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The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-04-13
EDITORIAL NOTES.

Mr.. Moses Taylor, of New York,
has placed $25O,OOO in bonds as a
trust for founding a hospital at
Scranton, Pa, for sick and disabled
employees of the Delaware, Lacka-
wanna and Western railway eompa-
ny. About $4,000 is to be used for
building the hospital, and the bal
ance kept as perpetual fund for its
support.
Edwin Booth labors under a con-
slant fear that he will sometimes,
appear in a tragedy not down on the
bills. Mark Gray, who a few years
ago fired at the tragedian from the
gallery of McVicker's theatre, claims
to be the natural son of Booth, and
the latter had Gray confined in an
insane asylum, and is mighty anx-
ious to keep him there.
The long Black canon IN the Gun
nison river, in Colorado, through
which the Denver and Rio Grande
railroad is to pass, is so narrow, and
the walls are so high. that the stars
can be seen from its depths in the
brightest day. In some places the
walls are a mile in height, an d
scarcely more than forty or fifty feet
apart. The engineers have zig
Jagged the line across the stream.
THE friends of Gen. Sherman and
Lieut.. Gen. Sheridan are said to
have combined in a move to keep
them on the active list of the army
indefinitely. Sherman is now sixty
two and Sheridan is much younger,
but they want to hold ON to the full
emoluments of their offices as long
as they live. If they go on the re-
tired list they 60 on reduced pay,
and no one can succeed them on the
active list.
1t is said by the friends of Fitz
John Porter that, owing to the eff
forts OF General Grant and others,
the president will favor a dismissal
of the charges resting against Gene
raj Porter, that he be granted an
honorable mastering out of the SER
vice with the rank of major general
of volunteers, and that he be then
placed ON the retired list with the
rank of colonel, but he shall receive
no back pay. This is compromise
which may be acceptable to some of
the opponents of General Porter,
but there are others who will resist
any attempt to remove the stigma
of disgrace from him.
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SPECIAL TELEGRAMS
GALVESTON.
Items of General and Local In
tsrest From the Island City.
Special Telegram. j

Special telegram
GALVESTON, April IL The county
commissioners met to-day. r. A. Bur-
ney, tax collector, reported S13,6S0.94 re-
ceived during the month of March for
county taxes. An order was made
authorizing the issue of All bonds OF
the denomination of $1,000 each, payable
in twenty years, and bearing interest at
the late of six per cent.
The Santa Fe railroad commissioner,
Jordan, was granted leave of absence for
ninety days.
The woman Mary Ann Blair, sup
posed to be the mother of the
infant found buried In a back yard, yes
terday, was arrested and admitted being
the mother, but said that it was born
dead. There is no evidence to convict
her ofinfanticide.
An old white man, named Fisher, was
arrested to-day, for attempting to outrage
a little negro girl.
The grand promenade concert Of the
Washington Guards came oil at the Pa
vilion tonight, and was grand success.
The local market for spot cotton closed
steady, but unchanged In price. Sales
112O bales. Receipts HOS bales. Futures
advanced from l to 10 points on the diff
ferent months. Sales 100 bales.
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rhe Negroes and the Readiu,ter,.

lRichmond Special to Boston Globe.l
The political history of Virginia
is likely to have another novel chap
ter added to its already startling
series of unlooked-for political
events transpiring during the past
twelve months. Two years ago q
prediction 10 the effect that Virginia
would have a negro represen-
tative in the national congress
would have been received with
derisiOn, but now 1T appears
that such representative may
go from the fourth or Peters
burg district, in which Senator Ma
hone, Governor Cameron, General
Smith Boiling, State Senator K. B.
Wilcox and other prominent Read
justers reside. The negroes have a
majority of between 5000 and 1000,
and to-day leading cOlored men from
that section aver that the negroes
have determined to demand that
one of their own race shall repre-
sent them from that district. Since
the war white Republican has been
sent to congress by this negro vote,
and now they say they are tired of
doing all the voting and giving the
prize TO white men. At present the
district is represented by Joseph
Jorgensen, one of the last of
the ''carpet bag" legislature,
so dubbed by Virginians soon after
the war. State Senator Wilcox, who
recently created a sensation N the
senate by announcing that he
had changed his political faith
from the Democratic to the
Republican doctrine, a few
days since announced his de-
termination to be a candidate for
congress from that district. He has
been heretofore warm Democratic
readjuster, and his candidacy, it is
SAID, set the negroes to thinking.
Malone can do all he can against
them, but if they carry out their
present determination a negro con-
gresham will go from that district
Several of the white Readjuster can
didates for the place are warm per-
sonal friends of Senator Malone,
and it is not believed that either he
or they will surrender the prize
without a warm fight with their
colored allies. The colored men
have as yet agreed upon no candi-
date, but there are not less than four
of their leading men who will be
glad to get the nomination.
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Great FIirtS.

Brooklyn girls, says correspond
ent, always interest me. l mean
viewed as a whole. The city has
the reputation of having more really
pretty young women than any other
i'll the Union, and nobody seems to
deny it. In Baltimore there are
more really beautiful faces, and in
Washington and New York more
striking and stylish looking women,
but for pretty, graceful and charm
ing girls, Brooklyn undoubtedly
leads the van But it is not about
their beauty l wish to speak so
much as about their extraordinary
freedom of action in the streets. In
New York lady is never so circum-
spect. careful and discreet, as when
in the thoroughfares unaccompanied
by gentleman. If a woman is at
all careless of flirtations in the
streets of New York, it simply shows
what she is; but in Brooklyn this
rule certainly does not hold good.
The girls there are allowed the
most extraordinary freedom. Their
fathers and brothers come to New
York to business after breakfast,
and do not return till night, and the
women are left entirely to their own
resources and to the attention of a
class of young men who are too
young or too INDECENT to go to bust
ness, and spend their time instead III
the streets. The girls parade up and
down the avenues, 60 for long trips
in Prospect Park, drive aud play and
shop, but always unattended. This
would be well enough, as an illus
tration of the idea of the early part
of the century that woman in Am err
lea may go whittier she may and
always be safe, but to a practical
observer of to-day the danger of it
is glarlng. L have watched these
Brooklyn girls closely and l am
bound to admit that in almost
every case the girl devotes
thirteen-fourteenths of her time
iu flirting or trying to "pick up" or
be 'picked up" by some one of the
useless young men before alluded
to. You walk along Fulton avenue,
and first one pretty girl will look
over her shoulder and ogle young
man swinging along behind her, and
then another girl will smile in half
bashful, but wholly charming, way
at youth struggling with cigar on
the opposite side of the street. He
generally smirks in a sheepish way,
and sometimes tips his hat awk-
wardly, but when he meets his
friends the story he tells of his
smash" would aston1sh a
Chinaman. The girls are usually
between the ages of 16 and 20.years.
They are often reckless in flirting,
but wish to be understood emphat-
ically that they are almost never
vicious. If flirting can be entirely
innocent pastime, it is in most of
these cases. 1t is not often that they
ever come to speaking terms with
the Young men, but the pernicious
effect of the pastime, or whatever it
may be called, is apparent. 1 think
[ am safe IN saying that the Brook
Ign girls have worse street manners
than the girls of any great city In
the country.
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WIVES AS PARTNERS.
Shall They Read Their Hus.
bands, Letters.

Emma James, in a Washington letter
TO the Albany Journal, says l am
tempted to say something here about
wives as unreserved partners in their
husbands correspondence, and Uice UersG,
because | often hear it discussed here.
1t was brought home to me of late by
chance from two of the happiest wives
and best bred women l have ever met.
Each said to me, on separate occasion
my husband and / never open each
others lettes. We would not think it
courteous" One added: "When women
insist on this as right, you may be sure
it is not love that prompts it; it is suspi-
cion. l have tried to be equitable toward
my husband in all my married life; to
treat him with the grave consideration
due to any gentleman, especially to q
man with high public trusts. do not
want to know the secrets of the men who
confide in his discretion. There are a
thousand ways of nagging husband,
this among the most fruitful of all. l
have studied to avoid them" This was
given with modest dignity in answer to
my asking her the secret of her fresh and
youthful looks, though the mother of
grown up daughters, and the companion
secret of her husbands love-like and pro-
verbal devotion to her.
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.IN A TIGHT PLACES,
Extract From n Letter From an
Austin Man who il Hedged
In by the Redmen.

A private letter received by gentle.
man In this city, from Mr.. George B :.
Zimpelman. dated Corrilites, Mexico,
March %, 1882, says;
~ am at present in rather tight place,
cut off by the Indians, but not so close
that l can't get out, still am very
thankful my wife and little ones are at
Ell Paso. l have had pretty rough
time of 1t for over two weeks, aud only
came in last night to attend TO my mail.
But i am getting on all right again.
The Indians drove off some 5000
sheep for me, captured four of my
herders and took over one hundred head
OF horses and mules. / reeaptured my
sheep and herders and got some of my
horses back. We are now having an
armistice, which expires tomorrow
Then, i'll don't get the balance of my
horses, will try and convince Captain
Ju and his family that ! like horses and
mules too, and when l want either l
want them bad. They are camped
about forty miles from here on our land,
and In an almost natural fertilization.
Jack Kyle is with me and | can get a
few men who have seen service.
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der that it may be thoroughly under
stood, the STATESMAN prints the dOcu,
ment in full:
TO TAX COLLECTORS.
OFFICE OF COMPTROLLER,
AUSTIN, April 3, 1882.
1t is deemed proper to call attention to
the provisions of Article 476l, revised
statutes, which reads as follows:
"Article 4761. The collector of taxes,
whenever he may he may receive as much
as five hundred dollars (S5OO), or more
belonging to the state, shall pay the same
over to the state treasurer, in such man.
ner as may be directed by the comptroller
of public accounts, or by law, reserving
only his commissions on the same and.
to enable him to do SO, he may, at his
own risk, secure and send the same in
postoffice orders, or solvent drafts on
solvent banks, at not more than the usual
rates of exchange, to be paid by the state
and it shall he the duty of the comptrol-
Ter to enforce a strict observance of this
act fairfield and the collector of taxas
shall finally settle with the comptroller,
and pay into the treasury all funds in his
hands arising from taxes assessed for the
previous year, and all occupation taxes
collected to date. on or before the first day
Of july Of each gear Preceded, That when
ever the collector shall be authorized to
pay any warrant, he shall be permitted
to pay the same over to the treasurer as
money"
This article is in plain and unmistak-
able terms. The object is that collectors
shall make prompt remittapces during
the course of the year. paying money into
the treasury, either in person, by agent
or through the comptroller, as fast as il
accumulates to the extent of 5000; and
that full settlement be made on all ac-
counts on or before July 1 of each year.
Settlement of every account will be re-
quired on or before July l, 1882, strictly
in accordance with law.
The accounts required to be settled en-
brace occupation taxes collected from
July 1, 1881, to June 80, 1882, and cash col
lected on rolls of 1881, and from other
sources.
All accounts not settled on July 1, 1882,
will be Immediately placed in the hands
of the proper officer for suit and, in such
cases, the collectors will loose commits
sions on the unpaid balances of their cash
collections. On June 1 the books of this
office will be in condition to furnish
statements of accounts up to June l and
on that date every collector will be fur
nlshed with an ltemized statement show
ing debts, and every remittance made on
the account of 1SS1-1SS2. 1t will be ad-
visable that all collections be RENTED
prior to June in order that they may
appear on the account to be furnished
collectors. These itemized accounts will
enable collectors to determine the exact
amounts needed to balance their ac-
counts on July 1.
All credit papers should reach this
Office on or before July l, 1882.
This notice Is now given in order TO
afford ample time for completing all the
business connected with the settlement.
Blanks and special letter of instructions
of items of settlement will be forwarded
in lew days.
w. NJ. BROWN, Comptroller.
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HOUSTON.
Budget OF News from the Bayou
City.

Special Telegram.
HOUSTON, April IA mass meeting
of the citizens is called, tomorrow night,
to put Houston forward as a candidate
for the state Democratic convention this
summer.
The city council Will likely reconsider
their decision not to pave the streets and
let out the contract to do the work short
ly. Public opinion is down on the alder
men who voted against paving so heavi-
ly, they will have to reconsider.
Arrangements for transportation for
editors to the state convention promises
favOrably.
Colonel T. W. Peirce, OF the Sunset
route, is expected from the east soon.
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AN APRIL GIRL.

The girl that II born on an April day
Has a right to be merry, lightsome and ga
And that IL the reason dance and play
And frisk like q mote In a sunny ray
Wouldn't you
Do 10, too,
II you had been born ON an April dayf
The girl that Is born on an April day
Has also right to cry, they say;
And so sometimes do give way
When things get crooked or all astray--
Wouldn't you
Do II, too,
II you had been born on an April day.
The girls of March love noise and fray;
And sweet as blossoms are girls of May;
But 1 belong 10 the time midway
And so | rejoice In n sunny spray
OF smiles and tears and hap-a-dHy---
Wouldn't you
Do 1t, too,
If you had been born on an April day!
Heighol and hurrahl for an April day,
lts cloud, its sparkle, Its skip and stay!
mean to be happy whenever 1 may,
And cry when must; for that's my way.
Wouldn't you
Do IL, too.
II you had been born ON an April day.
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HENRY's sPECIFIcs.-The great Ems

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Rescued From Death.

William j. Conghlin, of Somerville,
Mass, says s'In the fall of 1876 was
taken with bleeding of the lungs, fol-
lowed by severe cough. lost my ap-
petite and flesh. and was confined to my
bed. In 1877 1 was admitted to the hos.
pItal. The doctors said L had a hole in
nay lungs as big as a half dollar. At one
time report was around that was dead.
gave up hope, but friend told me OF
DIR. William Hall's Balsam for the Lungs.
got bottle, when to my surprise COM
menced to feel better, and to-day L feel
better than for three years past.
I" 1 write this hoping that every one
afflicted with diseased lungs will take
DR.. William Halls Balsam, and be con-
WINGED that consumption can be cured.
1 can positively say It has done more good
than all the other medicines 1 have
taken since my sickness"
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Weekly Statesman

aoiW be q compendium Of all
M0tis oGluGbLe and usguI0nd
Instructive in tile lone circle,
either IN tile country, toaon or
city,
The Sunday edition Of the
STA 7,ESIMAN aoiLL be Gscoted
10 tile latest neaos, to gioing re-
MgiouS Information and to @
presentation Of tile affairs Qfdn
the churches. This edition
aotU be particularly deooted TO,
moral and social topics Of the
highest order.
Advertisers aoiW hGrdIg fail
to recognize tile STA T,ESMAN
in its groaoing popularity and
influence as an agency 10. be
used to their Gdoaptage.
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MORN AND EVE.
Marriage Licenses Issued During
the Week.

John Harbattle and Marion Huddy.
H. E. Conklin and S. Z. Martin.
Z. j. CASTOR and N. L. Reeves.
A. J. Anderson and Ellen johnson.
Cain Rose and Sarah Miller.
Report OF the city sexton for the
Week.
April 4-Charles Eanes, white, aged
5 years.
April &C. t. H. Callwell, white,
aged 8 years.
April wv. NJ. Shaw, white, aged z
years months, male, nebrasca; Shan
nou, aged 40 years, white male, injury
to head from fall. Respectfully,
C. L. NTTscHKE, City Sexton.
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FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL
Daily Review of the Market.

DAILY STATESMAN OFFICE,
AUSTIN. April IL, 1882.
CoTToN---In the local market prices ale
unchanged and closed dull.
Dry Goods-Trade in this department
very good, with prices as per quotations.
Observation-Disclosures brisk and no
change in prices.
Country Produce-Prices in this de-
partment have a downward tendency
and produce scarce.
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I'll PASO.
Assassination - The Balance of
the Vacant Land Filed On.
Special Telegram.l

Special Telesram.l
Ell PAso, April 11.-Julius Stringson, a
wealthy citizen of Paso Del Norte, was
assassinated yesterday while on his re-
turn home from his mill, being shot
through the heart. Several parties i'm
plicated have been arrested.
Frank Maddox, of Austin, is here and
filed on the balance of land in this
county, about half a million acres of land.
Men here say that all the four bit land in
the state, some four million acres, have
been filed on within the last ten days and
the legislature may subside on this
question.
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Human Suffering Relieved.

Intensely severe headaches, constipa-
ton OF the bowels, deficiency of bilious
secretions, fiatulency, unsteadiness and
weakness of muscular power, lowness of
nervous debility and weakness promptly
cured by using Browns Iron Bitters. A
true tonic, universally recommended by
the medical profession.-NedicGI Journal.
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ROSENBERG.
Crushed by an Ice BOX-Run Over
and Killed While Asleep.

Special Telegram.
ROSENBERG, April 11.-As some men
were unloading an ice box, to-day, 1t
fell, severely crushing and breaking the
arm of a negro. His recovery is doubt
full.
1t is also reported that the north bound
morning passenger train on the Santa Fe
road ran over and instantly killed an I'M
known man who was sleeping Oh the
track.
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The Eminent Phy.iolan, j. MAR
ION Sims, M. -. New York.

by's Prophylactic Fluid is most val
liable disinfectant. For smallpox and
other contagious diseases use Darbv,s
PrhphylRctic Fluid. Persons waiting on
the sick should use It freely. 1t win pre-
vent smallpox. scarlet fever, diphtheria
or any contagious disease from spread
ing, and the worst cases will yield to It's
purifying and cleansing effects.
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Mr.. Clifford F. Hudson, of Elmira. N,

Mr.. Clifford +. Hudson, Of EImira, n.
Y, says: "My aged mother suffered
greatly from poor digestion and general
debility. She was always complaining
of her liver, and her bowels often panied
her greatly. She was very weak. 1
bought her a bottle of Browns Iron
Bitters, and she says, 1T goes right to
the spot, Clifford She has greatly i'm
proved since using this excellent medi-
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NE Quotations represent wholesale
prices. In making up small orders higher
prices have to be charged.
BLAcKING-Large, per dozen, Soc;
small. 25c.
BRoOMs-Per dozen, $1.75@3.5O.
BUCKETs-S2 per doz; 3'hoop, $3.50.
CANDIEs--Best flint stick, 141<c. Fancy
In pals, 15c.
CANDLEs-Star, 16@17c.
CANNED GooDs-Two-pound standard
goods per dozen: Strawberries, S1.7b.
PIneapples, extra long leaf. 1925.
Peaches, standard, 2-fb, $200@2 .25; Cali
iornia, $3.50. Blackberries, $3.50. String
beans, 81. 80. Corn S1.50@2. Tomatoes,
$1.70@2.00. Sardines, American, lie;
imported, 15c. HOLSTERS, 200. Apples,
2-pOund, 40. 3.pound, 1.75 per dozen.
CHEEsE-14@15c.
CLovEs-60c.
CoFFEE-Rio, common to choice, 100
lac. Laguyra, loo. Java, 21@25c.
CRACKERs-Soda, &c; cream, ginger
snaps, stage plank, 12c; assorted cakes
and jumbles, 15c.
GINGER-12Kc.
LEMoNs-Per box, $4@5.
MACKEREL-Half barrels, No. l, $3.50;
No. 2, $5; No. 4, $3.50. In kits, Nos. /, 2
and 8, S1.5O, 81. %, $1.00.
MANILA RoPE-1O@12c. Cotton 200
PC.
MoLAssEs-Golden syrup, Csc. New
Orleans molasses. new crop, 60070c.
NUTs-Pecans, s@11c. Almonds. pc;
Brazil nuts, S1f9I0c. English walnuts,
| 15c. Filberts, 14c.
ORANGEs-$4.5O to 500, repacked.
PEPPER-2Oc.
RICE-Choice new bV the barrel, 71f@
7%c.
SALT-Liverpool-Co e1.90 to 200;
fine, 1925 to $3.50 per sack.
SoAP-Common to fancy 59Sc p b, or
$2.25@3.50 per box.
SoDA-41f@6c.
SPICE-17Hc.
| STARCH-blc.
SUGAR-New Orleans, white clarified,
10a@114c.; openkettle <c;.cut loaf, 124c;
crushed, 12c; powdered, 1216c; granu-
lated. III; standard A, 11@11H.
TEAs-Imperial, 4O@S5c. Young Hy-
| son, 65c.
ToBACCo-Chewing, 35@65c, according
| to quality. Smoking, 45050c.
POWDER - Dupont, $6.65 per keg;
blasting, $3.50 per keg. Fuse, per 100
feet, 45c@85c.
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Something that will quiet the nerves,
give strength to the body, induce re-
freshing sleep, improve the quality OF
the blood, and purify and brighten the
complexion, is what many persons would
be glad to obtain. Carter's Iron Pills are
made for exactly this class of troubles.
and are remarkably successful in accom-
plishing the ends desired, as named
above. They are useful for both men and
women. Sold by druggists. Price, 80
cents box. See advertisement. For
sale by Morley Bros.