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THE STATESMAN.
THE STATESMAN,
DEMOCEATIC
MAN
DAILY PEMUCUAT1C STATESMAN.
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rabtUhed vary morataf exoapt Honda.
TIIE WEEKLY
m rjlanad avary Tanradav -aornin-. M .
ill baa' coarMpootioaca, ooiaiaanl noM aaa.'
afaottld aoaamaaacd to . .
JOHN CARnTrKLL,
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WEEKLY DEMOCKATIC STATESMai-
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VOL. V.
.AUSTIX, TEXAS, THURSDAY. MARCII 23, IS7G.
NO. 33
WEE
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Til K WOULDl DEATH iSDBCHUL.
The lectures of Professor Proctor, the
English astronomer and scientist, excite ti.e
wonder and admiration of learned people
everywhere. lie telU that it i quite im
poMible, u all must admit who are acca
totntrd to contemplate the bnlliantl atar-lit
heaven of thia low latitude, to contemplate
the heaven! bodiea and not confeaa that
many of them must be preferable aa abiding
place for aentient being to this earth of
oura. Bat it is painfully true that research
es of astronomers can only throw light on
the economy of the universe, and all the
combined learning of physicists, biologut
ana philosophers fails to discover the con
ditions or even facta of life in other worlds.
The theory of the steady progressive devel
opment, growth and extension of planet
life has aroused endless opposition among
good people who imagine that Mr. Proctor's
philosophy is in couflict with their fixed
religious prejudices or convictions. But
this seeming, rather than actual conflict
between religion and science has frequently
arisen, and as often has it been found that
each discovery of true science, instead of
militating against, confirms the statements
of theologists. Mr. Proctor applies facts
and reasoning, evolved here on this, to
other planets. lie states that in process of
time, after the formation of a planet, it
slowly attains conditions essential to the
maintenance of animal and vegetable life.
Tlien, as the cooling process progresses, the
planet grows weary and old, even as the
ulood courses more and more blowly
through the veins of the old of our race.
The pale-faced dying world then struggles
for a time for existence, it grows lustreless,
as we see it through telescopes and pale and
cold and shudders and is no more. Thinking,
intelligent people have divested themselves
long ago of the idea that Earth constitutes a
central figure in space, and they should as
thoroughly discard the belief that Earth
holds any more important place or subserves
a more significant purpose in the grand
economy of the universe than any other
plauet. Would it not be equally wise to
o'iscard the idea that the present time, in
the course oi universal events, is core cen
tral than any other? Bo tar as planets and
worlds are concerned, this period in the lapse
of iulin te ages is no more central or im
portant than any of the future or the past.
Perhaps the large planets have a longer
Life than the smaller, and each is in a dif
ferent stage of development or decay. Be
cause of finite understandings and narrow
views and restricted vision vain and extrav
agant importance is given to the period of
our lives, to the period in the world's ex
istence of which we are aware, aud to the
planets and stars within our range of vision.
But we see and dwell, and our planet moves
in the smallest corner of immensity, and
there are ever found other infinities and
suns and moons and stars beyond these that
aSect by their forces the movements of the
visible system of universes. The more we
know of the Unknown the more trifling be
comes the importance of ourselves
and of our planetary habitat. Mr.
Proctor is ungeuerous in discussing the
attractiveness of the beautiful Venus which
the Library Association often adjourns to
contemplate when the brilliant planet ac
companies the moon going away from among
the stars to repose behind the Western
hilis. Venus, he tells us, has an atmos
phere of about the same refracting power
.is the earth's, aud yet Venus's condition is
evidently such that the maintenance, upon
the planet's surface, of animal life is quite
impossible and thus many a "loe's young
dreuiu" is dissolved by the astronomical
alchemist. And if Venus be thus a sterile
waste where love and life and beauty have
no abiding place, how repulsive must be
the face of other lustreless worlds which,
as astronomers know, have ceased to li7e.
The seasons in Venus are most strongly
marked and such is the inclination of the
planet's axis Aad its proximity to the sun
that the extremes of heat and cold must be
excessive; and thus it has ever been of ev
ery Veuu. vvhorr, through a checkered life,
we have encouuiered. Iu Mars, Mr. Proc
tor has learned, there is no water. If they
have there, as on this planet of ours, a
martial President there may be a whisky
ring like that encircling Saturn and glis
tening about St. Louis. But we only pro
posed to advert to the fact that the pro
foundest scientist of modern times ex
pounds with singular clearness and sim
plicity the theory that planets aud worlds
and systems of worlds and suns, moons and
stars, like mm, have their periods of gesta
tion and grand births and grand deaths,
and on the tomb of one is built the life of
another, and when the end of each comes,
as come it must, endless processions of
worlds follow in the footprints of the life
less planet encoffined in immensity, to its
abode in that outer darkness of which the
Bible tells.
TUB
GRAND, t VfcN ISO AND ITS
BXPLO'IOX.
We do not see very clearly that the
grand immigration convention at New Or
leans accomplished any valuable practical
result. A committee of fourteen was ap
pointed who may manage somehow, if it
do not cost twenty cents per line, to keep
themselves vigorously before the couutrv
1 bey prnose to have another uice little
meeting at Little Rock, and an exceedingly
sood man, quite an orator, too, in his pleas-
'"g y. Rt. Dr. A. R. Wiufield, runs
the machine. We have all learned long
ag'i.that empty, vainglorious speeches nd
bigh-aoundiug resolutions signify less than
nothing, as their faint echoes reverberate
-long the shores of the Baltic or Mediter
ranean or of the British Channel. Euro-
peaus will n. t assent to collocation with
African laborers as competitors in cotton
and corn fields, and European capitalists,
will never transmit money or goods toi a
country in which towns and counties are
subjected to the tender mercies of nomadic,
non-Uxpaying mobs. Europeans are more
intelligent than ourselves. They have
studied every fact of our condition. They
know as much of the wise and unwise pro
Tuiors of the new Constitution of Texas
ia Berlin and London as is known in Wall
street or in Austin. - They know that with
out such changes in this organic law as may
give security and independence to munici
palities, for which one central power, in a
brotul commonwealth like Texas, cannot
legislate justly " or equally, protracted
unity is imposaible. They know that with
towns and counties at the mercy of unre
strained mobs the whole country, from
Sa,
i Maine to California, ia Impoverished, bnk-
people who hart been airing their eloquence
and pairiotian: nt Hew Orleans would
achieve purposes of which they talk so lurt
iiy, let them go to the bottom of the diffi
culty ar.d so shape local governments and
municipal institutions that they may detent
the confidence of European people and cap
italists. Sane men will never seek homes
or invert money in a town governed by, a
non-taxpaying white or black mob. Hem
phis and many other hapless cities iilu strata
in steady decay this unpalatable truth, and
however beautifully the eloquent preacher or
his coterie of benevolent good people may
assert the supreme excellence of soil, de
lights of Southern latitudes and beneficence
and sweetness of the breath of the gulf
stream, it is wholly in vain until perfect
local freedom is reconciled with honest
local government; and the two are only
compatible when they who maintain alone
shape local laws and define and execute
schemes promotive of public good. "We
have had quite enough of the. interminable
twaddle f immigration societies and agents.
What we need abroad are attractive moral
and soc'al facts at home. We need that
respect for law and order that comes of the
execution of the laws by those interested
personally in their enforcement. We would
make property here valuable and desirable
by lessening the cost of holding it. ' We
would therefore have . this cost fixed by
t hose who have to pay it. Demagogues see
and confess these facts, even as do the
speech-making resolution manufacturers of
legislatures and conventions; but the dema
gogue dares not strike at Hie root of the
evil. lie trembles ia the ' presence of
the dirty mob ' and evades the issue,
lie is always busy amending char
ters and local laws . and promising
admirable reforms and the duped people are
delighted and when the Legislature ad
journs nothing practicable has been effected
and the same frauds are again and again re
peated, and the same cowardice of law
makers illustrated, and towns and counties
are still robbed and our ' local municipal
governments are still intolerable, those gov
erning who have no interest or sympathy
with those who must maintain the horrible
systems t.f robbery and misrule.
So plain are these simple facts and so ini-i
possible the attraction of . European wealth
uuless retoi ms defined be effected, that we
would modestly suggest to Rev. Wingfield
and liis associates that they reverse their
policy and instead "Of pouucing.down. upon
England and Germany to seize wealth and
population, drapging them into ifcgro and
mob-ravaged towns and counties,, of the
Valley of the Mississippi instead, of this
we modestly suggest that they first, make
homes tolerable in savagely ruled towns and
counties. Let those fix' rates who must pay
taxes. Let those who must, pay the cost
build railways and bridges and culverts and
pave streets and illuminate a city with gas
or a county with"scho6I houses.' ' Make the
county worth inhabiting, its local laws and
system of government endurable, and prop
erty and life will care for itself. - Murders
and fights and yulgar bullyism are not
feared. People abroad, as here in .Texas,
will risk their lives and bodies where they
will not their money,' and ' it is time the
whole country adopted sensible, practicable
means to assure immigration, and the primal
fundamental measure consists in the recon
struction of local municipal systems of gov
ernment in the United States. .... .
NEWSPAPER
LIFE THE
SIOIV.
PBOFES-
The Ennis Argus, with its hundred eyes,
is unusually brilliant now. Joe Rushing,
we are told, is its editor. ; Eut what signi
fies it who fills this place when the news
paper speaks for itself, tells its own story,
and is impersonal. It is the oracular "we"
that gives potency to the pres, and the
world has no business knowing who writes.
It is the 'writing, the matter and manner
alone, that concerns an intelligent putlic.
If the work be well done it signifies noth-
Jng who does it. An editor, who devotes
his lifo to the business and never looks be
yond it and none worthy of the avocation
do look above or beyond it, since there is
no higher aim than he has. achieved who
has ascended the loftiest heights of profes.
gionnl excellence a veritable editor never
fears that his fame and .virtues and skill will
not finally be recogui'zed. lie may be mis
understood for a time, and his virtues and
truthfulness and moral courage may not be
appreciated ; he nisy live before his time
and think faster than the multitude. But
the world docs not stand still. It has ad
vanced in capacity for thinking and is a
freer thinker and under less restraint and
enjoys a greater degree of real freedom to
day than ever before. In this progressive-
ness consists the hope of reward that gilds
the future of the professional editor. lie
can well afford to wait. He need not ad
vertise himself. He builds for himself very
silently a monument whose shape and out
lines are soon clearly comprehended. It may
be very slowly ; butach day a carved stone is
placed upon it, and as each new thought in
morals or politics is lifted to its place, it
rises before the eyes of the people and its
outlines are more and more clearly defined
until a temple is perfected as harmonious in
design and faultless in outlines and propor
tions as tha. in which Greeks bowed before
altars of Diana at Ephesus er of Minerva in
the Parthenon. There is no profession so
attractive as thir when its exactions are
obeyed and requirements comprehended and
fulfilled. It is, above all others, a jealous
profession. ' He who adopts it cannot be
aa officesetker or placehuoter. . He must be
free from all personal and official and - par
tisan restraints, never fearing to tell the uo
varnished truth, and never incapable of
condemning wrong or unwtsdotii wtierever
encountered. To the attainment of tl is
elevated position each, . profesuional news
paper conductor aspires, and therefore we
congratulate the Argu$ when it becomes the
property of a thoroughly trained professions
al newspaper manager and rtdaetettr.
Several, preachers, and . Cu minings, and
the scientist Heranlt. all concur with Mad
a me Wood hull in declaring that something
wonderful is going to happen thw yetur, ami
each has stated more or less- confidently
that the end of all things was at hand, and
therefore we are constrained, to print the
following confirmation of thee prophe
sies. A nrgro preacher said last Sunday,
ers Beltnap and dem udders a robbia and
a steabn, aad mctmntisa all ronm. - Dars de
Beecher bUness, de Wood hull bisneas, Snn
ner is dead," tornadoes come wboopin
roan, de freed man's bank am basted, and
It pears as ef de send was nigh at .'
This confirmation anl approval mast" give
steadiness and ncrvt to H Wood hall aad
the other fellows. " '
iBiCUD PMKJCDICES KOKTH.
The Confederate brigadiers are not in the
Federal Congress of and. by their own will;
not at all. We are told by a Georgia news
paper that
"They created a neat little government
of their own, which was altogether 'Con
federate: it was a darling, noble, self-sac
rificing tfovtrntnent a government which
made aa heroic a strugtlu f-r independence
aa ever glorified the pages of history. V by,
bleae you, warlike brethren of the norm-
em press, it was the fault of your people
entirely that that government was demol
ished, ami that we Confederates' are forced
back into the Luion. We would not have
been in it to-day, and the hateful 'Confed
erates' would not be in your Congress but
for your physical superiority. We stayed
out as lou it as we could ; we managed to
put several hundred thousand, more or less,
of your best imported Europeans under the
daisies with here aud there a few natives;
we fought, and fought, and fough', nntil
we could fight no more. Then we bad to
go back because you, who were our con
querors, forced ii!. If our presence is dis
tasteful, blame yourselves. If you did not
want us to mingle with you and have a
share in the government, why did you not
let us stay out of your detestable old Union
when we went oui? We d have been hap
py enough if you had let us alone."
Such is a legitimate Confederate answer
to Federal Radicalism, which inveighs
against the fact that the South has chosen
soldiers to represent her. Aud then, if the
Confederate Congressman were not a seces
sionist, even as IIou. Casey Young wnsnot,
he was not the less a soldier of the South
from necessity. He resisted everything
that led to war, and abhorred secessionist
in all its aspects; but when two sections
began the ghastly work of cutting throats
and burning homes there was only a ques
tion of local fympatby involved. Hat one
result of the contest was possible, and the
brave man' was for the under dog in the
dirty fight. If the South had achieved in
dependence the people of the North and of
the South would finally have recovered
their senses, and, objebting to the cost of
two Unions and of ttco navies and tieo great
armies, and of multiplied custom houses
tlie'people would-' have reproduced the
Union as it was and should be to-day; and
negro slavery, that had become negro 'servi
tude, would have lapsed naturally into ne
gro peonage and freedom and colonization.
It is the sheerest nonsense, this ever-recur-
ing appeal to empty prejudices begotten
of follies of passionate popular leaders.
Their power was ephemeral, and hard, prac
tical facts are the philosophers and states
men shaping public opinion at last, and the
fortunes of the people and country.
Mil IS TUt X talis?
The Denison Aeict, in defining the at
tractions of its enterprising town, says that
it is in the midst of a white man's country
and is governed by white men, and that the
influence of the negro, in political contests,
is not recognizad, and, therefore, the wise
and earnest newspaper insists that Denison
and the circumjacent country are doubly
attractive to industrious white people. And
we would as-k these Northern Texans, con
fessing as they do the measureless evils of
negro mastery, why they do not insist that
counties and towns of southern and eastern
counties shall in like manner be exempted
from the calamity of African domina
tion? Men were made officeholders iu this
portion of Texas by recent elections who,
shipped to nuntsville, would make Ward,
Dewey & (Jo. shudder. There were, it is
commonly believed, five hundred or more
illegal black votes polled in this city and
county, and we are ever at the mercy of
this foul mob. And yet Rutabagaisin from
the north and east allies itself with Radi
calism, declares against the local restriction
of suffrage, and with unparalleled mean
ness boasts in publications sent abroaa that
its districts are exempt from terrors of
African and mobocratic misrule. May we
not hope that the JVtirs will direct the atten
tion of its local representatives in th Sen
ate and House to the plain facts here re
cited and ask that we luckless devils of
Southern and Eastern and Central Texas
may be suffered to enjoy the immunity from
African sunremacv aud misrule of which
Denison boasts? Let an amendment to tne
Constitution be submitted to the people
making the uavraentof a poll tax acoudition
precedent to the exercise of the privilege of
suffrage. Ueuison win oe tne gainer, since
murderous, thieving tramps and roughs will
be denied the right to prolane the Dallot
box. everv citv and town in Texus will ut
ter thanks for the deed of wise beneficence,
and southern and eastern towns and coun
ties, on bended knee11, would assert death
less gratitude. - Will not the Nem serve us
in this behalf?
THE NEW K.GL IND KLtCTIOXS.
Astonishing developments of fraud at
Washington do not seem to exert any mar
velous or ruinous influence upon the for
tunes of the Radical party in New England
and even though our eloquent and earnest
teDresentative. Hancock, went down into
the Aroostook nnd FassamnquoJdy and
plunged vehemently into the very midst of
theWhite Mountains.first wrestlingmanfully
with Blaine's people, they proved incorrigi
ble, and Hancockian eloquence was emptied
upon Radical villages m vain. In very
truth we are per-u'aded that the corrupiing
ibflaence of Federal power permeates the
hole structure of Eastern society, and
since the more that is stolen the richer be
comes Nw England, we cannot see how it
was possible for our excellent Congressman,
laboring as he did for many days among
the down-easlers, to effect the slightest
good. When he spoke ot wrongs done by
the tariff, he only pandered to the greed
for gold of those whom- he addressed.
When he spoke of enormities done by
carpet-lviggers, and of vast sums wrested
by all sorts- of knaves In all sorts
of f!Ve from the plundered Jsouth-t-rr,
p.. .pit, lie filled the bo'Oins, as
e Iih. i fiilfd the pockets, of his listeners
with absolute ecstaoy. The profits of knav
erv, as the government is now administered
all Federal offices, even those of the
South, being filled by New Englanders and
their childicn are disbursed, directly or
indirectly, down East, and therefore, it may
be, the unfortunate failure of Judge Han
cock and i Congressional associates to ef
fect any change, by their persuasive ora
tory. In the purposes and conduct of New
England. In fact, the more stealing .and
knavery -practiced, the more profitable the
government to those that administer and
are enriched by its fearful financial system,
and we need not be amazed if the strength
of Radicalism be augmented with each suc
cessive development of astounding knavery
in Washington.
It is said that Cortiua has been released ;
bat this could hardly-be true if he had
not given' proper assurances of bU..fidelitj
to Lerdo's government. .
Tun appointment of A.M. Hobby and J. W.
Jennings as S.ate agents at the FLiladclphi.i
world's fair gives perfect satisfaction to the
people; and tince we may now have proper
agents the people should evince a share- ol
practical interest in having the products
and industrit-s of Texas properly presented.
The wouiletb of nature in the vegetable and
animal kingdoms should be gathered as rap
idly as possible. , The Legislature will soon
be convened and its first action will have
reference .to the definition of ways aud
means for the perfect illustration in Phila
delphia cf the riches and resources of this
great commonwealth. The world will be
there to see, and such an opportunity of
making the fact' known that Texas exists
and that its attractiveness may be dem on
strated cannot recur. The speeches of
Blaine and Morton, and brutal sectionslirm
of feeling and purpose illustrated in Con
gress, however well calculated to offend or
exasperate the S. uth, should hardly repel
us. Even though selfish spoilsmen m.ke
personal profit the aim of the Centennial
corporation, the necessity and interests as
well as original patriotic impulses of the
South and of Texas should be consulted and
we should be worthily represented in every
department of industry, art and progress. If
Messrs. .Hobby and Jennings accept the
position assigned them ffie aversion of the
people to participation in the great Philadel
phia Exposition will be remedied, and
Elaine and Morton will rave and New Eng
land approve villainy and corruption at
Washington in vain. We may still c:nult
the true interests of Texas and of the Union
and contribute our proper share to the suc
cess of a scheme which, in one of its aspects,
is rather patriotic than practical, and which,
if successful in both- directions, must euure
to the infinite advantage of Texas and the
South.
' Honestly do we believe, now that Gov
ernor Davis, the negro barber and former
body 'servant of Senate Alcorn, has' been
properly impeached 'and -convicted hon
estly do we believe that he is the simplest,
most honest and truthful of the Radical
rulers of. the South.'TIe" is a grinning,
good-natured, kindly negro, aud a thief
withal, as proven so Satisfactorily that the
whole Senate, except four negro Radicals,
pronounced him guilty. Davis saw every
body stealing, and that everybody about
him was bought and sold, and he went
carelessly into the buiiness."- While he was
a Senator he accepted gifts', as does Grant,
and confessed, that, his vpiinglw as directed
by those- whose douceur he pocketed.
Charged with this before a thousaud peo
ple by Alcorn,-he opened not his lipa, and
yet the negroes,- afterward, made him Lieu
tenant Governor. : They could not detect
the wrong involved in such peccadilloes.
In fact, the four. Senators voting against
Davis's conviction are blacker than Erebus.
Tbey don't doubt that Davis received
bribes, but cannot see the criminality of
his conduct. ' The prosecution of Governor
Ames will be conducted by able lawyers,
and that he and Davis will be properly de
posed none may doubt. If Grant and Ben
Butler did not have their hands full of the
foul facts developed in Washington, the
conduct of the Mississippi Legislature
would not be tolerated, and the Senate and
House would be dissolved and dispersed.
Mr. Jeffeuson Davis, now in New Or
leans, leaves for Europe on the first prox
imo to spend eight months in London and
on the continent to promote the establish
ment of direct trade between Bremen,
Liverpool and London with cities of the
valley of the Mississippi. It is needless to
suggest the interest of Galveston, Houston
and other cities of Texas in the successful
consummation of this scheme. While Mr.
Davis would induce merchants to send
goods directly to Galveston, Houston and
New Orleans, that the cost of the interme
diate agencv of New York may be obviated,
Royster, Waldran & Bacon propose to sell
wide districts of Southern States, that
homogeneous populations may becolloca'ed,
to German and English farmers. -The fact
is palpable that however keen the sympa
thy of distant people with the hapless ex
slave of the South, the most philanthropic
object to domiciliation in the midst of
blacks, and lands partially occupied by
them are unsalable. Therefore the scheme
of Royster, Waldran & Bacon becomes of
infinite inteiest to Southern people every
where. They would devote wide districts
to the exclusive use of homogeneous nation
alities. Their operations, we are told, will
not be confined even to Louisiana, Ar
kansas and Texa.
The scheme of forcing Austin to pay
$150,000 into the coffers ot the Internation
al Railway Company has been discussed and
planned for months. No one authorized to
speak or bind the company will dare to say
that it is not intended, as stated in the Pal
estine newspaper, to stop the road twenty
miles from Austin and compel tiadesmen
and property-owners to pay for its extension
to this place. Certain citizens of Austin may
be specially exempted from the necessity of
paying, but that the International managers
contrived the plot defined we do not doubt.
Uj3ut the necessity for the narrow gauge is
M shown bv the anxietv of the reDreseutatives
rf (
of the International to defeat its construc
tion. The company is very unwilling to
be forced to charge narrow gauge passen
ger and freight rates towards Auatin.
Cheap rates are always towards and for the
aggrandizement of New York and St. Louis
and high rates are fastened on people and
goods going from the interior to Western
and Southern towns. - The narrow gauge
defeats this little -scheme and compels both
the International and Central to ship to
wards Austin at narrow gauge rates. Our
correspondent prattles about a turnpike.
He is not weak enough to suppose the peo
ple ignorant of the tact that these are insti
tutions of a remote antiquity. Their use is
forgotten in Tennessee, and even modern
Route forgets to repair the Appian Way.
Thk reason-that forces Huntington, who
controls all railroads west of the Sierra Ne
vada, to the sea at Galveston or Indianola,
is the fact that he mast have tbe shortest
possible railway rou'e from ocean to ocean.
Heavy freights do not bear costly railway
transportation, and, therefore, seek water
routes. Th same facts render the extension
of the Iniernationsi from New York City to
tbe mine and coffee fields of Mexico im
perative. , The silver fields t of Mexico
abound in big bonanzas, and the great
Texan railway will supply men, money and
machinery, and the incalculable nchea of
two empires of gold and silver will be
emptied into Texan cities by tbe two great
railways designated. At any and all costs
I they most b built.
th Law or Strr't, Itoada mm A moid.
1,1
i:n a.L.r' s iy
SiLuon E. Daldnin, law
we find the following
pro!
'essi'ir fit alt".
cler, simple rtutement of legal rights and
f:ic-s whih every cit;zn of the town and
county should thoroughly comprehend.
The childreu at the fireside should be taught
the everdiy truths so clearly stated by Mr.
BtMwiu, wli t-avs:
It is common mistake to suppose that
toansi'Wn t'ip soil of i ur roads. Tt.ey simply
have a rilit-. f way ; aud the power to rvmve
earth to :r from auy part of ibe road for the
purpose of repairs or improvement; but
Hi- title to the soil and all thatgroas there
on remains with the adjoiniRg proprietors.
Deeds bound n-r laud ou a Mgnway giv
title to the cfcnterof the road." A land
holder owiotig both sides of tbe road owns
the roa.1, and if the road be discontinued
immediately regains the use of the soil. An
muiri.iuat iims uo ritjht to move sod on a
ti mil m v e.crpt by order of the selectmen
or other two ugeuts. vRoad uakiugwu6 not
origin-uT.y invented in towna. This power
is given by statute. The ton bos a ri;ht
to cut and remove trees, shade or otherwise,
growing along the highway, for the purpose
of ue in repair of rads. The town also
has a right to grade the road where and to
what extent it pleases. A case was cited
where a towu cut down a hill in front of a
man's premises so deep that the owuer was
obliged to put up a stairway to reach his
house. Au individual willfully or negli
gently leaving an obstruction ij the high
way, and damage arising tberefront, is liable
for the damage. If a man habitually keeps
his chopping block and ax, in 'he road
and a traveler cuts his foot by the ax the
owner of the ax is liable. " - Townsare holden
for damages urging from an accidental ob
struction if not removed or repaired in a re
sonable lime.
Fiftten years possession of land by an in
dividual usually gives himtjtle ;but this
does not hold trne of land in the highway;
inclosure and po.-scssion must be continuous
in this case for a much roug'er period to se
cure ti'.le. The reason ia, ' individuals do
not look tint for public interests as closely
as for their own, and therefore the law
makes this allowance in 'favof of public
property. Fifteen years' ondi-tpated use of
a private way across your neighbor's Jnnd
to get to your own gives you a. tight to the
use of f-uch way. You need, cross but two
or ';hree times in a year to1 gain the right.
Whnn an iudividuallbuyri land bounded on
all sides by the property oriftheraT the law
gives him what is called a 'Mece ssary right-
ot-way" to get to his own land.' When land
is sold rights-of-way, if there be,any, should
be expressly mentioned in the deed.
It is estimated that the cost of fences up
on nn average New England farm'is equal
to one-four- h of its value. . A farmer is liable
tor the damages arising from the unsafe and
dangerous condition of his fences and gates
along the roadside. A farmer's shackling
gate slmken by a child fell' and broke the
child's leg. A suit for damages followed tinu
the owner of the gute. was obliged -ta pay,
A man has no right to remove bis, fence and
leave a ditch or dangerous bdlelortravelers
to stumble into at night. The conditions
of a lawful fence are expressed bv Statute.
An ordinary fence is the common fence of
tiie country, aud is such as will restrain or
derly cattle. Unruly, animals, such as can
not be restrained by . an ordinary fence,
breaking iu aiid destroying crops, the owner
is liable for their '"damage The line of
boundary in a board fence is between the
boards ami post; in :t rqil fence Jhe center
of the post; in a stone wall, if not more
than three width at the base, the cxtia
width must be on the soil of the man build
ing the fence. Bounds upon a brook take
the center of the stream ; upon a tiutural
pond to the water; upon an artificial pond
the line goes in the middle or over the bed
of the old stream. A man may not divert a
stream flowing. through his land in such a
way as to iuterfcre with'the accuftonicd use
of water bv the neighbors below.
The title to land goes downward to the
center of the earth and upward to the
heavens. If your title is good you own the
soil and everything beneath it and above it.
Your neighbor may build up to your divi
sion line, but if the eaves of his house over
hang your land so that the water drips npon
it you may sawttit-iimfTif vou choose. But
if you allow it to go ou without remou
stranee for fifteen years, heacquires the right
to discharge his roof water upon your land
forever after. You may not dig upon your
own land so nearyour neighbor's houe as to
endanger its foundation unless you wall up
or otherwise make safe, in which case you
may dig square up. The whole of a tree
and its fruit belongs to the person in whose
soil are the roots. If the branches of your
neighbor's tree overhang your land you may
cut them oil, but you caunot use them for
fuel or take the fruit if any fallsupon your
laud.
In describing a line, if a deed says due
east from a certain point 150 rods, to a
etuke and stone, and a subsequent measure
ment makes the distance but 100 rods, still
the stake and stone, remain the "bound."
The principle tiling that the measurements
remain aad are to be considered . s author-ity-
If a man digs a well upon his own land
and thus drains away the .water from his
neighbor's well, lying at a higher level, the
lat'er has no rcdres, us the law does not
take coyn'zince of underground water
courses, aud a man has a right to dig where
he will and as deep as he pleases upon his
own soil..
The Tronaaean ot Prliieea.
Within the last few dnys I have had the
pleasure of inspecting the troutteau of a Prin
cess a real Princess that is to say, oue of
undoubted royal blood, the damsel in ques
tion being the Princess Marie Alexandrina
of S.txe-Weimar, niece to the King of Hol
land. She is shortly to be married to the
Prince of Keuss. and the firm of Godcherand
& Co., on the HueNeuve desCapucines, has
had the honor of prepuring the bridal outfit
of her Itoynl Highness. And surely her
hidyship will have something of a wardrobe
when she (jets it all homo. She has twelve
dozeu each of alt tbe smaller articles of
lingerie and six dozen of the larger pieces,
all of the finest cambric, only varying in tbe
styles of their puffs and tucks, their laces
or embroidery. There undergarment alone
cost if 12, 000. Then rhe hss eighty dresses
and twenty-five lmnnete, "and Providence
only knows how many gloves, fans, cloaks,
shawls and other pretty trifles of that nature.
Of course, only a portion of this immense
wardrobe was shown, but that portion was
remarktibly well worth seeing.' The laces
iu purticuUr were exquisite in fineness and
design. One dinner dress of palest crepe
de Chine was dt-corald with three Lood
flounces of the finest and oustlieat Valen
ciennes, w bleb crossed the front traveraely ;
the back of the dress was drawn in two im
mense puffs and the cuirass coinage, open
en etur, was trimmed with narrow lace to
match the fl 'Uoce. Another dress of pale
I due crepe de China was trimmed with
equally fine and beautiful point Duchesse'
A varnett velvet dress was decorated with
narrow point d'Alencon, of the greates.
beauty ami fluent-. The wedding dreas
was in white satin. The front of the skirt
was covered with three wide financial of
magniiiceDt point arguilie (nomeurues erro
neously called point de Venise), the second
riche-t of modern laces, tbe richest being,
of coorr, the point d'Alencon. These
flounces were put simply on, straight round
the skirt, .-i tbe old-fashioned way; An im
mense ccurt-tnin, foil three yards Ions'
was attached to the waisUmnd of the skirt.
It was bordered all around with tbe rows
of Uce, st-p-trated by a narrow quilling
of satin. '1 be K-rmm wis, as nnal, open
cm earur, wit 6 balf-.ong sleeves, and was
trimmed with Uce; its dress ul pale, rose
colored silk aa ircorld - with flounces
and triai iu. ng of point applique, which
looked very ordinary ia vtMnparison with
tbe p!odors of tbe richer tacea. There
were alao drea-e trimmed -witb antique
laces which had deaceodtHl ta tha bnd
from some Ode of her royal ancestors curi
ous, cobweb-like fabrics, but lacking tha
lainty beauty of artistic design which marks
the laces of "the prr-ent day. The costliest
ar.d racist snperb article in the trouneau was
displayed on a table in the center of the
room. It wxs a tunic or ovetskirt of the
royal point d'Aleucon of incomparable fine
ness and oeautv ot teiitn. This splendid
aud renal fabric had emploved ten work
men for eight years, and had cost $10,000.
Tbe pattern was dahliea, forget-me-nots and
lerns, xMuped wiin marvelous grace and
encircled by a daiuty tracery of branching
tendrils, delirate as froatwork upon the ,
window-pane. The bride's traveling-dreM
was of stamped black velvet, trimmed with
bands of iius.-aaa sable, and surmounted by
a black velvet toque, also trimmed with fur,
and with a single bird with dove-colored
and golden-green plumage. The cost of the
whole (rvuc-j.v had amounted to $100,000.
For the bride's mother, the Grand Duchess
of Saxe-Weitner, a ruby velvet dress had
been prepared, covered almost entirely with
the real point de Venise, that antique lace
of cardiuals and couvents, the aecret ol
whose manufacture is lott. What, these
broad flounces, delicate as carvihg in ivory,
might be worth, I did not attempt to stir'
mie. I only kuow that in to palmy days
before the war, in Philadelphia, a colUi
and sleeves in such lace wre sold by Lev
for $120, and are now in my posseaaion.' A
court dres made fot the- Grand Duchess
was shown; the train was of palo green
t.atin, bordered with a band of embroidery
in silver, the threads of which, being -of
pure metal, had resisted the action of time,
for this train had been a gift to the lady
from her Imperial godmother, oue of the
late Empresses of Russia. It was lined
throughout with ermine, and must have
been up small weight to carry. Tbe dress
it was to be worn over was of white satin,
covered with flounces in white net, em
broidered witft silver fl.iwers to match those
on the train, these flounces being of modern
manufacture. Lucy ilooper'M Pari Ltilot im
Philadelphia Telegraph, , ,
A New and Wot derful Dlacoverr for
K'ruoueluK Meat Llbt Wltbont
. Fuel, , , , ,i :. . t:
- The other day we were shown what
promises- to be tbe most wondei f ul invention
of the age, and one which promises to revo
lutionize our tintir -duuMaiic and-commer
cial economy. It is nothing less than asub-i.
sillute lor luel, produced at comparatively
no expense,' and by the applicatior of tbe
simplest scK-nlinc contrivance. - J no mvett
tiou is deucminated the hydro-carbon burner
and gus generator. By the application of'
the iuveutioii, ordinary coal oil and water
uuiy do made to produce heat enough to run
su engine,' propel machinery, heat a cook
ing stove, illuminate a mansion, or perform
any . other result usually accomplished by
menus of wood or ooal. . it is an entirely
safe aud practicable method. By' its use
the most difficult mechanical problems of
the age are destiued to' be solved in tbe fa
ture. The. burden of gas monopolies will
be abolished, and the new system of gene
rating' heat from water and oil will astonish
the scientist as well as the unschooled and
undisciplined mind. The process is hot
complicated or mysterious; It is simply
tlie result which overwhelms the mind with,
its wonderful possibilities. Professor Ken
dall, the well-known chemist, who has ex
pel i men ted with this invention, says that
by the use of it he was enabled to produce
all tne fire to do the cooking, washing and
ironing for six persons, for seven' days, (or
fifty cents. The apparatus burns from one
fourth to seveu-eighihs as much water as it
does any combustible fluid, and prod aces a
result w bich cannot fail to fill everyone with
amazement who witnesses its operations.'
For household purposes it is unexcelled.
There is no dust or tilth, smoke or disagree
able scent about it. Gas can be furnished
from any cooking stove for illuminating a
house for fifty cents per thousand feet. The
light produced is clear, bright and steady,
far superior in quality and illuminating
properties to the ordinary gas produced
troui coke, which costs from $3 to $3.50
per thousand feet. The attachment can be
made to any ordinary stove, range or fur
nace or motive power, with entirely satis
factory results. The invention only needs
to be examihad to have its merits fully ap
preciated. Capitalists and persons desiring
Iroin curiosity or other motives to see the
invention in operation . ore cordially re
quested to call nud witness Its result.' A
patent baa teen procured, and tbe inventor,
a very eminent scientific gentleman, ia pow
prepared to enter the held, and capture tbe
public with an invention obvious on sight,
and more useful to civilized man than could
be the realization of the wildest dreams cre
ated ity the alleged claim of the Keeley mo
tor, which has heretofore created so much
comment and interest in the public mind.
The simplicity and practicability of this ap
paratus can be determinated on sight,- and
it is destined to go into general nse as soon
as its merits become known to the public--.
isiticaijo x itus.
The ludlau Baaket Trick. ,
A stout, ferocious-looking fellow stepped
forward, with a common wicker basket 'of
the country, which he begged we would
carefully txumine. This we accordingly
did ; it was of the slightest texture, and ad
mitted the light through a thousand aper
tures. Under this fragile covering be placed
a child about eight years old, an interest
ing little girl, habited in tbe only garb
which nature had provided for her, perfect
of frame and elastic of limb a model for a
cherub, and scarcely darker than a child of
Southern France. When she was properly
secured, tbe mnn, with a lowering aspect,
asked her some questions, which she in
stantly answeied, and, as the thing was
done within a few feet from the spot on
which we were seated, tha voioa appeared
to come so distinctly from tbe basket that
felt at once satithed there was no decep
tion.
They held a conversation for some mo
ments, wben the juggler, almot with a
scream of pxssion, threatened to kill her.
The child was heard to beg for mercy, wben
the juggler seized a sword, placed bis foot
upon the frail wicker covering under which
Ins supposed victim was so piteously sup
plicating his forbearance, and, to my abso
lute consternation and horror, plnnged it
through, withdrawing it several time, aad
repeating the plunge with all the blind fe
rocity ol an ex:ded demon. . By this time
bis countenance exhibited an expression
learlully indicative of the most frantic of
human passions. Tbe shrieks of tha child
were s reul and ao distracting that tbey
altnoat curdled for a few momenta the whole
mass of my blood; my fi;at impulse was to
riihh upon the monster ani fell him to tbe
earth; but he was armed and I defenseless.
I looked at ray companions they appeared
to tie pale aud paralyzed with terror; and
yet tht sc feeuuus wer somewhat neutral
ized tiy the conociousuess that the man could
not dure to comn.it a deliberate murder in
tbe broad rves of dav, st d In-fore so many
witnesses; aiill the whole thing was appall
ing. ,
The blood ran in streams from tbe baa
ket ; the child was heard to struggle noder
it; her croana fell horribly on tbe ear; ber
struggles smote painfully npon tha heart.
The former were gradually subdued into a
faint moan, aad tbe latter into a slight rast-
lin sound ; we seemed to bear tha last coo-
vuUive gasp which was to set her innocent
soul free from the cored body, when, to our
inexpressible astonishment and relief, after
muttering a few cabalistic words, the jug-
frier took no toe traaket; tout no cnua m
to be seen. The spot was indted dyed with
blood ; but tb re were no mortal remains,
and, after a few moments of nndisasmbled
wonder, we perceived the little object of
oar alarm coming toward aa among tha
crowd. She advanced and sainted us, bold-
ire ont ber band lor onr donations, which
we bestowed with hearty good-will; she re
ceived tbetn with a most graceful salaam.
and the puty left ns well aatiafied with ear
more than expeetea vratoity. what its
dored the decrptioo anora extraordinary
was that the man stood aloof from th
crowd during the whole performance there
was not a person within ' several feet ' ef
him. Front FtMCi "Live f th Cvnpirm.
State Items.
The expenses of tbe State government
for the year ending August 81, 1S7S, were
aa follows:
State Department 0. 337 03
Executive Department 18,193 08
Comptroller's Office 31.119 43
Land Office..... 50,60 48
Treasurer's OflSce 8,1 i
Attorney General's OrBce 8,S78C.
Ad jmtant 3UMral'a Office .... S, WS M
Judiciary. '.'..-. 303,720 27
Ptuitntiary 18.183 OU
Leglslarnre..... 186,04 00'
BUnd Asylum 14,700 70
Lnnatis) Asylum 4S,t5 80
Deaf and Dumb Asylum 11,827 0
Bureau Immiirration '16,446 70
Geological Department 7,18 16
raaaions, including Internal -
on Pension Bunds 101,075 00
Misclantous,.. 87.8S8 63
Frontier , 856,911 77
Interest..... 4 104, 6U7 43
Pcblio Printing. 14,104 81
Agricultural and Mechanical
College 39,081 47
Quarantine.... . 6,848 57
ToUl...
.$1,887,857 86
Statement or Warhants drawn bt thu
' CtovrrnoxUkX ox tub Treasurer, 03t AC-'
coujrr of. "Stbhiai. Duohit, " from
September 1, 1874, to Acgcst 81, 1875,
; Inclusive.
Interest and Sinking Fund,
. Walker county , Railroad
.. Bonds.
Interest and - Sinking Fund,
' Bra sob .county Agricultural
' and j Mechanical CoUogo
,! Bonds....',. ,,.
Interest and Sinking Fund,
r-mith county Bonds..... .
Interest and tiinkios; Fund,
Andorsou county Bjoda. .. ,
Interest and Sinking Fund, -
Harrison county Bonds.. . . "
Interest and Sinking Fund,
' Dallas City Bonds. ........
Interest and Sinking Fund,
i Sherman City Bonds. .... .
Interest and' Sinking Fund,
Tyler City Bonds.;
Interest and Sinking Fund,
ICoKinney CHy Bonds ....
Interest and Sinking Fund,
" Bonded Indebtedness B'ale
Permanent School Fund. ..I,
Coanky T Fundi''..":'
Municipal Taxes...:
University Land Sales....
TaxTjieB.,.,.....
1,000 00
2,706 73
18,880 00
7,530 00 '.
1,820 00
1,085 14'
r . . ! .
9,083, 85..
tS,C3 00 '
i i .-. . ,.i I. . i
j 1,600 00
102,823 25
47,231' 63
' 58,658 46 '
r 8,633 00
- 1,840 04 ;
. 50 00,
Total .Vj
t i :
$201,570 63 1
Total value t property in tbe .
Bttef..t,. ........
$250,853,750,
Ad valorem taxes at; 50c... .1,254,334 08
Poll-tax at$l..... .......... 168,323 00
County tax.................. 1,158,184 14
Tgtai'.ax.:..
.$3,411,860 23.;
Acres af land and land certifi
cates. taxable. .
Total acres ot. land rendered.
105,441,481
60,637920 ;
Acres of land not assessed .J. ' ' 88,803.711
: -j'. .! '.. t ( i I- ' ' '
Rice ur axd Disbursements fkox August
81,. 1875, TO Fkbeuart 1, 1876.
Currency.
Specie.
Cash balance in
the treasury,
'' August 81,
: 1875.,..,...
Cash received .
S rdm all
sources
since August
81, 1875.,..,
800,01$ 50
1,880 76 .
1,000,904 53
020 30
$1,310,883 00 . 12,800 06
Disburs'd since
' August 31,
' 1875........
, v -
' Cash balance
In the Treas
877,275 60
1,403 S7
ury, Febru
ary 1, 1876..
1433, 607 59 $1,300 99
1 ')
A Gllsnpae of Crsra. WaaklstEtosu
One other scene may properly be added -
to! this brief record of the struggle and tri- :
umphs.of old .New York.: Tiiers came a
sunshiny day in April. 1789. when George
Washington, president-elect of tbe United
states by tbe unanimous voice of the people.
stood on a Daieony in front or tne ben ate
Chamber in the old Federal Hall on Wall .
street, to take tbe oath of office, , An im
mense multitude filled the streets and tbe
windows and roofs of the adjoining bouses.
Clad In' a suit ef dark brown cloth of Amer
ican manufacture, with bair powdered, and -with',
white silk stockings, silver shoe
buckles and steel-hilted dress sword, the
hero" who bad led the colonies to their In
dependence came modestly forward to take
np -the burdens that peace hsd brought.
Profound silence fell npon tbe multitude aa
Washington responded solemnly, "I swear
to belp me God." Then, amid cheers,
the display of flags, and tbe ringing of all
the' betls ia the city, our first President
turned to see tbe duties his countrymen
bad imposed upon him. In sight of those ,
who wpuld have made an Idol of him.
Washington's first act was to seek the aid
of other aid than his own. Ia the calm
sunshine ef that April afternoon, fragrant
ith the presence of seed-time and tbe
promise of harvest,' we leave htm on his
knees in old Bt. Paul's, bowed with the
simplicity of a child at tbe feet of tbe Su
preme -Kuler of the universe. beribner.
Ah. -These Washixotoh Corbksfos
Di.vrs. Yesterday we republished Wash
ington dispatches from tbe bt. Louis Repub
lican and O lobe-Democrat, one announcing
that Babcock resigned the position of pri
vate secretary before bis trial and tbe other
that he would certainly resign. And we -would
bare remark that no living man, at
least Bo correspondent, has ever definitely
settled the vexed question as to whether
Babcock holds now, ever has held or aver
ill bold this position.
At the imminent risk of breaking onr
neck in tbe effort, we must needs endeavor
to keep up with these Wssuington repre
sentatives of tbe press and tbe Associated
Press reporter, llence we give tbe follow,
ing as tbe latest utterance of tbe latter -through
the Bt. Louis papers, although ft is
in direct opposition to wbat these papers
published tbe day before: .'"'
i "Tjtn. pabcocx. in conversation witn nis
friends, says be has no present intention of
resigning bis position of private secretary
to tha President, nor does be consider that
it is at all "necessary to renew bis request
for an army court of inquiry to vindicate
him from tbe charge arnica bave already
been disposed of alter a full aud fair trial
by a civil tribunal." Exchange.
The' Uomrrie dictionary of Robert P.
Eeep,formerly oar consul at Pirus.haa been
delayed by Harper A Brothers tome months, ,
for tbe sake of procunoz further supplies
of a peculiar font Of Greek type, especially
suitable lor dictionary work, wnlcn was
used In tbe notes of Alford's Greek Teste-c
meat, tint had disappeared from tbe London
market and could not be traced for some ,
months'. This curious difficulty hsvlng
bean obviated, the book U nesrly ready.' It
U a lexicon, bAed on Aatsnreitb'e German .
work, and will make a bandy 12mo of some .
800 pages.- Wherever possible, illustrations
are given, that the work is a pictorial of
Grecian antiquities.
; . .. . ' '- ". '
A Baa Francisco law publishing bouse la
to publish a series of "Legal Kecreau. na."
The books will be bandy 12mos, and mill
include vorumee on "The Humorous Phases
of i.ee Leer,' Carioaitiee - aad Law of
WUla" -Jadiciaxy puazWa," The Law
of tbe Road, orItighu and Wrongs f a
Traveler, H eod others, edittJ respeitivt!
; by" leadlBfj Uwjtra. ' "' ''--'