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Daily globe., 1883-08-26

OFFICE HOURS-9a a. m. to p. M, 8 to
and to 8 P. N. Sundays, 9 to IL a. m, only.
Daily globe., 1883-08-26

ENOR SALE--Flour mill and 40 acres of land
Il on Wolf Creek. Price $4,000. J. K.
Frear & Co., 81 Washington avenue south,
room s. 238
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ESOR SALE-Bouse of rooms andlot, cellar,
r. well and cistern, No. 1850 First avenue
south. Price S65O. j. K. Frear & Co., 81
Washington avenue south; room 8. 23S
Daily globe., 1883-08-26

Z A. CARLSON'S Employment Office, hos
- First street north Telephone con-
nections. First-class help furnished on ap-
plication. 1873
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ENOUND-On Portland avenue, a gun and case.
Z Owner can have same by paying expenses
and proving property. j. a. Ridgeway, No. 6
Washington avenue 229
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ENCR SALE-Four rev houses; price S2,8O0;
4 $500 cash, S35 in monthly payments
J. K. Frear & Co., 81 Washington avenue south;
room s. 23S
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MINNEAPOLIS WANT COLUMN

"a ANTED-500 railroad laborers for Iowa.
w all winters work; ship via Rock Island,
Ill. free fare. Charles Cotton, 22i Washington
avenue south. 23S-240
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-07-05

During the late session of the leg
islature l was several times in the
legislative hall, and was impressed by
the repeated remark, The state OF
Texas is no pauperw The younger
members, drawing their S. per diem
seemed to think that money was plen.
tiful and there was no need of econ.
omy in taxation. The results of this
financial legislative swell are several
proposals to amend the constitution
amount to on each 800 of property
General state tax, 80 cents; general
county tax, % cents; road and bridge
tax, 10 cents; public buildings, streets
and sewers, 20 cents; general school
tax, 20 cents; district school tax, &c
cents. Here is proposed tax of 81 40
besides the tax for payment of the
public debt, which will increase tax
alton to say SLIGO on each 800 OF
property. This is what the farmer is
called upon to tax himself with
Besides these there are city taxes and
occupation taxes. Now, | submit
that farmers are not able to pay tax
of SLIGO on an honest assessment OF
property. A small farmer has an i'm
proved place worth about $1,000, in
Guiding land, fencing, houses, work
team and farm implements. The pro-
posed tax on this farmer with his
forty acre tract is 1872 He cannot
pay it without depriving himself and
family of things important to their
comfort. Legislators should be given
to understand that people have other
uses for money than to pay taxes.
The proposed amendments further
provide that the. State and county
school lands shall be sold and the pro-
ceeds invested, and that the State
shall become responsible for all in
vestments of the general school funds.
These funds are to be invested by the
comptroller, under instruction of the
board of education and according to
whatever laws the Legislature may
pass. Here is most inviting Oppor-
tunity to make the State, in the course
of years, responsible in debt of about
$50,0OO00O. The same provision holds
as to the assumption of all response
-bility in the case of county school
funds-the counties are to become re-
sponsible. In other words, according
to the proposed amendments the state
shall become surety in the sum of
$5O,O0OOOO to $100,000,O0O for whoever
borrows the State school funds, and
likewise the counties shall severally
become responsible along with all
borrowers of county school funds.
l am not prophet nor the son of a
prophet, but think / can see that I'M
der the operation of these amend
ments, in the course of time, the state
and counties will be bankrupt and
sold out to the school interest. There
is nothing in the past history of legis-
lation and no assurance in the future
skill and honesty of icomptrollers and
boards of education that should lead
the people of Texas to make it pos
sible for said legislature, comptroller
and board to impose upon the state a
debt of many millions. FARMER.
DEL VALE JulV 2
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-07-05

THE Iowa State Republican con-
vention meets Wednesday of this
week, and the Prohibitionists are ac-
lively engaged in shaping its results.
They have declared war against all
who contributed to the final defeat
in the courts of the prohibitory
amendment to the state constitution.
In the elections for delegates the
question of the re-suLmission of the
amendment, which was declared in
valid, because of certain Legislative
irregularities, by the supreme court,
was made the main issue, and dis.
tinct fight was waged against Justice
Day, of the supreme court, because
he Joined in that decision. The re
turns show that only forty-three out
of 1874 delegates are for the re-nomi
nation of Day. The Prohfbitionists
have beaten him before the conven
ton meets. With the exception Of
Judge Day, all the other officials
whose terms expire are satisfactory
to the Prohibitionists and will be re
nominated. The purpose, then, o.
the Prohibitionists appears to be tc
stock even the courts in their favor
A candidate for supreme judgeship
for instance, must pledge himself be
forehand not to be guided by law il
his decisions, but to be governed b!
partisan prejudices. Could any mor'
dangerous principle of government
be involved in political issues?
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-07-05
PERSONAL.

George Francis Train has sat on the
same bench, in Madison Square, four
teen hours day for nearly ten years
past. He wears no hat and his face
has bronzed of coppery color in the
sun.
1t is rumored in London that the
queen will be called upon to welcome
another grandchild before many
months have passed, the motht +
whereof will be the fair and gentle
Princess of Wales.
Stephen II. Tying, jr.'s, resignation
of the Equitable Life Insurance COM
pany's agency at Paris, is said to have
been due to the dissatisfaction of the
company which sent over Henry B.
Hyde to advise Mr.. Tying. The latter
tried to order Hyde out of his Office,
but Hyde in turn demanded his resig-
nation. Tying demanded $4,000 as
the price of his resignation, and Hyde
gave him his check for that sum.
The late DIR. Theodore Edison was,
if not the Oldest, one of the two or
three oldest clergymen in the Ameri-
ca. He was of the same age with
the venerable presiding bishop, Bish-
OPP Smith, who had just reached his
ninetieth year. Bishop Potter, of
New York, is only few years his
junior. Hefounded St.Anne's church,
Lowell, about 1920, and was in that
one parish sixty years.
Herr Vollmar, the champion of
the Social Democrats in the German
reichstag, is by birth, as he was long
by sympathy, a full-blooded aristo-
crat Going to Rome to offer his
sword to the pope, he fell sick. Dur
ing his tedious convalescence he
studied the Socialist theories which
the pope had mathematical, with a
view to confl.ting them. Butinstead
they converted him. He had lain
down upon his sick bed a passionate
monarchist, aristocrat, papist; he
arose from it an equally passionate.
Social Democrat and free thinker.
III
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-07-05
What's the Use of Vetog
Fort Worth Gazette.


The more the branch asylum matter
is discussed and agitated, the more
information that is gathered, the
more clearly it is made to appear that
spirit worse than nepotism and more
Objectionable than class legislation
permeates the whole business. 1t has
recently been developed that one pro-
vision of the law requires the appoint
ment of superintendent who has
had at least three years experience in
the office, and that it was well known
and avowed in the house of repre-
sentatiyes that DR.. Wallace was the
only man in the state who filled the
conditions, from which it appears that
the law was framed and worded so as
to provide an office for him to occupy
Ibis salary to begin with the loca-
ton of the site and before a stone was
laid. 1t is also stated that Mr.. Fry
mier, who was on the commission to
locate the asylum, in direct conflict
with the law, is about to remove to
Terrell, presumptively to receive
some position in connection with the
asylum. 1t is quite unfortunate for
the state and for the credit of the adj
ministration that such things should
occur.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-07-05

WITH the State tax now at thirty
cents on the hundred dollars valua-
ton, it must be concluded there were
sinister purposes in proposing an in
crease to sixty cents on the dollar.
We were showing how the proposed
tax amendment, in allowing State
taxes for government purposes, for
schools and for debt. would reach
sixty cents on the hundred dollars
valuation. Let it be remembered
that, besides this, special assessments
in school districts are also proposed
1t has been shown in these columns
that in many of the counties the
school money would teach the children
of these counties more than
twelve months in each year. To put
it more plainly. the school fund now
apportioned to some counties would
teach twice as many children as are
now in some of these counties nine
months in each year. A few of the
more populous counties have been
running their schools from six to ten
months in the year. Comal county is
a noted example. The people of that
county have good schools and they
are economically conducted. The
adoption of the proposed amendments
will create such revenue as to en-
courage extravaganza in all employ
ment and disbursements.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-07-05

ONE of the most noted Things at
tending theff2i itical developments of
the -daayis the disruption of the Re-
publican party. 1t is breaking in
pieces at all points, and this fact
gives occasion for the following re-
Elections by the New York World:
The Republican party, no longer
held together by the strong cement of
the war issues or by Grants person
atty, is fighting itself. There was a
break and bolt in New York when
Robertson was forced on the party
and Conkling was driven out of the
Senate. There was another break
and bolt in this State when Folger,
backed by the Republican national
administration and member of the
Cabinet, was buried under minority
of nearly 100000 votes. There was a
break and bolt in Pennsylvania when
the Republican rebels drew their
swords against the Winnebago chief
and Pattison was elected Governor.
There was break and a bolt in Mas
sachusetts when Butler carried the
State on a Democr attic ticket. There
were breaks and bolts in the West
when Kansas and Michigan and Wis
consin fell off from Repubicanism,
when Ohio was lost on the temper
ance issue and Nebraska through an
anti-monopoly detection. There is
break and bolt in New Hampshire,
where Rollins finds the machine slip
from his grasp and large proportion
of the Republican legislators spit
upon King Caucus.
Breaks and bolts and splits attend
the Republican party everywhere.
Decentralization and wreck confront
the bosses on all sides. Setting thieves
to catch thieves does the party no
good. The star route trial has shown
that the department of justice, instead
of being used to convict thieves, may
play prominent part in imposing
them upon the country as honest
men. 1t has turned Dorsey and
Brady loose upon the country with
honesty" placarded on their backs.
1t would not stick to their foreheads.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-07-05
WassOn'S Fate.

Wassom now knows his fate as far
as his sentence is concerned. His
feelings when he heard the extra
guard placed beneath his window
Wednesday afternoon can be i'm
agined better than described, for he
could place but one construction upon
the simple act. Hisfriends affect to
believe he will soon receive pardon
from the President, but we do not be-
lieve his prospects are good in that
direction. Lincoln will firmly oppose
it on principle, and the President can
have no personal interest in the case,
while the near approach of the ma
tional election will doubtless infiu-
ence him against interfering with
the law and the sentence of the court.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-07-05
THE Houston Post is to be pub.

THE Houston Post is to be pub
lished very soon under the manage.
ment of joint stock company, com.
posed of E. P. Hill, w. d. Cleveland
III. Sch erffius, S. K MeIlhenny, L. w
House, w. r. Baker, G. L. Porter, f
A. Rice, HIS Fox, A. Groesbeeck, E. F
Schmidt, j. w. johnson and /. G. Stat
ford. There could be no stronger bust
ness organization, and the change ac-
com plished means that printers ink
is going to be used for all it is worth
foy the benefit of the upper end of
Buffalo bayou. The lower end will
have to fortify. The Post after
awhile may become as powerful as
THE STATESMAN and certainly we
wish it all the success that a de-
serving newspaper and its most
worthy sponsors merit. Under the
new management the Post will be
Democratic.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-07-05

A TARIFF for revenue puts money
in the common treasury, while tariff
for protection puts comparatively lit
tie money into the treasury. but an
immensesum is extortel from the con-
sumers of the country and put into the
hands of monopohsts against whom
the masses appeal for protection in
Yclying life, liberty and property.
The monopolist cuts off the living of
the people, makes them his slaves, and
adsorbs under authority of law their
possessions.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-07-05

TOUCHING the evils OF the jury
system, they are not such as demand
it's abolition, but a necessity for free
ing it of abuses. Were the system
abolished there would speedily be
great popular clamor for its re-estab-
lishment. Judge Barr, of Kentucky,
in a state bar association meeting,
presented points for jury reform, and
among them he mentioned as prob
ably the greatest evil of the jury sys.
tenn the completion of panel by
summons from among bystanders
about the court. This, it was urged,
leads to numerous abuses, and
furnishes many opportunities for Sc
Letting juries to secure certain YER
diets. The declaration shows
that Texas has progressed
far beyond Kentucky in the matter of
jury reform. The jury bill, which
was drafted and presented to the six
teenth legislature by our very able
state senator, Judge Terrell, had it
become law as presented by him,
would have cured all the evils COM
planned of under the jury system. 1t
was bereft of many saving points be-
fore its final passage, but enough re-
manned to make it one of the best jury
laws in any of the states. 1t cannot
properly be complained that the jury
system in Texas should be abolished.
With few amendments which in
time, it is hoped, may be secured, Texas
will have most perfect jury system,
and Kentucky lawyers may learn
much of inestimable value from the
Texas statute. Just complaint is
made that the state of Kentucky is
now entitled 10 as many challenges
as the accused. This is a serious error.
and it applies equally to Texas, where
the state is allowed only one peremp-
tory challenge to the accused two.
Until the jury law is amended, so as
to put the state to no disadvantage in
the trial OF cases, the jury system
must have its drawbacks. As a mat
| VI VI 1dSG, uAuCl GuO PI0ocuG Iulc,
the accused has most of the chances
in his favor, and the state is
too often made powerless at
the expense of justice. The
learned Kentucky judge, from
what may be gathered of his address,
made no reference to the verdict
whether it should be unanimous or
otherwise. We are convinced that
this is one of the sacred features of
the jury system, and it should be ad-
hered to. No man should be deprived
of life, liberty or property without
Il unanimous verdict, but jury laws
should be so prepared as to make the
trial one of right and justice. Evils
belong to the jury system, but he who
would tear it down, instead of pro-
tecting it against abuses, is in danger
of being himself torn down. The
state should be at no disadvantage in
trials, but the unanimous verdict of
twelve men should stand forever as a
safeguard to the innocent.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-07-05

SINCE the STATEisMAN's criticism
some months ago, about the gram
NAUTICAL construction of the inscrip.
ton on the corner stone of the uni
versity, the false punctuations, or at
least a part of them. have been
worked out /; and yet the authors of
the inscription have never called upon
the STATESMAN to thank it for
causing the Improvement. On
the day the stone was laid
solomon in all his glory was not
more arrayed than the self-same au-
Ihors Of this inscription. 1t suited
them so well then, that We are rather
sorry they hid afterward to recognize
errors. The STATESMAN offers, in
the way of excusss that it was af-
ter having corrections made be-
fore some university student protest.
al against such defilement Of univer-
sity walls.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-07-05
THE TRICK OF SOUTHERN RE.
PUBLlCANS.

The Philadelphia Record has been
a close observer of political move
ments in the southern states. 1t says:
From this time until the election
for president representative Re
publicans from the south may be ex-
pected to appear at frequent intervals
in the national capital to give assur-
ance that this or that southern state
may be wreSted from the Democrats
by the use of proper means. What
constitute proper means" are well
understood to be liberal supplies of
money and a judicious distribution
of government patronage. The Hon.
James M. Leach, an eX-Democrat of
North Carolina, is the latest "repre-
sentative" Republican from the South
who has appeared in Washington, and
Mr.. Leach, of course, has no doubt
that North Carolina can be induced
to desert the Democrats by proper
means One ofthe proper means is to
take care of Mr.. Leach. Kellogg, too,
Is convinced that ii the star route
prosecution against him be abandoned
Louisiana can be brought into the
Republican line, even without the
uldculutry VI d returning DOdTu. DuJ
prudent politicians will not attach
much Importance to these assurances.
There is not southern state which is
likely to give its electoral votes to a
Republican candidate for president
except Virginia and even in Vir-
ginia there are significant signs that
the Malone alliance of negroes and
mean whites is crumbling to pieces.
One of these signs is the apathy and
disgust of the negroes of Virginia,
who PROFESSIONALLY constitute the
more respectable portion of the Ma
hone combination.
Can we not have such diversion
for Texas? The personal wing of the
Democratic party was utterly defeated
during the last session of the legisla-
ture, and might not some represent
alive" Republican make it appear that
this influence is now ready to COM
bine with the Republican party,
which history teaches is ready to fur
Their any and all personal schemes.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-07-05

AT THE late meeting of the Ken
lucky bar association there was read
by Geo. Nj. Davie what the Courier
Journal calls remarkable paper on
the stability of States by citizens. 1t
. shows that, by the example of Eng
land at this day, as well as by the
practice of the United States through
the Court of Claims, as well as by
Mississippi and many other States
the monarchical notion that it is be-
meath the dignity of the sovereign to
be sued by ITS citizens has been ex-
ploded, that the notion of royal pre-
Rgatiye has no application to our in
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-07-05

THE New Orleans States declares
and justly too. that should the Dem
ocrats name r lnlall as speaker, they
will destroy their power in Congress
and the Republicans, whom they will
thus serve, will be masters of the sit
uation. What has the. states to say
about the discreditable position that
|~oui6 thus be assumed by Deme-
Gratis. making them ridiculous t6 the
entire country?
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-07-05
Hopes Better Results.
fort Worth Gazette.l

One of the members of the land
fraud investigating committee prom
ises interesting developments and ben
eficial results from the work of the
committee. 1t is sincerely to be hoped
that the work of the committee will
not be pigeonholed,- as was that of
another land fraud Investigation
which the Taxpayers paid for not a
Thousand wears ago
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-07-05

OF THE 1015 girls who were ex-
amined for admission to the New
York Normal College this year 964
passed through the ordeal success
fully. Could there be anything more
Encouraging than this to induce our
Texas girls to secure regulations as
scholars in the State university
Here they may pursue higher educa-
ton and fit themselves for employ
ment in the highest intellectual SER
vice; and besides they may shine in
society because of their brilliant at
tainments.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-07-05

THE New York Herald congratu-
lates the democracy of Ohio on the
nomination of Mr. Hoadly, and pre-
diets his success as foregone conclu-
sion. The proposition has reached
the plane Of demonstration, and it
will only require close canvass and
thorough organization to make the
prediction certainty. Ohio has
been crowded to the wall by the Re-
publican party, and the people have
turned upon it with determination
to whip the fight.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-07-05
Presumably Mr.. Bayard.

The Democratic party can only elect
its candidate to the Presidency by
taking man whose character is be-
yond reasonable reproach, who is
known to be such throughout the
land, and who will therefore assure
in people whose votes we need the
confidence they have hesitated to give
to our organization, its promises and
its professions. Distrust is the great
obstacle we must overcome in order
succeed, and to overcome it we must
have candidate the people can trust.
No dark horse will do for us.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-07-05

foLITICs in Spain are certainly at
a low ebb. a rumored fancy of King
Alphonso for II pretty circus rider is
to be made the subject of debate in
the Cortes. The prime minister
charged that the rumor was an in
vention of the opposition, the latter
resented the imputation, and so the
affair becomes II political issue to be
fought over. In the meantime the
Queen knows enough to leave.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-07-05

The STATESMAN wishes to see the
young women of Texas profit by the
existence of the University. The dis
elimination of the regents against
them in fixing seventeen as the re-
&luisite age for naturalization cannot
tand. Girls as well as boys will be
allowed to enter ut sixteen. The re-
gents cannot affnrd to adhere to an
unconstitutional rs well as notorious
lv unjust decision.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-07-05

sCHRIsT" MAGEE, Pittsburg boss,
says Senator Cameron will not be a
candidate for reelection, and that the
differences in the Republican party in
Pennsylvania will this year adjust
themselves.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-07-05

BEN BUTLER was sharp enough to
attend the commencement exercises
at Harvard. He knew his presence
there in the glittering paraphernalia
of governor, with his body guard and
such things. would put the college
and its authorities in the background.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-07-05
Administrators Notice.

1 ETTERS or ADMINISTRATIONS on the
A. estate of john r. Miller. deceased, hay-
ing bc,n granted by the honorable County
Court of Travis county, Texas, lat the May
Term A. ID. IsS3 thereof TO the Undersigned
he hereby gives notice to all persons having
to him within the ime prescribed by law
Austin, Travis county. Texas, is the residence
and post Office address of the undersigned.
June II, 1893.
JAMES " SMITH,
Adm Of the estate Of John r Miller, decd,
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-07-05

THE New Hampshire Legislature
has three hundred and twenty-nine
members. 1t meets biennially. The
members receive three dollars per day
and may sit as long as they please.
Evidently the little state does not
care for exDenses.