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Use "KITCHEN QUEEN"
BAKING POWDER.
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BABCOCK, FOOT & BROWN,
DALLAS, TEXAS.
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DALLAS, TEXAS.
VOLUME 1. NO. 7
McKINNEY, COLLIN COUNTY, TEXAS, THURSDAY, JUNE 24. 1S8G-
Sl.50 A YEAR.
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DRY GOODS COMP'Y.
CHAIRMAN CARRY'S EDICT.
Notice to Independent Movements.
Kverytliing Democratic Must be Done
Within the Party—Anything Out-
side is Antagonism—Who Par-
ticipate in Primaries.
Items of Interest.
For many years past a Califor-
nia farmer's land has been grad-
ually reduced in size by the en-
croachments of a river upon which
it borders. Recently, however,
the stream began to recede, and
at last accounts the soil tiller had
regained all the lost ground and
much more, too, and the waters
were still going out.
A valuable horse that was sup-
posed to have perished in tiie
burning of a barn in Rockingham,
Vt., was found some days ago in
possession of a well known
inilk man in a neighboring town,
and it has turned out that after
stealing the horse he placed a
worthless horse in the barn and
get the structure on fire to conceal
the theft.
Warm water is now supplied at
the rate of 75,000 gallons per day
■at Pesth, from an artesian well
said to be about 3000 feet deep,
and the deepest in the world. The
temperature of the water is 161
degrees, but the work is to be
continued until the temperature
rises to 178 degrees. It is ex-
pected that the supply will also
then be ample for all the wants of
the city.
A young man in New York has
struck a new lead in swindling.
He was charged before Justice
Patterson at the Tombs Police
Court with having obtained $720
from the firm of Webster & Co.,
who are the publishers of Gen.
Grant's Memories, by presenting
a list of thirty-seven subscribers
for the book, which the cashier of
the firm found to be bogus upon
investigation. He was held in
#1500 bond for trial.
A young lady in \ irginia com-
mitted suicide by throwing herself
into New River. She went to the
house, got out her best clothes
and took them to the river with
her. There she disrobed and put
on the clothes she had brought
with her, leaving the others on the
bank of the river. She then is
supposed to have waded out to a
large rock and jumped in the
water where it is very deep.
An animal whose identity is at
•sent unknown there, was landed
in San Francisco lately from the
, - v interior of Japan, where it first
taw the light of day. At a glance
curiosity might be taken for
either a dog or a monkey. It is
shaped like the former about the
head and neck, but othen^se
somewhat resembles the monkey.
Hie animal's favorite posture is
on its haunches, but with a little
urging stands on its four feet, the
body sloping downward from the
head like a giraffe. The claws on
the four feet are like those of a
dog, but tvvo extra pairs are furn-
ished on the hind legs a couple of
inches above the balls of the feet.
The animal appears to be gentle,
but has a strong, high-keyed bark,
which it gives when spectators
attempt to stir it up.
An inhabitant of Stockholm has
invented a fire proof garment,
which will permit the wearer to
stand calmly in the midst of a
raging fire for an hour without
suffering any inconvenience—so
it is alleged. It consists of two
parts, or envelopes. The first, next
to the body, is of a rubber ma-
terial. The second is of moleskin.
The two parts are connected by a
curious head piece, which also
protects the face and admits the
necessary air. The space between
the envelopes is filled with fresh
water, which is also admitted at
the head piece, and prevents burn-
ing.
Singular Case of Hydrophobia in
Kentucky.
Legal Weights.
Cincinnati, Ohio, June 20.— The
: people in the neighborhood of
! Hebron, across the river in Boone
' County, Ivy., are very much ex-
cited over a case of hydrophobia
in the family of a farmer there. A
dog belonging in the household
! went mad last week, and without
, a knowledge of its condition it
was allowed to run around. It
finally bit a milch cow. The cow
showed no signs of sickness, and
the milk was used as formerley.
Yesterday the cow gave unmistak-
able signs of hydrophobia. About
the same time a child «f the
farmer became seriously aflacted
from nourishment on the diseased
milk. The symptoms are most
pronoucced, and the sufferings of
the little dhild are most tesrrible.
Two other members of the family
j are similarly affected, but there is
more hope of their recovery.
• m
Thieves entered the council
chamber of East Dallas and stole
the clock that regulates the meet-
ings of the aldermen.
That our farmers may be advised
as to the legal number of pounds
to the bushel, we publish the fol-
lowing: "Be it enacted by the
Legislature of the State of Texas,
that the following shall be the
legal number of pounds
bushel:
Wheat, -
Corn, shelled,
Corn, in the ear, shucked,
Unshucked,
per
Oats,
Barley,
Rye,
Buckwheat,
White beans,
Irish potatoes, -
Onions,
Turnips,
Dried apples,
Dried peaches, -
Bran, -
Hungarian grass seed,
Flax seed,
Stone coal,
Charcoal,
Salt, -
Clover seed, -
Timothy seed,
Cotton seed,
Millet seed,
60
56
70
72
32
48
56
42
62
Co
57
55
28
28
20
44
;56
:8o
22
50
Co
45
32
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Corsicana, June 18.—Your re-
porter called upon Chairman Bar-
ry to-day and asked him what he
thought of the campaign' notes
from Fort Worth, to-day, and he
replied by reading the following
letter, which he had just written :
Corsicana, Texas, June 18, '8C.—
D. H. Hightower, Esq., President,
and Jack Yates, Esq., Secretary
Keller Democratic Club, Keller,
Tarrant County. Texas—Gentle-
men : I have just read in the
News of this date the special
from Fort Worth as to the organi-
zation of your club, and also the
action of the meeting at the Fort,
presided over by Mayor R. S.
Broiles, at which a complete
county ticket, with R. S. Blair for
county judge in place of Sam
Funnan, who had been, it seems,
nominated and declined as ex-
pressed because he was "running
as a straight out Democrat, sub-
ject to the action of the County
Democratic Convention," was
nominated.
I am very glad to see that you
and others are alive to the inter-
ests of the party and that you will
contend for its organization.
The movement appears, from
the resolutions printed, to be con-
fined to the nomination of candi-
dates for county officers in your
county, and of course to that ex-
tent affects the organization of
the party in the State.
If the gentlemen who are thus
organizing are Democrats, they
ought to act within the party, and
if they are not they are our oppo-
nents.
A g' od Democrat can be a
member of the Knights of Labor,
the Farmers' Alliance, the Grange
or any other non-political organi-
zation, but the ^1-ace to- exercise
his political rights is within the
ranks of the Democratic party,
and to organize outside of
party under the name of "anti-
monopolists" or any other name
mestication of cattle. Before ag-
riculture had votaries, before
Tubal Cain brought the first glow
to iron, or prehistoric miners had
even wrested mineral from t«he
earth, in the comity of the woild
"cattle was king," and was the
standard by which wealth was
reckoned. Ere the unstability of
society had given way to reason's
reign, the herd was the only safe
manner in which wealth could be
accumulated, indeed it must have
been for a long period the only
form of wealth existing. The
ease in which it could be driven
from danger, its rapid increase,
the facility with which it could be
conveyed, transferred and trans-
mitted, the general utility of its
products, all combined to make it
the favorite industry of the ancient
and their imitators of the present
day.
Big Log Jam.
One Hundred Million Feet of Logs
Piled Up Near Taylor's Falls.
Taylor's Falls, Minn., June iC.
—Sunday morning logs began
jamming and piling at the dalles
of the St. Croix. Some such a
catastrophe had been anticipated,
and yet came unexpectedly, for
the men who had been here for
weeks building booms in the mid-
dle of the dalles and keeping watch
to prevent a jam were asleep in
their tents, and their booms were
broken, and the formation of the
biggest jam ever known com-
menced before they were aware of
it. Early Sunday morning the
news spread rapidly about that
"there is a log jam." A small
crew of men were soon masquer-
ading in their red undershirts and
drawers on the head of the jam,
with axes, peevies and poles, while
four-horse teams were hauling out
the logs with line. The river was
steadily rising, and the stream of
logs was continually running onto
the rear of the jam, piling both
above and below the water in all
imaginable shapes, in height and
depth varying from 10 to 100 feet,
extending three-quarters of a mile
or more in length, and at places
nearly a quarter of a mile wide. It
is one of the grandest sights ever
witnessed. The fall in the river
fjiat is about thirty feet. A large force
of men and horses, a steamer and
a steam piledriver are at work
- night and day trying to break the
Killed by a Failing Tree.
Two Awful Accident* Near Fort Worth.
Fort Worth, June 18.—This
morning two men named Welch
and Williams, from Hill County,
en route to Young County, felled
a tree in the Trinity bottom about
three miles north of the city for
the purpose of securing timber for
a wagon pole. As the tree started
to fail Welch stepped to one side,
thinking it would fall in an oppo-
site direction, and did not notice
that it was falling toward him un-
til he was warned by a cry from
Williams. He made a spring, en-
deavoring to escape, but was too
late. The tree fell with a crash,
striking him on the head and
knocking him senseless to the
ground. Upon pulling his body
from under the tree Williams dis-
covered that Welch's head was
crushed when the tree struck it,
and that life was extinct. The
man never uttered a word
the falling tree struck him.
body will be forwarded to
County, where his family resides.
fell fkom a trestle.
This evening a man whose name
could not be learned, and who was
somewhat under the influence of
drink, attempted to walk the long
trestle on the Missouri Pacific,
north of the city, and when near
the middle of it fell to the ground,
a distance of nearly thirty feet.
He was seen by parties as he fell,
who hastened to the spot and
found the man unconscious. He
was removed to a house near by
and medical attention secured. At
last accounts the man was living,
but still unconscious and with but
little prospect of his recovery from
the effects of the fall. He was
roughly dressed and from his
general appearance he was a la-
boring man,
after
His
Hill
cannot but antagonize the party j jam. There are over 100,000,000
organization and injure its useful- feet of logs in the jam. The new
ness. The Democratic party is ! bridSe is in danger of being taken
, , , , , , I out. It is not probable that the
and has always been opposed to . r ,
, , l Jam w"l "c broken for several
monopolies, and the best place; ueckS-
to oppose monopolies and;
to correct the evils which have j Chicago Safe at Last.
crept into our government under
Republican rule is in the Demo-
cratic ranks, and there can be no
excuse for a Democrat to go out-
side. The incentive caii only be
to capture the offices.
Again, this movement is directly
The city Government of Chica-
go is fearfully and wonderfully
made. It has gone to work to
suppress riot and to prevent dan-
1 ger with an originality and fervor
that in these days of commonplace
things is encouraging to the last
against the principles of the Dem-1 degree It has shut up Mr
ocratic party, and I might add, 1 Moody's revival meetings! None
the institutions of our Republican of the rum shops have been dosed
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form of government. Political
parties are necessary, and for se-
cret organizations by themselves
or by a concert of action among !
themselves to take the place of a I
These fertile elements of peace and
good order and th«/ watchfulness
of the authorities are now the
city's principle hope. In due time
it is expected that those dangerous
party, when under the constitution hot bcds of anarchyi the public
An Eagles Nest.
A mammoth gum tree an the
woods near Cambridge, Md., has
for years been used by an eagle
for the rearing of her young. The
tree has been cut down after great
labor. The nest at the top was
found as large as a cart body, and
contained two young eagles nearly
full fledged. The birds survived
the shock, and have been cared
for as pets. The old bird was out
on a foraging excursion at the
time.
A woodchuck was captured in
Coram, Mass., the other day, hav-
ing teeth of a peculiar malforma-
tion. Its upper teeth were of ex-
traordinary length and curled in-
wardly, terminating in the roof of
its mouth. The lower teeth were
fully as long, but shot upward out-
side the mouth. On account of
its curious development the ani-
mal had no use of its teeth, and
in consequence had nearly starved
when caught.
Montezuma, Ga., is nearly sur-
rounded by magnolia trees, which
are now coming into bloom and
present a magnificent spectacle,
while the air for miles is filled with
their sweet and delicate perfume.
£>f these organizations certain per-
sons, who might belong to the
same party as the majority of the
members of the organizations,
would be excluded from member-
ship in the organizations because
of their professional or business
callings, would deny to a large
p^r ren.tagejrf the membership in
the party any voice whatever in
party affairs.
I trust that your county execu-
tive committee will see to it that
regular Democratic primaries and
conventions are held in the county
and that your club and others will
work up an interest in them.
In my opinion any person who
will support at the polls a ticket
made antagonistic to the ticket of
schools, will be ordered closed du-
ring the excitement, and then
there will be nothing to fear ex-
cept the Sunday schools to which
the attention of the Government
is respectfully called. The insight
of the Government of Chicago is
as penetrating as ether. It is per-
fectly safe to affirm that there is
not another Government on the
face of the earth that would have
been brilliant enough to see the
danger of M.\ Moody's meetings.
The average Government would
have been just stupid enough to
have supposed that three thousand
rumshops would have done more
harm and created more disturb-
ance than these meetings. The
Natural Bridge, Virginia.
In Rockbridge County, Va., is
to be found one of the greatest
.curiosities in the United States,,
Spanning a small and unimport-
ant creek (the Cedar) is this
world's wonder—the Natural
Bridge. This bridge consists of a
stupendous arch of limestone rock,
over a chasm 50 feet wide at its
base, and 90 feet at the top. The
height of the bridge above the
stream, to the top, is 215 feet; its
average width is 80 feet; its ex-
treme length at top, 93 feet, and
its thickness, from the under to
the upper side, 55 feet. A clayey
earth covers it to the depth of
from four to six feet, and it pos-
sesses a natural parapet of rock at
the sides, rendered firm by rocks
and trees. The view from above,
for those who dare to take it, is
awfully grand, but the best pros-
pect is obtained from beneath,
where the astonished spectator
has full scope to grasp, at a single
glance, this magnificent work of
nature. If a survey from the top
is painful and intolerable, that
from below is pleasing in an equal
degree. The beauty, elevation,
and lightness of the arch, spring-
ing, as it were, up to heaven, pre-
sents a striking instance of the
graceful in combination with the
sublime.
True Womanhood.
average official the world over is
the regular Democratic organiza-j just as apt to think as not that a
tion, has no right to a voice in man w£th a glass of grog in his
the Democratic primaries or con- j hand js as dangerous as a man
ventions and should be excluded.
I have no desire to interfere in
your county affairs, as I have the
utmost confidence in your local
party officers, but desire to express
my gratification at your action in
this instance, and to urge you to
deal firmly and candidly with the
issues raised, and I desire also to
tender you any aid in my power.
Very Truly Yours,
Bryan T. Barrv.
Chairman State Democratic Exec-
utive Committee.
Wealth in Cattle.
The history of the civilized
world is but the history of the do-
reading his Bible. It is such un-
accountable stupidity that is so
exceedingly discouraging. Chi-
cago's city Government knows too
much to commit such a mistake
as that. It knows what a blessing
a rum shop is. It knows all about
a rum shop. It is the bright pro-
duct of three thousand of such
places. It ought to be familiar
with the pit out of which it was
dug. With Moody's meetings
closed, the police armed with rifles,
the Mayor issuing proclamations:
and plenty of beer and whisky if
we do not get straightened up or
down, it is a hopeless case.—
{Western Rural.
less and untrained to be equal to
these responsible duties. Life is
full of pleasant surprises if we are
prepared to accept and enjoy
them. It is full of unexpected
trials, and we should be armed to
meet them. We then urge with
emphasis upon every daughter of
our fair land—be a woman in all
the sweet charms and winning
ways that make your sex attrac-
tive and compel the highest admi-
ration of the sterner sex—be a
woman in the bright and beautiful
adornment of a meek and quiet
spirit which is beyond all price—
be a woman in the stern virtue of
self-denial, that gives to character
that completeness and force that
makes it equal to any emergency
of life—be a woman, queen of the
home and amid the world's rest-
less millions, holding the scepter
with a strong hand and a heart
full of sympathy and love. Be a
woman, not to struggle with the
rough and boisterous crowd in the
political arena or 011 the hustings,
but to reign in the heart and home,
the only asylum sacred to unsullied
virtue and unchanging love. Be a
woman, skilled in the power to
mould human character and shape
the destinies of the good and the
great—statesmen and heroes and
the giant minds that wrestle with
the sublime truths of science and
knowledge. Know your true prov-
ince and power and use them
wisely. Know your responsibili-
ties and duties and meet them
promptly and faithfully.
A Fortune Stolen by a Boy.
The State of Texas vs. the
Line Railroad.
East
We often hear the declaration
fko fntlipr in hi<5 hoy. "Be a
man, my son, but seldom near
the equal appropriate utterance,
"Be a woman, my daughter."
Is it not true that our present
methods in social life has forced
upon our wives and daughters an
amount and kind of labor and re-
sponsibility demanding the high-
est and best cultivation, and the
most practical intelligence ? Is it
not equally true that if we fail to
give them that kind of educa-
tion and training that will qualify
them to meet the responsibilities
we are recreant to our sacred
trust and will bring disaster on
our social and national life as
well. It is certainly inconsistent
with the varied duties of mother-
hood that our daughters should
be trained to be merely parlor
ornaments capable only of amus-
ing and entertaining. Life under
the most favorable circumstances
is full of stern duties and severe
trials that tax to the uttermost
capacity the best effort of the
highly and best trained of our
race. How then can we expect
the inexperienced, gay, thought-
District Attorney Sheppard has
received instructions from the at-
torney-general to bring suit
against the East Line for the for-
feiture of their charter. The last
legislature passed an act giving
the attorney-general 35,000 to pay
expenses of suits for this purpose
against railroads that consolidated
with other roads, and the East
Line, now being operated as apart
of and mefged into* the Missouri
Pacific system, has under this act
forfeited its charter. Mr. Sheppard
will probably bring suit in this
county.—[Pittsburg Gazette.
A Determined Suicide.
Pittsburg, June 17.—About six
o'clock this evening as the work
train on the Missouri Pacific was
coming to Pittsburg at a point 4
miles east of here a man was seen
walking on the track. As the
train neared him he stepped off,
but when it got within a few feet
of him he threw himself on the
track and the entire train passed
over him, mangling him horribly
beyond recognition.
The remains were brought here
and the coroner's jury has so far
been unable to learn who the sui-
cide is.
Mysterious Proceeding.
The Genesee River is surprising
manufacturers along its banks by
its increasing volume of water
from year to year. Some years
ago, in common with other streams
of the State, the water deminished
and the mills and factories that
had depended on it for power
were obliged to use steam. The
Rochester Democrat says that
millers who have not used their
K.1"tfi1esn^rnirjais(ifeiffffiti,faatefJS
advantage. No explanation is
given for this condition of the
river.
The Farming of the Future.
ltobbed of Bonds Worth •340,-
000 and #5000 iu Gold.
In 1985 farmers will live in vil-
lages where their families will have
the best social and educational
advantages. These villages will
be like the hub of a wheel, from
which will go out in all directions
electric railways which take ihe
farmer and his laborers to the
farm, and bring back the products
to market. The farms will be
small, but scientifically and syste-
matically worked. The
Boston, Mass., June 9.—A day
or two ago detectives were notified
by a prominent law firm that a tin
box containing $5°°° *n £°Id,
valuable papers relating to estates
valued at more than $500,000, and
3340,000 unregistered United
States bonds had been stolen from
their office. The detective has
ascertained that the thief was no
other than the firm's 13 year old
office boy, named John Ellis, who
took the box, pocketed the
money, hid the box and bonds in
an archway in the old post office
under the Merchant's Exchange.
The bonds belonged to two or
three estates for which one of the
lawyers was a trustee. The trunk
and bonds were knocked around
by the boy until fortunately he
took them to his employers office
again and concealed them in an
out-of-the-way place in an old
fashioned safe. All the money but
3100 was recovered. The boy was
arrested. He began his career as
a thief by stealing postage stamps
in order to buy the wares of a pie
man.
An Unexpected Turn.
Milwaukee, Wis., June 10.—A
sensation was created in court cir-
cles to-day by the sudden and un-
expected turn in a number of con-
spiracy cases growing out of the
recent labor riots. At the opening
of the municipal court Mr. N. S.
Murphy, counsel for the defense,
withdrew a motion for a contin-
uance in a number of cases, and
then left the court room. In his
absence District Attorney Wil-
liams, suspecting a trick, called
the cases, and neither defendants
nor their counsel appearing, the
judge declared bail in thirteen
cases, amounting to $15,000
forfeited. Murphy returned soon
afterward and endeavored to have
the judge reverse his decision, but
the latter refused. The matter will
be argued further this afternoon.
Figures from the United States
Treasury.
Uncle Sam's income last year
was a little more than $1,000,000
for each business day. He pays
nowadays $1,000,000 a week for
interest on the public debt. Uncle
Sam is a great builder, and to-day
is erecting eighty fine buildings,
some of which will cost over
$1,000,000. Uncle Sam is also the
largest holder of improved real
estate in the country. Thirty-four
hundred national banks have been
started, but only 2,700 remain to
cheer us and shave us.
Mr. Cleveland's Sevenly Luck.
The marriage certificate of Gro-
ver Cleveland and Frances Folsom
shows that the former is 49 years
old and the latter 21. As we all
know, "figures do not lie," and, as
we have learned from the alchem-
ists, the figure seven is particular-
ly lucky. Now, if one reflects
that the bride's age is three times
seven and that the groom's age
is seven times seven, he will see
how lucky they ought to be.—[Cin-
cinnati Enquirer.
Honest Men Needed.
wnIh4VJ'TOu-StaGi). candidates
pie are patriotic but restless, and
they need leaders with honest
hearts and giant intellects. There
never has been a finer field for
statesmanship since the days of
Washington and Jefferson than
Texas presents at the present
moment.
Justice in New Jersey.
will be what he should be now—
the most independent man on
earth.—[Western Plowman.
A drunken young loafer at a
dance in Newark, N. J., struck a
pretty and respectable young girl
from an adjacent town who had
accepted an invitation to the ball.
Until he is tried for the assault
farmer I the girl must remain imprisoned
Praying for Rain.
Stephenville, June 20.—People
living in different portions of this
county have been holding meet-
ings and praying for rain. Two
very light showers have fallen
during the past few days.
as a witness, away from home and
friends.—Phil. Record.
Be Natural or Die.
"How to Act in a Cyclone" is
the heading of a newspaper arti-
cle. The neighbors can act just
as they want to when a cyclone
strikes the town, but we shall act
just as if we were going down eel-
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