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HONEY GROVE SIGNAL
VOL. 4.
Honey Grove, Texas, Friday February I, 1895,
NO. 50
BONHAM NOTES.
The beautiful snow has come at
last and the boys have about ail
had the satisfaction of taking the
life of an unfortunate hare, judg-
ing from the number killed. The
cotton-tails will be scarce about
Bonham.
The preliminary trial of the
parties charged with the burning
of Capt. Tom Lightfoot's barn near
Revennajdid not come off yesterday
as was expected but was postpon
ed lor another week.
A cigar factory, in which about
ten hands will be employed, will
commence operation here on the
5th of Febuary. Phipps and Kolb
of Arkansas are the proprietors.
It seems hard for the burglars to
hold up on Bonham. Several
hundred dollars worth of jewelry
was taken from a private residence
a few nights Since.
Armond Elison, by our J.P ,was
held to bail in two felony cases
and one misdemeanoi on yester-
day. Elison is hut a boy and this
reminds us of the fact that nearly
all our criminals are young men
Story of a Mule.
Some time since J. B. McKee
and Jobe Taylor concluded to ex-
change mules for a time, the ex-
change being to their mutual ad-
vantage for the following reasons,
to wit: Said J. B. McKee’s mule-
is young, frisky and unbroke, and
much in need of the taming in-
fluence of a dray wagon, while said
Jobe Taylor’s mule wTas old, jaded
and gentle, and needed a good
rest. Everything went well until
Taylor’s mule began yearning for
his old home and associates, and
finally took French leave by jump-
ing the fence, and turning his face
towaid his home in Lick Skillet.
His muleship did not choose the
shortest route home, but conclud-
ed while freedom was his to visit
the suburban village of Rock Hill
i where dwells all the darkies of
J the Hardshell Baptist faith. A-
j mong the inhabitants of Rock Hill
llives Handy Graham, than whom
and boys.
On Saturday there was a mass J there is no more devout Hardshell
meeting ol citizens for the pur- J jn the region roundabout. Handy
pose of getting a county local op-j religion int0 pmctice and
tion election, there was a fair ir ,
attendance and it was decided to 80 str0"« 18 he u> the doctrme that
put it through. “what is to be will be,” that he
The criminal business of the even neglected to place a fence
county court has principally been ar0Und his well, knowing that if
ground out and some civil busi- it wa8 decreed lrom the foundation
ness as well. „ . , . , T ,
of the world that Jobe iaylor s
mule should jump headforemost
into said well, that barbed-wire
fences, pickets nor any other sub-
stance would be able to separate
the mule and the well.
It seems that it was so decreed,
for the above-mentioned peregrina-
ting mule peregrinated as straight
as he could peregrinate to Handy’s
well and without notice or warn-
ing jumped headforemost into the
concavity from which Handy was
wont to extract water. It was a
tight fit, the countour of the mule
rubbing harshly against the un-
cemented walls or the well, and
as the annimal intervened between
Handy and the water so that he
could not lower a bucket, he is
now carrying water from his neigh-
bor’s. The city authorities were
informed of the dire catastrophe
and a workman was sent with
block and tickler to raise the car-
cass from the well, but the work-
man soon returned and reported
that no power on earth could re-
move the mule from the well ex-
cept by removing only a pound or
two at a time. It was therefore
deemed best to rover the remains
and there let them rest.
But now arises a legal question:
Should Taylor recover damages
of Graham lor the loss of his mule,
or should Graham recover from
Taylor for the filling up of his
well?
Cleveland to Congress.
President Cleveland sent a
special message to Congress Mon-
day touching upon the financial
situation. He urges the law-
makers to do something to relieve
the pressure upon the treasury and
v^-irCrLie-stanchupan the order- of do-
ing, but to do at once. The mes-
sage was called forth by the con-
stantly dwindling gold reserve in
the U. S. treasury which is now
only about fifty million dollars—
the lowest point ever reached.
The president declares that the
one and only thing to be done for
present relief is to devise plans for
the securing of more gold and the
keeping of the some in the treas-
ury after it is procured. The
only way,he insists,to procure gold
is by the issuance of interest-bear-
ing bonds, and intimates that the
present law for the issuance of
such bonds is insufficient from the
reason that they are made payable
in “coin” instead ol specifically in
gold, which detracts largely from
their desirability as investments.
Summed up the message is simply
a request to congress to authorize
the secretaryof the treasury to issue
bonds tor the purpose of procur-
ing and maintaining a* sufficient
gold reserve, the bonds to run fifty
years and bear interest at the rate
of 3 per cent.
He does not attempt to say what
amount of bonds should be sold,
but judging from the past we pre-
sume he contemplates the issuance
of $100,000,000 per annum; even
this amount has failed to sustain
the gold reserve this year.
The Texas & Pacific gives you
choice of routes, via New Orleans,
Shreveport'and Memphis for East-
ern and Southeastern points with
good connections. It is also the
quickest line to St. Louis and
points beyond. Remember that
you save money, time and trouble
by getting through tickets to your
destination For maps, routes
and rates or any information call on
or address, J. C. McKinney,
T. & P. Agt., Honey Grove,Tex.
Buckner’s cure stops headache
neuralgia and rheumatic pain al-
most instantly. Sold by
Dan P. Ewing.
A Communication.
Bonham, Tex, Jan.28,95.
Editor Signal:
I see from your Bonham corres-
pondent that the impression
might be made that I did the city
officiary of Bonham an injustice
in certain deliverances in my pul-
pit regarding the outlawry of liq-
uor in this town. I write to say
that I did not do them injustice
as the offencive statement has
been made good as per my
authority and can be made good to
all who may demand it.
I am too well acquainted with
the votaries of the liquor traffic and
its abominations to put my neck
in their halter.
W: M. Leatherwood,
Pastor of M. E. church South.
Signal and Memphis Appeal, one year, $1.30.
Shoes Made of a Negro’s Skin.
A certain prominent physician
of Philadelphia (not New Orleans)
always wears shoes made from
leather made by tanning the skins
of negroes. In order to further
satisfy the anti-mob-for-any-cause
people of the North,I will say that
this same physician is not a South-
erner by birth, and furthermore,he
fought to free the beings whose
skins he now uses as footwear. He
may have done his fighting from
pure selfishness, however, for i
must be admitted that negro skins
are more easily obtained now than
they were“befor’ the wah.” Then,
again, he may have laid in his life-
time supply of shoe leather during
the stormy days of ’61-’65. How-
ever this may be, he insists that
the tanned hide of an African
makes the most enduring and pli-
able leather that has yet been util-
ized by man. According to the
doctor’s story, a pair of shoes made
of negro skin will wear twice as
long as those made from the skin
of a white man, and from this con-
fession it may be inferred that this
eccentric M. D. has tried both. He
obtains the skins from the bodies
of the negroes dissected in one of
the larpe medical colleges located
in the City of Brotherly Love. The
best leather is that taken from the
thighs, breast and back; the soles
being formed of several thicknesses
of the same well sewed together.—
St. Louis Republic.
SCope of tbe Income Tax.
Washington, Jan. 27.—Members
of congress who believe in the in-
come tax as an equitable method
of raising revenues are gratified at
the unexpectedly good showing
of the preliminary canvass made
by the collectors of the internal
revenue at the direction of Secre-
tary Carlisle. They believe that
the greater the amount realized
from this act the more popular it
will become and the more firmly
recommended as a part of the poli-
cy of the government.
Representative McMillin of Ten-
nessee says that if a large per cent
of the revenue of the government
is derived from this plan any at-
tempts to repeal it before the ex-
piration of the five-year limit fixed
in the Wilson bill will be exceed-
ingly unpopular and that the
greater the revenue derived from
it the greater will be the probability
of its re-er.actment at the end of
this term. When the proposition
to tax incomes was before congress
the profit of the scheme was at
first estimated at from $15,000,000
to $18,000,000. Later the es-
timates of the committee were
raised to the vicinity of $30,000,-
000.
Mr. Hall :f Missouri, who has
given more study perhaps to the
theory and history of the income
tax than any other in the house,
did not place the total below $50,-
000,000. From the results of the
canvass of the internal revenue
bill it appears that Mr. Hall was
more nearly correct than the other
forecasters. He now says that the
income tax may yield more than
$50,000,000 and it is known that
the treasury department officials
do not place its results below that
mark. The showing made by the
thirty-six of the sixty-three dis-
tricts gives ground for the estimate
that about 300,000 persons and
corporations will contribute to the
treasury by this plan.
Signal and Ft. Worth Gazette, one year, $1.25.
Postage Slamjis by the Carload.
Mrs. Edna Gormap resides in
Kaneville, 111. Kaneville is not
on the map, nor on a railroad, but
every postal clerk in the country
has recently heard of it. It has
recently jumped into universal
notoriety.
Mrs. Gorman was a Miss Edna
Brown. Her husband’s sister is
a cripple. Mrs. Gorman conceiv-
ed the idea of collecting canceled
postage stamps for her sister-in-
law along the line of geometrical
progression.
The next Sunday after the con-
ception of the idea three inoffen-
sive looking letters left the Kane-
ville postoffice addressed to three
different persons, and signed by
Mrs. Gorman’s maiden name,
Edna Brown.
The letters went on to state that
she was a cripple and desired to
collect a million canceled postage
stamps in order to secure treat-
ment in a medical institute. Each
of the three persons addressed was
asked to send Miss Brown ten or
more canceled postage stamps and
to write three letters containing
similar requests, their correspon-
dents to send stamps and write
other letteis, and so on until the
fiftieth link in the chain should be
forged. Those receiving letters
numbered 50 were asked not to
write other letters, but to return
the forty-ninth letter to Edna
Brown, thus ending the chain.
To appreciate what happened,
it must be remembered that Kane-
ville is a cross-roads town on the
prairie, nine miles northwest of
Aurora, 111. The nearest railroad
station is Sugar Grove, five miles
south. Comprising the township
there are perhaps thirty houses,
and twenty-five letters a day
would be a big mail. The Kane-
ville mail is sent to Sugar Grove
by‘train, and from there is taken
to the postoffice by stage twice a
day.
A few days after the three let-
ters went forth the postmaster be-
gan to receive a good many letters
for Edna Brown, It surprised
him. Knowing every man, wo-
man, child and dog in the town, he
was aware of Miss Brown’s mar-
riage. His surprise soon deepen-
ed into astonishment, his astonish
ment into consternation, and his
consternation into despair.
The letters to Edna Brown kept
increasing. They soon filled a
bushel basket daily. Then they
filled several baskets.
It rained letters. Instead of the
usual small pouch, the Kanesville
mail required several. Not only
letters came, but boxes and bun-
dles of canceled stamps from well-
intentioned people. The stage
coach became so crowded by mail
bags that there was no room for-
passengers. The postmaster was
obliged to hire an assistant to help,
handle the stuff.
“The chain” is still not half
completed, and an average of from
8,000 to 10,000 letters a pay are
received at the postoffice for Miss
Brown, to say nothing of the boxes
and bundles of stamps by mail
and express. Last Wednesday
the number received was 17,000.
The mail clerks on the trains are
in a condition of collapse.
Some of the letters contain even
money orders sent by sympathetic
persons. Often whole sheets of
stamps are sent just as they came
from the postoffice, except with
an ink line drawn through.
Of course, one person cannot
look over all this mail,, so it is
parcelled out among the farmers’
wives, who, for the satisfaction of
reading the letters, open them and
trim the stamps for the little crip-
ple.
She passed the 3,000,000 . mark
long ago, and there seems to be
no way to stop the avalanche.
For Protection of Game.
Paris, Tex., Jan 30.—The gov-
ernor of the Choctaw nation has
issued an order to all of tbe-officers
under him t^. enforce' the law on.
trespassers hunting game- in his
territory. The Choctaw law pro-
vides a penalty confiscating the
hunter’s outfit. This will end the
wholesale slaughter of game.
Won’t Tobacco Spit or SimoSse Yonr
Life Away?”
The truthful, startling.: title of
a book about No-to-bac, tbe only
harmless, guaranteed tobaceo-habit
cure. If you want to quit and can’t
use “No-to-bac.” Braces up nico-
tinized nerves, eliminates- nicotine
poisons, makes we-k men gain
strength, weight and vigor. Posi-
tive cure or money refundie-d.
Book at druggists or mailed free.
Address The Sterling Remedy Co.,
Chicago, 45 Randolph St., New
York, 10 Spruce St.
Everybody is talking about
Buckner’s Headache anrS Neural-
gia cure. It is a wonderful rem-
medy. Price 25 cents:,. Sold by
Dan P. Ewing.
CITATION BY PUBLICATION.
THE STATE OF TEXAS—To the-Sheriff or any
Constable of Fannin County—GRE.E 1'ING:
You are hereby commanded .that, by making
publication of this Citation in some newspaper
published in (he count ; of i annin. for 4 weeks
previous to the return day hereof, you summon
G. M. Bright, whose residence is unknown to
he and appear before the District Court, to be
holden in and for the county of' Fannin, at the
Court House thereof, in the.town of nonham, on
the third Monday in February, 1-895, it being the
18th day of February, 1895,-. then and there to
answer an amended original: petition filed in
said court on the 10th of January, 1895, in a suit
numbered on the Docket-of said court No. 4070
wherein Mollie T. Bright is-plaintiff, and G. M.
Bright is defendant: the nature of plaintiff’s
demand being a suit foir divorce. Plaintiff
states in substance, that she. and defendant
were legally manied on .the-ISth day of Septem-
ber, 1893, in Fannin County, Texas, and lived
together as husband and wife until the 1st day
of March, 1894, at which time and before defend-
ant slandered and abused plaintiff. Plaintiff
states further, that defendant slapped and chok-
ed her and charged that: she had had illicit in-
tercourse with two certain men, naming them,
and divers other men;, all of which charges
plaintiff avers to* he-untrue and slanderous.
Plaintiff further, states,, that she desires her
name changed from,defendant’s to her former
maiden name, and prays for^citation by publica-.
tion, for judgment dissolving the bonds of
matrimony between, her and defendant, for
change of name to.that of Mollie T. Gibson, for
costs and general and special relief.
Herein Fail Not,, bint have you tfcenjind there
before said court, on the said first day of the
next term thereof;, (this Writ, with your return
thereon, showing how you have executed the
same. Witness: C. II. White,
Clerk of the District Court of Fannin County.
Given under m$v hand, and seal of said court,
in Bonham, this the 10th day of January, 1895.
C. H. White,
Clerk Distrust Court, Fannin County, Texas.*.
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Lowry, J. H. Honey Grove Signal. (Honey Grove, Tex.), Vol. 4, No. 50, Ed. 1 Friday, February 1, 1895, newspaper, February 1, 1895; Honey Grove, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth621604/m1/1/: accessed April 30, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Honey Grove Preservation League.