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AUSTIN WEEKLY STATESMAN THURSDAY JANUARY 21 1886.
TKXAS TIDINGS.
(Staged Plains.
. ilitii A. W. Terrell is looming up as a
prominent candidate for United States
t':i r. 1 .T . . i. . I .T.i.a tUnt l. l
.'tand.A well among those who are familiar
au!i the prominent men of the state
t ort Worth Mail.
Judge Terrell's present attitude before
the people of Texas is not at all depress
ing to his friends. Hq was for a long
time the "under dog' in' the fight" but
strange as it rhay seem be doesn't just
now occupy that position.
.Dallas Mercury. '
Petty jealousy and unmanly prejudice
don't build cities or developo the most de-
lightful social system.
Newspapers which traduce and sneer
at honorable neighbors in their honest en-
deavors to progress would not hesitate to
turn and rend their friends should such a
course prove profitable to them.
Fort Worth Gazette.
A hill has been brought forward in the
Kentucky legislature to reform juries. It
provides that intelligence and the reading
of newspapers shall not bar men from
the jury box. When we can have intelli-
gent juries we may expect reasonable
verdicts and a decent regard for justice.
Such a jury in the Herrin murder case
would have come to a different conclusion
from that rendered.
QalV9BtonTril)ime.
THard times is the ory that will continue
to bo heard in this country until that gor-
gon known as the protective tariff which
stands upon the threshold of the nation
with a nery sword dealing aeatn to com-
mrtn anil agriculture is slain. The in
genuity of satan could not devise a surer
scheme by which to impoverish a nation
than legislation against the welfare of the
.. C . h t.Y.a donaflf rtf ftia Ol TIT
Dallas Herald.
The celerity with which the Ohio repub-
licans in the legislature kicked out nine
democrats and re-elected John Sherman
to. the senate was a surprise to the sena-
i tor himself.
) : The latest Heheme proposed tor tne
; conversion of the Apaches according to
Phil Sheridan's plan of salvation is to
Send Colonel Bavlor after them with a
' squad of Texas rangers.
Houston Post.
' It has been demonstrated beyond cavil
that beef can be slaughtered at home
stored in ' refrigerator warehouses for
months and then be shipped thousands
of miles in refrigerator cars to market.
This Would be a errand enterprise for
Houston.
The only way they can get a printer in
to the penitentiary is to learn a convict
already there the trade. That is what
they are doing with Fred Ward in New
: York.
Texas Northwest.
. An idler is twice a thief; he not only
steals his own time but hangs around and
tries to steal yours.
J Judge Terrell of Austin stands a fair
'Chance of being elected United States
senator at the next meeting of the state
legislatare.
Four bills have been already introduced
in congress all looking to the opening up
of the Indian territory burely the pres
ent congress will do something on this im
portant question.
Texas Panhandle.
' Quite a large number of settlers have
intuited on watered sections in this coun
try and they say that they would rather
take chances on its coming into market
at some future time than to risk settle
ment on land controlled by the changeable
land board.
If the railroads owning land in the Pan-
handle would put it on the market they
could sell it readily to actual settlers.
Persons comins here to settle are so con
fused by the multitudinous rulings of the
land board and the uncertainty surround
ing school land that they would much pre
fer dealinir with some private individual
or corporation and conduct their pur
chases in a business-like manner.
Bolton Journal.
Col. Edmund Richardson the wealth
iest man in the south died at Jackson
Miss. on Tuesday. He leaves a foitune
estimated at between twelve and fifteen
million dollars. He was owner of nine
teen plantations and was styled the cot
ton king.
The kind office performed for the pro
hibitionists by the Journal seems to have
been misunderstood by our friends of the
Austin Statesman. They spoke of "the
advocacy of the prohibitory party" by the
Journal. Now. isn't that as
our vounsr lady friends say.
-iust too awfully awful? To be abused
by one's enemies is bad enough; but to be
misunderstood by one's friends is sadsad
indeed! The Journal tries to give all
sides a fair hearing but its opposition to
prohibition is sure and steadtast.
Ttallaa Times.
New Orleans is in rans because of its
lottery. There can be no doubt of that
The Times is not putting on any extra
frills of morality but it knows that lot
tery (rambling is the worst kind of gamb
linir. History sliows that when once it
sets its fangs in a people they are done
for. Our Taw makers and constitution
makers appreciated this and hence have
forever prevented tne possiouity or a 101
. tery being established in this state. This
i is as far as they could possibly go. But
their ounce of prevention should be fol
lowed by a pound of cure in the shape of
prosecutions for violating ine lottery law.
Louisiana is near us and is de
' basing itself by legalizing this worst of
gambling. It should not be allowed to
carrv on its business in Texas. We might
buy a ticket but that does not make the
gambling right. We should be prevented
from purchasing and every other person
should be prevented from purchasing
Texas is sending thousands of dollars to
' Louisiana every month to be poured into
the pockets of a few men.
Well the council certainly did sit down
on the variety theatres with the force of
a pile-driver. lnis should nave been
done a lonir time asro. The Times drew
xxv the plans and specifications for squelch
" ing these shows and the council followed
: them out. The variety" theatres came
when Dallas first began to grow and have
been here ever since. One man made
fortune out of the business and others
still have made money while others have
.' gone broke. Several years ago when
i John .Thompson was flourishing an effort
1 xvna mil ilo hv the council to shut off
; h-. hrA ppTi'lim? the drawing up and
. y.pMiii" of the oriii'.fne" Thompson re-
VHWCll his livetise I'o. ' '''n' Pl
ihu: d-.f.af'.-il the ordinance. '! guar
AiMinst df-fci.it by ft similar 8ft! ion on thu
til! i'.E t.te i:evv prupneioM Mayor
Bi-r.H tiiis morning in-iiucied City As-
rf?ss.ir find Collector Uogi-1 not to issue
.) n.-.til the council act on tlie orui-
Austin Statrsman for a highly compli
mentary notice so complimentary indeed
ttiat the Banner s modesty forbids re-production.
nance.
Ijii-iib.mi Runner.
Tito Tanner i-
un-lcr obligations to the
The Austin Statemmas advises farmers
not to be too sure that the cold weather
will destroy insect cga and larvie in the
ground. It will ft upify them but few will
be destroyed.
According to the Galveston News the
stockmen of Texas in session at Austin
have given an indirect hit to the Terrell
boom; they did this by adopting resolu-
tions based on the Terrell land bill which
failed to pass at the extra session of the
18th legislature.
The Austin Statesman wants the Ranner
to explain how the mercury could get 50
degrees below zero when it is well known
that mercury freezes at 40 degrees below.
It was a slip of the pncil- such as is lia
ble to happen in the hurry of collating
items.
Waco Examiner.
The News is again at its old tricks. It
is opposing on all fitting occasions the
convention system. The News knows
that as long as the convention system pre
vails Texas is bound to be democratic;
that whenever that is thrown over then
there is a chance for the .republicans.
This is BufHcient to call out all of the lat-
ent energies of the News. However the
Dallas end is located in tho centre of a
pretty dense democratic community and
it remains to be seen how its reading con-
stituents will like this proposition to de-
stroy all democratic organization which
has hitherto been the safeguard of the par
ty wherever it has been kept up. A dem
ocratic convention elected by the people
and clothed with their authority has ever
been the bete noir of the News. It has
taken many a tilt at it and the caucus
but with unvarying and monotonous re-
sults. Its present move will prove no ex-
ception to the rule and abject failure
will again result. Both ends and all
pr-rts of the News will be f aund too weak
too entirely lacking in power to accom-
plish the destruction of the convention
system.
San Antonio Times.
The special excursion to Floresville on
the 28th inst. promises to be an event
not only for the San Antonio k Aransas
Pass railroad but also for the beautiful
little city which will be the objective point
of the pleasure-seekers. The arrange
ments for the reception and accommoda-
tion of the excursionists will be properly
attended to and all who join the party
will certainly have an enjoyable trip. His
Excellency Gov. Ireland and other dis-
tinguished statesmen will be among the
visitors and altogether the occasion will
be one of interest and pleasure to those
who participate in it. Maj. J. T. Brack-
enridge of Austin prospective candidate
for governor will probably be on hand to
lend eclat to the first railroad excursion
to our rising suburb and with fine weath-
er the most pleasant and memorable ex
cursion ever made from the Alamo City is
certain to be a grand success.
Two dead beats calling themselves J. H.
Martin and F. C. Burton have been swind-
ling the hotels in St. Louis. They claim
to be cattlemen from Texas. Martin reg
isters from Austin. Pass them around.
Dallas Mercury.
Every little cross-road town in Texas
has a '"business man" it imagines would
make a good governor. Nov "business
is business" and a tact for making shrewd
bargains and taking advantage of those
with whom he deals does not constitute a
"business man" in the proper acceptation
of the term although such qualifications
are generally honored with the name of
business tact." buca characteristics are
better suited for the gambling rooms and
bunko games rather than for the execu-
tive mansion. What we want in the exec-
utive office is a man of broad views with-
out predjudice and independent of any
influence which may be brought to bear to
force him from a well digested broadly
conceived and honorable conscientious
course of action. A man who can grasp
the true inwardness of every question
which may present itself and with the
courage and determination to do right
though the heavens fall." In these lat
ter days the term "business man" has be
come almost synonimous with "sharper"
and don't agree at all with the character-
istics necessary for the high cast of char-
acter the executive should possess.
S. A. Express.
The proceedings of the State Cattle
men's convention at Austin prove that the
cattlemen of the state appreciate the fact
that the revolution in the cattle raising
interest so long predicted as a oertainty
by the Express is near at hand. In fact
is now going on. Instead of proclaiming
that Western Texas is not an agricultural
country as formerly and thereby dis
couraging settlement by farmers the lat
ter are now encouraged to cultivate the
soil and raise forage for live stock.
We give the figures above of the men
who are the heaviest losers by the failure
of the City Bank. Wm. R. Baker owned
f 136100 of the bank's stock which is of
course a total loss tie has no expecta-
tion not even a hope of getting a cent on
that. Then he owned $20000 of the
Houston Insurance company stock and
as the Insurance company's capital was
nearly all invested in the bank stock.
that too is a total loss ine insurance
company owned $200000 of the bank's
stock and upon the failure of the bank
began immediately to close up its busi-
ness. In addition to his loss on stock
Mr. Baker has tied up in the bank $130-
033 loaned money money from his indi-
vidual means that he loaned the bank to
keep it from failing. His losses on the
bank failure aggregate the immense sum
of $262733 more than "a quarter of a
million dollars.
Next on the list of heavy losers is Mr.
William M. Rice of New Yoik. He loses
$73700.
Next to Mr. Rice comes Mr. Robert
Brewster with a loss of $35833 on notes
executed as a loan and accommodation to
the bank.
William R. Baker William M. Rice and
Robert Brewster are men of wealth and
their wealth has been liberally used in the
interests of Houston and for the advance
ment of her growth and commerce
Thev are larce losers on account of
money loaned to the City bank purely as
accommodation and to enable it to con-
tinue in business and in assisting to pro-
mote the prosperity of Houston.
Denison News.
While Denison has many citizens who
would adorn and len .'..honor to the office
of governor she has none who desire it
if ihsy mu-t enter into n din5freesMe and
unseemly scramUe t't securt it. But when
the time arrives for the selection of a i au-
(lirtdate for congressional honors there
will be several "rise np William Aliens" to
respond to the roll call.
Chas. Herrin who wantonly innrdered
Dr. Barrndall at Fort Worth. oii.o two
years ago ha; been convicted by a jury
at Clebunre. whence it was carried on a
cKatce o vc!rr. and f.-ts trued tr tti
years imprisonment. The murder
was peculiarly atrocious and
without an extenuating element. Ipsanity
was plead and while the murder was ad
mitted by the defense the jury awarded
the assassin a brief imprisonment. Such
a decision is a travesty on justice and an
outrage on the law-abiding people of the
state. If Hrriu was sane he should have
been hung for his crime; if he was of
unsound mind and mentally irresponsible
for his act the jury should have so pro-
nounosd and the competent authorities
should have taken steps to secure his in-
carceration in an asylum "where his
bloody instincts and brutal passions could
haye been kept under control. It is such
verdicts as this that bring the law into
contempt and render popular the swift
and retributive' justice administered by
the coda of "Judge Lynch." So long as
juries like the Cleburne body continue to
turn loose upon the community suoh mur-
derous wretches as Herrin bo long will
the six shooter flourish and assassins be
assured of immunity from punishment.
If crime is to be stamped out in Texas
public gentnnent popular opinion must
set the seal of condemnation upon mur-
der and murderers.
Fort Worth Mail.
So much of the matter in some of our
exchanges is "patented" the Statkbman is
afraid to copy anything from them for
fear of being prosecuted for infringe
ment. The government's patent laws are
very stringent. Statesman.
They would be excellent foraging
ground for paragraphio purloiners only
the patents collate news ltemfc and label
them paragraphs. The genuine para
graph has the clear ring of an idea.
Austin is now enforcing a police regu
lation that reminds one of the olden times
when every darkey had to turn in at the
ringing of the 9 o clock bell. Austin lets
them run ' till low twelve and whether
black or white after that hour they are
halted and required to give an account of
their business in walking the streuts at
that late hour and when their statement
fails to satisfy the policemen they are
pulled and locked up till morning. .
The farmers in the vicinity of Austin
are reported to be more prosperous and
nearer out of debt than for the ten pre
vious years; but they are not at all ahead
of their neighbors in this respeot for the
same report comes up from all sections
of the state.
Houston Herald.
The exodus of negroes from the south
ern tier of counties in North Carolina
most of them going to Kansas but some
to Arkansas still continues without inter
ruption. Not less than 3000 are thought
to have left Richmond and Anderson
counties since November. Planters at
first made an effort to check their loss of
labor but their effort i proving futile they
are now doing all they can to clear their
farms entirely of colored labor claiming
that they can replace it with New Eng
land farmers of whom it' is said large
numbers are willing to come as soon as
assured that they will not be brought in
contact with colored labor.
San Antonio Express.
The cattlemen's committee on publio
land go squarely to the point in their re
port to the convention and present a
platform on which stockmen and agricul
turists can well unite. The resort shows
that there is none of that antagonism
among stockman and farmers we hear so
much about except on the - part of the
comparatively few on either hand who
wailt to "bag the whole country." The
livestock lessee is as much entitled to
protection as the farmer or actual settler
and the rights of all should be fully
guaranteed.
Houston Ago.
Those who have feared that the senate
would refuse to confirm the Hon. J. Q
Chenoweth first auditor of the United
States treasury can now put their fears
to rest. He was confirmed yesterday and
there is no report of any trouble about it
Waco Examiner.
We need Greer county in our business
We must not give up a foot of that fine
county only after it is a clear case against
our rights.
San Marcos Free Press.
The Galveston News thinks it by no
means certain that Greer county will be
adjudged to belong to Texas. It thinks
the boundary commission will probably
not be able to settle it but that it will have
to come before congress for final settle-
ment .
Housto'n Herald.
Houston is gaining in population more
rapidly than any other city in the south.
The figures of the late census speak for
themselves and figures don't generally
lie. If the other counties had gained as
much as Harris in the past five years
Texas to-day would be the empire state
of the union.
Galveston Tribune.
Slugger Sullivan wants to fight Mitchell
for one cent every day in the week and
give $1000 to some charitable institu-
tion if he don't whip him the first
day. He ought to be in good training as
he has been practicing on the New York
newsboy. When he was "starring" in
Texas he was as meek as dressed mutton
and any kid with a disgruntled six-shooter
could make him sit right down and bleat.
Galveston News.
The stockmen of Texas in session at
Austin give an indirect lift to the Terrell
boom. The resolutions adopted by the
convention might apparently just as well
have been boiled down from the Terrell
bill of the extra session of the Eighteenth
legislature. This is flattering to Mr.
Terrell. The land board too found it
necessary to adopt some of Terrell's Bug
gestions and perhaps after a while the
Travis statesman may have the pleasure
of seeing the leading ideas of his pet
measure resurrected by a real live legisla-
ture and made a law of the state of
Texas. Times works wonderful changes
and makes all things even
riouston Post.
Judge Reagan's speech on the silver
question was a masterly array of 'figures
facts and logic. It is true that the dem
ocratic party cannot go back on this pre
cious metal.
Tho sardonic Edmunds of Vermont
and the "whole-souled" Hoar of Massa
chusettj are in a set-to on the question
of woman suffrage in Utah Edmunds
against and Hoar for. Trie respectability
Of tne country m nuiuuuus.
Under Secretary Lamar's administra-
tion of the affairs of the department of
the interior there is no question but that
the government will secure its claims
a.riiinst tho Pacific rnilroid nnd tho. e
monstrous monopolies b; uim.j to voih-:
to time.
Itr'-ntiam Banrifr
Jndpe Uei.gjin made a Mron nd et-
hnujfive speech in favor of thu continua-
tion of silver coiuHfre on Tuesday. He
contends that silver has not depreciated
but lhat gold ha-t appreciatt.! in vulcc.
silver it -.)'. "i:.l;.-i in t'ao tn-a-o'v Id
ealise it is not paid out as it should be.
Mr. Reagan favors the payment of the
national debt as fast as possible and the
abolition of the national bank notes.
The . Texas Greenback convention
which was so extensively advertised a
few weeks ago to take place at Waco on
the 11th instant proved to be a perfect
fiasco. Dr. J. D. Rankin and two others
comprised the entire convontion. No
quorum beiug present the meeting was
adjourned indefinitely. Dr. Rankin still
has faith in the cause. The idaa seems to
be that the rights of labor cannot hope
for relief from either of the great political
parties as both are favorable to capital
and monopoly.
Fort Worth Gazette.
Gen. Beauregard is a member of the
New Orleans Cremation society. If he
could induce the society to try its retort
on the Louisiana lottery it would be the
greatest exploit of his life.
Drummers are making an effort to have
congress prohibit the state tax upon
them. .If the drummers' license tax is
unconstitutional no act of congress is
needed to invalidate it but the supreme
court is the resort for relief. If it is not
unconstitutional then congress has no
right to prohibit it. Congress has enough
to do with state affairs without extending
its influence further in that direction.
Mr. Reagen believes in free nnd unlim
ited coinnge of an 80 cent dollar. He
would be better appreciated in Nevada or
Colorado than ith Texas. The people of
this state can't see the necessity of pro
viding a legal method by which the bull-
lonaires of these states can take $40000-
000 worth of silver coin to the mint and
have it coined into $18000000. What
have Messrs. Mackay Fair Sharon Tabor
and their crowd done for the people of
the United States that we should give
them $8000000 every year?
Laredo Times.
Prof. Smith Ragsdale informs the Green
ville Herald that he has decided positively
to make the race for superintendent of
publio instruction. Does Prof. Smith ig-
nore the formality of a nomination f
The Victoria Advocate answers one of
the Statesman's questions as to what Sen-
ator Maxey has done for Texas; and it is
perhaps as good a showing as any other
paper can make. It amounts to the neg
ative summary that while he has done
nothing for Texas he has done nothing
against her. Now as to the other ques
tion. What has Mr. Maxey left undone?
It may be said that as a member of the
postoffices and post roads committee he
should together with his colleagues on
the committee have been sutuciontly
vigilant as to preclude the possibility of
the star route depletion of the national
treasury. This is an error of omission
only; Mr. Maxey was no more to blame
than any of the rest. He is a negetive
quality and "commission" cannot be al
leged against him nor advanced in his
behalf. Personally Gen. Maxey is a dig
nifled gentleman and a Baptist deacon in
good standing. There are worse men
than Gen. Maxey as there are abler. The
Times once for all will say that it has no
"damaging' charges to bring against the
senator and opposes his return to the
senate simply because it believes there
are available abler material and it finds
no fault whatever with those of its excel-
lent compeer who think differently
among which the Advocate is one of the
most excellent.
San Antonio Express.
The speaker of the house appoints forty-two
regular and five standing commit-
tees and the official report in the Con-
gressional Record places the Texas dele-
gates in these committees as follows!
Stewart Rivers and harbors and select
committee on ventilation and acoustics.
ReaganT-Commerce (chairman).
Jones Posoflices and post roads.
Culberson Judiciary and expenditures
in interior department.
Throckmorton Pacific railroad (chair-
man). Wellborn Indian affairs (chairman).
Cain Foreign affairs and labor.
Miller Banking and currency (second
place) and education.
Mills Ways and means (second place;
and seclect committee on American ship
building and ship owning interests.
Bayers Naval affairs and select com-
mitteee on alcoholic liquor. traffic.
Lanham Coinage weights and meas
ures (second place) and claims.
As shown by the above lexaa nas
places on eighteen of the forty-seven com
mittees including three chairmanships
and three second places. Our member
(Sayers) seems to have been placed where
he would be least likely to have a previous
knowledge of subjects most likely to be
submitted to his committee naval affairs
and alcoholic liquor traffic.
Fort Worth Gazette.
The merchants of El Paso are indig
nant against the free zone on the other
side of the river. The free zone or zona
libre is a strip of territory extending from
the gulf at the mouth of the Kio urande
along that stream and the Mexican fron-
tier to lower California. It- reaches
twenty kilometers (about twelve miles
and a half) into the interior from the
border and its peculiar and exclasive
privilege is the reception of foreign made
goods at a mere nominal duty that makes
them practically free. This is what the
El Paso merchants complain of and the
complaint is echoed at every Texas town
on the Rio Grande. They seem to have a
good cause to grumble. Foreign goods
are entered at Matamoras and taken into
the interior upon which no tariff tax is
levied and these goods are easily smug
gled across the river into Texas. Mer
chants on the American side of the river
who pay a tariff duty of 00 or KM) per
cent of the value of their imports are of
course unable to compete with smuggled
goods upon which these duties have not
been paid and their business suffers. So
they cry out against the free zone and
want it abolished.
According to the report of Dr. Gunn
who has been inspecting tenement houses
in New York Trinity church that Mecca
of the pious owns and rents the most
squalid wretchetr and filthy tenement
houses in that city and has the unenviable
reputation of being the hardest and moHt
uncompromising landlord on Manhattan
Island. Trinity church raises her spire
to the clouds; her aisles resound with sa
cred music and the twords of a distin
euished divine; the wealth culture and
fashion of the city flock beneath her por
tals and thank heaven they are not as
others and much of the money with which
all this ostentatious display is kept up is
wruncr from the starving poor huddled
together like beasts in dens that woud
dij;.;upt even the most degraded China-
infill. I or nl.atne! A wemuiy una repre
VrPtHtive church instead of otrivin' toal-
levinto tl.f. r.nutimi of the unfortunate
poor wrinfei from thera the l.i-a penny
the lust crut of bread. Is tliM tim reli-
gion of Christ or of Baal? 'Moody and
Sankij should tarry in thu enst. There
is work for tho.n then-. Let them pof.t-
pi'.ne t..-r pi-vnied TcIHs r-Mval
tackle Trinity church and teach its man-
agement Christianity pure and simple.
Houston Age.
Mr. J. S. Sullivan of Richmond writes
to the Galveston News that the water in
Galveston bay froze over in the winter of
1820-21.
Abilene Keporter.
Worth has recently made some ball cos
tumes with hoops in the side draperies
like those seen in the portraits of Marie
Antoinette and they are less ugly than
costumes with hoops in the back breadths
and less inconvenient also.
Dallas News.
While the democrats are charged with
the desire to keep Dakota out ot the
union because it is republican' is there
any member of the party who will admit
that he would shed so many tears over the
territory's wrongs if it were not republi-
can. Fort Worth Mall.
Immigration to Texas is unprecedent
ed. All trains from the east and west
come crowded with people hunting homes.
Georgia Tennessee Alabama and Missis-
sippi are furnishing large quotas. Many
of these are settling in the counties im-
mediately south and southwest of Fort
Worth and come prepared to make a
cron.
Waco Examiner.
The Fort Worth Mail boasts that Yellow
Bear saw the sun for the last time in the
place where the panther laid down. Bill
Sterrett felicitates himself upon the fact
that Emma Abbott broke a limb in Dallas.
and now comes the Laredo Times which
says Marsh Polk was heading for that
town whin he was pulled in. Panegyric
is now exhausted.
Waco Examiner.
A law providing for a better and surer
way of securing legal service in court
matters is imperatively needed. The only
way to do that is by providing for publi
cation of all citations summons and
other legal palters in the newspapers
Suoh a law would save vast sums to Texas
property owners every year. The next
legislature will be very remiss to the needs
of the public if such a law is not passed
San Antonio Light.
The Greer county matter bids fair to
loom up in large proportions. Should
Texas gain her case the vast territory now
known as Greer county would not only be
added to her domain but that strip lying
between the northern end of the Panhan-
dle and Kansas is in itself almost a state
If she loses she really loses nothing as
Greer county is not given to Texas by the
majority of map makers. The only bad
feature about the loss of the case is the
indemnification of those who have been
allowed to locate Texas land certificates
on the lands of Greer county. These cer
tificates may result in some long and ex
pensive litigation.
Laredo Times.
Will some leading exchange tell us what
Senator Maxey .has done for Texas since
he has been in the senate and then will
some other leading exohange tell us what
he has left undone that he ought to have
done? Two well written articles of that
sort would be very generally read about
this tube. There is no reflection cast on
Senator Maxey in this suggestion. Aus
tin Statesman.
Gen. Maxey is a dignified gentleman
but by no means a leader. His military
preferment came simply because of his
graduation from West Point and not
because of anything he did in the war; and
his civil preferment is based on his "mili
tary record" whioh is nil. He is a nega
tive man a good citizen and would make
a good deacon or school trustee; but as
a senator he is a respectable failure. His
record is blank.
Fort Worth Gazette.
Notwithstanding the unusually csld
weather in Texas reports from the wes
de not speak of an unusual mortality
among range stock.. With a range idi
temperature several degrees higher last
wibter the losses of cattle and heep
were numbered by the thousand . Some
herds and flocks were decimate some
almost obliterated. That they have fared
so much better this winter in ooldur
weather must indicate that they are in
better condition for resisting unfavorable
weather. Grass and water were to be had
in abundance where last season the
drought had dried up both and cattle so
far have passed half the cold season with
uo bad results. Unless some extraordi
lary unfavorable weather comes in th'e
jext few weeks cattle will have emerge
from the dangerous season in excellent
order and the cattle business will begin
the summer with the most cheerful indi
cations of a revival.
Galveston Tribune.
A number of Texas journals are op
posed to working convicts outside of the
penitentiary walls and thereby bringing
them into competition with honest labor
Evening Tribune coincides with this view.
Besides forcing honest labor to thus com-
pete with convict labor it degrades the
former and as labor is the foundation of
all wealth anything that tends to degrade
it or bring it into disrepute Is to be de
plored. The only sensible solution of the
convict labor problem that has yet been
offered is the proposition to put them at
work improving the publio roads. The
poll-tax is a hardship to every laboring
man. If a farmer he ' must as a rule
leave his crops when they demand his
attention. If a mechanic or day laborer
he is called upon to work for the general
welfare when hiB family needs the pro-
ceeds of his. labor. By making the con-
victs keep the public roadways in repair
the burden is lifted from those upon
whom it falls with most grievous effect
good roads are assured and honest labor
is left in possesion of the field to regu-
late itself according to supply and de-
mand. San Antonio Express.
Capt. R. G. Head who arrived from
Colorado yesterday morning thinks the
reports of cattle losses in the Arkansas
valley are exaggerated; that unless tho se
vere weather continues tor some time yet
the loss will not be unusual as he left the
cattle in good condition.
Stockmen here believe the reports of'
cattle dying in large numbers in southtri
Texas on account of the cold weather
will be found to be exaggerations. There
is some loss they say as there always is
at this time of the year and the cold
weather doubtless "bunched" it but they
do not think it is as great as some of our
special dispatches indicate
An indication of the change from stock-
raising to agriculture in the Nueces val-
ley id afforded by tho statement ot a
Corpus Christi agricultural implement
dealer to tbe effect that ho sold f-ur
times as many imp!em'i!ts la .t yar ps
dining any yenr be font. - The man with
tho hoc is fceUiiijf in hm work."
Cslveot-ii! Tribune.
Lo
devilt
the poor
v will hav
ropper-ci
to nett
dorcd m
e n on
little farm and rustle for a living in the
not distant hence.
The laws of Ohio recognize the legiti
macy of miscegenation yet the whole
state is broken up over a Cleveland white
girl's marriage to a colored Adonis. A .
change of law is now in order. '
The Pennsylvania clergyman who palm-.
ed off one of Talmage's sermons on his-
ongregation as his own has been fired.
Whether it was the sermon or the decepj
tion that caused his dismissal is not
stated. ''
San Antonio Times I1
The real estate market in San Antonio
is quite firm. The demand is increasing
rapidly. It is gratifying to note that there
is also a strong demand for farming lands
in this vicinity. Mr. Charles L. Digno-
wity has located nine farmers near this
city within the last thirty days. The
lands purchased were both improved ard
unimproved and were intended for mod
erate-sized farms. The prices ranged f ro:n
$6 to $20 an acre. The purchasers canto
from Kansas Nebraska Arkansas Illinois .
and Iowa and are thrifty tillers of thu
soil. They have intelligence industry
and capital and that is all that is needs.!
to insure successful farming in this part
of the state. .- -. '
San Antonio needs only two thing? to
establish beyond all competition its su-
premacy as a city in Texas. It needs to
have the country settled up by thrifty
farmers and manufactories to utilize tho
products of the farm. No City in th
state has better natural facilities for both
these desiderata than San Antonio. The
farmers are coming; now let us have the
manufactories. -
Fort Worth Mall.
If Sterrett will only stay away and let
the "business end" run the Times Dallas
and the Fort could shake across the
bloody chasm and have a picnio.
It is stated that the filthiest most
crowded and most disreputable tenements
in New York city are among the propri-
etorships of the Trinity church corpora-
tions plainly proving that Godly . sem
blance is not always Godly cleanliness.
Yesterday Justice Zinn called up tho
case oi the State vs. Thomas H. Daggett
charged with the seduction of Miss Nannie
Wallace was called . for examination. .
The prosecution was dismissed by the
county attorney on the ground that Dag-
gett's victim was over twenty-five year
of age and that being the case no pros-.
ecution could be sustained under the law .
for seduction under a promise of mar-
riage. The two civil suits against Daggett
in the district court one by Miss Dag
gett for $20000 damages and one by her
father for $10000 damages will be pros-
ecuted. Galveston Tribune.
Moody and Sankey are coming to Texas.
This state appears to be the battle ground
chosen by revivalists upon which to bat
tle with Satan's oohorts. Yet from all ao-
countthe prince of darkness is still hold
ing the fort still conducting a very active
and constantly increasing business at tne
old stand. The AuBtin murders the lat
Dallas horror consisting of an old mon'a
fiendish asBault upon the person of his
newly-married daughter and other crimes
Inn immerniiH to mention suicrest that
Texas needs a revival and needs it bad
but that said revival be of the hempen
variety. Texas was fast obtaining an en-
viable reputation for morality and good
order but there appears to have beon
frightful falling from grace that calls for
a revival of vigorous measures. The fnvsi
of the matter is that Texas is flooded by a
class of bums and dead-beats who should
bo taken to the border and fired out Into
the unknown whence and warned not to -return
upon penalty of two yeoro' impris-
onment. It is this class that is agHiit
giving the state a reputation for lawless-
ness and every man wjo cannot show by
what means he lives should be ruthlensly
fired. This would clean out the profe s
sional gamblers thieves bums and other
disreputable characters. That is the
kind of a copper-rivited brass-mounted
gilt-edged "revival" Toxas stands in need
of at the present writing. .
Bronham Banner. '
It seems that the laws of Ohio recog-
nize the legitimacy of the marriage of tho
whites and negroes; therefore it is not
in the least astonishing that misguided
white and colored people get married..
Prohibition does not prohibit. No man
of any care or oandor tor his reputation
for veracity will for a moment deny tins
aphoristic statement. The only question
of debate involved in it is the meaning
that may be attached to it by those who
use it.
The Cattlemen's convention met at
Itioiln .1.1 TH i n 7 i n Afnnv TiTim irirtTi t.
nun nil iu niviiuiij . j j. . . -- -
orrnzinrfi from south and west Texas aro '
in attendance but few from the Panhan-
dle are present. Stock men in southern
Texas are opposed to free grass As a
large majority of the stock men in south
Texas own their pastures or ranges it U
not surprising that they oppose free
grass. -
Fort Worth is now the best advertised
city in Texas. It has always been tho
policy of the leading and represetative
men of Fort Worth to liberally sustain
the newspapers of the city. The Hous ton
Post says the evening paper in. Fort
Worth receives $800 to $1200 a year
from each of the live firms there; the re-
sult is tho best evening paper in the state.
No city ever lost anything by the policy
adopted by Fort Worth. 1 '
Galveston Tribune.
We are pleased to note that several lead-
ing journals are taking a decided stand
against the personal detraction warfare in
politics. This is an evil that has dis-
graced every campaign since the days vf
Washington and so common has it be-
come that even mayoralty contest am
conducted with as much virulence as pres-
idential campaigps. Abuse is not ar i-
ment. - -
The celebrated Sarah Althea Hill who
claimed to be the wife of Senator Sha-
ron has met with another episode in he-
eventful career by her marriage Iftdt
Thursday to Judge Terry one of her coun-
sel in the divorce suit. Few men h io
had a stranger career than Terry. ; horn
in Kentucky sixty-three years ago hi-
fought under Houston in the wur for 1 et-
an independence and in the Mexican ir
under Taylor. He aftewards emigratsJ to
California where he became a promiticiii
figure in the politics of the state lit re-
signed his position on the supreme
bench in 185'J to meet Senator Brodono';
on the field of so-called honor a me'ii'i
the result of which was the death of B;otV
erick at the first fire.
Dallas Times '
Joe Brown as he is fnmiliarly find i.f-
feoiionrttdy culled 1ms prol.r-Vy... .
ten thousand dollar o.i the Fort V m i '.i
morning newspaper. yt finds it- h U-.
twtt and his inc.liHJi.tion to a-.ivri.;.-. m
the hfl-oi noon paper t. the ftmm.nt vl
hundred iio''ar;i a ttt(tb.
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