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A. B. NORTON,
Let us never despair of the A.iex'iean. Republic.—Henry Clay.
BDITOE & PROPRIETOR,
VOL. XV, WHOLE NUMBER 827.
DALLAS CITY, TEXAS, JULY 1879.
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MORTON'S IIIELLffiENCER.
I'fEI.ISii.EIJ DAI1.Y AND WEEKI.y.
A.3, KOSTON & C O-
Jim H cel.Ii/ JuteUli^iieer hux ! halt
id/■;/(>* eiirculalitM vj any pajier fiv'jlUhad in
hiurtueru 'law..
The colored population c« iinsae A t'lajjac oS Locusts.
followed their b ind and, to the mu- The Journal tic St. Petersburg : tetter
sic ol the shrill file and the ilruni,, has tlu* follov ing extract from the —J'
old and young, big and little, the Caucasus on the plague of loeu-t.i
iiiSizn..
From a S'uriiifr Teiaw
.v;::;iei solas oi' fSrtizi!. I
'l'lic (iui!L'ii ol i!ie .tuiillrs.
tite lame and the blind, a* in the province from which the lat
as ihe stalwart and robust ier journal takes its name; Tuo'
The Spanish West Indies, Cuba
and Porto Rico, together have a
Siiiia Liroara, April -0. I waa popniatioa ol a little over two mil•
giu i to ^ie:ni advertisement in your
lions. Cob a itsi li is seven hundred
Terms ol Kubsrrlpliun.
DAILY.-Uiic year, $t)00; six montli*, $3 00;
•one tumuli, 50 cent*; p.*r week, *JJ cunts.
WKKKLY.—One year, in a<lvamu:, $250; uftur
illu*uciuuutlk>, $o UU; alter bj,v mouilc, $..> do
ADVERTISING—WEEKLY .*
■Fir«t Insertion, fl 50 par square of eight line* or
K..0I1 nulwe^uent iiihtirUuit, 75 ccntM. AH trau-
Ment advertisements muBt be paid in advance. All
AD V EH t'lAEuEN Tt> D*.E Oil Fill.SI INSERTION. He»W-
■oiiabie ie*Luolion mode to yeasty advertisement*.
we
cot ton-lie!
cry ot freed.
was great, grunu auu giuijoua. i xtie possible eon-eqnaueei ot Hie am sorrv to learn that the people would sustain a imoul-iion of
the park, when the meats were be- ; locust invasion were too lightly re-1 ,,t tUe United Stale, are laboring i t'vt,jve mi|iious. I
under a mistake as 10 our
xne si a i si an hi fouum {er jmruil takes its name; I lie' |M1Jjer ot the safe arrival of my |jt. j niileH W with a-i av^ra.- bieadih
ie.tiers, shouted the buttle^ wUtile province is in terror. Old {icvi-i*nian Willie JohtHon where1 f * 1 ' i \ *
i.1<ni M .i» p .1.,%? <,» .. i i • •. . • ' .man, u niio cjumi unv wnen. 0f eiifht y miles, and possesses re-
lecuonaI inu uav io tueru men remember uobucu vWation. w;ii ilf. i.;,l(|iv rared for • but 11 •. .1 ^ 1 i
.if ,.,J ttl.tim.ma a t ' ti ii i i "io<u\ «.jicu ivii , Dm source*. which it thev were (level-
at, grand and glouous. At 1 he possible eon-equatices of the allJ sorrv Io |e..rn that tile ueoi.lel i l.i.i i...i <
iug loastedj C'apt. Geo. f. iodil,! garded. When on April 8th a
Jv<], in a very eli.cjuent speech, '.e.oud of these in>ects were observ-
.corned the multitude. luen!ed in Alsabeiojiol 110 one dreathed
came the .dinner, and it was mag-1 of the danger that was near. Tn
millions. lis eurtac
wvlfdre though for tlu most part very
here in brazil, for I sec. by the ad-: i<r!i: lv undulating and covered
wi tici mtiit, in speaking ut the; w;th dense forests, is finely divers-
came me .oinner, au« u was mag- : ct ttie danger that was near. 1 ne U11i.rali,m ot „u, M i\vt} ,eoIo. i(. „t A
niheenijy prepared and Uumgly | locusts w. re multiplied day after .... i, vi-s'in-it •• v.- <"inVv-nfh th.'' ' i
,i;.. i...f •. ...a,. .. i.. i.» ,i„, ,... i 1. .../, . - . ">• 11 l"'lt 'V' 111 l'1L through it« wl.olo le
THIS. THAT AND THE OTHER.
Atlanta has about 4o,00U inli.il.-
ii; 11 s.
T:ie iron workers of Pittsburgh
are on a sliike.
In Teniie-see there are ISO-j
school districts.
On the (ii>-', the thermometer
was 98 in N. Y.
\r!i e Pr -idi'iit Whejler's sister
died the 2Sth nit.
The Z ilus have had a terrible
j^latt ]! iwio, k Louisiana i!
I ado, was killed recently v.!
esper-
v. hiic rr-
Siibscriuors receiving their pspw wit'i an
X on the luurgin or wrsppar, will under- . . .
Murd that their time lias expired, and they resei' ees gal 'ant lv U]>, and after the yards
dof. Jj ucIh r brought the |day, have pitile.-sly destroyed vine- iju.it empiic of Brazil there was cent(.r
length
and fruit gardens. The pn^jierity and i
should come iip and pay uj>, or settle i:p. floor was well swept and seats ar- .streets and tlm coai ts have Iu.mi
^three XTk t ot' f'!MfJ f chiel! filled with them, rendeungall l«.
We hope oar friends will respond. A prin- of .the tire department, luaucanap- i-ouioti'Jii impos-ible. Peojile were
,ler iniirit eat to live, and living
iive, s'jJn paper and ink
uxpen- propriate address and introduced literally stopped on the way by
Gen. Jus. H. Rogers, who aeeoui- clouds ot ins-ets. Oi April 21st
paiucd tlie reading oi' the De^lara* i4.e slmpueepers ])ut up i heir shut-
ranje r-'ns
near the
the highest elevation naked
^ ^ leiter government ;llu) |-cekv, being eiglit thousand
to be toti.id, ' and also "lioiv delu-i (eto above the sea. It has liumcr-
'hos_-anweipati ins proved. we 0MS rivei-.s wll stocked with li-h,
and many bsatriinl and fertile val-
levs. One of its caso-.'-des is re-
bat; le
themselves.
!red visitors
ill know weli otiotigh now." B it
.1 ow me to say that if you ail
know it there you are ahead of the
in joriiy of us here, t
to learn yet. Those
i' we have it
of in who
niarkable for beauty. Its hillsides
are clothed with a variety of hard
wood trees of the evergreen spe-
A. M Norton, of Dallas, the people from k
ed of the day and its mem-! 1 1
.J:.'rijdi.-.ils t'roin tl,.; olU:« to wMob tK'.v nr- .li. j aluJ |eSSO!lS. He W.H followed
irectfd, they are hultl ru»ponsible utitii att«i have ! t
Heltlfil tJi« ir l>fll autl oriluivil ailisco'itinuiiiioc. Joy J)r. (y. Davis*, thti iultier ol
4. IfrtuUHoriberH im»ve to another place without ! ^:.r\ i # ha • i i isn i
inloriniii^ the pui<lisht r, mi l the papt:r.< arc stMii — »''J DOVS 5.111 I J'.J H'lll uOU*
iave settled down soberly to .vork ; cie;?j which tiie niore valuable
o iinpiove our plact'b uiit! io m «k( m*e tlio nm!io,ir iiiVj which rrro'vs
this lav; of xlwsiwpers.
tiu" o! 1 '"b'l'eu'ience with some , ,orj consider what was to be done. „
•'WSSte order the .n.^minuanoo of! ^ "v tlhlt 8 iou-, terror prevents h
tllieir pt-rloJicalH. the puMinher may eontJmie to marks. A. >i. iNortUU, OI iJatlaS, p0f>J)!e frOUl ul{lil1<r the itlSC'CtS, i(>
tliem until all arrearages have b.-en p.tM. • „| ,>»' »l,o «m,l i#w« mom •' i i i i • . -
1 fMub»crlb«r.« neglect or refuse Intake their i tallvUKf t!»C (U> and Its 111101- lUld pOUCO llUVC had JO 1SSUQ UU our iiomes COUlI»rtable, UOt letting there to a I'll 'C
|,,ri!er '''"1'iiring each inhabitant to-! UmiuJ „i0Une.--.s iafl icace us, have V'vx aiu| the^el-'ony.
j destroy two pounds ol locusts. K'en t U u t tins country far exceeds '
» , , : the water courses arc choked by | th;U iu most ail particulars. The1 f(,re,N »\via'i its .leen L>rcen ,,lu
father to ihe hist Luie, who ina'.e i the insects, which is a new calami-! hotter, an 1 il is a bctler | ' ^
the lignum
The "palm, queen of the Cuban
•I-> the toriuur directory, thrynte h«-!r ifunon-iblv.
5. Tlu toutls have tic :itKv.l that refu^iiiy-to t.ikc
)iiuioii«'als from the oilier, or moving *«ti 1 lfavi;;y
them iincalh'd lor, in prima facie evident*? of iiau«l.
«>. Ai»j*person who receives a ne v»i»aper and
m-.k' s u*«* of it, whether ho ordered i: or uot in
lield in law it j b.* a hujst-i iber.
Thk Daily Tntkllhiknc. u contains much val- j , , ... i
tuahle Information ax to United Htateri btiMineHs aiul ; CaU>e ail C'lontlCIlt SpeCCIl iroill \V . :
HtoiiJd be tak<-n by nil business men, who wisn to 1 i r n t/ i* * f t 1 i , i l
be informed jh -'o internal ltevi'iiue and po»5ta! af i *!• I 1 ' '1 > ' Al irsual I, ail'.l 11C j
fa*,,I ^-ass'ollowed t.y !).•. A G. Clopton,;
a good iniprcssiou ol Sulphur ty for the papulation, which thus!
Springs ami tried to make the peo- 1
pie believe that hi- burg was la-jjer
than Dallas or Jefferson, 'linn
t'
finds itself deprived
water.
uia^e ; Ihe giant leaved and prolif-
'i'!«o Willow l<oi>K!tis
"It is better to be born I
V1- , ''I'!" watered c ntatry. lae seasons for j i(« fianana and planlhin, re.sem'oline
ot •ruiKuDle fanning are better. The land i-s; tall Indian corn; the cocoa, with
mited lor a greater variety of pio- I weepinr foliage; and ihe "prinii
'VmiI ^-ivo have found that a j (,range," are abundant. Two lain-:
lied sarts of birds arc native to
d ot
man can make a living here with
less labor than he can in that coon-
fairs, a.t a'so as to dee'siout1 be .rli>tf upon ^uestioiM via^oMowed l)v !)• \ (r Clontnn ^ ,s oetter to he born riotfv i 1 .l ^l#uu
every dav arising. Jn it will be found from lime j ' ' - , I' J . »lllin lho nrovPi'l) • and irV* i 00 »;'() Vernnl-Ut is al.MI bet-
to t.me proposals for Kovernmtut supplies f »r of JetterSOH, who IS jllStlv regarded inan l» '0, iuc prOVCl li saya , Alio . fcj .
^ar-i^lasthe most gifted speaker in the 11 believe it, says the Nev Yorl,, »»'«• >»»»« T^nZ
!bS,ui^:.™i«riv"d u lu "uir i"l"r-Bis luk' i medical profession in the S'a'c. 1 correspondent of ttie li isloii Oa-, ltrc» "I)el ',J ,s ran^e
the^per i^ularly.
J'ernoiH desitin^ in bo informed to the West- |
t-rn States and Territus'iuH will litid in oiif columns
during the year iufoi'iuaUon rot t«>
edicul ]ir
Then the crowd
of strangers -'!,!te.
You may be born rich and i to :l '"•'J'"'1)' <>' We hardly
bo met witii in ! poured out thousands of dt>llar.-i i *1'° poor, Unt if you are lucky you j e>r(-1
any other p;iper— and all for siv\ bvLi.AUH l'£i< f iU i ... . i |\,....
ykar. It is the cheapest «Udly in the hjtat.e an-i
: those wanting us^.'fttl infonnatiun together with tie
.furrent news of tne de.y are uiwled to pay for .he
1 ntli.Mtii.ncku.
llovV it was O^vrvt'ii in 'i'exa«i.
into the laps of Dave Turk, J0I. I will never want. A case in point is
liouginotti and oilier Jeifersonian ! ^'^rs ^I:l:k Hopkin-, ttie widow of
businessmen. 1 the Calil'ornii millionaire. She wa-
, , • I, j a school-teacher in this city, and no
. . At m dit the park was in a blaze . . . i n .
m FdliETS OF JULY, M f «f'■■ ;'rr ffi» >Z££?-J?Z tS
handsomely lighted by gas was , ! '1 , ,
— i i / j.. boarding-house, wooe 1 and won,
tnronged with the beauty and cuiv-i, ,„t ... ,. sugar is mntlti
!airy of the eitv and surrounding !''el' ,'iu*v, ''iu' ,
.Jefferson Glorious With 10,001 Shout- • country. All enjoyed then.selves 1 ? lc .at °l)lei a)'IN 0 'f ^e1" a°l'
J ■' J ! Iil flwi ililnln i.F 1 I I He |ji ty now.
iag Pdtricis.
The? Actci, Y:-bJ :.hi Cavortti.l
I hugely.
(I iceii 1-]
. . .. i . i i by the name of Ti
At tne opera house, the J
m'mi.wr
UL", n £
Accepting of an invitation from
the lii'enien and citizens to their
v ,-11 i and a very amiao e, unspoiled lei--
h"r p> rfonuiince filled1 , , 1 . . ' . ,
1 - - low, not particularly bright, ani!
not at all dull. 11i-> a looted moth-
er is perfectly devoted to him, iftid
with delight a vast crowd of stran-
gers nnd citizens, all of whom were
entliu-aastie over the able rendition
tax cor.t.Kcron,
in fact there lias been but one at
my door since i have been in Bra-
zil, an'' that only since I began Io
make sugar. There is a tax of §5
a year on every su^ar mill where
[or sale. Land here
is not taxed. I don't wish to be
understood that we are not taxed
nere, but tnat the taxes are levied
d.fferentlv : tr;,fV'! here is taxed.
I moth- ^ 0 think that il we had our Am- |
the island.
Marble of fine quality is found
in the mountains, and there are
valual 1 • mines of copper. Coffee j
lias I ecu cultivated on the hill
slopes with success, and its pro-
duction could lie largely extended
The Cuban tobacco lias peculiar
value and is sought for the world
over, the Americans alone being
purcha c s of over two million dol -
lars worth of cigars from there ev-
ery year. Cuba's principal crop,
however, is sugar, which amounts
in value to over one hundred mil-
lion dollars a voir. H*r advan-
tage over Louisiana, for examo! .
is that in Cuba there is a spice of
our or I've month', when ail the ,
' of the amateur performers. The
i crowded houses on the nights of
.celebration, in company with Ja». | the 3rd and Ith evidenced high ap-
lieiitley we left on the express | prcciation.
train, onthe 2nd, for the city of the j' Among the interesting features
Jakes. When the morning of I of the occasion we must notice the
3rd < la Wiled upon us we found quue | success ot Gen. Oilman and the cl is-
•a ntimfeer ol rangers wiihin , play of fireworks, the balloon as-
gates, and e\en tram arriving aug- ccn^ions, and the artistic and clabo-
mented the crouo, until on the 4 n j ra!0 decoration of the Excelsior Ho-
ihc'ciiy was ftill oi life and eutliu- J (d) Wl.j| kept J,y Mis. Wood. It i
biasni. . , was to in a delightful re-union with
Ihe oldest inhabitants were re-;oliro]tl fl.ien,|s Gen> i{oserfl) Col.
minded of Ihe booming times when; Wok,hi Co| Keene, Dodsou, of
Jefferson ranked as the most prom-j Sulphur Springs, W. M. Harrison,
Ming city in the State, and when ; > Ward Taylor and others. To
majestic piles ot brick and inoriar these gentlemen, and to Gen. Mol-
erica'i people here in this country, meehanieal work must be done, be
indulges him in all his desires. She w'Ui perhaps a lit■ It- improvement tween the time when enough
is anxious for iiiin to love liter dure, <>" ti;e goycriiinenr, it would be the jH ,-ijU. to justify starting tiic
j.-t dcsirao.'* cou itry to live lu . am| the time when
and is building up a magnificent
library 'or him. During her last
visit to New York she bought il'M
that we know of.
Now that vou mav see that what
ihe
cane
nill-s
cant
There are one liumire
at Ilot Springs.
Senator Matt Carpenter is said
io be smoking himself to death.
In fast Tennessee the wheat crop
is very huge.
G >v. Holliday, of Yir t ii:', has
recovered from a severe illness.
A iiine ro it 102 leet I >ng is one
of ihe wonders of Georgia,
It cists oaed illar to g,-t a shpve
i:i L-adville, Colorado,
Eight humlred tourists per week
leave New Yoik for Europe.
It is .-aid the Americans now de-
vour more frogs than the French.
Wiscon-in wives hold themselves
in readiness to crush a trampV
skull the lirst blow.
A monument to Abraham Lin-
coln will be erected in A'lcghanv
park, Pittsburgh.
A. W. Longfellow, nephew of
the poei, is studying architeotu:v
in I'uris.
Among the 45,000 citizens of
Memphis, twenty-four policemen
preserve order.
A special tax lias been levied on
vehicles kept for private use, in
Moo! le.
Ii is stated that dollars e >iaed
in II o inas.-illo and Almas, M ;xieo
are of light weight.
Fifty-six thousand quarts of
strawberries have been shipped
Irom Goidtboro, N, tliis
sea on.
A Maine lady has in her pos < s-
len hair whieh
si ting arr. s',
Ii is said I hat the women in Sibe-
i: i compii.se only l-s or20 percent
of the populutiou.
O'Leaiy took tlif leai?, and the
i a-h in the walking content with
Cro.-.sland, at Chicago, last week.
Mrs. Louis Agas-iz and Miss
Aliee M. Longfellow arc among
ihe ladies who have been most ac-
tively interested in the movement
to obtain the admission of women
to Harvard College.
' Oh," said the afflicted wife,
weeping over his remains, "he
-aid lie wcuo! take off his flannels
anyway, and, .poor man, he little
thought bow soon would he go to
that place where flannels arc never
needed."
Oi l Laredo, the county seat of
Webb county, was foiin led in 17(37
bv fourtei
u Spanish families,
-ion a Iock (
f
once waved on the head ot Wii-
1 begins tospail; whereas, in Loui i j;.,ln iVnn a wife.
wottli of rare bo dtsofone Importer. ^ ,sa.v's n"' foundation, I
She buys knowingly, t o. The I wnl :■^tate a few facts — which per-
louse she has just completed in San
Fianeiseo cost §2,000,000, and
Herter fitted up two floors at a cost
of §200,000. "My room is nvgnifi
cent,"said Tim. "1 jus^ gavelLr-
ter carte blanche, ami suits of arm-
or are hung on the walls, and he
has made it look like a castle-" Mrs.
Hopkins travels en princesso in her
own drawing-room car, witii her
French cook and iilvcr table serv-
tiaps will be disputed by many
that have gone liack to our native
land, but 1 can prove them, if nec-
c-:i_ry, by the signatures of eveiy
HONEST AMEUICAN
resident here, whieh will doubtless
put the thing beyond dispute.
First my own experience with su-
is, that on four acres of
ana this pi riod is only about two
months. Though sum? of Cuba's \
coa=: lands are .-abject to < v rfluw,'
she is uncommonly well supplied l
with fine harbors.
Of iier cities, Havana, the capit-
al, has a population of 2.">o,O00,
Santiago do Cuba 40,000, Mantan-
! v
went up in a day and King Cotton's ^ Hitrhcox, Hobart, Iloy and | fep Her
• bed
account thuslv : "There is life in ■ L" Vul/.1^::^™_ r.".:'III naiMsorocly furnished parlor and
• r • Ji lilt' 11lu a j iiuutii i j j * ■ j cinti
presence crazed a I ran tic populace, others, we are under obligation for
1 lie Daily Jimplecutc heads its: COurtesv extended, and our r.raver
•ouut Ihusly : "1 here is life in ;a ,i,.lt* ,k„;„ ti.„,i
fitt'j mnw imenr ! . .
double bed in if
[ gar cane is, that on fou
; land 1 planted, 1 niads nine tlious-
, , . . 1 and, six hundred pounds of su^ar,
ei-roo.ii iu-a t?c j wj,ich brought tne $<500, besides
there is a; , , , • , „
I ihe nvd is-esdi lppeil from tne sugar
:n
an<
zas 37,000. Toe sumptuous marbie
mansions of its capital, with their
lofiy porticoes and long colonades,
indicate something of its tropic:I
wealth and luxury. Its cafes and
restaurants are said to be little in-
ferior to those of Paris.
... , - .... . , ,. , , is that their shadows may never |.;„,i,,)tl i,\yi.,„, ei.p U.,MW
the old laud jcc. Ihe Itn of July, mrv i., .... .i. : | . . . . , >
1X70 '.1 Tcliersfui ' Tiio (!.•„ ,1. :g T ss ",)l }lle 1 expire any where, the car is switched off,
' Jinerson . inc hrt cle while the 1<ourth of July is held in o :. i „i,.asnie on a side
par incut makes good all it prom gratcfl,| remembrance in the coun- - - l,kdM,,e on i"ll.u
isetl. 10,000 people enjoy them- ■ ,ry 0j ,J, fioirson and Marion—in our
and I sold it per cent, cheaper
■ i.
DOi,rS-ll|lil'Dph>l>l».
The practice obtains in
m^
ll\°l>1" i try of Jefiersou and
an old-UHinoncd style! wf.oIe count ly, one c
• !.-
selves
Twen'y-three counties in Texas
it' y, one aiul^ indivisible, i w j t ^ J,, a L t oc k of the Windsor Ho-1
and three States represented 1 Mu- i ^ 0 returnetl on the oth to l^allas, te|^ I would not pretend to say
aim ti.icl ^.u,its represented . Mil feeling that it was good for us to i.„,in;,.,,u ,i.„ ,.,:, 1 u..,,
sic. daneino and fireworks! IVi i .1 1 ...1 ho .v 111 my millions the widow Hop
j t rac
i New York it w:n
1 At
up to
sic, dancing and fireworks! -t '*e j have been there, and only ret ret-
I'1 I .• . ! . 1 I . .1 .
111 the avenge price of other: . - . . ,. . r, . ,
, T 1 11 1 places anil especially 1:1 uuveston,
years ; and I have sold corn and 1.. . ,. . , , ,, '
. . . of iminediatelv killing a dog that
, - . 1 . rice, alio other provi»ions, every . . • " ,. ° .
1 he last 11 mo she was in . til < • bites any person, Ihe lir»t ini-
vear since I have been farming. . / ,, , , , u , . ,,
\ , r ,i >r pulse ol a dog attacked bv "rabies
And one of my neighbors, Mr. 1 , 0 ' ,
„ ,, • , 0 'r. is to bite at everything, even be-
Cretr r-irwiuon. from nonih (. aro- , , - , ,
,. . 1 ore any oilier marked symptom
bna, in I81O, gathered 011 littv acres , r 1
. , , , I, , • ., ol ihe disease aie apparent. I11
of laud seventy-two bale3 ol cotton,!. . , , 1 r
.... 1.itrimiiiAii- „„.i D i V— r v kins is worm, out you may imagine . , , ,. the later stages ol tne attack tne
vintner propitious and nappy! •. ...r , iat Wl, ..„ t|> . me to > j . j » weighing 4a0 pounds each, and 111 . , , " , . .
Ti... l..rliiu I„.o.oW'..i ....,i . from her manner of living that it i - 0-ro 1 . ... .1. 1 1 »_ dog sleeps, from sheer exhaustion,
ihe ladies ^\crc otautitui ami, cnaru ijj witness the contiiiuance on • n » • 1 18(2 made ®e\cntv-three bales on . » i <• .« .
Bv»riiii.ib «>« smHmir I f . . , isaBoodly sum. And 11 in, has. . i i„„ i ,„ii Arou-cd from one of these sleep-
tven tieiij was . miiin , contented tlie niifht of the otn. as our eood 1 . irf j . o * the same amount of land, and he , . , , , .
•»wl im.o.v Ti... fi .v .,..i, .i /. vbl ' . •». . he uot been fortunate ? A poor ,, he is rccklcss, olteii crazy, and
and nappy. 1 lie day was tislu.it.i friend ,1 15 did who reuiciined in > > ■ i . i .t i * * i i sells on en aterage one fat hog oci'i j , ,- , . . i
In bv no. <irii.fr «f fin,.n„ nn.l bov, picked to be the heir to such , , • most dangitoiu. Ilvdrophobia is
in ny tue nrn.g ot cannon, ami a» ehurire of the ca ant Iiiucher faith- , . c; i • .1 .-. • week, and on seeing that sti- ,• i . /.
trains, special and regular, arrived, fully Lniardtiiu our crip-sack ia the ? .n°," , I sa.v aSa"1 lh.at 'Jls, gar-cane was more profitable than ' c""',.ue!1 10 "°.sta'i'n- Oecasioi:-
the firemen and visitors from Mir- bruLs of Cypress Lake. * b?.r" 1 ™tto«, he quit .he latter and last a!1>' 11 worst w,n er tban sm"-
shall, Shreveport, Sulphur Springs | neith«r Mrn. Hopk:ins n<orlimw-re j ypar realized his first crop of cane. nu''.', lu u".v case w here a per.-on
and other places were met at ihe Requested toUexlgt). Iktu rich, but tee what luck has | yj,.|h fiv{j s]avp|( h(} mnt|e thirty !s 1,"te" b>' a <lofe'' ug 1 a!V
depot by the Marion Cornet Band done tor them! ' pl>s of run, worth $50 a pipe, in,ul , "'Y, u® ^remly weli,
and Joe Gilman's Battery and es-, At a mass mteting at Houston i net red which is also cheaper than the com- "e "hould not be killed, but sc-1
with light and air, for at least uiue
corted to their respective quarters.! on the night of the 20th iust, the 1«« yemoerais wno cngmetreti . j t},,."0(. thoti-anr) bush- ctir;M,> ,lu<i UI» ,or homed alone
The city was literally alive with following resolutions were adopt-!^e /Mississippi plan .of carrying, l ^ vear u with light and air, lor at least nine
national llags and no one collided: I , 101,4baV,ng (lUarreled'1 worth 81 a'bushel. ' j days, during which time he should
iinjicyinp thci-ii wfi« nnv ilul.u-ii!h^ Wlmrona ti,.,. Priori. !\<ia v!_ fhe tiuc inwardness ol tue matter
The above is not
be k-d and well supplied with wa-
average . . Ksnpciallv should this i>re
imagine there was any disloyalty1 Whereas, Gov. Roberts has vi-. ,. , r .
there. The welkin rang again and olated the high trusts that have i con)?s to g iS0"'.?°c_0[ _e,
again with shouts of patriotism been
such as East Texas has not wit- ot'.
liessed for niueleen long years. At the
the appointed time the order to therefore, | ^ Dt 0 ' atifl ■ < 18?5 ,Ie As cane is heller than cotton, so is .j.: do^ exhibits no" si-mV of the
fa" n, was given, and the crowd Be il.resolved, that we, as cit-1 to™\% '.he baliot-boxe' eoffee far . .cad of cane. In fact Malady ornn deadas hewll
marched to the barbecue ground, izens of Harris county, in mass . V. , "0"! fi . mauny or is not otau, as ne w.u
Ttie procession form d in the meeting assembled, express our "f*1 but he indignantly denies ' ^ • .i' , g ^e if man at the beginning, the
following order : Marion Cornet utter contempt for hu action in ' ^ving appropriated the money ; »«^ CD'; ll,t1u'n' may rwit ■seurBj
Bund; Slireveport Fire Depart- using the executive power to shield t®1,n<l' 00 ,l ,e «orp-e of Patterson, «end into, ar.d always i^ agsm.-t evil consequences from the
mc-nt, S. C. Crain Assistant Chief; I murderers and assassins Irom the ; 'he . I^pubhcan member of the I con "I enumerate more facts, wound, 1 nere are instances where
Caddo Fire Companv ; Pelican just punishment they so richly ^la.uro, ufter t. -v had killed but suffice it to say that all of ,n ,he ui.ea-e was developed year- al-
/• Phii'nir p ■ j — him, and alleges tluu it was turned maiie en utgh for our use and to ler the bite, If the dog is instant-
Jiro Company; Ph<nnir Salvage d e serve.
mandcr Fire Company ; Stonewall hood left in him that he resign Somebody send Jefferson Davis 'r.V to answer an . - l un iriitn- lice look into this mittcr. It is
Fire Company ; Texas & Pacific Resolved, further, that a copy alii bit. In his s|>eech before lhe'"!'y au<l without , \tsrgeiation. well worthy consideration.
Fire Company} Jefferson Fire of tlieto re-oiutions be furnisiied Editors' Convention he says: I do not write tl.c above to try ~ " *■ • —
Department; Atlanta Cornet Band, the Telegram, Age and Galveston "That dark hour, thank God, ha- to induce a -y one to come here. i ie l iiiia.ieipun t ress makes
G. Mallov, chief, W. B. Chew, News; that the previ of ihe state passed away. Mi-issippians once hut to let you kno-;
istant, J. C. NValiler, 2ud a-'t ; at large be requested to copy the n,l,re g°vcrn Mississippi, and, well enough here ; ;
cballies Fire Company, W. Ja- same, and that a copy be hwarded through weeds, sackcloth and ashes, is that all those who
Mi—is-ippiaii3 once but to let vou know wi are doing '^'s pertinent inquiry : It thcOk-
------ • - and mv advice olona (.Mirf.) Sta>e» mnrepreseni.
HSMslani| «»• «» «uivi| muh u'^t * i4ic« ot ae\iuw?teu in uupv KIC g' * — — —n*'» -""*■> — — — -» - — » . —— | . . | .i |
Mcclianicd Fire Company, W. Ja- same, and that a copy be bwarded through weeds, sackcloth and ashes, is that all those who are doing the the opinion oI the southern people,
kob, foreman ; Defiance Fire Com- to Gov. Roberts. ' exclaim in I he language of Job. 'I same to stay at home and let well why is it that the associate editor
pany, U. P. Levy, foreman; Gun believe my avenger liveth."' Jeff— enough alone, Eugene Billington of I'.at pajwr was (k-.ected lo deliver
Fire Company, J. R. Adams, fore- Blind Tom is traveling in Mis- son may have an avenger, but Job Smith, formerly of Navarro coun- t.io address before the Mississippi
ui-ju. «outi just now, ^did uot speak of his, ty, Texa-, ^ Press Aswcialion.
In sou!hern Florida codec grow-
ing has proved siueosslul witii a
few pi inters, and its ctilliva.ion
there promises to be extended.
II mi. Elw.ird.s Pierrepont sail-
ed Irom N w York on Ihe 28th nit.
for Europe where he and his fam-
ily will spea I the season.
A man at Sd.-iii, M ch., bad the
suit of clotlvs he wore io the cen-
tennial at Philadelphia sealed up
in a I in box, and depe-itcd in ail
historical building, to be opened in
1970.
A bequest of $10,000 to the
Harvard medical school lias been
declined by the university ovei-
,seers, because a condition was that
the school should be open to wo-
men.
At Philadelphia recently, El-
ward Parr was sentenced to death
for the murder of his daughter.
After the sentence had been passed
oil hiui, and he was leaving the
dock, lie 'voted and fell to the
floor. It was then discovered that
lie had taken a dose of strychnine.
His recovery is doubtful.
Nearly half a ct nfury ago a Cin-
cinnati artist painted a portrait ot
President Harrison, then popular
as '•Tippecanoe," but f.nliiig to
find a purchaser willing to pay the
pri-.e asked, he revcised tin canvas
and made a picture on the other
side. "Tippecanoe's" face was
turned to the wail and hung there
until a few weeks ago, when it was
taken down that a copy tor the
Corcoran Art Cillery at Washing-
ton might be made.
Il is said that a candidate for
sehoolm i-ter in Germany must
have a thomutrh pn -ti.-il know
edge of bee-keeping before he cao
piss a saeec-sful examination. lVr-
sons, paid I y tiovei ntnt nt, travel
tin oil. Ii t' c i lira I di-uicts to tive
iii-truetiou on the same subject,
and village bee-club- aie common,
money fur prizes and espouses be-
ing supplied in part out of the Na-
tional Tiea-urv.
"There are not less," t-ai.l Col.
Elliott in his speecli at Austin,
■'than 101,000 tools in Texas be-
i we« n the agt- of six an I eighteen
vears, who can neither read noi
write." It must be borue in mind
that one half of those arc white.
This is an overwhelming argument
in favor of Tree coaini m school'.
Ld lliorc be no steps backward.
If tli ? «yden is defenive, a meld
it.
whose dwellings eon.-is'ed of mud
and sticks, it lo.s now a popnla-
tion of o,000, an:! is a prospective
railroad terminus.
There is a man in England who
calls iiin self Elijah il.e preplict.
He travel.-; about in a suit oi '. lollies
made of sheep.kin, wit'i n i, it ol
the same material, and addresses
large crowds oi people. He claims
to receive revelations, and says
the Engli.li people arc the ten !osf
tribes of Israel.
" How long v ill it fake before
yon can get this work done?" said
a lady to an eppientice who was
painting her hoti-e. "Well, 1
don't know, ma'am," said he ; "the
boss has gone to look for another
job. It he gets ii, I 'll !»•• done to-
morrow ; but il lie don't I'm afiaiil
it'll take me all next week."
A Boiton emigration company,
headed by a number of leading cit-
izens, Inn purchased (5 ),()'.) .1 acres
of land ii Tennessee, on the ' in-
ciunati Southern Riilroad, 40 miles
Irom the Kentucky line, and will
lay out a city and populate it and
surroundings with .Hi sachusitu
colonization.
An old laniici in E ig'attd, hure-
ly je.izzb.-d by our ni' teoiological
reports and trailsatlaut i<: prophecies
concerning the weather, is said to
have delivered himself of tiic f'ol-
lowiug astounding sentiment:
"Weil, sir, I di i not mind the
weathrr so much when it was ar-
ranged ando;d .'e l by Providence ;
but now that it lies oee.i l anded
over to them into:feting Yanke--,
why, be hanged it i can stand i"
The land i'a Ire'ami i- cul ivated
by 000,(KO tenants, who oet upy
an avi'iagc ol :'2 acre; c^cii. There
are lii.'U ) landior Is, ol whom 1 ,-
fl-12 own two-thirds of the whole
country. Mr. Gladstone says tlia1
the (pn>sti >n of cotivcriing the dis-
affected 1 ri n tcttati'. into an o.vner
rises into the higher region of pol-
itics and of'uioral and social order,
and goes to the root of how to ban-
ish Irish discontent.
Governir Drew, of Florida, a
New Hampshire man, owns 60,000
acres of land, lie employs io cut -
ting and sawing logs 400 men. wh^
live ill neat cottages built by
himself, for which be charges no
rent. He is lvnv ejjstrmtiiig a
trumwiv tight miUs long ii.io i!:J
fore-t I
li _s to
ptlrpX: :
ii. His
ol h m'iiig
shipped to New ^ ork City.
E-trays .-hall be sold on the first
Monday in each month, between
the hours jif one an 1 two o'clock.
The person e-traving stoeic shall
not be pcrmitte I, either directly
or indirect'v. to bid for such stock.
This law n fre jue.it ly violated ant.
ihe parties are liable to get into
trouble.
Lunar ought to be ashamed of
his old plantation throat ah nit be-
ing ready to afford satisla' iion to a
I gentleman, or wards to lii iteileel
liuliies and bluckgu uds threaten
and-wagger. Bravt- men stiik"*
when they are s ruck, and object to
being called e.-waids and liars
without leseniing it with a blow-.
An exchange warns farmers
against swind.i-rs this wi-e : Wiieu
a strange mull call- ;.| .r f.irul-
hou-e and gits his dinner, pins f..r
it and wants y u to si-^n a receipt
—just Io show Id* « ni| loycis tuny
ihe ni"iu v wet t — don't yon do ii.
If you do in ii'ioiit a month you
will have a note lor about i.i t hun-
dred doilar« poked at you for pa\-
luent, with yclir signature to it,
- — --
I5.ul tt Mllli'r for I lot ms.
David Oavi< should pie'. |ii« li|.
th Loom iuict. It nitwit othrmi.-u
*|-oi!(d irjoit ihB warm wallirr.
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