The Arkansaw traveler., 1884-10-18

overccais. in which tAey had hidden s7s.- 76s s3; and about how the good vie lights the fall 6re in the fireplace. and how she and her husband both com missed suicide when he told her how he had secrsssd SIoi oso tn gold certificates in the old rubbish tn there. leiso notice that northern journals are pespssrating such uew % and osigsal jokes as usual
 ON TENDER GROUND. There came neAr being horrible mur- der here the other day. A ios ot passen- gers were h waiting te leave Austin on the Missouri Pacific train. A stranger huuiedly approached oas of Aussins most prominent citisses and said:
 "Wili you please teii me the exact fare from here to Canadag
 The Austinite turned on the stranger and yelled:
 "whas in thunder do you think want to know what 1t costs to go to Canada tor r -why, l though. from your position that you might"
 Does anybody hear him r' screamed the Austin man |" let me get at him !! He asks me if know the fare to Canada, and tells me l look like a man who ough, h knowr'
 The by-Handers kept them apart and the stranger told the Austin man that he thought he was addressing the ueke, agent oa inquiry the stranger asoer- ta,ned that the Austin man vas bank cashier and that is why he was 90 sen sitiye about being asked the fare .o Canada
 RAISING CAMPAIGN FUNDS.
 The man who thinks tha. the negro in Texas is down-trodden to any great en- tent is badly mistaken. There h . negro editing paper in Austin, the state capital. Just before the iAss city election this editor vent around to one o( the n,ne white candidates tor mayor, and said
 "Gin1, ,es -s' 70 eye on dis ere Tile piece O writia' an see q you don think i, wuff DO less than S7o.
 The candidate read it and found that it WAS oae of the most forcibly euisgistie articles endorsing him (the candidate ] for the office of mayor that he had ever read and it urged all the colored people the vote for General Toliver. or coarse the editor received the Sac He then went back to his office, took the galley !" containing the matter from which he printed the eulogy on General Tolives and substituted the name of Coloael SSaweed, another candidate for mayor. He took proof of this to Colonel Sea- weed, and the same dialogue ensued, and Colonel Seaseed remarked with alac- r,,y and broad grin:
 {" should smile that it is worth S1o it you publish ,hs, in the Civiifas two or three times s,o here is s7s"
 The poor. down-trodden, ignorant negro editor then went through the same operation with that editorial until he had put in the names and taken the proof to every one of those rival candi dates, and he never got less than Sso from any ol them, and two gave him a hundred dol lars and promised to buy large number Of extra copies when the paper came out and each one vas bound by vow ol secresy by the colosed editor.
 Of course each of those candidates looked for that paper that week and bought large number oi them as soos as they came out-to tAe astosishmens of the office boy. And, when those candi- dates had all separately and individually read that paper they all, with one accord but without the knowledge oi the other, went out in the fastness os :he mountains and swore very awful and very loud. and kicked themselves sosely. For, behold, not a word did that colored organ say about any man running for the offi.e of mayor of Austin.
 GIVING HIM POINTS.
 One of the daily papers of Austin em ployed new city editor the other day, and one of the old members of the staff remarked to the capital staff corrsspood- ents of the Calves.on Nsws and the San fAnsonio Exbysss that their (she Austin dxily'sl new man would be able to sho~ the staff correspondents of other state pspers . lev points. Of oourse this pst the boys on their metsie, and they agreed that it would be the proper thing to give the pew man a fev points 6rss, and