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The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-12-28

4 CHAMPION of woman's suffrage
has been looking up woman's common
law right to vote, and finds plenty OF
authority with which to fortify the
position that they should enjoy the
elective franchise. An authority pro-
nounced a former woman's suffrage
bill unconstitutional, and declared
that at common law women had no
vote and no political status. A re-
cent explorer of records and law books
has found that from the time of Will
liam the Conqueror the records show
that women not only voted at
English elections, but sat as members
and voted in both houses of parlia-
ment; that the house of commons and
the court of kings bench have ex-
pressly decided that as a principle OF
law and natural justice women are
entitled to vote on the same terms as
men, and that Blackstone, writing
soon after the highest British court 50
settled the law, recognizes this princi-
pie by emitting sex from his list OF
common law qualifications for suf-
frage. Therefore, to put the ballot
lawfully in women's hands it is only
necessary to abolish the custom OF
counting them out of elections and re-
pealing few election statutes.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-12-28

The investigation of the Keely mo-
tor company seems to have been
crowned with success; at least there
is just now regular boom for the
motor. The investigating expert was
successful and now 500 horsepower
engine is being constructed, which,
when completed, will be used to de-
monstrate the discovery. Water, it
seems, in its natural state will lie used
rs the source of the force generated,
and by vibrato y action it is disinte-
grated so thai an expansive gas is
evolved, which is the source of the
mechanical power. The definition is
very vague, and if mechanical power
can be evolved in this way the prin-
ciple may be the foundation of new
theory of storms and cyclones. So
far, the causes that produce them and
the laws that govern them are not
known. If the Keely motor is not
wholly humbug, and the expert has
not stood in" with the inventor to
make raid on the stockholders of the
company. the scientific world may be
on the eve of discovery that may
break a good many idols that have
long been worshiped.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-12-28
A Wedding Interrupted.
ATLANTA constitutional


BY the way, Ballard Smith tells a
story of a North Carolina wedding.
1t runs this way: 1t was in the Car
Dina backwoods, a country couple and
a country parson. Though Baptist,
the minister wore an old surplice.
When he had finished the ceremony he
said:
AN them'uns God hath joined
"Stop thar, parson," said the groom;
don't say them'uns, says these'unsP'
John" said the parson, IL tech you
at school, and say them'uns."
"These'uns," shouted the groom,
drawing his pistol.
The parson seeing the movement
fired through his surplice and the
groom dropped dead-winging the
parson as he went down. There was
a lively fusilade of perhaps thirty
shots. When the smoke cleared away
a half dozen men were on the floor.
The bride, peeping over the pulpit to
which she had fled for refuge, gazed
mournfully on the scene and said:
Them a-self-cockin' pistols is a
playin hell with my prospecksP'
OF course the story is an impossible
one, and yet said Mr.. Smith: THAT is
the staple story of the south that is
circulated and believed throughout the
north. While such thing could hard
" have happened in North Carolina,
any more than in New York, the av-
erage northern man smiles incredu-
lousy when you tell him that this
performance is improbable at Caro-
lima wedding"
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-12-28
The Government Clock.
american Register. ]


Henry Clay Dean, noted for his Elk
traordinary force OF intellect and ca
pacity to tell what he thinks, says that
Democratic doctrines taught by
Thomas jefferson are the only relia-
bic basis of free government, and the
Democratic organization is the only
one which has made a direct warfare
upon government monopolies. 1t
abolished primogeniture, entails, i'm
prisonment for debt, property qualifi-
cations for Office and for the right of
suffrage. Under Democratic adj
ministration there has not been
suppression of a newspaper.
never an arbitrary arrest, never a sup
preston of the habeas corpus, never
a declaration of martial law but once;
then it was by Gen. jackson on the
eve of the battle of New Orleans. for
which he was fined by Judge Hill,
when the general meekly paid his fine.
Under Democratic rule there was
never revenue law which established
a system of spies, detectives and pub
lie informers. The federal govern
ment under a Democratic administra-
ton never chartered corporation.
Mr.. Dean might have gone further
and stated that the pendulum of popu-
lar passion, which was thrust violently
towards the utmost point of centrali-
cation and Imperialism by hostility to
seceSsionism, now moves backwards to-
wards Jeffersonian repubIicanism.
Thehands of the clock-work of govern
ment will soon designate the hour
when the republic of our fathers will
be reproduced; when the people. as
eontrard distinguished from banks, cor
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-12-28
PERSONAL.

Alexander Faribault, who died at
Faribault, Minnesota, was the Oldest
settleri in that state, and the founder
of the city that bears his name.
Mrs. Custer has presented to Custer
Post, G.. A. R., of Chicago, hat once
worn by General Custer. She has re-
Gently been made an honorary member
of the post.
John Crunden, the alleged crank who
was arrested for writing a letter
threatening the Prince of Wales and
Mr.. Gladstone, has been committed in
London for trial.
1t is said that Senator David Davis
of Illinois, owns a 800 acre sheep farm
in Georgia well covered with blue
grass, and ON which 1000 excellent
sheep are grazing.
1t is reported that Emma Abbott
has had another experience similar to
the one she was said to have had in
Baltimore, and has been nearly Rugged
to death by another lunatic. We fear
that all persons are not lunatics who
are charged with hugging Emma.
Mr.. j. +. Olmstead, a member of
Boss shepherds ring, has been nomi-
mated by the president as Commission
er for the District of Columbia. The
people victimized by Boss Shepherds
real estate pool are opposing his CON
tirmation- Cannot Mr.. Arthur find
clean men enough in what left of
the grand old party" to in these
officesY
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-12-28

porations and railway magnates, ag-
grandized by base uses to which the
government has been subordinated.
will shape the laws. Then it will be a
re-discoyered fact that disagreement
was instituted by the people, for the
people, and was never designed as
monStrous piece of involved mechan-
ism employed in wrestling more than
four hundred millions of money annu-
ally from popular toll, to be absorbed
by place-holders, when, at the same
time, a sum three-fold greater, by the
same indirect processes of taxation, is
trust into the pockets of protected"
classes. 1t is time that the clock of
public policy, as it has been running
for twenty years, were turned back
ward and regulated" A great re-
form is needed for every secOnd-mark
on its face.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-12-28
PURIFY THE JURY BOX.
Better Execution of the Laws Needed.
Texas Wool Grower.1

l1CAelo hOOl GIONtT.l
The number of murders occurring
IN the state, the deeds OF outIaWry
committed almost daily, demands OIL
the good citizens Sterner determina-
ton TO see that the laws are executed
to see that criminals are punished.
The very TACT that d man carries d SIX
shooter should be strong evidence
against MIN In any criminal prosecu-
ton. Pick up a morning paper and
look over the kilograms see the az
ray OF deaths by the SIX-Snooter, then
ask yourself il the reputation OF the
state can be improved While such
state OF things exist. We have lived
III the state more than a quarter OF d
century, most OF the time On the from
tier, and we had hoped that the
day OF outlawTy and murders had
passed. The killing OF A. W. Lewis,
near PleaSanton, and Of Henry Wei
der, IN Bee county, are but TWO OF the
many lnStanceS.OI murders that have
occurred lately IN this tree country.
Both OF these men were cattle men,
and both OF them were found deau,
murdered by some unknown parties.
we have laDOred harl to build up the
stock interests OF the state, TO Inspire
confidence In the business, Win d
view to bringing foreign capital into
the country anu increase the wealth
OF Texas. We have done ali
that we could to put down
the carrying OF arms. We have
asked the governor OF the state to USE
mis- power, Us the chief executive, To
stop the habit of carrying slx-shoot-
ers, and We Will go still further, anu
say to our good IaW-aUidlng citizens
that they must do what the law has
thus far failed to do-they must SET
tnat the JurleS of the country are
composed OF only good men, men who
Will dare do their uuty regardless Oh
threats or brides. 1t Is only by purI-
lying the jury boxes that we can nope
To rlu the frontier OF the state OF sci
OF reckless men, who are lnJurIng the
state by preventing foreign capitaI
from investing IN our lands and STOCK.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-12-28
THE FUTURE LIFE.
A Catholic Priest on Ingersolps
Viawo
[Philadelphia Record. ]

No one who has ever heard Inger-
soil lecture will deny that he is rare
orator. His word-painting is wonder
full, his eloquence enhancing. Thus
far in his crusade against Christi
anity this skeptic has appeared in the
eyes of his followers a giant against
plgmieS. He has encountered an adj
versary, however, seemingly in every
way his equal, even in his own pecu-
iarities of rhetoric, to judge from the
following extract from sermon de-
livered on last Sunday, on the occa-
sion of the dedication of the Church
of the Annunciation at Kansas City.
Mo-, by Rev. Father David S. Phelan,
well known as the editor of the West
ern Waterman. Having asserted that
1.-The idea of the soul and the faith in
its immortality must have come down
from above, as earth could not have
taught it, nor could death have in
spired it, the reverend father said:
eff there is no hereafter, then life is
one long debauch, and the highest ed
ucation is to know how to find and
how best to enjoy pleasure. If there
is no hereafter, virtue is deceit and
heroism is lie. See that young man
bleeding from hundred wounds. He
died in defense of sisters honor. If
there is no hereafter, that noblest of
deeds will go forever unrewarded. See
that young sister in the hospital bend
ing over victim of the plague; to-
morrow she will succumb, and rapid
ride and hasty sepulture will reward
her devotion. If there is no hereafter
her charity met sorry requital. See
that man holding an affrighted child
at the window Of burning building.
He holds it long enough for sturdy
companion to grasp it from below, and
then he falls back into his fiery tomb.
If there is no hereafter, such sacrifice
is heartless and unmeaning cruelty. See
that troop of soldiers marching by to
the beating of the drum. Their country
has called, and they go to defend her
honor on the battlefield. They follow
that flag into the thick OF
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-12-28

The corn crop this year is estimated
at 1,6S0,OO0,000 bushels, against 1884,
$4,000 bushels in 1881. The latest es-
innate of the wheat crop of the season
of 1882 is 100000 bushels, as against
380, $4,000 in 1881. The value of do
nestle exports for the fiscal year ended
June 30, 1882, S733, 239, 1872, against
$685., 925, 947 during 1881; falling off
of S150,686,2l5. This is due almost
entirely to the failure of the crops
of the country during the season of
1881, a result attributable to
the drought and other unfavorable
meteorological influences which pre-
vailed so extensively throughout the
country during that season. The i'm
ports during the fiscal year were S724,-
639, 574-larger than during any pre-
vious year in the history of the coun-
tro. The number of tons transported
on the fifteen leading railroads of the
United States the last fiscal year was
81, Us, l6O, as against 84.199, 344 tons
during the preceding fiscal year. The
railroad mileage of the United States
January l, 1852, was lO4 ,8l3 miles.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-12-28

The Baltimore Herald. Republican.
is reminded by the course Of congress
shat the people. after the lesson
taught in the late elections. looked for
earnest, effective work. 1t concludes
that the people are doomed to disap-
pointment. and that this body Of ma
tional lawmakers. who have already
incurred so much odium, and have
been the subject Of such severe criti-
cism, are determined to follow out
their own inclinations regardless of
public sentiment. The people seldom
make mistakes, and in the disposition
they made OF the majority of the
present congress they have shown
bow exccllept was their Judgment.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-12-28
THE SOUTHERN STATES.

j. j. Shepperd, general merchant
has failed for S2o,UOU at IndSonia, Ar
kansas.
Mrs. G. Anderson, aged seventy-six
years, fell down stairs at New Or
leans, and was killed.
A factory for making Illuminating
and lubrlcating oil out of cotton seeu
has been started at New Orleans.
OF siXty-one prisoners working out
lines IN the chaIn-gang on the streets
Oh Atlanta, tWenty-seyen are. women.
New Orleans is recognized as a pop
ular winter resort 1or professional
DeggarS, and Is now oVerrun with
them.
The cane crop of Mississippi is this
year largely in excess of any hereto
lore produced, and is yielding a hand
some profit.
A lemon grown in Hillsborough
county, Florida, is twenty-four ana a
half inches in circumference and eight
inches in diameter.
ID. S. Caraway, editor of the Wilson
North Carolina, Siftings, was danger
ouSly cut In the arm and throat IN a
fight with Ill. r. Strong.
An unusual amount of cotton re-
mains unpicked in Alabama, and that
picked and packed is being held by
planters for better prices.
Spencer Herrell, who in 1879 muir
dered Jonathan Cox, in Mitchell coun-
ty, North Carolina, has been captured
at johnson City, Pennsylvania.
AT Lynchburg, Virginia, a man
named Warren, while drunk, fell a
distance OF 2OO feet over an embank-
ment. but escaped serious injury.
VIM. Graham, aged fifteen years, has
been admitted to the bar at Carriers
vile, Georgia. He is probably the
youngest lawyer in the United States.
In Richmond county, North Caro-
lima, John Rogers went to the house
of his sweetheart and finding his rival.
Duncan Mcdonald, there, Shot and
killed him.
Nashville American: A letter to
the secretary OF the state board OF
health from the president of the board
of health of Jackson, Tennessee, re-
ports five cases of smallpox which
nave been developed in that place.
Atlanta Constitution: Yesterday
Mr.. w. b. Burke received an order
from George Earl Church, of Provi-
dence, for 10000 twenty-dollar Confed-
crate bills, to be used for advertising
purposes. Mr.. Burke filled the order.
and has $3,OOO,OO0 left.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-12-28
Bless His Dear Heart.
Peoria Call. !

In very elegant palace car entered
a weary-faced, poorly dressed woman
with three little chiIdren-one babe
in her arms. A look of Joy crept into
her face as she settled down into one
OF the luxurious chairs, but it was
quickly dispelled as she was asked
rudely to start her boot" A smile OF
amusement was seen on several faces
as the frightened group hurried out to
enter one of the common cars. Upon
one young face, however, there was a
look which shamed the countenance
of the others. "Auntie," said the boy
to the lady beside him, Il am going TO
carry my basket of fruit and this box
of sandwiches to the poor woman in
the next car. You are willing. of
course?" He spoke eagerly, but she
answered: Don't be foolish, dear,
you may need them yourself,
and perhaps the woman is
an impostor." mo, I'll not need
them" he answered decidedly, but in
a very low tone. You know l had a
hearty breakfast and don't need a
lunch. The woman looked hungry,
auntie, and so tired, too, with those
three little babies clinging to her. I'll
be back in minute, auntie; l know
mother wouldn't like it if /. didn't
speak kind word to the least of these
when l meet them" The worldly aunt
brushed tear from her eye after the
boy left her, and said, audibly: Just
like his dear mother" About five
minutes later, as the lady passed the
mother and the three children, she saw
a pretty sight-the family feasting as
perhaps they never had done before /;
the dainty sandwiches were eagerly
eaten, the fruit basket stood open. The
eldest child, with her mouth filled with
bread and butter, said: "Was the
pretty boy an angel, mama?" NO"
the mother, and grateful
look frightened her faded eyes; "but
he is doing angels work, bless his dear
hearth And we, too, said, "Bless his
dear hearth
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-12-28

THE star route thieves are getting
desperate and will stop at nothing to
embarrass the course of justice and
secure an acquittal. 1t viii, however,
be a cold day when the attorney gene
raj and his assistants get left, and the
fires they are accused of kindling will
do little towards warming the sur
rounding atmosphere or making their
condition any more comfortable. One
by one the great organs of public
opinion, so-called, fall into line on the
side of the Brady-Dorsey gang.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-12-28

Gen. Halabird, of our army, saws
that heavy guns and their ammuni-
ton having became so very expensive.
the cheapest mode of harbor defense
will be found in paving the entrance
to harbor with mines, which he be-
heves would not cost more than the
expense of a few hours cannonadinQ
with modern heavy ordnance. These
dynamite mines, however, it seems to
us, would have to be very carefully
watched, or they might prove a
boomerang. The system, however.
would doubtless prove very effective
against an enemy entering a harbor.
The existence of the mines would be
known and no vessel would attempt
the passage.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-12-28

JAY GOULD gives it in testimony
that in his opinion corners in grain do
not hurt the agricultural interests;
and, if this be true, the alternative is
that they do hurt the consumers,
since the speculator cannot be affected
Since, according to his statement, the
damage falls upon the consumers, and
they are the greater class, it is more
than ever the duty of the government
to protect the people against the evil
effects of corners.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-12-28

BEECHER preached a sermon upon
Sabbatarian laws, wherein he took the
broadcast ground in favor of personal
liberty. Beecher says he is looking
for a religion that will suit everybody
"a religion that will be as good for
one man as another-a religion that,
stripped of its bigotry and supersti-
ton, will serve to bind humanity in a
bond of universal brotherhood. When
he has found such a creed he will dis
cover that it has few of the features
of religion as at present understood.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-12-28

the fight, and when the bugle
from the carnage. Those brave
soldiers died with their face to the
foe, and smile was stamped on their
features in death. If there is no here
after, their heroiSm was suicide and
their courage a mockery of fate.
Early life is closed in death; the grave
terminates all consort and association
with things of time; but, waited above
the bier, the wreck, the tomb, floats
the sweet voice of God, saying: Il am
the life"
Contrast the above with the follow
ing from one of Col. Ingersoll's lee
lures, and, beautiful and tender as is
the language of the Infidel orator,
that of Father Phelan loses nothing by
the comparison:
Next to eternal joy; next to being
forever with those we love and those
who have loved us; next to that is to
be wrapped in the dream-like drapery
OF eternal death. Upon the shadowy
shore of death the sea of trouble casts
no wave. Even that have been cur
tanned by the everlasting dark will
never know again the touch of tears.
Lips that have been touched by the
eternal silence will never utter another
word of grief. Hearts of dust do not
break. The dead do not weep"
The Kansas City Journal, publish
ing the sermon. says that its subject
matter was only equaled by the grace
and charm of its delivery. 1t is
hardly likely that Mr.. Ingersoll will
attempt to ridicule this Catholic priest,
as he has so many assumed defenders
of the Christian faith. Father Phelan
is apparently very different adver-
sary from some of the pulpit mounte-
banks Mr.. Ingersol has encountered,
whose driveling sentiment and limp
ing logic do more to injure the cause
of religion than even Mr.. IngersolPs
insidious arts and eloquent periods.
Father Phelan is master of the
weapons Mr.. Ingersoll uses, and the
infidel orator must eat porridge from
his own dish in an encounter with
this knight of the Cross.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-12-28

THE tobacco men are in force at
Washington, asking if the tax on to-
bacco be repealed or reduced that a
rebate of tax paid on stock on hand at
the time the reduction or abolition
goes into effect shall be adopted.
When the house passed the internal
revenue bill at the last session, a clause
providing for rebate was inserted
with but slight opposition.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-12-28

1T is properly asked, what is the
use talking about the Democrats in
congress opposing the admission of
Dokota or any other territory as a
state. The Republicans have major
ity in both houses and the president
is Republican. That leaves the Repub-
lican party responsible for the legisla-
ton of this session. The Republicans
have the power to pass anything, to
perpetrate any pretense at reform.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-12-28

THE proposed bankrupt law, as pre-
pared by Boston merchants, has been
deliberately discussed. The minority
of the senate. and it is large, seem to
think that no bankrupt act is demand
ed by the people, and that none should
be enacted. State laws, it is insisted.
subserve every necessity of Interstate
commerce. and the non-interferance of
federalism is more in accord with the
spirit of our institutions.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-12-28

JUDGE BROWN, of New York, de-
cided that the mere addition of water
to packages of distilled spirits, after
the same have been stamped, is not a
fraud against the government, al
though the proof had been reduced.
The suggestion that the stamp must
correspond with the proof of the spir-
its as a means of Identification, he
held, is argumentative only, and is not
warranted by law.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-12-28

The Tweed ring, when brought to
bay, endeavored to burn up the evil
dence which had accumulated against
them. 1t now looks as though the
star route thieves were following
their example in trying to burn Mer-
rick's law Office, where evidence of
their misdeeds is supposed to be on
fle. But conviction overcame the
TammanY ring.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-12-28

UCoRREsPoNDENcE between Garfield
and Dorsey is just now toothsome
reading for those who went their all
ON the christian statesman" We
have always looked with suspicion on
the social as well as the political affil-
iations of the martyred president, and
these things that go to keep up this
suspicion win crowd to the front He
was so enlisted in Dorsey's favor that
he showed him the case rs prepared
for the government by the prosecutor,
and thus the star reuter- got his first