Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 August 1887 — A COLD DAY IN TEXAS. [ARTICLE]

A COLD DAY IN TEXAS.

Prohibition Defeated by a Very Large Majority. Estimated at from 15,000 to 60,000—May Reach 85,000—Defeat Conceded by Prohibitionists—Why the Election Was of National Importance. A constitutional amendment to nrohibit the sale of intoxicating liquors was voted upon by the people of Tetas, Thursday, and was defeated. The returns came in rapidly and indicated that prohibition was defeated by a majority possibly reaching 85 000. The Prohibitionists admit their defeat in the State by 15,000 majority. The Antiprohibitionists claim 50 000.

The struggle in Texas is of national importance because it is the first real fight for an entire State the Prohibitionists have ever made in the South. Hitherto in every Southern State they have moved for the object under local option laws. While the Prohibitionists of the North have captured whole States at a time— first Maine, then Kansas, then lowa, and then Rhode Island the Southern Prohibitionists have been content to gain territory by piece meal, capturing locality by locality and then county by county. They have thus, they claim, fastened their grip upon an actual majority of municipalities or counties in nearly every Southern State. To-day 118 of the 137 counties in Georgia are under prohibition. In Texas the proportion of prohibition counties and localities is large. Later —The prohibitionists concede their defeat by 60,000. The anti-prohi-bitionists claim 125,000 majority. Fort Worth is the only city in the State that went prohibiton. R>nk Vandalism. Early Friday morning, after all the printers had finished their work and left the building,some miscreants broke into the Indianapolis Sentinel company’s rooms and “pied” all the type in the cases and forms, and destroyed and carried away many “sorts.” The damage amounted to about S2OO, besides causing great trStible' and vexation. The issuing of the paper Saturday morning was not delayed. At about 11 o’clock, Friday, somebody fired a volley of stones through the windows, but nobody was hurt. The work was done, evidently, by some one familiar with the office. The Sentinel and Journal recently had a strike of their compositors, and it is privtely charged that the striking printers are responsible for the vandalism. This, however, is vehemently denied by members of the striking force, who have collected evidence showing the .work to have been done by several of the imported non-union men recently employed upon the paper and who had been discharged. In Honor of the President’s Wife. Mrs. Grover Cleveland has been visiting Gen. A. W. Greely’s family at their summer home at Marion, Mass. On the 4th A. W. Nickerson, of Boston, gave a dinner in Mrs. Cleveland’s honor, at Marion, which was an elaborate affair. The party of twenty were driven to Mr. Nickerson’s house in great style and the spread was the choicest and the wines of rare vintage.. The waiters and cooks were from the Parker House, Boston. The guests included, besides Mrs. Cleveland, Mrs. Welsh and Mrs. Folsom, Gen. and Mrs. A. W. Greely, R. W. Gilder, editor of the Century, and his wife, Miss A. L. Dawes daughter of Senator Dawes; Joseph Jefferson, the actor, and his wife; John S. Nicolay, marshal of the United States Supreme Court; Miss Schuyler Van Rensselaer, the noted authoress; Mrs. Samuel Warren and Miss Florence Bayard, daughter of the Secretary of State, and Mr. and Mrs. Mahlon Cgden Jones—the last named lady being a Russian countess.

Weevil in Flaxseed. A Chicago paoer of Monday, says: “The flaxseed inspector of this city has discovered that some of the cars of flaxseed received from the Northwest contain weevil to an alarming extent. If the seed is as numerously infested as the inspector says, it will not make flaxseed bfl. The inspector thinks the weevils he found are of a new variety. Of this he is not certain, and has submitted the matter to the scientific investigation of the Uliriois State Board of Agriculture. The insect is not in the seed of this year’s crop, hut infests the crop of last year. To what extent some of the crop has been infested by contact is not knowri, but it is certain that none of the elevator people will accept the seed with the insect, for once the pest is in the house it is hard to get it out.” After Two Years. In 1885 the owners of the Fifth-ave-nue hotel, New York, had difficulty with the painters at work upon the house and a boycott was ordered. Saturday the Central Labor union help in the hotel was ordered out on account of the trouble of two years ago. Five Men Drowned. A pleasure boat containing thirty men was wrecked in Menawa lake, near Council Bluffs, lowa. Friday, and five of the men were drowned. The accident occurred during a storm.