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The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-05-10
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MAHoSE's tactics among the ne

MAHONE'S tactics among the ne
groes are well conceived. He has adj
dressed to the chairmen of his party
in the different counties the follow
ing: 81 wish you would send me a
list on the back of this of all the col
ored churches in your county, and the
full name of the colored preachers
and the postoffice address of each. y
His object is to obtain the names OF
all the colored church members in
Virginia He well knows that the
most perfect system of political organ
ization is to- be effected through the
means of the churches.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-05-10

IT is claimed that much of the i'm
morality of New York and other
great cities is traceable to the absence
of homes. In New York there are
10000 buildings, of which 1855 are
occupied wholly or in part as dwell
ing houses. Over 100000 families are
sheltered in these houses, or sixteen
persons for every building in the city
which is occupied in any way as a
dwelling. But only 32.OS6 families
own the houses they occupy, leaving
$4,000 families in rented dwellings.
These belong to that part of the pop
ulation which goes to make up the
army of movers. 1t is estimated that
at least $1,000 of those families move
on the first day of May.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-05-10

In THE art of fertilization science
has been long time in coming to
the use of iron, but the continental
powers are now adopting chilled
cast-iron shields five feet thick. An
English naval constructor. speaking
of fortications of this material, SEN
tentiously says the best thing for
vessels of war to do will be to keep
away from them.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-05-10

II. BARTHELEMY, late professor OF
military history at Saint-Cyr, writes
very enthusiastically about the French
army, saying that it can have 100000.
600 armed and trained men in the
field, and that France may look upon
her future without fear.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-05-10

THE New York World has been
waiting to see some of it's Republican
contemporaries suggest that the unre-
pentant rebels of the south fed Presi-
dent Arthur on shrimp salad and
butter milk with an eye to creating a
vacancy in che presidential Office, and
seizing the reins Of power.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-05-10

Hon. $. s. Cox touches up the une-
quail burdens of the tariff after this
fashion: 1.-THE farming capital is over
$1,000, 10000; the manufacturing
capital not SS.OoO.OOOOoo." He might
have added that the capital OF 'pro-
tected" manufacturing industries was
much less than two billions. And he
correctly adds that "the west and
south must have their say in legisla-
ticn.r
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-05-10

IT is understood Washington that
a suite of rooms have been engaged
for President Arthur at Fortress
Monroe, where he proposes to spend
a week or more. 1t was his intention
to visit the fortress on his return
from Florida, but the rumors of his
illness hurried him to Washington.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-05-10

The New York Herald wants the
Republicans to inaugurate the fight
square on protection. 1t is already
SO inaugurated by the Democrats, who
are Tor tariff for revenue only. The
fight began on this issue last year,
and the Republican party lost. Is the
Herald for the defeat of the Republic
oopc0
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-05-10

A WITNESS in the Tewksbury ex-
animation testifies to tanning human
skins received from various doctors
and students, and pair of uppers for
slippers made from a woman's skin
were shown.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-05-10

ually added. When the mixture was
light and creamy four tablespoonfuls
of wine were added, and then one
fourth of IA cupful of cream, little
at a. time When the sauce had been
beaten smooth the bowl containing it
was set to a basin of hot water. and
the stirring was resumed until the
sauce was perfectly smooth and
creamy, no longer. This condition
was secured in few moments.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-05-10


The liability of railway freight
trains to accident was thus referred
to recently by the freight supeTintend-
end of a New England line. "At
this very moment" he said, 1--WE have
probably twenty freight trains NOV
ing along our track between Hart
ford and Boston. Remembering that
it is but single track part Of the
way, you will see that an accident to
any one of the trains will make more
or less trouble and delay for both pas
senger and freight trains every where
along the line. Then think of the
great possibility of some accident pro-
ducing that result. A freight ear has
four axles and eight wheels. Twenty
trains. then, estimating them at
twenty freight cars each, will have
sixteen hundred axles and
thirty-two hundred wheels.
The breaking of one axle
or one wheel will make trouble, as l
have said; and that some one OF the
sixteen hundred axles, or some one OF
the thirty-two hundred wheels, should
smash during the day, is very possible
in fact, probable. Send the same
distance a sufficient number of Wag-
ons to convey the same amount OF
freight, and, however carefully they
might be looked after, it would be I'M
likely that they would go through
without accident of some kind. No
one outside of railroading has any
conception of the amount of the in
cessant care and oversight that is nee
essary. Even then, something may
give way without a. moments warn
ing, owing to defective metal or con-
struction: and the public, without
stopping to think, call it careless rail-
reading. Such troubles are insepara-
BILE from the freight business, and are
occurring to greater OF less extent
on every railroad in the country.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-05-10

REV. j. III. CURRY of Dallas was
reported hopelessly insane in ST.
Louis by the Republican and Globe
Democrat. The reverend gentleman
now turns up in Dallas all right, and
institutes suit against these papers fol
heavy damages.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-05-10

AN EXCHANGE calls attention to
the fact that south Of the United
States on the same continent are thirty
millions human beings needing cot
ton goods. and yet they are supplied
from elsewhere, because high protec-
tive tariff prevents trade with this
country.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-05-10

THE Philadelphia North American
is enthusiastic about silk culture
prophesying "a great and important
future for the production of raw silk
in this republic"
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-05-10

THERE Is to be an educational con-
gress in Rio Janeiro next July, and
the Brazilian government is especial
Iy DESTROYS of representation from the
United States.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-05-10

FRANCE has the largest national
debt in the world, the result of the
Prussian indemnity. 1t amounts to
"a 1858, $4,000, or $117.79 for every
man, woman and child in the country.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-05-10

ANEwsPAPER just.started at Jalapa
Mexico, advocates the election of Gen.
Diaz to the presidency for the next
term. There will be more doing the
same thing.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-05-10
Got an Office.

A dispatch from Laredo to the
Corpus Christi Daily Critic says on
the authority of Congressman Ochil-
tree that Hon. Bolivar Pridgen has
been appointed vice consul at Piedras
Negras, Mexico.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-05-10

ONE hundred thousand less cattle
will be taken out of Texas this year
than last. A good many cattle, too,
are being imported.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-05-10

AN eight-year-old girl in New York
jumped the rope one hundred and six
times, and in a short time afterward
died of congestion of the brain.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-05-10

THE ex-governors now in the SEN
ate are: Anthony, Colquitt, Coke, Gull
lOaa, Garland, Groome, Harris and
HaWleY.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-05-10

Tom OoHILTREE was talking sense
when he told the Gould party that
there was more money in buying the
sugar lands of Brazoria, Matagorda
Wharton and Fort Bend counties
than there could be in ten Thousand
miles of railway.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-05-10
THE STATESMAN.
AUSTIN. TEXAS.

IT is thought no immediate sue
cessor to Commissioner Raum will be
appointed.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-05-10

ACCORDING to official reports, India
can raise wheat at 1219 cents bushel,
and has IL, 1926, 200 acres in wheat.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-05-10

SENATOR TRAYLoR has jn~t sold
his ranch and stock of cattle liz Hood
county for twenty thousand dollars.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-05-10

CARDINAL MCCLosKEY warmly en-
dorses the doings of the Philadelphia
convention of land leaguers.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-05-10

A. NJ. PICKERING, of Chicago, has
has just paid five hundred thousand
dollars for the Darson ranch and cattle
on the Pecos river.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-05-10
TEXAS POSTAL AFFAIRs.

Robert S. Holman, postmaster at
Paradise. Wise county, has been placed
under $500 bonds. Judson G. Fry has
been commissioned postmaster at
D'Ham's, Texas, Charles o. Keuffel
at Fedoz, John T. johnson at Sour
Lake, and William S. Grayson at
Winkler. Texas.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-05-10
Waists.
Nineteenth Cent,rrv.1

Through awful chasms plunge and fall
The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1883-04-14
Two Romances.

The son of leading lawyer in New
York, some years ago, was attracted by
the innocent face and quick wit of
Weleh chambermaid in his fathers
house. and declared that he preferred
her to gil the fashionable beauties who
had courted his notice His family pro-
tested, but to no purpose. The only
concession he would make was to consent
to go to Europe for three years before
marrying the girl. In the meantime,
having an independent fortune. the lover
placed her at one of the best schools in
New York. The girl was ambitious and
devoted in her affection to the man who
had chusen her. He returned, found
her more lovely than ever. They were
married, and the lady is now one of the
leaders of society in the city where they
live-a noble, refined. charming woman.
An eminent jurist, well known in
Pennsylvania in the early part OF this
century, was making the circuit" on
horseback, and stopped for DINNER at
the house of a farmer. The daughter of
the farmer waited on them and the judge
who had been cynic about women
observed the peculiar gentleness of her
voice and certain sweet candor In her
face. After dinner the farmer said:
Mary, bring the judges horse.
Mary started to the field, which was
inclosed by barred fence. Laying her
hand on the topmost rail, she vaulted
lightly over
ssI saw" said the Judge afterwards,
'sfor the first time, q woman with the
mind and body I should require in mJ
wife. I called again and again at Farmer
C's. At last sent Mary to school for 9
couple of years, and Lere she is, nod
ding 10 the stately matron who pre-
sided at his table.
The sons of the judge and this real
! Maude Muller all attained distinction
one, like his father, at the bart another
was an eminent divine, and third was 9
Southern candidate for the Presidency
All we're noted for their fiery eloquence,
| their high sense of honor. and certain
appetite for fighting which was we'll sns
tanned by strong physical health. The
| Judge had not been mistaken in Mary's
qualities of mind or body. Youths
| Companion.
The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1883-04-14
How to Treat Typhoid Fever.

What seems an almost interminable
discussion has been going on in the
French Academy of Medicine, ever since
the typhoid epidemic of last autumn, as
TO the proper mode OF treating that dis
ease. The system to which most promi-
nence has been given is that recently in
treduced into German practice by DIR.
Brand, the main feature of which is the
immersion of the patient in long and
frequently repeated cold water baths.
German medical statistics show an ex-
cellent result from this mode of treat
ment; though they are, 1t is said, vitiated
by the inclusion of typhus patients in
the typhoid category.
DR.. Dumontpallier described at Mon
days sitting, Feb. Goth, of the Academy
an apparatus of his invention, by which
fever patients may be cooled to the re-
qaired degree, without undergoing the
fatigue of leaving the bed, and being
wetted only to be dried again. The ap-
paratus consists essentially of two water
beds, one placed over the other, between
which the potent lies. By simple sys-
tenn of pipes the physician can regulate
the temperature of the water in the mat
tresses, and the cold bath with its risks
and discomforts is thus dispensed with.
The idea of cooling fever patients is not
new. Curry, an English physician, was
the first to introduce it into modern
practice, for the ancients seem to have
employed it exactly hundred years ago
and it was much used within the present
century in England for the treatment oil
scarlet fever. But the results were moi
satisfactory. st. james Gazette.
The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1883-04-14
Death of the Queens Rival.

The death in Broadmoor criminal
lunatic asylum of John Goode brings to
mind an exciting passage in Queen
Victoria's life. In November, 1887, while
riding in st. James park "a man suddenly
sprange to the side of her carriage, and,
holding up his fist, made use of obscene
language, adding that her majesty was a
usurper, and that he would have her of
the throne that day week. The queen
on alighting from her carriage, directed
her equerry to cause the man to be ar
rested. He told the officers he was their
lawful sovereign. and, when brought be-
fore the authorities, declared himself to
be the son of George w and Queen
Caroline, and that he was born at
Montague place. Blackheath, and the
throne of England belonged to him.
Upon every other subject unconnected
with the royal family he spoke in most
rational manner, but when the queens
name was mentioned he became exceed
ingly violent. While being taken to
prison he mashed the windows with his
elbows and screamed out to the sentinels
on duty: Guards of England, do your
duty, and rescue your sovereign Al
that time he was fine, handsome look
ing man, in his 4lst yesr, and of dark
complexion. When afterward visited by
his brother, who had been abroad, he
denied the alleged consanguinity.
The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1883-04-14
English Literature.


English literature could better spare
any one of score of men whose names
and personalities are as familiar as houses
hold words, than the modest and almost
unknown clergyman and teacher who
died recently at Mentone-John Rich
ard Green. There is not a word about
him in the encyclopedias; there is no
newspaper office in America supplied
with evan the date of his birth; no de-
scription of the man or his habits or life
has ever appeared in print, to our
knowledge-and yet he is the greatest
English historian since Macaulsy, and,
through his works, the most popular us
we'll. We know something about Stubbs,
and good deal about Froude, while
Freeman has only now returned from a
lecturing tour through America, during
which every reader of newspapers got q
distinct idea of what he was like. Yet
John Richard Green has five readers
where the three others com bined have
one-and is entirely unknown in a per-
sonal sense. All his life was spent in
the scholarly seclusion of Oxford, where
he had chair of modern history. His
first work. the celebrated "Short History
of the English People," was published
in 1874 in England, and Immediately re-
printed in the United States. In both
countries it had a tremendous sale.
catching the popular fancy at once, and
charming alike critics and readers. IF
Macaulay awakened the first intelligent
and general interest in English history,
it is equally true that Mr.. Green's book
completely altered the channel of that
current of interest, and gave it new and
indescriably more popular direction.
For the first time people saw the past of
England dealt with as whole, and all
its myriad component parts and phases
given their just proportion. The old
chronicles of kings and brawling mobiles,
of court intrigues, dynastic wars, tourna-
ments and gilt edged feudalism were
supplanted by manly, lucid and thor
oughly artistic story of the English as a
people, from the time when the idea of
crossing the North Sea first came to them
in the fog wrapped bogs of their
Schleswig home, down to modern days.
The foreign kings and their friends and
parasites were given their places in the
story, and no more. The great Saxon
people which, by sheer inherent force of
character, moulded itself into the great
est of the worlds races, and absorbed in
cidentally these foreign princes and
parasites as the forenoon takes up dew,
was given its place, as it never had been
before. The work marked an era in the
making OF histories. Mr.. Green SUBJ
sequently extended this ''Short History"
into four volumes, which Harpers' press
has made familiar. For thirteen years
past he had collected material for an
elaborate and exhaustive history of the
Saxon period of English existence-the
first volume of which, under the title of
1.-The making of England was. pub
lished last year. It is to be hoped that
his death does not leave the work un-
inished-although the wretehed condi-
ton of his health for the past few years
renders the hope dubious one.
The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1883-04-14
A COlOred old Fellow Who Desired to
Affiliate.

A colored man was busily engaged in
saving wood for Colonel Powii, when
the latter observed that the bosom of the
man and brother, SO to speak, was
adorned by an Odd Fellows breastpin.
''Do the white Odd Fellows and the
colored Odd Fellows in Austin affiliate?''
asked Colonel Powis.
Don't fillyate wuf cuss, but dey
helps each other out"
''Weli, that's the same thing, amt it?"
'.No, sab; hits not de same ting"
Whats the difference?"
The colored man stopped saving wood
and made the following explanations:
Last week when dat norther was
a freezing de marrow in yer bones. I
totes des very same emblem. I was in
distress, rale distress, as hadn't had a
dram dat morniu'. so glib him the sig
nal OBJ distress"
''Did he respond?'
''He didn't glib de proper response.
De proper response would hab been to
had rubbed his lef' ear wild his right
hand, and to hab sot out de bottle
''Then he did not respond correctly?''
"No, sab; he made motion at de
doah wild one hand, and reached under
de bar wild de odder. I made de Odd
Fellows sign oh distress once noah, and
den sumfin' hard hit me on de head, and
knocked me clean out inter de street.
Hit was de bung starter what dat white
brudder Odd Feller had frowed at me In
response to de distress sigual.
''Then the colored Odd Fellows and
the white Odd Fellows do not affiliate?'
'Jest what told yer. Dey don't filly
ate, but dey helps each odder out. ]
was helped out inter de street wild de
bung starter, but fillyate means to Sc
out de whisky. ."-Teqas Siftings.
The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1883-04-14
A Forgotten Promise.

There is young conductor on q line
of street cars in Cincinnati who is the
hero of romantic episode. At the tine
of the burning OF the Brooklyn theater.
in which so many people were burned to
death. this young man was.a resident of
Brooklyn. He attended the theater on
the night of the fire, and sat beside 3
male companion in the front row near
the orchestra As it will be remembered
the fire was discovered during the latter
part of the first act of the ssTwo Or
phans." At the time the flames made
their appearance behind the scenes one
of the company billed as Nellie Dell, bat
whose real name was Kittie Meyers, q
young New York girl was doing q song
and dance act. The fire burst all over
the stage with incredible rapidity, and
the young man saw that this girl was in
peril. With spring he leaped across
the orchestra railing. clambered on the
stage and caught Miss Dell in his arms
and broke for ths private box nearest the
street. After considerable difficulty ha
The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1883-04-14
poetry and patent medicine advertise

poetry and patent medicine advertise
ments.
I'm SO glad of it," she said, and q
grander, sweeter smile radiated spread
some more. =
i am he, he said, not gallantly, but
gloriously. "What can do for yon?''
At this we crose aud bid her approach.
She did SO, and said, "I have returned
home; want personal in Every Mon
days; and she looked too sweetly inno-
cent. frank, pure innocence unknown
to the latter day sanctum.
This side made an effort and had soon
uttered an utteranca which, as near as
1--WE can remember, was: why, certainly.
wsishspleasure; what shall we say?"
She smiled some more. We dittoed.
She said: Miss Mary Macintosh has
returned home after visit to friends in
Kansas City. And" continued she, ssadd
anything good you can think of. You
know all about how to say, accomplished
etc."
With this she vanished like summers
dream disturbed by gallinipers, and
wheE we recovered wrote:
''The readers of Every Monday will
rejoice to learn that Miss Mary Mac
clntosh has returned to her home IN this
city after months pleasure tour through
Kansas City. Miss Mary is truly natures
queen; she is the goddess of love, purity
and womanly grace, large. roomy, well
ventilated and robust as buffalo. She
can do a bigger washing, eat more onions
and mash more male palpitators in one
day than all the female Venuses in
Christendom. She is sumner, with a
smile as broad as human sin, and foot
as big as the base of the Rocky Noun
tains. She wears fine duds, silk stock
ings, brass buttons and chews gum in
Latin. Mary is some pumpkins, and
don't you fail to remember it, aud Every
Monday is goldarned glad she has come
home kansas City Bugle please copy,
for the boys missed her very much. -
st. Joseph Every Monday"
The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1883-04-14
A Drug Clerk Cures Caller Of chills

A respectable looking man staggered
into an Eighth avenue drug store last
evening, and, in tremuluos voice said
TO the clerk:
Twill you please mix me dose of
medicine? I've got the chills.'
The clerk eyed the man for moment,
and then went to the back of the store.
He returned with glass graduate. He
took down O bottle labeled 's1inct
Zinzib," and half filled the graduate.
He added some hot drops, little cay
enne pepper, stirred it up, and passed it
to the man, saying:
Down with it right away"
The shivering man emptied the glass
at a swallow. He stood a.moment as
| il dazed, and, without offering payment,
rushed from the store with his mouth
open. The clerk smiled, and played with
| the scales.
ssAre you tronbled much by those fell
| lows?" inquired customer with pre-
scription.
| s.Yes, but the same persons seldom re-
turn, as we generally give them such q
hot dose that they would rather risk
| being frozen with the chills than burned
up internally. You see, they make 3
| practice of geing from one drug store to
another, asking for q dose OF something
| to cure the chills or some other disease,
but always asking for something contain
| ing alcohol. They keep this up until
| they become intoxicated. Occasionally
| woman chooses that method to procure
| liquor, but not often. But you can gam
! bic your collar button that they never
get drunk from anything they get here.