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liELTON JOURNAL.
THUR3DAY, APRIL 6.
1882.
LOCAL SEWS AXD V1LWS
.y Branch Notes.—Capt. Geo. W.
Rafter liiis reuted an office in the Den-
ny building. On Monday hia engineer
corps began operations toward the
Burnet county line. Crossing Nolan
creek at the jail they proceeded
straight ahead, going to the right of
the McFarland residence, to the left of
Robertson's place, through the
chard of Mrs. Johnson, then
iue that lies just beyond her
ml so on out." ^portion of the
'corps were about ten milei above here
yesterday, Capt. Rafter biinseu Irtwng
business in the city that demands his
attention. He informs us that the line
from the place of beginning to the de-
pot grounds in the city is all ready for
t ie grading forces. Mr. Clark, a large
contiactor. went up to Port Worth on
1 "t-sday to make flnai
for the work. He
BR£VIL<H(rEST.
arrangements
, , c wi" probably return
i,S, " lon,orr;'w- hegin work
setdi a * " Iu tijL' matter of
with Mr. Eugene Rlcfc nothing
^finite has been done. The comroif
ners appointed fixed the amount of
3 damage at $2,250, and our citizens
regard this as exorbitant, and will ap
, the decision to.the courts.
t The supper given by the ladies- of
the Methodist church, cordially assist-
ed by the'tidies of other denominations,
in the ope.'a house .Tuesday night, was
a great sucl£3*^ JThn attendance was
large, and thevSfions tables were gen-
erously patronized. It was one of
those affairs where every one felt it
v^Jncumbent to contribute to the happi-
ness of every other bydy, and in this
way the richest.
The tracklaying forces reached the
Mountain Home depot grounds yester-
day.
Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Douglass compli-
mented this office with some nice se-
lections from their wedding dinner on
Tuesday, for which we return many
thanks.
Messrs. Atkinson & Bcntley have an
advertisement in today"s paper. This
firm is composed of two as clever men
as ever did business together, and they
have their establishment crowded with
all manner of dry goods, clothing and
notions. Each salesman confines him-
self to a certain department, and in
this way customers have their wants
supplied without confusion and loss of
time.
Messrs. R. McCray and W. T. Reese,
of Mountain Home, were in the city
yesterday looking for stolen horses.
It is said the grand jury is looking
sharply into road matters.
The mail now goes out on the four
o'clock train for points on the Santa
Fe north of Temple as far up as Cle-
burne.
You will find in another column a
rich lot of fruit, and the message it
brings will interest you. Charley Don-
afrio tells you what he has and where
he is.
It takes the solid cash to get an an-
nouncement for office in these columns.
Gillespie county is now engaged in
building a new courthouse, but Bell
county has not yet taken the first step
in that direction.
Send today s paper to your relatives
back yonder. They will got a great
deal of solid information about the
county by reading what the Siftings
has to say about it.
£>• has
:he^W5m
press of
Transfers of Real Estate.
The following are the real estate
transfers for the week ending Apul
4, as reported for the Belton Jolrnai.
from the official records:
M. T. Minor and wife to Lucy II.
Franklin etal., 160 acres out of F.Mad-
rigal survey, deed of gift.
Maria L. Brown to Matthc-w Dow,
part of lot3 1 and G iu block 16 in Bel-
ton, $1500.
J. Z. Miller et al. to Matthew Dow,
100 acres of land, more or less, out of
Wm. Woodford league.
W. TS. Rather to Dick Rather, part
of M. F. Conncll league, deed of gift.
Julius Tobler to Matthew Dow, J60
acres out of Washington County II. R.
survey, and 1076 acres out of Cuthbert
Edwards survey. $1100.
Sarah Glenn to Harrison Dennis, 5%
acres out of B. Hughes survey, also 1
acre, more or lcs3, out of Mary Cherry
survey, $65.
W. 8. Rather to W. S. Rather, jr.,
3 acres, more" or less, out of M. F.
Conncll survey, deed of gift.
Aaron Robertson and wife to W. S.
Ilolman, a portion of M. F. Connell
survey, $90.
C. L. and M. L. Johnson to W. A.
Martin, 80 acres out of J. J. Simmons
survey, $375.
Albert Sadusky to B. Gerber, lot 5
in block 41 iu Temple, $700.
Campbell Taylor to G. W. Robert-
son, 140 acres, more or less, out of C.
Taylor survey, $400.
Simon D. F. Lane and wife to Joel
Ray, portions of Campbell Taylor and
T. H. Gatlin surveys, $2000. .
J. S. Able, jr., J. S. Able, sr., }<£ of
of Wm. Brent lieadright survey,
$1500.
J. S. Able, sr. to J. S. AJjlp
interest in % of the W.> rfffcnt hcad"
right. Land v-duet1*1* 5?®??'
PERSONAL.
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mg bn*
Coal is also found in this vicinity, but
whether in paying quantities or not re-
mains to be seen.
society
is very good here. There is a school
house and church in nearly every
neighborhood. The greater portion of
the people are from the southern and
western states, and they are a moral,
law-abiding, intelligent and hard
working class.
POLITICS.
The vote of Bell county in the last
presidential election was as follows:
lancock 2,970, Weaver 364 Garfield
121, giving a total vote of 5,355.
Alliough Bell county may be said to
be largely democratic in sentiment, yet
there seems to be less of the Bourbon
tendency and much more independence
here than is found in many parts of
Texas. Most of the citizens are much
more engrossed with their private bus-
iness than with politics, although it is
expected that the coming contest will
fcc-srpretty warm one. 1'arty politics,
however, will not cut much figure in
the race for county offices.
BELTON,
the county seat, is situated in the mid-
dle of the county, on the banks of
Nolan creek, and one mile from the
Leon river. It now has a population
of about 3,000, and a more refined,
courteous, hospitable community is
seldom seen anywhere, cither in or out
of Texas. There is an evidence of
thrift and "git up and git" among the
leading business and professional men
of Belton that is truly refreshing. To
be sure, there are some old fogies here,
as there arc elsewhere, but they only
a seconday part in the business of
tn, and serve the useful part of
Jthe contrast between a live
and a half dead one.
|ny kind of merchandise
" in Belton on reason-
in it a
i—..;
It.' —J50CD FACILITIES.
Belton, t..tfugh an old? town, has not
until very ncently had any railroad
out let. The Gulf, Colorado and Santa
Fe road reached heie last year, and is
now being graded westward towards
Lampasas. Capt. G. W. Rafter, of the
ari Pacific, has been here for
sonu <iays with an engineering corps,
loch.Jg the line tor a branch from the
main line road from a point near Tem-
ple to Belton. It is only seven miles to
the point of junction, and as the right
" been secured work will
in at once. It will not be
until Belton will have
this branch of the Mis-
w*-?jffr fl«;S ill soon be directed to
Afhle Falls Burnet county,
ing Belton anoy.bC outlet.
JotikSAL prints alUhrec of the Belton
papers.
buildings.
As there is an inexhaustible quantity
of the finest building stone here, Belton
Hi WITe
Jeeu, 52>< acres out of
|nta survey, $315.
Harriet Garct to O. O. Searcy, 160
ires, ntore or less, out of Abraham
inta survey, $639.99.
„ j -flr Jackson to Jesse Mumford,
towns^lfthe sUUe°Nearly all the busi-j>0 acres, more or less, out of Jesse
ness houses are either stope or brick ;lumford league, $1200.
the stone being the better material, _ jeise Mumford and wife to J. W.
though Belton brick are fair!} good. ;acjiSoni 46t| acres, more or less, out
lovely suburbs. If Jesse Mumford league, $107.
• Few towns can show more lovely w Hock and wife t0 T. G. Ship,
surroundings and suburbs than can . _ ,
Bclton. Nolan creek flows through3t 1 in block 13 m Temple, $2<5.
the town, making two divisions known Matthew Dow to G. Bovet, parts of
as Belton and South Belton. A hand- Jlg j anj (j jn block 16 in Belton,
some arch foot-bridge, supported^ by b-nn
stone piers, connects the two portions r * T it * 1 1
of the town. As the surrounding j W. W. Leatherncan to L. McAsland,
country on all sides is considerably li£ acres of land, more or less, out of
higher than the town, a much bette'/eo Dougherty survey, $483.
x. pls°o,r<!sii va J— *7'^ "d;ite'v i
stream of beautifully clear water, wuhfackson and Daniel McKay, 1032 acres
a solid rock bottom. Hence it never jut of Jesse Mumford survey, $1985.
gets muddy, and is rarely ever too high j Tjieo -\yniiams and wife to A. J.
to ford. Iu many places the water is
deep enough'to afford good bathing,
and a nice bath house near town would
be a popular and profitable concern
Nolan is pretty abundant ia fish, and
affords large quantities of gravel for
sidewalk purposes.
From Kinney's Hill, one mile south
of town we have a fine view of the city.
(The old cemetery is on this hill; but
the new one, near the depot north of
town is the one now being used.)
"Point Lookout" gives us another
magnificent view of Belton, but the
most exquisitely beautiful sight one
could wish for is a view of this little
city from Templeton's Hill, southeast
of town. Here, from among the pleas-
ant groves of cedar and live oak, the
eye takes in the whole situation, as it
were. Almost every business house in
the town is in plain view, and a large
number of the elegant residences in the
northern part of the city form a pretty]
background to the picture. Here,
among the songs of the merry birdsj
and amid the picturesque loveliness o
'lie surrounding country, two Texas]
ists, Capt. Batle anil your hum-
.together pnrlnnk nf jjaul-
The suburbs on the west of towu are
very charming, though not so elevated
-as those on the north and south. The
west portion of Ballon lies in a number
of little groves of live oak and cedar
Residence lots can be bought liere f.
from $150 to $200; on Tempieton
Hill at about $25 to $30.
The old fair ground, east of town, is
another pretty spot. There is some
talk of making a park here, and it
should be done by all means.
Coming into town from Templeton's
Hill, we passed through a magnificent
pecan grove on-the south bank of No-
lan. This is the picnic and campmeet-
ing spot for Belton and the surround-
ing country, and is the place where the
State Grange will meet in August next.
A prettier spot for the purpose would
be hard to find.
nes, grantor's interest in an undi"
ded half interest in 50 acres out of
S. Hughes survey, $100.
Joseph C. Grammer and wife to II.
Edwards and wife, one lot in
oungsport, $125.
Silas Baggett and Peter G-. Rucker,
> S. G. Rogers, 253 acres patented to
ie heire of Wm. Freer, $25.
Swante J. Swcnson to S. N. Strange,
acres out of C. Adams survey,
32.50.
Joseph Cater to S. N. Strange, 18
res, more or less, out of J. J. Sim-
ons survey, $175.
S. M. Swenson to S. N. Strange,
iQ}j acres out of Christopher Adams
rvey, $251.25.
A. P. Garrett and wife to S. N.
range, 20 acres out of Seymorc Bots-
rd survey, $80.
E. A. Adams to J. C. Adams, 186%
ires of E. Davis survey; also 5 acres
of D. II. Campbell league, $1000.
ntor's interest in 60 acres, suppoaetT
Mr. Mat Kuykendall will not be a
candidate this year for county com-
missioner. He prefers that some one
else shall occupy the position, which
is one of much labor and responsibility,
and but little remuneration.
Mr. Leigh Thornton has returned to
Belton and is with Sojourner & C< m
eron to assist in the purchase and ship-
ment of grain. We are glad that Mr.
Thornton has seen fit to become a Bel-
tonian again.
The Hillsboro Mirror has this to say
of our district judge: "Judge Rimes
held court here six long weeks, and
during the term won the esteem not
only of the bar here, but of the people
of the entire county. All testify that
he is an able, conscientious and up-
right judge—requisites so necessary to
the pure administration of justice. No
judge has ever held court in Ilill
county who has more completely won
the admiration of Hie people and bar."
It affords the Journal a pleasure to
be able to give this complimentary but
in no wise exaggerated notice a place
in its columns.
Capt. L. W. Goodrich, of Marlin, is
in attendance on our district court.
Mr. V. II. Anderson is foreman of
the grand jury. The other members
are, A. Moss, Wash Walton, J. E.
Moore, A. J. Tharp, Billie Wilson,
A. D. Bean, Asa Elliott, B. S. Decb
erd, II. Hughes, T. M. Caldw1'
H. C. Warren. Jl0vwl his of-
Mr. W. T. Rue]*Sunders building,
fice to the Jfet.
onJIftT. J. Johnson, deputy sheriff,
has resigned his position at this place
and will remove to Belton. Mr. John-
son hp° ''1 iiis"CldsS?V2t3'fo the legislature,
finer J the gift to the university of 2,500,000
W. acres of land, and it is thought that in
a loaf the event of the legislature's refusal to
Tenq grant the endowment, lie will veto any
bill opening the Texas Pacific reserva-
town tion t0 tlie ,ocat'on certificates.
morD The re;Tort of the superintendent and
palP trustecs !'1C blind asylum represents
poajta the institution to be in a flourishing
havil contl'lionJ and the health, deportment
mcs6 and progress of the pupils exceptional
print S°°d. Since the Present session be-
andi gan ninety-seven pupils have been
talk cnr°llc'd, against eighty enrolled during
jjujj the entire preceding session. There
^r03 has not been a death in the institution
for the past six years. The superin-
tendent reports no deficiency.
Receipts from the land sales and
interest on the same during March are
as follows: Principal of school lnnds,
$33,354; interest ou school lands, $18,-
302; sale of public domain, $12,112;
university land sales, $10,028; asylum
land. $8,162. There is besides on hand
from the above sources unreceipted,
nearly $50,000, making an aggregate
of $183,000, the largest amount ever
received in the Texas treasury iu one
month from such source.
The governor, in the event of a fail-
ure to receive a third term nomination
Lands Unbexdeked
The comptroller has issij
to tax collectors stating th
nation of the list of land
for taxes from 1871 to
each county, under provisii
approved April 24,187ft,
sively that the same is
such an extent as to in
action that might be take
to force collections by lere
In view of this fact anr-l'er
fact that sales made th'
unjustly embarrass
whose taxes for sue
ally paid, but such
shown by the reco:
ler's office, collee
withhold any
list, and not
thereunder u
ed. In the
of the legi
to the subj
recommend
ty was foV
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i Post Office in Belton fcs scco:
mail matter.
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a bearer of an independent opposition.
Mr- The report of the penitentiary super-
offs inlcndcnt from November, 1880, to
be {• March, 1882, has been received and
furnishes the following statistics and
R facts: Total number of convicts
bed March 1, 1882, 2,132; at the Huntsville
jjjJ prison, 464; on the railroad near Rusk,
244; ou various construction trains,
674; on farms, mainly on the Brazos
left river, 750. The largest number, 2200,
Tlii was on ham January 1, 1881; from
catt that date to "-Jctober 31, 1881, there
was a steady de^euse) arui since then
i steady increas which, should it
this continue, will makto total of 2500 by
mer oydeSt^Ud'escan^1'50 llerceuta^e
bef superintendent attribuub"t^e g^tem
| of working convicts outs.u L^® ,^
g tentiary. This evil would v,® }0?)e
there is ^
THE WT
elton seems to be very bright at
With her railroads, good
_cahh, fertile country, abundant wa
f"... si xhaustible supply of the best
L-* j building stone, and an intelli-
gPCtL „nd et-srprising set of business
men. who appreciate and know how to
use thes^ advantages, I cannot see why
Belton should not rapidly take a posi-
tion among the leading cities of the
"interior." She ia bound to do it!
IQOL8 AXD CIICKCHES.
At prese^toej^^K^vcry cred-
itable schoobidtSelton. all of which
are well patrouir«.
The Belton Mal^Jnstitute, Prof. W.
W. James, president^ is l«fTgely attend-
ed and in a flourishing condition.
The Female Seminary, in charge of
Miss Sallie MoCay. is an excellent
girl's school. Music and the ornament-
al braiichf'«tfe taught bere.
There t« also a good mixed school in
south Belton, MsagM *>y Prof. Chatles
c^wiH take char^eofthe frce
k,ool fund after September 1. and it
aeeested tUta tax of one fourth of
er< nt. be levied to erect a suita-
kool buildlBg. Should this sug-
be cairieU out, as ^ doubtless
it will concentrate the school
j gretuly to the general good
"died churches of Belton
Baptist, Episcopal,
* «t«i Christian. The
^djtlpiscopalfl have very
e out J. S. Hood surve}', $800.
.Teo. Sealy to II. S. and F. M. itags-
Je, lot 6 in block 22 in Temple, $150.
3. S. Iiagsdale and wife to B. R.
aberiy, southern half of lot 6 in
22 in Temple, $237.50.
'. M. Ragsdale to B. It. Spraberry,
hern half of lot 6 in block 22 in
pie, $100.
R. Spraberry to B. Gerber, lot 6
lock 22 in Temple, $237.50.
J. W. Roach and wife to J. B. Nun
illy, 100x110 teet in block 33 in
oach's addition to Temple, $250.
W. W. nock and wife to T. L. IIol-
ngsworth, lot 4 in block 7 in Hock's
LEONOlan
Sulphur Spring, three miles southeastiddition to Temple, $150.
of tovfn, is a popular summer resort j. E. Thomas to J. B. Nunnelly and
It is a beautiful drive from town downp L Holllngsworth, 131acres out
or returning from tliis * founttim of n Little River bottom, $^000.
youth," while many families from a -\y_ nock and wife to J. B. Nun-
distance camp there during the heated „ jQt 4 |n block 1? in Hock.s a(ldi.
term. The water posesses fine medici •"
nal properties, beyond doubt, but 'on to Temple, $190.
whether it is as effectual to wauls pro- Isaac Williams, by sheriff, to Page
moling large census reports as the icDanniel, 2-10 undivided interest in
lie Jefferson Townend tract, $80.
Rockdale well, I am not informed.
MERCANTILE MATTERS.
Belton has some seventy-fi ve business
houses of various kinds, which seem to
do a very good trade, while some of
Isaac Williams, by constable, to
age McDanniel, lot 1 in block 36 in
elton, $50.
the leading"houses do an immense bus- i R. P. Bigham to J. P. Bigliam, 103
iness. Notwithstanding the failure of j.rcg out of Andrew McMillan survey,
crops last .year, Belton has shipped, , . ...
some 15,000 bales of cotton this season, "* ,
one half million pounds of wool and! J- P. Shelton to W. H. Edwards,
large quantities of grain. 10 acres out of Wiley Jones survey,
distances (by rail.) B50.
To v-oaUa. 83 miles; Galveston, 226 Jacob Covey and wife to Dan'l Rob-
miles; Waco su miw Lampasas, 40 ns part of lot 3 in block 21 in Mc-
miles; Fort Worth, 140 mi*~, Morgan, I ,
77 miles; Temple 8 miles. V*'ant'3 Edition to Belton, $500.
late of Mrs. E. L. Blair, deceased,
easily remedied, as _ „ ^
Rusk cell room for 1000 convicu,
the new building at Huntsville will
an* contain 308 cells, which can easily be
Ml increased to 560, affording at both
aJ prisons room for all the convicts. The
^ following estimates on machinery on
™ the basis of 2000 conyicts have been
I submitted: Steam power engine and
t)jj boilers. $16,500; woolen factor}', $31,-
. ; 562; cotton factory, with 100 looms,
f $40,000; furniture factory, $9000; wag-
cc$ on factory, $11,500; blacksmith shop,
da $5000; foundry, $6500; shoe factory,
I $40,000. There is no machinery al
? Rusk, and only about $15,000 worth at
ba Huntsville. The total proceeds of the
lat lease to March 1, 1882, is given at
lh, ,264. Deducting from which
$8264 for stationery and recaptures,
• leaves the net earnings to the state of
frc $288,990. Of this all but $27,000 has
^ been credited to lessees for improve-
ments made and to be made. The
I11? proceeds of the lease for the remaining
j ten months is estimated at $65,000, and
rjj Major Goiee recommends an appropri-
* ation of not less than $100,000. The
record from November 1, 1880, to
scj March 1,1882: Received, 1071; dis-
charged, 590; pardoned, 145; escaped,
_J 2G8; died, 145.
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through
of i
a large
The other de
" buildings,
Baptists *re
house on
norrinattooa
,roi*flrsMiKiB«ERB8T9.
«e«^ i«r e floerieg mill, cotton gm.
nlanine mill of llesws- Wear, Lee
A important enterprise
& Co. w,^T* y* i This mill has a
here under this ueati. of
griding capacity "f bushels of
•wheat per day.
tarn
ft tons four sets of
Ttore to ateoa goodice n^ufactor^
5!t Theoroprietor resumed opera
Ss forthkUsona few days ago !
AfCjoint stock company has re«cn'|y
hem formed tor a cotton seed od md«.
Stbe, design haviagm operation
by fall.
V-W.fcW*W<WKa
mokei of but bo definite steps
^ * 'taken in that direction.
'Of water could be bad
River at compvahvely
doubtless the eaterpns
^ ere
nrtttJtfwaat-
of their city eStra for
. JWeee, of Pales
netice.)
iocaE
K badly w*<ed jn BM. conn'-ff^s t&B
HHwW m a ^y diiapidated
- has been
a Rewcouithtmse, jail
combined on absauli-
moA Hear the square.
* tike the site of
Aiatio, and the
should be
ially as
XHc Be orr«tlon Plant.
Sherman paper: Mr. Shrusberry,
who used to sell flowering plants "in
this city, received the other day from
a friend in New Mexico about a dozen
dried bushes of something, looking
more like a last year's birdnest than
anything else, with directions to plant
Although he had no faith in
the experiment he tried it, and now
every one has developed into a beaU-
ful green plant. Tbey are the cete-
brated Resurrection Plant, long known
to botanists but not much cultivated
It is a native of the dry plains of the
west, where it grows during the rauay
season. When the ram ccases the
leaves curl up, and finally the roots
lose their hold on the earth, and the
Diant is driven about by the wind,
scattering its seed and becoming a veg
euible tramp. When the rain comes
again the dry leaves unfold, roots are
I sent down and the brown nomad be-
comes green and full of life.
C. Henry, 40 acres out of
is survey, $200.
John
Temple Items.
CTpiranee Mail on TcmpcraniSJk
7 i
Political Convent!**
Brenham Banner.
The Houston Post, referring to the
naltei of packed political conventions,
acknowledges its inability to suggest
any remedy that may be used as a sub-
stitute, saying it can sec no antidote
for the evil cxcept in the cultivation of
individual intelligence and independ-,
eace that will enable the voter to re- j
fuse to be handled as a packing mate-
rial. A large portion of the press of
the state has been laboring toward the
end suggested, but as yet the managers
of the machine are the brat mampu.a-
tors, and if a maa iu a convention gets
una ••squeal" hois sat down upon
aed incontinently squelched. Time
seems to be tin only available remedy.
A Slandered Town.
The Dallas Herald says that its city
has been slandered and misrepresented
more than any other town, city or
kcality in Texas. Dallas has been
New York Herald.
Outside of politics and theology
there is no subject that so quickly
emits indignant howls at being torched
as that which miscalls itself temper-
ance. To the men who manage and
approve the temperance movement as
at present conducted a single word of
criticism or doubt is as irritating as a
red shirt dangled before the eyes of an
unreasonable bull, and suggestions of
practical work for the benefit of the
men who would stop drinking if any
one would help them are resented as
indignantly as if they were invitations
to drink. A refreshing exception to
this rule 1s the superintendent of an
inebriate's refuge at Boston, who in
talking with a reporter a few days
ago. pointed out UuTblunder of the tem-
perance movement in very much the
same language that outsiders have usea.
Among the causes to which the gentle-
man attributed the generally admitted
decline of interest in the cause are
lack of work by the great aooi^,
known as the "Sons of Temperance,
the intrusion of politics, the assump-
tion of religious societies, aud above
! all, the lack of any general, intelligent,
persistent effort to so improve the con-
I dition of tbedrinfeing man that he md
he able to resist temptation. In otner
words, a practical temperance worker
gees the movement under exactly the
light as the practical outsider,
and admits that though it may not
have too much sentiment behind it, «
is sadly deficient in heart and pocaet.
In the Library.
Speak low—tread softly
these halls;
Here genius lives enshrined;
Here reign in silent majesty
The monarchs of the mind.
A mighty spirit-host they come
From every age and clime;
Above the buried wrecks of years,
They breast the tide of time.
And in their presence chamber here
They hold their legal state,
And round them thronga nob'.e tiain,
The gifted and the great.
O child of earth, when round thy path
The storms of life arise,
And when thy brothers pass tlicc by.
With stern, unloving eyes-
Here shall the poets chant for thee
Their sweetest, loftiest lays;
And prophets wait to guide thy steps
In wisdom's pleasant ways.
Come, with these God-anointed kings
Be thou companion here,
And in the mighty realm of mind
Thou shalt go forth a peer.
Mrs. Asva o, Botta.
Insanity oil. Hie XncreaM.
4n the New York legislature the sub-
ject insanity lias bee® uo4gr consid-
eration, md a committee has it
thorough i^estigation in wjj; %
phases. The vxjjcliision am
that the increase t* insanitj
rapid than population v>^he~
T~ «Uot ctntP in ft 1
conduct of conventions in
this county during the past few years,
in some instances defeating the clear
choice of the democracy and nomina-
ting others who were not their choice.
This impression, whether well or ill
founded, undoubtedly exists, and as a
proof of it you can refer to the large
increase in the independent vote as
against the regular nominee. Our
nominees for stale oflicc continue to
receive the usual large majorities,show-
ing thus that our people still believe in
democratic principles, but our candi-
dates for legislative position fall
behind the general ticket, nnd this
some of our democratic friends contend
is because, through the machinery of
a convention, we have nullified the
choice of the people, and to show their
^resentment they vote against the nomi-
nees at the polls.
Now it dovs seem from this that our
anti convention friends have made out
a pretty strong case, but can't some
thing be saul on the other aide. The
spirit of democracy is to submit to the
will of the majority fairly expressed*
Now, if the democracy throughout the
county,after being full}- notified of the
time and place of meeting, hold their
primary conventions, select their dele-
gates to the county convention and
instruct them whom to support, it does
seem to me that if proper delegates are
sent and these delegates obey their
instiuctions, there could not be found
any better method of ascertaining the
wishes of the democratic masses, and
when such a convention has come to a
conclusion and made a nomination, it
is, it seems to uie, the duty of all good
democrats to sink their personal prefer-
ences and unite in support of the
nominee. The large majority of our
people belong to the democracy, all
parties are however represented iu the
county. If the democracy make u
nomination, then the selection of our
standard bearer is determined by a ma-
jority of the democracy, and this is a
' " * which we should not relinquish,
a duty wifiin _..uim. «,
however, the race is left fic nnd upen
to all without regard to party or prin-
ciples, then with a dozen or 'twenty
democratic candidates in the field all
the elements of opposition to the de
mocracy could unite upon a man and
elect him. If such a man should be
elected how would our anti convention
democratic friends feel, would they,
could they contend that the will of the
majority was represented. Again, let
us suppose that the opposition put no
man in the field. Out of several
democratic candidates they would find
one who was more favorable to them
than the others, and they would unite
and elect him. When this man came
to vote our test questions of principle
we would find ourselves most likely
represented by a pocket edition of
Wm. Mahone.
Granting that we may cscape this
contingency, every candidate will have
his friends, animosities between the
candidates will extend to their sup-
porters, feuds and bad feeling out-
lasting the present election will result;
the bonds of parly discipline will be
loosed and in many instances broken,
and in future elections when unity and
couhesir.encss are absolutely necessary
to success, we will find our party an
undisciplined multitude, torn by in-
ternal dissensions and incapable of
uniting on any measiire. A sweep-
stakes race would most likely result in
a scrub race, for while a good and ca-
pable man would be willing, aa the
nominee of the party, to go forth and
do battle for its principles he would
not be willing to enter a contest with a
dozen others claiming to advocate the
same political principles. This would
inevitably degenerate into a personal,
not a political, contest. Private charac-
ter would be attacked, calumnious sto-
ries circulated,bad feeling and personal
enmity would follow, and as I take it
is neither honor noi' profit suffi-
cient justify
suet risks. WtaiSlI^^MgSnVatjvc t0
thelegislaturc is a state^offieer, those
e something to
In that state, in a po4
re are no less
j one to everj
It was further dis-
tio^oT^OOO.OOO, there are no less n. .
13,000 lunatics, being one to every 384
covered imatrily b
Hon of scientists and legislators. It is
noisonous chemicals used in the adu-
Son of food and liquors, particu-
larly the latter. _____
glad if you would allow- the use of
your columns for a discussion.
As chairman of the democratic
county committee, it is my duty to
promote the harmony and unity and
advance the interests of the democratic
party in every legitimate way. I be
lieve that unity is essential to success.
We have always made nominations for
all political office*; it would, it seems
to me, be a violation of my duty to
presume that we will not make them
in this instance, and I hereby give
notice that il is my present intention to
designate the nomination of a county
representative as one of the duties of
the county convention, and if those
democrats who oppose a nomination,
arc in the majority they can in their
primary conventions so instruct their
delegates. Grco. C. Pendleton.
CHIMES ASU CASUALTIES.
Franklin J. Moses, ex-governor of
South Carolina, and for years a profes-
sional swindler, was arrested in New
York on Wednesday of last week on a
charge of swindling F. J. Smith,
Brooklyn piano manufacturer, out of
$175. There are quite a number of
similar charges against him. During
the day he was identified by a number
of his victims, who will appear against
him at the Tombs police court. He-
was arrested at Broadway and Twenty-
second street by detectives who had
been searching for him for two weeks
On March 11 Moses called on Mr.
Smith and represented himself as Rich-
ard II. Colquitt, brother of Gov. Col-
Huitt, of Georgia, and succeeded in in-
ducing him to cash a check for $175.
The check, which was drawn on a
southern bank, was returned protested.
E. W. Crowell, of the Phoenix Insu
ranee Company, also entertained Moses
under the name of Anthony White, of
Greenville, South Carolina, and cashed
his check for $150. Howard Stewart,
of 01 Wall street, also cashed two $50
checks for Moses, who represented him
self to be Gen. Curtis, state commis-
sioner of North Carolina, accidentally
left without money in the city after
banking hours. Stewart also informed
the police that a number of Wall street
men had been similarly victimized by
the ex-governor, and he promised to
produce the victims in court. B. S.
Ilazel, of the Charleston Steamship
Company, of Boston, also lost $o'20 by
check operations of the prisoner. (,'•
R. Flint, a partner of Mayor Grace
wisely declined to cash checks pre-
sented. Moses' biography for the last
five years, as written up, connects him
with continuous crimes and swindles,
mentioned from time to time with the
names of the victims and amounts, but
none of which at the time were accrcd
ited to Moses. One of these is a swin-
dle perpetrated on a prominent trans
atlantic steamship company by a man
who pretended to have discovered a
Fenian plot to blow up their steamers.
For his information he received a re-
ward of $10,000.
It seems that Governor Crittenden,
of Missouri, and the St. Louis police
commissioner, Craig, are to get the
$200,000 reward offered for the train
robbers last year by the state of Mis
souri and railroad companies. It is
said that Dick Little, one of the rob-
bers, has sui rendered to the authorities
under the following conditions: That
he be granted immunity from punish-
ment by the governor; that he be paid
$1,000 cash immediately on giving him-
self up, and that he receive $5,000 more
in the evmt of the five train robbers
now at large being captured through
his instrumentality. Little has already
been paid $1,000, being part of the
$5,G0O paid to Police Commissioner
Craig for the arrest of Clarence Hite
S.KentpfckY,_ gJipuhL.thc canture of
Crittenden, between whom the plan
was evolved, will receive in the neigh-
borhood of $200,000, the aggregate of
the rewards ofiered, loss the $5,000.
Alexander A. Wright, of Lexington,
Kentucky, was shot in the breast and
killtd, on an Ohio and Mississippi rail-
road train, between Spartansville and
Medara, Indiana, on March 29. His
assassin was an unknown man, who
was crazed by drink and had no provo
cation. After the tragedy the maniac
jumped off the train, which was going
at the rate of forty miles per hour,
landed safely, walked a half a mile to
a creek, stripped himself naked and
jumped into the stream. His dead
body was found there next morning.
His clothes were found hanging on a
bridge. They contained $9 in cash, a
gold watch and express receipt for
$400, sent from El Paso, Texas, to
New Salem. Ohio, and a quart bottle of
brandy, half full.
A dispatch from Pine Bluff, Ark.,
sa3's that on Monday, March 27, Mrs.
Bolard, of Lincoln county, broke the
necks of two of her children, aged 7
and 4 years, threw them into a pond
and jumped in herself with her babe in
her arms. The mother and child were
drowned. The four bodies were re-
covered. The act succeeded a dis-
agreement between the woman and her
husband.
BELL COUSTT'S KEPltESEXTA-
TIVE.
Fight Is
A Free Field and a Fair
Asknt for.
To the Journal.
We will venture the assertion that
there is not a citizcn who has at his
heart the good of his country who does
not want good, true, trusty, efficient
men elected to office. This includes,
of course, all officers, state and county,
those who make as well as those who
execute the laws of the state.
The time is rapidly approaching
when it will not only be our high pre
rogative but our bounden duly to make
such sec-lections from among the virtue
and intelligence of our people as in our
judgment will best promote the happi-
ness and material interests of all.
As is well-known, at the ensuing
general election, both state and county
officers fire to be chosen, as well as
members of congress. It is needless to
say that ia this county the question as
to who shall serve as an officer is to be
determined at the ballot box. This is
a free, democratic government, in
which every qualified voter iias the
right to offer for any officc within the
gift of his countrymen. This will not,
cannot be denied. Neither wiil ii be
questioned that whilst it is important
to have wisdom on the part of the leg-
islator, it is equally essential to have
virtue on the part of the individual
whose duty it is to execute the laws.
The question may be asked, "Who is
going to enter the race for sheriff of
Bell count}'?" Or, "Who is going- to
run for tax collector of the same?"
The answer may be, "Whosoever
chooses; a dozen, if there be that num-
ber who see proper to do so." How
are you going to tell who will be elect-
ed? By the number of votes cast at
the ballot box. As there are two politi
cal parties in the county, would it not
be better to hold a county convention
and make nominations lest one of the
radical party be elected? No, says one,
it is not a political ofiiee and every
inau who would likely offer his ser-
vices and expect much support, is very
well known to his constituents and the
people will have no trouble in selecting
the man of their choice. It being ad-
mitted that there is no necessity for a
county convention to nominate candi-
dates for the various courfty oflices, it
may be asked, is there any necessity
for a county convention to nominate
a candidate for the state legislature?
We think not. Bell count}', it is
thought, will be entitled to at least one
representative to be chosen by her own
citizens. The democratic party of this
county is overwhelmingly in the majori-
ty and we can conceivc of no greater
danger in electing a radical to the leg-
islature than there is in electing a radi-
cal to the office of sheriff or tax col-
lector. When political parties arc
somewhat evenly divided there may be
some excuse for holding county con-
ventions; but where the vast majority
of the people belong to the same politi-
cal party, in a general sense, there is
no good excuse for the practice, unless
it be a good excuse to name some as-
pirant who would be otherwise objec-
tionable to his fellow citizens.
There is today and has been for some
time past a strong popular aversion to
the county convention system, cspeci-
do not want and do not aspire to any
SCIENTIFIC SISCELLA5V.
In researches upon the petroleums (if
the Caucasus, M. Schulzeisbergcr has
observed that, although conducted
with the utmost care, his analyses fre
quently showed more than one hun-
dred per cent, of matter. A like result
was obtained with two other substances
following up the investigation, he has
found that soihirin and copper appear
to so affect certain products as to pio-
duce the anomaly observed; while ii
the articles so affecttfd are exposed for
a short time to sunlight they give a
normal analysis. It js suggested, as ii
possible explanation, that the weight
of atoms may vary within certain very
narrow limits, and that in the case o"f
hydrocarbons it may be modified by
the action of sodium or by light. If
confirmed, M. Schutzenberger's dis-
covery will have an important bearing
upon the fundamental principles of
chemical science.
If the astronomical view that the
moon was once a part of the earth's
mass be true, the moon in its early age
must have revolved much nearer the
earth than now and must liavo cause;!
prodigious tides upon its parent plan-
et, as recently shown by Prof. Ball.
Prof. J. S. Newberry finds in geologi-
cal evidence a refutation of this theory
to the extent, at least, of proving
conclusively that no such tides could
have exulted since the commencement
of the geological record. He does not
hesitate to assert, therefore, that the
astronomers are in error in regard to
the moon's genesis; or that if it was
once a portion of the earth, the sepa-
ration took place at a period so remote
that it had receded to nearly its present
distance before the dawn of life upon
the earth.
Modern improvements have increased
the power of the microscope so greatly
that it is now made to magnify 100,000
diameters. The best unaided human
vision can see no objects much smaller
than the three hundredth of an inch in
diameter; but the most skillful micro-
scopists, with their best instruments,
are able to examine monads a hundred
thousandth of an inch ia diameter.
Beyond this minuteness is obscurity.
It has been estimated that ultimate par-
ticles or atoms composing ail matter
can be no more than one twenty-mil
tionlli of an inch in diameter, so that
it seems hardly probable that they will
ever be revealed to the human eye.
The auroras observed by Baron Nord
enskjold at the winter quarters of the
Nega, in latitude 07 degrees 5 minutes
north, were mostly feeble and lacked
the ray-like formation so often charac-
teristic of these phenomena. A simple
luminous arc, low in the sky, was most
common; and this distinguished navi-
gator's theory is that the arc forms a
part of a permanent luminous crown
above the earth's pole.
German measurements give the fol
lowing as among the greatest daily
quantities of rainfall recorded in Eu-
rope: At Colberg, Sept. 7,1880, four
inches of rain fell in seven hours. At
Breslau, August 0, 1858, four and a
half inches fell. At Klaus!hat. on the
Ilarz, the daily maximum observed is
four and a half inches; and at Hochen-
schwand, in the Black Forrest, it is
five inches.
A new white metal and malleable
bronze is produced by the discolors
tion of copper by means of ferro-man
gnnese. The composition gives a met-
al white as silver and as malleable as
German silver obtained with nickel.
For a laminable white metal in plates
zinc or brass is addetf to the composi-
tion.
| Dr. T. Sterry nuat has calculated
i that the amount of carbonic acid stored
j Form not less tl:an twoliundrecl atm'os-
officc i„ conscquence o, manner j
which most of our county conven- J coal beds, must have been drawn from
tions have been manipulated for the ' the air, which he believes gradually re
The following
alveston Ne
County Convict Labor
Waxahachie Mirror.
Two or three times recently the
jrfirror has reverted to the question of
out county convicts at small
!nominating it as unjust,
hiring
|lect a senator to
lie United States
|rove Mr. Coke's
hey will re-elect
rill defeat him.
feiUy mistaken, a
the democracy
i retain Mr. Coke
l if they do not nomi-
Ve they can not in-
to support for sena-
■may be nullified, so
was telegraphed to
the Galveston News from Hunteville,
TexSunder date of the 29th ult..
•'Believing the measure to be eminent-
sr-sss preisr ,
hereby petition our senators ami repre-
theoSsrtsof Jtbe southern states to
build up an^fteient public^chool sys-
tem This petition, signed by thctac
ulty and SW0 stodentfl, has ]ust heen
forwarded to Washington.
The Atlanta ConstUujion
fleeted this fall will ha;
v.with national issui
v yey will have to
^d Mr. Coke in
If they ap]
him>^tLe senate
Nowise they
very larg€m not
of this county
in the senate,
naie a represen
struct him whi
tor, and their
that the only
who wish te infer course for those
nominee, and '\ct is to make a
must do, and h*-«OJeH him what he
self publicly to ofee^a to pledge him-
Tl t Pic in America
The dependence of the American
citizen upon his pic is quite touching.
The amount consumed, if properly ar-
ranged with reference to statistical dys-
pepsia, would, probably, exceed the
horror-Inspiring figures which reform-
ers love to cite in regard to the effects
of whisky and tobacco. From twenty-
five to thirty thousand pies are daily
sold in the city of New York alone.
Multiplied by fifty, the ratio of the
population of New York City to that
of the United States, it would appear
that over a million and a half of pies
are eaten every day by the people of
the United States. This docs not in-
clude the pies made by private families
and large hotels in New York; so that
it is safe to say that at least a third of a
pie, or a pie every three days, is eaten
by every family in the land. One cu-
rious feature is that during times
£ jU&fiMUSs
ufacturers «ys that during the recent
illness of President Garfield, especially
at the time of his assassination and the
day of his death, including, also, the
days of great suspense, the business of
pic-eating and pie-buying fell off very
mi. _ Imn AT
seriously. The same is true of election
times. Pumpkin pie is going out of
fashion, being superseded by apple pie
and custard.
These argumet
my mind in f*'
others equally
sented. 1 '
friends who"
take a different
their opinions,
conventions en
delegates, and i
whom to support
ventions, and whe
our cju*^
suit.
This
cussed and clear)j
vance, so that cv
vote int
eir. instructions,
conclusive to
nomination;
pre-
ocratic
ie, kcepAued to
Call andXmjer
fsteak, go
1 tf
onnades for
WJOTT.
and
Buy Boolta.
A house without books is a cheerless
place, and speaks unfavorably for its
inmates. Men are not accustomed to
buy books unless they want them. If,
on visiting the dwelling of a man
of slender means, we find that
he contents himself with cheap carpets
and very plain furniture, in order that
he may buy books, he rises at once in
our esteem. Books are not made for
furniture, but there is nothing else that
so beautifully futnishes a house. The
plainest row of books that doth or pa-
per ever covef. is more significant of re-
finement than the most elaborately
carved etagere or sideboard. Give us
a house furnished with books rather
than With costly furniture. Both
you can, but books lit any rate.
spend several days in a friend s b
and hunger for something t<
■while you aie treading on CO§r or
. and sitting upon hrAlso has
sleeping upon dojMnectionery
bribing*?"'
. . .i you so." This is.what Ma-
jor Hefley tells Dr. Embree while he
id busy supplying customers with dry
goods, groceries and other articles of
meicbandise. What does he mean?
Thit he is finding a Kay to get rid of
he big stock he purchased whiii hi
(W York and St Louis.
past decade. There is no use to dis-
guise the fact, there is thought—we
might truthfully add there is known—
to have been too much trickery, too
much wire work, too much of "you
tickle me and at the proper time I'll
tickle you," practiced by some members
of the democratic party. The democrat-
ic masses have become disgusted with
such conduct on the part of those who
have been guilty, and long for a change
in this particular.
It may be known that in some of our
conventions the nominee has been
named, the the papers all cut and dried,
for the occasion, long anterior to the
sitting of the convention. If these
things be so, are you astounded that
the people call out aloud, "Give us a
free field and a fair fight, and we will
make our own selection at the ballot
box." Are you willing to risk the
voice ef the people at the ballot box
for the sheriff of our county? Yes.
Then why not be willinng to risk the
same voice, as expressed at the ballot
box, for a man to represent your views
in the legislative halls of your great
state? Can a few professional politi-
cal wire-workers make a better selec-
tion than you can? You hold a con-
vention and nominate a man to repre-
sent you, and, although loud-mouthed
in his profession of democracy, yet up-
on the living, vital issues of our state
polity, he may misrepresent every po-
litical view or opinion you may enter-
tain, and still call himself a Simon pure
democrat because he votes for Mills for
congress or Iioberts for governor or
Coke for senator. He may be as sound
as a silver dollar in a national sense or
on national issues, as a democrat, and
yet entertain views and opinions as to
state policy diametrically in opposition
name of pru-
"scractnra com-"
mon interests, let *>-*«ry jnan run who
feels an inclination and Tci that man
represent the people who r«ccivcs the
greater following at the polls. Tt hi
this way we should fail to make a good
selection, we will have no one to blame
but ourselves. We are supposed to
know our own people iB our own
county, and ought to have wisdom and
virtue and patriotism sufficient to name
the man we may desire at tbe ballot
box. People are willing to spare the
time to turn out and vote at the ap-
pointed time, but they have neither the
time nor tbe inclination to attend to the
various primary and secondary coun* i
conventions, especially during thq.
sy season of the year. You
ably, hear more t-!d an
written by office seeketw pr-rnrt
cial friends and dateiy^Q^yyjQ
convention
state
eeives its supply of the g.-ts from inter
stellar space.
Or. Win. A. Hammond finds over-
heated apartments to be a potent cause
of nervous irritability. If we would
preserve our amiability and our tran-
quillity of mind, we should live in well-
ventilated rooms, kept at a tempcature
of about sixty five degrees.
Of the sense of taste, Prof. MeKcn-
drick stales that the base of the tongue
is most sensitive to bitters, and the lip
to sweets. A substance must be soiu
ble in the fluid of the mouth to create
taste, but no defiuite relation has been
found between the chemical condition
of bodies and their taste.
A successful operation, during which
the patient was kept immersed in water
for sixteen days, was recently per
formed by Dr. Sangenbeck, of Berlin.
Among other applications, these "per-
manent baths" are said to be especially
valuable in cases of burns.
Explorations by a Russian party
show that the eastern shore of the Gulf
of Obi, in northern Siberia, is nearly
fourteen miles west of the place as-
signed it by existing maps.
SHORT SEBMOSS.
_ Good counsel rejected returns to en-
rich the giver's bosom.
Marriage, is by its best title, a mon-
opoly, and of the most invidious sort.
Riches in general are in every coun
try another name for freedom.
That virtue which requires to be
ever guarded is scarcely worth the
sentinel.
Man little knows what calamities are
beyond his patience to bear till he tries
them.
Man is not a creation of pure reason,
he must have his senses delightfully
appealed to.
In this life, it appears that we cannot
be entirely blest, but yet wc may be
completely miserable.
The human species is composed of
*moo*-, tli© man who bor-
row and the men who lend.
No man is so fond of liberty
as not to be desirous of '
will of some indiviiV^WF^
Ills own.
one,
. That siugie c;
short in the d-
is itself a -
than a instated to our order and
entire -
ed to this Market
whiri
newive offer at a small advance on
lady "-Manufacturers' prices.
■BS—
SHORT STORIES.
COMIC, S1..\TIMOT.U^ TRAOIC—
A.M> WHICH ARE THCE.
NO. I.
DTEL BETWEEN A NORTH CA110 LIN A
WOMAN AS.-l A SOUTH CAROLINA
WOMAN.
A Wilmington, North Carolina,
special to the Cincinnati Enquirer,
dated March 20, says the inhabitants
of the beautiful Valley o" the Tyron
Mountain were this morning startled
by the discovery of a tragedy, startling,
sickening, and romantic ill its details,
it being 110 less than a deadly d ucl be-
tween tw<> women, to decide which of
the twain should have solely the affec-
tion of a man who had been paying
attention to them both. Last night
they met, and, niter a dcsfierate hand-
to-hand conflict, one was left dead upoii
the field, although, as the sequel
proved, her defeat was encompassed by
means of foul play.
Ilobert S. Elby, a young fuimcr in
• humble life, lived near tbe scene of the
tragedy. A year ago he wis an ardent
suitor for the hand of Miss Gracie
Mills, who lived just ov ir the South
Carolina line: but, although he courted
her frequently, she would not marry
him. Some months since be met Miss
Jane Jacksoj1, who lived in tlae Valley
of Tyron Mountain, here in North
Carolina, and he gave up hi* long
struggle for tbe hand of the South
Carolina maiden and trarsferred his
affections to Miss Jackson, upon whose
heart, after more than one assault, lie
appeared to make some impression.
As soon as the South Carolina woman
discovered this she entertained violent
hatred towards Jane Jackson, and the
feeling was returned by her rival, who
had succeeded in gelling tbe love of
the man which had bec-n rejected by
the woman who was vexed at not
taking it when she liad the chaace.'
Both were robust, country women,
and it was thought that iLcre would
be trouble between them, as each had
on more than one occasion defied the
other.
Last night Miss Jackson was sitting
in the house with a friend, Dora Spen
cer. Just at dark a voice was heard
from the road calling Jane Jackson.
Jane got up and went out, and never
returned. This morning wLcn search
was made the searching party came
upon a spot which gave evidence that
it had been the field of desperate battle
for life. Sticks and stones were there,
and the ground was torn by the Iramp-
imr of the feet, while the soil had been
turned into gory mud. Further
search revealed a trail showing that a
body had been dragged, and further on
in a creek lay the body of Jaue Jack-
soil, stiff and cold, and in ore of her
clenched bauds was fouud a tuft of
hair of her assailant, which indicated
that she had made a desperate struggle
for her life.
From all the evidence that could, be
elicited it seems that the two women
met out in the road that nlglit. Tbe
tracks show that Gracie Mills was ac-
companied by a man, and when she
was getting the worst of the light her
male partner camc up and struck a
fatal blow with a fence-rail upon the
head of Miss Jackson, and tbe two
together proceeded to murder her. The
hair which the dead woman clutched
in her hand was that of Gracie Mills.
Who her male accomplice was is a mys-
tery. The murderess has fled, and
there is no clew to her whereabouts.
The affair has caused wild excitement
NO. II.
AN ADVERTISER EST SECClilsH A CANA-
DIAN A TEXAN WIFE.
Some months ago an elde'ly gentle-
man, whose home is in far-off Canada,
advertised in a northern paper for a
wife, and invited correspondence from
ladies desiring to contract a matrimo-
nial alliance. The advertisement met
the eye of a comely widow lady living
in the neighborhood of the village of
Lexington, Lee county, and a corres-
pondence with a view to r.iatrimony
was opened; it was kept up for some
three months, the parties being mutu-
ally pleased with each other a match
was made aud the gentleman from
Canada arrived at Lexington a few
days ago; a marriage license ind a par-
were duly married. Oil "the 23d
ult. the gentleman, liis newly made
wife and her three children embarked
on the Central Railway trai l at Gid-
dings en route for the gentleman's
home, in the Dominion of Canada. All
the parties seemed to be happy and
contented. Let us hope that the mar-
riage so singularly brought about may
prove a happy one. Advertising is
undoubtedly a power iu Ihe laud; it
sells goods and brings at out wed-
dings.—Bienhain Banner.
DELAYED CORRESPONDENCE.
Temple Topics.
Temple, March 23.—Corn has com-
menced to peep forth so as to make
some show in the fields. All the small
grain is heading.
Mr. llosenfield has just opened up
his new stock of goods.
The Missouri Pacific railroad com-
pany have bought laud of Mr. Hock
•or a stock yard.
Mr. Carletou bas erectcd n nicc
dwelling oa Twelfth street.
Mr. Downs' family arrived from Wa-
co last week aud are dwelling among
Capt. Roach and Miss Annie Roach,
after a visit of several days in Robert
son county, returned Saturday. Mrs.
Wilson, a niece of Capt. Roach, camc
with them on a visit.
A German by tbe name of Gross died
this morning of delirium tremens.
Rev. Mr. Watson is delivering a scries
of lectures on the prophecies of the
Bible, at the Baptist church.
Fourteen hundred head o*' cattle, on
foot, passed through town on Saturday
on their way to New Mexico.
Mr. Jim Stevenson had his baud bad-
ly crushed yesterday while hauling cc-
dars.
Mr. C. C. Allen, secretary of the San-
ta Fe railroad, has been in town sever-
al days.
The Missouri Pacific railroad is put-
ting iu the Y below llie junction.
They have moved their boarding care
near Little River.
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be found in my Vegetable fjH Kl«wcrt«c4 Catalan*
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Batte, J. G. The Belton Journal (Belton, Tex.), Vol. 16, No. 14, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 6, 1882, newspaper, April 6, 1882; Belton, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth233456/m1/1/: accessed April 19, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting The Dolph Briscoe Center for American History.