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Fit ESI DENT IIAVE.S A NO THE JLUC OF AIST1N. President Hayea did nothing more last Friday at Cincinnati than translate patent accomplished facta when he said, "if Maine bad elected a Green-backer or and if Ohio should prefer Ewing, the Democratic candidate, these wild theories of in-nation would die all the same." At first they captivate the ignorant, but none who think continue to entertain them. Only party leaders who must consolidate and maintain an organization of followers adhere to a philosophy as yspid as that on which Green-backism ia based. In truth practical facts before our own eyes here in demonstrate the folly of Brick Pomeroy'a philosophy so thoroughly that his boldest disciples are silenced. Four and fire years ago large areas of city property were sold on five years' time.

Contraction begat scarcity of money. The volumes of currency was lessened, and mosshackism conspired with Sherman and nothing was dene to give mechanics or laborers employment. These instead of directing public opinion into practical 'channels and compelling as they could the inauguration of railway and other beneficent local enterprises, held paper Cat money, moonshine meetings, and exploded much twaddle and nonsense. Property declined in value with great rapidity until tar-gatherers wept, and the city's and county's rulers, when they contemplated assessor's rolls, hastened to have friends of those in authority to whoop up prices and fix new standards of valuation, They, too, like the Greenback clubs, went off on a false only asserted on paper the Tlenial of the extraordinary decline in taxable values. Instead of this they bhould have induced the people to in augurate schemes of publio beneficence tnd of progress.

Popular wealth might have been augmented much more rap-i than its volume was lessened by the ontraction of the currency. Office sold era and Greenback philosophers both faVoS en srfalse seent. The place holders sought to maintain old prop my valuations and assessments, and more absurd Greenbackers absolutely undertook to compel the augmentation the volume of paper money. IIow eople could be enriched by holding their own promises to pay, called flat sr.oney, nobody has ever discovered, r.ad how- county or city can be ag by puled up assessment rolls none have learned. But the in Me of governments was made greater i the great wrong done -l a crime was perpetrated when i roperty 'values were expanded on tax i -itoks.

"This augmentation of values lould have been real and ccted by practical measures t.u by the promotion of publio enterprises. If the genins and force of rnbacklsm had been directed to the purpose of doubling property val- instead of doubling and thus less-mg by half the value of money, Aus-1 would be to-day the most prosper 1 of American cities and purchasers i lots sold four and five years ago not hopelessly bankrupt. oy must Iobo the money they have ended and the property they I at one remedy, the mortgagees, reus and just as they are known 1 will extend all debts ono or even jcarj, if these tax-consumers I leviera of taxes aud these ar-; lovers of the peoplo will inaugurate a practical lustead vf 'j, delusive paper mouey scheme A local railway can re-e the course of events and assure relief of the unfortunate and give hraietst to every working man and the' actual v.alae of property i i of doubling the volume of The President told the ho truth. The fiat money delusion rna its course. Thin paper never hed a country.

It may expand '-l values, but only that its hold-jo'icve themselves of it and instead, gold or silver or prop-This not the relief sought by or the couistry. We would -i the resources of the city and developed and property given greater productive value price thus increased. Then of gold doilirs will com-i in be as.grcAt sa the number nd the indebte'd ihl to rich instead of tbreat-. the Ii'uh tenantry, with i tad ai i. ladies of literary icmsnts will read the of the JVi the progress of the United Elate; tha jveajent ia Italy; painf-toric rclstic-cs; rthioa the prob'cui tho Isws cf Virgil a i t-1 THE NEU'PtPER? ASD THE PAR1Y OKKS.

It costs money to set type, and some body must pay for it; and ihy who take airings in newspapera shoal al ways provide travelling expenses. We cannot print personal matter for the high or low, or speeches for real or imaginary statesmen, or resolutions for public or private unless the money accompany the request. Before the war the production of newspapers cost one-half less than to-day, and edi tors worked for nothing. They undertook everything that concerned the public. If the "dear public" were di rectly or indirectly interested in the matter to be printed the public was never to pay a cent, and only the editor.

Newspapers cannot exist on such terms. Ouce they did and starved, and printers were ragged and editors were stipendiaries of the big party leaders, who doled out a little money now and then and used the Legislature in rewarding the poor flitterer and sycophant of greatne's and of the paity with l.t:le printing jjba. Newspapers were not corrupt in those Hut they never forgot the "spoil" when the party triumphed. And whtB victory was theirs hungry rivals came in swarms to bid against ono another, and these skeletons crawled npon their bellies about the Legislature and Gov ernor that they might Blake unut era- ble thirst at the little 1'ittVius suffered to 11 in their direction by the great monopolists of plunder and power. The party leaders stjod, as upon a monumental stone, and btli out the well gnawed bone of public printing for the hungry hounds of the press to bay and gloat over.

The moat nearly starved of the pack won it, and commonly killed himself in the effort to digost it. Publishers, since those days, have learned something, and legislatures acquired a little wisdom. The newspaper is no longer dependent upon the party or its manager or upon the lawmaking power for its existence. It is no longer bankrupted by concessions made to printing committees who build fairest tem ples of fame for public economy by robbing the starved and howling newspapers. Newspapers used to confess their serfdom.

They shamelessly admitted that they "belonged" to the party. But the tables are turned and the parties of our time belong to the newspapers. The press has won re spect to the very extent that it has won independencaind that newspaper is most nnohackled and most independent and most respected which practices most and preaches least cf the freedom of the press. It will bo a fortunate day for the country when all in newspapers have won positions and potency enabling them to live without making concessions to men or parties. Party leaders and professional office-seekers will deplore the event and still inveigh most bitterly against the' "treasonable" corrupt" press which, free as the winds, dares to tell the truth and thwart their schemes and insult their Janus-faced, cunning platforms.

Bat the great body of the people necessa rily approve most and support moat cheerfully that newspaper which is most fearless, which condemns or ap proves every proposition affecting the public, not because the party approves or condemns, but with reference sokly to the public good. It is needless therefore, for publishers of this age to write salutatoris or declare themselves "independent." They cannot, in eur time, publish successfully any other description of newspapers. 'People thinking for themselves and daring to ntter their thoughts on all subjects would have the same spirit animate the press, and everywhere in the Unt ted States, at this hour, the most suc cessful and powerful newspapers are those distinguished for their absolute freedom from the domination of party leaders and managers, and for the mal evolence with which they are denounced by these office-seekers and party-lead ers. THE SHERIFF CONVENTION FORGOT The coolest illustration of niatcbiees impudence, hardly surpassed by that of successful shyster, ia that of the fellow hangod at asked the spectators to "meet him in Heav en." Priests of one sort and another had been pumping crude notions of piety into the scoundrel, and abso lutely Induced the faith that he was deadheaded through' to paradise. If it were true, and priests and people be lieved it, the criminal was no criminal.

and should have been lib rate 1. li his ains were blotted out and God for gaye, so should mon forgive. It is to be assumed therefore, since the knave waa hanged after his sins were forgiven, that this dying enemy of man- kind sought to insult the law and the multUii lo by declaring that a sinless God could afford to pardon when they could not. The truth is if a villain deserve death for his crimes, he should not be suffered to make himself an object of popular sympathy or admiration. The death penalty is Axled in order to prtrfnt, and not toyvn-Of five tbilujind ignorant, stupid people who are willing to gze npon the disgusting, hideous spectacle presented when the hangman performs his hateful functions perhaps ball are ready to sympathize and admire.

I' the hardened villain meet death heroically, or like this scoundrel of Montague, with most ''divine resignation," the great body of the depraved spectators will almost envy, rather than pity or abhor, and the "example," bereft of benificence, the murderer dies in vain. Vulgar, illiterate men have even been induced to defy the menaces of the law and spurn its threats that they may be conspicuous and stared and wondered at and applauded for this splendid heroism of knavery. Conkling illustrates the feeling when, after the destruction of an woman's fame, ne appears with ttcparaileled audacity, the most conspicuous and veriest tyrant of his party, la the Sir a tog convention. Coukling a hero nnder the gallows commands the admiration et his race, and raena assenting to his absolute domination, confess themselves as deprived as the mighty, Senator. Uis Impudence is only comparable with that of the matchless knave at SlonUgde.

But" no ounce saiors shoald be mad cither to Cockling or murderer. Tho great party leader's ex-i3f' ,1 ths ccsiocicj cf lit vices sal the murderer under th? gallows proclaiming his innocence ami dtfiinee of punishment an death and bis cool adsertiou tht it signified nothing since Qol hal lv.r'v?a Liai, even if man had not all trad to promote the tviU aud cr'in naiity which the ai pfojurea to punibli and eineay, Too iruih is vxecutions sIk uM oceur within the til yurJ. Pdblic Bpcticlci of this sort are even u.ore brutalizing than Snn Ao oniobali and lion tights, or thoe of the New York prizi rmg at Siratogu. The cod yen tioo and the excellent tnd learned gentk-itann who dressed it forgot to iUpcuhs these questions the Uw giving these potect officers wide discretionary power. Very many blooty-min led adventurers and crim inals produced and reared in the Est are to be hanged in Ttxis at an early day.

Ourjiilsare luckily well sup plied with thuo, and juries never suffer an opportunity escape to average properly the law's violation, and sher iff should see that good result i rather than evil folliw the execution of the law's decrees. uiKiiiY Diitr- LIT TIONS OK UV I V. The Bston Trantcrit discussea the very facta affecting the suburbs of Boston, to which the Statesman has often adverted when deploring local follies of municipal administration, li the suburbs of Boston the water supply is perfect; but unthinking aldermen failed to provide means of drain age, res staoa iorever in gutters, forever depositing foreign matter. From streets, pavements and houses fi'th is constantly swept into the gutters, and water and sunshine do the test. Ripid decomposition of fecal and other substances progresses and disgusting odors arise.

There is little absorbent capacity in soil deposited thinly on a bed of limestone. Ilonses are built and furnished throughout with water pipeB and baths and drains for ref no of the kitchen. The citizen based his building contracts and action on that of the city by which he is fur nished with water. In other words, the city induces the citizen to in cur heavy cost in supplying his house with and then declared, last year, that he should not use it. In fact the Transcript says: "Our systems are wrong from begin ning to end.

The water pipes and the sewer pipes should go side by side. A slightly wider trench will accommodate both. The city virtually says that there wss no compulsion upon the owner to build his house and deluge it with water without tho means of get- ging rid of it, but if he does and the result is in any way a nuisance, toe board of health steps in and oMiges th? nuisance to be suppressed if possible, and if cot possible then its dictum works the ruination of the man a prop erty. Would it not be better to begin at the other end, by soma special ordinance, i 1 provide agaii st the poi 1 occurrecc4 of any nuisance or chance ot injury to health by specifying what may or may not be put iLtj a house where there is no eumcient dram for all the waste of modern conveniences In other words the water works are not sustained by txpayers that tax payers may use water as comfort, de cency, cleanlinesss and health require. The truth is, as stated by the Transcript the citizen is protected by implied contract with the city and can use the water as was contemplated when the water company was created, and as contemplated when the ordinary pipes and drains were constructed by him If nuisances supervene, the water taker who deluges the gutter is no more lia ble for damages than the man whose horses stand hitched to befoul the gut ter.

The law discovers co guilt in the owner of the horse or in the water consumer. But the city itself may be mulcted in damages if a cllizeo suffer from a nuisance created by the'se horses and these water drains from houses, Ia fact, the courts, if appealed to, would compel the city, in behalf of public health and decency, to put down glazjd pipes everywhere. No intelli gent court wculd fine a citizen for the use of health-giving water, which must be disposed oi when used. hood nEJioRiaL. Hod.

John II. Reagan, at the memorial strsico for Gen. Jl od at Hons. ton, reviewed the acta of his life from an hut jrial point of view. In conclud ing his beautiful oration he said Bo far I have only spoken of the military set vices of Gen.

Hood. The greatest ot generals in point of abil'ty and success in arms, if their services are rendered in a wrong cause, or if they are guided by improper motives. may be a curse to the age and country in which they aro tendered; and how ever brilliant and Bplendid; should not be examples for imitation, but should rather be warninga against the evils of ambition aud the dangers of wicked ness. But the services of Gen. Hood were tendered in a cause which he believed to be righteous and holy, and which was sanctioned by his sincere couvictiona of right.

It was the cause ot civil liberty and constitutional government; it was the protection of the rights of the States under the Federal Constitution aud the preservation of the rights of person and property to our people, a they desceuded to as from Magna Charts, and as they are in our Federal and State Coofttuotiona which meant that life, IKe.ty and property should be secure against aib.t ary power; that private proper should only be taken by public authority for publio use, and not then without just compensation; which mead that tho citizens should ties imm arrest except upon affiiavit jr indictment charging a violation of the law, and then only by a lawful narrant; which mtaot that the citizen shea then be to be heard by himaelf and counsel, and should have a fair publ.c trial by jury of his equals before the law. These he, aiong with mill ons of his couLt.youn, believed to be menaced and endangered by the policy and purposes of a sectional, domiiiaat and licentious majority. And subsequent events, known to yon al1, have anown that this belief waa well rounded, lie was. no mere soldier of ortuDf hu cooraa was not glided by cr but ne drew his sword in the cause of civil liberty; not on tae side of power, but ia defense of the weak; and wielded it as a true patriot and as one ot tht grandest heroes of. a great war; la which armies were marshaled, tread' shook the continent, and whose terrible cotfficti arrested the aiteatijnof the" civilized- Though a man of military education and life, after the clae ot the war hi civic and social virtues were as admirable as hu military career bad been in war.

Ha accepted the necessary results of the war, maimed and is poverty and without a petit ijn as he was, with a cheerful, manly fortitude, and at once applied. bicucU diligently and earnestly to commercidf and other pursuits to earn an independent UvtULvv by honorable means. tie ssver flespajM ia tie daiktit hours or under the severe-1 '01 clioos of being able to achieve iceem in civil pursuits, and sec ure lor himself an honorable competence. Of strocg, manly frame anfl fiero c. mould, i a ui us any kuicttt, and r-s fi aiid gentle iu I.h maooert and a.

pur: as a woman; lrlovtd and respected by who knew Ltm, he bred nnii diei lha slein of breath of 11: was a frtiti.fu!, brave, honest man, tad a true gentle Tue portraiture of the life and el ar-atterot II wi iill be without a to his dv uiet-tic bfe. In Iho jfar ISM In; waa niir-ried to the l-autiful and ace: mp'islied Miss Anna Mirie, daughter of Alford llennan, a d)6tirgmhed lawyer if New aa.l their uiairiae waa Llcaaed in eleven years with eleven lovely children. Wha a happy household a few weeks ago! A kind and affectionate husband and father, a lov-ing and devoted wife and mother, surrounded by their numerous children, i a the fullness of the enj lymcnt of domestic felici'y. Alas, how changed! Oa the twenty-fifih of August the mother died of yellow fever. On the thirtieth of the same month the spirit of the husband followed that of the wife, let us hope and believe, to the brighter and world, to le joined in a day or two after by that of their eldest daughter, Ljdia.

il changed, how deioUie that household, recently uaited and happy Father, moihtr and eldest sister, now renting in the silent city of ae dead, and ten orphan children left to mourn tlyir irreparable lose i no words cm describe this calamity to them, or adoi'iately express our sorrow for these stricken orphans. It is said that shortly before the dea'h of Gen. Ilood, in a message to Oen. Gibson, of New he bequeathed his children to the care of hi3 old Tex as brigade. With all tho tenderness of an anxious, riving father's love.

knowing that he would not leave suffi cient meaus for the support and education of his chil iren, his keen solicitude went out for them, and rested on his old comrades iu arms tae men who had served and suffered with him through a bloody wr; and who bad so often offered their lives with him for the cause so dear 1 1 them all. whose fidelity and honor and courage he had so often seen tried in the severest ordeals; men with whom he would have trusted his own life and honor, were the fittest men to whom he could trust the csre of his children, dearest and nearest him of all things on earth. The most of these war-scarred vtter- ans now living are poor, but with the knightly honor which belongs to such men, the scored trust will be discharged li that hJelity which he anticipated from his old com: ales when he con fided it to them. To have known Gc-n. Ilood in bis lifetime was to love and respect him.

To remember him in death is to esteem his character and tj -venerate his vir tues. How sleep tho brave, who sink to rel, Bv all their country's wmtir a.cit I hen spring, with dewy Angers cold, Returns to dock their ballow'd 'uouM, bhe there sh til drees a sweeter sod Than Fancy's feet huve t-ver trod. Bv fairy hands their knell is mi Bv forms onseen their aire is Bung; There Honor comes, a pilgrim pray. To bless the turf that wraps their clav And Freedom ehall awhl'e repair. To dwell, a weeping hermit, there.

THK DE1D NEWSPAPERS OF AUSTIN. The Statesman is the only daily published in the capital. Many have lived, and prospered the publishers said, since the Statesman began its career, but all of them rest at last quietly and peacefully beneath the daisies. It is sad to contemplate the graves and great number of little hillocks showing how mother earth heaved little sighs when they breathed their last, but she recovered from the shock to her tender sensibilities, and few remember at this hour, that these playful and harmless little brain children of literature "gamboled on the greer," or fared sadly at faro, or fell at a fountain, from which Pope never advised us to 'drink deeply or taste not." We have not the heart ti count the graves of dead newspapers strewn along the wayside of devious partisanship and liter ature in Austin. Borne of them de served to die and others to livt but a common lot befalls men and newspapers, and as the showers alike upon the just and the ur ist, even eo death cama upon al! ibai sought sustenance where there is not enough for flowers that only blossom in beauty to perish of the bierility of the soil and dryness of tie intellectual atmosphere of the cap til.

One daily may live and do well where there are only 1500 people who can be induced to pay for its dispatches and the services of those employed in producing it. When there are 30,000 people in Austin, and this will be when the narrow gauge railway reaches Lampasas or the marble quarries of Burnet, then a party, as tucb, may sustain a daily. But the experience of the past and the modest little tombstones in the great graveyard of Ant-tin literature teach lessons of wisdom in vain. Already two or three excellent and ambitious gentlemen plan publications of other dailies. One stands like Gabriel blowing for the resurrection of the dead while another watches the labors of painful parturition that progress jth great anguish even now in a bye-way of the capita1.

The dead will be restored to miserable life and the unborn will eke out a painful, fevered crying, bowling, dirty existence, and then these will be conveyed to narrow graves, to be succeeded by others like them, and sickly, rsgg-d newspapers, in endless precession, tlina follow one another to mighty pottersQeld in which are entombed highest hopes, thoughts aid aspirations that ever gilded the horizin of human j-iys and human ambition. Hesbt 1 txkk, in an ffieial report to the government, says that the profits on excursion half rate business on British roads is their chief source of revenue. While there roust be avast difference in- the results of this sort of tu'iceas in this sparcely populated cbantry and, ia England, yet if its profits chow a 100 per cent, increase in a single year on English roads, it ia safe to assume that beneficial results may be made to follow a similar policy in this ountry. Sunday excursions hare become a fixed institution in England, and we believe they will be in this country in another decade. GeORGS "ASD ADRXW BROW3 BI6 next to be banged in They killed a man named McLean ia 1873, and in 1S7G murdered one McMahon.

They were sentenced for thirty yean. ia one case sad to the gallows in the ether, and the veegeful law demands the execution of the death penalty Texas courts and jaries are doing their daty, and this is act a tealitf al coa-Eicswcslth for fellows bloody Of.s. Maxev's speech at Taxia has caived out for h-m a deep groove in the fractions and confidence of his party in Tesaa. Throckmorton is tiiak-iiv brilliant and ff -rtive speeches in irthem Tt-xw. Hubbard ia build-t narrow caue Trow Texirkana to Waco, end thui-ervinx the Stale most and giUitring in for himself a few nickels.

Mills is makirg beet ttump speeches, we suppose, ever delivered in Ohir lleagin is coming Jn the capital before long I spread lfore us one of his beautifully wrought pieces of brain wora aa 'y knit gcther as the coat of uiail of Ivanhoe. Coke is going forth nest month to exhibit bis gigan tic intellectual muscles and show what massive, brawny arms and titanic ftreegth can accomplish. In fact, the stiuggle of isSo begins in 1ST9. Wash Jones blew the blast that roused sleep ing eloquence and stirrtd and Bred the soul of Texan oratory. The Engineering and Mining Journal says that the new "water-gas" (hydrogen aud cirbr nic oxide) will fupplaDt that now ekillfully made in this city and supplied very cheaply.

This new gas costs ltfs, it is stated, even at fie coalfields, and must est greatly lers in Austin, where half the cost of gas used consists in the cost of the transportation of coal. Here we hnve water enough. The tejuical journal quoted says further that while Mwater-gaa" will supersede this made from coal, electric light will ilaally supplant both. Scranton, Toronto, Baltimore, Harris- burg and other towns and cities are now illuminated by "water-gas." It is a Swedish discovery and is nsed ev erywhere in that country. Tue biggest law suit, at least in the interest it excites, is that founded in Denison on the fact that a fa', fair and buxom widow of forty summers, having much filthy lucre, agreed to marry an old leiiow ot ssyenty-nve.

He invested $2.59 in a license, and then she changed her mind. The lawyers say that girl may, but widows have no right to change their purposes, and the suit for $2 50 no other damages are deemed possible in such a case will lend nttracti venoms to the Denison courts. TnE St. Louis ftulway lleghter give all the facts and philosophy which railway managers and employees and builders would absorb. It tells that track-laying on the St.

Louis, Wichita and Western I( lad progresses a mile each day. The Chicago, Wilwatikc-e and St. I'AtilTltilwfty Company control 2303 miles of roa thej largest number ot miles managed by any company in the world. The district judge at Cuero Instructed the grand jury to take no cognizance" of the existence of the new Sunday law," and referred thenv to the old Sunday law for a definition of their duties. The courJf will follow this example, we suppv, and thus endeth a big chapter of human follies.

TnEBU is no right of appeal by the State in a criminig prosecution, and when a mag'strateAid jury declare the Sunday law vr tutional or that there is no euchV. case is ended and county Bttorneare broken-heart ed everywhere. Personal. The French revenue bad on July 81 exceeded the estiwfY of it more than 117,000,000. The Duchess of Castiglione-AldoV' rand has just died at the comparatively early sge of forty-two.

auo was a woman of genius, both in the direction of painting and of sculpture, and about ber work there is a suggestion of touch ing romance. Her husband died young and bis devoted widow, retiring entire ly from society, tnea to forget her grief in her art work. Under the name of Marcello" she produced many piecesof sculpture so beautiful that they will preserve that name for many gen erations. Iu her days she never forgot the poor. TK Aaf norfrtrm anna TTniA Tom's Cabin" by that moral dramajic4 company, under tae sanction -er Mrs.

IlirrietBsecherStowe, has been given. It took place iu ibe Michig-ui Avenue Baptist Church, Chicago. The desk was removed from the platform, and a stage erected, with suitable scenery. The "Uncle Tcm" was Sim Lucas, a genuine negro, formerly a performer in a minstrel company. The rest of the cast contained the narre of more or lees known actors and actresses.

The au dience plainly showed their unfamiliar ity with theatricals, and were vastly pleased but it is said that the question of the propriety of the show will be ducusstd before a religious tribunal. statistics as to the use of the mails in this country ana abroad show a much larger number of post offices in proportion to population in this country than in Europe. In 'aH Europe there were at the close of 1877 58,460 flics to accommodate a popu lation of 300,800,000, while the United States at the same time, with an esti mated population of 48,000.000, had 39,2.13 offices. The average in Europe is thus, one posteffice to every 6134 persons, while in this country it is one to everr 1220 inhabitants. Even in Swit zerland, the European country which baa the largest number of utflces both in proportion to area and population, the proportion is but one to every 9M.1 inhabitants, King Ilumbert is reported lo work so very hard that he is nearly always Ute for dinner, and the food which is al ready half-spoiled from being brought seme ditance shut up in tin boxes, gets to be almost uneatable, lut cobody complain since Qieen Margaret, like ber husband, cares nothing for a dainty or a well-c oked meal.

What she really enjoys is a l.ttle dry cake, like savoy biscust, which a Roman baker prepa-es for ber; he sen Is forty-eight a day for the use of the Uueen and tns I'ricce, and also a small brown loaf which she eats with batter at the 12 o'clock break' faat. King Humbert ist present fixing in bis mind the Italian parliamentary debates and opinion of the ps thirty years by reading and reresaing the i fS'ial reports and making copious and careful notes. The order of Secretary Sherman directing that ten per cent, of salaries ot government employees be paid in standard silver dollars, aent 03,000 oi this coin oat among the people. Already 124,000 of the number have been returned to the treasury vault. There are now in the treasury $30,673,464 ln standard silver dollars, against which there are outstanding-silver certificates amounting' to By the redemption of fractional silver the earn of 13.228,724 of this coin has acca-mulated, makirg a total ot allowing for the silver now ia the treasury in r.lrer.

Thii amount libelee: conttiatly increased, and as the ten per cent, that is paid oat begins at once to fiow back, it appears that this coin is sot doing much good as a circulating medium. TES Galveston J.crii? cf Cc.rrterx Uz'X m2j to iwsplZiT-j Tsxas- Pacta sus buck a The Xctet-Iltm boasts of a fins school at Mason. Fannin and McLennan counties will sow very largely of whtat this season. Corpus Chriati shipped this season pounds of wool of the spring clip. Tne governmant has created Teiar- kana a signal or weather report sta- C.

Baker has been in ison and has gone on to McKatett and Concho. Mrs. Lamar, widow of (Jeu. Lamar of Texas revolutionary fame, resides at Min Marcos. McDannell of Auttin was thrown from his buggy at MchTavett, bLt not striouslv hurt.

Denison is contemplating moving over to Sherman to enjoy the delights of theaters and balls. The jled band ot the Tweaty-aecond Slates Regiment discourses sweet music at McKavett. The total assessment of Fannin coun ty this year is 4, 000,000. The schol astic population is over 4000. StudcLts taking tha benefit of an edocHtion in the ate normal schools are iired to teach live years.

Texarkana, which lies in uvo Slates and two counties, is about to become the county seat of the two counties. CI. T. H. Qarner died September 8, at hi a borne in Columbus.

He was an old and respected cit'zan of Texas And now an exchange says they are "bell punches," and we haven't heard what Col. Swisher has to say about it. Twenty-five of them at Dinton es caped Major Penn and were by Brother Mitchell last Wednesday at lenton. t- thousand gallons of pottery mvle nsar Denton ia heaped up at that place. It's a good place to got) get judged.

The Bell county fair, list of premi ums is mott attractive. Wouldn't it be well for managers of our Fair to compare notes. At Fort McCavett cabagea sell at 20 cants a head, eggs 30 cents a dozen, butter 30 cents per pound and apples 2 to 40 cents per dozen. Victoria is making a fuss over two young craina. Thev are twins, and the offspring of II n.

W. H. Crain within the holy bonds of wedlock. total valuation of all property in Tarrant county is i.un.nii. of which is in towo lots.

Fort Worth is assessed at 1,709,107. The 7V.i'as Era is a most reada ble paper, full of choice reading matter and carefully selected news items, showing the industry of its editor. Edward Kvans an old and respected citizen of Kimble county, wsa acci dentally killed by a loaded pisol fati ng from his person and explodirg. A young man of Sherman married in old lady for the use of her money and after seven months of married iifo he tiuda a suit for divorce entered against him. Mjr Simpf ou, cotton weigher of HoustoD, has left with hit family to spend the balance of the hot weather north, in the mean lime a deputy does the work but probably it is well done.

Capt. J. R. Saunders of Denison, born at Tennessee, in 1845, and an officer of the thirty-first Alabama infantry in the late war, died Thursday from the effects of injaries incident to a fall from his buggy. George Lipscomb, formerly of Columbus, Mississippi, we believe, is boring 60Q feet into the earth at Denton for living streams of water to leap out and slake the thirst of the prosperous town.

The population of Cameron county is estimated at its property ia valued at $1,900,000.. The assessments show: Sheep, 27,743 head; horses and mules, cattle, 23,023, goatf, 7716; jacks and jennets, 127. Nip Walker, the noted horse thief of Danton county, has been pursued and shot, but not fatally. Tie is badly lamed and will be caught, it is thought. This will be aad news for a grim lot of scoundrels, the stage coach robbers, now in our jail.

The ill county fair managers, offer a dollar premium for each of the fifteen different species of chickens, perhsps that's the reason they are selling all the rotten eggs in Texas at our market. Ourcbicken fanciers are get ting ridjif-their old, very oidstocb. TlIerapid growth of merquit grass is remarkable. The ground which, a short time ago, was parched, and ia many places bare, has responded to the recent rains with a luxuriant growth of. grass, which, it is asserted, under favorable circumstances, will yield seed in ten days after its appearance a'-ove the surface.

They are infamou, orutal, druuken wretches who whipped a uegro to make him tell what he knew abnnthe murder of m.e at divert, lliag those gniby of such lales cinlty and 1 the negro g-, tbkt white and negroes th-tt assisted lliuu rosy have some gud fur personal rights and laws of decency and romm humanity. The copper mines of TtXis are attracting the attention of capitalists in Pniladtlphr, R.Hmireaadi ierKst-ern cities, and there is already soma demand for the ore. Several shipments of copper from Clay and Archer counties have been made from Denison, and alwtya with profit to the net ore bringing from AO to 120 a ton according to iu quality. A. A.

Burcb, United -Stales commissioner for th Wet'M District of Texas, writes om Rockdale that John Surgnor, arreated on the charge of being implicated in thj Qrange-Bur-ton mail robbery, has been tried and that be was not only exhonorated from all chargss against him, but that be waa proven to be poasetaed of a character of which any young man might be prond. The venerable Civilian says that "John Dies, a Norwegian and a barkeeper by profession, aged forty years, waa found dead in the city prison at Waco when the doors were opened yesterday morning. He waa crazed from long incessant dnnkine, end the supposition is that he died in a paroxysm of mania porter." Now. wasn't it whisky instead of "porter." Gee. Ord recently sent to the Spring field, armory a piece of meteor picked np in Mexico some time ago, with a nqnest that it be made into a sword for himself.

The piece is com-. posed of iron mainly, bat it is so soft and brittle that the workmen it yery difficult to harden the uetal sufficiently for the blade, though they will probably be able finish it ia good shape. -Wild Eill one of them buried in 1873 with his boot on ia Mount Ho-riaa Cemetery at Dead wood, was sqch aa infernally hard case that be is now absolutely petrified, and they are had ing him around as a big show weigh-lag 600 pounds. What is stracge about this stony Wild BJ1 is the fact that villainous as were his morals and disgusting his habits, he esuts ia his present condition co chocking odor. Denloa Cspt.

Patty, in his scattered ribaldry delivered before the Associivion cf oil cf Gmsea county, sail la the early dsys cf Telia, wtea a csa set da rftt they dropped him a note ordering him to "git," and be always That shows what sort of a citizen -lCapt." Patty waa whether he was law-abiding or not. In this day, euch a man would be arreated and punished for such an offense against the lawaof Texas. The solemnity of the Jtaj titf thrall is proverbial. The best of Christian eoj something bright and witty occasionally, and futiDV if not witty, and we must be excused tor urging Brother Link to indulge in just a httl? variety. If for no other reason than to show proper appreciation and give countenance to oor illy, goud Dr.

Chaplin. The assessors lately assembled in Dallas resolved that the Comptroller be requested to turuish to each assessor in the Sia'e a book, or bocks of proper npon which to make assessments, as the same will be much more convenient for reference and transportation over tto country than the black forms now furnished. It is claimed by the assessors that these blank book woiiid be of easier ence and less to loss. than ate blanks. refer-separ- Oliver Perry, li.i tt tea au honorable name, is a coal blaek p1H1em.HU of Galveston.

But he can't hold his eolid bead np. It Uo many an heavy chULks of African wisdom, and Oliver will sleep ht Lis post and can't he'p it. O.iver er.ores too, like a sw mill, and people cau't s'ctp while O.i-ver sleeps in his district, and there is much howling about the everlasting noise made by Oliver's nasal trombone along the sandy beaches where people would gladly listen to the undisturbed lullaby of tho breaking waves. The mayor has suliniitted the question to Oliver whether he will have five or six stiches taken in the ll ipping sides of this flatulent il.il ri.se. which acs aa valyes, and mike a great uproar when Oliver nod, or give up hi j'lai'e.

Oliver says he must ip. The Bulhtin The wonderful cave recently discovered near Burnet is certainly one t'f the grcatebt curiosities of the age. While pushing through this cave a gentleman discovered a small aperture about six iuches in width. HaviDg a pick he broke into this opening, and to his astonishment he so discovered a large and airy apartment. Entering this, he found what appeared to ie a stone table beautifully carved.

Several stone chairs stood in one corner of the room. He continued his search and at last in a dark corner he found the skeleton of a man. He attempted to raise it from the floor, but though he exerted his utmost strength be could not move it. He Bays that it appeared to be solid stone. It is impossible to conjecture who was the hermit or how long the skeleton his remained hidden away in that Bilent cave." Editorial Note.

Nrttrmau nail's church and surrounding buildings cost 300 000. Kate Claxton has a new real baby of her own for I he play of "The Double Marriage." The expenditure of the London school bohrd this year ia estimated st 13,000,000 involving a rate of 5 on the pound sterling. The Spanish bishops, making proba-b'y a virtue of necessity, have agreed to give up for the present a fourth of of their salaries. Their pay has been the primate getting over $250,000 a year. The St.

mis Railway Register is a spirited and well conducted monthly, printed in elegant style, and chuck full of matter interesting to those concerned in railway affiirs. Mailed to subscribers at $3 per annum. The millionaire Roman Catholic Marquis of Bite has been married seven years, but has no son and only one daughter, born in 137a. li beir is his first cousin, a Protestant, aged 55. Lord Bute ia 82.

The entire population of Paris, whether fl ating or permanent, is counted officially every month. Whether your abode be at a private residence, hotel ortoirding house, you will be required within forty-eight hours to sign a register, giving your name, age, occupation and former residence, Maria Theresa, ex-Duchess of Parma, died a few weeks ago at her Italian residence. She was the daughter of Victor Emanuel Kingof Sirdinia, the great-aunt of King Humbert, and with the exception of the ex-Knprees Mari anna, of Austria, the only surviving representative ot the elder branch of the House of Savoy. Her latter days she filled full of kindness and charity, and iu her will left large films for charitable purposes. Shah Nasr-ed-din, of Persia, apuear-to have a particular liking for all things Austrin.

He has placed the reorganis ition of his army end other various departments of civil government in Austrian hands and has an Austrian for mayor of Tthcrau. The engineer Seherzr, who for some time was minister in public woiks in Maximillian Mexican cabinet, has just deceived an offer from the Pert-ian govern ment to build a railway from Rsaclit, on the Caspian sea, to Teheran. The Pheumatic Tramway Company made atrial of one of their motors, Wedreiday, on the Sscond avenue Surface Road, New York, in the presence of a laree cumber of interested spectators. These motors ate run by com pressed air, which, before starting, is iq.cciI into six reservoirs undtraeatb the floor of the car. The distance traveled on this occasion waa 'i 1-5 miles, and an elevated railroad train was beaten going down.

President Thorn, of the Second avenue road, says that he looks upon the motors favorably, and Col. Wyatt, superintendent cf the Surface ad in Richmond, gave it as bis opinion that they will save 35 per cent, of the running expenses of aa ordinary surface road. An ex-mayor of St. Liu is asked his wife to sign a conveyance to some property that be desired to sell, and she surprised and angered him by refusing. He swore that, unless she complied, be would not speak to ber again, and she waa still obdurate.

That was sixteen years ago, and although they bad been a loving couple, and have since lived in the same bouse, they have never exchanged a word directly. They roomed apart, but sat at the same table, and were never guilty of any disrespect toward each other, save that of silence. When clrcumsiaaces made communica tions between them abaolct dy necessary, they respectively addressed their daughter, and she spoke for both. Their questioGS, put, were always framed in the third person. The daughter died a few days ago, but the parents are said to still decline to become reconciled.

Laziness or at least slowness.in the discharge of their official duties seems to be a besetting sin with judges la all parts of the country. At the convention of the American Bar Association in Siratoga, President Broadbeai made an address vd the new California and the only part of bis speech that eliciUd cheers from his hearers waa tb where he sail that hereafter juds of tie Sapreme and 8aperior CouitJ in the Golden 8tete will be required, before being permitted to draw their salaries, to cuke affidavit that no cause la their coutts re mains undecided that has been submitted for ninety days. This provision of tne uonstituuon. originated with the lawyers of Saa Francisco. Many attorneys showed disrespect for the bench, tut it sesms to be the opinion of the profeasioa in the countrv at laree that something of the kind Is desir- aoie.

As every thread of gold is ralautle, PO is every tclopte of time; aad as It would be great folly to shoe horses (as tte Paaa Experor did) with g-2d, t9 it It rssi use ia tri-i. mm JSpecial Fuyomng Extracts. Eminent tT.ifimt ZZtSil rm richer, results tbau asv lamuien. DR. PRICE'S families mti, STEELE A PRICE'S LUPULIN YEAST GEMS.

Tht Best iry Hop Xmst 4m Wurl.t. STEELE A PHICE, ManJK, Chicago, Louis, and Cincinnati Unexcelled in Econcmy of Fuel. Unsurpassed in Construction, Unparalleled in Durability. Diaispiitef la tut CLAH orteiai VERY BEST OPERATING, AM MONT PERFECTCOQKIHG STOVE xvia orrissL tes raics. HADE ONLY BY ESLOEIiSIOIl 612.

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rORSALE BY C. W. WHITE, AUSTIN, TEXAB. "Three years ago the tMieniTof the county was a Republican. A number of the csmblera of Yazoo were indict ed, among thcin Dixon.

All of the indicted parties but P. son went into another county. A Deputy Sheriff named Mitchell went after the gamblers and arrested some of them. The Sher.fT of the county and Deputy Mitchell became very obnoxious to Dixon and others. ana they determined to drive Hie rfti cers out of the county or put them out of the way.

At a political meeting held at that time Mitchell was present. The meeting was a hot one, and Dixon was the most prominent actor in it. During the excitement Deputy Sheriff Mitchell was shot dead. Tne circum stance under which he was killed led to via being credited with tho murder. xon never denied it, and no one in Tazin helieved that any one else killed Aiitcnell.

At tho Iwcinnino; of the campaign it was J.imts intention to trv for the Democratic nomination for Sheriff of the county. Dixon went to him. 'Jimmy, he raid, 'yon don't want to be a candidate againBt me; go for aomethins else, und let me get SberilT if I Ri; I ml ale consented to withdraw his name as a candidate for Sheriff and accepted the nomination for Chancery clerk. This office is almost aa good as Sheriff. The canvass opened, and everything went peaceably for a time.

it transpired that the presence of Birksdale on the Democratic ticket was" strengthening that ticket throughout. Then x-ou began his tactics ti weakea U.irkf-dalc. He set afloat niany damagitg stories, and capped them bjr charging Jlirksdale with maintaining illicit relations with his own sister. This ao enraged Barksdale that he sent word to p. xon that hemuat look out for when they met.

Oj the day of tie sbootine ili'Ksdale was sending in lha p.riiclpal street of Yazoo. There is only one buniDCsi street, and it runs clear through the place. Barksdale had a shot-gun, for ho wss likely to meet Dixon at any time. He was ta kin to rme friends when Dixon cam down the street. When irks dale saw him he cried ou 'Henry, de fend Henry immediately drew revolver from his rocket.

Bukadale fired. Dixon ran to a hal -way on the opposite side of the street. Iarksdale fired his other barrel, li.xon return the fire five times with his revolver. Barksdale's first shot had been the fatal one. x- fell in the ill-way.

From this same hallway about threo years ago Henry M. Dixon shot and killed Samuel HarriynD, an amateur detective. The county treasurers ffiee had been robbed, and Dixon was generally believed to have been the ringleader In the, crime. Harrison took npon himself the dangerous task; of shadowing Dixon for tbe purpose of procuring evidence againat him. D.xon saw him coming one day, stepped inti the hallway, and as he passed shot him down." There is likely to bo a split at Atlanta iu the ranks of throe who are claiming the discovery of for Dr.

Crawford Long. Jn the story which gives the credit to Dr. Long it will be remembered there is a young fellow named Wilhite, who, in a frolic, slapped handkerchief satiuated with ether ojrer the meuth of a negro boy, liecome unconscious under it, and though beaten and shaken failed to show any sense of pain. At last the effects passed oil and he became conscious. A few years afrerward Wilhite went Ntudy medicine under L'ing.

ne persuaded the doctor to give him and the boys ether. The doctor did so, and once took some himself. Being strnck with tho deep physical numtness thbt held him while under its itflaence. Dr. Ling began to discuss the possibility of -ing it with patients nnder the knife.

Wilhite at last related all the experiment made with the negro hoy. and urged Dr. Long to try an operation with a man nnder its utlaence. At length Dr. Lpng consented.

Wnng Wilhite was equally interested with Dr. Ling, and aasiatcd in the experiment, which was made in taking a tumor from one Mr. noble. Wilhite is now a physician with an immense praotice iu Anderson, Snth Carolina a model gentleman. He is model nimelf and will not urge bid claims, bat his friends intend to putb them.

They will try to see tbtt te shares with Dr. Long the honor of the discovery, and if an application is made by Dr. Long's friends for recognition at the hands of Congress they would claim part of that recognition for Dr. Wilhite. It waa through Dr.

-Wllhite's statements to Dr. Marion Lewis that the discovery was first credited to Dr. L-ng. It is possible that Dr. Wilhite will himself stop the proceedings in his behalf.

Illinois bss a statute which declares that it "shall net be lawful tat, anv body of xaen whatever, other than tbe regular Organized volunteer militia of this State and the troops of the Uaited States, to associate thtmselvea together as a military company or orgsnlz'-lion, or to drill er parade with arms. in any city or town oi this with out tbe license of tbe Oovrcor thereof, which license may at any time be revoked. -The socialist societies of Cfi-cao ae organized a military todic, aad cany guns wbta they paras. Tbe authorities aireaied one ot their sum ber nader the Uw quoted, and it was agreed on both sides to make this teat Case. Jndg: Birnom baa decided, aad the rest of the circuit court sgree with bJni, that any law prohibiting miatary com pan its to carry arms is unconstitutional, because it is an inherent right guaranteed to our free people.

The Socialists are jubilant, and will parade on Sundey next, with guo." "Throw hi a a rope, is the proper thing to sty when yoa see a friend of yours orertcred. Tts tlect it csgi- rv -s. CREAM more efTeoMve, produce better vuoy u-s-j mem iu uisir own 1 UNIQUE PERFUMES tis Qc cf AX diet. TOOTHENE. Atgru'fcUa.

DnUtik. LEMON SUGAR. A Suastitats ror Lemca. EXTRACT JAMAICA ciNrt-B F.tim fur Cut MA 1ULJTXTTXP O- 00 The Relton Join mil says: fl ivern Roberts has not, that we know ot, ever been justly classed among the uoble army of office-seekers who la Diet our great and glorious republic. His lite is clear of the charge that be', ever indulged in wire-working, caucusing or demagogery to obtain any.

position either by appo ntment or tion. He was uot at the opening ot, the lnsr gubernatorial canvass even candidate for tbe honors that were, thrint upon him. In conversation lately with a gentleman who resides iia Austin sod is frequently brought inU contact with the Governor, we vesew astured that ho waa no aspiraus tae tbe senatorial toga, and uutoed had to him to hope that his career as a public. would expire with his present ia of office. If the people see fir demand that this should not be the case, we believe It possible that Overnor Koberts will, any other Rood citizen who is not incapable in any respect, yield to their rie.iires; but at the same time he would bo making a conces.m at the expense-of bis personal wishes and hopes, which hiye been called "old because they do ne pxsaent him in the- -light of a man iUhing for elevation the popular vote, li accepting exalted positions ha does bo tdmply as Si mMtes of duty." lo thii.

reconstruction of the Southern Slates the try was for "universal The cry was heeded, aisdi the blacks had the ballots put laim their bands without a particle ot re- atriction, save that of ago. In Massachusetts uo man is allowed) to. vote unless he cm read and write. Apply thl test to tho Romkera, negroes and not ono out of f'tx would be qualified to, vote. Still fvther, in Rhode bland a foreigner miut not only be natural-! but biust have a property qualiflr cttiua Jo entitlo him to tbe jw these States have been Kepnbli--can for years, and still the party claims, to be the 4 ftlraon pure" advocate ot liberal principles, and take to themselves Rreat credit for giving to the ignorant blacks of the 8 uth "universal Fuflrage." Th'B is one of tbe iu-onustencles born ot sectional coupled with the corrupt and selfiib purpose of retaining power, however illy acquired, or perversely used.

The San Antonio Erjircvt becomes rational and says that Rayard is acknowledged by both parties as one of the most incorruptible men of his age. A'l parties have enafidttnee in bis ability aad patriotism. He would in a manner disarm the bitter opposition of the Republicans; and his nomination would not, because of a corrupt or suspicious record, or reputation as a political mountebank or juggler, or a financial policy threatening to- the business of the country, thou- sands of bemocrants Into the ranks of. the republican party. With Bayard'! as our standard bearer, and a plain, straightforward, old-fashiontd Demo-1 cratio appeal to the reason and not to the passions of the people, we believe that, notwithstanding tbe seriom tni-.

tike of the past six months, the Democratic party would win in IS 30." Harvard College is quite sure notr that it going to have a real Ut Chinaman to give instructions the language of his country. Ka Kaw-II uo arrived at Cambridge nnder contract to teach the Chinese toegue for threo years at a salary of $200 a month. The money is provided by private subscription, the movement being re-, garded for the present as merely an experiment. Tho object ia not to fa- milianze students with Chinese liters-, ture, but to give them such a VnowK edge of the language aa will fit theua for business life tbe Celestial Empire, The professor brings with him his wite and lire children and an interpreter. The legitimate result of the repeal of the duty oa quinine is now being felt in a substantial manner.

At first borne manufacturers refused to supply the market, except at a higher price, but imports increasing, the price of the drug has falU-a twenty-five cents per ounce, and will undoubtedly go jet tower. A bright little mis in nia, noted for ber qoslnt sayiegs, sei4 to mother the other day, Mamma, whea yoa went to heaven to get me did you pick nut the prettiest baby on Hoi's flon?" Of course mamma said yes. ffllKCKLLAWEOr. If lftfk- IM-wtroprr 1 II. l.H.

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