Christian Messenger (Bonham, Tex.), Vol. 3, No. 18, Ed. 1 Wednesday, May 9, 1877 Page: 3 of 8
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ChristiaDj Messenger.
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Crow*wl H«o4*» Be»
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ware!
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ST TTJL STOKES, Of MANCBBSTO, »»Q.
Crowned Heads, beware!—Immor-
tal man vfas never
Designed to be the sport of can-
non balls.
Born from above, and born to live
forever,
In every* death a God-like being
falls.
Yob mock at Heaven when in
bTooay battles, ,
Y6u Uy .his kin by thousands onJ
the plain,
Are roaring cannon aoght but royal
rattles,
Bussian MauMesto »i
War.
Onr faithful and beloved sub-
jects know the strong interest
we have constantly felt in the
destinies of the oppressed
Christian popnlation of Tur-
key. Our desire to ameliorate
and assuage their lot has been
shared by the whole Russian
nation, which now shows itself
ready to bear fresh sacrifices to
alleviate the position of the
Christians in the Balkan pen-
insula. The blood and prop
Thst tell the world where murder pjty of our faithful subjects
new shall roign T
Crowned Heads, beware 1—It fon
wontd have us render -
. Obedience meot to all- “the pow-
ers that be,1” -
Thoso “powers” must prove to us7
mid ours more tender—
The faithful guardians of a people
free.
We were not born thaprey ofproud
ambition;
We were not made to; be a race of
slaves; -
Heaven never gave it as our earthly
mission, . ,
That we should mar the soil with
wrong and right;
And eome it will, despite your vain
denial,
“That kings wbd’qdarrel- be the
men to fight.” s'
Say, is not this a righteous proposi
, turn ? .
(3r can ye offer aught of reason
more?
Yes—nobler Doris that ditfne eon-3
..jfiition,
Where kingwreoolve to give all
fighting o'er.
Crowned Heads, beware!—Your3
wars meatr high taxations;
With widows,-orphans, and a pau-
per's doom \
They mean for man a wide-spread
have always been dear to us
and our whole reign attests our
constant solicitude to preserve
to Russia the benefits of peace.
This solicitude never failed to
actuate ns during the deplora-
ble events which occurred in
Herzegovina, Bosnia, and Bul-
garia. Our object, before all,
was to effect an amelioration in
the position of Christians in the
east by means of pacific nego-
tiations, and in concert with the
great Bnrbpean powers, onr
soldiers' graves
Crowned Heads, bewffro!—Ye, ye
ThTworldTaVk^lwledge now of years we have made incessant
allies and friends. For two
Where fiendish strife for mercy [The Porte has remained unsha
efforts to induce the Porte to
effect such reforms as would
protect Christians in Bosnia,
Herzegovina, and Bulgaria from
any arbitrary measure of the
local authorities. The accom-
plishment of these reforms was
absolutely stipulated by ante
rior engagements contracted by
the Porte toward the whole o;
Europe. Onr efforts, supported
by the diplomatic represents
tions made in common with
other governments, have not
however, attained their object
finds no room.
Then give-them o’er, ye kings, and
list to reason,
Thrones grow in firmness as they
grow in love; 1
And love will deal the death-blow
to all treason—
Then change your eagles for the
peabeltl dove. - *
boy’ll
X wonder flow if any one . i
In this broad land has beard,
In favor of down-trodden boys
* One solitary word ?
We hear enough of “woman's
rights,”
And “rights of working-men,”
Of “equal rights,” and “nation's
rights,”
But pray just tell us when
Boys’ rights were ever spoken off
Why We’ve become so used
To being snubbed by every one,
And slighted and abased,
That when .one is polite to us,
We open wide our eyes, _
And stretch them us astonishment
To nearly twice their size I
Boys seldom dare to ask their
friends
To venture in the bouse;
It don't oome natural at ail
To creep 'round like a mom
And if we should forget ourselves
And make a little noise I
Then ma or anntie sure would aay,
“Ob, iay! those dreadful beys.”
The-girls bang on the piano,
In peace, but if the boys
Attempt a tone with fife and dram,
It's “Stop that horrid noise!”
ken in its formal refusal of any
effective guarantee for the secu
rity of its Christian subjects
and has rejected the conclusions
of the Constantinople confer-
ence.
Wishing, to essay every pos
sible means on conciliation in
qrder to persuade the Porte, we
proposed to the other cabinets
to draw up a special protoco
comprising the most essentia
conditions of the Constantino
pie conference, and to invite the
Turkish government to adhere
to this international act, which
stated the extreme limits of our
peaceful demands ; but our ex-
pectation was not fulfilled. The
Porte did not defer to this unan-
imous wish of Christian Eu-
rope, and did not adhere to the
conclusions of the protocol.
Haying exhausted pacific efforts
we are compelled by the
haughty obstinacy of the Porte
to proceed to more decisive
acts, feeling that our equity and
our own dignity enjoin it By
her refusal, Turkey places us
under the necessity of having
recourse to arms. Profoundly
convinced of the justice of our
Indian. Item#*
On the reservation of the
Quawpaws, Senacas, Mid other
small tribes in the north-west
corner of the Indian Territory
there are about 1000 Indians".
The Cherokees number 16,-
500 ; whites and negroes in the
Cherokee Nation, 4,300.
The Choctaws number about
20,000 ; 3,000 colored residents,
ireviously slaves of the Choc-
;aws, but who are not citizens,
are allowed a right of domicile,
awaiting action of the • govern-
ment in accordance with the
;reaty of 1866. There are also
800 white residents in the Choc-
taw Nation.
The ' ChickasaWs number
about 6000; white citizens 400;
negroes not citizensv hut resi-
dents under the treaty of 1866,
1000. '. £ . '
- The Creek Indians about 14
000; negro citizens 1400; white
pitizens 340.
The'Seminotes number about
2500 Indians; 400 negro citizens;
white citizens about 160.
Reservations—Cherokee res-
ervation, 3,778,000 acres.; Choc-
taw, 4,688,000 acres; Chicka-
saw, 3,150,000 acres ; Creek 4,
000,000 acres; Seminole, 205
000 acres. [Note—About one
half of the Seminole reserve is
estimated in the Creek country
by an error in the line.
Summary— Indians within
the limits of the reservations Of
the five civilized tribes and the
bands affiliated with them 49,i
500; colored people formerly
slaves and admitted as citizens
under the treaties, about 4,000;
residentnegfoes formerly slave*
of the CJhoctaws and Chicka*
sawB, but not citizens by adop-
tion, 3,300. „ j
Permits —There are living in
the Cherokee Nktion under the
system of permits about 2,000
white citizens - of. the United
States; in the Choctaw Nation
about 1800; in the Chickasaw
Nation about 2000; in the Creek
Nation about 800; in the Semi-
nole Nation :about 200. Total,
about 7,800.. .
Total population of the res-
ervations above,reamed and oc-,
cupied by civilized ' Indians,
whites and negroes, abofit 79
000.—[Caddo News.
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HAKNESS & SADLERY
E M P O RIUM!
SEAMAN, TEXAS.
Occupied th© first floor of the
BPS • ^ j
argest
offered in Shtnman, consisting of
any and everything usually kept
in the harness^n^Jtfwdlery business
which they are selling at
VERY REpUCiiD PRICES.
Saddlery hardware, of every des-
cription and lieed,-always on hand.
Jobbing 4rad»h specially. Call and
809 us before purchasing elsewhere.
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19* At Aloxander Building..
“That horrid noise !* just think of It; | cause, and humbly committing
When sister never fails
To make a noise three times as bad
With everlasting “scales.”
Insulted thus, we lose no time
Day’s‘Ague Tonic
GIVfcJr AWAY ' 1
To air persons who have chills and
fail to be cured. It is not often
during these hard times that we
eurnr hear of anything being given
away, but in the present case we
have an article that will bear the
closest scrutiny, and severest test in
every sense of the word, and feel
determined to place it before the
public in such a manner that there
can not be a “ doubting Thomas.”
To all who may be afflicted with
any form of ague, or chills and fe-
ver, we make the proposition
TO ALL PERSONS
To cure you with one bottle of Day’s
Ague Tonic.
It never produces partial deaf-
ness, dimness of visi#ii, buzzing or
roaring in the head, or any of those
unpleasant symptoms that follow
the use of quinine ; it does not con-
tain arsenic, sfrehnine or any other
poison ; it acts finely upon the* liver
and bowels without the use of nau-
seating pills; it can bo given to
those whoso stomachs reject quinine,
and the cures aro prompt, effectual
and permanent.
Procure from any druggist or
merchant, one bottle of Day’s Ague
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cures that we recond«d in <the annals oc
trying different remfidifs.. speeding thou-
sands of dollars in traveling an<f doctor-
in# have, by thd u««:of a few bottle*,
eutinly rtcovtrtd Uf0tr, ktaltk.
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Northwest-corner square,
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B. ABERNATHY
Is nenr receiving thu largest and
neatest stock of stock of dry goods
in the city. < v2nll*
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HOLMAN?
In beating a retreat;
So off we go to romp and tear,
And scamper in the street.
No wonder that ao.many boya
Such wicked men beoome;
'Twere better far to let them have
Their games and.plays at home.
Pevhape the teat the teacher quotes
Sometimes—“Train up a child”—
Mean* only tram the little girls,
And l«t the boyo run wild.
But patience, and the time shall
come ’ •
When we if>ft all be men,
And when it doea, 1 rather think
Wrong? will be righted then.
—Pen and Plow, i
ourselves to the grace and help ; Tonic, use it as directed, and if it
of,he Most High we «,ake|1f,h^Xnd».f"d
known to our faithful subjects I WHO HA WE CHILLS,
that the moment, foreseen when j This is surely a fair proposition,
we pronounced the words
A9tH
AMp
A Curious Qood Thing
fkat «Mtb lavmtttaHoaJ
fCt (tofia* opyodtioa;
natamtamsniWUar ,
ncrpMAUp, r
U MdlttM vttk OjERa eotni
absorption, acting on tb* liror and «
light over tbdr apoadr raleaao from .nSbrina
yet strange to say, none have been
| returned to us. Druggists and mer-
which all Russia responded chants say it gives more complete
with complete unanimity, has satisfaction, and sells more readily
now arrived. We expressed thftn an.v chi11 remedy they ever sold.
the intention to ac, independ-l^,% ^edotur
ently when we deemed it neces- j v2n26
sar\r, and when Russia’s honor -------
demanded it In now invoking! CHURCH DISCUSSION.
the?blessing of God upon our onfy real digcU88ion botxvecn thc
valiant armies, we j Baptists and Disciples in print. It
the order to cross the lurkis^ *,g u weu bound book t>f moro than
frontier.
(Signed)
Alexander.
500 pages. Sent by mail at 82.00.
Address D. B. Ray, Lagrange, Mo.
v* Cum taut,
Of Thom Moo, Goodrich A Co., Bat Hoorn ,QlocUn*a.
Dr. D. W. FAIRCHILD, Prop., Cincinnati.a
► OrUF. SNOB61. rent A«wt, f
W. W. DOGGETT,
DEALER IN
Family Groceries,
HUXIIAM, TEXAS,
Keeps always on hand a splendid
stock of Fresh Family Supplur,
which he intends to sell
CHEAPER THAN ANYBODY.
Mr* Call and see.
Just south of the post-offioe.
v3-n8—lyr
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F Jr. ABER3UJ2Y,
Real Estate & Immigra-
tion Agent,
BONHAM, PAN NCR OO^ TEXAS.
. . » .
Will buy, sell qnd ’Pent land; ex-
amine titles, fund lb abstracts, and
pay taxes on kiffil Will also take'
special paint 4o yenre homes tor
immigrants. > i. * ‘ .
References: Chat. Carlton,
j. R. Russell, S. B. Allen, Cashier
Fannin County Bank. B. F. Hay*,
W. A. Nunnelec and J. M. Nnnn.
2-49 ——•
If YO€J WAN*
A FINE PICTURE
Ol jdbtiftT, go to
J. L. CAYLOB'S,
West Side of Square. 3-12
Palace Stable,
OPPOSITE BEENEY HOUSE.
AND
Rail-Road Stable,
South-east corner Public Square,
BONHAM, TEXAS.
Lake C. Wilson,
Would rcspectAilly announce to his
old frtendA that be has
GOOD STOCK,
Plenty of teed and attentive hostlers
Thankful for past fevopn, he r*>
specitully »olicitb a cvntiuuunco of
tne same. 2:14
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Burnett, Thomas R. Christian Messenger (Bonham, Tex.), Vol. 3, No. 18, Ed. 1 Wednesday, May 9, 1877, newspaper, May 9, 1877; Bonham, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth974488/m1/3/?rotate=270: accessed April 24, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Bonham Public Library.