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TnF ADMINISTRATIONS ACTION.
Sir. BnyHrd'a Report OF His Investigation Of
the British Minister'S Conduct.

the British Minister'S Conduct.
WASHINGTON, D. c., Oct. 3O.-By di,
rection Of the President, the Secretary
Of State to-day informed Lord Sackville
that for causes heretofore made known
10 Her Mnjesty's Government, his con
tinulnce in his present official position
in the United States is no longer accept
able to this Government and would con.
scquently be detrimental ito the rela'
tions between the two countries.
The grounds Of this action on the part
OF the United States are stated in re-
port Of the Secretary OF State to the
President, dated the Goth inst, which
is MS follows:
DEPARTMENT OF STATE, |
WASHINGTON, D. G., Oct, ~, 1855. !
To Inc President;
The undersigned has the honor to
submit for your consideration the fol.
lowing statement with view to receiv-
ing your direction thereon.
On the 18th OF September last letter
purporting to be written by one Charles
+. MutchisOn, dated at Pomona, Gala,
was sent from that place to the British
Minister at this capitol in which the
writer solicited an expression OF his
views in regard to certain unsettled
diplomatic questions between the United
States and Great Britain. stating
at the same time such an expression was
sought by him for the purpose Of deter
mlnating his vote at tho approaching
Presidential election. lie stated that he
was Il naturalizcd citizen of the United
States, OF English birth, but that he still
considered England the mother country,
and this fact led him to seek advice from
! the British representative in this COun.
try. lie further stated that the inform
alton ne sought was not for himself
alone, but to enable him TO give certain
assurances TO many other persons in the
same situation as himself for the purpose
OF influencing and determining their
| political action AZ citizens OF the United
States of English birth, but who still re-.
gardrd their original obligations OF ALI.
arCc ms paramount. The letter also con.
tanned gross reflections upon the conduct
OF this Government in respect to QuCs.
.iOns now in controversy, and unsettled
| between the United States and Great
Britain, and both directly aud indirectly
| imputed insinCcrity in such conduct.
To this letter the British Minister at
once replied from Beverly, Mass, under
date Of the 18th OF September last. In
| this reply he stated that ANY political
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LoNpoS, oct. 80 Queen Natalie has
sent Il formal protest against the di.
vorcc granted to King Milan by the
Metropolitan of Belgrade to the Greek
Orthodox synod oi bucharest aud
AtNcus to the lIoly Synod Of st Peters.
hMIg.
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Oi course this was rutup job, but
iu's nj Democrats worr it, until sothr
Democrat who knew what it meant went
around tearing them oil aud adIurinr
the boys, "For Gods sake don't wear
thatw
one mn insisted ON keeping it on,
lie said "Tm-h all RI, Any man scsh
Gruvcrk thicI IcyrIau' 'sIi al ri 'sh all
n himself"
After all il said, the morning demon
s'ratirn was entirely rrcdltabIr, and the
. Democracy had a right To be- proud oft.
| lit had only stopped there
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Rock IIASu, ltL, oct. 80, Richard
~, -M.uyGg. .GA!urlnHglgIl nj the Rock
Island arsenal has been arrested Tor rm'
hvllIiug government funds Ih"nmomt
Of his discrepancies IL not known.
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Comparison Of wages paid 10 kiln
hands and dippeB at the works OF
Knowles, Taylor & Knowles, East
Liverpool, Ohio, in the years 1852 and
lSSS, at their factories Nos. and .,
better known as old and new ends:
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uI7s''.t''s 's''''''s''s's s.s..,..s ......s....
which Is nearly Il per cent.

winch Is nearly 7 per cent.
The average rate Of wages to those
employed asabove in 1855, is ascertaincd
by taking the total average number Of
hands employed, or 225, and dividingit
into the total amount paid, or SB,O52 Il,
which gives the average OF each hand.
per pay Of two weeks, OF SO %. The
average for 1852 is asCcrtatncd in the
same manner, and consequently DIS Is
divided into Sj,G92 -, which gives the
average OF each hand per pay, discs 81,
which leaves Il balance received, us aver
age for each hand employed in lSSS,
over 1852, per pay, OF - IS; or, to give
the percentage: the average amount in
wages paid Ill lSSS over TINT paid in
1857, is little more than @3! per ccHt.
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'FuII Iay-ilFuwn OutUi estimate n not con
iOrniug to corresponding pny miss.
Amount in dollars and cents, paid at
Pottery NO. |, to clay workers in 1855.
over the same period in lSS2, ; HOS 70,
or thirty per cent. Average amount oi
wages earned ly clay workers, us taken
from the above estimate, per hand, per
pay OF two weeks: lSSS, so 81: lSs9,
SIS 50.
Average, per hand, per pay Of two
weeks, paid clay workers in lSSS over
amount paid in lSS9, - cents; or 10 give
the percentage, the average amount in
wages puid TO clay workers in lSNS over
those paid in 1852, a per cent; and in
this average is included boys oi sixteen
years aud over, with the men. the latter
more, the former less than the average,
and the average hours Of labor in the
pottcrics is no greater in the pOttcrics
now than then.
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MlllsBlLl
Reduction BY Mllls DIll-s237.7j.

1t may be stGed that the duty on
Crockery is not sufficient to make up for
the difference between the amounts paid
for wages here and in the Stadordshire
pOttGries in England. As is clearly
shown by the report OF the Tariff Com
mission, the wages are l20 per cent
greater here than there. We're the
wages even, there would be'no necessity
for protective duties; consequently,
PROTECTION IS FOR LABOR ALONE!
The consumer does not pay this duty,
as is shown by the following figures:
In 1861, given quantity OF iron stone
china cost S2l0 70; in 1872, $l43 O3; in
1875, $l20 Gl; in 1877, SllO 10; in 1882,
Sj7 30, or n bare fraction more than half
what il sold for five years previous; and
now, six years later. in 1883, the ident-
cally same goods sell for $40 80. To show
the very great reduction in the price Of
goods it may be stated, and any one can
figure it out for himself, that In former
years goods were higher than now, us
follows:
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pays, average Si Gs5 Han5s............ tl! Is
'FullpAy-IhTOwn out Ui cstimAtC AS not con.
forming TO corresponding pAy Ul lSNg.
Paid Tor the same WORK, al the same dates In
lSss over lSS!, the difference between SG,big Il
,...,,..,,.........,. hUlg ~
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Or take n tea set, for example, that
sold in 1864 for S7.l3; in 1882, for $2.3l,
now sells for $l.S4.
Consequently, as these figures prove,
under protective tariff, goods which
can be and are manufactured in Amer
lea, are sold at lower prices than ever in
the history Of the country. and at the
same time, the price Of labor is substan-
TALLY maintained.
For thrift, prosperity and intelligence,
the workmen employed in the East Liv-
crpOOl pOtteries are not exCelled by
those Of any manufacturing town any
where. About one.hali own their own
homes, while quite n number have
property to rent, and show other sub
stantial evidences OF prosperity.
The following statement shows the
actual state OF affairs at the potteries OF
Knowles, Taylor Il Knowles, where the
percentage is shown 10 be 4Si per
cent
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STATE OF ONO, !
CnLrMmANA CmuNTN. / ~.

STATE or ONO,
CoLuMmANA CuuSrY, ! "
John n. Taylor, being first duly sworn
according To law, doth drposr aud say,
that he is now and was during the year
1882, and for ten years previous thereto,
Il member Of the firm, and during TINT
entire period was the Cashier OF Know.
lrs. Taylor y Knowles; had tulI charge
Of the pay roll, aud the payment oi all
whose names were entered thereon ;ha,
the foregoing statement of The number
Of hands. aud the amount in wages re-,
crivcd by each is just and truc TO the
best Of his knowledge and belief.
ions y. TAYLOR,
Sworn to and subscribed before me, 4
Notary Puhlic in aud for the County ot
Colnmblana and State Of Ohio, this I'D
day Of October, \. D., iSSS,
II. L. Hut,
TNolaral Seal Notary Public.
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NN'iN NHbN \ y wv = -
Elder y. Moore, briugtirst duly sworn
according To law, doth dcposc and say
that hris now, aud for more than five
wears has been, the Cashier Of the firm
of Knowles, Taylor Il knowles; had full
charge Of the pay roll and thcpaymrnt
Of all whosr names were entered there
on that the foregoing statement oi the
number Of hands aud the amount in
wages received 10y each is just and true
to the hest Of his knowledge aud hrlrl
EiprW u. MuuWE,
Sworn to and subscribed before me, u
Notary Public in and ior the County NJ
ColumhiNnn and State oi Ohio, this @1d
,lay ut October, \. u. lSSS.
II. L. llui,
Notarial Seal Notary Public,
There never was n timrat which goods
such ~ are manufactured ai East Liver
pool were sold nj ~ low price ~ now,
. Notwithstanding this, the average
earning power oi the cmpInyus hai
been maintained. lini, should the
/ Mills hill become n law, u very severe
reduction in the prices paid to laborWII'
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be the inevitable result, as the follow.
ing will show:
Reduction by Mills BIll;-sl7S.O.
DECoRATED-oNE COLOR.

Prints, Gold Hand, Ln,trc Hand aud sprig. ant
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1888-02-23
ALIEN LAND OWNERS.

II is estimated there are over twenty
million acres of lands in the United
States held by persons residing in and
belonging to foreign countries. This
vast quantity of domain is possessed and
controlled by comparatively few indiVi-
duals, who, while enjoying the revenues
arising from their estates this side the
Atlantic, very seldom ever visit this coun
try. The largest of these alien landlords
are the following: The Holland Land com
pany own four and half million acres III
New Mexico; Sir / dward Reid, two mil
lions in Florida; an English company
nearly as much in Mississippi. large
number of dukes, lords and other noble
men own tracts of country varying from
fifty thousand TO one million acres
throughout the southern and western
states.
In fact, there has already been laid the
foundation of vast landed monopoly
controlled by foreign aristocrats that
must eventually exert a powerful influence
on the legislation and the destiny of the
south and west.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1888-02-23

this matter, and they should demand that
their home papers keep drumming and
pegging away at the question until the
solution is reached and Texas has her
port.
And then the immigration matter. We
started of with brashness that augured
splendid results. What LAS come of the
movement We seem 20 have grown tired
at the start, we have looked back almost
the instant our hands touched the pillow.
We can never hope to accomplish any
thing by such half hearted methods.
These are live and vital questions in
Texas now. These are matters the papers
should be discussing and keeping per
petually before the people. Why waste
time with an election occurring year
hence, when topics right to hand should
he claiming our undivided attention
The press of the state should be made to
recognize how great this task is, how much
persuasion will be required to accom- :
plish this important work, and then they
would begin at once active efforts to set
the people thinking and preparing them
| to act.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1888-02-23
CONGRESS AND GREER COUNTY

It is reported from Washington that
Senator Edmunds will in few days in
troduce in the senate bill instructing
the attorney general to bring suit against
Texas, to settle the title to Greer county.
This will be the action of the senate
judiciary committee, of which Eamunds
is chairman, while the house judiciary
committee, with Judge CulbersOn as its
chairman, will oppose the measure. 1t ia
opposed by Judge CulbersOn on the
ground that the suit would consume two
or three years, and would cost Texas TO
defend it some $4,000, while, If the arbi-
tration method urged by Senator Coke be
adopted, il will only cost the state some
where between $4,000 and $4,000, and
the title can be settled within a year.
aud now is admittedly of so much impor-
lance, that congress will surely, during
this session, take some decided and
final stand in the matter. We want in the
interest of general harmony, and to quiet
title and all claims to property in Greer
county, to see this question finally settled
and adjusted at an early date. But to do
this we do not wish TO see the state put to
any needless and unnecessary expense.
We shall expect our congressional delegs-
ton at Washington to see that this mat
ter is determined in the most favorable
way to Texas.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1888-02-23

the past, and the whoop of the wild cow
boy is dying away in the distance, and,gO-
ing up the trail in the spring is played
out, now the question naturally arises,
how are we to make cattle raising profit
ab Q in the futureP AS chin music is
cheap, will make few suggestions and
the readers of the Bulletin can take them
for what they are worth: In the first
place, We are raising too many half
starved cattle and not half enough fat
ones. We are crowding and over
stocking our pastures and ranges until
about the only revenue we get now is
the sale of hides in the winter; in fact, we
are going too much on the quantity and
not enough on the quantity. Now, in my
opinion the remedy Is this: Sell off about
one-half the cattle we now have, cut up
our large pastures into small ones, reserve
our best winter grass for winter range
and in the fall pick out oar latest stock
aud put them in this reserved pasture for
winter beef. If fat when put in the pasture
IN the fall, they will stay fat until
January l. Then, with some hay, cotton
seed and little corn, we can keep them
In tlrstclass condition till about March l,
then put them on the market and
they will sell for tirsJ-class cornfed beef.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1888-02-23
LIVE TEXAS ISSUES.

Some of the daily papers, and mum
Der OF the weeklies, are even, at this early
date, teeming with discussion az to the
senatorial contest, a year off. Why beg
or borrow troubleS Sufficient unto the
day is the evil thereof" There are a
number of subjects that the newspapers
at this time could be vastly better en-
ployed in discussing than this remote
question. Notably, there is the immi
grafton question, and then the deep water
port. II matters an infinite deal more
whether or not this state, in the next few
years, is made to TEEN with q live,
active and producing population than
it concerns US who shall represent
our state in the national SEN
ate. 1t matters much mors that
the farmers and all classes of business
men are relieved of the freight burdens
we now pay railroads, and for them have
substi uted chap water rates, than that
either Coke, Mill, Culberson, OF any other
man, receives the requisite number of
votes to entitle him to seat in the SEN
ate. After all, what do our congressman
and senators accomplish for us after they
do get to Washington? The state, through
the most representative body that has ever
assembled in the state, declared for deep
water at some one point on our coast, and
our congressional delegation were asked
to help locate and then work for govern
mental appropriations for that point. And
yet what have they done? Simply nothing.
Every representative, save those directly
IN the coast line country, have shirked the
responsibility. And the representative who
has the coast line in his district declares
he will stick by the old accustomed policy
OF stringing out the appropriations in
pitiful little sums to all the embryo
ports he represents. Thus the federal
money will continue to be doled ont in
driolets, accomplishing no noticeable or
permanent good, and the state will con
tinue without harbor.
This is the live question now in Texas
IL comes directly home to every man i,
the state with something to sell and some
thing to buy. The farmer, the merchant.
our occasional manufacturer, and the busi.
ness men generally, all have an interest in
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1888-02-23
A TRUE MASCOTTE.
Three Young People Invest IS
Cents Each and Receive
$4,000.

Fortune seldom arrives at the oppor-
tune moment, but MIR. Frank Elliott is
one of those who have been smiled upon
by that tickle dame IN one of her most
caprlcious moments. "In the early part
OF last month";" remarked Mr.. Elliott, in
speaking of his good luck, II had inst
finished a contract with p ointment leyee
contractor of this city, and found myseIf
with no Immediate prospects of other
lucrative business. On going TO the State,
female college, where my brothers wife.
resides, l found my sister in-law and a
young lady of her acquaintance, willing
away rather quiet evening. A sociable
game OF cards was proposed to enlivep
things, and took hand. Good natured
bantering and offers to bet we're frs-
qGently made, and the young lady finally
onered to wager the contents of her pnrse.
ana iaughlngly displayed 80 cents. NV
SiSter,in-iaw remarked, lust one-thjrd of
uoiiar; suppose we each contribute
90 cents and geta Louisiana lutter ticket
lhis was readily agreed, and I gave 40
cents, the surplus 10 cents to be ned "a
car rare oy the young lady who was C, n
80 Ao'SOItc vi bne Trio. Inp-
tehth OF ticket No. 33,442 was bought, and
On January 10 last the drawing took
place." 'O'N
Mr Elliott paused moment TO remem-
DER inc manifestations of the little marty
wnen the result of the drawing was nnh.
iiSnea On the following day. "Our ticket
on'i.ied the holders to SIS 600, one tenth
Oh the capital prize of $l5O,OOO. No
trouble was experienced in eollecriug the
money The ticket was deposited in the
N mem Phis National ba k and forwarded to
We" orleans. A sight draft for $4,000
was was received few days afterward. and
'a W OF the party got $4,000"
Wnen asked what he intsnda5 J.. a.
with his newly acquired wealth, Mr. E'1iott
SAD; u have not decId, d vet, hrt Ill
doubtless invest 1t in real estate Tb;s y" -
what my sis.er-in-law and the vonna ,oi9
are gong to do" s iau1
Mr. Elliott Is good looking vonnc 800
OF about % years OF age, aud Is onset 10. .hn
clvil engineers OF the corps empInyad T hr
'ne Chlckhsaw Land com PAW or t5is oit ~
memphis, Tenn, Avalanc6, Febrnorns 10y
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1888-02-23
IupGe TONNES ACCEPTS.

Judge John G. TOwnes has sisnined 70
the governor his willingness to accept the
appointment to the iudgeship of this lu'
dicial district. This intelligence will be
pleasing news to all, for his appointment
to succeed Judge Walker is meeting with
the heartiest commentator of the bar OF
this district, as we'll as of other parts Of
the state. II will be remembered that
Judge Townes lately was widely and
strongly recommended by the bar Of the
state for appointment by the governor to
a position on the commission of appeals
and, doubtless, the high endorsement he
then received at the hands of his profess
sional brethren explains the commend
able promptness with which Governor
Ross determined that Judge Townes was
the man pre-eminently qualified to be
worthy successor of Judge A. s. Walker.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1888-02-23

rode nv Congressman Culberson, from
the committees on the judiciary, on the
claim of Texas to Greer county. IL
recommends the passage of the bill pro-
posing board of arbitration, but reduces
the number of the board from nVe 10
three.
STATE DEPARTMENT.
The Sherman Investment company
filed an amendment to its charter, chang
inc the name to Fidelity Real Estate and
Trust company, and changing its place OF
business from Sherman to Dallas.
The Heidenhelmer Farmers Mercantile
and Exchange association, of Helden'
heimer. Bell county. Capital stock,
$4,000. IncorporatOrs, W. H. Smith, D.
NJ. Allen, W. F. Grant, j. II. Burton, ID. ID.
Warren, W. NJ. He'll, B. f. Wilder, u. W.
LaGrove, B. F. Mcdonald and Il. d.
Hicks.
The Henrietta Improvement company,
of Clay county, capital stock, SlOO,oOo'
| Object, to erect water and gas, or electric
light works. IncorpOrators: j. T. Hop
kins, s. X. Andiar, @. B. Patterson, j. L.
Craig and W. B. Stickney.
ooMPTRoLLEE's OFFICE.
Madison county redeemed bond No. 10,
being the last of her series of $500 bonds,
held by permanent school fund.
Also, Eastland county redeemed $2,OOO
of her per cent, bonds.
Deposits yesterday were $2O,99l.eO, to
general revenue.
LAND OFFICE.
Applications to purchase public lands
were received and filed in the general land
office, on February IS and 20, as follows:
One for $40 acres in Armstrong county;
one for $40 acres in Lipscomb county; two
for 1880 acres in Deaf Smith county; one
for 800 acres in Wilbarger county; one
for GAO acres in Scuiry county; one for
$40 acres IN Stonewall county, watered, at
1925; one for 800 acres in Fisher county
one for 160 acres in Webb county; one for
$50 acres in Webb county; one for 32O
acres asylum lands in Callahan county, at
$3.50 for river; three for three sections in
Randall county; two for 1880 acres in
Potter county; one for $40 acres in Car
son county; one for $40 acres in Midland
county one for 100 acres in Pecos county
one for 100 acres in Stephans county.
In the above report lands not otherwise
| specimen aT6 SCeOOl, anu "ueu HO Ndlud
tion is stated offers were made at 81 pei
acre.
Applications to lease were as follows
One for $40 acres in Zavalls county; one
for $40 acres, pasture land, in Kimble
one for GAO acres in Lampasas.
Henry E. McCulloch, state agent, re-
ports on seventeen surveys in Randall
county, about equally dry agriculture
land and valued at from 81 to So pei
acre.
A. G. Cooper, agent, reports on three
surveys from Harrison. These lands are
subject to overflow. He runs them low,
from 20 cents to 81 per acre.
John Y. Rankin, another agent,
forwards his classification of thir
teen surveys in Mills county, generally
farming lands, some watered. Valuation
set at from 50 to $3.50 per acre.
L. S. McClelland, another sgeut, reports
on five sections in Randall county, one
watered, the balance dry agricultural.
L. D. Scarborough, agent from Hardin
Classics 625 acres of timber, and values
the timber gross at $4,000. He also re-
ports eight surveys in Tyler county. He
assesses the timber in aggregate at $l2,.
4SO.