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Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1881-11-05

saddle on has broke loose. Will some
brother head the animal for no sister
can walk home this hot dayp"
Quiet being restored he continued:
"Well, my brethren, will now try to
say what allowed to about the Presby-
terians.
"As | said before, they raise their
children heap better than we do. They
behave better in church, and keep Sun
day better, and read the Bible and larn
the Catechism better than ours do.
declare, my brethren, their children are
taught that Westminster Catechism by
the time they began to talk plain.
1T amt three weeks since was out
cattle huntin'-for two of my yearlin's
had strayed Off-and l stopped at old
Brother Harkey's, on Mud creek, and
took dinner. He's deacon in the Pres
byterian church over thar. Well, as
true as stand here. brethren, Sister
Harkey had her little gal standin'
right before her, with toes just even
with the crack o. the floor, and her hands
was hangin' down by her side, and
her mouth turned up like chicken
when it drinks; and she was putin
this question to her out O. that Cate
chism: & A ~
"'What are the benefits which in this
life do either accompany or flow from
justification, adoption and sanctiaca-
tiOn.'
"Now, the question itself was enough
to break the child down. But when she
had to begin and say that question all
over fOr that's the way it was in the
book and then hitch the answer to it,
and which all put together made this:
"The benefits which in this life do either
accompany or flow from justification,
adoption and sanctifcatiOn are peace of
conscience, joy in the Holy Ghost, in
crease of grace, and perseverance there
in to the end'-I thought the child was
the greatest wonder I'd ever seen in all
my life. She tuck it right through, too,
without balkin' or misSin' the first word.
And she spoke so sweet and she looked so
like little angel that before l knOwed
it the tears were runnin' down my
cheeks as big as buckshot. I've seen the
day when l could have mauled and split
thOusan' rails quicker and easier than
] could have larnt that thing and said
1t off like she did.
''NOw, my brethren, that child didn't
understand or know the meanin' of one
word O. that. 1t put me up to all knew
to take it in myself. But just let that
Presbyterian young one grow up, and
every word of that catecism will come
back to her, and her character will stiff
fen up under it, and she'll have the
backbone of the matter in her for life.
"NOw, / can't put things into nay chill
dren that way. NOthin' don't stay, any
how. It's like drivin' nail into a rot
ten log"
This last remark l never forget. For
80 years afterward, as would stand at
the blackboard trying to fix rules and
principles in the mind of the dull pupil,
this remark would come back to me
with its peculiar pertinenency.
Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1881-11-05
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Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1881-11-05
Emortant to Travellers.

Special inducements are offer you by
the Burlington Route. It will pay you
to read their advertisement to be found
elsewhere in this issue. i 1ap4Ow
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1881-08-04
[special to the statesman.l

SAN MARCOS, July 29.-The fourth
week of the Normal Institute at this
place closed to-day. The atten-
dance and interest have steadily in
creased from the beginning. At
this date the names of over ninety
members have been enrolled, repre-
senting IS counties. After earnest
discussion yesterday, a course of
study for the Sam Houston normal
school was recommended to the
state board of education for adop-
ton.
To-day the following resolutions
were unanimously adopted after
thorough discussion:
ResoLUed, That we recommend to
the board of education for the COM
ing year the following plan for a
system of normal Institutes:
1. A normal institute for white
teachers in each senatorial district.
and for colored teachers in each con-
gressional district.
2. The institutes to begin on the
first Monday in July and continue
four weeks.
8. The state board to fix the place
for holding, and appoint one princi-
pal and one assistant for each insti-
tute.
4. That each teacher shall pay an
incidental fee of 81, and that the
agent of the Peabody fund be earn
estly solicited to contribute 800 for
-. That these institutes be made
I bpches of the Sam Houston nor
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1881-08-04
Nineteen Daggers over Him.

The HerakFS st. Petersburg cor
respondent telegraphs fresh partic-
ulars concerning the recent plot to
assassinate the car. M. Baranoff,
the chief of police, had received an
anonymous letter stating that on the
18th of July the emperor of Russia
was to be assassinated. The letter
contained nothing more. M. Bara-
noff made inquiries in every direc-
ti0n, ascertained that a young stu
dent had committed suicide under
extraordinary circumstances, the
man having first run himself through
with a sword, then lodged bullet
with a revolver in his left temple,
and, finding himself still alive, fred
again in the other temple and in the
gaping wound made by the
sword. This determined suicide
awakened Baranof7s suspicious.
He found the man still breath
ing, but in a swoon. BY the aid of
the doctors he caused the student to
come to his senses, and to speak.
The student said that he had formed
a part of "a secret society of twenty
Nihilists who had sworn to kill the
emperor. They had drawn lots, and
it had fallen to his lot to carry out
the plan of assassination ON the 18th
of July. Nineteen daggers were sus-
pended over his head, and hisbrother
Nihilists swore to kill him If he
hesitated but his heart failed him,
and he resolved to die by his own
hand. Before his suicide he had
written to BaranoR with the convic-
tion that one of his fellow-conspira-
tors would Immediately take his
place. The student lived until the
18th of July. Before dying he re-
vealed the names of his nineteen
brother Nihilists, who were all ar
rested.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1881-08-04
Especial to the Statesman !

BELToN, July 28.-The Grand
Lodge of the United Friends of Tenn
perance, which is in session here
this morning, elected the following
officers: Capt. Gibson, editor of
the Waxahachie Mirror, G. w. P. =;
Mr.. Davis, of Independence, S. w.
A; Hon. Harry Haynes, G. S., Rev.
j. L. Lemons, G. r. c.; DR.. Young
G. r. S. Mr.. Moore, of Waco, G. r.
G. Installation of officers tonight
The council closes its labors to-day.
The Journal of to-day says edi-
torially that Capt. M D. Herring
proved to the satisfaction of q
Waco audience the other night,
that the forty acres the
state owns at Austin is not the spot
reserved by the fathers for the uni
versitY. We'll any how, that land has
been right there unmolested for the
last forty years, and people.here gen.
orally agree that a university can be
placed thereon without objection
now or fear of molestation hereafter
Capt. Herring's point is poorly
taken.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1881-08-04

THE Railaoay Age says that the
land-grant railways have had more
than their share of abuse from the
demagogues, and yet they have done
more than any other interest to en-
courage immigration and to fill up
and make prosperous the great west.
A recent purchase has been effected
by the Catholic Colonization society
of Illinois of 10000 acres of land on
the line of the Little Rock & Fort
Smith road for the purpose of filling
it up with colonies. Other large
bodies of settlers are expected to
take up lands along this and other
Arkansas roads, and the end of all
this railroad building IN Texas
means colonizing the western wilds
with a vast and industrious popula-
tion backed by capital.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1881-08-04

THE British house of commons has
adopted an amendment to the land
bill, which appears to have proof of
honest purposes on the part of the
government to protect the Irish ten
ants and secure them justice. The
amendment was offered by the at
torney-general for Ireland, and il
empowers the land court to quash
all leases concluded since 1870 which
are found to contain unfair terms to
the tenant, forced upon him by
threats of eviction or other undue
influence on the part of the land
lord. Judging from this amend
ment, the purpose of the land bill is
not only to prevent oppression OF
the tenant in future, but to correct
abuses of the past under which he
may be suffering. Mr.. Foster gave
notice of new clause he intends to
submit, which looks to the elevation
of the tenantry. This clause is to
provide for the allotment of land
and the building OF cottages for the
agricultural laborers. The prospect
now is that Mr.. Gladstone, despite
all the formidable opposition in his
way, will be able to crown the sue
cesses of his busy and useful life by
securing the passage of this great
measure for the relief of unhappy
Ireland.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1881-08-04

GEORGETOWN, July 28.-At 10 A.
NJ. yesterday the thermometer regis
tered 100 in the shade.
Rain is very badly needed.
The prospects for short cotton
crops makes business of every kind
dull.
Court is still in session.
Mr.. Maxcy, from Austin. is here
attending court.
The people of this county and
Burnet are solid for Austin for the
university.
The college building here is being
repaired. Several new buildings are
being completed.
The Slaton House is crowded. All
who once stop there will be sure and
stop again.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1881-08-04
Especial TO the Statesman. I

LAMPAsAs, July 28.-Since my
special of Monday last, L. learn that
the story of the shooting at the
Waco boys was a fabrication. After
an investigation by the authorities,
it was ascertained that the shooting
was done in the hack, and by the
Waco boys themselves. They started
the false report in order to give
them time to skip before an arrest
could be made, of which they
availed themselves and made good
their escape.
There have been light showers of
rain through the county.
Cotton is looking fine, and will
average about half crop.
The weather continues hot The
thermometer stood at 107 in the
shade yesterday.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1881-08-04

THE London Echo speaks of a let
ter (which, if genuine, would be q
valuable contribution to the Juniusi
controversy, that has just come into
the possession of a private antigua.
rian society. 1t was sent by an Irish.
man in Manitoba to a cousin who is
a doctor in the north of London, and
purports to be a letter from his
grandfather, who was a composition
in the employ both of Woodfall and
of the firm that printed the bulk OF
Sir Philip Francis acknowledged
writings; that he made known his
discovery of the Identification of the
'hands' to Francis, and was bribed to
lifelong silence by the payment of q
large sum ofmoney, given in annual
installments
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1881-08-04
The Statesman's Specials.
Ispecial to the Statesman. /

SAN. ANTONIO, July 27.-A man
named Robert E. Valletto was found
dead this morning near the Inter-
national 81 Great Northern railroad
depot. The coroner's jury returned
a verdict of death from appoplexy.
He had been a railroad hand. Moth
ing is known of his home and rela-
tives.
Mrs. Orrell, an old lady aged 80
years, was robbed last night, in a
camp yard, of satchel containing
fifty dollars and other valuables.
A scheme is on foot TO organize
another water works company, the
money to be furnished from abroad.
A liberal offer will be made to the
city.
Lieutenant Bulls, of Indian fame,
is in the city, on his way to Camp
Supply,Indian Territory. The from
tier people regret to lose such faith
full officer.
About 500 Knights of Honor
are expected here to attend the de-
liberations of the grand lodge, on
the second of August. The diff
Guilty will be to secure accommoda-
tions for all.
DR.. +. c. Ainsworth, U. S. A, and
Mrs. Mary Cranston, were married
last evening at the residence of
Colonel Martin. The lady is the
widow of Lieutenant Cranston, who
was killed in the Medoc war in 1871
also sister to Mrs. Colonel Martin.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1881-08-04
Especial to the Statesman ]

FORT WORTH, July 2s.-The ex-
ecutive committee of the Fort
Worth & Rio Grande road, met this
evening. The report of ColOne
Lawrence, who has visited all the
counties along the line for the pur-
pose of getting aid, was received
and pronounced perfectly satisfac-
tory. The engineer corps actually
begun on this road this morning,
taking as the starting point three
miles south of the city, on the Gulf
Colorado &c Santa Fe road.
The first bale of cotton for the
season will be in tomorrow. 1t was
raised by A. A. Stevens, two and a
half miles from fort Worth.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1881-08-04

BISHOP CAIN, colored, has accep-
ted the presidency of the university
of the south, located at Waco. The
establishment of this institution, un-
der the auspices of the colored peo.
pie of Texas, Louisiana and Arkan-
sas, is going to build up great edu-
cational center al Waco for the col
ored youth of all these states, by
which they must be vastly benefited
1t is to be Il sectarian school, and
will fall heir to many rich endow-
ments from philanthropists.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1881-08-04
Especial 10 the statesman.l


WACO, July 29.-Presiden Para.
more, Governor Hubbard and
other directors of the Texas e. St.
Louis railroad, arrived here at noon,
coming from the terminus of the
road in carriages. Some of the par
ty return this evening to st. Louis,
but Messrs. Paramore and Hubbard
remain till Monday. Six miles of
track are yet to be laid before the
road can run trains into Waco.
DR.. Burleson was out in a card
yesterday announcing that unless
the people of Waco came down with
five thousand dollars for the Waco
university he would enlist all the
Baptist votes of the state to vote
against Waco as the site for the
state university. His card created
such an amount of indignation and
protest that he is out in another
card in the morning papers say
ing he was misunderstood, and that
he will favor Waco. 1t is
generally understood that he fears
the state university, if located here,
will overshadow his institution.
The Missouri Pacific bridge across
the Brazos is assuming shape.
The Texas & st. Louis road has
bond from the Clinton bridge
company, of st. Louis, to complete
their bridge by September 18th.
The telephone polls are up, and
wires will be strung next week.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1881-08-04

A LONDON correspondent re-
marks at is curious how much
the United States consuls of vari-
Gus small towns and cities in the
United Kingdom find to do in Lon
don, and how little where they are
attached" These @soft" places, with
big pay and small duties, are just
what serve to make the service
abroad so attractive to the average
office-seeker, and which have made
an assassin of a stalwart.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1881-08-04
Especial 70 the statesman.l 1

Especial 10 the Statesman
SAN ANTONIO, July pa postal
card from the new town of PearsalI
says Abram Scovllle was aceiden-
tally killed at Hamlin, by a shotgun
in his own hands. In climbing a fence
the hammer caught in a rail, the
discharge entering his breast and
killing him instantly.
The first bale of new cotton ar
rived last night, raised by Herman
Schutze, of Guadalupe county. II
was classed as middling, and received
the premium of one hundred dollars
offered by Oatbant tS Nash. IL Will
, be sold tomorrow at the merchants
exchange.
John Murray, alias "Stud Horse
Jack" John Driscol and Sim Martin
were arrested to-day for assault with
intent to kill a discharged soldier
named John Duggan.
Cattle thieves are burning the pas
ture fences in LaSalle county and
turning the cattle loose or run
ming them of. Spinner's pasture
was the last one raided, and it is
said over 100 miles of fencing has
been destroyed.
A slight shower fell here to-day
but there is no appearance of good
rains in theswest.
Ex-Governor +. j. Davis is in the
city, on his way from Laredo tC
Austin.
The city is quiet. Business is I'M
usually dull to-day.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1881-08-04

EVIDENTLY the Waco university
committee thinks there is good mis-
sionary ground at home, as speeches
on the university question are de-
livered there every day or two.
Some sanguine people have been
counting on carrying McLennan
county for Austin, but the STATES
MAN has never expected more, than
"stand-off" in that precinct. This
report, we will admit, "originated''
in Austin.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1881-08-04

AN effort is being made at Pales-
tine to get Lfeutenant-Governor
Storey to inform Governor Foster,
of Ohio, that he will officially in
form the people Of Texas of the day
set apart for thanksgiving by the
other -Brenhdm Banner.
Lieutenant-G Governor Storey is a
man of entirely too much good
common sense to do anything OF
the kind, Notwithstanding the pow
erful influence of Senators Gooch
and Stubbs, which, it is said, has
been brought to bear upon him.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1881-08-04
TIE Dallas Times remarks !:

"Waco tells Austin to put six OF
its best orators in the field, and il
will do the same thing. The twelve
will debate the university question
We dare not think of the result, il
the people of Texas, during this
hot weather, were forced to listen to
this travelling debating society"
But Austin is not after such q
show. 1t is known that a majority
of the people of Texas favor Austin
for the university, and the officious
presence of speakers would be an
insult to their good judgment.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1881-08-04

to regulate the proceedings in all the
states, was but an exhibition of the
sublime audacity of Ohio check"
The SIorGn, organ of a strong and
intellectual foreign element in Tex
as, gives the correspondence be-
tween Governor Foster and Gov
ernor Roberts, and endorses the
position of the latter in these words
Mluve zalezitosti podal guver-
ner Roberts, re vlada nema cirkev-
nj mi zalezitostmi niceho spolecneho
re vyZyvani k vykonavani cirkev-
mich obradu ma byti vyhradne kne-
Zim pone chano Zalezitosti sra tn
nemaji byt is te my cirkve. Byv
taZan, zdali domniva Sc, re podObne
provolani melo by tendenci monar-
chickou, odpovedel; Ano to 81 my
slim. V tom ohledu sOuhiasime s
guvernetem Robertson uplne,
1t would be the "policy" of some
papers to refuse to insert the follow
ing from the Mckinney Inquirer
but the STATESMAN is giving press
opinions on the subject of thanks
giving and prayer, and this extract
is inserted for all At is worth:
In some Texas towns indignation
meetings are being held, and in
some instances resolutions are offer
ed condemning the course of Gov
ernor Roberts, in refusing to join
"Calico Charley" in a day of thanks
giving and prayer for the recovery
of the president. On such occasions
it would not be improper to receive
subscriptions to the Mrs. Garfield
fund, and also tender assistance and
sympathy for Mrs. Eliza Pinkston,
as it is currently reported she is now
been left out in the cold by "visit-
ing statesmen" of Ohio, since they
had no further use for her."
Though not press opinion, the
position of Mayor Fisher, of Gal
weston, is such an endorsement of
much said in the press, that we use
it. Mayor French, of San Antonio,
asked him to join in the movement
of mayors, i'll reply to which Mayor
Fisher said:
at has never occurred to me as
constituting any part of my duty as
mayor of Galveston to take any
steps whatever in the matter to
which you allude, nor to recommend
directly or indirectly to the good
people of this city any action at all
i'll affairs, which, to my mind, are
outside of my functions as q civil
officer, and which pertain exclu-
| sively TO the consciences of the peo-
pie and to those from whom they
may receive spiritual advice. Gov
ernor Roberts, in my opinion, was
constitutionally and absolutely cor
rect in his reply to the governor of
OHIO. So much was l impressed
with the impregnable position he
occupied in this matter, that on the
10Th instant, the day first saw his
dispatch, wrote him a private let
ter, as a private citizen, endorsing
the same"
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1881-08-04
Especial to the Statesman ]


ABELINE, July 29.-The terminus
of the Texas 81 Pacific railway has
nearly reached the 400 mile point
beyond Dallas. Track-laying pro-
crosses at the rate of two miles a
day, three hundred and fifty mel
being actually employed in this
service. After next Monday The
force is to be increased so as to ena-
BILE three miles to be laid daily, the
settled purpose being to reach El
Paso by or before Christmas. The
track-layers are now about tC dc
scend the high divide between The
south fork of the Colorado and the
Pecos, and the latter river will
'bereached by the first of September
At the rate the track is now being
laid, twenty-fonT car loads of irol
are used daily, and seventy-five OF
ties, while it takes twelve car loads
of water to supply the men anC
teams. Wages for common handI
are $3.50 per day. Next week th'
demand will be thirty-twO car load
of iron and one hundred and twelv'
of ties. Your reporter has just re
turned from the terminus, and it i
truly scene of strange .Sctivity and
has its charms. The country sur
passes any expectation l had OF II
Abeline is growing. 1t is the C, n
ter Of great cattle region, and the
cattle kings assemble here, repre-
5sist;sS =nin;nnn invested isa-=A.:.:-
horns. Truly this is the great new
west.