The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1888-05-31
sTATEMEWs.
Items and Comments Culled From
State Exchanges.

Mckinney, and the croaker begins to
prophecy boil worm this fall.
The Brownsville Cosmopolitan says that
the Lighthouse board has ordered that the
Point Isabel lighthouse be discontinued.
The state capitol has been accepted, the
geological bill passed, and the heart of
oak knocked higher than kite in March.
What will the people worry over now for
the coming two years?-Sherman Reg
lister.
Judge A. W. Blackburn, who is at
present holding a term of the district
court at Lampasss, pleaded guilty in his
own court, the other day, to a charge of
official drunkenness, and was fined $40.
The drill management at Auetin, consid-
ering the many difficulties under which it
labored, was eminently successful. The
gentlemen of the board DO not deserve
the severe censure being poured out from
some quarters.-Houston Post.
On Saturday, while fishing in the Col
orado river twelve miles below Eagle
Lake, Mercer Clapp, a young man 10
years old, was drowned in attempting to
swim across the river to some fsh-hooks.
He was caught in an eddy and carried IN
der.
A fendish Mexican shoemaker, at
Laredo, became enraged with Jealousy at
his wife and plunged knife into her alb
domen, completely disemb9weling her,
aud cutting In twain his unborn infant
After his arrest, he claimed that he was
only playing with her and that the cutting
was accidental.
Charley Walters was arrested on Sunday
night at Paris on the charge of being one
of the murderers of Shearron, the saloon
keeper, who was found dead in bed on the
night of the 18th. Walters had been cook
ing in reste urant across the street from
where the murder was committed, and
with others was in Shearron's saloon late
on the night Of the murder.
Encouragement Hogg prevented the
Mexican band from giving Sunday con-
cert at Austin, the day after the close of
the capitol celebration. Our visitors
must still be wondering what sort of lib
erty there is in this country that will sup
press music. Over on the other side
strains on the silent ARA deadly sin to
listen to music, from which the people
must be saved by the law and its minicna.
Waco Day.
The last vestige of the famous cattle
trail from Texas to the north will soon be
wiped out This trail was 600 miles long
and one mile wide, and when the original
survey of Colorado was made this strip
was left for the use of the cattlemen.
Hundreds of thousands of cattle have
been driven along the trail, but the rail-
roads have rendered it useless, and it is
now to be thrown open to settlement
Tri-Weekly Herald.
An enthusiastic military spirit has sud-
denly developed in FL Paso, and two COM
panies have already been formed and Or
ganized, with probably more in pros pect-
i've. The pupils of the public high school
have organized under the state military
law as the High School Cadets, with Pro-
lessor Esterly as captain, and another
company bears the name of the Ell Paso
Guards, under the command of Captain
Waters Davis, son of Ex-Governor 3. j.
DAVIS. Both captains are graduates of
West Point.
The students of Bishop college, Bap-
fist institution at Marshall for the educa-
tion of colored youths, went out on a
strike last week on account of the alleged
bad treatment to some of the students,
It eliminated in the alleged cruel treat
ment of student from Tyler, named
Eliza Lindsey. The whole school de-
manded an apology from the sanity
teachers, and it was so slow coming, and
having other grievances, they finally
struck, and many left for home. The
matter will be investigated by the city
authorities.
The great drill and dedication of the
capitol was agrand success. The Avenue
leading from the river to the great capt.
tol was richly decorated with wreaths and
banners streaming from the tops OF the
imposing buildings. Thousands of people
thronged the streets from the depot to
the mammoth state house and to Camp
Ross, where thousands of visitors were
continually gathering from all parts of
the country. A dense macs of people of
all shades and colors, on foot, by vehicle,
street cars and railroad, poured in upon
the grounds.-Texas Citizen.
The State Firemen's association recently
held three days session at Ell Paso, and
while the convention was in session fire
broke out in Paso del Norte, Mexico, just
across the river, and an appeal was tele-
phoned to Ell Paso for help. The Ell Paso
firemen and visiting delegates rushed over
to Mexico Al soon succeeded in bringing
the flames under control, with the de-
struction of but two buildings. 1t was a
remarkable CO. incidence that this appeal
1.-THE first ever made by Paso del Norte to
Ell Paso for such aid, should come during
convention of $50 fremen from all over
the state.
Commissioner j. Waldo, of the Texas
Traffic association, formerly general
manager of the Houston and Texas Cen
trail railway, was seen on the cars by q
Day reporter recently, while en- route
from Houston to st. Louis. Referring tc
the foreclosure proceedings in the court
at Galveston, Major Waldo said thai
nothing in those proceedings would at
feet the present management of thai
route. "Col. Chas. Dillingham;" he re-
marked to the Day reporter, zone of the
receivers, who is now and has been fol
some time acting as general manager
has displayed tact and rare ability. Mr.
Huntington is satisfied, probably, that G
displacement of Colonel Dillingham; coult
not possibly prove betterment." Major
Waldo added that the Houston and Texas
xuoc in haitian naDerpI condition