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The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-03-23
OVER THE STATE.


Scarlet fever is prevalent at Pales-
tine.
Fort Worth has another case of
small pox.
Mr.. Huntington was in Houston
Monday, looking after his railroad
interests.
Negotiations are pending for the
establishment OF an ice factory at
Brennan.
The Henderson Times says the
prospects are good for an over
whelming fruit crop.
Grass is growing finely and stock
is doing well throughout the gra q
ing sections of the state.
The first train over the Interna-
tional bridge at Laredo passed over
into Mexico this week.
About twenty or more German
immigrants arrived Monday at San
Antonio by the Sunset road.
Monday the little son of Mr.. r. E.
Luhn, at BRENNAN, fell into pot OF
hot starch, severely scalding his arm
and leg.
A couple of Fort Worth men are
inventing a sleeping car for live
stock, and think they have found a
veritable bonanza.
Three persons who died violent
deaths-two killed by railway cars
and one drOwned-were buried al
Waco on the tenth instant.
1t is understood that all the Hous-
ton aldermen have agreed to serve
another term if elected. The Age
wants them all renominated by the
Democratic meetings.
The Texas and st. Louis narrow
gauge railroad, now completed from
Waco to Texarkana, expect to have
their road completed from Tex
arkana to Cairo, Illinois, by the first
of October. From Cairo to st
Louis the road has been running
several years.
The executive committee of the
Texas state prohibition alliance hai
called state convention, to be helC
at Waco on the twentieth of April
Friends OF the alliance are request
ed to meet in each county and cleo
delegates, and notify the secretary
j. 1. Moore, Waco, of their action
by the tenth of April.
Great activity prevails in th'
farming districts OF Texas. Pent VI
energies have found an outlet
Spring oats are being sown. Corr
is going into the ground rapidly
To catch up is the effort, and il will
be done soon. Time enough re
mains to make and gather the mos
bouutiful crop in the history of ou
state.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-03-23

For some time the soundest
thinkers have been expecting re-
vulsion in the present prosperity of
the country. The New York Star
seems to attach some importance to
the predictions. 1t asks:
Are we drifting toward a panic
and, are we on the verge of great
financial crash? are the pertinent
questions which are pressing closely
home to the people of this country.
Recent business embarrassment of
alarming proportions, and effecting
almost every branch of commerce
and industry, have vastly strength
ened the position of those who
argue in favor of a serious revulsion.
Their argument, too, is a very po-
tent one. They claim that the fell
spirit of speculation has seized the
people in all departments of busi-
ness, and is bringing forth the legit.
innate fruit of depression and
ruin. During the present year there
have been several of the heav.
lest failures experienced since the
disastrous panic of 1873, among
which are Sweet & Co., bankers OF
Boston, $3,0O0,000; Macfarlane &
Co., grain and provision dealers
$250,000; Guedin & Co.. 100000
and Preston & Co., cotton and pro
duce dealers, $50O,O0O. In the west
a number of banks and banking
houses have failed grain and pro
vision spectators have gone into
bankruptcy; steel and iron work:
have been swept into the vortex o
financial ruin, and all branches o.
trade have suffered severely. Eng
land and France, TOO, have beel
convulsed by serious financial com
plications, and there is less stabilit.
among financial and commercial
men than at any time since the re
coyery from the great wave of dis
aster that swept over the country il
1873.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-03-23
OF LATE years the great mass of

OF LATE years the great mass of
special legislation thrust upon the
time of each congress has been a
source of great evil. The house
civil service reform committee have
agreed to a bill which, if enacted,
may remedy the matter. The bill
in question is the result of consulta-
tions between the committees on ap-
propriations, Invalid pensions, war
claims and the Judiciary. 1t pro-
vides that all claims of private ma
ture, sue forh instance as call for in
dividual relief, pensions, and similar
special legislation, shall be referred
to the court of claims to ascertain
the facts. Congress reserves final
Jurisdiction, after the case has been
properly made up by the court, and
judgments can only be paid by an
Appropriation by congress. The bill
is agreeable to the judges of the
court of claims, as it provides them
with a large and continuing busi-
ness, and thus secures the perma-
nence of the court. They represent
that they can deal with the business
without additional judges or ex-
pense OF any sort, iNthe tlll is
passed.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-03-23

ACCORDING to the original esti-
mate the state house at Albany
New York, was to cost $4,O00,OOO.
Up to the present time it has cost
$21, 100000, and now the superin-
tendent of construction says it will
require $S,000,OOO more to complete
it. The Texas capitol is to cost
100000 acres of land that is,a con-
tract is signed to that effect, and
the title to these lands which are re-
served does not pass .uutil the build
ing is finished according to the con-
tract. Gov. Roberts is firm in the de.
termination, that this contract must
be strictly adhered to and complied
with; but before the capitol is com.
pleted new men will be administer.
ing the affairs of the state, and
whether they and legislature may
combine in agreeing to any deviation
from the contract, is one of the
things the future must tell. Fortu
nately. however, the constitution
prohibits the use of anything but
the land with which to pay for the
building OF the capitol.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-03-23
SENATOR HILL.
Again I'm the Hands OF the SUR
geOns-HOPeful, but Rec
OnciIed.

Onclleus
Washington Cor. Augusta Chronicle and Con
stitution.l
called on Senator Hill yester-
day. lie has had all the glands on
the left side of the throat removed
an operation which was painlessly
performed, thanks TO the blessed
discovery of either. His hopes are
that the disease has been eradicated
from the tongue and that it will not
reappear again in the throat. But
he is a man of nerve and not dis
posed to conceal from himself or
friends the doubtful character of
his complaint. lie says: "If l re-
cover, it is well. i'll die, il is also
well. While think il strange that
man whose constitution was
formed by physical labor on a farm
and who, up to a year ago, never
had a day of i'll health, should
be afflicted with an inexplicable
disorder of the blood, l resign my
self into the hands OF my creator,
who will do with me what seems
best TO Him, and either raise me up
for further usefulness or summon
me away. l await with patience
either event." While it is true that
Mr.. Hill makes no complaint of
his bodily suffering, his mind, never
more brilliant or suggestive, chafes
against restraint, and he has to be
checked by his devoted wife when
some animated theme spurs him to
copious and eloquent utterance. lie
welcomes the visits of bis friends
and insists upon earnest conversa-
ton, but / am not so sure that this
exertion is beneficial TO him. lie is
like Gagged lion, and regrets that
he could not have participated
in recent senatorial debate. lie
is full of speech on the politi-
cal condition of Virginia. at ought
to be made" he says, "but L do not
know whether L will be able to
make it or not" | told him that
the Republican. congressman ex.
pressed much sympathy for him,
and he smiled when 1 repeated
what one of the stalwarts had said
in my presence. 1t was to the ef-
feet that nature could show no
stranger paradox when sparing the
tongue of most offensive babbler
Il omit the name), and making war
on the most eloquent tongue in the
United States. The doctors who
have had Mr.. Hill in charge express
the opinion that his tongue is prob
ably secure from further disaster.
They also think that the wound in
his throat will heal healthily, and
that the chances are greatly Ill favor
of a gradual and permanent cure.
But Mr.. Hill has all along insisted
upon the frankest statement. aud,
from the beginning, assured DR..
Gross that he could endure even a
death sentence from his lips without
fiinching. 1t was inexpressibly pa
thetic to see so much INTELLECTUAL
and physical power held in suspense.
But it was also a grand sight to be-
hold a strong man reverently sur
rendering his will to that of God,
and content to abide the best or
worst result. lie is missed from the
senate by every body, and there will
be general rejoicing when Mr.. Frye
shall have no further reason TO say,
when he is called upon to vote, 81
am paired with the senator from
Georgia, Mr.. HILL" and when "our
Ben," alongside of Senator Brown,
can answer for himself and Georgia.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-03-23

GENERAL RosECRANs listened to
the euloglst, Blaine, and the next
day confiding in the honor and IN
tegrity of the dead he published the
following card:
MIR. Blaine, in his funeral oration be-
fore the two houses, said ''When Gen.
eral Garfield assumed his new duties he
found various troubles already well de
veloped and seriously affecting the value
and efficiency of the Army of the Cum
berland." Twas commanding general of
that army. General Garfield was my
chief of slaff. Had this been the fact /
certainly should have known it. General
Garfield was bound to tell me of it. JUS
tice to the truth of history and to the
Army of the Cumberland requires that 1
should declare that never heard Of such
a state ofthings until the statement came
from the lips of the orator to-day. The
distinguished gentleman has been wholly
mislnformed, and the statements above
quoted have no foundation in fact. On
the contrary, 1t was the general senti-
ment and constant boast of the officers
and men of that army that the Army OF
the Cumberland was singularly united
and free from disseDsions, and therefore
no ones genius was required to heal those
dissensions. l appeal to them who bear
witness to this fact.
1t was subsequent to this that
the scattering words of Chancey l.
Filley were made public, in which
he showed the hypocrisy of the
dead man, and in which it was held
that General Rosecrans' confidence
had been reposed in man some
what like Judas Iscariot.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-03-23

1T is stated on good authority, at
Washington, that on.Alexander IL.
Stephens, of Georgia, will certainly
retire from politics at the end of his
present term in congress. He is
said to have considered the question
carefully and has at length reached
the conclusion that he could find
more congenlal pursuits for his re-
manning years than in politics. Im-
mediately after his labors there are
finished he will carefully review his
history OF the United States, now in
press, and after that he will devote
himself to his private interests at
home. He has received from friends
in Georgia many expressions OF
hope that he would consent to al
low his name 10 be used in the gub-
ernatOrial canvass, with assurances
that the honor would be accorded
him by common consent, and he
has expressed his gratitude for this
mark of confidence, but his deter
mination to leave political life is
finally fixed.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-03-23
RunneIIs County.
RuNNELs, RUNNELs COUNTY,
TEXAS, March IA, 1882.
Editors Statesman

hONNELb, hONNELb NOONI1, I
TEXAS, March IA, 1882.
Editors Statesman /:
The cold spell is over, and all vegeta-
ton seems to have taken new impetus
under the warm weather which we are
now having. Wheat was not injured
by the freeze, and farmers have hopes of
a good yield this year. There is no
doubt about this being farming coun-
try. Californians, who were here last
week making investments, say the soil of
the upland prairies is splendidly adapted
to wheat and other small grain. To
prove their faith they made application,
for themselves and parties they repre-.
sented, for fifty sections Of state school
land, and propose 10 settle farmer on
each half section.
The town of Runnels is rapidly i'm
proving. New people are gathering in
every day, and the next thing, we are
told, will be a county newspaper, sure
sign, indeed, of our development and ad
vancement as part Of civilization. One
thing, above all others we can boast OF,
and that is a good school and schoo
house. There was a suspension las
week on account of the prevalence OF
mumps.
To the immigrant, desirous Of a cheaT
home. Runnels county furnishes equal
Inducements with any other county il
the state Plenty OF room for the farm
or, sheep-raiser, or small stockman.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-03-23
playing i. Down ON the BIshop.

[From the Salt Lake Tribunc.l
Some of the old saints have now
invented a new kind of pedro.
Whenever anybody catches any
body else's pedro, the party
winning has the right to kiss
the other five times. The game is
played with an equal division Of
the sexes. The other evening old
Bishop - fixed up pack of cards
with nine pedros, and started
game right in among some OF the
prettiest girls in the ward. IL hap
pened, however, that the girls an-
ticipated his little game, and had a
pack all ready without any pedros
in. They rung in the cold deck on
the old fellow and started the
game. He made some big bids,
expecting to capture some pedr0s,
and got set back on the board
every time. All. the time the girls,
kept excIaiming: "Oh, amt this a
nice game so exciting" After
PLAYING an hour the old fellow didn't
see the color of a single pedro, and
the glances aud giggles OF the girls
caused him to suspect that the
daughters of Zion were rather get
ting the best of him. He finally got
so far off the board that be wac,
comparatively speaking, out OF
sight, and finally gave up his place
TO young man who was seated
near by, watching the game. In
twinkling the girls transposed the
packs again, and for the next two
hours the sound of the smacks that
Young man won could be heard oil
over the ROOM
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-03-23

THE weight of evidence, now-a-
days, all goes in the direction of
railway commissions. States that
have adopted commissions have had
the most perfect railway manage
ment. Their railways have been op-
Grated with the profit to the COM
panies, and the people have been
protected against outrageous
charges and determinations, while
trains have been run with safety 10
passengers and preservation of
freight. Illinois is one of the
most prosperous states of the
union, and its system of railways is
regarded as probably the best in the
United States, and these roads are
under the supervision of a commits
sion, as are the admirably conducted
and paying roads of Georgia. The
eleventh annual report of the Illinois
railroad commission shows that
there are sixty railroad companies
doing business in the state, and they
have a capital stock of over five
hundred millions of dollars. Their
stocks, bonds and floating debt
amount in the aggregate to over a
billion of dollars. During The year
these roads employed 125,907 men,
and paid in wages over sixty-six
millions of dollars. This is good
showing for the railroads of that
state, and no wonder it has rapidly
grown in wealth and population.
One of the PERSONS why the COM
mission is becoming so popu-
lar is that while it pro-
tects the public against excessive
charges, it also protects companies
against the Vaccinations of rings,
organized to antagOnize interests
and to decrease receipts, in the line
of forcing changes beneficial alone
to the strongest, with destruction to
the weakest organizations or to the
weak stockholders in an organiza-
ton.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-03-23

The tobacco trade of Danville,
Virginia, have adopted resolutions
deprecating any agitation on the
subject of the tobacco tax. They
say the agitation injures the interest
of both manufacturer and planter,
and they want congress- to leave the
matter alone. They have appointed
a committee to proceed to Washing.
ton and lay their remonstrances be.
fore congress.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-03-23

THE New York Times is bitter. 1t
charges that the reports of the suf-
fering caused by the overflow of the
Mississippi, is q southern trick TO
get money" The st. Louis Repu6-
lican thinks the Times will change
its tone and temper when it learns
that nine-tenths of the sufferers by
this overflow are negroes and Re-
publicans.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-03-23

WHILE Hoar, Dawes, Frye and
others are contending that protec-
tive tariff protects the American
workingman, it would be well for
them to ponder the fact that q wo-
man died in Fall River, Massachu-
setts, recently, of overwork and
lack ofproper food. She had been
trying to support herself and four
children on sixty cents day, which
she earned in one of the mills.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-03-23

SUBSCRIPTIONS for the homeless
and starving sufferers from the Mis-
sissippi floods are now in order. Let
us be not less prompt to help ouI
own people than those of foreign
countries,
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-03-23

New parties, it is said. are started
IN Georgia every three weeks. 1t
is needless TO say they die just as
often. For time it was this way
in Texas, but the death of Speer's
baby and of Wash Jonesism, and
Young Democracy, caused much
mourning, and now the thing
swings along as OF old. Therefore
the Houston Post has lost heart
and devotes itself 10 discussion ol
the moons phases and Guiteau
some very incomprehensible scien'
tifc monstrosities. Really it is get.
ting to be the Oscar Wilde oi
of Texas.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-03-23
STOCK NOTES.

American breeders OF rolled An
gus cattle are asking as high as
$3.50 for cows and $500 for bulls.
A joint stock company in. Colo
rado City, Texas, proposes to
slaughter 100 beeyes per day and
ship to Chicago and st. Louis.
Frank B. Redfield, of Batavia.
New York, says the Polled cattle
are going to the Chicago fat stock
show, "tive thousand strong"
Individual excellence in all kinds
of improved stock is the farmers
watchwOrd. Pedigree alone will
not pass muster any longer. We
must have the animal as well.
The London Telegraph informed
the British public that the excellent
quality of British mutton was due
to the crossing of first-class rams
with a very good breed of wethers
Thoroughbred stock men are
greatly pleased with the outlook for
the coming seasons sales, and with
reason, for the prospects are bright,
and a great many animals will
change hands at prices equal to or
in advance of last year.
Color in shorthorns is a great
point with tip-top breeders, but for
all practical purposes any color will
answer the purpose for the general
farmer who is breeding for beef. A
light roam may on this account be
often purchased at low price.
The. Prince of Wales has been
elected president of the Snithfield
fat stock show for 1888. The prince
is great lover of fine stock, and as
his mother, the queen, is breeder
of the best. Indeed, the great bulk
of the English nobility are ardent
breeders of the noble shorthorn or
other breeds of cattle, and as well of
fine sheep.
The Hereford men have brains,
capital and cattle; and the last is
best of all, for the Hereford is one
of the best beef producing animals
in existence. He comes from the
same country as the shOrthorn they
have had existence about the same
length of time. Now if the one be
the equal of the other, all things
considered, how comes it that the
shorthOrn has to-day so much the
greater popularity aud is so much
more widely known and distrib-
uted?
The shorthorn has done more to
improve the beef producing ability
OF the United States than all other
breeds. 1t is more widely distribu-
ted over the face of the globe than
any other, and it is quite safe to say
there are more of them in the two
states of Missouri and Illinois than
there are of all other thoroughbred
beef breeds in the whole of North
America. The readers of the Rural
World will please bear this i'll mind.
So great a popularity cannot be
without merit propOrtioned TO its
success.
We often hear it said-says E. w.
Allen of the Breeders Gdzette-the
general farmer cannot afford to keep
cattle of a high grade. Is he cannot
afford 10 raise good cattle, he GER
tainly cannot afford to raise poor
ones. The greatest profit comes
from the animal that will mature
quickest, and take on the greatest
amount of best flesh for food con-
sumed. This being so no farmer
can afford to keep big-horned, mar
row-chested, nat-rlbbed, hollow
backed, narrOw-hipped, droop-tailed
animal. Such an animal is only good
for soup and dried beet, and poor
soup at that.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-03-23

JOHN q. FREMONT claims to be
the owner of the island of Acantraz,
In the harbor of San Francisco. He
says he purchased it in lS4s, while
he was military governor of Cali
fornia, from one Francisco Temple,
and that he gave the name Golden
Gate" to the harbor.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-03-23

A MORMON prophet has arisen
who now claims that Brigham
Young is not dead, and that he and
many others failed to reco gnize the
body that was buried as Brigham
Young. He says that the father of
the Mormon church foresaw that
one day the United States would
undertake to legislate Mormonism
out of existence, and that at the
proper time Young will appear
again in the busy walks of men, and
claim to have been resurrected from
the dead, and that the superstitious
faith of the Mormons is such that
they win believe the story of his
resurrection, and the church will
still hold its strength.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-03-23

If there is any more crisp, newsy and
wide-awake newspaper in Texas than
the STATESMAN, il doesn't appear among
the Journals exchanges. - GGlcestOn
Journal.
Really, we beg pardon. We
thought we were sending you the
observation-disclosures - DemocTdt-Ad-
Uance, Fort Worth.
Some papers are like bottles in a
drug store-it is necessary to label
them III order to know the character
of their contents. The Fort Worth
paper keeps its label well exposed.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-03-23

VERY pertinently put is the fol-
lowing from the st. Louis RepuJlt-
can: "Amidst all this chatter and
talk about Garfield and Conkling
and Arthur, and the big and little
ones of that crowd, is there single
Democrat who is ashamed of having
voted last fall for Hancock, the
superb ??
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-03-23

ATTEMPTS against the queen are
punishable by transportation for
seven years, or by Imprisonment for
a term not exceeding three years,
"the culprit to be publicly or pri-
Yately whipped as often and IN such
manner as the conrt shall direct, not
exceeding thrice"