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The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1886-07-22
MONITION.
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, lsa
WESTERN DISTRICT OF TEXAS. 49,
sIi LOCUST sr.. ST. LOUIS. MO

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, ISIS.
WESTERN DISTRICT OF TEXAS. ~
Whereas, libel Of information hath been filed In
the district court Of the United states OF America
for the western district Of Texas al Austin, on the
2sth day Of April, A. ID. 1886, by the Hon Rudolph
Kleberg ESQ.,, United States attorney for said die.
trict In behalf of the United States of America,
against one hundred and ninety-six $3.50 mares,
stating that the same were, on the 9th day OF
April, A. ID. 1886, by o. l.. Threlkeld, collector OF
United States customs for the district OF ealura,
Texas seized as forfeited to the use OF the said
United States; and further stating and alleging
that the said forfeiture was incurred by reason OF
the said mares having been imported into the
United States without payment OF the duties there
on, and without being properly entered as imported
for breeding purposes, and Tor other reasons, a.
will more fully appear BY reference 70 tne SAG
libel Of information on file with the clerk OF SAID
court at Austin, and praying the usual process and
the monition OF said court that all persons inter-
ested In the said one hundred and ninety-six Qsy
mares may be cited TO answer the premises, and all
due proceedings being had, that the same may DO
condemned and sold, and the proceeds thereon be
distributed according TO law; therefore, Ia pur.
suance OF the said monti0n, under the seal OF sad
conrt, to me directed and delivered, 90 hereby
give notice TO all persons generally having or pre-
tending 10 have any right title OF interest therein
TO appear before the aforesaid court In the city or
Austin, Texas on the End day OF August 1886, next
II Il be court day, or else the next court day
thereafter at ten i0) o'clock In the forenoon, then
and there TO answer the said libel Of Information
and make their allegations IN that behalf
Dated at Austin, Texas, the 2gth Day o. April, n
u. 1886. >. u. JAckAAht
By Joux Il. TRArsHAs, Deputy. .. s Marshal
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1886-07-22
SUMMER NORMALS.
OPENING OF THE INSTITUTE AT
ROUND ROCK.

Special Correspondence.
ROUND Rock, July 14.-The school con-
vened at halt past eight this morning at
the Round Rock institute, Miss n. Harri-
son, principal. The exercises were open
ed with music, by Miss Agnes Dobbs, after
which prayer was offered by Rev. G. 81.
Dobbs.
The opening address was then delivered
by the principal, which consisted, among
other things, of an eloquent appeal to all
the teachers for their help, to make the
Summer Normal at this place to equal, if
not excel, any one in the safe.
Judge Lyle, in behalf of the mayor of
city, delivered an address of welcome.
He also dwelt for few minutes on the
responsibilities of the teachers, especially
in regard to the training of the young;
very emphatically stating, that education
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1886-07-22
BUCKLEN,s ARNICA sALvE.

The best salve in the world for cuts,
bruises, sores, ulcers, saltrheum, fever
sores, letter, chapped hands, chilblains,
corns, and all skin eruptions, and posi-
lively cures piles, or no pay required. 1t
is guaranteed to give perfect satisfaction,
or money refunded. Price 25 cents per
box. For sale by Morley Bros.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1886-07-22
THE LIPS THAT TOUCH LIQUOR
MUST NEVER TOUCH MINE.
BY GEORGE W. YOUNG.

You are coming to WOO me, hut not as of yore,
When | fastened to welcome your ring at the door;
For trusted that he who stood waiting me then,
Was the brightest the truest the noblest of men.
Your hpson my own when they printed IaTeM even;
Had never been soied by the beverage of hell
But they come to me now with the bacchanal sign
And the lips that touch liquor must never touch
mine.
think of that night in the garden alone
When in whispers you told me your heart was my
own,
Unshared by another, kept only for me-
Oh sweet to my soul is the memory still,
of the lips which met mine, when they murmured,
81 will"
For the lips that touch liquor must never touch
mine!
Oh John how it crushed me, when first in your
The pen of the "Rum Fiend" had written ''dis
grace"
And turned me in silence and tears from thai
breath,
| All poisoned and foul from the chaice of death.
| 1t scattered the hopes had treasured to last;
| 1t darkened the future and clouded the past
| 1t shattered my idol, and ruined the shrine,
| For the lips that touch liquor must never touch
mine.
loved you-oh, dearer than language can tell,
And you saw it,, you proved 1t, you knew it toe
But the man of my love was far other than he,
| Who now from the "Taproom' comes Keeling to
| me:
| In manhood and honor so noble and right
| His heart was so true, and his genius so bright
| And his soul was unstained, unpolluted by wine;
But the lips that touch liquor must never touch
mine.
You promised reform, but trusted in vain;
Your pledge was but made to be broken again:
| And the lover so false to his promises now,
| Will not, as husband, be true to his vow.
The word must be spoken that bids you depart
Though the effort to speak, it should shatter my
| heart
Though in silence, with blighted affection, pine,
Yet the lips that touch liquor must never touch
| mine
If one spark, in your bosom, of virtue remain,
| Go fan it with prayer till it kindle again;
Resolved, with "GOd helping in future to be
From wine and its follies unshackled anc free!
And when you have conquered this foe of YOU
SOUL
In manhood and honor beyond his control
This heart will again beat responsive to thine,
And the lips free from liquor be welcome to mine
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1886-07-22
Contagious
Diseases are Prevalent all over the World

lam a native of England and while was in that
country | contracted terrible blood poison, and
for two years was under treatment as an outdoor
patient at Nottingham hospital, England, but was
nv bones and was covered with sores all over my
body and limbs. had vertigo and Deafness with
partial loss of sight severe pains in my head and
eyes, etc, that nearly ran me crazy lost all nope
in that country, and sailed for America, and was
treated at Roosevelt, in this city, as well as by
prominent physician in New York having no con-
nection with the hospitals
l saw the advertisement of Swifts Specific, and
determined to give it trial as a last resort.
had given up all hope of being cured, as | had
gone through the hands of the best medical men In
Nottingham and New York. took six bottles OF
S. S. s.. and can say with great joy that they have
cured ME entirely. l am as sound and we'll as
ever was in my life. L. FRED HALFORD.
New York City, June -, 1855.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1886-07-22

In another column of this issue will be
found an entirely new and novel specimen
of attractive advertising. 1t is one of the
neatest ever placed in our paper, and we
think our readers will be well repaid for
examining the supposed display letters IN
the advertisement of Prickly Ash Bitters
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1886-07-24
State of Trade.

New YORK. July IL Special tel
egrams to BrddStreet's this week
while repeating the favorable trade
features noted n week ago. report "a
quite general hardening of domestic
money markets and a wide spread
Improvement in mercantile cOllec-
tions. AT few cities autumn buying
has begun, notably at louisville
where the taking is said to have been
large.
Unfavorable wheat crop prospects
seem to discourage speculation on the
New York Stock Exchange, and The
temporary stOppage of hostiliiies
among the granger roads was not
sufficient to put prices up. Some ac-
tivity and strength developed in
trunk line stocks. Money was in
fair supply on call at 2(@3 percent.
Now that the domestic wool clips
have been cleaned up,interest centres
on the degree of shortage as compar
ed with last year. Conservative par
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1886-07-24
Great Fire in st. Louis.

ST. LOUIS. No, July 18.-A fire,
which proved to be the largest and
most destructive of its kind that has
ever visited this city, was discovered
at about 2 O'Clock this afternoon in
the lumber yards of Knapp, Stout &
Co., at the corner of Angelica street
and Bremen avenue. An alarm was
turned in and two engines were soon
at the scene. They were, however,
owing to poor water supply, unable
to cope with the flames. which were
driven by strong wind, and soon
communicated to the nearest lumber
piles, and were making rapid head.
way toward the Union Stock Var Is.
the destruction of which seemed in
evitable. The wind soon shifted,
however. and they were saved. but
the lumber yards were doomed. In
the meantime more alarms had been
sent in and twenty engines were call
ed out.
The water supply was entirely in
sufficient for the emergency, and the
flares leaped from pile to pile of the
dry lumber with incredible sWiftness
The fire was not confined to any one
portion of the yards, for sparks anu
burning splinters were borne in every
direction, and the whole territory OI
the yards. covering 80 acres, seemed
to he one mass of blazing lumber
The efforts of the tiremeD, which
would evidently have been fruitIes,
if directed towards subduing the
flames, were from the time employed
in keeping them from spreading, ant
in this they were successful.
The fire was allowed to burn, anC
at the end of four hours 100000
feet of lumber were total loss. TIT
contents of the yards were mostly
lumber of superior grade, and thu
loss on this account is very heavy
100000. The company's stable wa
consumed but the horses were saved
The total insurance cannot be learned
at this hour, but it is estimated a
S275.OOO.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1886-07-24
July crop RepOrt.

The July report of the Department
of Agriculture furnishes estimates of
the greatest of grain crops:
The total area planted to corn, ac-
cordiDg to the report, is about 50 per
cent. greater this year than last,
which makes it 70, 500, 900 acres, while
the largest previous to 1885 was less
than 70,000,000. With the average
yield of 1879, which was the greatest
of recent years, this years acreage
would give crop of 2,119,0 900, 600
bushels. The increase in corn acreage
is 2,560, 900. which is more than twice
as great as the decrease in wheat &C
reage. The increase is chiefly in
Kansas and Nebraska, where both
crops thrive. In Dakota also an in
crease of 80 percent. is reported. but
this makes the area of corn there only
6S9, 900 acres against 2,5S0,000 of
wheat, while in Kansas there are
$3.50, 900 acres of corn against l,532,-
900 acres of wheat, and in the whole
country 75,690,000 Of corn against
81, $50, 900 of wheat. 1t is plain, the
report says, therefore, that to this
country the corn crop is much the
most important and it is in fact only
in Michigan. Minnesota, Dakota and
on the Pacific coast that wheat is the
most important grain crop. Corn
was but beginning its career at the
time of the July report. but it had Il
fair start, the average condition being
reported as 05 percent of an entirely
good condition, against 81 last year
ond So in 1884. 1t has not suffered
greatly by drought. most of it being
too far South, and there is plenty of
time for it to make the highest sue
cess or the worst failure
Last year 3. 263, 900 acres of winter
wheat s0Wn were not harvested, and
the figures are for the harvest nearly
all the abandoned wheat was winter
killed. The aggreg ate grain acreage
reported this year is 5,7l6,000 acres
(43 percent) greater than the area
harvested last year, and 4 percent
more than in 1884 growth. yet not
quite equal to the growth in popula-
ton, Since 1880 the increase has been
20, 1888. 900 acres. or nearly II percent,
while the growth of population
meanwhile has been about 20 per-
cent.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1886-07-24

ties place it at ten percent with the
greatest share of the decrease in Ten
nessee, Kentucky, Virginia, Penn.
sylvania. Ohio and Texas. London
wool prices are no higher. Domestic
quotations are unchanged, and holders
very firm.
The steel rail mills indicate their
prosperity by increasing the allot-
ment for the year 100000 tons, 81
100000 having been already contract
ed for. The activity in Bessemer pig
at $40 per ton, its production aggre-
eating 195,000 tons monthly out Of
455, 900 tons. the total monthly pro-
duction of anthracite and bituminOus
irons, is accounted for by the cOnd-
tioa of the rail industry.
The wheat market has heen quiet .
with prices fiuc! uating within mod
crate range, The damage to spring
wheat is correctly estimated a. from
10 to 80 per cent, the earlier reports
having been exaggerated.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1886-07-24

1t will be remembered that an act
was passed at the last session of the
Maryland Legislature requiring that
the nature of alcoholic drinks and
narcotics, with special instruction as
to their effects upon the human sys-
tenn in connection with the several
divisions of the subject of physiology
and hygiene, shall be included in the
branches of study taught in the COM
mon schools. In conformity with the
act Messrs. VIM. J. @. Dulany & Co.,
of Baltimore have had prepared and
published two works, both of which
have received the endorsement of the
Women's National Christian TEN.
perance UniOn-one by Professor
Martin of the Johns Hopkins Col
lege, and the primary book by DIR.
Steele and DR.. Palmer. both well
known educators. These two books
are the only ones on the subject which
have been published, printed and
bound in the State" as required 6y
la,O. and we trust will be adopted for
use in our schools, in all grades
"whose capacity will admit of it,"
We hope the law will be carried out
In good faith by the school officers of
the State.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1886-07-24
SATURDAY, JULY "a. 1886.

1t is with unfeigned pleasure that
we congratulate the management of
Mountain Lake Park Association up
on the decided success of the camp
meeting which closed on Monday
night last. And whilst we thus ex.
tend our congratulations we are
among those who rejoice in the fact
that we are to have a similar meet
ing, conducted by the same able d.
vines, next year. To say the meeting
held last year and the one just closed
have done great deal of good in this
community, is putting it very mildly
indeed. The good results of those two
meetings are beyond human calcula-
ton. Referring particularly to the
meeting which chosen on Monday
night, we can say it has certainly
been the most remarkable as well as
she most successful meeting in the
history of Mountain Lake Park.
There were great many people
present from Pittsburg, Philadelphia,
Baltimore, and several cities and
towns of Ohio, as we'll as from our
neighboring city of Wheeling, w.
Va, who came especially to the camp
meeting. These people all, so far as
we know, go home not only benefit
ted spiritually and physically, but
carrying with them the most pleasant
recollections of Mountain Lake Park
and the surrounding country, and
very many of them are enthusiastic
in their praises of cur delightful sum-
mer climate. The meetings held at
the Park have brought more strangers
from distant cities who are distribu-
ted pretty generally over the entire
country than all the other local at
fractions put together. 1t will read
ily.be observed, therefore, that whilst
the Park is good Institution morally
and religiously, it is also good thing
for the county at large from bust
ness and temporal standpoint, from
the fact that it brings so many stran-
gers here. 1t is yearly advertising
our community largely, and will I'M
doubtedly prove lasting benefit to
our people. We believe the Associa-
ton is entitled to all the support,
moral and pecuniary, which the COM
munity can give it. The management
is doing a grend work, which is far
reaching and widespread in its ten
denotes and results. With all our
heart we bid it God speed.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1886-07-24
Murder With Dynamite.

MoUNDsvILLE, w. VA, July 49,
About o'clock this morning Henry
Campbell, discharged manager of
the Union Coal Works. opposite this
place on the Ohio side of the liver,
placed quart can of dynamite be-
meath the flooring of the company's
store, where Bobert B. Ramsey. the
manager. was sleeping. An explo-
sion followed and the house was
wrecked and set on fire. There were
ii kegs of powder in the room occu-
pied by Ramsey. and this was ignited
and the building completely demol-
ished. The shock was heard for sew
eral miles. Ramsey was blown out
of the building into the road, dying
in a short time. Campbell wasar
ted amid great excitement and
jailed.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1886-07-24
1t will Do No Good Here.
[From the Hagerstown Mail, Dem

From the Hagerstown Mail, Dem
The executive order issued by the
President on Wednesday afternoon is
pertinent, and we'll to be promulga-
ted, but il would have been better
could the offices have been filled with
men who needed no such admoni-
ton. 1t is step in the right direc-
ton, but by no means goes far enough
and does not meet the whole case,
He warns officeholders against the
use of their official positions in at
tempts to control political move
ments, &c. Where an officeholder's
official position ends and his position
as a private citizen begins. is very
hard, at times, to determine. If he
attempts to control primaries and
pack conventions, even as an indi-
vidual, his subordinates will soon
find out his wishes and will very
hlikely feel constrained to render as
sistance. Why not make it cause
or removal for any officer to attempt
to manage political affairs? We fear
this order will be evaded, especially
by our Federal officials in Maryland.
They will get leave of absence on
account of sickness" and will re-
cruit their health in their "individuaI
capacity" by fixing up the primaries
in Baltimore and supervising conven.
tons, as well as assisting registrars of
voters to doctor the lists, and, if ne
cessary, to restore their health and
the better prepare themselves for
their arduous official duties, will take
turn after the election at substitute
ing the ballots which the people
ought to have voted but did not.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1886-07-24
Baltim0reLlve Stock Market.

CATTLE-The market to-day show
ell no improvement as to activity
over last week, being slow and drag
ging throughout, with prit es It.. low
er than they were then-in some
cases greater decline was observed.
The quality scarcely averaged as good
as last weeks offerings; for. though
the tops were quite as good as those
OF last week, there were more COM
mon cattle than they were then.
Prices ranged from 2 to SIZE, with
most sales from to Sc. OF the re-
ceipts 1922 head came by the Penn
syivania Railroad, and 475 by the
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad.
Hoes There is falling off in the
number of the offerings since last
week of about 1890 head, and the
quality is hardly rs good as it was
then, more grass hogs being among
the number. Prices are shade
higher than last week, with mod
erately fair demand, and range from
81 to 6sc. for common hogs; rough
soWs and stays to 62c. for good ones,
at and near which most of the sales
were made. Same time last year
hogs sold at 5i@63c. net, and the
year before at 7@8c. net. Of the Of
ferings $3.50 head came by the Penn
sylvania Railroad. and I34 by the
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad.
SHEEP.-The Offering number al
most exactly the same as last week,
and show no improvement in quail
ty, consisting, as they aid then, very
largely of common sheep and lambs.
The demand for good stock was fair,
while common sheep and lambs were
very slow of sale. Prices range from
2s(@4lc. for sheep, and 3(953c. for
lambs, few sheep or lambs selling at
the higher figures. Same time last
year sheep sold at 2@4c. and lambs
at 3(96c. gross, and the year before
at 2(943, aud lambs at 4(96tc. gross.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1886-07-24
The RnmiSer Bill.

There were three attempts to pass
pension bills over the Presidents
veto in the House Friday of last
week. but in only one. that of Joseph
Romiser. of Cumberland, was the at
tempt successful. We give below the
account of the passage from the Wash
ington correspondent of the Ameri-
can:
Mr.. McComas won another victory
to-day. He succeeded in having the
celebrated Romiser pension bill pas
sed by the House over the Presidents
veto. Mr.. McComas worke ed hard to
secure this, and he earned the con-
gratulations given him after the vote
of IT'S to 81 was announced. The bill
came up at very poor time, because
the House had spent the morning
over Mrs. McCarthy's pension. Rep
resentative Mills, of Texas, was in
the chair, and showed what lament
able failure he was as a presiding
officer. At one time the scene in the
House was simply Understandable. He
lost his temper. refused to listen to
reason or rules, confessed himself all
tangled up. and at one time exclaim-
ed: 81 don't know what l said or
did, you bother me So" The House
and galleries fairly roared with laugh
ter. and Mills. like spoiled child,
threw himself back in his chair and
refused to let the business of the
House go on. He had made up his
mind to defeat the bill, and he did
it, and under these circumstances the
bill for the pension of Mr.. ROmiser
came up. Mr.. Morrill,. OF Kansas
made good presentation of the case.
Mr.. Reagan, of Texas, tried to kill
it, and Mr.. Breckenridge stood by it
manfully and made neat speech in
its favor. Mr.. McComas did much to
help the bill, and finally after some
confusion the vote was taken and the
bill passed over the veto.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1886-07-24
A Queer Story.

NATION. Lib, July 19.-GeOrge
B. Balch, who lives in the southern
part of this county. near the old Lin
coin homestead. was a great admirer
of the first martyred President. He
has made it a hobby to pick up alt
stories Of A brahan Lincoln, and tells
the following, which he has received
from Rev DIR. Harsha, of Omaha
General Winfield Scott, when
young man, was stationed at Fort
Snelling-at that day perhaps the re-
motest military outpost in the coun-
try. When the Black Hawk war be-
gun some Illinois militia companies
lroffered their services. Two Lieu
tenants were sent by Scott to Dixons
ILL.,, to muster the new soldiers. One
of the new Lieutenants was very
fascinating young man, of easy man.
ners and affable disposition; the other
was equally pleasant. but extremely
modest. On the morning when the
muster was to take place, tall,
gawky, homeiy young man, dressed
in suit of blue jeans, presented him.
self to the Lieutanants as the captain
of the recruits, and was duly sworn
in.
The homely young man was Abra-
ham Lincoln. The hashful Lieu.en.
ant was he who afterwards fired the
first gun from Fort Sumpter, Major
Anderson. The other Lieutenant,
who administered the oath, was in
after years the President of the Con-
federate States, jefferson Davis.
DR.. Harsha was in Garter Brothers,
hook store, in New York City, where
he CHANGED to repeat this story to a
friend. An elderly gentleman who
was sitting near by arose and re-
marked that he was happy to he able
To confirm the facts, Ms he was the
Chaplain at Fort Smelling at the time,
and was fully able to corrobOr4te each
statement. A hystander then gave
the additional testimony that he had
often heard Mr.. Lincoln say that the
! first time he had ever taken the oath
of allegiance To the United u ates it
was administered Ivy Jefferson Davis,