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The Dillon tribune., 1882-02-11

ana an had the sufferer brought down to the
Sisters hospital WV
AvAnr COURIER.
| We learn that all the bas.p.n+s ,,,a x,
lars in Gallatin CITY are flooded md ~,
water has rendered several Of the h";,d;, NV
untenentable. Mr.. Dunbar 'sif:,mi,v has h =
hotel. s'o'y ot the
a terrible accident occurred in Chesn,,,s
coal NINE in Rocky Canyon. Tuesday
p:,,1 ny which It is feared one miner
Dill Langston-will los. his life. II an
Ears taat Langston and his partner. I,hn
, a'n'n, prepared two blasts with g,ant
t; s., 'sn'ted the fuse, retired to SAT-.
t ,s"an ana alter waiting a short time
hes,' -, .oua report, and concluded thu,
S Sna- blasts had gone off simultaneo,,slv
~ :. waning a sufficient length of time
st,.t nsS lhousht, to avoid ali risk. thew
NJ ~ , oask. just as they arrived at f:,c..
viii, t.o ut' another explosion took place
ha"s 'i S eftect. Smith, who appears IT,
hios "sen IN the lc;td, received a sey,r.
r;n"s,,, 'u me breast, but was not very So.
On ~ INJURED; but Langston was s,ruck
eti;.ct .,,, "eaa and face with such terrible
live ', S.. II Is thought he cannot poss;hlv
;urs,, , Strange as it may appear the ~
. tmnns, n. managed to crawl out of H..
~ t,. and down to the tunnel and 'i, NC
house without assistance.
rii;S S'o ' as the sad news reached ro-,
Post S,r !o' Gordon promptly dispatchci
,nsast..s econ Bushnell to the scene NJ ,ho
: in nn.,,, ana seiesraphed to Col. Chcsn "I
ser;ouslv ;.'; smith, who WAS not vcr,
'"e''' was at once brought /;
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-10-12

DO Land, Wamayna Land, etc.-is
1926, $50. The total area ofrhe Bril-
tish possessions in South Africa is
261 ,484 square miles, with a popula-
ton of l, ,728, ,492. The population of
the Transvaal is 810,15S, only $4,000
of whom are white.
The Dominion of Canada has a
total area of 3,205,343 square miles,
with population IN 1881 of4,324,-
$40. 1t is noted that Manitoba has
been recently extended so as to in
clude an area of $780, 900 square miles,
while the northwest territories have
been divided into four distinct re-
gions. A very full statement is
given of the results of the recent
census in the United States.
The total result is that they
have an area of 3,702,9 ,990
square miles and population of 5O,-
442,066. AS the most Trustworthy
estimate of the area of Mexico, the
BeUOlker'ung gives 1,945,471 square
kilometers, while for 1881 a popula-
ton of 9,656.66S is given. OF the
Central American states Guatemala
had census in 1881, which gives
1857, ,497 as the number of inhabi-
tan.s. Venezuela also had census
in that year giving population of
2,075,245. The editors have not ven-
tured to tabulate any results from
the recent war between Peru and
Chill; but making allowance for the
recent adjustment of boundary be-
tween Chill and the Argentine re-
public, the area of the former is
given as 537,187 square kilometers,
and the population 2,420, 800, and the
latter 2,835,96 square kilometers,
and the population, as before 2,400.-
900. Brazil, as in former years, is
credited with population of Ii ,108,-
POI, that OF the census OF 1872.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-10-12

A PROMINENT man, q Democrat,
has been telling it that DR.. johnson,
when he gets colored auditors, tells
them he fought for the Union and
W hat if he does Is there anything
wrong IN DR.. johnson hav-
ing fought for the Unionp He was
at the breaking out of the war a
citizen of Ohio, an earnest, devoted
Democrat, and to be q Democrat
certainly does not make one dis
unionist. He fought for the Union (;
and so did Gen. Mcclellan and Gen
Hancock, and so was Tilden an
earnest Unionist. So was Hendricks
and Thurman, and host of the most
prominent and trusted Democrats
of the land. DIR. johnson moved his
family and his fortune from his
native state to Travis county, be-
cause he felt he could be respected
here, and so he is. He could have
been respected even as Republican,
but this he is not, clinging to the
Democracy as the last resort
of the people for reforms in
government. In Ohio he labored
for the cause of Democracy and as
sisted there in its triumphs in
Texas he has done likewise, and
the STATESMAN hopes he viii be
elected by as large majority as any
candidate on the county ticket. He
deserves it, and when he takes his
seat in the legislature we predict he
viii make the most efficient men,
Der we have had in the house in a
dozen years.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-10-12


Orr the 18th of September the
track of the Mexican national rail-
way was laid one hundred and two
miles out of the City of Mexico; I;
one hundred and seventy miles from
Laredo to Monterey; and something
over seven at Manzsnillo-in all two
hundred and seventy-Dine miles
built under the main concession
This completes the four hundred
and fifty kilometres stipulated in
the main concession to be finished
within two years from the beginning
of construction. This term OF two
years does not expire until October
IA, 1882 The com"any has built in
Mexico to this date, under other
concessions, seventy-four miles ad-
diiional, making its mileage already
constructed in Mexico s53. The
Texas Mexican lines extend l79
miles, making the total constructed
mileage of the company $50 miles.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-10-12
Total 3,O75,73

To this figure must be added for
Australia and New Zealand about
100000 natives. In Polynesia, since
the last issue, France has annexed
the Society Islands, Tamotu and
Gamben groups, etc.; the largest of
these islands, Tahiti, has an area of
1042 square kilometres, and popu-
lation of 9745. In 1880 the Fiji
Islands had a population of 121, 1884.
The total area of the Pacific Islands
(Oceania) is given as 176,184 kilo-
metres, and the population 1856, 800.
Turning to Africa, we do not find
many alterations in existing figures.
The total population of Sahara
desert is estimated at only 2,500,0O0.
In Egypt the previous figures are
repeated; the census which was to
have been taken last May has, we
fear, not come off. The Mohamme-
dan states of Central Sudan a pop
ulation of 100000 is given. Recent
French annexatiOns in the Upper
Nigre are referred to, but no attempt
made to give the statistics. To what
is called the equatorial regions, be-
tween the two coasts, the Sudan,
and the great lakes of the north, and
the Portuguese and Servians in the
south, population of AZ, ,000, 200 is as
signed. The combined populations
OF the Portuguese possessions on the
east and west coasts amount to TO-
00O, 600, while that of the many inde-
pendent states of South Africa
Malahite Land, Muato Janvo's king
dom, Suluiand, Swasi land, Wam-
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-10-12


DEMOCRATS should turn out to.
night and attend the mass meeting.
This conclave should result in the
complete working organization OF
the party in Austin, and Democrats
should at once go to work in earn
est to retrieve the political charac-
ter of our community. Democratic
candidates should show their hands.
Let them hold them up before the
people of the county and prove
that they are not stained with
"shakes" made over compacts with
the enemies of Democracy Clean
hands, and steady eyes to the front,
should be the distinguishing marks
of every Democratic candidate in
the county. If there be no such
marks, nominees, not thus dist;n-
guishable, should be labeled retired.
They should never more be permit
ted to hsrbor disorgsnization in
Democratic ranks.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-10-12

The National Woman Suffrage
convention, which has just closed its
session at Omaha, Nebraska, seems
to have been an unusually enthusias-
tic and vigorous assemblage of the
advocates of the equal rights of the
fair sex. The resolutions, which
were positive and to the point, call
for an amendment to the constitu-
ton of the United States eniranchis-
ing women and prohibiting the
states from disfrsnchising them.
They also call on the legislatures of
Iowa, Oregon and Indiana to ratify
the proposed woman suffrage amend
ments to their respective constitu-
tions, and assigned certain speakt RS
to the task of making a thorough
canvass to those states in the interest
of the proposed amendments. The
agitation of this subject is evidently
on the increase, and the advocates OF
q ballot unrestricted by the limits OF
sex profess themselves very much en-
couraged by the outlook for their
c ause.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-10-12

This total is upward of twenty
millions less than the total of two
years ago, which is at first sight
alarming. But Messrs. Behrn and
Wagner explain this by the fact that
from a denomination of the data
on which the estimate of the popu-
lation of China rests they have been
impelled to reduce that by some
thing like fifty million. There is
thus really an increase of thirty mil
lions since the last estimate of the
population of the globe, arising no
doubt from the fact that many of
the recent censuses are decennial,
and therefore this increase must be
spread over ten years. Besides our
own country and all its colonies and
dependencies, new censuses have
within the last three years been
taken in Germany, France, Austria,
Hungary, Italy, Sweden, Norway,
Denmark, Holland, United States,
Japan, and several smaller countries,
while for large part of the Russian
empire completely Few data have
been obtained. The following are
the population figures for the Euro.
pean states with the dates to which
they refer.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-10-12
EDITORIAL NOTES.

The German Catholic central So
ciety, now holding its session at
Milwaukee, has before it resolutions
declaring the prohibition agitation
mental epidemic, and making it OBJ
ligatory upon Catholics to educate
their children in parochial schools.
A queer custom is observed in a
town in Alsace, where the authori-
ties have recently published a care
full and true list of all the drunkards
who live therein. The list embraces
thirty-one persons, and all innkeep-
ers are forbidden to sell intoxicating
drinks to all persons whose names
appear on this roll of dishonor.
The national convention of dis
tillers and liquor dealers, held at
Cincinnati, issued declaration that,
while they have obeyed the most
oppressive laws, they believe the
sale of spirits should be placed on
the same footing as other merchan-
disc; that they favor a judicious
license system, aiding the govern
ment and protecting dealers.
DR.. Bell, in the Sdnitdridn, holds
that bad school house construction,
criminal crowding, exposure to soil
emanations, and want of ventilation
are the common conditions which
depress and stunt the intellect. He
compares the results of such expo
sure of the tender brains of child
hood to the badly-nourished, dwarf
ed and premature old age of curb
stone trees, fed upon poisoned food
through asphalt and cOal-tar pave
ments. He considers the poisoned
atmosphere of the school house dam
gerous in the inverse ratio to the
age of the pupil.
1t is reported that Adjutant
General Drum has made out list
of the good places in the army, and
their tenants, which is to be submit
ted to Secretary Lincoln and Gen.
Sherman with a view to reassign-
ments. This announcement will
bring a tremor TO the manly breast
of many a gallant officer who, by
dint of political and social influence,
has been snugly nestled away in a
soft spot, while other less favored
men have been doing hard work On
Iilc lEOuJlcI duI III IOluOIO ACluo. IL
is high time that the favoritism
which has encouraged these allot-
ments were exposed and brought to
an end.
From January l, 1882, to date
about 45,000emigrants have arrived
at New York alone. Of this enor-
nous number the secretary of the
commissioners of emigration esti-
mates that seventy-five per cent went
to the west, and that they have an
average of $S5 each in cash left after
reaching their destination. The in
dications are that 1000, 900 emigrants
will have arrived at Castle Garden
by the close of the year, and on the
1856 basis this would make cash adj
dition to the capital of the country
of $85, 100000, and if the estimated
value of immigrants $4,000 each to
the working capital of the country
be correct there will be 81, 900, ,O00, 900
more added to the country's wealth.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-10-12
RePubIicanism and Monopoly.
CSt Ionis Renuhlican1


IL is fact worthy of remark that
the widespread uneasiness in this
country at the growth and aggran-
disement of corporations is one OF
the products of Republican rule.
The Outcry against corporations and
monopolies was almost unknown
twenty years ago. Now it is the
chorus constantly uttered by mil
lions of voices. Party conventions,
legislatures, public messages and re-
ports, speeches in congress and
on the stump, pamphlets, essays
and discussions are necessarily
echoing it; and protracted strikes
by workingmen attended by animOs-
ity, suffering and immense losses
show all too plainly that it is a SUBJ
stantial evil of the gravest charac-
ter. On every side and almost ev-
cry hour we hear the complaint that
monster monopolies backed by COM
bined wealth are steadily advancing
to conquest of the country; that
the tremendous forces embodied in
new inventions and improved ma
chinery fall irrisistibly under the con-
troll of corporations; that in some
parts of the country the rich grow
constantly richer and the poor poor
er; and that colossal fortunes incon-
sistent with republican simplicity
and menacing to the public liberties
are amassed in a single generation.
Can any one reflect moment
without suspecting at least that the
policy of the Republican party has
brought this about? For twenty
years that party has manipulated
public debt expressed in billions,
and an annual public revenue
rarely falling below $400, ,000, 900, and
at every point of its financial policy
it has favored the wealthy creditor
classes against the masses. Capital
lists. banks, money dealers, corpora
tions and patentees have had the
ear of the government, and been able
to secure bonds and protective
duties by the million, and public
lands by the hundred millions of
acres, while the patient masses have
had no hearing. Is it any wonder
that these favored few have prosper
ed at rate that far exceeds the
growth and prosperity of the coun-
try when the dominant party at
Washington has been their faithful
ally and serv:tor? Republicanism
and monopoly seem to be so INSOFAR
ably blended that the only way to
get rid of one is TO overthrow the
other.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-10-12

Mr.. BEECHER assumes to be the
arbiter OF the moral questions
among New York Republicans, and
he has preached a sermon on Fol-
gers nomination. While we have
very little faith in the moral excel
lence of Mr.. Beecher, it is fact that
he is power in this respect among
the people of his section. He thinks
well of the nominee, but doesn't
like the way his nomination was
brought about, and he thinks the
Republicans of New York owe it to
the cause of good morals to repudi-
ate the action of their state conven-
ton by allowing the nominee to be
defeated.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-10-12

AGAIN THE STATESMAN urges that
these gentlemen who lie back taking
Democratic nomination tor Office,
and then excusing themselves to the
enemies of Democracy as having not
asked such nomination, be called to
the front and assigned to duty. Let
them work for the success of the
ticket or be retired to private life.
Rotation in office, it appears,is all that
is needed in Travis county to make
it thoroughly Democratic. Half of
the Democratic nominees retire be-
hind the scenes after nomination
and become either flesh or fowl
anything to secure vote. Such
men are never wanted again as
Democratic nominees, and the
STATESMAN will in good time ask
that they be remembered for their
most sinful omissions.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-10-12
Subjects of Criticism.
rRrenham Ranuar

The Austin STATESMAN says it
adheres to principles, not men, and
its duty is to criticise the course of
Democratic officers when their pub
lie acts call for criticism. In this re-
spect the STATESMAN is correct the
official acts of all officers, no matter
what political party they belong to,
are legitimate subjects of criticism,
and criticism of official acis is well
calculated to make officers careful in
the discharge of their duty.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-10-12

Hon. THOMAS M. MARSHALL, who
declined the Republican nomination
for congressman-at-large in Pennsyl-
vsnia, is outspoken in his denuncia-
tion of the political bosses in his
party. In a speech at Pittsburg, a
few days ago, he said he would not
support Gen. Beaver for governor
for the reason that "he had been
purchased like beef in the market
He further asserted that delegates to
the Republican state convention had
confessed to him that they had
voted with him for ga valuable con-
sideration."
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-10-12

AN item of passing history is the
establishment of banks in Mexico.
Up to February last there was no in
stitution of this kind in that repub-
lie. 1t has given to some French
capitalists the privilege of issuing
bills to the amount of 100000, 900 in
return for a government credit of
$l0,000,000. This unusual wealth in
the Mexican treasury, it Is asserted,
will be a safeguard against further
revolution, as the government will
be enabled, as it has not heretofore
been, to support an army long
enough to suppress an uprising of
the people under a pronunciamento
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-10-12

JUDGE A. Il. STRArToN, OF brazo-
ria, is an Independent candidate for
the state senate. He is very talen-
ted young lawyer, and should there
be no nomination in the Calves
ton district, it could have no
sbler representative in the state sem
ate. The Democratic convention, it
will be borne in mind, nominated
Col. Stone, of Galveston, for the SEN
atorship, but his business relations
forced him to refuse to make the race
and Judge Stratton may, in the end,
be the unanimous choice of the dis
trict.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-10-12
IT has been stated in Austin
specials that the Statesman Publish

IT has been stated in Austin
specials that the Statesman Publish
ing company failed to give bond for
that part of the state printing de-
nominated fourth class. This is in
correct, whether obtained from
an official source or otherwise. The
Statesman Publishing company
presented two propositions for
the state printing-one for all
classes, another for two classes. A
bid for one class was not presented
and when the printing board award
ed one class to the STATESMAN it
was refused. Therefore there was
no failure to give bond il was SIM
ply refusal to take an award con-
ferred not in conformity to the pro.
pOsitiOn.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-10-12

ACCORDING to the Ne,os, Messrs,
Reagan, and Culberson, anu Well
born and Mills should not make a
canvass In the interest of Demo-
cratic success. Holding Office, they
should stay out of the field, and de-
voting themselves to official thought
should rest their cause and the
cause of Democracy with the
people-leave them to say whether
the official acts of these men entitle
hem to reelection. Let no one
speak for Democracy; let all remain
quiet while the Ne,cs and the per-
sonal enemies of Democracy engage
in undermining the party structure.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-10-12

THE STATESMAN is lecturing the
candidates on the state ticket
(Democratic) because OF their failure
to go into the field and help Judge
Ireland canvass. 1t wants Uncle
Frank Lubbock and the whole team
of nominees, including those for the
high courts, to get up and go to
work. The advice is quite appro-
PIRATE save as TO the nominees for
the judgeships. They, in our opin-
ION, are doing right by staying
at home. A candidate for q Judge
ship should never be compelled to
resort to electioneering devices of
any kind. The Judicial scramble at
the Galveston convention was
enough, without q stumping canvass
now.-Wdco Examiner.
The STATESMAN is opposed to
the judiciary being dragged into
politics. It has often expressed
it's views on this subject, and
It opposed the adoption of
the present constitution because
of the elective provision for the
judiciary. But the evil is imposed,
aud the disgraceful scramble at Gal.
weston, which the STATESMAN COM
mented upon in unqualified terms,
made it more fisgrant. When the
judiciary, therefore, is made politi-
cal, we think the nominees should
bear their full burden of the canvass.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-10-12

DIR. JOHNSON was an original,
earnest Ireland man, and this is one
reason why he did not receive the
undivided vote of the convention.
Mr.. Smith was a dyed-in-the-wool
Roberts man. and yet, while the De-
mocracy of Travis county were for
Ireland, and instructed for him, the
Ireland men did not vote against
him. 1t is ungenerous in any men,
bers of what is left of the old Rob-
erts party to say anything deroga-
tory of Mr.. Johnson.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-10-12

THE Albany Erenang Journal, the
leading Republican paper of central
New York, on being taken to task
about its course with respect to the
Republican state ticket, says: "The
Journal, so far from leading, only
reflects family and dimly the out
spoken wrath of its friends and pa
irons. We cannot doubt that they
are right, and we know that they are
deeply in earnest. II we were to put
in our columns what these thousands
of lifelong Republicans say to one
another and to us, then indeed our
stalwart contemporaries would have
something to justify their talk about
treason"