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The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-06-28

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The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-07-19
A RAILROAD AGENT
Having a " Picnic"

CFrom the st. Louis Globe-D Democrat
So popular has the Bee Line Route,
by the way of st. Louis, become, it
requires neither advertising or solic-
iting to secure business for that line.
To use the expression of a we'll
known railroad man, and one who
has travelled extensively and is a
close observer: "The agent who rep
resents the Bee Line Route certainly
has picnic. The line works itself.
Those who travel over it are living
advertisements for the line. The line
passing, as it does, through Northern
Indiana and Ohio, along the shore
and in plain view of Lake Erie,
thence through Central New York
and along the bank of the Hudson
River, landing passengers in the
Grand Central Depot. New York
City, the only depot in the city. This,
with their system of through cars
running daily from st. Louis to New
York and Boston, makes the line the
fayorite by large majority Hav-
ing an agent for such line is a mere
matter OF form, and he (the AGENT, as
have said, certainly has picnic.
We are informed that all ticket
agents in our state sell tickets over
the Bee Line Route, by way of st.
Louis; also, that the company have
now on sale at all ticket offices a full
line of excursion tickets to the differ
ent summer resorts in the North and
East.
There were forty head of fat cattle
sold to the butchers of this city yes
feToaV.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-07-19
MISCELLANEOUS MATTERS AND
THINGS.

In removing the remains of a per-
son buried thirteen years since at
Brunswick, Me-, recently, in a costly
metallic casket, the casket was found
so badly corroded that it was full of
holes, while hard pine casket box,
which had been in the ground twenty
years, was perfectly sound.
Somebody told a young English no.
bleman that to be popular in Boston
society he must profess to be very
fond of baked beans. And so, when
he dined at Mrs. Demonstrates, he
said in loud voice to the servant:
Pass me the baked beans, please"
There was none, of course, and the
hostess said she was insulted
A report issued by the French min
lister of war, relative to last years re-
cruiting operations, shows that out of
1896 foreign recruits born in France
and inscribed upon the lists, 1864. or
more than one-half, refused to take
advantage of their nationality, but
preferred to enter the service.
The printers in Chicago gave notice
of strike for an advance of wages.
The following singular mix-up in the
Chicago News, before the strike, sug-
gests that the time has about arrived
when the papers night with proprie-
ty strike for an advance of printers:
Notice. My wife, Emily Co0te Fer
gnson, having left my bed and board
and gone back on me. for Gods sake
and for the sake of your life take it
away. Temperat,kse, 1895 degrees
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The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-07-19
interesting suit at Law.
New York Evening Post. ]


In 1873 the Turkish government
entered into contracts with the Provi-
dence tool company. the former agree
ing to purchase and the latter to man
ufacture 100000 Martini-Henri rifles
and large quantity of sabres,
the entire cost for which was
about 100000. 1t was necessary
for the tool company to have special
machinery made in order to begin
work on their contracts, and therefore
it was stipulated in the documents
that Turkey was to provide bankers
credit in London, and maintain the
same at all times three months in adj
vance of the manufacture and delly-
cry of the guns. This bankers credit
was to assure the tool company
prompt payment upon the execution
of the work.
In order to be able to turn out the
! first gun under the contract, the tool
company had to eXpend $3,OOO,OO0.
All of the guns were completed at
last. and the actual contract price was
paid. But for certain reasons the tool
company retained $4,000 of the rifles,
and it was to recover these that the
Turkish government brought suit in
equity in the United States supreme
court.
Mr.. Justice Blatchford presided at
Newport, yesterday, Mr.. VIM. NJ. En-
arts aud Mr.. Treadwell Cleveland, OF
the firm of Evarts, Southmayd &
Choate, representing the Turkish gov
eminent, and Mr.. VIM. A. Butler, and
Mr.. Thomas Stillman, of the firm OF
Butler, Stillman & Hubbard, of New
York, and Mr.. Benjamin F. Thurston
of Rhode Island, appearing for tht
Prov idence Tool company,
Mr.. Evarts made the argumen
I for the Turkish government, and at
tracted the undivided attention O.
the court and the host of the lawyers
who were spectators. His point wa
that, notwithstanding the agreement
{ to establish certain credits in London
I the defendant corporations representa-
tive in Const&ntinople, when tn
last payment became due, signe'
: document to the effect that tina
= amount-about G40000-represente,
I all that was due or likel
: to be due or to be claimed from tn
Turkish government on behalf of tn
S Providence Tool Company. That, i
Y was argued, entirely took away tn
force of any stipulation in the con
tract regarding payment or the eStal
: lishment Of a bankers credit and tn
S maintaining the same, and nullifie
any agreement to pay a forfeit, O
prevented the tool company froI
a claiming any money by reason c
\ damages or losses sustained thrOug
delay. The decision was reversed.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-07-19

WESTERN MICHIGAN viii attack
shows in the East this fall with an
advertising car. The plan is to put
specimens of grain. fruit, pumpkins,
ores and other products in the car to
show the vegetable and mineral rich
ness of the region. take a professor or
two from the agricultural college to
give the thing tone, and visit as many
fairs as possible in New England and
the Middle states. And Texas has
commission of generals and colonies
to show the great Louisville EXPOSE
ton THE STATESMAN has persist
emily urged that Texas take stock in
be Northern and Eastern exhibitions:
Id this. probably. it helped to de-
what it so much desired. Il is
.e present chief executive of
IS does not like to assist in carry
out the desires of TIE STATES
n AN: and yet it urges only such things
z>Fo,ild rebound to the greatest ma
prosperity Of the state.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-07-19

product around Austin, and the earli- !
est potatoes sold n the Northern cit
es have been shipped from Texas over
the very lines of railway
which this same Potter followed
in his trip to and from Williamson
county. Wherever proper attention
has been paid to apples they have
grown well. and in Northern Texas.
where Northern farmers have reared
orchards, they have been gathered
and shipped abroad in quantities.
The peach, and the plum, and the
apricot, and the grape, the fig
and ounce, and berries of many
varieties are produced in album
dance and of superior quail
ity. Texas, too, is land of table
vegetables, produced in profusion and
of most excellent quality. This man
] Potter was certainly sent to Texas to
tell untruths, and yet he is ashamed
to tell it bravely in the columns Of
newspapers. He knows it will then
be corrected in the same manner as
made, and therefore he says: "If any
of your readers are seeking in
formation about the Lone Star
state, and would care for the obServa-
lions of an Iowa farmer, they have
my address and can reach me by mail.
Secretly this man Potter can tell all
the falsehoods about Texas that he
may be employed to tell, but when
he presents them in the col
umns of so highly respectable an(
worthy a journal as the columns Of
: of the Rural World, THE STATESMAN
is called upon to show that he tell
nothing that is true.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-07-19

THE projectors of the Louisville
exposition have fixed upon prices for
privileges. Lemonade must pay $500;
ice cream, $500; cider, 1920; the res
taurant, $500; beer, 5000, and pop
corn, $500. And that is in Kentucky,
where bourbon grows, and where 1t
dwells inherent in the hearts of all
men. Where is Joe Blackburn |
Where is Abe Buford And, tn
PEASANT, where is Henri, who is i'm
properly named WatterSon
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-07-19

MICHAEL DAvITT has written a
letter to league in Philadelphia, in
which he says:
The difficulty just now is not what
is to be done, but how best to do what
is possible of accomplishment under
the despotism of the coercion regime.
However, we are not losing hope,
although our people are flying west
ward in thousands, and the liberty of
all who remain is at the mercy of the
police; though for the present defeat
we are not and never shall be van
quished. All is not lost, our country
vet remains.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-07-19

CONGRESSMAN BLACKBURN, Of
Kentucky, says that he will be elected
speaker, and that the next Demo-
cratic presidential ticket will be Hoad-
ly and Cleveland, while the Republic
cans will nominate David Davis and
not carry seven states. That is all
very well mapped out; but what says
the Kentuckian to Sam Randall, by
the grace of whom he hopes, if Ran
dali does secure the caucus nominal
ton, to defeat Carlisle, one of his
state colleagues.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-07-19

THE Republican and Independent
papers still continue to strongly urge
Mr.. Randall as the most proper man
for the Democrats to name for the
speakership. They even urge that his
election will save the party and make
it successful in the next presidential
election; all of which is thin enough
for the most imperfect vision to pene-
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-07-19

IN HIS REPORT to the penitentiary
board yesterday the financial agent of
the state, Mr.. Brahan, says that he will
not only be able to run the peniten-
tiary without drawing further upon
the state but that he will soon
begin to refund to the
state money already paid out.
AS Mr.. Brahan was formerly the
confidential clerk of Messrs. Cunning
ham & Ellis, the late lessees of the
penitentiary, and among those who
opposed resumption by the state on
the ground that it would not pay,
this is quite an admission for him to
make, and only proves the correctness
of the position taken by THE STATES
MAN against the lease system.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-07-19
Lease of University Lands.

The late legislative act, known as the land
act, constituting the governor of the state of
Texas and the heads of the state departments
a land board with the power of lease and sale
of the public school, asylum and university
lands, will go into effect July Ia, 1883. At that
time the 900, 600 acres of land set apart to the
university by the constitution of 1876, and To-
Gated principally in the counties of Tom Green,
Crockett, Preside and PecOs, will be offered for
lease to the highest bidder, in tracts of not
less than $4,000 acres and for terms not exceed
ing ten years. and at prices not less than four
cents per acre, payable annually in advance.
Applications for the rental of any portion of
the above lands as hereinbefore indicated.
giving the quantity of land wanted the term
for which it is desired to lease, and the price
of annual rental offered, can be addressed to
the Hon. AShbel Smith, president of the board
of regents, Austin, Texas, and to the under
signed.
No contracts to lease can be closed until
after the organization of the land board in
July next.
Maps of the university lands, field notes of
its surveys, and IA general description of the
lands themselves can be had upon application
to the secretary of the board of regents. Re-
spectfully, -
A. p. WOODBRIDGE.
Secretary Board of Regents University of
Texas. le26-tiY14.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-07-19

THE great universityof OXFORD, Eng,
had an income last year of 953,9OO,
including al3,l00 IRON estates, $4,000
from the university press, e24, 200 from
fees and dues, and Ell, 300 from mis-
ceDaneous sources. The expenditure
was 951, 267, including 942OO for inter
est on sinking fund on loans. The
examination fees amounted to e50oO,
and the payment to examiners came
e4067. Proctorial fines only produced
e267; degree fees $500; university
dues, e8100; naturalization fees, 919OO.
Professors cost eS063, and university
officers e45S0. The outlay for profess
it will be seen, was only $4,000,
while only eight professors fer the
Texas university cost $24,5O0.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-07-19

ARE our business people seeing
to it that the enterprising
proprietors of the new Austin city
directory are receiving that aid and
encouragement necessary for a first
class work. THE STATESMAN hopes
10 see a directory creditable to our
city, and to this end our business men
and its publishers must work togeth-
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-07-19
AN ORDINANCE.

For leyying and collecting an ad valorem tax
IN aid of the free schools of the city of
Austin, for the scholastic year 1888:
Be it ordained by the City Council of the
city of Austin, That there shall be levied and
collected on the property assessed for the year
A. ID. 1888, mills on the dollar upon all prop
crty situated within the limits of the city of
Austin, and made taxable by law for state and
county purposes. in aid of the public fire
schools of said city, for the scholastic year be-
ginning September ] A. ID. 1888.
Passed July 2, 1888. Approved July 5, 1855
w. A. SAVIOR, Mayor
Attest: T. L. PURNELL. City Clerk. iy6-lOt
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-07-19

CERTAIN well-known French Mon
archists have been visiting the pontiff
with the purpose of sounding him as
to what line of conduct they should
pursue in the present condition of at
fairs in France. The agents in ques-
ton were unable to obtain, any opin-
ion from the pontiff or from Cardinal
Jacobini. But it is certain that the
cardinal expressed an opinion that it
would be expedient to prepare the
ground for monarchial restoration.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-07-19


THE most terrible case of lynching
yet recorded is the late one in Illinois.
A white and colored man, both drunk,
got into row. The white man drew
a pistol and attempted to shoot his
adversary, but the latter wrenched
the weapon from the hand that drew
it and used it with deadly effect Upon
his enemy. For this he was hung by
mob. though in any court of justice
he could not have been convicted of
higher grade of crime than man.
slaughter. The fact is, a negro stands
no show in a Northern state when
color is involved. That negro, in the
eyes of his eXecutioners, had no right
to defend himself. He should have
allowed the white man to murder him.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-07-19

THERE is trouble in the Iowa Re
publican camp. At the recent state
convention the party submitted itself
entirely to the Prohibitionists. They
made the ticket and the platform; and
now some of the leading Prohibition
lists are expressing dissatisfaction
with the nominee for governor on the
ground that he has not always been
radical on the temperance question,
and they are talking of getting up
convention for the nomination of a
Prohibition ticket A part of the
scheme is to get the Greenbackers to
join in making combination ticket.
But then if the dissatisfied Prohibit
tionists are not more numerous than
the GFeenbackers the Republicans
will not lose much by their detection,
after all.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-07-19
THE STATESMAN.
THE apple crop in the Northwest is
light. So is the peach crop.

JUST now Thurman, junior, is
bigger man than Thurman, senior.
We cannot account for the younger's
freaks, unless it be that in this age OF
dudes he has become one of them.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-07-19
THE Able Moigno has formed a

The Able Moigno has formed a
company in Paris, and has raised
$4,000 for the purpose of dragging
the Red Sea and Bitter Lakes in Or
der to rec0veE-tbe chariots, treasure
arms and, other remains of Pharaoh's
host, which he believes to lie there
covered with a saline deposit. The
research will be prosecuted by divers
The expedition is ready to leave Mar
settles, and is only detained by the
outbreak of cholera at the Red Sea
ports. Probably the sea has been, as
miners say, doubly sailed"
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-07-19

THE friends of Gen. Hancock as
sert that he is in the presidential field.
We'll, after awhile, when he has can
tered around until jaded, they will
pull the fence down and let the noble
steed out.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-07-19
AN ORDINANCE.

Be it ordained by the City Council of the city
OF Austin that al ticle 402 90 of the revised or
dlnanee OF the city of Austin, passed April 5,
1873, is hereby amended so as to read as fol
lows:
ARTICLE 402 "a. Any person or persons
proceeding sections of this ordinance relating
to nuisances, from section TO section Is, (arti-
Gle SS9 to article 401), either by act or OMISSION
on conviction thereof shall be punished by fine Of
not less than ten nor more than one hundred dol
lars for each and every such OffenSe; and each
day that any nuisance shall continue shall con-
Stltute separate OffenSe In all cases of con-
yiction of nuisance the same shall be held to
imply notice to abate.
Passed July 2, 1888. Approved July I, 1883.
W. A. SAVIOR, Mayor.
Attest-T. L. PURNELL, City Clerk. jyS-10t
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-07-19
TEXAS LAnpS.

we make no charge for advertising lands put
INTO our hands for sale, but owners are REQUIRED
know the title TO be straight before we offer for
sale. We do not put lands on our books unless
We have control for n definite period When
give advertising number Of this column.
Taxes paid; lands redeemed; lands and land
certificates bought and sold; p6tehts obtained;
lands surveyed and subdivided; lands Inspect.
ed and quality and value reported to owners
We make q specially of buying and selling
cattle and sheep ranches. Correspondence So
licited with land owners, and parties desiring
to invest In Texas lands.
MADDOX BROS. & ANDERSON.
500 Congress- Avenue. Austin. Texas.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-07-19
Houston, Texas.
je18d&w3m.

Rev. T. j. YOSt, proprietor of Pulpit and
Parsonage, recommends these Magnets, as
follows:
Having been afflicted with malaria for
years, and having taken quinine till my nerves
began to be afflicted, began to try So-called
specifics for malaria of every kind, only to be
disappointed. l was assured ry business
man, with whom have daily int rcOurSe that
if would use PROF. MORSE'S AGUE MAG
NETS according to directions they would cure
me. | am now prepared 10 say that 1 regard
them as infinitely superior to quinine, a nd
tried. A trial will cost but little. You will be
sure to rec mnfend them TO your friends.
mY1d-&W1V.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-07-19
AN OR6INANCP

BE it ordained 10y the City Council of the city
of austin, that an ordinance passed June the
18th, 1872 amending article ga, Isec y, of the
wiling for the levying and collecting of takes,
BIT and is hereby amended TO read as follows
SECTION l. That there shall be levied and
collected an annual tax not exceeding one per
centum upon all the property in the city made
taxable by law for state and county purposes,
and the city council shall, on or before the first
Monday in August in each and every year, fix
by ordinance the amount of per centum for
each annual levy of adj valoreum taxes TO he
assessed and collected for each year. That
this ordinance be in force from and after its
passage.
Passed July =, 1888. Approved July :, 1888.
w. A. SAVIOR, Mayor.
Attest-T. L. PURNFLL, City Clerk. iys-lOt
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-07-19

160 TOM GREEN COUNTY-lb3, 900 acres
10 in solid body, western part Of the cOun-
ty, on Texas Pacific railway; good grasses and
abundance of good fresh water on eastern end
OF the tract, and water in good quantity can
be had at short depth anywhere on the land.
This would make an excellent stock ranch.
Price $1.25 per acre net; 64OO acres in second
tract and 5000 acres In another tract; same
class of land and same price.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-07-19
WIN. D. Cleveland,

Solicits open orders for all kinds of
Groceries, including Tobacco, Cigars
and Liquors, and will fill them with
that careful selection and moderation
in prices that such order should al
ways command.
He desires also to be remembered
by every Cotton Shipper in the State
when the new crop is ready for mar
ket. No one in or out of the State,
can give better results than he can.
Buying Goods at HOUSTON, and
shipping Cotton to HOUSTON is no
longer an experiment. 1t is a saving,
and a success.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-07-19

1Re MONTGOMERY COUNTY.-Saw mill
1OO and pine lands. Newly erected saw
mill, good condition, capacity 5000 feet lum-
per per day, tramway connecting with Gulf,
good pine lands and 1900 acres partly cut off.
Entire property for sale for $500. Terms
$4,000 cash, balance taken in lumber at current
prices In stock at mill, payable quarterly; full
payment ir three years. with ten per cent I'm
terest. THIS is a bargain. Five thousand
acres good pine land can be had same locality.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-07-19

MADDOX BRos. a ANDERSON
General Lana AGENTS. 90 oonrss Avsau /
Anaran. IsRaei,
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-07-19

1SI Preside COUNTY-35,8 $40 acres, rs
lCf miles from the Southern Pacific rail-
road; has a front of IL miles on the Rio
Grande; black gramna grass and good winter
protection; would make a very fine cow
ranch. Price 81 .25 per acre,
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-07-19

G6 PALO PINTO COUNTY--Reynold clark
VI 1924 acres; fronts Brazos river; 800 acres
Of this is good river bottom land, with some
timber on the margin of the river; balance
good upland; everlasting spring. Price $500.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-07-19

Xxx LUBBOCK COUNTY-5s 24O acres in
1OO solid body, on the Yellow House Canon;
very fine grass, good winter protection and
plenty of water. This will make a good cattle
ranch. Price 81 per acre, one-half cash.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-07-19

16O MENARD CoUNTY--B. S. and F. sur
" veys 1, 3, s, Z, 0, II, Is, IS, II. 49, 81 and
70, and A, b. and M. Surveys -, u, 20, 81. 80,
50, 81 and 80. all $40 acres each. 20 surveys in
all; good land and the very best grasses; wa
ter can he had at short depth In good quanti-
ty. Price 1925 per acre.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-07-19

co Preside COUNTY-rhe two-thirds
OO undivided interest In $40 acres within
Z miles of Fort Davis, bold spring OF new
er failing water, small rancho improvements
exempt from taxation for 20 years, small field
once irrigated from spring, large quantity of
land adjacent at reasonable figures. Price
$500. per acre, one half cash. balance and
years with 10 Der cent.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-07-19

IN EASTLAND COUNTY-Dan Kicheiow
~ 800 on Texas Pacific railway, never fail
ing water, some improvements, good land and
timber also. Would make good small farm.
Price. 50 per acre.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-07-19

76 FIFTY ACRES, miles from Elgin, house
~ OF rooms and gallery. smoke house and
barn; % acres In cultivation, and balance
heavily tiinbered. For sale; terms easy; price
reasonable.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-07-19

III MCCULInCH COUNTY-Surveys 1872,
y 229. 272 and $50, for $40 acres each.
Price 81 per acre.