The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1885-02-26
Capital City Cuttings.
THE TELEGRAPH BILL.

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AUSTIN, Feb. 25.-tSpecial. Repre-
sentatives of the different telegraph
companies doing business in this state
| were before the committee on internal
/ improvements this afternoon. All tbe
companies seem 10 favor Mr.. Pope' 8
! bill, q synopsis of which was tele-
| graphed the HERALD last night, except
tho Western Union. The billwill he re-
| ported favorably tomorrow.
Senator Traylor left for homo this
morning, to be absent until Tuesday.
THE MINUTE MEN MEASURE.
/ MIR. Halls minute mon bill meets with
| favor, and 1t is believed tho committee
will report it favorably. The commit
/ tee will consider il tomorrow.
THE FISH COMMISSIONER.
| The opinion obtains that tho senate
will concur in the house bill retaining
/ The fish commissioners Office for two
years longer, as II seems TO be an act OF
justice TO give the business q fair trial.
I 2ttors from all lrtg Of tho state are
received here daily, asking that IL be re-.
| tanned.
THE u. 4 O.
The representative ofth Baltimore d
| Ohio Telegraph company is here, and
states that his line will he ready for
business here in about three months.
On its completion II is rumorod new
morning paper, with ample means, will
| bo started, as the Baltimore & Ohio will
furnish New York press dispatches.
THEY THOUGHT OF OLD TIMES.
Senate judiciary committee No.
agreed % report favorablv tomorrow
tho bill passed by the house making
. gambling felony, but afterwards felt
sorry for what they did, washed their
hands of tho whole affair, and turned
the bill over TO the tender mercios OF
judiciary committee No. 2.
BLACK EYES.
House bill permitting u wife 10 sue
jointly or without her husband, was re-
ported unt2vorably; also house bill re-
lating to challenges OF array in felony
cases,
THE BREWSTER BU0.
IL has bson discovered that there Is a
bug under the chip In tho formation Of
Brewster county. 10 comes out of Pre-
sidio county entirely. There are only
four men In the proposed county, who
pay all the taNos. There are ne inhabi-
tants, save rowing cowboys, on
one ranch. MurphysVille, the
proposed county site has = box house
= frame shanty railroad station, filled
with FOUNDERS, transients aud cosmo-
politansi on the whole, with q few ex-
captions, one man owns all the land
on which Murphyvlle IL situated, and
the creation of tho county would sell
lots, perhaps, for him There are
not enough men in the county
to mako up q jury. There are no cult.
vable lands, because OF no water.
There are stretches of 40 miles without
q drop OF water fit for anything but cat
70, and but few ranches are there, be-
cause OF lack Of water. The cactus aud
the cayoto reign supreme, and Murphy
vile, the grand capitol of the waste aud
nothingness.
ONLY TwENrY-SiN LAWYERS, THAT'S
ALL.
Out OF the 81 senators in the Texas
legislature there are 20 lawyers.
THE SENATORIAL Rec,
The senators IN the present logis-
lature who will participate in the eloc.
ton of successor TO Senator MaXey
are Bell, Camp, Calhoun, Douglass,
Hall, Harrison, Houston, of Wheeler,
Kilgore, Knittle, Glassoock, Garrison,
Pope, StinsOn, Terrell and Woods. II
will oe seen that they are nearly all
young mon, and indications are they
will want "A young man for senator
/ While many, In fact most OF them, are
non-COmmittal, there are thruo names
| now spoken OF to succeed senator
| MaXuy, and those are Wollborn, Mills
| and Horpce Chiffon, OF Tyler, The
latter gentleman, though, will be more
/ likely TO succeed Mr.. Jones rs repre-.
sentative OF his district.
Tl.MPLEroN's SUCCESSOR.
| Among the best lawyers In tho present
senate IL e. X. Bell, OF Hamilton, and a.
It's pretty sure Col. Templeton viii not