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The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-10-04
HOUSTON.
Especial to The Statesman.

HOUSTON, Sept. 27.-T. II. Seaman,
'merly mayor Of the city. was
)bed last night, coming from Chi
go, on sleeper, Of $3.50. lie tele-
Flphed here for detective to meet
Al at the train. The latter took the
after in hand, and made the porter
gorge, getting all the money. The
tier, named Chandler, was arrested,
{. IS now in Jail. Seaman placed
money under his pillow during
; night.
Chas. Drew, who committed sui
lie yesterday, was buried this even
:.
F'he marriage, in high life, of J. c.
.eet and Miss Ella Richardson. took
see this evening. Her father is
;retary of the Houston & Texas
tltral railway. The couple LETT for
q Antonio tonight.
Three horses belonging 20 a. j.
tlieb, were drowned in the bayou
is morning by being driven in too
ep.
The county commissioner to-day
cided to finish the San Jacinto street
on bridge,
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-10-04
The Travis county district court

The Travis county district cout
convtnes tomorrow. and Jude
Walker has set his docket as follows
l. That the civil non-jury docket be
called Tuesday, Octobe 2. 2. The
civil jury docket will be called Oto-
Der 8. 3. The civil non-iury docket
will occupy the week lightning Otto
Der 10. 4. The criminal docket will
be called October IL, and will eon-
tinue until business is disposed of.
8. After the criminal docket the civil
jury docket will be again called. g.
After the jury docket will be alled
cases passed to the end of the docket.
Z. Motions on Saturday. There are
225 civil cases on the docket, of which
seventy-fve are new; twenty-five old
criminal cases and twenty new ones,
and only few of the many have as
yet been reported by the justices of
the peace, as they have till next Mon
Qay to report.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-10-04
STATE NEWS REPERTOI


IL
Mr.. q. l.. Jackson brought bur
office branch of shin oak meaing
four inches in length, and hing |
tWenty-one acOrnS. No dana of |
starving; plenty of fat hogs, andn't |
forget. Mr.. johnson reports thin
oak mast tine.-Once Il Week.
When going the rounds for ms
we dropped into the Grange Stoild
witnessed Mr.. Suddie Meeks perm
quite 4 wonderful feat. He liftlp
Il sack of coffee, and while holdi it
clear of the floor, went back,ds
and touched the back of his hea)n
the floor, and still holding the Elk
clear, roseto an upright positi-
Once a Week. Query: What dine
sack Of coffe weigh?
The rains insure fair winter re
for our cattie.-GraSS is saddle
very good in the neighborhodOf
Sharp mountain.-Q Quite Il oil
norther blew up Thursday, andn-
tinued quite cool up to Monday
The rain mentioned us falling Vn
we went to press last ThurS,
proved to be all that could have IN
desired. 1t continued to rain dug
the entire day and a part of the MI,
wetting the ground pretty thoroug.
-Llano Rural.
The idea Of the state issuing bo'
in order to find safe investment (.
the permanent school fund as well
the RENTING of taxes. We belit
such Il policy would meet the app
baton Of the general public if und
stood. The surplus school fund wi
the amount accommodating, if us
for state expenses, would obyiate t
necessity of leVying any ad valore
state tax for several years. The pr
pie had rather pay & per cent intert
on bonds and use the money for il
provementS than to pay their tax
Mount Pleasant News.
Fence cutting is still rampant, bio
is being shed, lynch law prevails
some parts, and still the constitut
authorities remain inactive. This
condition Of affairs that ought L
to be tolerated in a well regulat
state. Feeling is evidently runni
high against the Nesters, or pc
farmers, the public only look at t
present destruction Of property, a
forgetting that the large landown,
were the first to break the law
fencing in that which was not tn
own, and blocking up and turn
public roads miles out of tn
natural course. There is go lack
law on the statute books to m,
every phase of their unnatural war
only the authorities would put it
operation. The conflict is but anotf
aspect Of the irrepressible conf
everywhere going on between wealt
monopoly and the rights of the co
mon people to which little or no C,
sideration is given when they int
fere with INSCRIPTIONS wealthy sto
men and companies. The wealt
stockmen were the first to break
bonds Of authority and there is
archy. They forgot the uniyer
principle that property is a tr
which they held not for their own
diligence but for the general gooJ
Bandera Bugle.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-10-04

Tie Scientific American points ou
that the chemical changes by which
paste is transformed into dough ant
dough into bread are not completed
when the bread has been baked
"They continue for quite while at.
terward, and until they entirely cease
the material has not become what it
ought to be--bread easy of digestion
1t is a burden to any stomach, to a
weak one it is simply. poison" The
advice given is to avoid eating hot
bread, or any of its substitutes, such
as hot biscuit, mullins, rolls, waffies,
buckwheat cakes, etc. "Hot bread in
any form whatever" says this author
ity, should never be eaten. Some
forms are very much worse than 9TH
ers, but all are bad, and should in rca-
son be banished from every table,"
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-10-04


The Morse Diamond Cutting COM
pany, of Boston, is negotiating for the
job of cutting the largest diamond
ever sent to this country. tits owned
by parties in New York, and has a
singular history. 1t was found in a
remote district of the South African
diamond fields between three and
four years ago. The finder was one
of a party of diamond hunters, and he
was so overcome with fear that he
betrayed the fact of his valuable pos
session to his companions. He was
murdered, and the man who murdered
him met a like fate. Before it reached
this country it cost four lives. The
last owner, when dying, gave it to a
native who sold it to sea captain. 1t
weighs 125 carats and is little off in
color.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-10-04

to get an injunction to restrain the
Gulf, Colorado ~ Santa Fe from OPP
Grating its new line of telegraph be-
tween Dallas and Cleburne.
John White. a counterfeiter, who
recently escaped from Limestone
county Jail, where he was held, await
ing transfer to Van Zandt county
Jail. was captured last night by II
EosSe OF Dallas and Van Zandt coun-
ty officers. lie was sent TO Jail at
Canton to-day.
Henry Shanks, who killed August
Winner. in the religious discussion
Yesterday morning, WaS ca.-tured
eight miles from the city late last
night and is now in Jail. lie is well
connected in Louisville, Ky, and was
attempting to escape to that state.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-10-04
WEBBERVILLE.
Especial to The Statesman.

WEBBERvILLE, Sept. 27.-The peti
tion for local option in this precinct
has been in circulation for some days
and so far has met with Il hearty re-
ception by the solid portion of the
community. 1t is to be hoped that
the local optiOnists will be successful
nls the whisky clement has had The
I'rule of government" down here for
60, these many years.
d Reno Smiths $500 boat is doing
's,ood work since the recent rise in the
yiYer.
I Mr.. Aaron Burleson, of Austin, is
CLOWN, looking after his varied inter
rests and speaking Il word for local
,f'ption.
It John Ireland who has been suffer
# lg for some weeks from an ole
n .ound, received during the war, il
# D better.
It The health of the community i
" nod
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-10-04
THE COURTS.

Judge Dclany, of the court of COM
missiOners of appeals, left yesterday
evening, to attend the session of the
supreme court, which sits at Tyler
next week. Associate Justice West,
of the supreme court, leaves to-day,
and Judges White and Wilson, of the
court of appeals, leave Monday for the
same purpose.
There was a meeting Of the county
commissioners court Of Travis county
yesterday Present-Judge Fillmore,
presiding, and Wright, Pace and IIol-
land. The court ordered $1,000 to be
appropriated out Of The county school
house fund to build Il school house in
Austin on the lots bought of Mr., Ray
mOnd.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-10-04

first Judge who had the backbone to
sit down on the superstition about
Friday. One day in Bastrop he said
to a murderer:
Il sentence you to be hanged by the
neck until you are dead, on the --
day of July. 1876. and may the devil
get his due" or some words like the
above.
The sheriff, who had an almanac in
his hand, turned pale, and exclaimed:
"My God! hold on Judge Why the
----of July is not Friday; it's
Wednesday,
The judge looked smilingly down
on the troubling sheriff, Che judge is
young and handsome, and doesn't
wear glasses while everybody looked
up, and expected to see bolt of cleo
trical vengean e drop from heaven
and annihilate any judge who would
thus dare to tamper with the tradi-
lions of centuries. The judge said:
II know it will be Wednesday, and
l want it distinctly understood that
this court does not go high on old
women'S fables, neither does
it regard superstitions born OF
ignorance: and verify l say unto
you, that it is the intention of this
court to knock the idea into Il cooked
hat that Friday is an unlucky day
because it is hangman'S day, and thai
all scoundrelS must be hung on Fri
day; and that, as consequence, it is
unlucky to begin journey or COM
mence new undertaking on Friday.
I'll hang criminals every day in the
week, and on Sunday, too, if necesSa-
ry, in order to put an end to such
! foolish notions. Call the next cast" "
That's the kind of man and judge
Hon. l.. w. Moore is, and l love and
respect him for it, in spite OF that lit
tie s. fine. am not preiuliced nor
influenced by personal matters in my
estimate Of public men. I'll write up,
in few days, the most remarkable
instance of detective work ever
known, perhaps, concerning the con-
viction of man just sentenced by
Judge Moore to life imprisonment for
murder.
y great many Improvements are
being made here. The water works
will soon be squirting, and Mr.. e. NJ.
Holmes will be happy.
Crops are not so bad as many
thought. About one-fourth to one
third of a bale to the acre will be the
average. I'll try my hand on the San
Marcos river soon.
| IKE PUILKINS
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-10-04
What the South is doing in the way

What the South is doing in the way
of providing educational facilities
does not seem to be fully understood
in the North. The impression is
abroad there that the South is far be
hind other sections Of the country in
the number Of the schools and COL
leges. A correspondent of the New
York Tribune, writing from Ocean
Grove, New Jersey, shows that this
is Il mistake, and furnishes some fig
ures to support his assertion that
there is a much better condition Of
Southern colleges and private schools
than is generally supposed. lie makes
the following brief comparisons be-
tween a few Northern and Southern
cities:
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-10-04

Lord Odo Russell, while calling
upon Prince Bismarck a short while
ago, asked him how he managed to
rid himself of that class of unfortun-
ate visitors whom he could not We II
refuse to see, but whose room he found
preferable to their company. oh"
replied the chancellor, 81 have very
simple method. My wife knows them
pretty well, and when she sees they
are with me she generally contrives
to come in and call me away upon
some pretext or another" He had
scarcely finished speaking when the
princess put her head in ut the door
and said: lotto. you must come and
take your medicine, you ought to have
had it ten minutes ago"
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-10-04
THE STATESMAN.
DEPARTMENT &OTEs.
EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT.
AUSTIN. TEXAS.


Conjecture is rife as to the cause OF !
The Governors sudden departure to
Mexico. Is there any international
muss? Has Count Teltener again
lodged the quarantine, if indeed he
ever lodged 1T at all, or did anything
more than quietly come to the Rio
Grande us any other unofiending man
NAV have done? Is there more than
ordinary music or anything military
in the usually quiet air of balmy
MeXico'S cline? Or, rs it is to be
hoped he had, has the governor drawn
the 100000 prize in the Havana lot
try, and gone by way of Mexico to
get the money to invest in some fine
hacienda in Chihuahua, Coahiula or
Neuva Leon? The people will keep
an admiring eye on the exploits OF the
governor.
STATE DEPARTMENT..
The charter of the Bayou City
Bridge and Manufacturing company,
of Houston. capital stock $4,000, was
filed Saturday with the secretary of
state. The incorpOrators are {. G..
Wiggin, NJ. G.. Howe, ). Taliaferro,
Bernard III. Schmidt, }. X. Mcllhenny,
II. a. Rice and Il. G. Simpson.
COMPTROLLER DEPARTMENT.
Assessment rolls of CaSs county
were received yesterday showing an
increase of over 100000 in values.
The increase in BeXar county is S.
9JS,5I2.
John b. German, tax collector of
kimball county, settled his accounts
with the Office.
ADJUTANT GENERALS DEPARTMENT.
In answer to an inquiry, the attor-
ncy general yesterday gave the opin-
ion that the act of 1881, authorizing
the issuance of county bonds TO build
court houses includes the authority to
issue bonds to build additions to the
court houses.
THE STATE UNIVERSITY.
There were no students registered
Yesterday. The proctor was engaged
in having the university compers sur
Vcyed and laid off in walks and other
improvements. Serpentine walks in
the shape of the figure elgit "ould he
very suitable and pretty. The ..ced
not be so Serpentine as to leave car
riage drivers in doubt, whether others
Oh the track are going out or coming
back.
FINANCIAL MATTERS.
County bonds TO the amount of
about $25O00O were yesterday offered
the board of education for account OF
New York holders, represented by
the German-American bank of Aus
tin. The bonds draw eight per cent.
interest, and premium is asked for
them The offer would profit the
school fund about five per cent, but
the board for the present prefer small
lots, such as are being offered them
at par.
There are numerous applications for
leasing the school lands, some of them
for large sections, on the same terms
as those leased to Lane Il Millett.
The university lands could be leased
ON the same terms.
The board to investigate land
frauds meets next Wednesday.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-10-04

NEWPORT, Sept. 26.-President Ar
thur took a drive this morning and
examined the Charming memorial
church. lie lunched with Mr.. French
and took another drive this afternoon.
Tonight he dined with G. p. Will
more. Tomorrow he goes to West
leland
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-10-04
BRENNAN.


BRENNAN, Sept. 27.-After two
days trial in the district court, the
case of the state VS.. Harry Hill. charg-
ed with murder, the jury, after an alb
sence of one hour, rendered verdict
of guilty OF manslaughter and
sentence him to five years
in the state penitentiary. The
killing was done near Rich
mond, Fort Bend county, five years
ago and was tried here on Il change OF
venue. Defendant WAS tried at Rich,
mond several years ago, and given
TWENTY-FIVE wears.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-10-04

The forest acreage of the United
states is less than fourth of the total
surface, a less proportion than in the
east and west and north of Europe.
The American public is becoming
aroused to the Importance of forestry,
and practical measures are being in
augurated for the protection and in
crease of our forests. Many of the
early clearings in New England are
being filled up with trees, and in Mass
achusetts and New Hampshire espe-
cially the acreage of forest is greater
to-day than it was seventy-five years
aOO
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-10-04
Money for Somebody.

Under the law, after October LIST, all
letters will be withheld by the post
master, unless postage is fully paid.
Merchants and others will have to
have scales for weighing letters.
Cheap standard scales will be in de-
mand and some enterprising fellow
can make mint of money by furn-
iShing them.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-10-04
Weekly Mortality.

Report Iof G. L. Nitschke, city SEX
ton, for the week ending September
20.
September 22.-H. Burton, dysen-
terry, age 80, female, colored. = Ryan,
suicide, age 40, male. white.
I September 26.-M. Z. Simms, ty-
phoid fever, age 20, female, white.
September Esd. Tillman, con.
gestion of the brain, age 80, male,
white.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-10-04
Where is Billy johnson?

ST. LOUIS, Sept. 26.-Billy johnson,
chief clerk of the Cairo Short Line
railroad in the general freight and
ticket office, disappeared last Satur-
day, leaving the sum of $500 unac-
counted for. He is said to have been
selling tickets to brokers surrepti-
tiously. The company is reported
willing to pay for information of his
whereabouts.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-10-04

Patents for $4,000 new inventions
were issued by the patent Office lasj
year. 1t IS probable that not more
than a thousand, if so many, will eve,
amount to anything. Every inventor
however, thinks there is fortune
in his invention,
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-10-04
1t is said that the lively competition

1t is said that the lively competition
in American grain and produce intro
| duced into England, resulting in low
ering prices of many necessaries of
life, has reduced the income of land
holders that they find it diffiult mat
ter to make it suffice for their support.
This state of things will have an end
ing, and the Impoverished land own
ers will be forced, sooner or later, to
cut up their landed estates and sell
them to number of parties. This
will naturally produce a change in
the character of society, and have
much to do with dstroying the dis
tinctions now made on account of
landed possessions. 1t will be a sad
blow to the English landlord, but if he
will take into consideration the fact
of the immense production of grain
that can be grown, threshed and put
into Liverpool cheaper than an Eng
lish farmer can grow it, he will make
up his mind to face the inevitable.
IN reviewing the acknowledgements
so-called address the Galveston News
says:
Evidently there is in the address Of
GllO aug ltIdAI-SClCld1 al 81 pulCdllJ
described condition Of peril which
constitutes the "eXtraordinary circum-
stances in which the governor would
be fully warranted in the use of this
force Estate police or any other at his
command in going beyond the limits
of the exact letter of the law" If the
address does not show the existence
of such extraordinary circumstances,
it shows nothing but special pleading.
1t is an elaborate impeachment of
local authority and public opinion,
and according to this Impeachment in
a large portion of the state no remedy
for the wrong is to be expected save
through the state authorities. 1t |
were bootless to appeal, as does the |
acknowledgement, to the people to act |
promptly and positively for the sup |
preston of lawleSsneSS when he as
cribes the principal cause of the trou-
bles to a deep-seated public sentiment |
favoring such lawlessness. If the
people are so far misled the appeal |
will be as fruitlesS as that made from
so many sufferers to the state author
tiles but if it shall prove effective,
everybody will regret that the literary
bureau of the states war department |
was not instituted at an earlier date,
and is not more frequently brought
into requisition."
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-10-04

When an indian doctor loses five
patients the survivors of the tribe
send him after them to see what has
| ecome of them. After all, the In
dams would lose some advantages by
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-10-04

The approaching close of the Maho-
metan thirteenth century, which oc-
ours in November, has furI ished the
Moslems with preteXt for pl edicting
the end of the world at the same time.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-10-04

statement. It is probable that he will
make some reply from the platform
before he leaves America to the lee
ture OF Mr.. Fulton.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-10-04
Elevator Burned.


BUFFALO. Sept. Pa fire this
morning destroyed Sternberg's eleva-
tor and contents. Loss, $175,000
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-10-04
Wintery.

ST. PAUL. Sept. 28.-At 9 o'clock
this morning snow fell heavy for
about five minutes throughout Min
nesota, but none in Dakota
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-10-04

John GoekeI, of Baltimore, sneczed
so hard that he dislocated his
shoulder.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-10-04

The New York Sun gave this excel
lent ADVICE to father who asked the
editor to recommend book that he
could give his son, which would help
in forming his character. The father
inquired whether Lord Chesterfeld'S
letters would be a fit volume for the
purpose. To which the Sun answers
in the negative. pronouncing the
authors moral standard low, his view
OF life cynical, and the tendency of
the work to cultivate merely the ex-
ternal and artificial rather than de-
velop the best intrinsic qualities of
young man. "Mr. Browns letters to
his Nephew" also 'Pendennis." both
by Thackeray, and "The Vicar of
Wakefield" are stongly recommended
others from the well selected list
Carlyle's ''Sartor Resartus," if the boy
is serious and old enough, SCOTS
works. and ending with Smiles SELF
Help" a book that cannot but give
strength and character to any Young
mind that reads it. If the choice is
to be confined to one of these, SELF
Help" would probably be found to
contain more than any single volume
for young impressionable mind.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-10-04

= AAA Az AS AAA
the Blood and enricT,es IL. and is there
fore q fine iIIrigOrGnt and corrective
in cases OF all cIirOnic 71dlGdtes which
are associated with an IMPOVERISHED
STATE OF THE BLOOD. These all yield
tothe regulating and nourishing prop
critics of its great food tonic elements-
Itcompensates for the loss Of Titc!itD,
induced by Consumption, Cdfd!7I, or
bronchial and Throat affections. 1t
SciU remedy Feminine Debility and
reimburse Tho Female physique for
those losses Of vitality accom- pany-
ing complaints peculiar to the se.r.
Mothers nursing their own children,
and delicate 9CODleB who expect to
become mothers and bring up UiJ0T-
Ons children should by all m cans use
it, 1T aciU restore sufferers from
Mental or Nervous PrOstTdtiOII aris-
ing from OUer- icOrH, E.rcesses or
7lr0fractoJ Disease. 1t Uit cure
Drunkenness and the Opium Habit
for as the appetite grows healthier
and digestion more vigorous through
the use of this Tonic, tho unnatural
craving dies away until totally OK
tinct. IT Is highly beneficial in Liver
Complaints, GIdJGridL Feuer, and
ALL HIGIGrtdL Disease; and for tho
facilitating effects of FeUer of any
Kind it has 40 equal. 1t repairs
gCaste, inLprOres Digestion and Ap-
petite, and affords the Dyspeptic In
gaIid an easily Gssintildbte article
of food; and is SO pleasant 20 the taste
that the most sensitive palate will not
reject it.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-10-04
THAT THE MEDICAL PROFESSION

and invalids generally may properly
understand the merits OF "COtdeyi's
Liquid Beef IOnic," an analysis by
the eminent chemist, ARTHUR HILL
HASSALI,, Md, FRS, Of London,
EngiaffTand also an endorsement by
the celebrated physician, Professor
SIR ERASMUS WILSON, +. RS, LID,
of London, are labeled on each bottle.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-10-04

Cream Dress1ng.-1wo eggs, three
tablespoonfuls of vinegar, one Of
cream, one teaspoonful of vinegar, a
little salt and one-fourth of tea
spoonful of mustard. Beat eggs well,
add sugar, salt and mustard, then vim
egar. lastly cream. Place the bowl in
basin of boiling water and stir until
it thickens, not longer. Cool and use
when needed.