The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1885-01-31
STATE PRESS.

Gently offered Fred. Grant an appoint
ment to captaincy in the quarter-mas-
ter's corps, and that Fred. declined it,
giving as his reason that he is heavily
in debt, and could never get out if he
should rejoin the army and settle down
on an army officers pay Houston
Age.
The sale of the Munson ranch. in
northwestern Texas, consisting of l00,-
900 acres, 1000 head of cattle, and seven
ty-five miles of wire fence, to Coburne
4 Ewing, Kansas City, Missouri, for
$500, 900, is good augury for 1885. The
outlook is certainly encouraging.
Somebody is going to make money in
Texas lands and cattle this year. I'll
Paso Lone Star.
There are parts of Texas that are no
yet supplied with railroads and that
want them badly, but it takes money TO
build and equip railroads, and men who
have money will not be so likely to
spend it in building railroads, if, after
they have with their money made the
property, they will not be allowed to
manage it, but must submit to have it
managed by the Legislature Houston
Age.
The prohibitianists hardly know what
they want tor the state. They probably
imagine that they are not performing
their duty, if they are not engaged IN
an agitation of some sort, visionary
plan will answer this purpose as well az
: anything. They are nothing if not inn
practicable. An attainable object moi
so much as to keep the ball in motion
-IDenison News.
We like the inaugural address of Bar.
nett Gibbs, acknowledgement. He ad
, vised legislation, on all subjects han
: died, with view to stability and futur,
: permanency, rather than on narrow
gauge plan TO satisfy the limited pres
: ent. His suggestions show deep study
= a thorough acquaintance with the pub
lie needs, and he expressed his view
so pointedly that no study was required
to ascertain disposition. Gibbs is loom
= ing up immensely, and we are glad Oft
-LGonzalas Enquirer.
The cry that that the early railroad
in Texas were built by subsidies granite
by the state is OF no avail at this time
n Without subsidies no railways woul
Is have been built, and without railway
% the state could not have been developed
The railways have made Texas whs
# she is now, and to railways the futur
of Texas will be indebted. The stat
A, and the people have been amply repai
e for all the subsidies granted the raj
ways Civilian.
p Is crime on the increase in Texas, {
is the law being more vigorously OK
cuted and enforced? Either one or IL
other OF these propositions is true, or
U q measure they may both be true, stint
Of IL is stated that "during the month
IL Dece mber more convicts were receive
40 into the penitentiaries than for al
~ previous month since their establis
", ", ment, the number for that month beiI
10 l73."-lCass County Sun.
'e. If the 1900 acres of school land b
nd longing to Upshur county be placed {
i'm the market at the expiration of h
present ten years. lease, 1t will doubtle
be'sold at So per acre, and would give
u permanent school fund of $3.50
which invested in 6per cent. bon
81 would make our available fund amou
TO over $1,000 annually. At present /
lc- lands as they are leased bring In an a
ne nual revenue to the county of SLIGO
by Gilmer Mirror.
D. The Midlothian News undertakes
ne boom Hon. 0lin Wellborn for &c
ernor to succeed Gov. Ireland two yes
hence. The Enterprise agrees with
on News in the opinion that no man in
ie- state Is more deserving of the hor
es- than Mr.. Wellborn, or could ill the
flee more acceptably to the people, YET
is of the opinion that Mr.. Wellbori
services and influence in congress "
be of greater benefit to the state th
IL. his elevation to the governorship won
he be. lie has won II standing there u
nv would be hard for another to fill.-lW i
aay ahachie Enterprise.
~ The Midlothian News. in half G
umn article, pays Hon. 0lin Wellborl
N M m
as its choice for governor of Texas (
IKE years hence. If Mr.. Wellborn wants
governorship, he will be very hard
All beat. He has been named as the stroi
ras est man in north Texas for that positit
but he may prefer to remain in G.
so gross. 1t is certainly true that
m longer the term of a good man in G.
dor gress, the more influence he will hi
md and the more service he can do his stS
mid Wellborn is one of the ablest and m
ng' prominent of our Texas dolegati
me- There Is no position within the gilt
/, 10 the people that we could not willin
,v va and honestly support our honored r
zen resentativein congress for Whit
oh. Messenger.
cry The Galveston Wharf company got
'dy resolution through the legislature,
TO not with much glory to itself. The n
~. who voted down the very wise and 1
'ith sonable amendments, and then pas
alp the resolution, have placed themsel
ny; in an unenviable light before the maj
lor- ity of the people OF the state. I'll
% gentlemen doubtless never read
lar articles on the wharf company appt
egg ing in the Galveston News few ye
Uf ago, or they would have adopted I
nse relPs amendment at any rate. If
in amendment of Terrell, and that pro,
a Ing that other points needing aid sho
SUN not suffer by the Galveston approp
ids. ton, had been adopted, there could b
ng. been y reasonable objection to
lon adopt " the resolution, but as II "
i've the les ture goes upon the record
ons being hii.ing to sacrifice all other TIE
are harbors In the interest Of Galveston
IA san Antonio Express.