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The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1888-08-23
THE TENT SERVICES.
Pointing the Way TO Life Eternal.
Good Attendance,

There was another large congregation
at the open air services in the First ward
last night.
Rev. MIR. Pinson preached very power
full and impressive sermon, urging men to
turn from their wickedness because it is
better for their homes, for their life and
better for death.
At the conclusion of his remarks he in
vited those who had desire
to lead better lives and
to become Christians to stand up, and
about half dozen responded.
There was more real interest in the
meeting last night than for any night
before.
On the outside of the enclosure there
were quite number of the denizens from
the notorious dives in the FIRST ward
seated about listening to the words of
love and mercy as they fell from the
lips of the earnest preacher.
There will be services again tonight at
8 o'clock.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1888-08-23
MAJOR JOE SAVERS.
Valuable Books and Papers Sc
cured by Him for the Schools.

cuFeu ny Hill lOr the OcnOOlS'
The thanks of the city school board are
rendered to Hon. Joseph d. Sayers for
valuable contributions to the High school
library.
The books we're received on yesterday
by Mr.. A. p. Woodbridge, president of the
school board, and sent to the room of the
High school library.
An estimate may be had of the quantity
of the material sent when it is known that
it required the capacity of mail pouch
to transmit.
The following letter will explain ITSELF
WASHINGTON, August G.
Hon. j. d. Sayers House of Representatives:
Sir-I have the honor to inform you
that in compliance with your wishes, ex-
pressed In your communication lately re-
ceived, eleven monographs, three aliases,
forty bulletins and four volumes of Stats
tical papers of the United States geologi-
cal survey, have been forwarded with in
formation that they were supplied at your
request to the public school library, Aus
tin, Tex. Very respectfully,
H. l.. MULDRow,
Acting Secretary.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1888-08-23
PROF. OSCAR MOORE.
The Wonderful Little Colorsd
Bow the Marvel of the Age.

Boy the Marvel of the Age.
This morning Mr.. H. P. N. CANNED will
leave for Cincinnati with Prof. Oscar
Moore, the wonderful blind colored boy
aged only two years.
Prof Moore IL, indeed, a phenomenon,
an inexpressible prodigious wonder whose
feats of memory surprise ard astonl5h ALL
He is totally blind and has been SO from
birth. He is unusually bright and intelli-
gent, and has very cheerful disposition.
To see him you would take him
to be simply an ordinary child, but to
talk and question him you will be lost in
wonder at his quick, correct answers.
His marvellous gift was discovered acs
oidently.
He had a brother and sister going to
school, and they wereSstudying the multi
plication table. They had been doing %
audibly tor an evening or two within
the hearing of little Oscar.
One evening one of them said times
II are 50.
Little Oscar, then little over year
old, in his mothers lap, instantly turned
and said 4 times IL are 4S.
HIS mother had never heard him speak
before, and was astounded. Little Oscar
then had several questions put to him,
which he readily answered, and from that
day to this he has been acquiring knowl-
edge, until he can promptly and correctly
answer questions which, it is safe to say,
the best educated man in all the world
cannot answer.
He gives the number of days, hours,
minutes and seconds in year; tells the
dates of the death of Lincoln, Garfield
and other prominent men; names
the states and governments of
the world; tells of the creation,
the flood, and of the twelve tribes of
Israel, names and gives the populations
of all the great cities, names all the
presidents of the United States and gives
the dates of their birth, tells you the
weight of barrel of salt, flour and other
articles, and tells how many square or
cubic yards there is in given area,
names the highest mountains and the
deepest sea soundings, tells when the first
horseshoe and knives we're made and can
name every city in the United States of
over 10000 inhabitants. He knows and calls
the name of every capitol on earth.
He sings any number of songs and can
do so in English, German and Danish.
He is truly great wonder and should
be seen and heard to be
appreciated. He will remain i'll Cincln-
natl until the close of the great EXPOSE
ton now in progress there, after which he
will visit the great cities of America.
Next spring he will be carried to Europe
and exhibited in the principal cities.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1888-08-23

Another american beauty" rises above
the horizon line like star of the morn
ing. Some one says of her: The pretty
young demoiselle who has right to
answer to the claim is Miss Mary Cree,
of Louisville. She is eighteen, and her
hair is 30 copper-colored and her eyes SO
brown and Ianguishing that she is said to
bear a very close resemblance to MIS-
James Brown Potter. Her father is Buck
ner Creel, and she comes of family
noted for beauty. Miss Creel sailed for
Europe in the spring by the steamer on
which Miss Jennie Chamberlain was
passenger, and, in spite of the acknoW-
lodged chars of that renowned American
girl, wss pronounced by their unpre-
JUDGED compagnons de voyage the pref
tier of the two. Il ~
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1888-08-23

The castle of Hapsburg, seat of tie
founders of the present Austrian dynasty !
is owned by the state of Aargau, in
Switzerland, and the government has Just
refused to sell it to the Austrians. It is
true, the Swiss said, that the castle is the
ancestral seat of the imperial house of
Austria, but it is also monument Of
Swiss history, having been conquered by
the Berne republican soldiers in 1415,
when they wrested Aargau from the Haps-
burps
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1888-08-23
AS USUAL.
The Irrepressible Gin Gets in its
Annual Work.

You will BOT be astOnished?
OF course not. Nobody is.
That is, nobody reared i'll the land of
cotton and gins will be aston ished.
It's the old, old story. Monkeying with
a gin and losing hand.
The experience of years is of no avail
and the irrepressible gin pursues the even,
tenor of its ways and cheerfully lscerates
and cuts off hands and arms.
1t did so yesterday in this city, as it has
done every year since gin was put up
here.
Andrew Williams, a colored man at
Condon's gin, in the eastern portion of
the city near the Central depot,
had his left hand so badly cut, that three of
the fingers had to be amputated, and it is
Just possible he may lose fis entire hand.
Drs. l.. B. johnson and Frank Mo
Laughlin did the amptuation.
Thus it is, and thus it will always be.
When man monkeys with gin the sur
geons invariable fiud a wide, if not re-
munerative field in which to joyously
practice their profession.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1888-08-23

The statistics of suicides in France
show for the past twelve months 1872,
one-ffth of these being in and around
Paris. Poverty has only caused 4S3, and
this figure includes morbid fear of i'm
pending misery without actual privationS
1875 cases may be traced to mental
alteration, and 1928 to physical suffer-
ing. Among the moral causes, domestic
trouble stands first and alcoholism next.
There are 200 cases of disappointed love.
81 from jealousy, dislike of military SER
vice giving 25.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1888-08-23
The Labor Party.

The executive committee of the union
labor party of Texas, and the executive
committee representing the non-partisans,
are called to meet in the city of Dallas,
August "a, for the purpose of filling
vaoahcies in the state ticket, aud of maxi
iEg arrangements for the thorough Or
ganization of the independent movement
in Texas.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1888-08-23
A Chlnaman Dies.

A Chinaman named Joe died at Madam
Dukes yesterday morning after an illness
of two weeks. He had been at work on
the farm of Judge Terrell and when he
took sick the Judge had him brought and
placed under the care of Madam Duke.
He was taken IN charge by Sergeant
Palmer, who had him buried. He left a
mule, watch, and some money, all of
which is at Judge Terrell's.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1888-08-23
The Cost of Branding.

In the depreciation of value it costs
Texas fully $5,OOO,OOO to brand horses and
mules. This expensive method is practiced
to attempt to protect stock against
thieves. Is there not cheaper means to
secure this protection. This is a serious
question worthy of the intelligent consid-
Grafton of our Oldest Legislators. Stock
associations may we'll spend some time in
discussing this question.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1888-08-23
The Poor Farm.

Superintendent Mccall was in from the
poor farm yesterday, and reported that a
light rain fell there Monday afternoon.
He has thirty-seven people on the farm
now several of whom are on the sick list
He has no cotton in, but raised an i'm
IN ense crop of corn and small grain.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1888-08-23
919 Congress avenue, Austin,

With the declination of ex. Governor
Porter to be candidate, the pronounced
antagonism of labor organizations to
General Harrison, and the activity of the
probibitionists, ,the opening of the po-
litical campaign in Indiana is not favor
able to the NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Jour-
nal, Rep.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1888-08-23
GFROM FRIDAYS DAILY
Legs Cut Off.

The east bound passenger train on the
Houston and Texas Central, which left
here Wednesday night at $3.50, run over
negro named Brown, near Elgin, cutting
off both of his legs. Brown lived in Bren-
ham, and was stealing a ride.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1888-08-23
Deaths Dom gs.

Wednesday night Mrs. Elizabeth Ho!ton,
grandmother of Mr.. L. A. beats, died at
the advanced age of eighty-two. She was
buried yesterday afternoon at 4 O'Clock,
from her residence mile and a half east
of the city, large cortege of friends fol-
lowing her remains to their last resting
Mace,
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1888-08-23
Bucklen's Arnica Salve.

The best salve in the world for cuts
bruises, sores, ulcers, salt rheum, 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 % cents per
box. For sale by Morley Bros.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1888-08-23
Discharged From Custody.

Professor Roessler was up before Justice
Calhoun yesterday on one of the charges
made against him, and the evidence not
being sufficient to convict he was dis
charged. There is one other case pending
against him.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1888-08-23
PROGRAMME.

At The close Of the'musicale The guests
were served with cream and cake by the
young ladies, and to that, possibly, is at
tributed the fact that the young men
were seen to relish the cream more then
they generally do at the GREEN parlors (O.
At an appropriate hour the guests took
their departure, convinced that musicales
are successes, when properly conducted,
as was the one last night.