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The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1883-03-17

SHILoH's CATARRH REMEDY-a posi-
tive cure for Catarrh, Diphtheria and
Canker Mouth. For sale at the
Eagle Drug Store, ...~.-s.s "a issl .ss
The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1883-03-17
4 FELLOW FEELING.

A fellow was arraigned before an
Arkansas Justice on charge of obtain.
ing money under false pretenses. He
had entered a store, pretending to be a
customer, but proved to be thief.
your name is Jim Lickmore said
the Justice.
yes, sir"
"And you are charged with crime
that merits long term in the peniten-
tiary!' .....s... -
yes, sir.
And you are guilty OF the erimo' !"
yes. sir"
and you may ask for no mercy!'
''No, sir"
You have bad great deal Of
troable within the last two years."
Yes, have"
you have often wished you were
dead?"
AafFt piNh'N 1"A' AANNe's
"You wanted to steal money enough
to take you away from Arkansas" !"
"YOu are right, Judge. "
''lf a mau had stepped up and shot
you Just as you entered the store, you
would have have said. Thank your"
Eyes, sir, / would But, Judge, how
did you lind on. so much about me y
"Some time since" said the Judge.
with a. solemn air. 81 was divorced
from my wife. Shortly after you mar
riel her. The result is conclusive. i
discharge. you, Here, take this 6ity-
dollar bill; Yon have suffered enough.
The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1883-03-17

AG NTS:
C. W. CRANE, 3lS Pine street and 10 Leides
dorf street, Room 80, San Francisco. w
". A. CAswgLL, Sacramento, California
B.F RILEY is authorized 20 collect and re-
cept for,suthseriptions TO the SILVER STATE in
Paradise Valley. NJ s&t
5 X. YoBNG IN authorized TO collect and
receipt for subscriptions to the SILVER STATE at
Big Meadows. Us as.s..sf5 ..s.f -#s..s e
A. 6ISTz is authorized 70 collect and receipt
tor subscriptions to the SILVER STATE ia Spring
City. ".af fHH Hs8 - ~r8.A
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1883-03-08
SCIENTIFIC MATTERS.

According to the Scientific Review
the causes of the high mortality in
Memphis have been shown by DIR.
Thornton to be connected chiefly with
the negro population.
1t is almost a self-evident fact that
there should be some other way of
dispOsing of sewerage than turning it
into streams. Organic germs of dis
ease are contained in such water.
There is one thing to be said about
the incandeScent electric light, with all
its drawbacks. 1t neither vitiates the
air nor gives the high and often I'M
bearable temperature of gas. No
doubt one of these days electric illu-
mination of dwellings will be a usual
thing in large cities.
Gas companies are now turning
their attention in England to the
manufacture of sulphate of ammonia,
and the probability is that there will
be more attention than ever given to
this industry by manufacturers of il
Illuminating gas. Progress in electric
lighting is working change in the
utilization of so-called waste products.
The ancients knew a great deal for
which they get very little credit. a
short time ago a collection of surgical
instruments was dug up at Pompeii.
1t was evidently the property of some
single establishment and was quite
elaborate, OF course, the find" was
removed to the Naples museum. One
of the appliances attracted great at
tention. 1t was long rod with a
metallic plate fixed at one end at an
angle of 135 degrees. AT first it was
thought to be a cautery for internal
operations, but its resemblance to the
modern larygeal mirror suggests the
probability that it was so used.
1t was Sir John T. w. Herschel
who advanced the following state
ment: For the benefit of those who
discuss the subjects of population,
war, peStilence, famine, ETC., it may
be as well to mention that the mum.
Der of human beings living at the
end of the Tooth generation, com.
mencing from single pair, doubling
at each generation (say thirty years.
and allowing for each man, woman
and child an average space of foul
feet in height and one foot square
would form a vertical column having
for its base the whole surface of the
earth and sea spread into plane, ant
for its height 1874 times the sun:
distance from the earth. The mum.
Der of human strata thus piled ont
on the other would amount to AGO,
790,O00,O0OOO0.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1883-03-08
Electricity for the TrieyeIe.

Electricity has long been threaten.
ing to displace gas as an illuminant
1t is now entering the field against
the horse as a means of traction. Two
eminent electricians claim to be able
to bottle up twelve horsepower in a
storage battery weighing 300 weight,
and they promise to produce in few
months perfectly practical electric
tricycle., capable of running fifteen OF
twenty miles without recharging the
accumulators, and able to ascend all
such hills as are now possible for the
foot tricycle., and even sleeper gradi-
ents if auxiliary foot gearing be used
to help the electromotor when the in
cline is great. The weight of bate.
ries will not exceed the weight of a
second rider, and will run at the rate
of seven miles an hour. As the new
motorwill never go lame or shy or break
It's knees, or eat its head off when not
employed, it is likely to prove dan
gerous rival to the horse. The quad.
ruped, however, which has survived
steam, need not fear extinction by
electricity.-Pall Mall Gazette.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1883-03-08
Popular Jealousy Of Paternal Legis'
laCiOn.
Galveston News

The bill to establish vaccination
has been printed, and is found to pro-
vide that every child must produce a
certificate of vaccination in order to
be admitted to the public schools after
September l, 1888. The county COM
missioners courts are to provide for
vaccination by appointing competent
physicians, who shall use good COW
lymph, to be had from the state health
officer free of charge, and they
are to be paid from the county
treasury. Municipal authorities
have similar duties. Moral suasion
appears to be the only means by
whichthe appointed physicians can
act for the vaccination of adults. 1t
is made the duty of such physician to
visit residence or publish notice or
otherwise act as they may deem fit to
procure general public compliance
with the design of the proposed law.
Physicians using any other lymph
than that supplied by thestate health
officer are punishable for misdemean-
or. The difficult point would be, as
Mr.. Julius SchultZe, the intelligent
Austin correspondent of the Texas
German Post, suggests, to prove such
misdemeanor. He thinks the bill will
become law, perhaps with an
amendment making the vaccination
of adults compulsory. In such case
it will likely become dead letter,
like the Sunday law and the law
against certain games in public
places. 1t is noted that scarcely any
body in Texas used to play at domi-
noes, but since the seventeenth legis-
lature forbade public dOmino-playing,
everybody has wanted to learn 1.-The
game. Before the war there was
no Sunday law in Texas, but bar
rooms were generally closed on Sun
day. The barkeepers wanted their
Sunday rest. Since the first Sunday
law was passed, in 1868, people have
been more for going to saloons on
Sunday. A really jealous advocate of
vaccination might try the plan of in
ducing the legislature to forbid vac
cination. in which case, it is to be
presumed, the people would rush to
the doctors Office and insist on being
vaccinated. and would pay dollar for
the operation, for every man prides
himself upon being boss of his own
person, and the legislature can prac-
tice no tyranny over free citizens.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1883-03-08
Leading to DishOnOr.
[RichmOnd NatiOn.]

Gov. Roberts in his speech before the
legislative committee justifying his
lease of the penitentiary for fifteen
years, at $4,000 a year, said the object
the committee had in view was
humanity, and the ultimate combining
of the prisoners in the penitentiaries;
but he forgot to tell the committee
that other responsible parties stood
ready to take the contract on the
same terms and conditions as to
humanity and the ultimate combining
of them within the walls and pay the
state double what the present lessees
pay. This whole thing about
humanity in the penitentiary is a
sham and a humbug. OF course
every sane and sensible man wants
the prisoners humanely treated, but
this thing of putting murderers and
highway robbers and midnight in
cendiaries on feather beds and feed
ing them on the cream and fairness of
the land ard have soft places in the
workshops, whilst the widows and
orphans of their victims are toiling in
rags and tatters, through rain and
mud, cold and sleet, to exc out a
scanty living, is about played out, and
this sickly sentimentality for con-
Victs is a snare and a delusion to hide
this fraud of letting for less than halt
what others would pay, and at the
same time adopt the same humane
treatment as that proposed by the
state board and agreed to by the con-
tractors.
The present legislature will dis
honor themselves and the great state
of Texas should they ratify that
lease
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1883-03-08
DuflOt and the People.

The French doctreSs. with her
spangleS, plumes, brass band and other
gorgeous and glittering paraphernalia.
was again on the streets miniStering
to the sick and sore of tooth. She is a
sprightly little woman of about thirty
five, dark complexion, and with real
French quickness and deXterity per-
vading her every movement. She has
an interpreter, who acts as kind of
translating monograph or funnel, into
whom is poured certain quantity of
French, and who metamorphoses it
into kind of English, which he ejac-
ulates for the benefit of those sur
rounding, and then reaches for an
other measure of thespeech, and so on.
Whatever may be said of the pecu-
liarity of her Oriental trappings, the
manner in which she extracts teeth
is truly mary elous. Little children
sit quietly while she extracts tooth
after tooth, without them even be-
traying the slightest pain. A lady had
eight teeth extracted in half the num-
Der of minutes, without the slightest
show of remonstrance, and several
gentlemen had teeth pulled without
knowing how it was done. The doc
treSs meets some hard cases to deal
with. One day, colored man had a
molar extracted the size of gum
stump with but slight pain. Another
case, that of a white man who had
had tooth broken by dentist, leav
ing two prongs over which the gum
had grown. He was an old sinner
with a physiognomy which might
be called "hard." His mouth
was shrunk on one side pulling it
away like a partly dried apple, and
when he opened it the tariff bill,
bonded warehouse and the Louisiana
tobacco interests were displayed. He
was suffering torture, and was 10th
to let her touch him. He said he had
been to dentists and dentists who
could not give him relief, although
they had pulled and tugged until his
shin-bones started up out of his stock
ings. He was politician from Gal
weston, and had the promise of an APP
preparation from Tom Ochiltree for
next summer. when he would put his
jaw in with the harbor improvements
and have a dredge boat dig for his
snags. While he was dilating the
little doctress, by rapid movement
of an instrument, pulled out both
prOngs and placed them in his hand.
AS soon as he could realize the fact
he rushed for the telegraph Office to
telegraph Ochiltree to stop the appro-
priatiOn
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1883-03-08
A Gloomy Record.

People say this is an unlucky year
And yet, so rapidly has one woe trod.
den upon another's heels, and so easily
do we forget last weeks calamity in
the contemplation of the fresh one
that few actually realize how gloomy
the seven weeks since New Years
really is.
January opened with a series OF
catastrophes on land and sea. and the
record of disaster and death has been
continuous to this time. In Germany
widespread CONSERVATION and suffer
ing were caused by the floods, eSpec-
tally in the middle Rhine districts, as
many as 1000 persons being homeless in
Mannheim, Worms and Ludwigshafen
In Hungary the foundations of the
Danube and its tributaries created a
similar feeling of alarm, there being
a heavy loss of life in Raab and ten
thousand persons being left roOfieSs, il
not homeless. Many villages in
France have been damaged by floods
and similar havoc has been wrought
in the lake region of England. In the
United States enormous losses have
been sustained from high water, and
the Ohio valley has been devastated
from Pittsburg to Cairo. Ireland
shares in the distress of nations be
cause last seasons crops were worth
$12, 100000 less than tho average an.
nual yield of the decade, and conse-
quently there are apprehensions OF
scarcity of food in the least prosper.
Gus sections of the land. Even as fan
away as Iceland the year has
opened ominously with signs of star.
walton. To these national calamities
due to natural causes, must be added
local catastrophes, such as the destruc.
ton of the Swiss village of Marais by
a landslide, the disastrous snowslidt
near Crested Butte in Colorado, and
the entombment of seventy miners al
Diamond, Illinois.
Human agencies, moreover, have
contributed by their blindness, reck.
lessness and powerleSsness to swell
this, list of calamities. If great
storms have swept over the seas and
left them strewn with wrecks, and il
the floods have clapped their hands in
many lands, mans Ignorance and
helplessneSs have added to the sense
of insecurity which the opening year
has impaired. Two ocean Steamship
have been sunk in collisions, one car
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1883-03-08

rying down with her over 400 paSSen-
gers and seamen. Three great hotels
have been burned in the United
States, the loss of life in one instance
being very large. In Russia the
town of KhersOn has been nearly de-
stroyed by fire, and in Poland PIG lives
have been lost in panic in a circus.
In New York sixteen or more chill
dren have been trampled to death in
a panic, and in Milwaukee an audi
ence has narrowly escaped a similar
fate. There have been startling
railway accidents at Tehi-
chipa and elsewhere, and
disastrous explosions in San Fran
cisco, Puget Sound, Glasgow and Hol-
land. These and many other calami-
ties have made the opening year con-
spicuous for its misfortunes.
The ravageS of death, moreover
have heavily depleted the worlds
working stock of genius, wisdom and
philanthropy. On the first day of the
year came the tidings that France had
lost in Gambetta its greatest man, and
Washington was startled by the sud
den death of a veteran diplomatist
at public reception. Not long after.
ward France lost its greatest soldier
in ChanZy, and its most industrious
designer, if nothing more, in Dore
Germany and the world are now
mourning Wagner; and American
public life and philanthropy have
been deprived of men so useful a.
Marshall Jewell and Lot NJ. Morrill,
Ex-Governor Morgan and William E
| Dodge.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1883-03-08

AS THE Dallas Times says, this ter
rible accident which occurred in a
theatre in Galveston few nights
since calls for reflection upon the pro-
miscuous habit of carrying concealed
explosive weapons. This man Blake
ly in going to the theatre with his
sixshooter buckled on him, causing
the death of human being, commit
ted an offense against law, which
should cause condign punishment to
be vested upon him. The blood of
Douglass calls for it, and iftustice be
meeted out to him Blakely will surely
be punished. He caused the death OF
an unoffending man by disobeying
law, thus making himself amenable
for the taking of life.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1883-03-08
The Presidents Peculiarities,

An alleged member of the cabinet
says to Gath. in speaking of President
Arthur: "He is quite study. He is
a sensitive, almost a timid mani
mean with reference to his response
bilitieS. He is also moody man.
Whether these moods are in his ma
ture or come from his stomach, l can
not determine. Sometimes l have
thought that the turning of man
whose vlvacity lies altogether in the
night hours into day bird weaIs
him. Meeting him out at different
times to dinner, l observe that he
grows at his best after we have
left the table, when he gen.
orally remains with
the ladies-and then comes in
to the smoking-room among the
more nearly natural and happy than
variety of pleasing little things, remi-
niscenses, military anecdotes, etc,
with a zest that makes us feel he is
a kind of boy. But when you go
into his Office in the mornings, there
you see man, oppressed with either
duties or the inversion of his natural
hours, or staggering under a sense of
responsibility which he does not like.
The presidency is very heavy office
for man without audacity to carry,
because its incumbent must do every
thing himself. When Arthur was
collector of the port he had subordi-
mates who would act for him in
many things, and he merely seemed
to be carrying out their recommends
ton or findings. But in the presi.
dency he can not delegate much, and
the successive shocks of conflict over
almost every Office, and his desire not
to offend either public opinion or the
large personal influences which make
up his party, keep him in measure
stunned, uncertain and in any event
moody, possibly Unhappy"
"Why, he is more like Garfield than
L had supposed them"
"You are right; neither of those
men liked blunt responsibility. Now,
if Mr.. Arthur had been Gar
fields clerk or secretary he could
have acquitted himself better than
Garfield in saying yes or no; but
having to say yes or no for himself is
very different thing. He is sensi-
tive to public rebukes, such as the
late elections; sensitive to the drift
of his party under his control; sensi-
tive to comments upon him, particu-
larly to comments on his capacity.
His physical education has run down,
too. He does not like exercise. He
ought to walk three or four miles a
day, and at the right time of day, too;
but he gets up too late for that. If
he had the right kind of doctors it
seems to me they would warn him
that without exercise he may close
his days in the White House"
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1883-03-08
The Branch ASYLUM.

OdLcIJC.I
The Gazette opposed the division of
the state lunatic asylum because it
was more costly to the people of
Texas than if kept intact. 1t would
have been lighter on the tax payers
to make additions to the Austin asy
lum than to set up a separate eStab-
lishment elsewhere. The Gazette OPP
posed the location of the branch aSy-
lum at Fort Worth, and this papers
convictions of what is best for this
city, and of what should constitute its
mission, are not affected by any reso-
luton of public meeting. The sue
cess of the Gazette is dependent upon
the growth and prosperity of Fort
Worth, and therefore it could not, if
it would, be actuated by any but the
highest motives in discussing public
measures affecting the welfare of the
city.
The Gazette has no childish or
whimsical opposition to offer to the
wishes of its people, but has not yet
been convinced that a branch lunatic
| asylum is bonanza of wealth; it can
not yet, in its minds eye, see troops
of happy children and watchful wea-
ried mothers making favorite re-
sort of the beautifully adorned
grounds of a lunatic asylum-this
paper even doubts that the grounds
are favorite resort with the inmates
themselves. On the contrary, the
Gazette is still convinced that the di-
vision will be costly experiment for
Texas, and that the location of the
branch here will not be worth what it
will cost to secure it.
If the people here want the branch
asylum, the people here most certain
| ly have the privilege to put their
hands in their pockets and secure
what they want. But convinced as
it is, it is still the duty of the Gazette
to express the opinion that the people
are mistaken, and to remind them that
no people yet in this country ever
reached out for commercial suprema-
cy and state eleemosynary institutions
and secured both. When Fort Worth
| begins to pin its faith to the eXpendi-
ture of state moneys, the seeds of the
decay OF its commercial vim and en-
terprise will be sown. The present
position of this city is due to the ener-
gy of its own people-tO their
money and their faith. Let
them once begin to look
to the state moneys for susie
nance, and self-reliance will give way
to annual efforts to increase the ap-
preparations. All the effort of Fort
Worth is needed to secure good dirt
roads, high school, manufacturing
establishments, narrow gauge rail
roads, more hotel accommodations, an
opera house. ETC., ETC., and it has not
the time and should not have the in
clination to lay the foundation for an
annual pilgrimage to Austin for in.
creased appropriations = especially
when all that could be obtained for
all the public institutions that can be
secured for the city would not be
worth one good public load built in
| any direction,
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1883-03-08

TIE aggregate of imports from
Mexico last year is set down at about
Sl5,OOOOOO. OF this, however, $780,
600 was specie, leaving $S,5OOOOO for
merchandise. OF the latter sum con-
siderable more than half represents
goods which came in free of duty.
The articles imported were 100000
pounds of coffee, free of duty, worth
Sl,SO0OO0; hides, $l.5O0,OO0, also
free; of dutiable articles,
jute, 10000, worth over $780,
600: sugar, 3,oOO,Oo0 pounds, worth
$4,000; tobacco, $4,000; animals,
$5O0,OOO; breadstuffs, 100000; nuts,
$50,5O0; precious stones, $4,000;
fruits, $4,000; lead, $4,000; and a
few others of less Importance. Our
exports to Mexico were worth $15,-
10000, consisting of iron and steel
worth $4.000O00; cotton goods, 50 $780,
600; provisions, !$80O,OO0; wood, lum-
Der, ETC., S1,5OO,OOO; sugar, 100000;
sewing machines, cars, gunpowders,
kerosene oil, paper, animals, boots and
shoes, etc, making up the balance.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1883-03-08

SENATOR JOHNSON did not get off
in rutabaga style when he introduced
bill to require any surplus in the
treasury, over and above the bond of
the treasurer, to be deposited with
some responsible person or corpora
ton. This would be nice thing for
Re outside. The treasurer could
bake a pile out of a million so depos-
led; but since Mr.. johnson has no
bought of ever being state treasurer,
e is excusable for such laxity. Now,
la he win only get through a measure
requiring the treasurer to give bond
commensurate with this officers re-
sponsibility, he win be doing thestate
,nvaluable service Treasurer Lub-
boch has said he would resign if the
bond were increased.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1883-03-08

EX-Gov. WILLIAM SPRAGUE, of
Rhode Island, is understood to be a
candidate for the governorship of the
state; at least Newport paper has
started boom for him, based some
what upon the sympathy of the Rhode
Island people with the Sprague fam
lily on account of the financial mis-
fortunes which have befallen them OF
late years. 1t is thought by some
Rhode Islanders that Sprague would
consolidate all the opponents to the
Republican ring rule which has
cursed the state for so long. If nom
mated it will be the work of "citi-
zens' convention" irrespective OF
party.