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The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-08-02
DALLAS.
[Snecial to the Staresman.1

Especial 10 bne SCaCeSman.
DALLAS, July 2S.-The following letter from
Hon. Jefferson Davis to Gen. Cabell is given
by the latter gentleman for publication. 1t is
an answer to an invitation to attend the re-
union of the Missouri, Arkansas and Texas
Confederates at Mckinney. The penmanship
is clear and neat, and as steady as if written
by man of twenty:
'.BEAUvOIR, Miss, July %.
"Gen. W. l.. Cabell:
MY Dear SiT-It would be very gratifying to
me to attend the reunion at Mckinney, but my
health will not permit me to do so. Texas
born OF determination to be free, and rOck ed
in the cradle of bloody revolution, was fifty
represented by the gallant men she sent forth
to maintain the equality, sovereignty and in,
dependence of the states in the Union. The
survivors have my cordial wishes for their vel
fare and happiness, and no less does my heart
go out to the brave Missourians who are eX-
pected to be with you and who, under the most
adverse circumstances, presented the highest
example of fidelity, courage and fOrtitude. To
yourself and others who are Confederate sol
dierS, tender my earnest wishes for every
good gift, and remain faithfully yours,
JEFFERSON DAVIS
The sewerage work is progressing rapidly
and satisfactorily. Several miles of pipe have
already been laid and nearly thousand feet
OF main brick sewers from six to eight feet in
diameter. A large force of men is employed.
Work on the street paving is going on all
light, aud by October Dallas will be the best
drained and paved int erior town in Texas.
The new Cumberland Presbyterian church is
to be dedicated tomorrow, Rev. j. II. Hen
bricks preaching the dedicatory sermon.
The Dallas Brown Stockings to-day defeated
the Carruth Station club by score of 10 to 8.
Only five of the regular Brown Stock
ings played, the balance being substituted.
The first four innings were played
in a drilling rain, which accounts for the
largeneSs Of the score. The Cleburne club
visits Dallas tomorrow to play the Brown
Stockings.
United States Attorney Bigger returned to-
day from Waco, where he went to prosecute
Mrs. r. s. Stevens befOr United States Com
missioner Taft for selling liquor without
license. Mrs. Stevens did not appear. and for
feited her bond.
Mrs. Mary Blakeney, wife Of Hugh Blake
ney well-known and popular citizen, died
to-day. Mrs Blakeney was one Of the most
estimable ladies i'll Dallas. The family for
merly resided in Avstin.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-08-02
MISCELLANEOUS MATTERS AND
THINGS.

A girl at Cape May playfully threw
sand into the eyes of young man
who scrutiniZed her bathing attire too
closely, and there is danger that he
will never look at anything again.
Alas for Barnum! An elephant
bigger than Jumbo has just arrived
at Liverpool from his native jungle.
He weighs nearly five tons and has
trunk three and half feet in circum.
ference-a regular Saratoga.
After shooting at it eight or nine
times, Mr.. w. H. Richardson finally
killed with the ninth shot, a few days
ago, a milk-white deer in the forests
near Z. gbee, Ala. The negroes think
that white deer are akin to witches
and are probably delighted that one
of them has been laid low. Two
more of them have been seen recently
in the forests of Washington county.
An Ohio man, reused out of his
slumbers by burglar, pursued the
fellow with a shot gun, but did not
succeed in shooting him. Soon the
burglar came to river and plunged
in, but not being a swimmer, he sank
and was drowned. And now the
grand jury has indicted the house
holder for murder in the first degree
for not going to the assistance of the
drowning man. This is strange, in
view of the fact that had he shot the
burglar nothing would have been
done to him.
A railroad man in Boston said of
Mrs. Langtry, whom his brakeman
surprised sitting in Mr.. Gebhardt's
lap, it is said: "She was expected,
from her associations with princes, to
be Il lady, and had she behaved so
would have been taken at that figure
in this country. But to go up and
down the country with man pub
licly, and she wife, inviting gossip
and misin terpretation somehow
makes me believe that English royal
society is pretty cheap commodity"
People will think.
Gentlemen should never fail to in
vestigate beneath the sweat bands of
their new hats. These bands are
stitched in by girls, and it has come
to be quite common thing for them
to either write their name and address
on the inside of the band; or to write
it, sometimes including little note,
upon slip of paper stitched in. If
girl is of an inspiring nature she hon
ors only the most expensive hats with
her name; but oftentimes the name of
don't care girl may be found in the
plainest kind of felt SLOUGH. 1t is
authoratively stated that several good
matches have been cemented upon the
basis of a hatband note.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-08-02
POLITICAL NOTES.

Sunset Cox. it is said, announces
that he will retire from politics if he
is beaten in the speakership race
Sunset should not wear his heart
upon his sleeve.
Dorsey complains of the ingrati-
tude of the grand old party, but in
view of the tender treatment he re-
ceived at the hads of the administra-
ton, he lays himself open to a like
charge.
Editor Watterson interprets the
statement of Gov. Ben. Butler, that
his sympdthies are always with the
under dog in the fight, to mean that
he is preparing to get back into the
Republican party.
B. X. Jamison, a prominent Phila-
delphia banker, has consented to ac-
cept the Democratic nomination for
state treasurer of Pennsylvania. We
had imagined that most of the bank
ers were identified with the g. o. p.
"Some of the Ohio Prohibitionists
join hands with the Democrats in de-
nouncing the Scott liquor law" re-
marks a Republican organ. AS the
law is a virtual license of rum, we
should think the Prohibitionists would
be a unit against it.
Congressman Blackburn favors an
annual appropriation of $25,000,O00
for school purposes from the federal
treasury. Considering the opportu
mites for good stealing that federal
aid to education might afford, we are
surprised at the lack Of unanimity in
support of the project that is ex-
hibited by the Republican organs.
Gen. w. W. Averill, Democrat
who sometimes looks through Repub-
ican spectacles, thinks that Mr.
Hewitt should be nominated by his
party for president. "He is a
crotchety man." says Mr.. Averill,
"but that is not to his prejudice. We
do not want any flexible, homeless
presidents-men trying to conceal
something and not to offend some
body. 1t would not hurt the presi-
dency if we should get in some up
right man like Hewitt"
The Pennsylvania Democratic con-
vention, which is to be held at Harris
burg August l, dominates only a can
didate for treasurer. The local Demo-
cratic press is now discussing the
platform to be adopted. 1t is gener
ally thought that the Humes funding
bill VIII be Endorsed, as well as the
civil service measures and the admin
istration of Gov. Pattison. The can
didate for state treasurer will be
pledged to distribute the deposited
money of the state without partisan
or personal faYoritism.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-08-02
FOREIGN FACTS
Matters and Things Across the Water.

A WATER TRIcYcLIsT
DOVER, July 28.-A man named Terry left
here al O'Clock this morning on floating tri-
ciele, to cross the channel to France.
THE BISHOPS INCREASED POWER.
BERLIN July 2s.-The Catholic b shops have
the provisions of the governments church bill
recently passed, and have ordered all Wears
and candidates for the priesthood 10 return to
Prussia.
THE CHOLERA AT CAIRO.
ALEXANDRIA. July 2S.-At Cairo Yesterday
there were n deaths from cholera: amony
the numler were three British soldiers. At
ChiDin, 105 deaths: Mehalla, 81: Tantah, Is.
lsmallia, 3, including one ljr fish soldier.
RAPID DECREASE.
CAIRO. July 2S.-There was rapid decrease
IN the number of deaths from CHOLERA In the
B3onlak quarter OF this city YESTERDAY. One
Thousand and one hundred of the inhabitants
have removed to TOurah
RIGID INSPECTION.
LONDON, July 2s.-The custom house au-
thor1ties continue to give clear bills of health
to persons leaving here. The inspection
ordered by the American consulate, 80 far,
has shown no case Of cholera Or contagious
disease on vessels sailing for America.
RELEASED FROM SERVICE.
DUBLIN. July 2s.-Owing to the quickness Of
the Country the government has dispensed
magistrate, from special duty to which he had
been temporarily assigned.
ARMS FOR STANLEY.
LIVERPOOL. July % The mail boat Cor
slca, Wnlcn recently sailed Tor the west coast
OF Africa, took 5000 carbines collsigIed 10
Henry NJ. Stanley, the explofist.
YELLOW JACK IN cUBA
HAVANA, July 2S.-Forty-eight deaths from
yellow fever in Havana last week
EGYPTIAN COTTON.
ALEXANDRIA, July 2s-Rayages by the cot
ton worm and the rise in the Nile cause great
anxiety here.
TURKISH QUARANTINE.
CoSsTANTISoPLE, July 28.-Three Turkish
men-0i-war have been sent to Rhodes to act
as quarantine squadron in connection with
the station now being established there
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-08-02
This the secretary declines

made. This the secretary declines
to do.
The idea of canal through the
isthmus like that of the Lesseps was
considered practicable, and the eXca-
walton was actually commenced, 25OO
years ago, and in the reign of PtOlemy
PhiladelphuS, 273 B. c., the union of
the two seas was perfected. This ca
its modern successor, entering the
Red Sea near the present town of
SueZ, and was of sufficient depth and
breadth to allow of the passage of
galleyS of considerable size. More
over, it is an historical fact that in the
year 81 B. G. Cleopatra, after the bat
of Egypt were unable to resist those
of Rome, attempted to take her fleet
through it into the Red Sea, with the
view of escaping into distant land,
a project which failed from the hos
tility of the Arabs. The channel eX-
listed for centuries after the time of
Cleopatra, but became gradually
locked up and obliterated by the then
unconquerable sand.
The follow ng story is sent by the
Paris correspondent of the London
Chronicle: "The mystery surround
ing prisoner at MaZas named Mar
teau, who obstinately refused to give
any particulars, is cleared up. The
accused was recognized by other pris-
oners, taken into custody and the
police have continued their inVestiga-
lions finding out most extraordinary
conspiracy to commit wholesale mnr-
der. The mother of Marteau and
some young women of disreputable
character are implicated. Marteau
hired house near the Boulevard
Menilmontant and gang of well
dressed young women to persuade
men of wealthy appearance to visit
them. In dark passage there was a
trap door communicating with a Gel
lar, in which, horrible to relate, were
large knives, newly sharpened, coarse
sponges and tub to receive the blood
of the victims. Happily the arrest of
Capt. Marteau has put an end to this
hideouS plot. Several young women
have already given evidence to the
JUICE Construction"
Gen. Booth, leader of the English
Salvation army, Sub-let the Eagle
Tavern from its landlords and pro-
ceeded to conduct it as a temperance
house. But the landlords were bound
to use the tavern for a public house,
to renew the license yearly, and to do
nothing to cause this license to be
withdrawn. These obligations had
been assumed by Gen. Booth, and at
once disregarded. Suit was brought
against him to anndl the lease, and he
made affidavit that he was now nego-
tiating with a firm of brewers to take
the tavern off his hands. The action
was then discontinued, and the nego-
tiations were at once broken off by
Booth, who continued to run the taY-
ern as a temperance hotel. Suit was
again brought, with the result that he
has lost his lease and the 100000 paid
TO secure it. The court stigmatized
his action as dishonest and unsuc-
cessful legal bubble. A temperance
hotel, said 1.-The judge, was not public
house generally understood.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-08-02
A FINANCIAL LESSOY.

A. has idle capital and decides to
make a temporary investment. B.
represents business house on Con-
gress avenue, which would cost him
$4,000, with a guarantee that he may
sell it when he wants to repossess
himself of the investment for every
dollar paid. G. represents another
business house on Congress avenue
in the same block, which A. may OBJ
tain for $12,5OO, and there is an equal
guarantee that when he wishes to
reposseSs himself of the cash he
may sell this house for every dollar
paid for it. House B. has a gilt-edge
tenant ready to pay, as rental for a
term of years, $500 annually for the
use of it, while house G. is occupied
by an equally responsible tenant
ready to pay $1,000 for an
equal number of years for its
use. A. is a business man
and his purpose is to make all the in
CereSC ne can upon investments;
which house, then, will he take? The
question can be answered in no other
way than that his choice will be the
house that pays him the best interest.
This smile is made for the considera-
ton of the state investing board, in
the interest of teaching them the
plainest lesson in finances. They offer
an excuse for investing that they in
tend to buy the lowest priced and the
lowest interest securities, when they
offer, as another excuse, that United
States bonds, when invested in, may
be sold at any time without loss on
the invested money.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-08-02


THE Buffalo Courier, after perus-
ing the Dorsey revelations in the Sun,
has this to say:
We rise from the perusal of this
miserable narrative with the convic-
ton that Garfield had no moral right
to prosecute Dorsey; that Arthur had
no moral right to prosecute hun; that
the Republican party had no moral
right to prosecute him. He was the
hero of shameful and venal canvass,
in which the leaders of the party bar
gained for the spoils of Office, assessed
the government employees, blackmailed
monopolists, accepted the booty of
thieves, and purchased the vote of a
state. and the whole organization APP
proved of the work. Dorsey should
be bestowed to the pedestal on which
the speech-makers at the Delmonico
dinner set him. He Is the typical
Republican politician of this genera
ton, and if the party is fit to be in
power, he is certainly fit to sit in its
high places. 1t is to his credit that
he refused a cabinet Office when 9TH
ers were engaged in wild scramble
for spoils. and that, although threat
ened with disgrace and the punish
ment of a felon while others were on
ly threatened with the loss of patron
age. he took little share in the quar-
rel that eliminated in the murder of
the president.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-08-02
ROUND ROCK.
[Special to The Statesman,

ROUND ROCK, July %. - Superintendent
Herrin ran special over to Georgetown yes
terday afternoon. 1t is surmised that the road
will soon be extended to Lampasas Springs.
There has been considerable sickness in this
neighborhood for the past two weeks Martin
Allen lost two of his youngest children and Mr..
Davis one. There has been but very little
fruit, and most of it is in state which is prob
ably the cause of so much sickness. Mr.. q. 81.
SnOdgraSs died at Old Round Rock yesterday,
His body WIS escorted to the train to-day by
the MasOi S. and the corpse shipped to Rock
dale for interment.
and Col Pittman is building large house
near the college, which will be used for board
ing the pupils.
Col. Pittman returned from Bryan, where he
has been teaching the normal school,
1t is very warm and dry. Crops are fine.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-08-02
SAN MARCOS.
Special Correspondence. ]

SAN MARCOS, July 2S.-Nlr. A NJ. Mitchell
and family, renters of the Gary farm We're
poisoned so badly Hast night that the former
died to-day, while the others are in precari-
GUS condition. one of the children took "A tn
cup, dipped it in a pail of poison and then pro-
ceeded to wash it in the water bucket in the
kitchen. Subsequently the mother mixed up
batch of dough with the water from the bucket,
cooked it and the whole family partoOk of il,
with the result stated above.
Seven hundred dollars WAS raised al Martin
dale by mill owners and others down the
river, TO be used i'll bringing suit against the
owners of the dam at the head of the river. the
subscribers claiming than the dam has caused
the river to change its character 10 subterra-
mean stream and injuring their interests in
consequence. There is moi more than half as
much water in the river us before the dam
was built, it being several feet higher than the
bed and diverting the water TO a greater eX-
tent in consequence.
The Methodist camp meeting closes Satur-
day night
There have been Il number of deaths in town
recently from different maladies.
The first bale of cotton was received to-day
from Martindale; weight G25 pounds.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-08-02

liberate more than ever dangerous
affiuvia. If the good people of Aus
tin will join hands with THE STATES
MAN to secure solid reformation in
the city government, it can be OBJ
tanned. 1t could name municipal
ticket that would, if elected, stop this
trifing with human life. Our munich
pality has been cursed through the
choice of pot house politicians and po-
litical bummers for municipal posi-
lions, and until our people join in an
effort to defeat such, they will remain
at the mercy of ignorance and incom-
potency, too often of dishonesty.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-08-02
THE TELEGRAPHIC TURMOIL
Thought to be Drawing TO a Close
NOTICES REMOVED.

NOTICES REMOVED.
NEW YORK, July 2S-The Western Union
this afternoon removed the notices "Subject to
Delay" and all business will h@-eafter be
taken as before the strike.
THIS PIcTURNAND THAT.
CHICAGO. July % superintendent Clowry
received notice this afternoon that two-thirds
of the operators are sitting idle without the
room, and the other oDe-tlIird are doing little
on account of the great falling OFF in business.
An investigation shows that while the mem
beers OF the Chamber of Commerce were hold
ing their meeting yesterday, called by mem
berS for the purpose OF de- Ouncing the tele-
graph service. answers to their dispatches
were following the kilograms from MIR SOmer-
vile, defining the situation in New. York city.
Everything is i'll gooh shape this morning, and
the papers deride the bulleti' received by the
LEADING strikers. stating that all the circuits
az bIockfded with business hours and days
old, while some bulletins assert that twO-thirdS
of our messages are being received from st.
Louis and Chicago inside OF nine minutes. Two
men have returned to work at Bradford.
TIT FOR TAT.
BALTIMORE July 27.-The American Rapid
telegraph &, nipany has notified the Baltin ore
and Ohio telegraph company that il cannot
receive messages from that company lo-bc
forwarded over American Rapid wires. Tie Op-
orators refusing to handle tlfrm. On the nh-r
hand, the baltimore and OhiO company has
sent a notice to the American Rapid company
that no more OF its business Will be allowed
over the Baltimore anu Ohio wires.
BOTH SIDES DENOUNCED.
PHILADELPHIA, July 2S.-At meeting in
the George Commercial Exchange to-day, III
reference to the telegraphers' strike, resolu-
tions were adopted declaring that the present
difficu ties might have bden avoided, and that
the action of both parties IN the controversy
is equally reprehensible. Resolutions were also
adopted asking Congress to take such action
as Will prevent similar troubles in the future.
BUSINESS MOVING PROMPTLY
NEW YORK, July % The meeting OF strik-
ing operators at Clarendon Hall was well It.
tended to-day No new developments. The
Western Union superintendent at Washington
departments is promptly handled. and govern
ment officials make no complaint of delays.
DEMANDING RELIEF.
NEW ORLEANS, Ju Y 28.-At meeting Of
the committee app inted by the various COM
mercial organizations to confer together in re-
gard to the existing strike of the telegraph
operators, the following was unanimously
adopted:
"ReSOlved, In view of the imperfect tele-
graphic service at present existing, which has
served to PROSTATE commercial business be-
tween his city and its electrical connections,
we, representatives of the commercial bodies
OF New Orleans urge the indispensability OF
such Immediate action on the part Of the
W. stern Union telegraph company as will
tend to restore the commerce of Our city to its
normal condition. and prevent the continuance
of heavy losses and serious inconvenience now
being sustained by our whole commercial COM
munity."
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-08-02

route. it well known by those posted that
no danger really exists.
At IL O'Clock tonight an unknown man en-
tered the Office of the express company and
assaulted the money clerk with brass knuckles.
The clerk gave the alarm. when the man. who
certainly intended robbery, escaped. Officers
are in pursuit
b. II. Ayers, a prominent young lawyer was
chlorofOrned and robbed of S63 this morning.
No clue to the thieves
DR. Matthews was knocked on the head near
Cameron's lumber yard. about II O'Clock last
night. and robbed of $50. The robbery was
on our main highway Houston street
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-08-02

JUST before the receipt of the tele-
gram announcing that cholera had
made its appearance in LonSon,
United States Surgec, Gen. Hamilton
of the Marine Hospital service, said:
The first appearance of cholera in
Englsdd will be the signal for the in
stitution of rigorous quarantine on
this side of the ocean. Every vessel
leaving an English port will be pre-
vented from landing in the United
States until properly inspected by the
health officers of the government
The fund appropriated by congress at
It's last sessions, in order that pro-
vision might be made against the out
break Of epidemics in this country, is
amply sufficient for all our wants. and
no means win be left untried to pre-
vent the spread of a scourge."
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-08-02
FORT WORTH.
Especial to The statesman.l


FORT WORTH, July %. Deputy United
States Marshal A. I. cody, having been in
dicted for the murder of Boss Cavanaugh, in
Bosque county. surrendered himself to the
authorities yesterday, but to-day gave bond in
the sum of $1,000. When Cavanaugh was shot
he was resisting arrest. The indictment is
locked upon here rs mere formality.-
Chief Surgeon jackson, of the Gould sys-
TEN, to-day appointed Drs. Beall and Adams
consulting surgeons for the Gould system IN
Texas. and operative surgeons for the hospital
here 1t is the intention of the company to
erect two more hospitals in he state, besides
the one now in course of construction here.
One will, in all probability, be at San Antonio
and the other at FL Paso.
FoRr WORTH. July 30.-Considerable un-
easiness is evinced by travellers, owing to
rumors of yellow fever at New Orleans To
nj hit two travellers, who wished to go East by
way of New Orleans, bought tickets by another
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-08-02

THERE is a time for everything,
and the most inopportune time
for buying United States bonds is
just in advance of the election on
the constitutional amendments. Yet
it is boastfully set forth that, had
it not been for little difference as to
the cost of shipping nearly million
of silver, the investment would al
ready have been made.