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J. H. ft'ALFORD, Publisher.
RICHMOND, FORT BEND COUNTY, TEXAS. DEC 2, 1887
VOL 7.
NO. 20 SB
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suicide at Weatherford.
Gc-.rge H. £c/oper, a Capable Business
Alan. His Brains Out, There
Eeing no Known Cause.
Weatherford, Tex., Nov. 26.—
Thursday evening George H. Cooper,
manager of Elliott & Eloe’s lumber
yy-rd at this place, was found in his
room dead with a pistol hole in his
head aud a 45 Colt’s pistol in h s right
hand. He was lying on a sofa on his
rlght side partly, with his right hand
testing on his face and his lett hand on
Shis breast. The pistol ball entered his
Jhead just to the left of his nose and to
the right of his left eve, ranging back-
ward through his brain, coming out
behind and above his right ear. He
had the muzzle so close to his head
that his face was not powder burned
in the least, but the charge was so se-
vere that it burst through his
forehead, and it is supposed
that it caused instant death.
The blood from the wound ran on the
floor, causi’jg a great pool. George
IT. Cooper was last, seen alive at 2
o’clock Thursday evening, and was
found, as above stated at about 5:30
o’clock. He was a man of extraordi-
nary capabilities as a business man,
and for a number of years has been in
charge of Elliot & Eloe’s lumber yard
at this place. He was a member in
.good standing of the Knights of Pyth-
ias. He was also a member of the
Odd Fellows. No cause has .as yet
(been assigned for his rash act. The
■only thing tending to a conclusion
was a note he left addressed to “A.
J.,7’ supposed to be A. J. Roe, which
.read as follows: “A. J., my books
and accounts are correct; if anybody
refuses to pay same, sue them. Other
things may be a little tough now, but
will come out all right.”
WEATHERFORD NOTES.
Weatherford, Tex., Nov. 26.—City
Marshal D. C. Britton received a tele-
gram Thursday from the railroad agent
at Big Sandy, Texas, announcing the
death of W. C. Green, better known
as “Uncle Billy,” a well known aud
respected citizen of this town, and a
brother-in-law to Col. Lewis of this
place, in a railroad accident which oc-
curred Wednesday. His remains will
be brought here for in terment.
An interesting and novel case of
blackmail is reported to have come to
light in this county. The alleged black-
mailer is a prominent young woman of
this county and her victim is a young
man to whom she was engaged to be
married. Under the pretense that she
needed money to purchase her marriage
outfit, furniture, etc., she succeeded in
securing about 8800 in cash and then
told him she did not want to marry
him, and refused to give him back the
money, but being threatened with an
exposure she finally returned $500 and
claims to have spent the jother $300.
Owing tethe prominence of the parties
their names are withheld. •
LONGVIEW LOCALS.
Longview, Tex., Nov. 25.—Thanks-
giving Day was observed locally by a
union service in the Baptist church
from 10 to 11 a. m., during which time
the stores closed. The schools had a
holiday.
The county commissioners have
leased from G. D. Harrison his bridge,
better known as the iron bridge, near
the old Fredonia crossing of the Sabine
River, for $300 a year, pending an ex-
amination of the material condition of
the bridge, which being found good,
the bridge will be bought by the coun-
ty for $2000, in lour annual install-
ments. This bridge has been a toll
bridge, but as the county has two other
bridges "free over the Sabine, and this
crossing is used by many of our citi-
zens, it is proper it should be free also.
SAN ANGELO NOTES.
San Angelo, Tex., Nov. 24.—The
Saa Angelo Fair Association, with a
capital of $100,000, was organized Mon
day and already 100 acres of land se-
cured. The charter has been applied
for.
F. O. Richards, of Chicago, who ha
been in the city for the past week
working up an electric light, has se-
cured nearly every business man in the
city to subscribe for one or more lights
and the plant will be in working order
n a month.
San Angelo is certainly on a boom
What other town in the State can be
the originator of two organizations
with a capital of about $150,000 in one
week, besides the lighting of the c ty
by electric light—forty miles from r
railroad, too?
EAGLE PASS NOTES
Eagle Pass, Tex., Nov. 26.—Wed
nesday night about 11 o’clock thret
prisoners, named George Valvedez
Antonio Fernandez and Jesus’Nuncio
escaped from the Piedras Negras jail
and, making their way to the bank of
the river, plunged in and swam to thi?
side, followed only by the bullets o.
their pursuers.
The fiesta is in full swing and large
crowds throng the plazas daily to wit-
ness the bull tights and the many ex
citing games openly exhibited.
A LIVELY SCRIMMAGE,
In Which Officers in the Territory Kill
One of a Gang of Lawbreakers
and Capture Three.
Eufala, I. T., Nov. 20.—Deputy
Marshals Barnhill and Stokes Sunday
located near the South Canadian a
gang of horse thieves and whisky ped-
dlers. In attempting to arrest them
they had a lively scrimmage, in which
one of the thieves, named Tom Wat-
son, was killed. George Paine, Rock
Knox and Jim Holden were captured.
One of the worst of the gang, Bud
Scales, at last reports was surrounded
in a cabin and will be killed or cap-
tured.
UNPARALELLED BLOCKADE.
Never in the history of overland
travel, sa}Ts the Globe-Democrat, has
there beeH such a blockade of freight
on all lines as at present. The Central
Pacific is two weeks behind time in
freight shipments. The Southern Pa-
cific has fully one month’s freight side-
tracked at various points, owing to dis-
astrous washouts in Arizona and New
Mexico; but the Atchinson is in the
worst dilemma. The extraordinary
rush of people to Southern California
has completely paralyzed this line. It
is using every locomotive to transport
passengers, and freight is thus laid up
all along this line. The situation be-
came so bad in Los Angeles that a
meeting of the Board of Trade was
held this week to call the attention of
the railroad to the great injustice done
to shippers. As a rule it requires three
days at Kansas City before accommo-
dations can be secured by those who
buy tickets there.
A SMELTING WORKS STRIKE.
El Paso, Tex., Nov. 30.—Serious
trouble was feared Monday at the E]
Paso Smelting works, two miles above
the city. At noon about twenty-five
Americans and eighty Mexicans, com-
prising the day shift, struck for higher
wages, threatening to arm themselves
and prevent the mills from running if
their demands were not granted. .Four-
deputy sheriffs and the city marshal
went to the scena of .the prospective
war, and after the discharge of the
American ringleaders ot the strike^
most of the strikers resumed work. At
3p.m. two Mexicans were arrested.
The strikers' were given to understand
that any violence would be met with
Winchesters and six-shooters. All is
quiet.
MISSOURI PACIFIC EXTENSION.
The rumored intention of the Mis-
souri Pacific interest to build a line to
the Pacific coast, says the Railway
Age, seems now to be made certain by
the announcement of the incorporation
in New York of the Salt Lake, Los
Angeles and San Pedro railway com-
pany, with Jay Gould named as the
leading incorporator. Surveys have
been in progress for a line from Salt
Lake City southwest through a pass in
the Snake Mountains into White Pine
county, Nevada, thence crossing the
San Fernando Mountains to San Ber-
nardino and on to Los Angeles, and
this is asserted to be the route selected
ior the Gould line. The length ef the
road would be about 650 miles.
GREENVILLE GLEANINGS.
Greenville, Tex., Nov. 30.—The
stockholders of the Farmers’ Alliance
proposed roller mills, met Monday even-
ing in the courthouse in secret session.
Several attempts of the correspondent
to learn what was said or done have
been futile. The meeting was one of
representative men of Hunt County, and
it is safe to say that the Alliance will
soon make a move toward the work of
building the mill. The people of Green-
ville as well as the entire county will
lend their aid and patronage toward
its success.
A remarkable accident took place
here. A horse belonging to Whit Ter-
rell became frightened and began kick-
ing at a post near by, striking it some
terrific blows. When he becamo quiet
it was discovered that he had kicked
one of his hind feet entirely off. Mr.
Terrell had recently been offered $150
for the animal and refused it. The
horse had to be shot.
CENTRAL CITY CULLINGS.
Waco,Tex. Nov.-30.Tom Jones, whom
Deputy United States Marshal Ben Cab-
ell brought here from Graham City,
believing him to have been concerned
; in the Flatonia train robbery, was in-
; dieted by the Federal grand jury for
participating in the train robbery Jan.
, 23, last.
( J. P. Hodge, agent for a patent fence,
was arrested Monday by Sheriff Bill
Harris, the authority being a telegram
from Sheriff Lewis of Dallas county.
He will be sent to Dallas immediately.
Col. Jameo W. Burrell of Bruceville,
McLennan county, died Monday morn*
ing, aged 76. He was remarkable for
weallb, charities, prodigious physical
strength and a gigantic frame. He
built the Methodist church at Bruce-
ville. Besides a vast estate in Texas
he ow ced orange orchards in Florida
VICTORIA NOTES.
Victoria, Tex., Nov. 30.—Twenty-
five cars of stock were shipped here
Sunday and Monday, and more will
follow each day this week if the nec-
essary cars can be obtained. These
are the first shipments made from here
since the Houston strike was inaugu-
rated, and of course stockmen are in
a much better humor than for seyeral
days past.
Judge Pleasants has returned from
Cuero and though still quite unwell,
was able to convene court. The case
of Duval White, brought from Fdna,
is set for trial Wednesday. White
killed a negro, and was tried here at
the spring term of court, but the jury
failed to agree. Since then he has
been out on bond.
NOTES FROM BURNET.
Burnet, Tex., Nov. 30.—In the
County court now in session, eleven
criminal cases have been disposed ol
with four convictions* three continuan-
ces and four discharged.
The machinery in Holloway’s steam
tannery at Marble Falls has been tried
and found all right. The first lot of
hides will be put in the vats this week,
and the leather, ready for market, will
be turned out in from thirty to forty
days.
From certain movements made by
the Austin and Northwestern Railroad
management and the officers of the
officers of the Santa Fe, it is thought
quite probable that the Santa Fe will
get control of the former road and op-
erate the branch now building to Mar
ble Falls.
SAN ANTONIO SIFTINGS.
San Antonio, Tex., Nov. 30.—Hon.
Whitfield Scott, member of the
Eighteenth Legislature and prominent-
ly known over the State, died at Kerr--
ville Sunday.
Attorney General Hogg is herein at-
tendance on the Federal conrt in an
extradition case.
James Elkins, charged with horse
theft in Wilson county, was arrested
here Monday.
Albert Reiner, another alleged Sun-
day law violator, was placed on trial
Monday. The result was another mis-
trial. It is thought the justices will
dismiss the remaining cases after an-
other unsuccessful trial or two.
CORSICANA CULLINGS.
Corsicana,,Tex., Nov. 30.—Trains
of immigrant wagons hail from the
west every day en route to the eastern
portion of the State.
Extensive improvements will be com -
menced at once by the Navarro Fair
Association preparatory to Christmas
week’s races. The subscription list
started by Messrs. Lee, Pally, Milton
and others is meeting with success, and
the general opinion prevails that some
heavy purses will be offered to parties
who enter fast trotting horses.'
The trains haye all been late during
the rains and no little complaint is
heard over the irregularity of the mail.
A PENITENT WIFE.
Texarkana, Tex., Nov. 30.—The
wife of a farmer, who ran away with a
man, leaving her husband and three
small children, about two months ago,
returned Sunday alone and sought her
husband’s forgiveness. % The latter re-
ceived the recreant wife with open
arms and freely forgave her unfaith-
fulness. The neighbors are indignant
at him, and he was driven from the
farm upon which he had been engaged
to make a crop by the owner. □Never-
theless he expresses himself as perfect-
ly happy over the prodigal’s return,
and says he does not care what, other
people may say or think about the
matter. _ :
SUDDEN DEATH.
Cleburne, Tex., Nov, 30.—A young
lady, Miss Lewis, while shopping on
Monday* in a millinery store, suddenly
fell dead. The sad occurrence took
place in the evening about 4 o’clock.
She had been suffering from heart dis-
ease and had been receiving medical
attention. She believed herself safe,
and while shopping sent for her phy-
sician. While talking to him she sud-
denly fell dead.
CISCO LOCALS.
Cisco, Texas, Nov. 29.—Saturday
evening about 6 o’clock a severe north-
er began to blow, and in half an hour
it was as cold as “blue blazes.” Sat-
urday night was the coldest by far this
year. The ground froze about a quar-
ter of an inch deep.
According to the Cisco Round-Up,
Cisco has bought $78,000 worth of pe-
cans and $160,000 worth of cotton to
date. The pecan nor cotton crop are
either all in yet.
EAGLE PASS PICKINGS.
Eagle Pass, Tex. Nov. 30.—District
Court convened Monday with Kelso on
the bench. The criminal docket will
be taken up in the morning.
Bull fights are going on in Piedras
Negras and despite the cold weathet
the attendance is large.
Hopkins and Thompson, the ab-
sconding United Statas officials who
commited forgeries, have been ar
rested and brought back from Mcx'cc
to Shu Antonio.
SAM SM ULL’S BROTHER.
Why Did God Make sc^Much Outdoors
Two Women’s Experiences.
“Sam Small Evangelist!”
The proverbial philosophy of “Old
Si,” the venerable plantation darkey,
who gave to the world through the
medium of Small’s pen maxims oi
worldly wisdom, clothed in a verbiage
of irresistable humor, has found a per-
manent place in humdrous literature.
Great surprise was shown when il
was announced that he, having been
converted under the ministrations oi
“Sam Jones,” would become an evan-
gelist. *
At first thought, a humorist in the
pulpit seems incongruous. Is it really
so ? hr \
No doubt the mere buffoon attempt-
ing to turn men’s hearts to solemn
truths would meet witl only contempt.
But truth is not bidder* in gloom. Gen-
uine humor frequently illustrates and
fastens in the mind biti of wisdom that
would otherwise pass unheeded.
In his eulogy of Henry Ward
Beeher, Rev. Dr. Parker says :
“Whenever he came among men, he
brought June sunshine.and music, and
made even desponding and surly men
feel that a fuller and warmer summer,
‘the Kingdom of Heaven,’ itself was at
hand.’ ” That is genial Christian-
ity- f
Mr. Small belongs to: a witty family.
He has a brother connected with Ar-
moy Knox’s and “Fat contributor’s’’
Texas Siftings, a paper which has had
phenomenal success in; the field of hu-
morous literature. Mr. Frank A.
Small is the present representative of
that popular paper in England, and,
like his distinguished bVother, he takes
a deep interest in the welfare of other
people.
Under date of 48 Porten Road, Ken-
sington W. London, Eng., Sept. 27th,
1887, he writes “While at Yalaing in
Kent yesterday, I met Prof. S. Wil-
liams, Head Master of the Cleaves
Endowed school, In the course of con-
versation about America, Prof. Wil-
liams remarked that Warner’s safe
cure had been of great benefit to his
wife,who had been much troubled with
a disordered liver. Warner’s safe
cure (an American preparation) was
all she had taken, and she had experi-
enced none of her old trouble for some
months past.
Mrs. Annie Jennesi?.- Miller, editor
of New York Dress, and a very popu-
lar woman in the fashionable world,
says in her own magazine for Octo.
ber: “Warner’s safe cure is the only
medicine I ever take or recommend,
Li every instance it gives new energy
and vitality to all my powers.” This
distinguished woman also says that for
ladies this great remedy is “peculiarly
effectiye. ”
Sam Small is likely to succeed as a
moral teacher. When we remember
how near together in human nature lie
the fountains of laughter aud of tears,
Ihe deep effect his discourses must have
on. the masses can easily be imagined.
“Why did God make so much out-
doors?” exclaimed a little girl, We
know not. He has made it and we
should grow in it, broad, charitable
and genial, judging everything by
merit, not by prejudice.
USEFUL HINTS.
Hoosie, in Farm and Fireside.
Cnow-Cnow.—Put four quarts of
green, sliced tomatoes in a jar with half
a cup of salt and let them stand over
night; pour off the juice, chop fine, and
add. one quart of finely cut cabbage, one
pint of chopped onions, om pixt of
br, wn sugar, one tablespoon 3ach of
greand mustard and cloves, and one tea-
spoon of pepper. Cook for one hour in
a half gallon of vinegar. Will keep in-
definitely. ' MARY MOORE.
Ellen’s Sponge Cake.—
3 eggs,
li cups of sugar,
l| cups of ice water,
1-j cups of flour.,
1 teaspoonful of baking-powder.
Beat the yolks with a tablespoonful of
the ice water, then add the flour and
baking-powder, sugar and rest of the
water. Beat the whites to a froth, add
a little salt, and stir it all together, with
any flavering to suit the taste. Bake in
a slow oven.
The Ohio Experiment Station has
tested and recommends propagation
if strawberries by making cuttings
if the runners and rooting them
in a cold frame, the same as flor-
ists treat cuttings of soft plants.
They may either be set thickly in sand
or in two-inch pots. Moisture and par-
tial shade are the only essential condi-
tions. The plants are set in the field as
soon as sufficiently rooted.
The comparison between a fair
Plymouth Rock cull ami the ordinary
spring chicken of the same age, is
about as two to one.
The Russian Empire is tomposed of fifty
governments and provinces.
The King of Holland has a remarkable his-
torical collection of harness.
Cincinnati insists that street cars shall
have both conductor and driver.
A “silver-tongued orator” can be hired for
any side with greenbacks.
The Reading Times has seen a wool hat
made, out and out, in five minutes.
The European edition of the New York
Herald is not a conspicuous success. •
. Jay Gould end John L. Sullivan, two oi
i America’s most tamous mtn, are in England
STRANGER THAN FICTION.
A Women Prepared for Burial Rises
From the Coffin and Shortly After-
ward Gives Birth to a Child.
Oakland, 111., Dec. 1.—Sunday
morning Mrs. Able, wife of a farmer
living a short distance south of this
place, died, to all appearances. The
funeral was arranged for, and the body
placed in the coffin and prepared for
burial. The sorrow-stricken relatives
had assembled in the house* when Mrs..
Able suddenly returned to conscious-
ness and sat up in the coffin. On real-
izing her surroundings she fainted
away, and while unconscious was car-
ried to a bed. A doctor was sent for,
and shortly afterward Mrs. Able gave
birth to a male ehild. She and the
baby are both doing well, but the
doubly happy father and husband has
not yet recovered from the excitement
incident to the affair.
CORSICANA CULLINGS.
Corsicana, Tex., Dee. 1.—The cold
weather during the past fo\V days has
delayed the completion of several bus-
iness houses nnd dwellings which are
now being built. They will be com-
pleted as soon as the weather will ad-
mit, and the appearance of the city
will be greatly improved.
Mr. Patworthhas been employed by
the committee on location of the Or-
phan Asylum grounds to plant out an
orchard of twenty acres. Other im-
provements will be made on the
grounds at the earliest period and work
pushed to completion.
The street railway company is mak-
ing preparat on for the extension of
the line two blocks further west, and
as soon as possible the line will be ex-
tended toother prominent points of the
city.
The City Council met Monday night
and accepted the City Hall, upon the
report of the superintendent of con-
struction that it was complete, except
in minor details, according to contract.
The Couucil reserved $500 of the con-
tract price to insure the completion of
the minor details referred to. It is in
every respect a handsome building,
having cost about $20,000. The archi-
tect pronounced the brick-work unu3u,
ally good.
Monday evening about 6:30 o’clock
Bit. son of Mr. M. M. Harton, about
12 years of age. was running across
Beaton street when he was struck by
the tongue of a passing wagon driven
by two country youths. He was badly
bruised, the team stepping on his body
several t:mes and the wagon wheel
passing across his stomach, extin-
guishing breath for a few minutes.
CATTLE NOTES.
Cisco, Tex., Dec. 1,—Capt, G. W.
Pierce, a prominent stockman of this
county, was seen by a correspondent
to-day, and in answer to some ques-
tion! in regard to the stock interests of
Eastland county, said that the demand
for .3 and 4-year-olds is very great, and
most all of that age in this county have
been sold at prices ranging from $16
to $17. Those who did not sell have
driven off to be fed. Sevaral thousand
dollars have been paid out during the
past two weeks for cattle.- Not much
sale for stock cattle and they will be
left on the range, which is splendid
and will carry the stock through all
right unless there be an unusually hard
winter. Water is plentiful and grass
was never better at this time of the
year. He said the stock interest of
Eastland county was better to-day than
for several years past.
The cold spell has pasted away aud
i lie weather is pleasant again .
LONGVIEW LOCALS.
Longview, Tex., Dec. 1. —The Mar-
t n Creek coal has been burned in the
Magnolia Hotel and in several private
bouses the past week and its value as
a good fuel fully demonstrated.
The telephone poles were lowered
Monday and this expensive experiment
i-s at an end for Longview. A d sagree
tblo episode grew out of the work.
he Contract to haul the poles to a
u’ace of storage had been taken by
<onu: residents of the county and their
work had been interrupted by the de-
mand of City Collector Lane for an oc-
•upat’on tax for running wagons for
: re on the public streets. After much
wrangling the matter was compro-
mi-cd by paying the license for one
u agon.
Ice nearly an inch thick was formed
Sunday night,and the thermometer fell
to 28 degrees.
Those Lingvlew.te3 who attached
the Doris & Colvin Circus at Mineola
got a cage of lions and a chariot. Sat
unlay night tl o circus company sent-
u agent here to pay off all claims, but
(ho money had to be taken to Mineola
to be paid into the hands of the officers
ihere.
A CIRCUS OUTFIT WRECKED.
Bells, Tex., Dec. 1.—The north-
bound freight was wrecked four miles
south of here. Dallas passengers were
delayed fourteen hours. Another
wreck occurred two miles south or here
to Doris & Colvin’s show train. Two
line horses sustained broken legs. The
outfit was detained twelve hours. The
circus was en route to St. Louis.
HON. BARNETT GIBBS AND THE
PAPERS.
Dallas News.
Dallas, Nov. 9.—I see that the
Galveston News, the St. Louis Repub
lican and other democratic papers, ir
commenting on my declaration in favoi
of abolishing the entire internal reve
nue system, claim that by this declara-
tion I forfeit my democracy. In the
same interview I asserted my belief in
“a tariff for revenue only,” but con-
tended that the two questions should
be considered seperately. I think that
it is the duty of any democratic journal
maintaining that opposition to the abo-
lition of the internal revenue systen
is undemocratic to answer the fol-
lowing questions: Was not the inter-
nal rev^iab -rystora dev’sed and in-
augurated by the repubiicun party :
Has it not been perpetuated by the re-
publican party? Has any national dem -
ocratic convention ever indorsed it?
If not, ho’w ban it be undemocratic to
favor its abolition? Dorf’t the records
of the courts show that it has been in
the hands of the republican party a
great engine to the oppression of the
people of the south? Was there ever
devised a system of taxation which in-
volved more espionage or would be
used more advantageously to vex and
harass the private citizen? Nearly alj
your congressmen and senators favor
taking it off of tobacco. Would this
not leave the system and officials? The
annual revenue of $60,000,000 from
this source is not needed and consti-
tutes only a portion of the annual sur-
plus income, and why not relieve the
people of these necessary officials and
and this undemocratic system, now
that an opportunity presents itself?
THE CRY IN FAVOR
oftaking “the tax off of blankets and
leaving it on whisky” would stand in-
telligent discussion.
The poorer class of ' people are
largely the Consumers of tobacco
and home distilled liquors. If a family
confines it use of liquor to medicinal
purposes only, they will pay more tax
to the government in one year on this
article than they would pay on blankets
in ten years. Even when the revenue
from the internal system was needed,
I didn’t as a Democrat believe in it,
and can’t recall to mind any Demo-
cratic convention which endorsed it.
Whatever tax is raised from liquor and
tobacco had 'best be imposed by state
and counties whore the revenue is most
needed, and where the license system of
collection is not so oppressive or com-
plicated. It would probably be better
for the citizen that,he didn’t use either
liquor or tobacco, but if he does use it,
certainly it will be better for him mor-
ally, physically and politically to get
them pure and cheap, and being home
products, that no discrimination -be
made against them.
It this tax on liquor and tobacco is
right and proper, even then it is better
to abolish the internal revenue system
and let the sixty million dollars per an-
num go into stato and county treas-
uries, where it can be used to advan-
tage. If a man, to be a democrat, must
favor the perpetuation of the internal
revenue system, in whole or in part,
the newspapers holding this opinion
certainly should show some democratic
authority for it. I am quite sure that,
as matters now stand, a majority of
the democratic voters of Texas believe
that the internal revenue system is un-
democratic and unnecessary, and favor
its total abolition. If they arc read out
by the party, it must be done b}7 due
process of law with reference
TO THE HISTORY,
traditions and platform of the party.
In view of the surplus in the treas-
ury-and the objections to the internal
revenue system in itself, it is safe to
say That a vote to perpetuate it in
whole or in part Will not receive the
approval of a majority of the demo-
crats in any district in Texas. Every
distiller of liquor and manufacturer of
tobacco favors the internal revenue,
but the producer aud consumer will
be found naturally against it on eco-
nomic principles, while the masses
who are neither producers nor consum-
ers are opposed to it as a piece of use-
less and oppressive peiitieal machinery,
justified only as a war measure.
If there is a platform that denies mo
the right as a democrat to hold these
views please give me a reference to it.
and perhaps I will recant.
Respectfully, Barnett Gibus.
NOTES FROM CLARKSVILLE.
Clarksville, Tex , Dec. 1.—The
graud jury has been in session :i r over
1 a week. Over forty indictments !lv
been found.
The county jail has fifteen inmate-,
! two charged with bonreide, f< ur
charged with pistol carrying, three
charged with horse stealing am< six
charged with theft.
There has been ice over one aud a
! half inches thick. Duck hunting is the
favorite pastime of the sportsman.
Several parties have gone to the Na-
tion to hunt them.
John Strawn, a cattle man, commit-
ted suicide near Johnson’s Station, oc
I the 9th, without any known cause.
CAN’T GO BEHIND THEM.
There is great intensity of the physics
condition sometimes, and there are facts
which we cannot go behind. In illustra-
tion further of facts which settle the points
of a prompt and permanent cure, the fol-
lowing cases are cited: In 1884 Mrs. Mary
K. Sheed suffered terribly with chronic
neuralgia.- She writes from 1110 Maryland
Avfoue, Washington, D. C. In the first in-
stance she states: “I suffered terribly with
neuralgia in the face; very severe attack
extending to back and shoulders; suffered
intensely. Tried St. Jacobs Oil; had parts
well rubbed at night; in the morning all
pain gone, magically.” June 10, 1887, she
writes from 224 Eleventh Street, S. W., as
follows: lTPoin years_ ago I sent you a vol-
untary certificate setting forth the fact that
I had been a great sufferer with neuralgia m
my face, neck and shoulders. I obtained a
bottle of St. Jacobs Oil, and after three ap-
plications? I was entirely relieved from all
pain, and from that time to the present I
have never had a return. The effect waf
miraculous.” Again, Feb. 6, 1887, Mr. R
G. Troll, St. Louis, Mo., writes: “In March,
188.1,1 suffered terribly with neuralgia ; had
suffered nearly three years. Applied St.
Jacobs Oil at 8.15 A. M.; at 8.40 took the
rag off'; at 9 A, M. went to work. In less1
than five minutes after that the pain was
gone. The one application cured me. Have
not had return of it since.” Mr. E. W.-
Spangler, York, Pa., June 17, 1887, writes:
“Years ago had neuralgia; am not subject to
it now. The cure by the use of St. Jacobs
Oil was permanent. There has been no re-
currence of the painful affliction.” Chas.
W. Law, Jr., Pottstown, Pa., April 19, 1887,
writes : "Was troubled for years with neu-
ralgia in neck and head. Tried St. Jacobs
Oil: had tried different kinds Of remedies
without effect. One bottle of the former did the
business. No return of pain and aches.” In
almost every instance the reports' are the same.
CULLS.
The Concord is an everybody’s graper,
and a fine one in quality, if allowed to
thoroughly ripen in the fall sunlight. It.
will hang on the vine a week pr more
after it is black and apparently ripe, and
all the time becomes richer and better.
The great haste to get frait to the early
market, or to take it from the tempatioff
of birds and boys is our trouble. But
this need not prevent us from having
fully ripened fruit; for, if put between
papers in a thin layer, aud placed in ^
cool room,free from drying drafts of air,
it will keep for along time and the ripen-
ing process slowly continues.
A prominent Western nurseryman has?
advanced the theory that strawberry*
plants from the runners of an|
inferior plant will produce inferior
fruit, regardless of the variety,;
To this he attributes the failure of many
new varieties to meet expectations. He;
says: “My investigations have taught;
me that there is a great variation ins;
different runners of the same plant. In
some there is decided improvement, andj
these are the ones that we want to breed
from, but as a general thing there is aI
tendency to degeneration, as many fine,
fruits which have gone out of cultivation
attest. Plants which have degenerated:
, in quality of fruit propagate faster than1
| those of the higher qualities, and conse-
- quently one can observe how it is that a
i new variety may be ruined by sending1
| out the roots promiscously. For the:
: last four years I have been marking, se-
lecting and throwing out plants which
did not come up to the standard I de-
mand.”
In planting be sure your soil is free
from all impurities, for above all things,
evergreens like a clean soil, and as near
the nature of that from which they are
taken as possible, and even if this has to
be substituted. But let it not be for-
gotten that moisture is a principal
element in successful evergreen planting.
Select a moist time for it if you can.
Spring planting I have always found
with its drawbacks; you arc at once
upon hot, dry weather, with newly
packed soil around the roots, and which
s quite liable to dry sooner than when
it settles from fall.
The Marianna plum,. as tested on the
experiment grounds of the Rural New
Yorker, is a remarkably strong, vigorous
grower.
A correspondent of the Fruit Record-
er says h-e has boiled leaves and stems of
tomato plants until the juice is all ex-
tracted, and finds the liquor deadly to
caterpillars, lice and many other ene-
mies of vegetation. It does not injure
the growth of plants, and its odor re-
mains for a long time to disgust insect
marauders.
All who are well acquainted with prac-
tical gardeners, even though they may
never have been educated in the schools,
are surprised at their intelligence ; at the
general information and habits of re-
flection they exhibit. This knowledge
is the legitimate outgrowth of their vo-
cation.
A Northern paper says : The experi-
ment of bagging grapes previous to their
blooming, is being tried quite extensive-
ly this year on C. H. Smith’s vineyard at
Vineland, New Jersey, and there is every
indication that the experiment will prove
a success, as a preventive of rose bug
ravages and rot. The clusters on
the Smith farm, which were bagged a
week previous to the time of blooming,
are filling out finely, and it is thought
this method will be quite generally adopt-
ed next year.
The Florida Farmer and Fruit Growei
reports: The largest orange ever pro-
duced in Florida has been plucked from
Gardner S. Hardee’s grove in Brevard
county. The variety is known a s the
London NaveL The orange was 15i|
inches in circumference, and weighec
exactly two ounces. This specimen wai
not a grape-fruit, or pome, or any othei
uvergrown variety of the citrus famil]
side from the orange, but was a bom
de orange in every respect
The entire total of the Hebrew race on ttn
surface of the globe is estimated at 6,000,00fi
Buffalo gnats have killed a twenty-foi
hundred-ffoilar Jersey bull ia Memphis, Tea
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