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The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-09-07

DANIEL WEBSTER said that the
"freest government can not long en-
dure where the tendency of the law
is to create rapid accumulation of
property in the hands OF a few, and
to render the masses of the people
poor and dependent" According
to the great statesman, then, this
government as administered by the
Republican party is rapidly going
10 decay,
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-09-07
Naval EngIneer Drown.a

NORFOLK, Va, Sept. 1.-The Poto-
mac river steamer brings intelli-
gence of the drowning of Chief
Engineer w. NJ. Wood, United States
navy, yesterday morning about ten
o'clockSwhile crossing Smit his creek,
at Point Lookout, in a sail boat.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-09-07

Mr.. Malone has not yet been able
to buy off Mr.. Fulkerson's oppo-
sition with the Peruvian mission.
On Saturday last Fulkerson de-
clared himself an independent can
didate for congress, and asserts thst
he will antagonize his late boss, sup
port the Democratic state ticket,
and, If elected, vote with the Demo-
Gratis IN congress. Little Billy is
certainly finding politics hard road
to travel, Notwithstanding his ephe-
neral successes.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-09-07

THIRD ASSISTANT PosTMAsTER
GENERAL HAzEN says that the post
Office department, after paying all
expenses, will put about one million
of dollars into the treasury vaults on
account of the fiscal year just closed.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-09-07
TERMS OF suBscRIprIoN.

The Express opposes Judge Han
cock IN just the same style as does
the San Antonio Light. One would
think the two were conducted by
the same editor, the matter being so
similar.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-09-07
Defying Acute Analysis.
New York Times, Rep,1

Maine politics are always inter
esting, even when they become mex
plicable, and this year there is more
than the usual variety of opposing
forces to invite speculation and defy
accurate ANALYSIS.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-09-07
Helping Himself.
New York Sun, Ind.l

The opinion has taken deep root,
perhaps unjustly, that the assess
ments are to be applied in Michigan
in securing Hubbell legislature,
before other and more impartant
points are cared for.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-09-07

In the Gulf near Apalachicola,
Florida. saw6sh of immense size
was captured. 1t was fourteen feet
six inches long, torty-two inches
across the body, the saw forty-one
inches long and seven across the
centre between the points of the
teeth, weighing 500 pounds.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-09-07

Lovers of the aesthetic sunfower
should be in Franklin, Tennessee,
where one gloriously blossoms,
measuring forty-seven inches and
weighing ten pounds, aud bends its
highly-colored face to the sunlight.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-09-07
Total. ....1.2 .249, ,9O1

The total amount of public land
disposed of in every way during
the same year has been in the same
states as follows:
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-09-07
BEN FIcLIN.

our county seat, Is almost wholly
destroyed. The water rose to q
height OF 10 feet upon the court
house, which with the Jail and
Mr. ElIiot's residence alone remains
upon the fat. The majority of
Huntsville gazette., 1882-09-02
Manchester as a Seaport.

The possibility of converting Man
chester into seaport is once more agi-
tating the minds of the inhabitants of
that city. Time and again this scheme
has been talked of, but just as frequent
ly has it retired into the limbo of unreal
dreams, until Liverpool never disturbs
itself at the cry and Lancashire Railway
Shares experience no perturbation when
it is heard. But on the present occa-
sion the promoters of the Irwell Canal
are in earnest, and, having decreed that
ships shall sail in from the Atlantic and
unload their bales at the Manchester
wharves, they have appointed a COM
mittee to obtain estimates and surveys,
and begin operations at once, provided
the report proves favorable. The social
and commercial results of turning an
inland town into an Atlantic harbor will
be so remarkable that the comparative
ease with which the difficulties in the
way could be overcome is apt to be un-
derestimated. M. de Lesseps digs a
trench. from the Mediterranean to the
Red Sea; General Turr is at work on the
Isthmus of Corinth though the NOV
ing spirit of the Suez Canal is at present
engrossed with Egypt, we are assured
that all is going well with the. nayvies
who are bent on dividing the barrier be-
tween Colon and Panama. But, with
the exception of the waterway through
Egypt, the excavators have not the ad-
vantage of lake or stream in any part Of
the course of these navigable bitches.
Between the Mersey and Manchester
the line of the proposed ship channel
already exists in the shape of the II
well, that uncleanly river which flows
through Manchester and Stafford. Creep
ing past Warrington, Widnes, and Rum
corn, it falls into the Mersey, seven and
a half miles below Liverpool, after de-
scribing course of some thirty-seven
miles.
Here, then, is the canal--if canal it
can be called-ready marked out for
the engineers. All they have to DO
is to deepen it sufficiently to admit the
tide. This, it is believed, will be cheap
er than TO- construct locks, and in the
end infinitely more convenient. Once
this is accomplished-aud the whole
affair is simply question of money and
little Strengthening here and there-the
Huntsville gazette., 1882-09-02
LATE NEWS ITEMS.

GEN. WoLsELEY telegraphed from
Ismaiia, Aug, o. as follows: 81 have just
received news from the front that Gen. Gra-
ham was heavily attacked last evening by a
large force Of Egyptians. The British cav
airy from Mahsameh went to his assistance,
and he has had brilliant success, taking
eleven guns. Only a few British were
killed, but over 100 were wounded. I am
just about to proceed to the 'front.'"
Two Legislatures organized in Zaca-
tecas, Mexico, Aug. 80, one composed of
friends Of the general and State Govern
ment, the other Of friends of General Garcia
Cadena, who has presidential aspirations.
A fight occurred between Cadena's friends
and State troops. After a sharp contest of
twenty minutes, in which one rebel was
killed and three soldiers were wounded,
Cadena and his followers surrendered.
The French fishermen in Newfound-
land report the fishery a complete failure,
and the people are despondent
CoNRAUK, the French missionary re-
ported killed by native mob at Pershun,
near the Amoor River, China, still survives,
but in pitiable condition. The injuries
inflicted on him were Of the most horrible
kind. The French Legation at Pekin is now
investigating.
TURKS and Greeks have been fighting
for disputed territory on the Thessalian
frontier. taf.
AT Brockville, Cana, Aug. 28, al man
named james McGinness delivered himself
to the police, stating that five years ago,
while a waiter in the Grosvenor Hotel, Lon
don, Eng, he, in company with two others
whom he did not know, murdered three
men, also unknown. He is being held to
await developments.
A CATTLE train on the Grand Trunk
was thrown down an embankment near To-
ronto, Aug. %. Nine cars were completely
wrecked. Out Of 1862 cattle 100 were killed
outright, and several so badly injured that
they had to be slaughtered. The train
hands saved themselves by jumping.
HUGH BURNS, an indianapolis police
man, attempted to quell a disturbance in
saloon the other night and was shot dead by
J. j. Jater, a Kentucky young man. The
murderer narrowly escaped lynching, and
was finally jailed after stubborn resist
ance.
JACOB DREIsTADT, of Green Bay,
Wis, quarreled with his wife, Aug. IS, and
killed her with shotgun. When officers
sought him the next day he shot himself in
the chin, making serious wound
JAMES REILLY murdered his brother
in-law, Robert Desmond, in Long Island
City, N. Y, Aug. %. Both had been drink
ing, but it is said the quarrel arose from the
fact that Desmond had been beating his
wife.
Huntsville gazette., 1882-09-02
Fires in Coal Ships.

The liability to spontaneous ignition
of the cargoes of coal-laden vessels and
the precautions that tend to lessen the
liability form question the full impor-
tance of which one would expect every
owner of such vessels to recognize. The
Board of Trade has, however, consid-
cred it necessary to once more. place
before agents, owners and others q
Recommendation of the Royal Commits
sioners who considered this subject, and
which advises the periodical and fire.
quent testing of the temperature of
various portions of the cargo. If prop
erly performed, this would greatly de-
crease the chances of ignition occurring,
though it would never completely avert
them. Almost all cases of spontaneous
ignition are directly due to some chem
ical action-generally oxidation-which,
acting in a confined space, gradually
generates sufficient heat to set fire to the
coal. The oXidizing of the impurities
in the coal is almost invariably the cause
of this spontaneous ignition; and of the
impurities, iron pyrites are found the
most dangerous. When, therefore,
coal is notoriouslv "brassy," as many
VI Jul COdiS dlt, but
of a shipmaster should be increased and
stricter attention paid to the variation
of the temperature of the cargo than
when the coal is comparatively pure.
1t is, of course, often an extremely diff
ficult matter to ascertain the actual tenn
perature of the almost inaccessible inte-
rior of a great bulk of coal, and this diff
ficulty is very frequently only imperfect
ly overcome, or not overcome at all.
During the voyage of the Challenger q
simple electrical contrivance was used
for ascertaining the temperature of the
sea at depths inaccessible to the ther-
mometer, with perfect success. The
question suggests itself whether a some-
what similar method could not be en-
ployed on shipboard, With a few Of
these electrical thermometers distrib-
uted throughout the mass of coal, a ship
master could at any time, and with un-
falling certainty, ascertain whether the
temperature of the interior of his cargo
was becoming too high for safety, and
so would be early enabled to take tho
necessary steps to prevent fire and ex-'
plosion.-Ldrerp0ok MeTratqIy. Hf tul .
Huntsville gazette., 1882-09-02
NUMBER -42.i,a

American cotton ships with their f4O,-
100000 of freight, and the return ves-
sells with manufactured goods to like
amount may come and go without him
drance.. Upward of f1,000,000 per an
mum it is estimated will be saved in
carriage; propertyin and about the city
and along the line of the river will rise
enormously in value; the Tyldesley coal
held will receive an impetus its owners
never knew; great docks will rise like
magic at the eastward terminus of the
excavation; wayside villages, jetties,
landing places and stations will spring
up where only farm yards, MOSES and
pit villages are now seen; and what the
Manchester men can not but regard as
Nemesis on their overgrown prosper
ity-Liyerpool and Birkenhead will be-
come as deserted as Stavoren and Enke-
huizen, or as Venice or Genoa after
Vasco di Cana sent the tide of COM
merce flowing around the Cape of
Storms.
Without indulging in visions quite so
airy, the utility of this waterway can not
be denied, while its practicability may
be admitted. If it cost five millions-or,
as some will have it, thrice as much
the present trade of Manchester would
warrant the construction of the works,
and the expectation of a fair dividend
to its shareholders. With these ques-
ton we have, however, little to do. An
engineer knows nothing of impossible
ties. Give him money and he will
accomplish anything of mangling of
mother earth that he is commissioned
to undertake. 1t is for the. men of fig
ures to balance the profits and the ex-
penditures.- london Standard.
Huntsville gazette., 1882-09-02
wounded his wife and then turned the re-
volver upon himself with fatal effect. Jeal-

wounded his wife and then turned the re-
volyer upon himself with fatal effect. Jeal-
ousy.
len colored participants in the recent
rlot at Eastman, Ga, have been sentenced
to Imprisonment for life,
M. M. BUFoRD, aged 16, was acci-
dentaliy killed, at Dallas, Texas, on the 9th,
oy a bosom friend named Herndon, who
didn't know the pistol was loaded.''
HERE was a tragedy in court
room at Knoxville, Tenn, the other day.
Gen. j. Fl. hlabry and his son James A.
appeared against Moses and d. c. Lushy,
father and son, and during thc hearing The
latter made some disturbance, whereupon
two shots were fired by one of the Mabrys
and Moses Lusby fell dead and his son
was mortally wounded. There had
been GOODNESS between the two families
for some time, due to the shooting Of VIM.
Mabry by D. C. Lusby last Christmas.
FELIPE CHAvEs, a wealthy stockman
of Valencia County, n NJ, was murdered
for money the other day, and his body was
placed on the track to be mangled.
GEN. c. j. Powers, a well-known
lawyer of Rochester, n. Y, was fatally in
jured by fall the other day.
FREDERICK NOBLE, of Philadelphia,
was drowned while yachting near Erie, Pa,
on the 26th. Frederick w. Remington, Of
New York, who was found clinging to a
caps:zed saiiboat, reported the drowning Of
a companion named George Cornell.
A RABBLE numbering five or six hun
dred captured a truck loaded with seized
beer in Augusta, Me-, the other day, pelt-
ing the driver with stones. After breaking
open the cases and indulging freely, the
revelers transferred the remainder to a wa
gon owned by a ward politician.
A YOUNG lady named Vincent was fa-
tally injured by train at Summitville, Ind. :,
on the Goth.
THERE was a double tragedy at lie.
land, La Sale County, H., on the Goth.
Jonathan NJ. Stratton, prominent attor-
ney, was killed by his wife, who then COM
mitted suicide. They were not happy, the
first quarrel arising out of 1900 left to
Mrs. Stratton just after her marriage, two
years ago, she claiming that she had not
been given fair share of it. The last one
was brought about by Mr.. Stratton accepting
a retainer from q saloon keeper, as she was
a strong advocate of prohibition. High
words were exchanged, and the husband
threatened to obtain a divorce. This SO ex-
cited the wife that she got revolver and
shot him in the breast and herself in the tenn
Pile. Mr.. Stratton had two children by
former wife. and Mrs. Stratton one by hus-
band from whom she had been divorced.
A DISPATCH from Calcutta says Hin
docs and Mohammedans at Salem have been
trying to extInguish each other. The houses
of the latter were burned, and the princi-
pal mosque almost razed TO the ground.
CONTRIBUTORS to the Irish fund
threaten the trustees with violence if they
do not satisfactorily account for $4,000.
THE English artillerists shelled the
Egyptian camps at Aboukir on the 26th,
eliciting but feeble replies, and it is thought
that Arab has withdrawn the bulk Of his
army to cover Cairo.
Huntsville gazette., 1882-09-02
miscellaneous Items.

Jonesboro, Ark, had sensation at a
prayer meeting the other night. Rev. j. II.
Porter, the leading divine of the place,
while exhorting bis hearers to come for
ward, was noticed to gasp for breath. and
his eyes filed with tears. He at last recov-
cred and called out: ''My God, is it so? Is
nv work done?'' Before those nearest
could catch him he fell to the pulpit chair.
lie had been stricken dumb and all efforts
to restore his voice have proved unavaiing
A centipede fell into the pot in which
party of five campers were cooking their
dinner, near Fort Worth. Tex, and the men
we're all poisoned.
Huntsville gazette., 1882-09-02

NEARLY three hundred new members
were received by the American Science AS
sociaton at Montreal. Professor Bell eX-
hibied his electric instrument for finding
bullets in the human body, and undertook
to explain why it failed in the case Of Presi-
dent Garfield.
Huntsville gazette., 1882-09-02
Won the Wager.

Fred Flasher and Miss Florentia
Flounce were discussing the mental
power of controlling thought. Said
Flasher: r.tryg
81 will give you a pair of gloves if
you can think of positively nothing for
five minutes and still be awake."l reJt-
"Done,' she responded. res..JlaasI
Five minutes passed.
" ave won the gloves" she exclaimed.
elbow did you manage to think of
nothing for the whole five minutes?'' he
asked, eagerly.
~ fastened my mind firmly on your
mustache and kept it there she re-
piled, triumphantly.
The referee awarded her the gloves.
-Detr0U Free Press. aa ftfsf .aI
Huntsville gazette., 1882-09-02

A MOB of over fifty men, headed by
the Sheriff and Treasurer, removed the safes
and records OF Grant County, Minnesota,
from Herman to Elbow Lake the other night
The Auditor and Register of Deeds will not
oflciate at the new point, and the Supreme
Court will be compelled to decide the mat
Huntsville gazette., 1882-09-02

EX-GOVERNOR KoERNER, of Illinois,
letter on the temperance issue. in which he
takes strong ground against the Maine and
Kansas laws, and such prohibition Of manu-
tacture as is involved in the constitutional
amendment adopted in Iowa.
Huntsville gazette., 1882-09-02

IT is stated that General Grant will
decline to serve as a member of the commits
sion framed to establish commercial rela-
tions with Mexico. He claims that all that
is necessary to be done is to lower the GUS
toms duties in both countries.
Huntsville gazette., 1882-09-02

WILLIAM PITT KELLOGG has finally
hoan persuaded TO accept the Republican
nomination in the Third Congressional Dis
.rict Of louisiana.
Huntsville gazette., 1882-09-02
PRESIDENT ARTHUR has been iunket-

PRESIDENT ARTHUR has been junket-
ing about Newport, r. I. He visited Fort
Adams the other day and reviewed the gar
rison, after which battery drill took place.
reception at the villa of Edwin d. Nor
gan, where SO, 200 had been expended for
flowers, lasted from o'clock until 7, and
was graced by the presence Of many distin-
gMished persons
Huntsville gazette., 1882-09-02

MERRIcK, counsel for the prosecution
IN the star-route trial at Washington, de-
mands verdict Of guilty against John w.
Dorsey John r. Miner, Stephen W. Dorsey,
H. NJ. yaile, Montford c. Rerdell and Thos.
i. RralY.
Huntsville gazette., 1882-09-02

CABLEGRAMs from Constantinople
report the arrest of fifty persons engaged
IN enistng men in behalf Of the Khedive.
Osman Pasha is said to have been the in
termediary. A secret investigation is beipg
,nnln
Huntsville gazette., 1882-09-02

THE Post-oflice Department will turn
into the Treasury surplus OF $l,ooo, ooo for
fhe fiscal year.
Huntsville gazette., 1882-09-02

GENERAL SHERMAN will establish his
home in st. Louis before the date OF his
retirement from the army.
Huntsville gazette., 1882-09-02
a Summary of Important Events.

THERE has been q terrible cholera
on;d.mie in the Philippine Islands.
Huntsville gazette., 1882-09-02

A COMMITTEE is being organized in
London to place in Westminster Abbey a
bust OF L0ngfellow.
Huntsville gazette., 1882-09-02

THE Treasury Department, with an
onnropriation of $4,000, is about to es-
.abj,b at the chief Atlantic seaports quar-
.niine stations for imported cattle.
Huntsville gazette., 1882-09-02

The Commissioner on Indian Affairs
has received telegram from Agent Mills,
Of the Cheyenne and Arapahoe Indian
Agency,in the Indian Territory, in which it
is stated that the Northern Cheyennes have
declared their intention of migrating to Pine
Ridge Agency. in Dakota, regardless of the
wishes Of the Indian Office in the premises.
Huntsville gazette., 1882-09-02

The stealer of horse in Minnesota
could not find a saddle, and took sack
Of feathers to ride on. The sack had
hole, the feathers were slowly strewn
along the road for twenty miles, and by
means OF them the rascal was hunted
down.
Huntsville gazette., 1882-09-02

b Monkeys, says Alfred r. Wallace,
are usually divided into three kinds
apes, monkeys, and baboons but these
do not include the American monkeys,
which are really more different from
all those ot the Old World than anv Of
the latter are from each other. Nat
uralists, therefore, divide the whole
monkey tribe into two families, one
having its habitat in the Old World,
and the other in the New World.
Huntsville gazette., 1882-09-02

The Chinaman in America has been
slow in finding out the difference be-
tween eyaporated apples and steam
dried shavings; between Zante cur
rants and dried bluebottle flies. But
at last his eyes have been opened. He
now, on the Pacific coast, buys fruit
on the parent stem, gathers it himself
and dries it in his own peculiar style.
Some of the product finds its way to
China.
Huntsville gazette., 1882-09-02

The New York State Freethinkers
adjourned to meet next year at Saratoga.
The resolutions adopted declare that the
only men who can not rejoice in freedom Of
thought are the clergy; that the war upon
the church is simply one Of unselfishness; !;
and that no distinction should be made
which denies to woman the right to be man IS
competitor for any position.
Huntsville gazette., 1882-09-02

Miss ALICE G. FLETCHER, a con-
scientious laborer in behalf of the Indians,
mas reached Carlisle, Pa, with thirty-six
children of the Omaha tribe, thirteen of
Whom are girls. During her tour she Wis
lied the camp of Sitting Bull and selected
Ten pupils for the Carlisle school, and sixty
more will be taken from the Rosebud and
Zine Ridge AGENCIES next month
Huntsville gazette., 1882-09-02

zen. WoLsELEY reports that he ad-
Fanced with about 1000 men, Aug. "a, and
LOOK possession Of a dam the enemy had
constructed across the canal near MAGYAR.
Inc Egyptians brought up reinforcements,
out were held in check all day. AT Port
'"iu and Damietta native merchants have
subscribed money for Arab. Some 5000
isyp'ian troops have been withdrawn from
ue'ofe Alexandria to cover Cairo on the
east
Huntsville gazette., 1882-09-02

IHE British forces now hold the Suez
S1uai throughout its entire length. The ad-
aAVe Of the cavalry and marine artillery has
'eI ordered. The fresh water is failing
fNCepuoly at Ismailia. 1t is feared that
--'Sol PaSha has diverted its course. The
GaI'i ompany has issued notice request
~ ,1S economy in the use of water. Ruchdi
=: aSHL formerly the Khedive's Minister of
s." nance, and Zulkifar Pasha, of the Khe-
~'es household, who had espoused the
N"use OF Arab Pasha, have been captured.
ihE Democratic Congressional nomi-
I''ohs n include John Hancock for the
ontn District Of Texas, John E. Halsell
M the Third District of Kentucky, l.. II.
n Iof the Fourteenth District Of Mis-
n' NUT. Judge J. H. Reagan in the Second
is'ricI ,,I OF Texas, and A. NJ. Alexander for
D1 second District of Missouri. The Re-
ruoilcans ~ placed in the field George H.
- - iHis lor the Fourth District of Alabama.
oaliots were taken in the convention
aurlan, Mich. John X. Boies leading
y ''n 20 votes to 20 for Sawyer. Hannibal
~ =, carter, coIored. will oppose General
sippi ~