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New-York tribune., 1885-02-10
pusRAND WANTED IN RUSSIA.

Since Secretary Jackson, Of the Board OF Emil
grafton two years ago interested himself In o
Western farmer who wanted good housekeeper,
whom the farmer afterward made his wife, many
letters or appeals have come to him from various
sections of the werld. Yesterday he received let
ter from mile. Ptachusky," of st. Petersbulf y
Russia, written in French, In delicate hand which
was translated as follows:
am young lady OF sympathetic appearance and well
educated. would like you TO secure me husband .
man Of talent and good character.
Mr. Jackson is not acquainted with any man
anxious to 60 TO Russia to marry, unless 1t Is TO q
Young lady of substantial means.
EXPERIMENTING WITH CHOLERA GERMS.
Assistant Secretary Of the Treasury French,
Major Steinberg of the Army, Collector Robertson.
aud several memb of boards of health OF this and
other cities went to Brooklyn recently to witness
an experiment with cholera germs, smallpox virus,
and germs Of other contagious diseases. The germs
were placed IN bales of rags. and two methods OF
disiDfection were used-ODe with sulphurous ACID
gas, and the other with Jet Of superheated steam
Major SteinberQ yesterday made an informal report
to Collector Robertson on the tests upon rabblts
with the cholera germs. He said that where tho
animals had been inOculated with the germs disin-
fected with the gas they had died from the CON
tagion,. but where the germs had been brought in
contact with the steam they lived. proving that
only D the attercase had the germs been destroyed
He will make an extended report to the Secretary
Of the Treasury.
New-York tribune., 1885-02-10
Announcements.

Best quality London-dressed Alaska Sealslxin
Garments all size, prices marked down Goods sold at re-
tail by z. o. SHAYNR. Manufacturer. l03 Prncest
New-York tribune., 1885-02-10

DIR. LYONS PERFECT TOOTH POWDER.
AN Elegant Toilet Luxury.
Sold everywhere. 25 cents
New-York tribune., 1885-02-10
Rad treatment of strictur,

Bad treatment of structure often COM
pcates and makes difficult Of The worst
and nveerate speedily yield to and I'M
proved methods Pamphlet references and terms sent for
two hree-ccnt Worlds Dispensay Medical Assoca
Buffalo. ". Y.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1885-05-28
HEALTH RETREAT.

THE Dallas Herald is informed by
Mr.. E. L. Gage of Preside County,
that the country west of the Pecos
river is fast taking rank as the
leading stock section of Texas, for
the reason that its winter climate is
such as to be free from the severe
storms and billiards that prevail in
northern and central Texas, and with
the abundant fall rains that are GER
tain there, a splendid winter range is
assured, land cattle remain fat
through the winter. In proof of this
Mr.. Gage cited the shipment from Pre-
sidio County during the months of
January, February and March of 5000
beeves to the markets of New Orleans,
Galveston. Houston and San Antonio.
The result of this has been to draw
attention to the resources of this Sec
ton, and from the southern portion of
the state considerable migration of
cattle and sheep men has been and is
taking place, thus causinga brisk de-
demand for range, and settling the
country with very desirable class of
citizens. Mr.. Gage says that his sec
ton is not directly interested in the
trail matter, under discussion at the
late conference in Dallas, as their out
let is up the Pecos River. Their eli
mate and altitude (5,000 feet abovesea
leveD. however, places their cattle
in a position similar to the New
Mexico and Colorado cattle, and liable
to contract the disease from southern
cattle, but not liable to impart it.
That section is also attracting consid-
cradle attention RS health and sum
mer resort. as its altitude gives it a
delightful summer climate, with its
splendid natural roads, and that its
beautiful mountain scenery would, if
known, draw many who now go
north. A representative of the STATES
MAN spent some time in Fol
Davis and this western re-
gion, some months ago,
and he can corroborate all Mr.. Gage
tells the Herald. The STATESMAN
at the time gave a lengthy description
of that region aud especially ventilat-
ed the fact, that Fort Davis is the
health seekers paradise. The ther-
mometer, there, scarcely ever rises
even in August above SO, while the air
possesses purity and lightness that
makes it most delightful. The breez-
es sweep across the country from the
west, tempered in the summer by TIE
coo! atmosphere of the Rocky Noun
tam hills the atmosphere Is abso-
lutely free from moisture. In the
winter it is only cool, while the
air all the year round is brac
ing. Invalids are freed from debility
there. and weak lungs are changed
to their fullest capacity with
healing and life-giving oxygen. The
water is unsurpassed for purity. 1t
flows from beneath granite hills, with
not faint of vegetable or mineral
matter in it, and it comes from the
springs aud wells clear as ether. ut
temperature n exceeding sixty
degrees. There 10 reason why
FHrt N,'r $40 be one of the
OF this CONT
tives have 70
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1885-05-28
the CONDITION OF COTTON.

COTTON growers should work their
field diligently, for there is every
prospect Of fair prices for the coming
crop. The last circular of Latham
Alexander s. Co., of New York, pre-
sents many points which go to show
that the present crop should be remu-
nerative to producers. The crop Of
18845 may be put down at 100000,
and it is apparent that the supply
now on hand will not un-
der existing circumstances, more
than satisfy demand, while, should
there be revival in trade, which is
more than probable, there will be
scarcity of cotton before the next crop
finds its way to market. The result.
thtn, must hs good prices under Or
binary circumstances, aid advanced
prices under probable cccGdiiLi0ls. The
receipts CT cotton up to May Is at all
United States ports, from September
l, for the last three years have been, for
1888, 5,737, 192; for 1884, Abe, 1897; for
1885, 4649, 1924. while exports have for
the same periods respectively been as
follows: 4,262,71S; 3.499,9 1901, 402
Tie total visible supply now on hand
is 1881, 9O1, against 1852, 295 in 1884
and 1881, 800. The stock on hand in
Liverpool is 1900 bales less than at
the same time last year, while
that in the United States is 80, 502 bales
less than in 1884; and the total visible,
supply in the world is 80 1884, less than
last year, and 649, $50 bales less than in
1883. 1t may be readily perceived,
that, were it not for dullness in trade,
cotton would, at this time command a
higher price than it does. But this
stringency cannot be perma-
nent. The indications now
point to changing conditions. Only
few days ago the wires told us of the
auction sale, in New York, of 10000
packages of cotton goods, the greatest
number ever offered at one sale, at
lhoSU oGA0ioL&SSolJ PAISO w thO Aae]h "a
factureTs. With returning activity
in manufactured goods, with decreas,
ing supply, and with cotton once
more placed on its true merits
the outlook is satisfactory to plant
ers. --latest accounts from the
East India crops, too, tell that it i
small, and the shortage will undoubt-
| edly be increased as the season adj
vances. AS to the result of the next
crop yield,it is too soon in the growing
season'to guess as to what it may be-
Should it be very large-say seven
millions of bales-price5 may
decline in the fall. But
whether the crops be large or small
it will bring to the South a vast sun
of money, which will change the fnan
cial condition TO one that will brlns
about greatly improved conditions il
every branch of business, and henc
renew general confidence and tn
country's more rapid mat erial devel
opment.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1885-05-28
OUR COMMON SCHOOLS.

The Pearsall News, noticing a late
discussion of teachers, as TO the best
methods of teaching mathematics, has
an admirable article upon the subject,
worthy the peru,al of everybody in
terested in education. 1t is said that
textbooks have been prepared more
with reference to relieving the teacher
than of leading the pupil into a
rational apprehension of this exact
science. This t. xt-books treat of their
subjects in the most concise and
accurate terms, using words
SO familiar to the pu. il
that he or she is byl means of them
enced off from the subject ma ter.
&ules that cover up the process r.
reasoning, are given the ~ .
T. - =
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1885-05-28
THE Houston Herald SAYS:

OF late Gov. Ireland, by the author.
ity vested in him by the Constitution,
has been pardoning criminals IN the
penltentiarieS to such an extent that
the public is very justly indignant.
Petitions are carried around which
people unwittingly sign and doubtless
the Governor, thinking he is
complying with the wishes of a
majority of the good people of the
community in which the pardon en-
anates, grants cIemency and turns
loose dreaded criminal. The Herald
would suggest that hereafter 10 par
don be granted by His Excellency un-
less the petition first appears in a
newspaper published in the county in
which the crime was committed and
in which the petitioners reside.
In the meantime set of cold blood.
ed murderers have been turned loose
again upon the country.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1885-05-28
STATE NE WS.

There are signs of a drouth at
Howe.
The merchants of Fort Worth have
organized commercial club.
There have been excessive rains in
Grayson County and around Denisor.
Very heavy rains have faElsn ali
over Northern, Central and Southern
Texas.
Garcia & Co, the largest bu-iG s.
house in Lampasas, Mexico, has Sus-
pended; liabilities, 81, SEQ.
At the new town of Harold, North
west Texas, 1914 lots were sold, :.gr, =
eating $4,000, averaging $211 each.
San Antonio is rapidly becomi Z a
manufacturing city. AS instance,
400 kegs Of beer are turned out daily.
The Knights of Pythias had a picnic
at Sherman, attended by bands of
music from Paris, BRENNAN aad other
neighboriEg towns.
AT Mckinney, Alexander Mccoy, a
colore d Baptist preacher, has been sen
| fenced to board in the county Jail six
months for stealing watch.
A horse thief, named Louis Wilker-
SOD, when ordered to surrender by a
deputy sheriff of Waller County, near
Trinity, attempted to shoot and was
himself killed.
! The fiance of Mrs. Jennie " atson,
who suicided at San Antonio the 9TH
er day. arrived in that city from
st. Louis, and was overwhelmed at
the intelligence.
Rev. Humphrey Duling, a colored
Baptist preacher of Dallas, was caught
one moonlight night with a sack of
stolen chickens on his back, and goes
up for four months in Jail.
P. S. Graves, who figured in the
| MiGeola and Marshall race troubles in
1883, has been arrested in New Or
leans and brought back to answer
sundry indictments at Mineola.
The General Assembly of the
Southern Presbyterian church, an i'm
portant learned and intellectual rep
resentavive body, is in session at
Houston. The synods of nearly all
the Southern States are represented.
An animal, by description probably
Mexican lion, the other day at Long
view leaped into a wagon, in which
were colored man and number of
children, and closed Its mouth upon
one of the latter, and would doubtless
have killed it had not fishing party
been close by. Through fear of shoot
ing some of the negroes the br ate was
allowed to escape.
During the storm the other night
the residence of r. Strittmatter, of.
Weimar, was struck by lightning,
tearing fearful hole through the roof
and ceiling, down through the floor,
tearing off the Notwithstanding in a
frightful manner, smashing up the
furniture, ETC., badly. Two little
children, asleep near where the light
ming made its exit. owe their miracuI-
Gus escape from death to a sewing
machine, as the electricity followed
down the leg of the machine through
the floor, throwing splinters and brok-
en- glass all over the little fellows.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1885-05-28

THE Senate Committee, appointed
on interstate commerce, is in session
in New York City, with the object
of formulating method of adjusting
legislation on the subject. 1t will be
remembered that the House passed
the Reagan bill, and the Senate the
COLON bill.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1885-05-28

TIE Houston Light Guards have
won, in twelve months, in pE;z's On
drills, eleven thousand dollars 10
increase their already widest re 3 rr-
nown as soldiers, they must. someht W
go into War. They would lie IS su.
perb on the battlefield as in IT, y: re
drill
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1885-05-28

In a paper by Dr.. Varick, read before
a New York medical association. the
use Of simple hot water as dres sin
for wounds is strongly recon- mendsd
During an experience in it's uia of six
years IN cases of acute surg: y. such
as railroad accidents. etc, ne has hid
no death from septicamia Of primary
or secondary shock.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1885-05-28

IT IS understood that the Blackburn
family, of Kentucky, are now firm be-
levers in ex-senator Simon Cameron's
doctrine, that it is better to go hun
dred miles to see man than TO write
him letter. Aud Mr.. Villas seems to
think that way about confidential cor
respondence with congressman.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1885-05-28

A CONTEMPORARY says that while the
newspaper often lifts another to fame
the newspaper man is rarely accorded
even distinction, and oftenest is doom
ed to the poor-house. And there is a
heap OF truth in what is said. 1t is
unpersonal journalism that produces
it?
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1885-05-28

THE splendid condition of live stock
IN the mountainous regions of Pre-
sldio, Pecos and Crockett counties, Is
attrsctiDg the attention especially of
cattle and sheep men. Splendid beef
was shipped from the range there to
New Orleans, Galveston, Houston
and san Antonio during the winter
and early spring.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1885-05-28

ENGLAND is trying to fortify her.
self in Asia by an alliance with China
The prestige of Chinese trsops is what
she is after. They have done what
English troops have not lately accom-.
plished whipped fight.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1885-05-28

THE police of Boston are in big
row with the street evangelists. The
latter, including some one hundred
preachers and members of the Y. M.
G. A., are determined to hold Sunday
meetings on the commons. Whether
the preachers or the police get the best
of it, remains to be seen.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1885-05-28
6 th1 Fire is Ont 7!

"Haroun of AleppO," sal Sir Phillip D r :.
''had mastered every secret in nature which
thu Eobler magic seeks TO fathOm. He dis
covered that the tue art or 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 reinyigoratiOn OF the
principle OF life"
In this the Eastern sage merely anticipated
the practice of the best physicians OF to day.
What life itself is nobody anew tten n body
knows row. But we have learned something
of the reasons why tn mysterious tide rises
and falls Provided the great organs of the
b dy are not 1rreparably destroyed, medical
science can always relieve and often save Yet
nOr equitable physician nov adheres to the
barbarous and stupid proc sses If depletion,
such as bleeding. 10y which it was attempted 10
clre dis Ease by reducing the patients ability
to resist If. Nowadays we do not tear down
the fort to help the garrison-we streNg then it.
In this intelligent and beneficie t work. it is
conceded that : RKER'% TONIC leads
all other medicines. AS an nvgorant it acts
Immediately and over ully upon the circula-
tt'n and tt. o guns oi digestion, thus giving
Natur- he assistance she calls for. 1t follows
that Ill iii mems of the stOm tcll Kidneys and
liver a-e at once relieved or cured. No other
preparatioI embOdies the same quail aeS or
produces similar results. 1t is delicious to use
and the best known anti-lntoxicant. Price
SOC and 81 HIsCox& Co., New York
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1885-05-28

FIFTY-FoUR unfortunate gamblers
hays'destroyed themselves at MANAGE
thus far during the present season
The Princes conscience must be an
uncomfortable bed-fellow if he ever
considers the source of his income.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1885-05-28

IT WOULD be well if In every de-
partment and Office of a democratic
republican government it shou d al
ways be borne in mind that the gOv
eminent means people are the ma,'ers
and that public officials, high and w,
are their servants.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1885-05-28

BEAUMONT BUCK, the Texas cadet
who made things lively at the F,>c
Point Military School, stanGs thirty
five in class OF forty-one. There is
one thing, however, in which Buck
may be counted frst-a fight.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1885-05-28

JAMES G. BLAINE congratulated
Jack Logan. The dispatch sounds
like one of those grandiloquent, efflor.
vescent fulminations of Jim Blaine last
fall. 1t sounds now like d5leful
sound from the political topf0s.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1885-05-28

TaE trouble with the Houston Pos9
is, 1t has no proper understanding of
the land question; and therefore it is
useless to discuss the question with
it. Were the Land Board to say there
were no school lands the Post would
swear by the assertion.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1885-05-28

THE Chinati mines, about sixty
miles southwest of Fort Davis, are
working a ten-stamp mill day and
night, and the output in silver is
about $1,000 per day. Efforts have
been made to arrest operations in this
mine by legal proceedings, relating to
title to the land upon which it is
located, but it appears the disputants
have not yet succeeded in stopping
work. The Chinati Mountains are
remarkably rich in silver ores, and
were it not for probable disputes re-
garding land titles, resulting from
inaccurate surveys, there would soon
be vast mining camps in the Preside
ranges.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1885-05-28

A DESPATCH from Chicago ssyst he
trunk lines hare decided 10 reduce the
rates on cattle to the basis of thirty
cents from Chicago to New York,
and on sheep to forty cents.
The reduction carries with it a CORES
ponding reduction on dressed-beef
rates, which are seYenty-fve per cent.
of cattle rates.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1885-05-28

FOUR candidates for the Postmaster
ship of Richmond were urged by as
many delegations OF influential Vir-
ginians, and the fifth man got the
Office.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1885-05-28

"THERE can be no duty" says The
Cook, more important than that of
teaching Americans to make coffee.
Evangelists ought to go up and down
the land awakening men and women
to the enormity of boiling coffee.
Every coffee-pot without strainer
should be publicly smashed and the
offense of boiling coffee should ostra-
else the offender. With the trifing
exception of women, coffee is the hest
gift that man has received. To treat
this gift with insult and contempt by
boiling is an outrage as ungrateful as
it is brutal"
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1885-05-28

WINNIPEG was no sooner rid of
Riel than the town was struck by a
terrific cyclone, which, when it touch
ed the river, sucked up the water and
caused tremendous WateIspout.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1885-05-28

THE Panhandle stockmen acted in
bad faith in the Dallas agreement, if
the statement about appealing to the
courts gin preventing the drive of a
Southern Texas herd be true, and we
suppose it is. The herd was stopped
by the Sheriff at the Canadian River.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1885-05-28

ONLY three religious writers, in
five years, have made money off
their books. 1t is the "yaller kivered"
literature that pays in this day and
time.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1885-05-28

WHEN Victor Hugo passes away
there will be void left, which has
been filled by one of the most power
full and fascinating writers of fiction
that ever lived.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1885-05-28

A MOVEMENT is said to be gaining
considerable strength among the Re
publican managers in Vermont, look
ing to the defeat of Senator Edmunds
for reelection two years hence. From
a Democratic standpoint, it may be
hoped it will succeed. Nothing can
be more advantageous to the Democ-
racy than the slaughter of the ablest
and most honorable Republican lead
ers by their own party.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1885-05-28

the citizens of Dallas have formed a
syndicate and subscribed $4,000 to
the project. Mr.. w. e. Hughes will
represent the syndicate.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1885-05-28

THE London Times, which repre-
sents royalty and the Cabinet, express
es gloomy torebodings about the stu
alton,
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1885-05-28

THE New Orleans Exposition will,
beyond hardly possible doubt, be re-
opened.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1885-05-28

The best definition of mugwump,
yet given, is simply voter who bolts
his party's candidate and clings to his
party's principles.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1885-05-28

SCHOOL lands, it may be observed
are not going at six cents per acre
The people know the Land Board has
no right to repudiate statute.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1885-05-28

BOB INGERsoLL is at least in fix
He'll has been entirely expunged from
the Bible.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1885-05-28

RUSSIA continues her war prepare
tions, and England is trying to fix up
things so az to secure fighting men
from China.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1885-05-28

REL will very certainly be tried for
treason; and, it being his second Of
Tense, he will, beyond much doubt
have no leniencY extended him.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1885-05-28

The question Of who attends to the
prosecution of pardons, and receives
fees therefor, is being considered.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1885-05-28

THE Republican Legislature OF
Wisconsin passed resolutions formally
approving the appointment of Colonel
Villas as Postmaster. General, and the
Republican Legislature of Michigan
has taken similar action with refer
ence to the appointment of Mr.. Lo.
throp as Minister to Russia. The
leaven that is working to sour the
Ohio Republicans, is beginning to
raise things in all the northwest.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1885-05-28

PRESIDENT CLEVELAND has made
an average of twenty-seven appoint
ments day since he has been in office,
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1885-05-28

Col. CHAs. S. DENBY, of Evans
vile, Ind.,it is announced, will receive
the mission to China. =
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1885-05-28

PRESIDENT DIAZ, of Mexico, has
been sick with typhus fever.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1885-05-28

WHETHER it ispeace or war, some
body is making immense fortunes out
of fluctuations in cunsols.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1885-05-28

PRESIDENT CLEVELAND is deter
mineGto force Illegal settlers from the
Indian resei vations.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1885-05-28

GEN. WoLsELEY has escaped by
the skin of his teeth from Egypt.