The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-07-27


be interesting.
BELL COUNTY made no nomina-
tions for representative, and the race
will be free for all.
GENERAL ROBERTSON is unani-
mously in favor of being the next
governor of Texas.
WAR as a royal holiday pastime is
amiserable failure. The massacre of
Christians at Alexandria was hor-
rible.
REPORTS from all over the south
show the cotton plant good, and its
present condition fair. 1t is open
ing rapidly.
PEOPLE who keep cool over the
political complications during this
year will be the happiest and enjoy
, lite the best.
Ii congress will only adjourn the
country will settle down and pre-
pare to go through the heated term
quietly and pleasantly.
TOM OCHLTREE is the musical Tyre
upon which the Republicans of the
seventh district propose to play
their congressional tunes.
Two FACTS force discussion of
the tariff. The first is a surplus rev.
enue of $150,000,00O. The second is
the discontented condition of the
laboring class.
THE heated term has been play
ing havoc in New York. On Wed
nesday last lightweight little chill
dren died in that city from the eff
fects of the excessive heat.
A FEW of the new counties proba-
bly, wish they had never been born.
They have several little offices to
bestow with dozens of applicants
wildly clamoring for them.
THE fellows who predicted dead
lock and all manner of dismal things
have been organizing for naught,
and will now take a ramble into
the rural districts to cool off.
1T is quietly bruited about that
the Republican convention to meet
in this city next month will want
Ex-Governor Davis to abdicate and
retire from the management of the
party.
SOME of the enterprising news
papers are afflicted their readers
with wood cuts OF Egypt-the land
of wonders, the ancient cradle of
human civilization and the oldest
seat of empire on the globe.
If the Democrats carry Pennsyl-
vania this year, ii will probably be
a sort of boom for Hancock, Hon.
Jere Black, or some other good Key
stone state Democrat for the Demo-
cratic presidential nomination in
1884.
MORE Indian troubles more muir
ders of settlers; more "massacres"
on one side or the other; more fat
Indian contracts, and more shame
for the country which has steadily
pursued an Indian policy that would
disgrace Hottentot.
1T is said that we should speak
only kindness of the dead. This
being fact, what pity that the ex-
ecutioners and the doctors did not,
after Guiteau's restless, feverish life,
bury his remains out of sight and
let them repose in peace.
ALL baggage is ut the risk of the
owner in the Suez canal now but il
is a nice question OF International
law whether the plundering of ves-
sells captured on the way through
can be called piracy or robbery.
Either way, IL amounts to much the
same thing to the owners, however.
THE Louisville COuier-Journal
says: "The tariff is no longer mere
theoretical question; it is the over
shadowing issue of to-day. 1t is not
something afar off, about which no
one cares; il has a personal. interest
for every voter, whether he is la
borer or capitalist, merchant or
manufacturer"
THE reduction OF West Point
from military department under
the immediate command of a briga-
dier-general to a mere military post
and academy commanded by
colonel, will cause q mighty flutter
there, no doubt, but it Is not be-
lieved the rest of the country will
experience a single pang.
EVEN the most blinded and bigot-
ed protectionists feel that the taxes
must be reduced, that much they
yield to public clamor; but the Re-
publican party is to be used to make
this reduction as slight as possible,
and, next, to have this reduction so
made that the great masses of the
people shall feel no relief whatever.
WARM clothing is necess airy to the
health of the whole family, parents
and children. They need good
stockings, warm shirts, etc. These
knit-woolen goods can be made very
cheap in England and Germany, and
If the manufacturer is allowed to
send to those countries for new
hands, the laborer ought certainly
TO be allowed to send for cheap knit
shirts. But this is refused.
WHosoEvER poisoned Guiteau's
bouquet-for Mrs. Scoville is en-
phatic in her declaration that she did
not-was not so cunning as the
poisoners of Lucretia Borgia's day.
AT that time, when murder was a
fine art, the poisoned bouquet did
its work by inhalation and verbal
directions were unnecessary. A
single Whit Of the fatal perfume was
all that was required. In some re-
spects mankind is happily degen-
Grating.
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