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The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-03-29

the order and told him
to halt in the road. This done, Mr..
Corbin was ordered out of the coach,
and then his pocket-book was de-
msnded. He handed it over, aud the
robber said, 81 only want the money
in contains" whereupon $54 was taken
out and given him. The robber then
demanded his watch and chain, and
these were given up. Then the Ger
man was ordered out of the coach and
his money demanded. He handed out
SO, and the robber remarked, "You
look like you work hard for your
money, and so l will let you keep that"
and the old man of broken English,
who had been slow to understand up
to that time, joyfully put his green
backs back into his pocket. Then the
driver was ordered to throw the mail
bags down, and he replied that that
would be violation of his oath. The
robber then said, this is the oath you
will obey" pointing a six-shooter
at him, and the bags were forth
coming, and Mr.. Corbin was ordered
to open them, one after another, the
robber saying that he wanted the con-
tents of each sack kept separate, as he
did aot wish the government to be put
to any unnecessary inconvenience. In
the fourth or lGst sack cut open sever
al registered letters were found, when
he. of the highway said, 'those are
what 1 want" and all were handed to
him. AS he reached for them with
his left hand, he dropped his other
hand. Dir. Corbin says that he could
then have easily grabbed the
six-shooter, and that he would
have done 50 had he not noticed two
men lying upon their stomachs and
looking at the whole proceeding from
distance of about five hundred yards.
The robber tore the larger letter open
with his teeth and left hand, and as
he took out parcel of money he said,
Gas l have done so well I'll give you
back your watch and chain," and after
feeling around in his pockets to find
them they were returned. Mr.. Corbin
was then ordered to replace the mail
matter in the bags and to throw them
back into the coach, which he did, and
the robber, who had not dismounted,
took his leave, saying as he rode off
looking back, "This is the second
stage I've gone through to-day" As
the stage drove off Mr.. Corbin noticed
that the two men lying upon the ground
got up and started on foot in the same
direction the robber went. The rob-
Der had white handkerchief tied
across the lower part of his face, and
he is a man of medium size and has
blue eyes.
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The following, ''from p. Green, Esq,
to his aunt in the country" was inters
cepted and published in the Fergus
Falls Journal, Minnesota:
Venerable authority informs us
that before the era of states and black
boards, men developed the mathemat-
ical instinct by multiplying-upon the
face of the earth. The mode is popu-
lar to this day. But the grasshopper
as champion multipliest has no equal.
He lays Speaking generically and not
to put too fine point upon it) an egg,
which is about the size and shape Of u
long primer 0. In fact, he lays several
Of them. From August until winter
he is actuated by restless ambition to
bore holes in the ground of the size of
pipe stem, and then to fill the holes
with cream colored 90. And though
he is small, he attends TO his Jiz, and
is triumphant success. In stature,
he is about match for x-penny stub
nail, in form he is like unto lynch
pin, and he wears u sealing. head
on him and pair of glass eyes, so that
with his long-tailed buster on, heslooks
like An unsophisticated and near
sighted schoolmaster. But unsophiE-
ticated isn't what's the natter with
him. And Enumeration is his bcbt
mathematical hold. DE will stand
bolt upright like peg in one of.those
holes aforesaid, and view the heavens
with an air of sublime serenity and
wooden. headed unconsciousnesss
Don't you fool yourself-he knows
| just what he is about. He prefixes
himself like a figure in the business,
and adopting the decimal system OF
notation, calmly places 0 where IL
will do the most good. That stands
for 10, and before you can dot and
carry one he has another cipher TO that,
aud he now reads 100. About this
time you begin to discover what sort
| OF rooster be is, and you enteFtain a
degree of awe for him not inspired by
front view OF his green goggles.
Reasoning POsteriOrt you discover
that he is a dangerous neighbour But
while you stand amazed he rapidly
suffixes fifteen or twenty morez 900,
carrying his problem into the million
millions, and has scaled and cemented
it up, ready to be fred Off at your next
spring. In two minutes and a quarter
he has given you problem that with
all your manly powers OF multiplied
ton cannot be solved or equsted. lie
compounds his interest at a hundred
per cent. every five seconds, puts a
snap judgment on your cornfeld, and
| fofecfoses pTT0s~ zaIl-nan sAr lack
Robinson. 90
And when you observe that every
square inch Of your ground is occupied.
By one OF those impassive figure IA each
industriously putting down row Of CT
pliers, you will admit with me that the
hopper grass Is the lightning calculator
OF the West, and that for multipy iDg
on the earth - he has no kaown
equal. ~
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Ink Drops.

Baltimore Is highly pleased with
dear old Mr.. Upper.
DR.. Qulnine, politely, "Don't you
see me advancing9 Shake"
A Chinese mandarin once said to US
elf you hate man let him live"
Devens is the tallest of Hayes's eight
advisers. But Key makes most fuss
just now.
Little drops of water, little grains
of corn, make the festive Bourbon and
the morning horn.
They are going to change the name
Of Pennsylvania to Cameronia. In the
motto Molly Mcguire rampant on
stuffed ballot-box is to crown the Key
stone of the arch of Union.
Dispatches state that the Louisiana
commission will consist of Vice Presi-
dent Wheeler, Hoar of Massachusetts,
John G. Brown of Tennessee, Senator
Davis of Illinois and Kenneth Raynor
of North Carolina.
The big question that has occupied
the House to-day is the penitentiarY.-
Memphis Ledger. Well, that is not so
bad. How infinitely better it must be
that the penitentiary should occupy
the House than the House should occu-
Ply the penitentiary.
Herbert Spencer never taught George
Eliot any languages, and she knew
seven before she ever saw hiIa. This
Is said to be the correct version of the
matter. But there is marked differ
ence between being the mistress of
several languages and several tongues.
Young men in Illinois are not very
different from their raw contemporaries
in other States. They converse in style
like this. "Do you abbreve?" "Why,
cert. Don't you?" "Bet. think it
it's splend; don't you2" ''MagnIf."
'Going to hear Carl Schur's lec2"
"No, he's on Hayes cab and won't lee
here" as that pos?" Dead cert. F"
"Well, 1t makes no diff TO me; l
wasn't going"
In dismissing the Cabinet, the per-
son who occupies the place belonging
to Mr.. Tilden would find it convenient
to make each member, from Willie
Evarts to Willie Wheeler, call out his
number, as is often done Ia schools.
Thus: "One!" "Tuo!" "Three!"
''Fourl" ''Fiver' "SixI" ''Sevenm
eight" In this way, any absence of
Dickey Thompson or Davy Key would
be immediately detected.
The address of the Princess Regent
of Brazil conveys the following infor-
NATION to the Bfazilians: Their majeS-
ties have not suffered in their valuable
healths, and nay loved mother, tie En-
press, has almost entirely recovered
from the ailments which were the chief
reason of the trip they have under
taken. You will participate, do not
doubt, in the intimate emotion with
which I announce to you that God was
pleased to bless my union with the
birth of the Prince of Grao Para, a
double pledge of my domestic happi-
ness and of the stability of our polti-
| cal institutions"
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The history of the World Life Insur-
ance Company will probably prove as
disastrous, compared with the amount
Of its business, as that of the other
concerns which have recently gone
down. A much more astounding piece
of insurance literature is the evidence
as to some of the transactions of Mr..
Furber with the Universal Insurance
company, and the Guardian, which the
Universal took under its wing. In con-
sideration of wrecking the Guardian
Company, the Universal seems to have
agreed to pay Mr.. FurbeT at least eight
thousand dollars per month for four
years. 1t might be more, as he had
the option of ten per cent. ON premI-
ums from the Guardian Company, and
also twenty per cent. on the reserve OF
all its policies that might be forfeited.
At $4,000 a month, however, the pay.
ments must have been 500, 900 in
twelve and a half months; and when
that period had elapsed Mr.. FurbeI
surrendered his contract and received
in full for the remainder $3.50, 600.
The question now is, whose money was
it that was thus literally paid to Mr..
Furber."
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A large portion of the Egyptian army
has been disbanded and has gone back
to the work of agricultural develop
ment, which has suffered much from
the want of hands in the last eighteen
months. The A5yssinisn war, though
begun on q small scaie, uaSs- tLA idAa
that King John was an Insignificant
foe, grew to serious dimensions, and
the drain on the country in men, beasts
and supplies was very great. Soldiers
were needed also for Central Africa,
the Soudan AID Darfour. Troops were
demanded and supplied to Turkey to
aid in the struggle with the revolted
provinces. Most Of these demands
have now ceased. A small garrison at
Massowah is all that is required for tho
Abyssinian difficulty. Central Africa
is protected, thanks TO Col. Gordon,
by troops levied on the spot and paid
by the local revenues. The Porte for
the moment is in no need of an Egyp-
tian contingent. The army Of Egypt
has, therefore, been put on a peace
footing, and q very large number Of
sble-bodied men have been released
from military duty, aad have returned
70 the cultivation of the soil.
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HOW Is Your Liver.

II you arc troubled with headache,
G,tlncss, iDcapacity to keep the mind
GA any subject, dizzy, sleepy or nerv-
Gus feelings, irritability of temper or
a bad taste IN the mouth, palpitation,
unsteady appetite, pains in the side,
or any such symptoms of liver COM
plant and constipation of the bowels,
go to your druggists, Morley Bros,
aud get bottle OF DR.. Sherman's
PricklY Ash Bitters. No spirit is used
in the manufacture of them, except a
pure article of Holland gin. They are
a thousand times easier to take than
pills, seidhtz powders, etc. Ladies in
particular will lind them peculiarly
adapted to their wants and conditions
of life in all ages.
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Assuming our cotton crop to be
$500, 900 bales, that the Egyptian
crop is $4,000 bales less, and
that the supply to Europe from India
will be 200, coo bales less than last year
this last item being problematical.
as we never know what India will turn
out under the influence of price)-to-
gether they reduced the supply of the
season 10000 bales, compared with
1875 6, the deficiency of supply being
fell: chiefly in Europe, the effect on
price, everywhere. There is believed
to be q material falling off this season
in the average weights Of bales, Its
average of the whole crop is, of course,
not yet known, but comparisons of the
first half of the crop at various points
indicate that it will exceed ten pousds
per bale ON the whole. At that rate
the loss would amount to 100, 600 bales
of $50 pounds eachi call it $1,000
bales. As above said, the supply lex
Guiding old stock) for this season in the
world appears to be 400 bales less
than in 1875 9, on the crop figures as
sumed, The difference in weights
raises the loss to 500, 600 bales.
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A Certain Headache cure.

II you suffer from sick or nervous
headache, morning sickness or neu-
ralgiG, so to your druggist and get a
ten cent trial pack of DR.. Heisley's
Victor Headache Powers, or j. r..
Heislcy Sc Co., Salem, N. j., will mail
them post paid. A single powder &C
tually cures the most distressing cases
in ten minutes. 1t is purely vegetable,
entirely harmless, physicians dis
covery, and wo guarantee it to do all
we chim. You can get the 80 cent.
packs or the 10 cent. trial size at Nor
ley Bros, in Austin, and at all other
hrst.class druggists everywhere. Con-
vince yourself.
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A CITIZEN of BAssrop sends the
STATESMAN further particulars about
the recent robbery Of two passengers
ION the stage running between McDade
and the town of Bastrop, He says
that but two passengers were aboard,
q Mr., Chester Erhard, who was return
ing from Galveston, where he had been
10 purchase goods, and. a lady. The
former had but SIC, which was taken,
aud the writer did not know what the
lady lost. There was but one robber,
and he was recognized as a noted cat
lie thief Of that county. Our CORE
spondent says that money Is verysearcs
in Baslrop county, and he expresses
astonishmen. that any one should
bs foolish enough to attempt TO rob q
stage 10 make a raise. Passengers on
that line, he says, only carry bottles Of
whisky and cigars, and as for sending
moaey through the mails, no one hS'
any to send; neither do they have any
rich relatives to send them any. The
robber cut the mailbag open. bat did
not even realize one uncAnceled postage
stamp for his pains.
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Governor Hampton is reported as
having given to President HsSes a
guarantee that peace shall be preserved
in South Carolina in the event that the
Federal troops are withdrawn from
that State. This guarantee seetnG TO
have been required by the President,
but 1t is mere formalIty. Theneces-
sary consequence Of the withdrawaEof
Federal soldiers from the State, by
which alone Chamberlsin's pretensions
are upheld, will be not only peace, bu.
good government representing the
will. of the property-holdipg and tax
psyiRg people Of South Carolina.
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The RIe..ed Ree..

A local correspondent writes to the
STATESMAN that ''the secret Of prevent
ing the bee-moth is TO keep the colo
mics strong, with Italian bees. The
blacks or natives, do not fight the
moth, but the Italians, even when de-
hcient in strength, keep their combs
free of moths or millers. As to gums
or hives. have them made so as 10 use
movable frames, ]. e, that the combs
are each in wooden frame hung on
rabbits, and which can be taken out
of the hive. examined, cleaned or ex-
changed. With hive like this. swarm
ing can be done artifelAlly, weak
stocks can be strengthened from the
strong ones; when deficient of honey
they can be fed, etc. II Is not neees-
sAry to get psteated hive--any box OF
about two thousand cubic inches in
side will do. Some prefer high and
warm frames, Others prefer long and
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AUSTIN. - IT MUST WAKE UP q
letter-writer in the Fredopia On. "
Censor writes charmingiy OF Austin,
which he has lately visited. After
giving a general view of the city and
its surroundings, he gives home
thrust, as follows: .,-
"The future of Austin is hard to
guess at. The tide of immigration so
far has tended more to the northward,
and he's resulted in a great influx of
population to Dallas, Sherman, Deni-
son, Waco, and more lately to Fort
Worth. Austin, without the feverish
growth from an alien population that
has marked these places, has still
gained steadily from a population of
about 1000 ut the close of the war to
possibly 10000 Ghey claim 10000
now. The incoming of the lately
finished International Railroad ought
to help them very materially
with their natural advantages of sol,
climate, etc. But will itl All depends
on their own comprehension OF the
situation. Trade and growth viii not
drop into their hands. There are too
many eager hands reaching for it.
Their need Is not to puild something
they have done enough building of
places of business, but to do some
thing-to start some enterprise that
will set in motion the thousand wheels
of activity that in addition to its
own immediate employees. are at
tached to any well considered eff
fort st manufacturing industry. They
ought to furnish building some
to every city in Eastern and Northern
Texas. They ought to- slaughter and
cure the bacon and other meats that
their merchants are daily importing.
They ought to manufacture the sash,
doors, blinds, etc., of which the imma-
diate future must require such i'm
mense quantities and are now brought
from ST. Louis and Chicago. They
ought to tan the hides that daily pass
their doors on their way North to be
tanned and returned, after paying the
railroads tribute of thrse cents OF
more per pound. Many more things
they ought to do il the high price and
scarcity of fuel for making steam does
not hinder. They ought to get coal to
make steam If it is in the State. They
ought, if it is in human power to do
so, to utilize the vast power of the
rapid-funning Colorado which now
floats by worse than uSeless-an obsta-
Gle to be bridged oVer-which, by the
way, they have done lately with very
substantial bridge, bringing their
brooklyn" into easy reach ofthe city.
A little money and good deal OF en-
ergy would work miracles of progress
for them. But l must close this already
too long epistle. j.
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MARKETS ny TRLEGRAPB.

GALVESTON, March 81. - Cotton =
receipts: net, SIC bales; gross, SIG
bales; exports to Great Britain 1914
bales; coastwise, 1896 bales; sales $50
bales, stock on hand 40, 795 bales; mar
ket easier; good middling 111ac; mid
ding lie; low middling 1015c; good OF
binary 10c.
Hides quiet; dry, selected, 15c; light,
salted, 1Sc; stack, sailed, l2c; wet sailed,
selected, s4@s12c.
Gold 1906 Silver par.
NEW ORLEANS MARKETS
New ORLEANS, March %. - Gold
1O410105. Sight q per cent. premium.
Sterling, bank, 500.
NEW YORK MARKETS.
NEW YORK, March 27.-Stocks dull
Money per cent. Gold 10454. Elk
change - long, 4S41z; short 4-S61z
State bonds steady. Governments dull
but steady. .
Cotton = market steady; uplands II
slice: Orleans IL 1l-l6c; sales 1895 bales
Futures opened easy; April 1Ll4@
II. l6c; May 1I.33@1i 35c; June 1l.4t
oil. soc; July 1I.609l1.63c
LIVERPOOL MARKETS.
LrvERPooI., March 81 Noon.-Cot
ton = market depressed; middling up
lands 9 Sled; middling Orleans 62sd
sales COCO bales, including 1000 for specu
Iation and export; receipts GOO bales
American 25OO bales. Futures, yer.
fiat with sellers at last nights prices; up
lands and low middling clause, Marcel
and April delivery, lied
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Tins following is list OF the liter,

THE following is a list OF the liter
an failures in this city in the last ten
yeas: oss-Boy, agricultural weekly;
Republican, daily and weekly; State
GasoESs, trl-weekly, publication re-
sumed; Commonwealth, weekly; Terds
Stats. Balleta and the TortcdrtE, Ger
man weeklies; Dodson's Terds Farmer,
weekly; Blake's Temperance AdcOcdte;
71e Reformer, weekly; Teas Journal
OF Education, weekly; 7esas Ranger,
weekly; State JOurnaL daily and
weekly Daily EreRiRg Ns'rs;; Sunday
Herald, and the Stylus a literary
monthly. All of the above, excepting
the Plo,o Boy, the RepubliodH, and the
Semi, Weekly Gazette, have suspended
since the STATESMAN was started in
August, 1871.
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Stage Coach Robbertes--The Last
the Most Daring--A Passengers
Statement.

the "OsL OATlES-A E1hbehS eA's
Statement.
The two robberies of mail coaches
on Monday, after that of last week be-
tween McDade station and Bastrop,
call for more than passing notice
from the press, and for the most vigi-
lent action on the part of officials. In
all probability the same man, possibly
backed by q reserve of confederates,
has committed all three of the robber-
ies-certainly the last two. The first
robbery on Monday was committed
near Willow Spring, at about II A. NJ,
twelve miles from Austin, on the Lock
hart road, and the description of the
man who did it answers perfectly the
description of the man who at O'Clock
on the evening OF the same day
stopped the San Antonio stage, about
tweuty,four miles from this city, and
robbed the passengers and the mail
bags, and the description given of the
horse is also the same. The distance
between the places where the stsges
were stopped is not more than fifteen
miles, and therefore there was ample
time between II in the forenoon and 5
in the evening to ride it.
Owing 10 the late arrival of the San
Antonio stage Monday night We were
unable to give yesterday any par
ticulars of the latest highway rob
berry, but yesterday a reporter called at
the Raymond House snd interviewed q
passenger on the stage, Mr.. John W,
Corbin, and from him obtained the full
particulars. Ar. Corbin is of the firm
of Brown, Boggs s Co., wholesale
Baltimore liquor dealers, cultivated
and intelligent. He says that but
two passengers were aboard, himself
and an elderly German, who could
speak and understand but very little
English, and neither had any arms,
While the stage was jogging along
some two or three miles this side of the
Blanco river he heard some one speak,
aud, looking out, saw man on e me-
dium-szed, raw-boned bay horse The
man, with drawn pistol, ordered the
driver to turn ont of the road, and then
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Over in England: First Briton-
''Hi suppose you've 'eard the news
from Hamericai' Second Briton-
s'Hi cawn't say that hi ave. Hi don't
take much hinterest in Hamerican haf-
fairs." First Briton-"Well, the Ha-
mericans, you know, ave lad what
they called q republic. Now the ole
thing is gone hand they've put the gov
eminent hunder a count" Second
Briton-''Hrm not hastonlshed at ell.
HI knew that blawEted country would
soon be hspiDg hour institutions"
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Messrs. Eyarts, McCrary, Devens,
Key and Schurz stood up in line with
Chief Justice Carter, of the District
Court, before them. BE read the oath
until he came to, "you do solemnly
swear that you have never voluntarily
borne arms against the United States
government" when Mr.. Key inter
rupted, exclaiming, 'sHold on, Judge,
I can't swear to that" There was
quite 9 laugh, and Justice Carter re-
marked, in his quaint way, that ''the
oath vss good enough for Us until you
came, sir,n when Key retired, and the
remainder of the oath was read and as
sented to by the other four. After
ward it was found that there was not a
copy of the modified oath in the White
House, and Justice Carter had to sd-
minister it from memory.
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CHRONIC consumption is not cured
by simply unloading the bowels. The
medicine must possess tonic, altera-
tive and corrective properties. These
qualities are combined in DR.. TUFTS
Pills, and they will permanently cure
this serious disease. IS Murray street,
New York.
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No. 80 Niagara Street. Buffalo, N. Y.
FALSE IMPREssIoN.-It is generally

FALSE IMPREssIoS.-It is generally
supposed by certain class of citizens,
who are not practical or experienced,
that dyspepsia cannot invariably be
cured, but we are pleased to say that
Green's August Flower has never, to
our knowledge, failed to cure dyspep-
sia and liver complaint in all its forms,
such as sour stomach, costiveness, sick
headache. palpitation of the heart, low
spirits, etc. Out of so, 900 doz.n bot
ties sold last year not single failure
was reported, but thousands of compli-
mentary letters received from druggists
of wonderful cures. Three doses will
relieve any case. Try it. Sample bot
ties ten cents. Regular size seventy
five cents. For sale by Morley Bros,
Pecan street.