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Nell Gwynne.

A house is shown at Hereford as her
birthplace; but the scene of that event
is more probably the coalyard, Drury
Lane, thoroughfare still existing. In
1850, when little more than a child,
she sold oranges in the pit Of the thea
ter, and her ready wit and powers OF
fascination rendered her great favor
tie with the gallants Of the playhouse,
a crowd OF whom would usually be
gathered about her. By and by she
attracted the attention of Hart, who,
thinking she might be turned TO gohd
account upon the stage, took her as a
pupil. she is said to have made her
fast appearance in Dryden's "Indian
Emperor" at Dury Lane in 1865, be-
ing then about fifteen years IF age. IL
is IN that year Pepys FIRST mentions her
as ''pretfy, witty Nell, at the Kings
house" Ia 1906 he writes: ''Knipp
took us all in 90 box at the theater)
and brought 10 us Nelly. a most pretty
wOmsn, who acted tie great part Cells,
to-day On Beaumont and FletcheT's
Humorous Lientensn,D very fine, and
did it very well. kissed her, and 90
did my wiie; and mighty pretty soul
she L." In the next year he sees her
play In Dryden's Maiden Queen. I"
and falls into great rsptures. There
is comicai part done by Nell, which
is Florimal, that / never can hope 70
see the ike again by man or woman.
The King and the Duke Of York were
at the play. But so gieat perform
snoe Of a comicai part was never, DC
lieye. 10 the world before as Neil does
this, both as q mad girI, then mes
and best OF all when che clmes like q
young gallant, Rn@--rlf6 II T1si2ns
and carriage OF siark the most that
ever saw any man ave. II mskes me.
confess, admire hern In person she
was below tne mi9dle height. with
very small feet; not beautifui. her ewes
being very small, ADq thev became in
visible when she laughed. but the vi
vacity of her features made amends for
all shortcomings. Ste was never n
great actress, but ws9 afrv. fantastic.
spngbtly, sang and af,d danced. and
was admirably sdaptedi for the lighter
parts. Sae iefl TIE sfsa fsr lime In
1867, and xas seen Is II nta al = uloa
ny with Lord BuckhuTAt Al Eosofu.
Poor gITl," be ss5s. o,tv ber: but
more the loss Of her ne Riae's
house." In the sane zeal b. uo;ss Der
return, with ny Lord BAcupcbsx snsi
his mistress q The King oiashouse
and there saw gfne Tndi4A Fesneror-
where find Nell come 2faSn. which !
am glad Of, bat was most iHtbnsteiv s Is.
pleased with her bling put 4 10 sct the
EmperOr's daughter, which la q crea,
aud serious part, which she Hoes most
oassly Nelly could never 41isy trag5
coy. 10 another entry. soon Allterward,
be notes that Nell had beer 40 5,
Lord Buckhurst, and that be '
ing sport Of her, and swearing
bad all abe could get Of b
Hart her great admirer. nov
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Monetary and Financial.
REPORTED FROM THE LAW, CLAIM AND
COLLECTING OFFICE OF STEWART,
LOwDAY s. HABICHT.
AUSTIN, October 2, 1873.

AUSTIN, OctODer =, 1910.
The week ending this evening has
shown some activity in securities, but
principally incident to the first of the
month.
In bonds there is no movement, and
prices quoted are merely nominal, no
transactions having come within our
notice.
State warrants are steady and in fair
demand, when offered in small amounts,
at the prices below, but these figures
would without doubt shoW weakness,
were large lot put in market.
Land certificates continue in ample
supply for the very light demand, and
the figures below are nominal through
out.
Approved fee accounts are strength
ening in demand, but not compar-
atively so in prices, the quotations
below being readily obtained.
Pension claims are stronger and
prices very firm, the visible supply be-
ing exceedingly light, and holders of
large amounts have an abiding faith in
the security of their investment, and
withhold them from the market.
We quote the market as follows:
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1Iarket Reports.
OFFICE OF FoRsTER & Co,
BANKERS. AUSTIN. TEXAS.
CL - -.

September % 1878.
The staple has remained dull anu
lower during the past week, until to-
day, when, under more favorable re =
ports from Liverpool. our market be-
came fairly steady with good demand
at full prices, which was fairly met by
sellers.
Our views of the market have, so
far, been correct, for the market has
steadily declined. OF course, a slight
reaction is to be expected, and we
think that cotton will sell at better
figures next week only to 60 lower
again. The receipts at all the ports
are very large, in fact unprecedentedly
so, and as soon as tue Mississippi
valley is opened to receipts, cotton will
decline. We think, at that time
the lowest figures of the season
will be made, especially so should the
weather favor long picking season.
The Liverpool market has recovered
1-16d, but New York is barely steady,
the demand being mostly for home con-
sumption, with limited export de-
msnd, and trihing speculation. The
bulls are trying to iufuse confidence,
but the general facts depress prices.
The most important factors to be taken
into consideration at present as TO the
future are:
l. The large crop of 1873 and 1879.
2. The overs stocked market of cot
ton goods.
8. The yellow fever epidemic and its
effect upon a large cotton producing
belt.
4. The unsatisfactory trade condi-
tons of Manchester andi the British
cotton trade generally.
5. The probable political difficulties
which may arise between Russia and
England in India.
Those are depressing factors, to be
offset by, first, the shortness of the
visible supply on the second month,
and, second, the reduced growth of
cotton in other countries. Up to the
twentieth, the total visible supply for
1873 was ], logs, 766 bales against 1885,
2S5 bales in 1877, with prices at Liver
pool for middling uplands at 7-16d
this year and 5-16d last year.
We again advise those able to hold
their cotton to do so, but otherwise to
sell, for prices will go lower before
they react.
Our market closed active at s IA to
8 Lee for middling, with little offered.
Farmers are holding back their cotton,
as prices do not pay.
The movement in wool and hides has
been snail, 40 quotations are war
ranted.
State securities are very dull for
want of offerings. Pension bonds sell
at 102 1-2.to 103..hst. o. X. accounts
are - cents bid and so cents asked,
with the usual difference IN price for
reward accounts. Pension certificates
are firm at 81 cents bid, and State war;
rants firm at 80 cents bid and SO
cents asked; the demand is good for
this security, but warrants to be issued
on the 1st proximo will probably supply
what investors want. Exchange is
in full supply at 1-2c. to par for all
points. Money is scarce at 2 to 12
per cent. per month with loans on real
estate at ~ per cent. per annum. Land
certificates have been dull of sale with
$64 bid and 500 asked for alternates,
and $195 asked for straights, with no
1nternationals in the market.
FRANCIS B. FORsTER
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Among the noted guests at the How
land hotel is an old gentleman with 3
nose 30 boldly aquiline as to be almost
square, pair OF small, black eyes,
with hazel lights IN them, and short,
white hair, giving with the nose an
aged gladiatonal look to his generally
moving figure. He suggests in a Slght
degree the late Reverdy johnson,
Romen frmness marking his mouth
and profile. He is not more than five
feet six or seven inches in height, in
that respect, as we'll as in the face,
suggesting his distinguished eire. Il
is the son of Alexander Hamilton
John Q. Hamilton. he was BON In
1892, and was in his twelfth year when
Aaron Burr killed his father. Tina
event he has tolersbly distinct recoi-
lection OF.
II recall single incident about Il
with full clearness," be said. 'tMy
fathers residence was in the country.
toward the end OF New York Island.
His law Office was rather shabby az
fair. The day before the duel WAS
sitting in a room, when, at slight
noise, ! turned around and saw my
father in the doorway, standing filent
ly there and looking at me with most
sweet and beautiful expression Of coun-
tenance. Il was full Of tenderness,
and without any Of the business pre-
occupation he sometimes had. .Johp,'
he said, when / had discovered him,
won't you come aud sleep with me TO-
nightp His voice was as frsnk a. II be
had bsen my brother instead Of my
father. That night / went to his bed,
and in the morning very early he
awakened me, and taking my hands
in his palms, all four hands extended,
he said, and told me 20 repeat, the
Lords prayer. Seventy 1--we years have
since passed over my head, and ] have
forgotten many things, but not that
tender expression when be stood look
ing ct me in the door, nor the prayer
we made together the moraiDg before
the ouel. do not % well recollect
seeing him lie on bis death bed, though
" va there. OF course I sav him, but
That recollection e only general. /
went 70 tue funeral ~ Trinity church,
andNyaguely remedies ~:
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Stewart, that there will be the great
est abundance of everything good to
eat. that the people of Austin and
the county. more especially the ladies,
are invited to be present, and that
gratuitous transportation will De fur
nished ladies and their escorts, as well
as all candidates and speakers, from
the depot to the grounds. Col. Brown
and the people oil Manor know how to
get up such things, and a good time
aud good result may be expected from
the barbecue. The people of Travis
county seem determined that Radical
ism shall not triumph at the approach
ing election, and they will vote for
John Hancock and the State and
county Democratic ticket.
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How IL Your Liver.

If you are troubled with headache,
dullness, iDcapacity to keep the mind
on any subject, dizzy, sleepy or nerv-
us feelings, irritability of temper or
: 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 a bottle OF DR.. Sherman's
Tricky 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 find them peculiarly
adapted to their wants and conditions
of life in all ages.
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CorToN PICKING. - There Is an ex-
citement about picking cotton that hiss
a peculiar charm for the blacks, and
this season more than ever before the
feeling runs high. The unusual yield
of cotton and the prices offered for
picking, soc and 81 q hundred, has
caused demand for pickers that has
never been witnessed in this section
of the State before. Mr.. John T.
Miller s Son sent TO San Antonio two
weeks ago and got IS pickers, and now
they have sent for still more. Others
have also sent abroad for help, and
sim the demand Is not supplied, and
many fields in various sections Of the
country are yet untouched. Planters
say that the crop cannot all be gathered
By Christmas, but with dry weather
aud = long picking season they
hope to save very nearly all
Of It. Some Of the farmers out
on Brushy are even offering 81 =
hundred and hoard for picking aud
steady employment for three months.
TIE most rapid pickers make IS day
at this price and Al average picker So,
while inexperienced hands make $3.50
= day or $500 = week. Even chill
dren eight 70 twslYesyeaEs Of age make
from soc to 75c q day, snd all get
what they make N cash every
Saturday night. Yesterday morning
there were not less than dozen or
twenty men in town looking for pick
EN-, and all during the forenoon wagon
load after wagon load OF men, women
sud children were pouring into the
epantrS. The racing during the day
aucnR packers, and then the weighing
a ne II snd hnally the pay drawing
a eA,nr1a1s addl some pleasure 70
thI 5szes OF those who toll
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About rayIOrviIIe.

Two marriages IN TaylorYille this
week.
Mr.. Sam Easley has a splendid flock
Of Cotswolds.
The accommodation tram accommo-
dates nobody.
The Strayhorn Brothers are prosper
Ing at Taylorville.
Mr.. j. w. Wayman, formerly of
Austin, is doing fine business at Cir
cleville.
The Brushy farms received a fine
rain last Thursday, something very
much needed.
There was never a better crop of
corn raised than that which gladdens
the heart of the farmer.
Miles of new fences are to be seen
in all directions, some of them en-
closing farms and some partures.
Prairie chickens are exceedingly nu.
merous-viewed from an Austin stand
point. A ten mile walk was rewarded
by sight of one solitary chicken
about half mile of.
The grass on the prairie is of unu-
sual height and dryness, and several
parties have narrowly escaped being
burned out 2iEsse ,g0ar- New
g SG 6... very se-sless
Mustang rancho is one OF the finest
Ia the country. A ueyer-failing sprinR
Chords water sufficient for the cuiiiva-
ton of considerable tract OF land.
'Rhe old Virginia hospitality has never
been forgotten by Its owners.
The grand prairie on WHICH Taylor
vile and Hutto are situeN IS thirty
Eve miles long and ten wide on an
average, lying between the Brusby and
Gabriel, and stretching from Round
Rock to their confluence. Nearly every
foot of it IS tIllable, and will yield as
well as any uplands in Texas.
TRAMP.
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her, and that she was very poor, and
hath lost my Lady Castlemaine, who
was her great f-iend also but she is to
come to the playhouse, but Is neglect
ed by them all" According 70 CURL,
it was in speaking the epiloeue to
Dryden's "Tyrannio Love" (l660) thar
she first captivated the King, and so
strong was the impression she made
that when the curtain fell be went be-
bind the scenes, and earned her eff
there and then. Temple Bar.
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A COTTON COMPRESS NEEDED. =
Gentlemen who have been travelling a
good deal of late up the country say
that the people in Burnett, San Saba,
Mason, Lampasas, Coryell, William
son, ETC., naturally incline to do their
trading in Austin, but they do not pro-
pose to pay too much for the lux
ury. II they can buy lumber
cheaper in Round Rock and George
town than they can here,
and get as much for their cotton in
those places as they can in this city,
then there is nothing to induce them
to drive on seventeen to twenty-five
miles further to Austin. II Austin had
. Gotten compress, by which the up
country planter and cotton dealer
could save from fifty cents to one dol
lar on each bale shipped, then there
would be an inducement for them to
come here. Is it not possible that
compress could be bought and put up
in this city by the first or tenth of No
Yemberl A good deal can be accom-
plished in a few weeks time when a
proper effort is made. Perhaps COM
press ordered for Memphis or some
other point in the district afflicted
with yellow fever might be
found in st. Louis or else
where ready for shipment. and
ii so it might be bought by citizens of
Austin and started this way by the
first Of next week, and by the time it
arrived everything could be put
in readiness to have 1t put up. A
building could be built around it
after it was put up. There is moth
ing that Austin so much needs as
a cotton compress, and next to this is
an oil factory for the manufacture of
oil from cotton seed. These enter
prises Austin should have at once.
Next to these she needs g wooden and
cotton factory and paper mill. The
establishment Of one will naturally
bring another, and the two would
bring more. Let US have the COM
press If possible this fall.
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MARKETS BY TELEGRAPH.
GALVESTON MARKETS.


1 GALVESTON, October I.-Gold 1O0lS
Sllver-American par; Mexican SOC. EN-
change - New York sight Il discount;
New Orleans sight par.
Hides-dry selected lGc: picked 14c;
stack sailed 12c; kips 14c; wet salted
~ @S1sc. Market firm, in demand.
Wool - fine Eastern spring 20@22c;
fine Western 1920; improved Mexican
ll@14c. Market dull.
Sdlt-market quiet; coarse 81. -; fine
S1.75.
Cotton-receipts 1886 bales; exports
none; sales 329 bales; stock on hand
81, $40 bales Market dull and lower
10 sell; middling 10c; low middling 81 &c:
coed ordinary 91Sc.
NEW YORK MARKETS.
NEW YORK, October 1.-Gold 1OOss.
Stocks heavy. Money per crnt.
EXchange-long 4S016; short ASK.
State bonds quiet. Governments steady.
Cotton quiet; sales 499 bales; middling
uplands le4c; middling Orleans 1890.
Futures weak; October loose; Novem-
Der l0.63c; December 1860: January
loose; February l0.71c.
LIVERPOOL MARKETS.
LIVERPOOL, October /. - Noon. -
Cotton-moderate inquiry, which is free
ly supplied; middling uplands Sgd; mid
ding Orleans $3.50 sales 5000 bales, in
Guiding 1000 for speculation and export;
receipts 1900 bales, of which 2400 were
American. Futures 1-32@1-l6d cheaper
HEw ORLEANS MARKETS.
NEW ORLEANS, October l. - Gold
1OO14@1O0H. Sight Is discount@par.
Sterling, bank, 4.S219@4 S312. Consols
74l4@7415.
Cotton fair demand; sales 225O bales;
good ordinary 95sc; low middling 10c;
middling l0l4c; good middling l05sc;
bales; stock on hand II, 500 bales.
Flour in good demand; heavy receipts
depress market; superfine $500; XX
$3.50; XXX So. 75@4. 75; higher grades
S4.75@5.5O. Corn nominal at 49@50c.
Oats 23c. Pork quiet, at 50. 75@l0.OO
Lard steady; tierce SA@S1sc; keg S7sc.
Dry salt meats quiet; shoulders iobblng
at 55sc. Bacon quiet, shoulders &c; clear
and in good demand; choice sugar-cured
l212@l315c, according to size Wits
ky steady, $1.O5@$1i 10. Coffee quiet
J. CcAAst OANAAy " PAAhiO I'D NSAOZ2Ns
gold. Sugar steady; common to good
common 7l4@715c; fair to fully fair 75s
@S4c; prime to choice S1a@9c; yellow
clarified 91s@94c. Molasses -2l@23 |
for centrifugal; 1S@2lc for new Louisi-
ana cane syrup. Rice, demand active;
ordinary to choice Louisiana 5@6l4c |
Wheat S5@95c.
KANSAS CITY MARKETS.
KANSAS CITY, October l. - Grass
fed wintered Texas steers 81 1902. so;
corn fed 50. 50@3.25.
BacOn-clear 65sc; rib csc; long G1sc. |
Wheat-NO. 2, spot, two car loads
sold at 7415c; No. 3, spot, two cars sold |
at tic.
ST. LOUIS MARKETS.
ST. LOUIS. October Flour quiet, |
unchanged. Wheat stronger; No. red fall |
No. 3 red fall 1880 Corn
dull at 3315c. Oats quiet at 20c. Whisky
steady at $1O7. Pork quiet at So 20. |
Bulk meats quiet; loose short rib $40.
Bacon firmer; shoulders sic; clear rib
61sc; clear sides 63s@615c. Lard dull
and nominal at G1%c
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LIVER Is KING. The Liver is the
imperial organ of the whole human
system, as il controls the life, health
and happiness of man. When it is
disturbed in its proper action, all
kinds of ailments are the natural re-
salt. The digestion of food, the
movements of the heart and blood, the
action of the BRAIN and nervous system,
are all Immediately connected with the
workings of the Liver. 1t has been
successfully proved that Greene Au-
gust Flower is unequa'ed q curing all
persons afflicted with Dyspe psia or
Liver Complaint, and al the numerous
symptoms that result from an un-
healthy condition of the Liver and
Stomach. Samples bottles TO try, 10
cents. Positively sold in all towns on
the Western Continent Three doses
will prove that it just what YOU want.
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MUS THrEyEs CAsaxzs--Gn Friday
night last - OF mules were stolen
In Rockdsfs and on Sunday two white
men Glaso B;ll Poe snd Erwin MeDAn-
iels were arrested 10 this ks. Consta-
~ &c. simms aud DEPUTY Sheriff
.J.H. Cone, Of RockdAls, followed the
men to thiA city, and, with the assist
ance Of Policeman sins. arrested the
men at an auction houss snd sale sta
be. on Pecan street. Sunday morning.
The men had put the mules up there
for 4 feed, and when they called in an
hour to get them they were nabbed,
handculled and marched OF to Jail.
They live down about Webberville,
and McDsnicls is now under bond
OF $1,000 IN this couety on . previous
charge.
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LAST season a good deal of cotton
raised between Onion Creek and San
Marcos came to this city for shipment,
but this season the Pierce railroad is
attracting nearly every bale of it. This,
we understand, Is owing TO the high
rates charged By tie Central for trans
porting cotton r = this city to Calves
ton, $3.50 bale.S~ 1t is little
remarkable that company as shrewd
as the Central should practice q suicid-
al course and drive business from it.
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THE LoCKHART STAGE ROBBED
AGAIN. year ago last March,
Ham White and confederate robbed
the passengers and mail bags of the
Austin and Lockhart stage, and now
we have a second robbery of this stage
TO report. Judge Burts was aboard
both times, and "went" up for his
''pile" on each occasion. The Judge
is lawyer and candidate for office,
and his losses were light. Lawyers
and candidates are seldom overbur-
dened with stamps. The robbery oc-
CURED on high hill near Willow
spring, fifteen miles from Austin,
about $3.50 Saturday afternoon. Judge
Burts and three ladies were the pas
sengers, and the two robbers, who
had white hanGkerchiefs tied over
their faces, only got $40 out of the
crowd. One of the robbers remarked,
as he pocketed the amount, that it was
a id poor crowd" Burtss miled-
the sudden realization that there was
luck IN being poor was pleasing to
him. The robbers had been in waiting
in the bushes st the side of the road on
horseback. and their first move was to
ride in front and stop the team,
and then they made the driver
get down and hold the leaders
by the bits. Next the passengers were
roughly ordered out of the stage and
made to disgorge what they had. The
Judge got taken in for q Mexican dol
lar, the enc be cut teeth OF, and fifty
cents in change. Miss Browne, sister
of Mrs. Weisselberg, lost the most,
81 25; sister of Ms. Frischmeyer
lost Zoe, and Miss Prichard 35c. The
judge wss set to work cutting the mail
bags open, one of the robbers furnish
ing him a knife. No money or drafts
were found in the mails. One of the
robbers was rough, bold fellow,
aud the other was quiet and very
nervous. One had light hair and COM
plexion, and the other dark, and they
were of medium size. One rode an
iron gray horse and the other sorrei.
Both animals were of good size. The
robbers remained in the road until the
stage passed on out of sight, and
which way the highwaymen went is
not known. The stage met a man af-
ter going q mile or more and the rob
berry was communicated to him. The
United States mail agent, Capt. Fos-
ter, and officials IN Austin were mott
fed of what had happened so soon as
the stage arrived in this city, before
dark, and it was thought prudent to
say nothing about it in the Austin Sun
day morning papers. Judge Burts has
the sympathies of the entire commu-
nifty in his irreparable loss.
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For upwards of thirty years Mrs.
Winslow's Soothing Syrup has been
used for children. 1t corrects acidity
of the stomach, relieves wind collie,
regulates the bowels, cures dysentery
and diarrhea, whether arising from
teething or other causes. An old and
well-tried remedy. 20 cents bottle.
fe17dAw1v
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from daylight to dark IN the cot o
patch. y Oig dsy's work in the cotton
field depends a good deal on an early
start in the morRing, and generally
picking begins st dsybreak. In the
morning the cotton is wet with dew,
and therefore it Is heavy, and this
point the pickers comprehend fully.