The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1886-01-21


Houston Age.
to the Galveston News that the water in
Galveston bay froze over in the winter of
1S20-21.
Abilene Reporter
Worth has recently made some ball cos
tunes with hoops in the side draperies
like those seen in the portraits of Marie
Antoinette, and they are less ugly than
costumes with hoops in the back breadths,
and less inconvenient also.
Dallas News
While the democrats are charged with
the desire to keep Dakota out OF the
union because it is republican, is there
any member of the party who will admit
that he would shed so many tears over the
territory's wrongs if it were not republi-
can.
Fort Worth Mail
immigration to Texas is unprecedent
ed. All trains from the east and west
come crowded with people hunting homes.
Georgia, Tennessee, Alabama and Missis-
sippi are furnishing large quotas. Many
of these are settling in the counties inn
LlOulutSlJ SOulI anu southwest Vi EOTU
Worth, and come prepared to make
crop.
Waco Examiner
The Fort Worth Mail boasts that Yellow
Bear saw the sun for the last time in the
place where the panther laid down. Bill
Sterrett felicitates himself upon the fact
that Emma Abbott broke limb in Dallas,
and now comes the Laredo Times, which
says Marsh Polk was heading for that
town when he was pulled in. Panegyric
is now exhausted.
Waco Examiner.
A law providing for better and surer
way of securing legal service in court
matters, is imperatively needed. The only
way to do that is by providing for publ
cation of all citations, summons and
other legal papers in the newspapers.
Such law would save vast sums to Texas
property owners every year. The next
legislature will be very remiss to the needs
of the public if such law is not passed.
San Antonio Light
The Greer county matter bids fair to
loom up in large proportions. Should
Texas gain her case the vast territory now
huOWA dS SIOOI COulbJ WOulu liOu Olhy DO
added to her domain, but that strip lying
between the northern end of the Panhan-
die and Kansas, is in itself almost state.
If she loses she really loses nothing, as
Greer county is not given to Texas by the
majority of map makers. The only bad
feature about the loss of the case is the
naturalization of those who have been
allowed to locate Texas land certificates
on the lands of Greer county. These GER
tifcates may result in some long and ex-
pensive litigation.
Laredo Times.
Will some leading exchange tell us what
Senator Maxey has done for Texas since
he has been in the senate, and then will
some other leading exchange tell us what
he has left undone that he ought to have
done? Two we'll written articles of thai
sort would be very generally read abou
this time. There is no reflection cast OF
Senator Maxey in this suggestion
tin Statesman.
Gen. Maxey is dignified gentleman
but by no means leader. His military
preferment came simply because of hi
graduation from West Point, and no
because of anything he did in the war; ant
his civil preferment is based on his mill
tary record" which is nil He is a mega
tive man, good citizen, and would max
/ a good deacon, or school trustee; but, a
senator, he is respectable failure. Hi
record is blank.
Fort Worth Gazette.
Notwithstanding the unusually cslt
weather in Texas, reports from the wes
de not speak of an unusual mortalit,
among range stock. With range o
temperature several degrees higher las
winter, the losses of cattle and heel
were numbered by the thousands. Som
herds and hocks we're decimate7, som
almost obliterated. That they have fare,
80 much better this winter, in colde
weather, must indicate that they are il
better condition for resisting unfavorabl
weather. Grass and water we're to be hat
in abundance, where last season tn
drought had dried up both, and cattle $,
far have passed half the cold season wit
: no bad results. Unless some extraordi
iary unfavorable weather comes in TIL
lext few weeks, cattle will haYe emerge'
from the dangerous season in excelien
order, and the cattle business will begi
the summer with the most cheerful ind
cations of revival.
Galveston Tribune.
A number of Texas journals are OF
posed to working convicts outside of tn
penitentiary walls, and thereby bringin
them into competition with honest labo
Evening Tribune comedies with this view
Besides forcing honest labor to thus com
pete with convict labor it degrades tn
former, and as labor is the foundation o
5 all wealth, anything that tends to degrad
it, or bring it into disrepute, is to be dc
e plored. The only sensible solution of tn
6 convict labor problem that has yet bee
offered is the proposition to put them {
g work improving the public roads. TIL
9 poll-tax is a hardship to every laborin
q man. If a farmer, he must, as rul
a leave his crops when they demand h
attention. If a mechanic or day lahore
0 he is called upon to work for the generi
welfare when his family needs the pre-
: ceeds of his labor. By making the col
: victs keep the public roadways in repa
:, the burden is lifted from those upo
T whom it falls with most grievous effec
I good roads are assured, and honest labc
d is left in possession of the field to regl
t late itself according to supply and d
0 mand.
San Antonio Express.
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