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Established IStiS.
Entered at the Post Office at Jaif
-2^VOL. 23.
JASPER, TEXAS, WEj
>DAY, OCT. 26, 1887.
One Tear, if paid la advance, #1.60
She months, Cash. .75
Three months, Cub, .60
•ad
Advbbtisixo.—Citations
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r at the. Rates of
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Notices, to ran Cm Month or Less,
will be charged
• a Line for First Insertion
10 Cents
and 5 Cents a Idne .for Each
tlonal Insertion.
Addl
filRECTORf.
V. 8. MAIL TIME-TABLE
JASPER TO COMJKSXEIL.
Leaves dally (except Sundays) at 9 a.m.
Returns " " " at 5 p. m
jaspkb to cairo.
Leaves Mondays and Fridays at 7 a. m
Returns Tuesdays <fc Saturdays at3p. m
J ABFKll TO BC&KBVILIiK.
Leaves Mondays, Wednesday and Fri-
days at 7 a. m.
Returns Tuesdays, Thursdays and Sat-
ur.Iays at 3 p m.
jasper to hemphill.
Leaves Tuesdays* Saturdays at 1 p. in.
Rtturns " " at 13 m
JASPER TO LEWIS FSIlltY.
Leaves Mondays an.l Fridays it 8 a. in
Returns 44 44 " at 8 p. m.
CHURCHES..
St. E. Church, Month.
Preaching every Sabbath at 11 a. m.
and 7 p. m.
Prayer meeting every Wednesday
night.
Children's meeting every Snd. and 4th.
Sabbaths in each month, at 3:80 p. in.
Class meeting 1st: and 3rd. Sabbaths
in each month, at t->0 p. m.
• J. F. ircher. Pastor,
Sunday School every Sunday at 0:30
a. m.
T. W. Ford, Sup't.
SOCIETIES.
De Witt Clinton Lodge, No. 39,meets
Snd Saturday night in each month.
JmnperBiocMfo&A^ b.*n<i «>. weetB
every Friday night. -
Jasper Teachers Association, meets
2nd snd 4th Satnrrta s In each month,
faaper LaJies Aid Society.
Women's Missionary Society,
MBBCHANTILE.
P. F. Reafro,
. -■ General Merchandise
W. J. B. Adams,
General Merchandise.
Dr. T. M. Stoiie,
Drugs, Chemicals, etc., -
R. CL Lanieiy ['■
" General Merchandise.
G. W. Norsworthy,
General Merchandise.
rHOFESSIONAL-
LAWYERS.
T.W.Ford.
W. W. Blake.
J. T. Beaty.
rMMciix.
J. P. Haynes.
T. M.Stongv. .1. . . ,
raoiwHUEHEK.
R. B.Blake. ■ - ,
TRADES.
J. W. Wilson,
Blacksmith.
Gancban & Davis,
Contractors and Builders.
Harry Patterson,
Carpenter and Builder.
R.B. Blake & Son, •*>'
Printers and Publishers.
OFFICERS.
gnroicrr wcrt.
Hon. W. H. F rd, Judge.
. A. Cheatham, Btate's Attorney.
A J Rlgsby, ' , Cliark.
-tmvtm, —
LC White, -. Judge. .* T
A J Rlgsby, , Clerk.
AN Stone' * Sheriff aifcfOo!.
W M McF«t6i a^,%jiEmaa«r
L D Scarborough, — Bnrveyoj:
W T Rlgsby Assessor, f*-;.-
ASBelk, Justice (
W.W.BLAKE
ATTOBNETAT. LAW
ANO LAND agent
JA8PEK, TEXAS. ;V
Will practice in the courts of Jasper
county and m appellate courts of
Texas
SOUTH EAST TEXAS
M. k F. COLLEGE,
COMMENCES ITS NEXT AN-
NUAL SESSION SEPT.
5th 1887.
D. C. Peacock, A. B., President,
Professor of Ancient Lan-
_trnastmi—^
Wesley Peacock, B. Pb., Pro-
fessor of Modern Lauguages.
College will begin with first class
teachers In other departments. Music
and elocution included.
For further information, address the
President.
Send for Catalogue.
J. T. BEATY,
ATTORNEV ^
AND--""/
COUNBELOtt A* JLAW.
AMD NOTATr PUBLIC.
JA8PER, - - - - TEXAS
Will practice In all the courts of the 1st
Judicial Dls rict.
TORPID LIVER
known by Utmio marked p«finllwltlMi
>• A tocllna of weartoewmnd r&lna In ih«
X Son brroMi. blul taide in the month.
m lt~ ™'™ tongue.
™ **'n ttpatk>n,wUU occasional attacks
. ofdtarriuua.
i. Headache. In tho front of the bead:
Sfffi"10* on<i T'llliimiiss of
• Heartburn, lows of oppotltn.
hywu'd"" stomach and bovsls
'* 01,(1 sreat mclan-
eholy, vtllh iasMiindeauil a deposition
to leave OYcrytii i ug for to*morroir.
A Minna flow of BUe from tho Liver
BUJOUSNESS,^
If ncgleeted, soon lends to serious
dlseamit. MtiumonsLlverlteguliitorexcrts
•"no.} feticllom in flue nee ovpr every kind
rontons# the l.tver to
JS2P2JX? '.If ortcr. regnlales tho occre-
,>>d|mu tho digestive organs
Jthey can do their
bestwork. Aftcrtakliigtlitsmediclnono
one will nay, "I am bilious."
,f*n« of Con-
gestion of the Liv«f, and have b«n in the habit of
taking from x$ to «o grains of calomel which gen-
erally laid me up for three or four days. Lately 1
'•«ni Simmon* Liver Regulator,
which gave me relief without any interruption to
Hooo, Middieport, Ohio.
OATLY CEJrUIJTE
«U pla red on front of Wrapper
J. H. ZoUIn « Co., rutadelphla, Pa.
NO. 21^
R. C. Lanier
JASPER'S LEADING
jy -■ '•' k- :* ' > ■
General Merchandise House.
My Stock of Groceries is Com
piete in Every Department.
tualce it a point never to let it
run low.
News For
We have now ready for your Inspec-
tion and approval the finest and
moat completestock in tfata Mo-
tion ol the State and pride -
ourselves on the fact that
this season we have ex-
*-■ . celled even ourselves '
in the magnitude as
L'lreH as in the va- .
, -^•ty-ofof* our
. seleotion
. .A SHOWER OP —
NOVELTIES
HAS POURED INTO
Every Department This Spring
I mean to do a go-ahead Vtwineas
and keep abresat of the times, and
onr people can rety upon me to al-
ways keep the newest and moat
Stylish Qoods at the Most Reason-
able Prices. I am daily reoetvlng
all the Novelties of the Season as
fart as lliey appear, and Purchasers
Will be dSin j themselves an lnjostle
if they make their purchases before
looking throngh our
Immense Stock!!
- BULLY FOR JEFF DAVIS.
A Remarkable Stnrap Speech ]>▼ a
Negro in Carrol ton, Hiss.
The most adroit stump speech
to which we have ever listener
was delivered by a regular coal
black, thick-lipped, gizard-footed
darky in Carrollton, Miss., sev*
eJilyenre
ence of negroes and whites:
"You cnllud folks," said Uncle.
Zeke, "you cull ad folks and and
carpet-bag publikins tell me we
owe our freedom to Linkum 1
G'way, nigger! G'way fum byear
and talk sich truck as dat ter
muroons! I knows suthing about
dat, olo Zeke does, kaze I was
dur—right dar while it was all
goln on.
"De very fustest year ob de
war I went ter ole Ferginny wid
my 3'oung marster, Tom Kenne-
dy (I see him sittin' ober dar
right now!). I went to ole Fer-
ginny wid him kase my mistiss
tole mo to go long and cook fur
him aud bring bis body home ef
le happened ter get kilt. Well,
I kinder liked my home folks,
fur show I did; and while I hat-
ed to see 'em kilted up in battle
wasn't sorry a bit when de
yankees whipt de rebs, kase som-
how I feltdat my freedom would
cum outen it all, and dat was
what I was keerin fur most.
"I yuster listen mighty close,
mun, to what I hyeard de sold-
iers say in camp, but I neber
on. Ma ..
news cum inter camp dat M>.
Linkum done sent word to Mr.
Jeff Davis dat if Mr. Jeff Davis
would make his soldiers lay doun
dar guns an' cum back inter de
Union, jess like dey was befo' dey
seeseeded, dey raout keep de nig-
gers in slavery jess like dey had
at fust.
"Umph I Humph ! Thinks I
to myself, Kin it be possible dats
Mr. Linkum talkin? Dat good
good man we all said was gwin~
ter sot us free! Umph! thinks
I ter myself, it's a mitey bad
chance ter get any freedom outen
you, Mr. Linkum, and I tell you
what, I went squar back on Mr.
Linkum from dat day to dis, and
gunter hitch my hopes unto
Mars Jeff Davis! I was sorter
fraid Mars Jeff mout take up Mr.
Linkum's proposition sho nuff
and den wbat'd we niggers be?
I kep' on de lookout to byear
what Mr. Jeff Davis was gwinter
'Spond, and fur a whole week I
was so blue I was almos' black;
I was fur er fac! Somehow it
sorter peered to me Mr. Davis
warn't gwine ter sept de popper-
sition, kase he wag a suddern
genmenofde kind what neber
consider de spenses when dey
takes day coats off ter fight. Now
I said tq myself, if Mr. Davis
was one of dem sharp yankees
wat got heap mo' sense dan our
white folks has, an' knows bow
ter drive a sharp bargain—I say
to myself if Mr. Davis was dat
sort ob a man (you know de
folks up norf neber set us free iu
dare born days—no siree, dey
sont us down souf an' sole us an'
put us in dar pockets—dey did
fur a tac! I said to myself ef
Mr. Jeff Davis was dat sorter man
(like Mr. Linkum thought be
was) we nebber get no freedom
in de world—for I soon found
out de yanks wasn't fitin' ter free
us, but jest ter get de souf bac in
de Union. So I lay low and kep
dark waitiu' to hyear what Mr.
Jeff Davis gwiuter say, but byme.
Ma*e God and glory hallylu-
Je blessed word cum from
avis dat he be dam if he
rioter do enny sich a thing.
ift; fiten tef keep niggers
very—he was fiten fur his
Jom, lie was fur a fac!
think is by ao-rawms impossible.
lien 1 got dat spouse fum
Mr. Jeff Davis? I jess slipped out
behine an ole thicket whar de
white folks couldn't see me, an
frew ray hat high up in de at-
mosphere tod shouted: 'Bully fur
Jeff Davis!'
Nqw, does enny of you fool
niggers try to make me believe
I owes my freedom to Mr. Link-
um? Not a bit o' it! He tried
to swap us all off fur de Union,
and I knowed ef Mr. Jeff Davis
kep' on fiten he bound ter get
whipt after awhile, and he did!
He wouldn't 'spond to Mr. Link-
um's proppersition, so I'spects
ter shout ez long a? dis nigger
lives, 'Bully fur Jeff Davis, and
may de good Lawd protect liim."
Jacksonville, (FIa.)News Herald.
Gov. Roes' First Pair of Boots.
Captain Shapley Ross, theaged
and venerable father of our dis-
tinguished governor, has been in
the city for several days past,
visiting "hig b^y." He told us a
good story about "Sul's first pair
of boots." He says when the
aforesaid Sul Was a boy of about
rr iiYft ma "f age he
seeming to be to absorb the pro
bibition element, and eventually
tfeqlf to become the prohibition
party under another name. There
are sumersaults and surprises in
politics, as in other things, and
such an event in the near future
gster
happened 15 spy a pair or red-
top boots—tho first his eyes had
ever beheld. He prevailed on
his father to buy him a pair.
How he did strut with them ar
boots! That night Sul and bis
brothen. Pete slept together.
Away in the night Capt. Ross
heard ft fuss going on between
Sul and Pete. On inquiring
the cause Pete hallowed out:
"Papa, ,Sul has gone to bed
with them boots on, aud is just
kick«ng my shins all to peices."
The old gentleman, thus aroused
from his slumbers, commanded
the young man to pull off those
boots,which he did, and quiet was
again restored. He little thought
then that the boy who went to
bed with his first pair of boots on
would ever be governor of this
great state!—Austin Record.
Drifting to Prohibition.
For some years the republican
party have shown a decided ten-
dency towards an alliance with
prohibition. There is an affinity
betweeii the two that may ac-
count fprjthe leaning. Both aim
at centralization of po'ver. Pro-
hibition, because it is necessary
to carry out out jts purposes of
abolishingcertain personal right;
republicanism, by ruling the
the south against . its will and
fording one class of citizens to
pay tribute to another.
Tbe ultimate objects of the
two parties may be essentially
variant, but the means of their
accomplishment is the same—
and that is concentration of po-
litical power. It is no wonder;
then, that a week or two ago the
republicans of Massachusetts, in
convention assembled, adopted
prohibition out-and-out, and
without modification or reserve.
They went the whole hog, and
without any apology.
There are signs in the repub-
lican party of Ohio, and other
influenzal states, of gravitation
toward prohibition, the idea
If the republican platform in
1888 should contain a prohibi-
tion and the democratic an anti.
Suptuary plank, as it probably
will, on which side will be found
those democrats in Texas who
voted with the 129,000 prohibi-
tionists on the 4th of August
last? It is an interesting ques-
tion.—Austin Statesman.
The Wayside Inn.
Fiom Houston Post.
Miss Rose Streaton, of Midway
Ala., is said to be the belle of
New South. She is a brunette,
aud at a distance greatly resem-
bles Mrs. Cleveland.
Senator Sherman doe* not ap-
pear to be taking a very active
interest in the Ohio campaign,
and this fact is causing some com-
ment upon both sides of the pol-
itical fence in the Buckeye State.
General Joseph E. Johnson has
contributed $1000 to the Lee
monumental fund of Richmond,
Va. In a letter to the manage-
ment of the fund be deplores the
fact that be cannot make his do-
nation larger.
who was put into an insane asy-
lum some months ago, has com-
pletely recovered her reason and
will leave the institution Satur-
day.
Chris. Buckley, the democra-
tic boss of San Francisco, is to-
tally blind, and the bitterness of
political contests in that city
may be inferred from the fact
that the Chronicle constantly
speaks of him as "the blind white
devil."
James D. Fisk, ex-president of
the Marine bank, is said to be
one of the most patient, well dis-
ciplined and uncomplaining con-
victs in Auburn prison. His
outside friends are making hers
culeau efforts to secure a presi-
dential pardon.
Two young ladies of Guilford,
Eng, Miss Staples and Miss Ap-
pleyard, are on a tour of the
New World. They landed at Hal-
ifax a fortnight ago, and are now
iu Detroit. Apart from being
prepossessing in appearance,
they travel without escorts and
carefully shun guide books.
Edward Gould, the young son
of Jay Gould, who characterized
his debut in Wall street last sum-
mer by clearing half a million
on Manhatten stocks, is now on
a tour of inspection of the Mis-
souri Pacific rsilroad. Ho in a.
director of the Western Union
and on the board of the Pacific
Mail.
General Sheridan is far from
wealthy. His income, salary
and allowances are about $13,-
000 a year, and it costs for the
maintenance of his home, family
and official position four-fifths of
this sum. He is also president
of the Washington Park Jockey
club, of Chicago, an unsalaried
office.
Snccessftil Business Men. ~
Asa general rule successful
business men (merchants, politi-
cians or bankers) were members
of large families. No hot bed
influence of wealth, or petted
training <jf ftn ohly child, dwftrf.
ed their early efforts at self reli-
ance. No extravagant use of
unearned money smother the
great lesson of economy, without
which no^solid foundation of
wealth was^ever laid. In early
life no lesson of caste or excluo
sivness of blood chilled their so-
ciability, but their minds were
imbued with the idea that true
worth made men and women of
the first class.
The farmers's son raised on
the scanty^farm, or the half or.
phan of a poor widow, has no
carriage in which to ride, so the
son soon learns to walk to fame
and fortune. In his youth no
wealthy hand reaches out to sus-
tain and steady his steps, so Tib
"earns to save himself, and push-
es forward with self reliance and
conscious ability to distinction.
His father, with his scanty purse,
sets an example of economy
which clings to the son through
life. Ia this way the poor boy
from the farm, removed from
the fashionable vices of society,
comes to manhood and strikes
out boldly with determination
""i* "-1 '■ .. ~
Japan keeps a-standing army
50,000 with 200,000 reserves.—
They carry breech -loaders, and
drill more than any men in the
world.
That motley mixture of sham,
shoddy and superficiality, idiocy,
impudence and inertia, known
as fashionable society* is oftimes
an interesting study. In the city
of St Paul, Minn., one hundred
and fifty ladies were appointed
to receive Mrs Cleveland on the
late visit of the President and
his wife to that city. One hun-
dred and forty nine of them re-
fused to serve because Mrs Davis,
the wife of ex-Governer Davis,
was one of the appointed. Their
objection to her was because she
had been a few years ago a sew-
ing girl. Her character is above
reproach, her education above
the average of the objectors, but
because she bad been once a
working girl they would not as.
sociate with her even on a pubs
lie occasion. Because she had
the spirit, womanhood and in-
dependence to earn an honest
livelihood in an honest manner
those other women imagine they
are her superiors. By their ac-
tion they proved their inferiors
ity and acknowledged her supe-
riority. We are told that labor
is honorable, and yet lure are
women who by their position
and presumed intelligence ought
to set a good example, publicly
declaring in effect that labor ia
disgraceiul." Mrs Davis can well
aifojrd to treat such exhibitions
of narrow minded folly with the
oontempt it deserves. The day
is rapidly approaching when la-
bor and honesty will be fashion-
ably when it will be considered
disgraceful to live upon the labor
of others, instead of as it now
seems to be considered, disgrace-
ful among the ladies of St. Paul
to live upon ones own labor.—
South West- (Fort Worth.)
i i i —s<NOH| — ■ ■
A floating exhibition of Span-
ish products will shortly leave
Valencia snd will visit all tbe
principal South American sea-
ports, with the object of opening
up new markets for Spanish
goods.
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