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THE WEEKLY STATESMAN.
AUSTEN, TEXAS.
j THURSDAY, JULY 18. 1882
Somk or tbB Roberts delegates
want to try Storey.
An exchange says Storey would
carry out the Roberts policies.
The New York, Texas and Mexi
can railway is now completed to
Victoria.
And now a railway is projected to
extend from Brenham westward
through Gonzales.
The Democrats of Menard want
tbe gubernatorial nominee to be
chosen from western Texas.
The Hunt county Democracy
instruct lor John Ireland lor the
gubernatorial nomination.
The tariff commission is about to
orgauize as it is said to go to work.
Then wo will see what we shall seo.
The Statesman wants to see
lion. J. D. Sayere made permanent
president of the Galveston conven
tion,
Caldwell county Democrats are
instructed to vote forjudge Ireland
Should his name bo withdrawn they
aro to suDport Storey lor governor,
The rate of taxation in New York
city will bo 52.60 cents this year
against $2.62 of last year. The tax'
rate has not been so low since before
tho war.
A larue number oi voters in
Collin county call upon Colonel Ed,
Chambers to be a candiuate for the
legislature. No wonder, lor ho is
oue of the truest men in the state.
Tork eaters will take fresh cour
age. The little encysted auimalculx
which they devour are not always
trlcbiuie. In many casos they are
only harmless spiroptcras, a very ex
cellent diet, no doubt, lor the sum
mer season.
Judge Bruce, of the United States
court for the district of Alabama
has just rendered a decision in an
election case which squarely opposes
tbe ruliugs of Judge Bond in the
Charleston election cases. lie de
nies the right of the government to
order unsatisfactory jurors to "stand
aside."
The Fort Worth Democrat tolls
its renders to look out for General
L. S. Rosa as a gubernatorial candi
date when the Galveston convention
meets. Some I ime ago General Ross
said he would not be a candidate,
aud the Statesman believes Gen-
eral Ross always means what he
ays. -
The release of the Malley brothers
on the charge of murdering Jennie
Cramer has set a great many
thinking about the facility with
which evidence is manufactured lor
the defease in murder trials. Some
thing must be done about it, unless
the, country is going into the busi
" lies of creating a privileged class,
who because of money may kill
whom they please with impunity.
The Atlanta (Ga.) Constitution
ays: "Senator Hill's condition is
unchanged. He maintains his
strength, but the wound shows no
sign of healing. A hopeful sign is
that it is making no progress toward
any vital part. The main artery
into which it might have eaten, and
thus produced hemorrhage,has been
cut and tied, so that there is no dan
ger from that source. His daughter
has gone to Washington for a
month's stay, having been advised
that there was no danger in leaving
him." It is evident, however, that
the great Georgian's days are num
bered, and these days are few.
Russia is going to show how to
regulate liquor dealers. There is to
be only one liquor shop in a village,
and where two or three villages are
almost coutlguons the one shop
must suffice for their combined-inhabitants.
The publican must be a
native oi tho village, must be ap.
pointed aud paid by the commune,
and he must sell food as well as
drink, and his receipts are to be
paid iuto tho village fund. If he
allows any person to get drunk, be
is liable not only to dismissal, but to
line aud imprisonment. If any
Russian villago is reported to be ad
dicted to drunkenness, the sale of
liquor may be interdicted for as long
a time as may seem neeessary.
The two harbors of Alexandria
re swarming with vessels of war,
and the French and British admirals
are eagerly watching every move
ment of the Egyptian troops in hope
of some pretext for commencing
hostilities. British soldiers by the
thousands are being equipped for
active service in Egypt, Mr. Glad
stone undoubtedly meanlug busi
ness. Ilia hatred of Turkey and
all ber belougiugs may, before
many days, bring down on her
head the chastisement which
she so richly deserves, and
' for which she has evidently
so long beeu working. France, next
to Great Britain and Turkey, is the
most interested party in the matter,
but she appears to be in a somewhat
bellicose mood. Her government
Las made few preparations for a
campaign in Egypt.
W-MV .M-
According to the Boston Com
inercial Bulletin a powerful, associa
tion has been formed, called the
Cotton Syndicate." It ie a combi
nation of the cotton spinners of
Manchester, in England, with Amer
ican cotton-growers to build mills
in the cotton states. It is proposed
that the growers build the mills,
grow the cotton and produce the pro
visions for the operatives. The Man
chester spinners aro to purchase the
necessary machinery and lurnish
the boss managers and trained oper
ators from Manchester for three
years. They aro to take bonds or
stock in the mills. The growers are
to furnish the cotton and pay four
cenis a pound for spinning it iuto
yarus for heavy goods. The cotton
ii neither compressed nor pressed,
but goes to the cards as it comes
from the giu. The growers then sell
U ia bales, of yarn, all expenses be
t ween mill and field, and for bagging
r uJ ties, being saved.
Burnet adds another block to the
Ireland column.
The one chance for the Democra
cy, the Augusta Chronicle declares,
is to put forth a champion from civil
life, who, imbued with tbe princi
ples of .Washington, Jefferson and
Jackson, can command the money
power, or at least divide it. And
that man is Thomas F. Bayard, of
Delaware. As the Democratic nomi
nee in 1880 he would then have been
elected.
A gentleman who went to Dallas
two years ago as a delegate to the
nominating convention, from Travis
county, said, Saturday, that it was
Idiotic to instruct delegates to a
nominatiug convention. It took
just two years for him to come
to such a conclusion, and when he
did so he puthimself down as a most
supreme idiot, when looking back
at his position two years ago. If he
go to Galveston will he not need
medical superintendance ?
The Democracy of Caldwell
couuty favor a special tax for free
educational purposes great enongh
to run all the public schools of the
slate for ten months in the year.
The public schools of Comal county
are already rnn for ten months
in. the year on the fund as it
is now collected from revenue.
Would it not be wiser to urge
economy instead ot an increased
tax, when Comal aud other counties
demonstrate that economic school
boards is what Texas most needs ?
At the present rate the total rail
way construction of the country for
the year would be 25,000 miles. The
first five months of the present year
have been, however, much more
favorable than the same named
months of last year, as tbe severe
winter and heavy snows of the early
months of the year greatly retarded
the progress of the work. But still,
making due allowance, thero is cer
tainly a greater activity this year
than last, an activity which causes
it to be a serious question as re
spects its wisdom and expediency.
Texas is far ahead in railroad build
ing, Colorado, Ohio and Iowa fol
lowing in the order named.
The New York papers mention
tho fact that the steamship Nevada
has just brought over in a single
passage 922 Mormon converts, to
gether with 33 missionaries. This
is the largest consignment ever re
ceived, except the one which came
in 1862. These people are all said to
be young, thrifty-looking and com
fortably provided with luggage and
clothing. Tbe elder in charge said
that he took care not to bring any
but healthy, strong and vigorous
persons with means enough to open
out their new homes. There were
659 Scandinavians, 72 Hollanders
and 191 from the British domain
Is it not about time for the Christian
churches to send missionaries to
Utah?
The impression gains ground that
some of tho dark borso trainers are
working absolutely in the interest
of Wash Jonosism in Texas, with
the hope that federal patronage will
be dealt out, in event ot gains be
ing made in the congressional dele
gation from Texas. Touching this
movement the Gonzales Enquirer
says: "If this be done Texas
goes into tho hands of
the Weaver-Wash-Jones-Independ-eut
greenbackers. There is lit
tle tear from the Independents, tbe
Greenbackers or the Radicals, res
pectively, but with the coalition of
these different factions, and the divi
sion in Democratic ranks, the defeat j
of the Democracy is greatly to be
feared." The Enquirer Is unneces
sarily apprehensive. We believe,
however, that the way to make the
Democratic party strong in Texas is
to take the man upon whom the
people are centering their prefer
ences and Dominate him without op
position. The county convention, Satur
day, pursued tbe line of policy ad
vised by the Statesman. The dele
gates chosen were instructed to
vote at Galveston for Hon. John
Ireland for governor, forCaptain
Wm. Walsh for land commissioner
and for Major C. S. West for the,
supreme bench. Besides this, the
same resolution that pledged the
support of the delegation to these
gentlemen, gave most hearty en
dorsement to the administration of
Governor Roberts. This was all
very proper, and it was nothing
more than what was asked lor
bv the Statesman. As to
tho instruction for Judge Ireland, it
places tho Democracy of Travis
county in harmony with the ex
pressed will of Democrats in all
parts of the state, aud as Judge
Burts said, "it is preordained that
John Ireland shall be governor of
Texas," so it was politic as well as
wise that such declaration be made.
Of course Travis couuty s most
earnestly in favor of the nomination
of Commissioner Walsh, and tho in
struction for him was wise as well
as just an act which will strength
en tho position of this gentleman be
fore the people aa against the mana
gers of rings that are trying to
rob tha state of ail its lauded
wealth. The endorsement of Major
West was a proper mark ot
respect to a gentleman and fellow
citizen, whose learning and ability
would make him a light upon the
bench. The work of tho convention
was a good day's work, and it re
flects favorably upon the intelligence
and appreciation of our Democracy.
Should John Ireland be made
irovernor. ail may be assured
there will be no personalism in
his crovernment ; that it will
bo administered in the interest of
the masses, and that no amount
of personal flattery or adulation will
ever make him the tool of anybody.
We all know how admirably Com
missioner Walsh has looked after the
nublio interest in the administration
of land office affairs, and it is be
lieved the Democracy at Galveston
will sav. Well done, good and faith
ful servant; enter thou Into the Joy
of thy peoplo. T democracy
throughout the atate bo prepared,
likewise, to sustain sucn aamiraoi
men for all state positions, It may be
safely set down that the state ticket
will carry by seventy-five thousand
majority.
Captain Fenwick, of the steam
ship Stratbalrly, for bringing into
San Francisco an excess of 223
passengers, has been fined $11,500 by
the United States district court.
The colored voters in Ohio are
dissatisfied with the situation, and
a meeting of their prominent men Is
contemplated to take place in Co
lumbus, to express their dissatisfac
tion with tbe conduct of the Repub
lican party. A weekly paper de
voted to the interests of the colored
race has been established in Colum
bus, and it is openly in favor of a
break with the Republican party,
which has been "so faithless" to the
race it represents.
The city council of Philadelphia
has set an example worthy of imita
tion in passing an ordinance forbid'
ding any one, Italian count or other
wise, to turn tbe crank of a hand
organ, or a hand contrivance ot the
kind, on any thoroughfare or in any
park in that city. The festive mon
key as an accompaniment of any such
machine, or as an attachment to fife,
pipe or any other so called musical
instrument, is also to bo banished
from the streets. It appears also
that the Austin city council has set
its foot down on the organ grinder.
The Baltimore Sun says: "The
political situation in Missouri is be
coming somewhat mixed. The latest
propositions emanates from the Re
publicans, who propose to remain
passive at tbe coming fall elections
with a tacit and authoritative un
derstanding that the Greenback
ticket shall be voted tor, and, if pos
sible, elected." This demonstrates
tho argument often presented by the
Statesman. With the Republicans
of Virginia supporting the Read
justee, and those of Missouri cast
ing their votes for the Greenbackers,
and in Texas with a combination of
all weak political elements, it is seen
that spoils is the leading Republican
principle.
The amended bill regarding na
tional bank charters, fixes the limit
of reuewal at twenty years by the
consent of shareholders owning not
less than two-thirds of the capital
stock, the condition of the bank to
be inquired into and certified toby
the comptroller of currency. It is
also provided that shareholders not
willing to continue their investment
into the extended term shall be paid
the cash value of their stock by the
association as assessed in the usual
form of arbitration and approved
by the comptroller of the curreucy.
New notes are to be issued in place
of the old notes at the expense of
the banks extending their charters,
and the gevernmeut is to Lave
the benefit of any gain that
shall arise from a failure
to present the old notes.
The bill recites that :
1. National banks may hence
forth be sued in state courts the
same as banks not orgaulzed under
United States laws, with the restric
tion that no attachment, injunction
or execution shall be issued before
final judgment in tho state or local
court.
2. Bauks with a capital of $100,
000 or less may reduce their circula
tion to one-third ot their capital,
provided that the amount of their
circulating notes shall at no time
exseed ninety per cent of the face
value of tbe bonds deposited
to secure the same. By another
section it is stipulated that a
bank withdrawing its circulating
notes in conformance with
this privilege shall not be permitted
to increase its circulation within a
period of six months thereafter, and
that not more than $3,000,000 of tbe
circulating notes in the aggregate
shall be withdrawn during any one
month.
3. It is provided that the secretary
of the treasury shall issue gold cer
tificates in exchange for the deposit
of gold coin in the same manner that
silver cirtificates are now issued;
that both gold and silver certificates
may be held by the banks and count
ed as a part of their lawful reserve;
and that no such bank shall be a
member of a clearing house associa
tion in which gold and silver certifi
cates shall not be received in settle
ment of balances. To prevent the
withdrawal of gold from the treas
ury under the resumption act in
order to deposit it in exchange for
certificates, the secretary of the
treasury is required to suspend the
issue of gold certificates whenever
the redemption gold reserve in the
treasury falls below the sum of $100,-
000,000.
4. The secretary of the treasury
is also authorized to exchange three
per cent bonds for the three and a
halt per cent extended bonds, ine
formerjike the latter.will be redeem
able at the pleasure of the gov
ernment, with the restriction that
they shall not be called so long as
there are higher interest bonds out
standing which are subject to call.
There is some guarantee of a longer
tenure of the bonds in this provision
which will probably 'induce the
banks to wish for the exchange as
soon as the bill shall become a law.
6. The overcertification of checks
is made a penal offense, and every
officer and clerk of a bauk who shall
be guilty thereof Is subjected to a
flue of not more than $5000 and im
prisonment for not more than five
years.
Shonld these provisions be em
bodied in the bill as it finally passes,
the banking system will be greatly
changed, and much of the danger
which now attaches thereto will be
eliminated, Tho clause allowing
national banks to be sued in state
courts the same as banks not or
ganized under United States laws is
specially commendable, it brings
these institutions more directly in
subordination to the state
governments, and thus largely
removes the principle of
centralism from the system ra step
which must meet the approval of all
true friends of our system of govern
ment who are true to the principles
on which the republic was founded.
The clause which restricts the powers
of the banks in the matter of with
drawing their circulation at will is
good. The danger of the power
heretofore vested ia their institu.
tions was demonstrated ' by
the banks themselyea when,
during tbe Hayes administrator
they threatened by concert of ac.
tion to precipitate a financial panio
upon the country unless Congress
would legislate to suit their wishes,
or if tbe legislative department
would not make itself subservient
to them and the executive veto
bills of which they did not ap
prove. This opened the eyes of the
wool? country to the immense
power for evl wielded by the banks,
and led to the curtailment of their
privileges as herein noted.
H ( (Id im majority.
Colorado Citizen.
The Statesman gives currency to
a report that certain land agenu in
north Texan, with organization
throughout the state, are oreanizinsr
to defeat Commissioner Walsh for
the nomination at Galveston. Walsh
has been in the way of land agents
for several years, and no wonder
they conclude to combine to try and
defeat him, otherwise, their game ot
grabbing is blocked. We reckon
honest men are still in a small ma
jority, at least in Texas. Walsh is
not in much danger of defeat.
Old Time Sermoai.
According to the .testimony of
"the oldest inhabitant," the seiroons
of the old Dutch dominies in New
York were fearfully and wonder
fully made. "As there was no hour
glass in the pulpit," he says, "or
warning clock in the bleak, square
edifice, the dominie, merely for
forms sake, consulted bis ponderous
gold 'bull's eye,' and placed it out of
arm's reach betore beginning bin
discourse, but was only restrained
in his zealous labor of love
by utter physical exhaustion.
Men were strong then, minister's
sermons were long, loud, ponder
ous, nay, even muscular they
clinched each telling point with a
heavy right hand blow on the sacred
volume before them, as if resolved
to fix it there for all coming genera
tions. After the pewter plate had
gone round lor pennies, another
eight stanza hymn, closing with the
doxology,was shouted, when follow
ed the benediction, which to-day
would be considered a prayer oi
reasonable duration, but was always
a blessing to youngsters, for during
its delivery they were permitted to
stand. On the walk home, grand
mother said the sermon was
full of refreshing consola
tions; father spoke of its
vital power ; mother thought
the doctor had never been happier,
while the children were delighted
when the massive bible was shut
with a slam, denoting a speedy ter
mination ot the sermon. The promi
nent points of the morning lesson
were again set before them in the
lengthened grace, ere they were per
mitted to eat tbe cold apple pie,
merely as a snstainer of nature, that
they might be fortified in the inner
man to endure the afternoon and
evening services, which were nearly
equal in extent and power to the
grand trial of the morning.
Agrlcultara.1 Progress.
A recently issued census bulletin
gives information gratifying to those
interested in the solid prosperity of
the country that prosperity which
is dug out of the ground by the no
ble army of farmers. In 1870 there
were 2,660,000 farms in the United
States ; in 1880, 4.000,000 or an in
crease of fifty-one per cent. Dur
ing the same period the population
has increased about thirty per cent ;
therefore, our increase in popula
tion, great as it is, is exceeded by
our progress in agriculture. The lo
cality of the latter is likewise sug
gestive aud encouraging. In Flor
ida the increase in tho number of
farms from 1870 to 1880 was 129 per
cent; in Alabama, 102 per cent; in
Arkansas, 91 in Georgia, 98; in
Louisiana, 70 ; in North Carolina, 68 ;
iu South Carolina, 81; in Vir
ginia, 60, and in Texas, 185
per cent. In the western and north
western states and territories the
figures run as follows : In Iowa, 50
per cent ; in Minnesota, 99 ; in Ne
braska, 415 ; in Oregon, 114 ; in Cali
fornia, 61; in Montana, 78, and in
Dakota nearly 900 per cent. "West
ward the star ot empire takes its
waythat empire whose founda
tions are laid upon the plow, the
shovel and the hoe, and whose allies
are tbe genial forces of ever-bountiful
nature.
In 1835, one of the most practical
and far-sighted of political econo
mists, Kichard Uobden, spent thirty-
seven days in the United States. In
a pamphlet published tbe following
year he made this most remarkable
prophecy, which, in view ot the re
sults of tbs last census, has special
interest
"Looking to tho natural endow
ments of the North American con
tinent as superior to Europe as the
latter is to Africa with an almost
immeasurable extent of river navi
gation, its boundless expanse of the
most fertile soil in the world, and
its inexhaustible mines of coal, iron,
lead, etc. Looking at these and re
membering the quality and position
of a people universally instructed
ani perfectly free, and possessing,
as a consequence ot these, a new
born energy and vitality very far
surpassing the character of any na
tion of tbe old world. The writer
declares his conviction that it is
from the west, rather than from the
east, that danger to the supremacy
of Great Britain Is to be ap
prehended; that it is from the
silent and peaceful rivalry of Amer
ican commerce, the growth of
its manufactures, its rapid progress
in iuttrnal improvements, the supe
rior education or us people, and
their economical and pacific govern
ment that it is from these, and not
from the barbarous policy or the
impoverishing armaments of Russia,
that the grandeur ot our commer
cial and national prosperity is en
dangered. And the writer stakes his
reputation upon the prediction that,
in less than twenty years, this will
be the sentiment ot the people of
England generally: and that the
same conviction will bo forced upon
the government of the country."
Pnhdnn's twenty vears was too
short; but his prophecy has been
. i i .i r.
practically vcrmeu iu jess iuu uuy,
and the verification will be more and
more emphatic every year.
Tbe Riant Afrlcnlture.
It is an interesting fact thaLequal-
ly iu prosperity and in misfortune,
too cvuumuu ui tun cuuuvi is ui
rectly associated with that great,
silent interest which makes the
least show in legislation. The claims
of certain manufacturers are forever
dinned in the ears of congress; the
claims of agriculture are rarely
heard of. Yet the soil is the founda
tion upon which all interests repose.
If the crops are good, the whole
country rejoices, and every vocation
claims its share in the blessing. It
the crops are short, the whole
country repines and languishes,
and every vocation feels the misfor
tune. A thousand millions' worth of
manufactures in the midst of a poor
crop would only aggravate the ca
lamity, for, when food is scarce and
high, the people cannot afford to
upend their little money tor other
things. But a thousand millions'
worth of breadstuff opens the closed
mills all over the country, sets silent
wheels iu motion, and provokes the
industry that gives employment and
subsistence to a million idle laborers.
It trade is dull and profitless, it is
because something is wrong with
the farmer ; if trade is brisk and re
munerative, it is because - mat
ters are going well with tbe
farmer. If the merchant and
manufacturer are meeting with loss
es, they trace it to the drought which
disables the farmer from buying. If
tne mercnanp ana manufacturer are
making quick and profitable sales,
they say it is because their goods
and wares are goiug to the country.
If railway trains come in empty and
railway securities tumble on the
stock list, it Is because there are no
cropa to carry. II trains are doubled
and still have more than they, can
do, and securities go np on the
stock list, a bountiful crop explains
it all. Even the promise ot an un
harvested crop oi wheat and an un
made crop of corn has the
magical effect of setting in motion
the sluggish currents of trade, and
causing the country to anticipate
its wants. How strange that the
claims of this great, patient interest,
from which the life-blood of all de
pendent Interests is drawn, are sel
dom heard of in congress, and that
tbe ears of that body should be ever
open to the fierce clamors of favored
manufacturers demanding the priv
ilege of exacting a new tribute from
the farmer to exaggerate their
profits 1 How strange that congress
should spend one-third of its time in
advising how to develop a mill
owner in Massachusetts by taxing a
farmer in Iowa I
Senator Davis, of West Virginia,
has made what seems to be a very
fair proposition in regard to the
rates for mail service. His resolu
tion is to the. effect that the com
mittee on post routes shall inquire
into and report npon the expediency
and propriety of reducing the rate
of postage on all letters to two cents,
and on newspapers and other printed
matter to half the present rates,
while increasing the rate on mer
chandise carried through the mails.
Tbe postofSce is soon to become
self-sustaining, and it will become
permanently so as soon as postage
is reduced to minimum rates and
the service is restricted to legiti
mate postal business. Railway
mail service rates are regulated by
bulk aud weight of matter carried,
and it is absurd to require tbe de
partment, which has no proper call
to do an express business at all, to
carry a bundle of dry goods the
size of a sugar loaf for the same
price that it transports a letter
weighing half an ounce. A two
cent postage rate for single letters
will increase tbe number of letters
carried, without increasing the cost
ot service, and so much more is now
received lor postage on news
papers carried by . weight than
under the old system that
the department can very well af
ford to reduce newspaper postage to
naif present rates, with the proviso,
nowever, tnat there snail be no
"dead-heading" in newspapers.
Now, there is a ridiculous discrimi
nation authorized in favor of coun
try newspapers, which are allowed
to be delivered free of postage with
in the limits ot the couuty where
published. An impartial service.
limited to legitimate postal work,
can always be kept self-sustaining,
while yielding tbe public the great
est possible accommodation at the
cheapest possible prices.
Views of a Tariff Commissioner.
Judge Underwood, of Georgia,
one or tne tarin commissioners, gave
bis views as to what tbe commission
should do:
"I have no idea what the tariff
commission will do, nor where it
will sit, nor when it will meet. My
views on the tariff question, stated
briefly, are these exactly : I am in
favor ot raising the revenue to de-
tray the expenses ot tbe grov
eminent economically adminis
tered and to pay the public
debt within a reasonablo time by
duties on the imports. The neces
sity involves the overthrow of the
internal revenue system. In levying
duties I am in favor of levy
ing them upon such articles
as we make and produce.
iu levying the duties upon those
articles a discrimination should be
made in favor of a lower duty upon
articles that are in common use by
the great majority of the people, and
higher duties upon such articles as
are usually denominated luxuries.
In adjusting the tariff a free list and
a comparative free list should be
made up of articles that we neither
produce nor manufacture. In doing
all this particular attention must be
paid to tbe effect of any tariff upon
the agriculture, commerce and me
chanic arts. Before any proper re
vision ot tbe present tariff can be
made, the tariffs that have hereto
fore existed must be fully examined,
the amount of revenue raised
and upon what raised, and the effect
upon the prosperity of the country.
The revision of the tariff does not so
much involve any particular princi
ple of universal application, but to a
great extent must be controlled by
the experience of a country aud the
effect of previous tariffs. Underly
ing the whole question of the revi
sion of the tariff is a proper adjust
ment of labor to capital. Tbe inter
ests and peace of the country re
quire it. Generally, ray views upon
the tariff may be found in the Whig
platform of 1844, as defined by Mr.
Clay himself, aud in Mr. Polk's letter
to Kane, said to have been written
in July or August, 1844, and in Polk's
inaugural address on the 4th of
March, 1845."
Continuing, Judge Underwood
said: "Tbe present tariff was
adopted at a time when the national
debt was very large to meet the ex
igencies ot the country, and needs
revision, reform aud reduction. As
to bow it will be done we will be
obliged to wait until we can get the
facts. We will have to go back to
tbe tariff of 1846 and to tbe amount
of imports brought into the country,
the amount of revenue raised by that
tariff upon those imports, and all
tariffs since that date and the pres
ent tariff before we can act under
standing upon this question. But
you can see that I am clearly in fa
vor of a revision of the tariff. It
does not always follow," said
Judge Underwood, "that a reduction
of the tariff on an article works the
reduction of the price. There is the
article of coffee, upon which former
ly (I don't remember under what
tariff) there was a duty of thirty per
cent. Coffee was put npon tbe free
list, and immediately the govern
ment of Brazil imposed an extra
duty and the price remained the
same, the government of Brazil get
ting the revenue aud we losing, al
though we paid the same price for
our conee, t here might be many
other illustrations given to show
what a delicate thing the tariff is."
Wilson County Democrats,
Resolved, By tho people of Wilson
connty assembled,
. First, That we re-affirm our ad
herence to the principles of Democ
racy as understood and maintained
since the foundation ol our govern
ment 2. That we favor and demand of
our representatives in the state leg
islature an efflcientsj stem of public
free schools, and to this end insist
upon such an amendment to the con
stitution as that a special scnooi
tax separate and apart from and in
no way connected with, the general
revenues, and sufficient to maintain
tbe public free schools or each coun
ty for nine months in each year
may be levied aud collected.
3. Recognizing the fact that more
than one-third of the voters of the
atLtn nrrinv the ttnnlection of the
law and tho a-v2ge8 of public
tree schools without payment of an
equivalent therefor, we demand that
an amendment to the constitution
be submitted by the next legislature
to the people, that, if adopted, will
prevent any man from voting who
has failed to pay all poll tax im
posed by law.
4. While endorsing In tho main
tho administration ol uovernor j,
M. Roberts, we believe that his ex
pressed wish to. retire to tbe shades
or pnyate lire should be respected,
ana not feeling ourselves bound to
snoDort as his successor a man who
will carry out "mv policy." and rec
ognizing in Hon. John Ireland, of
oeguin, a man ot sterling iicgm,
and patriotism, and one well quali
fied to wrestle with all the problems
of our state government, we hereby
instruct our delegates to the state
convention to use all honorable
means to secure his nomination.
5. We endorse with pleasure and
pride the conduct in office of W. C.
Walsh, commissioner of the land of
fice, and instruct our delegates to
support him for that office. We also
bestow high commendation on the
conduct in office of W. M. Brown,
comptroller, and F. K. Lubbock,
treasurer.
6. We point with pride to the
records made bv Judge Johu P.
White, Sara F. Wilson and J. W.
Stayton, on the appellate and su
preme benches, and while not ex
pressing a preference for them over
all other candidates, believe that
they should be retained in their pres
ent positions.
7. We recognize in the Hon. J. F.
Miller qualities of mind and heart
that eminently fit him to represent
the eighth representative district in
the congress of the United States ;
and we therefore Instruct our dele
gates to the congressional conven
tion to work and vote tor him might
and main.
8. That a copy of the above and
foregoing resolutions be forwarded
at once to the San Antonio Express,
the Austin Statesman, Galveston
Xewt and the Western Texas Chron
icle, with a request that they be pub
lished. EDITORIAL NOTES.
The senate committee on territo
ries has decided to report favorably
the bill establishing the territory of
Pembina. The proposed new terri
tory embraces all that portion ot
the present territory of Dakota lying
north of the forty-sixth parallel of
north latitude.
The general deficiency appropria
tion bill, as it passed the house, was
$8,842,695. To this the senate com
mittee has added another million.
The increase consists mainly of the
following items: "For arrears of
pay to army officers, $525,000; for
mileage of officers of tne marine
corps, $50,000; for expenses con
nected with the sickness and death
of the late president, $75,000; for
expenses of the special commission
to Chili, Peru, and Bolivia, $20,000."
One of tbe most eminent of Ger
man medical men is reported as say
ing that there are not less, probably,
than 10,000 persons in Germany who
have become slaves to the habit of
hypodermically injecting morphine.
There are many who take as much as
eighteen injections every day. Some
have hardly a square inch of skin on
their bodies which is not marked by
scars produced by this practice.
Slaves of this habit are even more
hopelessly enchained than those who
take opium in other ways, and it is
speedier destruction.
The corn crop of Georgia this
year is unprecedented in the history
of the state, the crop planted having
been very large and tbe yield extra
ordinary, averaging, it is said, from
thirty to forty bushels to the acre.
Tbe farmers of Bulloch, Effingham
and Emanuel have made enough of
this valuable cereal to supply tbe
local demand for the next two years.
It not only insures the farmers
against want, but it makes them at
last independent of the western
speculator, who relies for making
money upon his ability to corner
the market and bleed the people.
The house committee on naval af
fairs has decided to advocate the in
sertion iu the naval appropriation
bill of a clause which will provide for
the construction of one. new ship of
war of the largest type, of one
second-class ship, and of two gun
bearing torpedo boats. It was de
cided to offer a motion to strike out
of the Robeson bill tbe clause which
empowers the secretary ot tbe navy
to close such navy yards as be may
elect, aud to insert in lieu thereof a
paragraph providing for the ap
pointment ot a commission to visit
the several navy yards during the
recess of Congress for the purpose
of inqniring into the expediency of
abolishing any of such yards.
Judge Taylor, Garfield's successor
in congress, has a bill which he in
sists upon having considered, pro
viding for the relief of Mrs. Garfield.
Taking everything into considera
tion, Judge Tavlor displays poor
taste in forcing Mrs. Garfield to ap
pear before the country as a mendi
cant. While it is remembered that
Cyrus Field's fund bestowed upon
bcr $250,000, that her homestead at
Mentor is worth $25,000, that she
received $50,000 insurance money at
tbe time of her husband's death, and
that congress has voted her an an
nual pension of $5000, it would ap
pear that she ought not to have any
wants that tbe government could re
lieve that she could not supply her
self. According to the latest authorities,
it is discovered that education not
only equips a man mentally to con
test with the vicissitudes of this lite,
but that it physically toughens him
to wrestle with hardships. A Wash
ington writer claims that this is so,
and cites the Jeannette crew as an in
stance, saying : "It has been widely
remarked that of the twelve men
left in the Jeannette party
alter Nindermann and Noras left it,
the eight sailors died first, leaving
still alive the three men of educa
tion, DeLong, Ambler and Collins,
together with the Chinese cook. In
tie Melville party Danenhower was
incapacitated by his blindness, but
was otherwise strong, while not a
sailor in the party was physically
able to accompany Melville in his
November dash over the Lena delta."
The report of tbe mercantile
agency of R. G. Dun & Co. for the
first half ot 1882 shows the number
of failures reported and the amount
of losses aggregate twenty-five per
cent more than for the correspond
ing season of 1881, yet as compared
with the years 1878 and 1871, it
shows a falling off of more than fifty
per cent in both these items. There
seems but little ground for any seri
ous apprehension of financial
troubles, judging by this showing,
while if the general reports of
good crops should prove to
be justified'when the harvest is gath
ered there is little doubt of an era of
increased prosperity. Some have
suggested that there was too much
capital being sunk in railroad build
ing, but the statistics show that at
the ontside not to exceed $150,000,
000 will be spent this year for that
purpose, which will be far below our
own natural accumulation of profits
and will therefore not run us in debt
on the whole a single farthing.
The total receipts of the govern
ment for tbe fiscal year ending June
30, were the largest since the founda
tion of the government, except for
the years 1860 and 1867. In 1866 the
total reoeips were in round num
bers, $320,000,000, and in 1867, $463,
000.000, furnishing a net surplus of
S15L684.S50. which has been applied
to the extinguishment of that
amount of the outstanding debt.
Tbe various items from wbicb
this immense revenue was re
ceived were as follows: Cus
toms. $219.678,698 ; . internal reve
nue, $146,147,976; miscellaneous,
$37,634,510: total, $403eo,V- The
Increase of tbe total revenue over
that of 1881 amounts to $42,677,992.
An examination of tbe figures ot the
interest bearing debt shows a re
duction since July 1,1881, of $175,-
757,350. This, taken in connection
with the amounts refunded at lower
rate of interest, reduces tbe interest
charges from $75,000,000 annually to
$57,000,000, a reduction of 118,000,000.
It would seem in connection with
this very hopeful showing, that a
very marked reduction in taxation
might bo safely indulged in.
V. P. Bonner, of Meadvllle, Pa..
writes : "1 ee! like new-born creature.
Transformed trom a crabby dyspeptic
and nervoTS sufferer to a robust, strong,
healthy man, it an seems use aresm
... Rrown's iron itters ua it. x leei
very kindly toward everybody, especially
to tie inventors of so good a medicine, j
Pro 1 1 is of Sonttaern manufactures.
Southern Cultivator.
As compared with the cotton
manufacturers of New England, the
southern mills show a wonderlhl
difference in earnings. Mr. Rusell,
a Massachusetts member of congress,
said, in a recent speech in the house
of representatives: "I have from
official sources a statement showing
that fifty of the leading corporations
in Lowell, Lawrence, Chicopee aud
Salem, Massachusetts; Manchester,
Nashua and Newmarket, New
Hampshire; Lew is ton and other
points in Maine, representing a capi
tal ot $50,000,000, engaged in manu
facturing the various grades of cot
tou and woolen fabrics, have' paid to
their stockholders in the past years
an average dividend of a little less
than seven per cent per annum
only."
Here is an authoritative statement
that the manufacture of cotton
goods in New England is not one
half so profitable as in tbe south. On
this $50,000,000 invested in Northern
mills the profits for the past five
years have been less than $17,500,
000; while tbe same amount of cap
ital in southern mills, basing our
calculations upon what other mills
now pay, would have been lrom
$40,000,000 to $50,000,000, or possibly
more. Such a difference as this is
bound to tell. The southern mills
save from $2 to $3 a bale in the mat
ter of freights aloue, as compared
with what the northern mills pay.
They have lighter expenses for heat
ing, cheaper raw material, an abun
dance of water power, cheap labor,
cheap living, and other ad
vantages which enable them to
pay more than double the profits that
northern mills can possibly earn,
and these things are already work
ing out a mighty material develop
ment of the south. With natural
advantages for combining agricultu
ral pursuits and mauutactures, un
surpassed by auy couutry, tbe south
era states will, ere many vears. have
passed rank as one of the richest
countries in the world. The march
of progress has already begun, and
in the next fifteen or twenty years
tne result will be seen in vast manu
facturing industries, in mining lor
gold, silver, iron and coal, in stock
raising, in cotton, iu breadstuffs and
in tropical frcits, to an extent that is
scarcely dreamed of now.
POLITICAL, NOTES.
Cornell of New York, the New
Haven Register asserts, is said to
have an eye on the presidency. So
indeed, has Daniel Pratt, with about
as much snow of getting there.
John Sherman says be believes
there is no lobby iu Washington.
Sherman ought to know, remarks
the Cincinnati Enquirer, for if there
is a lobby there Sherman would be
Introduced to it.
The great trouble with the present
administration and its newspaper
organs, the Atlanta Constitution al
leges, is their attempt to hold Mr,
Blaine responsible for aud to bring
into disrepute a policy which he
merely had the honor of formulat
ing.
This is July, the Denver Tribune
observes, and Uorsey, an indicted
thief, is still secretary ot the repub
lican national committee. The con
stant repetition of this fact 6ouuds
tunny to people who do not know
that it is disreputable to have a thief
in such a position.
EDITORIAL NOTES.
The
States
funded debt of the United
is now only $l,463,8i0,000.
There were redeemed iu the last
fiscal year, ending June 20, $127,
600,000 bouds. At this rate it will
take only about eight years to pay
off the whole bonded debt.
Tbe coal-oil interest in this coun
try is only about twenty years old,
and yet it is one of the most impor
tant vocations that are presented in
our statistical returns. There is not,
probably, any other interest that has
brought as large a profit in propor
tion to the amount of expenditure.
The yield of oil wells, chiefly in
Pennsylvania, last year was 28,950,-
ouo barrels, and the exports were
valued at $40,315,000. The impor
tance oi these figures may be esti
mated when it is remembered that
twentv vears ago we exnorted no
coal oil at all. It is a new aud clear
addition to the list of our products.
It is said that the oil mills have ad
ded $1,500,000,000 to the stock of the
country's wealth.
The total production of petroleum
in Pennsylvania and elsewhere dur
ing the year 1859 was 2000 barrels,
aud the average price per barrel
was $20. During 1881, according to
carefully compiled statistics, the
production was 26,950,813 barrels,
and the average price 85 cents per
barrel. The total cousuniptiou of
petroleum during the year 1859 was
5C0 barrels, it being used largely as
a liniment for man and beast. Dur
ing 1881 the consumption was 21,
263,740 barrels. . From the discovery
of petroleum to tbe present time, its
lowest prices were obtained during
1861, when the average price per
barrel was 49 cents. The total num
ber of barrels of oil produced since
the early discoveries on Oil creek,
is 186,502,798 ; the total consumption,
155,181,437 barrels a difference of
upwards of 31,000,000 barrels. Tbe
stock now held in iron tank
age in the oil regions is plac
ed at about the latter figures.
SCRAPS OF SCIENCE.
The ozone, so called, which is
largely advertised as a preservative
for animal and vegetable substance,
is sulphurous anhydride, which, it is
well uown, destroys the germs of
fermentation.
A Venetian bouse has produced
spun-glass hats, but tbe German
press cautions buyers that the par
ticles of glass which are constantly
flying off cause great irritation to
tbe skin, aud are very dangerous to
the eyes. Whoever has had an atom
of the glass buried in bis skin will
understand the value of this warn
ing. .
An automatic fire extinguisher for
public buildings, which has recently
been devised by Mr. Maxim, com
municates with a water main steam
pump, reservoir or special carbonic
acid generator, and when fire breaks
out is set in motion by tbe heat; at
the same time it connects with a fire
alarm and calls out the police and
firemen.
After a cruise of a few months in
the South Pacific, a French man-of-war
was recently found to have
specimens of living corals growing
npon her hull. Tbe interesting dis
covery has thrown some light on
the question of growth of corals.
The evidence fends to show tbat
the vessel, on passing a reef off the
Gambler islands, against which she
rubbed, bad picked up a young
funga, wbioh adhered to the sheath
ing and grew to a diameter of nine
inches and a weight of two and one
half pounds,
. Mr. Van Kysselbergbe, director of
the Belgian Meteorological Bureau,
has discovered, a system for trans
mitting telegrams and telephonic
messages simultaneously along the
same wire. The French minister of
posts and telegraphs has received in
Paris from Brussels, simultaneously,
a telegram of 53 and a telephonic
dispatch of 119 words. The practi
cal advantages of this invention are
estimated by the French and Belgian
governments as of tbe utmost im
portance. There is no one article in tbe line o
medicines tbat gives so Urge a return for
tbe money at a good porous SI lengthen
ing Master, inch ss Carter's Smart Weed
and Belladonua Backache Plasters. For
sale by Morley Bros, r
Tie amy Slow Cons to Teias is season !
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AUSTIN, Texas, Mir, July 26th.
AFTERNOON AND EVENING !
"W C COU
NEW XJITITED
MONSTER SHOWS
Menagerie, Aauarinm, Hall of Statues, MnsBum,
Autom atic El x position,
Three Full Circus Companies
-AJSTID G-RE-A.T WORLD'S PAmt
TO WHICH HAS BEEN ADDED THE
Vast Paris Hippodrome
COLISEUM AMPHITHEATRE!
Tbe Largest Csnvm Ever Made, Requiring No Less tbn Seventy-flve Centre Poles t
All of which are as as Urge ss tbe centre poles used in ordinary three
and tour pole tents, and covering an area ot Eight Acres 1
A RACE TRACK ONE HALF MiLE ROUND AND FORTY FEET WIDE !
Three Fill Circus Companies la Four Immense Rincs !
One Hundred and Seventy-flve First-class Performers,
SPx-A. tl . Melvlllo aud Vrm Duorow,
Tbe Champion Riders of tbe World.
UE'X-X J!-A.3NT3Sr,
Tbe Host Beautiful and the Finest Equestrieane Living.
The Celetratei Bronclos. Tie Leaping Horse, Settle.
XfcX'JLi - . Xj-V.,
In ber Terrific Head-foremost Dive sad Esgle Swoop
from tbe Summit of tbe Amphitheatre.
T-m O "T AT! , The Human Canon Ball.
ZMC'x-XO LOYALB, BH"BB ,n hw 'o"ng Leaps.
Iu her Wonderful Bycycle Act.
A Grand Historical Tableau of tbe Assassination of GsrQeld, and the Identical
Clothes which Ouiteau wete at the time of tbe Assassination,
and the Suit be wore during the trial.
Prof. White'si Dog C'.rcna and Canine Co-mediann.
Prof, Robert's) Brazilian Ponr Circai.
Trained Elephants, an Immense Marine Aquarium, with lta Bea Lions, 8ea Leopards. KlepbauU.
and Monsters or tho Deep.
A grand Free JRria 8leht, A BALLOON RACK I unless prevented by storms, will be eiven
every day. A GOKUKOUl? OfEN A.1R PARADE will be Riven between nlieVnd ten "cTocs."
Doors open at one and seven p. m. Performance an hour later. Prices as ssual. Children under
nine years hair price. Reserved seat tickets can bo purchased at a small advance, at Uassard.
Raymond & t o b mnplo-Store.
No camp followers allowed, nor will any gambling or swindling games be allowed on tbe
gronnds.
"COTTON FtJTPRES,))
Why the Toons; Nasi Wbo Takes a
Flyer Does a Foolish Tbiog-.
New York .Letter.
"Do you sec that handsome man
buyiug peaches at a dollar apiece V
said a iriena ot mine to whom 1 an
plied some weeks ago for iiiforma-
uou concerning tbe evils of gam
bling: iu wheat aud cotton. We
stopped a moment to admire some
wonderful hot-house peaches, which
the person in questiou was buying
at a dollar apiece. "There it a case
iu point,"coutiuued my friend. "That
man i a so-called broker. Do you
kuow how he makes bis liviug?
Well, he has done nothing for tbe
last five years but buy and sell a cer
tain fictitious 100 bales of cotton.
He passes bis life at it. He buys and
soils it half a dozen times a day
sometimes, when the fluctuations
are heavy, ile does not know one
grade of cotton from another; be
probably never saw a cotton field,
or the inside ot a cottou mill; he sel
dom sees auy cotton, even in bale ;
he does not know any more than the
man iu the moon why cottou goes
up or down. Yet his interest In life,
hit calculations, his very being, are
centered iu tbat one huudred bales
of cotton which exist only on paper,
lie is nothing but an inveterate
gambler ' engaged in fleecing
foolish people. In reality be is
no better than tho faro player
upon - whom tbe police may pouuee
but do not. The social difference,
however, is immense; one is a highly
respected member cf society, who
cannot find words too severe for the
faro player, while the latter la an
outcast. Borne day in the chantre
which comes to all men once or
twice, tbat man will be carried out
of hia depth by some run ol luck
and will be tempted to extend his
operations beyond that fictitious 100
bales, lie may make a fortune in a
week, but bis chaucea of keeping it
are as one against a huudred. Once
a gambler, always a gambler. Ile
knows no other pleasure. Since
be was an office boy, he has known
ana neara or nothing but Doints con
cerning tbe buyiug ana selling of
mat one nunareu Dales, lie knows
nothing about books, art or music,
aua oi tne tncater be knows only
tbe worst side. His intelleatual
vision is limited to tbe antics of that
hundred bales of cotton. lie is elat
ed or depressed according to Its be.
havior. When bis fetich goes against
him and he makes nothing, he is
pbiiosopnicai, rides borne in the
horse cars aud talks about tbe evils
of speculation and the effects of such
fortunes as Vanderbili's. When his
hundred bales make fortv or fifty
dollars tor him, he rides home in a
cab and buys peaches at one dollar
apiece."
mil aa a Remedy.
Considerable has been lately said
in medical journals concerning the
value of milk aa a remedial agent in
certain diseases. An Interesting
article on this subject lately appear-
ea in the London Milk Journal, in
which it is stated, on tbe authority
of Dr. Benjamin Clark, that in the
East Indies warm milk is used to a
great extent as a specific for diar
rhoea. A pint every lour hours will
check the most violent diarrhoea-stomach-ache,
incipient cholera, and
dysentery. Tbe milk should never
be boiled, but ouly heated sufficient
ly to be agreeably warm, not too
hot to drink. Milk which has been
boiled is unfit for use. This writer
gives several instances in arresting
the disease, among wbioh is tbe
fnllnwinor- Thn writer saVS! "It
has never failed in curing in six to
twelve hours, and I have tried it, I
should think, fifty time."
u 1 have also given it to dying
mn vhn had been subject to dys
entery eight months latterly accom
tmniprf hv one continual diarrhoea,
and it acted on him like a charm. In
llii'jiil Hew
EXHIBIT IN
two days his diarrhoea was gone ; in
three weeks he became a hale, hearty
man; and now nothing tbat may
hereafter occu will ever shake his
faith iu hot milk." A writer has also
communicated to tbe Medical Timet
and Gazette a statement of the value
of milk in twenty-nix cases of
typhoid fever, in every one of which
its great value was apparent. It
checks diarrhoea, and nourishes and
cools the body. People suffering
from diseases need lood quite a
much as those in health, aud much
more so in certaiu diseases where
tbere is a rapid waste of the systerru.
Frequently all ordinary food in cer
tain diseases is rejected by the
stomach, and even loatbed by the
patieut; but nature, ever beneficent,,
has furnished food that in all dis
eases is beneficial some directly
curative. Such food is milk.
The writer In the journal lusb.
quoted, Dr. Alexander Yale, after
giving particular observations upon,
the point above mentioned, itsac-
tion in checking diarrhoea, it
nourishing properties aud
its action in cooling the
body, says: "We believe tnat milk,
nourishes in iever, promotes slrrj
wards off delirium, soothes tb
test lues, aud, in fine, is tbe .io'e ,.un
non iu typhoid fever.. We have
lately tested the valuq jf milk iu
scarlet fever aud le&rp. in at it is now
recommoDe ay r.e ,edical facul
ty in alt cases of this often very dis
trainer children's disease. Give ail
the milk tb,. patient will take, even
during tf.a period of greatest fever.
It keep up the strength ot the pa
UenL acts well upon the stomach,
and is in every way a blessed thing
in this sickness." y
Ladles will flnreller from their bead,
aobs, costiveness, swimming In tbe bead
colio, sour stomach, restlessness. Indiges
tion, constant or periodical sick head
aches, weakness in the bacK or kidneys,
pain In tbe shoulders and different parts
ot tbe body, a feeling of lassitude and de
spondency, by taking Simmon's Liv-r
Regulator. It should be used by all per
sons, old and young. It Is not unpleasant,
is purely vegetable, and is not injurious
to tbe most delicate constitution. None
genuine except that prepared by J. 11.
Zellia Co;
Protection far tne Eye.
A. Balm, the leading jeweler, has
smoked glasses at twenty -five cents and
upwards. ju20tf
flOSTT
It Is tbseonenrr n testimony of the pcblle
snd tbs medio profession, tbat Ilostetter's
U torn ten Bitter Is s medicine which scblsvea
results pee'lily frit, thorough wnd twnlira Be
side rectifying liver disorder. It Invigorates the
feebls. conquers kidney snd bladder complain i,
sad nutans the eoDvslecencs of tbose recover.
Inn from rafeehllng diseases Moreover It is
tbe frsnd specific for lever and avse.
For sals by aU Druggists sod Dealers en
erslly. Jyiideodswew
$4000 At Marriage.
THR .
BEIT . AND CHEAPEIT,
A SEW COMPANY jart organised on the
foor munths plsn. No SMeosmenu till
November 1. Writs for. circulars, terms to
agents, stc , to In. 1. H. 1IOFKIN8, 8c'y,
Jy8 dwtawlt hoi ol. West Point, Miss.
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