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The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1888-03-29
A woMAN,s DISCOVER

"Another wonderful discovery has been
made and that too by lady in this
county. Disease fastened its clutches
upon her and for seven years she with
stood its severest tests, but her vital
organs were undermined and death
seemed imminent. For three months she
coughed necessarily and could not sleep
She bought of us bottle of DR.. King
New Discovery for consumption and was
so much relieved on taking first dose that
she slept all night and with one bottle
has been miraculously cured. He name il
Mre. Luther Lutz." Thus write W. Q
Ramrick g. Co., of Shelby, N. C.-Get
free trial bottle at Morley Bros drug
store,
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1888-03-29

News from Galveston is to the effect
that toe Washington Guards are working
with will aud evidently intend to make
some of the more pretentiou5 companies
tremble at the Austin drill. The Sealys
of that city will drill every evening this
week. They have put in two electric
lights on the Ballsquare, and will petition
the council to pay for the same. Here in
Sherman the boys are also drilling by
electric light and the Gulf City will have
to do her best to down the n, as they, also
are determined.-S Register.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1888-03-29
Consumption Surely Cured.


Please inform your readers that 1 have
a positive remedy for the above named
disease. By its timely ase, thousands OF
hopeless cases have been permanently
cured. / shall be glad to send two bot
ties of my remedy FREE to any OF YOU
readers who have consumption, If they
will send me their express and postofice
address. Respectfully,
Z. A. SLoCUM, M. @,
18l Pearl St., New York.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1888-03-29

Royal @. Taft, who has been nominated
for governor of Rhode Island by the re-
publicans, seems to be an ideal candidate
from his party's standpoint. de Is
wealthy and is president of bank. Tbs
"R" again assumes political Significance
Royals Regal Revenues" is the war cry
of the Rhode Island republicans.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1888-03-29
STRIKE OIL AND GAS,

or something more valuable. The surface
formation in this section is similar to that
in all the prairie regions of middle Texas,
rotten limestone, over blue clay. In
terspersed with the limestone near the
surface are streaks of black sticky sub
stance, resembling pitch, which burns
ferceIy. and might, in the absence of coal
or wood, prove useful fuel.
Boring operations are going on in the
smoothest manner conceivable, showing
that the contractors know their business
thoroughly.
The drill, a hugh mass of steel and iron
weighing 1900 pounds, is
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1888-03-29

The present season is pronounced the
most active in the history OF shipbulding
at Bay City, Mich. There are sixteen new
vessels on the stocks, including several
nearly ready for launching.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1888-03-29

You can't help liking them, they
are so very small, and their action is so
very perfect. Only one pill dose. Car
ter's Little Liver Pills. Try them.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1888-03-29

Generals Sherman, Sheridan, Howard
and Terry are the only four men now Nv
ing who have personally received the
thanks of the congress Of the United
States.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1888-03-29

There is radical move in Charleston,
S. c., to secure the closing of all barrooms
on Sunday. A petition containing over
1000 signatures of prominent citizens
went to the city council Tuesday night
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1888-03-29
OLEAGINOUS.
Going Down Into the Earth's
Rubber.
What a Statesman Reporter Saw
IN the Walnut Creek Oil
Regions.

A mild hammered and meek looking
STATESMAN reporter, in search OF rellaole
information IS to position and progress
of the Oil well now in course OF develop
ment in Travis county, made special
trip to the scene of action Tuesday.
He went to Duval, and, mounting the
hurricane deck, so to speak, of dis
consulate, dismal Texas bronco, he set
sail in an easterly direction, and follow
ing the tortuous twistings and weary
windings of Walnut creek for distance
OF about four miles, found the object OF
his journey.
The we'll is being bored i'll the side OF
small tributary of Walnut, and about
one-fourth of a mile north, on land be-
longing TO Mrs. Wells, one of the Oldest
settlers in that section. 1t has long been
known that oil and coal abounded in this
locality, and last year Mr. Mays, of Round
Rock, made some experiments with view
to determine their extent and availability.
His experiments attracted the attention
of other capitalists, and the syndicate now
operating was organized by BeWley
Brothers, of Waco, with capital of
100000.
In order to fully and fairly test the
GEOLOGICAL CHARACTER
of the supposed oil district, they entered
into coD tract with the eminent firm OF
Fowler g. McGiloray, who have had TWEEN
ty-three years experience in welI-boring
in Pennsylvania, Ohio and Indiana, to
bore two wells. These gentlemen brought
their engine and machinery here, about
two weeks ago. from Indiana, where they
are now engaged on large contract.
Work was pushed ahead with great en-
ergy, and boring operations began in
earnest last week. The promoters expect
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1888-03-29
KEPT POUNDING AWAY,

day and night, by a twenty horse power
engine. An average days work is 80 feet.
Mr.. McGiloray informed your reporter
that they had reached depth of ITS feet,
and their first contract called for 500. he
had found indications of oil in several
strata as he went down, and at 100 feet
struck seam of tarry looking sub
stance abOut the
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1888-03-29
CONSISTENCY OF MoLAssEs,

which is often found in the oil regions of
the east, and generally precedes oil. This
is encouraging, and the operators are
sanguine about the final result of their
labors.
1t is to be hoped that their most san
guine expectations may bo realized as
just reward for their enterprise, and for
the benefit of the country at large.
After seeing all that was to be seen the
mild-mannered and meek reporter and
the disconsolats and dismal bronco re
turned to Duval.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1888-03-29
TAX SALE.

co the fTexa March also
u IN
edm avscout,T gd an npadI m nd
ofhe urh door in unyC Austin
FORTH
drdett,dm e dendtn hughes r.
hefnhd oMachlS nrT Travis County
Springfield daily republic. [volume] (Springfield, O. [Ohio]) 1887-1888, 1888-06-16
Very Few Who Walk Well.

How indifferently and even ridiculously
most people walk! To be satisfied of this,
fix your eyes upon any person on the side
walk and let them follow him observantiy as
he passes your window. Most thoughtful
men while walking raise and droop the head
at regular intervals of from five to ten steps.
OF men, one in a hundred may be a good
walker; of women, not more than one in
five hundred walks gracefully, or even well.
Very few walk too slow; nearly all walk too
fast. Some squat as they step; some shuttle;
some sidle along; some bounce; some wiggle;
some turn the toes in; some turn them ont too
far; some stoop; some throw the shoulders
too far back; some swing the arms too much :;
some don't swing them at all; some step too
short; some too long; some project the head
forward; some lean ID to one side; some carry
it SO stiffiy erect as to awaken an apprehen-
sion that if it We're moved suddenly it would
fall Off. Some grin as they walk; some look
awfully solemn; some gaze in a dazed sort of
way at everything and everybody they pass,
yet do not see anybody nor anything dis
tinctly, while others, with their eyes looking
straight ahead, see everything and every
body Most people walk as if they were not
in the fullest of self possession. few only
walk as though they had found themselves,
and these are the only good, or at least the
best, walkers.-A. S. Pease in Troy Press
Springfield daily republic. [volume] (Springfield, O. [Ohio]) 1887-1888, 1888-06-16

Edward Strings estimate Of William
Alexander, proprietor for many years Of
the Glasgow theatre, makes him out re-
markable character. His principal pas
sion seems to have been ITO put it mildly
thrifty regard for the coin of the realm.
After many years toll and penurious hv.
ing he managed to buy the ground and
build his Glasgow theatre. fine structure
of stone, graced with statues of Shake
speare, Milton, Byron, Scott and-William
Alexander. Declining years brought COM
Portable retirement to tie canny Scot.
While on visit to London he was taken
i'll, and after deal of pressing he con-
sented to employ a physician, who. the
moment he saw him, bade him prepare for
the inevitable end. Poor Alexander, start.
ing wildly up in bed, exclaimed:
"Ye dinna mean to say that I'm to die,
doctorY"
Il fear, my friend" was the doctors
sad reply. that you have no chance of
recovery"
"Whatl what After all me workin' an
strivin' for forty year, not to liye-not to
live to enjoy itY with deep groan) then
It's cursed shamel'-Detroit Free Press.
Springfield daily republic. [volume] (Springfield, O. [Ohio]) 1887-1888, 1888-06-16
James G. Blaine.

Some doubt has been expressed as to the
wisdom of inaugurating Blaine boom in
i'm Ohio.
1t certainly seems little late for a
movement of that sort at this stage of the
game, and we wouldn't advise even the
most sanguine admirers to give very heavy
odds on his nomination.
But people will bet, for as Josh Billings
says, "a man would rather win fifty cents
than earn two dollars honestly, ESQ in max
ing your bets for new spring suit, just
bear in mind when settling up that you
can't do better than to call on Jason w.
Phillips, No. SO east Main street, and ex-
anime his new line of spring suitings,
marked down in plain figures to the aston
ishingIy low price of $40.
Think of it A perfect-fitting. custom
made Scotch Cheviot Suit for $50, and a
line Of IS trousers that can't be eQualed in
the city of Springfield. and the balance of
our stock marked down ccrrespondingly
ow.
Springfield daily republic. [volume] (Springfield, O. [Ohio]) 1887-1888, 1888-06-16

When you hear Of the impending death OF
any person, especially OF celebrity, your
mind recurs at once to the last time you saw
him. Therefore, the writer thinks OF Gen-
Sheridan as he appeared at a mail social
gathering in Fifth avenue one evening last
winter. It was in part an assembiage OF
Ohio men, with some connection or other
with the formation of the Ohio club. with
which Gen. Sheridan and other sons Of Ohio
were interested OF course, Sherman and
Sheridan were the lions Of the night and
they were admired and petted great deal
by the ladies, especially by a half dozen girls
from Madam Reeds school-the institution
from which Rose Elizabeth Cleveland has
lust retired as an instructress. Sherman is
famous for kissing girls at every proper op-
portunity, and, although there may have
been some exaggerated accounts OF his doings
in that line, it is fact that his fatherly
kisses are apt to be bestowed upon good prov
ocation. The school girls did not dissemble
their interest in the two warriors, but gazed
on them after the manner OF the Rsthetic
maidens at Grosvenor in Patience" Sher-
man bore it with adamantine fortitude, and
even seemed to enjoy it, but Sheridan seemed
different and rather i'll at ease under the
ordeal of adulation- After while matron
presented her daughter to Sherman He
took her hand and said, II am very glad TO
know you"
..Oh, the gladness is all on the part Of my
daughter, am sure, " said the effusive dame.
"Now, general, if you would give her one of
those celebrated kissesn-
Sherman needed no further invitation.
he kissed the not unwilling girl with loud
smack on the cheek. There was some laugh
ter and well bred exclamations at this, and
Sherman turned to Sheridan, introducing
the very pretty recipient OF his kiss
"Now, Gen Sheridan said a gentleman,
'.you surely won't let Sherman get an advan-
rage of YOU
Sheridan had to kiss the girl or run
There was no alternative She stood de
murely ready for the contact He reddened
visibly, and then, instead Of kissing the girl
Gu the cheek as Sherman had done, he lifted
her hand to bis lips 1t was something of q
disappointment to the spectators, IL not to
the girl, but it was dignifed and handsome.
New York Sun.
Springfield daily republic. [volume] (Springfield, O. [Ohio]) 1887-1888, 1888-06-16
The Army of Women Slaves.

Who, indeed, can be the Abraham Lincoln
Of this heavy eyed, pallid, stopped, struggling
army of shaving womeni 1t is an inquiry
easier infinitely in the asking than in the
answering. It is qeStion that presents it
self every year with increased force to the
minds and hearts OF every intelligent man
and woman who gives any thought TO their
fellow beings. Yet these same worthy,
puzzled men and women will close their eyes
and their ears to the existence Of the army Of
woman slaves, and devote their energy and
cash 70 antipodes. They will send millions
In cash to people in lands where the sun does
not fail in summer or the frost come in win
ter, and where life calls for no such battles
as make a woman slaves existence one end
less struggle against facilitating heat and
life enfeebling cold
There is more absolute suffering in one
tenement full of women slaves in q city like
New York than there is among 1000, 600
of Africans or South Sea Islanders. Yet the
latter get 81 900 from warm hearted Ameri-
can women where the former get $40. II
emancipation is to come to the untold army
of women slaves, it should come through the
operation of less long range and moro short
range missionary work and expenditure
Piltsburg Bulletin
Springfield daily republic. [volume] (Springfield, O. [Ohio]) 1887-1888, 1888-06-16
something About the strawberry.

Over 400 years ago Strawberries" was
q cry of the London streets; and the gar
den of the bishop of Ely at Holborn was
famous for its fine growth of the luscious
berry Its name is an Anglo-Saxon one,
supposed to be derived from it's straw
like stem. but quite as possibly it is de
rived from the circumstance of its grow.
ing amid what was called straw. or from
the custom of stringing and braiding the
long stemmed berries into q bunch Of
straws, as some of the country folk do
today. Beside our own nuinberless vari
sites of the same wild berry, cultivated
cut of all acquaintance with its parent
stock. there is an East Indian variety with
snowy yellow flowers, valuable only for
;rnament, as the fruit is worthless, and a
charming Chilian species with thick, dark
caves. and berry sometimes of pale
rose color and sometimes of a rich creamy
tint. and often as large as hens egg -
Tue Argonaut.
Springfield daily republic. [volume] (Springfield, O. [Ohio]) 1887-1888, 1888-06-16
|<INNANE. WREN & C0mPANY'S.
Rats Among the Pork Packers.

1t is, perhaps, not generally known, but is
Is fact that rats are one of the greatest ills
that packers life is heir to. The amount Of
actual, tangible damage done by these vora-
cious, cunAing and fearless animals is in it
self frightful in all the packing and meat
canning establishments This direct loss of
meat by the sharp teeth of the small pests
runs in the larger places far into the thou
sands Of dollars per year. But this is not ALL
Often pieces of the best and highest priced
meat are so spoiled by the nibbling of the
rats as to become unfit for use and unmarked
able. Then comes tho damage done to the
buildings, especially the walls and partitions,
wherein the rats gnaw out their nests
Rats, in fact, swarm-if left to themselves
or combated with inadequate means-all over
such establishments. The place is thus fairly
alive with them. Their great number and
the knowledge that retreat is always open to
them make these phordes on hordes Of rats
reckless and more than bold. They will
scurry around and climb up and down the
wooden pillars and on the ceilings from which
the slaughtered cattle, transformed into
beeves and pieced carefully out to suit the
requirements Of canning and packing, are
suspended. Nothing scares them; nothing
will drive them away. They know they have
a picnic and are bound to enjoy it. They
know that bounteous repast is spread for
them all the time, and they avail themselves
of the opportunity to their utmost, and grow
and fatten and breed on the choice cuts of
meat. Such, then, is the condition Of things
where nothing effective is done to change and
check it. At every large packing house in
town, however, as well as at the stock yards,
there is constant warfare waged against the
little pests. Men are specially employed as
rat catchers, and they operate with tongues
and traps night and day, in the aggregate
succeeding in ridding those places Of many
thousands of rodents in the course of year,
but most decidedly not succeeding in bring
ing down their numbers to anything like
reasonable proportions Chicago Herald
Springfield daily republic. [volume] (Springfield, O. [Ohio]) 1887-1888, 1888-06-16
LAWN TENNIS.

The Springfield club Organized and tu
Good working Order-Personnel Of the
Membership.
Springfield Tennis club on north Lime
stone street, south of Buck creek, have
been completed at last and are now being.
used in daily play. The court Is little
dusty at present, but this will be obviated
in time. The spectacle OF pretty tennis
suits Is becoming common one and the
delightful summer game is fully ''on,"
Last week handsome invitations were
sent out to several scores of young ladies,
inviting them to use the grounds at their
own pleasure. The- membership of the
club is as follows: VhE--and Mrs Randolph
coleman, Mr.. and Mrs. II. s. Hauk, Mr..
and Mrs. M. M. Hedges, Mrs. Mrs e. 8.
K,.IiylM and Mrs, T.fW. Ludlow, Mr..
and Mrs. r. NJ. Seeds; Misses Naomi Aqua
rome, Anna Baldwin, Louise Baldwin, Su-
san Ballard, Helen Ballard. Louise Bacon,
Lena Barnett, Darlington Bowman, May
Bowman, Carrie Hershey, Minnie Keyser,
Anna Hall, Louise Jeferies, Anna
johnson, Anna Linn, Lena Lew
is, Mary Lewis, Ella Miller,
Auns Black, Florence Mast, Msy Book.
waltasy-hizrie Mast, Eva Carson, Anna
Murphy, Mary cassidy, Harriet Phelps.
Fforeuce -Csviiess, Sarah Phelps, Laura
Coles, Anna habbitts, Ella Douglass,
Msry-D0nneil, Mary-issbbitts, Frances
Foley, Clara Raffensperger, Alice Foley,
IErancss- Rodgers, Marie Forey, Sarah. kod.
eers, Aane-Foes, Msry Rodgers, Jessie
Foos, Matte Scott, Emma Flynn, Anna
Steele, Bertha Falconer. Martha Steele
Susan Frey, Esther Simpson, Rose Fassler
Laura Thatcher, Della Grove, Ness hite
Gable Grove, Emiiy wardef, Anss-Gsieer
Dorothy Warder, Elm Geiger, Ellen Wilson,
Mamie Winslow. -AddfB Wiseman ant
Fannfe wfnger; Messrs. W. II. Donnell, +.
C. johnson, A. l.. Rodgers, WIS. Rabbits
T. G. Bartholomew, II. c. Lyle. 3
Bancroft, c. L. Hilleary, Geo essS--Dial. +
NJ Hard, Geo. Fullerton, Fred. Lud
low, w. s. Downey, Paul Foss
viii Rodgers, W. B. Rodgers, Chas. Rod
gers, j. A. Linn, viii Kidder. j. <
Bowman, w. W. Keifer, Z. B. Phelps, $.
C. Baker, Chase Stewart, r. ii. Foos, g
p. Phelps, C. 8. Jefferies, J.A. Todd, III
Zimmerman, w. L. Phelps, j. w. Hulick
w. l.. Crane, T. ii. Beverly
Springfield daily republic. [volume] (Springfield, O. [Ohio]) 1887-1888, 1888-06-16
BLUE eRoTTo OF CAPRI.
Nothing Like 1t Elsewhere In the World.
An Understandable Scene.


The inhabitants of Capri say that their
island is built upon grottoes and supported by
natural arches like the structures Of men
This is perhaps an exaggeration, but all
along the rocky shores there are beautiful
grottoes, and in the center ofthe island a de
scent may be made for hundreds Of feet into
the bowels of the earth in the Grotto Of the
Stalactitesl The sea grottoes we visit in
making the ''giro," or circuit of the island,
which is an excursion that brings the traveller
into contact with some Of the rarest effects OF
natural scenery known Nowhere in the
world is there aught resembling the famous
Blue grotto of the island of Capri
The entrance TO the Blue grotto, situated in
the rocky cliff which faeeL the north at the
western extremity of the island, is perhaps
three feet in height and not more than five in
width. When the sea is high it cannot be en-
tered at all. The marinaro who conducts the
party through this aperture-and there must
be but three in the boat-has all that ne can
do to effect an entrance without having his
frail craft dashed in pieces. The visitors are
obliged to lie upon their backs in the bottom
of the boat, while the marinaro, taking adj
vantage of the wave as it rises, and holding
on to the rock, guides her by dexterous
shove into the cavern. Here for a moment
the eyes are dazzled by a strange light. but
soon they accommodate themselves to it, and
then the visitor finds himself in lake of linn
pid water, whose blue is that of the sky, and
whose sheen is that OF molten silver. The ef-
feet is indescribaEle Objects dipped in the
water, the boat and oars are covered with
this silvery sheen. while tine marinaro, who
plunges in for the amusement of visitors.
rises clad in a garment of flashing light The
whole extent of the grotto is 100 feet by lf5,
and the roof of ribbed and groined natural
arches shares the blue eifulgence of the water
beneath
Besides the Blue grotto of Capri there are
along its coasts series of others, each Of
which seems to take the blue waters of the
Mediterranean and convert them into a tint
peculiar to itself The Green grotto on the
south side of the island, with its waters of the
purest emerald hue, ranks next in hearty to
the Blue grotto. 1t can, however, be entered
without difficulty through lofty archway,
and the effect, though grand and beautiful,
is not marvellous There is the White grotto,
where the water seems like milk, and the Red
grotto, where the roof is spangied with red
crystals in the limestone rock. There is also
the Grotto of Ferns, and along the shore as
well as in the center of the island are grottoes
where in some places the crystal stalactites
hang like great pointed columns and in
others like q delicate fringe above the Wis
itor's head-Mary E Vandyne in Harper's
Magazine
Springfield daily republic. [volume] (Springfield, O. [Ohio]) 1887-1888, 1888-06-16
Public Morality and Lotteries.

In charging jury in Philadelphia the
other day, Judge Biddle said in substance:
.The history of public morality in regard to
lotteries is quite curious. have a lottery
ticket issued as far back as l76I, TO aid in
building church at Oxford. That church
was afterward presided over by brother Of
President Buchanan. At that day lotteries
were considered legitimate, and were almost
as frequent as apothecary shops are today.
But experience taught us they were demor-
alizing, and stringent ws had to be passed
against anything in the semblance OF a lot
terry At the present day lotteries are held
only by two classes of people-very religious
people and very bad people-and, strange to
xsy, the most difficult thing is to eradicate
them among the good people. New York
fost.
Springfield daily republic. [volume] (Springfield, O. [Ohio]) 1887-1888, 1888-06-16
Proper Position While Reading.

The position of the person with regard to
the light should be so that the latter viii fall
upon the page he is reading and not upon his
ewes. 1t is generally considered most con-
venient TO have the light shine over the left
shoulder SO that in turning the leaves of the
book the shadow of the hand upoa the page
is avoided. 1t is not always possible to do
this. however, and at the same time to get
plenty of light upon the page When one
finds himself compelled to face the light in
reading or in standing at a desk bookkeeping
he should always contrive to shade his eyes
from direct light. This may be done with
large eye shade projecting from the brow.
A friend of mine, physician, is very fond nf
reading by a kerosene lamp, the lamp bein.
placed on a table by his side, and the direct
light kept from his eyes by means of "a piec'
of cardboard stuck up by the lamp chim sey
Professor David Webster, II. ID.