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The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1883-01-04
Brewster's Picturesque Attitude.
INn,,, No,.lr Inn,r.r,nI

A amusing story has just come to
light which places the attorney gencI-
dl in picturesque attitude, and strih-
ingly illustrates that fossiliZed CrthO-
dOX legend about foolish people who
live In glass houses and throw
stones at their neighbors. Some
weeks ago rumor reacned the depart
ment OF justice, which has of late
been phenomenally active IN matters
pertaining to public justice, that Il
certain case has been compromised in
the office of the district attorney fOf
the southern district OF New York.
The attorney general, who Is alleged
by his friends to have some
time since contracted habit
of sleeping with one eye open, caught
on" to the rumor, to use wide
ly quoted expression, and wrote a
letter to District Attorney Stewart l..
Woodford, inquiring as to the reason
for compromise, and insinuating that
if this action had been taken Dy any
of the assistant attorneys without the
knowledge of the department, ''such
action would he considered sufficient
grounds for dismissal" etc.
Mr.. Woodford got that letter by the
morning mail. Also 10y that mail
there came Il personal note from MIR.
Brewster declining an invitation to d
banquet given by wel-known CLUB
OF which Mr.. Woodlord is a promi-
nent member.
Both letters were enclosed in official
franked envelopes of the department
of justice, in one corner of which there
appears certain remarks about $500
fine in case of use for other than oili-
cial business Mr.. Woodford first
opened the letter relating to the COM
promised law suit, and Mr.. BrewSter's
personal note. AS the latter en-
velope. caught his eye he smiI-
ed significant smile, and i'll
mediately wrote a long letter
to his chief explaining the matter of
the compromised suit, and reminding
that gentleman that he (the attorney
generaD had been guilty of gross vi
olation of United States statute in
using an official franked envelope for
private business, thereby rendering
himself liable to u fine and imprison-
ment. 1t is needless to say that the
compromised suit has not been men,
toned since, and the attorney general,
in fear and trepidation, awaits Mr..
WoOdfordS next move.
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wAR AMoAe REptlSls.s.

ST. LOUIS, Dee<zss-- -rhai5ies. "A,
the Indian Territory SAYS the hero
kee party in the fight, SUNDAY last.
had seven men killed and it is thought
Spiochee lost rs many more. Spiochee
and party have gone into the Chero-
kee nation, but he is expected to re-
turn again and keep up the disturb
ance. Reinforcements are hasteninr
to Okmulgee to protect the capitol.
Capt. Bates, with detachments of
United States troops, is also there and
the soldiers have been sent to Ealfala,
where there is good deal of excite
ment and many of the women and
children have been sent away for
safety. The trouble grew out OF the
old political division of the tribe a. %
what is known as Loyal and DisIOyal
during the war. Spiochee is nov st
the head of the Loyal party or what
has been known as the Sands faction.
and Cherokee is principal chief OF The
nation, and of course at the head Of
the party in power. He has eight
hundred armed men under him and
Spiochee is said to be nearly as strong.
Both parties are armed with all sorts
of weapons and seem to be in an ugly
mood, but it is thought the United
States soldiers and Mai. Tufts, the
United States agent. viii succeed in
qHieting them and restore order.
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RAILROAD STOCK FURRY.

NEW YORK, Dec. 28.-The Post says:
Chicago, burlington and Quincy ex-
perienced sudden drop Of 3A points
as result of the scare of Boston
stockholders upon the announcement
that the aggregate stock and bonded
Indebtedness of the road was increased
S26,000,000. We learn this increase is
true, but that it is represented by the
cost of the Denver extension and by
the acquisition by purchase of the
Burlington and Southwestern railroad
through southern Iowa, which is an
important new property. The increase
of bonded Indebtedness included in
the S26,000,O00 is also to be partly ap-
propriated to taking up $3,OOO,OUO of
the present eight per cent. Chicago,
Burlington and Quincy bonds. We
have reason to believe that the sale is
unwarranted. The general list SYM
pathized with the drop in Burlington
and Quincy, for which there seems no
sufficient warrant in the circum-
stances of the case. There is ground
for confidence that Notwithstanding
the loss of a large part of the usual
freight by the deficiency in the corn
crop of last year, the Chicago, Bur-
lington and Quincy is earning and has
earned eight per cent. on its capital
stock, and that this has been done with
the aid of few months business on
the recently completed Denver exten-
sion. The Texas and st. Louis was
bid up to Is from IL, without any
sales.
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The Professional Beauty Show.


1t is only fair to say that the enter
prising manager who brought over
the professional beauty for exhibition
has not advertised her as an actress.
Tie has not even made an assertion as
to her beauty. He engaged her sim
ply as a celebrated woman, whom he
knew that the public would be desi-
rous to see, and he has exhibited her
in the only way that custom rendered
convenient-upon the stage. If he
could have exhibited her in a cage it
would have served his purpose Just as
well, and possibly it would have served
the public better, for it would have re-
quired less endurance from the spec
tators. But there has been no false
pretense. 1t was advertised that Mrs.
Langtry could be seen, and she has
been seen. We now know what is the
standard of beauty favored by British
royalty, and what more did we expect
to learn?
As for the professional beauty her
self, who thus lets herself out for ex-
hibition, it must be said that she has
shown herself possessed OF q decree of
calm assurance that fairly critics her
TO rank as an extraordiI arv .oman.
1t may be that cheel, was n0l what
people have paid their mon 20 see,
but cheek like this is not .o pe met
with every day, and if we cssla.... and
extraordinary beauty or extrao ;igary
or even ordinary talent let Ia not
ignore the one phenomenal endg---
ment which is unquestionah'-
played. A woman who car taTv
face "a crowded theatre nigi.i after
night il, the consciousness which she
must possess that she mas not one
single qualification for what she has
undertaken 10 do, but is simply offer
ing herself as 4 spectacle to half-con-
telnptuous curiosity, is not going to
De wounded by plain speaking. and it
might as well be said. and it ought to
Oe sad, that the etfrontery of this
whole business is the one thing that
has secured it consideration. 1t is so
..udacious that it has taken some time
for people to persuade themselves that
it really is altogether the arrant hum
bug that it appears.
1t is a big speculation. 1t will make
lots of money, and as it depends on
humbug the exploitation of its absur-
dity will not hurt the business, and
any kind of notoriety will only help
the advertising and bring grist to the
mill. The one objective point is to
draw crowd, no matter how and no
matter what the crowd may think or
say, and, in the absence of any legiti-
mate claim to attention, there is all
the more need of irregular means.
There is no artistic conscience con-
cerned and not much personal dignity,
for people who have no respect for
Shakespeare cannot be expected to
have muchI respect for themselves.
The only duty the press has in the
matter is to let the public know ex-
actly what this circus is. If the pub
lie want to see it, nobody has any
right to complain.
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NO. p.

Judge Cunningham says: "That is
what they said about my Chinese cling
peach-the dealers all said they could
not work them off. But kept send
ing them to market and they are now
IN iirst demand and bring the highest
price. Once let the Georgia yam be
known to the world and the proper
ways of cooking it understood, and
our farmers can't raise enough to.sup
ply the demand. Every northern Wis
ltor that have tried it on is pleased
with it: 1t is sweeter, larger, and oil
finer fibre than any other potato."-
Cultivator.
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THE TELEGRAPH SUITS.

New YORK, Dec. 28.-In the West
ern Union telegraph company litiga-
lion in this city to-day. upon q settle
ment of the orders which embody the
result of the recent hearing of Hatch
and Williams against the COMPANY,
the application of Hatch and Williams
for injunctions against the further
transfer of any of the company's
shares, and the payment of any aud
all dividends, was denied as to all fea-
lures of their several applications, eK-
cept as to the payment of the diyi-
dend of | u per cent lately declared.
This dividend, the court held, could
be lawfully paid all except the Si5.-
100000 of stock which has been dis
tributed to the old stockholders OF the
Western Union telegraph company.
Upon the company's representation
that by innumerable transfers and re-
transfers this S15,000,000 of stock mad
become largely indistinguishable from
the balance. the court ordered that
upon the filing of a bond equal In
amount to IL per cent of this Sl5.-
0O0000. conditioned that If the court
ofapPeals should finally hold that The
si5,0O0.0O0 of stock was itself illegal
or void, the treasury of the company
should bo made whole, the company
should ne at liberty 90 pay the divi-
dend upon this SI5,o00OO0 with the
rest
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THE UNsUspEcTINe TAKEN IN.

NEW York, Dec. 2S.-Elijah A..
Bagley and his son, farmers living
near Pointsville, johnson county,
Kentucky, were to-day the victims of
an old swindle by Alexander Morse,
a well known confidence operator.
Some time ago Bagley received letter
offering 5000 in unlawful money for
$500. Considerable correspondence
passed, but to-day Bagiey arrived with
his son and was taken to a Third
avenue saloon by a confederate in the
swindle and shown upwards OF 5000
in crisp bank notes and some gold,
which he examined with great salts
faction. An intimation was given
Bagley that the notes were counter
felt, but could easily be passed. He
paid $500, and saw the 5000 in sup
posed counterfeits counted out and
put in a leather bag. The swindler
advised him to leave the city at once,
to escape detection. Morse starting
with him to the railroad depot. On
the way Police Inspector Murray met
them, and knowing Morse suspected
the swindle and stopped the party.
The bag so carefully carried by Bag
ley was loaded with stones and papers
and a three cent bag of salt. Morse
was locked up. The farmers are
without money.
In court Bagley acknowledged he
paid money to another person than
Morse and Morse was discharged
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Mr.. Joseph Friedenwald, chairman
of the Russian Relief association of
Baltimore, left Baltimore some weeks
ago with colony of eighty-twO Rus
sian refugees for Middlesex county,
Virginia, where tract of eight hun
dred acres had been purchased for
their homes. These refugees are from
different parts of Russia, most of
them being from along the banks of
the Dneiper. Some of them brought
their own tobacco seeds and expect TO
grow the weed in Virginia. being ex-
perts in its culture in their own
country. If this colony succeeds in
Virginia, which there is every reason
to suppose it will, if it is kept from
want until it can grow its crops, it is
thought there will be flow of emil
grafton from Russia to the vicinity of
this MiddleseX settlement.
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has large trade. Milano has about
200 inhabitants, Davilla about the
same number, and there are several
other villages with from 80 to $50
each. Near Rockdale, immediately
on the line of the international and
Great Northern railway, are located
the ROckdale coal beds, owned by the
Austin and Central Texas coal cOmpa-
ny. The coal is bituminous camel,
and the three veins so far opened are
at depth, respectively. of 40. II and
and u feet, and of thickness. in the
order named, of six, one, and seven
and half feet. The bed, so far as eX-
plored, embraces an area of something
over 250 acres. Tests made at the Aus
tin gas works show that the coal, in
point of gas-producing qualities, COM
pareS with other Goals as follows:
Number of feet of gas obtained from
one pound of Pitsburg coal, 4.10; Me
Allister Qndian territory coal, 450;
Rockdale coal, $50.
In 1872 seventy-eight public free
schools were provided for a scholastic
population of 2790, of which 78 per
cent was the average daily attendance.
Rockdale supplements the state appor-
tlonment by special city tax, and
maintains a system of city free schools
Which are kept open ten months
in the year with 232 pupils
within the scholastic age enrolled.
There is school of high grade at Da-
villa. and several other private schools
of primary grade in the county. All
the leading religious denominations
have churches in the county, and no
neighborhood is without church con-
veniences. The county has a floating
debt, which is provided for by spe-
cial tax, now in course of collection.
The general tax is 0cents on the 800.
After rainy seasons, in and on the
boarders of the river bottoms, chills
and fever prevail in summer to some
extent, but the general health is ex-
ceedingly good. In the timbered up
lands and on the prairies, sickness,
other than such as is common to ali
countries and climes, is of rare occur
renee.
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Thawing Out Snakes.

A python, sixteen feet long, dive
cobraS and blacksnakes were brought
to the Central Park menagerie. They
had Just arrived from Europe. No
blankets had been provided by the ex-
porter. The SerpentS had been merely
tossed into large wooden box, with
some loose hay at the bottom and air
hole at the top. During the voyage
out the hay got wet and the box be-
came soaked. When the snakes were
landed they were found to be rigid,
and so strongly knit together in a COM
mon mass that it tSeemed impossible to
separate them. The big case was put
on truck, and the truck man drove
the snakes to the park in the intense
cold. When Superintendent Conk-
link got the consignment he was nat
urally indignant at receiving con-
gealed serpents.
How to separate them seemed a
puzzle. They'll have to be thawed
out" said Superintendent Conkling.
Tobias LyneSS is the Park menagerie
engineer. He has charge of the great
furnaces that consume 800 tons of coal
in season. Tobias Lyness has been
many years in the employ of the park.
A1O 10 cih AllClAOdLy neutrality-suspicious. Ou,
muscular, curly-haired, cool. LyneSs
has no fear in him. He is no conjurer,
charmer or tanner, merely brave en-
gineer. "Lyness, / wish you would
thaw out these serpents for me-" said
Superintendent Conkling, who sup
posed they were dead. "And when
you have them uncoiled put them in
bags where l can find them and have
them sent to the taxidermist." "All
right, sir" replied Lyness, and calling
the menagerie hands, he said: Dump
these serpents in the engine ROOM"
Tobias .Lyness had a roaring fire in
his half-ton furnace. He raked down
the coal. put on the biast, and whe'
the fire was at white heat he threw
open the furnace door. Then he seized
the coil of frozen pythons, cobras and
black snakes. and dragged it close TO
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OF the Same Opinion.
.[Brazoria independently

lDfdIOrld lnuepenuent.3
The Austin STATESMAN is a firm
friend of the improvement of the
mouth of the BraZoS river, and it says
there seems to be very strong i'm
preston in the minds of those who
watch the progress of affairs at the
mouth of the Brazos river, that the
engineer in charge, Col. Mansfield, is
labouring to retard the removal of the
bar instead of doing that which the
government has intended. 1t esti-
mates that Col. Mansfield is sighting
the mouth of the BraZos in the inter-
est of the deep water at Galveston
Banner.
After carefully watching the move
ments of Col. Mansfield for about
three years, we are of the same opin-
ion as the STATESMAN.
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The Georgia Yam.

Judge John D. Cunningham, of At
lanta, the great peach-grower, persists
in declaring that the Georgia yam is
the best potato in the world. The
north and west don't buy it simply
because they are not acquainted with
its real merits. In reply to the remark
that the dealers win not handle it
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1883-01-04

Mr.. GARFIELD offered Dorsey the
socretaryship Of the interior, and time
and again urged him 90 take the place.
Dorsey thought, probably, that he had
a more lucrative position. Had he
been offered the postmastership he
might have accepted
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~ ANDERgILT wants to die" say
fhes, "with s50OOOC00O. 50 do l
IN 10 die millionaire. 1 want a
5iIlion Of stars in my crown He Is
cartaial. , very modest evangelist.
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lsoutheln cultivatOr.l

II is reported that an English COM
pang has just purchased $4,000 acres
acres of-End IN western and north
western Texas. This company will
sell alternate tracts of from two to
five hundred acres to European emf
grants wishing TO settle upon it. The
settlers will improve their possessions.
and by so doing will increase the value
OF the reserved tracts In many parts
OF Texas the value of laud has doubled
itself in the last two yeafs.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1883-01-04

The nup;ial propeusities of Samuel
j. Tilden are again being discussed
His millions may yet make him mar
riageable man.
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A watchmaker Of NIiddlebury. +,

A matchmaker of Middlenpry. Con-
necticut, has manufactured\a clock
which, at striking. carries out agepFe-
sentation Of Garheld's asSassinat ion.
Guiteau fires; the president fills. The
.,cene shifts. a funeral service is rep
&ented; suddenly q door opens and
eals Guiteau on the gallows.
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OSCAR WnDE's greatest triai in life
is selecting necktie. Ths Phlladei-
phia1 1k>ipes advised him to come TO
= - Il u,isappropriat mule.
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Az exchange observes lat vice
pays homage to virtue. This explains
the eagerneSs with which Bepublican
c0ugressmen support Democratic
measure. IL IS the power that inn
psls Eepntiican organs" to follow in
Che l9.h made plain by Democratic
rewsuatsr-.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1883-01-04

PENDLEroN's civil service bill dis
crininates between Office holders, and
that should condemn e.
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(. IS gsupreme court of Georgia has
ttd that railroad companies are
red to keep in proper repair pub
~ Dads or private ways established
~ law where they cross the railroad,
Sind to build suitable bridges or make
proper excavations or embankments.
But they art not required to build
bridges for crossings which are neither
public nor private ways established by
law; nor are they responsible for
damages resulting from the construc-
tion Of bridge narrower than the
road at such a crossing.
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stated In the house that it
Aty-fve paymasters and fifty
3yInasters' clerks 70 pay 1850
.for 37s men to each paymaster,
h aside the clerks.
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TIE Brazoria Independent calls
Wharton county the land Of prom
gsas
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MILAN COUNTY.

From advanced sheets of the "RepCrt on the
Resources, Soil and Climate Of Texas" by
A. w. Spraight, Commissioner of Statistics,
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A MIXED AFFAIR.

A general order was issued frr ne
navy department this evening, So
nouncing the finding Of the cart
martial in the case OF Surgeon M.
Owen, U. S. N. The specidctsions
allege that between August % and
September 2, 1882. he repeatedly
advised and urged Capt. Hopkins, In
command of the navy-yafd at
Pensacola at the time when yellow
fever was prevailing in that city. TO
leave the station, without being regu-
larly relieved, well knowing Hopkins
did not have permission from the pre-
per authority TO absent himself from
his command. The court acquitted
Surgeon Owens Of both charges, but
the Secretary of the navy disapproved
the finding of the court. hab ordered
Surgeon Owens released from arrest
and that he return TO his station and
resume his duties.
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iJn tne scsindils which
fn. alias Labouchere. has
, yng concerning Mrs. Lang
5he other scandal which u
Feeding reveals concerning
4uchere. il would be well for
! ~ sh critics, who are always
Sir utmost endeavors to find
" bad mote in American So
undertake the task Of remov-
Fir own beams which show up
I,I-
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work. have presented to YOU some
frozen facts, and sincerely hope YOU
will give them your candid and care
fu consideration. Your friend,
5. w. DORSEY,
To Gen. James A. Garfield.
In another letter Dorsey gives
prominence to Blaine's car of judg-
ment. He says:
Above all things 1 do not wish to
obtrude my notions of men or of poli
tics upon you. | hear so many rllnors.
however, as to what you are to do or
what you have decided hpon. some of
which / would rather not hear. that
ON the whole, / have thought best to
write you, and | shall do so frankly.
First-I do not think YOU ought TO
put men in your cabinet who were
not able to see success in our cause at
the beginning, and who after the re-
suit was made clear by Others came
forward in a hating and half-hearted
way to take their place il, the process
sion. Ifyou do anything Of this kind.
in my judgment you make a very
serious mistake. This is not a good
time for the tender feet y Lead. We
want stalwart pioneers wflb are known
and trusted by the regular troops.
We have had enough of this shilly-
shally, quicksand business. 1t won't
do. don't like to see II repeated in
the newspapers day after day as COM
ing from Mr.. Blaine and his friends
that men who voted for. Grant or for
some other man at Chicago
are especially selected to be
ridden down under the wheels
of Mr.. Blaine's triumphal car.
know that it is not true. and when i
am told by the camp followers that
the entire incoming administration is
to be managed And controlled by a
syndicate heade9 by BIZ e and S6er
man to subse1 their u Ictive am
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TT Eev York Herald says that it
q voiai ao2 slsat thing II we could
tvI iaS permitting ship owners to
:. sload The sun asks the
s1ch law would certainly
establish .lt jscayed nav
sts Of this country
iust what il wanted.