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The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-08-09

enforced in their full vigor and mean
ing by appropriate legislation. Ex-
tortions and fraudulent discrimina-
tions are crimes and should be pun.
ished as such.
s. That the action of the legislatu ure
IN passing laws to protect honest
competition with convict labor is to
be commended, and the house of rep
reSentativeS is deserving of especial
approval for originating measures
looking to that end.
y. Every legitimate effort of labor
to better its condition, enhance its re-
ward and protect its rights, commands
the sympathy and support of the
Democratic party, which is the ma
tural foeman of monopoly and the
natural friend of working men. The
present unprecedented and unsatisfac-
tory conditions of the relation of labor
and capital demand careful thought
OF legislators, and due regard should
be had to the vested rights of capital
and the claims of enterprise. Legal
arbitration is proper and commend
able means of settling disputes be-
tween employer and employe.
10. The tax lands laws of the state
should be revised and so changed as to
make them more equal and more just
and to hear equally upon all classes
of property.
Resolved, That the rules OF the
party be so amended as to fix the time
OF the annual meeting of the state
convention at p. M, on Wednesday
after the fourth Monday in January,
instead of the third Monday, as now
provided.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-08-09
VOL. XII.

FROM 1860 to 1870, including the
period involving the enormous war
expenditures, the revenues from du-
ties on imports amounted to Sl,239,-
458,442, or ansaverage of S124, 100000
year. From 1870 to 1880 the receipts
from duties amounted to 81 ,663, ,973,-
044, or an average of $166,OOO,OOO a
year. The incidental taxation of con-
sumers from this system of so-called
protection in the enhanced cost of do.
mestic products was so vast in the
last ten or twelve years that the mind
recoils from the estimate. For every
dollar of the millions poured into the
treasury for support of government,
two dollars and a half went into pri-
vate pockets. Instead of reducing
the war taxes with the war expendi
lures, the taxes are maintained and
the treasury surplus is applied to the
payment of the public debt, and, by a
wonderful stroke of financial wisdom,
to that portion of the debt bearing
the lowest Fate of interest. The sec
retary of the treasury is preparing to
call in $25,OOO,OO0 more of the 3 per
cents, and in little time this process
of rapid debt payments will be at an
end for want of bonds to which it can
be applied. But so far from consent
ing to reduction of an enormous
and unnecessary treasury surplus by
diminishing the taxes, the protection
lists propose that taxes shall be main
tanned. and the revenue accumulations
be divided among the states. The
people are called upon to decide be-
tween tax reduction and revenue dis
tribution. While the masses want
tax reduction the pets of the govern
ment would have high taxes main-
tanned, that they may be enriched, and
they now seek to mould popular SEN
timent in behalf of a base system of
revenue distribution among the
states. Thanks to the press of the
country, the people have been en-
lightened upon revenue matters, and
they are now past being deceived by
the protcctionists.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-08-09
Miscellaneous Matters.

Keep Carbolic Acid.-A bottle of
earbolic acid should be kept in every
farm house, not merely IS disinfect-
ant, but IS a wash for wounds and
sores. For any purpose it should be
diluted with water. Its power to
destroy fungus growths renders car
bolic acid invaluable in pruning or
chardS of pear, plum or peach, where
blight or other disease is suspected,
The pruning shears should be fire..
quently dripped in carbolic acid
water.
Removing Warts.-A writer in
the Country Gentleman thus tells
how he very readily cures warts:
in answer to various inquiries let
me say that 1 have for years cured
warts very easily on all animals, no
matter where located, by applying
butter of antimony with feather
two or three times at intervals of two
or three days. If the warts are dry
scaled / scrape them lightly at first.
1t simply dries the wart down to
hardness, when it drops off without
leaving soreness or irritation. The
best milking cow which own pur-
chased out of drove of beef cattle
on account of her superiority in hav-
ing all the excellent milking points,
and the discovery that her teats were
literally covered with pointed warts,
which / had no doubt was the reason
why she had been fattened and sold, !"
Pin Feathers.-Wheat should, in all
cases, be fed to your breeding fowls.
They should also be not confined,
unless it cannot be avoided, and even
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-08-09
DALLAS.


DALLAS, August deputy United States
Marshals Woody and Oglesby to-day lodged
in Dallas jail ,Tobe Murphy and JEFF Pandy
white men, charged with attempting to rob
the United States mails December q, 1882.
near Blum station on the Gulf Colorado and
Santa Fe railroad. The prisoners were ar.
examining trials this evening before United
States Commissioner Mccormick, when Muir
ply was released on $500 bond, but Pandy is
still in jail. His bond has not yet been fixed
United States court, for the northern dis
trict of Texas, meets at Graham August 13.
There is light business on the docket
Hon. F. NJ. Cockrell, United States senator,
of Missouri, is visiting his sister-in-law, Mrs
Sarah Cockrell, of Dallas.
Robert Stewart, the young planter living on
Grape Vine prairie, who was snake bitten, ii
was believed fatally, three weeks ago, in a
game of polo, is in a fair way to recover.
George BrOSeOus, young man, looking at a
fine span of horses in a lot to-day, was kicked
in the face and nearly killed. One cheek was
Splintered and his head was fractured back OF
the left ear,
George Wilson, farmer near Cedar Hill,
while riding sulky plow, was so badly injured
by tightening that his life is despaired of
Collections in the police court the past
month were S731-a larger amount than was
ever realized before.
An amusement company with capital stock
of 100000, is being organized here for the pur-
pose of encouragement to amusementS of every
description, building pavillions at different
points in the state for summer enter,
VI
business in general. Citizens from all parts of
the state are among its members. Mr.. Charles
Benton, of Dallas, is the originator of the
scheme, "A charter is to be applied for to-mOr-
row.
j. c. Crawford, John Churchfreed, w. A.
Killough, H. A. HOuks and Mat. Clark, of
Decatur, commissioners from Wise county. are
in the city Inspecting the Dallas county jail, to
see if Wise county shall have one like it. They
are being .chaperOned over the state by j. j.
Ligon, of Palestine.
Joel F. McGreegor, a capitalist of Sheffield,
England, is in the city. He is prospecting for
Texas investments.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-08-09
The Irish League.

NEW YORK, August 1.-The execu-
tive council of the Irish National
League of America met to-day. There
were also present Patrick Eagan and
Mathew Norris, of Ireland, and Rev.
Chas. O'Reilly, of Detroit, treasurer
of the National League of America.
President Alexander Sullivan was in
the chair, and the league disposed of
large amount of business and
received reports from various
sections of the country.
Among the subjects considered
was that of so-called land grabbing in
the southern and western states and
territories by English aristocrats and
English corporations. A committee
was appointed to secure complete
report in each state and territory of
the quantity of land purchased, the
names of purchasers showing whether
such purchasers are citizens of the
United States.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-08-09

then they should be let out once day
at least for half hour or so, that they
may get fresh vegetable food and in
s3ctS. No better or more powerful
disinfectant is known than crude car
bolic acid, Sprinkle it about the hen
house and on the under side of the
roosts; it will prevent disease and
make your chickens healthy. If the
poulterer feeds too many onions the
eggs will taste Of them. Fed moder-
ately, chopped up raw, nothing is bet
ter for laying fowls. For young
chicks prepare food mixtures but a
few minutes before feeding, to avoid
fermentation. Feed five or six times
per day. If you have plenty of milk,
divide with the fowls. 1t is good for
both young and old. Have you sown
any sunfower seed? If not, there is
yet time.
Charcoal for Sick Animals.-In nine
cases out of ten, remarks an exchange,
when an animal is sick, the digestion
is wrong Charcoal is the most eff
ticient and rapid curative. The hired
man came in with the intelligence
that one of the finest COWS was very
sick, and a kind neighbor proposed
the usual drug and pOisons. The
owner being i'll and unable to eX-
anime the COW, concluded that the
trouble came from over-eating, and
ordered a teaspoonful of pulveriZed
charcoal to be given in water. 1t was
mixed, placed in a junk bottle, the
head turned downward. In five min
utes improvement was visible, and in
a few hours the animal was in the
pasture quietly grazing. Another in
stance of equal success occurred with
young heifer which had become
badly bloated by eating green apples
after a hard wind. The bloat was so
severe that the sides were as hard as
a barrel. The old remedy, saleratus,
was tried for correcting the acidity.
But the attempts at putting it down
always resulted in coughing, and it
did little good. Half teaspoonful
of fresh powdered charcoal was given.
In six hours all the appearance of the
bloat was gone. and the heifer was
well,
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-08-09
Catholic Temperance Convention.

NEW YORK, August delegates
to the Catholic Total Abstinence
Union of America convention met in
Brooklyn to-day. This is their thir-
teenth anniversary convention, and
delegates were present from all parts
of the country. After assembling the
delegates proceeded to the Cathedral,
where solemn high mass was cele-
brated, and Bishop Laughlin made a
brief a dress of welcome and encour-
agement. The hedelegates, who numbered
$50, preceded by a band of music and
escorted by band of uniformed ca
diets from Philadelphia, then marched
to the meeting hall, where the conven-
tion organized. Rev. Joseph B. Col
ton, of Winona, Mimi, president of
the national union, presided, and
Philip A. Nolan, secretary, recorded
the credentials received and they
were referred to a committee, after
which the order of business was en-
tered upon.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-08-09
Death of Adams, the Press Maker.

NNs I1.J 1hOlilbOIs OulJ AV'l
Isaac Adams, the inventor of the
Adams power printing press, died
at his residence in Sandwich, on
Thursday, the 10Th. He had been
sick for about two months, but was
not regarded as near his end. He
passed away suddenly, at last, shortly
after having made an inquiry con-
cerning dinner. Isaac Adams was
born in Rochester in 1902, and was a
descendant of Rev. Joseph Adams, of
Newington, who died a century ago.
He early learned the trade of cabinet
maker, but about 1924 removed to
Boston, where he worked in ma
chine shop and became a thorough
mechanic. In 1880 he invented
and perfected the power printing
press which bears his name, and
which is still in use, substantially the
same in principle as it was half CEN
tury ago. In connection with his
brother Seth he was engaged in the
manufacture of printing presses in
Boston for many years. On retiring
from the business he removed to
Sandwich, where he lived ever after
ward, becoming large real estate
owner in that town. He represented
that town in the legislature two or
three years, when he refused to draw
pay for any days on which he was not
present in the house. lie leaves a
wife and three sons.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-08-09

SOUTH CAROLINA continues to be
greatly agitated on the speakership
question. Congressman Dibble and
Tillman have been raked fore and aft
by the press of the state, but still adj
here to their determination to vote
for Randall. Mr.. Hemphill, of the
fifth district, is for Carlisle and
against Randall Representative
Dargan says he will not vote for Ran
dali if every Democrat in the house
does. Two other members have not
committed themselves, but are sup
posed to be against Randall. Con-
sidering the storm of opposition that
has been raised, the News and Courier
thinks Dibble and Tillman will ex-
perience a change of heart.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-08-09
Something About Bread Making.

By the process of bread making it
is intended to convert the flour OF
certain grains into cellular struct-
ure, in which it is most easily chew
ed, saturated with the fluids of the
mouth, and digesJed. In order to ar
rive at this end, alcoholic fermenta
tion is resorted to from olden times,
by introducing the same in dough by
means of brewers yeast. Thus a
small part of the flour is converted
into glucose, which again is trans
formed into alcohol and carbonic
acid. The former is recognized by
it's peculiar vinous odor, eXhaled by
the leaves, when sufficiently raised.
Both gases produce the raising of
the dough, that is the porous and
spongy appearance.
By this fermentation the flour not
only loses weight but the bread also
attains qualities which may injure
the process of digestion.
In order to evade these inconven-
FENCES chemists hayelong ago searched
to impart the spongy structure to the
dough by other means than yeast, re-
Spectiyely by substaneeSe volving gas
eouS bodies, or which in the ovens are
transformed into gases themselves.
To the best known belong the bicar-
Donate of soda and cream of tartar,
certainly well known to all house
wives. And with regard to most of
the baking powders Of the trade, they
are mainly preparations containing
these substances. However, 1t can
not be said of any of them that they
exert beneficial influence on the sys-
tenn, not to speak of the adulterations
to which most of them have lately
been subjected.
We are glad to learn that Professor
E. n. HorSford, of Cambridge, Mass,
who held the chair of chemistry in
Harvard University, invented some
time since, a baking preparation form
ing an exception to those spoken of,
which has already attained universal
reputation.
The idea by which Professor Hors-
ford was guided, was not only to fur
nish substitute for brewers yeast,
but also to provide those nutritious
constituents of the flour lost in the
bran in the process of boiling. These
are the so-called phosphates which are
also the nutritiye salts of meat, and
of the utmost Importance for the
building up of the organism. If we
take into consideration that the nutri-
tive value of wheaton -four is from 12
to Is per cent less than of the wheat
grain, and that this loss is now re-
stored by Professor Horsford's inven-
ton, then we must look upon it as of
the greatest national economic i'm
portance. AS Justus Won Liebig said:
"The result is the same as if the fer
tility of our wheat fields had been in
creased by one-seventh or one-eighth.
COlliery Strike.
DETROIT, Mich, August 1.-The en-
tire force of 400 men engaged at the
Republic mine, at Humboldt, struck
to-day for an advance in wages of
1215 cents. The president of the
company shut down the mine at once,
and told the men to confer with the
executive committee at Cleveland.
There is much excitement, but no dis
order prevails. The men express a
determination to hold firmly together
and compel the. company to accede to
their demands
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-08-09
Those Terrible Dollars.

WASHINGTON, August l. = The
Star says the accumulation of
silver dollars has become so great, it
is now quite serious question as
how to dispose of them. All storage
capacity of the various vaults and the
subtreasury, and throughout the
country, is overtaxed and the addi-
tional vaults built recently are also
full. The last congress appropriated
100000 for the purpose OF de-
fraying the cost of provid-
ing additional storage room, nut no
place have yet been selected where
the new vault will be built, and the
entire matter is held in abeyance until
the supervising architect can report
upon the most available place where
there is extra room in public buildings.
1t is probable a vault will be built in
the basement of the treasury depart
ment. The basement under the east
wing has never been excavated. and a
vault can be built there.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-08-09
An Unjust Tax,

To the Editor of The Statesman:
The board of education has an
nounced that there will be $1,400,0OO
to distribute among the different
counties, cities and towns for school
purposes. This will give $3.50 per
capita to the children of the state
from taxation, the other half from
the interest on bonds, notes, ETC., re-
presenting land that has been sold.
The scholastic population of Travis
county is in round numbers 5000. She
receives from the state treasury $22,-
500, or $11,250 from the amount she
pays in.
She pays into the treasury for school
purposes as follows:
Il ad valorem tax, $33, 3,698. E. $8424.50
a occupation tax, $19,512..... 4878.O0
Poll tax zo0U.OO
Total. SIS, ,952.5 sc
or $4702.50 more than she receives
from the states school tax money.
1t has already been demonstrated
how the smaller counties have the ad-
vantage of the larger ones in having
large county funds and few children
to provide for, such as San Patricio,
with eighteen dollars per capita; JEFF
ferson, with ten Newton with
seven dollars and fifty cents, etc.
The advocates of the proposed con-
stitutional amendments ask the peo-
pie not only to continue this injus-
tice, but to treble the amount paid
out, to swell the treasures of other
counties twice and three times as
rich in school funds as is Travis.
The same rule applies to other
counties, and the sincere friends of a
school system that, to be permanent,
must be administered with some sort
of justice to the tax payer, have just
cause to be alarmed at the prospective
adoption of that amendment which
proposes to open the door for a spe-
cific state tax of 20 cents. Let the
people split this proposed amendment
and vote against the specific state tax,
and in favor of local taxation that
will operate justly upon all counties
and insure economy.
The county assessor, the county
treasurer, the county judge, the col
lector, ETC., will have no perQuisites
and little to do in the event we Sc
cure an exclusively local system of
taxation. New Hampshire, Della
ware, Iowa, Pennsylvania and Mas
sachusettS have no state tax what
ever.
These facts are given, not with a
view of prejudicing anybody against
the small counties, as has been
charged, but to show that expert
ence has demonstrated that local tax
alton is the only way by which the
wants and necessities of the various
counties can be met, and that the
smaller, less wealthy and less popu-
lous counties are in better condi-
tion to demand local taxation.
The experience which in the past
has led every state with a good sys-
tenn up to local taxation, making the
principal revenue derivable from
this source, cost the various states
hundreds of millions, and Texas can
take advantage of it at little or no
cost.
Former legislatures have dealt
with this question as if each county
would continue apace with the 9TH
ers in wealth, population, etc., and
the present inequality consists in the
fact that the state has given the same
amount of land to one county for a
local fund Q7OO acres) with only 100
children as it has given to another
with 5000 children. XIX.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-08-09
DOuble.Team TrOtting.
breeders Gazette.

lDTttucTo 1dLtlIt'I
A great deal of wonder is being
expressed by the public generally at
the mile in 2:15115 made by Mr.. Van
derbilt'S pair of mares, Maud S. and
Aldine; but careful investigation of
the matter is all that is needed to
show that while the performance is
undoubtedly remarkably good one,
it is not greater than might have been
expected from the team which made
it. The fact is, that for matter of
nearly twenty years not the slightest
attention has been paid to double
team trotting, while the efforts to
make horses go fast mile in single
harness have been unremitting. The
first that was done in the way of
record-breaking by doubletea was
on May 10, 1862, when Mr.. Robert
Bonner drove Lady Palmer and Flat
bush Maid mile to road wagon in
2:26. Three days later they went two
miles in 5:O14, the latter quarter
being trotted in thirty-three seconds.
Now, at that time 2:1S4 was the
fastest record ever made by a
trotter, and yet these two mares,
neither of whom could beat a:25
singly, pulled wagon the last quarter
of a two-mile heat at 2:12 gait-a
rate of speed that it is doubtful if
any horse then on the turf could
equal. This fact should have taught
people that two horses of similar
temperament and gait could speed
much faster together than singly, but
it does not seem to have done so, and
as the driving of double teams for
speed was about this time abandoned
the old fallacy that the fastest time
must be looked for from a trotter in
single harness retained its sway.
But the old superstition that a trot-
ter can go faster in single than in
double harness is rapidly be-
coming a thing of the past.
People see horses that cannot for the
life of them beat 2:25 alone
reducing those figures several
seconds when driven with suitable
mates, and they begin to realize that,
with division of the weight and the
constant presence of horse to incite
the competition of real racing, it is
but natural that higher rate ofspeed
should be attained. Nobody believes
Aldine capable Of trotting alone IN
2:151s, and yet Mr.. Vanderbilt is
authority for the statement that she
kept her traces frightened all the way
during her famous mile with Maud S.
In nearly every instance of remarka-
BILE fast time by teams the records
made in single harness by the horses
composing them have been beaten.
That the 'best on record" will even
tually be made by team of trotters
is, not, in view of recent develop
ments, a matter of much doubt,
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-08-09

Two suggestive inquiries, says an
exchange, protrude themselves in con-
nection with the late watering-place
junketings of Mrs. Langtry and her
young man Gebhardt. The first: Will
she, after that sort of thing, under
take to play star theatrical engage
ments in this country next fall ?
Second: If she does, will American
ladies and gentlemen constitute her
audiences2 Why, of course they will.
The more she and her Freddie do this
way, the more curiosity there will be
TO see her, and the most perfect ladies
and gentlemen are endowed with just
as much curiosity, and even more,
than the rest of mankind. They do
not care to see her acting, but they do
want to see the best advertised actress
of the day. 1t shows the power of
the press, and the sulartness of mana
gers in securing it without cost,
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-08-09

ATTENTION is called to the admir-
able communication, on this page
from a well-informed gentleman, as
TO the proposed school tax amend
msnt. The injustice of the proposed
tax is clearly set forth, showing how
absurd is the proposition. 1t win be
seen that the tax is now enough for
conducting schools in all the
countries, where the bounties of the
state have been and are properly
guarded. Certainly it is not the duty
of the masses to take care of interests
turned over to profiigate agencies,
But read the communication and see
additional reason for voting rs THE
STATESMAN has advised.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-08-09

OF fifty-nine fire insurance compa-
nies of New York and Brooklyn
from which the state superintendent
has received reports of the last six
months business, twenty-eight
show an excess of expenditure oyer
income. In some cases the difference
is considerable. The explanation Of
fered in behalf of several of the
companies is that their expenditures
include dividends.