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The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1883-04-05
His Singular Manner,


If Gov. Ireland is really in sympa-
thy with the honest yeomanry who
till the soil and develop the resources
of countries and nations, then he has
adopted a very strange and singular
manner of making it manifest, mas
much as the mode in which he propo-
SEES to dispose of the school lands
would place them at once beyond the
reach of those who have settled upon
and made these lands valuable, and
are struggling to gain an honest
livelihood by the cultivation of the
same, and enable land grabbers and
monopolists to secure all the lands for
a mere tritling consideration. 1t is
true, he recommends that these lands
be sold in either large or small quanti-
ties hich,perhapS. would do justiceto
all concerned; but he goes on and
says that they should be sold at auc-
ton to the highest bidder, and that
parties, before being allowed the
privilege of bidding, being required
to deposit Il certain stipulated amount
of money with the state treasurer at
Austin, and us the poor man, which
Gov. Ireland well knows, would be
unable to do this the discrimination
in favor of capitalists is perfectly
plain to every one who possesses the
slightest degree of perception.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1883-04-05
THE SOUTHERN STATES.

Kentucky has colored female tenn
perance lecturer.
a prairie fire near Arkansas City
destroyed 400 sheep.
The city bonds of Macon, Georgia,
are now worth S1.Oo.
Pensacola, Florida, will soon have
water works in operation.
Black walnut logs are being ship
ped from Kentucky to Germany.
\ tobacco box factory is to be
started in Bristol. Tennessee, soon.
Nearly 100000 feet of lumber
have been shipped from Pensacola
this season.
Kentucky has 532S manufacturing
establishments, giving employment to
5000 persons.
The recent cold weather has had a
bad effect on the cane in some por-
tions of Louisiana.
Glasgow, Kentucky, has shipped
within the last two weeks nearly fifty
thousandedozen eggs.
The Tennessee senate yesterday
adopted eX-Treasurer Folks PROPOSE
ton to make good his defalcation.
y young woman who ran away
from home to get married, has just
died of starvation in Kansas City.
Farmers in Montgomery county,
Tennessee, are making preparations
for large crop of tobacco this year.
Knoxville, Tennessee, is jubilant
over the prospect of having the
branch insane asylum established
there.
The hub, spoke and rim factory,
soon to be started in Shelbyville, Ten
nessee, will employ about twenty-five
hands.
A granite monument is to be erect
ed at AndersOnville, Georgia, in men,
DRY of the federal soldiers who are
buried there.
Wilmington, North Carolina, will
have free mail delivery rs soon us the
streets and houses are properly named
and numbered.
1t is thought IN attempt will he
made to establish Il cotton factory at
Union City, Tennessee, during the
coming summer.
-Four cases of smallpox in one col
ored family, near Port Hudson, Lou
isiana, is creating quite an excitement
in that vicinity.
Mr.. John Lindsay, an old citizen of
Newton county, Georgia, died a few
days ago. His weight was nearly
four hundred pounds.
Mary Warren, colored, of Danville,
Kentucky, whose husband was killed
during the late war, has recently re-
ceived $2514 back pensions.
Since the first of September the
cotton receipts at Wilmington, as
compared with last year, have de-
creased over eight thousand bales.
Gov. O'Neal, of Alabama, has ap-
pointed Hon. 5. III. SprOth, OF Stump
ter county, judge of the sixth judicial
circuit in place of Judge Mudd, who
resigned.
Mrs. DIR. Z. NJ. Watts, wife of a
prominent physician, died at Ports
mouth, Virginia, from the effects of
chlorotorm, administered for the eX-
traction of teeth.
Miss Mary Wexwell. of Crab Or
chard township, near Charlotte, North
Carolina, has been found dead under
| circumstances indicating that she was
first outraged and then murdered.
Tennessee votes a pension of $40
per month to each of her citizens
who fought in the war and lost one
or both eyes, no matter whether he
fought in the southern army or the
northern.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1883-04-05
Safety i'm the House.
fort Worth Gazette.l


In multitude of counsel there is
safety as well as wisdom. The defeat
of the penitentiary leases, sustained
as they were by official influence and
with the arts and devices of the most
powerful and skillful Hobbies that ever
congregated at the state capital, re-
fleets credit upon the wisdom and
patriotism of the house of representa-
tives. 1t matters not that the state
may be the loser ina pecuniary sense
that the cash balance may be de-
pleted by thousands of dollars; aye,
by tens and hundreds of thousands of
dollarsl the credit, independence and
integrity of the state has been preserv-
ed. 1t would have been an act of
gross stupidity and criminal reck-
leSsneSS to have bound the
state to the penitentiary lessees
for term of fifteen years and
submitted the convicts of the state to
their management and control. The
state could better afford to lose an
hundred thousand dollars a year and
even more and retain the manage
ment of the penitentiaries. The
state of Texas is not a pauper by any
means, and its integrity should not be
placed in the scales with its cash bal
ance. The house of representatives
deserves credit for its action in this
case, and it will go far toward cover
ing many sins of omission or commits
sion should it commit any such. The
Gazette is now more firmly and con-
clusively convinced than ever before
that there is safety in large repre-
sentative bodies, which, while they
are more difficult to control, are more
independent in thought and action.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1883-04-05


counsel correctly charged the law of
the case, the result would have been
the same, owing TO appellants failul
10 prove any liability on appellee
part. Aflirmed.-West, j.
H., L. and w. Texas railway VS..
Smelling; from Harris county.."If.
by mutual mistake of the parties In
the settlement of an account. items
were left out, suit could be MAIN
tanned on them in another action"
Where there has been deviation
from the original contract by mutual
consent, the contract price still gov
ems in so far as they are applicable,
OF in so far as the work can be traced
according to the stipulations of the
contract; but if extra work, not called
for in the contract, and to which its
provisions and prices cannot be ap-
piled, the employee may recover there
ior us an quantum meruit. The de-
Walton by consent may be considered
Us a new contract in so far as the de-
Walton is concerned, and modifica-
ton in that respect when circum-
stances require it. Aflirmed.-Stay-
ton, j.
Dillon VS.. Kaufman Il Runge;
appeal from Galveston county.-D. 81
III. having dissolved their partnership,
ID. agreed with H., in the final settle
ment, that ii. should convey ID. the
half interest in certain property and
ID. would release Ii. from all liability
and would take up large outstand-
ing note and give his individual note
therefor. X. Il Il. took up the said
note, and NJ. IL X, the owners and
holders thereof, transferred it to them
by endorsement without recourse, also
delivering them the deed of trust
given to secure it. ID. then executed
a new note, payable to X. Il r., for
the same amount, to bear the same
interest, and executed "a new trust
deed upon exactly the same property
as was embraced in the first deed and
was released on the latter by the
trustees in it. Held, X. a. Runge
were subrogated to the lien. The
fact that additional personal security
rs the individual note of one of the
original signers and embracing addi-
tional property in the deed. does not
affect the lien. Afllrned.-W Willie, &. j.
Tabler VS.. Willis Il Bro; from Gal
weston county.-One w. being desir-
GUS of purchasing goods, II. wrote w.
IL Bro. if they would sell him goods
to the amount of $4,000. he, r., would
he responsible for the payment of the
debt. Il. further wrote, "he is to pur-
chase his merchandise on open ac-
count, on regular terms, and as
long as he continues to buy from
your house / am responsible to you to
the extent of $1,000" Held, this guar
anty contemplated course of dealing
for an indefinite period of time. and
the course of the dealing was subject
to be terminated at any time; and as
long as w. q Bro. chose to sell goods
to W., so long was Z. responsible to
them for any amount of goods w.
might purchase, provided it did not
exceed $1,000. administrator, j
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1883-04-05

THE Kaufman Sun reaches the con-
clusion entertained by the Tyler
Courier. The first named paper says:
at is very probable that in the near
future the regents win recommend
the abandonment of the agricultural
and mechanical college at Bryan, and
the using Of the buildings as alunatic
asylum for the colored insane. This
would be wise move. The school
has never been Of any benefit to the
state. and we question the right and
humane principle of justice that
have long been practiced of confn-
in1 tksrwhite and black insane in
'(he same asylum. Texas is large
and rich. and she can well afford to
make this endowment for this unfor-
tnnate class of her population. II is
celtainly shame and n stain on the
record Of any state to subject her in
sane TO such humiliation as to coniine
them In the same asylum with
negroes. The STATESMAN does not
know 80 much about the propriety Of
using the buildings at Bryan rs an
|unnc asylum. but IL is opposed 10
<n Agricultural and mcchahical Oh
|c<<. 80 called. and has an The time
Iu.|<.|I char Il sIon1: I,c IN n..lIiIcc
I||/ uI.[ 4 IA In mama
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1883-04-05

formation of school districts within
all or any of the counties of this
state, by general or special law, with
out the local notice required in other
cases of special legislation; and may
authorize an additional adj v;llOrem
tax to be levied and collected within
such school districts for the
further maintenance of pub
lie free schools and the
erection of school buildings therein;
provided, that two-thirds of the quail
flied property taxpaying voters of the
district voting at an election to be
held for that purpose, shall vote such
tax, not to exceed in any one year
twenty cents on the one hundred dol
lars valuation of the property subject
to taxation in such district; but the
limitation on the amount of district
tax herein authorized shall not apply
to incorporated cities or towns conSti-
tuting separate and Independent
school districts.
Sec. 2. That the governor of the
state shall issue his proclamation or
dering an election, to be held on the
second Tuesday in August, A. ID.
1883, at which time the foregoing
amendment shall be submitted for
adoption by the qualified electors of
this state.
Sec. 3. That those voting for the
adoption of the amendment to section
shall have written or printed on
their ballots the words, For amend
ment to section 3, article of the con-
stitution, school tax" and those voting
against the adoption of said amend
ment shall have written or printed on
their ballot the words, against the
amendment to section 3, article of
the constitution, school tax"
Mr.. Davis moved to suspend the
| special order in order to act upon the
motion to reconsider the vote by
which the general appropriation bill
was lost. The motion prevailed.
Many changes to the various de.
partments of the bill were proposed
but in every instance rejected.
After very lengthy discussion the
amendment of Mr. Peacock, which
was pending when the bill was called
making an appropriation of $350,OOI
for first year, and $4,000 for second
was adopted.
Pending further discussion of the
bill the senate adjourned till WedneS.
day morning at 10 Il. III.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1883-04-05

THERE is not a more industrious
and painstaking legislator in the
house than Mr.. Hill, of Polk. He
has succeeded in embodying desirable
amendments in almost every import
ant measure that has come before the
house. Mr.. Foster. of Limestone,
and Mr.. Jones, of Henderson, are also
able and Industrious members, who
are evidently very conscientious in
the discharge of their duties. Among
other active and efficient members are
Messrs. Foster, of Grayson, Taylor,
Mckinney, Moursund, Caven, Den
mis- and Kendall.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1883-04-05

The coming exhibition of wild
Western Life" which is now being or
ganized at North Platte, Nebraska,
by Buffalo Bill, DIR. Carver, the great
shot. and others, promises to eclipse
anything that has ever been attempt
ed in the way of an outdoor show in
intended to give to civilized commu-
mites an accurate representation of
how white men and Indians live in
the far west. There will be 200 Sioux
and Pawnee Indians, with their en-
tire outfit of squaws, tepees, dogs,
ponies, etc, under command of Maj.
Frank North, for a number of years
the captain of company of PawDee
scouts in the United States service.
Wherever they go they will be in
camp, living just as they would on
the plains. The exhibitions will be in
parks and fields, where there is
space for the Indian encamp-
ment and for the illustra-
tive performances that win
form the shows attraction. Capt.
Bogardus. the pigeon shooter, and
DIR. Carver will shoot matches. Buffalo
Bill, DIR. Carver, Oklahoma Payne
and Major.North will join in shooting
contests, both afoot and on horseback;
show how road agents rob stage
coaches in the mountains. and with
the Indians. and viii give exhibitions
of Indian polo games and join in
hunts and battles. as battles are fought
between white and red men in the
west. Twenty Texan cowboys and
twenty Mexican vaqueros viii accom-
pany the show, TO give exhibitions
Among the animals that are to accom-
pany the show and take part in its
uaoa6aSQances viii be twenty buffaloes.
twelve elks. 1t will
for the show to start
on the North Platte
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1883-04-05

PRINCE BIsMARCK's opposition to
yivisection is exciting much COM
ment in Berlin, where so many valu-
able physiological discoveries have
been made through experiments on
animals, notably Prof. Munk's local
ization of the cerebral functions.
The Berlin professors discourage all
abuse of yivisection on the part of
students, and where an important
point is involved they frequently ex-
pertinent on themselves. Less than
a year ago an assistant at the Charlie
died of the results of a risky expert
ment.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1883-04-05

IT is reported at Houston that Mr..
j. Waldo, general traffic manager of
the Houston and Texas Central rail
way, has been displaced by the new
management. This may not be true,
since Mr.. Waldo has been one of the
most efficient railway managers in
the state.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1883-04-05

THE two houses of the legislature
have finally, through the lnterven-
ton of a committee of free confer
ence, settled their differences upon
the school tax bill. by reducing it
from twenty-five cents to twenty
cents maximum for state and dis
triet1
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1883-04-05

THE house refused to engross the
bill of Mr.. Adams, of Trinity, to re-
quire saloon keepers to conduct their
business in an open manner, without
the use of screens. The vote by
which the bill was lost was not very
decided, rs will be seen from our re-
port of the proceedings.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1883-04-05

A LIFELONG manufacturer of
lines and concretes writes to the
Scientific American rs a result of a
recent examination of the obelisk in
Central Park, his belief that it is a
mass of concrete and not a granite
monolith. The mummies who put
up this fraud should be handled with
out gloves.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1883-04-05

Lynchburg, Virginia. is excited
over the discovery that the nurses all
keep bottles of laudanum with which
to quiet their noisy charges The
fact was ELECTED through the confess
sion of one of the nurses.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1883-04-05

THE refusal of the senate to pass
the, house concurrent resolution fix
ing the 9th inst. as the date of finaI
adjournment, was wise; for with the
disagreements between the two
houses upon the most important
measures of the session, it will be
hazardous to hamper the action of
the legislature with definite limit
of so short duration.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1883-04-05

TIE Indian. troubles in Arizona
and New Mexico are assuming Il seri-
ons phase. 1t is generally believed
that at least one company of soldiers
which have been sent in pursuit of
the Indians have been ambushed and
annihilatpd
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1883-04-05

1T Is said Samuel f. Pierson has
been appointed general traffic mana
ger of the Houston and Texas Central
railroad, to take the place of j.
Waldo. The story seems to lack con-
firmation.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1883-04-05

The noted John Brown, "the
queens gillie," gentleman about
whom more has been thought and less
said than any other gentleman in
England, has at last been laid away
The queen attended the last rites.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1883-04-05

THE returns from the municipal
elections in Ohio. which occurred yes
terday. show that the political repre-
sentation, though not clearly deter
mined. is somewhat in favor of the
Democratic candidates.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1883-04-05
WELL MIXED POLITICALLY.

TOLEDO. ONO, April 3. = The Re
publicans elected their mayor by 81,
and police clerk by 10 majority. The
Democrats elected the solicitor, the
police judge and police prosecutor,
the trustees of the water works and
cemetery. three police commissioners,
four justices of the peace and four
constables. by majorities ranging 300
to 1000. The council will stand, Re
pubiicans 3. Democrats 3 board OF
aldermen. Republicans 2. Democrats
4: board Of education. Republican,
Democrats G: poIice board p
cans I. Democrats 4 Cou1|
y s>' +. has 2 pe"'.<
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1883-04-05

On THE motion of Mr.. Davis to
concur in the house amendment to
the senate joint resolution "revoking"
instead Of .ratifying" the peniten-
'tiary leases, Senators Johnson of Col
lin, Fleming, Perry and Getzendaner
voted afilrmatively.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1883-04-05

SENATOR JOHNSON, of Collin, in
yielding to the wish of the majority
of the house on the penitentiary res
olution and acting with the minority
of the senate, displayed conservat-
ism and fairness worthy the sturdy
honor of the man.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1883-04-05

A soCIALIsTIC manifesto is in cir
culation in the southern part of Rus
STA. urging the populace to pillage,
during the coming fetes. the houses
of the mobiles aud the Jews.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1883-04-05

A FORMER coiner of the New Or
leans mint is working on contract
with the Mexican government for the
coinage of l90,OOO,OO0 pieces of nickel
money. The French government is
also about to begin the issue of nickel
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1883-04-05

A kiss is an aifectionlte demOnstra-
ton, and when discreetly regulated
and feryidly bestowed, is not very OBJ
jectionable, as it brings the parties
into close relations of amity, and is
occasionally rs exhilerating in its eff
fects as a draught of sparkling cham
payne. But OSCILLATION is sometimes
attended with considerable risk. Sur
prises must be guarded against, and
under no circumstances should q kiss
be given unless the participants in
such luxury'are sincerely attached
to each other. Promiscuous kissing
is dangerous pastime, repellant
to the instincts of modest re-
serve, and is also excepUionable
if regarded from a sanitary point
of view. A physician in San Fran
cisco mentions several instances of
children having contracted diphtheria
by kissing some infected schoolmate or
playmate. Other diseases more loath-
some, il not so Immediately fatal, he
says, have been communicated by os-
culatory enjoyment. Parents should
caution their children against indulg-
ing in habit liable to be attended
with such i'll results, and grown per-
sons ought to be more circumspect as
to time and place and especially as
regards the health of the parties on
whom they confer kisses as evidences
of affection.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1883-04-05

Gen. A. E. Jackson still has the
horse that went through the war
with,him, which is now twenty-six
years old and active. The general
has saddle f0rfy-fiYe years old and
can ride horseback twenty miles per
day with ease.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1883-04-05

THE legislature of New York has
made it an offense against the dignity
of the state to fish on Sunday. Poker
is still permitted to DC Il fashionable
Sunday pastime.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1883-04-05
Forty Years Experience OF an Old
Nurse

Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup is
the prescription of one of the best fe-
male physicians and nurses in the
United States, and has been used for
forty years with never-failing success
by millions of mothers for their chill
dren. 1t relieves the child from pain,
cures dysentery and diarrhea, gripping
in the bowels and wind collie. By
giving health to the child it rests the
mother. Price twenty-five cents a
bottle.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1883-04-05

THE North Texan would have DIR.
j. NJ. Fort, of Paris, fill a chair in the
medical branch of the state univer-
gitv.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1883-04-05

Judge Phillips, of the Macoupin,
Illinois, circuit court has rendered a
decision which will be of decided in
terest to bank directors and officials.
An insolvent bank at Bunker Hill,
Illinois. furnished the case, and one
Mr.. Gardner Case, large depositor
and loser, was the plaintiff, the de-
PENDANT being the directors of the
broken bank. The court gave judg-
ment for the plaintiff. Stated briefly
the decision holds that director Of
bank is not an ornamental figure
head, but that it is his duty to
keep posted as to the condition of the
institution with which he is connect
ed. The insolvency of the bank in
the case at bar was caused by the
fact that its cashier stole the &nnds.
The court held that the directors
could not plead ignorance when due
diligence would have discovered the
facts; and failure to keep themselves
acquainted with the affairs of the in
stitution renders them liable, on COM
mon law principles, to the depositorS
whose interests they fail to protect.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1883-04-05

Z The Democratic victory in Cleve-
land. Ohio, is very decided. The
entire ticket was elected.