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The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1885-12-17

The State Department at Washington
has made request for the recall of Senior
Del Campo, Secretary and Acting Charge
d'Affaires of the Gillian Legation on the
ground of ungentlemanly and outrageous
conduct on his part. This diplomatic
official has been engaged in many ex-
ploits within few weeks past, and has
been ''run I'M to the station houses a
number Of times for drunkenness, bolster
Gus and outrageous conduct in public
places. He has escaped punishment and
incarceration by pleading the law ex-
empting foreign representatives for &C
coUntability and arrest for their actions.
It is not doubted but that the CHILEAN
government will promptly recall Senior
Del Campo, and thus relieve the capital
from his presence.
In business letter from j. w. Pratt,
formerly business manager of the New
York World, und also the managing edi-
tor of the Truth, to the business manager
of The STATESMAN, Mr.. Pratt says: II
take this opportunity to say that there is
no daily paper in the Uuited States that
more nearly meets my idea of elegance
than the AUSTIN STATESMAN. The nearest
approach I ever saw to it is the Pail Mall
Gazette, of London Mr.. Pratt is now
connected with the Dallas Daily Times,
B. GRATz Brown died at Kirkwood, near
ST. Louis, on the 18th instant. Thus has
passed away man who was prominent
in politics for many long years. He
ranked high as a man of ability. He was
United States senator in 1867, and gov
ernor of Missouri in 1871. In 1872 he was
nominated for vice-president of the
United States.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1885-12-17
SAN ANTONIO Is THE BEST MARKET

SAN ANTONIO Is THE BEST MARKET.
Capt. L. p. Seeker, quartermaster of the
frontier battalion. is in the city purchas-
ing supplies for the troops stationed west
Of here, and states that San Antonio is one
of the best markets, if not the best in the
state. He was able to purchase corn here
at 20 cents per bushel less than it is sold
in Austin, and says all other supplies are
propotionately cheaper.-San Antonio
Express.
That is one of the conundrums that
no fellow can find out. Capt. Seeker
buys corn at 20 cents less per bushel in
San Antonio than he can purchase it in
Austin. Well he can purchase the corn
he wants in Austin for 40 cents bushel
and if he gets it at 20 cents less in San
Antonio the people of that city must pay
him 30 cents bushel to take IT off of their
hands. That is the kind of arithmetic we
don't understand in Austin.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1885-12-17

The December number of Daniels
Medical Journal with its red back, at
tracts our attention on the editorial desk,
and blinds our eyes with black letters on
red cover. Austin is rich. in periodicals,
and perhaps ahead of all the cities in Tex
as in medical periodicals. We have the
Homeopathic and the Allopathic. The
latter, DR.. Daniels mag" goes for the
Homeopaths savagely. In defending the
Alopathic physicians for declining to con-
suit with the Homeopathic, after declar-
ing of the laity, that they knew nothing
about it, assumes the aggressive by assert
ing that he will first proceed to show that
homeopathy is a crime. He cites the
fact that the papers announced the death
of General Mcclellan in the presence of a
homeopathic physician who was power
less to remove his sufferings, and then
mildly suggests that a hypodermic inject
ion of morphia and atropia might have
saved us that valuable life. The local
contest deepens; ION ye brave to victory
or the grave" Beg pardon, gentlemen
for mentioning the latter word in your
presence.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1885-12-17
8 MURRAY ST., New YORK,
December 5. 1885. (

Henry Ryder Taylor, Esq, Editor of the Texas
Figaro, San Antonio, Texas.
DEAR SIR-The so-called TownIey- Chase
and Lawrence-Townley estate is a myth.
was IN the house of lords on the Attn of
August, by invitation of Lord Denman.
No such act, as stated was passed or heard
of. send you this day a history of the
matter gathered from personal nspection,
etc. have frequently offered $4,000 to
any person who can prove to the contrary,
or better, $4,000 to any person who can
produce the marriage certificate of Mary
Townley daughter of Sir Richard Town
ley) to Mr.. Chase or Lawrence. If by any
exposure of this swindle, you that put an
end to these constant impositions, you
will perform a service emitting you to
the thanks of whole army of poor, de-
luded people, who are being constantly
swindled in this affair.
Yours respectfully,
JAMES USHER, Attorney.
Even if the Townley estates were now
available for division, the attainder on
the property must be removed, and the
marriage of Mary Townley proved.
Neither can be done at the present time,
and until these things are done the claims
of the co-heirs are worthless, but possibly
some Spectator will yet work upon the
hopes of the heirs for all that they are
worth.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1885-12-17

The Texas Review for December, pub
lished, by G. R. Johns, with associate ed
itOrs, Messrs. C. R Johns and S. G. Snead,
is particularly interesting number. The
editor having a months time to write in,
digests his subjects well and treats them
with all the force of logic and classical
rhetoric. This number is devoted espe
cially to the departments, giving much
thought to the land board and its policy.
It's editorial notes are also pungent and
rather severe upon its remote from the
capital contemporary, the Galveston
News, but as far as the improvement of
the SrATEsMAN in typographical excellence
is concerned it is silent. We would have
been glad to have added the commenda-
ton of the Review to its neighbour, the
STATESMAN, but it seems to be true that a.
prophet is not without honor save in his
own country.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1885-12-17

VERY few persons know the origin of the
word lynch or lynch law" 1t is rather a
curious fact that it originated in Camp
bell county, Virginia, where the only
lynching that ever occurred was that of
Henry Mason, negro, for the murder of
Mr.. Hammersley, and that very recently;
but lynching derived its name from old
Colonel Lynch, a native of Campbell
county, who was in the habit of admins
tering summary punishment to marauders
and miscreants of every description with
out paying the least attention to the or
binary precepts of law. Hence he was
called "Judge Lynch" and this is said to
be the true origin of 'lynching" and
''lynch law" Webster, in his unabridged
dictionary says the term seems to be de-
rived from Virginia farmer who took
the law in his own hands.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1885-12-17

In closing an able article on the late
VIM. II. Vanderbilt, the Courier Journal
says:
at is obvious, therefore, that the late
Mr.. Vanderbilt owed the greatest debt to
his contemporaries, and there is probably
not the least doubt that of all living men
he paid the smallest percentage of his in
debtedness. This is the particular dis
tinction in which he is probably without
rival in either hemisphere. The bene-
factions of his lifetime, so far as publicly
known, do not amount to quarter of one
years income. Men with small fraction
of his estate have donated many times as
much to institutions of learning, to hos
pitfalls, to accommodations for the indus
trious poor in crowded cities, to splendid
monuments of art, and such acts of
magnificent generosity as have rendered
their lives many times greater benefits to
their city, their nation and the human
race than the millions which the world had
conferred as the reward of the enterprise
of its benefactors. George Peabody, for
example, is an ant1thesis which exhausts
the subject. ss--+.---
at is, therefore, the late Mr.. Wander
bits entirely unique distinction that he
gained more from his own generation in
proportion to what he returned, whether
in spirit of generous application or of
cold calculations of practical equity, than
any man of the times"
The STATESMAN will close what it has to
say concerning the dead millionaire by
asserting that its remarks made the day
after his death have been fully corrobor-
ated by the entire press of the country.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1885-12-17
COLLEGE PROFESSORS.

At recent meeting of the board of
trustees of the Cornell university stat
ute was passed whereby any professor, or
associate or assistant professor, who has
bee seven years in the service of the uni
versity, may have years vacation with
half salary. The object of this iberality
on the part of the board of Cornell is not
stated, but the advantages to result to
their institution from this new departure
in educational matters are obvious One
advantage is strengthening of the tie
that binds the faculty to the university.
Professors, connected with an institution
where such appreciation is shown, are not
apt to sever their connection, even when
invitations come accompanied with higher
salaries. This permanancy in the teach
ing force of a school secures for it the
confidence of its patrons. People are
justly suspicious of a college whose
faculty is changed with each isue of the
catalogue, and students are restless and
shifting when the terms of professors are
AA1IIAUOu ol1Ih u1ISCIIo1I1l' IS Olu6E
tions Of learning have long been aware of
this, and in all our great universities there
are professors who have grown old in the
chairs to which their labors and learning
have added lustre and renown.
Another advantage likely to accrue to
Cornell from this action Of its board of
trustees, is the indirect benefit the uni
versity will receive from the self-improve-
ment gained by a professor during his
year of rest and recreation. A trip
to Europe is possibility when
man has years vaca-
ton, and a trip to Europe means in
spiration to a teacher OF history, or of the
classics. A years vacation makes it pos
sible for a teacher to work up" the Rocky
mountains, to visit the mines of Mexico
OF to botanize over half the prairies in
Texas. Cornell has just inaugurated a
new president. Perhaps this step is due
to his influence. If SO. he promises to be
the right man to preside over what is al
ready the most vigorous and progressive
of our younger universities.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1885-12-17

publishing an article from that paper ad-
vocating courtesy between all branches of
the professions, and especially insisting
upon an alopathic physician attending a
patient that homeopathic physician says
he can't do anything more for. The
Southern Journal also has its say upon a
little tiff between the STATESMAN and San
Angelo Enterprise, in which it says.
AS to catching newspaper suckers" the
insinuation of the Enterprise, while com
rlimentary to this writer, is not digni-
fed nor courteous to his brother editors.
The Galveston News, San Antonio Ex-
press, Houston Post, and Austin STATES
MAN, are among the Texas papers that
favor square deal between the different
systems of medical practice, and that
have shown fairness to Homeopathy in
the legislative and other contests between
the 'pathies..' If these are only full
grown suckers in the newspaper waters,
then, indeed. is the Enterprise, under its
present editorial management, but m
croscopic wiggletail in the slime-pond of
b illingsgate journalism.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1885-12-17

L
senate actively, as it has been intimated
he will, Ireland and Maxey and the smaller
fry candidates will have about as big a
fight on hand as they will care to stay
with.-Midiothian News.
That A. w. Terrell is a man of fine adj
dress and extraordinary mental powers,
there is no doubt, but whenever that cele-
brated herd law bill, which he introduced
in the 18th legislature is read on him, he
will have to step down and out of the race
for United States senator. - BOnham
News.
Judge Terrell has many sympathizers
in the state in his peculiar views on the
grass question, and the last legislature
vindicated him to very great extent by
creating the Office of ''grass commission
err prominent feature of that celebrated
bill. When he takes the field you will hear
the dry bones rattle. Hamilton Herald.
The cry that Judge Terrell's bill was a
herd law must have been persisted in on
the theory that if falsehood, if we'll
stuck to, is as good as the truth. A ma
jority of the senate committee, consisting
of Senators Kleberg, Mattock, Collins and
Traylor, III reporting favorably on the
bill, used this language: ''Thus it will be
seen that the habits of the people in rails
ing stock loose on the range are not rude
ly disturbed but cattle would still be left
to run at large if their owners controlled
land adequate to their support in the
county"
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-12-14

rom IRON the department at Washington, and
VII VII see what virtue there is in fish cul-
lure IN Florida waters.
=, Inc schooner Moehng was sold at auc-
S sion at hey West on Monday by United
states Marshal Peter A. Williams and
MAS MAS bought by Capt. Albert and G. G.
atson Tor something over 5000.
judgments having been obtained in the
Nlrcult Court against the Pensacola Tele-
gr4ph Company, the lines and property of
SnSt comp my will be sold at Pensacola on
Jan. IN to'satisfy these judgments.
Fernandina Mirror: A board of trade
was organized in Fernandina some years
age IL held one meeting, got tired, and
lay down to rest. 1t has never awakened
since, except for its officers TO attend a
banquet paid for by some one else, and to
participate in free excursion.
Fernandina Mirror: Gilbert Gibson, a
colored man, from Kings Ferry, was
cent TO the county Jail ia this city, by
Justice j. b. Haddock, this week for kill
ing bis brother, Emanuel Gibson, with an
ak, on Friday of last week. The two
brothers got into an alteration about a
coiored woman, to whom both seemed to
pay attention, which resulted in the Kill.
ing OF Emanuel. Gilbert escaped to
Georgia, but afterwards, remorse for his
awful crime worked upon him to such an
extent. that he returned to Kings Ferry,
gave himself up to the authorities, con-
'fessed his crime, and was sent to the
county jail here.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-12-14

about the largest in Columbia, but the at
tendance was so large that many had to
stand. Fully 900 people weresin tho con-
gregation.
The Rev. j. B. Traywick, pastor OF the
Methodist church at Rock Hill, during
the past two years has travelled in the
discharge OF his duties $500 miles, has
preached 4l6asermons and delivered 2S5
lectures and eXhortatiOns. During the
same time he has baptised 119 children
and 80 adults. He has also received 24l
persons into the church. Besides his
salary he raised SIS, 100 for church pur-
poses.
Mrs. Alice Bryan committed suicide at
Charleston, Thursday, by cutting her
throat with razor while in fit of tenn
porary insanity, superinduced by many
months Ill health. Mrs. Bryan was the
wife OF William c. Bryan, who came to
Charleston on Oct. 3, in response TO an in
vitation from some gentleman who had
engaged his services to organize a base
ball nine in that city. She leaves q
daughter aged years, also an infant.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-12-14
A Woman's Remarkable Career


From the fdtt KtOef N6l56.
Mrs. Sarah Warburton, who died IN Fall
River on Tuesday, was woman OF won
derful experience and remarkable char
acter. She was born in Glasgow, Scot
land, but her father, being a soldier, a
private In the twentieth regiment, she
was taken, while Ia her infancy to India.
Here her father was killed, and her mother
dying shortly after, she was adopted by
the regiment and brought up BY the
quartermaster, Darlington, who enjoys
the distinction Of having laid out the re-
mains Of Napoleon at st. Helena, the reg
iment, or portion Of 10, being stationed
at st. Helena at that time. She was first
married, in 1886, to the Quarrermaster
Sergeant, Hulford, at POonah, India,
with whom she subsequently returned
children, three OF whom are still
living, one OF them being an
overseer in the Arlington Mills, at Law
renee, and "A daily sufferer from disease
contracted during imprisonment as q
Union soldier In rebel prison pen. After
returning 10 London she resided for some
time in the Tower, and was living there
when Queen Victoria was crowned. Pass
ing her early life In India, she acquired
the dialect Of the district in which she
lived, and II was once her pleasure 10 con-
vel nc win = 10y ~ NAHAePA iAVAA NAak kkAh=
try WHO was IN London. "Y0u should
have seen his delight" she would say. "to
lind some one VINO could SPEAK 10 him In
his native tongue" A recital OF her eX-
periences and life in the Indies was thrill
ing and OF extreme interest, ana she
willingly related them % always inter-
ested listeners. After her return 10 Eng
land misfortune came upon her, but with
heroic self-sacrifice she parted with what
little possessions she had left, and with
the money obtained sent her brother 70
America. Meantime she struggled on,
working as = warp spinner In one of the
mills--a labor at that time 90 difficult
that few but men could follow the occu-
patiOn-to keep her little ones together
and out OF the workhOuse. She t0ilod on
until &C last her brother was able 20 bring
her and her family 10 a comfortable home
in this country. About 20 years ago she
married, for the second time, James War
burton, OF CresbrOOk Cottage, who sur
wives her. To him she has ever been a
helpmate and a sincere sharer In his trials
and In his joys, and he, though but "a
spinner Of poor yarns" as he loves TO
speak OF himself. has been the kindest Of
husbands 70 her. Their lives we're humble,
but In their honest way Of living and in
their mutual helping OF and full conf
dence In each other they were very happy
and worthy OF imitation.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-12-14
Rescued from Redskins.

From the Neaonau tGd.) A dgertiser.
Last Monday and Tuesday evenings the
Richards troup played at the opera house.
over twenty years ago Mr.. Richards left
the red hills of Carroll to seek his fortune
in the West. He is a Carroll boy in every
sense of the word, and sticks TO it pro-
perly. During the year of 1881, while he
was ON a buffalo hunt in the Wichata
valley, in Northwest Texas, the Conan
che Indians stole his little daughter, Miss
Emma. He was over one year recap.
turing her, and did not do so without
her being shot five times, She is a cripple
and has to go on crutches. The Richards
family consists of father, mother and nine
children, the oldest one being about II
years old. Miss Emma is about 10. The
remarkable and interesting feature about
the performance is the musical develop
ment of the little fellows. The youngest
years old, the next about years old
and boy of years all are excellent
musicians. The mere babies danced
played the violin and sang. Miss
Emma plays the violin and gui-
tar very nicely. Besides this
the two boys gave fine exhibition of
rifle practice, shooting through a finger
ring held by the little sister and hit the
bulbs eye. They shoot apples off the
heads of each other, in fact they can do
almost anything with a rife. The point
of commentator and worthy Of patronage
is the little girl who was captured, and
the musical skill of the family. which is
worth the money. Miss Emma we believe
to be the only living person who was ever
captured by the Indians and made an
escape.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-12-14
The Bell in History.


There are a great many historical bells.
A very noted one is in the leaning tower
OF Pisa, another is in the old city OF An
twerp which dates from the thirteenth
century, and another there is in the
cathedral, called the "Horrida," dating
from 1916. 1t was the old tOcsin.
Throughout Germany are gate bells in
the cities, which ring when the gates are
about to be closed.
The curiew is still rung in Cambridge
and Ely, and in the old provinces In
England, as a kind of antiquarian remin-
iscence.
In Tourney, which is often overlooked
by travellers, there are most melodious
bells.
1t was during the sixteenth century
that the art of music came into existence.
With It came the improved sensibility 10
sound, ana it was then that bells became
melodious, instead of giving harsh and
crude sounds. During this period the
best viOlins, as well as the best bells, were
made.
The English (which they are fain to ad-
nit first got the art of bell-founding from
the Belgians. 1t was they who first hit on
the model OF a tuheful bell, and worked
and experimental over il until they pro-
duced the perfect bells for which to this
day they are noted.
Inc D6iSldu DellS are COmulHtu III bulJo
Of forty or fifty tuned to semi-tones, and 80
form colossal musical instrument.
Bells were used in the lowiands, not
ably in the war with Spain, when a
neighbOrhood was to be alarmed or
troops assembled. They were used also to
signal.
on what depends the excellence Of a
bell? The materials from which it 10 made
which are tin and copper, with very rarely
a little zinc added.
Tin and copper are the best materials.
Some think that silver and gold make good
bells, or that silver alone, or mixed, makes
good bell. Not 80. The more silver in a
bell the worse it is.
The tin in Belgian metal is from % to30
parts. and in English % to 81. The
founders are very particular about the
metal used, rejecting and distressing old
metal. They use the purest obtainable
copper.
The BeIgians have no rule by which
they make bells. They seem TO have in
herited this faculty OF founding. tThe
Belgian bell aims, first, to give one fun
damental note, together with the upper
partials.
In the sonnd of the bell, the third, fifth
and octave are right with this funda-
mental note. The sounds of the bell
chord with others and the sound is like a
chord.
The bell must be true with itself. In the
cantons OF switzerland they have an auto
matte arrangement by which the bells are
rung throughout the night and, by their
varied notes and sounds, making sweet,
harmonious music.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-12-14
NC Savannah News.

From the Tampa fFIa.) Tribune.
We see that Mr.. j. II. Estill, of the Sa-
Vannah MORNING NEWS, is prominently
mentioned as the next Democratic candl-
date for Governor Of Georgia. This is a
well-merited compliment. So far as we
are concerned, however, II it is all the
same TO Mr.. Estill, we would prefer him
to remain where he is. There Is no paper
that comes into our sanctum that is more
highly priced than the Savannah NEWS,
and none that is more liberal and courte-
Gus to the weekly press. OF course it is
a high honor to be Governor of a great
State like Georgia, but we are not pre-
pared TO say that 1t is such a great pro-
motion from the position now SO well
filed by the editor OF the Savannah
NEWS.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-12-14
Bitten bv a Mad Dog.
MON To Cuth6ert tGal Lf6sral.

FrOnl the CHth6ert (Gdl liberal.
Eugene West, 14-year-o son of Rev.
j. S. West, who lives abouttwO miles
west of Cuthbert, was bitten by dog that
was supposed TO be suffering from hydro
phobia last Friday moruing. Before day
the scratching OF dog at the door aroused
some OF the family, who went to the door
and saw that IL was strange animal, and
closed the door. In short tim Eugene
arose from bed and went into the yard and
played with the dog some minutes, moth
ing being wrong with him, apparently.
Suddenly the dog grew furious, and COM
menced biting cows, hogs, mules, etc. A
negro was called and told to bring a gun
and shoot him. Eugene picked up maui
he sprang up and bit him on the hand.
The dog was shot and killed Immediately
afterward. Thus far no uniayorable
symptoms have deVeloped.