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The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1889-01-24
DISTRIBUTING THE NEGRO.

The proposition Of Senator Morgan, of
Alabama, to let New Hampshire and her
senator (Blair) have, hold and keep 100,-
600 negroes from Alabama, and the prin-
oiple formerly advocated by Senator Win
dom and endorsed by Morgan, of distrib-
uting the negro equally among all the
states north and south, might require
some consideration.
While the idea would be a God-send to
such states as South Carolina and Missis-
sippi, where the negro largely predomi-
mates, it might not be quickly embraced
by u state like Texas. The negro IS one
of the best agricultural laborers in the
world, and is especially adapted to the
tilliug of the land in malarial sections,
where white man can scarcely stand the
climate. He is well fitted for
the sugar region of our state
and in the great farming seotions
on the Brazos, Trinity and Colorado his
services as field laborer are adapted
to the conditions, hence the loss of negro
labor would not benefit Texas.
Politically, we are by no means in the
same box as South Carolina and Missis-
sippi and never will be unless we are
foolish enough to take the advice of
designing outsiders and consent to a
division of the state. The colored race in
Texas, In few years when the state is
filed up with the tide of white immi-
grafton that is sure to come even in
much larger volume than now, will be as
much drop in the bucket here as it is in
Ohio or New York. There is not and
never will be any danger on that score
while Texas remains united, for with us
the race problem is alEeady solved. There
fore, we don't know that we are so ready
to fall in with Senator Morgan's ideas.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1889-01-24
THE DALLAS TRAGEDY.

An unarmed man, totally unspprehen-
sive of danger, is walking the street in
one of the most public and populous parts
OF Dallas.
He is approached from behind and de-
liberately shot dead without a moments
warning. These are the facts in the
Bradley Angus assassination, for it was
nothing else, and that of the basest, most
cowardly description. Not the shadow of
an excuse has been urged in behalf of the
murderer, except that of jealousy for one
OF the Jezebels of the town.
The assassination of a prominent base
ball player and a stranger from a distant
state may not be regarded by some peo-
pie as surprising in atrocity some other
murders that have disgraced our state.
But it does indicate an alarming contempt
of law. Is it not true that
had the hack driver Angus
really feared the consequences Of
his crime and believed that it would have
positively endangered his neck the crime
would scarcely have been committed and
Bradley to-day would have been alive?
Assassinations as bad as that of the base
ball catcher have gone UNPUBLISHED in
Dallas and the state at large, and this
Angus knew when he fired the
cowardly and fatal shot. And, shall it be
determined he placed the proper estimate
upon his chances of escape with his prede-
cessors in crime? As the criminal laws of
our state are now administered, not only
in Dallas but elsewhere, there are ten
chances of Angus going half punished for
his infamous crime to one of his paying
the Mosaic penalty of his own life for the
one he has so deliberately taken. Right
here is the key to the big criminal
statistics in the recent report of Attorney
general Hogg.
We don't punish the high crimes-mur-
der and ssassination-with the certainty
and severity with which they ought to be
treated. The criminal classes for this
cause 40 not fear the law as they should,
aad crime houribhes.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1889-01-24
TEXAS WEATHER REPORT.
Weekly Review OF Texas Weather and
Crops from Galveston.
Cpoo{oI u,oIon,o,, 90 fbo stofaamop

Weekly Review OF Texas Weather and
Crops from Galveston.
Special Telegram to the Statesman.
GALVESTON, January 19.-The temper
ature during the last seven days in Texas
was generally above the seasOnable aver
age. There were very few days during
the week that the temperature was below
40 degrees, and this occurred only at
some places in northern and northwest
ern counties, where temperatures below
freezing were reported one or more days.
The average temperature for the state
was 53.4, which is higher than the aver
age of last week and decidedly higher
than the average of the corresponding
week in January year ego. The aver
age of the maximum temperatures was
64.3 and the average of the minimum
temperatures 42.6. Ike lowest temp
AZURE reported from any part of the
state was IS degrees.
The past seven days have given very
little sunshine. Reports from nearly
every part of the state indicate cloudy
and wet weather the greater part of the
week. Approximately there were four
rainy days. The ground is reported satu-
rated and in some places water covers the
ground to a depth of an inch or more.
Country roads are reported impossible
and it is with difficulty that farmers are
able to get in and out with empty vehicles.
Farm work is at stand still. The streams
are all swollen and in some places over
flowing their banks. Nothing is doing in
cotton as it is impossible for farmers
to get in with it. From reports
it appears that there is some
cotton yet to pick but nothing can be
done with it. The prospects for dry
weather are not assuring, as this morn
ing's weather reports show another storm
area developing in the western part of the
state, and latest indications are for cloudy
weather and rains.
The observers at places named below
report rainfall as follows in inches and
hundreths with the number of days pre-
cipitatiOn occurred:
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1889-01-24
REsTRICTINq IMMIGRATION.

Startling Picture of Foreign Labor Drawn
by Congressional Committee.
WASHINGTON, January 19.-The report
of the committee on immigration says:
"Generally speaking, the class of immi
grants who have lately been imported and
employed IN the coal regions of this coun
try are not such, in the opinion of the
committee, as would make desirable resi-
dents of the United States. They do not
come with the intention of becoming citi-
zens, their whole purpose being to accu-
mulate by parsimonious, rigid and IN
healthy economy a sum of money and then
return to their native land. They 1--we
in miserable sheds like beasts. The
food they eat is SO meagre, scant, uu-
wholesome and revolving that it would di
gust an American workingman, and he
would find it difficult to sustain life upon
it. Their habits are vicious, their Gus
toms are disgusting, and the effect of
their presence upon our social condition
is to be deplored. They have not the in
fuences, as we understand them, of home.
They do not know what the word means.
In the opinion of the committee no
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1889-01-24
ANOTHER DBFALUATIoN.
An Old and Trusted Business Man uets
Away with 100000

An o,d and Tr,sted Business Man Gets
Away with $4,000.
New YORK, January 19.-The friends OF
the late Henry P. Marshall, over twenty
years cashier of the Seamen's bank Tor
savings in Wall street, were surprised az
the published statement that Sl2'ooo
worth of funds held by him as treasurer
of the Protestant Episcopal Church Mis-
sionary Society for Seamen, cannot Do
found. 1t was ascertained this morning
that the funds of st. Georges church anu
of the estates of which he was trustee are
also missing to the extent of nearly S+O,-
600 additional.
Later-It now appears Marshall was
short in his accounts to- the amount OF
$4,000. The Sesmen's Savings bank has
lost nothing. Up to date the heaviest
loss sustained is by venerable lady VINO
resides in East Hsddam, N. Y. This LADY
is Mrs. Martha Brakeman, who Is over ~
years old. For many years MIR. Marshall
managed her estate and was supposed TO
have in possession securities De-
longing to her valued between
$4,000 and $4,000. All that is left
of the widow Blakeman's estate is tribe
less than $4,000 and this has been turned
over to her attorney. 1t is extremely
difficult to ascertain the exact amount OF
the defalcation, but it is now believed that
the Seamen's Mission has been done out
of about $4,000, and st. Georges EPis-
copal church of $4,000. Other societies
have lost smaller amounts, but just how
much no one seems to know. The method
in which business was done was very
loose.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1889-01-24
The Great Milburn

The name of "Milburn" is known .o
every farmer in the state of Texas. It.
needs no introduction. 1t is but to men
Ilon tne name to farmer and the picture
or the Milburn wagon presents itself to
MS mental vision. The Milburn wagon
mas stood all tests, and time has but added
10 It's high reputation. The Milbnrn
wagon company make not only the MIL
ourn wagon but the best class of buogies
pnetons and family carriages brought TO-
tnis market. Anyone having in mind the
f ti,Vnase oI any sort of vehicle should not
ia'l 70 call upon the genial, courteous and
popular agent OF the Milburn Wagon com
pany, COL H. D. Cunningham, at whose
nands everyone will receive the most no.
lite attention. 0'O po-
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1889-01-24
COMMISSIONER POSTERS REPORT.

The first annual report of the agricuI
tural bureau of the department of agri-
culture, insurance, statistics and history
was issued yesterday. 1t is paper-bound
volume of some 375 pages and every page
replete with useful information, touching
the resources and general statistics of the
state. Prior to this time department of
the state government partaking some
whsC of the nature of the present cOmpre
report on INSURANCE." but never be
fore this date has such report of the
agriculture, statistics and history of the
state been published as this result of the
efficient and painstaking efforts of Com
missioner Foster. The first forty pages
of the book are devoted to a
sweeping historical sketch of
the state, its area, location,
topography, soil, climate, its rivers, bays
and lakes, its timber growth, mineral re-
sources, public lands, public education,
eleemosynary institutions, Political divis-
ions, farmers organizations, agricultural
statistics, economic statistics, its manu-
featuring, criminal, vital, social and rail
road statistics and it's census.
The next $50 pages are devoted to the
counties individually and separately, Civ
ing the agricultural and general statistics
of each in turn, and the report concludes
with come sixty pages of comprehensive
tables, giving by counties, in alphabetical
order, the acreage, amount of products
raised and the value of same of some
dozen and more of the most important
farm products of every county in the
state.
The ability and good judgment of
Commissioner Foster are signally dis
played in the magnificent view of the
state and her resources he has given US in
this, his first, official report of the work
that this important state bureau
is accomplishing. This volume is
a pioneer in the most worthy of causes
and future Volumes will do well to main
tain the prestige this one has and will
gain for this department.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1889-01-24

.mo,n. of effort would improve tnei i
amoun' =, "a 4msricsnize this class of immi-
Qrants They have been here in in s suc6
Iow wages that it has resulted in their fert
t disp M American citizens who ,. iO5
merIy performed this kind OF d-.t lnpUT
until now. There are now compara' ooai
few Americans employed in mining coz.
In conclusion, the COMMITTEES S SOY
Certainly the effect of the PreSepS nil
stricted system of immigration aS ;aars-
cable to the conditions under oons IS tbis
tiop upon the industrial situation o' ynl9
conntrv, has been very bad, and the com
mittee believe the time has come Wne ,
immigration should be more effectively effective
regulated, and that persons who immigraie
to the United States should at leas ',, Uo .
those who, in good faith, desire to become
it's citizens and are worthy to be suop'
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1889-01-24
MuRDER AND SUICIDE.

A Foolish Girl Shoots Another Woman
and Then Herself.
Special Telegram to the Statesman
ST.. LOUIS, January ia special from
Favette, Mo, says: This morning about
10 O'Clock Flora Rohr, aged 16 years, shot.
and fatally wounded Mrs. E. j. johnson
and then committed suicide by sending a.
bullet through her brain. Miss Flora and
Miller johnson, son of the lady, were
sweethearts. Mrs. johnson quarrelled
with the girl, often trying to break the
engagement existing between the couple.
Last evening the young folks met
clandestinely aud Mrs. Johnson, hearing
of it, called to the girl, who lived in an
adjoining house. Anticipating quarrel,
Flora took her fathers revolver with her
with the result as stated.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1889-01-24
Cotton Seed Oil Companies.

To the Editor OF The Statesman.
Whilst our legislature is giving atten-
tion to combinations and trusts it is to be
hoped they will give the cotton seed oil
company some attention. There is no
more grinding corporation on earth than
this. They fix the price of cotton seed
and combine to pay no more. Cotton
seed in Texas to-day pays the farmer
about from Sc to 81 per ton. In other
states the same combination pays $l2 to
$13 per ton. The cake made from cotton
seed they sell at $22 per ton, crude oil at
45c per gallon. The lint is worth some &c
per pound and even the hulls are sold for
feed. Is there no remedy for such monop-
olies! FARMER.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1889-01-24

congress means that the Randallites now
intend to take their final departure from
the party, which, with the republicans
they have, so the Republic charges, con-
Randall an absolute and final exit from
the democratic party along with
the supporters of his tariff doctrines,
our st. Louis contemporary may be a trife
severe as well as unjust. There never has
been any doubt as to the standing of
Mr. Randall as regards the great cardinal,
fundamental, indestructible principles of
democracy of which Jefferson was the
exponent, not the founder. 1t is only
on the question of the justice and
the policy of unnecessary taxation by
means of high protective tariff that he
has differed with the great body and mass
of his party. Whether this difference is
sufficient to warrant driving him out of
the national democracy and into the
republican party, as, contended by the
Republic, is an important matter
the Republic should not hastily pass upon
1t is certain, however, that the national
democracy has assumed position on the
tariff from which there can be no retreat,
and it rests with Mr.. Randall and his
followers themselves whether they will or
will not keep up with the democratic
procession, which must continue to march
on till unnecessary and unequal taxation
under this government is eventually rec
tifiad
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1889-01-24

The attention of the legislature and of
the reading public is directed to the plea
of the veteran W. p. Zuber, published in
this issue Of The STATESMAN. 1t is his
torical, it is interesting; and, worst of oil
for the states honor, it is lamentably
true. Is IL not time these veteran, tried,
true, noble, self.sacrifcng, needy men had
some reoompense for their losses, from the
state they founded and protected? Will the
Twenty first Legislature consent to let this
debt of pride and honor, in full with in
terest, remain unpaidH
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1889-01-24

The average for the state was 100 inches.
Compared with the corresponding week
last year the rainfall in Texas during the
last seven days was in excess.
Temple on the 15th-Hail and a terrifc
wind from the northwest, considerabIe
cotton in the fields east from here.
New Braunfels-Not pillow has turned
the grounds this year. Small lots of cot
ton in the country, but they cannot he
marketed on account of impossible roads:
bolls still opening.
Fort Worth-The rainfall has affected
the grain crop injuriously, but the tenn
persture was favorable.
Cleburne-Raln; no chance for farmers
to do anything.
CEDAR Hill-The black lands are covered
with water, which has affected the wheat
crop iDiuliously.
Beiton-Very little cotton to pick; the
weather has been cloudy and rainy for
four days. i0i
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1889-01-24

AFFAIRS at Samoa, as reported in the
dispatches this morning, seem to indicate
the possibility of strained relations be-
tween Germany and the United States.
German soldiers are represented as having
insulted Americans and the American flag
at Samoa. Our flag was fred upon and
Americans taken prisoners and carried on
board a German man-of-war. The stu.
alton would appear to demand some sort
OF an explanation.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1889-01-24
ADVERTISEMENT OF AUSTIN.

The Southern journal of Homeopathy,
which was founded in this city IN 1883 by
DR.. O. Il. Fisher, and which has here been
conducted by him since that time, has
been purchased by DR.. G. G. Clifford, of
San Antonio, and will be published here
after in that city. 1t was Doctor Fishers
intention to take the Journal to California
with him, but his determination to spend
the spring and summer at the hospitals
of Europe prompted its sale to Doctor
Clifford. 1t is understood that special
efforts will be made to advertise San
Antonio as a health resort through the
medium of the Southern journal. Austin,
in this sale, has sustained the loss of a
most excellent advertising medium, as
through journal reaching the medical
profession of the north many of the ad-
general climatic e1cellencies the year
round could be laid before the people we
wish to reach and attract here. For this,
among other reasons, is it a matter of
regret that Austin has lost this first-clsss
medical journal; and, il. this connection,
is it not pertinent TO ask if our people
cannot turn to better effect the medical
journal that will still continue to be pub
lished in our city-the Journal of Doctor
DanielH Such advertisement pays and
pays we'll.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1889-01-24

Doap,s store. Major Jones is well pleased %
with his work, and will at once proceed ,es W W
complete Crn profile maps and estimates s..O OF
tbe line, As soon as this is furnished steps
viii be taken at once to secure charter
oftar which such arrangements as are neces-
Sary will be made to place the same under
immediate construction. Major Jones en-
Enthusiastically pronounces this the n9es'
survey he has ever run in the course OF an
experience of fifteen years in civil engi-
naerinp.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1889-01-24
The Missouri Republic of Tuesday hal
the following:

The Missouri Republic of Tuesday has
she following:
We regret TO see that our esteemed con-
temporary the Galveston News has also
been wickedly imposed upon by con
scienceless purveyor Of other peoples
news. It's issue of Monday last contained
a column and half of so-called "Wssh-
ington specials" and of these alleged
specials" more than column were stolen
bodily from the Republic of the previous
day. These dispatches, which are gathered
for the Republic by its representatives at
Washington, and which cost it heavily,
are its exclusive news, and we are conf
dent that IL is only necessary to call the
attention of the conductors of the Calves
ton News 10 the way in which they are
being imposed upon and made particeps
criminis in a particularly fragrant piece
of "journalism."
Theft in the newspaper profession is no
more respectable than in the ordin-
airy walks of life. The News should
use the hint of the Republic to advantage
land set up ansexample somewhere.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1889-01-24
MIR. RANDALL AND HIS FOLLOWERS.

The St. Louis Republic, representing
the orthodox democracy of the west, Bit
terly denounces Mr.. Randall and the
twenty-three other congressman elected as
democrats, who, last week, voted to split
the Mills bill by adopting only
its tobacco clauses. The Republic
charges that the attitude assumed by
Mr.. Randall and his followers
in the democratic party as represented in
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1889-01-24

THE Philadelphia Record has something
to say on the free pass question. 1t is to
this effect: at is far cry to Minnesota
but it is refreshing to know that the mem
bers of the legislature of that state have
unanimously voted to return the passes
sent them by the various railroad COM
panies. There are other legislatures in
session, the members of which ought to
follow this example,"
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1889-01-24

The Kansas railroad commission bill,
reported in the dispatches this morning,
proposes to give the commission power
over the telegraph, telephone and express
lines and business also. One feature is
the proposition that the commission shall
regulate telephone as well as express
charges
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1889-01-24
Twelve Pages.

IT the account of the White Cap out
RACES in Northumberland county, Pepnsyl-
vania, published in the dispatches this
morning, be true, the people of that state
should never again talk of southern Ku
Klux
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1889-01-24

First Stage Robber-"Wtat did you get
yesterday, Jerry!" Second Robber-
"Nothin'. There wasn't nobody in the
stage 'ceptin' lawyer, two plumbers and
prima donna, an professional courtesy
wouldn't allow me to touch 'em, of course"
-Terre Hsute Express.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1889-01-24

The Galveston weather bureau predicts
bad weather and probable snow in Texas
for tonight. real hard freeze after so
much spring like weather would Do most
welcome. 1t would at least enable the
farmers of Texas to kill their hogs and
save their bacon, which is a considerable
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1889-01-24
Inc Mule Market.

Special Telegram to the Statesman.
FORT WORTH, January ID. P. Alex
ander, of San Antonio, has about con-
cluded contract for 100 head of mules
from John Powell, of Fort Worth, which
he will put on the Louisiana market. II
appears the demand for this kind of stock
from that direction is much heavier this
year than in former years. This is the
season when draft animals are occurred for
handling the cotton business, but owing
to all young mules having been bought up
and sent out from Louisiana large impor-
tations are required to supply the demand.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1889-01-24

Nothing to Go By: Mrs. Gab-"What
sort o. folks are those new neighbors of
yoursw Mrs. Caldwell, I've been
watching their back yard for two weeks,
but as they send their wash to a laundry,
can't tell anything about them."-New
York Weekly.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1889-01-24
The Cattle Trail Railway.

Special Telegram to the Statesman.
ALBANY, January 19.-Major Stanley M.
Jones passed through this place last night
on his return home, having completed I'll.
survey OF the Cattle Trail railway from
Mason, Tex, to point on Red river mar
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1889-01-24
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