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The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-12-13
THURSDAY.
CoMPTRoLLER's DEPARTMENT

SOhI IhOLLEN DEPARTMENT..
The comptroller yesterday paid
$4,000 into the state treasury, collec-
tons for account of general revenue.
He purchased from the board of edu-
cation SIS, 900 of Pecos county eight
per cent. bonds at par, for account of
the school fund.
The attorneys for ex-Comptroller
Brown are getting certified state
ments Of his account from the comp
troller's Office with the expectation
that the case may be reached this
term of the court.
LAND FRAUD BOARD.
Judge Hall and Col. DeMorse, of
this board, are engaged, in the absence
of Mr.. Patton, the other member, in
going over the data gathered by Col
DeMorse. As soon as anything trans
p1res on which to hinge an inVestiga-
ton it viii be referred to the attorney
general. When Mr.. Patton arrives
the board expect to examine the
records of the land Office.
THE NEW CAPITOL WORK.
Work. on the new capitol is waiting
on that at the quarry, which is pro-
crossing rapidly. About enough stone
has been Quarried for the basement of
the structure. and in a months time
the contractor. Col. Taylor, expects to
begin placing it in the work of con-
struction. AS soon as the sewerage
of the building is completed the syn
dictate will be entitled to and probably
apply for another 44,00O acres of land
additional to what they have already
received.
The capitol commissioners are pre-
pairing full report to the capitol
board in relation to sewerage and con-
nections in reference to suggestions
of the contractor relative to proposed
changes. Mr.. John Mcdonald, of
Austin, has been suggested for the
position of superintendent of the new
capitol. The board will meet this
morning, when some action will prob
ably be taken in the matter.
THE STATE UNIVERSITY.
The last shipment of the chemical
apparatus, ordered by Prof. Mallet,
for the university came yesterday.
Prof. Mallet has accepted his old
position in the Virginia university,
to take effect at the close of the pres
ent session of the Texas university.
The grade of scholarship for admis-
| sion into the university will doubtless
| be raised another session.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-12-13

THE supreme court of Georgia de-
cides that though railroad employee
may waive his right to claim DANA
ges not caused by criminal negligence,
the waiver would be improper where
negligence is shown. Employees in
that state are in the habit Of signing
what is called a "death-warrant," re-
leasing the corporation from liability
in case of accident. The wives of en-
ployes also sign a pledge 2ot to sue in
case their husbands are injured. A
brakeman was killed, and his wife
though she had signed an agreement,
brought suit and recovered $1,000 by
a jury verdict. On appeal the highest
court affirmed the Judgment.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-12-13
THE president advises the buildin

THE president advises the building
up of the navy. So do John Roach
and Secretary Chandler. He is silent
as to the decline of our merchant ma
rine, which has been brought about
by the party which put him in power
and which has administered the ex-
penditure of enough money on the
navy account, in the last fifteen years
to give US one of the most powerful
maritime ornaments on the globe
Let us see the rascals out before any
more enormous sums are voted to be
shoveled into the pockets of contract.
ors and department officials.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-12-13

THE Galveston News records as the
daily papers in Texas that stood pat
for Carlisle: THE STATESMAN, News,
Waco Examiner. Fort Worth Gazette
and the Dallas Times. We do not
put the Times last as least, because it
did some OF the very best work.
1t was the especial friend Of Mr.
Wellborn.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-12-13

THE president wants the govern
ment to buy up the trade dollar at a
small advance on the market value
Of silver of like;frmness. This would
give the spectators who have been
engaged in the collection of trade dol
lars, splendid profit. The trade dol
lar, as bullion, is worth more than the
standard dollar as coin. Hence pre-
MUM in standard dollars might be
paid on trade dollars. There are now
about 100000 III the hands of
spectators in this country, and their
agents will soon collect the balance in
circulation across the Pacific.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-12-13

GATH says Mr.. Blaine favors JUS
tice Miller as the Republican presi-
Dental nominee. Blaine always was
sly one catch him advocating the
nomination of any but weak man.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-12-13

IT would be interesting to know
the full meaning of District Attorney
Evans petition for statute prevent
ing the appointment, by district
judges, of relatives to places con-
nected with their courts. Senator
Coke has presented the petition to the
senate.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-12-13

THE burning of all the vacant
houses in Miller's Valley, Lampasas
county, shows how this fence-cutting
mania is taking on a new phase. The
purpose in burning these houses is
said to be to prevent any other set
tiers from coming in with cattle and
using the range.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-12-13

THE STATESMAN cannot see, as does
cotemporary, anything disparaging
to the country press of Texas. AS a
general thing the weekly papers are
ably conducted, and we could name
many of them whose typographical
appearance surpasses that of most of
the daily gang.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-12-13

The comptroller of the currency
says congress should reduce the re-
dundant revenue. The reduction of
the surplus revenue should be accom-
plished by the reduction of the high
and excessive duties on imports. And
if there be wisdom in congress, it will
adopt this statesmanlike method of
reduction.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-12-13
all about the Bridge.
AUSTIN, Dec. 1, 1888.

AUSTIN, Dec. 1, 1888.
Editor Statesman:
1 came from the North not long
since, and have been spending some
time in visiting different points in
Texas. I am pleased very much with
your city. This winter weather, or
rather spring weather in winter time,
is simply delightful. Wherever l may
be shall never forget the glorious
sunshine, green trees, sweet roses and
blue skies which greet me in Austin
on this most delightful morning in
December.
Nature has given you every beauty,
and affords you the chance for every
Injury. In this dry, delicious air, I
feel my spirits revive. find your
city f1ourishing, too, in spite of some
powerful wbacks to its prosperity.
| If you will not consider it out of place
IN me, l would like to mention one of
them, viz: Lack of free bridge
across the Colorado. What beauti-
full location South Austin is for
residences! AS the city proper
builds up with business houses
and manufactures, merchants, manu-
facturers, etc., will per force wish to
| choose homes on the south side of the
river, as such will be quite healthy
and convenient to business. But the
great draw back is the enormous tolls
and the trouble of paying them. 1t
is certainly an outrage that the capt.
tai of Texas, the seat of her asylums
and university, should force the resi-
dents of one half Of the county to
swim, ferry or pay toll for the privi-
lege of visiting the city and spend
| ing their money here. The business
men, whose pockets are filled by the
trade of that part of the county should
! certainly use every endeavor to see
that such tax is lifted from its cit1-
Zens.
At Seguin, l found a fine bridge
across the Guadalupe river. At Colo
RADIO City, town only four years old
and having a population of only eight
hundred souls, is free bridge across
the Colorado river; while San Anto-
Mo has eight free bridges across the
San Antonio river. Can not the
proud and wealthy city of Austin
afford onep
/ have talked with the managers of
your bank and other prominent gen.
tlemen on the subject. They have in
yestigated the matter and say that a
durable bridge can be built with the
small sum of from $4,000 to 100000
that the constitution authorizes the
leuying of tax of 10 cents on every
500 for road and bridge purposes
This tax should be levied
and 10 per cent of it set aside
for building a substantial bridge
over the Colorado river at Austin. ]
assure you that strangers, one and
all, are surprised at the negligence OF
your citizens in not preparing free
road between the two portions OF
your beautiful city. For my OWL
part, feel assured that Austin will
never attain o the degree of prosper
ity which she deserves, until the er
ror is remedied; and the sooner you
people set about it, the better it viii
be for her.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-12-13

MIR. CARLISLE interprets his cleo
ton as the triumph of a principle
affecting the interests of the great
majority of the people; and he is sat
isGed that from this time forth the
Democratic party would go to the
people with an aggressive and definite
policy, and adhere to it, because it is
right and deserves to win.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-12-13

The acreage of lands alleged to be
forfeited to the federal government
by noncompliance with contracts
made with railroad companies, is two
hundred millions. The grant to the
Texas & Pacific, transferred to the
Southern Pacific, is embraced in this
amount.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-12-13

MR.. N. S. WALTON has made a
good city attorney, and if it be the
purpose OF the incoming city admin
istration to infuse into municipal ser
vice recognition of duty, faithfully
performed, he will be retained in the
place he now holds.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-12-13

THE president thinks that constitu-
tional legislation is the only means
that may be effectually used against
polygamy among the Mormons. He
ought to be looking, as well, after the
moral standing of other people, in the
ctatoc
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-12-13

MALONE and Riddleberger have
made themselves members of the Re-
publican caucus. Now, we know, as
has been long believed, that a Read
juster and Republican are one and
the same thing.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-12-13
THE PHILADELPHIA Bulletin does nc

THE Philadelphia Bulletin does not
catch on to Mr.. Blaine's nice little
scheme. 1t says:
"Mr. Blaine's financial project does
not seem to meet with much favor.
Besides the points we suggested yes
terday, are others that are made in
various directions. 1t is urged that
if the United States is going to col
lect $100O00,000 of taxes, for nothing
more than to give them away, it
would be obviously fairer not to col
lect them at all. And it is further
urged that there would be no reason
in making q producing state
pay for the support of whisky-pro-
hibitlng state. The bottom objection
TO all these projects lies in the fact
that when the United States govern
ment does not absolutely need rev.
enue from internal taxation, as it did
during the rebellion, it should not
have any internal taxes"
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-12-13

THE News is the name of paper
just started at Toronto, Canada, whose
purpose it is to advocate the estab-
lishment of a Democratic form of
government for Canada; in other
words, republic, fashioned after the
United States.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-12-13

AND now brother-in-law Moulton
says Gen. Sherman would not take
the presidency if nominated by both
parties. Such a declaration makes us
loose faith in what Mr.. Tilden has
said through Henry Watterson.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-12-13

VENUS is now evening star, and the
astronomers tell us she will soon put
on unusually glorious apparel. Jupiter
is morning star, and with the month
his services in announcing dawn will
be temporarily dispensed with.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-12-13

Think of the industries of Kentucky
and Virginia and of one or two other
states being taxed to contribute an
nually TO New York state 100000.
The plan would give Texas as much
money as it raises by taxation, but
where would the justice be in such
robbery and distribution. Let the
people who use whisky and tobacco
pay the tax, while the necessities of
life are placed on the free import
list.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-12-13

JOHN SHERMAN is not an Arthur
man, and he says the president could
not, by any probability, carry Ohio.
He says he does not think Blaine,
Grant or Conkling are wanted, but it
is evident he thinks man named
Tecumseh Sherman may be in groom
ing as dark horse.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-12-13

TIE Toledo, Ohio, Bee oberves that
the guard of United States soldiers
still retained in service at the tomb of
Garfield, seems like an nncalled for
expense to the government.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-12-13

THE PRESIDENT thinks it would be
unwise to materially reduce the rev.
enues. He thinks the plethoric condi-
ton of the treasury is suggestive of
an increase in river and harbor appro-
priations. So thinks Hon. Thomas
Porterhouse Ochiltree. AS sequence,
too, of the first proposition he is in
favor of federal aid to education in
the states.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-12-13

GEN. RosEcRANs will introduce a
joint resolution to the next House,
proposing an amendment to the con-
stitution of the United States, forever
prohibiting polygamy, within its bor-
ders or under its jurisdiction.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-12-13

TEE business interests of the United
States demand the discontinuance of
a system of taxation which takes mil
lions of dollars, for which the govern
| ment has no use, out of the pockets of
the people to lie idle in the treasury,
and which takes hundreds of millions
out OF their pockets to be transferred
to the Golfers of favored monopolists.
The small protected classes of the
country as the representatives of the
business interests of the country
while it is properly submitted that
they do not represent the growers of
the cotton and grain which constitute
our whole export produce. They do
not represent the once great COM
mercial and shipping interests which
their policy has paralyzed; they do not
represent, in fact, single interest in
which federal resources, intelligent
labor and acquired skin, together with
freedom from the burdens of military
rule, give us an adyan tage over the
people of other countries. They
simply represent those who, by taxing
all to enrich few, in certain kinds of
industry, have shut the United States
out of the markets of the world and
made all its business interests depend
more or less upon the fiuctuating for
tunes of protected industries, which,
confined to a fixed and insufficient
market, march in the vicious circle of
prosperity, glut, stagnation. panic, re-
Vival, prosperity, glut, and so on. If
the Democratic party be fit for the
tasks of legislation and government
it is bound to offer the country some
thing better than this product of Re
publican tariff revision.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-12-13

THE Examiner thinks fence cutting
the effect of "wide spread combina-
tion," the purpose of which is the des-
struction of agriculture in the interest
of stock growing.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-12-13


suits for the lands which the land
frauds recommended the attorney
general to bring against them. AS
their purchases were in good faith the
partial payments which they made
will doubtless be returned.
The state land board advise that
a party who has purchased school
lands to the maximum allowed by law
cannot purchase additional in the
name of his wife.
HEALTH DEPARTMENT.
Health Officer;Swearingen, while re-
Gently in New York, contracted for a
steam tug for quarantine purposes in
this state. The boat is to cost $4,000,
to be delivered April next at Calves
ton, and has been appropriately
named by DR.. Swearingen in advance
"Hygia."
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-12-13

1T takes only three or four pointed
paragraphs to exhaust the presidents
message, and yet thousand editors
in the land are rackfng their brains
over it in writing against space.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-12-13

ORGANS have had their day, except
those that are the organs Of princi-
pies. A paper that assumes the role
of personal organ soon gathers its
own winding sheet about, and lays
itself away in permanent rest.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-12-13

THE Express opposed Carlisle, and
then it turns on Messrs. Culberson
and Weliborn, who acted nobly in
oheying the wishes of their constitu-
encies against their individgal prefer
ences, and does injury to none but
itself when it says:
The Texas delegation voted solidly
fol Carlisle. Wellborn was ignomini-
ously kicked into the ranks, and Cul-
berson sneaked in. Some one ought
to read to Culberson his recent utter
ances on the speakership question.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-12-13

THE Republicans are watching
closely and doing all they can to make
the Democrats drop the tariff reform
issue. They would then take it up,
and in 1884 retain thereby their lease
on the federal government.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-12-13

THE comet will be with us all this
season, and it will then take its leave,
not to return until the year 1854,
seventy years hence.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-12-13

THE Examiner speaks out nobly
when it says:
And now let us all be thankful that
Culberson and WellboTn voted for
Carlisle. Let us hereafter only re-
member that of them in connection
with the late race for the speaker
ship.
THE STATESMAN as much, if not
mara
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-12-13

THE New York Times, having
made thorough investigation of the
riot preceding the late election in Dan
vile, Virginia, declares that ''the facts
show that the collision between the
whites and the blacks in Danville was
not premeditated affair, deliberately
planned by the Democrats of that
place for the purpose of preventing
negroes from casting their votes for
the Readiuster nominees. They show
that the colored voters of Danville
were not driven from the polls by the
murderous assaults of organized
bands. They show that the Demo
Gratis Of Danvllle did not deliberately
adopt coercion, by which the colored
vote was suppressed" The testimony
of the Times is valuable in showing
that the riot, while crime, was not a
political crime. 1t was no worse than
the Murraysville shooting in Pennsyl-
vania, growing out of a quarrel for
the possession of an oil well.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-12-13

MORE expenditure for public bene-
fits and none for private ends, is the
programme that should now be put in
force in the city administration.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-12-13

THE illegal fencing of land pro-
duced fence cutting. Now that it is
begun. it is made to apply to all.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-12-13

AND now an English writer pre-
sents statistics, showing that drink is
not the fruitful cause of crime.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-12-13

BLAINE offers $1.75 to every man,
woman and child in the United States
to be made president. Who will 90
him % cents better.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-12-13

THE American bishops have closed
their conference with the papal pro-
paganda, and viii leave Rome on the
10th instant.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-12-13

THE last copy of the Llano Rural
is as "extra" 1t ought to have be-
yond the Extra" "Brown Stout" It
is prints, On brolFn MANILA paper.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-12-13

Fannie B. Ward writes from Sal
tillo that at whatever hour a person
dies in Mexico, it is customary to ap-
point the funeral just twenty-four
hours later, and that as the mortality
is greatest over all the world at night,
the most of the funeral ceremonies in
Mexico are performed at night, no
women being permitted to attend.
The poor hire the coffin in which their
dead are borne to the grave.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-12-13

THE shadows of the temporary cap
itol rest on an eternal mudhole, a
legacy from the late city administra-
finn
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-12-13

SOME of the old city ring business
is cropping out. Catch it and then
whack it.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-12-13

THE female base ball company has
come to grief. They are stranded,
gone up, "busted." and cannot get out
of town.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-12-13

A COTTON mill with one thousand
looms is projected as Cincinnati en-
terprise.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-12-13
A NEGRO student has been admitted

A NEGRO student has been admitted
into the National College of Phar-
macy, and twenty students left at
once in consequence. There is moth
ing ike coloTed person for stirring
up fuss. Those who do not believe
it are referred to the manner in which
a few peacable negroes turned the
head OF Cox and put the army of Tex
as in fighting trim.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-12-13

The Print thinks Texas base ball
players are disgracing themselves and
bringing the game into very bad odor.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-12-13

CONGRESS will do wise thing by
raising the limit on letter weight to
one ounce.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-12-13
THE STATESMAN.
AUSTIN. TEXAS.

UNMARRIED maEriageable girls be-
gin to look happy. Leap year is COM
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-12-13

A female cowboy CD is one of the
interesting features in Las Vegas,
New Mexico, society. She can throw
the lariat and rope" an animal as
well as any of the male experts of that
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