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AUSTIN WEEKLY STATESMAN. THURSDAY, JAN UAU 1SSG. TKX VS TIDINGS. (Salta tin Tribune. An exchange aska: "is there a personal dsrtl There is, son, there is.

He has btyn doing business in Austin for some Examiner. i-V ill the Aistin murderers are at large. Ill In blotch oa the escutcheon of the state thai ihess terrible crimes cannot be un-r'ied. Times. The allijitor trade is looming up again on the coast.

This business has brought fcbout into the country within the lust two 7 Jars. sredoTiraes. In Galveston they-tax a poor man for sll be is worth; and moderate the rate aa (l assessmsnt mounts np into the the rarity ot Christian charity I (niaon New. The atmosphere surrounding Donison is atill heavily charged with electricity, nd the forked fluid is liknly to strike the postoffioe at any moment. "Barkis is llinV B.yan Enterprise.

The Hendricks Monument association Indianapolis, adopted a resolution to )k no appropriation from congress, but (k depend alone upon voluntary contributions by an appreciative public Fort Worth Malt. An election was held in East Dallas on the Cth to decide whether they should surrender or retain their city charter, which resulted 94 for and 134 against the East Dallas will very soon have witter works. Cleburne. Chruuicle. Senator Plumb, who is one of the abl-st republican senators, says there will be nj partisan opposition to the president's appointees, anu tnat repuoucans uo not uiestion the president's right to put dem ocrats in the offices.

Worth Mull. The Morning News thinks it sees a Ter-roll boom striding the blast and careering through Texas, with the sightless oouriers of the air. Most people attribute. thi9 oold wave to conditions in the cold nur.sery. Pronham Banner.

Ash Wednesday foils this yenr on the 10th of March, and Easter on the latest date on which it is possible for it to occur -April 25. By a decree of the council of yioe Easter falls on the first Sunday after iile full moon following the 21st of March. J'ort Worth Mull. 'This norther is thosharpest experienced in Texas for five years. The cold is uri- ii not of itself the undiluted and genuine article, fresh from the nursery.

It is ioiolea resolved into air, with all caloric influences eliminated. X'co Examiner. IThe Babine Pass Times at one end of lUe line, shrieks. "On to Corsicana," whilo the Corsicana Courier, nt the other end, xohoes, "On to Sabino 1'ass." If that sort thing would build a railroad, they would not be long in finishing up the Cor- ttcaria Sabine Pass road. I If the publio lands are put up for lease 4 cents an acre, there will nt be plough land left to graze a goose on.

At that is what Gov, Ireland said in SSi, in his Port Worth speech, would bave been the result, Had tne lease price dot been raised from 4 to 8 cents. (JUUboro Mirror. I The apprentice system is almost a thing the past. The old system under which roy were inaae to serve a jjitbu umo a trade, was the means of making them i i i Buorougu meeuuiucs nuu uuu uiuouo. At present," far too many boys in the invna are allowed to urrow UD in idle- Branham Burner.

Bryan Barry, chairman of the democratic Btate executive committee, has ap pointed as members of that committee, H. R. of McKinney, vice Thomas H. Mi rrah, deceased; J. E.

Down, ol Crockett, vice B. F. Frymeir, rosigned; W. W. Seracy, of Brenham, vice R.

R. Law- her, resigned. fort Worth Mall. i The order of the Knights of Honor lias toaid to the widows and orphans of ue ceased members in Texas the sum of 1.200.000 within the last eight years. The first "ltxhje of the order in Texas was or ganized in Rusk county eight years ago.

Now there are 25(2 lodges and more than ,400 members. Ijuredo Times. The supreme court of the United States recently reversed the decision of the cir-auit court in the case of several railroads, involving the principle of the right of a state to pass laws controlling in certain respects railroads which pass into other tates, the decision being favorable to state control. Kort Worth Gazette. Free grass is but a phrase representative of that land policy which seeks the settlement of the West, rather than the consecration of that section to cattle rnis-inir.

Fort Worth has more to gain from the settlement of the West than any other city in Texas; therefore Fort Worth v.lw.v f.Kat. will the mnra snenri- jjllULn buo 1 i jly settle the country. Sn Antonio I.IjjW. The project of a national university in the District of Columbia is worthy of zealous and earnest consideration. It is a grand feature to make it of the highest order as to scholarship, and upon the plan of benefiting every state and terri- tory.

The prospect opened to the mental i vision by its patriotic, ns well as educa-' tional associations, is most sublime. America has not hitherto been as distin-j guished for depth or well cultivated ex- tent of learning as some European na tions, particularly Germany. The American, National university should supply i this deficiency. Jlrownwood Biuuer. Between 500 and 1,000 people ure now eamped on th bavoa looking for homes, i Our people should accord them every civ ility and see that they are soon accommodated.

Brown county is getting, an immense immigration now and let see that it remains unchecked. Denlion News. Rotation in office is an excellent doctrine. The old "wah hosses," whose lengthy terms in office have been distinguished by nothing more brilliant or beneficial than the charming regularity with which they drew their per aiem sou mno-age, should be relegated to the ranks. Young blood and vigor should be given an opportunity at the wheel.

UoHinl PnlintV KWS. I The "old state of has had a vr. The new roof that 1 t. an noteiit indexes ay 1. 1 ii ptci i of that fact The new courtnouse is Vr and will be an ornaaien-.

ue conuty seat. Industrious settlers ure filling up the county ind evidences ol ma teTiftl progress are everywhere to be Post. If Governor Ireland ware a candidate for re-election as governor, the Post would be for him. This is the only answer that will be made to a few officious newspapers who are yelping at the heels of the Post and its editor. San Antonio Express.

There are a great many cases of measles reported in San Antopio, and some of the cases have been mistaken for smallpox and so reported to the city physician, who soon discovered the mistake. Only one case of genuine smallpox has been developed in the last few days that of a Mexican girl 17 years of age, aud she was removed to the pest house at once. San Antonio Kxptves. The members of the laud board are throwing away their time in passing resolutions of request. The man who acta unfairly with his neighbors knows it, and would laugh at any request to do other wise that any one would make.

We must compel wrong-doers to do right, if we can. If the existing laws are not sufficient, strengthen them with amendments or new enactments. Fort Worth Mail. The cattlemen of the southwest aro indignant at the efforts making in certain quarters to restrict the number of delegates who will be allowed to participate in the international convention of range stockmen, which will assemble in Denver the latter pin of this mouth. They demand a mass convention.

They proposed to attend and ignore any rules that have been made and make the deliberations general. Dallas Times. General Claiborne, who has just returned from the east, says he found no difficulty in reaching eastern capitalists willing to lend money at 5 per cent, but that they were timid of investment in Texas on account of the land laws, and particularly of the homestead law. This may not be conclusive proof of the unwisdom of our laws but the fact is wort'i taking into consideration. Brenham Banner.

A new electric motor has just been patented. It is claimed that in this motor the difficulties heretofore existing in this kind of power have been overcome, and that it is in every way practicable. It can be applied to any kind of work, and is expected to work a revolution in the running of street cars. A number of prominent business men of St. Louis hove taken hold of the invention.

(lalveeton Tiihune. Now whilo the presidential succession question is being agitated, why not go further and do away with the office of vice-president entirely? The office is entirely superfluous. The secretary of state is always in full accord with the administration and would carry out the president's policy. We have no recollection of a vice-president who was not opposed to the administration and who did not proceed to upset things the moment he got the opportunity. Clehiirne Chronicle.

Let congress be wary and not yield the first step to the goldites. Should the silver men yield to the iusidiouus demand for a heavier silver dollar they will have surrendered their main stronghold to the enemy. The standard silver dollar has been the one in use for a hundred years, and has formed the unit of value for all contracts almost from the beginning of the republic. If the right of one altera tion is granted it will be a constructive admission that the demands of the gold standard men are founded.in justice instead of extortion. Wichita Herald.

Several wagons loaded with emigrants passed through this city this week. We have noticed quite a number of settlers who ore quite encouraging to our people. We understand that with a few days more of favorable weather work will bo commenced on the new building for the Panhandle national bank. This will be one of the finest buildings in the city. The county authorities ore planting a cistern near the court house which will furnish our county officials plenty of water to afford them a change from their usual beverage.

Belton Journal. It is not easy to divine the future, but we would not be surprised, yes, wo rather expect to see, a straight prohibition contest with the democracy all along the line. It seems to be natural that there should be. The democracy cannot be expected to occupy the field single-handed, and prohibition is to-day the leading question before our people. We believe a good, strong, respectable opposition would be healthy for the dem ocracy.

It wou'd put the leaders on their metal. It would aid to a truer under standing of sound democratic prin cinles. To be ure, we do not apprehend the defeat of the democracy. But it will have opposition, and we want that opposition to be respectable. The prohibition party has in it elemuts of very great respect.

abilitv. and there is no good reason why it should not come in and claim popular siinnort as a distinct organization. The time is ripe. The opportunity i ot hand. Will the prohibitionists improve il Houston Puet.

It is slated in a good newspapers that congress is going to interfere towards preventing the taxation of drummers, or regulating the some, by the states. Will somebody who has es much knowledge of the constitutional powers of congress as a sparrow-hawk has of geology, please tell the public what congress has to do with reguloting state taxes? It is a principle of law, as enunciated by a number of state courts of the highest resort, that where a state does not tax its own merchants, it cannot tax the merchants of other states by imposing a license tax on their drummers. This principle is based upon the inhibition as to class legislation. But if a state taxes its own wholesale merchants makes them pay an occupation tax. why should it not tax the merchants of other states doing business within its limits? And by what authority 1 caii congress soy to the states: "You sholl not demand an occupation tax from this line of business, or that line of business." This centralizing idea must be fought at every point, for yearly and yearly, under republican ideas, encroachments are being made upon the rights of the states that will ultimately end in state lines being wiped out, if they are not slaughtered in the bud.

Belton Jonrna'. It is all nonsense to talk about Mr. Cleveland killing the democratic party. No one can do that, and besides Mr. Cleveland has no such intention or desire.

His views of public policy may be at va- i i wia rr nrnor PHurra iu bUB tw no oc ueu.m-.wur,-, caswm iot things, lie is fir inst.mcn. to be wed l. to the idea. of I civil service reform. Mid thero cau be no iftlKf .1,1.

liurA ft mA i Klrt 4 -1 a tures in the civil sorvice law. Some other excellent democrats think tho president rides this hobby most too much, but his patriotism they do not que.tion, and they see in this nothing contrary to democratic principles It is merely a question of policy, aad has nothing to do. with tho great fundamental principles of democracy. Marshall Herald. With over two hundred thousand immigrants pouring into Texas annually, is it wise to sell off the school lands in large bodies and create land monopolies? Would it not be better to sub-divide these lands into small tracts, selling the alternate divisions to actual settlers? In this way, from five to ten millions of acres could be brought into cultivation every year, being thus disposed of at from a dollar to dollar and a half an acre, while the rotnainder would bo increased in value from five to ten dollars.

With the tide of immigration that ot present exi ts, it is plain to see that the days of the grass barons are numbered, ond that if they continue to monopolize these lands it will be at tha expense of the great interests of the state. in Antonio Express. Trinity church should rise above its cloud piercing steeple and explain. According to Dr. Gunn's report that church is using much of its vast wealth in a very unchristianlike mai-ner.

Instead of relieving the poor and oppressed, it is pinching them harder in poverty's vise, and adding to their squalor and wretchedness. Trinity would be serving the Muster more by giving greater attention to the bodily welfare of its poor tenants, even nt the sacrifice of less at ti nt ion to the spiritual welfare of iU rich parishioners. San Antonio Express. Those Ohio people could no doubt look with complacency on experiments looking to tho solution of the race problem by miscegenation in the south, but are decidedly averse to putting surh theories into practice among their own white people. There is a bill pending in congress to prevent the intermarriage of the white and black races, and the, member from the Cleveland district will no doubt favor it.

as a result of that little episode reported from Cleveland yesterday morning. lmr Vindicator The Gavcston Ne.vs seems to think that Governor Irela id has over tho murders that are bing committed in ustin. Hnd intimates that he 1 itop them if h5 tried 'w Mat me how Gov ernor Irclond cr.a novo onytuiTr .0 uo with these murders oni -v 1 .) 'me other, as ho is not on the police force of Austin, and the News iB very unjust in its criticism of the governor, and even if it is poking fun at him, it is an insv.lt. lialveston News. Slowly but surely the land board is adopting the ideas of tho Terrell bill.

If the land board had only known ns much a year and a half ago as it does now, the people of the state micht not now be laughing nt it. Galveston Triliune. The exposition at New Orleans is pro nounced a failure. The papers of that city virtually admit that but little interest is taken in it there. Waco Examiner.

What we all want to see now is the de tectum aud punishment of all the Austin murderers. Frrt Worth Gazetle Sell only to actual settlors in limited quantities, on lomr time, and leave the land unclossed by owneus free to all. Galveston News. Ton years ago the iron mines of Ala bama could have been bought for To-duy they aro worth as many millions. Fort Worth Moil.

Looked at from the American standpoint the whole revenue system is an anomaly in a professed republican govern ment. Houston Post. Why not make up tho money in Hous toil and put up one-half the amount nec essary to start a big cotton factory? Outside capitalists would glodly furnish the other half. Texas Panhandle. On account of the impossibility of getting out the cattle in the Indian ter ritory within the time set by the presi dent, the cattlemen have boon given an extension of time till spring.

Galveston News. Native Mexicans in New Mexico claim that they are not secure in their property titles, as stipulated in the guarantees made in the treaty of cession, thirty-seven years ago, from Mexico to the United States, Laredo Times. It is now remembered that while Ben Thompson was mayor of Austin not one female outrogo occurred. This is a glori ous monument to the memory of poor Ban. and should excite the emulation of his successors in that office.

Dallas Times. East Texas should have the attorney general. Charles Culberson is the man North Texas should have the governor. is the mun. The senator should come from either south or middle Texas North Texas don't want the ofllee.

and east Texas can't get it. Houston Post. Earl Iloseberry says it seems impos sible that there should ever be war be tween England mid the United States Right you are, Rosy; but it is the unex pected which happens, and any time John wants a brush, Jonathan will bo found in business at the old stand. San Antonio Express. The crematory at Buffalo, New York, is pronounced a Success.

Inceneration of a body there is cheaper than interment, and this fact will tend to popularize ere 111 a tion. Funerals have become bo costly in this country that only the rich can well afford to die. San Antonio Express. It is claimed that the president will not withhold any of his recess appointments, and thereby protect those who may have fecommended any improper persons for office. If the senate finds substantial objection to any of the appointments, the president will show who was responsible for them.

Kort Worth Mail. Stock in the west is reported in good condition, generally, and iu many localities cattle and sheep are especially fine. The Coleman Voice says: "Stockmen and shepherds have no cause for complaint, so far. this season. It has been glorious weather for all kinds of stock, up to this time." Dinlwm News- That Asiatic acourg, leprosy, is Paid tT fcve broken oui in Minnesota.

This is one of the beauties of admitting th' scum f.f the who'e scil'niif ately this country. Wa (. HooisU lopsTs from Europe oiu-s from Asia. The United Ste 1. ins become, in consequence, a refuge for tne offscourings of all nations.

San Antonio I.i-lit. The crime by night in Austin, is a grief and mortification to the whole state. hitherto have not believed in a personal devil, but it looks like ho has broken loose in the capital of Texas. Where are the people, who are the salt of the earth? The great Napoleon overestimated the power of the sword. There are other means and appliances than legal penalty or Judge Lynch.

"An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure." Houston Ap The Gonzales Inquirer soys Colonel Terrell, by the charm of his eloquence, persuaded the people of Austin to bow to the supremacy of the law, and not to adopt rash measures with the horrid fiends who steal into bed chambers at the dead of uight and ravish and murder women. It requires no very powerful elo quence to persuade people not to hang a man before von catch him. Fort Worth Mail. John Sherman thinks civil service reform good enough for the democrats, but entirely too thin for tho republicans. When elected president, pro tern, of the senate, he at once proceeded to turn out all tho democratic appointees of the dead vice-president, to make places for republicans.

Sherman ploys the of politics by the only rule that can win tho Jacksonion rule to the victors belong tho spoils. Dallas Times. Gov. Ireland insinuated several months ago that In saw no necessity for a special session of the legislature, and it will be observed that in spite of the howls of the hash nouses at Austin and certain papers in the state, that these has been no special session. Ireland may be a cold-blooded, hard-tempered, and most unworthy ser- ant, but he has not been so embittered ogainst his peoplo as to put another legislature on them.

iulveaton Tribune. Thero is war between two Chicago ministers in regard to hell, one claiming that modern theorists have effectually knocked the bottom out of that ancient winter resort, whilo the other is certain that it still is and always will bo conducting a very active business at the old stand. Tho latter is correct Nothing short of the good, old-foshiored orthodox lake of eternal firo could mete out justice to the perpetrators of tho Austin outrages and kindred crimes. Laredo Tim The conspiracy of "Saint" Hampton against the federal authorities, recently unearthed in Salt Lake city, would seem to furnish sufficient proof thnt it is the superlative of folly to temporize with that pestiferous and lascivious sect, who ore far more viscidus than misguided. Abso lute and immediate suppression of their immoral practices is demanded by everv consideration of decency and self respect, and the federal authorities will be wise to take the goat promptly by the horns and disrupt his spinal column by just one vig orous twist.

Fort Worth Mail. It is given out that President Cleveland will hereafter defer to the judgment of senators and representatives in the matter of appointments; that in plainer tormB he will shift the responsibility to their shoulders of naming appointees for all offices bel certain grades. lse conclu sion. Senators and representatives know best who, in their respective states and districts, ore worthy, capable and deserving, and it is altogether proper and just that they should be the medium and controlling agency of parcelling the spoils among their constituents. Fort Worth Mail.

The character of the fight on Swain is not likely to materially impair his chances for the nomination, vituperation, false accusation and senseless twaddle make no abiding impression on the minds of the average Texans. Swain is a good man. worthy to be governor and equal to the functions of the high ofhee, and the people of Texas know it. They will not ignore him because he is not fit for the place, or because he has done anything to jhake their confidence or cool the ardor of thoir esteem, but they may prefer some other man, and select him because they prefer him, San Antonio Expr sn. The New Orleans exposition so far is a failure, everything being in chaotic state, one of the New Orleans papers a few days ago advocating the closing of the gates until the exhibits could be perfected and arranged in a presentable manner.

There is now talk of the railroads centreing at New Orleans purchasing the main building and converting it into 0 grand union depot. 8. A. Light. The south, as a section, professes to be free trade in sentiment, and yet it has exclusively the one industry that is the highest protected, and that is sugar.

Now, in order to avoid the evident inconsis tency, it is proposed to put sugar on the free list and give a bounty to sugar planters. The plan of those free traders, evi dently, is to kill the dog by choking him on apple dumpling. Dallas News. Northern Dakota intends to hold a convention of the people on the 12th of this month, for the purpose of organizing that portion of the territory into a state. Then it will be a race between north and south Dokota to see which can first get into the nnion.

and thei' scramble will probably result in the repulsion of both by the dignified "sisterhood." The Dako-tas are entirely too kittenish in their deportment to be at present admitted into grave society. Marshall Herald. The lowest estimate tHat rs. Grant will receive from the general's book is Besides, Mrs. Grant hos money of her own, a $50,000 residence, and other property.

As to her economy there can be no question. Gen. Grant gave her the reputation of being a good manager and an economist. He said he furnished her with a thousand dollars a month for housekeeping expenses, and she got along handsomely with that small amount. El l'aso Tribune.

Inquiry among the real estate men and persons well posted as to local conditions find a general opinion that there will be more building the coming year than was ever known in El Paso, and as a consequence there is likely to be an appreciation in the value of real property which will put much money in the pockets of investors. As we have before said never was a better tinv. or place to plant money that will yield abundant harvest than there is in i.1 Pas lo-day. Fort Worth Mail. The president does his business in a methodical manner.

Everything is done nt an anpoiiited hour. Those who come in conflict with the dutUte of the hour, however influential or however well supported they uiy be. have to give way and take their turn. He rarely makes the people who come to his publio receptions wait a moment beyond the time set for his coming down. On the other hand he rarely delays a moment beyond the lime he has assigned for this particular work.

Fort Worth Mail. An exohange says ''the farmers are all agreed as to the necessity of a new and better road law." As a matter of fact the farmers, as a class, do not know what the present road law is, and as a further matter of fact townspeople and professions know less about it. It was deemed the perfection of wisdom when it was discussed, amended and passed by the extra session of 1884. It was conceived, formulated and adopted, every section and line in it. in the interest of the country people the farmers; and the Mail undertakes to say that, faithfully and intelligently enforced by county judges and commissioners, it is the most complete law ever framed by a state legislature.

It is not not enforced and the people don't want it enforoed, hence the general clamor for somo other kind of a road law. Waco Examiner. Still the Austin murders are shrouded in what seems an almost impenetrable mystery. Will the damnable deeds of blood never be understood? It seems too bad that this extraordinary series of crimes, stretching as it does over a whole year, cannot be fathomed. There are now near ly four thousand dollars in rewards offered.

This ought to secure the very best detect ive talont in America. The mystery is we do not doubt for a moment thut when unearthed it will be found that the maniao theory is the correct one. Upon any other it must al-1 ways be utterly inexplicable. It seems to us that the very first thing to be done would be to have the asylum olosely watched day and night, without permitting either the officers or patients to know anything of it. Then to let every person of unsound mind, in and about the city, be watched also.

hen the origin is dis covered the great wonder will be why it was not discovered before. police officer and detective in the state should bend his energies to the solving of the bloody problem. It is a dutv they owe to society and to their reputation for efficiency. Houston Ape. Tho Galveston News is a strange paper.

It is a mystery. It is a journalistic problem that no man can It professes to be opposed to radicalism, yet it rarely has an article of censuiv of radicals or radical measures. It professes to be democratic, yet it rarely has an issue that does not abuse democratic leaders. It occasionally censures, and hardly ever praises our democratic president, Cleveland. It makes a constant target of Samuel J.

Randall, a democratic war horse who is always iu the front when democratic battles are to be fought ond democratic victories are to be won. And its shafts, dipped apparently, in the vcuom of spite, are thrown thick and fast at the Honorable John Ireland, a democrat, a good, a just and a wise man, a statesman of large, broad, clear and correct views, who the people of Texas have twice, by immense majarities, chosen for their chief magistrate. The News may be sincere and may honestly think it is a friend and supporter of the democratic party, but if the party had many such friends and supporters, it would soon lose its supremacy, both state and national, aud the reign oi radicalism would be re-established, Laredo Times. Immigrants are fairly pouring into Texas now, and they are not of the Hor-ris Baker variety, either. Laredo Times.

Galveston wants direct communication with the city of Mexico mighty bad but it would avuil nothing without deep water. Get the water first, and the road will oome. Fort Worth Gazette. The winter is half gone, ond the first big snow of the season is reported in the Northwest. A very mild winter, broken onlv by occasional cold waves, is looked for.

Dallas Times. If the ship of Gen. Ross goes down, our friend Burtow will not even climb the masts to escape the water. He will seek a watery grave with the captain and the crew. San Angelo Standard.

Under the present excited state of affairs it is dangerous to wear red hose in Austin now. A young man who was so rash, came very near spending his New Year in jail. Dallas Times. The roads have signified their intention of stopping the pass courtesies. It is supposed they will resume it a year hence just about the time the legislature meets, next January.

Galveston Tribune. An eastern paper publishes an article on the science of walking. As most of the office-seekers have got home from Washington, not much interest is mani fested in the article. Paris News. And still no man has ever whispered that he would like to have Colonel Lubbock's place as state treaBurer.

Colonel Lubbock seems to have a life tenure of the office he now holds. H. A. Light. In 1885 the liabilities through business failures were while 1884 they were or about double, showing conclusively the rapid re-establishment of business confidence and prosperity.

I IloUHtl Post. J. B. Lippincott, the head of the great book house of Lippincot of Philadelphia, and husband of "Grace Greenwood," died yesterday of heart disease. Tho old reaper, death, has started in early on prominent men this year.

Galvestoa Tribune. Demonetization of Hilver would be to the detriment of the business and manufacturing interests ot the country, decrease production, lower wages, discharge workmen and reduce the position of the debtor class to that of serfs. San Angeio Standard. AVe hear a great deal about poetic license, and having a peculiar feeling within us that we believe is the awakening of the divine flame, we rise to enquire if any of onr contemporaries can tell us where we can getj one of those licenses. Fort Worth Gwtett.

Ii Governor Ireland should call rn extra session of the does anybody sappose he could get a quorum of mem bers to go to Austin? None of them want to figure in the newsptper headlines as another victim of the Austin ghoul. Jotlsti a iiATald. The article that recently appeared in the Herald in reference to establishing a reformatory, has been extensively copie-i by the press of this state and l.oiiiMniui. and the views expressed by tho Hernld meet, so far, with unanimous favor. BrenhwB Banner.

The Houston Post says that it is now on a sound basis and is sttU-sustaining. Tho Post is an excellent paper, and is run on business principles. Heretofore Houston morning papers have endeavored to do too much, and their expenses exceeded their income. Denison News. There will be several changes in the next congressional delegation.

Mr. Wellborn will not auoceed himself in the sixth district. This may be taken as offioial, notwithstanding he may be labled "democratic nominee." And Mr. Wellborn will not be the only gentleman Of the delegation who will not be his own successor. S.

A. A very good counterfeit is being extensively circulated in this city. The specimen furnished the Light is a very danger- ous counterfeit quarter, coinage of 1850, greatly worn, but having no ring, as in the genuine silver. Several of our stores and saloons have been taken in. San Antonio Express.

John L. Sullivan ought to come to Texas to practice some of his brutality upon weak and inoffensive men uud women and children. We don't como out a strong on culture as Boston and New York and Philadelphia, but we tros with strong liml and ropes and things San Antonio Times. During the last presidential enmpuigu it came to be pretty generally reooguized that when Mr. Blaine denied a thing, its truthfulness might be considered established.

Mr. Blaine has just denied that he is interested in a certain mint; in Colorado. Denison Newa. The re-election of Senator Sherman, from Ohio, is by no means assured. The legislature is now in session, and tho opponents of the senator are not idle in do-vising schemes to defeat him.

Ex -Governor Foster, who is reported to be very popular with the democratic members, may yet slip in for the prize. Galveston News. Heretofore ships have been permitted to pass through the Suez canal only in daylight; bnt now WBr ships ami sltaTuers provided with electric lights of sufficient power to illuminate the canal 1,200 jwrds ahead may go ot night. Tho increased tonnage passing through the oAnel the past few years has been considerable, so that its capacity was somewhat taibd. The electric light will be an old almost equivalent to another canal.

Denison News. The committee on labor promises to be one of the most important in the present congress. The lubor agitations throughout the country during the past year have given unusual interest, to tbiB branch of legislation, and members naturally seek notoriety through it. Hence, the srrauihla to be placed upon it. Paris Sews.

Wanted, a new judioiary system and new laws that will force nil men charged with crime to stand a speedy trial. Let the grand jury system be abolished and lot the powers of the grand jury bo vested in prosecuting attorneys. Put an end to district courts, and let there be a Judge in each county, always ready to try any kiu4 of a case. Laredo Times. The English radicals look lessons from the history of the American carpet-bag gers, iney promiseu a nippopwtamus and three acres for a vote.

Tbey ure standing the freemen off now by asking them to just wait until they can catch Urn hippopotami. For twenty years the halter haB hung in many a freeman's cabin awaiting the coining of the promised mule. A I EO 1 M3 1 A ST A 1 A 1 1 1 FO A IK I want a good I am a farmer or anything else she wont. Any sort of complexion will do. No difference how high or how low Bhe is, so she will be true to my five little ones.

I have just returned from Arkansas, where my wife died on the first day of August, 1884. I prefer a light-complected woman, and she must have Btraight haia. I have got my own corn und seventy-five to one hundred bushels of sweet potatoes. I have been wanting to get a good woman, and 1 will respect one when I find her. This offer will be open for ten days.

Address S. V. Goddard, Rome, Ga. Advertisement in Rome (Ga.) Bulletin. roil iffiountiiiiii Ditson ACo.

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