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The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-08-17
mIaceIIananma.

BoTTLEs-Per dozen-Brown beer bot.
ties, DTS 2Oc, pts 10c. Green do. OTIS &c,
pts DC. White do. OTIS 10c, pts sc. All
kinds of bottles, quarts and pints, sc.
HoRNs-Ox horns, each, &c. Cow
horns, &c. Steer horns. 1c.
METALs-Per pound-Copper, heavy
loo, light Sc. Brass, heavy &c, light 4c
Lead nc. Zinc 1c.
PAPER STOCK-Rags, per pound-All
wool &c, soft wool &c, half wool Nc.
White cotton, No. l, NC, No. 2, Nc.
RoPE--old rope, per pound, 11fc.
SCRAP IRoN--Wrought, per ton, %
Cast 30.
DRUGS AND DYEsTUFFs-Indigo, best,
90c@S1.10. Salts 5@6c. Bluest0ne, 12c;
Alum, 596c. Cochineal, S5c@$1. Mag.
nesia carb, 5O@55c. Flour sulphur, 596c
roll do, 41f@5c. Camphor, 40c. Copperas,
4@5c. Assafetida, 25(940c.
MEDICINEs-Opium, So. Quinine, S2.4C
@2.50. Cinchonidia, $1.25(01 .35. Iodide
Of potash, S2.5s(S3.O0. Rhubarb, S1@l 30
mass, 5O@6Oc. Morphine, S4.25@4 80,
Chloroform, S1@l.10. Castor oil, S1.25@
1.50. Ipecac. S1.50. Linseed oil, boiled
73c.; raw, zoe. per gallon. Turpentine,
1Oa 30.
GLAss-sx1O, $3.50; 1Ox1s, $3.50; 1Ox14
$500; 10x16, $3.50; 12x14, $3.50; 12x1s,
$3.50. Discount, so per cent.
PAINTS, ETC.-White lead, strictly
pure, $500. Furniture varnish, $1.5092
Coach varnish $2.00@3.50. Furniture
glue, 10000. Concentrated I've, $3CD3.5O
case.
OILs-Pratt's Astral, 1915 per case
Euplon, $500 per case. Brilliant, $3.50
per case. Insurance, 4Oc per gallon.
LIQUORS, WINES, E1C.-COmmon rec
titled, SOC TO $1.10. Robertson county 81 to
30. Lincoln county, 81 to 3. Sour mash
81 to4. Sweet mash, $3.50 to 3. O'Don
nells o. X, Bourbon, $3.50 to 2.75.
OconOmowOc, rye, $1.75 to $50. John
Gibson, 81 to $50. Glencoe rye, 81 to
$3.50. H. IL r. handmade sour mash,
S2.25 to SO. Wines-Port 81 to 8. Sherry
81 to 8. High wines Cincinnati quota
uons) 81. 16.
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LEASE OF CONVICTS.
Bids opened Yesterday and Con-
tracts Made.

Yesterday at the governors Office the
bids for hiring state convicts for The next
five years were opened. Following were
the bids
Cunningham & Ellis, Fort Bend coun,
ty, 300 convicts at fifteen dollars pei
month each.
William Phelps, Brazoria, sixty at
sixteen dollars per month.
III. X. White, Burleson, sixty at $15.
r. 5. Willis, BrazO;ia, sixty at $50.
Alkaline s. Lewis, Robertson, 1875 at
$15.
John Wells, Bruzoria, sixty at So.
Ball, Hutchings d Co., Brazoria, sixty
at Sl5.
r. W. House, Fort Bend, sixty at SIS.
Ed. Wilson, Robertson, sixty at SIS.
white 81 Watts, Robertson, 1876 at SIS.
II. r. IIearne, Robertson, sixty at SIS.
The aggregate number of cnvicts
called for by the bids is two hundred and
forty in excess of the number advertised
$500 TO be hired, but only about one
hundred and forty short of the actual
number on hand that can be placed at
work outside of the walls of the pen'ten-
tiary. Several of the bids were scaled,
in order TO reduce the number TO 900,
with the understanding that as soon as
possible the numh,r called for by the
bids Will he furnished by the state.
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one OF the cattle Kings.


Colonel ]. L. Driskill, of Austin, Tex
as, and the great west was in town last
week and made us a pleasant call. lie
owns two of the largest ranches in the
west and has on them $4,000 head of
cattle. Colonel DriSkill has for many
years pinned his faith to the shOrt-horn
and has nearly or quite 300 pure blood
bulls on his two places. He mas the
fullest confidence in their utility and in
the success of his herds by their use
He reports the range good and the cattle
doing well. The Dodge City, Kansas.
Globe chronicles the fact that lately ]. L..
Driskill & Son crossed the Arkansas
river with fine herd of yearlings, which
they brought from their extensive stock
range on THE Cimarron, Clark county,
Kansas, numbering between $500 and
1000 head, and which they were driv-
ing north to locate on range about six
ty miles northwest of Deadwood City,
Dakota, where they propose to establish
permanent range, which will be stock
ed with the best of improved cattle.
The herd is said to be the finest
lot of yearlings ever seen together,
but two prominent colors pre-
dominating, red and roam, showing
marked improvement over straight Texas
cattle, and a remarkable growth of year
lings. They are of uniform size, in
good condition, and are the offspring
from improved Texas cows, crossed with
the best Short-horn bulls that these gen.
tlemen could buy. They have besides
these on their range on the Gmarron, up
ward of 10000, where they expect to
brand between 5000 and 5000 calves, the
increase of their herd for 1882.
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CAPITOL CULLINGs.
GIeanIngs of News I'm and About
the Departments


Forty thousand dollars were paid into
ike state treasury yesterday on account
of land sales.
Three hundred copies of volume 30 OF
Texas supreme court reports were re-
ceived yesterday from the hands OF the
printer.
A. NJ. Walthal, of Stephens county,
has been appointed by the governor ,spe-
cial Judge TO try certain cases in which
Judge r. b Wheeler is disqualified.
The secretary of state is making esti-
mates preparatory to giving out adver-
tisements soliciting bids to furnish the
state departments and legislature with
coal and wood.
The governor yesterday appointed the
following gentlemen as board of pilot
commissioners at Pass Cavalo: John II.
Dale, Henry Rahtgens, II. J. Huck, ID.
ii. Regan and George Armstrong.
Mr.. F. NJ. Newton, collector of Bexar
county, settled with the comptroller yes
terday, paying $l4, 900. His total account
footed up about $4,000, Bexar being
the third largest tax-paying county in
the state.
The charter of the Mechanics mutual
aid association, of Galveston, filed a
charter in the secretary of states office.
The object is the mutual aid of mem
bers capital stock $4,000 incorpora-
tors, Henry Derlin, Thomas McHenry
and Peter A. Kolb.
The university regents will meet to-
day for the purpose of electing faculty.
1t was ascertained during the day
yesterday that there are at least forty APP,
plications for places, some of the appli-
cants being among the leading educators
of the country. The board will fill only
few of the chairs at this session, leav-
ing the completion of the faculty to a
subsequent meeting. 1t is also reported
that the board of regents feel much en-
couraged at the prospects of the universe
ty, there being probability that the uni.
versity lands can be leased for about
$50, 900 year.
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yellow Fever Reports.

Apropos of the yellow fever talk, we
append the following kilograms sent from
San Antonio to Houston:
SAN ANTONIO, Tex, IA, 1882.
DR.. Stuart
Have seen Mayor French. No danger
from this point. Laredo has quarantined
against all infected points. 1t is 800 miles
from here to Brownsville and the same
distance from Laredo to Maramoros.
Your danger is via Victoria and Corpus
Christi. If you quarantine against all in
fected points, Mayor French will see that
all parties from here for Houston have a
clean bill of health. This appears to be
all that is necessary without quarantining
against San Antonio. ]. CONVERSE.
SAN ANTONIO, August IA, 1882.
DR.. Stuart:
There is strict quarantine at Laredo
against all infected points on the Rio
Grande 1t is 1896 miles from here to
Brownsville and no stage line. Parties
working east will go to Corpus and then
to Victoria and by rail to Rosenberg. No
danger is to be unprecedented from this
quarter. If so l will advise you.
7 CONVERSE
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In HARROR.

think IL Is over, over
Think IL Is over ut last:
Voices of foeman aud lover,
Sweet and the bitter have passed:
Life, like tempest of ocean,
Hath outblown Its ultimate blast.
There's but faint sobblng seward,
While the calm OF the tide deepens lee.
ward,
And behold like the welcoming CULVER
or heart-pulses throbDed through the
river,
Those lights in the harbor at last
The heavenly Harbor at last
feel IL over, over
The winds aud the waters surcease
How few were the days OF the Rover
That smiled In the beauty of Peace
And distant and dim was the omen
That limited redress or release.
From the rRvage OF Life and its riot,
What marvel / yearn for the quiet
Which bides in this harbor at last p
For the lights, with their welcoming
CULVER,
That throb through the sanctified river
Which glrdles the harbor at last
The heavenly harbor at last?
know IL is over, over
know IL is over at last;
Down sail; the sheathed anchor uncoveri
For the stress of the voyage has passed;
Life, like a tempest of ocean,
Hath outblown its ultimate blast,
There's but faint sobbing seward,
While the calm OF the tide deepens lee
ward,
And behold like the welcoming CULVER
or heart-pulses throbbed through the
river,
Those lights in the Harbor at last
The heavenly Harbor at last
--PGuI II. HdyHe, IN Harper'S AdgasiRs.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-08-17
The Wool Market,


Brown g. Cos. Boston wool circular,
of the 18th, in reviewing the market,
says
The wool market during the past week
has not developed any new features ;
prices have been steady, but that is all,
and although slight concessions would
probably have largely increased the trans
actions, there is no disposition on the
part of manufacturers to stock up ahead
at present values AS is customary at
this period of the season, when the mar
kets are full of wool, there is a feeling
among consumers that by holding off
they will force holders to accept lower
prices. Thus far, however, the trade has
been firm and shows no intention of
breaking from the quotations now cur
rent, and with continuance of sales
equal to those of the past few
weeks, it is not likely that the next few
weeks viii show any material change
Fine washed tieeces have been in fair
request during the week at prices previ-
ously quoted, with slight increase the
amount passed into consumption. Comb
ing and delaine selections meet with a
brisk demand, and are sold about as fast
as they are graded out. No advance,
however, has been established, and any
movement in that direction tends to
check sales. Unwashed and territory
woods continue to sell readily at a wide
range of prices these woods Offering
cheaper to the manufacturer than
washed fleeces, and better stock than
California induces the consumer to take
them with considerable freedom. The
superiority of these woods over
the average lines of California
offered this season, has been q
serious drawback to the sale of the latter
woods, and the transactions of the past
few weeks have been great disappoint-
ment to those interested. In wooden
goods the movement has been moderate.
In some classes, such as blankets. fan
nels, etc., there have been active sales,
but buyers generally operate with con-
siderable caution however, the outlook
LOT steady, healthy trade is promising,
ana successful business In wooden
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-08-17
MISCELLANEOUS MATTERS.

Sandy river, in Kentucky, gets an
appropriation of $25, OO0-enough TO
put tin roof over the river so the
sun will not get dry during the dog
days.
The term cold maid" is rapidly
disappearing from society, but the
old maid herself is not. And when
we see some of the young men the
tailor turns out we don't blame her.
Judgment" said the preacher,
seriously, from the pulpit, as he con-
cluded telling point in his sermon.
"Judgmentp and small boy in the
gallery near the organ loft squaked,
"Out on firstw
Two men climbing over the rail-
ings of the Tuilerles palace in Paris
Oh Tuesday last, 10 get a sight at a
display of firew orks, caught hold of
an electric wire used in lighting the
ground and were struck dead ill.,
stantly.
The Chicago liquor dealers and
saloon keepers are i'll dismay, owing
to the possible passage of prohibl.
tory clause in Nebraska similar to
that of Iowa, fearing that Illinois
will be the next state to be invaded
by the temperance people.
Some fine Arab horses were sold
at auction n few weeks ago in Lon
don. About 200 persons were pres
ent at the sale, among them Lord
Bradford, Lord Rosslyn, Lord Har-
dinge and Mr.. Percy Wyndham.
Eleven horses were offered, and the
total proceeds were $3.50. Pharaoh,
pure Arab stallion, brought $2625
from Count Potoki, who takes him
to Poland. Brood mares averaged
5000 each and a two-year-old FLY
went for $775.
Within the last twelve years the
population of Russia has increased
very rapidly. The total amount is
said to be 14,500,O00. For the vari-
Gus divisions of the empire the toll
lowing are the present returns Rus
STA in Europe, 75,067,788; Poland,
7,219,077 Finland, 2,02S,021; Siberia
and Central Asia, 10, 1885, 56, or a to-
tai of 100,038,348. Twelve years ago
the total was 85,570,646. Poland
during the last sixty-five years, has
increased from 2,717,2S7 to her pres
ent total, 7,219,077.
Statesville, North Carolina, is all
torn up in consequence of the con-
duct OF Prot. G. w. White, a prom
lnent member of society and presi-
dent OF large seminary for girls in
that town. He courted one of his
pupils, Miss Mamie Holbrook, a
wealthy girl of Statesvllle, but upon
the night fixed peremptorily by the
young lady's parents for the mar
riage he was found suffering from
the effects of a dose of laudanum.
He subsequently fled the town, but
was apprehcnded and taken back.
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The Morals of Jennie Cramer.

George W. Peck in Milwa uke SUM-
If Jennie Cramer's mother had
taken her girl across her knee the
first time she rebelled, and taken a
bed-slat and knocked the wind out
of her paper hustle all over the
small of her back, and sat her down
in hard-bOttom chair so hard that
the filling had fallen out of her up
per teeth, Jennie would have been
alive to-day, and about this time in
the afternoon she would be wiping
the dishes AMI singing "Mother is
the Battle Over" or mending the
heels of her fathers stockings, or, if
her mother had taken her by the
hand and kindly told her that these
Malleys were couple of galvan-
lied aristocrats, who cared no more
for her than they did for a dog, ex-
cept to hug her and muss her up,
the girl would have let them alone,
aud would now be happy at home.
But the old lady seemed to have
made a speciality of scolding the girl,
and finally got her so that she had a
better time out doors than she did
in the house, and now there is not
enough left of her to bait minnow
hook. If mothers set about it right
they can cause a girl to do about as
she ought to, but too many of them
talk a girl blind, and never give
them a chance to rally. Girls who
have symptoms of being premature
ly quick should ponder over Jennie
Cramer, and imagine how they
would look cut up into slices not
bigger than a cove oyster, and set
away in sealed bottles.
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Philosopher Drowned.

LONDON, August 15.-Professor
VIM. Stanley Jevons, philosopher
and professor of economy, has been
drowned while bathing at Beer
Hill.
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An Expert on Tea Making.
CDaII Mall nazafta


Most housewives understand the
mystery of making tea, but few
know the advantage Of the Russian
samovar over all other methods of
making il. The samovar is a tea
kettle which has its fire in a lube
running through it and which, with
a few pieces of lighted charcoal
dropped into the tube, maintains
the water at boiling point with a
minimum of evaporation and gives
it at that point on the table. And
as a beverage the Russian does GER
tainly surpass all other nations in
tea making. We drink it as a slim
ulant and take it strong in the morn
ing and too strong at night, with
milk and sugar as a general thing I:
we finish and send the tea things
away; but to the Russian it is an
all-the-evening enjoyment. The
samovar stands ON the ia
BILE and the tea (the delicious vel
low variety generally is put into
the tea pot, the boiling water run
on, allowed TO stand a moment, and
then tea is served, mild rather than
weak, and more water poured on at
once-a little tea added from time
TO time, if needed, L have often seen
Russian friends drink a dozen or
more cups in the evening. The
quick making of the infusion is in
accordadce with Chinese custom,
but there the parallel ends. The ad-
dltlon ofsugar-tot the celestial bar
barism-is now opposed by some
English tea drinkers, but the over
whelming majority of opinion is in
favor OF its use. 1t seems to me as
indispensable to the development of
the best appreciation of the tea as
salt is to that of beefsteak.
The sugar is so neutral as an emol-
lient that it absolutely DISCUSSES no
quality of tea. and l hold it to be
cardinal principle in gustatics that
where two flavors can be so COM
bined as to sacrifice neither an adj
vance in art is achieved. And the
same is true of coffee-the addition
of sugar is a development of the
beverage. But milk does not come
Under the same category. When
people drink tea as strong as most
of us do at breakfast the intense
bitter is Modified by milk, but weak
tea is made iDsipid by it.
The Russian adds slice of lemon,
the only addition after sugar which
does not deteriorate the quality of
delicate tea; but he also takes
little rum, a distinct departure
from the purest standard, due
probably to his general imbib-
ing propensity. Both rum and
cognac, having distinct flavors,
which disguise the quality of the
tea, are abuses unless the tea is bad.
A delicate yellow tea, with sugar
and lemon, is, mejudice, the perfec-
ton of tea drinking if made with
the samovar. A hint to economists
on long sleeping of tea (for boiling
is horrible barbarism never to be
dreamed oD; the samovar is ar
ranged so as to allow the tea pot to
stand in the chimney, keeping the
tea at a point just below the boiling
indefinitely, and when the tea is of
an old crop the flavor will be greatly
and judiciously developed by fifteen
or twenty minutes standing on the
samOvar top. A new crop tea does
not require this treatment.
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THE WORD.

There is u Word-one Word-ne Ter spoke
nor writ;
But each succeeding age
Has sought to utter il by tongue and
page,
All things seek evermore 10 utter Il;
Yet never was there aught,
Save One, that did express its boundless
thought.
by strange bands soul that great Word is
Touch one twill leap and shake
The heart its fuller utterances would
break.
IT'S at the heart of love, the soul to wit,
The ideals heavenly light
Tempting our feet from height to greater
height.
What spirit but its mystic flash has liz?
Stand thou in thought apart
Beneath the stars they tell IL to the
heart;
And music too, would fain embody 1t;
Its long Promethean flame
Searches through sound to find itself n
name;
And science, art, wrapped in their dream
ings sit,
Thought for which human language is
too weak.
Yet what Is life, save longing days that
fit
Seeking that perfect Word
Which none can ever tell, but all have
heard?
1t is the spirit opening to admit
Our lives Into its own;
That Word we try to speak is Christ
alone!
Then onward upward! leave the dark
some pit
Somewhere, upon His breast,
Souls shall in silence speak the Word
and rest.
Helen N. Carey IN Boston Transcript.
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HEAVEN.

oh, heaven is nearer than mortals think
When they look with trembling dread
At the misty future that stretches on
From the silent home Of the dead.
IT'S no lone isle on the boundless main,
No brilliant, but distant, shore,
Where the lovely ones who are called
away
Must go to return no more.
No; heaven Is near us the mighty veil
Ofmortality blinds the eye,
That we cannot see the angel bands
On the shores of eternity.
The eye that shuts in dying hour
Will open the next in bliss:
The welcome will sound in the heavenly
world
Ere the farewell Is hushed in this.
We pass from the clasp of mourning
friends
To the arms of the loved and lost,
And those smiling faces will greet US there
Which on earth we have valued most.
Yet oft In theIhours of holy thought,
To the thirsting soul Is given
That power TO pierce through the mist OF
sense,
To the beauteous scenes of heaven.
Then very near seem its gates,
And sweetly its harpings fail,
Till the soul Ii restless to soar away,
And longs for the angels call.
I know when the silver cord is lOosed,
When the veil Is rent away,
Not long and dark shall the passage be
To them realms of endless day.
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The Army OF Arab Pasha.

The rebel forces are distributed as
follows: One division at Abassieh,
outside Cairo, two regiments at
Cairo, two divisions at Kafr Dowar,
5000 infantry at Rosetta, and 1000 at
Damietta, the total amounting to
$4,000 men. Each of the above
named divisions consists of four
regiments of infantry, numbering
$50 men each; two of cavalry, 800
strong, and one of artillery, COM
prising 700 men and Sc guns.
A body of 1000 civilians, taken
from the Nile works, are engaged in
the trenches at Kafr Dowar. In the
latter place the rebels have formed
three lines of defence, stretching
from the railway to the canal, the
second being twenty yards behind
the first, and the third 500 yards in
rear of the second. Arab Pasha is
said to hold in readiness battalion
of infantry, battery of artillery and
two squadrOns of cavalry to check
any advanced parties sent forward
by the English.
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Dares Not subject Himself
Washington Star. ]


There is but one construction to
be put upon the failure of the star
route defense to place Brady upon
the stand. They dared notl After
the collapse of his truly-willing but
inadequate witnesses, it was impera-
lively necessary-if any answer was
to be made to the crushing and I'M
cOntradicted testimony of ex-Post-
master General James, ex-Attorney
General MacVeagh, Mr.. Walsh and
other government witnesses-that
he should take the stand and retrieve
the fortunes of the defense by sup
plying from his intimate knowledge
of star route affairs a convincing re-
futation of the damaging evidence
under which the star reuters were
buried His failure to come forward
as witness is accepted everywhere
as an admission that he had no evil
dence to give to meet the emergen-
cy, and that he dared not subject
himself to the questioning of the
prosecution i'll regard TO his star
route transactions.
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Senator CamerOn's Trousers.


Senator Don Cameron has the
reputation of being worth about
$4,000,000. Everyone credits him
with living with a liberality suitable
to his position as a man of wealth
and a supposed politica! leader. To-
day he created something of sensa-
ton in the senate when he leaned
over to talk to Senator Dawes. He
bent very low, and his soft, gray
coat, standing out straight, revealed
two threadbare spots the size of tea
cups, around the edges OF which
were unmistakable darns, adornIng
the broadest part of his tTous-
ers. Senators could hard
ly believe what was SO
plainly presented to their gaze.
SAID one: "Can it be that Cameron
is hard up and cannot afford new
pair of trousers? wonder if all his
money has gone into the Pennsylva-
MIA campaignw Another suggested
wickedly that Mr.. Hubbell, who was
present, should take some of the po-
litical funds collected by HIM and
present Mr.. Cameron with a new
pair of trousers. 1t was urged that
this would be perfectly legitimate
expenditure, because it would ena-
BILE Mr.. Cameron to present at least
a respectable appearance if chance
should place him upon the stump in
Pennsylvania this fall.