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Year: 1877

IT is not yet entirely certain which party
will control the organization of the next
House. The Democrats. it is said, have con-
ceived a scheme by which they think they
can work matters to their satisfaction. The
Clerk of the present House, whose duty it is
to prepare list of the members of the new
body, will. it is intimated, omit from the roll
the delegations from Louisiana and Florida,
and by this means give the Democrats good
working majority whereby they can carry
things with high hand. Nice laid plans of
this particular description have never yet
worked well, and there are valid reasons for
believing that they will prove abortive in this
casn
Year: 1877

THE prospect is said to be good that the
Castelani collection will be retained at the
Metropolitan Museum in New York, where
it is now on exhibition. Should the Museum
be able to keep the collection it will command
for itself high position among like institu
tions throughout the world.
Year: 1877

AN evening newspaper in New York at
tempted a graceful compliment to the good
conduct Of Mr.. Otis D. Swan, Secretary of
the Blocker Street Savings Bank, and
achieved the following: His position gave
no opportunity to handle the funds OF that
institution, and his connection with it was
marked by strict integrity"
Year: 1877

In Paris more general observance of the
Sabbath as day of rest is noticed. The
shops are now quite generally closed on Sun
day, and the government approves the reform
by suspending work on Sundays on the new
international exhibition. The change in
custom is worth far more to France than a
victory over the Prussans.
Year: 1877

EVERY regular attache of the PRESS is furnished
with Card certificate countersigned by Stanley t.
Pullen, Editor. All railway, steamboat and hotel
managers will confer a favor upon us by demanding
credentials Of every person claiming to represent our
journal.
Year: 1877

NOTICE Nasts picture in the last Harper's
The Southern Democratic cat says to the
Mort hern Democratic monkey, Mono
more chestnuts for me-" 1t is as funny as it
is suggestive and true.
Year: 1877

We do not read anonymous letters and communi-
cations The name and address of the writer are in
all cases Indispensable not necessarily for publication
but as guaranty CT good faith.


We cannot undertake to return or reserve eommu-
nications that are not used.
Year: 1877

The committee will bind me hand and foot, and
while IN this condition coat from the back OF of
the audience Will be transferred to my back, and
aft ier being sewed securely together at the neck and
cuffs will be nstantaneously and in full view of the
audience, returned by some unseen power to the
owner. Not a knot united seal broken.
Year: 1877

What better can we do than hope for the
best?


Gentillty is the first to give ground in a
free fight.


AS long as the weather holds up the snow
won't come down.


Justice is frequently overbalanced by the
weight of evidence.


AS Osman is SAID to be of the right sort
he may soon make a Sortie on the right.


Governor Mcclellan will probably secure
Aunt-Tietam for housekeeper at Trenton


The fop who is so careful about paying
his respects, often ignores his tailor and
laundress.


Why do confirmed bachelors prefer their
books to women? Because they are easier
shut up.


An exchange says that a man "was shot
in the brawl." What part of our amiable
anatomy is that?


Mid day is always the same, whether
you spell it backward or forward, provid-
ed you call IL noon.


1t was a neat idea to be absent when the
boiler burst, but bad note not to be on
hand when your promissory paper fell
due.
Year: 1877

Senator Patterson, of South Carolina,
in response to a request of the President
that he would like to see him, has called
at the White House and had lengthy
interview with Mr.. Hayes. Senator Pat
terson talked very plainly. He said to
the President that he regarked him as
the destroyer of the republican party in
the South; that the quiet which now
reigned in that section was the quiet of
death. the President, in reply, said
what he has frequently said to others
that his whole sympathies were with the
republican party, that he desired the sue
cess of the republican party in the South,
and that he solemnlY believed that the
policy which he had initiated was one
that would build up and not destroy the
party.


Senator Patterson said that in the
speech which he had lately made in the
Senate he represented the views of the
great body of the republicans of both
the South and the North i; that he had
received quantities of letters from repub-
licans in all sections of the country
warmly commencing the sentiments of
his speech. The President replied that
his information was that the great body
VI tuc IcpuullSduo appLOfOu MS COuISoy
and he thought that while he was bene-
filing the party he was at the same time
pacifying the country and strengthing
confidence everywhere. Senator Patter-
son then said to the President that his
recommendations in regard to South Car
olina affairs, in which he spoke for the
republicans of the State, had been total>
! ly disregarded, as had been his views ON
various matters which he had laid before
the executive. He said further that one
great fact existed which spoke volumes
as to the effect of the Presidents policy
on the fortunes of the republican party
in the South. He asked the President to
name one instance where republican
meeting had been held in the South since
his Inauguration, and said that so far at
least as South Carolina was concerned he
was sure the President would be unable
10 comply with his request. The con-
versation continued in this strain, and at
its conclusion the President and Mr.. Pat
terson found themselves exactly where
they begun, each convinced that the
other was wrong.
Year: 1877

We think there are other things still
in the way of cOunteraction against bar
rooms and liquor saloons which it lies
on mothers and sisters TO bring into use.
A beautiful, bright, cheerful home
atmosphere is n great safeguard to a son
or brother. Believe us, dear women,
even though you are tired, though your
head aches, though you feel of all things
in the world like slippers and easy chairs,
it is worth while to cast off your fatigue
and entertain the young men Of the
household, as you would entertain whom
you cared to honor. Have extra lights
and let the parlor look glowing and in
viting. Play your new pieces, sing your
new songs, and ask in the pretty daugh-
ter of your next door neighbor, or the
merry girls from over the way, and have
a good time at home. Then, too, we
have often thought that every woman
who is a mother ought TO have moth
erly feeling for other women's sons.
They come to our city in scores, boys
from farm houses and from fishing viii
lages. and what sort of home do they
find d? Their salaries are small. they want
to save something TO send to the cid
folks, or TO lay by for future use, and the
price of board is high. Now, why can


not our homes be made to open wider
doors to Just this class We once knew
lady who, every Thanksgiving and
Christmas, was accustomed to gather
about her dinner table all the young
men and women she could hear of who
had no homes to 60 to on these festal
days, and we thought it a lovely thing
to do, because so full of the inspirations
and essence of christian kindness. How
many times might Il motherly hand laid
upon his shoulder 4 womanly hold upon
his heart, save a young man from drift
ing into temptations that he cares little
for in themselves, but which attract him
because he is lonely and oppressed.
Year: 1877

A WIDESPREAD association, under the
rame of Federation and Liberty" has
been discovered in Moscow, whose aim
it is to make Russia a federal republic.
The empire is to form FIVE separate
states, united by a federation. The
dynasty is to be set aside, the aristocracy
abolished, and communal and republican
institutions to be introduced on the
most democratic basis. Numerous ar
rests have consequently been made in
Moscow.
Year: 1877

CONVENIENT Is not brawler, nor
disturber of the peace, but should the
sheriff want him for a purpose, he would
sooner look for him in the poor mans
cottage, than in the rich mans palace.
Year: 1877

Is the great blood purifier, cures Syphilis and re-
moves Pimpes and Humors on the face


Reason should teach us that blotchy, rough or
pimpled skin depends entirely upon internal
cause, and no outward application cure the
defect.
Year: 1877

From the Boston Transcript
There must be something after all This Woe
\ sweet truition from the narrowed past;
kest some day for this pacing to and fro:
\ tender sunbeam and dear flowers at last
There VIII be something when these DAYS are done
something more fair by far than starry nights
prospect hmitless as one by one


Embodied castles crown the airy heights
80 cheer Up. heart, and for that morrow wait
Dream what vou will. but press toward the


dream;


Let fancy guide dull effort through the gate
And face the current would she cross the stream.
Then when that something lies athwart the way
Coming unsought as good things seem to do
| will prove beneath the flush Of setting day
nobler need than now would beckon Won
For lifted up by constant forward strife
Hope viii attain SO marvellous height
There can be nothing found within this life
After the day TO form fitting night
So heaven alone shall ever satisfy


And Gods own light be ever light enough
TO guide the purified, emnobled eve


Toward the smooth which lies bcvond the rough
There will be something when these clouds skim
bounteous yielding from the fruitful past
Sweet peace and rest upon the pathway he
Zen though but death and flowers al the last
James Berry Bensee.
Year: 1877

Keeping squashes in winter seems to
be attended With considerable difficulty.
They cannot be kept where it is DAMP
as IN most cellars, or where frost can
reach them; nor will they keep 50 well
" here 1t IS very warm. The best condi-
llon 1or keeping them seems to be where
the air IS cool and dry, vet safe from frost
An attic chamber until winter: then a
closet near the chimney where the frost
cannot reach Or the temperature does
not rise very high, is the best most fami-
Hes can command. Extensive market
gardeners often keep them in houses
oullt Tor the purpose, where they can
MAINTAIN an even temperature by the aid
OF fires and ventilation.


The squash is very rich in flesh and
lat-lormlng elements, consequently it is a
valuable iood for stock, and all the waste
OF the crop should be carefully saved and
ted The specked and green ones, boiled
up and mixed with meal and shorts, make
excellent food for swine and poultry and,
cut up raw they are valuable for COWS
and young stock. When feeding them to
hens and COWS giving milk, the seeds
should be removed, as they have diu-
retic effect, which tends to dry up the
milk and cause hens to cease LAYING.
Squashcs are worth half as much per ton
to feed as good hay.
Year: 1877

A hard old customer was Badge. He was never
known to attend church, and considered the
wickedest man in the small town in which he
lived. One night his old COW was prowling about
the house seeking what she might devour, and
stuck her head in the swill barrel Al the time
the barrel was empty, her head was SO far in that
she made blind rush to free herself from the in
cumbrancc. As luck would have it, she struck II
bee line for the house, and directly for the front
door. The old man was sitting inside telling his
family all about great murder trial, when the
gave frightful below, which was prolonged
by the empty barrel into an uncarthly roar At
the same time the front door crashed from its
hinges, and the COW, with her uncommon head
gear bolted into the room. "Old wickedness"
gave one agonized look at the trightful demon
which confronted him each separate and indi-
vidual hair stood on end; a shivering feeling
crawled up and down his back his eyes protruded
from his head; altogether he picture of alb
ject terror Suddenly his tongue loosened, and he
screamed, "For heavens sake, take Mary She's
better prepared than am Since that eventful
night the man has joined an easy going church,
which is one step progressive and he only swears
now when he sees old Brndle or the swill barrel
The old COW "fetched him"
Year: 1877

Henry Gorham a Utah Mormon, with six wives
lately undertook to " correct" all six of the Mrs
Gorhams with horsewhip at one session. but they
made common cause against him and he was
scratched and bitten to that degree he came near
dying. He will probably do his wife whipping by
retail rather than wholesale hereafter
Year: 1877

Morgan outgenersls Pierce. Three
hundred wagons from San Antonio
were recently In Cuero for freight
brought by Morgan's steamers to In
dianola for distribution over Western
Texas. II Austin merchants and prop


erty-owners would make this busy,
active, prosperous capital they would
compel Morgan to extend his road
from Cuero to Austin. If northwest
ern counties were proffered here a
choice of routes to the Gulf and also
to New Orleans and New York, the
whole wealth and travel of northwest F.
ern Texas would be concentrated at
the capital. Therefore the necessity
for the construction of narrow gauge
towards Brownwood. 1t would not
have length of twenty-five miles be
foreiMorgan would grow impatient.
He would monopolize the commerce
Of Texas. Nothing less will appease
his Unsuitable appetite. He is mon
strous anaconda among steamships and
railways, and while confessedly master
on the sea he must be omnipotent on
land. Pierce and the Sunset route are
helpless. They cannot compete with
a man who fixes at will rates of
freight charges both on the Gulf
and on the Atlantic and compels San
Antonio to abandon highway at her
very doors giving preference to another
perhaps sixty miles away. If this
wonderful Morgan, whose genius and
strength grow with his years, saw that
Austin must become the center of trade
for rich and populous northwestern
counties of Texas, he would grasp this
rich resource for his steamers. No
body could compete with him. Rail
road managers and owners are cog
infant of these facts and they would
not have Morgan come to Austin. He
is near enough, as their interest may
he affected by his proximity, to the
State capital. Therefore all owners
and officers of roads converging at Aus
tin use every possible influence to pre-
vent the construction of the North
western Narrow Gauge or Texas and
Pacific. Even men of intelligence have
been induced to believe or to say that
they would not have road on any
terms to Lampasas or Brownwood OF
Bolton. When the Chamber of Com
merce and county court have accom-
plished the little local task occupying
their energies they should undertake
another that will double the wealth
and population of the capital and
practically giving Morgan's steamers
an untaxed wharf at the foot of the
Avenue, make this the most prosperous
city of Texas or of the South.
Year: 1877

Morton said that Hayes had "suc-
cumbed to Democratic force" The
STATESMAN is pleased that Hayes sue
cumbed; but the Register grows angry
about it. 1t is not Democracy in fact
and philosophy it wanted, but the
spoils. Hayes has confessedly served
US more effectively than Tilden could
have done, and when the STATESMAN
rejoices because the country is thus
perfectly blest, the Register weeps
simply because the spoils are lost. The
STATESMAN is patriotic, the Register
partisan. The STATESMAN dares to
tell the truth, and whea q partisan
enemy serves the country well the
STATESMAN lauds as the act deserves,
but the Registers soul is not its own.
1t belongs to the party and cannot do
justice to patriot president who,
rising superior to this timidity that
distinguishes party-leaders, defies their
power in his own party that he may
obey the Constitution and execute the
laws. So extraordinary is this conduct
of Mr.. Hayes, so unlike that of his
predecessors, SO significant of the mans
wisdom, courage and integrity, that we
would be false to every instinct of our
nature did we not recognize each day
the honest worth and devotion to
right of the President of the United
States. Duty to truth and honor COM
pels this assertion of admiration for
the President, and if there be South
ern patriot worthy of the South he will
not fail to do justice to the personal
and official virtues of the country's
chief magistrate. Meanwhile, when
the President falters in the plain path
of duty and of justice to States we will
be as ready to condemn as at this
moment to approval the man and chief
executive.
Year: 1877

GOLD has hidden its shining face
from Texas for seventeen years. Sher-
man gives everybody silver that prof
fers paper, and is paying out million
per month, but we never behold the
brilliant yellow, fascinating sheen of
gold. 1t is coming. Sherman is slowly
unveiling it; but what signifies it?
Our condition, when it comes, will be
no better than to-day. Money will be
scarcer and property lower, and the
very scarcity of money will make it
valuable, and we will be driven to use
pennies instead of dimes and nickels.
We have not yet seen the worst Of hard
times. Sherman gives the financial
thumbscrew an additional twist every
day, and squeezes the very lifeblood
and breath out of the country.
Year: 1877

CoNNoIssEURs accustomed to use Eu-
ropean wine pronounce that made
from mustang grapes of Texas the best
ever produced at the table of any sub.
ject or king. The grapes grow every
where in the southern and western
counties. The cost of making the
wine is fifty cents and it is sold for
one dollar per gallon, and each year
adds fifty cents or dollar to its value
for several years. The Houston Agt
asks people who understand the art OF
making wine from mustang grapes to
publish their formula. The crop
will be great and soon ripe.
Year: 1877

The Houston Telegram says that this
scheme had origin with wide-awake
Northern men, who have been looking
upon the country on the Brazos with
the eyes of Northern shrewdness and
enterprlse-conceived the project of
rousing the planters and property own
ers of the lower end of the Brazos to
bestir themselves and develop section
of this great State that for fertility of
soil has no equal on the face of the
earth. Meetings were therefore quietly
and unostentatiously arranged with the
planters at Columbia, and new pro-
ject laid before them. 1t was to build
three-foot narrow gauge, the same
gauge with the Texas Western, from
the town of Columbia, on the iBrazos
to Wharton, on the Colorado, thirty
eight miles above. The terms offered
were to get 1000 acres of land donated
per mile, or ten miles on either side of
the road. Some of this land is of the
most valuable description; some is
flat prairie, in its present state scarcely
worth twenty-five cents per acre. 1t is
understood the terms have been agreed
to, the company has been regularly
formed and chartered according to the
incorporation laws of the State, and
it is stated that the stock has been
taken and so per cent. already offered
in cash. If the condition required by
the originators of the scheme can be
obtained, it is believed that after the
laying of the first rail the entire line
can be finished inside of four months.
The proposed new piece of road is
continuation of the Columbia division
of the International and Great North
erD, with southwark curve at Colum-
bia, and then striking in a direction a
little north of west for the lanks of
the Colorado at Wharton, penetrating
the magnificent Old Caney country, and
in line with Hallettsville, Gonzales
and New Braunfels, at the latter place
forming a junction with the line of the
Texas Western. From the way in
which the Northern gentlemen con-
nected with it talk about the enter
prise, they evidently mean business,
and that in the near future.
Year: 1877

MIR. LEE, of the Episcopal church,
who has been spending some weeks in
Northern cities, says that here in Aus
tin we know nothing of hard times !;
that the sufferings of the poor are pro-


gressive, and the poverty of the rich
infinitely more terrible in the older
than in the newer States. Everywhere
popular poverty and suffering is more
intolerable and visible than in Texas.
Sherman IS doing it. The one brother
desolated the land with fire and
sword the other by mad zeal to
have gold supplant paper and sill
yer. The one is the very impersona-
ton of the genius of war; the other
becomes the representative embodi-
ment of famine and of poverty in its
rags and beggary in its disgusting sores
and hideousness. But the bondhold-
ers demand the sacrifice, and we must
bow submissively to their exactions.
Year: 1877

THE Denver aud Rio Grande (three
feeD Narrow Gauge Road coming down
from Pixies Peak on direct line to
Austin, in passing the Sangre de
Christie Mountains reaches an elevation
of 9340 feet above the sea. It is to
that point we are constantly directing
the capitalists of Austin. 1t is the
nearest point to heaven they can ever
reach by any possibility. They should
go for it, take stock in it and never
forget that it is the straight and mar
row way" which they must pursue or
be everlastingly-ruined.
Year: 1877

TAXPAYERS of Austin pay city taxes
in substitution for fines and forfeitures
incurred for failure or refusal to work
on the public roads. While taxpayers
of Austin thus pay for repairing
bridges and paving streets, those good
people of Austin who pay no taxes to
the city or State but evipce the liveli-
est interest in setting rulers over the
town to tax it-these good people new
er pay taxes or work on the roads or
streets, and some plan of getting even
should be devised. The taxpayers
bear all burdens of government and
then cannot control that government
or elect its officers, and then these
people who are stupid enough to pay
taxes must work in the streets or hire
men to do it. The law is fearfully un-
just, and especially when the corpora
ton deals with property alone, the
State protecting the citizen if wronged
by the corporation. But we only
wished to know whether those excel
lent people who control municipal
elections and give us our local masters
can be induced in any way to contrib
ute their proper share to the MAIN
tenance of the public highways.
Year: 1877

The Indians having left the reserva-
tion at Fort sill, we may soon hear of
terrible deeds done by the savagcs ON
the Texas frontier. There is great
anxiety on account of hunting parties
known to be west and north of Fort
Sill.
Year: 1877

WHILE some people are quarreiing
about the proper site for the post
Office and court building, others want
employment and money and bread,
and whether the great structure stand
on Pecan street or elsewhere, in two
years, will signify nothing II Austin
do not outgrow q building like this
and its influence upon values, Austin
property viii be- too valueless to quar-
rel about.
Year: 1877

IT makes a fellow who has taken
whisky out of . chunk bottle by the
camp fire and played poker with Grant
think the world mad TO see Grant hob
nobbing with the Duke Of Wellington
and quafing Tokay with the Queen OF
England.
Year: 1877

THE cattle supply Of Texas is
drained to the lowest point and no
more yearlings or calves should be ex-
ported. The demand for beef at home
will be very great next winter and
spring and the home market excellent.
Year: 1877

GOVERNOR HUBBARD and Gen. Steele
and the coming Legislature will be led
to appreciate the Importance of keep
ing the State military force in the field
when we state that the village Of Go
lad alone subscribed seven thousand
three hundred dollars for the malnte-
nance of Halls command, and the
amount subscribed in the village would
be greatly increased, we are told, in
the country. But can the Governor,
In the face of the Constitution, use
this money, to be returned by the State
He is inhibited from creating any debt
not provided for by law.