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The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1892-08-11
MONETARY CONFERENCE.
RACE TROUBLES IN LOUISIANA.
The Murder of Judge Long Promises to
Bring on More Bloodshed.


NEW ORLEANS, Aug. 6.-The shoot
ing of Judge Henry Long from am
bush few nights ago at Kennerville,
Just above New Orleans, has aroused
great bitterness there. The whole
trouble is attributed to political enmity
and has resulted in race feud. Par
ish officers have been working up the
case against the assassins and have
made a number of arrests. On the
other hand number of negroes and
white men who are in sympathy with
those who attacked Judge Long have
held q meeting and are said to nave
formed plot to force a number OF
white residents out of the place. 1t is
said they have threatened to burn
down the stores of Mrs. III. Felix and
Angelo Palmiser and the residences
of +. Stahl, E. Becker and Judge
Longs mother. The situation has
finally begun to look serious, and Mr..
Stahl has sworn out atfidavits for sew
eral of the negroes for making threats.
The warrants were placed in the
hands of the sheriff and number of
negroes in the neiChboring parish of
st. Charles ~" locked up in the parish
Jail. Tho population of the town is
almost exclusively colored, Some of
the arrested negroes have given valu-
abe information as to the shooting.
Reports to the effect that the prison.
ers will be lynched are in circulation.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1892-08-11

WHEN "Sockless Simpson" tackled
Joe Sayers and charged cowardice on
the conference committee of three, of
which the Hon. Joe was a mem Der,
he barked up the wrong tree and re-.
ceived from the doughty Texan a
setting down he will not soon forget.
Come home, Sir Joseph, to your con-
stituents. Your course in the last
session covered you with fresh honors
to which the closing episode added
another wreath, and we are anxious
to re-indorse you.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1892-08-11
The FEoIicsome Chiprnunk.

As the woodchuck sleeps away the
bitterness of cold, so in his narrower
chamber sleeps the chipmunk, happy
little hermit, lover of the sun, mate OF
the song sparrow and the butterflies.
What goodly and hopeful token Of the
earth's renewed life is he, verifying the
promises of his own chalices, the SPUR
rel cups, set in the warmest corners of
the woodside, with libations of dew and
shower drops, of the bluebirds carol,
the sparrow's song of spring!
Now he comes forth from his long
night into the fullness of sunlit day tc
proclaim his awakening to his summer
comrades, gay recluse, clad all in the
motley-a jester maybe, yet not fool.
His voice, for all its monotony, is in
spring of gladness and contentment
whether he utters his thin, sharp chip or
full mouthed cluck or laughs chitter-
ing mockery as he scurries in to his mar
row door.
He winds along his crooked pathway
of the fence rails and forages for half
forgotten nuts in the familiar grounds,
brown with strewn leaves or dun with
dead grass. Sometimes he ventures to
the top rail and climbs to giddy ten-fcot
height on tree, whence he looks abroad,
wondering on the wide expanse of an
acre.
Music hath charms for him, and you
may entrance him with softly whistled
tune and entice him to frolic with a
herdsgrass head gently moved before
him.-Forest and Stream.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1892-08-11
Ayers Pills
PREPARED BY
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Every Dose Effective.

dirt was found in the barn this morn
ing. Deputy Sheriff Oscar Beaver, a
guard saw the men at the barn and
opened fire, shot beng returned by
the robbers wounded Beaver so that
he died at 6 o'clock this morning.
Fifteen shots were exchanged, Beaver
firing eight. Some of his shots wound
ed the robbers horses so they had to
be killed. While the guard was at
tending Beaver the robbers escaped
on foot and went in a northerly direc-
ton. Officers in pursuit traced the
men four miles northeast; where they
entered field. The pursuers' team
gave out and they returned to town.
Twenty or thirty men are now in pur-
suit on horseback. Excitement is
high here, and the men will be hung,
if taken alive. They can hardly es-
cape, as all the thoroughfares are
guarded. Deputy Sheriff Witty, who
was shot yesterday, will recover
unless blood poisoning occurs.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1892-08-11
THE NEW CIVIL COURT.

The judicial convention to noml-
nate the three justices of this, the
Third judicial district, yesterday COM
pleted their labor by nominating
Chief Justice Hal. c. Fisher ana Asso-
ciate Justices w. M. Key and w. T..
Collard. The convention was not
able one for many reasons. 1t was
notable as putting into effect an
amendment of the judiciary law that
long since should have been made
and that will he found to greatly re-
dound to the speedy and more salts
factory administration of Justice. LII
was notable for the most excellent
character of its delegates. The
First and Second districts are chal-
lenged to produce finer array OF
legal talent and ability or
more distinguished manhood than
Yesterday assembled in the
convention of this, the Third district.
Rarely, if ever, in the history of the
state has a political convention been
held composed of so many able law"
yers, jurists and statesmen. Again it
was notable for the zeal and earnest
ness with which the friends of each OF
the seven candidates pressed their
claims for consideration; yet also for
the entire absence of partisan recrimi-
nation or rancor. There was absolute
submission in good fail and spirit to
the will of the majority and the two
thirds. And finally it was notable
the magnificent selections made for
the three supreme civil judges. The
Third district in point of the ability,
ripe scholarship, legal learning and
absolute manhood and integrity of its
judges will yield precedence toneither
of the other districts, whoever
their nominees, nor to a SINH
lar character of court any
where in the Union. AS outlined
in Major WaltOn's mastery nominal
ing speech OF Judge Key, Texas has
had long line of eminent judges,
but the court yesterday selected will
add to rather than detract from the
fame and honor the past judicial his
tory of Texas has wreathed around
the states brow Nominated and in
dorsed by such convention, these
three distinguished jurists stand be-
fore the sovereign people but awaiting
their word of command to enter upon
the discharge of duties as onerous as
they ara important, with their honor
and ability pledged to make their
combined efforts in a new and higher
judicial sphere more productive of
lasting good to Texas than in the past,
under less favorable circumstances,
they were able to accomplish. All
Texas will have cause to be proud of
our conventions action yesterday.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1892-08-11
A Boiling Hole.

In Noble county, W. Va, there is a
fathomless sea, composed of salt water
and oil, from which gas escapes with Il
tremendous roar. Twenty years ago II
well was drilled there to the depth of
1900 feet. Some years later water and
gas escaped from the hole with great
pressure, tearing out the tubing and cut
ting cavern apparently hundreds of
feet deep and forty feet in diameter.
After it ceased to flow farmer filled it
up and built barn over it, and again a
few days ago a terrific report announced
another explosion of the well, oil and
water pouring out in abundance. In Il
single day the hole became fathomless
and about forty feet wide.-Chicago
Herald.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1892-08-11
FINALLY ADJOURNED,

At Il o'clock Friday night at last
was closed the long session of this con-
gress. The time of closing was need
lessly delayed several weeks by a
foolish and uncalled for filibuster over
a loan to the Worlds Fair, that should
have been made Immediately the
facts that dictated its being asked
for were laid before congress. The
filibuster at last resulted in a straight
out gift of 81, 800 900 to the Fair in
stead of loan of twice that sum. A
Fair conducted on such colossal
scale as the Columbian Exposition
must result in either stupendous
financial failure or a memorable sue
cess. There can be no half way bust
ness about it. making ready' is
where the great expense comes
in, and to tide over that
congress was asked for the loan.
When the gates are once thrown open
to visitors the shekels will pour in at
a tremendous rate. Congress in this
loan matter, as in great many other
instances, has made grievous blum
der. Uncle Sam is out of pocket two
and half million dollars, while I'M
der the plan of the requested loan we
do not think he would have been out
cent.
A most uneventful, improbable and
yet long spun out session is over.
What the grave and reverend, the ir-
responsible and tlippant. the sober
and jovial solons have done in their
eight months session to benefit their
country, othor than to draw their sal
aries for staying away from their
homes, it is difficult to enumerate.
One thing, however, they did succeed
in doing, spending $44 100000 more
than the first session of the last
congress. This excess is explained
by Senator Allison to be because of
the pension bureau and the postoffice
department. This latter is all ght,
as it is most important arm of the
government in serving the people.
Though why there should be any ex-
cess there when congress was at the
same time urged to cut down the
postage to l cent is a question Mr..
Wanamaker should answer. In the
line of the pension grabbing, how.
ever, THE STATESMAN is surprised at
no excess, no deficiency. How much
in few years we will be paying to
the uncles, aunts and sixteenth cousins
of men who never were in the Union
army, heaven only knows. But in
the meantime congress has adjourned
and every mothers son of them is
hurrying back home to circulate with
the "fluence" men and try to get
back to congress for another term,
where they can have a chance to "fail
to do it alp over again.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1892-08-11
Dogs Political Preferences.

Out at Abilene the man who runs a
transfer wagon and smashes the drum
mers' trunks owns dog. He is just a
common, old fashioned cur. But the
dog votes, and votes right. His master
every morning upon the arrival of the
Texas and Pacific train gets his dogship
to show off before the crowd. "Do you
vote for Clark" the canine is asked. He
rises up ON his hind feet, his front ones
high in the air, his body perfectly erect
and mods his head. "Do you vote for
Hogg?" the master inquiries. The dog
gets down fiat upon the floor and buries
his face in his front legs, the very pic
ture of negation. These daily perform
ances have come to be we'll advertised
in Abilene and always draw a crowd.
Should Judge Clark be successful that
dog will be installed in state at Austin
next January, and for two years at least
will be the best fed animal in Texas
Dallas News.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1892-08-11
An Animal Tramn.

Mark Twain made the coyote famous
or notorious, if you please. In Rough
ing It the poor animal is described as
the sneak thief of the plains, tramp
of the desert. Whether he is as bad as
he is painted or not, the California leg
islature has put price on his head. As
result within the six months just
passed $3.50 of these lank animals have
been killed in the Golden State at a cost
to the government of $101, 995.-Kansas
City Times.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1892-08-11
A NnNr Lifehnnt.

The self righting lifeboat is expected
here soon on its way to Ilwaco. These
boats right themselves in ten seconds
after being capsized. The boat expected
here is thirty feet long, seven feet bealI
and three feet deep, caravel built and
with air chambers at bow and stern, GOV.
cred with waterproof canvas. The pc
culiar features in the construction arc
the presence of false bottom, which
runs from stem to stern precisely at
water line, and is furnished with two
circular gratings, into which, if neces-
sary, pumps can be inserted. In the
sides, just about midships, there are long
flaps working on hinges which, when
opened, will permit any water above the
false bottom to run out, and when closed
are water tight. The space below the
false bottom is packed with dry tale
grass, which is even lighter than cork
and almostimpervious to water.-Wash
ington Historian.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1892-08-11
Electric Light ON Battlefields.

The ubiQuity of electricity is becoming
almost proverbial. From the "brightest
spot on earth" to the blood stained battle
fields is rather far cry, but there is no
end to the application of electricity. A
recent telegram from Austria described
some experiments of great interest
which have recently been carried out
successfully there. The difficulty of
searching for the wounded on the night
after great battle has been one which
has long occupied the attention of mill
tary reformers, and the army medical
service in Austria has been endeavoring
to determine how far the electric light
may be utilized for this humane end.
The value of powerful search lights
with refectors has been proved in naval
affairs, and at Suakim and elsewhere
soldiers have found them very effective
on open ground. They would be equal
ly effective under similar conditions for
assisting in picking up the wounded,
but when the battle has ragged over a
wide extent of country, or when the
fighting has occurred amid woods and
brushwood, the use of this class of light
is attended with difficulty. -Electrical
Review.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1892-08-11
Pussy and Her Feathered Brood.

Mr.. James Forwood, of Darlington,
Hartford county, has cat which has de.
veloped an interesting trait. Being kit.
tenless, she adopted as her own a brood
of motherless young chickens, which
come to her when she purrs and follow
her around. When any of the brood
stray into neighbours premises the cat
follows, and picking each chick up care.
fully by the back of it's neck, deposits it
safely on its owners premises. Calling
the chicks to her the cat lies down and
hovers over them as fenderly and care,
fully as their feathered mother would
have done. The chicks appear to accept
the situation and are thriving.-Cor.
Baltimore Sun.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1892-08-11
ALittle Girls Experience in a Lighthouse

Mr. and Mrs. Lorene Tascott are keepers of
the government lighthouse at Sand Beach,
Mich, are blessed with daughter, four years
old. Last April she was taken down with
measles, followed with dreadful cough and
running into fever. Doctors at home and at
Detroit treated her, but in vain, she grew worse
rapidly, until she was a mere handful Of
bones."-Then she tried DR.. Kings New Dis
ties, was completely cured. They say DR..
Kings New Discovery is worth its weight in
gold, yet you may get a trial bottle free at ]. j.
Tobins drug store,
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1892-08-11

THE more than defunrt Galveston
Worlds fair fiasco is now sued for
$3.50 for three months rent for rooms
where the managers posed and did
nothing. Truly Galveston's lines are
not cast in pleasant places when its
home people thus continue to show it
up In the most unenviable light.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1892-08-11
Will BE Heard All Over Paris.

A monster bell, one of the largest of
its kind, specially cast for the new
Church of the Sacred Heart on the
heights of Montmartre, has been COM
pleted at Annecy, in Savoy. This i'm
mense instrument, which, when hung
in its lofty position, will be audible all
over Paris, weighs, with its clapper,
nearly twenty-five tons.-Paris Cor. Lon
don Telegraph.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1892-08-11

A number of fine pearls, some of them
of considerable value, were found re-
Gently in mussel shells on the shoals in
White river, near Seymour, Ind. One
man realized seventy-fve dollars from
his find in few weeks.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1892-08-11
Grandsons of One of the signers.

1t is a curious coincidence that two
grandsons of Josiah Bartlett, one of the
signers of the Declaration of Independ.
ence, should die in New York state
within week of each other, both being
doctors and both graduates of the Dart.
mouth Medical school. Dr.. Ezra Bart
lett was native of Warren, N. H.; Dr.
Levi Bartlett was native of Haverhill
Mass. Boston Journal.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1892-08-11
A CLUMSY FIGHT.
Wherein Two Train Robbers Killed Deputy
Sheriff and Escaped.

VIsALIA, Cal, Aug. 6.-Evans and
Santag, the Coils train robbers, came
to the Evans House here about u
o'clock last night, and after eating
supper went to the barn. Five or six
men who were standing guard dis
covered their team in the barn lot,
not having seen them come in. I'm.
doubtedly they returned to secure
hidden coin, as hole filled with fresh
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1892-08-11
An Earnest Stnlent.

City lnstructor-If you have such a
delightful home in the suburbs, why do
you wish extra studies which will keep
you in the schoolroom after hours?
Suburban Boy-This is garden weed
ing time.-Good News.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1892-08-11

Lily of the valley should be trans.
planted as soon as the foliage turns vel.
low. Shift to pot of larger size, dis
turbing the earth around it as little as
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The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1892-08-11
ABERDEEN. O. Lnly u. 1891

ABERDEEN, o., July 81, 1891
Messrs. Lippmann Bros, Savannah, Ga;
Dear Sirs-I bought bottle of your P. P. p at
good than three months treatment at the Hot
Springs.
Have you no agents in this part of the coun-
try, or let me know how much it will cost to get
three or six bottles from your city by express.
Respectfully yours,
JAS. NJ. NEWTON,
Aberdeen Brown County, O.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1892-08-11
The Best Man Was Late.

The best man was late at one CT last
weeks weddings, and his appearance
after the ceremony had begun created a
sensation.-Boston Saturday Gazette.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1892-08-11

The discovery of basilica at Sill
chester, England, is announced and
creates much excitement among anti
quarians. 1t belongs to the Fourth CEN
fury.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1892-08-11
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The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1892-08-11
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ga long sufferer from headache, was
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1892-08-11
GUNBoAT SENT TO HONDURAS.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 6.-Tne United
States ship Kearsarge, now in New
York, has been ordered to sail at
once to Honduras to look after Amer
lean interests in that country. This
action is not based on any recent in"
formation received from Honduras,
but simply in accord with orders is
sued several days ago.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1892-08-11
DECLARED A DIVIDEND.

WASHINGTON, Aus. 6.-The comp
troller of the currency has declared a
first dividend of 80 per cent in
favor of the creditors of the Bell
county national bank of Temple, Tex,
on claims proved amounting to So, 794.
The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1892-11-02
CARTER AND HIS MONEY.

The esteemed journal need not have
declared so hotly that it knew nothing
about the campaign fund sent into this
state by the republican national COM
mlttee to secure the vote of Montana
for Harrison and the election of Carter
to the United States senate. The Jour
nal ie never taken into the confidence OF
the leaders when any fine work Is to be
done. 1t is simply kept on the outside
to make a noise. But we are disposed
to be generous with our contemporary
and enlighten its dark understanding.
Not only has the Doodle fund arrived.
but 1t is being placed exactly as stated
IN HE INDEPENDENT on Monday. The
county committees are getting little of
1t. Carter don't want any of it used for
the state ticket, or for the various
county tickets. He has sent his own
mar straight from headquarters in New
York to Montana To select n trusted
man, a friend of Carter's, in each
county. The county agent in turn is
instructed to select a careful man in
each voting precinct or ward in his
county. Wide discretion is to be exer-
cised by each of these precinct al. :
The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1892-11-02

county agents, but in general they are
advised to follow the plan adopted by
Chairman Hackett, of the republican
state committee OF New York, as out
lined in that gentleman's famous green
goods letter recently published in THE
INDEPENDENT. This plan, which has
been tried by Quay and Dave Martin in
Pennsylvania, is to hire democrats, un-
der one pretext or another. to be out Of
the precinct on election day. Perhaps
bogus railroad work is to DO one Of the
things for which the men will DO hired.
We are not informed as to that. But
Carter's agents expect to do their best
work in Silver Bow and Deer Lodge
counties by trading with the peoples
party. IL the deals now planned in
these counties are carried out, Carter
hopes to gain largely for the national
and legislative ticket from the peoples
party. We invite the Journal and the
Anaconda Standard to join with us in
watching the development of this pretty
game. We trust, however, that not all
of the money will be used by Carter
along the lines indicated. We should
like to see our esteemed contemporary,
the Journal, have a front place in the
line when the pork is being distributed
aud get one Of the largest and %juiciest
portions, in return for labors which 9TH
erwise will go u%nrequited.