Fort Griffin Echo (Fort Griffin, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 38, Ed. 1 Saturday, September 20, 1879 Page: 1 of 3
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FORI .(.SK1FK1N. HII.Vl'lvKLI'UlM) CO UN l'Y. TKXAS, SA .'LI t:> VY,
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A. A CLARKE,
J.AWYER AYDIAND ACS EM'
kojikiiou (tit o riii:u.
.File (ll!l!i w||i>disroV.Ts a uk 11
Is juipiilii'd with n*-n tTp«i nv.il
1-9 .1 1
have the
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best prfsn
In the country.
1 -0 1S7U SO. 38
Ourprlcpc for Job Work are ft* low bs
any country office can work for and liVn
semi \ ii.ur
1,1. I In*
Albaiiji
Texas.
llui fomloovora (jpurtor of n million
of acres of line luiul belonging to tho
Frnnco-'li^xtm Company.
PETER HART,
Attorney at Law & Land Agent,
■ A-I.3-A.15rY,
Shackelford County, Texas.
Ts7 STEEL,
Justice of the Peace
V'-"; - —AKD— .
BX-omcio notary public.
Fort Grlflln, • > • Texa .
*0. A. KIBKLAND,
attoritet at law,
Landand Collecting Agent.
Prompt personal attention given to all
business.
Buffalo fop, Taylor County, Texas.
. Jr N. BROWNING, ~
mmst ;AT law,
FORT GRIFFIN,
Shackelford County, - * - (Texas.
RYE,
ATTORNEY * COUNSELOR
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ALBANY, ~ - - - - - TBXA8,
DR. W. M, POWELL
Tradershis professional services to the
sltlmaaf FortGriffin and surrounding
•omnuiuy'.
OOm, next door to Conrad & Rntlt's,
W Malrs. " nSly
SPECIAL ADVERTISEMENTS.
I.; 8. THOMAS,
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Tho Ttiomas Patent dULLED IRON
GAGlS Raids Prisoners. No Guards
Required.
Port Wortli, Texas. P. O. Box, 63.
——
One Wants!
A jp^^iMtn Meal and a good Clean
Bed, all ofwhloh can be obtained at the
FRONTIER HOUSE.
R1U.T W1UOH, Proprietor.
rOBXORIPPIN. TEXAS.
LOUIS W0LFR0M,
▲ large WAGON Y AHD wKli plenty
•f hay and grain for sale.
fOttT ORIJWlK,- - - - • TEXAS.
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CATTLE EXCHANGE,
JOHN 8HANSBEY, Proprietor.
PaloPlnto, t ill I Texas.
Keeps none but the best of Wines,
Liquors and Cigars-
COMMERCIAL HOTEL,
>BECKJ5NRIDGE - - - - TEXAS.
Mrs. CUCTIIIER, Proprietor.
Bouse and Furniture entirely new.
the best table in Northwest. Texas.
HUNTER, EVANS&CO:,"
■'x.xvs stock ■ ■
COMMISSION MERCHANTS.
NATIONAL STOCK YARDS,
East St. Louis. Illinois.
I;iie ljfiii.ii^burdenTor every man*?. i;lii.i;|.; M*iIft* Il :if is ivhrranff d to CUTe'st lit- i.in
v (ler. "all the IIIs ijjiit lli .sii i«. heir to." , , . ,
<S-U- rroni.io „.ul | mav get rich qui.-kor ,|i;iu |,js i • * d"1" 1 «0' no'dun# about
■ '*■ ' • wli, i, S ni'l«i'l>«1>uf lnMl.M'sn't Iiv.* nuy iKriHtw.v hnint got nol gi'ist io
' lon^or.—/ Ihruhl. send. Bur wi-get oiir flour and
Miss It 111 youth tiiul 'twill f„nu>
We're t>!iler, '
Ami |lt u« aK close us tlio •>ai°iiii>iii. wi>
... WOIIV. " . i
Sorrow foniPH Into our illc unlit
KobUngoiir benrU of tlu-ir tmisiiivs of
; souk; ;
Lovers jrit.w cnlil and iVIcuilslitps arc
. sllffhte.1, w .....
l ct somehow or oilier we worry along.! I'm u dfudh'.
Evovyntav" toll Is tin cverjxliiy lilcssi.injrv P '
'I'lioiijrh [.overtyV cottatfi: anil itiim wo
: mny .«li:uv;
AVoak Is the ItucU on wlik'li liiirdciis afo
prcsslnif.
Hut stout is flic lieart that is stivngtli-
. oin'il liy pi'iiyVr.. ,
Somehow or other tlie imtlmav grows
brighter.
Just w hen we niournM there were none
to befriend;
Hope hi the heart makes the bunien seem
llRhler. .
And somehoAV or other we arrive iit the
end.- ■
Cash ndrartces made on
Mulhall & scaling.
LIVE, STOCK
COMMISSION MKRCll ANTS.
MCIISUR.BIiS.
FlaUery ia like-colognt* vvatbr.
to b** 8mi'lled of, not swallowed.
Honeysuckles, are like good>
looking pirls lianpitig around
the front door *
Of course women can keep a
secret, but it takes a good many
of.thein to do it.
Nothing will make a bald
man so mad as a fly thai doesn't
know when it has had enough.
"Stand up and lei 1 the truth
like a little bell punch" is the
latest addition to the phraseol-
ogy of slang.
There is more joy over the
dollar which is found on the
highway than (here is over th«
ninety and nine thai were never
lOSt. .!■
A colored man in Georgia says
he never saw tmcliliard times; he
works all day and steals all
niffhr,. and then he can hardly
make a living.
The hardest thing in the world
for a young woman to do is to
look unconcerned the lirat rime
she comes out in a handsome en
gagement ring.
The Yontcer's Gaselte has an
article entitled, ■'What do vve
eat ?" That depends. Tf you
live in a boarding houso no
hutnati being can tell.
Any father who would go out
and put tar on top of his front
gate, after dark, must be lost to
all Sense of humanity and
ordinary respectability.
No wamau was ever made
r rand-shouidered at the wash-
tub, and no man ever became
humpbacked •from splitting
wood at the family pile.
Any man, says Josh Bil-
lings, who can swap horses or
catch fish and not he about it
is just' about as pious as men
ever git to be in this world.
A lady said that woman .was-
the only- sincere exponent of
Christianity; Suiften lemarks,
''That is the reason why so
many young men wish to em
brace the faith."
The three proudest moments
of a man's life, between the era
die and the grave, are when lie
guts his first pair of red-top
boots, when the girls call him
"Mister," and when the doctor
tells him it is a boy.
An editor's business is to!
write editorials, grind out poo-
try, sort manuscript, keep a
mighty big waste basket, steal
matter, fight c.ther people's bat-
tles,"take wood and truck for
pay when he can get it, work ;
nineteen hours out of twenty
foul*, and b«f damned bv even-
body.
A chtin h warden in tiiKing tij i "1Ha' ^'"'is by rail,
a collection on a certain Sumlay. "I *e«vy<>u Ha ve a hide in
not very long ago, in a western wagon."
village, handed the plate to a "Yes. our
stranger, \v lu' Sui.I : "Ho on, J
>iOt.
t h>
old cow died last
week. Match winds blowed the Hluj liaj
life out'n her. Seudin' tin
I to Boston to get it tanned.
W.i-lit'i' '1 tie ii,i u |- 11 •iiitl i
express we'd Ik- .is iiapi<y t s
tiliiceliolders."
'V 'tr Imfse in the lead there
Svelu.H tu be lii hie."
"Yes, needs sh<iein'. If he
was .'i the otdy horse I've got,
and can'i spate him, I'd send
him up where tihvy make shoes
a ...ii and get hi hi shod,
life out n her. Set.din' the hide c^n't g t miHi a thing done in
Pleastird'^ha-. juanv .'detini'tion's,'. „ tn . t .
but in reality it consists of! "AH the way to Boston r
"Yes, sir."
ffoing someu herfc.beincpert'ectlv
u comforlaMo all the lime while
there and calling it- "the host
titue you ever hud " -Marathon
Independent. ^
Wry young ma a i;i barber-
shop —"Yes.it is curious 1 have
no beard; 1 cant think who I
take after—my grandfather had
a splendid one." Barber.—"O,
perhaps yoil take after your
grandmother.' , :
A rural editor, speaking of a
driving contemporary,
says : "Ilis intellect is so dense
that it would take the auger of
common sense longer to pene
trate it than to bore throtmh
Mont Blanc with a boiled car-
rott."
Customer: "What did you
think of the bishop's sermon on
Sunday, Mr. Wigsbv Ilair'
dresser—"Well, really, sir, there
wa a gout, a sittin* in front o'
me us 'ad his"'air parted that
crooked that I couldn't Var a
.word."
"Ma." said a little girl, "do
men want to get mariied
ns mucli cs the women do
"Pshaw 1 what are yon thinking
about. ?" "Why. ma. the ladies
who come here are a'lw.-ivs talk-
ing about guting married, the
men don't." • *
The beauty of summr in the
temperate zone is t lie amout of
physical exer cise a niiiu can
take, lie lies await- and fight
inosquitoei all night, and writes
wi t h the Hies and prick lv hen tall
day. thay must miss these
things in tlie tropics.—Burling-
ton Ifdickei/e.
A gentleman was one day re-
lating to a Quaker a tale of deep
distress, and concluded by say-
ing : "1 could not but feel for
him" Verily, friend, replied
the Quaker, thou didst right in
that thou did sr ft el for thy
neighbor ; but didst thou feel in
the right place-didst thou feel
in thy pocket ?
An old fashioned clergyman. ■
iiatmd More, was riding on
huiseback one sterm.V day, «'ti
i.use cloak i,f bilge
"THE ARKANSAS T^iAVilli-
Kit" IN A \EW ROLE.
He IaterrogaieN a 1'lillonopli*
' t leal iViMlMipiiin, IV ho Be-
lieves ItnllrimdH Are a
GimmI Tiling and
Oitgbl to bo
Used.
[Nil telle/. (Ml- .) Denioexat.)
'Halloo, straugei, you seem
to be going to market ?"
"Yes, sir, I-at'i."
"What are you carrying that
plow along J'or f"
"Going to send it to Pitts
burg." ?
"To Pittsburg, in Pennsylva
nia<"
"You'remighty right. I nin."
"What are von going to send
it there for : '
"To get it ahai'penofl."
To get it sharpened?
"You- bcl! We've starved
our blacksmith nut. He pulled
up stakes the ..tlier
went to Texas."
"Is not that expensive my
friend ? The freight will more
than eat the hide up."
"That's a fact—eat it up
cleaner than the buzzards did
the old critter's carcass. But
what's the use being taxed to
build railroads, 'thout you get
good of 'em ? Used to have a
tauyard ovei at Lickskillet, and
a 'shoe shop too, but they ker
flummuxed."
"Keiflutumuxed—what's that)''
"That means gone up the
spout—ami 'twixc you and me,
that's mighty high the case
with our state."
'■ When dp you expect to get
your lea. her <"
* "Don't expect to get no leather
at all—expect to get shoes some
day, made at B <ston, or there'
about." ■
"Rath< r u misfortune to lose a
trtilch cow "
"Not so much of a misfortune
as you heard it was. Monstrous
sight of shuckin' and nubbins
in a cow, and inilkiu' night and
moruiu' gettiu' only 'bout three
quarts a day.''
" VV hat are you going to do for
milk?" V-,""'
"Send uorth for it."
"Send north for milk ?'
"Yes—concentrated milk and
Goshen buttet."
"Oh ! 1 see the point."
"Mighty handy things, these
railroads—make thein Yankee
fellers do all our jobs for Ua
uow—doour s.nithiu' and grind-
in', and miikiii' and cliurnin'."
"You; raise cottoii, I suppose?"
"Yes, we go our bottom did-
lar on cotton. Sendiu' it up to
Massachuaetts to gel car.ted,
spun and wove. Tiiutf'Il come
when we'll send it there to be
giuhed, then we will be happy.
Monstrous sight of trouble run-
niiig these gins."
Tnat would • e rather expen-
sive, setidiug cotton in seed.
"No mote so than when .he
western tellers send corn east
and get a dollar a bushel and
pay six-bits freight. Besides,
aa I said, what is the use of
paying for railroads 'thought
we use the road."
"You seem to appreciate rail-
roads."
%Jliiiik we ought-we pay
etiougb^or 'em."
"I reflSfPh you fatten your own
pork."
"Well, jou reckon wrong,
stranger. I get them Illinoy
fellers to do that for roe. It's
mighty convenient, too, mon-
strous sight of trouble toting a
(these pans. Pethaps I can tit
• the depot..''
"^ow do you manage to live
in yohr parts, my old friend ?"
" Why, we raise cotton. Gee,
Ball—my road turns off here-
back, Brandy—I'm glad 1 seed
you; si ranger."
e kmbli.su ox the greek,
Soiuc Anecdotes of the Grceu
Table ttud lis ItW To-
: tai tew. ■
[From the Evansvilie Journal.]
; A Jxurnal teporcerfeil among
a group of persons wjio were
comparing expeiieucen oh that
fruiilul field of the cloth of
green. One of them said:
"An Evansvilie gambler told
nie he went to Vi< ksbtiig last
winter a «d dropped into a faro
room. Around the' table were
Seated a number oi bald headed
fellows wearing jeans suits, and
each had a big pile of blue and
red chips before him. At last
our guiubler coucluded to go in.,
and, thinking to make a "bloody
big bluff," pUiled out his roll
at<d said to the dealer, in a loud
and pompous tone of voice :
"•Giijime a hundred dollars
worth pf chips.'
'To his astonishment the play-
ers paid no attention, and the
dealer, without putting down
the box, slipped his left hand
in tiie drawer and threw put a
litih white chip.
'1 never even stopped,' said
the i^vunsviile man, "to inquire
what the blue and reds were
worth.' :
. iiother ot the group told a
story of a friend of his who
was in the railroad business,
and was tu the habit of playinga
small game pf poker at five
cents ante with the men at head-
quarters. The chips jgere, in
technical parlance, called 'five
and fifteen"—worth five and fif-
teen cent S respectively. He
Went. to Indianapolis' to meet
some big guns .of other roads,
and after dinner it was pro
posed to-play poker. He was a
nupi of tiioderate circuni.-tances,
and iiot a gambler by any
means, playing only for the
smaller stakes. He agreri,
and tne chips were called out
•five and fifteen,' and he
said he would take ten reds and
about twenty whites. They
were counted out, aud, as usual
among friends, not to be cashed
until the game was ended. The
deal was made and he drew a
pair of queens. He thought he
would show them he played a
liberal game, and when his turn
came to bet ho s'lored up his
ten ieds, and finally put in the
twenty whites. The others all
There's one thing
tHongli, to make the
<\.iiipU'le."
'• W oat's that
"They ought to send thein
"NVell. that's rallici a n«.vel, none to tote it to."
idea, my fri. : .1 —?:s.<lintf a "I should think so."
Coriwiondiinec soliViiteii aivi nmrKct re-' veloped in a I' use eloalt <d huge . 1 ^ ! . , l i
perls furnished on appiicatioii to piojn?i:iioiis. anil hn VI g a brotid !■ '^i>t •" T"U l t-i i I «*• •«' 1
WJI..HtlXTUlCGeii'l AKt..|';.,t linml. |{> the actint.i of was, We d- <"t:' niU.'i: .u i i ' !
I rtWorth, - - - ... - le\.i-. t,,l! vvi!,d ilnv cfoaii was tossiturt
ab"Ut in all tlirecli ns, when a j ,.js j||;i, S'(
geiitlem.tii rode ii) oil a spirited | ' ' ,, , ., ■
I,which shi,d and almost! *•' l^,!| '' NV
threw tlii' lider. "Tliat clonk of: used to li.tve a. mill :it
yours would frijjhlenthc devil,"; vi!■ .'in
said the gent leu,an. "Yftu |,,() j„,ni
li'.n'l : it;- s..:" lepli-d Mr. M",e.-„|1 i., lin\ in
"wil V that'- JllSt as It .dioulii lie. , •
for Ifig'tleaiug the ■ le • i I i> : !- ' I
,• v:i' lMM I |7I.le." 1 ' 1 ' 1 'IT
big basnet full of corn three
day a lid! times a day to hogs in a pen J drew ont, one throwing up two
' especially when you hain't got [pairs and another a flush, He
fifteen cents. Why.
my family three
five and
A2.-)0
months "
And he quit .1
hurry, and refused to take his
winnitius, because ho thought
they were not honestly his own.
"I think it was John Miller,"
said another gentleman, "who
ran a 'doctored deck' in a little
irame one evening. We had
played for some time, and Mil-
ler dealt. We could see an
soon as the cards were dealt
every man hud .a good hand.
They drew thei*1 chairs up, fin-
gered their chips nervously, and
the betting began.
"It started cautiously, and
No. 1 put up as if he was afraid
of his judgment. No. 2 dou-
bled it. No. 3 came in and dou-
bled, and sp it wei.t until at last
every one's watch and chain,
studs and pins, were up and
ticketed for their value. Not a
man went out, and the excite-
ment was intense when the last
bet was up and the call was
uude.
"Then," said the story-teller,
"every one of us had four kings
and an ace, and filler sat and
hallooed. He had run a doc-
tored deck in.
"I don't think I ever saw so
much excitement in a game in
my life. Of course, all bets
went oft."
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Plncblng the Wrong Leg. .
A dignitary of the church was
dining ont. Of the . two ladies
between whom he waa seated
the one on his right-hand ride
was an intimate acquaintance,
noticed that her distinguished
neighbor was silent and preoc-
cupied, said to him sotto voce :
I am afraid you are hot very
well this evening—you do not
s>em in your usual spirits.
Well, said the dignitary, I am in
rather a nervous state of mind
about my health, and have a
sort of presentiment that a ser-
ious illness is hanging over me, I
am conscious of a peculiar numb-
ness all down my right side,
which seems to forbode an at-
tack of paralysis. His fair com-
panion expressed her hope that
such fears were ill-founded- Ah,
no, lie replied, I'm afraid there's
no doubt of it, for I have been
pinching my right leg all dinner-
time and can elicit no respon-
sive feeling whatever- The limb
seems quite dead to all feeling,
Oh, >xdaimed the lady briskly,
and with an. expression of in-
tense relief on her face, if that is
all which troubles you, I think T
can at once relieve your mind
from anxiety, for tho leg you
have been pinching all the time
is mine _
A Blaopbemer Conies to Grief.
A Little Rock, Arkansas, dis-
patch under date of August I :J
says: Intelligence from Smith-
ville, Lawrence count}-, states
that a farmer there, whoso
crops had been suffering from
drought, prayed fervently fur
rain. Dry weather continued,
however, and he ' changcd his
prayer into curses, blasphem-
ing everything sacred. Sud-
denly the family observed
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threw down his queens and
raked in the pot. The others!smoke, then sparks issuing
lackiu'j looked at his hand in astonish- from his mouth, ears and nose,
busines ■ ment, and one exclaimed : • succeeded presently by suiphut-
"What! do von bet $*>".( on P« blue lfames. He is now at
'a pair of queens r" home, where he paces the floor
i •'J.),,|!a',s, li—1!" said the(coiistantly, unable to eat or
hogs cooked. Coi/kin',ttnd pie lotli 'r ; "no
piirin* wood f it cookiti', tiiki s |
but cents ves." idrink, while fire and smoke of
nl.-:" tclied the Iii^t; an unearthly hue escape.-, from
ow :ie'r go? i up a heap of tinie ihat ought by 1 "why, t! 1 - e cliii'j are
U]-, at d -',.',111 be einpioyed ill the ci 11..11 S^l
■■ 1.' :d patch. I was say in' to. my old! "'''lieu • tale your money," 1 '["here ate l.Vt women dentist,
.\ 1 . i." .volutin tother «', v. if we Missis
sj and! him'day and night. Uissitflet-
lings are terrible to contemplate.
Missis ■ cried our f: i.-nd, .jumping up in in the United States, and 1 ;3.i0
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I was b«-i 1 iti'j ■ ai-' studvimr demist ry
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