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Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-10-14
1'AINflGB HOMELESS
The Brooklyn Tabernacle De-
 stroyed by Fire.
CAUSED BY AN ELECTRIC WIRE.
Dr. Talmage Appeals to the World for
 Assistance to Rebuild.

ehls is tho Second Tabernacle Fire-The Damage Nearly Covered by In .urance- Tho Fire Discovered Early In the Morn ing Dr. Talmaxe Postpones His visit to tho Holy Land.
 BROOKLYN. N. Y., Oct. 14. - The famous Brooklyn Tabernacle, of which the Rev. Dr. T. Dewitt Talmage is pas stor, has for the second time in it's history received it's baptism of fire and for second time been totally de- struyed.
 The fire was discovered at a:45 yester- day morning by policeman, who turned In an alarm. The flames had gained such headway, however, that the ircnen were almost helpless, and turned their attention to saving the adjoining buildings. The three-story structure, No. 353 Schermerhorn street, caught fire and was damaged to the extent of $1,o00. The roof of the build ing No. s55 also became ignited and was damaged to like amount. Dr. Hal le,'< house. on the west side of the chuc, h, aud No. 357, owued by John AHes, We're badly burned. BuildiIgs OF the south side of the street were also d;-mayed. The loss on the church building. including the organ, one of the finest in the country, is S15o, 900, well covered by insurance.
 It was at first supposed that the flames originated in a defective flue, the s.a atcm"nt being made that fire had neen started in tho furnace to heat the building for yesterday mornings ser vices Tho sexton, however, denies that there was any fire in the furnace. Norkmen had been putting electric light wires in the building all day Sat urdaF, and it is now thought that during Q thunder storm Tn the night lightning surcharged the wires and caused some of tho woodwork of the interior to ignite.
 A Letter from Dr. Talmage.
 Dr. Talmage has written the follow ing letter to the newspapers:
 To the People-By sudden calamity we are without church. The building associated with so much that Is dear to us is ill ashes.
 h behalf of my stricken congrega- tin 1 make appeal for help, as our th!s locality. Our church has never been sufficient either in size or appoint ments for the people who come We want to build something worthy of Our city and worthy of the cause of God
 We want s100. 900, which, added to the Insurance. Will build what is needed
 i make appeal to all our friends th oughout Christendom, to all denom- nations. to all creeds. and to those of no creed at all, to come to our assist ance. I ask all readers of my sermons tho world over to contribute as far as their means will allow.
 What we do as church depends upon the immediate response made to this call. l was on the eve of departure for a brief visit to the Holy Land, that I might be better prepared for my work here. But that visit must be postponed l cannot leave until something is done to decide our future.
 May tho God who has our destinies as individuals and as churches in His hand appear for our deliverance.
 The response of this appeal to the people may be sent to me in Brooklyn, the receipt thereof
 T. DEWITT TALMAGE.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1889-07-18
Advertise Our Water Power.

The following letter has been received
and explains itself:
Boston, July l.
Chairman Committee on Cotton Factory, Austin
Tcxas:
Dear Sir-I am in recsipt of your es-
teemed favor of June "a, and beg to state
in reply that if your board of trade or
yourself will authorize me, l will adver'
tise here for a cotton mill on the terms
proposed in your letter.
A water site with flow at lowest tide OF
$4,000 cubic feet per minute would be
worth here in New Eogland many hun
dred. of thousands of dollars. Now,
think manufacturers can be induced to go
to your city if you will make that known
through the medium of the press here. l
would suggest Just three papers: The
Boston Transcripts, the Boston Advertiser
and the Boston Herald.
have talked with individuals, but an
attractive card in three great conservative
journals under its appropriate heading
will attract attention. You wonld be sur
prised to see the columns of advertising
INDUCED in by other southern cities-the
attractive prospectuses they send out and
other general information. If the pro-
Qressiye men of your town continue TO
push matters, you will put Austin where
she belongs, a leader of manufacturing
cities in the south. Yours very truly,
THos. 8. HURLEY.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1889-07-18

confined in the other side. r
= Pasture No. will be ready
for the hogs in six weeks. 1t is planted
in sorghum and lucerne. will turn hogs
in pasture No. 2 June l, and keep them
there until September 1, then turn them
back in pasture November l, cut the sor-
ghum off and SOW rye and wheat in No. 2,
and will plant pasture No. June 4 in
sorghum.
Everything is fat. can carry seventy
head of 200 pound hogs on my pasture
from June until November l. raise hogs
as paying crop, and VIC can beat any
northern country in producing cheap
meat, for we can have pasture the entire
year. No extra feeding on account of
cold.
We can sell our meat for 81 per 100
pounds more than northern meat, for our
market is at our door, while the north has
to ship, costing 81 IL freight to ship it
south.
There is no more danger in cholera than
in cotton worms. The great mistake is in
not pushing your pigs. My shoats are
not as old by month as neighbours that
are still pigs. Another mistake is in not
making pasture of tillable land. Last
year killed bunch of five pigs Decem'
Der 18th and 18th; they we're dropped July
18th, were fed on swill made Of bran until
two months old, then changed to little
corn. They we're running on sorghum all
the time, were fed two ears of corn daily
until November 10Th; they were then
put in pens and fed shelled corn, forty five
ears daily; killed December 18th and
18th, at ~ months old, averaging 1856
pounds net. Result: Total amount of
meat, 675 pounds at Z cents-$47 20; total
expense, $6.15; leaving net profit for four
and a half months work, $41.10. The rest
of the meat raised cost ~ cents per
pound, owing to inferior stock OF hogs.
Can any man beat that on cotton?
One acre of land properly cultivated
will give net return of $75 per acre if you
have improved hogs, Berkshire or Poland
China. But the man that expects to make
it out of razor backs will become digusted.
1t is poor hog that will not make from
275 to 300 pounds of meat at twelve
months old. Oarelessness and Indifference
will not succeed.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1889-07-18
Texas Experiment Station.

The June Bulletin of the Texas agri-
cultural experiment station at College
Station has been issued. The experiment
was in feeding cattle, and the Bulletin
makes the following suggestions to feed
ers:
Two things are essential in fattening
animals:
First-To keep the animal comfortable
and quiet.
Second-To induce him to eat the
largest possible amount of nutritious
food.
One is of little value without the other
To keep the cattle comfortable, shelter
shelter from rain is indispensable. Cattle
fall off as rapidly during cold rainy spell
in Texas with the temperature at the
freezing point, or little under, as they
do in Dakota with the temperature below
zero.
Range cattle, as a rule, will not do their
best under close confinement, !. O., tying
up by the head. They may he shut up in
building, but need room to move around.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1889-07-18
Hog Raising in Texas.

j. B. Elder, Lawrence, Tex, in Southern Farm
Hogs, and how to raise them proftably
is a question not easily answered. First
do you want to raise hogs for show. if 80
expect to lose money; if you want to raise
hogs for meat and some to sell, as do,
can tell my experience:
Ihave q pasture for my hogs contain
ing seven acres, costing 1928 to fence it
it is tiIlable land; there is tank or pond
of water in the pasture. 1 have Gross
fence running through the center, and
when one crop is coming up the hogs are
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1889-07-18
Jute Begging the Best.

From the Galveston News.
The News is in receipt of the very inter
esting and valuable report of the commit
tee on bagging, read before meeting of
the Farmers Alliance, of Tuskaloos a
county, Ala, on the 11th ultimo, and also
before the meeting of the Farmers ALI
ance and Wheel and Union meeting at
Birmingham, Ala, on the 18th ultimo, at
which meeting thirteen southern
states were represented. Tbs re-
port is full and exhaustive and re-
views the bagging question in all its rami-
fcations and details, setting forth in a
plain and com prehenslye way the exact
position in which the farmer-the most
deeply interested person-is placed. Bag
ging made from substitutes for jute had
been critically examined and tested by the
members of the committee before the re-
port was made, and with all the facts be-
fore them it was recommended that the
farmers continue to use
THE HEAVIEST JUTE BAGGING
and the heaviest iron ties to be found in
the market. This determination was ar
rived at, of course, with full knowledge
that the European spinners and cotton
buyers have absolute power in the matter
of regulating tare, and that through the
present system they (the buyers) get the
bagging and ties for nothing, and the less
they weigh the more cotton they get for
the money they pay for the bale.
As the report says the farmers knew
from the start that light cotton bagging
would be used at loss to themselves.
They figure this loss at 80 cents per bale,
but they hoped to be able to stir up the
commercial world to meet them on half
way ground and help them beat the bag
ging trust. They tried tine experiment
and the committee says it was stipend
Gus failure simply because the commercial
world did not care the snap of finger
about the thing, "It is no matter at all
to the cotton buyer, the railroad, the
weicher, the classer, the drayman or the
steamship whether the cotton is docked
8 pounds or 100. AS for
THE FOREIGN SPINNER,
he laughs in his sleeve, and fully enjoys
the prospect of getting another eight
pounds of cotton more than he pays for"
This extract is given to show that the
farmer values the use OF light bagging at
Just what it is worth, and realizes that II
the whole z, 100000 bales American crop
were pat up in cotton bagging the Ameri-
can farmers would be paying a bonus of
$5,6OO000 to the foreign spinners each
year that the present system prevails. The
lot of the farmer has indeed been hard
one. He has been between two fires
the bagging trust on the
one hand and the foreign buy
ers on the other-and in whichever way he
turned loss stared him in the face. How
ever, he has resolved to fight one evil with
the other, and if the report of the Bir-
mingham committee carries any weight
with it, the public may expect to see the
farmers putting up small bales of cotton
in the heaviest bagging and ties they can
purchase.
Bagging made of jute is no longer held
at sxorbitant prices, in fact, it is to 8
cents cheaper to-day than it was last
August.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1889-07-18
DON'T Get Caught

This spring with your blood full of i'm
purities, your digestion impaired, your
appetite poor, kidneys and liver torpid,
and whole system liable to be pros.rated
by disease-but get yourself into good
condition, and rendy for the changing and
warmer weather, by taking Hoods Sarsa-
parilla. 1t stands unequalled for purify
ing the blood, giving an appetite, and for
a general spring medicine.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1889-07-18
What a Dam Would Do.

If the people of Austin and surrounding
country have any desire to see a general
improvement in the growth and prosper.
lty of Austin, l know of no pr" jected
plan that would be of greater or more
lasting benefit to all concerned tn IN the
utilizing of the Colorado river for man
ufacturing purposes. Having en- a
manufacturer for quarter of a century,
l think l can speak with some assurance
of the great advantage of cheap motive
power. To induce the manufacturer 10
locate where such cheap power can be
had, let US by all means prepare our water
power for use, so there may be no doubt
of our ability to supply the manufac-
turer oil the power he or they may
need; not that we can have it,
but that we have got IL, ready to
be utilized at any time. This will give an
assurance on our part that we mean bust
ness and place US in position to talk
business to the manufacturer. I person
ally know of cities which have been built
up as by magic by manufacturing inter-
ests, where cheap power was the only in
duoement offered. wish the people of
Austin to fully understand, in the cases re-
ferred to, they had the power to show the
manufacturer ready to be utilized. They
did not talk what could be done, but what
we have done, thus enabling them
to say to any one seeking a
location: Gentlemen, here il is
awaiting your coming, so let Austin's To-
vltation be: Come and utilize the advan-
tages we offer you and make this beauti-
full city of ours beehive of industry and
pros peritv. Let ma carrv out the project
SO fully and ably set forth by our Mr.. A.
P. Woodbridge, and in ten years we will
have CITY that will more than surprise
the people of Austin; it will also surprise
the agricultural interests of all the coun-
try tributary to Austin by making home
market for all the products the farmer
can produce at good prices. 1t will also
add materially to the value of all prop
erty in city aud country; it will give our
city send off in the right direction. All
agree with one accord that We must
have manufacturing if we expect
to grow and prosper, if so let US prepare
for them so they may come, then they will
come, and give employment to thousands
of people who will build homes on our
hills and valleys. Let IA raise the paltry
sum necessary in the most practical way
and at our earliest convenience, and make
start to not be outdone 6y any of our
sister cities. Let US get out of the old rut,
and I believe this is the road to success
and prosperity for Austin. Let US try it.
We have tried dong nothing long enough
to know that those cities in our state that
are doing something have got the start of
Us. W. s. SHERWOOD.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1889-07-18

Worthy of the Place: Distinguished
Editor bordering shirts)-Be sure, now,
aud don't get those sleeves too long. Clerk
Indignantly Sir, we never make our
shirt sleeves too long. Distinguished
Editor (thoughtfully) How would you
like to become our circulation editor?-
Clothler ard FurnIsher.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1889-07-18

"Pa, you wouldn't care il I gave Grip
pie part of the dollar you sent me out to
chanRe?" No, my son. Whyp Because
1 gave fifty cents of it 10 the one-legged
man that sells tickets to the circus."-
Time.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1889-07-18
WEBBERvILLE, July IL.
To the Editor of the Statesman.

To the Editor of the Statesman.
Dear Sir-I have been a subscriber to
your paper long time and have never
had the impudence to put anything in the
peoples forum, or any other part of your
paper, but would like to say one word
through your columns, if it can be said
without being called a politician. That
ia, if there is any chance to get up an ex
odus to Mexico or any other country for
the negro-if you are democrat yourself
please do not discourage the move. There
is plenty of white labor to make all the
cotton that can be proftably raised, if the
negro will only emigrate, and the only
way to get rid of him peaceably ia to en-
courage him to 60. Yours truly,
j, W,B,
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1889-07-18

1.-TWO souls with but shingle thought,
as the urchiu remarked when he found that
his mother hSd substituted her slippers for
the shingle which he thought she was going
to use.-AlbsnY Express.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1889-07-18

Don't hawk and spit and blow as you
go, bat get bottle of DR.. Thurmond's
Lone Star Oatarrh Cure, as it will cure
you, you know. Alexander d Cornwell
219 East Pecan street.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1889-07-18

Thurmond's Lone Star Catsrrh Cure
and Lone Star Blood Syrup are now the
leading remedies for catarrh and all bl cd
diseases. Alexander d Cornwell, 2l9 East
| Pecan street.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1889-07-18

Try DR.. Thurmond's Lone Star Catarrh
Cure. 1t will cure the most aggravated
case in less than thirty days. Alex
ander d Oornwell, 219 East Pecan street.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1889-07-18

Brady Gust returned from Washington
Well, got the postofioe. Grady-You
did Why, didn't know Harrison was re-
lated to you.-The Epoch.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1889-07-18
THE PEoPLE ELS FORUM.

ARTICLES appearing in this column are written
over individual responsible ~ and are published a.
matters thst may be of general interest and simply
to point discussion. THE STATESMAN will not be
regarded as indorsing anything her in below
contained, unless favorably commented on edito-
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1889-07-18
No matter what the school of physic,
They each can cure an ache or phi hieic-
At least tbs said they cam;
But as science turns the wheel still faster,
"a H.

To us there comes man
Whose merit hath won countless zealots,
Who use and praise his "Pleasant Pellets"
The pheasant Purgative Pellets" of DR..
Pierce, though gentle in action are thor
ough, and never fail to cure biliousness,
d seased or torpid liver, and constipation.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1889-07-18

End your misery and enjoy life by
using DR.. Thurmond's lone Star Oatarrh
Cure.
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1889-11-21

Last Feb. there was organized in
this village a society known as local
branch No. 1888, Order of the Iron
Hall. This order promises to pay to
each member a cash benefit of from So
to S25 for each week of sickness or
disability from accident and at the end
Of seven years from 5000 to $1,000 less
such amounts as have been received in
sick benefits. Many here as elsewhere
said they can't do it and they won't.
Since the branch was organized bene-
fits have been paid members as follows +:
NJ. NJ. Drake S25, +. n. Bean $40.
B. A. Drake $50, M j. Olmstead $50.
+. /. Huntington S75, IL. +. Mann
S25, c. f. Morse SO, total 1920.
About $1,000 has been paid by the
members here who hold some $500 in
their treasury as a local guarantee
fund. The order has been organized
s years last March and in every par
ticular they have kept their pledges
and in no year vet have the assess
ments exceeded nineteen in number,
providing a good investment for any
one.
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1889-11-21
North Tunbridge.

o. n. Slack is quite sick with erysipelas
in his face.
Henry Landon has taken orvis Tracy's
farm.
Clinton Buzzell has returned from his
wedding trip.
Quite a chain OF accidents Of not a ser
ious nature occurred at Browns mill the
past week. George Luce got a bad hurt by
a piece OF hard wood weighing 5 lbs. strik-
ing him fully in the face; Mr.. Brown cut
his finger; Gilman Peavy sawed a thumb;
and Bert Brown got a piece Of steel in his
eye.
On Sunday evening Prof. 5. H.. Brough-
ton Of Chelsea delivered a lecture al the
Baptist church from Adams Great rheolog-
ical Chart Of the world, from the creation
up to the present time. He also reveals
wonderful things that for years have been
sealed, pertaining 10 the end and dnal re-
demption of men. It was highly inter-
esting and instructive and well worthy of
commentator. Its expected he viii re-
peat the same in a few weeks and let all
Turn out and hear him.
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1889-11-21
Bethel News.

There are five sire ct lamps between
the river bridge and NJ. Sylvester's
house.
One of the large safes at the town
clerks office has settled through the
decayed floor and now rests on the
rocks beneath.
L. S. Bird is to sell a large amount
of personal property and a pasture with
sugar orchard at auction Tuesday,
Nov. 26.
There is considerable talk of extend
ing the sidewalk from the lower end of
the village to the cemetery and there is
a good prospect that the work will be
done in the spring.
The Y. p. S. A. Society are to hold
a sociable next Monday evening at the
residence of II. II. ellison and will pre-
sent a charade. The first week in
December they are to present the dra-
ma "Messmates."
Many of the residents express a de-
sire to have this village incorporated
at the next session of the legislature
and in the mean time the question will
be agitated pro ct con with a view Of
obtaining an expression of the wishes
of those interested.
A teachers meeting is to be held at
the school house next Friday evening.
If tbooa n,aofinuc apo ~ ba oontinuad
successfully they should be attended by
all the teachers in this town and vicin-
ity and they are earnestly requested to
make a little extra effort to attend and
they will find them both pleasant and
profitable.
Several improvements are noticed
at the Bascom House. The wall north
OF the building has been raised high
er and extended, enclosing a small
lawn which has been nicely graded and
a stone stairway built in the wall, sim
liar to the one at the south end of the
building. The walls on either side of
the house next to the sidewalk have
been cemented and penciled in blocks,
the whole making quite an improve
ment to the outside appearance Of the
premises.
p. L. Lyon of Montpelier with two
assistants has been in town the past
week putting a Quincy heater into
the National White River Bank. Mr..
Lyon has the contract for doing the
plumbing on the house Edwin Harring-
ton is erecting which is TO be fitted
with hot and cold water, warmed with
a Quincy heater and lighted with gas.
A law suit was held last Saturday
at the office of Hon. j. J. Wilson be-
tween Albert Barnes and Kimball Will
liams. The suit was before Justice
VIM. X. Adams and was brought to
settle a book account. The parties
are farmers living in the west part of
the town and are related by marriage.
Hon. j. j. Wilson appeared for
Barnes and w. b. c. Stickney for
Williams, Justice Adams reserved his
decision.
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1889-11-21
North Pnmfref.

Addie Colburn has closed her school in
Royalton and is now home on a vacation.
Mr.. Leavitt's house and hen house were
destroyed by fire recently, caused by the
chimney burning out.
Miss Jaekman closed a very successful
term of school the 18th with appropriate
exercises. The district is fortunate In Sc
curing so good a teacher.
Mr.. Hiram Sherburn was buried last
Tuesday, Rev. Mr.. Hamilton officiating.
The Y. P. 5. c. E. held a sociable at A.
G. Shows OF Wednesday eve.
Messrs. Edwards and Melendv from
Cambridge. Vt. were in town recently buy
ing Jerseys.
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1889-11-21
nLn SUBSCRIBERS

send us two new subscribers lsee
termsl before Dec. goth will receive
he eight page HERALD free TO JAN VI.
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1889-11-21

Rain Rain y
Very mild weather for November
Emma Moses is able to sit up after
her severe illness.
Freddie, son of Mark Chadwick is
sick with lung fever.
Mrs. Taylor of Danvers, Mass. Is
visiting Mrs. A. b. Tewksbury.
Frank Hobart lost a valuable COW
this week and Frank Morse lost one
last week.
DIR. Z. o. Blanchard is in Boston
this week and will return the last OF
next week.
There was a small row between two
town boys in Milt Chadwick's billiard
rooms Saturday night.
There was a large congregation OF
legal talent in town Monday and the
law business was good.