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The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1895-08-15
BETTER TIMES AHEAD

The Atlanta journal says: 'The gem
eral business outlook is decidedly bright,
Crops are fine. The greatest corn Gro
ever known is maturing. 1t will probaIbl
reach 2,4O0,000,00O which will be go.
OOOOOO bushels greater than the largest
previous crop and nearly 6OO,OOOOO0
bushels i'm excess of the crop of last year.
Cotton acreage is fortunately smaller
than it was last year, but the crop is i'm
good condition in most of the cotton
growing States. The fruit crop is mag
nificent, and the yield of tomatoes and
other food crops Wild be great All the
railroads are preparing for an increase
of business, and their receipts already
show heavy gains. The production of
pig iron for the first six months of the
year was 4,S70,55S tons, against only
2.717, 1888 toms for the first six months of
1894. The production will even be heav-
Ter for the last six months of the year
and the output of iron for 1895 will prob.
ably equal or SurpasS the YUDrd. In the
other great industries ant IN all other
kinds of manufactures the I is great ac.
tivity and STRONG confd &c. There ),
every reason to believe lat conditions
will continue ITO improv and that the
fall trade will be immense.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1895-08-15
MAGRITDER IN CHARGE.
The SMALLPOX Stricken Negroes Will ke-
ceive His Attention.

Eagle Pass. Tex, Aug 1O-(Special)-
Surgeon General Wyman today wired
Collector Fitch that in accordance Win
the red1est of State Health Officer Swear
ingen. forwarded by him. that Assistant
Surgeon N[agruder had been placed IN
,harge of the detention camp and all nee
essary sanitary measures at Eagle Pass
Collector Fitch has been authorized by
the surgeon general to permit the 80 ne
groes at Torreon to enter under strict
sanitary regulations. 1t was deemed
safer for them to come in body than TO
struggle on and thus possibly escape the
vigilance of the inspecting officers.
Dr.. Ahon Of New Orleans, who has had
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1895-08-15
KILLED FROM AMBUSH.

Texarkana, Ark. Aug. 1O-(SpeclaI'J-
This morning, just before breakfast, as
G. G. Ross and his family we're a1ring ",
the front yard of their home, me was s
shot and killed from ambush. Ross leil
a few feet from his wife, who screameg1
frantically at the report OF tine gun anu ~
had to be taken in charge by 1rlen4s ~ ~
ovart snicide Ross was q well-to-do
farmer and lived near the city of Texark-
ana, He was out ON bond for killing a
neighbor named Robert Pitts, and 1t Is
supposed that the assassination of Ross
grew ont of This affair. The murderer Is
Still at large.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1895-08-15
A YOUNG MARRIED WOMAN BRU-
TALLY OUTRAGED AND
MURDERED.
Al NEGRO SUSPECTED OF THE
AWFUL CRIME.
Double Suicide of Lum Smith and His
Child Wife at Wheelock-The Aus
tin Association of Baptists
at Manor.

Fort Worth, Tex, Aug. 1O.-(SpeciaD
Mrs. William Durham, bride of a
year, was yesterday afternoon outraged
and murdered at her home near Cedar
Hill. Mrs. Durham had just returned
from the home of her mother-in-law when
she was assaulted and her body was
found hast night in Coon creek, a stream
running within 40 steps of her door
Officers with bloodhOunds are on the track
of the fiend who perpetrated the outrage
and he will certainly be lynched if found.
A lefthanded negro, who worked in the
neighborhood, is suspected.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1895-08-15
TAYLOR BOYS MUST HANG.
New Trial Has Been Refused Senten.
ced to Hang October 1.

Carrollton, Mo-, Aug. lin the Tay.
lor murder trial yesterdays the attorney
for the State filed atiidavits rcfuting every
proposition made by the defendants in
their motion for new trial. The attor
neys for the defense then asked for fur.
Their time to secure counter atiidavits but
Judge Ruckcr announced that there must
be an end to the matter and it was now
time to stop. The court oyerruled the OBJ
jections, and ordered the sheriff to have
defendants brought into court at 1 O'clock
ut which time the motion for Il new triad
would be taken up and disposed of.
AT that hour the arguments were begun
and last night were still on.
At ii 40 o'clock last night VIM. =. and
Geo. w. Taylor were sentenced to hang
October next between the hours of = a
m. and p. m. \ motion of appeal was
filed. Judge Ruckor, in refusing the mo-
ton, said that no fairer trial could have
been accorded than that given the Tay.
Tor boys.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1895-08-15
ARPTvED AT NASHVILLE.

Nashville, Tenn, Aug. 11.-Chief Jus,
/ tice Fuller and Associate Justice Brewer
came tonight to be present at Justice
Jackson's funeral. They went at once to
1.-THE residence of Assistant Attorney Cen
eral T. NJ. Dickson. They we're met at the
station by committee appointed by the
Nashville bar.
All arrangements have been completed
for the interment of Justice Jackson's re-
mains. The ceremonies will be simple and
conducted by Rev, J. H. McNeiny of the
Presbyterian church, and Rev, j. L. In
cave of the Christian church, and the
burial will be at Belle Meade, six miles
from the CITY.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1895-08-15
SUPERIOR IMMORAL FOREIGN
FACILITIES.

The primrose path of daliance is much
more enticing in foreign countries 30 our
wealthy American debauchees than it is
i'm this country. A New York paper
states that certain wealthy New Workers
20 abroad to indulge in the widest licen-
tiousnesss, and it is we'll known that some
of the vlest but at the same time the
most magnificent haunts of vice in Eu-
ropean cities are exclusively patronized
by American citizens. The degrading
customs Of these marble palaces of perdi-
ton are TOO gross for the native Euro
pean, and they depend alone for support
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1895-08-15
THIS YEARS COTTON SEED.

Taylor, Tex, Aug. 10.-(SpeciaI.)-The
first load of cotton seed, this seasons
crop, was bought by NJ. A. Belcher, a
local cotton seed buyer, today, and brough
IS per tom The load weighed LAO
pounds and was the seed ginned from
the first bale, which was sold yesterday
at 7 IL cents.
The closing exercises of the Taylor
colored public schools were held at the
Westside pavilion last might. An inter
esting program was rendered and the pro
ficiency shown by the scholars reflected
great credit upon Professor LansdoWn'
principal of the school.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1895-08-15

The hegira of New York topers Sun
day morning to Connecticut has suddenly
ceased. The legislature of the latter State
makes it penalty of 81 for one to enter
q saloon on Sunday and those New
Workers. who went over into Connecticut
before they were aware of the enact
ment or enforcement of this law were
like the children of Israel; they could not
find anything to drink in the deserts of
Connecticut; or perhaps they were more
like Tantalus, whose lips were near the
flowing stream, but chained and unable
to reach it.
ooh, worse than Tantalus is their annoy.
TO look into saloons and lack their joy.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1895-08-15

Tammany Hall proposes to reform New
fork municipal politics.-Exdhange.
As Tammany is responsible for the cor
ruption in the municipal politics OF New
York it is very proper it should reform
il. But what or who is going to reform
Tarmany, in order that the fountain
of reformation may be pure? That will
have to be done before Tammany reforms
anything else, and that will be the most
difficult job of reformation ever yet en-
countered.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1895-08-15
IDE1Is FROM MASON.

Mason. Tex, Aug. 10,-(Special.) last
night Mr.. Doole's dwelling with the en-
fire contents was consumed by fire. Loss
$4,000: no insurance. .L
We have to chronicle two sad deaths
that of Mrs. McCollum of Bluff creek,
and Mrs. !. W. Purdy, living six mlles
north of Mason. both leaving large taml-
lies of children. .,
The county has been blessed with a
rain. which came Just in time to, insure
good crop Of cotton. We have the oeEs'
corn crop ever raised in the county. Pros
nncts for moro rain today.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1895-08-15

The Fort Worth Gazette wants a piece
of ice dropped down The Statesman
back because, forsooth, The Statesman OBJ
jected to the meeting ait Fort Worth that
organized a distinct free silver party
with all the machinery of a distinct party,
posing as Democrats. Ice would not melt
if dropped down the backs Of those Fort
Worth free silver party organizers. 1t
was the coolest piece of audacity that we
have ever known. When a new party
organizes in opposition to an old party 1t
has heretofore universally had the mod
esty to take new name and not attempt
TO run away with the name of the party
1T has deserted.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1895-08-15
A DOUBLE SUICIDE.

Franklin, Tex, Aug. 1O.-(Special)-A
double suicide is reported from Wheelock.
Lum Smith married Charley Taryer's
daughter some time ago, and it seems
she was under age, and in order to OBJ
tain a license an order was forged, and
prosecution for forgery was being threat
ened. So in order ito end the matter and
avoid prosecution Lum Smith got 60
grains of morphine at Wheelock yester-
day and carried it home, and he and
his child wife took it this morning. They
were found, she dead and he in dying
condition.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1895-08-15

France is like the Irshman at Denny
brook fair. 1t is carrying a chip on its
shoulder in Madagascar, Asia and West
Africa, but it is also like that noted
lrshman in another respect, with not
u cent in his pocket. The finances of
France are in q deplorable condition.
franchise NJ LclIoy-Beaulien says in the
"Econo1niste" that the annual deficit is
3O0,O0O,OOO to 400,000,000 francs, with
an enormous floating debt. The lcgisla-
ture, under the whip of the Social
lists, repealed the tax on wine, beer and
cider to the amount of 20,O00,OOO francs
and accepted the principle of "superan-
nuatcd pensions" which will cost the gov
ernment $2OQ000,000 annually. Under
these financial difficulties it would seem
wise for France to show u little more
peaceful front in these outlying countries,
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1895-08-15
GROVER AND Al THIRD TERN.
Col. Watterson Says, if Nominated, II
Would Not Carry u Single Precinct.

Detroit, Mich, Aug. 11.-Col. Henr
Watterson, in am interview on genera
political topics, said: 81 have no idY
President Cleveland considers the idea
another term, but if, by any concentraItid
of miracles, President Cleveland should be
the nominee, he would not carry a county
in the United States.
'There was never stauncher, more gal.
liant little band than the immortal BOG
which stood for Grant in that historic
convention at Chicago, and when they fail
ed, it was written, never to be erased
that third term is repugnant to the peo-
pie of the United States.
cleveland, l repeat, would not carry q
single precinct of the country.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1895-08-15
RAIN AND WIND.

Danville, N. Y, Aug. ia Terrific
main and wind storm, accompanied by
heavy thunder and sharp lightning.
passed over this section today, lasting
nearly two hours. Many trees were
twisted and blown down. lightning
struck in several places and much damage
was done among the farming community
fields of corn being fattened to the ground,
corn being 'au@.nd up and blown down;
A cloud burst On the JackawIana caused
"a bad landslide. The storm Is remark
able for the vo'ume of waiter that fell i'm
the short pace If time, nearly four inches
being registered.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1895-08-15
BY MAIL.
ADVERTISING RATES.

Advertising rates will be made known
on application.
Eastern business office, As Tribune
building. New York. Western business
office, 100 "The Rookery," Chicago.
S. G. Beckwith, sole agent for foreign
advertising.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1895-08-15
CHRISTIAN WORKER

Manor, Tex, Aug. 12.-(Special,) THE
meeting at the Christian church continues
with increased interest. Eight were bap-
tiZcd yesterday.
The protracted meeting commenced at
the Methodist church yesterday. Rev.
John Il. Green of Calvert is here assist
ing and Rev. w. Wimberly of Brennan
is eNDectcd.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1895-08-15
EXCURsIONIsTs AT GALVESTON.

Galveston. Tex, Aug. 11.-(Speclal,( =
Five thousand excursionists We're In the
city today, coming from points as far
north as Purcell, l. T., and as near nome
as Houston.
Chief of Police Jones is enforcing the
Sunday law from 10 to 4 o'clock, but the
saloon men have combined and will make
a test case to defeat the baw
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1895-08-15
JUTY EXPORTS.

Washington, Aug. PA statement by
the bureau of statistics, treasury depart
ment, gives the amounts of the priEcii-
pal articles of export during the month
of July as follows:
Mineral oils, 1892. 903; July last year,
$2,3S5, 1872; cotton, $1,91S,979;. July d last
last year SS,13S. 1913: provisions, $14,024.
GSS, as against $14,765,755 during July,
1901
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1895-08-15

The Houston Post has been more in
dulgcnt and more eulOgistic Of Judge
Reagan than any paper in the State ad
vocating a sound currency and opposing
the unlimited coinage of silver at the
present ratio, but in defense of the truth
and sound monetary principles the Pos'
has been compelled to animadyert
Judge Reagans utterances as full Of
transparent fallacies."
Judge Reagan viii find many more Of
his most able and valuable friends forccc
by his course TO come to the same conclu
sions about him. If he had only been tru'
to the Democratic party to the last III
would have well earned the name of the
"grand Odd man."
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1895-08-15
TAKr ATT, yOU WANT.

San Antonio, Tex, Aug. 1O..(Speclal.
w. II. Ellis. the organizer of the negro
colony in Mexico, is here en- route to Ne nv
York. He says his company spent lts
money in good faith trying TIC, carry -, out
ills Part of the contract, but that failure
was due to the failure Of the negro IN me IN
role of pioneer. He has come TO one
limited States to arrange to take a COL
Iony of Cinnamon to Mexico.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1895-08-15
JACKSON'S SUCCESSORS.

The Waco Tribune, speaking of the
possible appointment of q Southern man
to succeed Justice Jackson, says: st is
perfectly natural that Texas should
think of the name of George Clark of
Waco as q man worthy to fill the place.
Even SILVER Democrats so-called, ap-
preciating Judge Clark's ability as a law
yer, worth as a man, and public service
would share right heartily the satisfac-
tion and pride Texans in general would
feel in seeing the honor come to this
State. We do not allow our differences
of opinion to blind us to the worth of a
man as a CONSERVATION of a public trust.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1895-08-15
WILLIAMSON CROPS.

Georgetown, Tex. Aug. f2.-(Special) )
Two light showers the past week, the hrst
since June 90, helped cotton just little.
Cotton has matured rapidly under the rays
of the hot sun, and picking viii become
general this week. The first bale Is
hourly expected. From present lnulcat
tions the estimated decrease of % per cent
in Weld will be fully realized.
The corn crop yield is fully 90 per cent
greater than last year.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1895-08-15
n,pAyE1ING AGENT.

Maj. j. s. Crawford. The public is
cautioned not to pay money to amy other
person who may represent him or them
selves MS travelling agents of this parer' as
all authority heretofore issued to any
other person is hereby revoked.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1895-08-15
WON'T HAVE IT,

An official account showes that there are
really 100000 silver dollars stored in
the mint at Philadelphia, and all efforts
to get them into active Giro lla-iOn have
proved futile. On the first of this month
there We're stored in the United States
treasury 81, 542, 513 silver dollars and
94,702, 557 gold dollars. There were in
circulation ON that day 4S5,77S,610 gold
dollars and only 81, 746 706 silver dollars.
People do NOT want silver dollars, and
it is difficult to get them ito circulate. A
Statesman reporter for several weeks has
watched the Union ticket Office in the
city during the hours when tickets are
being sold, and 80 times Quit of 100 when
prices were over So, payments have been
made i'm paper or gOld. The largest
amount of silver seen i'm the hands of
amy one man was 500 and he requested
Mr.. DawleSs, the accommodating ticket
agent, to give him either gold or paper
for it. MIR. Lawless gave him gold. The
other day the same reporter noticed a
country lady selling butter and eggs to
Mr.. Warren, the Sixth street grocer
Her purchases amounted to 81 more than
she received for her butter and eggs, and
she paid the difference with a So gold
piece and two silver dollars. Silver is
too bulky and heavy, and outside of
change the people do not want it, and
they win not use it as long as they can
get gold and paper. Its just as easy,
indeed much easier, to get silver but
they prefer the other. The silver miners
know this, and adj they are after on earth
is Law to compel people to use and take
silver whether they want it or mot. That's
what they are after, and it's all they are
after. Watch the big railroad offices and
you'll find out the money the people pre-
fer and are using.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1895-08-15
wET ELECTION.

Wmsboro. Tex. Aug. 10.-CSpecal)-
IN the county local nntion election TO-DAY
this precinct gave 100 anti majority.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1895-08-15

much pracitcal experience with smallpox,
arrived today and will assist DIR; Ma
grinder at the quarantine camp. Three
death reported yesterday. No new cases.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1895-08-15

That Fc,ny's ",''o ~! n'ar-aa,a TnrN
gives quick and positive relief in a. bowel
complaints. 25c and SOC. For salo by
Tohin's drug store ard VI. e. '1nrrwell's
drug store.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1895-08-15
WHEAT AND WHEAT PRICES.

The Philadelphia Press says: "a re-
duced yield of wheat i'm this country is
confidently counted upon by wheat bulls
to advance the average price of wheat
next winter beyond 80 cents a bushel on
the seacoast, a price which plays the
part dollar wheat once did. There was
last year q reduced yield of wheat in
this country. The crop was 15O,0OO,OoO
bushels short of a big crop and it was
100000 short of the average for FIVE
years before. Yet wheat registered the
lowest recorded price since the present
grading of what was adopted. Why?
Simply because tha crop in this country
does not settle the worlds yield. The
crop was shon. here. In August, 1894,
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1895-08-15
FOUND IN THE ASYLUMs.

The Galveston News says: "All but
three of the male inmates of the Nebras-
ka lunatic asylums are said to be for free
coinage"
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1895-08-15

George Clark calls the Fort Worth
meeting "Rcagan ghost dance"
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1895-08-15
TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION.
IN THE CITY.

IN THE CII1.
One Month-In advance ........ 81 w
Three Months-In advance ...... 20
O.. >1or,+be--In advance .. ) %
ono ycor-In advance ...... 10 90
Sunday only-One year .......... w
Sunday only-Six months ........ w
All subscriptions in the city not paid IN
advance will invariably be charged at
the rate Of $1.00 per month.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1895-05-01
A still Hunt for Ancestors.

1t is remarked in New York that
Judge Pryor's wife has written for the
Century Magazine a paper that she
calls "a Search for an Ancestor" and
it is said the topic is timely, for ever
since Ward McAllister's first social adj
vent the Four Hundred have contained
many family units who have been
hunting up ancestors, pedigrees and
coats of arms. There is, socially, a
veritable craze for the latter, and the
pedestrian who may linger Mt book
sellers windows can view display of
crests and notices from which coats
of arms may be made up by many of
the newly rich, whose ancestors really
had no arms to their coats. Hunting
up ancestors may yet become prom
inent social sport among the city
swells. Any sort of an ancestor will
do when man is in a hurry for ped
igree. New Orleans Picayune.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1895-05-01

A West Greenland expedition has
been arranged for the season of 1895.
The prominent organizers are from
New York and Brooklyn. Philadel-
phia, Boston, Princeton and Chicago
will also furnish scientists, money and
supplies. The committee under whose
auspices the expedition has been
started consists of Cyrus O. Adams,
who was Lieutenant Peary's right
hand man; Professor William Libbey,
OF Princeton Professor t. @. Cham
berlain, of the University of Chicago;
Herbert l.. Bridgman, of Brooklyn,
and Prof, ssor Franklin w. Hooper, OF
the Brooklyn Institute.
Tho plan is TO charter whaling
stenmer capable of accommodating
ten scientists exclusive of the crew.
She will leave st. Johns about tho
middle of June, cruise along the west
ern Greenland coast, thence TO Peary's
headquarters in McCormick's Bay to
bring him and his comrades home.
Tho expenses of the expedition will
amount to $40, 200. They will be
met by contributions of $1,000 from
ten institutions of learning, and each
institution will send a representative.
Chicago Times-Herald.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1895-05-01
REMEDY FOR RATS AND NICE.

These small but greatly destructive
vermin of the farm may be kept in
subjection without much trouble il
the right methods are taken. First,
the buildings should be constructed
with special reference to them; this,
however, is rarely thought of by build
ers. No hiding places should be per-
mitted under the floors or behind the
fittings the floors should either be on
the ground and made of concrete,
through which rats cannot burrow,
or raised so high above it that cats
and dogs can go everywhere in pur-
suit OF their natural game. Three or
four good cats, preferably emasculated
ones, and one good terrier-a fox
terrier is the best--or ali OF these,
will, if we'll fed, spend the greater
part of their time in hunting, and so
very soon exterminate the vermin.
Otherwise poison should be used in
such a way as to avoid danger to 9TH
er animals. This may be done by
mixing a very little powdered strych-
nine with some fat in which cornmeal
is mixed; and putting small guam
titles of this in holes bored in blocks
OF wood, so that the vermin can get
at it and other animals cannot. These
traps are scattered about where the
vermin will be likely to get at the
bait. New York Times.