Weekly Democratic Statesman. (Austin, Tex.), Vol. 11, No. 10, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 6, 1881 Page: 1 of 4
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THE SEVENTH ANNUAL EXHIBITION
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CAPITAL
STATE FAIR
ASSOCIATION
WILL BEHKI.D AT THE
Fa.ii Grounds
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AUSTIN TEXAS
Commenping
October 18th 1881
And Continuing Five Days.
Running' and Trotting
Races Every Day.
Walking Match Third Day.
EQUESTRIAN RACES BY LADIES
Second and Filth Days.
Liberal Premiums offered on ex-
niDiis. xno entrance leecuargeu
on animals or articles en-
tered for exhibition.
Railroads will Carrv Passen
gers & Freight to the Fair
at Reduced Rates.
For further particulars reference
is made to the premium list which
has been revised and can be had on
application to the Secretary at Aus-
tin Texas.
JOHN HANCOCK Pres't
K. C. BARTHOLOMEW Boc'r
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TUTTS
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INDORSED BY
PHYSICIANS CLERGYMEN. AND
THE AFFLICTED EVERYWHERE.
THE GREATEST MEDICAL
TRIUMPH OF THE AGE.
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TORPID LIVER.
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VOL. XI.
The Garfield fund is now about
$300000. .
On the day of his death Mr. Gar-
field was 49 years and 10 months old.
Miss Ealalia Uisley of Houston
is to make her professional debut at
Florence Italy November 1.
Tiik total of rewards offered for
the arrest of the three Arkansas
train robbers is $16500.
While the Garfield fund foes ou
towards a liilf million the Michigan
sufferers ar - still naked and starv-
ing. Wonder is expressed now at the
fact that not a minister of the gos
pel was with Mr. Garfield during his
long affliction.
Unless this Garfield fund comes
to a halt some aspiring women will
be hiring Guiteaus to do villainous
jobs for them.
According to the Vicksburg Her
ald Senator Lamar is capturing
every county in Mississippi and bis
re-election is assured.
Governor Koberts will ko to
the York town centennial in case
his official duties do not require bis
presence here.
The New York Star is advocat
ing harmony in the . Democratic
party in New York. It thinks that
success may be achieved. '
Governor WiLTz'got back to
New Orleans from his Texas trip on
the '24th no better and no worse.
His disease is consumption.
It is understood that Gen. Gor
don of Georgia is in the hands of
his friends and that raqans a good
deal juat before the gubernatorial
canvass begins.
A noted divine has recently re
marked that three-fourths of the in
habitants of heaven are females.
This accounts for Beecher's aspira
tions for the hereafter.
What notoriety the physicians
did not make in treating Mr. Gar-
field they are now attempting to
gain by quarreling over what the
autopsy proved and what it did not
prove.
The Oneida county delegation to
the New Y'ork state convention is
made up of two sets of delegates a
half breed and a stalwart . delega
tion with Mr. Conkling amng the
latter.
v Australia has a like trial with
California in Chinese immigration
the Celestials not appearing to bo
particularly welcome anywhere ou
the face of the earth outside of
home. .
Indications for the gulf states :
Partly cloudy weather and possibly
local rains in the western portion
east to south winds ; stationary ba
rometer and -stationary or higher
temperature.
A Boston firm manufactures the
comb out of parafSne and then fills
it with honr-y made out of glucose
and flavoring. Like butter made
from cotton seed ft is said to sur-
pass nature's product.
It is said that S. B. Hobbs of
Chicago has secured a' corner in
corn for October but the brokers
say it will require $13000000 to fill
the corner. He should be warned
by the fate of Jim Keene.
The last sensation in New York
financial circles is the alliance
between Jay Gould and Uncle Sam-
my Tilden. It is said they have
joined forces and will henceforth
seek whom they may devour in the
stock riug.
Gkneral Swaim wants it under-
stood that he did not give circula-
tion to the report that the ball which
the doctors were looking for in the
presidential corpse was found dis-
placed among the intestines in the
wash bowl.
The first appointment of the new
president was the 'continuing liear
Admiral Nichols as acting secretary
of the navy. This appointment was
the last .official act of President Gar-
field before leaving the white house
ou his way to the depot July 2.
The anti-monopoly people in New
York have bad twenty thousand
copies of a petition in favor of the
Reagan bill in favor of congression-
al control of the railroads prepared
for distribution for signatures in all
the principal cities in the Union..
And now there ia going to be a
war of the scalpel. The physicians
of Mr. Garfield will print a surgical
review of his case while Dr. 11am-
moud ia hard at work ou a review
which it Is said will be very severe
on those who conducted the case.
And now it baa been -discovered
that the gubernatorial candidate in
Mississippi away back in the dim
past wrote poetry to- bis sweet-
heart; and his continued popularity
depends upon the point whether or
not she was a red-beaded relative of
a certain Dallas editor.
Dr. Lamb who was present at the
autopsy on the late president says
that it was clearly demonstrated
thereby that there was error in the
attending physicians' diagnosis
and that the patient was not affected
with pya'mia.- The attending physi-
cians stated that pysemia caused
death. .
Jay Gould's Atlantic cable has
parted and the fact involves him in
a loss of $10000000. Western Union
stock baa declined alarmingly and
his securities on this account are
damaged to th extent of $'20000-
"00. An ominous incident in con-
nection with the great financier's
course is contained in the fact that a
great engine of the New Jersey
Southern rai.waybearlug his name
was precipitated down an einbank-
meut and is a tatal wreck.
as
Senator Jones is o. k. with the
new president.
The dead Garfield is after all
more alive than his predecessor.'
.The Ohio man is looking around
for new openings for his genius.
Mr. Arthur was one of the oppo-
nents of the Tammany Ring.
- George Buss is the legal and
confidential adviser of the new pres-
ident. Those who may now oppose
Democratic unity are anything bnt
Democrats.
The conflagration at Moscow is
almost a repetition of the great lire
which laid waste the ancient city
when Napoleon camped before it.
The water supplied to Mem-
phians from Wolf river will be the
means of taking off the population
left to Memphis by yellow fever.
The star routers are defiant bnt
they will have to look out for a hur-
ricane. It docs look as though tho
attack is to be renewed upon them.
Mrs. Garfield's mother is going
to have a luud provided for her.
Why could not the old lady enjoy a
portion of the widow's half million?
President Garfield is the third to
die of the fifteen members of the
electoral commission. Seuator O
P. Morton was the first and Justice
Clifford tho second.
Fears arc apprehended at Wash-
ington that Guiteau may not when
bis trial begins get safely from the
jail to the court room. Ills taking
off would be a saving of expense to
the government.
Out of sympathy and respect for
the dying president the Democrats
of Ohio proposed to the Republi-
cans to put an end to the campaign
meetings and to leave the issue with
the people. The ofl'er was rejected.
; The fact that Mr. Arthur was
sworn in as president by a Demo-
cratic judge is a good omen that be
desires to be an honest and upright
executive. Ilowhccan be this bow"
ever with Blaine a9 his chief ad-
viser is bard to tell.
The criticisms which have ap-
peared in the Loudon Lancet on the
treatment of President Garfield's
case were it is said from the pen of
a most eminent English surgeon
"who differed widely with the phy"
sicians in attendance.
Attorney General McVeagh
recognizes to the f allest tho propriety
in leaving his place that Mr. Arthur
may appoint some one instead who
has been in harmony with him. j3ec-
retary Blaine wants to bold on to
what he has and Mrs. Blaine takes
position likewise.
Sir Joseph Porter alias W. II.
Hunt secretary of tho navy did not
only treat "thoso families" con-
temptuously bnt courted favor with
Messrs. Garfield and Blaine by snub-
bing Vice President Arthur. It is
thought tho "ruler of the Queen's
navio " may soon be going into new
business.
Secretary Blaine has so far
taken care of his family to the best
of his ability. A dozen of his rela-
tives have been given places at
Washington. lie believes in mak-
ing this a Blaine government ar.d
even now hopes to make of
Arthur a Blaine man. He has the
impudence of the devil.
Captain Eads has returned from
Europe and announces that be is
greatly encouraged by his confer-
ence with eminent English engineers
as to his ship railroad project. He
is going to Mexico in order to re-
survey the route. If the government
will take a portion of the stock in
return for certain privileges the
road can be completed in four
vcars.
The new horse disease reported
in SL Louis is called u pinkeye." - Its
progress resembles epizootic and
already one-third of the horses are
afflicted. The eyes become in-
flamed aud run water said then of-
fensive matter the neck swells and
the limbs increase in size and the
animal has to be retired from ser-
vice. The disease often proves fa-
tal. The Houston and Texas' Central
railway company has issued one of
the most sensible handbooks for im-
migrants ever turned out of any
press. It is comprehensive in its in-
formation aud the pages of the
pamphlet are erabelished with ad-
mirable and most appropriaite en-
gravings from" rural scenes in Texas.
It possesses too much valuable sta-
istical information highly instruc-
tive to people at home as well as
to those looking towards Texaa for
settlement. . .
Ex-Senator Dorsey's cattle
ranch in New Mexico consists of
five hundred thousand acres much
of which is under fence and the
whole valued at $8000000. - The
property is stocked with thirty-one
thousand head of cattle among
which. are five hundred bulls that
cost $300 each and a herd of twelve
hundred horses. Who would refuse
to be a star-router as long as there
are such district attorneys as our
model " Corkey V
The Conkling crowd are the only
members of the Republican party
wh maintained the honesty of the
living president. Hayes and Sher-
man and Garfield and the automatic
gentleman from Maine all were so
convinced of his rascality that they
could not associate with him even
after he became vice-president. And
yet Blaine was the first man to con-
gratulate him on the accession aud
to grasp his hand firmly in token of
appreciation and Hayes aud Sher-
man followed uit as di d all the rest.
DEMOCRATIC STATESMAN
AUSTIN TEXAS THURSDAY
THE MOUTH OF THE BRAZOS.
Colonel J. R. Taylor of Chicago
filed a charter yesterday to build
a railway from the mouth of the
Brazos river to Hempstead and he
expects to have the line from Co-
lumbia to Damond's Mound in the
northwestern portion of Brazoria
county finished in six months
Colonel Taylor some two years
ago purchased what is known as
the mineral portion of the mound
which is one of the greatest natural
curiosities in this state. It
rises like the back of a turtle out
of the level alluvial country sur-
rounding it covering several square
miles while beneath its surface are
vast mineral deposits of untold
value. It is said all the mineral
waters known in the southwest may
be found beneath this mound sul-
phur iron magnesia soda and all
the sour waters of Texas. Col. Tay-
lor proposes to work at the Mound
the cures of the resorts of the south
west. He will build a fine hotel and
will lay out a city to be called
' Mound City." and he declares he
will make it known throughout the
Union. Col. T. and his associates have
dropped into the garden spot of the
world. This property lies between
the Brazos and the San Bernard
rivers and is about in the centre of
what is known as the " Four Coun
ties" covering the richest body of
alluvial lands in the world
These lands arc capable ot a
production more varied than any
other portion of Texas and at
one time in the state's history were
the seat of its greatest wealth and
intelligence. Like southern Louisi
ana it went under a cloud after the
war from which it is destined be-
fore long to emerge with more bril-
liance than ever. This section covers
the approaches to the mouth of the
Brazos river which is capable of
being converted into the best harbor
west of New Orleans. It is in this
section and at the mouth of the
Brazos river where capitalists will
lay the foundation for colossal for-
tunes and where a vast agricultural
and industrial community must
soon have its being.
The Cincinnati Commercial does
not doubt that Senator Bayard will
be unanimously chosen president of
the seuate'by the Democrats. He is
senior senator in point of service of
that party and the custom of pro-
moting the senior to the presidency
is rarely ever disregarded by the
senate. It is satisfied no other
Democratic name will be proposed
or suggested. There are some Re-
publican senators who maiutain that
the presidency of the senate and its
secretary should not be conceded to
the Democrats; that there is no man-
datory law requiring the president
to be elected before new senators
are admitted and that Republicans
should contend for these offices.
There are however a number of
Republicans who think as Senator
Dawes that the law governing the
case gives the advantage to the
Democrats and that it must be ob-
served. As yet no candidates for
the secretaryship of tho senate have
announced themselves but now that
an early extra session has been
called they will not be lacking.
; All the presidents who have died
in office have died in the early
part of the term. General Taylor
lived sixteen months after his inau-
guration leaving two-thirds of the
term to be filled by Mr. Fillmore.
Abraham Lincoln was assassinated
one month and eleven days after his
second inauguration and Andrew
Johnson therefore held the office
three years ten months and a half.
General Harrison's term of office
was the briefest of all. He died
just one mouth after bis inaugura
tion day ; Tyler was three years and
eleven months in office. Mr. Gar-
field was president six months and
fifteen daysand nearly three months
of this time he was disabled. For
the other three months he was en-
gaged ixi a disgraceful feud with
Vice President Arthur and Senator
Conkling aud yet there are those
who : thoughtlessly refer to the
great wisdom of his administration.
Outside' of this feud there was
nothing to signalize it and bad not
Mahone and Conkling stirred up
musses government events dur-
ing' that period would have
hardly been worth recording.
Jay Gould and William H. Yan-
derbilt are sid to have expressed
themselves as attaching little ot no
importance to the anti-monopoly
convention. The former is credited
with the remark that it will be com-
posed of politicians out of business
but- anxious for a new deal ; and the
latter observed that it was hard to
tell what these people wanted as all
railroad transportation at this mo-
ment was cheaper than it had ever
been before and - none had a mo-
nopoly of the business inasmuch as
anybody could build a railroad that
wanted to.
It is an encouraging feature of the
progress of the South that its cot-
ton . manufacturing interests are
steadily increasing. In 1875-76 only
145000 bales were manufactured in
southern cotton mills while during
the - past year 1305000 bales ' were
mannfactared a gain of 60000 or
oyer 40 per cent New mills are
now being put up in the south that
promise a much larger increase in a
very ehort time. Texas will cer-
taialy follow- in the inarch of pro-
gress. ;. ' " V;' ; " ". ' V
f .. .
The Telephone says of Judge Ter-
rell's speech: ' ;
"It la a annprh niece of word
painting glowing with patriotic
KDUJiieui iieruic myn auuus ouu
manly impulses. We think the
bloody chasm " is closed forever
it lives only in memory.
In this day of senatorial expres
sion the public would be pleased to
hear from the Texas senators about
senate organization and their plan I
of proceeding in the premises.
the confident star-routers. -
The star-routers have called at-
tention to section S88 revised stat-
utes which provides that the post-
master general shall hold bis office
only for the term of the president by
whom be is appointed and for thirty
days thereafter unless sooner re-
moved and that if Mr. James con-
tinue in the cabinet he must be ap-
pointed on October 19th. The
star-route thieves have been very
bold of late even sometime in ad-
vance of the death of Mr. Garfield.
A Washington correspondent of the
New Y'ork Sun who has lately been
nosing around after star-route
items has given rather a sig-
nificant picture of the ; gov-
ernment's movements against . the
riug. The reporter held the follow-
ing Interview with some of its mem-
bers :
"When will tho government be
ready 7'
u if ever !" It required no effort of
the imagination to make me believe
the man was in earnest. " No never I
That is till some great break in
things clears the way and makes it
sate to go aneaa. 1
... 1 1 1 1.
loe last lew wurua wtre npuaeu
with an emphasis. 1 The Star
when pressed for au ' explanation
declined to answer further as to
that but went on to say that the ac
tion of District Attorney Corkhill
was not unexpected to hint. UorW
bill was u acting ou hi own hook"
bv authority.
"Of course." he coutinued. "in
cases of so much Importance and no
toriety no district attorney would
venture to lie across the govern
ment's track. To trip the United
States up is no small thing for a
district attorney noiding ms ap
pointment from the president to un
dertake. Yon know 1 torn you
last spring when things were going
with such a rush mat uiey wno
were doing it would begin to go
slow after a while. They have found
their own reasons. I do not under-
take ' to say what they are. They
seem to be sufficient. You see we
told them to go ahead as soon as
they pleased the sooner the better.
and to go as last and as lar as they
could. They know our attitude is
defiance. There have been a good
many things wrongly done no
doubt. No more in the star-routes
though than in some other things
and some persons know it and will
not forget it. There are rascals al-
ways alut and when you begin to
mark them yon wUl lind some who
were not suspected."
The star-router began fo grpw in
earnest and drawiug his: chair
closer renewed his discourse s
"We star-route people have done
a regular straightforward business
aud there's nothing to try us for.
Anyway we defy them to go ahead.
You want to kuow what they will do
next. Well James MacVeagh or
somebody or other will buck and
buck as long as they .can ; perhaps
that's been done as much as can be
and that they'll come to a stand next
month. Indictments ! They are
easy enough to get when the gov-
ernment sets out. But they don't
always mean convictions. Somehow
or other tbs men who are fallowing
ns don't want to begin in earnest.
They've tried us in the papers but
don't seem to want to try us in the
courts."
: "Will you tell me what you think
is the reason the government is not
ready and holds back in this busi-
ness?"
; "No I I don't think I will" was th
curious answer with a curious look.
Up in the mountains where I'm
going to look after a route the rule
of a good hunter is not to expose his
ammunition; something might hap-
pen to if On this he rose and
saying he must go up to the depart
inent bade me courteously good
day. He was apparently the least
disturbed if not the most confident
man in the world. . ;
' An hour after I met another star-
route man. . He has been spending
sonic time in Washington. To him
I put the question I had put to the
other as to tha motive for dispersing
the grand jury.
"To tell yon the truth" said he "I
don't know anything about it for a
certainty though I'm convinced it
was fixed up some way between
Cook and Corkhill I suppose. Now
just look how things are right here.
The court and jury met altera vaca-
tion of a number of weeks ten I be-
lieve 00 an agreement that the
star cases should bo given to the
grand jury aud tun business go on
in earnest Wc that is (he con-
tractors and all others so far as I
know all wanted the delay to end.
That however is wholly in the
hands of the government. It was
not for us whom they have been
.trying in the papers to be at the
court when It opened. If the gov-
ernment intended to indict us. they
would go about it. 'If wo were in-
dicted we would be sent for Until
we were sent for we had no occasion
at all for beintr within a thousand
miles of Washington aud some ot
us are not. See? When the court
met not a cabinet officer but Kirk-
wood was in Washington aud he
knows no more pC the matter than
the Indians. The business specially
belongs to' the postoftice . and
attorney - general's depart mouts.
Neither of those cabinet officers was
in the city and had not been for
some time. There is at this moment
not a single deputy at thepostoffice
department James Tyner Elmer
and nearly everybody else being
away. The clerks are running the
departments. At the department of
public justice about the same state
of things exist Cook the special
Erosccuter with all his deputies and
elpers was away when the court
met and they are still away. Now
I ask you does this lo k as though
the government did not expect a
postponement? Do men when
they mean to fight act. thus on the
eve of battle ? Pursuant to the un-
derstanding which must be obvious
to all who can see anything Cork
hill sent the jury home and secured
three weeks In which to patch up
some other understanding. Now
who is it that is doing this thing or
just why is it done? I have nothing
to say."
I believe that finally there will
be a clean backout- Probably Bliss
and Brewster have told them there
is no ground to stand on."
"Are there other reasons for not
proceeding?" .....
- Yes . but they won't ' confess
them." 1 !
The Memphis A talanche occasion
ally gets off. a dry joke and then
only at its own expense. It says ;
"Some of the newspapers are rec
ommending that a new executive
residence should be built in Wash
ington. No more money should dc
wasted on public buildings in that
malarious district The capital of
this great nation win De moved in a
few years to some central point
Memphis perhaps and congress
should set on foot the preliminaries
for a location on the Mississippi
river."
7
OCTOBER 6 1881.
Senator Bayard said to a re
porter that he had yet to hear of a
senator ot cither party who ex-
pected the senate to organize except
with the election of a Democratic
presiding officer. The clerk" he
said would also be necessarily elect
ed to complete the organization and
make a record. The other officers
were not necessary to a proper or
ganization for business and would
not be elected until subsequent to
the admission of the new senators.
The changes in committees If any
to be made will be when the senate
is full. As the Democrats would be
exactly equal in number to tho Re
publicans be thought that they
would demand and receive without
argument or resistance an equal
representation upon all the commit
tees. Of course this meant a reor
ganization ot them but it would be
done by agreement without excite
ment. He thought that those who
looked for an exciting session of the
senate would be disappointed. It
would probably be the quietest in the
history of an usually sedate body.
He thought the session need not take
more than a week.
A vast number of papers come
out with strongest expressions in
favor of Senator Thomas F Bayard
for president ot the senate. No
more worthy man could be selected
He comes from a family of states-
men his honored father having
served with rare distinction as sen
ator from Delaware immediately
preceding the election of hfs son.
Thomas F. Bayard possesses all the
traits that go to make up the true
type of American statesmanship
Liberal in his views broad aud ex
pausive in intellect au able ex
pounder of constitutional law never
faltering In his devotiou to the prin-
ciples of true Democvapy hp will
fittingly adorn the high station of
presiding officer of the senate and
vice-president of the United States.
Secretary Windom at last has
decjded fp unlock the treasury
vaults and employ some ot bis
hoarded uon-iutorest-bearlng specie
in the purchase of bonds. While
tardy in taking a step that financial
wisdom would have dictated months
ago he has acted in the interest of
(.he people in deciding to retire the
recently extended bonO- To have
called in the fours or four-and-a
half would have given the syndicate
banks a monopoly ot the funding
schemes and they instantly would
have advanced the premium as they
did under the fostering care of John
Shermau. Mr. Windom has sur-
plus on hand to reduce the national
debt $ 100000 JQ00 and he should not
stop short of that amount.
. Gov. Littlefteld of Rhode
Island has determined to call an
extra session of the legislature to fill
the vacant seat in the United States
senate paused by the death of Gen.
Buruslde. He could appoint a sena-
tor to fill the vacancy until the leg-
islature meets in January but would
probably injure his own popularity
thereby and damage his chances of
a re-election to POP governorship. It
does not matter much as all ike
members of the legislature can leave
their homes before breakfast.
assemble in the capital at 10 o'clock
a m finish if they so desire and go
back home to supper.
. ... m
President Arthur will nomi-
nate a candidate for the vacancy on
the supreme bench caused by the
death of Judge Clifford. Besides
tbis several Indian agents are to
be named and 9 pommissioner of
railways a superintendent' of the
New Orleans mint and a number of
postmasters besides appointments
on the army retired Jist and promo-
tions in the army aud navy. This
will be the work for the executive
session of the senate after it has
been organized with a Democratic
president.
A few Republican papers are
trying to make it appear that the
senate can choose a president pro
tern on the outside. Such a proposi-
tion reflects some of the follies of the
element to which they belong. Sup-
pose the Democratic senators were
to follow their advice and put an
outside Pemocrat at the head of the
senate to give the casting vote on all
party questions ? This is the man-
ner in which Republicans might pro-
ceed were they possessed of the
power to begin with.
The question as to the nativity
of Mr. Arthur was raised by Mr.
Hinman a Wall - street lawyer
during the canvass. Mr. Arthur
then in New York ' made this state-
ment: . t
' 'A great many people knew that
I was born in Vermont and a great
many others don't know anything
about it - There are five hundred
Feople in this city know just where
Was born. I have shaken hands
with a hundred people in this city
who know I was born in Vermont-tin
Fairfield Yt at the time my
father was 40 years old. My father
was a native of the north of Ire-
land. He was what they call Scotch-
Irish.. '..!:
Tub Herald and the World are
running a muck against each other
in '. the mourning business. The
Herald put on mourning every rule
upturned the morning after the
president's death. The World did.
the same On the second day the
World continued in mourning and
the .Herald had 1 passed out The
third day both were in mourning
and ; now the Herald hopes to get
even on days by allowing the World
to drop out one day in advance of it
Both are in earnest about . their
grief. One represents Gould the
other Arthur and Conkling. - -
( - - '
" Ml MacVkaoh holds that there
can not be a successful administra-
tion unless there is complete confi-
dence between the president and
the members of his cabinet. In
order that there may be this confi-
dence ba thinks that the members
of the cabinet should be the presi-
dent's personal friends.
The land agit ation has been trans
ferred - from Ireland to Scotland
and the north of England and large
public meetings are being held in
many shires. Tho resolutions call
upon the premier to treat the Scotch
and English tenant as the Irish ten
ant has been treated and grant
them a proprietary interest in the
soil they cultivate. It can not be
denied that in many parts of Scot-
land especially in the isles adjacent
the tenant is in a wretched condi
tion. Absenteeism the root of some
of the worst evils that afflict Ire
land prevails there and whole dis-
tricts are sometimes swept of ten
ants and turned into shootiug do
mains which are now valuable
investments the "new men" from
the south of the Tweed paying
fabulous sums for a season's shoot
ing.
An exchange savs: Prihtosreni
ture aud entail will ccrtalnlv not
long survive tho extension of the
borough franchise to counties aud
the game laws are doomed to perish
at a very early day. The farmers
throughout the three kingdoms have
much to complain of. but tho laud
lords take them all round are pro-
bably worse off. Lord Derby in a
speech tho other day said lie did not
believe that Lngush agriculture
would be permanently injured by
American competition aud coun
seled eponoray. Economy to a man
in bis position means the dismissal
of the second uuder-butler. but he
neglected to say by what process the
ngii8U iarmer can pay rent (which
include the settlements aud join-
tures made by the landlord and the
support of ageuts and middle-men)
apd yet pomppte with tho western
farmer who bits nothing to pay but
the cost of transportation now re-
duced to a minimum
The London 1'iines of the 7th of
September says that good authority
calculates that with a stoppige of
two-thirds of the works there would
be sixty thousand bales left in the
hands of the cotton corner at Liver-
pool which explains why the cor
ner was not materially affected by
the recent stoppages that number
of bales being small compared with
tho amount cqrneretl.
LETTER FROM WASHINGTON.
Special Correspondence delayed.
Washington September 24 1881.
Editor Statesman This has been
emphatically a Garfield week for
since the tolling qf tho bells aud the
crios of the newsboys ou Monday at
mid-night announced that the blow
so much dreaded had at last fallen
nothing has been thought of but the
dead president. The departments
have been closed and government
work practically suspended. Busi-
ness lias been at a complete stand-
still and the only occupation that
has seemed to have any interest for
the populace has been the draping
of the pity in mourning; So exten-
sively has this practice been ob-
served that from the humblest and
most poverty-stricken home with
au old black "petticoat draped over
the door to the more elaborate'de-
coration of the public buildings and
handsome business houses where
thousands of yards have been used
tho entire city is swathed in black.
Tho result is a funeral appearance
most tuuescrioapiy tusmai.
ine train bearing the bodv of the
lamented president reached the city
on We'duesday afternoon and was
received by the entire populace. The
hearse that bore the body to the
capital was 4rawn ky six white
horses led by colored grooms. It
was preceded bv companies ot mili
tary bearing furled flags and guns
reversed and by a large number of
Masonic orders. The carriages con
taining President Arthur the cabi
net the physicians friends qf the
family and those distinguished per-
sons who accompanied the body
from Elberon followed.
A catafalque had been prepared
in the rotunda of the capitol and
the coffin was placed upon it Presi-
dent Arthnr then viewed the re.
mains attsr which the doors' were
thrown OPpn to the public aud a
stream of people representing every
age sex. color and condition that
this most heterogeneous of countries
can produce flowed uninterruptedly
past the bier night and day until
Friday noon. Perfect decorum pre
vailed. ' Unaffected grief was depic-
ted upon every face sobs frequently
awoke the echoes ot the vast dome
above as the sitrht of the sadlv
emaciated form affected some gazer
to an uncontrollable degree it has
been continually remarked that it is
an indisputable proof of the strongly
characteristic geniality and remark-
able abilities of tho late president
that in so snort a time no should
have won such a place in the
hearts : of the people that
each one seems to be mourn-
ing the loss of a dear personal
friend- ' Party difference Js absolute
ly; forgotteu. No one remembers
whether be was a Democrat or lte-
Eublican stalwart or anti-stalwart;
ut all remember that he was
pbysicall intellectually and moral-
y one or the noblest specimens et
purely representative American
manhood aud mourn him as such.
The people never realized the ex
tent of the. suffering he endured
with such heroism until they beheld
his wasted remains. . Not even the
shadow of a resemblance to his no
ble form and features seemed to ex-
ist' Few indeed could recognize
him. There was an expression of
agony on his face ; the sunken eyes
were but partially closed ; the cheek
bones and nose were . painfully
prominent ; the tightly . clinched
teeth were plainly visible between
the colorless lips and the whole face
covered with black discoloratious.
People were struck with borror.
The embalming seems to have been
faulty for by 6 o'clock on Thurs-
day evening decay bad so far altered
the remains that they were really no
longer a fit spectacle for the im-
mense throng filing past the bier.
At this hour a rather handsome and
decidedly aggressive looking lady
entered the rotunda and perceiv-
ing : the dreadful change order-
ed one of the four guards compos-
ed of gentlemen from the army of the
Cumberland to close the colli u.' She
was informed that this could not be
done without orders from the proper
authority.! "It must be dope I am
Mrs. Blaine" said the lady. - Perhaps
this ought to have galvanized the
guard into immediate . submission.
but somehow it did not : he replied
that he was sorry but that he could
only act under orders from the cabi-
net ; The lady left in a hurry and
shortly or der came from Secretary
Blaine to close the coffin. It was re-
ally time but tho people were in-
tensely disappointed. Mrs. Blaine
has been universally criticised on
every side for her assumption of au-
thority. Some of the sarcastically
nchned are fond of saying that
Mrs. B ought to have been secreta-
ry of state when Mrs. Hayes was
president. At any rate tho plucky
uard showed taat petticoat goyern-a
NO 10
ment has not come iinon n vt
' The funeral
in the rotunda of the capital from 2
w v viwla uu r nuaj 1 ner were
VAairBMnnlH A .
r A V 1 APr) eryMr- Erret
v.. vuicnuu a nenuou by Fredrick
Power pastor of the Christian
church in this city and two of the
late president's favorite hymns by
o vuun ui mcuiy-iour 01 our best
Biugers. Almost all the greatest
of the nation were tlmm ti
judges of our high tribunals tho
president two ex-presidents two
ci-vicu-presiuents senators con
Krcsemcu legations represent in
every great power on the globe ti e
chief army and navy officers and
brilliant throng of distingiiUhod tit-
izens all these to honor 1 hemai'l vna
uy nouonng tno poor widow's mm.
Tho fqucral was witucs.il im..
the buildings and sido-walks from
the capitol to sixth street bv the
most densely packed" throng that
ever stood there; for in addition to
the resident population there were
tens 01 thousands from nil n-irta nf
me neighboring states. Yot It was
a comparatively simple pageant;
but it was exalted Into a grand spec-
tacle by the remembrance that tho
love of a mighty nation centred in
that black colllu by tho fact that all
great nations woro followiug It with
sympathy and admiration and by
tho prcseuce of tho greatest in the
laud.
The crnnsiiirA nf nil
General Hancock iiiarchinir nt tho
end of the first row of army
officers beforo tho hearso. He was
here to participate in that
Brainiest of American iuaugu ra-
tions which saw bis political rival
made preeidcut of the Uuited
States only six months ago aud ho
was here yesterday to add his tribute
of repect in following tho body of
that ill-fated rival to the grave. Tho
thought gave riso to a hundred
strange emotions.
ihe immense throne after nenino-
tho funeral pass up Pennsylvania
Avenue rushed pell-mell " across
parks and side;slrcets to tho rail-
way in order to 6ee tho train go by
aud as it passed slowly all draped
in black the entire thronff stood in
me springing rain with uncovered
heads catchiur a glimpse of Mrs
Garlleld through ouo ot the w in-
dows reclining in her heavy weeds
with an exhausted look in her face
and so stood aud watched until the
moving train disappeared lu the
east beneath thp rainbow.
President Arthur did not eo fo
Cleveland. The chief-jnstico ad
ministered the oath of office in the
presenco ot the cabinet ex-Presi-dcuts
Grant aud Hayes and a few
others to him on Thursday. IJe
read a brief inaugural signifying
his intention of continuing tho late
president's policy. His first
official act was to proclaim Mondav
a day of humiliation aud prayer his
second to roquest the cabinet to re-
serve their resignationsor the pres-
ent his third to call an extra session
of the senate for October 10th. It is
believed that this session will be
very short and it is confidently as
serted that Seuator Bayard will be
elected president of the senate. The
Democrats are ineliucd to profit by
the combined misfortunes and per-
versity of tho opposite party and
elect a prosidont pro tern before al
lowing the new senators trom JNew
York aud Rhode Island to oualil'v.
by which means they will have a
majority. Ihe Republicans' only
hope is that they will stop satisfied
with this and not go on and elect
entire new officers of the senate
1 President Arthur will not occupy
the white house for at least six
months. This is a death blow to those
who havo persisted by everything
holy that the executive mansion was
not malarious. Senator Jonen. of
Nevada has given up his residence
to the president till Jauuury. It is a
magnificent house of grey stono on
Capitol Hill just a few steps from
the capitol and sumptuously fur-
nished. Senator Jones leases it
from Ben Butler.
The most touching thintr about
the late president's obsequies is
the scrupulous care with which
his widow has ordered the very'
mallest details in accordance with
his ideas about such things and the
pathetic way iu which she remem
bers the simplest wish that he ever
even long ago expressed ; she has
given little timo to tears but has
found consolation in trying to still
minister to his wishes even when
the lips that uttered them are almost
dust T. -
GHASTLY SIGHTS.
THE FRACTURED VEItTEBRA RI B AND
ORGANS AFFECTED BY ' TIIK
WOUND OF PRESIDENT GARFIELD
ON EXHIBITION AT THE MEDICAL
MUSEUM.
Dr. Schrody of the New York
Medical J(eoart. upon the invitation
of the consulting surgeons of the
late president visited tho army
medical museum lor the purpose ol
examining the anatomical specimens
preserved alter tlw! autopsy. These
consist of the fractured vertebra
the broken eleventh rib aud all the
organs affected by the wound. The
vertebra has boeu cleaned carefully
aud will be mounted aud preserved
as was that of Wilkes Booth. The
viscera is in as good a condition of
dissection as when first taken from
the body.
Tbe'lungs liver kidueys.pauores
gall bladder and colon are there
showing the e fleets of the injuries
from the passage or the ball r the
suppuration surfaces abscesses pus
gatherings and ruptured mesenteric
artery. The most interesting speci
men was the. encysted bed ot the
ball into which the ball was fitted
to-day. The conclusion of. Dr.
Schrody and Prof. Weise aro that
great skill and core have been dis
played in tho preservation or the
parts and that the statement of the
bulletin publishing the first account
of the autopsy were absolutely cor
rect and that nothing had been con-
cealed. Dr. Schrody and Prof.
Wsise were among those outside
surgeons who believed the president
would recover
State Virginian : The rains that
have fallen in the past tew days in
nearly every portion of Virginia and
North Carolina will benefit the
grass and set the streams to running
once more but they tome too late
to help the tobacco crop. Indeed
some of the most experienced to-
bacco planters are of the opinion
that the rain coming so late as it
did will do the crop more harm than
good tint the tobacco raisers will
have the consolation of knowine
that the deficiency in quantity will
be made up in a measure. . .
A Georgia girl has two silk dress-
es which she made herself having
raised the worms spun the silk and
colored and wove it with her own
hands. .. ; .
The people of Georgia are grow-
ing very restless and uneasy because
the legislature does not adjourn.
The papers are all crying out against
" too much legislation."
Charles Henry Foster the noted
spiritual medium has been sent to
the Massachusetts asylum for the in-
sane. What will Atlanta do "rith 100000
guests?
TEXAS BY TELEGRAPH
BRACKLTT.
FLOOD AT BRACKSTT ORBAT DAMAGE
DONB ON MAX DROWNED.
I Special to tha BUtaaman.
Brackett October 1. A special
from Brackett says that the town
was again visited by a frightful flood
last night Eleven and one-half
inches of water fell in a very short
time tho water flowing through tho
streets. An alarm was sounded and
men women and children fled to
the heights for safety. Fron 1 to a
oV.ock this morning women and
children were carried through tbo
raging torrents on horses and the
courthouse and church became their
general shelter. Tho scene was one
never to bo forgotten. No Uvea
were lost in town but one ia repor
ted 10 nave been drowned atDooleT
aud Thompson's rancho. All tho
stores were damaged ranging from
one hundred and fifty to five hun-
dred dollars each and a number of
families lost all their household
goods. Fears are entertained' of
heavy lasses ia the country district.
The town of Brackett looks perfect-
ly dilapidated and will never re
cover it will be romombered that .
this town was almost swept away
last year.
UDGE REAGAN ILL MINOR
Special to the SUteamsn.
Palestine October 1. Tho wife
of our esteemed attorney Robert
McClure was buried here on yester-
day. She was a most excellent lady
and noted for many virtues.
Major G. J. Gooch of our city is
one of the incorporators of the Trin-
ity & Sabine railroad and will be
one of the prominent officers of tho
road.
Capt. J.J. Ward of Palestine baa
been appointed local attorney of the
International & Great Northern
railroad since J. T. Bro wue resigned
91
Judge Reagan has been danger
ously ill for several days but is bet
tcr to-day
Two brick hotels are going up
here now. They will bo fine large
buildings one being built by C. A.
Sterne present proprietor of tho
International IIouso and the other
by Burkitt & Murphy on the burnt
district.
WIIITESBORO.
HONORS TO THE DEAD PRESIDENT FEARS
OK THE NEW ONE.
Special to tbe Stateaman.l
: Whitesboro September 28. All
business houses were closed at 10 a
m. on Monday last in respect for
our late president AU parties
flocked to the Presbyterian church
to commemorate tho sad calamity In
prayer.
Citizens here shake their heads-
when asked how they like the new -president
. They fear that Grantlsm
and Conklingism will render tho air
unwholesome about the white bouse.
' Cotton is coming in rapidly and
our merchants are duplicating Sher-
man and Denison prices.
SAN ANTONIO.
SEDUCER ARRESTED ANTONIO
FARI DISCHARGED BAIN.
bpecial to tb Btateamau.J
San Antonio October I-A
young man named Will John was
arrested and placed In jail at this
place to-day on a charge of seduc-
tion under promise of marriage.
The gay deceiver has a wife and .
children living in tho city.
The case of Antonio Piffari tho
Italian who killed Louis Ybarbe a
few days ago came up before Judge
Moonan this morning on habeas
corpus. He was discharged tho
judge holding that the shooting
was accidental. It Is tho'ught the
matter will come up before tho
grand jury.
A nice rain fell hero again last
night and another to-day. '
BASTROP.
DR. THOMAS ALLEN KILLED CLOSED OCT.
Special to tUe Htateeuiaa.l .
Bastrop October 1 Dr. Thomas
Allen was killed this morning at
Red Rock in tbis county by one
Jim Watkins. The particulars have
not been received.
Rosenburg & Bro. dealers in
general merchandise aro' being
closed out by creditors. Attach-
ments have been run on their stock
of goods by Chas. Weztner of this
place ; Ullman Lewis & Co. of
Houston ; Cargill & Co. of Houston
and Marx & Kempner of Galves-
ton whose claims aggregate' about
$3500.
LIBERTY HILL. .
) FATAL ACCIDENT.
Special to the Btateamaa l
Liberty Hiix September 28.
Quite a serious accident- occurred
here yesterday. A little child of
Mr. L. G. Fords opset a pot of hot
coffeo on ' itself' scalding it
badly from the effects of which it
died in a few hours. Tbis is the
second death caused by scalding in
our neighborhood in the last two
weeks. ' ''
Some little sickness in the county.
' A Washington dispatch ' says :
Secretary Lincoln may be retained.
Secretary Hunt will have to go be-
cause he was unnecessarily insolent
to Mr. Arthur when the latter was
only vice president and because of
general incompetency. - Mr. Win-
dom is understood to be very anx-
ious to occupy bis place in the sen-
ate. Senator Jones Is talked of for
the interior department. If he goes
it will be because Maxey has arrang-
ed to buy a senatorship from
Nevada. Politics do not count
there ; money is the factor. Conger
is spoken of for the postoffice de-
partment and some New York man
is reasonably sure of the treasury.
George Boutwell ex-Senator Fre-
linghuyeen and Mr. Edmunds are
also among the names canvassed.
-. " ' ''
Mevieui ; itMr- Farley the drum-
mer who was shot in Beltou some
months since has had his arm am-
putated above the elbow. Erysipe-
las has set in above where it was
taken off which will necessitate an-
other amputation at the shoulder.
It is feared he will not survive this.
The Mobile press indignantly howl
at the published reports that the
citv is on the decay. Thev iwsert
that the city of Mobile is Improving.""
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