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.DECEMBER 9, 1875
THURSDAY.
TO HBKCUIBERI AND COHBU
POIfOBNTS. . Persons writing to this office in relation
o their pfipera or business, will please state
the postoflice to which the paper is, or will
I sent, or tho answer must be mailed.
They will also state whether they take or
It-i.re to take the DAiLTor Weeklt.
llyao doing, much delay and trouble will
he avoided.
'JflaNliBHiatt V. BVTABatiJIHn
THE DIFFERENCE.
"Grangerism," in origin, philosophy and
fact, is organized opposition to rings and
corporations as plunderer of States. Ru
tabagaism, on tho contrary, is tho embodi
ment of ring and corporation power in the
creation of government. It was Orunger
im that would compel Tom Scott to serve
Texas if Texas served Tom Scott. It was
Uutahagaiam that, in order to secure the
services of Tom Scott's riot? in fastening the
new Constitution on the State, endowed a
corporation openly hostile to Texas with
enormous wealth and resistless power over
men, corporations and newspapers in Texas.
Grangcriaui loves tho State. . Rutabagaisin
ravages the State, tirangcrinui is honest
and frank and fearless. Ittitabagaism never
does an act directly which it may do indi
rectly. Instead of rentricting suffrage aud
giving counties and towns good local gov
ernments nnd a decent judiciary, the negro
counties are disfranchised by a system of
I errymauderiog, aud judicial districts, as
crKiked as the time serving wlicy of dema
gogues that suggested the cviminn of right
aud thus begat the consummation of a foul
wioug, ore constructed. Grangers arc hon
rt farmers. They would have snid that
courts routed by barbarians would be in-
and therefore we restrict suf-
hiulB.. iuiliiu1 anil t n ftrnn-
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tsgaism, on the contrary, not
"v jtv n moral nerve to elccltire Unit the
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tudoio nuu no niib in mo jni-
f suffrage, declares that corporations
less linn 10,000 inhabitants shall
Jnpi
i pone a tax of more than twenty -fivo
cants on each hundred dollars, and there
fore no public work rau be undertaken, no
bridges or highways or buildings construct
ed. The honest, toiling people of Texan
towns urn not to lc trusted witii the dispo
sition of their own property. The pious,
good, great nud wise Ilutabagas como mod
estly to the front and declare that we can
not don we please with our own. , AVby
not? The answer is simple. The Kutaba-
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uas leareu to uucihi tne raooie uj uiairnu-
( niamg it in corporations, ami tnus tne gov
ernment of -Toxus becomes offensive as thu
most odious of centralized despotisms. Gran
gers, on the contrary, are Republican freemen,
devoted to the political philosophy of
Tlionuis Jefferson. The words "Home
Ilulu" wero collocated to embody the
whole theory of true Americauism in gov
ernment. Rutabagaism has violated it in
almost every clauso of the new Constitu
tion. Future legislatures will find them
selves, if this proposed organic code be
adopted, shackled hand and foot, and help
less and powerless. Grangerism would
give to legislature, representing thu people
directly and fresh from their midst, tho
broadest freedom and unrestricted powct
But future legislatures, tho Rutabagas said,
are not to be trusted. "We know it all, and
these legislatures, elected under systems of
unrest i icted suffrage,' will be full of knaves.
We will uot protect the ballot box and leave
tho legislature free; but we will tie the
hands of tho legislature aud leave the bal
lot box to pollution. Honest, fearless
Grangers would have reversed this policy of
Rutabagaism aud restricted suffrago at least
by the imposition of a poll tax.
Hut weonly proposed to show that when
we have designated a system of legislation
by tho term "Rutabagaism" we had no ref
erence whatever to the Grangers of Tcxa.
The intelligent members of Urauges con
demn, as we do, tho whole theory of the
new Constitution. It is founded in a Nlse
philosophy and in thorough igtiorauce of
the theory of pure republicanism in govern
ment, and no IVmocrat, comprehending
the principles on which the party of Jeffer
son w louuded, without stultifying him
self, rsn vote for this RuUlmg Constitu
tion. Ton nCOTT F1H1LVZED,
We concur with th Shieveport Timt$
that a Southern Pacific Railway i a neces
sity of tho South; but no Southern Pacific
Railway should be socoustiucted or placed
iu such hands that th. South only contrib
ute to its resources while it gives nothing
to tho South. The wealth aud travel from
Tiaa aud the Fonth wonld flow into tho
highway at the one hundred and fourth
parallel of longitude and bo liorne to Cali
fornia; but tho riches of the Orient and of
California would all be given to U Louis
aud Philadelphia. When Texas endowed
tho Southern Pacific with richca, it was de
signed to Ik? a Southern road. Rut Tom
S-.'ott is oeo of the largest shareholder in
tho groat bridge at St. Louis; he owes, wo
aie told, tho trustees of tho Atlantic and
PaciHe (St. I-ouis and Viuita) road several
millions. Therefore, Tom Scott would sell
Texas and the Texas and P&ciJic to St.
IrfMiis to enrich bis bridgo and to pat tho
debt ho owes on account of his speculation
In the stock of tho exploded Atlantic and
Pacific bubble. Tho lection of Kerr to
tho Speakership is Scott's overthrew, and
no Southern Congresiman, cognizant of the
fact influencing Scott and of his purpose to
vreit tho designs of the State of Texas
by oicg Texan wealth to build a St. Louis
road aa Southern Congressman will daro
-j..n Krati'i scheme in tho House. But
i it uoiSt- foul shame that Rutabaguism,
swloir all these facts, undertook to buy
Tom Srott's Influence, in bektlf of tho ab
surd bw Constitution, by renewing the land
., .t inada when the Texas and Pacific was
jM-Dtiico ."i'wfifr Pacific 'railway" "Hue.
Tie genius of demagogiim surely became
trsasce n-Jently brilliant when it declared
Jllist Tom Scott's land grant shou'.d fail if
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the new Constitution were not adopted.
The Mihaa chieftain knew that if Tom
Scott's bill went through Congress the
great Philadelphia trickster could weft af
ford to squander a Bullion in Texas to in
sure the success of the 'new Constitution.
But the election of Kerr empties freezing
cold water on the nerves and muscles of
the Philadelphia giant and the new Consti
tution must'owfl Its ' adoption" at last, if
adopted, to the rigorous exertions of that
lively lot of gnod fellows who love it and
admire it, how passionately and fervently
we may never know, because they expect
to hold offices under it. ; Cut Tom Scott is
stricken with a dreadful paralysis and
Texa, when Cougress adjourns, will have
escaped forever from his clutches.
AN EXTRAORDINARY LETTER BT-
SINES MEN SIIOCLD BEAD IT.
ite following remarkable letter mil ar
rest the attention of every mercantile read
er of the STATEfiUAX. Experience has
stored up a vast deal of practical wisdom in
the brain of the observer of current facts
who wrote this paper:
Mtrtle Gbove, Texas, December, 1875,
Editor t Democratic fitaUtinan1 read
your paper each week and my copy is bor
rowed in succession by three of my neigh
bors, snd how much further it goes l can
not tell. I am only careful to read it and
the advertisements before it passes from my
hands. Since yon refer to it and would
know how many people read each copy of
the Statesman. I can tell you that certain
ly twelve white adults read each copy of the
Statesman that comes to this office. While
your advertisers are profited, it occurs to me
that you are most villainously cueaicu.
These borrowers rob yon and annoy me,
and it is consciousness of this fact that in
duces me to write this note. I have ob
served another fact which merchants every
where should comprehend.- I see that the
borrowers of my Statesman give their or
ders for dry coods and groceries, boots,
shoes and millinery exclusively to those
whose advertisements appear in the States-
Kan. It is therefore true that Austin mer
chants owe you commissions on every order
that goes from this county to your trades
men. But you derive no advantage from
these people. Those who do not advertise
are certainly losing trade. Their business
does not grow with the country's growth,
while the enterprising, pushing, vigorous
advertiser, as I see iroiu tne conduct ol my
good neighbors who borrow the Statesman,
is constantly extending hir business and
becoming more and more widely known. If
Texas stood still, if new populations were
not coustantly added to the old, the old es
tablished merchant would need little am
from the Statesman ; but the incoming peo
Die from other States can only lecome fa
miliar with names and faces and the busi
ness of men by always seeing them in the
pHgesof the newspaper. After reading about
some (rood fellow of Austin for three or
four months in each number of the States
man, 1 begin to tet-i nae ne is an oui
friend of mine, and if he advertise any
thing I want I walk over the whole town
till I find the nmn. Then we have a talk
about the advertisement and laugh aliont
tlie potency of the press; we take a drink
together, and thus I have made a friend
through- the intervention of the newspaper.
But 1 only began this letter to tell you how
it is that a newspaper in the country is high
ly valued. Its illusion is not ended when
it tells the subsciiber himself all it knows.
It then goes missionarying over the neigh
borhood. It travels without ' crutches, is
never too weary to talk; and never, like a
placard or handbill, glanced at and kicked
aside. People read newspapers and nil that
they contain with infinite av'niity, and es
pecially one like the Statesman, which
thinks as it pleases and tlien tells all it
thinks. But I have written ten lines for
each one I proposed to indite when I lagan
to discuss the philosophy or advertising as
I see it dcvelopsd even here at Myrtle
Grove. I would as willingly lend my tooth
pick as my newspaper, and I only wished
to have you suggest tho fact that my Iki
rowing neighbors may no longer harrass
me beyond endurance. - It. G. M.
TOW SCOTT DONE FOR.
Tho Impression obtains that the election
of Kerr, the declared enemy of appropria
tions by Congress to railways and tteam
ships, is fatal to the schemo of Tom Scott,
who must now settle with the creditors of
the bankrupt Atlantic and Pacific (St. Louis
and Viuita) Railway. Mr. Scott will bo
forced to pay the paper of the concern
which he indorsed for some millions. It is
rather rough ou Tom Scott, but a good
thing for Texas. In fact, the completion of
tho Texas and Pacific to Fort Worth will
satisfy the country for a time, and, mean
while, the Texas and California company,
which has expended fifty- millions of its
own money and never received a ' dollar
from the government, 'on the line from San
Francisco to Sn Diego, will .find money to
complete its road to El Paso.' There the
Fort Worth and Dallas line will meet one
from Galveston, Houston and Austin, und
Texas, rather than St. Louis and Philadel
phia, will be eunclied by the vast cession
of land proposed to I given to a Califor
nia and St. Louis company But Tom
Scolt is dead. The triumph of Eerr over
Randall who belongs to Tom Scott's ring
was Scott's final overthrow, and Rutaba
gaism's crutch was broken when Tom Scott
fell to rise no more in Washington.-,
Thk Attorney General, if tho Constitu
tion b adopted; will surely have his hands
and head full. He is required to bring
suit against such coiporaiious as tho Oal
veston Wharf Company, but is denied the
right of employing assistant counsel. ' He
will lie required by emery new officer in ev
ery new county to. .explain tnd, define the
mode of operntiou of every. new..clausc in
the new Constitution and must also devote
certainly six mouths to a thorough prepara
tion for tho proer eond net of the suit against
the Galveston Wharf Company in the
Supreme Court of the Tuitcd Stales. Small
as lie is, physically, the distinguished gen
tleman will have to multiply himself some
forty or fifty times. The whnrf company
and other corporations sought to be de
stroyed or divested of vested rights by the
Rutabagas, all except Tom Scott, will cm
ploy the ablest lnwyer in and out of Texas,
lut the State's attorney can have no assist
ants. . It is a flattering estimate of the gen
ius and worth of the distinguished Attor
ney-General tuns averted by the Constitu
tional Convention, but we do not see very
ell how he cau meet the exactions upon
his professional force and learning thus
Imposed by tho extraordinary convention.
Til a RuUlg. fellows are now traveling
over tho country persuading good, honest,
sensible raon to become candidates for all
aorta of offices and sinecures created by the
new Confutation. ' The more candidates
the more adherents there are of tho new
code and thero will soon .be enough, the
Rutabagas say, to cany it. Then tho San
Antonio Erprt has gow in with the J5-
amuur and the country is in a blue way.
Our good tread, Hon. John Henry Brown,
is going over his district getting: out multi
plied candidates for motiiptisd offices, and
if Tom Scott had uot been killed off by Xbo
election of Kerr as Speaker of the House,
these teirible forces would have triumphed.
But after all these embryo candidates come
into the conventions and, except one for
each oiace, tre kaocke l on the head, will
they not "turn tail" aad ijickia" their
handa deep down Into their breeches pock
cl, go into a "Crown" study and conclude
than Hon. John Henry advised them un
wisely t Every fellow obliterated aa a can
didate nnder the Constitution will surely
deal it a heavy blow when he gets a chance.
and it is barely possible that the defeated
and disappointed aspirants fcr places will
be the deadliest enemies of the new Consti
tution. They outnumber the other fellows
as ten to one.
Minnesota comes to the front on the
woman suffrage question. At tho recent
State election a large majority was given for
tlie constitutional amendment, which pro
vides that any woman of twenty-one years
of age and upward may vote at any election
for officers of schools, or on any meas
ure relating to schools, or may be eli
gible to any office pertaining to the man
agement of schools. All af this would be
approved in Texas, if they who voted, in
matters affecting the schools, also paid for
the maintenance of these institutions. We
bsve seen the beneficent school system in
operation in cities where the managers were
representatives of the illiterate untaxed
rabble. Then the school system speedily
became a scheme of robbery, and superin
tendents speculated in school books and or
ganizsd rings inside the board of visitors,
and taxpayers groaned, and a city was finally
almost confiscated. They who maintain
and support a government or a school sjt
tern or a railroad or a bask should alone se
lect its officers.
Westeen Texas votes against the new
Constitution because of its sectionalism;
because it handcuffs counties and towns,
and, of course, prohibits improvements and
progress. Western Texas, whatever Ruta
bagaism thinks to the contrary, docs not
rejoice when it pays twenty-five per cent,
mare for all it consumes and sells all it ex
ports for fifty per cent, less than other por
tions of the State, and all because the east
monopolizes, under the new Constitution,
all concessions made by the proposed new
government. Even grants of public lands
heretofore made for canals and ditches for
irrigation have been revoked. Western
Texas will never vote for the new Conrtitn
tion. '
People say the Statesman has underta
ken a big job when it fights the forces of
officcseekers battling for pap under the new
Constitution. We understand perfectly
what we are talking shout and the result of
our policy.. The new Constitution may be
adopted. The consequence will 1e that
when the officcseekers have fastened it on
the State the people will begin to feel the
force of wrongs inflicted on themselves and
the absurdity of that philosophy which is
forever prattling about Democracy, and yet
accepts an organic code that defies and de
feats every principle an 3 purpose of Democ
racy. '
In reply to a letter-writer we have to say
that he knows lit'.lc of the duties or re
sponsibilities or honors of the editorial
profession who abandons it to gain any or
dinary political preferment. Since suffrage
has been polluted the value of office con
sists only in the money incident to its ten
ure and therefore the depravity that pre
vails in government, aud therefore' the
higher the relative position of the journal
ist who comprehends the duties and respon
sibilities of his profession.
Tup. Democratic and intelligent press of
Texas, the Kem-Jhy, says, "almost unan
imously condemn the refusal of the Ruta
bagas to restrict suffrage in county and
town elections." Instead of this they
twisted and gerrymandered judicial dis
tricts iu order to disfrarchise the negro
counties nnd in resorting to cowardly arts
of demagogism, they destroy the capacity
of the courts to administer justice. Who
can approvo such a constitution ?
Tweed is tho great living, lively, ecstatic
representative of corporation robbers. He
and his " pals," who stole from thirty to
fifty millions, were born of the tanteitllotUt.
He was of those who buy and sell votes.
He represented those who had no interest,
direct or indirect, in the city they ruled and
ravaged. ne stole for himself some seven
or ten millions of money, and by its liberal
use has escaped the clutches of the law.
Our dispatches say that the extradition laws
do not cover his case.
IT IS ABSOLUTELY IIORRIRLE.
The new Constitution, which sensible cit
izens are asked to vote for, reserves and
grants to Tom Scott and ties np for him a
reservation of more than thirty millions of
acres. The tract conveyed is nearly seven
hundred miles long and eighty wide. Of
this Tom Scott gets half. The adoption
of this bastard Constitution ties up the
whole of this vast rich district of country
for years, and no sane, sensible Texan will
vote for if. ' ' ' ; ' ' '
It was not the Statesman that was incon
sistent.' We did sty that tho Constitutional
Convention was' mqst generous ' to .Tom
Scott and - so niggardly in concessions to
other railways that all otliers and" their
owners are hostile to the Constitution. "It
was not the Statesman that was inconsist
ent in assertion; but the Constitution in
fact. Why was Tom Scott so peculiarly
blest in winning the affection of the hay zy
headed Rutabagas V I
JrooK Duval, at Tyler, declared thecivil
rights act constitutional, and yet white peo
ple would obliterate the color line in poli
tics, even as Radicalism would have us do
in social life. The one consummation will
follow the other as tho night the day, and
blackness in morals and intelligence wil)
lie universal as the suffrage
The Cuero -vr should proclaim it, and
the people of Mason never forget that few
people of the. better class care to emigrate
to a country where they think it necessary
to wear a six-shooter at their tide, a bowie
knife ia their boot, and keep an eye over
both shoulders to insure safety.'
Ths Bonham Kntrrprim tells of a fellow
named John IL nell who paid somebody a
debt of (515, and says if the sum had been
due the iVeryrias it "never would have got
a cent of rt.n Of course not. There is no
reason why the good Enterprite should ever
catch Hell.
Hon. George F. Moobe, who is the choice
of the profession ia Texas, will neither seek
or decline a nomination as a candidate for
a til ace on' the SriDieme Court bench. He
will be nominated and elected, we prtfume.
without opposition.
The people of Socth Carolina will not be
subjected, this year, " wo are told, to more
than a tea mills tax. Ten cents on each
hundred dollar would make Texans go
into ft hjsterkal dooble-sbufBs of acute ev
er lasting ecsUcy.
Tne liveliest and most readable, end noo
the lss pious,' christian paper ia Texas, Is
the XiM4$r. We can't account for iU
fervor and vivacity otherwise than by sup
poaIc? if owes ranch to a ccasional"
Tnocr.ii Mississippi fuss been free frrin
negro domination a whole month, c bare
not heard of a single effort to overturn the
Union, and tho State is still quiet, and the
negroes tnooze in security and suushia?.
Whitelaw Reid, the pres gang of the
country will regret t-i learn, is about to re
tire from the'ehnir editorial of tfce New
York TrUiune to.be succeeded, it ii said,
by one rif the ire mortal Adams family.
FoRTV-Forit candidates are t be voted
for by each voter at tho n-xt election under
the blessed new Constitution. Yet it was
founded in economy and conceived in psrsi
monv. '
Tuf.v are shoeing inu'.ea in Mexia wiih
Bessemer steel, and that accouats for the
soreness of the Teleijniyh in coming out of
its little row with the Meiia LeJ-jir.
Gn.vxT has brought the business i.f speech
making into general contempt, nud the jk.i
ple no longer run after speech maker.
EDITORIAL NOTES.
A memorial to Congress is being numer
ously signed in Utah, piayiug for the ad
mission of that Territory .1 State tlii
winter. Thaddeus Su-wns's -'colored ' house
keeper, " Lydin Smith, to whom hed':i.-iC I
f-jO.000, has &ued the iUlr fur fix jttiri'
pay at $200 per auuuui.
Geu. Sherman's report, 'which was given
to the country several days ago, showed the
regular military force of the army to consist
of 24,001 men and 1-340 ollicers.
Zck Chandler is said to be turning all
the old rats out of the Interior Depart incut
just as they nre gettiug fat. Now tlie
country has got to fatten up a new lot of
rat.
The Neirs-tiHil-Courier euys: "Marian
Singer, daughter of the sewing machine in
ventor, has appeared upon the stage in San
Francisco in burlesque." She ought to be
a "Singist" and devote herself unhooded to
Hood's song of the shirt.
The sewing machiue swindler arrested at
Sherman is named Langdou Chevcs, a name
illustrious and historical iu South Carolina.
We arc curious to know whether this be his
name. Is it not assumed ? We never heard
of a descendant of these old Huguenots
whoawiisotlier than an honest gentleman.
: The pool '-sellers on the great four-mile
race in California hold more than $'200,000
to await tlie result. As- there is no imme
diate prospect of the race taking piano, and
money is worth four per cent, in San Fran
cisco, the pool sellers are in the enjoyment
of a very respectable-temporary Juinanza.
Ex-Lieutenant Governor, or ex-candidatc
for the Lieutenant Governor's place in M'i
souri, is preparing a fresh -now spr-eck fur
the Granges. 'The old one will be deposited
with a mummy ia a snrcophiiguA iu tl.e
Patent Office at Washington.. It has done
better service than Wendell Phillip's old
lecture entitled "There is nothing new un
der the Kim." ' : '"
The Mississippi Legislators contains
the . Senate : : .Demr.crat, 25-; 'Republi
cans, 11: , Independent.. Republican, 1;
total, 37. Democratic . majority,. 13.
Of the Republicans, six are white and five
colored ( one of them (Everett)' nnd "the In
dependent (Furlong) acted almost entirely
hist session with our party, so that tho ma
jority of the Democracy on any close test
would stand liltccu. liie statii3 or the
house is: Democrats, DO; Republicans, 18;
Independent "'Republican0, 1; Fusion Re
publicans, 2; total," 117.' Dcjti'ocrr.Uo ma
jority, 77.- Of the whole number, tenure
colored Republicans, one colored Iudepen-
dant, two cotorert i usion liepuulicans, and
one colored Democrat. The white Repub
licans muster jast five votes. The colored
Independent, Carter of Warren, defeated a
regular Republican nominee. The Fusion
ists, Sunderlin and Young, both of Wash
ington, were upon tho. Fusion or people's
ticket, equally composed of Democrats aud
Republicans, and defeated the regular Re-
publicanB. - .The colored Democrat, Mr.
Vaugliau of Panola, was on the regular
Democratic Conservative ticket.
The United States Senate, at its next ses
sion, will be pretty equally divided politi
cally. The Senators may be classified as
follows ; Forty - Republicans, (including
Alcorn, Robertson, . Hamilton and Ed
munds) ; twenty-nine Democrats, and three
independent liepublicans--Booth, Chris
tiancy and Cameron of Wisconsin. There
are two vacancies to be filled, one caused by
the recent death of Mr. Ferry, of Connecti
cut, and the eternal vacancy from Louisiana
claimed by Pinchback. A Democratic Sen
ator will be chosen in place of . Ferry, of
Connecticut, wbicli will give the Democrats
thirty, instead of twenty-nine votes.
Should a Democrat be-elected from Louisi
ana, as is thought probable, and he be ad
mitted to a seatsvhich ia believed, improba
ble, the Democrats will muster thirty-one
votes. From the total Republican vote take
those whose votes cannbt always be counted
upon Alcorn, Robertson,' Hamilton and
Edmunds and their list is diminished to
thirty-six. Leaving out the question
of tho Louisiana senatorship, the
Democrats will be able to cast a total vote
of thirty. Add to this the four doubtful
Republicans above named and they will
have thirty-four. To.this,add thrco Inde
pendents, Booth, Chrisliancy, aud .Cameron
of Wisconsin, and the opposition to' the un
doubted Republican element wvmld number
thirty-seven, or a majority of -one. AIi
though most of the Senators put down s
doubtful or IudMiadeut liuiblicrins more
frequently voti with the .Republicans than
the Democrats, it will be seen tit a glance
that when they do the latter they will leave
the 'Republicans' in the minority. Such a
circnraHtnnce is likely to happen very sel
dom, but iUwouVl have occurred last , w i n
ter. had a direct vote been taken , in the
Pinchback "case. ' It is certainly truo.lhat
Alcorn, who' has never adopted aUy absurd
or extreme heresies of Radicalism, will be,
for tho remainder of his term, the freest of
thinkers and most independent of voters.
The Poatofflre.
i. '.
The forthcoming repot t; of- Postmaster
General Jew U wU iik a veryfavorable
exhibit, eif the financial, management .of his
department. . A , portion of his. report will
also li devoted to the new system of pre
paying newspaper postage and its 'opera
tions. - No change in method will be rec
ommended. , The Postmaster General looks
wiili regret upon the practice of postmas
ters who receive large saltric., ranging from
fifteen hundred to Tonr thousand dollars,
who devote only few hours each day to
their duties. He strongbj condemns such
ofiiceis aa come to their offices lute in the
afternoon, hastily turning over theirmail,
signing such documents as require tlieir offi
cial signatures, then leaving their duties to
subordinates and giving their time ta their
private pursuits, Mr. Jewell is of the opin
ion that officers paid by the ' government
should give their w hole time to the govern
ment, and that those .who cannot do this
ought to tctirc. In regard to what is known
as the "third class matter," upon which
the rate was so unreasonably Increased dur
ing the last sess.on of Congress, the Post
master General will, make some important
recommendations. The present postage on
all printed matter 4nd packages is a cent
aa ounces' or fraction or an onncey on all
transient matter, so thnt it not ntfreqneatly
happens that a traaaieitl newspaper Will re
quire four cents postage, or as much as the
original cost of the paper- Mr. Jewell will
recommend a return to the pld ratos, name
ly; half a cent an ounce on newspapers,
but will aik that the law remain as it is In
regard to other article, except, perhaps,
books, awl upon this be has not yet de
cided. " - ' i ,i ?-
Mr. A- T. Stewart, of Xew York; has
bought for 300,t03 franca l?6O,C00 gold)
tb ?atet work of Meisaonicr, which is now
on iu way to this country.. Jt represents
regiment of French tisifaskiers goinj into
battle aad saluting tLtir chief, Kpohion L,
who is seen standing on a 1111 ia the ccntie
of the scene. - -' - - --'-
For SuUj'a StatcamaB 1
TUB WANDERING tPCHIT.
On arisgr. wiiil. aatcmo Bjgbta I fur.
And are pale leave Bit tarrying ny . -
Tpon a?'r l"tresth;
Ar.a through the rhlll, damp, wind; naze
There come a thrill of othrr iny:
Aud hiMlJTUi?r.f iet k.
Ou, my lave '. - v
TThfrc It Jtmrtorl npen tMi 0ht - -If
nam I: dim thai Hua log sigh
Amid the e ghottl jr Imvra?
The aweeplng of Ua vle lt- flight
Now miesling with t'.ii wiad of ni;ht .
That with d p nwviniuj heave
Near ri-.Uf ua this aim, a wall
Sweff U r.chicgly ac-oa my hrow
LiVep- tngBn;crco d;
I mm to rce a ptumtom pale,
Axd '.he a my atniniLg rbjht dstb f.ul
To p'croc the marky fold.
I'poa that l4t grey eve I think.
When cn I he terrace high we atood
Oh evening t ad and dire!
My fljige-.a looped rav chain's rach link,
Miceeyeft wonld nothing do hut eink
Beneath yotircae of fire.
Ah. my Live!
' Ton left me with a cold adieu :
But on tne bo-' torn step you turned
And looked on me asain;
Your proud eye deep with anzuith jrow.
And changed to Jet their harrl hae.
With clcam of bitter tain.
Then iroaced yonr lips a aaaoriBg amilc
Tuat cu.l made that dark, thin faoa .
Wh ch U'SB o dour touia . . . . .
Yoa l-tmlinz raid: "So, iu atvhil',
Ternas i re I can ride a mi'CT
A plighted bride you'll be!" -..
In sco n yon waved that daik, slight hind.
Yon would notbciix what I would ny.
But tprang upon your atecd; .
" And bowing low, in mockery bland,
I'c trc the Ft ps where I did stand,
Yen wheeled your horse with tpeed.
Seoru, wra U and iruel death all fiahcd
Upon your glowing southern face
Your ateid high-reared above;
Tlirn down the gorge he maddened duhrd,
I heard his hoofs aa rocka they clneluil
No more I've cen my love!
Ha! hiy lore! ,
Tlie clah of hoofa distinctly rings
ll from the tocky gorge o dark,
- A mist eomca cones Moating by, i
I fell the sweep of viewless wings .
That to my heart a whiuper biiuga:
Tour irand' riui tcnil it nigh!
Texas- Pacts and Fane Ira,
T-.vj murderers will swing in Jasper on
January It.
The death of Cttpt. James Thomas, of
Dallas, is announced. (
It cost Brooks & Coons $J000 to btiru
their livery stable at Burnet. . ,
The Weathciford high school boas-Is cf
one. hundred and fifty pupils.
The epizootic prevails in Bonham. Any
how the Keie ir blows mightily. f
The Dallas ITtraUl, too, is for Uu"k Wal
ton for the Attorney Generalship,
Bishop Elljjtt, after two months' absence,
h again at home in San Antonio. .-
Fifty-five .persons registered Saturday at
the Ilutchius House, a fact that shows how
Houston prospers.
; Gatesville is talking about an associatio n
.here to regulate things and keep the peace.
It undertakes a big' job.
The Messenger should" knfiw that the war
between ! the ''Ra'ptiUts nnd MethiV.li'sts iu
McKinney was "colored." .--...
It will t:tke the papers ff Texan about six
weeks to dispose finally of the "Maid if
Athens." But here wc part. ..
Buffalo Bill has been interviewed by the
local editor , of the Telegraph, fie rather
likes the new Constitution.
Twenty-live coaches and two locomotives,
are required to haul Texas immigrant trains
from Little Rock to Texarkana.
Every business jiaa of Austin and of
adjacent towns should rend the queer letter
from R. G. M., at Myrtle Grove.
The Hill County Record says it cost Texas
$1300 to find out who were and who were
not Grangers in the Constitutional Conven
tion. j
Judge Doimer it see ins has won golden
opinions in his district. He will have no
opposition, it is said, as a candidate for re
election. . . . .
A good S.m Antonio colporteur tried, his
hand at tract-selling on the party of Col,.
Pierce, but concludeel he could do better
at Matamoros. ' ' ' "' ' '" ' ' 1
Revs. Buckley and Daniels', B.tp lists, are
preaching to convert Wade, the original
genius and philosopher who recently repre-"
sented Rock wall in the Constitutional Con
vention. .., .... ; ,T
"Peter's" letters to. the Statesman, ,aro
widely copied and Peter is a trump. He is
now carousing with ranclieros in South
western Texas, His., letters will appear
regularly, t , , ,:.
A. L. Jarnagin is mayor of Gatesville and)
it's a queer name Jarnagin and a pretty
place and its gates are always ajar to wer
oome strangers1 even ai those of Dallas
are a-jug.. , . i --. (. c i ... ;
The big-cake at the Austin fair, the Cle
burne .Chronicle says, weighed over one
thousand pounds. , "Tis distance lends
cuchantment," and if the cake didn't the
story grew. ' ' '
The Texas CVuferis'lhe handsomest paper
aonddcted, the girls say, by the handsom
est and smartest boys anywhere in these
parts, nnd in this we-concur with the edi
tors' sweet heaits.;.' , ... ... -.. , a.
The Dallas delegation to the Tom. Scott
whisky-hcadcd convention at St. Louis is
still dropping in. The whole of the loveiy
tea parly will be at ' home, it fondly
hoped, by Christmas. " - "' ' : "' :' "'''
The Sherman Uegifttr should correct the
error.' There lias lcen no ratification meet
ing in this city. An "old rat" called one,'
you sop, but the, .Vwtsst pinna o- mice an'
men gang aft agloe." ,. ... .
The IsaJer congratulates . the admirable
Mr. Crawford, of theConititntiouul Conven
tion, ou his return to Jefferson, Mr. Craw
ford i one of the innst pleasing sitcakers
nd elegant gentlemen m Texas. .
The Jcffersou Ijtndrn will probabiy sup
port the new Const itutio.i ; but it i very
probable the . effort will kill the paper.
Even now it is all jaundice!, and yellow as
a pumpkiu and ghailly enough.
Hillsltoro is beefless and the people
huugry, and ike Master--shot a negro, and
McFarlaud was shot in tlie shoulder by one
Johnson. Wheat looks well, and the Mor
ris House is the place to stay all night.
The Ji'iirhitl, the new DnweraMc paper
at McKinney, is a model cf typographical
taste aad -beauty. What it will be editori
ally will be seen when it gets through with
the publication of the .Rutabaga consti
tution. , , . . --
We alwuys read the Ezimiiier, but nben
two copies appear on the same dayt as hap
pened yesterday, wc can't come to lime, and
the intellectual waste i deplorable, now
do the mails get wr:mg between Waco and
Austiu ?:..-.. . .. . ..
Tho Statxmak tenders assurance of
heartfelt sympathy to Col. Swindells, of tho
Dallas llentli, confessing keenest sympathy,
and comprehending the irreparable loss, and
incurable grief incident to the los of a
most loved son. - ...-.:
.Th colic-prou acini New England berry
denominated "pumpkin" grows to-huge
proportions about Brownsville, and several
of them piled np about a Quaker gun sent
terror through tee hoarU instead of "atom:
ath of the yaller-kivered popalattoa of
Matamoros.- - . ' ; . ,,
j By all means let there be" aTulT meeting
cf the exccutlvt board of the Prcss' Aisoci
ttion at Jefferson oa the fourteenth, to re
form abuses of tho Press Association, as this
affects dispatches furnished Texac newspa
pers. We receive by mail from Memphis
and St. LoQis the same news on the same
ay that it pomes to tss by telegraph (?)
ftorn Galvcstoa - .
' The Pallas ILraLl of the - third says:
11 Dallas has been exceedingly quiet and
U2or.il for the past ten day, but there it ah
ways a lull before a storm, you know."
Now if the Statesmax had made that inno
cent remark about Dallas, the town would
have howled, and they would have ordered
a fast day at Smith's big hotel, and the
preachers, next Sunday, would have de
nounced the Statesman all over Dallas.
But peace should reign in Dallas, not for
ten days alone, but till Christina., and egg
nog made of nitro glycerine and pocket
handkerchiefs of gun cotton, and then Dal
las will be hvely. , , ,
Texaa Padltlrm.
All the officeis elected, except State offi
cers, will be installed on the third Tuesday
of April. State officers will be installed,
on the first Tuesday after the assemblage of
the Legislature, which meets on the third
Tuesday of April next.
The Chairman of the Democratic Execu
tive Committee of Galveston county prom
ises, in a letter to Hon. J. D. Sayers, that a
great deal will be done by the people of
Galveston to secure comfort and pleasure to
the delegates who come to the State Con
vention in January.
The Immigrant speaks justly when it says
of Capt. F. M. Martin, late of the Consti
tutional Convention, from Corsicana, "that
he worked earnestly and faithfully for the
interest of our State, and was recognized as
one of its truest and best working members.
Like Brown, of Kentucky, he says he is
willing Ho 6tand by the record' "
The judges of the Supreme Court hold
offices six years, judges of the appellate
court four years from next November. All
the remaining officers hold two years from
the Tuesday next after the first Monday in
November, or until their successors are
elected and qualified. Their term of office
will consequently be for two years and seven
months.
The Corsicana Immigrant says "the Con
stitutional Convention must have discovered
a great reform in the people of this country,
as we see they have assigned Navarro to the
Thirteenth Judicial District, and appointed
no time for the holding ot court in this
county, or limited us to any specified
length of session. So we stand unbridled
in this respect. It will make times cay for
the people, but it will be dreadful dull for
lawyers."
The Bastrop Aicertiter says that as a suc
cessor to Col. Clark, who declines a re-elee-tion,
"we know of no man whom the peo
ple generally would prefer to Col. W. S.
Walton, of Austin. He is now in the prime
of his manhood. Of a splendid personal
appearance, the vigor and breadth of his
mind is fully equal to his physical strength,
while the qualities of his heart stand forth
in proportional prominence. He is a fine
specimen of physical, moral and intellec
tual manhood." All of which is true as
gospel.
TKLEGRAPll 1C.
I Associated Press Dlsuatcoea.1
Washington, December 4. The tradi
tional two-thirds rule of Democratic con
ventions does not enter the caucuses of the
party this time; a majority nominates.
Thoie is no change in the situation this
morning beyond an increased anxiety an 1
less positive assertion. '
' Washington, Decemler 4. Mr. Kerr
was nominated for Speaker by the caucus.
First ballotKerr 71, Randall 39, Cox 31.
Second I allot Kerr 77, Randall 03, Cox
21, Taylor 1. Third ballot Kerr 00, Ran
dall 63, Cox 7, Taylor 1. During the morn
ing Mr. Wood aunounced himself in favor
of Kerr, and on the third ballot Cox asked
his friends to support the successful candi
date. New York, December 4. All matters
were referred to the examining committee
of Plymouth Church. Mrs. Moulton's let
ter was not read because it had been distn.
buted to newspapers for publication. With
out further action the business meeting of
the church adjourned.
Milwaukee, December 4. The jury in
the Taft-Wiemer case returned a verdict of
guilty. '
Albany, N. Y., December 4. The offi
cial count gives Bigelow, Democrat, for Sec
retary of State, 39,811; Seward, Republi
can, 37,541; Duscnberg, Temperance, 11,
033. The board of canvassers cannot de
cide who is elected from the thirty-third
district, nice Congressman A. F. Allen, de
ceased. The question is left open for Con
gress to settle.
. Nashville, December 4. The Democrats
of the Fourth District nominated H. Y. Rid
dle for Congress. 1
London, December 4. The Daily JVeics
announces that Parliament will not be
called earlier than usual.
: A deputation waited on the Earl of Derby
and urged an intervention to prevent Egypt
annexing Abyssinia. The Earl doubted
Egypt's intention to annex Abyssinia. Fi
nancial reasons would render it unwise.
He believed Egypt's violation of Zanzi
bar's rights was the result of a mistake.
Washington, December 0. Representa
tive Kerr rcceivsd many of his friends to
day, who called to congratulate him on his
nomination for tho speakership. All par
tics concede his fitness for the position.
The remarks ot Representative Randall, in
caucus, and his motion to make the nomi
nation unanimous, are everywhere spoken
of id terms of commendation. Surprise is
expressed that the West and South carried
all the offices. For the two or three hun
dred subordinate places there are at least
a thousand applicants, not a few of whom
are already at work to secure the respective
positions, including clerks, assistant door
keepers, messengers, document folders,
pages and bath room attendants. A dozen
or more. applicants, want the privilege of
keeping the restaurant, which has, for
some years, been in the possession of George
T. Downing, colored.
The first business of to-aiorrow will con
sist of calling the roll of members by Mo
Pherson, the present clerk, and tho admin
istration of the oath of office; next, the
election of speaker, clerk, doorkeeper, aer-gcant-at-arms,
- postmaster - nnd - chaplain.
Questions affecting the seala of some of the
members ma f arise, and therefore the or
ganization bo protracted by debate. In view
of such an event the President will not
transmit' bis message to Congress nntil
Tuesday noon, which, ia the more probable
time for that purpose. The document is
longer than that of last year by about fif
teen printed pages, in document form, and
contains upward of sixteen thousand
words. The message will be telegraphed
to the press of the country.
Washington, December. $. The Senate
wis' called to order. Senator Ferry in the
chair. It adopted the usual resolutions to
notify the President and House of Repre
sentatives that a tjnorura of Senators bad
assembled, and that tho Senate was ready
for business, and then ad journed. after the
statement on authority that it was not prob
able that the President's message could he
received to-day.'- -J -
The House was called to order by Mr.
McPherson. McEaery's certificates were
read and laid aside. The Mississippi dele
gation was received, the credentials being
signed by the Lieutenant Governor. Roll
pall is progresaing.wilh a harmooious crowd.
New York December fj. Diligent (march
U being made for Tweed. .Last night he
was in charge of the officers and went to
his home to visit his wife. He wished to
see her alone, was permitted to do so, and
was heard of do more. Telegrams have
been sent to the different cities to keep a
lookout for him. Twenty minutes after his
escape was known word reached every po
lice station in the city. : Not the slightest
clue can be discovered as. to his wherea
bouts. A reward of ten thousand dollars is
offered for his capture.
Jjitcr The bouse was searched from top
to bottom, bat no trace of the fugitive was
found. . At the back of the honse are other
houses, and to hare escaped Tweed must
hare passed through them. Mr. Tweed's
son was In a very excited condition when
he learned of his father's escape ; he polled
his hair and exclaimed that be was rained.
aa did also Mr. Douglas, the son-in-law of
Mr. Tweed. The statement of Deputy Ho-
gan corroborates trie foregoing. artien
Dunham admits having taken Tweed out to
drive some three or four times while be was
ia bis charge, as Tweed was complaining of
tern Lies aches. The bond given ty toe
sberij for the proper and faithful perfonn
asee of his duties ia for fc-'O.CQO, and thai
of Warden Dunham 20,000.
The general impression teem to be that
some of Tv-ed's friends bavo put him on a
steam tug, which will put him on soma ves
sel bound for a foreign country. It is not
positive wbetner any indictment lor lorgery
has been found against him, and the ques
tion of his extradition is, therefore, an open
one. The trial in the aix million suit was
to have commenced to-morrow.
New York, December . It has been as
certained that Tweed'a private secretary
was last seen at his stopping place a few
minutes before the departure of the 10
o'clock for Boston Saturday morning:- He
took that train, saying he was iroing to
Boston and would return Tuesday. He,
however, carried a large trunk. It is ru
mored at the Fifty-ninth street police sta
tion last evening that on Saturday, from 4
to 5:30 r. x., a tug was noticed cruising in
a mysterious manner in the East rive. off
Fifty-ninth street. Nothing was noticed
by which the tug could be identified.
Madrid, December 6. Cushing had a
conference with Senor Callantea, the new
minister for foreign affairs. It is under
stood that negotiations continue to be sat
isfactory. New York, December 7. A St. Louis
dispatch of the sixth instant, to the IlemlJ,
says: "The United States Grand Jury did
no work to-day, having adjourned nntil to
morrow morning. Tne report is current
this morning that a true bill has leen lound
against Babcock, and a warrant for Lis ar
rest is tn route lor Washington, but there is
nothing authentic. The grand jury will
have the evidence nnder consideration to
morrow, and immediately after meeting a
vote will hs takcu on ihc subject. The
district attorney was absent from town to
day, nnd the object of postponing the vote
till to-morrow was to consult him."
Washington, December 7. Tho only
Senators absent to-day were Alcorn, Cra
giu, Dorsey, Goldthwalte, Jones, Norwood,
and Sharon. Key, of Tennessee, qialificd
to-elay.
-n The estimates of the Secretary of Treas
ury for 1877 are $314,325,000, or $4,500,
000 greater than for 1876.
Baltimore, December 7. In the contest
of Wallace against Gwynn for the office of
Attorney General, Gov. Dicks states that by
the returns as certified to him, Gwinn, the
Democratic candidate, is elected, but he
withholds the commission in order to com
pel Gwynn to bring the case before the
courts to decide the question of the consti
tutional power of tho Governor as to bear
ing the contest.
Chicago, December 7. District Attorney
Ward is requested by the Attorney General
to resign. The supposed cause is reluc
tance on the part of Ward to prosecute the
whisky frauds.
Washington, December 7. Iu the Sen
ate, English, the new Senator from Con
necticut, was sworn in, and the Senate then
took a recess till lr. v.
Tho House took a recess till 1 r. .v.,
when tho drawing tor seats will take plscc,
after which the President's message will be
read.
Wabhinoton, December 7. The Presi
dent's message opens:
" In submitting my seventh annual mes
sage to Congress in the centennial year of
our national existence as a free and inde
pendent people, it affords me great pleasure
to recur to the advancement thil has been
from the time of the colonies one hundred
years ago. Wo were then a people num
bering 3,000,000; now we numbvr 4 0,00(1, -000.
Then industries were confined almost
exclusively to the tillage of the soil ; now
manufactures absorb much of the labor of the
country. Our liberties remain unimpaired;
tne oondsiuen have Itcen freed from slavery,
and we have lecoiiie possessed of the re
spect, if uot the friendship of all civil:7.ed
nations." Graphic and well worded
details then follow. The President
earnestly recommends that a constitutional
amendment be submitted to tho legislatures
making it the duty of each State to cstal- j
lish and forever maintain free public schools
adequate to the education of all children
in elementary branches, within their re- j
spective limits, irrespective of sex, color,
birthplace or religion; forbidding the
teaching in said schools of religious, athe
istic or pagan tenets, and prohibiting the
granting of any school funds or school
taxes, or any part thereof, either by legis
lative, municipal or other authority, for the
benefit or in aid, directly or indirectly, of
any religious sect .or denomination, or iu
aid or for the benefit of any other object
of any nature or kind whatsoever. . He
alludes to the importance of correcting the
evil of vast amounts of untaxed church
property, and estimates that by 1890, if un
checked, this property will reach a sum ex
ceeding three thousand million dollars. He
would suggest the taxation of all property
equally, excepting only the last resting place
of the dead. Our relations with most foreign
powers continue on a satisfactory and
friendly footing. The President is happy
to announce the passage of an act by the
general Cortes of Portugal abolishing slavery
in the colonics. The past year has f ui nished
no evidence ot an approaching , termination
of tho ruinous conflict which has been rag
ing for years in Cuba. The same disregard
of the laws of civilized 'warfare and just de
mands of humanity which have heretofore
called for the expiession of condemnation
from the nations of Christendom, have con
tinued to blacken the scene. Desolation,
rain and pillage ' are pervading the rich
fields of one of the most fertile and produc
tive regions on the earth; the incendiary's
torch is firing plantations and valuable fac
tories and buildings these are the agents
marking the alternate advance and retreat
of the contending parties. '
The President naratea the damage to the
interests of commercial nations, especially
those of the United States, and insecurity
of property owned by citizens of the United
States in Cuba. He had hoped Spain
would bo enabled to establish peace in her
colony. Because of this hope, and from an
extreme reluctance t interfere in the
affairs of another, and a friendly
nation, he has patiently and anxiously
awaited the progress of events. The armed
bands of either side now occupy grounds as
in the past. Tho President mskes a long
argument, and concludes; "A recognition cf
the independence of Cuba being, in my
opinion, - impracticable and - indefensible,
the question next presents itself is, that of
recognition of belligerent rights in the par
ties to the contest. "After further argume nt
the President concludes : 'The recognition of
independence or of belligerency being thus,
in my judgment, equally inadmisasvhlu, it
remains to consider, what course shall be
adopted. Should the. conflict not soon be
brought to an end by acta of .the parties
themselves, and should the evils which
result therefrom, affecting all ' nations
and articnlarly the United States, . contin
ue, in such an event, I am of the opinion
that other nations will be compelled to as
sume the responsibility which devolves
upou them, and to seriously consider the
only remaining measures, mediation and
intervention." , . ; , , . . .... . x
The Market. , j. . ...
Galveston, December . 7-Crold 1 UK
115. Silver 109JU0i. , ' ,
Cotton firm; good ordinary ll'c; kiw
middling 13c; middling 12$c; good middling
13;,c; sales W3 bales; receipts tlVi bales.
Liverpool, December- Noon. Cotton
market firm; middling uplands P.d; mid
dling Orleans 7 810d; sales 19,001 ba Ire.-'
Nsw Yobs: December 7. el !14if.
Slocks dull. Money 4 per cent. Exchange
long 4.84); short 4.88. Governments
steady. - Slates steady, except Tennessee,
Booth Carolina and Virginia,! hlch are bet
ter; Louisiana easier.
Cotton firm; uplands Wi; Orleans IT 11.
sales 10,030 bales.
-' -'' Ftrssaalt. j
Gen. McDonald, the convicted whisky
ring conspirator, ia very cheerful in kis dis
grace. He" told a reporter ef the OLU
Democrnt, who visited hint in jail, that he
was in as good spirits as ever lie was, and
that ho "had not lost ore iota of his man
hood or self-respect fay this thing. " He
boned his friends wonld cot tbink aay the
Jess of him for the mi of m tunc that had
come upon him. Ho had only "pity for the
specimens of weak humanity who have no
more machood about tbtm than to plead
guilty aad testify against others, aad thereby
aavo themselves." This miserable nan
seems utterly unable to comprehend that he
is not a martyr, but a convicted thief.
Brothers Moody and San key must look to
their laurels. lira. Lowrie, the converted
Baltimore atreta, U d Jng the revival
work at Port Jems, New York, which ex
cels anything they have yet done on this aide
f tlx: water. t Her congregations are noth
ing like so large, but over six hundred con
versions are already counted up as the re
sult of her labors within a short time. Mrs
Lowric's method seems to be novel, hue
does not confine herself to any pulpit or
platform, but goes about among her hear
er, preaching, praying and exhorting ia
all parts of the house. The male preachers
have always been successful in converting
more women than men. Perhaps it will now
devolve upon female evangelists to turu the
flinty hearts of men.
Tho Republican press carefully abstains
from cither printing tho news about Minis
ter Schenck and the Emma Mine swindle,
or from expresing any opinion up-u that
disgraceful business.
Twenty-four scats iu tho next Congress
will bo contested fifteen by Democrats and
nine by Republicans.
JkTOTICE IS n ERE BY IKN -
That all Jatt clsima of whlver n a! lire atalnst
Travis eMtnty alU ba paid ua pratoutation at aiy
for convenience of persons holding Travis Couiily
Bonds. arramrenien have bees made to hava Janu
ary coupons paid on presentation, either at myomVe
oratthebsukof C. p. Johns Co. ,,.
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FARMERS OF TEXAS.
On enternrisUic Btsn in jonr Midst who plan' ed
say new rsbbsn seed had forty thousand that made
lari aad soid. heads; another grow -aluns that
weighed a poand each, the 'rf twur. from my Han
var's black seed. Yoa will And extracts from their
latters in my Catalogue. With seed equally as goid .
way eauaot yoa 'tlo a well r My laive lilnstrarrd
Seed Catalogue, containing a vast varlaty of vagelable
aud flower srvtf, sent iw to all.
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dec w8w MarbW-head, Max. .
SPECIAL MICE 10 CD1 HEADERS -
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AGENTS WANTED
To sell the Xew Patent Improved RYE Cl'PS.
Giionmttfd to be M bttt paying bn.Htt qfrrt to A ututt
y avty Hovn. Alt w, awl lmt npvMN.
Iht value of the celebrated few I'atent Improved
Kye Cups for lha rastoratlon of alght breaks out and
blares in the evidences of over (iOtiU genuine test lino
nisls of cares, and recommended by mora than oun
thousand of onr best hysiciana in tneir nracUce.
The Patent Kye Cups are a sclciitillc andjihilosoub
leal discovery, and as Ai.ex.. Jl. Wvith, M. 1., and
Wm. Bkatlbv, M. I)., writes, lly y. are certainly lha
greatest invention ol the aire. .. , . ,
Road the following eertiilrates:
Kanot-soN Btatiok, Logan Co., Ky., June t, 18; J."
Dr. J.Bali Co., ex-ollrts: .
(JriJUiHtH Your I'atent Kye Cops , la my Jiidjr
mcnt. the most splendid triumph whlsh out cai sci
ence has ever achieved, but, like all grvat aud Impor
tant truths la thia or lu any other braucn or acienca
and philosophy, have much to contend with front lha
Ignorance and preindtreof a loo erpttcal public; Ixit
truth is mighty aud will prevail, and It is uulr a qn ra
tion of time aa reearda tbelr gent-nil acceplanoa and
endorsement by all. 1 havain my bands cuilidcalesot
persons testifying In umioalvocal terms to Ibeir a.
ila. The most prominent physicians of my couuty '
commend your Kye Ciiim. 1 am, rcsitfctfiilly,
J, A. It. BUY SR.
'i riATiBV. Tt. !., BaWlea, Ky.. wrhes: Thanks
to you for the erfattst nf sll lnrentiuus. My sight is
tiilly restored by the ass of your Paltiit Kye CBiS, af
ter being almovt entirely blind for twenty six years. -
Alkx. R. Wvrra, M.TI., Atchison, l'a.. writes: Af
ter total bliudiusi pt my left eye for four years, b)
paralysis of (be opi lr net ve, (o my ntter astnnlshnt ui
yonr talent Kye Cups restored my eyesight pertua
uenily iu three minutes.
Itev. h. 11. Kalkinshc-bu, minister of M. K. CUarrb
writes: Your Patent Kye Cwps have rratorrd my sijjbt
for which I am most thmkful to the Father of Mer
cies. By your advertisement I saw at a glsure that
your invii.ualile Kye Cutis performed their work per
fectly in accordance with physMiHrietil law; that they
literally ied lha rye el tat were starving for nutrition.
May liod irrraiir uloss vuu. and inav vour name ha s-
shrined in tha aOvctiouate metnoritu of uiiiltl)ilitd
inoiisauua atone oi t lie nciiciacinra or your auia.
HoRAcaH. Uubaxt, M. II. aays: I sold and rfortcd
future Kale liberally. Tha Patent KyeChpa, they III
make monev and make it fasr.mo: no small, ralrh-
cuny aflatr, hut a superb, nainhcr one, tip-top bul
ness, aa fnraa I can aee, to be flfelnmr. ... "
.Mayor n. c. auja wioro ns, Nov. Ill, 18M: av
tesledlhe l'atunt Ivory y Cups, and I am aaiWanl
they are eood. I am nit-asrrt with litem. aa
certainly the greatest Invention of the ngn.
no. iiuitA t. oniKi.fcv, talc- ettitor of :ne New York
7Vi'6vtnyar Ur. J. Ball of onr eity. Is a ronsrh-i,.
tions nudxspontlbla man, who Is lacupalde ol iuteu
tinnal deception or imposition.
l'an. W. MKititirK writes: Truly 1 ant grateful for
your noble Invention. My slj,'lit is rotored by yonr
Pal cut Eye Cups. May lleavsu bless and preserve you.
I have been iisitis spruiacles twenty years. 1 am Tl
yea a old.- I do all my wrltltnr without glasses, and t
biers the inventor of tha Patent Kye Cup every litnu
1 take np my old steel en.
Adolfh Uiornrkru, M. T)., physician to ICmpero
Napoleon, wrote, after having his nli;ht reetored by our
Patent Eye Cups: With rratitiide to (Jod and thank;- "
fulness to the inventors, Pr. J. l ull Si Co., I hereby
recommend the trial of the Kye Cups itu full faith) In
all and every one that has Impaired eyesight, believ
ing, aa I do, that since the eijwnment with this won-'
derful discovery has proved successful on me, at my
advanced period of life-90 years of ase 1 believe thev
will restore the vision to any individual. If thry afu
properly applied. ADOLV BlOK.NHKItU, M. P..
InmmW irwifA nf lAi.. A'm.k mm
Juno 5, 1878, personally appeared Jdohi'Buirabcrij,
made oath to the following cvrtilicate. and hv hlui sub.
scribed and sworn before me. W'u. BTKVKNS.J. P.
We, the undcrsignud, having personally known Or,
Adolph Biorobcrg for years, believe him to ba an hon
est, moral man, trustworthy, and in truth aud verarl
tv unrpoticd. Ilia character Is without reproach.
M. BOSNEY, Ex Mayor, H. n W. DAVIS, Kx-Mavor..
K. U.TKWKSBUKY. City TreaV
GKO. 8. MKRHILL.P. M.
Rcader.tlhcse are a few rcrtiftcatea out of thousands
we receive, and to the aged we will guarantee your old
and diseased eyes can be mads now: yonr Impaired
sight, dimness of viiirn and overworked eyea can be
restored: woak, watery and tore eyea cn red; Ibe blind
may see; spectacle no aiccarnaa; sigtit ruaiomi and
vision preserved, fpcclaclcs and surgical oieraltouM
useless. . -
Ploasa send yonr addrrss'to ns snd wc will aub4 yas
our book. A tit M WOUTU UKAU1NU!
A DXAILOUD WORTH SEEING.
Alrtrs your ryes and mlor iwr tight; tfcivie ateay
your tptviiKltt.
By reading onr niaslraud Physiology and anatomy
of tha eyesight, of loo pages lulls bow to restore Im
paired vlalon and overworked eyes; how to cure weak,
watery, Inflamed, aud near-sighted eyea, aud all other
diseases of theeves; waste no more money by ad mat.
Ing huge giaases on your nosa and disfiguring yonr fac ,
Books mailed frea to any person. Bend lour address.
AGENTS WANTED.
to sell the Patent Kya Cups to tha hundreds of pe
pla with diseased eyea and Impaired sight In y ur
county.
Any person rsa act aa our agent.
To gentlemen or ladle SS to (20 a day tuarault4
Fill) particulars sorit free, m rite Immediately to
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