The Christian Messenger. (Bonham, Tex.), Vol. 2, No. 5, Ed. 1 Wednesday, February 9, 1876 Page: 3 of 4
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Yol. II.
Christian Messenger.
No. 5.
THE MESSENGER.
Texas Items.
WEDNESDAY, FBB. 9, 1876.
All communications for the papei
and all money for tho Messenger, ; jcan ^,^1^ in Tartar tents or Arab
should be addressed to Carlton &
Burnett, Bonham, Texas.
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Bro. O’Brien’s views published in
the Messenger this week are a little
■‘peculiar,’ but we desire to give all
a hearing.
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We are only giving the principal
■points of the White Mound debate.
Where the speakers made no points,
we give none. This accounts for
the brevity of some of the speeches.
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Copy your article over till you get
the wind and gall out ol it; fill the
space with charity and your readers
will smile the editor will smile;
and that other little fellow, whose
name and duties are too tedious to
saentiqn, will laugh outright.
Bro, C. & B.:
Palestine congregation,
day in Januar} , two members
Brushy )'esterday there were nine
additions.
T. M_ Sseeney.
Feb. 7ih, 1876.
The following sensible, practical
suggestions are taken from tho Aus- j on]y vacant house in Kerr
tin Statesman: county is tho jail.
This shooting and fighting, w hich Beecher is coming to Texas—the
now and then disgraces Texas towns,
would be fine in Bengal or in Mex- papers say.
Corn is up and growing finely on
hovels. Shooting and killing and jower Bio Grande,
bludgeons settle no question oftruth
or honor or courage except such as
that in which a bull-terrier must still
excel our race, and it is time that
laws of decency and. modern civili-
zation were approved and in vogue
everywhere in Texas. Vulgar fel-
lows have infinite pride in bloody
achievements with heavy fists and
gloaming knives or rattling pistols,
but a mule that kicks an Ethiopian
off his pins is as glorious a conquer-
or and chivalric a hero as the street
fighter or blushing demagogue oi
vulgar bully of the brothel, dram
shop or court-yard. No two men
are physical equals, and for the wea-
ponless, unequal pair to fight like
brutes is gross wrong to one or the
other, and if one be beaten to a
shapeless mass the other is only a
bane bruiser who made cowardh* and
crate! use of superior strength or of
a club when his victim wao helpless.
Collin county had a hail storm
last week which lasted halt a day.
Dan Bice, the show man, is in
Texas. Also Tom Thumb.
They have an animal at Houston
that is half dog and half cat.
Prof. M. H. Loorey has lefl Sul-
phur Springs and gone back to
Gilmer, to teach.
Mrs. Gen. Sherman and family
are spending the winter at San
Antonio.
One hundred immigrants from
Kansas City are settling in San
Jacinto county.
They are eating roasting ears in
southern Texas, from a volunteer
crop that has grown this winter.
A herd of donkeys sold by the
Receiv ed^rj jf two men 8h0ot at earh other the
On result settles nothing. The facts in- 8iieriff jn Gonzales county brought
volved remain as they were beh>re< . , ,
The lie is still the lie, and 40 ce*lts Per hcad-
tell
•of the wicked, and-a thorough
ntation of soul-sleeping, send to
Chase & Hally Cin., for Roe’s work,
*' It is the
Bible vs. Materialism,
best we have ever seen on the
ject.
sub-
the fight.
a man wronged was never righted
by murder. But fighting is sense-
less and ruinous to communities that
• Col. Lang, Master of the State
Grange, will run his farm in Falls
.TfferTt don™ Strangers'," hen ring JnO' this year with convict labor,
of the hyena-like habits of a town, j A <«ougau* made its way into the
If you want a book that will
-von much in regard to the “inter- i
^ r ♦ £ -i .ipatii»v‘ nervously and watchfully when ' enpitoi grounds at Austin, the other
mediate state aed the final destiny. ; , which fights are . 1 h. , . . . ,
of the wicked, and -a thorough ref-t^ ®L Mnc,,,tcl. and it ,» a no- >h.y, and was chased and lulled by
■commonly generated,
eessity imposed by dollars and cents,
as well as by commn sense, that
these gladiatorial shows, in which
bludgeons and fists and pistols are
so fiercely employed, should he sup-f
pressed by public opinion. There op his winter quarters.
Bro. Sweeny is still preaching for is nothing gained in the estimation The j>enton Review leanu that
with attentive congregations, j ofthose whose good opinion is worth ^ men
There is much interest manifested the having byillusfratinghull-terrier f w
b.t not a corresponding action. «elephan.in. Mb m. f“r “ttt« * teW
_ , , . .. . , ? .* I. street or bar-room or courtyard fight, dais ago.
We had tour additions by letter last However reckless and brave one Tvvenly jicftd of horses belonging
night and ono by confession. He may show himself in the Woody, n ,, f , , .
will continue the meeting over next dirty buisincss, Hardin, the horse 0 OVNe „ ero . .u” *#l
thief and nnu*derer, is ewen
ms
the eleVks.
AnliUigator three feet long was
found in the hollow of a tree in
Walker county, where he bad taken
were hung in Montague
Administrator’s Sale!
DY VIRTUE OF AN ORDER OF
Sale made by the District Court
of Bastrop county, Texas, at its No-
vember term, A. D. 1875, in the
matter of the estate of William
Daniels, deceased, the undersigned
administrator of the estate of said
Wdliam Daniels, deceased, will sell
at public auction on the first Tues-
da}-, the 7th day of March, 1876, in
front ot the court house door of
Bastrop oonnty, Texas, all the right,
title and interest (which is lielieved
to be about one-sixth) of said estate
of William Daniels, deceased, in
and to the following described tracts
of land, to-wit: 19,293,785 square
varas of land situated half in Gray-
son and half in Fannin counties,
Texas, patented to Edward Daniels,
deceased, and designated in Gray-
son county by abstract No. 188, and
in Fannin' count}- by abstract No.
161}-ind 6,666,666 2 3 square varas
in Cooke t^unty, Texas, abstract
No. 103, patented to Edward Dlii-
j(to, deceased. Also 640 acres of
Tfounty^lnoii in Fannin county,
Texas,Tvbsifflet No. 172, patented to
said Edtaird Daniels, deceased.
Said land w ill be sold in tracts of
not more tjmn forty, and not less
than tch aepps each.
A plot showing all of said subdi-
visions will be exhibited on the day
of sale.
Said sale wil! be for United States
currency to pay debts against said
estate, ahd on a credit of six months
with the securities for the purchase
money required by law.
R. A. RUTHERFORD,
Administrator of the Estate of Win*
Daniels, deceased.
Lord’s day.
Yours in love.
W.H. Andrews.
r .
Ckrlstiiin Influence.
“ A new commandment I give
unto you, that ye love one anotlier
as 1 have loved you, that ye also
love one another. By this shall all
men know t'ha't ye arc my disciples,
if ye have love one to •another.’
John juii. 94-35. “Neither pray I'
for these alone, but far them also
which shall believe on me through
their w-ord, that they all may be
one, as thou Father art in me and
i in thee, that they also may be
one in us, tbaUke world may believe
4 hat thou hast went m«J” John xvii.
20-21. Love and unity among thc
diseijiles of Jesus Christ is that
leaven -which will leavon the whole
Jump. Christianity without lovi
and ■ unity is liko the earth upon
which we live with its sun shut out
by a clouded sky, its atmosphere is
cold and darn, and its vegetation'
ceases to come forth. Malice, con
Mention and .strife among Christians
are the clouds 1?hat shut out the Sun
•of Righteousness from the hearts ot
men, and its life-giving influence is
dost in the clouds, lewr;ing4he Christ-
ian atmosphere chifl^' and dark.
Oh, wlmt sacrifices of our opin-
ions and preferences should we make
more dead together on the prairie in Live
daring and more reckless ofliis own Oak county.
and ofthc lives ofothers, and ifTex j Kevs. Vandivere, Brennan and
as must become one of the civilized IIopkill8 threc poachers, are can-
nations \t is time we were adopting, 1 ’ ' . ’ ...
modes of thinking and hahjts of ae-jdldatea *<>r offiw} 1,1 Williamson
fion in vogue among older, wiser, county.
richer and more civilized peoples. ^ Joe and George Ilomer, two ot
j tho Comanche bank robbers, have
been arrested, and much of the mon-
ey recovered.
•“BATTLE OF THE
CHURCHES”
LA Gbanoe, Mo., )
Jam 27th, 1876. j
ANNO U NO EM ENTS.
Wo arc authorized tcT announce
J. W. DUNN, as a candidate for
the office ot Collector of Taxes lor
Fannin county, at the ensuing elec-
tion; subject to the action of the
Democratic party.
Wo are authorized (by his numer-
ous friends) to announce LAKE C
WILSON as a candidate for Repre
sentativc in the next Legislature,
subject to action of the Democratic
party of Fannin county.
We are authorized to announce
A. J. STANSELL as a candidate
for the office of Justice of the Peace
in Precinct No. 7, Fannin County.
CHROMOS FREE
In order to introduce our large,
eight-page Illustrated Literary and
Family. Paper, The Souvenir, we
kingdom of heaven."
Miss Hattie Coin-vine, a school
teacher, was knocked from the steps
of a carat Mineola and
run over
Wc "have this day agreed to meet,
at a time and place yet to he select-
ed in Northeast Missouri, and dis-
cuss the foil ding proposition*:
l*t. The Baptists possess the only
risible Scriptural church organiza-
tion on earth. . ■ '„
The Baptists affirm,the Methodists
d°2nd. The Methodist Episcopal and kllled b>* thc train> through the
Church organisation is a branch of carelessness of an engineer who was
the visible Church of Jesus Christ, making up the train. The engineer
The Methodists affine, 'die Baptists jg nn(jcr arrest.
deny. [ -----
Three days arc to be devoted to
each proposition, subject to the usu-
al rules and regulations of debate.
Ray binds biinselfto furnish a
first class reporter to take down thc
debate for publication, and is to
the manuscript. Ditzlcv
A Texas editor says that when a
child skips up to you and spreads ! w*14 aond itj Gil trial, six months for
it. Molasses smeared Sneers on ! !>nl-v 60 •>"d Uv0 eaeli snUeri.
. . . 7 , her we w.ijl iqaiI, post paid four ele-
y our best cassimere,it .is well enough ^nt 0»1 Chroinos, “ Little Red Rid-
to remember'fhat “of «uch is thc ; ing Hood,” Tho Children’s Swing,’’
General Items.
The*Cuban war still continues.
Harvard College has 1,278 stu-
dents and Yale 1,050.
Strong drink costs New York
agrees to rerrew and prepare h-i* $106,000,000 annually,
speeches for the press without ad- ,
ditional cost to Riy. Bach disp«- Ch,na lm* Just completed nine
ant will be allowed to make the miles of railroad.
own
J. Dilxler,
D. B. Ray.
The Shakers have a paper called
tho Shaker k Shakeress. And yet
it is no great shakes of a newspaper
after all.
The Galveston News says :
“ Mardi gras celebrations, lonp
year and masked balls, and other
heathen practices are extending
throughout the state of Texas.”
Alas, then, for the state of Texas!
And is the church to aid in these—
in anyoftheso—heathen practices?
Thc Great pyramid was illumina-
ted on the recent visit of the Prince
of Wales to Egypt. At.a given
signal the whole mass, 460 feet
high, was enveloped in a flame of
variegated light.
A widow has just died in Rome
and left a quarter of a million dol-
lars in cash to tho Pope.
usual grammatical corrections,-
without changing the arguments in
•U» one another! How careful we preparing his speeches for the press
should be that we de net sot<»«r- ’ '
•selves up as a law-giver. There is
■one law-giver who is able to save
and destroy. How careful we should
be that we are doers and not judges
of thc la>v! apd how careful should
•we be, first to remove the beam
from our own eyo, that we may see
•dearly to remove the uiote from our
brother’s eye; how careful should
we be that wc are converted to God,
•and not to men, preachers, nor pn-
giersj how careful should wc be to
•exhort one another to love, unity
and goo4 works, and to aid in speak-
ing the great truths of the gospel
of the Son of God; and how careful
wo should he that the world shall
not be a light to the church, but
that which the God of Heaven re-
voatod to us in his holy word shall
bo its light.
Dear brethren, we must be “one,”
if we would have the world behove
■fhat God has sunt his Son into the
world; and we must keep the “new
commandment,” if we would let all
nen know who are the disciples of
the Lord Jesus Curist. “ Love one
another!" How deep, how high,
bow long, how wide, how compre-
hensive and inexhaustible is this
little new commandment given by
our Savior himself. Oh, that Christ-
ians the world over would cherish
and realize its importance.
John A. Handle.
Bren ham, Texas, Jan. 9, 1876.
One-fourth the population of the
state of Missouri is in St. Louis.
The state of Wisconsin offers
$10,000 for the invention of a suc-
cessful steam road wagon.
Hon. Henry Starkweather, mem-
ber of Congress from Connecticut,
died on the 28th ult.
The Ohio Legislature is about to
pass a law making a twelvmonth’s
drunk a sufficient cause for divorce.
Mrs. Livormore asked the great
question: “Wlmt shall we do with
our daughters ? ’’ A utPitari in wag
(answers: “Take in wasliin’!”
Taul Boynton arrived «t8t. Louis
after swimming twenty-five miles in
nine hours in tho cold, cold water,
in his aquatic costume.
Yale College is going to exhibit
all tho literary productions of the
alnmni of that institution at thc
“ Pcek-a-Boo ’’ and “ Mother’s Joy.
These pictures are not common
prints, but genuine oil chroinos in
sixteen colors, that arc equal in ap-
pearance to fine oil paintings. Just
think of it—four fine cliromos and
an excellent literary paper six
months for 60 cents. Try it. Make
up u club of five subscribers and wc
will send you an extra copy for six
months and. four extra chromos.
No danger of loosing your money.
We refer to the post master at Bris-
tol, as to our responsibility. Cash
required in advance. No samples
free. Agents wanted to take sub-
scriptions and sell our fine piciures.
From $3 to 810 a dav easily made.
Address, W. M. BURROW,
200 Main St. Bristol, Tenn
Charles Davis,
Exclusive Agent for the sale of
The kiag of Burmah invites more 1 (en*cnn'a*
Christian missionaries to labor in
his dominions.
The pin factories of the United
States make 47,000,000 pins daily,
and yet 25,000,000 daily have to be
imported. And yet Americans are
not a “stuck up’’ people.
It is proposed to gather all the
N. TIBBALS & SONS 37 Park
Row, New York, have published a
new book of Messrs. Moody A San-!
key’s work as great Erangolists, battle flags and war trophies of the
i £ •£+£ • s-'1 •*
Charter Oak Stoves
And General Dealer in
Stove* and General Hardware,
BONHAM, TEXAS.
Repairing, Roofing, Guttering and
all kinds of work in onr line exe-
cuted in a workmanlike manner,
and at reasonable prices. Work-
shop ami salesroom in the old Alex-
ander brick, west tide public 6onare.
v2nl
BONHAM HRISTIAN COLLEGE. I *>o**AN- houiks * co.
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At a meeting of tLe disciples of
North Texas, held at Plano, Collin
county, December 20, 187c*, lor the
purpose of establishing a
Christian College fob Malls and
Females,
Bonham was selected ns the location
for such College; and the school
known as “Bonham Seminary,”
having been tendered to the con-
vention. was accepted by them for
the purpose of opening,said College.
A committee was appointed to pro-
cure from the Legislature a charter
for the Institution, which charter
having been obtained, the trustees
met at Bonham on the 20th of June,
1874, and organized the College ac-
cording to the provisions of the
charter.
Tbo second annual session of
Bonham Christian College will
open
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 1875,
And continue Forty Weeks.
The location of the College is
one of the best in the State for
health, intelligence, and good mor-
als. There are not here the temp-
tations incident to railroad centers,
and young men and women can
pursue their studies without inter-
ruption.
The course of stud/ is full, ar.d
students will only be passed from
one grade to another as thctratUiin-
mems will warrant.
The accommodations of the Col-
lege are first-class, being supplied
with the best seats.
The whole control and manage-
ment of the School will be in the
hands of Mr. Carlton, (Mr. F. J.
Abernathy having resigned), assist-
ed by C. T. Carlton, and sm4i other
competent teachers as the wants of
the several departments shall re-
quire.
Thorough work will be required
of every student, and m>t corres-
pondence and company-keeping be-
tween mo young men and women
of thc senool, or others. Those
who ran not comply with this, need
not apply.
The Music Department and Or-
namental Work will be complete
and thorough.
A liberal patronage ts asked tftvr
the school, and the hearty coopera-
tion of all the patrons is •eamestly
asked.
terms per month—(jFonr Weeks.)
Primary, - , $2.00 to 83.00
Sub-Collegiate, - 4.00
Collegiate, - 5.00
Music—Piano, - 6.00
Matriculation Fee for Library, 2J>0
Boarding can be had wim the
President, and at private families,
at $15.00 per month. Washing and
lights extra.
Students ran enter at any time,
but to the best advantage at the
opening of thc session.
No deduction except for sickness
of over two weeks’ continuance.
CHAS. CARLTON, A. M.
CIIAS. T. CARLTON, A. B.
THE GREAT AMERICAN
Piano Forte House.
TEXAS DEPARTMENT.
DORMAN, HOLMES k CO.
Manufacturer and Dealer in
Pianos & Organs
GENERAL OFFICE, TEXAS DEPARTMENT
Corner Commerce and Market
streets, Dallas.
Supply Depots or Branch offices at
all important points
in thc State.
NEW YORK OFFICES:
No. 14 East Fourteenth Street.
■ CENTRAL SOUTHERN DEPOTi
No. 88 Church street, Nashville,
Tenn.
To facilitate business, we liavo
made our General office for the
State, at DALLAS, where all orders
and correspondences from Texas
should be addressed. Thc instru-
ments will be sent from thc nearest
supply depot
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PIANO S
r _
In addition to our own make, the
DORMAN, HOLMES k CO/S
Grand Scale Piano,
We control for this and several other
states tlie renowned
Checkering & 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 transportation.
We have splendid pianos for $290,
350 and $400.
We supply families direct, giving
them even- advantage usually given
\ agents.
PIANOS
SUBSCRIBE NOW
Christian Messenger
FOR
1870—1876—1876!!
$2 20 a Year,
The Extra 20 Cts. for Postage.)
Haaos wi Drpu Said or most*If
IHSTAUMUT4.
Second ITamd Instruments Taken in
Exchange for New. .
Pianos and Organs made to Order
With Silver Insertion Plate
when desired.
Tuning nud Repairing done by
Skillful workmen and sat-
isfaction guaranteed.
A large stock of PIANO STOOLS
and SPREADS at bottom
prices.
Pianos and Organs
for Rent
AN EXTRA COPY T(Wt CLUB
OF TEN.
Steel. The advantage of thin edi-
tion is, it has been carefully edited,
indexed and numbered, which gives
easy reference to the thonghts and
illustrations.
60 cents per copy. Agents'Wanted.
Address PUBLISHERS.
Good suggestion.
We second the motion.
New York has an ordinance which
prohibits dogs from harking at
night. An editor wishes thore was
another law against early crowino
chickens.
HOMAN.
at Law,
w. It.
Attorney
Caldwell, Uudeawt Co,, Te**8-
WiVi pay snocial and prompt at-
tention to real estate husiness and
j the collection of debts, 1-14,
All Christian Preaehers
aro rc
quested to act as agents for
us, and present our
claims to their
Congregations.
All kinds of Musieal Instruments,
Sheet Music and Music Mer-
chandise, furnished At
Lowest puces.
Pianos can 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
in the state, wishing to test
any of our instruments
before buving, ran hava
them placed in their home*
for trial, without extra expanse
We guarantee the moat Perfect sat-
isfaction in every respect.
ORAANS
FOR CHURCH OR PARLOR.
Of any make at wholesale prices.
DORMAN, HOLMES k CO,
Arc umong tho largest dealers la
PIANOS
in tho United States.
Their trade is now extending over
nearly the entire country aBd
will sell
Pi a nos And organs,
any point in the state at lowsg
prices and better terms than
n24:ly
any other house,
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