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Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1892-03-07
POLITICAL NEWS.
VELASCO DEMOCRATS MEET,AND
DECLARE THEMSELVES.
Bosque County Republicans In Session at
IredeII-BrookstonV Votes for Mills and
CulbersOn- GrandYiew Dry.
Velasoo Politics

Special to the Gazette.
VELAsco, TEX, March Ga rousing
Roger Q. Mills meeting was held yesterday,
attended by planters, stockmen, sea coast
captairs, railroaders, laborers, merchants
and professional men, and their expressions
of endorsement were unanimous and most
enthusiastic, surprising anything ever
known in the previous political history of
Brazoria county.
Messrs. D. NIahonev, r. n. Shapard, r.
T. Irwin, j. r. Marmion, E. H. Rempe, A
Hachler E. r. Manning, Charles Hussay,
A. A. Burkett, T. c. Shoemaker, E. II.
Silver. L. B. Menifee, J. NJ. Burroughs,
w. NJ. Holland, L. W. Mars, J. n. Schultz,
A. T. McIlvain, T. W. Dunn, I. w. lib
belts, W A Flemister, Gust Harris, j., L.
Goodman, J. NJ. D. Smith, w. f. Griffith,
J. f Horkan. c. c. Ellis, J. H. johnson, Il.
NJ Henderson, l.. W. King, NJ. NJ. McF'ar-
land, Levin Plunkett S. G. Northrup, v.
G. Davis, J. H. Ragland, G. NJ. Collins, w.
Z. Bivens, E. L. Perry, H. E. Payton, E.
Z Moulder, D. Langford, w. G. Love and
Joe H. Buck, all well-known citizens and
property holders, are a committee TO take
future action in bringing Democracy TO the
front in Brazoria county under the motto,
'TuIn Texas Loose"
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1892-03-07
INFANT MURDERED.
Taken by the Feet and Swung Around TIL
Its Head was Crushed Against Some
Hard Substance.
Special to the Gazette.

Special to the Gazette
HILLsBoRo, TEX, March 6-Late yester-
day evening Justice of the Peace CT. Jones
empannelled jury and held an inquest
over the body of the infant found in Longs
lake, near town, wrapped up in cloth.
The facts developed in the case are as fol-
lows:
A full developed white male child, APP
pareutly born alive without the attention of
d physician after birth. The bones of the
head were crushed as if it had been taken
by the feet and its head dashed against
some hard surface.
Excitement is very high over the affair
Many private citizens have declared them
selves as being willing to furnish voluntary
contributions from SO to SO towards ferret
ing out the person who was 50 guilty to
commit such hieneous crime.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1892-03-07
Burned at nnlsboro.
Special to the Gazette.

HnLsBoRo, TEX. March 6-Fire broke
out last night about O'Clock in the upper
story of tie Hillsboro bottling works.
There were three young men asleep in the
room at the time. II was caused by the
explosion of a lamp left burning. Mr..
Joe Chamlea in trying TO save the books
had both hands and face severely burned.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1892-03-07
MINIS FIRST, cuIberson Second.

Special 70 the Gazette.
BRooKsToN, TEX, March 6.-The voters
Of this precinct held meeting. yesterday
for the purpose of finding out who was the
choice for United States senator to AlI the
seat of Senator Reagan. The result was
they instructed our representative TO vote
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1892-03-07
The Rosa Bland,
Special to the Gazette.

Special to the Gazette.
JEFFERSON, MARION COUNTY, TEX,
March 6-The steamer Rosa Bland, Capt.
a. o. Seaman, arrived at the wharf here
to-day at 80 p. m and leaves tomorrow
with a full cargo of miscellaneous freight,
comprising cotton, plows, pig IRON from the
furnace, etc.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1892-03-07
Charged with Raising a Check.

SAN ANTONIO, Tex, March 5.-H II.
Heiner gave check upon Schriener's bank
for sl7 to w. Skies, young man of the
western country. Skies, it is claimed,
raised it to so, cashed it and skipped. He
is now in Jail here.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1892-03-07
for Mills first choice, culDerson second
Local ontion ELECTION

SptCIaI 70 inc JazeIte-
ton on local option in this precinct resulted
in l65 votes for prohibition and SIS votes
against prohibition
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1892-03-07

Congressman Lanham's recent letter de-
clining to be a candidate for reelection to
congress adds interest to the suggestion of
his name for governor. which has been fire.
quently made.
Mr.. Lanham is a native of South Caro-
lima, having been born in Spartanburg dis
trict, July 4, 1916 He served in the Third
South Carolina regiment, and removed to
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-08-01
A CONGRESSIONAL CArACLYsM,

The squabble over the sundry civil appro-
priation bill in the House received new
feature Saturday when the Government
Printing Office promptly shut down at the
expiration Of the term for which the ap-
preparation had been extended The
spectacle of members bereft of the diurnal
luxury of reading their own names in the
Congressional Record is one so subversive
of Congressional precedents that it is ex-
pected to bring the filibusterers to terms
The movement is considered at WASH
ington sharp one to put the opposers of
the Worlds Fair appropriation in the
wrong. But days reflection may put
the matter in anotherlight. The support
ers of the appropriation have as much ap-
petite for the Record and the other lux
uries of the Government Printing Office
as any other members Moreover, Mr..
Holman moved to extend the appropria-
ton, and this was prevented by the peo-
pie who had prearranged the movement.
If the responsibility for the closing of the
printing Office is an unpopular one, those
who are really responsible may discover
their mistake in supposing that they can
put the Onus on their opponents.
The public responsibility is not very
grave one. Congress can close up its
business without the Congressional Record
if it chooses. But it cannot do so without
stopping partisan foolishness and going to
work in real earnest
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-08-01
THE CONNECTICUT soUABBLE.

The last finding of a Connecticut court
on the long standing dispute over the
CUB ernatorial election leaves the Demo-
cratic position with hardly leg to stand
on. After maintaining deadlock for the
greater part of the term the question has
got into the courts, where it should have
been taken promptly in the first place.
The Superior Court of New Haven last
week decided that the Bridgeport ballots
were legal, which is practically decision
in favor of the Republicans on the pivotal
question of the whole dispute.
Under the Connecticut Constitution if
no candidate for Governor receives ma
jority the Legislature must elect. The
Democratic claim was that 122 ballots re-
jected in Bridgeport by Democratic cleo
ton clerks left their candidate with ma
jority. The ground of the rejection was
that the ballots were marked for identifi-
cation. While refusing to go into the
Legislature for election the Democrats
displayed an equal indisposition to submit
their claim to the courts. The result
showed the correctness of their unwilling
ness to try the case from partisan point
of view. The outcome of the trial was to
establish the legality of the ballots. The
alleged marking was shown to have been
made accidentally by the printing ma
chine, and the Judge so decided. On any
other theory than that election clerks are
the court of last resort from whose decis-
ion there is no appeal the entire Demo-
cratic case in Connecticut falls to the
ground.
1t has been peculiar exhibit of our po-
litical vices that the partisan dispute has
prevented the constitutional methods of
self-government from operating in Con-
necticut for nearly the entire term of the
Governor to be elected. 1t is probable
that the dispute will still be kept up so as
to exhaust the entire term and permit
new Governor to be elected before the
election for the present term is finally set
tied.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-08-01

programme must be very adroit to ac-
complish even moderate lease Of life for
the Gladstone ministry. There Is, Of
course, on the Tory side the usual display
of enmity to the idea of Mr. Gladstone's
accession, in which that estimable but
prejudiced woman, the Queen, leads the
display. She showed her hatred OF Mr..
Gladstone at the time he came into power
in 1885 quite plainly though quite use
lessly; and late reports are that she has
again summoned the Duke of Devonshire
to form ministry with the result of being
told that the only alternative to her ac-
ceptance of Gladstone as Prime Minister
would be her own abdication.
Notwithstanding the futile display of
royal opposition Gladstone will take the
reins of government; but the duration Of
his administration is a very dubious
matter. The outlook presents so many
aspects of difficulty and doubt as to give
force to the suggestion of possible
compromise on a plan Of local self
government which would bring back
enough of the Liberal Unionists to form
with the Liberals and Nationali sts q
strong and reliable majority.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-08-01
THE EXPIRING CONGRESS.

The closing days of the Fifty-second Con-
gress are likely to live as the most disgrace
full in our htstory.-Chtcago Mail.
WHEN members of Congress begin to
charge each other with drinking 1t is about
time for a committee to be appointed to
ascertain If microbes have got into the
House restaurant Philadelphia Times.
WITH the public business deadlocked, the
House finds time for personalities and par
tisan recriminations. Recent proceed
ings reflect no credit on that body in which
they occurred or on the American charac-
ter Washington Star.
BLESSINGS brighten as they take their
flight" but it is different with Democratic
Congress. The nearer it comes to adjourn
ment the more muddled it grows. The
scenes in the House recently were worthy
of a ward caucus.-Cfncinndti Tfnses-St0r.
F1LIBUsrERINa is not dignifled perform
ance and does not require any great expen-
diture Of brain power. 1t turns the national
assembly into national donkey reserve,
and gives to Tom Reed and the fool-killer
the lofty port of the patriot Chicago NeDs.
WATSON, as a Third party man, is in posi-
tion to observe the House from an unbiaaed
standpoint, and this he seems to have done.
Anyhow, the country believes him, and the
best thing the Democratic House can do is
to say nothing and chew cardamom seeds
NeU York advertiser.
THE spectacle that has been presented for
three days of gang of flibusters blocking
the proceedings of the House to prevent the
consummation. of legislation that had
already received the sanction of the Senate
and of majority in the House itself, Is dis
graceful and calculated only to beSet con-
tempt for those engaged in it.-New York
Times.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-08-01

as easy for the law to take into considera-
ton as the intent with which man strikes
q blow or enters house There is plenty
Of room for discussion whether law
against business gambling would not be
as much of a dead letter as certain other
enactments that are eminently proper in
spirit but futile in effect. 1t is also a
matter of discussion whether such legisla-
ton should not be left to the States as
clearly as laws against swindling or theft
But it is pertinent that whenever and
however the laws are passed they should
make the offense turn on the intent OF the
bargain, l. e., whether it was intended
merely to win or lose money on the rise
and fall of the market or to perform
legitimate commercial service by the re-
ceipt and delivery of the commodity.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-08-01
PERTINENT PERSONALITIES,

SENATOR HILL is not going to Europe
and he is not going to resign, but he is going
yachting.
BJoRNsTERNE BJoRNsoN gets q pension
of $3.50 from the Norwegian storthing. He
writes politics with poetry.
JUSTICE LAMAR's long locks have been
clipped close and are now quite gray. Chief
Justice Fullers mustache still flaunt def
ance to the shears.
PRINCE BISMARCK is said to have a
comfortable income of $3.50 900 a year. 1t is
our information that the wolf never prowls
around his back door.
TRICoUPIs, the great Greek Premier,
dresses like New York broker. He has a
broad bold brow, magnificent dark eye and
a heavy, dropping mustache.
THOMAS JEFFERSON COOLIDGE, Miu-
lister to France from the United States, has
announced his intention OF remaining in
Paris throughout the summer.
Mrs. CRUGER'S pen-iame of ",Julien
"John Oliver Hobbes." Still there are no
hobnails in the style of either of these gifted
Americans.
ALEXANDER RUSSELL WEBB, the Uni
ted States Consul, in Manila, is reported to
he returns home he expects to preach the
Eastern faith.
ONE of the newly elected Gladstonian
members of Parliament is Mr., W. ]. Ingram.
eldest son of the late Herbert Ingram. NJ. p.
founder Of the Msstrated London Neaos, of
which the son is one Of the proprietors and
managers.
VICTOR @. W. CAvENDIsH, nephew of
the Duke Of Devonshire, and heir to the
dukedom, was married Saturday morning in
Westminster to Lady Evelyn Emily Fitz-
maurice, eldest daughter Of the Marquis of
Landsdowne.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-08-01
MA HARRIsoH,s 1npRovzMENr.
Thanks 10 tho Mountain Air, She 10 Get
ting Better Eyerv DAY.

ting Better Every Day.
SARAHAo LAKE, July 3l-The past week
has been rather quiet one at Loon Lake,
whore Mrs. Harrison is staying. The report
that Mrs. Harrison had quick consumption
dation. Mrs. Harrison has improved won
derfully since her coming to the Adiron-
dacks. so much so, indeed. that her physi-
clan did not worry upon leaving her for
several days during the week and making
visit to Washington. When Mrs. Harrison
first came to Loon Lake she was carried
from the carriage to the cottage in the arms
OF her husband. She was then very weak
and all was sadness for several days. The
President walked about the cottage for
hours at time, apparently in detected
mood. As soon, however, as Mrs Harrison
began to show signs of Improvement, there
was q marked change in the manner of the
President, and he laughed and talked freely
to all who approached him.
Mrs. Harrison still takes her meals in the
cottage, while Lfeutenant and Mrs. Parker
and Mrs. Dunnick eat in q private dining
room OF the hotel. When the party first
came to Loon Lake they were seated at
small table about in the center Of the gen.
eral dining room. All went well and every
body was satisfied until several persons
"who wanted to see the President" came
along, and gazed with the greatest curiosity
and wonder upon the Chief Executive.
They were so bold and offensive in their
given private dining room, that the dem
onstratton might not be repeated, for, as he
said, "he did not think he should be treated
as a dime museum freak, for he came to the
mountains the same as any ordinary guest"
The Improvement in Mrs. Harrison's con-
dition has been marked. and as each day
passes she approaches nearer the goal OF
good health.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-08-01
TERMS OF TIE DISPATCH
PITT>BuRG. MONDAY. AUGUST /. 1sp..
PAPAL HoNoRs FOR COLUMBUS.

The letter of Pope Leo to the Catholic
clergy of Italy, Spain and the two Ameri-
cas-, on the character of Columbus, is at
once a striking testimonial to the great
diseoverer, and signal illustration of the
enthusiasm and breadth of view that char
acterize the present head of the Roman
Church.
The whole world is this year signaliz-
ing the achievement which four hundred
wears ago reyolutionized the aims and
scope OF civilization. The secular recogni-
ton of the Columbian anniversary is we'll
nigh universal; but it is a novel and to a
certain degree surprising feature to find
the head of the Catholic Church pointing
it out as celebration in which the Church
can ftly lead. 1t is pleasant surprise
when the interest Of the Church in efforts
to benefit mankind is testified to by such
utterances as those of the Pope. The ira
ditions of the Church are too apt to deal
mainly with acts of antiquity and to neg
lect if not to avoid contact with the in
fuences that have shaped the modern
world This utterance of the Pontiff in
dicates that the Church to-day is keenly in
sympathy with the conditions of the hour,
and is ready with aid and encouragement
for the living and honor for the dead who
labor in anyway to make the world better.
1t may require an enthusiastic optimism
TO recognize as the chief purpose of Colum-
bus mission the spread of Christianity
But it is true that the result of his discovery
has been TO carry Christianity wherever it
carried civilization. 1t is one of the phe-
nomena of history that while Mahomme-
danism, Buddhism and savage idolatry
survive in countries that were known to
Europe before Columbus set out on his
first voyage, Christianity either Catholic
or Protestant extends over both the CONT
nents which were peopled as a result of
his discovery. The, boundaries between
Christian and heather nations have been
only slightly altered in the Old World
since his time; but the New World has
given an immense addition to the total of
Christian people.
The attitude taken by the Pope in sig
nally. .hoporing the >z2eniory of Columbus
is graceful and well chosen. 1t accords
well with his liberal and progressive char
acter, and will lend new spirit to the
worlds celebration of the great discovery
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-08-01
TRUTH IN BERLIN.

The fact that Bismarck is now lily
experiencing the reverse action of the
system of absolutism which he more than
any other man brought into existence was
freely commented upon in this country
during the early stages of the controversy
between himself and the Emperor 1t is
interesting to learn the same idea has
reached Berlin. An old Liberal writes to
a Berlin paper that it is only retributive
justice that has overtaken the old Chan
cellor
No one ever insisted on the prerogatives
of the Crown more strenuously that Bis
marck did when he was the one to exert
those prerogatives. If the present EN-
peror believes he is the supreme ruler,
before whom all public opinion and pri-
vate interests must give way, it was the
instruction of Bismarck that implanted
that idea in his mind so firmly that its
revival has driven the instructor into
private life. There has rarely been in
political history more signal example OF
poetic justice than the man of blood and
iron humbled and dismissed by the arbi-
trary power which he was so imperious in
calling into existence and maintaining The
statement of this truth in Berlin may not
be especially grateful to either Emperor
or ex-Chancellor; but it is no less true.
Perhaps Bismarck can now understand
that the establishment of the Emperors
will as the supreme law has its public as
well as private inconvenience. But he
might adopt more dignifed method of
digesting the experience than by the COM
plants which make it evident that the
arbitrary power he believed in was the
arbitrary power that Bismarck should
WELD as prime minister.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-08-01
THE PROPER DISTINCTION.

The most vigorous Indictment of the
anti-option bill yet made is that of Senator
Hiscock. 1t pointed out that, the sale of
grain and provisions being absolutely pro-
hibited by the measure, it would prevent
contracts for delivery unless the mer-
chandise were actually in the warehouse
at the time. The commission merchant
could not contract to load vessel sixty
DAYS hence with grain to be brought in
from the country districts in the mean
time. The vessel owner who wishes to
carry cargo of wheat on ship to be un-
loaded next month must buy only wheat
actually stored at the time. On this
foundation Mr.. Hiscock charged that the
bill was actually devised in the interest of
the elevators and millers, and that it
trust that was ever conceived by the
human intellect"
This theory of the enactment in the
form it was urged has as much support in
the character of :he bill as any other.
Such measure is more likely to have this
effect than to stop speculation. People
can still find ways of betting on the rise
I'D fall Of products; but it would be hard
70 find any substitute for the legitimate
and non-speculative uses of future con-
tracts.
The substitute for this bill proposed by
Senator George Is deserving of examina-
ton to see whether il avoids this danger
of obstructing legitimate commerce. The
substitute discards the original idea of
taxing speculation out of existence, but
evokes the power of Congress over inter-
State commerce to regulate the evil. The
newspaper summaries do not make it
quite clear whether it prohibits all dealing
in futures or only speculative future con-
tracts If the former, the bill is subject
to the same objection as the original
measure. If the latter, it makes the
proper distinction and sets up criterion
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-08-01
THE ENGLISH SITUATION.

The impending session of Parliament is
divided by the completed returns into 315
members supporting the Salisbury Gov
eminent and 355 opposed to it This
seals the doom of the present Cabinet; but
it requires very confident view of the
future to classify it as giving Mr.. Glad
stone majority of 40. If he had COM
pact majority of that number he might be
able to carry on the Government with
good hope of pushing through the leading
party measures. But nine Parnellites and
three labor members form a very un-
reliable factor of that majority. Any
course sending them into opposition re-
duces his majority to 16. Further than
that, a course which does not satisfy the
Nationalist on one side and the Liberals
on the other may cause the majority to
disappear altogether.
Under those circumstances the Liberal