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The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-06-15
USEFUL HINIS.

A Cement for Stoves.-If the
stove is cracked, a good cement is
made for it as follows: Wood ashes
and salt in equal proportions, re-
duced to paste with cold wafer, and
filled in the cracks when the stOYc is
cool. 1t will soon harden.
To Remove Bruises from Furni
Iure.-Wet the bruised spot with
warm water. Soak a piece of brown
paper OF several thicknesses in warm
water. and lay over the place. Then
apply a warm flat iron until the
moisture is gone. Repeat the pro-
cess if needtul, and the bruise will
disappear.
One pound of sal-soda and half a
pound of unslaked lime boiled to-
gether in one gallon Uf water 1oT
twenty minutes let stand until cool
then drain offa pint into a stone jug
or jar-makes an excellent washing
fluid. 1t should be added to the
boiling water tor soiled clothes-a
large spoonful to boiler of Gle thes
To soften hard water: Add b ilf a
pound of the best quick lime, dis
solved in water, to every hundred
gallons. Smaller proportions may
be more conveniently managed, and
if allowed to stand short time the
lime will have united with the car
Donate of lime, and been deposited
at the bottom of the receptacle.
Another way is to put gallon OF
lye into a barrelful of water.
Calicoes and other colored fabrics
can, before washing, be .advan-
tageously soaked for time i'll pail
of water to which spoonful of OK
gall has been added. 1t helps to
keep the calOr. A teacup OF lye to
a pail of water will improve the
color of black goods when necessary
to wash them, and vinegar i'll the
rinsing water of pink or green will
brighten those cOlOrs, as will soda
for purple and blue.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-06-15
How An Editor Does 1t.
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A Boston paper has new re-
porter who is enterprising and will
ing. as most young men are when
they first begin work in Journalism" ("
but who doesn't yet know as much
as he probably will at a later period
of his career. He came in with the
report of public meeting the other
day, in the course of which he stated
that "the Hon. Mr.. So-and-so fol-
lowed the previous speaker with a
few feeble remarks upon the case
under discussion" The city editor re-
monstrated with the young mau and
was not appeased when the repor-
ter told him that the honorable gen.
tleman in question had himself said
when he first got upon his legs that
all he could contribute to the de-
bate would be a few feeble re-
marks. So the editor took up
his own pen and changed the report
er's manuscript 30 that it read that
the Honorable Mr.. So-and-sO then
made few trenchant remarks upon
the case in point, which he delivered
in that eloquent and scholarly way
which is characteristic of all his
public utterances," and having
achieved this feat with proficient
ease, he sent the reporter back to
his desk. And early the next morn
ing Honorable Mr.. So-and-So sent
his Office boy around and bought
fifty papers, whereas if the reporters
"copy" had got to the composing
room unchallenged, he would prob
ably have come up to the Office in
person with club.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-06-15

CAPTAIN JAMES CowDoN is still
hammering away on his outlet plan
for controlling the fools Of the Mis-
sissippi river. The other day, when
the river and harbor bill was ex-
pected to be considered, he laid cir
culars before all congressman stat
ing that the Mississippi river COM
mission present eleven falsehoods
for the consideration of congress.
He challenges the commission, in
whole or in part, to meet him, not
before committee, but before all
congress, and discuss issues. Then,
he says, if congress, in order to
keep some people from running into
the river, sees proper to waste
millions in repairing levees, he asked
for a pittance to make the Lake
Borgne outlet, so that the river may
form its own new shorelines 5000
feet apart, and do its own channel
deepening. lie contends that this
would be the last of levees and river
jetties, the river commission and its
$l00, 100000; that then there will be
no more overfiows, nor appeals to
congress; neither would there be
again heard that wall of grief, as in
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-06-15

THE grave of President Zachary
Taylor, upon his fathers land and iu
his own childhood's home, near
Louisville, Ky, was decorated by
his family and old comrades on
Tuesday. A eulogy was delivered
by General James A Elkin, who, in
closing, said: "NO monumental
grandeur is visible here-nO marble
shalt, pointing heavenward, tells the
pilgrim to this sacred spot of the
passive greatness and grandeur OF
the hero, the patriot and the states
man whose mouldered form lies
here. Yet this is a hallowed place
to which the eyes and hearts of the
American people turn with love and
reverence"
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-06-15
Keeping a MascOtte.


Jay Gould keeps mascotte. That
is plain by the quantity of gobbling
he is doing. The Mutual Union
Telegraph company was bravely
started to give the public cheap
rates in opposition to the Western
Union. But in the announcement
of only its second annual election,
which the Herald printed yester-
day, Mr.. Gould's name appears in
the list of directors, and notice il
quietly subjoined that henceforth,
under "new arrangement" the
Western Union is to control the
management" So the Mutual Union
goes the way of all its predecessors.
Gradually, with the assistance of
the mascotte, this great American
gobbler is gobbhng up pretty much
everything in the way of facilities
for the information and intercourse
of the people of the United States
railroads, both surface and ele-
vatedi legislatures, cables. tele-
graphs, anu even newspapers-eXs
cept the Herald and few of its con-
temporaries. But Mr.. Gould should
be warned by the fate of his prede-
cessor, Lorenzo XVII, prince of
Piombfno. His mascotte may some
day grow disgusted with him and
run off with her Pippo and get mar
ried, if he does not keep very care
ful eye on her.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-06-15

THE Irish judges, who are all
Wings aud Tories in sympathy with
the English policy and the Irish
landlord position, have denounced
the clause IN Gladstone's repression
bill which abolishes trial by jury
The protest has been disregarded by
Gladstone and he Las shown himself
unreasonable. The more the pre-
mier tries to compose Ireland by
mixed measures-h half-conciliatory
half brute-force-the farther off will
he be from pacification. He ha:
Dungled in abolishing trial by jury
That act hits the Irish judges, how
ever deep their sympathy may be
with the landlords, in a tender spot
1t will probably set them to think
ing seriously whether it would not
be better TO advocate home rule for
Ireland.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-06-15

ATTENTION is called TO the fact
that there are 9,945,916 families in
the United States. These use 25,-
100000 pairs of blankets, ten per
cent of which have TO be renewed
annually. The tariff laws impose a
tax of 72 to 9S per cent. Oh imported
blankets, while, were it not for this
tax, blankets would cost the con-
sumers less than So per pair. The
government imposes the tax on the
foreign made blankets and the
manufacturer collects the tax on the
home made blankets, and thus the
consumers have to pay about So .OOO,-
900 annually, not a dollar of which
goes into the treasury but is a mere
bounty to the manufacturer.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-06-15

The Baltimore journal of Com
merce continues To call attention to
the large profits Of southern manu-
iaclurers. The Augusta, Georgia,
cotton factory has paid all average
of IA l-2 per cent. dividends for sew
enteen years, and several mills have
recently paid profits of from 20 to 90
per cent. The southern mills save
from So to $3 per bale in freight and
have lighter expenses for heating,
cheaper raw material, abundance of
water power, cheap labor, cheap
living and some other advantages
over the New England manufacture
ers. 1t really looks as though, with
their facilities for combining agri-
culture aud manufactures, the south
ern states ought to grow rich more
rapidly than any other section of
the globe.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-06-15
Was il Beecherism!
GDemocrat-Adya

The editor of the Gainesville Hes
peTtdn has received letter from Os-
wego, Kansas, requesting infor-
nation concerning the past record
of "dirty, low-life, contemplate
villain by the name of IL. IL.
BrOokes." Many of our people will
remember this same Brookes as form
erly a pastor of st. Paups NJ. E.
church in this city, and as having
achieved considerable notoriety here
prior to his departure. 1t seems there
are those even in Kansas who cannot
stomach him.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-06-15
Energy and Pluck.

lCaldwell Register.
aived for permitting the volume OF
the currency to diminish through
allowing matters to take their course
they oppose such u settlement
Experience has abundantly demon
stratcd that the west will never con-
sent to a contraction of the currency
drn if the contractionists Offer
resistance to measures for protecting
the bank circulation, they will, in all
probability, enable the Greenback'
ers to control the settlement.
1t is, perhaps, too late for the
present session of congress to un-
dertake this question; but it is none
too early for men of moderate views
to unite their efforts for enforcing q
settlement at the next session.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-06-15
The Most TO be Made OF Il.
1RostOn Herald

The most we make out of the
latest explanation of Alexander
Stephens position in regard to the
governOrship of Georgia is that the
veteran statesman would like TO
close his career as governor of the
state he has served so long, and that
he would not object to the inde-
pendent votes, or Democratic votes,
negro votes, or any votes that will
count in his favor. This is perfect
ly natural and Legitimate ambition.
Mr. Stephens would make a good
governor, and, if the bourbons have
been frightened into taking HIM up,
the best thing the other voters can
do is to make it unanimous, and con-
centrate their fight upon getting an
honest and liberal legislature.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-06-15
How TO Cook Rice.

Rice Is becoming a much more
popular article of food than hereto
fore. 1t is frequently. substituted
for potatoes at the chief meal of the
day, being more nutritious and much
more readily digested. AT its pres
ent cost, it is relatively cheaper than
potatoes, oatmeal or grain-grits OF
any kind. In preparing it only just
enough cold water should be poured
on to prevent the rice from burning
at the bottom of the pot, which
should have close-fitting cover,
and with moderate fire the rice is
steamed rather than boiled until it
is nearly done; then the cover is
taken of, the surplus steam and
moisture allowed to escape, and the
rice turns out a mass of snow-white
kernels, each separate from the
other, and as much superior to the
usual soggy mass as fine mealy
potato is superior to the water
soaked article.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-06-15

THE STATESMAN is very warm
admirer of General Hancock, but it
is not exactly willing to see his Penn
sylvania friends use his name in the
state canvass simply to give him
prominence in the approach
ing presidential contest. Had
General Hancock carried Penn
sylvania by rousing majority
in 1880, then this talk would not be
an the nature of trihing with his
name. IL was held that his name on
the Democratic ticket would revo-
lutionize his state, and such pledge
was made at Cincinnati, but when
election day came there was a
greater Republican majority rolled
up in Pennsylvania than ever before.
Let Democrats be not too hasty with
men, but move carefully with meas
ures.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-06-15
Trouble Ahead.
CSan Antonio Express

Troubles in connection with the
public lands and the public land Of
flee are becoming complicated.
There can be little doubt, we feel
assured, that certificates, valueless
or not, cannot be withheld from rail-
road companies having track COM
pleted and inspected by state author
tiles previous TO the passage OF the
refunding act. But the idea of a
receiver for The land office is a novel
one and would present II novel situ-
a atinu
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-06-15

THE citizens of Brady, McCulloch
county. have organized what they
style the "Anti-Land Grabbers' asso-
citation" 1t seems that some one
has entered suit for the land upon
which the town of Brady is situated,
and Us the citizens consider the
claim is a spurious one, they have
prepared for an organized resistance
thereto. This land grabbing bust
ness should be stopped. 1t the
courts of the country do not meet all
the contingencies, society may or
ganize for its protection. The next
legislature should make it penal
ofiense for any person to render
lands for taxation, or to otherwise
meddle with titles, unless by au-
thOrily.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-06-15

AN exchange says most truthiully
that there is not workingman in
the country who believes that "pro-
lection advances wages" Wages
have not advanced in this country
since 1880, when the protectionists
were shrieking: "VOte for protec-
ton and high wages" They have
been reduced. Protection in its
extreme form is in operation in
China, and the lowest wages i'll the
world are paid there. Germany has
a high protective tariff, and Germans
are running away from their coun-
try, declaring that they cannot
make enough wages to keep soul
and body together. The protection
ist theory does not hold out.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-06-15


HERE is what the staunch aud wise
Philadelphia Record has to say about
the present labor troubles in Penn
sylvania: "The over production
which results from the over stimu-
iation of protected industries is
made more disastrous for the reason
that IL cannot be relieved by sending
the excessive product to foreign
markets. The same system that
encourages undue competitions at
home discourages or prevents tor
elgn trade. When we have piled up
our warehouses with high priced
commodities, we cannot expect to
get rid of them anywhere but in
the United States. The only rem
edy for the mischief is stoppages,
strikes and seasons of business dis
astsr. These continue until con-
consumption gets abreast of pro-
duction. Then the game Is played
over again."
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-06-15

THE spirit which has animOt ted the
Republican members of the house, in
indecent greed to seat Radical con-
testees of the legally elected oceu-
pants of seats from the south, Is now
to be accounted for. 1t seems that
the Republicans desire, before the
session ends, to rob The treasury in
various ways, aud to successfully
accomplish their purpose il is neces-
sary that they should be able to rely
at all times upon a quorum. This
could not be done while their major
ity was so meagre, and to make sure
of Il, it became necessary to unseat Il
certain number of Democrats and
to this Wash. Jones has given his
constant support.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-06-15
How To Make a Man Rich.
Texas Wool Grower.1

With wool selling at % to % cents
per pound, there is no investment in
the world that will beat sheep rails
ing. A man with a few thousand
dollars invested in well-imprOVed
sheep can rest assured that a few
years OF patience will make him a
rich man. He can calculate each
year just how many acres of land
he can buy and how many sheep he
will be able to Craze ON that land.
There is no speculation, as in some
other kinds of business. The sheep
grower is producing both meat and
clothes, and both are necessaries OF
life; cotton raising has proven an
Improbable business wooden fab
rlcs must take the place of cotton
goods. The demand will necessarily
increase as the country becomes
more settled. The world is produc-
ing people more rapidly than we can
produce meat and clothes to feed
and cover them with. A good flock
of sheep well cared for will pay
more than ten times as much clear
money than the same amount of
money would if invested in cotton
raising. West Texas can be made
the richest country in the world if
her people will make up their minds
to produce the clothing and meat
for the world by raising only fleece
growing animals.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-06-15

A VERY competent man of large
experience was lately appointed as
proof reader in the government
printing Office at Washington; but
not being printer, the typos of the
mammoth concern, being union print
ers, met and objected to his appoint
ment. Because of this a resolution
has been introduced in the senate,
proposing to inquire and report as to
whether Uncle Sam or the union is
running the concern. Should the
union be at the head of the thing, it
is possible these printers may here
after be left to provide work and
remuneration for themselves.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-06-15
How TO Keep Them Going.
CDallas Times.

The Mexican, or Count Telfener's
road, will stop building as soon as
it arrives at Victoria. This deplora-
BILE state OF affairs springs from the
fact that the legislature proposed,
by an act, to stop giving away the
public domain to corporations. All
the public domain wing already
been given 10 corporations. Count
Teltener ought not to get "riled" be-
cause we can't give what we haven't
got. Rather than wound the feelings
of railroads, we would suggest that
an act of congress be passed (there
are plenty of railroad lawyers in
congress) giving to these corpora
tions part of Mexico.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-06-15


THE Greenback party Is a pro-
gressive party. 1t started of with
the doctrine that the government
should set a score. of presses to
running and turn of greenbacks by
the car-load-not promises to pay.
but fat money, not that a bill be
good for Eve or ten or twenty dol
lars OF more or less, as the case
might be. bat that @this is five dol
lars" "this is ten dollars" and so
through the SERIES This was the
Greenbsck doctrine, the necessity
which gave rise to the party, aud its
apostles howled for 1t throughout
the land. This doctrine did
not carry state and fed
eral elections, and therefore
there was demand for changes, and
they have been made from lime to
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-06-15
out of Darkness into Light.
Houston POst.1

The Houston electric light and
power company, to which fran
chise to operate in this city was
granted by the city council on Mon.
day, is an organization that was
chartered some weeks ago by Messrs
E. Raphael, ID. F. Stuart and A
Groesbeck, OF this city, and which
has for its object the establishment
of an electric light system in Hous-
ton.
Mr.. E. Raphael will go east this
week TO investigate some of the diff
ferent systems of electric lights now
in use, with the object of selecting
that best adapted to this city. He
thinks to be able to have the electric
light i'll operation here the coming
fall
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-06-15
A few years ago large farms were
all the rage in England. Small hold

A few years ago large farms were
all the rage in England. Small hold
ings were secuted, and confident
predictions were made that they
would share the fate of the hand
loom and the spinning wheel. Now
the tide has turned, and it is running
as strongly in the other direction.
Large farms cannot be let; small
holdings are snapped up at once.
According to Land, there is all
through the west and the midlands,
the keenest competition for small
farms, and men who a few ears ago
were in possession of farms of two
hundred or two hundred and fifty
acres, without possessing the capital
necessary for their proper cultiva-
tion, are now taking farms of forty
or fifty acres, upon which, if they
have less capital than they had five
or six years ago, they will have a
larger capital in proportion to their
holding, and better security than
'theyhad to encourage them in the
free use of their capital and skill
alike. An agricultural, if not an
agrarian, revolution, is thus going
on silently, which can hardly fail
profoundly to modify both the po-
'lItical and social condition of Eng
lish rural rife.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-06-15
The Treacherous Pistol.


Late Monday evening, the fifth
lust, the news reached Brennan that
Miss Carrie Mason, an estimable
young lady, living on New Year
creek, five miles north of here. had
died from the accidental discharge
of a pistol, in her own hands. The
facts are, as near as we can learn
them, as follows; She had just
arisen from the dinner table and
passed into an adjoining room, where
pistol was lying, belonging to her
brother. She picked it up, fired one
shot out of an open window, and,
being very near-sighted, had her
head bent down near the muZZle ex.
aiming it, when it went off. the ball
entering the forehead, about an
inch above the junction of the eye
brows. The shot was instantly fatal,
she falling dead. The pistol that
caused her death was a self-cocking
one.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-06-15
VOL. XII.

time in localities in a vain attempt
10 create influence. The last Green
back declaration is in the Maine
platform, lately adopted, where it is
said, "that the national debt may be
speedily extinguished, we favor a
full and unlimited coinage of gold
and silver" In Maine the Green
hackers depend upon fusion with
Democrats to carry elections, and
hence they adopt Democratic doc
trines; and therefore they abandon
every Greenback principle.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-06-15

Soluble glass has not yet found all
the applications to which it may be
used. Mixed with lime it forms.
when dry, u compact stone similar
to marble. An analogous product
is obtained when il is mixed with
bone ashes, zine white and magne-
sia. RansoH's artificial stone Is
prepared by mixing sand with solu-
BILE glass 50 as TO obtain a compact
mass, which is pressed into moulds
and then put into a solution of
chloride Of calcium. Silicate of
lime is thus formed, which acts as a
cement, whilst the chloride of
sodium which forms is eliminated
by washing in water. Together
with clay, lime, sand, cement, ETC.,
soluble glass finds application in the
manufacture of tiles, states, decora-
tive stones, etc. 1t is also used in
the manufacture of common soap.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-06-15

The Massachusetts, legislature,
during the session just ended, passed
q bill to prevent the adulteration of
food aud drugs. The bill authorizes
the expenditure of $4,000 annually to
enforce its provisions, and provides
that the term "food," as used IN the
act, shall include every article used
for food or drink by man.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-06-15

LIEUTENANT COMMANDER COR
RINGER denies the report that the
obelisk is beginning to disintegrate'
and says it has been started by two
men, one of whom wants to cover il
with a patent paint, and the other to
move il to his museum.