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Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1882-07-06

but the public will always believe
that the verdict should have been in
accordance with the general facts. II
may be argued that lying is only wrong
when it is pro6tless, whether in poli.
tics or law; or in making virtue out
of the Malley perfdy or the Republi.
cans determination to keep in office
A goodly number of the government
employees in Chicago, because of the
two per cent tax levied by the Repub.
lican party managers. are beginning b
inquire, Who constitute this govern.
ment, the Republican party or tn,
people at larger" They forget tina
the party in power runs the machine
and that the whole people" hav,
nothing to sayin the matter nowadays
and that IF employees do not lik,
my dear Hubbell's circular reoues
to send in two per cent of their sala
rles, or-take a stroll. Of course
this is not what is gen
orally understood as Repub
licanism. But what matters i +
the cormOrants who are lordipg
under that name. An employee woul,
be foolish to sacrifice his position b
not acceeding to Hubbelfs demands
unless he or she has the means TO sur
port such action; or that Mr.. Curt
furnish such means. Mr.. Curt
should organize relief fund for M
benefit Of employees whose principle
of right control the cravings of t6ei
stomach. When this is done. m
prosecuted class will show their co
ors. The people at large are taxed [
keep up the government, and unit
the people arise and stamp out ofici,
! corruption, it is useless for poor EN-
ployes to attempt to effect anything b
the infamous tax being imposed upo
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1882-05-04
MiraC'e'.

do we believe in miracles" Alonzo
Well, we should preach. When man
can sit down in a New York restaurant
and have brook trout, spring chicken,
venison steak and reed bird served OIL
the same old soup bone, we are ready
to take in any miracle you ever saw III
print. Believe in miracles? When the
American farmer can put quart OF
strawberries in box that won't hold a
pint of sand; when almost any coal
dealer can make seventeen hundred
weight ton; when a communicating
clerk can measure whole yard at one
sweep of thirty-three-inch stick; when
a ten pound block of ice looks small
alongside four-ounce hail stone; when
any barkeeper turns whisky into water
before he opens mp in the morning ;
when you can put out fire with illum-
mating oil; when soap fat stalks abroad
as A l cloverfed butter; when you
find miraculous draught OF fishes IN
the sky-blue milk; when a committee
of women alta church fair can make a
barrel of soup with ole cove oyster
when-do we believe in miracles, doubt
ing Alonzo? 1t is an age of miracles.
The world is full OF Miracles, or over
run with rascals. You may accept
either Interpretation. - burlington
Hdpkeye.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1882-05-04
The COtten.Belt Route.
st. Louis Republican.

Col. J. w. Paramore has just made a
trip over his line in Arkansas, the Tex
as and St. Louis railroad. He let the
contract for building the railroad bridge
at Pine Bluff, across the Arkansas river
at a cost of $500, 900 to Rust and Cool
idge of Chicago. 1t will have an iron
draw and combination fixed spans.
There will be six fixed spans besides
the draw, making about 400 feet OF
bridge.
The bridges across the White river
at Clarendon and the Ouachita at Cam
den have been let to the same parties.
The cost of the bridge at Clarendon
will be $4,000; the one at Camden
across the Ouachita $4,000.
The bridge across Red river at Gar
lands landing was let to H. S. Hopkins
& Co. of this city, at $4,000.
All these bridges are to be completed
on or before September l.
The Texas system will be opened for
business by September l, 1882
This Texas and So Louis system Will
comprise by September l something
over 90 riil,s IN Missouri, Arkansas
and L xls; aud when the projected
branches to Dallas and the extention to
the Rio Grande is completed it will
embr zee between 1900 and 1,600 miles.
This system traverses the most fertile
portipnS of Arkansas end Texas. and is
Justly STYLED the Cotton Belt Route,
beca Use it emphatIcally passes through
the richest cotton producing country in
the United States. and the sy stem when,
completed, will tap every important
commercial point in Arkansas and Tex
as in the belle: that 1t can successfully
contest for business against the stand
ard or broad guage roads. Il viii be
remembered that this road, upon the
completion OF 260 miles in Texas, from
Texarkana to Waco, reduced Its fare to
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1882-05-04
How 10 Entertain the Girls.

What shall we DO to entertain our
girls?- says a religious exchange. A
man who needs advice as 10 how to en-
terrain his girls is not fit to edit a reli-
gious paper. We suggest that he
should take one of them out buggy
riding in the afternoon, tell her what a
daisy she is, and how insipid and fixed
up that other girl is. Then he should
take that other girl ont for ice cream
after supper and tell her conidentially
how very uninteresting and awkward
the buggy-riding girl is. When the
two girls meet the religious editor can
depend on them entertaining each
other without his personal assistance
Teras SUtiHgs.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1882-05-04
American Indiyidualisn.
81. louis Republican.

A familiar quotation tells MS not to
make up our estimate OF mans sue
cess till he is dead. But even this is
not safe; we must wait, in some cases,
till a man has been dead for years, be-
f. re striking the balance sheet to show
the results OF his life. The late A. T.
Stewart, the leading merchant of New
York, and, perhaps, III the world, was
called "a wonderfully successful mana
very miracle of success; and certainly
if the amount of money man gathers
in his life time be the proper measure
of these things, the popular Judgment
was nc at fault. He was worth $780,
OOU, 900 when he died, and he left his
dry goods house at the very zenith OF
its remarkable career of profitable bus
mess. Yet the merchant princes tomb
was rilied shortly after his death, and
his bones NOW lie we cannot tell where,
and the great house which his genius
established is about to wind up It's
business, and cause the name OF A. L.
Stewart &; Co. to disappear forever.
1t is striking illustration of the in
exorable fate of individualism in Amer
lean society, business and politics. we
are fond of showing the world what
persons can do, rather than what sys'
TENS can accomplish, forgetting that
persons die at the age OF three score
and ten, and often sooner, while Wise.
ly organized system perpetuates itself
indefinitely. 1t is not yet hundred
wears since the great men of the Revo-
luton, groupof contemporaries which
never had its superior in history, pass
ed away the latest of them fingered to
a time within the memory OF men still
living; yet in this brief time their
names and families, with few notable
exceptions, have disappeared. Many
Of them left descendants, but these,
failing to inherit or to exhibit the no.
BILE gifts and virtues of their sires, have
sunk to inevitable mediocrity, and be-
come lost in the mass of our popula-
ton. But one illustrious Revolutiona-
ry family, that of Adams, survives IN
straightly descended and compact form
on the spot where it became renowned,
and amid the monuments and memen-
toes of it's greatness. Henry Ward
Beeoher is an example of this brilliant
but unlasting individualism which
Americans so assiduously cultivate, and
50 fondly admire. Mr.. Beecher has
made Plymouth church great; but when
he dies there will be no one to take his
place, and Plymouth church will dwin.
die away. In the gilded metropolis OF
the country there are pointed out IN.
dividual founders of fortunes and
houses, which, in almost any other
land, would survive for centuries; but
in the whirl of events in this country
they will be dissipated in two genera
tions, if indeed, they last that long.
Some parts of our land abound in spots
made renowned by the birth or foot
prints of heroes; but it was an individ-
ual heroism, not transmitted by laws,
discipline and habit, to families and
lines of descent. and the famous spots
now, for the most part, have nothing to
mark them but crumblipg wall, or
solitary chimney half hid in brambles
and underground.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1882-05-04
Buy Books

A house without books is cneeii; IL
place, and speaks unfavoraoly lol I'd To
inmates. Men are not accustome" to r.
buy books unless they want them. 81
on visiting the dwelling OF MAJ mats
slender means, we find that he con. eary
himself with cheap carpets ana va, nav
plain furniture, in order that ne In oTy
buy books, he rises at once IN t Gu
esteem. Books are not made loi %
niture, but there is nothing else 'nH The y
beautifully furnishes a house. ma.
plainest row of books that clotn u If
per ever cover is more signlnc44s
refinement than the most elaD Ss n
carved etagere or sideboard. NV Stbsr
a house furnished with books iA
than wit costly furniture. rate.
Both if you can, but books at az lends
To spend several days in a IT, 10
house, and hunger for sometnin SostJ
read, while you are treading on o ;o-s
carpets, and sitting upon IuA AZ Il
chairs, and sleeping upon doxB' e. = The
one we're bribing your body r 10 he
sake of cheating your mind: -os5iue
love of knowledge comes Win IT,
and grows upon it.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1882-05-04

three cents per mile, and started the
revolution in favor Of cheap rates, and
doubtless caused the passage OF the law
in the Legislature. just carried reducing
the passenger fare TO three cents mile
all over Texas. Col. Paramore has also
lust closed contract for the construc'
lion of telegraph line from Carlo to
Texarkana, which will be an independ'
ent line, and be connected with the rail-
road.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1882-05-04

Farmersyille.
The North Texas Coal Company,
of Stephens county, filed charter, Apr
10, with capital Of S25O,OOO.
Mrs. L. G.. Coburn has 10000 silk
worms Mt work at her sesidence, IN Lo'
soyo street, San Antonio.
The Gulf, Colorado & Santa Fe
Company has offered reward OF 81 ,OVC
for the capture of the men WHO recently
robbed their train.
The building OF the new cotton fac
tory at New Braunfels Is progressing
rapidly. Three turbine wheels IL SUI
horse power will be the driving power
The secretary of the Dallas Board
of Trade figures the Increase acreage OF
small grain planted in North Texas
this year over that Of last year as fol
lows Eight times the amount OF wheat,
four times the amout of oats, and 20 per
cent more corn.
The special committee to select a
building for the use of the State gov
eminent, until the new capitol is built,
will report, recommending the purchase
of the Raymond House for $45, 600, and
will present bill appropriating that
sum and $4,000 more to fit it up and
add another story.
Colonel Cave, of the Texas Cen
trail Railway, exhibited in the ante-room
of the hall of the House some thirty
specimens of marble and sandstone
from around Cisco, in Ea stand and
Shackleford counties. Colonel Meyer
state architect, pronounces the sandstone
of the very best.
Monitor: Mr.. Millerney, who lives
two miles and half northwest OF Den
ton, claims to have examined a hall
stone which measured six by seven
inches. G.. T. Aired, living five miles
southwest from Denton, says the roof OF
his house was perforated in eighteen or
twenty places, and that he could thrust
his double. fist through the holes.
Abilene Reporter; Colonel Berry
made d big sale last week to the Gall
fornians -tifty-two sections, about 49,
$50 acres of good lands, principally In
Nolan county, This is probably the
largest real estate transaction IN
Northwest Texas. At an average price
of 1.3O per acre, the whole amount of
the transaction was $43,264.
Ell Paso Times: About fifty miles
east of Ysleta are situated what are said
to be the finest salt lakes and beds in
the world. One of these lakes alone
contains 100000 square yards of pure
salt, which has an average depth OF
eight inches. The supply is inexhaust-
ible, as al evidence of which it is only,
necessary to state that for the last fifty
years the whole of this section of coun-
try and almost the entire State of Chi
huahua have been supplied from these
lakes, Mexicans with trains OF from five
to fifty wagons making periodical trips
to them, and returning loaded with
salt. This salt is said to be the finest
in the world for fuXing and other pur-
poses in mining. The troubles which
occurred here several years ago, and in
which Cards, Judge Howard and others
lost their lives, arose from disputes over
these lakes. These troubles, however,
have been amicably settled.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1882-05-04

The end of the fiscal year ana u -
time to Guitea1, occur on ine
day.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1882-05-04
TEXAS TOPICS.

Abilene will ship 100000 pounds
OF wool this season.
The rails are being laid on the
East line, between Mckinney ana
Farmersville.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1882-05-04

A stranger night was never seen IN
war. The groans of the wounded were
answered by the boots of owls, and
foxes and rabbits nestled under the
guns and hid behind the knapsacks.
Each company was almost isolated from
the other, and the line of battle formed
in the dusk of evening was as eccentric
as the trail of a serpent. Federal and
confederate pickets occupied the same
thickets, but there was no firing. A
regiment attached to Sedgwick's corps
on the right, in moving into position in
the evening, ran over dozens Of cOnfed-
crates without knowing whom they
we're. At midnight that great forest
vas at times As still as death Then it
would seem to throb and culver like .
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1882-05-04

The North Texas Coal Company,
of Stephens county, filed a charter, Apr.
10. with capital Of S250,OOO.
West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1882-01-25
National Commission of Inquiry.

The National Temperance Socie-
ty, New York, is again memorial
zing Congress for a commission to
investigate all the attainable facts
of the drink-trade and report. Bills
to this end have been brought be-
fore each House. Now let this ac-
ton be seconded by petitions from
all parts of the country. Sign it..
Get it signed as extensively as pos
sible. Then send it to J. N.
Stearns, So Reade, ST., New York:
PETITION.
To the United States Senate and House
Of Representatives..
Your petitioners, citizens of the
United States, respectfully ask that
you will provide, by appropriate
legislation for the appointment by
the President of the United States,
of commission of inquiry concern
ing the alcoholic liquor-traflic, its
relations to public revenue and tax
alton, to crime, pauperism, the pub
lie health, morals, education, and
the general welfare of the people
and, also, the results Of license, re-
strictive and prohibitory legisla-
ton in the several States, and in
the District of Columbia and the
Territories.
West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1882-01-25
Exchange Notes.

In place Of the St Mary's Obser-
yer the Oracle comes to us now with
Mr. John S. Hall editor, and NJ. P.
Prettyman, publisher May it
prove an oracle of truth, and sue
coed abundantly.
The Ceredo Enterprise comes en-
larged and improved by the patent
process. Its home columns give
evidence of that sort of life and Wig
or that will thrive and survive.
Now fit will manfully take up and
press forward the cause SO dear to
the live young people of our live
young State it will dorbly deserve
a double success.
The alliance Neps and Home Pro-
tecttonist, splendid sixteen-page
quarto, is on our table. Containing
as 1t does, departments of General
News, Agriculture, Live Stock,
Household, Markets, together with
Temperance news and Literature,
1t is decidedly the journal that ought
to find Il cordial welcome in every
home in Ohio.
West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1882-01-25
Who Wants the Freeman.

Every friend of the Temperance
Cause in West Virginia wants the
FREEMAN and cannot afford to be
wjthou. it.
Every Minister ofthe Gospel in the
State wants the FREEMAN. Preach
ing Temperance is an essential part
of his work under his commission,
and how can he preach Intelligent
ly without knowing of the progress
of the cause for which he prays and
labors?
Every true politician wants the
FREEMAN, that he may be fully in-
formed as to the will of the people
touching the most important polit-
ical question of the day.
Every wire-pulling, machine-pol-
itician wants the FRMEMAN, that
he may haply be warned in time to
save his political neck.
Every sober man wants it to help
in the cause of keeping others sober.
Every drinking man wants it for
the help it will bring him to be-
come sober.
Every farmer wants it for it's farm
items, and for its fresh and healthy
reading matter.
Every West Virginian wants it
for its West Virginia News and
Notes and general West Virginia
makeup.
Every family wants it for it's
worth as general family newspa-
per.
Now won't all our friends
throughout the State help us, see
to it, that all who want it shall
have it?
Let every subscriber become a
canvasser, and find out all these
good people who want a good, live
paper.
S1.5Oa year-same rate for short
err time, down to two months for
25 cents.
West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1882-01-25
Temperance Work in 1881.

The Pittsburg Adcance has an ex-
cellent editorial, reviewing Tenn
perance work and Temperance
progress during the past year.
The article closes as follows:
Gospel temperance moral sua-
sion-was active, lifting up drink S
victims, disseminating temperance
sentiments; Murphy in this coun-
try, now in England DR.. Reynolds
in the North west, now in Massa-
chusetts; and the women every
where. Never was the field so oc-
cupied with temperance leaflets,
papers, magazines, books, societies,
workers. The work done told and
is telling. Public interest in the
great cause is a growing and pub
lie indifference a decreasing guam
tity.
But the years chief "boom' was
in the direction of illegal suasion."
And efforts here were stimulated by
successes of no ordinary kind.
Twenty-seven State Legislatures
were compelled to deal with the
drink-prob}em, not in single in
stance in the direction Of greater H.
cense, but in every case in the in
terest of restriction or prohibition.
That itself is phenomenal. No State
took any backward step. All that
stepped at all stepped forward. In
diana legislated the question to the
people, and when that act is re-
peated, the people will write out the
death warrant of the drink-demon.
Iowa elected a Legislature pledged
to send the question finally to the
people, and Iowans will soon have
prohibition. Kansas, May LIST, 1881
issued a Proclamation of Prohibi-
ton, from which it has not since
taken a backward step, and will
not. What has been is as nothing
to that that shall be. The question
will thrust itself into the National
Congress and every State Legisla-
ture.
Let farewells to the old year then
be blended with plaudits to the
temperance armies that fought so
many battles and achieved SO great
victories.
West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1882-01-25
Investigation of the Liquor Traffic
Demanded.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 11.-There
was a perfect flood Of petitions in
the Senate this morning to investi-
gate the alcoholic liquor traffic.
Every Senator had one or more pc
titions to present on the subject,
and the rush was so great that Mr..
George, Of Mississippi, moved the
appointment of a select committee
to whom the petitions should be re-
ferred. Objection was made to the
resolution. and it went over until
tomorrow Some Of the memorials
were referred to the Finance Com
mittee and others were laid on the
table to await the appointment Of
a select committee to consider them.
The feeling among Senators is that
some action should be taken in re-
spect to the memorials that have
been inundating Congress for the
past two years.
West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1882-01-25
Autobiography.

The oppressed and monopoly
ridden people of Kansas and Ne
braska are sweeping all before them
in many counties and congressional
districts, through Farmers
Anti-Monopoly Movement" Each
Republican voter agrees to Law off
his partisan armor and meet his
Democratic and Greenback neigh
bors on a platform of principles
most vital to their prosperity and
material interests. In the same
spirit the Grecnback and Demo
cratic voters meet their Republican
neighbors, and mutually pledge
each other to support no man for a
representative office who will not
pledge himself also to advocate and
defend the platform. This is the
growing tendency all through the
country, and it is a hopeful sign.
1t indicates that men are purerand
better than parties. 1t is rainbow
of promise that popular liberty
shall yet triumph over partisan
bondage. Let US cherish the hope
which this movement inspires, and
encourage the spirit of indepen-
dence which is everywhere strug-
Cling for deliverence.- Chicago Er-
press
West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1882-01-25
Kansas.
The BreWers' Battle Ground.

After giving an array of facts and
statistics showing the grand success
of Prohibition in Kansas, Gov. St.
John refers to the active opposition
of the Whisky Ring, as follows
"Taking into consideration the
fact that on the soil Of Kansas is
to-day being fought the battle of
Prohibition for the Nation, and
that in this struggle we have not
only to contend with Ex-Governor
Robinson and the Whisky Ring of
this State that so heartily support
and applaud him, but that large
sums of money are from time to
time furnished by the distillers,
brewers and saloon-keepers through
out the entire country to aid as far
as possible to break the force of Pro-
hibition in this State (for the rum
power realizes that the success of
Prohibition in Kansas means event
ually success throughout the Union
and the overthrow of the greatest
evil that ever fastened itself upon
any people,, it will be seen that we
have made very satisfactory degree
Of progress. Kansas will never, l
believe, be again guilty of giving
the sanction of law to the traffic in
intoxicating liquors and the de-
struction of human souls. You may
rest assured that our people will
faithfully continue the good fight !;
we shall take no steps backward !;
we are in the right; we know that
God is just, and if we but do our
duty He will bless the homes of
Kansas with a glorious and lasting
victory, and the rum power will be
buried out Of sight, and beyond the
hope of resurrection"
West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1882-01-25
Temperance Items.

KANsAs.-The first ten months
of 1880, under free whisky rule,
sent to the Kansas State Pcnitenti-
airy 254 convicts, against only 148
the first ten months of 1881, after
the Prohibitory Amendment.
A Boston coffee pot has had fire
put under it by the temperance
people. They have started the ORR
entail Coffee House. Gov. Long is
President of the Company.
Let the people read, ponder, and
be convinced that Prohibition in
Kansas is a great success, though
four Or five cities trample the law
under foot,
Miss Francis E. Willard has start
ed on her second southern tour
The first points visited will be in
Kentucky, Tennessee, Mississippi
and Texas.
A statistician has figured the
murders in the United States, in
the year 1881, at 500, and 459 Of
these are traced directly to drink.
w. C. T. Unions in Illinois num-
bers 270, and President Hibben
calls for the organization of 100
more.
Legitimate business closes at
seasonable hours; drink dens work
most by night.