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The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1878-08-08
FOREIGN.

LONDON, August 6-Bullion gone
into bank to-day on balance, e27O, 00Os
BOgardus 10, Coventry IS.
The international pigeon shooting
match between Bogardus and Aubrey
Coventry for $1,000, each to shoot at
fifty double birds, came off to-day.
Bogsrdus was winner. Score-Bogar-
dus, 70; Coventry 70.
General European News.
LONDON, August GA dispatch
from Vienna to the Daily Telegraph
says the ambuscades at Maslaji and
Citlak caused great indignation in
Vienna.
The opinion is gaining ground that
the Turkish authorities are promoting
the insurrectlon, but 1t is more proba-
BILE that the Porte has lost all prestige,
power and control, not only with the
inhabitants. but with the troops, of
whom several tabors have Joined the
insurgents, both at Serajeve and Mos
tar.
A special from Cyprus to the Daily
Neaes says fever is increasing at Nc
asia, which place is unquestionably
very unhealthy.
Gen. Sir Garnet Wolsley and staff
will 90 under canvas outside of the
town on Tuesday because the Greek
house owners demand such exorbitant
rents.
VIENNA, August emperor Fran
els Joseph and Arch Duke Rudolph,
son of the Emperor, will arrive at
Teplitz to-day on a visit to Emperor
Frederick William.
The Austrian troops entered Mostar,
Herzegovina, on Monday evening,
without opposition.
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THE following letter is selected from
hundreds on file in the office of Messrs.
FeFslew & Co., proprietors Jurgiele-
wicz's Anti-Rheumatic Mixture, p. o.
box 1406, New Orleans:
Mr.. Alfred Stay, Alexandris, La,
says: "a sense of duty prompts me to
make the following statement in re-
gard to your "Anti-Rheumatic Mix
ture:" For three years I could not
walk without crutches, but 80 hours
after commencing the use of your med
icipe, was able to do without them.
After using the medicine short time,
l was perfectly cured and able to do a
full days work. 1t is two years since
| discontinued it aud / have not had
the slightest touch of rheumatism
since"
The following gentlemen vouch for
the above: Daniel Stay, Minister Bsp.
fist Church NJ. L. Ryland, Justice of
the Peace; N. r. Stewart, B. w. Ba-
ker, M. c. Stay, w. A. Baker, A. Tar
yer, ]. S. Simmons, G. w. Slocum,
Henry Haines, Sr., H. McCan, ]. W.
McCan, B. Hathorn.
For sale by Baker, Graham 6 Co.,
Austin, Texas.
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THE BLACK FIEND. - A Methodist
preacher named Jacob StIltner COM
mitted- the most horrible of conceiva-
BILE outrages in West Virginia. His
victim is only seven years old, the
daughter of Edward Baldwin whose
guest was this wolf in sleeps clothing.
Stiltner barely escaped the swift JUS
tice of Judge Lynch. He is in Jail
and will be justly hanged. If white
man and preacher of the gospel do
TINS thing tile nIauy sirvuid surely let
the law take its course when the VIC
later is only an unlettered African saw
age. But when we remember how
inconceivably brutal was the negro's
conduct when he clutched the first
helpless little victim of his demoniacal
lusts, when he used his foul, filthy knife,
when his victims are two in number,
we cannot help believing that man
kind would do Gods service if they
instantly rid the earth of such an in
fernal monster. A short, quick, pain
less death was never Instituted by
Providence for such tiepds, and the
kindred of the two little children
should not be suffered to wIeak per-
sonal vengeance upon the demoniacal
black. Let him be hanged-by the
law, if we can-but let him be hanged.
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COatly Modern Funerals.

The prover5ial cheerfulness OF un-
dertakers, as q class, has been sorely
tested in this city lately by the reduc
ton in prices of their goods in trade.
It is now generally considered some
what cheaper to die than to live, al
though the latter condition of exist
ence has some striking advantages
over the former. The old undertakers
in many cities still chung to their old
prices, aad consequently younger and
more active firms are gradually gaining
their trade. Two years ago the aver
age burial expenses ranged from 800
TO 800. Now they range from $25 TO
$40. The fact is, there has been 8 sort
of an undertakers' union which kept
prices up and made an outrageous
profit. Taking advantage of the sor
row OF friends, at a time when,
above all others, they wished To
pay all respect aud honor
10 their deceased relatives, the under
takers charge almost any price they
pleased. The bills were naturally paid
without any complaint, although in
almost any other business such bulls
would have brought forth suits for
exorbitant charges. The very best
cofina and csskets th4t once COM
manded from $500 to $500 can now be
obtained for $3.50 Snrouds that for.
merly sold 1T $50 are now sold for half
that amount, while other prices have
been reduced in proportion. A person
of plain tastes can now be comfortably
and appropriately buried for $50,
where before a funeral that did not
cost at least $500 had no standing n
the community. II person wants
the Injuries OF q funeral, such &c
flowers, satin shrou6s, ETC., be must
pay extra for them, of course. Bat
this reduction in prices does not
take away all the undertaker's
profits. He still clears 3 larger per
cent. on his goods than do most mer-
chsnts. ASIDE from the mercantile
value Of their goods, their business is
very unpleasant, and for this they tnink
they are entitled 70 some extra com
pepsation. All the undertaking houses
are heavily stocked 50 they must keep
up their trade 70 "Eork" Of their
goods. IA establishment Of this kind
u not the most cheerful place 70 visit
10 tue world. A person IL not apt 20
90 70 one TO spend pleasant evening
among the coffins. There is q sort Of
horrible spggestiYeness Absut casksis
snd shrouds that the average citizen
does not enjoy. he would rstner 90
20 circus and see the elephant stand
on his head while the clown sings .
comic sosg. Bat among collins the
undertaken himself il on bis nttive
heath. he psts Grape covered casket
afectionately, and tells the casual Viz
itor that be can conscientiously fsceu-
mend tha. class Of goods-they have
never jet failed 70 give sstisfactlon %
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KANsAs-CITY MARKETS
Monetary and Financial.
REPORTED FROM THE LAW, CLAIM AND
COLLECTING OFFICE or STEWART,
LOwDAY & HABICHr.
AUSTIN. August Z. 1875


For the past week there have been
but few transactions in securities, and
consequently but little change in quo
tations.
Bonds are generally inactive, with
manifest weakness in pensions, and
Travis county bonds continue in de
msnd at prices quoted below. and no
change OF interest in the bonds of the
city.
Safe warrants remain inactive, the
few amounts offered are held q shs' 9
above the views of buyers, and fuI-
Their decline is probable.
In land certificates the demand is
confined to particular classes, and this
to the exclusion of alternates, which
are dull of sale, and prices are lower.
Ditch and International are quiet, but
steady, and prices quoted are generally
sustained by an occasional sale.
Approved fee accounts are stronger
in demand, and prices are well main
tanned, but not quotsbly higher.
Pension certificates are In steady de-
mand, all offerings readily taken at
quotations, and the market for this Sc
cIrity closes firm.
We cote the market az follows.
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Hi. OecnnatIon Gone.

Had the Arkansas "doctor" that
slapped" the fat man, thinking he had
dropsy, but finding no water, pro-
noInced it "dry dropsy," lived to-day,
he would, like Othello, find ''his &C.
cupation gone" for Allan's Anti-Fat,
a purely vegetable remedy, safely, but
positively, reduces corpulencY at from
three to six pounds per week. Sold
by druggists.
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THE MCsTANG RAILWAY.

We have adverted to the fact that q
narrow gauge railway convention has
been in session in Cincinnati. Many
facts were elected from builders and
managers ef these roads of infinite in
terest to Texas, who can only hope, IN
this broad commonwealth, to perfect
systems of needful inter-communica-
ton by means of cheap railways. Dir.
Byrne, of an Ohio narrow gauge line,
SAID:
It's cost was $40, 900 per mile, fully
equipped and in good running order.
Or this cost one-hslf, or $4,000 q mile,
is represented by q bonded debt, the
bonds having been taken by persons
living along the line at eighty cents on
the dollar. The road has paid its way
from the beginning. The cost of OPP
Grating it is forty-two per cent. of its
gross earnings. Two trains day, each
way, are run over the road, an express
and mixed train, at the rate of fifteen
and twelve miles an hour respectively.
Mr.. Joseph Ramsey, who has been en-
gineer Of Bells Gap pa narrow gauge
railway since 1871, stated that it has
been in successful operation for siA
years. 1t is built through q noun
famous country, and has some
heavy grades, the maximum being
feet to the 100 for q distance of sew
en- miles. A thirty five pound rail Is
used, and in the SIX years the road has
been in operation only FIVE tons OF new
rails have been required. Two-thirds
of the rails are still good for four or
five years service. The engines weigh
sixteen tons. The ir0n for the road
cost $40 Q ton-an enormous price
and the road without equipment cost
$40, 900 per mile. The road il in OPP
Grafton nine miles, and Is located
tweuty-four miles. It is Q tributary to
the Pennsylvania ROAD, with which il
connects 1t point seven miles east of
Altoona. The coal cars on il weigh 2200
pounds each, and carry an average Of
$500 pounds each. The engines make
four trips 9 day, and are able 70 take a
train OF 80 cars up the grade-a days
work for each engine consisting Of i2e
cars carrying $50 tons Of coal. Tae
coal II transferred 70 "a cars OF the
Pennsylvania railroad, broad gauge,
aud Mr.. Ramsey gives the following
comparison, showing the cost on the
narrow gauge and the broad gauge re-
spectively:
The cost of train nen, $500; oil,
waste and repairs Of engines 40 cents
per train mile 1870, % 0s; coat II
tranfer 70 broad gauge cara, 50; total
cost Of transportation (narroW gauge
carl, f152 30. To take up the thirty
four broad gauge cara We have 400
tons weight Of cars TO haul requiring
2 2-i0 days' work Of the sAns engine
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In the AmOurs Of Great Men, by Mr..
Albert d. Vandam, Swlit is depicted
after the death Of Stella and Vanessa
as follows: "Henceforth swifts life
is like that serenade which Don Juan,
disguised, sings under a balcony, g
melancholy and piteous song, breath
lug sorrow, distress, misguided love,
but the accompaniment To which is
lively, strldent, stsccato; still the song
struggles on, wailing, making itself
heard above the false instrument, whose
hooking tones want to throw it into
derlsion, and seems to jeer at being
obliged to go so slowly and mournfully.
Nay, in a measure Swift becomes Don
Juan himself, with whom the marble
statue, Just returned from the graves Of
Vsnessa and Stella, sits down to sup
per. The dean remains calm, collected,
for some time, but the statue asks his
hand and when with an assumed i'm
difference ne has given it, the man is
seized with mortal chill and falls into
convulsionh. They get more frt quent,
and at last send BIN Taving MAD, the
intervals OF frenzy leaving him o mere
pltiable idiot. He is like the man who
boosted of being inaccessible to super
stitious fear, and dreaded nothing
One night his friends placed q
skeleton in his bed, and then went in
TO an adjacent apartment to watch
The effect. They heard nothing, but
the following morning when they en-
tered the room, they found him seated
playing with The bones. he had lost
his reason. Swift had been iDsensibIe
to all the softer feelings. Memory
placed their skeleton in his bed; be
played with the bones for more Than
three years, unconscious Of what passed
around him. Upon the nineteenth Of
October, 1745, God mercifully removed
the terrible spectacle, and relea,ed the
sufferer from his misery, degradation
and shame"
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Galveston Live stock Market.

GALVESTON, Aug. 5.-The live stock
circular of Johnson Foster reports
Receipts-Beeves and cows, 146
calves and yearIings, So; sheep, go.
hogs, -.
Sales-Beeves and cows, 235; calves
and yearlings, 1877; sheep, 100; hogs,
On haDd-Beevesl
calves and yearlings, . 10
hogs,
Total receipts since January &
Beeves and cows, $3.50; cslves and year
lings, 1920; sheep. 1880; hogs, 2O79.
PRESENT QUOTATIONS..
Beeves and cows-Good to choice,
per ID. gross 17S to &c; common
and ordinary, per Id. gross, ga &c
7-sc. Two year olds = Choice, per
head, $40 to $11; common, do,
So to 50. Yearlings-Cheice, per
head, 81 to So; common, de-.
So te 81. Calves-Choice, per head,
$3.50 to $3.50; common, do, $500 to
$500. Sheep-Choice, per lb. gross,
3 IA to 8 1-2 C; common, do, to =.
REMARKS.
Beeves and cows-Only light sup
ply on hand. Choice cattle in mod;
crate demand at quotations. Year
lings and two year o.ds-In good re-
quest. Calves-Market bare. A Car
load would sell readily 1t quotations.
Sheep-In full supply; selliHg low.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1878-08-08

A FEMALE REGULAToR.-A perfect
ly safe and reliable medicine of this
character is in great demand by fe-
males all oyer the codntry. Such a
remedy is actually needed by married
and single ladies all over the land, and
inattention to this subject is consigning
thousands to untimely graves, and all
physicians will tell you so. There Is
now before the public perfectly safe
and sure female regulstor-oue that re-
stores and regulates all irregular action
cures chronic female. complaints
adds iron to the 0lood-strengthens
the system-cures the nervous and hys-
terical and imparts brightness to the
eye, bloom to the cheek and health,
beauty and yivacity to all. 1t is known
as English Female Bitters and stands
pre- eminent for the cure of all chronic
female Irregularities.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1878-08-08

SAM Bass AND HIS COUNTY. - The
American Bible Society has just COM
pleted the canvass and supply of the
Bible in Denton county, which is
known as the home of a band of des-
peradoes. In visiting 2417 families,
525, or nearly one fifth the population,
were found without any portion of the
Holy Scriptures. One thousand and
eighty eight Bibles were distributed in
the county in the belief of the truth
of the declaration of Chancellor Kent,
that ''the general distribution of the
Bible is the most effectual way to civ
ilize and humanize mankind, and to
purify and exhalt the general system
of public morals" Sam Bass, in his
dying moments, confirmed the doc trine
of the word of God, by affirming that
there is hell, and that he was gong
directly to its torments.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1878-08-08

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 arisisg from
-eething or other causes. An old and
well-tried remedy. 25 cents bottle.
fe27d&w1y
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THERE are some queer justices of the
peace in this county. Sometimes men
who love to pack six shooters and bluff
about in official capacity go before jus
tice of the peace and make a complaint
gainst some fellow, saying that they
know exactly where he is ana that If
authorized to do so they would forth
with arrest him. The justice then is
sues a writ for the mans arrest and
the party takes it, and then. and
thereafter claims to be a deputy
sheriff or an officer of some sort
but he never acts, but goes bowling
about with big six-shooter buckled
to him. We understand that this BUSH
ness has been going on in this county
for long time. And this is one OF
the schemes resorted to by officials for
curry,ng favor with men who are sup
posed to be able to control votes at the
next election. 1t Is strange that off
GERS should conspire to defeat the intent
of the law in regard to the carrying of
deadly weapons. The next grand jury
should look into all such crooked
ness.n
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How IL YourLiyer

If you are troubled with headache,
dullless, IDcapacity to keep the mind
on any subject, dizzy, sleepy or nerv-
us feelings, irritability of temper or
j.. 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.. Shermsn'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 find them peculiarly
adapted to their wants and conditions
Of life in all ages.
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So Much is SAID about Bailey's Sa-
line Aperient that it would not be
amiss for us to explain to our readers
salt, put up In bottles and sold at so
cents. A small quantity thrown into a
glass and little water poured on it,
causes an effervsecence similar to soda
water. This is drank at once and is
quite pleasant and COOLING, while it
acts freely upon the bowels and kid.
neys. Its action is quite mild and eff
fectusl and it Is now extensively used
for constipation, headache, acid stom-
sch, heartburn, dyspepsia, biliousness,
etc. Its certainty of action, mildness
and cheapness have combined to give
it large sale throughout the country.
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THE YELLOW FEVER.
What DR.. Dowel, orGaIveston, Says
TO DIR. Bib.

GALVESTON, TEX, August 3, 1878.
Dear Bib, Austin, Texas:
Yours received; will telegraph you
at once If yellow fever reaches here.
The city is very healthy at this time,
but we are having more or less rain
every day, as in,1S73. Our quarantine
is as rigid as it is possible to make 1t,
perhaps too rigid, as letters, papers,
etc., should be admitted after having
been thoroughly fumigated. Persons,
too, who are known to have had yellow
fever might also be permitted to enter
the city without danger, 1 think, after
their clothing and baggage have been
fumigated. Galveston Is very much
improved in hygine, there Is but little
stagnaRt water, or other unhealthy &C
cumulations to be seen, and if we had
privies with cemented vaults, such as
would prevent their contents from
escaping, that could be properly clean
ed and disinfected we would have but
little to fear. Any city in the yellow
fever belt will develop the diseases If
animal and vegetable prutres-
sence is permitted to accumu-
late, and privies allowed that
will not confine their contents
within proper bounds. II Austin wishes
to escape she must attend to these mat
tiers of hygiene as well as Galveston,
for she is in the fever zones aud under
the attitudes. You should, therefore,
use every diligence TO have the city
thoroughly cleansed ana dlslnfected.
/ think Austin Is really in more danger
now than Galveston, for the reason that
refugees are not likely to come here,
but will go to Austin and San Antonio.
Yours, etc,
GREENsvTrIE novvEIr
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BUFFALo.-We draw attention to the
advertisement of the University of Viz
GINA, the pride of the Old Common
wealth, the successful product of JEFF
ferson's craftsmanship, whose halls are
crowded with the young men from the
South, the West and the North, seek
ing the higher culture. We are glad
to note the splendid additions made to
the equipments in the last few years by
State action, and the munifcence OF
such noble benefsctors as Brooks and
Corcoran.
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THE CENTAUR LINIMENTs are of two
kinds. The WHITE is for the human
family; the YELLOW is for horses,
sheep, and other ANNALS. Testimo-
malls of the effects produced by these
remarkable preparations are wrapped
around every bottle, and may be pro-
cured of any druggist, or by mail from
the office of "HE CENTAUR COMPANY,
46 Dey st., New York City. jan16-w1y
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LIVER Is KING. The Liver is the
imperial organ of the whole human
system, as it controls the life, health
and happiness of man. When it is
disturbed in its proper action, all
kinds of ailments are the natural re-
suit. 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 unequaled curing all
persons afflicted with Dyspepsia 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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FROM two to four bottles of Jenk-
ins'- Rheumatism, Gout and Neuralgia
''AnDihilator" will cure permanently
any first attack of Rheumatism or Gout.
From two to two dozen bottles will
cure permanently, according to dura-
ton of disease, any case of Rheuma-
tism, Gout or Neuralgia.
n. JENKINS & Co..
Proprietors, New Orleans, La.
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MARKETS BY TELEGRAPH.
GALVESTON MARKETS.


GALVESTON, August Cold 101. Sill
yer American, par; Mexican, 92c. Elk
change-New York sight IS per cent.
premium; New Orleans sight d per cent.
premium.
Hides-dry selected 151zc; pickled131 &c;
stack sailed 111ec; kips lac; wet sailed
61k@Sc; butchers green 614@624c.
Wool-fine Eastern spring 20@25c;
fine Western 17@l9c; improved Mexican
12@15c. Market quiet and firm.
Bsgging-demaRd steady; prices firm;
light 1211zc; heavy 13c. Ties 81 25@2. so.
Cotton-receipts, AZ bales; no ex-
ports; sales, % bales; stock on hand S74
bales; market firm; middling Ike;
low middling l02l &c; good ordinary 101Sc.
NEW YORK MARKETS.
NEW YORK, August Cold 1001<.
Stocks steady. Money Q per cent.
Exchange-long 4S3; short 4.o611k. State
bonds quiet. Governments generally
steady.
Cotton-Market steady; sales 1896. bales;
middling uplands IL 15-16c; Orleans
121$c. Futures firm; August Il.96c; Sep
tember IL. CSC; Octohe. IL 5c; November
lL25c; December 1l2lc.
Jew OhLEANc hAhhhTo.
EEw ORLEANS, August 6.--Gold 1908
@100s<. Sight u premium. Sterling,
bank, 4s41<. Consols-Louisiana, 784
@74Ec-
Cotton strong; sales 125 bales; ordi-
nary exc; good ordinary 103Sc; low
middling 10xc; middling 112Sc; good
middling l21xc; receipts, net 90 bales.
gross go bales; no exports; stock on
hand 4165 bales.
Flour quiet and weak; superfne
$50; Xxx $3.50; Xxx 50. 75Q4 so;
higher grades 81 1880. Corn in fair
demand; mixed sec; white So. Oats quiet
and steady At 40942c- Lard, demand
fair and prices higher; fierce $809; keg
f9G9.50. Whisky steady ~ SL07@
Los. Coffee dull; jobbing, ordinary 70
PRIME 141<01sc, gold Sugar quiet but
steady; j0bOing, good common 71fc;
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Popular ;lll,s;rated book (26o pages) or
MANHOOD NoslANHooDi MARRIAGE (!
Impedimenis TO Marriage; TIE cause and
cure. Sent SecNyEiy 5eale9, postpaid, for 50
cents, by DIR. c. WHITTIER, 6I7 St.
Charles Street, 81. Louis, No., the great
specialist. Read his work.
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Az independent State ticket, 1t is
said, will be put in the field. Col.
Flournoy, OF Galveston, is prominently
mentioned for Governor; ex-Ssate Sem
ator Dohoney, of Paris, Lamar county,
is mentioned for Lieut.. Governor, and
Walter Tips, Esq, the hardware and
implement dealer. OF this city, is men,
toned for State Treasurer.