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The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-11-13
THE ENGLISH SITUATION.

1t begins to look as though the
Gladstone governments tenure of
power is precarious. The London
correspondents of American news
papers say that there seems to be an
unexplainable impression that its eX-
stence is only matter of very few
months. The rumors from Egypt are
far from encouraging. The belief at
the best sources of popular sentiment
in London is that Wolsely will not
succeed in reaching Khartoum in
time to save it. The loss of Khar-
toum before the rescue of Gordon
would, it is believed, result in the
downfall of the Gladstone ministry.
War is threatened in South Africa,
and the Parnellites are On
the war path again on ac-
count of revelations made at the trial
of Inspector French in Dublin. 1t is
said the tories will let the franchise bill
go through the house of commons
without much discussion, and that
the house of lords will endeavor to
postpone Its consideration until next
spring. The most threatening thing,
however, is the depression in agricul-
ture and commerce. 1t gives sort
of funereal tone to the thoughts of the
people. The government understands
that bitter political struggle and a
hungry population will make very
UNPLEASANT situation to face.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-11-13
rRooLAIaI rnE eLoRIeUs rIDMes
BY W. a. BURT JONES.

p. oclaim the glorious tidiDgs,
From distant sea to sea,
That Right has met and yanquished
The mighty enemy!
That Right has won the victory
Through Him who reigns on high,
And Wrong and all her army
In death defeated lie!
Proclaim the glorious tidlngs,
With cannon aud with bell,
n. Il let the shouts o reem
The joyous chorus sw
Let thanks ascend 10 Heaven
From all who true remain
10 country. for deliverance
FIom curSt 0ppression's chain
From Tyranny's dominion,
And Usurpation's hand,
That long have held in thra'd dom
The people of our land.
Let all who love best Freedom
And Liberty. upraise
To God heartfelt hosannaS
OF gratitude aad praise
Let every dell and diDgle,
And vale and valley round.
With happy, glad rejoicipgs,
Rec. no and resound.
Again, as in time olden,
Shall Truth and Virtue dwell
Among MS, and Corruption
And Fraud and Vice expel.
God bless the noble Cleveland!
Our nations chief-elect;-
Her interests he'll watch over,
And her honor he'll protect.
Proclaim the glorious tldiDgs! Z.
Proclaim them FAR and near,
With pealipg bell and cannon.
Ana ringing shout and cheer!
Austin, Texas, November Z. 1884.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-11-13

siderable per
with our cotemp --.llsld
the interests of busf5ess require more
permanency in politics. Conservatism
is what is needed, but in frequent po-
itical changes there can not be con-
serVatism. Politics and business are
not dissassociated. When trade is
damaged the country suffers, all peo-
pie suffer alike, and, save the farmers,
no class in the country finds its. condl
ton so quickly responded to by the
general public. The CD. says; ''The
excitement and confusion of a long
canvass are a serious h1ndrance to
business OF almost every kind, and any
movement looking to the partial nit
igation of the evil, by making the
elections longer apart, would meet
with the most hearty APPROVAL
from the business men" The STATES
NAN heartily concurs III this senti-
meUt. Ihe Presidential term should
be six years, and the incumbent should
be made ineligible for a second term.
Wewant to see this principle applied
to all offices. Rotation in Office is a
necessity; we need it IN the federal
and state governments. in county and
municipal governments It must
come to that; and democrats must see
that it does come. But, as to the pres.
idential term. How would it dc
for the next congress to provide
for an amendment to the constitu. ion
frightening the term, and pro ling
against reelection for succ. ing
! lie. ms?
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-11-13
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where they will prepare TO treat
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and all deformities of the face, spine.
limbs, and diseases Of the joints, EYE
and ear; also catarrh, piles, fistuls,
female diseases, private diseases, etc.
The proprictsrG Of the institute open
this Office in New Orleans in accord
ance with the request of scores OF
their patrons in. Mississippi, Louisl-
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themselves If the reduced rates OF
travel offered durs-g the Worlds
Exposition, thus q bling thSm to
visit us snd the !Izs ION as well.
For further particulars address X. 81.
BoLAND, Secretary, Atlanta, Ga, or
1876 ST. Charles street, New Orleans
Ia.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-11-13
How to Tan sheepskins.

Where farmers kill but few sheep
during tie season they can make better
use of the pelts than to sell them if
they know how to preserve them. For
mats take two long-woole.i skins and
make a strong suds, using hot water;
when If is cold wash the skins in II,
carefully squeezing them between the
hands to get the dirt ont OF the wool,
then wash the soap out with clear,
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-11-13
HOME, FARM AND RANCH.
-Cut-worms and Cabbages.

Cut-G ormS and CaDDages.
We have mentioned on former oc-
casion that for many years we have
found nothing so effectual in prevent
ing cut.worms from destroying young
cabbage plants as wrapping around
the stems, as they are set out, the
green leaf of some coarse weed. By
the time the leaf rots, the cabbage are
beyond the reach of the depredators,
Burdock leaves are just the thing, if
the owner is so fortunate as to have
any growing along his fences. Green
leaves are much better than the paper
which has been recommended for this
nnrDOan
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-11-13

CAPTAIN BEDFORD PINE, recog-
nized as good authority on Central
American affairs, has been giving his
impressions of the Pana ma canal,
He does not believe it a feasible thing;
says a canal dug to the sea level can
never be made, and that twenty years
will not see the De Lessips scheme &C
complished. Capt. Pine is of the royal
navy, and he has gone to Washington
to tell what he knows. Probably he
is one of those fellows who hopes to
get a job by helping to break up an
Enterprise.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-11-13

DAY after tomorrow, 18th, accord
ing to the astronomers, the earth ar
rives at point in its orbit where it
strikes the great meteoric belt, or ell
liptical hoop Of small meteoric bodies,
revolving about the sun. Consequent
ly more or less meteors may be ex-
pected to fall during the next few
nights int our atmosphere, apparent
ly from the constellation Leo, This
fall of meteors usually occurs on the
18th of every November, but the
great periodical meteoric shower
when the earth strikes the dense por-
ton of the meteoric ring, occurs but
once in thirty-three years-the next
exhibition occurring not till 1899. 1t
will be interesting to watch the skies
tonight and tomorrow night, for the
earth is now plunging into the met :
ORIG region of space, like itself, viii J.
ing around the great solar centre.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-11-13

THE STATESMAN is in receipt of
card from Burnet with this writing
upon it: "Burnet goes democratic;
now for the granite" That is all
right; the new capitol must be built
of granite from the everlasting hills
OF Burnett.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-11-13

ILLINOIS may not be called a demo-
cratic state, but it is the next thing to
it. In the house they have a majority
OF one, while the republicans have the
senate by only one majority. 1t is a
tie on joint ballot. And then this leg.
islature will elect Logan's successor.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-11-13
important Notice /.

THE STATESMAN will pay no bills con-
tracted by any employ OF thus Office except
upon order Signed by The business manager:
merchants and others extending credit must
lot expect Us to be responsible except under
@ )nditions as above.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-11-13
Swept Iit0 The Stream.
One thousand Acres of Land and
"Raght Smart Of Bears"

On the deck of big Mississippi steamboat
stood an aged Southern planter Indicating
bya sweep of his arm the waters the boat was
passing over, he said to a passenger from
North: when l was tweive years old
killed my first bear on Few plantation my
father f.. al then cutting out OF q forest that
grew directly over the waters Ell this ben -
That was mighty good plantation, and there
was riRht smart Of bears there, too. But that
one thousand acres ofland went into the his
sissippi years ago."
1t Is putting no strain upon ben figure 70 say
that great forests of youthful sbpe, Womanly
beauty and manly strength go swept in the
same way every yesr into - great, turbld
torrent of disease and deat4, Yet 1t should
notbe So That it is 10 Is disgrace as well
as loss People are largely 100 careless or
too stupid to defend their own fBterests-the
most precious of which is health. That gone.
all Is gone. Disease is simple, out to reckless
ness and ignorance the simplest things mlS;;t
as we'll be complex as q proposition In Conc
Sections As tue huge Western rivers, which
so often flood the cities along their shor-s,
arise in few m yuntain springs, so all our all
ments can be traced to impure blood and q
small group of dlsoraered organs.
The most eff sctivs and inclu'ive remedy or
disease is PAkKER'S TS)N1C. 1t goes to J. g
sources of pain and weakness In response to
its action the liver, kidneys, stamarh and heart
begin their work afresh, and disease is driven
out. The Tonic is not, however, an intOXlcant,
but cures desire for strong drink Have you
dyspepsia, rheumatism, or troubles which have
refuses to yield to other agents? Here Is your
he p.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-11-13

THE most satisfactory result of the
campaign is the complete unmasking
and exposure of that wretched old
hypocrite, Ben Butler. Nobody ever
respecteds Butler. There is nobody
now but desp SEES him.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-11-13

IN his speech to the New York busi-
ness men on Friday, Mr.. Beecher said:
Parties come and go, politicians rise
and fall, the politics of governments
may change, but good human gov
eminent cannot endure unless estab-
lished on theeyerlasting rock of official
rectitude.n ~
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-11-13

A New York inventor has made a
machine by which he can reduce the
Temperature of a room to $50 below
zero. Late experience proves that the
same thing'can be done by election re-
turns.-Globe-D Democrat.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-11-13

SIX hundred and fifty United States
marshals were appointed to watch
the polls in Philadelphia,
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-11-13
THE COTTON CROP.

Bradstreet, basing estimates upon
the replies of 1850 correspondents in
613 of the $50 counties raisiAg over
500 bales of cotton each, or in other
words 50 per cent ef the cotton area OF
the country, comes to rather uncertain
conclusions. The reports are made up
to October 81. It is known that the
drouth of August and September stop
ped the growth of the cotton plant.
Almost every where the dr0uth lasted
into October, while fruition was
almost altogether stopped in Septem-
Der. The upland crops were all badly
burned out, while only in the most
favored bottom lands was there nutri-
ment TO keep the crop maturing. The
summary table shows that correspon-
dents in 100 counties reported a slight
Improvement in the crop after Sep
TENDER p, while in the 154 counties
the continued dcouthy weather made
the crop a.littie worse, and in 1853
counties, CT ab Tut 50 Pc, cent Of the
whole number reported, there was no
change in the crop from the month
previous. This relates to further
growth of fruit, but the dry weather
during October quickly matured the
bolls already formed and opened near
" all the cotton This, with the fine
picking season afforded, has made the
situation very favorable in point Of
saving the crop. There was scarce
ly anything to be ga ued
by late fall rains. there lot
being time in most sections for ton
to put on and mature new fruit ven
if the plants had the necessarr Ital-
ity, and the continued absence rain
gave exemption from the u5ua dam
age by washing out and staining.
Cotton this season has been saved in
unusually good order, free from stain
or dust, and is grading high. The
seeds are lighter, owing to dry wealth
er, and the staple often short, but the
proportion Of yield of lint is very sat-
isfactory, and the quality in general is
excellent. Ginning has for the time
been neglected in many instances to
take advantage of the fine picking,
and again the lack of water TO operate
the gins and afford means Of trans
portation has restricted the movement
to market. Planters are discouraged
at the light crops and low prices, but
on the whole manifest desire to mar
ket the staple as fast as possible in
order to meet creditors. Special tele-
grams to Bradstreet's received Octe-
Der 3, from foyty-five POINTS in
the cotton states review the stu
alton in the cotton crop to
date. These dispatches report light
rain in North Carolina, dry and hot
weather in South Carolina, Georgia,
Florida, and rainy and coo jtIther
with occasional frosts, in the rest of
OF the cotton states. In most states
rs per cent. OF over of the crop is safely
gathered. and in several nearly all.
The top crop amounts to little or
nothing, and there are few bolls yet to
open. The general yield is numer-
ously reported less than last year,
and by some larger than last year
The tendency of all advices is in the
direction of light crop estimates, and
but for the excellent picking season,
which has reduced the waste to a
minimum, very short crops would be
reported. Wet weather prevailing in
several states may injure the grade of
the small remainder of the cotton in
the file DIS.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-11-13
THE day before the election the

THE day before the election the
Philadelphia Times said:
eff shall it be shown that Cleveland
is chosen with only few electoral
votes to spare the democrats will need
to employ their best genius to get
their man inangurated. There are
abundant signs that the republican
managers do not intend to let go of
the presidency as long as anything
whatever will save them"
They will find that classifying eiec-
tions at the north is a very different
thing from falsitying them at the
south.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-11-13

THE STATESMAN has not intended
to do Mr.. Felix E. Smith any injus-
tice in reference to this election. He
thinks there has been such a purpose,
but the opinion is not well founded.
THE STATESMAN has attempted to
lead democrats to do their full duty
towards each other-simply that and
nothing more. At first it seemed as
if some of the candidates were not
helping each other as they should. 1t
was thought by some that Mr.. smith,
in the precinct in which he lives,
which is not Del Vale as the STATES
MAN supposed, had not helped Mr..
Moore as he should, but all things
being considered the belief is shown
not to be well grounded. The election
is over and the democrats are tri-
umphant, and if any differences did
exist they are all ended.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-11-13

DIR. I. G. HAMMER, late of McLe-
moresville, Tenn, who is somewhere
in Texas, is wanted by his relatives
there on impor ant business. The
Doctor had better let them hear from
hiIa.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-11-13

THE democratic fox got into our
poultry yard and carried off our roost.
ers.-Globe Democrat.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-11-13

1T is victory for the people; and
they are going to enjoy its fruits, no
matter how hard the republican would
be manipulators kick.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-11-13

THE Globe Democrat fastens the
cause of republican defeat on the
blackened character of Blaine. In
1888 it wants a candidate who has
written no letters.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-11-13
THE SUGAR QUESTIONS

The st. Louis Republican sees as a
reason why American sugar planters
cannot compete with German sugar
makers the fact, that in Europe there
is division Of labor in sugar produc-
ton. The farmer raises beets, and the
manufacturer converts them into SUI
gar. In this country the sugar-cane
grower and the sugar maker are one
and the same person, and experience
is demonstrating that the combination
is not as profitable as a division
would be. AS the Republican says,
cane growing is purely ag-
ricultural business sugar-making
is purely manufacturing business,
and requires chemical processes, a
familiarity with machinery and ma
nipulation with which the planter is
not always fitted. Besides this, negro
labor is clumsy, rude and wasteful,
and ill-fitted for the careful and eco
nomical processes of the sugar house.
In Germany, the two vocations are
strictly separated; the farmer does
not make sugar; he raises the beets
and sells them to the sugar factory,
and is done with the business till the
next yea1. In Louisiana, the planter
is capitalist, and the bulk of his in
yestment is in costly sugar house,
which is idle ten months of the year.
A separation of the two vocations
would, lto that extent, diversity indus
try, introduce expert labor III the
factories. and r-cat'y lessen the
cost of manufacture. And it would
probably have another still more ad-
vantageous result-lead to a subdi-
vision of the large unpoductive
plantations among small farmers, who
would cultivate them more carefully
and make cane-growing a thriving
and prosperous business. The cream
cry system, now so successfully work.
ing in Illinois, Iowa, Wisconsin and
Missouri, may be warmly commended
to the growers of sugar-cane. Were
the mills run on sufficiently large
scale, enough sugar-cane woLlG be
produced near by to make them profit
able. There is but one objection to
the system proposed,-the transporta-
ton of cane to the mill. Its weight is
so great that it cannot be hauled any
distance Without loss. This, however,
might be avoided by trainways or
light horse railways reaching from
the fields to the mills.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-11-13

Mr.. b. F. JONES, chairman of
the Republican committee, character
ICES the democracy as the party which
has for years been VIGOROUSLY the
party of fraud in elections. The cool
impudence Of this will not be lost
upon anyone whose memory goes back
to the year 1876.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-11-13

HONESTY and common d cency
have triumphed. Gov. Cleveland is
chosen the next president OF the
United States.-N. Y. Herald.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-11-13

Mr.. BLAINE should have burned
those letters himself, instead OF ask
ing another fellow to do it.-Globe-
Democrat.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-11-13

BLAINE may finish his Twenty
Years in Congress" bit he will never
issue work entitled -Four Years in
the White House."
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-11-13

SEVERAL days to the election of
Blaine "-Globe-Democrat.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-11-13

For president in 18s8-Some Man
Who Hasn't Written Any Letters
CD.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-11-13

IF any republican earnestly crave
consolation, let him seek it IN the col
umns of the Democrat.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-11-13
ELECTORAL CONTINGENCIES.

The course of Mr.. Blaine in the late
canvass was very much like that of
Mr.. Greeley, when that good old man
wanted to be president. He went all
over the country making speeches,
was defeated, fell i'll, and died before
the electors cast their votes for the
presid- initial candidates. The votes
intended for him were cast as follows:
Forty-two of them (Kentucky 8. Mary
land s, Tennessee II, Texas and Mis-
souri, 9, for L. A. Hendricks, of Indi-
ana; is of them Georgia 6, Kentucky
4 and Missouri 3, for B. Gratz Brown,
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-11-13

THE Globe-Democrat (Rep.) says:
"Burn those returns"
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-11-13

Ex-Gov. MOSES, of Sonth Carolina
has been sentenced to three months
Imprisonment in the house of correc-
ton. Evidently he is in training for
the presidential nomination in 1883.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-11-13

THE plumed Ananias will sneak
into ignominious oblivion.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-11-13

THE democratic majority in Mssou-
ri reaches forty thousand votes.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-11-13

WILLIAMSON is the banner demo-
cratic county of the capital district.
THE STATESMAN honors her for that
magnificent contribution.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-11-13

WILLIAMSON did the good part by
Glasscock.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-11-13

A WASHINGTON dispatch says the
rumor that Gen. Sheridan had been
ordered to New York is emphatically
denied. No doubt, however, he would
be, if it would further the schemes
of the republicans. Little Phil" may
be used to bulldoze Louisiana, as was
done by Grant, but the people of the
great state of New York wouldn't
stand the insult for moment.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-11-13

THE New York Herald touches a
sore point of the republican carcass
when it says: "On the fourth of next
March the democrats will come into
power. We wish them well. They
have succeed ed by naming frst-rate
ticket on an unexceptionable plat
form. They are committed to thor
ough reform. They will give the peo-
pie that "look at the books" to which
they have a right.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-11-13

ST.. LOUIS has Joined the army OF
the good.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-11-13

CHOLERA has now fair start in
Paris, and in few weeks that city
will be in the midst of raging cpl.
demic. From such a centre as this,
can the centagion be kept out of
Great Britain, or away from our own
shores9 This is a most important
question.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-11-13

THE official correspondence relating
to Egyptian affairs has been given to
the public. It appears that. Gen.
Wolseley was informed that the whole
object of the Nile expedition was to
bring Gen. Gordon and Col. Stewart
back from Kharronm. The govern
ment declared tina. i wGuld not be re-
sponsible for the government of the
Nile Valley any fur her than Wady
Halfa, but would be glad to see an in
depent government established at
Khartoum. Gordon ordered Col.
Stewart to burn Befber, but the gov
eminent inter gered through Col.
Kitchener, and it was not done.
THE PiftShuro Sfoclyman saws that
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-11-13

THE French blockade of the Chi
nese ports is so entirely Intellectual
that the nations of Europe hesitate
to acknowledge it. There has been
no formal declaration of war against
China on the part of France, and her
fleet in Chicago is barely sufficient to
hold Kee Lung. The imbroglio does
not seem to be any nearer solution
than it was three months ago.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-11-13
DEMOCRATS feel very happy

THURSDAY. NOVEMBER IS, 1884.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-11-13

DIR. Moss, president of the Indiana
state university, has long been a de-
voted admirer OF Miss Graden, assist
ant Greek professor. They had fire.
quentiy been together in each others
rooms. and at last some of the boys
bored some gimlet holes, and they
saw-well, they saw SO much that
both the learned doctor and the
learned young woman are in disgrace.