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The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-11-29

each to us on the 1st day of October,
who were sent to the Rusk peniten-
tiarv. rs we could not place them else
where.
Trusting that you will find my re-
port correct and satisfactory, and
holding myself in readiness at all
times to carry out any suggestions
you may from time to time have to
make for improvement in manage
ment of the financial department of
our penitentiaries, am very respect
fully, your obedient servant,
HAYWOOD BRAHAN,
Financial Ag't, Texas Penitentiaries.
THE NEW CAPITOL,
There has been some disagreement
between the superintendent of con-
struction and architec of the new cap
ito, resulting in the former, Mr.. D. W.
Clark, rendering his resignation. The
disagreement arose from the fact that
Mr.. IClark discovered, what occurred
to him, was an omission in the plans
to provide proper drain pipes from
the water closets of the building to
the main sewer. Mr.. Clark said he
suggested to the commissioners that
the plans had better be examined and
any possible omissions be corrected
before the work advanced. He sug-
gested too, that some improvement
might be made in ventilation. Col.
Meyers, the architect, took exceptions,
and he resigned. Col. Meyers plans
were excellent but no plans were per-
fectly free from omissions which the
progress of the work developed.
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The lInInradn Pool.

DENVER, Nov. 23-The passenger
agents of the Colorado pool this even
ing closed a highly satisfactory meet
ing. While the matters considered
were of no special interest to the,pub-
lie yet the utmost harmony prevailed,
and regarding the rumors rife in the
East of probable disruption of the
Colorado pool, Commissioner Daniels
says, the pool is in no danger. There
is too much money involved and the
prosperity of Colorado is too intimate
ly associated with the pool to make
It's dissolution probable. He admits
that the rate war in the Iowa pool,
which it is rumored will soon be in
augurated, and the present war in
the Utah rates, if long continued, may
eventually disturb rates in Colorado.
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SAN ANTONIO.
peeial to The Statesman. |

p6cldi W 1uc OIdItSIudlll
SAN ANTONIO, Nov. 23-At a meet
ing of the eXcursionists in their
special Pullman car, Laurel" the fol-
lowing premable and resolutions were
unanimously passed:
Whereas, The citizens of Austin
having given our party such a warm
hearted, royal reception during our
visit to their enterprising and beauti-
full city.
Resolved, Our sincere and heartfelt
thanks be rendered to all who SO kind
ly received and so generously enter
tanned us. Their many courtesies
have endeared them to US, and will
cause our memory to dwell pleasantly
on Austin when reverting to our joy
Gus trip through Texas.
Resolved, We are especially indebted
to Maj. John G. Lewis, the genial and
energetic emigration agent of the
Missouri Pacific railway, for his most
successful efforts in providing for our
comfort and entertainment during
our delightful visit.
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YOU CAN GUESS.

There are grottoes in Wicklow, and groves in
Kildare,
And the lovelieSt glens robed with shamrock
in Glare,
Ard in fairy Killarney it's easy to find
Sweet retreats where swain can unburden
his mind;
But of all the dear spots in our emerald isle,
Where verdure and sunshine crown life with a
smile,
there's one boreen love, for twas there ]
confess
first met my fate, what it was you can guess
And twas under the shade of the bordering
trees,
One day grew suddenly weak at the knees
At the thought OF what seemed quite a terrible
task,
And yet it was but short question to ask.
Twas over, and since, night and morning
bless,
The boreen. that heard the soft whisper o.
yves"
And the breezes that toyed with each cluster
ing tress:
And the question was this-but I'm sure YOU
can guess.
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Guards. The princes suite, with
Spanish officials brilliantly uniformed,
followed in six carriages. All along
the route the populace displayed re-
spectful sympathy. Hats were often
raised, and in some places cheers were
given for the prince.
OPINIONS OF THE ENGLISH PRESS.
LONDON, Nov. z3.-The Daily News
says the Khedive must surrender
the idea of attempting to reach Flo
beid, or pursuing an aggressive con-
ilict with Elmahdi. The conquest of
Central Africa is not worth a great
pecuniary cost and a terrible risk of
human life is involved.
The Morning Post is amazed at the
singular short-sightedness exhibited
by England in wishing to with draw
troops from Egypt at such a juncture.
The Standard submits it is quite
clear that this is no time to withdraw
troops from Egypt.
The Daily Telegraph thinks the
British military alone can arrest the
progress of the Elmahdi army.
The Times says it cannot believe
Gladstone will willfully ana blindly
persist in weakening the small British
force now in Egypt.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-11-29

LONDON, Nov. 23.-The Egyptian
government favors sending a strong
force to Khartown for the purpose OF
opening a road between Luakine and
Bentzer, and thus maintaing commu-
nication with KhartoWn.
CAIRO, Nov. 23.-Orders were sent
to the British admiral at East Indian
station to support the Egyptian inter-
est at the Red Sea by gun boats of the
Mediterrean squadron.
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Murdered for Money,

NASHVILLE, Nov. 23.-The Ameri-
car special from Hickma1, Ky ~ gives
der of 6illsman King and wife an old
and respeetcd couple. Their son, Ar
thur, this morning TiiSsitted the house
and found his mother~m a
pool of blood. He gave the alarm
and the neighbors found the father in
the barn covered with shucks and
partly eaten by rats. A German ped
Ter is suspected. The house was rob-
he'd of $1,000.
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Fora Burns Father.

CHICAGO, Nov. 23.-The Inter
Oceans Lincoln, Ills, special says, the
father of the murdered girl, Fora
Burns, arrived this afternoon and had
a lot of tough characters with him.
They left him before reaching here. as
he came alone. He says he came to
bring the authorities letters bearing
on the case, having found the mails
intrusive rthy, but it is generally I'M
derstood that the real object is to con-
suit a clairvoyant. 1t is intimated
that the old mans mind is unbal-
aDopd
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$40 REWARD.

Estrayed from the undersigned the following
described animals, tO-wit: A white mare an0
blueish roam mare colt. The mare is branded
a rocking chair, and the colt with two Ms one
over the other. Also three work mules, abou
from to s years old (; one a blackish, Roman
nose Spanish horse mule branded with four Ms
above each other. The otner two-one a light
bay horse mule and black mare mule, ar
both branded with elongated square, running
out into crook at the lower end.
will give the above reward for the delivery
of all of said animals to me at my ranch IL
Green's prairie, 8 miles west of Bastrop, or will
give SO for the delivery Of the mare and colt
and $40 each for the mules, or either OF them.
JNO. j. MONCUkE.
BastrOp, November 10, 1883. n21-w3t
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The Rain Storm.

ST. LOUIS, Nov. 23.-The latest re-
garding the storm in southeast Mis-
souri, gives the loss in the vicinity of
Piedmont at nearly $4,000. No lives
were lost. The st. Francis and Black
rivers and all the small streams in
that section are very high and the
banks overlooked in numerous places.
Much damage was done to crops and
farm property. The waters are now
subsiding. Railroads in this vicinity
and southern Illinois are in pretty
good shape again, nearly all trains
running regularly.
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The National Cotton Planters Con-
YentiOn.

VICKsBURG, Nov. 23.-The conven-
ton of the National Cotton Planters
association adopted resolutions asking
congress to grant an appropriation
for the Improvement of the Mississip-
pi river and urging congressman to
advocate the erection of leveeS. Hon.
j. Floyd King, congressman from the
Fifth Louisiana district stated that
he would not vote for any candidate
for speaker unless he favored the i'm
provement of the Mississippi river.
A resolution was adopted commend
ing women to membership on the
same basis as men. This is the most
important step in this connection ever
taken in the cotton states. The city
council in New Orleans and the man.
ayers of the worlds cotton and cen
tennial exposition extended formal
invitation for the association to hold
their next annual convention at the
opening of the exposition in New
Orleans.
Resolutions were adopted asking
Congress and the state legislature for
appropriations in aid of the agricul-
tural and mechanical colleges and for
the establishment of experimental
stations in the South also, condem-
natorY of the speculations in futures,
and inviting communications on this
evil for publication.
The New Orleans exposition was
requested to call a peace congress
from all civilized nations at New Or
leans next year.
Resolutions were adopted advising
that more attention be paid to grass
culture and the establishment of fac
tories; endorsing the recently organ
lied Southern immigration associa-
ton, and asking congress to give the
South fair legislation in tariff mat
tiers, but disclaiming any desire fol
special advantages over other sec
tons.
Vice-presidents were elected as fol.
lows: Alabama, Ex-Governor M. Pat.
ton; Arkansas, Hon. S. II. Cockrell
Georgia, Mark w. johnson: MisSis.
sippi, Hon. w. tFoote; Louisiana
Hon. w. H. Harris; South Carolina
Hon. A. p. Butler; Tennessee, Hon
4
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Bankrupt Law.

BOSTON, Nov. 23.-At a largely at
tended meeting of the Boston Bank
Presidents association, last night, the
promotion and speedy passage of an
equitable and uniform national bank
rupt law was discussed. The Con-
gressmen of Massachusetts, all favor
the Lowell bill, on an act with the
Lowell bill. James G. Blaine was
among the speakers. The committee
says the legislation proposed is an Ur.
gent necessity for the better protec-
ton and prosperity of the business
community. The credit of business
men all over the country will be en-
HANGED thereby; men of one section
doing business with those of another
would feel assured of getting equita-
BILE adjustment of their claims, in case
Of failure
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The Disston Lands.

To the Editor OF the Statesman:
The usually well. Informed STATES
MAN has been led into statement
calculated, to say the least, to be in
furious and misleading; allude to
the paragraph in your issue of yester-
day, relating to the Disston lands in
Florida. These '1ands" are a humbug,
and the Northern states are filed
with the excavations of the poor de-
luded devils who have been to them
and come back. Florida is great
state and million times better than
these Glands" would indicate, and
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Pordnnnd-

BOSTON, Nov. 23.-Bernard Boland,
sentenced to the state prison for life
in 1873, was pardoned by the governor
and council to-day. Boland, in 1873,
when not quite sixteen years of age,
went into store to tap till and was
seized by an employee, whom Boland
stabbed in the arm, cutting an artery,
which resulted in death. Boland was
found guilty of murder in the second
degree. 1t is just discovered by
friends that the statutes provided that
no person under sixteen should be
sent to prison, and that the boy should
have been charged with manslaughter.
A pardon is the result.
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FLORENCE, Wis, Nov. 23.-Two
hundred and fifty striking miners of
the Chaplin & Ludington mines, armed
themselves with Winchester rifles
to-day and practiced at targets in the
woods. They threaten violence unless
their demands are acceded to. Memo
vince Mining Company officials have
determined to open their mines and
give work to such married men as
were not ringleaders. Seven addi-
ticnal Pinkerton detectives have ar
rived, but the company is waiting for
militia. Tomorrow the men will be
paid off, and as the excitement is high
the crisis will come then.
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Special kilograms.
NEW BRAUNFELS.


NEW BRAUNFELs, Nov. 23.-J.
K. Painter. the popular train mas
ter of the San Antonio division of the
International & Great Northern rail
road, arrived here this morning in his
special car with Coles circus, and also
accompanied by representative of
THE STATESMAN and Express.
The circus made quite parade on
the StraptC
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-11-29
GOOD NIGHT.

Out In the dark, out in the night,
Lost in the chill and gloom.
know that the moon is shining now
Into my darling's room,
Over her hair, the long dark hair,
Shedding calm sweet light
Over her eyes, her soft brown eyesi
Good night, little love good night
wished the wish of my heart tonight
As / saw falling star
A passionate prayer-ah, love, my love,
So near and yet, on, so far
A cloud passed over the stormy skies,
Hiding the moon from sight;
A cloud is over my lonely life
Good night, little love-good night
A moaning among the trees tonight,
A step that can never come
But better far, she's safe, know
Safe in her happy home.
Only love that she threw away,
A track ON the waters white,
A breaking heart ON 1.-THE outward bound''
Good night, love of mine-goOd night!
e. N. N. in the London Herald.
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Our available resources for Novem-
Der will be as follows:
1855. - -. -. -. ;s2s,i27 p
Proceeds Of labor on eleven railroad
trains for October. -. ............. 16,405 IL
6er NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. :. c -. .' ~. 1888 90
Proceeds of twelve cane wagons sold
Z. H. Cunningham. ........... :. 1,560 90
Proceeds of wagons sold Conner 4 Fer
tentaries estimated. "oiA pour 5000 90
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He had proposed to her, and now
with fear and trembling waited for
her answer. "Only one word" he
said, eff but to keep alive the fires
of hope within my BOSOM" She
looked at him tenderly, nay, lovingly,
and her lips moved in accents that
went to the depths of his soul. She
asked him how much he earned a
Woaly
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A young man, apparently a COM

A young man, apparently a COM
mercial drummer, got on the train,
and noting pretty girl alone in the
forward part of the car, approached
her and smilingly asked: as this seat
engaged, Miss ?" mo, sir" she quick
ly and pertly responded, ''but L am,
and he is going to get on at the next
station" h-ah-indeed- thanks
beg pardonw and he quickly picked
up his feet, after stumbling over them
and went into the smoking car to be
alone awhile.
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Forest Fires

HUNTINGTON, Pa, Nov. pa dis
astrous forest fire is raging in Jacks
mountain, it extends almost to Allen
vile, a distance of nine miles. Five
thousand cords of wood and a like
amount of bark belonging to r. B
Forest and A. r. Mccarthy was Ides-
troyed. The fire extends to an area of
several thousand acres of valuable
timber land. 1t is supposed to have
been started by hunters. Joseph
Straight who had built house on the
mountain preparatory to making a
clearing. had his home destroyed, the
family barely escaping with their
lives.
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Grand PrenaratIOns.

NEW YORK, Nov. 23.-The city is
all agog in preparation for the centen-
NAL of execution day. If Monday
brings fair weather the parade will be
such a one as New York never before
witnessed. All the military of the
city will be in the procession, and
military organizations dissolved years
ago are reuniting every day. Corps
are coming from all the cities within
a reasonable railroad or steamboat
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Poor Cox.

"Of all the cocks in the pit he Is the
deadeSt," may be said of the sensation
al justice of the peace who played the
huge practical joke on the governor of
Texas. Here is what the Chicago
Times says about him:
The boy who reported to his mother
that there were 10000 black cats on the
barn, could not stand in competitive
examination with the Texas justice of
the peace who was responsible for the
absurd and ludicrous fright described
in our dispatches of yesterday. A
noisy indignation meeting of negroes
in Milan county, to denounce the late
civil rights decision, enlivened by
wordy alteration with some of the
whites, was magnified by Justice
Cox, of the now famous village of
Cause, into riot, instruction,
civil war and an uprising of
race against race. Ten thousand
troops were at once put under arms
by the distracted governor. The whole
state passed a sleepless night, drop
ping into fitful slumbers only to dream
of black devils by the ten thousand
jumping on them with grinning jaws
of destruction. The military budget
began to run against the state at the
rate of $1,000 a day. When all the
militia, all the business men, all the
newspapers, all the state officials had
been thoroughly demoraliZed by twen-
ty-four hours of this horrid suspense
waiting for the 10000 black cats to
descend and scratch out their eyes, a
two-lins dispatch was received from
the sheriff of Milan county, announc-
ing that there had been no
uprising nor even one drop
of bloodshed. All the terror all
the loss of sleep, the all-night
vegiI of the state officials, the $4,000
expended for the days marshaling of
the state nilitia-all were for moth
ing. 1t must have been Justice Cox
himself who, in his younger days, dis
covered 10000 cats on the barn. Dill
gent, maternal cross-examination, re-
duced the number of feline intruders
to 5000, 1000, 1000; at last there were
but six. "Blame it, mother" the cat
census enumerator demonstrated to
the remorselesS cross examiner, 81
won't take off another cat" But when
| the examination was over all that re-
manned of the original host was
something black" That is all JUS
tice-of-the- Peace Cox has to show as
the foundation of the alarm which
convulsed Texas. Something black
considering his locality, probably 6
black bottle.
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Press kilograms.
Withdrawing From the Pool.

CHICAGO, Nov. 23-The Milwaukee
s. st. Paul and Central Iowa rail-
roads give notice of their intention to
withdraw from the agreement of No
vember 10, to maintain passenger
rates from Des Moines, at the eXpira-
tion of thirty days from November 20.
Both assert that they have no inten-
ton of inaugurating a passenger war.
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A. j. McWhister; Texas, II l.. Lewis;
Florida, a. J. Knapp: North Carolina,
Montfert McGhee and Indian Terri
tory, ). L. Jones. Honorary vice
presidents: Kentucky, Gen. Scott
Brown: Missouri. T. a. Hilder.
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Ex-senator Joseph E. Mcdonald, Of
Indiana, is large, clean shaved, bald
headed; has large gray eyebrows and
blue eyes; is fond of society and walk
ing; lives plainly; admires Conkling
and Voorhees,; has been married tire
times; attends the Presbyterian
church and the theatre; has law
practice of $4,000 year, and does moi
talk about his chances for the presi
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Alaska.

SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 23-Gen.
Geo. G. Ihric, who was elected to Con-
gress from Alaska in 1870, has been
requested through numerously signed
petitions Of citizens there to represent
them at Washington and endeavor to
obtain some sort of civil government
for the territory.
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Labor Troubles.

CHICAGO, Nov. %. -The cigar man.
ufacturers this afternoon met, and in
response to a demand from the cigar
makers union for the discharge of
nen-union men, resolved to discharge
any union man who refused to work
in shop with non-union men who
receives regular wages
Dresden, Tenn, has three saloons
and only one church.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-11-29

Malaria does not get hold of the Pi-
utes. They never pitch their tents on
the banksof a river. They go back
and set up their huts on the first ter
race. They prefer carrying water half
mile to camping where they will
get the cold night air of ariver valley.
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DELAYED Mail

PORTLAND, Oregon, Nov. 23.-An-
other hundred sacks undistributed
mail was received here. General COM
plant is made regarding the misman-
agement and inefficiency of the pos
tai arrangements over the Northern
Pacific railroad.
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You will observe that in my esti-
mate for amount to be collected in
November for labor on railroads in
October, we will fall short of the
amount collected in October for Sep
TENDER labor. 1888, which occurs by
the Texas & Prciiic railroad company
returning two trains of forty-three
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Fire.

NEW YORK, Nov. 23.-A fire this
evening destroyed the Klein collar
shop. Clemenshaw's bottling works
adjoining were partially destroyed.
Loss. $50 600: insured.
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Five Cents Damages.

AKRON, Ohio, Nov. 23.-In the libel
suit of j. Carson Lane against the
Beacon Publishing Company, claim
ing $4,000 damages, the plaintiff got
5 cents. after a weeks trial.
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KNOXVILLE. Mo-, Nov. 23:-The
house of T. w. Huston, well-to-do
farmer twenty-seven miles from here,
was destroyed by fire. Mrs. Huston
and two children persisted in the
damoc
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PENITENTIARY BOARD,

This board met yesterday in the
the governors Office.
The monthly report of Financial
Agent Brahan was read and approved.
Reports were read making an esti-
mate as to what it would cost to oper-
ate the wagon and furniture shops
at the Huntsville penitentiary for
state accounts. The estimates are
somewhat in detail and foot up $780,
600, as the cost for machinery and
material necessary to make, say, 5000
wagons, such as it is prepared to
manufacture, and running expenses,
stock, etc., about $4,000. The cost of
an ordinary wagon and of a sugar
cane wagon is given approximate
ly. The report recommends the
making of sugar cane wagons for the
Texas and Louisiana market as the
more profitable on account of less
competition from Northern markets
than for ordinary farm wagons. Fur
niture, it is suggested, can be made to
advantage with a small additional
outlay for machinery. Wagons will
have to be sold to some extent on time
to compete with the terms of North
ern manufacturers. The hubs, spokes
and some other items of material, for
which hard seasoned lumber will
have to be purchased the first year
from Chicago, Sti Louis or Cincinnati.
The board have a balance in the
hands of the financial agent of $29, 600,
and about $4,000 of their unexpended
appropriation, which might be used.
Col. Goree and Capt. Girard, who pre-
pared the reports, were requested to
furnish statements as to the probable
cost and advantages of other indus
tries in which the convicts might be
employed; and especially the cost of
machinery and manufacture, of say,
300 or 400 farm wagons, such as are In
common use. The board are disposed
to proceed at first on limited scale in
furniture and wagons of both kinds,
and if successful will ask for the nee
essary appropriation from the legisla-
ture, to extend their operations.
The board adjourned.
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Manchester MartyrdOm.

ST. LOUIS, Nov. 23-Alex Sullivan,
president of the Irish National League
of America, delivered an Grafton at
Mercantile Library hall tonight,
the occasion being the celebration OF
the tenth anniversary of Manchester
martyrdOm.