The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-11-20

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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1884.
THE country may be said to breathe
freely.
CAPITAL State Fair-December 2
to inclusive.
AFTER elections fitful fever we
now sleep well.
THE fair begins December 22nd, and |
every body is asked to make exhibits,
THE mental condition of a republic
can is properly termed the jimblaines.
CABINET makers are busily at work.
The STATESMAN proposes to leave
the job to Grover Cleveland.
THIS year we are willing to join
President Arthur in thanksgiving.
There is something to give thanks
for.
No longer do the people look puz-
zled and inquire, under which king
Bezonian." Grover Cleveland is the
man.
THE beheading of 500 Chinese pris-
oners by the Annamite auxiliaries of
the French in Tonquin isznothing
strange
CONNECTICUT, New York and New
Jersey are all great manufacturing
states and they all voted for free raw
materials.
CHOLERA is rapidly inc easing in
Paris; over eighty deaths per day.
Where are the doctors who, week
ago, said it wouldn't spread?
TIE forlorn republicans of Iowa
and Kansas, not knowing what else to
do burnt st. John in ef1igy. Why did
they not burn even the remembrance
of the Mulligan letters.
TRUTHFUL Ben Butler said he had
one million five hundred thousand
votes behind him. They were so far
behind that they never got mp to the
front on election day.
PRESIDENT Moss, of the Indiana
State University, is learned man as
well as masheE. He is d. d. as
well as an l.. L. D.-a divine deceiver
and doctor of licentious love.
THE Philadelphia Times says there
is "no known system of arithmetic
that can give New York to Blaine"
1t is not arithmetic the republican
manipulators want. They appeal to
fraud.
AND nov listen to that cheeky KEEL
logg, the fellow of Blaine. He says,
like the doomed knight, at Augusta,
Maine, that he has been defeated by
corruption, fraud, violence and in
tinlidation."
The largest majority for any state
officer, excepting Gibbs who had no
opponent, in Travis county was given
to Walsh, 3445 votes; the next was
Templeton, Bali; that for Lubbock,
1910; fourth for Swain. 1868; fifth
for Baker, 3361; sixth for Ireland,
2542.
THE advance in wool does not look
very much like the success of democ-
racy is paralyzing trade. The fact is,
there will be greater prosperity under
democratic rule than without 1t. The
people will feel as though they are
governing the country, and popular
confidence will be supreme.
THE horrors Of the cholera epidemic
in Paris are commencing. Yesterday
people were stricken down in the
streets, in omnibuses and public places,
without any warning. The hospitals
are already full. Notwithstanding
the prediction of the doctors the dis
ease wouldn't spread. the contagion is
Il
BACK of the mountains, next to the
coast regions of Africa, are great
table lands from $500 to 400 feet
above the sea level. 1t is computed,
that the mean elevation of the conti-
nent is 1000 feet, or twice as much as
that OF Europe, and that the area in
South Africa, admirably suited to oc-
cupancy by white men, is six times as
large as France.
THE price of sugar in London is
about two cents per pound; and yet
complaint is made here, because it
does not sell for more than six or sew
en- cents per pound. AT even five
cents pound an acre of good sugar
cane will produce from $50 to $120
per acre. There are crops of sugar
cane, in Brazoria and Fort Bend
counties of this state, which will av-
erage a return of from $50 to $120 per
acre. 1t does look like that ought to
pay; at least nothing else yields so
much.
Mr.. B. f. JONES, chairman of the
republican executive committee, an
nounced officially that the republicans
had carried all the northern states ex-
ccpt New Jersey and Connecticut,
and that Virginia had given major
ity for Blaine, and that there was a
strong probability that West Virginia
and other southern states had gone re
publican. Truthful Mr.. Jones; he ac-
tually ignored the existence of Indi-
ana, and even New York. He Is still
engaged in efforts to deceive the peo-
pie, to even defraud them.
There is apparent retributiye justice
in the presidential vote of 1SS4-a
vindication of the vote of 1876. A
president has been elected from New
York Tilden's state-and the vice
president is to be the same noble
statesman, who was defrauded out of
the office eight years ago. The vic
tory, too, is won by carrying identic-