The Abilene Reporter. (Abilene, Tex.), Vol. 9, No. 16, Ed. 1 Friday, April 18, 1890 Page: 4 of 8
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FRIDAY APRIL i8 1890.
JOffN IWENY JR Editdr.
Office fa liordcr Ilulldlng on Second Street.
I Entered nt Iho Abilene Txn Poilofflco ns
Hccond Clnm Moll Mutter.
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Three months.
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Laredo's boom is going to prices.
Houston and Galveston ard boom-
Fort Worth is to have a $100000
brewery.
Dallas has secured another large
cotton mill.
The late rains add much to our
bright prospects.
Our new settlers are ''delighted with
the Abilene cduntry.
The Texas press association meets
in Houston May 6th.
The district fair must not be over-
looked in these busy times.
San Antonio is waking up and pro-
poses to do something now.
From all over the state comes re-
' 1 ports of good crop prospects.
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Prospectors continue to pour in and
invest in Abilene country dirt.
Abilene has no boom but she keeps
right on growing just the same.
The rains have been general and
the "nester" is more than happy
Taylor county's horticultural exhibit
should be sent to the spring palace.
Abilene has raised $15000 to bore
for artesian water. El Paso Tribune.
El Paso people are again confident
that a bright future is in store for that
citv.
Reports are current that Lawrence
Barnett has retired from the stage for
good.
Jay Gould will probably buy the
Texas Trunk and extend it to the
southeast.
Little green bugs have destroyed
the wheat crop of the older counties
of the state.
Anson developed quite a sensation
last week. Our neighbor is putting on
metropolitan airs
Prosperity throughout the entire
state this season will be greater than
ever before known.
It behooves our people to get ready
for the sheriffs who meet m this city
Tuesday May 13th.
The Texas editors the Texas bank-
ers and the Texas drummers meet in
Houston this spring.
Col. Wm. Ferguson has retired from
the editorial management of the San
Antonio Evening Times.
It is estimated that fifty per cent
more wheat will be marketed in Abi-
lene this season than last.
Ex-Gov. Hubbard has announced
himself as candidate for congress and
will begin a vigorous campaign at
once.
Fierce prairie fires near Emporia
Kansas Saturday devasted farms de-
fa straying crops buildings and some
? jf live stock.
Jay Gould is in no hurry to get
vaway from Texas He is taking things
veryeasyj and will probably be heard
TfTroririater
Dallas is happy dver Mr Gould's
promise to build the'Cotton Belt and
the international and Great Northern
into that city.
Gov. Wheeler is for a commission
but wants a commission to collect sta-
tistics regarding railway earnings and
exuUtureg.
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TJmb Rwwtek is pleased to note
the increased advertising patronage of
jh Baird Star which indicates the
proqjMt by o( Wur neighbor.
Corpus Christ! wnu ri;fir?$eritng
works and has issued a circular caltmf
a convention of stockmen and alt
parties interested 'to meet in that city
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Chicago's World's fair directors met
last Saturday and completed temporary
organization by clcrtftg Edwin Walker
chairman and Rollin Akcs secretary.
Work on the Texas Spring Palace is
progressing nicely. The exterior
decorations arc very pretty as the en-
tire palace wheh completed will be.
Every citizen of Texas should see it.
The United States supreme court
has affirmed the decision of the Cali-
fornia circuit court in favor of David
Nagle for the Willing of Judge Terry
who assaulted Justice Field at Lathrop'
last August.
President Harrison has formally an-
nounced himself as candidate for re-
election The republicans should nomi-
nate him and if they do Giover
Cleveland will have the exquisite
pleasure of knocking him out.
An Austin special says that it is ru-
mored that Commissioner Hall is a
candidate for governor. The situa-
tion grows more alarming 'every day
and if some dark horse don't get the
nomination Texas will be in a bad fix
for a governor.
Harrison should be nominated by
the republicans for re-election. Cleve-
land will be the democratic standard
bearer and it is right that the people
pass upon the administrations of these
two gentlemen The result of the
election would certainly be gratifying
to the democrats. .. t
Mr. M. Swanwick left for the east
Friday via New Orleans. His mission
is to represent' the Reporter to the
advertisers and to supply us with an
interesting eastern letter besides he
will do alHn his power to attract the
attention roffarrners in the old states
to this fertile country. Mr. Swanwisk
will also visit many manufacturing
cities in the east and lay before the
manufacturers the advantages of Abi-
lene' as a manufacturing point.
Samuel J. Randall.
The death of Samuel J Randall
which occurred at Washington on the
morning of the 13th inst. is mourned
throughout the union by democrats
and republicans alike. His unflinch-
ing nerve and unswerving honesty has
endeared him to the people of this
country of all classes. In the hearts
of the people of the south even of those
who differed most widely with him on
the tariff question he had won a place
held by no other representative in con-
gress for it was Samuel J. Randall
who when the republican party made
the issue one purely of antagonism
between the north and south lead the
battle for the rights of the people of a
part of this "great union. His ability
as a parliamentarian his patriotism his
residence in a northern and over-
whelmingly republican state combined
to make him the strongest leader the
democratic minority could have. All
through the long period of sectional
strife following the war Mr. Randall
was a stalwart democrat a true patriot
and a friend to the free institutions
of which -vwe as American citizens so
proudly boast His position or. the
tariff never lost him a friend among
those who knew him best.
The Sam Jones revival at Fort
Worth affords the Dallas News corres-
pondentj at Fort Worth another op-
portunity to cast a slur at Christianity.
The News correspondent illy conceals
his contempt for religion und every-
thing that is held sacred by the chris-
tian world.. That the News agrees
with its correspondent and thinks it
exceedingly smart to ridicule Chris-
tianity in general and such evangelists
as Jones and Williams in particular is
evidenced by the flaming headlines
placed over his effusions. The News
is not making any friends among chris-
tians by such a course. But what does
it care so it fills its cdffers with gold
though it be at the expense of all things
held sacred among men. .Baird Star.
The Star does Bailey the News cor-
respondent an injustice as well as his
paper. Sam Jones has been correctly
reported and it is he who should be
charged whh "contempt for religion
etc." and not Mr. Bailey or the paner
he represents
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The. progressive committee of Abi-
lene has done wonders for that town
and will do the sanw for Baird if we
would only Organize Baird Star.
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Thoy are Sore.
' The farmers throughout the country
are sore because of their inability to
pay interest on the mortgages on their
homesteads and censure the republican
administration for their condition. A
Washington special says :
A very prominent Virginia repub-
lican who used to live in ihe interior
of New York state has been revisiting
his old home and has stopped over irl
Washington on his return long enough
to call on the president. His errand
was to lay before Mr Harrison arid
other party leaders the condition of
things political as he sees it in the two
states- He says that once prosperous
agricultural districts in New York where
he used to live are now heavily debt-
ridden ; farmers in many cases in spite
of all sorts of petty economy have
not paid a penny'of interest on their
mortgages for the' last two years and
are despairing of doing any better for
the present. They are disposed to
attribute their condition to the protec-
tion policy. Not merely scores 'but
hundreds 'have to his knowledge
sworn that thev have voted the re
publican ticket for the last time. In
Virginia farmers are feeling the .same
way he says. What both the New
York and Virginia recalcitrants cannot
grasp he says is how an economic
system which benefits the farmer as
protection is reported to be leave the
poor fellow out at the elbows and down
at the heel while a handful'of million-
aires are living on the fatpf the land
building palaces for thei. families to
dwell in. He was at the last national
republican convention and was there
assured by the leaders of the party
that the tariff revision plank in the
platform meant something and on the
strength of that assurance he went
back and so informed his people.
They and he have now found that this
pretense was a hollow sham. Not
only that but he can't find a republican
newspaper which will allow him to tell
the truth of the situation through its
columns and when he comes to Wash-
ington the president treats his argu-
ments as the ravings of a crazy man.
Mr. Bepew on the Race Problem.
His sojourn in the south has given
Chauncy M. Depew some light on the
race problem which he( expressed at
Washington. It is not new light how-
ever. The hysterical supremacy he
says is the one thing that prevents the
breaking up of the solid south but
whereever negroes accumulate proper-
ty and attain a fair degree of education
they e cordialiy tieated even by the
bourbons. That is to say as the press
has repeatedly affirmed it is the ghost
o'f the negro and not the nero him-
self that makes the race problem Mr
Depew thinks the problem will solve
itsejf because of the gigdntic strides
the black men are making in education
and property getting. Under the
warmth and geniality of sputhern hos-
pitality which is proverbial Mr. De-
pew has become impressed with the
idea 'that it is unwise to attempt to
force the recognition of the negro as
a voter by federal election laws
ignoring the fart that actual citizenship
is the greatest of all educational pro-
cesses and that co long as black men
are restrained by any; mentis froin he
exercise of the franchise theirambition
to rise in the scale of intelligence and
social position is limited. When Mr
Depew comes to think it pver in the
quiet of his library he may sympathize
still with the terrors of his southern
white friends but we apprehend that
he will conclude that he will conclude
that a man is a man whether his skin
is black yellow or white and that there
is no excuse for his disfranchisement
because his race was once a slave race
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Remember tl?at Shelby & Hall the
liverymen make promptness a spec-
ialty and give tliend your ordera for
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Our tfir took of All Wool Drtw Good divided into totxf
oflfcrsd at 80 40 and 50c; and onhalf Wool Goods at 8 1-3 10 ana ioc.
We Cfontinue our
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Is the number of All Wool Dresses sold in five
sale besides as many Half Wool
Embody Sajs Bay an THE
36 inch all wool Serges at 30 worth 50c.
36 inch all wool Albetross at 30c worth 50.
36 inch to 40 inch all wool Cashmere at 40c
Worth 65 to 75 cents.
36 inch to 40 inch all wool Henriettas plain
striped and plaid rit 50c worth 75c toi.
We Offer These -Goods for FIVE
The best Standard Ginghams at
Other Ginghams at 20 yards for
20 yards of Challies for $i.oa.
Remember this offer is only for
SHOES I
MEN'S SHOES.
We offer Selz Schwab & Co's
$4.00 worth $5.00.
We offer Selz Schwab & Co's
$3.001 worth $4.00. J
We offer Selz Schwab & Co's
' $2.50. worth "$3.00.
We offer Selz Schwab .& Co's
$1.50 worth $2.00.
" Cur entire Clothing Stock to be sold at "greatly reduced
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FOR OUR SPECIAL SALE
Saturday April 19th and Monday
April 21st we offer :
500 pieces Dark and Cjream Ground Oliallies
500 pieces. Figured Lawns
Merrimac Twilled Cretonnes
Imported Twilled Cretonnes '
Cotton Plushes
Gold Seal Penang Dress Goods
Ladies' Muslin Underwear
Ladies' Plain and Ribbed Vests
Ladies' Silk Gloves and Mits
Ladies' Kid Gloves ' ' ' :
Ladies' Linen Cape Collars
Black Corkscrew Diagonal Sacjndjrgcg; Suits
Navy Blue Narrow Whaled Dgnal ;Fr$ck and
Sack Suits v
Boys' Knee Pants
Boys' Long Pants
At Greatly Reduced prices.
Respectfully
: S. Upowski & Bro.
Special Sale Five Days Ingf
Erom April itn to
BEST BARGAINS EVER BFFERED In Abilene. SEE PRIOEf t
36 inch to 40 inch
striped and plaid at 15c worm 35c. r
27 inph 1-2 wool Dress Goods plain striped
and plaid at ioc worth 20c.
27 inch 1-2 wool Dress Goods at 8 1-30 worth
15 cents.
DAYS ONLY and will not Pier
6 cents.
'$1.00.
five days.
We offer Hose at 5 10 15 and 20c worth 12
1--2 20 and 35c a pair.
We offer Handkerschiefs at 5 10 15 and ioc
worth twice as much.
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Hoeny, John, Jr. The Abilene Reporter. (Abilene, Tex.), Vol. 9, No. 16, Ed. 1 Friday, April 18, 1890, newspaper, April 18, 1890; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth330656/m1/4/: accessed April 25, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Abilene Public Library.