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The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-04-26
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER.
WASHINGTON. April II.

WASHINGTON, April II.
To the Editor OF The Statesman:
Last night in conversation with a
gentleman from Virginia, a member
of one of the first families so to speak,
and politician of pronounced Liber-
al proclivitieS, the attache of the
STATESMAN queried: What are the
chances of Mahonism in the coming
presidential election?
"You see that am a Democrat, but
/ will set aside my creed for l am
not a dyed-in-the-wool politician
anyway and endeavor to speak of the
Readjuster party in an impartial man
ner. l think that the Readjusters
have carried Virginia their last time.
That party came into power Temporal
rily on account of the troubles in DEM
ocratic circles. All of the intelligence
in the state had got into hide-bound
way of thinking such, as was the case
In no state in the union, a way that
ldollzed precedent and aristocracy.
The state was Democratic, as you
know, but the young and brainy men
OF the party were given back seats
and taught to believe that the priyi-
lege of holding Office only belonged
to the sires of previous generation.
Gen. Malone, whom / regard as
one of the shrewdest politicians in
America, but who is at the same time
A DEMAGoGUE OF THE BLACKLIST
TYPE,
Saw a chance to win sudden power bv
massihg a portion of the dissatisfied
element and the negro ignorance of
the state together and he did so,
although he was a Democrat,
and knew full well that the troubles
in the party would cure themselves.
The Intelligent people of the state
did not seem to be aware of the dan
ger that overhung them and the sa-
cred honor of their institutions and
the demon of corruption and ignor-
ance obtained control of the govern
ment almost without knowing their
danger.
"Well." said the scribe. cannot Ma
hone continue to mass the forces and
hold the state In his gripp"
mo; because the conditions have
changed. You see changes are never
lasting that are based upon the dis
satisfactions and ignorance instead of
the intelligence and determination of
a people. This, broadly speaking
is the case with Readjusterism. Be
sides the very institutions of learn
ing in the state have been prostituted
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-04-26

On OUR second page will be found
correspondence between eX-Comp-
troller Brown and Gov. Ireland, con-
corning application for and appoint
ment to the financial agency for the
penitentiaries. The law authorizing
such appointment went into effect on
the eighteenth of April, the commits
sioners were appointed on the min E.
teenth, and yet the governor
tells Mr.. Brown on the nine
teenth that disappointment has been
rendered to Mr.. Haywood Brahan.'
There was no law authorizing any
such appointment before the
eighteenth, and there was no board,
under the law authorizing the nam
ing of financial agent before the
nineteenth. The board met first and
organized on the Goth, and then was
authority first empowered to consider
the appointment of financial agent,
and the appointed members were
understood then to have considered
no applicant. But read the correspon
dence. 1t is decidedly entertaining.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-04-26
OUR NEW YORK LETTER.
A Coed Showing for Shows - The
Coming Bench ShOW-A Cat Show.
lFrom Our Special Correspondent

lFrom Our Special Correspondent.
NEW YORK, April Is, 1888.
Barnum is now holding forth at
Madison Square Garden with his
greatest show on earth,' and when
he moves out the bench show will
move in. To the casual observer,
CANNES as show are not much of an
improvement on elephants, elks, cam
els, clowns and things; but, improve
ment or no Improvement, New Y ork
believes in variety and will have 1t all
along the line from the opera bouffe
UNI, with dog and cat shows
chinked in between, and giants,
dwarfs, fat women, alligators, snakes,
etc., hung on the outside. 1t is not
my intention to tell the STATESMAN
readers anything about Barnum and
his show, for he has for half century
been giving evidence of his ability to
blow his own horn. 1t may not be
out of place to remark, however, that
his admission fee here in New York
is but one-half go cents) what he
charges the unsophisticated Texan
when he moves down to Dixie later
in the season, after all the fat has
been worked off the animals, and the
men in the ring and the "queen of the
air" have become jaded and worn out
by the summers travel over the west
ern hemisphere.
But, as CANNES form a considerable
element of the population of many
places, they are certainly entitled to
an occasional "write-up," more espe-
cially when they are so soon to meet
in convention in this city 1900 strong
very s-rong. Dog delegates of high
degree, and of every shade,
size and breed will be here.
Everybody all over the country who
have dogs, will 'set I'M on" to New
York; in fact, about five hundred of
that kind of immigrants have arrived
in the past week, and the season
hasn't fairly opened yet. The distin-
guished arrivals are from Boston,
Washington, Cleveland, Piftsburg,
Chicago, Ottawa and across the sea.
We will have mastiffs, st. Demands,
Irish terriers, English settlers and
pointers, pugs, King Charles spaniels,
Japanese spaniels, coach dogs and the
different breeds of blood hounds and
grey hounds, and a full variety of ter
rierS and blacK-and-tans, etc. The
exhibition viii be the largest and
best ever seen in this country or in
Europe. The largest heretofore given
was held in London in 1882, when
one thousand one hundred and forty
| five dogs were exhibited. The coming
exhibition, to take place on the 9Th,
9th, 10th and 18th of May, will be
given under the auspices of the West
minister Kennel club. and viii, if re-
ports of the manager be true, have
one thousand five hundred dogs on
exhibition. That certainly win be
enough to satisfy any reasonable per-
son, even the most ardent lover OF
sausage.
A few months ago New York had a
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-04-26

it is insufficient Appeal dismissed
Wilson, j.
Clark VS.. State; from Tarrant coun-
ty.-The record falling to contain a
statement of facts, bill of exceptions,
or charge of the court, and the indict-
ment being sufficient, the judgment
is Wilson, j.
Giersa VS.. Yocum; from Grayson
county-The judgment rendered in
the justice court being one for costs
only was not a final judgment and
the county court for that reason
correctly dismissed the appeal. ri
Tex, 535. Affirmed.-Willson, j.
Beatty VS.. state; appeal from Ellis
county.-The evidence being amply
sufficient to support the verdict, the
charge of the court being unobnox-
ious and the indictment being good
the judgment is Standardization, j
Mabry VS.. Fitzgerald; appeal from
Ellis county.-The charge of the court
correctly applied the law applicable
to the case, the evidence adduced am.
ply supports the verdict, and the judg.
ment must therefore be affirmed
White, z. j.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-04-26
STAND AND DELIYER.

BRAINARD, MINI, April 20.-Sher-
iff Mortz and the police had lively
skirmish yesterday afternoon with a
crowd of armed tramps, who had sta
toned themselves at the railroad
bridge, hear the city, and were hold
ing up every one who came along.
The officers captured six Of the party,
who were lodged in jail. Policeman
Showten and Deputy Sheriff Palmer
were slightly wounded in the ARRAY.
After the first capture, the sheriff and
posse, armed with Winchester rifles,
started in pursuit of the Others, who
were hiding in the lumber on the
west side of the river. They came
upon two of them lying in hethicket
with revolvers in hand, oneof whom
was the man who had shot ShoWtell.
They were ordered to throw up their
hands, and refusing, the police party
fred, severely and probably fatally
wouRding one of the men, who was
afterward removed to jail with his
companion, making total capture OF
eight. They all claim to hail from
New Orleans and have been
working their way gradually from
that city up the river.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-04-26

THE cause of cremation grows and
the Indianapolis Sentinel makes a
strong appeal in its behalf. As
an argument in favor of destroying
the body by heat it is properly urged
that the burial of the dead pollutes
Il soil, air and water, and is real
danger to all animal life. No Ian
guage can do justice to the polluting
effects of crowded cemetery. Every
fact is hideous. The soil reekiDg
with rottenness, the air burdened
with deadly vapors and the water
running rank with poison are UNI
pleasant to thoughtful people, and
still we are told burial is the christian
method, and cremation is denounced as
heather. DIR. w. r. Curtis, of Chicago,
remarks that the objection relating
to the evidences of crime Is "out-
weighed by the advantage that might
be derived from the general adoption
of cremation, and can be obviated by
the enforcement of easy precautions"
and that "the cost is reducible to a
very small amount by means of mod
ern appliances" But, in the discus
sion of burial VS.. cremation, as d
means of disposing of the dead, the
most formidable objection to crema-
ton will be found in the popular be-
lief that it is anti-Christian. This is
bare nonsense. The process of
decomposition by the method of
burial is slow, and the contemplation
OF it repulsive beyond descrip-
tion. The living know that worms
and reptiles are banqueting upon the
fostering remains of the dead, and
they turn from such thoughts with
horror. Nor is the old Egyptian pro-
cess of embalming the dead much
less revolving, and since it is known
that the khedive fires up his locomo-
tives with mummy fuel, cremation
might as well have been inaugurated
in Egypt three thousand years ago. By
the cremation process in the i'm
proved furnaces of the period it is
said that "the body does not come in
contact at all with the fire, only with
an intense heat Of 1000 degrees or
more. At this temperature the body
withers away into pure white ash.
The gases generated are burned in a
separated chamber adapted to
the purpose, and no smoke
odor, or other unpleasant phenomena
occur, to offend the sensibilities
of anyone, be they ever so acute.
This pure white ash is urned or
buried and from it no communicating
earth, air or water flows. Cremation
is likely to be eventually adopted
The living can contemplate it with
greater serenity, and the Christian
will at last realize that in the resur
rection the fiat of Jehovah will readily
reach the original elements without
regard to the methods employed tC
bring about decomposition. The
world is said to be progressing, and il
this be true, there can be no greater
evidence of progress than that the ole
forms Of burial be dispensed with and
that the remains of man be sent tt
mother earth as pure as they were
derived from it. Not only should
human bodies be destroyed by fire but
all purifying carcasses should be sc
consumed.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-04-26
REILLY AND KINasTON.

DUBLIN, April 2O.-The trial of
Timothy Kelly for completely in the
murder of Cavendish and Burke was
resumed this morning. After calling
few more witnesses the crown an
nounced theircase closed. The case for
defense was then opened. Kelly's
counsel announced they would pro-
duce witnesses to prove an abb for
the prisoner. Kelly's brother was
their first witness. He testified in
support of the claim OF an abb that
he was in the company of the prison
er the sixth OF May. On cruss-exam-
nation his evidence cOnflicted with
that given by the employer of the
prisoner. The defense called four
friends of Kelley, all OF whom
swore that the prisoner was IN
their company at the time CaYen-
dish and Burke !. ere assassinated
One of the witnesses called by de-
Tense 20 prove an alibi, testified be-
went to Phoenix Park with Kelly
Sunday, May Z, and that both made
an examination of the blood stains on
the ground. Submission of evidence
having been concluded, AtcIneE4y
made the closing argument in defense
of Kelly. The judge then delivered
his charge and the jury. at 5:45
o'clock, retired.
The jury after remaining out some
little time returned and announced
they were unable, to agree.
| Eugene Kingston, arrested in
Liverpool Wednesday, charged with
being connected Phoenix park mus
ders, was arraigned to-day and after 3
hearing was remanded to prison b
answer the charge Of conspiracy u
murder.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-04-26

DALLAS, April 19.-The state grand
lodge, Knights of Pythias, at its
session to-day, selected Austin as its
next place of meeting, on the third
Tuesday in April, 1884. The grand
lodge was photographed in a body
this evening. The complimentary
ball is in progress tonight. The in
stallation of grand lodge officers
takes place tomorrow, and then adj
joHrnment follows. A complimentary
banquet will be given them to-mor-
row night.
The state district court to-day rem
dered verdict in favor of Mrs. NJ.
NJ. Potts against the Texas and Pacific
railroad company for $1,000 for the
killing of her husband, A. NJ. Potts,
near Dallas in January, 1882. Mrs.
Potts sued for $4,000 damages.
Mrs. Sallie E. Davis, of Salisbury,
Kentucky, is in the city. She came
to Texas to find her husband. who
preceded her several months, and
whose whereabouts she knows moth
ing of. He was to have met her at
Dallas April 8, but she failed to reach
here on that day, and he has not since
called.
The Dallas jockey club is arranging
the preliminaries for big fall race
meeting. Ten thousand dollars in
purses are to be offered. Letters from
nearly all prominent horsenlen have
been received, announcing their de-
sire to attend and take in the Texas
circuit during the fall and winter. as
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-04-26
EAGER For TIVE FRAY.

ST. LOUIS, April 20-A dispatch
from Wilcox, Arizona, says 200 Indian
scouts have enlisted and Gen. Crook
has completed his plans for a vigorous
and decisive campaign against the
Apaches. He is now sending supplies
to Guadalupe canyon, where the
Mexican army is concentrating, across
the line. 1t is reported the invest
ment OF Calabases by the Indians
is unfounded. 1t is supposed
the signal fires were caused
by the campires. of prospectors.
The troops are patrolling from No
gales to the Mexico line. There are
no fresh depredations anywhere in
this territory. The troops and scouts
are in fine condition, and eager to
start. They will go flying, and follow
any trail in the direction of the
Apaches' stronghold, which is said,
however, to be inaccessible to horses.
The Guadalupe canyon is about four
days march from this place.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-04-26
INDIAN RAIDS ExAeaRRArEp.

DENVER, April 20-A special from
Gen. Crooks Headquarters at Wilcox,
Arizona, says the territory press exag-
gerates in order to influence an attack
on the reservation Indians. No raid
ers have BEEN in Arizona for three
weeks past. The last alarming re-
port, two days old, that eighty
Apaehes were sent to the Santa Fe
range, beyond Camp Crittenden, and
over into Santa Cruz valley above
Citabases, is wholly untrue.
Tombstone rangers, who had been
in Wilcox, say there are Indians on
the trail, but they do not appear to he
anxious to reach San Carlos. Crook
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-04-26

Young Chester A. Arthur is run
ing the White House while the old
man is away. He keeps some of his
Princeton college friends with him,
and they seem to make things lively
Then troop of young girls visit
Miss Nellie, the presidents daughter,
daily. They doubtless also contrib
ute to the general hilarity of the oc-
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-04-26

Houston, April 10. - The fourth
day of the state shooting tournament
Shoot No. IL = Twenty single glass
balls, thirty entries, t. a Dollarhide
twenty-five straight balls, first money,
$50; Joseph Hucker, of Houston, and
]. d. Yocum, Denison, second money,
$50; J. S. Simpson and w. y. Ryan,
both of Austin, divided third money,
$40. After breaking twenty straight
balls, in the shoof-off, j. J. Weiss, of
Houston, was fourth, twenty-five
pounds of tobacco. Sweepstakes, five
pigeons, thirty-one yards rise, both
barrels, forty-one entries, purse $500,
first $123.60, j. j. Weiss, Houston;
second S92.70, divided by G. Il. Por-
ter, of Houston, L. W. Dollarhide, of
Denison, d. W. c. Dunn and James
Hucker, of Houston; third, $3.50, di-
vided by r. III. Downey, of Houston,
and w. A. Ryan, of Austin; fourth,
5000, ii. Fontaine, of Houston. The
tournament will close tomorrow.
In the criminal court this morning
Peyton Randolph, the negro who
killed a negro named John Warner at
a negro dance, October 81, was found
guilty of murder in the first degree
and sentenced to the penitentiary for
life. The case of Henry Campbell,
colored. charged with the murder of
Policeman Snow in the fifth ward a
few days ago, was called in the GRIM
inal court this morning and continued
on the affidavit of defendant for want
of witnesses. An interesting case
will come up in the district court
this evening, that of Milby & Dow
VS.. the Buffalo bayou ship channel
company, to test the constitutional
right of the ship channel company to
charge toll through the cut at Nor
gan's Point,
at the afternoon session of the
commissioners court, yesterday. the
plans and specifications for court
house furnished by the architect, E.
j. Duhammel, were examined and
accepted by the court as the specifi-
cations and plans for said courthouse,
and the county was authorized to adj
vertise for bids for the building of
said courthouse in accordance with
said plans and specifications.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-04-26
UNDERGROUND WIRES

NEW YORK, April Representa-
tives of the telegraph, telephone and
electric lighting companies of tho
city to-day adopted resolutions in fa-
vor of laying wires underground, but
stating that no satisfactory system
of doing so has yet been devised and
deprecating hasty legislative action. A
committee will be appointed includ-
ing the governor and mayor to con-
slider the best method of securing the
desired object
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-04-26
RuR1En IN TIE RUINS.

SACRAMENTO GALA, April Co.
During a small fire early this morn
ing on A street. the roof of the adj
joining building fell. John Hilsen-
berger, keeper of the saloon which
feel and an unknown man, were
taken from the ruins. The following
persons were wounded: w. II. Mey-
ers, Herbert Bilse, James Lambert,
Charles Evans, James McNulty, ID.
Bragg. L. A. Case, ]. Woodbridge,
Joseph Reddy, John Higgins, John
Sullivan, George Loder. Most of
these were badly hurt about the head
and back. Several are known to be
still in the ruins, but it is believed all
the wounded have been recovered.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-04-26
wINrER wnrAr npnp

MINIATURES, April 2O.-Ten coun-
ties in Wisconsin report the winter
wheat in excellent conditions Private
letters from the agricultural depart
ments in Minnesota, Nebraska, Iowa
and Dakota, report the spring seeding
fairly commenced. The conditions
for seeding were never better. The
work will be completed in ten days.
The acreage will be increased, and
there is every Indication the spring
wheat in this state will he favored
with a bountiful crop.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-04-26

IT is generally urged that the In
dian reservation business needs radi-
cal changes. The Quaker method of
treating with red rascals is not at all
appropriate, and the idea of having a
reservation where the thieves and
murderers may take at will the lives
and property of white neighbors, is
.disgraceful to the boosted power and
civilization of this country.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-04-26

THE mills of the gods are grinding
and the time is doubtless not far of
when England will be brought to
recognize that the policy of selfishness
which cares only for the success and
prosperity of a few favored classes OF
society at the expense of rest of the
subjects is not the best means to make
a government secure and strong.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-04-26
MAKING A LEGAL REPUTATIoN

MILWAUKEE. April 2O.-Kate Kane,
Mtlwaukee's only female lawyer,
threw glass of water in the face Of
Judge Mallory, Of the criminal court,
this morning and was fined $50. She
claims the judge insulted her by word
and action but will not say in what
particular request. She refuses to
pay the fine and will go to Jail unless
friends intercede.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-04-26

has been greatly hampered and AM
noyed by these inflammatory articles
and falsehoods. He will move into
Mexico on Sunday. His force will
consist of 1872 Apaches, under Capt.
Crawford, of the United States Third
cavalry, and Aide n. E. Mcintosh will
also have fifty cavalrymen, and the
entire Mexican force in Sonora and
Chihuahua
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-04-26

QUEEN VICTORIA will be sixty
four years old May "a. If she hang
aon to life as did some of her ances-
tors, the Prince of Wales will have
sown his wild oats, if he be not in the
mean time salted down by the Social
lists, long before he come to be king
of ENGLAND and emperor of India.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-04-26

THE Brooklyn Eagle has it about
right when it says there is princi-
pie of protection that high protect
i've tariff increases the laborer's
wages; but there is a principle of hui
man nature that "sees it," goes it bet
ter, and beats it every time. This is
the principle in obedience to which
an employer thinks more of his own
poeketbook than he does of his work
ingman's.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-04-26

New YORK, April 2O.-Abram
Suydam, a lawyer, was arrested last
evening on the charge of swindling
John L. Flagg out Of $4,000 by
means of fraudulent real estate trans
actions. The police profess to know
nothing of the details of the alleged
swindle, but say that if its character
had not been prematurely discovered
Suydam would have succeeded iInugc
tanning 100000. They also said r.
has before figured in similar frauds,
and was taken from this city to Chi
cago two years ago to answer the
charge of perjury.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-04-26

TIE Waxahachie Mirror, in quot
ing what the STATESMAN said COM
plimentary of Speaker Gibson, says
that "the STATESMAN is not given to
bestowing praise when it is not de-
served" In this the Mirror is cor
rect. Speaker Gibson deserves en-
dorsement, and we always extend it
when a public man deserves it.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-04-26

Ii is estimated that American syn
dicates engaged in railway building
in Mexico will secure on 1850 miles
of track subsidy amounting to $685.
100000. Other estimates may be
made, showing that the value of these
railways in increasing the taxable
values of the country will be ten
times this sum.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-04-26
DEADLOCK RRoKEN

SPRINGFIELD. ILL.,, April co. The
deadlock in the Illinois legislature
was broken this morning. Rookie re-
fused to enter the house and the Re
publicans, recognizing the impossible
ity of seating Bradwell, abandoned
the fight and it was not resumed.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-04-26

SUBSCRIPTIONS are being taken in
Cincinnati for stock in an incorpor-
ated company. the purpose of which
is to provide relief for the holders of
bonded whisky upon which the tax
will soon fall due. The compeny will
have paid up capital of $3.50 600. and
win export goods to the Bermudas, or
elsewhere beyond the boundaries of
the United States, or when there is a
good reason for so doing viii pay the
tax outright. The company expect
to be able to handle 100000 barrels.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-04-26
HERR MOST. THE SOCIALIST

PITTsBURG, April 20.-Herr Most
arrived to-day and will remain until
Tuesday next. During his stay he
will address several meetings and win
endeavor to effect an organization of
socialists in this CITY.