The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1899-08-18

probable yield this early In the season. and
intimate that the New Orleans statisticlan has
merely made guess to suit the wishes of for
eign spinners. His endeavor to give the i'm
preston that the South will furnish the world
n crop OF l2,0oc, 900 bales this season is an OK
aggeration that is little short of crime.
rne market has been depressed just when new
cotton Is beginning to come forward. and the
farmer has been deprived OF the little advance
brought about last week from crop deterlora-
ton in many States. With prices already prao-
ticaly below the cost OF production, the man
who uses his influence to cause further de-
cline is certainly guilty OF an outrageous and
inexcusable action. and one that honest men.
whether spectators or producers, are right
fully resentng.
And now Simon Bolivar Buckner has de-
clared against Goebei in Kentucky. That
ought to settle II, Goebel ought to be elected.
The Eagle and Phoenix cotton mill at Co.
lumbus, Ga. recently increased its capital
stock from 100000 to $4,000 and has decided
to build a new three-story mill, which will be
the fourth mill for this great manufacturing
enterprise. Employment will be given to 100
additional hands. The new stock has been
going like hot cakes. This Is the kind OF OBJ
ject lesson 1t will pay Southern capital to
study. Work is soon to commence also, on
the new Columbus Manufacturing company's
MILL the capital OF the company being $685.
000-chieay subscribed In Columbus.
with Bailey and Reed both on the floor of
congress- hghting expansion the administra-
ton would soon have to run up its distress
signals.
One OF the Boston papers remarks that the
detective bureau up there is said to have its
hands more than full. but the burglars, sneak
thieves and highway robbers that have had 1t
all their own way for some time past ARE
not yet in these hands as part of their full
ress." This condition of lawlessness and ter
rorism appears to be the case in nearly all
the Northern cities About November these
thugs will migrate southwark, and every city
and town OF any size should have its rockpile
ready and fully equipped.
Secretary of War Root is already making All
excellent impression, but he hasn't fired Cor
bin yet. It's a trump card when he wants to
use It'll
The chief distinction OF the democratic bolt
ers' candidate for governor OF Kentucky Is
that he once flayed Ben Butler upon the floor
OF congress. 1t was noble deed 1t is true,
but 1t has already been rewarded by the
people of Kentucky with gubernatorial honors.
The line ought to be drawn somewhere on
these old claims of old politicians.
One can not fail to admire the remarkable
ingenuity displayed by the city administra-
ton in its efforts to keep the Houston schools
out OF politics.
The refusal of the Rennes court martial TO
adjourn until NJ. Labor able to return
to the court, or gave no sign or hope of re-
covery, was the meanest and most contempti-
BILE advantage yet taken of Dreyfus. Is the
French army hardened against the contempt
OF the world?
The last years experiences both here and
abroad. lead us to suspect that 1t is even
easier to stock military jury than civil
o. criminal jury.
The governor general OF Porto Rico now
puts the death fist from the recent hurricane
and from privations at 1000 This is almost
an unparalleled calamity. and the citizens of
the United States should be prompt with their
relief or this terrible list will continue to
grow rapidly.
1t looks very much, from the developments
of the Dreyfus trial for the past two days, as
If the assassin who shot down Laborl knew
exactly what he saying when he ex-
claimed, II have killed Dreyfusw
That school superintendent case Is likely
to drag its weary length for months yet In
the meantime the schools must necessarily
suffer by reason of the general uncertainty on
all sides Politics is good thing only in its
place.
This country is now turning out go, 900 tons
of pig iron per week, or CO.'S more than the
output weekly two years ago And still the
demand keeps ahead of the supply-and still
the Texas iron fields are unworked!
The Mormon elders are faring badly over In
Georgia and Tennessee. They deserve no
sympathy nor recognition as preachers or re-
ligionists. Even the irreligIous people of this
country generally know the difference be-
tween religion and a hoggish kind of lechery
The American regiments in the Philippines
appear to be composed OF n kind of amphibi-
Gus soldiers-they fight either on land or In
the water Otis ought TO pull himself to-
gether and get out on the firing line just once
to see what kind OF material he commands
The Van Wyck boom should be put on leo
for the remainder OF the heated term aud
then be given an extra supply of hannels
during the winter. It's a good thing to have
around TO keep the anti Bryan men from col
lapsino with ennui.
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SOME POsTsCRIPTs.
The height of the rock OF Gibraltar is about
1887 feet