Immigration and politics stir Texas and Missouri notes
The report surveys enforcement struggles of liquor laws in Gonzales and a wave of political debate in Texas. It covers immigration trends through Missouri to Kansas, land sales proposals, free schools, and a looming extra session to address debt interest and school funding with emphasis on promoting immigration and development.
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Gonzales
Frgumea
Missouri
Texas
Kansas
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Suppor
Yate
Free Common Schools
Salaries, Taxes and the Call for Better Official Pay
A long discussion argues high salaries do not guarantee honesty or efficiency in government. Critics say large pay fuels waste, while workers struggle with low wages. Vetoes on school funding, tax fears, and public quarreling over compensation are noted with local incidents and editorials across Texas.
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Washington
Hamilton
Jefferson
Adamses
Webster
Calhoun
Franklin
Texas Railways Reject Excursion Rates Policy
The Pullman Company withdrew sleepers from Texas due to a state tax. Texas railways propose building their own sleepers and seek legislative abolition of the tax. A Dallas conference of railway officials failed a two cent per mile excursion rate proposal. The railways prefer full fares over special summer rates.
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Pullman Palace Car Company
Texas
San Antonio Meneld
Texas Railway
Dallas
Texas Railways
Union
Boston Society Witnesses Mixed Race Marriage
Boston society watched as a former slave from South Carolina, now a lawyer, married the daughter of an Episcopal minister. Many prominent attendees approved the union, arguing miscegenation was proper, and claimed Boston could endure it without global complaint.
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Boston
South Carolina
Daugh
Iworld
Southern Baptist Convention elects officers in Atlanta
Rev W C Crane writes that the Southern Baptist Convention met in Atlanta with about four hundred delegates, seventeen from Texas. An organization was formed with Rev J P Boyce of Kentucky as president, and vice presidents including Rev J T Jeter and Rev W C Crane. Secretaries named C E W Dobbs and O E Tanner. The convention expected to adjourn May 13.
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Texas
J. P. Boyce
D. D
Kentucky
J. T. Jeter
Virginia
C. L. Cocke
W.C. Crane
J. Levering
Maryland
C.E. W. Dobbs
O. E. Tanner
Public Schools Debate: Nuisance or Necessity
Hempstead Register argues for continuance of public free schools and rejects claims that schools are a nuisance. It contends that even imperfect schools are better than none, while opponents claim public schools promote ignorance.
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Tuz Brenham Baxxer
Hempstead Register
Basxen
Cotton mills shift hinted to grow in south and New England
The text suggests trading a few thousand dollars or politicians for several thousand cotton spindles and argues the south with its climate should host more cotton factories. It notes about ninety five percent of cotton goods in cotton growing states are made in the north.
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