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AUSTIN WEEKLY STATESMAN. THURSDAY TECRUARY 1 20. 1330
STATE CAPITOL.
NEWSY ICOTES PICKED UP IV TBB
STATB DEPARTMENT
TBSTERDAT.
Items flatM-tat fur the People aid OStial
FlifHraa and Opinion for
County OffleUU.
EXECUTIVE OFFICE.
The governor yesterday pardoned
Charles Kidd convicted of aggravated
assault in Grayson county in 1888
and sentenced to two years in the
county jail and to pay a fine of $200.
He also appointed John G. Mercer
to be pilot at Aransas.
He also appointed Jonathan Go od
to be commissioner of deeds in the
Cherokee nation and Frederick Hud-
son to be commissioner of deeds in
the stale of New York.
STATE DEPARTMENT.
The following charters were filed in
the office of the secretary of state yes-
terday :
The Bonham Building and Loan
association; capital stock $100000.
Incorporators W. G. Nunnelee H. E.
Taylor C. L. Galloway Richard B.
Semple J. A. Rustin R. J. Abernathy
E. B. Spotts J. W. Puelen. J. B.
Shortridge Zac. Smith H. A.
Woodward J. V. Newman Jus.
W. Newman Jas. W. Evans
E. Wise Adams C. A. Stone Wm.
"McMillan A. J. Moore Miss Jack
Dull Geo. W. Watson Mrs. J. P.
Neal B. R. Stevens Stevens & Gal-
braith Emily E. Abernathy J. P.
Holein W. Rosenbaum Charles Da-
vis Jno. W. Russell Doc. Saunders
Geo. W. Blair F. M. Thomson J. A.
Duncan L. C. White A. J. James
and W. A. Evans.
The Cameron Lumber Mills; cap-
ital stock $250000. Incorporators W
B. Brazelton C. L. Johnson R. H
Downman G. M. Bowie A. T. Auder-.
son and R. Havwood.
COMPTROLLER'S DEPARTMENT.
Anderson county redeemed $10000
cciut house and jail bonds yesterday.
In answer to frequent inquiries as
to whether lands that have been sold
to state for taxes are liable to assess-
ment prior to the same being re-
deemed assessors are instructed by
the comptroller to assess. all such
lands as usual on the roll of lands of
unknown owners in case the same are
not rendered by some party. The an
nual assessment will be made in the
same manner as though the same had
not been sold. By this means an ac-
count is kept of the annual taxes.
If the assessor of taxes shall dis-
cover in his county or outside of his
county but belonging to a resident of
his county any personal property
which has not been assessed or ren-
dered for taxation every year for two
years past he shall list and assess the
88 me for each and every year thus
omitted which it has belonged to said
resident in the manner prescribed
for assessing other property and s uch
assessment shall be as valid and bind-
ing as though it had been rendered
by the owner thereof. (Chap. 133
Laws 1887.)
All persons companies and corpo-
rations owning pastures in the state
which lie on county boundaries shall
be required to list for assessment all
live stock of every kind owned by them
in said pastures in the several counties
in which such pastures are situated
listing in each county such portion of
said stock as the land in such county
is of the whole pasture. All persons
companies and corporations owning
holding any kind of live stock not
their own shall list such live stock in
the several counties in which such
pastures are situated in the same man-
ner and in both cases the tax as-
Hessed upon such live stock shall be
paid to the tax collectors of tho sev-
eral counties in which such live stock
is listed and assessed. (Chap. 118
laws 1887.)
Where personal property such as
tattle and horses range in more than
one county the owner of the same
living near the county line he shall
render to the assessor of the county
in which he resides the entire number
owned ; but iu case he has a separate
ranch in another county he shall
render this on a separate inventory
to be forwarded to ttiis office and the
same will be sent to the assessor of
the county in which said ranch is sit-
uated. In view of the oath prescribed for
parties rendering property for taxa-
tion that they shali make a rendition
to the assessor of the county of their
residence of all personal property
owned in the state and other sections
of the law bearing upon the same sub-
ject the following instructions are
issued as to the assessments of per-
sonal property in other counties than
the counties 6f the owner's residence:
Assessors will require all parties to
render to them not only the personal
property situated in the county where
tho tax paver resides but also they
will require a full imventory of the
personal property owned by the party
rendering which is situated in other
counties; separate inventories will be
made of the property situated in each
county in the state as rendered by
the several owners and the same will
be full and complete so that the per-
sonal property may be fully identified.
The attention of assessors is called
to the fact that in making up their
a-sessment rolU the state ad valorem
and the state school taxes must be
calculated separately and each tax
must be placed in its appropriate col-
umn on the roll; and each tract or
parcel of land or town lot should be
placed upon a separate line of their
assessment roll with value of same
and taxes carried out separately oppo-
uile each tract or town lot.
Full instructions in regard to this
matter and the blank assessment rolls
will be forwarded in due time.
Tax assessors are urged to have
their lists ready by the 1st of June in
order that the board of equalization
may not be delayed in their work and
that the assessment rolls may be fin-
ished and forwarded to this office
within the time prescribed by law.
The delay in filing the assessment
rolls in this office is embarassiag both
to this department and to taxpayers.
Assessors are instructed that the
copy of tax rolls furnished this de-
partment mutt be an exact copy of
the rolls as approved by the commis-
sioners' court and must show all taxes
assessed against property in their re-
spective counties including state
state school county special and dis-
trict school taxes.
EXECUTIVE OFFICE.
Business in the governor's office
yesterday was very quiet and nothing
outside of the usual routine oc-
curred. ATTORNEY GENERAL'S OFFICE.
Office Assistant Harrison re-
ported everything dull. He has
forwarded to Nolan county the brief
in the case against the county for
failure to pay interest on money bor-
rowed from the school fund.
STATE DEPARTMENT.
The Fort Worth Pressed Beef and
Packing company; capital stock
$500000. Incorporators: John R.
Hoxie Jno. C. McCarthy M. G. Ellis
S. D. Rainey R. E. Maddox Robert
McCart A. L. Byor Tobe Johnson and
E. B. Harrold.
COMPTROIJ.ER'8 department.
Harrison county redeemed $10000
subsidy bonds yesterday.
The records of the comptroller's
office show the total amount to the
credit of the permanent school fund
in cash is $CG21399.32. This fund
is being invested in interest bearing
securities as fast as the cash surplus
accumulates. (See tables 48 and 49
for class of securities held by this
fund.) During the year county bonds
amounting to $144800 were redeemed
by different counties and the amount
of bonds purchased during that time
as an investment was $234580.
The annual interest on bonds held
by this fund is $382055.17.
The various asylums have $210000
invested in state bonds. Receipts
from the above investments together
with the interest received from land
sales constitute the available funds
which are transferred annually to
state revenue by authority of the gen-
eral appropriation act from which
fund the appropriations are made for
the support of the respective asylums.
educational department.
The following letter explains itself :
Department of Education)
February 13 1890. f
Principal of High School:
Dear Sir : It gives me great pleas-
ure to transmit to you the following
communication which I have received
today from Mr. E. T. Dumble state
geologist :
"Hon. O. H. Cooper State Superintendent
Public Instructions Austin Texas:
Dear Sir: As numerous request
have been received during the past
six months for collections of the rocks
and minerals of Texas for the purpose
of illustrating the study of geology in
the various high schools of the state
I have made a collection of specimens
of suitable size which are numbered
labelled plainly and ready for use in
the way desired. These specimens
besides the ordinary educational value
of such material have the additional
advantage of being from the state and
therefore just such forms as the stu-
dent will meet with in his field stu-
dies. These collodions will be furnished
to any hitjh school in Texas on appli-
cation of the principal approved by
the school board the only require
ment being that a suitable case be
provided for their preservation. An
ordinary show case eight feet i
length with locks in the doors will
answer admirably or if an upright
case he preferred a book case with
glass doors will answer. Similar col-
lections of the characteristic fossils of
the different geologic periods will be
prepared in time for the fall term.
Yours very truly
Signed E. T. Dumble
State Geologist."
I congratulate your school on the
opportunity to obtain at such slight
expense the necessary collections of
rocks and minerals for instruction in
the practical study of geology. Yours
very truly Oscar H. Cooper
State Supt. Pub. Inst.
state department.
The Real Estate association of San
Marcos filed an amendment to their
charter e hail trine the name to "The
San Marcos Chautauqua."
The I' latonia Mercantile co-operative
Association of the Farmers' Alli
ance filed an amendment permitting
mimoers oi me Alliance u rangers
Patrons of Husbandry and Knights of
Labor to become members.
comptroller's department.
Kauffman county redeemed $10000
court house and jail bonds yesterday.
The comptroller yesterday depos-
ited $6488.
The Houston and Texas Central
Railroad company paid $2711.69 pas-
senger tax yesterday.
agricultural department.
Commissionei Foster's report was
issued yesterday and it is one of the
most comprehensive and valuable ever
published in the state. Alluding to
the agricultural statistics of the state
he speaks as follows :
cotton.
There was an increase of the acre-
age devoted to the cultivation of cot-
ton of 223209 acres in 1888 and an
increase of 120671 in the number of
bales raised. The average production
per acre was .38 or a fraction over a
third of a bale to each acre planted.
The average price per bale received
by the farmers for their cotton was
$38.96 and the total value of the crop
$48466412. The increase in acreage
is general but more marked in sec-
tions heretofore devoted almost exclu-
sively to stockraising and considered
unsuited to agricultural.and especially
to the growth of cotton the South-
western part of the state and the
Panhandle country being the largest
contributors. This is indicative of
the westward march of the husband-
man who will eventually subdue every
acre of the vast domain stretching out
to the Mexican border which may be
susceptible of cultivation.
The average value of each acre in
cotton including the seed was $16 20.
Sugar cane sorghum cane sweet po-
tatoes Irish potatoes and hay each
exceed this sum in value per acre but
with the possible exception of sugar
cane they can not be classed as sure
money crops. Cotton can be con-
verted into money at auy time and at
any place however remote from mar-
ket at its market valuo in the princi-
pal mark3ts of the world less the cost
of transportation. This fact more
than any other accounts for the
steady increase in the acreage devoted
to cotton culture notwithstanding the
opinion which obtains among many
farmers that it is an unprofitable crop
fhe increase in acreage was 3.78 tier
cent and the total vield increased
10.74 over the crop of 1887. The net
increase in the yield was therefore 6.96
per cent which is due to favorable sea-
sons and the diminution of damage
to the crop by the caterpillar and boll
worm as compared to the previous
year.
Mr. W. B. Snow assistant statisti-
cian of the National Department of
Agriculture made the report of this
department on the cotton crop of
1887 the basis of an article on the
damage to the crop from worms in
which occurs the following: "Ac-
cording to this return the total num-
ber of bales gathered was 1125499
while had there been a total exemp-
tion from insect damage the farmers
of Texas according to this authority
would have gathered a crop of 1422-
948 bales. This would make the
aggregate loss from worms equal to
297499 bales. The value per bale of
the crop which was made at the place
of production averaged slightly over
$40. Presuming that an increase of
less than half a million bales in the
aggregate crop would have made but
little difference in price the actual
money loss to the farmers of Texas in
one year from cotton worms alone was
$11897960.
"It is not claimed that these figures
are absolutely accurate but they are
undoubtedly approximately correct
and will give some idea of the enor-
mous tribute levied upon American
agriculture by injurious insects."
As a rule the climate and other
conditions except fertility of soil
affecting cotton production through-
out the cotton producing region are
about the same so that the above ob-
servations aie of general application.
The damage to cotton from the
caterpillar is a matter now practically
within control. By the use of Paris
green or London purple the worms
can be destroyed as soon as they ap-
pear at a cost of time and money
quite inconsiderable cempared to the
value of the cotton saved. By far
the greater injury results from boil
worm which so far has not been de-
stroyed or diminished in numbers by
any device resorted to for that pur-
pose. During the past season lighted
lamps in the cotton fields were tried
extensively the theory being that the
miller laying the egg that produces
the worm would be attracted thither
and destroyed.
WHEAT.
As will be seen by reference to the
report of the wheat crop by counties
there was a considerable decrease in
the acreage in 1888. Investigation
developed the fact that this was due
to an abandonment of farms in 1887iu
the western counties of the slate
where the drouth was so severe. The
principal additions to the area devoted
to wheat growing had been made in
that section. The three dry years
culminating in the drouth of 1887 not
only destroyed the crops but caused
large numbers of settlers to move to
other localities in search of employ-
ment. The majority of them returned
but not until after the season for
planting wheat for the crop of 1888
had passed. In addition to this the
people who remained on their farms
did not plant the usual acreage in
wheat on account of the failures of the
preceding years of drouth. It is wor-
thy of notice in this connection that
the report of the national department
of agriculture for 1888 shows a consid-
erable decrease in the acreage in
wheat which is attributed to the con-
stant decline in price brought about
by overproduction. This however
does not affect production in the state
where the supply does nt equal the
demand by half and where the aver-
age value of nn nT of wheat in 1888
was $8.9- s uaiuat the national av-
erage of $5.49.
The average yield per acre was 12.56
bushe s being 2.56 bushels per acre
greater than the crop of 1887 and a
fraction larger than the average in
the United States for the past ten
years which was 12.4 bushels.
The rate of consumption per capita
in the United States from 1880 to 1887
was 4 2-3 bushels. Applying this
test and reckoning the population of
the state in 1888 at 2100000 wo find
the account so far as it relates to the
item of wheat stands as follows for
that year :
Total bushels wheat consumed
in the state 9800000
Total bushels wheat produced
in the state 4.&50.002
Total bushels imported 4949998
Value at 71 cents the average
price per bushel $3514498 58
CORN.
In the report of this department for
18S7 attention was called to the fact
that the percentage of increase of
acreage in corn had not kept pace
with the increase in population since
1880 the increase in population hav-
ing been 26.59 per cent and the in-
crease in the acreage in corn only
18.65 and hence the deficiency in the
amount required for home consump-
tion. The fact was also pointed out
that an addition of 141554 acres to
tne area in corn would have supplied
the deficiency between the amount
produced and the amount consumed
in the state even at the low yield per
acre caused by the drouth. The pos-
sibility of producing a surplus of corn
for exportation was also shown as fol-
lows :
"Had the increase of acreage de-
voted to the cultivation of corn kept
apace with the increase of the acreage
in cotton since 1880 the acreage in
corn in 1887 would have been 3678-
194 acres and the production at the
same average per acre 70889143
bushels-or enough to have supplied
the home demand as shown by the
amount actually consumed and fur-
nished a surplus of 12743553 bushels
for exportation."
The increase in the acreage in corn
in 1888 was 10.06 or 294937.03 acres.
There was also an increase of 4.73
bushels in the average yield per acre
due to a more favorable season. Tak-
ing the average annual consumption
of corn per capita (27 bushels) in the
United States as a basis the figures
1888 stand as follows :
Total bushels corn produced in
the state 76006312
Total bushels corn consumed in
the state 57775000
Surplus for exportation 18832312
Value at 34 cents average price
per bushel $0402086 08
In view of the large surplus of corn
in 1888 it is reasonable to conclude
that the 2068059 bushels purchased
by farmers in the state were bought
within the state though upon
this point complaint is made that
corn can be shipped into the state
from foreign markets to many points
cheaper than it can be gotten within
the state owing to the difference in
freight rites. The demand for corn
within the state at points where ow-
ing to meterological conditions a suffi-
cient supply can not be raised is con-
siderable and should be supplied by
sections producing a surplus. It
should be borne in mind that the
purchases reported were made by far-
mers alone no account being taken
of the amount purchased by other
classes. The purchases by farmers
were in the main made b those who
were just opening farms and who had
not before grown a crop in the state.
Th3 practical question presenting
itself to the farmers of the state is
what to do with their surplus corn.
The average value of an acre of corn
in the United States in 1888 was
$8.95 and the average value per
bushel 34.1 cents. In this state the
average for the same year wvs $8.08
per acre and 34 cents per bushel. It
does not therefore promise profitable
returns to those who raise it for mar-
ket even with a ready market and fa-
vorable rates of transportation.
An answer to the question may pro-
bably be found iu the following sug-
gestions in the report of the statisti-
cian of the National Bureau of Agri-
culture for 1888 :
"A moderate price (for corn)
is a necessity for profitable production
of milk and meat and other products
into which maize enters as an ele-
ment. He who grows corn to sell and
not to convert into various extended
products of maiz: is at a comparative
disadvantage as prices rule at
present."
In view of the fact that $2022-
206.40 worth of bacon and lard were
imported into the state during the
year the proper disposition of the
surplus corn crop ought to be easily
settled. Weevils are very destructive
to the crop after it is matured and
render a very large percentage un-
merchantable. Of manufacturing industries he
gives the following:
Number of establishments 3.056
Total capitul invested in $23175708
Value of material used 22970810
Value of manufactured product 40321020
Number men employed in 20lf0
Total amount of wages paid ... 8006837
Alluding to purchases by farmers
last year the following is given :
Total pounds of bacon purchas'd.. 17355995
Total pounds of lard purchased . .. 28IOuo:
Total pillions molasses purchas'd.. 1170201
Total bushels corn purchased 2U08u50
The following miscellaneous items
are of interest :
Number gins 4110
Number lawyers 2622
Number physicians 3024
Value of fencing $23150086
Value of farm implements 6182320
Number of sheep stieared 3.800034
Total pounds wool clipped 18.721.6U3
Total value wool clipped $2907314
Number of marriages in 1888. . . 22850
Number divorces granted in 1888 1520
Number persons incarcerated in
county jails 12867
Miles of telegraph lines in the
state 9475
Miles of street railroads in the
state 202
The World Move I
Don't disgust everbody with the
offensive odor from your catarrh just
because some old fogy doctor who
has not discovered and will not believe
that the world moves tells you it can-
not be cured. The manufacturers of
Dr. Sage's Catarrh Remedy have for
many years offered in good faith $500
reward for a case of nasal catarrh no
matter how bad or how long stand-
ing which they cannot cure. They
are thoroughly responsible financially
as any one can learn by proper en-
quiry through druggists (who sell the
medicine at only 50 cents) and they
"mean business."
Don't fail to try Dr. f hurmond'g
Lone Star Catarrh Cure the greatest
remedy on earth for catarrh and colds
in the head.
WASHINGTON LXTTKB.
Tk Republic Family la Congrtn Not
Happy One.
From oar regular correspondent
Washington February 10. Ex-
Speakers Carlisle and Randall have
abl presented their case in the mi-
nority report on the code of rules.
! which Mr. Carlisle by his parliament-
ary auroitness conipeuou wie uepub-
lican majority of the house commit-
tee on rules to report much sooner
than they had intended.
The rules were called up in the
house today and nothing else is to be
done until they are disposed of. Just
when that will be cannot be stated
yet. The Republicans seem inclined
to try to rush them through and to
have a final vote taken not later than
Wednesday but this programme will
be vigorously resisted by the Demc-
ciats who insist upon ample time
being given for a full and free discus-
sion. They have taken this stand
not because they expect to defeat the
adoption of the rules but that they
may have an opportunity through
the medium of speeches to show up
every flaw in them so that the country
may place the responsibility where it
belongs.
The imperative need of more pub-
lic buildings in Washington has been
much talked of in both ends of the
capitol since Senator Morrill brought
out the fact that $121700 a year was
being paid out by the government for
rents in this city and that owing to
the overcrowded condition of the gov-
ernment buildings the amount was
continuously increasing. The senti-
ment in congress seems to be in favor
of erecting the buildings necessary to
carry on the business of the govern-
ment and it is probable that early
action will be taken in the matter.
This is particularly necessary in the
case of the government printing office
a ramshackle ty un health r old rat-trap
which will some day fall down and kill
several hundred of its bardine-packed
occupants if it is not replaced by a
new building.
The Republicans in congress are a
long ways from being a happy family
just now. Senator Edmunds threatens
to resign from the senate committee
on foreign affairs because a resolution
of his was voted down in executive
session while Senator Sherman chair-
man of the committee chuckles and
says "let him go." On the house side
there are oceans of trouble. Speaker
Reed is hopping mad because the Re-
publican caucus amonded his code of
rules by adding a clause making pen-
sion legislation privileged at all times
and he has intimated to Mr. Carlisle
through a third party that if a Demo-
crat will move to strike out this clause
enough Republicans would vote with
him to do so.
The hearings in the Ohio ballot box
forgeries still go merrily on but it is
expected that this week will end
them. Whatever the committee may
do the impartial public has convicted
Foraker and Halstead of trying to de-
stroy a man's good name with a pa-
per which they knew to be forged.
Belief that the new rules are to be
adopted by the house has brought a
swarm of lobbyists of all descriptions
to Washington in the hope of getting
a part of the spoils. This is the way
the matter strikes Representative
Crisp of Georgia one of the most
clear beaded men in the house:
"When you consider the propositions
for immense expenditures of public
money that are being urged upon tjiis
congress and that these rules make
the way clear for them yom do not
have to be a prophet to see that the
money asked for by congress is apt to
overbalance that held in the treas-
ury." The Democrats are taking the pre-
liminary steps towards a winning
congressional campaign this year.
Representative Flower of New York
has been elected temporary chairman
and Representative McKea of Arkan-
sas temporary secretary of the con-
gressional compaign committee.
Great pressure is being brought to
bear on Senator Gorman to accept the
permanent chairmanship of this com-
mittee. Bob Ingcrsoll who is here indorses
Speaker Reed but then it must be re-
membered that Ingersoll like Reed
does not believe in a hereafter.
STOCKHEN'4 BANQUKT.
The Fort Worth Convention Next Month to
Be a Big Thine.
The Fort Worth Stockgrowers con-
vention next month is going to be a
big thing and the Travis County asso-
ciation will be well represented. The
Fort Worth Stock Journal speaking
of the convention says:
"Local parties are interesting them-
selves in the proper manner in the
coming interstate meeting of cattle--men
which will be held in Fort
Worth March 11 and from all pres-
ent indications the delegates to the
convention will be cared for while in
Fort Worth. At the last meeting of
the directory of the Stock YarJs com-
pany a resolution was offered and
adopted unanimously providing for a
banquet for the cattlemen to be given
at the Stock Yards hotel during the
sitting of the convention. It goes
without saying that this aff iir will be
one of the most elegint a flairs of the
many elegant ones ever given in
Fort Worth. The idea of holding it
at the stock yards is a happy one ani
it will be fully appreciated by the
hundreds of guests when they view
the romantic surroundings of the
place. The visitors to Fort Wrth at
that time can be assured in advance
that i open-armed hospitality awaits
them."
The action of Carter's Little Liver
Pills is pleasant mild and natural.
They gently stimulate the liver and
regulate the bowels but do notpurge.
TWO TYRANTS.
''La Grippe" has taken the world by sur-
prise And has not excepted our lovely land.
He has spared neither sex age nor doctor
though wise
But has leveled them all with a merciless
hand. .
He has marched as a king through this
home of the free.
But a monarch he cannot retain foot-
hold hen.
Still he bus it just now us we can all
plainly see
And he laughs when we ttir "there it
nothing to fear."
Of this autocrat's power it is well to tnke
heed.
What are the results of his visits thus
far?
"We are left with no strength;" just the
thing that we need
To help us recruit and grow strong as we
were.
There's another proud kiug we have reasom
to fear
Hatching plots now in Washington in-
famous vast.
One-Man-Power lieed has dared to ap-
pear Disclosed in true colors deprived of a
mask.
A "grip's" now on our throat that no free-
man can bear
And remain for one moment deserving
the name.
How can men persist "there's nothing to
fear?"
Look out! I say only ourselves are to
blame.
We must not let these things continue this
way.
But rise in our power and defend as our
right
The freedom our fathers secured in their
day.
Freemen prove yourselves worthy their
legacy bright.
Delay not one moment lest no strength be
left
To tight as you must this unscrupulous
throng.
Do you want civil war again? Children
bereft?
Delay not one moment it may be too
long.
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WHICH ONE t
TO MBS. J. J. K.
In the mechanic's cottage lay
His children stricKen down
By fever; 'twas an awful scourge
That swept across the town.
Grim death must have a human soul
And his cold finger traced
The pallid face and shrunken limb
Where yet sweet beauty graced.
"I'll take the little cherub ma'am"
Said death ; "but one of ten
As souls are quite alike to us
Of babies or of men I"
"I cannot yield my little child
So innocent and pure;
To tear the heartstrings thus Oh Death
No woman can endure I"
"Then rest thy spirit dearest friend
I'll take the next in years;
This simple child thou canst not miss
Bo quiet be thy fears 1"
"Nay pray thee leave my little girll
Those kisses on her face
Are tear drops from a woman's heart
Oh spare my gentle Grace I"
"Aye woman try my patience not:
Hast thou not often heard
That death is but a pleasant sleep?
Then trust to me the third I"
"My pretty bright-eyed Jack? Oh nol
Our bonnie laughing boy?
We could not spare one smile of his
Love's brightest hope and joy !"
From couch to couch the monarch sped
Yet still that pleading cry;
rinr maafn f mm an o n irol 'a Ifr
Why none of them should die t
Baffled Death said upon his way
With calm and thoughtful face:
" 'Tis woman's tenderness of heart
That saves the human race!"
Jay P. Chaiu.
Don't Let It Escape It Hay Be Your Tarn
With well-known regularity the 230th
frand monthly drawing of The Louisiana
tate Lottery took place at New Orleans on
January 14th 1890. under the usual super-
vision of Generals G. T. Beauregard of
Louisiana and Jubal A. Early of Virginia.
Ticket No. 932(32 drew the first capital
prize of 1300000. Ticket No. 12122 drew the
second capital prize of $ 100000 and was
sold in fractional twentieths at $1 each
sent to M. A. Dauphin New Orleans La.
one was held by Eli Zane Philadelphia
Pa.; one bv Robert T. Parker Ut. James
Mo.; one by Thomas Marriott Leaven-
worth. Kan.; one by John J. Conley Bos-
ton Mass. ; one by Hans Lagoni Dwight
III.; one by H. VV. Carter Minneapolis
Minn.; one bv C. N. Duross Detroit.Mich.j
one by Nevada Bank Han Francisco Cal. ;
one by ffceond National Batik of Jackson
Tenn.'; i-tc etc.. Ticket No. 64.301 drew tin
third capitul prize of $50000 also sold in
fractional parts in like manner at $1 each;
one to Wm. K. Westlake Peoria. 111. :on
to Jacob Abbott 435 Aisquilh street Balti-
more Md.; one to Henry Ottke 153 West 3d
street Cincinnati O. : one to a depositor
Union National Bank New Orleans La. ;
one to Hannah Lay & Co. Traverse City
Mich. ; one to John Daly 402 Washington
street New York City. ; one to Charles G.
Lynch Boston Mass. etc. etc. The next
drawing will take place Tuesday. March
11 of which all information will be fur-
ni&hed un application to M. A. Dauphinj
New Orleans La.
It never fails to give satisfaction
north south east and west Dr. Bull's
Cough Syrup. 25 cents.
Mr. H. C. Rigby of the Equitable
Life Assurance Society of New York
states : That he was cured of lumbago
by Salvation Oil the pain cure.
Of exquisite flavor pure and whole-
some. Angostura Bitters is a stand-
ard table delicacy. Sole manufactur-
ers Dr. J. G. B. Siegeit & Sons. At
all druggists.
Zorilla the most popular Spanish
Republican is living quietly in Paris.
He lives in furnished lodgings and
never goes into society. He is fairly
well off but not wealthy. He has
been fifteen years in exile but has
never for a moment lost faith in the
ultimate triumph of his crusade.
Electric Bitten.
This remedy is becoming so well known
and so pupular as to need no special men-
tion. All who have used Electric Bitters
sing the same song of praixe. A p. rer
medicine does not exist aod it is guaran-
teed to do all that is claimed. Electrio
Bitters will cure all diseases of the liver
and kidneys will remove pimples boils
salt rheum and other affections caused by
impure blood; will drive malaria from the
ystem and prevent as well as cure all ma-
larial fevers. For cure of headache con-
stipation and indigestion try Electric Bit-
ters. Entire satisfaction guaranteed or
money refunded. Price 50c and $1 per
' bottle at J. J. Tobin's drug store.
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