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The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-03-16

THE BrOvn County Banner, un-
Willingly of course, does Governor
Roberts great injustice when it
says, in connection with the act of
Professor Baldwin in buying copies
of the governors book for the Sam
Houston normal school, that "when
it comes to using his official posi-
tion to foist such trash upon a state
normal school, designed for the edu-
cation of teachers, we think it
time to protest" The STATESMAN
would think just as the Banner does
if its assumption against Governor
Roberts were true, but it is not.
He had nothing whatever to do
with the purchase of the books, and
when the claim of the publisher
came before him, with Professor
Baldwin's endorsement for payment
upon it as well as that of the
local board, there was but one thing
for the governor to do, and this
was to put his name upon the ac-
count that the publisher might re-
ceive just payment for the books
he had delivered ON order from Bald
win, who alone has authority to de-
eide what books shall be used by the
normal school. The boards for the
different schools some time ago
commissioned Governor Roberts to
sign all such BILLS for them, that
time and expense of transmitting
accounts by mail to different trus-
tees, living in various por-
tions of the state, might be
saved; and so Governor Roberts
placed his name upon this account.
He could not have done otherwise,
for to have withheld his signature
would have been as unjust as to re-
fuse approval to an account for gro
ceries delivered on order for one of
the state asylums. All that the
STATESMAN wants to do here is to
show the Banner where it is wrong.
Were the case not as it is
we would take position with
it, and if it will trans
fer its condemnatory expressions to
Professor Baldwin, we will heartily
concur in all that is said, for the
STATESMAN has already expressed
itself very positively on the pro-
fessor's case.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-03-16
PROGRESS IN ARTILLERY
WORK.
An English Invention that in It's
Results Resembles Re-
cent American
Science.
[Londo1 Daily News.l

The power of great guns has been
developed to an extent hitherto un-
precedented in the course of expert
ments which have taken place at
Royal Arsenal proof-buts this week,
and were continued yesterday. OF
late the attention of artillerists has
been directed to the air-spacing of
cartridges as the probable key to
the secret of high velocities, and
some of the private manufacturers
have devised methods of introduce
ing the air and regulating its pre-
else quantity, which methods they
have jealously guarded against imi-
tations. AT the royal gun factories,
however, the superintendent, Colo
mel Maitland, II. A., has taken new
departure by giving up air-spacing
as an Improbable expedient and try
ing another system. Having found
by repeated trials the description of
slow-burning powder best adapted
to his requirements, he has designed
a contrivauce for retaining it in the
chamber of the gun until the pow
der is sufficiently fired to set up
pressure of about two tons per
square incf upon the base of the
shot, which then starts at bound,
the speed of which is accelerated
by the pursuit of the powder gases
until it leaves the muzzle. The re-
tention of the shot is accomplished
by a ring of metal fixed around IL
near the base, and so regulated as to
size that it will, when placed in the
- los he
bore through which it has to pass.
According to the resistance which
it affords will be the period of re-
tention. 1t has been demonstrated
by experiments with fired gunpow-
der that in a very strong
vessel the powder may be ignited
and converted into gas, but yet held
under subjectlon for an unlimited
time. The retention ring is made
of such strength that IL will surren-
der at a given pressure, and the
requisite conditions for the attain
ment of maximum velocities thus
appear to have been realized. With
the 10.4-inch gun a 462-pound shot
has been fired at a muZzle velocity
of 2275 feet per second, the equiva-
lent of which in energy is 16,6O0-
foot tons, but as the powder-charge
was somewhat IN excess of the SER
vice allowance it is fair to reduce
this velocity by 100 feet. 1t will
even then be far in advance of the
speed attained under former condi-
tions. The improvement has had a
stronger illustration In compete
tive trial between the two expert
mental 45-ton guns-that of Els
wick manufacture, with the air.
spaced chamber, and that of Wool
wich, with the retention-ring. The
former, with $50 pounds of powder
(rather above its service charge),
discharged zoe. pound projectile at
a velocity of 1900 feet per second
the latter, crammed with 400
pounds of powder and the same
shot, recorded a speed of 2l2O feet.
These figures represent in energy
respectively 1880 and 20,800 tons
per foot, and the advantage in an
attack upon armor-plates may be
assumed in the same proportion.
The discovery has created great sat
isfaction in the government depart
ments, and is expected to lead to
even more important results.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-03-16
THE SOUTHERN STATES.

A child with two heads was recently
born near Gadsden, Ala.
Two Columbus men are having q law
suit over an iron wedge worth forty
cents.
The ordinary Of Sumter county, Geor-
gia, announces that he will issue no more
license to sell liquor in that county.
A mad COW in Wheeling tossed little
girl FIVE years old against fence and
would have killed her had not somebody
scared the beast on.
A Young man of Rome, Ca, was twit-
ted SO often about his striking resem-
blance TO GuIteau, that he shaved on his
beard to obvlate the annoyance.
A strawberry raiser IN Chattanooga
says the prospects for the coming crop
are excellent. he expects to raise 10000
pounds on q nine-acre patch.
A young lady was attacked BY a COW
near Sparta, Ga. She caught the animal
by the horns and held her till laborer
In an adjoining field came TO the rescue.
Marshall Harston, a leading horse thief
in the counties about Macon, Miss, has
been tried and convicted, much 20 the
relief Of the citizens Of that portion OF the
state.
The committee appointed by the mayor
of New Orleans for that purpose, has re-
ported plan of settlement OF the city
debt which is regarded as a solution OF
the difficulty and will probably be adopt
ed.
Selma Times: An old white man, llv-
ing quite a distance from Selma. has
taken the trouble to write Sheriff Roun-
tree a note, in which he announces him
self willing to execute the Weisinger
murderers.
An effort to purchase the United States
arsenal 10 Augusta, Georgia, as q site
for hotel, has failed, as the federal au-
thorities were unwilling to sell. the
arsenal being the only one left in the en-
tire south east of the Mississippi.
Though the past winter has been un-
usually mild, the tide OF Florida travel
has exceeded that OF previous years by
at least twenty-five per cent. Jackson
Vile Is the point at which the travel con-
city of hotels.
The grand jury of Scott county Ken
lucky has indicted Patrick Henry, re-
ported drowned at Cincinnati last week,
for murder. About three years ago he
killed man named Lafe Penn, which was
supposed to be accidental. 1t Is thought
the drowning story 10 scheme TO es-
cape.
The suit of the Pullman Palace Car
Company against the Texas Pacific rail-
road, to restrain the latter from allowing
any other palace cars than the Pullman
TO run on the road, was argued In the
United States Circuit Court In New Or
leans on Saturday, and submitted to
Judge Pardee.
I A man named Joe Carlo, living In a
calm with his wife and one child, on a
| farm near Elizabethtown, Kentucky, has
been arrested for making counterfeit
money and committed TO jail: A search
! some boards, a fiye-cent mold and a
onantIfv OF pickels and twenty-five cent
| pieces. A great many OF them had been
| passed on the shop-keepers Of Elizabeth
town lately.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-03-16

THE latest estimate of the popula-
tion of France, Germany, Russia,
Austria and Italy is 2Ss,O00.O00
Their united armies on peace foot
ing, is 100000 men. If forced to
their utmost IN war they would
probably draw into the field fully
14,000, 900 men as food for powder
or about s per cent. of their entire
population. The United States has
apopulation of a,OOO, 900, and main,
tains an army of $4,000 men, a small
force, indeed, and yet half of it lott.
ers around the posts and about the
federal capitol doing nothing, but
captivating woman's heart and de
stroying nations.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-03-16

AN effort is being made to lead
Hon. John Ireland into the Inde.
pendent movement. Judge Ireland
has always been staunch Demo.
crat, and while he was treated un.
fairly by Cows. Coke and Hubbard
he is too true a man to abandon
principle because of personal injus-
tice. AS public man he is above
reproach, and could do nothing to
compromise the relationship OF
friends who have stuck TO him
He will never be led, al
least by those who want
a reckless leader to oppose Democ-
racy. Think of John Ireland, the
man who stood out in the darkest
days against the iniquities of Radi.
calism in Texas, now combining
with the chief agents of these in.
iquities to restore to Texas evil
government and public robbery and
shame. Those who deal without
authority with John Ireland's name
mistake their man. He lives to be
yet power in the political destiny
of Texas, but never through the
agency of Independentism, a thing
of false and utterly deceitful
name.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-03-16

THE legislature will be called
upon for a revision of our city char
ter. The proposition is to make the
position of mayor an honorary one,
without salary, to make the alder
men serve without pay, and to give
the mayor the power to APP
point executive officers, subject. at
any time to his removal. This is
precisely on the line of the STATES
MANS platform, and we hope to see
the revision promptly effected. In
this connection would it not be a re-
deeming thing for the councilmen
to repeal the ordinance giving them.
selves pay, before they are forced to
the position? While retrenchment
is SO much needed, decency should
long since have dictated the repeal
of this obnoxious provision.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-03-16

AND now "Sir Joseph" Hunt is to
be provided with a bran new navy.
What'he is going to do with it we
do not know; probably he may con-
clude to help Blaine out ON his
South American transactions and
should he do so the gentleman from
Maine will assign his valuable po-
lltical services to anybody and to
anything-even to Conkling.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-03-16

WHILE the Washington admins
tratlon is straining every nerve to
Mahoneize the south, the report
comes that the Democratic leaders
have determined to make a desper-
ate effort to carry every doubtful
state. They assert their ability to
carry Maine. and Massachusetts, and
probably Pennsylvania.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-03-16

PROFESSOR PERRY, of Williams
College, the author of an excellent
text book Oh political economy, ad-
vises Democrats to fight Republican
protection, and to make an issue Of
1t. "As a party" he says, we
shall never win except by the aid OF
popular grievance"
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-03-16

Mr.. CHARLES FRANCIS ADAMS
plan for national regulation of the
railways consists in the creation of a
commission of experts, consisting of
three members, one lawyer, one a
railway specialist and the third a
specialist in statistics and political
economy. All questions and dis
putes concerning interstate railway
commerce to be referred to this
commission, whose power is limited
to recommendation and collecting
data upon which to base future leg
islation. Mr.. Adams names Judge
Cooley, of Michigan, Robert Harris,
general manager of the Erie rail-
way, land General Francis A. Walker,
late chief of the census bureau, as
suitable persons to constitute the
commission.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-03-16

THERE are ten cities in the United
States having more than 100000
population and there are ten more
with more than 100000 population.
OF nine on the first list New York
and Boston have an English name;
Phiiadelphia is Greek; Brooklyn
Dutch; Chicago, Indian /; st. Louis,
French +; Baltimore, Irish; Cincin-
natl, Latin, and San Francisco,
Spanish. 80
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-03-16

SOME of the Texas papers seem TO
think the work of reapportioning
the state will create big fight dur
ing the extra session. Why not turn
the matter over to the Houston Age,
and thus avert row? A few
pounds of preventive are worth a
ton or two of cure.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-03-16

THE students of a university in
Michigan are boycotting a news
paper which accused them of acting
in a manner not in accord with the
instincts of gentlemen. Up there
this is small matter, but in a south
ern state not long ago it would have
been cause for reconstruction.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-03-16

THE smallest town in the United
States-and perhaps in the world
which in 1880 supported a daily
newspaper, was, strangely enough,
not a northern or western town, but
Weldon, North Carolina, whose
population was only $50.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-03-16

IT is stated that the Chinese, min
lister apparently enjoys Washington
society very much. When he makes
calls, as he does daily, his inter-
prefer always accompanies him.
His wife does, not haye any opror-
tunity Of learning English, since no
one, except her husband and her
women servants, all of whom are
Chinese, are permitted to be with
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-03-16

A correspondent of North and
South, a journal published at Buffa-
10, N. Y. makes some corrections of
statements as to manufacturing in
Georgia, which have appeared in
that paper, and says in conclusion :
1t will be seen that in Augusta
alone we have fully $1,000,00O in
vested in cotton mills actually in op-
Grafton, and about $2,000,000 more
which will soon be running. These
establishments are all, with a single
exception, ru n by water-power, fur
nished by the Augusta canal, which
is prac tically inexhaustible. 1t
woulv require more space than L
wou Id be willing to ask of you to
und ertake to describe the numerous
other cotton mills in Georgia, even
if l had the figures before me.
will only remind you that the Eagle
and Phoenix mills, at Columbus, Ca,
employ capital of 81. 100000, and
that there are other factories in that
enterprising city. There are also
very considerable cotton manufac-
turing establishments in Atlanta,
Macon, Milledgeville, Savannah and
Athens, besides others scattered all
over the state to the number of six
ty-odd, instead of forty-four, as
stated in the estimate" above quot
ed.
Commenting on this, the Courier
Journal thinks that what the Geor-
gia people need to do is to demand
tariff reduction, especially the tariff
taxation on cotton machinery
which in the expansion of their
manufacturing interests they want
to get as cheaply as possibleE
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-03-16

Hon. DAVID A. WELLS has writ
ten a letter to Senator Vance, of
North Carolina, congratulating him
on his late speech on the tariff. He
thinks it the best and clearest speech
on the subject ever made in this
country.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-03-16

THE Chicago Times is severe when
it says: Mr.. Sargent, of California,
will be able, as the agent of the
United States at Berlin, to give
Prince Bismarck some valuable
hints upon the management of the
German Government at election
finnao ~
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-03-16

BEN BUTLER thinks the appoint
ment of ConkliDg to the supreme
bench was a wise act. 1t is said
Butler now leans back towards Re
publicanIsm, and it may be that he
thinks one other retired politician
ought to be provided for.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-03-16

THEy Chinese merchants of San
Francisco have sent q dispatch to
the Hong Kong I Chinese merchants
urging them to stop Chinese emf
grafton to San Francisco. A mons
ter anti. Chinese meeting caused tbis
action. Nt si@ ! iG
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-03-16

ljARRANoEMENTs are being made.
to ship from five to ten thonsahd
Chinese te Portland, Oregon, to
work on the Northern Pacific rail-
road, before the law against their
coming is, PASSED. j
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-03-16

BoTH General Hancock and Gen.
Sherman agree that the army
should be composed of young men.
The former advises the retirement
of company officers at 4Q; Of field
officers at 55, and of general officers
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-03-16

to all measures enlarging the
powers of the federal government.
They are ample as they are, and the
states should be left TO take care at
least of the railways. We want no
interference by congress with them,
for they are creations of the state,
and are amenable to state
and not to federal laws.
A state commission, founded on
Mr.. Adams plan would be very
good, and if all the states were to
establish such commissions, which
now begins to appear possible,
very little objection, it appears to US,
could be raised. The COM
missioners of the different
states could consult, and
differences could thus be adjusted by
the states. The tendency appears
to be towards commissions, and
Georgia and Alabama have a sort of
reciprocity in the conduct of theirs.
1t is hard to tell what the Texas leg
isIature will do, but the COM
mission stands beforeu the
country in the most favorable light
and we are uncompromisingly op-
posed to conceding the manage
ment Ofrailways to the federal gov
ernment.. If the general govern
ment will do what is demanded of
it in the interest of water navigation
its hands will be full enough.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-03-16

THE inhabitants of the Pacific
slope have fully made up their
minds that the Chinese must go
and as John has no particularly
warm friends in any section of the
country, there is little doubt that
their desires will be accomplished.
The presence of Cinnamon is not re-
garded anywhere as an unmixed
good, and the advocates of his for
chile removal from this land OF
promise have something of justice
on their side. Furthermore, John
has never had the political fore
sight to get naturalized and conse-
quently not being voter will re-
ceiye no consideration at the hands
of our law makers in congress as.
sembled. Aff
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-03-16


1T is alleged that important evil
dence touching Guiteau's mental
condition prior to July has been
discovered, and that General Butler
will take charge of the case. The
doctors have agreed that he was led
to commit murder through insanity,
and after all, the rope may not
swing this miserable wretch into
eternity. DR.. Hammond says:
AS l have endeavored to show
quite recently, there is no necessary
connection between medical insan-
ity and legal insanity. Let Guiteau
suffer the full legal penalty for his
crime, but let him be executed with
the distinct understanding that he
Is lunatic deserving of punish
ment. To shut our eyes to his exact
condition, and to try to flatter our
selves that he was a normally con-
stituted mind when he shot the
president, is not only cowardly, but
impolitic.
Doctor Schuppert, a very Gel
ebrated physician aud surgeon of
New Orleans, has lately published,
in GMarPS Medical Journal, an
elaborate article, showing that mall
practice and not the wound proper
was the cause of the presidents
death. We have always con-
tended that mud poultice,
or some such simple thing, would
have saved the presidents
life. Guiteau in a freak of insanity
shot Mr.. Garfield, and then he died
because of improper professional
treatment. Now, what the STATES
MAN wants, therefore, is not that
Guiteau shall not hang, but that
there be hung beside him at least
one of the doctors who
helped kill the president.
A cranky doctor is a much more
dangerous being than little pistol
in the hands of an inexperienced
shootist, and if it be proper to break
the neck of murderous cranks, as
DR.. Hammond says, then it might
be we'll to increase the number of
doctors who should hang beside
Guiteau for implication in this
crime.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-03-16

IT IS alleged that anti-polygamy
meetings are very common just
now, and they are well attended by
men who think that they havO their
hands full to manage even, one wife.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-03-16

JUST upon the heels of the report
that Huntington and Gould have
been shaking hands, it is stated that
Vanderbilt has loaned Gould five
millions of dollars. '..
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-03-16

BLAINE's friends seem to think
he will make a racket in -polit-
ical circles yet-say about two years
from now.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-03-16

THE bill of Senator Garland, for
the Improvement and keeping in
repair of the 1evees ON the NLissisS
sippi river, names $15,OOO,0OO as the
amount to be appropriated. =
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-03-16

THE cotton masters OF England
have agreed to reconsider their re-
cent action, relative to the agree-
ment upon short time tilI III IA
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-03-16

APPLICATIONS for passes to the
Guiteau hanging are now being
sent in. The STATESMAN will be
represented, of course. 1 -
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-03-16

In 1s4s the otlce of.presideht was,
held by, Van Bureh, Hsrrison and
Tyler; in 1881 by Hayes, Garfield
and Arthur. Three presidents in
the same year does not occur often.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-03-16

KENTUCKY has 100000 gallons
of whisky stored away. 1t is not
likely that prohibition will make
much headway in that state.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-03-16

IT is probable that five state
tickets will be in the field in Name.
This fact viii render the campaign
lively. -s.4-
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-03-16

SOME of the congressman favor an
early adjournment.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-03-16

Now Washington territory wants
to become a state.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-03-16

q GLADSTONE continues to tighten
the screws, and the land leagues
continue to increase in number and
influence.