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The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-08-10
THURSDAY, - AUGUST 10, 1882
GALL FOR PRIMARIES
I'm Precinct No. TO Elect Dele
gates 10 the Democratic
County Convention.

In pursuance TO the call Of the Demo
cratic executive committee, of Travis
county, a general county convention
will be held at the courthouse in Austin
at 10 o'clock m, Saturday, August 10,
1892, for the purpose of nominating the
various county officers.
hereby call primary meeting in pre-
cinct No. 3, to elect delegates to the said
county convention as follows
First ward-Sutor's store.
Second ward-Smith's opera house.
Third ward-City Hall.
Fourth ward-Bickler's Academy.
Fifth ward-Turner Hall.
Sixth ward--W eilbacher's store.
Seventh ward--Scholtz's Hall.
Eighth ward-Courthouse.
Ninth ward-Tegener's court room.
Tenth ward-W b. Walkers store.
The above ward meeting will be held
at 8 o'clock p. m, Saturday, August ~.
In addition to the foregoing city pri-
maries those Democrats residing in the
country portions of precinct No. 3 will
meet at 2 o'clock, p. m, Saturday, Au-
gust 10, at Pecan Spring School House,
Govalle School House, and Potter's Store
for the same purpose.
Besides participating in the general
business of the county convention, it
will be the duty of the delegates from
this precinct to meet together separately,
and nominate two candidates for justice
OF the peace and one for constable. For
convenience, this separate precinct con-
vention is called to meet at the same
place and on the same day, but one hour
earlier than the, county convention
proper: viz. at the courthouse at IL q.
m, August 10.
In selecting delegates the several pri-
maries are requested to elect exactly
double the number of delegates to which
each of them may be entitled votes in the
convention, taking the representation al
lowed by the last special county conven-
ton as a basis. Respectfully,
DUDLEY q. WooTEN,
Chairman Dem. Elk Com.
aus 2t Precinct No. 3, Travis Co.
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inasmuch as Galveston was looked to by
the entire state to see that no infectious
diseases should be introduced through
her ports. Pelican island lies in the bay,
just north of the city, and is too close for
the safety of the city should cases of con-
tagious disease be located there for treat
ment. The action of DIR. Swearingen was
considered an assumption of authority.
Mr.. Vidor offered the following resolu-
ton, which was adopted, only one vote
being cast in the negative:
In consideration of the fact that there
are no adequate accommodations at Peli-
can Island-no houses separate from such
quarters as the sick would occupy-this
board feels that passengers cannot be
taken care of, and that the safest course is
to require the passengers and crew to re-
main on the schooner and be treated by
physicians to be furnished by the board ;
therefore be it
ResoIued, That it is the positive in
stIuctions OF this board of health to
the quarantine officer to keep the schoon-
ner Henrietta IN strict quarantine, and
that she be prohibited from transferring
any of her passengers to Pelican Island.
The following telegram was received
and read:
NEW ORLEANS, August 4, 1882.
President Board of Health
City is in good sanitary condition. No
other case of yellow fever. No case of a
suspicious character since that of the
German, Strathar, on the first. During
the past five days only forty-two deaths
reported from all causes. The death rate
of New Orleans is lower than at any pre-
Vfous time in the past century. The city
authorities are working tremendously
with the board of health. We have ample
means, men and disinfectants. A heavy
force, with necessary medical officers and
sanitary police, are disintecting, fumigat-
ing and thoroughly cleansing the sixty
four blocks with Enhheim street in the
center. There are no indications or any
grounds for apprehension.
JOSEPH JONES, Pres't BID of Health.
This quieted the fears with reference
to New Orleans, and the board. after the
transaction of some unimportant business,
adjourned.
During the thunder storm this after
noon William Harris, of Brennan, was
struck by lightning and conveyed to the
hospital for treatment.
A difficulty occurred in the east end of
the city yesterday between two negro
boys, Willie Green and Willie Washing
ton. Green was cut very seriously in the
left side and now lies at the hospital in a
critical condition. Washington was jail
ed.
Thomas Brown drew a razor upon an
other negro, who broke his arm with a
club.
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POLITICAL NOTES.

The appointment of Stevens, &
Stalwart, as postmaster of Utica
New York, in place Of a Halfbreed
whose commission does not expire
under eighteen months, looks to the
people of New York state as if the
Halfbreeds must 60.
Florida, the land of flowers, the
garden Of Eden and paradise of the
present age, is booming this year
Splendid crops of all sorts, numer.
Gus new settlers, new railroads and
an immense amount of building are
all doing their part toward develop
ing this new-found Eldorado.
The Jacksonville Oouisiana) I'm.
ion says: We want men of such
ability as is possessed by Judah p
Benjamin, in the United States SEN
ate. When he has feathered his nest
IN England, he ought to return
south, take the oath of allegiance,
and resume his old place in the coun-
ellis of the nation.
The Houston Post, discussing the
chances of an independent move
ment, says of General Robertson:
she must be supported or induced
to withdraw, otherwise his votes
will certainly defeat the success of
the opposition"
General Robertson seems to be in
for the war.
The second circular asking for po-
litical contributions, which was sent
in 1880 to Pennsylvania officeholders
who did not quickly respond to the
first request, ended as follows: CAT
the close of the campaign we shall
place list of those we have not paid
in the hands of the department you
are in. Truly yours, John Cessna,
Chairman"
When the senate bill 70 retire
General Grant was reported III the
house Mr.. Mckenzie moved that it be
laid on the table, but the motion was
bill went to the committee on mill
tary affairs. The motion to retire
the same gentleman from politics
met with a better fate at the hands
of the Chicago convention, a happy
circumstance that has been COM
memorated on beaten brass.
1t is announced that Hon. Alexan-
der ii. Stephens will go into the
campaign during August and Sep
TENDER. He will visit all parts of
Georgia. and will speak from his
rolling chair. An exchange, noti-
cling this statement, remarks: ain
consideration of the fact that Mr..
Stephens will have but little if any
opposition, the spirit he shows in
making an active canvass, under
great physical disadvantages, is an
example worthy the consideration
of younger and healthier men,"
The Inter. Ocean of Chicago is call
ing Senator ingalls, hard names, and
thinks it would ~be well for his Kan
sas constituents to note how often
he votes with the Democrats" That
seems to be the objectionable sin OF
the Republican party. The organs
will permit its leaders to lie, defraud,
steal. levy blackmail and commit
divers other crimes, and even APP
piaud them so long as they act IN the
name of the party; but when one OF
them shows so weak a conscience
that he has to vote against party
measure of surprising monstroslty,
he is a man to be subjected to the
discipline of the Organization oil
moral ideas but immoral practices
Boston Post.
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SPECIAL TELEGRAMS
GEORGETOWN.
Conclusion of the Cook Trtal-Un-
familiar Scenes.
[srecial TO The statesmAn.l

[Srecial TO The Statesman.1
GEORGETOWN, August 4.-The jury in
the case of the state vs.. W. F. Cook,
chief train dispatcher on the Interna-
tional railroad at Taylor, on the night Of
the eleventh of July, after being out
forty minutes, returned with verdict of
not guilty. The jury was brought into
court by deputy sheriff and took their
stand before the judge. The verdict was
then read to the clerk by Hickory Jack
son, the foreman, who in firm and
calm tone read as follows: "The jury
find the defendant, W. F. Cook, not
guilty." The assent of the twelve jurors
being taken to this, there was shout
from the assembled crowd which shook
the old temple of justice from center to
circumference. The sheriff. and court
were powerless to restore quiet and
order and for several minutes the great
est tumult and confusion prevailed. The
shouts were communicated to the streets
and the rousing cheers that came up from
every nook and corner doubly vindicated
the defendant against the charge of the
crime imputed to him. Never before in
the history of the county was such inter-
est manifested in any case as was here
manifested by the good and law-abiding
citizens. W. F. Cook goes forth from
this place a indicated man, both by the
verdict of the jury and honest public
sentiment. The argument of Captain A.
S. Fisher was acknowledged by all to be
one of the most mastery triumphs of
legal skill and forensic eloquence.
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SCIENTIFIC ITEMS.

Venice is to have q cotton-spin-
ming factory with 100000 spindles,
to be in operation next year.
Achromatic lenses or microscopes
are now often made of a colorless
fiuor spar from Switzerland.
Bread made with sea water is re-
commended for patients suffering
from dyspepsia and scrofula.
During the past year about 1000
patents applying electricity in some
shape or manner, have been grant,
ed.
To bleach sheepskin parchment
white, expose the pieces TO strong
sunlight under glass in moist at
mosphere.
Twenty years ago it required
five tons of coal to make a ton of
iron rails. Now a ton of steel rails
may be produced from the ore with
half that quantity of coal.
To test soaps, dissolve twenty
parts in water and mix with five
parts of diluted sulphuric acid. The
tat rises to the top and the mineral
impurities tall to the bottom.
A foreign journal states that
chemically pure glycerine, when
taken in largo quantities, exerts a
poisonous effect on the system COM
parable to that produced by al
cohol.
Machines are now made which
will cut from q roll of wire pins of
the right length, head them, point
them, polish them, sort them out
with their points all one way and
stick them into papers, or rolls, fast
er than one can count.
1t is stated, according to Mr..
Lockyer, the English astronomer,
that the Egyptians have recorded
373 solar and 832 lunar eclipses. Mr..
Lockyer thinks the statement cor
rect, as the proportions are exact,
and the ecllpses of the sun and
moon would reach the respective
numbers given in period of twelve
or thirteen centuries.
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Opposed TO sham Reduction.
TCouriel-Iournal1

The little game of the Republic
cans is to pretend that the Demo
Gratis oppose tariff reduction be-
cause they have been criticising the
thin sham embodied in the tariff re-
duction bill of the protectionists.
The country can not be deceived by
any such play as that. The Demo-
Gratis emphatically demand real, not
sham reduction of tariff taxation.
1t is apparent that while some Re-
publicans, forced by the popular
cutlery against taxation, have pro-
posed to reduce the tax on steel
rails, other bills have been in
troduced to double the tax
ON cotton ties. The Demo-
Gratis demand that there shall
be tariff reduction all around
and they voice the demand of the
people in so doing. Not less than
$3.50, 100000 are collected from the
people in excess of the needs of the
government, and besides this, trib-
ute is exacted from the people by
the protected sect, amounting to
about $1,000, 100000 annually. The
Democrats propose to cut this ex-
tortion of, for the relief of hard
working Americans. They oppose
no real tariff reduction. They OPP
pose the wicked attempt to fool the
people by cutting down tariff taxes
a little on one or two articles and
doubling that taxation ON others,
thus increasing the tax burdens.
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THE PIANO.
A Reporters idea OF what IL Is
Made For.

1t requires time, patience and the gravi-
tating force of example to annihilate an
cient misapprehensions. Public opinion
Is alone the giant powder that can ex-
plode untenable theories. To illustrate
this idea we will draw from domestic
scenes. The old idea was that piano
was bought and brought TO the house
with much bruising of its beautiful legs
and much mutfied profanity on the part
of the draymen, 10 be played on. What
superlative nonsense What a stale and
preposterous suggestion What a relic
of barbaric ignorance. A piano to be
played on.
Thank the stars, the days of such stu
pidity are over, and the true, sole and
natural use ola piano is becoming gener.
ally understood. A piano is put into a
house for these simple purposes and none
other. Its top is designed as place for
photograph album, brilliant lamp
mat and a vase of flowers. Its rack
il Intended as rest for an open
book-an open book covered with
pictures Of farm land fences, upon
which are perched innumerable black
birds. Its stool is placed there for the
nervous young man in company to sit
on and whirl and writhe and wriggle.
Its richly-carved legs are sprawled out
for near-sighted and awkward people to
run against, and upon being solicitously
asked by the hostess if they are hurt, to
reply, with the hot tears of anguish
-rlshing into their eyes, s'Not in the
LEASE only just grazed it."
such are the legitimate uses of an able
lodied and well-limbed piano in its va
fious parts and proportions, As whole,
1.-THE piano serves two other and nobler
purposes. The one is it imparts charac-
ter, stateliness and an air Of affluance to
a household establishment. The proud
spirited host points to the rosewood in
strument and seems to say TO his assem-
bled guests "You behold that majes-
tic instrument II is grand, square and
upright. Is ii not symbolic Of its
owner-is he not grand, square and up
rightly Of course nobody can play on
it-not one Of his quartet Of daughters
but It Is 70 be remembered that il was
not put there to play on, and who would
ask its owner to put it to perverse usesY
But after all the real mission of plano
Ia the house is this-a place for young
lady 10 sit and Idly turn the leaves of the
Dlackbird book, and something for
young gentleman to hang over, and now
and then breathe softly in the young
lady's ear 10 let her know that he is
growing wesk, but he still lives. 1t is
an affecting sight to observe a young
man hang over a piano. Few young
men know how TO hang over piano in
good form. One must not bend too low,
as II he were looking for lost sleeve
button or a nickel, nor yet be too rigid
and innexible, like q wooden soldier on
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weather vane. A compromise of
these attitudes with little oblique lean
ing toward the stool and its occupant is
about the correct thing in piano hanging.
Now and then, by way of novelty, an
an attempt is made on grand social &C.
casion To actually play the piano. A
dismal young man leads an exhausted
young lady to the piano. An awful ST.
lence pervades the drawing room. The
somber young man slowly lifts the lid,
as If he was about to view the remains of
the last relative he had on earth. The
young lady wildly runs her fingers over
the keys-there is sob, a wall, a vocif-
Grafton of violent grief, a cry of COM
fortress despair and all is over. The
young lady sinks upon the nearest sofa,
young man lowers the lid, turns away
his head and is seen no more.
Verify the day of superstition and mis-
taken ideas is over, and the piano play
ing has passed away with the many fol-
lies and foibles Of our purblind and I'M
cultured ancestry.
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EDITORIAL NOTES.

Who would be a czar? One sec.
ton of the Russian nobility threaten
to depose him if he be not crowned
and Nihilists swear to kill him il
crowned.
Unless Sir Garnet Wolseley re.
covers from his illness England will
find difficulty In filling his place. OF
him great things are expected, but
even the average British general has
shone very brilliantly of late.
The Rugby colony is cheered by a
favorable summer and good crops,
and the grumblers have gone to the
rear for the present. Fruits are do
ing particularly well in quality as
we'll as quantity. The Rugbian is
convinced that the land has not been
rated high enough.
The Egyptians are fortifying all
their coast forts and preparing for a
possible attack from the English.
As the iron-clads will have to bonn
bard Rosetta and Damietta from a
distance of four miles, they will
scarcely be able to do as much dam
age as at Alexandria.
Robert Hutson, living a mile and
a half from Blountville, Tennessee,
says his dog recently killed fifty-one
snakes in one battle-one old moth
er snake and fifty baby snakes, which
had run into her mouth for safety.
Bob says this big snake story is true,
and if any body can beat it, let him
come to time.
The city of Buenos Ayres is about
to present to the Hon. Thomas o.
Osborn. United States minister to
the Argentine Republic, q handsome
token of its gratitude for the services
he has rendered it. The memento
will be massive shield of solid
silver, bearing design representing
Peace and Concord, prepared ex-
presslv for it by Gustave Dore.
De Lesseps still reigns supreme in
Eastern Egypt. He is backed by
the Bedouins living in the country
between the Nile and the canal, and
is actually master of that section.
Loud complaints are made against
his policy, and his speeches are said
to be incendiary, but he is certainly
able to keep peace, and has pre-
vented any massacre of Europeans in
the towns where his authority is
acknowledged, such as have occurred
in every other part of Egypt. In
deed. passport from him Is good
throughout Egypt.
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BeryI's Baby.
GChicago Tribune1
mo the child

"Give me the child.o
AS Beryl McClosky,' spoke these
words she looked into the face of
Vivian Fairhope, the man to whom
two years agone she had given the
most precious treasure of woman's
life, her love, and in the delicate
lines of her lovely face there was an
expression that told more plainly
than could words of deep resolve
the woman had taken.
Little Beatrice had been uneasy
all the day, and now that the sum-
mer day was drawing to a
close, and the long lines OF rosy
light that streamed up from
below the western horizon seemed
to rest like a benediction upon the
heated earth, she was crying the
querulous, impatient way that brings
alarm to a mothers heart.
Vivian handed the child to Beryl.
What are you going to do, darl-
ing?" he said.
Looking at him with deep brown
eyes from which cleaned passion
ate love light, Beryl said in tones of
thrilling tenderness:
81 am going to spank it, dizzy"
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INDIAN TERRITORY.
The Tribal TroubIes-The war at
an End

Especial to The Statesman.1
DALLAS, August "A telegram from
Eufala, Indian Territory, received by
your correspondent tonight about the
Creek Indian troubles, says that the war
Sands and the Chlcotah parties have dis
banded. Chicotah is the present chief of
the Creek nation, and he enjoys the con-
fidence of large majority of his country
men. The Sands party are composed OF
the last Creeks that were moved to this
country, and are opposed to the ways
of the white men and those of the tribes
who are more advanced in civilization
They hold alOof from the government and
do not recognize 1t more than is absO-
lulely unavoidable. The present diff
Guilty was caused by one of Chief Chico
tabs light horsemen disarmiug a member
of the Sands party, who was carrying
weapons contrary to law Forty of
Sands men surrounded one of Chicotah's
officers. Two of them held his arms
while members of the party perforated
his body with bullets. They also visited
Chief Chicotah's house with the inten-
ton of killing him. He was at church,
and SO escaped. Chicotah then issued
his proclamation calling on all able.
bodied men of the nation to arm in turn
and assist in the capture of the muir
derers, and upwards of a thousand
braves responded, and proceeded nearly
one hundred miles into the interior.
The Sand party numbered about one hun
dred and fifty, and when they found
themselves so greatly outnumbered, fed
to the widest, most remote and noun
famous parts of the Greek nation, and
sent word to Chicotah to catch them if he
can. This is almost impossible on account
of the character of the country, so the
forces disbanded and the war is at an end
for the time being. Another outbreak is
feared should the assassins come out of
their hiding places. indian Agent Tufts
was ready to interfere with government
troops available to preserve peace, but
now finds it unnecessary. No news from
ChOctaw or Chickasaw elections.
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The Texas Land Dealers.
TSan Francisco examiner

The demurrer in the long pending
cases of j. Q. Fiske, G. j. Jones and
j. G. Beatty, who are charged with
conspiracy and misdemeanor grow
ing out of certain dubious transac-
tiOnsi in Texas lands, was yesterday
denied by Judge Rosenbaum, who de-
cided that he had jurisdiction in the
matter. The examination of the fell
ony charge was continued to August
3, and that of the misdemeanor
charge nutil September 3.