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The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1889-12-26

OVER seven thousand dollars came
in to swell the Confederate Home
fund last week but how much of it
was from Austin? If we remember
correctly, eighty-ive dollars from a
church entertainment. Today is the
beginning of Xmas week and it has
been suggested that everyone, through
the length and breadth of the state,
give an Xmas present to the Home.
A dollar apiece from the men of
Texas, and what fund for the Home
there would be! Our citizens could
make the banks of the city a depos-
tory for such contributions or they
could mail them to Capt. Shelley,
president of the Home board. Will
not the press of the state revive this
subject? They have already favorably
commented on the plan. Why should
not Texas Xmas present to the Home
be one hundred thousand dollars?
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1889-12-26
EpOcl

The transition from long, lingering and
painful sickness to robust health marks an
epoch in the life of the individual. Such a
remarkable event is treasured in the men,
DRY and theagency whereby the good health
has been attained is gratefully blessed.
Hence it is that so much is heard in praise
of Electric Bitters. So many feel they owe
their restoration to health to the use of the
Great Alternative and Tonic. If you are
troubled with any disease of Kidneys,
Liver or Stomach, of long or short stand
ing you will surely find relief by use of
Electric Bitters. Sold at SOC and 81 per
bottle at ]. j. Tobins' drug store
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1889-12-26
No Christmas table is complete with
out bottle of Angostura bitters. Sold
by all druggists.
Work Of the Firecracker.

A small boy and his frecracker got
in their work about twelve miles from
town Saturday. He threw a lot of
the crackers under horse which was
being led along the edge of bluff
and caused him to jump and tumble
over the bluff. He was injured by the
fall so that he will die. Complaint
was lodged against the boy in Justice
Calhoun's court yesterday and he will
have to answer to the charge of ma
licious mischief.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1889-12-26
Robert Browning.

From the Philadelphia Record.
Robert Browning's place in English
literature has been universally con-
coded, and his death will be univer
sally regretted by all who have add
mired his richness of scholarship, skill
in analysis, and power to recall and
awaken the historic past. Not even
the most faithful devotees OF that
"cult" which has sought so persist
emily to exalt him as worlds oracle
could deny that he was often obscure
that his lines were harsh and jagged,
and that, as a critic once said OF one
of his poems, "he might as well have
shuffied the words together in hat
and tumbled them out pell-mell upon
upon table,"
Yet, in spite of all his defects,
Browning was great poet-the most
intellectual Of his age, master OF the
technicalities Of his art, and endowed
with genuine gift of song. In his
dramatic poems his figures are rich IN
color and strong in light AMI shade /;
the pedantry with which he surrounds
them, however, often hides the ex.
quisite thought lying beneath. But
the imagination, the tranquil beauty,
the sweetness and repose which dwell
in many OF his verses would equip a
score of ordinary writers and place
them beyond any danger of ever being
forgotten. When he became meta
physical he disregarded all consider
atoms of passion, melody and form,
forgetting that the excellence OF
poetry depends upon perfection of
structure. But when he gave free
rein to the lyrical side at his charac-
ter his lines placed him in the fore
most rank of rhythmical melodists.
No one who is stirred by true poetry
can ever forget the story of him who
brought the good news from Client, or
of the heroic boy who fell dead at Ma
poleon's feet with smile upon his lips.
In the song Marching Along" we can
see the plumes wave and the swords
flash as the cavaliers start out from
their carouse, and hear the madcap
gallants troll out their defiant battle
song, and no more delightful child's
poem was ever written than "The Pied
Piper of Hamelin," with its fancy and
airy extravaganza, and wildness and
pathos all its own.
When he portrayed nature he gave
us passages of simple and quiet lowell
ness, which caught the very breath of
an English springtime and while his
chief study was humanity, his
song was cheerful and inspir-
ing in its philosophy. He
was poet of active faith. He looked
on pain and sorrow with deeply SYM
pathetic vision, but he knew that
through the ages one increasing pur-
pose runs" and he had a serene as
surance of ultimate triumph for man
kind. In the very last lines Which, he
wrote he speaks of himself as,
One who never turned his back, but
marched breast forward;
Never doubted clouds would break;
Never dreamed, though right were worsted,
wrong would triumph
Held we fall to rise, are bafi1ed to fight
, better,
Sleep to wake.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1889-12-26

lofty pillars and its white pigeons futter-
ing down through the golden air. l see
women with strained and anxious faces.
and children alert, yet helpless. l see
night come down with its dangers and APP
prehensions, and in big and homely room
feel on my tired head the touch of loving
hands-now worn and wrinkled, but fairer
to me yet than the hands of mortal woman
and stronger yet to lead me than the hands
OF mortal man-as they lay a mothers
blessing there, while at her knees-the
truest altar yet have found-I thank God
that she is safe in her sanctuary, because
her slaves. sentinel in the silent cabin. or
guard at her chamber door, put black
mans loyalty between her and danger.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1889-12-26
Remembering the Veterans.

Capt. Shelley yesterday received the
following contributions for the Home
Col. Jas. H. Raymond, 500 worth OF
groceries.
From Patrick German, of Taylor,
Tex, an ex-Union soldier, $1.50.
From August Drefflick, of San An
tonic, 81.
From Lampasas $25 for Christ
mas dinner for inmates of Home.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1889-12-26
Consumption Surely Cured.

To the Editor-Please inform your
readers that have positive remedy
for the above named disease. By its
timely use thousands of hopeless cases
have been permanently cured. shall
be glad to send two bottles of my
remedy FREE to any of your readers
who have consumption if they will
send me their express and postoffice
address. Respectfully,
T. A. SLOoUN, N. c.,
ISL Pearl St., New York,
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1889-12-26
HENRY W. GRAnYDEAp.

The Atlanta Constitution this morn
ing goes to press with turned column
rules and the editorial fraternity OF
the nation mourns bright and shin
ing light gone out. Mr.. Henry w.
Grady is dead. The sentence is short,
but in it is couched very much of
meaning. A man not yet having
reached the meridian of life nor the
topmost height of his intellectual great
ness, his name was known in every
home OF the union as that of the gifted
Southern editor and the orator from
whose lips fell sentences that hushed
in admiration his enraptured listeners.
Leaving the University Of Virginia at
the close Of the sixties, he tried his
hand at rural journalism in his native
state, but misfortune overlook his
newspaper venture. He then was for
some while New York correspondent
from Atlanta, Ca, and while thus en-
gagged laid the foundation for his en-
ployment on the Atlanta Constitution
and of his fame.
From 1876 to the day of his death
he was the great controlling influence
of that influential journal, but it was
not until couple of years ago that he,
by one mastery stroke, caught and
held the eyes of the nation. His New
York after dinner speech on the "New
South" stamped him one of the men
OF the century, brilliant orator,
bold and pronouncedly fearless
speaker. Since that day Henry
w. Grady has needed no introduction
in the United States. His untimely
death resulted from pneumonia con-
tracted by his recent visit to Boston,
where he delivered a most mastery
speech on the race problem in the
Southern states. If for no other act
or word Of his life Mr.. Grady would, by
that speech, have earned the undying
regard of all Southern people. 1t was
bold, pointed and convincing an
swer to partisan arraignment of the
South. 1t told the truth, a truth
upon which the people of the South
can and do fearlessly stand.
The STATESMAN will reproduce the
speech tomorrow morning-it is good
Christmas reading. Only one passage
from it lis given now in connection
with the news of his death, and as
showing what sweet thoughts dwelt
in the pure chambers of this mans
brain, and as an indication Of the tone
of the spirit that has flown away from
earth and is at rest:
The love we feel for that race you cannot
measure or comprehend. AS | attest it
here, the spirit of my old black nanny,
from her home up there, looks down on
me to bless, and through the tumult of this
night steals the sweet music of her croonings
as thirty years ago she held me in her black
arms and led me smiling into sleep. This
scene vanishes as / speak, and l catch
vision OF an old Southern home with its
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1889-12-26
WOrtham's Diary,

Chief Clerk Workman, of the
treasury department, keeps a diary
and box of cigars-the frs t for his
own ediication and the last for the
edifcation of his friends and book
agents. His diary shows tina on last
Christmas eve his Office clio sed at l
o'clock. 1T also shows that it Iained
all day last Christmas.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1889-12-26
Gaia rh Cured.

A clergyman, after years of suffer-
ing from that loathsome disease,
Catarrh, and vainly trying every
known remedy, at last found a pre-
scription which, completely cured aud
saved him from death. Any sufferer
from this dreaH ful disease sending a
self-addressed stamped envelope to
Prof. ]. A. La wrence,SS Warren street,
New York, wi Al receive the recipe free
of charge.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1889-12-26

1t has been time honored custom
to close the state departments on the
day before Christmas eve at noon to
give the heads of depart
tments and clerks and
opportunity to lay in their Christmas
goods. So if you have business with
the departments today go up this
morning.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1889-12-26

Business dilemma. A man suffering
with cough obliged to keep his room
"a note to pay, no money in bank,
and not a single bottle of DR.. Bulls
Cough Syrup to be had for ten miles.
Salvation Oil is safe and reliable.
25 cents.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1889-12-26

the doctors decided to sena ,earle to
Melbourne. where in the new santa
rum he could receive the best atten-
ton. The disease had changed to
enteric fever, and on the passage the
great oarsman expired.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1889-12-26
District Court.

The following felony cases were dis
posed of at the term of the district
court ending Saturday last;
There were thirteen cases tried, of
which there were two convictions, five
acquittals and six dismissed.
There were convictions had in two
misdemeahor cases.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1889-12-26
The Fastest Time on Re cord,

in the direction of the nearest drug
store, is not too fast for any person
to make who is troubled with consti-
patton, dyspepsia, liver complaint or
sick headache, and is, therefore, in
need of DR.. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets.
Gentle and effective; one dose.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1889-12-26

Hoods Sarsaparilla is peculiar to
itself and superior to all other prep
arations in strength, economy and
medicinal merit.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1889-12-26

again being superseded by the civil
power, may have mutinied again, and
that this time the nutiny may have
taken form of the reaction i'll favor
of Dom Pedro. must say that there
is far from being feeling that affairs
in Brazil are settled"
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1889-12-26
tan
JMPANY
matter. Office Of
oh street.
Cd ROBBERY.

Cd ROBBERY.
as are that Texas is
Jther train robbing
which was marked
by the Luling outrage.
.ng people of the state
,ulated themselves that af-
ing of the two thugs at Ell
an express messenger, the
ons of the Lone Highwayman
Angelo and other bandits that
,ad passengers would, for a season
east, be free from the perils of the
claw and the cutthroat. But the
fair at Bangs Station ends the
dream of fancied security. What is
worse that whereas the property,
money and valuables in transit by rail
were formerly menaced, it is the lives
OF trainmen and the travelling public
that are now endangered. At Bangs
the thugs not only raided the express
cal, but they ruthlessly and deliberately
shot down Brakeman Penn, thus adj
ding iendish and brutal murder to
robbery.
How long are these outrages and
dangerous crimes to be tolerated on
Texas soil? Are the people of this
state to be eternally run over rough
shod by set of masked villains for
whom, as the Bangs outrage shows,
hanging is too goodH Cannot all the
ponderous machinery of state, NUM-
cipal and county governments give
that protection to life and property
which they profess to afford, which is
their purpose, and for which the peo-
pie tax themselves?
The truth is, for the honor and fair
name of Texas, the masked scoundrels
who are waylaying railroad trains to
rob and murder must be hunted down
and visited with the punishment due
their crimes. And when caught let
no pulling sentimentality or hope of
political or other reward be employed
to invoke executive clemency to undo
the verdict of the jury box, but let full
justice be melted out to them.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1889-12-26


of the negroes we're arrested and Jailed.
About IL o'clock an unsuccessful at
tempt was made to release the prison
ers by the blacks, when a riot ensusd
and two negroes, Tom McGhee and
Henry Starks, were shot, the latter
dying almost instantly. About twenty
five shots. were exchanged.
The trouble originated about the
ownership of dog. A telegram was
sent to Sheriff McWilliams at Holly
Springs station that riot was lmmi-
nent and asking protection, to which
he promptly responded. Everything
is quiet today. Rumors are ahoat of
squads Of negroes collecting in the
country, but lacks confirmation. Nc
Ghee, one of the instigators of the
riot, was found a short distance from
town today with a bullet hole through
his body, and he cannot live. An
other negro was shot, but is not dan
gerously hurt.
CAUSE OF sEARLE's DEATH.
SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, December %.
The meagre cable announcement of
the death of Henry Searle, t1e cham
pion oarsman of the world, is supple
mented today by details from the Sgd
ney papers, received by steamer. 1t
appears that Searle left England in
with Henry Matterson, the
champion English sculler. He was in
good health when they reached Col
ombo, Ceylon, but there during brief
stay he was induced to play cricket.
He was warned not to venture in the
sun without pith helmet, but he dis
regarded all warnings and began play
ing in an ordinary skull cap.
In short time he received a violent
and had to be removed from
the cricket grounds to the steamer.
There he was placed in the hospital
and given every attention. Typhoid
lever set in and was aggravated by the
eat and noise of the steamer. Ar
rived at Adelaide, South Australia, |
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1889-02-08

All round lay remnants or the mighty dead.
There thoy were, stretched out in the form
of circle, Of which tho stono kist was the
center, One place in tho circle was vacant;
evidently 1t had Once been occupied by tho
giant frame which now sat within the kist.
Next lie looked at the kist itself. 1t hid all
the appearance Of one Of those rude stone
chests in which the very ancient inhabitants
of this island buried tho ashes of their Gre
mated dead. But if this was 50, whence
came the uncremated skoletonsl
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1889-02-08

Perhaps q subsequent race or tribe had
found the chamber ready prepared and used
1t to bury some among them who had fallen
in battle. 1t was impossible to say more es-
pecialy as with one exception, there was
nothing buried with the skeletons which
would assist to identify their race or age.
That exception was dog. A dog had been
placed by one Of the bodies. Evidently from
the position OF the bones Of its masters arms,
he had been left to his last sleep with his hand
resting on his hounds head.
Bending down, Harold examined the seated
skeleton moro closely. 1t was, he discovered,
accurately joined together with strong wire.
Ceary this was the work of hands which
We're born into the world long after the flesh
on those mighty bones had crumbed into
dust.
But where was the treasured He saw none.
His heart sunk as the idea struck him that he
had mado an interesting archaeological dis
covery, and that was all. Before undertaking
closer search, lie returned to the hole and
hallooed to George to como down, as there
was nothing but some bones to frighten him.
This the worthy George was at length,
with much difficulty, persuaded to do.
When at last he stood beside him in the
vault, Harold explained to him what the
place was and how ridiculous were his fears,
without, however, succeeding i'll aQaying
them to any considerable extent.
And really when one considers the position,
shut up as they We're in the bowels Of a place
which had for centuries owned the reputa-
ton of being haunted, faced by n nodding
skeleton of almost superhuman size, and sur
rounded by various other skeletons, all Every
fine and large with the most violent tenn
pest that had visited the country for years
signing away outside, it is not wonderful
that George was scared.
"Well,n he said, his teeth chattering, ''if
this amt the masterest one that liver / did
see!" But hero he stopped; language was not
equal to the expression of his feelings.
Meanwhile Harold, with heart full Of
! anxiety, was turning the lantern this way
and that, in the hope of discovering some
traces Of Sir James treasure, but naught
could he see. There to the left the masonry
was fallen in. He went to it, and pulled
aside some Of the stones. There was cavity
behind, apparently passage, leading, no
doubt, to. theisecrct entrance to the vault, but
| he could see nothing in it. Once moro he
| searched round. There was nothing. Unless
| the treasure was buried somewhere, or hidden
| away in the passage, it was nonresident,
| that was all
And yet what was the meaning of that
| jointed skeleton sitting in the stone BATH 1t
must have been put there for some purpose,
probably 10 frehten would DO plunderers
| away. Could he be sitting on the money! He
rushed to the chest, and looked through the
| bony legs. No his pelvis rested on the stone
| bottom Of the kist
| "Well, George, it seems we're done said
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1889-02-08
CHAPTER XII.
HOW THE NIGHT WENT.

George sat opposite TO him, his hands on
his knees, the red night cap on his head, and
a comical expression Of establishment upon
his melancholy countenance.
"Well," he said, when Harold had done,
''blow me If that amt q master one. And
yet there's folks who say that there amt no
such thing as Prowidence-not that there's
anything provided yet-p'raps there amt
nawthing there, after all"
81 don't know If there is or not but I'm
going back to see, and want you to come
with mo now"
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1889-02-08

nlVer heard no good OF Inat lneTo p!ace-nOC
as 1 holds by SIGH talk myself" he added,
apologetically.
"Well," said the colonel, "you can do as
you like, but I'm going back at once, and
going down the hole too; the f.,s must be out
of it by now. There are reasons" he added,
"whv if this money is to be found at ali, it
should be found this NOR ling. Today Is
Christmas day, you know"
Eyes. yes, colonel; know what you mean.
Bless you, know all about it; the old squire
must talk TO somebody; If he don't he'd bust;
so he talks to me. That CosSey's coming for
his answer from Miss Ida this morning. Poor
young lady, l saw her yesterday, and she
looks like ghost, she du. All, he's mean
one, that Cossey. Larger Quest warn't in it
with him, after all. Wei, | cooked his goose
for him, and I'd give summit to have hand
In cooking that banker chaps too You wait
a minute, colonel, and I'll come along, gale
and ghostesses and all. only hope it maynt
be after a FOOLS GRAND, that's all" and no
retired to put on bis boots Presently lie APP
pearcd again, his red night cap still on his
hcad-for he was afraid that the wind would
blow hat off-and carrying an unlightcd
lantern in his hand Nov, colonel, I'm
ready, sir, il you be- and they started
Tho gale was, if Anything, tiercer than
ever. Indeed, there had been no such tenn
pest in those parts for years, or rather CEN
turtles, as the condition of the timber by 10
o'clocl, that morning amply testified
"This here wind mus; he like that as the
so,,iro folls us an j, tI,r ti.no If KIM Charles
os hIo,, tL, to,, of tbc ,.,.,,,,b tower off ON
Cbr;e4,,,,. ,ioi,+ .,,..,,tn ,;aorre. Init Uar.
IA r,o,la No .,,,',,o,.. mi mo- fnrcbt thor
wov onyvar1 ,..itho,t s,,,,in., anv moro for
tbo;,, yni,,cs ,.o,o .,Ir,o.t i,,udihIo Oncethe
coIonel stonned and nointod to the skv line.
or all tho row, of toil uonlors which he had
seon hen,Ii,,,, li.c ,,birt Loforo the wind ne
be coma oIor- l,,t ,-,, remained standing
NOW ond ns he ,.ni,tcl t,nt vanished also.
Raachirpr tI,, ...,,.,,,r,. hons, in safetv. thew
or+orod ond tI,e ,,,.....l slut md locl;o1 the
literally rorkino i.,, r.,r,. of the storm.
stILn,o tI,o ,n,r,. l.,li n sbontod GEORGE
hut Horoll fool. i.n, ..d He ,yos thinking
~ otbor, tbincs Tinv lightod tba lanterns
~ v,hir,, tboT now h,,I thrnr md the colonel
slid down into tbo Great crave he had so in
,+rio,,el,, d,,r ,,,otioni,',, to C,norco to fol
low. This that worthy did, not without
trenidstion. Then they both knelt and
stared down THROUGH the hole in the masonry,
hut the light of the lanterns was not strong
enopqh to enable them to make out ANYTHING
with cearness
,yvou - cold (.,oroo Pa,,;rr h,cl. unop bis
favorita avnression in his omazemcnt as he
drew his nirht canned head from tbe hole
t.if tbot ain,t ,pastar ono nivar saw n
,noeternr tb,t,s oil What Ina Won poinc, Ia
do now coIonei1 Hov Won n ladder hereF3
"No y answered Harold. II never thought
y
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1889-02-08

"In Dead Mans Mountf said George
swell, blow me, if that amt funny place
to dig at on night like this" and, too
amazed TO say anything more, he went off to
get the milk.
Harold drank three glasses without stop
ping, and then sat down to tell as much Of
his moving tale as he thought desirable.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1889-03-28

The following are the resolutions
| adopted by the republican convention on
Saturday last:
WHEREAS, AS there is a demand on the
part OF the people that the selection of
Judicial officers be not made a party
question, therefore be it
ResolUed, That the Republicans of Mani
towoc County in Convention assembled,
do hereby recognize and applaud the OBJ
vious desire of the people to choose Judi
cial officers unhampered by party con-
nections, and it is further
ResOlued, That inasmuch as there is a
disposition on the part of the people of
this County to choose a County Judge
without drawing party lines, and that it
is the sense of this convention that the
Republican party present no candidate
for County Judge of this county at the
next Judicial election, and it is further
Resolred, that while this convention
deprecates the idea of party nominations
for the above mentioned Office it recog-
nizes the services of Hon. Emil Baensch
as emitting him to the cordial support of
all who desire to have the duties of the
office honorably discharged, and recon-
mendes him to the people of the county
as a man in whom they may have utmost
confidence.