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The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-03-23
THE SPORTING WORLD.

Splan says Rarus is a better horse than
either st Julian or Maud 5.
Madame Tobias says she can beat AMY
Howard alking heel and toe SIX days.
Weston, the pioneer of long-dIstance
pedestrians, is lecturing on temperance
In England.
At Sutton, England. recently, VIM. G.
George ran ten miles over a rough course
in 1h. 3m.
Hazael claims he can travel 625 miles in
142 hours, and AL. Smith is confident he
can do so.
Thatcher, the English walker, recently
beat the three-hour walking record at
London England.
Mr.. w. X. Vanderbilt has recently of
cred as much as $4,000 for the peerless
horse Sensation.
The pugilistic mania is increasing,
Matches are being arranged in nearly
every state in the Union.
Archie McComb and Richard B. Mathi-
SON are to run 100 yards ut Butte, Mon
tana, for 81 900, in April.
Hanlan is the favorite in the betting in
England, and odds of 3 to l are offered
that he will beat Boyd.
James Keenan's offer backed I'D with
$500, to match DrIscoll to walk Meagher
of Boston fifty miles for 81 200 side, has
not yet been accepted.
Dwyer Brothers. race-horse, Joe BLACK.
burn, full brother to Luke Blackburn, is
said to be flyer. 1t is claimed he can
run mile with plates on in 1:42.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-03-23

LAWRENCE, MASS, March H.
The strike of the ring of spinners in
the Pacific mills is increasing. To-
day, after they had received their
pay, 800 of those employed in the
lower Pacific mills left the mills,
stopping eighty-seven frames They
allege, as the cause, that the Pacific
authorities ordered the boarding
house keepers not to board the
strikers from the upper mills. Mat
tiers are at fever heat, and a general
strike Is feared in other depart
ments. The entire cotton spinning
force for the Central Pacific mills
has struck, stopping $500 spindles.
A meeting of the strikers, held at
the city hall, was addressed by Hec-
tor Mccoy, editor of the Catholic
Herald. Great excitement prevails
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-03-23
MISCELLANEOUS.
Small pox is spreading at New

Small pox is spreading at New
Orleans.
The rival dry goods houses in
Chicago are selling bleached cOttons
two cents below the New York
wholesale prices.
Mayor Means, of Cincinnati, will
probably be the Democratic candi-
date for congress this fall i'll Butter
worth's district.
A new steamship, called the Arch
imede, has been added to the Medi-
terranean fleet between New York
and the south of Europe.
1t is reported that twenty-eight
thousand shares of the Illinois Cen
trail have been registered in the
name of the Rothschilds.
A bill has passed the Iowa senate
exempting from attachment the
sewing machine of any seamstress
who makes q livelihood Herewith.
The Berlin correspondent of the
London Times denies the report
that Prussian spy had been arrest
ed at the railway station of Bret
taux, a suburb of Lyons.
Leon Say, the French minister of
finance, has submitted to the cham
bers demand for a grant of $780,
600 francs to defray the expenses Of
the expedition to Tunis for the first
quarter of 1882.
1t is reported that the cable COM
panies have made a twenty-five
year contract with the Western
Union, and that the London pool
buys one hundred thousand shares
of Western Union stock.
Young Astor, who was defeated
for congress by Roswell p. Flower,
and who was opposed by all the
leading newspapers in New York,
is said to be about starting jour-
nal of his own in that city, in oppo-
sition to the New York Herald.
A dispatch from Troy, New Y ork,
of the 10Th, says: The stove manH-
facturers have declined to accede
to the demand for an increase of
wages made by the equaliziug COM
mittee of the moulders' union, and
it is feared long strike will follow
among the thousands of men en-
ployed in the stove foundries here.
The committee of the French
chamber of deputies has adopted
report in favor of a bill with
prOviso that the system for the in
spection of American pork upon its
Importation shall be re-established.
The report will be submitted to the
chamber tomorrow.
The Berlin correspondent of the
st. James Gazette says: Russian
representative at German courts
have been instructed to tender to
the respective governments to
which they are accredited demon
strative assurances that the car is
firmly resolved to maintain AMIGA
BILE relations with Germany.
BY the death of Miss Sarah Burr,
heir for life of her deceased sisters
property, in New York, recently, the
enormous sum OF $3,OOO,000, except
few small legacies, will be divided
among various benevolent and reli-
giOus societies, chiefly among the
charitable institutions of the Pro-
testant Episcopal church in that city.
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WILLIAMS, RANCH.
Wheat-Weather--
ism-COurIs.

Special Telegram.
WILLIAMS RANCH, March H.
Wheat in this section is looking fine.
We have had fine rains of late,
making good seasons = for corn
planting, which is now in full pro.
gress.
Cattle are entering the spring in
nearly as good condition as they
were in the fall.
Williams Ranch is improving in
business.
John Barleycorn made an attack
on the town with a heavy charge on
Saturday night, two shots taking
effect in the hotel building, one ball
lodging in chair frame inside the
house. Morality and rowdyism
are contending for the mastery
with morality in the ascendency, and
with little more aid from the civil
officers the good people will be able
to hold the fort. District court is
coming OIL, and the people are look
ing for reinforcements from that
Quarter,
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-03-23
DALLAS.
Interesting Gossip from the North
Texas Hub.

Special Tclegraml
DALLAS, March 17.-H. NJ. Hoxle
and party arrived from st. Louis at
five p. M, en- route to Ell Paso ON a
tour of inspection. A. A. Talmage
and party who arrived from Waco
a couple of hours earlier, accom-
panied Mr.. Hoxie westward.
The jury of inquest on the fire in
COIN, & Baum's store on the morn
ing of the fourteenth instant, after
three days deliberation, report
that the fire was the work of I'M
known parties to cover up some
mercenary motives. They claim a
loss of $1,000; insured to the
amount of $4,000. The insurance
agents say they will refuse to pay
on well-founded suspicion.
The district court was occupied
all day hearing the application o
X. e. Cowart for release on habeai
corpus. The interest was univer
sal and the courthouse ha
been packed all day. The cour
held Cowart in the sum of $500
which bond he gave and was set a
Ii berry. His attorneys say they arr
ready for the trial at the presen
term of the court.
Citizens OF all nationalities OBJ
served st. Patrick's Day by swear
ing of the Green"
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-03-23
THE soUTHERN STATES.

A morgue is being built at Savan-
nah, the first institution of that
kind in that city.
Eighty-five thousand tons of fer
tiliZers were sold in North Corolina
for the year 1881.
Six thousand pounds of iron is be-
ing used to barricade the doors and
windows of the Marietta Jail.
A receiver was appointed at Rich
mond last week for the Virginia
Protection Insurance company.
AT Dexter, Tennessee, last week,
the ground fruze, with the peach
trees all in bloom and the grass
growing.
Seven southern states do more
shaking and use more quiniue than
all the rest of the union put to-
gether.
Silk culture in Louisiana has of
late become thriving industry, and
to-day promises an abundant pro-
ductiOn.
Capt. S. F. Nunnalee, of the Tus-
calOosa Gazette, is spoken of as a
suitable man for secretary of the
state of Alabama.
The Nashville World saws the diff
ficulty between the Knoxville edi-
tors, Wallace and Rule, has been
amicably settled.
A copy of the Bible, printed in
London, in 1854, has been received
by the Tennessee Historical society,
from lady in Texas.
In 1865 Florence, S. c., contained
only ten houses. 1t now has a pop
ulation of over 1000, and last year
over 100 houses were built
A Florida paper says that large
quantities of blind mosquitoes are
caught in the swamps of that state
for fertilizing purposes.
Atlanta has first-cIass hotel for
colored people, kept by one of the
race, at which the chief article in
the game line is baked 'possum.
A Manatee, Fla, man, writing a
letter to New York on the first of
February, gets a reply by due course
of mail promptly on the first of
March.
Nearly every day from 100 to $50
persons pass through Chattanooga,
going west. They are from western
North Carolina and southeast Ten
nessee.
An old negro in Little Rock had
the savings of lifetime, 1928, stolen
from him last week. The thief dug
the money up from the old mans
back yard, where he kept it buried.
The surveyors sent by Ben Butler
to look after his tract of 100000
acres of land in Pocahontas county,
West Virginia, were set on by the
inhabitants of the county and run
over into Virginia.
A COW in Florence, Ala, disap-
peared mysteriOusly two weeks ago.
Two weeks afterward she was found
in cotton shed wedged in between
two bales, where she had stood the
whole time, thin and nearly blind.
Special Revenue Agent Lancaster
has been making an investigation of
the office of SlOss, United States
marshal of the Northern district of
Alabama, and reports the admins
tration rotton from beginning to
end.
VIM. Miles, living near Lynnville,
Tenn, was sent to the penitentiary
several years ago. While there his
wife obtained a divorce and married
again. Enraged at her want of fidel-
ity, he vowed vengeance, and has
just achieved it by marrying the
daughter of his wife's second hus-
band, or his own step-daughter. He
thus becomes his own step-son, his
wife's brother, his own father, son of
his old wife and brother to his father
in-law.
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Convict Rum over and KILLED.

COLUMBIA, S. c., March H.
Brooks llolcombe, colored convict,
sentenced at the Lawrens court to
the penitentiary for one year for
burglary and larceny, escaped from
Pringle's phosphate works on Ash
ley river last Thursday, and this
morning a passenger train on the
South Carolina railroad ran over
him near Fort Moltke, cutting his
head off and otherwise mutilatiu g
him. His shaekles were still on.
When discovered by the engineer
he was lying face down between the
wheels and is supposed to have been
already dead.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-03-23
KILLED by a Gazing tunnel.

ST. JOSEPH, Mo-, March II Yes
terday party of boys, aged from
eight to seventeen years, belonging
to well-to-dO families. to amuse
themselves dug a tunnel in a hill
side, on the outskirts of the city,
working in reliefs. Five of them
were left by their companions at 3
o'clock, and when the others re-
turned al o'clock the tunnel was
found to have caved in on the work.
ers, and the entire five were dead
when extricated. The tunnel had
been dug ten feet into the hill, was
several feet wide, and had no sup
ports overhead
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-03-23
A NonpIussed michigandor.

When the war broke out. North
Carolina was called the union state
of the south, because the people
were very generally in favor of the
government. IL has been discov-
cred by the rebel archives now I'M
der examination at Washington,
that up to 1861 she never cast more
than 12l, 900 votes, but that she gave
$4,000 rebels TO fight the union. If
a union state of the south shows
such a record as that, il is enough to
make one shudder to think what il
might have done If it had sympa-
thized with the rebellion.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-03-23
Florence ID. West.

The following poetic tribute, to the
memory of the gifted lady whose name
heads this paragraph, is taken from the
AmardRh for March. The lines wert
written by lady of this city, not I'm.
known to literary fame:
Springtime will restore the blossoms
That have fed from hill and plain;
Spring will welcome back the minstrels
To our forest hills again;
But the hriRht one who has parted
From these mourning hearts OF ours,
VIII return no more to greet us
With the Ministries and the flowers.
Bear her lightly TO her slumbers,
Leave her-leave her to her rest;
Let the faded leaves Of autumn
Softly moulder on her breasti
Earthly cares no more disturb her,
Alllife's agony Is done.
She has passed deaths sea forever
Earth ls lest and heaven Is won.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-03-23

OLEoMARGARINE has been enjoy
ing q real boom. The scarcity of
the COW product has made an active
demand for the golden product, and
since tits much cheaper than butter
many of the hotels and boarding
houses furnish oleomargarine, with
which the bread and biscuits and
buckwheat cakes are oleomarga-
rined to the satisfaction of boasted
sensitive and cultured tastes.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-03-23
An Ar,,s,lc Son of ,he Fores,,

IJacksonVlIIe Letter IN Savannah Ntws.
l have recently been presented
with two drawings by Billy Co-ni.
pach-o, one of the two Seminoles in
attendance on the hate fair. They
represent a sloop and schooner
under full sail, aud are executed
with n nicely of touch and a scrupu-
lous fidelity as to details that are
really surprising. This untutored
son of the forest has true artistic
perceptions, and if his talent was
fortered might show abilities of no
mean order. The specimens have
been carefully put away for preser-
walton.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-03-23
Rackfnp RradIauph.

LONDON, March ia meeting of
the electors of Northampton has APP
proved Bradlaugh's conduct in the
house of commons, and passed reso-
lutions authorizing executive of the
Liberal and Radical union to sign
a petition to the house praying that
he be heard at the bar in support of
it's claim, of the right to be repre-
sented in the house by speech and
vote of the duly elected member.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-03-23
SAN ANTONIO.
Our Daily Budget from the Alamo
city.

Special Telegram.
SAN ANTONIO, March ia man
named w. G.. Sieckenus, proprietor
of tie Alamo House, died suddenly
this morning, between five aud six
o'clock. He had been ailing for
some time, but was better the last
day or two, aud on the morning
of his death felt exception
lily well. He was in bed at
the time of his death, and the only
indication of it was two heavily
drawn breaths. Death was caused
by aneurism of the aeta. The de-
ceased was forty five years old, a
native of Germany. He was buried
this morning.
st. Patrick's Day is not
much observed here. There was
high mass this morning, and the
Hibernians have ball tonight.
Tom Drake and o. P. Witt have
been released, the federal grand
jury having found no bill against
them.
The weather to-day is very warm
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-03-23

The woman suffrage question
does not trouble the people of
Texas, and the STATESMAN believes
that if the proposition were sub
mitted to the intelligent ladies of
the state, it would be defeated.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-03-23
SAN SABA.
Weather-Murder Cases Disposed
Of-Sent Up for Theft.

Special telegram
SAN SABA, March 1.-THE weather
is extremely hot; the thermometer
indicates summer here.
The district court will adjourn to-
morrow. Since my last special
three murder cases have been dis
posed of, as follows: VIM. Babb,
charged with the murder OF
one Wainwright, was permitted
a change of venue to McCulloch
county and placed under a three
thousand dollar bond.
Robinson, who was charged with
the murder of r. G. Dyer, was adj
mitted to bail by writ of habeas
corpus, under bond of two thousand
dollars.
In the case of Perkins, charged
with the murder of Watkins, the
case was continued, the prisoner
being admitted to bail in the sum
ofthree thousand dollars.
J.W. Ratliff, convicted of the theft
of horses, was sentenced to five
years in the penitentiary. The case
was appealed.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-03-23
IranIbaI HamlIn Mt n Bun-FIght.

Minister Hamlin, having somehow
strayed to a bull-fight at Madrid,
and, after watching the proceedings
for awhile, said: "Those fellows
don't know how to handle a bull.
Why, any farmers boy down around
Bangor would know enough to put
ring in the critters nose and hitch
a stick to 1t. Then they could lead
the beast around as handy as could
no
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-03-23
What the Testimony shows.

New ORLEANS, March T7.-Testi-
mony shows that Albert Weeks, aged
twelve years, was shot dead yester-
day by A. L. Wilde. He was walk
ing along the sidewalk with his lit
tie sisters, and not stealing Japan
plums as charged. Wilde was ar.
raigned to-day and remanded to
prison, without the benefit of bail
until Friday next, when examlna-
ton will take place.
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Gin Mill Burned.

New HAVEN, CONN, March H.
Early this morning the Konoed's
gin distillery at Grapevine Point
was totally destroyed. Loss, 1885,
900; insurance, $4,000. An hour
later while the engines were still
busy at the Konoed's distillery the
Cavalry Baptist church was burned,
causing loss of about $4,000; in
surance $47,150 Both fires are sup
posed to be incendiary.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-03-23
PRESS OPINIONS.
TOO MANY ELECTIONS.


Sherman Courier: There are en-
tirely too many elections in Texas.
With the general elections which
occur at stated intervals, and the
many special elections, the masses
are kept in constant turmoil and
strife, very much to the detriment
of the substantial interests of the
country at large.
THE MOST NATURAL THING IN THE
WORLD.
Galveston Journal: The Austin
Weakly's cut representing the Old
Alcalde posing on the dome of the
projected capitol, aud holding a
fifteenth amendment to his veneer
able bosom, is a capital drawing,
true to nature-the Niger baby, we
mean-and il seems to be the most
natural thing in the world for that
paper to father such efforts.
LOCAL OFFICERS.
Brennan Banner: Some people
care little about the city offices, and
SO cast their votes carelessly. The
Bolton journal says they should re-
member that in many things the
local officers affect US more directly
than the state officers. The Journal
is right. Good local officers should
be elected.
A PROBABLE CLASH.
Tyler Courier: 1t begins to look
like there will be q clashing of in
terests between the agriculturalists
and stockmcn OF Texas, and il may
develop at the extra session of the
legislature. An effort will doubt
less be made to lease the public
lands to the stockmen. Ii the lease
is brought about of course it will
put an end to the settlement of these
lands.
WILL BE APoLoGIZED FOR.
Houston Age: The San Antonio
Express is utterly astonished to find
in the San Antonio EUening Light
an editorial expressing liberal sen-
timents toward the south. The edi-
torial appeared while Mr.. Newcomb,
the editor, was absent in Washing
ton city. 1t will probably be apollo
gized Tor, and explained when he
returns to his sanctum.
DRIFT OF OPINION.
San Antonio Express A strong
effort will be made at the special
session of the legislature to redis-
trict the state for congressman and
state senators and representatives,
provide buildings for the use of the
state made necessary by the de.
struction of the old capitol, and
then adjourn. Quite number of
representatives are said to favor
this idea. From present prospects
there is little likelihood of there be-
ing much time during thirty days
session for accomplishing more than
is Indicated above.
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Under the caption "a Blessing in
Disguise" the Baltimore Sun says
with short crops and debts, Geor-
gia farmers are said to be. greatly
distressed, so that they cannot plant
the usual acreage of cotton. They
cannot buy guano for the crop nor
wait for the late returns, and are
driven to the necessity of raising an
unusual quantity OF provisions. 1t
is thought that the production of
small grains this year will be twice
as large as in 1880, and larger than
ever before In the history of the
state, and some say that il the dis
aster last year gets the farmers out
Of their cotton planting rut into
mixed crop raising II viii be q real
blessing in disguise"
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No Exfra Session.

RALEIGH, N. c., March 17.-Coun.
Gil of state, at its meeting this noon
by an even vote, declined to take
action with reference TO calling an
extra session of the legislature
AS the governor can make a call
only on their advice, the legislature
will not he convened.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-03-23
Connecticut to Suffering Califor-

SENATOR Hawley's Hartford Courant.l
II is not probable that the new
watchword of unenlightened self
ishness, "the Chinese must CO." will
cost the country as dear as "damn
the niger" did. But IN one way
or another, we shall have to pay for
it, and psy roundly, too.
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Failures for the week.

New YORK, March 1.-THE fail
ures for the week are reported by
R. q. Dun & Co. as 1873, as follows :
Eastern states, II; western states, 3S;
middle states, %; southern states,
35; Pacific states, IS, and New York
city 6. The failures in New York
have little significance.
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Another of the Rand Missing.

WATsEKA, ILL.,, March III. w.
johnson, of Sheldon, editor of the
Gazette newspaper, prominent
Republican politician, and an ap.
plicant for the Sw edish consulship,
is charged with having forged COM
mercial paper to the extent of sew
eral thousand dollars, and has left
the country.
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germany and Austria Combined.

LONDON, March 1.-THE Vienna
correspondent of the st. James Ga
zette says the general understanding
between Germany and Austria, to
Jointly resist Russian attack on
either power, has lately resulted in
an arrangement OF details for imme-
date action if necessary.
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our Thrivlnr Merehan, marlne.

providence Press.
An American ship recently ar
rived in foreign port where the
consul was in weak health, and the
shock killed him instantly.
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Feeling the Public pulse.

SO great were the Democratic
gains In the late New York elections
that John Kelly's combination with
the Republicans may be regarded as
disapproved of by the public.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-03-23
No Helping Hand for John.

lFhhauciphla hecoru.I
There was official lime in plenty
and department water without
stint, but no hand was ready TO mix
the whitewash that should gloss
over John Sherman's connection
with the treasury contingent fund
cfao1
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-03-23
A Point Overlooked by Congress,

IWIHIHWspuIt NNAetIe anu buIIctIn.I
The preamble to Senator Miller's
anti-Chinese bill comes in direct
hostility with one of the cherished
principles of a republican govern
ment.
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r. q. Dun reports the failures for
The past week at 1873. OF these the
southern states contributed thirty
five.
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How Would BIenniaI Sessions
mol
Boston Herald.l

How would biennial sessions OF
congress do? The introduction of
more than 5000 bills aud resolutions
during the past three months, must
be out of ali proportion to the ne
cessities OF the country, and the
time given to fifty per cent. of them
must be virtually wasted.