The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1886-01-14

TIN WEEKLY STATESMAN,
HoUsroy must be getting ready 70 move.
Il had several Of its most prominent signs
taken down last Thursday night.
You who have hogs to kill, prepare to
kill them now, not that you love hogs less,
but because you love pork more. Wait
not
The Fort Worth and Dallas editors have
to publish large sheets in order to con
trast their towns and show how much one
is ahead Of the other
EVER since that brewery was wrecked
| by the explosion of malt-meal, in Phila-
| delphia, beer drinkers there refrain from
drinking as soon as internal connections
are heard.
EX-SENATOR Roscoe CoNKLING has de-
cined to deliver an address in Hartford.
/ Connecticut, on the life of General Grant.
He says so many demands press upon him
MS to make it unsafe to undertake the hon
or proposed.
ASOrHEE historical fiction was upset
when Gen. Pope came forward and an
nOunced that he never said his headauar-
tiers were in the saddle. At this rate. ones
I faith in all history will be cracked. if not
actually smashed.
/ UNCLE DANIEL, he of the Houston Age.
is writing history of THE Prehistoric
World by the Only Survivor of Vanished
Races 1t will be n volume replete with
information that has been Wondering for
countless centuries.
MAYOR GUILLOTrE, of New Orleans, call
ed meeting of the city council on the
18th, to decide whether the great exposi-
ton should continue or expire for want
of funds to defray expenses. It's action
has not yet come to hand.
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ABOUT thirty eight towns in Texas have
n business man. they think would make
a good governor. The amount of talent
that was born TO blush unseen on our
prairies and our woodlands, was never
equaled since the antediuvians were
squelched by the water.
WHEN the Houston Post has any time
on its hands. it spends il telling what
| Houston needs. When the Fort Worth
Gazette has leisure il spends it in descrb-
ing what Fort Worth has already. We are.
therefore, led to infer that Houston is
just getting a start, and that Fort Worth
is finished.
TIE Courier-Journal says Mr.. Ramsey,
of Massachusetts, introduced in the house
yesterday, a bill to create a marine signal
board, with view to adopting a code of
| foreign signals. This is believed to be a
covert move toward removing Senator
Logan from the field of presidential can
didates, and Incorporating him MS ma.
tiOnal fog-horn.
SANGUINE democrats are of the opinion
that MIR. Cleveland will be supported by
Il democratic senate before his term ex.
! pires. There is chance for democratic
senators i'll Connecticut, New Jersey, Cali.
fornia and Michigan. Miller's reelection
in New York is doubtful. In Indiana the
democrats count on beating Senator Ber
Harrison.
ELSEWHERE, in the telegraphic columns
will be found the views of General Sher-
idan upon the habits and mode of fight.
ing of the wild Apache of the west. Gen.
eral Sheridan's ideas are probably correct
but many appear to differ with the
general, as to the ability of General Crook
MS an Indian campaigner.
The people of Baltimore have repudi-
ated water and drink beer as a substitute,
! so 1 HE oTATESmAN says, ana It's editor Is
an old Baltimorean, and ought to know
whereof he talks.-Larcdo Times.
He said two-thirds drank beer, and du
ing residence of only twelve years, he
did not go back on his native drink, pure
Bourbon, diversified occasionally by Rob
inson county, Tennessee, fluid extract.
The Dallas Times officially announces
that it will not buy up any more rival pa
pers This goes to prove that delays are
dangerous, for TUE STATESMAN suggested
some time sine, that if anyone wanted to
make Il raise, to go to Dallas and start q
paper, while the Times was in a buying
mood. But its advice was not taken. nnd
now it is cyerlastingly too late.
WILL some leading exchange tell u.
what Senator Marcy hes done for Texas
since he has been in the senate and then
will some other leading exchange tell u
. L. l.. IL 4