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The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-11-15
THE COWBOYS TALE:

, Are there no real good Injuns?"
The cowboy raised his head,
And giancing at the tenderfoot
He turned TO him and said:
''lrOde the praises, pardner,
Ten years in rain or sun,
But, as to real good Injuns,
l amt met mOre'n one.
a swig o. that horse liniment,
And then I'll try to place
This, Il virtuOuS redSkin
That for goodness trumped the ace.
Twas at the bar at Mack's Ford,
y lot OF boys one day
Got making things quite lively
In Il ball and cartridge way.
banged around about me
Ana didn't count the odds
I'd been SOal1in' electricity
Like fifty lightning rods
When suddenly the sheriff
And his gang came bouncing down,
And the boys took to their cattle
And busted out o. town.
But something was the matter
With my headwOrks, l dare say,
For stumbled by the roadside
And couldn't find my way,
And the next l can remember
1t was night and pitchy black,
And l tried to strike the trail from there,
But coldn't hit a track,
And L was mighty dizzy,
And l felt l should have died,
When standing just before me
An lnJun'S shape / Spled.
He held his hand out to me,
But didn't say word;
And when l tried to hail him,
He neither spoke nor stirred.
And then slipped in somehow
Between each sturdy arm,
And he let me down so gently
Without bit o. harm,
And lay there quite cOntented,
And slept until twas day,
And woke to find him watching
At my side the same old way.
so L climbed upon my uprightS,
And word [ couldn't say,
But looked the red man in the face,
And then i Sneaked away.
We parted. But as years pass by
wonder more and more
II still the real good Injun stands
AT Mack'S tobacco store.
Kit, in New York Journ
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-11-15
Personal.

George B. Loeb, architect of the
New York Produce Exchange build
ing, gets fee of S66,5OO tor his SER
vices.
The De CourceyS, of Maryland, makes
claim to the estate OF the ancient bar
ony of Kingsdale, one of the Oldest in
the irish peeraGe.
Escalais is Lew Paris tenor with
surprisingly fine voice and great
skill in using it; but, alas, he is so
short and fat as to be ridiculous in the
heroic roles of grand opera.
Mr.. Edwin Arnold is not related to
Mr.. Matthew Arnold. The author of
THE Light of Asia is the son of a
tradesman at Rochester, England, and
won the Newdigate prize with poem
at Oxford.
Gus Williams, claiming to be the
author of "See that my Grave is Kept
Green" has taken Peck, of the MI
waukee Sun, to task for saying the au-
thor of that song is in the Indiana
penitentlary. Peck apologies and
says he meant to say the author ought
to be there.
The king of Siam, who is only 4 boy
of twelve years, has allowed his fin
ger-nails, it is said, to grow until they
are more than foot in length. This
deformity reduces the monarch to a
state of absolute helplessness, and for
that reason, probably, the Siamese re
gard long nails as one of the peculiar
attributes of sovereignty.
The New England midget at New
York museum is shortly to be married
to the German princes, diminutive
creature. OF course the ceremony is
to be public to attract the crowd
The Kentucky giant will act as best
man. the Drama priestess will give the
bride away, and the child with the
Daniel Webster head will act as first
brideSman.
Queen Isabella, who has spent much
of her time and all her money in Paris
is furious with the reception given tC
her son, with whom she is now on eX.
cellent terms. She is about to dispose
of her hotel in the Pare Monceau, anC
shake the dust of Paris off her feet, {
proceeding which all would regret eX
cept her husband, who would thus bt
spared the formality Of leaving his
card once a year at her eX-majesty's
i residence. Ismail Pasha is said tt
have offered a good round sum for the
| establishment
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-11-15

The Lampasas Dispatch, in COM
menting upon the lynching of Martin,
the wife murderer, at Luling, says:
The act is proof of how much the
hippant forms of law are respected.
The public has no faith in the law.
There is no hope of getting justice. 1t
is true two wrongs will not make
right, and it is not right to violate the
law by taking the culprit, however
guilty, and hanging him, but what
are the people to do? They are Vir-
tually now turned loose, for every
one to seek his own redress, and it is
only the beginning of reign of blood
and crime. Will the legislature do
anything to molify this state of af-
fairs, or is it largely composed of a
class who see more money in its pres
ent form?
This is certainly very harsh criti-
cism upon the present alleged condi-
tien of the state. 1t is by no means
as bad as the Dispatch would lead the
uniformed to think. True it is, in
many sections of the state there has
been most lawless conduct. Lawless
conduct evinces itself as soon as the
agencies Of peace become neglectful
of duty, and in this rests the cause fol
whatever of disrespect for law there
is in Texas. The case referred to
however, was not the result of any
belief that criminal proceedings
against this man would have re
suited in turning him free upon the
community. What was done al
Luling with Martin has been done in
the most civilized and law abiding
portions of the globe. 1t was no evil
dence of disrespect for, nor lack of con-
fidence in law. This man committed
a most unnatural crime, killing his
wife while she was engaged in labor.
ing for him. He deserved death; he,
deserved it speedily; and his execu
TONERS feeling this with intensity
lie not be controlled. Much
as such acts are to be regretted
this one does not prove what
the Dispatch says. An era Of
lawlessness may prevail, and every
good citizen of the state should com
bine to stop it. Let US elect officers
who we know will execute the laws
and then the Dispatch will have NJ
reason to make so humiliating {
charge. Official laxity is catching
and when it begins the evil is inclined
to run to an extreme.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-11-15
BRENNAN.
isnecial to The Statesman. l

Especial TO Inc StaLeSmdn.
BRENNAN, Nov. 12-Saturday while
Capt. Bedell was visiting Mr.. Buckan-
mans gin near here he had one of his
hands caught in the saws, and literally
grinding his arm from elbow down.
Mr.. Fritz Summers overlook a
negro driving one of his beef steers
to town yesterday. He Immediately
arrested and brought him to the
proper authorities.
Manager Siman received a telegram
from l.. w. Townsand, yesterday,
stating the date for the appearance of
Thomas Keen at our opera house was
cancelled. He evidently would have
had splendid house had he fulfilled
his engagement.
Quite an enjoyable affair came of
last night at the residence of Col. D.
G. GiddiRgs, it being dance given in
honor of Miss Laura Bryan, of Gal.
weston,
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-11-15

THE Fort Worth Gazette says, ever
since the three-cent-per-mile law was
so hastily passed by the Texas legis-
lature, the railroads of the state have
been using every effort to have it re-
pealed. "Now again." says the Ga
zette, "they come forward with their
arguments in readiness for the extra
session, which meets in January. One
great plea to be set forth viii be the
fact that the roads have yielded to the
request of the governor to put on ex-
ira coaches for the negro, thereby adj
ding greatly to the running expenses
of the various roads, and without in.
creasing the receipts. 1t is claimed
that before the putting on of the ex-
ira coach their passenger traffic, at
three cents per mile barely justified
them in running trains. and with the
extra expense of another coach, the
margin of profit win be still smaller. "
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-11-15

ACCORDING to to the treasury re-
port the public debt has been de-
creased nearly $4O,OOO,OOOsince the LIST
of July, or at the rate Of $12O,OOO,OCO
year. No party can afford to as
sumo the responsibility of drawing
from the people S150OOO,OO0 to
S2GO,OO0,OO0 year more than the re-
requirements Of the government, and
we are likely to see a surplus as large
as the larger amount named by the
year after next, when the arrears of
pensions will have been paid. AT
least $1OO,OOO,OOO a year should be
saved from the tax collector "to
fructify," as old Hickory put it, Sin
the pockets of the people" Let the
tariff oppression cease.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-11-15

LORD CHIEF JUSTICE CoLER1peE

LORD CHIEF JUSTICE CoLERDGE
visited the United States supreme
court one day last week, sitting on
the bench at Chief Justice Waite's
right hand. This is the first time any
person other than a justice of the
court has been honored by seat on
the supreme bench. 1t was a fitting
compliment to England's greatest
jurist. In September last similar
compliment was bestowed upon Chief
Justice Willie of our own state by
Chief Justice Cole, of Wisconsin, at
Madison. Judge Willie was sitting
in the rear portion of the court
room when he received mes.
sage that Chief Justice Cole de-
sired to see him. Chief Justice Cole
rose and seated him in his own chair
as presiding officer of the court, and
then took his seat on his right, where
he remained while a cause was being
argued. This occurred in the town tc
whose cemetery Judge Terrell referred
on the Garfield memorial day, as The
place where floral decorations were
placed every year on the graves OF
Federal and Confederate soldiers
alike. Such courtesies remind US thai
in spite of political rancor we are one
people.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-11-15

A FRUITFUL cause of fence cutting,
it is said, has been the fencing in by
large stockmen of persons engaged in
small farming and stock raising,
these small owners having, as the case
may be, twenty-five, fifty or one hun
dred head of cattle. Some OF the
large stock owners, it is told, upon
fencing in such persons and their
property, afford them gates for
egress and ingress at the most
out-of-the-way and announcement
places, and then notify them that they
can not permit their stock to Craze on
their fenced ranges. From such cir.
cumstances many fence cuttings have
resulted.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-11-15
A Boy Kills His Father.

PITTsBURG, Nov. 12.-West Leba-
non, Ind, was the scene Saturday of a
brutal murder. William Somer, an
old and respected citizen, had an al
tercation with his son Joseph about
pulling kitten out of the house,
when his son drew a revolver and
shot the father in the hip. The old
man fled, but was followed by his son,
who fired second shot, the bullet
crashing through his fathers brain,
killing him. The patricide then re-
turned home and killed Bella Kelly, a
servant girl. He fled, but was cap
tured last night. Great excitement
prevails, and threats of lynching are
expressed.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-11-15

CHICAGO, Nov. 12.-The final re-
port of the Etna life insurance COM
pany of this city, which went to
pieces shortly after the great fire of
1871, was made in the United States
court to-day. The report of the master
in chancery in connection Herewith,
discloses rather an astonishing state of
affairs. The company's assets in
cluded what was claimed to be
$4,000 secured paper. In the state.
ment, the total amount realized was
$215. The master says of them:
"These were all fraudulent and worth
less, and signed by worthless insol-
vent bankrupt or unknown persons. "
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-11-15

Among the royal personages who
bore the honorary title of colonel in
Prussian regiments are Alexander III,
of Russia, Francis Joseph OF Austro-
Hungary, Humbert of Italy, the kings
OF Holland, Belgium and Roumania
the Prince of Wales and the dukes OF
Edinburgh and Connaught, Rudolph
archduke of Austria, Prince Anna;
deus of Italy, ex-king of Spain and
Alexander of Bulgaria. The New
York Tribune believes that France
will have happy time if she treats
all these as she did Alfonso.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-11-15

Who marries for love marries n
wife, who marries for fortune takes a
lady. You are loved by your wife,
regarded by your mistress, tolerated
by your lady. You have a wife for
yourself, a mistress for your house
and friends, a lady for the world and
society. Your wife will agree with
you, your mistress will rule you, your
lady will manage you. Your wife
will take care OF your household, your
lady of appearances. Ii you are sick
your wife will take care OF you, your
mistress will visit you, your lady will
inquire after your health. You take
walk with your wife, a ride with
your mistress, and go to party with
your lady. Your wife will share your
griefs, your mistress your money, your
lady your debts. If you are dead your
wife will weep, your mistress lament,
and your lady wear mourning. Which
will you have?
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-11-15

THE sweeping discharge of work.
men by the Santa Fe railway man
ayers is to be regretted. The right to
discharge is not questioned, and it Is
presumed the discharges are because
there is no work for many of the men
If other roads discharge like the
Santa Fe there will be much misery
among this class of workmen, unless
they may find ready employment on
farms, to which they are generally
10th tn po
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-11-15

According to trustworthy estimates
the annual production of cheese in the
United States is no less than 350,000,-
600 pounds, and that of butter 1,500,
100000 pounds-the value of the two
being S5O,OOO,O0O more than the wheat
crop, one-seventh more than the hay
crop, ons-third more s,+ than 'n.t the cotton
corn crop. This great national indus
try is menaced by a few opulent firms,
who insist upon foisting upon the
public vile compounds of grease, lard
and cotton-seed oil, fraudulently sold
as genuine butter. The most strin-
gent legislation is necessary to pro-
tect the dairymen's legitimate pur-
suits and to expose and punish these
counterfeiters of dairy products.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-11-15

THE Houston Age objects to an ap-
preparation for the New Orleans eX-
position and quotes Democratic scrip
ture as follows
"We demand the strictest economy
in every department of the state gov
eminent consistent with a full and
efficient execution of the laws"
Might the Age not have quoted, as
well, the constitution, to which Demo.
cratic declarations have been made to
nnnfnrno
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-11-15

GENERAL SHERMAN, in a late
speech at Governors Island. ex-
pressed it as his opinion that there
will be war in this country
between capital and labor-not a
purely political war, but one OF
armies and of terrible bloodshed
Such an expression, coming from
such man, is itself public out
rage. The prosperity of this coun.
try, and of all classes of society, de-
ponds upon continued harmony be.
tween capital and labor, and he who
would teach anything else urges the
greatest public calamity.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-11-15

DR.. Domingo Freire, of Rio Janeiro,
the discoverer of the yellow fever
fungus, cryptococcus xsSnthogenicus,
has made the experiment of transferr-
ing this fungus into the system of ami
mails by injection, and has obtained
satisfactory confirmation of his the
DRY. The inoculated animals, after a
very short time, showed all the symp-
toms of yellow fever, and on dissec-
ton their blood was found to be full
Of the germs of the cryptococcus KAN
thOgonicuS,
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-11-15

Senator Anthony Is the only sena-
tor in service who answered to his
name at the roll call on March 4, 1861,
when the Southern members resigned.
Of the eight men who took the oath of
office as senator IN 1859, Senators An
thony and Salisbury are still sin har-
ness; Juda P. Benjamin is practicing
before the English bar; Simon Gamer
on, Of Pennsylvania, Daniel Clark, of
New Hampshire, Senator Yulee and
Jefferson Davis are resting quietly in
private life; Thomas Clingman, of
North Carolina, anticipates a fortune
from electrical inventions; Lyman
TrumbuIl is still practicing law;
Hannibal Hamlin is yet vigorous in
his declining years, and Harlan, of
Iowa, is a judge.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-11-15

1t is well known that old Tecum-
sch Sherman, the general of all the
armies, though one of the homeliest
of men, is excessively vain of his per-
sonal appearance, is fond of kissing
school girls and thinks himself con-
sumate "masher." This idiocyncracy
of the generals sometimes gets him
in awkward positions, in fact, causes
him to make fool of himself. The
last instance of this kind occurred in
Cleveland, Ohio, a few evenings ago.
The general occupied a seat at the
opera house during the per-
Torrance of ''Saml of Posen."
When Celeste, the French woman
in the play. made her
entrance on the stage and greeted the
old Irish porter with "Bon jour, mon
sieur." Gen. Sherman though the sal
utation was meant for him. Rising
up from his chair he gave the actress
a military bow, putting his right hand
over his heart as he did so, and hold
ing his spectacles on with his left. AS
Celeste turned to give the same greet
ing to Jack Cheviot, another charac-
ter in the play, the general saw his
mistake, and the audience saw il; too.
He took his seat amid laud laughter
and ironical applause. There is no
fool like an old tool, is an adage that
is true now as it was when it was first
uttered.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-11-15
WASHINGTON.
Especial to The Statesman.l

ISk7NNI9II 10 11IO SVttNOSIIItIII'I
WASHINGTON, d. c, Nov. 12.-Car-
Isle to-day informed your correspond
ent that the race for speaker is be-
tween Cox, Randall and himself; that
neither one controls votes enough to
nominate on the first ballot; that the
contest, being a national issue, will
not be made through the medium of g
bitter personal warfare, and that the
hopeless candidate will be dropped
upon proof of his insufficient support
He expects to be speaker, but is max
ing a quiet canvass with headquar
tiers at the Riggs House.
The $4,000 bonds of Burbank, post
master at Laredo, was approved to
daV
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-11-15

THE Cleburne Chronicle says: eli
the legislature will stop the sale OF
school land except to actual settlers it
viii take an advance step in quelling
fence cutting troubles" The propo-
sition is an extreme one and it is
fraught with disadvantage to the
state. There are sections of the state
where farming is not profitable, where
the lands are fit only for stock raising.
Does the Chronicle mean to say that
sales of school sections to one person
shall be limited, and if so what is the
maximum limit it makes to any one
actual settler?
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-11-15
IT will be remembered that

IT will be remembered that persons
next of kin to the late Sarah Ann
Dorsey are suing Jefferson Davis fol
TIE recovery of the properly be-
queathed by her to Mr.. Davis. 1t is
claimed that Mrs. Dorsey was not OF
sound mind when she made the will
and that she was unduly influenced
by Mr.. Davis. The trial on appeal is
now going on in the supreme court at
Washington.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-11-15

In committing two thieves the other
day, New York justice said: "If
you wanted to rob house, why didn't
you select Vanderbilt's or Gould's, or
some other rich mans, and not break
into the house of poor woman and
steal all she has ?" The reply of the
thieves is not given, but they were no
doubt grateful for so valuable a
pointer, coming as it did from an ex-
perienced Justice.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-11-15
SAD sIrICInE

MILWAUKEE, NoY. 1l.-Augusta
Koebler, a girl of twenty, committed
suicide Saturday night by taking raj
poison. Before committing the act
she confessed to her mother that she
was in delicate condition and charged
William Liederman, q married man.
as responsible. She told that several
months ago Llederman, who was an
old lover, had criminally assaulted her.
from which came the trouble.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-11-15

John W. Smith, of Rome, Ga, has
this year raised large tobacco crop
by aid of artificial heat. He has al
ready shipped large quantity of leaf
to Danville, and says it pays much
better than cotton. Smith is Vir-
ginian, who came to this county a
few years ago. His experience hav-
ing proved successful, many of his
neighbors express determination to
raise tobacco next year.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-11-15
The Mexican Excursion,

KANSAS CITY, Mo-, Nov. 12.-The
excursion party Of Mexican capitalists
arrived frem Chihuahua this evening
over the Santa Fe, and was met at
Topeka by the mayor and a special
committe from this city, who enter
tanned them tat supper at the Centric
polls hotel tonight. They will be
shown about the CITY tomorrow.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-11-15
All the hest needIe-u

All the best needle-workers in New
York are engaged on gorgeous
screen for the Vanderbilt mansion. 1t
is being made at Mr.. John La Farge's
studio, under the supervision of Mrs.
Tillinghast. The gold thread alone
used in this embroidery cost $4,000
Such a screen as that should cover a
multitude of sins.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-11-15

Frank Harper, who inherited two
of the greatest race-horses this coun-
try ever saw, said the other day:
"Longfellow is now sixteen years old
and Ten Brock twelve. I always
keep a guard over them, both night
and day. 1 have been offered $4,000
for Longfe low, but 1 wouldn't sell
him for 100000, nor would sell Ten
Brock for the same money. will
keep them as long as they live, or
until I die"
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-11-15

Mr.. Tabor, who was in the United
States senate during thirty days, car
ries a revolver when he escorts his
family to the opera. That was shown
in Denver the other night when the
revolver slipped from his pocket, ex-
ploded, caused Mrs. Tabor to shrek
and made the small boys run to see
what was the matter.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-11-15

1t Will be ffty-one years in Decem-
Der since Mr.. Gladstone made his first
entry into parliament, and in COM
memoration of the anniversary, the
workingmen of Derby will present
him with a magnificent dessert ser
vice made by the Derby Crown Porce-
lain Company.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-11-15

THE Cleburne Chronicle says "the
legislature has control over the I'M
sold school lands and could make a
law preventing the fencing of them
in large bodies, either by purchasers
or leSseeS."
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-11-15

WHEN it is known there are over
1000 lunatics in the state that human
ity demands shall be at once provided
for, the advocates of decreased taxa
ton will begin to scratch their heads
and wonder if Comptroller Swain has
not reasonable amount of percep-
ton. But this item is one of many
others, annually increasin
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-11-15
A railroad sunerintandent has OF vo,

A railroad superintendent has given
the San Francisco Call an estimate OF
the cost of an average train on first
class railroad. For an express train
Locomotive, $4,000; baggage car,
S1200; smoking car, $1,000; dining.
room car, $4,000; five first-class Pull
mans, $4,000 each; total, $4,000.
The ordinary express train represents
about $50, 600. Some Pullman cars
cost $4,000 each. The average value
of freight freight train IS still great
er than that OF passenger train, if
the rolling stock and value of proper
ty are included. Sometimes the
through freight trains aggregate in
value from S250,OO0 to $4,000.