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McKINNEY, TEX
A white eel has been caught
the Husquehanua Hiver, near
•nta.
A new'y surveyed town site
Co., Tex., has been
in*1 of "Dumsight."
>lil mother in Cali
m;u UCVILTHY.
TIIK FKKTIVK AI'At'HK Att.VKts,
srATTKKIXO COXSTKUXA-
TION I V IMS PATH.
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McKiiinry,
RHDAY, A Hi. 7. 1*84.
#1 A YEAR.
THE LKAKK NYHTK*. enter our minds o ho act to-
wards our children. But we are
Ntemniluff the Current of t'ountjr tohl that the lease law contains1 hi
luHtrnrtlonH...He Nearhm a provision that nutlioriseii the
Rig Springs, Auk- l.«—Capt.
McM array,of the Stat** Rangers,
who in stationed at Big Springs,
"i has just received a report from
iby that we gh j tJwj a^,,llt at ya„ Horn, i station
puumeiuig uu ruu.iir.Y. (< Mack q oke to the citiswn
a- are now camped on theranch of Saturday, the *iotii
a \ „ seven miles subject of the'learn* law
iven tin
A 15?
>rnia In
rille o\^ ^ ■miiiii. 0|j jj1m ^ Pacific railway,
The 'I'^^leaf beetl«" is ho j that a hand of Apache Indians
nuiuoroiE ^ V Flushing. 1*. I., broke loose from their resefva-
it it is a "g tt" shade tion several days ago and are
es. , plundering the country. They
"The rasol of Daniel O'l.'ou
in labeled for Bale in , . .. T, , _ . .
window near the Seven worth of V an Horn. Last night
>iaTs. London. I tl,<7 killed a number of cattle
. „ , , aim mn oil a number of horses
A Biwtoii woman advert se* fro|U mIll.i108 tliirtv inlleH out.
or a kind person, who will be Hangers have been sent for. It
Ieompany for her dog while she. js t(f b(, hoped flits bantllf ill be
18 111 Europe.
All animal has bet .
[yd in Cleveland, O., which is his company will leave hero at
Jialf jackass and half butfalo. It once by s
will be sent to Coney Island. expected
A company has been orgnniz ,un
lediu New York to build a piieu-1 . , . _ - - w,„ _
matio tube for carrying small ' !v7\'\V iV.! U ' S
packages between New York 8
I and Chicago.
An idiotic Hon drove a nail
I into the head of his he)pies* old
father at Baltimore last week.
The nail was three inches long
land the father still lives.
Tulare liake, California, is
I rapidly drying up and exposing
I adobe walls, stone instruments
uid relics of men who certainly
lilid uot live under water.
the People 111 reel.
Thu Veit Must be left Opon to the
Home Seekers Forever.
SI'KKfll OK HON. II. c. mack. can-
DIOATK KOlt TIIK I.KU1K-
LATt'UK.
«'oro*|>oiitl«<nrf Ft. Woitil tiuflle.
Piano, .1 ill v HO.—Tlie Hon. H.
C. Mack <j oke to thecitiniens of
" " ■ on
law and
free glass. His remarks are
here given. Mr. Mack said:
Fellow cltixens of Piano and
vicinity:
actiuil settler to g<
charge of a homestead in ontiof
IncloMtfes of (Mm to would place the state at a di
«f pehdlng niKU* circum- advautagi* flu a generation to
In our haste t«Mlo some
tuid that for twenty.
, fifty or even a hundred
only rtniuiriug the occu-
t< pay a reasonabie ivnt
year. On tliiv plan in t«*n
we will realize more inoii
our public scIuhiIs than
• present Hyntem, uml that
those large pastures and thaT it en
should lx' sold to him by the ye
"tute under such circumstancV. ey
This is Hke Tantalus in the wa-1 by
ter and uot able to drink. It is ' without building up u destruot
lovision in the ive Combination < ! monopolies
to on tC|e western frontier,
undertake to enjoy; one no set- j My opponent said on ve«ter
tier is fool enough to try to > day that this was to estal>lish a
avail himself of. sys^m of tenants to the state.
lmagiiie a man with a wife 1 ha^i aoouer be a tenant of tin
and six or eight children at ' ' " ' g
n*« u^i umiv io u rin iv, ti
a verv liberal provision in t
law, but i>ue nobody dares
if while she : !! ! V !k« r , . vr n i Yon have Just he.hl your jni- jt*.
is to be hoped rhls baiutxfill be meeting uiid passed ares- I w,
overtaken and exterminated. iut\on favoring tin' present (.i,
en discover- Latki: ( ai t. McMurray and J4.ase system, f had rather be jjj
tempting to establish a home-
stead in the heart of one of
those large ranches, with cows
for his neighbors, a barbed wire
for his horixou and a cattle
king for his master. WJftre
state than of Judge (fboducr or
or au> other man. We have
alw'MA > hud thousands of fami
lies in the state t«>o ]wtor to pnr
chase homes, and this plan of
leasing would give them homes
p cr f!
come.
thing we uia\ ruin our prosper
iI\ and etibiiil upon our chil
dren ruinous measures that will
not liml an «*asy reniedv. Notli
ing has ever lx*en lost 'bv mov-
ing slowly in our luud iegisla*
tion.
On the other hand, much has
been done h our detriment l y
such hasty and unwise acts,
such as the present lease law.
Hut I can not say all to vou
to day that might be said against
this ovcr-shndowiug evil. It
must be opposed now. Every
Patriotic citi/en should arrn>
iiimself against it as it common
evil a common enemy. It is a
misfortune for the state that it
could liol Itv sonic flower le
crushed on at once. \ ast dam-
nges will befad the state IVom
.B ... cheaper flinn niet c<VnM other-
ould be his schoid-hoiiae, his, wise get them. My ojtpoiieut
hurch, his mill and his doctor? compared such a system to the now until the meeting of \oiir
His wife and daughters would; feutlal system of Europe, but next legislature from this mio-
V Itn A.. .. ....... ..i! . .. / 1 tlXklilji It.. ftk.w .tli>tSli>M<4 ■■ •■>«..>> I ... I,.... '1*1. .. ..I
A KKNTtX'K V HMtioTIM*.
Louisville. Ky., August I.-
The Times' Hreckeuridgc, Ky
special says:
\ote against me. You are the
men 1 want to talk to; coiue, let
it"; reason together. There will
be no hard thoughts
part bv reason of your
me. 1'he mull cannot
„._T^ , , _ ., , „ not perptf
fouiul so insane as to enter; rent than lie would pay to an^ tuated and the future peaceaud
a. _ .... ... _.i i i .i . prosperity of the state sacri
a cow ranch in this way, will j other landlord. Wehavethoii-
conclude to sellout, aud who i sands upon thousands of tin
gars upon my will l>uy but his lord and must- poor who could not rent upon
your opposing t>r? This saving clause in the such light terms from anybody
in not be found ieas« law won't bear repeating,' else. If thev were at any time
„ _ Ily say that 11 ftnd no voter should listen to it ahlc to buy homes and the state
reached this jdace of a^slnioting JlttV .VVi1 *5." ®u? bUtt'n.K*8 , for a n
atfair Hear Burns, in this county, |U1 (I t ^ m 01 V), l,,| "gnmst, jjllt
resulting in the instant death ,l,e* |t t your right to vote as, jg foll
liced to I lie < :tt t le It
i t«iiiK<ri>"> i,«' 1'" ™ ir"thf,,|l>
- a - have evej- felt
resulting
of Ulisha Alexander, the ser-
ious wounding of his bivther l"
John and the sevei-e wounding ! ,ni
A muu in Dodg
o .is creilited with killing shooting party. The partii
irty two persons, is called "a lars are as follows : Charlie
.liable good fellow," whan he Poole liad run away w ith Miss
tisn't crossed. Alexander and a bad feeling
A Branchville. S. C„ girl was was engendet-d between the
fcwakened by something biting! Jnni'lies. Alexander threatened
Jier and said she had pulled it in loole s lite. Saturday yauug wt.UUPU Ml pfJ|M tfn,ul
ftwo. When a light was brought } (M!*V ,in<^ wtfeaceompiiiiied ^ ^
lit wiim fiiiiud in he n e-nrfer' l,v his brother John attended a 1 r . ti ,1 11 . ,• I •
Lk" i piciiir in tli« ailjaoeut iii'igUlHti-- 1 ""h,r ,h" liuld u' '
, ' tiood, and when returning liome
Jackson, Miss., has a wild tlutt afternoon, in order t<f cut
buian in a neighboring swami). oft-Home distance, turned into a
[e is covered with hairstxiuch Hehl on Alexander's place/ami
long and has toe nails four wen, riding across, when- the
two Alexander young men es-
pied them from the house and
ran down to intercept them.
bitterness fOI. a moment.
a most serious difficulty
, . - . , n i found when we look down
yon ud j ;>n «hi«l<l ex-! l(„. rntul.,. fl,r uml Ilf.
ereine that rtglit witli the utmu t ,Hr hnve f,„n„[ „„
It is iiec«s(*ttry tliut j ironlilcs tiowiiiK from till. o]>
wo un-
shack !
have |
wrought a chain with which to
bind us and our children. This '
vast combination of cattle in
of Mrs. Charlie Poole, sister of *v *}$ Vl , hisow'ii thinking pressive lease system, w
e City, Ivans., Alexander, and wife of one of a", net freely upon the subject to throw off our s
with killing shooting party. The particu- ■"♦''"•red to 111 your resolution. j,,s you wjjj j we
V
1 am opposed to your lean
resolution, and expect to
use all my efforts to break u
the present lease system if
am your representative in the
next legislature. If you are
wedded to this great iniquity.
me, for
I enter the Held to tight it to the
bitter end.
Upon this issue I stake my
chances for election to a seat in
the Nineteenth legislature. I
til we can find sonic safe invest-
ment. To undertake to sell our
80,000,000 acres of school lands
and leave it for future legisla-
tures to say w hat to do with
the money how to invest it •
forests will be found enthroned , w'ould be a dangerous piece of
in the lobbies of our legislature folly. All debt paying bodies
idlv cal
did not desire to sell thc\ could
nirchase homes from the vast
>ody of lands that will always
Je on the market in our state. . ,. ... .
I am opposed to the policy of " people who talk in
the state selling these lauds un- b rget that circum
Tbo Democrats Will Win.
It has been customary among
democrats to discount failure at
the pools. It i> e\ en IIOW till'
fashion among the people to
predict another republican vie
its movements, and1 politics are rapidly calling in
not be able to break i their bonds and the spirit of tie*
times is to cancel all oouded in-
debtedness as soon as po . ;oie.
Then where are we going to find 'J'r1
investments for this vast sum of ,,T,U"V11('
!<*hcs long. An effort will
le to catch hint.
A pigeon race recently occur-
" at Pittsburgh, in which the
^contestants were named after
the candidates of the Ropubli
cau and Democratic parties.
The Democratic pigeons won.
directing
you will
their power. They will set up
the drinks and pass around the
cigars and banquet your repre-
sentative, and receive lease-law
favors accordingly.
Let us not strengthen and or
would much prefer defeat ill
opposition to tfie present wrong |—i||Mt tlle ^ by'anyleg-
and uuuotis indicy of leasing. jgla^Qn whatever. The corpo-
tho state school lands than rjl^, pOWerg uf tlie rnilroads t f
i the state were never half ho
mor. {
The same cry that%is now bo
stances are not what they were
after tne war. down to the dem
ocratic victory of IS7<>. The\
forget that the country is afflict-
ed with failures, with a remark-
able inoiietar} stringency, with
hard times in a word. A-, tlie
democrats went out of power in
ISt'o. ami have never since that
time had control of the govern
muut, it is plain that those
troubles of tlie people cailllol
bo charged upon them. The
aus will be held re
sponsible, and very rightly, too;
for they made all the laws that
have contributed, if they did
The Poole party saw them M>m- •v/'?y,r1n,S . !,a{ , the state were never
ing, and having do doubt but i ra1 right than >e oleeted. (|ang( roa8 to tin* int
that they were about to puti„ ' he people ol exas are face masses of the ve' l>
tliiit they were about to putL ' he people ot I exas are face
their threat against Chart 's ° ^ Wlt { ,nio«tl
life into execution, drew rh«-ir issue _tliat the,\ lune_)et
The tree in Mllfort. Max ., t„ ^
which George Washington once
tied his horse, has stood until j
a few weeks ago, w hen it was
cut down, it was in Hie way of
travel, and sawed into memorial
bleaks.
•
A species of lizard called the
hellbender is now considered a
delicacy by epicures. It is
about tori inches iu length, of a
dirMr mud color and provided i
with four legs and a tail. The
flesh is said to I c delicious.
A young chimpuzec on tem-
porary exhibition in the New
York Zoological Gardens
■ weeps, laughs und makes some
abusing them for
their place, opened fire. Elisha
IIIJM V-lllil > t? . .. . i t til I«l \ Ol MM rlail Villi II«
m. drew their J"l,s issue that the} ha\e struggling*to get control of the
hen the Alex- i '>t}yn I uponi to meet. '<hnll catth* and grass of the West,
i, and began ;!,ur trollt,,'r / Once fully successful and it is
rooming into1 7 'oni, ; .. [ impossible to estimate the ruin-
d tire. Elishn . acies 111 single bodies , f,..H roHlll sm lin eininti-v
Alexander received three balls
in the neck and was killed in-
stantly. John was seriously
wminaed in the thigh and low'-
er part of the body, and Mrs.
Poole was struck by a flying
bullet aud severely hurt. Poole
is not yet arrested.
bv a few score-cattle kings,aud
all the rest of the world
closed out from its occupancy
and enjoyment f Shall a Chi-
nese wafl be erected across the
West and its broad
pkk8kcftkjj to okat1i.
Greenville, Aug. 1.—Mrs. llo-
gan.a milliner, committed sui-
cide here on the 30th of July.
She was a neice of Squire Mot-
ley of Whitesborro. The cause*
t d«
ago
cloned iuiMiiKmHun r, ilUn ,;f b\0,„f A|,aadJ
Sim" .ill WoBteru Pexas be dima«ing effe. ta uf the .fattle
And shall every other interest
of the state be made subservi-
gani/.e these cattle syndicates1 iug mmle by the protended , ,, , , ..
fiiends of public schools will j,a,t cause, the business
thus go up again, that this ,<jopressiuii and disasters of the
money must be bringing a rev ; '^nny a man w ill vote on
eiiue ^ public schotds. Some 1 ''IIH account a.one to put the
■ ' ■ • •' • 1 republicans out, who have been
tried and found wanting, and
to put the democrats in. from
whom some?hinghelpful at least
lliav be expected.
'I hen again it should be re
mom bored that the republican
party has w holly ceased to gain
recruits. No democrat goes to
it. as was once the common
case, no faction aids it; but mi
the other hand, if is full of far
lions that are ready to split off
and join the democracy. The
independent movement consists
e
of kickers aud
very many of
interests of future legislature acting under
the masses of the people as this J the miuiiu hasty impulse that is
vast array of foreign wealth, j forcing these lauds upon the
struggling to get control of the ! market to-day will pass a mea-
sure providing that the money
shall be loaned upon city, rail
road and other security of far
oris results upon the country.
If au end is not made to I hose
less reliability and (hat it may
be loaned to prhate iudi ^duals
large inclosurcs, not many suns i and corporations, and so it u ill
will pass before another era of'g« . A few years at farthest
will fell the tale of our vast
public school wealth. Under
such a policy in ten years half
the proceeds of this laud will be
fence-cutting will come upon
lis with the destruction of mil-
expanse ; ,ioIlg ((f
property and a great
out to royal syndicates of capi
talists from the North and East
and frOm Europe I These are
some of the forms in which this
wry cwditaWe efforts at the ar-; (/fUe r|wh m.t is „;>t lh,fmhHy great issue presents itself. It
ticiilation of speech. I known. Sometime ago she aud ,H time every pat no! should
refuge for home- her husband separated and she au. ''"uU before acting,
statue of Mercu- had brought suit for divorce, -Hut let me call your careful
ry in tne front hall. The onlv <und since that time had been en- attention to un ad roilI argument
explanation offered of Mercury gnged in the millinery business. ['!' '''{J "J'01
insncli position is that Mercury She left four notes, one to her ,^ ^J" * ;
Ss the gml of thieves. ' mother and two to other parties 1' s8 tu V ^Jnndaid. I he)
r,, In town, and still another to B..v«.u it wil! bring a revenue
A mail was tried
for polygamy. II<
in Dublin
was the
jssessor of five wives. The ver-
lict returned was "insane with
gard to his matrimonial en-
gagements," and he was con-
signed to an asylum.
certain other individual, whose
name is for the present witheld
from the public. Knowing ones
to our public
who talk the
schools. The men
loudest now
the hands of cattle princes is 1
| being felt severely by the tuass-
' es. We people have a few
years ago paid :< and 4 cents per
i pound for beef and $15 for a
milk cow. Now we pay lo and
12 cents for beef and $40 and
#r>0 for a milk cow. This change
j has come with the cattle king
and barbed-wire era, and it falls
j with heavy
poor.
Let us not by legislation
make lords of one class aud
1 paupers of another. Let us give
the settlor and small cattle man
gone. This is the experience of dissatisfied republicans. Th
all the states that have tried it.111,1111 ls ni
I should not object to any
some chance to live upon tin
... , , , i grass of the West.
never public school men before The large inclosurcs now be
state, and it is generally talk, *udwerv never heardi to speak a , jUg nmtic. on the frontier nre a
that a certain wealthy man of | their behalf. But with j,j,France to public travel nnd
tliis city had grossly insulted a ^'a' funning they j j
her, any by liis continued per-!llow |a uonsense to th
TIh po nre now in the emnlov 1 "eoutions had driven her to Uiis p^'oph'- very domagogut
the trovern.ne.it H00 nerLns ! Vw P«Won "'juded to Is a Sj&i,"'gralS'^Jith^wiiS 1 |he^amrfenceW,a ^ ^ '
long horned cattle,
plan looking to sales to actual
settlers on long time, sa\
twenty or thirty \ears, jirovid
ed we can find safe invi'sinietils
for the proceeds. Hut mark
my prediction to-day, gentle
men, that when the public
school money to be derived
from these lands by their sales
weight upon the J once gets into the hands of in
dividual^ and corporations it is
gone world w ithout «nd.
I am iu 'favor of free grass
upon every acre of these lands
that is not occupied by actual
settlers on some terms. Free
grass has never hurt the state
of Texas yet and is not likely
of the government 800
sufficiently advanced in "the sci-,
euce of meteorlogicul observa- H<
tion to be al>le to tell what to-
morrow will bring forth in the
| way of weather.
In a neighborhood quarrel
Itwo New York women, one
lulled the other's bangs off and
le other responded by pulling
the wall motto.
eat oeai or cunning tney j jf flight to bo left open to be what they
le ft is rSnli: to V',bli<' hj«'!wa.VM iu «vory di .good old free-gi
to. ^11 the more finely imjiroved
portions of the state have grow n
prison Inau w|lOM(", reputation for such
is well established. The. |
public is greatly iudigiiant,and
an investigation will likely fol-,
low. The lady was interred yes-
terday.
an in 01 ax u a to.
it till down.
These men are not and never
were tlie friends of on
schools they are friends to
themselves and the cattle kings.
Don't permit them to deceive
lustiii. Aug. l.—Cajit. Hay- you. No man in Texas has ev-
mu hii mono. 'Gotl lor is here an<l reports that Iu-1 er gone in advance of me in try -
our Home" and iu raping dians were in Presidio couuty i ing to build up an efficient pno-
th both feet Upon it. They Home days ago and killed two lie school system; but I hojie 1
•re both nulled bv the r < - sheep herders'and stole a lot of have N tter ideas of a sound
1 } ^ j mules and horses. Sergt.Degai , state policy than to n.lvocate
> — rett with a detachment of ran-
Home of the insects have elec- j gers followed them and recapt-
ic organs for defense. Gen. nred two mules but failed to get
are under the ( - .
grass system, and; u^jority
rection and that not more than ! why should we bo in haste for hn ago is
a changef
- , , ... me otwiuv iruw. t Too great haste iu the laud
fences am oiig horned.cattle,, Question by Bob Hhelton and legislation of the state of Texas
•\" ii'11 U.t'UC< people to gulp caj,f IJiish: "Is that not the i has already cost us millions
law now, and is not each sec-.and it will cost us millions
"Vr '' ,'u" a l'ublic road ?" ' more. No interest of the state
•none may bo so declared bytho1 ''an suffer b^ moving slowly in
commissioners' court but* tliis these matters. If the title to
can only apply to organized our thirty million acres of
counties and two cattle ranches school lands remains in the
cau never make an organised' state ten years longer our pnb
county. We must have people | lie school wealth will reach the
to make a county. If Collin 1 enormous figure of $lfln,ooo,f)"o
county had been leased out a
generation ago to two, three or
four cattle kings it would not
to
any one interest of the stab
the exclusion of all others,
is not wise statesmanship to ad
; yet bean organized county with
V its 30,000 or 40,000 '
vis, of the British army, who the Indians who escaped in the vanee any single interest of our
b a fatuous insect collector, j Guadalupe mountains. (country an til it overshadows all
picked up a wheel-bug in
West India Islands, and re-
lived a blow that paralizcd his
for some time. As ho
look the insect off lie noticed
rhere it had stood on his hand
STItrcKBY 1.IOIITNINO.
others.
For the very inconsiderable
sum. comparatively, that will
be derived to public schools We
cannot ufford to foster and build
Penison, Aug. 1—During the
heavy tain storm this morning
lightning struck the two-story
x red marks,the impression of house of Dr. Gardiner, on Main
feet. Kirby and Speuce al- street, knocked brick off the corporations that are now striv
instead of *w.ooo,ooo as to-day
estimated.
At the e\tra session of the
Seventeenth legislature, I re
happy and! member distinctly tluif ii was
Iirosperotts people as It now is. urged bj many ♦!' our best
jet tlie actual settler go to the I members that the whole InnIv of
West if lie desires and in a few [ these lands should be sold for
short years many of those re-1 fifty cents per acre, and now
gions now declared to Is* lit on-1 fliree years afterwards we find
ly for cattle ranches will be (they have more than doubled in
happy, prosperous agricultural value. And there will l e an
communities, such as we have immense gain to our school sys
This gentlemen took brings weary, trouble and.H^H
• an unknown caterpillar, and many instances, moral degrade- evils these large inclosttree will
HiUeiv received such a tion 'upon himself that he would entail upou the state.
that his entire right side have never known, had he re- We have no right to close out
parallsed, and foralong mained on the farm. A farm the West from actual settler*,
he was dangerously 111.— life is tbe freest, purest and The. fathers of Texas did not
inrlnnati Enquirer. 1 beat that nan ever followed
up bj legislation a dangeiotis herein our own county. It takes tern by waiting. Lei us not be
and aggressne combination « f r, .0pj4,_ aotive. toiling men and i in haste to get rid of this royal
cornomtions that are now striv -1 make a great conn-1 aud princely fortune. No state
before in history
indowment.
as it involves
presented to any l
us adopt no si...... ,
, „ - . .. ..... only1 sighted imlicy. We should not,., ,! ,
be a small conipensa.ion for the ^nrich a few lords and nal>ot s. think stud act for to-day alone. Gurheld did . ,
I have no objection to leasing It would be better IW the,H<>n for bel'^jng tliat Blaine
our so?nHiI lands in small IssIioh state for every sprig of grass *ui !, a.T,a: ' a, ,,r
of from (do to 1.380 acres to ae. the West to be fri«e for ten years ^ ^.^"'/mVe*bi"n dei/ne
tnal oecupants, leaving a pub-; longer than to adopt any hasty cratic Slates.
it should never lie road open around each of) or inconsiderate measures that I The six States we have named
women
party is full-
growlers, and
those are not content w ith Kick
ing and growling. Recruits, in
other words, are coming to the
democratic standard, and the
places of deserter- ill the I'opllh
Iit-an ranks remain unlillod.
While this is the case how
cau the republicans reasonably
hope to cam Connecticut, that
elected Thomas M. Waller,
governor, by a majority of
4.IHI f This was iu IH8;J, and
110 election has since been held
111 the Stale. The State is full
of independents, there being in
New lia\eii several hundred
New .buses elected Ml'. Abbott
governor last year by a majori
ly of over U,ooo. The democrats
elected a comptroller in New
York by a fraction less than
If the nominee
a man who can
command the full vote of his
party, not one of these three
metrop<ditan States can be car-
lied oy the republicans. It.
would be simply impossible, iu
flie face of hard times and dis
• seiisions in the republican
I party.
There lire Sillies olll west,
that an acceptable nominee
would certainly carry. At her
: last election, held in Ihh*.'. Indi
ana went democratie by a ma
1 jorlty of lo.tttM. The democrats
had a majority of twenty three
iu the legislature, The Stale
has gone against the democracy
only once since I son. 11 is a
democratic Stale, and will un
democratic this fall Nevada
polls a light vote. S||e does Hot
contain many more people
than Fulton county. She
ua*e Hancock N?'. major-
ity, and Mr Adams, her
•resent democratic go\eriior.
*ir majority Ib-1 solitary
congressman, a democrat, had a
still larger majority. Culifor
nia. too. chose Hancock elec-
tors, and In IHHtf in a full vote
elected General Stonemnn gov-
M,0. «rnor by 2tt.fi! 9 majorty, al
iort though tne republican nominee
sdletl ltt.17tt more votes than
Then* is no rea-
should not be included iu the
list of doubtful States, always
provided no mistake is mad*
at Chicago. The doubtful States
iu that event would be Illinois,
which at the last election chose
one democratic State otflc-r.
and one republican official;
Michigan that defeateil the iv
Imblican nominee for governor
>V 4,fl75? votes in 1HS*2; Wlscoii
sin iliat cast at the last election
Io.ooo more democratic votes
than republican, electing «i\
out of nine congressmen, and
carrying the legislature on joint
ballot;aiid Massachusetts which
is by no means securely held
by tfu • republicans in these days
of labor and currency agitation.
These are the reallt> doubtful
Stales; and the democrats .do
uof need the electoral votes of
lone of them Why then should
1 there be aiiv want of confidence
among the democrats. Atlanta
Constitution.
Mr. Titden's Family Council.
What is not tiurcusonuhly
termed "u remarkable story '
collies to Us from tile Toccou,
tia.. News. It is to the efleet
that the important action of Mr.
Tildeii iu declining a second no j
initiation to the presidency was
due Hot as has been supposed,
to native modesty, growing dis
taste for the annoying duties of
a political campaign, orunwill
ingnoss to lap a barrel only
1 partly replenished after the last
serious drain upon it not to any
of these reasons or objections,'
but to the urgent solicitations of
a family council of "five sisters."
of whom one was "Mrs. Minnie
Kilpatrick, widow of the late
General Thomas Kilpatrick,
who is making a tour of the
. southern states.'' His sister^
being present,. Mr. Tildon's
' cousins and his aunts" were
not fur off being represented In
John Higelow, hau Manning
and Andrew It. Green. "Not
long since," says tin* varacioiis
soul hern journal from which we
quote, "when Tildeii had al
most yielded to the solicitations
of friends to enter tin* race, and
| it was the prevailing opinion
| that In* woiilo allow his name to
be used, Mrs. Kilpatrick, who
was iu the south at the time as
soon as she ascertained the fact
hastened home, and with the
I aid of the other sisters prevailed
! on him lo keep out of the race."
There cau bo no doubt of their
havinir prevailed; indeed the
prevalence of unexpected a lid
uncalled for sisters in the dis
II ustdoii of this important *jues
^ tion is one of the most startling
appearances known to recent
political history . After this,and 1
with the knowledge that Mr.
Tildon's live sisters are still "to
; tin* fore," will not the Sun
please refrain from disturbing
the jiioiis family restraint upon
Mr Tildeii, the reason assigned
(for which is, in the language of
our distinguished tieorgia con
temporary, "that he was too old
and feeble for the active and ex i
haustive duties of public life ("
r
The small boy hasn't much to
, live for in Knglaml. They have
forbidden by law the use of an
glow onus as lish bait and com
lolled the use of the patent
took and fly. What Kuglish
egislator, who has over been a |
•oy himself, does Hot kliow how
much the happiness of bo\ hood*
depends upon a bent pin and
au angleworm To be sure the
bent pill is still left to him, if
lie is content to Use it for other
purposes than fishing. If the
: Kuglish small boy could get in
to the House of Ijords during
recess and fix a bout pin iu the
i chair of every member who vol
ed against bent pins and angle
worms as legitimate fishing
tackle, he would feel better.
Hut there is probably no rente
dy short of tlie suffrage. This
im-aiis the introduction of an
ofher disturbing element info
Hritish politics, and if the small
boy can create as much anxiety
inside r Parliament as he is
W o||l to do olltSide of it, |.||e i|e
maud of the women's rights
leaders will pale into insignifi-
cance before this new faction
It is doubtful if any Kmrlish
statesman could Ih> found dar
iug enough to assume the lead
ers hip of a go\eminent iu which (
the ,small Isiy had a voice. If
the British Government is wise
it will v|itlidruw the obnoxious
fishing tackle measure ami so
ward off a demand for boy suf
frage Free Press.
Blaine is said lobeputtliiu iu
some slick work ill tie-South
SaMKUUMW lllMJKTtt.
STAN,UNO OX A TAH1.K III aiNO
TIIK I KltKMoNY.
The well known royal Ameri-
can midgets, (general Mite and
Mi-- Millie Edwards, were mar-
ried recently at. Manchester,
General Mite, whose real name
is Francis Joseph Flynn, is 19
years of age, and was Isirn ut
• it in* Chenango county New
York. He is but twenty-two
inches iu hoighth and weighs
only iii.. *t, pounds. Tin* bride,
Miss Millie Kdw aids, who is
exhibited in licj- real name, is
aged I?, stands nineteen uud
one-half inches higi;, and w eighs
seventy pounds She was boru
at Kalamazoo, iu the State of
Michigan. She has been travel-
ing with General Mite for about
two years. The general has
been traveling about nine years,
and during that time lie has
\ isitcd all the courts of Kurope
and all the large towns in Kug
laud. The marriage would, it is
stated, have tak>-u place
sometime ago, but for the fact
that the parents are of different
religions. The General's parents
are Catholics, w hile the parents
of the young lady are Presby-
terians, and after a long dis-
cussion it was decided that they
should be married according to
the Presbyterian form. A few
mornings since the civil mar-
riage took place at the Superin-
tendent Registrar's office, Man-
chester. The little couple were
dressed in walking costumes,
and on their arrival at the office
were carried upstairs enveloped
iu shawls. A tire was lighted to
keep tlie fOOlIl lit lllo tempera-
ture iu which they li\o, and,
when all was ready, they were
lifted upon a low office table,
where a small garden seat was
placed for them. A hoquot was
presented to the bride by the
eldest daughter of the rtegis-
trar. and tlie ceremony was at
once commenced. 'I lie little
people were quite self posses-
ed, and showed no embarrass
inont. They answered ones-
lions and repeated the declara-
tions iu a thin pipping voice,
und when the ceremony was
concluded, wore taken into an
adjoining room to sign the reg-
ister. A large company assem-
bled at Si. James Hall to wit-
ness tin* religious ceremony,
which was conducted by Rev,
•lames Mackie, of the Scottish
National Church. Husholme,
chaplain to the Presbyterian
forces in Manchester. The band
<•!' lie- Third Dragoon Guards
Is'iToriued | lie "Wedding
larch." Colonel Nepts, a tier-
man dwarf, wa.< the best man,
and two little girl- were brides
maids, the bride and the bride
gloom standing on a table dur
the service. After leaving
Manchester the couple will
spend their honeymoon on tin*
(outinet before returning to
Amcrica. London News.
Spunking Woll ofOthorn.
II the disposition to speak
well of others was universally
prevalent, the world would be-
come a comparative paradise.
The opposite disposition is the
Pandora box which, when open-
ed. tills every house aud every
hoighhorhood with pain uud
sorrow. How many enmities
and heart burnings flow from
this source! How much hap-
piness is interrupted and des-
troyed: Envy, ji-aloiisv, and
the malignant spirit of evil when
they find vent oy the lips, go
forth ou their mission like foul
fiends, to blast the reputation
and peace of others. Kvery one
has his imperfections, aud in the
conduct of the best there will be
occasional faults which might
seem to justify animadversion.
It is a good rule, however, when
there is occasion for fault find-
ing, to do it privately to the or*
ring one. Tliis may prove salu-
tary. It is a proof of interest in
the individual, which will gen
orally he taken kindly, if the
manlier of doing if is not offeh-
si v e The common ami uuchris-
tiau rule, on the contrary, is to
proclaim the failings of others
to all but themselves. This is
uiicliristiau, and shows a despic*
able heart.
W.Ultra Afltor'N Private Ship.
The finest private ship ill the
world. William Astor's Nour*
mtihal. is nearly as large as
some of those oceau
steamers which first began
trans Atlantic navigation. She
i- built of steel, and her Icugtli
is Vtt*i feet, her breadth thirty
feet < lepth twenty feet. Heren-
■ Wl
an ice machine which will make
5oo pounds jier day. The flnish
of tlie sabsui is In the
Ijogau is ready to paint him- gine is 1.4oo horse power, and
self and the country red, if his her supply of fresn water is
party wants au aggressive earn-1 4.5<N> gallons. To this is added
paign.
At Greenville, Geo. Moore.
has Iweu sentenced to the peni- i
tentiary for twenty-five years
for the murder of 8am Boyd.
A man says his wife is only
half like a telescope. He rail
draw- her out but he can't shut
her up.
possible style, and the Nonr-
mahal is really a Fifth avenue
|mlace afloat.
Now is the time to subscribe
for the DEMOCRAT—if von
think it worth $1 UU a;
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Robertson, Orrin. The Democrat. (McKinney, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 27, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 7, 1884, newspaper, August 7, 1884; McKinney, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth191403/m1/1/: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Collin County Genealogical Society.