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•VOL. I.
Christian Messenger.
No. 31.
THE MESSENGER.
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 18,1875.
Bro. Burnett will start to tlie
Cleburne debate on Friday, the 20th,
to report the same for publication.
All who wish to see a fair synopsis of
this discussion (both sides) in print,
should subscribe for the Christian
M ks&enger at once.
Notes ol' Travel.
Texas Items.
I left homo early on the morning atta>
of the 2Gth ulL, bound for the south- a
em districts of Texas, trusting to
the liberality of the brethren there
for support while preaching the gos-
pel for a few months. I reached
the depot at Bonham in time for the
train, and was soon whirling away
for the city of Dallas, where I was
to receive a horse upon- which to
make the trip across the state. Ar-
rived same evening, and found Bro.
Wheat holding his pony in readiness
for me, according to agreement.
Early next morning I started upon
my journey southward, and alter
nearly three days’ travel over a rich
but thinly timbered country, reached
Waco. My pony, which was entirely
too small for such a trip, being very
much jaded, I yielded to the urgent
request of the brethren of Waco to
to remain with them over Lord’s
day. »I found some as noble souls
here aa it has been my lot to meet,
but the congregation in the main is
not letting its light shine as I would
like to have seen. I preached four
discourses, mostly to the church,
ivith increasing interest. Hope the
labor was not in vain. 1 think the
preaching brethren that have labor-
ed withrthe church at Waco have
dojm as they do in other parts fre-
quently—fed the sinners and secta-
tarians plentifully, but neglected to
feed the flock. On .Saturday night
ifty pony wa& stolen !—out of the
stable where bo had been placed for
safe keeping. This left mo afoot,
and no means to buy another horse.
Hr. Moore offered to buy me anoth
or horse as good ns the one T had,
but I did not think he could make
toe trip <*on:c:nplato<J, and knowing
that I could And a field of labor al-
most any 'vhwc else that I might
go, I concluded -to not make the in
vestment. 1 .turned iny course
homeward. At McKinney I took
passage with a couple of friends in
a two horse wagon, and was soon
landed in a good field of labor,
where I was requested to hold a
meoting, which I did. The result
was six additions; three from the
Baptists, two from the Methodists
and one from the world. I collect
ed them together, with two disciples
already here, and sot them in work-
ing order, and left them rejoicing in
the hope of life. I trust there was
good s- ed sown in the neighborhood,
that will bear fruit in future time.
It was a.new thing in that section.
From there I tame to White Rock,
Mmvijng on Monday night, to join
in in his meeting here.
rours in tho one hope,
L. B.* Grogan.
— Texas has 1,500,000 inhabitants.
— A heavy hail storm swept over
Marion county last week.
— Fine callage bring five cents
a head at Bonham.
— Jefferson Davis refuses to accept
a free-gitl home in Texas.
— Longview has a lightning rod
manufactory.
— Galveston has been having a
Geueral News.
The Chinese language is taught in
a normal school at Boston.
Beecher is to be put upon trial in
September, for adultery.
There are five Granges in the
Chickasaw nation.
The Sioux and Crow Indians had
a pitched battle in Montana,recently.
There was a slight snow in some
of the eastern states on the 2d.
Jackson, Michigan, boasts of a
horse over fifty years of age.
A San Francisco letter writer says
that every month 2,500 fresh China-
men are imported into this country* •^oiin Wolston,
C. G. W ELLS,
Bro. FJ
Letter
from Gov.
ton.
Ovor-
— Oliver Cromwell was drunk
and down in Galveston the other
day.
— Gonzales county threatens to
make a bale and a half of cotton to
tho acre this season.
— A regularly organized band of
robbers, it is thought, are operating
through northern Texas.
— A camp meeting at Pittsburg,
Camp county, had been going on a
month at last accounts.
— Smith county claims to make
more peas, potatoes and turnips
than any other.
— The Baptists and Methodists
are each building a 82,000 church
house at Fort Worth.
— A farmer in Erath county
raised 000 bushels of oats on six and
one-seventh acres of ground.
— The temperance people at the
village of Blanco City are 300
strong.
— A Belton doctor took a tape
worm eleven feet long from a little
negro boy near that place.
— A Harris county fruit grower
sold seven barrels of pears at $28 a
barrel.
— A sheep raiser in Atascosa
county has brought over 10,000 ewes
from Mexico.
— Water-melons weighing sixty
and seventy pounds are reported in
many sections of the state.
— It is said Texas will export two
and a hah’ million husliels of wheat
ihis year, I esi ies keeping enough
for home consumption.
— Jeffers-n is going to have a
soap factory, a shoo string factory,
a razor strap factory, and a wind !
mill.
— Two hunters at Jefferson, while ! firmed opium eaters in tho United
Notwithstanding the grasshoppers,
Kansas is going to export ten mill-
ion bushels of wheat this year.
Atlanta, Ga., has twenty-five
prosperous manufactories, the larg-
est of which employs 700 hands.
Dr. Peters, of Litchfield observa-
tory, claims to have discovered two
new planets.
The New York Sun now runs
seven Bullock presses, and can print
120,000 papers an hour.
A young man and woman, who
were betrothed, were drowned at
Niagara on the 9th while bathing.
Hans Christian Andersen, a Ger-
man poet and author of note, died
at Copenhagen recently.
A school teacher at St. James, La.,
got himself murdored for a bundle
of counterfeit bank bills which he
had on his person.
A magazine in Frankfort arsenal,
Pa., exploded on tho 7th, killing 40
men and wounding 100 more, many
of whom will die.
A gentleman of Jackson, Tenn.,
has preserved in alcohol a bed bug
caught in a bed where Gen. Andrew
Jackson slept. ;
Dr. Gilbs reports the mortality of
the poor children of New York as
being over one hundred daily, prin-
cipally from cholera infantum.
The richest woman in America is
the wife of Prof. Gammel, of Rhode
Island, who has an income of a mil-
lion a year. v
Jury fees are 25c. a day in Ohio.
It is said there are 130,300
Teacher Wanted.—A good teacher
for a high school is needed at Ben-
ton, in western Texas. Write to J.
It. Sweeten. It is thought 100 stu-
dents can be had to commence with,
in a new two-story stone house pre-
pared for the purpose.
C. K.
WOLSTON, WELLS & VIDOR
Cotton Factors
—AND—
Commison Merchants
League Building, 73 Strand,
Ciias. Vidor,
Galveston, Texas.
vol. l-no-27-3m.
NEW STOCK
—OF—
COII-
Wo publish the following private,
hitter Irvin Guv. Overton beeatwuol!ten thuu“n<l doll“™ P°r w«ek
swimming a lake in pursuit of a
deer, were themselves pursued by a
huge alligator.
— The proportion of Democrats
to Republicans in the constitutional
convention is estimated to be about
eight to one.
— Col. Anthony Bryant, of Gray-
son count}*, lost 1,000 bushels of
wheat by the late rains. Great de-
struction is reported everywhere.
* — The Baptists preached and
prayed seven days and nights at
Jasper, aud only drew into the fold
two backsliders; and Jasper is con-
sidered a hard place.
— The state geologist announces
that the deposits of iron and coal in
the state are much greater than has
heretofore been supposed, and of
bolter quality.
— Forty counties m Texas, it is
said, are now receiving from five to
for
tho kind,
manifests:
Christian spirit that <t
wheat, and there will
circulation soon.
ho money in
- — Hugh Rogers, on his way to
Tishomingo Citt, C. X., ^ j Hill county in a wagon with his
Bro. Chas. Carlton*?** ! lured man, Jones, was murdered by
Doar Sir:—Alter n.y -<ouq.ii- Thnuh-d tho body two
inents to you anil your*, I happy j days in the wagon and then sunk it
to info .-m you that there is nothing jin a lake and escaped with the wag
to prevent yom meeting with us at
Prairie Valle}- .'School-ho us* on the
5th Sunday and Saturday before, for
the giand purpose of talking on the
glorious theme of salvation. I will
announce on to-morrow the time set
for your preaching, aud do hope
that many may attend, to hear the
good word of the Lord proclaimed.
Please write the time, and place at
Denison, to meet you, and I will
be there myself or send some good
jterson to bring you up. Hoping
the great Ruler of time and eternity
will bless your humble efforts to
«ave the ungodly, I am,
Yours fraternally,
B. F. Overton.
Bro. Carlton will attend the ap-
pointment and preach, at the time
designated.
on and team.
— The coroner’s jury that sat on
the body of Dr. Brandis, at Beeville,
decided : “ Came to his death from
tho effects of intemperance.” An-
other warning to the youth of the
country.
— The cotton mills of Houston,
the past twelve months, has turned
oul 1,000 yds. osnaburgs, 20,000 j
shirtings, 6,000 drilling, 19,000 low-
alls, 3,000 ticking, 6,000 cottonade,
10,1rtOO hickory, 2,000 checks, 2,000
cheviot, and other productions.
— Amo.ig prominent delegates in
tlw constitutional convention are:
______ j E. B. Pickett, J. P. Douglass, Jno. II.
Editors Messenger:—Meeting just Abater Hanagan, J. L.
c’osed on Brushy, Anderson county, U^ory, W. L. Crawford, W. P. Mc-
with eighteen additions. Tho last Lean, Chas. DeMorse, W. P. Ballin-
da s of July I had three additions ;<er, Col. Geo. Flournoy, Gen. Rob-
m "r°"rri-, *... s... w.
of the above were converted from
among the Baptists.
T. M. Sweeney.
August 15, 1875.
K\ Gov. Stockdalc, C.
B Wright, K. L
German and others.
8. West, W.
States.
The Winsrted pin factory turns
out one pin per week for each man,
woman and child in the United
.States.
The great floods in the up country,
it is said, will cauic the Mississippi
river to overflow all the territory
Irom Cairo to the sea.
Dr. Lovick Pierce, in his 91st
year, delivered the address and laid
the corner stone of the Wesleyan
Monumental church at Atlanta, on
the 10th.
It is said there are not 200 men in
Connecticut that have not invented
some kind of a hair pin or lug poi-
son, or something.
Only one person in ten thousand
lives to be 100 years old, only one
in five hundred to be 80, and only
one in one hundred to be 65.
The new constitution of Missouri
forever prohibits the lottery business
in that stats, or the selling of lottery
tickets-for any purpose whatever.
*»• v
Oxford, Cambridge, London, Ed-
inburg, Harvanl, Colby, and other
universities have adopted the co-
education of the sexes.
A man in Iowa has applied for a
patent on a plow that is to be work-
ed by wind power. We have heard
of tho wind work of farming oper-
ations before.
An Indiana court has decided that
a girl may be engaged to three or
four gentlemen at the same time, and
sue any of them for broach of prom-
ise.
There is now not a single Ex-
Prosident living. Within twelve
; years five have died—Buchanan,
'Pierce, Lincoln, Fillmore and John-
son. Mrs. Polk, Mrs. Tyler, Mrs,
Fillmore, Mrs. Lincoln and Mrs.
Johnson are still living.
The Mormons are greatly excited
over the trial of certain participa-
tors in what is known as the Moun-
tain Meadows Massacre,in 1857—the
fiendish murder of a large hand of
emigrants by Indians, instigated by
Mormon leaders. The jury, which
is part Mormon, has disagreed, but
it is confidently believed the parties
guilty, aud
SPRING GOODS,
at tiie
Dohoney, Jas. L.!UIV K ,!ia,1‘>r Imminent
D • persons are implicated,
• Jmui Young down.
from
Brig-
Williams Brick Store
WEST SIDE OF SQUARE,
—Consisting of—
Dry Goods, Clothing
Boots, Shoes, Hats, Etc., Etc.'
Also, a fine and largo assortment
ol QUEENSWARE,
These goods arc all fresh and new
and w-ill be sold cheap for cash.
J. B. ABERNATHY.
W. K. HOMAN.
Attorney at Law,
Caldwell, Burleson Co., Texas.
Will pay special and prompt at-
tention to real estate business and
the collection of debts. 1-14.
R. W. CAMPBELL. T. B. COX.
CAMPBELL & COX,
Attorneys at Law,
Bonham, Fannie County, Texas.
Will practice in the. Courts ol
Fannin, Lamar, Hunt, Collin and
Grayson counties, and in the Su-
preme Court. 1-11
DORMAN, HOLMES A CO.
TIIE (iREAT AMERICAN
Piano Forte House.
BONHAM
Christian College
SECOND ANNUAL SESSION
Begins September 6th, 1875.
Land for Sale.—One hundred
and twenty acres of good timber
land, in Kaufman county, ten miles
southwest of the town of Kaufman
and one mile and a half north of
the village of Union Grove. A good
bargain will he given. Apply to
Cuas. Cardton, Bonham, Texas.
25 tf.
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THOMAS MOORE.
JAS. T. MOORE.
This Institution is located in the
most moral community in the whole
state of Texas. There is less to
tempt tho young aud inexperienc-
ed from the paths of virtue and
lead them into vice and dissipation.
Being away from the great centers
ot trade, and off the great thorough-
fares of the country, yet easily ac-
cessible. The position of the Col
lege is the most advantageous that
could be desired, because removed
from all the miasmata that pollute
the moral atmosphere of all the
great centers of travel and trade.
Tho healthfulncss of the city of
Bonham, and vieinty is well known
to all those persons familiar with
its history, from the forting up ol
Bailey Inglish and family to tho
present day. Let the traveler visit
the grave yards. Are they crowd
ed? No. Yet, the citizen and
stranger arealike enjoying the re-
pose of this last resting place. Look
at the doctors. Not one of them
has grow n rich; but they seem rath-
er to be living for the good of oth-
ers, insomuch as they have food
and raiment and can obtain no
more.
The College was chartered by
the Legislature of the state of Tex-
as, at its last session, and by this
means invested with all the rights,
privileges and powers that belong
to any Institution of the same grade
in the state of Texas. Any young
gentleman or lady can here find
ample opportunity to pursue a sci-
entific or classical course of study,
and secure all the honor bestowed
by any college, on all who have
completed the appointed curriculum
of stu'ny. Tiie fullness of the aj>-
pointed studies is sufficient to satis-
fy the desires of all the friends of
sound learning and thorough schol-
arship. It will always bc^the pur-
ose of the Trustees to make Bkm-
lam Christian College all tho age
demands, and tho course of sound
learning requires.
Since there is a great want of
good opportunity to acquire a pri-
mary education in the different
parts of the country, there is organ-
ized, to make up for this deficiency,
a primary and sub-collegiate de-
partment under the control of the
best teachers the country affords.
Students can, at any stage of their
progress, enter some departments
of the College and go on success-
fluly.
The Musical department is of the
first “class, as the advancement of
the pupils in the past clearly dem-
onstrates. In connection with this
department all kinds of needle, hair
and wax work are taught.
The accommodations of the Col-
lege building are adequate to meet
the wants of three hundred stu-
dents. Tho building is seated with
the best article of patent scat and
desk, from the Sterling Manufactur
ing Company, 111. The apparatus of
College is good.; and a good nucle-
us for a library has-already been se-
cured by the gift of some rare
works Irom J. T. Walton,, of Waco,
and the purchase of others of great
value.
Tho teachers of tho College are
as good as can be found in the land
.—being graduates from the best
schools in the country, and of long
experience in the art of teaching.
Tho expenses of the College are
as small as any school of the same
advantages in the land.
Tuition per month:
Collegiate Dcp’t, - • - - $5 00,
Sub-Collegiate, .... 4 00,
Primary, ...... 3 00.
Music,, (no extras) ... 6 00,
Matriculation fee for Library, 2 50.
TEXAS DEPARTMENT.
DOKMAN, HOLMES & CO.
, Manufacturer und Dealei iu
Pianos & Organs
GENERAL OFFICE, TEXAS DEPARTMENT
Corner Commerce and Market
streets, Dallas.*
Supply Depots or Branch offices at
all important points
in the State.
NEW YORK OFFICES :
No. 14 East Fourteenth Street.
CENTRAL SOUTHERN DEPOT:
No. 83 Church street, Nashville,
Tenn.
P
h,
To facilitate business, we havo
made our General office for the
State, at DALLAS, where all orders
and correspondences from Texas
should be addressed. Tho instru-
ments will be sont from the nearest
supply depot.
PIANO S
In addition to our own make, the
DORMAN, HOLMES * CO.’S
Grand Scale Piano
9
We control for this and several other
states the renowned
Cockering & Sons
Steinway. BRADBURY
and other first class PIANOS, that
we ran deliver to our customers, at
any railroad station in Texas, just
as cheap as same instrument ran be
bought from Factory in New York
or Boston, saving them the expense,
delay and risk of trans]K>rtatiou.
We have splendid pianos for $290,
850 and $400.
We supply families direct, giving
them every advantage usually givou
agents.
PIANO S
Pianos and Org;nu Sold on no&lkJjr
lftbTAUMkms.
Second Hand Instruments Taken in
Exchange for New.
Pianos and Organs made to Order
With Silver Insertion Plate *
when desired.
Tuning aud Repairing done
Skillful workmen aud sat-
isfaction guaranteed.
A large stock of PFANO STOOLS
and SPREADS at bottom
prices.
Pianos and Organs
for Rent.
Wax-work, etc.,
rates.
taught at tiie usual
No deductions except in rases of
1,
protracted sickness. Students may
enter at any time and pay to the
close of the term.
Send us your sons and daughters
that we may help them prepare j
themselves for the battle of life.
Let the churches of Christ look]
out the young men and women oi l
talent, energy ami zeal in tho Mas- j
tor’s service and help them to ob-
tain an education, by which their'
usefulness will be greatly increased, j
For particulars inquire of
CHAS. CARLTON,
President.
MOOltE J!c MOOItE.
ATTY’S. AT LAW
WACO, TKXAS.
vol. 1 no--27-Cm.
All kinds of Musieal Instruments,
Sheet Music and Music Mer-
chandise, furnished at
Lowest prices.
Pianos ran be exchanged at any time
for any make, if not giving
perfect satisfaction.
Parties living in towns on any of
the different lines of railroad
iu the state, wishing to test
any of our instruments
before buying, ran have
them placed in their homes
for trial, without extra cxjiense
We guarantee the most Perfect sat-
isfaction in ever}’ respect.
©RGTAitfS
FOR CHURCH OR PARLOR,
Of any make at wholesale prices.
DORMAN, HOLMES & CO.
Are among tho largest dealers in
PIANOS
m the United States.
Their trade is now extending ovor
nearly the outire country, and
will guarantee to deliver
PIANOS AND ORGANS,
At any point in the state at lower
prices and better terms than
any ether house.
do. 24—Iv.
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