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EDITORIAL NOTES.

III the MOUNTAINS VI II Sho.
The Houston Post last Sunday
issued a very interesting l2-page
paper.
TERRELL is said to be fishing for
Maxey's seat in the United States
senate.
The Forth Worth Gazette is
badly afflicted with the free-grass
malady.
WARD TAYLOR, OF the Jefferson
Jimp, is a candidate for the Office
of sheriff of Marion county.
THE Marshall Messenger says
'rLet the press of Texas erect a
monument to Gen. Sam Houston"
NAsT's cartoons again appear in
Harper's Weekly. He has done
some very nasty work on that pa
per.
WIN. SEXTON, the billiardist, was
thrown out of his buggy in New
York, the other day, and badly
hurt.
The Fort Worth Democrat is
strongly opposed to the free grass
doctrines of its neighbor, the Ga
zette.
HENRY G. VEENoR, the famous
weather prophet, died at Montreal,
on the 18th of June. He was 43
years old.
BLAINE once called Hon. Roscoe
Conkling a turkey-cock, and there
fore the Chicago Times says he is
a statesman.
IT is stated that John A. Logan
is the only soldier of the late war
who went in as private and came
out a major general.
THE Statesman says the election
of Mr.. Robertson as mayor of Aus
tin is a signal victory for the best
citizenship ofAustin.
A DEMOCRATIC club has been or
ganizcd at Indianapolis to work
for the nomination of James Nc
Donald for president.
THE Fort Worth Gazette urges
the people of Tarrant county to
make the best possible showing at
the New Orleans exposition.
Hon. BARNETT GIBBS will have
good support from this county in
the state Democratic convention
for the lieutenant governorship.
The Statesman wants anybody
to beat Epson for congress. Ii
would be satisfied with Col. J. T.
Breckenridge or Hon. 10 d. Say
ers.
GEN. ST. JOHN, of Kansas, is an
ardent prohibitionist and he says
the nomination of Blaine and Lo-
gan is an insult to the prohibition
lists.
The branch lunatic asylum at
Terrell is progressing very well
and the contractor says it will be
ready for the furniture by January
1, 1885.
THE Austin Capital says the
Democrats, if they hope to succeed
in the coming presidential election,
must nominate a man who can car
ry New York.
A LIST of thirty prominent indie
pendent and Republican papers is
published, that have or will an
nounce their intention of not sup
porting Blaine and Logan.
THE Galveston News says, the
poor old two-thirds rule did not
stand a ghost of a chance, though
there was a fair sprinkling of
moss-backs in the convention.
TALMAGE has been preaching at
Little Rock and may come to Tex
as, in which event the Fort Worth |
Gazette wants to get Major PENIS
gospel tent for his accommodation.
A WAR is going on between the
pork men in Chicago, one operator
has bought more pork than there
is in existence and he is now call
ing upon sellers to deliver it to
him.
The Bonham News predicts that
dark horses will have poor show
ing at the Houston convention.
1t thinks that Ireland, Gibbs,
Swain, Lubbock, Patton and Tenn
pleton will go through.
The Houston Journal says that
Tom Ochiltree's friends claim that
he has made a good record in con-
grcss, and that he Will come up |
with burst before the people.
Maybe so.
The Waco Examiner is now
blowing its own hornj it is q good
paper and Its patrons will find 1t
out without being told. The pat
rons of a newspaper aye the best
judges OF its merits.
ExTRADITIoN papers have been
for the purpose of hay
ing John c. Emo, o heightened
New York defaulting bank official
brought back from Canada, where
he has sought refuge.
Oyer one hundred and sixty
railroads have entered into writ
ten agreement to reduce tsFaS to
New Orleans during the EXPOSE