The Galveston Daily News. (Galveston, Tex.), Vol. 51, No. 307, Ed. 1 Wednesday, January 25, 1893 Page: 4 of 8

                                
THE GALVESTON DAILY NEWS. WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 25, 1893.
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class matter.
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 25, 1893.
THE NEWS' TRAVELING AGENTS.
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for either publication: T. B. Baldwin, Mar-
chant Little, J. A. Sloan, C. H. Cox, W alter
Woods, J. D. Linthicum, II. P. Simonds, A.
T. Clark, Don Beatty and J. T. Lynn.
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Galveston, Tex., January 20, 1803.
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PEDDLING TUKW OWS EULOGIES TO
THE PEOPLE.
There could hardly be fouud in the English
language a racier piece of satire than that
"forthcoming report, a strong and able expo-
sition of work done" by the dismantled but
continuously salary and expense absorbing
railroad commission of Texas. We are in-
formed with a flourish of horn-blowing that
this report contains "348 pages." An admin-
istration organ in describing this carefully
prepared evidence of industry of the enjoined
commissioners has the following, upon which
the immortal Thackeray himself could nover
have improved:
The concluding paragraph of the preface savo
one dryly replies to the chargothat the board had
nothing to do sinco Judge McCormicl: grantod
his injunction, with the statement that on account
of the smallness of the clerical force, being less
than one-half of even that of the t mailer class of
railroads, all parties connected with the commis-
sion have been ^morally engaged from breakfast
until well up in the evening with only time to get
dinner.
Positively, this is enough to give the dullest
burro in Texas a stitch in his sido. This ex-
hausting collection of administration statistics
is the great work which Governor Hogg had
in mind immediately after the commissioners
had been enjoined and thrown out of a job
when he fouud it necessary to cast about and
discover some method of enploymeut by which
a continuational of salaries might be justified.
It will be remembered that he said, after al-
most every mile of railroad in Texas had been
roleased from the hold of Commissioner
Reagan and his associates and they had been
left with nothing to do as freight regulators,
that they would spend their time "gathering
statistics." Well, "all parties connected with
the commission have been generally engaged
from breakfast until well up in the evening
with only time to get dinner" for some six
months, making this political document of
348 pages of self-laudation, abuse of political
enemies and courts, of dry and dead figures, to
justify the salaries they have consumed. The
laugh which they have upon thoso who charged
that they have been out of a job for six months
is both sarcastio and grim. They have gobbled
up their breakfast while the lark slumbered
with his indolent head beneath his wing and
have taken dinner on the ily. They have fig-
ured on the groat work which they did before
they were enjoined until "well up in the even-
ing."
Gath'ring statistics in the dawnlight fair,
Gnth'ring statistics in the noontido glare,
Gath'ring statistics in the fading light,
Gath'ring statistics in the solemn night.
Oh, it's enough to break the back of any
great railroader on earth, it is. Let the patient
or impatient reader cull and con a few sample
heads of wheat from the shoaves which these
champion reapers have harvested :
The commission has so far, says the report,
made no general classification of freight, Soon
after its organization it adopted the classification
and rates on general merchandise) which the
railroad companies had put into effect, without
changing thorn. The commission has for many
months past been engaged in the preparation of
tho classification and rates on general mer-
chandise, on which investigation and labor have
been bestowed. The classification and rates were
not completed at the timn the commission was
enjoined from making further rates bv the judge
of tho circuit court of tho United States. In
order that it may bo seen to what extent tho
commodity rates so far made have affected tho
transportation in this state and tho revenues of
the roads, it is proper to state that from the best
information we hav« not less than 50 per cent of
it is interstate transportation, on which this
commission could not rogulate tho freight rates,
and that we are of the opinion that the general
merchandise of the state, on which we adopted
the rates fired by the railroads without change,
would bo not lees than 25 per cent of the entire
transportation of the state. If we are correct, or
approximately correct, on these two points, the
commodity rates so far made by the commission
•would not probably yield more than 25 per cont
of the entire rovenue of the road.
This is virtually a confession that tho com-
mission did little or nothing even while it
was alive. In the face of this admission the
report proceeds as follows:
All these benefits to the state, the poople and
tho railroad corporations have been arreetod and
held for navght. and a great moasuro of stato
policy based on the constitution and laws has
ueen for tho time being overthrown by tho single
will of a federal judeo sitting in chambers on tho
disposition of a motion for a temporary injunc-
tion and without a formal trial, when with only
a few months' delay the cases could have beon
regularly tried on a full 'ind fair hearing of tho
law and facts on their merits, and this, too, when
uadtr the laws <>f tho state the railroad com*
panios wore outitled to a plain and speedy rem-
edy at law for overy possible grievance. There is
much danger of tho inferior federal courts, on
too slight consideration, holding tho laws of tho
state to be unconstitutional and this danger is
increased when such lawn underlie great meas-
ures of stato policy.
Ther report is fairly overflowing with indefi-
nite information. The question naturally
arises: "What are bushels of political figuros
worth unless they prove something?" The
answer to this would probably be: "About
$25,000a yoar." But:
The information reported as to cost of roads
built since the commission was organized is said
to be indefimto. Tho cost of olevon miles of the
Heame and Brazos Valley road laid with forty-
pound steel rails, and including two buildings,
was $04,000.
Fifty-three miles of the Aransas Pass wore built
by the receiver betwoen Lexington aud Lott for
1300,493. Allowing for right of way, engineering
and grading, tho total cost of this is estimated at
$10,000 per mile.
WThilo the late campaign is gonerally con-
ceded to bo a thing of the past it seems that
our railroad commissioners are still suffering
with fence rails in their craws. Tho Clark
rally is something they are determined to pro-
hibit for all future time. In order to keep the
pooplo informed as to their methods of oarn-
ing salaries, those administration statesmen
are quoted by their organ thus:
iy Free transportation is discussed as an evil
" which should receive legislative attoutiou, aud
the report adds: In addition to the ovils men-
tioned in the foregoing extract it is bolievod free
pasties were given during the political canvasa
which preceded tho recent election in this state,
for the purposo of inliuoncing tho election.
Did you ever hear of anything so unpatri-
otic? Never.
The railroad commission understood and our
people understood that their interests and the in-
terests of the railroads are so interdependent
that any policy which would affect injuriously
the railroads would as certainly oporate against
the prosperity and welfare of tho people. So well
is this understood that wo would not consider a
reference to it necessary, but for unpatriotic
efforts which have been made to produco preju-
dice against the commission law. tho commis-
sioners and tho people of Texas as a moans of
overthrowing the commission policy and of re-
storing to tho officers of tho railroad corpora-
tions the uncontrolled mastery over the com-
merce of this state.
Of course the humble endeavor of The ,
News to make plain to the people that these
idle favorites of an obsolescent administra-
tion are not earning their salaries will be con-
sidered intensely unpatriotic by thom. It is
entirely too late or too early, however, to be
'.'engaged from breakfast until well up in the
evening with only time to get dinner" on
campaign documents and strained efforts to
prove their industry without bringing forth
any results to show for it.
Even in the days of Moses "Jostium waxed
fat and kicked." Can wo oxpect the highly
fed pets of 1893 who have waxed fat for forty
years to keep their gay heels on the ground?
LAMAR AND SUMMER*
In the death of Justice Lamar the south
loses one of its greatest men and the nation
a moat ablo and patriotic statesman. There
are a few men in this country whose dignity
and character have always held them above
party bigotry and political fury, securing for
them tho respect and confidence of all tho
people. Justice Lamar was one of these. He
was a typical southern and yet a broad na-
tional figure whom his fellow-countrymon
regardless of section loved and houored. His
gonorosity of heart, his elevation of
mind and his noblo candor of apprecia-
tion and homage in the recognition of liko
attributes were strikingly illustratod on tho
occasion of the death of Charles Sumner.
Mr. Lamar was then a represenativo in con-
gress from Mississippi. He had been a thor-
oughbred political disciploof Calhoun. He had
served as a confederate officer. But he saw in
Sutnnor a heroic personification of magnanim-
ity in victory. He saw how unfalteringly Sum-
ner, at tho sacrifice of his own political prestige,
had set himself against sectional vengeance
and urged the obliteration of records aud
tokens dedicated to the horrid glories of civil
war. Profoundly moved by this vision ho rose
in his placo and delivered the most eloquent
and heartfelt eulogy pronounced upon the
dead statesman. In this tributo ho honored
tho people whom ho directly represented, but
much more ho honored his whole country.
Considering tho great thingB which our idle
railroad commissioners claim to have done
for us, we are convinced that they aro the
Anakim.   ^
THE SUDDEN VACANCY.
It was but tho other day that The News'
Washington correspondence contained a dis-
cussion of the eventuality of Justice Lamar's
retirement early in the term of tho next ad-
ministration and tho probablo appointment of
Judge Walter Q. Gresham is his place. The
course of nature has decided with startling
suddenness that 6uch speculations must cease
or take a different direction. It will bo hard
for the democrats to contemplate the filling
of the vacancy on the supreme bench by
President Harrison ; which, however, can now
bo accepted as inevitable. Under cortain
conditions at a past timo Mr. Harri-
son might have felt unpolled to nom-
inate for tho position a distinguished
republican liko Judgo Grosham. That
might have been wliou Mr. Harrison
was a hopeful aspirant for the presidential
nomination and had to think of removing
rivals from his path. But at present Mr. Har-
rison is near going into a retiremeut which
everybody of course expects to bo final. Un-
der such circumstances he is expected to use
his remaining powor to make comfortable
provision for his porsonal and inoro immediate
party friends. It will not be surprising, there-
fore, if he purposes placing on the supreme
bench some lawyer who is a chum of his, of
formal rather than distinguished qualifica-
tions. If it wore possible to look to the senate
to take an independent view of such an ex-
ceptional situation as this, thero might bo
hope for nonconformity with any such
viows and hence for a halt with
regard to confirmation in such a case, if it
wore thought that anything short of solicitude
to nominate a first rate aud unbiased judicial
intelligence had governed the presentation of
a name to that body. Yet partisanship must
not b\) very confidently left out of tho reckon-
ing in tho senate itself. Moreover, conserva-
tism may co-operate with partisanship at the
point where the question of now precedent
arises; for whatever the democrats themselves
do or seek at this time will count in a possibly
similar conjuncture toward the close of somo
future democratic administration.
Pericles began all his devilment of mak-
ing merchandise of the patriotism of soldiers
and citizens somo 450 years boforo Christ.
He first paid soldiers for defending their coun-
try, their homes. He first paid the juror his
hiro for aiding in the administration of jus-
tico, and the per diem of the legislator and
the alderman are traceable to this so-ealled
roforinor. Ho for the first timo had a salary
affixed to each civil office in which, before him,
there was nothing better than the honor and
dignity. Periclos played thunder and has well
nigh done tho world up on patriotism and
honor by displacing these considerations with
something like $5 a day or $3 a night, and two
nights overy woek.
Almost every proud American thinks of
taking his wife to the fair.
The people have delegated to Governor
Hogg the powor to grant repriovos and par-
dons. Can Governor Hogg delegate this
power to a board of pardon advisers?
Scare a politician and tie him.
A write-up is sometimes merely a write-
down.   
It was well known to even the ex-private
secretary of ex-Senator Chilton that Senator
Mills was close to Mr. Cleveland, and that fed-
eral patronage for four long years was likely
to depend very muoh upon the re-oleotion of
said Mills.  
Did tho freeze kill the Jersey peaoh stone
dead?  
It was formerly the rule to flog an urchin
for tolling tales out of school. It is now the
rule for the indulgent parent to hoar eagerly
every story a spoilt pet can invent and then
join in a crusade aeainst the teachers. What
the country needs is somo educatod parents.
About the best thing the peoplo could do
would be to fill up the bloody chasm with tho
politicians.   
Smallpox Carried Into Michigan.
Lansing, Mich., Jan. 24.—Lax quarantine
regulations at Now York may lead to a small-
pox epidemic in Michigan as well as other
Btatos. Secrotary Baker of the state board of
health has been notified of four cases of that
disease in Pittsfiold township, Washtonaw
county, all in the family of Henry Schneider,
contracted from immigrants by the name of
Jacora, who arrived in Now York, November
23 on the infected steamer Saalo.
SNAP SHOTS.
To an industrious mortal a holiday is aome-
times the greatest task day.
Meanness always begins at home.
The spring poet will soon proceed to flood
the earth with the perfume of the wild plum
and the falling petals of the apple blossom.
When people becomo thoroughly civilized
they will have no bones to conceal from their
hungry neighbors.
The crank is sometimes fairly running over
with learning.
Sometimes a very small man with a big
mouth can givo you a blow that will last you
twelve months.
Man turns almost everything good into his
own stomach.
When you button-hole a friend soe that you
don't tear the button-hole out.
A bargain usually has two sides to it.
What does one's opinion amount to? It is
merely a cast off shoe found on the side of the
road.   
The truth is always simple.
As long as tho ice is smooth the sight-seeing
will bo worth at least the price of a pair of
skates.  
We are all on the road somewhere.
The man who has nothing to boast of usu-
ally makes up for it by boasting of himself.
The slender girl makes a very poor show mg
on the ice.
There is no meat in a Fronch duel.
The country will not need any schools at
all in a fow years if tho young Deople got to
be any smarter than they aro now.
The dovii takes his beof well done.
It will soon be warm enough to give your
undo your overcoat.
No time i3 a good time unless it has a
molody peculiarly its own; and no newspaper
is an attractive one unless its leading features
differ from that of others.
Many men have died in this world who had
no reputation outside of their immediate
neighborhoods, and 6till their brains weighed
as much if not more than Webster's or But-
lor's. The differences in mon lies not so
much in tho size of their brains as in the
quality of them. Some of the biggest men
the world ever produced had small brains in
size.  
Never put those off until to-morrow whom
you can pay to-day. _ 
THE STATE PRESS.
Three Trainmen Killed.
Joliet, III., Jan. 24.—-Two freight trains
collided on the Santa Fo road, near Millsdale
this morning. Engineers A. M. Kahn and Rich-
ard Mitchell and Brakeman M. J. Mahoney
were kiiled. The other trainmon escapeu with-
out injury. The pecuniary loss is heavy. j
What the Papers Throughout the State
Are Talking About.
The Brenham Banner says:
A gentleman who went to evory platform in
the city Saturday to ascertain tho amount of
cotton on luind, reports that there are 775G
bales on hand.
Tho Lampasas People's Journal tells the
peoplo that the man who docs not change his
views of political questions to conform to the
advance of civilization is a rival of the Mex-
icau who plows with a forked stick.
Tho Wharton Spectator says:
Ex-Lieutenant Governor Pendleton is boing
criticised with no little severity for his action
in pardoning several criminals during Gov-
ernor Hogg's absence. "Thero is something
rotten in Denmark'' when the deputy plays
such pranks while his master is from home.
 It is unfortunate that governors m their
messages do not condense inore and have a
greater regard for brevity. The world is in
too great a hurry to labor through eight or
ton columns of solid nonpareil. It wants its
legislation in summary, and its reform bills
in terse paragraphs and easy phrases.
Verbosity is tho fashion. Such a waste of
words as the late state canvass caused in
Texas is without a parallel at any other timo
or placo. Not a hundredth part of what is
published is read.
Tho CorpuB Christi Caller says to its late
editor, now a solou:
To the Honorablo Jefferson McLomore,
Austin, Tex.—-Dear Sir: Do you wish to im-
mortalize yourself and place the state of Tex-
as under great obligations to you? Yes? Then
snatch a few moments from Time's inex-
haustible storehouse in which to introduce u
bill making the keeping of variety theaters in
this state a penitentiary offense.
Tho Moody Courier says:
A widow lady of this city raided a gambling
den here one day this weok in quest of her 16-
year-old son whom she thought to be fre-
quenting that place ot vice. Just as she was
entering tho room tho form of her devoted
son was seen to take its exit by the window.
What mother can say that gambling should
not bo stopped? What father can say gam-
bling should not be stopped? Gambling is
a violation of law, and the law ought to be
onforced or ought to bo repealed. Either
is in the power of the people. No person
can honestly and conscientiously say that
gambling should be tolerated, and most espe-
cially do we say that those who contend it is
not wrong to inlluonco boys or encourage
them in gambling are limited to a few thieves,
robbers and cut-throats.
The Longview Clarion toots:
The majority of tho pooplo consider the
editor of a country newspaper as a more pioco
of convonieuco machinery, to toll of balls,
socials, church gatherings, suppers, marriages
and other local events to which he has been
invited, and if ho should omit mention of that
fact he is lookod upon as a soulless scoundrel.
He is rogarded as a heathen, unfit for society,
and is only sought after when mention is
needed of some local incident of which he
knew nothing. When tho fact is the most
philanthropic class of men under the sun are
country editors. "Do not viow them with a
critic's eye, but pass their imperfections by."
The Beeville Picayune asks:
Why should Texas havo a board of pardons?
What is tho governor for?
The Esteline Star says:
The wheat in tho Panhandle was never so
promising as now. In this all concur.
The Weatherford Enquirer says:
At tho rate which it is proposed to create
new boards and offices, thero will soon bo
plums enough at tho governor's disposal to
distribute a fat, juicy, ripe piece of fruit to
each of his followers. In addition to the
proposition to create a dozen or two now judi-
cial positions, tho governor submits recom-
mendations for the creation of a board of
pardons and a general board of trustees to
gad around the eleemosynary institutions. It
is all right, probably, to provide for one's
friends, but it ought not to bo done at the
public expense. However, 4,tho people pay
the freight."
Hold the Fort. Whisky coming. The Ga-
zette says:
Don't any body try to hold this city back,
it will bo time and effort lost. Slio is on the
go and is going. Fort Worth does not de-
sire to run ovor any other town, but if some
of the slow going places near hero do not get
out of the way there will bo a collision. Fort
Worth is mtviug right along and sho has
sounded hor whistle to clear tho track. The
distillery will bo built in Fort W orth, and it
will givo employment to many people. Dallas
can get hor inspiration from us fellows.
Regular employment. The Texas Com-
mercial Travoler says:
No feeling is more common than that of im-
patience at the regular and uniform recur-
rence of one's daily work. To do almost the
same tasks—and most of them commonplace
tasks—is likely to bocome irksome, aud to
give rise to depreciation of one's work. But
there is another aud a brighter side to the
matter. Tho daily task is one of the greatest
blessings of life. One of tho advantages of
its regular performance is that it gives zeat to
our recreations and diversions. It makes the
holiday or the vacation a real boon and en-
ables tho worker to enter into its beat uses
and to reap its best rewards. What enjoy-
ment of h holiday does the man know who
can never tell on any morning what ho is to
do that day? Thero c m bo no enjoyment of
vacation to one whose whole life is vacation.
People who do not work do not know what
rest is. Those who have no regular employ-
ment find their leisure a burden, and their life
is full of onnui and restlessness. A daily task
is a suro preventive of such a result.
The Fort Worth Mail says:
The Santa Fe company is about to place on
foot an enterprise that will revolutionize tho
Texas passenger tratlic between St. Louis and
Texas points. This company has always been
noted for enterprise and push, and they now
contemplate placing double service on the
main line botween Kansas City and Galveston
and St. Louis and Galveston via the Frisco.
All the Texas travel to St. Louis will go via
Cleburne, and the time will bo eighteen hours
between St. Louis and Dallas, or twenty-one
hours between St. Louis and Fort Worth. The
fast train between Galveston and St. Louis
will be a solid vestibule from the ongine back
to the last sloeper, and the finest equipped
ever run on any Texas road. The Mail re-
porter asked a prominent railroad official what
effect this Santa Fe movement would have on
the balance of the Texas roads. He said: "It
will make them get a hump on themselves or
get in the rear of tho procession." The con-
tomplated change on the Santa Fe will be in-
augurated about the first of March, and means
the railroads are already beginning to play
for tho world's fair traffic.
The Orange Leader copies an article from
this paper, in regard to opening a canal bo-
tween East bay and tho Sabine, and romarks:
We believe this inland canal will benefit
East Texas fully as much as it will Galveston.
It will corUinly reduce freights on lumber,
rice, cotton and other commodities raised aud
manufactured in this section. Wo can not
have too many outlets, wo need one north
than any other; still tho canal will bo a big
thing for Orange.
Denisou papers chronicle the death of a
real old pioneer, Eugene Parrott, aged 91,
who died near that city last woek:
He was a member of tho expedition which
loft Missouri in 1832 undor Captain Bonne-
ville for an exploration of tho Rocky moun-
tains. Ho was also a member of the Rocky
Mountain fur company aud the American
company. He was the boon companion of
Jim Bridges and Kit Carson. Parrott was
captured in tho Wind River mountains by a
band of Crow Indians who had just returned
from a successful foray into tho Blackfeet
country. He lived several years among tho
Crows, married and raised a family. He met
Daniel Boone at Wcstport, on tho Missouri,
when that was the jumpuig off place of tho
frontier.
Tho Sherman Courier says of one of the
governor's friends:
It is fortunate for tho administration that
Ham Gossett of no-headed alien land law
fame got knocked out for speaker of the house
of tho Twenty-third legislature. The Courier
opposod his intrusion upon the legislature
from the start, as the administration has
already suffered considerable loss at his ex-
petiso and so has tho state, making him quite
the proper thing to drop right at this timo.
4The Brenham Banner says:
When the Trinity and the Brazos are made
navigable they will givo a new impetus to
small towns along theso streams, and it now
looks liko the people of Dallas and Wacowero
not going to let up until Miese Btroams aro
made navigable, though in some places it
may be liko digging a canal.
Sam Houston once said a widow selected a
man for hor second husband because the
clothes left by the first would fit him. The
Brenham Banner says:
A Minnesota woman, married but t two
weeks, oloped with another man. While her
husband was congratulating himself ho made
the discovery that tho elopers had taken his
clothes along, and the gloom that settled upon
him was profound. It was humiliating to
think ho had boen used as a dummy for the
tailor to fit the raiment of another person.
MATTERS OF FACJf.
Eighteen hundred girls were graduated
from the Boston cooking school aurmg the
past year.
California, so long notod among huntsmen
for its prodigious game, now has very little
left in that line for the gunners.
According to life insuranco statistics the
average of man's life has increased 5 por cont
during the last twenty-five years.
Tho 200th anniversary of the introduction of
the art of printing in Now York is to bo cele-
brated April 12 next by a dinner at Del-
rnonieo's.
Tobacco has boen successfully raised on the
banks of the Androscoggin river in Maine, and
one man is preparing to cultivate it the com-
ing year on a large scale.
A hay-saver, consisting of a throe-sided
device which enables the horse to insert his
head into tho manger, but does not permit
any liberal lAovement of it, is a late invention.
A new genua and species of blind cavo sal-
amander is reported by L. Steingor in the
"Procceedings of the United States National
Museum." Tho discovery of such an animal
in North America is regarded by the writer as
a most important and interesting evont.
TEXAS ABROAD.
"Sleep knits up the raveled sleeve of care,"
but Mr. Kilgore of Texas will hereafter do his
knitting at home. [Memphis Commercial.
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Kilgoro of Texas is mentioned for the Mex-
ican ministry. His name is bloody enough to
frighten even Garza. [Atlanta (Ga.) Journal.
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Mr. Kilgore of Texas, who only permits pen-
sion bills to pass the houso when he is asleep,
yesterday filibustered against the lighthouse
bill. Tho lighthouse bill passed. [Cincin-
nati Tribune.
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The Velasco World of Velasco, Tex., assorts
that land near that place selling at $25 an acre
producos per acre twenty tons of sugar-cane
worth $4 a ton. It backs up its assertion with
data derived from the experience of one
farmer with one-half of an acre. This partic-
ular farmer got $4 50 a ton for twelve tons of
cane. Our Velasco contemporary is strong
also on oysters. It asserts that in the waters
near Volaijco "there is material for a fish and
oyster trade as large and profitable as that of
Baltimore." With resources so varied Velasco
ought to outstrip the rost of Texas—which ia a
big thing to do. [Baltimore Sun.
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Mr. Heilborn has two distant cousins in
congress, both of whom took leading partB in
one of the most exciting episodes of tho Fifty-
first congress. Heilborn is a Maine man, and
is a distaut cousin of T. B. Rood. Buck Kil-
gore is also a Maine man, aud the Heilborn
records back up Mr. Kilgoro's claim to rela-
tionship with Tom Reed's cousin. It has not
yet boon discovorod whether any relationship
can be tracod botween the republican speaker
and tho democratic Texan who kicked a hole
in a door of the houso when the presiding
officer ordered it to be locked. [Kansas City
Times.
# * #
A specimen of grass was sent to Mr. G. H.
Hogan, the Texas grass authority, for identifi-
cation. He replies through a Texas journal:
"The speoiinon sent is the paspalum platy-
cauli, vory nutritious on good land, and is
rapidly spreading over tho southern portion of
our state. In Houston county, whero I found
it all over the county, I think it will do more
to redoom the old worn out fields than any
plan I could think of. It is very aggressive,
yet it is easily killed with tho plow. It stays
green most of the winter, and but for it I
should regard southeast Texas as ono of the
most forsaken countries it was ever my experi-
ence to traverse." This iB Texas described at
home by a {Texan. Compare the description
with what you know of Alabama if you have
symptoms of "Texas fever" aud boo if it will
not cure you. The grass mentioned is our
well known carpet grass, growing all oyer the
ooast country. [Mobile negiater.
IS NOT UNCONSTITUTIONAL.
JUDGE GEORGE McOORMIOK ON THE
WORLD'S FAIR.
The Olausa in the Texas Constitution De-
signed to Frevent Expensive and Use-
less Immigration Bureaus.
Austin, Tex., Jan. 24.—The following aro
extracts from a letter from Judge Geo. Mc-
Cormiok, member of tho constitutional con-
vention of 1875 and aiso ox-attorney general
of tho state of Texas:
Columbus, Tcx., Jan. 10.—Mrs. B. B. Tobiu,
President, etc., Austin, Tcx.—Respected
Madame: In your cBtoemed favor of the 11th
instant you ask for the expression of my
opinion regarding section 56, artlolo 10 of tho
state constitution, and say: "Docs this ar-
ticle refer to representing Texas at world's
fairs or exhibitions?" Quoting your words.
In the beginning permit me to say, as a
memborof the convention which framed the
constitution of 1875, I both worked and voted
against the section in question, believing it
both unwise and unnecessary at the time, and
that I have not changed my opinion.
I believed it then and do now that all such
matters should have been left to the legisla-
ture and that no such prohibition should havo
been placed on it. There never was nor never
has been among Texas legislators or constitu-
tion fruiners any serious effort made to dis-
courage the immigration to our state of the
good, intelligent and worthy who had the
means to come and with tho sonso to find tho
way. That class was then and is now more
than welcome. But the object of the friends
of the section, as claimed by them in the con-
vention, was to prohibit the establishment of
a more than worthless bureau and tho spend-
ing of tho people's money to induce tho im-
migration of the opposite class to that de-
scribed above, tho members of the conven-
tion, or at least many of thom, had in view tho
bureau as it then existed under the constitu-
tion of 1869 and as provided by tho obnoxious
and hated carpet bag negro administration,
then in charge of our affairs.
All wanted immigration, but did not want
the class or the kind that could be imported
under tho manipulptions of a bureau as they
claimed would be. While the legislature is
prohibited from establishing an immigration
bureau or spending monoy in bringing immi-
grants to the state, it is not certainly prohib-
ited from advertising the fact that Texas has
vast bodies of splendid lands for salo to set-
tlers; that hor pooplo aro virtuous, intelli-
gent, progressive and law-abiding, and ready
to welcome the bona-fide settlers to hor shores;
that hor resources aro past all finding out,
and of which tho half has not been told, etc.,
ad infinitum. If by taking advautage of tho
circumstances that a world's fair will be held
at Chicago, whether Texas is represented
there or not, such facts can be published to
the world, and our people and our great re-
sources of woods, minerals, soils, climj&te.
etc., bo made better known to tho nations or
the world, and our legislature, from patriotic
motivoB, sees proper to make an appropria-
tion for these purposes, no matter if tho re-
sult may either be to bring immigrants or
keep them away, then there is, in my humble
opinion, no constitutional or other objections.
With groat respect, etc., your obediont serv-
ant, Geo. McCormick.
Music in the Women's llu tiding.
Belioving that the progress of American
womon in musical knowledge and exponenco
can not bo more simply and effectively shown,
tho national committee on music in tho
women's building at the exposition has de-
signed a series of musical illustration* after
the following plan, briefly outlined: It is pro-
posed to give somi-inonthly concerts in the
women's building at Chicago during the six
monthB of tho exposition, at which only
women or girls who are amateurs, possessed
of talent and a high order of musical ability,
and who have boen residents of Amorica for
at least ten years, will be permitted to appear.
The qualifications of anyone desiring to
tako part must first bo tested and approved
by a jury selected by the woman's national
committee on music and satisfactory to Theo-
dore Thomas, musical director of the exposi-
tion. No musical prodigy will be admitted
simply as such, nor is the diploma of any col-
lege or conservatory either necessary or suf-
ficient. Each candidate will bo ratod upon
her merits, technical proficiency not alone
being considered. Permission to appear at
these concerts will be a mark of high honor,
and will confer a lasting d.stinction, tho ad-
vantages of which can not be overestimated.
Minnesota has decided to bestow a medal
upon each successful candidate belonging in
the state, and it is hoped that other states will
follow its example. Tho concerts aro intended
to provide a public appearance for thoso ama-
teurs of distinction who aro shut out from tho
concert room of the professional, and who,
for various reasons, would not wish to appear
thorein. Quartettes, trios, either vocal or in-
strumental, choral and orchestral organiza-
tions of womeu will be eligible for examina-
tion. The examinations will tako place not
later than February, 1893, either at Chicago or
at several cities in tho different states. It is
hoped that all candidates for appearance at
theso concerts will communicate with tho
chairman of the woman's board for their state,
or with the undersigned as soou as possible.
It is also desired that all women following
music as a profession and wishing to appear
in the woman's building will make applica-
tion to Theodore Thomas, musical director of
the exposition.
The national committoo on music in tho
woman's building congratulates itself that in
tho above plan it has the hearty sympathy of
Theodore Thomas *yid of the entire bureau of
music, and that it finds itself in complete har-
mony with tho broader and more comprehen-
sive scheme of musical illustration as outlined
by Mr. Thomas in his first official bulletin re-
contiy issued. It needs but a cordial response
and earnest effort on tho part of American
women to win for their sex such a recognition
aa the great occasion alone makes possible.
Lena Burton Clarke, Chairman.
THE MISSISSIPPI MOB.
Equality and Not Liberty the Idea of the
Whitocappors.
New Orleans, La., Jan. 24,—A morning
paper's Meridiau, Miss., special says: Letters
received here from a reliable source in Me-
shoba county, Miss., give startling accounts
of lawlessness thero. Whitecappers, who it
seems are numerous throughout the county
and well organized, go about the country
masked and woll arinod, in broad daylight as
well as in tho night time, in squads of a dozen
or more, and warn negroes to quit work or
leave the country. Owners of plantations aro
threatened with violence
if they persist in employing any labor what-
ever, either white or black, to assist in the
cultivation of their lands. Men carry their
guns with them to their fields to protoct tficir
hands from molestation, but notwithstanding
this proffered protection labor thero is ho
thoroughly demoralized and frightened that
it is feared many farms will bo left tonantleBs.
Tho whitocappers say that tho daughtprs of
well-to-do farmers who aro ablo to employ
labor must bo forced to take a hand in tho
manual work of tho farm as well as their own
daughters.
the lives op a number
of good citizens have been threatened and
serious trouble may be expected in that sec-
tion.
Those who constitute the whitecap crowd
are pretty much the same pooplo who caught
a deputy United Statos marshal who wont
into Neshoba county about a year ago to rnako
arrests on a charge of illicit distilling and
gavo him a good whipping.
Forfeiture of Charter Asked.
Tyler, Tex., Jan. 24.—County Attorney Ed-
wards filed suit ia the diatrict court to-day
against the Tyler street railway company,
asking for a forfeiture of tho company charter,
alleging that the road is in bad condition.
WAS HE A GALVE8T0NIAH?
Robbery of a Man Said to Be Just From
Hera.
Chicago, 111,, Jan. 24.—Albert Heyder, a
German from Buffalo, N. Y., reported to tho
police to-day that ho had been robbed of $5000
in ca?h by a woman named Josio Rice. Hey-
der, who is about 40, had just coino from
Galveston, Tex., whero his uncle, Edward
Heydor, had died and left him a fortune of
$45,000. Ho had tho estato settled up and was
on his way back to Buffalo with the proceeds
on his person. In his pocket he carried $37,-
417 in drafts, and in a buckskin bag, which ho
hud sowed to his undershirt under his left
arm, ho had $5000 in greenbacks.
jlo was enticed into a Clark street saloon
and drugged. When ho awoko somo horn's
later, in another iDuildmg, ho found that his
shirst slecvo and the bucksUin bag had boen
cut open and his cash gone, as was also the
woman. Ho was feeling dizzy and accepted
the advico of a colored woman he met in the
hall to go back and sleep until moiling, when
he would report matters to the police.
When tho officers were finally notified tho
woman was arrested in a maudlin condition
aud with only $4 or $5 in her pockets. Tho
poiieo are looking for Lena Blake, a negress,
supposed to be an accessory.
[There is no such name as Hyder in the Gal-
veston Directory. News.]
M0R1UAKY.
Colonol Madison G. Wliltaker.
Nacogdoches, Tcx., Jan, 24.—Colonel Mad-
ison G. Whitaker died hero at tho residence of
his son, Ed Whitaker, Monday morning at
3.30 after an illness of throe or four days,
during which ho suffered but little.
Ho was born in Lincoln county, Tennessee,
April 4, 1811. He crossed tho Sabine rivor on
his way to Texas January 9, 1835, ond had
lived hero ever since. Ho was married to Miss
Henrietta M. Pitts August 25, 1841, in this
county, then in tho republic of Texas. She
has boon dead many years, and si nog hor
death ho had remained a widower and raised
up a family of several sons and daughters, all
of whom are a credit to their father. He
lived here during tho days that made history,
and ho performed a noblo part in thoso trying
times. His devotion to duty, his manly cour-
ago undor all circumstances and his patriotism
and fidelity were proverbial. Ho participated
in tho Texas revolution to the fullost extent,
being in the battle of San Jacinto and present
when Santa Ana was brought in a prisoner.
He was ono of tho figures in the lamented
Huddle's painting of that scene. He was a
member of tho Texas veteran association and
took delight in attending tho annual moetings
as long as ho was able.
Colonel Whitaker served several years in tho
Texas legislature about 1855. Ho was a man
of good education and ho took groat interest
in public affairs. His chief occupation during
life was farming. Ho owned a tino farm four
miles north of this place, besides other lands,
and inauy slaves before the war. His slaves
always loved him, ond it was touching to wit-
ness their sorrowful attondance at his death-
bed and his funeral. His burying placo is
at old North church, four miles north of town,
the first Baptist church in Texas.
Ho leaves threo sons living in this county,
two daughters living in Smith county and one
—Mrs. McNcoley—in Texarkana. Colonel
Whitaker was always a warm porsonal friend
of General Sam Houston. He know Houston
in Tennessee, whore he had hoard him speak,
had seen him iu office and in his early prime.
Theu when ho came to Texas Houston at once
recognized him; and they wero noighbors
hero, associates in state councils and com-
rades iu war. Whenever Houston visited
Nacogdoches after his removal from here ho
would mako it a point to visit "Madison," as
he familiarly called Colonel Whitakor. But
Houston and Whitaker differed on many
political issuos, notably tho Missouri compro-
mise, the whig doctriuo and tho right of se-
cession. When Colonel A. J. Houston was
here last fall in his gubernatorial canvass,
Whitakor paid him homngo. But ho said there
never had boen and never could be another
Sam Houston.
This old county and this Lono Star state
will always bo proud of the name of M. G.
Whitaker. Ho was loved aud revered by all
who knew him. Ho was a good, true man, a
patriotic and heroic soldier and citizen. Peaco
to his ashes; honor to his name.
Judq;e Alexander Walker.
Fort Smith, Ark., Jan. 24.—Judgo'Alox-
ander Walker died in this city this afternoon.
Ho was a nativo of Virginia, a resident of
New Orleans for fifty years, and was at ono
time supreme judge. For many years ho was
oditor of the Picayuno, also of tho Times-
Democrat.  
Mrs. H. 31. Lnzelle.
San Antonio, Tex., Jan. 24.—A telegram
was received here to-night announcing tho
death of the wife of Colonol H. M. Lazelle,
Eighteenth United States infantry, com-
mander of Fort Clark, Tex.
Harnett C. Kill*.
Austin, Tex., Jan. 24.—Barnett C. Ellis of
Weimar, a university student and nephew of
Captain Barnett, superintendent of the con-
federate homo, died hero this evening of
spinal meningitis. 
('lias. F. Kernole,
Bryan, Tex., Jan. 24.—Mr. Chas. F. Kernole
died Suiiday and was buried at the city
cemotery yesterday afternoon. Mr. Kernole
had boou an invalid for some years.
j. F. Hirschblel.
Boerne, Tcx., Jan. 24.—J. F. Hirachbiel
died on Friday, aged 30 years. Deceased
came hero about eighteen months ago from
New Orleans for his health.
THE NEWS BRIEFED.
Macon, Miss.—Hon. F. G. Nicholson died at
Shuqulak on the 21st.
Water Valley, Miss.—H. W. Hunter's bams
burned and ton head of horses. No insurance.
Carrollton, Miss.—Attachments havo boon
run on McBride & Co., druggists, to tho ox-
tout of $6500.
Magnolia, Miss.—A portion of the town in-
cluding the hotel and depot burned on the
21st. Loss can not bo estimated.
Toxarkana, Ark.—Charles S. Buck, a prom-
inont citizen, suicided by using a pistol. Ho
was originally from Bloomiugton, 111.
Huntsville, Ala.—Cards of invitation are out
for the marriage of Mr. Evan S. Edwards of
Dallas, Tex., and Miss Ida May Kelly of this
city.
Jackson, Miss.—Governor Stone has ap-
pointed Hon. Frank Johnson attorney-gen-
eral of Mississippi, vice Hon. T. N. Miller,
resigned.
Ne.w Orleans, La.—Major Ed L. Bower,
chief clerk in tho mayor's office for thirty
years, died on the 22d, also the eminent
journalist, L. Placido Canonge of tho Beo.
Pittsburg, Pa.—Mrs. Kate Rosier, a widow,
aged 23 years, and George Rosier, her nephow,
aged 6 years, wero burned to death in a fire
which consumed four dwellings on Salisbury
street.
Charleston, S. C.—Robert George, who com-
mitted suicido in Mississippi, and who was
charged with the murder of Cantain W. B.
Price, was not a nephew of Senator J. Z.
George, but a cousin.
Jackson, Miss.—Mayor Chiles has received
a letter from Wesson, Miss., saying that the
Swansons aro wanted in Williams county,
Tennessee, for murder, and that thero is a re-
ward of $500 offered for them.
Atlanta, Ga.—The Fulton county grand jury
to-day found true bills against A. N. Maddox
and l). O. White, the jailers in charge of the
county jail several weeks ago when Asbury
Gentry, tho notorious murderer, under sen-
tence to be hanged, together with four other
prisoners, escaped. The ex-jailcrs aro accused
of aiding these prisoners to escape. Mouey ia
believed to have been used to bribe them.
CURRENT COMMENT.
New Orleans States: It is claimed that Chi-
cago is the most rapid city in overy respect in
this country, and wo do not doubt tho truth of
the statement. Everything there is done with a
rush, and when the world's fair is in full blast
a visitor will bo fleeced before ho has an op-
portunity to bat his eye.
New York World: It is bclioved that the anti-
option bill will pass tho senate when tho vote is
taken, which it is supposed will be next Tues-
day. This bill is one of the most outrageous
piocesof legislation which has overcome be-
foro congress. It is au unconstitutional effort
to cnrich the elovator mon at the expense of
the growers aud consumors of food products.
Memphis Commercial: The frequent hor-
rors attending executions by hanging aro
strong appeals for A more humane method of
capital punishment. Twice recently havo tho
heads of criminals boon aimost torn from
their bodies by the fall, while in numerous
cases tho bungling of a nervous or inexpori-
cnced executioner results in scenes only less
sickcning and horrible. Let us have electro-
cution.
Florida Progress: An outspoken press is
tho best safeguard a community can havo.
Chicago a fow months ago was delivered out
of tho hands of corrupt officials by the press;
the Canadian government was recently saved
from dishonor by the press; Brooklyn is at
the presont timo being aroused to investigate
the extravagant expenditure by its town coun-
cil by the fearless exposure of the Now York
World. The average citizen who has neither
the time nor opportunity to hunt down official
rascality has a right to expect that the press
should do it for him.
NEWSPAPER RECREATION.
Tho statement that the coal trust is making
it hot for tho community is without founda-
tion. IBinghamton Loader.
•'Hard astorn," as the tugboat captain re-
marked when ho sat down suddenly on tho
slippery pavement. [Philadelphia Record.
"The air scorns fresher in winter than it
does in summer." "Yes; it is kept on ico
most of the time, you know." [Washington
Star.
"Law books cost a great deal, don't they?"
said ono student to the other. "Yes," was the
reply. "They aro high and dry." [Washing-
ton Star.
Mother: "You careless boy! Look at your
clothes! Have you boon playing football
again?" Little son: "No'm, only lighting."
[Good News.
"I soo you havo a new typewriter." "Yes.
The other one and I quarroled so much that I
was afraid it would end in marriage." [In-
dianapolis Journal.
"Mamma," said Tom, "does sugar evor
cure anybody of anything?" "Why do you
ask, my boy?" "I thought I'd like to catch
it," said Tommy. 1 Harper's Young People.
She: "Why is it when doctors get ill they
never attend to their own cases? He: "I
don't know; but I should say it was because
thoy can't charge thomselvos for it." [Tit-
Bits.
Mr. Hobaon (during the spat): "Maria, I'm
astonished. You're talking through your hat."
Mrs. Hobson (with significance): "Well, it's
the same hat Pvo had for going on three win-
ters now." [Chicago News Record.
Nibsloy: "Thoy toll mo tho prince of Wales
can nover play poker until ho has drunk at
least a bottle of wine." Nabsley: "That's
quite proper. Ho is suro of a royal tiush, thou,
you know." [Kate Field's Washington.
Edith: "Papa, Mithtn Longcourt ith a bady.
bady man." Papa: "Why do you think uo?"
Edith: "Cauthethithathaidto him. 'O, you bad
man! My hair ith fatht on your vetht but-
ton.' " [Clothiers and Haberdashers' Weekly.
Maria: "Look a-hcro, Amos, jist the same
old story. Women don't git their rights no-
where." Amos: "What is it, Maria?" Maria:
"Why, here, in this here railroad wreck I see
there wasn't nothin' saved but the mail car."
[Inter Ocean.
Mrs. Silkrussol (who has literary aspira-
tions) : "O, how I should love to seo mysolf in
print!" Mr. Silkrussol (giootnily); "You
probably will, my dear, before the next four
years ure over. And you will probably see me
in blue overalls." [New York World.
Mr. N. E. Verlato: "Havo you ceased to
caro for me, Adole? I came earlier this after-
noon, and you do not even look glad to seo
mo." Miss Adelo Sarteau: "Indeed, I am
glad to see you! But this is my hour for rest-
ing my features from all expression." [Vogue.
ALL SORTS ASSORTED.
Russian New Year i9 January 13.
Dot and Tom are tho names of new post-
offices in Illinois.
Chicago claims the finest collection of old
violins in the world.
Tho most prominent French characteristic
is the prominent noso.
An Illinois man has boen divorced three
times from the samo woman.
During the years that Henry VIII reigned,
72,000 thieves wero hanged.
The editor of a Kansas paper advertised for
a dressed hog on subscription.
The farmer in Japan who has ton acres of
land is looked upon as a monopolist.
It is ostimatod that thore was an excess
of 10,000 deaths over births in France during
1891.
Tho laws of ancient Rome required the
father of a deformed son to cause him to bo
put to death.
In 1883 29,000 Germans wore arrosted. for
attempting to emigrato to avoid tho military
service.
Eight oiivo trees now exist in the Gardon of
Olives at Jerusalem which aro known to be at
least 800 years old.
The republic of Texas once had a secretary
of tho navy who never saw a ship, or even au
ocean, gulf or bay.
Charlemagne maintained a normal school
called "The Palatine" whence classically
trained teachers wore sent into the provinces.
Tho long-talked-of hot water fountains have
been at last placed in the different wards of
Paris, and aro mooting with dosei ved success.
A druggist at Chicago believes that if he
could secure the soda water privileges at the
world's fair his fortune would be made for
life.
A face which does not change expression in
conversation indicates either caution or
stupidity, according to its other character-
istics.
Oregon will send to the world's fair a num-
ber of shingles that have boon doing sorvice
on a roof in Whatcorn for over twenty-five
years.
The law of Germany requires evory male
citizen to servo three years in the standing
army, four yoars in tho reserve and live years
in the landwehr.
Upward of 2268 livosaro lost aunually in tha
inland waters and upon tho immediate coasts
of the United Kingdom excluBive of those lost
at sea.
The Missouri Missionor, the gospel barge
which Bishop WTalker of North Dakota in-
tends using on the upper Missouri river in
the cause of Christianity, will be launched
shortly.
Eiffel's plan for a great bridge across the
river Neva at St. Petersburg has just been ae-
coptod, and tho St. Petersburg municipality
has voted the 26,000,000 rubles required to
build it.
The deaths of 45 centenarians were reported
in England last year, 22 mon and 23 women.
In 1891, according to this record, 48 centenar-
ians died, aud 36 in each of the three preced-
ing years.
The collego endowments of MaBsachusotta
aro said to amount to $10,650,000, the value of
college buildirfgs and grounds foots up $5,013,*
000, and the value of sciontific apparatus
makes another $1,020,000.