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The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1883-01-25

PAID British agents must be at work
in Washington among the Republi-
cans who are opposed to the repeal of
the navigation laws and a liberal re-
duction of the tariff. Nothing is so
conducive to British commercial in
terests as the continuation of our pro-
tective tariff policy and the retention
of our Bourbonic and obstructive navi-
cation laws,
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1883-01-25

SENATOR KLEBERe has the credit
of having introduced joint resolu-
tion. amending the judiciary article of
the state constitution. He adopts en-
tire and without change the report of
the bar association, and the legisla-
ture will display wisdom in passing
Mr.. Kleberg's resolution without
change. The report of the bar COM
mittee was published in full in these
columns two days ago.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1883-01-25

THE senate finance committee un-
dertook to reduce the tax on plate
glass from 120 per cent to 100 per cent,
but Mr.. DePauw could not stand such
invasion of his alleged right to have
the people taxed for his benefit, and
he raised such din that the senate
committee meekly restored the old
outrageous tax of fifty cents a square
foot, or 120 per cent ad valorem.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1883-01-25
TelephOning Four Hundred Miles.

New York Special to Commercial Gazettel
Experiments in talking over long
distances were made last Sunday in
the Office of the Mutual Union tele-
graph company, 135 Broadway. when
conversation was carried on easily,
first with a ground circuit and Hop
kins telephone, between New York
and Westfeld, Massachusetts, by way
of Danbury, Hartford and Spring
field, a distance of 100 miles. An
other wire, by way of Albany, was
introduced, and instead of grounding
the wires, a metallic circuit was used,
thus getting rid of induction dis
turbances. With circuit measuring
00miles in distance, conversation was
carried on with equal ease. Expert
ments are to be made this week with a
wire between here and Buffalo, giving,
with return wire, distance Of nearly
| 1000 miles.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1883-01-25

The following is published in the
Milan (Tennessee) Exchange as show.
ing the lineage of NJ. L. Polk:
"a lady resides here who was child
in Bolivar with our absconding treas
urer, and has known his family fol
many years. She says his name was
originally Marshall Tate, and not
Polk; that he was a poor relative OF
President Polk, and that the president
adopted him into his family for the
purpose of educating and making a
man of him. So it seems that he was
not far wrong when he gave his name
in Texas as Tate"
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1883-01-25

SENATOR PENDLETON is said to be
considerably cast down at the IA It
that his civil service reform bill has
not been favorably received through
out the country, and that he is espe-
cially disappointed at the dissatisfac-
ton in Ohio.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1883-01-25
Railroads Avoiding Taxation.
[san Francisco Examiner.l


The tax commissioner of New Jer-
sey, in his report to the legislature.
saws that the difference between the
cost or real value of the railroads In
that state and that returned, by the
railway officials for assessment Is
81. 1881, involving loss in taxes
in 1881 Of S85, 5,874. and since 1875 Of
S511, ,884. Thus more than half mil
lion of dollars has been stolen by the
railway managers of that little
state within six years. No other
property is so well able to
bear its full ratio of taxation as rail-
road property is. The great for
tunes, the luxury and magni6cenceo Of
the big railroad men prove this to be
the truth. SO far as we know of no
estimate of the amount that Califor-
MIA has lost from her revenues, state
and county, by the dishonest practices
of some of our local concerns. Wedo
not have to look to New Jersey to find
crooked doings. Our people will ex-
pect the legislature to strengthen the
hands of the executive, so that this
evasion Of tax dues by the monopoly
will be righted.
sr
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1883-01-25

IT has been discovered that the
clerkship of the United States supreme
court is worth anywhere from $4,000
TO $4,000 year in fees, and an effort
is to be made to put the incumbent
Mnder salary of $1,000 per annum.
One Of the late clerks left fortune
when he died of half a million-all
made from fees.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1883-01-25

A WASHINGTON special says that
the house has passed the Culberson
bill to enlarge the jurisdiction of
United States courts and regulate the
removal of cases from state to federal
courts. 1t increases the minimum
jurisdiction of circuit courts to cases
amounting to $1,000 instead of $500,
and takes away from circuit courts
jurisdiction of cases in favor of as
signees of promissory notes, and bills
of exchange unless suit might have
been maintained if no assignment
had been made. This change restores
the law as it existed from 1889 to
1875. 1t is believed that large por-
tion of the business which goes into
the circuit courts at the instance of
assignees of promissOry notes and do
mestic bills of exchange is
the result of collusion be-
tween the original payee and
the assignee. 1t restricts to
defendants the privilege of re-
moving causes from the state
courts unless the plaintiff makes affi-
davit that he cannot have a fair trial
in the state courts on account of local
prejudice. 1t also takes from the
circuit courts the jurisdiction of any
civil suit between corporation and a
citizen of any state in which the cor
poration carries on business, except in
cases under the patent and copyright
laws, and makes the removal of such
causes subject to the Same restric-
tions that apply to suits between citi-
vans
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1883-01-25

THERE were fewer railroads sold
under foreclosure in 1882 than for
many years in the past. Only sixteen,
having a mileage of 867 miles and a
capital stock of SS9, ,565, 900 and bonded
and other debt of like amount, were
sold out last year. Fewer roads are
being built at public expense than for
nnarlu
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1883-01-25

GREEN B. RAUM wishes now, nc
doubt, that he had not been green
enough to run for something above
his caliber; and yet his field
of operation was in Illinois, where
the biggest thing yet found with
which to bore the country was David
Davis
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1883-01-25

MARSH T. POLK, the defaulter, paid
$4,000 for his Mexican mines" about
which so many unexplained refer
ences have been made. These mines.
two in number, are hundred miles
south of the BOSS Shepherd mine
in Chihuahua One of them, the San
Antonio, yielded $4,000 between
1855 and 1871, and the other, the San
Pedro. has yielded S5O0,0O0 since 1872
Polk spent $4,000 for new machin-
ery and the like.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1883-01-25

THE editor may now hope for re-
ward. Joseph Sailer, financial editor
of the Philadelphia Ledger, died the
other day, possessed of 100000; but he
had worked necessarily at the same
desk for thirty-seven years, and only
one in thousand may spin out life
of laborious duty through these many
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1883-01-25

THE bill regulating private corpora
tions, as introduced by Senator Gibbs,
and amended by the judiciary COM
mittee. makes the following changes
in the present law: 1t specifically
names the purposes for which corpo-
Tations may be created. and the limit
is circumscribed: it requires signs and
advertisements. to show capital stock
paid up; it requires an examination
and an approval of attorney general
before charter can be filed.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1883-01-25

ATTENTION is called to the commu-
nication of county judge regarding
the confinement of lunatics in a
county Jail. Certainly the legislature
is alive to this question, and will do at
the earliest day possible what is re-
CURED as a great public necessity.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1883-01-25

DIR. WIGeINs, who predicts a great
storm disaster on the 9th of March
next, lives in the province of New
Brunswick His previous prophecies
have all been fulfilled; and this is
why the Galveston members will
want prolonged session.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1883-01-25
A ReautifuI Trio.

IOHHIIduUUHH 7 IIHtb.T
Bill Chandler and Frank Hatton
own the National Republic, the court
journal of Chefs government. These
able worthless, with the aid of the Gel
ebrated Gorham, Mahone's pal, as
their editor, vary their performances
in blackmailing postal employees and
officials for support of their organ by
giving their able views on civil SER
vice reform. 1t is beautiful trio of
reformers, truly.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1883-01-25

TO-DAY the two houses of the leg
islature cast separately their ballots
for a United States senator. Under
the circumstances it were best that
the election of Mr.. Coke be made
unanimous. There will be but one
ballot, and the joint session tomorrow
will declare Richard Coke reelected
as his own successor for the short
term
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1883-01-25

OWING to the contemplated reduc-
ton of the tariff, not as many miles
of railway will be constructed this
year as last. Where business will
permit postponement of contracts
there will be delay, that cheaper inn
portations may be made. When the
cost of railway building is thus de-
creased. the people may expect of the
railways reduced transportation rates.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1883-01-25

THE memorial of County Attorney
E. I. Moore has been presented to the
Legislature. After stating his recog-
milton of the duties of a prosecuting
attorney, in which his fees become
consequent upon the success with
which he manages cases, he recites the
obligations imposed upon prosecuting
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1883-01-25

Gov. BUTLER, of Massachusetts,
recommends that state prison con-
Wet should be allowed to work off a
portion of his sentence, every month
by diligence and good behavior-say
ten days as the maximum in thirty;
and, he also holds, that "A certain per
cent of earnings while convict
shoald be passed to credit of the con-
viet, and invested for use on release
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1883-01-25

SENATOR Don CAMERON, of Penn
.sylvania,is said to have positively de-
.clined to become a candidate for re-
election in 1884. The Republicans
claim that Cameron's withdrawal will
give the state to them by 25,OOO ma
jority in November next.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1883-01-25

attorneys under direction of the attor-
ney general. The law provides that
when a county attorney shall collect
money by suit for the state he shall be
entitled to fees thereon, and the
statutes fix this compensation at ten
per cent on the amount collected.
Under these provisions Mr.. Moore con-
Quoted several suits in the Travis
county court for the recovery OF
monies due the state, on claims sent
out for collection by Comptroller
Brown. His statement shows that
there were so collected of prin-
cipal S57,44S.43, interest on same
S6729.O2, altogether S64, 4,172.45
Had the tax collectors recOv-
cred, without interest collectable on
suit, the sum would have been $57 >
443.43. The commissions retained by
the attorney were S51S7.S6; and yet
had the tax collectors recovered, the
sum turned over to the state would
have been $54,571.60, or S4413.60 less
than was turned over by the
attorney. Upon this question a
dispute arose between Attorney
General McLeary and Attorney
Moore, resulting in suit being insti-
tuted against the latter for recovery
of commissions. The case is now in
court, and Attorney Moore appeals to
the legislature to settle the
question at issue, without put
ing him to the annoyance and
expense of long and tedi-
Gus defense. Mr.. Moore has the
declarations of Judge John W. Stay
ton, ,ex-Attorney Generals George Clark
and George Mccormick and Boone as
to the propriety of his claim.
Besides this he has the declara-
tion from ex-Comptroller Darden, that
10 per cent has been usual as an allow
ance to attorneys. Hon. w. K. Ho-
man also gives his declaration as to
the Justice of the claim, and so does
Judge Hancock and Hon. Geo. u
Finlay. The STATESMAN presents
these features of the easel as
matters of information. As to the
justice of the claim, the weight of the
evidence appears to be in faver of it,
and since the purpose of legislation is
not to wrong anyone, it is reasonable
to conclude that Mr.. Moore's memo
rial will receive favorable action.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1883-01-25

EVERY day we hear it repeated that
the railroads are marshaling their
forces. In the meantime railroad
legislation has not yet taken on the
grand impetus.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1883-01-25

AN exchange says that branded
soda water is drink that is sold in
large quantities at the soda fountains
in the London drug stores. This is
the first intimation we have had that
prohibition prevailed in the great En-
llsh metropolis.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1883-01-25

IT is strongly asserted that the
president will veto the Fitz-John
Porter bill if the house pass it. This
may be so, and he will probably pardon
Dorsey if the latter be convicted.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1883-01-25

NOTHING is so powerfully redeem
ing and safe as for public man to
stick closely to those who made him.
AS in the case of Garfield and Conk-
ling, one may go, but the other must
surely follow. Gov. Cleveland seems
to have not pro6ted by lessons of his
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1883-01-25

1T is said that Gov. Ben Butler has
q way of making his face look pleasant
when he wants to. In this respect, at
least, the governor of Texas is very
much like the governor of Massachu-
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1883-01-25

MIR. RANDALL lodged a vote in
committee on tariff measures the other
day. He wants the support of more
than one faction.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1883-01-25

THE people of Louisville, Kentucky
appreciate the services of Mr.. Waiter
son, of the Courier-Journal. They
sent him to congress, and now they
want TO make him mayor.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1883-01-25

THIS country is now SO accustomed
to cranks that Herr Most hardly
creates ripple on the surface of
cranks. He ought to come down to
Austin and get an ovation.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1883-01-25

Gov. CLEVELAND, of New York,
is being complimented for his wise
selection of state railway commission
ers. This is the sort of thing they
say 1t will not do to indulge in in
Texas
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1883-01-25

MARSH T. Polk may have swamped
the state of Tennessee, but he doubt
less knows of several persons who are
as deep ii, the mud as he is in the mire;
and he threatens to tell all about it.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1883-01-25

EDWIN BOOTH has been received at
Berlin with the warmest endorsement
His rendition of Hamlet is accepted
by the people of the cultured capital
as being full of unsurpassed grandeur.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1883-01-25

THE STATESMAN continues TO make
acknowledgements to that inestimable
paper, Colman's Rural World, for
much that appears in its Home, Farm
and Ranch department.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1883-01-25

1T LOOKS as though the path of
Gov. Cleveland is not to be sown alto
Rether with roses. An element, late
ly friendly, appears ready to take issue
with him.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1883-01-25

A FUSS was raised about the New
York legislature adjourning over
from Friday to Monday. There was
no precedent it was said; and now the
Texas legislature make it custom.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1883-01-25

OLD MAN HOAR was happy when
he heard of his reelection. 1t is said
his vote in the Fitz-JOhn Porter bill
helped him.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1883-01-25

THE Ohio delegation in the next
congress is said to be unanimous for
John G. Thompson for sergeant-at-
arms, and all but one member will
support Carlisle for speaker.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1883-01-25

IF a tariff bill gets through this
session of congress the most sanguine
will be surprised.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1883-01-25

TwENTY-sIx newly elected senators
will take seats on March 4.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1883-01-25

THE absconding state treasurer
Polk is a relative of President Polk
and of Bishop Polk.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1883-01-25

An apt legislator is Mr.. Wurzbach,
Of Bexar, and good worker.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1883-07-30

chemist as the most acceptable aud per-
feet substitute for the old-fashioned cream
of tartar and soda It is undoubtedly
pure, and its merits have given it a sale
probably equaling that of all other baking
powders combined. It's manufacturers
have an advantage over all others in pos
sessing facilities for obtaining pure ma
terials. They refine their cream of tartar
direct from the imported crude grape acid
by means of patented processes, exclu-
sively their own, by which the cream of
tartar is rendered absolutely pure and
uniform in strength. In addition to this.
they employ number of expert chemists
who thoroughly test every pound Of in
gredient used, and admit no material into
the Royal Baking Powder compound I'M
til they have demonstrated it chemically
pure. As a consequence, the action of
this powder is always uniform, as well as
of the highest degree of power, and never
fails to produce light, sweet, wholesome
and palatable bread, biscuit or cake
With its universal market, and the great
magnitude of its sales, this company finds
it to its interests to adopt these extraor-
ninary methods, which no baking powder
maker whose market is limited to a single
State or locality can afford.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1883-07-30
The Cooks Dilemma,

F'Two tea-spoOnfQls of cream Of tartar
and one of soda to a quart of flour" was
formerly the standing direction in every
kitchen for making light biscuit, cake,
etc. 1t has been found of late that the
old rule won't work, double this quantity
of cream of tartar being frequently re-
quired to produce the former result, and
even then, owing TO the great variation
strength Of the best cream of tartar that
can be purchased at the stores, uniform
results can no longer be depended upon
in it's use.
The cause of this inferiority of modern
cream of tartar is explained by the Mas
sachusetts State Board of Health, and
also by the New York State Board Of
Health, which, in q recent examination of
q samples of cream of tartar, claimed by
dealers to be of the best quality, found
them adulterated with alum, terra alba,
! phosphate of calcium, etc., from to SO
per cent. Five samples were adulterated
with terra alba to such an extent that
cream Of tartar added. In the soda ex-
amined, from II per cent. of carbonate of
| lime to % per cent. of ground gypsum
were found. OF course it is impossible
to produce light or wholesome bread with
such stuff as this for leavening material,
and the best cooks, if relying upon its
use, must frequently fail in their work.
The old formula, therefore, no longer to
be relied upon, must give way to new
methods.
Science, fortunately, comes to the aid OF
the cook in this dilemma with the ever
ready baking powder; but here again the
greatest care is necessary in selecting a
baking powder, to avoid one that may
not only spoil the work of the cook but
will make the cookery produced an instru-
ment Of danger to the health. Most OF
the baking powders and bread prepare
tionS of the market are made either from
the very cream of tartar above described
from alum, which is poison, or from phos
pilates derived by disgusting processes
from the solution Of old bones in sulpurit
acid, and hence their use is attended will
the same Inconvenience and dangerou:
results that follow the use of adulterateC
, cream of tartar. The only way to over
come these difficulties would seem to bs
in the selection of a baking powder of !;
thoroughly well established reputation
whose absolute purity, wholesomeness
and effective power as a leavening agen
e have been confirmed beyond contraven
ton. The Royal Baking Powder meet
this want more nearly than any other, an,
has been recommended by the Governor
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1883-07-30

WASHED BUTTER.-Prof. L. B. Arnold,
author and authority in dairy matters,
says that butter which is well washed in
good water, especially when it is gath
cred in pellets or granules instead of in a
mass, has no taste of buttermilk, and
for this reason those who prefer that
flavor do not admire it so much as I'M
washed butter. Nine out of every ten
pers ons, however, prefer the pure, dis
tinct and full flavor of butter, unadulter-
ated with buttermilk or disguised with
excessive salt, and this flavor is only OBJ
tanned by washing every particle of but
termilk from it and avoid the working
which must follow when washing is
omitted.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1883-07-30

Stephen Girard, at an early day, as
master and owner of a small vessel
traded principally between New Orleans
and the West Indies, coming to Philadel-
phia for the first time in 1863. When he
came at last to stay, it was if the story
is true by an accident. In May of 1776,
he was on his way in a sloop from New
Orleans to Canada, when he was lost in
a fog. His signal of distress brought an
American vessel alongside, and Girard
asked where he was. ''In Delaware Bay"
The next question was how was he to get
out? This, the American told him, was
easy enough, but just outside the bay the
sea swarmed with British cruisers, and
the captains advice to the young French
man was, that having come safely in he
should risk no more, but sail direct to
Philadelphia and there dispose of his
cargo. To this Girard obiected he did
not know the river, and had no money to
pay a pilot. The captain then backed his
advice by action, and lent Girard So; a
pilot came on board, aud so Girard TO-
norantly and by chance, it seemed, went
to his future home in the Quaker city.