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Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1884-09-04
EXCEL SIOR!
.JULY 4TH

Usually terminates what is commonly
called "the busy time" as far as spring
and summer trade is concerned.
While our sales during this season have
been entirely up to our expectations, we
yet have on hand in every department
large stock of every article appurtaining to
Mems and Boys Wear which are now sea-
onabley and we shall use every legitimate
method to dispose of as large an amount
of these goods as we possibly can. With
this end in view we have thoroughly ex-
amined and remarked the goods in each
department Of our establishments, and
can assure the public that we are offering
such bargains as will gladden. the heart
of the greatest Bargain Hunter.
EXCELSIOR CLOTHING COMPANY,
q. w. Corner baltimore and Light sta.
And Broadway and Eastern Ave-
jy8-tf BALTIMORE, Md
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1884-09-04

CINGLE, Double Teams and Saddle
- Horses to hire. by the hour, day or
week. Open and Close Carriages, Single
and Double Ph@tons, Jaggers, Top and
N0-T0p Buggies, all st reasonable rates:
1lne carriages for visiting and pleasure. -
Drivers in livery, If desired. Pony
PhRt0ns, with quiet and gentle horses.
suitable for ladies and children. Special
rates made with families Particular at
tention to horses on livery. Baggage
called fer and delivered to al parts 81 the
city Funerals attended % 1t short notice.
All orders promptly attended %.
JAS. r. VANSANT,
Proprietor
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1884-09-04

OOOGEA 80 We BASIL
and get my prices have large stock
on hand, purchased before the recent adj
vance in prices, and which I can and will
sell as cheap, if not cheaper, than any
other dealer. My facilities for receiving
and handling coal are unequaled, and be-
sides this think have the best coal in
the City, and why
First, because purchase it from one
company, year after year, who mine but
the one kind, consequently always have
the LEE COAL, which is a vein of the
old Baltimore Company Coal
Second, my coal is sent to me In steam
barges, direct from the mines, thereby
saving one or two landings of it which
causes it to break up and form dust.
My Lykens Valley Coal for cooking
purposes is the genuine article. This be-
ing very superior coal it always sells
high, and there are many c0untegJeits on
Ss, but parties wanting it can depend upon
getting the
Genuine Lykens valley Coal
If they viii order it from me.
All kinds of wood, either in the stick or
prepared to order at my Steam Mill
Clean Coal,
Full Weight,
Prompt Delirery,
and prices as low always as fuel can be
JOS, s. NJ. BASIL,
jy1O-3m Foot Of Church Street.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1884-09-04
~ tie payment Of from 81 =
day, you can buy a sIooe 9 tssss s
payable IL 10 gcar s p0i'ts
THE PROVIDENT LIFE AsS0rIl1In
CAPT. J. MINsoN, General
Office, Cor. Caleert and Ra.,o. !.
baltimore, Nd s''f Nfal

HNHE PROVIDENT LIFE 10,
J. TION insures on the or5 I,hoSOClA.
and Life Maturity Plans e'o ansy Iii,
policies mature in ten wears eadowmes
The only Mutual Comnanu
United States with an Fndow,s IN a,
founded on correct Insurance" u ll Pa
Plan.copyrighted Principles
Persons insured in this conn.,.
not die to win. Insurance l 'any HE'D
ages from 10 to 65 years. on aIeoepled d
sound risks are accepted ny pereCily
advantages afforded to the ins s Ieca6n
to be gained by agents worl; ,u'ca AID
company, can only be known ~ ioF Tie
study of the Associations plas5 =. eartfaI
Send for one. The fact that +" !, Siifeula,
pany is doing larger business ~ con
other company in the United S,a, yuan any
evidence of its superior plans and ' ~. I q
of Insurance. "'u methods
Policies mature in ten years fros
Of issue, or at death, If prior .'On y, est
paid in full at maturity. V'aas
Reliable and energetic agents r..,
every county and town in MARYLAND ''o u
RICHARD G. ELLIOTT A..
aS'on Annapolis Ma
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1884-09-04
Established. 1857.
COAL. COAL. COAL.

Read Carefully and Note the FOLLOWING !:
Now is the time to buy your coal, and
before doing so call on
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-01-31
SENATE.

SENATE CHAMBER, Jan, %, 1884.
Senate convened at 10, called to order by the
president. Quorum present Prayer by the
on motion of Senator Traylor, reading of
minutes were dispensed with, -oso,,,.,on 20
the effect that hereafter the afternoons SeS-
sion of the senate be devoted to the considera-
ton of House bills. 1t was moved that rules rules
luton was adopted.
Senator Chesley offered resolution to the
effect that hereafter the night sessions OF the
Senate be devoted to the consideration of the
school BILL Under the rules it lays over for
one day. Senator Chesley made speech in
support of his motion pending at the last
adTournment for the reconsideration of the
vote, passing the substituted Terrell Dill 10 en-
grossment.
consider and the motion was carried.
On motion the further consideration of the
bill was made special order for the morning
The president then laid before the
Senate as a special order, substitute
Senate bill No. 4. This is the bill
providing for the representation at the New
Senator Jones offered an amendment to
strike out $4,000 and insert $4,000, pending
that House bill No. had passed the House.
Amendment carried.
Senator Jones then moved an amendment
adding an emergency clause. Carried.
The question was then on the engroSSment
| of the bill. Carried-15 ayes to hayes.
Senator Jones moved the rules be suspended
| and the bill placed on its final passage. Car
| ried by 20 ayes to nays.
The bill was read the third time, after winch
| the bill pass as follows:
A bill to be entitled "An act to provide for the
| appointment of commissioners to represent
| tie state of Texas at the Worlds Industrial
| Centennial and Cotton Exposition to be
| opened at New Orleans, louisiana. on the first
| Monday in December, A. d. 1884, to prescribe
the duties of said commissioners, and max
ing an appropriation therefore
Section l. Be it enacted by the legislature o.
the State of Texas: That for the purpose OF
| disseminating and distributing TO the represen.
tatiyeS and visitors from the various states anC
| foreign countries who shall visit the World:
| Industrial and Cotton Centennial Exposition
! TO be opened at New Orleans on the first Mon
day in december. A. ID. 1884, information in re
gard tothe soil, climate and resources OF Texas
to be expended under the direction Of the gov
ernor and commissioner of insurance, Stats
ties and history, under such regulations as ar
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-01-31
ESTON.

GALv TON, Jan. 29.-The commission of
appeals affirmed the following cases to-day:
Uay VS.. Vincenbeller, from Eastland county
Bray and wife VS.. Aiken, from Lamar; Jones
VS.. Barton, from Hamilton; Pierson ct al VS..
Rice, from Falls.
Reversed and remanded: Chuck vs.. Guffee'
from Falls.
Appeal dismissed: Loving VS.. Russell ct al,
from Bell.
About forty prominent citizens, interested in
securing lower rates of insurance for this city
met in the Cotton Exchange to-day and passed
a resolution requesting the board of aldermen
to establish q paid fire department in place of
the present volunteer system. An executive
committee will be appointed to push matters,
and if the pr, sent city council refuses to make
the desired change there is a prospect that the
question will become leading issue in local
politics.
Several business houses closed their doors
this afternoon out of respect to the memory OF
DIR. Lasker, the German statesman, whose
funeral took place at Berlin to-day.
Representatives of the leading Texas rail-
roads were again in session here to-day, pre-
sumably figuring upon rates. What was done
by the meeting has not yet TRANSFERRED. The
deliberations were private.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-01-31
Rosa B0nheur's Career.
Paris Letter in savannah News. !

| IarlS Letter III savannah News
Rosa BonheIr is now in her sixty
second year, and still continues, when
health permits, to give her services,
as she has done for years, gratuitous-
~ to the School of Design for Girls,
but 1t is her sister that practically
conducts that school now. Mile. Ro-
sale BOnheur, that her schoolmates
baptized Rosa for shortnesS, is rich,
us she could ever name her own price
tor her paintings, and the purchasers,
almost wholly English and Ameri-
cans, bespeak them years in advance,
as they did Delaroche's. Her life was
hard struggle in its youth-time. A.
hatlVe OF bordeaux, she came to Paris
with her father when nine years of
age, but he had to send her and her
Two brothers and sister to boarding
school in order to leave him free to
gain livelihood as an artist designer.
y fellow-student of Rosa's once told
me that Rosa was one of the "iolliest
girls in the schools" was unequaled in
romps and ready wit; that she had the
habit of squatting in a corner and de-
signing her classmates with rapidity
and surety of touch that Cham only
could match. 1t was this precautions
talent for designing that decided her
father to bring her home and educate
her himself. She became not only his
favorite pupil, but also his housekeeper.
But what energy she had in her teens.
She went alone. during several years,
to cattle markets and central slaughter
houses, to study groups of animals. In
order to avoid the curiosity of drovers.
butchers and the peculiar frequenters
OF the above places, she adopted mas
cullne toilets, and in latter years forgot
to reappear in her old clothes. This
motive was comprehensive; not
a vagary or eccentricity, as
IN the case of George Sand.
Rosa was eighteen years of when
she exhibited her first picture at the
salon of 1910. These are two small
rabbits nibbling carrots
and turnips. Her sister, Nine. Peyrol.
is the posseSsor of the pictures. and
treasures them as an heirloom. Rosa's
second grief was the death of her
teacher and father in 1S49. Love for
him and for art closed her heart for
any third affection save that of her
family. When dying he begged Rosa
20 bring him the last picture she had
"Labourage Nivernais.''
She did so, sobbingly, to his bedside.
He took her two hands in his, and, en-
deavoring to smile, expired.
In 1853 appeared her celebrated
Morse Fair and in 1855, "Hay-
making in Auvergne," and in the
Luxembourg museum. 1t was the
Empress Eugene that not only in
sisted on Rosa being decorated with
the Legion Of HOnor-rarely conferred
on the fair sex-but, having succeeded,
pinned the red ribbon herself on the
artists breast
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-01-31
HOUSE.
HALL OF HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,
A Tor

HALL OF HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,
AUSTIN, Jan. 20, 1884.
House met at 10 o'clock, Speaker
Gibson and a quorum present.
Prayer by Rev. DR.. Dabney.
Reading of the journal dispensed
with.
Mr.. Thompson, of Bexar, explained,
as an excuse for absence the day be-
fore, that he had been literally smoked
out of the House.
non-attendance on account of sick
ness OF important business.
Mr.. Chambers asked to call up the
motion on the journal to reconsider
the vote by which House bill No. l,
the revenue bill, was ordered en-
crossed, and said he would withdraw
that motion and move that the bill be
taken up for final passage.
Speaker Gibson = The bill has not
been engrossed.
The House resumed the business
pending from adjournment, substitute
for House bills Nos. so and "a, to pro-
hibit unlawful fencing, etc. This bills
the one reported by the special COM
mittee of twenty. and the pending
amendment was the one offered yes
terday by Mr.. Robinson. The amend
ment relates to proof as to Enclosures
of land.
The amendment was withdrawn
and Mr.. Foster, of Limestone Offered
an amendment making the offense a
| misdemeanor, with fine of not less
than fifty cents nor more than one
| dollar per acre.
Mr.. Patton offered a substitute
amendment making it an offense pun
| ishable by imprisonment in the peni
tertiary from one to five years, or by
fine from $500 to $1,000 and coniine
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-01-31
DALLAS.



DALLAS Jan. 2S.-Late last night John KEEL
ly stepped 10 his door, when some unknown
person stabbed him in the neck, inflicting a
frightful wound. He is a critical condition.
The assailant escaped.
Mr.. J. HYATT, of Sabine Pass, is here in the
interest of deep water for that harbor. He
asked the city council and the Merchants EX-
change to memorabilia Congress for liberal
appropriation, and as Dallas is more deeply
interested in the success of Sabine Pass harbOr
than any other OH the gulf coast, Mr. Hyatt's
mission will receive substantial encouragement
and the endorsement which he desires.
Sol Cleveland, who killed Jesse James No. q
at TaScOSa, /. T., in October last, was to-day
admitted to $1,000 bail on habeas corpus
proceeding. by Judge Mccormick, of the fede-
raj court. He made the bond and was released.
News of the death of Eugene Levi, a whole
sale merchant of Dallas, was received here to
day from Galveston. Details.Of his death have
not been received, but the rumor is current
hat ne was killed.
Bent Elan, a VIGOROUSLY bard and desperate
character but well liked, formerly OF the east
earn part of the county, was to-day convicted
of horse stealing and given five years in thu
penitentiary. He took an appeal.
VIM. Adams, late from Georgia, was to-daN
married for the third time to the same woman
having been twice divorced from her. Since
his second divorce he was married and lost
wife. Mr.. Adams is a man OF considerable
wealth and good address and proposes Living
in Dallas.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-01-31
HOUSE.
HALL OF House OF REPRESENTATIVES, l
AUSTIN January 25, 1884.

HALL OF HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,,
AUSTIN January %, 1884.
House met at 10 a. m.
Speaker Gibson and quorum pres
emit.
After the usual proceedings, excus-
ing members from non-attendance,
etc, the House took up the business
pending upon adjournment = substi-
tute for House bills Nos. 30 and "a, to
prohibit unlawful fencing, etc.
Pending amendment, by Mr.. Brown,
was discussed by Messrs. Brown,
Cochran and Upton, and was lost.
Mr.. Duff offered the following:
Amend by adding to section L: "Noth-
ing in this section shall be 20 con-
strued as to prevent persons from in
closing land owned by them which
SURROUNDS land owned by other par
ties, provided that the person thus
inclosing his land shall fence the tract
surrounded off from the land thus in
closed, giving the owner thereof free
inpress and egress to the same"
Mr.. Scott hoped the amendment
would not be adopted. The majority,
he Thought, were willing to endorse
the pro$isions of the bill as it came
fro, commlttee- The object of
rrthes(. kas to protect the poor man
i with II J0r 500 acres in the midst OF
an ene,9 sure of ten or twenty thous.
! aud 1crsJs of another from hardshipS
in then 1e of his home privileges. The
effect al the amendment would be te
compel HE Door man to go ten oil
twenty miles to get to to the land that
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-01-31
Chamber of Death

DENVER, Col, Jan 2s.-Of the bodies dis
covered yesterday in cha mber No. 2, OF
Crested Butte mine, twenty one were brought
out at ten O'Clock last night, and placed IN a
blacksmith shop WITH others, and an hour la
ter the mine was closed for the night. Two
bodies were brought out to-day, and two stu
remlin in chamber No. 1, but are covered up
and il may be days before they are found. A
number VI the bodies are to be buried to-mor-
row; those remaining, on Tuesday. All the
saloons were closed to-day, and win remain so
until after the funerals. Two undertakers ar
rived to day, and are preparing the bodies
for burial. AT the inquest to-day Gavin Dickson
testified that he went into the mine with
Anderson, who was "a signed to room Is,
entry 2, had a naked lamp. Heard fire boss
tell him before ntering that his room was liil-
safe, and warn Hill not to go IN without z
safely lamp or wait until the fire boss returned
and mended the broken brattice. Anderson
went in alter this conversation with naked
lamp. Ventilation, where witness was work
ing, has been uniformly good. Witness thought
mine boss Gibson was sometimes over eau
tious. Gibson had caught witness using open
light when ordered TO use safety lamp and mad
taken it away from h1n. john ullDwOod
heard file boss be ] Anderson he must not
enter his room without safety lamp. Ander-
son promised not to go until the fire boss re
turned. Anderson and witness entered the
mine together, and at the entrance OF entry
No. 2 Anderson got light from witness. An
dersons light was an open one. Witness
helped to recover the bodies from entry No. ..
At the entrance 10 room IS witness found =
body with the feet layi 3 across the entrance.
Could not recognize tn body. Tie mine was
properly ventila ed where Witness was working.
Charles F. Davis, the fireman. noticed the
| fan. about five minutes before the explosion,
working all right. David o. Hughes ise+rd tie
| fire boss tell William Jones. who was working
in entry No. 2. that there was gas I'm his place
| and to be careful. Thomas Harris, one OF The
| two rOckmen who were working in entry No. 2.
! right before the explosion, SAID ''When the
| fire boss was making lis roundsst was about 8
o'clock in ''-e morning; saw bin IN Twelve or
| thirteen m.GuSto att r in the second entry. -
| 9i,a In nest adfonrndd until fn-TnorrOvv am,
1 VIII not be concluded for eversktiaSs yet. The
| Masonic and Odd Fellows Lodge I Guiutiss Ii
viii arrive tomorrow at noon, and Joining Hitf
the lodges here, VIII bury their dsae comrades
| Of whom there are fDr piit. hascn and three
| Odd Fellows, tn-ln0rFow All ernonn.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-01-31
BRENNAN.
Especial to The statesman

BRENNAN, Jan. Is The book reception
given at the new school building on last Satur-
day evening was success. Sup't Jay E..
Mcclure and his assistants deserve much
credit for the manner In which the entertain
ment went off. About 200 books were given to
the library. Mr.. jefferson Bassett one of the
trustees, made very eloquent speech which
was greeted with much applause.
Messrs. Smith & Bros safe was robbed late
Saturday night, Two negroes, A. RaSs and
wife, have been arrested. The safe contained
Si4S.OO in money and three watches. The Of
ficers are sure that they have the right parties.
Three houses were entered by burglars last
NIGHT
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-01-31


Referring to the biblical story of
JoSeph's accumulation of grain i'll
Egypt the Rev. Heber Newton said on
Sunday last: LET us not blind our
eyes to the fact that this policy of
Joseph was a gigantic corner on grain,
planned and carried out with pitiless
severity, by which whole people was
entrapped into serfdOm, their real
estate and personal possessions made
the property of the king and crush
ing tax laid in perpetuity upon
nation. By making vast provisions
for the prolonged famine which he
anticipated he was enabled, when it
set in upon the people, to carry out
measures of sweeping character.
His superior foresight placed in his
hands the absolute necessities of life,
which the starving people were COM
PEELED to purchase from him on his
own terms. After their money was
exhausted the poor people parted with
their cattle, getting bread in exchange
for their horses and fiocks, cattle and
lands. A gigantic system of eviction
was carried out, doubtless under the
forces of the army, and the popula-
ton of the provinces were mutually
interchanged, thus breaking up the
old ties and the sense of freedom that
roots in the paternal homestead. Land
serfdom has generally arisen in this
way. The poor have in times of dis
tress sold themselves for bread to the
rich and the great. Let us face the
ugly fact that slavery, serfdom, vii
leinage-the various forms of human
bondage-have usually arisen by such
craftsmanship and linanciering rs
Joseph's."
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-01-31
MARSHALL.
Especial to The statesman.l

MARSHALL, Jan. 28-Judge Keller and VIM.
Adair have purchased the Messenger, and will
conduct the paper In future.
There is no foundation in fact for the rumor
that Col. Geo. Noble is to take charge of the
Gould system in Texas.
The Texas s. Pacific railroad have leased the
Marshall car works and will operate Them
This will aid them greatly in dispatching
work
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-01-31
HOUSE.
HALL OF HOUSE OF REPREsENTATIvl
Tar,rrnrxr 1904

HALL OF HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,,
AUSTIN, January %, 1854.
House met at 10 O'Clock.
Mr.. Moursend moved to suspend the business
pending from adjournment in order to take up
and finally pass House bill No. !, the revenue
bill reducing taxation. Adopted.
Mr.. Cotton, for the committee, reported the
bill engr0Ssed, aud the bill was read as pre-
viously amended, and with amendment to
conform the emergency clause &c the body of
the bill. was pas ed; ayes, al, nays, TO-
Mr.. Upton moved to postpone the pending
business, TO tgke up House bill No. %, the de-
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-01-31

PORTING measures would not answer
under present circumstances.
The substitute was lost.
The McAlpine amendment was
adopted.
The chief clerk read an invitation
from Mrs Wilson, of the Ladies Vet
eran Aid Association, to attend mu-
steal soiree to be given on the night
of the Goth instant at Millett's Opera
House, for the benefit of rhe Texas
veterans.
House adjourned till 10 o'clock Sat-
urday.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-01-31
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES Up.

[Southern World.
Farmers ought to be familiar with
the oft-repeated advice to use nothing
but pure blood males in grading up
stock of any kind, but we doubt if the
reason is thoroughly understood by all
1t is an accepted truth among large
class of intelligent stock breeders. and
also among Psychologists that the male
of any species or breed of animals will
have more effect on the offspring than
the female, and that the thoroughbred ,
is pre-potent in this respect. This is
equivalent to saying that any animal
will take after" its male more than its
female parent. Admitting the truth
Of this rule, it is easy to understand
that, other things being equal, we may
confidently expect better results from
the crossing of pure blood male ON a
common female, than from the reverse.
Even If the rule be not true the prac-
tical reasons for cross-breeding by
means of pure blood males are over
powering. BY this process much
greater number of grades can be Sc
cured within short time than by at
tempting to grade up common herd
by means only of female of pure
blood. A COW, at the most, will bring
CNO C'AS SdAA NtANlA y ~ OIidb II tht
process of grading up be confined to
female pure bloods the process will be
very slow.
BY means of a pure bred male an
entire herd of cattle or other stock
can be bred up in few years to high
grades. 1t must be borne in mind
that in grading up" pure blood-on
one side-must be used in every sue
cessive crossing, else the process, in
stead of resulting in grading up,
must necessarily result in constant
degrading. A cross-bred can never
be of any higher grade than the pa
rent of the best blood, but will always
be mean of the two. The moment
you stop using pure blood you stoplall
improvement. Hence, first, con-
slant stream of pure blood is indis--
pensable to constant improvement.
and, second, pure blood male is
much to be preferred, for grading
purposes, than pure blood female.
A half-blood animal in a herd of COM
mon stock is little, if any, better than
no blood at also far as any perma-
nent Improvement OF the herd is con-
cerned.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-01-31

d. NJ. Wilson now has the Avenue
Hotel, and is determined to make it a
first-cIaSs house. Give him trial.
ian27-2t,
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-01-31

DR.. ]. G. Mcclure, Anamosa. La,
saws: al know Browns Iron Bitters
is good tonic and gives general sat
isfaction." eod&w