The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-12-04


THE papers very generally agree |
that the Studebaker wagon must 60.
AT last there has been direct news |
from Gordon. His messenger has ar
rived at Merwai.
II is straining Barney Gibbs too Sc
verely to use him as prise to lift Coke
from his senatorial chair.
FRAUDULENT entries of public
lands during the last year amounting
to over 100000 have been reported at
Washington.
THE official vote of Kentucky is:
Cleveland, 152,757; Blaine 1854; st.
John, 3,1o6; Butler, 1855. Democratic
majority over all, 1882.
Mr.. CLEVELAND is the youngest
man but one, General Grant, who
was ever elected to the presidency.
He is forty-eight years old.
THE papers continue to want to
know where the military arm of the
state government was the other day,
when the Indians raided Preside
county.
LONDON editors are admoDished Ivy
fhof fhnU T0nCt nOt
write so much about Egyptian affairs
The Madhi reads their utterances that
great regularity.
THE foundation stone of the WASH
ington monument was laid by Jas. X.
Polk. It's caption will be put on by
Grover Cleveland. This is a good
omen for democracy.
THE receipts of the patent Office for
the last fiscal year were SLID, 433.1O;
expenditures 1901 ,41329. The total
number of patents applied for was
45,204; granted, 22,8S2.
CLEVELAND is hard worker, and
everybody who holds Office under him
will be expected to attend to du-
ties. Chiefs who. employ loafers and
drinking clerks will not stand much
of a show for holding places.
IT is thought the United States SEN
ate will take up the land forfeiture
bills, adopted in the house, and pass
them. Among them is involved the
Texas & Pacific railway grant, trans
ferred to the Southern Pacific.
THERE were five heavy shocks OF
earthquake in eastern Europe Thurs
day. What has aroused the prodigious
and mysterious earthquake force in
the northern hemisphere so much,
lately? Let the philosophers answer.
IT is said the republican campaign
managers are $4,000 short on cleo
ton obligations and nobody wants to
pay. Why does not the committee
call on Jim Blaine. He was the cause
of all this republican trouble, the
basis of all this tribulation.
AT the close of the last fiscal year
there was on the federal pension
books 1922, 1855 pensioners. The aver
age annual value of all pensions is
S106.75, making up an aggregate of
+ S34, 456, 60085, while for the last year
the payments were $56, sos, 597 60.
a TELEGRAM from Chicago tells
how the republicans are at work, put
ting on majority so as to control the
senatorial election. Talk about keep
ing the rascals in. From Dan to Beer
scheba they should be kicked out.
When the fourth of March comes
march them forth.
THE STATESMAN attempted to
build UP an interest in semi centen-
NAL celebration of Texas irdepend-
ence. 1t urged that the people of
Austin take hold of the fair associa-
ton interest and use it in this connec-
ton. 1t could be made big thing.
Why can it not be done?
THE total indebtedness of Pacific
railways to the federal government,
June 80, 1884, is reported as follows:
Union Pacific Including Kansas
Central trail Pacific dncluding Western :,
s, aasl 9}v and Pacific So
,f1rol Irot nh nj n
Total. S12I ,s2S, 0l6.1s
This debt covers principal and in
terest due by the several companies.
A GERMAN paper esUlmates that
France at present owns 600 miles on
the West African coast; England $50
miles, or after the annexation of the
Nile delta, 1900 miles; Portugal. 800
miles; the Republic of Liberia, $50
miles, and Germany $50 miles. The
remaining 300 will soon be seized by
Europeans. The coast is only valna-
BILE as opening way to the rich in
terror.
AT the last October election West
Virginia adopted a constitutional
amendment providing tor the election
of state officers on the first Tuesday in
November. instead of the second
Tuesday in October. When it was
known that the amendment had been
ratified, the prohibitionists nominated
candidate for governor and the
other offices, and as the other parties
had no nominees the anti-liquor peo-
pie had it all to themselves. They will
contest the right of the gentlemen
elected in October to hold the positions
to which they were chosen.
GEN. ]. b. IMBoDEN, one of the
most prominent and best known resi-
dents of southwestern Virginia, over
bis own signature, declares that the
published reports of the ravages of a
disease, described as resembling chole-
"a, in that section, are greatly exagger-
ated. He says that a arrangement of
the bowels. commonly known
fhrourhout that region as af1nx - has