The Sunday Gazetteer. (Denison, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 30, Ed. 1 Sunday, November 18, 1883 Page: 2 of 4
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so to apeak, through the «•
of her peculiar power. This
enters the trance state as
readily as eating her meals, and
in this condition seems to
grasp every subject with ianiliarity,
although she is without much educe*
tion. Her case is a peculiar one,
and is interesting lor any one who
a study. Her
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ly. It was
men to boas
mon* have been making many con-
verts, and there are nearly 1,000 of
tba proselytes ready to start for Utah
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Two of the New York street car
to heat their cars this winter. After
several experiments it has been de-
cided that a small stove in a corner
of the car is the handiest and beat.
The New York Evening Post edi-
* “ . Schwgt |binks tht| M|h#
In Ohio are likely to
be just as troublesome next year as
they were this ycAr.”_
The height of 410 feet is expected
to be reached in the Washington
monument during the present month.
The work will then be suspended
until next yesr.
The London police prevented a
socialist procession with a black
flag inscribed “starvation^ L.
ng Guildhgji^-tfuring the
Mayor's banquet on last Mon-
*^Pfie relations between Mahone
’and Senator*elect Riddleberger are
said to be anything but cordial.
Tba senior Senator from Virginia
has arrogated to himself all the pat-
ronage of the state, and left Riddte-
berger out in the cold.
“Are angels ever sleepy?" is a
question which an English Psychol-
ogical Society is trying to solve. We
hgrdly know whether our angel is
ever sleepy or not. We've never
husband is in vary moderate circum- and that the
the
» chip, on tba plinth of
which
caused
some commotion among Egyptolo-
gists in this city last week. It was
feared that unless the great column
was boarded over or painted with
cement, as is its London companion
every winter, the defacement of the
inscriptions would soon be an assur-
ed fact. But Lieutenant Gorringe
cams to the rescue with a statement
that the obelisk would lad ten thous-
and yean In this climate without
chipping, and Profeseon Barnard
and Merriam, of Columbia College,
went further, and stated that, at the
present rate of peeling of* the shell,
would require fitty-eight thousand
and six hundred years to destroy it.
tion of $530^00,000,
out as the wealthiest 1
In 1879 Kentucky wi
of a century
stayed late enough
Lowell Citizen,
if
to find out.-
A meeting of the veterans of the
Mexican war is announced to take
place in Washington, December 6th,
7th and 8th, oi the present year. Its
object is to press ib'e passage of the
Nil now pending in Congress to
grant a pension to all honorably dis-
charged veterans of the Mexican
war. __________________
An order to vaccinate ali the pu<
pits of the public schools in France
has revived opposition to that mode
of preventing smallpox. Compulso-
ry vaccination has met with intelli-
gent opposition in Great Britain for
a number of years, backed by an
array of statistics staggering if not
convincing._
Mr. Carl Rosser, in bis annnal re-
port to the Postmaster-General of
the operations of the topographer’s
office, states that a great saving has
been tfleeted by introdecing photo-
graphy, chromotype and other la-
bor-saving proctsses in the manu-
facture of maps. The office is now
fitushtng vvoy two months complete
sets of post-route maps with the
chaoses made to date of issue. A
distance table,
issue of 1873, *nt* *
ot the United States fire
now in pteparation.
The American Register speaks
the truth when it says Postmaster-
General Gresham has made a good
move in cutting off the opportuni-
ties for postoffice inspectors to dou-
ble their salaries at the expense of
the government. For years these
inspectors have been drswing large
salaries for doing very little work,
and as it wa* found that some of
them were deceiving the Depart-
ment by charging for traveling ex-
penses when they were at home do-
ing nothing, the postmaster-general
put a atop to it.
Capt. Mayne Reid, who died re-
cently in London, made a world-
wide reputation as a story writer, of
Utcrary qualities, and a careful ob-
server, who treasured up what be
saw lor further use, much of which
^embodied in his writings. He wUl
over have a bright name in Aroeri-
«“ hiMorjr of
Fort Worth Gazette.
With an assessed property valua-
of $530*000,000, Texas stands
southern Mate.
Iras the wealthi-
est, Virginia being second in order,
and Texas third. That was. but
four years ago, and mark the change
In that time Texas has added
more to her taxable wealth by $33,-
500,000 than the whole state of
North Carolina is worth. The in-
crease in that time would buy the
state of North Carolina and leave a
Sus of over $100^00^00. As
ared to herself she has gained
79.70 per cent. And yet we keep
on doling it, and are cot content to
stay, i •
Less than a scon of yeans ago
Gen. Frans Sigel’t name was a
“household word” in this country,
especially is the West, where volun-
teering for the army was commonly
spoken ot aa going to ‘‘fight mil
Slgel.” But the only time we have
heard or seen hit name mentioned
lately, was in a newspaper para-
graph to the effect that he It now
editing an almost unheard of news-
paper in Harlem. Yet Sigel was
an able, brave and faithful general,
if not n great one. Fame seems to
be aa fickle as fortune.—Washington
World. f
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A week or two back the Gazet-
tker published an account to the
effect that a Miss Lena Richman, of
Blade River Falla, Wisconsin, bad
suddenly come to life alter having
been dead as it was supposed, three
days. She had been placed in her
ceffla, so the story went, and a cler-
gyman was pronouncing the funeral
Mrvicg^jgjjftn^doctor present, die-
signs ot life, and succeeded
in resuscitating her. Date, names
and all the particulars were giyen in
a manner to convince the reader of
the truthfulness of the narrative, but
the postmaster st Black River Falls
now writes to the Washington
World that nothing of the kind has
happened there, and not one of the
parties mentioned was ever heard of
in that vicinity. The story first ap-
peared in Frank Leslie’s Illustrated
Newspaper.' This circumstance
shows that highly senaational para-
graphs in the newspapers must be
taken wild many grains of allow-
ance. Not a few of these “inci-
dents” are manufactured in the fer-
tile brains of the repotters. The
most prolific field to this class of
writers just now is “prayer cures.1
If such stories are not manufactured
out of whole cloth they are usually
colored up so as to bring the marve-
lous prominently to the front, after
the style employed by enthusiastic
spiritualists in describing the phe-
nomena occurring at their sceances.
There was one (hot brought but at
the Woman’s Congress in Chicago
last month, to which due attention
has nut yet been paid. Mrs. W..1-
oott gave a delightful talk about what
had been done by women at the Me-
chanics’ Institute Fair in Boston
what an interesting exhibit was made
by the WHUmantic Thread Manufac-
tory, owed and managed by two wo-
men—how the engine was ’tended
by * girl of twenty—Ac., Ac.—and
then she aajd there was one startling
tact which strict justice compelled
her to Mate. Among the articles
•ant for exhibition was a patch-work
quilt that was far beyond anything
ever seen in that line; and this mar-
vel of neatness and symmetry was
msde by a man.—Washington
World.
The Mexican government baa de-
cidedly refused the demanda of the
English bond holders, to issue $ao,*
000,000 on the three per cent, bonds
in addition to the recognised debt of
$80,000,000. This decision ends
the negotiations. The Mexican rep-
resentative in London has been re-
called by the Mexican government
which desires a settlement, but con-
siders the bond holder’s demanda
excessive.
would scarcely be perceived by ob-
servers. These calculations of the
possible fate oi the stone brings up
mention of the unearthing of pre-
historic Egyptian mysteries by M.
Maepero during the last summer.
His excavations may throw some
light on the obelisks of Rome, Paris,
London and New York, and those
still remaining in Lower Egypt. At
preaent ali la conjecture as to their
origin, and it it doubtful whether the
inscriptiona have been properly de-
ciphered. Maepero may throw light
upon the building and purpose of
the pyramids, and certainly upon the
ancient religion of the Egyptians.
One error bis discoveries have al-
ready dissipated. It has been con-
tended that the Egyptians had no
Idea ot the arch used la modern
architecture. It is demonstrated
that the arch was known and used
by them, and that we are but copy-
ists. Maspero has cleared the once
vast and magnificent temple of Lux-
or of twenty-seven of the forty-five
houses and a mosque which covered
its court. A large section of the
temple is uncovered, and the re-
mainder soon will be. The door-
posts of the -Temple of Horns at
Carnac have been unearthed, and
Maspero discovered that the temple
had been constructed of one more
ancient, and ascribed to Amenoptis
IV. A list of northern nations con-
quered by Armais is chiseled on the
atone posts. Anxious to discover
the graves of the old kingdom, ex-
cavations are being made on the left
bank of the Nile at Detr-el-Bahari.
Already those of two notables have
been found, the tomb of Horopin
and Queen Tmon, and forwarded to
the museum at Bulak. Incriptions
ot two hundred lines were found on
the tombs. Vaulted or arched
tombs of brick seem to be common.
These excavations are in their in-
fancy, but did fair to make the world
pause white they reveal the splended
past of the oldest land in the world.
—New York Mercury.
Greenville is to have another
The Oil Stone.
A singular accident occurred at
Cleveland last Monday night during
a severe wind storm. Watchman
Lamb, at the woolen mills on Wil-
son avenue, while examining the
upper doors and windows, was
blown outside the stairway and
hurled across the narrow street to
the ground thirty feet below. His
back was broken, causing his daath.
The liabilities of Eiser A Co., of
Milwaukee, when failure was recent-
ly announced, wjO-'placed at $148,-
000, and the assets at $60,000; in
merchandise, $19,000; in notes that
are good, $5*000. Eiaer, who dia-
tbe failure,
Twenty years ago the oil stone
was found only on the joiner’s bench
and possibly on that of the machin-
ist, and its- sole use was for the
sharpening of the edges ot tools.
To-day its use has extended beyond
this province ot edging tools to that
of grinding, reducing, finishing; in
fact, invading the limits of the
grindstone, emery, rotten-stone, trip-
oli, and reaching almost to rouge.
This stone, which is a slate, known
in science as novaculite—from nova-
cula, a razor—is cut and dressed in
hundreds of varying forms for dif-
ferent purposes. In any hardware
or mechanic furnishing store it may
be found in all manner of shapes
under the name of “slips,” adapted
for sharpening tools of all kinds.
In dentists’ supply stores it may be
seen in twenty or more cylindrical
and circular forms, ar.d so minute
as to be' used at a rapid rate of revo-
lution even between the teeth of
dental-suffering humanity. Some
of these cylinder, ovoids, cones, and
edged wheels are so minute that a
pea looks large by their side, yet
they are allJ veritable grindstones.
This material is not strictly an oil
stone; it can be used with any vehi-
cle, water, benzine or keroaene'Oii;
it is amenable to all of these. Per-
haps its best use is with water, es-
pecially when the stone is of the
harder sorts, as the Ouachita.—Sci-
entific American.
The Supreme court of Pennsylva-
nia has affirmed the judgment of the
lower court in the suit of Gardner
vs the Pullman Car Company. The
case has attracted _widespread at-
tention. Gardner received a verdict
ot $300, he having been robbed of
valuables while sleeping in one of
the Pullman cars. The Supreme
court opinion held that the company
while not liable in action as an inn
keeper or common carrier, yet in
a reasonable and proper degree care
is imposed on them, aa the main ob-
ject In taking passage in any such
car, is to permit the passengers to
sleep, and while in that helpless
condition duty rests on the company
to provide proper care and caution
against the valuables of a passenger
being stolen from bis bed or the
clothes on ids person. This is not
a case of robbery by force and vio-
lence, but by stealthy larceny. In
tact the case of another passenger in
the same car who was robbed the
same night, as bearing on the ab-
sence of proper care exercised by
the company.
The Booth A Osgood Manufac-
turing company dealers in school
iWrniture, Chicago, have failed.
The
B4si} jwWajwl
ir total liabilities are placed at
,000. JTbe assets are said to be
all losses. Wra.
(company,
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Rev. Mr. Neely, of
Springs, baa a $1,000 call to go to
Terrell.
The Callahan county jail ia nearly
completed.
The new court-house boom in
Brenham has died out.
St Jo is arranging to have a new
and more commodious school build-
ing-
A fine Bible was stolen from Belle-
view church in DeWitt county last
week.
Palo Pinto county boasts ot hav-
ing a grandfather, who is only thirty
year* of age.
The State game cock association
will hold its annual tournament at
Houston about Christmas.
Terrell received over 5,000 bales
of cotton last month, being nearly
double last year’s receipts,
The well diggers of the asylum
well at Terrell have struck water,
and it rose nearly to the top.
Over a thousand aligator hides are
now on the market at Sabine Pass,
and the hunters still pursue them.
A young man named Thomas
Cassidy was found dead in an alley
in Flatonia. He bad been shot by
unknown parties, and the murder is
Mill a mystery.
Texas farmers sold last year $59,-
000,000 worth of cotton, $53,000,-
000 worth of eattle, $7,000,000
worth of wool and mutton, and $1,-
000,000 worth of horses and hides. -
Jim Davis, a colored man, has
sued the Terrell oil mill for $5,006
damages for injury to his son, who
had bit arm crushed in the machin-
ery not 16ng ago.
Private Charles Turner, Mationed
at Fort Davis, killed a bear last week
which weighed 700 pounds net.
This sort of game ranges within five
miles of the iort.
The grand jury of Houston re-
turned 105 indictments, and urged
the necessity of putting a stop to
gambling by some means.
The Methodist chureh in Texas
has bad 7,608 accaasions during the
present yesr, of which West and
Northwest Texas furnishes 5,000.
The citizens of Burnett county
have abandoned barbed wire tor
fencing purposes, and are now using
the smooth wire entirely,
On the 30th of October some re-
ligious thief robbed the Presbyterian
church at Calvert, of 8 hymn books
and tour or fiye dollars in Sunday
school money.
George Paacbal, of San Antonio,
has been appointed temporary U. S.
district attorney for the eastern dis-
trict of Texas.
Married, at the residence ot A. J.
McDade, near Fiimore, Louisiana,
on Thursday November 1st, 1883,
Mr. W. T. Gass, editor Fannin
county Advocate and Miss Maude
McDade, Rev. Mr. Foust officiat-
ing.
The fifth spelling class in the
Wills Point institution, composed of
thirteen pupilf, spelled through their
lessons last month without missing a
word. It is the banner class of the
state.
The number of live stock in Texas
of all kinds, according to the last re-
ports, amounts to 14,300,767. Of
this number there are over 1,000,-1
000 head of horses, 3,730,000 oxen ;
681,000 cows; 5,615,000 sheep, aud
over 2,000,000 hogs. The increase
since 18S1 shows near 4,000,000
head.
Will Saunders, who attempted to
eacape from the Wise county jail
last Saturday, was seen by a young
lady aa he was creeping out under
the jail fence. She picked up a big
stick and threated to brain him if he
did not return, and he crawled back.
Mr. Repend, while hunting in
Wood county, seeing the branches
shake where he thought there was a
deer, fired, shooting Mr. Crabtree in
the back, inflicting a dangerous bat
not serious wound.
Mrs. Allen, of Falls county, moth-
er of young Tom Alien who was
killed in a wreck, will institute a
suit against the Central road for
$50,000 damages.
The stockmen of Fisher and No-
lan counties are proposing to plow a
permanent fire-guard along the line
of the Texas A Pacific railway, be-
tween Colorado City on the west
and Abilene on the east.
About three houses go up every
week in Orange, but still the de-
mand for residences is greater than
the supply. The Tribune says the
town will have 6,000 population by
the close of next year.
Van Akrtyne trots out a nimble
old colored man named Frank
Welch Higon, who was born in
1773, and is consequently lit years
old. He is now enjoying fine health
and has made a regular hand at the
plow this year and is now picking
from 45 to 65 pounds of cotton per
day. ___________
Darwin on Theism and Evolution.
The following letter in the Pall
Mall Gazette from Charles Darwia,
appears in a work juM issued:
“Down Beckenham, Kent:—
Dear Sir—It seems to me absurd to
doubt that a man can be an a rdent
tbeist and evolutionist. Yon are right
about Kingsley. Asa Gray, the em-
inent botanist la another case la
point. What my own views may
be is a question of no consequence
to any one but myself. But aa yon
ask, I may Mate that my judgment
often fluctuates. Moreover, Mbether
a man deserves to be called a tbeist
depend* on the definition of the term
which is much too la'ge e subject for
a note. In my moet extreme fluctu-
ations I have never been an atheist
in the sense of denying the' existence
of a God. 1 think that generally,
(and more and more so as I
grow older) but not always; an ag-
nostic would be the more correct
description of my state of mind.
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styles and of every
a largest
DRESS-MAKING MILLINERY
establishment in this part of the country, keeping constantly employed from i j to
w> ladies, a majority of whom have had long practical experience in the art of
cutting and fitting. All work gnarenteed.
MY MILLINERY DEPARTMENT
is the largest one of the kind in North Texas, and is now fall and complete in all
jits appointments, including all the latest styles in hats and bonnets. This de-
partment it presided over by a lady of long experience in Millinery and cannot be
excelled in taste, trimming, etc.
It is not nr desire to impose upon the credulity of an intelligent people by
advertising to sell goods at cost, nor offer a bonus to all who favor us with their
patronage, as I am not forced to such extremes to command trade. IJsell good,
at a reasonable profit, and am thereby able to meet all honorable competition.
With thanks to my many friends and customers tor their patronage, lam,
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TIGNOR & MOS8E,
Wagon Manufacturers
Carry a. Full Lino of*
WAGONS, BUGGIES,
-ATO——
Nos. 424 and 426 Main St. DENISON, TEXAS.
The Gate City Cotton Gin and Com Mill
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Bring Your Cotton and -Corn to the Gate City Mills.
COTTON] INSURED,
STORAGE FREE,
»A TI8FRCTION GUARANTEED.
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HARDWARE.
LEEPER & BOLDRICK
-WHOLESALE AND RETAIL DEALERS IN-
Hardwcsre, Tinware, Stoves, Agricultural
Implements, Iron, Steel, Nails,
Barb Wire, Etc., Etc.,
Mechanic's Tools, “Mitchell" Wagons,
John Own and First & Bradley's Plows and Cultivators.
The Best and Cheapest Cooking Stoves Made.
No. 213 Main Street, DENISON, TEXAS.
FIRST NATIONAL BANK,
* Denison, Texan.
OFFICERS John Scullin, President,
Edward Perry, Vice President,
F. M. Adams, Cashier.
Directors :—John Scullin, Eadwrd Perry, Geo. A. Madill,
Samuel Star.
Special Attention Given to Collections.
IEj. El. LATTA,
Commission Merchant
Emits and Vegetables a Specialty.
Ho. 116 Main Street, - Denison, Texas.
OTTO SCHUMAKER,
Oa-Toinet
TURNING, SCROLL WORK, ETC.
Cabinet Work oi all kinds neatly and promptly <
having the advantage of Steam Power. Shop on V
The only business of the kind ia the city
" — rar Austin Avenue.
W. W.‘ LAMPKIN,
ZPA-"W"Isr -RT?X->~K-Tn-F?.
$10,000 TO LOAN $10,000
In Diamonds, Watches and Jewelry.
A complete stock of the above New Good* always on hand. Great bargains
in unredeemed pledget.
Next deer te Frukiis Barker Shop, Mail St,
DENISOX, TEXAS'
ONE BLOCK SOUTH OF THE STAR STORE.
Take your COTTON to Denison, to the New Gin, and get the highest Prices for
your Staple and Seed. We take this method of informing the public
that wa have erected a New Gin and Corn Mill, and we are
now prepared to gin Cotton and grind Corn.
Satisfaction Gauranteed. Have
an experienced Ginner.
^Ca.rtln. Sc ZSZendshll.
1. MAMOtefMarita fiprtagi. _._
MoDOUGALft: HOTEL,
J. B. UcDOTJOALL & CO.. Propriotors,.
ssss&sa&fts
Norwich Union Fire
North British and Merchant
Queen of England Fire
Western Assurance of T
Girard of Philadelphia Insurance
Niagara Fire Insurance C
Crescent of New Orleans
California Fire Insurance
Mutual Life Insurance Coi
Travelers Life and Accident
Merchants of Newark Insurance
Commercial of California, of Calif
500,000 -A.O:
CHOICE FMWH8, GRAZING, FRUIT
Terms Time, Traota Out
Taxes paid for Non-Residents, Maps, Plate and
ial attention to Loan*. Choice Residence and Bualnasa
Lots sold by monthly payments.
If your wish to buy a Residence, If you wish
If you wish to buy or rent business property If you with
If you want to buy a Ranch,. If you with
If you wish to Insure your property, If you wish to 1
If you wish to Insureagainst accident, If yon wish i '
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124 Main St.,
Always have e carriage at the door to show properly, free of «
The best investment—a home of your own.
Dinsaim.
Largest Stock,
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Lowest Prices
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Best Ass
Kill
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Guiteau & Waldro
Drug Store,
UNDER THE OPERA HOUSI
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Louis Lebrec
DEALER IN
CIGARS AND
Amsrloaa sad French Stair,
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MEERSCHAUM
A COMPLETE ASSORTMENT
This lintel, N*t opened, ts located at tba Junction of Urn Mo. P. and H. ft T.
C. Railroads, hut a step trom the Depot, and te supplied with all the modern tm
description of my state
Dear Sir, yours faithiuUy,
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ARW1X.
provements of a first-cla*. hotel. All file rooms ato
and have perfect wsntillatiou; water te "elevated by steam to
tables U
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I—EPPSTEIN. - J. WSSTHBIMXR.
EpPSTEIN & WEHTUK1MBR,
--JOBBERS OP-
Whiskies, Cigsri aa# fslsees.
NO. 203 MAIN STREET.
WnOLISALK BEER AKD ICE.
GEORGE BRAUN,
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R. S. Bum’s New
No. 113 Main Street, DENISON,
Keeps the Best Beef, Boric,
Patrons will Sad the best ot Fresh Meats at U
Accommodation Meat
JOHN DENNEY,
Keeps constantly on!
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Parlor Meat
No. 3, Main Street, DENI*
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