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INVESTMENT OF SCHOOL MONEY
IN COUNTY BONDS.
In a communication to The Galvestox
Uews some days ago, the writer insinuated
that Comptroller Swain,-after the" constitu-
tional amendment authorizing the invest-
ment of school money in county bonds had
been adopted and before any law had been
passed to regulate the manner of making
investments, proceeded to pay premiums on
county bonds of sdme populous counties
and reo'e .ted the bonds of other counties.
It is also insinuated that there was a po-
litical campaign then impending. The
News would inquire who shoulders the re-
sponsibility of these transactions if it is not
the board of education? Comptroller Swain
is a member of that board, but the governor
and secretary of state are also member.;
and constitute the majority. There can be
no disputing the fact that there was a
grave doubt as to the legality, though
ihere was no question of the propriety of
making the investments. But it is not ex-
actly fair and decent to strike at the gov-
ernor through the comptroller. The consti-
tutional amendment provided that the
comptroller should make investments of
school funds as directed by the board of
education. This fact must have been un-
derstood by the writer of the communica-
tion, and also that it would be used to the
disadvantage of the governor and not of the
comptroller, unless the charge is made that
the governor and liis appointee, the secre-
tary of state, were overruled or ignored and
not consulted by the comptroller. The News
would prefer that its correspondent should
make the attack direct. Then the governor
could be defended with little trouble to his
friends. Perhaps they will not consent that he
shall hide behind Swain, but will bring him
out squarely to meet this accusation. It is
understood that the comptroller washes his
hands of all responsibility for the financial
lollies of the present administration, mi!
rather enjoys these attacks upon it. In-
deed, it is barely possible that some friend
of his suggested the reopening of this bond-
buying transaction. But then the governor,
the board of education aud the comptroller
can well afford to stand squarely upon the
record in this particular case. The consti-
tutional amendment provided that the in-
vestment was to be made, as directed by the
beard of education, under such restrictions
the iegisIutlU'v plight provide. They
made the investment without waiting for
the legislature to make restrictions and
saved interest to the amount of $100,00:) to
$125,000 by not waiting. There was a strain of
authority, but the permanent school fund had
been accumulating and county bonds could
be had at about par. Should the money—
$1 ,(<00,000—remain idle until the legislature
met? Their predecessors had been invest-
ing in state bonds at 110 on the dollar. They
stretched their authority, and though they
at the lime were censured by some, the
Democratic party vindicated their action
in ll is transaction, which stands out a
memorable exception in four years of
financial failure and financial blundering.
The county school bonds have proved a
l ood investment, the interest, it is believed,
having been paid up to this date upon every
bond (hen purchased, while there has bqpn
a default in payment of interest on state
bonds held by the school fund. If the board
and the comptroller, however, in view of
the then approaching election favored cer-
t I'll populous counties in buying bonds, it
is a widely different question. This favor-
itism is insinuated. The charge is a grave
one and if true should be substantiated be-
fore another vindication is slipped in upon
the strength of this financial stroke. If true,
did the board direct the scheme, or who?
AM E111 CAN HOME RULE.
Can th i relation of the States to the
federal government bo taken as the model
for a scheme of Irish'home rule? There
are circumstances in the actual relations of
(he several States to the federal govern-
ment which show serious limitations upon
home rule in this Union. The power to tax
Irish banks of issue out of existence, and
the prohibition of Irish currency, would be
more than supreme command of the mili-
tary and the navy, but these powers would
remain in the British government if Ireland
obtained only American state rights as they
actually are. And what would be said of
the British government if it retained a
revenue tariff power and prohibited an Irish
revenue tariff, and theii used the revenue
power, as American Congresses have
done, ostensibly for revenue, real-
ly for prohibition of international
trade? AVhat if the British gov-
ernment, to maintain the supremacy of
British shipbuilders, passed an imperial
law. applying to Ireland as well as Eng-
land, forbidding the purchase of foreign-
built ships and their employment under the
British-Irish flag? Would the British colo-
nies now submit to such a law? Yet it is a
measure of federal rule over the citizens of
(lie several States in this Union. Is it not
in derogation of home rule and of every
reasonable consideration regarding the use
of the citizen's capital as the citizen's in-
telligence suggests to him to use it without
wrong to any person? Would Irishmen
consider that they had home rule if the im-
perial government might charter trans-
portation companies -o that their road-bed
and rolling-stock in Ireland would not be
under the jurisdiction of the Irish govern-
ment, but under that of imperial courts?
Doubtless the Democratic construction of
the federal powers would put every foot
of land in it State, including every foot of
railroad track, fully under the jurisdiction
of the State, unless that laud had been
ceded to the United States, except of course
with regard to the road as a postroad. It
is so as to ordinary criminal process. As
to the operation of the roads there a ppears
to have been somewhat of a breach nude
iu state control, or home rule, as a matter of
fact. Starting with constitutional limita-
tions, then proceeding to such evasions or
usurpations as protectionism furnishes un-
der the guise of revenue and regulation,
home rule is attenuated, but when the roads
are under federal control what remains in
relation to them of home rule? It looks as
if the American article of home rule as a
state property were getting., to be a sort
of antiquated stage property that would
not satisfy any but a crown colony.
When a difficulty occurs with employes,
the managers of certain railroads under
receiverships can be accommodated with a
federal court's indulgence as well as pro-
tection in certain circumstances. Thus
some railroads appear to have the advan-
tage over other railroads, and this must
tend, if. permitted, to induce all the rail-
roads in the country to get under federal
jurisdiction, and then the anomaly may
arise of a Stale without jurisdiction over
the arteries of its internal traffic and travel.
Have the several States retained the sub-
stance of home rule, or have they virtually
forfeited it by neglect and non-user iu re-
lation, to j,roper functions of home rule for
the maintenance of public and private
rights, and the protection of public and
private interests?
A MATTER THAT SHOULD HE EX-
PLAINED.
In a note to The News, the editor of
Texas Figaro, published at Austin, observes
in relation to the Austin scandal:
You will bear in mind two facts: One is that
the Figaro (lid not connect Swain with the
lnattei ; the other is that tlie facts contained in
the Figaro article have never been refuted or
even denied.
This seems to be strictly true. The Fi-
garo article asserted that a state officer was
riding in a hack from a certain place with
Mrs. Phillips the -night she was murdered,
and in a dispatch to the press this asser-
tion was distorted by interpolation or addi-
tion so as indirectly but plainly connect
Comptroller Swain with the affair. It is
now well understood that the comptroller
was not the state officer referred to in the
Figaro article. Tlie state officers are not
numerous. They are Governor Ireland,
Comptroller Swain, Treasurer Lubbock,
Attorney-general Tenipleton, Land-com-
missioner Walsh, and Superintendent of
Public Instruction Baker. The Figaro has
retracted nothing and the charge still stands
that a state officer rode with Mrs. Phillips
from a house of ill repute an hour or so be-
fore she was murdered. Is it not about
time that the state officers should take some
notice of the charge in the way of investi-
gation and vindication, and take measures
for prosecuting the author of it for criminal
defamation, if found to be false? Is there
any truth iu it? If so, tlie people would like
to know it. The Figaro could not have
meant the governor, because the governor
is in a position that a reference to him could
not well be hidden under a generality. And
outside of this, the pri .•ate character of
John Ireland is so far above reproach that
it would be impossible for mere imagina-
tion to connect him with anything of
the kind. But the words " state
officer," as used by the Figaro,
are liable to mean either Mr. Swain, Mr.
Templeton, Mr. Lubbock, Mr. Walsh or Mr.
Baker. The Figaro exonerates Swain, and
only Templeton, Walsh, Lubbock and
Baker are how subjects for surmise as lia-
ble to the Figaro's imputation. To speak
more strictly, however, Walsh can hardly
be included in such liability, because he is
a bachelor, and the Figaro said tiiat the
state officer who was in Mrs. Phillips's
company was a married man. This nar-
rows the margin of speculation to Lubbock,
Templeton and Baker. They should unite
in formally denying aud refuting the charge
made by the Figaro, if there is no-substance
of truth in it. The state officors owe it to
the people as well as to themselves to clear
the matter up piomptly and, if possible,
satisfactorily.
THE SANTA FE RAILROAD.
The New York correspondent of The
Niiws has reported that the Gulf, Colorado
and Santa Fe railroad has in offect been
sold to the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe
Railroad company, or at least that negotia
lions have been well under way toward
such a consummation. Some of tlie direc-
tors of the Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe in
Galveston have disavowed all knowledge
of any such proceeding. The News is
willing, nevertheless, to believe the report
of its correspondent. AVe had a similar
ease, a few years ago, when the Morgan
line was sold to Huntington. Morgan di-
rectors and managers denied the sale, or a
negotiation looking to a sale. The News
correspondent asserted it and reiterated his
assertion. Time proved that the corre-
spondent was right. The News knows its
New York correspondent to be a man of
Irutli and probity, who has excellent means
of obtaining information concerning im-
portant financial and business transactions.
Under the circumstances it can hardly be
hazardous to assume that The News cor-
respondent is correct, and that the Gulf,
Colorado and Santa Fe railroad is in effect
sold, or negotiations for its sale are now
pending, or on the eve of consumma-
tion. Under the circumstances what are
tlie people of Galveston and Texas to
think of it? The Gulf, Colorado and
Santa Fe took its start, has had its
growth, and has thus far run its
career—a varied, but on the whole, bril-
liant career—as a distinct Galveston enter-
prise. A good deal of local pride sur-
rounds it. It has a historical and affec-
tionate halo of nativity attached to it. On
the other.hand, the Atchison, Topeka and
Santa Fe is one of the greatest corporations
in the country. It runs through the state of
Kansas, the territories of New Mex-
ico and Arizona and the Mexican
state of Sonora, and its connec-
ts ns, leased lines and tributaries drain the
Indian Territory, California and Colorado,
it represents a great railroad company—a
corporation that even professional anti-
corporationists have been disposed to credit
willi the distinction of having some soul.
At any rate, the people along its lines are
fond of it, defend it, and take every oppor-
tunity of speaking kindly of it. The chances
look all one way that it would be a good
thing for Galveston and Texas if the sale
wei e really effected. Itwould tend to bring
to the port of Galveston the produce of
western Missouri, Kansas. Colorado, New
Mexico, Arizona, southern California and
western Mexico, as well as a good portion of
the commerce of Texas. It would be a giant
stride in tlie direction of deep water if the
great gulf and Atlantic terminus of the
Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe were es-
tablished at Galveston. Aud then the rail-
road. or tlie railroad system, would be the
" Santa Fe " still.
Mr.. Wharton' said before the ways anl
means committee that he knew of no Penn-
sylvania business man who favored the
proposition to give American registers to
foreign-built vessels. It was asubjeet that
had been, strangely enough, omitted by tho
newspapers, and a very dangerous, insidi-
ous movement it was. Yet some Penn-
sylvanians are asking Congress to ad-
mit to American registry ten foreign-
built steamers for them. This is an
instance of a fertile principle. Why
not prohibit every industry and then
give a certain number of permits to success-
ful lobbyists? That would be the sum and
substance of protectionist legislation if car-
ried to completion and would give the fa-
vored persons a more perfect control over
the energies and subsistance of the non-
favored people;
A Tennessee court has closed a term, in
which six murderers escaped conviction, by
sending a hungry woman to prison for two
years for stealing a quart of buttermilk.
AVhat is' the use of the Chicago Times de-
claring that the government bonds are not
payablo iu silver when it knows that they
are payable in coin, that the Congress which
passed the lav.- has long since gone where
the roses of past summers have gone, and
that the bondholders must accept either
gold or silver and be glad to get paid? The
payment of the bonds is reducible to a
question of honor or of interest, and in
either case Congress is the deciding power.
Congress has even forced greenbacks upon
persons who had a legal claim to coin'. The
bonds paid in either standard coiu will be
paid to satisfy the general public sense of
fair dealing, and the bondholders would be
wise to make no further objection lest they
overreach themselves and get greenbacks.
Alfred Tennyson speaks of the "pesti-
lential nuisances who write autographs."
To the business man the worst are those
who sign other people's autographs to ne-
gotiable paper aud collect upon it.
A curious double boycot exists at Beaver
Falls, Pa. The prohibition ladies got four
druggists to promise not to sell liquor un-
less on a prescription, and then only once
on the same prescription. The doctors then
refused to send prescriptions to any of the
four druggists who had given the promise.
It might have been thought the doctors
would have had a picnic, but they doubtless
know the amount of prohibition tlie average
citizen will endure.
A writer in the Journalist raps the unco'
guid censors, saying: " I am cynical enough
to think that what these critics regard as
the objectionable features of a paper must,
in many instances, be keenly relished by
those who affect to condemn them, for they
seem to have taken extraordinary pains to
become familiar with them, like the old
maid who wanted bathers arrested for al-
leged indecency, when it was found that iu
order to see them she had to use a spy-glass
from her window."
Senator Blackburn, of Kentucky, visi'
bly shocked tlie Senate yesterday. Black-
burn is an open-minded, direct fellow, and
no doubt abhors the star chamber dark
lantern session of the Senate. His faux
pas yesterday was the reporting of anomi-
nation favorably from the naval commit-
tee. It was evidently a mistake. It should
have been done in executive session. Grand
old mossback Harris asked, " AVhat? " in
holy horror when he heard the Kentucky
senator. Sherman grew white and feeble,
but finally concentrated his senses enough
to remark that the report would be with-
held. Of course the carelessness of Black-
burn shocked and scandalized the Senate.
It was like exposing the secret work of a
secret order. It is not reported in the dis-
patches what Edmunds said or how he
looked, but probably he was too shocked for
utterance, and his appearance was not fit
for publication.
The Oscar Wildes and Farraiv. usually
carry away a lot of money from this coun-
try. So does Mrs. Langtry, but not so far,
only to New York city, where she invests it
in mortgages.
The Memphis Avalanche says:
The Springfield East Street Reaper works in-
sist that a man who has Joined the Knights of
Labor lifts signed away ills Independence. And
yet the manager of those works, who insists
on having all whom he may employ " restored
to manhood," would not scrapie to enter into
a pool.
Entering a pool doesn't count. One en-
ters a pool, sometimes, to get ahead of the
other fellows in the pool.
Seth Shei'ard is liable to be a very con-
spicuous figure in Texas six months from
now.
The Texas Christian Advocate, of this
week, has the following editorial para-
graph : .
In another column a correspondent regrets
that we did not give more space to the account
of Jloody and Sankey's visit to Galveston. We
gave all tlie space that wo could spare and
every detail that we supposed would be of any
real value to our readers. When the meeting
which they inaugurated is finished and its re-
sults are fully seen, a more thorough dis-
cussion of flic merits of the movement will be
proper.
AVhicli means that the Christian Advo-
cate is not a newspaper and does not pre-
tend to fill the wants of even its own narrow
constituency. The News, however, de-
voted a couple of columns daily to Moody
and Sankey while they were in Galveston,
which seems to imply that The News is, iu
its way, a better religious " newspaper"
than its esteemed contemporary, the Advo-
cate.
Let us hope that Major Penn will come
back with a pocket full of British rocks -
auriferous ones.
It may be no easy matter to say what
rate of postage on different classes of mail
matter really pays. It must be considered
that if fourth-class matter were cut off
there would still have to be the same num-
ber of postofflce buildiiigs, and a large per-
centage of the present number of employes
would have to be maintained to carry on
the other branches of the postal service.
Besides this the parcels branch is growing,
and with volume of business comes the
possibility of making it pay at rates which
anticipate the growing demand.
Ik A. AV. Terrell happened to be a United
States senator at this time he might be very
useful to the Democratic party. The best
talent of the Democracy is needed at AVasli-
ington just now.
The Supreme Court of the United States
has lendered a decision in the case of Hig-
gins & Gilbert against McCrea, for margins
due and indebtedness in transactions in
mess pork and lard in Chicago, sustaining
the claims of the commission parties, not-
withstanding the plea that the transaction
was a gambling one. This establishes the
validity of speculative contracts, and re-
verses the judgment rendered bv the court
below.
Edmunds did not make much out of his
great opportunity. Imagine what Blaine or
Conkling would have done were eithar in
Edmunds's place.
The Little Rock Gazette quotes tho sub-
joined suggestive paragraph which appears
iu tlie financial and commercial department
of the St? Louis Republican of the 4th
instant:
The quotation committee of tlie cotton ex-
change had quite a time, settling prices yester-
day. A portion ot t he committee insisted upon
advancing middling 'ic.: the rest of the com-
mittee were stubborn, however, and finally
declined to make the change. As a kind of
compromise, middling was allowed to remain
unchanged, while middling, fair and good mid-
dling were quoted higher. The advantage of a
good, full quotation in the beginning of the
season, when cotton was to be attracted here,
was evident enough. But now, when the east-
ern buyer is the party wanted, care should bo
exercised not to make quotations excessively
high.
The remarks of the Gazette on this pro-
cess of making quotations to draw cotton
and then making lower quotations are
pointed. It labels the two stages of the
business frauds Nos. 1 and 2. First the
Arkansas and'Texas fly is invited into the
spider's parlor and then tho feast is held.
It is inferred that the " good, full quota-
tion " is not quite realized.
The present Mardi Gras display may not be
so big as otlicns have been, but what there is
of it is good, i l'icayune.
That was the way in Galveston. A little
of that sort of thing is very good, and no-
body is hurt.
Strikes in the name of "organized la-
bor " are becoming more serious, and from
present appearances are liable to affect
every artery of commerce in the country.
Employers are evidently preparing for a
siege by lopping off expenses in every pos-
sible way. Men not on strike, but whose
work was cut off iff consequence of strikes,
are being discharged. This, of course, will
have the effect of placing an army in rear
of the strikers, while the employers make
an army in front of them. The situation at
present seems to be narrowed down to a
" survival of the fittest." It is a very
serious affair, and every citizen is interested
in it. If traffic is suspended for weeks, the
general loss will be terrible, but capital
can stand it much better than labor. The
capitalist can pay his butcher and grocer
bills, but can tho laborer be sure«of doing
so?
Edmunds's thunder has pealed, yet there
aieno indications of a weakening of the
executive backbone.
The Prohibitionist Voice seems to be very
much like the voice of one crying in the
wilderness. You can hear the boo-hoo a
good way off.
peopl
familiar with the picture of the chocolate
girl, used for so long as an advertisement,
think it a creation of some artist's fancy.
On the contrary it is a portrait, the portrait
of a very pretty Viennese woman, and has
a romantic story attached to it. It seems
that some years ago a young German stu-
j dent, of noble birth, fell in love with the
pretty chocolate girl who served him with
this delicious beverage in a Vienna cafe.
She was a respectable girl, and he anhonor-
able gentieman; and lie married her. He
felt proud of her humble origin, aud had
her portrait painted by a famous German
artist, in the picturesque costume she wore
when he first met her; and this portrait is
now among the most valued art treasures
of the government.
Frank Phillis, of Bethel. Sullivan
county, N. Y., when going to cliurch on a
recent Sunday, saw a bear lying under a
stump near tlie road. He got a rifle and a
couple of friends with rifles, aud they at-
tacked the bear. She would not run, but
fought gamely, and was not killed until
thirteen shots had been fired at her. Then
it was found that she had been protecting
four baby bears, only a few hours old. The
cubs were cared for and are growing like
pigs.
THE STATE PRESS.
What the Newspapers Throughout Texas Are
Talking Abaut.
The Laredo Times does not often indulge
in profanity, but it breaks out as follows: .
The Statesman's lingual flux has found
cause for another irruption in explaining
away Swain's prohibition record. Swain
did have the ghost of a chance before the
high-toned Joel began to slobber over him,
but he'll be the most thoroughly damned
man by November out of sheol.
"Oh, Rose," as Jim Crow Rice used to
sing, have you been to hear Sam Jones
preach? The Times seems to be tearing
mad. It says:
There is an anonymous four-hy-six thing
published down in Horace Yammer's baili-
wick called the Fortnightly Review, which
wishes to know if Ross and Ireland are
aiming to be the Gonzalez and Diaz of Tex-
as? Tlie silly question at once suggests a
kid and claw-hammer influence? Poor
thing.
Education is extending in Mexico. The
Cosmopolitan says that in Matamoros the
city authorities are doing a good work by
arresting the boys about the streets and
placing them in the schools. Eight were
run in on Tuesday. This is almost as good
as the old plan of obtaining jurors when
Indiana was a territory. It was said that
they were run down with dogs.
The Bandera Bugle has been stuck on San
Antonio. It says:
The non-appearance of the Bugle last
week was duo to the editor being caught in
the mud while on a business visit to San
Antonio.
Many cry lo here and lo there, when Lo
is not in sight, or any other man to meet
the occasion, but the AVoodville Eureka
does not repeat its name in English aud
cry: " 1 have found it," before being sure
of what it sees. It says:
We hope to be able in the next issue of
the Eureka to unfurl at its masthead a full
state ticket. AVe, however, do not wish to
be too hasty in the matter. We want to be
sure first that we are right and then we will
go ahead. AVe know that Texas has abun-
dance of good material to fill all her offices,
but we are anxious to select the best of it.
The Bandera Bugle says:
The dirty work of electioneering has be-
gun, and the first to feel it is ColonelSwain.
Thorny is the path to office even in a small
village in Texas Rough as the saying is
—" turn the rangers loose "—it is the senti-
ment of nine-tenths of the people. Besides,
the policy implied by it is not near so bad
ns that of Governor Ireland when he coun-
seled the cattle barons to shoot the fence-
cutters. The one policy aims at upholding
law, the other at disorder and misrule.
Galveston is still doing business at the
old stand. The correspondent of the San
Marcos Cresset says:
The recuperative powers of Galveston
are wonderful; strange that some salivated
papers in the interior delight in stating
that this city is in retrogression. A walk
through the burned district is almost deaf-
ening. Notwithstanding most of the build-
ing will not commence for a month, it is
truly a cheerful sound, somewhat resemb-
ling' that of a Chinese orchestra, to hoar
the sound of those many hammers and
saws. The buildings are all dwellings, and
will average about$2500in cost; only a very
few stores, cheap groceries, were burned.
A contractor tells me that 500 carpenters
from abroad have come to Galveston and are
busily at work along with home disciples
of the jack-plane .... Dwelling lots have
been actively changing hands—those in the
burnt district solii from $2000 to $(10011
apiece . . . H. M. Trueheart, the great real
estate man, is erecting a $40,000 dwelling on
Broadway .... Sylvain Blum has just fin-
ished his elegant $90,000 residence. This is
undoubtedly one of the finest dwellings in
the South ... 1 hear of several more cost-
ly residences about to be built.
The Kerrville Eye talks business:
The man who thinks this paper is a mere
figure-head, or a mill to grind out puffs and
compliments to the deserving and unde-
serving alike, is the worst fooled fellow that
ever hied himself into this mundane sphere.
Each article in the Eye is worth $•">, aud you
bet your boots they fetch the dinero when
they'are put on the market.
The Decatur Post does not stand where it
first planted its foot, but takes this step
backward:
The newspaper man who says he gives in
his columns all the news he can get, without
fear, favor or hope of reward, tells just as
many lies as he publishes papers each week.
We started out on that line, but soon dis-
covered our mistake, and besides we have
more respect for being a live gentleman
than we have for being a dead fool.
The Big Springs Pantagraph says:
In a letter recently published in The
Galveston News General Jno. M. Clai-
borne comes to the front and warmly advo-
cates Ross for the governorship. Ross
gives his views in an interview, and the
Pantagraph likes the jingle of his talk, and
feels disposed to say: "Well done, thou
good and faithful servant," come up
higher.
This is mixing the Bible somewhat after
the fashion of a former governor of Texas.
The editor of the Pantagraph is a column
of his own height. He says:
The Pantagraph is owned and managed
exclusively by R. AV. AValker. The paper
belongs lo us, and you will find, on refer-
ence to the head of the paper and at the
tops of the editorial and local columns,*hat
R. AV. AValker is sole proprietor and pub-
lisher.
Don't you forget it.
The Woodville Eureka eschews praise for
itself, and can well afford to do without it,
yet it is generous in bestowing it:
The Galveston News still leads the van
of Texas journals, and is the peer of any
paper published in the South. It spares no
expense or labor in its endeavor to keep its.
readers posted on all the passing events of
importance, not only at home but abroad.
No household can well afford to do without
the old reliable News. This slight tribute
to the leading paper of our State is not
made for the purpose of obtaining a puff
from the kind, yet just and stern, oldnestor
of the State Press, but simply because it is
deserved.
The Big Springs Pantagraph says:
The citizens of towns all over Texas are
having meetings and appointing commit-
tees for the purpose of memorializing Con-
gress for deep water somewhere on the
coast of Texas. The Pantagraph prefers
Galveston, and most of the towiis in the
State have selected Galveston. How would
it do for the citizens of Big Springs to have
a meeting and send in a petition to Con-
gressman Lanliam for presentation? Since
the sub-committee on deep water at Galves-
ton lias been throughout the central and
northwestern portions of the State iu the
interest of deep water at Galveston, it has
been learned that the Galveston AVharf
company is not what it has been thought to
be, to-wit: a bloated monopoly. The stock
of the wharf company can be bought for
55 cents, and it controls less than one-third
of the bay front.
The Fort AA'ortli Gazette rises to explain:
The printer and copy-holder played the
deuce with the Gazette's report of the strike
yesterday. A "g" was added to Mr.
Lovin's name without notice that he was
dissatisfied with the present mode of spell-
ing it, and he was made "to talk rather
feebly," when the local reporter wrote it
'• freely." By n simple twist of the wrist
Hall was converted into Cahill. It was
stated there " was little interest in tho de-
velopments," when the Gazette wrote
" little of interest," and these are but a
portion of the typographical butchery.
These are little tilings, but such as made
Horace Greeley the champion swearer, as
he was the worst penman, of America.
The Coleman Voice says:
The memorials to Congress asking for
adequate appropriation to secure deep
water at Galveston, which have gone from
all parts of Texas, give expression of the
true attitude of the people toward this mea-
sure. They were gotten up by the people
and not by a personally interested party in
his own interest and the interests of firms
and corporations with which he is con-
nected.
This is a good time for other papers to
pitch into the editor of the San Angelo En-
terprise. He is a candidate - for the legisla-
ture, and bound to take whatever is said of
him. He believes the public school lands
should be sold as rapidly as possible, on
long time, at a low rate of interest to actual
settlers only, and says:
I am opposed to prohibition, believing it
undemocratic in principle, and subversive
of personal liberty.
The Gatesville Advance-Sun will please
give him fits. To " pulverize the rum
power" it is necessary to put those who
uphold it between the upper and tho netlior
millstones.
« The Enterprise says:
M. Lasker, of Galveston, who is largely-
interested in San Angelo, came in last week
and was here several days. He regards
San Angelo as the " future great" west of
Fort AVorth, and says that if it would suit
his family he would like to move here. Mr.
Lasker thinks that the Santa Fe railroad
will stop at the river long enough to sell
lots and build a town, and then, with proper
inducements, will come on to this place.
Just how long it will make its terminus at
the river he could not say, but he did say-
that he would insure us a railroad in less
than two years, if he had to build it him-
self.
The Decatur Post says:
These labor organizations, to say the
least of them, will figure very conspicuous-
ly in putting a check upon class legisla-
tion.
The Harrold News is a new paper—AV. AV.
West, editor—which proposes to work for
the interest of the town of Havrold and
AV ilbarger county iu general. It says:
It will be our aim to assist in the onward
march of progl ess in all the departments of
life, and especially the elevation puri-
fying the moral and intellectual surround-
ings.
Nevertheless the new paper, or its pub-
lisher, has an eye to business, aud says:
Our patrons will please bear in mind that
we will pay attention to all local matters as
well as foreign and general news, but that
" puffs " are worth 10 cents a^ine, and that
we have a platform—" for revenue only."
Perhaps tho reader has never heard of
the town of Harrold. The new paper tells
how it has come, dashing out of the wilder-
ness:
A s if by magic she sprung into existence,
there having been more than 100 business
houses built in thirty days. Day and night
the saw and the hammer was heard to ring,
and the hurrying to and fro of the vast con-
course of 1200 people, homeless and house-
less upon the bare prairie, can only be im-
agined by those who have witnessed their
c xcitement in procuring advantage of one
enother on this, their road to fortune.
An exchange apologizes for the difficulty-
ill doing justice to the original in a transla-
tion. This is hardly a possible work. If
some of the most renowned authors of an-
tiquity or of modern times depended for
fame on the translations of their works they
would scarcely be known. The hardest
translation, however, for the average news-
paper is to convey the humor of anecdotes
that have enlivened hunting and fishing
parties or have set bar-rooms iu a roar. A
little liquor is a wonderful help to both the
narrator and hearer in such cases, and the
humor subsides when translated into print,
like foam on the surface of lager that is too
long in finding its way from the schooner to
its destination.
THE STATE CAPITA.!,.
Charter Granted—A Fanner Nabbed Him —
Grand Jury, Etc.
Special to The News.
Avstin, March 10.—A charter was grant-
ed to-day to the Pilot Point, Gainesville aud
Western Railway company, to begin at Mc-
Kinney and extend through Dentou and
Cook to Gainesville, a distance of about
fifty miles, being apparently a branch of the
Houston and Texas Central. Capital stock,
$500,000. Incorporators: AV. A. Rhea, of
Collin; AV. A. Kendall, of Denton; John C.
Newburn and J. M. Lindsay, of Cook; J. C.
Hutchison, N. Fanlkner. O. T. Holt, Dan
Ripley, J. AValdo and George McLain, of
Houston.
There is now no freight passing over the
International.
Another lad, about ten years old, son of
Mr. M. Corbet, of this city, yesterday even-
ing ran off, intending to go west and par-
ticipate in wild western adventure. He
was nabbed by an old farmer and brought
back home.
The young son of Mr. Spence, who left
two days ago, has not been heard of.
The grand jury returned seventeen in-
dictments so far this term, including one
against Mrs. Mollie Evans for the murder
of her little son.
The state treasurer paid out sonle $30,000
on registered warrants. There are some
r.OO registered warrants now outstanding,
most of which will be taken under the next
call.
Austin Hook and Ladder Company No. 1
elected the following officers to-night:
Foreman, AV. H. Salge; first assistant fore-
man, H. L. Guenther; second, F. AV.
Sehroeder; secretary, A. von Rosenberg;
treasurer, E. von Rosenberg; housekeeper,
AV. L. Nunn; tillerman, Alex. AVilke;
president. H. M. Metz: vice-president, J. T.
AV. Loe; delegate to State Firemen's con-
vention, A. Gieren; and alternate, J. T. W.
Loe.
FRANKLIN,
Prohibition Speeches in Order—Minor Topics.
SpeeiM to The News.
Franklin, March 10.—Last night Rev.
Henry Cassell, the Episcopal minister of
Calvert, and Hon. W. K. Homan, of Waco,
and Rev. J. H. Collard, Jr., the Methodist
minister of Mexia, made prohibition,
speeches here to a large audience at tho
Baptist church. The speeches were all
forcible, and especially was Mr. Homan
complimented. To-day Rev. Seth Ward,
the Methodist minister of Calvert, and Gen-
eral AVm. H. Hamman, of Calvert, spoke in
favor of prohibition to a good audience at
the court-house. Mr. AVard opened anil
made quite a stirring and eloquent appeal
and General Hamman followed with one of
the strongest speeches of his life. He said
he was glad for the first time in his life to
be allowed to preach what he had been
practicing all his life, and for twenty-eight
years in Robertson county. The Prohibi-
tionists expect Dr. Daniels, the Presbyte-
rian minister of Bryan, to-morrow night.
The liquor men, however, seem very confi-
dent of carrying the election by a largo
majority, but they are very quiet and plea-
sant about it. A number of prominent col-
ored leaders are here this evening, aud
will hold a meeting in the country to-night.
They seem to favor more and better
whisky. . , . „
The weather has once more cleared oft,
but tlie past two weeks' bad weather has
very much retarded corn-plantiug.
The Cpunty Court still continues.
Swallowed Arsenic.
Special to The News.
Palestine, March 10.—S. J. AA'ilkerson, a
young man who has been here several days,
en route to Baltimore, where his parents re-
side, swallowed a bottle of arsenic, at tho
International saloon, at 4 o'clock this even-
ing, and is now lying at the hotel in a pre-
carious condition. AVilkerson has been
drinking heakily for some time past.
The failure to arrive home at a certaia
hour of a new cloak so grieved a li near-old
Palmertown (Conn.) girl that she attempted
suicide.
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