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The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-08-09
FOREIGN FACTS.
EpitOme of Events Across the
Water.

FRENCH PAINTER DEAD,
PARIS, August A. Pierre Augusta Cot, the
French painter is dead.
DEATHS AT ALEXANDRIA.
ALEXANDRIA, August Alive deaths from
cholera occurred here yesterday
SENDING ASSISTANCE
SIAILA August 1.-The Indian government
will send to Egypt seven doctors and four as
SiStantS.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-08-09

In the southern part of Louisiana
many plantations will yield this year
one and a half hogsheads of sugar per
acre.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-08-09
Noted THURMAN Dead.
Saratoga Races.

PROVIDENCE, August Milton S. Sandford
turfman of New York, died at Newport last
evening.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-08-09

tTMore Brown Gins have been sold during the past
four seasons than any other two makes combinedj
N. B. Our manufacturing and shipping facilities
unequalled Full descriptive circular with hun
dreds Of planters testimonials sent on application
Correspondence Solicited, address,
BROWN COTTON GIN Co., New London, CT.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-08-09
Notice of Dissolution.

VNTIE PARTNERSHIP HERETOFORE eX-
l. isting between William +. Castles and r.
A. Chadwick, under the firm name of Castles
& Chadwick, insurance agents, is dissolved by
the death of Mr.. Castles.
The undersigned, as surviving partner, will
give his personal attention to the liquidation
of the affairs of the late firm. All bills due
the late firm will be paid to him, and he will
settle all the liabilities.
r. A. CHADWICK,
Surviving partner of Castles & Chadwick.
Austin, Tex, August !. 1883.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-08-09

Rev. DIR. Kittredge, of Chicago, be-
lieves that in fifty years there will
be 100000 converts in China, Japan
and Persia.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-08-09
THE TBLEGRAPHIc TURMOIL.
Said to be at a StandstilI.
AT NEW YORK.

NEW YORK, August mo new develop
ments in the telegraph war to-day. Both sides
are still firm.
,. III. Grant. the new comptroller, gave bonds
in the sum of 100000 to-day and entered upon
his duties
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-08-09

MELBOURNE, August 4.-Laycock, the Aus
tralian Sculler, has issued a challenge to Hanlo
to row race for the championship of the wOrl
$1,000 aside.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-08-09
MORRIS PETITION.

To the County Commissioners of Travis
We very respectfully recommend to you, for
appointment to the place of County Attorney,
Mr.. F. q. Morris.
acted in that capacity i'll assistance to Mr.
Moore for several years.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-08-09

CINCINNATI, August 4.-0ne of the striking
operators returned to his desk in the Western
Union offices to-day.
STILL MORE OF THEM.
NV YORK. August 4.-This vening Chair
had been presented to-day to the officers of
the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western rail-
way by tele raphers employed on that road.
ana that bills Of grievances would also be pre-
sented to-day by the telegrapherS employed by
roads leading out of Chicago. Mitchell said
he thought that the telegraphers III the EN-
plOy of the Chicago and Alton railroad
would strike this evening.
ON THE MEXICAN NATIONAL.
CITY OF MENICo, August 4.-Places of the
striking operators on the Mexican National
railroad have been filed and trains are run
ming regularly,
THE STATE OF AFFAIRS TO DATE.
CHICAGO, August 4.-The following bulletin
respecting the situation of the strike was re-
ceived here this evening:
NEW YORK, August 4.--R, e. Clowry, Cen
eral SUPERINTENDENT; This week closes with
our force largely increased, and our service
greatly improved oyer the previous week the
past two days having reached almost perfee-
ton. The strikers are discOmfitted by the
daily recurring denialS of absurd stories put
afioat by. their leaders to give them
heart and hold them together. They find that
least TO which they were invited is supplied
go out. THU ty-hve operators did not desert tie
New York office, Gen. Eskert did not resign
the Weste II Union directors did not disagree,
ana last OF all, they would not confer and
compromise. Comment upon the inevitable
result Is unnecessary. HAS. A. TINKER.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-08-09
THE FRANCO-CHINEsE AFFAIR.

LONDON, August ga dispatch from Paris
says Chalmetre LacOur, minister of foreign
Using, tue Chinese ambassador, and it is re-
ported the former demanded withdrawal of
Chinese troops from the Tonquin frontier.
The amount of bullion gone into the bank of
England TODAY was $1,000
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-08-09
AT CINCINNATI.
STILL MORE OF THEM.

CINCINNATI, August 4.-0ne of the striking
operators returned to his desk in the Western
Union offices to-day.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-08-09
GREAT EXCITENIENT IN HuNGARY.

LONDON, August 4.-There is great excite
ment in Hungary over the trial of the Jews for
the murder of Esther Solymosi. At Presburg a
mob of Anti-Semitics gathered and became so
hostile in their demonstrations against the
Jews that the authorities were compelled to
order out the military to dispense them
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1883-09-06
FIRES AND CASUALTIES.

A COLoRED boy threw himself before
a rapidly-moving train at London, Ohio,
and was instantly killed
FLAMES appeared in a tank at the
South Brooklyn Oil-works, and pro-
ed, together with the sulphur-wOrks of
Daniel Gray, the loss being $S5, 900.
A VEGETABLE canning factory at Clin-
ton, Iowa, which commenced operations
recently, was destroyed by fire, with a
loss of $4,000.
A LOSS of 100000 was incurred at Du-
buque by the burning of the offices of
the Diamond Joe line of steamers. A
square of business houses at Petersburg,
Indiana, valued at $4,000, was swept
away.
ELEVEN victims of the cyclone at Ro-
chester, Minnesota, were buried at Oak
wood cemetery, in the presence of three
thousand persons. A freak of the wind
was the driving of pine board through
the trunk Of a maple tree.
IN the vicinity of East Tawas, Mich.
forest fires are encroaching on farm
lands, and heavy losses through the de-
struCtiOn of crops and fences have al
ready been sustained.
NEAR Wabash, Ind, early Saturday
morning the detached sections of a
freight train collided, wrecking many
cars which were loaded with wheat, re-
sultins in heavy loss.
A PORTION of the Milwaukee, Lake
Shore and Western shops, at Manito-
voc, Wis, and three locomotives, two
tenders and a coach were burned Satur-
day. Loss $4,000.
AN officer of the coast survey at San
Francisco, reports earthquake waves a
foot in height on Monday and Tuesday,
simultaneously with the terrible destruc-
ton in Java.
WHILE an excursion train was going
at the rate of thirty miles an hour, near
Scranton, Pennsylvania, a boy named
John Kerrigan was put off for having
no ticket He fell under the wheels and
was instantly killed.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1883-09-06
FOREIGN.

DEATHS from yellow fever in Havana
last week numbered 80.
THE king of Denmark is entertaining
the car and czarina of Russia, the king
of Greece, and the princess of Wales.
AN embassy of two ENJOYS and six at
taches is on its way from COrea to San
Francisco.
THE British government cOnfeSSes its
fear that trouble will result from the ar
rival of O'Donnell, as several Irish
Americans have recently made their ap-
pearance.
THE French Government has inform
ed the British Foreign Secretary that
Missionary Shaw was arrested in NADIA
gascar as Hova dignitary and not as a
British subject.
The vreiew of the guards at Berlin,
Wednesday, was a dazzling spectacle.
/ The emperor spent three hours in the
saddle and was entertained at dinner by
$50 generals and staff officers.
AT a meeting of the Irish National
league in Dublin, Parnen stated that
most of the English members of the
/ house of commons, concede that home
rule is necessary for Ireland.
/ THE United States consul general at
! ConStantinOple, with cholera almost star
ing him in the face, pictures the ditch
draining into the Golden Horn, making
of it a stream which nearly equals Chi
/ cage river in its inky horror.
The Shapiro manuscripts, purporting
/ to be ancient copies, on skeep-skin, of
! the Ten Commandments, discovered
among nomads in the Arabian desert,
are said to be forgeries by eminent Eu-
ropean archaeologists called upon to ex-
! anime them.
EGERsZEG and three other Hungarian
! towns have been the scene of bloody
outbreaks against the Jews. Two thou
sand armed peasants participated, and
fought the troops without finching. In
a similar riot at Ekaterinoslay, Russia,
346 houses were sacked and plundered.
The residences of eighty Hebrews at
Berchadi were fired and pillaged, and
the victims are suffering greatly.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1883-09-06
LATEST TELEGRAMS.
WA SHiECTON.

PLANS have been completed at Wash
ington for a silver vault for the New
mint with storage capacity of $50, 000,-
600.
A DUEL was fought near VaGdalia, IL
linois, by Louis Phillips and Jacob Ros-
enbroOk. Each fired but once. The lat
ter was killed instantly; the former lived
only four hours.
THE lady members of the Pennsylva-
MIA board of charities pronounce the jail
at Pittsburgh a chamber Of horrors, with
cells lighted only by grated doors.
WITHIN sixty days no less than TWEEN
ty-five artesian wells have been sunk in
Denver, each Of which is flowing pure
water. Their average depth is 325 feet.
A WASHINGTON correspondent has it
that Col Geo. B. Corkhill, United States
District Attorney at Washington, who
is a widOwer, is soon to be married to
Clara Louise kellogg, who is aged 40
and worth a quarter Of a million dol
lars.
IN an exciting twenty mile bicycle
race at Washington, Friday, I'll. w.
Higham, the English champion, won in
1 hour minutes 90 seconds: John S.
Prince, of Boston second; O. j. Young,
third.
DURING the last fiscal year $1,000 ap-
pications for pensions were disposed of
by the Pension Bureau. Commissioner
Dudley says the office handled every
case brought before it. All applications
were passed. rejected, or additional evil
dencs required, SO no case was left un-
touched.
THE treasury department denies the
recent story about the continuous de-
structiOn of stills in South Carolina for
a government reward Of $500. For the
past five years the treasury has given
nothing for the service named, but col
lectOrs are still allowed to pay small
amounts for information leading to the
capture of mOonshiners and the destruc-
ton of their works.
The Treasury Department isreceiving
daily called bonds, bearing assignments
witnessed by cashiers or presidents Of
National banks, but not verified by
the banks seal. Heretofore the sigma
lures of bank officers has been certified
by Treasury officials after comparison
with the signatures on file in the office
of the Comptroller of the Currency and
known to be genuine. 1t has been de-
cided, however, this practice involves
too much risk, and hereafter when the
seal of a bank is missing the bonds will
be returned to the SenderS
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1883-09-06
4 Railroad Ghost.

An Amsterdam On. " telegram
says; Excitement runs high at Cana
joharie, owing to the nightly appear
ance of a ghostly, mysterious light
along the Central railroad track The
light starts from the old fort, and is
at first very small. It gradually in
creases in size, and goes down the
railroad track about three feet from
the ground. The night watchmen say
that a hand can be distinguished about
it. Sometimes the light goes bounding
down the track, and again rises thirty
feet in the air. Several trains, includ-
ing the Atlantic express, have been
stopped by the light, believing it to be
a danger-signal. 1t appears about
1870 P. NJ, just before the arrival of
the fast mail.
Fifty persons lay in ambush in the
vicinity recently in hopes of ferreting
out the matter, but the light did not
appear, but the night Waterman and
others vouch for the truth of its APP
pearance. Usually Railroad men are
filled with fear and superstition, and
dread to approach the spot at night.
Some say it is a forewarning of a
railroad horror to be enacted IN the
vicinity.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1883-09-06
GRIN e.

BURGLARS chloroformed a man and
his wife at Greencastle, Indiana. and Sc
cured watches and diamonds worth 81 :
000
GRACE CORTLAND, known as the
(Which of Wall street." has broT1oht.
suit at Milwaukee, to force her former
husband to pay 81, 500 alimony awarded
in a divorce suit.
WHEN the circuit court convened at
Grand Haven, Mich, it learned that five
prisoners had just released themselves
by cutting through the floor and foun-
dations of the jail.
A SALOON-KEEPER of st. Louis. named
Lemp, was acquitted Of the charge of
violating the Downing law. Judge
Noonan holding that the act of 1857
Overrides the Downing statute.
A NUMBER of masked men at Park
City, Utah. stopped a train and forced
from jail man named Jack Murphy
and hanged him to telegraph pole
ISAAC III. LOCKWOOD, of New Haven.
was found guilty Of using the mails for
fraudulent purposes. He was taken to
the Connecticut penitentiary for a year,
and is represented as completely over
come by the verdict.
ATTEMPTS were made at two places
near Knoxville, to wreck the fast ex-
press train on the East Tennessee road,
by chainingr rails across the track. There
We're $50 passengers on board, and the
speed was fully forty-five miles an hour.
The engineer checked up in time to
break the chains gently and clear the
rail
S. A. NORTHAWAY, of Jefferson, Ohio,
who was once q contestant for General
Garfeld's seat in congress, and leading
lawyer, churchman, and Mason, has
been arrested for embezzling $50 900 of
the funds Of the Second National bank,
Of which he was president. The cashier
S. T. Fuller, who has just returned from
Canada, and his assistant, Henry L. ST.
John, have hitherto been held wholly
responsible for the abstraction of funds,
and gave bail to answer.
NEA South Pittsburgh, Tenn, where
convicts work in the Inman ore mines,
a mutuny occurred led by a man named
Black. The revolt was suppressed, and
Blach was logged for the part he took
in the affair. He refused to work again,
and made an assault on the guard, who
shot him in the knee. Black was then
placed under the influence of chloro-
form, and his leg was amputated, but
when they tried to revive him they
found he was dead.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1883-09-06

A NUMBER of influential railroad
men propose to build an airline road
from La Crosse, Wis, southwest,
making either st. Joseph or Kansas
City the southwestern terminus. The
road is partially surveyed and some
right of way granted. The road will
be 425 miles long, and $50 of this will
traverse Iowa. 1t is thought this is a
move of the Canada Pacific, to secure
an inroad to the great coallands of the
Southwest. Capital stock is $50, 0OO,-
900, 81, 900, 900 of bonds.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1883-09-06
FIOriGa's Story.
From the Florida Times Union, August p.

From the Florida Times Union August u.
DIR. L. R. Quackenbush, our port
physician, while out fishing with an
ordinary bass line, off Mayport, day
or two ago, had quite a lively fight
with an immense sawfish. The fish,
after taking the line, at once made
violent resistance, but the Doctor,
after playing it about a half an hour,
succeeded in drawing it up to the
boat, where it was security fastened
and towed ashore The fish proved
to be sixteen feet in length, and be
fore it would consent to be taken
knocked a portion of the stern of the
boat out
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1883-09-06

THE cause of malarial fever at Rye
Beach, n. H., and vicinity, is trace
able directly to the water of a well adj
jacentto the cottage occupied by Mr.
Lewis, who died the other day The
well was sunk near the base of a
hill, while a cesspool for the reception
of refuge was located higher up the
same hill. The we'll water is now very
offensive. Two Summer residents
have died and another is not expected
to live.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1883-09-06

THE New York Journal says that
in the Vanderbilt mansion uptown a
whole suite Of apartments is being
prepared for the use of Henry Irving,
the actor, when he reaches New York.
Mr.. Irving's sitting room will front
on Fifth avenue, and he will have a
study, a toilet-room and bedroom.
A large mirror has been purchased es-
pecially for his use, that he may study
and pose before it. This was one of
his requests to Mr.. Vanderbilt, who
will do all in his power to make ii
pleasant for the guest
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1883-09-06
DISAPPOINTED EXCURSI0NISTS
Points ofInterest Which they Expect
ed to See in Detroit.
From the Detroit Free Press.

Among the eXcursionlstS yesterday
was fat man encased IN an immense
linen buster, accompanied by a
scared-looking wife whose weight
would not have balanced 100 pounds
AS they came up Jefferson avenue,
the man wiping off his heated brow
and limping on his sore corn, they
turned into q store and the fat man
said:
1--WE are eXcursionists. We have
come to view the points of interest in
your city. Can you direct me to the
State House,"
1--WE have no State House here, sir.
Lansing is the capital you know"
"Ah! so she is-of course, Wife,
why didn't we go to Lansing? | eX-
pected some such trickery all the way
in. Well, we want to go to the NOR
cue and see the dead bodies"
There are no dead in there now"
'No! Wife, what do you say to
that. If that isn't downright robbery
on us then I'd like to know! Where
is the grand aquarium?"
81 guess it's downin Lake Erie"
"You have no public aquarium
Wife how does that strike you after
coming eighty miles," Maybe you can
put up with it, but [ WON'T"
May be they have catacombs here?"
she tremblingly suggested,
mo, ma'am."
mo! of course not" growled the
old bear Not catacomb in the
city, and we expected to see at least
forty. My whole country shall hear
of this swindlen'
Il suppose there are no mountains
around here?" she required.
mo, ma'a
"Just as [ expected! blurted her
husband as he mopped his red face
again. They haven't got a noun
tain, precipice or avalanche i'll the
whole town! Mary, we've been out
rageously swindledw
There might be some grand ruins,
Richard"
"Idon't believe it,"
NO. ma'am, All the ruins we
have at present are undergoing need
ed improvements, and wont be in run
ming order for sixty days"
Didn't [ tell you so, Mary | knew
the minute we landed that they hadn't
a consarned ruin in their old town
Let's go home"
The Cooper Institute isn't here, is
it?' she asked, as she rose up.
mo, ma am"
"Just as I expected-just exactly"
roared the enraged lion. when
you wokeme up at2 o'clock this morn
ing and said we must not forget the
Cooper Institute | knew you was pre-
pairing a disappointment for yourself.
Come onr'
eve have a beautiful river" sug-
gested the citizen.
rs it the Bosphorus?" she asked.
mo, ma am"
mo! of course not-come along !!
We've been cheated and tricked and
swindled and mopped in the gutter !
The Pyramids amt here, they havn't
got no volcanoes, and I'll bet a hat
agin ten cents they never had an
earthquake! Well go back to the
depot! We hain't rich, but we know
when we are swindledr'
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1883-09-06
SQUIBS.

City boarder to farm hand: why
does that odd-looking fowl make that
curious noise?' THAT rooster that
just crowed? Oh, that's Jest way he
has ma'am of signifyin' that he's a
high flyer from up the creek and can
lick all creation, and he's happy be-
cause he amt old enough by eleven
years to make pot-pie for summer
boarders.
Two bellies while walking out the
other day came to ditch near the
railroad grade at Montclair, which
they did not know how to get over.
Seeing a young man coming along the
road they appealed to him for help,
whereupon he pointed behind them
with startled air and yelled out
Snakes" The way those girls cross
ed that ditch was a sight to behold,
and the young man lives.
Abram Nave, the veteran grocer of
St. Joseph, Mo, who IS s. years of
age and IS worth fully s., 600, 600, has
fled a bill for divorce from lady
who was a young widow in Mississip-
pl eight years ago. He alleges abuse
of himself and his children, and ex-
travagance of the most reckless sort.
Sophronia: Certainly, slang is al
ways Objectionable Instead of saying
"a dead give away" we should adj
wise you to say a post-humous dona-
ton.
Emory's L tile Chathartic is the best
and only reliable liver pill known,
never fails with the most obstinate
cases, purely vegetables cents.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1883-09-06

examination will be made. The off
GERS of the steamer do not believe any
more bodies will be found in it. But
there is no certainty that this belief
is well founded. The engin-
eer, Edward Tallman, who escaped
with bruises, said he could not explain
the cause of the accident by anything
whatever. The boilers We're new four
years ago, when the boat was entirely
rebuilt and refitted.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1883-09-06

The Duke of Richmond has issued
an order to his English tenants prohi-
biting all widows renting any part of
his estates from marrying, without
first obtaining his consent, under pen
atty of FORGETTING their holdings
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1883-09-06

The people of Schuyler and adjoin-
ing counties in Illinois are greatly ex-
cited in consequence of the appearance
there Of a protesting new religious
sect, which is said to be guilty of dis
gustingly immoral practices.