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The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-06-08
NO. 45

Uranium cut in with a sword. Upon
physician questioning her why she
was not in recumbent position,
she answered that her back had
been so badly scourged it was one
large open wound. When she heard
the aggressors burst open the door
she hid her grandchildren away in
the cellar, but they were found and
cut to pieces under her very ewes.
She was undressed and scourged.
In the next ward lies a very young
girl with an uncommonly beautiful
face. She does not know what has
been done to her, having been un-
conscious during the worst part of
the attack, but she suffers such
agonies that she is necessarily pray
ing for death TO relieve her. The
doctor in attendance tells his col
league that the way in which this poor
girl was treated is unique instance
of cruelty, and that she will
not outlive the day. Close by
is little girl of six, writh-
ing in terrible pam, and trying
to tear the bandages from her head
and face. The nurses hold her
hands, but suddenly her movements
stop; she stretches herself out upon
the bed; her sufferings have ceased.
A woman on the other side asks
with an axious voice: "Why is Mar
elisha so quiet" The nurses tell her
she is dead. Unmindful of her own
sufferings and her weakness, the
poor mother rises, rushes across the
room, and faints near the he'd
of the dead child. The poor
little girl, who had tried to run
away with a little sister one year
old, had her ears cut off. Her
mother had received several wounds
on the head, which make the doc
tors fear conclusion of the brain.
The scenes witnessed in the mems
ward were scarcely less terrible.
One old man, with a snow white
beard, has had his arm broken in
three places. lie hopes that death
will soon free him from his suffer-
ings, for he saw his wife, his sons
and daughters-in-law burned in the
house which the Russians had set Oh
fire, and into which they had thrown
these five persons. He had been tied
to pole opposite the house.
which was flooded with petroleum
before It was ignited. One
man had both feet sawed off; youth
had his breast cleft in two a boy
had all his teeth torn out. There
are about 5000 children who have
lost their parents and who must in
some manner be provided for at any
rate, and there are many women
whose husbands and fathers have
been killed, and who are in far
more pltiable condition than the fu-
gitives, who, although they may
have lost all their earthly goods,
have escaped with their families
and can hope to find a new home in
q new country,
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-06-08
POLITICAL NOTES.

The Pacific coast demands pro-
tective tariff on raw silk.
The Democratic managers in Con-
necticut are busiiy constructing a
ticket.
Ex-Governor Fenton is among the
congressional possibilities in the
thirty-third district of New York.
Speaker Owens, of the Kentucky
legislature, is self-nomiDated can
didate for Blackburn's seat in con-
gress.
The Prohibitionists in Wisconsin
will make-no congressional nomina-
tons, but will work hard to capture
the legislature.
The Democrats in Congress say
they will fillibuster all summer
rather than permit the admission Of
Dakota as a state.
Governor Cornell, of New York,
is likely to go into history as the
great vetoer. He returns numbers
of bills without his signature.
The Tilden influence in Pensylva-
MIA is being thrown in favor of Will
liam NJ. Scotts nomination for con-
gresham at large on the Democratic
ticket.
The attempt TO create dissension
among the Republicans in Maine is
getting some members of the party
to run as independent candidates for
congress will prove failure.
California will elect full state
ticket, two judges. of the supreme
court and the whole legislature next
November. The Democratic con-
vention meets June 10th, and the Re-
publican August 10th.
Georgia is as badly off politically
as Is Pennsylvania. The straightout
Republicans of that state propose
holding a convention to denounce
the syndicate" which has been con-
trolling the patronage of the indie
pendent movement.
General James K. Chalmers is tired
of the reputation acquired as the
representative of the Shoestring
District" He says: of L go to
congress again l wish to go with an
undisputed title, from a district
having a majority of white voters"
The state election in West Virgin
ia will be unimportsnt tins year,
there being only only one office to
fill, judgeship ON the supreme
court of appeals bench. There will
be four congressman elected from
the state, however, one more than
heretofore.
The choice of delegates to the
Maine state convention has begun.
Those already elected have been in
structed for Mr.. Thomas or Mr..
RObie, and it appears probable that
they will be the only contestants in
the field for the Republican nomina-
tion for governor.
There bas been much discussion in
the papers as to the success or failure
of prohibition in Kansas and the
effect it has had upon the prosperity
of the state. Influential journals say
that the state was never more pros
porous and the population never in
creased more RAPIDLY,
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-06-08
MesquIte Gum.

1t has been found, says the North
aDeStern LuDlbeTmdR, that the mes
quite tree of Texas is identical with,
or at least vastly similar to, the
acacia tree OF the east, from which is
obtained the gum arabic of COM
merce, and an industry in the direc-
tion of collecting and utilizing this
gum is being developed. 1t is held
to be equal or superior to the i'm
ported gum, and quite large quanti-
ties were gathered last year and sold
readily at fifteen cents per pound.
A mesquite grove is novel and in
teresting sight, the encasings of the
tree branches being likened to
transparent crystal armor, rejecting
the SUMS rays, and glittering and
growing like unto some golden har-
vest. The gum is capable OF being
handled with great expedition and
facility, the trees always growing
in groves and medium height.
Cattle are also fond of the gum, and
eat it from the trees where il is in
reach. II is believed that were the
mesquite cared for like the maple,
and proper operations followed, the
project of gum raising would be
feasible and profitable one.
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A Nashville Invention.

Mr.. George ID. Read, a mechanical
blacksmith and well-known citizen
of Nashville, is now perfecting an
invention of his own, which, if it but
attains one-half his sanguine ex-
pectations, will revOlutioniZe some
what the present mode of buggy
travelling.
Mr.. Reads invention consists of a
sort of three-wheel vehicle, or tri-
cycle, which is intended to be run
from the propelling power of spiral
springs, the mechanism to be set in
motion something after the manner
of winding a clock. The vehicle has
various attachments, some of them
quite intricate. The inventor
declares that. this spring-buggy
will run at the rate of twenty
miles an hour, and says before a
great while he will astonish this
community and the world with his
wonderful motive power. A slight
reference to Keely's watermelon,
which suffered such an ignOminious
failure in Philadelphia, expressed by
the World, brought from Mr.. Reed
the positive declaration that there
was no possible chance of a failure In
his machine. In the language OF the
"cops. to "Poor Joe," the World says
"move onn-with the work and let
Nashville score another point in the
progressive ingenuity of her people,
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-06-08

THERE is good deal of discussion
among the people of Travis county
as to what men must represent them
in the house. 1t is generally con-
ceded, the county being entitled to
two representatives, that one nomi-
nee of the convention will be chosen
in Austin, the other in the
country. Several names are men
toned, and among them all
Judge Sneed is most prominently
spoken OF from the city. Hon. Fe-
lix L. Smith and DIR. jackson are
named from the country, and either
would make admirable representa-
tives. Mr.. Smith has been a MEM
Der oftwo legislatures, and in both,
especially because of his personal
prejudices, he has welded quite an
influence. 1t has been silent, but
most effective.
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Mr.. DAv1rr does not mince mat


Mr.. DAvITr does not mince mat
ters regarding the Irish situation.
lie has denounced the Dublin assassi-
nation, but boldly declares that the
outrages and discomfort in Ireland
can be ended only by the abolition
of landlordism, which is the sense Of
holding property in fee, with the
right to lease or not to lease, to rent
as the law may regulate. To deny
the landlord the right to evict i'm
plies contiscation, and this certainly
is net what the Irish people desire.
There are persons In this country, as
N European states, who desire and
demand the confiscation of the prop
erty of the rich, and its division
among those who can show
no title. They honestly suppose
that the evils of society can
only be cured by such destruction of
landlordism, and are causing the rich
to be greatly alarmed, aud TO ask
more stringent laws to repress the
advances of the alleged enemies of
social order. 1t is said that the new
penal code of New York makes boy
cotting a misdemeanor, and largely
increases the powers of police Off
GERS to disperse meetings when 1t is
apprehended that they may incite
riots, and when they kill parties in
the discharge of their duty it Is de.
clared to be justifiable homicide.
When society is not protected-per-
son, life and property. y.guarded-gov-
ernment is farce.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-06-08

The right Hon. George Otto Trev-
elyan, Nj. p, the new chief secretary
for Ireland. is the eldest son of Sir
Charles Edward Trevelyan, Bart, by
Hannah, sister of the late Lord Ma
cauley, the historian. He was born
July 20, 1888, educated at Harrow
and Trinity college, at Cambridge,
graduated in b. second in the
first class OF classical tripos-1S6l,
Nj. A. 1864. He was Lord of the
Admiralty 1S69-1S70, and is deputy
Lieutenant of Northumberland. lie
has acquired some popularity as an
author by the publication OF "Com-
petition Wallah," "Cawnpore," "La-
dies in Parliament" and the life and
letters of Lord Macaulay. w. Trev-
elyan has the reputation Of being a
good politician, and represents the
Border Burgh in parliament.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-06-08
The Chicago, Texas and Mexican
r.. r., d. X.
Innlins rinns

The power of the press was never
more thoroughly demonstrated than
by the results of report circulated
few days ago by the reporters of
this city. They got togethar, and
news being scarce, concluded that
the G. L. & NJ. G. "was in bad row
for stumps," aud therefore concluded
to sell it. They therefore telegraphed
over the country that the Gulf. Colo
RADIO and Santa Fe road was nego-
tiating for its purchase. The ouly
grounds they had to base this report
on was that some OF the principal
| officers OF the latter road had gone
to Chicago, where some of the prin-
clpal officers of the former road re-
side, .and besides the former road
ought to sell out. The story was
concocted here, and floated on the
breeZes till it reached New York
From that point it was transmitted
to Galveston and became the subject
of an editorial in the paper which
boasts of having large circulation
and making Roberts quit the track
as an aspirant for governor.
We, ourself, was a litlle con-
fused over the telegram-it had
taken such a shape that we hardly
recognized it as the same report
which we were so well acquainted
with. Claims on the Chicago, Texas
and Mexican Central for the past
week were not worth picking up in
the road. This evening, as shown
by our local columns, the report has
received clip in the neck, which
lays it out cold. Mr.. Bennett comes
with the cash and an assurance that
there has been no sale and probably
will be none for few ticks of the
clock. He represents the Chi
cago, Texas and Mexican Cen
trai, and he has come TO SET
tie. Consequently, claims which
could be had for nothing on yester-
day were clinched more tightly by
their owners to-day. The press says
Bennett has the money. The press
raises the price of scrip or claims
against the road. If the press should
say that Bennett had no money, that
"clinch" would loosen, and scrip
and claims would go down to their
old standard of a very few cents on
the dollar. We are glad this money
has come, and glad that this road
can draw a breath of relief. The
gentlemen connected with it here
have not been sleeping on beds COM
posed entirely of roses and flowers.
They have stood in their offices day
by day and manufactured ex-
cuses for empty Golfers and
sadly turned away sad creditors.
Patience has been exhausted with
the latter-ingenuity with the for
mer. Matters had come to a crisis.
Creditors were desperate for cash.
Officers were desperate for excuses.
Bennett comes as a friendly sail to
the shipwrecked sailor. To-day there
are wreaths of smiles and gobs of
good humor all around. Letno one,
by expressing a doubt, disturb the
good humor. Let the press by telling
of the arrival of the cash make
amends for the sorrow in has here
tofore created by advertising the C.,
T. 81 NJ. G. as a busted and bought
out concern.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-06-08

A French experimenter. Declat,
claims to have made a discovery:
that picnic (carbolic) acid is a spe-
cific and almost iniallible remedy
for the diseases which are the work
of animal germ. 1t will arrest the
disease process in cancer; il will
rob diphtheria of more than half
its terrors; it enables us to
laugh at scarlet fever, and is
equally effective In typhoid
fever, small pox, blood poi
soning, epithelioma aud asthma-all
of which, Declat aud his pupils as
sert, yield almost miracuiuslY to
hypodermic applications of picnic
acid. The acid is extremely vola-
tile, more of a gas than fluid, and
when introduced into the system, it
seeks every avenue of escape-by
the lungs, the skin and the kidneys
thus coming in contact with every
tissue, and destroying as it goes the
microsymes which work injury and
death, without leaving any evil
trace on the tissues of the body. II
but one-half that is claimed for De-
clat's discovery be true, it would be
difficult to estimate its value TO man
kind.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-06-08
jewish Students from Russia.

One hundred Russian Jewish stu
dents from the University of Mos
COW, and self exiles from Russia, are
expected to arrive in this city to-day
or tomorrow. Many of them be-
long to the Mirjevoi (generaD Insti-
tute-thirty to the law department
and twenty-five to the medical de-
partment. The officers at the He
brew Emigrant aid society, in State
street, said they had been told by
several of the refugees that these
students had received notice 10
leave Moscow, and that there
had been rumors that an attack
was proposed to be made on their
quarters. These students then held
a meeting and resolved upon emf
grating TO the United States. The
Hebrew Emigrant Aid society, as
soon as it was apprised of their ex.
pected arrival, made preparations to
receive them, as many of them are
poor and had to borrow money to
pay for their passage. The univer-
sity course in Moscow is seven years
and a number of the students are
said to be already physicians. sur
geons and dentists. Several of the
physicians will be sent to Vineland
n. j., where a Hebrew colony is
being formed.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-06-08
The University.

There has been much opposition
expressed against the state uriver-
sity, and it is regretted that while
we have such feeling in favor of
common schools, we should find
among us some who ignore the i'm
portance of the university. The
university will not IN the least con-
flict against the interests or prosper
ity of our common schools, and
besides, it will add one step in edu-
cational advantages long felt in our
state. 1t will be governed by the
same laws which control our public
schools, and as a special fund is set
aside tor it, no taxation will be
forced upon the people to sustain it,
All other states have their universi-
ties and high schools, which are
honors to those states aud to their
citizens, and it would be a shame
upon the public spirit of our people
to permit it to be said of us, the
Lone Star state is unable to support
a graded institution.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-06-08

THE STATESMAN can not too often
urge the necessity for untrammeled
expression from the Democratic
masses. If the people speak in these
political movements, the demagogue
and the political trickster stand
aside, and honesty finds its way into
Office, while if ability be not re-
ceiyed the consolation remains that
csenan honest fool is preferable to
the sharpest rascal. When the
people act, the public interest is con-
served while, when cliques do the
work, individual interests are alone
consulted in the so-called public dis
charge of duty. The greatest curse
ofpolitical systems in this country
has been bossism. Governor Coke
was the last In high authority in
Texas who attempted to exercise.
and who did exercise, this power,
and he was the last man who
profited by it. He usurped the
power conided to him by the people,
and used it for individual ends, and
IL is in his interest alone that to-day
personal attempts to control politi-
cal movements in Texas are exercis-
ed. In many of the counties Coke
candidates are seeking nominations,
and it is alone in tins direction that
any machines are reported as run
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-06-08

SOME time ago, in mentioning the
probable nominee OF the Democratic
convention in this district, the
STATESMAN used among others the
name of Breckenridge, and now this
name is mentioned at several points.
1t will be remembered that when
Mr.. Schleicher was nominated, the
first time, Colonel Breckenridge
was before the convention, and in
lock between three candidates his
uame was at last withdrawn, and the
lock being broken Mr.. Schleicher was
chosen. Colonel Breckenridge has
many friends in the district, and,
being as much if not more of San
Antonio man than one of Austin, he
stands quite chance, provided he
permit the use of his name before
the convention. He is not a candi-
date, and the STATESMAN speaks OF
hlm merely as a probability, and it
is out Of the probabilities that this
nominee is going to come.
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From Saturdays Daily
CAPITOL CULLINGs.
Matters and Things I'm the state
Departments Yesterday.

The comptroller was expected home
last night.
There was no news in the secretary of
states Office yesterday.
The comptroller's office has not been
entirely fixed up yet in the new quarters.
The adjutant general is apprehensive
that the turbulence Of parties, fighting,
etc., in New Mexico may induce or force
many Indians across the Texas frontier.
Yesterday the land commissioner is
sued seventy patents on school lands for
the first payment OF onetwentieth. The
school lands Of the state are going rap
idly.
The commissioner Of the general land
Office sent TO the governor, for his sigma
ture, something near four hundred pat
ents, representing probably two hundred
and fifty thousand acres of land A good
many of these were issued TO the Inter
national railroad.
The FL Paso school lands, which ths
commissioners of that county sold a day
or two ago at seventy-five cents an acre,
were patented In 1854. They are said 70
be among the finest lands In the state,
and not an acre OF them but is worth at
least two dollars.
Captain Walsh is In receipt
of letters from WDbarger county
asking him TO stop the appralsement OF
the school lands in that section. The
letters state that syndicate OF middle.
men has been formed for the purpose Of
covering all these lands the inmate they
are placed upon the market.
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All the Same.
Palestine Advocate. ]

Information comes from Austin
that that city will not probably be
actively urged as a candidate for the
location of the cOlored branch of the
university, but it is likely will re-
ceive support because of the "econo-
my and convenience of having the
main institution and branch under
the same general management and
at one and the same place" Pales-
tine will be a candidate all the same,
however, and with proper manage
ment can be elected. The AdUOcdte
has found one sensible freedman,
Tony Arnold, who will aid us in the
matter, if none others do, and the
work will go bravely on.
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VOL. XI.

ming. Laying aside any question of
advocacy, or of opposition, to
Coke or to any other man.
who wants to win or to hold place,
the STATESMAN must be permitted
to express itself unequivocally upon
the subject of referring everything
to the well-organized primaries. If
some young gentleman be found,
who wants to go to the legislature
alone for the purpose of helping this
or that man to be United States
senator, the people should quiet
ly set down on him and prefer
another, who considers public desire
before individual ends. If the peo-
pie be allowed 10 act they will
choose men to represent them in the
convention who will express the pop
ular desire, and the cliques and the
rings will thus be defeated. The Off
GERS of the party have the power to
apply this principle, and if by dis
inclination TO discharge duties
dcvolving upon them, or by post
poning action, they defeat mature
popular consultation, they should
be invited to descend from their es-
tates under popular scorn and con-
tempt. The masses should be given
ample time to consider well every
proposition presented to them, and
if they be not extended this
time the fact may be accepted
that some sort of machine has
been set to work, that the party Of
ficers are either designers or dupes,
or that they are incompetent to per-
form obligations. A gross error
was committed in calling the state
convention so early, and when so lit
tie time was given it was right that
the primaries should be called with
out a moments delay yet there are
counties where the committeeman
have not yet acted, and the conven-
ton ia only six weeks removed.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-06-08

A LONG smouldering difference
between the New York associated
press and the Western Union tele-
graph company broke out in open
war, and the association trans
ferred all its business to the Mutual
Union lines. 1t was said this would
diminish the revenues of the West
ern Union telegraph company by
$l,O0O,O00 a year, and strength
en- the rival company in the same
proportion. The difference has been
healed, however. and the old order
of things resumed. Out of oil this
muss it was devoutly hoped by
Texas newspaper men that there
might be better service of
news. The daily papers pay im-
mense sums for the poorest reports,
and by the time these pass through
the hands of telegraphic apprentices,
the newspaper man is not fit sub
ject for the blessed hereafter.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-06-08

THERE is possibility that Mr..
Gladstone will not be able to carry
his Arrears of Rent bill through the
house of lords. The landed element
Liberal and Tory, is in force there
and many Liberals object to what
they regard as a measure of confis-
cation on the part of the govern
ment, since 1t deprives the landlords
of one-third of the rent past due,
The opponents of the measure pre-
fer to see 100000 tenants evlcted and
reduced to starvation, rather than
that some remedy should be afforded
those unfortunate people who have
not been permitted, by reason of
arrearages, to have any of the bene-
hts of the Irish land act.