The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1886-02-04

essary to make up that amount.
LAMAR COUNTY SEEMS TO BE PAINFULLY
''oUT IN THE COLD"
Texas Balance Wheel
Where is the true democrat who will OPP
pose a division of Texas, when division
will give us better executed laws and bet
ter local government, as well as six more
United States senators and the control of
federal legislation?
IT WILL BE 100000 NEXT WEEK.
Brennan Banner.
January 1886 will long be remembered
by citizens of the Panhandle as being the
most destructive to cattle ever known. 1t
is estimated that $4,000 head of cattle lie
dead on the prairie within radius of sew
enty miles of Fort Elliott. 1t is also
stated that the prairie dogs are nearly all
dead.
POLITICS MUST COME IN.
The Sun.
The unanimous friendly warning of the
state press for the farmers alliance to
steer clear of politics, if it would avoiG
the rock upon which all similar organiza
tions have come to grief, has not beer
needed by the Dodd alliance, of Fannir
county, as they have resolved against
Senator Maxey, and that, too, upor
charges inexcusably absurd and ground
less.
ANOTHER OFFICIAL IN TEXAS WHO GETS A
BIG SALARY.
Palestine Advocate.
| The city treasurer of Gainesville, Texas
receives one dollar for his salary.
, The Galveston News says it sis no
l ashamed to be called the mother of tn
press of Texas" At this writing tn
, daddy has not been heard from on tn
subject
The national debt of France is owe
S4,OOO,O00, 000-the largest in the world.
ONE RESULT OF PROHIBITION.
+ Brenham Banner.
Il Judge Brewer, of the United State
e circuit court, decides that private prop
f erty cannot be taken for the public good
}. without compensation. If this decisio
Il is sustained, Kansas and Iowa will have
{ pay for the breweries and distilleries rer
e dered useless by their prohibitory laws.
= NEW WAY TO PAY OLD DEBTS"
At Paris last week all the negroes hel
in jail for on-payment of fines were pr
OH the block and sold at auction to til
II highest bidder--he to have and hold theI
:, until the fine and cost are worked out.
70 DIAMONDS NOT VALUABLE, AFTER ALL.
. Texas Patron.
h 1t is not generally known that the dii
a mond is not the most valuable of the pre-
~ eious stones. The ruby is the more vail
A. able-that is, ruby of given weigh
outranks diamond of the same. For il
stance, ruby of the proper color p
geon's blood-of one karat weight
u worth about the same as a one-karat di
mond, but ruby that weighs two kara
y is worth ten times as much as a two-kar
diamond.
ANOTHER SOURCE OF STATE WEALTH.
. Seyenty-fve thousand dollars has bet
v invested by London capitalists in the b
- caves of Hays and Uvalde counties. L.
guano deposits are immense and valuab
SCHOOL BOOKS.
- Houston Post
he The Post regards the ruling of the :
an perintendent of public instruction, wi
an regard to the Burnett school case, me
VS. toned yesterday in the Austin Telegram
as as perfectly correct, and as being d
60 tated by wisdom and sound judgme
or No other rule would do in the pub
schools of the state, and until the state
self adopts a uniform system of tt
books-which it should do-the board
trustees of each school should be the /
zee thority on the course of studies. Mr..
e. ker's ruling is to be commended.
en- If SWANS advice had been followed
the eighteenth legislature there wol
have been no deficiency in state revenu
and school teachers would not now
a waiting for their salaries.
'e- so DOES AUSTIN.
0n Houston wants more street paving.
Galveston Evening Tribune.
The papers throughout the state un
ON in giving the Galveston Wharf compa
OF sheol.
on The Cleveland white girl who ran aw
n' with and married colored AdOnis
~ =, left him and gone home. The luna
~ asylum is the proper place for her, L
negro is to be congratulated.
The Fort Worth Gazette, comment
upon the decision of Judge Brewer, ii
as destroyed or rendered worthless, wants
IN know if this does not apply to southt
pc shareholders as well as to Kansas distille
ID lisa little mixed.
pr Recent murders by Chinese have excl
'oi the people of the Pacific coast to the vel
~ of madness, and repetition of the scel
'oi enacted some time since in Wyomi
'e' would not be surprising. Evidently Am
. lea is no place for the almond-e!
[he Celestial.
On WHEAT NOT INJURED.
rs Texarkana Daily Workman.
" Intelligent farmers from the coun
say that they believe the wheat is not
-, - iured by the late severe freezing wealth
io In fact, it is believed that the freeze '
prove to be of decided advantage to
prairie farmer, if heavy and continl
Wv u" rains do not come in the spring.
eth 10 HAS ALWAYS HAD A HARD TIME.
nat The Choctaw nation have had judgm
rendered them to the amount of $40,C
of that amount being considered an edui
No. lent on the part of the government
the violation of treaties made with
nation in 1880, 1852 and 1866. The Uni
blv States has never dealt honestly with
ac- Indians, when it was for the interest
are prominent officers having control of
ro- dian affairs not to do So