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The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-05-03
Summing Up the Evidence.
Galveston Print. |


1t is to be deplored that Gov. Ire
land should allow himself to display
the evidences OF so despotic temper,
and worse, to speak and act in a man
ner so Oblivious of the real facts OF
the case. Col. Brown makes applica-
ton to him, as president of the peni-
Tertiary board, for the position OF
financial manager of the peniten-
tiaries. Gov. Ireland replies that his
application comes too late, that the
appointment has been already ten
dered to another gentleman. Col.
Brown, in his reply, states that
the board, as such, has taken
no action in the matter. and,
therefore, that the governors as
sertion is not correct, unless
indeed, John Ireland composes the
board. Since it pleased the legisla-
ture, having in view such very cases
as this, to appoint a special peniten-
tiary board, of which the governor
should be president eX-officio, it would
follow that each member of the board,
so far from being dummy, holds CO.
ordinate rights and powers, and, ex.
cept the privilege of presiding at the
meetings, are precisely equal Gnclud-
ing the governor) the one to the other.
As the board, in its collective and
official capacity, had taken no action
in the premises, Gov. Ireland, by as
suming to speak for the board, was
guilty either of a piece OF unwar-
ranted and consummate egOtiSn, or
said what was not true.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-05-03
EDITORIAL NOTES,

King Louis, of Bavaria, has always
been regarded are a harmless lunatic,
but since the death of his friend Wag-
ner his lunacy has taken the form of
positive cruelty to his subjects. He
has just ordained that henceforth the
Royal Opera at Munich shall be de-
voted exclusively to the representa-
ton of Wagner's operas, all of which
are to be performed there in success
ion. Think what fate this is for the
amiable, music loving, mirth-loving
people of Munich, doomed to listen to
the Wagnerian drama all their days.
RebelliouS revolutions have arisen on
much less cause, and deSpots have
been done to death for acts of cruelty
that were benignity itself compared
with this. Wagner himself might have
written an opera on this subject more
solemn even than ''The Flying Dutch
man." that is, if he had had any sense
OF humor.
The London Spectator says: "There
is something very touching and
mother-like in the frankness with
which the queen, through the Court
Circular, asks her people to SYM
pathize in the grief she feels for the
loss OF devoted attendant. We Won
der how many of her subjects ever
reflect on the pathetic element in the
queens present position. There is no
one living who could address her by
her Christian name, or, indeed, on any
terms of equality, while all her chill
dren but one are married, scattered,
in business and households of their
own. tits lonely peak to sit on, at the
top of the world, and as age draws on
the sovereign, who already has reigned
so long that men passing middle
age have consciously known no other,
must feel this more and more pain
fully, with sadness which the move
ment of the world does not diminish.
We are no devotees of monarchy,
grayely holding self-government to
be more educative and more dignified,
but there has never been in history a
reign like that of Queen Victoria,
who, surrounded by an impenetrable
etiquette, breaks it to tell her people
that devotion, even in the humblest
of followers, has reused in her real
friendship Republicanism in Eng
land sleeps and will sleep while the
queen reigns. Is there not in that
mere truism sufficient biography %
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-05-03
The Prophet ROnOreS in His Own
Country, Even in His own

The honest, simple narrative of Mrs. S. j..
Whip, who resides at No. III William street,
Providence, r. l.:
During the past six or seven years I
have been severely afflicted with Kidney dis
ease, causing intense backaches, dizziness.
and other severe pains through my body and
limbs, rendering me so weak and PROSTATE
that at times it was impossible for me to do
any part of my house work. Ihave had also a
fluttering of the heart, and was terribly dis
tressed for breath. 1 was very miserable, and
completely worn out and discouraged; 1 had
no ambition to undertake to do anything, and
barely sufficient strength to render existence
desirable, having failed to find any relief
from the doctors prescriptions. AT this try
ing crisis friend persuaded me to obtain a
bottle of Hunts Remedy, and now rejoice
that L followed this friendly advice, for the
Remedy acted like charm in my case. After
/ had taken few doses, my health began to
improve; felt better every way. The flutter-
ing of the heart, the intense backaches, and
terrible shortness of the breath speedily dis
appeared, my strength and ambition soon re-
turned, and before had taken TWO bottles of
the Remedy was entirely well, and able to
wash and iron and do my house work. Once
in a while am troubled with the headache,
and as soon as l am taken l resort to Hunts
Remedy, and a few doses fix me all right. 1
shall never be without it in the future have
frequently recommended the Hunts Remedy
to my friends, and they have experienced re-
lief from the first dose. heartily recommend
it to all who are afflicted with Kidney disease
or diseases of the Liver, Bladder, or Urinary
organs. l think no family should be without
it. MRS. S. j. WHIP,
''No. III Williams street. Providence, R. 1.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-05-03
A Hard Witness.
Utica Observer.


"Do you know the prisoner well p"
asked the lawyer.
Never knew him SICK" replied the
witness.
No levity," said the lawyer. stern
~. "NoW, sir, did you ever see the
prisoner at the bar 2"
"Took many drink with him at
the bar"
Cl"Answer my question, sir" yelled
the lawyer. "How long have you
known the prisoner ?"
''From two feet up to five feet ten
inches"
evil the court make the"
IL have, ledge" said the witness,
anticipating the lawyer. Il have
answered the question. knowed the
prisoner when he was boy two feet
long and man five feet ten"
"Your honor"
"It's fact, jedge, I'm under oath"
persisted the witness.
The lawyer arose, placed both hands
on the table in front of him, spread
his legs apart. leaned his body over
the table, and said:-
"Will you tell the court what you
know about this case"
THAT amt his name," replied the
witness.
"What amt his name?"
Cease"
"Who said it was?"
"You did. You wanted to know
what [ knew about this case. His
names Smith"
"YOur honor" howled the attorney,
plucking his beard out by the roots,
"will you make this man answer?"
Witness" said the judge, "you
must answer the questions put to
you"
LAND O. Goshen, jedge, hain't 1
been doing it? Let the blamed cuss
fire away. I'm all ready"
"Then," said the lawyer, "don't beat
about the bush any more. You and
the prisoner have been friends"
Never" promptly responded the
witness.
What Wasn't you summoned
here as a friend?"
No. sir; l was summoned here as
a Presbyterian. He's an old-line Bap-
fist, without a drop of Quaker in
him?"
"Stand down" yelled the lawyer in
disgust.
"Hey?"
"Stand down."
Cant do it. I'll sit down or stand
up"
Sheriff, remove the man from the
box"
Witness retires, muttering: "Well,
if he amt the thick-headedest cuss 1
ever laid eyes on"
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-05-03
A Beautiful Sentiment.

Thackeray once wrote: at is night
now, and here is home. Gathered
under the quiet roof, elders and chill
dren lie, alike at rest. In the midst
of a-great calm the stars look out
from the heavens. The silence is
peopled with the past sorrowful re-
morse for sins and shortcomings,
memories of passionate joys and
griefs rise out of their graves, both
now alike, calm and sad. Eyes, as I
shut mine, look at me that long since
ceased to shine. The town and the
fair landscape sleep under the star
light, wreathed under the autumn
mist. Twinkling among the
houses, a light keeps watch here
and there, in what may be a sick
chamber or two. The clock tolls
sweetly in the silent air. Here is
night and rest. An awful sense of
thanks makes the heart swell and the
head bow, as l pass to my room
through the sleeping house, and L feel
as though hushed. blessing were
upon it."
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-05-03

berths dependent from the sides of
the car near the roof. the weight of
which makes the ordinary sleeping
coach topheavy and easily upset. This
heavy, expensive work is rendered
unnecessary in the new car, which
thus secures an economy in weight of
over 10000 pounds per car. Mr..
Sleicher claims that a passenger can
find more rest and comfort in berth
arranged across the car than in one ex-
tending along its side and receiving
all the conclusion from the wheels
and rails. He has determined to make
safety feature of his coach. The
heater is SO incased in boiler iron that
if the stove were crushed to frag
ments no cinders could be scattered.
The water tank is so arranged that
in case of collision the wrecking of
the Car would scatter water all about
the heater. The cars will be lighted
with large wax candles or with COM
pressed gas.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-05-03

The possibilities of electricity are
apparently boundless, and almost ev-
cry day brings forth some new inYen-
tion for its application to useful pur-
poses. One OF the latest of these is the
portable electric lighter, which is now
manufactured in this city, and which
exhibited at No. % Watershed. This
is in effect a small chemical battery,
occupying space of five square
inches and weighing but five pounds
with all its fittings. By pressing upon
knob the current is produced, a strip
of platinum is heated to incandescence
and light instantaneous. This can be
carried from room to room and placed
upon the desk or the table. AT a slight
additional expense it can be so ar
ranged as to ring an alarm or signal
bell, or to light gas in any part of the
house. The continuance is novel,
simple, convenient and cheap.-[Bos-
ton Courier.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-05-03
|, Koch's Discovery.
New York Times,I


Pathological circles have been cheer
fully given of late to the discussion
OF consumption. Koch's theory of
bacterial causation of tuberculosis
has received a special airing and its
facts and assumptions extensively
criticized. The Importance of
phthisis is best illustrated by the sim
pie fact, shown by mortuary tables,
that by it about one-seventh of man.
kind find their way to death. Its
power of hereditary transmission. its
slow and terrible course, and. its
almost absolute resistance to sci.
enco has made it additionally great.
Still, it was held by the ablest
Of physicians until few years
ago That the malady was not commu-
Gicable, and that attendants on them
talid and persons living in the same
house were free from danger of ac-
sniring the disease. The researches
Koch, however, have startled the
|0Pld by bringing conclusive evidence
that pthisiS is infectious. Not
. only win the dried sputa of consump-
lives produce the disease by inocula-
Hon, but even by contact with the
mucous membranes of the eve. the
nose. and mouth, and it is claimed
upon evidence which cannot be con-
1idered slender that even the
breath of the patient is laden
with the fatal germs which cause the
1 disease. Cohnheim endeavored to dis
I prove koch's experiments with bacilli
f BIZ showing that healthy rabbits were
1tiered SO liable to phthisis by being
Es5i1 the same stalls with other
|,iIH already inOclllated &c To die
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-05-03

culosis was hailed with joy as being
a possible key TO prevention hy
incubation, but as yet he
has failed to secure any
modification of the fatal power
of the germs by isolated propagation
or any other means. On the contra
ry. by leading to the discovery that
the disease is certainly infectious, he
has added to it new terror, for now
a consumptive cannot be regarded as
harmless to his fellow men, and the
consequences cannot but add both to
his sufferings and to the anxiety Of
those who attend him. Meantime,
the vast spread of the malady is ex-
planned, for the very dust of the air
can carry the germs, and one patient
can infect many thousands.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-05-03
personal.

Col. Robert G. Ingerson has taken
cottage at Long Beach for the
season.
Mr.. Pullman has presented the
town of Pullman, Illinois, with a
large library.
Mrs. Lucy Cook Boggs, an aunt of
eX-President Hayes, died at Circle
vile, o., few days ago.
Prince Bismarck owns some 10000
acres, but does not derive much in
come from them. His whole income
is probably $4,000 a year, official
salary included.
Rev. James Freeman Clarke, of
Boston, last week completed his
seventy-fourth year. Physically and
mentally he yet seems as vigorous as
he was thirty years ago.
Professor William E. Cotton, the
state geologist of Tennessee. has
caused stir among the mountaineers
there by the discovery of silver veins
in the Cooke county highlands.
The Vienna Stadt theater company
has presented Edwin Booth with a
silver laurel wreath, composed of
thirty-two leaves, each leaf bearing
the name of member of the
company.
Miss Dorothea Lynde Dix, who is
known in Boston as one of the work
ing philanthropists, is dangerously
i'll. She began her good work when
she was little girl and she is now
eighty years old.
DR.. Oliver Wendell Holmes was
entertained by the Lotos CLUB in New
Y DIRK on Saturday evening. Several
speeches were made, among them
being a response by Joseph Medill, of
the Chicago Tribune.
Two Frenchmen, subjected to indig-
mites by Gen. Butler at New Orleans
during the war, have recovered, re-
spectively, $4,000 and $4,000 from the
United States as balm for their
wounded sensibilities.
Nine. Scalchi, of the MapleSon COM
pany, has been engaged by Abbey to
sing in New York next season, for
| the small compensation of $1,000 per
month. Nine. Scalchi thinks Mr..
Abbey is a very nice young man."
Mr.. Goodloe Yancey, son of the late
VIM. L. Yancey, resides at Athens,
Georgia, and is spoken of as young
man of extraordinary promise. The
Augusta Chronicle predicts for him d
most honorable record in the history
of the state.
Miss Dorothea Lynde Dix, a work
ing philanthropist, whose fame is
continental, is dangerously i'll at heI
home in Boston. She began charit-
able work when young girl, and has
continued it through all her eighty
years of life.
James Lick left $4,000 to estab.
Iish and maintain free baths in San
Francisco. One of the trustees, DR.
Stillman, now proposes to increase
the fund by popular subscription to
$250OO0 and to erect saltwater baths
large enough for the accommodation
of the whole city.
Two pairs of feminine eyes play a
part in the star route trial. "The two
ladies, whose striking beauty makes
them the subject of much remark "
writes the Washington correspond
ent of the Baltimore Sun, "show con-
slant interest in every feature of the
trial, and their patient and unt1ring
watchfulneSs can be noted by judge
jury, counsel and spectators. They
are sisters, born in Arkansas one is
| the wife of Ex-senator Dorsey, the
other the widow of Peck, who was
indicted with Dorsey"
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-05-03
MISCELLANEOUS MATTERS.

The National Colored Press associa-
ton, which will meet in st. Louis on
the 18th of July, will be attended by
representatives of 175 newspapers.
The delegates will be banqueted and
otherwise Hospitality entertained.
The new married Woman's Prop
erty Act" in England encourages
Il woman to lend money to anybody
except her husband. 1t enables her
to sue him and to be witness against
him. 1t also renders her liable to
maintain both her husband and her
children.
The governor and comptroller of
New Jersey have decided that they
will not pay the personal expenses of
the various special committees ap-
pointed by the last legislature. whose
members probably expected to, as the
committees of preceding legislatures
had done. carry on their Investigations
in junketing way at the seaside and
other resorts.
During the first nine months of the
current fiscal year the internal reve-
nue. receipts amounted to sos. 1925, 1913,
an increase of 2.551 1893 over the cor
responding period of the last fiscal
year. From the first to the thirteenth of
April, 1882, the receipts aggregated
$4,610, 1924, and from the first to the
thirteenth of April, 1883, 81, 164 ,407, a
decrease of $448, 517, making an actual
increase of $2,1O2,881.
A German exchange furnishes the
following figures of the consumption
of champagne in the chief countries
of the world: England heads the
list, drinking 100000 of bottles a
year; the Unit, d States, Canada and
Mexico consuming 100000; France,
2,5OOOO0; Russia, 100000; Germany,
100000; Holland, 100000; Italy and
Belgium, 100000 each; Spain, 100000,
and Africa, 100000 bottles. We are
to presume that the champagne afore-
said was genuine.
Northampton has been the chief
seat of English shoemaking ever
since the days of Magma Charta John,
who was himself shod there, as an
ancient record shows. The spirit of
the redoubtable barons sJill bears
fruit in the radical politics of the
place, which to-day sends Jabouchere
and Bradlaugh to parliament, and
which, when Cromwell's army
marched through it, furnished the
soldiers with 10000 pairs of shoes.
More than 10000 persons are now EN-
ployed there in the shoe trade.
O'Donovan Rosa has figured out
the 'cost of burning London" to be
Ell Psi 10d. He calculates that it will
require G12,0O0 to pay the passage
money over and back of 1000 evicted
Irishlnen," and $4,000 is required for
contingent money"-that is, for the
drinks, probably. Rooms would be
taken at 1000 London hotels for one
night at five shillings each, e25O, and
1000 boxes of matches would be re-
quired at Ell l0d. The project would be
to light 1000 beds. How the bed-light-
ers are to get away has not been fig
ured out by Rosa.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-05-03
Chalmers Not a Power.

Especial TO Commercial GaZette.I
Postmaster General Gresham is not
to be numbered among those who be-
lieve in the possibilities of a reorgan-
ization of parties in the south at every
cost. One of his first acts has been to
refuse to recognize the right of Chal-
mers, of Mississippi, to control the
Federal patronage of that state.
Chalmers has succeeded in removing
one or two officials who were not ac-
ceptable to him, and he has now asked
for the removal of Postmaster Ken
non, of Columbus. Action upon this
demand was postponed, owing to
Judge Howe's death, and the first act
of Judge Gresham has been to refuse
to make the removal.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-05-03
A Medical Marvel.

One of the. most remarkable cases
in the history of medicine and sur
gerry is, that of Miss Belle Bryan, of
Battle Ground, this county, who, sew
eral months ago, in a sleighing acct
dent, had quarter of her skull torn
from her head. 1t was horrible &C
cident, and extremely sickening in its
details. A cupful of brains, bone and
matter oozed from her head, and still
she lived, until it was thought her re-
covery was possible. Now the side
of her head is puffed out, and yet her
mind seems clear and she readily I'M
derstands what is said to her. Her
case has attracted widespread inter
est, and is regarded as marvellous.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-05-03
That Texas Lie.
LCnurier.Iournal.I

At Williams Ranch, Texas, a mann
moth meteor fell upon the house OF
N. Garcia, killing him, his wife and
five children. 1t covered an acre of
ground and is still steaming." AS a
sample spring lie, gigantic and unnec-
essary, this will pass. 1t will hardly
be news to add that that timid and
instantaneous liar, Joe Mulhattan,
late of Kentucky, is making Texas
feel natural in the absence OF Con-
gresham Tom Ochiltree.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-05-03
Every Man His Own Boss,
How to Promote Personal POwer-A
New Radical RefOrmer

II
New Radical RefOrmer.
There is no provision in the Divine econo-
my for political bossesl''
With bang of his fist, and in the voice of a
man who had made up his mind Oh the subject,
Rev. James Chambers, of Calvary Presby-
terrain church, Harlem, recently opened his
sermon with this announcement. He was
right. The only boss authorized by the Book
is mentioned in these words: HE who ruleth
his own spirit is greater than he who taketh a
city"
Commonly, the better side of men is subject
10 the despotism of the worse side. Bad pas
slOns, bad humors, mean jealousies and base
revenges are all bosses. One of the worst of
posses is bile. What is most depressing in
philosophical or theological thought is due to
II. Old General Debility is another tyrannical
boss. He lasheS men who are naturally good
until they become naturally bad or miserably
Concerning the deIiverance from this bond
age, Rev. ): L. Lewis. pastor of the Eighth
Street Baptist church, st. Louis, Missouri,
writes: Il was suffering from exhaustion and
general debility. As an invigOrant / used
fARKERS GINGER TONIC. never met with
anything so effective. 1t is an elegant family
go on my annual vacations"
PARKER'S GINGER TONIC neither intoXi-
Gates nor promotes desire for strong drinks
The most pronounced temperance people use
and praise 1t for this reason alone. 1t cures
Malarlal Fevers, Consumption, rheumatism,
peculiar to women. Its action is prompt and
perVasive. Test it once and you will adopt it
as home remedy. Prices so cents and 81 a
bottle. HlSCOX q CO., Chemists, New York.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-05-03
cTATE OF TEXAS, TRAVIS COUNTY.

Notice is hereby given of the following de-
hands high, branded on the left shoulder
One roam mare, 1SH hands high,
six years old, has on small bell, no brand One
dark bay horse, 1917 hands high, seven years
old, branded on the left thigh ID inside circle
under bar under heart. One brown mare,
eight years old, 141a hands high, count r
branded on the left shoulder j z connected.
One brown horse 141a hands high, about four
teen years old, branded on the left shoulder
N b. One dark bay horse, IA hands high, four
years old, no brand. One roam horse, 14H
hands high, blind in one eye, five years old,
branded on the left shoulder half circle x I'M
der half circle. One bay mare, IA hands high,
ten years old, branded ON the left shoulder
upright bar connected with B. One brown
mare, Il hands high, four years old, no brand.
One sorrel two year old flly, no brand. One
black mare, 10 hands high, about fourteen
years old, branded on the left thigh ID One
bay horse, Is hands high, seven years old,
branded ON the left shoulder G ID under bar.
One blue dun horse, ii hands high, seven years
old, branded on the jaw A, and has Spanish
brand on the left thigh, One two year old SOr-
rel horse colt no brand. One dun mare three
wears oil. branded on the left shoulder bar
under star One bay horse, 151l hands high,
white in face, hind feet white, branded on the
left shoulder in half circle, about eight years
old, shod all round.
Given under my hand at office this 18th day
of April, 1888. ID. G. PACE,
County apr19-w3t
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-05-03
DEPARTMENT OF INSURANCE. }
STATIsT1cs AND HISTORY.
AUSTIN, TEXAS. March o, 1855.
Q an whom it may concern:

This is to certify that the Travellers
Qife and Academy Insurance company, OF
Hartford, Conn, has IN all respects fully
complied with the laws OF Texas, as conditions
precedent to its doing business in this state.
and that said company holds 3 certificate OF
mess 10 this state for twelve months from
the 1st day OF January, 1883, 70 the 5ist day Of
December .1883.
Given under my hand and seal at office In
RI al Austin the day and date ffst above
II. p. BREWSTER Commissioner.
E. r. EggIestan - Co.. Agents, Austin,
Texas. apl6dlt-wst