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The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-07-03
SEVERE FALL.
A Painter Falls Thirty-five Feet, Land
III.

A Painter Falls Thirty-five Feet, Land
ing on His Head.
At 3 o'clock yesterday afternoon
while painting on the cupola of Mr.
Domains new residence on Lavaca
street, near Mesquite, Robert L.
Gardner lost his balance and fell
backwards from the scaffold, a dis
lance of thirty-five feet, striking on
his head. He was picked up insensi-
Bile and conveyed to the Capital hotel,
where DR.. Wooten dressed his inju-
ries. He has quite a cash in his
head, on top. and the right side of his
face and chin is very much inflamed
The thumb and fore finger of his
left hand were also injured. There
were twelve stitches taken in his
head. AT 8 o'clock Gardner came to
and at o'clock this morning was
sleeping quietly. 1t is miracle the
man was not killed instantly.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-07-03
WHO KILLED WATFORD i?

Judge Walker yesterday rendered
his decision in the habeas corpus trial
of Mitchell and Willis, charged, to-
gether with Rubirth, with the muir
der of Billy Watford. He remanded
them both to jail without bail, under
the decision of the court of appeals
that where verdict of murder in the
first degree would be allowed to
stand, the case is uDbailahle. He
gave the defense, however, till Satur-
day morning to produce any author
ity super5edlng the decisions in the
Foster and Thompson cases. 1t is
pretty safe to say these gents will
spend the summer, at least, in the eX-
hllarating atmosphere of our county
jail, and will enjoy the superb society
there afforded.
In the afternoon the Rubirth case
came up. Two witnesses for the de-
Tense were heard In an effort to prove
an alibi. If there is possibility OF
doing this, it will have to be done by
the evidence of witnesses whose testi-
mony does not antagoDize that given
by every other witness for the de-
tense. Charles Ennis testified that
Rubirth was almost block away
from the scene of the shooting at the
time it occurred, while Charles Organ,
who Immediately preceded him, swore
that he was only seventy feet away.
From the testimony already given,
Mitchell, accused of having struck
Watford in the head before he was
shot, must have been very numer-
GUS man, as he has already been de-
scribed as being in at least half a
dozen different places at the firing of
the shot. 1t would surprise no one il
through tickets to Huntsville were
gi en to several of the defense's wit
| mes. eS on the ground of perjury.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-07-03
A SAD CASE.

On the delayed Missouri Pacific
train Wednesday night, Mr.. Thomas
Goodnight arrived in the city, having
IN charge his wife, Mrs. Oracle Good
night, hopelessly insane. Goodnight
is young farmer, living about two
miles out from Fort Worth, and his
wife is only twenty-four years of age.
Since her affection she has made sew
eral efforts at suicide.
In most heart-rendering manner
the beautiful maniac plead with her
husband not to leave her here, but to
take her back to her home and two
little children Zone an infant). The
Door man could only turn away, with
tears in his eyes, to reflect upon the
wreck of his once happy home, and
pray merciful father to restore the
reason of his demented wife.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-07-03
BASE BALL.
Result of the Meeting Thursday Night

Result of the Meeting Thursday Night,
Quite a number of the best ball
players of Austin met at Stacy &
Hicks cigar store on Thursday even
ing for the purpose of organizing a
base ball club to be known as the Aus
tin Base Ball Club. The following
gentlemen were selected to compose
the zine. with one or two substitutes
yet to be selected: NJ. Byrne, G. w
Hopkins, c. Kuechler, Geo. Bissell
John WhitiS, Geo. NcCarty
John Byrnss. Rhodes Fisher
and Mr.. Campbell.
Another meeting will be held
on Saturday, June q, when an
opposition team will be organized.
Baseball is Il manly game and fur
nishes innocent amusement and
healthy exercise, keeps young men
out of temptation, and should be en-
cOuraped,
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-07-03
Runaway.

Yesterday afternoon as Messrs. Lit
tlefeld and Driskill were driving
down the Avenue. the horse became
unmanageable, and for few minutes
made things quite lively. Mr.. Dris-
kill leaped from the buggy, but Mr..
Littlefield, cowboy like, threw the
horse fiat and held him down until his
scare was over. The people at the
Raymond house, where the accident
occurred, were loud IN praise of Mr.
Littlefeld'S GOODNESS and dexterity.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-07-03
TEXAS PRODUCTS,

The following circular has beer
issued by the Gould system of rail
roads in Texas. 1t is move in the
right direction, and the fact that it is
in the hands of powerful corporations
directly interested in the material
growth and advancement of Texas
juSJifieS the presumption that the four
exhibits contemplated will reflect
credit upon Texas and will do
justice to her great resources:
THE TEXAS & PACIFIC R'Y CO.,
LAND DEPARTMENT,
Ali Main ST., Dallas, Texas.
Dear Sir-It is proposed on the part
of the management of the Southwest
system of railways, comprising the
Missouri Pacific, Texas & Pacific, and
the International and Great Northern
railways in Texas and Louisiana, to
make four grand displays of products
of these states, with view to induce
immigration and capital to them.
These displays will be made during
the coming fall at New Orleans, Bos-
ton, st. Louis and Germany; and your
cooperation in collecting fine speci-
mems of grain, such as wheat, oats,
barley, rye, dourO, corn, Gin the stalk
and threshed), cotton, millet, sorghum,
fruit, grasses and other products
raised in your county is requested.
Specimens of Texas manufactured
products, such as sugar, syrupS, flour
in small quantities, wool, cotton, lime,
cement, plaster of paris, salt, iron
ware, coal, mineral prophets, building
stone, specimens of timber, pottery,
textile fabrics, leather, ETC., are much
desired. In all cases where specimens
are forwarded, the name Of the manu-
facturer, if manufactured goods; or
of a farmer, if farm products, should
be given. AS complete history as
possible of the products, giving name
of product, where and by whom raised
or manufactured, quantity raised per
acre, etc., should in all cases accom-
pany the specimen, as it is designed to
give each contributor and the locality
he resides in full credit.
In cases where valuable specimens
are loaned for exhibition, they will be
handled with great care, and promptly
returned to owner when no longer
required for exhibition.
All goods should be forwarded by
Pacific Express to w. H. Abrams,
Lani Commissioner, All Main Street,
Dallas, Texas, and will be carried free
of cost to the sender.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-07-03
RECORDERS COURT.

Ed Bryne, fast driving; fined So and
costs.
William Platt, operating a skating
rink without a license; dismissed upon
payment of cost, and taking out Ii
cenSe.
Henry Robinson, drunkenness;
plead guilty, and fined So and COST.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-07-03
One Week,s Deaths.

Report of city sexton for one week,
ending June %, 1884:
June p, Mary Simpson, (white) age
% years; disease, consumption.
June -, Tom Chandler, (colored,
age "A years; disease. dropsy.
June %, Charles Schmidt, (white
age ~ months; infantum.
| June Is, NJ. L. Dakey, (white) age
! II years; entero colitis.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-07-03

lost on them, for the time is coming
rapidly when he will, for the same
reason, more than double his present
unequaled business. So much for the
enterprise of Joseph Male, from
which not only the city of Austin but
all the surrounding counties receive
a din ect benefit
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-07-03
Stand by old Travis

Every man or woman in Travis
county is urged to call either at the
jewelry establishment of B. G. Wells
on the avenue, or at the Office of Mr..
w. A. Bowen, with Stacy s. Hicks,
aud register his or her name as a
member of the Travis county EXPOSE
ton society. Let Travis county
stand to her cOIorS.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-07-03
BASE BALL LEAGUE.

Mr.. Chas. T. Hicks, secretary of the
Austin Reds, has received the follow
ing letter from Galv eSton:
GALVESTON, Texas. June %, '84.
Secretary Austin Base Ball Club, Austin,
Texas.
DEAR SIR:-In the News of yester-
day, the representatives of Fit. Worth,
Dallas, Houston, San Antonio, Aus
tin, Waco, Navasota and other clubs
having enclosed grounds, were invi-
ted to meet at some central point to
form a state league and play circuit.
Please notify me of your willing
ness and suggest place and date OF
meeting. Respectfully,
ALEX EASTON.
P.O. box 1926.
Go ahead, Mr.. Easton, the "Reds'
nan he cnuntad in
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-07-03

District Clerk H.rt aud Deputy
Clerk w. III. Shelby had the fifty-fve
page transcript Of The testimony in
the Rubirth case ready for the appel
late court at 9 o'clock yesterday morn
ing. 1t was quick work, and nicely
done.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-07-03
Married.

On yesterday Rev. E. B. Wright,
ID. d., pastor of the FIRST Presbyterian
church, united in marriage Mr.. C. l..
Hathaway and Miss Lula M. Veech.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-07-03

The $500 was the portion paid by
city for the last two years of the ten
years lease of the lot on which the
building of the hook and ladder COM
pany and Colorado company stands.
This lot was leased for ten years, from
1873, payment to be made by the cree
ton of a two-story brick house, which
cost So 200. The city bought the
property two years before this lease
was out, paying probably $640 less
they would have given had there been
nothing to the city's credit on the
lease.
The city paid for the lots then prob
ably more than they were worth. and
certainly more than they are worth
now. The city cannot and will not
stand upon difference of 1871 in a
matter of the magnitude and impor'
lance this enterprise is to the city's
growth and prosperity. Mr.. Dris
| kill asks nothing except that he be
not required to pay more for the prop
erty than it would bring in oper
market.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-07-03
THE DRISKILL HOTEL.

Investigation develops the fact that
the price paid by the city of Austin
for the lots ana building which Mr.
Driskill proposes to purchase was
So, 281. 35-as follows:
Building of WASHINGTON company -. 5000 90
Two year lease on lots ........ ...... $4,000
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-07-03

Tne best tobacco for smokers i
Little Joker
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-07-03

| fully up with the docket for the first
time since the war.
SUPREME COURT.
City of Austin VS.. G. ID. Johns. At
firmed. Opinion by associate Justice
| West.
City of Galveston VS.. j. M. Barbour
and wife. Reversed and REMAINDER.
Opinion by associate Justice Stayton.
VIM. Simpson VS. w. w. Brother
ton from Fannin county. Reversed
and demanded. Opinion by chief jus
tice Willie.
b. F. Friend ct al. vs.. w. N. Miller
from Coryen county. CONTROVERSY as
to the ownership of certain goods lev
led on by the sheriff. Opinion by as
| soclate Justice Stayton. Judgment
reversed and rendered against Mil
Ter.
In the Johns case, Judgment of the
district court was against the city of
Austin for certain fees claimed for
services as city attorney.
In the Barbour case the suit
against the city of Galveston was for
damages resulting from neglect of the
city to keep its sidewalks and streets
. in repair, the cause of action being
similar to that considered in the Pos
mainsky case, decided Friday. Hold
as in thai case that municipal corpo-
I ration is liable for such injuries in The
9 absence of an express statute decl r.
} ing the liability. Plaintiffs son, te1
5 years old, died of injuriss TO his loot
s taused by striking against a project
e ing screw bolt on the sidewalk whef:
e he was walking. Verdict and judge
6 ment are for $500.
The supreme court holds, however
!, as a well settled rule in actions d
this character, that no damage, suci
as was claimed. can be gived for men
: tai suffering of the person or person
e for whose benefit such action wa
, brought. In such cases as this tn
= true measure of damage would be
= Sum equal TO the peculiarly beneii
= the parents had reasonable expecta
= ton of receiving from their child. ha'
= he lived.
Court adjourned for the term.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-07-03

OA ehO OOAho VI O4AO OAOy ASo h4hl 10 NV
essary to meet present emergencies
Such bonds to run twenty years, re-
deemable after ten years at the pleas
ure of the city, and to bear interest al
the rate of six per cent. per annum
payable semi-annually. / would fur.
Their recommend that the sale of these
bonds be entrusted to some bank Of
banker of Austin, and that he be &C
corded reasonable compensation fol
his services; otherwise you can not
expect the highest price obJainable fol
the bonds.
1t was determined before the presen
city council came into office that tn
amount of forty thousand dollars o
bonds should be sold and the product
used to pay the outstandin,
interest warrants and the bond
maturing January 1, 1884, and tn
remainder to be appropriated to neees
sary permanent improvements in tn
city, and this policy seems to hav
been acquiesced in by the presen
council. If the full issue, as proposes
be sold, it would create fund 9
several thousand dollars that migt
be profitably invested in permanen
works and Improvements. Thes
matters are for your consideration
and invite the exercise of you
careful and prudent Judgment.
STREET IdPROvEM ENTS
The streets of the City of Austi
are in a most desperate condition. Il
portions of the city they are impass
BILE for vehicles. A great deal {
money has been expended on tn
streets, and still they ara not kept
repair, much less improved. wou
suggest that we adopt a policy
making all improvements. with
view to permanepcy. Expendilur
for temporary rep4D are total 10:
If we can only improve one street,
one block, let il be done in such ma
ner that it will remain permanent
The bridges at crossings are so wo
and delapidated as to require speci
attention. To repair them or repla
them with temporary structures il
waste Of money, TO make the i
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-07-03

/ ClOn OIL I'VE nuQur6Q uOlldrS 6dCQ.
Be it ordained by the city council of
the City of Austin
SECTION 1. That the mayor of the
City of Austin be, and he is hereby
directed and authorized to issue eighty
coupon bonds of the City of Aus
tin, of the denomination of five hun
bred dollars each, amounting to the
sum of forty thousand dollars. Said
bonds shall be numbered from one to
leighty, inclusive shall be dated the
first day of July, A. d. 1884, and
shall be made payable to bearer TWEEN
ty years after date, redeemable after
the expiration of ten years, at the
pleasure of the city, and shall bear
interest at the rate of six per cent
per annum, payable semi-annually, on
the first day of January and the first
day of July of each year, until paid.
The principal and interest of said
bonds shall be payable in the City of
! New York, at the banking house of
s. NJ. Swenson & Son, or at such other
; banking house in said city as the
! purchaser may designate.
SEC. 2. That the bonds herein pro.
yided for, are issued by the city OF
, Austin for the purpose of taking up
paying ouO 4u1AuA1A8 oil OQbobduullE
{ warrants, debts and claims against
the said city, not already covered By
Il its bonded debt, and for the purpose
| of making necessary Improvement.
upon the streets and other publ,
: works in said city. The proceeds o
t the sale of said bonds shall be appro
q priated as follows: First-To tn
4 PAYMENT of all outstanding warrants
q debts, claims, and liabilities of tn
I city, not included in the existin
q bonded debt; and, second-The ba
s ance remaining shall be used and e2
$. pended, under the direction of the cit
IT council, for the purpose of maxim
/ necessary and permanent improve
7. ments of the streets, bridge
a public buildings, markets and publ
II works of said city.
e SEC. 3. That the treasurer of ii
a city shall, on the first day of May, an
d on the first day Of November, OF eac
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1884-02-14
Words Of Wisdom.

A bow long bent at last waxeth weak.
A civil denial is Better than rude grant.
4 day TO come shows longer than year
that's gone.
Il, wisely worldly, but not worldly wise.
-Ifoacs Qaa'9,s.
4 good cause makes u stout heart and a
strong arm.
\ blot clsc will sometimes do what a
sharp edge will not.
\ fool may make money, but il requires a
wise man to spend it.
A man as he manages himself may dio
old at thirty or young at eighty.
Youth is 4 continual in,oxication, the
fever of reason
When lattery is unsuccessful, ii is butthc
fault of the hatterer.
A good surgeon must have an eagles eye,
a lions heart and lady's hand
A great name is like an eternal cpitaph
engraved by the admiration of men ON the
road of time.
He who emigTa.cs to a cave Of the noun
tain to escape from sin, finds the devil nat
uralizod citizen there already.
H;gI positions are like the SUBMITS Of
high steep rocks eagles and reptiles alone
can reach them.
Since the well-known victory over the
hare by tho tortoise, tho deccndcnts of the
tortoise thir1 themselves miracles Of speed.
The best are accused Of exclusiyeness. It
would BE- m)re true to say, they separate ai
oil from water, as children from old people.
without love or hatred in the matter, each
seeking his like.
"Ue is rich who Is satisfied with what he
ha5-wlethcr it be little or rmuch." But in
this sense, how few really are rich; for We
find the m ilionaire no less eager to add to
his "pilc" than the widow to her mites.
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1884-02-14

Lana,,'y's Old Home.
Yhe Island Where Pretty Ip0men Arc Eeery
schcre Seen.

The Channel Islands, and particularly
Jersey; says letter from st. Helier's to the
New York 7fi5sne, possesses much of inter-
est for the stranger but the crowning glory
of Jersey is the beatty of her women. For
general confines they would readily be a.
warded a prize in any competition OF ienii-
nine grace Rare creamy coniplexions that
would put the bloom on the peach to blush,
figures made graceful and siaewy by Bodily
toll, with rather strongly cut features, eyes
ike sloes and lustrous dark hair, the girls
met on the streets of st. Helier's seem to
the stranger, the personiication womanly
independence, beauty and maidenly reserve.
The soft white mists that wrap the island
every night from sundown to sunrise give
them their carnation checks. The toll that
brings with it the active, healthy body Is
due to causes which will enlist on the side
of these women the Sympathies ottrue man
hood. 1t is because of the woeiul dearth of
me.. In Jersey that the women do all the
work. Where you meet one man in these
tortuous streets Of st. Helicr's you meet ten
womer. Out among the green farms L Is
dispropofticn Of the sexes is even more
painfully apparent. The heavy, uagainly
carts on the country roads are, almost with
out exception, driven by women, and hand
some women, too Groups ofcherry-cheeked
girls NAV be seen in the wayside orchards,
some picking apples from the trees, others
straining at the rude cider presses. The lit
tie fields. with their lu=uriant growth oftur-
nips, cabbagcs and rutabagas, are all tend
ed by women, while the blooming flowers in
the house yards show in their rich variety
the evidence of womcn's care and attention.
None but women are to be seen in the big
nublic market of st. IIelier's-womcn buy
Ing and women selling. What Ten you sec
are either too young or too old and decrepit
boys who have not started out in life, or
old sea captains who have come home to end
their days, smelling of salt cod and full OF
"reminiscences of stormy voyages to Buenos
Ayres, to Australia or through the China
seas
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1884-02-14
.tn Eny!'d rer's Block.

As the lines in a good wood-cngrayins
have to be very thin, it becomes very nee
essary that the wool SHOULD be Of a firm
and strong fiber that will not break, or split,
or "eramjlc" easily. And, indeed, the
wook used for engraving is one Of the hard
e., known. II i. lockwood, AMI Is obtained
almo.. exclusively from Turkey and Asia
Minor The grain OF lockwood is exceed
ingly close and smoeth, and cngrayers'
blocks" consist of slices about an inch thick
and usually from two to four inches square
cut across the grain of the tree, The box
tree does not grow to any considerable size,
and wheB large block Is desired it has to
be made by sctewing and glueing a number
Of small blocks together very tightly and Sc
curely. 1t is said that ii would take more
than cEe bundred years for box-tree to
grow large enough to furnish block IN one
Dicee of size su1i tent to include the whole
Of the engraving. a Nilyipter nigh"
which fo.ms the frostispiece Of this months
81. Nicdolaa That picture is in reality en-
graved upon nine blocks Of lockwood, close
" ioiEed togcther-Ffom " In E'Jracer on
IJheel,," By w. L,eis Frasey, in NE Nbr@ary
N. NicbeiZ.
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1884-02-14
CUAPT FSTOWN JEFFERSON COUNTY, w. Va, THURSDAY.
ROETR +.
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NOSTALGIA.

dwell in Meshec! wo is me,
In kelar's tents I'm forced to be,
An exile doomed to roam
An exile on q foreign strand,
A wandercr from my native land,
long sigh for home!
stand upon the oceans shore,
Send my impatient wishes DER,
Pant for the hour TO come
The time of my release, when |
Across the cnYious deep shall HE;
long ] sigh for home
The clories of my native place
Burst OF my view, oh, how they blaze
see the golden dome,
The city flooded with His light,
The dwellcrs robcd in spotlcSs white
long sigh for home!
My want of patience Lord, forgive,
For It's with Thee wish To live,
And not forever roam
An exile from my native place.
! want To see Thee face td faces
long sigh for homc! !
will be patient, Lord, and wait
For Thy salvation, soon or late
Whcnc'cr Thou wilt say Come
And by Thy Sanctifying grace
Prepare me, Lord. to sec Thy face.
] long | sigh for home
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1884-02-14
THE P.iTH TO TIE GRAVE.


The beautiful have passed. thls way
Their light is on tic track:
But ld, It's fidii:g front the sight
IL gives no glory back.
4 mourntulncss Is rcstins Here
Oh. death, thy way is full of fear
The powerful have departed hence,
The mighty and the brave;
And the dead echo OF their fanici
Has perishcl in the grave.
lh. funel trcniblo at thy breath.
Thdri art sich pleasant food for death
The Young, the gay, the jcyods One,
Has LEFT q song Behind,
Bur all its fine and touching tones
Mist perish from the mind.
Oh youth oh beauty power and hnie'
What are We but gildcd name?
Bat there are still an humble few,
How blessed is their ldt =
They pass this dark and lonely way,
Bit sna'l not be forgot
For 10. all glowing from aiar-
Behold thoir bright, their morning star
b. joyful. o yc ransomci souls,
Your help is from the sky;
And seriplls guido your fearful rath
To your bright hopes on high.
Oh Death. thou art the gate of Heaven
10 those who feel their sins forgiven
Dear sivior. in the lowly grave;
Thy sacred body lay;
O then. and shall thy followers shrink
Since ih0h hast pissed that way
Tho sravc-how hlessed is the night,
Which COMES before immortal light.