Fort Griffin Echo (Fort Griffin, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 39, Ed. 1 Saturday, September 27, 1879 Page: 1 of 4
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VOL.1. FORT GRIFFIN, SHACKELFORD COUNTY. TEXAS, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 1879. NO. 39.
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BEST PBESS
In the couutry.
Our price* tor Job Work are m 1°" "
any country ofllce can work for ami live
normutoNAL.
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WHEELER & POSEY,
attorneys at i,aw,
Breckenridge, Texas.
WO'vneHn tn the Federal Court at
Giakw. Md in the District courts of Ste-
pta^ShMkeUbrdaui Younjr«ttunth-s.
... a. a. CLARKE. ^
UWTIM AID liSD AOE.XT
albajt - - - - - Texas.
Bat brathofita quarter of a million
sfaan* oCtae land belonging to tlie
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.nri$B HAET,
Tr,.,.0jp^wiAaB-y.
QnHjt, Texas.
ONLY 'A WOWO.
Only n wonl! a Utile wingotl word,
lilown llir.iijfli the l>u*y town,
Lighter tliiin lilHile down—
Lighten unriiifu Ity roving I m or lilrtl.
Bruslietl from the blossnmmg lily'H golden
crown;
Uorae Idly here and there,
Oft us the ftiuiuui r ulr
About men's doom the sunny stillest!
stirred.
Only a wonl!
Uut sharp, O sliuriier thun a two-edged
sword,
To plerre, and sting, and scar
The heart, whose pence u Ureutli of blame
could mar.
Only a wonl, a little word that fell
Unlived- d us the uew
That from the durU.ng blue
Of Hiuuiuer midnight softly steals to tell
" i tale of singing brook mid star-lit dell
In yonder noisome street* "
Wnerq, pale with dust ami beat.
The little window dower In workman's
cell, .- .
Its drooping bell'
Uplifts to greet the kiss it knows so well;
A wonl, a drop of dew!
ButO, Its touch oould life's lost hope re-
new.
—Sunday Afternoon.
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ITOTAttV PUBLIC.
• • Texa«.
HCXIMOK.U1T8.
Poverty la a bully if you are
afraid of it, but is good:iiatur*d
enough if you meet it balf way.
Moiera^worite\iifr art.—The
chioiiio that conies with a pack*
uge of t^a is less a work an than
the stnft called tea.—New Or-
leant PUayune.
ghren to all The papers are full of items
about tlie "Light Running Do-
r Tatm mestic." They probably allude
*' * to the hired girl who goes
around the house in her stock*
ro,
Brazil, next spring, is to follow* hardly a -foothold before tlietn,
their chances of keeping on
were dwubtful, when they luck-
ily found two lugs which they
lushed together with their belts,
and again trusting to the river
and still more dangerous rock?
they set out to search for their
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POWELL
d «u*a«udlnc
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to Conrad 4
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iBNTS.
About thirty thousand tele-
ph lies are now in use in this
country, and about five hundred
In England. Things are so
close together there, says the
Philadelphia JBidklin.
When a paragrupher gels up
•mething too stupid to go in
lefunny column he give* it to
the literary editot. who puts ft
lii the column headed -'Pearlsof
Thought."—Boston l\xst.
A bill to cut down lent fifty
ner cent-. —An intellectual mem-
bei of the Arkansas legislature
has .introduced a Wllnbbreviat
ing the peasoik of leiit from forty
to twenty > QkyK-rSt. Louis
US
No Guards
V'f- ...
itor
lands
(eaal
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ji.i.-S&il*.;.
pon dent.—"Will the ed
_ ise inform me where my
family can go on Sundays and
be cool and comfortable without
danger of being crowded I"
Answer, by the Rochester Dem-
ocrat—Qo to church !, .
When filling acavity, dentists
place a dam in the
tieut'fe mouth. a tooth
'the dentist is
with plenty
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TEXAS.
Proprietor,
t tit t Tex as.
!<|i tr'the beat of Wtaee,
relieved, of tbat duty. Tbe pa-
tient supplies all that are re-
qulred.—J0 <itim Transcript.
If Kansas keeps oil she will in
a few years be one of the most
thickly populated of the south
western states. She has spent,
a few thousand dollars to attract
immigrants, Texas not a cent.
Look at the result. :
l.ist year's example of Mexico —
she will provide, free of cliarjre.iii
Riode Janeiro u large ami fuiia.
I le building for the exiiiliitiun
a ltd sale ol such goods
American maniifactruers may
choose to send, and will admit
•sample gonds free of duty. Cer
tainly it will belli* fault of the
titaniVfacttires if thay do not
profit by the liberal offer.
• Adulteration is one of the
great evils of the age. Chemistry,
originally na aid to hygiene
and health has .been invoked for
their destruction. Not a day
passes but we sit down to our
breakfast tables to eat chalk,
clay, swallow vile and corroding
acids, and if vou have occasion
to take a drink of whisky, ten to
one if you ate not gulping down
tobacco j nice, extrct of Indian
hemp, strychine, or fusil oil.
Getting up in a cold room to
make a tire is like at tling op in
^life, If yon crawl tlthldly out of
bed, go(on ,'tip^toe to tlie stove,
and allow ; the • shivers to gel
control of you before the kind-
ling starts, your lira will proba-
bly lie a failure, and you will
half freeze to dea th ill the opera-
tion. But if you j iimp out
bravely, bustle around, pull on
your clothes, knock over a chair
or two, and pitch in the stove
wook, you will probably be too
warm 'before jthe fire gets to
burning, and have to open, a
window. So lb life. Attack it
timidlyand yon rill fail. Grap-
ple with it, bury dp things, stir
around, conquer fortune, and
you will be a lOiccess.
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Down th* VI| Horn Canyon.
[From the Yellowstone Journal.j
Through the; Big Horn in a
cockleshell! ^ ho could have
imagined that auch a mad'freak
would be attempted and above
all, who can believe su<|h a trip
accomplised f And yet iVilliam
Hughes and John O'Bi ien, two
miners, have-done it. 'thinking
toaa^i^ro h tindred miles* travel
around the Uionqfaina they con-
.to come .by Ihe Wind
river Ihlrbugh the Big. Horn can-?
yon; down the Big Horn livar to
the Yellowstone. With some
tools they had their mining
camp they built their frail craft
at the bottom .of tbe canyon,
haying previously .itaken down
their material of ned cedar. The
boat waa made'twelve feet long,
three feet wide, and upon trial
was found to carry her cargo of
4,\Vanst upon a time," suid
Prentiss, "the lion, to replenish
his larder, made a fire itl Lis
den of something that smelt bud
iutirely. and thin he .called all
the other bastes to him to givej
an opinion upon tliescint. 'And
how d'ye like the smell of me
boat, which they found two parlor to-day ?' nays the lioi) to
miles below, where it had stop- tlie bear. The honestould bear
ped in an eddy. On the after- replied,'It smells bad.' Thin
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i Proprietor.
Furniture entirely new.
taMe In Northwest Texas.
/'HAKTH.
IALST00K YARDS,
>t. Louis, Illinois.
. made on consignments,
solicited and market re-
on application to
8CJVTER. Gen') Agt
Texas.
1 & ucaling.
^v* Live stock
COMMISSION MERCHANTS.
^or theasle of Cattie, Ho*k and Sheep.
„ National stock yards,
Kart St Loui,, m.
Direct ooramunicatfpn by tcicgrapii in
the yard*.
A great many tuorally in-
clined businessmen will tell you
that the people of to-day are not
as they were in their time—
—but they'll shove a bogus
quarter on' a near-sighted man
just' as quick as a man of
tiiore modern make.—Blmira
Gazette.
Among the attractions an-
nounced in connection with the
open air meeting of Evangelist
Kennion in the streets of this
city, are "a rushing mighty
wind"' and *'a red-hot gospel
fire, blazing all the tinie in tne
evening's cutuping grounds."—
New York Sun.
This idea of the biggest head
knowing the most is all i.on-
sense. The mastodon had the
bigest head of his time, and yet
didnt know enough to go into
thenik out of the rain, and be
saved. The mosquito, with
scarcely any head at all, was
wiser.—Norristown I/erald.
Andrew Jackson wns accused
of bad speling. but John Ran-
dolph defended him bv declar-
ing that "a man must be a fool
who could not spell words more
ways than one/' A boy when
rebuked fwr spelling needle, n-e
i-d-1 e, said that every good nee-
dle should have an eye in it.
"Sew it should," reftiupdefi the
' teacher.
noon of the third day, while
wondering how much longer the
Big Horn canyon could possibly
be, they suddenly shot out into
the beautiful Big Horn valley,
with old Port C. P. Smith on
their right.
A Veteran's Experience.
"Another boarding-house bust-
ed up, I see," sighed a venera-
ble Detroit landlady, as she
laid down her paper. "Well, it
must have been extravagance on
t lie'table. That's what bank-
rupts seven out of ten, and even
then the - boarders are crying
'bash,' and complaining of poor
meals Now 1 run a boarding
house for twenty-two. years, and
I made money .and. heard no
complaints. How did I do it V
Why, it's all in planning. Poi
instance, a neck-piece of mutton
cuii be cut to look like a rib-
roast* and a little extra fire
makes it j>ist as tender. Lawd
save you! I've been compli
mented a thousand times on my
selection of choice spring lam b,
when, the meat was mutton four
years old, and the toughest part
at that. The. idea of .spring
chicken on -a' boarding-house
table is absurd—aye 1 almost
wicked, in my
could take tough old hen, pound
tbe body with the potato masher
for ten minutes, and set before
my boardeis a feast to make
every heart glad. Now I'll
venture that there aren't ten
landladies in this city who can
bake a pig's head and slice off
the meat in a manner to make
everybody believe that he has
the choicest cut in a pig's body,
and ijt's a wonder ro' mie that
there ate'u't mbrq'failures, lots
of landladies' buy nice fresh
butter, abd thus tempt a man to
eat five or six biscuits or half - a
loaf of bread. What economy!
freight and passengers admira- I always had my nice butter on
bly. So on tho|: tnotning of tbe
83 of July, they untied their
boat and pushed into the cur-
rent. Tbe rush of the river,
which before starting was al-
most deafening, wae terrible itt
its roar -as the boat' Started on
its jourbey through'- this un-
known gorge. To go back was
impossible; to climb the solid
limestone wall * which rose-five
hundred feet above their heads,
where a narrow strfeak of light
lighted up their course, was not
to be entertained as a means of
escape, through they must go,
trusting to their ability to avoid
rocks and the strength of theii
craft to run Ihe rapids and falls
they met at every bend of the
canyon. On they went. The
loudest, halloo was- heard as a
whisper. Grottoes, caves, cou-
lees, unknown recesses of nature
were passed by these hardy
nuvigators. In places, flocks of
mountain sheep, startled by the
appearance of the curiosity
rushing by below them, would
run along a ledgeof rocks, jump
from crag to crag, where looting
for man would be impossible,
and disappear. Evening com-
ing on, they attempted fo tie up
for the night, worked the boat
close to shore, jumped out, and
away went the craft, carrying
the guns ftnd provision. With
starvation behind them, and
the table at breakfast, when we
had little but toaist, and the
boarders got along on old
butter the other two meals. It
is all in the planning—all in the
planning. I used to have beef
steak every morniug. Three
mornings, in the week I bought
sirloin, which you know is very
nice, and the other four morn
ings I bought neck-pieces aud
rubbed the case-knives'over the
grindstone« Give a boarder a
sharp knife and a tough stake
and he'll never make a com-
plaint—never.' He'll put the
blame on his teeth, und the
more steak lie leaves oil his
f)late the more rabbit-pie you
lave for dinner."—De'.roit Free
Press.
An Anecdote of 8. 8. Prentiss.
[Wushingtoh Star.]
Duiing Van Buren's presiden-
tial term the brilliant S. S. Pren-
tiss, of Mississippi, gave a Mile-
sian version of tho fable of the
lion and the beasts, to illustrate
the adroitness with which Van
Buren, by a non-committal pol-
icy, managed to retain his posi-
tion in Jackson's cabinet at the
time of the explosion that dis-
lodged the other members. It
will be remembered that Van
Buren, in reference to his own
presidential policy, declared his
purpose to ' follow in tlie foot-
steps pf jiis illustrious predeces-
sor.''
the liou, pretending to be in a
rage, pouueed upon the bear aud
ate him up at wanst for his im-
politeness. Thin the lion said
to the wolf, 'And how d'ye like
the smell of me parlor to-day f
The ould wolf, whin he sor the
carcass of the bear that the lion
had just ate, lying in the cor-
uer, lie said, says he, 'It's the
most delightful femell I iver
smelt in all me life.' 'Take that
for lying,' said the lion, and he
hit the wolf pat that knocked,
the breath out of him intijrely.
Thin the lion he said to the fox,
'And how d'ye like the smell of
me parlor to-day V But the fox
whisked his tail across the cor-
ner of his oye as much us to
say, 'D'ye see any thing green
there, honey t' And tblu he
said, says lie, 'It's me that's got
such a bad could that I cau't
smell at all, at- all.' Thin the
lion laughed, and tould the fox
he was a clever baste, and that
he could tread in his footsteps
if he could straddle wide
enough." ^
Triela of Mewapeper Men.
One of the greatest trials of
the newspaper profession Is that
its members see mora of the
shams of the world than any
other profession. Through
every newspaper office, day
after day, go all the vanities
that want to be reaped; all the
mistakes that want to be cor-
rected; all the dull speakera
that want to be thought. elo
quent; all the meanness that
wants to get its wares noticed
gratis in the editorial columns
in order to save the tax of the
advertising columns; all the
men who want to be set right
that never were right; all. the
crack-brained philosophers with
stories as long as their hair;
and all the bores who come to
stay five miuutes but tulk hours
Through the editorial-and repor-
torial rooms all the follies and
shams of the world are seen day
after day, und tbe temptation is
to believe in neither God, man
nor woman. It is no surprise to
me that in this profession there
are some skeptical men. I only
wonder that journalists believe
anything.—-ite Witt Talmage.
Fete of the Apeettee.
St. Mathew is supposed to
have suffered martyrdom, or w ns
elain in Ethiopia.
St. Mark was dragged through
i the streets of Alexandria, iu
Egypt until he evpired.
St. Luke was hauged on a
olive tive in Greece.
St. John died a natural death.
St. James, the great, was bu-
headed at Jerusalem.
St. James, the less, was
thrown from the pinnacle, then
beateu to deatb with a fuller's
club.
Si. Philip was hanged up
against a pillar at Hierpopolis,
a city of Phrygia.
St. Bartbolopolis was flayed
alive by the command of a bar-
barous king.
8t. Andrew was bound to a
cross, from whence, ha preached
to the people until he expired.
St. Thomas was run through,
the body with a lance.
Sr. Simon Zealot was crucified
iu ■ Persia. - ; - - : ■ -.- - - -
St Judo was shot to ^leatU
with arrowa.
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The Way
They Colleot
Russia.
Taxes In
SomeAtfvantage ofSmoklne.
[From Beliqin* flearnlans, 1721.]
I h^ve been told that in the
last great plague at London (U
e., in 186S)" none that- kept to-
bacconist's shops had the
plague. It is certain that amok*
ing waa looked upou as a
moat excellent preventative; in
so much that even children were ....
obliged to smoke. And I re* -
member that X heard formerly
Tom Rogers who was yeoman
bekdle, say that when he waa ;
that year, when the plague >
raged, a school Iki^ at Eaton,
all the boys of that achool 'wero
obliged to smoke in tbe school 4
every morning, and that he
never waa whipped ao much iu
his life as he pas one morning
for not smoking^
The HapmrRhintfer ef a Nurse.
A queer cato Ui reported in
the Hospital Gazette of Paris.
A doctor was called to see a pa*
tient dying from cholera. In
order not to discourage the
man. tbe dootor prescribed three
doses of ipecao powder, to be-
given every balf hour. The
nurse misunderstood the direc-
tions, and instead of: giving the j
drug by, the mouth gave it to
snuff; this produced a violent
sneering, which was followed by
favorable reaction. The circu-
lation was quickened, the skio
was warmed, and the patient
was on , the way to recovery.
When the doctor called next
day he was amazed to find how
lie had taken his medicine, aud
that he was out of danger.
In Russia taxes are collected
litis way : A peasant, represent-
ative of a district, comprising
several villages, is charged with
the duty of. collecting a certain
amount of money, and it is the
business of the people to distrib-
ute the taxes among themselves
as they like best. For the
prompt collection, in the first
place, the representative is re
sponsible, and in case ot tardi-
ness he is imprisoned for u week
with common criminals, and
furnished with food at the cost
of three cents a day. A district
is obliged to pay for all it.^
members, whether they are act-
ual residents, or have gone else
where, or nr« in the army. In
case a tax-collector is unable to
do his duty, he reports to tin
authorities ; then the police ap-
pear aimed with rods, and il
the rods do not secure the do
sired result, thf property of d •
liliquunto is told at bunion.
Will be Appreciated by all Fathers.
[Krora the New Haven Register.]
Now comes Johnny in from
school with, "I've got to have a
new slate and a pencil, and a
sponge, and a second reader, and
teacher wants me to study geog*
laphy, and I'll have to have an
atlas, and the new boy got a
licking, aud, say ma, won't you
ask pu to buy the books this
noon, because I'm in a hurry,
and all the rest of the boya bate
not their'n."
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A Lancaster, Pennsylvania,
chap, before starting for the sea
ihore fishing grounds, was
joked by some of his compan-
ions about his skill at fishing,
and was requested to send them
a lot of fish. He accordingly
joked back by sending thetn a
Imge box, weighing four hui.
Ired pounds, which cost $6.25
•xpiussage, and contained a
shark nearly nine feet lon^.
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