The McKinney Gazette. (McKinney, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 4, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 3, 1886 Page: 1 of 4

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The Mine Mule.
The Sport Created by the Descent of a
Mule to the Depths Below.
One of the most amusing and
at the same time most pitiful
sights to be seen about the coal
mines, says a correspondent writ-
ing from Nanticoke, is the descent
of a mule to the depths below.
The shaft is, say, six hundred feet
deep, and yawn at one's feet like
a spot of ink on the ground. A
car lowered and raised by a per-
pendicular wire cable shoots up
and down with breathless velocity.
On the car is fastened a narrow
stall, with iron bars, which can be
fastened across the entrance. By
various methods the unfortunate
mule is brought as far as the
mouflr-af^ the shaft, but when he
sees the cXr he knows what it
nneans. The mule fully realizes
that if he walks aboard he will
.never see daylight again, and will
Ihave to work in the dark, as only
:a mine mule must. So he kicks.
Argument is useless, persuasion
falls on deaf ears. He kicks with
si vigor and precision that means
business. Ilis heels are a battery
Ithat would terrify even the fatal-
istic i'alor of a follower of the
Mahdi.
But a long beam is brought and
one end put against one of the
uprights at the side of the shaft.
At the other end four men push,
bringing the beam like a lever
against the mule's flanks. Now
the beast's backbone curves until
liis head is next to his tail, and
Ihis four feet, planted firmly to-
gether, seem riveted to the ground.
The beam is a decided failure,
though two men at the same time
are tugging at a halter. But there
is another resource. Even mule
resistence can be overcome by
steam power. A rope is fastened
around the mule's neck and louped
around those vicious hind legs.
Then a steam windless is slowly
turned and the unlucky beast is
dragged on the car. The iron bars
are put up, a bell rings, and the
car drops downward, while a last
melancholy bray floats up from
the black hole. There is one mule
under Wilkesbarre that has spent
twenty-one years of useful life
ling coal in the dark. The
are proud of him, and he
' Y ?en hoisted to the sur-
face to walk proudly in miners'
parades. Mules do not, as has
been often said, go blind in the
mines, but when they are brought
out a bandage must be tied over
their eyes for several days.—
[N. Y. Commercial Advertiser.
The President's Marriage Day.
The president's marriage is
considered as fixed for the last
part of June. If it does not take
place then it is thought the wed-
ding will be postponed until Fall.
A friend of the president said :
"You may be very sure that if he
was not engaged to Miss Folsom,
he would have had an official de-
nial of it printed long ago on ac-
count of the young lady. It would
be a great injustice to her to per-
mit the stories of their engage-
ment and approaching marriage to
be so widely and authoritatively
published without such a de-
nial."
The subject of the president's
marriage is not very generally dis-
cussed. Few outside of the im-
mediate circles of the families of
the Administration appear to take
very much interest in it. Those
who do talk about it seem to take
it as a matter of course that Miss
Folsom is marrying more for po-
sition than anything else. She
will be the youngest wife who has
ever resided at the White House.
—[Washington Letter.
Very Artistic.
Child-Torture.
Speculating on I'ublic Charity Through
Seriously Mutilated Children.
An artistic man-killer in Texas
always shoots a bullet or two into
the dead body of his victim. It
isn't done for publication but
merely as a guarantee of good
faith. Texas is a great State.—
[Chicago Merchant Traveler.
An artistic liar in Chicago al-
ways locates his ghost stories in
Texas. Not as a guarantee of
good faith, but merely for publica-
tion. Chicago is a great city—
for liars and thugs.
Whisky and Quinine.
Quinine and whisky make a
fine tonic for ague patients. The
way to take it is to put the quinine
in one glass and the whisky in an-
other, then set the glass contain-
ing the whisky in the closet for
future reference and take the qui-
nine,
A horrible case of child-torture
was tried Saturday before the
Seine assize court. The accused
parties were two Spaniards, Gon-
zales and Vega, whose calling is
to speculate on public charity
through the instrumentality of
mutilated children. The children
were sent out every day to beg,
and often had to stay fourteen
hours prowling about the streets.
One of them, aged nine, was twist-
ed in a position on a board set on
rollers to simulate a cripple. Three
grown-up persons held, twisted
and stripped him on the board,
which had on it a covered pad.
This child became nearly para-
lyzed and was often left black and
blue from thrashings. The land-
lady one day when he was by him-
self in bed, took him out of the
van, and found that he could walk,
although loosing the use of his
limbs. His owners caught her
and beat the boy merciless for
having obeyed her in getting out
of bed. In the month of June her
other tenants were kept awake by
the cries of Manuel Santon, but
they were too much afraid of the
Spaniards to go and ask what it
was that made him scream. Mme.
Cabrollier went. The child said
that he had cramps, and she saw
that his arm was in a sling and
bound up. Watching her oppor-
tunity she was able suddenly to
examine the member, and found
on it a horrib'e wound like a can-
cer of great size. She wept from
pity. The young Manuel then told
her that last year his leg was
burned in the same way at Mon*
tauban, and that a little leprous
girl, dressed as a boy, who had
been similarly treated, was aban-
doned there. The youthful victim
was examined as a witness, but
was in such fears of his torturers
that he hardly dared to tell how
they operated upon him. He said
that at Marseilles he was burned
on one instep, which left his foot
a mass of putrifaction, both by
Vega and Gonzales. The two
also burned his leg at Montauban,
He had been at both places strap-
ped to a board on rollers and sent
as a cripple to beg. Vega and
Gonzales were condemned to two
years' penal servitude. — [Paris
Letter.
Blood and Bob.
A Sagacious Blood-Hound Seeks the Slayer
of Sirs. Phillips in Her Husband's
Bed.
Austin, Texas, May 26.—When
the people read the newspapers
this morning and the names of
the high public functionaries im-
plicated in the gaiters of the
young and handsome, but frail,
Mrs. Phillips, now in the ground,
the scandal grew in magnitude,
and there was a general grasp for
those newspapers containing
names and details. The Gazette
man called upon the intimate
friends of Superintendent of Pub-
lic Instruction Baker, charged by
Mrs. Tobins, keeper of an assigna-
tion house, with having met Mrs.
Phillips at her house. The inquiry
was what the superintendent in-
tended to do about it. One of his
friends stated that Mr. Baker pos-
itively denied any knowledge of
Mrs. Phillips, that he did not even
know her, and that he could prove
an alibi against Mrs. Tobins'
sworn statement. The reporter
mentioned a rumor that the gov-
ernor would be likely to ask Mr.
Baker to resign. To this his
friend replied that he never would
resign.
The Philips trial was resumed
again to-day. Mrs. Philips,
mother of the defendant, and her
two daughters were present in
court. The defendant looked
pale, care-worn and haggard, and
as if he had not yet recovered from
the terrible wounds in the side of
the head received on Christmas
Eve night, when his young wife's
head was split open with the axe
of the assassin. The crowd was
not as large as on yesterday, from
the general belief that the most
sensational part of the testimony
was over. A goodly crowd, how-
ever, was present.
Mr. Jo McCutchen was first
called, and gave evidence showing
the state of the relations between
Phillips and his wife while they
lived on his place in Williamson
county, and also related the con-
versation he had with defendant
at Austin with respect to Mrs.
Phillips. The defense examined
him with a view of fastening the
guilt of the murder upon himself.
Great excitement prevailed in
court at this stage, and especially
when the defense compelled Mc-
Cutchen to take off his shoe and
sock and fit his foot into the
bloody marks which were found
in Phillips' yard, and which had
been preservec on a wood panel.
Witnesses from Williamson county
however, entirely exculpated Mc-
Cutchcn from any suspicion
whatever.
Mrs. Annie Dyer, who lived in
the Phillips yard, testified that at
about 12:50 on Christmas morning
she went to the scene of the mur-
der, and there found both the el-
der Mrs. Phillips and her husband
dressed in the same apparel that
she had seen them wearing during
the previous day. She deposed
that she herself cut the under-
clothes from the body of Mrs.
Eula Phillips, and that the hair
of deceased was rolled up in b own
curling paper.
Justice Von Rosenburg was ex-
amined chiefly in reference to the
blood trails and trailing of the
hounds. His evidence was inter-
esting and valuable to the State,
but too long to be detailed.
Sergeant Thompson, manager
of the penitentiary blood'hounds,
was examined exclusively in re-
gard to his trail of the hounds. He
said that when the first trailing
was done his favorite dog, "Old
Bob," endeavored to go into the
house, but he held him back. At
the request and consent of the offi-
cers, he made another search that
night after supper, and that "Old
Bob" was started from the spot
where the body was found in the
yard. "Bob" went directly to the
room in which defendent was ly-
ing and reared upon the bed and
smelt him (Phillips). There were
other persons in the room, but he
smelt no one else. The hound
then led the way into another
room and smelt a bundle of bloody
white clothes. The dog then ran
into the parlor where the corpse
of Mrs. Phillips lay, but witness
called him back because he frightr
ened the ladies.
Transmission of Rabies.
A dog belonging to A. J. Hall,
a farmer living near Little Rock,
Ark., went rtiad last week, and
among the animals which it
wounded in its wanderings about
the farm was a milch cow. The
cow showed no signs of being af-
fected by the wound, and it was
thought that hydrophobia would
not result. Saturday, however the
animal began showing signs of the
dreaded disease, and at the same
time the farmer's two little child-
ren, who had been nourished with
the cow's milk, exhibited similar
symptoms, and are in a critical
condition, suffering the most ter-
rible agonies. The other members
of the families are also ill, but
their symptoms are not so alarm-
ing as those of the children, and
some hope is expressed that they
may recover.
Trial of Herr Most and Associates
Begun.
New York, May 26.—In the tri-
al to-day of Most, Schenck and
Braunschweig for taking part in
an unlawful meeting, the motion
of counsel for Most for a separate
trial was denied, and a jury was
selected after a great deal of diffi-
culty. Nearly all the talesmen
had decided opinions about peo-
ple who advocate the destruction
of life and property. Herr Most
glared vindictively at those who
testified in this manner, and his
looks were returned with glances
of scorn. One talesman, Robt.
Hauk, a gold beater, greatly pleas-
ed the anarchists by loudly an-
swering "no" when asked : "Do
you believe in the right of a man
to accumulate property legally and
enjoy it peaceably?'' The court,
with a look of disgust, ordered
Hauk to stand aside. A jury was
finally obtained, consisting of nine
merchants, one banker, one retir-
ed merchant, and a saloon keeper.
The court then adjourned until to-
morrow. Most and his fellow-
prisoners were handcuffed togeth-
er and locked up in the Tombs.
A Wonderful Feat.
As the south bound freight train
left this station Tuesday afternoon
a number of our citizens were eye-
witnesses of a scene that made the
blood in their veins run cold. A
tramp was trying to "beat" his
passage on the train, and attempt-
ed to get on a brake-beam. He
missed his reckoning, and his feet
draggec 011 the track between the
rails. The train was moving
about six miles per hour. To let
go was certain death. He strug-
gled frantically to get his feet on
the break-beam but failed. Mean-
while the spectators were horrified,
and many turned their eyes away
from the scene. At last by an al-
most superhuman effort, he got
both feet up between his hands
against the brake-bar of which he
had to hold, and after swinging
several times until his body had
gained sufficient momentum he
let go with his hands and shot out
from under the car head first and
landed on his back on the side of
the embankment, down which he
rolled into a mud puddle. His
face was devoid of color when he
arose, the palms of his h.uids were
bleeding and he trembled as if suf-
fering from a severe chill. His
adventure and inirvelous escape
aroused the sympathies of those
who witnessed the knock at
"death's door" and a collection of
several dollars was promptly taken
up and given him. He was a ro-
bust young man of about 25 years
of age, and owed his life to his
strength and agility.—[Gridley (O.)
Herald.
In a Sad Plight.
An Insane Indian Says He Knows Christ
and His Brother Bill.
Sherman, May 28.—A sad case
of mental derangement has been
under investigation in the office of
County Judge Gregg to-day. For
some time a man in tatters and
rags, and with heavy red locks
dangling down over his shoulders,
has been wandering around the
town of Pottsboro, ten miles
north-west of this city. He has
made a practice of appearing at
doors without the least warning,
and inquiring for matches, and in
one or two instances has stepped
in the rear door and stale quite a
lot of the above named articles.
His presence became a source of
much annoyance to the ladies of
the town, and Constable Inghram
placed him under arrest, and this
morning brought him to Sherman
for a hearing before a jury of in-
quiry. Questions were put to the
man who answered about as fol-
lows :
"My name is Bill-Davis, and 1
am from the Nation. I have a
brother and a sister there some-
where. I don't own any property
and neither do they. I don't know
whether I have any father. I have
a mother, but don't know whether
she is a widow or not." In
answer to a question as to wheth-
er he had ever said he was Christ,
he replied: "No, I'm not Christ;
I'm just an Injun Baptist—that's
all." In regard as to what caused
him to be sick and wander around
he said : "Some time in the sum-
mer season a mad dog bit me on
the left leg. I had one fit and that
is all I remember. I had a mad
stone which I found in the ground,
but I buried it again in the same
place where I found it. I know
Christ and his brother. They both
live in the Indian Territory. One
of them is named Jesus and the
other is Bill. The Bible tells about
Jesus and he preaches and saves
sinners sometimes, but mostly
runs a saw mill." The jury retired
and found him no 11 compos mentis,
and the Indian Baptist now lin-j
gers at the County Almshouse:
where he will undergo treatment
Good Roads.
the allotted number of rings in the
firm, white wood and core as
sound and sweet as the saplings.
So it is with the man whose dis-
position is one of sunshine and
laughter. He lives merrily and
dies cherrily, and the world is bet-
ter for him. His memory does
not pass away like that of the
sour, grum misanthropist. There
may be grander things about a
man than his humor, but there is
nothing by which he will be re-
membered so long. After his wis-
dom and his learning are forgot-
ten, if he ever laughed, that laugh
will be his memorial. It will go
ringing on when every other ut-
terance has died away. Happy
are they who are happy !
Be Careful Who You Marry.
About two months ago John
Cowderight, a farmer at Inkster,
in Grand Forks county, Dakota,
went to Pennsylvania for a wife.
An introduction was had to a
maiden lady nearly 30 years of
age, a daughter of one of the lead-
ing families of the place, and 011
assurances of the man who intro-
duced them that the Dakota man
a
was all right, the lady at once
married him and went to Dakota.
Last Friday they went to Fargo,
the wife understanding that they
were on their way to Washington
Territory. They put up at a hotel,
leaving the baggage at the depot.
During the night the man took
the baggage, with every dollar of
money belonging to them, mostly
the wife's, a sum of S6,ooo, and
left on the train alone. She is
left destitute, a thousand miles
from her friends, with abundant
experience of the dangers of mar-
rying a Dakota stranger 011
trust.
An Old French Hermit's Death.
Falling Off in Immigration.
A New York dispatch to the
Baltimore Sun says : There has
been a noticeable falling off" in im-
migration of late. Last week the
arrivals at Castle Garden number-
ed 9150, against 15,455 during the
corresponding week last year.
The decrease is attributed to the
labor troubles in this country.
Judge Brown, of the United States
Court, has made an important rul-
ing, which gives the emigration
commission all the authority of a
court in the matter of the return
to foreign countries of immigrants
who are criminals or paupers
bound under contract to labor in
this country, all of whom under
the laws of the United States, are
not permitted to land.
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Si.50 a year.
The suggestion having been
made that the short term convicts
of the State be utilized for the im-
provements of the country roads,
instead of being brought in com-
petition with the honest labor, a
considerable portion of the press
has expressed its approval. And
why not ? The present system of
working the roads has never been
satisfactory. It is often a tax up-
on the farmers at a time when his
crops demand the entire attention
and there are no resultant benefits,
because the work is nc;er more
than half done, and it not fre-
quently happens that the road is
left in a worse condition th in be-
fore the alleged work was under-
taken. There is no road worker
to superintend and direct the la-
bor, no intelligent system ie em-
ployed and consequently there is
no improvement at all, or it is only
temporary. What sort of streets
would the city have if it depended
solely upon prison labor, directed
only by the prison or one ot its
aid ? Good country roads are an
untold blessing, and it should de-
volve upon the State, not upon
farmers, to provide them.—[Ex.
Pierre Grevy, the hermit of
Hootowl Pond, near St. Regis
Falls, Franklin county, was found
dead in his hut several days ago,
by two hunters who were following
a bear. He came from Quebec
in 1830, built his hut against a
great rock, and had lived there
alone, going to town twice a year
for supplies, and paying for them
in French silver coin of the reign
of Napoleon Bonaparte. His beard
grew to his waist, where it was
held by his belt, and his hair,
when unbraided dragged the
ground. I Ls finger nails were
nearly three inches long. Among
his effects were oil paintings of
Napoleon, Josephine and Marshal
Ney. Papers written in French
gave his birthplace as Marseilles,
1799. A marriage certificate
Pierre Grevy to Marie Gouther
was also found and this sentence
in an old book: "Thank God
Jules Grevy is now President of
the Fr9~ch Republic." It is
though^ § was a great uncle of
Jules Grevy.—[Albany Argus.
Mistakes of Life.
A Sunshiny Soul.
There are some people who are
always bubbling over with humor,
in season and out of season;
everything is turned oy their
Midas touch to sparkling merri-
ment. What unconscious physi-
cians these people are! It doeth
one good like a medicine to hear
their voice and to see their faces,
always running over with laughter
like a mountain spring. The
healthiest and longest-lived per-
sons almost always have a twig of
humor in their make-up. There
is something wonderfully preser-
vative in laughter. A man who
cannot laugh is like a tree from
which the worms of the winds
have stripped all the leaves. It
soon grows feeble and sapless, and
dies before its time. The healthy
tree laughs with myriads of leaves
for generation after generation,
sound at heart and beautiful to
look upon; and when it dies the
woodman cuts it down and finds
Somebody has condensed the
mistakes of life, and arrived at the
conclusion that there are fourteen
of them. Most people would say,
if they told the truth, that there
was no limit to the mistakes of
life; that they were like the sands
of the sea shore in number, but it
is well to be accurate. Here, then,
are fourteen great mistakes: It is
a great mistake to set up our own
standard of right and wrong, and
judge people accordingly; to
measure the enjoyment of others
by our own; to expect uniformity
of opinion in the world; to look
for judgment and experience in
youth; to endeavor to mould all
dispositions alike; to worry our-
selves and others with what can-
not be remedied; not to alleviate
all that needs alleviation as far as
lies in our power; to yield to ma-
terial trifles; not to make allow-
ances for the infirmities of others;
to consider everything impossible
that we cannot perform; to believe
only what our finite minds can
grasp; to expect to be able to
understand everything.
— m '<m
Farm Life.
Poets and sages have penned
and painted the glories of rural
life in all ages, and there is much
happiness to be found on the farm,
but when a man has to stop his
plow to fight off mosquitoes, can-
didates, ticks, lightning rod and
book agents, there is much of the
happiness turned into a hollow
mockery.—={Paris Tribune.
Reduced to Ruins.
Fiercest Conflagration That Has Devastated
the State Since the Galveston Fire.
McGregor, Tex., May 28.—
Last night about I o'clock our
town was thrown into the wildest
state of excitement by the distress-
ed cry of fire. The church bells
were ringing and fire-arms were
freely discharged at all parts of
the city to call our citizens out to
witness the fiercest conflagration
that has devastated the State since
the late Galveston fire. The fire
originated in the rear of Mrs. D.
O. Briggs' millinery establishment
and swept with startling rapidity
in a northeastern direction, carry-
ing destruction in its path. The
postofficeand all its appurtenances
were destroyed, including a faith-
ful watch-dog, whose remains were
found in the ruins this morning.
There were twenty-three other
buildings, and their contents des-
troyed, including twenty-two of
our leading mercantile houses.
The loss is estimated between
$60,000 and $8o,ooo, causing a
panic that time only can cure.
McGregor has no water facilities
hence all effort to arrest the flames
and stop the destruction was fruit-
less. The fire is evidently the
work of an incendiary, as a simi-
lar attempt to fire the town was
made on Wednesday night about
the same hour, and but for the
timely appearance of the Santa Fe
night watchman the town would
have been destroyed. The citi-
zens find officers have combined
to institute search for some clew
that will lead to the arrest of the
guilty parties. The citizens met
to-night to organize vigilance
committees to assist in bringing
the incarnate fiends to justice.
During the shooting little Earnest
Strickland was struck by a stray
bullet, inflicting a serious wound
in the arm. Dr. W. W. Hall stuck
a nail in his foot, which will doubt-
less confine him for several days.
Among the heroic efforts of this
fiery conquest was the timely as-
cension of Miss Ella Rust and
Miss Effie Walsh to the roof of
Mrs. James Kovers' dwelling (in
the absence of the gentlemen), and
by the use of wet blankets and the
copious use of water, possibly pre-
vented an extended spread of the
already raging conflagration.
The Fence-Cutting Again.
More wire cutting depredations
have left their slimy stain upon
the pages of our little county's
history, and Delta is again forced
to bow her head in disgrace. But
while she feels deep mortification,
her bosom swells with an irrepres-
sible determination that these
things must cease ; the law must
and shall prevail. A vast majority
of our citizens recognize the laws
of the land as paramount to every
spirit of opposition, and cry out
for their rigid enforcement. Let
every good citizen exert himself
to assist the civil authorities in
ferreting out crime and bringing
the perpetrators to justice ; let him
openly and freely express his con-
victions and thus strengthen pub-
lic sentiment, one of the most
potent powers in the suppression
of crime.—[Delta Courier.
A Dubious War Story.
At the battle of Shiloh, one of
the fellows who found it uncom-
fortable at the front, decided to
withdraw, and for an excuse,
gathered up a wounded man, slung
him over his shoulder and started
back. On the way a cannon shot
came along and took off his bur-
den's head. Pretty soon he met a
surgeon, who asked where he was
going with that man. "Back to the
hospital to get his wound dressed."
What's the use taking him back ?
He's got no head on him ! The
fellow glanced over his shoulder,
and seeing the state of affairs, ex-
claimed : "The d—d liar! He
told me he was shot in the leg! "
Just Right
The women of the Salvation
Army in Bristol, Connecticut, have
armed themselves with cayenne
pepper to throw in the faces of the
ruffians who are accustomed to
annoy them in their street parades.
A physician who claims to have
seen 40,000 cases of small-pox
says he never saw a person with
red hair or light flaxen hair have
the disease.—[Christian Messen-
ger.
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