The Abilene Reporter. (Abilene, Tex.), Vol. 8, No. 28, Ed. 1 Friday, July 12, 1889 Page: 4 of 8
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The Abilene Reporter.
PUBLISHED AT
ABILENE - - - TEXAS.
FRIDAY JULY 12 1889.
JOHN itOENW JR. Editor.
GEO. W. HO AC If Associate Editor.
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. One year. ... $i-5
Six month 75
Three months 1
OfTice in. llonlcr lluililtng on Second Street.
Kntoreil at tlio Aliltfiic. 'lVxni. I'.HiUllce n
t.'cuml ( liis M.ill Multcr.
The Anson boys play ball like old
timers.
Coal miners have gone on a strike
in Pennsylvania.
Hon. Allen G. Thurtnan is suffering
with rheumatism.
The Texas bar association met at
Galveston yesterday.
The premium lists will be ready for
distribution by the 20th inst.
The town of Montgomery Texas
has been almost destroyed by fire.
Major Penn the great revivalist is
holding a meeting at Cjarksvillc Texas.
The high binder Chinese in Califor-
nia are cutting and slashing each other
again.
Mr. F. A. Fngt-lk President of the
First National bank of Brcnham died
July 7th.
Thomas Sherman son of Gen. Sher-
man has been ordained a priest of the
Catholic church.
Forty residences and many business
houses were burned at Bakersfield
California July 7th.
Gen. Maxey has stated that he is not
a candidate for any office but would
serve his country if called upon.
A colored minister was arrested in
Pittsburg Pa. last Sunday immediately
after service on a charge of murder.
There are 12000 students in the
Mohammadon University at Cairo
preparing to go as missionaries to Africa.
The Texas Associated Press met at
Galveston July 8th for the purpose of
taking steps looking to the betterment
qf the press service.
William E. Gladstone the great En-
glish statesman will be 80 years old
the aoth of next December. His fa-
vorite recreation is chopping wood.
The State Board of missions of the
Baptist general convention met at
Waco Tuesday. Reports were read
and accepted from 86 missionaries.
Rev. Hugh Smith suddenly fainted
while preaching in the New York
avenue Presbyterian church at Wash-
ington D. C on last Sunday morning.
The coroner's jury to investigate
the Conemaugh valley disaster have
concluded their labors and their ver-
dict attaches all blame to the owners
of the South Fork Dam.
Parties from Ballinger Wednesday
report the Colorado river out of its
banks and water covering the streets
to such an extent that the people have
to use boats to get about.
J. H. Watts a restaurant keeper of
Brotvnwood closed up his place of
business a few nights since and myste-
riously disappeared. No cause is
known for his strange act.
A cloud burst in New York washed
away the Central railroad between
Aikens and Tribes' Hill July 9th. A
freight train was wrecked and a consid-
erable amount of the property des-
troyed. Geo. O. Jones chairman of the Na-
tional greenback party has issued a
call to those desiring a re-organization
of that party to appoint delegates to
the greenback convention to be held
in Cincinnati September 12th.
The Northwestern Railroader has a
theory that the immense amount of
steam given out by the steam engines
cause a great deal of the rain 407000
000 cubic yards of steam escape each
week and on being condensed would
-cause a considerable amount of rain.
fall.
The Persian minister to the United
States has' expressed a determination
to leave America on account of" the
bad treatment he has received while
here.
Two men Dick Singleton and Oscar
Prouffc in the Indian territory fell in
ldve with the same girl and the first
time they met fought a bloody duel
which resulted in the death Of both.
The Dallas News twits the Rkpor-
ir.u for devoting two and one-half col-
umns to a report of a new public school
building while the News devotes near-
ly a half page every day to base ball.
As to which is the most edifying base
ball or free schools we leave for a long
suffering public to decide.
lv. F. Bunch the tram robber was in
Gainesville last week. He was disguised
as an old man but informed a number
of friends" of his identity. While he
was in Gainesville a mysterious explo-
sion took place in a building back of
the Red River national bank and it is
thought that Bunch did the work
thinking to blow up the block and in
the fuss he would be able to rob the
bank.
Gen'l W. I.. Cabell while here Wed-
nesday said to the Ri:pori'i.k man that
he regarded the country from Red
river north of us to the Colorado river
south the finest gram section of Texas.
I fe said the finest wheat and oats raised
in the south were grown in this section.
General Cabell is a close observer
has spent many years in this state
and knows as well perhaps as any
man the resources and possibilities of
Texas.
Three days Oct. 1st 2d and 3d are
announced for the holding of our next
fair. As these come on Tuesday
Wednesday and Thursday it is sug-
gested by many of our leading mer-
chants and a number of stockmen
that it would be a good plan to con-
tinue the fair for the week making fie
days in all instead of three. From the
interest manifested throughout this sec-
tion we believe the suggestion a good
one and would like to see it carried
out. The question will be considered
t the next meeting of the progressive
committee "when it will be decided.
The St. Louis Republic in comment-
ing on the acquittal of the murderer of
Captain Dawson says : -r
It will be many years before South
Carolina will cease to feel the ill
effects of the acquittal of the self-
confessed murderer of Capt. Dawson.
Such a verdict might be rendered by a
"fool jury" anywhere but the popular
manifestations of approval of the
verdict could not have gone unrebuked
in any community that had passed the
semi-civilized stage. As for McDow
the spirit of bravado may uphold him
for a time but in spite of the jury's
verdict he knows in his own heart that
the curse of God is on him. In the
stillness of the night remorse shall creep
upon him and with the lash of an
awakened conscience whip him naked
through the world.
Farmers should raise more hogs
in the Abilene country. Experience
has proved that as fine hogs can be
raised here as anywhere in the world
and the expense is probably less and
it is certain that nothing would con-
tribute more to the prosperity of the
farming community than for farmers
to adopt the policy of raising not only
enough meat for home consumption
but enough to supply their neighbors
in the towns. Thousands of dollars
are sent out of the country every year
for a supply that could be had at home
for almost nothing. Grain which far-
mers sometimes find very little market
for could be fed to hogs and double
the money realized from its investment
m this way the money would all be
kept at home and the entire community
benefitted thereby.
The Abilene District Fair is being
extensively advertised and a large at-
tendance is expected from a distance.
It will probably be the greatest disttidt
fair that ever took place in the United
States. There is no question but that
a great deal of good has been and will
be accomplished in this way. Farmers
and artisans arc encouraged to improve
their products; ladies are encouraged
in all duties pertaining to household
work and aside from the great pecu-
niary benefit derived from the fair it
has a most salutary influence as an
educator for the masses of the people.
People need to get together once a
year and forget business cares ex-
change ideas and make it a season of
pleasure seeking and self improvement
generally.
A Trip to Abllono.
Our junior spent a couple of days in
Abilene and wc would be pleased if
we could give an account of that city
commensurate with its undoubted im-
portance. The overcrowded condition
of our space precludes altogether any
notice of the business and bustle of
that miniatuie metropolis. Wc cannot
undertake to detail the evidences of
the energy activity and the unrivaled
public spirit of her citizens and their
hearty co-operation in every work of
public interest. We will not delay to
point out and predict her manifest des-
tiny as the leading city of the western
country. We will only say that so far
as wc know the citizens of Fisher
county are not afflicted with that petty
and altogether irrational -jealousy of
Abilene manifestations of which occa-
sionally crop out in certain quarters
especially when Abilene is making
some exceptional effort to illustrate
and advertise the unrivalled resources
of this section. We interpose no ob-
jection to Abilene's raising all the
money she can raise in advertising thi3
country and we arc willing yes more
than willing to come into the fold un-
der tire general designation of "the Ab-
ilene country" and enjoy the benefits.
It would be hoggish to ask more.
It is really unnecessary for us to go
into details about the business of Abi-
lene the public spirit of her citizens
her resources and prospects. These
are features which most of our citizens
have had occasion time and again to
inspect and with which they are per-
haps more familiar than we. We de-
sire to call attention to another side of
Abilene's character which perhaps few
from our county have had occasion
closely to examine but which speaks
really more for the solidity and perma-
nency of her growth and progress than
any of the more usually accepted ex-
ponents of phenomenal success.
We refer to the attention her citizens
are paying to building and improving
permanent and beautiful homes.
These people are evidently not mere
speculators or transient boomers.
They have come to stay.
In company with Mr. Henry Sayles
the recognized Ieadtr in every public
undertaking we enjoyed a couple of
hours' drive through the main residence
portion of the town. We found noth-
ing specially magnificent about the
houses no evidence of luxurious and
aristocratic wealth. But everywhere
ihere was material evidence of the de-
termination of every man to live under
his own vine and fig tree.
No wonder Abilene took the lead in
establishing "arbor day." Nearly ev-
ery house in the city is the center of a
perfect panorama of shrubbery fruit
and shade trees. What a few years
can do in the west in the way of re-
claiming our treeless plains is admira-
bly illustrated at Abilene. To one
who has not seen it it is perfectly as-
tonishing for this western section.
Fruit trees planted only a few years ago
are literally bending and breaking un-
der their delicious burdens. Plums
and peaches seem to have been es-
pecially successful though instances of
the effective culture of many other va-
rieties are numerous. Many success-
ful experiments have been made with
the grape and we noticed many vines
weighted with clusters.
Mr. Sayles has been improving a lot
of 70 acres upon which he will erect a
splendid residence this year. If we
remember correctly he has already
planted over 30000 shrubs vines and
trees. This has been the work of only
a year or two and yet it already makes
a remarkable showing. In a year or
two it will be a perfect park.
Lack of space we regret renders it
impossible to go into further detail.
This has been written not as an ad-
vertisement for Abilene but with a
purely unselfish object in view. The Call
wants the citizens of Fisher county
when they visit Abilene (which they
will all do at the fair) to leave for a
time the business streets and ramble
out among the residences and we are
satisfied that they will learn lessons
that will redound wonderfully to the
future profit and advantage of our
county Fisher County Call.
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II - FOR SALE BY
The freight convention of Texas
met in Dallas Tuesday. There was a
large attendance and considerable ear-
nestness manifested. The convention
appointed a committee to wait on the
railroad officials and ask for lower
rates and in case of failure in this di-
rection passed resolutions recommend-
ing legislation on this subject. The
railroad question is a serious one if
the evils alleged by some men do ac-
tually exist but in dealing with tt men
should not allow passion and prejudice
to control them. Whatever may be the
ills buffered at the hands of railroads
the fact remains nevertheless that
tUey have been powerful agents in the
development of our country and are
intimately connected with our prosper-
ity. It is natural fpr men to be hostile
to anything that apparently interferes
with their prosperity and in brood-
ing over tlie evil they are apt to lose
sight of the good to be derived from
the business operations of other peo-
ple. The railroads have rights which
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we are in justice bound to Tespect.
One of these rights is a fair remunera-
tion for services performed another is
an impartial patient investigation of
the statements of railroad officials to
see if the condition of the railroad in-
terests is or is not as they represent it.
If it is we should look elsewhere for
the cause of the evils with which we
are beset if not and the railroads are
practicing extortion on the people and
making false statements to deceiev
them and cover their crookedness
they should be forced to do right
abolish their fictitious stock if they
have any and allowed a fair legitimate
profit on their business. The railroad
question is a very intricate one and no
man should attempt to legislate on it
without deliberate investigation.
Shade Trees.
The shade trees about our dwellings
have done much to make our wives and
'daughters pale feeble and neuralgic.
Trees ought never to stand near enough
to our dwellings to cast a shade upon
them; and if the blinds were removed
and nothing but a curtain within left to
lessen on the hottest days the intesity
of the heat it would add greatly to the
tone of our nerves and our general vig-
or. The piazzas which project over
the lower story always make that less
healthy than tho upper story especially
for sleeping purposes. I ain sure I
have cured a great many cases qf rheu-
matism by advising patients to leave
bedrooms shaded by trees or pia?zas
and sleep in a room and bed which
were constantly dried and purified by
the direct rays of the sun Dr. Lewis
in St. Louis Magazine.
Several immigrant wagons passed
through Abilene last week. The im-
migrants were seeking homes in the
Abilene country
Only two pr threo wagon- umbrel-
las left at Sternberg's. If you want
one call early 3Mt
Gen'l W. L. Cabell Dallas spent
Wednesday in this city in the interest
of the Texas State Fair and Dallas
Exposition. The General was on his
return from El Paso and reports grass
and crops looking better than he ever
saw them before. In speaking of the
interest in the county exhibit feature of
the next fair shown throughout this
section he said that the whole of West
Texas would be represented. That
the contest between the various coun-
ties would be very attractive and that
thousands of investors from the east
would visit Dallas and examine the ex-
hibits with a view to investing in
lands situated in the counties making
the best showing. That eastern manu-
facturers ' will be largely represented
at this fair there isn't a shadow of a
doubt and it behooves all this section
to make fine wool exhibits that these
mill men may see at a glance which
are the wool producing counties of the
state. The Dallas fair as it is gener-
erally called is not a local institution
It is an enterprise in which the entire
state is interested and if the people of
anypoitionof Texas desire to share
in the benefits to be derived fiom the
perpetuation of this enterprise they
must contribute to its success by mak.
ing an exhibit that will be a credit to
their county and to the state of Texas.
We all want cheap money we all want
more people we all want more manu-
facturing and we can have all these
wants gratified and more if we will
Show to the people of the old states
our superior advantages as an agricul-
tural nnd live stock country and our
great mineral resources. The Repor-
ter is gratified to learn of the live in-
terest shown by our neighbors on the
west and hopes to see every one of
them represented.
Fine perfumery at Bass Bros 33-tf
Dr. S. P. Hart of Burlingame Kan.
who is visiting his grand-daughter
Mrs. O. P. Spaulding writes the fol-
lowing to his home paper the Chroni-
cle of our city and her people :
"I like the place very much and
was agreeably disappointed. The
town is pleasantly situated and for a
six year old town of six thousand in-
habitants is a prodigy. There are
many business houses which would do
credit to a much older city. The per-
sons I have been introduced to and
they are many welcome me with
a true southern cordiality. The citi-
zens of Abilene seem to think that
the more worthy intelligent and ener-
getic emigrants come the better.
This course is sure to make Abilene a
city of 20000 in five years because
there is opportunity for capitalists to
invest and I am told there is a good
farming country about Abilene which
is rapidly filling up and opening farms.
This is not a corn country but all
small grains yield a good crop. Fruits
of every description except apples can
be raised with very little trouble.
When I have been here longer I
will try to give your readers a descrip-
tion of Taylor county and particularly
of the city of Abilene.
To-morrow the Masons will have a
grand march and will lay the corner
stone of a new school house which wil
be a large and magnificent building.
The recently organized brass band
at Abilene treated the citizens to a
serenade Saturday evening as a show-
off of the progress they have achieved
in the making of sweet sounds. Abi-
lene will be able to exhibit a brass
band composed of her own citizens at
her district fair and one of which she
may well be proud Decatur News.
The Abilene fair promises to be a
big success this fall The premium
list is large and a prize of $50 is offer-
ed for the best county exhibit from
any county in the Abilene country
Throckmorton Times.
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All kinds of refreshing summer
drinks at the Delmonico garden. i7tf
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Hoeny, John, Jr. The Abilene Reporter. (Abilene, Tex.), Vol. 8, No. 28, Ed. 1 Friday, July 12, 1889, newspaper, July 12, 1889; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth330620/m1/4/: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Abilene Public Library.