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The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-06-26

stroying the weeds and grass. had
just prepared it to receive the rain
and make the most of splendid OPP
portunity. This, the only uncertain
crop, now promises an abundant yield
The stock, horses cattle, and sheep,
along the entire route, are fat and
sleek, and look the picture
of plenty and contentment,
as they stand knee deep |
in the rich mesquite and gaze Curl
ously at the train as it dashes past |
them.
The scene altogether is one to de-
light the eye of the lover of nature,
and to charm the mind of the agri-
culturist. The undulating prairies
of rich black soil, converted into alter
mating fields of small grain, cotton,
corn and pastures. The eminences
c,owned with residences, embosomed
,, in the deep green of the oak or UNI
brella china, and the billowy rows of
orchard trees to the one side or the
other.
The copses of woodland along the
streams in the shade of which the cat
tie take shelter from the MONDAY sun,
and slake their thirst in the limpid
waters, that glide with sllvery sheen
over the rocky bottoms. All CON-
bined makes up picture of bounteous
plenty, peace and loneliness that the
world can not excel. If you would
know what truly magnificent coun-
try Texas is, take look at the agri-
cultural portion, that is the cultivated
portion, of hte state. in June or July
The News, when it is original, is
charming and excellent. 1t is only
mean when it copies the sentiments
of meaner men and papers. The
| News is one of the papers in the state
intelligent enough to apprehend the
weight of the STATEsMAN'S policy in
pointing out some of the difficulties
near or remote which hang round the
democracy of Texas when it places
its destinies repeatedly and unnecessa-
rily in the hands of weak and incom-
petent men. The STATES
MAN pointed out one of
these dangers in the person
the governor, if so be it, he is to meet
Wash Jones in the field as the nomi-
nee of the independents and backed
by the republican convention endorse
ment. Now the News must needs
affect to regard that policy as a dispo-
sition to abandon the old party. In
this the positions of the News and the
STATESMAN are fully illustrated by
the extreme secessionists at the incep-
| ton of the war. They did all the
seceeding and precious little of the
fighting. The News complain, loudest
of party detection, and practices it
more than any other paper. So much
indeed that there are few men in the
state with sufficient credulity to be-
lieve that it is, or ever was democratic
at all, or to any extent.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-06-26
BICKLER's SCHOOL.

Austin, June 10.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1884-05-29
Ehirking Jury Duty.

The commissioner of jurors in New
York mas given that city a shock by dis
closing the fact that out of its million
and half Of inhabitants only 1880
can be called on for jury service. Little
by little exemptions have been made
by law until now the eligible list has
been whitfield down to a small and
special public with whom, it may be
added, the criminal lawyers have got
very well acquainted. Under the law a
Juror must be the owner of real o per-
sonal property valued at $3.50, and by
this clause alone 10000 persons escape.
Physical disability releases 30, 600 more,
and 20, 900 get off on account Of mem
bership in the militia. Clergymen,
physicians, dentists, lawyers, teachers,
pilots, officers Of vessels, firemen, POI
licemen, telegraph operators and fed
eral and local office holders are all ex-
empt also, 1t follows that nearly every
body who should serve is released.
Thus, out OF the great mercantile pub
lie, as represented in the produce, cot
ton, stock and petroleum exchanges,
only $50 ont 4,076 members are liable
to duty.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1884-05-29

ihs Belknap, Montana town aud Improve
ment company failed and TIE bank closed up,
but all depositors paid The citizens held q
informed by IL G. Chaplin that G. c. Howell,
the president OF the company, was In St Paul
on his way cast and would NOT return TO Belk-
nap Matters look dubious there, AZ 1t il re-
ported that Howell has forged notes to the
amount OF $4,000, cashed them at the First
National bank ef Helena, and lied the country.
This information is received from II c. Chap
IN the present manager OF the Belknap
Town and Improvement company.
Gen Howell first zane 10 the front and
achieved prominence In the West q bold spec
Hlster ard sehsmer daring his residence in Col
orsdo Ho went 10 Leadyille at the time OF the
mining excitement in 1879, and took the lead "a
q man OF pluck and business activity. He be-
came Interested in a number OF mining prop
critics and was yery-busy in booming town lots
at all times and under all circumstances He
acquired interests OF considerable value in the
carbonate camp, built a fine residence; or
ganized the City National bank INC became It's
president; was appointed brigadier general Of
the state militia from whence comes his nils
itary title, and 10 all appearances wa
q wsll-to-do man Of the world. When
Chafee returned TO Colorado in 1852
and forced TIC nomination Of Campbell as the
Republican candidate for governor s.oweii
!aitnough Q republican hsmselD fought Camp
bell at the polls; carried Lake county against
him, and contributed a. much as any one
man IN the state 10 the election % Grant, the
first and only democratic governor Colorado
has ever had Campbell was financially wrecked
by this canvass, and removed 10 California,
where he Is now engaged in farming When
the CGur dAlene excitement broke out, Howell
sent his wife TO her relatives in Ohio and went
70 tho reported gold fields He perfected an
arrangement with the Northern Pacific Rail
road company and secured an interest In the
own site Of Belknau.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1884-05-29
An Old Relief.

The widow of Marshal Suchet, Duke
OF Albufera, died in Paris the other day
at the age of 80 odd years. She was
married when Joseph B~onaparte was
King OF Spain, and received from him
as a wedding gift one Of the splendid
hotels next to the British Embassy in
Paris. In the military correspondence
OF Napoleon /. we find the following
letter dated Paris, December 5, 1911,
and addressed to Berthier: my Cou-
sin-Write to Marshal Suchet 20 com
plain that his wife carries ON "A CORES
pondence with Nine. de Saligny, in
which she speaks of what happens in
the army-that these details should not
occur in letter OF a lady, who ought
to be acquainted neither with the mum.
Der OF troops nor their movements, Wiz
should speak merely OF her health, end
that is all" 1t is curious to think Of
the Duchess f'Albufera surviving this
for 10 years.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1884-05-29

During the existence Of the National
banking system covering more than
twenty years, The number OF banks or.
ganizad under it has reached q total
contemplated by the trainers OF
the law, yet out OF the whole there have
been only ninety failures, with a loss 10
their creditors Of only about 80. 900. 900,
while every dollar Of circulation issued
has been redeemed The average an.
nnal loss 10 depositora in banks OF this
class has scca less than one per cent.
The aggregate OF deposits in banks az
all classes in the United States viii fall
little, il any, short Of $4,000, 900. 900, or
about double the sam total Of the pub
lie debt, and tbs percentage Of loss to
dcpoaitcrs ia National banks is less than
In any other class.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1884-05-29

George wiliisms, while walking In his sleep
Al Peoria, stepped % q boat and was drowned
Several buildings we're burned IN the village
Of Springfield, Pa. Loss, $4,000 partly in
sHred
Ward q Gaenssler, hide and blh~ factory,
Chicago, was burned tess, s4o,Voi fully In
suFsd.
5ohn oehnan, wife and daughter were burned
y b house on q farm near Portsmouth, Ohio,
Wednesday night
Joel Morse starved 70 death in HE room a
Lcominster. Mass. He was once a fich drunk.
ard and became q hsrsnia living On yermin and
Wild roots
Tn. security warehouse, In New o4ssns,
was burned, with its contentA including 81
h~ogshesds Of sugar 3,fS2 barrels Of moiAsses
and some eefton seed oil Loss, $4,000
fully insured
News has just been received from Elizabeth.
town, KY, that the Harden county court house
with All the records. was consumed by al In
cendiary FIRE Monday mcrnins Tiers has beer
' vsndette IA progfess IN thst county several
years, andnaRaes Gus killings resulted. Finally
lswahidine people took hold Of the matter and
raMsed Indictments 70 be found against a large
Number OF these turbulent characters. II II
the general belief that the court house was
fred for the purpose OF destroying the records
OF these indictments Ia order 10 embsrrsss pro-
coedings against them
The storm around Pomeroy, Ohio, Thurs,
day, was terrific. The wind blew sixty miles
an hour, and rain fell in torrents, accom-
panied BY heavy hail, and = few moments the
tue mountain streams oyeffowed their banks,
submerging the rich farms along the bottoms,
and soon extended la a level sheet from hill 10
hill, bearing along fences, shattered buildings,
npfoofed trees, and debris OF all descriptions.
The damage 10 the section Of country covered
by the storm Is very large, many farmers be-
Ing almost entirely ruined
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1884-05-29

The British ship Syria was wrecked of the
Ffjii Islands, and seventy passengers ell cocl-
les, were drowned
Henry y Gilltng, president Of the American
exchange, in Paris, gave a dinner in that ely.
recently, 70 Augusta Bartholdi, the sculptor %
Liberty Eniightening the World"
London Cable: Plunger Walton has received
another horsewhippsng. This time the drum
ming was administered BY A German American
named Iofeer, 4 veterinary surgeon
No confirmation can be heard Of the reported
revolutionary outbreak at Linsres, Mexico
The only report that has reached Laredo Is &c
the effect that a great c~opiagrsti0n has pre-
vailed At Linares
III Use commons Gladstone announced thai
Lord Hay was making an arrangement for the
khsdiv-'s steamers with a small company OF
British sailors, TO patrol the Nile between A.
stout and Wady Halfa- The question Of fgyp-
tain conference. The government haA no inten-
ton Of proposing rival dual control
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1884-05-29

II is evident that many people believe
IN so-aalled faith cnres. In Boston, there
r. regular "faiih cure" establishment
where patients are taken as in hospital;
and there is another at Corning, New
York, OF tho same sert and also q
similar house in st. Paul, where the sick
and well meet and pray. The noun
tain evangelical" Mr.. Barnes. has made
extensive > Of faith cures IN his minis
try, and his followers believe devoutly
In his power, by she laying on Of hands
md amounting, 10 heal diseases OF per-
sons who have implicit faith. a rector
of the Episcopal church at Stamford,
Conn. has recently excited much com
ment by performing, or pretending 10
perform. the same sort Of cures.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1884-05-29
Ben nutlsr.s naa xsphex

Washington Special; George H. Butler,
who is one Of the most brilliant men In the
country, but who is unfortunately cursed with
dypsomania, has been q voluntary inmate OF
an insane asylum for the last eight months
endeaToring TO cure himself OF the appetite.
His uncle, Gen Bvtler, offered him $4,000 IL
he would keep sober agar, and he has tried
his best to earn the money but the other day he
came out to see the bicycle parade aud could
not control himself. In the morning when he
came over from the asylum he looked az fresh
as q echoolboy, bat before midnight he
was In tie station house, drunk and dirty.
Being arraig yed IN the police court next day for
drunkenness, he made . touching appeal to the
court saying:
This is the first time for eight months,
Judge; I've tried, God knows how hard 70 keep
out q drop. l claim your mercy and consider
alton. Send me over 10 the asylum in charge
OF an officer, and IN try again
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1884-05-29

There is excellent reason for saying that tho
directors Of the Metropolitan ksnks NJ, win
consider 1t an early dg ere seyisability Of
winding up.tte baEk's affairs. the present fall
ur- having heen fatal 70 iss business prospectS
Deposits before the failure were between sll,-
yG.0oo and s~i2,0po,0o0, and have fallen 10
about s3,oV0,0O0
deed was fled In the registers oAiee AZ
New York. Wednesday, tho 2ist BY which Mrs.
gai4 d. Grant Transferred A. e wiriam II: Van.
derbilt the horses 80. tsts 0 street and 80
Vermont avenue, which are surrendered by
the general toward making good the slO,u1
which he borrowed 10 aid Ward d FISK, the
New York bankers.
The Pennsylvania bank Of Pittsbnrg closedi is
doors on the 3ist and posted the follow.
Ing on it's doors: Owing 70 the continued ran
for several days, we have cs3fidered " wise
for our depositars ard all concerned 20 sus-
pend paynient for the present There was
ereat excitement sTs-;=A h.s hank. and officers
were placed at the doors.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1884-05-29
Deaths from Cancer.

Cancer aud skin diseases are inci
ms with alarming rapidity, both b
country and in Great Britain. In !
York city, especially, the numbered
sons afflicted il large, and it is estins
that fully $4,000 new cases Of skin
ease appear there annually. In !
there were 304 deaths from sarse'.
New York, being a little over ono
hundred OF deaths from all canses
1879 there were 572 deaths, or
over two per hundred of all dssa'
that is, in ten years the proports1
deaths from cancer had nearly deus
one death out Of every fifty beng
this dreadful disease. In 1879
were $50 deaths from cancer, o.
per cent. of all deaths. In this
year cancer actually caused more g
than scarlet fever, this being
light year, with 6l5 deaths ireh
latter disease. In 1882 the citys
tally tables showed 73l deatls
cancer, or more than two dal!
ing these fourteen years $50
died OF cancer Ia New York.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1884-05-29
widow of Santa Anna.

The widow of the famous Meucu
general, Santa Anna, is o liHni
quietly in her native state, and sslaoa
intrudes into the outer world. Ma
Santa Anna is but forty-eight years a
though it is a wonder she does not bs
a hundred. Santa Anna was presida|
Of Mexico three years before she n
born. She was plighted 10 him IN 4
cradle, and married TO him when \
was thirteen. He was then a nifn1
dictator, sleeping ON his sword, 81
by constant peril. In six months 4
had lost his leg and got into a Tal
prison. For twenty years her life 4
spent in a camp, surrounded g
whirl of warfare. Her husband 2
five times president of Mexico,
times military dictator in sbsd
power. He was banished, read
banished AGAR and finally died =
with his wife in exile as a traitor
has seen much "glory, and has reo
unlimited adulation, but she hr
ever enjoyed one thoroughly peas
month in her life.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1884-05-29
Personal.

While hea arms were in the suds, the
other day, a Rockland, Me, washer.
woman received the welcome news that
she had inherited a fortune Of about
$t5, 900.
Some people are proud of n thing,
some of another. Dan Scott is evil
IDENTIFY proud of his wife, as appears
from the following announcement from
the Glasgow Herald: Scotia 7
Burnside Street, on the 18th ult., the
wife of Dan. Scott was safely delivered
of triplets two boys and one girl-aH
doing well-this making of a fam
ily in four wears and seven months,
having given birth twice TO twins-Au-
gnst 30, 1879, twins; October 81, 1881,
twins; March 90, 1884, triplets. Other
papers please copy"
Ordinarily the English court officials
take charge of royal funerals. The
obsequies of Prince Leopold were, how
ever, managed by the Queen herself.
"The fact is" says Truth, "she takes q
morbid pleasure in all ceremonies of q
m~ournful nature, and literally reyels in
all the undertakers' details of collins,
services, graves and monuments.
Speaking of the return of General
Henry S. Taylor, who has been visiting
the insane asylums of Ohio in company
with superintendent Gundry, of Mary
land asylum, the Baltimore American
says that he found IN the idiotic depart
ment of one of them the two children
who for many years Travelled with Bar
NUNS circus as the great and only Aztec
children. He was told that the pseudo
Aztecs were IDIOTS, who, before Barnum
got them, were in the idiotic departments
of one of the Ohio asylums, and after
they no longer proved a curiosity were
returned.
Occasionally q man dies who shows
that he had full and complete faith in
his wife, even to the extent of leaving
her the control of his estate. Such a
one was John Parrot, the pioneer bank
or of San Francisco. BY his will his
wife is made trustee Of the five millions
bequeathed to her and her children.
The profits of a large ranch are given TO
one son, who is of age only OF condition
that 'fhis conduct meets with his moth
er's approval" There is more than
one way TO make q son walk in the way
he should go.
1t was certainly a singular coincidence
that on the day of the duke Of Albany
death the approaching marriage of Miss
Barring was announced About four
years ago the duke proposed to Miss
b lring, who is Lady Ashburton's
daughter, with the full appreciation OF
the queen, but was rejected, to his very
great disappointment. He was not, how
ever, the only one OF tie queens sons
whose early wooings we're unfortunate,
as the duke of Connaught was twice re-
fused by Princess Marie of Hanover be-
fore he went to Berlin in search Of a
bride.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1884-05-29

came 70 deliver himself up. he rode
from his camp in the little hollow. MS
hands we're clasped over the pommsi =
the saddle, aud his rife lay across M
knees; lhis head was bowed down.
Pressing around him walked five OF MS
warriors their faces we're upturned ana
earnest as they murmared TO him; but
he locked neither to the right nor 70 the
left. vet seemed TO listen intently. 30
the little group came slowly up the hlii
to where Gen. Howard, with his aide
de-camp, and Gen. Miles waited to re-
ceive the surrender. As he nesred
them, Joseph sat erect III the saddle,
then gracefully and with dignity he
swung himself down from his horse, and
with an impulsive gesture threw his
arm 10 its full length, and offered his
rifle to Gen. Howard. The latter
motioned him toward Gen. Miles, who
received the token OF submission.
Those present shook hands With 30
seph, whose worn and anxious faca
hHhs.eaA with q sad smile rs silently he
took each offered hand. Then, turning
away. he walked to the tent provided
49,
for him.
''His scslp-lock was tied with otter
fur. The rest of his hair hung in q thick
plat on each side OF his head. He wore
buckskn leggings and a gray WOODEN
shawl, through which were the marks
of four or five bullets received IN the
last conflict. His forehead and wrist
were also scratched by bullets.
Joseph at this time must have been
about thirty-seven or thirty eight years
old. He is tall, straight, and handsome,
with a mouth not unlike that OF Napo-
leon +. He was, in council, at first
probably not so influential as White
Bird and the group of chiefs that sus-
tanned him, but from first to last he was
prominently their war chief Such
was the testimony Of his followers after
his surrender, and such seems to be the
evidence of the campaign itself
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1884-05-29
The Surrender of Chief Joseph.

Lieut.. G. +. $. Wood contributes a
paper 10 the May Century on "Chief Jo-
seph, the Nez Perez" and his battles
with Gen. Howard's troops, the surren.
der being described as follows: "Old
Captain John brought this reply land
his lips quivered aud his eyes filled with
tears as he delivered the words of his
chief:
Tell Gen. Howard / know his
heart. What he told me before-I have
in my heart. / am tired of fighting
Our chiefs are killed. Lookinv.eI
IS dead. Too-hul- hui suit is dead.
The old men are ali dead. IA is the
yonng men, now, who say "yes 'or
mo" that is vote in c%ouncill.
He who led on the youno
men tJoseph's brother, Oiliout]
IS dead. II is cold, and we have no
blankets. The little children are freez-
ing TO death. My people-some Of
shem--have nj away 10 the hills, and
have no blankets, no food. No one
knows where they are-perhaps freez.
ing to death. / want to have time 10
look TO my children, and to sec how
many of them | can find; maybe / shall
lind them among the dead. Hear me.
my chiefs; my heart IL sick and sad.
From where the sun now stands / will
tight no more foreycrp
~ was nearly sunset when JOSEPH
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1884-05-29
Persona, Points.

lloes DErina, ransatrice was married, In
New Yesk b Prof y~oniona, viscoans St cFox,
q wealthy frenchman connected with the ca
tsodral choir Ia New York.
Miss Ellen sheldon Drummond, daughter OF
yudge Drummond, Of the United states circuit
caurt, and MI. John v PsrwsIl il, Of Chicago,
we're married In the Episcopal church at whea.
Ton on Tuesday the 10Th. Bishop McIAren, as
eistea by the Rev r. n. Morrison Jr., per-
formed the ceremony
Becky Jones, a faithful old servant in the
family Of the late Louia c. Harnersley Of New
York, wentto jail Monday for contempt, In re-
fusing to answer questions about Mr., Hamers-
ley, In contest Of his will by certain heirs. The
old lady says abe viii stay there till The resur-
rcction day rather than testify.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1884-05-29

The business OF the country cannot
hsd4pressed when forty-seyen raitroads
report for April an increase Of nine per
cont. upon their grosaearnings Of April
1888, and an increase Of ten per cent. in
their mileage. But IL does not follow
shas because these earnings are substan-
tiaaly what they we're a year ago, prices
IN general should be the same, the rea.
SOP being that many Of our railroads
suasr the natural effects Of over capital
izations Boston for instance, holds
ss5e 1000, BOO railroad securities, but one
Of he moss conservative papers in that
city says that nobody, however slightly
familiar With the origin Of the sscuri-
ties, has any reason TO believe that their
original coat was e-half the sum
named, Of course, this being true, they
could stand great depreciations, and at
the same time be sources of great profit
70 long as fair dividends were made.