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The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1892-06-30
Iowa State Convention.

Dies MONIES, Ia, June 27.-Dele-
gates are beginning to gather here for
the state convention, which meets
Wednesday to nominate state ticket
Secretary of State Mcfarland, State
Treasurer Beeson and Attorney Cen
eral Stone will be renominated. For
railroad commissioners the candidates
are the present incumbents, Spencer
Smith of Council Bluffs, State Senator
Perkins of Fremont county, Repre-
sentative Morrow of Union county.
Opposition to Smith comes largely
from the fact that he has held the OIL
flee three terms already. For auditor
the leading candidates are q. u. NC
Carthy of Story county, w. G: Van
glider of Monroe county, w. n. Brown
of Keokuk county and w. F. Johnson
of Taylor county, Mccarthy is in the
lead. There is no interest in the con-
vention in regard to the platform.
The prohibition question will not en-
ter into this years. campaign, and IL
is likely that no reference will be
made to it.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1892-06-30
TRAVIS COUNTY IN THE LEGIS-
LATURE.


Can you think of county in Texas
that should be more careful about its
representatives in the legislature Is
there county upon whose represent
tatives as much important bushes de-
ponds? For moment pause in your
round of every day work and con-
slider the matter. In the first place
this is the capital city county OF the
state-has not the state the right to
expect that, holding the place we do,
we should put our very foremost men
in the legislature, not only as an ex-
preston of our appreciation OF the
honor conferred upon usand the grave
responsibilities entrusted to our care
and keeping, but as setting stand
ard of excellence it would be well for
all the counties of the state to follow?
Next take selfish view of it. Be
cause of the conditions that surround
us as the capital city, with the many
state institutions located here, which
constantly need appropriations, Aus
tin has grown into unjust notoriety as
a begging city. The distinction is
not made that these state institutions
would have to be supported by the
state whether located at Austin, or
Dallas, or Galveston or any other
point, but the whole thing is Jumped
and charged up against Austin. 10
counterfeit this in the Legislature re-
quires great skill and tact. For such
work we must have men of business,
experience, age and special ability.
Have we made it our care always to
secure such? Who can tell what oc-
casion we may have for such during
the next session of the Legislature?
The court constitutional amendments
have not all been carefully and finally
adjusted to present conditions. Travis
may want some nice work done along
that line. The capitol grounds are
still disgrace to the state, and while
this may be classed as it justly is, a
state work, yet in such matters unless
there is local man especially charged
with the duty of pushing the cause,
such matters are liable to drag and
fail of completion. Again, Austin is
the seat 'of the state land office and
from Austin could well emenate the
theories of our land lava
most important matter just now.
In fine our position, our peculiar
responsibilities and our best future all
demand that Travis county should
have in the legislature representation
unsurpassed for ability and influence
by any county in the state. Are we
giving this subject the consideration
its Importance demands? Are we not
violating duty to the state and to
ourselves when we fail to act in this
matter as we should?
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1892-06-30

great deal of interest here. Peale came
from Mississippi and for awhile lived
in Louisiana. Upon his arrival here
he engaged as drug clerk and later
at Jones. His employers speak in the
highest terms of him and stand ready
to 90 his bond if any is required. 1t is
said that Peale formerly lived with
Maud Kramer, and after a quarrel be-
tween them she went into house OF
ill-fame. All sorts of rumors are at1oat,
but the police will divulge nothing:
and say. "wait for the examination"
Additional interest in the case was
created today by an attempt of Mrs.
Joe Payne, a friend of Peale, to COM
NIT seicide by taking chloroform.
What connection, if any, this act has
with Peale's alleged crime is not
known.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1892-06-30

WHAT does a city, ward or county
precinct mean when ii passes instruc.
tions for candidate? Does it mean
the delegates shall cast one, two or
three or how many votes for that can
didate? Such instructions were pass
ed for cause, they are not the express
sion of an idle whim. They are the
deliberate judgment of the primaries
that issue them and should be so re.
spected Instructions tor candidate
mean first, last and all the time, and
it would seem, if delegates do not
wish to obey the instructions, they
should Withdraw from the delegation
and let tho primaries elect their sue
cessors. The candidate for whom in
structions have been given is the one
to excuse the delegate from further
support of his cause, and until he, in a
spirit of compromise shall act, THE
STATESMAN fails to see how delegates
can free themselves from the obliga-
tions imposed upon them by the pri'
maries that gave them their creden.
tials.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1892-06-30
BOYS ON THE FARM.

The Texas Farm and Ranch notes
with regret that the state Is educa'
ting more young men in ooth ID"
and medicine than in agriculture.
While this condition of things is al
WAYS to be regretted, it should not be
a matter OF wonder. The condition OF
agriculture for the past few years has
not been an attractive one, and 1t Is
little wonder that the young men
give up the farm for the office. and
choose some profession instead OF try
ing to learn more about the science OF
farming. They see on every side
men who have grown old on the farm,
and have given up their whole lives
to hard work; and yet their crops are
mortgaged before they are planted,
and they are paying heavy interest
on the very food they eat and
the clothes they wear True, the
condition of things might be
changed, but the young men do not
feel called upon to undergo years oi
privation and self-sacrifice in chang
ing them. If the farmers ever expect
to "keep the boys on the farm" and
make them study agriculture as pro-
fession, they must first unite in bring
ing farming to point where 1t is
pleasant and profitable instead OF
system of slavery. There is no other
life which should have as many
charms for the young, if ii were prop
erly managed; but there is no other
life which has such tendency to run
into one barren, unattractlVe
groove, without pleasure in the
present or hope in the future. Abandon
the all.cotton system; give the boys a
chance to do something else beside
shaving in the cotton field thirteen
months in the year for their "board
and clothes" and owing for them; and
The STATESMAN thinks the number
of boys at the agricultural colleges
and in the fields will be vastly in
creased
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1892-06-30
BREAK FOR LIBERTY,
Ten Convicts at Rusk Make a Break and
One is Killed

Special to The Statesman.
RusK, Tex, June 27.-At 1880 to-
day ten convicts made a break for
liberty on the ore bed two miles out
from the prison proper. Three or
four of them are desperate fellows and
evidently intended mischief. George
Blankenship was killed outright; w.
Freeman, an ex-guard, but now con-
Wet. was shot through; Al Waters
seriously wounded, and a negro acct
dentally shot, and Frank Smith badly
shot. Two of the other five were re,
captured this afternoon; three are still
at large, holly pursued.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1892-06-30

ONE of the Dallas murderers is APP
plying for change of venue on the
ground of prejudice. He is repre-
sented by only eight leading lawyers.
This array of talent means many
technicalities and delays and in all
probability he will be acquitted, and
the people may yet reproach them
selves that they didn't lynch him at
first.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1892-06-30

Two of the colored brethren who
were delegates to the Republican con-
vent,on are now "doing time' in an
Indiana prison. They tried to "beat"
their way home, the conductor tried
to nut them off the train, they resisted
savagely, and were afterwards con-
victed of murderous assault. And 1t
is sometimes such people as these who
90 as delegates to conventions and Sc
lect man to serve a great country
as president.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1892-06-30

The Bastrop Advertiser says: son
Sunday night the glass roofing on
the state capitol over the hall of rep
resentatives fell inn The Advertiser
is herewith informed that one pane OF
the glass roofing, about four feet
square, fell in. That was all. The
whole roof didn't fall. 1t is pretty
big roof, too.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1892-06-30
THE TEACHERS HOME.

Austin is making preparations to be
the school-teachers' summer resort,
and will be ready to make start in
that direction by next summer. Then,
the schools having all been disband-
ed, the tired teacher can pack his or
her trunk, get ticket for Austin
excursion rates-and come speeding
to the lovely lake city of Texas. A
perpetual normal will be here waiting
for them, with lectures from great
men every day. The leisure hours
will be spent in boatriding or fishing,
or strolling over the picturesque hills
that surround the lake and that form
the city's violet crown. Nothing
more delightful could be imagined
than the recreation this will be to the
teachers, worn out with their years.
work in the school room; and they are
all informed herewith that Austin in,
tends to provide for their reception be-
fore next summer, and to become the
permanent summer home of the
teachers.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1892-06-30

THE Galveston Tribune says: "THE
AUSTIN STATESMAN says that Harriet
Beecher Stowe has lived to see her
works become classics. Wonder if her
infamous and villainous SANDER of
Lord Byron has become classic?" The
Trib. knows, or should know, that
THE STATESMAN does not appf2ve
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1892-06-30
The Sweet Gum,

The emulation you see clinging to
the sweet gum tree in the summer
contains stimulating expectorant
that will loosen the phlegm in the
throat. Taylor's Cherokee Remedy
of Sweet Gum and Mullen cures
coughs and Group.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1892-06-30

WILLIAMSON county claims to have
wild woman who dresses in the
summer costume Of the South Sea
islanders, and goes Oh all tours anu
eats grass. The story lacks complete
confirmation, however.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1892-06-30

ANYTHING that Mrs. Stowe wrote, but
that does not alter the fact that she Is
an intelligent woman, whose most OBJ
iectionable book, Uncle TOMS Cabin,
has as many readers now as IL had
when it was new.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1892-06-30

The Republicans make a great pre-
tense of being overjoyed at Cleve-
lands nomination. Like the Irish
man who was so amused at the idea Of
tossing the bull over the fence, the
Republican party is having its laugh
G...A
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1892-06-30

6 Shiloh's Cough and Consumption
Cure is sold by US on guarantee, IL
Cures consumption. At Cornwen q
Chiles.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1892-06-30

Add 20 drops of Angostura Btters to every
glass of impure water you drink. The genuine
only manufactured by DR.. Siegert Il Sons. ASK
your druggist.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1892-06-30

''Do you know" said an anxious
father the other day, sit frightens me
to see how the children grow! There
is my oldest grill had been accus-
toned to look on her as little thing
in short dresses, with her hair braid
ed down her back, and to put her
aside and overlook her as one does
children sometimes. Well, the other
day she put on one OF her mothers
frocks and her hat and vail, and came
around and knocked at the door. 1
give you my word, didn't know her!
1 thought she was some young lady
friend of my wife's. When L found
her out she laughed, and 1 laughed
too but the tears come f fmy ewes.
Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1892-02-13
RUNAWAY MARRIAGES.
Trigg County Wanting to Replenish Her
Population.

Cyrus Thompson, writing to the
Cadlz Telephone from Creedmore,
Texas, among other things, says:
"In the matter of matrimony l
am astonished at the large number
of runa way matches. In all the
years of my residence in Trigg / re-
member but a single couple that ran
away tc get married, and the lady
vas niece of mine. 1t seems to
have become fashionable now. 1t
used to be said that the Lord never
blessed, and happiness did not follow
runaway matches ; indeed, that the
parties generally came to grief. |
never did and never will advise any
young lady. not of age, to run away
and get married, and 1 consider that
she who does it is taking great risks.
She is both bold and. inconsiderate.
The rush and haste to get married
may be ascribed to patriotism and
State and county pride, particularly
by the young men of Trigg county
who, seeing the falling off in popu-
lati0n in the. county between 1880
and 1890, want to repopulate and re-
plenish, so that when the next CEN
sus is taken Trigg will have recover.
ed her population, if, indeed, she
shall not have.increased it,"
Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1892-02-13


The attempt will be made in Con
gress to repeal the sugar bounty
which amounts to over $10,00O,000 q
year. The injustice of taxing the
wheat, corn, tobacco and cotton pro.
Queer and paying to sugar planters q
bounty on their product is too plain
to be overlooked or defended. While
sugar planters may have to compete
to some extent with cheap foreign
labor, wheat growers have to do the
same. Congress should also repeal
the tax on refined sugar, which
serves only to protect the sugar
trust.
Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1892-02-13
HE TOLD 1T STRAIGHT.
Tom Simmons Was Duly Released By
the Warden and Not BY Miners:

The Nashville Banner of yesterday
has the following, which explains
t case of Tom Simmons, the negro
convict arrested by Constable Sam
Dabney few days ago:
"Adjt Gen. Norman said to-day
that Thomas Simmons, the man who
was arrested in GAINESVILLE a few
days ago, was released from the pen
itentiary by an error in the record
sent to the mine during the admins.
tration of Warden Pearcy. Sim
mons was sentenced TO the peniten-
tiary for five years and the record at
the main prison so shows. When
Deputy Warden Grass made out the
transcript and sent Simmons to the
mines he made his sentence two
years, and at the expiration of that
time the warden at the mines re.
leased him.
"Gen. Norman has notified the au-
thorities to hold Simmons and he
will be returned to prison to serve
out the other three years"
Then Simmons told the truth in
regard to his release. We are not
certain as to the law, but ii occurs
that the negro is legally entitled to
his liberty, just as If he had been
pardoned. He is not responsible for
the mistake.
Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1892-02-13

Hopkinsville Building Brick Walks Over
Christian County.

A gentleman visiting Hopkinsville
was struck with the enterprise of the
city authorities in building side
walks. He says they are building
fine pressed brick walks with stone
curbing alongside of the farms for a
mile out of town. They are the
tramps' delight, and they are to be
extended. The gentleman says he
walked out three quarters of mile
along side of cornfield on one of
these fine pavements, just to see
what Hopkinsville was doing and
wished that our city board could see.
and then we might get good pave
ments to the depot, IL to no other
point.
Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1892-02-13

Now Mr.. Harrison has gone in fol
a snap judgment. Anticipating any
action of Congress, he has ordered
an investigation of Mr.. Porter's Cen.
sus Bureau and Mr.. Porter affects to
be very indignant. Everybody has
lively suspicion that there is some.
thing dead in Mr.. Porter's establish.
ment, and If dragged out and ex-
posed it will be something to Mr..
Harrison's credit. Ifnot found, then
the public will conclude that the un-
dertaking was very fine job of
white washing all for show, and Con-
gress will have to act anyhow.
Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1892-02-13
Happy t1oosiers.

VIM. Timmons, Postmaster of Ida
vile, Ind, writes: Electric Bitters
have done more for me than all other
medicines combined, for that bad
feeling arising from kidney and liver
trouble. John Leslie, farmer and
stockman, of same place, says ;
"Find Electric Bitters to be the best
kidney and liver medicine, made me
feel like new man, J. W. Gard
ner, hardware merchant, same town,
says: Electric Bitters is just the
thing for man who is all run down
and don't care whe ther he liver or
dies he found new strength, good APP
petite and felt just like he had new
lease on life. Only SOC. a bottle at
Owen d Moore's drug store. 2
Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1892-02-13
A PENSION FRAUD.
How a Father Sent in Claim for Nurs.
ing His Son.


Not great way from GAINESVILLE
and in the heart of a good country,
there is pension case that, strange
to say, has never found its way into
print. An old man moved into the
county from Northern State with
his family. No one knew them, but
by good behavior they worked them
selves in the good graces of the peo-
pie with whom they had pitched
their lots. 1t became the current
talk about year ago that the old
man had put in a claim for pension
and that he would get it. The peo-
pie were glad he he had succeeded in
this, for it proved successful effort,
as draft came TO him one day for
IS, 900. The gentleman succeeded in
placing about half the money at in
terest in the locality and moved back
to his Northern State. Before great
while Federal officers came into the
neighborhood hunting for the
man who had rec, lived the pension,
and notifying those who had b0r-
rowed the money that they WOULD
have to give it up as the pension had
been obtained through fraud. They
produced evidence showing that q
fraud had indeed been committed,
and to stave of law suit those who
had borrowed the money paid it
over to the officers.
The story got out from this and it
is vouched for: The old man had a
son wounded in the Federal army
and he died in Federal hospital
rough the connivance of scheming
pension agents the father brought in
a bill against tho government for
taking care of that boy. Through
some hook or crook the money was
paid to him for this service, when he
should not have received a cent.
There are several other points con-
nected with the case that would
prove interesting, but the point can
be made without reciting them.
How easy it is under this Republican
al ministration for the "faithful" to
draw a pension. Then should fraud
he detected by an honest official the
schemiug agent goes unmolested,
while the man he used for tool suf-
fers. Just let it be noised abroad
that a pension agent has struck town
and the crowd of negroes, and some
whites, that will gather around him
make newspaper man think he has
struck a fat item. The pension
agents get about as much money as
the man who applies for the pension
in the event they are not brought
suddenly to law. The pension steal
is the most colossal fraud that has
ever been practiced upon tax-bur-
dened people. The only hope is in
Democratic ascendency, and this is
the year to turn the rascals out.
Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1892-02-13
Tobacco Notes.

f. s. Beaumont has bought the
Josh Summers crop of tobacco, esti.
mated to be 10000 pounds, at six
cents round. This is perhaps the lar
gest crop in Christian county, or in
the GAINESVILLE tobacco district.
+. II. Morrow & Bro. have bought
the Holland crops, on Meadow, for
12l and 49, cents round.
Thos. Edwards has bought the Ed.
Brown crop, in the same neighbor-
hood, at II cents round.
Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1892-02-13
Read This.

Several analyses of corn and cob
meal at the Ohio Agricultural Col
lege show that cob meal is equal to
its own weight of poor hay or good
straw. Hence the feeding of cattle,
horses ETC., which require certain
amount of rough feed in order that
the more concentrated feeding stuffs
as grain or bran may be fully di-
gested the cob meal will replace in a
proper ratio its own weight of straw
or hay. Order 100 lbs. of ground
corn and cob of w. w. Covington !;
Soc. per 100 lbs. 1,2S,d2w
Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1892-02-13
Bi-metal and the Seventy Cent Dollar.

Dear Ingram A silver dollar Will
buy as much as a gold dollar or a
paper dollar, yet is intrinsically
worth little over seventy cents. How
will a greater silver coinage, or even
free, unlimited coinage, enhance the
value of silver money on a declining
market for the metal? lit Is worth
seventy cents and scarce, how much
less will it be worth when 1t is plen-
tiful, or if the market is glutted p
Chattanooga Ne,cS.
Well, draw the distinction be.
tween coinage value and commodity
value, or the measure OF values and
the measure of commodities. De.
prive gold of its coinage value and
reduce it to commodity at sixteen
to one. For short, we would refer
you to Mr.. Bland's free coinage bill
Just published. When you carry
your gold or your silver bullion to
the mint to get the government
stamp on 1t, or certificate as to its
value, making 1t money, leaving
with coin note, you will not know
whether you have silver dollar or a
gold dollar. Then you will see mil
lions of dollars, now boarded and
that are still in the bowels of the
earth, coming in to develop our
beautiful Southland, and factories
springing up al every cross roads.
There will be no distinction between
gold and silver, and Shaver will
have enough money to see Bern
hardt every time she comes.
Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1892-02-13

The Banner bewails the policy OF
forcing the free coinage issue because,
as it thinks, the measure will place
the Democratic party at a disadvan-
tage and fears there is not courage
enough in Congress to defeat it.
"There are too many members who
are concerned about their own re.
election" That is precisely what s
the matter. They know what they
were sent there for and it is useless to
kick. The same issues that elected a
Democratic Congress will elect a
Democratic president, and failure
to force the issue would be display
of cowardice that would put the
Democratic party at a serious disad-
vantage.
Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1892-02-13
A Big Improvement.

The Dover Courier comes to us this
week in a new dress of type, clear
legible and readable, and DR.. Steger's
excellent editorial and local work can
now be appreciated without the
trouble OF deciphering it in mass OF
bad print. The publisher and the
people of Stewart county are both to
be congratulated. BY the way,
there are few country papers in the
State whose editors are more faith
fully and intelligently building up
the interest of their county than the
editor of the Courier.
Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1892-02-13

Editor Carmack writes a very
graceful card in retiring from the
American. We should regret his go.
ing exceedingly If it were not that
we meet him again on the Memphis
Commercial. While we do not agree
with Mr.. Carmack in all things,
there is something about his writing
that sounds like fire alarm and
brings every reader to his feet, either
applauding, laughing or swearing.