The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1886-02-11
TEXAS NEWS.
FACTS AND OPINIONS CULLED
FROM STATE EXCHANGES.

The cattlemen who lately assembled IN
convention at Austin INDUCED in a good
deal of the ''horny handed son of toll
racket. tttl
Paris Balance Wheel.
Fort Worth, with population of be-
tween 10000 and 100000, pays her mayor
salary of 5000, with no perquisites.
Paris, with population of 5000 or 10000,
also pays her mayor a salary of 5000, and
perouisites. There is nothing small about
Paris.
Waco Examiner.
Waco will raise the $4,000 demanded
for the consolidated university. There is
no sort of doubt of that, only we want to
see things worked out at once to demon
stration. Hurry up, boys, and don't let
Cameron be called the only public spirited,
generous man in the place.
Laredo Times.
The Houston Post places itself on re-
cord as being in favor of fair play and
hating liar. The Post evidently wishes
to draw around it a small and select Cir
Gle.
Immigrants are reported to be literally
pouring into the section of country adj
iacent to Wichita Falls, and Baylor and
Archer counties are rapidly filling up.
Williamson County Sun
The pay roll of the laborers on the state
capitol is 800 per day. That amount of
money turned loose in community every
day ought to help business considerably
The Houston Post is authority for the
statement that Mr.. Walsh will ask to be
reelected commissioner of the land office
He will be hard to defeat for the position
1t seems to be settled that Baylor Fe-
male college is to be moved to Bolton.
The sum of $4,000 was required to Sc
cure the college, and Bolton and the sur
rounding country have raised $4,000.
Cameron Herald.
To Judge from our exchanges the Ter
rell boom for senator has at this early day
assumed the velocity of a cyclone and is
sweeping almost everything before it.
In the streets of Taylor last week one
mule wagon and two hacks stuck fast in
Che mud and left for dry weather to come
There is many two dollar woman flirt-
ing with twenty dollar fan at thirty
cent dude with three-dollar cane.
Judge A. w. Terrell, in an interview in
he Galveston News last Sunday, stated
led States senate, and will ask the people
10 consider the matter at the ballot box
when they elect their representatives to
the legislature. Judge Terrell is one OF
che most brilliant and brainy men in the
nation, and if he is elected he will from
the first take rank with the foremost
statesmen in the senate.
THE ONLY WAY.
Denison News
If Texas desires to secure an influx Of
foreign capital, her people should remove
the premium upon dishonesty offered by
her homestead and exemption laws, ant
furnish it some security.
WE FEAR IT'S TRUE, AND "PITY IT'S, TIL
TRUE"
The Daily Workman.
Ladies' in high (?) life in st. Louis, it il
said, indulge, some of them, in the ex
citing little game of poker, and it is als'
said that diamond. earrings are bough
With the gains by some of the lucky ones
A fine example for the rising generation
LOVERS OF WINE, READ THIS!
El Paso Tribune.
There are no finer or better shipping
grapes raised anywhere than those pro
duced within one hundred miles of La
Cruces, and the yield FER vine is so grea
that We can compete with any country II
the manufacture of wines. We doubt 1
there is any place on the continent wher
better and more regular income is real
ized from grape culture than in the Mesill
valley and about Ell PasO.
UNITED STATES EVERY WHERE.
Houston Post
Five members of the house of common
IRE natives of the United States.
FOR HOW LONG?
Francis Murphy, at two meeting
among the ironworkers of the Mahonin
Valley, o., last week got 1000 of them t
tive up whisky.
BE IN-AND LEFT
Frank Hatton thinks Chester Arthu
will be in the presidential race in 1883.
FEARFUL THING TO CARRY.
San Antonio Light.
The railroad system of the United State
is now so completely interviewer that it
almost possible to go to any of the tlck'
offices and buy a ticket covering thousand
Of miles in opposite directions. III
OOSIOn lrdHsCrlpG SP0dho VI " oloAN
which is 81 inches long, as follows: "Ge1
eral Passenger Agent Watson, of IL
Fitchburg railroad, yesterday sold to
Buffalo physician an unlimited first-cla
ticket for So, 40, the highest price ev
paid for one ticket, il is said. The past
board was one and one-half yards Ion
and consisted of 80 coupons and the co
tract. 1t is good for a special car by Il
Hoosac tunnel route to San Antonio, TIE
as, and return by way of the Atlant
coast"
HORRIBLE PROSPECT.
Fort Worth Mail
The Standard Oil company is now abo
the biggest thing in America. 1t rul
the government, owns million acres
land, monopolizes the metropolitan pre-
of the north, east and west, and is now e
gagged in a mammoth deal in Union Z
cifc. When it has gobbled that lit
anchovy with its 100000 acres, it W
probably turn its attention to the Gou
system and finally swipe up the southwe
Dallas News.
John Sherman owns big interest
the seal fisheries of Alaska. Perhaps tn
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