Fort Griffin Echo (Fort Griffin, Tex.), Vol. 3, No. 51, Ed. 1 Saturday, January 14, 1882 Page: 2 of 4
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SATURDAY. JAN. 14. 1882
The (Julveston Board of
Health want to quarantine
against small-pox, bat it has
no money to pay uecesaary ex
jiensea.
A lire iu Weatherford Mou-
day night destroyed Lapow-
eki's, Evans & Martin's, and
Brunawig's stores. Loss about
45,000, partly covered by in-
surance.
A stone bridge to be built at
Mitineopolis bids fair to become
one of the notable structures of
the world. It will consist of
sixteen 80 feet spans and four
100 feet spans, and,- including
the fehore pieces, will have a
total length of 1,900 feet. It
will support two railwipfracks
nt a height of .over^jd||y feet
above the water,, tfll-iill run
diagonally across the river be-
low Sir Authony's Vails. The
coat is estimated at
9600,000. /
ALFALFA.
1g^ps to organise at ouce. I urn '
. . Mobeetik, Jan. 8. j informed that upward* of nine-'
\ eatber is hue here. Theitv numug Luvu <,......^..1 (A
refers to this
ty names have beeu secured to
the petition^ Donley is oue of
the best counties in the Pau-
handle and has a host of good
citizens in it. Clarendon will
be the county Beat when organ-
ized. Jt is a beautiful place
- „— with a good class
The ordinary of moijal and upright citizens,
notuiiig to do. Succesn to Clarendon and Don-
oldest inhabitant
winter as being tin* mildest one
ever known or experienced ih
the Panhandle. It is to be
hoped it will thus continue.
Cattle are doing unusually well.
The beef in this meat market
wae never better.
cowmau has
v-""u,au uoiaiug io ao. Success to (
Cattle are staying within their ley county,
range so well that "sign riders" 1
seem almost a needless expenses'
Christmas passed off here
quietly but
extraordinarily The Cincinnati Commercial's
pleasant. The ladies of Mo
beetie prepared
RwtmmMdMI m a Sheep Pas-
ture In Colorado.
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_ ' Pueblo Chieftain.
Alfalfa has proven to the
Colorado ranchmen that more
sheep can be k pt on a given
(Uea- of land than was ever
dreamed of by the most enthu-
siast!^ ranchmen of the plains.
The flan may. be considered
by soine as visionary and lm-
practicable. It is tie only way
to ue«t the continued emergen-
dep new arising ia Texas, Col-
orado and many other sections
how suffering froth lack of
sd$#qh(fiatkl and shelter ;
The^two are the only lacking
of the Texas Missou-
and they have to be
ids of sheep
ctopp corn in Ipni
for wintering,
;k again to summer
otguur States.
its are preparing
.upon a 'more
for future han
, , itls more im
ittesl and cheaply
necessitate the
lands and establ
sea, where eo
maysnrroundthe
or attendants
It Is the right way, and
er adopted by the woq
of the South and;DV«lst
tt ha* bejso evident
s that flocks ltd
had to go farther
r year to find pas
te ranges are net as
bat subdued 'and
inoing tjime grasses,
l%k'. another system of
would support more
- 'mtW** floek.
grasses ever did
lay, sixty-six years ago,
Jin New Orleans the
igifttUaih* of arms between
|and America, and saw
' Jackson's fame rise
tlMplendaot glory. The
fopee of time that has
icorrent of events since
^BjiWentful day has been
[ by many moves on the
okerboard of fortnne as the
has plodded the highway
*lii greatness, and of the thous-
ands who then ventured their
Hves for their country the great
have marched, and
marched, and marched, until
-nightfall came and they
iaank, 'tired, to rest in the bivou-
• sc of the dead. A few, however,
remain—-a link, as it were, oon-
. iiecting two ages together; mon-
nments in this busy life of a
period, looking back upon
•-Mftich seems like a dream.—
Galveston News Sth inst.
liable source convinces ns that
the road from Vinita to Alber
querque will in all probability
ruu through this place. It ia
on a direct line and the topog-
raphy of the country is more
favoruble than any other line.
It is said the road will be built
to the Canadian river within a
few months. Our^D«>dge City
friends are very uneasy about
it for the reason that if the
road comes to Mo bee tie they
loose their Panhandle trade
' Donley county is taking
Amicus.
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vi Texas Demoeraey.
special Washington correspon-
.• a Christmas dent reports au interviiw had
tree and Santa Claus deposited on the 2d inst., with Senator
thereon about 050 or 700 pres- Coke, in which the following
onts. It was a grand success conversation took place be-
and was admitted by all to be tween them, that is, if the Com
the best, and presented the mercial's reporter wears the
most enlivening appearance of little hatchet >
anything of the kiud ever got- "Any Greenbackism down
ten up in Mobeetie. The praise there, senator, Co disturb your
calculations t"
'Not now. We were a little
bothered with it for a time, but
it's all dead now. If it became
a straight and square issue to-
day, I doubt whether the Green-
backers proper could poll more
than 90,000 votes. No; we've
tacked that awav in its grave,
and had a wake over it at the
last election, and I don't be-
lieve' it will ever appear again
in the flesh in Texas. Jones is
trying to run for governor on
that basis. Jones is a good
fellow and perfectly honest, but
he is fall of. the wildest sort of
theories." .
The people of your State
don't like monomaniacs very
long at a time F'
The senator stroke his long
beard for a minute,. and then
said: "That's a different qaes
tiqa. I suppose yoa meaa to
ask whether any iuflaenoes hot
strietly Greenback are at work
to.break ap the old party or-
ganisation."
"That's exactly it."
"Then, I can answer yes,!* re-
marked the senator. "I've been
in political life p. great many
years, bat I can't remember a
time when there was saoh a
spirit of independence in our
State as cau be seen here to-
day, and it seems to spread in
all directions. For instance,
we hate about 900 Democratic
papers in Texas that heretofore
have'been flat and unswerving
in their support of the Demo-
ca tic platform and nominees;
but gradually they have been
growing restless under the re-
straint and shunting off on to
various side tracks of one sort
or another, till it can hardly be
said to-day, that - more than
three or four of them can be
ealled reliably unchangeable in
their devotion to the party un-
der any and allcircumstances."
"How do you account for
this." was asked.
"Well, in several ways. Ton
new deal, and in the absence of
any live issues, dividing the
parties, I mean, anything (hut
would keep alive whatever sec-
tional prejudice there is re-
maining. These are likely to ;
diacard their old inherited uo-,
(iovs to a great extent, and sup-
port the men and measures
they think will carry them into
power. "I was speakiug," con-
tinued the senator, "of the fact
that we have no real vital issues,
and that this fact has done
more than anything else to
open the door for this new
Southern movement. On this
subject I was struck the
other day by the force of a
short colloquy between Mr. Ed-
monds and the senator from
Georgia. The judge crossed:
over from dHtifctvpublican side
after some
ks Mr. Hill had
for thn success is due the ladies
of town
Nick Eaton left Friday for
Kansas City, partly on business
and partly . for pleasure. He
will be gone spme two months.
It is no little problem to solve
as to how Mobeetie can rUn
along without him. Henry
Hamburg has promised to by
and get along without closing
up till he gets back, though he
thinks it somewhat doubtful
whether he will succeed.
Chan. Rath has retired from
the firm of Hamburg ft Co. and
is opening out in his own name;
Sis goods have been arriving
for some time.
A new drug store will opien
ont soon in our village. J. N.
Browning's residence will be
completed.in about two; weeks.
■■■ AVXOUS.
January 8,1882.
The weather has been re-
markably good here all winter.
Last night, however, we had
some show bat not enough to
to any h arm. To-day is pleas-
and sunshiny
Our town is steadily improv-
This week Judge Patton
Ived the patent from the
Stath to the land on which the
town of Mobeetie stands. Sev-
eral .lots were sold as soon as
iws was circulated that the
patent had arrived. Judge P.
has Concluded to lay off an ad-
dition to the town on bis quar
tec section of land lying south
of and adjoining tbe town tract.
He has already sold eleven lots
oti^ot his addition which shows
thai the enterprise will not be
futile by any means. v
J. O. B. Street has been em-
ployed by the county to trana-
scribe the record of- deeds re-
corded in Jack county oflands
in .this and attached counties..
The firm of Henry Hamburg
ft Co. will dissolve in a few
da^a. Mr. Hamburg will con
tthUC business.at the old stand ...
and Mr. Rath will open out in see we have an overwhelming
his new building next to their majority in Texas. For my
old Stand. Mr. Rath is now in gecond term as governor 1 got a
Dodge. majority of 100,000. Now, you
The settlements down Sweet- ]«t this condition of things last
water have been unusually at- for any length of time, and the
tractive of late on account of plainest rules of political expe-
ihe "hops" given down there by Hence will bringabouta break,
different citizens. It may cqpie sooner or it may
Frank Goodin has about come'later \ all depends on the
completed his residence, which -strength of prejudice, inhen
cost him upwards of $5,000. and cultivated, but you can be
Mobeetie is not altogether sure it will come. A grea
without railroad excitement and many people go into po tjca o
aspirations. News from a re- a livelihood, and when ey
made, and asked the latter with
a sly twHikle in his eye. "Hill;
what do we two believe in now-
adays, anyhow r 'Well,' Hill
very quickly replied, "why,
you believe in the Ohio law?
while we stick to the constitu-
tion.' Edmunds seemed to en-
joy it hugely. You see it points
a moral When two great po-
litical parties in a people of
fifty millions have nothing
more than that to divide them,
you can depend upon it that
the lines of dnmarkation are
getting dim indeed. Yes, I
look for break-ups and divis-
ions In the South, to be follow-
ed by some disorganization in
the North. We cant expect to
hold two vast armies compactly
together in opposition" uhfeas
both have some vital principle
to fight for."
The much talked of contract
for building the ~new State
Capitol was let Tuesday to a
party of Illinois capitalists.
find Out that there are not
enough loaves to go around
they will wander oil into fresh
paaturea to find them. Talking
about Mahoneiam, in the sen as
generally understood, I don t
believe that its cardinal princi-
ples have taken any root in
Texas, but it carriea with it the
idea of a breakup on general
on general principles that seem
to strike the fancy of the young
men down onr way. They are
attructed by the promise of
coming to the front uuder the
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