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The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1894-10-04
WASHINGTON NOTES,

MONTHLY TREASURY STATEMENT.
WASHINGTON, Oct. The monthly
treasury statement issued today
shows that on Sept. 20, 1894, the pub
lie debt, less each in the treasury
amounted TO 1897, 6466l7, an increase
for the month of September of $685.
70l The following is recapitulation
of the debt: Interest bearing obTgs-
tions, $685., O42,810; increase for the
month of $40. Debt OF which interest
has ceased since maturity, 81 $50, $50;
decrease for the month, $1,720. Debt
bearing interest, $3.50, 1893 ,496; increase
for the month, 1925 ,0O2. Total debts,
SLOT 5GG, 1856; certificates and treas
ury notes outstanding Offset by an
equal amount of cash in the treasury,
SGl2, 1876, 47O
The cash in the treasury is rlassi.
fled as follows: Gold, 1928, 665, 756;
oliver, S5O9, 6l4 ,352; paper, 1924 300, 22O;
sends, disbursing of years. balance,
etc, $lG,3S5 sos; total, STA, 1856 92S,
against which there are outstanding
Liabilities amounting to S654, PIG, 2O9
leaving a cash balance of S119, 9l9,71
of which SIS, ,3l7 as gold reserve.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1894-10-04
RECEIPTS AND EXPENDITURES

WASHINGTON, Oct IA compare
tive statement of the receipts and eX
penditures of the government shows
the receipts for the month of Septem.
Der to have been $22, G21, 1926 and the
expenditures $50, 1923, 01S, ieaving a de-
felt for the mouth of S1,701, 100 The
several sources of receipts are given as
The Coconino weekly sun., 1894-06-14
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Cleaned By Telegraph and Mail.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

A REGENT dispatch from China said that the revolution in the province of Kiry and Manchoralis was extending. Mounted banditti, armed with repeat ing rifles, had defeated the imperial troops in every engagement and had occupied several important positions; including the Sarsing arsenal in which 100000 rifles were stored. Viceroy Iii Hung Chang was gathering a large force to suppress the rebellion.
 THE silver commission, which was convened in February last at Berlin, concluded its labors on the 4th without arriving at any decisions.
 THE election for chief and second chief of the Seminole nation came off on the 9th at Eufaula, l. T., and the present chief, John T. Brown, was elected by nearly 200 majority. Hol- butta Harjo was elected second chief without opposition.
 THE acting president of the republic of Bogota has just announced that sev- eral millions of dollars in currency were clandestinely issued in 1889. A searching investigation is under way. REFERENCES from the speeches at the Ohio state republican convention on the 9th at Columbus were to the effect that Foraker was the favorite for the United States senate and Mckinley for president.
 LEWIS WILLIS, president, and Samuel F.. Jones, secretary of the Mckinley Tariff league, have issued a call for a convention of colored republican clubs to be held at Whithaft hall in Wash ington July2.
 THE house committee on railways and canals has agreed to report the compromise bill drawn by Representa- tive Ryan, of New York, for the survey of a ship canal route from the Ohio river to Lake Erie.
 SENATOR MCPHERSON, of New Jersey, was reported quite ill on the sth. His | ailment was said to be some affection of the nerves of the stomach.
 IT has been decided by the house committee on interstate and foreign commerce to report to the house bill for the requirement of the Nicaragua canal by the government and for car rying on the work to completion.
The Coconino weekly sun., 1894-06-14
ADDITIONAL DIspATCHEA

TIE railroad station and express of flee at Gibson, l. T.. were robbed by two masked men on the night of the 10th.
 TIE bronze statue, Signal of Peace" the gift of Judge Lambert Tree to Lin coin park, Chicago, was unveiled on the 9th with simple ceremonies.
 A DISPATCH from Hamburg said that the police had seized 5000 counterfeit American s notes in the lodgings used by the three counterfeiters arrested re- gently.
 ILLUMINATING oil sold by the Stand ard Oil Co. has touched the lowest point ever reached in Chicago--4 cents the result of fight against outside dealers.
 ABATrLE took place between deputies and strikers at Lemont, Pa., on the 10th and one striker was killed, two others were reported dying and several were severely wounded.
 STRIKERS burned portion of a wood. en bridge at Goshen, west of Wheeling Creek, w. Va, on the 10th. No coal can be moved, therefore, until the bridge is repaired.
 A DISPATCH from Assumption, the capital of Paraguay, said that a coup d'etat had been effected and that Senor Marinigo had assumed the presidency, There was no disorder.
 TIE Keystone Implement Co.'S plant at Kansas City was destroyed by fire on the 10th. The Buford x George Manufacturing Co. also suffered. Five persons were injured and one fireman will probably die. Loss, $3O6,OOO; in surance, $22O, 1000.
 THREE lives were lost in the lake near Vermillion, O., on the 10th by the upsetting of pleasure boat in which were seated five persons. None of the drowned persons were over IS years old. Their bodies have not yet beer recovered.
 LATE advices are to the effect that the Brazilian insurgents continue tc concentrate in the state of Rio Grandt do Sul, and that they have won severa important battles lately. One dispatch stated that the insurgents were defeat ed by the government in battle neal Belotas.
 SIX prominent ladies of Lexington Ky, who recently took part in an anti Breckinridge meeting held in the opera house of that city, have been warned through letter marked iron Pittsburgh, Pa, that there are ''skele tons' in their closets and that they could not afford to take part in sucl "detestable proceedings against Col Breckinridge. The ladies will pay nc attention to the letter.
The Coconino weekly sun., 1894-06-14
COLOR HEARING.
A Physician's Interesting Theory About the ?
 Relations of Sounds to Coiors.

A Physician's Interesting Theory About the
 Relations of Sounds to Colors.
 John Locke's blind man, who haZ-- arded the guess that the color scarlet was probably something like the sound of a trumpet, is generally thought to have simply spoken according to his lights, but it appears from Dr. w. s. Colman's articles on this subject that. we have now laid the foundation of a. science of color-hearing. The term is defined by him as applying to the special case in which color sensation is excited by some auditory stimulus as, for example, by the pronunciation of the vowel sounds. It is not matter of association, as in the case of the ''shrill squeak" evoked by the filing of a saw or the drawing of slate pencil down a slate. Dr. Colman estimates the number of people who possess the faculty of color-hearing as under twelve per cent, and mentions case described by Flournoy, in which the, vowel ''i," awakened the impression of an orange circle with an ii" in black in the center.
 Theophile Gautier, under the infu-- ence of hasheesh, heard the sound equivalents (whatever they may have. beeD) of various colors. The notion is, at all events, of respectable antiquity. Dr. Colman cites as believers in color hearing Hoffman, Goethe and Hans. Sachs, and refers to the case of St. Catherine, of Siena, who had a bright al,< or thought of the Host" The Lancet which comments learnedly on Dr. Col mans theories, feels disposed to think that the red ribbon which adorns the dark blue bonnet of the female mem bers of the Salvation army is parallel case, and not difficult to explain on the principles of conventional metaphor.- London News.
The Coconino weekly sun., 1894-06-14

HENRY CLEws, of New York, recently said: Money as a power is now get ting to be recognized as the most po- tential influence in connection with national alliances. War methods be- long to the past. To prevent the ex- cessive shipments of gold periodically the four great nations-England, France, Germany and the United States should adopt an international note currency, or l19 per cent. gold bond issue, not to exceed say Si00, 100000, each to issue S1OO, 1000, ,OOO, the four na- tions to be equally responsible for the principal and interest by mutual agreement. These obligations, backed by such high credit, would take the place of gold exports and imports. The notes or bonds would be an inter- national currency, and would provide a substitute for gold in settlement of balances between nations"
The Coconino weekly sun., 1894-06-14

OFFICERS of the steamer China report that while the vessel was at the wharf at Yokohama Japanese passenger asked to have four boxes taken to his stateroom, but was refused as the boxes were too large. They were left on the wharf to be placed in the hold with the other cargo. Apeculiar noise from one of them attracted the attention of the stevedores, who rolled the boxes aside and called the police. The boxes were found to contain the almost lifeless bodies of four Japanese girls, who were overcome with suffocation. There was a small air hole at one end, but the boxes were laid on the wharf end up and the holes closed. Three of the girls were destined, if they lived, to a brother in Portland, Ore., and the other was for Tacoma, Wash.
The Coconino weekly sun., 1894-06-14

A YOUNG man, who announced that his purpose was to convert President Cleveland to ways of righteousness, paid a visit to the White house recent ly. While he was not disorderly he was so determined to get at the presi- dent that the watchman called for the police patrol and had him transferred to the Third precinct station, where he as it was understood, was Heffenstein, a converted Jew.
The Coconino weekly sun., 1894-06-14

RECENTLY the families of two Banners living near Eufaula, I. T., named c. II. Timmons and Tom Waugh, ate lot of mulberries that they had gathered, and in a short while they were all taken suddenly ill. A physician was called and pronounced 1t a case OH poisoning, there having been locust eggs in the berries. Tim mons and Waugh have both died, and several of each family were very low and not expected to live. The symp- toms were identically the same as those of Asiatic cholera.
The Coconino weekly sun., 1894-06-14
USES OF SAND.
The Wide Utility to Which It Can Be Put in
 the Household.


 the Household.
 It has frequently been said that the commonest things are the most valua- ble to humanity. Air and water and all the necessities are free. In com mon sand we have one of the most val uable of all household agents. There is not securing soap of any value in the markets that does not owe its chief excellence to the use of sand as large ingredient. In olden times housewives secured their kitchen floors into snowy whiteness with pure sand and soap, and the clever manufacturer of modern times has utilized the idea and manu- factured sand soap, one of the most valuable of modern conveniences. The old-time kitchen floor, which was strewn with sand in fanciful figures, is fast becoming a thing of the past. Our modern kitchens are no less neat, per haps, but they require less care, with their hardwood floors and oiled boards.
 Yet there is probably as much use for sand in various ways now as ever. The handsome parlor vases are usually filled with some such ingredient to weight them and prevent the light porcelain from being brushed off the mantel. piece. We have learned that flowers will keep better in damp sand than in water, and centerpiece of flowers for the table will be more gracefully and firmly arranged in a jar of wet sand than in foundation of moss. The old gardener knew little of the value of sand in the garden, but the scientific gardener of modern times knows that a sandy loam properly fer tilized is the most productive of all soils, and that pure sand is the very best earth of all in which he can plant his cuttings and slips for roofing.
 Thus the most barren of all the earth's products will be found rich in usefulness. Without good, sharp sand plaster and mortar of all kinds are i'm possible, and bed of good sand in the vicinity of great city becomes yer itable mine of wealth to the owner.- N. Y. Tribune
The Coconino weekly sun., 1894-06-14

PROF. RUDOLPH FALB, of Vienna, who last year predicted the great earthquake of Zante, his prediction being printed in newspapers all over the world the day before the seismic disturbance occurred, says an earth quake will engulf the Atlantic coast cities in July or August of this year. Florida and California are to become islands, and in 1899 a climax will come, when the comet which was in sight in 1ss6 will reappear and collide with the eQrth.
The Coconino weekly sun., 1894-06-14

MAYOR PINGREE, of Detroit, Mich, has started novel scheme to supply the thousands of idle men in that city with vegetables for the winter. He has called on every lot and acreage owner in the city who has foot of idle land to give it for the use of the poor until the crop year closes. He esti- mates that there is not less than 5000 acres of such land in the city and he already has hundreds of acres pledged to his scheme.
The Coconino weekly sun., 1894-06-14

THE Fleming family of the United States will hold it's reunion in Muncie, Ind, commencing August %. At the last reunion at Flemingsburg, w. Va, in 1892, 10000 Flemings were present, and that number is expected this year. Ex-Gov. Fleming, of West Virginia, who is president of the association, will be present and so will eX-Gov. Fleming, of Florida. A number of other leading members of the family are on the pro- gramme for addresses.
The Coconino weekly sun., 1894-06-14

FOUR thousand tons of coal from Car. diff, Wales, was brought into New York recently by the steamer Cynthi' ana, consigned to the Berwind-White Coal Co. The coal was for supplying ocean steamers, and was furnished at a loss to the contractors of about S2,5C a ton. This was in consequence of the strike in the bituminous coal fields.
The Coconino weekly sun., 1894-06-14

A CIRCULAR signed by 1O5 members of the British house of commons has been sent to the editors of prominent daily newspapers throughout the United Kingdom, asking them to cease to de- moralize the people by reporting sem sational cases of immortality or brutal ity, and in otherwise appealing to the sensual nature of man.
The Coconino weekly sun., 1894-06-14

THE great electric light recently erected at Sandy Hook, N. J., was operated on the night of the 4th for the first time. It was exhibited in the worlds fair, Chicago. Places far down the Jersey coast in Staten Island and Coney Island were plainly visible. Yes sels at anchor in the bay showed up very plainly.
The Coconino weekly sun., 1894-06-14

So great is the craze for wheeling in Chicago that it is stated there are 10O,- 900 bicycle riders in that city. In the neighborhood of every big office build ing down town is a stable where wheels are cared for until office hours are over, and scores of men make living repair ing and keeping wheels in order.
The Coconino weekly sun., 1894-06-14
CURRENT COMMENT.

A NEW pest has appeared in the corn fields in the vicinity of Webster City, Ia., in the shape of a small yellow worm, an inch long and it is hurting the crops.
The Coconino weekly sun., 1894-06-14

Without good company all dainties. lose their true relish, and like painted grapes, are only seen not tasted.-Mas-- singer.
The Coconino weekly sun., 1894-06-14
Keen Your Temper,

If you want to live to be one hundred keep your temper. Never mind where you keep it, only don't let it see the light O day, and the chances are lon gevity for. you. Mrs. Charlotte Bell, who has just celebrated her 103rd birth day, boasts she has never been angry in her life, and, owing to this equability, her days are long in the land, though, unhappily for her, she is to end them in the almshouse. Some of us do not con- slider age worth the price. For there is a good deal of the Greek in our compo- sitions, in spite of the mixture of races, and we Americans would rather die young than never have tantrum, or a "crise des nerfs, as they say in French. Righteous anger is a good thing. It generally purifies the atmosphere, even if it does take an hour or so off the al lotted span.-BoSton Herald.
The Coconino weekly sun., 1894-06-14

Bonnet, the French naturalist, has amputated the limbs of tritons and found that the power of reproducing In one case a leg was reproduced twelve times in three years. An eye cut was reproduced in less than year
The Coconino weekly sun., 1894-06-14

It is said that as early as 1860 Dr. Clayton distilled coal in retort and produced gas, which he confined in bladders, and was accustomed to amuse his friends by burning this gas as it issued from holes in the bladder pricked with a pin. This was one hundred and fifty years before gas lamps.
The Coconino weekly sun., 1894-06-14

-Togoland, in German Guinea, pro- duces very large amount of ginger.
The Coconino weekly sun., 1894-06-14

CLEVELAND, O., June 11.-Last night two men, who had been placed on guard at trestle on the Cleveland, Lo- rain & Wheeling railroad, near New Philadelphia, O., were driven away by a mob of about 400 men. The trestle, which was about 60 feet long, was set on fire and nearly destroyed. The railroad company express the fear that other bridges in that vicinity will be
 burned and the sheriff of Tuscaraw as county has sworn in large number of deputy sheriffs to guard the property
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-02-06
WASTE OF THE LIQUOR.
Whisky Expected to go to 90 Cents 6
Drink on Account of the Fire.

Whisky Expected to go to 90 Cents a
Drink on Account of the Fire.
Many a sOrrowful eye and parching lips
witnessed the conhagration with no
thought Of the enormous destruction of
property and with little concern as to the
large losses which the insurance COM
panies will have to bear They were wit
Messing the destruction of nearly 1000
barrels OF whisky, a loss more moment
Gus to them to see it go to waste than the
destruction Of buildings or anything else.
One old tramp watched the Conhagra-
tion like Tantalus, chained in the midst
OF clear spring of water, but Just far
enough away to put it out of his reach
His eyes sparkled with JOY as he saw a
stray barrel or two rolled from the Ferst
building, and though it meant little to
him 1t seemed a blessing that it was
saved
There was talk on all sides about the
immense stock of whisky that was going
to destruction. 1t was believed for long
time that portion of the Savannah Gro
Gerry Company's stock of liquor would be
saved. and even when the fire had gone
down 1t was thought that this liquor,
which was in barrels and on a floor below
the street, had been so thoroughly
drenched that much of it would be saved
No thorough investigation could be made
OF it yesterday and it may be late in the
week before that is possible, but Presi-
dent Herman Myers thinks that with the
other stock it will prove total loss The
Savannah Grocery Company had between
500 and 1000 barrels in stock and Eerst
Sons, had between 800 and LOO barrels
also on floor below the street This
makes almost 1000 barrels, if not quite
that amount, which went up in flames.
Two or three stray barrels were saved
from the Ferst stock on account of the
fact that they happened to be up stairs
near the doors, but there is no doubt
about the fact that the 800 or 1000 bar
rels below the street floor were entirely
consumed. The alcoholic flames licked
the skies and produced so intense a heat
that 1T was almost impossible for the
fremen to work within 40 or so feet Of
the burning building and the crowd was
| driven back to the other side of the
street
The stock of whisky in the two
buildings alone was valued at $780,
| 600 to $75, 000-the value of that
in the Savannah Grocery Company's
store being estimated at about S45. 600.
| None of the members of either firm, how
| ever, could give any exact idea of the
value OF this portion of the stock, and
| the estimates are only rough ones. Be
sides these amounts Of whisky, however,
| both companies had on hand in the upper
stories large stocks of fine wines and
| liquors, and the loss on the drinkables
will probably fully reach that figure
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-02-06
EVERYBODY AT THE FIRE.
Business Suspended and Everybody
Joined the Crowd of Spectators.

Business Suspended and Everybody
Joined the Crowd of Spectators.
A big fire has a rather demoralizing
effect and day or night there are always
good crowds on hand to witness the excit-
ing scenes. Yesterday they were on the
scene before the fire department arrived,
and had TO be pushed back in order to give
the tiremen full room to work
About 1000 or 5000 people stood around
and watched the fire from the beginning,
and it was witnessed by as many more
during the time it lasted. Employees of
a large number of business houses took a
day OH, so to speak, at least long enough
TO see the worst part of the fire, and for a
time very little business was done any
where in the city. This was only tenn
porary, however, and everything went on
as usual after the excitement had par
TALLY subsidized.
The United States district court began
its session just after the fire started, but
the court room was rapidly filled with
smoke, and it became so hot and disagree
able that Judge Speer dismissed the Jury
until IL o'clock, when he said he would
resume business again. When II o'clock
came, however, things were worse than
before. The smoke in the court room had
become denser and the atmosphere con-
SlutIduly warmer, anu JuuB6 Speer al
journed court until this morning at 10
o'clock.
Business had just begun in the city
court, it being the beginning of the Feb
ruary term, when the location of the fire
was announced. Messrs. Garrard Mel
drim x Newman ana Charlton, Mackall
& Anderson and others of the attorneys
present had offices located so near the
confagration that they asked the court to
excuse them. and Judge MacDonell ad-
journed until o'clock in the afternoon.
Judge Falligant opened the superior
court, and remained there during the
greater part of the day, but no business
was transacted. There were no regular
assignments for the day, however, and
very little work of any kind to be done
Such was the situation, however, for
several hours, and for a while things
looked dead everywhere except on Bay
street.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-02-06

was especially anxious about the large
handsome picture of Gen. Robert r. Lee,
which adorns his Office, and he ordered
II taken down and out of the building.
But before the order was executed it was
seen that all danger had passed and it
was allowed to remain. Mayor Melon
ough said yesterday that he wanted to
save that picture if everything else in
the exchange was lost
Messrs. Ellis, Young & Co., and the Oc-
cupants of every other office in the build
ing, had taken out their papers and books
and all that was valuable when the dan
ger was greatest. After the wind changed
10 the other direction, and it was seen
that the fire was not going to spread in
the direction of the exchange, all the
papers, books and everything else which
had been taken out we're soon carried
back and put in place, and outside of the
labor required to make the transfers, the
city lost nothing.
Many citizens who stood around and
watched the fire remarked that it might
be blessing If the old exchange were to
go. Several remarks were passed about
the old building being in a dilapidated
condition anyhow. and that it would be
good thing if the city could get the insur-
ance out of it to help build new one.
They were perhaps unmindful of the fact
that they would have to pay the taxes to
build new one. The city exchange was
built in 1893 and was a type of the archi-
ture OF that time 1t is famous for many
historical events with which it has been
connected, and perhaps for the sake of
sentiment many would like to see it stand
as long as it will hold together 1t cost
originally $40, 600 and was insured for that
amopnt