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The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-11-22

The Jordan canal is another big job
of work. Sixty-6ve miles of digging
will cost $65,0O0,O0O. If, however,
the Jordan valley be swamped the
following Scripture sites would be
lost: Bethsaida, Capernaum, Tiberias,
Plain of Gennesere., Jericho and Jor-
dan river. But the commercial re-
quirements of the way have no consid-
Grafton for the sacred. .Homesteads
and trees and churches and even grave
yards must go before that remorseless
cormorant, commerce.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-11-22
The Chicago HI vi.

There are 584 dentists in Chicago.
When you pass a house within the
municipal limits and your sensitive
ears are assailed with howl which
rivals the historical howl Rome heard.
at a certain period in the existence Of
the Eternal City. you need not fear
that pack of wolves have escaped
from Dakota and are devouring the
entire honsehold--it is only the voice
Of young lady, giving vocal txpre3-
sion to the delight she experiences IN
having her first tooth pulled.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-11-22
N HE DUSK.
MARY KAVANAGH.

When silence comes upon me
With the closing of the day,
When the volume all unheeded
From my fingers slips away,
When the last faint smile of sun
Has faded from the pane,
The Present passes wit it.
And the Past comes back again.
And through the gathering darkness
1 see faces dear and fair
The quick, uncertain, childish steps
Are sounding on the stair;
Warm hands, sonce folded, cold and still,
Are claSping mine again,
And tender Iong-huShed voices,
Call the name familiar then.
The loneliness, the doubling,
The silence of long years,
The he days o. YET
The failure after effort,
The trustfuness betrayed,
The Observation-Disclosures
For joy too long delayed.
All these fall from me and once more
Before me lies my life;
Once more taste the sweet false dreams,
That come before the strife;
Once more love, faith and constancy
Are something more than names,
And castles fair and noble
My vivid fancy framesi
All, well, 'tis but a moment
That hold them TO my heart,
And search each face with eager
SolOng are we aparti
IT'S but for one short moment,
Yet know they are unchanged;
Those dear, dead ones who loved me
Can never be estrangedl
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-11-22

A CORRESPONDENT, writing of the
third wife of Senator Mcdonald, of
Indiana, quotes a gentleman who
says: "She is very delightful wo-
man and with confiding heart. Some
of McDonald's friends think that a
tour to Europe would be advantage
Gus to her. She receives the usual
batteries of public men, and women
too, and believes them, and sometimes
repeats them. In the meantime other
women, jealous of her prospects, are
listening and conveying" In other
words, it is said, the lady is interfer-
ing with Mr.. McDonald's presidential
boom by too frequent use Ct her
tongue,
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-11-22

RANDALL has been calculating on
the support of three Democratic con-
gressmen from West Virginia, but in
this, it is said, he is at least partially
mistaken. Dave Culberson is clean
gone after Randall, but Wellborn-
web, he was born to vasclllate, and
nobody knows where his vibrations
may land him.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-11-22
The crazy quilt mania is deyastatine

The Crazy quit mania IS deVastatlng
the Northern states. The young la
dies ask for hat Innings, scarfs, and
even the Innings of spike coats. If high
buttoned vests should go out of style
the men would have to buy new
scarfs. Many of them have now no
silk in their hats. The scraps thus
gathered are thrown in an alleged
careless way into quilt that becomes,
after it is embroidered, a sofa cover.
The mania is very prevalent and alb
sorbing. 1t absorbs the Lest goods of
the young man.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-11-22

"My dear Jones, said a Boston liter
ary man to bore who called on him
every day, 81 want to tell you some
thing in confidence. amfrightfully
troubled by people dropping in on me
whom don't wish to see, and / am
going to arrange private signal with
those whom 1 shall always be glad to
admit to my room, and / want you,
when you come, to knock thus, Two
slow raps and three quick ones -see Z
and then / shall know who is there"
Jones commended the idea as pecull-
arly ingenious, and has since faithful
ly acted upon it, but was heard the
other day to remark very innocently
that it was deuced odd. but of late it
was very seldom that he could find
his literary friend at home.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-11-22

BROOKLYN, it appears. is going tc
succeed in driven wells. The same
process might probably be adopted at
Galveston with hope of success.
There can be no doubt that fresh wa
ter reservoir at the bottom of the allu-
vial bed, underlies the Island City.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-11-22

IT is reported that G. p. Hunting
ton has secured the Mexican National,
Rio Grande s. Pecos railway. If so
the Southern Pacific system will con.
troll the coal mines of West Texas,
while Gould holds those of the Indian
Tarrit0rv
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-11-22

IN Falls county, near Durango,
two dogs got to fighting; their mas
tiers took it up and now one of them
is in his grave and the other is fugi-
tive, while the dogs hold the fort.
The name Of the dead man is Foster,
while the name of the one who was
left is CHAPMAN.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-11-22
Two Productions.
Nashville World

Mr.. Robert j. G. Miller, since the
election of Mr.. James T. Bell as city
recorder, has assumed the duties OF
managing editor of the Banner. This
is well deserved promotion, for there
is not more capable and efficient
and efficient journalist in this city
than Mr.. Miller, who has come up
from the lowest round of the ladder Il,
his present position of trust and homer.
He is well worthy, and we tender him
our congratulations.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-11-22
A Recording Telephone.

Mr.. st. George, the inventor of a
telephone system recently brought
out, has devised means of recording
a telephone conversation by the aid
of photography. A circular plate of
glass is coated with collodion, and
made sensitive as a Photographic
plate. This is placed in dark cham
Der having a small slit. through which
pencil Of light can fall upon the SEN
sitive surface of the glass. The vi
brating telephone plate actuates q
shutter which varies the thickness OF
the luminous pencil correspondingly
to the vibrations after a plan intro
duced by Prof. Graham Bell, If we
mistake not. The pencil falling on
the Photographic plate prints dark
line on it whose thickness is proper
tional to the vibrations Of the tele-
phone plate. The plate is revolyed
by clockwork like the barrel of pho
nograph, and the record is afterward
chemically fixed.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-11-22

IT is estimated that the school reve-
nues of Texas come in the proportion
of eighty-nine dollars from white tax
payers to one dollar from the negroes.
Surely no one ought to complain as to
advantages possessed by the colored
people of Texas.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-11-22

THE Examiner of November 10,
says: Yesterday all the roads run
ming into Waco transported between
them but FIVE negroes. A special
coach for each of them and five fares
to pay expenses from, would soon
swamp even Vanderbilt.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-11-22

PRESIDENT ARTHUR, it is said,
abandons all hope of r blican sue
cess, next y > in any of he Southern
states, He inks Malone will now
throw off his disguise an come
boldly into the Republican camp.
Such being his opinion, the admins
tration will undoubtedly sustain him.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-11-22

A DALLAS county farmer, says the
Dallas Times, who moved west to en-
gage in the stock business, says he
sees nothing but trouble fo' the west
ern part g. the state. He does not
believe the WIS >m of the wisest leg
islature can avert the trouble that
exists bet cen the big and p :
ture men. =
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-11-22

The Fort Worth Gazette thinks,
from what the Houston Age says.
that Congressman Stewart may vote
for Sam Randall. Well, THE STATES
MAN will not believe it, no matter
how many railroads concentrate at
Houston
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-11-22

A breeder of canary birds a short
time since conceived the idea of feed
ing bird with mixture of STEPPED
bread and finely pulver1zed cayenne
pepper, with the view to changing
thelcolor of its plumage. 1t is assert
ed upon good authority, that without
injuring the bird, the pigment of the
spice passed into the blood and dyed
its plumage very deep red.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-11-22

Algernon Swinburne, the poet who
swoons when "their lips melt IN q
kiss" is coming over to this country
in the spring. We are appalled, when
we think of the consequences of the
meeting between him and Miss Ella
Wheeler, the impossible young poet
ess, who "gives shudder of delight
when his hot hand presses hers"
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-11-22

"a FRIEND" dramatic company,
in which Miss Florence Gerald stars,
failed to draw a house at Fit. Worth and
after one act the eleven persons present
were dismissed. The manager chraged
Max Elzer, the lessee of the theater,
with working against the company in
favor of another that was to show
the next night; and Max says things
rejecting on the play.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-11-22

THE robbers who stopped the pas
senger train on the Mexican National
road on the 18th, beyond Laredo, Sc
cured in all over $4,000. From the
count made by passengers this was to
be divided between about thirty ban
lsA,
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-11-22

WELL, the governor admits that he
did telegraph to Gen. Augur about the
use of troops. Would it not be better
for the public to have copies of the
messages that passed, instead of the
bare report of such correspondence?
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-11-22

THE Examiner says: "John Ire
land reasons, and probably correctly,
that man who wears the proud title
of sage Of Seguin, may aspire to the
Senate without being considered i'm
pudent."
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-11-22

GEORGE A. DAVIS, who has been in
charge of the advertising department
of the Appletons, has been arrested
for embezzling large sum of money
Of his employers.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-11-22

Mr.. Spurgeon, the famous London
preacher, being asked whether man
could be Christian and belong to
brass band, replied: 'sYes, think h
might, but it would be a very Difficult
matter for his next door neighbor to
he Christian"
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-11-22

CONGRESSMAN LANHAM would like
to see John Hancock made speaker,
but believing he VIII best obey the
wishes of his con- tituency by it, he
will vote for Carlisle.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-11-22

THE majority for Cook, Democrat,
over Stiles, Republican, for Congress
in the Sixth Iowa district is officially
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-11-22

THE New Jersey Republicans have
been defeate in six gubernatorial
campaigns, three years apart, the last
majority being considerably larger
than the first.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-11-22

SENATOR COKE says that when
Thurman, Conkling and Blaine left
the Senate they took away so per cent
Of the brains of that body. When
Coke goes out there will be another
departure of brains.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-11-22
How He Become immortal.
Galveston Print.l


Governor Ireland can make himself
immortal by naming Sunday, Noven-
Der %, as thanksgiving day for
Texas. Thursday, the 10Th, is grow
ing monotonous.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-11-22

SENATOR CAMERON thinks Malone
may yet be of great service to the Re-
p, blican party. He banked heavily
on the South being won over to Re
publicanism through lIahonism.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-11-22

UNDER Democratic rule North Car
DINA has increased her annual ex-
penditures for public schools from
$4,000 to S5OO,OOO.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-11-22

PROF. GREENER, celored lawyer
of fame, insists that ahone's defeat
has taught the negro political indie
pendence.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-11-22

1T is said fence cutters in Frio coun-
ty have organized, and that they have
no fears of the rangers catching them.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-11-22

PRESIDENT ARTHUR will attempt
to force his nomination by the Repub-
llcan convention.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-11-22

THE Methodist conference held in
Mckinney represents about 10000
members,
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-11-22

OF all the exchanges received at
this sanctum none present a heater
typographical make up than the Bel
ton Journal; and it was always thus.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-11-22

Col. r. d. ALLISON is announced as
a candidate for the legislature from
Collin county.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-11-22

DIR. TANNERS sister lately starved
to death, in Canada. Say, now, there
is nothing in blood.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-11-22

Congressman Wadsworth, of New
York, is rapidly recovering from his
recent illness.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-11-22
Catarrh oil fhe BIadder.

Singing irritation, Inflammation,
all kidney and urinary complaints,
cured by "Buchu-paiba-" 81.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-11-22
THE STATESMAN.
AUSTIN. TEXAS.

THE "old ticket" unlike the Old
Guard. surrenders, but it never dies.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-11-22
TIE CITY DUDE.
A hat
not fat
h.,H -0n~I


A hat
not fat
but round
and crowned
with dome Of straw or felt.
A brow of snow,
and 8 my eyes that
glow and melt with love
or ardOr never felt.
My muStache thin
bare beardless chin
with dimples in;
no Speck
doth fleck
my neck;
but wreck / make
of ladies' hearts know.
This manly breast beneath
% my vest the clothier's skill
doth show, aglittering pin my
scarf stick in, 1 mash where
e'er Igo; with dainty smile
the girls beguile, I'll mash
where FER [ go; and so it's plain
jaunty cane makes upmy style
as down the street the ladies meet
and greet me with a smile;
q slender waist Just TO my
taste more shapely form hat b
never graced; my bobtail coat
like Billy goat as L iii
go by to every eye
reveals to view to
all orfew theft
ness of my pants;
reveals my legs,
W h C h t b ough
but pegs serve me
SO we'll to walk
dance aswith
a girl I take
a W hirl or in the
m a zy France;
the tai lor's art
doth so Impair
a char m i n g
ease that's
sure to pie se.
Next are my
feet in calf so
neat, the ladies all
both great and small,
or maid or prude demure or rude,
cry out and shout oh what a dude
nm nm
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-11-22

THE Boston Herald says one of the
three Democratic representatives from
Connecticut will vote for Carlisle.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-11-22


Mugdock, Milngavie, near Glasgow,
Scotland, writes to Gov. Ireland ask
ing if he can tell him whether there
is any truth in a rumor that has
reached him that his brother, Joseph
Davidson, a native of Scotland and
about twenty-eight years old, has been
killed in Texas.
Capt. Edwin Rust, of this city, has
been appointed to the position in Gov.
Ireland's Office made vacant by the re-
cent death of Capt. Josselyn.
LAND DEPARTMENT.
Commissioner Walsh's attention
having been called to communica-
ton copied from the Tom Green
Times into THE STATESMAN Of yes
terday, in which the action of the
land board was critised, the commits
sioner said he was not called on to de-
fend the board. He was not disposed
to admit either the premises or de-
auctions of the writer of the article
in question. AS some answer, how
ever, in defense of the policy of the
| board in dispensing as far as practi-
| cable with county land agents, he
cites the fact that the recent sales re-
DOTLoQ ny tu6 lduQ dkCnO VI OOnCo
county, of about forty sections of
land (all but one section at $3.50 at
the minimum price, showed that the
agencies were not of any benefit to the
state, as without them the land would
be disposed of at that price and the
expense of agents saved to the state
| This expense, as estimated by the
commissioner, is about $500 for each
agent. and as has been previously
stated in THE STATESMAN, would
amount to about 100000, no small
item to be saved to the state.
Commissioner Walsh will doubt
less cover oil such points in his report
to the legislature.
INTERNAL REVENUE.
United States commissioner of in.
ternal revenue! Evans, furnished the
following important information
1 hereby, with the approval of the
secretary of the treasury, offer for in
formation given by persons othel
than officers of internal revenue, Of
persons appointed, or employed in o.
acting in connection with the interna
revenue service, that shall lead to the
detection and punishment of person:
guilty of violating the internal reye
nue. laws, or conniviDg at the same
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1883-08-03
ShOrt-SIOpS.

believe the social prayer-meeting
ought to be the most interesting meet
ing of all the religious meetings i'll our
churches and | think if our churches
were conducted right, they would be.
- Mr.. Moody.
No physician ever weighed out med
icinc To his patient with half SO much
cNactncsS and care as God weighs out
To lis every trial; not one grain too
much does he ever permit to he put III
the SCALE Cecil.
He that knOweth how to live inward
ly and to make small reckoning of
things without neither requireth place
nor awaitcth time for the performance
of religious exercise. Thomas A.
Kempis.
lntidelity reproves nothing that is
bad. 1t only ridicules and denounces
all that is good. 1t tears down-it
never constructs; it destroys never
imparts life; it attacks religion, bnt
offers no adequate substitute Rev.
J. Paxton.
The humblest and weakest may know
more of cod, of moral evil and good,
10y Il single act of charity or II prayer
of Self-surrender, than all the sages
can teach, ay, or all the thcolOgians
can dogmatize upon f. w. Robert
son.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1883-08-03
60 West, but not 10 Texas.

People who are contemplating emf
grating to Texas will he interested in
Il sample instance of lawlessncss and
murder. The hostility to federal au-
thOrity at jefferson, Tex, where Judge
llaughn was murdered, is 50 great that
United States District Attorney Guth
ridge does not dare to go there and
there is indignation at Washington be
cause Acknowledgement Brewster does
not take Il more active interest in the
matter. A visitor to jefferson on July
10 heard from Il man in the place an ac-
count of Judge Haughn's murder,
which has reached Washington. This
man said that the murder of Judge
lIaughn was the subject of great re
joicing, and messages were coming in
congratulating the murdererS on their
success. The first shot at Judge
lIaughn struck his horse on the Jaw.
The second grazed the judge, striking
him in the neck. The horse jumped to
the right and whirled around, when he
was grasped by the assaSsins. who pull
ed the judge off. He fell on his knees.
His ASSISTANTS struck a match so as to
enable them to see where to fire
Judge Haughn lifted his hands and
begged that his life might be spared for
the sake of his wife and child. He then
cried out for help so loud that lie was
heard long distance, and then the
murderers silenced his cries by two
shots. Suspicious looking men hung
about the neighbOrhOOd all night. but
the people did not dare to venture out
to learn the cause of the shouting and
shooting. One person in Jefferson says
he believes he can name all the parties
to the murder and would give them to
the district attorney and then leave
the place. "No mans life" SAYS one
account, ''is safe here if the man does
not sympathize with the enemies of the
government. The defendants" thi.
man says, keep a sharp lookout fol-
all mail matter, and | think they are
going through the mail and finding out
all they can. The leaders are getting
very uneasy. Inquiry is made of me
fifty times a day if | have any idea
who did the shooting. | know thai
they intend to shoot Mr.. Guthridg,
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1883-08-03
DccciVing Grandpa.

"Isn't it pretty ?" said little old
man as he wheeled Il baby carriage to
the place where il reporter of the World
was sitting in the park yesterday.
at must he pretty" said the re-
porter, looking into the carriage and
seeing IA tiny creature snugly nesting
in ii downy nest, with its face covered
with delicate lace veil.
The little old man was delighted, his
little old chin went twit-a-twit-a-twee
and he chirped like bird.
''They keep its face covered" he said
with "A sigh, "since the little white
hearse drove away from the house the
other day. But | =
The little old man stopped and look
ed all around with his little twinkling
eyes.
Il will show its face to you, sir, it's
so very, very pretty"
And the little old mans chin again
went wit-a-twit-a-twee.
"They will be angry" he continued ;
''but I'm so proud of its pretty face
that must show it,
Suddenly the little old man took the
| lace that covered the baby's face i'll his
trembling fingers, and the reporter
prepared to burst into ordinations OF
delight, even if the face should be the
homeliest In the world.
"Mustn't," il little child said, coming
from behind the bushes, and Selling
the coat tails of the little man. ''Dan-
pa mustn't"
"'The flies will annoy Rose" gentle
girl of twelve said, joining the little
group and carefully replacing the lace
Close observation showed Il teal
trembling in the girls eye, us the little
old man wheeled away the carriage
with the little child dancing by hi.
side. ooh. it's such deception " sh,
exclaimed, burying her face i'll hel
hands. "Baby Rose died last week,
she continued, land we are afraid IL
tell grandpa, as his mind is weak anC
she was his idol so we put Il doll il
the carriage closely yelled so he cannot
see its face, and let him wheel it around
But it's so deceptive"
Just then the little old man paused
left the little child with the carriage
and came back to where the girl wa:
seated.
He put his face close to hers anC
whispered:
"What was it, he asked, ''tlat the!
carried away in the little white
hcarse ?"
The poor girl turned away her face
Flowers" she said, "omly flowers
grandpa"
81 WONDER" the little old man unused
"why they all turn their faces ava,
when they tell me what they carried
away in the little white hearSe.n
Then he went to the carriage again
and chirped like the merry little ole
man that he was.
|, "Flowers, only flowers" the reporte
heard him murmur, as he wheeled tn,
doll away. y. Y. World.