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The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-08-30

her that friends come in seasons of
sorrow and sickness for help and COM
fort; one soothing touch of her hand
works wonders in the feverish child;
few words let fall from her lips in
the ear of sorrowing sister, does
much to raise the load of grief that is
bowling its victim down to the dust
in anguish. The husband comes
home worn out with the pressure
of business, and feeling irritable
with the world in general,
but when he enters the coy
sitting room and sees the blaze of the
bright fire, and meets his wife's smil.
ing face, he succumbs in moment to
the soothing influences which act us
the balm of Gilead to his wounded
spirits, that are wearied with combat
ing with the stern realities of life.
The rough Schoolboy flies in rage
from the taunts OF his companions to
find solace in his mothers smile; the
little one full of grief with its own
large trouble, finds Il haven of rest on
its mothers breast; and so one might
go Oh with instance after instance of
the influence that Il sweet-minded
woman has in the social life with
which she is connected. Beauty is
an insignificant power when COM
pared with herS.-Home Journal.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-08-30
THE SOUTHERN STATES.

The Augusta (Ga.) Chronicle says
that it is an uncommon thing to find
in that city negro who cannot read
and write, while there is much litter
acy among the white people.
Over 250 dwellings have been erect
ed during the past year within the
proXimate cost of over 100000. in
Guiding $4,000 worth of property
improved upon within the city boun-
diaries.
Fischer and RitZewallar, two
prominent merchants of Jacksonville,
Fla, had a fistic encounter, in which
the latter was severely pounded, and
the next day his two clerks called on
Fischer, and while one stood at the
door to prevent an alarm the other
assaulted him and beat him so the
doctors were hardly able to patch
him up.
At "a meeting of the TIE nnessee his
torical society in Nashville, a day or
two ago, an effort was made to send
the portraits of Andrew Jackson,
James K. Polk and Andrew johnson,
the three Tennessee presidents, to the
art gallery of the Southern exposition,
but as the laws Of the society do not
permit any work of art to go out OF
the possession of the society, the reso-
luton was withdrawn.
Apalachicola lFia.) Tribune: Mr..
j. C. Brayton owns place a short
distance from the city, near Mr.. W. S.
Turner's, that abounds in hickory
trees. Some time ago Mr.. Brayton
grated the pecan into these hickory
ont Tho
ment thus far has proven entirely
successful. The trees at present have
a magnificent foliage, and they prom
Use to pear pecans in large quantities
just year ago Mr.. Irby Bennett, a
business man and highly respectable
citizen of Lebanon, Tenn, was way
! laid, murdered and robbed while on
his way home from his store late in
| the night. A thorough investigation
failed to discover the perpetrators of
the foul deed, and the search was
given up. A day or two ago negro
man named Bernis Richardson volun-
tarilp confessed that he took q hand
in the affair under the direction of
another negro named Dave Ware.
They are both in Jail waiting the ac-
ton of the grand jury.
Albany (Fla.) Argus: An immense
town is now being built on the line OF
the st. Joseph and Lake Erie railIoad.
1t commences at Rayenswood, and
continues all along the line to Una
tilla, distance of six miles, of which
Altoona is the grand center, geograph-
ically. Five saw mills make it hum
for us, and if things continue this
way for another year line of street
cars and street lamps will have to be
inaugurated per necessity. Within
this six miles ale the towns of Ravens
wood, Pittmann now consolidated)
| Altoona, Honeywell, Glendale ano
Umatilla
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-08-30
Symmetrical Edncation.
fPhiladelpbia Record


The education of a human being
begins with its birth. Heredity has
then done its work, and the child is
left to thedirect influences OF its sur
rGundiRgs. First and most i'm por-
tant of these IS still the mother: in
short time follow the father and the
environment of the home, and these
make up the ehild's world until the
day comes-that eyentful day to
childhood-to go to school. Then
commences that routine of daily tasks
to which the term education" is, in
ordinary parlanee, Improperly iimited;
but this routine does not replace home
education, it is something added to it.
The usefulness OF theeducation of the
school dep6nds not only upon what is
taught there but also upon the accord
or discori with it Of the influences of
the home.
Education. in its broadcast sense, is
threef0lil- physical, mental and moral.
No rigid line can be drawn between
these three. Mystical attachments
have their mental and moral coloring;
mental attachments their physical and
moral aspects; yet the three IRE dis
tinct enough from each othT to serve
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-08-30
tue physical as wen as the mental

THE physical as well rs the mental
raining of children in schools is
every year claiming more attention.
People are inclined to ridicule col
legins because they train in the
sports, but these very sports develop
the physical powers of young men,
and when they leave college with
strong bodies, as well as trained
minds, the race through life is
fJirly begun, with chances Of success.
TO get a sound mind in a sound body
is the acme of human perfection, COW
eted alike in ancient classical days
and in this fast business age. Phys
zeal strength is not given to all alike,
and where it is lacking it should be
cultivated: where it is it should be
preserved. In England, where atten-
ton has been paid to the physical
training Of the. young, teachers are
supplied for this class OF training.
Even normal school to prepare
teachers for duty is being inaugu-
rated 1t is Il question which
should clfdm the attention of all
teachers. The school season begins
soon, and anything OF advantage to
the struggling children should be
adopted. What is necessary in the
brucing climate of England is even
more necessary here, where the ten
duncy is to anervauon.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-08-30

for classification. Every action we
perform, as well as every event that
happens to us, has this threefold in
lluence, yet the influence is always
greatest in one of the three directions,
and thus it becomes possible for those
who superintend the education of our
youth to so arrange pastimeS, studies
and duties that the education given
may be principally physical, princi-
pally mental, principally moral, or an
even balance between the three.
There can be no doubt that an
education, the result of
which is to equally develop
body, mind and character is the best
kind of education. No one of the
three can be extraordinarily developed
without injury to the others. The
man whose moral character is unim-
peachable, but who lacks mental de-
Yelopment, or physical soundness, or
both of them, can never work his way
through life with any measure of sue
cess or comfort. Great mental de-
velopment without the corresponding
morality makes the man most danger
Gus to the welfare of modern society;
without physical development it
brings about premature exhaustion or
a premature grave, and without both
it is simply useless. A mere physical
athlete is fine brute of mantle
smaller his mental training the
worse for himself; the smaller his
moral training the worse for the COM
munity, and for him also when the
account is balanced.
The education of our children,
therefore, must not be considered to
consist only in learning from books.
words or objects in the stated hours
of school, but in the combined infiu-
ences of parents, teachers, playmates,
of all The objects with which their
senses come in contact, and of all the
incidents that checker the course of
their lives. So far as hereditary ten
denotes will allow the child is modi-
fled by all these, and the result is the
combination of all these with the
physical, mental and moral tendencies
inherited from its parents.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-08-30

ALITTIE neillent occurred in the
treasury tuilding a few Days ago
FSihirh support tbe belief that there
been creoNedness in handling the
treasure of The government. George
Langley. maehinist, who was en-
gagged in removing an Old punch and
placing = new one in the pinch room,
discovered under an old truck ten
treasury notes Of the. denomination Of
$1,000. The notes were given to the
proper officer. Treasury officials re-
fuse to shy anything about Tie mat
ter. The question: arises How did
the notes Gene TO 1s IN The position
in which they were f0lRd2 Did they
slip there hy acei5sai, or were
they placed there ~ dishonest
enploye The most ialpartant ques-
tion, however, is. how were the books
nlaie to balance without this SUM Of
$40 $50? No mention was ever made
in any report that this amount was
lnf4sipg, and. congress has not been
asked to release any secretary Of the
tressafy of TIE responsibility Of the
loss OF such m amount ii $1,000
can be lost without exciting inquiry
or con1lne1 and without being apparz
ent III the accounts OF the treasury,
why not Slle 900 Or 81 0o00oo There
viii no doubt be some sensational de-
3elopments in the treasury when the
1e,ilocrats come into iloeger.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-08-30

THE Eagle Il Pneu.X mills OF
Columbus, Ca. Manufacture fancy
eas+imeres and doeskius, some of
which are as i'm; as any made in the
United States. in SOM of their goods
they put one hundred ana fifty picks
to the inch The WOODEN mills of the
Eagle & Phoenix company produce
about twenty thousand Janis OF jeans
and tineEoods.per week. TAese mills
represent such au Interest a&might be
built up in "a few years at Austin, il
capitalists already in our midst We're
to take hold of such an undertaking.
There is an abundance of surplus
money here, and its Investment in
wooden and cotton mills would give a
permapencyt0 the value Of real estate
in Austin that could be shaken by no
financial panic.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-08-30

speed, if even this Is done by keeping
the other horse banck. Many farmers
l know never overwork their horses,
but some are less regardful of their
comfort and capabilities than they
should be-
PURE BRED STOCK.
As rule pure bred stock is not the
most profitable for farmers to keep.
Many who have tried to breed a herd
Of pure blood animals have failed.
The cost to begin with is large. The
writer recently visited herd of Jer-
sey cattle, some of the COWS in which
cost many hundreds of dollars. The
product in flesh and milk from the
animals is not so much over the grade
cow as to warrant the prices paid.
The management that such close bred
stock requires is much greater than
between the pure blood and the native
stock. Pure blood animals and herds,
like the one above mentioned, are Of
value as breeding centers,
from which the great mass of
common stock can be built up.
At a low estimate the value of the
STdu6 pTOuuCG Cdl D6 TdlScu 0lo VI
500 each, the first season. 1t may be
that a farmer with large herd of
grades thus produced can afford to
keep two or three pure blood animals
for further improvement of the herd,
but in many cases it will be better to
repleniSh the blood from one of the
centers Of such stock. 1t is a national
blessing that fancy farmers" as they
are sometimes called, are pleased to
make such large investments in pure
blood stock, for by this means The
supply of any breed is kept up.
1t would be a calamity if from any
cause these carefully managed herds
should all be broken up and scattered.
1t is through them that the whole
live stock of the country is to be i'm
proved by a gradual process of
grading In this important work the
fortune-favored stock-raisers may
find profitable field of labor.-EX
change
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-08-30


TIE Examiner hopes the next time
an election is held in Texas "the leg
stature viii make adequate provision
for having the polls opened through
out the state, as well as for the
printing and distribution of tickets.
There was deplorable neglect on this
score st the late election" The Ex-
aminer is reminded that the legisla-
ture appropriated $4,000 for the ex-
penses of this election. This was
enough for holding the election in
every precinct. and for the printing
OF tickets The legislature has enough
to bear. The executive officers are
responsible for the late farce.
THE next time a striker strikes let
him 10 like Sullivan One of his
strikes brings money, and that is
what all the world strikes for.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-08-30
Woman,s Inflnence.

The following choice bit of senti-
ment is from the Southern World:
So great is the influence of a sweet-
minded woman on those around her
that 1t is almost boundless. 1t is to
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-08-30

IN RECEIPT OF the news of Judge
Blacks death at Washington, the act
ing secretary of state ordered the flags
of that department to be put at half
mast. The workmen at once began
5raping the buildings in mourning
The consular and diplomatic agents of
the United States abroad were each
mailed a circular instructing them to
show all due honor to the distin-
guisbed dead. The flags on the resi-
dences OF all diplomatic and consular
agents stay at haIf-mast for thirty
days. The flag on the department of
Justice building is also at half-mast,
and that building, too, is draped in
mourning.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-08-30

Justice Bowen, who will accom-
pany the Lord Chief Justice of Eng.
land to America. is the youngest
Judge on the English bench.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-08-30

TIE Waco ENamiler thinks con-
stitutiond convention would be the
IlNner tMnE.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-08-30

DISCUSSING the out ONE Of the IIill
Investigation the Inland Architect
concludes that it is at least demon
strated that the time is ripe for a
cha Ge in the method OF procuring
public buildings. 1t says the best
possible architecture can only be OBJ
tanned bya competitive system that
would throw an government work
open to the experience ci the achi-
tects and builders of the country.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-08-30

qHURsDAY AUGUST 50. 1853.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-08-30

T OST-Yeteran Donation Certificate No. 1893
IL issued to Mrs s. P. Merchant. for $40
acres of land July u, 1880. If not found with
in the time prescribed by law, application Will
be made for a duplicate. W. Won ROSEN-
B ERG, Agent for owner. aua2-wsw
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-08-30

AUSTIN, rEEAs.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-07-25
WIND AND RAIN.
Michigan Visited by Destructive Storm
The Damage.

DETROIT, July 24.-The most terrific thun-
der storm ever known at Portland occurred
on Saturday night. For an hour and half
there was constant fash and roar and pour
ing of rain. About four inches of rain fell
during the night. Grand river rose more
rapidly than ever before known. Sunday
morning it had gone up several feet and
stands within a few inches of the highest
mark in June. A very severe wind and rain
storm struck Grand Ledge on Saturday night
and Sunday, breaking down shade trees and
flooding everything. Grand river has risen
five feet tbs last twenty-four hours The
three island bridges are again in danger of
being swept away. Wheatfields are in water
so that reapers cannot be used, and farmers
are buying grain-cradles to save the crop. Sew
eral buildings have been struck by lightning
On Saturday night the steeple of
the Methodist Episcopal church
of st. Johns was struck by
lightning, shattering the upper part consid-
ersbly, but causing no material damage On
Sunday evening lightning struck the dwell
ing-heuse OF George Rice, of st. Johns, de-
molishing the chimney and splintering part
of bedstead on which a little child was
sleeping, and singeing the bed-clothes, but
the child was not hurt. terrific storm
passed over Washtenaw county this after
noon, doing great damage Shade trees were
blown down in all parts of Ann Arbor, and
great injury was done to the fruit in that vi
cinity. The hail did great damage to the
eern and oats.
.s,On Monday a cyclone tore down the
house of Eugene Henry, five miles southeast
OF here. Mrs. Henry's three children were
found dead forty rods away. The father will
probably die, and the mother is seriously in
jured. One child escaped uninjured. 1t is
reported that at Onondaga, seven miles dis
tant, woman and two children were killed
Much standing grain was ruined.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-07-25
YELLOW FEVER.
New Orleans Taking Active Measures to Pre-
vent Its Introduction.

New ORLEANS, July 24.-The various COM
mercial bodies OF this city, few days ago.
adopted the following resolution, which was
last night approved by tho board of health
and forwarded to Governor McEnery:
Resolved, That the board of health be re-
Quested to petition the Governor of Louisiana a 10
have all infected vessels now in the waters of the
State removed ana that he issue his proclama-
tion that henceforth no vessel from any infected
port will be permitted TO enter the waters of the
State.
DR.. Formento then offered the following
resolutions, which were unanimously
adopted:
Whereas, There is danger of yellow fever being 2
introduced into New Orleans through unrestrict-
ed communication between Ship Island and the
coast of the State of Mississippi,
Resolved, That the Governor of Louisiana be
requested to call the attention of the Governor
OF Mississippi to this fact, and urge him to take
stringent measures to put a stop to this danger
GUS intercourse.
Be it resolved, That the general government
be requested, through the proper authority, to
order that no communication should be held be-
tween Ship Island and the Mississippi coast.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-07-25
PHILADELPHIA,
An Assertion that the Operators Do Not In.
sist on All Their Demands or None.

An Assertion that the Operators Do Not In.
sist on All Their Demands None.
PHILADELPHIA, July 24.-Fifteen branch
Offices of the American Rapid Company are
closed, and all business is now conducted at
the main Office, which is deserted by all ex-
cept the manager and two female typo
writer's At the office of the Baltimore &
Ohio Company the same state Of affairs ex-
lists. All operators are on strike except the
chief, who says business is at standstill.
President Laverty, of the Il cal branch Of
the Brotherhood OF Telegraphers, sends to
the press circular addressed to the public,
in which he calls attention to an impression
which prevails to some extent
that the executive board of telegraphers
inexorably insists upon all or nothing, and
that the strikers are therefore responsible for
the inconvenience which the public is sut-
fering This, he says, is an erroneous i'm
preston, as the board has always been ready
to consider proposals having in view a set
tlement of the difficulties. but that thus far
the telegraph companies had positively re-
fused TO recognize the board as representa-
tives of their employees, when the events of
the past few days have clearly shown that
the board does represent the telegraphers Of
the country. A satisfactory adjustment of
the difficulties, it is claimed, would be
quickly arrived at if the several corporations
would recognize and treat with the executive
board chosen by the telegraphers for the pur-
nose.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-07-25
CHICAGO.
A Circular of Warning to Railroad Compa-
nies at Chicago.

a Circular of Warning to Railroad COmpa-
nies at Chicago.
CHICAGO, July PA circular was sent out
from the headquarters OF the Brotherhood in
this city, to-day, to superintendents of roads
centering here The gist of the circular is that
the Brotherhood does not wish to interfere
with railway traffic but may be conn elled to
do so in self-protection by calling out its
members, unless the rail way managers cease
aiding the telegraph company by sending
their men to work for it, The roads
to which the circular was sent
are the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy,
Chicago Rock Island & Pacific,
Chicago & Alton, Chicago & Atlantic, Chi.
cago d Eastern Illinois, Chicago & North
western, Chicago & Western Indiana, Illinois
Central, and Chicago Milwaukee & st. Paul.
IL Will be noticed that none of the East
bound pool lines are included in the list
The telegraphers claim that of the 10000
members OF the Brotherhood 5000, or more
than half, are employed by the railroads,
and assert that they are prepared, if abso-
lutely pushed to it, to call them all
out. They decline to state, of course what
action will be taken, orwhen, if the airoaGs
pay no attention to the circular.
Superintendent Clowry, of the Western
Union, says large proportion of the
telegraph operators are distributed
sing)y and by twos at small stations,
where their duties as operators are but a
small proportion of their work. which gem
orally includes that of station agent and
express agent; that they are men Of stand
ing in their communities, and that
very few OF them would relinquish their other
duties, from which they receive most of
they pay, to come out even at the call of the
Brotherho 3D.
Supariyfapdapt ETr;oly af tbo A.
Ohio telegraph, is in the city. Some of the
operators who went out from that office
state that he held a consultation with
them to-day, and offered them very
satisfactory terms for returni ng to work ex-
cepting in one particular-refusin TO recog-
nize the Brotherhood.
The Chicago Board of Trade executive
committee passed a resolution to-day in ia
vor of submitting the questions involved in
the strike to arbitration.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-07-25
A Big Find.

ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla, July 24-For several
days Mr.. John w, Shipp, son of Rev. DR..
Shipp of Vanderbilt University, of Nash
vile, Tenn, has been in the city. He was
assigned room at the Edwards House. Hap
pening to raise one of the pillows of the bed
he was surprised to see lying closely before
his eyes a plump-looking pocket-book. He
picked it up and opened it, and counted
thirty-one bills of $1,000 each. He then
went down stairs and turned the wallet and
contents over to Mr. John Edwards, the pro-
prietor A Utica banker and stockholder in
the Jacksonville, st. Augustine d Halifax
railroad, Mr.. W. Jerome Green, had occupied
that room the night previous, and the money
was his property.