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

gotiated for the transfer referred
to, and hold It =, upon
the constructed road from the Pacific
to the Rio Grande. Whether the title
is good is to be seen. The matter will
undoubtedly be brought before the
next congress, and then there will be
a tedious struggle between the oppo-
nents of the railway company and
those inimical to the grant. A scheme
in the interest of the company was
brought before the last congress, but
it failed. Besides the Texas & Pa
cifc grant, there are good many
other land grants to railways,
that are considered forfeited,
and there will be gen.
eral move against them all. Some of
them were granted score of years
ago, and have never been utilized in
any way. They cannot be opened to
settlement because of the color of a
claim which the railways, to which
they were granted, have to them.
Congressman Holman, few months
ago, in an able and instructive paper,
which was widely published, showed
how the people have been wronged by
these land grants. The record is one
that ought to bring the blush OF
shame to the cheeks of those legisla-
tors who were instrumental in hay
ing the grants made. 1t seems that
every bill making grant of public
lands to corporation was passed dur
ing the last six days of a session, I'M
der suspension of the rules, and
without debate. 1t must be admitted
that this showing is calculated to eX.
cite suspicious of crooked
ness. 1t is proper to look
into them all and save to the
government such lands as are illegally
withheld. We are not in condition
to say the grant to the Texas &
Pacific was not properly conveyed tt
the Southern Pacific. The lands were
granted to the former, and that com
pany did not build the road beyond
the Rio Grande, but the South
ern Pacific company did built
a road, connecting with the Texas &
Pacific. over the line contemplated
and the Texas & Pacific company
may have had the power to legal!
convey the grant. tits different will
such companies as have not bull
roads themselves, and where othe
companies have not built roads on ar
rangment over lines stipulated in tn,
grants. But the whole question will
be Investigated, and proper light will
be thrown on all the cases.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-09-13
SOuTHERN DEMOCRATS.

The New York Times, in noticing
the recent consultation with Malone
in Washington, denounces the con-
nection OF the administration WITH
this gang as "a fatal alliance" and it
warns Mr.. Arthur, that if he secure
nomination through Malone and
his Southern associates, by no means
may an election follow. In fact it
says the connection of Malone, Chal-
mers and others with his candidacy
would go far towards making his
election impossible" The Times
goes on to say that the Southern
question" has ceased to be serious
one; has lost Importance; that the
country is now so large that sectional
supremacy" is no longer possible to
the South, and that, whatever the
faults of Democratic administration,
it would now be essentially 4 nation
al administration" and the former
necessity for preventing the election
of Democratic president by almost
any means has passed away. 1t says:
The country is not prepared, there
fore, to accept with approval, or with
| patience, movement to break up the
Southern Democracy by an alliance
with such men as Malone and Chal-
mers. Such an alliance would be ia
tai to President Arthur if he should
be able to get the nomination by help
of it. The chief question which the
people of the United States are now
considering is how to secure an hon.
est, intelligent administration of the
national government, and they do not
seem that that question presents it
self in any different form in the
South than in any other part of the
country. Nor do they see how its
settlement in any right way can be
promoted by giving influence and
power to such INSCRIPTIONS trick
sters, political hacks, and dishonest
schemers as Malone and Chalmers.
In noticing such expression on the
part of the Times, the Baltimore Sun
gives some advice very similar to that
which THE STATESMAN urges. 1t
says: "There is a most significant
abandonment of the solid South" cry
here, which should not merely serve
as a warning to Mr.. Arthur against
the disgraceful alliance rebuked by
the Times, but act as an encourage
ment to Southern Democrats to de-
clare their honest preferences before
the country instead of yielding to the
representations of selfish and
crafty Northern Democrats as
to what it will be best for them
to pretend to the North they prefer
The bloody shirt banner is furled, and
the solid South" bugaboo dissolved
Southern men are simply American
citizens. entitled to their preferences
as much as any others, and they will
command respect and alarm nobody
by honestly declaring what their de
sires are. Let them remember this
and not crawl on their bellies into
any more Democratic conventions
but walk into the next one with theil
feet on the floor and their heads erect
prepared to resent any suggestion
from Northern politicians that it is
not safe for them to participate in
freely, fully and effectively in theil
party's nominations.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-09-13

TEXAS offers greater inducements
to immigrants than any other portion
of America. 1t has mild and equa.
ble climate; it is intimately connected
with all the great markets CT the
world, and it has an unequaled soil
for a greater variety of products than
can be profitahly produced in any
other part of the globe. 1t has inn
inense stores of mineral wealth and
abundance Of fine water power.
Moreover, the people of Texas are
eager to welcome all new corners; and
all that now appears in the way of
greater prosperity and advancement
is, that the executive arm of the law
seems to admit its lack of capacity to
enforce and protect certain property
rights in the state.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-09-13
Order of CIncInnatus.

CINCINNATI, September 6.-The pa
rade of the Order of Cincinnatus to-
night brought out, apparently, the
entire population of the city, or at
least, as much of it as could be packed
on the sidewalks and in the windows.
doorways, .house-tops, and special
platforms built for the purpose. The
largest of these was one on Fifth
street, opposite the government build
ing. Here room for 1000 was pre-
pared. The tedious delay in starting
made the display very late. 1t didn't
begin to move until after Q O'Clock.
and reached Fourth and, Vine at 1920,
when the head of the procession reach
ed the postofiice- Three patrol wagons
preceded the first float, side by side.
to clear the street of people, who had
occupied the entire space. The crush
was terrible in some places. TWENTY
five floats illustrating ancient Roman
history were exhibited.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-09-13
Ben's Guest.

Boston, September 7.-Chief JUS
tice Coleeidge is to-day guest of
Gov. Butler. After breakfast the
governor and party went to the state
house, where Chief Justice Marion
and the other justices of the supreme
and other courts were present, to-
gether with the officers of state and
other prominent men. An informal
presentation was followed by an in
spection of the building. After lunch
Butler and Coleridge were driven to
Harvard College and through the
GU ln11 rlas,
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-09-13

Reading and the baltimore & Ohio
roads entrance to Boston over the
New York s. New England road.
President Cover, of the Philadelphia
Il Reading railroad, made traffic
contract with the Pennsylvania,
Stonington and New England roads
agreeing to give million tons year
for eastern consumers. General Man.
ager Swan said this step meant imme-
date completion of the Pennsylvania,
Stonlngton and New England road,
which required only $4,000 to COM
plete seventy-eight miles, and it also
meant the immediate building of the
Storm King bridge across the Hudson
river, which would make an air line
to Boston over the New York and
New England road TO Harrisburg,
Penn, and would shorten the distance
from east to west over 100 miles, and
furnish the east with coal and cotton
without break of bulk-in fact estab-
lish short and unbroken route fr.Hn
California to the cast. The confer
ence will be continuetlagain Monday.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-09-13
Lines on the Death of Ex-Chief jus
tice George f.. Moore.

l seek, however weak, with heart sincere,
To Irvine one wreath to deck his honored
brow.
Whose memory, bright, the country will re-
we're,
While love of worth controls mankind, as
now.
His name is written on her proudest page,
Indented there in characters of light
A soldier true, iurist, just and sage,
He leaves no blot to dim his record bright.
Beloved the most by all who knew him best,
The first sad tear he ever caused-Or sigh
Was when he laid him down in death, to rest
And she, who loved him dearest, saw him
die.
"A. 7. MONROE.
SAN PEDRO, Houston County, Texas,
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-09-13
A WEST VIRGINIA paper discusses

A WEST VIRGINIA paper discusses
the propriety of using newspapers as
means of education in public schools.
1t is held that where it has been tried,
the newspaper experiment hes worked
we'll; it has aroused an interest in the
child's mind to passing events; to the
history of to-day as it is being written.
This serves to quicken the perceptive
faculties; to sharpen the wits, and
aids in making the embryo citizen
wide awake and progressive. One of
the most successful teachers the writ
er ever knew, used to open his school
each morning with the newspaper. He
would have first one apd then another
reader, and the pupils were not
only deeply interested in the in
formation obtained, the points
furnishing matter for intel
ligent discussion afterwards, but
they were learned to catch on to all
false spelling and grammatical con-
struction, of which there is usually
enough in daily paper. The pupils
grew under it and learned to take
hold of the questions of the day, and
they became thinkers as well as
pupils. The minds of that teachers
pupils were more enlarged in six
months than those of the ordinary
humdrum so-called instructor in six
years. But this does not prove that
we are to have the newspapers in the
public schools of the state. or of Aus
tin. 1t might advance children too
rapidly,
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-09-13
Mails Lost.

ST. JOHNS, N. s., September THE
Canada mails were all lost; nothing
saved. The passengers were dragged
ashore at Gull island by ropes. The
ship struck at 3 o'clock in the morn
ing during dense fogs. heavy rain
falling, with high winds and sea.
The steamers head was east by south
when she struck. A portion of the
steamers stern was out of the water,
the forward part smashed, and the
cargo floating around. The steamer
Cadet, with all the passengers. and
crew, left the Trepassen at noon,
passed Cape Race at 2:30, and is due
at st. Johns at o'clock this evening.
Capt. Farquhar remains with the
wreck.
A small fishing vessel capsized in
a squat ON the Goth of last month on
the coast of Labrador, and Capt.
Whalen and crew were drowned.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-09-13
Chosen Friends.

CHICAGO, September 6.-The SUI
preme council Of the order of Chosen
Friends elected supreme officers this
morning. Howard M. Morse, New
York, councillor; G. d. w. Rowell,
California, assistant councillor; G.
Bradford, Indiana, vice councillor; G..
B. Lewis, Indiana, recorder; Watson
J. Newton, Washington, treasurer;
j. r. Vannest, Ohio, marshal; VIM.
Baumberg, Texas, warden; w. B. Will
son. New Jersey, guard; S. Nickerson,
Indiana, sentry; E. E. Edwards, Mich
igan, w. r. d. Gasgoyne. Virginia, o.
A. Crast, Missouri, B. T. Rogers, In
diana, John Payne, Indiana, trustees.
Representatives from twenty-seven
states present. Membership, $4,000.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-09-13
Public Opinion.

ST. LOUIS, September THE public
opinion here on the verdict in the
Frank ames trial is somewhat varied,
while all concur that it is a misfor-
tune that the train robber was so
promptly acquitted. Many insist that
according to the evidence and instruc-
tions of the court it was impossible
for the jury to have acted otherwise.
Others again are outspoken in their
convictions that it will be impos-
sible to convict Frank James in west
ern Missouri, no matter what the
evidence might be. Some merchants
believe the verdict will injuriously
effect the standing of Missouri in
other states, especially East, but the
more conservative do not think SO.
The general belief is that the verdict
is to be deplored from its possible eff
fectS abroad
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-09-13

TIE advertisement of the Capital
state Fair is intended to give only an
insight to the occasion. This fair is
70 be the grandest exhibition ever held
in Texas. Premiums in all the de-
partments have been doubled, and the
indications are that displays in all the
departments viii be full and complete.
BESIDES the agricultural. mechanical,
industrial and live stock exhibits,
many peculiar attractions are to be
added. The steer roping will be most
exciting, since contract has already
been made to secure drove of the
widest broad-horns from western
ranch.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-09-13
Railroad Rates Coming Down.

LITTLE Rock, Ark, September g.
The Little Rock, Mississippi River
and Texas and the st. Louis and Texas
Narrow Gauge railroad have begun
cutting passenger rates from Little
Rock to Louisville, using the Illinois
Central to Odin and the Ohio and
Mississippi railroad from that point.
The rate by the Memphis and Little
Rock and Louisville and Nashville is
$I8.15. Round trip tickets are sold
only one!day in two weeks. The other
ronte will sell at $l8 every day. Ar
engagements are being made by the
new combination to reduce freight
and passenger rates to all competing
points in Arkansas and Texas and
also north.
To-day the st. Louis and Iron
Mountain sold 5000 acres of timber
land in Hot Springs county to Dav-
EXPORT, Ia, parties.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-09-13

WHILE Judge Thurman takes the
stump in support of the Ohio Demo-
cratic ticket, his son, Allen G. Thur
man, Jr., continues to loudly express
the hope that Hoadly may be defeated
by fifty thousand majority.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-09-13

WHEN the medical department Of
the State University is established,
homeopathists are going to demand
very loudly that they have an equal
showing with the allopaths. Ii both
get in, then the medical school will
be apt to explode. 1t will be filed
with two internal combustible ma
tcrials, which, when combining. must
be powerfully explosive. But that
makes no difference. The homeo-
paths are going to have recognition,
or there will be war, on the outside,
to the scalpel.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-09-13
Yellow Fever.

PENSACOLA, September 6.-House
to house inspection at Pensacola has
been discontinued. The fever is get
ting worse at the navy yard-six
deaths within the last twenty-four
hours. The Gordon around the navy
yard is being improved wherever pos
Sible
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-09-13
A War Dance.

GREY CLIFF, Mont, Septem-
Der THE third section of the Vii
lard party arrived here this evening
in time to witness the war dance Of
the Crow Indians, in which a hundred
took part. The ceremonies were con-
Quoted tonight by Chief Twobelly.
The town was alive with Indians.
The members of the tribe numbered
no less than 1000. All the passengers
on the train, including the ladies, left
the train and walked some distance
to the open prairie, where the usual
grounds for such occasions were light
ed with an Indian bonfire, and the
savages were dancing in their cos
TUNES.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-09-13
OF the Maine LIQUOR law N,

OF the Maine liquor law Neal Dow
is reported as saying: "Not a distil-
lery, not even a saloon, unless a jug
hid away in an old ash barrel in the
back yard may be called saloon, was
to be seen in all the state. Under it's
working the improvement Of the peo-
pie morally, intellectually and finan-
cially, has been most marked and the
state treasury has surplus" The
old fellow is, as contemporary puts
it, a dishonest crank" who has every
opportunity to know, and who does
know that the internal revenue de-
partment issued last year 91S retail
liquor licenses to Maine dealers, who
thus paid for the privilege, so far as
the United States could grant it, of
selling liquor for one year. AS to the
state having surplus, it appears that
the total Indebtedness of Maine, state,
county and municipal, was 1872, 4O68 $50
in 1880, against $16,624,624 in 1870, in
both cases after deducting sinking
funds. These facts show how near
the truth the chief of the Incorporate
prohibitiOnist keeps while attempting
to interfere with popular tastes.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-09-13
Freight Rates.

NEW YORK, September 6.-The
joint executive committee on freight
department and trunk lines met to-
day in the Office of Commissioner Fink
to Investigate the charges of rate cut
ting made by the New York Central
vs. the Western connection of trunk
lines. The charges were all Of a gen.
eral character and do not concede
any particular tone. The cutting
was shown to have been confined
principally to eastbound freight. The
subject will be further discussed to-
morrow. Steps will be taken to Sc
cure more efficient means of main
tanning rigidly the established rates.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-09-13
RaIIroad ConsoIidatlon.

NEW YORK, September IA con-
ference was held here yesterday be-
tween General Manager Stanton, of
the Pennsylvania, Stonington 81
New England road, and General
Manager Swan, of the Storm King
bridge road, relative to the placing of
a gentleman from the Storm King
road in the directory of the Pennsyl-
yania, Stonington q New England
road, the election of G. i. Hall as
president of the two roads, and to con-
solidate the interests. The object of
this is to give the Philadelphia s.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-09-13
Fire at Long Rranch.

HUNTERS POINT, September T.
About 2 o'clock this morning a fire
broke out in one of the out buildings
of the Long Branch Hotel, used as a
laundry and sleeping apartment for
musicians. The musicians barely es-
capped with their lives. Several were
almost suffocated and had to be carried
out. One named Adolph Frederick
was burned to a crisp. The musical in
struments and music were totally con-
sumed, also the bathing pavilion and
laundry.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-09-13
To Heaven Direct.

NEW ORLEANS, September THE
Times-Democrat Plaquemine special
says: Henry Dekerson, colored, was
hanged to-day for the murder of A. H.
Riley last spring, at Alhambra, on
the plantation of Henry Steele, in a
drunken row. This morning Decker
son said he killed Riley and was sorry
for it, as Riley was good friend of
his. Whiskey did it. He was going
to heaven direct, and was not afraid
to die.
GREENSBORO, Ala, September L.
Frank Spoon, colored, was hanged
to-day for the murder of his wife. He
said he was prepared to go to God,
who would do him justice. He met
his fate without tremor.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-09-13

A BILL has been introduced in the
Italian parliament to secure to women
the right of suffrage. Under its pro-
visions a woman voter must be
twenty-one years of age, pay an as
sessed tax, never less than five francs,
and must be able to read and write.
She can vote either in person or send
her vote, duly certified, in sealed
envelope, by third person. This
bill, which gives italian women the
right to vote, a lso makes them ineli-
gible to hold office.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-09-13

MANY Democrats of Ohio are de-
handing the withdrawal of Hoadly
from the ticket. They contend that
his union with Mclean for the defeat
of Pendleton units him for the place.
The defeat of the civil service re-
former, who worked up the plan by
which the rascals are to be kept in,
instead of being turned out, properly
enough might be accomplished, but
the manner of the attempt is to be
condemned.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-09-13

HAS the city government no con-
Wet force even with which to grade
the street north of the temporary cap
itol; or does the whole truth of this
disgracefuI neglect dwell In the fact
that no alderman owns the temporary
capitol as a residence?
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-09-13
Wrecked.

INDIANAPOLIS, September 6.-This
morning near Waldron, on the G. G. 1. &
l.. Z. railroad, a freight train was late
and stopped for water, the train
stretching back, on the Cams creek
bridge. The engineered the freight
following did not see the signals of
the first, as the lanterns were sbidden
by the bridge, and crashed into it,
wrecking thirteen cars, ana piling
them up in the creek. The bridge
was also destroyed. The engineer
and fireman of the second train were
both saved by jumping. James Dill,
head brakeman, and man named
Conner were both killed. Loss, $780,
000
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-09-13

IT might do for the millennium to
I've inaugurated without delay. The
disturbed condition of the physical as
well as the moral world is getting
alarming. Together with wars and
earthquakes and cyclones and the
Ohio campaign and probable legis-
l'iive session the end might properly
intervene.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-09-13

Ex-Congressman Ben Butterworth
says that the prohibition movement
in Ohio will not affect the regular
tickets one way or the other in that
state. Butterworth is a good stump
speaker, but not much of a prophet.
The temperance men may stand by
their respective parties, but the pro-
hibition movement has driven the sa-
loon interest to the support of Hoad-
ly. Butterworth will find out his
mistake when the ballots are counted.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-09-13
Fire in the Chicago Stock Yards.

CHICAGO, September 6.-Late this
afternoon a fire was discovered in the
Wabash division of the stock yards,
in the cattle sheds, and but for the
favorable wind the entire yards, con-
tanning 100000 worth of stock,
would have been destroyed. AS it
was, the firemen were only able 10 stay
the flames after fifteen sheds, cover
ing two and one-half acres, had been
consumed. 1t was very exciting
work for a time getting the maddened
animals out of harms way. Loss on
building, $4,000; on stock. $1,000.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-09-13
Goyernment Telegraph Lines.

TOLEDO, September THE Toledo
produce exchange adopted a report OF
its committee, recommending the pas
sage by Congress of law providing
for the construction of government
postal telegraph lines, on the basis of
the proposed bill of Senator Edmunds,
The report opposes the purchase by
government of existing lines, or any
that may hereafter be built by private
companies, and favors the establish
ment of an Independent system, to be
extended as fast as the business in
terests of the country may require.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-09-13
Church Property Sold at Auction.

LAWRENCE, Mass, September g.
st. Mary's church parsonage. and five
acres of land, the property of the
Augustinian society, valued at $685.
600, was sold at auction, under $780,
600 mortgage, held by the Essex saw
ings bank, and purchased by Peter
Hollihan, representing st. Mary's So
ciety, for $72,5OO, a sum just sufficient
to pay the mortgage and accumulated
interest, leaving nothing for the de-
positors. st. Mary's society is COM
posed mainly of Augustinian priests