The Wills Point Chronicle. (Wills Point, Tex.), Vol. 9, No. 34, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 26, 1886 Page: 1 of 4
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VOLUME IX.
WILLS POINT CHRONICLE.
I ' V
WILLS POINT, VAN ZANDT CODNTV, TRIAS, THURSDAY, AUGUST 86.1886.-
NUMBER 31.
DIRECTORY.
C. B. KILUURK,
Wills Point.
B. M. LIVELY,
Canton.
LODGES.
Wilis Point l.od*e, No. 94ft, I. 0.0. F.,
xeets every Friday evening, In their,
mil, on Fourth street. E. N. Nesbitt,
N. O.; J. A. Gugenhelm, 8co’y.
~~ Wills Point Lodge, No. 378, K. of H.,
meets every 2d and 4th Monday evening.
T. J. McKinney. Dictator; T. O. Thomp-
son, Reporter; G. H. Bruce, Fin. Rep.
Wills Point Lodge, No.,421, K. and
A. M., meets every 2d Saturday evening.
J. F. Hunter, W. M.; J. I. Douglass,
Secretary. ‘-ill
OHURCHE8.
Baptist—Services every 4th Sunday.
J. C. Win go, Pastor.
Cumberland Presbyterian — Services
•very 2d Sunday. J.A.Burgess, Pastor.
O. 8. Presbyterian—Services every 1st
and 3d Sundav. W.H. McCullough, Pas-
ter.
Methodist — Preaching and Sunday,
sohool every Sunday. T. W. Morton,
Pastor.
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
WILLS POINT AND CANTON, ♦ TKXA8.
T. L. WYNNE,
Dental Surgeon,
Wills Point, - • - Texas.
KdTI.iberal charges, and satisfaction
guaranteed.
Okpick— Over Knsterwood’s.
— R. E. YANTIS, —
ATTORNEY AT LAW
——And—
NOTARY PUBLIC
Collection A Specialty.
Office at the Chronicle office,
WILLS POINT, - - TEXAS.
WILLS POINT CHRONICLE, intended to prevent the illegal
use of thte school or other public
YANTIS * STRONG, - - - Publishers, lands of,the State.
6, We pledge ourselves to en
courage and foster all works of
internal improvement and the de-
- $1 Pur Ykar. velopment of the manufacturing
interests of the State.
future will meet with the unqual-
ified approval of the Democracy
of Texas. L. J. Storey,
Offioa in the Jones Building, opposite
T. k P. passenger depot.
Subscription, -
Geo. T. Todd, Sec.
Chairman.
THE STATE ALLIANCE.
ALKX BUUUK.
T. R. Y ANTIS.
J. G. Kkarby.
V. T. McChksny.
KEAKBY k StcCHESNEY,
ATTORNEYS LAW,
AND GENERAL LAND AGENTS,
Wills Point, Texas.
TIT ILL practice in ail the courts of sur-
TT rounding counties and attend pronjpt-
ly to any business entrusted to their care
We have a complete abstract of titles
to all lands ill Van Zandt county and are
prepared to Ainjish abstracts on short
notice. We buy and sell lands gener-
ally, render lands for taxation and pay
taxes for other pnrties, and do a general
land business. Persons desiring titles
investigated and perfected will he
promptly and fulthfully ' served.
We make lands and land matters a
specialty. We have associated with us
Mr. W. 8. Day; formerly of Corsicana,
an experienced landman, who will at all
times he ready to show purchasers lands
and aid them in . making good invest-
ments. Kkarby & MoChrznky.
-i Notary Publie.
BURGE & YANTIS,
LAWYERS
CANTON, • - • TEXAS.
Will practice in the District ahd In.
ferlor Courts of Van Zandt and sur*
rounding counties, and in the Supreme
and Appellate Courts of- the State, and
all the United States Courts.
W.CT. "2"OXJiTC3-,
NURSERYMAN
FRUITGROWER.
All stalk home-grown and tried, and war-
ranted to ire true to name. ■
yVTXurserv on Wills Point and Canton
road, 4}u miles from Canton.
t3T>«o agents employed. Agents’ com-
mission saved to my patrons. - .
Our Authorlaed Agents.
The following named persons are duly
authorised agents for Thk Ciiron-
iclk, at their homes. Their receipts
will be.duly recognized at this office: *
Miss Mary Wlngo, ... Wolfe City
W. G. Harrison, ... Henderson
T. It. Yantls, - ..... Canton
F. P. Lybrand, .... Owlet Green
8. W. Murphy, .... . . Edom
M. M..Norman, .... Stone Point
M. G. Curtis, - - - - Towles
iarwe want agents all over the coun-
ty and State.
IcyCopy must be in by 13 o’clock,-
Wednesday. -
JfjyAdvertising will he charged for
until ordered out.
t3T!{cjected MSS. will not bo-returned
unless stamps accompany snrne.
T
Railroad Time Table.
TrairfSleave Wilis Point as follows:
GOING KAST.
No. 304, Mnll and Express, -11:2ft a. m.
$o. 300,Mail snd Express, - 12:36 a. m.
GOING WR8T.
No. 301, Mail and Expreas. -*• 3:40 p'. m.
No. 306, Mail ar.d Express, - 3:52 a. m.
leans over the T. & P., and N.’ O. P.
East bound 304 makes close connections
for Shreveport and Now Orleans.
Day trains run from Texarkana to 1J1;
paso.
Night trains run from Texarkana to
Colorado City. *
JIEXAB
AND PACIFIC,
RAILWAY,
’The Great Popular Route Between
The East and the West
Suort Link to Nrw Oklkans
-AND ALL POINTS IN-—
: Louisiana, New Mexico,
Arizona nnd California
vavoritr link to th*
NORTH, EAST AND SOUTHEAST.
• PULLMAN
PALACE SLEEPING CARS
— DAILY BKTWKKN —
St. Louis and DaJIas,
Fort Worth, El Paso,
and San Frauoisco, Cal.
-ALSO-
MARSHALL AND NEW ORLEANS
Without Change. 1
ItIM Trains from El Paso to St. Louis.
Fast Time, First-Class Equipment
Sure Connections.
See that your tickets read via Texas
A Pacific Railway.
For Maps, TimOTables, Tickets, Rates
snd all requiring information, call on or
address any of the Ticket Agents, or'
H. P. Hugiiks,
Pass. Ag’t. Houston. Tax.
B. W. McCullough,
Sen’] Pass, k T’k’t Ag’t Galveston, Tex.
W. II. Nxwman,
Traffic Manager, Galveston Texas.
COLEMAN’S CORN MILLS
S :: s iSi \B
U :: :: IXZ\ " SSS
Orders solicited from everywhere. Acttva
COLEMAN’S COTTON MESSES.
JgSs£smis&~
Active agent* wanted everywhere.
dttnS)3DisvV COLEMAN,
New Orleans, LomUIhi
I mm nllhf Iwfan mM hellers
LORITft THOMAS.
make contracts with I
NEWSPAPER
’I Advertising, 4& to
48 Randolph St., Chicago, keep this paper on file
arvd are authors U,ADVERT|SERS>
, MSI A.MJ 8UUIIIIA5I. wvrTT T P riPiTMT1
-PULLMAN— -WILLS POINT
IastitutE,
Wills Point, Texas,
W, I, Cowles, A- M„ Prin,
Annual session begins the first Mon-
day .in September, and continues ten
months, with an intermisslnq of one week
during the Christmas Holidays.
Terms $2, $3 and $4 per month and due
monthly.
Course o.f Itudy complete. Instruction
practical and thorough. Discipline mild,
hut firm. Location the healthiest in the
State. For further particulars call on or
address, W. I. COWLES, Prin.
Wills Point, May 13th 1886.
CEDAR GROVE '
INSTITUTE,
[Half way between the towns of Wilts
Point, and Elmo.]
HEPATOZONE.
i _
OR. TOBIN'S GREAT LIVER MED-
ICINE
Cares Diseases of the Liver In all Its
Various Forms, Much as Dyspepsia,
Neuralgia. Headache, Constipation,
Water Brash, or aay Irregularity of
the Bowels.
KVIRY BOTTI.lt GUARANTEED.
This is a combination of saliue and
vegetable materials and contains no mer-
cury or any draatio vegetable cathartic,
anch as mandrake and aloes, snd is far
eaperlor In Tls action, ns It never debill
tates or produces any unpleasant effects.
It will act thoroughly on ' the liver in
from two to four hours’ time, and does
wot produce nausea or griping pains in
the bowels. Dr. W. H. Tobin, having
•offered for years with liver dieeaee, and
after trying every known remedy without
eueoeee, hae succeeded in preparing this
remedy—and by its use alone restoring
his health—now offers It to tbs publlo for
tbs cure of all liver troubles, and sella it
uader guarantee that after taking three
or four doses of the medicine and satis-
faction ie not given, you can have your
money-refunded by returning the bottle
and wrapper. We append a few unsoli-
cited
TESTIMONIALS.
Messrs. J. J. k W. H. Tobin—! have
need your Ilepatozone for some time and
End it one of the best medicines for in-
digestion or liver complaint.
J. B. McFarland, Judge 32nd diet.
Hen. John Toung Gooch, Palestine,
says: “It is one of the beat medicines
ever mad* aad never fails.’’
Mr. A. 8. Hyer. of the Rat. Letter File
Co.. Chicago, eays: ‘‘A year ag<? I was
skeletonized and miserable from liver
disease. One bottle of your wonderful
Ilepatozone cured me and I am now
healthy and very deshv. I want six
bottles—thro to take on the read and four
to send to my family in Chicago*"
$3trot tale in Wills I'olnt by J. F.
ORE AD Y, and in Canton by REESE A
DAVI8.
The Institute is now firmly established
and will offer superior advantages lor ed-
ucation. The next Annual Session be-
gins Auguet Oth.
Board in private families' may be ob-
tained at reasonable rates. —________-
Tuition from $2 to |4 per month. —
For further information address,
R. K. HOWELL, Prin.,
Wills Point, Texas.
Dr. J. J. TOBIN, Proprietor,
fOO Con gross Avenue, Austin, Tez
s^n«
DEMOCRATIC PLATFORM.
Adopted at Galveston August 12th,
1880.
The Democratic party offintM
hereby declare the following plat-
form of principles:
1. We, the Democrats of Texas,
express our hearty satisfaction
with the administration of our
distinguished president, the Hon.
Grover Cleveland, and testify our
confidence in his ability, purity
and integrity.
2. We pledge ourselyes that the
current public expenditures,£hall
be confined within the current
revenue."
3. We recommend the submis-
sion to the popular vote of an ap-
propriate amendment to the ju-
diciary article of our constitution
so as to secure a more efficient
and prompt administration of law.
4. We favor the beat system of
education for while and colored
children, in separate common
schools, which may be provided
by liberal without excessive tax-
ation. Ve believe that the edu-
cation of children is a matter of
State right and duty, and the Con
gross of the United Stales has no
right to appropriate money to its
aid. w We congratulate the people
of Texas upon the successful es-
tablishment of our State Univer
sity, and we recommend the en-
actment of legislation to remove
the same as far as possible from
all political influence, and that
its properties and revenue shall
be strictly guarded, increased and
fostered so far as it can be done
without taxation upon the people.
6. We believe that the true pol-
icy of the State with respect to
her public lands is to provide for
their sale in tracts of reasonkble
size, with reference to their qual-
ity and uses, at fair prices and
upon long credit, to bona fide set-
tlers, for homestead purposes.
We favor such a classification of
the school, university and asylum
lands as may permit the uncondi
tional leasing, for short terms, of
lands only fit for grazing, and
that the remainder "may be leas-
ed temporarily and entirely sub-
ject to the right of the State to
sell to actual and bona fide set-
tlers, and to these ends we favor
the enactment of laws to compel
the remove 1 of trespassers and
free grassers from the public
lands, and to force the payment
of rent for their use ; and to fix
absolutely the rental price of
lands to be leased. There should
7. We denounce the unlawful
interference with or injury to
corporate property and corporate
rights as equally intolerable as is
such interference with or injury
to the rights of a citizen, and
while we recognize the high ob
ligation of the Democratic party
to control and subordinate all
public corporations to the gener-
al good, we pledge ourselves to
enact and enforce all laws that
may be necessary to protect their
property from every danger, from
whatever source the same may
come.-'
8. The Democratic party looks
with apprehension upon the fact
that foreign railway corporations
have acquired control of the rail-
ways in Texas, in violation o'f the
provisions of the counstitution,
and protestagainst the methods
by which they are bemjt operated.
We pledge ourselves to pass laws
to correct abuses and prevent un-
just discrimination; to compel
all railroads doing businsss in
this State to maintain an office in
the State, in compliance with sec
tion 3, article 10, of the constitu-
tion, and we pledge ourselves to
secure by law the right of the
State to inspect all the books be-
longing or appertaining to the
organization, operation and busi-
ness of the railways of Texas'. W.e
protest against the consolidation
of parallel and competing lipes
in the State, and pledge ourselves
that laws shall be passed and en-
forced to cored this evil. We
pledge ourselves to past general
laws forfeiting to the State all
lands heretofore granted to rail-
way corporations, where such cor-
porations have failed to comply
with the terms of their charters,
or have failed in good faith to al-
ienate their lands within the pe
riod fixed by law.*. /
9. We believe that^CftWikhold-
ers in private corporations should
be held Uable4t> pay the dlehts of
the corporation to the amount
due on their stock, and an addi-
tional amount equal to the stock
owned by them, and demand that
the legislatuie shall regulate and
fix the terms upon which private
corporations may do business in
this State and that laws shall be
passed prohibiting corporations
not chartered by the laws of this
State from buying or leasing the
public lands of this State or any
of the school, university or asy-
lum lands.
ids to o<
be snch legislation as will make
it practicable to enforce all laws
.10. We believe that the exist-
ing law of our State for the pro-
tection of mechanics and laborers
by lien should be more compre-
hensive and efficient, to the end
that the real laborer may be thor-
oughly protected.
11. We declare that all State
cohvlcfs shftOld fte eotflftied wit7i:
in the walls of the penitentiary,
and it is the duty of-the legisla-
ture to provide room for this pur-
pose. We are also in favor of a
reform school or house of correc-
tion for minore and females con-
victed of offenses, to the end that
they may be separated from the
adult convicts of the State.
12. We do not Delieve that the
views of any citizen upon the
question of local option should
interfere with his standing in the
Democratic party; and we de-
clare the question to be one in
which every Democrat may in-
dulge his own views without af-
fecting his Democracy. ,
18. The Democrats of Texas de-
clare that it is the duty of the gen-
eral government to protect and
defend the humblest American
citizen against the unlawful acts
of any and all nations, and thkt
decisive action in demanding in-
demnity for past and existing
grievances and seourity for the
Full Text of the Platform Adopted.
Cleburne, Texas, Aug., 7.—The
State Alliance adjourned to-day.
The following is the platform
adopted:
We, delegates of the Grand State
Alliance in convention assem-
bled, at Cleburne, Texas, August
1886, do hereby recommend and
demand Of our State and national
governments according as the
same will come under the juris-
diction of one or the other or
both, such legislation as shall se-
cure to our people freedom from
the onerous and shameful abuses
that the industrial classes are
now suffering at the hands of ar
rogant capitalists and powerful
corporations. We demand:
1. The recognition by rncorpo
ration of trades unions, cci-opera-
tive stores and such other asso-
ciations as may be organized by
the industrial classes to improve
their general welfare.
2. We demand that all public
and school lands be held in small
bodies, not exceeding 320 acres
to each purchaser for actual set-
tlers on easy terms of payment.
3. That large bodies of lands,
held by private individuals or cor-
porations for speculative purpos-
es, shall be assesed for taxation
at such rate as they arc offered to
purchasers, on credit, one, two or
three years, in bodies of 160 acres
or less. ’
4. We demand that measures
be taken to prevent aliens from
acquiring titles to land in the
United States, and to force the
titles already acquired by aliens
to be relinquished by sale to act-
ual settlers and citizens of the
United States. —Li
~ 5. That the law-making powers
take early action upon such meas-
ures as shall effectually prevent
the dealing in futures of agricult-
ural products, prescribing such
procedure in trial as shall secure
prompt conviction and imposing
such penalty as shall secure the
,mgst perfect compliance with the
law. *-
6. That all lands forfeited by
railroads or other corporations
immediately revert to the govern-
ment and be declared open for
purchase by actual settlers on
the same terms as other public or
school lands.
7. We demand that all fences
be removed, by force if necessa-
ry, from public or school lands,
unlawfully fenced by catlle com-
panies, syndicates or any other
form or name of monopoly.
8. We demand that the statutes
of the State of Texas be rigidly
enforced by the attorney general
of the Stkte, to compel corpora-
tions to pay the taxes due the
State and counties.
9. That railroad property shall
be assessed to the full nominal
value of the~stock on which the
railroad seeks to declare divi-
dends.
10. We demand the rapid ex-
tinguishment of the public debt
of the United States by operating
the mints to their fullest capacity-
in coining silver and gold, and
the tendering of the same without
discrimination to the public cred-
itors of the nation, according to
contract.
11. We demand the substitu-
tion of legal-tender treasury notes
for the issues of national banks;
that the congress of the United
States shall regulate the amount
of such issue by giving to the
country a per capita circulation
that shall increase as the popula-
tion and business interests of the
country expand.
12. We demand the establish-
ment of a national bureau of
labor statistics, that we may ar-
rive at a correct knowledge of
the moral, intellectual and finan-
rnasses of our civilizens; and
further, that the commissioner of
tikis bureau be a cabinet officer of
the United States government.
13. We demand the enactment
of laws to compel corporations to
pay their employes according to
contract in lawful money for their
services, and the giving the me-
chanics and laborers a first lien
upon the products of their labor
to the extent of their full wages.
14. We demand the passage of
an interstate commerce law that,
shall secure the same rates of
freight to all persons for the same
class of merchandise, according
to distance of haul, without re-
gard to amountjjf shipment; to
prevent the granting of rebates ;
to prevent pooling freights to
shut off competition, and to se-
cure the people the benefits of
railroad transportation at reason-
able cost. * v
15. We demand that all con-
victs be confined within the pris-
on walls and the contract system
be abolished.
16. We recommend a call for a
national conference, to which all
labor organizations shall be invit-
ed to send representative men, to
condition
discuss such measures as may be
of interest to the laboring classes.
Resolved, That the president
of the Grand State Alliance be
and he is hereby directed to ap-
point a committee of three to
press these demands upon the
attention of the legislatures of.
both the State and nation, and
report progress at the meeting of
the next Grand State Alliance;
and be it further
Resolvf.d, That newspapers b'e
furnished copies of these demands
foT publication ; and he it further
Resodved, That the president
of the Grand State Alliance have
50,000 oopies of these demands
and resolutions printed and dis-
tributed to the sub-AUiances
through the county secretaries;
and be it further
Resolved, That each delegate
to the State Alliance present a
copy of these demands and reso-
lutions as early as possible to
each candidate for a legislative
office, State or national, and en-
deavor to secure his indoisement
and assistance in carrying them
to a successful issue.
W. M. Matiiks,
J. M. Perdue,
„H. T. Clark,
B. F. Rogers,
E. B. Warren,
J. H. Morrow,
Geo. H. Stovall,
Committee on demands and good
of ^he order of Farmers Grand
State Alliance.
A. Dunlap, President.
H. G. Moore, Secretary.
Secretary Bayard, in his inter-
view with an Associated Press
reported the other day in refer-
ence to the Cutting affair, said
“he had no idea of retreating
from the position taken by .the
department weeks ago, when it
demanded Cutting’s release.’’
That talk has the right ring in it.
Bayard evidently means busines.
Cutting thought all he had to
do was to holler. But he has
butted his head against the walls
of his donjon keep till his ears
are an inch above the crown of
his head, and yet the eagle has
never come nearer than “yon
distant mountains,”' the Sierra
Blanca, ninety-six miles east of
El Paso.
There is no use of enacting any
ltyw upon any subject until public
sentiment is so eduoahed up to it,
that a majority of the people
fivor it; for unless such is the
case, the law cannot, nor will not,
be enforced. Bro. Cranfill might
chew this awhile.
The congressional convention
in the fifth district failed to nom-
inate a candidate and decided to
turn the two candidates loose in
an open field. The probability is
that an independent will run
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laboring and scoop them both.
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Yantis, R. E. The Wills Point Chronicle. (Wills Point, Tex.), Vol. 9, No. 34, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 26, 1886, newspaper, August 26, 1886; Wills Point, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1142624/m1/1/: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Van Zandt County Library.