The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1885-12-10

That elegant SPACE Sheet" The Texas
Figaro" now published in San Antonio,
viii hereafter be issued simultaneously in
San Antonio and Austin to find more room
to spread itself. 1t will meet with
hearty welcome.
The News is Chataqua all the year
round-especially on Sundays.-Dallas
News.
The News is chatter-quack all the
year round and Sunday too.
The boy, reared away from temptation.
proves too weak when an unrestrained
man to resist their allurements The
tree that never felt the breezes and blasts
when sapling, cannot when grown with
stand the stOrms.-Mail.
Are we to infer from the above that
boys should be placed in the way of temp
tations while they are being reared, in or
der that they may become hardened to
them? If so, away with such philosophy
Some of the Texas press are berating
Gov. Ireland because he did not specify in
his thanksgiving proclamation to whom
thanks were to be returned. The mission
airy society might get in some work on
those edltors.-Dallas Mercury.
That was gross oversight on the part
of Governor Ireland, considering that
there are so many newspaper men in the
state who do not know to whom thanks
should be given, without being told.
Evangelist Williamsj ought to prove a
11c+o A
He is said to be, in his features, almost a
perfect image of the late lamented Ben
Thompson.-S. A. Express.
Let's see. 1t was in San Antonio Ben
Thompsons features" were so much OBJ
jec.ed to.
According to our Austin report young
L. P. Davis petitions the Methodist con-
ference to restrict his preaching to Satur-
days and Sundays, so that he can find
time to go to school and learn to be a
minister. The young divine should by
all means be restricted,
Yes, and a good many pulpits in this
land would be benefited if their preachers
were restricted" and sent to school for a
while.
advertisements out of Uncle Daniels
Houston Age. AS he always took his pay
sin kind from the saloons, and as he
keeps right on in the same old style, what
difference does it make to him whether
they advertise in the Age or not? You
have got to do better than that, Sirs
Knights, if you want to set Uncle Dan.
back assingle-dram.
To the STATESMAN: It was Ferdinand
the seventh, and not Frederick, who set
aside the salique law for his daughter,
Isabella, and not Christina
Times.
You're another Besides we said Ferd
VII.
If the following from the Dallas News
be true, it is safe bet that it never does go
into effect:
The prohibition law does not go into
effect until July in Atlanta, and people
who are fond of intoxicants can lay in a
supply of jugs by that time.
The Gazette rises to remark that:
No democratic president ever died in
Office. Mr.. Cleveland is, we trust, too
much attached to the traditions of his
party to violate such precedent
Mr.. Cleveland never yet died in office
and never will. He is not that sort of a
man. He has sworn to support the con-
stitution of his country, and he is going
to do it.
The Cameron Herald calls attention to
the fact that:
Every day movers pass through Cam
eron bound for all points of the compass.
It is frequently the case where movers en-
route for the west pass movers bound for
the same point from whence they came.
Those bound to the same point
from whence they came are from Arkan-
sas. For years and years class of peo-
ple-so called because they have the hui
man shape and have elbows-have been
coming to Texas and then returning to
Arkansas. Many of these have done this
SO often they have become we'll acquainted
all along the line, and they frequently
pay it back when they return.
According to the BRENNAN and Waxa-
hachie papers the people in those towns
have given prohibition the blacklist kind
of eyes, SO much so that it required the
powerfulest kind OF ''eye-openers'' to re-
store them.
The Mail calls attention to the fact that
the Canton telephone would like to see
the fertile public lands delivered up to
tay-paying plowmen. 1t thinks such an
arrangement would be better for the
country.
1t is only question OF. time when this
delivery business Will be consummated
As soon as the ''plowmen" become thich
enough the taxpayers viii be increased
Until they do, the state must realize what
little it can out of its school lands in the
great unsettled districts. This matter
will right itself in time.
The Fort Worth Mail credits the STATES
MAN with saying that
TT is strange that no one has adopted
Austin mud as substitute for mortar
From the way it sticks after it is dry
there is no reason why it should not be
| frst-class, If it is kept dry"