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The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-01-19
WASHINGTON NOTES.

The President has recognized
Friedrich Wilhelm Meyer as vice
consul of Austria-Hungary, at New
York.
The acquisitions for stamps from
postmasters, one day last week, at
the postoffice department., aggre-
gated over $640,O00. This is the
largest issue in one day in the his
tory of the service.
Marshal Jack Wharton, of Louisi-
ana, whose term of Office has ex-
pired, will be reinstated.
Jerome J. Kinds. postoffice in
spector, recently engaged in work
ing up the star-route cases, has re-
signed.
The payroll of the temporary
force i'll the postoffice department
being about $4,000 more than the
legal allowance, Postmaster General
Eowe announces his intention of re-
ducing the clerical force.
A general court-martial has been
appointed to meet at David's Island,
New York harbor, on the 18th inst,
or as soon thereafter as practicable,
for the trial of such prisoners as
may be brought before it,
A statement having been pub
lished that Judge French has in Of
flee three sons and enough near rel
atives to foot up an annual salary of
81, 800, the judge says that he has
but two sons, one of whom has
never received dollar from the
government except as volunteer
in the Union army, and that there
are but two of his relatives, a
nephew and a niece, who are in the
government service through his
recommendation.
A caucus of the members of the
house from the Mississippi valley
has been proposed for the purpose
of considering means to procure leg
lslation for the Improvement of the
Mississippi river. 1t is asserted
that majority of the commerce
committee is inimical to Mississippi
river Improvement, and the object
of this movement is to take from
that committee Jurisdiction over
that subject and have it referred to
q special committee.
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every other known complaint.
Hundreds of people die daily,
whose burials are authorized by a
physicians certificate of "Heart DIS
ease" "Apoplexy," Paralysis"
"Spinal Complaint" "Rheumatism,"
pneumonia" and other common
complaints, when in reality it was
Brigbt's Disease of the Kidneys.
Few physicians, and fewer people,
realize the extent of this disease or
its dangerous and insidious nature.
1t steals into the system like thief,
manifcsts its presence by the COM
monest symptoms. and fastens itself
upon the constitution before the
victim is aware. 1t is nearly as
hereditary as consumption, quite as
common and fully as fatal. Entire
families, inheriting it from their an
cestors, have died, and yet none of
the number knew or realized the
mysterious power which was remov-
ing them. Instead of common symp-
toms it often shows none whatever,
but brings death suddenly, and as
such is usually supposed to be heart
disease. AS one who has suffered,
and knows by bitter experience
what he says, l implore every one
who reads these words not to neg
lect the slightest symptoms OF Kid
ney difficulty. Certain agony and
possible death will be the sure
result of such neglect, and no one
can afford to hazard such chances.
am aware that such an unquali-
fed statement as this, coming from
me, known as L am Throughout the
entire land as practitioner and lee
turer, will arouse the surprise and
possible animosity of the medical
profession and astonish all with
whom am acquainted, but l make
the foregoing statements based upon
facts which L am prepared TO pro-
duce and truths which 1 can sub
stantiate 10 the letter. The welfare
of those who may possibly be
sufferers such as l was, is an ample
inducement for me to take the step
/ have, and if can successfully warn
others from she dangerous paths
which | once walked, l am willing tO
endure all professional consequent
ces. j. Il. HENION, Nj. ID.
ROCHESTER,, N. y, Dec. 80, 1881
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Memphis appeal: Mr.. May, a
young Shelby county farmer, has
been successful in the manufacture of
ensilace, a species of food for cattle
that in winter takes the place of the
clover of summer, and is more nutri-
tious. The method adopted by Mr..
May was simply to cut the pea-yine
down, chop it and press it into pit
forty feet long, ten feet broad and
ten feet deep. In this pit he made
fifty tons of ensilage, with which he
proposes to fatten sixteen head of
cattle for three months. Mr.. Mays
example should stimulate every
farmer in this section of the coun-
try. Immense Quantities of hay and
corn are sold IN this market every
winter, the money paid for which
might be put to some other use II
only ensilage were made for cattle.
The best stock raisers recommended
1t, and practical farmers at the west
are loud in its praise.
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spccial 10 DC statesman.

GALVESTON, january 13.-This
afternoon a fire broke out in the
sample rooms of Jemison, Groce 81
Co., in the handsome four story
brick structure of Moody &c Jemi-
son, corner of Strand and Twenty
second streets. The fire depart
ment responded promptly, but the
streams made very little impression
on the flames. The building was
erected some ten years ago by
Moody & Jemison, at a cost of
one hundred thousand dollars. 1t
was occupied as follows:
First floor, G. NJ. Peare e. Co.,
wholesale grocers.
Second floor, w. l.. Moody & Co.,
and Jemeson Grace 81 Co., cotton
factors, and J. p. Kindred, real es-
tate agent.
Third floor, supreme courtroom,
courtroom of the court of appeals,
and commissioners of appeals, and
the law library belonging to Gal
weston county, which is valued at
$4,000. A portion OF the records
of the supreme court Of
the state were saved, bat
all of the records of the court of
appeals, save two, were lost. All of
the furniture of the courtroOms and
the various offices in the building is
a total loss, the dense smoke which
penetrated the rooms rendering it
impossible for them to be rescued,
and the occupants had to flee to save
being sufIocated.
From this structure the flames
soon spread to the large three-story
brick building occupied by the
wholesale dry goods house of
Greenlieve, Black q Co., which was
soon reduced to ashes. The fire
next communicated with the
building occupied by Miller
& English, wholesale groeers, which
succumbed to the flames in a short
while. By heroic work on the part
of the firemen, the flames were here
checked. The loss is variously esti-
mated at from four to six hundred
thousand dollars. All parties are
as pretty well covered by
Insurance. One man received seri-
Gus injuries by the falling walls, but
no lives lost.
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WotcIman: The new associate ed
itor, Il. M: Wander Hurst, says: 1
simply have to say TO the readers of
the Wdtcltman that i am duly inn
pressed with the weighty RESPONSE
bility that rests upon me, in assum-
ing the co-editorshIp of this journal;
and while thank my senior for the
leniency he invokes for me, from the
readers of this paper and the press
of the state, | desire IL distinctly
understood that L have sun
sheathed"-. my sword, i'bsred" my
breast, and shall ask for no "quar-
ters." i do not mean that the above
shall he taken as ~threat," nor do
1 mean TO say that am "dragging~
my coat tail around, expecting some
one TO Hstep upon" it, but | do mean
to say that will handle "men and
measures without gloves" when ne
cessity require it. Having said thus
much, l make my best bow to the
readers of the Wdtchman and the
public, and at once enter upon the
duties before me. f
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THE POLITICAL CLOCK.
How the Hands Point ON the Aus
tin Dial.

For some days past rumors have been
rife in the city with regard to proposed
changes in Austin official circles. Re
port had il that Col. j. @. DeGress was
TO be displaced as postmaster at Austin,
TO be succeeded probably by Wash
Jones Democrat, in Difference to the
proposed inlention of the Hon. George
Washington to Mahoneize Texas This
rumor was generally circulated, and be
lleved by many to be true.
Colonel DeGress having returned
from his visit TO Washington, 9
STATEsMAN reporter called on the gen
tleman yesterday for the purpose
of pushing inquiries upon the sub
ject. The commissioner of the STATES
MAN.was courteously received, and bad
his inquiries answered without reserva
ton. When the colonel was reminded
of the rumors referred to above, he re
piled that there was not a word of truth
In them, and that il any change in the
postmastership here is contemplated he
Is not appraised of the fact. He said
further that these rumors probably had
their foundation in the mere fact
that he had been to Washington
on n 4visit while the actual
truth Of the matter Is, he went
there solely for the purpose of securing
necessary furniture for the office, and 70
endeavor, If possible, to induce the de
partmcnt TO allow him additional help in
the way Of clerks.
These facts, in connection with this
huge movement, give pretty fair Illus
tretion Of the progress of the Wash
Jones campaign in Texas W
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ODDS AND ENDS.

A yellow crow was recently shot
in Kentucky.
A white robin was recently cap
tured in Gaysport, Pennsylvania.
A ten-ounce baby has just ap.
peared in Maryland.
There is a young lady in Keokuk
Iowa, who is six feet four inches
tall.
A perfectly white deer was killed
few days ago on jackson river In
Virginia.
There is man in Macon with q
pair of the most remarkable eyes we
Lave heard of. Their PECULIARLY
lies in the fact that one of them goes
to sleep before the other does, and
consequently one wakes up in the
morning sooner than the other.
A pair of OK horns sent from
Texas by Mr.. Mcknight to Mr.. La
fayette Smith, of Rutherford county
Tennessee, measure six feet six
inches from tip to tip straight across
Ezekiel Smith and wife, two aged
residents of Huntington, Vermont
died at the same minute a few nights
ago. They lay down in the after
noon, apparently in their usual
health. Their daughter entering
the room later in the evening found
them both dying.
A Nebraska girl has just COM
pleted a patchwork quilt which is
composed of 1856 hexagonal pieces
of calico, each one not much larger
than silver quarter, and contains
1900 different specimens of calico.
The carrier pigeon that is valued
at $500 must be fine bird. Yet
there are several such OH exhibition
at the pigeon and poultry show re-
Gently opened at the Crystal Palace,
London. Some of these birds are
said to have found their way from
Rome to Antwerp, distance OF
about 700 miles III two or three days
stopping, too, OH the way to gather
food. t..... a..I
A party of ladies and gentlemen
were sailing on the Potomac, near
Piney Point, when one of the ladies
felt her hat jerked from her head,
and, turning around, saw it in the
jaws of q shark. The fish was at
tracted by a long ribbon hanging
over the side of the boat, agd luck
lily took the hat and not the head.
George Andrus, an extensive
farmer of Gogoac prairie, near Bat
tie creek, Michigan, has been accus-
toned TO salt his cattle regularly
every Sunday morning at the barn
yard during the hot weather, and,
although their pasture is long dis
lance away, they never miss Sunday,
and come up the lane believing.
After they receive the salt they re-
turn to the pasture lot, and never
make the mistake of coming down
on the wrong day.
Franklin Yarberry, of Habersham
county, Georgia, is sixteen years
old, about four feet high, body small
and deformed in almost every way.
Upon this trail body is head TWEEN
ty-nine and half inches in circum-
ference, which is constantly in mo-
ton from side to side. The BOY
knows his mother and some other
persons, tries at times to sing, and
even makes an effort 10 talk. There
is not another such human being on
earth, we are quite sure.
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Doctoring by Telephone.

A physician of North Adams was
called by telephone, about O'Clock
at night, from Briggsyille, two miles
away. A child was suffering with
Group. The night was dark and
stormy, and the doctor found moth
ing pleasant in the contemplation of
the trip, He called the Briggsville
house in which. the little sufferer
lay, and required the parents TO
bring it to the telephone transmit
ter. This was done. The child
coughed its croupy cough, and the
doctor listened intently to every
sound which came from his patient.
He prescribed remedy, and one of
the members of the family prepared
and administered it. The relief was
immediate and recovery rapid
Hartford Post.
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GEORGETOWN.
District COurt-Rain.


[Specialto the Statesman
Z GEORGETOWN, Jan. 12.-In the dis
trict court to-day there were the follow.
ing convictions:
Black Hardeman was convicted in two
cases; first, for theft of horse, five
years in the penitentiary; second, theft
of cattle, four years.
Hardeman lived near DaYilla, in Mi
lam county, and his parents are highly
respected. He will appeal his case.
Robert Hooker plead guilty to charge
of theft, and was given two years in the
penitentiary.
Much rain has fallen here, and the
roads are almost impossible.
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ROIE,S RASCAL.
Minute Description of a Fellow
Who is Wanted.


Who is Wanted.
ROME. GA, January 13.-Five hun
dred dollars reward is offered by
the city marshal of Rome, Ca, for
the delivery of man filling the fol-
lowing description: Height five
feet, six or seven inches; form,
rather STOPPING; fair beard, and
features full; complexion, slightly
sallow; eyes, spotted hazel, rather
small eyeiids, drawn close down,
rather squint in expression and
a crows foot in each corner has a
scar about half an inch long upon
his upper lip, near the centre; teeth
irregular with upper lip slightly pro.
jectlng; when talking his voice low
and hesitating, nose rather fiat and
indented as if a cartilage had been
taken out, making his face dissipated
in appearance, perhaps the effect OF
scrofula. His manner is restless and
uneasy, exhibiting Ignorance and
simplicity, asking many questions
and has peculiar way of answer
ing with the mouth closed. He
had ON, when here, slightly broad
brimmed draD-colored hat, green
Ish-blue frock coat, rather short in
the skirts, with a velvet collar. The
coat was rather worn il appearance
and faded. He did a small cotton
business in Oxford, Alabama, under
the name of b. III. Clymer.
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Moro RniIroad Iron.

Twenty-Five car loads of iron for the
Austin and Northwestern railway arrived
yesterday, and about the same amount
the day previous. The bad weather is
preventing the commencement of track
laying, but it will begin as soon rs the
mud clears away. Everything is in
readiness for rapid prosecution of work,
and but for the unfavorable weather
several miles of track would now be in
position.
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Rendiusted Virginin.

RICHMOND, Va, Jan. 13.-The gen
eral assembly to-day elected the fol-
lowing officers by a strict party vote
Secretary of the commonwealth, w
G. Elan; treasurer, D. r. Rievely
register of land Office, John NJ
Peterborough superintendent OF
public printing, r. f. Weller super
intendent of public instruction, r
r. F. Orr; they being the nominees
of the Readjuster caucus.
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The celebrated Mercer colony case
comes up this morning in the United
States court, before Hon. Don A. Par
dee, circuit judge. This promises TO be
one Of the most extensive chancery suits
ever entertained by the courts of Texas.
Gen. VIM. Preston, complainant, who
is now IN the city, is accompanied by
Mr.. John Mason Brown, who, together
with Messrs Hancock & West, will con-
duct Gen. Preston's side Of the case.
The state will be represented by Messrs.
Peeler & Maxey, Sam A. Wilson and w.
P Gaines
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NINErx-NINE YEARS.



Yesterday, In the United States court,
Grigsby, one Of the parties who robbed
the mail in I.ampasas county, on the 17tl
OF last September, was placed on trinl
and found guilty. The penalty for his
offense is life imprisonment in the pent
Tertiary, and that sentence, accordingly,
win be passed upon him.
The readers OF the STATESMAN are fa-
miliar with the circumstances of this
robbery. On the nth Of September
Gfigsby and Higgins stopped the mail, on
one Of The star routes in I.hmpasas county,
and took forcible possession Of the
pouches rs well as the watch and chain
OF the driver, Brown by name. 1t is not
In evidence that they got anything else
Of value. Another party, named Man
ming, was interested in the robbery, but
he turned states evidence and was re-
leased. Manning, It seems, agreed TO
furnish the other parties with gun,
provided they would divide with him
whatever booty might be the result of
the robbery. He furnished the gun and
received the watch chain stolen from
the driver IS his part. The three men
were arrested through the efforts of
Captain W Z. Smith, United States
postofiice detective and brought to Austin.
The trial yesterday lasted during the
day. The case was submitted to the
Jury at late hour in the afternoon, and
after being out short time a verdict of
guilty was returned. The prisoner was
prosecuted by District Attorney Evans.
and ably defended by Messrs. Peel &
Hewlett
0rigsby is evidently about twenty-five
years of are, very youthful in appear
ance. and, il is said, formerly bore a
good character in the community where
he resided Il is understood Higgins
trial will take place today. ~
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Three Buildings on the strand in
Ashes.
Supreme and Appellate Courts and
Commissioners of Appeals
Burned out.
Nearly all the Court Records De-
strOyed.
Full List of Losers, and Character
of their Business.
SALADO.
Fine Rains--Farm and stock Pros
pects--TeIegraphy
Especial to the Statesman

Especial to the Statesman.1
SALADO, Jan, 1--WE have had
fine rains for the past week, and
the small grain is looking finely in
this section of country. The farm
ers are looking forward for a large
harvest the coming year. The stock
in this section are looking remark
ably well, and the stock men say the
range is fine.
The telegraph Office at this place
which has been closed for several
months, was again opened to-day,
and Salado once more has commu-
nication with the outside world.
Business is quiet.
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WORD ON Aarer,l.lnr.

h Nothing is more common, when bust
ness grows dull after the holidays, than
for merchants, manufacturers and Others
to seek reduction of expenses by with
drawing their advertising patronage from
the newspapers. This, however, is avery
shortsighted policy. 1t Is almost like
taking in the sign board from enc's store
door or hiding ones light under bushel
Human nature is curious conglomera-
ton of motives and actions; and when q
man sees dealer looking gloomy, hears
him talking discouragingly, and finds
him dispensing with the ordinary signs
of thrift, he is apt to transfer his custom
to more prosperous looking neighbor,
pretty much on the principle that the
world fiocks to the rising and shuns the
sinking enterprise. Don'tcease advertis-
ing. s-sa
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RIENOUsKI, ONT, January 49,
Moran; the French Canadian, who
killed his wife in September last
was hanged i'll the Jail yard this
morning. The fall was nine feet
and death instantaneous, his neck
being broken and his head nearly
severed from the trunk. The body
was cut down two and half min.
utes after the fall, the trunk bleeding
DrOfuSelY
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Discoveries i'm Yucatan. .

Marshal P. Wilder, at the annual
meeting of the New England Gene
illogical society, read the following
private letter which he had received
from DR.. Augustus de Plongeon, the
Yucatan explorer.
II have discovered among the
ruins of Mayapan the gnomon used
by the astronomers of that city +; also
a complete Masonic temple with
symbols and hieroglyphics. have
found the portraits of founders of
cities, and interpreted the meaning
of certain ornaments that have been
misunderstood by other travellers.
L have ascertained that the key to
the ancient Maya alphabet is the
true one, and by its means Mrs. de
PIongeon and myself have been able
to read the names of the founders
aud those of the cities. L have found
that this alphabet contains letters
and characters belonging to the
Egyptians, Etruscan and Chaldean
alphabets, and also that the Maya
language is akin TO all the ancient
languages spoken by men in ages
long gone by. My studies have
caused me Go believe that the foun-
ders of the first Chaldean monarchy
were Mayas, and probably the peo-
pie who colonized Egypt and
brought civilization to that country.
You must, remember that the
Egyprian priests always pointed 10
the west, when asked concerning the
birthplace of their ancestry"
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Bondho1ders, business.

New YORK, January 13-The
second meeting of the holders OF
the North Carolina special tax bonds
was held yesterday and a resolution
was adopted expressing the inteu-
ton of the bondholders to invoke
the power of the United States
supreme court, and to request
this state to prosecute these claims
under the law, which it maintains OF
citizens against them. Another
state committee, with power to en-
plOy counsel to push the claims,
was also appointed.
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River Rising.

NASHVILLE, Tenn, Jan. Is. 1T
has been raining for the past week,
and the Cumberland river is rising
rapidly-a rise of five feet within
twenty-four hours. Backwater has
driven 200 families from their
houses. Hundreds of acres of land
within the city, are under water, and
mills and factories have been COM
PEELED to close. 1t is still raining,
and more damage is expected.
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Odd FelIow.hip.

The following officers of Capitol En-.
campment, No. II, l. o. o. F., were in.
stalled last night: VIM. j. Sutor, Chief
Patriarch; Oscar Newman, High Priest (;
L. e. Edwards, Senior Warden; George
Herzog, Scribe; T. l.. Wren, Treasurer,
Fred. Carleton, Junior Warden. George
Herzog is Representative to the Grand
Encampment, and Fred. Carleton, Alter
nate Representative.
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Liverpool cotton circular,

LIVERPOOL, Jan. 13.-This weeks
circular of the Liverpool Cotton
Brokers' association, says: Cotton has
been in increased demand with
hardening rates for American.
Some other descriptions slightly de-
clined. American, although freely
offered, advanced one-eighth, ex-
cepting for ordinary, which was
unchanged. In sea island there was
a small business at unchanged rates,
Futures opened dull, but shortly
hardened in tone and were generally
firm throughout the week.
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vanderbiIrs victory.

PHILADELPHIA, January 13.-The
Reading railroad election ended to-
day in triumph for the Gowen
party by 4S,S67 majority. At the
last moment all the shares held in
Vanderbilt's interest were voted for
Gowan, giving the above result.
This means strong rivalry against
the Pennsylvania Central.
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Democratic Harmony.

+ ALBANY, N. Y, January 13.-It
has finally been decided at an in.
formal conference of both wings OF
the Democracy that call foranotheI
caucus of each branch of the legis.
laturei will be issued to-day, the
caucuses to take place on Monday
evening, atwhich time the Tammany
delegation will be present. This
action was brought about through
the mediation OF prominent Demo
Gratis of the stale. =