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The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-12-14
Difference as to Color.


The love of the Republican party
for the negro has just had charao-
teristic illustration in Pulaski county,
Illinois. The Republican party Of
that section depends upon negro
votes for its supremacy. Indeed, the
majority in the next general assembly
has been secured by the negro votes Of
the southern tier of Illinois counties.
1t might naturally be supposed that a
negro would be just as good as a
white Republican thereaway; but
such a supposition would not be
true, as the following fact proves:
w. II. Harris, an influential and intel
Hgent colored man, was candidate
for county clerk on the Republican
ticket for Pulaski county. The Re
publicans carried the county by ma
jority of 410 on the state ticket, and
Harris, the negro, was-elected? Not
muchl Hew beaten by $50 majority.
Oh, how the Republican party does
love the negroes? After such treat
ment any respectable darkey in Pulas-
XII county who votes the Republican
ticket ought to have head put on
him. AS it is in Pulaski county so it
is throughout the country.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-12-14
Eleanor Calhoun.

The American young lady who has
suddenly dropped down upon London
as a sort of rival to Mrs. Langtry, on
the stage merely, will not he much
disappointed to ind that she has not
taken the town quite by storm. Her
name is Miss Calhoun. and she
thought proper, no doubt for good
reasons of her own, TO appear In the
very parts which Mrs. Langtry has
recently assumed: those of Rosalind
and Hester Grazebrook. How she got
company together to act in these
plays is mystery, but certain Il is
that such companies are seldom seen
in the metropolis. Miss Calhoun,
i hear on all sides, made fayora-
bic impression personally, and
has been very civilly treated by the
newspapers, but she appears to be al
most an amateur, and one cannot but
admire her courage in tackling"
London before she had even been
heard Of anywhere else, in this coun-
try at least. When she next appears
before the public it is to be hoped
that she will be supported by few
actors and actresses who know some
thing about their business, and not bv
such wretched bundle Of old sticks
as we have seen with her at the I'M
perial theatre. However, the critics
have been good-natured. and it seemed
that they were by no means so toward
Miss Fannie Davenport when she was
performing In London lately
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-12-14
MISCELLANEOUS MATTERS.

A veterinary surgeon states as :
fact that horses suffer from malaria.
Lewis Cass, John c. Calhoun, Mar
tin Van Buren and Daniel Webster
were all born in 1S72-100 years ago.
About five-sevenths of the servant
girls in every city consult fortune
tellers, and if they are told to smash
crockery, burn the meat and leave
streaks in the washing, they feel il
safest to obey.
y Nebraska clergyman, who
wouldn't accept two gallons of whisky
for marrying couple, had to go with
out any fee at all. The bridegroom
said he'd be hanged if Parker county
wasn't getting altogether too tony fol-
a common man to live in.
The Egyptian lawyers refused to
defend Arab Bey, which goes to show
that there was no truth in the report
that Arab had stolen a large amount
OF money. If he had money, the
Egyptian lawyers would have fought
for the privilege of being retained as
his counsel.
A lady proprietor of a boarding
house not 100 miles from Boston, SAYS
the Advertiser is afflicted with a
nature too delicately strung for this
world. She invariably speaks of heI
boarders as her "remunerative guests.
This is almost as good as Mr.. Micaw-
ber's 'stipendiary emoluments."
A family of Madison, Ohio, nineteen
years ago purchased paper of pins.
When pin was used 1t was taken
from the paper, and after it had served
its purpose was replaced. If a pin
was lost general search was made
until it was found. In this way the
one paper of pins has kept the family
supplied for nineteen years.
once upon time an editor in search
of food was compelled to pawn his
diamond shirt-5tudS for a LOAF of bread
While conveying the humble meal to
his castle hungry DOG ran off with it.
and few moments later robbers re-
lleved the editor OF his gold watch and
SSO In money. Instead OF being ratified
by these untoward incidents the editor
Slnlnngly remarked: Il thank thegods
L have SClu my appetite left" Weare
taught by this faDle that true content
menC Is the greatest OF all journalistic
DoOnS.
The highth of the ridiculous was
thought To have been reached somt
time ago in Canada, when young
Ladies" considered it a privI-
lege to be the purchasers OF the
water in which Ii. X. II. Prince Oh
Wales had washed his godlike fingers.
But it wasn't. In New \ ork are to
be found young nondescrlpts who
have brlDed Mrs. Langtrys laundreSs
to sell them small articles OF apparel
that have been worn by the Angelic
Langtry herself. 1t is said, ahd 1t is
To be hoped that it is true, that the
said launureSSeS are inst smart enough
to keep themselves nDerally supplied
with new articles OF wear, which Mrs.
Langtry never saw, and sell them Tor
fabulous sums to the poor fools to
whom Langtry stocking, collar OF
cum is OF more value IMAM brains
would be.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-12-14
Mad Struggle for Protection.
tKansas City Times. ]

The carrying trade from and to the
single port Oh New York is worth
Sl1UUUU,UU0 annually. A great pOr-
ton ot THIS money passes into 1orelgn
hands, and should aIways DO counted
as so much gold exported. In the
midst OF great production OF our farms.
our mills and factories, a strlngency
comes upon the money market sIeadl-
ly and surely. No one can tell exactly
the cause. There does not seem TO be
any tangible reason. This silent drain
is not noticed 1t Is hidden from our
immediate view. 1t cuts no tgure in
our trade balances, but it is Us relent-
less as tate. 1t sweeps away all the
exported value OF our wheat fields, OF
which we are 50 justly proud. In our
mad struggle Tor protection, we have,
IN abandoning commerce,
Like the base Indian, threw away pearl
hlcller tnan all Ills tribe"
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-12-14
PERSONAL.

Minister Sargent is said to be tired
of diplomatic duty at Berlin.
H. n. Gallagher. the oldest editor in
the two Virginias, is seriously ill at
CharleStown. West Virginia.
Mrs. Stowe, the author of "Uncle
Toms Cabin" is said to be regarded in
some English circles as a colored wo-
man.
Reuben r. Springer's last act of
benefcence is to give the Cincinnati
college of music an endowment of
$4,000.
1t is said that when Mrs. Langtry
was told that Miss Blanche Roosevelt
had been mistaken for her she replied,
with languid egotism: is she really
so very beautifully"
Colonel Robert G. Ingersoll has ac-
cepted the invitation of the literary
societies of the Kansas state university
to deliver the annual Grafton before
them next June.
Simeon Lathrop. of Bozrah, Connec-
ticut, celebrated his ninetieth birthday
anniversary few days ago in the
house where he was born. Thedwell-
ing was built by his grandfather more
than century ago.
Peter H. Sylvester, who died in Cox
sackie, New York, on Wednesday,
was one of the oldest of ex-cOngress-
men, having reached the age of seven
ty-siX years. He served as a New
York representative as long ago as
1847.
Lewis D. Campbell, who died re-
Gently in Hamilton, Ohio, at the age
of seventy-one years, figured promi-
nently in the history of the country.
For many years before the war
he was a member of congress and
after the war he also was elected rep
resentative, beating Gen. Schenck. He
was colonel of an Ohio regiment
during the war aud subsequently
served as minister to Mexico.
When Henry d. Clayton, Jr., and
Miss Jennie Allen were married at
Montgomery, Alabama, a few days
ago, the families of two distinguished
comrades in the Confederate service
were united. The father of the bride
is Maj. Gen. w. w. Allen and the
father of the groom Maj. Gen. Clay
ton. They entered the service as col
onels, the former of the first Alabama
cavalry and the latter of the first Ala
hama infantry
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-12-14
A New Era.


A new era IN JournalIsln has dawned.
(How original y Inc modern news
papers do not go into long and pro-
found disqulsitlons on the transInigra-
ton Of cheese mites, or learned essays
on the infallibilIty OF yellow jackets,
as OF yore, but seek to provoke the
mirth OF their readers 10y the use Of
ridicule and sarcasm. Cynicism,
rather than wisdom, is seen on nearly
every page of the secular press. The
day Is coming, too, when We may ex-
pect to hear the preacher in the pulpit
cracking jokes and pointing out the
ludicrous scenes that must have been
enacted in Bible history, for this art
of saying funny things is called
genius, and there Is money to be made
at it; therefore every man who knows
a joke nearly breaks his neck to get 1t
into print. He forgets that there will
be a time when he will have some
thing to do besides laugh.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-12-14
THE seguin Times thinks Governor.

THE Seguin Times thinks Governor
elect Ireland owes much to the press
of the state. AS for that. ali our pub
lie men owe much to the press. The
papers make successful public men,
and then unmake them, when
necessary. For instance, in the late
canvass of men for gubernatorial
nomination the STATEsNAN took up
the cudgel for Judge Ire
land in an intensely Roberts
section. and in a short time Travis and
= whole block of counties about it in
structed for Ireland. An honestly
conducted newspaper finding its way
every day and every week to hosts of
readars is a most powerful engine for
moulding public opinion. What a re-
spons;bDity rests upon tho shoulders
of editors. They should be caretnI IN
use their influence. under al circpm-
stances, for the greatest public good:
and that was why the STATESMAN
urged the nomination and election Of
Ireland for governor.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-12-14

THIEBLIN. the foreign financial
critic, says: "The country has been
building railroads of late at the rate
of 1000 miles per month. Taking the
cost of every mile at $4,000, some
S6OO,OO0,OO0 have thus been expended
for no better purpose than enriching
the promoters of the companies, for
most of the newly built roads run
through wild regions which do not as
yet warrant the existence of any rail-
road at all. That sum makes pei
capita contribution of over S11 fol
every man, woman and child living in
this country. The British crown costs
the United Kingdom about four cents
per capita year.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-12-14

A WASHINGTON special to the Chi
cago Tribune states that a gentleman
who has made pretty thorough can
vass of the southern Democratic con-
gressmen, declares their programme
viii be to encourage all the debate
possible on the subjects of the reduc-
ton of internal revenue taxes and a
modification of the tariff, but they
win not permit, if they can help it,
any changes in the internal revenue
system this winter, and viii unitedly
oppose the proposition to entirely
abolish the internal revenue laws.
The reason assigned for such a line
of policy is that the southern Demo-
Gratis desire to make the question of
tariff and taxation an issue on which
the presidential election in 1884 shall
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-12-14
A Pleasant "GOOd Morning."

Don't forget to say good morning.
Say it to your parents, your brothers,
your sisters, your schoolmates, your
teachers-and say it cheerfully and
with smile; it will do you good and
your friends good. There's kind OF
inspiration in every good morning
heartily spoken that helps to make
hope tresher and work lighter. 1t
seems really to make the morning
good and to be a prophecy of good
DAY to come after it. And if this be
true of the good morning." it is 50
also of kind, heartsOme greetings.
They cheer the discouraged, rest the
tired one, somehow make the wheels
of life run more smoothly, BE liberal
with them, then, and let no morning
pass, however dark and gloomy it may
he, that you do not help at least to
brighten by your smiles ard cheerful
words
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-12-14

on his entire cotton crop-enough to
pay all his direct taxes, and probably
more. This would not be all he
would save. There would be a saw
ing in reduced prices on everything he
would have to buy. The cotton
planters alone of the south would be
saved between S20OO0,OOO and $780,
100000 annually-enough money to
construct railway from the Atlantic
seaboard to Texas. AS the cotton
producers would be saved, money 80
would all the producers and consul
mers of the country be corresponding
ly relieved. Here are the farmers
abusing the railway companies, or
ganizing against them, legislating as
to rates of railway tariff, and at the
same time leaving these companies at
the mercy of an iniquitous ring, which
has robbed the people of this country
in the last twenty years of scores OF
billions in money, and yet we hear
it said the people would not sub
NIT to different system of taxation;
that the country would not stand any
decided change. There are to-day in
this country about 55,OOoOoo of people.
Out of this vast population there are
less than 100000 at all interested in
high protective duties. Fifty millions
people demand the execution of re-
forms proposed by the Democratic
party, and now a few thousand men
who would control the affairs of the
country with money contributed to
private persons out of the hard earned
receipts of the working masses, are
raising this mighty dust about inter
nal revenue relief, that the popular vi
sion as to their enormities may be i'm
haired
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-12-14

The mortality statistics of the cen
sus give the deaths in the census year
as Tot, ,893-a death rate of ISL to the
thousand, against 12.5 in the census of
1860 and 12.8 in the census of 1870.
This advance is due to greater accura-
cy in the returns, which are still about
~ per cent out of che way, as a COM
parison between the returns as made
Dy enumerators in two states-Mas-
Sachusetts and New Jersey-and
twenty-one cities, including Philadel-
phia, where a careful local register of
deaths is kept, shows that the enumer-
ators missed from 26 to A per cent of
tho deaths. If this deficiency is taken
as 30 per cent at the outside, the
total mortality will be 1872 per one
thousand. In the two states mention
ed, by adding the additional deaths fur
nished by physicians (61 ,020) through
the country, the deficiency in the cen
sus returns as compared with the local
statistics is reduced to 16 per cent, so
that the actual deficiency may be less
than 30 per cent; but, all things con-
sidered, probably is not. At 1872 per
cent the death rate compares favor
ably with that in most civilized coun-
tries. In England, for 1880, the
rate was 20.5 in the rural
districts, 1876; in Scotland, in the
year 1873, 2l.3; and in the mainland
rural group" 17.3. The colored death
rate in twelve southern states is the
largest in the country-17.22 per thou
sand, against 14.04 for the whites Of
the same region, If the same allow
ance is made for error here as has al
ready been made, of a 80 per cent de-
ficiency, the colored death rate will be
raised to between 22 and % per one
thousand, while that of the country is
between IL and 10 as the extreme
limits of error. Consumption is the
cause of the largest number of deaths
IL per cent-the proportion in the
cities being larger than in the country.
Diphtheria and typhoid fever are, on
the other hand, most frequent in the
rural districts.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-12-14

A NEW penal code has just gone
into effect in New York. 1t consists
mainly of the old laws put into a
more condensed and convenient form.
The press and the people seem to be
surprised that it makes many New
York practices, that have heretofore
gone unpunished, criminal offenses,
The laws against gambling, lotteries.
etc., are especially severe, and if en-
forced there will be CONSERVATION in
clubs and lottery policy offices.
Strange to say, while all kinds of
petty gambling are made criminal
offenses, there is nothing said about
the immensely worse kinds of gam
bling in stocks, provisions and every
thing that is dealt with largely in
business circles.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-12-14
Standing to Principles.

Judge John Hancock, congressman
elect from the tenth congressional
district, has won the greatest victory
OF them all. He stood up for the
principles OF the Democratic party,
especially on the subject OF the JarIII,
against very strong protective tarin
sentiment among the sheep men
men OF that district, the Re
puDlican-Greenback element, and, per-
maps, the HuDbeu barl. Judge Han
COCKS bold and uneqLiyocal advocacy
OF tariff reform carried conviction to
even many OF the sheep men OF the
district and completely overcame
every other opposition. He was elect
ed over ex-GOv. L. j. Davis by large
majority.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-12-14

SR. WALKER, of Kane comfy, Hi.
nois, recently elected to the legislature
and quoted in the reports asa Republi'
can, has determined to stand aloof from
the Republican caucus, which creates
considerable commotion IN political
circles in Springfield. The word goes
out that there is none to spare, and
that if one sheep strays away sthe
house cannot organize to suit the Re
publicans. Mr.. Walker wants to die
tate the organization of temperance
committee, one that will aid with fa-
vorable recommendation all PROPOSE.
tions for temperance legislation, and
measure looking to the submission to
the people of temperance constitu-
tional amendment.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-12-14
great many northern members.

THE Cincinnati News, in relation tc
the proper policy to be pursuedin con-
gress concerning revenue reforms
says: The proposed reductions of in
ternal revenue taxes, as they are now
indicated by the Republican leaders
are not only wholly inadequate, not
at all compliance with the demands
of the public in the recent elections
but involve a serious increase in the
ratio of expense to collections. The
reduction of one-half would leave the
machinery of the system intact
or nearly so. The expense en-
tailed for collections of half will
not be materially reduced; more
over it is not alone reduction of taxa
tion and expense of collection that is
demanded. The entiresystem, as it is
is undemocratic, vexatious, and cor
rupting. 1t is precisely for the reason
that it would retire a vast multitude
of officials and party bosses that the
party would commit the blunder of re-
ducing collections, leaving the entire
machinery to stand. They can not ex.
pect Democracy to aid in this, or tC
fail to protest against it. They may
expect Democracy to vote for any wise
measure which will prove beneficial tC
the country.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-12-14

THERE appears to be very strong
impression in the minds of those who
watch the progress of affairs at the
mouth of the Brazos river that the
engineer in charge, Col. Mansfield, is
laboring to retard the removal of the
bar instead of doing that which the
government has intended. There can
be no doubt that deep water can be
secured on this bar, and the citizens
of that section should lay their COM
plants where they might do some good
Col. Mansfield has spoken positively
as to the possibility of removing the
bar, and unless he meets public ex-
peectation, based on his own opinions
somebody else should be placed in
charge of the work. Col. Mansfield
looks after the works at Galveston
but somebody might say we are un-
just if it should be intimated that his
intimate connection with the deep
water family on Galveston Island
makes him slight other coast improve
ments.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-12-14

OWING, as it is reported, to scar
city of orders the North Carolina steel
rail mills shut down. About 1900 men
were thrown out of employment by
this action. The mills at South Chi
cago, operated by the same company,
and those of the Union iron and steel
company at Bridgeport, will continue
to run for the present. The Joliet
iron and steel company shut down a
portion of their works at Joliet, leav-
ing 700 men idle. And yet we are
told duty of S2S per ton on steel rails
is imposed to protect and give en-
ployment to the laborer.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-12-14

THE Democratic majority in Wis
consin on congressman is 1894. Every
one of the Democratic candidates
made his fight against protection.
The result indicates a popular awak-
ening upon the question of legalized
snOliatiOn
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-12-14
Ingenuity Exhausted.
1Cincinnati News.1

The Republicans have exhausted
their ingenuity to discover and set out
the cause of their defeat. Every Re
publican organ and politician has fur
nished cause which each has deemed
adequate. We are inclined to think
they are all right about it, each from
his own standpoint testifying to some
shortcoming, defect, omission, or COM
mission of which he was conscious.
Take them altogether for the month
past since the election, and the real
cause viii be found in the aggregate,
and sum of the particulars, furnishing
cause enough, in heavens name, to
swamp any party under the sun.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-12-14
Processes have recently been patent

Processes have recently been patent
ed in Paris for making red and white
wines from red and white beets, that
are said to be equal in every respect
to many wines of the grape. The
roots may be used raw, but it has been
found better to cook them. Perfectly
sweet and clean roots are chosen
which, after being cooked, are reduced
to pulp. The juice is then pressed out
and strained and put into vessels OF
wood or cement, but not of metal, with
a certain quantity of water, if de
sired, to ferment. This process is
aided by admitting steam or hot
water through serpentine coils placed
in the receivers and adding some of
the ordinary ferments and alcohol ac-
cording to the degree of strength that
is wanted. After fermentation, the
whole is strained with tannin. The
wine obtained by this process is said
to possess all the properties of wine
from grapes, and is treated hence
forth like grape wine.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-12-14
Its Hands Tied.

The recent lease of the penitentiary
incurs sharp criticism in some quar-
tiers. Perhaps there is cause. to some
extent. for this. On the other hand
it should be remembered that the
board had its hands tied, in a meas
ure, by regulations that may he modi-
fled by legislative enactments alone.
The legislature will meet very soon,
when an intelligent discussion Of the
the whole matter can be had and re-
medal action applied. Legislators
should post themselves iu the interim
and go to Austin prepared to try and
act intelligently.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-12-14
The Son OF His Father.

Major Ochiltree, who is the son of
his father, as we have been repeatedly
informed by himself and the Calves
ton News, has been interviewed. He
spreads himself in a grandiloquent
manner, quotes Shakespeare and the
Bible, mathematics the interior press
and makes himself solid with his fish
monger constituency. He speaks OF
the said press rs 1.-The 2x4 patent out
side press" and borrows the "curs of
low degree" 20 express his contempt
for them. This ''son of his father"
shows one good trait of character. lie
is manly enough not TO disgrace his
other blood relations by mentioning
the relationship.