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The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-05-31

GOVERNOR BUTLER, of Massa-
chusetts, has been interviewed at con-
siderable length on the political
situation. He is full of opinions, of
course, and equally of course believes
that the Democrats will have a
sweeping victory next year. 1t will
be necessary, if Governor Butler
knows anything about it, for the
Democrats to put themselves upon
the platform adopted in Massachu-
sets, upon which Butler was elected
last fall. This Is very shrewd sug-
gestion, and necessarily carries with
it the idea that Butler is the only man
who can hope to succeed as presi-
Dental candidate.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-05-31
THE "sNIvEL. SERVICE.


Since Keim has been disposed of,
and Lyman substituted for him, the
civil service commission has begun
its -labors, such as they are, and a
Hsnivel' service it is going to be. Of
the rules adopted, the most important
is that which gives the heads of de-
partments the right of choice for the
four highest candidates on the list for
any vacant Office. If the examination
beareal test of merit, the highest on the
list must be the best man. If he may
be passed by, then the opportunity to
show political favoritism is restricted,
but not removed. When such choice
is given, it rarely would occur that
head of department would lack
the opportunity to fill vacant places
with men of his own way of thinking.
That portion of the rule providing
that the candidates shall not make
known to the commission their po-
litical preferences is about the thin
nest thing ever presented to public
consideration The idea of Repub-
lican body not knowing the political
preference Of applicants is absurd
beyond measure. The political affili-
ations of applicants will be made
known to the commissioners in any
number of ways. and it is safe to pre-
sumo they will know the political
preferences of all applicants. But
the rule to give heads of departments
the right to select between the four
highest candidates answer all polit-
cal purposes. The plan will be not to
grade the four most competent APP
plicants.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-05-31

Mr. HATToN, who has been run
ming the biggest government depart
ment, and who is besides conducting
two stalwart Republican organs,
comes earnestly to the defence of SEN
ator Mahcne in his new political as
sessment in Virginia. He contends
that it is not against the law, because
the enactment is not yet in force, and
viii not be until the LIST of July, be-
fore which time the assessment may
be leviel and collected and the money
expended, so that the Virginia boss
may snap his finger and ask: what
are you going to do about it?" This
is an elevated order of morality, and
it is gratifying to know that it has
been announced by higher officer of
,he government.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-05-31

IN Oregon the counties issue
licenses to drink at the bars of the
saloons. They cost two dollars and
must be renewed every six months.
A bar-keepe who sells liquor to a
man who is not armed with one of
these licenses (and they are not issued
to habitual drunkards, or any man
whose wife or mother objects) lays
himself liable to a fine. The law has
merit in it, and it might do. in the alb
sence of something better, to make
such law for Texas. The state
is poor and it is time for the wise
ones to devise means for increasing
its revenues,
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-05-31
Wealth in Cattle.

1t is estimated that the annual cat
tie sales in the United States amount
to about $300,O00.OO0. This wealth
has been greatly increased by the
large augmentation of thoroughbred
cattle. The American Herd Book
has been extended to twenty-three
volumes. These volumes are occu-
pied with the record and pedigree of
10000 COWS and 1900 bulls, and ali Of
one class, viz; Durhams or Short
way to market is that of graded Dur
ham cattle. The Agricultural Re-
view makes this comment One not
intimate with the subject might sup
pose that with such an array in num-
bers of our shorthornS the prices of
them would gradually diminish at
both the public and private sales,
now so frequent and in
such large numbers in our
states but such, however,
is not the fact; average sales are now
equal in prices at which they have
ever been. During the last five years
the public sales have annually aver
aged 1000 animals-bulls, COWS and
heifers-at an average price of 1852
per head, while probably an equal
number have been sold. at private
sales and at somewhat higher prices.
Many of them have sold for $1,000 and
up to even $4,000 each, so esteemed
for pedigree and quality are they by
our enterprising breeders. Much
higher prices indeed have been OBJ
tanned in some years past, even as
high as $4,000 and upwards for single
animals from eminent English breed
ers, who have come here after them;
but that was in a time of high excite
ment in shorthorn rivalry, and need
be noted only as one of the ex-
traordinary fluctuations in the pro-
gress. The unfamiliar reader may
ask: Where is the great demand for
these cattle? Where is the market
for the several thousand bulls annu-
ally produced? The question is read
lily answered. Untold herds of cattle
by hundreds of thousands roam over
the broad ranches of Texas, New
Mexico, Colorado and California, of
the descendants of the original Spanish
Importation into Mexico from Spain
in the sixteenth century. Ranging
oyer the vast plains and pampas of
that mild climate they increased null
Unanimously. Texas became full of
them, New Mexico also; and since
the incorporation of these coun-
tries with ours, uncouth and ragged
as they were in their wild
condition, these cattle have been
brought under the subsection of civil
lied stockmen, arranged. into herds,
branded with the marks of their own
erS, and at marketable age driven
through the Indian Territory into
Kansas. and thence to Missouri. and
Chicago markets, either for imme-
date slaughter, as their conditions
would afford, or sold to the graziers
and feeders for better market east
ward. These wild cattle are unfit for
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-05-31

choice beef. but the cows, crossed on
their ranches by short-horn bulls, pro-
duce tolerably good steers, partaking
strongly of the blood and forms OF
their sires, and become marketable
animals, with good pasturage and
grain topping-off in the hands OF the
corn-growing grazlerS who purchased
them.
The grading up of cattle in the
west and southwest has been going
on rapidly within the last ten years.
1t would be difficult to decide whether
Illinois or Kentucky is the center of
the shorthorn breeding interest in
this country. The center, wherever
it may be, is a movable one. The
Texan steer, that is, the original long
horned. half-wild animal, is rapidly
disappearing. Droves of these cat
tie are now rarely seen. They have
been displaced by better ones.-New
York Shipping List.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-05-31

A FELLOW in New Y ork is trying
to gain notoriety in the same manner
that Joe Mutation got it. He tells
of fiery aerolite that fell in creek
near the village Of Accord 1t W S
excavated from the stream, and cling
ing to it was found gigantic two
edged sword, six feet long, covered
with strange inscriptions, and weigh
ing more than seventeen pounds. The
enterprising reporter who witnessed
the remarkable occurrence has been
retained to prepare the bulletins con-
corning Uncle Samuel Tilden's health.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-05-31

The whisky manufacturers have
hatched a scheme by which they hope
to avoid for three years longer the
payment of the whisky tax. 1t is
nothing less than the shipment of
whisky in tank cars, similar to those
used for the transportation of oil,
across the Canada line and its return
as imported whisky without so much
as unloading it on the Canadian soil
at all. All that is necessary to secure
the success of this brilliant idea is the
cooperation of the treasury depart
ment in this scheme to keep its Golfers
empty. The secretary very gravely
referred the proposition to the attor-
ney general for his opinion.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-05-31

THERE is much speculation on the
cool weather of the present spring.
Some contend that it may be similar
to 1876. known as a year without a
summer. In that year january and
February were mild, April was warm
and cold by turns. and May was too
cold for the usual planting. In June
snow fell to the depth of ten inches
in Vermont and to lesser depths in
Maine. New York and Massachu-
sets. Farmers who raised any crops
at:il Luat fires around their fields to
keep the vegetation from freezing.
Ice formed in July and August, and
in September there were only few
pleasant days. No crops were raised
in any of the northern states and pro-
visions were scarce and costly. After
all there may be most decided adj
vantage this year in farming in south
ern ATTITUDES
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-05-31

SAN SALVADOR, to keep up the
reputation of the Spanish-American
states is undergoing "a revolution.
The nominal excuse for the outbreak
seems to have been the new project
for federal union of all the little re-
publics lying south of Mexico, mas
much as the cries of the mob express
ed a desire that religion should live
and Zaldivar die. Zaldivar is sup
posed to be in favor of the Central
American union, and Barrios, of Qua
temala, to whom also death was
wished, is thought to be aiming to Sc
cure the federal presidency, if it is
ever created.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-05-31

RICHARD K. Fox, of the Police
Gazette, proposes to have decided
who i, the champion boxer of the
world. A boxing tournament is to
be held in New York in September.
In order that all pugilists in England
and America may have an oppor-
tunity to compete, Mr.. Fox will offer
a valuable trophy, which will be
known as the Police Gazette cham
pionship boxing trophy of the world.
AS an inducement to Alf Greenfield,
Dick Roberts, Jem Goode, Tug
Wilson, Springall and all the Eng
lish champion pugilists, to cross the
Atlantic and compete for the trophy,
Richard K. Fox will offer large
money prizes, independent of the
championship trophy, so that every
pugilist of any note, both in this
country and England, will compete.
The ring viii not be complete without
Roscoe Conkli1g, and probably if he
were to enter, Platt might follow.
Conkling once had a match with Jim
Mace. in which he was overmatched.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-05-31

In the extradition treaty recently
made between the United States and
Belgium clause was inserted pro-
-Viaing that an attempt against the
life Of the head of foreign govern
ment, or against that of any member
of his family, shall not be regarded
as political offense. If such be the
case, regicides will have to be more
circumspect, for, according to the
treaty, should they escape to this
country they can claim no sanctuary
as political offenders, but simply rank
as ordinary murderers, and as such
can be extradited on demand, if the
charge against them be substantiated.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-05-31

VIRGINIA, under the Malone re-
gime, again repudiates. A law was
enacted by the Virginia legislature,
providing that coupons of certain
state bonds should be accepted in
payment of state taxes. The Balti-
more and Ohio railway company
owned a large lot of these bonds, and
the coupons were offered as settle
ment of taxes, when they
were refused, and the prop
erty of. the company was
seized, to be sold in satisfaction of
tax claims. An injunction was
asked and obtained, and now the pay
ment of honest and valid debts by
the state of Virginia to be enforced
by the federal courts. The humilia-
tions of the grand old state are nu-
merous and great.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-05-31
HOW ST. LOUIS DOES 1T.

The Globe-Democrat mentions that
the merchants of st. Louis are al
ready making preparations for receiv
ing and entertaining visitors during
fair week, which occurs in October
just before the Austin fair. The pa
per says, that aside from the autumn
races and time-honored procession Of
the Yelled Prophets, it has beer
deemed proper, among those whose
aim to control the commercial desti
MES of the city, to make grand
torchlight moving expedition, so a:
t. give an idea of what industries
have been most cultivated anG
of those that have the best likeli.
hood of success in the future. TIC
this end arrangements are in pro
greSs for making the illumination Of
the city next October more brilliant
than has ever before been known
Every Illuminating power, from cleo
tricity down to the dimmeSt kind of
gas, will be brought into service, and
the streets will be made so brilliant
that the spectators will be inclined
thenceforth to forswear the light OF
the sun. To make this Industrial
pageant the more impressive it is
stated, that the city government will
open its cash boxes and spend
money freely in enhancing the
grandeur of the occasion. The
procession mentioned will be
led 10y Il squadron of cavalry, main.
tanned in the center by mass of in.
fantry and supported in the rear by
the entire city fire department, itself
an immense exhibition. Certainly
we may learn from st. Louis people
They realize the Importance of a great
annual fair, and 1T is through
their liberality and patronage
that the st. Louis fairs have
gained such wide reputation. The
citizens of Austin can assist the Capt.
tai State Fair association in doing
for Austin what great annual exhib-
its have done for st. Louis. There is
no use saying our fairs cannot be
great ones. They ought soon to be
as great as those of any state
in the union. Texas is des-
tined to be the greatest ate of the
entire galany, and these annual ex-
hibits at her capital ought to be in
turn the greatest displays of their
sort in the entire country. The bust
mes people Of st. Louis take deep in
terest in their fair,and they contribute
money literally to its success, because
they know it induces thousands
of visitors to come to the city and
these come prepared to spend a very
large amount of money amongst bust
ness men. Such is the condition at
Austin. There is not a business or
industry in Austin that is not bene-
fitted by these fairs. Benefits may
not be received directly, but
they come and all receive
them. Let ali determine, like the peo-
pie of st. Louis, to aid in making the
coming exhibition and the occasion
a great one, and in preparing for
guests series Of entertainments that
will send them back to their homes
determined to spend one week each
fall, during the fair, in our city. The
directory of the association should con-
slider these side entertainments,
and suggestion coming from it will
go far towards inducing a popular
similar to that which pre-
walls in st. Louis. Time is passing
and now is the season for
Shortly it will be too
late
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-05-31

THE burden of the news from Eng
land continues to point to the disso-
luton of the present parliament with
in year. The strange spectacle of
an alliance between the conservatives
and the home rulers is more than met
by the rumored unnatural union of
the conservatives and the extreme
radicals in Mr. Gladstone's following.
The threatened dissolution will not
be due to any marked change in the
sentiment of the country so much as
to the general desire that the life Of a
parliament should not greatly exceed
fOur wears.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-05-31
The Outlook in New York.

The determined stand taken by
Gov. Cleveland against boss dictation
has strengthened the party rather
than otherwise. The Republican fac
lions show but little disposition to
heal their dissensions, though urged
to do so by an address from the Re
publican members of the legislature.
Ex-senator Conkling, it is known, is
still sulking, and as long as this is the
case, there is but title hope for either
Republican unity OF success in the
EmDire state.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-05-31

A SCIENTIST, by studying the pro-
gressive gain in speed of the Ameri-
can trotting horse, and assuming that
lit wrfAeQntinue at the same ratio, ar
rives at the-eonclusion that in the
year 1901 speed will have been OBJ
tanned of a mile in two minutes. He
also calculates from the same data
that in the year named there will be
10000 horses in the United States
that can trot mile in 2:30 OF under.
These calculations are curious exam
Piles of the application of statistics to
the law of progress, but there is no
reason to doubt their approximate
o0rraptnacS
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-05-31

Gov. CLEVELAND, after all, appears
to be yielding to the proposition OF
the savings banks. He has given his
signature to what is known as the
Mackin bill, which permits corpora.
tions to lend money on stocks. This
seems to be distinction without a
difference, for if this bill be literally
interpreted, the New York savings
banks, being corporations, already
have the privilege of making invest.
ments which eventually may be ruin
Gus to the depositors.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-05-31

A CHICAGO real estate firm has COM
pleted the purchase of an immense
tract of land in Mississippi, it is sup
posed for German capitalists. The
transaction includes 100000 acres in
the cotton belt, and 100000 acres in
the pine land section of the state.
The price paid per acre was $1.35, the
total consideration being $780, 900.
This immense purchase is only the
first of four such tracts soon t, pass
into European hands.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-05-31

IN the German army the average
age Of the commanding generals is
sixty-seven years, while in the army
of the United States, generals are re-
tired as soon us they arrive at the age
of GA. The difference is striking. In
Germany the attempt is made to keep
brains in the army as long as posi-
BILE, and in the United States to give
the largest number of officers a
chance to wear the epaulets.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-05-31

A FIRsT-CLAss suggestion is made
by the Boston Herald. 1t is that in
return for the assisted emigrants'
whom England is now sending us,
we should send her few vessels
loaded with Indians, who should be
dumped on the docks of Liverpool,
supplied with thirty days rations.
The Apaches would be a good lot to
hprin ON
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-05-31
A Pivotal Point.

lei I eloU IlVI dIUsI
Ell Paso is to be the pivotal point
in the commercial intercourse of Mex
leo and the United States. In few
years from now a great part of the
Mexican trade will be controlled by
Ell Paso merchants. The mineral re-
sources of the tributary districts will
also have some influence on the ad-
vancement of the city. AS for rail-
roads, they have already worked
wonders here, but their work has not
yet fairly begun. Owing to it's adj
vantageous situation, Ell Paso will
in time become the central point of a
great railway system, the branches of
which will take in entire Northern
and Central America.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-05-31
An electrical machine. desiened to

An electrical machine, designed to
register and record the votes of par
liamentary bodies, is to be placed in
one of the rooms of the capitol at
Washington as an experiment, which,
if it works satisfactorily, will likely
be introduced into the house of repre-
sentatiyes. By this system an aye
and no call of the house of represen-
tatives can be made, it is claimed in
less than minute. The machine
prints the name of each member and
indicates on what side he votes. 1t
also indicates the absentees and those
who. are paired.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-05-31

AUsTRIA's increase of her military
budget is the most menacing fact
that has recently developed in the
European situation. If any country
has all to gain by peace and nothing
by war it is the semi-bankrupt
Austro- Hungarian empire, and there
is something dangerous in the politi-
cal undercurrents if she is increasing
her ornaments.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-05-31

GEN. CROOKS absence, without or
ders, in the country occupied by the
hostile Apaches, if attended with sue
cess, will make him, for time, the
military lion of the country. Should
he fail, and Imishap overtake him, it
will be charged to INSTRUMENTATION; and
his military reputation will accor-
dinghy suffer correspondingly.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-05-31

THE San Francisco Examiner is in
,tfprmed lat the late donation Of one
milliol acrS of land by the legisla-
ture to the university does not make
quite half its entire donations. Many
years ago the state set aside for the
university over million acres of
land, making the entire donation over
two millions of acres. The first dona-
ton embraces some valuable lands in
thickly settled districts.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-05-31
Tebaeeo pcalers lntersstea.

CINCINNATI. May 2S.-The tobacco.
trade OF this city is deeply interested
to-day by the formal opening of what,
is said to be the largest tobacco ware
house in the world. 1t is the Globe
tobacco warehouse, of the Brooks
Waterfeld company; is seven stories
in height, with an area in the centre,
lighted by a glass roof, and affords.
with an old MISUNDERSTANDING, four
and three-quarter acres of floor space.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-05-31

AMERICAN royalty will be repre-
scented to-day at Moscow. There will
be present Mackey, the bonanza king,
Vanderbilt, the railroad king, and
Bennett, the newspaper king. Which
of the cattle kings will be present is
not stated.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-05-31

A TREATY of" peace between Chill
and Peru has been signed and con-
firmed, the disputed provinces by its
terms being ceded by Peru to Chill
for ten years; and their allegiance,
after that period is to be left to vote
of the people of the provinces. Chill
will be apt to retain them perma-
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-05-31

AT THE recent annual meeting of
the English and Foreign Bible society
some figures were given which show
that the work of circulating the scrip
lures goes on with undated zeal.
During the year 1882, the London
bible house distributed l ,542, Alb copies
and the foreign agencies 1,422.323
copies making a total of 1864, 636
copies. Since the society began it's
labors it has distributed no less than
g6,s17,639 copiesl Colporteurs last
year went into every part of France;
in Austria, although they were oppos-
ed, they scattered about ten thousand
copies; in both Germany and Russia
they sowed over three hundred
thousand copies. In Egypt the work
was interfered with by the war, but
in eastern Asia the circulation ex-
ceeded that of any previous year.
Facts like these are encouraging for
those who reflect that progress has
always shone upon the countries in
which the teachings of the Bible
have been most widely diffused.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-05-31

TALMAGE calls it "spice in relig-
ion." Variety, it is said, is the spice OF
life, but religion, they tell us, is not
for life but for death. 1t is not be-
lieved that sensationalism is very po-
tent in the hereafter.