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The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1891-07-16
THE NEW HARBOR OF TAMPICO
WHEN COMPLETED, THE FINEST
ON THE MEXICAN COAST.

SAN ANTONIO, Tex, July 13.-The
following has been received concern
ing the work of building ii deep water
harbor at Tampico, Mexico, through
which port the Diaz government hopes
to ship the larger part of her grain
and other products OF the Western and
Northwestern section of the Unite d
States. The north ietty is now $685.
long, the south jetty is 5,34O feet.
When 1000 feet the jetties will b in
"a feet of water, reached by October
next. The difference between the two
jetties is 1000 feet. The bar is of
sand and mud. The river when
in a flood has a force of 25O,-
600 cubic feet per second. This
enormus force Of water will quickly
deepen the bar to about twenty five
feet, when the jetty works are COM
plete. The work was commenced on
June /, 1890. Since that tire 400
feet of beach have been gained on the
land side of the jetties and from 1000
to l, 400 hands are now engaged in this
work.
About 700 cubic yards of stone are
dumped daily. An inexhaustible sup
ply of stone is had 81 miles from here
in the state of San Luis Potosi. The
creosoted pilings are brought here
from Pensacola and Pascagoula, Fla
The mattresses of brush are from 70 to
So feet at the bottom and about
thirty feet at the top. The average
current of the river is five miles per
hour. The Panuco river has a depth
of twenty-five feet distance of about
eighty miles to the town of Tamos. It
is calculated by engineers that vessels
Of the largest draught may enter in
the fall. When completed the Tampico
will be the only safe deep harbor on
the Mexican Atlantic coast. The
work has been heavily subsidized by
the Diaz government.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1891-07-16
New Railway Project.

SAN ANTONIO, Tex, July 13.-Uriah
Lott, president of the San Antonio and
Arkansas railway company, states to-
day that charter will be applied for
for new road to be called the San An.
tonic and Tampico railway, which will
give through route from this city to
Tampico, Mexico. The capital has
been raised. Surveyors have almost
completed their survey and work will
begin this fall and be pushed through
to completion. The line is to begin at
Alice, Nueces county, at the junction
of the San Antonio and Arkansas Pass
road and to run to Montery, Mexico, a
distance of two hundred and thirty
miles. Then it will tap the Mexican
Gulf road at the Rio Grande river,
on the west side. A branch of one
hundred and thirty-five miles will be
run to Brownsville.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1891-07-16

ew abuses, but in doing so
they may work incalculable harm
in other ways. The railway men
appear inclined to make the best of a
bad matter, to treat the commission
courteously, to yield implicit conf
dence to its legal rulings; but that
they are apprehensive of the future
may be seen in the stoppage of railway
building IN Texas. Since the on
of the commission amendment no fifty
miles of railroad has been laid in the
state. The Gazette in commenting on
the commission says:
The roads are themselves, as We all
know. wholly unable to reach COM
mon understanding and to adhere in
the conduct of their business to those
correct and rigid principles of equity
by which justice and fairness will re-
suit to themselves and the public.
What they cannot do for themselves,
the commission will do for them.
1t is to be hoped that the dream of
the Gazette will be more than realized;
that the railway men having signally
failed to properly manage their own
business the commission can do so for
them. But why not extend the COM
mission feature, if it be good thing,
to all lines of businessY Why not reg
ulate the prices for merchants and pre-
vent disastrous competition or
overcharges to customers? The
people are compelled to pat
ronize the merchants and are as much
entitled to protection from overcharges
as patrons of railways; the
are as much entitled to be
prot ected from disastrous competition
as are the common carriers. If the
commission is good thing, let it be
extended to all lines of business. If
we are going to cut loose from the old
Democratic principle of every man for
himself and the ID take the hind
most and 60 in for Republican pater-
nalism, let us not lag at the tail of the
baggage cart, but take our place at
the head of the procession, where the
world will gaze upon us and wonder.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1891-07-16
Escaped From Jail.

BoNHAM, Tex, Ju'y 19.-J. Gal
braith was sentenced to four years in
the penitentiary on a charge of bur
glary at the last term of our district
court. He appealed his case and was
held here pending action of the higher
court. Last night he pried open one
of the bars of the cage in which he
was confined and mad. good his es-
cape from the Jail. Officers are in
pursuit.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1891-07-16
SORE FROM WAIST DOWN

had three of the best physicians in Pa
ducah, and they did me no good used
your CUTIcURA REMEDIES, and they have
cured me sound and we'll. was sore from
my waist down with eczema. They have
cured me with no sign of return. l owe my
life TO CUTICTRA, for without a doubt, L
would have been in my grave had it not
been for your remedies, Allow me TO re-
turn my sincerest thanks.
w. H. QUALLs, Paducah, Ky.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1891-07-16
HOW MY SIDE ACHES !

in his tracks. He never moved or
made sign. 1t was a sudden stop
page without a struggle. His death
was attributed to heart failure.
Bonham and Mckinney doctors per
formed remarkable surgical opera
ton on w. K. Powell, at his residence
this morning removing 144 stones
from his gall bladder. Powell is an
ardent confederate and rallied from
the shock.
Israel Barren, an old man of so years,
is on trial in the district court for a
murder committed some months since.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1891-07-16
Found Dead.

DALLAS, Tex, July 13.-Saturday
evening gentleman registered at
Randall's cafe as H. G. Thompson, and
was assigned a room. After supper he
was ON the veranda of the cafe talking,
in good spirits. At 1880 this morning
the man was found dead in his bed
Investigation revealed the fact that
the deceased's name was H. c. Harm
ana not Thompson. The first known
here OF Harm was about two weeks ago,
when he applied to Dyer Bros. for a
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1891-07-16
THE RAILWAY COMMISSION,

The people of Texas declared at the
ballot box that they wanted a com.
mission to regulate and supervise the
railways. They got it. 1t is too soon
to predict the result. The commits
sion yet remains to be tried. 1t may
benefit both the people and the roads;
it may benefit neither. 1T may work
great good to the state and it may do
great injury. No one questions the
honesty, the good intentions of The
commissioners. They have shown a
disposition 10 be reasonable; they
have consulted with both railway men
and shippers, patiently listening to and
carefully considering the suggestions
of each. The commission will doubt
less make many blunders; how could
it be otherwise? Not one of them is a
practical railroad man or knows
any more about the business than
a farmer does of matchmaking
Putting men who know moth
ing of the science of railroading
to making tariff schedules were
like putting dry goods clerk in
charge of printing Office. The com
missioners will, of course, in two or
three years have acquired a great deal
of general knowledge of the railway
business and will then be able to act
intelligently; but they only hold office
for a term of two years and may
not succeed themselves. BY the time
they are competent to do good and
effective work the probabilities are
that they will be let out and thei
places filed by new invoice of goot
men and true who could not tell |
drawhead from brake-cnain. Mel
who have devoted half a lifetime t,
the railway business are still learning
are still often puzzled to know what t,
do, often make costly blunders. VIVA
then can we expect from politicians
whose eutire know ledge of the bust
ness has been acquired in the prima.
ries and from party platforms? Ger
.tainly not much. They may correct
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1891-07-16

situation as insurance agent. He told
these gentlemen that he was from
Kentucky, where he had brother in
the general insurance business. Dyer
Bros. employed Harm and sent him to
GAINESVILLE, where he did good bust
ness, but soon quit work. Harm had
been drinking some since his arrival in
the city, and it is supposed that the
heat combined with general poor
health caused his death. The deceased
has a sister residing at No. 80 st.
Joseph street, Indianapolis, Ind.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1891-07-16
CAMPBELL, THE SAN AN
TONIC NEGRO, DIES OF
HYDROPHOBIA.
TERRORs OF TIE DISEASE,
A Lad Dragged to Death on Horse-De
scription of the New HarbOr at
TampicO-TeXas News.

SAN ANTONIO, Tex July 13.-Albert
Campbell, the negro man, dog bitten
six months ago, and two days since
attacked by hydrophobia, died at
noon today in agony. He was just
concious enough to feel the racking OF
every nerve and vein and bone. The
pillow, denied from one end to
the other by the ceaseless imprint of
his head, was soaked with the spun @
that flowed from his lips, aud his
wrists were bleeding little where
they had strained against the ropes
after death. Two physicians were in
attendance and they say there is no
doubt of the character of the dis
ease.
Campbell who was a very powerful
young fellow was bitten by a savage
dog six months ago. The animal
showed no signs of madness. The
wound was just under the left eve.
was treated, healed perfectly and left
upon the negroes skin the usual dark
cicatrice. Just before the dissolur On
this scar became highly infamed Il, d
showed a bright red. Just beto,
dissolution the patient swallowed a.
little water, the first in As hours. He
had never since the time he was bit.
ten had any fear of hydrophobia. in
fact being ignorant, knew litrle of the
existence of such a disease. So that
his ailment cannot possibly be as
cribed to imagination, or any agent
save active canine virus.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1891-07-16
COL. CONNELLEE INTERVIEWED.

Hon. G. U. Connellee OF East!ana
Tex, has visited the capital. WINE
here a newspaper correspondent III
fit of mental alteration induced u!
scoop" on the announcement Vi
special session and failure to secure
the confidence of the states cher mag
istrate, decided foolishly enough, thal
Mr.. Connellee was worth interviewing
so he inserted the augur, wrote 1t up
shipped it in by freight and 1t was
dated up for the Sunday paper as tel
egraph. In the course of column or
two of desultory remarks, in which he
gave his truly invaluable opinion on
pretty much everything under the
sun. Mr.. Connellee is reported to have
said:
81 do not think the extra session
would disturb Senator Chiffon, tor
whether he be the choice of a majority
of the present legislature or not, he IS
fairly entitled to take the seat ana
hold it until another legislature Assem-
bles. 1t would not be right for TINS
legislature to assume that he is not the
choice OF the people and elect sue
cessor before he has even taken Tue
oath of office. The people elected
Governor Hogg by more than 175,O
majority, and he, as their chosen eX-
ecutive, commissioned Senator Chiffon
to serve them, not him, and this legis-
lature would dishonor itself, rs well as
his excellency, by superseding him
with another before giving that ia, 0OO
majority time and opportunity to de,
termine whether he is the man wanted
in the senate or not"
THE STATESMAN hopes for his sake
that the Hon. G. U. Connellee has
been unsupported. 1t would hate to
think that the state of Texas had ever
paid S. and mileage for legislative SER
vice to man troubled with such ideas
as those above quoted. Was not the
Legislature elected by the people as
well as Governor Hogg? Does not
that august body represent the wishes
of the Texas people as well as does the
GOVERNOR Is it the business of the
legislature to take it for granted that
the governor and the governor only
represents Texas sentiment? Why
would the legislature "dishonor itself"
by proceeding to do its sworn duty?
Why would it dishonor This excel
lency" by assuming that it as we'll as
he represent the people and refusing
to conceie to him dictatorial powers?
Where does Col. Connellee find war.
rant for bestowing the title of "his
excellency" upon any American
citizen2 If the governor is the superb
or of the legislative body why did not
Col. Connellee propose constitutional
to inhibit the passage
of measures over his veto? Does Col
Connellee regard Gov. Hogg simply as
the chief executive officer, amenable
to the legislative body, the constitu-
tion and the statutes, or as a car, SUI
perior to laws and legislatures? For
specimen of latter-day hero worship
and rank nonsense, not unmiXed with
r. craven taste for boot licking, Col.
interview takes not only
The entire bakeshop, but such stray
crumbs of cold pie as chance to be
lying around loose. Col. Connellee
should either fle denial, or make
sudden sneak for the shades of private
life and stay there.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1891-07-16
Charged With Embezzleh. ent.

GALVESTON. July 13.-On war
rant from the sheriff of Tarrant
county Arthur Davidson. alias Frank
Parker, was arrested this evening and
jailed. Davidson is a young Irishman
and is canvasser and was in the en-
ploy of o. E. Root of Fort Worth, and
while selling goods for Root he pawned
the stock entrusted to him and with
the proceeds skipped out and came to
Galveston. The charge against him is
embezzlemeut exceeding $50. The
sheriff of Tarrant county mas been
notified of the arrest.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1891-07-16
Big Crops in Texas .

ST. LOUIS, Mo-, July 14.-Dis-
patches from North Texas and Indian
Territory say that crop prospects, es-
pecially corn and cotton, were never
better. Corn is yielding forty and
fifty bushels per acre, wheat thirty
bushels to the acre.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1891-07-16
Mckinney Matters.

MCKINNEY, Tex, July 19.-James
Patterson, farmer residing in south
east Collin, walked into the City
hotel from the train, registered and
remarking he felt warm, dropped dead
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1891-07-16
FOR SALE.

$50 head of improved mares ard
horses at reasonable prices. 1890
acres fine farming land on the MeAi-
can National railroad, three miles
south of Alice, at the terminus of ne
San Antonio and Arkansas Pass ra =
road. Will be sold in tracts to suit
purchasers. Terms half cash, balance
on easy terms.
GEO. HOBBS,
Alice, Texas.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1891-07-16
FRANCE.
A BAD SHOT,

PARIS, July 13.-While President
Carnot was opening new avenue to,
day mailman rushed toward his car
riage and fired pistol at him. The
man was arrested. The president was
not hurt.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1891-07-16

The Hon. G. U. Connellee should
beware of the interview" 1t re-
quires great experience and pains
taking to so load one that it will not
recalcitrate and knock the sawdust
out OF the party at the subsequent
end of it.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1891-07-16

Caution: Buy only DR.. Isaac
Thompson's eye water. Carefully ex-
anime the outside wrapper. None.
other genuine.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1891-07-16
Cuticura Remedies.

If the thousands oflittle babies who have
been cured of agoriziog, itching, burning,
bleeding, scaly, and blotchy skin and scalp
diseases could write, what host of letters
would be received by the proprietors Of
the CUTIcURA REMEDIES. Few can appre
ciate the agony these little ones suffer, and
when these great remedies relieve in
single application the most distressing
eczemas and itching and burning skin dis
eases, and point to speedy and perma-
nent cure, it is positively inhuman not to
use them without moments DELAY.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1891-07-16
VILLAGE FARM COMMUNITIES.

!
world will gaze upon US and wonder.
VILLAGE FARM COMMUNITIES.
Mr.. John W. Bookwalter has un =
dertaken to sift a little social sun
shine into the farmers life. John w.
has observed that the American
farmer waits TO see where his neigh
Dor builds and then retires to the
farthest corner of his twenty-seven
hundred acre tract to put a single
roof over his lares and penates. The
result is that IN the typical farming
country the houses are about four
miles apart as the crow flies and about
nineteen miles around by the dirt
road which is impossible eleven
months in the year. The boy is a
gregarious animal, and the conse-
quence is that as soon as he is big
enough to wear tail coat he cuts
sticks for the city, leaving the old man
to commune with nature, the brindla
COW and tug at the mortgage.
Mr., Bookwalter has set himself the
task of overcoming the American
farmers disposition to seek soil
tude and induce him to snug
up as closely as may be to the
man on the next four sections,
so that after the diurnal wrestle
with the cut worm, the chinch bug and
the lightning rod agent the heads of
the respective families may get to-
gether and discuss the latest detection
from the Farmers Alliance faith, and
the young people may dance on the
green and wear off awkward corners in
cident to a secluded life. Mr.. Book
walter has been to Europe, and there
noticed that the farmers have acquired
the habit of building in groups, and
he hopes ito introduce the custom in
this country. He has 10000 acres OF
land in Nebraska and there he pro
poses to try the experiment of uniting
the social enjoyments of village life
with farm labor. He has already Sc
lected his first location and located
number of families there. The cardin-
al advantages of his plan may be sum-
married. as follows
/. The tediun of farm life in general
will be removed.
2. 1t will keep the farm boys at
home and make them contented with
their life.
3. 1t will tend to advance the farmer
in education, knowledge of worldly
affairs and put him in touch with the
world.
4, He can go to church several times
a week if he chooses without driving
ten miles to get there.
5. If domestic service is desired in
the household it will be much easier
matter to obtain and retain it.
To generalize, this scheme has the
virtues of country life without the
vices of the city.
Mr.. Brookwalter's experiment will
be watched with interest. There is
no reason why the average American
farmer should be recluse, seeing a
fellow mortal only when he goes to
town, or drives dozen miles to visit a
"neighbor." By grouping the resi-.
dences in small villages the farmer
would be brought into daily contact
with his fellows, a better understand
ing of the problems of the day could
be arrived at and the lonesomeness
which has ever been a distinguishing
characteristic of American farm life
would become thing of the past.
Not only would the young people be
better content, but they would grow
up better men and women, with
broader views, better understanding
OF the world and its ways, less liable
10 ecome the tools of the demagogue
or orcyo charlatan.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1891-07-16

Every tissue of the body, every
nerve, bone and muscle is made
stronger and more healthy by taking
Hoods Sarsaparilla.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1891-07-16

Sold everywhere. Price, CuT1cURA, Soc:
Soap 25c.; Resolvent, 81. Prepared by
the POTTER DRUG AND CHEMICAL CORPORA
TON Boston, Mass.
E&-Send for "How to Care Skin Dis
cases."
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1891-07-16
Liberty is a great boon. and as


Liberty is a great boon, and as the
ages go by, men who are without it
de ire it ali the more. But with the
great privileges Of freedom enjoyed
under the most advantageous circum-
stances, the happiness Of life is much
overshadowed il they are not accom-.
panied by freedom from disease.
Pain puts the stamp of misery on
all it touches here below. Age, inner.
tied weakness, and the wear and tear
of labor, and the burdens of life affect
all alike. Humanity would be sadly
off if there were not panaceas provided
so general in character as to relieve al.
most every form of pain.
The greatest Of known panaceas is
Manstield's Magic Arnica Liniment
which for outward application in
wounds and cuts, burns and scalds,
headache, toothache, neuralgia
rheumatism, sciatica, and all the long
list of complaints. accompanied by
pain, gives relief not only quicker than
any other preparation, but invariab "
by continued use accomplish-s a
permanent cure. It's reputation has
grown with years. and it can ALWAYS
be relied upon to do its work. Mans.
field Drug Company, Memphis Tenn.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1891-07-16

1t is said the goatherd threw and
struck the goat on the horn and broke
it. Becoming alarmed, he besought
the goat not tell his master. "Oh!
most foolish goatheId," replied the
goat, my broken horn will tell the
story, though | should not utter a
word" Facts speak louder than words,
which accounts for the unprecedented
popularity of English Female Bitters
for the quick and permanent cure Of
all troublesome female complaints aud
Irregularities. 1t relieves monthly
weakness or excuses. cures leuchor
rh9a. pain in the back and falling OF
The womb; eradicates swimming and
gddiness of the head, acts like charm
with girls just merging into woman,
hood and iusures safe journey
through 1.-The turn of life"
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1891-02-26

in a close group about the grave
and stood with heads uncovered
and reverestly bowed as Father
Sherman read in Latin ard En-
Eglish theimpressive prayers for The re-
pose of the soul of the dead. When the
service began the battalion of cavalry
stood at present arms facing the little
group about the grave In the midst of
the services a hoarse, low voice gave
the command: Garry arms = order
arms" in quick succession, and the
sharp click of the muslxet barrel and
the ring of the butt as il struck
the ground gave singularly impressive
accentuation to the solemn words of the
young priest. Father Sherman con-
cluded with the invocation: MAY his
soul and the souls of all the faithful de-
parted rest in peace. Amenl In the
name of the Father and of the Son and
of the Holy Ghost. Amenr
AS the last words were being uttered
the undertalxer's assistants seized the
straps, removed the supports from the
oaken case and quickly lowered it into
the open grave. Then two of them
spr,sng to the top of the pile of earth
which stood at the side of the
grave while the others attacked
it from the bottom, and with
long handled spades they quickly
filled in the earth above the coffin.
Then, in quick Succession, three vol
leys rang ors over the grave and eohoed
from the surrounding hills Three sal
vos from the artillery, which was sta
tiored outside the cemetery, followed,
ard the funeral ceremonies of the last
OF the great union captains was over.