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The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-07-26

SCANDALS connected with munich
pal school management are getting
common, and are by no means exclu-
ded from Texas. Late exposures
show that in a Cincinnati school
positions have been sold by the board
management for as high as $500,
while in San Francisco school jani-
tor paid as high as $500 for
his place. The beauties of these ex-
pensive systems multiply, showing
that rings secure the highest taxation,
that they may gather their per cent
from the fund. The adoption of the
high tariff amendments to the consti-
tuition of Texas will open a most in
viting field for the misappropriation
of public funds.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-07-26

A COMPANY has been formed to lay
pneumatic tubes between New York
and Chicago, with stations at inter-
vening points. The pipe will be the
ordinary tubular kind, and the entire
line will be made perfectly air-tight,
with brass stations at the intervening
places to be served. The boxes for
the conveyance of messages will be
made from sole leather, with wood
air registers, us used in short pneu-
matte tubes. Engines of twenty
horse power, to drive the air pumps,
will be placed at the termini, and
similar ones at the way stations. 1t
is thought chat such packages can be
sent through the tube, the entire dis
tance, in about four hours. If the
package business works satisfactori-
ly, another tube will be laid for the
purpose of transmitting grain, and it
is estimated that about 100000
bushels could be transported annual
ly. 1t is estimated that during each
period of four hours-that being the
the time given to work the tube for
eastern and western-bound packages
one thousand boxes can be transmit
ted, each earning about 81 in freights
or about $18 during the twenty-four
hours. being an aggregate of $4,000
per day for the line. The cost of op-
Grating it is estimated at only $1155
daily, which includes 300 repairers, fif-
ty station operators and 100 delivery
and collection messengers. The net
earnings can. therefore, reach the
enormous aggregateof $3,OOO,OOOannu-
ally-at least it is thus figured out on
paper. But even allowing very wide
margin for errors and omissions, the
profit of operating the pneumatic
pipeline promises to be very large.
The cost of laying the line will be
something less than $4,000 per mile,
and the entire plant will not exceed
81, ,25O,0O0.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-07-26

UNDER the bid of SS20,OG0 for both
penitentiaries the lessees were to pay
all expenses of management; and
they were to feed and clothe the con-
victs. Under present arrangements
the state is to pay officers and guards
and clothe the convicts. The lessees
have nothing to do with the thousand
convicts hired to planters at $15 per
month. Under the contract made
last year with leSsees these thousand
convictS were to be turned over to
their credit. The state now retains
this very nice revenue, amounting to
about $4,000 per month, out
of which, Of course, ex-
penses are to be deducted.
The present lessees take the peniteL
tiaries with the cOnvictS that may be
worked inside their walls. There
fore, officers and guards, under these
contracts just made, will be confined
to penitentiary walls; and, therefore,
the expense will not be very great,
unless an unnecessary number of
guards be employed. The officers
salaries run up to about $4,000
annually, and the pay of guards can
not be over $4,000 and ought not to be
over $1,000. Taking the maximum of
$4,000, let us estimate that the cloth
ing for the convicts will cost for the
year not exceeding the same sum, and
it will be seen that the state
legislature acted wisely in repudiat-
ing the $4,000 contract. The Rusk
penitentiary, new as it is, has been
disposed of at figure which will pro-
duce more money for the state than
was contemplated in the lease of the
two penitentlaries and all the con-
victs, including those previously hired
for five years to planters.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-07-26

THE Democrats of Baltimore have
adopted a system for holding the pri-
mary elections of the party by which
they hope to prevent theabuses which
have heretofore existed. The lead
ing feature of the plan adopted is the
creation of IN advisory board of nine
supervisors who are to have super
vision over the judges and clerks for
the primaries. The judges and clerks
are to be appointed by the delegates
of the several precincts in the county
convention. After their appointment
list containing their names is to be
kept open for examination and OBJ
lections for twenty days. and the OBJ
jections made to them are to be ju-
dicialiy determined by the super
visors. If there be sufficient reasons
why the judges first appointed should
not be allowed to serve. other Judges
are to disappointed, and in this way
their selection is to be such as to
afford every reasonable guarantee
that they VIII faithfully discharge
their duties. 1t may be well for Balti-
more to make a test of this plan. and
then it is welcome to keep it all to
itself. Primary elections are a hum
hug, and are apt to remain 50 undtr
any system that may be adopted
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-07-26


ONE OF the curiosities of the season
is the bid of Messrs. Handy 81 Allen
for the two Texas penitentiaries.
They proposed to take them for six
years at $4,000 a year, or $4So,OOO
for the term. This bid was made in
face Of the fact that Cunningham 81
Ellis and Morrow, Handy & Co. pro-
posed, last year, to pay the state the
enormous sum of $4,000 per year for
Il lease of fifteen years. Taking even
the rate proposed for six years it
would be found that the bid for tif-
teen years ought to have been 81, ,3OO,-
600, when it was but $3O0,O00. But
the bid of Handy IL Allen was not
so curious rs the ratification of the
lease last year by state officers, and
n OF whit stranger than that state
officers continued to do all in their
power to impose the ruinous fifteen
year lease on the people of Texas.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-07-26

TIE Interior Department, in con-
sequence of damaging exposures
made by Hon. George w. Julian and
other Democrats, has been led to an
explanation; and Mr.. Teller, the pres
ent incumbent. after looking into the
land stealing business, finds that such
rascality has been going on in a small
way for many years, and he boasts
that he has managed to recover land
worth $125,00U His absurd exhibit
appears to be intended to obscure
steals amounting to at least $100,OOO,-
600, which, when all the facts are
made public, will show that the In
terror Department has been a party to
the Stupendous frauds. The high
toned thieves have not been disturbed.
When Congress meets the great land
steals should have prompt attention.
They are vastly more important than
the star route steals.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-07-26
What Butter Will Do.
New York Tribune. Rep. j

If Gen. Butler were governor of
Texas he might perhaps lind legiti-
mate object of attack in the Dallas
county poor farm, the alleged brutal
management OF which is said to be
creating intense excitement and in
dignation. Already there are reports
of man clubbed to death and little
girl beaten with Il fence-rail, not to
mention one death through neglect,
constant cruelty and insufficient food.
An official investigation. with sensa-
tional results, is expected.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-07-26

The brotherhood of Celegraphers
asked the Western Union for an adj
vance Of ID per cent on wages and
less hours of labor. Forty-eight
hours were given for an answer, and
yesterday, the conditions not being
complied with. IA strike of telegraph
ers from one end of the union to
the other was the result.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-07-26

In THE next presidential conN en-
tion there will be S02 votes. and neees-
sary underline majority rule, for NOM
ination iO3 With il full Republican
convention the Southern states will
lave 344 votes in the convention, but
they represent little more than small
factions struggling for place, and can
therefore not he counted on as a
power in the convention. 1t is pre-
dicted that tn Southern votes will be
solid for Grant.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-07-26
TnE pennsylvania RepnbLlcans de

THE Pennsylvania Republicans de
nounee a reduction. of the rates of the
tariff that will interfere with the sys-
tenn of protection to home industry
which has made the manufacturers of
that state the bloated monopolists
that they are and has forced the
whole country to pay tribute for their
support. In relation to state taxation
they declare in favor of "the abolition
of all taxes not required for the ne
cessities of thestate government" and
at the same time demand that the
surplus arising from the excessive
taxes of the national government be
distributed among the states. In
other words, they want to make the
whole country contribute to the relief
of the local burdens of Pennsylvania
by levying a national tax far bey ond
the necessities of the government and
then divide the surplus thus wrung
from the people among the states.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-07-26

IT DEALS in sarcasm when the
Tyler Courier says: Now is the
time for the progressive mem to come
to the front and advocate the adoption
of the constitutional amendments;
and pecially the amendment allow
ing the state. counties and cities to
raise the taxes nearly 100 per cent
higher than the limit as now fixed b y
the constitution
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-07-26

OWING to the fact that water gas,
as well as coal gas, is soon to be in
general use in Austin, it may not be
amiss to know that an analyses of
the two gases by Prof. Remsen, of
Johns Hopkins university. made for
the Brooklyn health department, dis
close the presence of a larger guam
tity of carbonic oxide in water gas
This, the professor says, is not mat
ter of Importance from a sanitary
standpoint. In his judgment both
kinds of gas are equally safe if used
with the same precautions.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-07-26

AT LAST chickens are beginning to
come to the prohibition roost. 1t
must be borne in mind that in the
late fraudulent revision of the tariff
the tax on iron ore was increased to
protect the owners and operators of
mines against the introduction OF for
eign raw material. Previous to the
revision there was an al valorem duty
of 20 per cent on iron ore, while un-
der the revised law it is made to pay
specific duty of seventy-fiye cents
per ton. Under the old law the aver
age duty on ton WAS forty-fve
cents. The increase of duty, there
fore, is 66 per cent. Iron ore is scarce
in the East, and the mills of Penn
sylvania are to-day forced to use ores
imported from Spain and Africa.
The fact puts the manufacturers ut a
disadvantage in competition with the
manufacturers of England and Bel
gium, who pay no tax on raw mate
rials. Producers of American iron
and steel thus handicapped can
not compete in foreign markets
and the cost of their products
is increased to home consumers.
The Philadelphia Record, in COM
menting upon the straits to which the
iron manufacturers are led, says:
The energy and enterprise of our
iron manufacturers in going to Spain
and Africt for ores have been of little
avail to them. AS soon as they began
to import ores from these distant re-
gions il heavy tax was clapped on
them. not for revenue but to enable
the Lake Superior mine owners to
screw up prices against them. When
found to be not quite high enough
that tax was nearly doubled in Il tariff
law impudently proclaimed as ii re-
form of the old system. 1t is said,
too, that ii tariff filled with such
iniquitieS must not be touched or even
agitated for fear of the injury that
might be done to trade. But the poll
ticianS who make such an argument
are much less concerned about the
interests of the trade than about the
effect of tariff agitation on their own
p rSOnal interests. AS the tariff is
in itself an obstruction to the trade
and prosperity of the country its re-
vision is an absolute necessity with
out regard to the fears of politicians
and place-hunters.
Democrats have pledged themselves
to tariff reform, and violation OF
that pledge, made and remade, would
lead to most perfect lack of faith in
party promises 1t would leave the
party without hope for the future.
The Republicans of Pennsylvania
have solemnly declared in their plat
form in favor of distributing the re-
dundant surplus revenue of the Treas
ury among the states. They do not
demand that this surplus shall be re-
duced by abating unnecessary taxes.
But their policy is to maintain taxa
ton in order to obtain this surplus
revenue for distribution. In spite of
the extravaganza, corruption de-
bauchery and oppression that must
be engendeIed in such Il policy, they
frankly declare that they favor it as Il
means of relieving the states from
local taxation and providing them
with fund for education. Two
hundred and fifty representatives in
convention have unanimously de-
clared for this platform, and party
newspapers generally approve it.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-07-26

COUNT TELFNER will connect his
railway, the New York, Texas and
Mexican, with Houston. Houston is
the railroad center of Texas and al
have to acknowledge it.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-07-26

PRINCE BISMARCK, it is stated, is
not at all pleased that Berlin is the
capital df the German empire. lie is
opposed to its arti6ciality, to it's liter
ary, artistic and historic stirility; that
it has no local spirit and no monu-
ments around which are formed the
legends of a people. He prefers one
of the old German cities as a capital
This is all very absurd, when it is
known that Berlin is one of the most
splendid cities of Europe, and the alb
surdity is more apparent when it is
considered that with all this stirility.
Germany has grown greater, with its
present capital, than ever before in it's
centuries of history. Bismarck,
though Il great statesman, is some
what of an old fogy.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-07-26
The Snez Canal.

LONDON, July Is. = At a special
meeting to-day of the London Cham
Der of Commerce. a resolution was
adopted declaring lat the question
of the construction IA parallel canal
canal with the Sd <pal, should be
referred to q royal lission.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-07-26

ARTHUR and L:ncoln is ticket
which is said to find great favor
among Illinois Republicans. 1t is
certainly good enough TO be beaten.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-07-26

AND now. it is said. Prof. Hogg
wants lady teachers Iwho receive
company rejected. This might be
denominatrd a close cooperative ten
dancv
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-07-26

A WAR on American lard has been
begun by the North German Gazette.
A war on lard ought to be waged
right here in Austin, for some most
villainous compounds are sold here
as the pork product.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-07-26

THERE is something mysterious in
the fact that the city council has not
declared the aldermanic seat for the
sixth ward vacant. What does it
mean
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-07-26

WE viii now see in this struggle
between capital and labor whether the
Western Union or the telegraphers
win. How would it do to sell pools
on the result
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-07-26

TIE Richmond Nation says that
the most magnificent crops ever seen
in Texas are now growing in Whar-
ton county.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-07-26

THE people of the sixth ward are
without representation in the city
council. Their former alderman still
holds on to his seat and votes, while
his vote vitiates every measure that
may be carried by his voice The va
caney from the fifth ward, caused
by the death of Mr.. Brueggerhoff,
was not more perfect than is that
for the sixth ward. caused by the
removal from the ward of Mr.. Radkey.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-07-26

ARE the people of Texas prepared
to vote higher taxation?
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-07-26

TIE HIGH license tidal wave has
reached Oregon.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-07-26
EVERYBODY wants to. Know VIII

EVERYBODY wants to know why
the city council tritles so persistently
with the validity of the city govern
ment. Here it has been operating
under defunct charter and repudi-
ating live one; and now it allows IL
man to represent a ward for weeks
after he has ceased to live in it-a
direct violation of the city's char
tered existence, Another city election,
under the new charter, is certainly
very badly eeded, to procure council
men ready to at least enforce charter
RIGHTS.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-07-26

In Greece the proportion of Hitter
ates is very high. In Thebes and
Arcadia only ) per cent of the inhab-
itants can read and write.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-07-26

IMPROVEMENT is the fashion at
Tyler
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-07-26

BURNET, July 1s.-Yesterday evening Mrs.
7. p. Holloway, mother of I. III. Holloway, a
wool and cotton buyer ut this place, was bitten
by a spider and died to-day from the effects of
the bite.
The Presbyterians have about completed
their church, which is one of the handsomest
churches in Western Texas, and they will dedi-
cate it on next Sunday, when the Rev. DR..
Sm0Ot. of Austin, Will Oficiate.
Mr., Haber has moved into his elegant store.
This season will be the greatest for eompe-
tition i'll the cotton business ever known.
There Will be several spinners repre-
sented. which will make Burnet redeem her
Business is good and crop prospects are
splendid.
We expect an immense fall trade, and ar
rangenents to this end are being made daily
DALLAS, July 1s.-Corporal Cantler and Pri-
yate Sears. of company A, and Maj. Bayl0rs,
of the Texas ranger battalion. were in the
city to-day, en- route to Colorado City, to take
charge of Dougherty, who killed Policeman
Wade, at FL Pas0, week ago. DOugherty was
captured at Colorado City Monday.
The Dallas Brown Stockings to-day defeated
the Mckinney base ball club by score j
iwentyeight TO five. There is great interest
taken in the game here tomorrow, between
tue Browns and the Fort Worth club. Betting
IS quite heavy with the Dallas nine slightly
tIlil layOrifeS t.4
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-07-26

DALLAS, July 19.-The Western Union Oper-
atOrs here went with the general strike to-day.
very limited force are at work, and business
is taken at sender's risk. The striking oper
ators are conducting themselves orderly.
The first of a series of five games for North
Texas championship was played here to-day
between the Haymakers, of Fort WIrth, and
the Brown Stockings, of Dallas. Score-Dalias
49, Fort Worth l. The base ball fever in Texas
this season has never been equaled in the
South, and large crowds are attending the
games. The leading clubs of the state are
fine Northern amateur clubs, and efforts will
be made to induce the league and American
association to induce teams to visit the state
after their professional season ends
A special car of the Vandalia line arrived
here to-day with eX-Secretary of the Navy r.
w. Thompson and party. His visit is to see
his son, John W. Thompson, who is in delicate
health, and remove him to some heaIth-seek-
ing resort.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-07-26

MILANo, July 1s.-A Mexican, the dish
the Junction House. had difficulty tonight.
The Mexican struck the negro on the head
with a soup bowl. cutting cash on the left
check three inches i'll length and through to
the teeth. He bled so freely that he would
have died in a few minutes had not Dr. Hud
son arrived at once Deputy Sheriff Carlton
pulled the Mexican i'll few moments after
the fight.
Crops are better in this county than they
have been for several years, and the farmers
are all wearing cheerful faces.
Several of our citizens are attending the pro
bate court at Cameron
From what we can learn prospects are flat
tering for a strike among the telegraph opera
tors of Texas for better wages.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-07-26

PALESTINE, July 1s.-The strike continues
in the Internato onal shops. The ear depart
taken no part in the strike. 1t involves the
machinery, blacksmith and boiler depart
mentS The road officials are paying no atten-
ton to the strikers. The company will not
YIELD and the general opinion is that the
strike VIII tiZZle out in few days. Ever ythng
is qulet-nOt the slightest disturbance. The
men are conducting themselves admirably.
There is no Indication that any other shop on
the road will join in the strike. 4 large num-
Der of men here with homes and families want
to return to work, and will do so soon, in spite
of all precautions to the contrary
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-07-26

HEARNE July 1S.-Dr. X. Nj. Swearngen,
state health officer, passed through tonight on
the International, en- route to Marshall and
Shreveport, to see about quarantine facilities
at tho e poinrS in case of an epidemic i'll New
Orleans. AS it is now fever can come from
New Orleans to Shreveport, thence to Mar
shall, and spread in Texas, as it did i'll 1874,
when Marshall, Calvert, La Grange and other
points were almost decamped by the ScOurge.
DIR. SW aringen will arrange for rigid and eff
cient quarantine, between Texas and New Or
leans, at Shreveport and Marshall in case ot
necessity,
Crop prospects i'll this section were never
better Corn will be raised in abundance for
home consumption and some TO ship, While the
cotton yield will be as large as everknOwn il
the worms do not iniure il. These pests haye
appeared in places, bat prompt application of
poison has prevented much destruction.
MARSHALL, July l9.-About 6 O'Clock this
evening terrible accident occurred, which
cost James Battle his life. He was night caller
in the Texas and Pacific railroad round house,
and was run over by the switch engine. He
was drinking, and just as the engine was back
ing down to where he was he attempted to
cross the track, when the wheels strucS him.
1t cut off both legs, one arm, and mashed his
head into jelly. He has been resident of
our city for over two years, and was generally
a sober man, but occasionally got on Il spree,
and this last one has cost him his life.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-07-26

Letter From the General Superin-
tendent.-Meetings Of Committees
of Both Parties-Feverish Excite
ment.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-07-26

HOUSTON. July 1S.-A great deal of the
county court business is being continued for
the term. AT this mornings Sitting some de-
faults were taken. some cases set aside and
juries called for late this evening.
Beverly GalewOOd, aged nine years. was in
swimming in the bayou near the brick yard
when he got out of his depth and was drowned
His companions, all small boys. ran for assist
ance, but by the time help arrived and the
body recovered, life was extinct.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-07-26

OF Policeman Wade. has certainly been ar
rested at Colorado City, and viii be brought
here tomorrow.
A party just from Toyah, ON the Texas and
Pacific railroad, says that some cowboys got
into a difficulty with the Rangers stationed
there and began shooting. The Rangers
killed and two of the Rangers baCly sounded.
The cowboys left with the avowed intention of
returning with reinforcements and cleaning
out the town. The Rangers have sent for as
siStance, and serious trouble is apprehended.