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SPECIFIC DEDICATION OF GREEK
COUNTY LANDS.
The recent appointment by the governor
of commissioners on the joint commission
to settle the boundary question between the
United States and this State marked an ini-
tiative that was eminently proper in view
of con plications that might arise from the
occupation of the disputed territory by per-
sons under authority of the state land board
and the resistance to Texas authority by
other occupants claiming the whole world
as free grass until ejected by superior force.
This action of the governor is timely for the
reason that it may measurably prevent
prejudice to the claim of the State foreseen
by Governor Roberts, as likely to spring
from acts of possession and ownership pend-
ing the settlement of the dispute. In retir-
ing from office Governor Roberts advised
the legislature very fully as to the nature of
the question, indicating that he had refused
to agree to sign patents upon locations of
certificates in Greer eounty. He said:
Under I he then existing circumstances, I fait it
to be my duty to discourage such locations, as
they might be to our prejudice in the settlement of
our claim with the United States, when the merits
of it could be more fully ascertained. Pursuant to
that policy, Senator A. \V. Terrell, who had confi-
dence in our claim and took a lively interest in tho
adoption of such measures as might secure it,
prepared and had introduced in the Senate a bill,
-which promptly passed b ah hou ,es of the legisla-
ture early In the regular session of 137S, •' to set
aside tbe public lands embraced within the territo-
rial limits of the county of Greer to
educational purposes and for the p-iy-
mtnt cf the public debt " It was then
believed that the United States would be more
favorably inclined to recognize the claim of Texas
if 'he lards she uld be devoted to such meritorious
objects ef a public nature. Kilt little progress if
any, was made in this matter until after the Sev-
enteenth legislature, at its regular session in 1831,
pasrfd r law granting land certificates of 1200 acres
to the Texas veterans r1 1880. Whereupon Colonel
John 51. Swisher, one of said veterans, interviewed
Hit astc Ll.e pr priety ant! practicability of saMai
the legislature to pais a law allowing these veteran
certificates to be located in Greer county. My re-
ply was that if the claim of Texas could he estab
Halted and recognized while I was governor I
should certainly approve any act of the legislature
allowing these veteran certificates to be located in
Greer county, provided the veterans retained an In-
terest In the land located and their locations be
made so as not to diminish the amounto.'lands
therein devoted to publio free schools.
Governor Roberts and Colone' Swisher
evidently believed that veteran certificates
could not be legally located in Greer county
—the disputed territory—unless the legisla-
ture were induced to pats a law granting
the holders that privilege. And yet with-
out such legislative enactment, 300,000
acres in that county have been covered by
these certificates, and either Governor
Holier Is or Governor Ireland has signed
patents legalizing the locations. Governor
Roberts indicated that he would not even
approve an act granting the privilege sought
by Colonel Swisher unless the claim of
Texas could be established and recognized,
and not then, unless provision for protect-
ing school lands in the county was made.
Clearly he was committed against permit-
ting locations of veteran certificates in
Greer county, unless a law was passed
specially authorizing it, and after the claim
of Texas had been established and recog-
nized. He evidently considered that the
act by which the land in that county was
reserved for public schools and the public
debt prohibited the location of veteran
scrip upon it unless an act specially author-
ing such locations should be passed. He
could not consistently sign the patents, and
it is a later governor who did so. Governor
Roberts indicated, it is true, that after the
United States should be induced to recognize
the claim of Texas by reason of the dedica-
tion of the lands to designated meritorious
objects of a public nature, he would modify
the indication so aB to let in the veterans.
ThiB is characteristic of Texas land admin-
istration, and probably did not damage the
case of the State. Uncle Sam may have be-
lieved that the dedication under the Terrell
bill would hold good at least until the
boundary question was settled. Governor
Roberts gave notice to that effect. But
Uncle Sam and the old alcalde must have
infallible prevision to predict even a day in
advance where the raiders will break through
any so c&lled land dedication. Uncle Sam,
however, had notice that after the question
Bhould be settled in favor of Texas
there would be a change at least
in the meritorious objects to which
the land was dedicated. As the change has
been made without legislative action, and
as no corresponding action to designate the
school lands is attempted, while the best
lands are being selected by holders of vete-
ran scrip, it may be assumed that Uncle
Sum is not likely to yield anything in the
c< ntroversy on account of the Terrell mea-'
sure. The moral influence of that act, in-
tended, as Governor Roberts admitted, to
secure favor for the claim of Texas, has
been lost or mislaid, and the question must
be settled on its merits without favor or
undue influence. Such being the attitude
of the case, and the State having gone fur-
ther and leased lands in the disputed terri-
tory, asserting absolute sovereignty, it was
evidently imperative that the governor
should immediately appoint his commis-
sioners before Uncle Sam lost patience. The
claim of Texas is believed to be just and
will doubtless prevail, and it is to the best
interest of all concerned that steps necessary
to its recognition should be taken as early
: s possible. It has suffered enough already
from the tortuous, incoherent and deceptive
land policy of tlio past two years.
DEALING IN FUTURES.
It has been observed by some one that the
prevailing idea of this age and country is,
when anything does not suit, to call for the
enactment of a law to put a stop to it.
There is something at times, however,
rather worse than the wholesale invocation
of the law to stop things. That is the
wholesale invocation of the law to promote
projects alleged to be for the general good
in some way secondary to the good of the
promoters and immediate beneficiaries. The
appeal to legislation on every hand is a
natural confession of weakness, and in a
certain stage of intellectual and social
development was bound to come out
in pathetic fullnes of tone
and urgency of expression. Where
legislation has already attempted so
much and established so much that is arbi-
trary, a great temptation exists to keep on
increasing dependence on legislation to
equalize certain results and atone for cer-
tain evils of its own blundering creation.
The tendency may not be checked without
demonstration from experience of its per-
sistent increase of evils, the one following
ing in the effort to cure another. A line
might be drawn, it would seem, upon the
principle of ascertaining in each case
whether a certain evil, whatever it might
be, was due to some existing law and
remedying the evil by a partial or complete
repeal. T hus we might get nearer and
nearer to the self-regulating order of things
under the rule of a conservative Democracy
—banishing the spurious protectionism in
internal as well as external commerce and
retaining only the protection which a
just police power gives to de-
fend just freedom and just possessions.
But upon what principle except the substi-
tution of the other sort of protectionism
can legislation veto a number of transac-
tions which may certainly tempt to unwise
consumption of time and money, but are
merely matters of private judgment and
no worse than the moral tone of society as
it is? The attempt to regulate all transac-
tions on a moral basis, by state authority,
would be worthy of respect as to the motive,
but it would be a titanic task, and we
should not expect to find in politics and
administration the moral power to carry it
out, or in society as it exists, and human
nature as it is, the docility to comply with
the various statutes which would thus be
rendered necessary. The following letter
fi rm a subscriber presents a question for
resolution by one of the methods indicated.
The Prohibition party might extend its
generi 1 principle to cover such cases, and
thepeisonal liberty party could take issue
with it on this as well as in liquor selling:
Luling, September -0,1885.—I have been a close
reader of your paper for some years, and wish to
cull ifcur attention to what seems to me to be 9 I
great injury to the farmers—this way they have of
selling our cotton and fixing the price upon it be-
fore it is made. I have reference to the future
sales, promising .0 deliver cotton every montli In
the year at a fixed price, and the very months that
farmers have the bulk of their cotton in the mar
ket It Is lowest. Would be glad to hear from you
on this subject. I think it ought to be contrary to
law to deal In futures, lie pleased to give your
views. We farmers dou't understand this mode of
speculation. G. VF. Waddkll.
The farmer in the owner of his cotton till
he sells it. After he has sold it ha can not
lie protected from having it made the basis
of as many trades as the buyers see fit to
make. If men on the exchanges are buy.
ing and selling options, it is really not the
fanner's cotton they are buying. A system
of bona tide contracts for future delivery of
cotton has sprung up from the desire of
manufacturers to be sure of their supply,
and to prevent it from being cornered at
the time it is gathered and sold. Mere
speculation on a fictitious basis should not
distress farmers, for it could and perhaps
would be carried on with dice or something
else if it were not carried on about more or
less imaginary bales of cotton. In the long
run the cotton goes to market, and if there
were no speculation in futures there could
be cornering by those able to buy and hold
the staple, but the bona-flde future con-
tracts of manufacturers are designed to
keep the actual cotton out of corners. It
appears a gricvnnce that the months when
the farmers havo the bulk of their cotton in
market it is lowest. This, however, is
simply bccavfo then the supply is
greatest. It can not bo held, and
warehoused for months ^without cost, so
the actual cotton is worth something more
later on. The actual cotton in the months
between crops is, of course, cotton which
somebody has held. There may be a fall
owing to error in calculation by speculative
holders. If the farmer holds it out of mar-
ket he is using his own right to speculate
just as really as if he bought it. So all real
holders, whether they bought or were
original producers, are in the same boat
when they hold for a rise. It is somewhat
repugnant to the sense of honest industry
that any men should make tlieir living by
mere speculation; but what is to be done
about it? First and foremost, the mass of
speculators could not exist long if the in-
dustrious people refused to speculate. Pro-
fessional gamblers can not live solely by
winning checks from each other. The oat-
side industrious people must be roped in to
venture and lose in betting on chances, or
the gambling fraternity as a body can
make nothing. Those who can buy pro-
ducts out and out and hold large quantities
out of market would be but a limited num-
ber compared with the hundreds
of thousands of people who take a
portion of their earnings and drop them in
gambling on futures and stocks, just as
though betting on horse-races or boat-races.
Prohibitory legislation is sometimes tried,
but there are too many ways of gambling
for it to be effective in the direct form of
prohibiting all speculation, and therefore it
is inferred that this evil will need to be
weeded out by the process of establishing
more regular relations between producers
and consumers, with intermediaries whose
business will not be mixed with* specula-
tion, and thus leaving speculation so en-
tirely apart from regular business that the
former may be seen and shunned as nothing
but gambling by all who do not want to be
considered as gamblers. In the current
issue of the Charleston (S. C.) News and
Courier there is the following note on
legislation on this subject:
South Carolina has, It appears, a Iiw declaring
gambling contracts unlawful. The act of Lecem-
ber 24,1883, provides that every contract or agree-
ment fc r tbe salo or transfer of any bonds or stock
or produce or minerals shall be void, unless the
party agreeing to make the sale or transfer is at
the time the owner of the article to be sold or
transferred, or unless it is the bona-flde inten-
tion of both the parties to tin agreement
that the article in question shall be actually
delivered, in kind, by the person selling, and actu-
ally received, in kindly the person agreeing to re-
ceive it. Besides this, any person who has paid over
any money on account of a loss sustained by reason
of any contract or agreement in violation of the act
Is at liberty, within three months after the pay-
ment, to sue and recover the amount so lost and
paid, with the coBts of the suit. The lair, it will be
noticed, is very stringent, but there has not been,
so far as we know, a single action under it. Yet
stock and produce gambling goes on In South Caro-
lina every day. Is the law defective, or is there so
much honor among the gamblers that they are un-
willing, as they very well might be, to take advan-
tage of tbe law? It so, we need some other
remedy.
The law can certainly be made to give
this negative disfavor to these transactions,
but it is not expected that the gamblers will
hesitate to do business in their way on
honor. It always has been so. It is about
time to have learned the lesson that the law
is unable to give any remedy for certain
evils; but it compels no man to enter a
bucketshop or to speculate, ami if the pro-
fessional gamblers were left severely alone
they would have to dry up.
NATIVE AND NATURALIZED CITIZENS.
The News this morning gives place to a
communication from a correspondent who
signs himself An American. Though him-
self a naturalized citizen he is evidently a
pretty well developed jingo, and like the
hero of one of Carleton's novels, stems to be
" blue molded for want of a beating." But
he has no idea of receiving a beating as
he plants himself under the American Hag,
and his note of defiance to Bismarck is
loud and clear. At the present time,Aow-
ever, there is no need of our correspondent
getting his dander up. We are at peace
with all the world, except the Chinese and
Apaches who are located among us, and
will endeavor to maintain the peace as
long as we can. There is no deny-
ing the fact, though, that there is a
good deal of such sentiment as American
expresses abroad in the land. A consid-
erable sprinkling of naturalized citizens,
here and there, have been a bit too
much inclined to understand themselves
as foreign colonists temporarily abiding
with us, laboring to tolerate us, and look-
ing down on our habits, customs and insti-
tutions with agood dealof superciliousness,
rntlier than as a perms nent and integral
portion of our body politic. The elaborate
nnd strained condescension which some for
eigners have to aelopt in order to tolerate us
is a bit too much for the American mind to
absorb comfortably. When foreigners reach
tlieee shores intent on bettering their condi-
tion, and becoming voters and citizens, they
should leave behind their old prejudices
and tafte on a new outfit in conformity
with their changed nationality. Swearing
to support the constitution and laws of the
United States and abjuring fealty to a
foimer government is not a mere formality
without a definite purpose, as some foreign-
ers who have become naturalized Amoricans
seem to think. When a man, no matter
where he was born, takes an oath to be-
come an American he should thenceforth
be a thoroughbred American without any
qualifying nationality or alienage in front
of his American citizenship to give
him a specific though hybrid designation.
Wo should all be Americans in this
country, one people, animated by a com-
mon aspiration, united in a common patriot-
ism and prepared to share a common destiny
in "working out the grandest problem of
free government which the world has ever
known. It is.too glaring to escape attention
that in making up tickets at election times
care is taken to throw out a sop to the Ger-
man element, the Irish clement, the Moxican
element, and all other foreign elements,
whilo there is scarcely any consideration
bestowed on the American element. Why
this obsequious recognition of nationalistic
clannishncss? Nothing of the kind is visi-
ble among American-born people. Wo
never hear of efforts being made in this
State to catch the Georgia vote,
the Louisiana vote, the Alabama vote,
or the New York vote, while
an election never passes that the "workers'
are not exerting themselves to catch the
" foreign " vote either in whole or in frag-
mentary portions. Let this thing cease.
Let us all be Americans pure and simple.
Native-born and naturalized citizens are the
same befo e tne law, and no distinction
should be recognized between them as citi-
zens and voters. There is no occasion for
sneering at or reviling any people, and if
there were no foreign-born citizens conspi-
cuously tenacious of being "foreign"
themselves, native-born citizens would soon
cease to consider any of them as such. Let
us have peace and unity with one flag, one
destiny, one law, one covenant, pointing to
e ne far-off divine event—and let the Ameri-
can eagle majestically soar aloft without
ruffling a feather or sounding a discordant
note.
A letter from Bristol, Eng., gives an
account of the opening of the Severn tun-
nel, a great engineering work receutly
finished. The first passenger train that
went through carried the directors of the
Great Western Railway company and about
forty passengers. The length of the tunnel
is 7064 yards, of which more than one-half
is under the bed of the river Severn. The act
for its construction was obtained in 1872,
and the work was carried on by the Great
Western company until 1870, when a con-
tract was let to Mr. Walker, who completed
it. The tunnel is about forty feet below the
bed of the river. In some parts the breast-
work has been carried three feet thick, and
some idea of the magnitude of the under-
taking may be gathered from the fact that
about 75,000,000 of bricks have been used
and about 700,000 yards of excavations,
principally through rock. The whole of
the tunnel under the river is as dry as possi-
ble. The train containing the directors and
officials took about twenty minutes in pass-
ing through the tunnel, which will be venti-
lated by a Gusbal fan capable of discharging
240,0C0 feet of air per minute. As a result
of this great engineering triumph, the dis-
tance [between Cardiff and London is les-
sened thirteen miles.
The circular of Archbishop Walsh, of
Dublin, to the priests of Ireland, makes
queer reading on this side of the water.
Wonder what would be thought of a bishop
in this country who would send out elec-
tioneering instructions to the clergy under
his charge. The parish would seem to have
need for a " scourge " of the Cokeian de-
scription.
A rnrvATE letter is quoted by the St.
James's Gazette, stating that an English
lady and her daughters were hooted by
roughs in Paris with cries for Rochefort
and Paine, and death to Paine's murderers.
Feiidinand Waiid refused to be cross-
examined about a sum of $2,700,000 unless
criminal proceedings are dropped. If he is
not accommodated some important suits for
this money will collapse. The creditors do
not want him tried, and they wish so sup-
press the names of some great men who are
supposed to have got big money out of
Ward's firm and its transactions.
TnE moderate French Republicans are
afraid of a Spanish republic, as it would be
strength to the radicals.
The battle between laborers and pre-
sumed strikers at Laughlin's Mills, Ohio,
shows the way things are gradually drift-
ing. Strikers no longer consider it suffi-
cient to quit work when they become dis-
satisfied, but resort to all kinds of lawless
expedients to try to effect their purpose. A
year or two ago mild intimidation of the
men who presumed to work in the strikers'
places was tltemcd far enough to go, but
now shot-guns and revolvers and dynamite
seem to be considered necessary equipments
for strikers.
When Turkey is to be cut up all hands
prepare by sharpening their knives.
The New York Times intimates that
when a rumor reached Dr. Talmage that
his trustees had put up a Hying-trapeze over
the pulpit, he was not pleased. It is sus-
pecteei that he will not use the trapez 2 and
will find it in his way.
Two California women have become pro-
fessional highway robbers. It is believtd
they obtrined their education in church
fairs.
The London Economist hopes for the
stoppage of silver coinage in the United
States because India needs more silver as
cheap as possible. It points out that India
is likely to absorb more silver than hereto-
fore; first, because the Indian government
lias elected to borrow n London instead of
in India; and second, because the fall in
silver will stimulate purchases in and ex-
ports from that country. It also looks for
a greater absorption of silver in China on
account of the railways to bo built there, a
like operation inTonquin, where the French
have to establish themselves, and possibly a
similar effect in Japan, where the substitu-
tion of silver for the present paper money
is under discussion. English firms want
silver for use in Asia, and want it cheap.
It is said that every girl in Vassar de-
sired General Sherman for president of the
college. Old Tecumstli's reputation for
kissing is as big ns this country.
The Philadelphia Record thinks " there
are great possibilities in store for a well-
conducted Democratic party that has the
courage to lay aside fossilized issues and
fogy leaders." The parties are not over-
burden with issues at present. It might be
a good idea to take up some issues if they
have none to lay aside.
We riso to remark that protection does
not protect the masses. Parson Newman
has heard of the sale of Miss Cleveland's
book, and he may break loose.
TnE death is announced in Paris of M.
Lunier, member of the Academy of Medi-
cine, who was well known in the medical
world as the author of many important
works, and as the editor of the Annales
Medico-Psychologiques. Among his writ-
ings, the best known are a work on the
progressive increase in the number of luna-
tics, and on the effect of alcoholic drinks in
the direction of increasing the number of
cases of madness and suicide.
Mb. Gladstone is accused of giving his
party some views, but no definite platform.
It is supposed, perhaps, that they are dis-
solving views,
Dn. Hans von Bulow was last year
elected honorary director of the Frankfurt
(Germany) conservatory, in place of the
late composer Raff. He did not take this
election in a merely nominal sense, how-
ever, but devoted a whole month—sixty-five
hours—to instructing a class of eighty pi-
ano pupils. His nlan was to devote three
hours each day to one of the classical com-
posers, some of whose principal works he
played and then analyzed in detail, show-
ing their structure and the principles of ex-
pression.
MAnoNE's first boodle of $5000 was sent
by Pennsylvania ironmasters through their
organ, the Philadelphia Press. Bismarck
has a patent on the blood and-iron policy,
but Mahone is for iron straight.
The boldest form of robbery in the
guise of government is tribute, ltoumelia,
like Egypt, had to pay the Sultan of Turkey
so much a year under this head. Will the
great powers of Europe unite to recognize
a quasi independence in the Bulgarian
state subject to the payment of tribute to
Turkey?
Tne Irish World asks the wage-workers
to "watch the legislatures." Is there not
danger that the evil example of some of the
legislatures will corrupt the wage-workers?
Legislative strikers can give points to other
strikers.
In the battle between the civil-service
commissioners and the spoilsmen, the com-
mission won first blood. 1
A whiter in the Philadelphia Press re-
marks: "When women discover that they
are able to earn an honest living, you know,
their moral strength becomes ever so much
greater." Then the way to save the girls is
to open to them every honorable avenue of
self-support, and their honest independence
will be their best safeguard.
Pehiiaps Editor Stead, of the Pall Mall
Gazette, begins to think about this time that
his little advertising scheme was pretty
costly after all
PERiiArs there is a little sermon to tem-
perance men in the following from the
Picayune:
The man who can give a fine free lunch of soup,
beef, fish, vegetables, butter and bread, to a cus-
tomer who pays 15 cents for a glass of liquor, could
afford to give a much finer lunoh for 15 cents with-
out liquor, as a reasonable matter of business: but
no temperance man has the nerve to try It, and
clerks are learning to be drunkards on account of
the lunch. The temperance Idea of a lunch for 15
cents Is a glass of sour milk and water, and a hard-
ware sandwich. This does not seduce the stomach,
and the Iiquorman wins.
If this talk about Roumelia continues,
Barnum will want to lug it over to this
country and place It in his " greatest show
on earth."
The indications are discouraging that the
present administration will fall far behind
its immediate predecessors In the quality of
vice presidential fishing. Somebody should
whisper in Hendricks's ear to take himself
to the lakes, as the honor of the Democratic
party is at stake.
Can a prisoner be a defendant if he pleads
guilty?
The president has begun again the ap-
pointment of United States disrrict attor-
neys, and it is within the verge of proba-
bilities that that interesting partisan and
able official withal, Andrew Jackson Evans,
may be elevated to the dignity of private
citizenship in the near future.
Davenport, the gubernatorial candidate
of the New York Republicans, contrary to
popular belief, has a distinction. He never
joked in his life.
Editor Dana says whistling girls make
the best wives. He did not say, though,
that girls who whistle can not talk. Any-
way, almost any man would prefer
whistling to incessant chin music of the or-
thodox kind.
Oscar Wilde has written a poem about
his new baby, commencing thus:
O baby boy! thine eyes are like mint* own,
As blue as heaven, as tender as the dove.
An account of the operations connected
with the object of finding water in the
desert tracts of southern Tunis has been
given by M. Ferdinand de Lesscps, at a
meeting of the French Geographical society.
Two years ago he visited the region of the
Tunisian Shotts, and while there he ob-
served on the banks of the Wady Melab a
lake in which the level of water never
sinks. The water of this lake was excellent,
and he inferred that the source of the sup-
ply was a deep underlying store of water.
He therefore requested tbe engineers to
make borings or to sink a well at that spot.
Success rewarded the effort. At a depth of
91 meters the suspected sheet of .water
was tapped. The flood rushed from the
ground with such velocity that it raised with,
it stones weighing twelve kilograms and
threw them to a great height into the air.
This well yields 8000 cubic meters of water
per minute.
Tiie dispatches announce poace at Big
Springs. Peace was announced at Warsaw
once upon a lime.
tnurman takes the stump in Ohio on the
1st of October, and will keep his charming
old bazoo ringing and his bandana shaking
from then until election day. It is conceded
on all sides that if the Democrats win tho
legislature, the old Roman goes to tho
Senate.
Samuel J. Tilden's mind must be as
active as ever. It is stated, on apparently-
good authority, that he has had 187 books
read to him during tho past year and a half.
When Conkling withdrew from politics
the Republicans of New York lost their
grestest force, their greatest leader, their
greatest man, and there is no indication
that his place is going to be filled in the
near future.
'Tis a pity that Cleveland doesn't get
really mad at the office seekers once in a
while and strike out from the shoulder. It
is said that on certain occasions his arm
weighs a ton.
It doesn't take the Turks long to change
a ministry. When the sultan says go, min-
isters go, and when he orders a new set in,
they come. Protests and personal wishes
and feelings are not quite up to par in the
«ultan's land.
THE DUTI CAPITAL.
Quartern for Convicts—Land Board Matters-*
Greer Count) Cue, Eto.
IBpicial to Tbi Nrws.l
Austin, September 26.—Major Goree arrived
this morning on his way to the oapitol granite
quarries. He will be accompanied by Gustavo
Withe, sub contractor of the state house, and
John T. Dickinson, secretary of the capitol
board. The object of the trip is to select a site
for the erection of quarters for the convict
laborers who are to work at the quarries.
The board of education mec on the local
school trouble in Kopertson county. No action
transpired.
Application by reporters to the land board
secretary for a glimpse at the report of Grass
Commissioner Bwink was denied, on tbe
ground that it was necessary that the board
fhonld oensent to its publication. Treasurer
Lubbock was willing, but another member of
tbe board objected. It is intimated that public-
ity might give notice to some of the wily free-
graziers, and prevent the board from taking
effective measures to recover pay for the long
use of school lands. Unless this be so, it ap-
pears, the exposures by the grass agents of
long-standing depredations is not acceptable
to the board, and not what the agents were
employed to investigate.
The back of tbe breakbone fever is broken.
Several thousand persons, young and old, have
been down with it. It is a mild type and fast
disappearing.
Professor McFarlane, newly elected to the
rhair of physics in the Statf university, de-
livers his inaugural address "next Friday, and
Professor Lane the Friday following. About
150 students have matriculated.
The attorney-general has died a demurrer
in the Greer county case in the federal court
at Dallas, which will probably not be acted
upon ontll Judge Pardee holds court there.
Only three divorce cases have been filed in
the District Conrt here this term, viz, Etenora
Myers vs. Morris Myers; Margaret Hart vs.
David Hart, and Rachal Abrams vs. Phil.
Abrams.
The sheriff is sued for the $500 reward he
effered for the capture of Tom Pearson.
TEXAS CATTLE-
A Hundred Thousand Head Held in Quarantine
fey New Mexican Syndicates—Several
Conflict# Reported
IBfkul to Thi n»w».l
' Dallas, September 546.— A gentleman who
arrived here to day from the west reported
that between Midland and Toyah, a distance
of 118 miles, and of immense width north and
aontb, npward of a hundred thousand Texas
cattle are held in quarantine by New Mexican
syndicates,who bold publio lands, It is claimed,
in evasion of tbe federal homestead law.
• Several conflicts, involving the loss of six
lives, have taken place within the past tiro
weeks in the Big Calevaras and other regions
of New Mexico. None of these conflicts have
heretofore found tbeir way into the public
prints. An appeal will be made to the federal
government by the stockmen and bona-flde
candidates for homesteads againBt tbe excesses
of the New Mexican organization, an investi-
gation of whose title will be demanded. The
school land, on which a great body of the cat-
tle are compelled to rendezvous, is entirely
denuded of Its verdnre, root'and branch, ren-
dering it useless for years to come.
The stockmen are praying for an early frost,
by which the alleged Texas fever quarantine
will have to be raised, enabling them to drive
to winter quarters In New Mexico and Arizona,
whence they propoae to proceed to the north-
western territories in the spring.
The suffering stockmen impute base motives
to the action of the New Mexicans, saying it Is
underlaid with tbe belief chat they are forcing
Texas cattle Into starvation, so that they can
bny them for half their value, while New
Mexican cattle in the meantime advance In
price.
FORT WORTH.
■nit Entered Against the Nlcbols Estate—The
Gazette Assets Hold—Indictment of
Geo. B. Loving.
[Bpzcul to Thi Nsws.l
Fort Worth, Bept timber 36.—Mrs. C. R.
Mark lee, sister-in-law of John Niohols, brought
suit to-day egainBt his estate for various
amounts aggregating $300,000, which she al-
leges to be due from him to the estate of her
husbond, Jeremiah Marklee. The latter, who
died in 1883, was a half-brother of John Nich-
ols. Mrs. Marklee was made executrix of her
husband's estate and as such intrusted its
entire management to Joha S. Nichols. She
chatges that he pursued a course of system-
atic swindling toward her. Among other
specifications she says that Nichols drew two
(hecks of $500 each I r payment of a $509
monument over her husband's grave, signing
ber Dame to both and pocketing the surplus.
Mrs. Maiklee also seeks to cancel a garnish-
ment and attachment sued out by too CItv
National bank against the estate of John
Nichols in ordor that all creditors of the mm:
class may phare alike.
The Gazette Printing company to-day con-
veyed all its assets, including tho Evening
Mail and a job office, to J. C. Loving, of Jack
county, who reconveyed them to his brother,
G. B. Loving.
Wm, HuDghbook, a horse trader, who left
I ere seme time since to go to Weatherford 00
a ten tinys trip, has not been heard front. Be
had 1500 or $600 when he left.
Ihe er&td jury adjourned to-day, after
finding ninety-six bills, twenty of which were
/or felonies. Among these indictments were
Lozier. tbe Panhandle newsnaper man, for
swiLdllrg in two cas -s, and Geo. B. Loving, for
swindling, en account of the Gething cattle
transaction. W. A. Garner, who was arrested
in tbe sanue case, was not indicted.
The Annexation Problem.
iBprcial to Thb nitra.1
Dallas, September 36.—The fact hiving
leaked out that nearly all the wealthy citizens
of East Dallas are outside of the proposed new
city limits, the residents of the new territory
are reported to be undergoing a change of
thought which is believed will prove fatal to
annexation.
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