The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1888-06-21
STATE NEWS.
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State Exchanges.

soon to be erected at Bailey.
The corn crop in LaSalle county is as
sured and is said to be the finest and
heaviest ever made in southwestern Texas
The county democratic convention oil
Williamson county will not be held unli
August 4, and voters are called upon to
express their preferences for candidates
at primary elections.
The employees of the Texas Mexican
road at Galveston had picnic on Sunday
at Latitte's grove, pleasure resort located
ten or twelve miles down the island, at the
western terminus of the road.
medical college hes been established
at San Antonio, and all of the chairs have
teen acceptably filled. The publishing
committee has been instructed to issue
the catalogue as soon as possible, an
nouncing a course of lectures the coming
| fall.
The walls of the court house at Groes-
beck having been giving away and crack
ing open for some time, rendering the
building unsafe. The commissioners
court nave ordered the old house torn
down and new one built. This will
necessitate tax of $4,000 or $4,000.
VIM. Nepie, an old citizen who has been
living in Houston since 1872, cabinet
maker by trade, was found dead in his
shop on Sunday morning. When the
body was discovered it was in an advanced
stage of decomposition. 1t is presumed
that he had been dead about three days.
1t is given out that Mrs. Cleveland has
discarded the hustle, and that in conse-
quence it is liable to lapse into innocuous
desuetude. The Leary (Ga.) Courier has
become alarmed, and makes a strong
plea in favor of its retention. The editor
says that 1t makes the best arm rest that
he has ever yet seen, ard thinks on that
account, if for no other reason, it ought to
be etained.-Brenham Banner.
The Sun is in favor of passing reso
luton, at the county convention, in
structlng our state senator and represen-
tative to vote against, and do all they can
to prevent, a division Of Williamson
county by the next legislature. The pri-
maries throughout the county should
send their delegates to the county conven-
ton instructed on this question. The
Sun is willing to stand by the will of the
people in regard to this matter, and it
don't want to take any advantage or snap
judgment in arriving at the will of the
people.-Williamson County Sun.
Congressman Mills is the only one of
the Texas delegation who voted last week
against the bill to change the agricultural
bureau into a department of agriculture
and make its chief head a cabinet officer
q NJ ubo
for opposing this bill, but it does seem to
US that, if there is one general public in
terest above all others that's more worthy
than others of high representation in our
national councils, it is the agricultural
interest. If it could be benefited by being
made one of the high departments of the
government 1t should certainly be made
so.-Fairfeld Recorder.
The Bonham News does the handsome
in the following editorial: "The Express,
in commenting on an adverse criticism OF
the conduct of our citizens during the
drill, says "There was little or no ex.
tOrtion at Austin. The man who struol
the town with two dollars and spent it il
three days had a good deal to say. Tn,
fact of the matter is that good beds werI
one dollar night and meals were fit,
cent each. In comparison with the
pric charged at the Galveston drill o.
two years ago, the Austin people CAV,
their accommodations away" Their,
were men on this planet two Thousand
years ago who croaked and reviled-thei
children have inherited their traits o
character. The citizens of Austin cal
rest easy with consciences guiltless of of
Tense charged against them by such dis
gruntled ones. "-Statesman
We think there has been entirely to,
mudh grumbling at the people of Austil
about their charges and extortions
Because a few individuals took advantVg
of the surroundings is no reason why tn,
whole city should be abused and de
nounced. Take the people of Austin as
whole, and there is no more hospitsblt
kind and generous people in the world
but, like all other places, Austin has fey
sharks whose bad deeds injure and wronI
an entire city, the blame falling upon tn
greet masses on account of the actions o
only few.
The only way to make yourself run afte
is to be good runner yourself. Peopl
are not born so that they seek out merl
and then fall to make an easy road TO
it to run in and display its quality. Fore
is the agency that moves people as
moves matter. Men must fight their wa
TO the front, and then they must fight t
keep in the front; and just as soon
they get too weak to stand alone they wi
be trampled on and ground into nothing
ness. Power is respected. 1t is de
ferred to. The world is orammed wit
borrowers, and everything conceivable
in demand. The worlds respect
reserved for those who have something
give away or lend.-Houston Post.
Several of the chief clerks of passenge
departments of the various roads in tn
b Texas Traffic association are in the cit.
holding rate meeting at the Beach hote
There are present: NJ. L. Robbins, of tn
Houston and Texas Central; Robel
Downing, of the Frisco line L. B. Lyncl
of the st. Louis, Arkansas and Texas;
B. Metcalf, of the Missouri Pacific; "
' Andrews, of the Arkansas Pass, and W.
: Lawson, chief clerk of Pool Commissions
r Waldo, besides local representatives c
7 the Santa Fe. 1t was the original inter
ton that this should be a meeting of To
, Texas Traffic association for the arrange
} ment of number of special excursio
: rates throughout the state, but as there