Corsicana Observer. (Corsicana, Tex.), Vol. 33, No. 40, Ed. 1 Friday, July 26, 1889 Page: 2 of 8
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THE CORSICANA OBSERVER.
G. P. Miller, * Editor.
Corsicana, Texas, July 26, 1889.
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J. M. Caldwell was killed in
Mexia Saturday by Geo. Driver.
Caldwell was shot five times by
Driver with a pistol, twice be-
fore and three times after he fell.
It was the outcome of an old
grudge. Driver surrendered to
Marshal Hold.
ALLIANCE OFFICIALS.
Killrain got back to Baltimore;
Sullivan is still said to be on a
spree; Mitchell has left for Eng-
land and Gov. Lowry is now in a
suit with the railway company for
hauling the pugilists to the battle
ground.
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Worry kills more men than
wars.
Experience gets there every
time.
The truth about some men is
not told until after they are dead.
Many a man lives on the repu-
tation other people make for him.
The San Antonio Times is out
in a new dress. It looks neat
and is crisp and newsy.
The earthquake last Friday was
felt in Jonesboro, Ark., Coving-
ton, Tennessee and Memphis.
Memphis,, Tennessee, felt the
quiver of an earthquake last Fri-
day.
John M. Stone was nominated
for governor of Mississippi last
week on the first ballot; M. M.
Evans, lieutenant-governor; Geo
M. Go van, secretary of state; J.
J. Evans,treasurer; W. W. Stone,
auditor and T. M. Miller attorney
general were renominated by ac-
clamation. The work of the con-
vention was finished in one day
in mmill harmony.
Wortham, Texas., July 19.—
The Nevarro county alliance met
at Rabbit Hill yesterday. After
appointing committees it adjoined
for dinner on the ground. It met
again at 1 o’clock. First in order
was the election of the following
officers: R. A. High, president:
L. B. Hayne, vice president;
J. M. McWilliams, secretary;
J. R. Love, treasurer; W. A.
Real, Chaplain; B. F. Ellis, lec-
turer; J. L. Campeer, asstant lec-
turer; Mr. Bruner, doorkeeper.
PAID THE DEATH PENALTY.
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THEY FIRST MAKE MAD!’
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Little Falls, Minn., July 19.—
Albert Bulow was banged at
1:48 a. m. to-day. Bulow met
death bravely and made a con-
fession. The law provides that
newspapers shall publish only
the bare announcement of hang-
ings, but all the Minneapolis and
St. Paul papers contained full
details of Bulow’s execution.
Bulow made a confession, in
which he stated he had worked
for Etch, who owed him ,960,
which he refused to pay. and in
th.e quarrel which ensued he
had shot him.
A WILD SCENE.
The Dublin Telephone rejoices
over a prospect of water works
and an ice factory, and the ap-
proach of another railroad.
The Ft. Worth Gazette is boom-
ing a Ft. Worth and north-west-
ern immigration enterprise. Of
course Ft. Worth would be head-
quarters of the bureau.
Jas. Newsom, the lone high-
wayman who has been in Albany
for a year as a convict for stage
robbing has been brought back
to Waco and granted a new trial.
The statement is made in the
Southern Mercury of last week
that the New Orleans mills will
be able to turn out 44 inch cot-
ton bagging as fast as it is need-
ed. The south should use cotton
bagging to the exclusion of jute
if it can be had in due time. It
is always right to encourage home
industry in every particular, es-
pecially when by doing so a trust
cau be snowed under. Use cot-
ton bagging only.
The flouring mill at Terrell has
put several mule and ox teams on
’the road to deliver the flour out-
put of the mill. The teams do
the hauling cheaper than the rail-
roads. That is the way to solve
the vexed question of freight
rates and a railroad commission.
The state of Texas has as much
right to regulate the subscription
price of a newspaper or the price
of cotton, corn, cattle, horses,
oats, hay, &c., as it has to regu-
late freights by legislative enact-
ment. Competition is the best
regulator.
A paper trust with a capital of
$5,000,000 has been organized in
London. This will raise a howl
in newspaper circles and may
doable the cost of xiaper.
COMMON LAW LIBEL.
The national association of
teachers which met in Nashville
this year adjourned Friday night
last at 11 o’clock. They meet in
St. Paul next year.
The stable aud crib of T. A.
Bounds was burned by an incen-
diary two miles from Wortham
last Friday night and two head of
horses perished in the flames.
The new steel cruiser, Balti-
more, which was tested by her
builders a few days ago, is said
to be the best war vessel in the
United States navy.
A case of smallpox was discov-
ered iu Tyler a few days ago, but
it was promptly quarantined. The
sick man came from Arkansas.
The Review reports the danger
over.
M. M. McFarland, editor of the
New Era, Groesbeck, has enlarg-
ed the Era to 7 columns and in-
fused uew life into the paper. It
is all home print and makes
things hum.
It is stated that 22000 men
were on the sick list in Leaven-
worth, Kansas, in one month.
This was on the account of hav-
ing to register as being sick to
get a drink in a prohibition town.
When the stately young states-
man from Denton was approached
during the last seasion of the leg-
islature and urged to assist in
giving Texas a proper statutory
libel law, he declined'to do so,
saying it would overturn the
common law upon the subject,
which had been digested by age
and settled by wisdom. An arg-
ument to the same effect made
upon tlie floor of the house by a
lawyer of his brilliancv and eru-
dition had great weight in in-
flueuceing the members of the
legislature who were not lawyers,
and the libel bill was defeated.
Let us see how the law now
in effect works.
England is the home of the
common law—the country in
which it attains its highest per-
fection and richest luxuriance.
The London Era showed up the
true inwardness of an alleged
theater in that city some time ago,
the nefarious practices of which
were such as to put it beyond the
pale of enlightened toleration.
The proprietor sued for damages
The paper pleaded truth and
proved every allegation. The
court held that it was no defence,
and the jury mulcted the defend-
ant in heavy damages. An Ox-
ford student wrote to the Pall
Mall Gazette telling how a circus
man trained boys for acrobatic
performances by torture. The
letter was published, a suit
brought. The charges were all
proved, but the Gazette was
forced to pay 87500 damages.—
Fort Worth Gazette.
Bismark, Dak., July 19.—A
wild scean was witnessed near
the Standing Rock agency late
yesterday afternoon when a ter-
rible thunder storm was at its
height. Lightning was darting
hither and thither, striking nu-
merous spots, and the Indians
rushed around howling and
whooping in fright to the shelter
of their wigwams. At last a
blinding flash of lightning, ac-
companied by a deafening clap
of thunder, came from the sky
and actually shook the earth.
Lightning struck a wigwam a
few rods below the agency in
which were huddled five indians,
instantly killing White Horse
and Black Eagle and stunning
another Indian. He will not re-
cover. The other two were un-
conscious for many hours.
A worthy competitor takes us to task for having
ILAU6HTEREB FRIGES I
in our various departments beyond semblance of their pristine plumpness. In his feeble efforts at sar
casm he loses his temper and calls us hard names, and even invokes the spirit of a great Christian divine
to shield him from bodily harm, and to protect his worldly goods.
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C3rOOd. SE3i.X% wherefore this borrowed
thunder hurled at our innocent frames? Have we inadvertently trod on a tender corn?
“May be he is not well:
Infirmity doth still neglect all office,
Whereto our health is bound; we ’re not ourselves
When nature, being oppress’d, commands the mind
To suffer with the body.”
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MAN SHOT AND KILLED.
Temple, Texas., July 20.—At
Pendleton this morning Bob
Blankenship shot Henry Brown
four times iu the body with a
pistol, killing him instautly, and
Sam Brown, a brother of Henry,
shot Blankenship with a charge
of small shot, inflicting a slight
wound in the back. The diffi-
culty grew out of Henry Brown
having called Blankenship a--
in a trivial quarrel a few days ago.
Blankenship was escaping when
Sam Brown shot him. Blanken-
ship was brougnt here by officers
on the noon train.
If all the people in Corsicana
who are talking about opening
business in Blooming Grove
would do so house rent in that
city will hardly pay the insur
anee etc.—Blooming Grove Sun.
The sun is informed that
every business house in this
city is occupied except one anc
it will be in a few days. Cor-
sicana rents and Corsicana
business is alright.
TO CAST TO
* THE FOUR WINDS
To Rid This Fair City of
H. B. Mistrot & Co.
Is what Dame Rumor says is the last hallucination of our melancholy friend.
“Here’s a stay
That shakes the rotten carcass of Old Death
Out of his rags! Here ’s a large mouth indeed,
That spits forth death and mountains, rocks and seas;
Talks as familiarly of rearing lions,
As maids of thirteen do of puppy-dogs!
What cannoneer begot this lusty blood?
He speaks plain cannon, fire and smoke and bounce,
He gives the Bastinado with his tongue;
Our ears are citdgel’d.”
We have no explanations to offer the public further than the references made. While no names are
called in the venomous and uncalled for attacks to which we only mildly retort,
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A i BLIND i MAN $ CAN i SEE i WHITHER i THE i FINGER § POINTS.,
We are loth to enter^ in newspaper polemics with our confreres, but, as the same author with whom we
have taken so many liberties says:
“BEWARE
Of entrance to a quarrel, but being in,
Bear it that the. opposer may beware of thee.”
To Close, in Sfippers^ndLow-Cut Shoes for Ladies,
The press of Texas is ever
watchful of the political tide.
Many of our exchanges cake the
same view of the freight conven-
tion held in Dallas as that taken
by the Observer. The San An-
tonio Times says:
It is to be regretted that a
great state convention, called in
the interest of the people ana os-
tensibly gathered to formulate
measures of relief to the over-
taxed producers of the state,
should have been subordinated
into a political pow-wow to ad-
vance the political fortunes of
one or more individuals, Some of
these days, possibly, the politi-
cians may be taught that there is
a limit to the people’s endurance.
That article in the Observer
last week about the man blowing
the musquitoes out of the house
j with a can of powder should have
Nothing held back. The entire stock marked down below low water mark: Ladies’kid heel antf
toe slippers, formerly 60c, closing price 45c; tetter grade now 55c, sold lor 75c';' andTtihi better,"Than!
some kid lined article, worth $2, closing price $1.15; ladies’ kid operas, handsomely trimmed, now $1.20
and toe slippeis ieduced to 40c, misses heel and toe slippers, nice quality, woith $1 25 reduced to 75c-
misses’ low ties,^ worth $L going at 60c; misses’ low ties, worth $1.25, going at 80c;’ misses, low ties!
worn . 81.O0, going at $1 Oo; child’s kid button low slice at 40c, reduced from 60c; a better quality, worth
SI, lov, only 00c, chnd s kid low ties, worth $1, closing price 65c; child’s kid low' ties, worth Si 25
closing price 80c; Boys ,ow quarter shoes, worth $1.75, a bargain indeed at $1; gents’ baseball canvai
shoes, same as others ask SI for—our closing price 50c.
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lively soon. We will need ROOM and“
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occupy valuable space, so we have unmercifully put the knife in this department also In this sale is in
eluded gents’, boys’, misses and children’s goods; also an entire line of ladies’ trimmed and untrimmed hats’
CLOTHING!
price of making. AVe are not celling them at COST either, hut are prepared to discount ail such rackets!
KEEP AN EYE ON THAT IRISH FLEA
Children Cry for Pitcher’s Castoria.
When Baby was sick, we gave her Castoria.
When she was a Child, she cried for Castoria,
When she became Miss, she clung to Castoria,
When she had Children, she gave them Castoric.
The LX cattle company has put
up thirty six miles of electric wire
fence in Potter county. The wire
is No. 9, plain galvanized, on regu-
lar telegraph insulators, secured
to the lence posts, and kept
charged with battry. Man or
beast coming in contact with it
gets a shock, and on the principle
i that the child avoids the fire, it
j checks the worst fence breaking
j animals. The top wire is used
! for telephone purposes__Ex.
Of French ana scotch extractions. ^ lie will give you fair warning when he is ready to jump; for the
I —-- ----------------— ~ present he is too well satisfied to wish to change quarters. .Scientists call him i:Pulex Penetraus” He
; been credited to the Dallas News, !!°f °f f^ie roving sort, but knows when he lias a fat thing,
but tlie intelligent compositor
j neglected to do so. Of course
Corsicana people are too smart
j to make such experiments.
S. S. Freedman of the dry
goods establishment of R. Freed-
man & Co., left Friday last for
New York. He expects to be ab-
sent about gix weeks, selecting a
stock of goods for the fall and
winter trade.
ONE PBIOE+SPOT CASH!
3EH Bra Mistrot Sz Oo.
I 14, I 16 & I
Corsicana,
18 WEST COLLIN ST„
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Miller, G. P. Corsicana Observer. (Corsicana, Tex.), Vol. 33, No. 40, Ed. 1 Friday, July 26, 1889, newspaper, July 26, 1889; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth875005/m1/2/: accessed April 25, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting San Jacinto Museum of History.