The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-04-24

THE STATESMAN. |
AUSTIN. TEXAS.
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AUSTIN, TEXAS.
w. P. GAINES, PRESIDENT.
JNO. l.. BARLOW, MANAGER.
SUNSHINE and showers.
GREEN fields and flowers.
1T is now in order to tackle Ross.
THE Kylians are to have peaches
after all.
SOMEBODY ought to interview Gen
Robertson.
OLD winter gets out of the lap of
spring with extreme reluctance.
CLAIBORNE filings ap the sponge
and the battle remains with the glo-
rious SterretJ.
THE knights Of Pythias made a
fine show in all their street parades
while in session here.
LET the bold, bald-face interviewer
beat up the brave Ross in his den
There will be fun then.
WHEN the congressman come mean
dering home then the trouble will be-
gin. Talk of bosses. Bah.
THE Post isnow counting specials
on the News. Truly, is this warfare
becoming undignified to the last de-
gree.
THE interviewer is the finger post
which points to the shortest road to
fame, but like all other near cuts it is
rough territory.
WE have yet to hear of single man
outside of the delegation who thinks
the congressman should go to the ma
tional convention.
THE Express finds too much drunk
enness in and about the court house.
What ? in moral "Santantone ?" o!
this is dreadful, dreadful.
Four of the ablest criminal law
yers in Texas defend the murderer
Adams, and they all know, as well as
the public does, that he is guilty.
SUNsHINEp Well, yes; old Sol is
now admonishing us that his heat is
not spent yet, or gone to the north
pole in search of the Greeley expedi-
ton.
THE Examiner declares Waco Is a
bad advertising town, and that it is
not journalists which are needed there
to make good paper, but real live ad-
vertisers.
THEY all take their little jolt at
the two-thirds rule,and that sound old
party policy will jerk some OF its in.
discreet assailants out of their boots
one of these days, too.
FROM all quarters. come the cheer.
ing reports from the growing crops
Many old farmers hereabouts say the
present will be the heaviest crop ever
made in Texas. So mote it be.
THE Marshall Messengers motto is
"protect the children, the adults car
protect themselves" That would bt
very noble if anybody happened to b.
raiding the children particularly.
The lynch1ng at Palestine indicates
once more that the people of the south
are determined to stamp out the crime
of rape, and that the negro who at
tempts it bat signs his own inevitable
death warrant.
The crime of rape, especially by
negro men upon white women, rises
above all law. 1t is too brutal, toe
terrible even to permit the wretch g
short shrift. This awful crime must
be stamped out.
THE News claims that what it said
about the Posts financial disturbances
last winter was true, while what the
Post charges now is false. There is
decided Indifference indeed between
truth and falsehood.
THE San Antonio Times of Monday
published the tax sales of BexaI
county. The enlarged edition looked
well and we trust the hint will induce
the management to make the ipcreas.
ed size permanent feature.
THE Express developes some politi.
cal rumors as to Hancock and Terrell
which must be very cloudy and unreal
as yet, or something would be heard
of them here. There is nothing like
an imaginative correspondent in
these cases.
THE STATEsMAN's force are all
proud of the new Office. ANY printer
can make from twenty to twenty-five
dollars week and his money is sure
on Monday. No fair man wants a
better thing than that, and that's
what's the matter.
A painful feeling of uneasiness re-
garding the fate of poor Gordon exists
in thepublic mind. If evil has come to
this brave man the niggardly policy of
Great Britain regarding the Soudan
campaign will be very severely con-
demned by enlightened people all over
the world. 1t will prove the death
lxpalI IF Gladstone If nothino mona