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The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-08-10
Arab, the Rebel.

OF course Arabl is a rebel. George
Washington was rebel. Oliver
Cromwell was a rebel. All of them
rebels against British unreason and
tyranny too. In fact, every public
man of brain and pluck and honor
who has anything to do with English
kingcrait and red tape statesman
ship these two or three hundred
years, has found himself tacitly or
openly a rebel against John Bull
tyranny. Arab is the latest, and
whether the world will respect him
or despise him simply depends on the
reception he and his allies may give
10 the G2,500,000 worth of English
sOldiery just now making their first
calls in Egypt.
If Arab can destroy the objective
points of British ambition shut
off water supply from British
troops; choke the Suez canal !;
concentrate all army that shall make
any sort of resistance to the armies
of England, it will make little or no
dive suspends him, and it will be of
little moment what hard names the
European world applies to him. And
he can still further provide better
government for new Egypt than
England has provided say for Egypt
or Ireland, ne will simply be a sue
cessful rebel, and one of the few
great heroes ofthese late years.
Ofcourse commerce is injured, and
lives are lost, and somebody will be
to blame. But as between Arab
and England, the world wants to
judge without prejudice, and only
asks fair play.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-08-10
THE SOUTHERN STATES.

In Meridian, Mississippi, saloon
licence costs $500.
Cotton picking will regularly be-
gin i'll Arkansas, August 10.
Preserving figs is an important In
dustry at st. Augustine and Jack
sonville, Florida.
Rich deposits of phosphate rock
have been discovered in Chatham
county, Georgia.
New Orleans is receiving con-
siderable new cotton from Texas and
portions of Louisiana.
The turnkey at the Montgomery,
Alabama, jail is colored man, and
he weighs 315 pounds.
This fall the Stonewall cotton fac
tory, near Enterprise, Mississippi,
will make $4,000 yards of cloth
day.
Putrid sore throat is raging to an
alarming extent in Cullman county,
Alabama, and many deaths have re-
suited.
A gentleman in Crystal Springs
has realized $1066 from the sale of
tomatoes from one acre of ground
this year.
The Fort Harley orange tree in
Alachua county, Florida, is seventy
two years old, and has borne 1900
in one season.
In a streak of poisoned water be-
tween lama and Cedar Key, mil
lions of dead fish were encountered
by steamer recently.
None of the Coulter family, of
Chattanooga, Tennessee, of which
there are several members, are less
than seven feet in height, and some
of them several inches taller.
A new paper called La OppOrtu-
Mad has just been started at Key
West. Its articles are written en-
tirely by contributors who sign
their names and assume all the re-
sponsibilIty.
acres of land on Matecombie key,
Monroe county, Florida, and it has
recently been purchased by three
Key Westers, who intend to convert
it into one big cocOanut grove.
f. L. Jones, who shot Tom Jones
in Louisville. Mississippi, about three
weeks ago, has been tried in the
Winston county circuit court, found
guilty of murder in the first degree
and will be hanged in September.
The amount paid to the free schools
in Mississippi in 1880 was $8S0,704.
The number of educable children in
the state is 426, $50, of which 175,251
are white, and 251, 43S are colored.
There were 1880 public schools in
1870; at present there are 1900.
"here are also 969 private schools.
Buckingham county, Virginia, has
a somewhat curious industry. With
in an area of ten or fifteen miles
there are some forty distilleries ell
gagged in the manufacture of oil from
sassatras root. Each mill gives en-
ployment to three hands. They use
about two thousand pounds of root
day for each mill, and produce
from one to one and half gallons of
oil weighing ten pounds to the gall
lon. Thus the forty distilleries con-
sumo daily $4,000 pounds of sassa-
fras root, make about fifty gallons
of oil, worth about $3.50 d gallon,
and thus earn 1926 per day.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-08-10
circumstances Alter Cases.
boston Globe.1


When Republican congress
wanted TO put congressional cleo
tions under the surveillance of
United States officers, a congress
man was considered federal officer
but when a Republican congress
sional committee wanted to levy a
tax upon the clerks in the depart
ments and their various outposts
through the country, to save the
members of that committee from
punishment under the law and to
bring the pockets of the clerks
within reach of their hands, con-
gresham was declared by the at
torney-general not to be a United
States official. Verify, the "party OF
great moral ideas" bends to its IL
licit desires in any direction.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-08-10
The Dairy Cow.
rProfessor S. A. Knann.l

"Many are the eulogies that have
been written on the noble horse and
sagacious dog; but the COW, the
most valuable friend to man of all
the home animals, is allowed to send
her tributes to the domestic king
dom without praise or thanks. From
whatever standpoint we view her
contributions to the food supply of
man, she becomes an object of inter-
est and value. Upon the purity and
superlative nutritive character of
her product frequently hangs life
precious to humanity. She furnishes
food and sauce to the poor mans
board and a more than royal luxury
to the table of wealth. Withdraw
her product and the culinary arthas
not the skill to make viands for the
table palatable. The dairy cow
is the product and necessity OF civili-
cation. Her contributions to the
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-08-10
Down on Boss Domination.

Scores of thousands of the best
Republicans of Pennsylvania will
not, under any circumstances, cast
another vote to sustain the boss
domination that has made forbear-
ance cease to be a virtue. If John
Stewart and his colleagues were to
decline to-day and unite in COM
mending General Beaver 10 the Re-
publicans of the state, it would only
assure the election of Pattison by
many thousands over General Bea-
yer. Pattison would have a decided
majority over Beaver in Philadel-
phia, and the state would simply
multiply Pattison's majority. The
evil is one that neither leaders nor
candidates can cure, and the letter
of the Independent candidates clear
ly and forcibly presents the marrow
of the controversy. The battle is
against the boss and spoils systems,
and there can be no Republican
safety except by the unconditional
surrender or the absolute overthrow
of he-whole machine organization.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-08-10

1t is much cheaper for farmers to
raise their horses than to buy
them, and besides other advantages
follow this course. The feed re-
quired to keep a colt the first year
will not be missed on farm of any
size. One advantage resulting from
farmer raising his own horses is
that he will thoroughly understand
their disposition, constitution and
special points. The money realized
by raising an extra one OCCASIONALLY,
outside of those necessary to do the
farm work, will pay for the raising
of others that are needed.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-08-10

EVIDENTLY there is some sneaking
purpose behind certain false state
ments made as to political move.
ments in this senatorial district
Some time ago our Georgetown
correspondent was informed that
the Democracy of Williamson coun-
tY would not join in senatorial
convention, and now the Burnet
Bulletin states that the Williamson
county Democrats have held con-
vention and elected delegates to the
senatorial convention, instructed to
vote for DIR. Westfall, of Burnet.
The Williamson county Sun,
which is reliable authority in the
premises, says that the county con-
vention, whose duty it is to name
delegates to senatorial convention,
has not yet assenbled, but that such
convention VIII be held, and that
delegates will be named for the
senatorial convention. AS to the
instructions, the Sun makes no pre-
dictfOn.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-08-10
Tangled Questions for Scientists.

There is family in the neighbor-
hood of Lewistown, Maryland, OF
which the following marvellous his
tory has just been related to the
Mechanicstown Clarion by a respec-
table physician well acquainted with
the facts. Some fifteen or twenty
years ago the father and mother had
a quarrel, and for year the former
meyer spoke to the latter. A child
was born eight or ten months after
the quarrel, and he has never spo-
ken a word to his father. They
work together days at time, but
the father talks to his son, but he
never answers. The young man has
been questioned in regard to the
matter, and he says. he is never
prompted to speak to his father,
that he has never had an impulse to
speak, and il seems to him that there
has never been any occasion for him
to speak to his father that he bears
his father no Al-wIll, and should
speak to him should he ever be
prompted so to do.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-08-10
Looking After Self.
gD@,NA IIo.oIl1

The fact seems to be that PIesi-
deut Arthur is conducting his adj
ministration, not for the purpose of
resurrecting Grant or rehabilitating
Conkling, but with the idea of get
ting the second term for himself. 1t
is not necessary to speculate upon
his chances for success, which we
should not be inclined TO rate very
high at present, but the fact itself
accounts for a good share OF the I'M
pleasantness in the stalwart family.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-08-10


THE STATESMAN is against any
purpose of an opposing clique to
defeat Hon. A. w. Terrell's nominal
ton for the state senatorship. His
impress is in the work that goes on
upon Capitol and University bills,
and as legislator he has been the
earnest guardian of the peoples
greatest interests. His energy has
been devoted to sustaining
the interests of his section as
we'll as of the entire state, and to OPP
pose his denomination is ingratitude
to an able law-giver and devoted
public servant. This much is said,
because it is known a clique designs
to stock primaries against Judge
Terrell IN the interest of private de-
sign, for one whose public service
would fail to enhance great public
undertakings. Therefore the STATES
MAN impresses it upon the mind of
those who desire to conserve
the best public interests to go to
the primaries and sustain men who
will be sent to the county conven-
ton to serve public and not private
interests. We know what the move
ment is and warn Democrats to
protect the purity OF the county
convention.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-08-10
For Ex,ravagance Commend 1t.

New 10rk sun.
The day of adjournment Is near at
hand, and the result of the session
may be summed up in extravaganza
beyond all experience in time of
peace, in wild legislation, in waste
of time, and in the failure TO give
any relief to the burdened tax-pay-
ers. The shams proposed for alleg-
ed reductions in the internal revenue
apply exclusively 10 the interests
that can best afford to pay taxes.
There is nothing left of the Repub-
lican party but a combination of
corrupt managers to hold power by
force and by fraud, and to use the
treasury and the public patronage
as means of rewarding their fol-
lowers. They have no creed, no
principles, no convictions and no
aspirations. They treat the country
as a great rotten borough, where
votes are to be bought with the peo-
pies money, and successful jObbery
is estimated public virtue.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-08-10

CONGRESS, had it remained in ses-
sion a month longer, would have
used up all the reserve funds in the
treasury.
THE borrowers of umbrellas will
take notice. Horace Shields, of
Chattanooga, INDUCED, and was con-
victed and sent to the penitentiary
for one year.
COLONEL YOUNGER, the uncle of
the Younger boys, is besieging Gov
ernor Hubbard, of Minnesota, with
petition, bearing over 200 sigma
lures, for the release of his nephews
from the state penitentiary.
SOME conception of the enormous
business of the railroads of the coun-
try may be formed when we learn
that the gross earning of fifty
five of the leading roads for single
month aggregate $2O,S77,2S5.
BRADY had Senator Maxey sum-
moned to testify that the star routes
were expedited at the suggestion of
senators and other officers. The
judge refused to hear the testimony,
as it did not bear upon the cases on
trial.
GOVERNOR ST. JOHN has about
fixed up things for a third term
nomination in Kansas, and the DEM
ocrats are hopeful of carrying the
state against him. Hon. John Mar
TIN, of Topeka, is spoken of as the
Democratic nominee.
THE khedive's declaration that
Arab is a rebel is pretty strong,
when it is considered that the FORM
er is penned up in a narrow official
circle, and that the latter is on the
outside, demonstrating how little
authority the khedive really does
possess.
The NATIONAL MINING exhibit
ton began its first exposition in
Denver last week. 1t will continue
two months. and will bring more
largely into notice the mining inter-
ests of the west. Texas minerals, il
not on exhibition, ought. to be for.
warded.
Sixty thousand coolies, whose
whose term of service expires now
are to be returned to China from
Cuba. The English sentiment APP
pears to be in favor of their making
the homeward trip through the
United States, the hope being that
in this way they can more readily
be gotten rid of.
CONGRESSMAN were very angry
with the president for vetOing the
river and harbor appropriation bill
and they carried it over his head just
as though there was no truth in his
objection that too much money was
being spent; and now all the ra-
vines and gullies i'll the country
ought to be made navigable.
THE English crop prospects are
not good, and it does not look as
though that Egyptian muss is going
to help matters much. But we dc
not harbOr i'll feeling on old scores
aud therefore when cotton and beef
run short Texas will lend helping
hand. The northwestern states will
likewise keep up the breadstuffs.
RECoLLECT that independent in.
fuences are going TO attempt a con.
troll of our primaries in the variou:
wards. Let the people turn out en-
nadSSe and see to it that none of the
designs that are being concocted to
secure the nomination of weak men
succeed. A Democrats sincerity
must be measured by the interest he
displays in the primary meetings.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-08-10

An Illinois farmer gives the fol-
lowing direction for curing CALLED
shoulders in horses. and says it is in
fallible: stake old leather and burn
1t to a crisp; rub the ashes on the
CALLED part. A few applications will
effect perfect cure. A new work
horse put to the pillow this spring re-
ceived several severe gals on both
shoulders. A few applications of
the burnt leather made them as
sound as if never injured, and no
scar is now seeu."
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-08-10

Our READERS are presented with
a considerable portion of an admir-
able speech made by Senator Bayard
in the United States senate on the
tax question. 1t is to be regretted
that the whole of this speech cannot
find space in the STATESMAN, for, in
its entirety, there is such thorough
exposition as to make the subject
intolligable to any person. Federal
taxation is the great question of the
day, and one upon which every citi-
zen should become informed. To
be so is simply to become convinced
that for twenty years the people of
this country have remained the
creatures of an oppression knowing
hardly q parallel in the history of
centralized governments.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-08-10

ENGLAND and Russia are not co.,
ing with each other as lovers, and
these two powers, struggling for the
mastery of Asia, may soon be in
duced to test their relative power by
a trial at arms. In the meantime,
the south grows its beautiful cotton
crop, and the love extended us dur
ing the war by both these great
powers may have fitting sequel in
high prices for southern cotton. En-
gland cannot fight both the Egyp-
tians and the Russians and success
ully gather cotton crop in both
Egypt and India.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-08-10
An UntimeIy Suggestion.

New York Evening Post (Rep.)J
The stopping of all political assess
meuts, at least from this time on,
might recover some of the many
votes which Mr.. HubbelPs opera
tions have driven away from the
party-and they are many more than
all the money raised by assessments
can buy.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-08-10
ITS Unsuitable Nav.
HThinn Hnnnld (D N

The nav of the government will
continue for another year 10 gorge
a hundred millions of taxes from the
people, which are not needed, to pay
its expenses. With that record to
face, the Republican party will enter
upon the fall campaign halt, lame
and blind.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-08-10

The Georgia Republicans met in
Atlanta the other day, and soon
there was a big split, and in this
split the color line seems sharply
drawn. Like some of the colored
people in Texas,the Georgia negroes
are tired of doing all the voting
while the honors, federal and state,
go to the whites.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-08-10

A CONVENTION of workingmen
is called to meet in Washington, No
vember Is. In the meantime the
federation of labor unions calls on
all candidates of all parties to state
their position on the relationships
between capital and labor.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-08-10

THE STATESMAN is not response
bic for the slowness with which the
San Antonio Express procures infor-
nation. Probably in this congress
sional race, however, it manipulates
the news. The STATESMAN gives it
all, and yet it is not for anybody to
beat Mr.. Epson, whom we respect
very highly for his public services.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-08-10

IT APPEARS that the error COM
mitted in a sanitary point of view on
the Rio Grande is that there was not
harmony of action between the
Texas health authorities and those
of Mexico. Had the officers al
Brownsville and Matamoras been
acting IN concert; yellow jack would
not have been enabled to creep in
upon the community like a thief at
nioht
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-08-10

Ex-GOvERNoR DAVIS, recognize
ing the fact that the STATESMAN
has given him great deal of free
advertising, and that IT will continue
to give it. is inclined to be generous,
and has his regular announcements
appear in its columns, where it will
remain until election day.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-08-10

FRANCE is having difficulty in the
formation of a new ministry, and
the old one is sill holding over
until successors may be obtained.
DeFreycinet appears to want to re-
main prime minister.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-08-10
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The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-08-10

THE ANNUAL announcements OF
cotton worms are before us. They
are as regular in their visitations as
the candidates, only they do not stay
with us as lovingly so long.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-08-10

WEE FLANAGAN, like a good
many other conscientious Republi-
cans, does not believe IN the Davis
plan OF mongrelism in politics.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-08-10

Doctors DIFFER; and yet the
fever on the Rio Grande goes right
along killing people as though they
were agreed as to its deadly quality.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-08-10

The NEGROES of South Carolina
will give a good many thousands of
votes for the Democratic nominees
for state and congressional places.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-08-10

On THE DAY that Sir Garnet
Wolseley left England for Egypt,
Arab Bey advanced his outposts
five miles nearer the English lines.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-08-10

THE farmers of the United States
are to hold congress at st. Louis
beginning September nineteenth.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-08-10
which fall most painfully upon the labor

which fall most painfully upon the labor
ing classes.
1 do not see how this evil can be ex-
peeted TO be lessened until we discover
and remove the latent causes. Can the
manufacturer continue his production in
the face of market which is Improbable
To him when overproduction has taken
place, when his only market is glutted?
Can he send the surplus TO some foreign
country and dispose of it? What Is his
first relief? He has purchased his ma
terials as closely as he can and the he
pays out as little as he can for
Its manufacture. He cuts down
are so low that either the men are in re-
volt for want of sufficient wages to enable
them and their families to live, or the
employer himself is unable himself to pay
at all, and his mill or workshop must be
closed, and remain closed until the mar
ket is relieved by consumption, and de-
mand is again generated for his products.
Now | say that if am right in this, the
change cannot come too soon in our tax
system that shall give to the American
manufacturer an outlet for his produc-
tions, more expansive markets for his
commodities, and in that way enable him
to give his labOrers regular and steady
employment. 1t is the glutted market
that causes the strike. Diminished pro-
duction means unemployed labor.
Capital can lie by and rest, but the
labOring man has nothing to support him.
self and his family but the work of his
hands from day to day, and those little
savings, which, if the strike is to last long,
must soon be exhausted. L submit TO
you it is our duty, so far as laws may ac-
eomplish it, to assist in removing causes
so demOralizIng as the enforced periodi-
cal tdleness of labor. What capital loses
by the delay it may regain in the enhanced
price, but what labor loses by delay Is
gone and lost forever. 1 hold that IL is
not healthful condition and least of all
In government based upon a suffrage
almost universal.
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DEMOCRATIC STATE TICKET.

DEMOCRATIC STATE TICKET.
FOR GOVERNOR,
JOHN IRELAND.
Of Guadalupe.
FOR LIEUTENANT. GOVERNOR,
MARION MARTIN,
of Navarro.
FOR COMPTROLLER,
w. j. SWAIN,
of Red River.
FOR TREASURER,
+. II. LUBBOCK,
of Galveston.
FOR COMMISSIONER GENERAL LAND
OFFICE,
w. c. WALSH,
of Travis.
FOR ATTORNEY GENERAL,
JOHN ID. TEMPLEION,
of Tarrant.
FOR CHIEF JUSTICE SUPREME COURT,
A. III. WILLIE,
of Galveston.
FOR ASSOCIATE JUSTICES,
j. w. STATION,
of Victoria;
c. S. WEST,
of Travis.
FOR THE CoURTI OF APPEALS,
u. =. WHITE.
of Guadalupe;
j. M. HURT,
of Dallas
SAM A. WILSON,
of Cherokee.