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Galveston, Tex., May 27,1887.
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unnecessary to forward to bosh offices, as
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two point*.
11" lie atti contract immigration law is
xiot a premium upon wit what is it? The
Epoch remarks that M Joseph Dagniol, the
maitre d'hote), whom Mr. W. K. Vanderbilt
lEduced to come to this country, Is evident-
skit te tfiJf? we of biamlt a»a 14 u)
darger of becoming a burden upon the
time. 11 his declaration made when he
1 nd«d, he states that he may work for M".
V . . to-, , B»d he may conclude to set up
a j .- --e.: I'm ment of his own. He is under
c^u > s>" to nt b:dy—no, not he. Of course
thiyl avs taken care of that. Suppose an
Avrf lcnn were going to Brazil to set up
nmd'-'aer? and such a law interfered with
fciir, wiuSdfce not study if one form of
w df would let him in and another would
k tplimoui? An American will not sub-
mit ' l an outrage if he can h8lp doing so.
Fel'her should he expect the fareigaer to
6i;Uml: to one;
MB. LYALIJS LOYALTY SHOWS ITS ELF.
Consul Lj&ll in his offioi^l report, as
summarized and quoted from in English
pepers, isitaeks the iaimlKration promoters
66 people "interested iu the sale ot laud."
Will Consul Lyail ever make aa eff irt to
show in an cfSclal report what proportion
of merchants aid others promoting immi-
gration are not iutsreited ia the sale of
lf»nd? Is it good evidence that the country
is not worth comicg to that somebody owns
more land than he can use? And will Brit-
ish consular reports show that nobody his
land to sell ia British colonies, or t;i4t lA&d
selling is a heinoua offense even if the laad
be toed and every wuy fit for hornet? A dry
sfsson may oocnr and then th? settler will
be bankrupt. Hj?-ever the case may bs ai
!o Austriaiit?, Bohemians and Pohs,
he ta3 s, for Englishmen and 8ootchm?nis
inferior to the C*ve, tbe Trans»ail. or au?-
f/tllR. Vfryfcubtle coasbinatian o£ idsas.
Ttxas inferior to Australia, hos? Ia theiu-
;ei.ei y and duration of drouth:? H jw el ;e
csn he mean it? Bat ia that case wiy
ihcu'd not "Austriacs" a2d others ea-
t'tite (he elitsate cf Australia, tQe
Care and interior South Africa as
well as Englishmen and Ssotcameo?
The Bctrs Oo in the Transvaal, and the Aua
!r!ars should do anywhere where th^ Brit-
ish can. How ab.iut other nationalities?
America may have ihe Austrians and Bj-
lifniians and Poles. Amsrica miy have the
Irish, too. The Irish can stand tie climate
of the United States, and aa they are not
mentioned with Englishmen and Baoteh-
rtien tlijy are perhaps not wanted so muoa
in Australia— which can show more or less
cf a "15 per cent unemployed"—or at the
Cnj e. America may have the Aualriaas,
the Bohemians, the Eoles and the Irlsb. A
double purpose is served by commendiag
this country, in a tort, to these nationali-
ties. One point is that Australia and tae
Cape are kept more for the fag ends of
British society as It expels its surplus popu-
lation. Austrians, Bohemians, Poles and
Irishmen might not be quite so loyal colo-
nial subjects as British born and Sunday-
school taught youths. Texas is admitted in
common w^th the rest ot the United States to
be a ver9 convenient place wherein to damp
assisted emigrants, alias the infirm and
those dispossessed of their land, seized and
compnlsotlly transported to a forelga shore
to trouble the British landlords and their
class government no more. Verily the
United States has its uses, and no coasuHr
report, however mnch it may say for Aus-
tralia and the C?.pe as attractions, or at
least as dumping grounds for frazzlid Brit-
ii-h patrlotisa', must ever mention thsm as
places where the active Ifishmaa or the
sinewy Blav or the industrious Austrian
might become a landowner. Consul Lyall
moreover, beirg a great traveler, has per-
haps teen Australia, or the Cape, or the
Transvaal. Or, if he does not write from ob-
servai Ion and memory, he has at least read
about those countries. At all ovents he
knows where there are British colonies,
further off than Canada and less known
than Canada. The News will follow Con-
sul Lyall in his explorations somewhat
further, which will not be a very difficult
matter, inasmuch as, although t'ae consul
hKs been a great traveler, he has never
b.'t 11 reported to havo traveled much since
te came to sit down lu Galveston and write
all about the terrors of Texas without stir-
ring fen leagues from the island, and then
saillrg in a trim yacht—one of the very
best ways of getticg a good look into the
interior of a state several hundred tulles
across, you know, and seeing all about the
doings o£ the negroes of tho wild tribes
from the Congo country, a3 depicted by
Komancer Lyall in the British official re-
ports,
KO NEhD FOR ALARM.
The letter of Mr. Howel Jones, a lawyer
ot Topeks, Kan., to the land commissioner
of the Houston find Texas Central Railroad
company, pritled ia another column, shows
it&t the proceedings taken by Attoraey-
GeceralHrgg to invalidate half the loca-
tions of railroad land certificates in Texas
have slarmcd some of the outside friead.s
of the Ttxiis immigration movement. This
whs natural. The press dispatches sent out
regarding these proceedings reported that
the tides to irHlions of acres of land will
depend upon the result of a test case made
by the attorney general in salt to recover
for (he schools forty sections of land in
Kinney county held by the Galveston, Har-
riebuig and San Antonio and Southern Pa-
cific llailroad companies. Such reports
were well calculate! to excite a vagae
alarm about Texas land titles la general.
To shake confidence In titles may some-
times be as mischievons as to actually null
ify titles. In this instance the action of the
attorney-general, however honestly intend-
ed, is so singularly inopportune in its bear-
ing upon the Texas immigration movement
as to have an aspect of atter malignancy.
Still the alarm expressed by Mr. Hawel
Joj.t s ia his letter to Land Commissioner
Elgin far exseeds the gravity of the occa-
sion "If the attorney genera!," says Mr.
Jones, "is going from day to day to let As-
boclakdPi ess dispatches go abroad herald-
ibi» to the world that the title to all lands In
Tcxa:i derived from railroad companies ia
detective, ihe tide of immigration that Is
new teaded to your great state will very
suddenly congeal, sad it will tarn aside
into territories where the offijars of the
str.to at laast are not discouraging people
from coming on account of titles being de-
fective." The attorney general, it is pre-
sumed, has nothing to do with the herald-
11 g work of that mercurial agency,
the Assceiattd Piess, in this or any
other ma'ter. He has brought suit
to tiy th3 meaning cf section 2 of
arf'c'e 7 of the stale constitution. Thta
s ction leads: "All funds, lauds and ot er
proietiy heretofore set . idappro-
prla<edftr ihe support of public schools;
all tie slternato sections of land reserved
by the siai6 out 01' grants heretafore made,
or that may hereafter be made to railroads
or ct her corporations of anynatare what
sctver; cne-half of the public domain of
tfco state;and all pnms ot iwoue? that may
come to the state from the sale of any por-
tion of the same, sha'i constitute a perpetu-
al school fand." By the same constitution
the legislature was authorized to encourage
railroad enterprise by stipulating in g*n-
«'8i u.wsoi Jiiowporatioa that cwpwiw
should be entitled to sixteen alternate sec-
tions out of the publio domain for every
mile of road constructed on the completion
of every ten niiles. Statutory provision
wag made accordingly. Companies were
ircorporated, roads were built, land car-
t!fio*:es were issued aud located un-
der .suivtys that allotted alternate
settlor s respectively to the sotnals
ard to the certificate holders. The
lands were acquired by the companies not
es & gratuity, but as a consideration in the
fciailment of a contract. E ren In the ex-
trt n e!y Improbable event ot the courts
fcg'eeicg to the attorney general's coatea-
'ion and requlriug the restitution to tho
•thools of half the lands thug acquired, the
state would palpably incur the eqiltabia
obligation to indemnify the railroad catn-
psnies and all persona holding lands by
titles <*eilved from these companies for
everj dollar of resnlting loss. Tae com-
moi.wealth c->n!d gain nothlBU by snib a
restitution. Tbe whole cost ot It tyould in-
evitably fail at length on the taxpayiac
people of the state, their children aud their
fhiidiet'a children. Bai there is
really no need for alarm a3 to the
mult of the attorney-general's proceed-
Irgs. T&e fupteme court is now ia session
at Austin, and the constitutional questtoa
tvhich h6 has raised must soon be settle! by
that very conservative tribuaal. Then
itc-ie will be nothing left to diffuse vagaa
fti-plclon of Tesas land titles. Besides, the
1 mccnt of IsEdtd property that can ba af-
fected bv this litigation 13 quite Email com-
p&ied with the hundred and more million
acres held by lilies derived in a different
way and witbeni a shadow of any kiad of
suspicion. And this Is not all that shou'd
serve to allay uneasiness euoh as exhibited
in the letter above quoted. Let Mr. Joass
ard other outside friends of Texas imiui
(jretlon be reassured. Thsy were not wrong
wfcexi they inferred tint "the policy of the
state of Texas as a whole tended to encour-
age every well disposed man t) come there
and reside." The policy of Texas as a
whole has always been far more lib-
eral as well as far more conservative
with reference to immigration and rail-
road enterprise and traffic than would ap-
pear occasionally from the ntteranoes or
actions of some of the state's officials and
putative statesmen. This is an impetuous
political year. On such occasions it is one
of the venerable superstitions with those
respectable and generally harmless par-
son s that they must rush noon the stage
acd tell a tale fall of sound and fury. As a
ruin in the upshot the tale signifies nothing
but a sharp appetite and tireless digestion
for offices and political honors. After their
periodical freaks they are constrained to fall
In wilh the common sense of the great body
of their fellow citizens—a common sense
which in the long ruu has made Texas ua-
ex&mpled for the fullness and wisdom of
its hospitality to homestead settlers from
every quarter, and to incoming capitalists
Jrcm every quarter for any kind of usafai
enterprise. '
A vibe resolution on the part of tha rail-
road strikers is reported, It baing neither
more nor less than stopping their warfare
on other railroads than the Chicago, Bar-
Jington and Quincy. If Chief Arthur can
manage this he may save several organiza-
tions of employes from being utterly
broken down, as they doubtless would ba
in a protracted and general contest with
its constantly widening antagonists.
It appears that Speaker Carlisle has a
pretty good string tied to the nomination
for the position on the supreme court bench
made vacant by the death of Caief Justice
Walte, and that he can [.nil it in at any time
he sees fit. His recent purchase of a house
in Washington is taken as a strong indica-
tion that he intends to accept tha plasa If
Mr. Cleveland offers it to him.
It gives a pretty good idea of the great
blizzard in New York city to learn that it
cost that city $25,000 to clear away the snow
from the streets.
Mayor Hewitt refused to allow the city
(fficeB In New York to be closed on Good
Friday, but thus far nobody has jumped on
him for hiu act.
A republican paper exclaims exultlngly
that Mahone has the republican vote of
Virginia buttoned up in his breeches pockat
and will hand it ovor triumphantly to John
Sherman next November. When November
comoo it will be found that the republican
voto of Virginia will be small enough to go
In a much smaller place than little Ma-
hone's breeches pocket.
Senator Kiddlebbrger's solitary sup
port of tho Blair bill to pension ex-confed-
erato soldiers has suggested to tha mug
wump3 the difficulty which the regular re-
publican partisans feel about asking for
the election of southern republicans to con-
gress. They are not at all parti«ular.
The opportunists weie dismayed whar.
Gex eral Doulanger polled 00,000 votes in
three or four departments before he waa
placed on the retired list. Now they mast
feel discomfited.
A current Joe Brownism says: "New
Yoik is importing foreign email pox to this
country. This Is free trade with a vea
geance." It Is not trade at all, but tha Joe
Brown policy of fostering domestic small-
pox centers is the very life of what the or-
gan calls protection.
The king of Abyssinia proposes to King
Humbert that they two meet and settle
their differences. That would be the cheap-
est way. It cost England $15,000,000 and
over to Invade Abyssinia some years ago,
on a question of honor. The Italians have
caught on to a port on a sulphurously hot
and sickly coast. The Abysslnlans hold
the interior, and have the best of the situa-
tion.
The Philadelphia Kecordsays: "There
i3 no way open to the wit of man to perma-
nently advance wages except to do better
y?ork or to cheapen the cost of living," Is
there no monopoly to be abolished? Sap-
pose that employers were taxed several
hundred to se.veral thousand dollars a
year for the benefit of an acconnt-keoplug
syndicate with a monopoly on day books
ana ledgers. Would not wages suffer?
That ia how they suffer by cuirenoy mo-
nopoly. To realize what this is when added
to tariff monopoly and land monopoly is to
realize that wages can not now be what
ttey otherwise might be.
Rainfall at Lampasas.
I.ami'asas, Tex., April 4.—The total rain-
fall for ihe quarter ending March 31 is 8 11
ineiiee against 1 45 inches for the sama pe
rlod of last year. Tiila iosurea a good crop
of small grain, and. with as much rain as
we hid after tfcls dote lagt year, a good crop
of evsrythicg planted.
THE STATE PRESS.
What the Paper# Throughout Texai Are
Talking About.
The Bandera Bugle says of the offer by
Galveston of cheap money to wool grow-
ers:
The offers, unlike the San Antonio wool
buyers'offer, are specific, and the sheep-
men in torn will be wise if they market
the.ir wcol at home; they will thas not only
pain in price, but they will save in time,
ireight, borses and wear of wagons. They
ten make advantageous rates with local
merchants for the staple goods consumed
on ihe ranch, for they can almost pay spot
cash, aid it is the money at home that
bolide up a town and county. Who could
lave foreff en this twelve months ago? Now
that It is bt re it is difficult to realize the
reality, aio he is a wise man who makes
hay while il e sun shines. A meeting of tbe
irool growers of this county was held
In the ct urt house on Monday. The
natetitg, on motion, . after sev-
tial parties had declaimed against
the 'juliriii teness of the offer of the San
Antonio merehiints, and their ironclad
loUe at 12 pef' cent for advances in the
pest, Rpieed to giye expression of thanks
10 tbe Wool Factors' association of Galves-
ton lor th6ir interest In the woolmen, who
imoufch item were now getting cheap
morej—8 j;er cent. One gentleman re-
marked ihat the beet way for them to show
iheir appreciation was for them to send
their wool to Galveston. About the close
of tbe mcetirg twenty gentlemen enrolled
as mernbere. The prospects ot ths sheep-
men are certainly bright. Cheap money—
sheep stiling in Chicago at $150—the stock
of Texas wool nearly cleaned out of the
northern markets—sheep in good condition
since they were last shorn aud the wool
.'org end good in quality— a big price should
l>e obtained for the spring clip. The fear-
ful forebodirgs as to the effects o? tariff
legislation on wool are not shared lu by
sensible men. These are the usu^l outcries
of interested parties acd politicians—It is
tbe demand which makes the priceoi Texas
sicols.
Sen Antonio la in a bad streak of luck
sndllabloto do something desperate, yet
the Dallas Times Herald says:
It ie hoped the San Antonio Express will
reconsider its deoire to divide th9 state be-
cause that city did not secure either ot the
state conventions.
The Times-Herald devotes more than a
column to Judge Terrell's letter. TheT.-H.
says the letter outlines the platform that
Senator Coke should adopt, and requires
him (Cokel "take to himself the character
of Terrell's man Friday, or a«)Bume the
character of an enemy to tha best Interests
of the state."
The Austin Blade, colored man's paper,
says:
His excellency, Governor Koss' answer to
the ridiculously sensitive citizens of Whar-
ton, who memorialized the chief executive
to refrain from sending a small company
of rangers within the sacred precincts of
their unguarded homes to subdua and keep
within reasonable limits the insurrection-
ary proclivities of some of its forcibly suc-
cessiul litigating citizens, was manly, jast
and states man like.!
The Fort Worth Gazette is on it again.
It goes on as follows: "Onto Cairo. Oa
to Memphis. Oa to Greenville. Oa to San
Angelo, On to Topolobampo." Not any
to 8an Antonio, if you please. That city
got enough of the Fort when the
throw-eff took place in regard to
the convention. The cry ot southwestern
Texas Is to your tents, O Israel. No more
alliance with Fort Worth. The San Anto-
nio Times says:
Fort Worth and Austin made a treaty,
f ffenslve and defensive. The Fort was to
have the first, or small, convention; the
capital was to have the second, or state,
nominating body. The whole thing was
completely cut and thoroughly dried. The
few delegates who had staid with San An-
tonio all the time went over to Dallas;
Lampasas came to the rescue, and tae Fore
Worih and Austin "combine" went under.
The average north and east Texas man is
against the southwest, and Austin betrayed
the Interest of its own section. That she
got nothing In retarn for such treachery is
a piece of retrlbutivo justice that tue south-
west should not cry over. It was goad for
her, and ehe richly deserved it.
The Houston Herald came out in a full
suit of purple in honor of the victory of its
side in the municipal election. Its cam-
paign rooster is red In every feather, and
crowe: "Cock a doodle do, flap your wings
and crow,for the yeomanry of Houston have
declared themselves forever emancipated
from the rnle of bank rings and silk stock-
ing gentry."
The Times says:
Colmesneil is to have a wholesale gro-
cery house soon; size 40 feet front by 120
feet in length; stock to be carried i50,000.
This new enterprise is backed by St. Louis
capital spliced with some of Colmesneil'3
cash The darkles have leased or
bought tbe Mllner old shingle mill building
and have converted the upper story of it
Into a dance hall, In which they have
dances and rows almost nightly, which ia
proving a lucrative enterprise to the local
court officials and lawyers.
The San Angelo Enterprise s'aouts:
"Glory I Hallelujah 1 The Santa Fe rail-
road accepts San Angelo's proposition.
Trains to be running Into the city within
ninety days after grading is completed.
Ban Angelo the end of the division and lo-
cation lor machine shops."
The Gimlet says:
The Baptist church at Weimar was baau-
tllully decorated on Sunday, the occasion
being* Easter. Rev. Q. T. Simp3on preachad
an appropriate sermon, his subject being
the resnnection of Christ. He remarked
at the outset that till recently it was not
customary with the Baptists to decorate
their churches at Easter, and that it wa3 an
innovation upon their former customs to
do so.
The San Antonio Light is not happy in
seeing San Angelo so. The Light says:
The San Angelo Enterprise has baen
drinking long and deep of the bowl of her
own distillations. Slightly intoxicated by
the exhilarating effects of her own over-
potent draughts of enthusiasm, t'ae little
center of a big county grows slightly inco-
herent in its rsmblings and utters no little
nonsense along with some words of wisdom.
A late Issue of the Enterprise is quite
unique, and as graphic as unlqae, in its
description, or rather in its highfalutin,
over the wool industry and the wool market
at San Angelo. Judging from its editorial
on that subject, headed Wool, one would
imagine that San Angelo had taken a con-
tract and had entered into bond, sealed,
signed and delivered, to shear all creation
and give all the flockmasters between the
Atlantic ocean and sundown "free store-
age," "free handling" and "free transporta-
tion of all wool originally consigned to San
Angelo for storage and sale." This groat
boom to tbe wool growers free-gratls-for
nothing without-paying-a-cent is a big
thing for the wool growers, In their mind,
and a much bigger thing for San Angelo.
on paper. Rightly seeing the danger to
San Angelo's windy pretensions from the
wool buyers of this acceptcd market, ths
Enterprhe turns its ratn's horn this
way and blows the following blast:
"The San Antonio wool market doss not
enter into the consideration of thta import-
ant question at all, as the only excuse she
can offer lor being a wool market is that it
is the oldest." The L'ght will not attempt
to follow the erratic flight of the Texas coun-
terpart of Barnum's woolly horse, bat gives
the sad conclusions of this modern epic,
which has no little of hiccup in its tones.
Ih« intoxication, however, la oul?the la
toslcatioii of joy at some unexpected waich
will uevt-r hapten, and this is tha Enter
prise mail's final hiccup: "And as for Sau
Antonio, fcjess you! bless you! b-1 e-e-e-s-s
you! Well done, thou good and faithful
servant, enter now into tho kingdom of
mossbacks—into the happy hunting grounds
ot tie epicures of aEU scorbatie caUi-o»-
c-arne, palate tickling tamales and nact*
rlie enchiladas. El Ban Antonio marke.o
de lona vamos mnrio! Pobreclto." It his
been customary from the days ot -35sop to
add a line by way of moral to all fabie3
San Antonians may scan this San Augalo
fable, smile at its conceit and read batwean
the lines: This fable teaches that the wool
interests of San Antonio are threatened
alike in the wool regions and on the coast,
AUviHan Antonio would warm her shoul-
ders w 1th the fleeces of Texas wool she mu3t
shear a little cleaner than any of her en-
vious rivals.
By way of retaliation on Galveston for
her part In capturing the wool trade of San
Antonio the Light proposes to override the
constitution, take the Medical college from
Galveston and give it to San Antonio, and
says:
A flourish medical school llbarally
equipped and backed by state authority
would gain much from the presence of the
wealthy Invalids who are learning to seek
San Antonio as the one spot above all
others in which to find respite from respi-
ratory troubles and the purest air to ba In-
haled anywheie on this continent. Taat
stale medical school should come to this
cltr. It would flourish here aa in no other
city In Texas, and there are more sound
reaeonB for locating it here than caa be
uiged in favor of any other point.
"A flourish medical school * * * flourish
here," is a grand flourish Indeed.
The Houston Post says:
Attorney general Hogg may be well road
In law. but it is evident he baa not kep^ up
with recent changes in the Texas Traffic as-
sociation.
The Post drops this possible crumb of
comfort for southwestern Texas:
North Texas took all of the conventions.
Perhaps that section will be a bit more lib-
eral when It comes to parcallag out tha
offices.
Perhaps not. The lion takes the lion's
share. The young giant of north Texas has
a vigorous appetite.
SCIENCE AND ART NOTES.
A number of professors of the medical
faculty of Vienna have decided on founding a
now medical journal, -which is to be tlie ex-
ponent of the Vienna school of medicine. I>r
G. ltiehl la to he the editor.
Professor W. Mattieu Williams offers
as a better explan atlon than the old one of the
zigzag course of lightning, that owing to
variations of moisture the conducting power
of different portions of air Is variable, and the
electric discharge lollows the course of leait
resistance.
The members of the English Iron and
Steel institute, who h»d Intended to meet In
America during the autumn of this year, have
resolved to postpone their vlalt In conse-
quence of the presidential election, which wltl
occur about the time of the projected visit of
the Institute.
It is found that nearly every kind of
glass, especially that containing manganese,
Is liable to a change of color by tho action of
sunlight, but the glass can be restored to Its
orlgina' color by Ilea1'. Stained glass in win-
dows that has changed tint through solar ac-
tion can thus be restored by heat.
It Is announced that Queen Victoria will
contribute to the fine arts depitrtinant of tbe
forthcoming International exhibition at a as-
gow. Among the works of art which liar mij-
etty proposes to lend are portraits of Mary,
queen of Scots, and Lord loarnley.
Senator Hawley's paper, theCoarant,
of Haitford, denies that the senator has a $10,-
cc0. violin, "llr. E. D. Ilawley of this city,"
says the Courait, "has a noted collection of
violins, Including several whose value ap-
proaches the figure mentioned. Tha inventor
of the paragraph mixed the Ilawleys up."
An artificial ivory, of oreamy whiteness
and a great hardness, Is now made from sound
potatoes washed In diluted sulphuric acid,
then boiled In the same solution until they be-
come solid and dense; they are finally washed
free from the acid and alowly dried. This pro-
duct may be dyed, turned, carved and made
useful In nearly every way that genuine
Ivory Is.
A Treatise on Alcohol, by Dr. Thomas
Btc-venson, will be published by Gurney &
Jackson, London, being a new edition of the
author's Spirit Gravities with Tables, 1839. It
has been found needful to rewrite the book In
order to brlDg In recent Investigations by
Messrs. Squibb and others on absolute al-
cohol.
Mr. Halle will send to the London New
gallery his masterpiece, life-size figures of
Ferdinand and Miranda as Prospero saw them
In the bower when he exclaimed, "Fair en-
counter of two most rare affections" (Tem-
pest, II). The same artist will contribute to
the above named exhibition a portrait of tho
late Stephen Heller.
'-I
FUNNY FELLOWS.
"What does Leman do?"
"Something in law."
"What?"
"Father!" [TownTopics.
Griggs (to lady who treads on hii toe in
street car)—Will you permit me, madam—
Bhe—O, thank you!
Griggs—To call your attention to the
strap overhead. [Judge.
Customer—Are these neckties strong?
Shopman—Stiong? Why, sir, last waok
I sold one to a gentleman aa was a 'anker-
irg after suicide, and he llkedit so much
that he used it to 'ang'isself, and it bore 'is
weight beautiful. [London Globe.
"When Longstreet was a cadet at West
Point, Profeebor Kenurick asked him how
the carbonic acid of commerce was uade.
Longstreet, who never looked at his Cham-
istiy, replied: 'By burning dlamonda in
oxygen gas.' 'Yes.' said the professor,
'teat w III do it; but don't yon think it would
bealeetle expensive?" [Rlohmond liti-
gious Herald.
Dumley—You don't look as if you had en-
joyed a very good night's rest, Browa.
Brown—I didn't. A cracker kapt ma
awake most of the night.
Dumley—I shouldn't think eating a
cracker would Interfere seriously with your
sleep.
Browr—O, I didn't eat the cracker. The
b&by ate it in bed. [New York Saa.
couldn't have both.
"I hear that the heiress you are going to
many has made you give up poker."
"Yes. It was the lady or the tiger." [Town
Topics.
proficient in geogr4phy.
Kentucky Teacher (of infaat geography
class)—Tommy Blood may tell us wh*t a
strait is.
Tommy Blood—It's jest the plain stuff
'thought nothin' In it. [New York Sua.
A DISAPPOINTED MAN.
"Hello, old man, haven't seen yon for
two years. Last timo you were coartiag a
beautiful girl."
' Oh, don't remind me of that."
"What! Did she jilt you?"
"No. I married her." [Town Topics.
THE GREAT DIFFICULTY RBMOVBD.
Omaha man (reading)—Female carpen-
ters have appeared in Loudon.
Wife—Shouldn't wonder. A wmtii caa
be a carpenter now as well as a man.
"Why so?"
"I saw by the paper (he other day that au
Ergiishman had invented a machine for
driving naiia." [Omaha World.
A SPBING WAIL.
A las, plas, my shoes are splaihad, I
stepped into a flcolle', and aa I look imiad
I sea rry trousers splashed with aiudlat.
For 'lis the bonny, banny spring, whin dan
dies swear and robinn sicg. Bi'ing baik,
bring back the winter chili, or brlf? the
summer, better still. Oh, me. alacs, spring
irrnd makes mad a dressed up dry good*
firucijutr lad. [B-ffii:- Courier.
IHMIGBATIOK AND LAND TITLES.
Warning Voice From Kansas About the Texas
Aitorneydenerel's Suits Sor Becovery
of Bailroad Lands.
Topeka, Kan,, March 29.—Robert M.
Elgin, Esq , Land Commissioner, Houstoa
and Texas Central Railroad company,
Houston, Tex.—Dear Sir: The enclosed
newspaper slip In relation to railroad lands)
in Texas tells Its own story.
The people of Kansas have been making
great efforts to induce the immigration that
is likely to leave Dakota and the north ta
move into Texas, Instead of going to Ar-
kansas end other southern states. Tula
movement, of oourse, Is being principally
moulded and directed by the Santa Fe rail-
road system.
Since most of the counties in the north-
ern part of Texas have organized immigra-
tion societies for the Bole purpose of bring-
ing and aiding people to come to Texas, wa
have been led to Infer that the policy of the
state of Texas as a whole tended to en-
courage every well disposed man to com»
there and reside. If, however, the attorney-
general is going, from day to day, to let as-
sociated press dispatches go abroad her-
olding to tbe world that tbe title to all landsi
lu Texas derived fTom railroad companies
is defective, the tide of immigration that lu
now headed to your great state wilt very
suddenly cojgeal, and it will turn aside in-
to territories where the officers of the state
at least are not discouraging people from
coming on account of titles being defective.
1 think the record of Kansas ia tha beat of
any western state for making and perma-
nently holditig"booms;" but If you look back:
through all the newspapers published la
Kansas, or tho pamphlets or other advertis-
ing mediums, yon will not flud a single idea
that went forth to tho public that in auy way
indicated that the titles were not the most
perfect on the face of tha earth.
Your many courtesies to me in tho past
year prompt me to volunteer the above, be-
lieving that your state Is capable ot tha
greatest development of any state in the
west or southwest—a belief that is beooming
very common.
If not too much trouble, will you kindly
give me what there is to this and similar
suits lately commenced by the attorney-
general in your state? By doing so yoot
will greatly oblige very truly,
Howel Jones.
FABHEB8' ALLIANCE AND GBA.NQ&.
rockdale.
Rockdale, Tex., April i.—Mr. Ben Ter-
rell, lecturer of the National Farmers' alli-
ance, spoke here yesterday in the opes air
to quite a large crowd, composed mostly of
farmers. Mr. Terrell is an earnest, thought
not eloquent, speaker. His speech was on
the whole conservative and sensible, tha
drift of it amounting to an announcement
to the world that the farming classes,
through organized effort, propose to show
that they are capable of managing their
own affairs In every field necessary to their
existence and Independence, and in doing:
thiB it was not their purpose to antagonize
or break up any one else.
Mr. Terrell Indulged In some sarcasm ia
referring to offered encouragement to tha
alliance now being made by the press,whicli
was withheld in the beginning of the movo-
ment.
Speaking of politics, Mr. Terrell said that
the alliance should abstain from its ownr,
partis an ship, but' he called upon the far-
mers, who hold the numerical power, to
vote ror men of good character and ability,
whom they could depend upon to advancei
their interests In the halls of legislation,
and If their representatives lu congress
and the legislature did not thus act, to in-
continently sit down on them.
f- Mr. Terrell inferentlally pronounced tha
interstate commerce law a failure. He made
no allusion either to'the tariff or deep water.
Of the state alliance exchange he stated
that that Institution was in a most prosper-
ous condition and was now rated bythe mer-
cantile agencies as second to none, and ha
predicted that the scheme wonld prove suc-
cessful and grow to national proportions,
when, through Its aid, farmers would be
enabled to hold back their products until
tbe spectacle would no longer be witnessed
of the farmer being dictated to both as to
what he shall pay when he buys and what
he Ehall receive when he sells.
BKSCUED THE FBI80NEE.
Two Officers Beaten by a Mob While Attempt"
ing an Arrest. i -
Brownsville, Tex., April 4.—At the Red
club room Monday night Ramon Ayala, a
policeman, tried to arrest a drunken man,
when he was assaulted by a mob and
beaten, his pistol taken from him and the
prisoner rescued. Officer Coronado, who
tried to aid him, was also beaten. Yester-
day morning Sheriff Brlto with a party ot
deputies went to the clnb room and arrest-
ed and jailed thirteen men implicated la
the assault.
Good Work ol the Bangors-
To The News.
Wharton, Tex, April 4— Knowing the
fair spirit The News has always mani-
fested on public questions and its expressed
willingness to place the reading public ia
possession of both sides of any aff-tir that
for the moment claims its readers' atten-
tion, 1 ask for spaoe for a statement oC
facts in relation to the work of tho rangersi
In Wharton. * * * * Even among tha
thirty seven citizens wno opposed tae com-
ing of the rangers by protest a great num-
ber have expressed in highest terms their
praises of the good work done by the
rangers, and regret ever signing the peti-
tion as a protest. Now, sir, in reference to
"gentlemen thrown into jail." Tae district
officers, Messrs. Burkhart and Htnay, and
the sheriff of this county, who have the full
confidence of the people, expressed at tha
ballot box by several terms' trial, backed
by a governor whose deliberation is a pro-
verb, have seen fit to place this protection
and aid to law lu Wharton county, and tha
general verdict Is the best cltizans have
acquiesced and Indorse their venture.
J. W. Jones,
Sheriff of Whartoa County*
More About Capvain Chandler.
lo The News,
Groesbeck, Tex., April 2.—In yesterday's!
News I noticed a letter from A. J. SowelJ
of Utopia, stating that probably Lieutenant
J. W. Chandler was killed on Battle creek,
in Navarro connty, In an attack by the In-
dians on a surveying party. Any one wha
feels interested in knowing whether or no!;
such be the foot may be able t,o determine
It by writing to Colonel Wm. P. Hauderaoa
of Corsicane, who was with the party and
survived tbe battle with the Indians.
Colonel Henderson lost his compass la tha
fight. A few years ago It w=»3 uaaarthed
where the Indians had buried It, nnd it wag
returned to him. Tae spot (battle-ground)
Is now marked by a beautiful > looument.
erected by Sheriff John P. Cnx of Hill
county, whose lather fell in the b ittie.
The details of the battle from Colonel
Henderson 1 am sure would be eagarly read
by all who feel au Interest In the thrilling
experiences of the early pioneer? o? T-oxaj,
Sam r. Frost.
Chappell Bill.
Chafpell Hill, Tex., April 1.—Weather
warm, and with the strong south wlads tha
ground is drying so rapidly as to endanger
the stands of cotton.
Dr. Rogers, working in the interest of tb3
Bancroft history, has been spondlai; a fe-ij
days here inter vlowlag some of the old set-
tlers tiL'l taking sab3criptU>;i3. .Rev*
Biooks, M dhotllst pastor here, holding st
protracted meeting, availed hlunalt of ma
doctor's set vices. The doctor snotvad him-
self a brilliant theologian, as wall as a
compiler of history.
A gentlo rftln would fc9 hailed with ae-
ight just now. _i
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