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"HE WEEKLY STATESMAN.
AUSTIN TEXAS.
THURSDAY MARCH 9. 1882
The attempt to assassinate the
qaceu of Euglaud Thursday will
serve to recall the prophecy made
by Nevada astrologer some time
ago that one of the European mon-
arclia will die durinsr the month of
March.
The Norristown (ra.) Times is
liberal and fair-minded when it says
It is not enough to pardon General
Fitz-John Porter. "A man deeply
wronged as he wants more than
pardon. He wants justice and jus-
tice demands ample reparation for
theve&raof iniurr and sorrow he
has been made to suffer."
Senator Hoaii made some very
unstalwart remarks in the executive
session in considering the nomina
tion of Mr. Conkling which found
their way to the ears of a reporter
aud thereupon the senator made an
explanatory visit to the president
These senators all desire to keep in
with the appointing power aud that
a what explains the vote ot Demo
crats who Javored retiring General
Grant jou an annuity of $12500.
Hundreds of hungry and poorly
clad men women and children have
been driven from their humble
homes on the river front of Louis
ville by the flood. Whereupon the
Courier-Journal thinks that if "in-
stead of paying five hundred dollars
to learn to live up to the sunflower
Loulsvillo people with plenty and to
spare would give that sum to en
able the flood sufferers to live up to
a little bacon and greens they would
Ir the postofllco bill that has
been adopted by the house becomes
a law il will do away with sub-
letting of contracts for star route
service. The bill Is favored because
it offers a means to break up the
combinations of the star routo con
tractors who mauago to pick up
most of the ten thousand star routes
to the exclusion of local bidders.
The opponents of tho bill say the
enforcement of the bill would in
creaxe the liabilities of the postollice
department since those who bid ex
pecting to sub-let contracts always
propose nioro advantageously than
the local bidders. With honest admin-
istration the discrimination against
local bidders would increase the
expense but tho plan with the ring
has been to bid less than the local
bidder and then under a subso
quent arrangement for increased
service aud greater expedition the
prlco is raised to many times what
tho local contractor would charge.
It is evident the members of the
ring intend to hold the service if in
their power to do so. Different
names may be used in bidding but
the ring lives for having robbed the
country of millions in tho past and
beiug now ft little annoyed they
naturally havo a desire to protract
. their right to draw on the treasury
. A Greenback convention lately
held at Palmyra Missouri adopted
a platform one plank of which was
taken from Democratic platforms;
in fact it contains sonud Democratic
doctrine aud it is thcrcforo sug
gested in Missouri that if the Green
backers will stop their third party
foolishness they may really find all
tho reasonable comfort ft man may
want in the Democratic party. The
truth is the Greenback party within
itself is a powerless factor in
the politics of the country and the
purposes for which it was organized
are false and hence of no influence
Having no true principles by which
to solvo any political problem there
is no wonder that Greenbackers
now try to steal Democratic thun-
der but this abandonment of ft pur-
nose shows tho wretchedness of
w
their organization and knowing it
they are trying to ally themselves
with everything Dennis Kearney
included that will give them any
promise ol temporary position
Therefore it may be concluded that
they are not honest in their declara
tion that principles are nothing to
them and that thoy now steal planks
from Democratic platforms because
they think it will bring popularity
in a Democratic state and probably
pull off a few more soft Democrats
from allcgianco to party. Compare
this Missouri platform with the plat
forms made by the samo party in
Maino and you will find very radi
cal differences. The reason for this
is that ft different character of chaff
is needed in Maine to catch the soft
lleDubllcan from that which : Is
needed in .- Missouri to catch
the soft Democrats.. The
movement of Greenbackers in all
the states is simply to win offices
from the party in power whether
this be Democratic or Republican
They have no truth to cling to and
were it not for the hope of ft fow
offices thev would never more be
heard of in the United btatcs.
Mr. Blount of Georgia who has
long been a prominent member ot
the appropriation committee of the
house is acquiring quite a fine rep-
utation not only for his practical
ideas npon the question of proper
expenditures in governmental af
fairs but for ft stubborn and un
flinching resistance to the jobbing
schemes of tho now dominant party
n the house. Only ft short time
ago he discovered and effectually
frustrated ft well laid scheme for
robbing the treasury of half ft mil-
lion and again on last Saturday he
ruled outrby objection at the proper
time au attempt to add $600 extra
to the saiarie f the deputy com
missioners of pension aud $500 to
the chief clerk. . The number of
deputies ia not named but there are
doubtless enough of them to have
drawn at $600 each an amount suf
ficient to pay Mr. Blount's salary in
the house lor the balance ot his nat
ural life. '".
" The director of the uiint decides
w.n;n which has been mutilated
Xi VT- rinred to its position as
WLUy..v .:--- - . .
made y Ft cannot become money
made. tin0 without
again prouj
btiag recomed.
HAS BY OX IRELAND.
i
Petroleum V. Nasby " (R. D.
Locke) has recently taken a tour
through Ireland and In Boston re-
cently ho addressed . an immense
meeting upon the subject of the
Irish cause. His address was one of
the severest arruignments of land-
lordism In that unhappy island we
have read. Among other things he
said:
What Is landlordism? It Is con
densed villainy. It is the very top
and summit of oppression cruelty
aud horror. It was conceived in
lust and greed born of frand and
perpetuated by force. It does
not recognize womannooa man
hood or childhood. Its cold
hand is upon every cradle of
Ireland. Its victims are the millions
of people in Ireland who cannot get
away ana tne instrument nsea to
hold them are bayonets ana nan
cartridges. Irish landlordism is legal
brigandage it is an organized new
It reaches from the bottomless
depths of the hell where i. was
born to the summit of British
creed and rapacity and that has
never vet been measured. Wesley
said that African slavery was the
sum ot all villainies. Irish laud
lordism comprises all the villainies
that the devil . ever invented
with African slavery thrown in
merelv as a flavor. Irish landlord'
ism makes African slavery a virtue
by comparison when . a uegro
slave got too old to work he was
provided for while life lasted. .The
Irish tenant when be becomes old
and cannot work is thrown out
upon the roadside with his wife and
children to rot. He has created
lauds with his own hands which he
ia not allowed to occupy. He ban la
bored as no other man in the world
labors without being permitted to
eujoy the fruits of his labor. The
virtue ox bis wile ana aaugnter are
in the keeping ol the villain
who by virtue of bayonets
controls his lands. In short to
fcum it all up the Irishman is a serf
a slave under mis system cniia
hood is robbed of its care youth of
its iovB. manhood of its rewards and
old age of its solace. Under this iu-
lumv everv smile ends in contor
tions of pain. Every laugh shades
on into a moan. Tne sight ot an
English landlord owning Irish
estates gets up In an American a
sort of respect for Hero." The lec-
turer Introduced ft brief nisiory oi
how landlordism estiblished itself
in Ireland and why it was permit
ted to exist his object being he
said to let Americans know that
there is an Irish anestiou tnat tne
Irish have not only reason for their
action but a thousand times the rea
son that our lathers of 76 had and
that their cause was one that must
enlist the sympathies ot every wan
who loves tne rignt ana nates tne
wrong. In the four weeks "JTasby"
was iu the south of Ireland be visit
ed one hundred aud fifty-eight cab
ins. This is his picture ot one or
them: "The Idea that human Do
ings made in God's image having
the power to thiuK to reason ana to
ant could live even exist in such a
hovel was incredible waamg
through mud and slush coming over
the Bhoe tops l bent my neau anu
entered. The room it so n couiu
be called by any stretch of imagina-
tion was so low that I could not
stand erect The . cold bare
earth that . . . constituted the
floor was damp and slippery aa tho
rain camo trickling down through
the open thatch aud formed little
oools on the ground. Near a sug
gestion of afire were huddled a wo-
man and four children the eldest
not more than eight years of age.
Aa I entered hev all arose. I was
horrified to see that they were with
out stockings and shoes ana tne
clothing was so torn and ragged
that it afforded no warmth what
ever. The mother and her little
girls were bine with cold.- Their
features were pmcnea wun nungor.
Their whole appearance indicated
the want and suffering they had
been enduring for years. Over in
one corner ot a room was wnst
thev called a bed. It consisted of
four posts driven -into the ground.
On stringers were laid a few rough
boards ana on i nese ooaras were
dried leaves and heather covered
with a lew old potato sacks. There
is where this family of six persons
slept. There was no window in the
house the only light ana ventilation
being furnished DV me aoor ana
the cracks in the thatched roof.
As for meat that . is some-
thing thev never dream of eat
ing. Only once a year do they
dare to nope to' taste it. On
Christmas dav they manage if they
cau to boil the half of a pig's face
and they mix their stirabout with
buttermilk to make a gorgeous
(east. . That is the only meat they
ever have and the pleasure of this
indulgence- is destroyed by the ve re
liable remorse that lollowa extrava-
Sance. Two meals of potatoes a
ay that is the diet they are born
to live ana aie upon a. io mew
clothing that is too horrible to-talk
about. In a ride of five miles from
the door of the hotel in Cork to
lilaruev cattle. 1 countea over nve
huudred women barefooted whose
feet had never knows ft noon
ing or a shoe." Referring to- tho
landlords and! ' scions '.of rovaltV:
" Nasby " asked : Have these peo-
Dle.frora first to last ever added one
penny to the wealth of . the . world ?
la there any one thing they have
over done to push forward the prog
ress ot the nations r Jot . a inmg.
On the.cQutrary. they have been the
dead weights they have. been the
incubuses they.have been the blocks
in the war. Thev simnlv live and
eat and drink and wear and disport
themselves in the gardens aw band
ringham and ft hundred other gar
dens : thev have castles and ser
vants and carriages ' and special
trains and all that sprt .ol thing and.
one hundred giuuea wguugs; anu
to suDDort all this witn the uoroe
of nobility hanging upoii them and
their retainers the men or Ireland
are starving aud the women of Ire-
r. i i . i 1
lauu are going sueieiw siuvaviugicBs
and well-nigh naked."
It Is undei'stood that the census
report will not be ready for several
months the work on the specialties
being very laborious.' While the!
last report was contained In 3500
pages of printed matter the census of
1880 will comprise 30000 quarto
pages. . The special subjects treated
are thirty-two in number including
I social statistics ot cities defective
delinquent and dependent classes
forest wealth gas quarrying
orchard fruits meat production in -
surance debts wealth and taxation
etc etc The work of collecting
tacts has been done by 1500 em
ployes and 31383 eno merators. The
first censuS report of this country
issued In 1791 was contained in a
volume of fifty-two pages. The con
trast between that . volume and the
forthcoming report will be wonder
ful.
. Collet" DlsceaU.
Wilmington Del- March
3.-
The trustees Ot the Wesley an female
college have decided to discontinue
the institution and return their char
ter to the Methodist conierence.
The purchaser Wm. Bright made a
nmnoaition to them to continue the
school paying him interest on what J
he baa expended but it wft. de-
Iclined.
lvu
PRESS OPIXIOXS.
What Texas Newspapers arc Say
lag- Akent Texas PaHtlcs
mm. Politicians.
WHAT SENATOR MAXEY COVETS.
Cleburne Clironicle: Senator
Maxey it appears is one of the
southern brigadiers who covets the
praise or being magnanimous by
supporting the fraudulent arrearage
of pensions act.
A W EST TEXAS HAN NOW. '
Tyler Courier: The Fort Worth
Democrat-Advance is very much dis-
pleased with the speech of Governor
ltoberts before the stockmen's con
vention at Austin a few days ago.
The Democrat-Advance must bear in
mind that Governor Roberts is a
west Texas man now.
WHAT A COTEMPORARY BELIEVES.
Clarkesville Timet: The Galves
ton Journal boils all over . because
the Old Alcalde and Senator Terrell
addressed the convention of stock-
men. We believe that if the gov
ernor were to head ft campmeeting
and go to converting sinners that the
Journal would be d d and go to
perdition rather than join such a
procession.
THEY HAVE KOC THE MORAL RIQHT.
Lampasas Timet: Everv child in
Texas has an equal interest with the
otners in the public lands belonging
to the state and neither Governor
Roberts nor the legislature has the
moral right to take anv part of those
lands to establish and maintain col
leges for the thousands and univer-
sities for the hundreds.
THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN GOOD
AND BAD.
Houston Ane : "It has long been a
settled fact that whisky ruled the
Democratic party and the Demo-
cratic party ruled the state." New-
comb't Evening Light. The Democ
racy used honest whisky and gave
the state an honest role. Ten years
ago .Newconib'8 Radicals were In
power and they drank mean
whisky and the state was unmerci
fully plundered.
HADE CP THEIR MINDS TO SCOLD.
Houston Age: There are in this
state a few papers and a few poli-
ticians that have made up their
minds to scold at Governor Rob
erts ; and scold they will no matter
what the old gentleman may do
They have made a covenant with
themselves to find fault and they
will keep the covenant.
i ONLY TWO CLASSES INTERESTED. '
Marshall Messenger : There are
only two clauses who have an inter
est in seeing local option carried
viz: tho men who drink and thoso
who do not drink.
I . ABOUT SPECIAL LEGISLATION.
!Breuham Banner? Special legisla
tion is one of the evils that takes up
much of the time of congress as w ell
as state legislatures. .Special legis-
lation occupies almost the entire
time of legislative bodies and multi-
plies bills to an enormous extent. It
should be stopped. . . . .
NOTHING TO AOON1ZE OVER.
Dallas Herald : Tho remark of the
man who said he. did not. think that
closing the front. doors of saloons
one day in seven would be a reform
that should be agonized over and
hailed as ft great moral triumph
strikes us as an eminently wise one.
we have never noticed . anv verv
startling influences for good on the
morais or the community that have
resulted therefrom.
REMEDY ITS OWN. FOLLIES.
Brenham Banner i The San An
tonio Timet takes a Democratic con
temporary to task for pointing out
the tollies of the Democratic party
and uot seeing anv folJv in the Re-
publican party it a Democratic
paper cannot point out the follies
Of its party who can? It is best
that the Democracy remedy its
tollies in its own ranks and unless
they are pointed ont they cannot
be remedied. . "
-uMMM nU A I Mm a A V A uoiltAll
Waco Examiner: - The States
Man holds with the Examiner that
the hiring out of county convicts in
counties beyond the jurisdiction of
the conrt that convicted them is
illegal. We contend further that
tbe terms of imprisonment inflicted
under this system are often cruelly
excessive and unwarranted by the
letter or spirit of the law. Let the
Irleuds of some prisoners thus
treated test the law by getting a
case before the court of appeals and
we believe the system will be
knocked higher than a cocked hat
GROWING BITTER.
Fort Worth Democrat : The local
option fight in Grayson is becoming
vary uuter anu personal a lady
correspondent of the Denison Dem
ocrat charges a certain citizen of be
ing an habitnal drunkard and a
wreck from the effects of red liouor.
and points to his .case as an example
of the baneful effects of drinkiuo-
said citizen retorts by; a general de
murrer ou oenes tne accuser to
prove the : truth of . the assertion
made. .The Denison and Sherman
papers are filled almost daily with
communications-pro 'and con. and
red noses aud bloated faces are be
ing mercilessly held np to the public
gaze in an tneir nideousness.- '
WHETHER ARB WE DRIFTING?
San Antonio JLrnres .' The ad.
dress of John Hancock at Austin on
the Rube Boyee ease was a remark-
able one but not more remarkable
than tbe factthatin this enlightened
age there should be- eiroumstanees
calling -for such remarks in a conrt
of justice. '.That the language used
by John Hancock is all the evidence
the people of Texas wilt require to
wuiiuw uicm iu&t it was war
ranted by the facta and it Is
enough to make one.. shudder to
think that there is a possibility of
u iauucui.muL oeing- arraigned
before -eourt of justice and cou-
demned to punishment dimply to
secure to certain officials the money
a wuricuuu entities mem to. When
omcers or the law undertake to
transfer a conrt of justice into a
court of iniquity It. is time for tho
people to step and ponder the ques
tion as io wnetner we are drilling.
Ryaa Waats ta Ftpat Atraia.
Paddy Ryan latehr reached Chi
cago and in an interview announced
bis intention to make it bis future
home.' He was asked how he was
feeling at present. and renll.d.
"Never better in mv life. I m an-
ing io piace myself under treatment
ior nernia aud ir I can get a truss
that will hold me ap I intend to
fight Sullivan again with or with.
out gloves for $5000 a side Richard
K. Fox of New York being my
backer." .He was asked whether he
expected . to meet Sullivan here
wun gioves and replied : Nn
j oar meeting will take place early
1 in March in the Madison square
Pro.en iew i orK irbullivan keeps
uis woru uu i nave uo reason to
cninK he will not do so." Rvan in.
ista that it was his trass that lost
mm tne recent fight and not Sulli-
van. He wants to fight again and
eem sure oi masing a better show
ing. . .. - .
Electlea of Of Users. . :
' At the ' meeting Friday of
Travis county medical association
the
the
louowug omcers were elected to serve
ior uie ensuing term: President Dr.
Bibb; vice president Dr. Maxwell; sec-
retary. Dr. Smith t treasurer. Dr. Balm;
censors Dra. McLaughlin Sweariagen
and Bart; delegates to the state medical
association Dra. Rutherford McLaugh-
lin. Balm Bart and Bibb. Dr. Burl
read an able and extended article on
disease of the eye (pZuneotAa) -which was
highly complimented by members pres
eat and ably discussed by Dra. Salm
Rutherford Mclaughlin ' Moore and
Bibb. ' - . ..
VER THE STATE. I
Burnet has a new bauk building.
Austin men are'biiyiug property
In Burnet.
The Reporter denies the rnmor of
small pox iu Belton.
The smallpox signals have been
taken down in Morgan.
Without crediting the present
years taxes Medina county owes
$3325.25.
The Athens Journal office was to
tally destroyed in the recent fire at
that place.
Governor Hubbard has gone to
Virginia to bring his daughter home
from school.
A New York dispatch denies that
the Palmer-Sullivan company has
suspended work in Mexico.
In two years from now Jackson-
ville will have five times its pres-
ent population. The Argonaut says
so. .
Preparations are being made at
San Antonio to entertain General
Sherman who is to visit that city
soon.
Wyatt Williams of Gainesville
is a much indicted man. He has
seventeen bills against him for cattle
stealing.
Peaches on some of the trees in
the vicinity of Victoria are as large
aa quail's eggs. Strawberries were
ripe a week ago.
Perry Haines an old negro while
on his way from Millican Sunday
uigni was Drinany murdered by un
known parties.
mi t -
ill. i 1 1 1 1 it cava a ir r-m n n......
at j a fvuu mauy
planters in Washington county are
already making heavy advances of
provisions io tenants.
There is no excuse for idling now.
The railroad contractors are oflurine-
$1.75 per day for hands and $25 per
mourn auu uoaru ior leainsrers.
iho Marlin Ball savs it is next to
impossible to tret mire liner's inni
and it calls upon the grocers of its
town to kaep cotton seed oil for
Bale.
Rev. Jacob Guver. late officiating
minister of the Methodist church nt.
yuihl Medina county was adjudged
insane lasi wees and sent to (he
asyium.
The Hemn8teadi?ei't'cK announces
its mteution to live awhile longer in
pne oi noous droughts small pox
uoiaio ougs aud cotton worms ant
delinquent subscribers.
From the J'osl't special edition :
According to the Uuiled States
census of 1880 the church member.
hip of lexas was as follows : Meth
odists 157000; Baptists 125.000;
Catholics 150000 ; Presbyterians
13.000 ; Christians (Campbellites)
7000; Episcopalians 4000: Luther
ans zuuu. Total 408000 amounting
to nearly ene-tourth ol the entire
population of the state."
St Louis correspondence: Tho
Rev. W. E. Penn. or. as he is srener
ally knowu"Major Penn the Texas
uuptist evangelist7' is at present in
St. Louis having come from his
home in Palestine. Texas to nur-
cnaoe . a canvass tent i0 leet in
diameter as the one he has is not big
euough to cover all the people who
drive every Sunday 150 and 200
miles to hear him preach
He also proposes to build a "nickel
church'' iu Palestine aud stated to
St. Louis reporter recently that
Gould himself would not give more
than a nickel and should ho offer
$10000 it would be refused." So
tar the ground for the site has
been purchased and paid for $300
being the amount invested. There
is only $7000 towards building the
$10000 "nickel church." The major
said that the names of General Gar
field and Jay Gould were on record.
Uuncle Daniel savs that as the
Houston Aae is a onblic snirited
and patriotic paper it decided to
save the legislature some trouble by
redistricting tho state itself; and
having done so all tbe salons will
have to do under that head is to ap
prove the Age's plan. It says : "Our
apportionment is eminently equita
ble and lust. It is an apportion
ment to which nobody will make
any sort of objection. It meets
every difficulty surmounts every
obstacle smooths every roughness
allays every rivalry dissipates every
preiudice and promotes every inter
est. The legislature when it meets
can do nothing better than to adopt
our apportionment pass a vote of
thanks to the Age and adjourn.7'
A LUCKY INVESTOR.
The Soccess that has Followed
. General Stanford's Florida
Venture.
Florida Corretpondent Atlanta Conetltntlon.
.Decidedly the most notable iigure
in the history of Fiorida develop
ment is General Saniard a Connec-
ticut man. His life has been a bril-
liant one. He inherited a fortune
married another and by the luckiest
ventures added largely to both. He
always lived lavishly and had loose
busidess methods but an irre-
pressible luck attend all his
investments. lie made considerable
money in the Wheeler & Wilson
company." The most of his life has
been spent in diplomatic service.
When quite young he went as sec
retary of legation to St. Petersburg
and was for some time the acting
minister to France in the absence of
Mr. Rives; whose chief clerk he was.
For several years he was minister
to Belgium and was re-appointed
by Mr. Hayes but- the senate failed
to confirm him.
His investments in Florida began
with the purchase of 20000 acres
a Spanish grant' afterwards known
as the SanfordVrant. He paid $30-
000 for this and at once began a
series of improvements. He built
two hotels at an expense of about
$60000 and laid out the town of
Sanford which now has over 1000 in
habitants lie established a grove
on the edge of Lake Monwe at a
cost of $So000 and then finding the
ground and exposure unsuitable
transplanted it and established the
now famous Belair grove.
He intended to make this a
nursery of all fruits adapted to Flor-
ida and therefore imported the best
orange lemon lime fig citron and
guava trees at great cost until he
bad snent $100000 on the grove. It
is estimated that he expended over
$200000 on his grant making the
total coit about $250000. - lie sold
probably about $100000 worth of
lands and lots to settlers and a short
time since the bulk of the rest to
an English company for $306000.
He reserved however hia Bel-
ftir grove worth $75000. Some
say that he also reserved the two
hotels and others thai he reserved
also one-third of what he said and
In the meantime six thousand acres
have been added by later purchase.
He clcared'a very handsome fortune
by his Florida investments besides
developing one of the best sections
of the state. At one time . be came
near being elected Uuited States
senator from Florida it being said
that he failed through lack of nerve
He now lives in Belgium having
proceeded there immediately noon
his nomination by M r. Evarts never
dreaming that bis confirmation
would fail. Ha fitted np his elegant
home there and is bound to keep it
tor several years ue is an agreea
ble accomplished gentleman and
believes thoroughly in the future ot
Florida. He has largo interests in
Alabama and Louisiana lives hap-
pily gratifies every whimand keeps
Dnsy nnoer a steady stream oi gopd
luck." . .
aao-Treaaary- Balance
New York March S. Sub-treas
ury balances: Coin $84713982 ; cur
rency 9447Ueov.
CAPITOL CCLLIXGS
As Gleaned from the Statesman
Reporter's Aete Book.
The charter of the Kenedy pasture
company was Hied Kirday with the
secretary of s'ate. The purposes and
meets or the company are to contract
for purchase improve and sell lands ;
to breed raise buy and fcell cattle.
hordes and mules sheep goats and
swine and to ship or drive tbe same
alive or the products thereof after
slaughter to home or foreign ports and
mantels - to import breed buv and
sell all classes of tine and im
proved stock ; to carry on a general
mercantile business; to buv and sell
produce goods wares and merchan-
dise; to do a general ranching business;
to bui d and establish slaughter houses
shipping pens and wharves and operate
the same for the purpose of carrying out
me oojects 1 1 tne corporation. The
capital stock of the company is one
million of dollars divided into
shares of one thousand dollars
each. The board of directors are
Miftiin Kenedv. Thomas M.
Kenedy James W. Kenedv. John G.
Kenedy aud Edwin Mallory and the
priu. ipal office of the company is at
Corpus Chnsti.
Ibeltio Grande and Pecos Railroad
company filed Its charier yesterday. The
road is intended to run from Browns
vi. le up the Rio Grande and
through the counties of Cameron.
niai:igo sstarr Zapata and Webb to
the coal helds in Webb eoun
y and thence throuch Webb.
Kinney and Crockett counties to the
Pecos river a total distance of Ave hun
dred miles. The principal office of the
com; any snail oe at Laredo ; the capital
siock oi uie company is placed at f juO.
0;;0 and the following gentlemen com
Dse me ooara ol directors : J. W.
Throckmorton of C'ollin county ; Wilson
vYatiuiiiOTon oi riew lorK: Louis Car-
We or VVehb county : Aleck C. Hunt.
or Denver Col.; Henry L. Carke. Mark
A. bliaffenburg Santiago Sandbez Al-
bert W. Wilcox and I. O. Howell of
Webb county.
Ihe charter of tho Rio Grande
del Norte Canal and Irrigation
company tiled its charter yesterday.
1 he purposes of this company are to
construct dams across the Rio Grande
del Norte at El Paso for irrigation and
construction of canals for navigation.
The domicile of the company is at El
Paso with the following board of direc
tors ; josian ir. Crosby or Houston:
Geo. B. Zim pieman Everard T. Egples-
ton Nathan G. Shelley James V. Ber-
gen of Austin; Thomas P. Martin of
Jefferson and Robert M'-sser of Lon-
don England. The capital stock of the
company is fixed at 12500000.
Clerks were busily cnirazed Frirdav
in the treasurer's office counting siecie
the deposits of tax collectors. In one
amount 5000 about sixty dollars of
uncurrent coin was found: i. .. coins
which have been punctured or otherwise
defaced. The treasurer cannot receive
this kind of money ex ept at its de-
preciated value hence callectors should
be careful in counting their funds for
transnusMon to the state treasury and
throw out all that is uncurrent which
means every character in the least de
faced or mutilated.
The governor's proclamation conven
ing the legislature in extra session on
Thursday April 6 appears in another
column of this1 moruinir's Statesman.
He submits ten distinct sublecls for leg
islative consideration.
The following is a copy of a memorlel
which has been submitted to his Excel
lency Governor Roberts and signed by
tony printers and publishers :
Yfllir ntprrnrlHIIMiji ronraaantinr.
printing and publishing interests or rex-
as would respectfully call your attention
to the manner in which certain portions
of the public printing or Texas has been
contracted for and done outside of the
state and the parties doing such work
also assuming to vest in themselves the
copyright thereof. We respectfully sub-
mit that this system has In the past and
will in the future if continued he inju-
rious and expensive to the state as well
as unjust towards an industry that in as
great a degree as any other hag been
loyal and true to the state and ail her ma-
terial Interests. We ante that a law be
passed vesting in tbe state ot Texas tbe
copyright or all works published under
authority of the state aud that all print-
ing that may be done wholly or partial-
ly at the expense of the state of Texas
shall be done within tbe state."
The Statesman is authorized by the
coraptrolli r to announce to parties who
may bid at the sale of land on which
taxes are due in unorganized counties
now in progress in front of his office tbe
following :
1. The comptroller regards all bidders
who may be present and who may com-
pete for the lands offered as bidding in
good faith with the intention of paying
iuc Huiuuuia oi uieir uiuo.
2. That all parties to whom the land
may be sold will deposit promptly at
such time as may be hereafter designated
by the comptroller the full amount of
their liabilities according to their bids
for land to which they may be entitled
to aeeas accoraing to their bids.
3. The sales clerk will keen an ac
curate daily account of the amounts due
from each bidder and the bidders are
requested to also keep accounts of the
amounts due from them on the bids.
4. When all the tracts of lancf will
have been sold announcement will be
made of the several deposits required
for each bidder to close his account as
made with tbe sales clerk and the de
posits must be at once made in cash.
5. Reasonable time will be allowed.
after deposit of the amounts due from
bidders in accordance with the sales
clerk s account for purchaser to exam
ine tbe records of any department and
ascei tain as to whether there be defects
in the title they may acquire at the sale.
bhould defects be found that are appar
ent from inspection of the certificates
of the proper officer the amount deoos
ited as bids for such purchases on lands
lmDronerlv sold.- will be refunded
b. Moneys will not be reauired to be
deposited eacn aay covering the bids
except under the contingency occurring
under rule 7.
7. As the foregoii g rules may not
reach the notice of all bidders who may
be present each bidder will be required
to sign an agreement accepting' the terms
of the foregoing rules ; and ia case of re
fusal be will be required to deDosit at the
close of each bid in which he may bethe
purchaser tne amount or his bid.-
A charter for a railroid from Browns
ville to "Laredo and from La-redd ' t6
Eagle'Pass was rejected yesterday; be
cause or the informality or application
It will be corrected when the- chatter
will be filed. . . . A v.i
Killed by tne Cars.
Information was left with the States
man last night that on Tuesday night
last at about 8 o'clock as a Dasseneer
t r -in was neanng tbe town of Uause on
tbe International and Great .Northern
railroad a white man was run over by
the cars lioth of his legs were'eut
off and his body otherwise horribly
mangled lie died almost instantly .
The unfortunate man was drunk and
asleep on the track and when the en
gineer saw him it was too late to stop the
train. Our informant did not furnish
the name of tbe deceased but said he
was known in Austin where he leaves a
wife and one child.
mercantile Failures.
New Yobk March 3. MeBsrs. R.
G. Dun & Co. mercantile agency
report that the business ' failures
throughout the country were one
hundred and thirty-seven against
one hundred and twenty-eight last
week. . The eastern states furnished
eleven the western states forty-five
the southern states thirty-nine tbe
middle states twenty-nine the a
cine coast and territories six a
New York city seven.
In the city of New York the most
important failure is that ot (Jozad
Brooks & Reynold who have Iiabu
ities amounting to several hundred
thousand dollars: mostly abroad
This disaster is said to have been
caused remotely by the collapse of
the Union Generate of .fans and
the contraction of continental bank
ing facilities resulting therefrom.
?rohiitloa iat Iowa. ' . .
Des Moines." Ia. March 8. Arte
tiauch debate the state senate has
asrreed to a constitutional amend
ment prohibiting tbe manufacture
and sale of intoxicating liquors as
beverage. The measure now goes
before the people. -
THE COt: UTS.
Cnlted States District Conrt Hon.
E. B. Terser Jadg-e Presiding-.
United States vs. Reuben Boyce : on
motion to arrest judgment and for new
trial. Motion granted. Judge Turner
in delivering his opinion yesterday morn-
ing on tbe motion adverting to the con-
flict of test mony on the trial between
the government's witnesses and those ot
the defense in connection with tbe affi-
davits of Dr. Fields and Mr. Holland
filed as a part of the motion said that
he did not view their effect as cu-
mulative evidence but as pri-
mary and material in minrortine
the testimony tending to establish the
auoi as tney aeterini ted conclusively
the date of the death of he little child of
Mr. Anderson around which tbe testi-
mony of the witnesses establishing the
alibi clustered and of the fact that Bird
Holland1 was road overseer of the
road claimed to have been worked by
defendant on the verv dav of the rob
bery which facts if true would show
the defendant to be innocent of the charge.
These facts now made to appear by un-
uiisiMnsu'e eviueuce were leu on tne
trial merely on the memory of tho wit
nesses ana mo-e or less confused and
part of which as to Holland's being road
overseer for 1876 and 1877 was ruled
out on the trial because not made to ap-
pear in a legal manner. He recognized
no rule of law that would not warrant
him in engrafting upon it an exception
if he was convinced of the fact that
the additional evidence adduced would
tend to show that an innocent man had
been convicted. In terse and vigorous
language he deprecated the harsh criti-
cism of the district attorney the jury
and the marshals indulged in by coun
sel as not warranted. Adverting to tho
affidavits of the jurors tiled as a part of
the motion Judge Turner said that
when the verdict was ; deliv-
ered to the court that the court at the
request of defendant s counsel bad polled
the jury and that each member of the
jury in open court had . recorded
the verdict as his. and such beine the
iact ne attaenca no consideration what.
ever to an affidavit of each juror im
peaching that verdict. Alluding to the
conduct of Deputy Marshal McFarland
in connection with the delibration of the
ury he relieved him from any Improper
motive in so doing but hoped and de-
red to state that no such conduct
would or should ever be at
tempted again in his court. As an hum
ble member and officer of the United
States government he had always at-
tempted to demean himself in his office
in such a manner as to command the re
spect of the public ; but from those who
disliked everything federal he could not
expect this.
JUaior West neinc present arose and
stated that in his argument on the mo-
tion he intended no reflection npon the
court as he did not entertain any idea
that the court participated in. or was
nowingof. the irregularities complained
mat it naa Been his duty as counsel
for his client to criticise but that should
it ever lie necessary and proper for him
in the discbarge of that duty to criticise
the action of the court he would not
hesitate to do so.
Beattle et al. complainants vs. Hoi
land et. al defendants ; decree and
judgment for complainants entered and
recorded.
Gultsan's Imitator In Conrt.
London. March. 3. MacLean was
charged at the police station with
shooting at the queen with intent to
do grevioua bodily harm. . He asked
whether any one was hurt but the
police refused to give him any in
formation. After searching tbe
ard at the railroad station
for an hour this morning
tbe police round a small bullet im
bedded in the ground. It bore
marks of bavins; first struck some
other object. It was right in the di
rection of the spot over which the
queen's carriage was passing having
probably passed over her horses
heads.
The queen and the Princess Beat
rice walked on tbe castle terrace as
usual early this morning.
.London March 8. Ihe charge
brought against MacLean before
the Windsor magistrate to-day was
tor shooting at the queen with in
tent to murder. The prisoner was
remanded for ft week. Formal
evidence was taken concerning the
prisoners arrest and hnding of tbe
bullet Maccean closely cross-examined
several witnesses. He did
not seem to be imbued with the se
riousness of the position.
London March 3. At the examl
nation of McLean letters written by
the prisoner were read. In the
first written before the shooting he
said he was compelled to commit
the crime against the bloated aris
tocracy because of the insufficiency
of the relief offered him. In the
second letter written after bis
arrest he said that his only object
was to cause public alarm and get
his grievances redressed : that he
did not mean to hurt the qu sen and
only fired f.t the wheels of her carri
age.
LiONdon March 3. MacLan78 an
tecedent'a show he is ecentrlc and
is addicted to drink.
Before the beginning of business
on the stock exchange this morn
ing all tbe members in the room
sang "God save the Queen."
It appears that MacLean recently
endeavored to force his way through
Eton college. The scholars who
were at the station to secure a good
position to await the passage of the
queen and the consequent bustling'.
prevented bU having an opportuni
ty to fire when be might have done
so with a worse result. -
There are various accounts aa to
whether his arm was struck white
firing or after he had fired. Police
evidence at' the examination went
to prove that he fired straight at
the 'carriage and not at the wheels
as he alleged. -k
The pope has telegraphed his re
gret at the attempt upon tbe queen's
life and congratulations upon her
escape.
Railroad Matters. "
New Orleans March 3. The
Picaynne says: Dispatches were re
ceived in this city ibursday night
announcing the conclusion of traffic
and - terminal contracts between
Morgan and Huntington. Tbe plans
ana arrangements it is uuuertiuuu
is one bv which the Morgan termi
nus in New Orleans will be used for
the combined Huntineton-Morgan
business. The relations of tbe Mor-
iran comDanv. with both Mr. Gould
and Mr. Hnutington has been ot the
most satisfactory character. All
three parties are working together
harmoniously and it la to be
hoped the result will be of the great-
est benefit to the commerce of this
citv. We are gl ad to be able to state
authoritatively that the whole pros-
pect of conflicting interests between
these parties is sausiaciomy enaeu.
The above included the bouthern
Pacific's business. . -
Knoxviixe March 2. The Polar
Creek case and iron company wa9
organized here to-day ; capital
$1000000. Colonel - G. J. Fore-
acre of Atlanta president of the
Rabun Gap railway of Tennessee
and Northeastern railway oi Geor-
gia was elected president of tbe
company; C. E. Lockey of Knox-'
ville vice president ; E. F. Willey
of Coal Creek. . treasurer; T. D.
Flippen general auditor of the East
Tennessee Virginia and Georgia
railway system was elected secre
tary. The company owns . ajjjw
acres ot coai lauus uuy nines irum
Knoxville and ten. miles from the
Cincinnati bouthern.
Colored Priest.
Charleston S. C March 3.
Rev. Thaddena Sallero the first
colored man ever admitted to the
ministry of the ProtesUnlTSpiscopal
Church in Sontb Carolina to-
day wafi ordained priest in St.
Mark's church by Bishop Howe.
There was fully $40000;000 of iolid
wealth reoresented at the Anstin
convention.
CATESVILLE.
Lynchers Held to Answer Conrt
Items Attempts at Jail
Breaking-.
8pcclal Telegram.
Gatesviixe March 3. The trial
of Robert Liverett and his two sons
charged with hanging D.-B. Deer-
ing was concluded before a magis-
trate on Wednesday night. There
not being much proof against them
they were held under nominal bond
to appear at the June term of the
district court.
Vi. II. Harney for an aggravated
astault given a two years sen-
tence in the penitentiary and John
beltzer charged with horse stealing
now in the county jail came near
breaking out last night. They had
a lot of small files aud drills and had
cut the hinges off the door when
caught. Half an hour later aud the
jail that bad known them onec
would have known them no more.
The weather for the past few
days has been fair and beautiful and
the farmers are all at work.
BASTROP.
Railroad
Boom 1 be Anstin
Southeastern.
and
Special Telegram !
Bastrop March 3. A great rail
road boom has struck our town. A
telegram was received to-day by a
prominent citizen of Bastrop from
General S. G. Griffin of New York-
president of the Austin and South-
eastern narrow gauge railway an
nouncing that he was now ready to
close the contract for building his
road over from Austin to LaGrange
via Bastrop. The citizens met this
evening en masse and took steps
for closing a contract with him.
Bastrop has made a proposition
to the Sunset road and awaits an
answer. ...
Bastrop is determined and will
have some kind of a road soon.
CORSICANA.
A Very . Serious Piece ol t'nn
man's Head Blown Olf.
Special Telegram.
Corsicana March 3. John York
attempted to frighten Charles
Alexander who slept iu an aljoiu
iug room by firing through the par
tition and blew olf the top of
Alexander's head.
HOAR AND I.OiiAIV. '
Trite nnd Toncnins; Interview
of
Two Enemies Witn Tne
President.
Washington. The personal un
pleasantness between Messrs. Logan
and Hoar which has existed tor i
long time has developed into a bit
ter pnase in connection with the
fight over the nomiuuliou of Mr
Conkling. Botn called on the pres
ident Mr. Hoar to explain his
speech against Mr. Conkling aud
Mr. Logan to abuso Mr. Hoar. It
so happened that both called at
about tbe same moment. Mr. Lo-
gan was received at onco and
shown into the library. A friend of
Mr. Logan who seemed to know
what happened so certaiuly that
the belief is justified that he got it
from Mr. Logan's lips says that the
general went at once to the meat of
the matter. He described Mr. Lo
gan as making a speech in about
these words : -
"You can't satisfy those fellows
Mr. President. Don't you see there
isn't any use of trying? They'll be
good enough to you so long as you
give tnera all tney ask but if you
tread on tbelr toes tbey boiler
You gave them Gray and they said
yon did your duty. Now you make
a nomination on your own account
and they try to sit on it. I just
want to say that it isn't any use
fussing with them any longer. Tbe
fight's got to come and we might
as well have it out and over.
want to see them all squeezed."
The president listened quietly
and there are some reasons to be
lieve not without sly amusement
Then Logan took his - hat and
marched away feeling much easier
for having freed bis mind.
1 Then it was Hoar's turn. I do
not know exactly what he said but
friends report tnat ne tola tne
president that the published account
of his speech greatly misrepresented
him. and tnat ne had connueu uis
objections to Conkling only simply
to those tnat touched on mental anu
legal qualifications for the higher
Honor.
The president listened but could
have said little for the interview
was brief.
The senators smile demurely to
night when they are told that Hoar's
mends say tbat be made such ex
planatlous as this to the president
and one of them savs that if he did
he mutt have made it in a pickwick-
ian sense. . .
. MAD GEORGIANS.
Wall Anions; Sontbern Carpet
Barkers over Iionajstreet's
Influence with tne.
Administration. 17
A Washington special : There are
some mad G eorgians. They say Ar-
Lhur is iu tbe banuu or Longstreet
so far aa southern appointments are
concerned and that "native-born"
men will be the only ones appointed
to office. Oh the part of "Col.'' Jack
Brown it is alleged that Capt. Clark
collector of internal revenue at. At
lanta is a "carpet-bagger" and so it
was settled tnar ne inusi go: aiso
Col. John T. Collins the collector of
customs at Brunswick Ga while
Wade the collector of internal reve-
nue at savannah is to stay because
the latter is a "native" southerner.
Clark is said to be a first-rate officer
and Collins has been one of tne best
in the whole South Atlantic sea
board. These ' angry Republicans
say it is a part ot toe general
plan of Longstrect and his bench
man. Jack Brown to oust every ex
union officer from federal offices
throughout tbe state. The postmas
ter at Macon Ga. is now tne only
one left. Collins is to be removed
to give place to one SUdelite Aleck
Stephens' private secretary. "Thus
do we conciliate" said the angry
Republican but the country is not
likely to suffer on this account even
if the Republican party in Georgia
does. It is said that the plan and
purpose of the president was to ap
point the "native-born" to all tbe
southern places bnt why he made
an exception or tne mulatto gam-
bler Pinchback.no one knows..
Onr Foreign Policy.
Atlanta Constitution.
It can be truly said that President
Arthur and his secretary of state
Mr. Whatshishnysen have succeeded
in conciliating Great Britain. In-
deed tbe attitude of our govern
ment ia pretty much that of the lit-
tle boy who was caught by his
teacher in the act of flinging a epit
balL - ;
WMBlSfUS Politics.
" Boston Post. '
Tha Rennbhcans sav Washinsrton
wasn't a Democrat. .Probably tbey
think if be was living in Virginia
to-day he would be a Mahone Re
publican. We do not.
THE OLD RELIABLE
WHOLESALE AND RETAIL
Gun Store
or
J. C. PETMECKY
bet
prepared than ever to rurnlib
the St of
Texas with breeen-loadini
runs I Hit and double-barrel shot-guna.
rrom si ma upwarun. A. lull stoca oi
GUNS IFLES PISTOLS ETC.
Of the b and most improved Englli
and Amer m manufacture. Also .
stock of
Pacer and Brass tells Wads and Cars
and i nil line of
Flailing Tackle
Repairing a id lumlshinz for guns
necialty. He 11 guarantee as eobu
work s scientific roechaDixm nan pio
iluce. Call si see him. au20dwl
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AC H E
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STATESMAN
Is now in its eleventh year of
existence. Inaugurated ml871
it made its appearance without
intermission and has steadily
inor eased in influence under
one continued and Consisted
management until at last it
stands in ihe very front rank
of journalism while it is noio
prepared more than ever to
maintain its standing as a
fearless and honest exponent
of public opinion and thought.
Always noted for its positive
expressions itwitt not remain
a passive observer of events.
It will utter Us opinion s frank-
ly and freely and positively
butatthe same time it will ac-
cord to those who honestly
differ with it that considera-
tion which establishes truth.
Holding that Democracy right-
fully exemplifies that form of
government which our fore-
fathers bequeathed to free
Americans and that the Demo-
cratic party has perpetuated
and that it lives and will III e
to perpetualesuch doctrines as
preserve a pure popular gov
ernment the STATISSMAJX
will be as it always has been
and always wiUbeDemocratic.
In federal aWairs the
ST A TESMAN will be guided
by the principles underlying
its political faith but that
which is good comina from
whatever quarter it may will
oeencouragea ana endorsed..
Its aim is to aid vure and
honest government not to give
countenance to personat or
dishonest administration.
In state politics the ST A TES
MAN has found reason in the
past to severely criticise and
condemn both Hepublican and
Democratic administrations
and as in federal affairs it is
apposed topersonalism inpub-
Uc administration so it oj)-
poses and will oppose any en
croachments upon popular
riq?dsand it will hold officials
whether of one or another po
litical creed to strict account
for their public acts.
As a vehicle of news the
STATESMAN will continue
to improve from time to time
adding all the appliances to
be secured for the rapid and
comprehensive collection of
news. It will be a newspaper
indispensible to business men
and which no farmer or me-
chanicor any one interested in
public affairs can afford to do
Without. JJesides it will in
many points make itself in-
dispensible to those of the gen-
tler sex seeking general inform-
ation or enlightenment in af-
fairs pertaining to the home.
To thefarmer and mechanic it
will give valuable hints and in-
struction derived from the best
sources at command.
TJie STA TESMAN will con-
tinue to advocate works of in-
ternal improvement commen-
surate with the greatness of
Texas and Vie beauty and pros-
pects and capabilities of its
Capital City. It will continue
M - a -t . ft A At
leacninq me people mai me
mills shall be brought to the cot-
ton and the wool' instead of
these products being taken to
the mills. .
ln ; relation to the public
finances it will continue to up-
hold honest money and the pay
ment of all honest obligations.
In the relations of States to
ihe Union the STATE S3f AN
will uphold the rights of th
slates in their own spheres
under the constitution as it is
and it will oppose the assump-
tion of powers on the part of
the federal. tinTrm.m.er. tint net
forth in the constitution a
federal ' government looking
alone to the condutt of federal
affairs. -
In matters of education the
STATESMAN will advocate
the mental elevation of the
masses but since Texas has
specially provided one of the
most maqnincent 'educational
funds in the warldr-a wonder
of wealth it will look forward
wits intelligent application as
a means of relief from special
taxation for educational pur-
poses. DAILY STATESMAN
will be a faithful chronicler of
tlie news and events of the day.
The -
Weekly Statesman
will be a compendium of all
that is valuable and useful and
instructive in the home circle
either in the country town or
cityt ; 77 ' "'
The Sunday edition of the
STATESMAN will be devoted
to ihe latest news to. giving re-
ligious information and to a
presentation of the affairs of all
the churches: ' Tliis edition
will be particularly devoted to
moral and social topics of the
highest order.
Advertisers will hardly fail
to recognize the STA TESMAN
in its growing popularity and
influence as an agency to be
used to their advantage.
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