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TIE MOUSEKVhriNG PBASE OF
HIE LAHQH ritOliLEAr.
Could the frequen' troubles and contests
between euiploves and employers be ex-
haustively analysed they would befounil,
doubtless, fo have their source largely ia a
growing impudence among the hireling
c iissr s with >ny kind of underling service,
attended by a sense of individual depend-
ence upon the pleasure o£ another, aad
submission to the arbitrary control of an
individual employer. Thousands, doubt
less, have gone with ardor into labor or-
ganizations under the Impulse chiefly of
this impatience, and thousands, doubtless,
have unl esitatingly joined in strikes, not
because of any grievance in their own case
as to wages accorded or regulations pre-
scribed by employers, but from the persua-
sion that the strikes as well as the organi-
zations would help, more than any other
available expedient could help, to emanci-
pate them and their fellow-workingmea
in general from an odious species
of underling service. Having embraoed
this persuasion, it has been vain to argue
with ttem that it could not be a true way
f r (scRping from individual dependence
and for dignifying individual manhood to
blindly merge their individuality of judg*
ment, decision and action, with respect to
their own personal concerns, in an obliga-
tion to obey the orders, conform to the dis-
cipline and abide by the fortunes of any
organization secret in council, irresponsible
in directing authority, uncertain as to the
purposes for which it might be used by
some dominant ambition or fanaticism.
Probably many of them, if convinced of the
futility of seeking individual emancipation
by this sort of collective mancipation,
would be prepared to say that they prefer
even the most abject submission to arbi-
trary control as a community of equals in
a common bondage to the other form of
degradation against which they revolt.
However this may be, it is certainly a fact
of no small significance that, while the
country resounds with a war of organized
labor against organized capital, a conflict
less noisy but hardly less intense is going
on in employments where neither labor nor
capital is organized. This conflict is more
particularly noticeable in the sphere of un-
derling service in the household. Here, on
the part of the hired laborers, there is no
complaint or pretext of grinding monopoly
or corporate arroganco. But the so-called
household servant, stimulated by the demo-
cratic atmosphere of America, is not will-
ing to brook the arbitrary domination of the
so-called housekeeper. Accordingly he and
she undertake to ordain and enforce house-
hold regulations to suit their own conven-
ience. The result is a state of things very
similar to what was lately described by ft
Boston lady in her petition to Congress for
permission to import a Chinese servant, as
the only relief from the tyranny of the
household " boss," who now regulates the
hour for meals, for family prayers, for call-
ers, and for going to bed, aud as " the only
solution of the problem of housekeeping in
this country." Such a petition may seem
merely jocular or essentially frivolous and
its alleged grievance the merest trifle. But,
however jocular or frivolous, it serves to
call public attention to a social fact, and no
social fact is a trifle. The fact in this case
is an increasing repuguance of American
men and women to any kind of underling
service involving indtvidual subserviency
and social inequality. The democratic
spirit has often been seen more passiouate
for equality than for liberty, and
here we seem to have another
instance in illustration of such a tendency.
With all the outcry in the name of wage
laborers against corporate power and cor-
porate greed, there seems to be more dispo-
sition on the part of the great majority of
such laborers to engage as the operative
force of some great corporate management
than to serve as hirelings under direct in-
dividual authority in ordinary private em-
ployments. Here is a hint for sorely wor-
ried and perplexed housekeepers. Why
should they not incorporate for the busi-
ness of procuring household comforts and
conveniences? Corporate cooking arrange-
ments, corporate washing arrangements,
and corporate cleaning-up arrangements
are plainly feasible; and even corpo-
rate dry-nursing and wet-nursing ar-
rangements are not beyond the
bounds of rational contemplation. Here
is also a hint for people who have a
keen apjreciation for the money value of
household service, but object stoutly to be-
ing bossfd by the head of any household.
Let them incorporate and deal with house-
holds in a corporate capacity, and instead
of serving as hirelings for personal wages,
rise to the dignity of stockholders drawing
dividends. At any rate the present trouble
about household service on the old hireling
plan seems to point to a final remedy in a
still larger extension of the corporate
method and the co-operative principle.
Perhaps we are seeing about the last of the
traditional serving man or serving woman
as the familiar appurtenance of family life
and household economy. " When Adam
delved and Eve spun, where was then the
gentleman!' " In other words, where was
then the serving man or serving woman?
Perhaps our civilization in developing new
forms and enveloping old outgrowths is
destined to present the similitude of at
least one condition of the social system of
Eden in the total absence of the hireling
servant feature.
mahion mai?tin's canvass.
Does Marion Martin see his way clearly
through the intricate mazes of Texas poli-
tics? There are indications of a confusion
which the ordinary politician can not hope
to fathom. But for the labor troubles and
the appearance of the Farmers alliance,
and the Wheel in various local political
contests, which altogether seem to promise
complications that have never before beset
the dominant party probably Mr. Martin
would not have become a candidate. Long
after Swain, Boss and Brackenridge had
been in the race, and after the old alcalde
had through his friends indicated that he
would not reject a nomination, the Sage of
Kerens suddenly appears in the lists.
Doubtless he found the land board
doomed, and Swaiu with it; he be-
lieved Boss ' weak on the labor ques-
tion end prohibition standing in his path;
he believed active elements to be
working and quickening into power which
adroitly used might overturn the regular
machine if not in party control, without
party and indirect conflict with the party,
and he lind no faitli in the strength of the
conservative element that might take up
the Austin candidate. The swamp fox was
badly disgruntled in his premature conflict
with the machine two years ago, and now
he seeks his revenge. The danger that his
rather unexpected and seusational appear-
ance in the canvass presages to the mtetiiue
is too imminent to be overlooked. Already
the organs, big and little, are training their
guns upon him. Should he find the party
likely to be controlled by the regulars, as
of old, The News confidently expects the
swnnrp fox to abandon his contest for
the nomination. The elements he relios
upon ara working in the same
line. If they fail to control party nomina-
tions, they will attempt to control the elec-
tion. Their leader, whether it bo Martin,
Johnson, Nash or some other blue jeafis pa-
triot, discovers the limes out of joint, the
party split up over questions of state, and
dissension rife, promising a bold demi-
gogue or a bold statesman opportunity for
success not to bo found perhaps in another
generation. But no one expects the newly
developed agencies iu Texas politics to be
satisfied with the platform and nominees of
the State convention. These agencies pro-
pose, it seems, not to be committed iu local
or state action of the Democratic party to
the extent that will prevent independent
action in case a satisfactory platform and
acceptable candidates are not presented.
Martin not having entered the contest
until this programme was adopted, is
possibly grooming for an independent
race rather than for the Democratic nomi-
nation. It is true he is a Democrat, but it
is true he voted for an independent for dis-
trict jlidge. That independent was also a
sound Democrat. Martin would run as a
Democrat against ring and clique bosses.
A man of Martin's discernment and experi-
ence in practical politics can not be sus-
pected of having entered the contest for the
Democratic nomination at the] late date he
came out, with the serious expectation of
obtaining a victory within the party. If
Martin should obtain the nomination he
would not be opposed by the uncertain
Democrats. So whatever the result of the
contest within the party the swamp fox
stands prepared to accept the support of
the active elements in the political strife
which are arrayed against the ancient
bosses and the ancient order of tilings.
Now will Martin say without equivocation
that he will be bound by the State conven-
tion to a platform and nominations not ac-
ceptable to the labor element, farmers' or-
ganizations and prohibitionists?
ritosrEcrs of. a lively cam-
paign.
There are flattering prospects of a very
interesting contest in the Sixth Congres-
sional district. There are four patriots
already in the field anxious to represent the
district in Congress. Mr. Wellborn, the
present incumbent, wants to succeed him-
self; Mr. Barnett Gibbs thinks he would be
a better man for the place than Mr. Well-
born ; Mr. Henry M. Furman, of Fort Worth,
believes that he could do better than either
Gibbs or Wellborn, or both, and Mr. Till-
man Smith, of Cleburne, doubtless believes
that while the candidates of the two big
cities of the district are feeling for each
other's ribs, the people might deter-
mine to end the contest by selecting
him. At the present time Gibbs and
Wellborn are the most prominent
candidates. Gibbs in making a lively can-
vass. He has been blarneying the people
steadily for a month past, and planting his
wires throughout the district. He poses, of
course, as a horny-handed son of toil, the
special friend of the farmer and the disin-
terested advocate and champion of the la-
boring man. Gibbs has any amount of
promises on tap that he is anxiotts to
swap for votes, fir- Wellborn has been in
Congress for eight years and is not yet
ttred. He is as patriotic as ever and wants
to keep right on serving the people
as long as they will let him.
His friends call him a great man
and frequently refer to his faithful services
in the past. Here is where his opponents
get the drop on him. They ask what he has
done for his country or for his district dur-
ing his eight years in Congress, and, strange
as it may seem, both he and his friends find
it difficult to answer the question. Mr. Gibbs
made a trip to Washington a short while
ago, and gave it out that his business was
to secure the introduction of a bill to curb
the power of the federal courts. When
he returned home he announced that
Mr. Wellborn would not assist him,
in fact that Mr. Wellborn said
that things were good enough as
they were. Some friends of Mr. Wellborn
in Bosque county wrote to him, asking if
Mr. Gibbs reported him correctly. Mr.
Wellborn's reply to his Bosque constituents
will be found in our news columns this
morning. It is a very interesting docu-
ment. Mr. Wellborn flatly contradicts Mr.
Gibbs—in fact, accuses him, in a parlia-
mentary way, of course, of not clinging to
the truth with sucli perseverance and assi-
duity as a man in Gibbs's position would be
expected to do. There is a square question
of veracity now between the two states-
men. Mr. Gibbs's reply, of course, will be
eagerly looked for. The campaign is yet iu
its infancy, but if it continues taking ou
heat at the present rate as it progresses we
may look for a real torrid contest before
the sovereigns register their verdict.
TIIE BRITISH ELECTION*.
The British elections have commenced
and the result of the great battle for home
rule for Ireland will be known in a week or
ten days. If the Liberal-Home Bule party
wins, it will not be so much a victory for
Ireland as a victory for Gladstone. The
marvelous old man has conducted a won-
derful campaign. The history of British
parliamentary struggles shows no such
campaign as that made since Gladstone's
great speech at the introduction of the
home-rule bill to his manifesto to the Lon-
don electors, published this morning. The
question of Irish autonomy was almost en-
tirely new to tne English and Scotch voters.
Gf course they knew the Irish were
demanding local self-government, but
the Irish were always demand-
ing something, and the placid
and contented British voters did not
trouble themselves to learn the nature
of Ireland's demands. The introduction of
the home-rule bill placed the question
squarely in front of the British people. The
bill was rejected in the House of Commons,
and the prime minister appealed to the peo-
ple. The people are now giving their ver-
dict. The elections will last about ten days,
and the first returns will be favorable to
the Tories. The small boroughs, as a gen-
eral thing, favor the Tories, and as the first
elections take place in the boroughs, the
first announcement will be discouraging to
the friends of Ireland aud Gladstone. It
will be remembered that during the parlia-
mentary elections last fall the returns dur-
ing the first week's polling were altogether
favorable to the Tories, and predictions
were made that Gladstone would be
swamped under an immense Tory majori-
ty. But during the last three days the rural
districts rallied to the grand old maa, and
the final count gave Mm a hundred plurali-
ty over the Tories. But things have changed
since the last election. The old time Whig3
under the lead of Lord Hartington and a
section of the Radicals under the lead of
Chamberlain have deserted the Liberal
party, and are either leagued wrth
the Tories or running independents
in opposition to the regular Liberal candi-
dates. On the other hand the Irish voters
in England, aud there are nearly a million
of them, supported the Tories almost to a
man at the last election, but will be solid
for the Gladstone candidates this time. It
is entirely probable that the result in Eng-
land will be close between the two parties,
and that the Irish will again hold the bal-
ance of power. If the Tories should be suc-
cessful it will postpone home rule for a
few years longer, and give the Irish
landlords a chance to make better
terms with their tenants; but that
home rule can be permanently put off is
now plrvost out of the question. Even if
I'ealen, Gladstone will be at the head of the
opposition, and with a loyal and well-dis-
ciplined party behiud him no government
(tin exist for any length of time that will
i nt keep up with the spirit of the times. If
Gladstone wins, it will be the greatest vic-
tory of modern times. With all the great
papers of England opposing him, with the
down and nobility opposing him, with the
established church and the great capital-
ists opposing him, it will be marvelous
indeed if he wins. But Gladstone has the
heart and manhood of Britain behind him,
justice on his side, and the returns from
the elections will show the result.
As already stated, the gauge was
changed of over twelve thousand (12,(IIS)
miles of track in the South, a short time
ago, between May 2o and June 2. The cost
was about $1,360,000. Of course, the figures
c an Only be approximated, but the follow-
ing statement regarding the Louisville and
Nashville railway, made in the Railway
Age, by Mr. Reuben Wells, assistant presi-
dent, affords a fair basis: The track to be
changed aggregates 2ir>9 miles; the machine-
ry in rolling stock is 246 engines and 236
cars. In formulating the cost of the change
both the gross and net cost is given. The
gross cost represents the actual outlay of
money in effecting the contraction of gauge,
but as much of the material and machinery
will be used after the change, and in ad-
dition to that work, and as much of the old
material will go into what is classed as
" shop-stock," and be worked over again, it
can not be properly chargeable exclusively
to the change of gauge. It is, therefore,
subtracted from the actual outlay, and the
result is the net cost of the change, as fol-
lows:
Cost ol changing gauge Gross.
of '.'286 cars JfflB.HS 00
Cost of changing gauge
of 245 engines 88,332 80
Cost of changing 2159
miles of track (per
mile, 563 60)
Net.
$40,791 00
74,023 90
119,115 50 115,625 00
Total cost of supplies
iincl labor provided to
effect the change of
gauge $300,593 30
Total cost, properly chargeable to
change of gauge
.$231,239 90
According to the Picayune the Louisiana
Sunday law will give the poor, overworked
country storekeeper a chance to rest ou
Sunday from the arduous duty of keeping
his store open to intoxicate negroes and
secure their wages. What the opportuni-
ties will be in gin-houses and fence-corners
is not stated.
The facility with which a pledge may be
broken is urged against pledging oandidates
to certain measures. But breaking pledges
is one way of making a record. Keeping
pledges is anothor way. For all that intel-
ligence in voting may be worth, the clear
understanding of voters' wishes and then
the observation of legislators' rotes is the
best that presents itself for the voter.
Never to rely upon the pledge of a known
deceiver is one part of wisdom, but to get
unequivocal avowals from honest men can
not be worse policy than to elect politicians
on doctrinal generalities without noting how
they have voted or knowing how they pro-
pose to vote.
Miss Cleveland certainly can not keep
all the engagements made for her by indus-
trious reporters, but as she writes well the
literary venture is apparently probable.
Professor John L. Sullivan, the emi-
nent slugger, who resides at Boston when at
home, but is at present visiting New York,
offers to flglrt for home rule for Irelaud.
Professor Sulllv'an does not intend to seek
the British lion in his den and slug him, but
he offers to give a boxing exhibition and
turn the admission proceeds over to the
Parnellite fund. No doubt the Sullivan
plan would attract a big crowd, and that a
big pile of money would be the result. Ho
offers to take any three men in the world in
succession and "do them up," and if he
fails will forfeit $1000 to the cause of Erin.
Here is a fine opportunity to make money
for the Parnellites, and test the prowess of
the pride of Boston. Let the committee se-
lect Paddy Ryan as No. 1, Mitchell as No. 2,
and McCaffrey as No. 3, and if Sullivan
gets away with the three of them there will
be no longer a question as to his champion-
ship. Sullivan seems to be a broth of a bay.
The Galveston Interstate drill is going to
be the affair of the year. It will be im-
mense.
The strike of the Lake Shore switchmen
seems to have fallen into " inocuous desue-
tude." The strikers are all out, but the
company has secured men to take their
places, and by maintaining a couple of
hundred special officers business is carried
on smoothly. Employers are liable to ar-
range matters after a while so that strikers
won't have a picnic when they quit their
w^rk.
Olin Wellborn can accuse a man of
falsehood in a very nice parliamentary
way.
Herr Singer, a Social Democrat and a
member of the German Reichstag, has been
ordered to quit Berlin by Saturday noon.
This is a very easy method of getting rid of
political opponents, and no wonder Bis-
marck is all powerful in Germany, Sup-
pose Gladstone should have it in his
power to order Chamberlain or Chur-
chill out of England, or that Presi-
dent Cleveland could order Logan, Ed-
munds or Reed to quit the capital
when they get too offensive. It is evident
that Germany is many years behind the
age, and no wonder that the people are
taxed to death to maintain a huge standing
army. It requires a huge army to sustain
a minister or a government that would be
guilty of such high-handed proceedings as
ordering a political leader out of the capi-
tal or out of the country.
Right on the eve of election, Mr. Joseph
Chamberlain, the English Radical mug-
wump, gives it out that he is under police
protection, being convinced that the Irish
had his murder decreed. Mr. Chamberlain,
if he resided in this country, would make a
successful whooper of the bloody shirt. Of
course, being irnder police protection will
attract sympathy for him, and many waver-
ing voters may be induced to punish the
bad Irish by voting for the Tories aud coer-
cion. .In the meantime it is not at all
improbable that the conspiracy to mur-
der him is altogether iu the imagina-
tion of Mr. Chamberlain and his inti-
mate supporters. Campaign dodges aud
roorbacks are not confined to the United
States exclusively, and the head of
the Binmoghfcm oaucu's is not above play-
ing a (fit k on the public.
Another Gibbs interview is in order.
In (iir social and Industrial life and in oio'
government lire tocinliHt, the anarchist and
the lioS c-<it have no place. [Judge Sloan,
Al'lw aukec.
Tire judge Was talking of what ho Ihonght
ought to be. But, in out social and indus-
trial malaria or death-in-life, those thing?
have, in fact, a place, and a very prominent
one. And still the seeds of boycotting and
revolt are being sown in the continuance of
class-legislation.
Phebident Cleveland has notified lead-
ing congressmen that he will not sign any
bill, even in the closing hours Of Congress,
without reading it. This will be a bad year
for passing jobs in the rush. Probably the
president will not spend the last night of
fh-e session in the capltol, as some presi-
dents have clone.
In as pleasant a way as possible the op-
ponents of the Mexican reciprocity treaty
state that no great amount of trade is possi-
ble with Mexico. It should not be neces-
sary to maintain laws to prevent what is
not possible. A little natural trade is pre-
ferable to none. The objection might better
be made that a reciprocity treaty is a mis-
erable substitute for liberty to do what is
right in itself, and thus to trade with all the
world.
There used to be a story about a Penn-
sylvanian who, when local bounties were
ranging high, decided to sell himself for a
substitute, but when he arrived at the depot
to take the train he fonnd that there had
been a collision, the train was off the track,
and he went home again. He has not yet
decided whether he will sue the railroad
company for the loss of his bounty or apply
for a pension. The Picayune advises the
latter course, for the committee of either
house of Congress will gladly put him on
the pension roll if he has a vote. But sure
ly there is some danger of the veto. He
should not be too sanguine.
It has been revealed that when milk is
kept in an impure atmosphere or unclean
pitcher it is partly decomposed and an ac-
tive poison called tyrotoxicon is developed.
This accounts for some cases of mysterious
poisoning by ice cream and for much
cholera infantum.
Prohibition is now in force at Atlanta,
and the thirsty citizen and the industrious
barkeeper will have to resort to expedients
for a month or two. It is not likely that
prohibition will be enforced in a city the
size of Atlanta, especially during an elec-
tion campaign, for more than a month.
But while prohibition will be novel, and the
cranks remain active, whisky will have to
be called by some other name in the bar-
rooms, and drank out of jugs on the street
corners. Prohibition is a humbug.
The economical husband of Mrs. Hayes,
of Fremont, O., is still doing business at
the old stand. It will be remembered that
Mrs. Hayes's husband spent four years in
tire White-house, contrary to the wish of
an overwhelming majority of the American
people. Mrs. Hayes's husband has a
cousin named Charles Burchard, who lives
in Dakota, and sometimes takes a drop too
much of the ardent. It seems that Mr. Bur-
chard, by virtue Of the will of a deceased
relative, receives an annuity of $200 a year
from the ex-fraudulent president. Recently
Mr. Burchard was locked up in a calaboose
in Dakota for having too much whisky
aboard, and on being searched by the offi-
cers a letter from the ex-fraudulent presi-
dent was found on his person. This letter
contained an offer that the annuity for the
enrrent year would be paid in advance if
Burchard would discount it $4- How like
Hayes. Small in everything. But it is a
wonder that he didn't demand $4 50 or $5 2.">.
It is wondered by some people how the
president of the United States can pay out
of his salary the numerous expenses at,
tached to his office. There are separate ap-
propriations. Besides the president's salary
of $50,000, the estimate presented to Con-
gress this session asked for £16,064 addi-
tional to pay the salaries of his subordi-
nates and clerks. His private secretary is
paid $3250, his assistant private secretary,
$2250; his stenographer, $1800; five messen-
gers, each $1200; a steward, $1800; two door-
keepers, who each get $1200; four other
clerks at good salaries, one telegraph ope-
rator, two ushers, getting $1200 and $1400; a
night usher, getting $1200; a watchman, who
gets $800, and a man to take care of fires,
who receives $864 a year. In addition to
this there is set down $8000 for incidental
expenses, such as stationery, carpets and
the care of the president's stables. And
further on, under another heading, there is
a demand for nearly $40,000 more. Of this
$12,560 is for repairs and furnishing the
White-house, $2500 for fuel, $8000 is for the
green-house, and $15,000 is for gas" and the
stables. The White-boose, all told, costs
the country, in connection with the presi-
dent, considerably over $126,000 a year, and
at that rate is cheaper relatively to the
work done than the service of Congress.
THE STATE PRESS.
What the Newspaper! Throyghout Texas Are
Talking About.
The Times objects to the practice of loca-
ting more fabulous stories of frontier towns
on El Paso than her share, saying:
El Paso is a border city, and as such has
the usual bad name attaching to border
^cities. All the smart journalistic para-
graphers who used to aim their witty shafts
formerly at Dodge City, Laramie, Lead-
ville, Tucson, etc., now aim them at El
Paso. Everything that is imaginable in
wildness and wickedness, is located
and localized here. The newspaper
correspondents who are located here,
ancl even the local divines, to soma
extent, assist in perpetuating the
mistake. But it is all a mistake. El Paso
is not more wicked than the average citv of
its size. Our police records show Sunday
to be tlie most orderly day of the seven in
this city. El Paso, from a preacher's stand-
point, may be a wicked city, but it claims
that its morals are no worse than those of
any other American city, nor as bad as
some which are held up to us as models.
El Paso is not altogether bad, in spite of
the little gambling and opium smoking
that is going on. There is a dark side as
well as a bright side to everything.
The Houston Post is regarded as a very
solemn paper, but it has gleams of humor
like the following:
The cities of the State should do what
they can to make the Galveston drill a suc-
cess. Galveston is naturally poky, ancl if
left to herself the gate receipts will not be
enough to pay for one tune from a brass
band.
This, from the Post, is funny, indeed. Gal-
veston will manage to keep awake if tha
Post oan maiiago to keep altvo.
" Naught shines so bright in beauty's
eyes ns the bold warrior's gallant bearing."
The San Antonio Express savs:
San Anloiio sympatlii7.es with Galveston
I ec atite the boys of the latter had to take
burl; seats c,t l.ntnpasnn; but defeat will bo
mucli easier cm the Galvestou boys than it
\voirW have been on the San Antonio boys.
Ycu see lire former have no such sweet-
hearts as the latter, demanding great
achievements.
It is sweet and docont to die for one's
country, but sweeter and decenter to live
for his sweetheart.
The Express says:
Judge Moore, who announced himself a
candidate for Congress at San Marcos, on
Saturday, said ho was "a free-trader, ia
favor ot the unlimited coinage of silver
a Democrat from plume to spur.",, "uat is
h
a new kind of Domocrat, and the . .acl the
Express would prefer for fellowship at
home rather than for a representative in
Coi press.
The Express is not a Democrat ot any
kind.
The correspondent of an interior paper
saj'B he has always taken and still takes
The News, though he finds more in it that
irritates than that which pleases him. He
is like the chap with the electric battery,
and can not let go though it makes him
dance. Let him hold on. His nerves may
be strengthened in the end.
The San Antonio Light (Republican)
shines its lantern into the cave of the
adullamites, and says of Tarrant oonnty
politics:
The independents have done their work
so secretly and thoroughly that the latest
returns give a voting force of 4600 thatmay
be depended upon to vote the independent,
or workingmen's. ticket. The readers of
the Light will recall, in this connection, that
some weeks since we called attention to ex-
isting movements then below the surface,
and prophesied that just What hrs hap-
pened in Tarrant county was very llkily to
be the order in all northern Texas. There
are other movements in consideration, not
yet made public, that will startle the whole
state Democracy ont of their security whfen
fhey are made manifest. The Knights of
Labor have put the Democracy in a sweat-
box, and propose keeping them there.
According to the Roster of the Texas
Press, May lfi, 1835, prepared by Judge
Norton, the city of Austin has the follow-
ing publications: Dispatch, Mail, States-
man, Sun, Citizen, Texas Sittings, El 2s-
pectaor Mexicano, Sunday Avalanche,
Texas Verwarts, Texas Weekly, Wochen-
blatt, Southern Homoepathic Pellet, South-
western Poultry Raiser, Texas Churchman,
State Journal, Record, Daniel's Medical
Journal, Musical, Home and Literary Jour-
nal, Texas University, Sunday Tidings;
twenty-one in all, yet the Call, like Oliver,
calls for more.
It is passing strange that some enterpris-
ing publisher has not before this furnished
the citizens of Austin with a Monday morn-
ing paper.
Blue Monday should be 6tricken from the
calendar. The Galveston News was the
first to discountenance the observance of
that heathen holiday.
Tliis is the way the San Antonio Times
reasons, if there is any reason in what it
says:
Because CJovernor Ireland voted iu Aus-
tin, which he had a perfect right to do, The
News aims to mislead party sen'imeat, by
accusing the governor of abandoning his
own county, Guadalupe. Governor Ireland
had a right to go to the primaries in Aus-
tin and vote. Suppose he-concludes to voto
in Seguin, what is The News going to d>
about it?
Nothing but wonder to see a man the citi-
zen of twd counties nt once, and to see a
daily paper make such a damaging admis-
sion. The fact, perhaps, is that Go7ernor
Ireland intends to make Austin his perma-
nent home. He is too good a lawyer ancl
has too much sense to pretend to be a citi-
zen of two Counties-at the same time.
The Goliad Guard says:
It is not at all likely that Hon. W. H.
Crain will have any opposition iu the con-
vention or before the people in his candi-
dacy for re election to Congress. The suc-
cess achieved by Mr. Cram in his short
career in Congress is almfist without paral-
lel. Generally it takes a new member tho
whole of the first term of service to familiar-
ize himself with the workings of Congress
to accomplish oven a modicum of work, but
it seems that Mr. Crain Has from the first
grasped the situation and performed an
amount of labor creditable to a new mem-
ber.
The Guard says:
While Mr. G. A. Maetze, junior member
of the firm of L. A. Maetze & Bro., was ia
his pasture on Mannahnilla gathering cat-
tle the horse he was riding ran away with
him and threw him over a bluff upon a bed
of craggy rock below. He was fearfully
mangled, the most serious wounds beitrij
about the head. The skull was fractured.
Drs. Lipscomb and Getzwiiler are attend-
ing bim. He is doing as well as could bo
expected, and hopes are entertained of his
recovery.
San Antonio is now like Quebec was when
the Americans marched through the city
with the drums loudly beating. The Light
says:
The San Antonio Rifles were right royally
received by their fellow-citizens at
Mahncke's garden. The military spirit of
the city is stirred to the bottom button on
the uniforms of both companies, and drill
is the order of the day. The decision of the
San Antonio Rifles to enter for the Galves-
ton Interstate drill has served to wake up
the Beltnaps a little more effectually even
than they were before. San Antonio has
the material, and there will be nothing in
Texas outside of the Houston Light Guard
thaf the crack company of this city need
fear, particularly when they enter the'par-
ade for money, medals and glory. When
Santone gets away with the Bayou city
boys won't there be some tall howling in the
pecan groves of the Alamo city.
The days of the troubadours have re-
turned. The San Antonio knights wBte
welcomed in poetry on their return from
the victorious field of Lampasas, which is
bound to go down to history with Sacarap,
the famous battleground of Galveston.
Colonel H. B. Andrews, who was a small '
boy when the great battle of Sacarap cams
off, and has transferred his allegiance to
the historic eity of San Antonio, found
prose too weak to do justice to the San
Antonio victors, and broke out in a poem,
of which the following is a specimen brick:
The Sealy Rifles failed to make their score,
The Ar tillery could do 110 more;
Tyler, wben'the Hifles came upon her,
Thought they took the prize and won tho
honor.
%Vben Badger with the boys sailed in,
They pocketed the prize and scooped the tin.
The'boys all yelled, tt>e men did holler,
And even that chap who lost his bottom dollar.
Now. amid plaudits of friends and smiles of
the fair, „
These lads tliev had of honor fully a share;
And now they speak of their labors as mere
trifles,
ana fo on otlier fields we'll full soon seethe
Rifles.
And if they don't go the Belknaps will be
there,
Arrd of prizes take a full share.
* * * *****
But the most pleasant of all is, thank God, the
boys are home once agairr.
The Herald says 150,000 pounds of wool
have been sold at Wichita this season.
Leaves of larch, which had been rolled
into balls—the largest more than a foot ia
diameter—by the whirling motion of water,
have just been exhibited before the Berne
naturalists society. Such balls, free from
cementing mud, are formed in certain Swiss
lakes and in otherplaces are produced front
various plants.
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