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1 BEAUMONT M. D.
scfitlag Physician.
Ufe.NiiAM. Texas
IS Can beftttnitathis office north o
She square in real estate "building during
the day and aUusresidenceatnie;blSani6w
JiTOSRISaB. l.JM.XOSEr.D.
HORRIS & BOSS
Surgeons and Physicians
untAit Texas.
Ten d it r pr. fessioruJ seinceito.H.
tens of L ua and vicinity.
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; DS Tatem fediencs or
To2tt Articles ei!I on
7inklea &. "Xnlstoa
Ccfllril Racsc. South sl3eof Squrc
EUCJUAM TKXAS.
They law come to stay and en-
j)!ease. vjni.
I J. KOEISSOW
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feral Insurance
rid Land Agents
RZHAU " . : - 1 TEXAS.
r&sne volxn cf instinifacfc airainst
:PaU classes of property in any part o
rv in nrsi-cias companies ai tae to w-
fads fcooch sold Tented aod exthaog-
kSrdcrt lett at or nSite for Rurverm?
have DromntattenLoaliT T.W-'Savles.
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it SATIJES'ROB5RSON&JCO
ice in the 0era House. inaod-wt
rfne Farms for Sale
J.$HINGTON COUNTY.
jzz!Acres4i mucseastQrUrcnn3mon
the "K. Iw iSo acres- in xnitnanon.
i balance in pastare.
y 232 Acres 5-nules W est of Independence ;
1 1560 Acres on Brazos P. Singleton snrvcyj
fine Isnd fur cottoa farmi 300 or 400
I acres m culuvatun; apoiuon of lucb
only has been cnlura&si this Year.
ri6jL Acre lying on the road bctftecn
iirqenam ana loaepcndcnccj 300 or
4cacresin cultivation known as he
fcLjrol ?mttn place.
"in"" fyehad npon very
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3HN A RAKDLE &SON.
iiiding Sites
AND
MaLANDSforSALE
bsale-at a bargain c acres o
Ifaham tricL one nUe east of the
PiaptCotolhonse all well fenced jiith-
Licjc aa wire canivniiig sctctbj
jI balldinf sites jTcrlootiag the
pSthe besr spring of water within
t ue conrinonse. 11 is wunin
idfetanee ol 5&e publx scaopls.
a Jtnown-vs "tiampinnr
of riresh&i. well lenced
iint "htjte X2& other un-
Ctfepnng of atcrt
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RXXKtS &.IXV1X Proprietors.
LarfrestCircaUttonofanyPaperpub-
Itsnad in tills Senatorial District
OFFICE OF PUBLICATION:
Bisselt S. Seamien taiMmg corner of
St Charles and Sandy streets
Brcnbam Texas
Rule of Subscription
Iailrv no cqpyoneyrar 3W
Weekly one coiiy one year 2 CO
Rat of AiWertlslnsi
Transient ami Lr-rat atHcIemenl9 Insert-
tl at L! pet square fur tint Insertion autl
5cenuirrquar Tor fachsubseqnont inser-
tion Maniag and Obltaarr notice exceeding
eipht Un tiairnrie Editorial notices of
pure Ir Easiness character!!) cents aline eacn
tueruon.
Enteral at the Fostoffice at Brenhani
Texas 5 second-class mail raaUcr.
The city officials of San An-
tonio sri 'elected for two years
and an election is soon to take
place; the Express is indifferent
as to the means of bringing the
candidates before the people
but it wants good men.
Rnv.J. L. Lovejov sr. will
be a candidate lor chaplain to
the next legislature. The San
Antb'nio Express remarks that
a minister -with good praying
qualities is what will be most
'needed in the chaplain line.
The Denison Herald says of
Maxcy he has made a good
faithful working senator and
We think should be retained.
There-is no good reason why he
should .not be elected his on n
successor and many why he
should.
Foster and Sherman are
fighting bitterly for the Ohio
senatorship. It is hard to pre-
dict Tvhich Will be the winner
and to those outside of Ohio it
makes but little difference; it
is six of one and half a dozen
of the other.
McCook of New York in-
troduced a joint resolution in
the authorizing the president to
place U. S. Grant on the retired
list of the army! with the tanfc-
and pay of general as a recog-
nition ol his eminent services.
Bikreferfifd.--
In New Salem N. Y. "Bre
ather day John Vantassel aged
seventy fatally assaulted his
wife with an axe and then cut
his own throat with a butcher
knife dying almost instantly.
Vantassel was jealous of atten-
tion paid his wife by other men;
she was only thirty-eight years
old.
The war between Boss Kelly
and the .New York Herald con-
tinues to" fluorish. The New
Orleans Democrat says Mir.
Kelly may be happy but we
doubt it.j The Herald is a pa-
per and Mr. Kelly is an individ-
ual. Individuals always come
out second best in such contro-
versies. Am meeting of the board of
trade and transportation held in
New York city resolutions were
adopted recommending liberal
expenditures for harbor and
river improvements and declar-
ing the success of Capt Eads'
jetties at the mouth of the Mis-
sissippi as -a source of national
honor and prosperity.
Ex.-Gov. E. M. Pease has re-
!icmii? his nnsttinn ns rnltrrfnr
BftilMKHWrcJvStonr-
Gov. Davis is named as his pro-
bable succcessor. if he will ac-
cept which is regarded as
doubtful. Deputy collector
Shepardis supported for the:
place by the customhouse ring
while J. C. Ogle has the sup-
port of outsiders and some bus-
iness men.
Bucknek of Missouri chair-
man of the committee on bank-
ing introduced a substitute for
the funding bill authorizing the
secretary of the treasury to is-
sue treasury notes to the amount
of six hundred million dollars
such notes to bear interest at
four -percent and to be ex-
changed or used in payment of
ive and six; per cent bonds of
United States maturing in 1881.
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Sas Antomo is soon to have
a city election and as usual in
such cases there is no scarcity
of candidates. The Times says
a number of prominent citizens
democrats' as well as republi-
cans seem to favor a free race;
again nominating conventions
have got to be quite a farce
and-"veryseldom express the
wilL'ofthej?ople in.all. parricu-'
lars and sometimes in very few.
The total debt of the United
States is 20967946258 of this'
debt 356741000 is in green-
backs and bears no interest.
The greenbacks arc-a debt but
one which according to the
present condition of things need
vcr be paid. The greenbacks
positive benefit to the
lntrysnd whatever the banlj-
and creditor classes
astmaysay are recogniz'
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BRENHAM WASHINGTON COUNTY TEXAS
KaUroad Legislation.
The Galveston News of the
I Oth inst. contains a lengthy cd
itorial on the subject of "Legis
lation and the Railroads." It
quotes-judge Black who "re-
gards legislative interference
as necessary to protect the
tights of-the public against the
gigantic corporations that are
bow in process of sucii porten-
tious development" and fully
agrees with him. It approves
of judge Reagan's inter-state
commerce bill. The Banner
hss from time to time during
the past few years strenuously
advocated legislation regulating
the railroads and their tariffs.
The railroads by the charters
granted them by the state are
vested with money powers and
valuable privileges they have
also received subsidies in the
way of land grants and in many
instances towns and counties in
their corporate capacity have
contributed directly towards
building them by granting right
of way depot grounds etc.
and paying the owners for the
same. Counties and cities have
also exempted railroads from
taxation for a long series of
years and have otherwise aided
and encouraged them. It cer
tainly stands to reason that the
state and the counties and the
towns having done so much for
the railroads should certainly
have something to say about
regulating the charges made by
them: The interests of the
railroads and of the1 people
should be mutual but as mat-
. ters seem to stand at present
they are antagonistic there-
seems to be nothing-in common
between them. This is wrong
and accomplishes no particular
good in any direction railroads
are dependent upon the public
for their patronage and the
public is dependent upon the
railroads for transportation.
Were there a better understand-
ing and a better feeling exist-
ing between the railroads and
the-publicjrwould be much
better for all concerneaV-
The true inwardness of the
vote in Indiana in.October and
at the presidential election is
gradually coming to light. All
thee facts no doubt will be made
known before-long and then the
country will see. how by Traud
the Hossier state was carried by
the republican. On this subject
the St. Lo.uis Republican says :
'In 1870 Indiana and Missouri"
had populations nearly equal
JIndiana l6Soooo Missouri
1721000 the Missouri figures
being 40"OOO greater than those
of Indiana. In 1880 the Indi-
ana population is given at 2356-
000 and that of Missouri at
2i50Oooo an excess. in favor of
our state of 144000. Butwhile
we beat the Hoosiers not only
in population but in the growth
of population also we cannot
keep up with them in the num-
ber of voters. The. number of
votes polled in Missouri at the
recent election was: For Han-
co*ck 208609; Garfield 153:587;
Weaver 35045; total 397241.
In Indiana the vote stood:
fc0. "S6; Garfield'
231865; Weaver"i3863 ; total
471204. While thereidreTEiis-
souri has 144000 more inhabi-
tants than Indiana and ought
to exhibit at least 28000 more
voters the state with the small-
er population actually shows
73964 more voters. To war-
rant such an excess of voteis
Indiana ought to .have 370000
more inhabitants than Missouri
instead of .144000 fewer."
The Theatre Comique at St.
Louis was burned on Thursday
last at noon. It had quite a
history and was the second
theatre built in that city it
was erected by Bates of Cin-
cinnati in 1852; for some years
it was known as Bates' theatre
and afterwards passed into the
hands of Ben De Bar who run
it in connection with the St.
Charles in New Orleans for a
great many years. All the cel-
ebrated actors and actresses of
the past twenty-five or thirty
years have appeared upon its
boards; for the past six or eight
years it has. been used as .a va-
riety theatre.
 The St. Louis Republican
very generously relieves the
"solid north" of responsibilitiy
for any of the vagaries of the
democratic party. It says that
since Hanco*ck got nearly twice
as manyvotes in the north as
in the south it seems about
time fojs that threadbare hum-bug-abut
the' south ruling the
democratic party to be buried.
The democracy polled close on
to three) million votes in the
north and they arc the domi-
nant power in dcterming its
policy
KTAX EXE3I1
The question c
factorJfis from stal
TAX EXEHPTIOX.
The question of exempting
factorJfis from state and muni-
cipal taxation Is one. tiiat is be
ginning to attract the attention
r.i .. c r
have noticed all
the papers
seem to be in favor of the ex-
emption. Texas needs manu-
factories in all her towns and
every means should be used to
induce foreign capitalists to
come to the state. It would be
the part of wisdom to exempt
such establishments from state
county and municipal taxation
for a given period say five or
ten years according to the
amount of capital invested and
the product of the manufactory.
Dallas is so far the only Texas
city that has taken the initiative
in this respect and has passed
an ordinance exempting factor-
ies frcm city taxation under cer-
tain conations and restrictions.
Ourpwn city and county has
exempted the Santa Fe railway
from taxation for we believe
ten years and in doing so has
acted wisely. If we can-secure
factories for Brenham we should
do the same thing. Without
factories the growth of the town
must necessarily be slow and in
proportiono the growth of the
country surrounding us. If we
have a manufacturing center
here it will improve the country
as much as it docs the town.
The town people have to be fed
and to feed them it will require
all the products of the farm and
garden and of the orchard. It
will create a home market for
all kinds-oT 'country produce
much of which is now compar-
atively valueless for want of
a market. iarge towns and
cities make the country con
tiguous to them thrifty and
prosperous. There are thous-
ands of farmers and market gar-
deners and fruit growers who
depend solely upon the city of
New York for a living some of
these market gardens being sit-
uated in Florida. Suppose
Brenham had a population of
ten thousand instead of forty-
threcor forty-five hundred the
local demand76Tprodvce would
of course be doubted and-prices
would oe oeiter.at me same
time giving employment as; well
as profit to the farmer and gar-
dener. If the exemption from
taxation will bring us factories
let us by all means grant it.
The enhanced value of other
property and the general busi-
ness prosperity consequent
thereon will amply compensate
for any loss that may accrue
from the tax that might be col-
lected from the factory.
Much has been said from
time to time in the. northern
stalwart papers about the in-
timidation of voters in the south
and it-is assumed that wherever
a colored man has the indepen-
dence to vote any other than
the republican ticket that he
has been intimidated. It is
well known that in a great many
of the large manufacturing es-
tablishment in the north .where
large numbers of men are em-
ployed that the employers have
distributed republican tickets
among the men with the inti-
mation that they should vote
them. This is not called intim-
idation; the men are white.
There is much more intimida-
tion in the New England factor-
ies than there is in the south.
The make up of the next legis-
lature is as follows : The State
senate is made up of 23 lawyers
6 farmers I editor and I physi-
cian. The legislature is as follows:
37 lawyers 5 editors 25 farmers
3 physicians 1 school teacher
3 merchants 1 land agent and
3 without professions. There
will be 3 freedmen in the legis-
lature and none in the senate.
The political complexion- of
the two houses will be as fol-
lows: Senate 29 democrats
and 2 republicans. Legislature
7 greenbackcrs 4 independent
democrats 60 democrats and 7
republicans.
Tun board of capitol com-
missioners it seems have not
yet agreed upon a location for
the new capitol building; they
are divided upon a proposition
of utilizing the old building by
the addition of wings and re-
constructing the roof and front;
others favor building a new
capitol on College Hill. We
think the sentiment of the state
is strongly in favor of a new
building out and out.
A sorrowful case of mental
affection has just occurred in
New Haven Connecticut. A
Mr. Lucius Hatchkiss a retired
merchant died very suddenly.
A few minutes before his death
his wife on entering the. room
was informed that he was dying
and fell dead on the bed by his
side the two dying together.
uiuicjuicpcas. juiaidmcTon mwnart asked me to
Memoir and lVort of haV Houston.
Editors Bancer: ty
The gentlemen with tvhom I
was instructed to adviscShen
Mrs. Houston w ithout the s
Ci jjriliritritinn nr vor.f
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pare a nltwjoir of Gen.
Houston counselled
ment 01 publicatio
fifteen years. All the
portant material has bee
lectcdand lrwny possess
this place. About onc-1
the memoir has been w
Arrangements arc maturing fo
a speedy conclusion of Xhc Tt-1
maining chapters and colleetiotu
of the principal siatc-natcrsaad !
speeches. Ispendsomepartol
my every day (nc! neglecting
other duties) on "this irtjrk.
When first I consented to un-
dertake the work opposition to
my selection concentrated its-
elf in an article written from a
city on the Brazos to a paper
published in the IslandCity
averring that "though Dr. Crane
is a- fine Belles-Letters Scholar
and a splendid pulpit orator
many doubt his fitness for the
duty o preparing- the life of
Gen. Houston. The Doctor's
time and talents must be'entirc-
ly absorbed in his duties as
president and professor of Bay
lor University; these with liis-
preparations for the pulpit must
occupy all his time and leave
him no time to prepare the great-
est biography of the age. Bc
sides no man can write appro-
priately the life of another with-
out being in full and complete
sympathy with his spirit and
toils. No two men ever lived
more unlike than Gen. Sam
Houston and Dr. Crane. Dr.
Crane is a fine Virginia gentle-
man of the kid glove school;
Gen. Houston was a plain rug-
ged frontiersman of intense ear-
nestness; Dr. Crane is-a lover
of .nice things; Gen. Houston
was a lover of grand achieve
ments and brave men; Dr. Crane
attaches great importance to
present distinction and notorie-
ty; Gen. Houston cared but
little for the present but longed'
for undying fame that should
never grow dim ; Dr. Crane has
spent the larger portion of his
life in elegant parlors and in
cushioned pulpits. Gen. Hous-
ton spent his life in log cabins
and os the tented field. I fear;
therefore that the elegant doc-
tor will gain but few laurels in
writing the life of a 'man so an-
tipodal to himself." One would
suppose that the writer of the
fore3oing was undoubtedly
competent himself to write the
life of Gen. Houston and alsb
of the-writer-ofthis f Rclc at
his death and coveted the hon-
. or but not so as it appears from
the concluding psragraph. "But
the life of Gen. Sam Houston
must be written during the life-
time of his comrades who--are
passing away so rapidly. And
many old Texans think that
Hamilton Stuart E. W. Cave
or Rev. R.H. Taliaferro.of Aus-
tin are the only men that can
do justice to the great subject."
Appended to this is the re-
mark "It would be impossible
for the party first named the
editor of the Civilian to give
any least of all the proper atj
tention to this subject." The
last gentldman named. Rev. R.
H.Taliaferro.of Austin.has since
died. The article from which
so long an extract was made was
variously replied to by the
friends of thewriterand in terms
too complimentary for him to
quote bat a'quotation ftora one
article the production of a re-
cent editor in Austin may be
suffice. "We take. issue with
the writer on the necessity of
of an early publication as well
as to the qualifications of of the
biographer. The life of Gen.
Houston shouldnot be publish-
ed in the present condition of
the country. His name and
fame should not be dragged fn-
to the political cesspool of the
period." Perhaps I am -a dull
scholar in studying character J
but I may have learned to ap-
precipitate a grand one. I shall'
co-operate with the Houston
family in this work. I knew
the mother of the Houston chil-
dren before the writers above
quoted ever saw her. I knew
Gen'l. Houston too before the
first quoted writer ever met him.
My only aim is to do all parties
justice. Wm. Cary Crane.
Baylor University Indepen-
dence Texas Dec. 9 1SS0.
Tmr Brenham reporter of the
Houston Post locates our neigh-
boring city of Berlin as being
ten miles west of of here and
also calls it a village. Berlin is
only four miles from' Brenham
and ve suspect that mayor
1'csch" will call the Post repor-
ter to account for calling his
thriving' city a village. Berlin
has two stores and a black-
smith shop. A village forsooth
where are you going to find
cities.
The Jackson county Clarion
learns that Burton Jones color-
ed one of the county commis-
sioners for Wharton county w as
killed by McCarroll also color-
ed. They are both mulattos.
The killing was done with a
pistol and occired on the public
road McCarroll wanted Jones
to take back something that he
had said.
The San Antonio Times
seems to be in favor of Throck-
morton for the . United Stages
senate.
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THURSDAY;
EMTOKIAL 0TtS
Hon. W. W. Lur is" doing:
valuable service for Texas im-
migration in the- easrrn cities.
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a(ninisc'
HMfls. to
doses.
CoystRUCTiON
Intcrnational cxtcnsii
join to Cibolo distant!
Antonio fifteen miles.
The Masonic Grand LoCge
of the state is now in session atvi
Houston; upwards of one hun
drcd lodges are represented.
It is stated that Gen. Ord will
be tendered the presidency of
the new Gulf railroad now about
being organized in San Anton-
io. Col. Fish burv of the Mcxia
Ledger has gone to Euraka
Springs in north western Ar-
kansas for the benefit of his
health.
A. Houston state senator
from (Bexar county was mar-
ried at Austin the other day to
Mrs Sallie Moore Winstead of
Austin.
A New Orleans Times re-
porter made a trip among the
wifches and fortune tellers of
that city. He found them to
be a'hard lot.
The firm 6f Bowie Dash &
Co of New York operators in
coffee have suspended. Two
other firms in the same line
have also suspended.
The funeral of the late Father
Chambodunt at Galyeston last
Friday was largely attended
and the ceremonies were sol-
emn and impressive.
It appears that an effort will
be made in the next legislature
to 'establish county or district
school superintendents. The
governor will oppose it.
There is a cotton blockade
I atNavasota; itis piled up three
tiers high on the platforms and
.cotton tha would go there is
being .&U;caclswwhcrct
A woto n namtd Reimsch-
neider i now in jail at New
York charged with having mar-
ried at different times about a
dozen men more or less.
The Bandera Bugle is now
blowing its horn at Bandera and
is the first newspaper ever was
published in that county. The
JBugle is a live county paper.
The Sunset route will grant
free transportation to the mem-
bers of Terry's Texas Rangers
to the reunion at Houston.
Will any other railroad be as
liberal?
Col. Darling will soon start
from.Sanntonio with a party
of engineers to make a perma-
nent location of the Sunset rail-
road to 'some point on the Rio
Grade.
The Houston Telegram gives
quite a lengthy notice of father
Chambodut and his services in
the cause of religion. He was
the pioneer of the Catholic
church' in Texas.
At Matamoros Mexico dur-
ing the month of October there
were 350 cases of smallpox and
20 deaths and in November
there was upwards of 700 cases
and about 35 deaths.
; AfROPOsmON has been made
to introduce Chinese cheap Ia-
Bbrin Texas but it meets with
little favor. Chinese labor will
ajfd little or nothing to the gen-
eral prosperity ol the 'State.
TiiE.Houston Post says there
is considerable activity manifes-
ted among the members of the
Terry rahgers of that city in
preparing for a magnificent af-
fair when the re-union takes
place on the 17th inst.
It Was reported in Dallas the
other day that the railroads
Avould make their terminus at
Messilla instead of at El Paso;
the purchasers of property at
the latter place arc not feeling
so well.
Hj.ry Green wll lessee of
the Tremont opera house at
Galveston has been sold Out
under a judgment. L.-E. Spencer-the
owner of the judgment
has. become the purchaser and
will take the management of the
house.
On Wednesday last Wm. D.
Cleveland cotton jactor and
grocer of Houston sold a list
of 2025 bales of cotton to one
buyer. Mr. Cleveland has made
the largest sales of cotton this
season ever consummated in
theltate; - .
ain JVt Bnn.itr subscrijKons' for
HiHHiBnarks
ulHHK a bar
ittciHfe111
k.
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i4HHHcr-
flts rcaaM9Rkly
i on the
n now
rora San
DECEMBER
The Northern Pacific railroad
company has received as sub-
sidy from the general govern-
ment a lahd grant of between
45tooooffand 47000000 acres
of land. '
The " Rockdale Messenger
thinks that the office of county
supcrintendentof schools should
be created for pVery county
expending over.gSooo of -school-
money. . .
Wm. A. Robinson an oIcTcit-
izen of Richmond. Va. and a
soldier of the war of 1812 died
-a lew days ago. He was lor
many years before the war con-
nected with the bank of Virgin-
ia. A St. Louis policeman offi-
cer Walsh was murdered on his
beat.in that city at two o'clock
in the morning a few nights ago.
Strantre to sav there is no clew
. rtothe murderer and no appar
ent -wiuse for the murder.
Only about one half of the
county judges of the state have
sent proper returns of the late
election to the secretary of
state. This does not speak in
glowing terms of the efficiency
of the average countyjjudge.
The freethinkers of Bell coun-
ty take decided grounds in ig-
noring the late hberalist and
spirituraiistic convention at
Waco. They decline to coun
tenance such doings as spirit
knockings table tipping etc.
Kelly of Pennsylvania has
introduced a bill in'congress re-
pealing the tax on bank stamps
medicines friction matches
bank capital and bank deposits.
The matter is under considera-
tion by the committee on ways
and means.
Gov. Roberts is decidly op-
posed to tearing down the old
state house. He wants if'coop-ered-up"
withnew wings roof
etc. Texas needs a new state
house and should build one
that will be an honor and a
credit to the state.
There are sixteen vacancies
in the colored jiormal school at
Prairie View to. be supplied by
state senators. The vacancies
are general and preference will
be given counties having the
largest colored population.
The tax arising from whiskey
beer and tobacco and from man-
ufacturers and dealers in them
are sufficient to meet all the
requirements of the government
The drinkers and the smokers
are the patriots who will pay
the United States out of debt
A railroad meeting was
held in San Antonio on Friday
night and active measures were
inaugurated looking to the for-
mation of a company with a
view to building a railroad to
some point on the Gulf; Rock- D1
oort will Drobablv be the Dlaccfr-
A joint caucus of republican
members of the senate and
house was held on Thursday
night and the subject of count-
ing the electoral vote was dis-
cussed at great length. They
favor a fair and honest count
and oppose the adoption of any
rule which is unwarranted.
The Waco Examiner says
the M. K. and T. road and the
Santa Fc road run side and
side for nearly a hundred miles
south of Fort Worth and it
thinks the Santa Fe road would
do well to abandon its Fort
'Worth project and strike out in
the direction of Lampasas.
Reagan's inter-state com-
merce bill will come up in a
few days. Representatives of
railroad combinations are arriv-
ing and will use influence and
money to defeat the bill. Rep-
resentatives of commercial and
agricultural interests are also ar-
riving to urge its passage.
It is said that Williams a col-
ored man of Ohio having in-
duced eastern capitalists to pur-
chase several million acres of
land in New Mexico will soon
come to the south to induce his
colored brethern to emigrate to
that country and buy his cheap
land at a high price.
Tramps are becoming a nuis-
ance in St Louis: according to
the Post-Dispatch th;re is not
less than 5000 able-bodied pro-
fessional tramps in that city.
Each of these tramps gets three
square meals a day and while
laborers are scarce and in de-
mand the tramps will not do a
day's work.
Goy. Brown vice president
of the Texas and Pacific rail-
way who is now in Dallas says
the New Orleans and Pacific
railroad will be bmilt as rapidly
as men and money caiP?ffect it.
By the 1st of August net 140
miles will be coriipicScJiwhich
will connect Shreveparf and
Alexandria. This rOe will
give Dallas the advantage of
1 10 miles over anas route now
in existence
16 1880.
STATE SEWS.
The supply of milk is good
at Austin; the Colorado river is
clear.
For some reason there is a
scarcity of hogs in Williamson
county.
Drummers of all kinds are
being arrested by wholesale at
Dallas.
Henry Barkley had his ear
cut oft by an unknown man near.
Turtle creek Dallas county.
Methoin's catton gin and
six bales ot cotton near Long-
view was burned the other day.
In Grayson county some
farmers 'are offering to give one-
half of their cotton of picking.
Cotton and goods for Bel-
ton are now received and deliv-
ered at Rogers station near the
knobs.
Belton's silver cornet
band is in a comatose condi
tion and it seems impossible to
brfng it to life.
A. EThayeji keeper of
tne 1 nmty-toll bridge at JJaUas
died suddenly of heart disease
the other day. - 
The Belton Courier reports
that ten bales of cotton were
raised upon five acres of land in
Wilson's valley.
Henry Will and his wife's
child died in Brazos bottom near
Bryan a few days ago from eat-
ing poisoned beef!
J. K. P. Hanna'sin house
and eigetcen bales of cotton
four miles from Calvert was
burned last Friday.
On Wednesday last a
freight train was wrecked on
the main line of the Santa Fe
railroad east of Richmond.
Burglars are on the ram-
page again in Sherman and the
Chronicle advises citizens to
prepare their shotguns for duty.
Two car loads ot cotton
transferred to the Santa Fc
road by the Sunset route' were
burned at Rosenberg on Thurs-
day. Volncy Hall postmastcrat
Marshall has resigned to take
effect January j 18S1.. The
Herald says he has made a good
officer.
The six-year old son of B.
F. Leeper of Bosqueville has
picked this year 265S pounds of
cotton. His biggest day's work
was 72 pounds. "
The jury Tn the case vs.
Hawkins at Dallas after being
kept out six days and being un-
able to agree were discharged
on Wednesday last.
Hydraulic cement can be
made- at .Round Rock th?t is
fully equal to the' best Portland
cement. The Georgetown Sun
thinks a big bonanza is in sight.
George Gleason of San
Antonio who was severely
wounded in an encounter with
some horse thieves some weeks
ago is out on the streets again.
J. W Brooks a respected
fanner living nearFatten's mill
McLennan county has myster-
iously disappeared. He has
been missing for more than a
.week.
-;:-NAbner Russel of the firm-
of Russel& Bros. of Post Oak
Jack count$was murdered by
six robbers. John Russell his
brother was shotand serously
wounded. . --
A Waco woodliaufer
plained to a money lender that
nine dollars lor a cord ot wood
was not worse than three or
four per centa month when a
man was in .a tight place.
Joseph Huddleston charg-
ed with robbing the stage near
Forth Worth about eighteen
months ago has been arrested.
near Peoria Illinois and is now
being brought back to Texas?
At San Antonio the child
of George Alexander aged four
months was strangled to 'deatlj
by her brother aged three years
who was sleeping-in the same
bed and laid on the baby's
breast
Judge Kat Cook an old
and respected citizen of Hous-
ton and father of Gustav Cook
judge of the criminal court of
the Harris county district cele-
brated his 82d birth day a few
days ago. . 
Considerable excitement
prevails at Burnet over the rays- I
tenous disappearance of Geo.
Merideth who left his home
three miles from town telling
his wife that he was going to
water his horses.
Dr. J. A. Mante a promi-
nent citizen and business man
of Eagle Pass committed sui-
cide on the 8th inst. by shoot-
ing himself in the heart with a
shot-gun. Various reports are
afloat as to the cause.
Charles Groos.of San An-
tonio has just completed the
handsumest private residence in
the state. The cost is not stat-'
cd but judgingTfbm the de-
scription of if it must have
been nearly $50000.
Mattie Johnson a colored
woman of Fort Worth took 25
or 30 grains of morphine at dark
and next morning was acorpse.
She was disappointed in love
and was the first negro that
ever suicided in that portion of
the state. '
the sheriff of Burnet coun-1
ty and other parties with him
alt armed and drunk were on a
"high lonesome" in Austin the
.other night. They broke cpen
the door of Mr. James Rawls
who is about 83 years of 'age.
AAV. IbgtUlU A. .. uu wuuubi
DUMBER 51
Two neighbors namcd'Hill
livintr near Dexter Cooke-coun-ty
quarreled about some trivial
affair; one of them shot -and
killed the other after which he
madejiis escape to the termSv
J. W. Reves and ifiss1
Fanny Stewart aged 1 6 eloped
from Bell county for the pur-
pose of marrying. The parents
of Miss Fanny followed the
couple to Waco and forbid the
bens. The "eal'was captured
and taken home.
 'A lot of "country bucks"
living half a day's ride from
Belton went into that moral'
town and looking around en-
gaged in a little game with
newly arrived .sports. The'
"country bucks" flaxed out the
city sports; the game was poker.
A coloretTwoman living in
the fourth ward in Houston was
arrested upon complaint ol her
neighbor who charges that her
hog had broken intojier potato
patch and ate ten bushels. o"f
potatoes in aiingle night The
Houston Age calls it a ' jjreedy
hog. "
A number of Poles living
about eighteen miles south of
San Antonio have beenarrS-
ted by the United States auth-
orities for illegal voting. Al-
though they have been resi-
dents of the connty for forty
years they have neglected to
declare their intention of be-
coming citizens.
The mining business is
about to have a boom in Llano
county. Parties who went there
prospecting with diamond drills '
a'few months ago are now tak-
ing out about fifteen tons of
ore per day which- yields S280
worth of gold per ton and 48
per cent of copper They are
sinking shafts in various places
and are meeting with great suc-
cess. -
The Victoria Advocate
reports the death of Adam Staf-
ford aged 74 years. He was;
born in .North. Carolina and
came to Texas with his parents
in 1S22 in the Austin colony of
three hundred".1 They settled
on the Brazos river and in" 1 846"'
Mr. Stafford removed to Victor-
ia county where he lived until
the time ofhis'death. .f
R. H. Neal was arrested in
San Antonio a year ago for -embezzlement
and gave Bond
in the sum of S2000 which He
jumped. The amount of the
bond has lately been collected
from his securities. The col-
lecting of a bail bond in Texas-
is rather a new departure but
is one thatsKould be vigorous- .
ly follow ed. Not one forfeited
bail bond in fifty is collected.
Texas has a great manymen
who are what' is commonly-
known as land-poor. They own
vast bodies of unimproved and
unproductive land and althch
the rate of taxation in this state
is low they find it a difficult
matter to make a living and
pay taxes. Such men would be
richer by selling a partof their
unproductive property at a nom-
inal price and putting the re
mainder of it to profitable use. i
The constitution requires
that to be a United States sena-
tor that a man shall be thirty"
years of age a citizen of the
United States for nine years
and when elected senator "an
inhabitant of that state from
Inch he shall be chosen.''
Geifejrat can be elected sen- 
ator froffl-My state which might
see fittodosi
The- jury Tn'thc casefcfg&s
Bell charged with being acce
sory to the murder of his father .T
atUallas returned a verdict m
.... . .V ifL 04
guilty and assessed his punish-Y
ment atsix years in the penfc
tentiary. Hawkins charged.
with the same murder had his
bond reduced to S5000bufc-isa.
unable to give it - -.--
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The Dahas Herald nowoc-
cupies a front rank among Tex- 4
as newspapers and is truly c
representative journal of it3 sec-;
tion of thestate. Wearepleas
ed to note that it is appreciated
as is manifested by its increase
ing advertising patronage and
the issuing of a daily supple-
ment The election of a president
in this country is a mistery to
"the people" of the old world:
The LondonTimes cannctun-
derstand why the majorityof
thepeoplc of tht United StMea
vote for one nfiii andjthe-elec-
tors votef2ranotherand?thus
the man getting the -minority
of the popular vote-is declared
the president There are'a "
ereatmany people in this.ccun-i.'
trywho do not underetaadhMir"
it is managed.
It costa rolling mill la Pater- r
son N. J.. 5i4ooot6TB6rea '
2100 foot deep- artesian well
and then they struck saltwater.
This stream of lalt-water Js
thought to be an underground
saline river that flows directly ..
into the "Atlantic ocean. 'J?ec- -haps
if fs the identical Salt -riverso
many haye started fn.
search of.
John Bull lias resolved totry
fTmr.ml atinn" nlnn nnnn
his erring Emerald -Isle.5Thc 1
Courier journal thinks it will 1
pr.obably have about as mtfch -
enect as grecrj jjoossDemes -
snot ata man nun. -
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