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BURNET, TEXAS, TU5^: ni Neck Sated.iazette )A Tex in on C utt’e ItaNlng — Iri *, utirI. (- of Total Abstineuclute * *it! J.G-K'-'i, : Fj.'! The To ks, Persians, Egy]j Arabians—in fact, all Mohiart, and have been fo tunt abstainers from kind of alcoholic stimulation, corft] ellc* ;o such abstent , their law* and religion, witr ‘suit tin; thev are not on!*i, i TeriOrs, ; hysically, mental’• * 7morally, of their remote anc who de.i.i ,ine, but of theirbors arid .^temporaries of| ••vl. dvlnjv it. And say,iat these orientaliufci'CHja? TiaivVili th- cattle (1“II. .dansi.a Texas?”ftsea,(iueu'S large by a great In fact, tllt;;lt;’ nnber of cattle drIOC i2 1as 1 fbe i1*«0,nor n t ■,a any year a who 1 tirstw ':! an .. was Mr, H.,'lt; I s* 9*“I Ley •) j von *cthli“Well, sir, the fact i*e, tlicre is at tu! r \\m- ibstitntes for alein t cxcp, ana itV /. , ♦ 1 1* VW4mardonBcecatThe.cumsum U.: t - -that they destro;* -Ilo drive th. ra ujxi r t ri.1 ' vi ». j u, • • ‘I ' i. j v* • 1 ! nervous sv corns ami crazeis, there are not as manyin the state as there used to, ...• c ,, , a , .... title;- of Mack coflee, and by h ’ i . f‘4 arc becoming e:r- , . • .i •^ . I -ind smokinv ormin—then ls-dvts by drinking immense»' oo miscreant stemperance.The above comparison, c, ... , ?re 111 i of these facts, is not a fair oigood condition and are coining up .,in fine si,ape. Tho ranee in Teas ‘ »,Jes' 1,0 n‘llon‘ ul“nU0Sherman’s Fiocontact with ontempltedich the case de calamitydcd. There id in whichs succeededurderer has i rope’s end. state are i which mob upon loss of ly or dispo-uecrec pun*sposition of,urts.■d to crime, horror. Cou-!aw is shat-ic sentiment, lanctions ex-cn law of thehtained after ities in norih-ley knew all hey knew how9fo the bottom ) doubt werethe contents len who sign result of it all neck should s by a stroke ; placed in a clense within, Pardon, the ■scape are the .ictly open toh are too cas-e law CU!i hioubt of his inline as other to say, his a duck pond or perpetrated. He was id therefore to the man who o append hisition of some irresponsible rv in the pres-? won over by There was no: but it wasprisoner’s in-lot be proved die jury which,irid him guilty it degree. Aved that the ►;ake its course.the governor, tuted. Bland's and the next in the directi'nion after the' signed, pray-on of sentencenon signers,tardon andie.Jbo on commu-t for life. A•afavette Bland90inatct i Dr. Caraising.“About what number are to be driven north this yea., or are on the trail:I should say about 180,000, though some claim that 200,000 areon the drive.”“For what points are they mostlydestined f”“The larger number will come up over the western trail by Fort Griffin, and will be taken to Fort Dodge, Kansas. Some toOgallala, on the Union Pacific railroad, in.Nebraska, an 1 a few will he driven to Caldwell, Kansas, over the old Chisholm trail. Of the cattle on on the trail only about 00,000, are for open market, the rest being contracted for.”“Who has the biggest herd this• ? year i“John Lytle, I think, is drivingout about -0,000.”“IIow was last winter on stock inwas never heter, and the cattle ^ot a good send-off.Well, what is the general prospect in Texas for catUo supplies ?”*‘lt is a great stock country, andthe range in the southern part ofthe country is yet unmolested bysettlers. There will always bo u big supply in tho sxate, but from year to year there will be fewer cattle driven North, until that bu-iness will be abandoned altogether. Texas will become the cattle market, and even now we are aettitiLr our own price there.i exits iIt was the severest winter ever experienced in the state, after thirty-two years residence. At first we90feared it would be pretty hard ontook, but ut the rpiing round Ujwe found that the loss was not beyond the usual figure. The cattle drifted or scattered badly, but no more than usual died.”‘•What class of cattle are in thedrive?“Never better. They%m ■)• •ribed, and sellers arc being brought in by railroads, especially in northern Texas, and they are taking land for farming purposes that used to be devoted to stock-be that teetotal ism is not the al panacea its advocates mu it is, else it would afford thos practice it acumen to percei strength of wijl to eschew th of coffee and opium debauch. Natural llygenist.+ cStrange that sensible me pervert the facts of histor the dictates of common senabove. Total abstinence ,1 propose to make a bad man a man nor a cripple a sound Nor does it propose to coun those other deadly poisons tioned in the above paragra which the followers of Muthe use of opium, strong -poligamy nr.d other Moharni vices, us it docs from the i perato use of liquor. Total uence certainly docs this: itMr.ha* jkUSS'' 1 the Senate, an probably become ;t law. A; as we can understand the mistion to Christian nations, way. This is so largely froi social and other laws, the mentioned, and the volumen’s heads clearer, theirbetter, and their hands st than liquor; it is kinder to tliaud children; it saves more nit respects the laws better; iits taxes more promptly t!uare addicted. Opium is ji great a curse as liquor, oithe above paragraph are far rior under the standard of ciintellectual and physical heal mands tho same abstinenciway in which this, like niosteachings of their religion.doesn’t cause a-^ ma’jy mcntitheir brains blown out. Mornare expressed, it provides tf k it ft« •»
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Tue, Feb 21, 1882

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