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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-10-10
New York Produce Market.

New York Oct D.
FLOUR Receipts. 5000 pkgs exports
1852 bbls. 1870 sacks; sales, 12.Gol pkgs
marke ,, Stssdy nn @I., a,ie,;
RYE FLOUR-Quite. steady.
BI-CKWHEAT FLOUR-$i5o
BUCKW H EAT-Firm quoted $50 track
CORN MEAI.-Quiet, steady. unchanged
RfE-Quiet. unchanged.
BARLEY Steady.
WHEAT-Receipts. $500 exports b
99i sales. -; dun. tirmer. No red fob.
SIS; No. northern. 1j9s.
CORN-Receipts, 10iS25; exports. 1918
sales, 5000; dull, firmer; No. ., .93sM2a1.
elevator, 30$s ft30l2 afloat.
OATS-Receipts. 80 GOO; exports. "a, 43S
sales, $4,000: dun. firm; No. p 2134; No.
white %, No. Chicago 223.: No. 8. 1872
No 3 white, %; mixed Western, 20M23
white. 22n3o; white do, 22n3G; white state
2203o
BEEF-Quiet firm; beef hams, dull,
tierced beef, steady; cut meats, quiet
firm.
LARD-Firm, quiet, Western steam
closed, S4.62ia; city 81 10: refined duh; con
tinent, $3.50; S. A., $5.25; compound, $i.25
MH.50
PORK-Quiet. firm.
BTTTER-F Fancy. firmer; state dairy
1od16; do creamery. l1i2Ml7l2: Western
dairy. 1laG,11; do creamery, 1ll2mlS; do
factory. lM1i: elgins. 1!l2a1S.
PETROLEUM-S Steady. unchanged.
COFFEE-Rio. dull. steady.
SUGAR-Raw, fairly active, steady: re
fined &c lower fair demand: No 6. 39s
No I. 3 Gle; No. s, 3i2; No. 9. ZIG; No.
s-i6, off a, $4a3zs mould a. a.; stand
ard a, AS; confectioners, 4: cut loaf. Az
crushed. AZ. powdered, AS: graduated,
AZ; cubes. 42s.
FREIGHTS-To Liverpool. market, firm.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-10-10

\ workman in a Bath foundry had an
experience the other day that he does moi
care to repeat. In certain processes Of
the work cyanide of potassium is used
The man had been engaged in this de
partment of the work and having finished
ing that particles of the deadly drug
might still he clnging to his hands. AL
most Immediately he was seized with gid
diness and ii was with the greatest diff
ticulty that he was able to make tracks
for the nearest drug store, where he ar
rived white as a sheet from fright and
the effects of the poison Powerful emet-
les expelled the stuff from his system and
it is a safe wager that he will eat no
more peanuts during business hours.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-10-10

Culture In the Rural Schools" Miss Theo
n. Larrabee, kingman: What Should
We Teach Beside Text-Books,' Miss
Teaching PenmanAhip in the I.ower
Grades" Miss Savlla HAYDEN. Malta
wamkeag. What Preparation Should a
Teacher Make for Her Work." Mr. w
o. Chase, Kingman; why do Teachers
Need Teachers Meetings?" Mrs. W. o.
Chase. Kingman: How Can We Assist
Our Pupils in Improving Their Vocabula-
RESP Rev. j. ID. Murphy. Lee. "Educa-
ton for American Citizenship" Mr.. 70
f. Pratt, Springfield; How Much Disci.
pline Should Be Insisted Upon in Our
Schools?' Mr.. Horace c. Drew I.incoln
''Archilles Heel b. r. Somervtile NJ ID
kingman; How Can We Best interest
the Parents in the School, by Miss Grace
DeLaite. Kingman; How to Conduct
Reviews Mr.. c. A. Blake. Vanceboro
"Penmanship in the Schools from a
Teachers Standpoint" Mr.. +. /, Var.
ncy, Lowell. State Superintendent Of
Schools Stetson delivered ii forcible ad
dress on what the Public Owes the phi
lie Schools. Prof. Estabrook Of Tho
Maine State College gave a practical ta liz
on Elementary Sciences in the Common
Schools" and an able address on '"rhe
Price of Success. The following officers
We're elected by the association: Presi
dent Rev. j. ". Hatch. kingmar; first
vice-president. w. O. Chase. Eingman ,
second vice president l.. A. Merrill, Lin
coin; secretary. H. c. Drew Lincoln
trustees. |. f. Seavy. Nanceboro Miss
Savilla NJ. Hayden. Mattawamkeag: Miss
Sadie l.. Doyen Springfield.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-10-10
MARKET REPORTS.
New York Money Market.

New York, Oct. O.
Money firm, 4uS.
Prime mercantile paper. Sd9.
Governments. steady.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1896-05-07

political differences and associations and
who will abide the result of such election
and support the nominees of the Marty
slall be admitted to participate in said
primary, election, and no registration of
voters shall be required as a condition ia
such participation in said primary cleo
ton.
Ihlrd-The basis of representation in
the county convention provided for in the
fourth section hereof shall be one vote for
every 20 votes or fraction thereof over
Twelve, cast in the voting precinct for
CHARLES a. CulbersOn for governor at the
general election in 1894, provided that
each voting precinct shall be entitled TO t
least one vote.
Fourth-The Democratic voters of each
voting precinct shall also at said primary
election and at the same time said cues
ton is submitted vote for and elect the
number of delegates to which they may
be entitled as hereinbefore provided in sec
tlon ., to represent them in Democratic
county convention which shall convene in
Austin on June II, 1896, for the purpose
of electing twel We delegates and twelve al
ternates who shall be the delegates from
Travis county to all Democratic state
judicial, and also twelve delegates and
twelve alternates to the Ninth congress
sional district convention, and twelve
delegates and twelve alternates to the
Twentieth senatorial district convention
and all of said delegates shall be consider
ed as instructed by the Democracy of
Travis county for or against the question
submitted as a majority vote of the Dem
ocracy voting by precints in said county
of June II, may determine.
And said convention shall perfect the
of Democratic organization
for Travis county by electing chairman
of county executive committee.
Fifth-The vote at said primary cleo
ton of June 6, shall be by ballot and
each side of the question submitted shall
prepare and use a separate ballot All
ballots shall be written or printed on plain
white paper of any description without
anything thereon except the writing or
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1896-05-07
ERA OF ELECTRICITY.
Elaborate Preparations Made to Open
New York Electrical Exposition.

New York, May 3.-Tomorrow night
Governor Morton will open the National
Exposition of Electrical Appliances in
the industrials art building in this city
elaborate preparations have been made
for this event. and it is expected that the
attendance will be large and include
! some of the most distinguished cleo
tricians in this, country. The governor
Will use upon this occasion the gold key
with which President Cleveland put in
motion the wheels of industry at the
Worlds Fair. Governor Morton will
also. at the declaration that the EXPOSE
ton is open, discharge four pieces of ar
tillery, one stationed in the public square
in San Francisco, one in Augusta, Me-.
one in front of the public buildings of
st. Paul and the other in a public park
in New Orleans. This discharge is also
to be accomplished by a current of cleo
tricity generated in Niagara and trans
mitted over the telegraph lines of the
Postal Telegraph and Gable company.
1t as also with the sanction of the secre-
tary. or war, the government artillery
service being brought into requisition.
The total weight of the turbine wheel,
shaft and generator, is upward of 100
tons. This model, which was shown and
operated with the Niagara current, is
cross section of the tunnel, wheel pit and
machinery, and also shows section of
the city of Niagara Falls. with the course
of the river and American falls, the
islands and the Canadian frontier.
Surrounding this model will be a series
of telephones with which will be connect
ed receivers placed in Victoria park, on
the Canadian side of the Niagara river.
Another feature of unusual interest
will be the closing of circuit around the
world by which a cable message will be
sent by Chauncey NJ. Depew over the
cables to Lisbon, through the Medterra-
mean sea and the Suez canal, the Red sea
and Alden: thence to Ceylor and Austria
liza. returning by way of the Cape of Good
Hope, African coast, the Brazilian cable,
the land line to the City of Mexico;
thence by way of San Francisco to New
York. This message Mr.. Depew will
send from table which will be placed
in gallery of the exposition building.
1t will be addressed to and received by
Edward D. Adams, president of the
Niagara Power company, whose reply
will be transmitted to and read by DR..
Derew, who will follow with a brief ad-
dress upon the electric era
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1896-05-07
NERVE RESTORER
a Natural Remedy for Diseases of tbe
nervous System-Fifteen Years
an Invalid.

D. W. Draper of Gainsboro. Tenn.
writes; For fifteen years previous 70
our marriage my wife had been con-
staht sufferer, never able to do the slight.
est work. Many times, when she at
tempted to do some little thing. she was
compelled to take her bed. When we
were married the doctor said she could
not i've six months. Her nervous sys-
TEN was deranged from the drugs and
stfong medicines she had been obliged
TO take; but, Notwithstanding all This,
after course of Pe-ru-na, she has won,
derfully improved, until now she is the
very picture of health, doing her own
housework and cooking for several
boarders BESIDES" -
Fe-ru-na is natural and efficient
nerve tonic. 1t strengthens and restores
, 1ne activity of every nerve in the body.
through the use of Pe-ru-na the weak
ehed or oyerworked nerves resume their
natural strength and the blood vessels
Degln at once to regulate the flow ac.
cordlng to natures laws. COMPOSITIONS
Immediately disappear. 1t is through
lts operations upon the nervous system
that Fortuna has attained such a world
wide reputation as a sure and reliable
catarrh cure.
For free spring book address The Pc
ru-na Drug Manufacturing COMPANY.
Columbus, o.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1896-05-07
----
DEMOCRATIC CALL.
Chairman Johnson Issues Call for the
June & Primaries

To the Democracy of Travis County:
On February 30, 1896. the Democratic
executive committee of Travis county
adopted the following resolution:
Be it resolved. First, That there shall
be held on the 9th day of June 1896
throughout Travis county, within each
and every voting precinct, Democratic
primary election at which election shall
be submitted to the Democracy of said
voting precinct the question as to whether
or not they favor bimetallism-that is, the
free coinage of both gold and silver into
standard money without discriminating
against either metal or charge for mint
age upon the same terms and subject only
to like limitations as to right of coinage
and legal tender qualities at the ratio now
established in this country of IL of sill
Yer to l OF gold.
Second-In holding said primary cleo
ton all persons shall be permitted to par
ticipate who possess the general qualfi-
cations of voter under the constitution
and laws of this state, are residents of
the county and voting precinct in which
they propose to vote, as required by the
laws of this state, and who are Demo-
Gratis. The call of the chairman of the
national Democratic executive committee
is as follows:
CHAIRMAN HARRITY'S CALL.
Philadelphia, Pa, Jan. 24.-National
Chairman Harrity this afternoon issued
the official call for the Democratic nation
al convention. 1t reads as follows:
philadelphia, Pa. Jan. "A, 1S96.-The
national Democratic committee having
met III the city of Washington, d. c.,
January 16. 1896, has appointed Tuesday,
July I. 1896, at u o'clock noon, and
chosen the city of Chicago, ILL.,, as the
place for holding the Democratic national
convention.
Each state is entitled to representa-,
I'VE therein equal to double the number
OF It's senators and representatives in the
congress of the United States, and each
territory and the District of Columbia
silail nave two delegates.
All Democratic conservative citizens
OIL the United States, irrespective of past
polltlcal associates and differences, who
can unite with us in the effort for pure,
economical and constitutional government
are cordially invited to join with us in
sehuihg delegates to the convention.
IVY. +. HARRITY, Chairman.
:. I. SHERRIN, Secretary
=, therefore all Democratic voters under
the laws of this state, irrespective of past
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1896-05-07
HAS A PECK OF TROUBLE.

New York, May "a dispatch to the
Herald from London says:
The underground resentment and ex-
citement against the emperor of Ger
many is very much like the feeling
which existed in France in 1870 against
Bismarck. Making all due allowances
for national temperament, the insults
one hears daily hurled at the German en-
peror surpasses tenfold anything you
read in print. You get an idea of what
the feeling is when you note how even
men in the responsible position of min
lister of state constantly say that they
will not tolerate any foreign interfer-
ence at any cost. 1t is France and the
candidature of the Hohenzollern prince
in Spain over again, and l fear the same
blindness with regard to the real state
of affairs.
Yesterday the permanent secretary of
an ambassador told your correspondent
that the English will achieve what has
been deemed impossible-the reconciia-
ton of France and Germany-and this
at their own expense. One day it is
the treachery of Russia" next the Sin
trigues of Germany" next the "machina-
ton of the Beers" and lastly ''wicked-
ness OF Turks" and amid all this Mr..
Chamberlain, who in the sentence adj
mits that in international matters the
Beers are their own masters, yet pro-
ceeds to say that their government is
corrupt, etc, whereas by the law of ma
lions the home government of the Beers
is no more the concern of the English
than that of Dakota.
The relations between the English and
German royal families is very bad.
Prince Henry of Russia was here the
other day. He put up at hotel and
left his card for the Prince of Wales
when he was out.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1896-05-07

business for the stockholders meeting
next Wednesday: Messrs. Walter Tins
Lewis Hancock, w. a. Blackburn. r. J.
Hill and Franz Fiset. Mr.. jim RAY
mond was made secretary of this com
mittee. The meeting then adjourned sub
Ject to call by the chairman, or until
the meeting next Wednesday.
In connection with this victory too
nigh praise can not be given to Mr.. Jim
Raymond. secretary of the Board of
Trade, for his untirng work in the inter.
est of the mill. He, with Messrs. 81. G.
Gildard, Frank Heierman and John n
Smith, were called 1.-THE regulars" and
worked day and night for the anse.
They are entitled to the praise of all Aus
TIN for their unterrified and indefatigable
work. ''e
At the close of the list, as again pub-
llshed this morning, you will find the
names OF those who came to the rescue
Mr.. Gildard raised his suh.
scription from $4,000 to $4,000. and
there were 5000 increases by Messrs. G
Il; Jones and j. A. Bachman.
The thing is done, and all Austin has
the greatest cause to be glorionslv
happy. We are assured of n 500 001
cotton mill, and it is far more than likely
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1896-05-07
HIS REMAINS WERE FLOATING
DOWN THE RIVER WHEN
DISCOVERED.
THE BOYS NAME IS JOHNNIE SHELL
He Has Been Missing From Home for
Several Days Past and the Cause
of His Drowning Is
Unknown.
FRIDAY HAPPENINGS

Last afternoon about 3 o'clock n tele
phone message came in from the dam
conveying the information that the body
of boy about IA years old had been
found out at the dam, floating on the
lake. Justice Johnson and a Statesman
reporter went out to the dam immediate.
ly and found the body of a boy floating
IN the water dozen \rods above the
wharf, tied to the shore by rope In
curry OF those at the dam developed that
the boy had been seen by Mr.. G.. T.. Kirk
and Mr.. Ellison floating about 100 wards
above the wharf on the surface of the
lake. They took a row boat, and. going
out to the corpse, towed it ashore and
tied it there awaiting the arrival of the
coroner. When the body was examined
it was found that it had been evidently
been in the water four or five days. The
BODY was swelled considerably and the
lace was twice its natural size. The
fumes from the body were sickening in
the extreme and gave further evidence to
the fact that the body had been i'm the
water some time.
NO one out at the dam could identify
the body and there was nothing on the
boy parsonage, outside of pocket knife.
that would serve as a means of identified
ton. All the hair was gone off his head
and the fish or something else had eaten
the face until it was almost unrecog-
nizable. The body was brought back to
the city and taken to the undertaking es-
adjustment of Weed Il Rosengren,
where it was dressed
After the remains were taken to the
undertakers, Justice Johnson made eff
forts to ascertain the identity of the boy.
After some investigation it was found
that the boy was named Johnnie Shell,
and he was the son of a widow lady living
near the University. 1t will be remem-
hered that last week there appeared in
The Statesman a card from Mrs. Shell.
asking for information about her missing
boy, and now sad indeed are the tidings
conveyed to her.
AS to what caused the drowning of the
boy, no one seems able to give a reason
He was not seen at the dam any time dur
ing the past two weeks. and he must have
been wandering through the woods above
the mountains and fallen off into the
lake.
The remains will be taken to George
town for interment in the family burying
grounds there.
The boys age was Is and he left home
Wednesday. April u. A widowed
mother sister and one brother survive
him.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1896-05-07
.0URGLOR|OUS GOAL REACHED
WE HAVE GOTTEN THAT COTTON
MILL FOR AUSTIN
SURE.
-
100000 IS NOW SAFELY RAISED.
And We Are Going to Build a $15O,OOO
Cotton Mill and Make Austin the
Great and Prosperous City
That She Should Be.

The world is ours! 1t was long
pull and hard pull, but we have gotten
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1896-05-07

we will get $15O,0OO one. Now let us
all get down to better and more enthusi-
astic work for our city and make her hum.
We, the undersigned, hereby severally
subscribe for the number Of shares Of
one hundred dollars ($100) each, set op-
posite our respective names in the Austin
Cotton Mill, private corporation to be
organized under the laws of the state of
Texas and located at Austin, Texas, for
the purpose of erecting and operating
cotton mill. and promise to pay for the
same as follows:
Ten QO) per cent to Walter Tips, in
trust for said corporation. as soon as 1000
shares of said stock shall have been sub
scribed, and the balance to the treasurer
of said corporation, when organized, as
the board of directors shall call for said
balance in installments not to exceed ten
(1O) per cent per month.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1896-05-07

But now our chief glory is that we have
raised the 100000 absolutely necessary
for our first cotton mill. Yesterday
$1,000 were added to the List. swelling It
to 100000. This is $4,000 more than
indicated as necessary in the heading of
the subscription blanks, but that did not
mean that we were to stop at a 500. 600
mill. Nor is this $102, 900 all that has
been secured. There is already virtually
$4,000 more actually in sight with n
good proba bility of a larger single sub
scription than has yet been made to the
mill. So it has been decided to take ont
a charter for a S150,00O MILL and it is
thought that the subscriptions to stock
will fall but little, if any, below that
ngure, We are virtually dead sure of
S3o,OOO more stock and it is thought
there will be, many that. now that thew
see the mill is assured, will want to come
INTO so good a thing. 1t was decided
at the cotton mill meeting last afternoon
that while active solicitation by the COM
mlttee should cease, the books would
be left open for the next week to any and
all that care to subscribe. You can find
the lists at Mr.. Raymond Office in the
Lltten building up to next Wednesday
AFTERNOON, when organization of the cor
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1896-05-07

in the mill.
The cotton mill committee had a meet
ing last afternoon at the Board of Trade
office, in the Litten building, in the ma
ture of a general jOllifcation over results
accomplished and tottake steps for the
future. a. that needing, as above
stated, it was resolved to leave the books
open for subscriptions until next Wednes-
day. 1t was further decided to hold on
next Wednesday, at the Board of Trade
hall, at O'Clock in the afternoon, a meet
in of all the stockholders, to vote on
the adoption of charter and to elect
directors for the ensuing year. These
directors will then at once organize by
electing officers and get down to work
building the mill and ordering the ma
chinery. The following committee was
appointed by MIR. A. p. Woodbridge,
ter and to arrange complete order of
poration takes place, and if you are wise
you will call around and take some stock
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1896-05-07

For Bimetallism:
That is, for the free
coinage of both gold
and silver in t o
standard IN O II e V
without any discrim-
ination against eth
er metal or charge
for mintage, upon
the same terms and
subject only to like
limitations as to the
right of coinage and
legal tender quail
ties at the establish
ed ration of 16 to l."
Delegates to the
county convention
of June II.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1896-05-07

there with both feet and we have just
started in to make the race of Austins
life. The cotton mill is ours and the
fullness thereof will all come in due time,
when we begin to reap the benefits not
only of this first mill but of the many
that will quickly follow in its wake. For
the others will come. and never you have
doubt about it. And when they start
to come they will get here quicker by
very many moons than this first one has
come. Our people have been slow in
catching on to this new kind of enter.
prise, which is totally out of the line of
investment to which they have been ac-
customed. But when they see this first
mill go up and see for themselves what
a magnificent paying investment it will
prove they will distance all competitors
in putting up the second, third and fourth
mills. For there are no keener business
men in the world than the people of Aus.
tin, and once let them find out a good
thing and they will run it down to finish.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1896-05-07

against Bimet-
allism, and for Sin
gle Gold Standard:
That is, against the
free coinage of sill
yer into standard
money without dis
eliminating against
it or charge for
mintage, upon the
same terms and sub
ject only to like linn
itations as to right
of coinage and le-
gal tender qualities
as is given to gold
at the ratio of 16
to L."
Delegates to the
county convention
of June 18th.