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The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-07-19

Upon innocent persons through mis-
apprehension and excitement.
AS to public accommodations they
say they don't object to separation of
the races in cars and at hotels, etc,
but simply wish good separate ac-
commodations to be provided for col
ored,as well as white people, and that
this would end the trouble.
The address alludes in gratifying
terms of the provisions made for and
the progress of the colored people in
education in this state. 1t declares
that immoral teachers and preachers
should not be tolerated. They need
money and ask for further appropria-
tions for their schools. The colOred
people are advised to discourage
emigration, even from one county to
another, as much as possible. They
are advised to acquire lands and
farms and homes in the towns where
they live, and especially to become
farmers on their own property, and
where they have means to do so to
go into business.
Resolutions were adopted indorSing
the Austin Citizen and Galveston
Spectator as reliable organs in the in
terest of the cOlored people, and COM
mending j. w. johnson, a colored
man of Austin, as an attorney. The
president here took occasion to re-
mark that the colored people don't
read the papers enough. They should
read them more generally and be bet
ter informed.
A resolution was adopted asking
the legislature for an appropriation of
100000 to enlarge the buildings and
scope of instruction of Prairie View
school, so as to add the advantages of
mechanical education, etc.
1t was announced that the board of
regents of the state university aimed
to have the colored branch in opera
ton in about twelve months.
Resolutions of thanks to Col. Brew
ster, for the use of the hall, and to
THE STATESMAN and other papers,
for publishing the proceedings, were
adopted, and the convention adjourned
sine die.
Delegates to the national conYen-
tion at Louisville were selected during
the session of the convention.
The proceedings generally were
characterized with moderation.
During the closing hours of the
convention it was addressed, by inVi-
tation, by Judge Terrell and by Mr..
Garland.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-07-19
A Bad Mother but a Pretty Baby.

About 4 o'clock yesterday morning
Aunt Sally Mack, who lives on the
alley back of the Christian church,
heard certain noises near her home,
but thought they came from some
person going to the market and so
paid no attention to them. A young
man sleeping at Aunt Sally's also
heard the. person approach the house,
but also supposed it to be some one
going to market. Later Mrs. Phillips
was passing by, and she was attracted
by the CRYING of child, and looking
in the direction whence the noise
came she saw a. beautiful girl
baby lying on shawl She
aroused Aunt Salley and the little
thing was taken care of by the kind
hearted colored woman. The baby is
81out two months old, a perfect
blonde, with light hair, large and deep
blue eyes, fat and healthy as Puck
himself. The city authorities were
notified and efforts made to End the
mother who had so cruelty aban-
dened her beautiful babe, but the
search proved fruitless. The county
judge said to reporter for The
STATESMAN that so many persons
had been fascinated by the beauty of
the little waif that no fewer than
twelve applications to adopt it had
been made by leading citizens.
1t will not be disposed of in
that way until all hopes of finding the
recreant mother have been aban-
doned. Hardly any circumstances
can arise that would justify a mother
in casting her baby into an alley to he
picked up by the passers-by. The
waif viii probably be the heroine of a
romance some day, for facts are
stranger than fiction.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-07-19
MISCELLANEOUS MATTERS AND
THINGS.

The expenses of the French mission
to Moscow at the time of the cars
coronation amounted to $4,000, the
German to $4,000 and the Austrian
to $4,000.
The sum involved in the various
suits brought by friends of the victims
of the Brooklyn bridge disaster and
by those who sustained injuries
amounts to $86,U00.
Erastus Brooks says he has seen
more than 100 journals live and die in
the city of New York alone, and he
believes that more than 100000
have been spent on the city papers
since 1886. Only five of the 120 daily
journals in existence in 1886 and since
then now survive, and 104 disap-
peared in the space of twenty Years.
Louise Michel, the French Radical,
is SO years old, according to the Figaro,
which learns that she was born at the
Chateau de Vroncourt in 1880, her
mother being a chambermaid. In
1850 Louise was Tilted by Rouman-
ian prince, and she then became a Red
Republican. The Communists of Paris
now look upon Nine. Paula Minck as
a leader.
The keeper of shoe store in Balti
more who had partly consented to
close his establishment o'clock in
the evening, with many others in the
same business, failed to keep his
wodr. The next morning upon
opening his store he discovered the
whole front frescoed with rotten eggs,
which had been thrown against it
during the night.
A new form of the Calling gun has
been made. 1t can be elevated so as
to fire perpendiculary into the air, the
new magazine feed supplying the am
mUnition as promptly and effectively
as though the gun was discharged
while in a horizontal position. Tests
have been made with the gun, by
which 100 rounds of cartridges can be
discharged in 2 lilo seconds. The
arm is especially adapted for attacks
on Notifications enabling the assault
ing party to throw perfect torrent
of balls into the works. On ship
board It can be so depressed as to
cover ali approaches toward the side
of the ship, almost annihilating an
opponents attack.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-07-19

Dispatches to the Herald from Pan
anna state that the volcano of Omet.
phe. Lake Nicaragua, is in state OF
eruption. When the crater first broke
forth the people fled to the churches
feeling that the island would be de.
stroyed.
The valley of the Atrots, in the
state of Cauca, continues to be the
centre of volcanic activity.
At Rio Sucio, forty miles from the
Atlantic, the earth opened in many
places, throwing out very fine sand in
a heated state, whilst Subterraaean
noise was heard. resembling that
made by boiling water.
At Turbo, on the guilt of Uruaba,
the earth opened and water issued
forth. flooding the streets to the depth
of two feet. Many houses were
shaken down. The small villages of
Bejuice and Nicurio were completely
engulfed. The mouth of the river
Leon, which empties into the 4 tlan-
tic, was completely closed up. and all
the over district overflowed. The
movement of the earth is so continu-
GUS that the inhabitants are emigrat-
ing.
A slight earthquake was felt at
Mompus, on the river Magdalena, in
the state of Bolivia, followed by a
sharper one. Shocks were also felt at
San Salvador and Guayaquil.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-07-19
For SIeeplessness.

A physician writing to the CHRIS
tian Union on the subject of Sleep
lessness, remarks:
physicians who used to prescribe
bromide of soda or potassium for
sleepleSsneSs now urge their patients
to take beef tea instead. The writer,
after trying various prescriptions with
little benefit, was at length so FORUM
ate as to receive such advice. At first
beef tea was used with some light
bread or biscuit broken in it, slipped
from a spoon as warm as it could be
taken. Afterward, milk just scalded,
not boiled, was substituted, and, to
make it more easy of digestion, ia
bleSpOonful of limewater was added
to a half tumbler of milk. To
facilitate matters pocket-stove
with an alcohol lamp or an arrange
ment for the gas fixture should be at
hand. If neither beef tea nor milk
can be easily procured, hot water,
with an infusion of hops or mint,
may be substituted, or even hot water
alone will quiet reStlessness and in
duce sleep. A darkened room that
the moon-beams cannot enter, a little
fresh air from an open fireplace or
window, are valuable assistants in
making the sleep continuous. When
once the habit of wakefulness is
broken up, the beef tea or milk may
be taken cold, but not iced. If you
are not always a poor sleeper, it will
be well to continue this late supper
as permanent thing in your daily
life. Provide for it in the case of
aged and delicate persons who NAV
be under your roof; and as the
troubles of life appear most weighty
when scanned in the midnight hours
you may be able to tighten the road
for the rest of their journey"
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-07-19
State Fish Pond.

Two carp from the state fishery
were sold yesterday. They sold for
$1.20, and were beauties.
The above item was given to the
city editor by Mr.. Riley, and through
a misunderstanding it was stated
that the fish came from the state
fishery. The writer has since learned
that the law does not permit state
fish to be sold and that none have
been sold. Probably Mr. Riley, who
does not speak plainly, intended to
say that they were fish of state plant
ing caught from the river. and
not from the state fishery. The fish
did not come from the state ponds;
and so far as the fish commissioner
and the attendant at the ponds are
concerned it is proper to add that one
of the reporters of this paper was
refused fish by the attendant in the
absence OF the commissioner, al
though informed that the reporter
had requisition for them for fish
pond.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-07-19
Care of Sheep.

The care Of even small flock of
sheep throughout the year, to have
them always profitable, is a study
that any man who attempts to raise
sheep at all should give his attention.
1t is not enough, as very many men
do, who have laudable desire to i'm.
prove their sheep, as well as other
stock. to make purchase of something
exceedingly good, at round prices, and
then bring the animals home to be
treated with neglect. Such farmer
will find in few years, perhaps itmay
take only few months to convince
him, to his own satisfaction, at least
that this fine stock is all humbug,
and that in making the purchase he
was badly swindled. If that man,
however, gets any offspring from
these improved rams, or other stock,
and it is eventually sold in market
able condition, the convincing proof to
the end will be that the good blood
has had its effect.
One of the best influences that the
introduction of fine stock on the farm
has, is that it brings with it usually
better care and improved methods of
handling. This is particularly 50 of
sheep, because there is no other Kind
of stock that responds so quickly to
the best of care, or in which there are
heavier losses, propOrtiOnately, where
the flock is neglected.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-07-19
THIRD DAYS SESSION.

This convention concluded their
proceedings yesterday after harmo-
NOUS session of three days.
Various committee reports were
read and adopted during the session
Among them a report from com.
mittee on grievances, which complains
of the operations of the laws of the
state as to miscegenation, marital re-
lations, ETC.. as somewhat discrimina-
tive in their operations to the preju-
dice of the colored race. 1t also COM
plains of the system of treatment of
convicts hired out of the penitentia-
ry; of the jury system and other mat
tiers.
It speaks of an increase in friend
ship between the races, and less dis
posi- ion by the white people to blame
them as whole for the individual
outrages which may be perpetrated,
and for whici IL offenders should be
punished. A anne time they de-
sire co-operai law-abiding men
in suppressin ing as being cal
culated to n INJECTING death
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-07-19
Almost a Murder.

For some time there has been most
bitter feeling between VIM. Holden,
a colored man, and Charley Mayo. a
white man. Last night the two met
on Pecan street. in front of Mr..
Kreile's store, and, after some words
had passed between them, Mayo be-
gan to pound the negro with heavy
cane or club. With this he badly
fractured the mans skull and pun
ished him severely. 1t was thought
at o'clock this morning that the
darky would not live. Just what
provocation, if any, Mayo had in
making the almost fatal assault, our
reporter failed to learn, and not hav-
ing time on account of the lateness of
the hour when it occurred TO inves-
tigate the matter thoroughly, we are
not able to pass any opinion relative
to the affair. 1t is TO be regretted, let
the facts be what they may. To-
morrow we shall give the fall par
ticularS.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-07-19

A gentleman tells us of very
strange freak of nature. The other
day he went out to see how one of his
flocks was getting along and observed
a struggling eve which seemed to
have something hanging from her
right side between the flank and the
ribs, rather low down. On in
vestigation it was found to
be a lamb, dead, but not de-
cayed. 1t had passed through flesh
and skin and dropped to the ground
a few minutes after discovery. The
eve was in poor condition, but was
still alive when the gentleman who
gives us the information left his
home, which was several days after
the discovery. The lamb did not
seem to be matured, being no more
than half the natural size The eve
was two-year old, and this was her
first lamb.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-07-19
THE COURTS.
THE SOCIAL EVIL.

AFTER adding 500 or $500 to the
treasury by timing a couple of the
leading women of the town for keep
ing houses of ill-fame, the other cases
Of like character in the county court
were continued.
On the subject of the social evil
IAN Austin Mother" thus expresses
herself to THE STATESMAN:
Thanks for your brave article on
the social evil. You have hewn to
the line this time. Surgeons some
times have to scrape the bone to heal
an ulcer. Strike home to cure the
.evil. Diminish the demand and you
I'LL diminish the supply. If the
51rce man be corrupted there can be
no perfect flower in woman. For
nearly thirty years have prayed and
waited for the man brave enough.
with moral courage enough to strike
the true keynote, and feel almost
like saying with Simeon of old, Now
.ettest thou the servant depart in
peace.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-07-19
Gathering SpOnges.

| A correspondent, writing from
Cedar Keys, Fla, gives the following
account OF the mode of taking
sponges on the gulf coast: About
twenty miles off the gulf coast the
sheep wool sponge is found in large
quantities. Hither the fleet repairs
when it has sold its previous catch
and laid in their provisions. When
upon the ground where the water is
five or six fathOmS, small boats are
lowered, containing two men each.
One SOULS slowly, the other lies prone
upon his breast at the side of The
boat. In one arm he grasps an appa-
ratuS, which is scarcely more than a
deep bucket. with the bottom made
of glass, which is inSeeted in the
water glass downward. In the other
hand he holds a very slender pole,
twenty or thirty feet long, armed at
the end with double or treble
pronged hook, very much like po-
tato hoe. 1t takes a practiced eye,
peering through this glass to a depth
of twenty or thirty feet of sea water,
not only to see the sponges which
grow on the rocks or corals, but to
distinguish between the good and
the bad. When one or more are seen
worthy of being taken the right arm,
grown very muscular and skillful by
constant practice, deftly extracts the
sponge from its rocky base and
brings it to the surface. The exer-
ton is immense. The long, slender
pole sways and bends, and the sea is
not always as quiet as they desire.
The left hand and arm still holds,
steadies and presses the water-glass,
through which he must look to guide
the manipulation of pole and hook"
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-07-19
Human Remains.

A reporter for THE STATESMAN
learns from gentleman in this city
of the finding of human skeleton in
a cave on Devils river. The cave
leads from a side cut on the q. III. &
S. A. railroad to Devils, a distance of
four and half miles. With the hui
man remains was found! an old ilint-
lock musket. This cave is most re-
markable one. In all this distance of
four and half miles it is not over
twenty feet wide and is about twenty
feet high. 1t has many beautiful
;stalactite and stalagmites and water
is constantly dripping from the roof.
Who was the man with the gun that
persisted there In the days of flint
locks is now question for the anti
quarian. Stalagmite was forming
over his remains.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-07-19
Wedding Bells.

Yesterday at o'clock in the after
noon occurred the wedding of Mr.. w.
III. Staniforth and Miss Ada Sneed,
the accomplished daughter of Capt. S.
G. Sneed, the well-known newspaper
man of this city. The wedding was
strictly private one, but none the
less pleasant affair. Both the bride
and groom are well known in A ustin
and vicinity. The groom is the son of
Capt. Staintorth, who lives just across
the river from Austin, and is one of
the most exemplary young men in
these parts, while the bride is a young
lady of beauty and of the high
est worth. The marriage cere-
mony was performed by Rev.
DR.. Lee, of the Episcopal church,
according to the Episcopal form, the
most appropriate of any we know,
and the brides trousseau was elegant,
and Won many compliments for her
beauty on her appearance at the
wedding altar.
After the ceremony an elaborate
and sumptuous wedding supper was
provided by Capt. Sneed, and many
and valuable presents were noticed
by our reporter, description of
which will not be attempted. THE
STATESMAN extends congratulations
to the groom and his accomplished
bride, and wishes them more years of
married bliss than are usually allot-
ted to men and women in this life of
roses and thorns. They left on the
evening train for Palestine, their flu
ture home. The STATESMAN also ac-
knowledges a remembrance while we
drink TO the happy couple.
Here is to a life of bliss,
In the days of coming time;
May you ever sorrow miss
In the days of youthful prime,
And when youth and prime have passed,
When the silver threads are there,
May those joys forever last
Free from sorrow. free from care.
When the duties all are DONE
And the work of life YOU rate
In the glorious setting sun.
May you bless the wedding fete.
Bless this smiling summer day;
Bless the plighting and the vow;
When the skies are growing gray
Happy then as happy now.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-07-19
THURSDAY.
THE GOVERNOR ON MODS.

Gov. Ireland yesterday received a
communication from number of col
ored men of Marion county, appealing
to him for protection, in consequence,
they complain, of c0lored men in that
county having been mobbed by the
whites.
The governors reply, which an
swers the points of their complaint, is
as follows:
Mr.. Sam Hearn and others, Jefferson, Texas:
The charge you make against the
people of Marion county is very
grave one. 1t is very unfortunate
state of affairs that induces people to
take the law into their own hands. l
am slow to believe, as you state,
that the man who was
mobbed for the assault on
Mrs. Rogers, from which she died,
was, SO far as the proof went, inno-
cent. The persons who took charge
of the man must have had the strong
est evidence of his guilt, but no mat
ter what the proof was, the law was
not allowed to have full sway.
The other remarks in your letter
that "there was two or three young
colored men slaughtered in this way"
is not Ineligible. 1t does not appear
from your statement that you have
appealed to the law. You say that
'your county judge and other county
officials will not protect you" You
do not complain of any wrong or in
jury to yourselves. For the wrongs,
as you allege, committed against
others, you do not say that you have
made any specific or direct appeal to
the law. For the alleged wrongs to
others you threaten to take the law
into your own hands and repeat eX-
actly what you complain OF. in others.
If an effort is made to al
it's own course, the execu-
tive will endeavor to see that
it is not impeded, but sensational APP
peals based upon no facts and show
ing no resort to the law cannot be re-
spOnded to by the executive. The
state of Texas is doing all she
can for the colored man, and if he
will show by his conduct that he APP
preciates these efforts they will be
continued Whatever disturbs the
black man in Texas disturbs the
white man. This government is try
ing, and will continue to try, to adj
minister its laws in the interest of all
alike, and it will and does expect all
the people, black and white, to assist
with moral force, example and other
wise, to uphold and enforce the laws.
In conclusion, / have to say that
your ultimatum and threat to redress
supposed wrongs through methods of
your own are not calculated to do you
any good. Respectfully yours,
JOHN IRELAND, !,
Governor.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-07-19
American Girls and Foreign SweIls

New York World
When Nellie Grant-sweet little
demure Nellie Grant-waS married
to an English dude with baseball
head, named Algernon Sartoris,
nearly everybody in the country said,
in view of all that Gen. Grant had
done to save the Union, that il was a
pity that his daughter couldn't have
fastened her affections upon thrifty
young citizen of the United States.
But the dear girls all have fancy for
foreign swells, and so Nellie married
the Sartoris. And now the Sartoris
has turned up as the lover of the
charming Mrs Bush, who has an aged
husband and who has large liquid
blue eyes, and who dresses her hair in
wavelets. Great is the scandal, be-
cause the Grants are conspicu-
Gus people and the little Sar-
toris, who looks like a English
Jeems Y ellowplush, has been well
advertised. There is moral in all
this which must not be lost. Perhaps
the Sartoris has done no worse than
a native American would have done
if he had married into the Grant fam
lily, but, girls, you are all pretty and
we think all the world of you, and we
want this advice to settle down deep
in your minds-don't marry foreign
ers. Fight shy of the adventures
who come across the water seeking
wives. In nine cases out of ten these
marriages turn out badly. Resolve,
dear girls, to marry none but Ameri-
can citizens, and don't marry then
unless you are remarkably well az
quainted with the gentlemen who
to marry at all and be a telegraph op-
orator than to marry foreign fortune
hunter.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-07-19
&. B. TURNER, Judge.

The Comte de Chambord has been a
terrible gormandizer all his life. A
gentleman who saw him dining at a
hotel in Burgess some years ago says
that the diyinely appointed count ate
two roasted chickens, two large dishes
of salad, no end OF vegetables aad a
lot of dessert, and washed the whole
down with tw0I4uarts of Burgundy.
OF late years6e has been so fat that
loconaotion mas at times next to i'm
possible with him.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-07-19
Rabbit killing in Tasmania is moi

Rabbit killing IN Tasmania is not
sport but serious business. One es-
tate owner, writing to the Tasmanian,
advocating unity of action on
the part of the colonists to the end
that the rabbit be exterminated, says:
"To show what can be done, 1 have
gone into rabbit destruction this
season upon the principle that 100
men can do as much in one day as
one man can do in 100 days. l have
10 men trapping and working zoo
traps, day and night, assisted with
guns, dogs and poisoned oats. In 81
days, from carefully kept tally,
1880 rabbits were destroyed"
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-07-19

If you are suffering from indiges-
ton or any complaint of che stomach
or bowels. you will obtain great relief
by using the PRICKLY ASH BITTERs,
as they have the property of gently
relieving these organs and placing
them in a good, sound, healthy con-
dition. iy4eodSw