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MINEOLA, TEXAS, SATURDAY. MARCH 80, 1889.
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NO 20.
Gen. Sain Houston.
The following eloquent tribute
closed the speech of Hon. J. C.
Hutcheson before the House of
Representatives at Austin on the
2'2d at the unveiling of the State's
portrait of Gen. Houston :
I now approach the most pain-
ful the most conspicuous and the
most praiseworthy and illustrious
act of his life. General Houston
was, at the outbreak of the war,
Governor of this State, still enjoy-
ing the confidence and wore the
honors of his people. But lie dif-
fered from the majority of his
countrymen on secession, and, dif-
fering, dared to proclaim and ad-
vocate the views which were not
the passing caprices of the mo-
ment, but the convictions of a life-
time. He had refused to join m
the "Southern address," had op-
posed the repeal of the Missouri
compromise, and in a speech fore-
shadowing the tendency of events
to dissension and danger to
the peace of the country,
he had said: "i wish, if this Un-
ion must de dissolved, that its ruins
shall be the monument of my
grave. I wish no epitaph to be
written that I survived the ruins
oTHie glorious Union." So, when
the crisis came, that grand old
man, true to the sentiments of a
life time, stood by the Union, but
forsook not his State. Guided by
strong convictions, uninfluenced by
fanaticism, undeterred by popular
clamor, defying the hoot of the
mob, indifferent to popular ap-
plause he canvassed this State for
the Union, appealing with all the
force of his eloquence to the patri-
otism of his countrymen.
Mr. Speaker, to a man like Hous-
ton, who gave to public questions
his intense and conscientious con-
sideration until they cemented into
convictions, you might as well ex-
pect to change tne spots on that
leopard which mantles his form
in that portrait as the sentiments
which were written in the heart
which it covered.
It is not strange then that when
this State demanded his office and
expelled him from her courts he
maintained his position, but spurn-
ed the offer of Federal aid to retain
him in his office, and, rather than
imperil the peace of his State by
factional and internecine strife, he
gave up his honors, laid down his
robe
fron
of office and retired forever
the scenes of public life.
Gentlemen, I speak of these things
with greater liberty because I had
in that convention a brother who
voted for secession, and who gave
his life for the Confederate cause,
but who often spoke with tears in
his eyes of that unfortunate con-
flict, for he was Houston's neigh-
bor, loved him and venerated him
as the highest type of spotless pa-
triotism. Would, Mr. Speaker,
that I could sanctify these inci-
dents by the veil of obscurity—
that mysterious veil by which time
has consecrated so much that is
sad. But, sir, it is history, and let
us, like men, look history in the
face. That Houston loved his
State and gloried in her greatness
we all do know, and when that
grand old man in the "sunset of
life which brought him mystical
love, and when coming events cast
their shadows before," saw the ca-
lamities about to beset his country,
he used all the energies of his
great soul to arrest it, and all in
vain. But what manner of man
was lie and what relation has he
borne to his State that they now
sought in the transports of passion
to strip of his robes. It was he,
Mr. Speaker, who, when his State
was invaded and when Mexico
sought to aggravate despotism by
the anarchy of daily revolutions
ill t> pour on the head of Texas
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the barbaric disorders of her own
people, made his heart his coun-
try's rampart and carved a
beautiful child of liberty
from the womb of that unnatural
and despotic mother, which child
he named Texas, and put a star as
its symbol of light and glory.
And this child which he had
nursed to manhood, whose laws he
had established, tuis child he was
asked to embark on the tempest-
tossed sea of revolution. Mr.
Speaker, what did he do ? He but
asked that the cup might pass from
him, and when pressed to his lips
he drank it to the dregs. While
other sons of Texas, not wronged
like he, joined the Federal army
and waged war on their State, yet
he so loved his child that, though
she had exiled him from her coun-
sels, he bowed his great head on
his breast and exclaimed: "Oh
Jerusalem," and wept for calami-
ties he could not avert. I have
looked history over for such a
spectale and have not found it.
Coriolanious retired his victorious
legends from th6 walls of Rome,
gave up his revenge and subjected
himself to the imputation of treach-
ery, out it was the tears and impu-
tations of a wife and mother and
not patriotism which saved the Ro-
man altars. Regulus, when car-
ried captive to Carthage and then
offered his liberty if he would pre-
vail upon the Roman Senate to
sign a dishonerable peace, took a
last look at his loved ones, de-
nounced the treaty, and preferred
an ignominious death to the
dishonor of his country.
The precincts of sacred history are
consecrated ground, and I cannot
without irreveranoe draw a line
parallel to its pathways, but it be-
longs to Houston to blaze the first
pathway in history where a dis-
owned patriot lays down the hon-
ors of a life time for the peace of
his State—the first pathway from
a throne to a cottage along which
man made of flesh and blood walk-
ed from the throne he had made,
and made great; disowned, insult-
ed and exiled without staining his
hand in blood or raising his voice
in anathemas, and when arrived at
that cottage turned on that throne
benedictions and blessings. That
pathway, Mr. Speaker, will, to
generations yet unborn, when pa>
triotic endeavor seeks to excite pa-
triotic action, stand above the
world like the milky way in the
skies, bright, shining and studded
with stars, and the man who walk-
ed that way will be pointed to
down the lane of centuries yet un-
born, uncrowned and single above,
the fogs and passions of the world
and drinks his inspiration from
the gods. And now, Mr. Speaker,
let us show to the world that a na-
tion^ gratitude outlasts the pas-
sions of an hour, survives revolu-
tions and conflagrations, and by
anthem and by eulogy, with uncov-
ered heads, restore his portrait to
its former station, and, like the
sunflower, "turn on our god when
he sets the same look which we
turned when lie rose."
ltoblnsou Found Alive.
Special to the Gazette.
Paris, Tex., March 23.—It will
be remembered that on the night
of the 4th of March at Tcxarkana
that J. E. Robinson was arrested
on the charge of attempting to out-
rage the little eight-year old daught-
er af Tom Tierney, a hotel man in
that city, and that a mob took him
from the officers and carried him
away. The affair caused great
excitement and all efforts to find
him seemed to be futile, and the
general impression has prevailed
that Robinson had been murdered
and his body secreted in some out
of the way place. To-day W. T.
Parker, constable of the Texarkana
precinct, who Was one of the
searching party sent out by tile
district judge, came to this city
from the Choctaw Nation and stated
that his party had found Robinson
at Sulphur Springs, about seventy-
five miles northeast of this city,
after a long and tedious search,
Robinson when found was at work
building a storehouse. He declares
he is innocent of the charge made
against him by Tierney, and that
the whole thing was planned to
run him out of the country because
he was a witness in the Federal
court against one Savage, who
lives at Dalby Springs, and who is
ulider indictment for robbing the
mails, It is charged that Savage
is spending money freely to sub-
born and intimidate witnesses.
Robinson says he was carried to
Red river and told to never return
to Texarkana. After the treatment
he received he concluded to remain
away. He said ho intended work-
ing his way through the Territory
to Montague county where he has a
sister living. A part of the party
took him across the country to
Clarksville while Mr. Parker came
here for money to enable them to
get home. Robinson was assured
that he would receive the protec-
tion of the good people of Bowie
county.
New York State Authorities
Test the New Death-Deal-
ing Electric Chair With
Gratifying Results.
TIMED IT ON THE DOG.
Immigrants for the Year.
New York, March 11.—The
forty-second annual report, of the
board of immigration commission-
ers, as prepared for the legislature,
shows in substance that during the
year 1888 the total number of pas-
sengers from all foreign ports land-
ed in Castle Garden was 370,822
(237,875 males and 132,900
males.)
We have heard of people asking
for a pretty liberal bonus to induce
them to locate a factory at a given
place—and a reasonable bonus may
often prove a very wise investment
for the town—but the gentleman
who has offered to build a 6,000
spindle cotton mill in Gainesville,
Texas, provided he receives an
outright bonus of "840,000 cash
and 100 acres of land within or
very near the coporate limits of
the city" certainly deserves credit
for his modesty. It is a wonder
that he did not ask for a gift of the
whole city.
Evidently no flies roost on that fel
low. He must have heard of South
ern hospitality and generosity and
just wanted to put them to the test.
We want plenty of cotton mills and
other enterprises; we propose to
encourage them, too, but we have
not got to the point of giving away
towns to encourage some penniless
adventurer to come and rob us.
For that kind of bu incss we would
refer the party to Greeley's old
maxim: "Go West, young man."—
Real Estate and Industrial Review.
A RICH FIND.
New York, March 13.— Final
experiments w<re made this after-
noon by the New York State auth-
orises to satisfy themselves as to
the best ljieans of executing con-
demned criminals by electricity.
The first animal to leave his trou-
bles behind him was a small white
cur weighing twenty-one pounds.
One of the wires was wrapped over
some cotton waste, saturated with
water, on his right front leg and
the other attached in the same
way to his left hine leg. The al-
ternating current at 700 volts pres-
sure vas applied for ten seconds,
and the animal dieu painlessly
withcut noise or struggle. The
secoid was a black mongrel New-
foundland, weighing eighty-seven
and (fie-lialf pounds. Connectics
were made upon the middle of his
forelead with a metal plate cov-
eredwith felt, and upon the right
hind leg. Eight hundred volts of
alteriating current for fifteen sec-
onds killed him instantly. The
othei dogs, weighing sixty and
thirt -five pounds, were killed in
the time way with the alternating
currcit at 500 and 700 volts for
ten econds. Four calves of ap-
proxmaely the weight of a man
were killed in the same way, at
800 v)lts pressure for contacts of
from fifteen to twenty seconds.
An 810 pound horse then took the
alterrating current m the same
way at 1,000 volts pressure for
tweny-five seconds, and died in-
staniy. In every case death was
instiptaneous and without sound
or (jtruggle. The experiments
wer^ under the charge of Dr. Car-
los fi. MacDonald, of the Auburn
Stse Asylum, assisted by Mr. A.
E. tennelly, Mr. Edison's chief
elctrician, and Horald P. Brown,
electrical engineer. Among
th^e present were Dr. A. D. Rock,
the prominent medical elec-
an, Dr. Edward Tatum, of the
asylvania State University, and
rs representing the State auth-
Ed MURRIE,
The leader in Quality of Groceries
and low Prices. Highest prices
paid for country produce.
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Shall Those who
Us.
Betray, Lead
Six years ago when the real
Democrats put Mr. Carlisle foward
as a candidate for Speaker in op-
position to Randall, whose rulings
had exposed his sham democracy,
such allies of thi republicans as the
New York Sun declared that he
had no eliancs whatever.
The second time it was with
equal confidence asserted that the
"New South" had abandoned the
free-trade heresy and would repudi-
ate Carlisle. At every important
contest in Congress or in conven-
tion these newspapers, published
simply to falsely current history,
have always proclaimed in advance
the overthrow of the tariff reform-
ers, only to see when the test vote
was taken evidence of the rapid
spread of the true doctrines.
The principles of Democracy are
distinct at every point from those
of its opponents, and there is no
excuse for men holding the princi-
ples of one organization maintain-
ing a nominal connection with
the other.
Yet Mr. Randall and he Now York
Sun and their followers urged a
Democratic houso during the last
hours of its existence to abandon
the St. Louis platform and execute
the promises, made by the.National
Convention at Chicago.
Because Mr. Carlisle refused to
abandon his convictions and his
promises, because he had the cour-
age to use the power conferred byhiB
to defeat the measures which
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Tljy Celebrate the Eighteenth
Anniversary of the Paris
Commune.
is party convention at St. Louis
has condemned, the little handful
of protectionists who still claim to
be democrats are breathing out
threatenings am* slaughter and
prophecies with the same reckless
disregard of future punishment as
at the opening of the forty-ninth
and fiftieth Congress.
These tactics terrify no one but
they call renewed attention to the
Sast actions of these agitators. The
ew York Sun is everywhere rec-
ognized as the most efficient advo-
cate of Republican party measures
in New York. In 1884 and in
1888 its columns daily furnished
ammunition for the enemy. It left
nothing untried to secure the tri-
umph of the Republicans, and since
the election no journal has been in
more hearty accord with the Re-
publican leaders than the Sun.—
Courier Journal.
One, Hayos, a member of the
lower house of the legislature rep-
resenting Lamar county, made a
glittering Ass of himself in the dis-
cussion of railroad legislation at a
night session on the 26th, by the
use of of the following language:
"They,have got, (referring to • the
railroad companies) all the news-
papers in Texas in their employ,
that's what's the matter" of which
the Gazette's report says;
"Nothing can be so beneficial
to him us silence, and tho news-
papers have ignored him most
thoroughly. They might have
told how ho wastes the money of
the poople by taking up tho time ,
of the legislature with his similar
and almost endless harangues upon
all questions, the length of his
speech being in inverse ratio to his
knowledgo upon the subject dis-
cussed. They might havo report-
ed how he has gradually talked
away the small modicum of influ-
ence he had in the house in a drea-
ry monotony of voice that scrapes
the nerves and strikes upon the
tympanum with ull the mellifluous
softness of a saw under the tender
influence of the file. Thoy might
have reported how Dunlap told
him upon the flo r of the house
that he talked so much that he
(Dunlap) paid no attention to any.
thing he said. They might have
indulged in a number of these
pleasant little trifles with entire
accuarcy and with great injury to
the gentleman from Lama county;
but they have done nothing of tne
kind. They have paid ho attention
to him and still he is not pleased.
But perhaps it is this negleit that
has incensed him. At all events,
he is very mad. HiB speech
seemed to be an acknowledgment
of the defeat of the bill, for he de-
clared that the influence of the
railroads had changed the opinion
of thirty-three members or the
house, a very pretty compliment;
by the way, to the member* men*
tioned.
Hayes was followed by Mays of
Brazos, one of the colored mem- v
bers who ridiculed his speech for'
fifteen minutes to the great amuse*
of everybody present, the speaker
being frequently interrupted D]
plause."
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A Silver Nugget Weighing One
Hundred and Fifty Pounds.
iiicago, III., March 24.—The
anchist, Lucy Parsons, was the
ch:' speaker last night in Twelfth
strt Turner hall at tho celebration
of ie eighteenth anniversary of
thq'aris commune. About 2,500
le were present and they ex-
god significant glances when
Parsons shouted, "We want
volution. Whether peaceful
oody makes no diff'rence, a
ution must come.,'
<; declared that hIio had bu.t
I onibject in life—to make rebels
l of inn all.
I an agitation meeting to-day
narchist named Cook made
this expression: "They have
tho anarchist, but they don't
lang any more."
met with such favor that a
was made asking the re-
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Special to the Gazette.
El Paso, Tex., March 23.—
fe- Twenty-two car loads of material
have arrived for the new bridge
The nationalities cheifly repre- that is to span the Rio Grande.
sented were: Irish, 44,300; English, > Work is going on splendidly and agipd.
88,355; German, 78,145; French, when completed this will make the m
less than 0,000; Russian, 33,053; third International bridge at this W
Swedish, 37,934; Italian' 43,927;' point. be j11 to increase the
Australian, 16; Chinese, 5. Of the J. H. Mulliken came up from thoji the fortunes some senators
total number of immigrants, 07,518 the La Dura mines in Mexico to- havnade would indicate that the
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the,me.
If you haven't already done so
set one or two hundred blackberry
and dewberry plants in your gar-
den. These are most delicious
berries, and rarely fail to bear a
good crop when properly treated.
The wild varieties to be found all
around tho town may be easily
transplanted. According to our
taste they are better than straw-
berries, and once sot they are no
further trouble.—Tyler Courier.
Those gentlemen who predicted
dire fate to the Democratic party
of Texas unless a railroad commis-
sion law was passed, may sit down
and await the fulfillment of their
prophecies. If Democracy in
Texas has no cohesive force other
that advocacy of a railroad com-
mission, the sooner it goes to
pieces the better it will be for the
state. But, then, the prophets
were not authorized to speak for
the party.—Ft. Worth Gazette.
Come on ye immigrants, town
builders, ranch seekers, manufac-
turers and folks of all nation, and
participate in the good things we
have to offer. Read the following
and be convinced:
When Texas entered tho federal
union she reserved tho right to her
public domain, consequently there
is no government land in the state.
However, there arc some 40,000,-
000 of acres belonging to the various
charitable institutions which can
bo bought at 31 to $3 per acrc, and
upon terms extending up to forty
years time. Aside from this there
are 300,000 acres of railroad lands
which can bo secured upon equally
accommodating terms. — Real
Estate and Industrial Review.
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The Rev. Geo. II. Thayer, of Dour-
bon, Ind., says: ''Both myself and
Wife owe our lives to Shlloh's Consump-
tion cure." Hold by It. T. Smith &
Co.
Mr. A. F. Walker, one
interstate commerce commisioncrs,
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were under 15 years of age, 265,505 day bringing a silver nugget which i qudon of legitimate compensa
over that age and under 40,
36,799 over 40 years of age.
and ; he took out of his
1150 pounds.
mine weighing tioi
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question of increasing the
f members of Congress from
to 810,(XX) a year is being
T ' , . , , i has resigned,to accept the manage-
It is claimed that no | . P „ . .
. ,, . merit of an Eastern Traffic associ-
can live genteelly in i ,. . „„ , .
L , . . T. • i i ation at 825,(XX) a year. 1 hat is a ,
nington on his pay. It might , - , . /
T ', . ., , shameful waste of money on the:
ill to increase tho salary,1 , .r, . 1
, , ' part of tho association. By apply-
on the fortunes some senators1. . ~ , . . .
ing to the Texas legislature a man | , , .
could have Won ..cured to do the |ell!Ctol r08',,tor " "f V,nf
county. Cheatham is a ready'
speaker and a very well informed
H. P. Cheatham, the only col-
ored member, represents the Sec-
ond Carolina district in the fifty-
of the He was born near
Henderson, N. C., about thirty-
two years ago. Cheatham is
an A. M. of Shaw university, Ral-
eigh. Just after his graduation he
took the office of superintendent of
the Colored State Normal school,
Plymouth, N. C. In 1885 he was
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an emergency, at $3,000 a year.—
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