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Mexico weekly ledger., 1882-04-06
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Htatco N~issonti.C County ofAudrain.
In the PrDhat2 Court for the County
o. AulraiA, March term, 1882.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1882-04-06

bntter, e@"s and apples wantea a
Paul x JackSon's grocery.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1882-04-06

Highest cash price paid for haNei'
eggs and rags at FroSt's.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1882-04-06

Fresh country butter ahd eggs I
iIuui Bros.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1882-04-06

All kinds Of fishing tackle and gar
den seeds at Frost'a.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-09-07
MISCELLANEOUS MATTERS.

The arrivals of Russian jews in New
York have almost ceased, but the relief
committee is still caring for a consider
able number who have not found employ
ment.
The Smyrna fg-tree cuttings, import
ed into California, are growing finely,
and before long dried figs equal to those
of Asia Minor will be largely produced
on the Pacific slope.
The value of the breadstuffs exported
from this country for the seven months
ending July 81, Is SS1 ,150, us, being fall
ing of of S50,S07 1859 as compared with
the corresponding seven months last
year.
The Bell telephone company has insti-
tn ed proceedings against the Hopkins
telephone company, and the latter COM
pany has agreed not to put any more in
struments out until after the suit is de-
cided.
Illinois has q, 649, 249 acres OF improved
lands, assessed at 1858, 81, S73; 1871, 0S2
unimproved lands, valued at $33, 393, 227 ;
against total value of town and city lots,
SlS5, 500, 81; total value of personal pro-
perty, lands and lots, S74s, 497, 006.
A telegram from Vienna to the New
York Herald, on Thursday last, states
that over one hundred women are on
trial at Gross Beckskerck, Hungary,
charged with poisoning their husbands.
The guilt of thirty-five of the women has
been proved.
According to the assessors returns
made to the auditors office, there are in
Illinois so, 005 horses, valued at $25, 745, :
036; 2,0l2, 992 cattle valued at so. 497 1866
III, $40 mules, valued at %, 439 $50; 1.O52,
GAL sheep, valued at 81 ,34S. ISL; 2,6S4, 2O2
hogs, valued at 5,455, l6l. The total
value of personal property in the state is
$l67 -, 90.
Professor Powell, formerly of Illinois,
and now at the head OF the government
geological department. OF the Smithsonian
Institute at Washington, has organized
his geological surveying parties Tor dit
ferent sections of the country. The major
will, when the parties are fully organ
lied. take the field himself, part Of the
season in the southwest
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HuntIngton,s Road.

The Railscay Age says: "The
completion of the Chesapeake, Ohio
and Southwestern road, from Louis
vile, Kentucky, to Memphis, Ten
nessee, a distance of 391 miles, gives
another important line to the south.
The road consists of what were
formerly the Cecilian branch of the
Louisville aud Nashville railroad,
the Padncah and Elizabethtown
railroad, and the Memphis, Paducah
and Northern railroad. The two
latter have led miserable existence
for many years, a great gap between
them preventing them doing any
thing more than light local business.
A year or two ago, G. P. Huntington
secured control of the fragments,
and has now made of them q
continuous line of nearly 400 miles
long, which will form an extension
of his great Chesapeake and Ohio
road to Memphis, whence the sys-
tenn is to be continued across Ar
kansas into Texas, to a connection
with the Southern Pacific. Then
the dream of a line under one COM
mand from the waters of the ATTAIN
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-09-07
DROPOsALs FOR BIDS

For leasing the Texas State Penitentiarer, en-
tire, or for the labor OF Conyicts confined there
in, by shops.
SEALED PROPOSALS will be received by
the undersigned up To II o clock NJ, Friday,
september 10, 1882, for leasing the TcXns State
Penitentlaries, and all property thereto he
longing, the buildings, machinery, and labor of
from 5Ol to 200 cOnyicts in each penitentiary.
For a period Of Is years from January |, 1883
Proposals will also be received up to same
time for the labor of convicts, by shops, from
80 upwards, ON like plan as contracted for in
Northern Prisons, for periods OF from five TO
ten years from January 4 1888.
Both prisons well supplied with commodious
shops.
The Rusk Penitentiary IL situated near town
of Rusk, fourteen miles from /. a. q. n. II. r.,
and will be connected Herewith by narrow
gauge railroad, now nearly completed. Ii II
surrounded BY an abundance of iron ore OF fine
quality. Will have connected with IL n fine
blast furnace with capacity Of twenty-five tons
of pig iron per day. Thinner for coal easily Sc
cured About SS5 900 at disposal of the Board
to pace machinery I'm said penitentiary.
The Huntsville Penitentiary, on the line OF
the |. q G. N. r. r. II II supplied with a con-
siderable amount OF machinery hnd tools, for
making wagons, fur iture, chairs, shoes and
cloth. About $4,000 at disposal Of Board for
additional machinery.
Bids will also be received until Tuesday, Au-
gust 10, 1882, for lease OF about 800 convcts, TO
be worked ON farms on the outside, in forces OF
not less than sixty.
Ali bids TO be directed 10 the Governor, at
Austin, Texas, and must be accompanied by
good and sufficient bond, in sum OF so, 600 I'm
case of bid for lease OF entire penieentiary, and
bond of $1,000 for each 100 convicts, or frac-
ton thereof proposed to be contracted for,
whether on outside or inside, conditioned that
contract and bond will be entered into and 9xe
cuted If proposal be accepted.
Bids for outside labor will be opened by the
Board at the Office of the Governor OF the State,
in the city Of Austin, Texas, at ~ o clock NJ,
on August 49, 1882, and contracts awarded.
Bids for lease of Penitentinries or inside la
Dor will be opened at the Office Of the Governor
at IL NJ, on Friday, fifteenth day Of September,
1882, when the Board will determine whether
each Penltentiary shall be leased entire, or the
labor by shops in limited numbers, after which
contracts will be awarded TO the highest and
best responsible bidders.
The Board reserves the right TO reject any and
all bids offered.
For full particulars, address T. j. GoREE,
Superintendent OF Penltentiaries, Huntsville,
Texas, who will send circular with full inf0r-
nation.
o. NJ. ROBERTS,
Governor.
n. LUBBOCK, Dan p...A
Treasurer. i0"' Do"i"'
TH0S. j. GOREE.
supt. Penny.
Austin, July /, 1882. jyloawsw
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American and British Railway
Mileage.

In speaking of the railway mile
age of the United States, the Rail
aCdy Age remarks: 1t Is nearly six
times that of Great Britain; there is
a striking disproportion in the loco
motive equipment per mile of the
two countries. In Great Britain, on
December 81, 1881, there were 49,
727 locomotives to 1915 miles of
line, or one engine to every 1.3 miles,
while IN the United States at the
same time the number of engines re-
ported was 20,116 to 104 800 miles of
line, or one engine to each 81
miles. This indicates the vast
ly greater business per mile
of the British roads, of which it
must be remembered more than half
are double track, and all run through
a densely settled country. How
much greater the traffic of British
roads is than that of lines in our new
and thinly settled country Is shown
still more strikingly by the fact that
while the gross earnings of the
British lines for 1881 were more than
1882, 100000, the gross earnings of
"a, 500 miles of our lines are reported
at only $725,OO0,O00, or an average of
about $17,7O0 per mile for British
railway, to $500 per mile for those
of the United States.
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STATE sEWER.-sealed proposa,s al

STATE SEWER.-sealed proposals are
- invited until the sixteenth OF September,
1882, at twelve O'Clock m. for the construction
of sewer of first class vitrihed clay pipe of ff-
do river at the mouth of Waller Creek, north a
distance of 1896 feet to the alley running east
and west through block 1869: with pipe OF like
character, twelve inches diameter from said
main line, by the most direct practicable route
tn the boiler house of the Capitol Building, a
distance of about 800 feet; with like pipe OF
eight inches diameter from said main pipe to
the Blind Asylum, distant about 22j0 feet; from
said alley in block 169, like pine of twelve
inches diameter To the Lunatic Asylum, by way
lance OF IA, S23 feet, and like pipe from said
twelve inch pipe of eight inches diameter to
the University, distant about 675 feet.
Bids will include cast iron manholes Of ap.
proved pattern, for every four hundred feet Of
sewer, and u sufficient amount of cast iron pipe
(about 300 feet of fifteen inches diameter lad in
place and anchored with masonry to discharge
the sewage into the channel of the Colorado
River, at least twelve inches below the surface
at low water mark.
Bids Mil also be considered for the insertion
Of cement drain pipes in lieu Of the yitfifed clay
pipe above named.
Each bid must specify when wo wi be
commenced and when c. mpleted, and must be
accompanied with written guarantee of two
responsible parties, that the bidder Will, be
awarded the contract, enter into satisfactory
bond for the faithful performance of the work.
Bids will be addressed to Governor o. NJ.
Roberts, Austin, and endorsed "PrOposals for
Sewer, end the right is reserved TO reject any
and all bids.
Bidders will be required tn exhibit samples OF
the pipe which they propose TO use.
Map showing route, elevation, &c, will be
foTnu at the office ofthe Capitol Building ON
q M. ROBERTS,
Governor, and President Board.
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claiming Col. Epson had been tIicked
out of his district, as though the tenth
district belonged to him. He explained
that Col. Epson could have probably
acted thus, with some color of reason,
had his old district, the late sixth, been
changed into the tenth, but that the ter
ritory covered by the old sixth and the
new tenth was almost entirely different.
He said to oppose Hancock was simply
affillating with the Republicans, aiding
Davis. Then he compared the two men,
and told how Hancock would reflect
credit upon Texas in congress, while
Davis would not ; how the experience of
Hancock, to say nothing of the compare
tive ability of the two men, would make
Hancock the more serviceable; how Davis
in his late speech at San Antonio reject
ed the war issues and then appealed to
them in all bitterness. He appealed to
the people of Williamson county to sus-
tain the man of their choice, hoping
they would poll a tremendous majority
for Hancock, and condemn at the polls
the arch enemy of Democracy and of
good government in Texas.
Had no other person followed Col
Peeler, the STATESMAN would have
known who the distinguished citizen"
was, but on motion Mr.. WOoten was
called to the stand. He addressed his
remarks mainly 10 the senatorial nomi-
nee, Judge Terrell, speaking of his
straightforward course in all public
matters, of his earnest work in behalf of
the public he told how he had given us
the best jury law upon the statute
books of any state he had
labOred for public improvements highly
creditable to the state of his service in
behalf of the state of his service in be-
half of the public schools, and of the
state university, the cap stone of the
public school system. He was satisfied
he would again labor with all the zeal
at his command for every measure bene-
fetal TO the public. He said he had
known B. Trigg from childhood that he
was a gallant Confederate officer, but he
had come to Texas and sold himself to E
]. Davis and Radicalism for Office
He said he was able, but polit-
ically depraved. He touched upon the
congressional convention, saying that the
course of Col. Epson and his friends was
unparalleled in the history of conven-
tons. He believed Epson honest, and he
thought Hancock would get strong
SuppOlS III oCAdl COuutJ
The convention then adjourned sine
die.
The following correspondence of
tender and acceptance took place yestcr-
day:
GEORGETOWN, August 81, 1882.
Hon. A. w. Terrell, Austin, Texas:
Sir-Tle senatorial convention for this
district, has this day by a unanimous
vote nominated you as their candidate for
! the state senate, and appointed the I'm.
| dersigned as committee to notify you
of the fact. We congratulate you on
the confidence thus shown by your fellow.
citizens in your course as a legislator, and
| ask your acceptance of the nomination.
Respectfully, your friends,
j. A. HOOPER, Chm'n.
JOHN T. COFFEE,
b. H. STEWART,
Committee.
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The Tariff on sugar.

Assistant Secretary of the Treas
ury French has from time to time
appeared before the tariff commits
sion sitting at Long Branch and
stated what we may presume to be
the opinions of the department on
the tariff question. On the sugar
question he gave a history of the
law fixing the Dutch standard OF
color as the test of value and taxa
ton; how that standard has been
falsified by artificial modes of dark
ening colors; how the polariscope
is adopted by the whole trade as a
just criterion of the value of sugar
how objection was made by sugar
importers TO its being adopted by
the treasury department, and how
high qualities of raw sugar now
come in at low rates, being artifici-
ally discolored. There never had
been a time, he said, when the
sugar importers rendered to
the committee on ways and
means any agreement as TO the
best mode of collecting duties on
sugar. They could not agree among
themselves about it. He suggested
perhaps the best way out of the
whole sugar difficulty would be to
apply the ad valorem system to it.
There were practically two ques-
tions before the commission, one
was whether the tax on sugar should
be lowered or increased or retained
as it is; the other was how different
grades of sugar should be graded
and ascertained. Sugar now paid
the largest revenue to the govern
ment. The amount for the fiscal
year, ending June 80, 1881, was over
$4S, 100000, and that the last fiscal
year would probably exceed $780,
100000.
Suppose we take another look at
these figures:
"In 1881 the United States collect
ed from sugar imported into the
country $47,933,045 This sum, of
course, was added by the importers
and country merchants to the retail
prices to consumers, and enabled
American sugar producers and re-
finers to increase the price of our
home productions in like ratio
The tariff ON imported sugars ranges
from two to five cents per pound
and in sugar candies from ten to
twelve cents per pound.
Estimating that One-third of the
sugar used in the United States in
1881 was imported, paying a duty OF
$48,000,000, the consumers of this
article we're made to pay a tax
of S144,OOO,0OO more than the
same could have been supplied
for at a fair profit to producers. Su-
gar refining has become powerful
monopoly in this country, and for
the sake of collecting $48,000,000 tor
the national treasury; congress gen.
erously grants to this monopoly the
power to rob $96,OO0,000 year
from the consumers of this indispen-
sable commodity"
But can the sugar growers of the
United States compete with the
slave labor product of the West In
dies? They say not. How is it with
cotton now as compared with ante
bellum times? Does the south make
as much of as good quality and at as
little cost now as then?
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Uniform Laws Concerning Com
mercial PAPER.

Uniform Laws Concerning Com
merciaI Paper.
Resolutions were adopted by the
bankers convention at Saratoga, &C
cording to the New York shipping
List, requiring an investigation into
the constitutional rights of congress,
under the power TO regulate COM
merce among the several states, to
make laws concerning commercial
paper which shall be uniform in re-
lation to paper drawn i'll one state
and payable in another, to CONNER
cial paper drawn in one state and
upon party in another state, and to
report upon the expediency of such
legislation, if it should be held to be
constitutional. Next to a uniform
bankrupt law, a uniform system
with regard to commercial
paper, indorsers and protests,
bills of lading, and SINH
lar contracts, would doubtless be
the most advantageous to the COM
mercial community. The evils of
the present various and conflicting
state laws are as patent as they are
annoying, and the exigencies of the
case are growing more and more
imperative with the growth of bust
ness. The Boston Advertiser, while
conceding that the uniformity
sought for would be Of great advan-
tage, has "serious doubts as to the
power of congress to legislate as
suggested, and graver doubts still
as to the expediency of the action
proposed" would certainly be
regulation of commerce between the
states in so purely business matter,
and one of such daily and financial
Importance.
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INCIDENTS. ETC.


Though a Democratic body, nobody
took whisky.
A good deal of cotton was seen going
into Round Rock.
There was no distinguished citizen
from Williamson county, and none from
Burnett
Mr.. Cooper, of the Sun, takes pride in
showing his nice printing establishment,
which is a credit to Georgetown.
The special train was advertised to
leave Austin at a. m, but it was de-
tanned because of train on the track till
after 10 a. m.
Nat Q. Henderson was around the con-
vention hall swearing he would die by
Col. Epson, il the STATESMAN did not
let him alone.
Georgetown is one of the incest look
ing places in the state. 1t is noted for
its morality and the intelligence of its
citizens, and it is the home of Nat @.
Henderson and his Record
Milton Tucker is sheriff of Williamson
county. Some of the delegates stopped
by the way, in coming from dinner, and
the temporary secretary was among the
number, thus delaying the pro-
ceedings of the convention Tucker
could not stand it, and in thunder tones,
according to the ways of courts, he called
the truants, announcing the convention
ready for business. They came in breath
less haste, for they knew very well that
Tucker submits to no fOolishI ess. He
was the self-imposed scrgeant-at-arms of
the convention, and he was a good one.
The delegates to the convention had to
wait few minutes for a meeting of the
surviving Confederates of Williamson
county to finish business and adjourn.
There were present at this meeting w.
M. Richey, j. III. Cole, A. H. Graham,
Amy Taylor, ]. L. Britain, B. H.
Stewart, j. w. Williams, Calvin Wier,
W. M. Buries, ]. B. Wright, F. Tegge,
S. M. Suayorn, j. M. Tucker, Nat @.
Henderson, w. R Hobb, L. Moore, r.
E. Tremble, L. S Bridgwater, j. j. Bar
Der, William Harrell, ]. F. Hayle, Henry
Casey, w. A. Smith, j. NJ. Denton,
Barclay Martin. They are going to have
so-iL meeting this fall to last two
days.
On the train as it neared Austin the
delegates held a meeting and adopted the
following:
"Res0tced, That the delegation from
Travis county to the senatorial conven
ton at Georgetown, hereby extend to the
International and Great Northern railway
company our thanks for the special train
furnished US to attend said convention.
'.ReSolCed further, That said delegation
extend their special thanks to Mr.. j. K.
Painter, of the International and Great
Northern railroad company, in charge of
said special train, for the great kindness
and courtesy extended to us on this occa-
sion."
Underhill & Co. have received another
immense invoice of statuary, from Car
rara, Italy. a29-1W
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A correspondent writing to the Fort
Worth Wool Gr0aoer from Williamson
county says: "a man from Missouri
has lately brought bunch of scabby
sheep in here. and already several flocks
are infected with it. A too vigorous
law could not be passed, or enforced too
strictly, against those who drive scabby
sheep through the country spreading dis
ease as they go. Sheep, as rule, are
doing well in the country"
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-09-07
SELF Care while Nursing the Sick

To those who are called upon to
nurse the sick through a long and
severe illness it is of the utmost i'm
portance, not only to themselves but
to their patients, that their own
health should be preserved and their
own strength maintained not only
thoroughout the critical stage, but
during the period of convalescence,
oftentimes so tediously prolonged.
To all such we submit the following
simple precautions to aid them in
preserving their own health while
nursing the sick:
off the malady of the patient be
such as to cause any marked odor of
the breath or noticeable exhalations
from the skin, take care always to
sit on that side of the bed or sick
person which Is opposite to or away
from the direction which the effiuvia
takes towards the windows or
draught of a fireplace. Sit so that
their breath, ETC., is carried away
from you. Do not sit too close
them, or take their breath if you can
avoid it.n
case of prolonged care, and particu-
larly ifobliged to sit up all night for
many nights in succession, great
benefit will be derived from taking
a warm bath early in the morning
and putting on fresh undergarments
every second morning.; or, If the dis.
ease be particularly infectious in its
nature, it is best to change the un-
derclothing every morning. 1t will
be found that the warm bath, fol-
lowed by brisk rubbing of the whole
body with q coarse Turkish towel
or flesh brush, will refresh the
wearied body almost as much as
sleep. At the same time keep up
the appetite and strength by small
doses of quinine, two to five grains
three times day, and nourishine
diet, with perhaps little wine and
water occasionally.
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The Rugby colony in Tennessee,
instead of being on the wane, is said
to be growing nicely. A large num-
Der of people from Michigan VIII
cast their luck with the colonists this
fan
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tic to those of the Pacific will have
been realized, and the pioneers of
the first railway across the western
half of the continent can well rest
content 4"
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San Antonio Light; Blanton Dun
can went away denouncing San
Antonio as a malaria breeding hole,
aud Col. Epson found his residence
which Blanton had been living in,
in n fearful sanitary condition; the
cratic Blanton had placed about
twenty cart loads of sheep manure
in the cellar and had established q
mushroom bed which was kept
moist and in q state of fermentation
by water allowed to run in from the
water pipes. Epson had this augean
stable cleaned out and his elegant
residence Is once more habitable.
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EOR SALE

500 HEAD OF SHEEP al d II MERINo
bucks, all in fine healthy condition, for S14O0
cash; also Rancho for sale, consisting of two
hundred acres of land, situated on the line OF
Travis and Bastrop counties. Said raLche has
good house and crib, and smoke house, so acres
in pasture, 10 acres 10 field. viii be sold with
sheep or without For further information
apply to W. E. CARPENTER, Austin, or j. f.
BECK, Garfield, Bastrop county, Texas.
dy-lt-Wk-1m
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University of Virginia.

Session begins on the First of October, and
cont nues nine months. Apply for catalogues
to the Secretary of the Faculty, p o. University
of Virginia, Albemarle county, Virginia.
JAS. +. HARRISON,
aug1 d6w4w Chairman of the Faculty
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A sagacious dog, at West Point,
Georges, caught runaway horse ana
stopped him by grabbing the lines
in his mouth. Two children were
in the buggy drawn by the horse.