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The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1883-01-18
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MILWAUKEE, Jan. l6.-Nearly a
week has elapsed since the NeWhall
House went down in ruins and the
agonizing shrieks of the victims, and
yet the full extent of the disaster
remains unknown. The wild reports
that spread over the city and thence
to the utmost limits of the civilized
world Oh the day of the disaster are
realized, and still the pick and shovel
of the laborer continues to add to the
horrors. Yesterday closed with TWEEN
ty-eight bodies recovered, and at
noon to-day the number was increased
to thirty-One. The blackened and
unrecogniZable forms of three girls,
side by side in helaundry room, were
taken out just as night enshrouded
the ruins with its shadows like pail
of gloom. Eight bodies in all have
been recovered along the west foun-
dation wall of the building, the re-
mains of servant girls who were un-
doubtedly struggling to reach the
passage way into the bank building
when they were cut off by the flames.
The north wall having been torndown,
workmen began eXcavating the two
sections that were left untouched on
account of the danger menaced form
a tottering pile of brick and mortar,
were rewarded in their work with the
discovery Of the body of large man
at the foot of the old entrance for
ladies, which was closed when the ele-
vator was placed in The house. The
body was doubled over the fOunda-
ton wall, greater portion of it lying
on the outside walk face down. The
unfortunate victim had without doubt
made his way to one head of the stair
way, found il on fire and all exit cut
off, made leap through the sea OF
flame for the pavpment, and struck
the outer wall. The mating at the
street entrance was baked and matted
into the flesh of the abdomen, but
there was nothing on the body TO
lead to Identification. The body was
that of a very large man. Quite
a distance has been made into the
court, where it was expected a large
number of ladies would .be found,
without revealing any new victims,
and the opinion now prevails that the
inmates of the house who were awak-
ened by the roar of the flames made
their way to the Michigan and Broad
way fronts, and that the worst fea-
lures of the disaster are now known.
and very few bodies remain in the
ruins. The crowd of people that stood
about the pavements outside was
as large to-day as 1t was at
the beginning of the search,
modification in the. weather
having added recruits TO the /.
watchers. Theappearance of the pa
troll wagon to convey its horrible
freight from the house is often greet
ed with coarse jests and laughter by
the hara-hearted wretches who con-
gregate In groups about the premises.
Mr.. Scheller, lessee of the bar-room
of the Newhall house. was arrested
this afternoon on suspicion OF having
set fire to the hotel. Scheller says that
he closed his saloon at 3 "A. m, but 10
has been found that in company with
Will Sanderson and Tom Dunbar he
returned to the saloon after 3 a. m.
Great excitement prevails.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1883-01-18

The Nashville American gives the
south some excellent advice. The
true policy of that section. says the
American, is to quit sending cotton
out Of the country to be manufactured
but to manufacture the raw material
at home, and thus become rich and
prosperous. With soil capable of
raising supplies for many times the
present population, with a climate
adapted both to agriculture and manu-
featuring. with the raw material
cotton, coal. iron-at hand, with both
water and rail transportation, nothing
stands in the way to prevent the south
from progressing rapidly. if she devote
her energies to manufacture.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1883-01-18
SENATORIAL ELECT IONS.
MASSACHUSETTS,.

BOSTON, Jan. 16.-The first ballot
in the senate stood: Hoar 10, Crapo
2, Long 6, Bowerman Unnecessary to
elect 20. House, necessary. to elect
III; Hoar 108, Crapo 10, Long %,
Bowerman 20, G. L. Adams, Jr., l, l..
Ranney 2, Robinson 2, Butler 2 and
Atkinson 2.
John ID. Long was elected United
which stood: Long %, Hoar 10.
Crapo 2. The house adjourned inn
mediately upon hearing the result of
the above ballot and both houses will
meet in joint convention tomorrow.
ARKANSAS.
LITTLE Rock, Jan. 16.-The sena-
torial election held at noon to-day in
general assembly resolved in the re-
election of Senator A. II. Garland,
who received every vote cast except
three Greenbackers who voted for
Rufus X. Garland. The caucus Of
Republican members on Monday
decided to tender their votes compli-
mentary to Ex-Congressman Logan
III. Roots, but he urged that they be
given to Senator Garland, which was
done.
MICHIGAN.
DETROIT, Jan. 16.-The two houses
of legislature took separate ballots
this morning for senator, with the
following results: Senate-Ferry,
Republican, IA; Stout, Fusion, lS;
scattering, 5. House-Ferry, 45;
Stout, 38; scattering, II. There being
no choice in either house the two
bodies will meet in joint convention
tomorrow.
MINNESOTA.
ST. PAUL, Jan. 16.-The senate to-
day gave Window 80 votes; Wilson,
Democrat, 8; NJ. III. Dunnell, 4; Cor
don Z. Cole, 8. Therest were scatter
ing. Window lacked one vote Of
election. In the house Window re-
ceived AZ votes, Is less than necessary
to election; Wilson received "a; Dun
nell, q; Kindred, 4. Rest scattering.
TENNESSEE.
NASHVILLE, TENN, Jan. 16.-Hon
Isham G. Harris was elected to the
United States senate on the first bal
lot. The vote stood seventeen in the
senate and iifty-eight iii the house.
MAINE.
AUGUSTA. Jan. 16.-Frye elected
aanatnr
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1883-01-18

Gov. IRELAND says the time is rap
idly approaching when we will haveno
fontier in the sense long indicated
thereby. In our estimation this time
has already arrived, for it is noted
fact that the title to live stock is at
this time respected more in the Pan
handle country, in close proximity to
the Indians, than along the Colorado
or the Guadalupe. Indian depreda-
tions have ceased in that quar-
ter, and the building of the railway
along the Rio Grande has effectually
done away with the Indian frontier
in the west. The STATESMAN be-
lieves in honest declarations, and
therefore it would advise that the
frontier force" be dropped as indi-
eating an obsolete factor in state ex-
pense, and that "state police" be sub
stituted therefor. 1t is a noted fact
that the existence of an armed state
force means the inefficiency of peace
officers in some of the counties, and
the demand of the day is that duty be
required of these. 1t is discreditable
to the character of Texas that a regular
armed force is in existence, and the
fact is it gives color of justice
to an alleged most ,damnable
feature of the despised Davis admin
istration. Place and distribution of
public funds under changed conditions
is the only excuse the government
now has for taxing the people $4,000
annually for so called frontier force.
In the honesty and simplicity" of
Democratic government let us not
resort to deceitful vocabulary, that
the people may be still deluded.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1883-01-18

BISMARCK is willy old politician.
Every once in while he asserts that
he is going to retire from public life
and then protests pour in upon him,
and he reconsiders and decides
TO serve the people little longer. In
this he is very much like Texas poll
tician, who always waited for the
people, but who waited once too often,
Bismarck it is believed understands
his situation well and knows when he
must bid for protests, and when it will
not do for him to anticipate them.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1883-01-18

IT would be well for the railroad
men not to conclude, upon his inaugu-
raj address, that Gov. Ireland has
avoided great issue until he is heard
from in a special message on railroad
questions. He says very clearly that
the people demand the fulfillment of a
constitutional duty. This is rather
significant, and his subsequent quail
fication cannot after that be accepted
as avoidance.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1883-01-18

The POSITION of Gov. Ireland re-
garding the insane will find an echo
in the hearts of all Texans. That the
jails of the state are receptacles for
these unfortunates is a shame to our
civilization, when it is known that
the state is amply able to provide for
every insane person in its limits.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1883-01-18

GOVERNOR IRELAND says let us
multiply the. machinery of office as
little as possible. He might have add
ed that some of the machinery which
has been persistently adhered to ever
since the day of its establishment by a
Radical administration, could be dis
pensed with to the credit of Texas at
home and abroad.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1883-01-18

SOME of the papers are congratulate
ing the governor-elect on the selection
he has made for the department of in
surance, statistics and history. The
proposed appointment may be a good
one. but the STATESMAN prefers to
have the fact proven before it makes
50 broad an assertion, for many are of
the opinion that the selection is an un-
fortunate one.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1883-01-18

GOVERNOR ROBERTS made most
excellent executive. The STATESMAN
differed with him on some questions.
but in the main it was a warm sup
porter of his administration. 1t op-
posed his nomination for the third
term, favoring that of the present
chief executive.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1883-01-18

WE AGREE with Gov. Ireland that
this payment of an enormous pre-
MUM on bonds for the benefit of the
school fund has been unwise. In
stead of being a benefit to the school
fund it has been disadvantage, for
while the revenue account, by long
and tedious calculation, may be
proven to have been benefited to the
extent of a few dollars, the school
fund has been robbed of hundreds of
thousands of dollars-a right belong
ing to no state officer, to no board of
-st3te officials.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1883-01-18

The Charleston, South Carolina
News says "Texas ought to be the
best educated state in the Union by
and by, if it makes good use of its
public school fund, which now con-
sists of over S4,OOO,OOO in interest
bearing bonds and money, and 10000
000acres of land, worth $3.50 an acre.
The News is correct provided the gov
ernment throws around this fund the
safeguards necessary for its protec-
tiOn
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1883-01-18

Constipation is positively cured by
Carriers Little Liver Pills. Not by
purging and weakening the bowels,
but by regulating and strengthening
them. This is done by improving the
digestion and stimulating the liver to
the proper secretion of bile, when the
bowels will perform their customary
functions in an easy and natural man.
ner. Purgative pills must be avoided.
Ask. for Carter's Little cAiver Pills.
Price % cents. For sale by Morley
Bros.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1883-01-18

Charles +. Freeman, who sacrificed
his childin a areligious frenzy at Pocas-
set, Massachusetts,, three years ago,
and is now in the lunatic asylum. is
regarded as having recovered his rea-
son, and is likely soon TO be released.
@The child's life was lost" he says.
through ignorance and superstition.
knowledge and science have saved
mine and restored my reason. in
tend to be guided by reason through
the rest of my life"
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1883-01-18

The maguey plant, which abounds
in Mexico, is said to produce fibre
equal to the best Yucatan jute, and
excellent quality of paper pulp. Mills
for utilizing the plant in this direc-
ton are to be started Immediately.
The Mexican government encourages
the new industry by the offer of pre-
MUM of $4,000 for every such mill
established, conditioned on certain
stipulations for rendering the enter
prise effective.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1883-01-18

THE commissions increase in the
tariff on cotton ties shows the base
injustice to which this partisan organ
ization proceeded in it's work of re-
vision. The increase is about one
hundred per cent or an additional tax
of half million dollars imposed upon
the cotton producers. 1t has certainly
been the aim of the people to so
change the tariff as to afford the
greatest relief to the agricultural in
terests, and reduce as far as possible
burdens now borne by our farm
ers. So in this greatest in
dustry of the south, a sudden and un-
expected increase of duty is ordered
that will bear heavily on the cotton
planting interest, which, instead of
being taxed, needs every aid and as
sistance the government can give it.
There is very little money made now
in cotton planting, and there will be
less when this new tariff goes into
effect, which, it may be hoped, the
Democratic minority in the house
will be able to defeat
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1883-01-18

THE splendid star seen in such bril-
lance at five o'clock in the morning
is Venus. It's rays are as bright and
mellow as the purest gem. While
Venus announces morning. Jupiter
plays attendant upon evening.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1883-01-18

ONE of the first things to which
Gov. Pattison's attention was called,
after his Inauguration, was the theft
by two prominent Republicans of
nearly every dollar of Pennsylvania's
war claims. amounting to S2.OOOOOO.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1883-01-18

A traveller of pugilistic aspect was
mistaken for Tug Wilson at Paducah,
Kentucky, and he allowed himself to
be dined, wined and honiZed; but
when bruiser was brought forward
to fight with him he confessed that he
was a fraud.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1883-01-18

THE governor was mild in his re-
Election ON the course of boards and
such things. when he said we must
have but few state secrets. Nothing
concerning state government should
be kept from the people. The officers
are but their agents.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1883-01-18

CULLoM and Raum will be able to
control the contest for senator before
the Illinois legislature, but neither
can be elected without an understand
ing with the other.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1883-01-18

The Lyons Medical gives the case
of a surgeon who had attended at a
duel and declined to give evidence
concerning it in court, stating that
what he knew was gained in his pro-
fessional capacity. This was adj
judged fallacious on the ground that
to keep silent in regard to a crime is
illegal. He was fined.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1883-01-18

1T is said that Mrs. Frank Leslie,
with a number of artists and personal
friends, will make tour of the south.
She will herself write descriptions,
which the artists will illustrate.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1883-01-18

RUSSIA has thirty-three schools in
which to educate men to manage and
operate railways. When the railway
commission is provided for, may it not
be well to establish such school in
Texas
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1883-01-18

MEMORIALS have been presented to
the legislature signed by over two
hundred Texas veterans and the wild
ows of veterans, asking for the pass
age of a law, conformable to section
90, article 16, of the constitution,
granting a pension of $3.50 a year to
the Texas veterans and their widows.
They say: 1--WE are now old and fee
BILE, and in very few years there will
be none of us left to tell the story of
our hardships and adventures. We
appeal to chivalrous people, through
their legislature, to grant us this pen
sion for our few remaining years, to
which the services of our early man.
hood for Texas would seem to en-
title u.s." The petitioners state the
value of property owned by them,
and the almost universal fact appears
that they are destitute and needy. Of
course bill will be passed, providing
this pittance for these old men men
and women. Every year the little
band is diminished by scores, and not
many years hence the calling of the
roll will reveal the fact that the last
voice has been hushed in death. A
bill has been presented in the senate
by Mr.. Patton, and one in the house
by Mr.. Douglass, both providing pen
sions for these people, and the meas
ure will probably be one of the first
adopted. 1t is certainly pleasing to
see these young men working in behalf
of the old. The rich inheritance of
this generation, derived from the
struggles of those who risked all for
the grandeur of Texas, pay in advance
for ten thousand times the sum asked
to aid these old people in securing par
tial comforts in their last scene in
life-the one that precedes oblivion.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1883-01-18

Canada is to have a double postal
card, so arranged as to afford the send
er the means of accompanying his
communication with a blank reply
card, stamped. and only to be detached
to be ready for use. They will cost
two cents.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1883-01-18

GOVERNOR IRELAND speaks under
the light of present civil service re-
form ideas when he says that in as
suming the duties of Office he does not
propose to be partisan, but that he
is thus disarmed of all political asper-
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1883-01-18

WHILE Bismarck opposes the in
PRODUCTION of the American hog into
Germany, he has allowed Herr Most
to break loose and range at large on
this side of the Atlantic.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1883-01-18

THERE are enemies in the Demo
cratic ranks who desire to encompass
the defeat of Senator Ransom, of
North Carolina. His term expires on
the 4th of March next.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1883-01-18
TWENTY-FIVE state legislatures are
now in full blast.

EDWIN BOOTH is going to play an
engagement in Berlin. He will begin
with Hamlet.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1883-01-18

THE average salary paid to male
teachers for 1882 was sSS instead of
s2s. This error appeared in our last
foa,ta
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1883-01-18

EDMUNDs declares he does not want
sbe sacrificed, as presidential can
1t.llate, on the altar of his party.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1883-01-18

relations, and we believe that any law
which permits the husband and wife
to sever, in a moment of passion or
prejudice, the marriage relation, by
his OF her oath, will be fraught with
pernicious results. Its natural effect
would be to destroy that unlimited
confidence without which there
is no happiness in married life. What
man would make his wife the custo-
dian of all his secrets If the rules Of
evidence can unseal her lips? for If
the husband or wife may testify,
the one against the other, to destroy so
holy relation as that of marriage,
there would remain no reason why
their evidence should not be taken
against each other when the rights of
others are involved.
The tendency to contract marriage
too hastily would be increased by
such legislation. A yoke, the dura-
tion of which depended on the unaided
testimony of the one who bears it,
would be lightly worn when it could
so easily be shaken off, and instead of
people marrying with that delibera-
tion and judgment which a partner
ship for life should inspire, the ro-
mantle unions of the period would
increase.
1t may be said that personal vio-
lence, inflicted by the husband on
the wife, often occurs when there is
no witness present. In such case
the courts are always ready to punish,
and the wife is competent witness.
The very interests of society, which
should restrain her from diSSOlVing
by her own testimony, the marriage
contract, and thus making it rope of
sand, require that her person shall be
protected from unlawful violence by
her husband, even by making her
witness. But here it is believed the
permission for her to testify should
stop. The penal laws are usually ade-
quate to her protection, and not only
society, but the children of the mar
riage, have an interest in not having
the marriage union destroyed by the
testimony of the parents on the occur
renee of every family broil.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1883-01-18

This county is situated just within
the lower limits of that distinctively
wheat-growing region which has Civ
en- to Northern Texas a just claim to
be termed the granary of the state.
rpa i0lI Souarp miles
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-10-01
Notes and Personalities,

WASHINGTON Sept. 30.-Colonel Dick
Bright, Sergeant-at-arms of the Senate is in
Boston. He is expected to return here to-
day.
Senator D. w. Voorhees, went to New York
yesterday. whence he goes to his home at
Terre Haute. Ind. He will return here on
Oct. 25, to argue the Kilbourn case, for which
he has made extensive preparations, Before
leaving here he stated to a friend that the
judgment would surely be increased at the
next trial.
The bonds presented for redemption under
the 121st call, to noon to-day, was $21, 49,
$50.
1t is estimated at the Treasury Depart
ment that the reduction of the public debt
for September will be about S15, 600, 900.
W. B. Haworth, of Quincy, ILL.,, has been
appointed superintendent of public building
at that place.
The Corean embassy arrived here this even
ing.
Forty-eight thousand one hundred and
fifty-four checks, aggregating in value So
794, ,721, and representing the interest due
October 1 on the registered fours were
mailed from the Treasury Department to-
day.
Judge-advocate-genera Swain recommends
that the finding of the court-marta suspend
ing Second Lieutenant Robertson be disap-
proved.