovics is having very tedious
time trying to keep down the slip
perry Bosniaks, who are almost as
good bushwhackers as the Albani-
ans, their great trouble being that,
unlike the Albaniars in their strug-
gle with the Turks, they have no
leader like George Castroit, al
though Salko Foita Bey and Slogan
Kovachevich have an intimate ac-
quaintance with the country and
have shown some stubborn fighting
qualities. The Austrians have made
very little impression upon the in
surgent stronghold, thus far, in the
Varenta, the Drina aud the Bosnia,
every foot of which has to be attack
ed in detail, and no>ataack can be
made in regular order. for the topog-
raphy does not admit of regular
lighting.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-04-13
THE Loss ON STATE BONDS.

The NeicsJoy finds fault with
Treasurer Lubbock, because he paid
premium of forty cents on the
bonds lately purchased. 1t says
forty cents even is not the
correct statement, since the sale
of these bonds was made, years
ago, at eighty cents, and that
therefore the premium is sixty
per cent, and not forty. The
Ne,cSboy makes no distinction
between premium and discount
while it fails also to make the
calculation between the value of
gold and paper when the
bonds were sold. The correct
calculation, will give about seventy
cents as the difference between the
selling and the buying price of these
bonds. They were seven per cent.
gold bonds, sold at eighty cents
when gold was one hum
dred aud ten. A mathematical
calculation may be used to show
that the purchase of bonds at $40
with money on hand, not draw
ing interest, was better than not to
buy, even at this price, while to ac-
cept the alternative, and buy United
states bonds. bearing low interest,
would entail great loss upon the
state. These state bonds still had over
twenty years to run, and their value
could never have grown less. They
were sold in 1875, at prices disgrace
full to Texas, and then was the
time they should have been
held at figures which would
have prevented this heavy
loss. Two millions of bonds were so
disposed of and 1t was simply fat
job for financial agent, who received
two per cent on the amount, while
the state was discredited in the sale
beyond measure. Had the pro-
NlcO DCCh thaJ buOSC Julius
should not be sold for less than par,
as has since been the requirements
the calculation as to loss would not
have been so great; and then, too,
the rate of interest permitted on the
bonds was beyond reason. The
loss began in 1875, and il
has been continued since, under this
ruinous rate of interest, presenting a
truly notifying result, and when
Treasurer Lubbock or any other
person could tell, by figures, that
the state could save by using
unemployed money to buy these
bonds, it was his simple duty to
gather them in. Had it been posi-
BILE that the value of these bonds
could decline, then the purchase
could have been postponed, but the
purpose of investors is to
hold and not to sell, so
long as seven per cent. in interest
may be drawn. AS soon as these
bonds were purchased, those still in
the hands OF investors were
pushed up to price at
which the state could not afford
longer to buy, and they Will now
be held alone for coupon clipping.
1t is understood that Treasurer
Lubbock authorized a broker to col
lect bonds, as long as possible, at
one forty, and many holders refused
to sell at any price justifiable on the
part of the state.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-04-13
Texas Lare Stock Journal: Wit

Texas LeUe Stock Journal: With
out some unforeseen disaster, west
Texas will reap larger money har-
vest from the sale of beef cattle this
year than ever before. The drouth
of 1881 cut the beef crop short fully
one-tbird. Cattle did not get fat,
and those that were shipped were
not first class, and consequently
brought low prices. This year we
will have the one-t third left over
from last year, in addition to the
legitimate crop of the present year,
which will give us larger crop of
beeves than ever before. The mild,
wet winter just passed assures an
early crop of grass, and with cattle
already in good fix we may safely
predict an early beef market. The
prospects are very fattering, and
our stockmen can congratulate
themselves on their good fortune.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-04-13

ing, are done to ascertain the locali-
ty and quantity of the land the in
dividual wants, and no bargain or
contract is really made or
closed between the state
and the individual, before the
money, fifty cents per acre, is
paid for the land. That is the first
pecuniary benefit to the state-one
of the contracting parties-and up
to that time. she may legally recede
from her offer to sell at fifty cents
per acre, which was but privilege
extended to the citizen to buy.
While the moral right of those who
have in good faith surveyed the lands
they intended to purchase should be
protected, it would be false senti-
ment, not required by law or
good morals, to cOncede any
thing TO the mere files of a
horde of impecunious spectators
who would rob the children of the
state of a university, and the child
rem of the unorganized counties of
their school lands.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-04-13

THE notorious Dick Little, of the
james gang, has surrendered, and is
said to have told all the doings OF
the outlaws during the past seven
years. Little assisted in the cap
ture of Clarence Hite, in Logan
county, Kansas, a few weeks ago
and is credited with having killed
Wood Hite, a few weeks before
George Hite visited his brother in
the jefferson City penitentiary, and
had from him a confession of his
completely in the train robberies,
and the proceedings in the Logan
circuit court against his kidnaphers
were abandoned. The governor OF
Missouri has paid the reward OF
$4,000 for the capture and convic-
ton of Hite-W. III. Craig, of the
Kansas City police, and j. Il. Tim
berlake, of Clay county, being the
payers.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-04-13

THE commissioner of patents at
Washington wants twenty-five adj
ditional assistants, principally ex-
aminers of patents. The business
of the patent Office has grown won
derfully, and during the past year
it paid into the treasury s250,O00
surplus, and this year the excess of
receipts over last year has been $3.50
for each working day. The extent
of the patent business, says corre-
spondent of the Baltimore Sun, may
be formed by noting the very hand
some incomes enjoyed by the nu-
merous patent lawyers, whose offices
line all the approaches to the patent
Office building.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-04-13

THE Houston Post is responsible
tor the assertion that some few
months ago the moneyed men of
Austin took hold of the Austin
STATESMAN and prevented it from
passing in its checks" This was
done to keep the Bourbon organ on
its legs. The Post, we hope, will
see by this that the Bourbon party
of the state are progressive enough
to assist Bourbon papers. The ar
gument of the Post and other indie
pendent papers, has heretofore been
that Democratic papers could not live
because the Democratic party would
not support them. After this, the
STATESMAN Will be remembered as
an exception. In speaking of the
Democratic party, in this instance,
we do not wish to be understood as
including the state administration or
the Democratic city administrations
of Austin and San AntoniO.-DdILdS
Times.
All of which, as applied to the
STATESMAN, is deliberate falsehood ::
and if the Post is responsible for this
declaration, it was certainly made
with malicious intent, to dis
parage not only the STATES
MAN, but the cause i'll which
it works. The moneyed men
of Austin have done nothing in
the way of helping the STATESMAN,
and what it has accomplished has
been alone on its private account.
Were every dollar, obtained from
the real moneyed men ofAustin, and
even from the state government, in
payment for papers and advertising,
land this is all thus received) added
together, the entire sum for
one year wouiG not more than
pay rhS empenses of the STATESMAN
for one week. In other words, were
the STATESMAN depending upon the
moneyed men of Austin for support,
in any shape, it would have "passed
in its checks" many years ago,
even before its first number could
have been fairly perused by its read
ers. The STATESMAN depends alone
upon the masses and the live bust
ness men and merchants of this and
other communities, who read it for
its subscription price, and who pay
for its advertising, because of its
value to them. We may safely
say. that were the sum
total of all payments made in one
year, for subscriptions and adver-
tisemeuts, by twenty of the most
moneyed men of Austin, put in one
pile, and the existence of the
STATESMAN depended upon this
pile, the paper would not
last the week out. These alleged
contributors to the STATESMAN can
be run over by name, these
moneyed men with carved fronts
and crowded vaults, and the STATES
MANS books may be turned to, to
prove that the sum total that ten out
this twenty pay the STATESMAN for
papers and advertising is no more
than enough in one year to secure
the publication of Sunday issue.
The statement of the Post, intended
as a mean fling at the STATESMAN,
is not only malicious falsehood,
but it is a wilful SANDER upon
the closefistedness of Austin's "mon-
eyed meno
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-04-13

The proposition for the state to
bold Greer county in trust, one-hali
for veterans, the other half for pub
JIG free schools, is not proper. Greer
bounty rightfully belongs to Texas,
and veterans ought to have the
privilege of locating unconveyed
scrip in this territory, only so
far as they may still hold
the states obligations for To-
eating. Texas, having a right to
the lands, could give the old men
aud their heirs, not spectators, this
advantage, granting a given time
for the locations to be made, but
here the special favor should end,
aud the balance of Greer county
might be applied to the
university, which would be
to the cause of public
free education, for that Is about the
substance of the law governing the
conduct of the institution. On the
payment of thirty dollars one may
obtain the right to attend any or all
OF its schools. 1t contenlplates the
cheapest high education in the
world, and the provision is
constitutional requirement, that
win never be changed, because the
people would have to be consulted
al the ballot box before change
could be made, and such change
would be regarded rs antagonistic
30 public interests,
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-04-13
Beds Made Beautiful,


A great deal of decorative color
is now fashionable for bed cover
ing. Silk coverings of embroidery
or of rich damasks are used over the
entire bed. If white spread is pre-
ferred, in is frightened by a scarf
drapery of rich, dark brocade, that
is thrown carelessly across the foot
of the bed. The Japanese embroid
cred quilts, and those done with gilt
threads in tapestry designs, are es-
pecially handsome. Antique laces
combined with white muslin are
used over colored silk Innings for
bed spreads, with pillow spreads to
match. A border of red plush, upon
which the lace edge falls, is a pretty
finish; when not lined, these lace
spreads are used over down COM
fortables that are covered with rose,
blue or red silk.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-04-13

THE Chicago Times says: at is
reported that movement has com
menced in the south, which should
have commenced years ago, for sup
plying the northern market with
early lambs and chickens. No farm
products sell for so high a price as
these articles. They rank among
the most expensive Injuries. To
bring the highest prices, however,
they must be in market very early.
With our present railway facilities
1t is comparatively easy to bring
lambs and chickens from the south
and to have them in northern mar
kets long before they can be raised
here, without great trouble and ex-
pense."
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-04-13

Nothing but the secret conviction
that there was to be an entirely new
distribution of patronage has KEEP
the grumblers silent thus long but
board bills in Washington have
been increasing and the glorious
summer that shall follow this win.
ter of discomfort tarries too long
There are ominous mutterings and
the storm seems about to break.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-04-13
Hugo Anticipating His Death,

IParis correspondence Pail Mall Gazette.I
Victor Hugo does not look for
ward to witnessing another birth
day. He feels the shadow of the
tomb gathering round him, but is
not troubled by it. His instinct tells
him, he says. that when he passes
through the black tunnel called
death he will open his eyes to a
higher and brighter existence, and
that God will at once receive him
as maitre compagnon. Why
should he not, he argues, believe in
his instinct? Instinct is one of the
rare things that never lie.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-04-13

Mr. JACQUES, the chief electri-
clan of the Bell Telephone company
If the report be true, has achieved a
great and much desired success. Ii
is stated that he has so improved
the telephone that the full tones OF
the voice can be transmitted. A
current of quadruple strength is re-
CURED and the use of galvanized
carbon. An electrician who has
looked into the matter says that he
does not doubt that after the inn
proyement has been put into gene
raj use, tie call-bell can be dispensed
with, as the voice from the tele-
phone can be heard by any one near
enough to hear the bell.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-04-13

IT is suggested there is some mis-
take about the object that is leading
so many members of congress to
steal away so quietly from Washing
ton. They are not going to mend
fences, but to build them. Every
man of them has district mapped
out in his own eye, that ne would
build q stone wall around If he
could. 1t is too bad that Texas
<congressmen have not the courage
TO get up and dust from Washing
ton.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-04-13

"GNAT CURIOUS" takes over two
columns in his Record to tell how
George Jones washed" him out
What a terrible job to wasl
"Gnat" out, and what wash
er. 1t was done at Wash
ington, where whitewashing is ,
pasttime. "Gnat" was not whit
ened much, barely escaping black,
washing, the consideration being &
postofiice. But a woman got in
Gnat's way, and he always tumbles
as any real man would tumble, to {
woman.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-04-13

THE Waxahachie Mirror thinks
the Alcalde ought to get out of the
way and let Hon. ID. G. GiddiDgs, OF
Judge j. ID. Thomas, be made gov,
ernor. Well, yes, that might do; oil
we might afford to import some un.
heard of man from Florida or Ore.
gon for the place. A "good man ,
il all that is wanted.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-04-13

The Seguin Times denominates
John Ireland "a column of his own
height" and that be can not fly at
the tail of any kite" That is what
the STATESMAN knows of the dis
tinguished Texan, and hence for
years it has been prepared to do him
iull credit in his manly, unsel;ish
course. We admire the indepen-
dence of this man, but know that
his disposition, never to stoop to
conquer, has initiated somewhat
against HIM.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-04-13

WHAT about opening the state
departments to the employment of
females? Probably the governor
refused TO mention this as a subject
of legislation, because 1t might, if
adopted, lead to the resignation of
an executive officer.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-04-13

TREASURER GILFILLAN wants to
deluge the country with fractional
currency again. We hope Giliillan
will not have his own way in this
matter. 1t can be very easily coun-
forfeited, and people will be de-
frauded through its introduction.