Weekly Democratic Statesman. (Austin, Tex.), Vol. 12, No. 23, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 11, 1883 Page: 4 of 8

                                
THE STATESMAN.
AUSTIN. TEXAS.
TIIUSRDAY
-JAN. 11 1883
Tub latest Republican ticket for the
presidency is Edmunds of Vermont
and Wilson of Iowa.
State Tueasukeu fcPEEKof Geor-
gia says that the List session of the
Georgia legislature cost $ 19.898.
Senator Jonks of Nevada admits
that there is no Republican of suttl-
clent strength to secure on election In
1884. .
Governou Stephens of Georgia
has occupied the gubernatorial chair
for nix weeks and has issued forty-
wo pardons.
WniLETne puuiicatioiToT Dorsey's
1 stters establish the fact that he is no
tool the public mind remains satisfied
that he is no ordinary thief.
Dr. Asiibf.l Siiitu was a member
-ot the school superintendents conven-
tion at Houston. Did he too sub-
scribe to the Baldwin theory ?
After the other fallows who want
to be senator from Illinois chew each
other up David Davis may be rolled
into the seat they so much want.
The Philadelphia Bulletin was im-
 with the idea that Gambetta
v as feigning severe sickness. News
paper people are usually very wise
sometimes too wise.
AVeavkk. the quondam greenback
light has placed his late political con-
victions out of sight and has become
a newspaper editor. He follows the
track of all the great men.
Owing to the construction of the
Mexican National railway the trade
between Mexico and the United States
and Europe via' Monterey Corpus
Christi and Liverpool has quadrupled
In the last three months.
This congress is most zealous in at
tempting to provide while it may
places for as many Republicans as pos
sible. Hence the Davis bill for en
Jarging the supreme court is to be
pushed with a will It calls for lilteen
new justices.
The taxable value of property in
Florida is $43283.1)72. This includes
the value of certain railroads whose
owners dispute tho right to be taxed.
The amount so involved is three or
four millions of dollars and the cause
is in the courts.
It is reported that Boss Mahone as
pires to the ollice of president pro tern.
of the Senate alter March 4 1883 and
that this aspiration will be the basis
cf one of the complications which
will confront the senate upon the day
of its reorganization.
The Chicago merchants have sent
memorial to congress remonstrating
against the passago of the bankrupt
iaw. TW.4HurTtpt law in force for
years after the war. did more to create
rascals and destroy conQdeuce than
anything which has ever affected
business society in this country.
Eighty millions ok dollars in
taxes on bonded whiskies is due the
government and it is said thfr
collection will break many iiuks and
Individuals. JltaTthis subject
PostH2SW'axe3 for two years is not
It is said there is enough
r"usky in the county to last live
rjears.
GOVERNOIl-ELKCT PaTTISOX Of
Pennsylvania is being lionized by his
Methodist brethren without distinc-
tion of party and should he run for
president in 1884 perhaps he may
count on the whole denomination for
his constituency as a greater popular
hero was able to do in a former cam-
paign. Col. Mosby who serves hi country
as coaiul at Hong Kong writes to a
friend in Virginia: "I regard M;dione
as the most vindictive unscrupulous
and meanest tyrant thut ever figured
in American Polities." It is said that
CoL Mosbv will return to America to
takc.the stump against Senator Ma-
hone nest yor.
The citizens of Rochester and Troy
New York are experimenting in
school reform. They have abolished
the recess and give a longer noon rest
thus enabling the children to go to
their homes and take a warm meal.
It Is churned that the recess is spent
In unprofitable gossip and is hurtful
rather than beneticial.
Bishop Ryax of the Catholic
churcn in a recent sermon .in St.
Louis said that the church had ever
taught that negative infidelity was
not a sin that is the infidelity of
those who had no opportunity of
learning the truth that therefore
she never cared to pronounce sentence
as to the state of those millions of
souls who were thus circumstanced.
The Atlanta Constitution is a great
people's paper. It says that when the
legislators are temporizing and halt-
ing and timorous there is no railroad
legislation worth a lig passed. Our
legislators will therefore deal very
firmly with the freight and discrimi-
nation business if they desire as is
here intimated to represent the peo-
ple. And yet the Constitution may
be mistaken.
The rebel Egyptian pashas having
been publicly degraded have been
shipped to Ceylon. They have done a
deal of harm and little good and they
may reflect as they sail over tho In-
dian ocean that they were lucky in
having England instead of their own
race for an enemy. Hail their antago-
nists been Mahometans they would
have been sent to meet the prophet by
a shorter route than via Ceylon.
Dcrinq the last year we exported
$147000000 worth of cotton while the
grain exports only reached $32000000
and even counting corn in the form of
pork the figures only reach $137000-
000. But we consume more corn than
cotton and tho value of fche corn crop
Is about twice as great as that of cot-
ton as follows: 6000000" bales of
cotton at S30 per bale $300000000 ;
1.030000000 bushels of corn at 40
rents $000000000.
TliB seuutoriul contest in Michigan
no longer confined to Messrs. Ferry
andllubbell. Mr.McMulan.awcaithv
1
lar-uuudcr of Detroit and James F.
a . .
oy formerly president of the Michi
gan Central railroad ha ve become
candidates and Mr. Ferry is regarded
v-iti(-j"vo"trf the field. Att
The Pendleton bill passed by the
senate provides for the appointment
of three commissioners not more than
two of any political party who shall
provide for opening competitive exam-
inations for testing the fitness of ap-
plicants for the public service; that
all appointments within certain limits
shall be made from among those
graded highest as the result of such
examinations; that appointments
shall be apportioned among the states
and territories on the basis of popula-
tion; that there shall be a period of
probation before any absolute ap-
pointment; that promotions shall
be from the lower grades to the
higher on the basis of merit and com-
petition and certain other provisions
intended to preserve the independence
of the subordinate employes. The
commission is to select in the various
states where vacancies are to be tilled
examining boards from federal em-
ployes residing in those states to
conduct the examinations; is to ap-
point a chief examiner to supervise
and inspect such examinations; is to
keep full records and make an annual
report to the president to be transmit-
ted to congress. The limits to the
(iteration of the act are that
it applies at first only to
the departments at Washing-
ton and to such offices under the
secretary of the treasury or postmas-
ter general as have more than fifty
employes and afterward to such offices
as the president may direct. The en-
forcement of the law iles absolutely
with the president and it may be un-
derstood that he will use it in a polit
ical sense for all it is worth. It is a
base scheme prepared in a moment of
desperation to protect those who have
been running public affairs through a
long period of corruption.
The school superintendents in con
vention assembled at Houston for
tho purpose of providing soft places
for certain pedagogues resolved as
follows;
1. That each member of the associa
tion be requested to impress upon the
member and senator lroin his district
the necessity for the changes proposed
in the school law and constitution
2. That an advisory committee on
education consisting of five members
be appointed iy the chair.
3. That the executive committee be
authorized to prepare a brief and
pointed memorial copies of which
shall bo mailed to every teacher who
am oe reached witn tne request mat
the signatures of tax payers who are
favorable be secured and the me
morial forwarded to the legislature
mid asking the active personal in-
lluence ot teachers with their mem-
bers. 4. That the members of the associa
tion are requested to use every means
itossibie to secure tne active co-opera
tion of the press of Texas in securing
the changes m the school law aa
recommended.
What a nice snare for the people!
What a trap for the unsophisticated
legislator. But these superintendents
really did not mean these resolu
tions to get into the hands of a repor
ter. Their battery ought to have
been masked. It should never have
been known when these petitions
begin to pour in that they were not
the result of a great popular clamp
for increased taxation and rejffcress
expenditures. The innocyi' people
will sign because theyare asked and
this is what thssunerintendents
should uae-hulden from the legisla
tors.
TViiiLE the object of prohibition is
goon the evidences are that it fails to
accomplish tho ends desired. Laws
are evaded and whisky selling is car-
ried on under base guises and drunk
enness increases instead of decreases.
In Maine last year whisky was on
side at 918 places while in the year
before it was sold at 830 places. In
Kansas it was sold last year at 1400
places against 1182 places in 1881.
The heavy license system seems to
give more protection against
whisky than any other plan yet tried.
It stops the sale of whisky at cross
roads bar-rooms and low groggeries
and places its sale in the hands of the
more decent dealers. It takes the
liquor question out of politics and
governments are benefited by the
license instead of being de-
frauded by the liquor being sold
everywhere in an underhanded often
in an openhanded way. The legisla-
ture if it take up this question will
act wisely to benefit the state while it
benefits humanity by passing a law
which will take the question out of
politics. It is in fact not a political
question though many men do try to
ride into office upon it.
While prohibition has proved a
failure in Kansas and Iowa their
neighbor Nebraska is well satisfied
with the working of a high license
law that went into operation a year
and a half ago. The law is a compro-
mise measure upon which the prohi
bitionist and low license people agreed.
It fixes the license for selling intoxi-
cating liquors in cities having over
10000 inhabitants at $1000 and in
cities having less than 10000 inhabi-
tants at $300. The number of barrooms
has been diminished about two-thirds
and in many of the smaller towns
there is no liquor sold as a result of
the heavy license tax. The city of
Omaha with 33000 inhabitants still
supports ninety saloons however and
the city of Lincoln with a population
of 13000 maintains ten. The money
from the sale of licenses goes to the
school fund The prohibitionists are
satisfied to let tho law stand as it is
and are now working to pass an act
providing for the disfranchisement
for five years of persons convicted of
drunkenness.
The legislature of South Carolina
is about to pass a bill creating a rail-
way commission which will place the
railways under very stringent regula-
tions. The bill provides for the ap-
pointment of three commissioners
who will have the power to fix the
charges for freight and pas-
senger traffic and to make rules
and regulations for the government
of the railroads. They are also given
power to investigate the books of the
different companies and to compel
them to obey the orders of the com-
mission. The bill has passed both
both branches of the legislature but
there are some slight differences be
tween the two houses to be compro-
mised. The measure is probably the
most stringent one of its character
passed by any state legislature and
predictions are that it will fail when
put to a practical test.
Toe tariff on cotton ties is now
thirty-flve per cent and yet the Re
publican tariff commission was not
satisflsd with the onerous injustice
thus Imposed upon cotton grower
T1 - v---liition is innn that tv'
this measure was urged some time ago
the assertion was made that it would
put only a paltry tax of 12 cents per
bale upon cotton. The makers of cot-
ton ties under the present tariff how-
ever drew last year about $050000 in
tax from planters and yet they tell
the planters that all they wish now is
to double this trilling sum. No won-
der the protected industries demand
continued protection when it enables
them to draw from $000000 to $1200-
000 from cotton planters.
By the late decision of Judge Ar-
noux of New York the Hebrews of
that state will be compelled to observe
Sunday by virtue of the penal code
while they will certainly continue to
observe the Sabbath by virtue of their
religious code. It is known to all
sects that Saturday is the Jewish Sab-
bath and that it is religiously observed
by the chosen people. They supposed
that one day out of seven was suffi"
cient rest from labor the cares of
business and the toiling to grow rich.
But J udge Arnoux holds to the opinion
that as the Hebrews live in a Chris-
tian community they must comply
with the Sunday law. While they
are ut liberty to keep holy the Sabbath
day as decreed by the old dispensation
they are prohibited from engaging in
any trade manufacturing or mechani-
cal occupation on Sunday. By a
ridiculous inconsistency while the
Hebrews are under the penal code
debarred from selling a cigar on Sun-
day they are permitted to do servile
labor; but as they are seldom so necessi-
tous as to be compelled to do such
kind of work that provision in their
favor will seldom be acted on.
If a double allowance of Sab-
batical observances is expected from
the Hebrew the Mussulman whose
Sabbath falls on Friday would fare
no better in New York by reading the
Koran and attending the Mosque on
that day than the Hebrews do by pe-
rusing the Mishna and the Gemara of
the Tidmud the works of Moses or
attending the Broadway Tabernacle.
The penal code is faulty or it should'
be more liberally construed.
The Georgia aesqui-centennial
about which so much is said just
now will be celebrated at Savannah
on the 12th of February next It is
the one hundred and fiftieth anniver-
sary of the first English settlement in
the old colony. Gen. James Ogle-
thorpe was the man most prominently
connected with that settlement'
and with him it was a labor
of love. His idea was to open a
place of refuge for poor debtors
from England and give them an op-
portunity to recover their fortunes
and standing and also to aid persons
persecuted for religious belief on the
continent of Europe. It was for" these
purposes that Oglethorpe secured a
charter from Kin Geonre II. in J une
1732 for the country lying ..bet-wfsa?
the Savannah and AJfaniaha and
westward to thjjJlRu The British
parliamentjfeVappropriated 10000
for thjxdluiiy and it started prosper-
Congressmen opposing the reduc
tion of letter postage to two cents say-
that one reason for doing so is. that
the reduction would benefit only the
mercantile classes. Such demagogical
stuff will hardly bear inspection
by the ignorant classes. All
would be benefited by the
reduction and since the mercantile
classes are the main supporters of the
postal department they especially de-
serve consideration. Benefits to the
mercantile classes are correspondingly
felt by the masses. As a matter of
fact all who write letters will be
benefited by the cheaper rates. Every
body in truth is interested in this
reduction and in spite of these dem
agogical appeals to popular prejudice
it looks as though the bill will be
come a law.
It looks as though the political and
financial speculators have completed
plans for the admission of Dakota
as a sort or pocket state. The re-
pudiated Yankton bonds alleged
to be held by a syndicate of poli-
ticians have been arranged and will
be paid in full as one of the conditions
precedent to the admission of the new
commonwealth. The sum total of the
speculation will be a profit of scores
of thousands on repudiated bonds and
tho division of the senatorships and
state offices among the speculators.
These plans are in keeping with what
the Republican managers usually pre-
pare and it may be hoped the Demo-
crats will be able to defeat the schemes
of plunder and of biise political prefer-
ment. The Vicksburg Herald puts Chal
mers down as the tool of the Arthur
administration in Mississippi. It was
recently given out that Chalmers
would be provided with a fat office
until he could draw his salary as con
gressman. The promise has been
made good and Chalmers now appears
in Mississippi as "Assistant United
States District Attorney" and is pros-
ecuting Mississippians for less offences
than he himself has repeatedly com-
mitted in that state. There is no ne-
cessity for an assistant United States
attorney in the state and the place is
provided for him simply that he may
be paid for the meanest of service to
the Republicans.
The railroad system of the United
States inade much greater progress
during the past year than in any pre
vious year and the estimate of the
best authorities is that even the pub
lished statements are far below the
truth that in all probability the whole
system comprises not less than one
hundred and fifteen thousand miles of
railway completed and in active use
for business purposes. Nor can this
be considered an excessive supply for
so vast an empire and so active a
population.
From the great diversity of opinion
among congressmen on tariff and in
ternal revenue subjects it is inferred
that no reforms will be effected in
that direction this session. The ap-
propriation bills and the alleged civil
service reform measure will be the
chief work and the latter if enacted
will be no more than a base sham to
protect the records of twenty years of
governmental corruption.
The school superintendents at
Houston all subscribedto the Bald
win plan for a state school system.
All we h ive to say about the hist one
of them is that they are not such men
as deserve public confidence. They
are an expensive crowd and the com
munities employing them would do
"Veil to substitute for them men who
V-.tmjfe to the economical ex-
There are to be election contests
from Harrison county for seats in the
house.
President Hayes tried to revive
the Whig party and now his exist
ence is hardly recognizable.
Where would a heavy rock train
drawn by a sixty-ton engine sink to
on Congress Avenue as the mud now
stands 'f
A plan is on foot to collect all the
worn out bell punches and send them
as a consolation to Hon. Geo. P. Fin-
lay of Galveston.
.JIk. 15laink says he does not want
to be president. Of course he does not;
he knows he cannot be and that his
wishes will be most respectfully com
plied with.
The Brenham Banner is now in its
ninth year and it is one of the best
papers in the state reliable in all
things and most diligent in the dis
semination of hews.
A Cincinnati man predicts a finan
cial panic a communistic war great
whirlwinds destructive comets earth-
quakes and other direful catastrophes
all U happen in 1883 a splendid sea
son certainly for the newspapers.
The fast mail service is bitterly op
posed by Robeson of New Jersey be-
cause it would benefit the newspapers
The meaner the public man the nearer
he approaches excellence in rascality
the more he hates the newspapers.
A piece of proverbial wisdom says
that a bright sunny Christmas gives
promise of peace plenty and happi-
ness for the ensuing year. Last Christ
mas day gave such promise at least
for thi3 portion of our mundane
sphere.
The Grangers of Mississippi are
making declarations against the use
of public money to induce foreign im-
migration. They denounce a legisla-
tive appropriation for such purpose
as a "wholly useless expenditure of
tho people's money."
A block of land bounded by Third
and Lexington avenues and 106th and
107th streets New York which was
sold at auction for $60000 some ten
years ago was mortgaged a few days
ago $8U1600 ; of this $450000 was ad-
vanced by the Mutual Life Insurance
company on two years' credit.
A Washington letter writer says
that David Davis and Gen. Sherman
iind Justice Miller have their old
clothes dyed over at a Washington
establishment. They never cast their
clothes aside until they are like Conk-
ling's pants that he wore on a cer
tain occasion in the United States
senate.
Let us keep it in view that the
school superintendents' convention at
Houston apprredtotavevbut one
object to make the school fumlsup-
port a brilliant assemblage of officials
instead of schools for the children
Tho plans of these men carried into
effect would rob the school children o
over one -hundred thousand dollars
annually.
An extensive movement is on foot
in Illinois to secure good wagon roads.
It is proposed to enact a law author
izing the people of any county to vote
to tax themselves to construct a sys-
tem of county roads a general county
tax to be levied Would it not be
well enough for the legislature of
Texas to provide in a similar way for
such improvement
The Washington Post observes that
of the 2000000 voters in the United
States who cannot write their names
more than 1300000 belong to a class
that is claimed as practically solid for
any Republican ticket prescribed
Let the government help the states to
send the schoolmaster abroad and the
evils that Republicanism has brought
on the country will disappear.
The contested election cases before
the house will be C. W. Cotton of
Hamilton county vs. Charles E. Gass
of Coryell upon alleged irregular re
turns and M. J. Hickey vs. Joe Duff
both of Brazoria county. There were
no nominations in the former case.
while in the latter Hickey was the
nominee of a Democratic convention.
beaten by the Galveston Democracy
such as it is.
It is understood that the state
would like to have some right to re-
move debris from capitol square over
some feasible route; and it is probable
11 1 11 .1 L I
mat me rignt-oi-way oruinance now
before the council will in the end
contain a proviso granting the state
rights along with the capitol syndi
cate. The board of public buildings
are to be consulted on the point before
the ordinance is passed.
The senators who voted for the
Pendleton bill are certainly dealing
largely in buncorab. How they hur-
ried the bill through the senate that
they might fall back on the country
and boast as to how they labored for
civil service reform. Joe Brown
could have done just as they did
and set himself up on the record.
without we think endangering the
country without this wretched Re-
publican fraud called civil service re-
form. These senators are very well
satisfied that the bill will not pass the
house and that it will never become
a law.
. Dcrinq the month of November
51836 immigrants arrived in this
country of which there were from
England and Wales 52S0; Ireland
2177; Scotland 745; Austria 938; Bel-
gium 194; Bohemia 404; Denmark
475; France 318; Germany 15802;
Hungary 2162; Italy 1890; Nether-
lands 125; Norway 775; Russia 308;
Poland 115; Sweden 1881; Switzer-
land 890; Dominion of Canada 5892;
and from other countries 167. The
total number arriving in the five
months ending November 30 was 244-
611 as against 291320 for the same
time in 1881.
The Irish leaders are beginning to
realize what everybody of any sense
knew long ago; namely that ruffian-
ism was playing havoc with their
chances. They now begin to see that
outlawry and deeds of violence must
be suppressed in Ireland before any
general reforms can be expected.
Davitt frankly admits that the death
of the land league was due to the
prevalence of crime; that the English
mind has at last become excited over
the state of things in Ireland and that
the spirit of insubordination is the
first thing to be mastered; that noth-
ing has done more to dry up the
sources of American sympathy than
the horrible disgusting and inexcusa-
ble murders committed "within the
past year.
SENATORIAL JLANXERS.
at. Jerome Edmunds Said to be the
Boor of the Senate Chamber.
Special to the Courier-Journal.
Washington" Dec.27. Senator Ed
munds is the most overbearing man
in congress. He is the most insulting
man to his fellow-senators imaginable.
He turns his back upon any one who
interrupts him with a question and
pretends to read a book when any one
is answering an argument he has
made. He acts surly and is sour to
all. He frequently cull's his colleagues
ui me lime ne is in tne senate and
mey lase it loo. .Everybody is ap-
parently afraid of him. To-day as
rudely as any lioor could have said it.
ne told Senator Hoar bluntly: "It you
will sit down I will go on;" and again
to Blair of New Hampshire he
snarled when the latter got up to
supplement some remarks he had
linuio by some more of the same sort
" You have had your say once ; had
you not better be contented " J udge
Edmunds made JUr. uiair teel awtuiiy
cheap for about an hour. Mr. Blair is
a professional temperance man and he
moved to-day an amendment to the
civil-service bill prohibiting the re-
tention of any one now in office or the
appointment of any one to office who
is audieieu to me use oi intoxicating
liquors. J udge Edmunds treated him
in an unmerciful manner. Without
saying it in so many words he paraded
Jir. mnar as a temperance advocate bv
profession and with his cutting words
wanted to kuow why people who
drank should be singled out. and
thieves cut-throats gamblers.
robbers slanderers adulters
and other evil-doers were given to un-
derstand that they could net Dlaces if
they passed the required civil service
examination. He just rubbed it on
blair uutu the smallness that the
latter ielt could be seen even from the
galleries. Mr. Edmunds proposed an
an: nuaient mat none wno had evu
habits should be retained in the ser
vice or be hereafter appointed. In
this way Blair's amendment was kill
ed. Afterward Edmunds consented
to let up on Blair and consented to a
reconsideration ot his amendment.
Blair's amendment with a slight
change so that no one addicted to the
excessive use ot intoxicating liuuors
shall be retained in office or be hereaf
ter appointed was in the bill as it
passed.
The Greenback Funeral.
Dallas Times.
If there is any one thing in this
world to which calmness dignity or
serenity is a stranger a Greenback
meeting is mat tning. lhe most or-
derly one they ever had was a two-
day s meeting in which three men
were lloored They had a "pow-wow"
in St. Louis .the other day to proclaim
the fact that they still lived or at
least had one member of congress to
watch the corpse. Of course Weaver
the Greenback "idol" was on hand to
run the meeting for Weaver is to that
party what Hamlet is to the play. It
is true that Weaver has been downed
for every office from constable
up but still he is in the ring though
slightly disfigured The meeting
opened mildly but then the wagon-
yard whisky can't keep quiet long at a
time and soon began to "zert its in-
fluence" All but five states were rep-
resented by "proxies." and Weaver.
the Greenback god had all the "prox-
ies." Weaver soon began to orate (if
you want a row tell a Greenbacker
that their Weaver isn't an orator and
statesman) and was in favor of chang-
ing the name of the party and amal
gamating- with every organization
H'nicn was willing to cohabit. De
La Matyr second fiddler o Weaver
seconded the old man's oration and
said this policy with a platform broad
enough to "catch all" would win
sure. Just here the Greenbacker
d;inder began to rise and several rep
resentatives toanied at the mouth
Weaver said the Greenback party had
become so ridiculous that the whole
country laughed when a man got up to
speak and said he was a
Greenbacker and they must
change the name or "stay busted'
He favored a little " chicoonery."
This and similar remarks brought
uncle Jesse Harper tne financial
member of the party to his feet. He
opposed the great g. b. leader and
intimated that the party had died
from too much Weaver and too much
"chicoonery" in trafficking and
claimed that a larger dose of the
same medicine would not revive the
corpse. He claimed to have squan
dered some hlty thousand dollars on
the concern some of which had
jingled in the same pocket with Re-
publican silver and that it was
Weaver's pocket "whar" the silyer
jingled J ust at this juncture Weaver
picked up a "wagon spoke" or chair
and the venerable Jesse came nigh
wishing he had not attended the meet-
ing. Another brother got up and
made the same charge "agin" Brother
Weaver's fidelity to the cause where
upon the insulted brother reached
once more for the "wagon spoke" but
was squelched There wasn't but six
present but nevertheless the meet
ing broke up in a row without
getting through but one resolution
viz: that a committee of three go to
asnington city to Keep tne one suc
cessful brother from dying with lone-
someness. Wash Jones was invited
to but declined to attend the meeting
saying that he had so mixed his drinks
and politics of late that he didn't feel
like "amalgamating. He said Tom
Ochiltree had succeeded in ridiny two
horses at once but that he had bursted
himself trying to ride four and desired
to retire to private life and practice
awhile. A cemetery committee was
appointed
Vindication of Fitz John Porter.
Gen. Fitz John Porter in response
to kindly resolutions of the 22d and
32d Massachutts regiments and the
3d battery associations writes :
"During the dark days that tell of
your endurance and courage and de-
votion to your country's cause up to
the day our government through mis-
miormation deprived me or my right
to draw my sword in her defense and
sent me into the world with the brand
of Cain I felt that the confidence that
I had reposed in you and all the fifth
corps on hotly contested fields of
battle was reposed by you in
me who had never unnecessa-
rily harrassed you. or recklessly
exposed you to disaster but who
where duty demanded never hesi-
tated to strike with you a blow needed
for our cause or toward one aimed at
it. Though socially and politically
ostracised by that government's act
severe as it was and all the more
severe because undeserved I feel that
if my country demanded of me a sacri-
fice greater than that of my life
offered on many a bloody field I could
endure it with a steadfast faith that
when the passions of the hour to
which I had been sacrificed should
have been calmed my character as a
soldier and patriot would be vindi-
cated and that vindication has come."
If Burdette were a Male.
Hawkeye.
No wonder the mule is a kicker.
Were I a mule love I too would
kick. Every time I got a chance I
would lift somebody higher than a
kite. I know just exactly what kind
of a mule I would be. A bay mule.
One of these sad eyed old fellows that
lean back in the breeching and think.
With striped legs like a zebra. And
a dark brown streak down my back
and a paint brush taiL And my
mane cut short and my foretop bang-
ed and a head as long as a flour barrel
and I'd be worth two hundred and a
half in any market and I'd wear a
fiat harness and no blinders and some
day when a man hitched me up to
a dray and piled a ton and a half
of pig iron a cord of wood six bar-
rels of flour a good load of household
goods and a steamboat boiler I would
start off with it patiently and haul it
steadily until I got to the top of the
grade on the new road around North
II ill and right about there and then
a falling maple leaf fluttering down
in a spark of gold and crimson would
scare me all but to death and the au-
thorities would have to drag the Mis-
sissippi river six weeks to find all of
that load and some of that driver
while in three minutes after the
emeuta I would be tranquilly brows-
ing on the grassy heights that smile
above the silver flowing river. That
is the kind of a mule I would be.
A Wonderful Parrot.
English Mechanic
Abbe Gras has sent the editor of
Les Mondes an account of a gray par
rot of remarkable intelligence which
he got from Gaboon four vears ago.
It was extremely wild and timid at
first "Coco Oris (as he is called) has
now . more than hlty phrases at his
command which he gives perfectly.
anu ne sings and whistles many airs.
His remarks are strikingly apropos.
When going into his cage he says (in
French of course): "W e'll go to the
cage." When he swings: "Coco Gris
is swinginir." When (Joeotte fa ereen
Brazilian hen-parrot given him lor a
companion) screams he says: "Come
Cocotte you must not scream; sing."
If she sings: "You sing well very
nvu mueeu uil asking Vho
sings.'' the reply is: "It is Cocotte.
It Cocotte goes into the cupboard
Coco leans forward and says: "What
are you doing there Cocotte?
When the abbe speaks somewhat
loudly to his servant Coco breaks in
"I low what don't you understand '
Coco was lately taken on a railroad
journey and after some hours silence
he came out of his cage and asked in
a ingntenea way: "What have they
done? He repeated this several
times and said hardly anything else.
At the end of the journey he was re-
proacueu ior not eating Out said:
was not hungry." The abbe says he
can produce numerous witnesses to
tne truth ot his account.
A Base Conspiracy Defeated.
Hartford Times.
A close guess was made in a Hart-
ford saloon the other day. In one
partition of a money drawer was a
large number of pennies. A mong the
ixequeniere oi me place was a man
who was always ready to make a bet.
It occurred to the proprietor of the
place who had been taken in a arood
many times by the betting man to
lay for him. He took a friend into
his confidence and the pair made up
their minds to beat the fellow with
the contents of the money drawer. So
they counted the pennies and found
there were just 62o of them. Then
they laid low tor their opportunity.
That evening the bettinff man was
on hand and m a manner not to excite
suspicion the saloon keeper said to a
menu: i wonaer now many pennies
there are in this drawer?"
The betting chap pricked up his ears
and remarked: "Let each of U3 put up
- anu me one comes nearest to the
number shall take the pot."
This was agreed to and the saloon
keeper marked 624 his friend 626 and
tne teuow that was really ignorant ol
the number and whom they expected
to trap by the merest chance put his
ngures at oo. ine astonisqnient ot
the two sharpers was no greater than
the wonder of the other at such re
markable sharp guessing. After this
the bettinsr man was the boss of the
saloon.
Lowell for President.
Uata.1
There are a number of men avail
able for the Republican nomination
who might easily be elected though
they do not have a political following.
Among them is James Russell Lowell
our minister to England a man of
probably finer quality of brain and
more grace knowledge and self-re
spect than we have ever had in the
presidency not excepting the second
Adams. Mr. Lowell's political ex
perience is now a verv
large one. He has been
controversial writer in favor of
the views which ar-s nowf ully tri
umphant; he is acquainted with our
affairs for the past thirty-five years in-
timately and as our minister abroad
has added to his knowledge of his
own country whatever a public man
can acquire from older systems of
politics and society. If these promises
of reform we are hearing in the party
be at all sincere the best proof it
would be the nomination of a man
like this who perhaps has not likely
nis equal in tne united tstates at pres-
ent as a man of both acquiremeniand
original courage and talent. 1
PERSONAL.
A military critic says that Skob
was the military Byron of Russia
General C. II. Grosvenor has
clined $4079 pensions allowed hin
Flotow. the well-known comii
ot the
blind from the disease known as gravi
cataract.
The widow of Chief Justice Hardin
of Kentucky has been found living in
a tumble-down j-iouisvuie rookery in
absolute want.
A preacher by the name of Grant
in New York has got into trouble
because he uses his knife where he
should wield the fork.
Mrs. Langtry's brother-in-law. J. H
Langtry and her sister-in-law Miss
A. J. Langtrv arrived by the Catalo
nia at New Y ork Thursday
lien bnerman denounces as an in
tentional falsehood the statement in
a New York newspaper that he has
been received into the Roman Catho
lic church.
liov. .riaisted ot Maine has pur
chased a one-third interest in the
Lewiston Gazette and will become
connected with that paper as soon as
his executive term expires.
Jefferson Davis contributes $100 to
the fund for a monument to the mem-
ory of Gen. Albert Sydney Johntson
and declares that bis ability does not
keep pace with his desire to aid m the
work.
Gen. H. B. Carrington. author of
"Uatties ot tne American itevoiution
and other historical woncs has re-
cently made his home in Boston. He
is now preparing a work entitled
"Battles of the Bible."
A kinsman of Mrs. Thecdore Tilton
says that she is fearfully altered bv
these awful years; that her beauty
has gone only nere ana there a trace
But she is the possessor of that peace
that passeth all understanding.
General Sherman's son Thomas E
Sherman who is preparing for the
priesthood at Woodstock (Catholic)
College in Marylaed lectured in Bal
timore recently on "lhe inquisition
his mother and his sister Rachel being
among his nearers.
The immigration of Californian
miliionaries to New York is a notable
feature in the social life of this coun
try during the past few years. Mr.
Keene led off then came Mr. D. O.
Mills and now Messrs. Stanford and
Crocker have followed suit and Nob
Hill is deserted
Reports come by the way of Paris
that King Humbert of Italy is sink-
ing into a condition of confirmed mel-
ancholy. For days together says a
correspondent he does not speak a
word to any human being. He ap-
pears at the queen's receptions but
does not open his lips.
General John B. Gordon of Georgia
comes home from Europe proud of his
country. He said to a reporter: "It
is enough to make an American proud
to ride through the streets of London
with its civilization of two thousand
years and see American implements
American sewing-machines American
tools and American goods displayed
on every hand and know that Ameri-
can watches are being sold in the
stores and American fields are feeding
the English people and American fac-
tories beginning to clothe them."
Mrs. Langtry may be defined as a
lady who having failed to achieve suc-
cess on the stage endeavors to make a
fortune by the sweat or her reputa
tion. Globe-Democrat.
The Memphis police made a raid on
Louis Wong's opium den a few nights
ago and among the parties who were
found "cracking a joint" were two
notorious and badly -wanted crooks-
Charlie Bristol and John Hines. alias
"Jake the Sheeney."
A minister and a physician are hav
ing a tight in the courts of Lvnn.
Massachusetts because the man of re
ligion habitually declared that the
man oi medicine was unfit for profes-
sional work.
iemurces hi1 anil Climate f Texaa." toy
a. w. spaigui Comiuusiuuer oz BiaiiaUc.
LLA.NO cocxty.
This county is m Vtstern Texas
and Llano the count v"s at is about 28
miles west of Burnet the present ter-
minus of the Austin and Northwest-
ern railway. Area. 932 square miles.
i ujiuiauou in 13iO....
Population in 1680
colored)
1379
(66
5.9C5
Assessed value of taxable
property in 1870
Assessed value of taxable
property in 1B81
Assessed value of taxable
property in 1882
Assessed value of livestock
in l!S81
Assessed valueof livestock
in 1882
$377198
1149018
1649793
421910
'36795
The greater part of the county is
marked by wooded hills and moun
tain.- between and at the foot of
which are narrow level sandy plats
or dales with a mellow rich sod. The
mountains in many places are com
posed ot solid granite and rise into
lolty peaks; and from the top of one
ot ilium Dancer mountain a view
i i obtained ot the whole of Llano and
part ot seven surrounding counties.
lhe scene presents a panorama of
mountain plain valley and dell and
is highly picturesque and attractive.
A suiUertxi growtu of live oak post
oak eedar pecan and elm is found in
nearly ail parts of the county and in
some places the mountain sides are
covered Ath dense cedar brakes. The
timber is for the most part short
aad scrubby and suitable mainly
lor fuel and fencing but is used for
the building of log houses and some
oi it is valuable lor mechanical pur-
poses. The Colorado river bounds the coun-
ty on the east. The Llano river a
bold stream of pure clear unfailing
water runs nearly centrally through
it from west to east and Sandy creek
tlows across the southern portion.
Cohl Honey Little Llano San Fer-
nauuo Johnson's Pecan Six-Mile
Elm and Hickory creeks How into
tne Llano river and Coal Silver-
unne Pot Walnut Comanche Crab-
apple and Cedar creeks into Sandy.
Many of these streams are led
by bold springs from which
water tor domestic purposes is gen-
erally ootained though wells and cis-
terns are used in some parts of the
county. The inean annual rainfall as
registered at the United States signal
service station at Mason in the ad-
joining county on the west is 24.90
melius and is so distributed as to in
sure aounuant crops ot small gram
out crops maturing in late summer in
same seasons reuuire irrigation for
which the faculties are ample and
convenient on many of the streams.
The lands most esteemed for farms
are the valleys or "fiats" at the head
of the streams and at the foot ol
the hills and mountains which
it is estimated comprise about
one-filth of the entire area and
the soil of which is a light
rich friable loam. Until within the
last live years this was exclusively a
stock county but agriculture is as-
suming considerable importance. In
18 1 8 wheat yielded 2U bushels to the
acre and in 1880 the cotton crop was
about 2U00 bales. Cotton corn oats
melons and vegetables in favorable
seasons return a heavy yield Late
vegetables sometimes require irriga
tion. Peaches and grapes are success-
luily grown and ribbon cane of large
size has been raised and the finest
quality of syrup made from it. The
crop of pecan nuts is large and gen-
erally more abundant on alternate
years. Wild laud suitable ior larnis
can be bought for Iroui 1 to 4 per
ultq anu cultivated laud witn im-
provements ioi' Irvm iio Ut 7 ; and
tne latter rents for one-third the grain
and one-fourth the cotton. Ordinary
rail fencing costs about $200 per mile ;
pine lumber from $30 to $40 per
1000 feet.
The stock interests of the county
are represented by 7388 horses and
mules 51130 cattle 21633 sheep 1767
goats and 16542 hogs. The abund-
ance of post oak pecan and other
mast renders the use of grain in fat-
tening bogs unnecessary in most sea-
sons. Mesquite and burr grass are
abundant and the rich pasturage and
the protection afforded by the moun-
tains and woods against the "north-
ers" enable stock to keep in good
condition the year round on the open
range. Sheep are fed more or less in
severe winter weather and work ani
mals only when in actual use.
Tn0. Price of work animals and also of
beef mutton pork and other articles
of food is low. Deer turkeys and
quail are found in large numbers and
catfish perch and bullalo are abund-
ant in the larger streams.
Silver ore has been found-in several
localities and gold in the bed of Big
Sandy creek but neither in paying
quantities. Competent judges how-
ever express the opinion that the sur-
face indications of rich deposits are in
some parts of the county very
strong. Extensive beds of iron and
copper ore exist in several p;uts ot
tho county. Specimens of the former.
from Iron Mountain are said to con
tain 9o per cent ot pure iron equal in
quality to the best Swedish iron; and
specimens of the latter from Owens'
mine on the head of Pecan creek as-
sayed $300 worth of metal to the ton.
This mine is now being worked with
improved machinery. Limestone
granite marble steatite and other
valuable stone exist in immense quan-
tities but owing to the lack of rail-
road transportation no quarrying has
been done except in a small way for
home use.
Llano river. niore than 100 miles in
length and with fifty miles within
the county and Honey creek both
lurnish fine water-power which has
been utilized ahd applied to a number
of flouring and grist mills and cotton
gins.
There is . a high school at Llano
which is fairly well sustained and the
public free schools are provided in the
county for a scholastic population ol
1143. The Methodist Episcopal Prot-
estant Methodist Episcopal Chris-
tian Baptist and Cumberland Pres-
byterian denominations each have
a large number of members
itt the county and conveni-
ences for religious worship are mod-
erately good Moral and social im-
provement has kept pace with the in-
crease of population and wealth and
law and social order prevail Llano
the county seat is beautifully located
on the souoh bank of Llano river and
has about 500 inhabitants and a good
local trade. The county levies a tax
of 20 cents on the $100 and has a small
floating debt. The mean summer tem-
perature is about $0 degrees the win-
ter'about 45 degrees; the mountain air
is bracing and pure and the county is
noted for the salubrity if its climate.
The Strong Drink Problem.
' Every Evening Wilmington DeL
The fact that so many suggestions
are made as to the best mode of deal-
ing with the trade in strong drinks
indicates the deep feeling that exists
upon this subject. Every Evening
while deploring the mistaken policy
that has too often prevailed recognizes
the necessity for a peculiar treatment
of this trade and is ready for anything
reasonable short of prohibitory legis-
lation. The intemperate friends of "temper-
anc" are widely mistaken in their
wholesale denunciations of liquor
dealers and the surest road
to a settlement of the problem
would be a return to reason.
The aim should be to enlist the deal-
ers themselves on the side of some
reasonable law. They seem far from
friendly to our present law. and some
one explains for them that its arbi-
trary features are objectionable. Un-
der a wholesome system the licensed
liquor dealer carrying on a legitimate
business should be the most eager of
all men to ferret out and punish the
unlicensed dealer and the nearer we
approach to such a state of affairs the
nearer we snau be to tne settlement
of this problem.
Mayor Wales calls attention to the
Nebraska liquor law which requires a
heavy license fee $500 or perhaps
$1000. and which is said to work to a
charm. It is represented that Lincoln
Nebraska a considerable city baa a
few well-appointed drinking places
Kept by responsible men and the
iiquordealers there actually employ de-
tectives to see that the law is not vio-
lated. ith such a license fee self-in-
lerest makes the licensed dealer
menu pi law since he cannot afford
to w ina at unlicensed competition
it has long been our opinion that
the strong: drink nrobltm Hhmii.i i
dealt with as far as possible by exist-
uiK i.ms. ii me number or irrespon
sible liquor dealers was reduced by
iuc t-nitiiii&iiiug oi a nign out not un
reasonable license fee and the disor-
derly liquor saloons were dealt with as
is any other nuLs;ince upon complaint
from those who suffer from
it many present abuses of
me business would disappear
Uut we presume the advocates
of prohibition who have gotten that
one mea into meir neads to the exclu
sion of every other would call this
compromise with sin and dalliance
wiih the devil. I here is .wisdom
sometimes however in taking what
one c;in get and half a loaf is better
than none. The most radical advo-
cates of prohibition wish merely to
rr.iuK.ue orunKenness and we know
or lew reasonable men who do not
wiih to attain the same end. AVhv
not join forces and do what is possible
lusteuu oi wasting time and enerirv
BEN. BUTLER
On Woman Suffrage Poll Tax
form and Kindred Topics.
Re-
Boston Jan. 4. Governor Butler
in nis inaugural address presents his
views upon free and equal suffrage at
great tengin. tie suggests that a
nominal poll tax for state purposes be
asseeu as now on the polls ot citi-
zens and then if any citizen chooses
to pay it by voting let that act be a
tuscnarge and payment ot such tax
im recommenus a revision ot regis-
tration and that it be sutlir.iHiir.lv
guarded to prevent(frauds without be
ing an actual obstruction upon voters.
Regarding a free ballot and fair count
he says: "Why not provide that all
votes shall be enclosed in self-sealing
envelopes oi me same size quality and
color to be furnished by the state.
The size and complexion of the ballot
wouia ne immaterial. The law still
remains oa me statute book that re
quires an envelope for such purpose
shall always be furnished at the polls.
The legal machinery is ready anil to
make it effectual the permissive clause
is only to be made obligator)'." The
suggestion is made that a law be pass
ed allowing women to vote under the
same regulations as men m municipal
elections which law shall take effect
when it shall be accepted by a majori-
ty of the women voting at some gen-
eral election and provision to be made
obviating the objection that women
may have to go into ward
rooms and voting places for
the purpose of exercising
suffrage. The governor recommends
that the elections of city governments
take place on the same day as the
general election and that election day
Imj made a legal holiday. The law
restricting naturalization to the
supreme and superior courts should
he says be repealed. The labor ques-
tion will form the subject of a fur-
ther communication. Considerable
space is devoted to the question of
crimes and the legislature is asked to
pass an act providing that whoever is
convicted of wilfully attempting to
disrail a moving train shall suffer
death. The evils of dealing in
futures and "cornering" wheat
and corn is dwelt upon
and legislation is recommended
to stop the aim so.
Particular attention is given to re-
formatory corrective and paupers
institutions and it is shown  that the
-ff"n""r 1'it iT irf I' i urul ve.'?t30are
more man an oiner expenses ior sup-
porting the poor by $12000. Legisla-
tion is suggested looking to an improv-
ment in the disciplining of persons
and making th institutions efficient
as reformatories causing the labor of
the prisoners to be self-supporting
and providing that every prisoner
may work off a portion of his sentence
every month; and the investment of a
certain per centage of the earnings of
prisoners as a fund to 1hj given them
when discharged to start them
in the world again. The
employment of convict labor at sev-
eral houses of correction oufedde th
walls in raising the food they con-
sume is spoken of as terrible. The
following institutions the governor
says should Ik? abolished: The state
reformatory prison for women the re-
form bi-ho.jl ior boys and the indus-
trial school for girls as they are too
costly ior any supposed good they do.
The message lavors an asylum
with kind treatment for idiotic
and feeble mini led youth but
not a school. When the state
shall have sulliciently educated every
bright child within it3 border it will
be time to undertake the education of
the idiotic and feeble minded A well
fed well cared for idiot is a happy
creature; but an idiot awakened to his
condition is miserable. Careful con-
sideration is given to the insane of the
state. The extravagance in buildings
and the general management of this
class of people is severely commented
upon and an appeal is made to change
ail this in future and provide for man-
agement upon economical and busi-
ness principles. He says the doors of
insane establishments both public
and private open altogether too easily
inward and with too great dilliculty
outward in the reception and dis-
charge of their inmates. This should
bft carefully guarded by legislation.
A recommendation is made that a
purchasing oflicer for all state sup-
plies of every name be appointed with
a salary sufficient to insure the service
of a competent business man to be
commissioned by the executive for
three years. The governor congratu-
lates the commonwealth that one
branch of civil service reform viz:
fixedness of tenure of ollice is al-
ready in operation in the state
and has been since 1879.
Gov. Butler then without saying he
favors any national measure proposed
to reform the civil service gets in a
blow at the expense of the Republican
administration of Massachusetts who
he avers have very generally appoint-
ed relatives to subordinate places.
Whole families are sometimes appoint-
ed to salaried places. Besides the
rule is with hardly exception enough
to prove its correctness that all sal-
aried officials at least of the higher
grades have been and are of a given
political faith. He says there are more
persons employed than is necessary to
carry on business and he advises that
at least one-third of these shall be cut
off and salaries reduced by law. If
any resign on account of such reduc-
tion he will undertake to fill their
places with competent men. He sug
gests the passage of a law prohibiting
two of a family holding ollice in the
same department and further that if
there are two or more already in
the one who appointed his relatives
should go out. Jaws should
be enacted to reduce taxes . on
farmers and laboring men and women
and to prevent the wealthy iroi
evading payment of tax by practic
wen known to an. une oi me ih
methods to lessen taxes is to alxdi.
ail unnecessary otliees and cut off
questionable expenditures. He J
ro-
tests against the overworking or i
mad employes and carelessness u.
their safety. The closing part cf f TTTTTi
nirireM in devoted to consideratiici'ioi
the subject of education and the gtfv: 1
ernor sums up his ideas as follows:
"As a prevention of pauperism and
crime to fit our people for
suffrage use all the educational force k
OI state. x.uucate tne masses up to a
certain necessary point lhe classes
above will and ought to educate them'
A A L ! . ' I . T .
selves up vo mis nign point jjo uq
take the common iund and give to
few or have it expended in such a
manner that all cannot equally onjoy
its advantages and above all have
that expenditure an feeonomical one.
and not pay lowsalaries to teachers ofl
me many ana nign salaries to teuc
era ot the tew.
A convict a
the Nevada r
tiary says he
as sent
being dish9p
pelled everJ
t. and vet
iy t
pasteboarcj
the soles 6Tt1
there I
as leather.
r
U
f lea'
to- for
J fcorn-
es of
I ween
MISCELLANEOUS MATTERS AXD
THINGS.
foMhJtSETF hai anno"nHl a plan
thfhSrt ofthA now open Wtween
Zi LuJiu f"'? verglades of Florida
jutxico.
The
mei
over $30.0000.0.
a ww n u ISv
Trnti?'11? lady ?a'8' ln London
1 ruth that every nice girl isalwava
nicer than her letters. K saJW
The government probity at Har-
per s Ferry is to be offered for sale
iiF&tutiag compiiny off
frTratklayingon the Mexican Cen-
tral is now pushed at the rate of two
mues a day. Thfcre remains about 7DO
miles of road to build
Two years ago Wesson. Mississippi
w as only a pino forest. It has no w a
cotton mill employing looo hands and
.j luuuuiuinis.
V.beV'9 VuhUc works contemrl
ted by Minister Freycinet are xupl(
ted the taxes in France willlaMim
V
e-
just
aoout uoubio what they were Wl
lSI'iU
The Canadian nr t.n:.
.  . " MIIIViULXUUUU
building a railroad to Hudson Bay. It
seems to be
Munn u rireitv sneeui.i.
"-". wm . 0 80 eaiy to work the
n.ug-out" process in the winter
and so easy to water the stock in the
OUIlilllUI
Ihe Northprn Pnpifin .1
ing that portion of the present year
up to the end of OctoU-r had it is
stated carried 3500b head of cattle
out to Montana and it is predicted
that next season the road will carry
5000 head from regions which it will
traverse.
Mark Twain failed to answer a let-
Ier written to him by Sergt. Ballan-
tme. Alter waiting a reasonable
time the latter was so exasperated at
not receiving an answer that he
mailed Twain a sheet of nuwr nH a
postage stamp as a gentle reminder.
Mr. Clemens wrote back on a nosi-
Paper and stain n received: nluaaA
send an envelope."
A most extraordinary and nninfnl
phenomenon h.'is lately occurred in
Warsaw. A lady lately died under
somewhat pecular circiunstHnwa.
which cave rise to a rciwirt. ti.i.t her
death had been caused bv hr him.
band's ill treatment. Hence several
weeks after the interment her llv
was exumed for postmortem
tion when it was found that in the
grave a perfectly healthy child had
been born.
Joaquin Miller writes from New
York to tho Cincinnati Commercial:
iruly it is the carnival of Roma
without tho coufetc the badinage and
the vulgarity. Everv man. woinun
and child is not only richlv. but el-
gantly and tastefully clad It Is con-
ceded that there are no uch well-
dressed ieople in the world as
those who promemide Fifth tv
'I' L. .. I t
uuc. j no iuss pretentious or
poorly dressed keep to the other
streets. Elegance aloncr and wealth
and beauty take their uiring here."
MISSOURI'S GOVERNOR
Discusses the James Gang Business
anu uuier matters.
St. Locis Jan. 4. A Post-Dispatch
special from Jefferson City says: The
assembly organized to-day by electing
the caucus nominees reported List
night. This alternoon Oov. Critten
den sent his biennial message to the
legislature. It declares tho finances
of the state have been in a very satis-
factory condition and reviews the
Unih:i and St. Joe railroad litiga
tion and asks m appropriation to de-
Ira y the expcnsesilurlher prosecu
tion of the state'sciWjm. On th
;cu-
topic of outlawry alter revTetPiStr
exploits of the James camr and tJi
his proclamation offering larger
ward for their apprehension the go
ernor says: "Tho results which id
lowed so closely upon its issuan
furnished ample vindication of t
jHilicy which inspired it. inconcl
sion ho adds: "I paid $20000 ln r
wards to various persons for the ca
ture and overthrow of this bamlV
desperadoes not one dollar of w
...I. .... . m
wua i.ikui hihi tue state treasury i
is not probable that Missouri wdiV
again cursed and disgraced by tl
presence of such a band of men cor
federated together lor desperate pu
poses. It is fully redeemed and a
quitted of that unwarranted appel;
tion of the 'robber state.' " Tho crvj
tion of a state board of health
recommended und aid for the educA
tional institutions of the state is askei
A Brother's Signature.
Lcwistoa (Me.) Jounikl.J
A man from a neighboring towil
wished one of our banks to take hii
note a snort time ago. m ne directoi :
said they would cash the note if hii
brother would endorse it. The next
: :.l LI. t 111
uaj in i.unc Lire iii.iu witu him urotn
er s signature on the note. The ba
took it and paid the money. Wh
the note became due the signer
not pay it and the bank notified t
brother. '1 hat gentleman came
the counting-room in amazement
asked "What have you against i
"uiun t you endorse a note for
brother?" asked the cashier.
that I know of." replied the i
"Isn't this your signature?" therl
manned the bank ohicial pro
me note lhe man looked
name written on the paper a
l j l. : .-r m 7 i t
rub-
ueu ins even. ira. aiu n
that'a
my signature sure; but
think he might have allcA
BHOUia
me to
write it!" He paid the notfe.
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Unalterable Opposition. .
I'niludelphla bulletin.
Congressman-elect Ochiltree of
Texas is the owner of an assortment
of principles numerous and variegated
enough to start a politicid museum.
He intends to support Blackburn for
speaker of the.jrextTjOusebut not as a
Democrat. He will also support the
administnion of President Arthur
but not j. a Republican. Towards
the Repuiican party he has a kindly
feeling Jfecause it has dealt fairly
with th (Confederate soldiers but he
is willif to go into the Democratic
party if soon as it becomes national.
His lofe for fat river and harbor bills
large Appropriations and the old flag
is unJ'iniued. About the only thing
he isf nalterably opposed to is taxa
tion f i every form. .
The Best Soldiers.
London Truth.
be creed of Lord Wolselev is a
ve;
simple one. Short service men
better than long service men. Thn
lish army in Egypt was composed
uhort service men uiul ni ttiu i -
my that the world ever saw. Its
'en were the bravest and best disr-i-
tined and its regimental ollicers the
that pluck and science ever pro
duced. Next to our army the EevD-
tian fof;es were the best in the world.
'You tfratch mo and I'll Bcratch you.'
His lordship modestly leaves it to the
men id ollicers to respond by saying:
'Amy' it wits commanded by a man
Ih-ioA whom the military genius of
Welington Napoleon and Moltke
The Traveling Courts.
ITotmton Hun.
dlas is striving hard for the
ch of tho hieher courts now
ted at Tyler while Austin is en-
vonng to have t!;- ' Tated at
it place. As the object for branch-
the courts n:ts been overcome by
oper railroad facilities would it not
j well to inquire into the conveni-
nco of the judges and locate them
here business can lie irreaUy expe
dited and the interest of the public
greatly subserved.
Wholesome Enactments.
Waco Examiner.
It is a hopeful sign that nearly all
members-elect of the legislature are
reported as a preliminary to entering
oon their duties to be holding free
consultations on the public lands
school and road laws. An intelligent
community of sentiment respecting
these three highly important questions
cannot but leave its impress upon the
Jftf his
fid
7. "
a
ved
public legislative mind resulting in whole-
' some enactments.
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