The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1873-09-04

I inert - no Aouul uuE tlattle real ulufuefef
IS Forester, who is now in prison, and in
time VIII be able TO prove Forester TO be
guilty of that atrecity. CardoZa says II
wing story is a bungIed affair from begin
ming to end.
ALBANY, n. Y. August 29.-The final
trial Of the steam canal boats for the award
of 500, 600, offered by the State, comes OF
Tuesday, October IA, between the Syracuse
and Utica.
New YORK. august 29.-A Washington
dispatch says that Eve sailors made their ap-
pearanee in Petersburg, Virginia, on Thurs
day, setting forth that they were part Of
fifteen survivors Of the crew of the steam
ship Lucy burned at sea. forty-fve miles off
/ Cape Canoveral on the fifteenth instant
/ Their names are Charles Williams, George
johnson. J. E. Willis, George Fisher and
Thomas Richardson. Two of them are suf-
fering from terrible burns, which substan-
tiates the truth of their story.
NEW YORK, September "A Washing
ton dispatch states that the Manitoba ques-
ton viii be brought before the judicial tri-
bunal there in few days, the court holding
a separate session therefore. Minister
Thornton says the British government is
firm in is conviction that the action Of its
officials was strictly in accordance with the
| ltths 0uQ lMOIuNO4 GAplCSSCo NAlC UCLNA Antll
the decision of the court will be adverse to
the parties now in custody. The PROPOSE
ton to release the American prisoners on
bail is rejected, and the court VIII be held
at Fort Garry or Winnipeg.
Terrible Tragedy in Missouri.
ST. LOUIS, September IA special dis
patch to the Republican, from Seda6a gives
an account of terrible tragedy which oe-
CURED at Knightly's station, on the Missouri,
Kansas and Texas Railroad, six miles west
of Sedalia, on Saturday last. 1t appears
that Knightly, who had been laboring
under mental arrangement for some time,
killed or caused the death of his sister AIDE
laine, aged 40 years, and his nephew, Lewis
Stubs, set fire to his house and then killed
himself The house occupied an isolated
position, and when the neighbors reached
it, it was a mass of ruins. The charred re-
mains of Knightly were found near the win.
dow, with partly burned shotgun at his
feet, and the bodies of his sister and nephew
near the front door, but so badly burned
that it could not be determined whether
they had been killed by Knightly or suffo-
Gated. The coroner's jury inclined to the
latter opinion, although the neighbors tosti-
| fed to having heard three shots fired while
the house was burning.
Railroad Accident.
DETROIT, August 29.-The night express
west on the Detroit and Milwaukee Rail-
road, consisting of baggage, two passenger
coaches and sleeping car and two emigrant
cars, last night became disabled in conse-
quence of the engine being thrown off the
track, about one mile east of Muer. It
was followed by through freight train,
which ran into the rear passenger car, kill
ing four women, one child, and injuring ten
other persons, emigrants. Medical assist
ance was at once procured from Muer. None
of the injured are dangerously wounded.
Republican Convention In Mississippi.
JACKSON, Miss, August 3O.-The Repub
lican convention has assembled and
adopted platform. They deem it unnec-
essary to adopt any new dogmas, but simply
| to renew the expression of a steadfast faith
in the Republican party. They are opposed
to burdening the reconstruction of Missis-
sippi with repudiated Planters and Union
Bank bonds, end pledges the party to resist
| by all lawful means the assumption by the
State of any such debt. They oppose grant
ing to railroads or other corporations the
funds donated to the State by Congress for
! educational purposes, and demand a repeal,
| by the next Legislature, of such grants al
ready made; favors a biennial meeting of
the Legislature; asserts equal rights of
children in public schools, and pledges the
party to enforce such right by appropriation
and legislation, and to support the present
system; endorses r. G. Powers, the present
Governor. A resolution to indorse the
Kellogg government of Louisiana was re-
ceived with such demonstrations of hostil-
ity that the mover withdrew it.
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short speech, saying, among other things,
that if elected governor and during his term
any bill looking to the payment of the repu-
dated debt, or for opening the question in
any way shall come up, he would most GER
tainly veto it.
The Convention adjourned sine die at
o'clock last evening.
New Orleans Quarantine Abolished.
New ORLEANS, August 80. "A dispatch
to Messrs. G. A. Whitney & Co., from Gal
weston, states that the quarantine regula-
tions which were to go into effect against
New Orleans on Monday have been with
drawn, consequently regular communion
ton with Texas ports remains undisturbed.
Cholera.
LANCASTER, KY, Aug 50.-Twenty-seven
cholera deaths to-day. Sixty-three white
families have left town.
WASHINGTON, September Three deaths
from cholera here since Saturday.
LEXINGTON, KY, September 2.-The
cholera at Paris and Millersburg has proven
most malignant Every case in Millers-
burg has proven fatal, where eighteen deaths
were reported in twenty-four hours, and
twenty new cases.
Eight deaths from cholera have been re-
ported at Stanford.
st. Louis.
ST. LOUIS, September "A dispatch
from Okawavllle, Illinois, twenty-nine miles
from here, on the st. Louis Southeast Rail
road, saws that cholera of the true Asiatic
type is raging there fearfully. Twenty
three persons died in twenty-four hours.
Among them was the principal bridge
builder of the Southeastern Railroad and
three children. Five died in one family in
three hours. Patients die within fifteen
minutes after the attack, and turn black
Immediately. Medical aid has been sent
from the surrounding towns. The citizens
are rapidly leaving the place. Those recOv-
ering are using disinfectives freely, and are
burning tar in the streets. 1t is said that
no local cause exists for the disease.
ST.. LOUIS, September IA letter re-
ceived from Fort Sill, dated August 90
makes no mention of Indian troubles or APP
pretended attacks.
Proposals were received at army head
quarters here to-day, for the removal of the
wrecks of three blockade runners, sunk in
Charleston harbor, South Carolina, during
the war.
The same special says two horse thieves
were hanged By a mob in Benton county on
Saturday and that another OF the same gang
has been arrested and is now in Jail at Sc
dalia.
Capt 10 Widen, one Of the victims Of the
explosion on the steamer Geo. c. Wolf,
died here yesterday.
The convention Of Italian societies in ses-
sion here last week adopted petition to
Congress asking that that body effectually
suppress the traffic in Italian children which
has been carried on so long, and which is
so shameful in character.
ST. LOUIS, August 3f-Deaths for the