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The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-06-05

being spoken to in regard to the ac-
ton OF the city council in this matter,
said that he regretted that the council
should see proper to pursue such
policy, as it to some extent placed
him in the attitude of being tyranical
and unjust, while in truth and in fact
he took no pleasure in fning anyone,
but did so in the interest of the quiet,
peace and order of the community.
He further says that, Notwithstanding
the city council may remit fines i'm
posed for carrying and discharging
pistols in the city, it shall have no in
fluence upon his action, but that he
will continue as he has began by i'm
posing the highest fines under the law
for all such offenSes.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-03-10

WASHINGTON CITY, March 10.-SOme Of
the prominent ladies attending the woman
suffrage convention made a call on President
Arthur and urged him to come out strong"
in favor Of their movement The president
said first in very graceful way that lie was
glad to have the opportunity Of meeting 50
many distinguished ladies' and then al led
that he was very confident they would secure
all the rights they ought to have. The
answer did not satisfy the blunt Miss An
thony. She said sharply: Should not
women have full equality and political rights
with the men|
The president did not answer this question
directly, but bowed as be said: Miss An
thony, we would probably differ as to the de
tails in answering that question
After little informal talk, the pioneers, as
they love to call themselves, filed out. They
net Gen Ben Butler coming up He had a
white and q red rosebud in the lapel of his
heavy blue overcoat. He did not remove his
soft black hat as Miss Anthony shook hands
with him and introduced her associates. Miss
Anthony said: General, we know you are in
sympathy with us. We hope you may be
president some day, SO you can help US"
"You are very kind, am sure, said the
general, as he skipped, nimbly as boy, up
the stairs.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-03-10

WASHINGTON CITY, March 10.-The house
committee on patents has reported favorably
a bill to appropriate $40, 900 for the benefit of
Jearuln Atkins, the original inventor of an
automatic rake for harvesting grain, Mr..
Maybury, of Michigan, has introduced hill
appropriating 500, 900 20 be paid to the heirs
of William A. Burt, to compensate them for
the use by the Unitel States in the public
surveys Of the solar compass invented by Mr..
Burt.
The house committee on patents has re-
ported favorably on bill to pay Albert H.
Emery OF New York, $4,000 'on account
of the cost Of, and the time spent by him and
use of, all patents and inventions in design
ing and constructing the testing machine
built and erected by him for the United
States, or otherwise in any way on account
of said machine for testing mstals.
Another bill that is pending il one referring
to the court of claims the claim of II. H.
Sibley for Sl04, 900, (which he claims to be
due to him under contract with the govern
mert of the United States for the use of a
patented invention in the manufacture OF d
tent known as the Sibiey tent, and that for
this purpose said court of claims shall have
Jurisdiction, notwithstanding any bar Of the
statute Of limitations or any law relating to
the loyalty of the said Henry Fl. Sibley dur
ing the war Of the rebellion"
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-03-10
some Political Guessing.

New YORK, March lex United States
Senator Saunders, of Nebraska, says; "Out
i'll Illinois Logan appears to be taking the
lead; but in Nebraska we are SO far without
any particular choice. Arthur stand:
well with my people, and SO dc
Logan and Harrison. | think there
is little doubt that the fight foI
the Republican nomination will be narrowed
down to Arthur and Logan"
"Who is the Democratic fayorite in youl
stateH
Mcdonald, of Indiana, and l think tht
Democratic delegates will be solid for him
Ex-Congressmau Horace F. Page, of Cali
fornia, is confident that the Republicans viii
elect their nominee. The Pacific coast state:
he regards as certain to give Republican ma
iorities President Arthur was well liked il
California, and there was many who favored
his denomination. Mr.. Blaine and Gen
Sherman also had hosts of admirers, and tht
same could be said of Judge Edmunds ant
Gen Logan. The "old ticket" still founC
many supporters on the Pacific coast.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-03-10
The Lasker Resolution,

WASHINGTON CITY, March 10. The Lasker
resolution, about which SO much has been
said, is not being considered by the house
foreign affairs committee, notwithstanding
the many stories that have been circulated
about what the committee is or is not to do
The committee can do nothing unless the
house gives it special instructions, There is
no way for the Lasker resolutions to
reach the foreign affairs committee except
through the house Members of the commit
tee Indignantly deny the report that Herr
Won Eisendecker has attempted in any way
to influence the committee to modify the
original resolutions or to pigeon-hole the mat
ter The German minister has not spoken to
any Of the members of the committee upon
the subject, and none of them have been i'm.
pudent enough to call on him to make or re-
ceive any explanation.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-03-10
A WEAKNESS FOR WIVES.
The Performances of Georgia Man
nthe Matrimonial Line

ATLANTA, Ga, March l0.-Jame5 R.
Chrisler, well-to-do farmer Of Jackson
county, several years ago wooed and won the
beautiful daughter Of a neighbor, Miss
JOSEF hine Webb For while they lived in
the neighborhooi iii which their VOWS were
sealed, but later came to Atlanta, and for
two Years lived happily. The husband grew
careless of lis wife, and finally
neglected to support her. Then the
wife started out to get a living flor herself,
and the husband returned to Jackson county
The wife sued for a divorce, and in 1881 a
second verdict was granted, but was set aside
on account of irregularity in the proceeding,
Meantime, six months before, Chris!er had
married another Jackson county lady, thus
at the same time having two wives. In May,
1852 wife No. 2 deserted Chrisler, and that
wo.Sdt "-- ~ lime left without Il
better-haif ie.,.
With a weakness still for wives, Chrisler
turned his face westward and brought up in
Ellis county, Texas, where he became ac
quainted with the family Of Charles p Bragg,
& prosperous farmer. Mary E. Bragg was Q
beautiful girl, with sunny hair ana eyes. She
had Just turned into her 10th year. and
blooming like wild flower twenty miles from
a railroad, was not able to withstand the
soft words of the gay deceiver, and promised
to be his wife With that faith in human
nature which has been the destruction OF
women innumerabie, the fair Mary on the
26th of last January was united in marriage
to the already muchly married Chrisler, and
thus became wife No ,. OF course, she was
ignorant of the true state of affairs, and trust
ingly started with her husband for Atlanta,
arriving here four days after the marriage.
On arrival in Atlanta thay proceeded atsoncs
to the home Of a sister Of the bride. There
they were cordially received, bat when the
young husband was presented to the bride.
mGtherin-law he was recognized as the RaI
who had already married two wives
The bride was shocked beyond description
to learn that she was his third wife, and con
frouted her husband with the statements. He
claimed that he was legally divorced from hi
first wife, and that the second marriage was
void, because it occurred before the first di
vorce was granted Records, however, show
that no divorce has ever been granted. As
result of the quurTel the husband betook him
self out of town, and the wife of four day.
began proceedings for divorce. She has no
returned to Texas, but is still here. Wife No
is i'll Atlanta, wife No, > is in Jackson
county, and wife No, 3 is also here. Chrisle
is out OF town.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-03-10
PITH AND POINT.

Sam Pine re, ,,Oices in the proud dis
tinction of being the leader OF a gang
of burglars in New jersey. At the risk
of DESTROY NO our American forests,
somebody should pitch Pine into dun
geon.-N y World.
As drug clerk the female IS not a
brilliant success. When You wink at
her across a soda fountain she doesn' I
know VII 'ther to put in little Balm of
Gi'ead in your Ida or to hang her head
and blush. -BiSmdrck Tribune
All over the East Young ladies are
killing themselves for the love of men
" Nho carry canes, weai yellow gloves
and affect e,e-glasscs Mothers, are
yoI properly educating yonr daugh-
tiers? \. Y. CommerciU IA er5iser.
NO man." said Richter, ..can
either live piously or d e righteous with
out having wife, 1t does not follow.
however, that the more wives man
has. The more piously lie Ives and the
more righteous he DIES. - Boston Post
A Connecticut factory tlrns oat
two thousand cor>ets day Another
indication of the increasing power OF
the press, and at the same time an evi-
dence of the staying power of the land
of steady habits and ligne) )us nutmegs.
Boston TranScyip..
The editor wrote: he most ex-
pensive drug in the markets. egotinin,
and the compositor made the last word
'egotism' > The idea is ridiculous.
Egotism has become "a drug in the
market" to be sure, but it is the cheap:
-N0rriSt0tUH HcraH
"A prominent and prosperous farm
er of Michigan is quoted as saying re-
Gently when | was a boy and
trud 5ed along TO school was taught to
lake off my hat and make obeisance
whenever met grown person. How
is it now? Why, man is fortunate il
he can rass by 5, h0oI-house without
Icing snowflake d.-Detrod Pos
An old nero and his son called on
the editor of New Orleans newspaper
Il wants my son ter work in Yer Office
sab. "What can he do" oh, al
fust he kant do nuthin' but ed;ck youl
paper; but arter awhile, when learn,
mo sense he ken black your boots an
sweep de flo. IN Y. Independent.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-03-10
TELl..EGRALP!EHIC. T
THE WHISKY BILL.
Refusal of the House to Take UP the
Bond Extension Matter.
Eaneg OF Those Voting Eay---Re-
wards OF Inyentors--.The W0-
Ean Suffragists-. -GibsOn's
SarratIVe--News Notes.

WASHINGTON CITY, March 10-Phelps
asked leave to present the resolutions of the
Sew Jersey senate protecting against the
5ln. li-0u tariff bill, bat number Of objec-
tiuns were made on the Democratic side, and
the resolutions were not received. Under
the call Of committees the following reports
were submitted: By Turner, from
the committee on Elections, a resolu-
ton confirming the right of Skinner, of
Narth Carolina, to his seat in the house.
Laid over. Moulton, from the committee on
Judiciary, to divide the state of Illinois into
three judicial districts Placed on the house
calender. The house, by a vote of yeas ll5,
nays l37, refused to go into committee for
the consideration of the bonded whisky ex
tension bill.
After the morning hour, Morrison moved
to 60 into committee OF the whole for the
purpose of taking up a revenue bill" This
was understood to mean the bill ex
tending the bonded period. Townshend of
Illinois, under instructions from the ap-
preparation committee, antagonized it
with an appropriation bill, and
on Morrson's motion Randall de-
manded the yeas and nays They were
granted without opposition, each side being
willing TO see what strength the opposition
had. A good many members, however,
lodged the total vote being but 2i2. The
result of the vote was a defeat of the
whisky men. The VOTE when announced,
stood ll5 yeas to 137 nays. Those
voting against taking up the bill
were: Anderson, Atkinson, Beach, Blount,
Boutelle, Bowen, Boyle Braiuerd, Breckin-
rilora f. Il Brewer " " Brown RIumnl
Buchanan, Burleigh, Cabell, F. Campbell, J.
NJ. Campbell, Clements, Io.-.. y" ''oHvo '-
Cosgrove, Covington, S. S Cox, ". X
| Cox, Crisp d. b. CulbertsOn, Cullen, Cutch-
| con, R. f. Davis, Ditrell, Dingley, Dockery,
| Doud, Dunn, Ermeutrout, l. n. Evans,
! Eyerhart, Forney, Fyan, Geddes, Gatf,
Green, Gunther, Hammond, Heinbeck, Hard
/ man, ". H. Hatch, Hepburn &. w Hewitt
Hiscock, Holmes, Hor-. Howey, James
johnson, B. W. Jones, J. H. Jones, Keifer,
| ketcham Lacey, Lanham, Long, Lyman,
| McCord, McComas, Mccormick, Mcmillan
MilIard, Miller, Miliken, Mills, Mitchell,
Money, Morrill,, Nelson, Nutting, Parker,
Payne, Payson, Pierce, S. W. Peel, Per
lins, Peters, Poland, Post, Randall!
G. W Ray, Ossian Ray Reagan, Reed, j. B
| Robinson, j. II. Rogers, ". +. Rogers, Ryan
Scales, Seymour, Singleton, C. r. Skinner
Smith, Spriggs, Steele Charles Stewart, j
| W. Stewart, Storm, Strait Strubble, f. r
| Taylor. J. M Taylor, Tollman, H. G. Turner
Valentine, Van Alstyne, Wadsworth, Wait,
| Wakefield A. J. Warner, Richard Warner
Weaver, Wellborn, Milo White, Whiting
| Williams, John Winaus, j. D. Wise anG
| Yaple
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-03-10
SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY.

Warcham, Mass, is making the
iron-clad steel nail from muck bar iron
and steel scra"S, ten dollars ton
cheaper than the old iron nail, as strong
rs steel and as flexible as iron.-BoStoB
Herald.
Tea has been successfully and
easily grown in Georgia for several
years, but no effort has teen made to
prepare it for market on q scale to at
tract the attention OF wholesale buyers,
according to the Savannah NetCS.
Blindness is steadily decreasing in
England, owing, it is considered, to the
advance in surgical treatment of the
eyes, and TO the decline OF such dis
eases s. smallpox, etc, among chill
dren. For thirty years this athiction
has gradually lessened; lut within the
last decade the improvements specially
noticeable.
The latest novelty in Sweden is an
enormous engine which daily produces
1000. .C00 boxes OF matches. 1t receives
the raw material (blocks of woody at
| one end and gives up at the other the
matches neatly arranged in their loXes,
ready to be packed. The wood which,
in the course of last summer, was
brought over to Jonkoping to be made
into matches, filed twenty steamers
and eight sailing-vessels.
DIR. Clauston, of the Edinburgh
Asylum, Scotland, is substituting milk
diet for stmulants III treating his pa
tents. In very acute eases, both OF
depression and maniacal exultation,
where the disordered working of the
frame tends rapidly to exhaust the
strength, he relies more and more on
milk and eggs made into liquid Gus
tards. This certainly looks like sen
sible substitute for stimu ants under
such circumstances.
In the center of & Big circle of gold
watches in a Maiden Lane (New York
| City, matchmaker window is hand
| some open-faced chromometer with
this placard: The first watch eveI
made in America by maahinery.' 1t is
a relic. 1t was made in RoXbury,
Mass, about 1850. 1t runs for eight
days with a single winding. 1t was the
| first watch ever made in this country
- N''s cHlleIN hauuiactti~d DN lAa
chinery. Ii !, perfect - the stand
ard watch of to day, anu o1nne 1t,
tie in the general plan Of construction.
" !, Iribune.
The Pennsylvania Railroad Com
pany has been Experimenting recently
with patent which is to do away with
the bell-rOpe on passenger trains. The
experiments are being conducted on
the Pittsburgh division, and the patent
is the production of the Westinghouse
Air Brake Company. 1t consists of 8
communication by air pressure with g
small whistle in the cab of the engineer
The hose through which the air is con,
ducted will be Independent OF that com
municating with the brakes. The con
nection between the passenger ear and
the air-tube is from the rear of the
coach, near the closet. where there is 3
button. which is pressed by the con
ductor when he desires to signal the en-
gineer. Philadelphia Press.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-03-10
ABANDONED HER CHILD.
The Baby" in Hearts of Oak" Out
in the Cold.

NEW YORK, March 10 A bright little
female child was discovered day or two age
under the stoop of the almshouse at Flat
q visitor as child who last fall, at the
beginning Of the theatrical season,
had created a great deal of amuse-
ment and won much applause as
''the baby" in Hearts of Oak" 1t appears
its mother was a pauper at Flatbush, and
went out with the theatrical company last
October ona salary Of $50 week and travel
ing expenses. About four weeks ago MIR.
James A. Herne, of the Hearts of Oak" com.
pany, wrote a letter 10 a friend i'll this city
saying that Mrs. Mary Doogan had left
him in the luTch, and that he WAS obliged to
pr duce his play without baby. He did
not know how mother and child would reach
Brooklyn from Fort Wayne, Ind, where the
"leaving in the lurch' took place, but he
would not give the mother a penny for
that purpose. Shortly after this the
mother appeared at the office Of the
board of charities and asked to be
sent back TO Flatbush as a pauper,
but was refused. She said she had been well
treated by Herne, but she told a pitiful story
of abominable treatment and shameful
wrongs at the hands of a member of the com,
pany. She claimed that he repeatedly at
tempted to assault her, and made her life q
torture, until finally she left the company.
Why did you not complain to the man
ager" she was asked
Because ] supposed he would side with one
of his best actors before he would with me,
was the reply
Continuing her story, she said she had nc
money, but determined to escape from heI
prosecutor she started on foot and for days
through snow, rain and cold, she begged her
way from Fort Wayne, Ind, to town about
seventy-fiye miles distant. There Christian
people had fed her, given her warm clothing
and paid her fare to New York. 1t is thought
that rather than ask for county assistance
and run the risk of being refused she prefer,
red to abandon her child under the almshouse
stoop.i
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-03-10
New Railway Prakeef.

ST.. PAUL, Mimi, March 10.-ArticIes OF
incorporation have been filed here by the
Chicago, St Paul & St. Louis railway com
pany, which is to construct line from Min.
neapolis to the Wisconsin state line, to con.
meet with any road coming into Pierce coun.
ty, Wisconsin. The capital stock is g., ,00O, 600
The incorporators are: J. S. Cameron, of
Chicago; L. o. Goddard, of Chicago; J. W.
Traer, of Cedar Rapids, Iowa; A D. Bar
mum, of Minneapolis, and A Il. Ainsworth,
Of Newton, Iowa.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-03-10

Couzins, of St. Louis; Martha Mcclellan
Brown, of Cincinnati; Florence Kallock, Of
Illinois, and Mary B. Clay, of Kentucky, ap-
peared before the house Judiciary committee
to present arguments in favor of sixteenth
amendment giving women the right
to vote. The committee room was crowded,
and the fair speakers listened to with inter-
est The addresses were practically a repro
duction Of the arguments offered in past
years, supplemented with some new facts,
showing the success of suffrage where estab-
lished and the growing demand for the
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-03-10

" WAsBINOToN CITY, March l0-During
Friday session of the senate Williams moved
to discharge the committee on military affairs
from the consideration of the bill to regulate
the retirement Of army officers. The measure,
he said had been introduced by Mr.. Beck I'M
DER the mistaken idea that lie was acting for
hin, whereas lie knew nothing about it. Mr.
Beck explained that he had introduced the
bill in his colleagues name because a young
man hal gwen it to him, saying that Mr..
Williams had agreed to introduce it. He
supposed that he had been imposed on. The
bill was drapnei
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-03-10
Gibson Reeounts His services.

WASHINGTON CITY, March 1o-The in
vestigation by the house committee on ex-
penditures in the department of justice was
resumed, and Gibson heard in explanation of
his connection with the star routes He said
he was paid 5000 for his services, and
thought that he was under paid He tabu-
lated the excesses in the star route expedi-
tinns up to Dec. l, 1881. MaaVeagh ad.
dressed letter to witness complimenting
the latter as ito the character
of his report; also letter to Solicitor Phil
lips, endorsing the compliment to the wit
ness. The inspectors acted under the direc-
tions of the witness during the inyestiga-
tions. Witness said he was actually and con-
stantly employed from April % to some time
in November, 1881, working fourteen hours
day, including Sundays.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-03-10

Hearing Their Arguments.
WASHINGTON CITY, March 10. = Phoebe
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-03-10
AiyPatn Hewitt I'll,

WASHINGTON CRY, March l0.-The friends
Of Abram $. Hewitt say he is lying very i'll
at his residence here.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1884-06-14
Office.

a.. In accordance with the PROVISIONS
of Section % of Act 96, approved
July 5th 1882, notice is hereby Civ
en- to the tax payers Of said parish
of Vermilion and the corporation of
Abbeville, that the listing of the
property real and personal of said
tax. payers is completed, together
with the valuation placed upon said
property by the Assessor, and that
said lists will be exposed in my Of
fee for inspection and correction
for the term Of twenty days begin
ing June 10, and ending July I, 'S4.
Given under my official signature
at Abbeville La, May 3lst 1884.
T. D. M. LYONS, Assessor.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1884-06-14
Sheriff Sale

State of Louisiana -25th Judicial
District Court--Parish of Nermil-
ion--No. 1866.
Board of School Directors of Yer
mion Parish,
vs.
G. B. Shaw, Tax Collector ct ais.
By virtue of a writ Of tieri facias
issued out of the honorable District
Court, in and for the parish Of Yer.
million, ia the above entitled and
numbered suit, and to me directed |
will proceed to sell at public sale to
the last and highest bidder, at the
Courthouse door, in the town of Alb
beville, parish of Vermilion, on
SATURDAY, July 5:H 1884,
between the hours of IL o'clock A
NJ, and 4 o'clock P. NJ, and continu
ing from day to day if necessary, all
the rights, titles, interests and de
mands of the defendants, David
Frank and his wife Philomenc Ber
| nard, in and to the following des
cribed property, seized to satisfy SAT-
writ, to-wit -
| l mare--2 colts-2 creole horses
One certain tract of land lying
and being situated in Vermilior
parish opposite the town of Able
Vile. on the west side of the bayo,
Vermilion, having front on sale
bayou of three 71ll00 arpents from
by forty arpents deep, bounded
above by lands Of the children o
d. V. Leblanc, below by Philoment
Bernard, east by bayou Vermilior
and west by J. w. Harrington, will
all and singular improvements there
on situated.
Also one other tract of land stu
ated on west side of said Bayor
Vermilion having a front on sale
bayou Of six and a half arpents b.
40 arpents deep, bounded above, b,
the first above described tract, be
low by lands of Joseph Nunez, cas-
by bayou Vermilion and vest b!
Demosthenes Meaux, containing 26t
arpents more or less with all i'm
provements reon.-TERMS Cash
Sheriff's Office AbbeyiIle, La,
May 3lst 1884.
Fl. B. LYONS. Dy.Sheriff.