San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1895-03-21
AUSTIN LETTER.
Special Correspondence Daily LIGHT:

special correspondence Dally LIGHT:
AUSTIN, Texas. March 10, 1895
After many months of neglect, The roll
ing stock of the old dummy line has been
renovated and is now making regular
trips over the old dummy line track to
the dam. The company has been waiting
to utilize the electric power of the city
power house, but has decided TO use the
dummy train in the meantime Thousands
of people visit the power house every
week aud the car line is trying to reap a
benefit out of the affair while IL Is yet a
novelty.
1t is estimated that Travis county far
merS will plant 10 per cent less cotton
this year than during 1894, the difference
to be made uD in corn. Some time ago
the farmers OF Comal county solemnly
agreed TO plant less cotton than they had
planted during the previous year. 1t was
intended for a Shrewd business move,
sort of Wall street transaction, whereby
the price or cotton was 10 be run up
several points. Watcher a brilliant after
thought doomed up in the brains Of the
sturdy COmaliteS or whether they sought
to be ShrewdeI 10 private than in public,
has never been revealed, but IL is a fact
each farmer set to work and planted
more cotton than ever before. Perhaps
luC avis COuIIN has Idheu d cue
from his COmal county brother.
The goOdy-goOdy element of the Uni
versty students at this place have caught
strange ana unaccOuntable SpaSm Of
morality, and heavy, blue atmosphere
of righteous Indignation hangs on this
great institution of learning. The recent
issue Of the University magazine is the
cause of all of this mess. 1t is monthly
publication edited by a board of editors
selected by the three literary societies of
the University. The last volume, which
closed with the January issue, was eX-
cruciatingIy tame reading-a kind of
journalistic dummy" stuffed with liter
airy sawdust. A staff Of brilliant young
fellows wee elected to edit the present
volume of the magazine, and they turned
out something really bright for a
university journal The articles have
snap and vigor, and there are just
enough verse to give variety. The bright
weekly illustrated society and political
papers of the East seem to have served as
model for the magazine, and its tone, in
consequence. Is little bold for this I'M
sophisticated. virtuouS section of the
country. Ia fact, il severely shocked the
senSibiltes of a number OF blushing
youths. who brought with them from
their abodeS, on the FOrkS-of the Creeks,
a liberal stock of Anti Nude in Art"
sep timent. While one cannot approve
Of everything in the issue of the maya
zine, there is nothing in it that really re-
fleets on or compromises the reputation
of the university among fair minded peo-
Pile. . As result of the agitation, how
ever one indignation resolution has been
passed and more of them are threatened.
ROadmaSter |. n. Thomas, of the |. &
e. n, is in the city shaking hands with
his friends The |. & q. n, track at the
scene of the recent wreck this side of
New BraunfelS. the other day, has been
repaired and is now in as good shape as
ever. The wreck, but for the GOODNESS
of the negro porter on the train,imight
have been very serious one. When the
mail car left the track and plunged down
the steep embankment, the porter rushed
upon the platform and put on the air
breaks. thus saving the passenger coaches
from meeting with like fate. The Aus
tin bound passengers were delayed thir-
teen bourS.
representative John A. O'Connor, after
sixteen days Illness, has returned from
5 Ln Antonio and resumed his seat in the
House. +.