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The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-12-14
Sensible Suggestion.

There are few subjects which every
well regulated agricultural journal
never fails to mention at this season
of the year, among which are: How,
when and what to feed stock" "'The
repairing of barns and Sheds" Guard
ing against prairie fires" and the
Care of mschinery." While all of
these are matters of great Importance
to the farmer, there are probably none
of greater pecuniary value than the
latter. The ordinary piece of machin-
cry is at best poorly made of poor tim
Der and poorly painted; hence theneces-
Sity Of carefully housing it in dry
place is apparent to all. 1t would be
a waste of time for us TO attempt to
detail all the ways used to properly
care for farm implements. Every
farmer knows how it should be done,
and it pays to do it. Lumber and
paint are the principal articles used,
sometimes straw and poles in place of
lumber, which is a good substitute.
We notice some farmers substitute
hen manure for paint, but have never
heard of satisfactory results coming
from the experiment, it is no protec-
ton to the wood, and we have never
seen hen that could lay it on smooth
it always looks rough.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-12-14
The RAILWAYS of the Country.

In round numbers, says the Mechan-
ical News, there are now 100000 miles
of railroad in the United States. The
length of lines of which the track has
been laid exceeds this figure some
what; the number of miles in opera
ton may fall a trife below it. But
the close of the year 1882 will see more
than 100000 miles of railway in run
ming condition, as the lines are stretch
ing out at the rate of 200 miles per
week. The cost of this 100000 miles of
road. first and last, has been $6,OO0,-
100000; Henry V. Poor, the special
historian of railway progress in Amer
lea, believes that ten years hence a
total of 100000 miles will have been
reached, representing an investment
of S10,000,000,000. If this is not Wis
ionary prediction, it would seem to be
of but little avail to call a halt in. the
matter of railroad building, as judi
ciOuS observers are in the habit of do
ing now and then. A country whose
manifest destiny is to have $4,000
miles of railroad before the end of this
century is in no condition to heed the
warnings of conservative advisers.
Some of these lines will get themselves
built before they are needed, and in
Vulnerable fortunes will be buried in
them; but the present and many fu-
ture generations will have passed
away before the limit of expansion of
our population, industry and COM
MERGE will have been reached. Until
then, a construction train will always
be in the van of national progress.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-12-14
An Able Prospectus.
Laramie Boomerang.l

There is an excuse for lack of spice
and all that sort of thing in the news
paper world. The men who write our
dailieS as rule have to write about
two miles per day, and they ought not
TO be kicked If it Is not as interesting
as Uncle Toms Cabin" or the Leaves
of Grass"
We have done some nine hundred
miles of writing ourself during our
short, sharp and decisive career, and
we know what we are talking about
Those things we wrote at time we
were spreading our graceful charac-
tiers over ten acres of paper per day
were not thrilling. they did moi
catch the public eye, but were just
naturally consigned to oblivion's bot
! tomless NAV.
The public, it seems to us, has Gre
| ated false standard of merit for the
newspaper. People take big daily
and pay $40 year for it because it is
the biggest paper in the world. and
then don't read quarter of it. They
are doing a smart thing. no doubt, but
it is killing the feverish young mer
with throbbing brains who are doing
the work. Would you consider that q
large par OF shoes or a large wife
should be sought for just because you
can get more material for the same
price? Not much, Mary Ann
Excellence is what we seek, not
bulk. Write better things and less OF
them, and you will do better, and the
public will be pleased to see the
change.
Should any one who reads these
words be suffering from an Unsuitable
hunger for paper that aims at ele-
gance of diction, heightened logic and
pink-cambric sentiment, at moder.
ate price, he will do well to call at this
Office and look over our goods. Sam,
pies sent free on application to any
part of the United States or Europe
We refer to Herbert Spencer, the La.
ramie national bank, and the post.
master of this city for truth and We
racity.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-12-14

A SPECIAL to the New Orleans
Times-Democrat recites what Texas
congressman states as to the defeat of
the Democratic nominee in the sew
enth district. He said: "Col. Finlay,
who was the opponent of Ochiltree, is
a clever and smart man, but our state
committee adopted tariff for rev.
enue only platform. Finlay tried to
carry water ON both shoulders by
claiming to be protectionist in the
wool-growing section, and revenue
reformer in other sections. The
Democrats concluded that man who
could not stand on the party platform
had no business in congress, and so
many of them voted for Ochiltree.'
AS much has already been stated by
the STATESMAN; and in this connec-
ton we called attention to the fact
that in the tenth district, with proba-
bilities against the Democratic nomi-
nee, the fight was boldly made upon
the tariff issue, resulting in a most
brilliant, a most decisive victory for
the Democratic nominee.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-12-14
Mammoth Figures.

lNhlCllludll
The enormous bulk of the aggregate
grain crops of a great agricultural
country like the United States almost
defies calculation yet it is interest.
ing to take up the October report Of
the department of agriculture anC
figure on the estimate therein con
tanned. The October returns, says The
commissioner, oyershadows a yield OF
wheat exceeding 500,O00,OO0 bushels
The product of oats will probably be
about 100000 bushels. The rye
crop is estimated at 100000 bushels
OF barley there viii be about 45,000,-
600 bushels; of buckwheat, 1900.
900. The corn crop is placed
at 1,660,O00,OO0 bushels. Here
then, is prodigious aggregate OF
1913, 100000 bushels of grain-or
nearly fifty-fve bushels to every in.
habitant of the United States. II
these crops were all marketed at once
it would require, on rough estimate,
$4,000 wagons to do the hauling.
Ranged in one line, each team occupy
ing a space of twenty-five feet, the
procession which would be 24,5OO
miles in length. 1t would reach
around the earth thirteen times. To
receive the grain for shipment, 9,124.-
600 cars would be needed. This i'm
possible train would have length of
at least 10000 miles, requiring 100000
locomotives to draw it. And the
agricultural resources of the great
west are just beginning to be de-
yeloped.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-12-14

THE STATESMAN does not hesitate
to say, since light has been thrown on
the subject by propersurveys and esti-
mates, that the capitolsyndicate ought
to be satisfied with the right-of-way
along East and College Avenues. 1t
is convinced, too, that the route along
these two avenues is the best for the
capitol builders, provided they
are not confident a contract
made in connection with the Congress
Avenue route may be amended and
changed at their pleasure. The bal
ance of power in city elections can
easily be exercised by the capitol
builders. They say they will employ
from five hundred to thousand men
and these will be domiciled in Austin
though they may be employed in the
quarries on the railway lines.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-12-14

THE people are not particularly in
ferested in class legislation, whereby
the tax on whisky and tobacco and
bank checks and perfumery is to bt
curtailed. but they do want cheaper
blankets and flannels and overcoats
and wraps and clothing of all sorts
The internal revenue taxes are I'M
just burdens, but the heaviest bur-
dens imposed upon the people are
through protection, and there is the
place 70 begin.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-12-14
A Reflection as to Egypt.

What England has done for India
is thus stated briefly by British
writer: England has converted an
immense amount of jungle land into
fertile land; she has drained malarial
swamps; Joined the interior to the
seaboard by railways; SPAWNED great
rivers: constructed canals; irrigated
barren lands; made native races nVe
peaceably; stopped the raids OF
Afghans, Persians, and Tar
tars; put down predatory
castles; substituted justice for
oppression; police for soldiers;
schools for idolatrous temples. she
has further erected great trading
cities. introduced manufactures, open
ed mines, made a beginning in teach
ing the people, and revived the htera-
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-12-14

ture of the country. Five thousand
native books were published in India
in the year 1873. and there are $50 ma
tive journals. The family life
of the Hindoo has been touch
ed by the modern intellectual
movement; there are some signs
OF an uprising from the deg
radiation of the Zenana, and the es-
Enlistment of municipalities on the
ruins of the old village guilds points
to the awakening of new political
life. There is, however, a great deal
yet to be done. India is in parts over
populated; irrigation must be eX-
tended; there must be an equitable
land law, and we must consider in
whatever we undertake the fact of
the trightful poverty of the vast ma
iOrity of the people.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-12-14
INSECT PowDER.-A correspondent

INSECT PowDER.-A correspondent
of the Fruit Recorder gives his expe-
rience with pyrethrum or Persian in
sect powder. He says: my expert
ment with pyrethrum on cabbage
plants was satisfactory. The cabbage
worms had come and it seemed would
soon destroy all the plants, when
added one to two tablespoons of
pyrethrum to gallon of water and
thoroughly washed the plants, es-
pecially the tender leaves just forming
the heads, once every week or ten
days, and soon but few worms could
be found ON them, while on some tur-
nip plants near by the leaves were
entirely destroyed. Doubtless, had l
had hose or syringe to apply the
wash, 1t would have been BETTER
LIME IN THE DUNG HILL-Dr.
Joseph Jones. president of the New
orleans board of health, in his admir-
able report to the cotton planters con-
ventlon OF Georgia, since the war. made
this statement, which we give from
memory, not in his language Quick
lime applied to the dung hill liberates
the ammonia, and causes it to escape
greatly depreciating the real value OF
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-12-14
BusheI Weights.

The weights of produce established
by the laws of Kentucky are as fol-
lows; Wheat, sixty pounds to the
bushel; shelled corn, fifty-six pounds;
corn on ear, seventy; corn meal, fifty;
rye, fifty-siX; oats, thirty-three; barley
fOrty-eight; Irish potatoes, sixty
sweet potatoes, fifty; beans, sixty; cas-
tor beans, forty-siX; bran, twenty
shorts, thirty; middlings, forty; hOmi-
ly, sixty; clover seed, sixty; timothy
seed, forty-fve; red top seed, fourteen
hungarian seed, fOrty-five; hemp seed
forty-four; flax seed, fifty-siX; millet
seed, fifty; osange orange seed, thirty
six; sorghum seed, forty-two; Kentucky
blue grass, fourteen; buckwheat, fifty.
two; onions, fifty-seven; top onion sets,
twenty-eight; peas, fOrty-six; split
peas sixty; dried apples, twenty-fOur;
dried peaches, thirty-three; malt, thir,
ty-four; salt, fifty; coal, eighty; tur.
nips, fifty-seven; hay or straw, pei
ton, 2OOO; hemp, per ton, 2O40; tow
per ton, 2210.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-12-14

the manure-carbonate of lime, or
mari, fixes the ammonia, and holds it
for the use of plants when applied to
the soil. So air-slaked lime or mari
benefits COW and stable manure
quick lime ruins it. Mari or stable
manure produces admirable results
when mixed, often proved. Lime and
humus in any shape, such as decayed
bones or rotten wood, or manure,
which is mostly vegetable matter,
harmonic and work together ad-
mirably when applied to field or gar
den crops, orchards or vineyards.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-12-14

ALREADY the Republicans are try
ing to move the bill providing that
the presidential succession pass in GER
tain emergencies to cabinet officers.
The bill came up at last session OF
congress, but it did not get hearing,
and the Louisville Courier-Journal
speaks sensibly when it says that the
measure should be promptly killed il
brought up this winter. Cabinet Of
licers are not to be considered in this
connection. They are not elected of
ficers. They are simply head clerks OF
the president, appointed by him. 1.-THE
president should die after congress adj
journs, and thhre is no president OF
the senate and no speaker to act as
president until president can be
elected in accordance with the law
SECTIONS 1919 r. S., there is, OF
course, no one authorized toact. This
can be remedied 10y qualifying the
speaker of the house to hold his func-
tions until the next congress meets
and, in case of the speakers death, the
chairmen of the two most important
committees in the senate and house
could be qualified to act as president
until the election"
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-12-14
The American Agriculturist in the
South.

We direct attention to the advertise
ment elsewhere of the American Ag-
riculturist, which proposes to devote
much attention during 1883 to the de-
velopment of southern agriculture
and southern industries. Prior to the
war this recognized leading agricul-
tural journal had very large circula-
ton through the southern states. We
learn from the publishers that they
now propose to make southern agri-
culture feature in the paper in the
future. Send stamp for the Deem
Der number, which will give
our readers some idea of the
character of this journal, if they
are not already familiar with
it. Nearly one hundred columns of
original matter, and from fifty to
eighty Illustrations and engravings
are presented in every issue. Not
withstanding this great amount OF
original matter, the American Ag-
riculturist is supplied at the low rate
of S1.50 year. d&w1t
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-12-14

THE Democrats in congress will act
wisely if they insist upon tariff reduc-
ton, and submit to no plan of relief
that does not embrace it. A Wash
ington letter writer says that plenty
of talk can be heard among Republic
cans about cutting down internal rev
enue taxation. but nothing about
changes in tariff taxation. Democrats
talk Of reducing both. The cause o.
this il. the Republicans serve the ricl
few while the Democrats adhere L
the cause of the people.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-12-14

UNDOUBTEDLY free sugar would
be a great boon to the public, and so
would free blankets or reduction of
the cost of numerous other necessities
that are now greatly increased in cost
to the consumer by reason of taxation
laid not for revenue but for the bene-
1T of special interests. But the Re
pnblicans think the first duty to the
country is to give free whisky and to-
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-12-14
POst-MOrtem Fight.

1.-The Garfield doctors, as the med
ical attendants of the late president
have come to be designated, have be-
come the scandal of the tragedy. The
assassin was undoubtedly a moon
struck and irresponsible wretch, and
the world, so long as the world may
continue to think of the matter, will
always be divided in opinion as to
whether he ought to have been hanged
or consigned to lunatic asylum. But
the Garfield doctors have nauseated
the whole country with their eXorbi-
tant claims, and their squabble over
the spoils that congress, Illegally, pro-
poses to distribute amongst them.
DIR. Bliss wants $4,000, more, it is
said, than he ever earned in any five
years of his life from his practice, and
he swears he will not touch the pit
lance of something over 5000 allotted
him; and other ADLER and more dis
tinguished of the physicians are
scarcely less clamOrous for eXorbitant
fees. And yet congress has no right
to pay these parties a single cent. Mr..
Garfield held the highest office in the
republic, with salary of $4,000 per
annum, with appurtenances, if not
perquisites, worth as much more.
Then under what law does congress
now propose to pay this mans doctors
bills? Congress has no more law or
right to do this than it has to
pay the bills of the humblest
laborer in the service of the govern
ment. The family of the late presi-
dent have been made, not only COM
Portable. but rich, and it seems to us
that the doctors would commend
themselves to the respect of the coun-
try if they would withdraw their lille
gal claims upon the treasury and pre-
sent reasonable bills to the family of
the deceased for payment, just as they
would do with any reasonable claims
they might have against the family of
any other deceased gentleman. And
further, it is remarkable that the
family themselves have not become
ashamed of this business and insisted
on paying the bills themselves.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-12-14

The American free trade league is
at work. 1t is out with another strong
circular, setting forth the dangers
which beset the people. The plan of
defeating the wishes of the masses is
clearly developed. and it will take the
most earnest and persistent defense to
prevent its accomplishment. The
protectionists can bring any amount
of money into the fight, but its po-
tency, it is thought, will be lost in the
presence of thorough organization
on the part of the people. The "prac-
tical politician, of which class there
are plenty yet in congress, is coward
in the presence of intelligent organi-
zation, and tits hoped the recommends
ton contained in the circular will be
carried out in all the states in the
Union. Organized influence is asked.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-12-14

In 1850 the freight rate on cotton
from Galveston to New York was
1915, now it is $2.25, and so the rate
has been reduced all along the south
ern coast. Mr.. Roach estimates that
the saving on coast trade in cotton, as
thus stated, amounts to $4.OOo,OO0 an
nually, but it appears to us that this
is an insufficient estimate.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-12-14

DIR. EDWARD HAROLD BROWNE,
bishop of Winchester, will probably
be made archbishop of Canterbury
He was a school-fellow of Mr.. Glad
stone, at Eaton and Oxford, and they
have always been close friends. The
bishop is in his seventy-second year.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-12-14

Gov. MCENERY, of Louisiana,
issued the certificate of election
to Kellogg and not to Ack-
len. The latter contested for the
certificate on the ground that Kellogg
was not citizen of Louisiana at the
time of his election, nor resident of
the district in which he ran. He is
satisfied of the ineligibility of KEEL
logg, but is satisfied that when a per-
son clearly ineligible is elected to
congress it is clearly the duty of the
governor to give him the certificate of
election notwithstanding. accompa-
MED, however, with the statement and
proofs of ineligibility, thus prevent
ing him from being sworn in and
serving for year or more ON prima
facie case.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-12-14

AND now some of the Republican
organs want Seeor Robson made
president. Could anything argue
more strongly for the establishment
of permanent Democratic government
than such shameless propositions to
keep acknowledged thieves in power +?
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-12-14

IN a western legislature it was
moved that bar be permitted in the
conference room, so as to prevent
never ending motions to adjourn.
Now, we appreciate the patriotism of
these gentlemen who are massing
saloons at the head of Congress
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-12-14

THE tariff barons are going to lose
the support at the polls of their
laborers. High prices for all they
have to buy and low wages make of
them willing converts to the theory
that protection is not the most APP
proved agency for protecting labor
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-12-14

THE growth and power of corpora
lions is shown in the rise and progress
of the Standard oil company. 1t be-
gan business ten years ago with a
capital of sl.000.000. subsequently in
creased to SS,500,OO0. and on this it
paid dividends in 1880 of Sl0,S2l, S12
In the last ten years it has earned a
net profit Of S40,OO0,O00. and in the
last month il has Melted profits vari-
ously estimated from S20O00,Oo0 to
e40.000,0oo. Through its control Of
transportation lines it fixes the price
of oil to the consumer.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-12-14

THE British postmaster general as
serts that postoflice work is done bet
ter, more promptly, more neatly, more
accurately by women than by men.
Bless the creatures, there is heap of
work done by them, which, if not so
done, would not be worth doing. They
are the institution of this age and all
ofhara
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-12-14
Intelligent Enough.

III the Hon. John Hancock had re-
ceived before his election such sup
port as he is receiving now from the
Galveston News and San Antonio Ex-
press, he would probably have beaten
Davis 10000 votes. Hancock's great
ness never appeared to these two pa
pers till after he was elected. We
give him credit for the necessary
amount of intelligence to distinguish
between trucking and genuine friend
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-12-14

MEXICO claims Galveston island
The political spirit of its people is in
perfect harmony with Mexican usages.
except there is something more of sta
bility about the Mexican people than
is possessed by Galvestonians. When
they become thoroughly Mexicanized
it viii be decided step in their adj
.,o,,oa,,nant
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-12-14

MIR. DORSEY may write letters and
protest for the rest of his life, but it
strikes the public that the way to es-
tablish his innocence is to prove it to
the satisfaction of twelve Jurors.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-12-14

AND now Mrs. Langtry is the sub
ject of some sort of a scandal, she and
society man Of New York, Mr.. Geb-
hard, being the cause. Mrs. La
bouchere refused to accompany the
jersey Lily to Boston, because the
latter would not heed certain remon-
afraneaS
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-12-14

ACCORDING to Secretary Lincoln,
half the men who enlist nowadays in
the army do so only for the purpose of
getting sent west and then deserving.
He thinks that if the pay of the pri-
Yates were increased they would re
main in the service. Would it not be
best to adopt moral suasion by arrest
ing and shooting a few dozen of these
deserters2 That is the military law,
and it is poor military that is not
governed by it.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-12-14

If this story about Mr.. Tilden's
early marriage, at three score years and
ten, to a young lady be true, it will
be a worse case than eight to seven
against him.