Weekly Democratic Statesman. (Austin, Tex.), Vol. 7, No. 50, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 19, 1878 Page: 1 of 4
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THE STATESMAN
Tllhl O.VIJL.Y
Till-: WKKliLV
a poblisl.-d every T!:nrliij- murntrg.
All bu:n--sa ci nv;mtidi ecu. rorumcni' mj
'He. sb-.-uld b- art.IriSM.-d to
Ansrtn Tfiii
IIIH(i;iLlNEO(H.
Liu mo- c-!.i.:l 1 it -am iw used by
eiiP.-r-rs from iuIrr?olirry tIeli-.
it U reuiiwnl of li-; iroiiiirta
srbtcli hnvfKAMltlctiVi't nthe t hroitt
lliil lungs: l-t Ije from t tie aire-1 1 nil
irritatlmr matter; c-iiusen it to h ex-
Jectcr:.ted ami at one? check the- la
lainnrttUou w Iilrli prixincm llis roue It.
.A siltgie ioftroll?vea I ho uiost dint ress-
injr iarov-m. aianlhes riertotisnrvs.
Mnil rualilrt tlie emit- rrr to enjoy ulrt
ret lit niht. Being; A ilennt t oritiut.
Si tons tlm -uk Molimcit. K1il is
apttt-iallj ro:ouiiusfidei lor cLlltiiea
JViat others say about
Tutl's Expectorant
Had AslhmaThirly Years
PaLTIMOKE Fthtuarf j 175.
"1 have nsd A.1U1M tnirty yean cud never
iouiid a medicine itt had n lnnrv rttct "
W. F. HOGAN ChiH.i St.
A Child's Idea of Merit.
Saw Ohlsans Hovrmltr 11 it;o.
'Tult's Expectorant is familiar nsme in my
home. My wife tlnnksil thebe-t medicine in the
world mod the children uy it uicet tiur
moias-ics Cindy."
NOAH WOODWARD 101 N. Poydraa SL
"Six and all Croupy."
4 1 nm t he mother of mx children ; all or them
lSave bcrn trouuy V ithout Tult's Expectorant
tlu n't think tfit.-y could have survived oiic (4
liie atUi k. It i :i mother Mcsinnr."
fcRY STE.V&NS frt.wri
A Doctor's Advices
' In my practice 1 advise all families to keep
Tint's Kxpccluraut in sudden emergencies lot
doughs crotip diphtheria etc."
T. P. ELLIS M.D. Newark N. J.
Sold bit all drumtut. I'rlrr 9 i VO. Otfict
US Murray Afreef A'tw lurk.
"THE TREE IS KKOWW BY ITS FRUIT."
Tutt' Pilla ar worth tiirirwi(rhtin fold."
" REV. L B. SIMPSON. Lowavilla. Ky.
" Tnlt' Till are .vcial bleiiin ol Ui
Binclccatn rrniMrv.
REV. F. W. OSGOOD. Naw York.
I h.ive used Tuu' for torpor o( t!ie
livrr. 'I'iicv are superior to any nivdicin? toe
biliarv ili-'r.!rr rver Ollldt
I. P. CAR 8 Attern.y at Law Augusta Qa.
I have used Tutl'k I'i.ii nve years in my f;im
I' V. Thrv are unrimnletl for coMivenr! nnd Itil.
louniesH." F. R.WIIL80N Georgetown Tana.
! hxve nvd lull's Medicine vith cre:it
beiichi.' -w. W. MANN Editor Mobil. rUgi.tor.
We aril fift rnni s I ult'a Pills to five ot
all other." SAVRE & CO. CartoravUla Ga.
"Tiitl'a Pilla hava ouiy to be trcd to es
taiili'th tlieir meriM. They work like magic.
W. H. BARRONj 99 Sumiw St. Boaton.
a( There U no meuu the ho well adnnted to lha
cure ul bilious rli-nr.l. r aa Tnll'a Pills."
JOS. BRUMMEL Riohmocd Virginia.
AND A TrTTSTTSTND MORE.
AvliXbji ttrugQil: cntn a bojr. Ofilf
JtS Murray Strrrt Arte lurk.
TUTT'S H&1B !DYB
HIGH TESTIMONY.
TKOM TtK P-IVIFIC JOt'H.V.IL.
bas been mailt livl'it. Tifi. ni -w Vnrk.!
whlcb reiurea voiithrul tieaulv to tho hair.i
That eminent chemist ha Kurc-elol t i
lirndurlna a llnlr live kIiIi-Ii liilini(nl
iiAiuro to pcrfiM-tlon. t'ld liaehrton luayf
uow rejulco." I
lVr fl.OO. OfTir S.t .Vwrrnv WvJj
-Vfu l'orfc. Sold by all Uriifytjiai. L
IT K.IVBU XIIK PEOPLK OP S.-
VA Nit A ii ;a. who usko it
ltrillNO 1118 TKUK1BLK
LI-.PII
ra. J. H.
IDG.1IIC OF 1870.
Zeiln Si Co. :
ifhUsmrn.'Yte the undersigned Kngl-
on tho Ueorgia Central Railroad in
ful obligation for tha bcneflia we re-
d from the nae of SIMMONS LIVER
CLATOR diirinn the YELLOW FE-
EPIDEM IC in 9avannah.Ocorgia.ln the
ler and fall of 1870 desire to make the
-lnz atalement : That dnrinz the afore
said Ifi'dtuilc we ased the medicine known
aa SIMMONS LIVER REOl'LATOR pre-
pared ly J. U. Zeilin A Co and though ex.
piecd io :he worst miasmatic influencee of
the j cI jw fewr by going In and coming out
SavauuSb at differvnt hours et the eight and
also inlspendlng cn lre nlgh s in the city
during tV prevalence of this most FATAL
EPIDKillC.wlth but tha airg'e exception of
one or ufjwho was taken aick.but speeaily re-
covered V continued In our usual good
h-altk a Virtu instance we can account for
in no otper way but by the effect nndor
provldencf . of the habltnal and cannoned
uso of SIMMON'S LIVKR RKO0LATOR
rhile we 'r exposed to IMS euow r crer
malaria
Respectfully l our.
C It PATTERSON J AS. L. MALLan n.
JOHN R.CPUJXS MELTON F.COOPER.
AUTION.
THE GKNUI
TOR OR :
E f IMM0N3 LIVER REOrLA
EDICINE M AXL" FACTURED
ONLY
Is wrapped I
J H. ZEILIN A CO
clean neat WHITE WRAP
PER with theytd symbolic & stampea mere-
ou. Run to tf1" J "u "
subs'ltatas. Tkno other but theOUIGI-
.N.VLtsdGEML'lNS. sejrtH
lE CAN SPRING 8CIIOOL
This 1-stltnttoB. for bora and gM. pleasantly
aireted la a h.'thriil aod rtdaed Cuotmauity
fu m.ie nnnhiwt of Austin ou the Brtnnain
road. Bear tha springs wfcicb. give It name com-
mence lis aeeoud year nn"erthe present man-
ajrrmeot Aogo.t US. 1ST. While undue promr-
ceuce ut not r vea tn any one particular aiuay
t h nnrii.-l kr. th. nnced.nce oser lum
brancbes merely ornamemai or at best sapple-
lenul to a thoroura practical edacauea. The
tm nc pal aad wife bot teachers of long epe-
rlco.-. k'.'o their ucdiTided time and attention
to U sciouL
V. A TVS OF TTUTtOS.
T. v mmum iif a months.
Prlm.rr tirade s J to 00
Nub Interme4tat t ' w
Intermod.ate --- w
n-aca.iemlo.lr.cUlli.g Latin tiraiumar.. 17 Si)
Acadosjic. iaciudm a4accvd Lalui ) tM
A1 b.Us are dae at the end of rack scholastic
moalh. and mist pojilively be settle by cash
wr ecxotHhlo note at the end of the current
nur:cr. rVtriHc n beohtainej in iheneigo-
hnrSd ll i) tv m.o.lh The Principal will take
artai-.tod numwof eoor-g ladiea at t-sleh p.T
fck ion. ruvatki. ouarterir in aavautc. iuhut
m fatthir truell-'r. adJrs the rrir.e'pa!.
1 . r gimaiv..
jiSJ wli'aio Aastio Texaa.
r VIMImI riamtBerw for the Sixteenth Jtrd'
rjal ljistrict wll meet In the ptriora of the Kay
rnimd li jiie. o-t Tueua. Sl'tlilber IT. Ii
f. the examination of aipllcauia for the prac
tice of auvUcice.
. 1CWESTF ALI; M.D-.
I ic. rraiosas
!. K. RritTH M. D.. Serretary.
Aurun Txa Alii aj. m:. acx'.ditawat
JL
I
All pereoos ae waredl cot a bey ortrade fv
the fi.ioiiig pfmis7 mln: oe for -"s)
m.U by T. 1'. hut to M . 4oAUtu astomey lor
Bjrke. dae Jnurv 1 .1 '.?.!: lw far i eaca.
Biaiio fc J- . Ilvmard lo W. xvi J. attorney
far Burkes K!h daied kit I ls.i Crt die 1-
c noer l?rr. rcvol. wcembcr lot all
vir f.r laud la li. mc oDt. AtiOe Botes
tre cd'aiam or i;un
ki.d ill riot Ne pud.
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VOL. VII.
JOII.V IIIX'ACK AND HIS CAL-
A writer in The Western the popular
St. Louis magazine says: "If we
were dow two peoples separated by
the extension westward of Misnn's and
Dixon's line each section at this mc-
meat even if outward show ot peace
continued wonld be compelled- to keep
on foot a standing army of at least
300.000 men. .The maintenance of
men a force as a peace measure would
exhaust both cections and lead inevita-
bly to war bloodier and mare lasting
and ruinous than that fratricidal con-
fl ct that ended in 1803." Two co-
existent unions would be wholly in-
tolerable. We have thought when
Thad S:evens and Ben Butler and the
"reconstruction committee" and the
Freed men's Bureau reigned and rav-
aged the South that "one" union was
bid enough. "Two" would have du-
plicated every possible calamity. Two
rj;reat navies and two grand armies
constituted of black jannissaries would
have made the two despotisms ever
consolidated by retroactive pressure
unmixed and unendurable evils. .. Such
would have been inevitable results of
Confederate success and John Han
cock refused to promote them. Surely
it was no crime that he was a prophet
and surely if he saw clearly in 18C0-1
that this was the best possible result as
nobody now denier- of the war between
the State he cannot be condemned for
ostihty to those who "precipitated"
this war. But if Hancock should not
be condemned for opposing secession-
ism even if he supposed its triumph
possible how infinitely less reason for
s condemnation when he never
dreamed that the success of secession-
ism was possible 1 Ho spoke every
here every dsy of the tnormous losses
we must sustain. He talked of the
death of myriads that must ensue. He
said the struggle would be more dead
ly a thousand fold than the yellow
plague or cholera. He said we would
be beaten and f-ubjugated tnat our
nroDertv would be confiscated our
morals undermined and our country
desolated. - He believed all he said
and acted upon this faith. He refused
to participate in a contest in which.
f we were victors we would be en -
slaved and if vanquished enslaved
and utterly impoverished. What crime
was there in this? He could not have
changed the result and knew it.
On the contrary he purEUd a
course by which when the war ended
he was enabled to do infinite service to
the people of Texas. He stood when
the war closed just where he did when
it began. He was and remained a
Democrat. He refused every proffer
of alliance made by Governor Hamil
ton and other Republican leaders of
the time. He was without one shadow
of turning. He steadfastly adhered
to principle aad singularly enough
had the moral courage to obey his con
victions. If he were wiser than we
we should not be angry and therefore
it is that we cannot comprehend feel-
ings or reasons inducing a little coterie
of violent partisans and original seces-
sionists of Glveston to publish a most
malevolent assault upon John Han
cock. They deny his Democracy ana
only because he was not a practical
secessionist. If this be made the test
more than half the followers of the
party must abandon its colors.
The party is not confined to these
States of the 8outh. Voorhees Thur-
man Cox Bayard and many like them
are none the better or worse Djmo-
rats that tbey were neither theoreti
cal nor practical secessionists. Ex
clude these from the party and all
North and South who followed them
and the party is no more. It happened
that Hancock lived in the South. His
convictions of right and duty were
none the less binding and believing
as he did and foreseeing inevitable re
sults of secession as he thought he did
any ether conduct on his part would
have been reprehensible to the last
degree. If Hancock in 1800-1 deemed
the co-existence of two American
Unions neither possible nor desirable
as asserted by the St. Louis magazine
above quoted he would have been a
traitor to his conscience if he had
fought for Southern victory and sure
ly his enemies in Galveston would not
insist that he should have fought in
be Half of known Inevitable defeat and
thus for the irremediable rum ox the
South.
This assault upon Judge nancock is
so wanting in the spirit of fairness and
in liberal and just thinking that it can
avail nothing among intelligent people
and must through its violence add
to his strength. If its philosophy gov-
erned the district and State it
would involve the ruin of the
commonwealth. Since States have
been . . re-invested with freedom
and bayonets - are no more differences
of 1880-1 are forgotten. If the victo
rious North whose sons we slaughter
ed can afford to forget the "rebels'
enmes" surely the vanquished rebel
can confess oblivion when a Unionist
adheres to the creed of his Democratic
juuth and manhood asserting the same
theoriee and purposes in his age and
never faithless to the party save when
the party went to perdition and death.
There are those perhaps who are
forced to sav that Hancock was wiser
than We and therefore we bate Han
cock ; but the masses of the people will
only rt fleet that adhesion to party in
1SG1-5 was ot lets importance lhan ad
hesion to country and Hancock believ
ed that he served . his country more
faithfully than Davis or Yancey" or
Flournoy or . any pyrotechnic
goer of tUe Galveston protest
But bygones are by-gonea and Ilin
cock can serve us more effectually
than any rival of his in or out of the
party or in or out of Galveston. We
have no reason to question his honesty
and nobody denying bis great ability
or his purpose to serve Texas faithfully
ire prefer him to anyone for the place be
seeks. These Galveston assailant of
Hancock indulging ia personal jeal-
ousy become open enemies of the
Democratic party. Surely their theo-
ries put into force would annihilate it.
Nishviile is exerting herself most
vigorously ia the cause ct charity.
WEEKLY
EP DETilC niSEASKS-THK III-
MIX KtILk UKSPONjilULK
V 1 ITS 0r .TI SICMlKit.
One of the most learned men in the
couitry and scutest investigators of the
lw of health is Prof. Hall of Michi-
gan University. He has written of epi-
dermic and coatagious diseases an arti-
cle containing mre good pratical sense
thai any we have encountered. lie
discusses the condition of Austin with-
out designation: the place with inSoite
clearness of apprehension. When this
is the clean 3st it will be the mot
healthful of American cities. The first
sentence uttered by the venerable and
Warned Professor should live immortal
in our memories. He says:
The experience and observation of
half a century wartmts me in saying
that the time will come when it will
be :ts disgraceful for a ciiy or family
to have the yellow fever typhoid fe-
ver camp fever or cholera as it new is
for school districts and families to have
the itch and lousy children. Through
extensive travel from ti:ue to time I
became in love with the beautiful cli-
mate and future possibilities of the
South and soon began to stuiy the
pecjliarities of it dreadful scourge
yellow fever. By drivicg iDto the
cotTifry fr.jm the infected cUk-SfTwks
astr nished to find that no cases had
ever originated on the plantations
clerrly showing tbat it was not a cli-
matic but an endemical ditei.se. Ou
further investigation 1 found that each
sill cted city had its infected districts
while other portions of the same city
were in excellent health. Further an-
alysis showed that the disease raged
worse among the dissipated and poor-
ly fed showiog conclusively the dis-
ease is dependent on bad sanitary con-
ditions. Just the sinio with cholera
and typhoid fevers in the North. Forty-six
jeats ago cholera made its ap-
pearance in Now York thence com-
municating with the filthy landings up
the r ver then from Allaoy and Trov
up the Krie canal as if it needed the
waters upon which to swim thus deal-
snd destruction and death to all
swampy nations through its whole
length to Buffalo but it had no pow-
er to climb the hills where good sani-
tary conditions existed. The same re-
sults were again experienced in ISIS
and 1833 clearly showing the disease
wa9 endemic and that it complied
strictly with the rules of etiquette
never to visit a plase to which it had
not been invited by its bad sanitary
con htion.
Fifty-four years ago a robust middle-aged
Vermont uncle who boasted
of a lM-cois dairy suddenly died of
typhus fever generattd m a field
whire the hay was fed being almost
literally poisoned by his own hand.
Forty years ago it was talked in
Central New Yoik that the diseases
wera changing from a malarial to a ty-
phoid type. What were the causes?
Highly cultivated lauds remove the
maUrial causes. The feculent matter
from the drains water-closets and
grave yards began to poison the water
supply and often emit deleterious gas-
es. These causes are general but vil-
lages and cities suffer much more than
ruri-d districts.
Though we read and talk of villages
and cities being dreadfully srllxted
wit 'i seme of these tlisenses we find
on -.nvesuesiion it is iiuinea to neign-
boi hoods and people of peculiar hab-
I s.
A few winters ngo it was said that
Cl.'.cigo was being 6 lilt cted with the
mo-t malignant type of ecarlet fever
that was ever known. So much alarmed
was th-: country they dared not visit
their Chicago friends and funeral cei1-
em inies were prohibited.
Being familiar with the city ana
having previously come to the conclu
sion that deepening tne canal to ren
feet of water to Joliet would give Chi
cago the possibility oi oecoming me
Set'.lthiest large city in the world I
felt curious to know the cause of Chi
cago's a filxtioa. Investigation showed
that the disease was confined to the
districts along the branches of the Chi-
caeo river and mostly to the south
branch where are the great slaughter-
houses of the city.
Four years ago I came home from a
ten day's absence and was told that a
neishborinc young lady had died of
typhoid fever and the rest of the fam
lly were quite sick. I was shocked
for ten days before .this girl ana ner
family were amorg the most robust to
be met on the ttreet. The residence
was on the highest point in this vicin
itv.and supposed to be one of the most
healthy in the State. What could be
the cause of their illness? They were
well to-do and intelligent farmers.but
like many farmers.in a hurry for spring
work they had left the spring ciean-
inir of the cellars for a rainy day and
premature hot weather stimulated de
cay in r!tuse vegetables carrying sir.n
nesa and death to the family.
Three years ago a neighbor whose
palatial residence and grounds occu
pies one of the most neaitmui sites in
this or any other State and whose
constitution and health were so good
that his weight had not varied a pound
in five years came near dying of ty
phoid fever. This gentleman being ot
good habits and whose residence and
grounds seemed to be in the best pos
sible sanitary condition 1 felt puzzled
to account for the cause of bis illness.
I have since learned that the gentle-
man with an empty stomach and in i
fatigued condition assisted in the ad
justment of an old sewer connection
with a cess-pool.
One year ago last winter the Toledo
papers said that malignant diptberia
was raging dreadfully in that city. It
was especially severe on boys and eirls
from six to twenty years of age. They
soon found it was confined exclusively
to children of that age and finally to
children who attended the Jefferson
8treet school whose drinking water
was found to be poisoned by the es-
cape ot feculent matter from closets.
Did space allow hundreds of clearly
defined cases could be deduced to show
that yellow fever typhoid fever and
cholera are neither of them climatic
epidemic or hardly endemic diseases
bat entirely dependent on the filthy
conditions and habits which invite
them. Camp fever and ship fever are
dependent on similar causes and all
are mst furely avoidable in the natu-
ral climate of any country.- I am also
ceitain that with good sanitary condi-
tions ia both the climate ia the lower
latitudes is healthier than in the higher
latitudes. A daily maximum beat of
seventy to eighty-five degrees is much
healthier than the extremes from zero
to ninety-five degrees.
To keep densely populated countries
in a good saniiary condition the dead
should be cremated cities should be
tb rouphly sewered and daily cleansed
bv an abundance of water.
A11 feculent matter in villages and
rural districts should be duly utilized
for fertilizing purposes by a copious
sa xture of fine dry eartb muck or
charcoal. Ot course the stagnant
wt.ter in swamp must be removed by
di cb.es to prevent malarial disease.
The earth cn absorb and digest
large quantities ot feculent matter
bat wb.en gorged she vomits forth dis-
ease and death to all in the vicinity.
Israel Hall
University ofI";c!fign department of
Science Literature and Arts Ann
Arbor August 24.
Hon. Jcha U. Reagan will canvass
North Texas ia the interest ot Democracy.
DEMOCRATIC
AUSTIN TEXAS THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 19 1S7
TEX IS LOSES A I'ATUIOr.
Col. Ben II. Epperson died at his
home in Jefferson surrorndc-d by his
relatives and friends on the sixth of
September. II d he lived until the
third of November he would have been
51 years of ae a period usually in life
when one should be in full man-
hood and vigor. But Col. Epper-
son's death came at this ae as a
result of unremitting devotion to labor
and an overworked system. Beu U.
Epperson was a native of Mississippi
whence be came with his father to
Texas while yet a boy. He was
educated at Princeton College and
studied lav with B. H. Martin a
leading lawyer of Clarksyille. E irly
in life he assumed a deep interest
in all things designed to advance
the interest of the country and from
his earliest manhood toik a great
interest in politics. He was a Whig
of the Henry Clay school and at the
age of twenty-eight was brought for-
ward by his party as a candidate for
Governor of Texas receiving a strong
support. Il-i was time and 8"iio sent
to the iitate Legislature from Hid
River county and his wise
statesmanship has been indelibly
stamped upon the political features of
Texas.
To Col. Epperson Texs is as much
indebted as to any other man for her
magnificent system of internal im-
provements. Contemporary with Hous-
ton and Hask and the fathers of the
State and serving with Governor
Throckmorton in the House of Rep-
resentatives at the time when the lib
eral policy of appropriating lands to
works of internal improvement was
inaugurated he threw the weight of
his talents nnd icflueuce in favor of
the policy and by his efforts and those
laboring with him more than two
thousand mile: of railway uow tra-
verse the State all constructed and in
successful operation without the ap-
propriation of a single dollar from the
public treasury. North Texas espe-
cially will revere his memory as one of
her most useful citizens and wherever
the Texas and Pacific road shall pene-
trate the people along its line will en-
tertain gratdful recollections of his
great labors in its behalf. He was an
ardent Union man in all t'.ie conflict
and discussion which immediately pre
ceded our great civil war. He met the
most distinguished secessionists on the
stumpand always maintained his views
of the great questions involved with
all the tire and strength and anima
tion of his nature; and as a Whig and
a Union man he was placed upon the
Bell and Everett electoral ticket in 18C0
Nevertheless he did not believe in the
power of the . Federal government to
coerce and he went with the South in
its t lllxtion and did all in his power
for the success of the cause that was
lost. During the war and after it his
purse was open to the needy and thou
sands of his substance were spent in
relieving them. A grateful people
elected him in 180(5 to Congress
but he with tho others from Texa
were denied the privilege of taking
their seats. He settled in Jefferson in
1872 and was next sent to the S'ate
Legislature by the people of Marion
county. His career has been one of
generous impulses and of noble pur
poses and in his death Texas has lost
a citizen whose place it will be difficult
to fill.
A NEW 'I ICKiiT THE VdlAKiHT
It fcPUBLICANK.
The sane Republicans of Texas it is
said will hold a convention in Dallas
and make up a State ticket such as
honest members of the party may sup
port. It is proposed to nominate ex
Governor Pease for the office of Gover
nor; the relic of Henry Clay seen in
the shape of a ghostly walking stick
carving its way through the whisky
fumes and pistol smoke of Dallas and
called Norton will be the candidate for
the Lieutenant Governor's place and
Judge Bell probably will be approved
as a candidate for a vacancy on the
Supreme Court bench. It will thus
happen that we may ascertain the
strength in Texas of the conservative
Republican party. Governor Davis
exerts himselt to defeat this
scheme. He would not have
the party in which he deems himself
supreme rent in twain. He would
utilize its strength in his own behalf.
In his speech at Lattran e last week
the Governor devoted bis genius to
self-laudation. The inference was that
he intends to ran a;ainst nancock and
Jones first showing his personal pref-
erence for Jones that he may secure
for himself the black body f Jones's
adherents.
It is well enough to note the charac-
ter of rumors current. They at least
show the course of public opinion even
a elections in Maine tell ns that when
the issue is fairly made up be-
tween repudiationists and Com-
munists on the one hand and Demo-
crats and Republicans on the other
the revolutionists are in a great minor-
ity. If the Greenbackers proper have
only one third of the votes in Maine
where poverty and want are guests at
countless firesides and where wide-
spread penury begets a tendency to
financial and political violence and
revolution if Greenbackism have only
one-third of the votes of Maine how
infinitely weak must the party be in
the West and South. It exists only in
towns and cities. That its forces may
be annihilated and its dangerous ten
dencies finally repressed decent and
intelligent R -publicans propose to
place the ticket desigaated before the
people and vote honestly in the face of
defeat.
The gentleman named ia the append
ed Tjaraeranh was in Austin a few
days ago. He would make a delight
ful accession to the Greenbackers' club
of Robertson HilL We are told that
he was fooling around Governor Davis
and S'ill to get a little money with
which to pay expenses while he lec
tured in Senegambian districts on the
glorious time coming when fiat paper
dollars will grow on tree and every
body will be stupendously rich. But
hi ex-excellency' finances were at a
low bb aad Mr. Sail couldn't discov
er any marks startling gemus in
Rnfro's sweet Tjc and he "lit cut."
Ren'ro was a Hbdical member of the
Radical Constiifct:ou.l Convcct'on of
1SC3 and won ame by l is efforts to
make np a neern fMs'rict of Montgom-
ery Waller Fort Bend aad Wharton
con: ties that he might have a life es-
tate in a seat in the State S.-nate. But
poor Ren fro was too greedy and John
Henry Srown smashed Renfru's plans
lis wanted to appropriate too much of
Africa to his own use. His district
would have been 159 miles long and
blacker than the butt end of midnight.
His scheme thwarted poor Renfro
went home and has been brooding
over his wots in solitude and hope-
lessness till Grecnbickijm came.
Then R:nfro thought he saw the sun
rising on bis dtsola'coess. lie lifted
himself np and rubbing his watery eyes
became a Greenback candidate for the
district attorneyship. Cap?. S. S.
Ashe who wa in Montgomery says it
was alleged that It.-nfro said in a
public speech that he would carry
Montgomery county with a torch in
one band ai.1 atil in the other and
would not be responsible fur tho women
and children. For this speech he was
waited upon by the white cit:zens and
given a limited time in which to chance
his place of abode. We thought Aus
tin ws quarantined. There is some
mistake about it. Renfro was here.
KILVliVrON v. IIOUNTO.V AND
VICE VERSA.
Mayor Wilson W. D. Cleveland F.
A. Rice Ben A. Botts and B. A. Shep-
herd constituting the board of health
of the city of llou.ton publish a five-
column statement in the Telegram
showing the course pursued by Hous-
ton in quarantine matters and the re
suits which led to the action against
Galyrstonv The record shows plainly
enough that G:tlveston was not alone
looking to health but that it was
partial to its own trade and op-
posed to Houston having a fair
showing. Galveston holds the key
to Houston under such circumstances
and while preventing Morgan's New
York steamers from going up Buffilo
Bayou permitted other vessels to come
from more lhan one iLlected port to
Galveston. Houston remonstratedcnd
Gilveston not regarding protest was
finally shut out by Houston. The re
sult is that no vessels now come into
Galveston from infected points and
Houston on this condition raised the
quarantine. The Galveston telegrams
made up in the Sieieg office presented
e most partial and unjust view of the
case as fully shown by the statements
of the above named most honorable
gentlemen. Dr. Rutherford and the
Houston board of health acted as they
were compelled to do to carry out a
plan of effective ouarantine. For two
days the Jfcirs was shut out on a sand
bank by this quarantine and as every-
body knows it h-s a good hand for
pettine- uo sensational matter the
Galveston view of the question is taken
now as it should have been f.U the
time cwi grano salix.
WHAT DOES TIIK CiOVERNOR
HIE IN?
Which day does Governor Hubbard
propose to observe as the day of fast
ing humiliation and prayer? When
he designates "the Sibbath day"
does he mean Sunday the Lord's day
the day of the resurrection? And
since the Roman Catholic and Episco
pal churches older every Suuday in the
year to be observed as a festival in
commemoration of the Lord's joyous
resurrection which occurred on that
day it is to be hoped that when his
Excellency says "Sabbath"-he means
Saturday. But very many good people
will suppose he has reference to Sun
day and it is evident that when he
speaks of the ' Sabbath" dsy he does
mean Snnday and not Saturday
The Governor was educated at a theo
logical school and is no doubt imbued
with the idea that the Catholic and
Greek and Episcopal churches are at
fau'.t in this matter and that the names
of the days of the week as used by us
came from the Goths and Vandals who
gave us Moon-day Sun-day Woden's
day Freia's dsy and Thor's day but
it is still maintained by two potent
and learned denominations thst Sun'
day the first day of week cannot be
devoted to purposes of fasting and
orayer. They cinnot devote the
blessed Sunday recognized by tbem as
the day ot Christ's victory over death.
hell and the grave to grief humilia
tion sackcloth and ashes. Perhaps
his Excellency will reconsider his ac
tion or give us an amended proclama
tion copied from Wouter Van Twiller
by whom when Dutch Governor
New York as Washington Irving tells
many similar fulmioations were thun-
dered forth.
New York Citv has sent about
$70000 to the afflicted of the South.
Austin has not sent one-seventieth of
thi ? sum and yet New York is not
seventy times greater than Austin.
And should it be said that Northern
pecple are more generous to those of
the South than we to ourselves t And
shall Southern men like Flournoy of
Galveston still appeal to sectionsl
pusions and hates when they would
arouse prt j idices against John Han
cock ? New York is very rich and
Austin is comparatively poor. The
force of Federal poarer are sub-
ordinated to the purpose of ag-
grandizing New York and of im-
poverishing through the tariff re-
mote province like Texas; but for
all that the generosity of our Northern
fellow countrymen to our own smitten
pecple force us to forget that the
smoke of battle ever rose up between
us and we can never again esteem a
maa the lea because be loved the
Union or because be happened to have
hi home or birthplace beyond the
Ohio. The whole North even Chi
cago has been aa generous as the great
metropolis of the Union.
Frtdjlt Terrell voted to bang King
Alcohol "high and dry." Ia other
word "local option" was carried by
three majority. Not a very large ma-
j jority but still a majority.
a rrn A
A LETTF.lt AN I AN ANSIVEU.
The following originally appeared
in the London Punch et the time when
Lord Palmerstou ws Preuiicr whs pe-
titioned to issue a prtcUinatii-.n fix'-nx
a day of fasting nnd praytr on account
of a visitttioQ of the Atia'io cholera.
We publish it a applicable to the pre-
vailing excitement with reference to
the yellow fever and from its intniiMc
excellence is wtli worthy of being pre-
served.! tui ram bytes to palmer?to.
The pla;ue hs come among us
Miseiable sinners!
Fear and remorse have at on? u.
Miserable sinner!
' Weaskthehtsletoflxad.iv.
Whereon all men may fas? a -irl pr-y.
Tout Heaven wil. pi.ae to tu n :y
The plsn- that works its f o;e lii? may.
Miserable sinners!
PAt-M'RToN to j)ia rr.E-nvTEi;'.
The plague bah -cmc anion: you
Mirrrah e sinuem!
To cffjrt bath It .trim? yon.
Miserab si hi-t !
You aefc tht a'l should f tt and pray:
Better all wak-t and wo k. I my.
Sloth and upincne put away.
That so the plagne tnay re rv to slay
M:serable sinuers!
For plague. like other evl's
M ineralile sinner !
Are God's and no the 1 vil's
Miserable sinners!
Scourges they are hut in - band
Where love and pity do ccnun ml.
Aid wb ii the heaviest atrij-es co fal
Tla wher" they're want d nio?t of ali.
M serablc stuncrc !
Look about yonr rl'y
lllserab'e sinners!
Arouse to shame and pity.
Ml.-erab c inner!
Pray; but use brush an I I mewath pa:1;
Fast ; but feed tho-e for want who r..il ;
Bow down eude 'own. t- spk or grur-.
But bow with cletner hands and foe
Mis-rable aiuueiel
AH time God's 1 .w hath 'poken
M-serable sinner-!
That 1 w mny n t be bn ken.
Miserable sinners!
Put he that breaks It must ecdnre
Tha penalty whl h works the cur-.
To us for God's great laws transgressed
la doomrman Pestilence sdrlnsscd
atistrable sinueri-!
We cannot jugate heaven.
Miserable tin er. !
With one day out of seven.
M.sorable g-nner!
bll aiy force of fa" ts aoe
For year of duty left undone?
How e'Pia'e with p:av r or i-rulm.
Deaf ear blind ey ) and folded palm;
Mistrahle sinners!
Let ns be np and s-lrrlng
Miseranle s nuerr! "
'Mong ignorance and ernii '
Misiable slLners!
Hlrth and self-set king from us cast
B. Levi g th's the Attest fist.
For of ail prayers praye I 'nenth the sun
Thjre is no prayer like wo-k well iloiie
Misera le sinners!
The Greenback caudidatu for the
State Senate from this district tries to
make capital aunins: Judge Terrell out
of the fact that Tirrell & Walker are
the Supreme Court reporters. The
opirion of the Attorney General of
Texas Gen. Bione and of Mtjjr
West is in opposition to anj such idea.
They both say that the employment of
Terrell & Walker as Supreme court re
porters does not disqualify Judge Ter-
rell for the State Sanate. Judge Duval
while Supreme Court reporter held
the office of Secretary of State many
years ago; while Hartley was Supreme
Court reporter he was a member of the
Sanate and also of the House of Rep
resentatives at another time. The ob
jection is based upon the supposed ig
norance of the people. B-jsides if the
position of State reporter is an office
Judge Terrell's election to the State
Senate would vacate it; but it is
hard to see how it would make any
difference to his opponent if the people
want his services which they will cer
tainly show on the fifth of November
No freights can pass Texarkana un
less accompanied by an affidavit of the
consignor that thev have not been in
o - as
an infected place. Euch passenger en
tering Texas must show a proper cer
tificate that he has not heardaiLjeilow
fever for twenty or thirty days. Koiis-.
ing but letters that have been smoked
can pass through the mails and no
sleeping car can enter Texas over the
7 "
Iron Mountain road. Sleepy-headed
passengers are apt we suppose to dis
seminate the disease. Bdt such are
the regulations enforced at Texarkana
and again at Marshall and since there
is no fever this side of those two. places
why have a quarantining force annoy
ing people and costing money?
" "It is said that "Dr. J. S. Myer of
Virginia City Nevada has rediscover
ed the lost Egyptian art of tempering
brass tools to a more lasting cutting
edge than steel ones will hold." Brick
Pomeroy proposes to have the process
applied to bis sweet face and pugged
nose even though the world has ever
supposed there was nothing in heaven
or earth tougher than Brick's delicious
physiognomy.
The House of Bishops has formally
deposed from the ministry Bishop Mc-
Crosky and it is asserted that Ply
mouth Church would have bad a like
chapter in its history had such a court
held jurisdiction there.
The averago descent of the Missis
sippi river from Cairo to the aea is
three inches for each mile. From
Memphis to New Orleans by water the
distance is about 800 miles and Mem
phis ia thus 240 feet above the sea.
Philosophers are discussing whether
a Lew-born child possesses an intellect.
The 'Tag baby" proves the question in
the negative.
The juggler tbea asked for a sig
net ring. Several were offered him
and he choe out one which bad a very
lar-je oval seal projicting well beyond
the gold boon on do in ejaes. in
ring he tossed and tumbled several
tine in bis band now-throwing it
into the air and catching it then sbak
ine it between his clasped bands all tl
time mumbling half-articulate words
in some nindostanee patois. Then
setting the ring down on the cloth at
about half -aim's Irgth in front oi him
he said slowly and distinctly in good
Uindostanee "Ring rise np aad got
to the rupee." The ring rose wit
the seal uppermost and rearing on th
boon slowly with a kind of dancing
or jerking motion it passed over the
cloth un-il it came to where the rupee
lav ob the remote edge; then it lay
down on the coin. The conjurer then
said "Ring lay bold of the rupee and
brine it to me." The projecting edge
of the seal teemed to grapple the edge
of the coin; the ring and the rupee
rose into a kind of wrestling attitude
aad with th same dancing and jerk
iosr motion the two returned to wit hi
reach of the jaggler' Land. The Uni-
- Gen. Butler admits that the little fee
of $143000 was paid him aad hi asso-
ciate for their connection with the
Farragut prize money award but
claim that there was lot of work ia it
and that tome incidental expense ot
few thousand bad to come oat of the
turn.
c
Tn Wasderlas Jew Or. Koblera
Ler tare Tbe Pa 111 of Iarael
ihrouih HUtory.
But there another brilliant civiliza-
tion threatened to alienate the Jews
frr.ui their mission. Babylon binz
the center of tbe world's commerce
and industry the grand university of
oldest renown showed heathenism ar-
rayed in tuofrt attractive wisdom an-1
sjileudor. Her sacred archives dis-
closed unto the Jewish captives the
records of the. remotest past the si-
ctets of the world's beginning. Her
tsironomers and magicians unveiled to
ih-. in the mysteries of the heavens the
on me and position of every star angel
and spirit whether good or evil in the
c m-telUtion of the universe and this
belitf was instead of the old Canaan-
ite idolatry blended with Judaism.
Soon the fresh and clear Hebrew lan-
uae was exchanged with the time-
oru Babylonian dialect. Jewish tai
nt and wisdom soliciting the admira
tion of iwovlontan rulers lound hon
orable fields of labor recognition and
MicecM. I-tracl was in a fair way of
ettiDg lost among the conflux of na-
ions screaming tu isaoyion naa not
he remnant of the Nazarites under
the name of "the Servants ot Ood"
'the pious and humble ones"
KYioDim again guarded the sacred
lierilasre of 1-trael aud by admonition
nstruction and prayers prepared the
"utile for the longed-for return to tbe
Holy Land. As pupils and heir of
the prophets tbey in company with
the priests gathered the priceless lit-
rary remnants ot tbe nation to render
them a treasury of comfort and lnspi-
atiou for mankind. 1 hey also drew
up systems of law tor tne restoration
f the Jewish State tending to regu
late the domestic social and political
life of the people by the standard of
riest!y holiness and purity in order
to render the land worthy of the God
welling in their midst. Having
amidst sorrow and longing for Jerusa
lem elicited the most touching elegies
from their harps whilst sitting on the
suoiesof Babylon's rivers they broke
ut into joy and jubilee when Cyrus
he Persian kins rose like tbe sun in
the East to triumph over Asia and in
the name of the Ormuzi the good
pirit of light to overthrow
aughty Babylonia. As uods
noiuted one. be is hailed by tbe
loTTyvBeer of the exile who expects
soon to .have the temple rebuilt and as
iouse cprajer and enlightenment
reopened unto all the nations. Alasl
hope is a wing possession becomes a
fetter unto the soul. The great pro-
phetic outburst ot hope and enthusiasm
ended within the small compass of the
temple; tbe lofty aspirations of the
nation dwindled into priestly ritual-
ui. Restoration of the priestly priv
ileges became the watchword ot tbe
sons of Saddok as the contemplated
restitution of the kingdom was inter
fered with by the Persian government.
But lUst then Judaism equipped it
self for its world-conquering march.
Its members had been scattered over
Asia where they had shared in the ma
terial and mental progress of Persia
and the other nations. Their talents
and prospects outgrew the limited area
of Judea. The wide world became
their home. When Alexander the
Macedonian conqueror.blended Eastern
and Western civilization tbe Jews
were tbe first to combine the Jewish
faith with Greek thought Greek phi
losophy with Oriental lore. Tte Jews
admired by his teacher Aristotle fori
their wisdom offered him brave sol-
diers for his armiesindu8trious settlers'
for his new colonies the best element!
for his cosmopolitan plans and pur
poses. The whole Mediterranean shore
" -m a . -
on tne Asiatic ana Airican coast was
dotted with Jewish settlements attend-
ing to agriculture commerce and in
dustry even to purple and siik manu-
factories inherited from the Phoeni
cians.
Nor was Judaism as a religion con
fined to the Holy Land. The temple
at Jerusalem with its perpetual altar-
Gre nourished by the gifts of all the
Jews near and far formed henceforth
a bright national center instead of a
mere territorial one. Its priests the
sons of Saddok holding connections
with foreign lands and nations repre
sented tbe cosmopolitan eiemejK
.luuea. vy un touir njrsaruT oroau
and universal education tbey formed
the vangnard-'of Jewish propaganda
all over the World. B-ing tbe aristoc-
racy of blood and wealth they as a
par v endeavored to blend heathen
'culture and refinement with their re
ligion in order ta reflect credit oa-the
latter. No doubt the naturalization of
Jewish ideas in Syria and Alexandria
the translation of the Bible into Greei
and Aramean was due to their influ
ence lint ensnarea Dy wonaty power
by greed after wealth and sensual pleas-
ures tbey disgraced their proud name.
Saduceeism became a nicknsmesignifi-
cative of apostacy and libertinism.
Under the disguise of Greek refinement
heathen vice and idolatry flooded tbe
land aad tbe temple threatening to
wipe out Judaism.
To oppose Sadduceean wantonness
and license the remnant of the old
Nazarites the Cbaaidirx. or " pious
mrs" afterward called by their Syrian
name the Pharisees rose invested with
priestly sanctity and prophetical pow-
er. As during the Babylonian exile
they longed and prepared themselves
for the coming of tbe Messiah and the
great time of resurrection. Their in-
spiring zeal for tbe law carried tbe
Hasmonean priests forward to brilliant
victories and counteracted also their
ambition and arrogance when tbey as-
pired first to the bigh-priesl's diadem
and then to the royal crown. Their
fervent hope their sublime faith their
aspiration to the highest possible holi-
ness and purity their priestly lives and
costume (tbe white long-fringed gar-
ment and capsules of Biblical texts
fastened on the forehead and over tbe
breast) shaped and mou'ded tbe life
of tbe Jewish people. They were the
founders of tbe Synagogue which as
a centre of public instruction devotion
and charity soon outdone the temple
in Jerusalem with all its priestly pomp
and splendor. As popular preachers
they sncceeded ia refining Jewish mor-
als and as teachers in sublimating tbe
Biblical teaching about God and the
ben after as tbey blended tbem at first
with Oriental tradition and fable
and afterwards with Platonic and Py-
thagorean philosophy. Wherever Jew-
iah enterprise and talent had tonnd
success and prpsperity they instituted
congregational worship to scatter tbe
sublime truth of a common father a
common moral obligation and a com
mon hope of mankind. Tbey gave the
world men like Hillel and Jesus with
tweet lesson of humanity of kindne
and charity on their lips men like Phi-
to tbe philosopher and Joseph as the
historian with Irroad cosmopolitan
views and finally energetic men like
Jocbanan ben Sakkai and St Paul who
upon the very ruin of tbe temple built
new religion systems the one for tbe
dispersed Jewish people the other tor
the treat pagan world.
Well may tbe greedy Roman eagle
now draw its fatal circle around Judea
to pounce noon and consume her. Ju
daism is no longer bounded by tne
confine of it native land. Well may
the relentless soldier ot Titus' legion
throw the fire-brand at tbe temple.
From it ashea Judaism will rise pbov
cix like through the Synagogue and
with bf two daughters the Church
and the Hosqae to enthrone God in
tbe heart tf humanity. Well may tbe
Wandering Jew bow start noon hi
dreary endless journey ; though be
NO. 50
still fail to find his brethren bis God
aad Father is everywhere.
Many a Jew then like St. Paul
dreamed of a religion of humanity of
msnkiod united by the belief in one
Gad as it was actually held together
by the iron grasp of Rome. Bat
antiq'iity was sapped and exhausted.
Mankind was too feeble to renounce its
old gods aud superstitions. To meet
the wants of the age Christiauity an
ffspriog of the Jewish Eenes a sid
branch of the Pharisees offered Jewish
morals as a new revelation moulded
Jewish philosophy and heathen beliefs
into the dogmas of the Incarnation and
the Trinity and turned Roman politics
nto a ruling prustcuting church
Judaism contending for its holy un-
compromising God protested and was
forced to take shelter in the 1. tst even
more against Christian fauaticisui than
against heathen Rome. Agi-i the
Jews wander bark to Btbylouia.
There concentrated around two great
seats of learning wi-h the Phariscean
tradition and lore stored tip in tho
bulky Talmud and Midrash literature.
thry manifest their patriotism as sol-
diers ai industrious mechanics agri-
culturalists aud traders as lawyers
astronomers and phsictaus. They
establish kingdom in Persian and
Arabian provinces partake in the
noble contest of Arabic chiyalry and
poetry. Everywhere they associate
with all classes of society high or low
bred thankfully gather their wisdom
respect the laws and authorities of
their land adopt its language habits
and views eyen its plays and supersti
tions yet without forsaking their post
as guardians of the pure f tail it in God
and without ever allowing heathen
license and vice to train their home
life rendered so holy by the extensive
bulwark of Rabbinism.
Soon Judaism gave the world a new
child which was to re-establish the
kingdom tf one God in the Eist.
I-tlamism also an offahoot of Jewish
hisene teachings inspired the enthu
siastic camel driver of Mecca with pro-
phetical powtr to build an empire.
which with lightning speed spread
over the three continents to suh.iue
them unto the dominion of Allah.
Mohammedanism became the sole
heir and protector of Greek philosophy
and science while it saved their culti
vators Syrian Unitarians from Bvz in
line fanaticism aud idolatty. Tbe E tst
and tbe West soon mingled their
streams of culture to refresh and to
fertilize the world. The philosophy of
Plato and Aristotle and the astronomy
of Ptolemy Oalen'a hygiene and Hin-
d o fable enlightened and delighted
mankind. The Jews although de
spised and persecuted by their Arabic
kinsmen no less than by their Christian
brethren diCw in with joy the sweet
air and light of Mohammedan culture
helping greatly to roster and propa-
gate U. Marching in imo rear of
lamic conquests they spread its accu-
mulated knowledge over the West to
impart it to the CluUti n world. Tliey
in company with the Aramac doctors
were the torch-hearers of tornce and
free thought ii th dink v-Ut of iue-
diieval ignorance nu-t i lai uy . W hat-
ever of philosophy and astronomy of
medical and physical knowledge Chris-
tianity possessed during the Middle
Ages was through direct communica-
tions of translations impsrted by Jews.
They encompassed all the exchange of
ideas and opinious even of popular
sayings and fables. The Wandering
Jew with bis enterprise aad talent
with I ii- energy and elacticity of mind
..as wnatever prejudice may nave to
cay to the contrary the true pioneer of
modern civilization.
Of course the Jewish religion was
also quickened and regenerated by tbe
healthy breeze which came forth from
the Arabian peninsula. Koran theolo-
g-y so much akin to Juiaism from
w hich it sprang stimulated to Bew and
original studies and inquiries of the
j5iur pf its language its text aud
teachi IUbb uism was sharply
assauetr iy a 0rt of Puritan Bible
ueuevers
the Karaites: its errors its
faults and a. useg exposed and its tire
soma yoke loosb1?d. But roused fronvlfinrHexture miaht decUufHtrTtrf uTi
its lethargy Judaism Uctraved
its inborn strength nd"-Bwr It
csll-id ltgtKvUiu i jmi'rrre front to
holds. Arabian phi-
pby furnished the instruments to
build systems of Jewish thought one
keener and loftier than the Other to
exhalt tbe God of Israel above any bu
man shortsightedness. Reason with its
divine sceptre wst drcls red to be the
supreme judge of tbe Jewish faitb;
philosophy the true expounder of the
Bible. The attributes of Ood were
sublimated to outreach any human
perception and resemblance; the Bible
notion of creation and revelation and
tbe hen after were spiritualized so as
to accord w th the highest postulates
of indeiealent thinkers. Even tbe
Mosaic lav. s and narratives were turned
into mere symbolical lessons. A bril
liant array of intellects a msjestic gal-
axy of stars of the first magnitude
glesmcd forth now in Persia then in
hpain represented in tbelr various
shades and hues by Siadiih Solomar
Ibn Gabriel or A vicebron Juda Ilalevy
Maimonidcs Gersonide Cresca and
many other Tbey framed and nour
ished not merely the Jewish but also
the Christian minds during the mid-
dle ages and Allien us Magnus Thom-
as of Aquino Dans the Scotchman
drew their best ideas from Jewish
sources. Although independent still
only as the pupil of Jewish philosophy
Barurb Spinoza atcended tbe itecp and
barren mountain top of philosophy to
herald the dawn of a new day of free
thought. The bold cosmopolitan
sweep of intellect however threatened
both in Mohammedan and Jewish cir
cles to uproo'. faith. The rigorous exer
tion of the mind emptied the heart of
its life blood causing religion to be
dissolved into philosophical common-
places and trivial platitudes. A mighty
reaction in dr-feosnf the law an J tra-
dition ent-ued. Mysticisms took tbe
place of fresh thought. Tni Cabbala
rooted in old E s-ne lore and over
grown with supert'itinn old and
modern beiiutntr.d the Jewish mind
lulling it to rest and soothing the
heart while the atottn of wild fanati-
cism and re'eotleaa petstcution raged
over tbe head of the people all over
Cbristendorr.
Timo People. It is no little thing
to have shaken bands w.tb tbe yellow
pestilence in its lair aad to have lived
on intimate terms for a month with
tbe grim sovereign of tbe shade. Men
who would unhesitatingly face a dis-
charge of canister hot from tbe brazen
throat of a cannon bave been known
to cower and cringe in abject fear of
tbe destroying angel msmfett in this
awfal form. There is of course that
heroism duly chronicled by tb lis-
putchi s. which is liorss-llipg men tn do
ail an I lre all for tor me n poor
stricken humanity but it is t-l in ;Le
composition of every man to be a Lero ;
nature herself has forbidden it. And
when a man not stamped with tbe he-
roic brand find himself in every envi-
ronment like that of Memphis or any
ot tha other fver-burdened communi-
ties of the South ordinary prudence
should dictate the immediate itmoval
of bis person to a rxor healthy lati-
tude. Popclak Lactometee Dip a well
polished knitting needle Into a deep
vessel of milk aad withdraw it imme-
diately la an upright position. It th
milk is pure some of it will bang to
tbe needle; but if water is added even
ia small protoitiont the Call will not
adhere.
THE STATESMAN.
DAILY DEMOCRATIC STATBSXA "
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WEEKLY DEMOCRATIC
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Flat" Financial Flznree. -
Extinguished Fiat:
In the Sunday's edition of our great
organ the Caviitthe high and mighty
"fiat" whose profound financial wis-
dom astonishes the world and bamboc-
x'es the average flapdoodle "fiats"
after calmly explaining away the defeat
of Mr. Dowel! proceeds to indulge in
a little innocent financial figuring.
Figures however are wonderfully
mysterious and the high and mighty
"fiat" succeeds admirably ia rettics
them inexphcabty mixed up and to
he very great disgiace of the party.
and to his own exceeding great aston
ishment shows beyond all doubt that
coin and not paper is the money of
the world. He again holds up France
as being blessed far above all other
countries and assures us that the per
capita circulation there ia $36 fit.while
our own country has only 17.73. lis
pluces the total paper money of France
at ?450000.0?0 or $231239 6M lea .
than in the United States. Tbe popu
lation of France is a little over 30000
COO. and if the circulation ver vinita is
$50 94 there must be about $1600.-
000000 of gold and silver in that coun
try or more than three times as much
coin as paper money and if tbe people
ot t rance have more money per capita
than we have the excess a abowu by"
the high and mighty "fiat" consitttof
gold and silver. Now the people of
the tnited States own all of the gold
aad silver of tbe country and if they
desire more money all they have to do is
to have it coined. At this time not more
than one-third of the gold and silver
produced in America is manufactured
into money the balance being used In
the arts ; hence if we do not haye mora
than $17.73 per capita in circulation it
is because tbe wants of trade do not
require it. Trade always regulates Ike
supply of money and not the gover-
ment. If we delegate to the govern
ment the power to regulate tbe sup
ply of money as tbe flapdoodles desire
tbe dear people fear that the wire-
pullers and unmitigated demagogues
who so often control the government
would regulate it according to their
own necessities without reference to
the wants of trade or anything else.
It will be well to get the high and
ratghty "flat" to step down and out.
He is evidently controlled by the gold
and silver money power.
Hard Brick.
Now and then one has seen a fluent
and blatant talker who could not
think at any time what could be called
thought but who was able to produce
such material as be could produce at
all the rate of rapid speaking trying
to inveigle this foolish wise man to en-
ter with him into the lists of discus
sion. He did (so to speak) seek to
persuade the swan to leave the wattr
where every movement was gracefu1
and try a walking match on shore
where tbe swsn could but waddle most
M 1 m i n a 1 il Y7 T tlavn tmhMlH th awan
abandon its proper element and I bav
grieved. It is n.uch to be regretted- -that
what Gaorge Stephenson (and
many other met ) called "the gilt of
the gab" has so powerful and immedi
ate an (fleet upon tbe less dueernirg
multitude. I have known a human
being who was intellectually morally
and spiritually far beneath contempt a
mere insolent and brutal vulgarian.
command tha attention of a Urge
meeting by a speech which when it
came to be printed the most stupid
person in that assemblage could not fail
to see was the most despicable rubbish.
I am far from clear that parliaments
and all like bodies are not a mistake.
If euch bodies are allowed to meet at r
all tbey ought to be constrained to tit
for six continuous months . and then
the blatant demagogue unscbolsrly
ins"lent vulgar and probably dirty
with nothing to commend him but bis
brazen fort head and bis flow of un-
grammatical speech might possibly
find hit level. A thoughtful mia here
and there might in these months get
over his nervous shyness and gain th'
inflnpnrsi riltn ta him thnntr-sv aotl' '
Tinnrt -vfih fi-nrr...'.rr-.ir.ri r.tr
monger of debate. Specially In mat
ters theological and ecclesiastical it is
bard to picture the thoughtful and re
fined scholar whose-writings form tt
thinking ol his generation as eotfrin
into a vulgar brawl with a bluiterici
bully in a horribly unwholesome ttmo
phere at two o'clock in tha mornif
The scholar would loathe and dM
himself for having stooped to that i
e Cable degradation. Tbe bully woul i
be proud to have been kicked by the
higher type of man.--rrater'i Haga-
tine. '
A duel it of daily occurrence in Par-
is either for wordt spoken or written ;
but you never hear ot an affair of hoc -or
on the other side of the chancel.
There it hss properly gone OJt of fash-
ion ; but when men will not fight tbey
ought not to abuse each other. But I
ttc.with some experience in tbe matter
that although we ofJVnd grievously it
this respect in tbe United States es-
pecially of late years in Washington
there it almost a much abuse of tt
courtesies of debate in England at wit:
nt the only difference being that 1
England the crimtnation takes place ; .
secret or if not is never permitted t o
appear in the London papers. Tl q
French "ate mora impulsive but thi r
never rail at each other without beir
ready to answer for their language
repeat there is no justification for me-
tal or personal combat; but I coster
that no gentleman should use co&n
languse without being ready to fc-
sume all the responsibilities for i'
whatever they may be. If this ru1-.
could be applied at tbe bar tn the l-v
courts of all nations it would b .':-
tary. Witness would sot then I
outraged by brutal attorney tbelteiv
behind their sheepskins and titr.
judges woul) not shrink before I.
bulliet below tbem. Tbe twe cl
that are protected by authority a a
ussge are the legislators aod lawjr
in all countries. The press a!-& i
punished for iu boldoess aod often f
tbe errors of others sometimes a c- at' ;
verdict and somtimes a violent asiau
Tae only tffetsei that are ptrpetrs1-
with impunity are by tbe men w
make tbe law and by those who ti
by professing to enforce tbem wL
tbey are made.
Mr. Wilson McDonald bacoTjpV--ia
city bit statue ot Gee. Cusu-r.w i
it to be erected at West Poltt 1.
General is repietented ia tbe utif
of a colonel his rack in tbe rfu
army. The figure is of btrcic
eight feet high. He it placed ia i
attitude of figbtln tbe Indiana
with bit tword Tbe tiatoe wi l :
cast ia brocre and tbe wbule w ;
will coit $10000. Of this iDvi.
$7000 has already been secured.
A correspondent of the New T
Graphic tayt that the resolution
Geo. Sherman 'e ton to enter the C '
lie priest boo 1 wss tb retult ct
mother' ectreattt and ber orerp
ig influence and was not kro
bis father until tbe preparations t-
departure for a cloister la Europe
all completed snd Li pat-9 cz
attaint r engaged.
Judge Roberts' tpeecb at Cj.V
it spoken of a a masterly ffort-
i doing nobleterv.ee s be has a' 7
done in every walk of public sn
snd bis sentuoett and uaeb xe r
meet with a beany respocse s-I
acquUscei.ee fivia ail wi.0 be-r L..
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