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The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1891-07-09
rHE rRnE MONUMENT BUILDER.

The Times Democrat laments that
the Southern people are not contrlou'
ting to the jefferson Davis monument
fund. The I'D. thinks that failure
to contribute to this fund argues lack
of appreciation of the great chieftaln'
Such is not the case. The fact is that
the age of monument building is a
thing of the past. Costly monuments
are no longer needed to commemorate
the deeds of the good and great. The
printed page has taken the place OF
cenotaph and monumental pile. In
olden times, at the dawn OF civilization
it was necessary to raise vast piles OF
stone to mark the fact that great
man had lived and died. Thousands
of men sometimes toiled for long weary
years, heaping stone upon stone that
the name of one man might live IN
the mouths of succeeding generations,
But the art of printing substituted
living, speaking history for cold dead
granite and marble. The greatest
pile that human hands can erect must
crumble and perish from the earth
While it does defy the tooth of time it
stands solitary, speaking only in
ambiguous phrase to the
occasional pilgrim, perpetuating
little more than meaningless name.
The historic page is co-eternal with
time, monument that brings home
to the hearts of men the deeds, the
character, the very life and soul of the
heroic dead; a speaking witness to all
nations; a cenotaph wherever intelli-
gence exists, wherever human speech
has kissed the magic type and become
immortal. Jefferson Davis already has
his monument, grander than that erect
ed by Caria's disconsolate queen, more
lasting even than Cheops grim pile,
which perpe.uates nothing but dis
puted name OF an uncertain age. 1t is
we'll for grateful people to inter their
honoreI dead with respectful ceremony
and mark the spot as sacred ground,
but in this age we must look to the
printed tome, not to the marble tomb,
to perpetuate their memory. If they
were worthy they will not be forgot
ten even though buried in nameless
graves or swallowed up by the sea; if
not we may heap up stone and marble
until it kisses the very clouds, only to
remind posterity of our folly.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1891-07-09
THE FIRST BALE.
1T COMES FROM DUvAL COUNTY THIS

1T COMES FROM DUVAL COUNTY THIS
YEAR.
Houston, Tex, July 6.-The first
bale of cotton of the crop of 1891 was
received today by the Houston Cotton
exchange from Duval county, and will
be sold at auction tomorrow. Its
weight is 554 poudds. The first bale
the last season came from this county
on July 23rd.
HISTORY OF THE BALE.
CORPUS CRIsTI, Tex, July 6.-Yes-
terday Col. N. Gussett, of this county,
of San Diego, which read: "We are GO
ing to going to gin the bale this even
ing. which will be shipped tomorrow,
in the name OF Duval county" The
bale arrived here by express over the
tonight, accompanied by w. L. John
son, editor of the San Diego Sun, and
Il. IL. Wright, ex sheriff OF Duval
county. A large number of DuvaI
county gentlemen gathered at the
depot. Among them were 6. Tibling,
|. W. Straw, g. Hotfen, A. J. Ridder,
~ ~ ete1t us. O1dppell, n. d. ring
and d. McNeal Turner. Falverlias'
Italian string band had be en- hired
and when the train pulled in the band
played a lively tune and d. McNeal
Turner made short speech. AS the
bale was loaded into the express
wagon the San Diego delegation
got in hacks, and headed by band
of music, the bale was started
for the Arkansas Pass depot. This bale
weighs 554 pounds and was ginned at
n. Gussett's gin and picked from
field within few miles of San Diego.
1t was ready for shipment three days
earlier than the first bale last year
and is consigned to the Houston ex-
change. 1t will prove a big adver-
tisement for Duval as cotton raising
cOunty
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1891-07-09
LET'S HAVE UNITY OF ACTION.

II Austin ever becomes the CONNER
cial and industrial city it ought to be,
its citizens must make it 80. That it
has wonderful natural advantages
from both, a commercial and indus
trial standpoint, every thinking man
in the community will admit. This
thinking man will also admit that
these advantages will avail Austin
nothing unless they are utilized. The
thing to do then, is to utilize them,
but this will never be done until
there is unity and harmony among
the citizens OF Austin who are most
vitality interested in its growth and
progress.
There are too many chickering's and
petty jealousies existing in Austin and
too many petty spites to'be gratifed
and it absolutely prec'udes the posi-
bility of that harmony and unity of
purpose essential to success in push
ing this city to the front.
Now is the time to stop this sort of
thing. Now is the time to get together
and begin to work for Austin in earnest.
There is work to do and plenty of it.
There are more railroads to be built
into Austin, more street railways to be
built, more bridges across the Colorado
river, and the great work of carrying
to completion the building Of the
dam. These are all for the good of
Austin, all permanent improvements,
which will rebound to our common
good and build up a common interest.
Personal feeling as to who should do
this, that or the other thing in carry
ing everything for the upbuilding of
the city to a successful termination
should be subordinated to a patriotic
feeling of city pride. Let the motto of
Austin be: Unity, Harmony, Strength,
Suc( ess, and you will soon see
hundreds of strangers on our streets
and a new life Which Austin has not
nitl erto enjoyed. Stop ''cussin' out"
Ieople whom you dislike personally
md see If you can't get them to pull
with you in making Austin great.
More flies are caught with molasses
Il an vinegar.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1891-07-09
TO SWEEP KANSAS.

THE ALLIANCE SANDING ITS HANDs
TO TAKE A FIRM GRIP ON THE
POLITICAL SITUATION.
TOPEKA, Kan, July 6.-The Alliance
lecturers who have been in session at
the National hotel since Wednesday
are preparing to go into the fall cam.
paign with the intention of taking,
possession of every county office for
which election is to be held this fall.
1t is their intention to prepare them
selves for the discussion of every prop
osition that is to come before the pub
lie. If their present scheme succeeds
and there is but little doubt it will
they will be prepared by the time the
campaign opens to put speaker
familiar with their platform and
every principle they support into
every school house in the state every
night in the week.
The district lecturers will at once
proceed to organize district bureaus
composed of the county lecturers on
the same plan as the state bureaus.
The county lecturers will in turn Or
ganlze county bureaus.
The dist let and county bureaus will
meet at least once in three months,
but the local sub-alliances meet every
week.
The primary object of the organiza-
tions, one wheel within another, is to
prepare every member of the alliance
to discuss every theory of their plat
form and push the work of scattering al
lance literature in every school dis
trict in Kansas. The secret work has
for long time been thoroughly Or
ganized but this is the first effort to
organize for education.
The part of the platform which will
be most thoroughly discussed VII be
the sub-treasury scheme. There is a
disagreement in the Alliance ranks on.
this question which must be settled be-
fore the campaign opens. The radical
Alliance men favor the sub-treasury
plank, but the conservatives do not
take any stock in it. The lecturers,
however, believe that when the organ
ization they have just formed gets to,
work the conservatives can be rapidly
converted, and that all will be we'll in
November.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1891-07-09
Changed Its Channel.

ATcHIsoN, Kas., July 6.-The Mis-
souri, river broke through Doniphar
point at the neck yesterday afternoon,
transferring the main channel about q
mile east of where it broke last week
Jacob Koch's house was left standing
on an island of about sixty acres. He
has transferred all his possessions to
the main land. The house of a man
nSmed King fell into the current YES
terday and was swept away. The
river is cutting the banks on both
sides of the new channel and the main
body of water flows through it.
The government steamer Alert
which passed here at 5 o'clock this
morning, is stranded near Doniphan
The river rose six inches last night,
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1891-07-09

nearly as M gch trouble as their :
in the census OF flee is due 70 : Inc 's force
funds with Will CHI to pay it, Mr. i1 Pa.+ OF
there is enough Of the appron S mat mat
left to run. the \bureau to tb the aad IN
the year, and n4ore than enonn nb OF
continue the work. until after the 40 20
sembling of congress. He anticin.tts as
no difficulty in obtaining an apnro %ves
alton at the next SESSION to enabIa b;r,
to complete his wofk. LII
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1891-07-09

THE STATESMAN trusts that the
little seance which the railway com
mission and freight men re'now hold
ing will prove mutually profitable.
The commission would like to do its
duty. 1t is not its fault that it does
not know drawhead from sand
box. 1t is anxious to learn. 1t longs
to master the long and short haul
problem and so regulate matters that
every railroad in the state may be
laid with silver rails on mahogany
ties, at the same time pulling freigh
at a rate that will make the farmers
heart sing for joy, and enable him to
subscribe for this home paper and
pay for it in advance. The freight
men will please be patient. They
cannot expect even a $4,000
commissioner to seize with
his mighty intellectual grasp at the
first shuttle things which make
railway magnates lay awake nights
and groan as they listen to the monot
onous ticking of their $4,000 salaries.
Even a receiver who taps the treasury
at the rate of $4,000 for eighteen days
hard intellectual toll sometimes finds
the esoteric science of railroading a
perpleXing and exhausting one. THE
STATESMAN hopes that the commits
sion and the railroad men will get to-
gether. 1t is anxious to see everybody
satisfied, the country saved and the
Arcadian dream of the "Hogg and a
first, last and all the time, ;
more than realized. 1t is also anxious
to see more railways built in Texas,
and that dozen or so of them should
come to Austin.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1891-07-09
GREAT BARRED WIRE TRUST
A COMBINATION THAT TAKES IN ALL
THE BARBED WIRE TRUSTS.

A COMBINATION THAT TAKES IN ALI
THE BARBED WIRE TRUSTS.
ST. Louis, Mo-, July Gan evening
paper is authority for the statement
that the entire barbed wire interests
Of the country have been merged into
trust to be known as the Columbia
Patent Wire company. John w.
Yates of this city is to be chairman of
the executive committee, and will
have charge Of the output of all wire
mills. The arrangement is that each
mill is to turn out the same amount of
barbed wire manufactured last year,
and all wire is to be sold through the
executive committee. The head
quarters of the Columbia Patent com
pany are given as Newport, KY, but
in reality the concerns general offices
are at Chicago. Gates has left this
city for Chicago, where he will conduct
the affairs of the company.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1891-07-09
HARRISON IN A QUANDARY.
SOME WAY TO APPEAsE COL
oRED VOTERS.

WASHINGTON, d. G., July 6.-The
president Is said to be considerably
disturbed over the pressure being
brought to bear by leading colored
men on behalf Of ex-Congressman John
M. Langston's appointment as one of
the new circuit judges, and although
he distinctly told the colored delega-
ton which waited upon him yesterday
that he would make fitness and not
color the test OF appointments to the
circuit bench the fact that the large
colored vote in Ohio is likely to be.
disaffected in the event that Langs-
tons claims are disregarded is making
trouble.
The fact will doubtless be r, called
that John H. Smythe of North Caro-
lima, late minister to Liberia, wrote
the president a scathing letter some
two months ago, complaining that his.
race had been ignored, especially in
selecting commissioners for the worlds
Columbian exposition, and intimating
pretty broadly that the colored people
would resent this ostracism.
In the present condition of Republic
can politics the colored element is a
prominent factor and while Langston
may not secure circuit judgeship, he
is likely to receive some important
position.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1891-07-09
THE srATEsMAN's PRIMARY SCHOOL

The Hon. NJ. H. Gossett is a very
young man. He is not to blame for
not knowing that state legislature
cannot abrogate treaties made bv
the Federal government; but how
comes it that such legal luminaries as
Terrell, Brown ct al, did not point
out the pitfalls in the alien land law
to the enterprising youth?-Austin
STATESMAN.
Will the STATESMAN please inform
an expectant and throbbing public
just what figure Federal treaties cut
In this matter? The Post had an idea
that the rights of citizenship, of
suffrage and freeholding are matters
to be regulated by the states, which
are prohibited of course from passing
retroactive laws. But what treaty.
with the United States guarantees the
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1891-07-09
SOUTHERN CADETS IN A RIOT
A GEORGIA COMPANY RESENT A
NEGRo's INSULT.

GEORGIA COMPANY RESENT A
Negroes INSULT.
INDIANAPOLIS, July 6.-Among the
contestants for military honors here
during the past week were the Macon,
Georgia, cadets. This morning as sew
eral members OF that company were
walking along Illinois street, one
of their number said, in joking
way, as they passed some boot blacks:
Don't you know we are going to kill
a lot of YOU" Then they saw a col
ored mon named Tom Brown getting
a shine" when another remarked:
1--WE are going to kill lot of you
whereupon Brown jumped up and
struck one of them in the face and
started to run. %
The cadets followed him with drawn
knives, and one Of them slashed him
In the back of the neck. Brown then
ran into colored saloon on Kentucky
avenue, when gang of colored toughs
started out to make it "free-for- all, y
using chairs, billiard cues and rocks as
weapons. In this melee Cadets Ed
wards and Williams were severely in
Jured, and Brown and Lynch (colored)
were badly used. The cadets threaten
vengeance before leaving the town.
The cadets are being detained pending
an investigation. All the negroes
have been arrested. The affair has
caused great deal of excitement, but
1t is gen orally believed there will be
40 further trouble.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1891-07-09
right to aliens to own land in any
state of this union7-Houston Post.


THE STATESMAN hastens to comply
with the above request to open a
primary school for the instruction of
its esteemed contemporary. 1t will
never do for a great Texas daily to
remain utterly ignorant regard
ing matters of such Importance
to the state and nation; matters with
which even school boys who have not
outgrown their short-stop trousers
and relish of mumblepeg are usually
conversant. THE STATESMAN can not
understand why its esteemed contem-
porary disposed Of its female academy
scholarship instead of retaining it for
the especial benefit Of its editorial
force. True, but little knowledge be-
yond the art of writing billetdoux in
bad French and Furnishing chewing
gum in an intellectual and recherche
manner is to be obtained at female
academy; tut even there the Post
might have learned to saw wood and
say nothing when questions beyond
its very limited comprehension are
under discussion. The STATESMAN
will do the best it can to lead its con-
temporary, if not to the sun-klssed
heights OF knowledge, at least
out OF the dark valley of ut
ter nescience in which it con-
fesses itself to be blindly cropping.
The right of aliens to acquire and
hold real property in the United
States is regulated by the Federal
government by virtue of its treaty
making power. That power has been
exercised from the very genesis of this
government; has never been called in
question by any political party, was
recognized by the most rabid of the
ante.bellum states rights Democrats
The Federal government has conclud
ed many treaties with foreign nations
by which the subjects of those govern
ments are permitted to hold, grant,
sell or devise lands in the United
States in like manner as if they were
native born. 1t has been decided by
the supreme court of the United
States that ''every treaty made by
authority of the United States
s superior to the laws aud constitu-
ton of any individual state. If the
law of a state is contrary to treaty
it is void" Does the dear Post now
understand lust what figure Federal
treaties cut in this matter2"
So 1.-The Post had an idea that
rights of citizenship, of suffrage and
freeholding are matters to be regulated
by the states" did it2 1t is painfully
evident that.hTHE STATESMAN will
have tostake its pupil back to the A.
b. @. class of government and assign
as it's first lesson the Federal constitu-
ton. BY, carefully digesting that
much amended instrument the Post
will learn that citizenship, suffrage
and freeholding' are not alto
gether within the control Of the
states; also that a state law which i'm
pairs the obligation of contracts is
about as binding as diet of Sam
Jones' theology and castor oil. THE
STATESMAN admires the evident deter
mination of it's contemporary to inform
itself, and will icheerfully assist it
in every way possible, striving at all
times to adapt its intellectual pabu-
lum to the. capabilities of its patient
pupil.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1891-07-09

Of homeseekers in Cherokee Strip have
been completed and will be held Sat
urday. Hon. s. B. F. Glover, Jerry
Simpson, Senator PETER, Charles
Mansur, P. P. Elder, w. M. Springer
and Chief Mayes will address the con-
vention.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1891-07-09

SINCE Uncle Jerry Rusk took charge
Of the weather he has proved him
self the farmers friend. Uncle Jerry
knows that hot weather is what the
fields need and he turns on the caloric
full blast regardless of the feelings of
Houstonians and Dallasites.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1891-07-09

1T remains to be determined whether
Bardsley or Secretary Foster is entitled
to the credit of originating the
style of mathematics which makes a
large section of nothing when careful
ly locked up in vault appear like a
veritable mountain of gold coin.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1891-07-09
Distress After Eatinp

When at this season of the year you
eat some fruit or vegetables, you feel a
disturbed condition about the stomach
or 1wels, relieve it at once by using
DR.. Biggers' Huckleberry Cordial. q
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1891-07-09
DISCRIMINATING Chinch BAGS.

GAINESVILLE, Tex, July 6.-Dur-
ing the past week the chinch bugs
have been playing havoc with the
growing corn, and upon Mr.. Ben Gar
vey of this city, learning that the
chinch bugs in Kansas had been al
most swept out of existence in locali-
ties there recently on account of some
disease among them, he sent to Kar-
sas for a lot of these diseased insects,
which arrived here vest erday. Upon
their arrival here Mr.. Garvey went to
field and gathered quantity of the
Texas bugs and placed them in box
with the Kansas bugs, where they re-
manned several hours, when they were
all taken to the field whence they
came and scattered among the bugs
there, which were as innumerable as
the sands of the sea. The result of
the experiment was most phenomenal,
as today the ground for many rods
around where the diseased bugs were
scattered is black with myriads of dead
bugs; in fact, the pests have been an
initiated wherever the diseased insects
have been scattered, and Mr. Garvey
feels confident that he can destroy all
the chinch bugs in the country in a
short time by this inoculating process.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1891-07-09
Cherokee Homeseekers

ARKANSAS CRY, Kas., July Gar
rangeiuents for gigantic convention
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1891-07-09

liberated sore leg, with running sore of
several years standing, which the doctors
thought incurable, and amputation was re-
garded as the only relief, the patient
scarcely able to walk before, now runs, APP
parently well. The cure was made by r.
Z. F., and is known throughout Savannah
as one of the great cures that P. P. p, the
wonderful blood medicine, has made. For
sale by J. j. Tobin.
The best spring medicine 10 the world is
P. P. P. If you would be well and in good
spirits use P. P. P. If weak and debilitated
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medicine to cure and tone up the general
ailments Of the system take Z. r.. Z.
(Prickly Ash, Poke Root and Potasslum.)
For sale by ]. ]. Tobin.
Headache is readily cured by P. P. P.
which tones and regulates the digestion and
creates an appetite. For sale by j. j..
Tobin.
Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-01-16
WILL INVESTIGATE.
The Task of IL Member of the America
Arbitration and Peace Society.

The Task of Member of the American
Arbitration and Peace Society.
OMAHA, Jan. 16.-The following was
received from Pine Ridge Thursday
morning:
Rev. j. F. Hansen, of Mount Vernon
S. Oak, of the American Arbitration
and Peace society, the object of which is
the attainment of universal peace, called
on Gen. Miles Wednesday and will in
vestigate the trouble.
Should the hostiles came near the
agency to-day it will necessitate the
moving in this direction of Gen. Brooke's
command, detailed elsewhere.
A detachment of the Sixth cavalry ar
rived last night, and is stationed near
the cattle corral.
Col. Corbin said after the council with
the chiefs was ended at a late hour last
evening that he believed that the bucks
would give up their arms early this
morning. They agree, he says, to stack
their rifles near the agency.
Private Elliott of Troop K, Seventh
cavalry, died Tuesday night, Three In
dian children died in the Episcopal
church hospital here yesterday. They
were wounded in the Wounded Knee
fight.
The train which arrived here yester-
day from Gen. Brooke's camp for sup
plies passed the hostile camp without
molestation. Short Bull, one of the
leading hostiles, was missed from both
detachments of chiefs to-day, His alb
sence was explained by those who came
on the ground that so many wild young
men desired to accompany him to the
agency he deemed it dictate of policy
to remain at home.