Weekly Democratic Statesman. (Austin, Tex.), Vol. 6, No. 30, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 10, 1877 Page: 1 of 4
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THE STATESMAN
DAILT DEMOCRATIC STATESMAN
EELY DEMOCRATIC STATESMAN
TUfcl DAILY
It pablUhed every morning except Monday.
TIIK WEEKLY
I pobllahea. erery Tharadar morning.
All baalnea correspondence communication
t. should be addreaaed to
C1UBWELL A nOUKIl
Anatin Texa
oele copr one year f 1 OO
ciiujcie copy aia awnioi. ....... avu
Single copy one moat a 1 N
WEEKLY DEMOCRATIC STATESMAN.
SinrleeopT one rear... S
Blnfliropy aix mouths 1 iO
taTTl above ratee are specie.
VOL. VI.
AUSTIN TEXAS THURSDAY MAY" 10 1877.
KO. 30
THE STATESMAN.
niACEI LAKEOFR.
Pentaur
liniments.
tstttr from a fottmatler
Axtmx n. III. December 1 !I74.
Mwiri. J. B. Ku Co. :
Mr wire h fur a long tine been a terrible
'(Ternr fri.m Kheamallam. tbe hae tiled many
tiyai:tna and many n-uiedlea. Tba only thing
wlilcb h ulven br rrliif la t'entaar LlnlniauL
m rulr-d to aay tbla ha cured btr. lam
w. n. RING.
Tbla la a aample of mri thoaaand te.tlmooi;
ala r Ivrd of wuud' rfuf curra effected by tbe
OMaur l.lnment. Tb inirrclleiit of tbla artl-
t. are i)iit!lhl arimud cacu bu tle. It coo lain
WltrU llnz. l. M' Dtba Arnica Hock Oil Car-
bullc aim liiLTi-itu iiia bi berio Utile known. It
la an lndlainialjle fart that tba C'rntaar Lini-
ment la N.-rfrinlii( more curre of rJwtlllnira
Hllff Jolnia Kmilloae Klu-atnallam Mearaiifia
Sc ailca. :k.d tireaaia I ockjaw etc. I ban any
oilier Hnliueiita rui'irocatioua rxiracta aalree
olatmetitn mid ilanrra now In one.
or Tootliiu-be. Earache Weak Htck Itch aaa
Cutaneuun Kruplloa. It l admirable. It enrea
hi) run and rcalria wit boot a acar eitracta polaon
from lillca and atlng. aad bcala froal-bltea and
ch ilhlalna In a abort time. No family cajp afford
to lie itlilioul Ilia Centaur Liniment wU'Ce wrap
per.
Th 4'entaur Liniment Yellow
Wrapper In adapted to the toaub akin maa-
clea and tl;b of ibe animal creation. lla efferte
lip in ai-rrra aaes of HpjTin Sweeny Wind
Hik Head and l'ull tvll are litt: lea tban
marvilnua.
ili-anra. J. MHInre & Co. Dragxin; earner
Of Kim and Knint atreeta.Clncltinait. O.Io aaya:
"In oar neiKbborhood a numHer of Yeametera
are urlu tba I'cMaur Ll'lmeut. Tbe pronounce
It aupernir to anything they hare rer uaed. We
aell a hli'li a four to five dien bottle per
month to tlii-ae teamtera." -
Wo bnve lliminaiiila of rUnllar teatlmonlalf.
Kor w omnia Wa'la Pratcne. Hlngbone etc.
and for Hrrew H'wpj in abrep It baa no rlral.
Karmera. I lvcmen and Htockralaera hire in
Una l.lulinrnt a reniady wblcb la worth a hun-
dred tllilea Ita coat.
Laboratory of J. B. ROSE & CO.
4(1 Dej St. New York.
Pitcher's
Castoria.
Mother may have rcat and blr bahlef nay
hive health if they will oae Caatorla for Wind
Colic. Worma Kever ahneaa Sore Mouih Cronp
or Ntomarn ('omplaliila. It ia entirely a Ycgeta-
tilu preparation and contalna neither mineral
morphlue nor alcohol . It la a pleaaant to take
aa honey and ui-llher gage ner grlpee
Ir K. Dlinoth of Dupont Ohio aaya:
"I Sin ualng Caatorla in my practice with tha
luift altfnal henrlU aud bappy reanlti."
Thia la whit everyone aaya. Moat nn-ae la
Nrw York City uae ihe Caatorla. It I prepared
l Mb.ii. J. U Koaa A Co.4li Dcy Htreet Mew
Yor ' aiircevaor 'o Maniuel Pttchur M. U.
d&w lyltaw tlljc-tt
If you feel'dul
droway debilitated
have fiequent head-
ache mouth taele
badly poor appetite
aud tongue coated
you aie aufferlng
from Urpld II r;or
''biliiuaneaa' and
notblnewlll cure you
ao apvvdi'y (d per-
man nt y aa to take
it U..rll.l.r
nn i m rit neruu ujriejiiit.v uii.vhi auur-
er victim- ol Kever ami Airne rut rcu rial ala
f aaed patlenta hour they recovered beallh cheer
ful anlrlta and Kood appetite -th-iy will tell you
by takluK HiamoMa'a Liveb Reuulatob.
1 AD BREATH.
Not h' tig Ik o unlcaantt nothlnK o common
t.ad hrentli and in nearly irvery cv It c met
from tliuitomach and can bo so rasil; firrecied
If y u will l.kc Mrumoiid'a Uver K-uiitor. Io
hot ntKkt au Miro a r mly for thia repaUlva
dtmirdiT. It will a I no lnirove )our appetite
CtMiiptixtoo and Koucral health.
PILES.
Ilow miny auffer torture day after day mak-
Jng life a burden and robbing exiatence of all
pleasure owing to the aecrt-t aufferinif from
I'ilea. Yet relief la ready to tbe baud of almoat
any one who w 11 nae ayatematically tbe remedy
tlif baa permanently cured thouainda. Mo
d'antic vloleut purge but a gentle aeslatant of
nature.
CONSTIPATION
Should not be regarded a a tritinr.
ailment In fart nature demvnda the
aim at reitulariiy of thi bowel and
any devialiou from tbla demand pavee
the way often to aerloua danger. It
la quite aa neceaaary to remove Im-
pure accumulation from tbe howela
ra It Is to eat o- aleep and no beal h
ran be expert" d where coatlre
habit of body prevail.
SICK HEADACHE.
Tb diatreing affliction occur moat fre-
queu'lv. The dlaturhanre of the a nmach aria-
tug from tha ttnperfcitlf digeated contenta.
c uvea a aevire pain In tbe hrait. accompanird
with a dliajrerahle nauaea and lhlcOvmutea
what 1 popularly known a Sick Headache.
J. II. ZKll.lX A CO.
Sole proprietor Simmon Liver Regulator
rbiladelphla.
A a Femedy In
MLARTor KRVERS BOWKL COM-
lLAINT! lYPKl'silA MENTAL DKPKK8-
ttlnN. HKSTl.K.HNE.SH JAINDICB. NAU-
tKA SICK HKADAI IlK CUUC COMTIPA-
T.UN AU lULluLS.ii63
IT HAS NO EQXTAZa.
Caution.
At there ar. a number of Imitation offered
to the public we onld caution the commun-
ity to bur no Powder or prepared ftlalIO.N9'S
LIVKH RRUri.ATOPt anlea In oar engraetd
wrapper with Trade Mark atamp and aljfaalur.
abruken. None other ia genuine
J 11 ZK1LI1 CO..
oSdeodawlyr Macon Oa.. and Philadelphia
ADVERTISING
. Deal o. mar
liuuMMi ae
. mm
aiaUwillenlya.Mthiag aa4 WUI sitnij aav.
IMnmi.fwiWtlklMM
J UsT PUBLISHED.
Xaailtutaa of Conunoa avnd Slatnto
IaW.
T wan B. II IX on U. D
Profeaaoc of Comraoi and SUtnU Law la the
l'i-lverliy of Virginia.
Vol. I. HI hie which Relate to theRfwm.
VoL U H nu which Kobue to Kent Prop-
er'y. second ed'Boo. with Chronology of the Law
Tblee of Uuolonta aad ot CMa aad Complete
lade tie.
Price t w'th r1l.cto.irt to tbe trade.
Voraale by WKrtT. JOUMbTUM CO aad
RAMKILPH A KNULISU Richaaoad. Va.. and
by bookarll-ra generally. Addre. (P. rTnl-
aity of V'-lnia) M. MvK&MXlK HON
Boaikaeller a i 1'ublurhere. apa wet
SLOT" GOLD.
tli Annual
CIFTiF PREMIUMS
t lit fabecjlher of the
'Detroit Commercial Advertiser
Kalablttbcd U IM1
fWd $ 1 . fi i aad raeeire ta Rtii a Tire
'flaaa Paaaily aad N"W par erf all Btontb.
and a aawirwred coupoai aernrtag partlclpauoa
laa preaaiaB vi mivw ui uuv
To t) Awarded 'Wdioday Jatav
1 1TT.
Hfae IA
J .cub Baxeoat &. Prreideat Dotxolt Board
of Traoo.
Kaoav Wrntctx S4 Caahiat Ftret National
ti Uoi. Joaa J. xUoLar. Detroit atleh.
hawaao k ax ran. Km hraeideal Wmaa-
Aaencan Mill jeiroiw j iv
Addreea VT . H. Wl
; febia Pabliehor. Octruw il.ca.
I UELLKT A MOORS
ATTOKSBTS IT 11V.
1 OmCtCYTT CLOCS CUD ISO. cotm
of Araoaa and buU d'Arc Hnal. aatlwlf
TVPinfaMrs uit-thk dkhA'
TUB LAW ARB Cr1
TITVTIOIf.
Cm it be pouible that boaeat And
senaible net will differ aa to U con-
tnictioB ( tha Oopatitutlon and the
statute upon tbe question of lntpoaiog
t tax upon "prodace" in the band of
tbe farmer t It U naked in what con-
iU the difference between tbe Con-
stitution of 1879 end former constitu-
tion wit the laws enacted thereun-
der. Section 87 article 8 Constitu-
tion 1843 provides that "taxation
shall be equal aad uniform throughout
the State. All property in this State
shall be taxed in proportion to ita
raiue to be ascertained as directed by
law except such property as two-thirds
of both bouses of tbe Legislature may
think proper to exempt from taxation."
Section 10 article 13 Constitution of
I860 is identical w.tb that quoted
above; but section 1 article 8 Con-
stitution of 1876 provides that "taxa-
tion shall be equal and uniform. All
property in this State whether owned
by natural persons or corporations
other than municipal shall be taxed ia
proportion to its value which shall be
ascertained as may be provided by
law; pronidtd Ibst two hundred
and fifty dollars worth of household
and kitchen furniture belonging to
each family in this State shall be ex-
empt from taxation." Why did the
convention of 187S change the rule
and phraseology of those of 1843 and
1860 1 and why did the convention see
fit to leave out the following very sig-
nificant feature la the tax articles in
the constitutions ef 1843 and I860
"except such property as two thirds of
both houses of the Legislature may
think proper to exempt from taxa-
tion I" Clearly for no other reason
than that the question of exemption
should not be left with the Legisla-
ture except in the few instances
pointed out in the Constitution.
Section 2 article 8 and section 9 arti-
cle 11 Constitution 1876 however
authorizes the Legislature by general
law to exempt public property
churches cemeteries school buildings
aad school furniture and institutions
of public chairty ; aad section 2 arti-
cle 8 solemnly declare that "all laws
exempting property from taxatioa
other thaa the property above mea-
tioned shall be void." Can the Eng-
lish language be made more specific
and certain! Under the Constitutions'
of 1843 and 1860 the Legislature did
exempt as they were empowered to
do by a two-thirds vote "all products of
the soil of present and previous years
growth only while in the bands of the
producer." Tbe exemption under tbe
Constitution of 1800 was passed
August 13 1870. (See subd. S ar-
ticle 7535 Pas. Dig.) The conclusion
is necessarily reached that aa the Con-
stitution of 1876 did not exempt farm
products that had been gathered and
absolutely inhibited the Legislature
from making such exemption this
"property" mutt be taxed. And
moreover if the Legislature had ex-
empted this class of "property" the
statute itself would have been "void"
utterly void; elsewbatdoes the clause
of the Constitution referred to mean
by saying that "all laws exempting
property from taxation other than the
property above mentioned shall be
void."
Again some go so far aa to say that
farm products that have been gathered
are not "property" in tbe intent and
spirit of tbe law and Constitution.
It this be true why did the Legisla-
tares from 1843 down to this good
hour so regard it! If not ''property"
as some have said "in a taxable
sense" why did the Legislatures under
the Constitutions of 1843 and 1860 ex-
empt "all products of the soft
while in the hands ef the pro
duceit" The argument is so fallacious
and the question so clear from tbe
other standpoint that common seise is
offended in attempting the axiomatic
solution. And just here we will men-
tion that the Legislature traveled be-
yond the confines of its powers when
it exempted "notes held as purchase
money for land" and the statute is
null and void and for the simple rea-
son that it directly contravenes the in-
hibition in section t article 8 of the
Constitution which declare such laws
void.
The Constitutional Convention tok
the manly and honorable view of thia
question when It traveled out of the
biased and beaten tracks of ita prod
cessore by inhibiting the exemption of
farm produce while ia tbe handa of the
producer. Honesty demanda that all
men abould bear alike the burdens ef
government the merchant the farmer
tbe lawyer the black aad white should
be grouped together whether income
arise from physical or mental skill aad
labor. The officers selected to admin-
ister the law must take the law as
they find it; and having solemnly
sworn to administer the law (not per-
haps as it should be but as it u this
tax mutt be levied aad collected. So
much the more ta their credit a hon
est and capkble mea that they ge for-
ward ia the discharge of their duties
regardless of the clataei of the poli
ticians aad people. After all it is
mainly a question that tbe demagogues
have raised upon which to ride iato
office; but aa between the lav aad
the Coastitatieat oa the oae aide aad
the demagogue on the other ibe law
must prevail.
a iiw a. atrial at us am:
CA.
The long liae el roads consolidated
from Chicago te Mobile belong U oa
corporatioa coaeiatiag of a tew ladi
etdaala Tbe read from Norfolk to
Memphis will sooa be aa malt aad
owned by mea who already owaliae
exte&diag free the Misaiseipai to Bris-
tol. Tbe Peducea aad Memphis road ha
lapsed iato tbe hands of three e four
bondholders aad we tee how the Peaa-
sylraai Central re prose tod by Cel.
(Scott has unified rail ways beta Xew
York aad Philadelphia te 8. Louis
and taeae to Ylaita aad acme tbe
Paa handle to aeet Hantiagtoa ocalag
dowa the coast frees Sea Francisco.
Jay Gould not eoataat vita h traaa-
coa'lneaUl Baa from New Tork City
to San Francisco is absorbing another
route across Canada and Michigan
and thus the process goes on till a few
individuals will own tbe endless rail-
way system of tbe United States.
Within the next year or two we will
find that these few men for all practi-
cal purposes will consolidate these
roads giving them one master and
management and one single system of
freight and passenger rates throughout
the country. Tbe mighty congeries of
corporations will rapidly absorb nr de-
stroy every competing road that ia
constructed. Each is dependent on
another and when the great trunk lines
are consolidated branch roads acting
Independently are impotent aud value-
less. Tbe short road from Little Rock
to Memphis over a level plain and
now in perfect condition is throttled
by tbe .long extended lines from
St. Louis and from Cairo to
Texarkana. St. Louis and the
St. Louis road would force all
travel from the Gulf States and from
Virginia Tennessee and Kentucky to
peas through Cairo or St. Louis and
this great circuit costs no more than
the rapid flight over a level plain and
air line from Chattanooga to Little
Rock. Traffic and travel are forced
into any desired channels by the own-
ers of through lines while branch
lines and the towns and country along
branch lines are suffered to starve.
Everybody in America anless it be an
average Rutabaga ex-member of the
late Constitutional Convention is ad-
vised of these plain commonplace
facta. Texas Congressmen are cog-
nizant of them. Gen. Joe Johnston
was expounding these simple truths
only yesterday at the Raymond House.
We have spoken of them till these as-
sertions are threadbare and only ad-
vert to them now because of tbe rapid
progress of this process of consolida-
tion which has already made the tele-
graphic system a terrible and most
dangerous monopoly. Not only are
rates fattened on telegraphic corres-
pondence enormous and intolerable
and not only is public opinion often
and corruptly perverted by the one man
power of the despotic corporation but
the establishment of competing lines
is rendered impossible. Whenever the
competitor appears rates are reduced to
nihility and tbe daring adventurous
capitalist who fights the omnipotent
telegraph company of tbe United
States would find it a wiser and easier
task to compete witb the generously
managed express company as engineer-
ed by Mike O'Brien.
It it quite impossible to legislate in
antagonism to the interests or selfish
grasping ambition of those great
combinations of wealth and ability.
Senators and Congressmen owe their
placet to the paid employees of these
aggregations of wealth. Senators just
chosen by innocent legislatures before
they have opened their infantile eyes
upon the new world they must inhabit
declare that the divinest creation of
human wisdom is the Philadelphia
San Francisco Scott-Huntington road.
It is grand thought anl must crown
with imperial power the few who
build and own the wonderful thorough-
fare. ' They will not only be masters
of a railway and its fifty thousand
stipendiaries but of cities and towns
and branch roads and of telegraph
lines and then the story is only half
told. Steamships plying between the
terminal cities of this mighty railway
and the world's great centers of com-
merce everywhere on the globe will
invest a few men constituting this cor-
poration with greater power and more
nearly world-wide than was ever
wielded by any Czar or Tamerlane.
These results may commend themselves
to Republicans and to Democrats but
not to those who would perpetuate pop-
ular and local freedom. In telegraphy
in railways in steamships in mercantile
operations the tendency of the age is
illustrative of the resistless forces of co-
operation among men and associations
of men. Great good and as great evil
are alike attainable and while our peo-
ple contemplate the facts the local les-
son should be accepted and every citi-
ten of Austin strong or weak should
contribute bis share of force to the
construction of our little railway
towards the northwest.
THI SPlKITlrS AND THE
LAWYERS.
Th phenomena of spiritism inac
curately termed "spiritualism" often
fail to give satisfaction as Mr. Carpen
ter an LL. D. and F. R. S. declares
"unless tbe investigations have been
searching and complete." When one
eaters darkened chamber and must
trust his senses incapacitated by dark
ness for action or when told that in
quirers and neophyte must ait on one
aide of the table and the medium on
the other and when we are told they
mast oaly look on and not peer about
too Closely when inaia rubber cords
bav been used by knavea in this busi-
to remove pencil that disappear
when hieroglyphs instead of letters
have been written on the slate when
th telegrams from the other land are
vague and indefinite and laconclusive
perfect faith of very sudden growth is
not to be trusted. An atmosphere of
incredulity is alleged by the "press re-
porters from another world" to encom
pass crtis iaquisitiv people. When
these enter the apartment of miracles
there are none executed aad inquirers
after truth are told that th spirit are
"weary r-'offended." These oft-
recurring Incident d not stablish the
fact that apritiara is without foundation
la truth but it doe not th writer
above quoted a arts withata4 th
aaao testa that are applied in other la-
atance to other alleged or real dia -covehe
ia scientific inquiry. Why its
erlinn should be accepted oa a
basis ot proof different from thst de-
manded when w investigate electric-
ity or BaagneUsm or heat is not stated.
Than is aaoca local interest la thia
question ust bow aad wail vary curi-
oa things may b don aad Strang
revelation medcit should be remem
bered that saasaory is iafiniU aad that
Ur as j be aa aloctrie cord ef
which SbAkspcar dreamed girdling
the glob ia forty minutes" aad con
necting with one another all the indi-
viduals of tbe human race. Memory
too is a record book from whose pages
nothing it ever erased and if our own
will fail to turn the leaves another's
may do the task fur us and read from
the endless volume recitals of fact
which we thought we had forgotten.
Tho acute medium reads when the sub-
ject who listens does not confess that
what he hears is written there. The
table creaks and we hear sounds as if
drops of water were falling on it but
knowing not "whence it cometh or
whither it goetb" it does not fol-
low that it is not projected
by some unknown physical more prob-
ably than by an equally unknown and
intangible and inviiible spiritual force.
The probabilities are if we listen to
our expenence all in favor of the sub-
stantial and against the spiritual origin
of these noisy and often senseless man-
ifestations. What we ask as final is
the accomplishment of that simple
feat alleged to be done by spiritists
every day. Let the law of gravitation
be plainly suspended and a table un-
touched by human hands leap into the
air and then we will begin to inquire
whether a new lair of philosophy in
morals or new code in physical science
Las been announced. If tables dance
hornpipes and queer vague answers to
questions are vouchsafed us from
another world we have many other
questions to ask before we assent to
the conclusion that because written
under a table and without a pencil
they are written by the spirits of the
dead and thongk the Bible often ad-
verts to the presence and existence of
spirits good and bad the world's ex-
perience teaches that these "institu-
tions" became extinct about 1800 years
ago and if only a few people here and
there see spiiits it does not follow
that we the great mass of mankind
having no such experiences should ac-
cept conclusions deduced wholly from
testimony taken aliunde and in a man-
ner by no means satisfactory to the
plaintiff-'.
Each of us is prepossessed from
Bible-reading in favor of some occult
agency that comes like the witches of
old or "devils cast out." We are grop-
ing about in the dark at best and seek-
ing some sure resting place for timid
faith that goes barefoot over tbe uni-
verse till weary and in despair it is
at last too ready to accept without
reason the evidence proffered of su-
pernatural intervention. While we
would not say that there is not "much
more in heaven and earth than is
dreamed of in our philosophy" we
must still insist that no new principle
or force or source of moral truths af-
fecting the present and future life has
any claim to intelligent or scientific ac-
ceptance which is not based on thor-
ough iuvestigation. Djes spiritism
stand the test? There are lawyers and
judges and scholars inquiring every-
where. Men of learning chemists like
Hare and judges like Mapea and Ed-
munds accepted the facts and
philosophy of the exponents of. thia
faith. The investigati in t igresses
even in this city and we are unbeliev-
ers awaiting some development or dem-
onstration which may be even partial-
ly conclusive.
Our readers who read the tele-
gram from Kemper county Missis-
sippi two days ago reciting details of
a series of bloody deeds should know
that Kemper's condition is due to
wretched governments to which the
people have been subjected for fifteen
years past. The bottom rail ia on top
in Nashoba and the schoolmaster is a
stranger in those parts. Public offices
have been the prey of strangers and
of knaves and only now and then have
the white people selected local officers.
Of course the people have been plun-
dered to poverty and driven to des-
peration by remorseless tax-gatherers.
In fact Gractism in Mississippi natu-
rally culminated in devilish deeds.
John W. Gully recently assassinated
in Kemper county Mississippi was the
leading Democrat of the county. He
was sheriff before and during the late
war and was removed by the military
governor. Tbe Republicans dreaded
him more tban any other politician in
tbe county. He once had a difficulty
with Ben Rush his alleged assassin.
In that affray Sim Gully was killed by
Ben Rush. He was brother of John
W. Gully and was trying to prevent
tbe fight. Ben Rush was tried for
this offense end was acquitted. Ben
Rush was severely shot in this fight by
John W. Gully. Ben Rush after this
wss shot at night by an assassin and
severely injured. He was the last
Republican circuit clerk of the coun-
ty. He was also a deputy sheriff
for a number of years snd a
native of Kemper county. His father
was a Uaiveraalist preacher. The Gl-
lys are very popular in the county;
four of them have held tbe office of
sheriff of the county the father and
three sons. Judge Chisolm the lead
iog Republican of the county was ap-
pointed probate judge by the military
governor (Ames) and was afterwards
elected sheriff three times. He was
the Republican candidate for Congress
at the last election but was defeated
by Hon. O. R. Singleton overwhelm-
ingly. Hopper was once sheriff of the
county by military appointment and
was a prominent member of the Re-
publican party of the county. Roeen-
Laum was also a leading local Republi
can and one held tbe office of chan-
cery clerk. John Gilmer was the last
Kepubucaa State Senator representing
the district composed of tb counties
of Noxubie Kemper sad Keshobe. He
was defeated by Mr. Foot of Macon
t the last election. He was once dep-
uty sheriff ot Warren county (Vicki-
burg) under the notorious negro sher-
iff Crosby. He abot Crosby bat failed
to kill him while be wss his deputy.
He was oae of tbe parties who shot snd
killed Hal Dawson at Scooba in Kem-
per county. He at that time saved
himself from a mob by taking refuge
in tbe county jaiL
Tax incorruptible immutable old
liae Whig Joha D. LVfxee ba
properly sup pleated Ciapp as public
printer at Washington. Mr. Defreea
is honest and capable. Hi soa-ia-iaw.
C P. Oakly not loss; ago was gen-
eral ticket agent of tba Texas and
Pacific road at MirshaU.
DEATH or WI. G. B ROW LOW
HISTORICAL AND BIOGRAPHI-
CAL. FALSEHOODS.
Whatever may be said of Win. G.
Brownlow as be was in the pulpit in
the sanctum or as a politician hia per-
sonal honesty was never questioned
his boundless generesity never doubt-
ed and in private life his truthfulness
was never suspected. He was per-
sonally the most generous of men and
mast devoted and tenacious in his at-
tachments and the very poor in East
Tennessee never kaew such friend.
When Knoxville was once ravsged by
cholera there was no hut of poverty
and wretchedness that did not have
its pale watcher by the bedside of tbe
plague-stricken in the person of the
violent fighting parson. When Brown -low's
Whig was the most successful
newspaper in money-making in 'the
South the editor and proprietor who
railed out so bitterly agaicst bis parti-
san enemies gave money to the poor
and helpless everywhere until he was
himself always impoverished. Bitterly
aa he was denounced and fiercely as
he was hated as a party leader it waa
never safe where Brownlow the man
aad private citizen was personally
known to denounce his name or deeds.
His friends were not exclusively of his
own church or party and Brownlow's
grave will be bedewed with tears by
the whole population of Knoxville.
His widow is as gentle and amiable
and practical as the inflammable parson
was full of enthusiasm and violent as
a preacher editor and party leader.
In fact Brownlow never came belore
the footlighta save aa a tragedian.
Behind tbe scenes the very
Brownlow himself was as kindly
and generous and gentle as became the
husband of such a wife. Now that he
ib dead the public will learn tor the
first time long as Brownlow has been
conspicuous that there were two
Brownlows as different from one an-
other as light from darkness. The
press and people of East Tennessee will
now tell how very little they knew of
the private citizen the friend and
philanthropist who only knew the
preacher the fiery editor and furious
party-leader. Brownlow when in
good health was an admirable story
teller. As a fireside colloquist he wss
simply peerless. Here was ever illus-
trated all that was admirable ia his
many-sided character. He knew per
sonally all the party-leaders of his
time. He was an acute listener and
observer and his sketches of a;reat men
were inimitable. As a Methodist as
an editor as a stump speaker he was
irresistible in the midst of bis ad-
herents of mountains and valleys and
when we remember that he was a Whig
and Andrew Juhnion his neighbor at
Greenville a Democrat both omnipo-
tent each in bis own patty it is not
amazing that these two 1 d after them
into Unionism the great body of the
people of the mountainous districts of
three co'er.ninous States. The conduct
of these non-slaveholding populations
caused Greeley to believe that slave-
holders were peculiarly the seces-
sionists of the South and Greeley's
history so-called is entitled "Tbe
Slaveholders' Rebellion." In point of
fact slaveholding populations were
most hostile to secession and each great
slaveholding county of the South un-
less some potent snd extraordinary
party leader lived in its midst sent
Unionists or "co-operationists" or
"submissionista" as then called in
derison to seceding State conventions
it was the "copperas breeches Democ-
racy" and not "broadcloth Whigs"
that were rampant for war. But the
story is told that men holding a pecu-
liar tpecies of property most insecure
when the stability of government was
least gave paternity and approval to
secessijnism. Greeley has fastened the
absurd assertion on the pages of his
book ; the world believes the lie and
there is no remedy while it is only true
that Brownlow and Johnson gave the
assertion verisimilitude through the
conduct of East Tennessee as shaped
by their moral power. It may be
proper to state that despite the violence
of partisanship and of antagon-
isms which Brownlow ever excited
and countless as were bis oppor-
tunities to gather wealth hia per-
sonal integrity was never questioned
and through the varied fortunes of a
long aad active life he occupied the
modest home on Cumberland street in
Knoxville where he breathed his last.
THE HE PART- FRfHESJ
OF OPIIflOIf- THE PRESIDENT
AND HIS POLICY.
The Colorsdo Citizen says:
The President bas shown himself so
far superior to tbe exactions of party
the curse of the country and mani
fested disposition to base bis admin
istration upon the wishes of the peo-
ple the maintenance of the principles
of republican government and the exe-
cution of tbe lawa in the interests of
the whole people. He has broken
through tbe fines over nddeo the ip
dixit of partisan? made bitter enemies
of the extremists of both faction snd
secured the confidence snd respect of
the conservative element of both par
ties. Since the inception of bis aa-
ministration he has sbowa a degree of
firmness and tenacity of purpose worthy
of the highest praise and the people of
the South wbo nave long suneri
from partisan government aad wbo
have heroically withstood tbe infliction
of wrongs st the bends of govern-
ment which should have protected
them will not be slow to accord to
the President tbe full measure of sup-
port aad cordial co-operation in all
rightful aim ia hia administration.
But tbe wort: oi ine rresiaeat tnougn
well finished as to bis course in tbe
South is but begun. Upon the assem
bling of Congress ae will nsve to con-
tend against tbe united strength of
Blaine Morton and all that extreme
faction of politicians who would rath-
er iavolve the country in war than see
their pet hobby the bloody shirt"
and its consequent enmity to tbe Bout
ostracised from party and their occu-
pation destroyed if tbe President bat
show tbe justice sad firm evinced
la th past he will have tbe support of
tho people aad we believe will
achieve a victory over partisanship.
- This is the soaad utterance of a
eocnd aad just aad fearless newspsper.
Tber is ao evasion of truth ao tim-
idity or dis petition to avoid th strong-
est and justest assertion of a patent
fset Tis Citiit does not asj that
tba Sadkal party will ba destroy sd
aad there lore it is content but eoa-
acious that th d extraction of th anti-
podal party ot Radicalism snutt be ai-
muttaneously annihilated th newspa-
per doe not hesitate to accept the en-
tire result as eminently desirable. By
the way the Methodist Christian Adto-
ent4 of Galveston gives Tent to much
tbe same teelings and pronounces a just
aid deserved encomium upon President
Hsyes. Tbe Gslveston 3tc is almost
persuaded to concur with the Cithm
and with the Statesman and there is
aot wanting any evidence of that pro-
gress of opinion which will relieve the
South as effectually of the moral des-
potism of party as of thst of the bay-
onet stricken down by the President
in Louisiana and South Carolina. The
Texas Uhrutian Advocate says:
President Hares as the exponent of
the Constitution deserves the sympa-
thy and support of all citizens. To
him belongs the honor of the first in-
auguration of overt measures for the
relief of oppressed communities and
tbe establishment of thst civil suprem-
acy so necessary to the welfare of
republican institutions. Upon the
broad and solid foundstion of equal
rights to all sections of our lend and
all races of our people the progress of
the current popular life must prove
beneficial if not extraordinary. Our
weary and unsettled people have long
and ardently desired that rest which
these liberal and statesmanlike meas-
ures would seem to guarantee them.
The hate and strife that are generated
and perpetuated by a sectional les;isla-
tion and a partisan administration may
now fold their dark wings and sink
into their proper place tbe abyss of
the past. Hope- bright plumed and
jiyful springs from the vantage
ground ot civil religious and social
liberty and adjusts its bold pinions for
no common flight into the free air of
future possibility. Industry revives on
every hand and stretches out its hsnds
for protected labor. Capital emerges
from its retreata and unlocks those re-
positories in which have been cannily
bidden away the. means of combina-
tion large enterprise and public pro-
gress. A new era has dawned upon our
land and every citizen ahould devoutly
thank the Supreme Master of all for
the brighter day that has dswned upon
TnK New Tork Herald says :
The name of the Republican party
became odious in the South because
of the mismanagement of the corrupt
carpet-baggers; but now that their
misrule is over and the President bss
won the respect of Southern men for
his new policy this odium will rspidly
die away.
Tbe Herald ia probably mistaken.
The antipathy to the name of a party
is greater and more enduring than to
its purposes or creed. There are Old
Whigs everywhere in the South who
have ever voted with the Democrats
since tbe war and yet have alvtays
torn off the word "Democratic" from
ther tickets wherever it occurred.
Sjutbern Union men who fought in
the Southern army through th war
still abhor the word "secessionist"
and the Herald tni Mr. Hayes will
find it impossible to induce these peo-
p'e of the South to accept the designa-
te i "Republicans" even when tbey
may approve every principle and pur-
p so illustrated in the acts and declara-
tions of the President. The Herald
is pleased to ssy it has no doubt thst
we shall have a. reformation of parties;
and that the President who is a great
political forcf will be able to influ-
ence this recast of our politics and
will do s j. But he is a cautious man.
He remarked in his inaugural mes-
sage thst "he serves his party best who
serves bis country best;" and we do
not doubt that his theory of parties
involves but little direct or forcible in-
terference on bis part to produce or
haatan changes but an effort by the
institution of wise reforms and by the
selection of honest and capable public
officers in all parts of the country to
wii the favor of th public for bis
policy. A consistent end quiet course
of this kind will do much not only to
draw to him the best part of tbe people
but to give us a rest from political ex-
citement which the country very much
needs.
The World ssys thst the most sug-
gestive point in Governor Hampton's
messsge is that in which he mentions
the fact that there is among the public
records of South Csrolina a teacher's
psy certificate to which a school board
consisting of three members have af-
fixed their signatures in the shspe of
crosses thus indirectly attesting tbe
competency of another to teach while
acknowledging their own incapacity
to form any judgment as to whether
he waa competent or not. Such an in-
cident is like to tbe opening of a win
dow and gives as a startling view of
tbe recent condition of things in the
prostrate State. It has beea the boast
of the Republican party in the South
that no matter what sins of commis-
sion and omission it was guilty of in
regard to other matter it had always
been faithful in the work of educating
the people ; but here is evidence to
show the nature of the bands into
which the public schools were put;
and when men who could neither read
nor write were mad trustees it is easy
ta believe that th funds were squan-
dered the schools mismanaged and
the whole system of popular education
rendered useless. Thia ssd example
of the evil which may come from com
mitting the task of government to tbe
ignorant classes of th community
shows that they are incompetent evea
te look after their own interests and
that they aot oaly overthrow tbe State
but crush themselves ia its ruins.
SaxAToa CataisTiABCT th liberal
Republican from Michigan tell Hoa.
Bea Hill of Georgia that he is ready
to sacrifice his party oa th altar of
aliegiaac to couatry aad that the
oaly mod of destroyiog Desaocraey
wiU b found ia tha dissolution of the
Republican orgaaizatioa. Meanwhile
the CladanaU Bmquinr ejgrstlt
th country that Repubiicaniam rspidly
becomes axtiact.
It n said that Commodar Morgan
is pre paring to tak cotton from Houa-
toa to New Jersey far i and to Bos
ton far $3.M for oaca ceasprasas
This will be all-rail rates it is said.
It i a blessed nfiectioa accepted a
sack area by Htrjm't Wmlly that w
hav a prafxdaai sjiswd by ta highest
impalse of artfrtotisra lastoad of tba
lowest isstiact of party. " .
Foa many years American and Eng
lish Christianity baa been sending mis
sionaries to China - aad now Chin
proposes to sand missionaries to th
United State. A splendid Buddhist
temple is to be erected in Mew York
City snd a priest spesking English
and educated in a Mew England col
lege is to be th preacher. He is
profound acnolar sod bsvicg
thoroughly mastered the English
language is fully capable of pre
senting his views to an American
audience. He ia a very pious man and
being filled with sorrow st the spiritusl
ignorance of th blind followers of
Christianity has devoted himself with
rare fervor to the thankless work of
missionary. W quote in thia his own
language. The learned Chinaman far-
ther says :
"I will arrange if possible for a
public discussion between Buddhist
and Bsptist if tbs Baptist will consent
to it. Tbey hsve made an assertion
which we construe as a challenge and
now we propose to let them show if
they can chapter and verse in their
own Bible to substantiate their views
and Wong ChingFoowill demonstrate
the falsity of such views. I would
like to arrange to have the discussion
in the ball of the Young Men's Chris-
tian Association and I shall try to do
so; but in any case Buddhism will be
taught to such of the people of New
v i . i ...
iota as win listen."
Th New York World's party gov
erns the city snd State of New York
when it wins power at all through the
vote of a terrible mob of which Tweed
and hia ring were proper morsl off-
shoots snd products. Tbe New York
World therefore opposes the restric
tion of suffrage to taxpayers i local
municipal elections and tells us grave-
ly: "The leaders should insti uct and
rule the rabble and not the rabble the
leaders." This is well enough snd
while the process of instruction goes on
in bull-dozed Southern States and
cit es it would be well perhaps to
give local county and town govern
ments a share of security sgainst our
Tweeds our Connollys and Halls who
are not always O. K. There can be
neither prosperity nor progress nor
schools nor churches nor progressive
civilization in communities msstered
by ignorance vice and barbarism. We
can remove aad cur these evils slow-
ly and meanwhile should be exempt
from their domination that thia benefi-
cent purpose msy be accomplished.
Hon. Dave Culberson saw fit in
defending himself and his sction in
Congress to refer in kindly terms to
the different conduct of Mr. Mills.
The Dallas Herald thereupon warns
Culberson of the danger be incurs. It
says "persecution from thst direction
would make Mills Governor." The
wish is fsther to the thought. Mills
if anybody is the persecutor. It is
Mills and not tbe innocent Iamb-like
Culberson who muddies the stream.
Tbe Herald intimates very plainly
that men like Culberson Hancock
Seth Shepard and Throckmorton (nam-
ing them) are easily crushed as shown
by the luck of Coke. We have only
to say that whenever the Herald or Mr.
Mills chooses to make the issue direct
it will be shown that if tbe great body
of the people ever went mad they are
sane now' and we would gladly see
Culberson or Throckmorton or Hub
bard pitted against one of those blessed
fellows who is still for war whose
mouth smokes like a blazing torch and
his ears like s tarktln.
Sax Randall voted against the re-
establishment of the mint in New Or-
leans. He opposes the Southern
branches to Tom Scott's Pennsylvsnis
road extended sometimes called the
Texas Pacific. Randall also voted to
destroy all Southern navy yards and
stations.
In Stete snd Federal elections let
suffrage be universal. In county and
town elections the privilege should be
restneted to taxpayers. Tbe State
affects the man and bis personal
rights and protects his liberty; the
county aad town affect property alone.
Th Prodace Tax.
Geobsetown April 1877.
Editors DomocraUe Statesman I no-
tice that much is being said about tbe
tax on agricultural products in the
hands of the producer and no doubt
some dissatisfaction with th law in
thia respect is felt by farmers. I think
bowsver thst it will require but little
reflection to satisfy any fair-minded
farmer that the law as it stand' is right.
I bos farmer bat 1 can see no reason
why the product of my capital and
labor should be exempt from taxation
while the d rod acta of mv neichbor'a
capital and labor are taxed. I can see
no right that I have to ask that the
burdens of government shsll fsll more
heavily on the shoulders of my neigh-
bor than on my own. Let me assume
that in December I sold to my neigh-
bors wbo are carpenter wbeelrigbts
blacksmiths merchants doctors law-
yers preachers editors school teach
era etc. their supplies of corn fod-
der flour pork cotton tsbacco rice
potatoes peas aad beans what right
have I to demand that these prod acts
of my farm for which I hsve bee
paid shsll be taxed in their bands
but that the portion which I retain for
my owa as shall aot be taxed! Why
may aot the wheelwright and tbe black-
snuth with as much propriety de-
mand that a tax shall be levied oa the
plows harrows and wagons which I
hav bought from them daring the
year but that no tax shall be levied
on the- material aad implements which
they hove oa hand t In abort what
right - have I ta aay that th tax
oa theae commoiities is all per-
fectly just ' and right when ap-
plied to them ia th head of
other parties bat all wrong aad
unjust when applied to them ia my
hasdef Tha farmer of Texas aa a
class ar 'aot aad bars never beea
disposed to ask for special fevers or
exclusive privilege. They have enough
pride aad independence to make them
believe at least that tbey can take car
of themselves and all tbay hsve ever
desired of govern meat was a fair aad
cqoitabla distributioa of its bsrdsas.
Aad ba who hope to ride iato office oa
tba prejadke of th farmers against
this law wtu and nimseu maca mis-
taken or I snuch over-rate the intelli
gence aad patriotism of this ciasa of
say fellow -a Uxegs. Toa ar correct
when yoa aay that th lawyers of tba
ooaveatioa ar aot responsible for tha
article ia tbe Cooautotioa oa taxation
aad revenue; it was tba work of th
faratara. True aosa lawyers approved
of it aad voted tor it bat a a class
tbay opposed it. Their opposition to
it However wss not oasca oa IB I act
that it made all property in the State
(except such as was specifically ex-
empted) taxable. I can remember no
aingle word of objection on this ground ;
but tbey objected to it because it re-qui-ed
that land should be rendered
tor taxation and tbe taxee paid thereon
in the coun y where it waa aituated.asd
for tbe further reason that it required
the passage of a law fer enforcing the
collection of taxes that should operate
uniformly open all speciee of property
requiring lands to be seized snd sold
f jr the psyment of tsxes just as per-
sonal property. All appreciated the
inconvenieace that would result to
citizens owning lands in different lo-
cilities throughout the State from tbe
cbange but the majority appreciated
also the hardship that resulted to the
small land owners who resided upon
and cultivated their lands from hav-
ing their personal property subject to
seizure snd ale annually for the pay-
ment of their taxes while large bodies
ef land lying around them owned by
persons at a distance were either not
rendered for taxation at all or ren-
dered at the ComptnlUi' office at alto-
gether inadequate prices snd the tsxes
upon them never paid. It must be
born in mind that at the time the con-
vention met tbe people had been
grievously burdened for many yeata
not only with heavy taxes tut with
almost every species of oppression and
that they looked to their representa-
tives in that body to relieve them as
far aa it lay in their power to do so
from these burdens not the least of
which was the unequal and unjust op-
eration of the existing laws for the as-
sessment snd collection of taxes.
Largely our 40000000 of acres of
patented lends had never paid any
taxes to the State or counties and un-
less the land owner had personal prop-
erty in tbe different counties where his
landa were situated the collection ol
taxea could not be enforced against
him without such vexatious litigation
and long delay as to make the collec-
tion almost altogether impracticable.
And it would have been surprising if
under the circumstances some import-
ant cbangea bad not been made in the
mode of enforcing the assessment
and collection of the taxes. The plan
adopted of making all property taxable
Sive such as was specifically excepted
and of requiring promptness and uni-
formity iu enforcing the assessment
and collection of taxes met my hearty
approval at the time and I aa heartily
approve it now. The summary method
of disposing of land heretofore un-
known to cur laws for the payment of
the tsxes due on them is lifting our
counties out of debt and enabling
them to build substantial jails and
court houses and is working no hard-
ship on the people. Of thia last fact
the tax collector of this county whose
judgment and honesty cannot be ques-
tioned assured me this evening.
; There ere errors in the Constitution
but the measures of which I hsve been
writing are not of the number. And
now before 1 leave the subject I de-
sire to say that under the preseat sys-
tem our county is collecting more and
spending less money tban for many
years past. We are out of debt and
have several thousand dollars ahead to
invest in a court house.
Respectfully
: R. Sanson.
Political.
' The Philadelphia Enquirer which
has ever been sn underrated Radical
newpaper says that it is easy to un-
derstand that the carpet-baggers do
not like tbe policy of the President
for it simply portends their extermina-
tion making them an extinct species
of American politicians. If the pro-
verbial worm will turn we can expect
no more from the average carpet bag-
ger. There is no animate thing that
would not protest if it could against
its own summary destruction no matter
how much of a nuisance it was and
the carpet-bagger? in resisting being
done for are only obeying the first
law of nature that of self-preservation.
But things that do cumber the ground
and things that are nuisance must ol
necessity yield sooner later to the in-
evitable and tbe sense of justice in the
American people enforced by Presi-
dent Haye renders it inevitable that
the statesman whose symbol is a car
pet-bag should disappear from our
politics. Everything that hopes or
expects to continue to live must show
some excuse for its beinir snd this the
carpet-baggers cannot do. Just now
be stands in the way of right and jus-
tice and President Hayes says that
he must on. We can assure him that
there ia no help for it. He has bad
bis day and a pretty long day it has
been too a good one for bim
and. a bad one for the country.
He should be satisfied with bis past
aad not obstruct the future.
- When he talks as he does tslk of
President Hsyes betraying th Repub-
lican party by ordering him to get out
of tbe way ol justice amity and
fraternal feeling be is talking tbe
sheerest nonsense. He is aot as be
sesames to be the Republican party
any more than one of Sherman' bum-
mers robbing tbe hen-roosts of Geor
gia was Sherman's army. He ia no
more the Republican party than is the
barnacle clinging to the bottom of the
ship and impeding ita progress tbe
ship itself tie is butsn njwnoiesome
retarding excrescence and tbe Presi-
dent proposes to purify snd strengthen
the patty by getting nd of bim. If he
likes to fasten himself to tbe Demo-
cratic ship and it likes to bsve him.
on honest Republican will jrreatly re
gret bis desertion. But we doubt II
be is wsnted by either party. Cer
tainly he hindered not belped tbe
Uepublican puty; and II permitted
be will do much more for tbe opposi-
tion. He should endesvor to understand
that th Southern policy of the aew
administration which leaves him nn
provided for is nothing less tbaa tbe
crystalization of the will of both par-
ties. President Hsyes in carrying it
out is only enforcing the wisbee of all
good mea and if to-day tbe country
were called upon to vote for or against
it tbe people would all vote aye leav-
ing only the carpet-baggers and Wen-
dell Phillips to vote nsy. Tbey are
too few to go to war; a better plan for
them to follow would be to go to work.
The meeting at Dead wood Dakota
on Saturday eveaing ia favor of crea-
ting a territory of the "Black Hills"
to be called "Lincoln" illustrate the
rapidity with which American enter-
prise follows oa tbe beel of American
discovery. But tbe other dsy Dead-
wood wss sn Indian bunting ground
aad th Black mil scarcely more tbsn
a fiction oa the snap. Now tba coua
try swsrms with misers aad ia th
daily intelligence of highway robber-
ies murders and mass msetine. we
recognize the presence of a high civili
sation. Jtak way sister territories
for baby "Lincoln."
A pamphlet entitled "A Glanc at
tba Future" and said to hare been
written by aa Austrian Archduke has
created mash comment la Austrian
military circles. T sutbor considers
that a war between Austria and Russia
wilt be inevitable ia case of bostibtie
opeaiag between the latter aad Turkey.
Ha coincide with th remark of Ga.
Feyedeff that it will aot b at Con-
stantinople but at Vienna that tbe
Oriental questioa will o soivsa.
BTereta-w Notts
The London Times for the past six
months has been gradually reducing
the weight of iu white paper with a
ssving st tbe present price of paper of
more than $50000 per annum.
At Berne Switzerland there waa a
row on the recent anniversary of tba
outbreak of the Commune ia France
The police interfered and took away .
at.. a a k:.K v.. 1 k.i...
t'lo iqu iabv auuu umsM itou aivauaapu-
T ie crowd resisted and wounds wera
laflicted ia the struggle.
A msn wbo ctaims to own th ground .
upon which Cleopatra's Needle re
cently presented to Greet Britain by .-
th Khedive lies has fenced it rouad
aud demanda several thouaand pounds
compensstion before he allows tha"
monument to be removed.
Calcutta dispatches tell of a terribla
outbreak of cholera at one of th saa -
ports of Bengal during which one-
fourth of the entire European popula-
tion of the place died within thirty
hours. There are indications that tba '
famine is about reaching ita worst and
hopes sre expressed that it will be lss
severe tbsn wss expected.
The London Timet ssys that "th
determination of the government to '
construct not experimentally bat '
wholesale several war ships of steel ia
a sufficient indication that one of tho
meat obstinate difficulties in ship-build
ing has been overcome." Dr. Siemens
hsving succeeded in producing a
quslity of steel fit for th pnrpoe.
The British Parliament has defeated.
by a vote of 104 to 123 tha aaaaelly .
recurring motion to abolish Hoggin;
in th navy. It does not appear that
this means of punishment is need to '
any great extent but "My Lords ara
unable to see how discipline is to ba
maintained unleas the power to floe .
offending seamen is kept in reserve. "
According to the Courisr do la
Champagne the exportstion of cham
pagne to America bas fallen off from r
240000 cases ia 1878 to 1M 000 cases
ia 1876. These figures indicate that
the bard times or the temperaac.
movement or the competition of th
native wines of Ohio and California
or something of the sort is diminish-!
ing tbe consumption or (horrid
thought!) thst
The subject of separate schools for.
habitual truants snd seml-incorriffibles
is begitnlng to receive considerable at-."
tention from American educators. 1st
Hamburg Germany snd in several
other European cities schools fer thia
class sre in successful operation. Tha
advocates of such schools hold that tha
influence of this particular class oa
studious and tractable dudIIs la verr
pernicious snd that experience baa
fully demonstrated the wisdom of
separate institutions for them.
Dr. Richardson of Eogland who la
now recognized as s high Authority oa
matters of domestic hygiene ssys thst
sixty-two decrees Fahrenheit i tha
right degree of temperature for health
and that those engaged in literary or
artistic work cannot possibly be too
careful on this point. If their lsbor bo
prolonged or severe tbe temperature
may be allowed to run up to suty-fiv
degrees or even seventy degrees. Tha
same rule applies to all sedentary per-
sons snd children studying. Our rooms
here are apt to be at least tea degree
too hot for healthy persons.
Great surprise is manifested at tha
small sums which Mr. Bobn's article of
vertu fetched at the great ssle just held
in London. He possessed on of tho
finest collections of tbese articles la
Eogland and though there has beta a
manifest decline in the value of this
class of property the total sum realized
at Mr. Bobn's sale still affords room for
astonishment. Pottery is another article
visible. Mr. Gladstone's collectiaatU
sold some time ago fetched" vary
small sum and the aame result' we
witnessed in other recent sales la Eng-
land. Pictures on the contrary go up
in value. . .
An international British celebratfoif.
in honor of Queen Victoria's birthday
is to be held at Petersburg Virginia
on May 24 and several dsya preceding
and following. It is to be held under
tbe immediate patronage of tbe Karl of
Dufferin Governor-General of Can ads.
Sir Edward Thornton the British min-
ister to this country and various other
British and American officials. Tha
committee of arrangements include
English snd America cltir.ens of Vir-
ginia and the co-operative cotnmltte
embraces officers of St. George's Socie-
ties in the cities of tbe United States
snd of Hsmilton Csnad. As s lsrg
number of Englishmen hsve Istely set-
tled in Virginis snd other Bute f
th South the occasion promises to b
one of international interest. It Is un-
derstood that Sir Edward Thoraton
the able and popular minister front
Great Britain to the United States has
Cromised to be present at the Peters
urg celebration. '
Among tbe matrimonial announce-
ment of Conjungo tbe Paris marriag
broker in the Ittit Journal msy bo
noticed: "Yuung lady; age 29; for-
tune 100000 fraocs." Orphan; g
23; fortune 00000 francs.1' Widow
without children; aire 20; fortue
100000 franca." Widow well pre-
served; sge 39; does not look tnor
than 28; no false hair; he preserved
all her teeth; plays tbe piaao suffi-
ciently for dancing; temper quick but
heart good; alight moustache; for-
tune 130000 fraocs snd sn and psr-
slyzed on one side whose doctor only
gives him three months to live." -
"An occasional correspondent" ba
at length discovered an Elysiaa shod
teeming with men and women f most
singuisr temperament on writes:
"One of the most extraordinary fea
tures la Hawaiian character lie in tba
fact that th terrible passioa of jeal
ousy is unknown among tbem. It doe
not exist sny more tbsn thing thst
was never heard of has aa existence.
The Hawaiian womaa is th moot lov
ing of human beings. Tb Hawaiiaa'
lovet however deeply be loves her I
never jealous of her. Men msy smils
upon her msy corns snd go but bis
sonl is unruffled by the green-eyed
monster. Native women ar aot jeal-
ous of native women nor f men ; hus
band is not jeslous of wife. Th a
dv is not inattentive to tbe wishes of
his beloved. He waits upon her with
gallant attention; ia fct tbaHawai-
a is so extremelv reliant that b
thinks is s glory to do housework if
tbe doing thereof will pleas his sweet-
nean.
Everybody wbo has visited Europs
since tb fall of Louis Philippe he
either met or heard of tb faraoaa
American dentist of Paris Dr. Evans
tbe pupil and successor of th oaca
more famous Dr. Brewster wbo dis-
tinguished himself and msds hi for-
tune forty years sgo by compelling tb
Czar Nicholas to com 11 tii wsy
from St. Petersburg to Berlin ia mid-
winter to bsve bis imperial teeth
looked after. It was Dr. Evans whom
war accomplished Secretary of State
Mr. Erarta npea a saemorabie occa-
ioao neatly decapitated with a keen-
edged compliment. Tb eminent
cbirurgeoa bad beea edifying the ta-
ble with confidence politic! nd so-
cial bestowed upon bim ' by half a
dozen potentates Intimacy of profes-
sional fire. "Yoa ar very fortunate
mea" said th grsat advocate of tb
Geneva conference "for while it la
commonly thought that kings i
perors ar very sparing of speech.
plain that they tar all oprasd i
mouths frsely to yon.'
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