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The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-09-27
MORGAN.
ESPECIAL to The Statesman. ]

MORGAN, Sept. 21.-There fell here
yesterday morning slow and soaking
rain which will be of great benefit to
the county.
Morgan still improves slowly, and
in one years time we will have first
class country town. We have the
facilities to make it such. Up to date
there have been one hundred and fifty
seven bales of cotton received. Our
buyers are paying tip top prices.
The Morgan Argonaut newspaper
establishment has passed into the
hands of a stock company; John
Hutchinson is still editor and owns
one-fourth of the stock.
Mr.. 5. f. Moss is soon to erect fine
mansion On his ranch near this place
A wagon load of cotton was brought
by firm of this place from busi-
ness man in Glennrose, Somerville
county.
A Snowman was in town to-day
posting bills for October 2.
Morgan academy is flourishing un-
der the able management of Prof.
Hy Allen, formerly of Elgin.
There are five prisoners in our
county Jail for theft.
A young shepherd accidentally shot
himself in the knee on rancho, near
town.
DR.. J. G. O'Brien, of the Dublin
Enterprise, and John Hutchinson, of
the Morgan Augonaut, will leave for
Houston tomorrow evening to attend
the Texas Press called meeting. and
TO take in the excursion to Louisville,
st. Louis and Cincinnati.
Evangelist n. T. Martin has been
conducting a series of NEE ings this
week at the Baptist church, with fiat
tering results.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-09-27
A WESTERN DEMAND.

Mr.. Hendricks has been making
speeches in Iowa, and he has planted
himself squarely on the Iowa Demo-
cratic platform against both prOtec-
tion and prohibition. He holds that
a legislature has no right under the
constitution to pass prohiDitory law,
or to submit a prohibitory amendment
to the people. and further still, that
majority Of the people have no right
TO force prohibition upon minority.
On the question of protection
he holds that the revision of
the tariff commission was fraud.
He thinks. had the commission
acted justly and wisely it would have
satisfied the country and would have
given quiet, confidence and prosperity
to business. When the commission
faile in its duty, congress" he said,
sin the measure which it atterWard
adopted, fell below the standard of
the commission" Yet this is the
measure which the majority of the
next congress are told they must leave
undisturbed for fear of injuring the
party in the presidential election.
Ex-Gov. Hendricks does not think so.
He urges that the work of tariff re-
form must go on "by the conservative
means of gradual and persistent re-
duction of the protective duties"
The Philadelphia Record, an eminent
ly wise and ably conducted, as well as
a most conservative public ser
vitor, in noticing Mr.. Hendricks
speech, says it displayed weakness lin
his effort to reconcile the stumbling
tariff resolutions of the Democratic
conventions of Ohio and Virginia,
with the outspoken declaration of the
Iowa platform in favor of "a tariff for
revenue only. He did not mention
the tariff platform of the Pennsylva-
mia Democrats, which is copy of the
Ohio resolution, for, standing alone, a
Pennsylvania tariff resolution would
be hard to interpret in favor of a rev.
enue reform. This projection of the
ex-governor, on the hermeneutics of
recent Democratic tariff platforms,
was not eminently successful, and
seems to have provoked some COM
ment among his audience as not
coming quite up to the Iowa idea of
tariff for revenue only. But he took
care to return from his excursion and
plant himself firmly on the Iowa plat
form, with the statesmanlike quallfi-
cation that protective duties shall be
placed in the line of gradual and per-
sistent reduction" While advocating
this sound policy of tariff reform he
does not favor repeal of the
taxes ION whisky, beer and tobac-
co." He seems to understand the
popular demand is that burdensome
Incidental taxation for the protected
must cease. To admit of anything
else in the making up of platforms
is to contribute to defeat in 1884.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-09-27

IT is thought by great many
Frenchmen that the Count of Paris
will be the next president of France,
and that he will be true to the Re-
public, since the Monarchists, who
have no other candidate, will regard
him as their man, and the Republi-
cans will be grateful to him for his
loyalty to the Republic. He lives at
Eu, on the English channel, where he
has beautiful chateau about 400 feet
long, in the midst of a small town,
and it is attended by a squadron of
servants. His wife is the daughter
of the Duke of Montpensier, and is
the sister of Mercedes, late queen of
Spain. Her father is very rich, and
the Count of Paris is also possessed
of great wealth.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-09-27

Democrats in congress, and of an
overwhelming majority of the Demo
cratic party. 1t is furthermore aware
that ever since it was known that the
next house of representatives would be
Democratic Mr.. Carlisle has been the
foremost candidate for the speaker
ship, just as he is now. The blinded
DartiSanship of a Republican paper for
the Democrat Randall may not allow
it to see that Mr.. Randall us candi-
date has been steadily losing strength,
just as MesSrs. Carlisle and Cox have
been adding to their forces. Nothing
would please the Press better than to
feel assured that Democratic congress
men will surrender finally to Pennsyl-
vania Drotectio lists and indicate it by
the election of Samuel J. Randall to
the second important office in the gov
eminent. But Democrats are not in
that line of policy, and the Press arti-
Gle shows that it does not believe any
more than we that Mr.. Carlisle's
chances are second to those of its pro-
tectionist favorite or any other sup
posed candidate,
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-09-27
FORT WORTH.
Especial to The Statesman /

FORT WORTH, Sept. 21.-Capt. B.
B. Paddock, editor of the Gazette, re-
tires from that position, and w. l..
Malone becomes managing editor.
At the races to-day, inaugurating
tho driving park, Emma w. owned by
Major Barley, of Dallas, won NAL
volia's record. Sheriff Browns Gray
Dick beat Johnson's bay, and won the
$1,000 race.
Sheriff Douglas, of Grayson county,
passed through the city tonight on
his way to Bowie to secure a kidnap-
per and child. He will return the
child to her mother, who is waiting
here.
w. r. Harper and S. Anderson were
on trial in the county court to-day.
Harper had a fine breech-loading gun
repaired by Anderson, and, when he
fired it, was badly injured in the right
shoulder. He wants damages.
Jno. Galloway was arrested to-day
for subborning a witness in the
MAYORS court,
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-09-27

THE new comet has been seen from
the great observatories North and
West, and this much can be said at
present: Owing to its slow motion its
precise path cannot yet be predicted,
but it is at great distance from the
sun and earth; will reach its nearest
point to the sun about March I5 of
next year, and then be about 100000
miles from that luminary. These
particulars, coupled with the fact that
it is now visible and shows star-Iike
point at its center, make the probable
tiles very great that we shall have
this winter q notable object in the
heavens. To one familiar with the
subject, these points cal cal e mind the
first ObserYatieff3.zs Of Donatl's comet
of 1855, which was discovered four
months before its perihelion. was
only visible to the naked eye TWO
months after discovery, and only then
presented traces of a tail. Its nearest
approach to the sun was 100000
miles, and it was distant 240,0OO,000
when discovered.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-09-27
Special kilograms.
COLEMAN.
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Especial to The Statesman.l
COLEMAN, Sept. 21.-On last We'd
nesday j. j. Smith and J. D. Tiles,
two young men who were working
for MIR. &. w. Mahoney. quit work
and asked Mr.. ID. w. Watson, the
superintendent of Mr.. Mahoney's
rancho for settlement. He not
having the money about his person,
wrote for each an order for one days
work piece, all that was due them,
and yesterday J. J. Smith, who is not
more than sixteen or seventeen years
old, appeared in town with both
orders and, instead of the original
figures they appeared respectively with
ten and eleven before the days, making
of them the value of S21. He offered
both orders for $40, and the first to
whom they were offered bought them,
strangely to say, unsuspectingly. Mr..
MaEoney happened in town about
this time, and, hearing of the transac-
ton and knowing the amount for
which the orders were given, caused
the arrest of young Smith, who to-day
was given hearing and plead guilty
and asked bond in the sum of $500,
in default of which he was remanded
to Jail. Smith says his father lives IN
Kimble county and is a wealthy stock
man.
The sheriffs OF Coleman, San Saba,
McCulloch and Concho counties, with
their deputies, have been called to the
lines of San Saba, Coleman and Nc
Culloch counties to investigate the
brand-burning of cattle, which IS re-
ported in progress at that point by an
organized body of lawless men. 1t is
reported that cattle having the
brands burned. though they could be
identified, the owners are afraid to
claim them.
We have had another good rain,
and now are enjoying a temperature
o. sixty degrees.
Tom Hayes, who was shot at Trick
UNI a few days ago. has since died.
Pendleton is now under arrest.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-09-27
Press kilograms.
CAPITAL and Labor.

NEW YORK, Sept. 21.-The senate
sub committee on labor and edu-
cation had before them as witness
to-day +. b. Thurber, a leader of the
anti-monopoly league. Witness be-
lieved that the unsatisfactory re-
lations existing between labor and
capital, which prevailed to consider
able extent in this country, was due
to the enormous changes consequent
upon the discovery and utilization of
steam and electricity, which, within
comparatively. few years, had revo-
lutioniZed all departments of pro-
duction and commerce, and to great
extent the affairs of society in gen.
eral. Within the last fifty years new
forces have arisen for which the taxes
are entirely inadequate, and these
have been allowed to be monopolized
by few. With these forces had
come tremendous development of
machinery and corporate organ
ization, all of which had conferred
great benefits upon humanity as a
whole, but these developments had
taken place without proper regu-
lation and corps of att ending evils
had sprung up in consequence. He
didn't attribute all the ills of society to
the effects of these kinds of monopoly.
There were many causes, such as land
monopoly, currency monopoly, trans
portation monopoly, tariff monopoly,
combination in trade, monopoly of
taxation, intemperance and ignorance,
which have bearing upon the prob
lem. In regard to the tarrying on of
the trade of the world, on highways
on land it could be monopoliZed, While
on the sea eXaction CT carriers could
be held in check by competition. The
majority of our lawmakers were in
terested directly or indirectly in cor
porate enterprises and the statutes
were enacted in that interest. Wit
ness also spoke of the use of money in
influencing legislation in the interest
of corporations, and said that so
powerful was that influence
that they possessed that often
derS could not be punished.
The state, if it had constructed rail-
roads. would not have watered stocks,
nor Disseminated against persons and
places, corrupted elections, debauched
courts, and created enormous wealth
for the few at the expense of the
many. The practice of stock water
ing was forcibly illustrated in the
case of the New York Central rail-
road. In 1867 to 1869 the stock of the
road was watered to the extent of
SAT, 100000. Rates for transportation
had been imposed which had yielded
regularly per cent dividends upon
watered stock, amounting each year
to $3,760,O0O, and these dividends in
fourteen years, with interest, amount
ed to about $83,OOOOO0. Pooling, he
thought, was not unmixed evil, for it
assured some degree of stability and
uniformity, but pooling, when there
was no power above the pool to decide
what was reasonable charge, was
ant to be arbitrary and eXacting
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-09-27
MASON.
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MASON, Sept. 21.-A heavy rain
commenced yesterday morning and
lasted the entire day, doing an i'm
mense amount of good and bringing
relief throughout the county.
The marriage of Mr.. J. ID. Worrat
and Miss Jennie McMahon, of. Camp
San Saba. occurred yesterday. The
happy pair passed here on their bridal
trip en- route to Austin and the East.
The infant daughter of Mr.. VIM.
Wheeler died yesterday evening, after
a lingering illness.
+. q. Morris, of Austin, has arrived
here, and reports that the district
court at Brady closed this evenings
No bills of any consequence were
found by the grand jury. A heavy
rain fell in that section.
A number of horses have been stolen
in the last two weeks, and there is no
clue to the thieves as yet.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-09-27
The Pittsburg TxpIosion.

FITTsBURG, Sept. 2l.-Beni. Young.
Boiler Inspector Ford's clerk, statc,!
tonight, that they hal no record OF
the exploded boiler and that it hadn't
been inspected because the inspector
didn't know anything about it. lie
says the law requires all persons oper-
ating steamDoilers to notify the in
spector, but this was not done. The
penalty for neglecting to do this is a
fine of $1,000 and two years imprison-
ment, and besides being responsible
for all injuries and damages sustained
by others in case of explosion. Two
more injured are reported to. day, but
the injuries are not of serious ma
ture.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-09-27
A Louisville Advertisement.

LOUISVILLE. Sept. 21.-The stables
at the Louisville Jockey Club are ram
idly filling up with horses from ey.-
cry section of the country, especially
from the South and West. Quite a,
feature will be tAe different State
days, while on the 18th, when Lorril-.
lard's champion stallion stakes will be
run, the governors of the eontiru-
Gus states will congregate to witness
what will probably be the great event
of the year. The grounds are in bear
tiful order, rain being all that 5
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-09-27
The Trunk Smashers.

CHICAGO, Sept. 21.-The convention
OF the National Association of Gen
eral Baggage Agents concluded this
afternoon. The system of checking
baggage at private residences, hotels,
etc., was unanimously condemned. A
resolution was adopted recommends
ing that, if practicable, the maximum
weight of single pieces of immigrant
baggage be placed at $50 pounds, the
amount allowed other travellers, The
next annual convention viii be held
ut st. Louis next February.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-09-27
New York nnIn~s

NEW YORK, Sept. 21.-Jack Dem
sey and Jack Boylan, pugilists, were
arrested yesterday when about to en-
gage in boxing mach, and were ar
raigned to-day under the penal code
and held in $1,000 bond each to keep
the peace for a year, in default of
which both were locked up.
Suit has been commenced in the
supreme court by Leslie E. Slosson,
brother of the well known billiardist,
against the Long Island railroad COM
pany, to recover $4,000 damages for
damages received in a collision on the
18th inst.
A fire this morning destroyed Ellis
planning mill. Loss $4,000. The sur
rounding piles of lumber, worth
$4,000, almost wholly insured, mostly
belonging to G. l.. Schuyler & Co.,
were also burned.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-09-27

THE beauties OF Mr. Pendleton's civil
ervice measure are, that whenever
Republicans want to use it for their
benefit they do so. Circulars have
7ately been sent TO federal employees
=sn Virginia seeking accomplishment
of what is absolutely prohibited under
the law. It is set forth therein that
no senator or representative, or any
officer or employe of congress, and no
executive. judicial, military or naval
officer of the United States, and no
clerk or employe of any department
or branch Of any service shall "di-
rectly OF indirectly" solicit or receive
or abe in any manner concerned in
soliciting OF receiving any assessment.
subscription or contribution for "any
political purpose whatever" This
section is certainly comprehensive
enough to cover any and all cases,
and vet. Senator Malone, over his
own signature, notifies men in govern
ment service OF his displeasure at
their conduct. This offense consists
in the fact that they stake no in
terest' in the Virginia campaign
association. the object of which
are ito promote. rs well is il mas
properly, the success OF the party
whose Recommendation you tthe gov
ernment anpioye addresseG nave
heee given recognition Here IS n
Street reminder 10 IT, government
elersS sslat ha is upsssT pol ticai obliga-
sios for The phsee he .s4.5s. Inc asso-
eisgioa wnich Senator Malone adj
4tEsishes Virginia CLERKS to rally
sbens selves with. supplements his cir
s,liaF Ssitb oue of its own, warning
delinquent that unless his dues
10 paid up he viii be summary
deait With" Tits not the absence of
Nirginians from meetings that
aronses the regret of the senator and
paoves the association to action; it is
dues that are wanted. This whole
se.heIne is but a movement to collect
nader the head of dues, what in past
years has been solicited as voluntary
contributions and il the civil SER
vice law is to be enforced at all, heads
Of departments invaded by these Vir-
Rinit circulars must take notice of the
fact. But civil service reform, as reg
slated now by law, is but sham for
popular deception, to hide the base
pfactfces to which party resorts to
hold more firmly than ever its grip
upon the offices Of the people.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-09-27

THE talk about an extra session
has subsidized. Every vital measure
adopted at the late election can be put
in force without a legislature, and an
extra session would cost more money
than could possibly lie made in twelve
months by anything that might be
done in advance of the next regular
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-09-27

TBE Fort Worth Democrat an,
nounces for Hon. Thos. f. Bayard
and stephen j. Field for the Demo-
cratic presidential ticket. AS THE
eTArEsatAN has declared time and
again. The Democrat announces that
the Democratic party has tried con-
servative policy long enough in vain.
1t says;
ebfr. Greeley's candidacy was
grave error, detrimental TO the party
and 70 himself Mr.. Tilden was
elected, but at a time when, to con-
tend for his seat would have been
perilous to the public veal. We be-
Nese Mr.. Tilden was. at the time, an
available man, and congress is re-
sponsible for legislating him out of
his seat. In the next Demo-
cratic convention the name of
1Ihos. r. lBayard, the tai
ented and accomplished gen.
efnan OF Delaware will be presented,
and the only thing that can prevent
his nomination Will be a motive to
defeat the Democracy. Senator Bay
ard is an illustrious patriot, an un-
eEeryipg Democrat, high-minded
statesmen. He is einphatically the
Niasiing spirit OF true Democracy in
tlae United States to-day. His nomi-
nation would inspire the whole DEM
cslactic element. and his election
would re-establish the constitution
AID restore the government to its
0'.i9inal purity and simplicity
TIE STATESMAN endorses every
drd said by our contemporary. 1t has
rspeStedly urged the fitness of Mr.. Bay
ard to lead Democracy to victory; and
reiterates its undying CONVICTION.
fiat when Thos. f. Bayard is made
he Eemocratic nominee for the ptesi-
dtIncy. the purest elements of society
ia. the land. in the Democratic party
arid out Of It. VIII step to the front
ard make him the next president of
fhcse United States His name would
BE- a aaarantee Of pure government
vt.l as has been pnkuoN WI Tor twenty
,.-isch IS tho go cne once
=. y
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-09-27
A Fatal Mash.

ST. LOUIS, Sept. 21.-Just before
the close of the performance at the
Alhambra Variety theatre last night
Richard Whalan, aged twenty, fired a
revolver at Carrie Fart or Howard
one of the actresses, and then blew his
own brains out. Whalen. who was a
travelling salesman for Broderick &,
Baseom. of.this city, is said to have
been mashed ON the Howard girl. and
shot at her because she Wouldn't ae-
eept present. Another story is that
ne recently lost considerable of his
employers money at gambling In
New Orleans, and had been drinking
heavily and killed himself in a ft Of
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-09-27
After the SWindlers.

ST. ALBANs, Sept. 21.-Lawrence
Bra1nard, A. o. Brainard, and Charles
Wyman, of the st. Adams Trust COM
pany, were indicted by the grand jury
for violation of the penal clause of the
charter. Lawrence Brainard gave
$4,000 bail. The others recognized
in the sums of $4,000 and $4,000 re-
spectively. 1t is understood that
three other directors are included in
the findings of the Jury.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-09-27
The Edueafors

LoUIsvrLLE, Sept. 21.-The educa
tlonal convention met in session to.
day, though many delegates have de
parted. The topic of to-day's discus
sion was the system of schools undel
state control, which DR.. A. A. Miner
OF Mississippi, treated vesy ably. A
resolution favoring feuefa1 II go ed a
cation was adopted. with but one dis
senting voice. The convention adj
JouTned this evening. Every one who
participated was highly pleased.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-09-27

AN exchange announces that
brother Shaw" of Waco, was in
Hill county a few days ago, working
in the interest of Beelzebub and the
Independent Pulpit" Intolerance is
too much of Distinguishing feature
in religious opinion. Brother Shaw
has a perfect right to work in the in
terest of anybody, but to call him a
servator of the devil is the expression
of most dangerous intolerance-dan-
gerous alike to the cause of moral and
religious sentiment.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-09-27
The knights of LahOr-

PITTsBURG, Sept. 21.-It IS -
that disintegration of tho Knpghts al
Labor is threatened. an aeco,unt of the
proceedings taken at the meeting of
the general assembly III Cincinnati.
PlttsDurg members, especially. will
withdraw, because Frank Foster.
a pronounced free trader, has
been placed at the head of
the execEcive board created
at the Cincinnati meeting and
which will hereafter direct and con-
troll the order. 1t comes froln some
OF the highest officers of the order
In this city that members of the or
Ger who are protectionists viii with
draw fr0in IL at an early day. and that
they conlpoS'' a majority of the rider,
but were out-generaiei bv Ia, rae
traders. who are supported lW the.
Golden club.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-09-27

& A NEW YORK man has invented a
tnachine that lays eggs at the rate of
g Thousand per hour. These yankees
are going on in wild career of in
ovcrturniDg old things and
ssittiBg in force new theories and
Notices so rapidly, that Young men
hesitating and rejecting upon the
bable era when they may make
orders for complete families, mi
Ms the mothers-in-iaw, to be turned
L by machinery instead of by the
e5ent tiresome process.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-09-27

- HE subjects to be discussed at the
tional convention colored men,
be held ia Louisville on the Oath
instant, are about as follows: The
education of the masses; how to bet
Ter the condition of the colored man
in the south; whether it is better to
remain in the South or go West; the
political future of the race. E. p.
Mars, a prominent colored man of
louisville, is reported as saying that
Mr.. j. NJ. Langston, minister of Hay
81 need give himself no uneasiness
bout the convention, as it will not
. ach the administration with ten
- Tot pole.