The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1889-07-18
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be glad to give Us anything we might ask
for, just to get rid of us.-Corpus Christi
Caller.
1t requires 1900 days work for one mar
to build an eight-wheel passenger locomo
tive for a standard gauge railroad, anG
1850 days for q consolidated ten-wheeler
Wages for the labor range from 81 tC
$3.50 per day, the average being $500
amounting to $4,635 for the engine. The
cost of the metal is estimated at $4,000
and profit, including expense of sale and
delivery, an additional $4,000, or $685.
for the complete engine ready for service.
-Dallar News,
George 0. Jones, one of the few surviv-
ing members of the national greenbec ok
party, has issued a call for a convention to
consider the ways and means to revival re
that Observation-Disclosures Times Herald.
Can the dead be brought to life again In
this world ?
The San Angelo Standard is brief and
to the point, saying,
Jist wan
Sullivan.
The Standard has also these two items
OF information
Nine papers have busted in the Pan
handle of this state within the past year.
Il Forty counties out of 240
in the state have one-half of all the rail-
road mileage in Texas.
"Our water works company desired to
buy its water pipe from the Rusk manu-
facturers, but was forced to 60 to Nash
vile for their supplies, because of the
difference in freight rates. 1t is certainly
just and radically wrong that rates
from Nashville should be cheaper than
from an interior Texas town, and this is
but sample case."-Weatherford Sun.
The Taylor Rifles, of Fort Worth,
named after Col. E. W. Taylor, have been
presented by that gentleman With dress
uniform and fatigue suits. White broad
cloth, trimmed with gold braid and blue
facings, with pants of light blue, is the
style of the dress uniform.-Ex.
The STATESMAN is certainly a faithful
friend and adviser to the city of Austin,
and if the paople there would take its oft
repeated advice the city would soon grow
to large proportions, but the people do
not seem to be alive to the enterprises
TIE STATESMAN so often points out to
them.-Taylor Texan.
Bread cast upon the waters is said to re-
turn after many days.
To see local paper trying to puff and
boom town with its columns barren of
local advertisements, is about as thin as
trying to convince a sensible man that the
moon is made of green cheese. The paper
is the index of the towns energy and
prosperity. The paper and the town work
in unison-the town builds the paper and
the paper builds the town,-Denocrat and
Reporter.
A Dallas man has invented and applied
for a patent on a four-wheel road cart,
which is operated on the bicycle principle
by one man and will carry three people.
He says on ordinary good roads it will
make sixteen miles an hour. 1t will be on
exhibition at the fair.-Marshall Ne SEN
ger.
And the Messenger should apply for
copyright on it's cuts of Jake Kilrain and
john l.. Sullivan.
The Brentwood Appeal, after quoting
the Austin County Times, INDUCES in
pretty severe moral, as follows:
Gen. John M. Claiborne says the man
that intimat that he is working for an
Office one way or another is an ungodly
liar. "My course in politics." he says,
"has Just cost me $4,000, and there is no
office under the sun the people could offer
me that l would have. l have labored in
the senate for the past six years; have led
trumps in every deal, but never caught
trick. I've got enough of it."-Austin
County Times.
The general means that he kicked him
self against Mccall and was buried SIS,
600 deep by the Texas newspapers.
MoBAL-Mind whose corns you tread on
hereafter, general, and you may slip into
a constable's place, or deputy's; and re-
member "tricks" don't win these days.
We learn that o. K is but ar abbrevia-
tion of a Chootaw word, coke" meaning
sit is all So" "it is true" It was first
used by Andrew jackson and for several
years before it went into common use.
He used to place these letters upon official
documents which he approved, choosing
to use the word according to the Choctaw
pronunciation Texas Patron.
The North Dakotans are seriously con-
sideripg the advissbility of having sim
gle-branch legislature. The only advant-
ages in having two branches are that the
folly of one may take different direction
and thus neutralize the folly of the other,
and while two branches increase the cost
OF legislation, they also increase the cost
Of grolling.-Paris Daily News.
And what would legislature be without
log rolling Take away, too, the festive
Hobbies getting in their work on both side g
the rotunda, and the Legislators life would
be too dull for the living.
One of the best outside markets for
Texas fruit this year, it is claimed, will be
Colorado. The freight rate made by the
Denver, Texas and Fort Worth railway is
| II cents per 100, while it is SLIP per 100
pounds from California to Denver. The
length of time TO run from Texas to the
Colorado markets is 80 hours less than
| from Observation-Disclosures Sun.
1t is said that some men on the jury
that acquitted McDow of the murder of
Captain Dawson had not long before &C.
Quilted another man who had wantonly
cut another's throat. Such jury would
have applauded judas Iscsriot for betray-
ing Christ-Clarksy Vile Times