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The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-12-20
A HEAVY SrORa.
Great Destruction or Life and Prop
ertY in Great Britain.

LONDON, Dec. 12-Heavy gales last
evening caused large damage in Lon
don and the provinces. At Wolver-
hampton the exhibition building, par
TALLY completed, was destroyed. To-
day violent storm is raging through
out Great Britain. and much property
hes been destroyed both on land and
sea, and many lives lost. Even the
lamp posts in the streets are bent.
Huge trees were torn up and carried
away into the low-lying districts.
Birmingham is flooded. A portion Of
the roof of the church st. Shadan, al;
Derby, is demolished. The Congrega-
tional church here is also damaged.
The parish church at RothealI is
much injured. Chimney shafts are
thrown down at Manchester, Leeds,
etc. The large gas holder near Rrad
ford is capsiZed, and the chemical
works at Widens are damaged. The
Leicester carriage works are destroyed.
At iBurkenhead great damage was
dene. The chief officer of the steamer
just arrived from Glasgow was killed.
Cabs were overturned and many
buildings damaged at Lincoln. At
Parapet the tower of the cathedral was
blown down. A ship was blown from
the moorings ut Belfast harbor. At
South Shields vessel broke adrift
and three wh9rTics sunk. The British.
ship Liverpool, from @ ebec for
Greenock is u total wreck me- Stra~
nier, Scotland. Only man al d boy
were saved of the crew. Two PESO
were killed at Hull and several iniur-
ed. A portion of Portsmouth IS food
ed. at Hartpool many Of the ships
were damaged. At birmingham three
persons were killed and q number in
jured. Three were killed at Manches-
ter. At Demesbury three were killed.
At Chester nIan was blown down in
the street and killed. Two persons
were killed at Liversage. A portion
of the roof of st. Mary's Church at
Berwick is destroyed. Several houses
at Nottingham were blown down
AT Kildwiclk the gasometer is demol-
ished. A postal Telegraph inspector
was cut IN half at Leeds. The Brad
ford monument at Under Cliff ceme-
terry, and "a portion of the depot of the
Midland railway were blown down.
Several vessels, locked in the Mer-
sey, are damaged. Two vessels were
wrecked at Dunare, Scotland. and two
men drowned. The lowlands west of
Lancashire and GarslaIg, are flooded.
AT Glasgow the damage to property
is very great.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-12-20
Oceans of Milk.
-Amnrlcnn nnrnl.Hnmn

n Middletown. N. Y, special says:
There are nearly $1,000, 100000 in
vested in the dairying business in this
country, said an officer of the Erie
MIX Producers Association yester-
day. That amount is almost double
the money invested in banking and
commercial industl les. 1t is esti-
mated that 1t requires 100000 COWS
to supply the demand for milk and its
products in the United States. To
feed these 100000 acres Of land are
under cultivation. The agricultural
and dairy machinery and Implements
are worth over S2G0,000,0O0. The
men employed in the business number
100000, and the horses nearly 100000.
The cows and horses consume an
nually 20C09,000 tons of hay, nearly
100000 bushes OF corn meal. about
theSame amount 0t odt meal, 275,000,-
CuJ bisllrlS OF oats, 2.00O,O00 FSashels
OF Iran, and 10000 iu hels of corn,
to say nothing III tte 5.vW,ry grains
and questionable fec. 81 various
kinds that is used 20 Il great extent.
IL costs SiUMoQI0 e. feed these
COWS aut horses. The average price
paid 10 these iilorcrS necessary in the
uN'tY hS@tAVfo - ~ NbdpiN Az Il luOuIu
Oulti1g 90 Si5S,U0.OtO u year.
"rhc average COW yields about 450
gallons of milk year giving a total
lroWct OF 6,i5O000000 gallons.
Twelve cents gallon is n fair price
to estlmat- the value Of this milk at,
total'retnrn TO the dairy farmer Of
$6lO,OO1OoO. Fifly per cent of the
milk IS made into cheese and butter.
1t takes q pounds OF milk to make
one pound of cheese. There is the
same amount Of nutrition in 80
pounds Of milk that there is in one
pound of beef. a fall steer furnishes
90 per cent Of homeless beef, but it
would require about 24,0O0,00O steers,
weighing 1900 pounds each. TO produce
the same amount Of nutrition as the
annual milk product does.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-12-20

SUCH conditions of society as that
reported from Brown county calls for
radical reform in the 1ulnnar O ad-
ministering public ;.ifairs. The in
calculable damage Zone to Texas, in
many more ways than one, calls for
speedy correction of an evil that
promises, if not corrected, to sap the
49, lood of the state. The burning
of houses in a country neighborhood
in Lampasas county showed the ten
dency Of lawlessness that pervades
Texas. Now the threatened destruc-
ton of a town, and the staying of its
inhabitants, presents further progress.
Cox's scare led the military power of
the state to clothe itself in all its
glory, but when community is con-
vulsed with terror by the lawless acts
of fence cutters the army of the state
is not ordered to sleep on arms, nor
are trains kept in waitin to awe
communities into lawful conditions.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-12-20
The education of the deaf is advane

The education of the deaf is advanc-
ing with other modern systems, and
is brought into public notice at ami
versaries especially. The reports call
these afflicted people deaf mutes."
Those who are born deaf are always
mute, and those who have sense OF
hearing learn to speak in some fash
ion. The dumb are so simply because
they cannot hear, and get no cue of
sound to exercise the human faculty
of speech. Attempts have been made
to teach the deaf to speak by
showing them the organs of speech
in action, but the success attained is
not worth mention. A great advance
has, however, been made since the
sign language was first taught. Signs
of the fingers and hands ere now only
the alphabet OF the deaf. AT a recent
anniversary in New York, the elev-
enth of society for the education of
the deaf-born, a speaker suggested the
character Of the work done and doing
fore those who have ears yet hear
not. His mother, he said, was deaf
and dumb, and he learned the
Language of signs from her as read
lily as he did speech from Others.
He married a mute wife, and con-
tinued his education in quietness and
peace, and mutes had been his princi-
pal associates through life. He had
gradually built up system which is
entitled to be called a language-"tho
language of motion-a pantomime OF
ideas" He explained that in teach
ing he does not spell out the words it
would take to express ideas, but never
THINKS Of words or language at all,
but makes his meaning perfectly clear
by motions as rapid as word utter
ance. In this system of idea language
it is only necessary to spell out proper
names. It is a universal language,
and mutes of all nationalities can con-
verse in it, at sight.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-12-20

A MOVE is being made tC ecure ex-
tension of time on the boa'led period
for distilled spirits. Two years more
will be asked and the request may be
granted. The reasons given for grant
ing an extension are that with the re-
sumption Of specie payments in 1879,
and the coIncident revival of prosper
ity in all branches of trade, a great
impetus was given to the production
of distilled spirits. During the years
1880, 1881 aid 1882 the demand for
sour mash WHISTLES for aging pur-
poses was so great that more Of these
spirits were produced and warehoused
than can be marketed for consump-
ton as the tax natures thereon. As Il
natural result the prices have declined,
and distillers and holders have been
seriously embarrassed in raising
money to pay the taxes on Spirits for
which they could find no Immediate
market. In the majority of cases it
became necessary to borrow money to
pay taxes as they accrued, and num-
btr Of prominent and wealthy houses
succumbed TO the strain. The over
production ceased, however, when this
state of things became apparent, as
the figures for 1882 and 1883 show.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-12-20
THE SOUTHERN STATES.

Mrs. y. c. Pond, a sister of the fa-
nous Sam Patch, died in Petersburg.
Va, last week.
The money order business of At
ianta amounts to a quarter of mil
lion per month.
Seven brothers, colored, are confined
IN The Montgomery, Ala, Jail. on a
charge of larceny.
The large falling off in the yield of
rice, in South Carolina. is attributed
to inefficient labor.
Petitions for the repeal of the char
ter OF Norfolk, Va, are being rapidly
signed in that city.
a size has been purchased at Allan
Ia Tor lGO-ton furnace. Senator Jo-
seph L. Brown and others are said to
be at the head of the Enterprise.
An old negro woman in Georgia
has sued the keeper of the peniten-
tiary for $4,000, on the ground that
he kept herIiu the penitentiary twenty
two days al 1r her term of imprisou-
ment had expired.
James Underwood was hanged at
Dardanelle, Ark, last Fridayf for the
murder OF Robert j. PendergraSs in
September, 1883. Underwood was
clininally intimate with Mrs. Fender
grass and she prompted him to do the
killing.
Ransom Montgomery, noted col
cred character, died at Atlanta. The
state purchased him in 1915, when he
was slave, and gave him his free
dom for an act of bravery. The last
legislature voted him life pension
Gov. Mcdaniel will pay the expenses
of the funeral.
Lynchburg Advance: From the re
port Of the commissioner of agricul
ture it appears that during the season
just closed, no less than 10000 tons Of
fertilizers were sold in the state, thu
value OF which from analysis wa:
S2,657,0C0. Forty-five thousand ton:
of ammonlated superphosphates, II,
600 tons of acid superphosphate anC
1900 tons of bone, etc, were the rep
resentative divisions as to the charac
| fnr e no oil
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-12-20

TIE STATESMAN has misconceiYed
the purposes of the capital syndicate
n asking for additional right OF way
through the city for transporting
building material to capital hill,
The petition is for a horse railway,
and not steam railway. along Con-
gress Avenue; and it is stated, in
support of the petition, that it is i'm
possible to secure switching fac ties
for the transportation Of cars over
the Central railway, between the
terminus of the international and
East Avenue, where the syndieate's
steam railway line begins. If these lie
the facts the onditions do way
with many objec ions to the PROPOSE
t But chou d any grant be made
along Congress Avenue it should be
guarded with the best conceived re-
strictions.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-12-20
a Bad Omen.

1t was poor representative who
did not have a load of fragrant flowers
on his desk at the opening day of the
lower house Of Congress. Some of
the desks fairly groaned under Flora's
sweet gifts, and the air waxed dull
with the scent of the tuberose. Of
course majority of the gentlemen
who sat endowed in posies, the envy
of the galleries, bought their own
flowers and had them sent in. But
hundreds of dollars must have beer
spent in this useless luxury. We are
rolling on towards Roman extrava-
gance and decay. It is bad omen
for the republic founded by our simple
fathers when it requires as many
costly flowers to induct a member OF
Congress as it does to inter a popular
prize-fghter or burglar in New York
citv
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-12-20

THE carnival of winter sports,
which attracted so many strangers to
Montreal last winter, is to be repeat
ed this winter, commencing on the
4th of February. New tobogging hills
will be prepared, a beautiful ice pal
ace erected, and torchlight procession,
moonlight tramps, skating masque-
rades, curling games, horse racing on
the river, a carnival ball and other at
fractions viii lie given during, an
entire week. Last winter THE
STATESMAN give d description of the
ice p siace, which when lighted up
with ED ctricity was certainly won
6erful attractive scene worthy instead
of a palace for mortals to be the house
OF the Danish ice kings.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-12-20
The Boston Vote.

BosToN, Dec. 12.-The results of
the election in Boston yesterday was:
Augustus p. Martin, Republican, elect
ed mayor; Gen. Isaac Burnell, mem
Der of the street commission. Repub-
licans elected ten of twelve aldermen.
The council stands thirty-six Repub-
licans, thirty-three Democrats and
three Independent Democrats. The
vote against license was unt expected
ly large, the negative votes number
ed 1856 against 22,060 alternatives.
Last year the vote stood for license
22.772 against 1926.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-12-20
THE tariff plank in the Democrat


platform of 1876 read as follows:
"We denounce the present tariff,
levied upon nearly 4G00 articles, as a
masterpiece Of injustice, Inequality,
and false pretence. 1t yields a dwind.
ling, not yearly rising revenue. 1t
has impoverished many industries to
substitute a few. 1t prohibits i'm ports
that might purchase the products Of
American labor. 1t has degraded
American commerce from the first to
an inferior rank on the high seas. 1t
has cut down the sales of American
manufacturers at home and abroad
and depleted the returns of American
agriculture-an industry followed by
half our people. 1t costs the people
five times more than it produces to the
treasury, o6structs the process of pro-
duction and wastes the fruit of labor.
1t promotes fraud, fosters smuggling,
enriches dishonest officials and bank
rupts honest merchants. We demand
that all custom-house taxations shall
be only for revenue"
Nothing could be stronger, and
shaky Democrats are asked to
strengthen their political vertebrae
by drawing inspiration from so patrl-
otto an expression.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-12-20

THERE may be practical objections
to reducing local postage to one cent,
but it is change that follows logic
ally upon the new two cent rate, and
it is demanded as right and proper by
the popular voice. The postmaster
generals recommendation of an in
crease in the weight limit is to be
commended, and if adopted would
save much money to lovers, newspa-
per correspondents and other volum-
nous writers. But the one cent local
letter rate would accommod tie every
body. and shou d be a pop lar move
on the part of he administration.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-12-20

As Il result of The extreme blessing
OF thanksgiving. may be mentioned
some pitiful traits of human charac-
ter, developed in New I ork just be-
fore the 29th of November. It is well
known that the inmates of the jails
and penitentiaries on BlackwelPs
Island are always treated to gener-
ous Thanksgiving dinner, and on the
preceding day, therefore, there is IL
yariably an urgent crowd of tramps
and Migrants of the stationhouses
anxious to be sent up to the Island
for just one day. in order to share the
anticipated feast. This year the pres
sure was even more clamorous and
persistent than heretofore, and in
many cases men and women had COM
mitted some petty offence purposely
to make their committal absolutely
SnTP
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-12-20

THE committee of citizens, APP
pointed to look into the causes of The
Danville, Va, affair report that they
have thoroughly examined into it
and find the white people not to
blame for the unfortunate affair. The
public was already convinced that the
white people of Danville acted con-
servatively and properly, did every
thing to prevent disturbance, and
that the fight that followed, notwith-
standing all the efforts, was the direct
result of the policy preached by Ma
hone to secure the entire vote of the
state by drawing the color line.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-12-20

SAYS contemporary: Every mer-
chant should feel certain of a rea-
sonable monetary return for every
inch of advertising he does. The
buyer of merchandise asks these ques-
tions: What quantity? What quail
ty? What price? Our merchants
should apply the same rule of meas
urement to the circulation of the
newspapers whose advertising space
is offered IN the market" Therefore
the wise merchant advertises in THE
STATESMAN
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-12-20
More Moorish jealousy

Mr.. A G. Heaton, whose return to
Paris we mentioned the other day,
has in his studio the authentic por-
trait of Il Moorish woman of the bet
ter class, and he is one Of the few
painters who ever induced a Moorish
lady to take off her veil IN the pres
ence OF Frank. The ladies of Mo
rocco would luuch rather pose for Il
nude, as a rule, than uncover their
faces. AS for their husbands, they
would probably murder on the spot
any Actlst who Yentured to ask for
the permission to portray their wives
features de visa. A striking
example Of this occurred to Heat0n
during his journey through Morocco.
One OF the grandeeS OF the country,
hearing of his skill as portrait artist,
sent for him, ana asked him to paint
the portrait of his favorite wife,
whom he loved almost to madness,
and whose lineaments he wished to
preserve in case she died before him.
lie was willing to pay any price for
the picture, if it was only distant
resemblance. Heaton said he should
be but too happy to execute the order
for the mere satisfaction Of pleasing
his influential patron. We'll. then,
set to work at once,' said the
great man; close no time, and as
soon as the portrait is finished
bring it to me-" "Au right" said the
artist; "you have only to bring the
person to me and will begin at once. "
"What y exclaimed the Moor rath-
fully, you have the presumption to
desire to look upon my wife?" 'Ii0w
can you expect me to paint person
have never seen ?" inquired Heatcn in
amazement. "Begone !" roared the
jealous husband; eff l can not have the
portrait of my beloved without offer
ing her to thy profane view 1 prefer
renouncing forever the pleasure | had
promised myselfl'' And that portrait
was not painted.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-12-20

A FLOOD of bills, affecting railway
land grants, have already been poured
into Congress. The most compre-
hensive and sweeping in its nature is
the one presented by Mr.. Holman, of
Indiana, who, it is said, has studied
closely matters connected with these
land grants. lie holds that Congress
has the power to reclaim all lands
granted, whether patented to railroad
companies or certified to states, or
claimed by states or corporations,
which were not earned by construc-
ton under the terms of the respective
granting acts, prior to the explana-
ton thereof. Mr.. Holman estimates
the amount of land to be recovered
by his bill at from 100000 to no.
100000 acres. One provision of the
bill declares the forfeiture of all that
portion of the Northern Pacific Rail-
road grant not earned 10y construction
prior to July 4th, 1880, estimated at
100000 acres. The bill also applies
t F., number of other grants, among
nem those to the Texas and Pacific,
.he New Orleans and Pacific and the
st. Louis and San Francisco compa-
MES.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-12-20

A sUFFICTANT objection to Mr..
Blaine's scheme for the distribution
of the proceeds of the whisky tax is
that such distribution will. on account
of the consequent reduction of the
federal revenues, make it imprac-
ticable to lower the import taxes. An
other 'ction is, that the United
States government has no authority
to tax the people for the benefit of the
states. This is beyond the functions
of the federal government, and it is
too .'paternal' to meet with favor
among Americans who desire the per-
petuation of this union of states.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-12-20
The rubber industry of the United

Inc rubber industry OF the United
States has 10 rival in foreign coun-
tries. There is something like $75.-
100000 invested in the business of
manufacturing rubber goods, S3000G,-
600 of which is confined TO the rubber
boot and shoe industry. The total
number of employees is placed at 49,
000. and the total number of factories
at 120. According to a recent census
bulletin the value of the annual pro-
duct is $25O,Oo0,0O0. Some 10000 tons
of raw rubber are imported every
year, which, when combined with
other materials in manufacturing
amount to 100000. The market price
of the raw materials has been forced
up to Sl.25 per pound, while SIX years
ago the price was scarcely fifty cents.
In consequence OF the advance in
price, several substances have been
prepared as substitutes for it, of which
ceI!uloid is the most important.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-12-20

A STRONG point made by the comp
troller, in his admirable report, is the
suggestion that the appropriation
year and the fiscal year be made one
and the same. AS it is. the fiscal year
begins September 1, while the appro
priation year begins March l. To
make the two years begin and end
with each other would greatly SIM
plify accounts. 1t is suggested that
the nineteenth legislature. at its regu-
lar session, in 1885, make special APP
Preparations to last until September 1,
1885, and another to last for the two
years thereafter.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-12-20

IT Is amusing to see how those
newspapers that labored against Mr.
Carlisle are trying to catch up. Some
Of them. however, do not engage thus
amusingly, but discuss the coming
comet, or the war in Tonquin. or some
such d slant theme, that leads them
far away.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-12-20

IT having been proposed to give the
United States marshals ard district
attorneys fixed salary, it is suggest
ed that it would be a good plan to
give the United States commissioners,
in the South, salary in inverse Pro-
portion to the number of cases that
come before them. 1t would put an
end to vexatious arrests.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-12-20
Reduced to One.
New York WOrIdI

The Independent party Of the
House, which is composed Of Col.
Tom Ochiltree, Of Texas, started off
well by ignoring both Carlisle and
Kieter. The full vote of the party
was cast for Mr.. Wadsworth, of New
York, for speaker. 1t is evident
that the Independent party in
tends to purse a lofty, non-partisan
course. It may have some trouble in
caucussing when measures come up
that have "bones" in them, but we are
disposed to trust to the patriotic i'm
pulses and the pure unselfishIess of
Col. Ochiltree, especially in all cases
in which Texas has no direct interest.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-12-20

THE tobacco dealers had promise,
made by Congress last winter, that
there should be lebate on all I'M
broken packages of tobacco on which
the duty had been paid. Congress,
however, failed to make an appropri-
alton for this purpose, and conse-
quentIy this rebate has accumulated
until it is said that an appropriation
of $3,500,000 will be required by the
new Congress to carry out the intent
of the statute.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-12-20

4 Ew YORK judge has refused to
enforce the law prohibiting the sale
of adu.erated tea. The tea had been
mixed with some foreign substance,
but it was not poisonous, and so the
court held that it could be lawfully
sold. That judge has beyond a doubt
disqualified hi q for acting in a jul
dicial capacity