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FRIDAY NOVEMBER 14. 1890.
JOIW JtOENW JR. Editor.
Office in Border riulluMng on Second Street.
Snterel nt ttio Abtcnc To rostofflco M
HecomlClass Mull Mutter.
Onbtcrlptlon Rates.
One year ... ............... . .5i'5
Six months.. 4.. .... ...; 75
Three niontln.. .......... ....... 40
Gov. Campbell of Ohio is seriously
ill with typhoid pneumonia.
The latest and most reliable authori-
ty places the democratic majority in
the next house at 153.
Latest repprts confirm the claim
that in the late elections' the republicans
"have carried .Oklahoma. .
The First National bank of Ittaca
was authorized to commence business
Monday with a capital of $50000
w A. Hexter. a wealthy clothing man-
ufacturer of Philadelphia Was behead-
ed by an elevator while ascending to
the fourth floor of his establishment
Monday.
King Humbert of Italy has declined
to ask the parliament for the allowance
which would according to custom be
voted to the prince of Naples heir to
the throne.
President Carnot received .Col.
Ritchie in Pah's Monday who deliv-
ered to the president a diploma ap-
pointing him an honorary menlber of
the Bunker Hill association.
The Clay County Chieftain remarks
that the Reporter places the proper
estimate '(on those half-starved scrubs
who attempt to run newspapers only to
degrade themselves as well as the hon-
orable profession" by placing no value
on their advertising space.
Georce JVi Peck had become al-
most woi Id-renowned as a humorist by
his ''Bad Boy" sketches but what is
prononnced the greatest joke of his
life wasi'thc triumph over the republi-
can nominee. for governor of. Wiscon-
sin. The republicans however; quite
naturally faito see anything funny in it.
To' republicans in search for the
causes of the great political revolution
the Cpurier-Jburnal cites the McKinley
tariff the force bill the pension enor-
mity the burlesque census and last
though riot least the utter worthless-
rtess of the republican party. This in
brief is the whole" truth in a nutshell.
Texas takes the lead in the estab
lishment- of national banks in the past
twelve .months the number being 63
against 7 for Maryland the next high-
file combined capital of these
63 new banks amounts to $6290000
which is twice as much as that of those
established in all the other southern
states combined.
The Dallas Times-Herald suggests
that John J. lngallst having been re-
tired by the democrats and farmers'
alliance can now resurne the lucrative
business of shaving notes at Atchison
and severely adds : "There is a God
in Israe atid he has poured down upon
the vituperative and ghoulish Kansas
tarantula the vials of his righteous
wrath".
Among other strong points in Mr.
Gladstone's recent great speech at
Dundee in deorccation of the McKin-
ley tariff bill was his showing that a
stringent protective measure" in one of
the great markets pf the world still
leaves open all the others to the nation
whose ports are free to all. He also
showed that the increase of prices on
protected articles' in any nation must
always cut ihTo the abllityof' cbnsuiiv
ers to purchase
Tjie Courier-Journal observes that
the great democratic triumph has
brought some bright and capable young
democrats to the front in the persons
of Governpr-elect Russell of Massa-
chusetts who is in his early thirties
and Sherman Hoar. a still younger
man who won a fine victory in the
Same state. There is everything in the
democratic party adds the CJ. to
appeal to the faith and enthusiasm of
a young man
NotwiIHSTANMno tho order issued
by t(ie Russian government prohibiting
the emigration of the Poles to Brail!
3001.000 have left during the past three
months.
I'uiii.tc sentiment in favor of the
.Australian system says a latb . Austin
special is growing il faVor in that
city tinder which Its late city election
Was held.
The deep water jubilee at Galves-
ton on the 1 8th and 19th inst will be
numerously attended by citizens from
Abilene .The railroads give a $5 rate
and the gathering of visitors to the
jubilee It is expected wjll be the largest
ever seen in the gulf city.
The volume of business both for-
eign and domestic is reported as con-
tinuing unprccedentedly large exports
from New York showing a gain for
October of nine millions and indicating
an aggregate of more than $105000-
600 for the entire country and an in-
crease of $9000000
Of all the candidates for the speaker-
ship of the next house Col. Roger Q
Mills of Texas is generally admitted to
be a man of more widespread reputa-
tion than any of the others. He is
moreover a fine parliamentarian and
will; have a large support in tfie race
for1 the coveted position.
Great destitution among the masses
in Europe is' reported in London and
Berlin 'dispatches instances of heart
rending suffering are reported from
London and 111 Berlin the suffering
among the masses of the unemployed
is described to be the most acute. To
alleviate this destitution Germany has
formed several large agricultural colo-
nies to provide employment and a liv
ing for paupers and these colonies are
said to be successful in their Operation
but multitudes of the poor prefer to
struggle along in freedom to becoming
agricultural serfs of the government
A decision of great interest to the-
atrical people has been made by th
supreme court of the United States.
The inter-state commerce commission
decided that the Baltimore & Ohio rail-
road could not give special rates to
theatrical companies and when the
road refused to discontinue the practice
brought action in the circuit court to
compel it to respect the commission's
decisions. The court.heldhat special
rates to theatrical companies was not
discriminating and decided against the
commission The case cam; to the
U. S. supreme court on appeal by the'
commission.
Worse and worse for the republi-
cans. It is now reported in a Wash-
ington special that the United States
senate after March 4th 1891 will be
a tie at least with strong probabilities
of a democratic majority in 1893. The
democrats will elect senators in Kan-
sas Winconsin Illinois New Hamp-
shire New York and Colorado six
in all with South Dakota in doubt.
The senate now stands 47 republicans
and 37 democrats. After the. election
of senators from the new states of
Wyoming and Idaho it wjll stand 37
democrats and 51 republicans a ma-
jority of 14. A change of seven will
therefore make the senate a tie in
1 891 with every chance of electing
senators from Wisconsin and Michi-
gan in 1893. Besides six republican
senators staiid ready to vote with the
democrats on tariff reduction and free
silver which is more than .enough to
make the senate solidly democratic.
The Mississippi constitutional con-
vention has finally completed its labors
and adjourned. The' most important
provision in the amended' constitution
is the article of educational qualifica-
tion. By this provision the constitution
has made it possible for intelligence to
assume the control of state political
affairs by perfectly legal methods and
by it the grossly ignorant vote be it
black--orwhite hasbcen eliminated;
Commenting on the adoption of this
extreme measure the Houston Post
pertinently remarks: "It will hence-
forth be impossible for a handful of
corrupt men to seize control of state
affairs by corrupting or hoodwinking a
class of ignorant voters who 'scarcely
know their right hand from their left.
The convention made many mistakes
and wasted much time but it. set an
example worthy of the emulation of
other states in insisting that men en-
trusted with a mightly power should at
least understand its meanin.g"
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Srvhral of our exchanges reeoin
mend that the next legislature of
Texas aciopt tue secret uanoi system
of Voting and thitt a constitutional
amendment to that ertd be Adopted.
The Reporter favors the stittgcntlon.
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iti eighteen states of the Union not
a single republican congressman was
elected on Nov. 4th last which shows
thht tbvJ north is now about as solidly
democratic as the youth. The condi-
tion is a phenomenal one and wholly
unprecedented in the history of the rc-
publfci -'
Last Tuesday Gov. Ross issued the
following brief thanksgiving proclama-
tion i "In accordance with custom
and .in conformity with the proclama-
tion of the president of the United
States. I L. S. Ross governor of
Texds by virtue of the authority in
me. vested designate Thursday Nov.
27 as a day of thanksgiving in Texas.
In testimony" etc.
The general assembly of the knigtlts
of labor convened at Denver Col.
last Monday. The assembly was
called to order by Grand Master Work
man. Powderly. who after a Jew ie-
mark's read his .annual address in
which he said he was opposed to strikes
but if men were to gain anything they
must be. organized so as to be pre-
pared to strike even though they
never did. He also recommended
that on and after the. 1 st day of Jan-
uary 1891 it shall be permissible for
local assemblies to discuss the ques-
tion of high tariff and free trade.
The New York stock exchange ex-
perienced a panic Monday which
continued with increased intensity all
during the next day. Stocks declined
away down and money on call went
up to 200 per .cent. Several failures
among which was the house of Decker
Howell & Co. were caused by
the panic. Money locked up to
aid in crippling of houses known to
be long of stocks is assigned as the
cause of the panic but efforts were
being made by bankers and other con-
servative parties to stop the pirates in
their wrecking before further mischief
was done and these efforts as appears
from later reports were crowned with
success.
C. S. Hardy who was elected sec-
retary at the recent Dallas meeting of
the Texas real estate agents intends to
visit every city in the state andconsult
with the boards of trade and commer-
cial clubs with regard to the best means
of inducing immigration. To this end
the railroads of the state will be re-
quested to put up $100000. This
sum will be added to the $20000 al
ready subscribed by the real estate
agents' association the whole to be
deyoted to an exploitation of the ad-
vantages of Texas. A strong effort is
to be made to induce a large immigra-
tion to Texas during the coming winter.
It. is expected that the railroads will
aid Secretary Hardy by every means
in their power in behalf of this immi-
gration plan both as regards transpor-
tation facilities as well as their pro rata
contributions to the $100000 required
for the purpose named. The Reporter
feels assured that the proposed move-
ment will meet with the hearty endorse
ment and co-operation of the board of
trade of this city.
In an elaborate article on the abso-
lute necessity of advertising to insure
success in business the Texas Trade
Review in the October number among
many other patent truths says ; iMen
who succeed in this day and time are
men who place the greatest reliance in
printers' ink-. The wise merchant
therefore is constantly studying how to
use this sesame to wealth. Ask your
old established prosperous merchant
how to advertise and he will fell you
in newspapers that reach the masses.
He will tell you that inscriptions on
fences are stale and unprofitable that
circulars arc mostly read by a class of
loafers - w.hohave-no money to buy.-
The swift man never reads a dodger.
They are torn up trampled in the dust
buried in the mud lost and forgotten
but the newspaper old yet new; ever
changing yet always the same the
companion of youth counselor of old
age the light of manhood the solace
to all the royal road to wealth lights
the. altar and buries the dead." Though
this homily on advertising was address-
ed to Fort Worth merchants directly
jts import i9 applicable to the business
men of Abilene and ot all other towns
and cities In Texas aa well
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MHK two Chinese societies are at
war with each othef in San Francisco
ianu several luuruura nave itsuiitu.
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Over sixty corporations for the man-
ufacture of cotton goods are said to
have been organized in the South says
Bradstrect's during the past eight
months All of thcm like their pre-
decessors will turn out the coarser
grades of cloth such as sheetings shirt-
ings plaids cotton flannels etc. and
few of them will even attempt the finer
fabrics. But the Atlanta Constitution
argues fairly that this peculiarity of
the southern Industry' will not be per-
manent It. believes that the estab-
lishment ofnstitutlons for technical
training and the general growth of the
industry will tend to promote the same
kind ot progress toward perfection that
has been at the north during the past
generation. Perhaps the great single
obstacle at the south as yet is the
lacK of skilled factory labor. This dif-
ficulty time alone can overcome.
Tire Fort Worth Gazette observes
that "the changes that follow the whirli-
gig of time were never better illustrated
than when Bishop Keane of the Ro-
man Catholic church was paid to de-
liver a lecture at Harvard collega."
Bishop Keane is widely known to be a
man of the brightest intellect and one
of the most profound scholars on this
continent as arc likewise Cardinal
Gibbons Archbishop Ryan Bishops
Ireland Spaulding and many others
too numerous to name of the Roman
Catholic .church of the United States;
and hence the engagement of Bishop
Keane on the part of the faculty of
that famous university evidences no
less a laudable tolerance thah their
high appreciation of the profundity of
learning and erudite scholarship of the
Roman Cafholicprelate. Ye3 indeed
the changes that follow the whirligig of
time are truly wonderful and instances
like this are to be welcomed by all lib-
eral minded well disposed people for
the salutary influences they are cal
culated to exert upon the community
at large. As regards to the people of
Abilene the Reporter is pleased to
observe that they are singularly free
from the religious prejudice and bigot
ry that prevails in but too many com-
munities of other localities and that
the liberality tolerance and good will
so characteristically dominant among
all its religious creeds comports well
with the fraternal spirit manifested in
the instance above cited.
The Fort Surrounded.
The Gazette no longer as of old
sounds the praises of Fort Worth aa
the "Chicago of Texas" the centre of
every conceivable industrial enterprise
progress religion education et caetera
md infinitum ;. but on the contrary the
Gazette now warns' the Fort of immi-
nent danger threatening that city in
.such plaintiff wails as thefollowing:
If Fort Worth people will carefully
peruse the railroad columns of the Ga-
zette they may be able to understand
the meaning of this paper when it warns
them against permitting the city to be
Surrounded." The Missouri Kansas
and Texas extension from Henrietta via
Throckmorton to Abilene; the Texas
and Pacific extension from Pecos City
to New Mexico; the Santa Fe extension
from Weatherford via Mineral Wells
to the northwest and the Chicago
Rock Island and Pacific from the Tei-
fitory to the gulf via Ciscoought to be
hints enough to wise people
All of which is true as gospel and
in face of the fact that Weatherford
wholesale merchants are principally
supplying retail dealers a far as a
hundred miles West of that city espe-
cially in groceries hardware and farm
implements; and in face of the further
fact that Abilene jobbing houses are
almost exclusively supplying the retail
tratje of the entire Abilene country the
persistent claim of the Gazette that the
entire west is tributary to Fort Worth
and that it alone supplies the trade of
that vast territory only amuses people
outside of Fort Worth who know too
well the cxtravagnnce and untruthful-
ness' oTlhTs boastful rlairfu Tlie'trullf
is as the Gazette says Fort Worth it
"surrounded" and that is the very
worst condition a city or an army
could be placed In.
The Qommatidery has been at work
the past week ducking candidates who
seem to enjoy the liquids hugely.
This asylum is in a flourishing condition
and promises to become one of the
strongest in the state
W. F. Adair repairs watches clocks
aud jewelry and guarantees all his
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Tho Octobor Storm.
Prof. W. T. Foster in- hisrweathcr
and science notes for' November says
all the storms ofthe month are expect-
ed to'be of unusual. force. The first dis-
turbance the efTects of which this sec-
tion has experienced since Saturday
night; the profegsor says would pass
the Mississippi valley from the 1 ith' to
the 14th. As .regards to both the date
and severity of this storm Prof. .Fos-
ter's" prediction in this instance' has.
proved remarkably correct. The;
storm he said with equal accuracy
would affect the weather from the. gulf
to the lakes and produce an unusual
amount' of Ugly weather and consider-
able snow might be expected along the
Canadian line. Of course the Professor
was ignorant of the entire absence of
sidewalks in Abilene otherwise he
would certainly have included the utter
impassable condition of the streets and
the bottomless mud in .the metropolis
of the Abilene country in his pred ic-
tions. J Conscription in Germany.
yin spite of repeated assurances of
nnni-f. nn flip nnrt 'nf the fierman Kai
ser military conscription at present is
being enforced with more than usual
stringency in Germany. Conscripts
Vsays a London special of the 9th inst.
are being driven to the military posts
in droves 'from all parts of Germany
and sadness reigns in every village
and hamlet. The squads of conscripts
at the stations awaiting departure from
home and friends are described as
looking more like convicts on the. way
to jail than recruits for the army of the
empire and as they are surrounded by
throngs of weeping and wailing relatives
the cruelty of the system forces itself
on the mind of the observer.
The socialist agitators are improving
the opportunity which these incidents
offer to their party and the socialist
organs throughout Germany are plain j
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lemwmcn rcHu.rcs h.c ia.ai.u.. m
every tamuy to sustain u anu unuer
which the working classes are theprin-
cipal sufferers. The propagation of
socialist ideas is spreading wth an en-
ergy never before witnessed and at
the present gain it would not be sur-
prising if the socialists would have a
majority in the reichstag at the next
general electon.
Another London special ofthe same
date says- an element has developed
among 'the masses of Berlin lully as
dangerous qs that which fed the fires
ofthe commune in Paris and in con-
sequence there is evident a sense of
insecurity and dread among the .well-to-do
Mr.' J. T. Tucker postrriaster at
Mulberry Canyon made this office a
business call yesterday. He reports
wheat m his settlement sown early in
the fall as in unusually fine condition
that farmers are still sowing and that
almost double the area of any previous
year will be put in this season Cot-
ton he said was turning out much
better than farmers had expected and
was being- still marketed-at a livelyratc
the two gins at Merkel running day
and night Altogether Mr. Tucker re-
gards the. prospects for a good crop
year next season as exceedingly prom-
ising the late rains having been very
opportune and greatly beneficial to the.
growing wheat to that already up as
well as to that sown later and still be-
ing sown.
Ralph the decorater and painter
will paint youi1' houses and decorate
the interior in the latest style. Give
him a trial. 4f
THli 0HEAT
Ibis complete work;
S3 per Month.
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mommv.
" Prosperity of Toxas.
Mr. Julius 'Runge president of the
Galveston cotton exchange and. one
of that citys leading cotton operators
in a late interview with a representative
of a New York paper said;
"After a number of bad years values
touched bottom in our state in "1888.
Good crops last year brought about a
change for the better ahd'now from all.
sections come reports of improved
conditions. There has been an un-
usual increase of national banks ol
late and. several millions of capital
have been added. I bclieve'that
Texas offers' inducements for investors
and settlers not exceeded by another
state. There are large bodies of graz-
ing lands well watered which can. be
bought for $1.75. and upward peracre
and good lands for cotton wheat and
oats arc available at prices ranging
from $2 upward. Last year the state
taxes were only 20 cents per $roo".
The money invested for the school
fund of Texas and the lands held by
the state for sale are estimated at $60-
000000. Progress in Texas.
Under the above caption Frank
Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper makes
a defense of Texas which is worthy of
reproduction and which displays a
pleasing desire to do justice to this
greatly maligned state;
The London Spectator has a long
editoral on "The Use of the Revolver
in America" and speaks of its use in
some western and southern states" as--..
offensively common and '.dangerqysly . ..
reckless. It instances the. repent
bloody outbreak in Perry county Ken-
tucky and says "this attitude toward;
murder prevails in effect throughouta
large portion of the wild West in Tex-
as and also very largely in the south-
ern states." This is little less than'"a
slander particularly in its reference to
Texas. It has been said that a few
years ago a Texas man traveling in
the north hesitated to register the name
of his state at a hotel for fear that any
room would be thought good enough
for him as a native of Texas. Whether
this exaggeration has any basis in
truth or not it remains as a fact'that
lO-uay 1WU3 is aa cc nuiii i.uvicsd;
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fts- 8law jn the Un;on We
udertake to say
that the records of
criminal statistics show alarger percen
tage of convictions of indicted persons
in Texas than in New York; This may
surprise oUr readers; but no state in the
Union has since the war undergone a
greater transformation than Texas.
How much of this is to be attributed
to its splendidly endowed school sys-
tem perhaps the wealthiest in the
United States we do :not know but it
is a fact that particularly' within
the last few years Texas has risen won-
derfully in the social scale. Every city
has its social clup and schools and -churches
are found in the smallest
towns Outbreaksof old-time lawless-
ness seldom occur. Restrictions on
the sale of ifqUor and on gambling are
far more stringent in Texas than jn'
New York and in some other older
states' Texas more than any other
state in the south has undergone
thorough reconstruction morally and
materially since the close of tie war.
Our London contemporary owes an
apology to the Lone Star. State.
IOOAIj mabkei bepobt.
Wheat per bushel .'... 8sa9
Oats per bushel ... 48350
Hide pci 11) 46
Wool per lb ..... .... 11920
Irish potatoesper bushel.. t $l 25a! 35
Onions per 1U .....'..... . 4M
Eggs per dozen. ...... '20
Dutter per lb .....'... 20025
Young chickens per dOien $2 2502 50
Hens...... .......... 2 ajaa 50
String beans per bushel...... ... ' 503200
Tomatoes .7... I 50a2 0Q
Peadies per bushel.; .. $1 5092 00
Green cornt per tloienr.. .-. 1215
New beets per bushel... $1 coat 50
'TurkeySfpcr down.. ..... 6009900
Corn per bushel ....... . 50960
Cotton...... ....... M ... 83 14
Turkeys per Uoz ... .. 6.oo98oor
Dried Peaches. ........ 78
WOOd.... IIMKIMIUIMII 450
Watermelons ... .
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