Bay City Breeze. (Elliott, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 20, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 17, 1895 Page: 2 of 4
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FOR
A NOBLE FIGHT.
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PEOPLE CARRiED FOR A CENT.
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A BABY GIRL
A Ghastly Discovery.
Corsicana, Tex., Dec. 31.—Night
before last when a couple of tramps
is
one
3 ^FG. CO.
> WjCHiCAGO, ii
v>xa!ho
'Orks,
iered terribly,
bnizing in the extreme.
Shot in the Foot.
Galveston, Tex., Jan. 1.—Gather
ine Alexander, a coloied woman, was
shot in the foot night before last with
a 41 Colts revolver. Sol Devorh, her
nephew, made a charge against John
Green for assault to murder and Green
was arrested by Officer Watts. Green
claims the shooting was accidental.
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BAY CITY BREEZE.
A DIVORCED FATHER AND MOTH-
ER GO TO COURT.
EMINENT SOUTHERN LAW-
YER’S LONG CONFLICT
WITH DISEASE
The .Field of Honor.
Easton, Pa., Jan. 2.—Dr. E. L. Rie-
gal, a prominent physician of Bloom-
bury, N. J., a few miles from here,
and William B. Ebbler, of Philadel-
phia. fought a duel and Bloomburv
early Sunday morning. Itelgal re-
ceived two bad wounds in the crown
of his head and his coat was pierced
with bullets. Ebbler had a narrow
escape, a book in his pocket prevent-
ing a bullet from passing through his
body.
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Young Man Killed.
Hempstead, Tex., Jan. 1.—In a dif-
ficulty w’ith a young man named
Woodward and Henry Buller, both
white, day before yesterday, Wood-
was shot and killed. He was in charge
of Middlebrooks cotton farm nbout
twenty miles south of here. Reliable
particulars are not to be learned until
the return of the county attorney, who
went to Felker’s store this morning,
where the preliminary examination of
Buller was held.
than one year ago Frank Schrage did
not possess a dollar in the world out-
side of the small income derived from
a small drug business, and only a few
years ago he was a poor German im-
migrant without a home To-day Mr.
Schrage can be called a millionaire, a,?
the result of a discovery in chemistry
he has made. A syndicate to-day paid
him $100,000 cash for his discovery
and arranged to pay him $100,000 a
year until he he has received $1,000,-
in all.—Philadelphia Press.
Swanson Rheumatic Cure company,
167-169 Dearborn St., Chicago, are the
sole proprietors of this celebrated
remedy. It never fails. Testimonials
free.
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Shooting Affray.
Laredo, Tex., Jan. 3.—Martin Gar-
cia and Alejandra Trimbal engaged in
a shooting match which culminateg
from bad blood that had been existinl.
between the two for some time past!
Garcia was shot through the fleshy
part of the thigh and through the calf
of the right leg.
Located Him.
“They say old Smith never
scribed for a newspaper?”
“Never.”
“Where is he now?”
“Bio win’out the gas in some ho*
I tell”
belief the
association
Items of general Interest Carefully
Selected From Many Sources.
Result of a
Counterfeiters’ Moulds.
Hillsboro, Tex., Jan. 5.—Deputy
Sheriff Dave Jones returned from
Blum yesterday, bringing with him a
couple of moulds he and Geo. Mc-
Cluskey found in the brakes at the
mouth of Nolan river. They are for
the manufacture of $5 and $10 gold
pieces and are almost perfect. They
were found wrapped in a paper at the
foot of a tree. There is a man in the
Johnson county jail who had $130 of
counterfeit coin on his person when
arrested.
Child Burned.
Cold Springs, Tex., Jan. 3.—The
little child of Rosa Tulle, a negro
woman, was burned very badly day
before yesterday. There is very little
chance'of it recovering. It caught
fire and ran to the bed, setting fire to
the bed and burningit up. No grown
person was at the house.
W N U DALLAS 1-95
When Answering Advertisements Kindijj
Mention this Paper.
I,
Compresses, _______
i, Gins, Ice Plants, Ele
Write us. Mosher M’
EMERSON, TALCOTT& CO. j
Standard Cultivators, \
PLANTERS, MOWERS, [
Dallas, - - - Texas.]
METROPOLITAN
-/zl/jJa business college.
Bookkeeking, Shorthand, Type-
writing and Penmanship. Write for catalogue of
terms. GILLESPIE & HILL, Props., Dallas, Tex.
THE KEELEY INSTITUTES
cure of Opium, Liquor, Cocaine and Tobacco
Diseases. All communications strictly confidential.
J. H. KEITH, State M’g'r; A. P. STEWART, M. D.,
State Medical Ex., Dallas. Tex. The Keeley treat-
lagnt can be obtained at no other places in Texas,
Twenty-five Years of Prosperity, Adver-
sity and Suffering.—The Great Vic-
tory Won Dy Science Over a
Stubborn Disease.
Lost a Foot.
Overton, Tex., Jan. 5.—Two morn-
ings ago Perry Jones, a young negro
man, had one of his feet so badly hurt
by the cars that it had to be ampu-
tated. When the train for Henderson
pulled out he swung on to the cars
and was knocked off by the cattle chute.
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Siiot Tlirougli the Head.
Sherman, Tex., Jan. 4.—Purdie, the
little daughter of Sam Arnold, was
shot through the head with a 44 cal-
iber pistol ball at noon yesterday.
She was playing with some other
small children at the residence of C.
C. Swindell, in East Sherman. The
pistol was found and accidentally dis-
charged with the above result. At a
late hour yesterday afternoon the
child was still alive but her recovery
is considered as very unlikely by the
physicians.
O x.
is
Reducing tlia Population.
Superintendent—-The poor-house is
over-crowded.
Deacon Grim—I wondered why
taxes was so high. I s’pose it wouldn’t
do to kill any of ’em, would it?
“Of coarse not.”
“No; come to think, guess it
wouldn’t, but I’ll tell you what to do.
Get ’em to discussing ‘Is Suicide a
Sin?’ Then leave the doors unlocked,
so them what goes crazy can get to
the river.”
BERRY FIRE EXTINGUISHER
Ins. Cos Saved State Fair. A’g’ts wanted. 255 Main.
UMBER STAMPS
and Printing Co., 305 Main street, Dallas.
las. Vigorous attention to business. Best references.
By •Dr- Wilkins is absolutely painless,
ui-is s sv s si i Ho hag the only painless method
on earth for filling and extracting teeth. 271 Elm st.
MOS, ORGANS
st, Dallas. Write u°
DILLON MACHINE CO., APUIUICTC
Models and special machinery. MtwHsS'gIo i de
Repairs, etc., at short notice. 107 Market street*
HIOTCDMO WATER TANKS, Corru-
h i O I r fira A gated Galv. Iron, the only per-
feet cisterns and tanks made.
Wood and Iron Mantels, Grates and Tiles,- stocS
troughs. Write for catalogue, Harry Bros., Dallas.
FOUNDERS AND MACHINISTS KX
Shops. Compresses, Flour Mills, Waterwc.__
Oil Mills, Gins, Ice Plants, Electric Light, etc?
repairs. Write us. Mosiier M’f’g Co., Dallas.
Wholesale deal-
ers in Farm
Wagons, Stover-
Abbott Buggies,
Standard Plows,
Rockford Sulky
Plows.
Street-Car War
nali, Georgia.
The bottom has almost, if it has not
quite, dropped out of street-car fares,
and one cent will carry a person now
to any part of the city. The last re-
duction was decided on at a meeting
of the directors of the Electric railway
company. Bull and Bay streets and
Bull and Best streets are named as
junction points, and from either of
these points to the other, which is
just half the length of the big belt,
and going either direction the fair is
one cent, says the Savannah,Ga.,News.
A passenger can board the street
car anywhere on the line of the belt
and ride to one of these junction
points for one cent, but if he goes
beyond it he must pay another cent.
So it costs two cents to ride all the
way round the big belt, but by making
it one cent on each half of the line the
belt meets the competition of the lines
of the City and Suburban, which run
practically parallel to it.
The fare on the Indian street line
is also reduced to one cent, although
there is practically n& competition in
that direction. President Collins said
he did not claim that the one-cent
fares would pay, but whether they
pay or n< t is not the question.
“Our competitors seem to want the
one-cent fares,” he said, and we are
going t( throw the throttle wide open.
It is a question of who will be first
frozen out, and we will give them
their fill of the low fares.”
President Collins was asked how
many people his lines were carrying.
“You mean,” he replied, “how many
we are unable to carry that want to
ride. That is the me st serious ques-
tion with which we have to deal now.
VVe carry all We can possibly handle
in the afternoons, and on Sundays it
is simply impossible to accommodate
the people who want to ride. We
could easily use 100 cars. As it is,
we have been running double on some
of the lines, and at times when the
travel required it.”
jAziona-ildoffife1** 13^-1
So beseptlan. "wA1""-
meaETsFWSatWe
Say. Thia“£SoEEe«
is Votire Free, _ ,
thEBs, M. PSPT, ^409 CHICAGO, ILL.
Thomas P. Simpson, Washington,
D.O. No atty’s fee until Patent ob-
& S, M aJAs £ 6# tained. Write forln venter's Guide.
El Paso, Tex., Jan. 5.—A baby girl
is the bone of contention in a big law-
suit now in the district court, The
last step was taken yesterday, when
Sam Wade was arrested charged with
contempt. Wade came to this town
from Austin, where he was brought
up. Being a bright fellow and a civil
engineer, he was elected county sur-
veyor. He married Miss Blanche
Wade. In the course of time a sepa-
ration occurred and the wife got a di-
vorce. Then came a legal fight for
the control of their child. The father
suddenly disappeared with the baby.
He returned within a few months but
the child has not since been heard
from, though the mother has made
every effort to secure it. He was
ordered to produce the child in court,
failing in which he was arrested. The
little girl has now been missing nearly
three years, and Wade declares his in-
tention to die in prison rather than
give up the child. Current public
opinion says that it is in a convent in
Mexico.
A Peddler Assaulted.
Bellville, Tex., Jan. 4.—Wednes-
day a peddler who was traveling
through the country selling goods
stopped at the house of Dave Ander-
son, colored, to sell goods,® and while
exhibiting some of his goods he re-
ports that a colored man went to his
wagon and took out a pack of goods.
The peddler attempted to stop him
and was assaulted by two other ne-
groes, and while he was entertaining
his assailiants as best he could a large
pack of goods disappeared from the
wagon. As soon as he could getaway
from them he made haste to town and
and reported the facts to the officers,
who, armed with the proper papers,
went at once to the scene of the assault
and all returned yesterday morning
with the man’s goods and a full dozen
of negroes as prisoners, in possession
of ten of whom was found a portion
of the goods. The officers say they
had made a general division and par-
tition of the peddler’s goods. The
prisoners are in jail and the grand
jury is investing the case.
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HE IS A RICH MAN NOW.
A Poor German’s Lucky Discovery—Gets
$1,000,000 For a Rheumatic Cure.
Chicago, Dec. 22.—(Special.)—Less
An
sBsafii®
Better Than a Gold Mine.
Raise your own coffee at less than one cent a
pound. Let high tariff store coffee go, The
poor man’s friend and rich man's delight. Ma-
tures north or south in four months. Plant any
time up to the 20th of June; 20,000 farmers sup-
plied and every one praises it. Has produced
over 60 bushels per acre. Some prefer it to
store coffee. Produces two crops a year on
same land. Large packet postpaid 20cts; or
enough to plant 200 hills, 50 cts or stamps. Will
make 200 pots of most delicious coffee, good
enough for a king. Is superseding store coffee
as fast as its merits become known, Largo
catalogue of 50 new varieties of seeds and testi-
monials from patrons all over the Union sent
free with each order by
C. E. COLE, SeedsmaM.
SSuckner. Mo.
EbFslw Balm|gg^
Cleanses the Nasal
Passages, Allays Pain
and Inflammation.
Restores the Senses <
Taste and Sihell.
Heals the Sores.
Anply Balm into each nostril. B
Ely Bbos., 56 Warren St., N. Y @
J i/IU IS EV DR0P US A POSTAL CON-
ifl iUphrl TAIN1NG YOUR NAME ANO
Hiintoa ADDRESS AND WE WILL
SEND Y0U FREE 0Ufl
WOhbtKlt^ HEW OATALOCUE
Telling how to have fruit and plenty of it
In any part of the country.
E, W, KE5?K.F>ATmGK, McKinney, Texas.
SlWmwwEwEIIS
Opportunity has|
ever"^fore be^n offered.
We shali Continue
Wa&Psffl
this out
aaifwSte to-day.
To Encourage Literature.
Miss Bleeker—I’m so interested in
our reading club. I wasn’t at first;
but I never miss a meeting now.
Miss Beacon—What are you read-
ing?
Miss Bleeker—Well we are not
reading anything at present. We
are making preparations to give a
dance.—Puck.
WHERE ALL ELSE FAILS.
fegi Best Cough Syrup. Tastes Good. Use
y in time. SGd by druggists.
[From the Atlanta, Ga., Constitution.]
Foremost among the best known lawyers and
farmers of North Carolina stands Col. Isaac A.
Sugg of Greenville. Mr. Sugg has residedin
Greenville twenty-two years. While nearly
everyone in Pitt county knows Mr. S.’s his-
tory, perhaps all do not know of his return to
business^again after an illness of sixteen years.
No man has gone through more than he and
lived. It was a case of the entire breaking
down of the nervous system, attended by
excruciating, agonizing, unendurable pain.
Opiates and stimulants only quieted tempora-
rily, and all treatments failed him. Only his
love of family and friends prevented suicide.
He told a reporter the following interesting
story•
“I kept at my work as long as I could, but
nature gave way at last and I succumbed to the
inevitable. My entire nervons system had been
shattered by the stimulants and opiates I had
taken, my biood had actually turned to water,
my weight had dropped from 173 pounds to 123
and it seemed to everybody that the end was in
sight. Why, I could not bear the gentle hand
of my wife to bathe my limbs with tepid water.
I was simply living from hour to hour. I had
made my will, settled my business and waited
for the last strand of life to snap.
1 ‘It was at this time that a somewhat similar
case as my own was brought to mynotice. .This
man suffered very much as I had, his life had
been despaired of as mine had.5 and yet he had
been cured, Think what that little word meani
to me—CURED. The report stated that the
work had been accomplished by a medicine
known as Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills for Pale
People. I investigated the report thoroughly
and found that it was true in detail. Then I
procured some of Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills and
began taking them and began to get better. 1
began io sleep like a heathful child, sound
calm and peaceful. My appetite came back ant
my nerves were soothed and restored to their
normal condition and I felt like a new man. But
the greatest blessing was the mental improve-
ment. I began to read and digest, to formulate
new plans; to take an interest in my law practice,
which began to come back to me as soon as
my clients realized that I was again myself.
After a lapse of ten years I ride horseback
every day without fatigue.
“That Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills saved my
life is beyond doubt and I am spreading their
praises far and wide. ’ ’
Inquiry about the town of Greenville sub-
stantiated the above facts of Col. Sugg’s case,
and that many others are being beneLltted by
Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills.
Dr. Williams’Pink Pills are for sale by all
druggists or may be had by; mail from' Dr.
Williams’ Medicine company, Schenectady, N.
Y., for 50 cents per box or six boxes for $2.50.
were gathering brush to build a fire,
about four miles northeast of the city
sn the Houston and Texas Central
they discovered the body of a dead
man. They hurried to the city and
notified the officers, who repaired to
the shot at once. The man was found
lying on his back lu a bend in a dry
water course. He bad evidently been
dead ten or twelve days, as the face
was entirely gone and the body so
badly decomposed that it was impos-
sible to tell whether death resulted
from natural causes or violence. The
deceased was about 5 feet 10 inches
high, medium build, and judging from
the hair, of light complexion. No
papers or other means of identifica-
tion were found upon his body.
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Adjudged Insane.
Boerne. Tex., Jan. 3.—At a special
county court meeting Mrs. Max Otto
of Sisterdale, in this county, has been
adjudged insane. Some five or six
years ago she came from Germany, a
handsome woman of good family. She
married Mr. Max Otto, a farmer in
Sisterdale. Four children were born
to them, and lately Mr. Otto has been
sick, Mrs. Otto was looking forward
eagerly to receiving presents from rel-
atives in Germany, and went to the
postoffice on Christmas morning, but
there wore no letters or gifts awaiting
her. A sick husband, four young
children, scarcely anything in the
house to eat and this disappointment
was too heavy a burden to bear, and
the sliver cord of reason snapped,
rendering her oblivious to all her woes.
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Variolojd*at Taylor.
Taylor, Tex., Jan. 2.—Dr. C. T.
Cooper and A. V. Doak report two
cases of varioloid in the city and the
city and the citizens are very much
alarmed over the announcement. The
patients are Dan Murphy and his
daughter Miss Grace Boyle. Mr.
Murphy, who is now convalescent,
took a trip to Mexico a few weeks
ago, where it is presumed he came in
contact with the disease. The prem-
ises are isolated. Dr. II. M. Swearen-
gen, state health officer, has been wired
by Mayor Daniel Moody to come to
Taylor to examine the patients and he
is expected to arrive today.
Found Dead.
Marshall, Tex., Jan. 2.—A man
was found dead yesterday morning
just east of the trestle on the Texas &
Pacific road. He is supposed to have
been drowned, as his head was in a
little water. He had half a pint ol
whisky in his pocket, a gold watch, a
Colt’s pistol and $1.40 m money. He
was well dressed and had letters on
his person addressed to Sol Stansberry
box 71, Longview, Texas. Justice
Perry held an inquest and the remains
were removed to an undertaker and
the news vtired to Longview.
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AccideatalJy Shot.
Sealy, Tex., Jan. 4.—At a dance
given by Jim Kolb in the Brazos bot-
tom eight miles from Sealy on last
Tuesday night, Frank Yeager, a Ger-
m'n farmer, was accidentally shot in
the leg. The Kolb brothers were
shooting at some Mexicans who were
advancing'on Jim Kolb’s place to take
revenge upon the Kolbs for driving
one of their friends from Kolb’s house.
"Yeager was in the road on foot, going
to Jim Kolb’s, and was accidently hit
by a stray bullet. One of the Mex-
icans has been arrested and jailed.
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Wcmais Badly Burned.
Brenham, Tex., Jan. 2.—Mary Ste-
venson, colored, while ironing night
before last at her home in the north-
ern part of the city, set her clothing
on fire. She ran out of the house and
screamed for help. It was a cold night
and as all the neighbors were in their
houses with closed doors, it was some
time before her cries were heard. She
is fearfully burned and her injuries
may result fatally.
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Filled with Bird Shot.
Corpus Christi, Tex., Jan. 2.—
Frank McCaslin, aged 12, was hunting
on the Anderson wharf. Ernest Bur-
gess, a young man about 25 years old,
picked up Frank’s gun and asked the
boy if he would give him leave. Frank
said yes and Burgess blazed away, fill-
ing the boy’s neck, back and legs with
bird shot. Burgess thought the boy
was out of reach of the shot and bad
no idea of striking him. The wounds
are very painful but not fatal.
The Father is Ordered by the Judge
to Produce the Child in Court and
Upon Failing to do so is Sent to Jail-
Still Refuses to Give Her Up.
Pains in the Back
“I had been afflicted for several years witi
what the doctors called Diabetes, and suft
The pain in my back was ag-
Hood’s Sarsaparilla
and Hood’s Pills
cured me. Now
I can go to church
and attend other
meetings with
pleasure. I al-
ways keep Hood’s
Pills by me. Ii;
my whole life I
1 never met any-
Q thing that did m©
____________ fu so much good as
Mr. elohn Branston Hood’s Sarsapa-
rilla. ‘ Experience teaches a dear school, but
fools will learn by no other.’ I was once fool-
ish enough to listen to a druggist who claimed
to have something superior to Hood’s, and,
took another medicine. If I had thrown my
dollar in the street I would have been a gainn
er.” John Branston care of John Greetham,
Wellington, Ohio. Get Hood’s because
Hood"s?> Cores ■■
Hood’s Pills cure Constipation by restoring
the peristaltic action of the alimentary canal.
Cole’s New Domestic
Coffee Berry.
At Paris recently in sentencing
prisoners, when the name of Fletcher
Furlingame was called Judge Bryant
of the federal court said: “I will not
send you to the penitentiary. You
are a child, and I will make an effort,
to save you from the life of a crimi-
nal. I am going to let you go on]
your own recognizance, but I will
hold this case over you and if ever I-
hear of you doing wrong I will send
you to the penitentiary without fur-i
lher notice. Do you think you can
do right?” “I can if you will let me. I
will go home to my mother and work
and be a good, honest boy.” “Be
sure and do that. If you don’t I will
send you up sure. Mr. Clerk take]
his rcognizance in the sum of $1000.”
Furlingname is only about 15 years of
age and had pleaded guilty to horse-
stealing.
Comptroller McCall says that the
history of the state’s finance shows
that when the tax rate was reduced
in 1884 to 17J cents, in 1885 it was
found necessary to increase the tax
to 25 cents, the deficit caused by the,
reduction at that time being only for,
a few days, and not near so large as]
it is now. If the appropriations are|
made as asked the tax rate will have'
to be raised to 30 cents for the year
1895, and drop back to 25 cents the
next, and then gradually decrease
until the level is found, so that the
receipts will be equal to the disburse-
ments.
The following amounts were re-
ceived at the treasury during Decem-
ber on account of land sales and
leases: Lease of public free school
lands, interest $13,207.78; lease of
university lands, interest $403.2Q; sale
of university lands, interest $403.20;
sale of university lands, interest,
$88.80, principal $15.90; sale of public
free school lands, interest $76,489.63,
principal $13,288.80; sale of asylum
lands interest $3007.91, principal
$1453.95; sale of public domain, prin-
cipal $1113.47.
.Near Little River, Bell county, re-
cently a little girl lost her life. Mr.
Charles Rhode and son were clearing
up some land, burning brush, and his
little daughter, Emma, 6 years old,
was with them. She sat down on a
log that had been on fire, but which
was thought to have gone out. Her
clothing became ignited, and though
her brother extinguished the flames,
it was not, before she was fatally
burned. He was severely burned
himself.
Contrary to general
American Protective
seems to have obtained a strong foot-
hold at Denison. Its members gave
a banquet the other night, at which
nearly 200 people were present, in-
cluding a large contingent of the
gentler sex. Speeches were made by
Rev. Mr. Frasker of Grace M. E.
church, Rev. Mr. Reynolds of the
Presbyterian church and J. A. Pra-
ther.
The commissioner reports the fol-
lowing sales: Public school lands
18,505 acres,timbered lands 614 acres,
lunatic asylum lands 140 acres. The
school lands heretofore sold in Harris,
Liberty, Jefferson, Wharton and
Chambers counties to other than ac-
tual settlers, and which sales the
supreme court recently declared ille-
gal, are now being sold to actual set-
tlers only and not more than one sec-
tion to each settler.
At Dallas the other night, while
Mr. Long, superintendent of the Sun-
day school of Christian mission on
Thomas avenue, was personating
Santa Claus, and while in the act of
taking the presents off the tree his
cotton beard came in contact with a
wax candle and took fire. His face,
neck and shoulders were severely
burned before the fire could be ex-
tinguished.
Bonds have been approved and
directed to be registered in the secre-
tary of state’s office by the railroad
commission on completed roads or
parts of roads as follows: Rio Grande
and Northern, $360,000; La Porte,
Houston and Northern, $150,000; San
Antonio and Gulf Shore, $360,000;
Gulf and Interstate, $36,000; total.
$906,000.
At Velasco recently the strong
north wind caused such a low tide
that thousands .of fish of all sizes were
left stranded along the river for six
or seven miles above its mouth, and
the colored people with cotton sacks
and wagons gathered up the largest.
The man found hanging by the neck
in a clump of cedars on the beach at
Galveston recently has been proven to
be Joseph Webber of Winona, Minn.
He had been there several days and
appeared to be a man of means and
paid for what he got.
The postoffice receipts of the office
at Dallas for the year 1894, was $128, -
443,48 against $118,895,53 in 1893.
At El Paso recently Joe Lawson, a
well known Alpin^ cowboy, was killed
while trying to rope a steer on a
wager with Pomp James. His horse
fell upon him, injuring him internally
from which he died after thirty hours
of intense suffering.
During the year 1394, $118,752,-
287,34 were paid through the Dallas
clearing house, showing an increase
of a little over $15,000,000 over 1893.
It is now said that Ex-Gov-
ernor L. S. Ross, has refused to accept
a position on the railroad commission
and will hold the place he now has.
THE ELECTRIC VEHICLE.
Said to Be Successful in London—Result
of Many Experiments.
The development of electricity as
a traction force has been going on in
Great Britain along entirely different
lines from those followed in this
country, and some highly interest-
ing results, novel to our experiences
here, have been attained. Great
Britain has seemingly been very
backward in adopting electricity for
traction purposes. There are prob-
ably less than a dozen electric rail-
road lines in operation in that king-
dom. The most prominent and suc-
cessful electric railway is the Liver-
pool elevated railway, running a dis-
tance of six miles along the line of
docks. There are a few electric
street car lines.
The British authorities and people
will have none of the overhead trol-
ley system which now networks this
entire country—cheap and easy of
operation, but decidedly dangerous,
and the successful and safe under-
ground trolley system has not yet
been devised. In the circumstances
British electrical engineers have de-
voted themselves to the problem of
devising an effective and cheap
method of electric traction for all
manner of ordinary vehicles on the
streets of the city and the turnpikes
of the country, and electric cabs and
carriages, omnibuses and trucks,
have been the aim of British elec-
tricians. Perhaps the fact that there
are some 22,010 miles of excellent
turnpike roads in Great Britain, and
that farmers are largely using steam
engines for hauling their traffic over
the roads has had something to do
with the direction of their investiga-
tions.
A few weeks ago an electric par-
cels van was run experimentally
through the busiest of London’s
streets, and anelectric omnibus made
similar trial trips about the same
time. So far as the operation of the
vehicles was concerned the experi-
ments were a success. The design-
ers claim equal success for the
financial end of the experiment.
Three companies have been formed
to operate vehicles of this character
and other vehicles with the same
methods of traction, and it is de-
clared by the experts that the era of
electric traction for all purposes, on
common roads, has definitely set in.
The experiments looking to this
end have been in progress twelve
years or more. An eelctric tricycle
was invented and run for a brief
period by Professor Ayrton about
1885, and in 1836 an electric cab,
the first e'ectric vehicle of the kind
carrying its own energy in storage
form, was invented and operated by
Mr. Radcliffe Ward, who is the in-
ventor of the latest success, the elec-
tric omnibus. The cab was run in
Brighton for some months, and dem-
"ated the possibilities of
TEACHING CANARIES TO SING.
Artificial Notes Forgotten at Moulting
Time anil Must Be Retaught.
The piping bullfinch is much valued
and frequently sells for a high figur e
—from $25 to^ $50 being no unusual
price to pay for one of these pretty
songsters; but it is not generally
known, says Pearson’s Weekly, that
the canary may be taught a variety of
notes very quickly and that its vocal
powers are by no means confined to
its own more natural song. There
are three distinct ways in which this
bird may receive a musical education.
He may be taught to sing tunes and
opera airs, as is generally done with
the bullfinch; or secondly, he may be
instructed in the notes of another bird,
as a lark or a robin; or, thirdly, his
capacity may be developed, his pow-
ers of voice cultivated, and his song
remain the canary song through all.
The learning time in a canary’s life is
from five to six months old to one
year, and the owner of one of these
little birds must make choice of
methods and begin in time. In the
first place he must see that his pupil
is in robust health and good spirits.
A seed diet gives the muscles com-
pactness, therefore seeds should not
be the principal diet until he “gradu-
ates,” but a soft food of hard-boiled
egg, grated with cracker or bread,
and boiled in milk to the consistency
of stiff paste.
If he is to sing “Annie Laurie” or
“The Last Rose of Summer” he must
be placed, in a quiet room with the
cage covered. Then a few notes of
the chosen air should be whistled or
played on some instrument—flute,
bird organ or piano. They must be
played slowly and distinctly, in correct
time, and over and over till the bird
begins to try it himself. He must not
see the teacher nor hear the least
tones to distract his attention from
the notes so constantly repeated. The
instructor may have to spend hours,
it may be days, before the bird learns
his lesson, but he must persist in re-
iterating those few notes and no oth-
ers till the pupil repeats them. When
he sings his notes he should be re-
warded with something- he lixes; for
one a bit of food, for another a little
praise. No matter how well the bird
has learned his artificial song he will
forget it the first time he moults, un-
less it is carefully repeated to him
every day while moulting. If the
bird’s owner wishes the canary to sing
like a lark or robin, he must put him
under native instruction. Place the
cage, covered closely, in a room alone
with another bird of the kind desired,
whose cage is in a light, sunny win-
dow. The lark or other bird sings
for his own pleasure, and the canary
in his darkened cage learns to imitate
't. The third method, and the most
natural, is to have the young bird
trained by a fine sing-er of his own
family—a canary—and all that
needful to do is to keep the young
during the learning period in the
room with the fine singer alone, when
he will imitate the songster so far as
his powers allow.
TEXAS.
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