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Weekly Optic and Stock Grower. 'Fifteenth Tear, No SB. EAST LAS VKOAS. NEW MEXICO, OCTOBER 8, 1808. 300 Tor In IS'.ifl thin country procured WO, OOO.DOO gallons ot distilled liquor and a little mora than a round l.OOO.ooo.ouo gallons of beer and ale Tbis business In all, paid te tba nation, utile, coun ties and cities, as taxes, 8172,000,000. Tha capital Invested In the business tasín round numbers, $1.000.000,000. Of wines, too, the country tnsde 1 ,), (XX) gallons, which la aiall, but Is lap idly growing. THE END NOT YET. Who Is Ma Frest, the creature whhh has been spewing its 111th over the good people of San Miguel county? Why, he Is the fellow who was charged, while register of the land Mice, with receiving fees which he pocketed, In stead of turning; Into the government On this charge he was tried, convicted and sentenced to the penitentiary. Vet this thing, which ought new to be wear ing the stripes of the convict, gets up on its hind leg and howls about fraud, peculation, corruption and theft on the part ef the San Miguel County Couimis-sioners. Max Fkost Is like his fellow coun tryman, who Just niter the. mil war wax put on the stand as a witness. The judge said: Uncle, do you know the force of hu oath y Oh yes, Mass a, was the reply. It means dat If you tells a II, you sticks to It. Front, having charged the San Miguel county commis sioners with defrudiug the people fur their owu personal beuellt, with cor ruption, thieving, peculation and the like, knowing that be was lying at the time be made the charge, continues, parrot like to reiterate tt, though he cannot but know that nobody believes him. The Republican Territorial platform says that the present Congress is Re publican, and therefore anything which It may have dene for New Mexico is to be atti United to the Republican party and not to the etfortsof tbe Democratic delegate. What fools these Repub licans be lias there never been a Re publican Congress before? Has auy Congress, of any politicut majority, ever done anything for New Mexico, with out the intelligent and persistent efforts of the delegate? The absurdity ef the argument shows how utterly uuable the Republicans bis to bring one good reason against the reelection of II. 11. Fergiusou. SMALL HOPE. Most encounmliif reports from the banner Republican county of Valencia. 1 he Republican Congressional canül date will get a very handsome majority 10 mat couuijr. -ew iuiiu'iu. Max, this would seem to Indicate that you were' somewhat discouraged over tbe prospei t of the Republican Con gressional candidate beiiigable to carry Valencia county, where tbe sheep are permitted to vole the Republican ticket. Clad you have received more encouraging news and that you now think il possible fof I hi Republican to cairy Valencia county. lilaud Jiuuld EDITORIAL PITH. THE SIZE OF THE BEAR. The Commissioners o( San Miguel county, under the piesent district at torney and the late chief-justice of the Territory, decided on a certain line of conduct, In the payment of taxes, and the said conduct has resulted In the wiping ont of soma 80,000 of floating debt, which elce hid been saddled upon the people in bonds, for many years to come. Tbe editor of the New Mexican pro nounced the proceeding illegal. This Is-a question ef opinion, on which law yers differ; and bad the New Mexican stopped at th pol t, TllK. Optic would have had little or nothing to ssy. Hut measuring other people's corn in his own biiHhel measure. Max Front charged the county commissioners with adopting this course for the purpose of riling their own pockets and those of their particular friends; charged them with corruption, .raud, peculation, and all manaer of dishonesty, personal and official. The Optic denied these charges, for every one In tbe county knew Mum to be untrue. Hut as Max Frost continued to make them, know ing them to be false, Tfik Optic plainly but fully set forth the kind of creature by which the charges were made. Tint any on should daro to tell the truth on Frost, was of course inexcusa ble. So he flew into a rage, lolled bis tongue out of his mouth further than ever, and sued Tiik Optic and Its edi tor. Hut the end I1 not yet. Tbe Pittsburg Chronicle-Telgraph tells of the soft snap the French bad In Africa as follows: A party of Frenrh soldiers in west A'rlca ha defeated the Sofa tribe In other words, part of France's standing army sat 011 the oías. In the opinion of the St. Paul Press, the announcement that all the Peace Commissioners have gained in health during their voyage, I a good miiri. Men need to lie In good physical condi tion for peace negotiations, almost us much as fur war. The Boston Globe says that by the terras of his grandfather's will, a Chica go man who lias a penchant for liquor has inherited the right to get drunk, and &OOOO a year is provided for him for that purpose And yet there are men who say there is no such thing as luck. This is a timely thought from the Cleveland Plain Dealer. It says F.ditnr Hearst is playing the role of the Czar in New York. He wants the local ed itors to lay down their animosities and b friendly. That's all right, but let Mr. Hearst show h s geod lutentions by first disarming Col. Thenux. LEE SIDETRACKED. VTord comes from Washington that General Fitzhugb Lee will probably not, be selected to command the army of occupation la Cuba. The military advisers of the President are of the opinion that Regular Army general should be chosen fer this important tank, and in this connection General lames F. Wade is mentioned. General L.-e's ambition to command the force is well known, and has enlist ed much popular sympathy. He has applied foi mally for tbe detail, and he is quo,ed as saying to his friends that If he fails In his objoct he wilt resign. He is destined, according to present plans, to have a subordinate command In the Cuban army, and it Is stated at the Department that no argument or persuasion on the part of his friends is likely to increase the importance of bis detail. Not a few of the Regular Army of ficers would be likely to resent the as signment of a volunteer to the com mand of 50,000 or 60.000 troops when high olllcers of the regular rervlce are still awaiting duty at the front. Tbe same principle pursued with ref erence to 'Jeoeral Grant, tn the civil war, would have duutitlesi made great difference in the dual result. The Spanish Cortes Is holding a pro tracted sesaion under the you're-auoth-er order of business. Here's a sin 'II boqnet from tbe Chi cago News: Tha fighting Twenty fjurth regiment, colored, that won new glory for Its rare at San Juan and F.I Cxney, passed through Chicago. The eolored race has reason to be proud of Its record in the civil war and in that just cloned. Tbe Houston Post is happy, and says Alger, Sternberg & Co. have at last been driven to tbe point of shifting the responsibility. They and their cuckoos wouldn't admit for a time that there was any responsibility to shift. When ever the press goes after a public ofllcial in dead earnest aud with such a colli c- lion of facts as was at Its command In this case, be might as well come down oil bis perch gracefully. The other d iy, under the direction of M.Lockroy, French Minuter of Ma rine, at Tou'on, an obsolete steel-protected battleship was made a target, aud at a distance of 3n00 vards four bat tleships and two cruisers sunk the old ship in titeen minutes. The immedi ate cause of her destruction was the ig niting of her Interior woodwork just as was the case of the So nish ships at Manila and Santiago. The French squadron discharged 500 projectiles, ninety of which were H'.'-lnch caliber, and 30 per cent took effect. Aud now all France is dancing over the fact that While 30 per cent of their shots took effect, ouly 3 per cent of the American projectiles fired at Santiago took effect, hence by straight mathematics the Freiuh are ten timss as accurate gunners as Iho Americans. Once In a small California town, says the Salt Lake Tribune, a man drove up with a dead bear In his wagon. A crowd gathered around to see the bear, and finally a men cam along, and looking into the wagon, turned away and in contemptuous tone said: "That's not much of a bear." The man who had killed the animal looked up and answered quietly: "No, not much of a b'ar, but, stranger. It makes a mighty size ot difference in the size of a b'ar, whether you look at him this way, or whether he is coming toward you lively like, with his ears back and his mouth open." That story ought to be told the Frenchmen; it has a direct application. N riH.KON'n VALI' K Of KTIIKtr. Pixttnra In CnitatillMtlun From ilenjsmlo Franklin, "When you are sick, what you like beat is to be chosen for a medicine in the lirst place; what experience tells you is best, is to be chosen In the second place; what leason (I. e. 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