Fort Griffin Echo (Fort Griffin, Tex.), Vol. 3, No. 51, Ed. 1 Saturday, January 14, 1882 Page: 1 of 4
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FORT GRIFFIN, SHACKELFORD COUNTY, TEXAS, SATURDAY, JAN. 14, 1882.
PROFESSIONAL.
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Surviving
• Very Extraordinary
Wound.
The Return of the Mule.
Opening of the United State* DIs
trlct Court at Washinrton
Over Their Steak.
J. N. BROWNING,
Attorney at Law,
Mdbeetid, Wheeler County, Texas.
i any part of the Panhandle
■tea to me, will receive
j p. DAVIES
lWYER,
TEXAS.
all court* of this State,
now, contractu. et !., in
wltli,. th« common and
1 act a* avrnt.
i and claim* recovered
rCTnlon. '
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IKY AT LAW,
AGENT AND DEAL-
EXCHANGE,
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supplied with the belt the
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CIJARI.EY IIARTFIKLP.
London Lancet.
An instance of singular toler-
auce of a severe wound oft be
brain was recently communica-
ted by M. Dubrisay to the So-
cietie de Medioine de Pans.
A man aged forty-four, in an
attempt at suicide, sent a small
dagger through his skull into
tbt> brain. The weaoon was
ten centimeters long and one
wide. He had -held the dagger
in his left hand and given it
with the right several blows
with a mallet, believing that he
would fall dead at tjie first
sbl6w. To his profound sur-
prise he felt no pain and observ-
ed no particular phenomenon.
He struck the dagger, in all
about a dozen times. The man
ftjia a drunkard , but was
sober at the moment of the at-
tempt. When seen about two
hoars later the hankie was pro-,
jeoting from the skull at the
Junction of the .posterior and
middle thitd, a little to? the
right of the middle line anE in
a transverse position. •'*$he
)le blade was imbedded ex-
ta part one ^ntimet^in
For balf an hour an-
attempts were fl^fcde
to get the dagger oul Thepa-
was placed onrthe ground,
two vigorous persons ffved'bis
shoulders, and, $ided by. a
strong pair of carpenter's >pin-
oera, repeated attempts pere
biade but without suocess.The
patient and assistants jrore
raised off the ground, but the
dagge? was immovable, !^se
attempts caused /no pain.
powerful meehaniotf in
strameutn were then emplaned.
who walked well,
of no headache,
a cop^ersiSMJth's,
[nceriHb4|§an-
r was^ nMrened
Which Was passed
er turned by
wer. The plftcSrs. used
awing out tubes of copper,
so ;mude^ that the more
they' Were. pi
clasped;
n fastened tolings'fljtedin
ground and the cymider
was gently set in motion,. At
,_T., torn the dagger
came but. The blade measured
centimeters In length, ot
_ , * 'ne had entered tho in-
terior of the AaJkJM patient,
!-siajbiwtwd 4|rith the
coolness to .these ma*
suflored* no pain or
j^^lfiomr.drops of
in afewmin-
the man was
k away to the hos-
remained In
X&ft wfthoftt
fever or pain. He ;then return
«d to his work and the wMnd
gradually healed.. M. Dubrisay
endeavared by a postmortem
experiment W asowtam what
parts' of the brain "had been in*
; Be drove the dagger
e' Itead bf a cadaver in
tit aame^ situation and fo the
Same deplftt and found that,
without injuring the superior
longitudinal sinus, it had pass-
ed into the cerebral sustance,
just behind the ascending pa-
rietal oonyolution, and thus be-
hind the motor zone; the point
had not reached the base. The
difficulty in extracting had
been due solely to the fixation
of the instrument by the edges
of the wound in the bone.
The man who can see ser-
mons in running brooks is most
apt to go and look for them on
Sundays when trout are biting.
-mule Which op^ns" his mouth
and can be staffed1 with' Kay.
This mule's jaw's are sot!" " •
"Yes. but—" ' " •
"And he wants a mule which
will roll his eyes, and drop his
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Detroit Frac Press.
You could see that she was
innocent and. confiding by the
way she held that big bro w n
toy mule under her arm as she
jogged along Woodward ave
nue, and no old woman's face
ever wore a more satisfied look
than her's did when the finally
entered a store and placed that
male on the counter, and said :
"La, sakes, but I'm nearly
tuckered out! This is the
place where I bought this mule
three' days before Christmas;"
"Yes, that toy came irom our
store," replied the elerk. *•'
"I gin a dollar for it; bought
it for my grandson. He's such
a boy' for horses and mules and
wagons and whips, and so on.
that I thought it would tickle
him :most to death."
'■'"'"-Ires." '- :
"But it didn't. He's the dis-
appointedest ' child you ever
saw. Llk^ to cry himself to
death Sufiday." * f :-
"What is wrong with the
mttlef s";
"Everything. •; Ih' the;. first
place my ; grandsoh' wants a
such
i
"Bitt we haven't. any
mules.
4 ^ppose'^riol, But'lbe
bov wants' o^ne' all the same.
This mule don't even kiok."
"Of coarse not."
"And he bam't got any har-
ness on.^
/•No.";
"Then what's the good of
him f If he won't eat, nor bite,
no* k!°I^ n<^ ^| ,Wsh eyes,
what's the boy gbinrto^doI
Havtm't von got. a toy horse
which runs away and smashes;
"No." .V;.-
"Nor a lion which paws and
roars!"
•'Nor a cow which bellera
when you squeeze on her!"
"Sorry to ssy we haven't." :
"Well, I've got to trade this
amuse the boy. If you had a
tiger .;wfi|ieh frothed at the
month i—"
"But we haven't got."
"Have you got a goose which
flops her wings t"
"No. The only toy of anv
account we have left is a black
boy who* rolls bis'eyes and ut-
ters a spueak when you
hit him on the back."
"Thkt'll do—that's last the
thing, and we'll trade even!
He'll put in to day punching
the black boy between the
Stii&l&rsv' - Hp- linaorrow
digging opt his eyes, and the
next day he'll cut him up aiid
string him over the bacK yard,
and by that time his father will
be home from New York with a
drum, four month organs and a
boy's chest of tools. Here>
your uiule—gimme the blacka-
moor!"
If we work upon marble it
will perish :$f Wh work npoo
brass, lime will efface it; if we
rear temples, they will crumble
into dust; but it we work upou
lhe immortal minds, if we im-
bue them with the )ustfearof
God and love of onr fellow men,
we engrave on those tablets
something which will brighten
to all eternity.
Boston Star.
All courts are to the laity
queer places. There is a cer-
tain amount of ceremony and
procedure; which to the casual
looker-on, has neither rhyme
nor reason. As an instance, I
will cite the "calling" of a de-
fendant or plaintiff when it is
well known ■ thatflie is absent
and cannot possibly respond,
but he is "called" and the rec*.
ord is made up against him.
The peculiar formula used in
opening court is another queer
thing, and here in Washington
it is wonderfully queer.- Just
imagine that before the court
begins any business whatever
(and we who are attending the
Glaiteau trial hear it every day,
and everybody knows that
there is no other business be-
fore the court), a man ot medi-
um size, but with .lungs like the
bull of Bashan, steps up to the
end of the judge's desk, taps
With bis knife handle, and in a
voice that could be distinctly
heard in a hall of 20,000, calls
out: "Oome to order, gentle*
men; hats off." -He waits a
moment, glances around the
court room, lays his lett elbow
on the desk, straightens him-
self, drops his head upon his
breast, closes his1 eyes, fills his
lungs/with several cubic feet of
atr, and then he says, iu a vol-
ume < f voice as big as the Brit-
ish cyclopedia: "H o-o hyees."
He pauses and gathers bis
breath again, and' the'second
flood of sound rolls oat: "H-o-o-h
yees?' Those wfco are accus-
tomed to it turnh'io ' those: who
aire strangersin the 'court room
'and1 say. : "HoW's that for a
v'olcdl"' And the answer is:
"Why, he could be heard a
mile." Meanwhile the cryer is
swelling up for the next thun-
dering utterance, and be belch-
es but: "H-o-o-h yees." He
pulls in a mighty breath and
bellows': ; "Sa-w-w'l pers sa-
awlng bees misfor'' lh6u bull
j:a-dge S'^me Oourt th'dees
strtokclam:" He gathers him-
self again, his chest expands,
his eves close, and he goes on :
"Na-h-a-ould . ding-scriminal
term." Another gathering of
YUe Borean' forces and : "Draw-
aw aw- near, gan gWe yer ten
dadce the ooarts^KW pen !" As
hA a'tteftl the last part the
thunder runs suddenly down to
azephyr all muddled in togeth-
er, and. he is half way down
the steps.
It took one'man, he was from
Ohio, four days^o translate the
crier's conundrum. By those
who know what his business is,
to-wit, to open court, no effort
lis made to guess whether he is
calling "oldrags" or "a o-ap."
They lee him wind up and run
down, and they go to business.
The result of a careful investi-
gation shows lhat -the cull nev-
er varies. Like the cogs in a
wheel, the words move in the
same groove every time. When
the Ohioan had finally wrestled
the conundrum out, lie found it
THE ECHO JOB OFFICE
Is Mi|>|>lit*d with uew tyiw and claims to
l.'lVG
The Best Press Jnthe Country.
Our uriccs for .Job Work are lis low as
:uiv eouiiirv olflce can work for unci live.
Why Marksmen Miss.
They were talking it over in
a restaurant, at noon, yes'ter-1'1
day. Said the lirst :
"So you have come down to
make a settlement and try for a
new stall ?" V
"Yes."
"How bad was the failure?"
"Well, I think 1 can pay"
forty cents on the dollar, but,, na"'8 ''le P'a8ter figures he
Tills is a French story : It is j
a well known .fact that the best
marksman's aim is often un-
steady when he has au animat-
ed target opposite him. One of
thesH "crack" shots was show-
ing off his skill before a numer-
ous company, and the ground
was soon strewn with 'the rern-
perliaps, not mow than thirty-
fiye."
"It was all owing to j'oin
partner, you said."
"Yes. He raised money on
our company note and slid."
"That was bad. He must
have been a thorough rascal.
Have you made any eilort to
overhaul him ?"
"No."
"Hut you will ?"
' ••No."
"Are you going to permit
such a rascal as that to roam
the cbutitry, free and unpun-
ished ?"
"I thiuk I shall. He lias al-
most ruined me in a business
sense, and yet I can't hut-feel
grateful to him. When lie slid
he took my wife with him.!" ~
The other < looked at him hulf
a minute,.nodded his head and
began on his steak without a
word, and with a look of dumb
sufteringjn the eyes, lie had
uo partner, poor man..
nsurat for a Dinner.
Ov Christmas day, 1862, when
Confederate money had begun
to depreciate, turkeys in Vir-
ginia were wot th $11 a piece,
salt thirty-three cents a pound,
while "the yule log" was $15 a
cord; firecrackers were $5 a
pack. In .1863 turkeys had ris-
en to $50 a piece ; whiskey and
rum for egg-nog, cost $75 a gal-
lon ; sugar was from $5 to $10 a
pound; flour $125 parrel.
Gold was at a premium- of
$2,800, and a plain Christmas
dinner cost about $300. In 1804
flour was $600 a barrel; butter'
$£0 a pound, and sugar $2 an
ounce. At a Christmas dinuer
at a country house near Rich
mond, they -had for dinner a
$300 ham, and the lust turkey
on the plantation, valued! at.
$175 with $100 worth of cab:
bage, potatoes and hominy.
Corn bread was served, made
of meal at $80 a bushel and
salt at $1 a pound. The dessert
w.as black molasses at $60 a
gallon, and after one cup of tea
—real tea—worth $100 a pound,
treasured for the occasion as a
surprise, aiid not sassafras—
there was -coffee a discretion.
made from sweet potatoes cut
into little squares, toasted and
ground.
had successfully brought down.
All present were iu r.iptures ex-
cept one spectator, standing
apart from the rest, who after
each shot observed in a perfect-
ly audible tone: "He would
not do as much if he had a rnau
facing him."
This remark, several times
repeated, at last so exasperated
the performer that he turned
towards the speaker and in-
quired if he would be the man
to face llitn.
"Ceitainly," was the reply,
"and what is ruor*% ypu may
have the first shot."
As every one Was curious to
witness the result of this singu-
lar duel, ihe whole party ad-
journed to the Bois de V.in-
cennes, and, the word being
given, the hero of the shooting
gallery lired and missed. His
adversary shrugged his shoul-
ders and fired in the air.
"What did I tell youl" he
said, and walked away as un-
concerned us though nothing
had happened.
Signs that Seldom Fall,
Solomon said, many centuries
ago : Even a .child is known by
its doings, whether his work be
pure, and whether it be right.
When I see a boy slow to go
to school and glad of every ex-
cise to neglect his books, I
think it is a sign that he will
be a duuee.
When.I see a boy iu haste,to
spend every penny as soon as
begets it, I think it is a sign
that he will be a spendthrift.
When I see a boy hoarding
up his pennies, and unwilling to
part with them for any good
puiDose, I think *it is a sign
that he will be a miser.
" When I see a girl or boy
looking out for "number one,"
and disliking to share good
things with others, I think it is
a sign the child will grow up a
selfish person.
When I see boys, and girls
often quarreling, I think it is a
sign that they will be violent
and h iteful men and women.
When I see a child obedient
.to his parents, I think it is a
sign of a great fuiure ble88'nK
from Almighty God.—Kind
Words.
A Condemned Man's Little Daugh-
ter.
His cuffs came down on
his knuckles, the parting of his
hair was central, his coat was
six-buttoned, his trousers were
lean and his voice was languid,
as he applied for an- appoint-
ment. "Aw, is there any va-
cancy in this department?" he
asKedr And the-old mail look-
"Papa, dear papa, I'm glad
you're going to die, for you
know, papa, that if you were
not going to die you would be
taken away off into a dark ed at him pityingly, as it were,
prison when I could never seeiand'softly patting the youth's
you any more, and you know, j noble brow, said: "Yes, yes, I
Go out into the
my son, and
read as follows : "O y**s, O ves, ■ . .
0 yes, all persons having h'nsi-1 PaPa- ,1,at would grieve yoq ho think there is. G.
ness before the honorable t|^Nuch.you would not, live yely I wide, wide world,
judge of the Supreme Court of lon« anyhow, so I think eVer.v ti v to fill it before the commis-
the^District of Columbia, now thl"8 19 "8 il ,ls- doc t you.; nlon, rs , uu you in And the
holding Its criminal term, draw
near and give your attendance.
The court is now open."
Washington etiquette de-
scends even to the kitchen. A
cook who should first call on a
slop:girl could never, never hold
list head op in society again.
pupa 1 Aiid I will grow up to'youi.g- man turned longingly
be a bij; girl, and I will be so away, and went, but he can't
irood papa, that everyone will ( understand to this day why, if
love me, and I will never forget there was a vacancy he didn't
you, pupa, nor how much you i get it.— Burlington Jfaiokeyc.
loved your little Mary." This1
strangely affecting speech was ^ 1'' ||W'' I'i'I"'1
made in the St. Louis jail lli" '"-C '''■
other day to a man who is to l>e| niuil-.et mc
nver } ajn-r recoids the
dozen eggs in'that
worlh more than the
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