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The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-08-16
CORSICANA.
rsnecial to The Statesman. !

CoRsICANA, August IL. = Ninety
four schools have been organized in
this county during the past year by
County Judge Beall, with an aggre-
CRATE of $500 scholars, exclusive of
the city schools. The county gets
from the state, for school purposes,
$3.50, and the county appropriation
will bring it near $4,000, enough to
run our schools between seven and
eight months.
Another attempt to start daily pa
per will be made here ON the LIST OF
September.
A negro school teacher was to-day,
in the district court, convicted of
forging two school vouchers and was
given five years for each in the peni-
toutiarV
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-08-16
CROP REPORT.
From the Department of Agricultul

From the Department of Agriculture.
WASHINGTON, d. c., August TO-
The August cotton returns to the de-
partment of agriculture are less faI Or
able than those Of July. The condi-
ton is lower in every state, except
two on the northern border of the
belt, Virginia and Tennessee. The
plant is suffering from meteorological
vagaries of the peculiar season. 1t
was too cold in May, too wet in June
and too dry in July. In Georgia the
injury is the greatest. the condition
falling from SO to 70. In South Caro-
lima the decline has been from 81 to 80.
The prolific cotton belt of middle Ala
bama has suffered severely from
drouth. The southern counties and
valleys of Tennessee have had season
able weather. The upland coun-
ties of Mississippi report in
jury from drouth generally
rain is needed in central and in south
ern Texas, but the drouth has been
less general and injurious than in
Georgia. There has been ample rain
in a large portion of the Louisiana
cotton district and IN nearly all cot
ton counties; in Florida, in Tennes-
see generally, and in majority of
North Carolina counties where the
drouth has been severest, fields stlmu,
lated by commercial fertilizers are
fruiting top crop prematurely and
plants are drying up, as is usually the
case under these circumstances
The general average condition
has fallen to "a from 80. In
July the record stands by states
Virginia 81. North Carolina 81
South Carolina 80, Georgia %
Florida SO, Alabama SO, Mississippi
SO, Louisiana So. Texas SO, Arkansas
SO, Tennessee 80. Reports of the
presence of the caterpiller are numer-
Gus in the gulf states. Central Ala.
bama is infested more seriously than
Texas, and Georgia and Louisiana
more than Mississippi They are not
reported in Virginia. the Carolinas or
in Tennessee and Arkansas. The first
brood are webbed in some places with
the second, and fear is expressed OF
serious injury from the third brood
Tons of arsenic in various forms are
| applied To avert such calamity. The
boil worm is only reported at few
| points in Arkansas and Texas, while
the relative condition of the crop. com.
pared with the returns of former
years, is unpromising. The volume OF
the crop depends largely upon more
critical period from August to Octo-
her
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-08-16
Mreck nf Coal Cars

EAsTON, Pa, August 11.-Forty
cars of coal, on the New Jersey
Central railroad was thrown from
the track at the Phillipsburgh n. j.,
depot. Fourteen were wrecked and
their contents scattered along the
track for a distance of several hun
dred yards causing the track to be
blocked for several hours. The
brakemen were slightly injured.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-08-16
Killed bY an Express.

PITTsBURG, August Shortly
before midnight last night, three men,
named Owen Doris, John Kirwis and
James Conner, were walking on the
Baltimore and Ohio railroad track
near Demler station, and stepping
aside to allow freight train to pass
were ground under the wheels of an
express which was coming in the op.
posite direction. Doris and Kirwis
were instantly killed, their bodies be-
ing horribly mangled. Conner, who
was mutilated beyond recognition
lived several hours, but died this
morning.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-08-16
The State unirarsitr

There was meeting of the board
of regents yesterday. Present, Col
Ashbel Smith, president; Messrs.
Wooten, Todd and Hydra, and Mr.,
Woodbridge, secretary. Mr. Harwood
was represented by proxy.
Commissioner Brewster, who has
charge of the temporary capital, hav-
ing been interviewed on the subject
and having given his consent to the
use of the senate chamber, hall of the
house of Representatives and other
available apartments in the capitol
for the purpose of usi g them tenn
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-08-16
FOR THE SICK ROOM.

There is always a difficulty in ca
tering fol; invalids, especially when
the illness is subsiding, for it is then
that the patient becomes capricious,
as he feels his weakness the more.
The quantity for each meal should be
only such as is consumed at one time,
as repetition of the same dish often
turns an invalid against food The
water given sick person should not
only be boiled and allowed to cool, but
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-08-16
That Emigration Scheme.

MONTREAL. August 11.-Geo. Ste
phen, president of the Cananian Pa
cific, on being interviewed respecting
the imperial governments scheme of
immigration, said the cablegram was
so indefinite he could not understand
it at present. He did not doubt, how
ever that a grand scheme was pro-
posed and would be carried out.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-08-16
LLANO.
Especial to the Statesman

LLANo, August 1.-THE citizens
met to-day and selected Prof. j. P.
Collier to teach the free school. Mr.,
Collier is one of the best teachers in
the state, and Llano is sure to have a
good school. He will be retained to
teach the private school.
1t is very dry, no rain since July s.
Stock is fat. The cotton crop will be
about half to two-thirds. The Their
mometer was up to 104 yesterday.
Llano boasts of a fine Touring mill,
the result of the enterprise of Messrs.
Knabe & Finley.
Llano's first bale came in on the 9th
instant,
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-08-16
Distinguished Foreign Visitors

Boston, August 11.-Prince Ho-
henlohe, of Prussia; the Count Glei-
chen, Earl of Lathorn, and Lord Ell
phinstone, arrived this evening from
Liverpool, en- route to Montreal, where
they will join President Stevens par
ty on the Canadian Pacific. to explore
that road to its terminus. On Sunday
they will look about Boston and will
take the early train Monday for Mon
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-08-16
FAILURES.
THE INDIANAPOLIS BANK.

THE INDIANAPOLIo BANh.
INDIANAPOLIS, August 1.-THE
First National bank opened this
morning at the usual hour, and has
paid out money on small checks, but
has not cashed any large drafts.
The suspended bank is the Indiana
banking company, a private corpora
ton, and not the Indiana National
bank. The latter is nowise affected.
STOCK BROKERS GO UNDER.
PHILADELPHIA, August 11-W. H.
Miller & Co.. stock brokers, have sus.
pended.
ANOTHER FAILURE.
ST. LOUIS, August 1.-THE drug
firm of Dalton Bros. has assigned
Assets, $4,000; liabilities unknown.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-08-16
A Bible Sensation.

lCdDle special.
A Mr.. Shapiro, of Jerusalem, a book
seller and dealer in antiquities, has
just deposited in the British museum
fifteen slips of black sheepskin leather,
on which are written, in characters
similar 10 those on the celebrated
Moabite stone, portions of the book
Of Deuteronomy differing materially
from the received version. The date
of the slips is the ninth century
before Christ, or sixteen centuries
older than any authentic manuscript
of any part of the Old Testament.
Mr.. Shapiro bought them from an
Arab, and he asks for them $5,O00,00O
from the British museum. If gen.
uine, the interest and Importance of
the discovery cannot be overrated,
and so far as the variations in the
sacred text are concerned, there is
promise of one of the greatest con-
troversieS that scholars have ever
entered upon. The decalogue furnishes
a good example for com parison with
the received version. l quote from
the Shapiro record:
81 am God, thy God, which liberated
thee from the land of Egypt, from
the house of bondage. Ye shall have
no other gods. -------.--
Ye shall not make to yourself any
grave image, nor any likeness that is
in heaven above or that is in the earth
beneath, or that is in the waters I'M
der the earth. Ye shall not bow down
to them, nor serve them. | am God
Your God Sanctified.
In six days | have made the heaven
and the earth and all that there is
| therein, and rested on the seventh
day. Therefore, rest thou also; thou
and thy cattle. and all that thou hast
1 am God; thy God.
Honor thy father and thy mother
1 am God; thy God.
Thou shalt not kill the prison Of
thy brother. / am God; thy God.
Thou shalt not commit adultery
with the wife of thy neighbor. 1 an
God; thy God.
Thou shalt not swear My name false
ly for l visit the iniquity of the fathers
upon the children unto the third ant
fourth generation of those who TAX,
| My name in vain. l am God; tn,
God.
Thou shalt not bear false witnes
against thy brother. l am God; thy
God.
Thou shalt not covet his wife, o
his man servant. or his maid servant
or anything that is his. l am God
thy God.
Thou shalt not hate thy brother ii
thy heart. l am God; thy God.
These ten words God spake.
DIR. Ginsburg, the eminent Semitic
scholar to whom Gladstone has jus
given fifty pounds sterling toward tn
production of his work on the MaSo
rah, has accepted the above, and
busy completing a translation and de
termining, on behalf of the museum
the genuineneSS of the fragments.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-08-16

A daughter of Samuel Baker, the
explorer, took her own life at her resi-
dence in Devonshire, Eng. Her labors
in connection with the Sisters of Mer-
cy brought about complete physical
and mental prostration. She first
used a scissors blade on her arm. then
! lacerated her throat with penknife,
and at last disemboweled herself with
a Japanese sword.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-08-16
A Girl at Long Branch speaks with

A girl at Long Branch speaks with
an acquired London accent. me
cawt. me cawt, at o'clock" she said
to the family coachman, in a voice
loud enough for a yeranda full of
people to hear. Caught what. miss ?"
the man inquired. A repetition of
the order did not make him under
stand it. and she had to say, in plain
American pronunciation, though she
lowered her voice and stepped closer
in doing so, My cart, stupid; my vii
lage cart, at O'clock
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-08-16
Rlowing Their Own HORN

NEW YORK, August 11.-Pulitzer's
paper, The World. to-day calls atten-
ton to the fact that, in a season void
of startling events, it has, in three
months, under the aew management,
increased the circulation from two to
five times over that of the old man
agement.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-08-16
Great Loss of Lumber.

MUSHROOM, Mich, August H.
Early yesterday morning 100000 feet
of lumber of the Peninsular Manu-
featuring Company, at North Muske-
gon, was burned, also the company's
factory and dry kiln and four box
cars. Loss not completed; the lumber
company has nearly $4,000 insurance.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-08-16
Mail RObber Committed.

GALVESTON, August 11.-Richard
Harris. colored, was arraigned before
United States Commissioner opann
to-day for robbing the mails at Rich
mond. He pleaded guilty and was
committed to Jail in default of bond.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-08-16
HUNGRY OfIlce-Seekers.

GALVESTON, August 1l.-There are
said to be not less than a dozen appli-
cants for the federal judgeship, made
vacant by the resignation of Judge
Morrill,
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-08-16

Mr.. +. A. Yollmer, a Pennsylvania
emigrant to North Carolina, has is
sued call for all Northern men in
the state to attend convention in
Wadesboro' on November IA, 1888, in
order TO declare to the world how they
have been treated by the people of
North Carolina.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-08-16

TUST RECEIvED-At Phil Abrahams'
q Texas Hot, Our Own Pickles, Cracked
serves In Jars, and a large lot Of Fancy Gro
ceries.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-08-16

E,OR SALE 1000 improved young Mamie
L goats, and 10 fine Billies. Price, - per
head. Also span Of large, gentle, young
mules broke to saddle and harness. In gnod
condition. G. W. BEAKLEY, Manchaca. Eek
auR7-d&W-1t
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-08-16

UTANTED.-Some one whn has horse and
w buggy to let for a few months. Horse
must be perfectly gentle for lady to drive.
Kindest Of care. Address B. E. W.. through
the nOStOffice
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-08-16

tRMore Brown Gins have been sold during the past
four seasons than any other two makes combnedb
NIB. Our manufacturing and shipping facilities
are unequalled Full descriptive circular with hun
dreds of planters testimonials sent on application
Correspondence Solicited, address,
BROWN COTTON GIN Co.. New London, CT.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1883-12-06
The Explosion of Boilers.

A frequent cause of boiler explosions
not generally understood, and all the
more insdious for being so little recog-
nized, has been recently brought to
notice by NJ. Treves, an eminent French
engineer. Water left standing for
hours above the boiling point loses its
power of ebullition, the air in it being
drawn off; and in this condition it alb
serbs heat without the power of deliver
ing it up in the form OF steam. 1t thus
becomes superheated, and any mechani-
cal agitatiOn-such as opening of the
steam-vaIve Or the introduction of fresh
waterway cause it instantaneOusly to
burst into steam with explosive force.
These are the very conditions to be found
in boiler when, as often happens, work
has been suspended for an interval, dur
ing which, the boiler being filled, the
fires are left burning, though slackened.
When work is resumed, the engineer,
finding good supply of water with a
low pressure on the steam gauge, fires
up without putting in more water, and
there is another mysterious explosion.
A good and simple device to guard
against this danger has been proposed
by NM. Donny and Gernez, and is rec
commended by NJ. Treves. The water
feed-pipe is prolonged by n t, the hori-
zontal branch being about nine inches
above the bottom of the boiler. On the
under side of this tube, alone its entire
length, from end to end of the boiler, is
a row of conical nipples. Before firing,
water is to be forced through the feed
pipe until pressure-guage on the pump
shows higher reading than the
auiescent steam -guage. The nipples
being then full of air and ready to act
as the generating centnes of ebullition,
the fire may be pushed without risk OF
explosion.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1883-12-06
A Sad Case.

A Western paper is i'll receipt OF
short story from Chicago, which IS SO
full of misery that there is no fun III 1t
anywhere, but it is told as a warning to
ladies to be careful how they accuse ser
want girls of crime. A man from the
Chicago carpet company was sent to a
house recently to put down carpet,
and in the work it was necessary to re-
move a large mirror, and i'll doing so a
beautiful breast-pin fell upon the carpet,
which the man gave to the lady of the
house. Instead of a smile of thankful
ness from the lady, which the man ex-
pected, the lady fell down on krees
sobbing and praying, and asking God
to forgive her for her injustice. The
man was paralyzed, and thought the wo-
man was crazy, but she explained to
him, as she put on her cloak TO go down
town. that a servant girl had been ac-
cused of stealing the breast-pin, and
was serving a term in the penitentiary
for it.
The woman hustled down to her hus-
! bands office and showed the pin, and IL
an hour, work was begun to release the
poor girl from prison, where she had
been for many months. Who can pic
ture the sufferings of that poor, honest
girl, in prison, serving a sentence for a
crime which she did not commit, and
who can realize the agony Of the woman
who sent her there? The paper trusts
that the poor girl will have been released
before this is read, and that the wealthy
woman will amply reward her for the
suffering she has endured. Such cases
are too frequent in this world. where in
nocence is made to suffer on circumstan
| tial evidence.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1883-12-06
THE CRAZY QUILT CRAZE.
What n Lot of Men Have to Say on the
Subject.
TFrom the Milwaukee Sun. I

from the Milwaukee Sun.l
A number of gentlemen sat in the
Plankinton House reading-room the
other evening when a gentleman came
in apparently very much agitated
whats the matter?" asked an ac-
quaintance. "Matter? Well, I should
say there was matter enough. I don't
expect to leave Milwaukee with a whole
suit of clothes. In fact everything I've
got on begins to look like the remnants
of an antiquated porous plaster. Never
had any experience with a lot Of ladies
who have got an attack of crazy bed
| quilt? OF course not. [ might have
| known better than to have asked, as it
never strikes any but good looking
old bachelors like myself. When a man
has been there once he is satisfied un-
less he is hog. The reason they call
/ these new tangled quilts cay, :s-7.,e-
cause everybody for twelve miles around
a house where one of 'em is started is
set crazy by the lady demanding piece
of silk
"To-night thought I'd go out to see
some ladies, old friends / hadn't more
than got into the door, before one of
them, with pair of scissors in her hand,
snatched my hat and made a dive for
the lining. She got left. She handed
the hat back with a disappointed look,
as she realized that somebody had got
| in their work ahead of her. Why do
[ keep my coat buttoned up to my
chin ? Well, when she found the lining
of the hat gone she made dive for my
neck scarf. There's nothing left but
! the collar button and q piece of the
scarf about the size of a ten cent piece.
The man-who-had been-there then
took out his silk handkerchief to blow
his nose, but his hand missed the mark
as it went through hole big enough for
a cat to Jump through. "Well, I'll b
blamed, if those women haven't carved
my blower They even raiied the sleeve
lining to my overcoat. In fact haven't
a whole garment on me. I am crazy so
they'll have a crazy quilt sure. Why,
LIleN 8GG IuG lIIlllS OlJ VI GNCIH IctG ILII
can lay hands onto. Itisn't safe to leave
your hat in the hall, if you expect to get
it again in as sound condition as when
you hung it on the rack. A man who
has had any experience feels like taking
to the woods every time he sees a lady
coming. especially if she looks smiling,
cts not SO rough on a man to take his
hat lining, but if ever high-buttoned
vests go out of style, nine-tenths of the
young men will have their reputation
for sobriety and peacefulness ruined all
on account of the dilapidated condition
of their neckties, SO many samples be-
ing cut out Of them by the ladies for
these crazy quilts. Why, they even cut
the lining out of a claw hammer coat
It's mighty good thing that brides
maids go into church first or the grOoms
coat-taiIs would look like ragged sig
nal of distress. There wouldn't be
enough of the lining left by the time he
reached the altar to make the tails of his
the much-sampied man asked for the
kew of his room and went to bed to
dream how ''perfectIy lovely" his con-
tributions of silk looked in a crazy
quilt.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1883-12-06
BAKED WEALTH.
4 Farmer Puts His Fortune in nm oven and
Finds IL III Pie OF Ashes.

/ 4 Farmer Puts His Fortune in nm oven and
Finds IL III IA Pie OF Ashes.
~.iI.. Fp,.,ppor- # West
! NIilIcreek, has been ruined by too much
precaution," says an Erie CPenn.) } dis
patch. For the last month the villages
around Erie have been worked pretty
thoroughly by gang of professional
burglars. the two leaders of whom have
been captured Farmer Lieb is one of
those who believed bird III the hand to
be worth two in the bush. He has never
deposited his savings in the bank, but
kept his money and valuables in safe
at home, where the treasure would al
ways be under his eye.
The operations of the burglars in his
neighborhood convinced him that safes
do not always save, therefore he con-
cludod to be too cunning for the cracks
men. Removing his greenbacks, amount
ing to S., 900, with notes, mortgages and
other valuable documents representing
as much more, he concealed them in the
oven of a parlor stove that is not gener-
ally used until the winter has fairly set
in. As an extra precaution he con-
cluded not to tell Mrs. Leib, least Ill
moment of weakness she should give his
cuteness away in gossip. The project
worked like a charm.
At Union City safes were being
cracked and dwelling-houses being en-
tered all around, but his treasure re-
mained all safe in the oven. One morn
ing it was discovered that an unsuccess-
full attempt had been made to burglarize
his residence, but the discovery only
served to tickle him. Mrs. Leib was
seriously alarmed for the safety OF their
possessions, but her husband bade her
be of good cheer, and trust to his sa-
gacity.
That night he came to Erie on busl-
ness, and during his absence the first
snow-storm of the season occurred.
Thinking of the husbands cold ride,
Mrs. Leib planned a little surprise for
him, ana so prepared dainty and
tempting supper, spreading it IN their
cosy parlor, lighting the fire to add to
! Mr.. Leib's comfort When he arrived
! and took IL the situation he almost
| tainted. Rushing to the stove he opened
the oven door and pulled out a charred
mass that once represented their fortune,
but which was now not worth n cent.
On Saturday he brought the ashes to
the courthouse, but obtained no COM
fort.