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Year: 1879

Texas possesses more unoccupied
arabic land than all the other new
States Of the Union put together. She
is the great receptacle of emigration
from the old Slave States east of the


Mississippi, and her fertile soil and


mild climate have attracted many set


tiers from the North. Of late years
special efforts have been made by the
railway companies and other large
land owners, and to some extent by
the State Government. to secure large
influx OF industrious Northern farmers.
These facts, together with the increas-
in Importance of the State politically,
the role it is is evidently destined to
play in National affairs as the Empire
state of the South, and the peculiar
and picturesque features ofits frontier
life, have drawn public attention to it
in marked degree. Approaching the
interest felt in the condition and pros.
poets of Texas, The Tribune recently
sent thither an experienced correspon.
dent, with instructions to visit the
principal towns and cities, and the Sec
tions most inviting to immigration.
Tho results of his tour will be present


ed to our readers in series OF letters
the first of which we print to-day.
Without anticipating the conclusions
of our correspondent we may say that
the aim of the letters is to give fair
picture of the present condition Of
things in the State, and a reasonable
view Of the prospects for future growth.
The letter published on another
page describes the City of Galveston,
which most readers will learn with
some surprise has lost population dur
ing the past few years, and is dspen.
dent for the realization of its hopes OF
becoming the great commercial me-
tropolis of the Gulf upon the by no
means certain success of the engineer
ing operations to deepen the entrance
to its harbor.-[N. Y. Tribune.
Year: 1879




veto Of the school appropriation is the
great question of the State, perhaps it
might not be out of order to proclaim
from the maintains what some Of US
feel upon that great, vital question Of
the day.
In the war that has been so persist
emily waged against our public schools
there is one thing we wonld do well to
note. There is in Texas, as in other
states. a number of colleges and liter
ary institutions of q high grade, which
are sort of rivalry Of our common or
public schools, what their managers
say to the contrary Notwithstanding
These college men know very we'll
that if our common schools-which is
but another name for public schv ols--
are broken up, a favored few in all
communities will patropize these high,
er institutions, and thus give them a
monopoly in the entire matter of edu-
cation. Hence we are continually re-
minded that Experienced teachers
all over the State pronounce our school
system failure, humbug. waste of
money, &c. Now it is pertinent toask
who are these experienced teachers
all over the State?" Who were the
teachers with whom Gov. Roberts,
conferred before he signed the death
warrant of our public schools? We
happen to know a number of those
who attended the Governors teachers
convention, early in the session." and
we venture the assertion that not Il
half dozen ever had any connection
with public schools. They were from
Independence, Chapel Hill, George.
town, Waco, and few scattering. All
these, Qike DR.. Burleson, whose letter
the Governor faunts in our iaces) be-
long to the class of educa tors whose
sole object is to build up their favorite
institutions. though it be at the sacri.
fee of 10000 poor children turned out
of the public schools. But We are
told, and re- told, and told again, that
our public schools are worthless, that
they are a failure; that we have no
competent teachers; that We must bide
our time till the State shall build up a
normal school at Bryan, or somewhere
else, and educate teachers. and then
forsooth, we can have an efficient
system iof public schools! Now this
argument would seem very plausible if
it we're not for one little circumstance;
that is, it is remarkably untrue. 1t is
said that if q man tell the same lie
every day in the year he will finally get
to believe it is the truth, though he
knew it was lie when he began it. 1t
must be somehow in this way that so
many people give in to the idea that
our public schools are failure. The
fact is we have now 10 Texas hundreds
of men and women ready and willing
to labor in the great work, just as
competent as the Normal will ever
send out. And besides, it is an insult
upon the good sense Of the people to
say thev are, or can be, imposed upon
By worthless teachers.


But then here comes up the old
clap trap argument Of ecObony-re-
treuchnent. This j. a hobby upon
which every party tries to ride into
power. We have heard il 80 long aud
loud tha; it don't mean anything, Sup
.<-n - 90. .roaoruire- "a tha. the
Year: 1879

When Alexander III. Stephens be-
gan to practice law he was extremely
poor and had not too easy days. 1t
is perhaps the remembrance Of that
time that makes him so good to young
men. at least fifty of whom be has
helped to education.
Year: 1879

his wife to sleep On the floor in order that his
racing dog might occupy her place in bed; and
bis four-legsed pet was rega!ed on joints OF
beef, while his wife and children we're starving.
The unreasonable woman complained, and the
outraged husband beat her within an inch Of
her life.
Year: 1879

slavery sought its overthrow. and recognized the
Confederate States the object of which declaration
was. Of course to favor among the white peo-
ple The colored people too evangelical already
for that Church. They are more spiritual than they
are: ut least that is my opinion The Catholic Church
Will not prosper here in this country except among
the foreign population.


REpoRrER-what is the position Of Alexander
Stephens as a Southern leader?


Bishop HAvEN-Now. don't want to talk politics.
As to Stephens he has only one point. and that he
never rails on. So far as the coiored man Is con-
cerned he is very decent man. know OF his
making efforts in behalf OF colored man at West
Point. But his great point is States rights. The
Southern people a unit that idea. Stephens is
Calhoun successor in that respect. Davis put the
question to the test OF battle which stephens did not
approve. He believes III securing the supremacy OF
his section within the Union and by legislation.
HIS text book is used in all the schools of the
South. l mean his book on .War Between the
States" In that book these ideas steadily
taught 1t is so in the schools of Atlanta and it il
so in all the high schools except the schools under
the direction OF Northern societies.


REPoRTER-Does the exodus which is attracting
much attention promise to solve the problem of the


Bishop HAVEN'T have no idea that the exodus is
going to be universal. The negro population is
that leaves its homes unwillingly. No doubt good
many people will leave and they will not go to Kan
sas exclusively. had letter recently from pre-
siding elder. in which he wants New Mexico to be
appropriated to them. My advice to them is to
ter through all the North, from New England to the
Pacific; to scatter among the people. have advised
good many Of them in this way privately to go
wherever they could get labor.


THE FUTURE


REPoRTER-Then the questions touching the col
ored race in the South will still remain unsettled?


Bishop HAVEN think there is moro powerful
agency at work to settle the matter. think the
farms and plantations will gradually go to the col
ored men under the necessities OF the bankruptcy
and poverty Of their presen. holders know Of
four colored men-cne in South Carolina one i'll
Texas. one in North Carolina. one in Gcorgia-that
now own farms OF from four hundred to six hundred
acres in extent. These examples Of which
are growing moro frequent year by gear think
the race is going to settle there finally 1t is to be
remembered that the poor colorcd people going
to school more than the poor white people Among
the whites the same custom rules that ruled before
the The higher classes educated, but not
the masses OF the white population. Among the
colored masses large proportion OF them OBJ
tanning education. OF the rising there
but boys and girls that cannot read and
write. On the plantations l suppose this is not
much so. but it is a good deal more than you
would think. The schools very little supported
by the State but they have subscription schools.
and many OF the Northern teachers spend their
mer in teaching i'll the South mostly in subscription
schools.
Year: 1879

The sermon by the Rev. DR.. Hill published
elsewhere, is profitable for doctrine, reproof,
and correction. He complains that the lit
erature and art and journalism of the day
do not hold up the mirror to nature and
faithfully reflect it. On the contrary they
too often give a distorted view, mirroring
only the bad things in life, and turning their
refectors aside as the good things pass into
the field of vision.


In regard to DR.. HilPs structures on liter
ature and art we have nothing now to say
In regard to journalism we have this to say:
the remedy is with the reader. 1t is a mis-
taken idea that reporters delight in the de-
tails of crime, or that editors are pleased to
admit those details into their columns
Many journals strive to make their criminal
as possible. How are their efforts reward
ed? A great portion, sometimes the greater,
of their subscribers go and buy paper con-
tanning fuller and more picturesque" ac-
count of the crime, and condemn the decent
journal for its "want of enterprise" Even
those who heartily agree with the opinion
that criminal offenses are too minutely re-
ported, seek out and read the papers con-
tanning the minutest reports. They may
not like to have those papers at their houses,
but they order them sent to their offices and
counting rooms. Thus it comes about that
many journals which would like to content
themselves with the briefest mention of
crime, are forced to enlarge their reports, or
see their subscription lists shorten and the
business Of their counting rooms shrink
They find themselves driven to the wall by
their contemporaries, and are forced to give
''all the news" or abandon the field. 1t
must be remembered that the journal is a
commercial enterprise, dependent on sub
scribers and advertisers for support, and it
must please them or fail. If they will insist
that less space be given to the description of
wickedness, and more to the account of vir-
tuous doings, the newspapers will very read
lily comply with their wishes.


DR.. HilPs sermon commanded the admir-
ing attention of his congregation, as it no
doubt will the approval of the wider congre-
cation to whom it is now addressed. We
hope that each reader of it will take its les
sons to himself, and that no one of the audi
ence that so heartily approved it will be
found buying or reading one paper in prefer
ence to another, because it contains fuller
and nastier account of the latest crime or
scandal.
Year: 1879

IN an address to the voters of Kentucky.
the Republican State Committee thus sets
forth the position of the party: ''It will
have no money but honest money. 1t main
tains the dignity, honor and integrity of the
nation, and its power and duty to protect its
citizens wherever they may live" They
mention many peculiarly strong reasons why
good citizens of that State should abandon
the Democratic party, which is bound hand
and foot to the late confederacy, and fills all
the offices with those having rebel military
records alone, when the State furnished but
about 1900 men to the confederate armies,
and contributed more than IS regiments to
the Union cause.
Year: 1879

LORD BEACoNsFIELD said to member of
the Manchester Chamber of Commerce, who
came to tell him recently that the Chamber
intended to vote resolutions condemnatory
of the ministerial policy on the Eastern ques-
ton: 81 have heard great deal about Man
chester 'clayed cotton which is disgracing
the English name in China. Please tell
your Chamber that if they attend to my bus
mess / will try and attend to theirs.''
Year: 1879

THE New York World takes occasion to
remind its Democratic friends in Congress
that "tacking rcpeals to appropriations and
refusing appropriations if the repeals are for
hidden is a measure only justifable in the
presence of imminent danger, and it is i'm
possible to make the country believe that the
danger in this case is imminent"
Year: 1879

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


We cannot undertake to return preserve COM
munieations that are not used.
Year: 1879

Ii is understood that Mr. DAILY goes as
Democratic delegate to Bangor to show up
''the corruption and mismanagement'' of
Warden Rice's administration of the affairs
of the State Prison.
Year: 1879

Th4 following story Of the honorable


dealing of be landlord and his ten


ant is taken from a late English paper.


If all landlords and tenants were equally
Jnst, how few grievances would spring
rsm the relation: G


"a farmer called on the late Earl
t.tzw'liam 10 represent that his crop Of
wheat had been seriously injured in
field adjoining certain wood where his


lord>hip's hounds had during the winter
frequently met to hunt. He stated that


the young wheat had been so cut up and
destroyed that in some parts he could
net hope for any produce. well, my


friend said the Ear I am aware that
we have frequently met in that field, and
that we have done considerable injury;


and if you can procure an estimate Of the


loss you have sustained, l will repay
you The farmer replied that, an.ici-


pating his lordship's consideration and


kindness, he had requested friend to
assist him in estimating the damage, and


they thought that as the crop seemed


entirely destroyed 5ol would not more


than repay him. The Earl Immediately


gave him the money. As the harvest


approached, however, the wheat grew,


and in those tramp!ed the corn was
strongest aud most luxuriant. The farm.


er went again to his Lordship, and being
introduced, said, I am come, my lord,
respecting the field Of wheat adjoining


such a wood Lord Fitzwilliam i'm


me1iately recolected the circumstance.
Well, my friend, did not I allow you
sufficient to remnnerate you for your


loss Yes, my Lord, but | find that I
have sustained no loss at all for where


the horses had most cut up the land. the
crop is most promising, and therefore I


have brought the 5ol. back again. 'Ah,'
exclaimed the venerable Earl, this is


what l like this is as it should be be-
tween man and man. He then entered


into conversation with the farmer, ask


ing him several questions about his family.


how many children, and what was the age
Of each. His lordship then went into an


other room, and on returning gave the
farmer cheque for 1901, saying. Take


care Of this, and when your eldest son


shall become Of age present it to him,


and tell him the occasion which produced
I it, Thus, while meeting an honorable


act with generous return, Lord Fitz-


william at the same time adopted most
effsctual means Of transmitting lesson of
integrity to another age and Of stamping


the deed with his appreciation" t
Year: 1879

Fifty years ago Stephenson ran his FIRST
engine over iron rails in England. There
are now one honlred and fifty thousand
miles of iron rails in the world, Of which
more than half are in this country.
Year: 1879

I EAN VIGNEAU. Livery and Feed Stable, on
y North Main street opposite the court house
square. Single and double teams and saddle
horses to hire. Good care taken Of all stock
placed ii bis stable.
Year: 1879

Rev. w. T. run is about removing
his grocery from the corner of Seventh
and Mouro4 streets to Eighth and Mon
roe streets, whore he has put up a
new building and will have more
commodiOus store room. He proposes
to keep on hand large stock Of grocer
les an sell at the lowest rates.
Year: 1879

"You'd scarce expect one of my
age to speak in public on the stage"
This was the opening sentence of Mr..
Els speech at Hartford, on the 5th inst.
When he made it, it was supposed that
be might possibly allude to the position
he occupied, as the Court-house had
been arranged for a Theatrical exhibi-
ton, but before he was through, il wac
evident that his mother did not know
he was out.


Mr.. z. said that he had hoped the
question of the war was settled, but
Democrats would not let them be set
tied, as they had nominated full rebel
ticket But on this point said before he
was done, that he had voted for rebels,
and expected to do 80 again.
Year: 1879

WE had the pleasure, last Sunday, of
spending several hours with Mr.. u. o..
King and family, at their home in
Louisville. They are eomfortablyquar-
tered in a pleasant locality, are enjoying
the very best Of health and are happy
little family, and one that it gives Us
pleasure TO visit. Mr.. and Mrs. King
have four children living, three boys
and one girl, all of them noted for their
sprightly, intelligent appearance. We
thank them for their kindness TO US,
and wish them a continuation of the
happiness they are now enjoying, clear
down the stream of time.
Year: 1879

Mr.. JACK" 'PENMAN, a Scotch
man. who formerly lived in this county,
is fast recovering from the terrible
wound he received on the railroad some
three months ago, an account Of which
was published in the HERALD at the
time. We met him last Sunday, and he
is quite cheerful, Notwithstanding the
loss of his right arnl. He has already
learned to write with his left hand, and
says he will find some position some
where, and make a living. He was a
brave soldier in the late war.
Year: 1879

The Hartford HERALD comes to us
this week in a new dress and printed
upon new cylinder power press.
With its usual large amount of home
news and the Improvement of its typo
graphical appearance il is one of the
very best home papers in the State. -


Union IOcm
Year: 1879

In refrigerating apparatus for domestic
use, of course, we stand pre-eminent. But
we have arrived at our present form of ap-
pliance only by slow and gradual changes.
The most noted improvement Of late years
in ice-chests has been that the food to be
preserved is no longer in immediate con-
tact with the ice. The reasons are very
numerous why food should not be in i'm


mediate juxtapOsitiOn with ice. We will
only cite two of them. Immediate con-
tact wastes the ice, which, in continuous
melting, washes out, more or less, the sa-
vor of the food. The best form, then, of
the apparatus is where the ice is placed in
a chamber apart from the food, and the
temperature is reduced by radiation. One
thing which is often overlooked by the
housekeeper is that some small amount of
ventilation in certain periods of refrigera


ton is necessary. Such exhalatiOns as
come from meat or fish, the soluble COM
pounds being carried away by vapOr, in
variably cOndense in the first stages Of cool
ing. Very careful hOnsekeepers, when
meat is first put in the ice-chest do not
close down the lid of the safe too tight.
There is some small waste of the ice, but
when the proper time has come and the
chest is closed, there is improvement in
the flavor of the meat. 1t is exceedingly
Wasteful, under the ordinary conditions of
the old-fashioned ice-chest, not to envelOp
the ice in some wooden cover, such as
common blanket. In the newer apparatus
where there is no immediate contact, it IS
still much more economical to blanket the
ice. The trouble, of course, is that when
ice is wanted to cool water, the contents Of
the safe have to be disturbed. Even in
economical families, where an expense of
over fifty cents a week for ice is not allow


ed by the paucity of the budget, after the
first outlay for an ice-cOOler is made, its
purchase will be paid two or three times
over in the summer by the saving Of the
extra cost of Ice. Nothing requires great
er care, more constant sOlicitude, than an
ice-chest As has been stated, the cooling
process precipitates those compounds
which are found in the aqueous vapOr. A
careless person viii buy ice lavishly for
the ice-chesh, and will still have a most
unsavOry receptacle for food. At least
twice week the ice-boX should be clean
ed by wiping it out with fresh water in
cloth, and giving it, at the end Of the week,
thorough scrubbing. There are certain
things, such as milk, which are very sus-
ceptfbie of taint, and will take not only
an OdOr but the distinct taste from other
food. Fish, raw, or even cooked, is very
apt even under the most favorable cir
,cumstances, to impart its peculiar flavor.
Year: 1879

The people of other States plainly see
that the political battle'in OHIO this yea is
but the precursor Of the contest OF 1850,
and hence the campaign will necessarily be
one of National interest. Ohio Re pub
licans are expected to do their whole duty,
to man.
Year: 1879

been killed by his second sou. It is
said that before lie died he also forgave
his slayer, saying that the son h has the
right to take the part of his mother.
The sister ..ho was shot in the knee
by her eldest brother, also died.


OF course the terrible tragedy Great
ed intense excitement. A sort OF
preliminary trial of the men was had,
and they we're acquitted of any blame
in the matter. The son who killed
his father was held to have acted pure
ly in self-defense, and the son who kill
ed his mother and sister Was held to
have done so accidentally while inter
fering to prevent the commission of an
unlawful act. They we're therefore SCI
at liberty, and have been at large ever
since 1t is doubtful if the matter
will e'er come into court again. The
sons express great sorrow over the affair.
but are known to be pretty desperate
characters.
Year: 1879

By reference to the transcript OF the
doings at the courts it will be seen
that Max Mitskurn and Isaac Apple
baum were fined $50 yesterday for
smuggling. These men were in the
habit of bringing rags here from Wind
sor, and it was discovered that in the
center of the bags, supposed to be filled
with cotton rags, was found quantity
of woolen clips. For some time past
Collector Bell and District Attorney
Fiuney have been in receipt Of anony-
nous letters claiming that great
amount of smuggling was being carried
on, and declaring that the Deputy Col
lectors at the ferry gates did not at
tend to their business properly. Some
Of these letters were quite amusing,
but one or two of them named both
the above offenders and pointed out Just
what they were doing, as the proofs in
court show.


The smuggling business between
this city and Windsor, however, is
small in comparison with that which
was transacted in former years, more
especially during the time of the war.
A reporter of the Free Press yesterday
called upon Charles Young, an old
German timer, of Windsor. and learn
ed from him how the" smuggling cans
were made in those days.


ooh! I've made hundreds of those
cans" said the old mau, smiling.


The cans referred to were worp
around the body, the men engaged in
smuggling wearing them under their
arms, and the women attaching them
to their hips. These cans we're made
to fit that portion of the body where
they were worn, and would hold from
tw' quarts to gallon and a half.
Women we're then most successful
smugglers, and one woman could carry
TWO gallons Of whisky at trip by
means of the tin cans made to fit her
lower limbs The profit on smuggled
brandy during the war was So to 81 per
gallon


Musk was another article which was
smuggled in large quantities, and the
druggists Of Detroit and the customs
authorities were for long time utterly
unable to learn how it was brought
over. Finally the secret leaked out.
The great musk smuggler was a man
who carried it Under his finger nails
The nails were Ion and be would mois.
ten the r,usk, tuck it under each nail,
coat it over with gum arabic, and thus
carry over enough to get clear pro.
fit of 81 so to 50 each trip.--Detroit
Free Press, 18th.
Year: 1879

did you ever see an apron?" says one
of those intcrrogative newspapers that are
always getting off squibs about did you
ever hear horse laugh, or see a rope
walk etc. Yes we have seen an apron
and it covered one lap.