The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1891-11-12
THE TEXAS PRESS.

Tie Marlin Ball keeps close to the
head Of the procession.
The Sherman Courier is one Of the
standard weeklies Of North Texas.
The Kyle star Vindicator is beanti-
fully printed Oh tinted paper, and is
an attractive paper as well as Il live
"hustls-."
The Taylor Texan slyly remarks:
"There was some sir in The hat trade
/ in TayIor when the returns from the
Tuesdays election ny north came III. :"
Editor Lmboden is no longer one OF
the gang" having leased the Cher
okee Herald for an indefinite length
Of time to 4. II. Priest and q. b. En-
glodOw.
Editor SGurlock Of the Cleburne
Chronicle il not satisfied after all. He
says: awe would have been o little
better satisfied with a larger slice OF
the earth Ohio for instance"
The PILtsDuIg Gazette says the iron
ore found near Mount Pheasant Is eH.
cepttOually rich; That u salt bed has
been discovered near the city, and
lead ore has been found near the col
lege.
The Sherman Register is always
modest, but sometimes grows enthu'
siastic, as witness the following
"Sherman is the best town, in the
best county, in the best ana biggest
state in the union"
The Milan0 Mirror is the latest visi-
tor, published in MilanO, Milan
county, with ID. f. Lane and Garland
Wilson editors and proprietGrs. The
Mirror has good field, and TIE
STATESMAN wishes it success.
Tic Weimar Mercury puts in the
following apology for an extremely
good paper: Local news is scarce,
and being short-handed this week,
our readers will have to excuse the
paper for not being so very inter
esting."
The Grand View Sentinel remarks
smilingly: Last Saturday night
was Halloween and Sunday was All
Saints Day and We EDITORS 5Oth birth
day. And Oh! the way the SentinePs
staff presented us with nice and use
80 years old long ago"
The Cisco Roundup gives this
pleasing allusion to IL Texas poet:
Brother Rye, the wild and untamed
,,oet of the Western prairies, only run
hose three columns Of continued
Poetry eight weeks. Rye seems to
know just when the people have got
enough. He never runs one thing
,ver eight weeks.o
The Beeville Bee gives tho follow
ing result of the PicayUne's recent
libel suit: CATER lengthy eXamina-
ton OF witnesses for the state and the
defendants in the county court last
tuesday the case of libel against
Mcssrs. NJ. NJ. and L. G. Mcfarland
and Sam McGary was submitted to
the jury without argument, and a
verdict Of mot guilty was returned"
Tho Waco Day gives this "send-on7'
to y former compatriot: "COl. Miquc
Connolly, formerly poet lariat Of
Texas, late managing editor of the
valanche, Memphis, has
purchased an interest in the Memphis
Ledger and is now editor of that pa
per. The colonel is popular with the
men in Texas, and they
will wish him the greatest success in
his new venture"
The Huntsville Item sends in it's
claim to being the oldest weekly in
the state "Some Of the papers are
discussing and trying to locate the
oldest weekly paper in the state. The
Item first saw the light Aug. 20, 1850,
and has been continuously run under
one family management since. If
there is any older weekly paper in
Texas it will please make known its
whereabouts
The Weatherford Enquirer gives
the following specimen Of straight
English and good sense: "Talk about
home enterprise! The Fort Worth
packery can't run two months in the
year on hogs raised in Texas, the
Fort Worth brewery could not make
one run on the barley and hops raised
in Texas, nor can the Weatherford
castor oil mill run two months on the
castor beans raised in Texas. No sane
man doubts raising hogs would hence
forth pay in this section, that castor
beans average crop, that even the
common whippoorwill pea would
quadruple cotton crop per acre; yet
thew raise cotton, cotton, cotton and
cuss, cuss, cuss.n