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The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1890-09-11
BEECHAM'S PILLS
ACT LIKE MAGIC
ON A WEAK STOMACH.
IS Cents a Box.
OF ALL DRUGGISTS.
Pay in Wheat Crop.
OF ALL DRUGGISTS.


What is the actual value Of sec
ton of land that will produce, for a
term Of ten years, an average crop of
fifteen bushels of wheat per acre? If
we concede that money is worth no
more nor less than IL per cent, it is
an easy matter to find out what such
land is worth on that basis. In the
first place we must put a price on
wheat, which is worth now 81 per
bushel, and as that is a fair average
we take it to work on. Fifteen bush
els of wheat at 81 per bushel would be
worth $50. Six hundred and forty
acres at SIS per acre would be 5000
the total income. The expense account
would begin with fencing the-land'
with four wires and cedar posts-four
miles at $3.50 per mile, 5000, one
tenth of which, with interest added,
would be $l32. Breaking the land
would cost $3.50. Seed wheat would
cost $640 Labor for sowing $l60.
Cutting and threshing 500. Which
gives total expense account of $2770.
Now we produce from the land, by an
outlay of $2770, the sum OF $4,000.
Deduct the former from the latter and
we have $6S30 left, which, reckoning
the interest to be no more nor less
than II per cent, calls for capital OF
about $56,950, or within a fraction of
$3.50 per acre.-Mobeetie Panhandle.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1890-09-11


Seconds, fractions of seconds even,
mean great deal on the race track.
Ten Broeck's mile in ;39a, which
stood for thirteen years an unexcelled
record, was traversed at the rate of
more than thirteen feet every quarter
second. Had he run that mile on the
same track with Salvador at Monmouth
the other day when the new champion
made record four and quarter sec
onds better than his own, Ten Brock
would have cut sorry figure in
deed, 225 feet behind at the finish.
Salvatore stride is about twenty-five
feet. He makes, it may be estimated,
240 jumps to the mile. Distribute
his gain of 225 feet equally among.
these 240 jumps and it will be found
that at every leap in the imagined
race with Ten Brock he would have
gained IL IA inches. A very COM
Portable lead at the finish of q race I;
but at every leap-what an immense
superiority it demonstrates Beaten
by half dozen lengths is beaten
badly, yet by hardly more than a Sec
ond in a fast run. Beaten by nose
is beaten safely enough, yet by only
an imperceptible fraction OF second,
not more than one hundredth, per
haps; enough at times to make one
man rich and another poor.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1890-09-11
Is Consumption Incurable /?

Read the following: Mr.. G. H. Morris,
Newark, Ark, says: "Was down with alb,
scess of lnngs, and friends and physicians
pronounced me an incurable consumptive
Began taking DR.. Kings New Discovery fol
consumption, am now oh my third bottle
and able TO overseer the work on my farm
1t is the finest medicine ever made.h
Jesse Middlewart, Decatur, Ohio, says
Had it not bean for DR.. Kings New Dis
covery for consumption would have died
of lung troubles. Was given up by doctors
Am now in best of health" Try it, Sample
bottles free at ]. j Tobin's drug store.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1890-09-11
Colored Encampmept.

Maj. ]. Lyons and Capt. Simon
Turner from San Antonio, who are
on the committee OF arrangements of
the colored military encampment,
have visited the governor and Adj
jutapt Gen. King and have found
everything favorable to the encamp-
ment.
Capt. HI. @. Johnson OF the Austin
City Rifles has been authorized to
wait upon citizens and friends to help
make the colored encampment a
grand success.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1890-09-11
A Gratuitous Calumny.
Houston Post.

Houston Post.
At the eleventh hour a resolution
indorsing the Federal election bill was
snrung on the State Republican con-
vention and "passed without descent
inc vote" The same resolution de-
nonnced "the outrages committed on
the Republicans by the Democrats in
various parts of this State" and CEN
s,,red Governor Ross "for failing to
subiugate the perpetrators for the per
,otration of such offenses." In view
of the fact that the platform adopted
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1890-09-11
An Important Element

Of the success of Hoods Sarsaparilla
is the fact that every purchaser re-
ceives fair equivalent for his money.
The familiar headline 900 Doses One
Dollar" stolen by imitators, is orig
inal with and true only of Hoods
Sarsaparilla. This can easily be
proven by any one who desires to test
the matter. For real economy, buy
only Hoods Sarsaparilla. Sold by all
druggists.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1890-09-11
Mr.. Rogers withdraws.

l desire to express my sincere
thanks TO my friends who nominated
me and worked for me SO untiringly in
my race for superintendent Of schools
of Travis county. / have decided to
withdraw from the race on account of
the precarious existence of the office,
and because the school board of
Austin has elected me principal of
West Austin school.
]. B. ROGERS. y
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1890-09-11
ALDERMANIC EDECTIoN.

A Quiet Election in Which WingHeld Walks
OF With the Honors.
The election for alderman in the
Ninth ward yesterday to fill the va
cancy caused by the death Of Mike
Boland, passed off quietly.
1t was conducted under the
Australian system and was most
gratifying success.
Following vote, a very light one for
the Ninth, was cast:
For D. L. Wingfeld, 1923; for Jas.
Byrne, IA.
Mr.. Wingfeld having received a
handsome majority OF the vote cast,
will be made alderman at the next
meeting Of the council.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1890-09-11
JOHN B. HOOD CAMP
In Session Yesterday Adopted Resolutions
ON the Death of Major Stewart.

In Session Yesterday Adopted Resolutions
OH the Death of Major Stewart.
John B. Hood Camp Confederate
Veterans held meeting last after
noon, and after the transaction of
some routine business adopted the
following:
THE LATE JOE H. STEWART.
Resolutions by the John B. Hood
Camp of ex-Confederate veterans.
Whereas, 1t has been the will of
the Most High to remove from this
earth our comrade and friend Maj.
Joe H. Stewart under circumstances
OF peculiar sadness, he being at the
time of his death in the meridian of
manhood, a husband and father upon
whom his family depended and having
recently removed from Austin, Tex,
to New York city and established
himself in the successful practice of
law, and to all human appearance had
before him the promise of long and
happy life; therefore, be it
Resolved, That in the death of Joe
H. Stewart in the city of New York
on the 18th day of August, 1890, the
common brotherhood of man has lost
friend and ready assistant; that we,
his old comrades in arms and friends
and associates in peace express
hereby our sorrow that he should
thus unexpectedly be taken from
this, his earthly abode, where
his unselfsh friendship and uni
versal philanthropy had such a
wide sphere for active exercise and
where his liberal hand and generous
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1890-09-11
Where, Oh Where,

Some OF the patriots of the limo
cent Abroad club would like to know
what has become Of the aforesaid club.
The winter season is drawing on apace
and their hearts desire is to see the
Innocent club rally once more and
take its old position III the literary
and musical circles OF the city. Where
is the able president? The members
would like TO hear from him.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1890-09-11
vasil; the Russian chef. who W.

Vasili, the Russian chef, who was
for several years in the service of the
elder Dumas, died recently at LIE Puy,
France. 1t was his chief delight to
surprise the novelist with some new
Russian dish, and it is not surprising,
therefore, that he outlived the man he
cooked for.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1890-09-11
PANrop,s ACADEMY.

NEAR CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va,
For Boys and Young Men. Send for Cat a :
logue.
JOHN R. SAMPSON, NJ. A., Principal.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1890-09-11
Awful Depravity.


From the Fort Worth Gazette.'
The Taylor murder at Quanah pre-
sents case of brutality and savagery
revolving in the extreme. The wife
admits in court that she brought
down the ak on the head of her sleep
ing husband; and whether truthful OF
not, eliminates her daughter, girl OF
IA or Is, by declaring that she was the
first to bury the ak in her fathers
head. The girl denies welding the ak,
but admits conspiracy to murder the
father and husband because of his
harsh treatment Of the family.
Where in the annals of brutal
crime can be found an instance
of more deliberate and cold
blooded savagery than that? 1t is
commonly supposed that only the
most depraved of men, fellows framed
for villainy, and hardened by years of
contact with the criminal and vicious,
are capable of such heartlessness as
this case discloses. But such notions
will bear correction in view of the un-
speakable female depravity illustrated
in the murder of Taylor. This is
another, and perhaps the worst, of the
many instances of crime lately occur
ring in the State with such frequency
as to suggest an entire absence OF fear
in the vicious classes, of the law and
its administrators. Judges and juries
appear to be held IN contempt by
those who ought to feel salutary
and restraining fear of them, but do
not. Where does the fault lie? Some
body is to blame for this mad career
of crime. Who is it?
The San Antonio Times thus puts
itself on record: "The water works
question is nearing solution. When
the time comes for the property
owners to vote upon the proposition
to purchase and forever control the
distribution OF water, the verdict will
be decisive enough. Whenever cities
own their own water works citizens
feel the draft upon their purses lessen
very perceptibly. The sum of $2,OOUj
600 asked by the present proprietors,
will be doubled in five years. There
fore the plant and property should be
owned by the city while they can be
purchased at a comparatively small
figure" There seems To be no doubt
in any quarter but that in this pur-
chase San Antonio would make a most
excellent trade. Her people generally
seem thoroughly convinced of this
and will unquestionably vote the pur-
chase on Sept. 80. 1t is a big thing
San Antonio is about to do, and
though the amount of money is larger
than that Austin proposes to spend
yet there is containedin our plan such
a tremendous future Of work and i'm
provement as to make their purchase
a dwarfed affair. Austin is TO the
front and on top.
A few neaches from California are
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1890-09-11

The wise farmer brings his cotton
TO Austin where honest weights OBJ
tain.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1890-09-11

A few peaches from California are
offered for sale at the fruit stands. -.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-01-24
THE BOTANICAL SOCIETY.

Members Discussed the New Academy
Scheme With Favor.
Quite number of the lovers of Natures
fragile jewels-howers-gathered in the
ladies' psrlor of the Pittsburg Library As
sociation last night. It was the regular
monthly meeting of the Botanical Society
of Western Pennsylvania. Mr.. William
Hamilton, presided over the meeting. Sew
eral new specimens were exhibited, among
them the cotton plant in full bloom. Rev.
johnson read paper on the moral aspect of
botany. Several new members were elected.
The society fourisheth like a green bay
tree, it now having about 100 active mem
bers.
Prot. MendenhalI, Chief of the United
States Geological Survey, in letter to the
President of the society, invited the mem
bers to the lecture which he will deliver
before the Engineers Society in the Female
College on next Monday night.
The society to-day received large and
very handsome case in which to preserve
specimens.
The report Of the subcommittee on the
proposed Academy of Science and Art was
read and discussed. The plans, as already
given in The DISPATCH, were generally
approved.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-01-24
Total ..........

Mr.. Dwyer says this result cannot be
changed by any system of figuring known.
He also states that he never yet ran for
Office in the ward that he did not get there
by a safe majority, and that if outsiders
were not interesting themselves he and his
fellow aspirants would not know there was
quarrel, though they might have felt some
what warmed up during the preliminary
contest. Said he: "T think a great deal of
both Messrs Lydon and Bracken, and also
of Mr.. Bracken's father but some people
are tryinglto influence Mr.. Bracken against
me. some Of them working for the fun of the
thing and others in earnest. Mr.. Bracken
is young in politics, and does not under
stand as much as he will if he follows
it for a while. He went over the ward and
made canvass, and you see, almost every.
one he solicited for support promised it.
Had he been a veteran he would have dis
counted some of these promises, but instead
he pinned his faith to them, hence his dis
appointment. You can see that my plural
ity is safe one to work on, and that Mr..
Bracken did not carry the second district,
as published"
Though Mr.. Dwyer held that the whole
matter was somewhat of the Pickwicklan
order, yet shortly after midnight came a
telephone message stating that two men
had been arrested, and that two more per-
sons would be before morning. The owner
of the voice said that Mr.. Lyden was talk
ing, which would make it appear that for a
friendly contest there is considerable of q
demonstration on foot.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-01-24
CAUGHT WITH DECOYs.
A Postal Clerk Arrested With RifIed Regis.
tered Money PackaRea

- GVBkHl NteEA AEEtbkGu VIII hluGu ntMl1s
tered Money Packages.
W. D. Lane, postal clerk on the Pan
handle Railroad, was arrested at the Union
depot last night, as he left his car after
making run from St. Louis, by Postofice
Inspector A. r. Holmes, of Cincinnati.
Lane is charged with stealing registered
money packages to the amount of $425. He
would admit having stolen only three pack
ages that were found on him last night, al
though the inspector says that he knows
that Lane got one letter containing $225 on
November 26 last
Lane is an old employe in the service, but
was dismissed over a year ago and re-
instared as a sub last June. He has been
filling the places of sick and disabled men
ever since, running between this city and
st. Louis His home is at Indianapolis.
Letters containing money were missed with
great regularity. and, the attention of In
sPector Holmes being called to the matter,
he began an investigation. Three weeks
ago he noticed that losses were reported on
each trip made by the crew OF which Lane
was member. There were eight men in
the crew, and as they worked in section of
the car not more than IL feet long and were
all at work at the same time, it was difficult
to locate the man who was doing the steal
ing. Finally, however, Lane was suspected.
Yesterday morning at Richmond, Ind. two
decoy letters were placed where they would
pass through his hands. One was Throw
of" letter that should have gone on
another line, and the other Irregular through
package. Lane turned up the throw-off let
ter, which, under ordinary circumstances,
he could have taken without much fear of
detection, but he took the through letter and
two other registered packages. He had
opened the decoy letter and taken the
money from it before he was arrested, but
the envelope and the other two packages
were found on him when he was searched.
Inspector Holmes, after searching the
prisoner thoroughly, turned him over to the
city police officials, and he was placed in
Central station for the night. The Inspector
had not made up his mind last night
whether to take Lane back to Ohio or
Indiana for trial, as it was in those States
his thefts were committed.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-01-24
A CLAIM FOR BIG DAMAGES.
A PennsyIVanIa Statute Not Favornbly Re
snrded by New York Judge.

A PennsyIVanIa Statute Not FavOrnbly Re.
snrded by n New York Judge.
NEW YORK, January 23.-Judge Ingra-
ham, OF the Supreme Court, passed upon one
phase Of suit brought by Andrew Lang
don & Co., coal dealers of Buffalo, against
the New York, Lake Erie and Western
Railroad Company to recover S2,613, 900
damages for unjust discrimination in freight
rates. The plaintiffs have been miners and
shippers of coal since 1885, and have shipped
on the defendants lines. They claim GER
tain concessions on the public rates of trans
portation were made to the Delaware and
Hudson Canal Company anil the hillside
Coal and Iron Company which were not ex-
tended to them. They also claim that the
Hillside Company is controlled by defend
ants and is device to cover up its unlaw-
ful ownership and operation of coal lands in
Pennsylvania.
Owing to this state of affairs, Langdon &
Co. assert the7 have lost S506, 189 40, and as
under the laws of Pennsylvania they are
entitled to treble that amount, with costs,
they nov want the amount named. On a
demurrer to the complaint being presented
which set forth that the court had no juris-
diction, Judge Ingraham to-day sustained
the demurrer, but gave the plaintiffs leave
to amend the complaint. The Judge holds
that the Pennsylvania statute is penal one
and not enforceable in this State.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-01-24
SLOW RELIEF FOR BRAKEMEN.
Injured PitisburE and Western Employees Get
No Assistance From Doctors.

Injured PirsburE and Western Employees Get
No Assistance From Doctors.
james Shick, brakeman on the Pitts
burg and Western, had the fingers of his
right hand smashed while coupling cars in
the Allegheny yards last evening about 8
o'clock. He visited half score of doctors
offices, but those whom be found refused to
render him any assistance, stating as a
reason that the Pittsburg and Western re-
fused to pay for surgical services rendered
to its employees. Two hours after he, was in
jured he was piloted to the Allegheny Gen.
eral Hospital, where his injuries were at
tended to by the resident physician. The
physicians are all aware of the railroads
position in this respect and the first ques-
ton they ask mangled railroad emplOye
is: Are you Pittsburg and Western
man?"
The employees of the road do not blame
the physicians so much as they do the rail-
road officials, who will not pay for medical
attendance unless the injured employe first
goes through lot of red tape to get an
order, and in many cases the injured man
would have an excellent opportunity to
bleed to death before the order could be pro-
cured. In this case the brakeman walked
about the street for two hours with mangled
hand before he could find good samaritan
who would dress the inj ured member.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-01-24
RIOTOUS RAILROADERS.
They Have No Urgent Need of Shoes I'm Jail,
Even In Cold Weather.

They HaveNO Urgent Need of Shoes in Jail,
Even In Cold Weather.
j. Mclaughlin, John Brown and Charles
Snyder spent last night in Jail. They are
said to be employees of the Pittsburg and
Lake Erie Railway Company. The charge
against them, as told at Charters station, is
that they went into the shoestore OF man
named Steetle. near the railway station,
and proceeded to help themselves
to his stock. According to the
story told they evidently had a
heavy load on board, for when Steetle OBJ
jected to the summary removal of his goods
without pay. the intruders turned on him
and gave him severe beating, erecting a
cornice over his eye and knocking him
round the premises as though he were
shiny ball. Mrs. Steele, coming to her
husbands rescue, was also roughly handled.
At length the racket attracted general at
tention, and constable came on the scene,
but the blood of the trio was up, and they
attempted to do him up as they had done
Mr.. and Mrs. Steetle. The constable sum-
moned posse comitatus, one of which was
Colonel AL Young, who is considerable of a
knocker himself when reused, though OF q
peace-loving disposition. The rioters were
oVerpowered and taken before Squire
Schultz, who committed them until the mat
ter can be investigated.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-01-24

buildings in case of fires, sightliness of pub
lie thoroughfares, and minimization of dan
ger from contact with wires, are powerful
arguments in favor of the subway system. It
is beyond all question success as a system.
No Intelligent man denies its perfect FEAST
bility. Nearly every city which has COM
plicated system of overhead wires is dis
cussing the problem with as much interest as
is manifested in Pittsburg. The improve
ment has got to come.
"In regard to clearing the streets of wires,
do the insurance companies exhibit much
interest in the underground system, Mr..
Jackson?"
"The insurance interests ore singularly
. apathetic in regard to making it possible for
fire departments to work unhampered by
overhead wires. I'll give you little Incl
dent to illustrate my point. A patentee Of
fire retardent, paint which when applied
to wood seems to render it impossible for
fire to burn any further than the actual
point of contact, came to me in New York
recently and complained that insurance
companies discouraged his invention, fear
ing the people would cease to insure. If the
insurance interests would come to the front
as advocates of underground wire systems it
would give the movement great impetus"
MR.. GRAHAM ISN'T SCARED.
In speaking of the electric wire incident
of last evening, Mr.. W. H. Graham, Secre-
tary of the Pleasant Valley line, said: ''Of
course there was danger in that wire for any
one foolish enough to touch it. So there is
danger for anyone who stands in front Of
railway train. But what cannot under
stand Is that so much excitement can be
created about matter which common sense
should teach one to believe quite ordinary.
So far in the entire electric history Of Alle-
gheny county but one fatality has been
caused bv that agency. So far as danger to
the public is concerned there are 179 electric
railways in America, several of them in use
for number of years, but there has never
been a death directly chargeable to cleo
tricity as a motor. Our cars are safer than
any other system, for the reversal of the cur
rent will stop them while gripman on q
cable car is throwing off the grip. All i'm
provements bring danger in their train. The
public clamors for rapid transit and the
same prejudices we shall overcome are those
which assailed our forefsthers when steam
cars were inaugurated."
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-01-24
COMMITTEE MEETS TO-DAY.

State Board Of Health viii be Asked TO
Abate the schindery.
The Councilmanic committee, to which
was referred the Beck's run schindery mat
ter, will meet this afternoon. Although the
Southsiders have complained somewhat
about the slow progress made by the COM
mittee, the latter have not been idle. Con-
siderable data has been collected as to the
evil effects the schindery has on the health
of the Southside, and the law bearing on the
matter.
1t is pretty well understood that the schin-
dery jeopardizes the health Of the commun-
ity, and the citizens have become so exer-
cised over the matter that they will not let
it rest until the so.called nuisance is abated.
The committee will recommend a resolution
to Councils demanding that the State Board
of Health abolish the schindery, it being out
of the city's jurisdiction.