Denison Daily News. (Denison, Tex.), Vol. 2, No. 135, Ed. 1 Saturday, August 1, 1874 Page: 1 of 4
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VOL. II.
Denison, Texas, Saturday Evening, August i. 1874.
No. 13
The Daily News.
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«. C. MURRAY, Proprietor.
TERMS:
Per month........................
4 Subscription to be paid in advance.
Deli vered free withm the city by carrier
Confectioner*.
J A. EUPER & CO., Main street, next
door to M. Goldsoll’s.
Dry Good*.
ADVERTISING RATES :
One inch, first insertion....... • • • •$ 1 5°
1 > Each subsequent insertion ... • 75
‘ One-eighth column, one month.... 6 00
.Three months.................. !5 00
One-fourth column, one month.... 10 op
Three months.................. 25 00
Business cards, i&Inch, per month, 300
r Special notices, 15 cents a line for the
first insertion! each subsequent publica-
tion 10 cents a line.
Notices that are inserted under the head
“Local Paragraphs” will be charged 25
?ents a line each insertion.
Double column advertisements, one-
third extra.
. Legal advertisements at legal rates.
Transient advertisers will be expected
to pay in advance.
All charges made in currency.
'DENISON MEN WHO ADVERTISE,
The following is a list of the principal
business houses in the city of Denison :
4 Physician* and Surgeons
/ 4 B. BERRY, Physician and Sur-
vey, geon, Live Drug Store.
TI7 JF\ RENNETT& CO., Main st.,
W . South side. ___________
JOHN NEVINS Mam street, comer
J of Austin avenue.
TT7ATERMAN, WEIL. & STAR, on
VV ya^fi myr^he coryofRuak.
I
III GOLLDSOI.L & Co., Main street
1VJL • south aider
Ranks.1
T"T
A/TERC H ANT&4t'PEAMaWiS,.^^,
iVl street, South side, below Atlstin.
■ V r~f
Laundry,
QITY LAUNDRY, Skiddy street, above
Rusk.
Hard
waip.
D.
W. C. DAVIS, no'rth side of Main
street. f
TonMrlul,
J^AVID WILLIAMS, Main st.. near
Rusk.
Justice of the Peace.
D. KIRK, opposite Recorder’s of-
fice,
Attorneys.
f"» G. RANDELL, office over postof-
VJ.
fiee, Main street.
[Communicated.]
TEXAS.
Some Interesting Facts and Sta-
tistics.
/I
Railroad. The Huntsville Tap
Road. The International Railroad.
The Gulf West Texas & Pacific
Road. The Texas Pacific Railroad.
The Western Narrow Gauge Rail- j
road.
PRINCIPAL TOWNS IN TEXAS.
Galveston, Houston, Sail Antonio, j
Austin. Waco, New Braunfels, Dal- j
las, Sherman, Denison, Jefferson, J
Marshal, Inidianola, Lavaca, j
Brownsville, Columbus, Corsicana. I
Brenharn, Washington, Bryan, Bre-
mond, and Hearre.
FROMAtTSTIN. ’
D. W. Stone.
''TONE k GUY,
J. H. Guy.
S1
dealers, ps[
•Vll A i. •
PROVISIONS, FAMILY GROCERIES,
LIQUORS,. CriSAJBLS
—AND —
TeBAOear^
■;i t no
Main st., opp-.Boar^qf Jr^dpjopms.
.'r.;.:?.7..?.ci.:..TEXAs.
ifl .no* h
DENISON,
mar4-ti
Forty years ago a Mexican gen-
eral named Juan N. Almonte, by
order of Santa Anna, took the first
official census of Texas. He av-
eraged the whole number of inhabi-
tants Iff the different municipalities
to he but 21*000 souls, exclusive of
W,ofco negroes.
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OFFICIAL CENSUS. j j ... , HJC JC' *■" tic
On July 1S36, official census, 45,-1A Late Alleged Indian Fight Discred-! c^ydney f. F&NjAjNE.,
000 souls. President Jackson sent j *Ted.
Harvey M. Moffatt, Esq. to Texas,,
the same year, to report about the j Good Effects of the Lost Valley Fight,
resources and population of that
State. In his official return he re-
ported Mexicans, 30,000; negroes,
5,000? Europeans, 3,470; Indians,
14,200. Total, 52,670.
In 183S, population.....<■•..
“ 1841, “ .......
“ 1844. “ .........
“ 1850, “ ........
“ i860, *• ........
“ 1870, “ ........
ATT’Y AND COUNSELLOftAT LA W,
.9»fl Di'd’
Office between Rusk.and Burnet, south
! side. ' ' ” ’
Rusk and Burnet.
iCYDNEY T. FONTAINE, between
lb
A.
B. PERSON, Wallace block, third
room.
1 ;• v
Market*.
A CCOMMODATION Market, Main
l\ street above Austin.
/ ''1TY MARKET, J. G. Gnase propr.
„ Cor. Main and Rusk streets,
Jeweler,
lyj; V. B. BENNETT, Main street
near Recorder’s office.
■ fCotton, Hide*, Wool and Peltries,
I I). WOOI)YARD, Board of Trade
«) •
Rooms, Main st.
Livery Stable*.
I 0. F. DAY k BRO. Owings street
J bet. Rusk and Austin.
4 Furniture.
JOHN NEVINS corner Main and
*1 Austin.
Agricultural Implement*,
D.
W. C. DAVIS, Main street.
Stationer*,
X.
L. REBER, south side Main street.
A TcGOREY k HENESEY, next door
1V.1 to Merchants k Planters Bank.
Boot and Shoe Manufacturer*.
A UGUST UHLIG Austin, bet. Main
jLY. an ’
Skiddv streets.
Cattle CoinmisHtoii Merchant*.
UE & LOViNf
fcld, Main st.
DUE & LOVING, with I. & A. Seis-
l lour and Bacon.
yy P. TRAPP, Main street South
side.
Saloon*.
LOC5nTo
pany Building, Main street.
Iff A OLE SALOON, old Town Com-
G. PUTNAM, Main street, below
Austin.
Druggist*.
TA ROVERS’ ANT) FREIGHTERS’
U EXCHANGE, Sauer building, cor-
ner Main and Austin st’s.
J G. GNASE, Main street, south side.
/"'RAND SOUTHERN, Austin street,’
V_J near Main.
J3ALACE Beer Hall, Main st., south
X side.
Cigar* ami Tobacco.
I IVE DRUG STORE, H. S. D. Berry
L,successors to II. Mozley) proprietors, | - WOOLACOT. Main street, sign
Ma-.n street. ___________________________ j W 0f Capt. Jinks.
QKXTER & SCOTT, Main st., bet.1
Rusk and Burnet.
Liquor Dealer*,
r-s c. J. LEBERMANN, Main street,
X’ , North side.
►r?PSTEIN BROS., Main street, north
xlf side.
.-Xr-r.?vr
Grocer*,
\/fOUPvi& HANNA, corner Main
M sfn
A
treet and Austin Ave.
VERY, ROSECRANTS & CO.,
Main street, north side.
W";£.
Auctlonepru.
CAMPBELL, Main st., north
[Special to the Houston Telegraph.I
Austin, July 31, 1874.
i General Steele does not! , W)11 practice in alj tUe Gaurts of thi,
j believe the reports concerning the 1 State.
6°,ooo | late Indian fight, in the neighbor- j May 15, dw t-f.")
100 ow hood of Jacksboroi j A' t r -J
212^92 He received this morning a letter | y. "7-.“; :
604.215 from Mai.Jones, commanding the! M n
818,759 battalion, which was written on Fri-! " . ’
And we can safely say we to-day day last, the day upon which the i
have fifteen hundred thousand. The fight Was reported to have occurred, f PHYSICI AN AND SURGEON
state of Texas area extends from the j from Capt. Ikard’s camp. This let- j
thirty-sixth parallel of north latitude, i ter says nothing about any such fight, • TEX\'
and lies between the sixteenth and | although it is possible that it may 1
thirteenth meridians of longitude
west from Washington. She is the
largest State in the Union, and em-
braces a territory of 268,684 square
have occurred after the letter was 1 -
forwarded to Jacksboro. [ Having dissolved with Ur. Achesou.
Major Jones writes that great ben- ; can hereafter be found at the Live Lm.0
efit has resulted to the frontier from Store, Main street.
miles—divided into one hundred and j the fight in Lost Valley, as well as
fifty-mne counties. I the capture by Lieut. Campbell ol j
climate. forty-three horses and mules from the ;
Situated in the same zone as the I ln‘ !aus’ . . ....
West Indies, it is more moderate I r No mcntl0n 18 the
than the hot zone. The several jd,at? Presence ot Inchans 1,1 tliat ^
temperatures is the same, and its 1sec lon‘ _
fermament is as clear as Italy, com-
pared with other countries of the j N6W Br8iYLllf6lS.
same lattitude. It has the cool bree-1
zes of summer, and cold northers of; ---------—
winter—thermometer seldom rising‘Mr. F Bust Arrested Oil Suspicion.
above 950, and very seldom falling j -------
below freezing point. Our winters
June 25 i-m.
Yy' D- KIRK,
JUSTICE OF THE PEACE,
PRECINCT NO. 5
—and—
EX-OFFICIO NOTARY PUBLIC
may be compared with the first
months of spring in Europe.
HEALTH.
The health of Texas cannot be
excelled by any country on earth—
the death rate being hut one in two
hundred and fifty-nine population.
seasons. I child in Seguin. We mention these 1
*r ... ! things just as we received them, but i
.No severe winter; a temperate J . .. . : ,
. . , . 1 they appear to us utterly unnatural1
simmer, Agricultural pursuits may i • , n >f
. 5 .. , / laud improbable. Mr. Kincaid, a
mit>fl thmiiGrhnut \»)hr,l^ I . * , 7
man of good family, and said to be
A rumor is abroad that Mr. Wil-i Acknowledgments, taken and legal pa-
liam Faust, the druggist at New j Pers made out,
I Braunfels, whose newly-married I
wife \flis so desperately wounded!
with ail axe at the same time Miss’! TAMES LEONARD
Voelcker was killed, has been ar- j J
rested on suspicion. It is also ru-
mored that lie has another wife and
Proprietor
Lumber Dealer*,
J^EEPER,LINGO & Co., corner Austin
and Owing* streets.
Hu:i*eaml SIru Painter*.
Z"4 II. HOTCHKISS, house and sign
painter, Rusk avenue.
O'TONE & GUY, Main street.
r ■ _______________ .. .
/ 'LARK k TALLANT, McGowan
block.
' S. GILBERT & Co., Woodard st.,
Y^ITY LAUNDRY,
SKIDDY ST., JUST ABOVE RUSK.
IN , bet. Ausin ami Rusk.
Land Aceiit*.
xteedha:
IN flag, Main st. _____
YJOS TG o MEUV & B RII) p HILL,Main
tEEDHAM & COLLINS, sign of the
Washing and ironing done on the most
liberal terms, and perfect satisfaction
guaranteed.
SPECIAL RATES
for boarding houses and families.
street, North side.
pALACE BEER HALL,
LOUIS L1BBIE k Co.,
Kestuurant*.
►G
'RAND SOUTHERN corner ol Main : C HOKE WHISKEY, No. i CIGARS
Mild Austin.
RE NCI I R I?ST AUR ANlT r “Main
street. ______
Jlulnl*. ___
ELSON HOUSE, corner Main and
Rusk st. _
N_______________
■t TTilKELER HOUSE,corner of Hou*-
VV ton and Maffl.1'11
—and—
ST LOUIS ALE AND BEER
Constantly on dratl
South side Main street, Qenison, Texaf
be continued throughout the whole j
year.
FERTILITY OF THE SOIL.
No country in the world can ex-
cel it, producing every imaginable
product, and needs but slight work
to he made to become teeming with
vegetable life.
MINERALS.
Lead, silver, iron, coppee, coal
and gypsum found in inexhaustible
quantities.
LIVE STOCK.
Four millions of cattle, two mill-
ions of horses are roaming on tli e
large prairies of Texas, and over si. k.
hundred thousand sheep, represent -
ing a capital of ($31,000,000) thirty
one million dollars in gold, with a
country to pasture in, seven bundle :1
miles from north to south, eight huni-
dred miles from east to west, with ;3
territory of one hundred and seventy-
five millions of acres.
COMMERCE OF TEXAS.
Commercial year ending Ang* 31
1870, showed an export from Texas
to the value of $45,000,000 In gold,
viz :
Cotton......................$33,000,000
Wool.......................... 850,000
Hides..........................2,325,000
l’tckkd Meals...................Z50,000
Cattle.........................7.870,000
Pecans, Nutaetc................1205,000
NELSON HOUSE,
Corner of Main and Rusk streets,
a former suitor of Mrs. Faust, lias I
been examined and released. Mrs. j
Faustwas still alive at last accounts, | UENISON,...,.................TEXAS
and may possibly recover, but her1 • , *,
face is ruined, and one eye is gone.! Charges moderate. A liberal patron
—San Antonio Express. aSe solicited *n* Satisfaction gunran-
The San Antonio Herald states |teed’ , .
that the funeral cortege which at-1 aug J 1 win-
tended the remains of Miss Emma: :
YTelcker, at New Braunfels, was
over three miles long.
OIIN G. GNASE,
Jo. F. Day.
W 11 D -w
—Dealer in—
WINES, LIQUORS, TOBACCOS, AND
’ CIGARS,
Main street, south side,
DENISON....................TEXAS.
Light wines for table use always on
ha nd. St. Louis lager beer on draft
April 8-tf.
JO. F. DAY & BRO.,
Proprietor*
LIVERY, FEED AND SALE STABLE,.
Owing* street,
DENISON,-------’ .'.‘.’.TEXX.S.
A fine lot of new carriages and g<jo
teams for the accanunodation of cuatu
mers.
Horses boarded by day or week.
“To. F. DAY & F;RO.
-
Total....................$45,^00,900
RAIL ROADS IN TEXAS.
The Galveston, Houston & Hen-
derson Railroad. The Galveston,
Harrisbiug Sz San AntouioRndi ad.
Tiic ILmstor- k Texas Central Rad-
road. The Westernn Bunch & A:r
Line Railroad. The Texas & Now,
Orleans Railroad. J.ne Ilousr
Ion & Great Npithcny
jyjONTGOMERY & BRIDDELL,
REAL ESTATE BROKERS.
Office P. O. Building,
DENISON,
TEXAS.
'pilF. GRAND SOUTHERN
RESTAURANT,
is
J. RAYNAL, PnoVrtiEtOR
* ■
. This popular resUurw ,t is situated 00
] the corner of Main street and Austin ave
j m-e. It tras been fitted 'up with all mod-
! ernconveniences, and iQ in charge of a:
experieneed caterer.
ELEGANTLY FURNISHED ROOMS
can be had by the d ay,-vreek.1 Dr montti
Special attention given to purchasing
and selling city property and Texas
landqyh July 28 tf..
Board per week-. .......... it.,
jingle meals.... . ,v
lirtj 00
_ T5i i - .15
The table i* /flways srfpptled tfie
best in the market. 4* w
April ;o t-f - p $ 1 * ■
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Denison Daily News. (Denison, Tex.), Vol. 2, No. 135, Ed. 1 Saturday, August 1, 1874, newspaper, August 1, 1874; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth722174/m1/1/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Grayson County Frontier Village.