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The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-08-03
The Despatch of Turkish Troops
to Egypt.
[Terjumgn-i-IIakIkat, Constantinople
June 23,1

We are face to face with a
terrible situation, and the meet
ing of conference is an
nounced f; invitations are issued and
accepted in the space of two days
and half, while for mere dinner it
is usual to issue invitations at least
a week beforehand.
Hitherto it has been the custom to
settle in advance the object for which
the powers met at conference or
congress, but on condition that the
aim justified the meeting of a con-
ference, and that a conference was
accepted by those concerned. More
over, the presidency of the confer
ence was given to the representative
of the power at whose capital the
conference was held. Are diplomat
ic usages all changed now?
The imperial Turkish government
has sent to Egypt a most able states
man, and there is no necessity to fire
shot or bother diplomatists and,
at the moment when this statesman
feels most confident about the settle
ment of the question, the powers,
without paying the slightest atten-
ton to that, and without taking any
notice of the Turkish gov
ernments refusal to take part
in q conference, persist in convoking
a meeting, to which the name of a
conference is given. This is an un-
heard-of thing in diplomatic an
nails. - 4 y
1t is well known that for some
days his excellency. Lord Dufferin,
and the other ambassadors, have
been constantly speaking to our
foreign minister and trying to per-
suade him to agree to conference,
assuring him that it would only con-
slider the Egyptian question, without
infringing in the least the sacred
rights of the Turkish government.
The only wish OF the powers, say
they, is to settle the question peace
ably.
But, on the other hand, the tele
grams announce that the English
government still insists on the four
demands contained in the ultima
tum sent to the khedive. Can this
be reconciled with the sweet words
used by the ambassadors to induce
the porte to take part in the confer
ence?
Are not the two things quite in
contradiction to each other? On the
one hand we have solemn promise
to respect the sacred rights of Tur-
key; on the other the demand that
such general as Arab Pasha should
be banished, who has done nothing
against his emperor and caliph, and
who, in order to show his dutiful re-
spect for the wishes of his sovereign,
suspended the repairs being made
in the forts Of Alexandria.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-08-03
Personal.

DR.. Cornelius Logan, M. D., minis
ter to Chill, has sailed for his post.
Captain John S. Wise, of Virginia,
the candidate for congressman at
large on the Readjuster ticket, was
born in Rio de JanelrO, Christmas
day, 1916.
III. Il. White is the author of the
"Gwendolen Mahaffey" and George
W. Simpson" novelettes of the Chi
cago Tribune. He is graduate of
theological seminary.
The total Indebtedness of the firm
of Morris r. Stroud Sc Son, cotton
goods manufacturers, Philadelphia,
who failed several days ago, is now
estimated at $250,000. At 6rst their
Liabilities were supposed to be about
100000.
Mrs. Oakes Ames, the widow of
Oakes Ames, of Credit Mobilier
fame, died at North Easton, Mas
sschusetts, on July 20. She leaves
three sons, Oakes, Oliver and
Frank NJ. all married, and one
daughter, Mrs. Henry W. French.
Bret Harte's new story, ''Flip,"
which is just concluded in the
Times Democrat, is one of the strong
est and perhaps the most beautiful
of all his stories. AS realistic as one
of Zola's, there Is an utter absence
in plot or phrase of anything ap-
preaching indelicacy.
The Margaret Fuller society of
Chicago, have issued neat pam
phlet containing topics for course
of study to be pursued by its men,
mers. The course is very full, and
the subjects exceedingly well diges-
ted. Mrs. Mary Dye, No. 772 Mon
roe street, Chicago, is the secretary
ofthe society.
The southern dental association
will hold its fourteenth annual ses-
sion in Baltimore this summer, be-
ginning August 8. DIR. E. S. Chis-
holm, of Alabama, is the president,
and the executive committee COM
prises Drs. Winder, of Baltimore; !;
Hunt, of Washington, and Hodgk kin,
of Washington. The address of
welcome will be delivered by DIR. B.
Holly Smith, of Baltimore.
Mr.. Richard Douglass Williams, a
well-known young lawyer and So
licitor of patents, in Baltimore, died
in Queen Anne county, Maryland,
on the nineteenth inst. He was q
graduate of the University of Vir-
ginia, and at the age of 21, in 1870,
was elected professor of chemistry
in the Maryland Agricultural Col
lege. His illness was due to over
work, resulting in typhoid fever.
Eight years ago he married Miss S.
E. Ewell, of Texas, his second cousin,
who survives him with two children.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-08-03
The Pension Craze.
TNeW York Evenfn0 Post I

The senate of the United States,
or the majority of its members, are
very much like Grandmother Small
weed, when the word pension is
mentioned in their hearing. They
suffer instant mental eclipse. All
the rules of discretion, fair dealing
and common honesty as regards the
public treasury disappear as if by
witchcraft. 1t is not even remem-
bered that the greater number of
surviving soldiers are taxpayers
and not pensioners. Still less it is
borne in mind that the pensioners
themselves are taxpayers, and that
the honest ones are defrauded by
every addition of a dishonest one to
the list. 1t is apparently enough for
them TO know that somebody wants
a pension or an increase of pension.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-08-03
A DEMOCRATIC PLEDGE.

THE Democratic party is pledged
to the maintenance of the UNIVERSE
ty, the cap stone Of our common free
school system, which the party has
already provided tor as no other
state provides. The efficiency of the
system has only to be perfected now
to make it as perfect as in any state,
and the operation of the university
will bring this about sooner than any
thing else. An able corps of pro-
fessors in the university will take a
deep interest in all pertaining to
common schools, for up from them
viii ascend the material out of
which the labors of these men
viii be directed towards
creating distinction for the univer-
sity. The perfection of the common
school system will be reached
through the university, and hence
the Democratic party pledges itself
to the successful Inauguration and
the sustenance of the university as
wen as to the more efficient and
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-08-03
POLITICAL NOTES.

Senator Malone is about to estab-
lish journal at Norfolk.
Ohio Republicans are so lost to a
sense of decency that it is said Kei-
fer's return to congress is assured.
The Chicago News declares that
"it won't be Logan's fault If the
troubles in Pennsylvania are not re-
peated in Illinois,"
Speaker Keifer sticks to Robson.
The adhesive plaster, the Pittsburg
Chronicle asserts, was applied when
the house organized.
"Millions for Robeson, and two
per cent for tribute" is the motto of
the congressional Republican. COM
mittee of Massachusetts,.
The Philadelphia Chronicle para
graphs thus: koscue Conkling APP
pears to be again throwing out hints
that new party would be agree
able to him.
When Mr.. Fussell, of Tennessee,
gets through his canvass his friends
will, doubtless, want to change his
name to Mr.. FRAGILE, for he will be
worn to that.
Mahone's days, the Springfield
Republican alleges, are pretty full OF
trouble anyway. His bossism was
of too hasty construction to work
smoothly for any great time.
The Washington Republican init
mates that "we 'uns," meaning the
Republicans, would like to see Cen
eral Longstreet entered against
Stephens in the gubernatorial race in
Georgia.
Mr.. Trescott, Blaine's special en-
voy TO Chilli and Peru, pending the
late secretary's attempt to steal
Peru, is out in q column communi-
cation exhonorating Blaine from
connection with any plan to gobble
up any portion of South America.
Now who will indorse Mr.. Trescott2
Mr.. John w. Brownlow, SON of
the famous parson, is clerk in the
postoffice department and Leonides
Caesar Houk, of Tennessee, threatens
to have him decapitated unless he
withdraws his opposition to Houk's
nomination for congress. Brown
low defies Houk to do his worst and
prints letter wherein he ventllates
Honk's rotten record.
The announcement in the national
house of representative that Robe
son is ga thief, a liar and a perjurer'
seems to have been received without
surprise. Yet to-day this same Robe
SON is the most influential man
among the Republicans in the house,
and men who would resent the mild
est charge of dishonesty show them
selves ready TO do his bidding. The
evidence brought out against Robe
son is of the most damning charac-
ter. He threw away millions of the
public money, and made foolish con-
tracts for spending millions more,
which were annulled by his success
sor. All this is known, and yet hon.
est men obey his orders.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-08-03
Beecher AboIishes Hell.

"When people ask me if L believe
that heaven is locality, or a place
fenced in from all trespassers, re-
ply in the negative. Heaven is as
bOundless as the universe. Ifyou ask
me if l think there is a hell-that is, a
locality or pit from which no inmate
can escape-I once more make a neg
ative reply. Do believe that there
is no punishment beyond this earth
life? say there is no place of end
less torment; but L do think there
must be a certain form or degree of
punishment that will extend for a
limit into eternity. This punish
ment will be the remorse for sin
committed. We shall be q great
while in the other life before we
cease to be sorry for the misdeeds Of
our earthly career. But ultimately
peace and happiness will come to
the souls of all"
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-08-03

In Spain, where the sun is hot, the
preparation of cooling drinks is re-
duced to an exact science. On the
Prado in Madrid, which now ex-
tends for miles, there are under the
trees, one may almost say at dis
tances from each other not greater
than fifty feet, stalls for the sale of
lemonade, ice cream, orange ice, and
drinks unknown to Americans, but
all refreshingly cheap. The Span
ish national drink, the travellers say,
is sugared water. The dealer sells
the water ice cold and furnishes
along with it peculiarly prepared
sugar, which dissolves the instant it
touches the fluid. This beverage
costs two cents glass, and the
"average citizen" does not hesitate
to sit down with it before him and
wait for the procession on that fash
ionable boulevard to pass. If he
has another cent or two he buys
some lemon juice to add to his
drink. If he is still more extrava-
CANT he pays seven cents for deli
cious sherbet. The Prado is liter
ally lined with thousands of chairs,
and the gayety of an evening is one
of the most delightful spectacles of
the Spanish capital. There are also
in Madrid large, airy and elegant
coffee houses, where every kind of
refreshing, but no spirituous drinks
may be had.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-08-03

The american PrOtectiOniSt, or
gan of the power that has controlled
Republican congresses in the inter-
est of impoverishing the people, at
last shows some degree of alarm
when it says:
at is high time that the activity
of the free traders was overmatch-
ed by greater activity, and that Wig
orous offensive campaign was
everywhere waged against the anti
protectionists, who are the enemies
of our prosperity. Protection has
everything to gain by agitation. 1t
has gained much during the last two
years by discussion, in which we
congratulate ourselves that our eff
forts have been fruitful; but in
the work of supporting organ
lied effort and circulating ef-
fective documents and papers the
protectionists are yet inexcusably
and unaccountably behind their OPP
ponents. The manufacturing indus
tries must now organize and act
upon no niggardly plan, or, as Mr..
Mason points out, much of the fruits
of recent work may be lost at the
coming elections. The free traders
are everywhere busying themselves
about the congressional nominations
with a view to securing enough
members to reverse or nullify the
work of the tariff commission. Thev
are intriguing in both parties in the
east, as we'll as in the west, and unless
they are met and matched everywhere
there is real danger that under one
false pretense or another the opinion
of the people on the great industrial
questions may be misrepresented in
the forty-eighth congress. Organi-
zation and discussion are the two
conditions of success. They were
never more essential than at this
hour. The freetraders will make
desperate fight and use both brains
and money lavishly, for they know
that this is their last chance"
The high tariff lords had as well
possess their souls in peace. The
people demand less taxation, and
their eyes are now open to the fact
protection imposes greater hard
ships upon them than all direct state
and federal taxation. The note
which was sounded at Galveston is
going to be repeated in every state
of the Union, and the people will
after a while rule, as the constitu-
ton teaches them they may.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-08-03
HOME MATTERS.

Mix a little carbonate of soda
with the water in which flowers are
immersed, and it will preserve them
for fortnight. Common saltpeter
is also very good preservative.
A tablespoonful of strong coffee
put in the gravy of melted butter,
pepper and salt to be poured over
beefsteak imparts delicious flavor
to gravy and meat. 1t makes the
gravy a rich brown.
Common soda is excellent for
securing tin, as it will not search the
tin, and will make it look like new.
Apply with piece of moistened
newspaper, polish with dry piece.
Wood ashes are a good substitute.
CURE FOR SUNsTRoKE.-As soon
as you reach your patient take hold
of him or her and carry or drag him
or her into the shade. Place the
body in a sitting posture, the back
against a wall, with the feet and legs
resting upon the sidewalk and ex-
tended in front of the body. Get
ice water and bottle ofsome strong
essence of ginger. Pour the ice
water over the head copiously, never
mind the clothes. Then put two or
three tablespoonfuls of the ginger
in about half tumbler of water, and
make the patient swallow itquickly.
Keep the head cool by using little
of the ice water, and in case there Is
not much of glow upon the body
give more ginger. If this recipe is
promptly used and fully carried out
in every case, the board of health
will never have a death to report
from this cause 1t is no experiment
or quack remedy. 1t costs but a
few cents and half hour or an
hours time. Ginger is by far the
best to use, but where il cannot be
had quickly, two or three good
drinks of brandy will answer.-Nea0
Orleans Picdyatne.
SMELL OF PAINT.-To get rid of this
most Objectionable odor in a cham
Der of living-room, slice few on
ions and put them in a pail of water
in the center of the room close the
doors, leave the window open a lit
tie, and in a few hours the disa-
greeable smell will have almost
gone. Another method is to plunge
a handful of hay into pailful of wa
ter, and let it stand in the newly
painted room over night; this plan
is also effectual. The foregoing
have the important advantage of
being simple remedies, as the me-
cessary materials are always easily
obtainable. Yet another plan, but
it is rather more complicated. Place
a CRATE oflighted charcoal on piece
offiag or slate in the center of the
room, and throw it on handful or
two of juniper berries; shut out all
the ventilation from the room Tor
twenty-four hours. The doors and
windows can then be opened, when
it will be found that the nasty, sick
ly smell of paint has entirely gone.
The furniture may be left in the
room during the process, and none
of it viii be injured.-CaIitor
Architect.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-08-03

The following are Prof. Vennor's
predictions: Jnly 21st and 22nd,
showers, cloudy and cooler at night,
windy and cooler, a decided change
in the weather; 23rd, fair and warm,
with cool nights; oath, cooler and
moist winds, rains west and south ;
25th, excessive and windy storms,
evening and cool night; Goth, fre-
quent rains and much cooler, windy
weather; 9th, continues cooler,
with cool to cold nights; 28th, very
fine and pleasant in majority of sec
tions; 29th, warmer again, with
storm clouds; 30th, unsettled and
showery stormy; 31st, cloudy and
showery; periods of storms, cool
nights, much more rain latter part
of month in northern and middle
sections. The neighborhood of the
Goth and 9th are likely to be the
coolest portions of the month.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-08-03
TO COTTON CUL-
TIVATORS.

Arab Pasha is going to hand his
name down to history, whether
Egypt be benefited by his course or
not. He leaves nothing undone that
may tend to strengthen his position,
and he is going to fight with the
world combined against him. He
has succeeded in making the khedive
powerless, and has raised the feel
ings of the Egyptians to war bent
against Englsndand other foreign in
fluences. He has employed his time,
since retiring from Alexandria,
profitably in this direction, as the
action of the notables in their meet
ing at Cairo shows. They have for
mally denounced the khedive as a
traitor, and have espoused the cause
of Arab. But the most signlti-
cant step taken by the nota-
bles is their declaration of war
against England, and their call
upon all good Moslems to join in
fighting against her. This signifies
bitter and bloody war before the
rule that England insists upon can
be established over Egypt, and even
after organized resistance to the
khedive shall have been suppressed
it may require English bayonets to
maintain him. The appeal to the
religious fanaticism of the Mahome-
dan is one that swskens all the cour-
age of his barbaric nature. 1t is
this sentiment that Arab Pashi has
been laboring to arouse, and now he
will kiDdle it into a flame of relig-
ious intolerance, bigotry and de-
struction. The effect of these inflam-
matory appeals and proclamations is
visible even within the city of Alex
andria, where English authority is
supreme. The natives are sullen,
and even iDsolent, and no doubt
many, if not most of them, are
secretly in league with Arab. The
British government seems to realize
the proportions of the task it has
undertan. The expedition that ls
now fitting out for Egypt is to be
increased by an additional 10000
men, and preparations are being
made to follow it with another. The
indications are that the war is going
to be real, lasting luxury, and the
STATEsMAN's advice to the people
of the south is to cultivate their cot
ton fields well, and to save every
pound of lint that grows in them.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-08-03

The New York board of trade has
memorialized congress on the SUBJ
ject of ocean telegraph companies.
They set forth that, owing to stock
watering and combinations between
the old companies, the public pays
two or three prices for telegraphic
communication with Europe. The
bill now before the house to charter
new company provides that it
shall not consolidate with any other
company, but says nothing about
combinations to raise prices. The
memorial suggests that a provision
be inserted providing that the COM
pany be not allowed to charge more
than twenty-five cents a word, which
rate was charged by all the COM
panies for a long time.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-08-03
The wife of PRESIDENT BarrIos.

The Washington National Repub-
Iican, of the twenty-second says i:
Sonora Barrios, who arrived Thurs
day afternoon from New York city,
where she has been residing in re-
tirement for the past six months, is
probably the most beautiful of the
female representatives of foreign
countries who has ever visited the
United States. She is of medium
height, of faultless figure, carries
herself with exquisite grace, and has
face which is the perfection of
beauty. The face is perfect oval,
and the complexion is faultless in its
fairness and purity. The features
are as perfect in form and outline as
in the canoes or lntaglics of the old
Florentine masters. Her eyes are
very beautiful, as are those of most
ladies of the Spanish races. This
lady is now only twenty-three years
hof age, yet she is the happy mother
of six living children, the youngest
of whom was born on the Fourth of
July, in New York city. She Is a
fine linguist, speaking French, Eng
lish and Italian fluently, besides her
native Spanish. She paints much
better than a mere amateur, and is
an accomplished musician and
singer.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-08-03
Initiating the Magnet.
1Philidelnhia LedOer-1

While modern inventors have
been actively competing with each
other in devising new and useful ap-
plicatlon of the magnetic force, be-
ing stimulated thereto by the pros
pect of large pecuniary rewards, the
modest physicist of the university
of Christlanla, Norway, Prof. Bjerk-
ness, has been quietly delving into
its mysteries, and endeavoring to
reveal its hidden character. The re-
suits of his investigations are cer-
tainly very suggestive, and his Gu
rious experiments have elected
much favorable comment, besides
giving great deal of delight to
those fortunate enough to witness
them.
Prof. Bjerkness has been able to
closely initiate many of the we'll
known phenomena of magnets by
simple mechanical means. His ap-
paratus consists essentially of an air
pump, few little metal drums pro-
vided with elastic membranes, some
india rubber tubing, and a small
tank of water. The drums are I'M
ihOI oOu III IuC WdlCI duu COHuCCICu
with the air pump by means of the
tubing. Pulsations of air are sent
into the drums, causing the men,
branes to expand and contract rap
idly, and very curious result ex-
hibits itself. Let us imagine one of
the little drums supported in the
water in such way that it is free to
swing in q circle, like compass nee
die, and another precisely similar
drum held near to 1t. If synchron-
Gus simultaneous pulsations of air
are now sent into the two drums, so
that the outward and inward pull
sations of the membranes of both CO.
ineide, the two drums will immedi-
ately attract each other. If the pull
sations are so adjusted that the out
ward push of the membrane of one
drum comedies with the inward pull
Of the other, the two drums will re-
pei each other. By ingenious mod
ifications of the arrangements vari-
Gus effects are produced, intimately
resembling those of magnetic ac-
ton, and, indeed, strongly suggest
ing a similarity of cause as well as of
effect. Even the lines of magnetic
force, as revealed by the iron filings,
have been counterfeited by this me-
chanism.