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

could keep all hands both nights, and
it is by courtesy of the company that
we are allowed to get off one of the
two. They have nothing to complain
of justly. AS to giving the sexes
equal pay we do not consider women
as good operators as men, and GER
tainly have right to pay accordingly.
AS to the increase of fifteen per cent,
all around, 1 think it to be preposte-
rous. The pay of operators ranges
from $25 a month for boys and begin
ners to 500 a month for the best men.
There are few who get the highest
figure. The average, as near as can
say just now, is about $40 for male
operators. The pay for girls and
women ranges from $50 to 500 or 800
month. should say that their
average is about S45. About thirty
five per cent of the operators are
women. They do not make the most
expert telegraphers. The grades of
pay advance by So and $40 a month
from the lowest to the highest. l con-
slider that the present scale OF pay is
perfectly fair and just.
1.-The most astounding demand is
the increase asked for the Wheatstone
operators. The Wheatstone is an au-
tomato machine from the other side
of the Atlantic. We are just intro
ducing it and have not many operators
yet. The increased pay demanded is
about fifty per cent on present
rates and then fifteen per
cent added to that. What
they ask for-the linemen, too-seemS
to me preposterous. Sometimes they
have nothing at all to do, but receive
their pay all the same. Then, in an
emergency, we expect them to work
from daylight to dark. You can see
how unfair it would be if, after we
pay man to-day for doing nothing,
and we have to send him out to-mOr-
row TO repair the ravages of sleet
storm, he stops work at 4 o'clock,
and says: Eve worked eight hours
to-day. won't work any more
Il don't think the company should
grant any of the demands"
1t mar be accepted as fact, there
fore, that the Western Union will
not comply with the demands, and
that the officers will run the telegraph
business as best they may until
the strikers places are filled with
other operators, The probabilities
are that the gross receipts of the
various telegraph companies of the
United States aggregate $18,OOO,OOO
annually, say $4,000 day, or $55O,OO0
week. A general strike of the ope-
ratives, would, therefore, be 9rious
matter to the stockholders. AS gen.
eral thing. however, they are men
who are not dependent upon tele-
graph dividends, and could manage
to live for an indefinite period with
out such profits. The operator, on
the contrary, needs his money every
week, and as a consequence, in
strike fight with the telegraph COM
panies, has a narrow margin upon
which to base expectations of tri-
umph. The aggregate loss to the tele-
graph operators of the country would
doubtless reach 100000 a week, and
it is not probable that they have a
fund upon which to draw that would
sustain them for any considerable
length of time. The true policy,
therefore, is not a strike but com
DrOmiSe
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-07-26
Very Well Puf

Why do we defer till tomorrow
what we should do to-day? Why do
we neglect a cough till it throws US
into consumption, and consumption
brings US to the grave? DIR. VIM.
HALLS BALsAM is sure to cure if
takeniin season. 1t has never been
known to fail. Use it thoroughly ac-
cording to directions. PerseVere till
the disease is conquered, as it is GER
tain to be, even if it should require a
dozen bottles. There is no better
medicine for pulmonary disorders.
Sold everywhere.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-07-26

In the savings bank that was
founded in the eastern penitentiary
of Pennsylvania one year ago, with a
view of encouraging industry among
the inmates by giving them per-
centage of their earnings and deposit
ing it in the bank, there is about $1,000
to their credit already. Since the bank
has been started the convicts have
earned by over-work about $4,000,
and have sent over $4,000 to their
families. This practice conforms
somewhat to the plan lately set forth
by a writer in the Century. 1t is the
true theory upon which convicts
should be worked, and THE STATES
MAN predicts it will after a while be
universally adopted.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-07-26
STATE NEWS REPERTORY.
Spirit of Our Texas Exchanges


A strange mishap befell Mr.. Louis
Plascon, who lives near Wellborn, on
Monday. He was chopping in the
woods, and while pulling out some
brush, bent limb was released from
it's fastening and struck him a hard
lick on the side of his head. A piece
of the limb over an inch long, about
the size of an ordinary goose quill,
was driven into his ear and broken
off. He and his friends tried in vain
to remove the stick, but it was too far
in his ear for them to reach it, and,
besides, was extremely painful. He
came to town Monday evening and
had the trouble removed by DR.. Webb.
The doctor was forced to administer
chloroform, after which the operation
was performed with little trouble.
The wound is not dangerous, except
that it may injure Mr.. Plascon'r hear
ing.-Brazos Pilot.
The daily North Texan will be is
sued from the North Texan Office at
Paris as soon as the proprietor returns
from Hot Springs. Paris will then
have two dailies. All the saloons and
other places of business, except drug
stores, were closed in this city on Sun
day last, in respect to the Sunday law
and the demands of county attorney
j. W. Ownby, who gave notice that a
strict prosecution would follow all
violations. His act is warmly COM
mended by all lovers of law and good
order, and, so far as we know, the sa-
loon men themselves have no COM
plant to offer; other places are TAX
ing the same steps.-Paris North
Texan.
The Democrat of Texarkana, a city
which strides the dividing line of
Texas and Arkansas, like colossus,
alluding to Jay Gould's opinion of the
place says: Jay Gould says "Texar-
kama will grow-and continue to
grow" And has any of Jay Gould's
public prophecies ever failed of veri-
fication. We do not consider him a
prophet, but believe his Unborn and
innate shrewdness enables him to
know live town when he sees one.
Judge Robertson's resignation will
take effect about the middle of
August. Col. F. J. McCord, of this
place, is spoken of as his successor,
and has the endorsement of Upshur,
HENDERSON and Gregg counties, and a
good portion of Smith county, as we
learn. This being the case we will
be surprised it Gregg county does not
furnish our next district judge in the
person of Col. acknowledgement
New Era.
By the death of District Attorney
Jones, of the twenty-fourth district,
says the Boerne Advance, his wife
will get $1,000 from the Knights of
Honor.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-07-26
MulhattOn OutdOne.
LLANo, Tex, July 20, 1883.

LLANO, lex, July 20, 1883.
To the Editor of the Statesman:
A very singular discovery was
made yesterday on the Gribble ranch
which is located on the road between
here and Lampasas. Mr.. Robert
Gribble, the proprietor of the ranch,
was rounding up some cattle and
upon entering secluded spot, about
one hundred yards from the Lam
pasaS road, he suddenly came upon
what had once been an elegant car.
riage. 1t was under large tree,
whittier it had undoubtedly been
driven for shelter from a terrible
storm. The tree was shattered with
lightning, as was also portion of
the carriage. Within the closely
drawn curtains was the remains of
three grown persons and little girl,
sitting upright on the seats as if in
life, while on the front seat was the
driver and a little boy. They
had all evidently been killed
with the same lightning flash
that shattered the tree, as
had also the horses. At least two
years must have elapsed since they
met their singular fate, as their bodies
are dried up to resemble in appear
ance so many mummies, and naught
but the skeletons of the horses re-
main. The tires of the wheels are
rusty and loose, and the leather top
weather-worn and faded. A small
travelling trunk contains a lot of
clothing and travellers outfit gener-
ally; also letters addressed to James
G. Chamberlain, London, England.
1t is therefore to be presumed that
the party consisted Of a family of
tourists from England, who were
journeying in their own private car
riage to see Texas, and probably on
the way to Austin when the angel of
death suddenly arrested them in their
career and turned their fine equipage
into their tomb. The coroner has
been notified, and will hold an in
quest tomorrow. Yours, etc,
w. p. TAYLOR.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-07-26

ALL THE New York papers, even
the Tribune, Republican, are arguing
that the Democratic convention for
nominating presidential ticket be
held at Saratoga. In the meantime
Tammany wants Tilden, and Editor
Dana says the old man cannot be
pressed into accepting. Certainly
Uncle Sammy has been studying
political cunning as laid down by the
most noted of Texas politicians.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-07-26

WHILE game at lawn tennis, the
other day, was being played at ST.
Cuthberts, England, one Of the play
ers, a young army officer, deliberately,
and without provocation, shot dead a
young lady, the belle of the party
and the next moment blew out his
own brains. 1t is said that jealousy
was the origin of the double tragedy,
and that the officer was crazed with
hapless love, which causes SO many
persons in unsophisticated districts to
act as though bereft of reason.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-07-26

A MANIFESTO has been issued by
the Roman Catholic bishops calling
the attention of the British govern
ment to the existing distress in Ire
land and the question of emigration
or migration as remedy. After re-
ferring to the districts where the
greatest want and misery prevail on
account of the people being compelled
to crowd on the most unproductive
lands, while there are such fertile
tracts from which the peasantry are
debarred the right of occupancy, the
manifesto repudiates as a remedial
measure assisted emigration and urges
government to encourage the migra-
ton of the surplus population of the
poverty-stricken and congested dis
tricts to the more productive lands
which are extensive enough, if duly
apportioned and put under cultiva-
ton, to afford the means of subsist-
ence to much greater number of
peasantry than are at this time in Ire
land.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-07-26

CAPT. PAYNE is again carrying out
his annual sensation. He has kept up
the farce of invading the Indian terri
tory for number of years, and on
every occasion he has been waited on
by detachment of United States
troops, and, after being escorted back
to headquarters, he is given the digni-
fled honor of military trial and is
then turned loose. After all, Payne
is only wag; he wishes to give the
troops, who do not feel like following
such generals as Crook, something to
do. But when the next congress
meets there should be some positive
legislation about invasions of the
Indian territory. The government
has set apart the land for the Indians,
and it should require that white men
respect the contract made between it
and the Indians. Even if such legis-
lation open the way for the reduction
of the army, the country would be
able to survive such awful calamity.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-07-26

THE eyes of the people of Texas
are on the university regents; and
their capacity and honesty will be
weighed according to the action re-
garding the admission of female ma
triculists. They have. no doubt, been
convinced that they have done a
wrong act, as well as an unconstitu-
tional one, in discriminating between
males and females, and, if guided by
honest purposes, will at their next
meeting declare that since the consti-
tuition does not so discriminate, the
regency recedes from its position re-
garding discrimination.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-07-26

The London Echo warns English
men that there are signs of move
ment in the United States against the
operations of aristocratic and COM
mercial land spectators who are buy
ing up enormous tracts in the west,
and says: at is urged that the seeds
of very serious land question are be-
ing sown by this transfer of lands to
the hands of foreign spectators. If
a popular agitation were to spring up,
the spectators would find themselves
in an awkward position"
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-07-26

The New York Herald suggests
that when Mr.. Wharton Barker, of
Pennsylvania, the inventor of the
ridiculous proposition that the feder-
al government shall cantinue to force
from the people great deal more
money than it needs and then distri-
butte this surplus money among the
states, prepares bill to effect this he
ought to call it ga bill to maintain
and increase the present force of tax
collectors and office-holders for pur-
poses of Official robbery"
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-07-26

A YOUNG man in Washington
makes public challenge in which he
offers any member of the civil service
commission, or its chief examiner,
$500 if they can pass the examination
to which candidates for department
positions are subjected, provided
those who fail will give $3.50 to a
local charity,
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-07-26

A GRAVE CHARGE is brought
against the telegraphers, who have
organized and enforced this strike.
The demand for equal pay for the
sexes is said to be thrust at the fe-
male operators-an attempt to put
them at such disadvantage as not to
receive employment, Though there
are accomplished female telegraphers
the males may be more profitably
used, because of their greater adapta-
bility to all kinds of service, and be-
cause the latter may be engaged at
work not suited to the former.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-07-26
MARKETS BY TELEGRAPH
PRODUCE MARKETS.

CHICAGO, July 24.-FlOur quiet and irregu-
lar.
Wheat moderately active and higher; 81 OH
July: 81 e2@1 049s September; 81 O5h@1 05ss
October; 81 O6A November; 81 OH for the
year; No. spring, 81 0l@l o.; No. 8 red win
Corn moderately active and higher, 51h@
51Ac cash and July; 5l1zc August; 505s@5O4c
September; 5O9s@50he October; 45AQ45Xc
Oats steady; 3414c cash; 34A@s4sc July;
2sA@2S%c August; 27A@272sc September
27sS027a{c October; 270271sc for the year.
Kye steady at 561zc.
PORK unsettled, but generally higher; SIS so
ais 80 cash; S13 s21l@13 IS; July and August;
S14 September; IA ~ October; S1z 650i2 20
for the year.
Lard firm; S.971s@9c cash, July and August;
9.05@9.O71sc September; $40 October; s.46
year.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-07-26

Two thousand and two and half
tcres of good grazing land, situated
twenty-five miles from Austin. Title
is good; water on the tract-several
branches and one fine spring. Will
sell it for $4,000, one-third down, the
balance in two vendors lien notes for
$1,000 each, one and two years time,
at ten per cent. Call at D. W. Jones
& Co.'s store on the Avenue. A de-
sirable rancho for raising beef-cattle
or mutton near good market.
F. RAINEY.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-07-26

IL Is wise to wait and understand
fully both sides of the question be-
fore condemning the manner of treat
ing the sub-American consul at Mon
terey. DIR. Shaw may have been
beaten under Misrepresentation, and if
the Mexican government will, no
Doubt, apologize and promise to pun
ish the beaters and housebreakers, it
may be settled anic&bly; dollars
and cents are wonderful healers of
wounded flesh as well as of injured
conscience
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-07-26

1T is said that more beer is drunk
per capita in Milwaukee than in any
other city, and that the suicide rate
there is double that OF any other city
The suicide feature may not be so
bad for the beer, but it is certainly
good Tor the community. 1t keeps
down super abundance of cranks.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-07-26

EDITOR DANA says Mr.. Tilden
will not take the presidential nomina-
ton, mo matter how unanimous or
pressing it may be-" The Lord of
Gramercy is getting, for the world,
just like the present DR.. o. NJ. Roberts
usad t0 he
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-07-26
KANSAS cIrY CATTLE MARKEr.

KANSAS CITY, July Observation-Disclosures,
1924; market steady for good to choice, other
grades weak; native steers, of 1882 to 1449
Is 90: cows, 50 10000; stockers and feeders
So 5O04 60; Texas steers, of 476 to LIS pounds,
sold at 81 1904 80.
HOgs-Receipts, 1880; market firm and SC
higher; sales were at SIS 2505 IS, hut the bulk
at So 3O@5 IS.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-07-26

Rev. T. ]. Yost. proprietor OF Pulpit and
Parsonage, recommends these Magnets, as
follows:
''Having been afflicted with malaria for
years, and having taken quinine till my nerves
began to be afflicted, ! began TO try socalled
specifics for malaria Of every kind, only to be
disappointed. / was assured ~ business
If would use PROF. MORSE'S AGUE MAG
NE rs according to directions they would cure
me- am now prepared 70 say that regard
decidedly better than anything have ever
tried A trial will cost but little. Youwil be
sure to recommend them to your friends.
my1d-&wly.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-07-26
The Lost Colony in Greenland.

/ have just been reading the de-
scription of the Greenland colonies
in Strinhohn. An Icelandic man,
Eric Rode, the father of the Left
Ericsson who discovered America, dis
covered Greenland, and returned in 958
with five and twenty ships. After
that the emigration to this land in
creased every year. Within a short
time large tracts of the country, both
in the east and the west, were peo-
pied and settled by Tcelaudic or Scan
dinavian settlers. The lands nature
and situation divided them into. two
main colonies, which were called
Oster and Vesterbyggden. Between
them lay a desert several days jour
ney long. The chief colony was .Oys-
terbyggden, which always remained
the most populous and flourlshing.
In Verterbyggden there were ninety
byggden settlements or villagesl
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-07-26
NEW vopu srocn MApnpr

NEW YORK, July 24.-Stocks weak and
lower. The decline ranged 1s@211c, the latter
for Canada Southern, Denver, New York Gen.
trail, Texas and Pacific. and Western Union.
Among the weakest shares the last named
sold down to 7914c. Toward IL o'clock there
was rally of Kyle.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-07-26

Ex-Goy. ST. JOHN, of Kansas, is
annouced to deliver twelve prohibi=
bition speeches in Ohio at $50 each.
That pays, but prohibition does not
prohibit.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-07-26

DIR. BRowN-SEQUARD has discov-
cred new an@sthetic which destroys
sensibility but leaves the patient ca
pable of working and attending to
ordinary duties. When the flesh is
cut no pain is felt.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-07-26

TAMMANY's conversion to the sup
port of Tilden is not the ninth won
der of the world. The purchasing
power of money is by no means novel.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-07-26
HenrY,s CarhoIic Salye

Is the best salve for cuts, bruises,
sores, ulcers, salt rheum, letter. chap
ped hands, chilblains, corns, and all
kinds of skin eruptions, freckles and
pimples. Get Henry's Carbolic Salve,
as all others are counterfeits. Price
TWENTY-FIVE cents.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-07-26

THE scarcity of telegraphers is a
blessing in one respect, at least. The
newspapers are not loaded down with
telegraphic reports of base ball con-
tastc
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-07-26

At Augusta, Ca, Monday, the Their
mOmeter registered 102 degrees in the
shade.
One hundred and six new houses
have been built at Cullman, Ala,
within the past three months.
Subscriptions amounting to $4,000
were secured in one day for the pro-
posed female institute at Knoxville.
Some of the leading citizens at
Georgetown, S. c., have organized a
society for the prevention of cruelty
to animals.
Daniel Burkett, of Big Creek Gap,
East Tennessee, said to be nineteen
years old, weighs only thirty pounds
and is only eighteen inches high.
A 100000 subscription has been
partly raised to establish university
at Jackson, under the auspices Of the
board of trustees of West Tennessee
College and the Southern Baptist
University.
The Coalburg coal and coke COM
pany, of Alabama, own about 1900
acres of coal lands. The company has
already begun operations, and is get
ting out 300 tons of coal daily, and
will increase the output as fast as
possible.
The grading of the Indiana, Ala
bama and Texas railroad will be COM
menced next Monday, the 23rd in
slant. The first shovel of dirt will be
thrown at 10 o'clock a. m. that day,
by Hon. w. B. Wood, of Florence,
Ala.
Over $4,000 have been subscribed to
build the Oostanaula bridge, near
Rome, Ca, and by the end of the
week, it is thought, enough will be
subscribed to build the iron bridge.
The shares are $40 each, and every
subscriber will be entitled to free
passage.
Sixteen completely petrifed human
bodies are said to have been recently
discovered in Pine Mountain, Camp
bell county, in a solid limestone rock
with fragments of petrified wood.
Near by is also cave, the walls of
which are decorated with paintings
of extinct or imaginary animals. This
is the first intimation of the fact
that Col. Joseph Mulhatton is in the
vicinity of Pine Mountain.
A large mining enterprise of North
ern Alabama is the Lady Eusley Mi
ming and Manufacturing company.
Its incorporators are chiefly Memphis
gentlemen, and it is named in honor
of Memphis lady, who met tragic
death last year on a Nashville street
in runaway accident. These gentle
men, with the assistance of agents,
have been quietly buying lands along
the line of the projected Birmingham
and Northwestern railroad, until
they are now in possession of 1900
acres of the finest mineral lands in
North Alabama. Mining operations
have already commenced.
Rev. Dabney Ball, of the Baltimore
NJ. E. conference, South, says he has
been so much benefited by the use of
Rosadalis that he cheerfully recon-
mends it to all his friends and ac-
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-07-26

Bartholdis ideal statute of Liberty
is emblematic of the sentiments
championed by the Kearneys, Mosts
and OR ssas. 1t is hollow and
empty.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-07-26

DR.. I. e. Pugh, OF Baltimore, rec
ommends Rosadalis to all persons suf-
fering with diseased blood, saying it
is superior to any other preparation.
jy10eod&w.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-07-26
Special Market Reports.

NEW YORK MONEY MARKET.
NEW YORK, July 24.-Money easy at 3@2h
per cent closing at offered. Prime mercan-
tile paper, 1906. Sterling exchange steady
at S4S3; demand, 4s7,
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-07-26
SALT RHEUM
Wonderful Cures OF salt Rheum
when hysicians, HOspf ais and
all other means failed.
SALT RHEUM.

have been great sufferer with Salt Rheum
for thirty years. commencing in my head and
face and extending over the greater part of my
body. have taken gallons of medicines for
the blood of different kinds ana tried good
physicians, all of which did me no good, and
came to the conclusion that / could not be
cured. But friend called my attention to Gu
tioura Remedies. Got them and used them
until my skin is perfectly smooth and 1 con-
slider myself entirely cured. Yours truly,
Agawam Mass. B. WILSON LORD
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-07-26

DR.. R. Wilson Carr, of Baltimore
says che has used Rosadalis in cases
of scrofula and other diseases.
iY10eod&M.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-07-26

In Bedford county, Virginia, there
stands a chestnut tree that is twenty
seven feet around.