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The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-09-13
THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS.

The North American Review, in an
able article, calls attention to the fact
that the primary schools are too often
neglected for the higher grade schools.
Statistics show that out of one hun
dred pupils who attend the primary
schools, not more than fifty go any
further up the educational grade.
About thirty advance as far as the
grammar schools, while not more than
three of the original one hundred who
begin at the bottom of the ladder ever
reach the top and enter the high
schools. The important fact, which
these statistics demonstrate, is that
about one-half of the children who go
to the public schools enter upon their
life-work with no more education
than they can pick up at the primary
establishments, while of the remaining
half, % per cent, leave school
when, or perhaps before,
they have gone through the
secondary course. The moral of these
facts is SO plain that there can be no
disputing it. Since twice as many
pupils attend the primary schools as
go to any other department, and
since about one-half of them
go nowhere else, the primary
schools deserve and demand the
largest share of attention, and their
efficiency should be raised to the
highest attainable standard of excel
lence, though it should be necessary, in
order to accomplish that result, to cur
tail some of the expenses of the other
and higher branches. Is this plan
pursued in the conduct of our public
schools Are not the primary organ
izations placed at discount in COM
parison with the conduct of more
advanced grades? The teachers OF
primary grades are not paid as well as
those of the higher grades, and il
this declaration there seems to be al
answer to the entire question. The
labors of teachers in the primary are
more laborious than those of teacher
in the higher departments, and the
natural inference is that as careful
teachers are not selected for th(
lower as for the higher grades
There should be no such dis
elimination, for in reality the
the more competent teachers are re
quired for training in the primary de
partments than when pupils havC
advanced to point where the eai y
training tells in easy requirement Of
branches taught in the higher grades
The teachers in the primary school.
not only have to teach the young ides
how to shoot, that it may subsequent
ly grow as there directed, but these
teachers are required to teach more
children than those in the highel
schools. Their weight of work i
doubled.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-09-13
C0MANCHE.
Especial to The Statesman. |

CoNANCHE, September 9.-The
weather is pleasant to-day on account
of showers. Yesterday we had fine
rain a few miles south of town.
The streets have been crowded all
week. Considerable cotton is COM
ing in.
The district court is moving right
along. Abbey Morris and Charlie
Adams have been convicted, the for
mer for assault with intent to muir
der, and the latter for theft, and were
given five years each in the peniten-
tiary.
The grand jury have found seven
teen indictments, y which three are
felonies.
w. G. Switzer has patented the boss
post hole digger, He dug forty-eighty
holes in one day. Perrin 81 Goff, of
Jeffersonville, Ind, are m&aufactur-
ing them and will soon have them on
Mr.. Tyler Ie&Es in the morning,
after short stay, with fifty odd sub
scribers for THE STATESMAN.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-09-13
PROFITS FOR FARMERS.

The Maine Farmer very pertinent
ly remarks, as THE STATESMAN has
heretofore expressed itself, that the
great advantage, and perhaps the
greatest that comes from attending
and taking an active part in an
nual fairs, is the comparison of prod
ucts and the interchange of ideas re-
speeding methods. And it is at the
local fairs that we usually have the
best opportunity for comparing aver
age products, such as are obtained by
many farmers in the same community.
1t is here, also, that farmer meets
his personal friends and acquaintan-
ces, and this acquaintance favors
freedom of expression and an exchange
of views, and brings out the farm
practice by which they have attained
success, or wherein they have failed.
If one has achieved success in any
particular direction, whether it be in
the production of good crops or good
animals, there is no reason why others,
by pursuing the same course, should
not obtain like success or if failure
has resulted from any particular
method, he has it in his power to save
others from like unpleasant exper-
fence. All this can be brought out
and illustrated at the fairs, it is con-
tended, better than anywhere else.
Then, too, there is that pleasant asso-
citation in making and looking after
ones own exhibits, the receiving oil
rewards and the congratulations Of
friends. At the fair you meet every
body aud make new and pleasant
acquaintance, and in many
cases such as are profitable. 1t is
a fact, as remarked by a cotempo
rary, that in the passing away Of the
pioneer element of the country an(
the abandoning of it's peculiar warn
hearted hospitality, there is gradua
drifting to the opposite extreme
These fairs bring the people of q
district together, they make friend
ship and acquaintance more general
and they break down the tendency to
wards clanishness, which, in the end
finds it's developments in exclusive
classes. For such reasons we hope tx
see all the farmers of Travis county
and of the adjoining counties assembl,
at the Capital State Fair, to be hel(
at Austin, October 16 to Fl inclusive
Why can we not have general as
semblage of the farmers on Thursda!
and Friday of the week? Then tn,
live stock and the mechanical and thu
agricultural exhibits will be full; ant
if every farmer present does not g.
back home proiited ten times the valu
of money expended, THE STATESMAN
will admit its opinions are not good
and that is utterly impossible.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-09-13

forbidding name, is an excellent pas
ture land. Eastern Montana is, for
the most part, high table land, COW
cred with bunch grass, and was for
merly the great buffalo range of the
continent, but the regieA is being
rapidly occupied by herds of cattle
and bands OF sheep, and of its entire
surface there is very little area that
has not al evident value for grazing
purposes. Agriculture is carried on
along the bottoms of the streams, irri-
cation being required except in the
low lands Immediately adjoining the
river courses. Central Montana,
through which extends the Rocky
Mountain system, is region of lofty
mountain ranges and lower spurs and
ranges, interspersed with beautiful
and fertile valleys, where agriculture
is found very profitable with the aid
of irrigation. This is also the great
silver and copper mining region of
Montana; its product of the precious
metals since the first discoveries were
made, in 1862, has only been excelled
by that of California. Northern Idaho
is traversed for about sixty miles by
the Northern Pacific. 1t is country
of forests and prairies. For a dis
lance of about a hundred miles in
northwestern Montana and northern
Idaho, the railroad runs through one
| of tho most raDoorLohIa tip1hor bo1fc
on the American continent. Eastern
Washington, between the Cascade
mountains and the western ranges OF
the Rocky mountains, is country Of
high, rolling, grassy prairies, large
part of which is very valuable fol
wheat culture, the land producing {
much heavier yield per acre than is
obtained from the best wheat lands Of
Dakota or Minnesota. This rich, far
western wheat belt extends for some
distance into eastern Oregon. Yves
of the Cascade mountains the surface
of Washington Territory is nearly al
covered with dense forest of fir
constituting what is probably tn,
most extensive and valuable timbe
belt in the world. In Oregon, be
tween the Cascade and the Coas
mountains, lies the famous William
cite valley, having length of abou
$50 miles and a width of about thirt,
miles, a region nowhere excellet
for beauty and fertility. Tn
opening of the Northern Pa
cific inaugurates another era il
the advancement of this grea
and growing republic. The eountr.
it traverses has been a terra incognito
and yet it has capacity as an agricul
tural region unsurpassed by any othe
part of the United States. 1t will FL
up with sturdy, industrious classes
and its wealth in time will be enor
nous. The ceremonies of openin,
this great road occurred yesterday, a
stated. There were present the Presi
dent of the United States, Hon. VIM
M. Evarts, and many other distin
guished citizens and foreigners.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-09-13

MALONE holds his seat in the United
Stated Senate till March 1887. One
half of the Virginia state senate is to
be slected in November, and these
new senator's will have a voice in
naming his successor. The other leg
islators, who are to take part in the
senatorial election, are to be elected in
1885. In view of apparent trouble
ahead, Malone is making a desperate
Effort to fix for his influence
70 be prolonged. His late
move is to consolidate the Republicans
of the South, so as to be able to name
the presidential nominee. His part
nership with Carl, of South Carolina.
Chalmers, of Mississippi, and others.
is based on the power of bossism in
the negro states. Backed by the fed
eral government these three can con-
troll nearly third of the votes in a
Republican national convention.
They may virtually nominate the Re
publican candidate for president, but
cannot give him vote in the cleo
1oral college. To such base relation is
the decent Republican element of the
Northern States reduced.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-09-13

Especial to The Statesman.

IDINNItFI 10 IIIV otRttSSIIIdI'
TYLER, September Sd. ]. Duffie,
arrested at Big Sandy, month ago,
for a misdemeaRor, committed in this
county, and afterwards held as a fugi-
tive from justice, had an examination
before Justice White to-day, and, in
default of 800 bail, was remanded to
Jail to await the arrival of a requisi.
ton from Georgia. The evidence and
circumstances strongly tending to
show that his name is Grace and that
he murdered man, by the name OF
Grubbe, at Blakely, Ga.
The contract to furnish ties for the
Tyler & Jacksonville division of the
Kansas & Gulf Short Line was let yes
terday.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-09-13
HOUSTON.
SPECIAL to the statesman

HOUSTON. September S.-Mrs. Pol
lock, principal of the female college at
Christianberg, Virginia, left here to-
day with five young Houston ladies.
An excursion of nine coaches will
leave here for Galveston, tomorrow.
Seventy-three scholars were exam
ined to-day for the public schools.
The examination of teachers for the
public schools will take place next
Wednesday.
Senator Charles Stewart returned
yesterday from Washington, ID. c.
1t is said that Col. Cunningham, a
big sugar planter of Fort Bend, con-
templates building glucose factory
thirty miles from here, on the line of
the Galveston, Harrisburg & San An
tonic railroad, at cost of $4,000.
News reached here to-day of the
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-09-13
SAN SABA.
Especial to The Statesman!

Especial to The Statesman.l
SAN SABA, September 8.-A light
rain fell here yesterday morning, suf-
ficent to lay the dust, but no more.
There have been no convictions of
any Importance SO far in our dis
trict court. Mr.. S. A. Cavitt was
convicted yesterday of an aggravated
assault and fined $500. The case
against Mrs. Josino Perkins for muir
dering her husband is set for next
Thursday. The grand jury have found
only twelve indictments up to this
date.
Cotton continues to come in. The
crop will soon be gathered.
San Saba College opened this week
with 100 pupils.
Business is very good, considering
the dry weather.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-09-13
MASON.
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Especial to the Statesman.l
MASON, September 8.-The down
stage from here yesterday morning,
when near the Colorado river, was
halted by a masked man, who or
dered the driver to hold up his hands,
and then to pass over the mail bags,
using a revolver as a means to en-
force his request. This being done,
the driver was told to go ahead, and
not to stop or it would be at his peril
The robber then cut the mail pouches
and took all the registered matter
mounted his horse and left for part
unknown. A freighter recognized
him as a man by the name of
Vaughan, who was tried for mail
robbery some time ago, but was &C
quilted. A party from Burnett found
the open pouches some thirty yards
from the road, where it seems he had
been camping for several days, wait
ing for an empty stage.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-09-13

THERE seems to be little doubt that
China has concluded to fight in earn
est against the French occupation of
Tonquin. If the French really accept
the gage of battle thrown down by
the Chinese government the contest
will be watched with keen interest
as involving a real trial of the relative
strength of the leading Asiatic nation
as compared with first class Euro
pean power when engaged in war.
China has the advantage of numbers
and nearness TO the field of conflict. It
remains to be seen whether these adj
vantages will compensate for the lack
of modern implements of war and the
more perfect discipline and greater
physical vigor of the French soldiery.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-09-13

THE Kelly quarrel in New York is
kept up year after year in utter disre-
gard of the fact that there is Dem
ocratic party outside Of that state.
1t seems impossible for any portion of
the Democratic leadership in that
state to regard their party in any
other light than as the agency through
which few New Workers are to win
places or money. Such Democracy
needs overhauling, and we rather think
it will get it when the next presiden-
tial convention is held. The Sou tn
will take a hand.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-09-13

killing of two negroes in the lower
part of Brazoria county, one acciden-
tally, and the other in difficulty
with another negro. No arrest was
made.
Charles Brown, colored, tried to-day
for theft for stealing goods from Gal
weston, Harrisburg s. San Antonio
railroad cars, was allowed $500 bond,
but committed to jail to await the
meeting of the criminal court.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-09-13

The present outlook is not favora-
bic for the colored convention to be
held at Louisville, and there are
doubts in regard to its being held at
all. The colored people are losing
confidence in Fred Douglass as a
leader, and the suspicion that he is
setting a political trap is spreading.
The colored voter begins to under
stand the Republican party. Says the
Indianapolis Sentinel: at has robbed
him and used him and ignored him
when spoils and offices were to be dis
tributed, and the more intelligent of
the race are leaving the party, and
such of the representative men as are
eeking to perpetuate the bondage of
the race to the Republican party are
regarded with merited suspicion"
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-09-13

Our kilograms give the substance
of a reply purporting to be made by
Judge Black to Mr.. Davis, not long
prior to his death. About two weeks
ago the New York Herald had a
similar report. This of the Press may
be taken with many degrees of allow
ance. tits rather late in the day, at
least, to bring it before the country.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-09-13
LynchIng.

LITTLE Rock, Ark, Saturday night
mob of sixteen masked men forcibly
enterered Bell county Jail at Danville,
seized John Cake and DIR. Flood and
took them to the iron bridge across
Petit Jean river and hung them from
centre span across the beam. Cake
was accused of leading into ambuscade
sherlff's party in searsch of Daniels.
The bodies were discovered and cut
down SUNDAY morning,
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-09-13
SUNDAY LhWS.

The st. Louis Republican refers to
the manner in which the Missouri
Sunday law is observed. 1t says that
in st. Louis places of resort, such as
gardens and parks, are open and in
them the people are entertained with
music and served with refreshments;
that these places are especially
thronged on Sunday, because the or
binary Industries of those who go
there are suspended for that day. The
street cars run, the parks are open, the
gardens are thronged, the theatres are
patronized, because the people have
intermitted their ordinary work. The
general objects of the establishment
by law of a day of rest are subserved.
"The theory of legal Sunday in this
country, as it has prevailed in Eng
land from time immemorial," says the
Republican, "has rested on the
comprehensive proposition that the
general good of society, the eff
ficiency of laborers, the sum
of human enjoyment, are increased
by limiting labor to six days in sew
en-. 1t was, and is, supported on the
same ground that children under
twelve years of age were not permit
ted by parliament to labor more than
ten hours per day. The Sunday in
this country is humane and eco
nomical institution, and not religi-
Gus provision. Time and experience
have approved the wisdom of this linn
itation of general labor. There is
not the slightest reason to fear that
it will ever be discontinued or be-
come obsolete. But that the great
mass of the population may enjoy
the Sunday. and that it may be a rea-
day OF rest and recreation, few
must be the servitors of the many on
that as on all other days." The rigid
Sabitarians will have to conform to
the necessities of recreation that can
only be INDUCED in on Sunday.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-09-13
ROUND ROCK.
Especial to The statesm an.

LopCCIdI 70 IIC O1dUCoIII dlIsJ
ROUND Rock, September 8.-W. K.
Makemson. of Georgetown, has been
solicited to allow his name to be pre-
scented as a successor to Judge Nor
rill as United States judge of the
eastern district of Texas. OF Col.
Makemson's ability as lawyer, and
of his integrity as man, it is not
necessary to speak lie is. too well
known in western Texas to need an
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-09-13
BRENNAN,
[Special to INC Statesman. |

Especial to The Statesman
BRENNAN, September 8.-This eve
ming at $50 o'clock the office of the
Railway and TELEPHONE, newspaper
owned by S. G. Spann, situated nearly
a mile from the court house, caught
fire and was soon in ashes. Loss $I725,
insurance about 5000; nothing of
value was saved. This is the second
time Spann has been burned out. The
fire is thought to have been of incen-
diary origin.
Seven divorces to negroes were
granted in the district court to-day.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-09-13
WILLIAMS RANCH.
lsnecial to The Statesman

WILLIAMS RANCH, September g.
The mails from Senterfit via Williams
Ranch to Brownwood, were discon-
tinued yesterday; also, the mail from
here to Gatesville was discontinued;
the cause of which is insufficient pay
to sub-contractors to pay running ex-
penses. We are now without any
mail whatever. Business men are
kicking. Somebody is to blame.
Light rains to-day, but not enough
to do any good.
One arrest to-day for carrying a pis-
toll and shooting across the public
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-09-13

The way il which Dorsey got hold
of the letters which he is now turn
ing to account against the Republican
party is rather characteristic. In the
winter of 1SS081 he wrote to ex-
Gov. Jewell, who had taken the cam
paign records home with him, that he
wanted to verify certain dates. The
unsuspecting chairman sent on the
documents which Dorsey has chung to
with death-like grip ever since.
When he was called on to turn over
the records and documents of the
national committee to his successor,
Mr.. Martin, he denied in letter of
considerable length that any such
records were in existence.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-09-13

THE charge that Denis Kearney
was trai tor to the cause of the
workingmen and in the pay of the
inonopolists has been made good by
the labor unions of San Francisco
They declare t that photographs of re-
ceipts given by him for money re-
ceived as brides can be produced,
and that the expenses of his late Eas-
tern trip were paid by California cap
italists. Honest workingmen should
pray to be protected against being
represented by any such rascals as the
sand Lot orator.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-09-13
The Philadelphia Time!

THE Philadelphia Times under
stands their tricks. 1t says: "From
this time until the Republican
national convention meets next year
Washington will be visited at fire.
quent intervals by patriots from the
South, with disinterested suggestions
for redeeming certain states of that
region from Bourbon rule. They will
all agree that the only means for this
work of political regeneration are
Offices and money"
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-09-13

THE neglect of the street, north Of
the temporary capitol, is an insult to
the state government. Does the city
government refuse to grade it, be-
cause the state authorities, after re-
peated requests to have the grade
raised for the protection of the tenn
porary capitol against floods, took the
matter in their own hands and forced
the necessary change in grade? Is
this horrible place on this main thor
oughfare left in its wretched condi-
ton because the state of Texas did
not continue to humbly plead before
the mayor and city council?
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-09-13

THE friendly feeling in Indiana for
Mr.. Bayard, as the coming presidential
nominee of the Democratic, party is
marked. True Democrats. of all doc.
trines, warm up toward such a man
in such days as these, when the feder-
al government needs administration
by statesmen.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-09-13

Officers of the navy are not to blame
for having only old-fashioned craft.
When. mast, spars and sails are dis
pensed with there will not be pos
Utility of such an accident as that by
which Lieutenant Boutelle NoyeS has
Just lost his life. 1t is the custom now
a-days aboard man-o'-war to exercise
the ships crew in sending down their
light yards and masts at sunset, only
to send them up again next morning.
There is always race against time in
these evolutions, and the ponderous
topgallantmasts of the Richmond
would unquestionably be allowed to
"come by the run" as they were low
cred. If the mast-rope should part or
slip as it came down, the lieutenant
standing below, experimenting the
lowering, would stand the best chance
of being struck. It is all very well to
talk about giving our naval officers
to do, but surely it isn't
necessary to kill them. Lieutenant
Noyes was one of the best officers of
the Maya progressive man who can
i'll be spared.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-09-13

JUDGE HoADLY has been ordered
TO Philadelphia to remain for weeks
under the care of an eminent physi-
clan Of that city. He was nominated
because of his ability as stump ora
tor, and now he is practically out of
the Ohio campaign as a personal
leader. The basis of his nomination
was improper, and the whole thing,
we are sorry to say, goes wrong.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-09-13
As sanitary measure, the Parish

AS sanitary measure, the Parish
health authorities have been testing
on a limited scale the pneumatic sys-
tenn for rapidly exhausting sewers of
their contents. The success of the
plan has led to such remarkable re-
suits in causing in certain localities a
decline in the number of cases of ty-
phoid fever that it will soon be fur
Their tested on an extensive scale.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-09-13
The Weather.

CINCINNATI, September 1O.-Frost
is reported very generally throughout
Ohio, Indiana and Kentucky for the
past two mornings. Opinion varies
as to its effect on corn. Report from
Kentucky says all tobacco on grounds
and creek bottoms is ruined. Vege-
tables everywhere are ruined. The
weather is warmer to-day.