The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1886-01-28

upon this interesting point. We writ
the word perhaps" after careful deliber
alton.
MEMENTo OF THE BLIZZARD.
Brownsville Cosmopolitan.
Mr.. Mendez took fine photograph o
the main plaza while the trees were GOV
cred with ice. Many will value one o
these photographs as memento of tn,
cold snap of 1886.
A SERIOUS ACCIDENT.
Denison News
Mr.. Holloway Smith, a clerk in Hanna
Platter & NAPLES, met with an accident
yesterday, that will deprive him of the
use of his left hand for some time. He
was in ,ar of vinegar that was being un
loaded at the store, assisting in handling
the barrels. By some means his hand was
caught between two of them and terribly
lacerated. 1t was at first thought that he
would lose two of his fingers, but the doc,
tor who dressed his hand hopes by care.
full treatment to render amputation un.
necessary.
Waco Day.
"REMINISCENCES.
There is quite handsome and comely
old lady in Waco, who was noticed to sigh
gently few days since, as she read a
thrilling account of the massacre at the
Alamo, when Bowie, Travis, Crockett and
Bonham fell. On inquiry as to the cause
of her interest in that particular event,
she replied with a sad but winsome smile:
1T was just a little while before James
Bonham came to Texas that he said to me,
| Ilb n hlnccnp, oh nryi,
every day" And her beautiful brown
eyes, not yet dimned with age, frightened
as she added, "Bonham was a handsome
fellow, and looked Respondent in his uni
FORM" The maiden name of the old lady
here referred to was Eliza Cary Lamar,
the mother of Mrs. John c. West, of Waco,
with whom she is sojourning for the pres
| ent.
Houston Herald
prominent clergyman calls the face
'the playground of the soul" Then a
book agents cheek must be prairie.
Laredo Times.
| The STATESMAN has made one step
ahead of anything on the line of journal
ism in the state; it is publishing illus
trated letters from Washington city.
Houston Post.
Confidence is great thing i'll politics,
but it don't amuont to much without
votes behiMd it.
Cheap and accessible coal is what Hous-
ton needs.
Fort Worth Mail.
Fitful, uneven, furtive and unsyste-
matte advertising is not the kind that
brings success. 1t is the steady, wisely
written, and interesting statement of
style, quality and prices that capture the
trader.-Waco Examiner.
Barnum never uttered profounder
philosophy on the subject of advertising,
except when he said: SIN seasons of dull
ness, increase your Advertising"
Albany Morning Express.
b. making Bob Ingersoll minister at
Rome, O'Donvan Rosa at London, Tom
Ochiltree at Berlin, Carl Schurz at Paris,
Justus Schwab at st. Petersburg and
Henry Ward Beecher at Madrid, we can
settle once and for all the question wheth-
err the free, untamed American citizen is
not entitled to represent the United States
in whatever foreign position our govern
ment may see fit to place him.
San Antonio Light
Men from the old colleges are rather
scarce in the senate. Harvard has only
one, Yale three. Princeton and Hamilton
two each, and Bowdoin and Williams one
each. 1t takes something more than mere
college training to make statesmen.
Some idea of the immense strides New
York is making in material prosperity
10 ;, 90 @brI L. -
year $45,000,000 was spent in the erection
of new buildings. and $7,000000 in alter
ing these already built. Chicago put
$19OOO,OOO into houses and Boston $12,-
100000.
Dallas News
A queer society has been organized in
Connecticut. 1t is called the "Tongue
Guard" and is composed entirely of la
dies. One of the rules is that each mem
Der drops penny in box for the poor
every time she says word against any
body. 1t is supposed the poor will be
riding in their own carriages by spring.
Ben Butler is in Washington to defeat
the confirmation of Governor Ross, of
New Mexico. Without questioning the
charges brought against the appointee, it
is now supposed he will be confirmed.
A Louisville paper suggest that the
price of whisky be raised to 500
glass. This shows the tendency of the
times to discriminate against the poor
and to convert the common necessities of
life into luxuries.
Giddings Advocate
An Arizona cattleman, who recently ar
rived at Prescott with a band of Texas
stock, driven overland, claims to have
beaten the record in the matter of losses,
since he started with 800 head and reach
ed his destination with 322. On the mat
ter of brands he was silent.
late "norther" on the Vera Cruz coast
covered the railroad track with sand to
such an extent that travel between Alvar-
ado and Vera Cruz was interrupted for
two days.
Extensive ruins have been disclosed by
the boundary survey between Guatemala
and Mexico. That region was evidently
densely inhabited in ancient times, but is
now almost wholly denuded of soil.
Fort Worth Gazette.
An Ohio man sold his wife for five cents,
and the purchaser is trying to compel him
to take her back, on the ground that the
goods were badly damaged and not worth
the purchase price.
Were the resolutions of the cattlemen's
convention written by landlord or pas