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The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-05-29

that she will no longer lend herself
to the purposes of that paper, to deal
in this way deadly blow at the
party which the paper has always
hated with deadly hatred, as
implacable and bitter as ever swayed
men or controlled human action. 1t
was very fitting for Austin to render
this reproof to the News, and we re-
joice heartily that she has done so,but
we rejoice more heartily over the fact
that her democracy is without Sch1Sm
and that it stands out as of the old
order which refuses to sell out to the
| foe-who relies alone on treachery-
only for mess of pottage, a mean and
meagre mess at that. Let us stand by
the rule, no matter what else happens,
no matter who is disobliged, and dis
regardful of the wailing of the News,
and crashing of teeth in impotent
rage, because the democracy refuses
to commit suicide by parting with the
very rule which has, in an hundred
instances, stood between the party
and destruction. Well done for the
democracy of Austin, and OF the coun-
ty of Travis.
} The result of the choice of delegates
in the case of Mr.. Wooten is not alto
gether a surprise to us, as doubtless
he himself was not sanguine of get
ting his men in. His very bitter an(
excessively indiscreet action with re
, gard to the artillery company arrayeC
against him, the bitter hostility of ;
large number of the leading young
, men of Austin. These and their rela
tives and friends, as well as other mil
| itary and civic organizations, of what
ever nature and character they ma
! be, will work assiduoHsly to compass
the defeat of one who treate
, all with as little consideration as h
would have done crowd of Mexica
4 boys.
Mr.. Morris, Mr.. WIS competitor, i
, personally very popular, is SCUM
= lawyer and very energetic man. l
he is the nominee and is elected, tn
, affairs of the county will be in th
: hands of man who will know we
- how to conduct them and who have th
ability to do so with credit and homo
;, to himself and advantage to the publ
:, service.
Il The endorsement of Judge Fullmol
was a graceful and timely complimeI
g to an able, watchful and most con
petent officer, and it reflects homo
:, upon the thoughtful gentleman VIII
Il proposed it. OF course the action {
IL the primaries on the matter of the Ell
, dorsement of the present administr;
/ ton was fully expected. Irelan
e swept them as he will sweep th
) state, should the old alcalde an
) General Ross both refuse to entt
L the race against him. THE STATE
D. MAN always aquiesces in the actio
?, of the party when that action h;
u been fairly had, and while it may r
l! greet, yet it will never breathe it's r
u grets when and where they would
% likely to disturb harmony or sow di
i sensions in the party councils. Take
10 all in all the result of the primaries
III Austin and of Travis county is a
" ceptable to the people and that is, v
IL take it, about all that can be desire
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-05-29
A Oruelll eleven Thinc.

From the Georgian.
Alexander II. Stephens said a good
thing which 1 have never seen in
print. He was speaking of old Orth,
of Indiana. lie said that after Orth
got back from Austria, where he had
been our representative, he seemed to
be oppressed by his own greatness,
and gradually sunk to the bottom of
the political stream. "And there he
would have remained" continued
Stephens, in his clear thin. voice, '.if
some foolish democrat had not revived
those foolish Venezuelan claimffauds.
1t was just like cannonadink for a
dead body over a river. Orth came
right TO the top"
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-05-29
JEFF Davis Plantation.

Augusta (Ga.) Chronicle.
Some curiosity has been revived re-
Gently concerning the reported pur-
chase of Jefferson Davis plantation
by negro. 1 briefly corrected it a
week ago, and am now able to give
some particulars of the whole affair.
NV informant is a near relation OF the
eX-president. 1t seems that Gen. Joe
Davis had a slave named Ben Mont
gomery. He was so very sprightly IN
childhood aud early boyhood that the
general made him special pet. Ben
was a pure blooded negro, but mani
testify of a higher type. He had
woody hair, but his features were as
classical as those of an ancient Roman.
His master not only humored him In
all things, but had him taught in the
| best manner. He was sent to France
and instructed most extensively. His
chief omplishments were those OF
languages and mathematics. He
spoke several foreign tongues
| with elegance, and wrote them
| accurately. He understood integral
calculus, and was something OF an as
tronomer, but possessed not one
spark of the inventive or creative rae
atty, which seems to be the dividing
gul. between the typical negro and
the white and yellow races. After the
war, Ben, who had the money making
gift, offered to buy the Davis planta,
ton for 100000. Payment was to
| be made on the easiest possible terms
but failure was the result from the
very start, and Gen. Davis released
Ben from his bargain. Heis now in
the west, engaged in commercial pnr-
suits, and doing reasonably well. He
is remarkable, phenomenal, excep'
tional and most worthy black man
but he does not own the Hon. jeff
Davis plantation. His children have
relapsed into the ordinary intellectual
dizziness of the race. DIR. Cartright
the celebrated ethnologist, took Ben's
eldest son and had him educated at
Paris for the practice OF medicine
Every advantage was given the young
man, but after five years of trial he
was dismissed without diploma
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-05-29


We loved each other, my love and 1,
And The wind sighed low through the tasseled
corn,
The bobolink sung in the dewy morn,
And the brook went merrily by.
We loved each other, my love and 1;
And the quail piped low mid the yellow corn:
We heard in the distance the huntSman'S horn.
And the leaves were brown and dry.
We looked to the future, my love and L;
The future so crowded with hopes and fears,
That turns our smile so often to tears.
AS the days pass YEARLY by.
He spoke of the time when we two should
dwell,
Together beneath fair southern skies,
Where the rose in its fragrance never dies,
And love hears no parting knell.
The corn was garnered long years ago;
] he bobolink'S song Is heard no more;
Only shawdOW falls through the door
Where she used to come and go.
The sea is wide and 1t lies between
My love and l, my love and 1;
Where the flowers bloOmGd dead leaves now
lie
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-05-29
hn ireland as governor oftLe


as been characterized bv wis
dom and patriotism, and we do hereby
most heartily indorse him as a true
democrat and patriot, and we do here
by instruct our delegates to the pre-
cinct convention 10 use every hcnora-
BILE means to send delegates to the
county ventionIwho will earnestly
work and vote for his denomination.
Carried.
The chairman, Capt. Tom E. Sneed,
was. by vote, authorized to appoint
three persons to constitute the demo-
cratic executive committee of the
eighth ward for the next two years.
He named George l.. Robertson,
o. A. Caldwell and ~. Collins.
NINTH WARD.
The meeting in the ninth ward as
| sembled at the appointed time in JUS
tice Tegener's court room. DR.. JqNGh
Cummings was elected chairman, ahd
Badly Council secretary. Three dele
gates were elected to the precinct con-
Vention as follows: DIR. Joseph Cum
mings. Mr.. Davidson, and Col. Carey
| w. Stiles.
Alternates-J. L. White, J. S.
Simons, and Mr.. Calhoun.
The meeting endorsed the admins
tration. of Governor Ireland and Hon.
w. G. Walsh. commissioner of the
general land Office.
A moJion favoring the abrogation
Of the two-thirds rule was also car
ried.
TENTH WARD.
The democrats of ward ten assem-
bled at the appointed place by call Of
the chairman of the executive COM
| pnittoa of cold xtrhrl
Mr.. w. b. Walker was chosen per-
manent chairman and DR.. G. n. i eau
mont secretary,
A motion by DIR. Burt to select by
ballot four delegates to represent this
, ward in the precinct convention re-
, suited in the election of Dr. w. j.
Burt, Capt. ]. X. p. McFau Or. G.
!. T Beaumont and Mr.. w. Is. Walker
. he following resolution was of
fered: Resolved, that the ran re-
suits of the democratic parry have
been achieved under the usage of the
tWo-thirdS rule, and we believe the
: perpetuity of its existence and princi'
o pies will be assured by retaining as an
q essential factor said rule in the plat
/ form OF the party. Carried unani'
= mously.
A motion to elect four alternates re-
! suited as follows: Col. J. ii. Hutch
!. ms, j. Stein, Geo. PendeXter and II. L
e Jackson.
!. A resolution endorsing the admins
!, tration of Gov. Ireland resulted in +;
r tie vote.
l. A resolution instructing the dele
gates of the tenth ward to use all hon
20 orable means to secure the nomination
~ of w. G. Walsh for commissioner Of
= the general land Office was carried.
- There have been no returns receiv
:, ed from any of the three outsid
=, voting places.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-05-29

WHENEVER the Fort Worth Ga
zette gets Dallas into a tight place,
the Herald Immediately gets out one
OF two column leaders on the Won
derful growth of Dallas, and while
the denizens of the Fort are trying
vainly to digest it and find out what
it is all about, Dallas catches up. Sly
old Herald.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-05-29

The Dallas Times, notwithstand-
Ing the deluge, wants to bet that we
will make better crop than that OF
last wear. That's the talk.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-05-29

INVESTORS are fiocking into Texas
Notwithstanding the drenchings we
are having. The demand for good
lands is very rapidly increasing, and
the sales to-day are principally made
to actual ssttlers, and small farmers.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-05-29

BILL STERRETT doesn't think the
two thirds rule is in much danger
Nor do we, o! thou sapient thunderer
by the raging Trinity.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-05-29

THERE is no let up to the awful
ocean disasters which have become so
numerous here of late.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-05-29
A Long Story Made short,

From the st. Louis Post Dispatch.
The Wall street lesson is, that if you
appropriate $40 of your neighbor's
money you are thief; if you appro-
pirate million you are "unfortune-
ate"
The Arthur Bulls Down the Blaine Bears
From the Washington Star.
In the see-saw game of republican
candidacy Arthur's prospects seem to
be mounting little just now.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-05-29

WHAT more has congress to do than
what it hath already done? 1t could
quit and go home now with awful
propriety.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-05-29

In No Bangor of Sunstroke Yet Awhile.
From the Troy Telegram.
The 'star-eyed goddess" must have
covered up the Mcdonald boom with
her SIM hOnnat-
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-05-29

DEMOCRATIC proprietorship must
pass away soon. The people are tired
of il.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-05-29

afford to forget certain letter
which Coke wrote on one occasion,
and the many actively hostile enter
prises of the Waco champion. But
seriously can the friends of these two
gentlemen afford to go further in
the matter to the prejudice of other
friends, other party-men equally as
dear to them and equally as deserv-
ing? We think not.
This sort of bulge" this sort of
doubling up is not only unfair to in
dividuals, but it is destructive of all
the conditions which encourage the
exhibition of those traits of exalted
patriotism in which is seated deeply
the safety and the glory of the
commonwealth. 1t is a species of
proprietorship, not in consonance @ith
republican simplicity and American
fairness in the distribution of the
good things of this political life. II
we have not very vastly mistaken the
signs of the times the patient plod
ding voters are becoming heartily
tired Of it, and they mean to force ;
change at any and all!hazards. Should
the feeling develop Iapidly enough
between now and the August conven
ton, it may be that its first fruits vii
be slaughter for Ireland. Howeyel
we are frank to say that it doesn'
now seem possible. This fact is nor
significant when we reflect that it
Coke's influence alone which is keel
| ing Ross out of the race.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-05-29

THE Marshal Messenger states the
fact that the STATESMAN is boycotted
and says our doom is sealed. Well
it is a pleasant doom and let the seal
ing proceed without unnecessary de-
lay. With lists jumping up with I'M
exampled rapidity; with its columns
crammed with live well paid for ad-
vertisements, and with cash balance,
from its legitimate operations, lying
at its bankers, the STATESMAN can af-
ford to smile at its puny boycotters
and their bad tempered hacker over at
MARSHALL.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-05-29

From the College Gazette.
At Little Rock University sopho-
more has been fined 50 for kissing a
girl
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-05-29
Real Live Men Want.

From the Louisville Courier Journal.
The best new trousers for summer
wear have two pistol pockets.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-05-29
Little whirlwinds Kick Up the Dust.

From the Cincinnati Enquirer.
Banks should not have tobacc'
signs for directors.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-05-29
MY Love and I.

Tom MURRAY didn't want the
ieutenant-goyernorship. All!
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-05-29
THE COUKTS.
COMMISSIONERS OF APPEALS.

COMMISSIONERS OF APPEALS.
Following cases were decided yes.
terday:
F. Potterfield ct al. VS.. G. M Har-
per, from Ellis county; reversed and
remanded.
j. E. Berkeley ct al. VS.. A. M. Friend
ct al. from Dallas county; Judgment
affirmed.
Minty Greer VS.. r. B. c. Howell.
from Wood county; affirmed.
Nicholas Hanrich ct al. vs.E.B. Han
rich ct al, from Falls county; reyers-
ed and remanded.
Gregory, Cody 81 Co. vs.. H. M.
Beauchamp, from Ellis county; af-
frmed.
The decision in theMinty Greer case
determines that tax titles are valid
where all the forms and requirements
of the tax law are complied with.
UNITED STATES COURTS.
The cases of j. N. McFaddin VS..
Mlssouri-Pacific railway company; J.
n. and ID. II. McFaddin VS.. same.
and Z. w. Logan VS.. same, have been
transferred from the district court of
this district to the United States cir
cult court. The first is for. damages
laid at 81 $50 for injuries to horses
and colts valued at 5000, some of
which died, and others, it is alleged,
were detereorated in value on ac-
count of bad management and want
of proper care in their transportation
by the railroad company. The Logan
suit is based on similar grounds. The
other suit is for damages caused, 1t is
alleged, by a locomotive setting fire
to and burning the grass off 300 acres
of ground owned by the MeF.al,in's
In Williamson county. The daniases
are laid at 50 per acre and $50 for !
posts burned.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-05-29

AEaILNI 3I55 last Year.
Wichita county 1O7 this year against 17s last
year.
Callahan county's report shows
twenty-four school communities or
ganized, nineteen of which were main
tanned; average school term mines,
days; scholastic population by COM
munities $50 Dumber actually enrolled
400; value of school houses $500; aver
age salary of school teachers $40 per
month; tuition So per capita. About
$1,000 salaries was paid from the pub
lie and $1,000 from private funds.
Superintendent Baker left yester-
day to attend the commencement ex-
ercises at the Sam Houston Normal
institute at Huntsville, during which
he will deliver an address to the stu
dantS
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-05-29
Flagellation, Fame and Hard Ca

From the New York Star.
Bill Edwards looked blue and felt
sore all over yesterday. Still the beat
ing was cheap at 81 GOO.
Q One in Misery Who Loves Company.
From the Chicago News.
l note with some consolation that
everybody is falling this spring
William r. Morrison.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-05-29
Passionate Love I'm HackensacIx.
he summer style in Kentucky

From the Bergen Index.
Several large girls of this town ar,
sending love letters to little boys.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-05-29
Jay Gould,s sx1s Wall Street Smile,

From the New York Mail and Express.
Jay Gould wore a smile and went
around the street telling nervous men
the trouble was only temporary.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-05-29
A Worldly Churchman.


He is equally impressed with the
momentouSneSs of death and of burial
fees; he languishtS at once for i'm
mortal life and for "livlDgs": he has
a fervid attachment to patrons in gen.
eral, but on the whole, prefers the
Almighty. He will teach, with some
thing more than official conviction,
the nothingless of earthly things; and
he will feel something more than pri-
vate disgust if his meritorious efforts
in directing mems attention to another
world are not awarded by substantial
pTeferment in this. His secular man
believes in cambria bands, and silk
stockings as characteristic attire for
IAN ornament of religion and virtue;
hopes courtierS will never forget to
copy Sir Robert Walpole, and writes
begging letters TO the kings mistress.
| His spiritual man recognizes no mo-
tiveS more familiar than Golgotha and
''the SKIES" it walks in graveyards, or
it scars among the stars His religion
exhausts itself in CALCULATIONS and re-
Dukes, and knows no medium between
the ecstatic and the sententiouS II it
were not for the prospect of immortal.
ity, he considers it would be wise and
agreeable to be indecent, or to murder
ones father; and heaven apart, it
would be extremely irrational in any
man not to be a knave. Man he
thinks, is a compound of the angel
and the brute; the brute is to b.
humbled by being reminded of its
; relation to the stalls" ant
frightened into moderation by the
; contemplation Of death-beds ant
skulls; and the angel is to be develop
ed by rituperatlng this world and ex
hating the next; and by this doubl,
process you get the christian-"th
highest style of man." With all this
our new-made divine is an unmistak
e able poet To a clay compounds
/ chiefly of the wording and the rheto
! rician, there is added a real spar
- of Promethean fire. He one da.
close his apostrophes and objurgation
his astronomical religion and his chal
nell house mortality IN lasting verse
: which will stand like juggernau
e made of gold and jewelry, at one
i magnificent and repulsive, for thi
dlvineis Edward Young, the future
author of The "Night Thoughts"
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-05-29

The encouragement advises the
tax assessor of Kinney county, that
property situated in Fort Scott, mil
itary reservation, the jurisdiction of
which had cen ceded to the United
States, is not subject to state or
county tax, and should not be listed
on his rolls. This opinion is given in
regard to large stock of merchan-
dis kept by the post trader at Fort
Scott.
The comptroller furnished the fol-
lowing statement of the university
funds: Bonds held for permanent
fund, $4,000, and cash, $4,000; for
available fund cash, $4,000.
The comptroller received the inter-
est due by Stevens county, upon bonds
OF the county held by the free school
| fund.
Superintendent of public instruction
Baker has the following additional
scholastic returns:
Ton 10 DaII Ot,t,fxr 70
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-05-29
A Murdered Saloon Kecper.

ST. LOUIS. May 26.-In the ca.e of
Jack Hayes. under sentcnc. " AIR.
der in the first degree, III. su,dcne
court to-day reversed .,ir; r .na..d. Il
his case. Hays IHit.drTed a sa,...n
keeper named Muelle, in July, 1881.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-05-29
Louisiana Matters.

A dispatch from Baton Rouge says
the legislature eected James B. Eus.
tbs United Stats senator to succeed
Jonas.
The committee of investigation of
the election fraJds in st. Martin and
Iberia parishes, recommend the i'm.
parchment Of TEeo. Fontelier, repub-
ican judge of the twenty first district.
On the Cory Batle-Field of Gotham.
From the Chicago Tines.
Last words of Grant: LET me like
soldier fall"
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-05-29

From the Chicago News.
Failures come high, but we must
have 'em.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-05-29
On the Cory Batle-Field of Gotham.
The Battle of little Rattlesnake.

From the New York Journal
The ticker clicks as merrily as
ever.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-05-29

From the Augusta Chronicle, Dam.
If the democratic party cannot
agree on the tariff, let us harmonic
on something more important.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-05-29

The fact that north Texas has al
ready a comfortable slice of the pub
lie patronage and is asking for more,
seems to disturb the sense of fairness
of the pugilistic blond who presides
oyer the columns of the Dallas Times
Now being the first indication of the
existence of a political conscience we
have seen so far in this campaign, we
are disposed to reward and encourage
the author by sending him, an untram-
eled delegate to the Chicago conven-
ton. Such rare virtue ought to re-
ceive instant and competent
recognition, and nothing other
than a place on the delega-
ton will be acceptable to the bold.
original. charming. saucy, impu-
dent and original Sterrett. Let him
60 to Chicago by all means. This is
the ticket which wins.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-05-29

THE result of the primaries gener-
ally in Texas Saturday, on the sub
ject of Tilden's nomination, indicates
a condition of things here which the
wise man must not neglect. We must
heed the indication, and perhaps it
furnishes the key to the solution of
all our national difficulties; and it
may, indeed, end in giving us again, af-
ter the lapse of quarter of century,
democratic national administration.
This hope, if only it could be realized,
would go far towards atoning for and
wiping out the groans and tears of the
oft defeated, but never despairing
democracy. $50 mote it be-"
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-05-29

THE result of the examining trial
in the Wren-Edwards case was a
genuine surprise as well as chagrin
to everybody. All the testimony
offered on that occasion was
directly opposed to any such re-
suit. There is nothing whatever In
the published testimony which war
rants holding the prisoner. The evil
dence clearly establishes the blame
lessness of Mr.. Wren, and it was also
clearly shown that the death of Col.
Edwards was due in a large meas
ure to his own imprudence. THE
STATESMAN deeply regrets the issue
OF the affair.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-05-29

Tue News is not sanguine that
the hope of Texas passing out from
under the proprietorship of q
few selfish politicians will be
realized in any reasonable time. The
day of perfect emancipation from this
sort of thraldom and the return to the
purer and simpler modes of democracy
is nearer, far nearer than the News
dreams of. The servitors of the
democracy must be taught that while
they are elected to serve, and the ser
vice is honorable in every way, they
have not been voluntarially chosen
the masters of the people, the arbiters
of the fate of the state and the fixers
OF the policies which grind the poor,
Cypress the property or ruin the NOR
rality of the people. A little genuine
ofiice-holding modesty is needed in
Texas far more than it is in any other
state in the union.