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There is no doubt that Talmage made
q good deal of money IN Great Botsin
during hSs summer vacation, but shere
appears as lIite doubt that Great Brtain
will not be good money-msking field
for Tslnsge IN the future. In fact, the
Brooklyn performer Is about as unpop-
ular in not few of the places he visit
ed as it is possible for q man to be-
come, and the most hardy manager
would scarcely dare to take Mm over
the slime circuit again. The great
troubles appears to have been that Tall
mage had no other object than to
squeeze the most money he could out
of the tight little isle, and was quite
merclless to the unfortunate indIvid-
usls who in too many csses engaged
HIM at high price and then received
only half or quarter the patronage
necessary to pay the Americans bill.
{ sample illustration is that Of g dea-
con in the mining town of Nethevton,
who hoped that by getting Tslmage to
lecture the society might clear money
enough to repair their chapel. About
noon of The day appointed for the leo
ture Tslnsge's agent appeared and de-
msnded the fee of 500. with g threat
thst he should telegraph the reverend
doctor not Co come unless the money
was promptly furnished. The poor
deacon foally scraped together el00.
and Talmsge care, but the audience
was so small that the society, instead
of realizing ANYTHING, was over 500 oat
Of pocket by the speculation, for Tai
mage refused TO abate 9 penny Of his
bill. The Christian World, q religions
paper of London, having received many
letters from people who have hsd SINH
lar experiences, informs Is resders
that, while it cannot ''help feeling COM
passion for those who have lost 90
heavily by engaging him to lecture, they
must surely have known that by offer
ing man e100 to give IN hours rub
bishing talk TO such as could be Undue
Cd to pay their shillines to hear him,
they were engaged in avery discredita.
BILE species Of gsmbling."
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Editorial Notes.

Tom Thumb is proprietor of meet
market at Middleboro', Mass. HIS real
name appears over the door, although
be takes no active part in the business.
The religious dramatic company,
which was to play Uncle Toms
Cabin" in churches only. under sane
ton OF Mrs. Stowe, collapsed after an
engagement in Chicago, leaving the
performers unpaid.
The daily express mail train from
London 10 Holyhead makes the dis
tance, 208 miles, In four and Il half
hours, being at the speed of little over
fifty-nine miles an hour, stoppsges In
clHded. This distance between New
York and Washington is 22s mile, and
the fastest train makes it in six hours
and twenty minutes, or thirty miles
an hour, stops included. But most of
the trains occupy from eight to nine
hours. In this wide country, where
railway engineering exhibits such great
trlumphs, it would seem rs il we ought
TO be able to run trains between our i'm
portsnt cities as fast as the BrItishers
do. II we had Holyhesd express be-
tween New York and Washington, the
time of transit would be reduced nearly
one half. to-wit, to three hours and
forty minutes. This would enable pas
sengers to leave New York in the
morning, have an entire official day be-
fore The departments in Washington,
or attend u session of Congress, and
still be home again id time for the
evening tea.
A sad and touching story Is told of a
scene witnessed at the, terrible railway
accident few days ago near Jackson.
Michigan. While the dead and wound
ed were being extricsted from the
wreck, one lady, afterwards sscertained
to be Mrs. Rice of Philadelphia, was
discovered to be dead with her arm
wound around the neck of her little
four-year-oId boy. Both lay under the
car. the boy alive, but with his leg
broken, and so surrounded and confined
that was for an hour or more impossi.
BILE to get him out. James McDo-
pough of the round-house force work.
ed long and faithfully without q mo-
ment's rest to rescue the child. The
poor little fellow mosned out: "Oh,
If 200 tan only dit me out I'll be so
goodl Tate me out from here and I'll
be good boyl Tate me out and tate
my mama outl" At last McDonough
freed him from the car aud DIR. Nc
LSughlin tenderly set the little sufferers
leg. His father also lay mangied and
dead behind him, but not where little
Willie could see him,
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shock Notes,

T. he's been grave mistake with
Short-H0rn breeders, during the, last
twenty years, To treat the milking
terence and neglect. dlvarting the Sc
cretions into other channels of activity,
until the great milking breed of EGG
land is; now regarded by the general
farmer as. undesirable tor the dairy.
Had they kept in mind the injunction
of Bate, to ''breed for u:e," having an
eye to all the points of utility. milk
and beef would have been their greet
characteristics, and Short Horns the
leading dairy breed If the United
States, The significance of this can
only be comprehended by considering
that this country feeds twelve millions
Of cows in the prosecution of its great
dairy industry. Here is field of use
fulness almcs unlimited, aud the male
animal becomes the principal means Of
dlffusing the blood through our thirty
five millions of cattle. Nat. Lice.St0ek
journal
But few of our practical stockmen
are aware of the actual extent of the
change produced in our dome ,tic ami
mails within the last half century. A
single fact in relation to hogs may serve
to illustrate this matter. Fifty years
ago the farmer thought he was doing
we'll if be brought his hogs to nett
weight of two hundred pounds by.
keeping them through two winters.
About the year 1920 an improved breed
of hogs known as English swine"
was introduced into this country from
Chesh re, Eaglsni, 4. eJ we've distin-
guished by ears Ike an elephants, long
slices and large bones. These often
reached three hundred pounds in the
prescribed life Of poker. About ten
years later, the short-legged China pig
made his appearance and professed to
be ht for the market with only one
winters feeding, This was great
Improvement in the cost of pork but
there was an insurmountable obje3tion
to the Chinaman among swlneherds-
he could not travel to the market. This
objection, however, WAS soon removed
by Cross between these two imported
breeds without sacrificing the early
maturing quality of the China pig.
Continuing the Improvement In the
same line we have reduced the period
of twonty months as the marketable
age of pig, to nine or ten months,
sRd have advanced the standard weight
to tRree hundred pounds.
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rsEss-psass sea rssssss,


ssnstos Macy 10. satisasa thti SITTER
1880 Texas will hsvs fifteen represents
lives In Congress.
Governor Hubbssa has beenmaking
a rousIng speech AaipdaE APring,.
This time Yirgirk 9soygiss Jas his
theme. Ez
an improvement in steam engines 6y
which the eccentric Is dene sway with.
Patent applied for.
Ed. Young, indicted st the present
term of the Waller county grand jury
for the murder of FinSiea, has been
released on $4,000 bsil. 8.
Dir. Joe Devine, "a ssi AaIenio, has
just received seven Angorsss ''billy
goats" from Atlanta, Georgis, at cost
of $4,000. Oae of them-a native OF
Asia-cost $500.
Governor Hubbard says 1t is the in
tention of its builders to put the st.
Louis and Texas NARROW Gauge Rail-
way through to Guysnss. on the Pa
cIfc coast of Mexico.
Ector's Brigade had glorious good
time ct Sulphur Springs. The old
soldiers were entertained most sump-
tuou,lv through the Intervention Of
Col. WORKMAN and ethers-
Seuator Coke made a speech at
Pittsburgh, Camp county, recently, and
the Magnet predicts that not another
Democrat In the county will ever afil-
late again with the 0reenbackers.
It is said that Bonner, the murderer
of Wheeler. at Paris, had planned the
murder in advance with Clark and
Fisher, the latter agreeing t, swear
that the killing was done under Cir
cumstances justifylDg the killing.
The Adc6cats says this years expe-
Iience ID sugar zane culture IL Victoria
county proves conclusiYe!y that it csn
be successfully raised. A sugar house
aud refinery are all that is needed to
make as good sugar there as is made
in Louisiana
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as1s .sa Taask as4 H.i..vs.

6ii.Bs 3s%as;G,Iq siG.sFasa.
We have all read and Ih 'ssht, A5A
We do hel!SSe that Is was right lnt M'.
for the 5 4ptlst S 4'o UlGssBIihn II Ia
dependence 30 AdOps resolution sta,-
ing that conyrn,ion "siands forsger
opposed 10 the acceptance 0f Rny coz.
tributIon from any political organ -
ton whatever towards the accomplish
ment OF any of lis enterprises" /. will
not be necessary for the Methodist
Conference which meets in your beau-
tIful citr on December 10, TO say any
thing OF this subject. j was never an
open question with the Methodist
Church whether che would accept gov
eminent OF political party aid in carry
ing forward the enterprises. so that Is
never was and never v i'll be necessary
for her to ''settle that matter ttaslly"
by 8 resolution, or rather, action. |
am glad the Baptist G invention at l =
dependence has "se.tled that matter
finally" so far as that convention has
any power to settle anything, when
each local church is pure and indie.
pendent republic, owing no allegiance,
direct or indirect, to any power but
Cod
IF this action could be ratified by sll
OF the ''pu. e republics" of which that
'.poteDt denomination" is composed,lt
would be sill more satisfactory and
would pm. The matter more tffec,uslly
at rest. for some of US remember the
educational convention in Austin city,
not msny months siucc. OUTSIDER.
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DOMESTIC.

NASHVILLE, October 81 -McKen.
dree Church, of the Southern Metho-
dist, on Fourth street, burned last
night. Lose, $50 900; insurance, S25. =
600. The thiId story of John Luck's
toy store, nexe door, was also burned,
but probably covered by insurance.
SALT LAKE, October 81 The Nor
mon leaders are still defiant. At late
conference five apostles svowed their
determination TO defy the government
and live up to their principles.
The scquittll OF the murderers of
E der Standing moves the church or
gan to intensest wrath. 10 an edito-
rial published last evening 1t says 1t Is
evident that jury cannot be empan-
eled IN Georgia which will punish as
ssssins for killing Mormons.
MEsIPHIs, October 27.--There was q
general resumption of business this
morning in all branches of trade. The
stores that have been closed siDce last
July were opened by their proprietors,
who have returned TO the city, snd the
wheels Of commerce are once again
moving rapidly along. Through trains
on all railroads excepting the L tile
Rock route arrive and depart. The
streets present their won.ed animated
sppe; rance.
The CJtton Exchange Is open to VIZ
itors and members, and the regular
quotations, receipts. shipments and
stock will be posted as therefore,.
But one case of fever has been re-
ported-Mrs. Rosa VJlmar, who was
stricken two days ago.
NRw YORK, October p A s1rc;sj
from g.. Charles, Mo-, says that VIII
Brayton, the Aeronsut, made an ascen-
sion yesterday and tie wind was blow
ing very hard. He was dressed In
tights. The balloon had no basket,
having only rings to hold to. Brsyfon
hung head downward, holding by the
legs, and when Eve hundred feet 10
the air it is supposed that the ball ION
became unmansgesble,s IS it crossed the
Mississippi going due north and was
SOON out Of sight. Brayt0D, with no
clothing but tights, cnuld not endure
the cold long. Dr.. DJwney of Louis
lana, nephew Of Professor Wise, assist
ed Brayton.
NEW 0RIEANs, October 27.-Con.
gresham King telegraphs from st.
Joseph that Col. Gillespie, nominee
for Lieut.. Governor, refuses TO allow
his name to be put on the Republican
ticket.
NEW York October 81. -ArRumert
was heard to-day before Judg. B'stci :
ford, IN the United States Circuit
Court, on Q demurrer to the bill OF d :
covery filed by the goyernm snt In the
suit begun against Samuel ]. TIldep
for unpaid income tar. United States
Attorney Woodford and 8. B Clark
appesred for the government aud ex-
Judge Porter and Aaron J. Wander.
pool for defendant. Judge BIatch-
ford gave decision Overriding the de-
murrer, and directed the plaintiff 70
serve bis proposed form Of order.
CcLu1fBLA, 8. c., October 27.-C3l.
l. D. Childs, formerly presIdent Of the
carolina Estieasl Bank, died this
e7e1i1f.
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European Notes.

The Swiss colony, numbering some
seven hundred seuls, that settled in
Tennessee, 10 deyOting Its energies en-
tirely to cheese-mskiag.
"Peel and Golden, the Grsvedigsers
of England" is the title of a pro-Bis-
MARKHAM policy pamphlet published in
Germany.
In their destruction Of the buildings
at the Echowe Mission 8 alton the Zu-
lus respected the soldiers monumeL t.,
but destroyed the tablet over the grave
of the wife of a missionary whom they
had long regarded as public enemy Of
their country.
The Paris Figaro Of the thirtie:h Of
september devotes page aud half
OF it's two and two-thirus pages of news
to q description of the dinners eaten
recently in various parts OF Frence in
honor If the fifty-uinth birthday Of the
Count de Chambord.
The MAJ uis of Hesdfoyt and hIs
agent have received letters threatening
them with death unless a reduction of
rent be granted. A number of the ten
ants are supposed to be priVy to this at
tempt ct intimidation. The Marquis is
the owner of extensive estates in the
west of Ireland.
Cardinal Lpdochowski, the Polish
ecclesiastic who has had trouble with
the Prussisn authorities before for his
defiance of the laws directed against
the Roman hierarchy, has again been
sentence d, this time to fine of $500
and costs. or % seventy days imprison-
ment. His cfsnse was the excommu-
nication of e subordinate who was rem
dering obedience To the obnoxious laws
that the church has been fighting.
In January next postage stamp of
q new design is to be Issued in Great
Britain. Il will bear portrsit Of the
Qleen as she appears in mature age,
aud not, as now, likeness of her
Majesty when she had just entered wo-
manhood. The stamps at present In
use are Impressions from steel engrav-
ings, but the new issue will be printed
by the ordinary letter press system,
which, though not affordiDg so much
protection against forgery IS the en-.
craving method, is still considered suf-
6ciently difficult of imitation to render
the risk very slight.
Sir Garnet Wolseley has euployt d
john Dunn TO prevent the smuggling If
firearms into the z Ia country. Ac-
cording 10 the London World, John
Dunn IL the son of lieutenant in the
Royal Navy, who was killed by an ele-
phant 10 Natal many years ago. John
married hslf-caste woman; but when
be settled IN Z1lulsnd msst of the
chiefs, by wsy of making him thor
oughly at home, sent daughters as of.
fsr.pgs-gifts be could NOS well refuse.
he has for an Englishman, therefore,
rather an uousual number Of wives.
There are twenty Zllu houris in his ha-
rem, besides the half-caste, and his
family already consists OF ninety little
DInns. His own profession for many
years past has been that of ''gun run-
ning"-in other words, that Of snug
Cling firearms across the frontier into
Zalulsnd, an operation he long coz
Quoted with noted success (thereby lay
IDg the foundation of his wealthy and
which he 10 now to prevent others from
carrying on.
Experiments IN deep lake near Ber-
lin have shown the prscticabiIity Of
new and ingenious plan for rsising
ssRks1 yesssis- and other besvy objsss
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II un,erOrs OF the DAY.

40 Iowa woman has invented .
spaukaphone. She likes it, hut the
boys DONE.
To forget wrong is the beet revenge,
particularly II the other feEow is G.
ger than you.
TIE most useful pedestrian is the
mai who walks up and down the room
all night with the baby.
What a beautiful thing is rosy
cheek. How great contrast when the
blush settles on the nose.
In Chelsea barber had a sign in HE
window which read, "Hair cutting on
chronological and physiognomical prin-
ciples."
A foreign journal says Poe's craven"
was borrowed from the Persian. II
Poe was alive he would doubtless deny
the 10 vi es-Persian.
"Are you a Son of Temperament"
Topper: mo relation at all, can as
sure you, sir; net even en- ao9uaint-
ance."
Some men are so constantly growl-
ing at everything, that one is apt to
think that they have Discovered their
Darwinian origin, and are SIMPLY keep
ing up the family reputation.
It is not the necesssries of life which
lead us into temptation 30 much as the
luxuries. AS Jerrold said, Honest
bread is very we'll: it's the butter that
gets US into trouble"
I.'s funny when you ask man to
advertise he generally declines with
statement that nobody will see it. But
If you advertise some little caper of his
in the news columns gratis, he gets in
dIgnsnt over the certainty that every
body will see it.
A lady who had very recently mar
ried, perceiving her husband enter.
stole secretly behind him and gave him
a kiss. The husband was, silly man,
very angry, and said che q ended COM
mon decency, when tie young lady IN
willingly exclaimed, 'Pirdon me, l
did not know it was you. Kisses have
ben scarce In that house ever since.
A lawyer was compelled to apologize
to a court. With stately dignity he
rose In his place aud said: "Your
Honor is right and am wrong, as your
Honor generally is" There wss
dazed look In the judges eye, and he
hardly knew whether to feel happy or
fine the lawyer for what one second
thought appeared to be pisin contempt
of court.
He was saying, "As ths pearly coll
umn of smoke rises unbrokeu heaven
ward, 80 my heart rises to thee. As
the supf )wer follows the cruel sun
which gives 1t life, SO my heart follows
thee. As the blue brook runs its un-
hiadered course 10 the sea, 80 my soul,
IN slavery, goes TO thee" Said she,
"Henry, now that We are engaged, will
your penknife cut cornsS'
Secretary EVsrts. at dinner, replied
smartly to somebody who happened to
be reading one OF the regulation ,kes
about the Secretary's endless sentences
and gracefully repeated it. .'Oh, nom
sense" said Mr.. Evarte, good -natured-
ly. 81 don't object to that so,t of thing
st all. People who expect to iDjure
me by calling attention to my long sem
fences forg't that the only persons
greatly opposed TO long sentences in
this country are the criminal classes
who deserve them"
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Sis csasn,

FErEEkL EeczF. =. The isilaEleE
convictions 10 the criminal cssea bays
been had In the Cnlted States DisiTiet
Court this term up to date:
Felix Saunders, theft from Un!tea
States mail.
J,H Green, stage robbing.
Ed. Summers, theft from United
States mail.
Richard Amos, making counterfeit
money.
William Singleton, theft from mail.
There were several convictions and
acquitals IN misdemeanor cises.
There are various felony cases,
among which are the Peg Leg mali
robbery cases, which come no In few
days.
The seire .tdeids docket was called
yesterday: Judge John =. Rector ar
gued a motion to Get aside a final
judgment sginst J. G.. Bonner, the
surety Of T. d. German, of L lstrop
county, which was taken under advise
ment by the court.
The court ad jnurned until 10 o'clock.
DISTRICT CoURr.-The testimony In
the case of Rutbruf s. Miller "
Travis county, was closed yesterday.
IL will be Srgued to-day. Messrs.
Shelley and Archer for plant is and
Messrs. Sneed and Doom for the
county.
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The North Pole ana Equator

Are not more widely distincr than the
standard tonic, stimulant and sltera-
tive, Hostetter's Stomach Bitters, and
the cheap and fiery local bltters which
interruptions vendors foist upon the
unwary as indicated preparations with
remedial properties. The latter are
usually composed in the main of half
rectified alcoholic excitants, with
some wretchsd drug combined to dis
guise their real favor and are perfectly
ruinous to the coats of the stomach.
H9stetter's Bitters, on the contrary,
has for its basis choice spirits of abso
lutte purity, and this is modified ana
combined with medical extracts of
Isie excellence and botanical origin,
which both invigorate and regulate
the bowels, stomach and liver. They
effect q radical change in the dis
ordered physical economy, which il
manifested by q speedy improvement
in the general health.
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The Castroville Quia makes heavy
drafts on popular credulity when it
says that Sin digging a we'll recently
on 'UHcle Jo' Lytle's place, which Is
g mile or two from Lysle's ana McDan-
iel's, eight miles from town, coal was
discovered ct 9 depth of forty fe. {.
The lead of coal was between eigl
and nine feet thick. In throwing
out the pieces broke, OF course, nd
IL was discovered that in this lead Of
coal were pieces of wood aud some
leaves. The leaves we're somewhat de-
composed, but some poit ons of q en-
were sstonishingly fresh and 81 en-.
Whist astoDishes rs most, however,
was the dcdiDg II g piece of coal the
lsrges. part of bracelet of fine work.
manship, beautiful design and elegant
finish, evidently the work of some on
of delicate taste aud skilled work mar.
ship. Mr.. Med .niel broke it aud dn-
covered that il was INSIDE Of glase
Who made it When was it msde7
How long has it taken the world, In
growing, To gather THE heavy covering
OF forty feet OF earth over felled trees7
What class and character Of people
lived in the ages gone when that beau
t''ul piece of workmanship was de-
signed and carvedf Who pretends,
10 the light of such indispensable eyi-
dsnce a. this and Others of equal uoerr-
ing tIu,bfulpess With is daily beino
brought to light In various paris of Il Il
country. to say that Columbus irst .
covered Americaf Mother Earth 81 cal .;
let the books Of her children be elOs,a
aud kssp quiet"
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aeSpSIs. os,csss IS. .-canp Father
sis'thess Wsa hFoksa up sails Gfisss
nnsn, Tee people 10 shs aazn tsEMsd
. psosessloa aud HsfcAsd 10 81,
Hsidget's Catholic Church, where sss.
yiGss we're held and q heuedictlon pFn.
nouDccd, Fathers Kelly and oaln on.
eating.
The undertakeTs sepost one Inter.
ment to-iay, Henry Green, who died
last night.
The Howards have had n, calls fof
nurses in the city to-day.
nr. W. (. Rodgers and . nurse
lesve tomorrow for ii lrrison Station,
Mississippi, IN response to an appeal
received by the Towards this after
noon, the sick person being T. A.
Crow. The telegram does not stata
whether or not his sickness is yellow
fever.
Clear or fair weather, winds shifting
to south ana west, with slight changes
In temperature and pressure.
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Court OF Appeals.
TYLER, Texas, October %, 1879.

TYLER, Texas, October 90, 1879.
Editors Democratic Statesman:
To-day the Court of Appeals decided
the following csses:
Sam Num- v. The State; from Hen
derson. Appeal dismissed.
(. 8. Moore Y. The State; from
Wood. Reversed and remsndeu.
Joseph Stevens v. The State; from
Wilson. Affirmed.
G. G. Boltinqbouse y. The State !;
from Burnett. Affirmed.
s. B. Kirkhsm v. The State; from
Johnson. Dismissed for lack OF good
recngniZauce.
G.: w. Humphry v. n. c. Harris
from Smith. Affirmed.
William Hutto v. The State; from
Burnet. Affirmed.
J. E. BArkIey Y. The State; from
Henderson. Affirmed.
]. A. Goldman ct al. v. Lankford &
Hart; from Wood. Affirmed.
THOMAS SMITH, Clerk.