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The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-08-30
Attention, Ginners |

No more Sawed Hands and Arms.
TNHE RoGAN ATTACHMENT, or Shield and
i Lift. patented June rs, 1888 for operating
the gin breast, is simple. complete security,
Dor, and renders the gin harmless machine.
1t cannot get out Of fix and can easily be at
J, r. Mccormick at Austin City Foundry, and
for sale by agents throughout the state.
4. b. CARRUTH,
Agent for the state, Burnet, Tex.
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Respectfully,
Austin, Tex, April II, 1883.
CoLUMBUs. TExas. June Is. 1883.

COLUMBUS, Texas, June Is, 1888.
Drs. j. j. s. W. 81. Tobin Austin. Texas:
GENTS-EncloSed find draft for $37,
same being amount in full OF our
account with you to date. Your He
patozone sells well and has given per-
fact satisfaction so far. Many claim
it to be the best medicine for what it
is recommended to do Of any they
have ever used.
Very respectfully, &C.,
G. E. SMITH,
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From One Of Austin's Leading PLY.
siciaRs.


siciaRs.
DR.. Tobin:
Dear Sir-You will remember that
some time ago l remarked to you that
l suffered from an uneasy, painful
feeling in my right side, caused by
congeSted condition of the liver,
horseback and engaging in violent
exercise of any kind. You then told
me that you had suffered from a smi-
lar affection of the liver, and had
cured yourself by using certain medi-
cinal herbs which you had discovered
and urged me to try them. l did so
and am now well. These medicinal
herbs in conjunction with salines you
have since presented to the public
under the name of "Tobin's Hepato-
zone" In doing so you have con-
ferred great boon on people living
in hot, semi-tropical climate like
ours, where diseases of the liver are
so prevalent. 1t is the daily expe-
rience of every physician to find peo-
pie running their constitutions by the
excessive use of strong mercu-
rial purgatives. A still larger
number constantly use so-called oliver
regulators" mostly composed Of
aloes and other drastic purgatives,
which only tend to produce piles and
other troublesome affections of the
lower bowels. To all such sufferers
your medicine will be an invaluable
aid in restoring them to health again,
and feel assured that it only re-
quires to be known to be appreciated,
and that people will cease destroying
their constitutions by the reckless and
dangerous abuse of mercurials now
in vogue. Hepatazone contains no
hurtful drug, and yet it is signally eff
ficient as liver medicine. / may re-
mark just here that l am not violat-
ing medical ethics in truthfully giving
you my opinion of a medicine which
L have used myself with benefit, the
formula of which you did not hest
tate to show to me. Above all, it af-
fords me greatipleasure to know that
you have placed your medicine (com-
posed only of costly drugs within
the reach of the poorest man or wo-
man.
Pocnaotf11Ilv
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lDtdl. - SbS'N/1
&. W. Shaw, collector of Llano
county, settled his accounts with the
office.
and Hardin counties are received.
The comptroller in circular ad-
dressed to county judges, surveyors
and tax collectors, calls their atten-
ton to the law requiring $2o to be
paid as rent for every section OF school
land enclosed by private parties. The
law makes it the duty of the county
surveyor to report such enclosures
and names of the parties, to the
county commissioners, and the tax col
lector is to collect the $25 for each sec
ton the same as other taxes. AL
though the law has been in operation
four years, the collections have been
but a few thousand dollars.
STATE LUNATIC- ASYLUM.
The board of managers at their last
meeting awarded to Mexican ~ Go.
contract to construct tramWay in
the basement of all the asylum build
ings to convey food from the kitchen
to the wards. Amount of contract
$1395.50.
HEALTH DEPARTMENT.
Gov. Ireland evidently thinks with
DR.. Swearingen, state health officer.
that a count, as well as any body else,
should be punished for evading the
quarantine. If Count Telfener has
done this, the governor says, he
should be prosecuted. Telfener, how
ever, is far away by this time, out OF
Texas.
THE NEW CAPITOL.
Judge Lee. of the capitol commits
sioners, who was injured by a fall
while walking through the capitol
grounds, was still confined to his bed
yesterday. His injuries, as stated, are
severe but not serious. Col. Norton,
in the meantime, has double duty to
perform as the judges co-commis-
sioner.
There are now seventy men at
work laying the concrete for the foun-
dations, and eighty more are en-
ployed getting out stone from the
quarry at Oatmanville. The sub.
contractor, Mr.. Wilkie, has received
by the Houston and Texas Central
railroad nine carloads of cement, and
there are seven more en- route by the
same road. The freight is $50 per
load.
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CITY COUNCIL.
Proceedings Of a Called Meeting Of
the City Council.
| OFFICIAL.l
COUNCIL CHAMBER,
Austin, Texas, August %

Hon. w. A. SaylOr, mayor, presiding.
Roll call, present: Aldermen Metz, Kinney,
Schuber Pfannekuche. Driskill, HuppertZ,
Sneed and Platr.
Absent: Aldermen Lawrance and Wilson.
a fine of 81 was entered against Aldermen
Lawrance and Wilson for nOn-attendance at
this meeting.
The mayor stated that the council meeting
had b4en called for the purpose of considering
matters pertaining to taxation.
The ordinance committee submitted the fol-
lowing report.
To Hon W. A. Saylor, mayor and president of
the board OF aldermen of the city OF Austin !:
The committee on ordinances, to whom haa
been referred two ordinances relating to the
ad valorem tax to be levied by said city for the
year 1888, beg leave to report adversely to the
adoption of either of said ordinances, and
recommend the adoption of the accompanying
ordinance as a substitute for both ordinances
so referred Respectfully submitted,
SNEED,
PJATvP
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functions of the liver, and in many
cases where the stomach and bowels
are involved. Truly yours,
JOHN FORD. Supt.
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EXECUTIVE OFFICE,
AIrSTIN- Tex. AnpnSt %. 1889


Dear Sir-I am to-day in receipt of
ING to me an invitation to visit Boston
on the occasion of the approaching
Manufacturers and Mechanical asSo-
citation, and extending to me an invi-
tation to become the guest of your
state. Nothing at present would
afford me more pleasure than to ac-
cept your invitation, if it was in my
power to do so.
The duties of the executive of this
state are becoming so very heavy and
numerous, that / cannot for a day
leave the Office without incon-
venience more or less. | should
delight to see what a century and
half has done for your people. have
been compelled to forego visit to
Louisville, KY, my native state. Re
GREETING sincerely my inability to ac-
cept your invitation, and thanking
you kindly for the manner of its COM
munication, am very truly yours,
JOHN IRELAND.
Gov. B. F. Butler, Boston, Mass.
This correspondence suggests the
fact that the governor of this state
has no contingent fund to defray any
expenses of any kind in having the
state represented either in Boston,
Louisville or New Orleans. Texas is,
perhaps, the only state in the Union
that has not provided a special fund
for the governor to draw upon at his
>aiscreti0h in matters of public in
terest, such as may not be anticipated
by the legislature when in session. In
some states the fund is sometimes as
much as $4,000.
In this connection the governor
had to inform Mr.. Yoakum that he
could do nothing to assist him in
making .rex4s exhibit at the Boston
exposition. Mr.. Yoakum, who is
here, says, however, that the Missouri
and Pacific and leased lines Gould
system) will make an exhibit of all
the products of the soil and manufac-
lures of Texas, at an expense of about
$1,000. The articles for exhibition
win be received at the depots, taken
20 Marshall and thence cow Eyed in
one special train to Boston Private
parties will be given the credit of ex-
hibiting such articles as they may
forward to the depots for shipment to
the exposition.
COMPTRoLLER'S DEPARTMENT.
0,O00 were warranted for
Ito the treasury yesterday
of gene raj revenue, prin-
eipts from tax collectors.
IT, weston, Harrisburg and San
Antonio railway system, through r.
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From the Rev. DR.. poindexter:

FrOm Jn6 K6V. DIT. POlnH6Xter:
AUSTIN, TEXAS, July Is, '82.
Messrs. j. j. & w. II. Tobfn:
L cheerfLlly bear testimony to the
value of your Hepatozone l have
suffered for years with torpid liver,
and consequent biliousness, irregular
appetite, etc, and have experienced
more speedy and permanent relief
from your medicines than all other
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remedies. The medicine is not dis
tasteful and is unattended with pain
in its operations.
j. w. POINDEXTER.
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P. Watson, cashier, sent Comptroller
Swain check on the First National
bank for S830.43 in payment of vouch-
ers in favor of the state for one-half
of / per cent of railroad passenger
earnings for the last quarter:
Texas and New Orleans railroad. $50. 500 65
Galveston. Harrisburg and San AntO-
MO railway. ......................... 302 "A
Gonzales branch. Observation-Disclosures. CO
Missouri and Pacific Extension
Galveston, Harrisburg and -..-...- 322 60
san Antonio railway .-....-)
The comptroller will to-day open
the bids for furnishing supplies to the
several state asylums.
The assessment rolls of Hill, Karnes
and Leon counties were received yes
terday, but had not been examined by
the assessment clerk, Mr.. Riley. The
rolls of the following counties show
an average increase of over S500,0O0to
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-08-30
TILE NEW CAPITOL.
THURSDAY.
ExECUTIvE DEPARTMENT.

The following correspondence has
passed between Gov. Ireland, of
Texas, and Gov. Butler, of Massachu-
settS:
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AUSTIN, TEXAS, April 8, 1888.
Drs. j. j. & w. H. Tobin
have thoroughly tested the great
merits of your HepatoZone as Il remedy
for any liver trouble, dyspepsia or
constipation. 1t is indeed a wonder
full medicine and the best remedy for
these troubles that has ever been
given. [ could not do without it. Re-
spectfully, FRANK HAMILTON.
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From z. t. Fillmore. county judge
A IIsTIN TEXAS lime % 1890

from q. 7. T uImOr6, county Judge.
AUSTIN, Texas, June 20, 1882.
DIR. W. Fl. TObin. Austin
l have tried your Hepatozone as
sort of last resort to prevent the fire.
quently recurring headaches to which
l have been subjected for eight or ten
years, and unhesitatingly pronounce
it more beneficial than any medicine
/ have ever tried. Its results upon
my system are all and even more
than Is claimed for it.
Yours, etc,
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DEPARTMENT NOTES.
EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT.

EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT.
Gov. Ireland suggests that it is pre-,
mature for the counties to sell jail
and courthouse bonds before the re-
suit of the vote on the constitutional
amendments is announced. The sng-
gestion is made by him as member
of the school board, as there are lnqul-
ries addressed to the board as to
whether the school fund will not be
invested in county bonds. Ii the
amendments are adopted, he states,
the board will take them at par, and
the counties should not sell them In
the meantime at a discount. The
bonds, he says. should not be issued
at a higher rate than per cent. The
amendments will give the board the
power to purchase them.
coMPTRoLLER's DEPARTMENT.
Upon the return of the attorney
general Comptroller Swain will prob
ably lay before him statement Of the
account of ex-Comptroller Brown, for
such action as the attorney general,
as the law officer of the state, may
deem proper to take.
The number of miles operated in
Texas by the Pullman Palace Car
company, as reported tb the comp
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ESTRAYED.

Estrayed by Charles Wilkins, residing four
miles north of Austin, before F. Tegener, JUS
tee of the Peace, Travis county, Augu>t7, 1888,
a brown steer, with white spots, about eight or
nine years old, branded X on right side, G Oh
left hip, and marked underbit in each ear,
with crop off right ear. appraised at $50.
FRANK BROWN,
Clerk County Court, Travis County.
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From a prominent physician of
Travis county:

Trav Wis county:
DR.. w. H. Tobin, Austin. Texas:
After having made numerous trials
of HepatoZone l am induced to recon-
mend it. 1t is without doubt most
valuable remedy. l have been salts
fed with the results obtained where
l have used it. l find that it acts
very promptly in arousing the secre-
tions and relieving engagement of
the most important organs of the
body. When its medical virtues are
more generally known 1 believe it
will be kept in most families.
j. G. STOVALL NJ. D.
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). W. BIGGS.
Letter from the Hon. ex-comp-
trOlIar.
AUSTIN. TEXAS. March 80. 1883.

Letter from the Hon. eX-cOmp-
troller:
AUSTIN. TEXAS. March 80. 1883.
Drs. j. J. & w. Fl. TObin. Austin:
Dear Sirs-Having during the
past year used the remedy
prepared by you, known as
Hepatozone, l take pleasure in
stating that it has proved to be what
its name implies, a liver remedy 1
have found no Alternative and purga-
tive more certain or freer from un-
pleasant effects, and none so efficacious
in arousing torpid liver to the per-
Torrance of its proper functions.
w. M. BROWN.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1883-03-23

Congress is dreaded more than any of
them, as its power is greater. Occa-
sionally a session results in some prac-
teal good, but even then, while sur
prised and Overioyed at the result, con-
sentative citizens nevertheless thank
God most fervently when the session
ends, because the possibility of mis-
chievOus law-making is over again for
some months.
These are facts which everybody
knows. Republicans rejoice as hearth
ly as democrats when "A republican law
making body ceases TO have power to
do harm, and democrats rejoice as
heartily as republicans when the pow
er for mischief of IA democratic law
making body is terminated. People of
each party feel more confidence in a
law-making body of their own faith
than in one of the opposite faith, as is
natural, but the people of each party
would much rather trust no Legislature
or Congress at all than one of their own
faith. At first blush this seems a
strange phenomenon. Why is it that
the people must annually be thankful
that their own chosen agents no longer
have power to do the work for which
they were selected? Is it not, many
will ask, an evidence that self-gOvern-
ment is IA failure ? Yet, if we consider
it closely. that conclusion is altogether
unwarranted. The same persons who
see most clearly the almost unendura-
BILE faults of existing law-making bod
les would infinitely rather live under
laws made by such bodies, defective or
vicious as those laws are, than under
laws made by hereditary rulers, or by
persons virtually appointed by il mon
arch. And they can give abundant
and convincing reasons for that choice;
they can show that although our sys-
TEN is defective, it results in higher
degree of public welfare on the whole
than any other system yet devised.
The question is whether our meth
DDS are not capable of improvement
We do not want to lose their great and
manifest benefits, but we do want, if il
be possible, to find some way to get rid
of or lessen their serious defects
Frank recognition of the fact that there
are defects, and that they are increas-
ing, need not and does not imply for
getfulness or disregard of their merits,
and the public mind will be very care
full, in considering means to avoid the
existing evils, not to run the risk OF
impairing or destroying well-proved
eXcellenceS. 1t does not answer the
purpose to remove the making
power further from the people. En-
periments have been made in that di-
rect;On, and have not been attended
with success. Nor has mere limitation
of the elective franchise resulted il
good. Some of the worst law making
bodies ever known in this country have
been products of il restricted suffrage
In order to preserve what is best in Oul
system. the free will of the whole peO-
pie must be fully and fairly represent
ed New York Tribune.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1883-03-23
LaW-Making.

Close observers have not failed to
notice the decay of confidence in legis-
lative wisdom. True, there never was
time when legislative bodies did not
often invite sharp criticism. But dis
satisfaction with the conduct of LAW
makers has been growing visibly and
rapidly, and it cannot be said that the
public diSapproval is without reason.
la New York. We have seen not "A few
laws passed this year, and are threat
cned with Others, which intelligent and
honest men of both parties condemn.
Those who are at all familiar with the
course of legislation will readily recall
more instances than we here have space
to mention. In New Jersey one house
has Just adjourned, close to the ap-
pointed end of the session, apparently
for the purpose of avoiding a direct
vote on bills which powerful corpora
tious opposed. In Ohio and Indiana,
both parties have been dissatisfied with
the legislatures for several years. But
il is useless to particularize, when the
fact is well recognized that the state
legislatures. with scarcely an excep-
tion. are feared by quiet, orderly and
conservative citizens. and that the bus
mess community usually is in a mood
for thanksgiving when a Legislature
finally adionrns. Nor is the evil con-
fined TO the lesser legislative bodies
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1883-03-23
UnIIIuSicaI People.

We have really very little idea of the
extent to which musicaLinsensibilit
prevails. We cannot tell with any de
gree of certainty whether one person in
five, or one i'll ten, or one in an hun
bred, is practically destitute of the mu-
steal faculty. We have no means of
ascertaining the truth on this subject
If we had, We should probably be
startled. We should find many facts
which would at first appear hardly
credible. In an ordinary assembly. we
should, if we only had some trustwor-
thy test, find that no incOnsiderable
number of persons composing it not
only derived no pleasure from the fin
est music to he heard there, but were
positively panied by it, and only sat
through the performance under the
compulsiOn of circumstances.
Edwin, who perceives that all the
world affects a musical enthusiasm.
and knows that Angelina has a special
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1883-03-23
Girls Who Wear Bangs.

Bangs on girl give her an unruly
look, like COW with "A board over her
face. You take the gentlest COW in the
world and put board over her face,
and turn her out in IL pasture and she
gets the reputation of being unruly,
and YOU would swear she would iump
fences and raise merry Hades, and you
wouldn't give so much for her by ten
dollars only for beef 1t is so with a
girl. If she wears her hair high on her
forehead, or brushed back, or even has
frizzes, and has good look, you will
go to your bottom dollar on her, and
feel that she is as good as gold, and
that when she tells her Young man that
she loves him there is no discount on
it, and no giSgling back but take the
same girl with her front hair banged,
and when she looks ut you, you feel
just as though she would hook, and You
can't trust her. She has a fence-iump-
ing look that makes Il young man feel
as though he wouldn't feel safe unless
she was tied hand and foot, so she
couldn't get out of the pasture.
A girl with bangs may try to be good
and true, but it's awful hard work.
When she looks at herself in the glass
and sees the quarter of an inch of fore
head, she says to herself: 81 am dan
gerous they want to look out for me-
She thinks she is all right, but the is
constantly doing that which girl who
wears her hair brushed back would not
think of doing.
The banging of girls hair changes
the whole nature of the little wretch,
and she becomes as gun that is load
ed. You take IA picture of "Evangel-
inc" and bang her hair, and she would
look as though she would "run at" peo-
pie. How would Mrs. Van Colt, the
female preacher, look with her hair
banged 1t is just the same withJboys.
You take nice Sunday school boy
who can repeat three hundred verses
of the New Testament, and cut his hair
with Il clipper, and he looks like Tug
Wilson, Kansas City Times.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1883-03-23
LIFE SIZE PORTRAITS
Various Causes


Advancing years, care, sickness, disap-
pointment, and hereditary predisposi-
tion-all operate to turn the hair gray,
and either of them inclines it to shed
prematurely. AYERS HAIR VIGOR will
restore faded or gray. light or red hair
to 4 rich brown or deep black, as may
be desired. 1t SoftenS and cleanses the
scalp, giving it a healthy action. 1t
removes and cures dandruff and humors.
By its use falling hair is checked, and
a new growth will be produced in all
cases where the follicleS are not de-
strOyed or the glands decayed Its
effects are beautifully shown on brashy,
weak, or sickly hair, on which a few
applications will produce the gloss and
freshness of youth. Harmless and sure
in its results, it is incompatible as
a dressing, and is especially valued
for the soft luStre and richness of tone
it impartS.
AYERS HAIR VIGOR is colOrlesS;
contains neither oil nor dye; and will
not soil or color white cambria; yet
it lasts long on the hair, and keeps
it fresh and vigorous, imparting an
agreeable perfume.
For sale by all druggists.
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craze upon the subject, will undergo
any amount of torture with smiling
face, and even shout Justify for an en-
core rather than have it suspected that
he really feels a strong inclination to
howl like a dog at every outburst of
harmony. He knows that in one of
Angelina's favorite passages in Shake
speare, the great poet has made Lo-
renzo declare that man who is not
moved with concord of sweet sounds is
fit for treason, the motions of his spirit
are dull as night, his affection dark as
Erebus. Let no such man be trusted,
SAYS Lorenzo. In her innermOst heart
Edwin may perhaps suspect that Lo-
reno was something of humbug, and
merely gave utterance 10 what he
thought would be sure to please girl
who had just revealed a special suscep-
tibility of soul to the influence of mu-
sic. But not for the world would he
breathe any such suspicion.
On the contrary, he will probably
quote the passage with hearty APPROX
al, and applaud vOcIferously even at
moments of supreme anguish, rather
than have it supposed that he is be-
ing of this dark and dangerous nature.
1t requires some little fOrtltude of soul
to avow a strong repugnance to any
thing in which society generally recOg
nizes at once a means and an outcome
of refinement. There have been some
equal to such an avowal; but they
have been either below or above the
ordinary conventionalities of Society"
AT any rate, they have been outside
such cOnventiOnalities, like VOltaire,
for instance, who always appeared to
be put in the worst possible mood by
music, however good, and who made
no secret of his strong aversion to it.
Usually, however, person finding
everybody about him apparently capa
ble of approaching music, will natur
ally do his best to conceal his own pri-
vate sentiment on the subject, and will
refrain from an admission which would
at once relegate him to the GOths and
barbarians.-[M Musical World.