The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1885-02-12
Capital City Cuttings.
NOTHING FROM tARIZZo.


AUSTIN, Feb. Especial None of
the members from tho Rio Grande dis
trict have heard anything about the re-
ported fight at Carizzo Springs, and
troubles on the Rio Grande border.
Even the adjutant-genera's Office has
received no information, and the reports
wired from San Antonio, If not wholly
diScredited, are believed to be greatly
exaggerated. Gen. King, however, to
be on the safe side, has ordered two
companies of rangers TO Garlic, and
has gone down to investigate in person.
THE STATE FIREMEN's ASSOCIATION
conyenes he'e ON the 9Th, and Will re-
main over until the laying of the corner
stone. An invitation has been eX-
tended to all companies in the state TO
be present.
THE ABSTRACT BILL.
The bill to correct abstracts of land
titles is TO have tax collectors and
county surveyors report to the land
Office all errors of the present abstracts
in use in assessors offices, and author
ICES the commissioner to strike them
ouv of the abstract.
MIR. LoCKETT's ROAD LAW.
AUSTIN, Feb. S.-[Special.l-The bi
introduced in the house by Mr.. Lockett
for the laying out, working and repair
ing of public roads by taxation, instead
of by personal service, was intended by
him as only the ground work of the
plan, as he hopes to see it so amended
by the committee on roads, bridges and
ferries, of which Mr.. b. +. Davis, of
Navarro, is chairman, and perhaps by
the house also, if it survives the ordeal
of tho committee, as TO perfect 1T and
make it q measure satisfactory to the
people. There is no question but that
some better and more feasible method
of making and keeping in order public
roads should be adopted than the one
now in vogue. Every road overseer says
he can, with So, secure more and better
work than he can by the personal SER
vice of fifteen men summoned to
work on road. With hired hands
the overseer gets a full and complete
days work from each one, and just
such work as he orders done and every
man who ever worked road on sum-
mons knows he and the other sum-
moned hands only piddle along and
dilly-dally, doing lutte or nothing and
respecting the orders and instructions
of an overseer just to the extent they
please to do so and no further. There
is more dissatisfaction over the present
road law manifested by Legislators, and
it comes from instructions and sug-
any other law now in the statutes OF
the state, and it is a fact that with all
the LEGISLATION there is and has been on
the subject, there is not to-day decent
and respectable public road i've miles
long in all Texas. If Dallas had four
No. roads, kept in good repair, lead
ing into it from the county lines, north,
south, east and west, with what are
known as second class and neighborhood
roads leading into them, the retail trade
of the city would be Quadrupled in
years time, and the number OF bales oil
cotton and bushels of grain received in
the city and sold there fully doubled,
especially OF grain.
DALLAS CHARTER.
The amendments to the Dallas city
charter embraced in the bill of Judge
Coombs, are those recommended by
the city council. The bill will become
law, and the people will have more
say in the management of city affairs,
as they should have.
THE ELLIOTT BOOM.
The suggestion of Maj. John +. Elliott
for governor, made by number Oh pa
pers in the state, meets with a hearty
Affirmative response by many legisla-
tors here. They accord to- him much
credit for the able and magnificent man
ner in which he has managed matters
for Texas at the Worlds exhibition,
and credit him with splendid
executive ability. Should he de-
sire to enter the gubernatorial
race, his friends and supporters
will be legion in every portion OF the
state. He, of course, has not expressed
himself on the subject, and will not do
so unless strongly pressed by his friends
when the time comes.
IMAGINATIVE TALENT WASTING.
There is a certain daily in this state
which is nearly always houndering. in
deep water, and that from time to time
makes day and night hideous and un-
wholesome by its bowling for deep wa
ter. 1t charges that legislators are
chary of visiting Coy. Ireland, that MS
counsel falls on unheedlng cars, ana
that the suggestions OF the young heu,
goid. The New York Ledger, New
York Weekly and the publishers of
dime novels pav well for vivid imagina-
t,ons. and the lucubraiions thereof.
SOMEBODY on the staff of the aforesaid
daily, is losing his opportunity. Texas
has never had a governor more honored
or whose opinions and counsels have
greater weight than those OF
Gov. Ireland. He is dig
niiied, thoughtful, studious statesman,
and when he speaks he is listened TO,
and when he advises there is wisdom,
prudence and consideration in his al
vice, and these facts are fully under
stood and appreciated by the members
of the nineteenth legislature and by the
public generally. The attacks made upon
him are like tho buzzings Of q ny when ne
set on the bulls horn, As FOR the young
.nd nslIow ifeutauarlt- governor, he