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The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1886-04-29
UNDEVELOPED RESOURCES OF
TEXAS.
Jefferson Iron News.

The following, from the Sabine Pass
Times, is very important to every reader
in the state. A geographical survey by
a competent person is an absolute neces-
sity, and we hope the brethren of the
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1886-04-29
FOR SALE.

Latest styles of gents summer shoes
very cheap at JAS. MARTINS.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1886-04-29

Veteran land scrip wanted. Address
c. G. Howard, Dripping Springs, Tex.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1886-04-29
ooMPTRoLLER's DEPARTMENT.

Comptroller Swain received from the
Houston & Texas Central railway COM
pany yesterday, $6,5O6.52 interest and
sinking fund on the school loan.
No business of Importance was trans
acted in any of the other departments.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1886-04-29

PONDS EXTRACT. Large sums
of money are spent by the afflicted to find
relief from Piles. The Extract is a GER
tain cure of Blind or Bleeding Piles.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1886-04-29
GOVERNMENTAL .
WHAT is GOING ON IN THE
DEPARTMENTS.
AN EPITOME OF WHAT WAS
LEARNED AT THE CAPITOL
YESTERDAY.
coMPTRoLLER's OFFICE.

The sum of $4,000 was deposited yes
terday with the treasurer to the credit of
the permanent school fund, and $4,000 to
psnarhl revenue.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1886-09-04
Science and Christianity.

Western Christian Advocate.
Ministers of the gospel who de-
nounce all scientists as infidels and
enemies of the Bible make great
mistake and injure their own cause.
1t is not true that all scientists are
infidels. Some of the most eminent
of them have been Christians, and
the same thing is true of some of this
class now living. The minister, there
fore, who charges all of them with
skepticism makes a statement that is
not true, and a concession which is
injurious to his own case. A large
number of learned men have found
it quite possible to be profound scien-
fists and devout Christians. More
than this, the church has made great
efforts to stimulate scientific investi-
cation by establishing professorships
of science in all her colleges, and has
knocked at every accessible door in
the material universe to find out
every secret that could be discovered.
The assumption that there is enmity
between true science and the religion
of the Bible is utterly falseand equal
ly miSchievous. There is no such
enmity, and when men come toknow
all departments of truth they will so
understand it. God is the author OF
the Bible and of the universe, and
when both come. to be correctly in
terpreted there will be found perfect
harmony between them. God is not
the author of confusion.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1886-09-04

day while seated at the sewing ma
chine she ran Il needle clear through
her thumb, and for several days there
after whenever she ate. ice cream she
felt a sharp pain in her thumb. She
disregarded the warning, however,
and last week she was carried away.
The man who carried her away mar
ried her when he carried her as far as
the church, and she is now Mrs.
Judge Hankinson, worth 100000, and
can take her slipper and spank chain
lightning out of the impudent chill
dren that used to bully the life out of
their poor governess. CPS. And
she does it, too.)
A single teaspoonful of ice cream
dropped upon the tongue of a rattle
snake will kilhthe man that drops it
just as quick as the rattlesnake can
get crack at him, which will be
while he is measuring the ice cream.
Fifteen grains of strychnine, mixed
with a freezer full of ice cream, will
kill as many people as a young man
can stand treat for.
A dog, shut up in an air tight iron
box, for six weeks, and fed upon
nothing but ice cream, will die.
A young man named w. S. Thorn
ton presumptuously declared that he
could live upon ice cream. He ate
Is cents worth and defiantly ordered
another dish. While waiting for it
he heard a noise out in the street, and
going out to see what caused it, a
steamer, on its way to a fire, knocked
him down and ran over him. An
ambulance was summoned, and
while waiting to be conveyed to the
hospital, the wretched youth died OF
old age.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1886-09-04
Beware the Freezer.

Bob Burdette: 1t is a thankless
task to warn young people of the
evils of over indulgence in cooling
viands and drinks during the heated
term. Young people will be young
people, but not very long if they
keep on gorging that insidious foe to
health and life, ice cream. There is
death, and, what is worse, premature
old age in the freezer.
On the 18th day of July, the pres
ent summer, James l.. Walsingham,
of this city, began to eat ice cream
every Sunday. In spite of the warn
ings of his friends he kept up this
practice nearly three weeks, and then
one day he fell while chasing a street
car, abrading the skin on both his
shins and running a silver into the
ball of his thumb so far that it made
his teeth ache when he pulled it out.
When he went home thatevening he
learned that his eldest boy, of whom
he isvery proud, had been whipped in
a fair fight by boy not half his size.
Abraham Eldridge, of Salem, ate
ice cream with his young friends
every summer for three years. After
eating it about two months he no.
ticed that his boots began to run over
at the heel. His aged pastor besought
him to. abandon the pernicious habit,
and his sweetheart, with tears. and
prayers added her entreaties to the
minister's. In the forlorn hope Of
reforming him the foolish young gir1
married him The next Sunday af
ter their wedding they we've out driv,
ing, when runaway horse, driven
by the pastor, dashed into them and
knocked $37 out of Eldridge's buggy
and famed his horse, the ministers
escaping with scratch. Still he neg.
lected the warning, and in six weeks
somebody poisoned hisdog. Eldridgt
is now the father of twins, both o
whom, or which, inherit, or probably
will inherit, their fathers vices.
Cecilia ThaXter, a young girl o
very progressing personal appear
ance and engaging manners, while
employed in the family of judge
Ezra Hankinson, of this city, as gov
erness, became addicted to the ict
cream habit. In a short time it grew
upon her and began to interfere Will
her duties in the school room. on
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1886-09-04
The National Temper.

The Review.
The temper of the American people
beyond question has experienced a
very decided modification within the
past thirty years in their dealings
with our foreign relations, and the
modification we are free to say is in
the line of Improvement, and this too
without in the remotest degree i'm
pairing or rejecting upon the senti-
ment of patriotism.
Take the Cutting episode with
Mexico by way of example. In for
mer years such an occurrence would
not only haveinfiamed the irrepressi-
BILE Texans to take the law in their
own hands, bit would have aroused
the whole. country to the war point.
1t would be the coveted opportunity
of the demagogues, who, like the
poor, "are always with u.s." But
apart from the idle vaporings of a few
rustic newspapers on the border and
the cheap resolutions at some obscure
indignation meeting at some indefi-
mite locality out West, we have not
had the slightest manifestation of
feeling or temper on the part of the
people at large to show that they are
not abundantly satisfied to leave the
settlement of the controversy where
it belongs, in the hands of the Gov
eminent. At none of the great cen
tres of intelligence has there been the
slightest movement on the part of the
masses to indicate disposition to
quicken the pace of the Government
in seekinga diplomatic adjustment
of the dispute; and if the demagogue
is looking for his opportunity, we
must say he has for once overlooked
it. Meanwhile, the Government has
gone quietly about its business, and
the result is-as announced yesterday
Cutting is discharged, and as the
late President Lincoln used to put it.
"nobody is hurt"
All this is well. 1t shows that the
sombre experiences of our civil con
flict have had the salutary effect o.
toning down the irritability of the
masses and to impress upon them the
sensible conviction that peace with
honor is infinitely preferable to wal
and the glories of socalled war, which
mean ultimately more taxes upon in
dustry and trade, more military and
naval hospitals, more pension bills
and everything that is implied il
general Generalization.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1886-09-04
Cheese as Food.
Rural and Workman.

Rural and Workman.
We ought to eat more cheese and
less fat pork. There is no food that
is more healthful, and which goes
further to sustain the natural waste
of the system than good cheese. In
Europe it takes the place of meat on
the tables of the poor, but the fact
would be no recommendation to the
American. He does not like the idea
of eating a thing that is the last re-
sort of the victims of the degrading
governments of Europe. Let us
rather tell him that cheese is an ever
present article upon the tables of the
rich, which it is. That it is quite the
thing foLeven children of royalty to
feed on cheese. Every respectable
restaurant in London has upon a
small table in the centre of the room
the half section of large golden-yel-
low chedder with a knife in it that
says "come and eat me-" and there
is a plate of crackers to go with it. If
we want to introduce cheese eating
into this country we must stop talk
ing of the poor of Europe and tell
how the rich enjoy it. Make it fash
ionable and it will go like hot cakes.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1886-09-04
Rules for Living Well.

The Caterer, in an article on "Good
Living" considered from a culinary
rather than a moral point of view,
sums up the matter in the following
sensible way:
If living well consists in living
neither luXuriously nor extensively,
in what, then, lies the secret, and
how may the man of moderate means
take advantage of it? The question
is not difficult one to answer, and
we will put that answer in the shape
of a few short rules:
1. Buy with judgment.
,. Buy the best, for the best is al
ways the cheapest.
3. Let your economy regulate the
quantity, not the quality.
4. Let your cook be cook, and one
who knows howto utilize what is now
thrown to the dogs, or otherwise
wasted.
5. Study simplicity in the number
of the dishes, and variety in the char
acter of the meals.
6. Let the housewife be watchful
enough to trace the leaks that are
liable to spring in every larder.
z. Let the mistress be indeed the
head of her own household and OF
her own kitchen.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1886-09-04

( "a Michigan fruit grower claims
that pine trees scattered through an
orchard have a beneficial influence
in driving away the moth of many of
the destructive insects which prey
upon apples and apple trees. 1t is
supposed to be the strong efiuvia is
suing from the turpentine of the pine.
Others assert that the pine in all its
varieties throws off constantly, in
cold weather, a large amount of
warmth, or caloric, which has IA
vorable influence on surrounding
trees during the winter season. In
fact it is commended by some scientific
men that all evergreen trees have this
influence.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1886-09-04
Fun That Farmers Have.

Planters Journal
There is popular belief that news
paper men are not posted on farm
matters. But this is snare and de-
fusion. If you doubt it, read this
from the Athison Globe.
cit is a frequent saying that the
farmer has nothing to do but to en-
joy himself; that when the billiards.
send in their cards he can draw his
chair up to the stove, put his feet in
the oven, and spend the day reading
the Globe and Church Herald and
other works. According to tradition
this occupation is only disturbed when
he adjourns to the table, banquets on
mince pie and divers meats. This is
a mistake. A close observer will see
the industrious farmer crawl out of
bed four hours before daylight, soften
his boot with hammer, and COM
mence his days work with lantern
in one hand and bucket of frozen
slop in the other. He has from one
to thousand hogs, which show their
noses in his face and tip'the contents
of his bucket on him, where it freezes
until he looks like skating rink.
When he has escaped from the hog
pen, he hunts up six or seven buckets
and crawls through wire fence to
milk twenty seven cows. These ami
mails wait until he has the bucket
nearly filed, when they kick it over,
aiming so that the contents will kali
somine such parts of his clothing as
the hogs spared.
Now and then they vary the mo-
notony by kicking him instead of the
bucket, which makes him feel tired
and homesick. When the cows have
been MIXED and he goes to feed the
horses he finds the sorrel mare
doubled up in the Manager with collie.
He then has to mix up a lot of acco-
mite and water, which he attempts to
pour down the animals mouth, when
it hits him on the teeth with hisfront
footand makes him wish he had new
er been born. He works around all
morning with the old mare and then
proceeds to curry the dun mules
which try to see which can kick the
hardest, and by the time he is
through he feels as though he had
passed through corn shelter. When
he has fed the hens and watered the
cattle and pigs, and chopped half q
cord of wood for the house, and she'll
ed three bushels of corn by hand, and
shovelled aroad through ten feet O
snow, and MIXED the cows, and cur
ried the mules, and doctored the ole
mare again in the evening, he goe'
to bed and gets up again in the morn
ing four hours before daylight anC
commences the whole thing owe
again"
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1886-09-04

"Now, johnny, you go to bed early,
and always do 50, and you'll be rosy
checked and handsome when you
grow up" JOHNNY thought a few
minutes and then said: "WelI, aunty,
you must have sat up good deal
when you were young"
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1886-09-04

An experienced editor writes that
the girl who never screams when she
sees a snake isn't a safe girl to marry.
With her calm, cool, collected dispo-
sition she would hit where she aimed
with the rolling pin every time.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1886-09-04
Abe Lincoln's Maxims.

An autograph letter that 1 would
like to own was shown mea few days
ago. "a. Lincoln" was boldly signed
at the end of it, and this wisdom was
there Photographed in this wise:
"Do not worry"
"Eat three square meals day.
"Say your prayers.
"Think of your wife.
"Be courteous to your creditors.
"Keep your digestion good.
"Steer clear of billiousness.
Exercise. ~
$50 slow and easy.
"Maybe there are other things thai
your special case requires to make
you happy, but, my friend, these,
reckon, will give you good lift"
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1886-09-04

Inese Pills were a VI
or relieve all manner
box Of pills. Find out
about them, and you
will always be thank
I'll. One pill a dose.
parsons'Pills contain
nothing harmful, are
easy to take, and
causa no inconvefi.
The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1886-04-17

MEETING OF CoRPoRAToRs.- AT the
recent meeting Of the representatives
Interested in the Chester, Greenw ood
and Abbovillo Railroad, at Columbia,
the delegates from Winnsboro asked
that no definite action as to tho line be
taken until our county could be heard
from. Alta meeting Of tho corpora
tors on tho morning after the general
meeting It was decided to open the
books for the subscription necessary TO
secure the charter, and that said SUBJ
scription be secured in favor of tho
line proposed in the original charter.
We could expect nothing else but this,
rs the corporators wero men from the
towns along the proposed line and Of
course acted IN their own interest; but
the great question is whether the town.
ships and counties along the line will
subscribe to the road. AS q matter Of
fact the projected railroad will DO built
OH the route which offers the greatest
advantages and Inducements to the
moneyed men Of the concern. Mr..
Robertson, president Of the Seaboard
andsSteamboat system of Virginia, in
isoriginal plan, preferred the route
by tinnsbo Ills company pro-
poses to give 100000 for every SloO, .
900 given by the people along the limo
and we believe our county can offer tho
greatest advantages. In the original
plan 1t was to come by Lancaster,
Winnsboro, Newberry and OH to At
lanta, thus giving the system q COM
peting line with tho other Southern
railroads. Our people can got the
road, and a gentleman of town is in
WITH TP2resident Rohe.'s=
son and will be able TO give some in
OH the subject OF tho ap-
preaching meeting. Let us be up and
The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1886-04-17


HUMAN WoNDERs.--Tho following
from couple Of our exchanges shows
that the age in which we live has lost
mono Of its rights to bo called on age
Of wonders. Tho Rock Hill Herald
says:
Several weeks ago a colored girl
came to this place from the country
and gave birth to a child having four
ears, q double nose, double eyelashes,
double eyebrows, and other abnormal
features. The extra ears were smaller
than the natural ones and grew just
behind and attached to those organs.
The extra nose was on top Of tho nat
ural nose, but there were no apertures,
and the extra eyebrows and eyelashes
were just above the cheek bone. AT
this point there was o mark on either
side Of the face that resembled closed
EYE. Another strange feature Of the
face was q line between The chin and
lower lip which resembled closed
mouth, but there was no opening here
either The child was still-born. The
mother was only about fifteen years
of age.
Tho Spartanburg Herald says:
!, We learn from private relisble
source that there is boy IN NeWberry
county about ten years old wbp}has
The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1886-04-17
LETTER FROM ARKANSAS.

Tho Elmo Crop ProspOot---Immigrants
from tho South Moving Largely into Ar.
kansas.
PINE BLUFF, ARK, April 12.-The
past winter, which was one Of unusual
severity in this part Of the country,
after lingering long in tho clap of
spring., at last has given place to
warm, inviting sunshine, singing birds
and blooming flowers, which herald
the near approach Of summer. Tho
weather continued changeable and un-
certain and very discouraging to plan
ters up to the 9Th instant, when there
was heavy fall Of snow, but it not
being cold enough to freeze, after q
few hours of sunshine all traces of the
snow disappeared, leaving no visible
sign Of damage either to the fruit crop
or to vegetation. Since then the
weather has been such as to cause
everything to put, on new aspect of
life and vigor. .s.>
The farmers throughout the country
are very busy making preparations, as
usual, for a large crop Of cotton. This
is good corn country, but cotton is
made the leading crop. There is very
little small grain raised here, and what
is, is generally sown late in the spring,
as the abundance of rain and the hard
freezes during the winter almost i'll
yariably provo destructive to fall SOW
Ing.
There has been the greatest demand
on the part of farmers this spring for
supplies I ever heard of. This is
partly owing to the fact that the influx
of immigration during the past winter
was unusually large, most of tho new
comers being negroes who had just
enough, or but little more money than
it took to defray their expenses here,
and owing to certain changes made In
the mortgage law by our last Legisla.
ture, a mortgage Oh crop without stock
or some kind of real estate Is not valid
security. Hence many have expert
enced considerable difficulty in obtain
ing supplies. But tho newcomers are
not alone in this respect. There is
class Of farmers here, aa there is every
where, l suppose, who, from lack of
1OICbISuG AIll pIOpCI 0COIOuyS VI 1lO1u
other causes, have gotten behind, and
depend altogether on the credit system
for supplies during the summer, and
[they live hard, they pay such enor-
nous prices for what they consume,
that when they sell their crops in the
fall it takes about all they have made
to square up with their merchant, and
thus it goes
"The little bee sucks the mud
And the big bee sucks the honey;
The poor man makes the CROP
But the rich man gets the money!.
met great many negroes here,
who came from Newberry, Lexington
and Richland counties, last December
and January. They seem greatly
pleased with their new homes, and are
expecting many of their friends In the
old State to join them here next win
tor. The negroes are already in the
majority here, and their numbers are
| nearly doubled every year. f.f;s..ss
The leading topic of conversation
here for several weeks past has been
the strikes, the bad effects Of which
have been so seriously felt in st. Louis,
Little Rock and other neighboring
cities. Since they have ended, the
talk has turned to the overflow of the
Mississippi and tho expected rise OF
the Arkansas. I will write Of this
rise when 1t comes. e. J. G.
The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1886-04-17
AN ORDINANCE

FORBIDDING THE DIGGING OF DIRT AND
GRAVEL FROM THE STREETS AND PAVE,
MENTs OF THE Town OF WINNsBoRo,
Be 1t enacted and ordained by the In
tendant and Wardens of the Town Of
Winnsboro, S. c., in Council met, and by
the authority Of the same:
SECTION l. That from and after the
adoption Of this ordinance, it shall not be
lawful for any person, without the permis-
sion of tho Town Council of Winnsboro,
to dig up or remove any dirt, gravel, earth
or other soil, from the pavements and
sLreets of said town, or from any land
owned OF controlled by the said Town
Council.
SEC. 2. Any person offending against
the provisions Of this ordinance shall, upon
conviction thereof, be fined in sum not
less than five, nor more than twenty-five,
dollars, or be imprisoned, at the discretion
of the lntendant, for period not exceed
ing ten days.
Done in Council this the first day of
April, in the year of our Lord,
IL. ST. eighteen hundred and eighty-six,
and with the Corporate Seal Of the
Town affixed.
II. K. ELLIOTT,
Intendant.
Attest: I. N. WITIIERs, Clerk.
The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1886-04-17

a.. Mrs. Boag has now opened her
stock Of Spring and Summer Millinery,
10 which she respectfully invites the
inspeotion Of her friends and patrons
s.generally. Call early and be suited.
A full stock of Dry Goods, Fancy
Goods, Notions, Groceries, and every
thing usually found in the general
merchandise line. AL to be found at
tho store Of j. o. Boag, as low as the
lowest.
The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1886-04-17
THE
THE
NORMAN PERCHERON STALLION
''MAJOR''

May be found as follows, until further
notice:
Winnsboro, March 20-31.
Blackstock, April 1-3.
Bells Bridge, April $40.
Winnsboro, April 12-14.
Blackstock, April 1917.
Bells Bridge, April 1924
Wnnsboro, April 1928.
Blackstock, April 20, 80, May1.
Bells Bridge, May 3-8.
WinnsborO, Mayl10-12.
Blackstock May 1916.
Bells Bridge, May 1922
Blackstock, May 27-20.
Other appointments will be announced
hereafter.
"Major is q beautiful red bay, black
mano and tail, nine years old, q good
walker, and works well In harness. He
was bred and raised by T.. Dillon 81 Co.,
Bloomington, Ills; was sired by celebrated
st. Laurent, q horse whose reputation and
record as breeder are not excelled by
those Of any draft stallion on the CONT
nent. st. Laurent Is also the largest, heov-
horse ever imported to tho United States.
Notwithstanding Majors immense size he
possesses mrny fine points seldom found in
so large q hOrse-such broad, fiat legs,
massive quarters, wonderful shoulders
rising well on the wetherS, elegant arched
neck, Il fine head well set on, large, expires.
sive eyes, for which his colts are all noted.
Terms--Twenty dollars insurance, Or
fifteen dollars season.
Mares from distance will be pastured
on reasonable terms.
II. r. ADAMS,
Mar23tx3m Winnsboro, SO.