The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-05-08

AUSTIN. TEXAS.
AND still the clouds lirger.
A MEXICAN revolution is a quick
affair.
THE Print is on the banks again.
it is very unfortunate paper.
MIR. MITCHELL or the Greenville
Banner retire5 and is succeeded by MI
Davis.
THE Lampasas Dispatch is very
good to THE STATEsMAN-very good,
indeed.
TIE bright sunshine is good for the
rowing cotton, as well as the inter
state drill.
JUST now England seems to have
another dynamite scare on. She has
them often.
TIE white republican party OF
Texas is deficient in nothlng SO nluch
us in voting power.
TIE roses are still blooming but,
alas we have only faith upon which
TO base the assertion.
MR.. HARpENBRooK finds a soft
place to fall upon, but Texas foots the
I'LL, and it don't matter.
WILL the white-haired Norton
really go with the dark. skinned hosts?
A waiting world waits but to see.
THE statement we publish else
where as to the enormous amount of
land held in this country by aliens is
startling.
AND now it seems that Mr.. Walsh
is to stand in front of foeman wor-
rhy OF his steel. Mr.. Patton is to be
the victim.
GEN. TREvINo probably thinks the
climate on this side of the Rio Grande
agrees with his health better than
that "over there"
TIE Express puffs his excellency
rather vigorously. 1t is a good thing
for the Express, but it may not be ex-
actly nuts for the governor.
MIR J. G.. WHITNEY, the hero OF
the Estancia Ranch battle, in New
Mexico last summer, was recently
tried at Springer and acquitted.
EVEN those papers fighting THE
STATESMAN most bitterly. praise its
. makeup, get-up, and general excel.
lence most warmly. Extorted praise
is the sweetest of all.
If the Mexican modes only prevail
ed here long enough to enable the re
publican party to unload Logan, what
an Immense relief Blaine and Arthur
would feel it to TO-.
THE Post on Sunday had a cut OF
the new cotton exchange, and the pa
per generally was a daisy. 1t goes
against the grain to say SO, but truth
is truth, nevertheless.
WACO Is having an infinitude Of
F., trouble on account of her water. i
Il purer supply is not found by thu
time old daddy cholera comes along
there will be trouble in that camp.
THE Gainesville Register is not op
posed to Ross at all. In fact it is in
favor of him. But at the same time
it doesn't propose to force him to b.
governor of Texas, whether or no.
How does Arch. Cochran stand il
this new alignment Is he with thu
fair, or with the swart-skinned phal
anx? 1t will be very funny to SCI
boys hunt their proper places in thu
fold.
How does Dick Allen, Wrigh
Cuny, Richard Nelson and the remain
der OF the black brigade relish thu
color line, as fixed up at Dallas
the other day? 1t is rather rough. tt
be sure.
THE Austin schools close this weel
with appropriate examinations ant
exercises. The advance has beer
very gratifying. We are glad to re
port the outlook for the schools fol
the future is good.
Miss BERTHA HAX, most lovely
young lady from st. Joseph, Mo-, is il
Austin. She is famed beauty, ant
receives the respectful homage of al
who admire the very perfection o.
female loneliness.
CAMMACK and Easton occupy thu
same cell in Dallas. Wouldn't it b.
splendid chance to inaugurate the
dog eat-dog policyp Society would
have few regrets if both were destroy
ed in the contest.
WHEN one clips an item from the
Dallas Times one doesn't have to
a.edit it. Everybody knows where il
came from at once. No other paper
in all the wide universe can say such
things in such language.
SAN ANTONIO affects lawn tennis
The dudesque attitude OF San Anto
Mo looms up alongside of the vaude-
vile spirit, and it will eventually
overcome the element which makes
the latter so potent now.
THE Lampasas Eagle asks if call
the milk of human kindness has
eked out of the man." "Eked" is a
strong word, a graceful word and a
very forceful word, but "tramped
OUT would have been better, and it
would more nearly express the literal
and exact truth.
Tom OCHILTREE had his represen-
tative at Fort Worth, and the r.pre-
Setatiye cast in his lot with the whit q