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THE WEEEY STATESMAN.
AUSTIN ... TEXAS.
THURSDAY JULY 27 1882
nriiAftniTii CT ITr XirlCX
ULIYIUOnrtl IV OIMIL IIUICI
FOR GOVERNOR
JOHN IHELAND.
of Guadalupe.
FUR LIBtJTKNANT GOVERNOR
MARION MARTIN
of Navarro.
FOR COMPTROLLER
W. J. SWAIN
of Keel Kiver.
FOR TREASURER
F. R. LUBUOCK
of Galveston.
FOR COMMISSIONER GENERAL LAND
OFFICE
W. C. WALsII
of Travis.
FOR ATTORNEY GENERAL
JOHN D. TEMPLETON
of Tarrant.
FOR CHIEF JCSTICB HCPREMK COURT
A. IL WILLIE
of Galveston.
FOR ASSOCIATE JUSTICES
J.W.STAYTON
of Victoria ;
C. S. WEST
of Travis.
FOR THE COURT OF APPEALS
J. I'. WHITE.
of Guadalupe;
J. M. HURT
of Dallas ;
SAM A. WILLSON
of Cherokee.
Tub first bales aro beginning to
pour in.
Tiik tariff commission appears to
bo a gigantic fraud.
The nominations for the supreme
bench give universal satisfaction.
Tuk full text of the platform
adopted at Galveston appears in this
issue.
The Republicans in Arkansas are
having a Stack time and the party is
flying to pieces.
Ueorqe Washington u ones be-
fore retiring to private life it is said
will stump the state.
North Carolina thinks that
Tuesday is just as good a day to
bang a murderer as Friday dare be
There are 40000 postofflccs in the
United States and here are 46000
workers for the Republican ticket
The Republicans are getting up a
nice little scheme to snub theUrecn-
backera and freeze out Wash Jones.
The board of university regents
will meet at Austin on the 16th in.
stead of the 6th of August to select
a faculty.
The one thing that disturbes the
happiness of the Republican-Greenback
party in this state is that 100-
000 majority.
If the Egyptiaus will only carry
on their war a few mouths longer
they will have as many colonels as
the state of Georgia.
"Jim Blaine of Maine n is fur-
nishing the New York Tribune with
editorial matter upon Stalwartism
and Arthur's administration.
While the Russian Bear has his
hauds full in the management of the
Nihilists he is not too busy to keep
one eye on the aflairs of Egypt.
An attompt will be made in the
Republican convention to prevent
the endorsement of Jones for gov-
ernor and lively times are antici-
pated. Now we submit thai the country
is ou the highway to peace and pros-
perity. Brother Barnes haa induced
a lightning rod man to repeut and be
converted.
If the Macon Telegraph is to be
believed one of the livest issues of
the campaign of Georgia will be the
right of a citizen to destroy a book
agent upon sight.
The Greenbackers of Connecticut
have prepared for being comforta-
bly tanned and stored away for safe
keeping. Mr. Tanner is their candi-
date for governor.
It was thought that Henry "W
Grady of tho Atlanta Constitution
will be nominated as the Democratic
candidate for congressman at large
of the state of Georgia.
IlENRf Ward Beecher testified
in court that he could not solve the
simplest problem in arithmetic
Let the Plymouth church agree to re
duce his salary oue-fourtb its pres
ent size and he would figure out the
result in a few minutes.
The party which wants to be the
dominant party in this country must
be a party of one idea and that idea
must bo tariff for revence only.
Democrats who are afraid of making
that issue dominant will find out
their mistake. The war tariff must
go.
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1JU9 IV IUU BCMVU WUVU
leave comfortable houses in town
and engage eight-by-ten rooms at
some mosquito-haunted caravansary
by the seashore for the alleged pur-
pose of keeping cool aud enjoying
themselves. It requires a lively
Iraaglnatiou to conviuce anybody
who has tried it that there is much
genuine fun in this sort of thing
The sun-blistered countenances
which daily appear on the streets as
the result of a few days' dissipation
by the sad sea waves take the ro
mance out of this method of keeping
cool and the poor fellows who cau't
afford to leave town console them-
selves with the thought that their
lot is not the most uuhappy after all.
The Republican senators now ad'
vocaiing some reduction of tariff
duties because they see what a bad
record their party has made on the
subject of reducing taxes appar
ently forget that they emphatically
declared not long ago that it was
the next thing to treason to touch
the sacred tariff and that everything
concerning that taxing machine
should be left to John L. Hayes and
his colleagues of the tariff commis-
sion. The action of the Republican
senator proves that perslsteut anti
protection agitation is having its
effect. There will come a day when
lew men will care to boast that they
were champions. ot the taxiug ma
chine known as the war tariff.
TUB STATE UOIfVEltTIOflt ITS
ACTS AND ITS LESSONS.
The late consultation among Dem
ocrats of Texas at Galveston U one
of the most remarkable in many res-
pects of any ever held. It was cer-
tainly the most intelligent body of
men excepting probably the tax
convention of 1871 that ever delib-
erated in this state upon either pub-
lic measures or public men and the
impress of a genius pervading it
must be felt for years in the policies
aud in the development of Texas.
It is a notable fact that this conven-
tion really had life breathed into it
from the masses and its voice was
that of the people. Delegates as
sembled at Galveston with convic
tions as to public policies of a most
harmonious nature and while their
preierences for men took wide range
there was in all these a most graceful
surrender to the will ot majorities.
In no instance was there bad feeling
or uncompromising opposition dis-
played to that power which Democ-
racy has always taught should heal
all differences. The fact that the
convention was a purely Democratic
body obeying the will of the masses
and drawing inspiration from ma
jorities may account tor the har
mony that prevailed ; and this should
teach Democrats that the secret of
wisdom and of power is in a close
adhesion to the doctrines and pur-
poses of a great and indestructible
party. One singular instance may
suffice to demonstrate the force of
what is here said. In the Dallas
primaries persons of several shades
of political sentiment took part.
and the result was that two
separate delegations presented them-
selves at Galveston Irom Dallas
county both ready until the power-
ful but just will of the convention
exercised itself to engage in conflict
and to sow dissention. Had this
county convention not been compos-
ed of the materials named bad it
been composed as the party law
dictates of true material not a single
factor of proposed dissention would
have appeared in the state conven-
tion. As it was however its pres
ence was barely discoverable for the
moral power of an undivided body
awed these opponents into submis-
sion. The state convention was the
symbol of a force within the state
backed by an intelligence that must
lay prostrate like the hurricane
everything standing before it.
Even the small growth by
the margin is to be twisted and torn
aud be reft of its branches it must
perish and die and disappear. The
Democracy of Texas is now what it
has not been since 1873 thoroughly
united indivisible one in sentiment
aud a unit in purposes. As it was
preordained that John Ireland
should be nominated and made gov-
ernor so it is fixed that the prin-
ciples of Democracy as enunciated
at Galveston must lay hold of the
public seutiment of Texas and
sweeping all other sentiment from
before it Democracy becomes the
perpetual inheritance of Tex ana. As
goes Democracy in Texas in this
year of our Lord so it will go in the
foderal contest two years hence. The
meeting at Galveston the inter
change of sentiment the declaration
of principles there made the spirit
of acquiescence in preferment be
tween candidates for nomination
the hearty resolution of every dele-
gate to accept the nominees all be
ing a reflection of popular sentiment
tens us mat Democracy is more
powerful than it has been. Here is
the harbinger of safety to Texans
and when thieves break in and steal
the good name of their state they
are ever ready at the call of the
grand old organization to rally
to her protection. So it is
now. We are told that fed'
eral power in the furtherance of
centralization is organizing a move
ment upon our state government
one to make Texas a creature of
personal power dispensed at Wash
iugton of a federal will that wonld
suppress the legitimate powers of
states and subordinate them to a
power inherently base and practi
cally depraved. The declaration of
principles made by the convention
covers all the great living issues of
the day state and federal and
they revivify the doctrines that
have made and which have sus
tained these governments. The
platform meets issues squarely and
bravely and no uncertain notes are
sounded In the slogans that will
call in November the sturdy men of
Texas to the polls to vote for John
Ireland and ail this long line of good
men who have been selected to ad'
minister the affairs of government
and to protect the rights of citizens
and things. Give a people a pure
aud an able judiciary and that
people must surely be wisely gov
erned. The Democrats of Texas
have named men to compose our
supreme courts who when they
do compose them will add a luster
to justice in Texas as bright as at-
tends it in any country on this or
the other side of the Atlantic The
state ticket is an admirable one.
At; its head moves that "Sage of
Seguin" whose record for a -quarter
of a century has been devoted to
the best interests ot Texas
and defense of its institu
tions against the plunderer the hero
of a series of battles against modern
vaudals the sturdy unrelenting op-
ponent of trickery and the favorite
ot all but trading politicians and
wire workers. John Ireland and
the entire state ticket will be elected
in the face of organized opposition
by seventy-five thousand majority
and don't you forget it.
In choosing congressmen to rep
resent them in the forty-eighth con
gross the outrageously taxed
American people should be careful
to selec men who are pledged to se
cure a removal of the tariff which
levies war taxes on them in time of
peace. This taxing machine gives
the government $200000000 and
the protected interests about $1000-
000000 which is tribute the people
pay annually to a group of their fel
low-citizens whose aim is to keep
American citizens from being able
to get the goods they buy at reason-
ably cheap prices. Why should
Americans pay this enormous trib-
ute to fatten the pocket books ot a
few of their neighbors ?
TRAILING THE ER.1IKE.
ThejSTATEsxAN opposed the adop
tion ol the present state constitu-
tion mainly because of its judiciary
article. The oerlod preceding its
adoption was signalized by the most
degrading consequences resulting
from the personal and political ap-
pointment of judges and tSe remedy
then proposed was to make the ju-
diciary an elective instead of an ap-
pointive body. Governor Davis
composed the judiciary of his abject
servants and the judges being the
tools of a most corrupt political or-
ganization of which he was the
head in Texas sustained the sub
stitution of martial for civil law
and the supreme bench In the
end became the agency by which
popular institutions were attacked
and through which the most sacred
rights of the people were declared
null and of no effect. Properly
enough an appointive judiciary be-
came objectionable and when Gov
ernor Coke used the power or ap-
pointing judges to more effectually
pave his way to the United States
senate another and a further cause
for change was recognized and thus
the constitutional convention as
was the esse in more than this in
stance drifted into radical excess
without applying checks and bal-
ances. The purpose was to take from
the governor a power which had
been used for other ends than public
good and to again give to the peo-
ple that which they had dele-
gated to their chief executive officer.
Had the judiciary been allowed to
remain appointive had the terms of
judges been increased to twelve
years with salaries upon which they
could reasonably have retired with
means upon which to live out the
balance of an advanced manhood
and had the convention likewise de
cided that a governor should hold
his term for four years and then be
ineligible for a succeeding term the
pernicious character of the ap-
pointive system would have been
avoided and Texas could have had a
truly independent judiciary. As it
was the convention swapped the
devil lor a most profound witch
for the elective judiciary promises
more perfect trailing of the
ermine in the dust and filth of the
political field than any rule of ac
tion yet in force. The evidences go
to show that in the Galveston con-
vention there was the greatest honor
and cmlty shown by -opposing ele
ments and men in the selection of
candidates foiv state officers while
there were no uncompromising an.
tagonlsms except in the race for
judiciary places. While the nomi
nees for the judiciary are excellent
men and jurists still it cannot be de-
nied that two or three nominations
were secured by combinations and
trades and it is a crying shamo that
many of the candidates they
being happily defeated how-
ever were upon the ground re
sorting to all the means and prac
tices of pot house politicians to
secure places on the supreme bench
of Texas. We have heretofore re-
ferred to the personnel of the Gal
veston convention. It was made up
of the best and most earnest Dem-
ocrats of the state and had it not
been for the patriotic purposes of
the body there is no telling what
might have resulted from practices
not always fruitless in nominating
conventions. The universal senti
ment of the Galveston convention
because of artifices with which
delegates have confronted to
influence selections for the ju
diciary was that the judiciary
article in our constitution must be
changed and the platform of the
party asks the legislature to take the
prescribed course in securing such
change. If our judiciary is to be
kept pure and above reproach this
change must be made for all nomi
nating conventions may not act with
the same harmonious discretion as
this one which has just finished its
labors nor towards the furtherance
of the most intelligent methods by
which our judiciary may be created
the Statesman invites discussion
upon this question through its
columns.
PROFESSORS FOR THE UIM.
VER9ITT.
The university regents have an
nounced that they will elect a faculty
on the sixteenth of August and at
the same time they have postponed
the completion of any portion of the
university building until next J uly
Therefore there will be no means for
the inauguration of the university in
October for it may be presumed the
regents will decide that the sessions
should begin not before the close of
September. About this time all the
educational institutions of the coun-
try begin their annual sessions the
universities running theirs through
a term of nine months beginning
with October and continuing with-
out the senseless intermissions of
lesser institutions to abont the end
and the beginning of each year. The
proposition then of our regents is
to select professors in August
to take positions fifteen
months hence for the mooted plan
of opening the university for edu-
cational work in January is absurd.
As said all first-class institutions of
learning have the regular annual
term beginning in the fall and con-
tinuing until the next summer. All
first-class professors have first-class
employment and their reputations
depend upon continued and unre-
mitting labors. If the regents of our
university be not prepared to open
the institution for purposes of edu-
cation by October it may be under-
stood that it will be impossi-
ble for them to secure first-class
professors to begin an educa-
tional labor in January when all
the other universities of the country
are in full blast. The able professor
can not afford to begin a precarious
work in Texas in January which
he may begin with success in Yir.
ginla or Michigan or Massachusetts
in September or October. The mere
fact that the Texas university would
not open its session until January
this being simply a provision for a
partial session with its incomplete
and imperfect courses of study is
enough to make any professor of
such reputation as should properly
occupy a chair in the Texas univer-
sity shrink from any offer made by
our regents. .No first-class professor
probably would accept unless his
classes and not bis salary alone were
guaranteed for the full and proper
term. Next if it be the intention to
open the university" not before the
fall of 1883 such professors as might
be.desired could hardly be induced
to enter into an engagement to take
effect over a year from date. The
proposition to open in Janu-
ary is supremely absurd for
besides the objections already
urged and the inability at that
time of the year to form respectable
classes the university would be in-
augurated because of all these com-
bined influences as an institution
many grades below the standard
Texans covet for it and startiug
with third or fourth rate professors
those ot tho first class could not soon
be induced to accept places in the
institution. Better by far if the
university cannot be opened by the
comiug fall that its inaugura-
tion be' postponed until - the
next and that the election
of professors be likewise
postponed until next year. On the
other hand if professors be selected
in August and such selection be-
cause of postponement will be
fatal to the standard of professor
ships the university should be
inaugurated in October of this
year instead of January 'the
regents providing by lease such
buildings as may meet the demand
until the section of the university
building now under contract be
completed. The regents meet
soon and they should commit
no more errors but taking one
or the other horn of the dilemma
proceed directly toward a pointed
and a definite end. If they avoid
either end and sieze that upou which
each Is balanced then they will have
shaped a course towards nothing-
ness and will reap their reward.
There are six great powers which
may be dragged into the Egyptian
quarrel and upon a piuch they can
put millions of men in the field.
In order to be a leader of the Re
publican party it would seem that a
big stealing from the treasury was
one of the requirements. No man
stands higher than Mr. Robeson.
England has recently set an ex
ample worthy of the iuitiatiou by
this government. She has sentenced
a man to eighteen months of con-
finement for stealing an umbrella.
The New York Commercial Ad
vertiser remarks : "The meat mar-
ket is still at the top notch. If the
worse comes to the worst we shall
all have to fall back upon Sylvester
Graham's vegetarian plau which he
practiced vigorously until he died.
He was a dyspeptic and morbid
but vegetable diet kept him alive
for a good many years as it did Hor
ace Greeley."
The New York postoffice did a
business last year which forcibly il
lustrates the rapid growth of the
metropolis. The mail matter ad
dressed to the offices in the United
States consisted of 71802692 letters
18019820 postal cards 63872.016 cir-
culars 151398988 newspapers and
magazines mailed by publishers to
subscribers 67210728 transient
newspapers and 9934704 packages
of merchandise etc. The number
of letters etc. passing through and
handled by the New York olfice
was 32812468 domestic and 13
877864 foreign letters postal cards
and circulars with 32432400 pack
ages of other matter addressed with-
in the United State? and 9378460
packages lor foreign countries
There were 16298060 letters and
17331288 packages of other letters
addressed to foreign countries. The
total number of letters and other ar-
ticles mailed exclusive of those for
city delivery was 504369488. This
is a high scale of figures and the
skill with which such an enormous
mass was handled reflects credit
upon the management of the post
office.
Commissioner Spraight is in al-
most daily receipt of letters inquir
ing as to the financial status and
responsibility of various mutual
Matrimonial Aia associations now
being run under charters flaunting
the broad seal of Texas and other
states. The following extract from
the commissioner's reply to one of
these letters is significant :
"These so-called Matriniouial Aid
associations that are now literally
inundating the state are not subject
as the law stands to the supervision
of this department and tbere is no
penalty imposed for their doing
business in tnis state witnout a cer-
tificate of authority. The attention
ot the legislature at its late called
session was earnestly directed
by mo in my report to
the propriety of placing them
on the same terms as other insur-
ance companies but owing to the
lack of time and pressure of other
matters no action was had. After
a careful examination of the pros-
pectus and endowment certificates
of a large number of them lam pre-
pared to say that if Jay Gould
should take it into his head to buy
up a mutual marriage aid association
iu full blast and should undertake
to pay all its so-called obligations at
their face value he would have to
sell off his railroads marshal his as-
sets and recast bis financial plans in
order to meet his engagements.
Never did political movement in
any state fall so still-born as the at-
tempted Speer-Felton Independent
coalition in Georgia and history
will record auolher similar failure.
The idea of intelligent voters white
or colored being led off in Texas
after George Washington Jones and
his set is absurd aud no oue will
really know how absurdly the move-
ment is regarded until the Novem-
ber vote is counted. Ireland and the
state ticket will sweep the field as it
was never swept before.
The congressional convenions
will be held as follows :
First district Houston August 8.
Second district Palestine August
25
Third district Lougyiew August
22.
Fourth district Texarkana time
not agreed upon.
Sixth district Cleburne August 1.
Seventh district Corpus Christi
August 11.
Eighth district Luling August 16.
Nintb district Waco August 8.
Tenth district Austin. August 24.
In the fifth district Throckmorton
has already been nominated and in
the eleventh district the Galveston
deep water district the time has
not been agreed upon.
PLAIN REFLECTIONS ABOUT
THE COLORED VOTERS.
Political trickery does not always
win as was demonstrated by the
course of the Galveston convention.
The nomination of John Ireland was
the result of an open canvass upon a
square declaration of principles
which it might be expected would
control his administration if nomi-
nated and elected governor. There
was no subterfuge in anything this
gentleman said or did and he was
free to declare himself publicly upon
any point to which his attention was
called. By this means in face of
powerful opposition and combina-
tion he won upon the public mind
until his nomiuation became a
question alone of taking one
ballot and even this was sub-
stituted by a unanimous decla-
ration for him by acclamation.
Not in the history of political nom-
inations in Texas for twenty years
has there been that unanimity upon
any nomination for the office of
governor as was accorded John Ire-
land and this and the favor with
which it has been received all over
the state gives promise of more per
fect unanimity among the intelli
gent masses of Texas voters than
ever before. It seems quite certain
that this fall there is to be quite a
change in sentiment throughout the
state from a quarter where such
change might be least expected. The
colored voter has been growing
more intelligent and he has at last
learned that what is of most adyan-
tage to the white man is also of
most adyantage to him; such
declaration in fact has not been
unfrequeutly made for the last few
weeks iu assemblages of colored peo-
ple. When the colored people do
really understand this self-evident
proposition they will have advauced
far toward a position of indepen-
dence which will give them character
and standing as a political factor in
the state. The faith of the Demo
cratic party is pledged to their pro-
tection and consideration and this
was written and adopted in strong
terms at Galveston. The rule of the
carpet-bagger and the 6calawag is
passedl and Republicanism being
powerless in Texas and in truth in-
clined to use the negro's vote alone
to acquire place and not his
brains to assist in adminis-
tiring public affairs it is reasonable
to suppose that the intelligent col-
ored voters of the state will no
longer throw their influence away
but that they will seek to make
themselves felt in perpetuating a
government to which they are allied
by every principle of interest to say
nothing of policy. Fifteen years
ago the colored man regarded him
self as the creature alone of Repub
licanism ; but admitting that there
was reason for such regard it must
be remembered now that there is
nothing left of this old claim and
that the colored man finds himself
free and that it is even
permissible and especially politic
that he vote with Democrats who
preserve and control Texas it is
believed that in November twenty
thousand colored men will go to the
polls and vote for John Ireland be
cause they know he is going to be
governor and because since the
Democratic party of Texas has been
a real and valuable friend to the
colored race they would show ap.
preciation of such friendship and
would give sanction to its continu
ance. Read the Democratic plat
form adopted at Galveston the
same one upon which John Ireland
was nominated and to which he
subscribes aud it will be seen that
the party pledges itself to tbe
education of the negro in the lower
and the higher schools. They are
already equal in personal and pro
perty rights with the whites and
the public money contributed
almost entirely by Democrats is
distributed and will be distributed
equally among white and colored
school children. Almost every col
ored man in the state who has ob
tained property Has done so
through means 'of employment
offered by Democrats and it is a
notable fact that all this kind
ness has been extended the
colored people while their voting
strength was being used to affect ad-
versely the best Interests of these
very Democrats. The interests of
the white and black man are mutual
and when it is intimated they are
going to follow George Washington
Jones into the clutches of political
nondescripts having no convictions
and less power it is to assume that
all colored men are fools ; and this is
not true. These colored men as tbe
indications go to show are going to
cast a heavy vote to sustain a party
that sustains them and they are
going to cast it not ouly for Ire-
land but for the Democratic con
gressional nominees as well as for
candidates for the legislature who
will be in harmony with the state
administration. The colored people
of Texas have been trying for fifteen
years to cut their own throats and
tbey are disgusted with the attempt
They are not going to be led off by
those who can do nothing for them
because of weakness and who would
be less inclined thaA any to sustain
them possessing the power. These
declarations ot the colored people
throughout the state mean that they
have served out a second term of
slavery which will be their last.
A New York correspondent of the
Washington Republic having made
the statement that Mr. Til den would
be a candidate for the next Demo-
cratic presidential nomination the
New York Sun expresses the op in
ion that the statement is a mistake
it thinks that while the sage of Gra
mercy Park would make the strong
est candidate the Democracy could
select he would not be- willing to
accept the nomination.
The enemies in the garb of friends:
of American industry are becoming
aroused to the fact that the free
trade question has become one of
great importance in politics Tbe
Cleveland Herald (Republican) says
'Whether the great battle with
Democratic free trade is to be waged
in 1884 or later no time is to be lost
by the friends ot American industry
in organizing societies all over the
land to meet with like zeal and vigi-
lance the activity of their enemies.'
THE EGYPTIAN AS A SOLDIER.
Cwrlv u ra;rtvl4 R (pi-
lar Wk Fmn Fir.
Pall Hall Gazette. t
We have received the following
from a correspondent who has had
considerable experience in eastern
wars : MA not unimportant element
in the consideration ot tbe Egyptian
question is the value of the Arab as
fighting material. Of the courage
of the wretches who beat out the
brains of so many Europeans caught
by surprise and unarmed in the late
Alexandria riots one may judge by
an incident which took place in the
course of them. On the great square
of Alexandria some 200 of these
patriotic protesters against the rule
of tbe foreigner was engaged in
bunting Europeans when four at-
tendants of the tribunal rushed out
of their sanctuary with drawn
swords and the whole 200 took to
precipitate flight leaving the square
empty of all but the dead and the
wounded and the four messengers
of justice. Without some firm as-
surance of the support of mustafiz
or nizam it is quite certain tbat none
of the rabble would ever have dared
to raise a hand against a foreigner.
A kourbash is quite enough for the
courage of tbe Egyptian on any or-
dinary occasion. As a soldier the
bloody regime of Mehemet Ali has
given him a prestige which like
the 'scent of the roses.' lingers
long after the organization is
shattered it is true tbat once
Egyptian soldiers defeated Turkish
but the latter were in s
much lower state of discipline than
now while tbe former were ruled
with a vigor ot which-the following
incident related by s veteran who
remembered Mehemet Ali will give
an example : A milk woman came
to the pasha one day complaining
that one of his soldiers had robbed
her of the milk she was bringing to
to camp. The soldier was identi-
fied and denied having taken the
milk. "What did he do with it?"
asked the pasha. Drank it was
the reply. At a sign the man's head
was off his body and his stomach
being opened was found fuli of
milk. " Go" said the pasha to the
horrified milkwoman paying her tbe
value of the milk " but it he had not
taken it your head would have paid
for it."
" Needless to say this Draconian
rule has long since passed away and
the Egyptian soldier of to-day is
perhaps the most cowardly and de-
graded regular in existence. In the
late Russo-Turkish war they could
not be brought to face fire and were
Eept in reserve lor depot dnty. in
the Cretan insurrection of 1866 the
viceroy's guard was sent to the
island to aid in the subjugation of
tbe unnstians. out on tbe nrst en-
counter 4000 ot them attacked in an
entrenched position by about 1500
Ill-armed Oretans were driven into
their entrenchments their access
to the water sources were cut
off and they surrendered uncondi
tionally after the defeat ot another
division which bad marched to
their relief the total being 8000
men with artillery and considered
tbe best troops in tbe Egyptian army
in a subsequent battle under Mehe
met Kiritly Pasha when the Egyp-
tians were to cover the retreat of
the main army they broke and fled
precipitately at the first attack of
insurgents ana Bquaas oi mem lost
in the complicated by-ways and
broken ground or tbe pass ot Jorapi
threw down their arms and were
butchered without resistance by the
Cretans. At the assault of tbe con
vent of Arkadi the only use the
Egyptians could be put to was to be
put in front with the bayonets or the
Turkish regulars behind them and
no alternative of safety. They were
in this way driven into the breach
covering the Turks by their bodies.
This was the testimony of one of the
Italian officers in command of them
and nothing was more common
than for the Cretans to send an
Egyptian prisoner away contemptu-
ously saying that it was like butch
ering sheep to kill the Egyptians.
They are capable only of the simplest
evolutions and their omcers know
little more of the science of war
than the privates. The former are
fond of fine uniforms and gewgawry.
but tbey actually are never exer
cised in any movements of warfare ;
there is no conception of organiza
tion and if a necessity arose for
action it is not too much to say that
the soldiers could not find their car
tridges the officers their commissa
riat nor the commanders their
officers. Nothing but the most in
conceivable blunders could ever
give them a military advantage and
the slightest menance toward a
flanking movement would put the
entire army to route without firing
a shot. A division from met a land
ing at Suez and marching on Cairo
would see the defenders of Alexan-
dria in instant retreat and the dis-
tribution of a few pounds would set
the whole of the Bedouin tribes to
plundering the regulars. With the
excention of the CoDts and s small
number ot the better classes of the
inhabitants of lower Egypt there is
nothing to form a self-governing
nation; while anything like repre-
sentative government or military
efficiency must be the result of gene
rations of development."
Plena Falter Chips.
Peck's Sun.
There was a chance for a terrible
churchscandel in a West side church
but investigation set it right. It
seems that when the collector was
passing the contribution box a
prominent and wealthy deacon put
bis band in bis trowsers pocket and
brought out a lot of keys a knife
some plug tobacco and some other
tnings trying to find a penny with
a hole in it to put in the box. Tbe
man who was taking up the collec
tion saw what be tbougbt was a
corkscrew in the deacon's hand and
he reported the matter to tbe pastor
of the cburcb and tbey called the
deacon up before the directors to
explain. When the charge was read
to him be smiled contemptonsly and
said he never had a corkscrew.
The other man was positive he
saw one and tbe deacon turned his
pockets wrong-side out and it was
tound that the supposed cork-screw
was one of those new-fangled button-hooks
that shut up like a cork
screw. The man making the charge
was satisfied of his error and asked
pardon which was granted after
some bard words has passed. This
did not end the matter however for
when the contents of the deacon's
pockets were being examined one
ot the Dinars oi tne cnurcn discov
ered a piece of blue ivory about as
big as a Quarter. The pillar of tbe
church who used to be a little lively
before he lanea ana got religion
I Z . na w.n.W a ..1.4 A am A BI1M
and asked the deacon where he had
been Dlaving poker.
He blushed and said he didn't
know what the blue chip was for.
He said his son-in-law gave it to him
for a pocketpiece and be bad carried
IV 1UI UiUUIlUDi ISUU Aft A W W m SW
blina1 utensel be was as innocent as
a child unborn. They let him off
and as he was on the way home with
a worldly friend who drops in to
play whist with him occasionally of
an evening ne b&iu :
" There is no use trying to enjoy
religion in a church where reformed
whisky-sellers are watching your
pockets for corkscrewsand reformed
gamblers search you tor poker
chips. Lord bless me suppose they
had found that new deck of round-
cornered cards in my side pocket.
It would have been au aay witn
trip '
Then the two neighbor went to
the circus to see tbe menagerie.
Statesman Job Office is first-class
DEMOCRATIC PLATFORM
AA( mt tha ealTesteai Stat
Cavmtlm.
The Democracy of Texas in con
vention assembled reaonounce tbe
primal elements ot Democratic faith
as constituting the unchanging faith
of the Democrats of Texas and re-
lies upon the intelligence and integ-
rity of the people tor their success.
a. mat all men are politically
equal and tbat the objects of govern-
ment are subverted wbeu legislation
recognizes distinctions between per-
sons or favors one class of business
pursuits at the expense of another
and by any means impoverishes the
many to enrich tbe few.
z. We oppose centralization aud
that dangerous and growing spirit
of encroachment which tends to con-
solidate the powers of all the de-
partments of government into one
and thus creates a real despotism
whatever be tbe iorm ot govern-
ment. 3. That we are opposed to the
present system of national banks of
issue; that we favor the free and
honest coinage of gold and silver
and are in favor of a paper
currency consisting of treasury
notes ; of the government gold and
silver certificates based on bullion
deposited sufficient in volume with
gold and silver to answer all of the
business and commercial purposes
of the people and a strict mainte-
nance of the public faith state and
national.
4. We are opposed to a protective
tariff believing it to be unjust and
detrimental to the best interests of
our people and are in favor ot a
tariff for revenue only.
o. we favor tbe subordination of
the military to the civil powers of
the government and a genuine and
thorough reform of tho civil service.
. we declare that tbe right to a
full and free ballot is a right pre-
servative ot all rights and should
be sacredly maintained in every
part of tbe United States.
7. we favor free ships and a living
chance for American commerce on
the seas and on land. No discrim-
ination in favor of transportation
lines or monopolies.
. 'ine Democratic party proposes
t6 protect labor and the laboring
men of our country and pledges
itself to protect them alike against
the cormorants and the commune.
9. We declare that a liberal nro-
vision should be made to endow
with the public lands set apart for
tbe payment or tbe public debt or
the proceeds of the sales of the same
the state university and its
branches but in no case should any
portion ot the common school lands
or fund be used for this purpose.
we lurtner declare that the debts
due the university and common
school funds of Texas denominated
as of doubtful validity should be
recognized and paid with the inter-
est due thereon.
10. We favor the fullest educa-
tion of the masses white and
colored in separate common schools
and the advanced education of
the youths of the country in our
higher schools and state university.
We favor the maintenance ot normal
schools for the instruction of teach
era.
11. We favor the submission to the
people of a constitutional amend
ment authorizing the levy and col
lection of a special school tax sep
arate irom the general revenues to
the end that an efficient system of
public free schools may be maintain
ed and that the state tax may be
reduced to the actual necessities of
the state government.
12. We tavor the protection of the
public school lands ot the state from
waste and sacrifice and pledge our-
selves to secure returns from said
lands commensurate with the real
value of the same.
13. We declare that the railroads
and other corporations are subordi
nate and subject to the control of
political power or the states and of
the general government in their
respective spheres or constitutional
authority by such conservative legis
lation as will protect the rights of
tbe people ana enforce the pro
visions ofzour constitution without
injury to the just interests of those
corporations.
14. We deprecate and protest
against the continuous increase of
tbe jurisdiction of the federal courts
as subversive of the rights of the
people civil liberty and local self-
government as contemplated by the
founders of our government.
15. As heretofore we demand the
strictest economy in tbe administra
tion of every department of tbe gov
eminent consistent with efficient and
full execution of tbe laws.
16. Recognizing these as tbe great
principles of the Democratic party
principles upon which onr civil lib-
erty and free institutions are based
we appeal to all lovers ot the
Union the constitution and the gov
ernment bv the DeeDle in the state
of Texas to assist in the main-
tenance and success of the same as
essential to the individual rights of
the citizen and general welfare of tbe
country.
A HaUlsteMa Walt-axing- Elgbty
Salina (Kansas) Journal.
Considerable excitement was caus-
ed in our city last Tuesday evening
bv the announcement that a ban
stone weighing eighty pounds had
fallen six miles west of Salina near
the railroad track. An inquiry into
tbe matter revealed the touowing
facts : A party of railroad section
men were at work Tuesday alter-
noon several miles west of town
when the hailstorm came upon
them. Mr. Martin miwood tbe
foreman of the party relates .that
near where thev were at work nau
stones of the weight of four or five
pounds were tailing and that return'
fng toward Salina tbe stones increas
ed in size until his party discovered
a huge mess of ice weighing as near
as he could judge in the ueignoor
hood ot eighty pounds. At this
place the party found the ground
covered with hail as if a wintry
storm had passed over the land.
Besides securing the mammoth
chunk of Jce Mr. 11 wood secured
- hailstone something over a
toot long three or four inches in
diameter and shaped like a cigar.
These "specimens" were placed upon
a hand-car and brought to salina.
Mr. W. J. Hagler tbe North Santa
Fe merchant became the possessor
of the larger piece and saved it from
dissolving by placing it in sawdust
at his store. Crowds of people went
down to see it Tuesday afternoon
and many were the theories concern-
ing the mysterious visitor. At eve'
ning its dimensions were 9x16x22 in
ches. Many considered it a fraud of
the first water. M. llwood's state
ment is straightforward and he evi
dently believes that it was ice tbat
came from the upper regions. He is
known to be a reliable honest man
and can not possibly be a party to
a zraua. The tneory that the ice
came from some passing railroad
train does not seem to find favor as
it was some lOU foot from tbe track
when found. In appearance it seems
to have been worn and gronnd and
perforated by the elements.
Some think that the block may
have been picked np from
some destroyed ice-house bv the
electric storm which evidently occu
pied the upper air Tuesday after
noon and then deposited where it
was found it was imbedded some
inches in the ground. The question
haa arisen whether such a mass of
ice can come from a fall of hail.
HaiL though the process of its for
mation is not perfectly understood
depends mainly upon the meeting
of two nearly opposite currents of
air one not ana saturated with
vapor and tbe other very cold.
These moving particles of ice mov-
ing with great force iu all directions
impinge upon each other. By what
is known as regelation the imping-
ing masses are frozen together.
Thus large hailstones are formed
varying in size from an egg to au
orange in warm climates. Hail-
stones are reported to have fallen in
tropical climates as large as a sheep
sometimes as large as an ox or even
an elephant!
Lessan far "Faat" roans; Men.
Detroit Free Tress.
The other day a young man of fine
family admirable talents and pleas-
ant address died miserably like a
dog at the hands of his mistress. He
was in his lifetime a jolly good fel-
low had many boon companions
who joined with him in dissipation
and revels and who probably often
with maudlin fervor pledged their
never dying friendship. Yet it is
stated as" a fact that when the body
lay stark and cold in the morgue
preparatory to removal to an in
terior city for interment not one oi
the "fast" associates of the young
man paid it tbe small aflectiouate
tribute of a visit and not one tear is
known to have been shed by one ot
tbe depraved and besotted crew
who once joined so hilariously with
bim in orgies. 1 here is a ieesou in
this which young men who have an
inclination to go with "fast"
company or who perhaps now
tasting what tbey regard as
the sweets of dissipation should
take to heart. The road which is
lined with "fast" company is broad
but it leads to rum and disgrace.
Tbe friendships there contracted arc
false; aud eujoymeut unreal; tho
dangers terrible and the awaken
ing awful. Your "fast" man is as
a rule coarse brutal and of low in-
sticts. He may be apparently gen
erous with money but he is cold
blooded at heart. His geucrosity
too is a sham for it is a wanton pro
digality which leads to suftenug and
woe. It incites in others expendi-
tures which they can ill afford and
all too ofteu lead to a renort to dis
honorable meaus aud crime to pro
cure the moucy with which to pur-
sue tbe reckless course. Had tho
Chicago fast inau directed bis ener
gies in good channels ho would now
be alive a respected aud prosperous
citizen. But he preferred to be
"fast" and the preference led him to
a wretched death.
Starving Fifty-Two Days.
Philadelphia Record.
Mrs. Hester A. Frver Crozerville
Delaware county abstained from
food for fifty-two days. Her period
ot starvation was ended by her
death last Monday. Yesterday she
was buried. X or two years tbe lady
has been an invalid. Previous to
her illness Mrs. Fryer was a largo
woman weighing about 250 pounds
and seemed to have a very strong
constitution. About two years ago
she began to be troubled with hys
teria and gradually became so in
that she was confined to the house.
She wasted away slowly and finally
became unable to take auy food ex
cept milk and tea upon winch she
subsisted for nearly a year. Even
this became unpleasant and Irritat
ing to ber stomach and about two
months ago she determined to at-
tempt a complete fast with the idea
tbat by absolute rest her stomach
might become more vigorous. Fifty
six days ago she commenced her
long fast and no food of any kind
passed her mouth for forty-five
days although she occasionally
drank water. She said that she felt
better every day the fast continued
and really appeared to rally aud
pick up in spirit and hopeluluess il
not In flesh. She was no moro
troubled with dyspepsia and al
though her physicians protested
against ber course she persisted.
Her friends and the doctors watched
tbe case with great solicitude aud
the latter with great curiosity. One
day about two weeks ago she for
the first time in a year complained
that she was really hungry and
called for something to eat. Solid
food was at first given to her but
this would not stay upou her
stomach and the old diet of tea aud
milk was resorted to but this was
also rejected. In short it was dis-
covered that her long fast bad so
campletely worn out her stomach
tbat it could not work and every
effort to feed ber failed tier bus
band and friends and the dsctors
were therefore compelled to watch
her slowly but surely starve to
death without being able to help
her. The physicians who attended
her propose to give a history of the
case.
Andy
Johnaon'a O
Same of Poker
' Wllb Uraat.
Louisville Commercial.!
Johnson was a fine poker player
one of th-3 best in Tennessee lie
used to tell of a game be played
with Grant in 1866. Grant was when
at Washington and visited the presi
dent one night. After a short talk
Johnson proposed a game of poker
Grant who was an inveterate player
then jumped at the chance. Uards
were brought aud they began to
play. Grant lost steadily aud heav
fly. The game was $1 call $3 aud
no limit. At last Grant said : ''John
son. I will play you one moro deal
around aud we will quit; I am tired
of this d n foolishness."
Johnson dealt and wouldn't come
in. Tbey made it a jack-pot.
The jack-pot went ou increasing
in size : neither could open it. At
last there was $64 in the pot. Grant
was dealing. Johnson picked up
his cards; lie had two pairs aces up.
Grant looked at bis cards aud quiet
ly laid them down. Johnson said
- "I will open ber for $20."
Grant without moving a muscle
of bis cast-iron couuteuance. leaned
back it his chair and said slowly
looking at his caros an tne time :
"I will have to raise you $50 Andy
i can't help it."
Johnson was a little surprised.but
stood tbe raise tirant asked bim
how many cards he wanted
I just want one ; bow many do
yon went r
"Eh?" said Grant carelessly."!
oou't want any this time."
Johhson picked up his card. It
was an ace. He bet $100
"I will see your $100 Andy and
raise her sauuu."
Johnson said afterward the bet
came near taking the breath awav
from him but something tald him
that Grant was bluffing. He felt a
presentiment that he was
"Grant I will see your $2000 and
raise her $500.
Grant clenched bis teeth and bis
lips came together like a steel trap.
"I wiil see your $500 and go you
$6000 better." "I got a little scared"
says Johnson "and thought that
maybe he had fours on me. So I
said "I'll fust call you ; what have
you got?" "Jack high" says Grant
and with an oath jumped up from
the the table got his hat and left
giving Johnson his note for all he
had lost.
GoA Bless (no Woman t
The beat interests of all humany de-
pend on the good health of our women
folk. Woman's best friend for relieving
the painful weaknesses with which ao
many are afflicted and as a general fam-
ily medicine for warding off bllloua at-
tacks and curing stomach liver and kid-
ney complaint. Is Brown's Iron Blttera.
It contain jnst such life-giving proper-
ties a are needed in female dlaeaaef and
is superior to all other preparation aa a
true medicinal tonic lor giving health
strength and vigor to every Prt
body" If you are weak nervoua and de-
bilitated or tiflerlng from dyspepsia
Brown's Iron Bitten will surely cure
you.
Naturally pale Invalids are greatly im-
proved In health and appearances by
using Brown's Iron Bitters. It strength-
ens mind and body brighten the eyes
gives rosy cheeks and creates a perfect
picture of health strength and beauty.
S
. t.niV3iW till
TTOMACH
It l the concurrent toMtroonT of tbe pcblle
and the medlral rofci-i-lon ihat Hoctwter'a
HUimnrb Hitler In a mwlii'lue which achieve
nwult fpei-nilv fi-lt thorough and benign Be-
Hide rectifying liver dlpordur it Invigorate the
feeble ronqiK-ra kidney aud bladder complalnl
aud hapteDa the convalescence of thnac recover-
lui; from enft'ehllng dleaa. Moreover It la
th- grand ucidc for lever and aime.
For tala by all Druggi'la and Dealer gen-
erw'ly. Jv2deod wew
THE GREAT
Cherokee
LINIMENT
CURES
RhrntnatUm Neuralria. Lumbago
or Kriatica Kpraina liruiaea Ache
Ulcer. Hunt and Kcalda bore
Throat and Hallvatlon. A powerful
remedy for Lamenen In Iloree and
Mulea; cure all Kcaly and Skin Dla-
eniHW Sorea and Old Ulcer" Stlffnee
of Joint and Swelling of Node.
Profeaaor O. P. Hubbard in speak-
ing of cure he bad seen performed
by the American Indiana say:
" I never saw an Indian have sn
nicer or foul wound In my life
neither la there euch a thing to be
found among them; they cure Kheti-
matiKm Hurnn Hen Id Heads Swell-
ing Lamenewi etc.. Infallibly and
never mia. Their chief remedy ia
the Acorn Oil. Prom tbe Loudon
Lancet and Clinic
- 80 CENTS PER BOTTLE.
FOB SALE BT ALL DM CUIST8.
SOHOTTS
Chill and- Fever
ANTIDOTE.
The beat and eheapest absolute Chill
and Fever Cure In the market.
A remarkable statement from a prominent
physician:
Liikviixs. Tlx.. June 27. 1881 Messrs.
Thompson George A Co . Galveston GenUe-
meu: your scuott s t:niii ionic naa almost
superseded all other chill medicinea before the
public In this section. When given according
to directions It rarely fulls to break tbe most
obstinate cane of chills. 1 consider It an excel-
lent touic and one of the best anti-periodic.
Tho price should recommend it to the public
as it Is tbe cheapest aud most etfectual in tbe
market ours respectfully.
JUllN M. fXl M. V.
ELECTRO-MAGNETIC
BatteryBelt!
CUBES
IfART.LUNOANB
Lrvu Diseases
(ervus exhaus
t10n.pam1.ysis
Rheumatism
CURES
Nervous and
Chronic Diseasi
Dyspepsia.
KidneyDiseasu
Neuralgia.
II f 411 1 Wm
TRADE ' MASK.
Generates more electricity In Ave tnlnnte
than any other Belt does In a day. The only
Ele 'tro-Magnetic Bult made giving primary and
secondary currents. Can he mnde so mild aa to
be felt and reversed changed and scarcely
Increased till the strongest man cannot hold It.
No metal comes in contact with the skin to
corrode and irritate It. Has electrodes and
conducting cordn for applying electricity
to any part of tbe body. Deaigued (or self
treatment in complaint named above. Acer-
tain restorer of health and vigor.
MEDICAL USES 07 ELECTRICITY
an illustrated 80-pnge book containing full
description of Belt and Disease with direction
for electrical treatment free.
IiKCTKO-FAIllKIC BELT CO-
812 814Chestnut 8t 8T. LOUIS.
niy-tf
Natural Fruit Flavors.
EXTRACTS.
Prepared from the choicett Fruits with-
out coloring poisonous oils acids or artifi-
cial Essences. A!:: ays uniform in strength
without any adulterations or impurities.
have gained their reputation from their
perfect purity superior strength and quaf-
ity. Admitted by all who have used thorn
as the most delicate grateful and natural
flavor for cakes puddings creams etc.
MAHTCI1 ACT UB.XO BT
STEELE & PRICE
Chicago 111. and St. Louia Mo.
aasn T Laalla Tsaat Orau Br. riWl ta Bskkaj
fswaar as llr. Trias's Ualsaa fiftwM
WE MAKE NO 8ECOND CRADE COODSe
ESTRAYEP By O. E. Anderson before
Wilson Greet; Justice of tbe peace of
Travia county July 24 1882 one son el stallion
four yeara old two white feet branded KX ou
leK shoulder; one roan horse elgh' or nine
years old fourteen hand high brand II with
cross-bar over on left shoulder and 14 on left
Jaw ; one roan stallion four yeara old brai ded
two circles connected by a perpendicular bar on
shoulder: one grey borae about lour years Id
brandet EX on iiiht shoulder; one bay niaru
ten or twelve yeara old branded KL witb bar
above and below and YD below tbe bottom bar
on lelt thigh and M above H on shoulder; one
two year old witb no brand and one grey mare
fourteen or fifteen veara old branded Z above Z
ou shoulder and KB on shoulder: all of them
appraised at ttu. FRANK BHOWN fierk.
SlrWkly C'r C T. C.
JOTICE OK ACCOLST.
The state of Texas to all persons Interested In
the administration of the estate of William
T. Home deceased:
A O. Home Jr. administrator of tbe estate
of Wm. T Home deceased bas filed bis final
account in the County Court of Travia county
wbicb will be acted on at the next term of said
court commencing the third Monday In Sep-
tember 18J at the courthouse thereof in tn
city of Austin at which time all persons Inter-
ested In said estate may appear and contest tbe
aaid exhibit and account If tbey eee proper.
Witssbs: Frank Brown Clerk ol aaie cosrt
and tbe seal thereof attached this tbe
if-iiSt 7 FRANK BROWN Clerk.
fJ8THATBD By Jame U. Crooks before I.
county J"' 7
hiniil blir
U.. JUB.WVU V. ...V IW 11.11
. 7 18Kion bay mare about foor-
teen bands high about five yeara old. branded
C on left shoulder and Do on left aboulder Just
under tne nrai nsuieu nrsna. Appraised at
xt FRANK BROWN Cletk.
NERVOUS DEBILITY.
We warrant atx boxes of Dr. B. C. West's
Nerve aud Brain 1 reatmenl to cure any nervous
disease either male or female of whatever na-
ture sucb as Nervous Headarhe Meutal De-
bility Loss of Memory Spermatorrhea aud In-
voluntary Emissions caused by overwork of
the brain Belf-ebuae eic and will give a writ-
ten guarantee with each Si order agreeing to
refund the money 11 tne treatment doea not ef-
fect a cure in six mouUis. price. 1 per boc ; six
boxes H. Went prepaid by mall on receipt
of price. Guarauleca issued by r CKKU.
tlllt KHO.. Wholesale and Retail Drug.
oisl New Orleans. La. Order b mall at rea-u.
I Sar price. aiarT-daw-lj
O1I7 Bll Cents.
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Weekly Democratic Statesman. (Austin, Tex.), Vol. 11, No. 52, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 27, 1882, newspaper, July 27, 1882; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth277852/m1/2/: accessed July 3, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; .