The Local-Chronicle. (Wills Point, Tex.), Vol. 8, No. 45, Ed. 1 Thursday, November 12, 1885 Page: 1 of 4
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WILLS POINT, TEXAS, NOVEMBER 12, 1885.
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{VOLUME VlII.-;-NUMBER'45.
V. T. XoCuwky,
Canton.
McCHESNEY,
r8 at LAW,
, Canton, Texas.
all the conrta of sur-
and attend prom pi-
ffled to their care.
TJNGh,
. YMAN
ROWER.
nd tried, and war-
•> to name.
'nt and Canton
Canton.
day,
e Fall and
Etc,.
11 of the latest
.at sonnet he—
One night, as old 8t. Peter slept,
He left the gate of heaven a)at,
When through a little angef crept, „
And oanie down with a falling star.
- w auminei, aa the Messed Wants
Qf niorh approached, my bluahing bri
Awakened froraeome pleasing dream,
And found that angel by her aide.
God grant but this—I ask no more—
That when he leaves this world of pain,
He’ll wing his way tq that,brfgbt shore,
Aud fl'nd tno road to Waven again.
By chance, the eye of John G.
Saxe, then an old man, fell upon
the above, and he wrote the fol-
lowing reply /or St. PeteK-
ST.^CTUtTTiRltPLY.
Full eighteen hundred ^ehrs Or lhore
I’ve kept the gate securely fast;
There has no “Mttlh abgel” strayed,
Nor recreant through the portal passed.
I did not sleep, as you supposed,
Nor left the gate of heaven ajar,
Nor hfch W “little angel” left
And gone down with the falling star.
Go ask ihe blushing bride, and aee
. If sh|; don’t frankly own, and say,
That when she round that aagel babe,
1 She found it in the good old way. —
God grant but this—1 ask no more —
That should, jour number still enlarge,
You will not do as done before,
And lay ft to old Peter’s charge.
ae cities,
celving additions
atronage.
rce Street, Sign of
l HAT.
WAJJK & COU
ind Dealers In
MEATS,
T, Texas.
n the business at
jrth Street, next
, where we will be
nr friend* and the
'0 call on us when
" tny.kiwL Fresh
-«ntly on liand.
•\d we guaran-
best meats
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.-iyest price.
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Ayou will do
HlckS, who 1*
’rod 'Bowlden’s.
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>er 2, 1886, with an
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instruction will be
t nr.ade to build up
'•n.
be provided with
iryr
t per month.
/ . .
iblo rates.
a Howell and
lay, of Reagan,
..<* Sam Houston
<, will assist in this
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OWlLL, Principal,
xno. [40-lm
ACARA,
, Boot and Shoe-
Maker,
sHrth 8treet, next 0oo» to McLeod’S
Livery 8table.___--
abd Children’s
' Specialty.
.Iy done and with dJt-
t Palestine has
dramatic club. „
a home social
The farmer should be the hap-
piest man on earth. ^
Many good and honest. VfipVi
have failed to pay their debts.
The success of all classes hangs
upon the success of the tiller of
the soil.
CAYip county is rejoicing over
the discovery of fine coal beds
within her limits.
When a barber shaves k man
with a dull razor, he kicks; but
JThk strike.ai&ojig fee employes
jf the Howard oil mills, at Pales-
tine, has ended, the manager
having made satisfactory settle-
ment of Hie differences.
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Prof. Black, of Indiana* of the ,
Dallas by his able discourses in
of Christianity and the.
bible. He is'Said to be a relative
of the late Jere S. Black, the dis-
tinguished jurist
One of the most important of
the recent rtnnoraJs that to the
effect that the Vanderbilts have
purchased a large interest in the
Erie and will have representation
in the board of directors. Proba-
bly this report has some founda-
tion in fact.
• GRADlED SCHOOLS.
The WAhf of knowledge in rela-
tion tb'graded schools and their
functions in education, ptnong
people "who are in the habit of
talking ih\ich about them, is strik-
ing aud would be amusing but
for the gravity of the subject;
for, really, the constant lauding
of this one kind of institution
has caused fiiany to doubt the
usefulness of any other means
for education of children We
think we are prepared to sustain
the position, that, while the grad-
ed sbhool is freq&ently n necessi- "tog,' and this-requires-great tact
ty, it is never the best, for the av-
erage boy or girl, and the vOry
worst for one of bright mind and
enough vigor of body to let him
advance rapidly.
A graded school is simply one
in which an effort is niad'e to class
all children of the same advance-
ment together,; ai teacher being
given entirely to one class and
the class confineh to one teach-
er. There must then be as ma-
ny teachers as classes, say ten in
an ordinary village school; and
they ihust be good teachers, re-
markably good, for they must
teach all the branches. Such
teachers are hard to find any-
where. They have to be paid.
Such a school would cost at the
lowest $10,000 per annum.
Let us now look at its working.
Suppose the pupils in any grade,
(which can never' be the caseT
starf on a perfect equality. In a
month, ten per cent, of them will
fallen behind in some one study,
and this when the teacher has
and firmness. We have thought
that ability to become aeqainted
with'every child’s mind. and.to
use that knowledge skillfhlly in
arranging for school work, a
teacher’s highest accomplish-
ment.
He Was Like all Great. Men.
The young man' lingered near day uf November, as
the managing editor’s desk, wait
ing for an appointment on the
regular staff.
“But you drink I’lsgid the man-
ager, wishing to let the candi-
date down easy.
“Yes,” said the young mafi,
“so'did AleX'Rnder the Great.” .
“And you are a dude?” glanc-
infi at the youth’s dandified dress.
“So was Disraeli.”
“Andyon are a liar?”
“Sp was Napoleon Bon.aparle.”
“And you are head and ears in
debTP*--—-— —----
done his best, and kept the oth-
ers back as far as his convenience
will lethim. Those pupils willhave
done worse than nothing in the
studies in which they are back
ward for the rest of the year, i.
e., drag on at the fag end of the
'grade and get discouraged; or
they must goto the next lower
grade and have nothing to do ex-
cept in the one fcfedy in which
each is ‘de'Qcient. In six months
from starting half are in the con-
dition described, and the ofeerB
are held back to keep with them,
very few are learning anything.
The poor teacher is much in the
condition of An old hen with a
mixed brood of chickens and guin-
eas ; if she follows' the guineas
an impression on the people of fe® chickens are lost ahd if she
od«r»t«.
. Guaranteed.
'•'HUE SWELLING I
_"'Ml* Swelling, of 20
-n state. Tbla
20 years’
»’ ft and
/
A great many papers are se-
verely criticising Gov. Ireland’s
letter on immigration. Our peo-
plb endorse' tha goverHofr’a "views
on that, subject. We believe
motit in domestic immigration.
Our county clerk issued 29 char-
ters to domestic immigration so-
cieties last month.
One bf the wealthiest ladies in
Austin looks after hfet culinary
affairs and prepares most of the
delicate dishes with her own
hands. She is healthy, spirited
and does not bide her pretty eyes
with-the ugly glasses affected by
somd. But she' id already mar-
iifed. ____
A rbvm pedagogue, named
Greer; Recently married a Widow,
in Colorado county, somewhat
hiS senior, and, in Company with
his spouse, started on a visit to
his relatives in Missouri. She
navfe him $450 of her lifoney,
keeping $60 herself. Wherf (Hey
reached Dallas he gave her the
dodge, and at last accounts his
w#here ’'Oats were to her un-
knov She returned to her
ho '^ado a sadder if not
-y&EL:-.
stays with the chickerts the guin-
eas go to the inischief. She just
stands still. and clacks, herself
hoarse, or rushes around wildly
and finds nd food, when she ought
to be scratching every hour to
make those young Ones grow*
~ Graded schools may be a neces
ity in latge cities where the
whole scholastic-population must
be handled by one man who
knows nothing of the individual
pupils and must handle them in
bodies of some kind. We will
not deny it; but, for schools of
two or three hundred, it is al-
ways best to have* a more pliant
system. Xbp'undisputed fact that
a teacher is seldom found, wHo is
good for more than one or two
branches, suggests that each
teacher be confined to the study
in which he excels, and have all
classes in that branch. By judi-
cious management a pupil fiiay
then be put back in one stiidy
withoiit having to go back in all,
or if he outstrips his class he iiiay
be advanced to the one above
hiifi, one study at p time, and fin-
ally a frill member of the class
ah sad; which he could ne^er
have done at one bound.
Again, by this plan the sttf-
be teachable enough to believe
the statements of his instructor
or any credible( author, upon
fact which has not come under
his own observation, but do let
his conclusions and theories be
his own, at the farthert, only sug-
gested by the preceptor. Bring
him in contact with* all the teach-
ers possible and hq will take the
Best from all and fallow no one’s
!>et vagariefe. J. . ;
Graded schools are not needed
except in cities, but our schools
do need everywhere better class-
purpose especially Appointed,
publicly .acknowledge the good-
ness of God and return thanks
for all His gracious gifts.
“Therefore, I, Grover Cleveland,
president of fee United States of
Americrf, do hereby designate
and set apart Thursday, the 26th
* d*y-
public thanksgiving and prayer,
and do insist on the observance
of the same by all the peeple of
the land. On that day let all
secular business be suspended,
and let the people assemble in
their usual places of worship and
by prayer and songs of praise
deveutly testify'tlieir gratitude
to the giver of every good and
perfect gift, for all that He has
done Tor us in the year that has
passed for our preservation as a
united people, and for our deliv-
#rance
“Like Ajexander Dumas.”
,rAod you are a glutton ?”
“So was Deter the Great.”
“And you swear occasionally?”
the teachers every day, and his
edneationis broader and freer. He
compares the views of all and
does not grow up to respect the
ideas of one preceptor. A boy
has as Hiuch right to hear both’
sides .of a question and! form his
own judgmonts within the sphere
of his thought, as a man has, nor
have- yon any good excuse for
forcing youf own or any author’s
opinions ,6ri him. He ought to
“So did George Washington.”.
“Yon are liable to getjlrunk?”
“Like Daniel Webster.”
. “You are not a college man?”
“NeitherWas Lincoln.”
“And'then you write k wretch-
edly illegible Band ?” ,
“Like Horace Greely.”
“And you can’t make a speec’ ?”
“Like-Grant.”
“Well,” said the manager,
plunging into a heap of manu-
script, “anyhow we don’t want
ymr, yon aron’t do. Good morn- .
ing.”
The young man turned away
exceedingly sorrowful. “It’s no
sort. .of use,” he said, “a fejlow
combines in his own brain and
person the traits of all the great
men from Alexander to Grant
and can’t even get a place on the
Brooklyn Eagle. This world is
growing too fast for genius.—
[Burdette in the Brooklyn Eagle.
Is Blind. Tom a SlavS1?
The New Heaven Daily Regis-
ter says: “~B1ind To til, the fa-
mous pianist, is til a only shred
left of the slavery issue. By,-a
complication of circumstances, in
which court orders and court in-
junctions play a‘ lively part, his
mother is unable to get him away
from a man name Bethnne, who
has backed him for many years.
The questions involved go back
to the time of the emancipation,
and it is the dnly case on record
since that time which brings the
case up. Tom’s mother resides
in New York. She is an intelli-
gent old woman, and'left her
former homq to gain the rights
of her son, Who has worked thirty
years and has made by his con-
certs thousands of dollars, sup-
porting the Bethunes and mak-
ing them riel., while he, hirriself,
is virtually aslave.”
If young ladies,who, through as-
sociation with' young nieh whose
limited education and poverty of
ideas compel the use of slang in
prehended the meaning of many
of the terms thus put in their in-
nocent mouths, they would be
shocked at the vulgarity of their
companions. Almost without ex-
ception words and.plirases popu-
larly denominated “slang” are
the invention of the most deprav-
ed elements of human society
and shcfeld be avoided by all per-
sons with any pretensions to re-
finement add gentility.
^Thanksgiving Proclamation.
The following proclamation was
issued, November 2, by the pres-
ident of the United Slates:
“Th^ American people have al-
ways abundant cause to be thank-
ful to Almighty God, whose
watchful care and guiding hand
have been manifested in every
stage of their natural life, guard-
ing and protecting them in time
of peril and safely leading them
in the hour of darkness and dan-
ger. It is fitting and proper that
a nation thus favored on
\
About ^he close of the war Dr.
Ourry entered the ministry, and
from the shook and dan^ afew years thereafter he removed
ger of political convulsion; fori
the blessing of peace and for our
safety and quiet, while wars and
rumors of wars have agitated
aud affrighted other nations of
the earth; for our security from
the scourge of pestilence which
in other lands has claimed its
dead by thousands and filled the
streets with mourners; for plen-
teous crops, which reward the
labor- of the husbandman, and in-
crease in our nation’s wealth, andi
for the contentment throughout
our borders, which follows in the
train of prosperity and abund-
ance. ,
Ami Jet. there also be, on.the
day thus set apart, a reunion of
family, sanctified and chastened
by tender memories and associa-
tions, and let the social inter-
course of friends with pleasant
reminiscence renew the ties of
affection and strengthen, the
bonds ,of kindly feeling, and let
us by "no means forget, while we
give thanks and enjoy the com-
forts which have crowned our
lives, that truly grateful hearts
are inclined to deeds oif charity,
and that a kind and thoughtful
remembrance of the poor will
double the pleasures of our con-
dition, and render otir praise and
thanksgiving more acceptable in
the sight of Hie Lord.
“Done at the Oity of Washing
ton the 2d day of November,
1885, and of the independence of
the United Statqs the 110th.
“Grover Cleveland.
“6y the president:
“T. F. Bayard, Secretary of
State.”
Beetiher Robbed.
New York, Nov. 5.—Henry
Ward Beecher had his pocket
picked of $400 and a gold watch
at the Forty second Btreet station
pn the elevated road yesterday,
being interviewed, Mr. Beecher
said it was not a presentation
watch, but a good time-keeper
Which lie had purchased in J863.
“If I don’t get it,” he sate; “I
have another in my pocket that
can do very well. I weni
went over
to New York to-day and laid the
matter before the authorities.
000 miles, and lost it atjast. It
isn’t the loss of the watch' I mind
so much, but the fact that some
‘skunk’ has got it that won’t ap-
preciate it, for it*8 a good watch.”
Fire has not left the hearth-
stone of one farmer in Georgia
since it was kindled with dint
and steel ia 1842. No such thing'
as matches are. known in that
house.
1
., Rev. J. L. M. Curry.
The president,, in the appoin(-
ifant °f DrvCurry the Minister
to Spain, made ,» most fortunatp
Selection. Dr. Curry is perhaps
60 years of age,, end is an active,
vigorous rtjan. 1 He was born and.
raised near Taladega, Ala., hip
father being a wealthy planter
near tji^t. place.
After thorough preparation, he
entered Yale College, and grad- •
nated .with considerable distinc-
tion. He wajJthe class-mate and
room-mate of 6en. Jpo, B. Clark,
Jr., of -Missouri, and-the - H«m.
Anson Burlingame, of Massachu-
setts, and others of like charac-
ter.
Dr. Curry was a lawyer by pro-
fession, but went, into politics
quite early in life after leaving
college, was elected to Congress
before the war in the Taledega
high ‘rank in th^t body of grea.t
men, and was in the confederate
congress from the sajne district;.
During the latter part of the war
he was defeated for -the confed-
erate congress, and, after that,
served on the staff of Gen. Jo-
seph E. Johnston with the rank
of colonel. He was distinguished
in the Georgia campaign for his
courage and efficiency as a mem-
ber of the staff of Gen. Johnston.
to Baltimore and tqok chftrge of
a church in that city. Subse-
quently he settled in Richmond,
Va., where he married his second
wife. On the death of Dr. Leon,
he became thq agent for the Pea-
body fund for the south. He is a
man of distinguished ability and
oiie of the most scholarly
1 trie sc
- ;
accomplished men in tr
and
south.
New Sayings by Josh Billings.
The man who gets bit twice by
the same dog is better adapted
to tlytt kind of business than any
other.
There is a great deal of relig-
ion in this world that is like a
iife-preserverT-only 'piit at'"the
moment of immediate danger,
and then half the time put oil
hind side before. ”
Experience is a school where a
man learns what a big fool be
has been. * ;
The man who will not believe
in any hereafter has got a dread,
fully mean opinion of himself
and bis chances. ,
There are two kinds of fools in
the .wprld—those whb can’t
change tfieir opinions and those
who won’t. f
Out in the world men show uij
two sidek to their characters—by
the fireside only one.
The world is filling up with ed-
ucated fools—mankind read too
much and learn too little. .
Every man has his follies, ana
oftimes they are most interest-,
ing things he has got.
A resident of Pittsburg, Penn- -
sylvania, has given $3,000 toward
equipping^ a school for boys near
Matamoras, Mexico. The insti-
tution was founded by Quakersj
who have already in operation at
Matamoras a successful school for
girls- • ,
To think of a fine young fellow
—a Greek, who could speak Lat-
in, Greek, French and English,
killing himself on account of a
toe-headed waiter -girl, is sad in-
deed. But such a fact took place
last week in New York.
dent comes in confect with all lleukof «P™sion,8, ^ ^dTa^d”^ Ne^York^ro^
."V-
led by a map’ publisher, who
went around gathering up $5
bills and promising to insert pict-
ures of business houses in a map,
which was never issued.
Rev. Mr. Tennant, who died on
the 2d inst.,' in Evansville. Ark.,'
was 116’ years of age. He wur
saici to be the oldest minister of
gospel in the (Jnited States, hav
ing been preuetpug 90 years.
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Yantis, R. E. The Local-Chronicle. (Wills Point, Tex.), Vol. 8, No. 45, Ed. 1 Thursday, November 12, 1885, newspaper, November 12, 1885; Wills Point, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1142543/m1/1/: accessed July 2, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Van Zandt County Library.