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WEEKLY STATESMAN.
AUBT1N, TEXAS.
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TIIEKE WH.L UK NO CALLED SESSION OF
THE LKGISLATUltE.
This mnoh moot. d question of whether
or not there will be a called session of ttie
legislature may be pot filially to rent in
the negative. No good and subt-tautial
reason can be found why there should be
tooh a session, bat on the other hand every
argument is against an extra session. The
cry has beju that, as thbre is a hendsome
Borplns in the treasury, the people should
now be relieved of some of the burdens of
taxation. Bat if the legislature were to
meet npon this one iesne, bow would they
determine itf How much, if any,
would they lessin the rate of tax
ation, ond wonid it be to an
amount appreciable by the people of the
state f Could they lessen the rale ma
terially, and jet provide against con
tingencies that mny arise and sharply de
mand a return to the present if not a
higher rate? The season is now very
propitious, but who can say what the re
sult will be, or that there may not be
calamities befall that will drain the treas-
ory, or at least forbid the collection of
taxes next full? And, after all, is the sur
plus such a very big matter? It will tnke
four hundred thousand dollars to properly
fix the grounds and fornit-h the new cspi
tol building. The penitentiary buildings
will shortly rt quire, four or five hundred
thonsnnd dollars. These items will create
a couHidi ruble hole in the surplus. The
financial couditiou of the state is not
such as to d maud a called session. Home
relief was given the people by the
Twentieth legislature, and this will have
to ( ii (lice them until the Twenty-first
meets, less than a eur from now.
Again, the land law is just being put
into successful operation. It is olaimed
that this is the best land law ever enacted
in the state. Its results are but now be
ing worked out, and no idea oan be gained
of what complete, general and lasting
good it is capable of being turned to. A
new session might be made to tamper
with and impede the workings of this law
and overturn the bent fits now in contem
plation and being actually daily realized.
Really, the only question now troubling
the state ia the school question. And
ioce the adjournment of the Twentieth
legislature no new ideas,no solution of this
much vexed question, have been .sprung
npon the people. If an extra session
were called at this time, it would
grope in the dark, as has it
predecessors, and accomplish no advan
tageous results. Negatively, every reason
is against a callei session, and positively
one great Argument postpones all legists
tion until 1889. We are even now on the
eve of a great political warfare. This is
an "on" year in politics. If a legislature
met now there would be more effort to
orenie political capital than to frame
judicious laws. But let as wait until the
heat of the oanvass is over; let us avail our
elves, then, of the ideas, the theories.
the various suggestions, this campaign
will give rise to; let us choose in Novem
ber a Irgii-lature fresh from out a heated
discussion of state iesnes, frei-h from the
people and knowing their wit-lies and
beiiriug their instructions, and let ns
with such a legislnture face all these
issues that, though now in a tentative
state, will then havo been tried with
another year's ' experience, and we will
have much more fcoie of arriving at
sound coticloHions and able laws than we
possibly can have now. The question of
finance will then be stripped of some of
ita recent doubts, the laud law will have
bud time to adjust itatlf to the laws of
the past and our ni-agea, new light may
by then have been thrown on the school
question; in faot, all the great problems
that now perplex the state will then be in
a better position for correot solution and
adjustment. We know all these qutstious
have parsed under the governor's con
sideratlon, and we know whereof we speak,
and apeak authoritatively when we say
the governor will not ohII an extra session
of the l gielatore.
MOUTH OP THE I1HAZOS.
The people of Texas are ousting about
for an outlet to the highways of the gulf,
an outlet through which their oommeroe
ohu pass in bottoms of the largest ton
Dge, and also untrammelled by wharf
companies or o'her embargoes. Nobody
in tli is part of the state ia particular as to
what point will afford us deep water, so
we get it. If it oan be gotten at Galves
ton, so mech the better, and we ahall all
be glad of it. But if the jetty system on
Galveston's outer bar, which was almost
completed by Colonel Mansfield, should
be put through, aud prove failure, it
beli,g only experimental, Ucu Texaa
most look to other points. Among these
re Aransas Pass, Padre Island, and last,
bat not Unit, the mouth of the Braxos.
Aa to the last mentioned, it will be re
membered that the International and
Uieat Northern Railroad oompsny, before
ita incorporation into the Gould system,
had serious intentions of getting deep
water at the Brazos river bar, and deep
water there would give thirty feet by the
river to the old aud historio town of
Columbia. At ttie iustauoe of the com
pany serve) s by government engineers
were made and are now on record.
While these surveys show that
A deepeuikg of the Bratoa bar
would be, like the Galveston jetties, rather
experimental than otherwise, it may be
that the company, whose charter was filed
a few days ago, has solved the problem
by the idea of eutiing a oanal aroaod the
bar inio deep water in the river. Who
knows but the coveted deep water may
here be obtained at last, and Columbia
become a bitf city f In that event the
splendid destiny of the Texas sugar region
can hardly be imagined.
Turaa would not be a dollar of surplus
in the treasury, if the state would expeqd
that money in the channels even now de
manding it. For the cepitol building,
four hundred thousand dollars; for peni
tentiary buildings, asked for by the
peuitentiary superintendent, four
five hundred thousand dollars;
new luuatio asylum, the state
foruiatory, the deficiency in
sheriff's and attorney's fets,
or
a
re
the
and
the money due the University. Pay out
these sums and where is the surplus now
howled about? The taxta need uo reduc
tion; the expenses of the state in running
her institutions and adminiatering her
affairs are yearly increasing, and they
must be met. We need no extra session
of the legislature to add to those expenses.
ST. LOUS SELECTED.
After all the arguments advanced before
the national democratic committee by
friends of New York, Chicago and San
Francisco, it is doubtful if a better point
than St. Lunla could hive been selected
for holding the national conveutiou.
With all the telegraph, railroad, public
hull, hotel aid other facilities offered by
the metropolis of the east and her
sister of the lakes. St. Louis snr
passes both in central location
and ready accessibility from all
parts of the country. Again, it is a demo
cr tio city, and, as was truly remarked by
Senator Vet before the committee, it is a
bad policy to "feed republican cities on
democratic sponge cakes," which would
have been the case, had the convention
gone to Chicago.
While the selection of St. Louis is
graceful concession to the growing west,
it is equally a oumplimeut to the
outh. The choioe is advantageous to
all sections of the national demooratio
party, and therefore working injury to
none. In the final vote of the committee
yesterday, the idea of locality having any
iLfluence on the outcome of the coming
canvass waa very properly discarded. The
holding of the convention at San Fran
Cisco would have effected result, in No
vember about as little aa if Chicago, Cin
cinnati or New York hud been selected
The campaign will be fought on great
principles, nor will it turn either on per
sonal fortunes or the accident of lo
cality.
GOV. KOS3 ON PARDONS.
Perhaps no act of his administration
beoomes Governor Ross so well as on
loosing the shackles from the young Ger
man girl, Rosa Schmidt. But the aot
itself is not more commendable than the
governor's position in the general matter
of pardons, aa enunciated by himself in
his letfer to the employers of Winter, who
maltreated his female prisoner. The po
si'ion taken by the governor is alike
oreditablo to him, as the chosen
n preseutut:ve of the people of
Texas, to his vigilance as onr
ohief exeoutive, no less than to hi
ohivalrio sentiments as a southern
man when appealed to by the scnsibili
ties of young womanhood, barbarously
outraged in the person of Rosa Suhm'd
The governor very oorreotly represents
public opinion in this state when he iuti
mates that the people want violators of
law punished; when, through the courts,
they (the people) adjudge them to b
punished, aud that he has no desire to
thwart their wishes. Ouly in exceptional
casts like that of Rosa Schmidt is the
exercise of the pardoning power proper,
beooming or necessary. It was only and
originally intended for such oases. Its
abuse, when dangerous criminals are
turned out by the wholesale, as sug
gested by the governor, becomes a Fonrce
of damage to the peace, order and happi
ness of society. Governor Ro-s is for
puuishing the guilty, yet not utterly ig
noring the cry of outraged humanity, as
in the Schmidt case. The records of his
administration, the extremely few par
dons granted, show that the governor
predicts what he preach'-. The pardon
policy he has announced in the letter
alludtd to will but add to Governor Ross'
already groat popularity with the people
of Texas, and it ought to do bo.
Wbili we are Bitting quietly by and
waiting, we are being out off from rail
road communications to the east, north
and wear. We did not build to the south
east some two years ego, and now Bits' rop
trade has gone elsewhere. We aie now
refusing to build to McGregor, and the
St. Louis, Arkansas and Texas railroad,
the one with which we should connect, is
about to build aoross from Gatei-ville to
Lampasas and on to Llano. Let ua only
remain a while longer inactive and Burnet
ill gin connections with all that west
ern country, and then through an outlet
north, all the produce of that fertile sec
tion will pass os by and leave as behind.
The "write op" of Travis oonnty f..r
the speoial edition of Tb Stati-m an ia
now being prepared by one of the moet
oompetent geutlem n to be fouod in
Texas. It will be accurate ana complete,
and creditable alike to the writer and to
the oonnty.
AUSTIN WEEKLY STATESMAN THURSDAY. MARCH 1
FAB M NOTES.
The Dexter Signal mentions an experi
ment made in Gonzales county by two
brothers in sorghum last year. It says:
They planted twenty aore, and from the
crop gathered made 1,600 gallons of
syrup, which they gold at 40 cents per
gallon, and 700 bushels of seed, which they
marketed at $1 a bushel. Let any of our
farmers make a calculation for themselves
and see if it dots not pay to grow other
crops besides cotton.
The small b6y will be pleaded to learn
that his old friend, the bumble bee, after
wilting for thousands of years for his
time to come, ia now honored with a
commercial value. Mr. McDonald, of
Kentucky, has an order for 10,000 worth
of bumble bees for exportation to Aus
tralia. The Australians want them to
help cultivate their clover. The red
clover does not thrive in Australia as it
should for tbe waut of bumble bees to
carry the pollen from fl ower to flower
and thus fertilize all the plants alike.
The average quantity of milk required
for a pound of cheese is five quarts. Cue
buudred pounds of milk will make a ten
pound cheese. The milk as it comes
from the cow is just about right tempera
ture to make cheese. If two milkings be
used, the night's milk should be cooled at
once and warmed in the morning.
Sheep should be eutirely secure from
any exciting causes or liability to be
worried by other animals. Let them have
all the sweet hay or com fodder they will
eat, in addition to the grass, and feed
half a pint to a piut of cornmeal per day
per head, in two feeds, varying occasion
ally with an equivalent of peas or oats.
It is well to give some kind of succulent
roots, as turnips or potatoes, once a day,
as much as they will eat, in place of one
of the feeds of grain.
Farmers and gardeners should galhr
up all thb bones scattered about ti e jards
and prepare them for use in fertil zing
their lands There are various ways of
doing this. One ia to masn them i h an
old ax or sledgehammer, the liner the bet
ter, aud place the broken pieces into a
barrel, or other vessel, interspersed with
layers of good hardwood uuelacked ashes.
Keep the mass moist, not allowing the lye
or potash to escape. Iu a few months the
hones will hecome jelly.
'I o destroy cut worms a southern par
di ner uses what he calls "traps." He kills
off the cnt worms before the plants ap
pear. Upon his watermelon field he Fes
poison traps about fifteen feet apart each
way. These "traps ' are cabbage or tur
nit' leaves, which have beeu moistened on
the concave side and then dusted with
mixture of Paris green with twenty parts
of flour. These leaves are placed over
the fields, with poisoned side down, at the
distance above stated, before the plants
appear. What follows? The dootnr
facetiously says: "Two such applications.
particularly in cloudy weather,at intervals
of three or four days, will suffice to allow
the cut worms to make away with them
selves, which they generally do with per
feot success."
There is no disease of poultry more
oommon or more unsightly than scaly
legs. Poultry writers have egregiously
erred in teaching that , this disease is
peculiar to Asiatics. It is oommon to
every variety, as far as my experience
goes. It is easily oured. Take the fowl
in hand, lay it upon its back, and with a
rag saturated with kerosene bathe the
feet and shanks freely. Next day brush
the legs with a stiff brueU and soap suds,
and finish off with kerosene. Two or
three treatments will cure the worst case.
It is caused by a parasite which oolleots in
immense numbers under the scales, and
multiplying, causes the Boales to rise.
Hens have been taught to anticipate
opting by laying their early eggs while
snow and ioe are yet upou the ground;
but many poultry raisers, thinking it too
early for hatching, absolutely eat such
eirvs. This is not as it should bp, for
theiie very early tggs may be hatched with
the very evident advantage that early
chicks always bring. Iu this latitude" it. is
never too cold in February for hatching.
It is easy enough to make the sitting hen
comfortable, and she will not be apt to
neglect her business on account of the
weather. After hutching, it is also
easy to make mother and brood com
fort, ble for a mouth. The twenty one
days of incubation aud the thirty dnys
of brooding in a weatherproof coop, will
advance the season to a period of perfect
safety. Chicks a moutr, old the first of
March have a deotded advautae over any
that are hatched later, being ready for the
table or for market when the demand and
the prices are best; aud they fully mature
for fall and winter lajlng, or tor extn
bition. It is important aiwajs to have
ehicks as early as possible, and I h ive
no hesitation in reo I'limandm for this
purpose the very earliest eggs after the
middle of January.
New Forage Plants.
The commissioner of agriculture, Nor
man J. Coleman, issues ttie ,toi owing:
"the introduction of new plants he own to
be desirable for more general cultivation
is always slow. It is not the province of
the department to distribute seeds in
greater quanti'y than is required for the
purpose ol experiment, but it desires to
encourage the cultivation of such as have
provi d to be of value. For this purpose
attention is called to the following-forage
plants which have been pufiicueu'ly tesltd
to wa'raut their general cultivation, or
mure extended trial, iu the sections men
tioned. None of them have been Int ro
duced to any exttnt into the marko", and
it is believed that their more general in
troduction will prove profitable, not ouly
to the farmer, but also to those who pro
vide a supply of seeds.
Sprouting Mi. let. mis nas been cniiea
Munro Grass" and Sprouting Crabgrass,"
but Sprouting Millet would be a better
name. It is an annual, which is a native
of I he southern states and has much t he
habit of Texas millet, but is somewhit
ooarser, on rioh damp Boil frtqueutly ob
taining a length of six or seven fee'.
Most of the favorable reports regarding
it are from the Gulf ana South Atlantic
states, but it has given exo llent resmis
in a limited trial n the department
grounds. It continues vigorous until
killed by frost, ana may oeaout repeatedly
during the season. The seed ripens late,
aud though small is quite abandaut
Texas Blue Grass Reports upon this
grass nave Deea nnwormiy iaorui
It originated in northern Texas, and con
sider tbly resembles Kentucky blue grass,
but seems adapted to a more soutoern
rauge, where its ohief value is for winter
pasture. A number ol persons are imr-
iug the seed for sale in small qnantities,
but the seeds are so oovered with webby
hairs thai they are difficult both to clean
aud sow, so that its introduction into cul
tivation has been Blow. Like Bermuda
grnBs, it is grown from sets as well as
seeds. It thrives best on heavy roll.
Alfilaria. Also known as storksbill,
pin-grass, tilaree, etc. A valuable forage
plant for the dry regions from Colorado
Z mw Mexico to southern California,
where it makes its growth during the
moist winter season. It should not be
sown in the eastern portion of the United
States, as th re are better forage plants
for that eeotion of the country, and, as
when introduced there, it becomes a
somewhat troublesome weed. For the
great southwest, however, it has much
meri', and there is a large de
mand for its seed to be sown
npon the ranges where the supply of
grass has been diminished by stock. Oue
stock raiser applied to the department to
know where he could obtain a supply of
seed to sow in places upon his ranch of
20,000 aores. Prof. S. M. Trasy, who has
been investigating the forage plants of
the arid regions of the southwest the past
season, in the interest of the department,
reports that alfilaria is highly prized
wherever he has been, and that the people
hive frequent requests for seed to be sent
into new localities.
Teosinte This rematkably luxuriant
Central American forage plant is destined
to be exceedingly popular throughout the
southern states as boob as seed can be oL
tailed. Bermuda grass The little seed which
has been sold in this country of this well
known southern grass has all been im
ported, and has been so high in price,
and often bo poor in quality, that people
have bought it sparingly. Its artificial
propagation has been mostly by slow
method of planting the sets or fragments
of the rooting stems. The grass has, how
ever, been found to seed fairly well in
gome localities, and an effort should be
made to introduce home grown setd into
tbe market.
Work For tho State to Do.
That there should have been mistakes
made at the Dallas immigration oonven
tion is not si prising when we consider
the short time given to evolve plans for
so great an undertaking, aud set the ma
chiuery in motion. The whole state saw
the necessity of taking early steps to
present Texas to the world in her true
liht in order to secure immigration ana
capital. Too long already had lexas re
mained self-satisfied, dormant and indif
ferent in regard to this important matter.
With a constitution inimical to imaii
grution, a growing hostility to railroads
among the people and constant misrepre
eentation bv the press abroad, the idea
was rapidly beooming fixed in the mind
of the great wor d beyond the confines of
onr state that Texas was virtually closed
asaingt newcomers aud the stream of
immigration coursed on, scarcely touch
iog our shores, or only to pass through
and beyond.
A state organization was effcoted and
clothed with the powers and parspherna
lia for a grand work, an executive com
mittee of seven as good and well qualified
men as could be fouud in the state, elected
to direot the affairs of the State assooia
tion, and ouly the paltry sum of a few
hundred dollars given them to go to work
with. Their hands were tied. They oonld
neither devise nor execute any effective
plans to accomplish the object for which
the association was formed.
The faot is that as yet only about two-
thirds of the $100 assessment has been
paid in for the use of the oommittee and
uone of the $500 assessment. Fifty
thouBaod dollars should have been raised
for immed'ate use by the exeoutive oom
mittee, and they oonld then have gone
forward and inaugurated plans that would
have been a credit to the great state of
Text s. For Texas to run a ten cent side
show is not in keeping either with her
colossal proportions or the broed, liber il
views of her people. The members of the
oommittee are givng their time and con
Bideration to what th y regard a puhlio
trust, fraught with ureat benefits to th
people of Texas, and the Journal dues
nut belivva that there is a man on that
board who would form for himself a con
nection with Bny enterprise that repre
sented so little oapital for the accom
plishment of so great an undertaking.
Ttxas Real Estate and Immigration
Journal.
The University Fund.
To the Editor of The SiateBamn:
The friends of the University of Texas
are undoubtedly under obligations to
Senator George W. lilassoock for hi
manly stand in behalf of keeping intact
the appropriations to that institution, in
dependeut of the claims urged by the
Grangers in behalf of the Bryan brunoh,
or agricultural college.
It is by no means certain that Mr. Glass
cook will be a candidate for re-election,
and other gentlemeu of this oounty hae
been suggested. In faot, one, at least, has
announced himself hb a oaudldats for the
nomination by the demooratio conven
ion. It is important to the interest of
the friends of the University to
know how gentlemen in this or other
C"onti(B in this senatorial district stand
on this isBue between the University and
the college at Br) an. Wil t'tese gentlemen
inform the public what course either of
them would pursue if elected? Would
they vnte for a part of the available Uni
versity f nnd to be given Bryan college, or
would th"y favor keeping the University
fund confined to that institution, and if
any d fioit inight exist beyond the inter
est, $l t.000 or $15,000, of the fund from
the federal government, favor that deficit
being made np out of the general reve
nue? lhe.ee are important questions to
the f rtiEND-, of the University.
How ci a watnh go when the main
spring is clogged? How ci.n you be in
goi d iieiil'h wrieu yonr liver is iu a similar
cnditioor lake Warners Log Cabia
Liver Pills and put all the in ichm-ry of
life in good order. Sold by all druggists.
Congressman Marliu, of I exas, who has
persistently denied that he blew out the
gas iu bis hotel room on reaching Wash
ington, is again in troobl-. Sii.oe he
found an abode of his owe at the capital
be has had great d ffioulty in remember
ing the number of hi h. use. A number
of times he entered hou-es iu which ne
as looked npon as an intruder. He
finally tied a pieoe of red flaunel to his
own door knob. Some iuco-e con tress-
man who knew the meaning of the red
signal removed Martiu's landmark and
placed it on the door kuob of a house in
habited by a s'aid and elderly inaidei .
She is now anxious to know what Mr.
Martin meant by entering her house with
out ringing the bell.
Philadelphia Press: One of Boston's
ambitious pugilists Professor Jame-ey
Carioll is willing to fight any light
w ight in the world. Now, all yon liirnt
weights, sing not if yon mean business.
Yon hear Jamesey carol I
The alleged sknl. of Tho mas RerlrMt
has hecome a veritable bone of Contention
in England. I
1888
Kflarch April Rflay
That extreme tired feeling which is so dis
tressing and often so unaccountable in the
spring months, Is entirely overcome by Hood's
Sarsaparilla, which tones the whole body
purifies the blood, cures scrofula and all
humors, cures dyspepsia, creates an appetite,
rouses the torpid liver, braces up the nerves,
and clears the mind. We solicit a comparison
of Hood's Sarsaparilla with any other blood
purifier in the market for purity, economy,
strength, and medicinal merit.
Tired all the Time
I had no arpetite or strength, and felt
tired all the time. I attributed my condition
to scrofulous humor. I bad tried several
kinds of medicine without benefit. But as
soon as I had taken half a bottle oi Hood s
Sarsaparilla, my appetite was restored, and
my stomach felt better. I have now taken
nearly three bottles, and I never was so well. '
Mns. Jessie F. Dolbeake, Tascoag, It. I.
Mrs. C. W. Marriott, Lowell, Mass., was
completely cured of sick headache, which she
bad 16 years, by Hood s barsapanno.
k. oil itnirrHntii M-.tiforfS. Prepared
IaJISSJIIh
IOO Doses On Dollar
TEXAS BY MAIL.
Items and Comments Culled lrom
tho Latest State Papers.
A oontract tor ground to erect a mem
moth mill and grain elevator in Fort
Worth was signed Tuesday lust.
The Beach hotel at Galveston whs form
ally opened Thursday, ami is now ready
fur guests. Under the new lease this hotel
will be kept open both winter aud sum
mer. Washington's birthday was not noticed
in Engle Pass, notwithstanding the faot
that the Learest living desoondant of the
great George is paid to be a nsideut of
Piodras Negras.
Val Verde is backward with her immi
gration move. Stock raiseis do not want
close neighbors, aud as the range is occu
pied, there is not much to offer newcom
ers outside of Irrigated lauds.
Henmaivs engineer corps of the Aransas
Pass railroad have received orders to start
Monday morning to make the prelimi
nary survey of the exte sion of the Aran
sas Paes road to Natchez, Miss.
The Houston Light Infantry have
ohanged their nume to that of the "Ellis
flitles." Ihey are alter auoiner captain,
and propose at once to begin drill work
in order to be ready lor the great encamp
ment here in May.
Corpus Christi has entered into the im
migration movement with admitaoie
spirit, and has issued a circular calculated
to elicit all the information concerning
Nueoes oounty that any intending immi
grant could wish to know.
Eon. A. L. McLnne, president of ihe Im
migration society of Laredo, has been
offered the Bum of $1,500 for the twenty
blocks recently donated to the society by
the city for the purpose of advertising
Laredo, Webb and Euoinal counties.
The authorities at Brownsville have cap
tured two of a gang of cattle thieves that
have for the past three or four months
been committing depredations in that
quarter of the state. B ith thieves were
Mexicans. A third made good his es
oape.
At Fort Worth the first installment of
the fund subscribed for immigration pur
poses was paid to the oonn'y committee
by subscribers last Tuesday. Itnuiounttd
to $75t), and this much will be aid by the
same subscribers every month for one
year. The committee will at once go to
work and begin advertising Tarraut
county and Fort Worth.
Six or seven miles east of Whitewright,
last Sunday, a farmer found a dead buz
zard lying in the field, nnd on examining
it he found that it had a small chain
around its neck and attucln d to the chain
was a small bell. Ihe bell hud the follow
ing inscription on: "Madrid, 1860." This
is supposed to be the same bird that has
been seen lu different parts ot the state.
Thb Austin Statesman strorgly en
dorses the appoiu ment of Judge Walker
to be arSuciitte jnetiue of the cupreuie
court. The Expiess publishes elsewhere
us notice of the distinguished jurist.
San Antonio, of oourse, was anxious that
the honor be conferred on a member of
her own bar, but o-mnot say that, the se
lection was not an eminently fit one.
ban Antonio Impress.
A special from Terrell says: The im
migration matter is assuming larger pro
portions as a movement. Judge Dillard
having failed to show the neoersary activ
ity iu the matter, the Terrell txecutive
committee was callrd upon by Chairman
Dougherty to do some hing. The com
mitt.ee lmmedihtrly noted, and Iihs called
a comity meeting at Terrell next SattT
oay, Februa'y '2a, to inaugurate a u.ove
throughout the county.
Mayor Cavet, of G mzaies, has reoeived
a proposition from Uri..h Lott. president.
of the Ssn ntonio and Aransas P.iss road,
that if the citizens of Goi z .l.s. Guana
lope ai d I oinal counties will" furnish the
right of way and depot grounds at Gon-zale-,
Siguiu and N.w Biaunfels and
$1,000 iu money per mite of road, the
company will construct, a standard gauge
road from some point n ar Yoekuui
through Goizdes aud 8. irmn' to New
Brauntels, and complete the road and havr
it open to traffic by the coming tall. This
aistunce is Hbout Bix'y-five nines. Com
mniees i Bve be. u ui pointed, aud it is
tnougnt the road will bi built.
Neither are Galveston's mnnicinal f.
fans running as smoothly as tney might.
aud new ways;
"From the prooeedines of the or v mmn
en it will be observed that that bodv tin.
Kn.li. i . -i r i . -
uuiiii iccuiuieu ivrcoraer r ontMii... !,. ..
offioe, and instructed Major Fulton to as
sume the position of recorde . Recorder
Fontaine, however, can t.ra he easy lor a
lew dajg yet, as MBy..r Folto.i has swui
fied his m-ent oii of veto ng the r.Bola
tion. The veto will be i-ubmitted to ih.
oouncil at its next meeting on 'Tbursdav
hut in nil nr..l.u.0.. .L.. . .
. r. 7 llla resotu Ion Will
be pas-ed over ihe veo: then th.
bein to thicken. Iu the meamim th-
BBe may be brought to a fi.. n i .k
oourts, through au application for man-
uHmue."
The Texas Base Ball league I. m.n..-
qmtean.ffort with the railroad ,.f
state to secure a lia.f-rue tare for the
.F..n. ot me various o ubi in tho
league during th- c miuir easo... .nH ...
T. T'l 8rome,'t to "onvinoe the
lexas Traffic association of the justice
Hood's 8
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Everybody needs and should take
I good
spring medicine, lor two reasons ;
...f ti.o hiuiv is now more 8uscettlM .
bene'fitfrora medicine than at any other season,
- ... I ...l,n. u hlf.1l llflVA Bfimimi.l.i .
in i.i,. ml should be expelled, and tbe
tem given tone and strength, before the pro
trating effects oi warm weuwer i c ieiu
Hood's Sarsaparilla is the best spring tatiU
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cine. A smgie inai win couvuiuo jruu oi iij
superiority. Take it before it is too late.
The Vest Spring Medicine
"I take nood's Sarsaparilla for a spring
medicine, and I find it Just the thing. It tones
,,n mv evstem and makes mo feel like a diffps.
cut man. My wife takes It for dyspepsia, and
she derives great oencuv iruiu n. one says It
is the best medicine she ever took." F, fj.
TOKNEK, Hook wuuer iu. i, uusiuu, masi,
"Last spring I was troubled with boilj,
caused by my blood being out of order. Two
bottles of Hood's Sarsaparilla cured me. J
can recommend it to all troubled with atteo. ,
tions of the blood." J. ocuooi, i curia, m.
arsaparilla
Sold by all druggists. Jli " for f5. 'PrepartKl
0vC.LUOODCO..Apo,hecarie.,Low.ll,MM.
100 Doses One Dollar
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haoking their claim. There will be ah
clubs in the lesgue the ooming season-
Sun Antonio. Dallas, Fort Worth, Antin, V .!
Honhton and Galv.stou. On the bsjij H
of twelve men to each olnb, and upoo;
the calculation, of tie necessary
number of games to be played in the
various cities to oomph te the lesgm
series, it is estimated that 206.928 milm
will be traveled over railroads during the
season, as the amount of transportation
absolutely necessary to complete the sea
son. At a half rale fare this represent
over $3,000 that will have to db paia for
the tratn-porfation of the six clubs, not i'
including the number of exhibition games
that will be played between clubs con-V
tignous to each o'her while these clnbt l l
may not be on the circuit. Thus a tnm- 'f
ber of extra games will be played during , I?
the season between Houston and Galves
ton, Dallos and Fort. Worth, and Austin !
aud San Antonio. Galvestou News. , ,
HEMKWS II Kit YOUTH.
Mrs. Phoebe Chesley, Peterson, Clay
conutv. Ia.. tells the following remarkable
story, the truth of which is vouched for
by the residents of the town: ''I im
73 years old, have been troubled with
birinnv nnmnlaint and lameness for mum
years; could not dr sa myself without help,
Now I am free from all pain and soreneee,
and am able to do all my own housework.
T owa mv thanks to Electric Bitters for
having renewed my youth, and removed
completely all disease and pain." Try a
bottle, SOo. and SI. at Morley Bros'. Droit
Store.
Omaha World : Ia an Alaska ooast town
the mosquitoes are so large and hVro
that they kill dogs. All that place needs
is a piue board hotel to beoome a danger
ous rival to the Atlantic summer resorts.
With groans and eiiihs and ill.ztcd t j s,
lie seeks ihe ci m h snd d n he lies;
Nausea and fulntnes- in him rise,
Brow-nirkH'C pnim aee-iil 1 1 m.
Sick h-ariache I But ere long c nies eaes,
His sMinteh eett es into pence,
Wil hin Ills head th i hro: 'hluig cease
Fierce'e Pellets never tall him.
Nor will they fnil anyone in snch a dire
predioament. To the dyspeptic, the bil:ona
aud the coust'patod, they are alike "a
friend in need and a friend indeed."
Boston Herald: It is announced that
the Duke, of We-tminster and the Baro-ne-s
Burdett-(?ou''s have organized a eab
company iu Loudon. It. is fair to pre
sume that they will realize something
hansom.
Syrup of Figs
Is the deligh'ful I quid laxative, and the
only true remedy for habitual oouetipa
tion and the many ills depending on a
weak or inactive condition of the kiduejs,
liver and bowels. It is a pleasant, remedy
to take, both to old and yonng; it is
gentle iu its aot ion ai d eff. o ive; it. is ac
ceptable to the stomach, and strengthens
the. organs on whicn it aots. Manufac
tured only by the California Fig Sytnp
Co., San Francisco, Cal. Frr sale by
Crosby t Drew r.
The Laredo Electi-in T.inhf. an A Pawn,
com puny have commenc-d placing their
machinery in portion, and ex,ieot to have
the city lighted with eleotrio lamps ia I
few weeks.
We believe that every oase of pulmonary
disease, if treated iu time, may be re
lieved and cured by Aver'e Cherry Pec
toral. George Sonus Lajard has an article in
the current numi.er of the Nineteenth
Hen ury entitled 'How to Live on 700
Year." An eassy ou "How to Obtain 700
a Y.ar" would be more likely to fill
''long-felt want."
Consumption Surely Cured.
To the Editor:
Please intorm your readers that I have
a positive remedy for ihe above named
disease. By its timely ne, thousands of
hopeless eases have u)en permanently
cured. I sb ,11 be glid tj send two bot
t es of my remedy fbre to any of joUi
readers who have Consumption, if they
will send me their express and poBtoffio
address. Respectfully,
T. A. Slooum, M.
181 P-ari 8, New York.
Brownwood (O..) Ueponer: A certain
Georgia preacnersays that the lowest csn
nibal will n .t eat the flesn of a man who
ehes tobacco. This being the case, 1
fine scheme it would be to makes mis
sionaries cf tobaco i-chewiug preachers.
Bucklen's Arnica Salve.
The best salve in the world for cut,
bruises, sores, ulcers, salt rheum. lever
sores, tetter, chapped haudr. chilblains,
comb, and all skin eruptions, and posi-
vurce piB, or no pay required.
IB guaranteed to give u, rfeot Katisfaotion,
r money refunded. Price 25 cents per
box. For tale by Morle, Bros.
Chicago Tribun. : Natural gns has been
found in Texas, and tbe determined na
tives have sternly warned Congressmso
Martin not to t.low it. not,
Caution. Buv on'v Tir Tao Thomp
son's Eye Water. Carefully namine the
ontoide wrapper. None other nennins.
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