The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1885-12-03

generally known, his chances for. a nom
ination will be mighty good.
Bill Sterrett, or the Dallas Times, says:
Of course the Austin papers will urge
an extra session of the legislature. The
hash-house keepers of that town appeal to
the governor in plaintive tones at every
corner.
There are several people in Dallas who
are more anxious for an extra session
than the Austin people are. They, the
Dallasites, want to come where they can
get something more to eat than their
town affords.
This is what the Balance Wheel says of
itself:
The Daily Balance Wheel occupies the
top round of the journalistic ladder
Take the news to Marian!
There is a man in our lunatic asylum
who claims that he is the smartest man
in the world and he labors daily to con-
vince his brother lunatics of this fact.
The Dallas Herald has ceased to exist.
1t has been sold to the News, the Herald
taking stock in the News. The Herald
has existed Sc years, it being established
in 1849, by Mark Latimer. Since then it
has passed through many hands.
The Texas Star, published in Burnet,
thus speaks of the small pox:
The small pox scare is ended as it is
now understood that there is no chance
of the disease spreading; it is confined to
the few families who first came in contact
with it. DR.. Jim Watson is still over
there and will remain until all danger is
over. All praise to DR.. Jim for his cOur-
age.
Several papers in the state seem to
think there will be an extra session of the
legislature. This is not, however, the
present belief in Austin. But here is what
the Dallas News remarks:
The talk of a special session will be the
means of making many people read the
acts of the last legislature thing they
have avoided as much as possible. They
will now want to see what provisions are
really in the land law.
| The Dallas News says:
Atlanta, having voted for prohibition,
will now commence learning the methods
of avoiding it. The jug trade of Macon
will grow.
No doubt of it. This prohibition bust
ness, when successful, simply drives the
intoxicants from the bottles into the jugs
and demijohns. The appetites of men
cannot be controlled by legislation-Or
prohibition.
The editor of the Mason News lately
visited Austin and on his return published
the following in his paper:
The STATESMAN has improved under
it's new management, and Colonel Miller
informed US that the company would
spare neither money nor brains to make
it irst-class daily, equal to any in the
state.
That's just about the size of it.
The Texas Star, published in Burnet,
has this to say of the engine that is to
be used in hauling rock from the quar-
ries to the capitol grounds:
The engine for the quarry road came in
last Sunday night and is quite curiosity
to those who never saw one. The boiler
is composed of a perpendicular boiler
about six feet high Joined in the center to
one about the same length, which runs out
horizontally, and on the end of which is
the smOke-stack and headlight. 1t is pro-
PEELED by cog-wheels which are cast into
the truck-wheels and connected by rods
from one wheel to the other. The engine
is not calculated for speed but will draw a
load equal to that of the largest freight
engine. Capt. Wilke informs us that he
will be able to haul car for car with the
Austin & Northwestern railway, which will
enable him to keep train-load each day
for shipment.
The Fort Worth Gazette is not bit
skeered. just hear it:
This country woulden't go to the demni-
ton pow-wows, even if it did have to get
along without president for a little
while. There was no president from 1775
to 1887. Our fathers maintained the
most unequal war in history, organized a
govirnment, and won independence with
out the service of president. We are as
capable of getting along without the one
man power now as they were then.
The winding up of the Dallas Herald
disposes of an old landmark in Texas
journalism It was established in 1849
and consequently was Sc years old when it
expired. A monument should be erected
to its memory. Outside of Galveston,
where the News and Civilian are published
there is not city in Texas, containing
five thousand inhabitants, that has news
paper So years of age, and there are only
three or four in the state that have sur
vived that length of time. Among the
oldest papers now published in the state
are the Galveston News and Civilian, the
Clarksville Standard, Palestine Advocate,
Huntsville Item, Waco Examiner, and
Norton's Intelligencer.
The Cisco Roundup rounds-up a good
many sensible articles, big and little.
Here is one of its latest predictions:
Unless the communistic spirit which is
daily growing in this country is checked,
the time will come when anarchy will
trample out society and government. The
labor strikes and election riots now so
common are but the advance skirmishes
of the threatening conflict.