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The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-09-25

A democratic paper is not the tool
of individual democrats. The paper
which becomes such a tool abandons
its democratic fealty.-Austin States.
man.
Looking back to the time when
Roberts was governor, this sounds
queer in THE STATESMAN. But per.
haps it, too, has revised its states
manship." Post.
THE STATESMAN endorsed Govern
or Roberts administration, and TO-
day the yeople of Texas look back to
it as of vast benefit to the state.
However, it opposed his nomination
for the third term, because it was not
the tool of Roberts, but truly repre-
sentative paper. THE STATEsMAN's
record in this respect bears it out in
the declaration above made, at which
the Post falsely shoots. The Post
criticises The STATESMAN alone for
the reason that it has not been a per-
sonal tool. It cannot refute one of
THE STATEsMAN's principles, with
out opposing democracy. A personal
organ, though. is always violating
principle and opposing public desire.
Read what the Gazette says about THE
STATEsMAN's declaration.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-09-25
Feeling Among Sheep Men.

FROM the COLORADO clipper.
There seems to be a bite feeling
existing among our sheepmen since
the suspension of the lease of school
lands. They have some hopes of re-
lief from the nineteenth legislature
The lease law has operated as a strict
herd law on the sheepmen of west
Texas, and has already driven many
of them from the state. We believe
that the next legislature will pass
such laws as will relieve to great
extent the people of west Texas, and
until that time would advise those
who wish to make permanent homes
in the great west to wait patiently for
the action.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-09-25
The Athletics.

The entertainment at the fair
grounds to-day, given by the Athletic
association of this city, promises to
be one of decided merit, and THE
STATESMAN hopes there will be large
turn out to witness the sports. This
association was organized about a
year ago, and is composed of many of
our most worthy men. 1t has
expended considerable money in
building, and It's purpose is to make
more lasting and permanent improve
ments. While the object of this en-
tertainment is to aid in creating a
fund for such uses, an athletic asso-
citation ought to be encouraged; it is a
valuable organization to have in any
town or city, where men are denied
that tree exercise which nature in
vites in the rural districts Our bust
ness men, especially the young and
vigorous, need the advantages to be
derived from the complete athletic es-
tablishment, while older men and the
feeble may find inauguration in
its enjoyment. THE STATESMAN
expresses the hope that the Athletics
of this city will grow in financial
worth, as well as in mind and body;
the association is composed OF admir-
able young men, identified with the
business interests of Austin, and they
should be encouraged in every pos
sible way. They offer an attractive
entertainment this afternoon, and it
is hoped there will be sort of sus-
pension of business for the occasion.
Give the boys a good help, and you
will feal better at having done so.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-09-25

direction. The board that shapes its
internal management should lie the
trustee. not only of the university
direct, but of all that belongs to it;
and until this is done 1t may be
necessary. from year to year, to
chronicle acts retarding its newt
able growth and progress.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-09-25

Now comes the American Political
Alliance, at the Hub, and puts up w.
L. Ellsworth, of Pennsylvania, and G.
I'll. Waterman, of New Y ork, for presi-
dent and vice-president. Who the
men are it were hard to tell. Next
thing some ward politician of Hous-
ton or Galveston will be "put up"
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-09-25

HENDRICKS and Logan, vice .presi-
Dental nominees, are both making
campaign speeches. The republican
managers should take the latter in, for
he is no match for his trained and YER
satile antagonist. Mr.. Logan has al
ready got himself in az unextricable
middle in attempting to defend the
attitude of the republican party as
respects the doctrine of expatriation
and allegiance. The republican party
has gone far to surrender the advanced
ground occupied by the American
government when Mr.. Webster and
Mr.. Marcy were entrusted as secretar-
les of state with the exposition of the
rights of American citizens of foreign
birth.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-09-25
MESQUITE. TEX, October %, 1888.

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cured it, and now it is as fat as a pig. / can
cheerfully recommend Morley's Blackberry
Bal IN to all mothers, and am very gratefully
OF Messrs. Browder & Pascnal.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-09-25

1T may be stated as definite means
OF knowing the present whereabouts
of the deceased bank cashier, Hill, that
he used good deal of the money of
the banks depositors to help carry
elections for the republicans. His
soul is, therefore, doubly certain to be
in very hot region.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-09-25

TITS becoming epidemic; Miss Turn
bull, daughter of a rich Chicago pork
packer, has eloped with one of her
fathers employees. There is hardly
much use in making all this fuss
about foolish young girl acting the
prosecuted, love-lorn heroine. If she
wants to share the cottage and wash
the dishes for her fathers hack driver
let her go. A few years of matrimonial
drudgery, hard work, or penury. viii
bring her to her senses. Let her go,
by all means.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-09-25

THE Empress Eugene has long out
lived her fortune, and the picture now
drawn of her is really pathetic. Wild
owed, expelled from France, her child
killed by savages, she fingers in pow
erty and WEAKNESS tor death that
has unkindly delayed. Her health has
become very poor and as she now
feebly walks, bent and tottering and
mumbIing querulous words, she is
more like some old witch bag than
the gay, proud beauty from whom the
world took its fashions.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-09-25

THE official statement shows that
the vote in Maine was as follows:
Robbie, 1892 votes; Redman, 59,66l;
III. b. Eaton, 3,137; Eustes. 1,190; N.
A. Eaton, 81; scattering, 16. This
shows republican plurality of 1851
votes, a gain over 1880 of 1920. The
majority is 15,411.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-09-25
THE miraculous escape of Mr.. He,

THE miraculous escape of Mr.. Hen
bricks from death, or even injury, in
the big railroad smash-up yesterday,
maybe taken as prophetic of the cleo
ton of the Cleveland ticket. Let us
hope so, at all events. How Mr.. Hen
bricks came out of the wreck un-
scathedl is marvel, indeed.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-09-25
Must Crawl Like a Base Serpent,

From the Fort Worth Gazette.
A democratic paper is not the tool
of individual democrats. The paper
which becomes such tool abandons
its democratic fealty.-[ Austin States
man.
The Statesman asserts a truth, but
some statesmen" cannot tolerate the
democracy of a public journal that re.
fuses to crawl on its belly to serve
them and their private fortunes.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-09-25

THE earthquake yesterday in Ohio
and Michigan was only premonition
of the grand shake-up the republicans
ire going to get in both these states.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-09-25

THE Israelites of Marshall are dis
gasted with the manner of conduct
ihg the free schools, and they are go
ing to establish school for the edu.
cation of their own children.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-09-25

SOME of the republicans of Illinois
are so desperate about probable defeat
they have been threatening to shoot
Carter Harrison, the gubernatorial
candidate of the democrats.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-09-25
Important Notice !

The STATESMAN will pay no bills con-
fracted by any employe of this Office except
upon order signed by The business manager;
We pay our men every Monday, in cash, and
merchants and others extending credit must
cot expect us to be responsible except under
conditions as above.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-09-25

AN exchange says: "The Houston
Post thinks Wash Jones cannot be
elected" Now here is differ
ence between now and then. Two
years ago the Post labored zealously
for Wash Jones, and it then often
said he would be elected. Promises
are great incentives to thought.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-09-25

TO take Wash Jones' statement, it
would appear that false returns have
already been made in Texas. Mr..
jones should prove what he asserts
y bare statement will not do.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-09-25

SIR. A. UNDERWOOD, of Brazoria
was named by the democrats at Gal
WESTON as their Pictorial candidate in
that legislative district.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-09-25

IT is stated that Russia is deter
mined to achieve the honor of being
the first to send an expedition to the
North Pole. The plan adopted is
apparently avery promising one, pro-
vided the natural obstacles are not
absolutely insurmountable. The
starting point will be northeastern
Siberia, or Jeanette Island, and the
explorers will go afoot over the ice
in several large parties, within sup
porting distance of each other, and
adequate supplies of food, boats,
sleds, etc., will always be kept within
reach.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-09-25

THE state refuses to protect pri-
vate persons in their ownership OF
grass.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-09-25

MACHINES in politics are awful
things. They care nothing for de
stroying even popular maiorities.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-09-25

JUDGE A. S. WALKER will receive
the vote of every man who exercises
the elective franchise in his district.
1t is something to be proud of, that,
though a democrat, every partisan
sustains him, because he is a pure and
an upright and an able judge.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-09-25

AFTER all, the ratio of failing banks
is very small. Ninety-nine out of
every hundred of the banks of the
country are solid, reliable institutions
and the same proportion of the bank
officials are above suspicion.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-09-25

IT said that wealthy Wisconsin
NAN has put up $250,O00 against a
Chicago sporting man on Cleveland's
eipcti0n.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-09-25

THE Cross Timbers, of Bowie
county, has pronounced against Ire
laud. 1t is in favor of free grass.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-09-25

FRED CULLEN is going to oppose
DIN Weliborn for congress. He is a
republican. and is said to be fine
speaker-another ~eagle-tongued ora
tor" since he halls from Dallas,
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-09-25

A DEMOCRATIC paper is not the
tool of individual Democrats. The
paper which becomes such tool aban-
dons its Democratic fealty.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-09-25

AS soon as Carl Schurz became a
supporter of Cleveland the republi.
cans discovered he was a great scoun-
drel.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-09-25

oyoH kings as Humbert, of Italy
are worth taking care of.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-09-25

ROBERT HOE, the great inventor
and manufacturer of printing presses,
has taken his last proof sheet.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-09-25

THE land laws and land rules OF
Texas are partial.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-09-25

THE Lampasas Eagle makes ex-
Lieut.-Gov. Savers simple Senator
Savers"
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-09-25
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The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-09-25

THIS statement of Blaine cooks his
goose. Had he not denied, to begin
ssith, and then admitted what was
charged. attempting to qualify what
iii see was base era in his life, it
might have been otherwise.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-09-25

A GERMAN colony is going to take
possession of certain parts of western
Africa. 1t will be only few years
before that section will be an object
i've point of enterprise and specula-
ton, as America was three centuries
ago. The world moves.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-09-25
THURSDAY, September %, 1884

THE fence-cutter is greater than
aw..
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-09-25

THE British forces are ready to
start up the Nile to relieve Khar-
toum, where Gen. Gordon, by the most
reliable accounts, is holding his own
against the Mahdi. The expedition
is well organized, and under the COM
mand of England's luckiest and most
experienced soldier. The numerical
odds, if the hostile barbarian tribes
maintain their strength, are greatly
against the invaders, but this dispar-
ity is more than made good by the SUI
periority of the English discipline and
equipment, so that victorious ter
mination of the campaign, after one
or two bloody battles, may almost be
taken for granted.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-09-25

THE fence cutters maintain free
grass in Texas.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-09-25

OLD PRoBs predicts local rains for
the gulf coast to-day. We shall see.
By the way, yesterday was just three
months to a day since rain has fallen
ia Austin-the last big rain having
ben on the 10th June.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-09-25
WOOD CITY. BAsTRoP Co, TEX, !

WOOD CITY. BAsTRoP Co., TEx.,l
April Is, 1884.
Messrs. Morley Bros, Austin, Texas:
GENTLEMEN tried your BLACKBERRY
BAIsAM on two of my children that had the
FluX very bad and 1t acted like charm; cur
ing them both sound and well. ] thank you
for having such a valuable medicine ON the
market. To all who are suffering from the
above complaint, eau cheerfully recommend
MoRLEY's RLACKBERRY BALsAM,
NORRIS mitchell.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-09-25

EVERY acre of land is derived from
the state in the nature of a warrantee
ded; and yet the state refuses to pro-
tect individuals in their rights to
To snds and what pertains to them.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-09-25

WASH JONES says Ireland beat
him in 1882 only 1900 votes; that he
took correct return and sums it up
that way. Here, then, is charge of
false count from the Advertisers
"great commoner." Jones should
prove what he says, not let the bare
assertion go as a damaging declara-
! lion.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-09-25

Mr.. JONES, chairman of the repub-
l1can committe, is about the biggest
elephant republicans have. He
knows nothing about political man
agement, and was selected on Blaine's
recommendation, with the expectation
that he would contribute 100000 to
the campaign fund. He has only paid
small assessment, the same as other
members of the committee, and re.
fuses to pay cent more, while his
laundering management is the sub
ject of much unfavorable comment in
various quarters. The Blaine cam.
paign seems to have been a stupendous
blunder from the start, just as the
shrewdest politicians of the party
were satisfied it would be.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-09-25
Its Poverty

Little Joker" is the best smoking
tobacco.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-09-25

1T is MY DELIBERATE OPINION
THAT MR.. BLAINE ACTS AS THE AT.
ToRNEY OF JAY GOULD. WHENEv-
Err Mr.. THURMAN AND 1 HAVE SET.
TIED UPON LEGISLATION TO BRING
THE PACIFIC RAILROADS TO TERMS
OF EQUITY WITH THE GOVERNMENT
UP HAS JUMPED JAMES G. BLAINE,
MUsKET IN HAND, FROM BEHIND THE
BREAsTwoRKs OF GoULD's LOBBY, TO
FIRE IN OUR BACK.-[George F. Ed
munds.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-09-25

DO PERSONAL organs pay2 The
Houston Post can answer.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-09-25
The Chinese War.

The French ministry has not yet
decided to push the war into China.
In fact,such decision would be unwise
and foolish, destructive even of the
military power of the republic. France
IS not prepared to inaugurate a war
of invasion; it would take its
entire military power to invade the
Flowery Kingdom with any degree
of success. Whole Chinese.
armies might be destroyed to-day,
and tomorrow new ones would ap-
pear. The manner in which Grant
sacrificed Union soldiers would be
only faint reflection of how live
Chinese soldiers could be marched up
to take the places otsdead ones. An
other serious thing, too, is in the way
of France making formal de-
claration of war. Prospects of such
thing have already created
considerable commotion in business
and diplomatic circles of Europe.
France will hardly do a thing that
would interfere with the commerce of
other countries. 1t is difficult, in fact,
to see any probable gain tc France in
prosecuting war with China. She
cannot make it a naval war, either,
for in doing so she would interfere
with the commerce of other countries
in way to lead to Intervention. The
dispatches, published this morning.
tell Of the rout of Chinese crops, but
this does not prove that they will not
fight. The Chinese are no longer the
defenseless savages they were in for
mer conflicts with the Europeans.
They remain, however, the same
Chinese in one respect, and that is that
they will not take the slightest notice
of their losses and defeats as long as
the enemy is not on the road to Pekin.
And how is France to get there? All
the commandments of the coast and all
the French victories in the southern
provinces will no more trouble the
Chinese government than did the
raids of Turkomans on the Russian
fronties disturb the czar land his gov
eminent. If the Chinese have made
that progress with which they are
credited, and if their govern
ment possess necessary pluck,
M. Ferry will probably soon regret
h. e. l. =
hard to.see how France is to secure
either profit or glory from this thing.
and if she fail, the republic weakens
itself. Indeed a governmental crisis
may come out of this affair. Less
things have led to the destruction of
governments, and Frencamen, it is
said, are ripe for revolutionary excite
ment.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-09-25

TIE New Orleans Picayune, in
commenting upon the course of ma
chine democracy in Texas, warned the
people against resort to false cleo
ton returns. The Picayune might
proftably look after its home ma
chine. One was engaged there in
trading to make fraudulent presi-
dent.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-09-25

ACCORDING to a dispatch this
morning, the Pope apparently is not
afraid of cholera in the event of the
disease attacking the Eternal City.
His holiness can scarcely exhibit the
moral heroism of King Humbert at
Naples, who could not be induced to
leave his people in the midst of the
terrible plague.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-09-25

THE STATESMAN regrets to see that
financial trouble is oyerreaching the
Post. The late management of the
stock company put it in bad condi-
ton. and it appears left floating in
debtedness, with which the present |
proprietor ought not to be saddled.
Attachments were run on the concern
for unpaid paper bills, amounting to
between three and four thousand
dollars. For time. Thursday night,
it looked as though no paper would be
gotten out next morning. The office
was in the hands of the US. marshall
and Judge johnson, present proprietor
of the Post, arranged for the publica-
ton to be made, promising
the bills would be adjusted
next day. These men who were
running the Post had a faculty for
+ throwing away an awful lot of money,
the loss of which, it appears, has been
assumed by Judge johnson. That he
should be saddled with additional
thousands of dollars of unpaid bills
is rough indeed. The STATESMAN
earnestly hopes he will sustain his
interest, and make it pay in the end.
THE French scientists feel a little
jealous that d.. Koch should have
outdone Pasteur in the discovery of
cholera microbes, but DIR. Koch's eX.
periments and results have not YET
been generally accepted by micros-
copists and doctors as conclusive
Even after he has shown beyond reacf
, of contradiction that microbes invar
= iably are found in cases of cholera, il
} will be necessary for him to prov
: that the microbe is the cause of thu
: disease in order that any benefit t.
: medical science may accrue. Itseem
e as if DR.. Koch is in a fair way of prov
s ing this, because it is stated that som
s of his disciples at Marseilles have SUE
g ceeded in killing several animals b
S inoculating them with cholera M
/ crobes.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1884-02-23
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The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1884-02-23

State Of Louisiana Of
Vermilion-25,h District Court
No. 668.
Succession Of Lufroy Toups.
Notice is hereby given to all
parties interested in the said sue
cession or having any opposition
to make to the 'ablcau Of debts
and charges and Of settlement Of
the cash proceeds Of sale and Of
cash invenloricd ofsaid succession
10 fle the same in writing in the
Office of the c;erk Of court within
ten days from date hereof.
Given under my hand aud seal
Of court, this 18Th day Of October
1883.
L.4sIIG BEors AID, Clerk.