The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-08-16
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Harris county has a game law. For
Bend has not. Parties living in Hous
ton go hunting, kill prairie chickens
cartridges, etc, and report having hat
splendid luck in Fort Bend county
and all the time they have not beer
out of Harris county-The Nation.
In our issue of July % it was STATED
"that it was understood when the las
legislature adjourned that Gov. Ire
land would call an extra session O.
that body early in the fall" but W,
were informed yesterday by Hon. II
j. Labatt, of this city, and Hon. w
l.. Thompson, of BeXar. that it is mo-
the intention of Gov. Ireland to cal
an extra session OF the legislature
even if the constitutional amendments
were adopted. Col. Thompson is just
from Austin, and spent some time
with the governor, and he is satisfied
that it is not the intention Of the gov
ernor to convene the eighteenth legis
lature in extra session. 1t is the opin
ion of the gentlemen above mentioned
that should the amendments to the
constitution be adopted at the coming
election the governor will not declare
year-San Antonio Light.
we are ashamed of the record Ar.
kansas makes in contributions for the
exposition. Close enough the people
initiate the parsimony of the legisla
ture or the indifference of Stoics in
responding to appeals for money OF
exhibits. We have it not much in
heart to blame them for failing to do
individually, that which their legisla
tors should have imposed generally
But the result will be disaster long
felt.-Texarkana Democrat.
In the scholastic superintendent Of
the school fund San Antonio gets
'S2I,127, Galveston $17,968, Houston
1880, Dallas $500, Austin $7245
Waco, $6417, and Paris $500. The
cities receiving between $4,000 and
$1,000 are Brownsville, Denison. La
tween $4,000 and $1,000 are Brennan
Fort Worth and Sherman. Corsicana
and Gainesville get over $1,000 each
and other cities less according to pop
ulation. The apportionment being
based on scholastic population is
measurably Indicative of the relative
grades in population of the several
cities, providing the scholastic census
was correctly taken in each instance
A nun, said to be the prettiest wo-
man in West Texas, eloped recently in
Castroyille with man who had adj
dressed her before she assumed the
veil.
The weather for the last ten days
has been very hot and dry. All whom
we have heard express an opinion say
the crops in this immediate section
will fall short of an average crop
The hot weather is causing cotton to
open very rapidly, and it is thought
that ali the cotton on the river will
be gathered and marketed this year
long before the usual time. We hear
much complaint, too, about the
streams and water holes drying up.
Some of the old Texans say this has
been the severest and most disastrous
drouth we have had for over twenty
years. However, this drouth seems
confined to the immediate country
around LaGrange and south of us.
We learn that twenty miles north of
us the crops are as fine as they have
ever had, and that the yield will be
equal to the best of crop years.-La
CIR ange Journal.
Hon. Amos Morrill,, Judge of the
United States district court for the
Eastern district of Texas, has for
warded to the department at Wash
ington his resignation of the position.
count of i'll health and an affection of
the eyes, which prevents him almost
wholly from reading AMI writing
Galveston News.
United States District Attorney
Evans and w. D. Wiegans, Of the de-
partment of justice at Washington,
have been in Jefferson several days.
The object of their visit is stated by
them TO be to investigate several
charges preferred against United
States Attorney Guthridge in his Off
cial capacity, and also to inquire into
the probable cause of the death of
Judge Haughn. They are also in
structed to inquire into the truth
of the charge that threats have
been made that the United States
court could not sit there to try the
election cases.-Exchange.
Prof. Alex. Hogg was reelected SUI
perintendent of the public schools at
the meeting of the school board by a
vote of five to three. Mrs. M. Sue
Warren, actuated by desire to see
the public schools unimpaired and for
the sake of harmony, withdrew her
name as candidate.-Fort Worth
Democrat.
The Cisco Roundup, in speaking of
receiving considerable cenSure from
some of the citizens of that town for
not blowing and putting" the town
enough, says: 1--WE have frequently
noticed that those that find the most
fault and want the newspaper to do
the most, do the least toward sup
porting the paper"
A mob, says the Dublin Enterprise,
rode up to the house of Rev, Mr.. King
and threatened to kill all his son-in-
laws sheep and his family also, if they
did not take the sheep out of the coun-
ty. Mr.. King, adds the Enterprise, is
well known as good man, valuable
citizen, and one who attends to his
own business, and the only motive the
party could have had was to run off
his sheep and get the benefit of his
grazing land themselves or prevent
others from being brought to the
country. The sentiment at Carlton
very much disapproves such meas
ures, and if the people of every COM
munity would be likewise, such acts
of mob violence would soon cease.
We hear that Mr.. r. K. benson and
wife have separated, and that Mrs.
benson has begun suit for division
of the property. The trouble is
about will recently made by the cd
gentleman. We regret to hear of
this. They are well ana favorably
known here; having lived at this
place for a number of years.-Corn
Hill Express.
The senior of the Quid Nunc, an
nouncing that he will be absent for a
few weeks. facetiously adds that he
SLOPES many may be agreeably sur
prised at the marked Improvement in
the paper in consequence of his alb
Sence.D
Cattle have fallen heavily in price;
and they ought to have fallen. They
were altogether too high. The price
paid in Texas was more than else
where. A short time back, buyers