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The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1883-12-13

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The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-05-03

THE war between Chilli and Peru
has changed, to a very marked de-
gree, the course of trade. Bolivia had
four good seaports, but by treaty VIC
lation, through the bad advice of
Peru, she became involved and her
sea line has been taken by Chilli, while
Peru, of course, has had both eyes
badly BACKED. The war, because of
this bad faith, was begun in 1879.
The Bolivians, being shut off from
the Pacific, have established friendly
relations with the Argentine Repub-
lie, and much of their produce is
now taken in carts to Santos,
thence by rail to Corrientes, thence
by the Parana river to the Argentine
marts and the Atlantic. Bolivia pro-
duces extraordinarily good coffee, corn
and wheat, tobacco and cocoa. The
silver mines of Potosi alone, worked
without any but the crudest ma
chinery, have produced $7,OOO,OOO,OOO
since the Spaniards first went to the
country. Other mines produced from
$16OOO,OOO to $1S,OOO,OO0 a year. A
great deal of copper is also obtained
in Bolivia. Since Bolivian produce
has been going east, the Chilians have
somewhat modified their seventies,
and negotiations for permanent I'M
derstanding have been going on with
out any definite results as yet stated.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-05-03

JOHN BRIGHT surprised everybody
the other day at an after dinner table
talk by asserting that the completion
of the proposed channel tunnel would
do much to promote the interests of
peace between England and France.
He reminded the company that in
1851, when the great exhibition was
held, the duke of Wellington caused
extensive precautions to be taken to
guard against the danger supposedly
to result from the presence of so many
Frenchmen. Though that seems a
strange idea now, there was almost a
feeling of disappointment at that
time to find that the precautions were
unnecessary. When steamboats, be-
gan to appear in the channel alarmists
raised the same cry of danger, but
since the day of steamboats, the rule
of peace had continued to grow
stronger. Said Mr.. Bright:
al venture to say further. that
since the improved commercial rela-
tions between the two countries of
the last twenty-three years, there has
been more cordial feeling between the
people of England and the people of
France than had existed during the
preceding centuries, and do say that,
be it by steamboats,, be il by CONNER
cial relations, or be it by channel
tunnel, be it anything which will
bring the peoples of the continent into
cordial Communication with the
people of this country, that viii bt
much more likely to preserve peace
than any of those strange NOTIONS
that peace is to be preserved by
our being kept separate from them.
In conclusion, he stated that Loui:
Napoleon once said to him and Mr.
Golden that he wanted to abolish tn.
passport system and extend facilitie.
| for intercourse so that more French
men might visit England and NOR,
Englishmen go to France. The EN-
peror said: "What want is that tn,
two peoples shall be bound up so to
gether in their natures that it shall
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-05-03

THE st. Louis Republican calls at
tention to subject in which every
farmer ought to feel the very deepest
interest-the cultivation of grasses.
Texas is naturally y grazing country,
and, being so, it ought to be one of the
best for the artificial production of
grasses. AS long as the farmers re-
main content with coarse grasses
they will be compelled, here, as in
Missourisor anywhere else, to feed an
unnecessary amount of grain and
other rich material to secure some
where near the same quality of milk,
meat and butter obtained in
some countries on simple diet of
hay. The Swiss farmers, it is said,
feed only hay, and their meat and
dairy products are unsurpassed. We
agree with the Republican, that this
subject ought to receive careful atten-
ton and experiment. The grass crop
of the United States is the most valu-
able of all the crops grown, and, as it
furnishes more than one-half the SUBJ
sistence to the one hundred and thirty
million of domestic animals in the
land, no pains ought to be spared to
make it more valuable by improving
the quality of it. Good land
is quite as important in grass
culture as in grain raising, and there
is little doubt that all our grasses,
tho for simmer pasturage as well
as those for hay, may be made sweeter
and more nutritive by growing them
in the best soils and giving them care
full cultivation. If the grasses of
other countries be better than our
native grasses, then let us get the for
eign growth and experiment with it,
but if there be proper grasses growing
here, then let us nourish these and
make them more nutritious by cultiva-
ton. The grass grown in the Colora-
do valley with such satisfaction is one
of greatest promise. Its yield is
great, and it is believed by experienced
feeders that, when properly treated, it
maks hay equal to the best grown
in any country. 1t is also believed
that in the hands of careful horticul-
turists the wild rye and the rescue
grass-indigious to Texas soils, could
be made the finest of winter products,
yielding In the spring crops of hay OF
unsurpassed value for feeding purpo-
SaS.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-05-03
The Andaman Islanders.
TFrom Science.l


Owing to a singular practice of
adoption, it is rare to see a child above
six or seven years residing with its
parents. 1t is considered a compli-
ment for a married man, after his
visit, to ask his host for one of his
children. Indeed, the sol disant father
may, on similar occasion, pass the
child on further without referring to
the real parent. To prevent improper
flirtations among the lads and lassies,
they paint the suspected parties, one
red the other white; of course they
cannot mutually embrace without
partially exchanging color. Marriage
is forbidden among near relatives.
Relationships are traced in both lines,
and the system with reference to
either sex is identical; but the record
fails after three generations. Chill
dren are named before they are born,
after some friend of the parent, there
being no distinction of sex in these
titles.
Much ceremony is practiced in the
burial of the dead; infants being de-
posted under the hearth of the hut
where they died, and adults upon a
"machan" or platform in the Jungle,
or in a grave, Temporary migrations
in either case follow death, in order
to allow the spirit of the deceased full
range around the old hauntS. After a
proper time the dead are exhumed,
their bones cleaned and made into
lewelry and mementoes. The belief
in spirits is evident from the cere.
monies accompanying interments.
Friends at meeting stare at each
other until the younger speaks; rela-
tives embrace and howl hideously
For each particular kind of meeting
there is special form of salutation
in which tears form the chief ingre
dent.
Fire making is unknown: but tn,
modes of preserving the fire furnishes
by the active volcano of one of tn,
islands is very ingenious. Many mis-
statements have. been made concern
ing their former ignorance of fire.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-05-03

ted Irish blood, which gives me addi-
tional claims ON YOU"
Mrs. Parnell then placed the wreath
of laurel on the bust of George Wash
ington amid great enthusiasm, the
banner of Ireland being waved over
her head at the time.
Father Conaly, who had nominated
Byrne for president, solemnly urged
Sullivan to take the helm.
Mrs. Parnell said Sullivan would
give the new league the strength
of his invaluable service.
adding that as long as the conserva-
tveS controlled the policy of the new
league O'Donovan Rosa would have
to take back seat.
Thos. Noonan, secretary of the
Irish league, ilnplored Sullivan to
make one more sacrifice for his
country.
Sullivan came TO the front
of the stage and said he re-
cognized the voice of the people
was the voice of God and in obedi-
ence to the voice of Mrs. Parnell,
Messrs. Brennan. Egan and Red
path, and the voice of the convention.
he would consent to act temporarily
as the servant of the Irish people in
America, not as their leader.
Chairman Foran announced that
Mrs. Parnell had been elected
president of the ladies league
and called on Henry I. Sheridan, of
Chicago, to lead in the singing of
God Save Ireland" The song was
sung, the convention rising and join
ing in the chorus. At the conclusion
OF the singing the convention adj
iourned.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-05-03

THE MASTER of the American
steamship E. B. Ward, plying between
New Orleans and the Spanish Hon
duras, has complained to the govern
ment of an alleged outrage recently
perpetrated upon his vessel by DR..
Hammond, United States consular
agent at Truxillo. The sworn state
ment of the master recites that because
he asked the consular agent freight
charges on goods consigned to him,
the latter revenged himself by de-
tanning the vessel at Truxillo after
she had been loaded, her cargo con-
sisting of tropical fruits and other
perishable articles. The steamship
also carries the United States and
Spanish Honduras mails and they
have been delayed several times
similarly by Hammond, who threat
ened to repeat the act on every trip
The sworn deposition closes by stat
ing that the detention of a vessel by
aconsular agent at his viii and to suit
his own convenience, not only pre-
vents the arrival of mail on schedul,
time, but may result in great damag,
to freight and consequent financial
loss to shippers. The matter is being
fully Investigated by the government
and it is likely that several Other
smart consuls besides Hammond vii
receive their dues.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-05-03
EDITORIAL NOTES.

The Banner of Light asserts that
John Brown, the favorite of Queen
Victoria, was spiritual medium. He
was frequently controlled by the
spirit of Prince Albert, and was the
instrument used by the latter to COM
municate with his widow. The Ban
ner of Light editor is sure of this, be-
cause the prince told him so.
The Suez canal has become made
quate to the demands of commerce,
and shipping has of late suffered Sc
verely from getting blocked in pass
ing through. 1t is therefore proposed
to cut new channel between the
Mediterranean and the Red sea, and
several eminent engineers have start
ed for the purpose of finding whether
it is practicable to cut SWeetWater
canal between Alexandria and SueZ.
Such a canal would not only relieve a
congestion of traffic, but could be used
for the purpose OF irrigation.
Charles F. Freeman, the religious
fanatic of Pocasset, Massachusetts,,
who, in 1879, slew his little daughter
as a sacrifice to God, has been pro-
nounced sane, and will now have to
be tried on the pending Indictment
for murder. He now says that he was
instigated by the devil, and his religi
Gus belief is entirely overturned.
Mrs. Freeman, too, has renounced
the Second Advent delusion, and feels
more keenly than does her husband
the terrible manner of her child's
death. The attorney general will
bring the case to some final settle
ment before the supreme court at
Barnstable on May 1. Freeman will
probably be acquitted on the ground
of insanity, or be allowed to go on his
own recOgnizance.
Northern tourists on their way to
Florida and other southern regions
speak pityingly Of the piney sand bar
rens of southern Georgia as if they
were worthless district of the state
But the Atlanta Constitution comes
to the defense of it's barrenS by de-
claring that the whole region within
the reach of railroad is in process of
transformation, and in few years
will be vast truck farm. 1t says
1O8 bushels OF oats have been pro-
duced on an acre of this land at cost
not exceeding 500; 119 bushels of corn
have been produced on an acre at a
cost not exceeding $50; sweet pota-
toes, the best in the world, yield 500
bushels to the acre, and in many in
stances the net income from one acre
of watermelons is $40. If these be
samples of their capacity, the Georgia
sand barrenS are not to be so much
pitied after all.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-05-03

THE financial prospect of the cOun-
try is promising, the balance of trade
being now heavily in our favor, with
every prospect of increase. The ex-
ports of breadstuffs for March eX-
ceeded those of the same month last
year by nearly four and half mil
lions, the figures being 1902, 275.
against $12, 414,9O6. For three months,
ending March 81, the exports were
$49,410,862 this year, against 35.567,-
623 last year. For nine months, end
ing same time, the exports were 1857,
23S,418 this year, against $147,711,-
53S for same period last year
Here is an increase of nearly
$20,OOO,OOO in nine months.
Exports of provisions also show a
large increase in the last month, but
not in the preceding months. The
exports of provisions, tallow and
dairy products Of March, this year,
were $9,941,4 APO, against 1898, 1929 last
year. For the three months ending
March 81 exports of these articles
amounted to $3O,O5O,So3, against $780,
440,290 for the same period last year.
The current sets this way, with no
indications that it will cease to flow
in on US for another twelvemonth at
least. The finances of this country
must feel and respond to movement
of trade of this nature.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-05-03
TCouriier-Journal.1

Mr.. Porter, the protectionist agent
sent to England to write letters
against the British tariff 5ysten.
mourns over a group of Engkisb1
working people who make nails /.
hand at 81 week, and he tells Ameri-7
can workmen TO behold the awful
effects of free trade. Mr.. Porter and
the protective organs do not state
that grown men, IN New E,nGlanQ
mills are paid from 20 to 80 cents 3
day and children 10 to 10 cents; nq|
do these ardent lovers of the W5if
ingmen cite the fact that in German
where their wonderful system Of Pre-
lection is in full blast, and where al
the workingmen ought. according -
the protectionist leaders, to be getting
very high wages. the nail makers g6'|
the enormous pay of 30 cents III tWe| He|
hours, or $1.80 per week! This. we
repeat, in a country saturated viii.
protection. Why doesn't Mr.. Port +
visit Germany and write up Wqf
under a protective tariff I
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-05-03

SENATOR VEST tells st. Louis in
terviewer that "Ben Butler couldn't
carry Missouri if nominated by con-
vention every day between this and
the election. That sort of talk comes
from Republicans, not from Demo-
Gratis. Give us Carlisle or Morrison
or Cox for speaker and Mcdonald and
Cleveland on the presidential ticket,
and the result is assured"
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-05-03

The secretary of the interior has
made demand upon the Union Pa
cific railroad company for 81, 727, 742.54
claimed to be due the government.
The company disputes $6S0,91766 of
this amount, and the secretary prom
Uses that the payment of the uncon-
tested $1,036,824SS will not be con-
strued as waiver of any rights by
the company.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-05-03
Tobias Thompson was digging "a

Tobias Thompson was digging "a
well, when the earth began to cave
and buried him up to the neck. Mrs.
Haggerty saw what happened, got a
piece of tin waterpipe and handed it
to him and then screamed for help.
Thompson was soon buried so deep
that it took three hours to dig him
out, and all the time he breathed
through that pipe and without great
Distress W0man's Journal. Now,
suppose Mrs. Haggerty had been a
voter, and, just at the time the earth
began to cover Tobias, had been
whooping up the boys at the polls.
What would have become of Tobias ?
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-05-03

PRIOR to 1S20no statistics of immi-
grafton was kept, but it has been es-
tlmated that from 1889 to 1920 the
foreigners who came to the United
States reached 100000. From 1920 to
1882, 1857, ISL immigrants arrived.
Last year 7S8, 1892 came and, judging
from what has already been done.
fully one million of people will reach
the United States from abroad during
the year 1883.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-05-03

WONDERFUL tales are told about
the gold industry in Georgia One
account says: "'The gold belt IN
Georgia. said he, extends from Vir-
ginia and North Carolina to Florida
and Alabama. 1t is from 120 to 140
miles wide. You have no idea of
what an industry it is. Thousands of
people are making their living work
ing in the mines. In one place alone
in Lumpkin county you can see
twenty-six stamp mills, each of which
employs from five to fifty men. Some
of these gold mines have been worked
for years, and in places the earth is
dug away sixty feet. Some of it is
very rich in ore. Four hundred acres
were sold some time ago for 100000
to English capitalists. All the min
ing is done by wealthy capitalists,
and there are few poor men in the
belt. 1t is busy place. Good wages
are paid, and the men are industrious
and sober. People are flocking there
from the HARVEST, and even from
Australia and Mexico"
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-05-03
Said Too Much.
fort Worth Gazette.

Letter writing is the most danger
Gus thing public man can engage
in, and Gov. Ireland has had expert
ence enough in public life to have
been acquainted with this fact. He
doubtless had good and sufficient rea-
sons for not wishing Mr.. Brown pro-
NOTED to the important position to
which he aspired, and he should have
had independence enough to have
given his reasons, or if he did not de-
sire to do this, to have remained silent
on the subject.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-05-03

THE Tewksbury horrors have par
allels, probably, in Siberian mines.
Much Texas enlightenment has
been copied from Massachusetts,, and
this may be somewhat of palliation
for the terrible tales which have been
told abont the brutal treatment and
killing of penitentiary convicts in
this state under the contract system,
which the legislature provided
against. To make the reformation
more perfect, it was certainly unfor-
tunate the legislature did not do
more. and not leave SO much to be
done by the present power that is.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-05-03

LIVE. STOCK in the lately over
flowed districts of Louisiana and Mis-
sissippi have been greatly damaged
by the ravages of buffalo gnats. Many
valuable work animals have been
killed by the pests.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-05-03

APRoPos of the Iroquois club
meeting, the Cincinnati Enquirer
says: Sometimes two or three dozen
men get together at banquet, eat,
drink and make speeches, and imag-
inc they are running the politics of
the whole country, when. in fact, they
nra NOT
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-05-03
RAILROAD COLLISION,

DETROIT, April PA freight train
on the Grand Tru1k and Chicago
railroad ran into a passenger train
standing on the track near Olive, this
morning, shattering the cars into
fragments. Three passengers were
killed and some, it is feared, are fatal
ly injured.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-05-03

THE legislature of Florida has
granted a charter to the Florida ship
canal company. The incorporators
are authorized to begin their canal at
a point on the Atlantic coast on or
between the bay of Fernandina and
that of st. Augustine, both
points affording safe harbors, and
thence to cross the peninsula to
the gulf of Mexico, terminating
at any point that they may
select between Tampa bay and Apa-
lachie, and are invested with all the
usual rights necessary to the accom-
plishment of their enterprise. To IA
cilitate the great work the state of
Florida has granted the company in
perpetuity the right of way not only
for the construction of the canal, but
also with one-half mile in width for
the main line. 1t is also invested with
MANY valuable subsidiary rights, such
as the construction of transit canals
and telegraph lines from any lake or
river intersecting the main route in
order to furnish the needful supply of
water from available tributaries, pro-
vided only that by such improvement
it shall not lower any navigable lake
or river so as to prevent its navigation
by steam or sail vessels. 1t also makes
liberal grant of lands to subsidiary
canals. 1t is conjectured, however,
that the st. Johns river will be made
available by an entrance at Nassau
inlet, in the vicinity of Fernandina,
up to Jacksonville and fourteen miles
higher, by Doctors lake. From this
latter sheet of water it is proposed to
cut canal to Sewanee river, which
will afford egress to the gulf. En-
gineers report that this route can be
constructed without locks at any
part, and that even at present it is
navigable most of the way for ocean
going vessels. 1t will require fifty
miles of land cut. The entire dis
lance is put down at one hundred
and sixty miles, leaving one hundred
and ten miles for the neutral water
way. Among the incorporators are
ex-Gov. John G. Brown and Gov.
Rem F Rutler
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-05-03

The San Francisco Examiner is
pleased to say that the government
has no right to maintain an Apache
breeding farm in the center of CIV
iliZed community.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-05-03

A CHECK for 81 100000, the first of
three installments for the purchase of
the Morgan steamship line, was
drawn by c. p. Huntington in favor
of the heirs of the Charles Morgan
aotnfa
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-05-03

THE Mississippi river commission
has not decided that it is best to turn
the waters of Red river into the
Atchafalaya. What will be done is
not vet settled.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-05-03

IT HAS been discovered at Chicago
that the county undertaken does an
immense business in stiffs, having
contracts with medical colleges and
doctors all over the country. His
annual income from this source is set
down at 100000.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-05-03

From a careful canvass of the
counties in Minnesota, it is estimated
the total acreage of wheat will be
about 100000. In Dakota, from rail-
road resources, it is estimated north
ern Dakota will add nearly 10000
acres of new ground to its wheat
acreage, James River valley 10000
acres, central Dakota 1900 acres.
Officials of the Northern Pacific road
state the increase of the acreage Of
wheat on their main and branch
roads in Dakota will be 100 per cent.
The Manitoba road estimates the in
crease along that line in Dakota At
100000 bushels.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-05-03

SOME people talk about making Ben
Butler the Democratic nominee forIthe
presidency. Who will guarantee that
he remain a Democrat from nomina-
ton to election?
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-05-03

A Dover, Delaware, mob, dissatis~
fed with the performance Of O'Brien's
circus, opened fire on the wagons as
they were being driven to the depot,
with revolvers and shotguns, wound
ing eight or ten of the employees,
Charles Henderson fatally. The sher-
iff and posse finally guarded the
effects of the show to the depot. Resi-
dences and business houses were rid
died with bullets during the melee
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-05-03

A CABLE dispatch indicates that
the British government will soon
make formal request for the extra
dition of O'Donovan Rosa.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-05-03

OCCASIONALLY the Greenback par
ty brings gasp, but the spasm is
evidence of its inevitable death.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-05-03

BEN. BUTLER is getting ready for
his fall canvass. The governor OF
Massachusetts is elected for only one
year.