The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-08-29

Monday evening AZ 1880 o'clock in tho
office of the Houston Business League to
take deflnite action looking to the devel-
opment Of Houston and South Texas All
business men and property owners In this
city and section are invited to attend and
Tho Post hopes there viii be a large at
tendance OF such men present who viii
enter earnestly into the work OF lmmo-
diately pushing ths city and seeton to
tho front. 1t cnn not but compel the at
tcntion of immigrants and capitalists to
this nature favored section and hasten II
to its man fest destiny.
Buffalo does not woISder now at the size
OF the pension rolls.
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Ohio voters frequently tako delight In
reversing quickly their verdict In the pres
dental year. Thus Grants triumphant
election Of 1872 WIS turned into a dcmo-
cratic verdict In 1879. Hayes success In
1876 was followed by democratic major
lty Of 1000 In 1877, The heavy maIoriites
OF Garfield and Blaine were greatly re-
dneed In succeeding elections. The demo
Gratis carried the state by If. 900 after iInr-
rison's victory In 1858. Cleveland lost the
ffN'NNN ~ N'fS INfN NHtfH Nv 1917. YET Nc
Kinlcy swept It by 81 1000 In 1898 This yenr
1t VIII again change the record Of last fail.
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If whisky win keep on after wheat corn
may conclude 10 follow.
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Last fall Mckinley said that low prices
were @ blessing to the people. Now he
says that high prices arc indications Of
prosperity. On which proposition is he
honest?
The Afrld's seem to he swntting John
Bull for swatting the Swats.
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That low coughing heard up on Onion
creek, Travis county, Texas, is Colonel
Alexander Watkins Terrell clearing his
thoat 10 announce that he ls out OF poll.
| tics.
The eleven wives Of the st. Joseph man
ought TO organize an Adnmless Eden.
| IL Colonel Sellers of the new Amer, on n
party is in anyway related TO the one In.
| troduced TO us by Mark Twain, his party
| VIII soon have millions In it,
y man named Baclsus says he will ro.
form caney Island. Not with that kind
| of a,pame
lay Gould continues to win even In
death. Sarah Ann Angel has written to
George Could ana confessed that tho old
man never married her.
| Three young men went over Niagara
Falls tho other day. We'll, thcy'n neve,
do II again.
seh,attor, tho divine healer, IA agalns,
10 to /. He has skipped from Canton
ohio leaving sixty empty whisky bottle,
ana one wife.
bob F.tgslmmons strike over the sola,
pleNns was nearly as good as a strike n
the klondikc.
That girl who climbed to the top OF 4
mountain to sing the star spangled Ban.
ner'' was consldorato OF other poople's
| feelings.
The coal strike is hccom.ng mountainous
That 81 Louis conference should preoIpl
! tate crisis.
1 Vhe cheerful Idiot who wants to b,
funny is now getting his work IN by bot.
tins up messages and sending them
adrift
] baseball club has been organized Il,
Japan. There will soon be an overproduc.
ton of Japanese fans.
! Another college professor chol,ea on
this time In san Francisco. why don't
'ne sodpuss put in the spanish garroteI
New York seems to be getting n sinai,
idea OF the negro rape ncnd. Now watch
results IL he's rauphf