The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1886-01-07


big business in Houston. Houston Post
How about that other banks
Major j. r. Breckenridge, of Austin.
has some very warm friends and admirers
who would like to see him governor of
Texas. The Post thinks he would make q
good executive. Houston Post
There are goodly number of papers
advocating the major for governor.
In response to numerous inquiries re-
ceived IN regard to time of meeting of
the press association and action of axecu-
tive committee relating thereto, the secre-
! tary requests some of the papers TO pub
fish that there was no meeting of the ex-
ecutive committee, and the time for the
meeting at San Antonio has not been
fixed. The call for executive committee
meeting was withdrawn. The usual time
of meeting has been in May.-Fort Worth
Gazette.
protectionist organ settles the whole
vexed question thus briefly: Free trade
will bankrupt the nation and impoverlsh
the citizens. Protection, on the other
hand, will enrich the nation and make
prosperous its citizens" We have had
protection in its worst form for twenty
five years, and our present riches and
prosperity are not overwhelming in their
vastness. Worth Gazette.
We would prefer a little bankrupt in
ours to the protection which now prevails.
We are not so helpless that we cannot pro-
tect ourselves to some considerable ex-
tent without governmental aid.
The Dallas Times has absorbed the
new evening paper, the Enquirer, and
once more has the post prandial field all
to itself.-Waco Day.
If the Dallas papers digest all they
swallow, the ostrich will be laid in the
shade forever.
Elk Minister Lowell has written letter
cautioning Americans against being duped
into giving money to establish supposed
claims to vast estates in England. These
are simply tricks of designing persons to
catch the unvary-the game of confidence
men, as we say in this country. Waco
Day.
Every paper in the United States should
publish the above or something similar,
and even then the English dead-beats
would find enough gulls to afford them a
support.
A letter from DIR. Wallace, superintend-
ent of the North Texas lunatic asylum at
Terrell, published in the Dallas News,
states that there is plenty of room in that
institution for many, if not all the insane
who are now confined in the county jails
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the Indifference of the local authorities to
these unfortunate people, who are thus
permitted to remain uncared for by the
proper treatment until they become alb
solutely incurable and therefore perpet
ual burden to the state.-Waco Day.
J To keep insane people in jail after {
more comfortable provision has beer
made for them by the state, is shame
and crime. By all means let our Jail
be emptied of these unfortunate creatures
: Almost week has passed and the thirt.
citizens cooperating with the police au
thorities have not yet discovered even
clue to the perpetrators of the tripl
Christmas eve murder at Austin.-Galves
r ton Tribune.
Yes they have. You walt bit.
The Fuat Worth Gazette wants to know
how much reward the governor has Offered
for the apprehension of the Austin muir
derers, adding that the state could affort
to spend few hundred dollars to rid tn,
state capital of the fiendish assassins. L
permitted to suggest we would say tina
Col. Miller's remedy promises more relief
than any amount of reward that might b.
offered does Galveston Tribune.
You have got the horse and cart mixed
Col. Miller's proposition cannot be ad
ministered until the patient is caught
The reward is what is needed to perfec
the catch.
The year 1885 has numbered for it
trophies many great and good men. Their
is long chronological record of illustri
Gus dead, the most notable of whom, jus
now remembered, are Cardinal McCloskey
Sir Moses Montefroe, John Mccullough
General Grant, General Mcclellan, Emor.
B. Storrs, Assistant Postmaster Genera
Hay, Senator Sharon, Ex-Governor Phelps
ex-Secretary Frelinghuysen, Josh Billings
Helen Hunt, Hugh Conway, Victor Hugo
Chinese Gordon, King Alfonso, DIR. F.
Mood, Bishop Linus G. Parker, William
H. Vanderbilt, Vice-President Hendrick,
ex-G Governor B. Gratz Brown and Genera
Bob Toombs And now the hour APP
proaches for the good old year to wine
up its own affairs and lie down in TN
tomb of the buried centuries. Millions o
worlds and the angels are gathered aroun'
its death bed to sing the requiem Of it
departure, and archangels are grouped a
the reporters golden desk to catch an
chronicle its last words" and write it
epitaph.-Fort Worth Mail.
4 The angels must be kept very busy
they sing the requiems of all the world
, in the universe as fast as the years rol
around in them.
Now watch the Gazette howl. Dalla
Z has candidate for governor.-Ste rett.
What, new man? What has becom
of Barney's boom?-Gazette.
Why, Sterett himself is the candidate
{ Can't you folks learn nothing until yo
Y are taught?
!, When Florence Nightingale wants
pair of new shoes she goes to sho
! maker and pulls off her shoe and has hir
take her measure in her stocking foo
But Florence is sensible girl and don