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M.KINNEY. TEXAS. THURSDAY. NOV. 27. 1884.
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Muiulet of Mau and of
in all tin* details « l* holies,
muscles. uerves and internal
organs tin' animals which up
proa-h nearest i" man are tIt**
anthropoid apes. that if if say.
the Mill'--- fn«MiK<-\ v\lu#ti aii'
(«! )•• i« walk more i r less erect,
and an* known by tin* names of
gibbon, siauiaug. orang. cliim
pan/ee and gorilla. Tlit.tr" art-,
of course. a vast number of
comparatively small tioiuts in
whirl man differs from the
ape- -just such point!' as prove
ai once iv\o tilings: First, tliat
In i~ n<>t an ape; second, that
In if related to ih«* apes. The
mini- roiis yet nin^Iy unimpor-
tant divergences are tvxactly
those which might be expected
to ar se in creatures which am
descended. in two tliflV-t «*ii t
lines. from ii common ancestor
Th«* "missing link" which will
satis!v all objectors can im*vt*r
be 1' iiii'I. f"i
tilt
i •<
A Ui Conspiracy.
Too Man) Elti'tioiiii. |
"LIGHT OF AlllA" UK41).
A certain well known Lewis 1 There are manv thousands of Forepaugh** Hater**? Whit* EU-
ton. Maine, man despite* cuis. I p«*.it !♦« in the 1'riited States, es
lie and the family cat have pecfally of the -ommerfiai cle
mulling in common in dispoq j meat. who will experience a
lion. The tamil.) cat despises sense of relief, now that the
No Io\• * i- lost on either J {'residential canvass in clotted
phut l>lM«if Lauf Povor.
him
side. As it has happened, ih"
cat had several opportunities
for revenge. Once it veiled up
and down i hrough tlie null, wak-
ing up the lady of the house,
who is an uncommonly good
sleeper, and who he believed
would have slept through his
over late arrival from down
town, lie has made no secret of
the fact that he hates cats. The
scriptural text. "I'litohim that
hath shall be given." has been
and the elect ion is over. There
Adam Forepaugh'* white ele-
phant. the "Light of Asia." is
no more. The sacred beast
died at the headquarter*! of the
are many who will agree with Went showman, Lehigh avenue
(4ov. Cleveland that it would he ktlgetnoni street. Ktcli-
a wise amendment to the Con- jnojtd. on Friday morn tug. Ihe
stitution. also, to provide that "htptied to Dr.
no President elect shall be eli H y«l.«;f 1 VV1 1
gtble to re election to the same im.biiMy be set up in ihe Acad-
office. There are many other of Natural Science. About
in the country whole "ne week ago Mr. Adam 1* ore
Inislness a (fairs are seriously l,ul.1^.'1 •'•"jeeived the idea of
interfered with hv some and t'"' sacred elephant,
frequent elections! who would 1 "fortunately, he selected a
he glad to sh« longer intermix «l y f«r tlw ^rfor-
exeiilplilied anew in his ease. A Hions between these recurring llle elephant showed
few weeks ago he receive a cat | annual, biennial ami quadren-, J41.' 1 wondertul sagacity that
- -' - A his Hauler tailed to note tie*
Hight of time, and it was nearly
by express a dirty, crop eared ! nial contests. The business
animal—who immediately made [journals of the country are
itself at home in the kitchen : speaking out very earnestly ou
and in tin- parlor. Since then j this subject. Vi'e believe if
the reason that j eals have been showered upon , tile people of the country had
diilVreiices which. in all ! him. Tln-v multiplied in his the opportunity they would
. .ti i liai it' i r>. exi i be | hack vard. were thrown over the vote tor an auiemlinent to the
ape
I."
are f}i<*' fence, di
pped near the door
>tep, and left In the grocery
man. according to directions.
elections. {Miring tin
ii inoukcys. to which their j The presence of so manv felines j convention whii'h formed tin
ionship is universally ac- attracted more, who gathered {Constitution the tenure of tin
out of pure sympathy, Iledis i Presidential office was the sub
posed of several, ami threw one 'jeel of long
tweea man ami tL
Bin,ilier ihaii those which exist
between the lattcratid ordinary
tailed
relati
knowledged. That man is de-
scended from existing apes is a
doctrine no naturalist ever held
—a pure liction invented by the
enemies of evolution. No crea- ... .
ture can be descended from its bandy-legged, one-eyed and
contemporaries, but two or four' marked with the scratches of
or twenty contemporaries may '
well have had a common atices
tor. The "missing link" some
people seem to want before they
will believe in the relationship
Federal Constitution providing
for decoimial instead of quad
rennial
or two over the fence. They
were all the worst looking cats
in Christendom. Yellow and
iate
There
and anxious de
were statesmen
dark before he allowed "Light
of Asia" to return to his stall.
The keeper carelessly left tlie
window open, and all night
loll" a cold blast blew npoli tin
sacred beast. The next day
the "Light of Asia" was taken
s< riously ill. but Mr. Fort-
pa ugh considered himself i-qttnI
to the emergency, and In- im
mediately began administering
what lie considered the proper
medicines The white elephant
of the apes with man is either a
creature just like a uian. but
with no more sense or language j the schemes of the dynamiters,
than an ape. or a creature just : but the Lewiston man will make
like an ape. but with language ' less public hereafter his hatred
♦ hose of low I of anything or nnvbodv
. Hut I he j four footed or two footed.
)l< IW'
unknown and unnumbered bat yielded only with the utmost
ties. The deluge slopped a few reluctance and with no little
days ago. It stopped in good misgiving to the four years pre-
season. In one day more the air; scription : but the democratic
would undoubtedly have been minds who constructed the
#il vi at • It' r« •>>.,
aiitl publicists" in that "august tfrcw worse day by day, hovyev
body unable to divest them ! «/r' u,ul " iUT,vvr:^.
selves of their training under a
hereditary monarchy, who
it
full of cats in that vicinity. It
was a plot more lirndish than
amt
tril
lirst
*• i
w a \
f'M '.
,r.
! h
brutal.! Re met the .loiirnal scribe
ftatiie work of the Constitution
in other respects, were finally
permitted to have their way.
and so select 1 of article 'J. de-
claring that the President, to
geth'-r with the Vice President,
shall lit.|<l his office during the
on term of four vears, has been
h •"
whih
tic, v\
reaily to s<-ed
of contribution-
'are—cats
in
to
t<l
anvw
cied from a hungrv
Boston Herald.
mm c -
The English Government i-
the sec 1 the street Wednesday . j.nd ^nid
oxjIU be i that In-was
i .I:i\ number
Thretighoiil ;'n entire animal a cat show
Berie relations1!!)! of descent I be coll
are proved b\ v hat is knoVMi as horde surrounding his house,
"atavism." or t he occurencu in."
the animal which has deviated i
most from the parent stock, ofj _ ,
some character which was uni , very slow to take in that part td
versallv present in the nnces-; the cloctrine of evolution which
tral form, and mav still exist in touches that anything tt. be use
living species which have suf '"Ht be adapted to its sur
fercd iesM change. Thus the n'undings When it earns
stripe n" *:g the centre of the ,lil* " w,!1 ''''t18'* ,M supply ex-
back of soiii" horses is a proof! peditions. whether ecientitie or
of desce.it from an ancestial I military,with apparatus invent
wild horse which, like that of! ed by manufacturers who know
Tuibet. ami like the zebras ami nothing about the conditions
wild asses, had alwavs such a ! 1,'V,,r
stripe: and tin- presence of an will be used. 1 he recent hasco
additional grinder in the upper KnM',l"d
jaw .f a dog links it to the ex j j«' ' the Nile expedition is a ease
tinci dogs. iPV'1.1'-
If it is iiossible, therefore, to . .
find in various men characters ; °f pasHing the raviids. 1 rtdia-
not usual in mankind, but com : «' teach the English
nion in apes, a case for actual j some of that respect which civ-
relationship ami descent from a tli/.ed people usually deny to
common ape-like ancestor is native races. I lie lesson may
math- out. Those Who wish to prove salutary to Britain, but
prove the great Size of tin- gap >s '){?« " our own Govern-
belweeii man and the apes have ment, which, as the history of
made much of certain musclar recent Arctic expeditions has
differences- the bony skeleton shown, th fur too wise to make
of the laud from that
Native boats and ua
live labor have done the work
mistakes of a
tion. lb-cord
dmilar descrip
•tences tile Doliy SRe
is so obvitmsi} similar that
tln-y give up arguing about it
One of the distinctions urged is .
that u ui ii has a separate muscle . U .,l"' African Urn*-
with which to bend his thumb, tion is growing to bo ol some
giving to the organ the inde,,en- importance when among the
dence of mt.ven.ei.t which very people who worked for the
makes the hand so delicate an ' adoption of the negro into the
instrument. This is really one political interests, there are now
of the specific characters which tj.ose tocry out, "colouisw
distinguish man. Hut many for the common good,
men are without it. it. many a ,.1"' raP,(1 "u rease of the race
human both that has been .lis- "'nee the war is startling and
Heeled the fl'exor muscles of the present outlook is by no
thumb has been found to b<
the law
dav to this.
lint, when ih--
was frann d. ii vva
the requirenients1
teen States, containing all told
scarcely three millions of pco ,
pie—or but little more than,
<lonstituti< <i
s adopted to
• /f but th.r
he was suffering from lung f
, ver.
About y o'clock on Fridav
morning the sacted beast
breathed his last. The attend
ants say that the companion el
ephant'of the "Light of Asia"
upon seeing her friend fall over
dead, walked up and endeavor
ed t<> raise him tip with her
trunk. Failing in this, she
then placed her front foot on
the white elephant's side and
pressed upoii it several tine
evidently for the purpose of
proving beyond a doubt tint
jlife was extinct. She tli u
walked slowlv away and began
to I ellow most pitifully. TI •!
other elejdianis soon took lid
the cry, and ltocks, one < f tln\
largest of the trained elephants
beat his trunk against the
BIHTi K lielOt Sli NIIOT.
I UTIthl; l l!T \Ioi i Hb oi;gt |
s A N i ItA .Ni l"-' \> illt« • I I S it.
AM^rTKUVinW VIITII Ill-U K. ,
Th« Wtf* Niirtlerer, uiitl (In-
Hlayer of Mis* Atiilic llaile<r.
An article in the Milton. <ia..
Democrat, -a\ s:
On last Tuesday, being at
(taii.esville. we obtained leave '
of Sheriff (tallies ami visited
tin cell of Kllgene \V. Heck. I
the murderer, of Clayton.
NVe found him in good health.
He expressed himself pleased
at ur coining to see him. and known ami fatal disease before
asked alter the people of this rc ported, a re Lee. Dickinson ami
county. It will be remembered | the edge of Scott in Virginia. (
thai he was a citizen ol this ami llailantl. Lee and adjoining lug are as follows*?* D« \ <
county until one year ago. lie (counties in K«-iituck> Ow ing enien-d tin- luisim's- ,,
A DKAItl.V lllKi. VHL.
Now lu Vlrirtniaami Kentutk>.
in mu:ki>s ok I'fco.q.k uK.'oiu i.o
i'o ii w k ultu hiom t i ui
i 11:\ i t> to in \ii ui in
i Alt..i iii minkk vi
1'olsoN—HIK
LtU' VTIOX .
L\ licllburg. Jtov I'll—The
-oiinties suffering from an uu
THE BEST SHOES
AN D HOOT*.
MuUw lt>
w. M. SI KltKLUK,
Ol-I'MIM l*o#t OIOm. ,
VvKmhio, tmi
81 A YEAR
and Spreckles prevent their up.
jtearance. D^ioung's fuemin
express great an\i"tv ov««r his
C.im*. Although the dot tots re-
fu-e to make any al^oluiu
siatmeiit of hi- coiiditiofi. it is
W'-ll known at present they en
A di -p itch IV .ut San F- an
co gives Hot ice of 11|« - s|lOOl<Ug
of DeV .ung. editor of tae .uiav" S'li'tuld
•->, '"iSr1^
S' n of the Hawaiian sugarkmg. l„nsi. nothing could ^aw his
originating from articles pub lif<
asked what tin- people thought to tin
of Id- case and conduct. \Vc>| i>ari
lished regarding the bu-in.
of Spreckb-s
San Francisco. Nov. lit The
particulars attemlin^ the shoot
Olllig
ffii'e.
turned, and
had time to
son wIn • spi
The bill'et
he
olat'-d position part ten passei', into ti.e private office io
hard to obtain. Iluu gel some children's books which
toul luni that tl.i-v weresuroris dreds have dietl. and allowing he had purchased, camc out
etl, grieved and outraged in foi e\aggeratit)ii.* the mortality again to sav something to one
th ir feelings, and asked him to j8 large. Ptmtal Clerk Wells, ,,r t||(. , |,M (v
give rts an account of the lerri wm< has just arrived from that some one sav. "Mr. ln-You ig,
section after having had the I would like to see you." if"
disease, giv ing a satl account of turned, and almost
the epidemic. He attributes it
to mineral poison in drouth
dried waters, and sav s a stange
ami disagreeable uum-ial taste,
like copperas, exists ,\t 11.• •
time he left few springs were
Mowing free I \. and tin people
w e re compel let I to drill k this i ui
pregnated water Allhougli tin-
disease is unknown. | ph-call He lore he had
it cholera, and u ei i il so it could Spreckels liretl a second shot,
uot be mole dreaded ordisas which took efl'ect iu his shoul
hlju''. Tin-symptoms are de (der. DeVoiiug then mad
one half the present population \vu'k W"I,H n\ ''^nlall and en
of the single State Of New favored to break loose lb
York. Outside the lines of tin- ''"V treuieiuloiis lung,
army of professional "states- i forward in the etlort break
men," who make a business of tin-heavy ir«,n chain that encir
politic, the feeling of the conn ,'l|" "«' P"
trv is vcrv likelv in favor of ftl ••> . b-g fn U. the socket. It
has
ble tragedv . lie gave us sub
stantially tin- following state
ment:
"1 am lu re in jail without
m nipalhv, and have committed
tile Wills I clinic ever colillllilted
in Georgia. I have killed i In
i CS1 friend I ev ii had III % W ill-
- and au iuo!lt-u-ivgood girl
v ho had never done me anv iu
j trv and I ought to ami will
sin'ei death for it."
We asketl hiui if In- reiin-in
bi red the killing, and it lie had
et lilemplated it
le said: "1 m-ver had con
li-tiiplated killing them or even
hiiifiling a hair of their In ads.
ami if I had ten thousand
worlds I would give them all to
rest, ire t lit 'in io life. I have a
vague recollection that is like a
h H'lible dream of shooting at
s''infilling, but ilid not then
think it was human beings that
I wa- killing. It was two days
after the deed before I could fill
Iv realize tin- enormity ol it-
(linracit-r. I had tleliriiim tre
incus. I had been drinking
haul for font weeks, but had
•-topped that morning, ami in
< "Iiseijin-nce took tl'<m lis.
I la-re w as no cause for in a t
We asketl him what his fu
Hire hope was.
He said, "1 have no hopes
save in the nicrcv of God I
am praying to him even hour
and I want all tin- good peoph-
•f Milton county to put) for me,
I shall not trouble the courts to
try nif. | shall tejI t hem as I
have told you, that I am guilty
ami deserve death. I would
you.
be ft 111
recognize tin- per
ke. Spreckels tiled
struck him in In-
arm above I In- el how In-Young
who was encumbered with au
overcoat and tin- bundles of
cliildleii's books, da-died Im
hind a desk with tin- intention
of i mining to In- priv ate room.
time to do so,
second dash for his private of
lice, but in doing so slipped and
fell on the floor. Spreckles !
rushed up. and standing overt
him. liretl a thir I shot This ,
bullet struck the childreiis' j
books. The < buncos are that
it has visited I the books saved his life The
la mi I \ and is cj nsid instant of Spreckels' thirtl slnt. j
George W Emerson, advertis '
ing cleik. grabbed a revolver j
Ivvug iu the drawer of one of
the desks, ami liretl at Sprei
try is very likely in favor of . . . .. . ......
fewer elections ami longer res-, impossibh- to not live ,f I
pile from the excitement ami approach Hocks with safety., the young ti that
turmoil of them between the! and he stands on three leg | read v our paper, that I requ
lem
partisan conflicts. There wouhl
not only be economy in a n
and he stands on three
groaning continually.
Mr. A. J. Forepatigh made a
lorn, of thin kiml. insulin* „f. If"".. -fumnittlion o
il,. .■s|„-n-.H of hol'lin* H,-.- :lln-l.,«lvoflliowl„ phunl
lioiix, hut in III- ,lir.|nr!,iini f «n.,l fouml ilmi ,twill, « m .In,
111,. Hnun. iHl nil.) oominelTiiil |. '""f 1*'«
nffnire of th- Bui; 'iihwqii-nily removal i',^
whether «l.-l, a reforu, in innli '.h" Mkl",:
luted ,.r not, of the lull,rpertally llilne
Ihe people are ilouhlieMN glail! . .
tlllil the f lecliol, of IW<4 id over.! / r f "'"I""1*11
uu,I that they ean now Ki e ". •" !"" ""J'1'By the lw
their mulivute,! attention Io "J the v, hue elephant I an, on
hiiHines,.-Nashville Ain.-ri ♦"W**1- lH"nl'
more or h-ss united with the
general flexor muscle of the till
gt-i's. M. Let i Test ut enumerates
twenty cases in which lie has
found* this union. In thegoril- ..... . . ..
la the llexor muscle.single at its M^ingan journal speaking on
origin,divitles into two liarts.oiie this subject calls qualt/a
Of which goes to the thumb and « • > "a jrn.ss outrage on
index finger, tin- other to the re-
means encouraging. It is no
wonder we have corruption iu
our political institutions with
such a mass of ignorance add
ing their quoto to the govern
ment of a white nation. A
tin
tion "a
nation" ami so it has proven.
It is as vain an attempt to try
to unite two nations of entirely
different tastes, capacities and
ambitions as to mix oil ami
riiammg three fingers. This
anomaly was found to exist in
both arms of one subject, who
thus, when alive, must have
been compelled io accompany "ate.. Prof L. \\Gilliam, in
movements of the thumb with'1'"' ^n,''n''a'1 lb vn w.
in.or less motion of the lirst - apijeols for the good « 1 the two
tlngtr. Sixteen of the remain j tions to b-^oiisideied.
ing cases exhibited the fusion j
of tile llexor muscle of the i The newspapers of Jexna
lingers in degrees found in the ! have long sutfered an abridge-
various anthropoitl apes; but in ment of their rights and their
three cusses the two flcJCor* «lu*« by the law reluting to le
we tiuple.elv united into a tful advertising. in which but
single muscle, a character i one class of legal notice* are
not to be found in thH published, and that an occasion-
apes, but existing in the! al citation. The Hillsboro Mir-
low.-r monkeys of th- African j r"r. on this subject, says: "We
genus Cercopiiltecus,commonly 1 hope to see a law enacted by
called gut-nous. * I the next Legislature requiring
other muscular anomalies
fouml in various human sub
jects are, iu a similar way. sim-
ply reappearances of characters
which are normal in apes, ami
M. l'estut, in his magnificent
woik on muscular anomalies,
tt.-lls us that, in t tie human
body or another, he has found
even one of tin- muscular dif
felt iict-s which distinguish ordi-
nary men from apes.
The |>KMiM HAT frolU HOW Un-
tile
the publicatitin of all sheriff's
sales, trustees' sales, guardian
notices, administrator's notices,
and in fact all notices tlint are
issued for information. The
present mode of sticking a writ
can.
Nearly a Year Without l-'ooil.
Miss Kate Smulscv, of Fori
1 Mai lies, i Ins famous faster,
whose cast- hasattraided the at
it-nlioti of the v\ hole scientific
world, ami who is claimed to
have abstained from food m ar
ly ;iOO days, is i<• all appear
ance as hearty as ever. The
ofh
etl Voii to sav that I am In-re in
jail Ibr the most horrible inur
tier ev-r t 'iiiituitted, ami that
there was no cause for it hut
whiskv. and for them to let it
alone before it ruins them as it
has me." lie said (hat he was
afraid that I>r Hailv ami his
wife could IH >1 Mirvivc the
shock. I at that In- was praving
for t hem. We left him, believ
ing that we ha« 1 seen tin- most
wretched man In ing
st• i"11leti as like Asiatic chob-ra.
followed l>v terrible lieiuoi'
l liages of the bouels, ami tin-
persons attacked die or recover
in about a week. Ii is frequent
' Iv fatal iu I went v four hours
ami souietiuies iua few hours,
lu most iust.anet
an ,-utii
t-rt-d so contngbuis that in
si.iue cases t In- part v < 1 i• -d a loin •
J'ln-ir friends are atraid lo go to
them The figures of tin- mm
t a I i I v are mil know n. but it is
est i uu 11 ed that : I Ml ha v dietl in
tin t«:i counties naiiiet
considering tin- small j
tion and the'iiu.tibei takwii tin
pel Cell I llge is large. At the
i late election the iiiimbt-i of
dt at lis considerably ellected t he
inajoiities at various precincts,
ami thirty m-vv graves were
t-t in ii t ft I in a -mall -it-rv a-
tile fesilll. Tilt' people .'lit de
' uitirali/.f11 and local luisim-s in
iei'fsts sutb-r A like scoUlge
vidted this section in IbD-l It
is an f\lrcim-lv mouiilaiiious
foiintrv antl of" high allitmh
('atlle are also tly ing in some
i seelious. There has been a
general rainfall in tin-state for
two day s past ami probably the
drought is over there.
V I I' it v v
a
Us, hitting him in the left arm.' family
Spreckles has been pi Ac
etl iiiufer snrvellain t . 'lhere
is no probability of hi- esca]
iug from tin- city, c\> n shouhi
In- i le- i re 111 do no.
ON mrV Ui i'A . 11.
i i t: i tt i 1; i v li m ( t v u- -11. i it i.
HI CI.S r I MU v N I'l l UKI> V
i io >- t\ i i:liti i
t OI N I V .
Nan Antonio, lex., Nov. 1
Aiiditional ilelails iiyai iin i
the Indian massacre are as t'ol
I o W s :
1 Tom Pi«ua. I ' I 'ia-1- .) 1'
il-"ii brought w■ r l i • if
• amp that Indiaii- b.el • r«, ■ • ••■ t
the Kio t iisnde fitnl tiad killed
a family campvtl fifteen mil-s
It..in tin* rlver. Mi W il -on is
interested in a cattle range ati I
was engaged with a herd when
lie was met by a courier They
hot h returned to the post w iih
I III' 111' W S, ,llls|. I'h 1' etty ami hi-
vvife wen- killed and it i-, -up
posed that their two ■ hihlren
met with a like fate. The camp
had been attacked at night
I'lie tent was torn down ami
everything destroyed. Tin-
bodies of ihe children were not
found, but tin- tlictivi-ivr did nm
itiiuaiu mi tin-spot lonu enough
io make a complete search.
I'' I>. Hroiigh, a vvell km«wn
prospector and miner, was
ampe
I le lllis not lieen seen
ol, .1 t i t lleSli'V . i lie
Jcashiei, spraiiL fioin behind al"1!.
ami sei/.et| Spreck •«r,* t ^ ils n
adjoining tin- I 'et ly
I b- has m
causing otilv a -1 ig 111 wound, ami Is supposed to have l eeii
and ; Hi-forc Spr.-fk.-Is had time to fire! ""'"h-ied by the -aiie- baud of
pula I another shot, .i (i Chesl.-y . the I'ulians. I'liis plat-.- is located
rji
. . k -im* j u "oa &
jrevotvi-i ami prevwiiit-d his it- h-rs loiiml
j ing it W hile I 'hesh-y was
sirugglitig w it i him. two otln r
clerks rnshetl up ami overpow
-•red Spreckels A uioiin-iit af
r
11.
range "I
id, whose
tin- trail «
ailing toward
Itl.t it 11 Y
VI
ii i i: vt \ \
"So
,I w o 11111
hotly to l)r. Hoy d because lu
! secures every beast that dies in
' my possession. I gave .It
hotly of the big war eh
Romeo to him. ami In* is now
on exhibition in the Academy""'"i
of Natural Sciences iu Chicago.,
I'liis fall I have been very uu
fortunate. Recently I lost a,
He.igal tiger, valued at ♦l.aoo
'The big blue-faced mandrill
died about two weeks ago. I
i will give $1,000 for another like
lit- Wiih Not Al o\c HupicIon.
you would like
phuntpo'ii'i you. little l.oy r
'merchant to a small
a .jot .
sab I a
appli
ruddy glow of her face ami com-
paratively plump form, that so him. 1 will never buy another\
thoroughly puzzled those who white elephant. The people'
examined her some time ago.! didn't appreciate the one I had,
remain the same, ami are sadly and they wouldn't appreciate
out of keeping with the asser i another unless In- was white as
lions of her mother and others, snow."
who stoutly aver that not
N etli. tltir."
Have you any education
' N •'i h. ihir."
■ Head, w ri:e ami cipher:
Yeth, thir "
•What doy on read
New th papers, thii. but 1
tlon'i believe more'n half wliuth
ju 'fin."
1 Well, I'am afmiti you are
oo suspicious. 1 wotildn t like
to have any suspicious little
bovs around."
a
mouthful of food has passed the 'n"' imporlaijff of a newspa There are f,.| i,,rge ships, r-g
p . _• ii- ? .i per can generally be determined isii-rmg ovi-rM.ooo tons, wait
by t In* crit if ism it invokes. Ai.it at San Francisco for f argues
paper that is too insignititautpf grain. Some of them have
faster's lips in over six mouths
"It is impossible for ln-r to
eat." Mrs. Smulsey says, "ami
llolie
kept
of us t-an
her alive.
tell what has t-. attract f.oiit'e always escapes
•/ o _ w hile tha live, nroirresmve |our
•bt d
... ... ... . ...... . Dr. /oiler. , , Y
her physician, stales it was all al i" foreverjtistl.ngso.uebotly
a mystery to him. lie can give I*'* our part we,always hail
criticism as an evidence that our
no explanation of the case, and, . .
does not know how ln-r life has, pa^'r is a power in the land.
been sustained so long. Tin
and are very thankful to anv
• *
Olie that Sees tit to give lis |) free
advertisement. Nothing brings
a pa jut into notice tnore effec
t lali t than for some individual
or other icwspaper to pilch in
to it with a vengeance. It gives
v tiling lady does not slwep more
than one hour out of twenty
four, and is extremely restless
when awake. Many continue
tti maintain that the whole
thing is a hoax, and it certain . . ,
iv does look as though Miss 11 notoriety and calls attention
Smulsey has soon- mode of oh to it wln-n it would perhaps.
tabling'food, and it is possible < unknown.-
that she tloes st without the | *- Vinduator.
knowledge of her attendants. j The <l\nnv~r'<7the trees va-
■*" "" ries m.t tmly from summer to
the Portv-one hi-tnot-rattc winter, but frt m day to dav
members t,f tin- present House -pli^v are larger from noon u.iiil
who voted against considering twilight m xt morning than
the Morrison Tariff bill eighteen |rofll twilight to noon ; th-y are
only are returned to the next Minaller iu winter than summer.
Congress. Of the otic hundred Water ami the sap of trees ex
ami forty-one Democrats v lit pmid nut only in proportion as Mel was pr > •et-ling to pay th
teen idle fl'oill olie lo three
ears.
A new Kansas town, named
'Tranquil." having been moved
y a fyclo.it- into the m-xt
onnty, the inhabitants have
>etitioin-1 the Legislatu'-e for a
lew name
Two engineers who have
ecko.ied tin- quantity 1'vaier
louring over Niagara i'alt-
very minute, tlifl'er only two
uarts iu the highest and low
st estimates.
China has begun the contin
lation of ihe Urt-at Wall along
he coast from its present ti-rini
lation at Shan hai Kwan (•• the
akn forts, in order to keep out
orejgm-rs. The ilistnnce i-«
ivt-r <ioo utiles.
A .ii-a' bit of tinanfierlng was
lone by a I'alatka ' Fin t iti/"ti
le was imlebtefl to n railroad,
voted for the motion toronsider
the bill nearly one hundred art
re elected. It is not orobribb
ten notice in three conspicnous I that any serious oppotition will
iplaces in tin* (■•unty is noti be made to re election of Mr.
Carlisle for Speaker ofthe next
they risu above but also as
they go below the fret •zing
point. Low tempera tu re as
well as high promotes evapora
tion. and the trees evaporate
from their branches in .le- win
ter, ami so the colder the
sense, and in many instances
is the means of defrauding wid-
ow* and orphans and good citi-
zens out of their property. . ... _ _
There are in all counties a few 1 a second coalition to obstruct I A Madison county, ha., ne
wlit) watch the wall or doors of* tariff revision will hardly prove gro is reported to be the sire of I Tin. Dkmocm u from now un-
Hons*. Mr. Morrison will bt
again at the head of the < oin weather .he more limy shrink
mi.tee of Ways ami Means, ami mm •
•ill, when In* learned that the
H>mis tif the roatl fouhl be
W'Ught for so cents on .In dol
ir, ami that the road would
k * them at par lb- therefore
vested in the bond i ami dis
target] his debt with fhem.
-.ting a fonsidt-rable sum by
erat ion.
til .lau. 1. isw.'. for #1. Bargain., a court house for bargains.'" i successful.—Phil. Record. i childreu.
Sherman. Nov. Latei par
titular of t he shoot ing bet w ct-n
tin- tiflicers ami ontla.vs at
Sheiinan. says: The jipy
of inquest on the lit it 1 ies ol the
two iiit-n killed yes ten lay by tin-
ollicefs. occupied until late this
evening The evidence was
\oliiniiiious, but all about tlie
same as pub! ishetl, wit It t he
exception that there Were two
wagons instead of one, imd thai
i he y t ui tiger ,\ kin w as in i he
last wagon with Ih Harne- and
llis soil Wllt-ll lie shot Poiice
man M. Ho i. After the shoot
ing In- got out ol the wagon and
got m tin- front one with his
father I lit- son ol lit. Haines,
a boy IV years old, tells the
saiin- tale as the balance that
the Aikins liretl on tin-officers
lirst ami kept il up for a half
mile before the officers return
etl it. The tiling was by so
many that it was impossible to
say who liretl the fatal -hoi-.
The officers say that after they
got to the wagon, which they
• lid not until tin- tiling had
ceased lot -ottlf time,the y olllig
est Akin, who had foiii balls
through his brain and two
through iIn- body, was try ing to
cock a pistol.
Tin- verdict of the jury i - in
accordance with the bu t-. Ur
Hai lies is in jail on a tiiarge of
assault to murder His son, 15
yeai*i- of at.''-, will have to take
back In-ill wagons. Tie- bod
ies of the two dead men wt-rt
but ied at tin- i-xpeitsw of tin-
county ut tin poor farm this
evening.
(' K Hell, of Hell county, was
elected Senator of the ;j;ird 'lis
I rift. In the f«7lh repieseiitative
district W P Hancock wa-
e|ecti'd lloater; Geo, C Pi-mlle
ton was elected representative
J L Camp, .1 r., of Gregg
county , was elected state s«Jnn
tortioin that di-triit; New-om
W lis elected tloatef
Wilbarget county, in the r. th
district, Teuiple Houston was
elected senator, 4".trd di-fiici,
HroWliillg was elected as l-epre
selilllt i v e.
Lamar ifunty, in tin- ^Oth
district, llemlersou vva« elected
floater; Lusk, representative in
tin- Sft/t| tlihiriel.
Hams county. <1 W. Hum
phrey was elected I'epii*;-e.ita
tive.
sprecke't is J7 years
lie was rele.asi-d on
t-llol I.
making a
afternoon
remaining
probably
ifi a police office! rushed in
and arrested liiui. Kmerson.
I III' ; 111V I I ibing clerk, W ho shot
Spreckels, was aiso ai rest.-.I
ami hot h w ere taken tot In-1 i \
prison. I n 't oiing was iiueie
tliatfly I'Miiovt-tl in a fab to hi*
residence Hi-wounds, whn h
at lirsl were I'elievtttl to lie
slight, pro v t-t I on examination
more serious than was siippos
i-d. It was found that the In l
bullet passed w it hiu a six .cent h
of tin im It of tin* sub cla\ tan
artery , which, il it had been
struck, wouhl have caused him
to bleed to death. Fears are
now imeitaihi d that if suppur-
ation sets in tin- artery may be
come affected. HeYouug nt
inaiiietl perfectly cool, and at
pr. • -,1 • ui is i est ing easy. V
other reason lor the shootin is
assigned than that alteadv
stated S
of age
^*1,1 it hi hail vuth his father, ^it
t laiis Spreckels, as suictv
Huu ison, ihe advertising clei k.
was released on fd ,ooo bail
I ie \ Hung, w ho was shot !a-«i
night by young Sprei-kh-s, pa
t-d a qun-t night 11om pain •.<
lit- doctors propose
•iid effort this
to extract the
bullet Tln-y will
lefer the attempt
to as late an hour in tin-day as
as possible, the hope that
the bullet may move
itself ami give char imli
cations of its exait position.
Less danger is anticipated from
this bullet than from . lie
effects of the olie extracted
The dioiihlt'i blade wassbat
tered slightly, and broken
pieces of bone remain within
tile wound. It is feared these
pieces may induce suppuration
and high fever. If these bro
k'-ll pieces call be ri-llloVetl, the
• latigei may be lessened.
Tin- fad that Spreckles was
admitted to I>ait after having
at tempted lo assassinate I >•
i oinig and in itt' iiij.tifit "o.
inflicting sue,i ilangeri'Us
wound , ex* i11 i much com
lliellt. After the rellloVal ol l e
Voting to his residence, should
there be any appearance of 1 • ■
Voting getting worse spreckels
will be immediately re-arrested
and held in con linemen t until
all danger of In Young s |jfi i-.
passed Public opinion e-l
the shooting is more cry -.al
izing this morning. Tic -y ui
pathy is on tie- side of In-
i tiling A more careful read
ing of the articles which iin in-tl
Spreckles to the shootiug con
tir.as the belief t Ii jit there v\u-
nothing iu tln-m to justify such
a murderous attempt. The
ca-e has been called in the po
lice court for preliminary e\
aminatioti. but by mutual
agreement between the prose
cutingaiid defending attorneys
, |i'l s
diaus h
I In-y had a bug
horses with them.
lliellt of troops is
I II*
M ■ r-
11 ne ri
f t he I II
M evict
11 I'll I I • III
A detach
now out on
the trail. The Indians are said
to lie ol the pat 'lie l/ll'n I'llM
\ all'-y ha- I part tctiiarly uu
loriuuaie during the pa-t lew
ne ui lis, 111-.11 ly all t le ram Iters
having lost many of ilnir
horses a lit 1 stock. lie I'hioco
111 o 11 n I a 111111 o 1.1 p r,. l,-• • t .ton foi-
prow ling Indians, and are a -al'c
leU'cal fill hol-Se thieves (te||
"Stanley has also ordered out a
large scouting
Fort I iav is llci
I hat the I Julian •
of I he .\ pitches o
which were operated agaim
-c.i111• ri-tI I'V tit'll (.'rook I ht• v
were 11 ri v en into Mexico and Ii"-
thinks iln v crossed he itio
liraude and after coinmittiuy
the ma --ai ie re i ro--e,| Since
tin- evpiia ion o| the treaty be
tWeell the I tilled States a IU I
\|• x11• i. by w hit-li tie 11.,ops ■ if
hot h |t pllolic^ i 'i ill id efo-s tie*
|{to < Iramie in pursu it of Imb
.'iii->, the It lians an- taking ad
party from
- of t in* belief
• Hi a portion
i M -calleros
t
fit. Only last we.K
ah ahh- o| San ('at !■ >■ VI* x
applieil to the ci riumail.lit ..
here to cro-s till* kio
v atitagt
I lie
it'O
.re in-rn
• J raiid<
lians,
lie t > fljs
afti-t niaraii bug In
and peimi--i■ .u ha> 1 t .
because of t le laps*
e of tie
• f the lreaty The general. h,,w,
ever, informed the ahade that
whenever the fnii- I States
troops were in11itied that In
•lians had crossed ov.-i to thi-
-ii|e st outing parfTes- would be
-••nt out iiniiietliai'-ly after
them.
Later telegrams received at
tuililary headquat n • - lu re ful
Iv coulirm tin- aceoiiut of th"
Indian ma^sm re
( iihirado. ih- d
ai
F'-na,
tie
id I tod I t-s of
the two murd. rt I little t-hil
dren have been found lyinu in
tie- brush near their dead par-
ents. This mining cngim-cr is
still mis-ing This is om- of th •
most horrible Indian outrag s
which has happeiu-tl on out bor-
der foi many years Forty
head of horses were driven ov- r
tin- river iti this raid
VLAVI- .v I.LoVAiiti si I D
lilCK
vt V
N
O v V
>•>
-Tin
Sll
New Vork,
preliie court to (lay gralltetl au
attachment again-t the proper-
ty in this stale of Attains Si
Leonard, of I .alias. Texas, ill
an action begun by the Texas &
Fat'ilic railway company to re
cover ♦*•!',000*. The railway
t otnpuny t laiins to have tlepos-
ited this amount with tin- de-
teiulauts, who I't-ci'iiily made
an assiguim-nt and neglected to
return tin* money .
Tin- railroad up \ e-uv ius has
already paid rot itself; the
tiains, which ascend night and
day. are well patronized by na-
tive and foreign sight seers, all
strangers ascending nowadays,
wherea* formerly a fool ascint
was so irks, me
I January 1st. ItttM. for $1.
^BMjH H a further hearing of the ■■attJB
If you tb-siie to keep itiformetl I was imietiuitelv posipouetl. as j daring uideitook .In*
tftke th# DXXOCRaT. ' the cwuditiou of bt'lh DuYuiiug trip.
that t nlv th *
V.i ltd
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