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The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-08-02
Tie Effect of Tobacco on Children.

DR.. G. Decaisne has submitted to
the Society of Public Medicine the re-
suits of some interesting observations
concerning the effects due to the use
Of tobacco among boys. Thirty-eight
youths were placed in his charge,
whose ages varied from nine to fif-
teen. and who were in the habit of
smoking, though the abuse of tobacco
varied in each case. The effects. of
course, also varied, but were emphat-
ic with twenty-seven out of the thir-
ty-eight boys. With tWenty-one pa
tientS, there was a distinct disturb
ance of the circulation, bruit at the
carotids, palpitation of the heart, de-
ticiencies of digestion, sluggishness of
the intellect, and craving more
or less pronounced for alcoholic
stimulants. In thirteen in
stances there was an intermittent
pulse. Analysis of the blood showed
in eight cases notable falling off in
the normal number of red corpuscles.
Twelve boys suffered frequently from
bleeding of the nose. Ten COM
planned of agitated sleep and constant
nightmare. Four boys had liberated
mouths, and one Of the children be-
OdLAO Vic N1CIlIH VI pulIuOudi
phthisis, a fact which DR.. Decaisne
attributed to the great deterioration
Of the blood produced by prolonged
and excessive use of tobacco. AS
these children were all more or less
Emphatic, it was not possible to
establish comparison according
to temperament; but of course
the younger the child the more mark
ed were the symptoms, and the better
fed children were the ones that suf-
fered the least. Eight of the children
in question were aged from nine to
twelve years. Eleven had smoked
for six months, eight for one year and
sixteen for more than two years.
Out of eleven boys who were induced
to quit smoking, six were completely
restored to normal health after six
months, while the others continued
to suffer slightly for a year. Treat
ment with iron and quinine gave no
satisfactory result, and it seems toler--
ably evident that the most effective,
if not the only cure, is to at once for
swear the habit, which to children in
any case is undoubtedly pernicious.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-08-02
MISCELLANEOUS MATTERS AND
THINGS.

There are 600 more women than
men in Butler county, Alabama.
The queen of Italy eats under the
eye of a doctor, who tells her what
not to eIt.
Immense quantities of tomatoes are
being shipped from Chattanooga,
some 600 boxes daily.
The dear girl who strikes heI lover
with feather fan will hit him with
a broom-Stick in after life.
Northern men are buying up and
locating saw mills on the fine tim
bered lands of Monroe county, Ala
bamd.
A popular young woman of Geor-
gia is contemplating removal to
Texas, to engage herself as cook, at Il
salary of $50 per month.
Dom Pedro, of Brazil, wears white
silk and white satin when he sits on
his throne, necklace of immense
diamonds and emeralds, and a lace
cravat. A widoWer with no spring
bonnets to buy can dress about as he
likes.
The Wilmington On. c. Review
comes to the front with the prize
spider 1t says: "a spider has been
found in Bladen county half as large
as an ordinary teacup and strong
enough to draw chicken a week old
into its den."
A.number of citizens of Oxford,
Miss, have engaged in the business
of buying and shipping cattle. The
cattle are shipped to Arkansas, Texas
and Missouri. The business seems
very profitable, and should encourage
stock.raisi g.
The Hon. George III. Pendleton,
though in no sense of the word a du-
elist, is a splendid pistol-shot. He
can throw an empty champagne bot
tie into the air, whirli1g over and
over, and can shoot into the mouth
and knock the bottom out every time
without injuring the bottle other
wise.
Mr.. Pulitzer's success is said to be
largely due to his wife's talent, SYM
pathy and pluck. The wife of Col
Mcclure. of the Philadelphia Times,
is a large stakeholder in the paper.
The Times-Democrat of New Orleans
is mainly owned by Mrs. Burke, while
Mrs. Nicholson is the controlling
spirit of Picayune.
Great excitement prevails in Rus
sell, Ark, over the discovery of a gold
mine few miles west of that place,
which assays $10.23 IN silver and
$1103 in gold per ton. 1t is thought
the ore extends all along the divide
between Red and White rivers. 1t
crops out at Saledo, Greenbri6r and
near Buck Horn.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-08-02
For and Against.

New YORK, July 27.-In the Su-
perior Court Judge Ingram granted
motion to vacate the order granted in
the suits of William Williams and
Rufus Hatch VS.. the Western Union
telegraph company and others, for the
examination of Louis Fitzgerald,
president of the Mercantile Tru {
company, in regard to the payment of
dividends by the company. The pro-
duce exchange adopted resolutions to
notify the Western Union telegraph
company if the service is not i'm
proved the exchange will withdraw
from its contracts, and also to confer
with other exchanges with view to
building lines of their own.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-08-02

BEYOND much of doubt Asiatic
cholera has made its appearance at
London. 1t will be remembered that
ten days ago case was reported there
on a ship which had come through
the Suez canal, and now the story is
repeated but denied. With constant
communication between England and
the infected districts, if it has not
already been brought to England, it
will soon be there. Then it is but a
step to America.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-08-02

state of things exists all the way to
Marshall, Harrison county, which is
a line county between Texas and Lou
isiana.
If any one thinks that
THE PINE LANDS ARE BEING CUT
AWAY,
ne only has to ride a few miles off a
railroad to dispel all such fears. You
can ride along a sandy, hot, dusty
road thirty miles without seeing a
house, except some rude cabins. built
of Embarked saplings, erected by hun
tiers or Sojourners. And, in all that
region, there are no signs which indi-
cate that the echoes of white mans
football have ever broken the monot-
onous sough of the tall. straight pines,
or that the ak of the woodman has
ever disturbed the "Chirp-will-to-
to" of the whippoorwin. The un-
broken pine forests seemed to me, as
L rode through them, along the mile
after mile of this almost endless
stretch, to be mourning over the des-
olation that appears to have settled
on that region. Their signing never
ceases; its requiem tone so impreSSeS
you GIldJ your ears roar WIFI IL lOT
hours after you leave it. But, desc
late as it seems,
GREAT FORTUNES
are to be made soon from those very
pines. They await the mill man and
spectators are buying them up as
rapidly as possible-large tracts of
obscure pine lands selling for fifty
cents per acre; any of. them away
from railroads twenty to twenty-five
miles can be had for from one to two
dollars per acre. No, the pine lands
of Texas are in no immediate danger
of giving out, still it would be wise
in the legislature to pass law which
would discourage the destruction of
the numerous growth of young sap
lings which are covering that portion
of the country from which the timber
has already been cut. Its wanton des-
truction is both unnecessary and bale
full, and should be stopped. In all
this country new settlers are docking
in and new mills opening up the for
ests and preparing the land for the
ploW.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-08-02

THE Arapahoes and Cheyenhes
have lately leased the western portion
of the Indian Territory for grazing
purposes, and it is predicted the trans
action will revolutionize the entire
Indian question. The rental is nearly
5000, payable semi-annually i nat
tie and money. The first payment
was made a few days ago at the
agency, every man, woman and child
in the tribes named receiving five sill
yer dollars. In connection with this
lease the Indians have started in the
cattle business themselves, having
just taken the initial step. They have
some 800 head of cattle, COWS and
heifers, with twenty-five blooded
bulls, on the range north of
the Cheyenne agency. The pasture
embraces the Clear creek and King
fisher valleys, which is claimed to be
one of the finest grazing regions of
the world. The United States gov
eminent will aid the Indians in their
enterprise, the Interior Department
having consented to invest as much
in cattle as the Indians themselves,
and turn them into the common herd.
For this purpose congress will at the
next session be asked to appropriate
$4,000 or 100000. With the number
of cattle now in their possession, and
with the number to be contributed by
the government and the lessees of the
grazing lands, the Indians calculate
that at the end of ten years, when the
grass lease expires, their herd will be
worth 100000. This will be
practical solution Iof the
Indian question, so far as the Arapa-
hoes and Cheyennes are concerned, as
it will make these tribes self-support-
ing. The cattle now on the range are
in good condition. The herd is under
the management of an experienced
white man, the employees being prin-
cipally Indians. The enterprise is
warmly Endorsed by Secretary Teller
Commissioner of Indian Affairs Price,
United States Agent Hunt, and 9TH
ers, all of whom unite in pronouncing
it a great strike in placing the tribes
ron self-sustaining basis.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-08-02

literally endow a fine hospital for tins
poor of that town, which viii saon be
opened for use.
DIR. w. G.. Palmer, who died at
Ocean Grove on Friday, claimed that
the last fifty years of his life were
passed, not only free from sin, but
also from the smallest inclination to
wro lg-dOing. He was the foremost
advocate of the doctrine of perfect
holiness and travelled for four years
through Great Britain holding relig-
iouS services. Every summer for
eight years he has held revival meet
ings daily at Ocean Grove.
j. Moss, a Wisconsin cattle dealer.
registered at Il hotel near the Chicago
stock yards. He blew out the gas.
The clerk and the landlord trie d to
persuade the rural guest 20 open the
door and let them in, but he yelled
that he was no greenhorn and they
couldn't rob him. The wise traveller,
getting frightened, let himself out
the window with a bed clothes rope
and camped in field.
A romantic freak of the sultan of
Morocco, who is very rich, is lately
published. 1t is said that he has
large vaults built 100 feet under the
ground ,surrounded by wall fifty feet
thick, composed of alternate layers
of metal and stone The approach
to these vaults is through subter-
ranean labyrinth, and is defended by
armed men, who, after entering the
Seavice of the sultan, never see the
light Of day again.
Gov. Blackburn, of Kentucky, has
accepted an invitation to be present
at the reunion of the survivors of
Gen. John H. Morgan's Confederate
command, and at his suggestion little
Julia Duke, Mrs. Blackburn's name
sake and portege and the daughter of
Gen. Basil Duke and niece of Gen.
John Morgan, is to be asked to recite
at the reunion The Bivouac of the
Dead" for which she has displayed Il
wonderful talent.
A Briton by birth and eduation, NJ.
Clemenceau possesses many of the
best characteristics of his race, includ-
ing taciturnity, patience and energy.
He is a slight, wiry man, with close
cropped hair and military mustache.
He walks with soldierly bearing,
dresses with faultless taste. and has
the general air of a martinez His
oratory, though powerful and convinc-
ing, is devoid of warmth, and ne makes
no secret of his contempt for the inn
aginativeness and ':gush" of the South
ern orators. Once, after one of Gam
betta's most impassioned speeches,
Clemenceau was seen to wear scorn-
full expression. "Why, you must adj
NIT that it was a magnificent ora
tion," eXpostulated NJ. Naquet. ut
was incomplete" replied Clemenceau,
drily; IN. Gambetta should have ac-
companied himself on the guitar"
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-08-02

THE ostrich farm near Costa, Los
Angeles county, Cal, is attracting
crowds of curious visitors. The ex-
periments thus far have been success
full. The birds are in fine condition
and have already been plucked of 700
worth of feathers. 1t is stated that
125 ostriches are soon to be shipped
from Buenos Ayres to New Orleans,
to be distributed through the South
ern states and territories.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-08-02
DiffarentiaI Fares

New YORK, July 26.-The joint
executive committee of trunk lines
to-day awarded differential fares on
first-class passenger business over the
new Baltimore and Ohio via the New
York Central or Erie and Grand
Trunk line, connecting at Niagara.
The rate fixed was $3.50. Differen-
tials were also fixed between Buffalo
and Chicago. and Cincinnati and st.
Louis, at the request of the Lake
Erie and Western road. Regular diff
ferential fares westward from Buffalo
were awarded to this line after con-
siderable opposition on the part of the
trunk lines. 1t was decided to estab-
lish a rule that hereafter second
class passengers be restricted to
smoking cars and not be afforded the
same facilities as first-elass passen-
gers.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-08-02

ENTERPRIsING Yankees, of New
England, have. been carrying on a
slave trade between the Southern
states and Cuba ever since the war.
The New Englanders imported Afri-
cans into this country and sold them
to the Southern slave-owners; and
New Englanders were the first to ex-
press horror at the institution which
they had established and by which
they grew rich.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-08-02

IT HAS been demonstrated that a
tax of thirty cents on the hundred
dollars of valuation is enough to pay
the expenses of the government, run
ON high pressure style, and to pay for
schools, where economy is Eraetieed,
five 0E-sx months IN each year. Why,
then, are the people asked to warrant
tax of sixty cents for the same pur-
poses, when there Is enough sur
plus money now in the state vaults to
pay all the expenses OF the state and
the schools for one year.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-08-02

TIE New York Sun says Jay
Gould is now the most determined
adversary of the striking operators.
He told the Evening Post reporter:
1--WE do not propose to recognize any
committee of the brotherhood, and if
the employees of the company persist
in their present action they will not
get a cent. They have already made
fools of themselves, and they will re-
alize it efore long" He said the
same in substance to the Advertiser
reporter. To the Graphic he said:
"The operators are a hot-headed lot
of fools, who did not look ahead and
see the consequences of their rash
ness, and they will be made to suffer-
Cyrus w. Field and other directors of
the Western Union are not less en-
phatic in their expressions.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-08-02

ton holds In Mexico and the Central
American states. On this continent,
then, in the aggregate lies open to us
a market for our manufacturers of at
least $500,00O,O0O. In no instance,
save perhaps that of Canada,
are any of the nations included
in this survey manufacturing
nations, and therefore they would
not compete with our domestic indus
tries. They will take our manufac-
tured products if only we will take
from them their raw materials. This
our tariff forbids. We refuse the
cheap raw materials which would
enable US, through low cost of pro-
duction, to monopoliZe these markets,
and we make no attempt to secure
that extension of the sale of our COM
modities which would enable our
manufacturers to run to their fullest
capacity the year round. Was ever
IL commercial policy more narrow or
suicidal?
OF course the effect of over produc-
ton is the stoppage of factories and
shops and mills. Wages are reduced
or cut off, and financial distress over
takes vast bodies of woaking people,
while tine most serious social disturb
ances result therefrom. But it is
the intimate connection between
the tariff and production to which
The STATESMAN especially calls at
tention. 1t is stated and conclusively
Il cfr hn
high protective taxation on raw ma
terials deprives American manufac-
turers of markets worth 100000, O0C
annually. These markets of right
belong to them, and were it not fol-
outrageous protection they would be
commanded by the manufacturers OF
this country. and over production
would be quite an impossibility.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-08-02
Millions of Logs Banked Up Against
Bridge

DETROIT, July 27-News of the
threatened calamity at Grand Rapids
and Grand Haven. spoken of yester-
day7>has been very slow coming in.
Intellfgepce is just at hand that
strong hopes are entertained that the
worst is over and that the dimensions
will be greatly less than'what seemed
certain yesterday. The Lake Shore
Michigan Southern bridge, four miles
below this city, towards Grand Haven,
up to noon to-day stands firm, with
100000 feet of logs against it,
and 100000 more strewn high
and dry on the banks between
this point and the point above the
city where the first bridge gave way
yesterday. 1t is confidently hoped
the Lake Shore bridge can hold out
against the enormous pressure. If SO
the logs will be kept from passing
down the river, breaking the Grand
Haven booms and blowing into Lake
Michigan. The losses at best are
heavy, but nothing approaching what
they would be had the last bridge been
carried off. Trade is greatly impeded,
but the railroads have already tele-
graphed for estimates for replacing
their bridges which went out yester-
day. All the new ones will be iron.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-08-02
Dress and Cloak Makers Strike.

New YORK. July 27.-The strike of
dress and cloak makers still continues
in the firm of Bohm Bros, and
Greenfield gave in yesterday to the
strikers and about twenty men and
thirty women went to work to-day.
Weldldman and Tasskedy, two ouI-
side contractors, also yielded to about
twenty eight, and girls went to work
in the formers place to-day, and
between thirty and forty in the lat
ter's A letter has been received from
F. Gar4ick, another contractor, asking
his employees to return to work at
their own terms. They will do so to-
morrow. y
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-08-02
A Costly Calamity.

DETROIT, July 2f.-The calamity
threatened at Grand Rapids the last
two or three days, took place this
morning. An immense jam of logs,
extending up Grand River a mile, has
been lodged against the bridge of the
Detroit and Grand Haven rail
road, near the city, but it has been
hoped the bridge might resist the
tremendous pressure. However, it
succumbed this forenoon and went
down with crash. The bridge of the
Grand Rapids, Indiana and Chicago
and West Michigan followed. Millions
of feet of logs have gone down the
river with the flow and almost GER
tainly Will continue down, sweeping
everything before them and going
into Lake Michigan. If this be true
a large additional number of logs will
be carried out at Grand Haven, as
well as the destruction of all the
bridges there. The ultimate loss. it is
feared, will reach many hundred huu-
sand dollars. The damage isunprece-
deUted in the extent.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-08-02
Cleansing WASH Leather.

A German optical journal recon-
mends washing soiled polishing leath-
er in weak solution of soda and
warm water, then rubbing a good
deal of soap in the leather and letting
it soften for two hours. 1t is after
wards thoroughly washed until per-
fectly clean and rinsed in weak So
luton of warm water, soda and yell
low soap. 1t must not he washed in
clean water or it will become so hard
when dry that it cannot be used
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-08-02

TOUCHING the order issued by the
acting president of the Western
Union that messages are to be taken
subject to delay and to mailing en-
route if necessary" it is questioned
whether the company has any right
to impose such condition, and if it
can exempt itself from legal liability
by so doing.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-08-02

THE United States is now the larg-
est holder of gold in the world. 1t
has $19S,OO0,O00 in bank. The next
largest gold owner is the Bank of
France, whose latest report shows in
the vaults S193, $4,000. So the United
States has in excess of the Bank of
France gold to the amount of $4,625,-
600. 1t happens at the same time
that our credit in the money markets
is higher than that of England.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-08-02

To CHANGE constitution by means
of special election should be pro-
hibited. At the last election held to
vote on proposed constitutional
amendments, not more than one
third of the voters of the state went
to the polls, and so it will be at the
August election. How absurd it is
to have one-third of the people de
eide questions that should be submit
ted only when the fullest popular ex-
preston may be obtained.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-08-02

THINKING people, says the Balti-
more Herald, are beginning to attrib-
ute the general dissatisfaction among
the working classes, as well as the re-
cent simultaneous strikes, to the in
fluence of some central power. AS
each succeeding corps of strikers, rep
resenting all classes of working peo-
pie, boastfullY announce their mem
bership in the Knights of Labor, it is
fair to presume that the center of dis
content might be unearthed in the vi
cinity Of the leaders of that organi-
1otinn
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-08-02

again. It is the small quantity ofsoap
remaining in the leather which pene-
trates its smallest particles and
makes the leather as soft as silk.
After the rinsing it is wrung out in
coarse hand towel and dried quickly.
1t is then pulled in every direction
and well brushed, after which i is soft
er and better than most wash leather
when first bought. If rough leather
is used to finish highly polished sur
faces it will often be observed that
the surface is scratched or injured.
This is caused y particles of dust
and even grains of hard rouge that
were left in the leather. AS soon as
they are removed with clean brush
and rouge, perfectly bright and
beautiful finish con be obtained.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-08-02
Suing a Newspaper.

New YORK, July 27.AJudge Gre
men, of the supreme court, to-day de-
MED. motion. made by defendant to
strike out a portion of the complaint
brought by Capt. G. G. Duncan to- re-
cover $4,000 damages from the
New York Times, for publications re-
garding him in that paper.
The police are searching for S. M.
Munger, of Chicago, a dry goods sales
man, who has been missing from here
about month.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-08-02
Citr Comntroller Res1rnen

New York, July 27.-Comptroller
Allen Campbell has resigned. Fail
ing health and need of rest are as
signed as the cause. Recent dis
closures OF defalcation in the finance
by clerk now dead. and
newspaper articles thereon. are said to
nave aggravated the comptroller and
precipitated the resignation.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-08-02
Strlctlr a MnnnnoIr

NEW YORK. July 27-The district
attorney has begun suit against 5000
OF the patrons of l3oyd's private LETT
ter express for recovery of a penalty
of $50in each case for violation of tho
United States postal laws. Another
suit has also been instituted against
VIM. Blackham. proprietor of Boyd's
post, for penalties for ipfraction of
the law in Carrying ON letter express.