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THE WEEKLY BANKER
EY RANKH? &J.EVIX.
FEI3JLT, . FEBETJABT C, 1SS0.
FOR SENATOR.
J.Tarln M. TTennev. of Autin coaatr. ii
hcSij- annonacci ts the Democrat c of
tnaare lor CiC MJie icnai., wr um: tu
tih stsstonsl district, to succtcd W. K.
lIomaa:ai"ncd.
JheneaJi of John E. X'CAbco, ot
Washioctoi? count), announce himis a
w-icidaie for Stair bcnswr tor tae iiea
.:th -Se iUMl Dtftngt.
The Telcgiam says the time
is coming when Texas will
raise goober peas as big as
pumpkins and pumpkins as
larre as hozsheads. These
wonders will take place when
Lang is elected governor. -
Bishop Rvax, of St. Lous, is
of the opinion that there should"
hi no St. Patrick's parade this
year, aud he suggests that the
money usually spent in this sort
of nonsense be sent to the
starving people of Ireland.
Iseral Boothbv, cashier of
tua First National bank of Au
gusta, Ga, suicided on Tuesday
tjy jumping into a cistern with
weights attached to his feet,
and at the same time shooting
himself through the head.
"The State Grang; at the hut
meeting failed to select an or
gan ana now they are under no
ubligat on to any paper. The
Meridian Blade says "this is a
wise step and we hope the
order may profit oy the
change."
Col. JkiB Ingersou. recently
lectured in Chicago on the life
oLTom Paine, lhe sum of
$1500 was raised by this means
tor the 'purpose ot erecting a
monument to the memory of
l'aine in one of the squares of
that great moral city.
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Senator Harris, who has
charge' of the list of supervis
ors, says that all lrom Texas
w ill be confirmed, lhose who
desire to be appointed census
takers for counties can now
xommence bothering the super
viiors already nominated.
ThE house has passed the
jury service bill, declaring that
no person shall be required to
serve but three weeks during any
one year in the United States,
Courts except to complete the
trial of cases begun betore the ex
piratioa ufsucn ter.il of service.
Or. Siemens, an eminent
telegraph engineer, of Berlin,
contends that he was the first
to utilize the electric light. He
refers to his electric illumina
tion of the imperial arcades at
Berlin, which was achieved
long before Mr. Edisons' exper
iments. One of the rules of the house
prescribes Ihc duties of chap
tain and requires him to take
an oath to discharge his duty.
.Rev. Dc La Matyr, greenback
congre-ssman, said ministers
.should not be trusted more than
any other men. The rule was
not ammended.
The committee on ways and
means are now engaged in
hearing the argument on the
subject of the duty on steel
rails. The bill underconsidera
tion was introduced bv Covent,
of New York, ana fixes the duty
on rails at 510 per ton, the pres
ent, duty being $28.
A correspondent of the
Galwston Ntzes writing from
the Seura. Mojada mines, Jan
uary is, says tne situation is
unfortunate, water and fuel are
scarccrand the ore does not
pay. .Until.percnanent water is
discovered there is nb prospect
ior the Seirra Mojada.
A Missouri paper says the
greatest enemy that state lias
to content with is the Globe
Democrat. It not only uses
everything that comes in its way
against the state, but seeks slan
derous matter of this kind for
publication. It also takes a
fiendish delight in slandering
lexas.
1 ijj 1
Reagan's- ammendmeut to
the new rules of the house gives
the committee on commerce'
exclusive jurisdiction and con
trol of vthe nver and harbor
bill, and gives the corosrittee
the priviledge ot reporting the
bill at their pleasure The
amendment was carriel by a
vote of 1 10 to 40.
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Our friends of the Houston
Telegram appears to be pleas
ed that Waco and Beltoi, both
want the Santa Fe railroad. If
it is not specdly- extended th
Telegram s--ys there won't be
territory enough left to m?ke
uic roau worm a quarcri. nous
ton would be haopy if the toad
wisn't worth a nickel.
The Pennsylvania republican
convention met at Marrisbure
oa Wednesday. If the conven
tion instructs for Grant his
nomination is a certainty, if it
instructs against btm and in
favor of Blaine his chances arc
completely gone. The prcva
lcntopinion is that Pennsylvania
is opposed to a third term.
The San Antonio Express of
-last Sunday is immense. It
Mas intended for a holiday
edition but nothing has been
lost by the delay. It is a
twelve page papr splendidly
illustrated by pholc-cr.!?ravinfs
that of Hans Mickle and Calm-'
ity Jims, being of special inter-
est to newspaper men. The f
m,vcssi5nziniy entitled to
111- b.ue nh, on l..r gctti.ig out
l-ivShjitds.jines'-holic'av paper
.i.oi.cc.m Teas tl..s ear.
EDITORIAL BREVITIES.
The Grant boom begins to
stagger.
The cash balance in the state
treasury is now about 8350,000.
The grand lodge of Odd Fel
lows is now in session at Dallas.
A Mrs. B. Hill was burned
te death in Paul's Valley, In
dian Territory.
The testimony taken before
the senate exodus committee
is to be printed.
Prof. Rilby's report on the
cotton worm has been ordered
printed by congress.
An Austin special to the
Nczcs -ays sales of school and
university lands are largely in
the increase.
Petitions are being forward
ed from New Orleans to the
president endorsing Pinchback
for naval omccr.
The Henderson Junes sug
gests that the state of Texas
purchase the right to use Clem
ent attachment.
Chicago uants the national
democratic convention held
there this year. St Louis is in
the same condition.
The senate has confirmed
quite a number of supervisors
census in different states,, but
none for Texas as yet.
Blaine has been credited with
making a good deal of noise
down in Maine, and that is about
all he has accomplished.
Our ne"ghbors, the Exaininci
and the Telephone, of Waco,
are now engaged in a quurrel as
to which has the largest circula
tion. The United States treasury
now contains $482,000,000 in
coin. Some people insist that
there is no money in the coun
try. Geo. W. Childs, of the
Philadelphia Ledger, donates
one thousand dollars toward
the relief of the suffers in Ire
land. The .Brownwood Baiwu
thinks Texas will be full of
democratic candidates by early
spring. The woods are full of
candidates.
The Springfield Republican
calls on the republican voters
of Ma'ssachusets to organize at
once against the Grant thi rd
term movement.
Beecher is mentioned as a
presidental candidate. It won't
do, says- the San Antonio Ex
ftess. Politics are too much de
moralized already.
The Denison Herald szys the
whole occupation tat is wrong
from the start and ij an injus
tice which the citizens of Texas
should strive to have set aside.
The work of grading on the
Santa Fe railway is being push
ed right along, the work is
nearly completed across the
prairie southwest of Cald
well. There has just been a great
snow storm at Nashville, Tcnn.
Eight or ten inches of snow has
fallen and is the heaviest snow
experienced in that locality for
years.
Since the fall elections sud
the defeat of- Gen, Butler, in
Massachusetts, he Eas disap
peared almost entirely from
public view. Politically Butler
is dead.
A returnhd- exoduster at.
Houston said: "If de Lord
spars me to get home I intend to
'vise ebery nigper to stay right
whar"he: is, andlet Kansas go to
thunder'V
The republican executive
committee of Alleghany county
in which Pittsburg, is located,
instructed the delegates to the
national convention to vote for
'Gen. Grant.
The appropriation for fees of
clerks and sheriffs in felony
cases for the current year is ex
hausted. They will have to
work on credit till the next leg
islature meets.
If General Grant reads the
leading daily papers throughout
the country, he must certainly
conclude there is not a very
high value placed upon his
statesmanlike qualities.
A grezkback meeting for
Burleson county is called for
Saturday, February 14, at Cald
well. It may be that this
meeting has something to do
with the coming election.
Greenback editors are ir
respressible, no amount of fail
ures discourages them; as soon
as one breaks another starts.
The town of Burnet had a green
back paper .started en the .st
inst
Flint & Co.'s furniturt fac
tory in New Yorkhas just been
burned, loss about gico.ooo.
The men had been on strike
several days and had m-ide
threats; it is supposed thcbui'.J
ing was fired.
It is said that Jay Gould will
shortly visit Texas in the inter
est 01 nis railroad-!. He now
has control of the M., K.and T.
and will probably extend it to
connect with the Texas and
Pacific road.
AsrEciALioinc jvezvs says-
mere u a report current in
Washington that Ex-Governor
Davis, of Texas, is favorably
considered for commissioner of
Indian affair, vice Hayt, re
cently decapitated.
Brcmond's East and West
Texas narrow gauge railway is
now completed from Houston
to Trinity river. An excursion
was given on Wednesday and a
number of Galvestonians par
ticipated in it
At Lancan, Ont., recently a
party of masked men with
blackened faces .vent to the
house of one Donellvandmurd-
ered him. his wife, one son and
1 niece. They then set fire to
he houe. whirh. with the I
, murde'cil people, v.as lotiliy
(consumed ' ' i
The Grant boom having died
out the friends of Sherman are
now engaged in manufacturing
public opinion in his behalf.
Republicans of South Carolina
and Florida are now said to te
strorgly irt favor if Sherman.
The Ccmarchc Chief wants
the G . C. and S. F. road to
run through its county and
town, and can not understand
why it should deviate from its
coursj via Beltoi, Goryell,
Hamilton and Comanche, to
go to Waco.
James Gordon Bennett of
the NVw York Htiald, ha
headed the subsription list for
the Irish sufferers, with the
name of the Heiald for S100,
000. Previous to this time all
New Qork city had subscribed
only Sij.cco.
The Victoria Advocate does
not have unbounded confidence
in governor Roberts. It thinks
his recent order for elections to
fill vacancies in the legislature
is indicative of his intention to"
call another extra session of the
legislature.
It is reported at r,a;.s and
generally believed that the Dil
las and Wichita railroad com
pany have secured means to
complete the road to Denton
and thence to Whitesbcro,
which will give the M. K. and
T. road a terminus at Dallas.
Hon. Ciias. STEWART.of Hous
ton, writes a letter to the Gal
veston Ncais, in which he denier
Keeking political preferment,
butwants the reforms sought in
the legislature. He thinks the
democrats should work Inside
the party.
The charges of dishonesty
against Indian commissioner
Hayt are found to be true. He
is charged, among other things,
with corruption in connection
with an Arizona mining scheme.
It will be found that others
besides Hayt have been specu
lating wrongfully.
Don Cameron would doubt
less like the opportunity to ex
tend the toe of his boot nar
enough to civil service reform
to aid in its hasty precipitation
out o' sight and out of hearling.
Senator Conkling would be
sure to give it the same consid
eration, if it Lounded toward"
him.
The Luling Signal gives a
history of the man Woodruff,
who wrote the slanderous letter
to the New York Tribune.
Woodruff lived at Luing" for
several years and had the char
acter of being a shiftless worth
less vagibond and general
loaf.r He chimed to be from
Ann Arbor, Michigan.
Wrr rich deposits of miner
air IraTC been f.,und in Gunison
county, western Colorado. The
discoveries are said to exceed
in quantity and quality any
thirg hitherto known in the
. state. Prospectors are flocking
to that reigon and'if the reports
are not exaggerated a second
Leadville will soon spring into
existence.
It is an easy matter to make
calculations, but a very differ
ent thing to accomplish the re
sult of the calculation. The
St. Louis Globe-Demociat thinks
that if eVery Irishman in Amer
ica would forego his toddy on
.Pat ricks day and send the
unoneytto'.Ireland. at least al,-
ooo.odo wouidTiraised: -The
Gainsville Register wants
! the coming state convention to
declare emphatically in favor
of an amendment to the con
stitution permitting the expen
ditures of money for immigra
tion purposes, within a fixed
limit, and for more liberal ap
propriations for the free schools.
The Banner shakes hands with
the Register over that sugges
tion. vThe Denison News says the
exodus, as far as Texas is con
cerned, is at an end. Hardly a
day passes that some of the
poor deluded exodustersdo not
arrive in Denison from Kansas.
The fever is cooling down a lit
tle now, but in the fall as soon
as crops are gathered-they will
take a new start, without wait
ing to vote the republican tick
et for president
A dispatch from Fort Bu
ford, D. T. says on January
29 a party of Gros Ventres and
a band ofUncapaps, who had
raided the former's camp and
driven off a lot of ponies, had a
bloody battle. Fifteen war
riors were killed, and the Gros
Vertres recovered their ponies.
The Indians are much excited
and a general row along the
Yellowstone is expected early
in the spring.
The clause in the penal code
which declares that if any per
son shall get drunk, or be found
in a state of intoxication, in a
public place, shall be deemed
guilty of a misdemeanor, and
on conviction before a court of
competent jurisdiction, miy be
fined in a sum of not more than
S100. is beinrr quite extensively
published. This law so far as
the state is concerned is wholly
unobserved.
Several New York parries
were before the railway com
mittees of the senate and the
house in relation to the exlci
sion of the International rail
road from San Antonio to Lai
edo. Th- committee are hear
ing diflc.ent companies on this
question, and it is thought will
select from amontr them the
one iroat able to complete the
work.
The San Antonio llciald is
in favor of the state establishing
an immigration bureau at the
earliest possible moment it re
quiring a constitutional amend
ment to do so. Kansas and
Nebraska have been settled up
through the agency" of the state
bureausof immigration and why
not Texas. The state has suffi
cient arable land to support a
population as great as that ofj
the cn're United St-itcs I
The testimony in the Spof-ford-Ke'logg
case has been con
cluded. The majority report
will be s:gned by all the demo
cratic members, who, it is said,
will recommend the ousting of
Kellogg and seating of Spof
ford. The papers are devoting
some space to Norton's In.'el
ligencei, a republican paper
publishi-d at Dallas, which re
cently published an article to
the effect that the southern
democrats are trying to break
up the government. Norton's
paper has a very limited circu
lation and no iufljencc what
ever. His articles is not worth
noticing and should have been
treated with silent contempt.
The Caldwell Register of
Saturday last says net a word
in regard to the candidacy
Mr. W. K. Homan for the se:
ate. It is generally understoo
here in rJrenham, that he is
candidate in the greenba
.ticket and it is expected that
will net quite a number ol re
publican votes There will
uc icaa iiiaii.uicc wiuuiuaica
in the field antTaJively rade
for a special election -may be
expected
The Denison Heiald institu
tes a comparison between
Fenimore Cooper's noble red
man and the common dirty,
whiskey drinking Indian that
roams ever the beautiful Indian
territory'There is no similarity
between the two. Civilization
has degenerated the red rfian.
There are some good, honest,
industrious and intelligent In
dians, but they are few in num
ber when compared with the
vagabonds.
Waller connty has just had
another murder. Near Howth
station on Tuesday night.Pierce
Calhoun and Jerry Smith, the
latter colored, quarreled about
a trifling matter. Nothing was
thought of it, but on Wednes
day morning Calhoun borrowed
a gun and going to a field where
Smith was at work, and getting
close to him, shot him in the
heart killing him on the spot
Calhoun mounted his horse and
estaped. Officers are in pur
suit and hopes are entertained
of his speedy capture.
The Dallas -Heiald of Tues
day comes as an eight page
quarto paper instead of the un
weildly folio of heretofore. The
name of the Commetcial has
.been dropped and for which
change the newspapers of the
state will no doubt be profound
ly thankful. The former name
was entirely too long and drew
very heavily upon time and the
Italic case. The Herald is a
live, progressive and conserva
tive uewspaper and has the
Banner's best wishes for its
success. It is the representa
tive paper of North Texas and
as such should .have a wide cir
culation. The correspondent of the
San Antonio Exptess, with the
railroad expedition to the Chi
nate mountains, writes thafthey
have proceeded as far as Fort
Davis, arriving there January
25. The av 1 ' through
Limpia canon for lwi.r.ty-one
mil - Through the entire
le gtr. the scenery is varied and
grand. The wall, of bare, brown,
iron rock, rise almost perpen
dicularly to a height of four
hundred feet Gamevras abun
dant The clear light of the
region, six thousand feet above
th sea level, ha a cirious ef
fect, objects that appear to be
very near are fully three times
the supposed distance away.
There are not a great many
r;pub!icans in McLeanancouar
ty, but those that are there are
beginning to exhibit more ac
tive ii te est in political affairs
than for a long time past They
favor an active partizan support
of the nat'onal ticket The
Telephone says as regards state
politics, they say a state f'clcet
would simply be time and labor
lost, and trey will be ready to
lend their aid to an indepen
dent movement, if the nominees
be conservative and progres
sive men. They propose ap
plying this rule of action to
county as well as state offices.
It seems that the republicans
are wishing to lay politics aside
when there is no chance for
any offices.
The Pennsylvania state re
publican convention at Har
risburg adopted a platform con
gratulating the country on the
result of the republican finan
cial policies, and deprecates
further financial legislation at
present, favors a protective
traffic and affirms the general
principles of the republican
prty. The convention nomi
nated auditor general and
justice of the supreme court;
and after adopting the report
of the committees and appoint
ment of dele-ates to theClucago
natioual convention adjourned.
The delegates to the national
convention are instructed to
vote for Grant for presidential
nominee, and vote as a unit
Protective tariff means high
tariff and :s in the interests of
the Pennsylvania iron manufac
tprers. Gov. Hendricks delivered an
address the other day to the
school teachers of Indiana, in
which he said: "It is your
business to mike the free
schools of Indiana not only use-
lul and valuable to the people
ot the state, bat to make them
popular, so that cordially, kind
ly and gen-rously the people
w"M give of their substance to
support these schools. These
taxes are paid cheerfully, and it
is your business and the busi
ness of those you repr-sent to
sec that no offense in any way
be given to those who support
these schools."
At Waco the other day
tv.-j bi negTrs engaged in a
tutting match on the public
strctt.
WHOSE FAULT!
The Gonzales Inquirer refers
to the last legislature and says
that perhaps two-thirds of its
meniLcrs were chosen in a
rough and tumble race, and
without any regard to their fit
ness. It says "w-c need active,
fresh, intelligent, vigorous, pro
gressive, conservative men in
our legislature. IFe have beeu
worn out with ignorance, stupi
dity and old fogyism." TJiere
is much truth in this and it
should teach a lessoi
future -rfco
hjjfe exhaustei
ting'therH
light of
(rouble
by
legislators
nt difficulty'
solayVd by vo-
before an election xar.d the
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not-Kctivity and abil;ry for cursing
those who were elected by
their neglect to vote after the
election is over. v
In the last legislature Wash
ington county was represented
by two negroes, whose only
claim to the position was their
profound ignorance. They
were put forward by the repub
licans for the purpose of secur
ing the colored vote to carry
through tht republican candi
dates for county officers. Re
publican candidates for county
officers were free to acknowl
edge and did ackowledge that
the negro candidates were not
fit to go to the legislature, but
that they would do less harm
there than anywhere else, thus
showing conclusively the object
in sending them there. Now
these same white republicans
take special delight in traducing
the sixteenth legislature and in
blaming the democrats for all of
its short comings. The few re
publicans that were sent there
were no better than so many
wooden men.
The intelligent thinking peo
ple should' think about these
things and endeavor to avoid a
recurrence of the same state of
affairs in the future. By elect
ing the right kind or men, bo
matter what their political views
maybe, these difficulties may
be avoided. From a party
stand-point we would of course
greatly prefer seeing a demo
cratic legislature and will do
our best to secure the election
of such an one; but we 'would
also like to see the republicans
send good men to the legisla
ture, men of sens and sound
judgement; healthy political op
position is a good thing for
both parties and at the same
is calculated to prevent much
pernicions legislation. If a lit
tle more attention was paid to
the ability and fitness of men
for office, and, perhaps just a
little bit, less to their peculiar
politicial views it would be
much better for the country at
large
A CLASS SOJUKATIOS.
The Cleburne Chionicle says
the farmers are not going to
choose one of your running in
debt governors. There is ap
parently a disposition existing in
some quarters to array the farm
ers of Texas, as a class, against
all the other businesses and
professions. In some quarters
a persistant effort is being made
to make it appear that Roberts
is the best governor Texas
every had, and that consequent
ly he should be re-elected. It
should not be lost sight of, that
one class of people do not
make a state; the farmer, the
merchant, the mechanic and the
professional man each have an
important part to play, and all
must work harminously togeth
er for each others interest in
order that all may be success
ful. One class can not succeed
at the expense of the other. It
is true that at this time Texas
is almost exclusively an agri
cultural state; her manufactur
ing industries, comparatively
speaking, are hardly worth
mentioning; upon the product
of her fields and pastures de
pends her entire income. In
order that agriculluraPintercsts
should be profitable, it is abso
lutely necessary that commer
cial interests be" profitable also.
Commerce and agriculture are
twin sisters and must go hand
in hand; there can in the.nature
of things be no conflict between
the two, unless it result in the
injury of both; hence the abso
lute foolishness of attempting
to otganize a farmers, move
ment as opposed to the other"
interests of the state. If those
who are favoring the movement
are not the veriest demagog
ues, they know they are doing
a gross injustice to all classes.
If they are demagogues, which
is far more than likely, they are
working merely to subserve
their own interests at the ex
pense of the community at
large without reference to
class.
The faimers of Texas, as a
genera! thing, are well informed
and a moments consideration
should be sufficient to convince
them of the futility of attemp
ing anything in the nature of a
class ticket or of a class admin
istration of state affairs. The
present constitution stands as a
monument of class work and
while many of its provisions are
wholesome there is much that
is objectionable. One class
can not be arrayed" against an
other without resu'ting in the
injury of all.
TTHO PATS THE TAXES I
Grand master Lang of the
state grange has a favorite
theory regarding taxation,
which is in plain language that
the farmer pays all the taxes,
no matter how many exceptions
there may be, or who pajs the
taxes. The Denison A'rws
says "if I-ang be correct, why
not assess all the taxes on the
farmer at once and not other
occupations? It would save
expense and simplify matters
very much." 1 he .Vwi thiaks
s is an ingenious sophistry
invented to tickle the farmer.
and boost the author into popu
larity for the gubernatorial
race.
In the abstract Lang is cor
Tect, all The wealth of a coun
try comes out of the ground; it
is the product of the soil. The
fanners arc the principal pro
ducers; upon" the productive
ness of the soil depends the
wealth ol a country to this ex
tent Mr. Lang's assertion is cor
rect. But unfortunately for his
theory there are other classes
of people besides farmers; if all
other occupations were done
away with the farmer would
soon be reduced to a primeval
condition. As the country is
made up of different occupa
tions, and as each occupation
is taxed to the utmost limit, it
is evident that the farmer does
not pay all the taxes; it is the
other occupations that makes
the farmer prosperous by crea
ting a demand for the products
of .the farm; without them there
would be no occasion for the
farmer to raise more produce
than he needs for his own con
sumption. If this assumption
be true, then Mr. Lang's theory
falls to the ground. As the tax
laws now stands the farmers
are perhaps taxed as lightly as
any elhcr class, perhaps more
lightly. In making up the new
tax law the last legislature
seems to have exercised a vast
amount'of ingenuity in invent
ing means to tax everybody
and" everything except farmers.
The constitution puts a limit to
the ad valorem tax, and beyond
that limit the farmer is out of
reach; he may, as claimed, by
Mr. Lang, pay all the taxes in
the long tun, but in doingso the
earnings of men engaged in
other professions are very ma
terially reduced, they do not
find any more money in their
pockets by the farmers having
paid all the taxes. Death and
taxation arc two things that are
inevitable; death is inexorable
and no one escapes, but with
taxation it is different; taxes
must be paid and somebody
must pay them ; the question is
who? andherearisesthescram-
ble to shift the responsibility of
taxpaying from one class to an
other; those who succeed in es
capingthe tax collector, consid
ering themselves especially fa
vored by "providence. In order
that taxation may be perfectly
just it must be perfectly equal.
To bring about this equaliza
tion is a problem for legislators
to solve. If taxation were equal
the farmers would not pay it all
as claimed by Lang, and he
fails or neglects to tell how this
unequal division of taxation
may be avoided.
Capt.9. 31. Kenner.
This gentleman, who is the
democratic nominee for the
state senate, is an old Texan
and has been a citizen of Aus
tin county for many years and
is thoroughly conversant with
the wants of the people of this
district, and is perhaps as well
versed in the affairs of the state
as any one. He is a highly ed
ucated and accomplished gen
tleman of qu'et and unassuming
manner-and is universally pop
ular with those who are so for
tunate, as to enjoy his acquan
tance. He is a sound derpocrat
and will make a hard-working
and useful member ol the legis
lature, if elected. Let every
democrat turn out and vote on
the 17th in st. and his election is
assured.
Colman's Itnral IVorld.
This excellent Farm Journal
is almost indispensable to the
rarmer,, .bruit Grower and
Stock.-Raiser. It is the only
journal in America that has a
department devoted to the cul
ture of Sorgo for Syrup and
Sugar. It entered its tliirty
third'yearon the first of Jan
uary, and has the bet men in
the West and South contribut
ing to its columns on all
branches of Agriculture. It
gives splendid premiums for
both small and large clubs. It
is published weekly at S1.50
per year, by Norman J. Col
man, 600 Olive St. Loub,
Mo. Sample Copies free.
Send for one.
There is but little doubt that
the" Democratic National Con
vention can decide upon candi
dates who can carry New York,
Indiana, New Jersey, Connecti
cut, California and Oregon, pro
viding the republicans nominate
Grant.
Tomatoes struck from cut
tings bear much earlier than
when grown from seed.
STATE XETTS.
Comanche wants a graded
school.
The Wallace sisters arc to
appear in Dension this week.
The supply of flour and
meal is somewhat i short at
Mason.
Thomas Cohn's store at
Helena, west Texas.was burned
a few days since.
Talk on whiskey, is the
caption of an article m the San
Antonio Express.
Sherman already has five
candidates out for city marshal
election in April.
Anderson, Grimes county.
now has two schools private
and will soon have a third.
Calvert had a small fire on
Monoay night; half a block of
old frame houses were burned.
Dr. J. W. Williams, for 30
years a citizen of Bastrop, is
dead. He died on the 4th inst,
aged 79.
The meeting of the Grand
Lodge, I. O. O. F., at Dallas
has crowded that city with
strangers.
the revival meeting is
still in progress at Houston;
Maj. Penn appears to hvae been
doing good work.
The snow at Dallas block
aded the street cats an'd the
tracks had to be cleared before
the cars could "navigate."
Morgan is the name ol a
new town on the Waco extcn
sion of the Central road. This
Morgan is in Bosque connty.
Professor Cevor, the bal-
lonist, is reparing his big bal
loon and will next summer
make an ascension from Hous
ton. The recent rains were quite
general, extending all over the
northern and western portion
of the state and as far west as
Austin.
The steamer Aransas was
at Corpus on Monday, being
the first steamer that has cross
ed the bar since November a
year ago.
The Victoria Advocate
says much complaint exists that
a numbrrof half grown negro
boys harg around town without
doing any work,
The Tyler Democrat says
some men are already begin
ning to take a stronger and
mote friendly grip of your hand
they are candidates.
The. First Cty National
oank has just been organized
at Dallas with a capital of SI
000,000. Pretty heavy bank
for a town like Dallas,
The new iron bridge across
the Brazos river, on the Central
extention, four miles west of
Whitney, is finished and has
stood a satisfactory test
Tht funeral of marshal
Ball at Sherman on Tuesday
was largely attended. Ball was
from Maysville, Kentucky and
went to Sherman in 1S72.
The residence of Rev. H.
H. Hall, at Denison, was burned
on Sunday right while he was
holding service in the M. E.
church. Loss about Soo. "
A German boy 17 years of
age arrived in Galveston en
routeto San'Antonio, but fall'
ing into the hand of the vam
pires soon lost all his money.
The Comanche Chiei
learns that nearly all the bees
in the county are dead. Starv
ed to death 01 account of the
drought last summer and fall
rionham is a prosperous
and fortunate town; there is a
surplus of 5700 or S800 in the
city treasury. In view of this
fact taxes have been reduced.
Fannin county has a man
with the beautiful name of "On
ion" Cox; the Bonham News
announces that Onion will not
be a candidate forcounty judge.
Considering this a"! good
a time as any to make the fight
on the school question, the
Bonham News proposes to sup
port a free ichool man from its
district.
Marshal "Sam Ball, of
Sherman, who was shot last
week at the "Red Light," died
on Sunday evening at 8 o'clock.
He was a good officer and was
well liked.
Everybody in San Antonio
says "we must build a narrow
guage railroad to the gulf."
But nobody offers to put up
any money or give the matter a
tangible shape.
A Chinaman writes to the
Denison News that he wants to
get married. He -says he is a
man; "punkin colored com
plexion and does not get drunk
likee Melican man.
A white man and a negro
had a shooting scrape at Tex
arkana the other day. If this
shooting occurred in Arkansas
this is not a state news item; if
it occurred in Texas it is.
Wash Jfowell, who was
under four years sentence to
the penitentiary, died in the
jail at Calvert There are up
wards of fifty prisoners in the
jail and several of them are
quite sick.
The warehouses at San An
tonio are crowded with freight
for the west Laige quantities
destined for Brackctt, San Feli
pe and Eagle Pass; transporta
tion facilities arc insufficient to
meet the demand.
The body of a murdered
man was found near the railroad
bridge at Galveston by a negro
who was hunting on Sunday
morning. iiiccoronors lurv
returned a verdict in accor
dance with the facts in the
case.
On Sunday nirrht there
was a heavy snow -in northern
Texas; at Denison it was one
inch deep while at Dallas it was
eleven inches and at McKinney
twelve inches deep. It was the
heaviest sno.v fall
ycais.
fcr several J
Alf. Johnson, who was kill
ed by marshal Ball, at Sherman,
was a cripple, a school teacher
and a regular correspondent of
the Bonham News, his home be
ing in Fannin county.
The four companies of the
Twenty-second infantry lately
arrived at San Antonio will be
sent to Fort Clark. They were
recently a portion of Gen.
Hatch's command against the
Utes.
A big land suit has just
been Commenced in the United
States court at Waco, involv
ing the title to about 40,000
acres of land in Coryell county.
The claimants reside in Ala
bama. An Austin man has an old
flint-lock Hessian rifle that was
made in 1771. It is over five
feet in length and is very heavy;
the bore is very small, not caf
ryinga larger ball than a com
mon pocket pistol.
'I Arrangements have been
made for the erection of a col
ored normal school at Denison,
under the auspices of the A. M.
E. church. The building is to
be 40x70 feet ; it will be of
gothic style and an ornament to
the city. )J
Gibbs, of the Coleman Tele
gram, who was robbed by high
waymen while en route from
Waco to Coleman, thinks the
robbers displayed very bad
taste. The idea of robbing a
country editor is funny to say
the least.
Denison now boasts of a
centenarian, Mrs. Oliver, ho
is in her one hundredth year.
She reads without glasses; her
faculties are unimpaired and
she bids fair to live several
years. She is a native of one
of the West India islands.
Fredericksburg has lately
had a case of inLnticide. The
mother Angelina Wagner, a
young married moman whose
husband has deserted her, says
that one Rountree is the father
of the child and that he mur
dered it and threatened to
murder her if she exposed him.
Last Friday night, some
fiend or fiends applied the
torch to the Olmos creek school
house, six miles from San An
tonio. The building, a cheap
frame, was burned.to the ground.
Loss about $506. The man
who would burn a school house
would burn a church and steal
sheep.
Eli Barnes, secretary of
the Longview and Sabine Val
ley railway, was instantly killed
on his road near Lonview. The
accident was caused by a tree
falling across -the track. Barnes
was riding on a flat car behind
the engine and was caught be
tween the tree and the tender
of the engine.
Mr. Padgitt, of Waco, had
occasion to use some powder
and having no powder horn he
filled the side pocket of his
coat with the explosion mat
erial. Forgetting all about the
.powder he'pdt a pipe he had
been smoking in his pocket
there was an explosion, a torn
coat and a burned man.
Lieut Anirgton and fif
teen men of the frontier battal
ion have been on an Indian
trail about three weeks and pur
sued a gang of Indians into
New Mexico. He fs now camp
ed at a lake of fresh water near
the line of New Mexico, in the
unorganized county of Gaines,
where white men have never
before visited.
The $30,000 court house
at Dallas was burned on Wed
nesday morning. The probate
papers in the second story were
lost; the other records were all
saved. The fire originated in
the second story and is suppos
ed to have been accidental
Loss about $28,000, no insur
ance; the work of reconstruc
tion will be commenced at once.
The people" jf Tyler are
elated at the future prospects
of their town. The narrow
gauge railroad will be complete
to Texarkana by April 1st.
Bremonds' East and West Tex
as narrow gauge railroad will ul
timately reach Tyler and it
will become a center for narrow
gauge railroads. .New build
ings are in course of construc
tion txid the business outlook is
considered good.
The town of Lewisville,
Denton county, had quits a nice
little sensation over the robbery
of the grave ol George Sterling
who had quietly rested beneath
thedais:es for five long years.
The bones were found in the
cabin of a negro undergoing a
process of boiling; the darkey
said he had been hired by a
doctor to cook the bones. The
parties were all arrested, but
their names are given.
Several ladies of Com
anche have become wratby at
the Chief for published items in
regard to the doings of their
relatives. The Chief says it is
very sorry to have given offense,
but if the gentlemen will just
keep out of scrapes they will
keep out of the paper.' The
remedy is a good one. It aP
fords newspapers no pleasure
to publish the misdeeds of
people, but readers demand the
news and win have it; hence, if
men don't behave themselves
they must expect to be publish
ed.
The Waco Examiner defiant
ly tells the democrats opposed
to the Roberts administration
to "organize "their bolt." The
Examine! does not appear to
understand the situation. The
masses of the party are oppos
ed to the present administration
of affairs, and will compel oth
ers to come to time or holt. If
there is any "bolting done the
probabilities arc it will" be by
the administration democrats,
and the Examiner may get its
thirgi in order for such an
event. San Ar-tomo Express.
Beat at Their Own Game.
From Ihf Martin Call.
One of the pluckiest men in
the medical profession is Dr.
South, of western TcaS. He
was warned some time ago
that he would have to pay with
his life the forfeit of having
voted, as a member of a grand
jury, for the indictment of a
certain band of desperadoes.
One night a man rode up to hiJ
ranche, and informed him that
the wife of the ringleader of the
gang was ill ana that he must
attend her. He naturally
hought it was a trick to get
him out and kill him, but he
got his horse and rode away
with the messengerright among
the gang of desperadoes, and
entered the tent of the woman.
There lay the sufferer, while
the man who had promised to
kill tne physician stood near
by. The doctor.drew his re
volver, placed it on the pillow,
and remarked that he would
"attend to professional calls first
and personal ones afterward."
The dosperadoes were impress
ed with his courage and human
ity, and trebled his fees instead
of shooting him.
A Splurge From Hngro. ,
M. Victor Hugo seat the fol
lowing characteristic paragraph
to the publication issued dur
ing the Paris fete for the bene
fit of the Murcia sufferers:
"Man's true resistance to
catastrophes is an augmentation
to humanity. Be carried away
by and help each other. The
solidarity ofmen is the reply
to the complicity of mysterious
events. Thus is established on
the earth the third term of the
grand human formula, fratern
ity and equality, but there will
come in due time liberty, not
withstanding aristocracy. But
fraternity is the door opened,
the purse emptied, the hand
helping. How prevent that?
Well, be assured under that
hand which helps the frontier is
obliterated, under that purse
emptied hearts are filled, by
that door opened the future en
ters. Spain wounded, France
bleeds. The'blow which strikes
Murcia touches Paris. Paris is
the capital of the world, and
every grief of the world is a
grief ior Paris."
Tbe Coming Coasw.
The penalties for obstructing
census takers who begin their
labors on the first Monday in
June, are severe. The law
says:
All persons above the age of
21 years who shall refuse to
furnish the information required
by the supervisor or enumera
tor shall forfeit and pay a sum
not exceeding S too, to be recov
ered in an action of debt Pres
idents, directors or othw.e
cials of private corpoiaUww
who refuse to furnish informa
tion required of them, are made
liable to a penalty not to excetd
io,odo. Only two weeks are
allowed for the completion of
the census. The compensation,
of the enumerators is the. fol
lowing: Two cents for each
living inhabitant; two cents for
each death reported, ten cents
for each farm ; fifteen cents for
each manufactory, which is to
be in full for all services, and no
mileage or traveling expenses.
The subdivision assigned to
each enumeratoi must not ex
ceed 4,000 inhabitants.
A We" Sight
It is a great mistake far a
husband to keep his wife in
ignorance of his business affairs.
In ordinary families it is she
who regulates the outgo, and
sT".e ought to know the income.
Not long since I heard a young
wife just in the early experience
of housekeeping, sayi "How
shall I know whether we are
living beyond our means? I
can't get any idea of what we
have spent; and, while I try to
be very careful, of course I
might spend less on my table if
we were getting ia debt"
Surely she ought not to be
blamed if the debt and accounts
are not prosperous. A loving
and anxious wife suffers untold
imaginary fears if she sees a
tired and a preplexed expres
sion on her husbands face,
unless she is assured of the
truest confidecne between
them, andknows no great con
cern of his is kept a secret from
her.
The New Orleans Picayune,
of January 25th, contains the
following: personal notice: "Col. '
Frank W. Johnson, 82 years of
age, president of the veterans
of the Lone Star State state, at
Austin, arrived in New Orleans
yesterday on his way to Mexico
by steamer to Vera Cruz. He
is the only survivor of the hero
ic band who received the bap
tism of blood at the famous for
tress of the Alamo, and in the
fights at Refugio in 1836", be
ing at one time in-command of
the Alamo- after the death ot
the gallant Milam. Col. John
sen is stopping at the St James
hotel, having brought letters to
Louisiana's historian, Hon. C
Gayare. CoL Johnson is at
present engaged in writing a
history of Texas."
1 MP I
Denis Kearney, being asked
by a Washington reporter the
other day what he thought
about (he condition of the
country, simply remarked: ''It
is surging and swinging on the
corrupted gates of political
damnation. It is going to hell
fast enough, and we must cap
ture the White House before
another year, or the country
won't be worth the trouble of
selling at the jheriffs block."
Belknap, Jfcbcock. Sheperd,
Harrington and the pardoned
whiskey ringstcrs are the prime
movers in the third-term move
ment, and in the event, ot it
success, those worthies, would
ag..in control affairs of this Uc