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The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-08-03
SOUTHERN NEWS.

Lexington, Kentucky, is now free
from small pox.
A five-eared colt is one of the curl
oslties of Cooke county, Tennessee
Bean pods forty inches in length
grace the editorial table of the Nash
vile World.
More children are bitten by vi
cious dogs in Covington, Kentucky,
than in any other city in that state.
Three hundred Swedish families
will settle along the line of the Flor
ida Central railroad.
Charleston, Mississippi, will have
a hanging tomorrow. Anthony
Pullman, colored, Is the victim.
A large factory will be erected
near Norfolk, Virginia, for the pre-
servation oflumber by the creosote
process.
Three sisters and a brother are in
Jail at Madison, Louisiana, for muir
dering little child belonging to
married sister.
1t is said flat more cotton mills
are building and suspending in
South Carolina than in any other
southern state.
The Memphis Appeal has no fear
of yellow foyer this year. and says
the city was never in a better sani-
tary condition.
A disease affecting the cattle about
Marksville, Louisiana, has extended
to the people, and several persons
are down with it.
Joseph Carroll, Republican ex-
member of the Florida legislature, is
in Jail in Jefferson county for cattle
stealing.
The will of the late Colonel AL
fred Shorter, of Rome, Georgia,
makes an additional bequest of
$4,000 to the college bearing his
name.
Pulaski, Tennessee, had water
works sixty years ago, wooden boxes
being used Tor mains were resurrect-
ell and found TO be perfectly sound.
The editor of the Key West
(Florida) Democrat, General Songer,
is twenty years old, weighs thirty
five pounds and is just forty inches
high. He was born in San Domingo
and was raised in Florida.
1t is said that agents are going
through Shelby county. Kentucky,
offering to contract for corn at eigh-
ty-one cents per bushel, the contract
to go into effect November l, and
continue for one year.
Sam. A. Bailey, aged seventeen,
and Miss Minnie A. Arnold, aged
fifteen, prominent young folks of
Longvlew, Alabama, eloped to
Rome, Georgia, and were married
just soon enough to outwit the old
folks.
The best grit for the manufacture
of mill-stones to be found IN the
world is qusrried in Moore county,
North Carolina. 1t is natural COM
position of flint rock and cement,
which shall pens rather than dulls by
use.
Peter Griffin, colored, lives near
Augusta, Georgia, and owns farm
of over 800 acres, all of which is I'M
der cultivation. He has 100 acres in
corn, and will make fifty bales OF
cotton this year. He has twenty
acres in oats, and raises on his place
everything that he needs. There
are six plows run under his direc-
ton, and he has home that is fitted
up with every convenience and COM
fort.
The Southern car works of Knox
vile, Tennessee, tn out $400, 900
worth of wheels every year. Three
furniture factories do an annua, bus
mess of 100000; barrel factory,
$4,000; a handle factory, $125, 600,
and an iron company, $25O,OO0.
There are b sides, two boundaries
doing q business of 800, 900, and SIX
Touring mills, all doing well.
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The Crops of the Mississippi VAL
ley.
ISt. Louis Republican,

1t doesn't take much figuring to
see that Missouri and all the other
great granger states of the Missis-
sippi valley will be fairly rolling in
wealth next winter when the returns
of this years abundant crops have
come in. Estimates of the harvest
yield are doubtless in excess of what
will be the actual outcome, but,
making all allowances, the prospect
is still promising in the extreme.
Here is Missouri, which, it is pre-
dicted, will gather 40,000,000 bushels
of wheat, and it is fair to say that
its wheat crop will bring the
farmers at the least not far from
$30.000,000. This is wheat alone'
and the corn crop remains to be
allowed for, besides the long list of
minor products which Missouri cul-
tivates. 1t is evident that the major
ity of our farmers will reap an in
come three or tour times what they
got last year. and this will not have
to go to wipe out debts contracted
in the period of stress just passed.
They have been economical aud
thrifty, and, when stinted by bad
crops, were prudent enough to cur
tail expenses, instead of meeting the
stint by borrowing money or rum
ming up a burdensome line of credits.
So now that prosperity has come 10
them again it is all clear gain, and
not discounted by debts piled up in
living the past year beyond their
means.
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SOME CITY DAYS.
EDGAR FAwCErT.


Dear are the days, though far apart.
When summers genial sorceries flow
Full on the city's tnrbid heart
From where kline feed and daisies blow;
When breezes loved by brooks and glades
Float peaceful over greed's raw strife,
And give the untuneful clash OF trades
Melodious hints OF ampler hfei
Such days with soft compassion seem
The infreQuent captive trees TO greet,
That devices from dull payements CLEAN
In torrid square or sultry street.
They make the pent grass vaguely sigh
For distant meadows rich In balm,
That sweep to whore the untrammelcd sky
Leans low and clasps them with Its calm.
They rouse to delicate surprise
Those rare scant shrubs the courtyard sees,
And bid some faded flower surmise
A murmur as though Of phantom bees.
But other messages they send,
While gladdening thus the towns turmoil ,
To pite0ns lives that yearly bend
Below the tyranny oftoil.
Sad women, gaunt with needs worst throes,
Will feel the buoyant airs cool thrill,
And hutter like tn sicKly rose
That pines upon their window-sill
Rude grimy men that drudge for bread
With spade and trOwel, axe and bod,
viii pause In transient dreams To Tread
The old Ieafy lanes their boyhOod trod.
Pale, ragged children, reared In woe,
Will iaintly view, by instincts law,
That narrow heaven, the best they know,
Dome green earth they never saw.
And yet with each fresh breeze that rolls
Through lairs that vice and frallty seek,
To still more melancholy souls,
These dear unusual days may speak.
All, would that Natures holier sway
At such kind hours new strength could win
And full upon their impious way
Curb the wild Keeling feet Of sin!
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SOUTH CAROLINA.
Democratic Nominations for state
Officers.

Officers.
COLUMBIA, S c., August 1.-The
state Democratic convention met at
IL O'Clock, and elected VIM. Munroe,
of Union, temporary chairman, and
afterwards permanent president.
A committee was appointed, consls-
ting of one delegate from each coun-
ty, to prepare the platform, which
will probably not vary from the ut
terances of the party in 1876. Gen
eral John Bratton, OF Fairfield, comp
trOller; General John d. Kennedy,
lieutenant governor, and Colonel
ID gh 5. Thompson, state superin-
tendant of education, were put in
nomination for governor, and after
two ballots, in which it appeared
that Colonel Thompson was the
strongest man, the names
of other candidates were
Withdrawn and Thompson was de-
clared the unanimous choice of the
convention for governor. John G..
Sheppard, of Edgefield, speaker of
the house, was named for lieutenant
governor and was elected on the
first ballot, by a large majority, oyer
w. G. Cocker, senator from Darling
ton. The proceedings of the con-
vention were perfectly harmonious
throughout. AT p. m. the body
took recess until O'clock, when
the platform will be submitted and
nominations for other state officers
will be entered upon.
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FIRE ON SHIPROARD
Caused by Spontaneous COmbus-
ton of Tobacco - Behavior of
Crew and PASSENGERS.


LONDON, August 1.-The passem-
gers OF the Hamburg American
steamer Gilbert, who were landed
at Plymouth, report that that vessel
narrowly escaped burning on July
%, through a fire in the aftermost
water-tight compartment in the
main hold. The captain had pro-
vided tor the abandonment of the
ship, but two large holes were after
ward cut through the deck and the
compartment flooded with water.
The passengers subscribed $1,000 to
the life-saving box, and expressed
their warm appreciation of
the conduct of the officers
and crew of the steamer. The dam
age amounts to $4,000. The cabin
passengers behaved excellently
while the steamer was on fire. They
remained drawn up on deck await
ing orders. The wind was light
and the weather fine, but there was
heavy swell. Most of the steerage
passengers were : Polish Jews
who hOwled and screamed horribly.
The course of the vessel. was chang
ed to due south so as to bring her
into the most trequented track of
shipping. When the deck was cut
the iron was found to be red-hot.
If the fire had continued a snort
time longer it must have commune
nicated to the state rooms and to a
large quantity of rosin, when it
would have been impossible to save
the ship. The fire is attributed to
spontaneous combustion of tobacco,
and it is believed it must have been
smouldering all the way from New
YnrE
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PERSONAL.

1t is said that Mrs. Burnett, the
novelist, dresses in the highest style
of estheticism,
Baron Fava, the Italian minister,
is at Saratoga for the summer.
Judge Bradley, of the United
States supreme court, is at the Cats
kills.
The widow of Ex-President Tyler
is about to make her home in Rich
mond, Virginia, at the corner of
Eighth and Grace streets.
Mrs. Schuyler Colfax wants her
husband to again enter public life
and vindicate himself. She is fond
of Washington society.
Miss Fox, who sues Mr.. Low, of
New Orleans, for breaking his prom
Use to marry her, places her damage
at 81.
Charles Stewart Parnells brother
owns in Alabama the largest peach
orchard in the world.
James O'Neill, the actor, will star
next season under the management
of Mr.. Gardiner.
Jack Haverly is now at the head
of the Haverly Amusement COM
pany, with capital of $S00,Q00.
Governor Bloxham, of Florida,
has gotten into a scrape. He has
agreed to say which Tallahassee girl
is the prettiest.
Mrs. Emerson, the widow of Ralph
Waldo Emerson, though eiphty-three
years old, retains her powers to a re-
markable degree.
Judge Tourgee is said to have
cleared the comfortable sum of $780,
600 from the sale of "The FOOLS
Errand."
Mr.. Charles E. Leland, the we'll
known hotel proprietor, has gone to
England on business relating to the
new American hotel now building
on the Thames Embankment, Lon
don, of which he will perhaps be the
manager.
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CAPITOL CULLINGS.
Current Notes About the state
Departments Yesterday.

Work on the university has begun in
good earnest.
The fees in the land Office for the
month of July were something over
$3.50.
Colonel Spaight's department is very
busy getting up statistics for the forth
coming book.
Messrs. Abner Taylor and G. b. Far
well, of the capitol syndicate, went out
to Duval yesterday 10 examine the rock
quarries.
The comptroller made an important
ruling yesterday with regard to the pay
ment of occupation taxes, which is with
held for revision.
Resolutions of the stockholders of the
Texas, Louisiana IL Western railroad,
authorizing issuance of stock and nego-
tiating loan of not exceeding ten thousand
dollars per mile, was filed in the secretary
of states office.
Treasurer Lubbock reports land sales
for July as follows on account of the
school fund First payments, S2l,
55S. 90; payments on former sales
as principal, $l5,242.92; interest
on former sales $2057.Sl. The above
represent the sales for last month of
something like 400, 900 acres of school
lands. OF the public domain, under the
90 cents act, 1856 acres, amounting to
S3S, 2S337. The sales of university and
asylum lands for the last month were
very light.
The governor issued a proclamation
yesterday in which he says, he will make
no appointments or reappointments of
cotton weighers in the state except in the
cities of Galveston, Sherman, Houston,
Waco, Austin and Dallas, as provided
by law. He also instructs public weigh
ers who have farmed out their offices or
are not giving them their personal atten-
ton, TO send in their commissions. All
appointments of public weighers hereto
fore made are revoked, except in the
instances excepted above.
1t will be remembered that the STATES
MAN mentioned, sometime during last
May, the circumstances of a Mexican
being held by the Texas authorities
whom it was claimed by the ministry at
Washington had been kidnapped and
forcibly taken from his native soil. The
matter was called to the attention of
Governor Roberts, who referred it to
Adjutant General King for investigation
and report. The iatter's report was made
yesterday, and shows that the man, Del
Mares by name, was a notorious despe.
RADIO and had committed many
acts of lawlessness on both sides
of the Rio Grande; that he was
! captured by his own countrymen
and turned over to the Texas rangers
evidently with the view of getting rid of
him. From the evidence it does not ap-
pear that any Texas official had any part
in the proceeding. Yesterday the gov
ernOr pardoned the man out of the penn.
Tertiary, and he will be carried back to
the place from whence he was taken.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-08-03

The true secret OF happiness is perfect
health, whic enables the individual to
enjoy life, and attain competency and
contentment. The martyr to dyspepsia,
in continual misery, is without hope in
the pursuit of business or pleasure, and
realizes that existence yields only failure.
But new era has come, and good health
is assured, with positive relief from the
ills of indigestion and torpid liver, by the
use Of DIR. Acker's Dyspepsia Tablets.
They are very nice-try them. Only 25
and 80 cents, in handsome boxes Fol
sale by Geo. B. Lucas & Co.
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Spending Blood MONEY.

CHICAGO, August bob Ford,
who killed Jesse James, and his
brother, Charles Ford, are in the
city enjoying life and spending the
$4,000 which they received as a re-
ward for Kidding the country of the
outlaw. In an interview they said
they would stay here about week
and then go to Cincinnati. Bob says
Frank James was in good health
when he last saw him. He does not
believe Frank will ever attempt to
reorganize the gang.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-08-03

Here is monetary case of general in
terest, which is reported at length in
many of the northern papers A man in
Boston, who had passed some genuine
silver coins containing holes, was convic-
ted of counterfeiting. Judge Lowell, in
the United States circuit court, set aside
the verdict, on the ground that it is not
considered criminal act to add base
metal to gold coin, and that punching a
hole through piece of hard money,
leaving all the metal, has no effect TO
make il less valuable or render it less law
ful tender
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A little child met with a horrible
death in Lodi, Wilson county, Fri
day. A Mexican who had been STOP
ping for a time at the house OF
another, playfully took up a little
child and put it on his horse, tying
its legs with the saddle strings. The
horse became frightened and ran
away, dragging the Mexican, who
held on manfully, until he was drag.
ged loose. The horse pitched and
ran over bitches, fences, bushes and
prickly pears, the child in the mean
time coming united from one side
and dangling with its head down
from the other. The horse was fin
ally caught but the child was dead.
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Arab Fortifying.

PORT SAID, August 1.-The Arabs
are working industriously on
Notifications all along the
coast, especially at Domietta and
Russetta. The water along that
coast is very shallow, and large ships
cannot approach within four miles
of Russetta and three miles of DOM
ietta.
The feeling among the French
inhabitants against DeLesseps is
strong.
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who is City Auditor.

PITTsBURG, Va, August 1.-The
sheriff of this city is in receipt of a
rule awarded by the court ofappeals,
now in session at Wytheville, this
state, in the case of S. A. Plummer,
Funder, claiming to be city auditor
VS.. f. r. Russell, Readjuster, acting
auditor, aid rule to-day being ex-
ecuted on each of the twelve council
men, and f. II. Russell. The rule is re-
turnable on the first day of the next
term of the court of appeals, to be
held at Stanton, September 10. This
case when disposed of,will determine
who is legally elected city auditor.
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suicide of a weII-Known Man.

NEW ORLEANS, August 1.-Colo-
mel S. r. Proctor, aged Sc years,
brother-ia-law of General Beaure-
gard, committed suicide to-day by
shooting himself through the head.
No cause is assigned other than ill
health.
The first train on the Vicksburg,
Shreveport and Texas railroad, be-
tween Vicksburg and Monroe, since
the overflow, passed over that road
TODAY.
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Good IntelIirance.

The valuable preparations of the cele-
throughout Europe, has lately been in
ker's Dyspepsia Tablets will be hailed
with Joy by all who are distressed with
disorders of the stomach and liver, for
which they are a sure preventive and
cure. They are very pleasant, and sold
in elegant boxes at 25 and 90 cents, by
George B. Lucas & Co.
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A family ON Campbell creek,
Brazos county, after eating dinner
one day recently, were suddenly and
violently sickeDed. They had that
day eaten their first meal from sack
of flour and it was thought some
thing in that had caused it. A Sec
ond trial with like result, and neces-
stating the attendance of a physician
convinced them that something was
wrong with the flour.
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Some of the citizens of Lampasas
are experimenting with Egyptian
corn. 1t grows something like sugar
cane and has heads of small round
grains, which is said to be excellent
for horses, and has even been used
for bread We noticed some grow
ing in Captain +. d. Wilkes garden,
which will yield at least seventy-five
bushels per acre.
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I'm SANCTUARY.
WILLIAM WINTER.

While pale with rage the wild surf springs
Athwart the harbor bar,
The safe ships fold their snowy wings
Beneath the evening star.
In this calm haven rocked to sleep
All night they swing and sway,
Till nantes DER the morning deep
The golden blush of day.
Here, safe from all the storms Of fate,
From worldly rage and scOrn,
Thus let me fold my hands and wait
The coming ofthe morn;
While all night long DER mOOn-lit turf
The wind brings in from fur
The moaning OF the batiled surf
Athwart the harbor bar.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-08-03

We think we can cure bad case of
Baekaehe quicker with one of Carter's
smart Weed and Belladonna Backache
Plasters, than by any other application,
and after the Backache is cured, you can
still wear the plaster without discomfort
for two or three weeks or longer. This
combination of Smart Weed aud Bella
donna is great hit, and IL is hard to find
any pain or ache that will not yield to It..
Price % cents. Sold by Druggists every
where. For sale by MORLEY BROS.
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CardInal Points 20 Remember.

That Acker's Blood Elixir is specific
remedy for neuralgia, rheumatism, mala-
rious and other fevers, scrofulous ten
denotes, and all forms Of blood-poisoning
IL purifies the system, rouses and devel-
ops the nervous energies, enriches the
blood, promotes appetite, dispels langu
ana restores the body to robust healt
Sold by Geo. B. Lucas s. Co.
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In Caldwell county, Missouri, a
girl named Taylor, who is an eleven
year-old, has given birth to full
developed child, great interest be-
ing taken by the medical fraternity
on account of the age Of the child
mother, which is the youngest on
record.
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The licking ON a Boom.

CINCINNATI, August 1.-The Lick
ing river has risen two feet five
inches since last night. 1t caught
the coal fleet to-day unprepared, and
a number of coal and coke barges
were swept away and sunk, and a
good deal of miscellaneous damage
was done. The loss will reach fifty
thousand dollars.
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Iron workers Convention.

CHICAGO. August 1.-The ANAL
gamated iron workers association
convention assembled here to-day,
President Jarrett in the chair.
About two hundred and fifty dele
gates were present. Mayor Harri-
SON in welcoming them announced
that he was the original working
man. To-day's proceedings were
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LOVELY
coMPLExIoNs
POSSIBLE 70 ALL.

What Nature denies to many
Art secures to all. Haganis
Magnolia Balm dispels every
Flemish, Oyerc0mes Redness,
Freckles, SallOwness, Rough
ness, Tan, EruptiOns and
BlOtches, and removes all eyi-
dences OF heat and excitement
The Magnolia Balm imparts
the most delicate and natural
cOmplexi0nal fints-n0 detec.
ton being possible to the clos
est observation.
Under these circumstances q
faulty complexion Is little short
of a crime. Magnolia Balm
sold everywhere. Costs only
rs cents, with full directions.
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Cooa.Bve. nl.aealth,

When you feel weak, languid and de-
pressed, try Browns Iron Bitters. You
will find it most wonderful reviver. II
is true tonic. 1t aids digestion. 1t
strengthens every part of the body. 1t is
refreshing to the wearied mental facul-
ties. 1t Is perfect. This is what our
family doctor says.-L0cGI Editor.
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Every Day for Three Years.

ABINGDON, VA, October 4, 1881.
H. H. WARNER d Co.: Sirs---I have
suffered every day for the past three
years from structure of the urethra. Your
Safe Kidney and Liver Cure is the only
thing to give me relief,
w Il GRAHAM
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A physician of Cincinnati, O., writes
81 have found Browns Iron Bitters to be
a reliable cure for lost vigor incidental to
middle aged aud old men,"
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The well-known strengthening proper
ties of Iron, combined with other tonics
and most perfect nervine. are found in
Carter's Liver Pills, which strengthen
the nerves and body, and improve the
ley Bros.
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A New Era.

Are loud in their praise of Floreston
Cologne on account of its remarkably
delicate and lasting fragrance.
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Forty Years. Experience OF an Old
Nurse.

Mrs. WInsl0w's Soothing syrup Is the
prescription of one of the best female
physicians and nurses in the United
States, and has been used for forty years
with neyer-failing success by millions OF
mothers for their children. 1t relieves
the child from pain, cures dysentery and
diarrhea, gripping in the bowels and
wind-colic. By giving health to the child
it rests the mother. Price twenty-five
cents a bottle,
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Annoxance Prevented.

Gray hairs are honorable. but their pre-
mature appearance is annoying. Par
ker's Hair Balsam prevents the annoy
ance by promptly restoring the youthful
color