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THE r.ALVESTON DAILY NEWS, FRIOAY, DECEMBER 1892.
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A, H. BRLO A CO., Puaunniss.
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chanic Street Oulviwton.
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FRIDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1892.
THE NEWS' TRAVELING AGENTS.
The following aro tliu traveling representa-
tives of Tub Galvmtom News aiul ThkDal-
\jl» Nkwr. nho nro authorized to eolioit and
rccoipt (or subscriptions and advertisement#
for either publication i T. B. Baldwin, Ricli-
nrd Ennii, Marehant Little, J. A. Sloan, C.
11. Cox, Waltor Woods, J. D. Linthicum, 11.
1'. Sluiunds and A. X. Clark.
A. H. BEIO A CO,
Galveston, Tex., Novomber 20,1892.
FACTS VS. THEORY.
There is no longer any question about Texas
having a railway commission. It will boeither
the old ono so patched up and romodolod that
it will bo made legally safo and sound, or a
brand now commission constructed on lines
of common sonse and reason. No ono doubts
the necessity for railway regulation, but there
is considerable doubt as to the manner of reg-
ulating and as to the means used. Tho old
commission was framed for the avowed pur-
pose of strengthening and building up Texas
interests, and yet, as already noted by Thk
News, that is exactly what it did not
do. The stato at present is getting along
very much better without "the" commis-
sion than it did with it. As a groat foedor
for outside commercial cities and outside
railway intcrots "tho" commission was a suc-
cess in every sense of the word. In the light
of expenenco, since Judgo MeCormick ron-
dored his decision, it is a wonder that the mer-
chants of St. Louis and New Orleans have not
entered strong protests ngainst doing away
with an institution which so benefited thom.
Of Texas cotton alono St. Louis has lost
thousands of bales this soason, while
tho receipts of New Orleans have boon
greatly curtailed. Each of these mar-
kets has received about half as much
Texas cotton this year as it received lost year.
All tho markots which last season, under the
commission, received much Texas cotton show
a falling off now of at least 50 per cent in their
receipts. The Texas crop is admitted to be
much shortor than that of last year. Careful
estimates mako it auywhore from 600,000 to
200,000 bales short. And yet with this im-
mense shortage in tho crop Galveston, the chief
port in Texas, shows a loss in her receipts thus
far this season of only about 30,000 bales, an
insignificant figure on total receipts of 768,498
bales. How else can these figures be ex-
plained than by saying that tho great bulk of
the Texas cotton crop is being hauled in
Texas by Texas roads to Texas commercial
centers? Tho railroads can now regulate
their business on common senso principles
and not on linns arbitrarily laid down by a
railway commission composed of non-railway
men. In 1889-90 Texas produced a ootton
crop of 1,438,000 bales and Galveston received
CO per cent of the crop—the largest percont-
age of any crop ever received here. Previous
to that time Galveston's receipts were 55 per
cent of the Texas crop. Thero was no rail-
way commission then. In 1890-91 tho Texas crop
was tho largoBt ever produced in tho state up to
that time and the crop next season, 1891-92, ex-
ceeded it nearly 300,000 bales. Both crops wore
marketed under the commission rates and
Galveston receipts were 49 per cent and 48 per
ccnt of the crops respectively. This year it
is not known definitely what the Texas crop
will be, but even the extreme big crop men do
not place it higher than tho crop of 1890-91,
and yet Galveston receipts to date exceed
those for the same timo that year about 90,000
bales. It is safe to assume under all the cir-
cumstances that Galveston has thus far re-
ceived between 60 and 70 per cent of the Texas
crop marketed, and should the same ratio be
preserved to the .end of tho season Galveston
will be back to her old position from which
she was thrust by tho commission. As re-
marked on a former occasion, this is not a
plea against an unjust railway commission in
the interest of Galveston as a commercial
city, but in tho interest of Galveston as the
chief port of Texas and of every oity and
town in Texas dependont on this port for
prosperity.
Tbb weakest weakness in our dual or quad-
ruple system of government is the tendency
on every hand to divide the responsibilities of
ofiices by giving more than ono sot of officials
authority to porform or not to perform tho
same service.
voalod the mhomo to subjugate Mexlao: and
as for Americans building railroads, Mexico
il tho gainer and sovereign. The revolution-
ary iiicondlarisin is an appoal to vanity and
the narrowest feeling* which stparate man-
kind against their true interests. Its sponsors
may lie catspaws. Their movement is giddy
and promises nothing better than a perilous
change of personnel oould it bo successful,
while it would tnnko things worse and great
dangers would liegin for Mexico if the re-
actionary party could get power. However,
there is not much for the progressive and
stable classes m Mexico to fear from this fail-
farontdo of rebellion. They have n compe-
tent exoeutivo, and they have got over n really
trying year or two of dearth of tho natural
products of tho soil with very little unrest
under tho circumstances.
ELOQUENCE AND MISCHIEF.
Eloquence in writing proclamations is not
any guarantee of wisdom in government or
self-control to resist temptation if entrusted
with power, or even sincere patriotism which
wishes to be upright The Spanish republics
have afforded any amount of eloquent pro-
claiming throughout all their periods of insta-
bility, but the connection between appeals to
the sacred right of the individual citizen to put
on a sword and pair of spurs and loot the
national treasury and the promised succeeding
era of felicity for the "patria" has remained
much according to the expressive phrase of
Old Bill Allen, or if not barren it is recognized
bb a means generally of hoisting another dic-
tator into power in place of the one sought to
be displaced. The fact is that few of those
countries are anywhere near being ideal in
their conditions for a pure democracy. If
they have peace, stability for industry,
protection for life and property, they
are well off, even at some ex-
pense of theoretical inconsistency with the
professions of their whilom liberators. Then
if they have a fair beginning of civilized
progress it would be folly to tear things up
for some sentiment of political liberty, so-
called; the more certainly as this is nothing
but a lure of the ambitious soldier or a dream
of the impracticable rhetorician in the case
of all such countries where government means
force and liberty means the absence of duties.
These reflections seem apposite when
we hear of a movement to revolutionize Mex-
ico. The principal charge of the incendiaries
seems to be that foreign capital has been got
to improvo the country, and that some old
debts which Mexico had long left unpaid have
been compounded and her European creditors
appeased. The first the incendiaries call sell-
ing the country to foreigners; the second giv.
ing it away. Now, it is not desired to assert
that if the two countries which are thus al-
luded to—tho United States and England—had
been differently disposed, oven Juarez would
scarcely have savod Mexican independence. We
have no right to do wrong or to make a merit
of not doing wrong. It was, however, a sign of
moral consciousness as well as of practical
sagacity in the Mexican administration to re-
member that the British government with-
drew when France, under the emmre. re-
Ma. Richard C'kokku, tho Tammany boss
says:
It 1« absurd to talk about any democrat br
democrat* endeavoring to embarrass Mr. Clove-
liiml in bis administration. Sucli a course would
ruiu nnyoiio politically who saw lit u> attempt it,
Mr. Clarence W. Tate, inspired presumably
by tho free and unlimited cheap silver money
phantasm of Commissioner Reagan et als.,
declares that in a certain contingency tho
party mustproparo for "a stormy futuro," and
adds:
Although Mr. Clovcland was strong enough per
to dominalo the opinions of the builders of (he
lato national democratic platform at Chicago
and caune the insertion of a donglitysilvorplsiik,
yet unless I very much mistake the temper of the
dominant part of the democratic party they will
r ot allow themselves to be restrained by any con-
sideration whatover much longer from carrying
out h principle for which democrats for years, in
and out of congress, have been contending, and
for the establishment of which, as a m<M»uro of
relief, the party by past declarations and prom-
ises i« committed-a principle to which Mr.
Cleveland does not appear to lie attached-cheap
money or freo coinage of silver at the former
ratio.
Mr. Tate's wing of the democracy would
huvo plenty of fat spoils to last a lifetime, or
would run tho machino into the ground. Even
Boss C'roker has quit tho fretters.
In sotno noticeable instances inodorn educa-
tion does not seem to bo a very great advan-
tage. The moat satisfactory system of educa-
tion for practical purposes that has ever pre-
vailed was probably that of England 100 years
ago, under which every apprentice mastered
some useful trado.
South Carolina now has a railroad com-
mission law putting the absolute control of all
railroads in tho state in tho hands of tho rail-
road commission, from whose decision there
shall bo no appeal. Governor Tillman has
Bignod the bill and says tho efforts of the rail-
road men to have tho law modifiod and the
statements of lawyers that tho law is unconsti-
tutional do not amount to a damn, because
there are only 1000 of those, whereas 60,000
people want such a law.
In raiding the dens of vice and crime Rev.
Dr. Parkhurst seems to have hit the New
York police in a tendor place.
Wb want bettor government and leas of it.
Brooklyn is down with a chronio case of
modern ward politics. St. Louis has a recent
black eye and an empty pocket. The country
1b full of eities broken down in tho loins by
the swappers and jockeys of tho municipal
race tracks. Modern municipal mismanage-
ment is littla bettor than a stand-and-deliver
hold-up.
From the political gang may every enter-
prising city be happily delivered.
The Amarillo Champion states that it has
been "opposed to high taxation and high ox-
officio salaries and illogal salaries," and adds
that "the boycot was put in force and ads.
dropped out of the Champion, three-fourths
of tho paper pied," etc. Tho Champion
charges: "The damage done to this office was
instigated by a county official and carried out
by boys."
Sometimes the judge lays down the law and
all tho jurors proceed to walk right over it.
The Now York Mail and Express quotes
Scripture as follows: "God is tho judge. He
puttoth down one and lifteth up another."
The M. and E. might havo added: "In spite
of republican pension frauds and raBcaiity."
The call of the publication committee of
the people's party for a conference at Fort
Worth on the 29th instant "to take necessary
stops to place the newspaper interests of the
etato on a more satisfactory basis" is full of
politioal significance and meaning. Tho
meeting indicates very clearly that tbe
'people's party is not dead and that it is not
even asleep.
The great force of our civilization seems to
bo directed mainly against craps and cigar-
ettes.
SNAP SHOTS.
Tho demagogue should remember that while
there's life there's soap.
Your weight in gold would not be half as
much as you imagine it would be, and still
you are not worth it.
Somehow it is hard to got over the impres-
sion that the devil plays a fiddle.
Look over the blank loaves in your diary
and see if you can't guess where you were at
when they occurred.
Honesty Becoming a Byword.
St. Paul Globe.
Tho pension bureau under republican oon-
trol has been prostituted to the most out-
rageouB partisan purposes. Tho public funds
havo been thrown to the dogs and the wolves,
to the bounty jumpers and the camp thieves,
until an honest veteran blushes to see his
name on the pension rolls. Official bribery
and corruption have never before attained
such mammoth proportions under a free gov-
ernment, and the boasted purity of our repub-
lican institutions has become a byword among
all nations. It is time to call a halt.
A Tariff Commission Impracticable.
Washington Post.
The great objection to this (the tariff com-
mission) proposition is that howevor "non-
partisan" tho commission may be its report
has to be acted upon by a body which is any-
thing but non-partisan. In fact it is out of
tho question for a tariff bill to be framed by
this process that will find acceptance with
both parties or that will not provoko captious
and wearisome opposition. The only prac-
ticable way to revise the tariff is by the direct
action of congress. ^
Unexpected Approval.
Chicago Inter Ocean (Hep.)
Georgia honors humanity and herself in her
movement to build a comfortable home for
the destitute soldiers who served in tho eon-
federate army. In the very nature of things
the general government,which tho confederate
army sought to destroy, can not aid the old
confederate soldier, but tha states as states
can and should.
For an Open Fair on Sunday.
Boston Globe.
This is a free conntry, not a Sabbatocracy.
| We hope congress will promptly repeal the
uncalled for legislation which would bar the
doors of the great exhibition upon the only '
day when, without loss of wages, the great
army of working men and working women
can view its marvels of mechanism und art.
THE STATE PRH91,
What the Paper* Throughout the State
Are Talkini About.
The Houston Daily Cross says:
W hen tho Waco News assertod tlint Snap
Shot# of The Oalvistoh-Dau.au News was
getting stalo, it rendered judgment final
against It# own ability to know a good thing
when It nee# it Mrs. M, l.asker, president
of the Galveston world'# fair auxiliary, has
issued a proclamation soliciting tho aid and
co-ojieratlon of tho people of Galveston, and
the I'ross hopes they will respond llborally.
Tho governor's guardian, tho Gazotto, says:
"Heforo monkeying with that mule of Ter-
rell's the governor Bliould learn that tho mule
is himself fond of riding." Judge Torrell's
platform I# the mulo on which Hogg rode into
tho office of governor. Torroll was like Faddy
when the donkey put its foot into tho stirrup:
"If you arc going to get up 1 will get down,
for, by tho powors, I will not rido double with
you." Tho Fort Worth Mail Bays:
Governor Hogg rodo into tho stato capital
on Alox Terrell's mulo, but the lattor gentle-
man proposes to rido the animal himsolf in
the senatorial race; see if ho don't.
The Cisco Round-Up says:
Mr. James Abies, who wns waylaid and shot
last weok and reported dead, has revived und
is now rapidly recovormg. Immediately upon
regaining consciousness he stated that the
party now in jail is tho one who shot him, as
fio saw him distinctly just before tho second
shot was fired The Dallas News is a plio-
nomenal publication. It gots more "cussin'"
and more pntrouajje from it# enomies than
any newspaper in the south. It is because
human nature is a unit in searching for and
recognizing a good thing when it is visible.
They know that the nows is in The News.
And then, after all, wo don't know but what
The News in its political publications was
about a stand-oil', on its sido of the fence, for
reliability with the exponents of our own sido.
At any rate, tho nows is what wo wunt, so give
us The N ews.
Now is the timo to subscribe.
The Brownsville Herald says:
Like the lilios of the field are the Texas rail-
road com missions—they toil not, neither do
they spin Of course, Mr. Chilton has no as-
pirations to fill Mr. Mills' place in the senato.
Neither do horses care for oats.
Tho Brownsville Herald print# the plan of
Lioutonant Chatfield of tho United States
army for irrigating tho Rio Grande valley. It
says:
I propose to construct, or cause to be con-
structed, a general system of irrigation cover-
ing us much of the (and in Cameron, Hidalgo
and Starr counties as practicable. Provided,
that I shall be granted right of way
for canals and ditches, including all
resacas, lakes and depressions, which can
be usod for storing water, with tho right to
levy all of thom. When water is stored on
a tract of laud tho owner of the tract will con-
vey to me, my heirs or assigns a cortam por-
tion of the land which can be irrigated from
tho storage reservoirs.
The Brownsville Herald says:
The Galveston News devotes daily more
or loss space to tho publication of clippings
from papors of other states regarding people
and things in general in Texas. This depart-
ment, which The News calls "Texas Abroad,"
is most interesting. It Is at the same time
profitablo and entertaining to hnvo occasional
glimpaesof ourselves as others boo us The
peoule of this section do not realize that tlicy
burn up a fortune every yoar. Wo use the
finest inesquite and ebony wood for fuel con-
stantly, which if it could be shipped would
quickly fill the pockets of the shippers. Now
that a furniture factory is to bo established in
Houston, railroad connection would give our
people a market for the logs that these poor
Mexicans are glad to sell at $2, Mexican coin,
a load.
Tho champion tramp has a traveling com-
panion. The Herald says:
Mr. Chris Millar did not start ont on his
tramp this morning ns ho intended. He will
leavo to-morrow, however. To-day ha was
presentod a burro and a packing outfit by the
jovial and whole souied Mike Leahy.
The Herald says:
At the regular Saturday distribution of ra-
tions to tho poor by the ladies' aid society
there were 140 applicants for aid. They were
given hot coffee and bread, besides the usual
allowances. A good many pairs of shoes
were also distributed.
Has anyone assailed tho eharackther of the
editor of the Corpus Caller, a lady for oxam-
plo? He says:
Tho deadly serpent has a beauttful cover-
ing Tho highest recommendation a man
could havo is the ill will of some people An
honest enemy can bo respected but a cow-
ardly backbiter who Btaba in the dark
never How would it do to hang the assas-
sins of reputation the same as we strai gle the
reeking wretch who dyes his hand in tho life-
blood of his brother?
Servo him right. Eroct a high gallows like
Hamaan but beware of his fato.
Tho editor of the Corpus Christi Caller has
been chosen to holp to mako laws, but he
does not propose to rival Solon or Lyourgus,
though he Intimates a desire to play Draoo by
asking if slanderer! do not deserve hanging.
The Caller says:
The coming legislature will havo many
knotty problems to unravel, which will per-
plex the wisest hoada Ignorance in tho
jury box causes the acquittal of many a red-
handed assasaint Whenever one of these
wretches is turned loose to oontinue to ply his
fiendish vocation, the good people rise up in
their wrath and curse the law and the men
who made it. They make a big mistake in
doing bo. As often stated, the fault lies not
with tho law, but with tho loose manner in
which it is onforced. Stamp ignorance from
the jury box and then will tho hangman and
tho penitentiary get their juBt duos Many
legislative evils afllict the poor men of this
country, but 12>6 cent whisky, guaranteed to
make every man who uses it tho proprietor
of a little zoological garden of his own, is
their greatest affliction.
It seems to be the rule to cause every law of
any importance passed by tho legislature to
run the gauntlet of all the courts, from
that of Justice Shallow of the Blackjack pre-
cinct to the Bupremo court of the state, in
some cases of the United States, and when
tho latter has interpreted the oracle there is
an immediate cry for an amendment, or a
new law on the same subject, before the pub-
lic has had time to learn the import of the
old one and adapt their conduct to its provi-
sions. The caption of the law of the last
legislature in regard to the inspection of hides
and animals is an average indication of such
work: "An act to amend seotion 1 of an act
entitled an act to amend section 46, chapter
25, of tbe acts of 1885, entitled an act to
amend chapter 79 of the acts of 1883, en-
titled an act to amend uhapter 48 of the acts
of 1887, an act to amend seotion 46 of %n act
to encourage stockraising and to protect stock-
raisers, approved April 22,1879, and amended
April 4,1881, and April 12, 1880, and March
27,1887, and March 29, 1889."
Some Texas newspapers are professional, if
not successful reformers. They find fault
with everything, but substitute nothing better.
The Corpus Christi Caller remarks:
When a man spits on his hands, shucks his
linen, and starts out to reform the world, ho
seos for tho time being nothing but rosoate
visions of suScess before him. Henco he
jumps in, sloshes right and left and then
eagerly looks lor tho fruits of his herculean
labor. But he generally looks in vain. The
expected revolution in things in general comes
not, and the old earth keeps spinning around
in spaco as though nothing hud happened.
Finally tho would-be reformer stops and pon-
ders. The fact slowly, painfully, but surely
penetrates his cranium that after all he is
naught but a small bubble in the great seeth-
ing ocean of life, and that one tiny drop of
water amounts to little in the mighty fathom-
less doep. Hence he throws up hie job in dis-
gust.
A lot of editors have entered the arena
within the last year who affect the red hot
style and tilt at tlielr esteemed oontempoiarles
like knights in a grand meleo. Tho staid old
veterans tako the attack# In silence or return
the soft answers that turn wrath utile and
thus preserve the ponce, but when a couple of
the hotspurs happen to engage In ulnglo com-
bat it is like "cats-a-llghtin'" and tho fur Hie#
liko down bofore the wind. A good deal of
force is exerted in till# wuy that would find
more profitable employment in the useful af-
fair* of lifo.
The Aransas 1'ass Beacon cries hold,
onougli:
Tho Sunday editions of the dallies are n
nuisance and a boro. If au oleetion wuro held
mne-touth# of the readers of tbe papers out-
side of tho town# where they ure published
would vote strongly to havo tho nuisance
abatod. What the local subscribers may
think on tho subject wo know not, but since
oight pages, which ban come to bo tho regula-
tion size of the daily, will hold all und mora
than any of thom know, is it not a groat
waste of time and patlonce all uround to
double and treblo tho dose with vapid noth-
ingness on Sunday?
CARGOES Of SLAVES.
More South Sea Islanders to Be Entrapped
for the Ooffoo Plantations.
San Francisco, Cal. Dee. 21.—[Special.]—
The tramp Btoamer Monserrat, which recently
carried a cargo of Gilbert islanders to Guate-
mala coffee plantation-, has now been bought
by the slavo dealers und will bo used to trans-
port by wholesale theso poor, ignorant South
Sea islanders to tho unhealthy coffoc planta-
tions of Central America. Tho Mousorrat left
horo December 4 for Guatemala. She had on
board Captain W. H. Ferguson, the mau who
brought over 500 Gilbert islanders on tho brig
Tahiti, and whom sickness forced to stay here.
Ho thus escaped the fate of all on tho brig,
which foundered off the Mexican coast.
The new owners of the Monserrat are tho
men who lately brought a cargo of islanders
to Guatemala and made a large profit on tho
cargo. Ferguson's presence on board is ac-
counted for by a member of the former expe-
dition, who has been approached within ten
days with a proposition to ship for another
trip when the steamer gots back horo and fits
out for the raid on tho peaceful homes of the
south Pacific. Ferguson's errand is to secure
the aid of the interpreters and natives, who
went to the South Sea island plantations as
whippers in for another
DIO LOT OP SLAVES.
The last cargo was not picked up without
much difficulty, and tho natives Forguson in-
tends to take back are to be used to spread
glowing reports of the life of the natives in
the now land.
Tho cruise will tako in the Samoan and
Caroline groups bofore the Gilberts are
touched at, but little is expected from the
former islands because the natives aro not a
laboring class.
Tho four-inastod schooner Alexander, now
idle in Oakland creek, is also reported to be
under charter to the slave dealers.
The king of tho Gilbert islands is always
hard up and the slave dealers pay him hand-
somely for his influence in getting laborers.
Unless England, which lately aBsumed a pro-
tectorate over the Gilbert islands, steps in and
forbids this blackbirding, the islands will be
practically depopulated.
The islanders are promised good wages and
return transportation, but two out of three
fall victims to deadly rivers and chango of
climate.
Not Parsons for Revenue Only.
Now York Sua.
A well-bohaved clergyman does not permit
his mind to dwell unduly on his marriage fees
one way or the other and he is ready to marry
folks as securely and reverently without mon-
ey or price as he would for the most lavish re-
muneration. But what fees come to him un-
solicited he puts into his pocket cheerfully
and without a qualm, conscious that tho la-
borer is worthy not only of his hire but of any
caBual pecuniary barnaoles that happen to
stick to it.
Tainted With Pinkertonlsm.
St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
That poison story from Homestead wo"ld
bo more convincing if the inevitable Pinker-
ton men had not turnod up as principal wit-
nesses.
TEXA8 ABROAD.
Judge Maxey of tho federal court at San
Antonio has sentenced a Mexican to fifteen
months imprisonment for smuggling a horse
acroaa tho Rio Grande river. This poor devil
of a peon no doubt was not aware that he was
violating any law either of his own or of this
country when ho rode his horse across tho
muddy stream, but nevertheless ho will have
to pay the penalty. The Mexicans, however,
who accumulated largo fortunes by stealing
horses and rushing them from Moxico into
Texas and from Texas into Mexico nro novor
caught and never punished, and this fact has
more than once aroused the suspicion that
thoy stand in with the authorities on both
sides of the river. [New Orleans States.
# # #
Tho New Orleans Times-Democrat in dis-
cussing the story that has been the rounds of
the papers that Texas would be liable to bo
divided into several states, aays that it has not
heard of a single Texas paper in favor of tho
proposition. The men in Texas favorable to
the division are those whose ambition leads
toward the United States senate and guber-
natorial honors which n division might gratify.
[Cleveland Plaindoaler.
* # #
"I Bee that the Garza 'revolution' has broken
out again," said William B. Scott of Starr
county, Tex., to a group of acquaintances at
the National. "That is a great war and some-
body ought to write another Iliad about it.
The fellows who aro dignified with tho name
of 'revolutionists' aro a lot of sheep herders
who would rather steal than work. Their
leader is Catarino E. Garza, a half-crazy Mex-
ican editor, who owns a printing press down
in the brush. His pronunciamentos announc-
ing the downfall of President Diaz and calling
upon ail loyal citizens to assist in tho
slaughter cost him nothing, becauso ho
setB them up and works them
off himself. His band has never at any time
numbered more than 100 men, nor have they
ever gotten more tnan twenty-five miles across
the Mexican frontier. Indeed, that is as far
as they care to go, as they always scoot back
to the Texas side of the Rio Grande ns soon as
they have stolen a sack of meal. In the tre-
mendous conflict which raged in the news-
papers some months ago, wherein a pitched
battle was fought every day, and there wore
not left alive enough soldiers to bury the
dead, we denizens of tho Rio Grande valley
were naturally much interested. These
battles were fought right around us.
Most times there were three men on one
side and nobody on the other. If Garza had
gathered tho remoteBt semblance of an army
it would have been no troublo to meet and
dissipate it. It will be readily seen how a
handful of scoundrels may scatter and lie
perdu in a country where the ranches are
thirty miles apart, and the cactus is as high
as an ordinary house. Two Mexican soldiers
and a lieutenant were killed in the last raid,
which is a total damage to their government
of about 36 cents. It is safo to prodict that
the Diaz government will not be overthrown
by the Garza gang or any other gang. It will
last just as long as Diaz wants it to last."
[Washington (D. C.) Post.
# # #
An enterprise that may have important re-
sults in respect to the transportation problem
in Texas is that now on foot to open the Trin-
ity river to navigation all tho way from Gal-
veston to Dallas. The idea of the Dallas peo-
ple is that with a water rate to regulate rail-
way freights the business of their city can be
doubled in a littlo while. The only hitch is
that when a weaker competitor, as the Trinity
boats would be, becomes troublesome, it is
apt to be bought in and suppressed by the
stronger one, [St. Louis Republic.
THE VOTE FOR CONGRESS,
OFFICIAL COUNT FOR THE REPRE-
SENTATIVES FROM TEXAS.
Tho Dnmooratio Candidates Won in Good
Shape—Tho Returns for tho Ap-
pollato Justices.
I Amtlnrirculator'nOIllro, lOlUCnnt Sixth atrent,
wnero orUi»r4 for (Jai y flollrory of This
ton or D im, \h Nkwm at rwidonce will hocum at-
tention, nnd whore mail hubscriptiona und adver-
tisements will bo received.)
Auhtin, Tcx.f Dec. H2.—Tho voto for con-
gressmen in Texas an ollleially couuted by tho
bee rotary of etato ih a* follow**:
FlfWT DIATBIOT.
J. C. Hutchison, I) ...14.2-K9
Daniel Taylor, K 3.7U3
J. B, Btephoaaon, P 0,081
bKCOND OiSTUICT.
S. B. (!ooper, D 19,Nr>t
T. A. BkiJlmitn, It l.W/8
T. A, Wilnoii, P 10,275
thiiio district.
Cs B. Kiltforo, I) 16.3K3
J. M. Porduo, V 12,175
FOL'KTII DISTRICT.
I). B. Culberson, D 10.521
J. A. Hurley, ft
Fat H.Clark, P 10,371
FIFTH DISTRICT.
J. W. Bailey, D 24.9S3
John Grant, R
K. B. Bod, P 8,170
HIXTII DISTRICT.
Joseph Abbott, D 21,913
Jerome C. Kearby, P 17,078
HEVBNTII DISTRICT.
Georffo C. Pendleton, L) ..19.9*17
I. N. Barber, P 15,587
EIGHTH DISTRICT.
C. K. Bell, D 17,799
Kvan Joum#, p 12,'J:i7
C. C. Drake. K 2,099
NINTH DISTRICT.
Joseph I). Bayers, 1) 19.7H3
Joseph M. Homer. P : 12.384
TKNTII DISTRICT.
Walter Groaham, J) 13,017
A. J. UoHenthai. ii 9,452
E. O. Meitzon. P 4,279
KLKVtNTH DIHTHICT.
W. 11. ('rain, D 15.247
C. G. Brewator, R 8.055
Ben Terrell, P 5, <05
TWELFTH DISTRICT.
Thos. M. Paechall, D n.930
Henry Terrell, R 7,if(.K)
T. J. McMinn, P ? 6,574
THIRTEENTH DISTRICT.
J. V. Cockrell, D 21,921
A. G. Malloy, R 1,6#
W. J. Maltby, P 9.815
COURT OF APPEALS—FIRST DISTRICT.
Tho only othor count completed is chief justice,
couit civil appeals. Firat district:
C. C. Garrett 75,611
Thos. J. Ku*<<e)l 30,837
ASSOCIATE JUSTICES-FIRST DISTRICT.
F. A. Williams 74,135
II. C. Plea*ants 77,197
James R. Burnett 37,816
Garrett, Williams and Pleasants were
olccted.
Tho judges wore voted for in the entire
stato.
The vote for stato officers will bo completed
to-morrow, except for governor and lieutenant
governor, which will be counted to-morrow.
The voto for justices of the second and third
districts will be givon to-morrow.
GENEROUS PHIL ARMOUR.
A Brief But Interesting Chapter on His
Successful Career.
New York Press.
Phil Armour, the Chicago multi-millionaire,
who has juBt given that city $2,400,000 to
build the "Armour institute" for the free in-
struction of younfl' men in the mechanical
arts and sciences, is a remarkable man in his
traits, in his methods and in tbe success that
ho has achieved. He has followed the wisest
philanthropic example of his day in giving
back to tho youth of his own generation a
part of his colossal fortune, as Pratt did in
Brooklyn, as A. J. Drexel has dono in Phila-
delphia nnd as Mr. Morgan is now doing in
New York.
Mr. Armour began life a poor farmer's son
iu New York. He sailed for Europe yester-
day lor a brief vacation from his enormous
business, iu which over $30,000,000 is invested.
The payroll of his employes is about $4,000,000
annually. Ho gives away a fortune every
year. He has made sovoral fortunes by specu-
lation apart from his legitimate business. He
said a year ago to a writer for the Press: "My
first transaction was a lovo scrape. It wasn't
succossful, and it was the turning point in my
life. It lod to my expulsion from school.
Forty years after that expulsion from school a
man walked into my office in Chicago, and I
recognized him at once as Prof. Hyde, ono of
my boyhood instructors. Ho said ho had
heard of my success in lifo and ho had come
to tell me that in the matter of that expulsion
he was the only member of the faculty who
had votod for my retention. I said to him:
'You have been a long time coming with your
explanation.' Ho wont out. I meant what I
said. I have had the action of that faculty
laid away in my vest hero (indicating his
heart) ever since."
It is known that P. D. Armour was born on
a farm in New York state. It is known that
he did what most farmers' boys do—slaved
from morning until night. It is known that
at tho age of 20, after he had loved and lost
and had been expelled from school, ho put
iron in his heart, joined the procession west-
ward and became a gold seeker in Califor-
nia.
It is known that he was taken sick and lin-
gered in the vicinity of death away out in Cal-
ifornia, penniless and alone. Escaping death
by a oloso shave he left the field of gold and
returned eastward as far as Milwaukee, where
John Plankinton was then buying and killing
hogs. Plankinton gave P. D. Armour employ-
ment as a olerk, and from that time Armour
grew in the i'avorof John Plankinton until tha
firm of Plankinton & Armour was established.
It is known that Mr. Armour made himself in-
dispensable to the firm, and that from that
timo to tho present moment fortune knocked
at every door and window and keyhole of Ar-
mour's place of business.
This rare good fortuno, which is so fondly
wooed, hunted and begged for by countless
thousands without avail, has refused to leave
Mr. Armour even for a moment for many
years. "It walketh with him by day," and
when he "wraps the drapery of the couch
about him and lios down to pleasant dreams"
it nestlos iu the silken folds and greets his
waking moments with a golden caresB.
A Chicago merchant who knows him wall
adds this: "It is Armour's will that has made
him what he is. He fixes his eyes on some-
thing ahead and no matter what rises upon
the right or left he never sees it. Ho goes
straight ahead in pursuit of the object ahead
and overtakes it at last. He never lets up on
that for which he starts out. Ho is the most
faithful friend in the world. No one entering
his personal service ever loaveB it if he can
avoid it." ^
Blackburn Couldn't Answer.
The story iB told by the Washington Post
that a friend of Senator Blackburn of Ken-
tucky said to him recently:
"Well, Joe, what do you think of the result
of the eleotion and the outcome?"
The senator took a pull or two at his heavy
mustaches and answered:
"I will reply by telling you a little story
that occurs to me in this connection. In rid-
ing on railway trains you have of course,
often observed the peculiarity of dogs in rac-
ing after trains. One day on a Bwifly moving
train I saw a big yellow dog doing this act
and nearly breaking his neck to catch tho train.
I watched his efforts with some curiosity and
a man in the seat in front of me was doing
the same thing. When the dog gave up the
chase the man in front turned to me and said:
'Excuse me, but I would like to ask you a
question. I want to ask you what you think
that dog would have dono with this train if he
had caught it?'"
Pew Such in the Party.
St. Louis Republic.
Perhaps there are members of tbe congress-
elect who believe in taxation for its own sake,
who hold that people can enrich themselves
by taxing theuimilvesi and tucli may oiiil
thnmselves democrat*. But thura um few
such, and they Will not bo ablo to stop tho
work of restoring to the Amorloiu people nn
inherent right, of the enjoyment of which
they have lung 'joon deprived—tho right to tho
frou.t possible trade with all tho world.
THE WHISK y TRU8T,
Its Secretary Claims Decisions Bstablish
tho Legality of the Bebate.
Chicago, HI., Dec. 21.—[Special.]— Speak-
ing of the decision in tho rebate case Socretary
P. J. Menncssy of tho eattlo feeding and dis-
tilling company says that the decision has
littlo of danger In it to that concern. "The
ease beforo Justice Wallace," lie said, "was
only preliminary. We will most assuredly
take it to the higher courts. Wo have decis-
ions in our favor within the last six months
from the thrco United Statos courts at Cin-
cinnati, Cloveland und New York. They prac-
tically legalize our system of doing business.
Those wero parts of indictments brought
ngainst tho trust by the federal grand jury at
Boston undor tha Sherman anti-trust law,
charging us with conspiracy to form a mo-
nopoly. The courts held that the law did not
apply to that: wo had a right to do business
us wo 'voro doing, and l think that covors tho
case entirely.
"Of course, if the higher courts sustain the
Wallace decision we will bo compelled to
abandon tho rebate system. That would not
atfoct the stability of the trust, as wo did busi-
ness sovoral years before tho scheme was
placed in operation."
Mr. llennessy says the sum hold as rebate
by the trust is nothing like $15,(XX),000. Two
million dollars, he states, fully covers tho
amount.
AN ARKANSA3 JURY'S VERDICT.
Ono Hundred Dollars Damages for a Wom-
an's Life-Burglars at Work.
Tzxahkaxa, Ark., Dec. 22.—The Shcddlebar
drug store at New Boston, twenty miles west
of hore, was burglarized Monday night and
$50 in cash and about a dozen gold watches
taken. No clew to the burglar.
Tho Texas and Pacific passenger train from
tho west consistod of fifteen coaches and
was crowded with Texas people taking ad-
vantage of the holiday excursion ratos to
visit their former homes in the older states.
Scvoral cases of diphtheria among children
are reported in tho Fairviow suburb. As yet
no deaths have resulted.
About a year ago an old negro woman
named Eliza Conway was struck by a Cotton
Bolt train and killed near Genoa, oight miles
east of hero. The administrator of nor estate
afterward filed suit against tho railway com-
pany for $20,000 damages. The case was tried
by a jury in the circuit court (Arkansas sido)
yesterday nnd resulted in a verdict of $100 ia
favor of the plaintiff.
An Agreoment In Court Bepudiatsd.
Indianapolis, Ind., Deo. 21.—[Special.]—
Before the circuit court at Shelbyvllle to-day
the discharge of L. N. Goldsmith, charged
with murder, wsb asked on unusual grounds.
Goldsmith and R. T. SkillinaU were salesmen
from Louisvillo and had quarreled at Seymour
over a game of cards. When tho train arrived
at Columbus, Goldsmith followod Skillman
on the platform, renewed the quarrel and
phot Skillman twice. This was on March 12,
1890, and Skillman died March 20.
In July last Goldsmith's trial began at
Columbus. After it had proceeded about an
hour Noel Boaz, ono of the jurors a3kod to be
excused on accuscd on accouut of tho serious
illness of a brother, who was dying.
The attornoys on both sides, and Goldsmith
himself, stood up in open court and asserted,
and further agreed that the records should
show, that the jury trying the case was com-
posed of twelve jurors.
The trial wont on, lasting several days, and
a verdict was brought in for conviction, with
four years in the penitentiary. A poll of the
jury was then taken and the missing juror dis-
closed, but Judgo Marshall refused to let the
record show it, the juror boing excused, and a
change of venue was takon to Shelby oounty.
The motion is now to dismiss the caso and
releuse the prisoner, because his life was
placed in jeopardy. If the motion is sus-
tained tho prisoner will be releasod, if over-
ruled a day will be set for the trial.
Not Convinced by Utter Defeat.
Boston Herald.
Some of tho prominent leaders of the re-
publican party assert that their organization
does not propose to swerve a hair's breadth
from the policy it has adopted respecting Mc-
Kinleyism, but that it is going to wait to take
advantage of the inevitable reaction which
must set in. There is a Cue flavor of consist-
ency in this position, but it exhibits in a strik-
ing manner the want of political sagacity on
the part of those who take it. There aro some
things toward which a reaction can never set
in. Wo aro not aware that when the slaves
were freed there was a reaction in favor of
slavery.
Only Hascals Need to Dodge.
Toledo Bee.
No ono is advocating the reduction of pen-
sions. The objection is to granting pensions
to those who are notentitlod to them, and who
have secured them through fraudulent rop-
resontation. Of course the democratic party
has no intention of repealing the pension
laws, and nothing has been said that would
lead to such an impression, except the ranting
of republican speakers during the campaign.
Would Makes Gerrymanders Valueless.
(,'ourior-J ourr.-i.
The election of United States senators by
popular vote, while it would in no sense de-
stroy their character ns state representatives
iu the national legislature, wouid take their
Bolection out of the hnnds of gerrymandered
state assemblies, which, when close, are tho
most tractablo mediums for fraud and cor-
ruption.
A Buinous Precedent.
Boston Herald.
The resignation of the superintendent of
immigration at the port of New York, who
some tune ago expressed tho desire to retire
because he found nothing to do in his office,
has not yet been accepted. The authorities
at Washington have not recovered from the
Bhock occasioned by the superintendent's bold
announcement.
Democrats Are Builders, Not Wreckers.
Buffalo Enquirer.
No steel mills have been shut down because
of the election of Mr. Cleveland. No indus-
tries of any sort have shut down because of
the triumph of the democracy. There will bo
no such disasters to roport. The democracy will
never do anything to disturb honest industry.
They Care for Publio Opinion.
Pittsburg Dispatch.
The brothers Gould aro said to be making-
regardless of cost—a comploto collection of
the tributes paid to their late illustrious father
by the press all over tho world. They evi-
dently pay more attention to public opinion
than ho did.
Infants for Collateral.
Detroit Tribune.
New England thrift appoars to have
rcachod its highest development in Haverhill,
Mass., where au undertaker held tho bodies of
two infants for three years as collateral secu-
rity for the burial expenses.
UUXtHBi'f'r COM Mil NT.
A New York belle was discussing the matter
the other day whoti Homebody present said It
| was a shame that a lovoly society girl should
thus "throw herself away" by taking up a
tambourine und parading the streets. "Well,"
said the belle, "I'd Ilka to bo one of them my-
self, Thry appear to lie in earnest, anyway.
I'd like to know how it fools to lie in earnest
about something." Sensible girl. [Kansas
City Journal.
It is a notable circumstance that thero is do
proposal from any quarlor to put any freo
silver scheme in the place of the one it is pro-
posed to repeal. Tho idea snoms to bo to havo
dono with the whole business of hoard.ng sil-
j vor or basing moro paper monoy on it. If
"moro monoy" iswnnted silver is not tho kind
now wanted, by any very largo body of poo-
plc. Voters don't really care much for freo
coinage, however much a few noisy agitators
may desiro it. [Baltimore Sun (dom.)
Inasmuch as Colonel Shopard's counsol ad-
mits that the Mall and Express has beon in
tho habit of paying largo amounts of money
to city officials to got public printing, and
Colonel Ingersoll elicits from a witness thut
Colonel Shopard has boen holpod into a cab
and carefully put to bed like children of tho
world undor similar conditions, would it not
look hotter if he would kindly omit the daily
text, at least until the public gets more accus-
tomed to theso novel environments of tho
president of tho Amorican Sunday union? •
[Chicago Tribuno.
Elliott Shepard got the vcrdiot in the suit of
his old business manager against him, and
that will probably compensate him for any
damago to his reputation by reason of the dis-
closure of his attempts at bribery. It is quite
probable that Shepard's discharged omploys
was as groat a rascal as himself, and that he
usod Shopard's letter for tho purpose of
coercing him into paying a debt ho did not
owe; but the fact remains, nevertheless, that
Elliott Shopard, by a lotter in his own hand-
writing, urged this employe to bribo tho police
commissioners of Now York with a $5000
check to givo his paper cortuin advertising,
and to havo this $5000 bonuB or bribo money
added to tho bill in order to got it back from
the city. Tho cross-examination of Shopard
on this transaction wus conducted by Colonol
Ingersoll, and the full report in the Now
York papers shows that Shepard during
tho ordeal was a most piteous spectacic.
For once tho puffod and pride-swollen fool
lost his lordly airs and pompous strut, as he
writhed, stammered and blundered Into ono
lie after another under the searching questions
of Colonol Ingersoll. The exposure of this
sanctimonious hypocrite and pharisco will
not, however, make any change in his busi-
ness. Everybody knew him to be an ass and
a humbug before; but he is rich with his late
father-in-law's money, and can support pre-
tensions to great piety by liberal donations
for fashionably religious nnd charitable pur-
poses. [Memphis Commercial.
NEWSPAPER RECREATION.
A new shoe in the market is made of imita-
tion buckskin; it is not dear. [Lowell Cour-
ier.
Migglos.- Simpson is very regular in his
attendance at church now. Wiggles: Yes,
tho children in the flat are so noisy he can't
Set a wink of sleep at home. [Chicago Inter-
Scan.
Mre. Foster: My husband gives me all the
money ho wins at poker for gloves. Mrs. Bar-
low : I'd never get any, then. I make mine
f ive me an amount equal to what he loses.
New York Herald.
Small boy (teasingly): Say, papa, what
you going to give me for Christmas? Papa: If
you don't quit bothering mo I'll give you a
whipping. S. B.: All right, pop, put it in my
stocking, won't you? [Detroit Free Press.
Sister: What aro you going to bo when you
grow up? Little Brother: I'm goin'to bo a
lion tamer in a circus. "You? Why, you run
away from a dog." "Yes, but dogs isn't
trainod not to hurt anybody." [Good News.
"How do you like your new cook?" "Oh,
so, so. She is very dirty, she has no idea of
cooking and she smashes everything around
hor, but still she has ono good and rare qual-
ity." "What is that?" "She stays with us."
[Fliegende Blatter.
Staiout: "Say, old man, I wonder what that
fellow over thero is wearing a mackintosh this
kind of weather for?" Broadwai: "Proba-
bly 'soaked' his Bpring overcoat and, of course,
cawn't soak a mackintosh. Hatha!" [Ray-
mond's Monthly.
Count do Craye (after thoy have been en-
deavoring to hold a conversation in French):
"Shall ve not spik in zo English now for a
time?" The traveled girl: "Oh, no; I do so
dearly love to talk in your own tongue,
count." Count de Craye: "Mais; zen can
we not havo ze service of an interpreter?"
[ Chicago News Record.
ALL SORTS ASSORTED.
Well May Labouchere Be Amasied.
London Truth.
The United States pension list will amount
next year to the almost incredible sum of
£33,000,000. This is an increase of nearly
two millions over the payments to pensioners
during 185J2.
Borneo makes beer from pepper.
The liquids in the oyster are chiefly water
and sea salt.
An institue in London offers a world's
fair trip for $127.
The rent of land in Eng land 300 years ago
was about 1 shilling an acre.
There are 782 government offices vacant in
Italy and 40,000 applicants for them.
Fish are gonerally thought to bo very cold,
yet their normal temperature is 77 degrees.
In olden times deformed people were fre-
quently thrown in prison to be kept out of
sight.
Ireland has occupied one-half of the time of
the house of commons during the last twelve
years.
The French war office has provided for tha
enrollment of between fiOOO and 7000 bicyclists
in war.
It is computed that twelve city people die
whore ten deaths occur among dwellers in the
country.
The trial by jury is to be curtailed, or per-
haps entirely abolished, by the Indian gov-
ernment.
Shoet iron kites, to enable a vessel when in
distress to communicate with the shore, have
been suggested.
Two million pounds of English walnuts
have been shipped from Whittiar, Cal., during
the past three months.
"Samuel Ktxdghuttousinystem, tin ped-
dler," is the legend inscribed upon the card of
a Russian merchant traveler in Connecticut.
The women of the various cantons of Swit-
zerland may often be Been carrying upon their
backs loads of manure to their mountain
farms.
Before a theater can be opened for playB in
Dublin, a patent, which lasts twenty-fivo
years, has to be obtained from the lord lieu-
tenant.
A Chicago paper waxes cheerful over tha
prevalent crime in that city as follows: Drop
a nickel in your vest pooket and watch it get
stolen.
Gray wolves are reported to be playing
havoc among the stock in the Elk mountain
country and along the Cheyenne river in
South Dakota.
At the time Shakespeare wrote his plays
there wero not in all the world as many En-
glish-speaking people as thore are now in New
York and New Jersey.
Swedish girls at an early age begin to make
and accumulate linen garments. By the time
they are of marriagoble age they have an ex-
tensive outfit of such articles.
The statistics of life insurance people show
that in the last twenty-five years tha average
of man's lifo has increased & per cent, or two
whole years, from 41.0 to 43.9 years.
There is in China a secret society called the
"Triads." It is a capital crime to belong to
it, yet it has more than 30,000,000 members.
Its object is the overthrow of the present dy-
nasty.
Numerous experiments to determine tho
best fire-resisting materials for the construc-
tion of doors have proven that wood oovered
with tin resisted the fire better than an Iron
door.
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