The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1886-02-04
TEXAS NEWS.
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d. hisnn Morning News.
The southern man produces pound of
Motion and gets eight cents for 1t. The
Yankee and the European manufacture 1t
into goods which they sell for from fifty
oefts 10 one dollar. The south must
Manufacture more and farm less.-Green-
vile tanner.
There is a chunk of solid wisdom in the
ehoye. There is no sense in selling cot
ton 10 be shipped north, manufactured,
ana slipped back to US, and in the end
payiag double what it could be produced
for ~ On the ground where it is raised.
Nfhe true wealth of the south will be made
apparent when she manufactures her own
products.
TELLS ITS OWN STORY.
The Sherman Register, with its turned
colanln rules and its monument to its own
memory affords sad commentary upon
town where mossbacks hold the sway.
Enterprise is an unknown word in their
vocabulary.
San Saha Weekly News.
}. Webster's revised dictionary has the
new words bulldoze,' boycott and dude
but it draws the line at mugmump.' That
word will have to wait the next revision,
THIS IS OUR SERMON.
Merchants who want to build up the
town and then build up their business,
< should build up one good paper, because
il villa contribute to the first end.
WHERE. is ABRAHAM NOW :?
~ 4 Mormon was accidentally killed in
Utah the other day; left sixty-seven chill
dren 10 mourn his loss.
A single London dealer last year sold
nearly 100000 tropical birds of gay plum
age for the trimming of hats and cos
tunes.
Houston Post
Houston and Fort Worth are blowing
about their big banks, but when Texas
business man wants to raise a barl of
ducats, and do it quick, he visits the 'old
~ lady h7 the sea-" Galveston Tribune.
Then why not help the poor people,
who we're burned out of house and home,
to replace roofs over their heads? Why
send financial agent to New York to
borrow money for the purpose? Oh, yes
The old lady by the sea" has plenty OF
mone,, but, like the man who did safe
business," she requires two dollars to hoid
for every one she lets out.
so WE SAY BY ALL MEANS.
Hort Worth Mail.
o., There is an ax-handle factory, operated
by The Muckleroy Bros, near town, which
is turning out as nice and we'll shaped ak
handles as any yankee ax-handle yoJ
evet saw. If we can have an ax-handle
factory successfully operated in our midst
why can't we have wagon and carriage
factoYies, furniture factories, or any
Othtr kind of factories NacogdocheE
Star.
The Star puts a pertinent question, anC
one that comes home to other cities ant
towns One such small industry is wortl
more TO a community than dozen DIR.
goods or grocery stores.
Why CAN'T WE HAVE IT IN AUSTIN?
Tie street paving goes bravely on il
the Fort, albeit the philanthropist of TIN
Dallas Times is sorely exercised about TIN
pay Of our police.
LET IT ALL COME.
The extension of the Gulf Colorado
Santa Fe, via Denton and Gainesville, vii
give rs cheap coal; cheap coal will Civ
MS furnaces, and furnaces will bring u
machinery, machinery skilled labor, skill
ed labor prosperity, and prosperity pop
ulation.
rwENrY YEARS IS TOO GOOD FOR THE IN
vENToR.
II Jared, Times.
About the meanest swindle being per
petrated at present is the bible trick.
prize of $40 is offered any one sendin
the longest verse in the old testament &C
COMMANDED by 20 cents silver. 1t is NEAR
because the holy bible is made the me
dunn, and because the persons teeced ar
80 children.
ANOTHER RAILROAD.
decatur Tribune.
An effort will be made soon to again IL
augurate a plan to build railroad fror
Decatur to Dallas. This road is a nece
sity, and, everybody admitting the fact
win not be a very difficult matter to &c
men with money interested in the ma
ter.
IS HOW IS THIS?
As municipality, Laredo is one anon
len thousand and altogether lovely In thu
she has a common council that enforce
tbe maxim that retrenchment begins {
home. The members reduced their ow
saia ries.
NOT THAT RED-HoT,
an Exchange.
The San Antonio Light says, that
order to run an independent paper
~ Mexico, it is necessary to have abo'
three reliefs of editors, in order to ha'
b, least one of them out of jail, for dut
Sometimes not even full relief can
kept out of prison, and the devil has
visit the prison and receive the col
through the bars. That's the place fl
the American amateur editor who is fol
Of red-hot items.
san Antonio Express
The San Angelo Enterprise says To
Green county has more cattle than all Il
/" other counties in that representative dl
trict combined, and argues from tn
standpoint that that county should nan
The representative. Is it cattle, then, n
people, who are to be represented In Il
legislature? The Texas steer stan
mighty high and very wide in Tom Gree
county, and that's fact, but if Yandall
chosen he will prove an able represent
live of both the steers and the people.
Another fight is on between the o ffic'
ss,1 saloon keeners of Dallas. A test ca