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The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1885-05-21

THE new postal law goes into eff
feet July 1. Or and after that date the
rate on all domestic, .frst-class mat
ter, including drop-letters, at letter
carrier office, will be two cents per
ouce or fraction thereof, instead OF
two cents per half ounce. This
change will apply to mail addressed
to Canada, but not to other
foreign mails. The rate on
second--class matter, or news
newspapers mailed by publishers will
be reduced from cents to cent per
pouad, and the department has decid.
ed to issue newspaper and periodical
stamp Of the denomination of cent,
the design and color of which will be
the same as those of the present series.
They will be ready for issue on June
l.. Time has not yet been found to
mature a plan for giving effect to the
congressional enactment, providing
for the use of especial delivery"
stamps at specified postoffices.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1885-05-21

Mr.. CLEVELAND is trying to carry
out in good faith the pledge the Dem
ocratic party made to the
people, and that he made
to the party. His deIiberation
is evidence of honest purpose, and he
had much better err on that side than
the opposite. He has not made as
many appointments as a President of
either party would have made in the
same time, twenty-five years ago, but
he has been no laggard in turning
the rascals out" having filled in two
months, over sixteen hundred places,
lately held by them, with Democrats.
Great care has to be exercised in
making changes, so as not to cripple
the public service. The country
expected no precipitation In
official reorganization, and
there has been no disappointment
on this score. AS said by contempor-
airy. Democrats have the right to ex-
pect the offices to be filed by members
of their party, and in this they will
not be disappointed, but they must
allow the President, who is respon-
sible, to select the time and method
of making official changes. Demo-
Gratis, who are disposed to criticise,
unfavorably, the President of their
choice, should remember he has only
been in office a little over two months,
and their fault-tnding is founded
solely on their objection to the way
he fills the offices. The duty of Dem
ocrats is to strengthen, not attempt to
weaken, this administration. Since it is
to weaken it, since it is
going on winning public confidence
and proving a blessing to the country,
those who antaganoize it will become |
their own destroyers. We do not |
think Mr.. Cleveland desires to be
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1885-05-21

THE United States cons uIr service
IS quite an extensive thing. Consuls
are the business representatives of the
United States in all parts of the
world. There are seventeen Consul
Generals. most of them stationed in
Europe, their salaries ranging from
$1,000 to $1,000. Consuls receiv-
ing salaries are divided into
seven classes, the salaries of each
class being respectively, two at 81, 600;
nine at $500; eighteen at So, 600; six
teen at $500; thirty-five at $1,000;
forty-nine receive s 500; and twenty
two get $1,000. Besides these, there
are 1T commercial agencies, paid by
fees AMI having the privilege of doing
business on their own account,
besides this enumeration there are
a goodly number of clerks attached to
the more important consulates. The
consular service was established to
look after American ships and sea-
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1885-05-21

VIRGINIA Democrats scored an
other victory the other day in the de-
cision of the supreme court of appeals
affirming the constitutionality of the
electoral law passed at the last SEES
sior. Of the legislature. This places
the control of the State in the hands
of Democrats, and has been resisted by
the Republicans on the ground that it
was contrary to'the principles of free
government. The Republicans will
probably make this law an issue in
the comming campaign, and hope to
win, as they did in 1879 under similar
circumstances. The dates for both
conventions have been now fixed, the
Republican to be held on July 18th,
and the Democratic on July 10Th
next. as t'tft'' s"''f'
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1885-05-21

Preparations are being made at
Lampasas to make the State Encamp-
ment, to be held there June % to q,
inclusive, grand success. 1t is said
ten companies have already slgnified
their intention to be present, and it is
hoped by the management
that thirty or forty will attend
Handsome prizes are to be awarded
and besides special rates for
the military and visitors
will be offered an opportunity to
attend at small expense. The manage
ment will supply tents, rations and
cartridges free of and the mill
tary men will be at scarcely any ex-
pense.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1885-05-21

THE great count of coin in the fed
oral FREQ amy has boon finished, Under
the force of one hundred "lightning
calculators," revealing a discrepancy
of only two cents, and it is not GER
tain that even this shortage existed.
In Treasurer Jordan's opinion no
higher tribute could be paid to the
efficiency of the organization of the
Treasurer's Office and the accuracy of
its methods, than that in sthe two
years there has not been the slight
est error or irregularity of any kind.
This gratifying result is accepted by
him as an indication that in the
Treasurer's Office proper, there is no
urgent necessity tor change. The
reforms which he contemplates are
mainly as to questions of policy and
theory, and the relations of his own
bureau to others.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1885-05-21

Commissioner Colman has estab-
lished milk and butter bureau. 1t
has an important work before it in
doing everything possible to check
the sale of bogus butter, which is
driving real butter out of the market.
The Commissioner, it seems, is a most
determined enemy Of oleomargerine,
and regarding the dairy interest Of
the country as one of its most import
ant enterprises, he proposes to protect
it against fraudulent compounds sold
as butter. The general Government
and all the States should combine to
require the sale of food limitations by
their real name; and every such COM
pound should be sold with label,
setting forth the Ingredients making
up such compound. The commits
sioner might urge tie adoption of such
measures.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1885-05-21
Where The Eira is Ont !

"Haroun of Aleppo," said Sir Phillip Derva
'1had mastered every secret in nature which
the Eobler magic seeks to fathom. He dis
covered that the true art of healing Is to assist
Nature to throw off the disease-to summon,
as it were, the whole system to eject the en-
envy that has fastened on a part. His pro-
cesses all included the refrigeration of the
principle of life."
In this the Eastern sage merely anticipated
the practice of the best physicians of o-day.
What life itself is nobody knew then N body
knows now. But we have learned something
of the reasons why the mysterious tide rises
and falls. Provided the great organs of the
body are not irreparably destroyed, medical
science can always relieve and often save. Yet
no equitable physician nov adheres to the
barbarous and stupid proc sses Of depletion,
such as bleeding, by which it was attempted 70
cure disease by reducing the patients ability
to resist it. Nowadays we do not tear down
the fort to help the garrisOn-we strengthen it.
In this intelligent and beneficieat work, it is
conceded that r &KKEk'fS TONIC leads
all other medicines. AS an invlgorant it acts
Immediately and power ully upon the circula-
ton and the organs of digestion, thus giving
Nature the assistance she calls for. 1t follows
that all ailments of the stomach, kidneys and
liver are at once relieved or cured. No other
preparation embodies the same qualities or
produces similar results. 1t Is delicious to use
and the best known anti-1ntoxicant Price
soc and 81. HJsCox & Co., New York
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1885-05-21

THE Massachusetts, Legislature is
about to grant municipal suffrage to
women. 1t is an experiment, which.
if proven satisfactory, will be extern
ded so as to includethe state elections
If it should ever get this far, Ben But
Ter will doubtless either move out of
the State, or give up running for Office.
What calamity may thus be in store
some other part of the country.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1885-05-21

BOTH parties in Virginia will hold
their state conventions in July-the
Republicans on the 10Th, and the
Democrats on the Goth. While the
campaign is In progress business gen.
orally will be suspended, and the doc
trine of reputation will be preached
from every stump. That is the way
If looks now.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1885-05-21

TIE fall of Battouche and route of
Riel, and the rebels by General Mid
dleton may not be death blow. to the
rebellion, but it will go far toward
such condemnation. 1t is a most
fortunate thing for the white popula-
ton of Manitoba. Had Middleton
have been defeated, general Indian
massacre might have followed.
THE Grand Turk probably feels re-
lieved.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1885-05-21

Just now the political mind is en-
ployed alone in considering questions
of removal and appointment to office.
Next winter, it is hoped, attention
will be elevated to questions Of rev.
enue, tariff, currency and admins
tration reform.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1885-05-21

SENATOR PAYNE denies the story
that he intends to resign, in order
to allow John r. Mclean, of the Gin
cinnati Enquirer, to step into his
place. Ohio is not particularly for
tunate in her present Senatorial rep
resentation, and should Mclean sue
coed Payne, there will be a descent
from Door to worse
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1885-05-21

Col. w. G. MosELY, of Brazoria, a
gallant soldier of three wars, has BIZ
youaced on the everlasting camping
grounds,
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1885-05-21

The state elections of 1885 will be
held in Massachusetts, Connecticut,
New York, New Jersey, Ohio, Iowa,
kentucky and Mississippi. Four of
these states went Republican last fall
and six Democratic.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1885-05-21

1t has been ascertalned by carefully
repeated experiments that the first
drawn milk contains five, the second
eight, and the fifth seventeen per cent.
of cream. Thus, a cow three-quarters
milk is not half MIXED, if butter is
the object.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1885-05-21

The great trouble with the Proh1-
bition party is that they give them
selves up to one idea, All
requisites of good government,
and of proper society CEN
ter alone with them in the aboli-
ton of whisky drinking. Drunken
ness leads to many vices, but evil
governments are run by cool sober
headed villains, who too often wear
the livery of heaven as disguise.
Prohibltionists can never succeed as
political force, until they devote
themselves to principles more latitu-
dinarian than those involved in sim
pie prohibition.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1885-05-21

FLOREsvILLE Is to have the Aran-
sas Pass railway. Twenty miles OF
the road-bed has been placed under
contract.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1885-05-21

The Republicans of Ohio do not mo-
nopolize the Buckeye appetite for Of
flee. 1t Is modestly suggested that
UoV. IUau1y Sl.vuIu LO appvIuJou ~
the supreme bench, when Justice
Bradley resigns-giving the "step-
mother of president" one-third of
the court. There is nothing mean
about Ohio.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1885-05-21

THERE are no longer hard times at
Abilene. Wool is pouring into that
place in vast quantities, and money is
plentiful and the sheep men are happy.
Wool has been brought from three
hundred miles away, and it is esti-
mated 100000 pounds will be market
ed there this season. In two days
10000 pounds changed hands. Prices
range from 10 to II cents.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1885-05-21

A GREAT fuss is being made over
the fact that Mr.. Loving, of the Fort
Worth Gazette, has joined the church
one case of salvation in the newspaper
world.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1885-05-21

TIE San Antonio and Arkansas Pass
Railway is assuming realistic features
What about the Austin and South
eastern?
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1885-05-21

men, and look after all disputes in |
which they may become in
volyed, to arrest deserters from Amer
lean vessels, aid our people in trou-
BILE, report statistics of the country or
city to which they are sent,
to make themselves the
channels, in fact, through which
our home government keeps apace
with the condition of affairs affecting
it, as well as the condition of foreign
countries, with whom we enjoy COM
mercial relations. Consulates are di-
vided into three classes: Consuls of
the first-class being paid by salary;
those OF the second also receiving sal
aries, but the salary not being suffi-
cient, the Consuls are allowed to carry
on private business, while those of the
third-class are paid by fees for their
services and allowed to carry on bust
ness enterprises in addition to their
consular duties.
WHILE all eyes have been turned
towards Illinois as the seat of great
Senatorial contest, the people forget
that United States Senator is to lie
elected from New Hampshire. Senator
Blair holds his seat by appoin tment,
simply to fill vacancy until the leg
islature may elect, and that
body meets On the first We'd
nesday of June. One of its first
duties will be to elect a senator
Among the candidates are Senator
Blair, ex-Senators Rollins and Patter-
son, -Representativ Marston, Rep
resentatives Burns and Ray, and ex
Secretary of the Navy Chandler. Al
the legislature is largely Republican
it is probable that the regular caucu
nominee will be elected, although tw'
, years ago Senator Pike was chosen b,
the boilers from the caucus. At tn
! time Rollins had really the stronges
| regular following, but the ambition o
others interfered, and after a tediou
siege, Pike was elected as compro
mise candidate. Two years befor
that Chandler had lead a bolt fror
: the caucus nominee, and it is possibl
that comI lieations may arise nov
which will bring about bitter strife
although the indications point t
l the selection of Senator Blair.
It IT is almost impossible to realiz
: that one-seventh part of the Ian
y surface of the earth land one-twentiet
l. part of its whole area, constitute til
e Empire of the Gar of All the Russ
y ans. More than 100000 people ca
r him father, and are under his abs
{. Lutte government. In Russia chi
It is born on an average every e1gl
q seconds throughout the year, and
It death occurs every eleven seconds. Z
s the present rate of increase the pop
e lation will double in about ski
u years. But Russia is far behind mo
y civilized nations in the care of childre
L and in the preservation of life. st
:" tistics show that 60 per cent. of q
!, the children die under the age Of
N years. The average duration of Ii
v in Russia is only rs years, which
+ much below the average in the Yves
! ern countries Of Europe and in tt
W United States.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1885-05-21
,ssRArEs OF SUBSCRIPTION
THURSDAY. MAY. %l' 1909

Is the governor attacked win a
mania for pardoning the coolest blood
ed murderers
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1885-05-21

SENATOR HILL has been looslng a
vast deal of money stalking daily
newspapers in Colorado.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1885-05-21

THE County Court is bent on run
ming things its own way in spite OF
any and all popular desire.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1885-05-21

ONE of the oldest farmers of the
Colorado valley, says this is the most
promising crop year he has ever seen
In TaYaS
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1885-05-21

THE fitness of Mr.. Phelps appoint
ment to the Court OF st. James VIII
now become apparent.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1885-05-21

President for a second term, but he
will prepare the way for Democrats
TO administer public affairs for life
time.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1885-05-21

The speech of Angus Cannon when
called up before the United States
Court in Salt Lake, for sentence. af-
ter conviction of polygamy, under the
Edmunds act, was calculated to please
the Mormons. and did gain some az
plause, but it did not soften the heart
of the judge in the least, and sentence
was duly passed, imposing a fine of
three hundred dollars and imprison-
ment for six months. The same pun
ishment has been inflicted on other
Mormon elders. Cannon is a brother
of the ex-Delegate from Utah, and
was a man of considerable influence
in the Territory, being president of
q stake in the Mormon Church.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1885-05-21

CUNNINGHAM and Burton dyna-
miters, who attempted to blow up
the Tower Of London and Parliament
buildings, injuring momen and chill
dren, were sentenced yesterday to
penal servitude for life. The hal
ter would have been a more de-
served fate, and one more polite for
the safety of life. If there is any hui
mrn being worthy of death, it is the
sneaking coward and assassin, like the
dynamiter, who, without courage to
face men, 1mperils the lives of women
and children. A life sentence is far
too light for such wretches.
THE Nihilists have determined to
give the Emperor lease of life for
two years, and if in that time he give
the people or Russia a liberal constl-
tuition, they will sustain aud protect
him; if not, they will put an end to
his life, ard seize the government,
They claim such perfect organization
as to be able to take hold of the gov
eminent in a day, and then administer
it more effectively than through the
Empire. 1t is very sure they are
everywhere, that they attend even
about the person of the Gar, occupy,
incognlto, high places of trust close to
him; and they may be able to do what
they say.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1885-05-21

TEE demand for foreign wives by
the well-to-do wldowers and bache-
lors of the rural districts is growing
to be quite business in New York
The farmers and mechanics are COM
planning that they cannot afford to
marry American girls; that they want
to pay off their debts and save some
thing, and that this is impossible
with the American raised wife. The
demand is mostly for German and
Swedish girls, and the applications are
either made in personal Castle Gar
den, or through instructed
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1885-05-21

THE discussion of an enterprise to
connect Brennan by rail with the
rich Brazos valley, lying to the north
ward, brings to mind the more than
once frequently talked of Austin and
Southeastern Railway. The first talk
about this proposed road was at the
time the Austin and Northwestern
railway was being constructed. A
charter was then obt lined and some
New England capitalists prom
ised to take hold of the
enterprise, and to build the road at a
very early day, A construction COM
pany even was organized, and con-
tract made to build the road, but cir
cumstances interviewed which put an
end to its accomplishment. The Leg
islature just at that time reduced the
price of passenger fare TO three cents
per mile, and the capitalists who had
agreed to take the bonds of the road
withdrew their proposition to adj
vance the necessary money for
prosecuting the work. This was just
at the beginning of the financial pres
sure, which has for some years dis
tressed the country, and owing to hard
times and the inability to borrow
money to push new railways, the
subject of building the railway to-
wards the southeast has not been re-
vived with any show of real inten-
ton to do anything. The
proposition then was to build
this railway from Austin
via Lockhart and Hallettsville, to the
Colorado river, probably at Wharton
then to extend it down the rich Caney
region to the Brazos, where it would
meet again with rail and also with
Underwater, opening to thesea through
the mouth of the Brazos river. Thi.
route is certainly very fine one fol
railroad, and as it was regarded
good then it must necessarily be bet
: ter now. A railroad built owe
this route would pay, because ever,
mile of it would traverse a long stretcl
of agricultural lands, some of then
the most productive in the world
: Besides this route, another was no
: long ago talked of for this southeast
ern railway directly down the valle
, of the Colorado river. While com
? pany could not figure out the sam
prospective returns in railwa,
following the valley of the rive
, counting competition with two othel
;, THE Dallas Democrat tells 1t, tina
Mr.. Eakin of Detroit, Michigan, is il
9 Dallas, looking after the establishment
r of a mandatory for bronze goods, hi
! instructions being to establish Oh
q there or in some other Texas city tia
, will give sufficient encouragement t
the enterprise. The capitalists wit
whom Mr.. Eakin is associated, own
similar factory in Detroit, one in Cor
l necticut and one in Canada. The col
tract has been given these gentleme
for cast of the Goddess of Libert
y twenty-five feet high, to surmoun
v the dome Of the new Texas capito
: for which the syndicate will pa
q $4,000. The statue will surInount
u0raao thrnn hundred feet high.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1885-05-21

Is pronounced by scores Of ply,
sicians, and thousands Of people
who have used it, to be the best
known remedy for Debility, Dyst.
pepsia, Indigestion, Loss Of APP,
petite, Loss Of Flesh, Lung Com.
plants, Female Weakness, Cas-
trio Irritability, Nervousness,
Malarial Fever and many othel
diseases where tonics are required
differing essentially from all
Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1885-03-27

IT is strange to receive news of out
breaks among the Indians, and upon
looking for the locality in which they are,
find that it is not in the United States at
all, but that the trouble is all in Mani
toba, and there is nothing from the
plains, Indian questions in the United
States have finally become settled ques-
tions, and there is no danger to fear, un-
less it come from the doings of the
"boomers" in the Indian Territory, a
thing not likely to happen, as the troops
are protecting the Indians there, and not
the white man. The trouble that was
anticipated from the removal of the White
River Utes to the Uintah Agency has not
occurred, and probably never will, that
agency being surrounded by railroads and
fringed with settlements. The only thing
that now remains to be done is to keep
the present policy the settled policy.