The Bonham News. (Bonham, Tex.), Vol. 34, No. 231, Ed. 1 Friday, December 29, 1899 Page: 1 of 4
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VOL. XXXIV.
BONHAM FANNIN COUNTY, TEXAS. FRIDAY, DEC. 20, 1890.
NO. 31
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And they will tell you
they are the most satis-
factory coo&ang appar-
atus they have ever
used. They require but
little fuel, bake quick
and uniform, and are
easily managed.
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9 day experience of hundreds of thou-
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S Old Virginia Cheroots
■ during the last thirty years, because
2 they are just as good now—in fact,
fH better than when they were first made.
H Two hundred million Old Virginia Cheroots smoked this year.
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PROFESSIONAL CARDS.
D. H. DORSET, Jf. D.
Physician and Surgeon.
Bonham, • - Texas
WOfflce oyer Saunders’ Drug- Store.
Office Phone. l
0K. B, B. MARTIN,
Physician and Surgeon.
ON HAM •- TEXAS
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Office-north-east corner of square,
over Moore’s drug store.
QH8. CARLKTON A GRAY.
PHYSICIANS 1 SURGEONS.
«r_ Bonham, Texas.
Office Over J. C. Saunders Sc Co’s
Drug Store. WTelephone connection
with office and residences.
yy B. LEWALLEN,
Physician and Surgeon.
Office with A. A. Hargrove,
8outh aide square, Bonham.
|)R. BENJ. DABNEY,
LATE RESIDENT SURGEON,
Eye, Ear, to aid Threat Hospital,
New Orleans, La.
Has open an
Moece’s drug store,
diseases of the
^ BYE, EAR. NOSE and THROAT.
Office Hours—Prom I to U a. m.
4T FROM OVER THE COUNTY *+
Clippings From Our County Ex-
changes.
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HONEY GROVE
From the Signal:
There is some talk of organ-
izing a stock company to build
an opera house and the matter
will be worked" up a little later
on. A good opera house, one in
which the best plays could be
presented, properly staged,
would be worth a great deal to
Honey Grove and it can be had
if the people want it.
Mr. John A. King, of Jackson,
I. T., who was in the city Tues-
day. informed us that a team of
mules and the negro driver were
drowned in Blue river a few days
since. The negro undertook to
cross the swollen stream but
missed the way and the mules
went beyond their depth. All
were found next day a few yards
below the ford.
Harry Thompson met with
quite a serious aud painful ac-
e ups
Will
treat only
Q M. WHEELED .
^fOTABY~FTXBLJC,
Ector Tex.
Writes deeds and mortgage* any-
where in county. 49-lry
L. Aohiw
W. C. Duwcak
AGHIW & DUNCAN
Attobnbys-at-Law
HO SHAM ......
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U G. EVANS,
ykttorn©y at Ifiaw
w. and
NOTARY PUBLIC.
Offloe north sldeof public square,
over Bargaiu Store,
Bonham, : Texas.
Will practice in all the eourts of
the State. Collection of claims will
receive my prompt attention. All
notary business solicited, and I guar-
antee that it will be promptly exe
rated.
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YjtVANS A EVANS,
"v* attorurts-at-law.
Will prtcUM law 1* the eoarw ot ruiti,
Starsea. Lauur and Rnat eouatle,. aid lit the
.mu—*1 aowte at Aoatta sad Tyler, wl
0sited Atataa seerto at Delia, aad Trier.
was riding a horse and in pass
ing 'under a clothes-line was
the stirrup. The horse took
fright and ran and Harry was
dragged over a barbed wire', cut
ting a great gash in his leg. The
horse kicked him on the knee of
the other leg, inflicting a bad
bruise. He was given medical
attention at once and is now get-
ting along very well. But for
the breaking of the stirrup leath-
er Harry would probably have
been killed.
Mr. E. C. Council, of Windom,
and Miss Mamie Underwood
were united in marriage last
Thursday evening at the resi-
dence of the bride’s parents,
south of towD, Eld. J. A. Tabor
officiating. The. groom is one of
the worthiest young men within
our knowledge. Full of energy
and tact he has achieved success
in business affairs, and is known
to all as a conscientious, high-
toned Christiatr^eQ^man. His
bride is an attractive and accom-
plished lady, popular in the cir-
cles in which she moved, and it
can be truthfully said that her
husband has won a pearl of great
price. The Signal tenders con-
gratulations and wishes this
worthy couple unstinted pros-
perity and happiness supreme
throughout a long and useful
life.
The Cumberland Presbyterian
church at Dial was the scene of
a very- pretty wedding Wednes-
day evening when Mr. ’ Elmo
Chiles and Miss Vergie Crowson
marched hand in hand to Hy-
men’s attar. Loving hands had
preceded the happy couple and
the church was appropriately
decorated for the happy event.
The bride, a daughter of Mr. A.
B. Crowsan. is one of Fannin
county’s fairest flowers, an at-
tractive and accomplished young
woman who possess.es all the
traits that go to make a true
helpmeet. The groom is a
young man of exemplary habits
and good business qualification,
and one in every way worthy of
the rich prize he has drawn in
Hymen's lottery. As these
young and happy people meet
client Wednesday morning ^getier the vicissiludes tooH<mt
is now sneering a great deal. He ... «w
to life we sincerely hope that
each may to the other prove the
“evening beam that smiles tbe
dragged off. his foot hanging in clouds avCay and tints the mor-
row with prophetic ray.” Mr.
and Mrs. Chiles will reside in
Honey Grove.
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DEMAND PQR HIDES AND FURS. K
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Take your Coons, Skunks, Minks, £
Wild Cat, Civit Ca^JELouse Cat,
Beaver, Otter, Fox, Deer,
JBear, Opossom, Badger, Cow
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Hides, wool, Beeswax and Feathers
M. Rosenbaum.
TRENTON.
From The Tribune.
Beulah Webb happened to a
painful accident at school this
week. Her wrist was broken in
playing “see saw.”
School adjourned yesterday for
the holidays. Vacation will con-
tinue until Jan. 2, 1900.
Dr. Webb has proposed $0 give
a 110 medal or $10 in cash to the
pupil who will raise the largest
subscription to a fund to seat the
school house. The donations to
be paid next fall. The plan
seems a good one and when the
children go at it success will
follow.
On Saturday night, Dec. 30,
the school will render a short
program at their hall. N. Mr
Talbot will assist by delivering
an oration. The entrance fee
will be 10 and 20 cents. The
proceeds go to the house. Let
everybody come and spend a
pleasant hour.
LEONARD.
From The Graphic.
Mr. and Mrs. T. A. Shiels are
rejoicing over the arrival of a
girl at their home this week. '
Two full train loads of cattle
came in this week to be fed at
the oil mill. These cattle have
been expected for some time.
Whatever Leonard goes after
she gets. When her people de-
cide on an enterprise they go af-
ter it. \
Mrs. D. J. Atterbery opened her
parlors to the young people" last
Friday night and entertained a
number of friends a few hours
most pleasantly.
* Our good friend, T. H. Stovall,
has our thanks fofr kindly rem«n-
brance and the present of a big
fat turkey for Christmas dinner.
Mr. Stovall certainly knows the
way to an editor’s heart and how
to reach it. We wish for’him
tbe happiest Christmas that he
ever did see and many returns of
the season.
Hon. Ben. D'enton, of Paris,
was in the city this week looking
over the race tracks preparatory
to entering the contest for dis-
trict judge. He is an old citizen
of Paris and a law partner of
Judge Ligbtfoot, who was on the
State supreme bench and resigned
the office some time ago. Mr. , . , , , ,,
■ „ . - . , the existing A>ld standard must
Denton says he was never.m and be preser?5,su AU 00r pubIib sU.
UNDER FALSE PRETENSES;
Republican Party Arraigrted for Its
Gold Standard Tendencies. .
Washington, Dec. 18.—After
the passage to-day by the bouse
of the financial bill, .the silver Re-
publican leaders in the,city held
a meeting and adopted an address
setting forth their views as to its
effect. Tbe address; is as follows:
To Meml^ers of tbe Rqpubliban
Party Who* Still B^Iievfe in Bi-
metallism: The passage by the
house of representatives today of
the gold standard afrd bAnk cur-
rency bill exactly as agreed upon
by the RdpubHcan caucus aod
without the opposition of a" single
Republican vote marks the cul-
mination of a policy lohg care-"1
fully pursued by qertain influ-
ences in control of the leadership
of the Republican party abd jus-
tifies the action of the men who,
in 1896 refused to remain in that
organization after the, kdoptippI AM*
of the St. Louis platform? [establishment
The Republican platforms 1888
and 1892 had been unequivocally
in favor of bimetallism and the
use of both gold and silver as a
standard mpney. Nevertheless,
it was. apparent several months
before the assemblage of the na-
tional convention of 1^6 that the
machinery of the Republican par-
ty had passed wholly ipto the
hands of the banking and [credi-
tor interests and that it was the
purpose of the latief to! commit
the party to the adVQcacy and
achievement of the gqld standard.
Against this danger theynnder
signed and many other INfcubli-
can bimetallists^attbat timCvain-
ly attempted to arou$e the masses
of the party. Thd politicians
and newspapers privy- to the*
scheme denounced qur ’fears as
unfounded or simulated, and by
skillful use of catch vjords and
generalities, succeeded in fore-
stalling any widespread compre-
hension of their design^. When
£
the convention met the same in-
genuity governed this framing of
questions. Its essential part was
as follows: &
“We are, thereforq, ap^crsed*to
the free coinage of ^ilver except
by international .agreement with
the leading commercial (nations
of the world, which: wej pledge
ourselves to promote,, aod'until
such agreement can be qbtained
meant to be observed in good
faith, yet it proved “a good
enough slogan until after the
electiop.’-’ Relying upon it, en-
forced as it was throughout the
West and central portions of the
country by the editors and orators
of the Republican party, millions
of voters were held in line for the
ticket; for, as stated in the Re-
publican campaign text book for
1892, the Republican party was
,“a bimetallic party.” No one
whose political judgment has the
slightest weight will deny that a
frank pronouncement ol the gold
standard in that platform, or a
straightforward interpretation of
it by the Republican candidate
for preside at, as meaning the
gold standard and nothing else,
would have elected^Ir. Bryan by
an overwhe; tning majority.
TO CONST 'HUE THE • ELECTION
don’t know if he, t£>o, would be
come weary of the emoluments of
office and resign, but vouchsafes
the opinion that elee’ed to the
district judgeship he would hold
on to it till time is called and give
the best efforts of thought and
brain to the careful discharge of
the duties devolving upon him.
Teacher—Bobbie, did you look
up the story of the Prodigal Son,
as I told you?
Nobody could intelligently and
Bobbie—Np’m. Ma wouldD i! d<OTau-'1intereaUuD-
let me take the Bible. She's *1 free eo,eaKe bLs,Ivor ant at
| pressin' autumn leaves in it.-San j th„e suEh ®f;
Fraeeeco Examiner. p ,a,‘° ®fl,Sf*c‘T wlth,
I n —---- standard as ah alternatives As a
He pays
Highest Cash Prices
Mrs.J. J. Blanton, wife of ,T.
□ J. Blanton, Jr,, living near En-
1^ terprise, died bn the 9th inst. of
H| fever. She leaves a husband
Vand two children, one an infant,
H
of 1896 as a mandate Ay the
AMERICAN PEJOPLE FOR THE
OF THE GOLD
Standard is to appropriate
POLITICAL GOODS UNDER FALSE
PRETENSES.:
As soon as the election was
over and tie fruits of this chi-
canery hadl been gatheredthe
greatRepublican newspapers be-
gan to discard their convenient
ambiguities about “sound money”
and “honestj money” and to claim
the result as a definite verdict in
favor of goljl. These utterances
increased id volume aud precis
ion as the advent of the new ad-
ministration approached. The
Resident also, although not able
to at once form the habit of di-
rectness in speech, soon 'showed
by his actio is that he no longer
considered he pre-election con
struction of the platform to be
binding. His appointment as
secretary of the treasury of per-
haps the most conspicuous gold
standard a<|vocate among the
great bankers of the country was
obviously nc t especially designed
.to “promo>te', any kind of bimet-
allism. To be sure, there was
the declarations bnt thei money-!sent abroad the alleged. interna-
tional monetjary commission. Un-
less the hoa:c was to be openly
confessed, this was the least the
president Could do. But, for1 fear
that, after jail, foreign govern-
ments might take the .procedure
seriously, he sent to congress in
July, 1867, qt the kery mofnent
when bis commission proposals
were before the English cabinet,
a special message recommending
the so-called Indianapolis mone-
tary convention plan, with its
programme of the single gold
Standard, retirement of the green-
backs and extensions of^ the
powers, privileges and immuni-
ties of the National banks.
Meantime the secretary pf the
treasury was declaring in an in-
terview, most of which was care-
fully reproduced in Europe, that
bimetallism of any kind, inter-
national or otherwise, was not
only impossible, but undesirabl ?.
Of course, no serious negotiations
were possible after all thi^.. The
internatioqal commission became
an international joke. “It folded
its tent like the Arab and silently
stole away.” Its distinguished
and discomfited chairman sought
sibity of the official head of the
administration.
The remainder of the pro-
gramme entered upon at St.
Louis has been obediently pur-
sued. The international agree-
ment for the free coinage of sil-
ver having failed to be “pro-
moted,” steps are now being
taken to insure that the gold
standard shall be preserved. Tbe
present bill “preserves” it with
a vengeance. The vast bonded
debtjof the country now payable
in “coin,” that is, either in gold
banks and their associated trusts
aud combinations, may we npt
appealttayou to come to the res
cue of liberties of the people and
their imperiled institutions? In
the spring of ’97 the undersigned
took the steps leading to the or-
ganization of the silver Republi-
can party. Against the betray*
ers of the Republicanism of
Abraham Lincoln that party re-
solved to wage unending war. *
Tcfcday the necessity for its
work is more evident than ever.
Come with us and help us. We
or silver, is to be made payable believe tbat highest devotion
in gold alone Nearly half a t0 the RePubI'canwm you once
billion of standard silver dollars venerated demands that you op-
heretofore net redeemable in any- P?80 to tbe utmost tbe present
thing not constituting a burden i P* the party which
on either the gold reeeve or^PHi^L11 weAr* ***« n»nw but has for-
•Ijql Principles,of its heroic
credit of the goyemuaent,
—Charles A. Town*,
chairman of committee; Henry
M. Teller, R. F. Pettigrew,
Frank J. Cannon, Edgar Wil9on,
Charles S. Hartmm. John Sbaf-
roth, Fred T. Dubois, chairman.
executive committed.
ver and paper currency n|ust be
maintained at parity witp gold,
etc.” j
it is strange that so manifest
an insincerity should have de-
ceived anybody. Cleariy, if the
gold standard was desirable, the
free coiuage of silver was un-
desirable, however secured. If
the gold.standard was right, free
coinage ef silver! must be*\vrcfog.
fox* same.
1 You Know Where to Find Him.
I
matter of fact .this; declaration
was intended as a definite assur-
ance to the.specdlatiye banks and
their allies that .the’ Republican
party, if successful ip their-elec _____^
three, weeks old, to mourn her j tion. would proceed with ali . early opportunity in the ^senate
s loss. The remains were interred I political -speed to the- .establish- [ to explain its failure ia a speech,
h at Oak Hill cemetery, this city,! ment of the single gold standard j in which neither his diplomatic
yesterday, Rev. Z. B. Pirtle, 't)f ihfiall its rigor. The promise■ to, artifices of rhetoric or his deauiu
Trenton, conducting the service*, j po-iuote^tbe international free I elation of the secretary of the
—Whitewright Sun, * coinage of silver ; was niAer i treasury could hide the respon-
forming a large * percentage of
our basic money, are held to be
redeemable in gold, thus in-
creasing tremendously the strain
oq that metal and becoming an
“endless chain” with which-to
pull gold from the treasury and
affording an excuse for the final
destruction of the silver dollar
as money and their forced sale
as bullion, after the manner 'of
the German procedure in 1872.
Tbe greenbacks, the best paper
the world ever saw, the product
of the patriotism and statesman-
ship of the Republican party in
the days of Abraham Lincoln,
are to be virtually destroyed by
being changed into gold certifi-
cates, to be locked Op in the
treasury and paid out only for
gold. The tax on the circulation
of the national banks is~-t» be re-
duced and the amount of the bank
currency they may issue on gov-
ernment bonds deposited is to be
increased from 90 per cent, to
par of the bonds, thus making
tbeir business enormously more
profitable, opening the way to an
immediate possible inflation of
the bank notes, not legal tender,
excellent for getting into debt on
but unavailable for getting out
of dept with, to the extent of
^800,000,000; and placing the reg-
ulation of the Volume of money,
and hence the determination of
prices of the burden of debts, ab-
solutely in the power of the banks
and the creditor classes. The in-
evitable tendency among these
banks will be toward a uniformity
and co-operation of management,
tbe result of which will speedily
be the erection of a great money
trust more powerful than all
other trifets and fipmbinations
and ultimately, if the Republi-
can party should remain in pow-.
er, irresistible and unrestrained
by the government itself.
Thus, fellbw citizens, the state-
ment we denounced in 1896 is
nearing consumation. The policy
that was denied by the Republi-
can party in that campaign
stands now confessed Millions
of you who voted the Republican
ticket in 1896 would not have
done so had you believed your
party destined so soon to be the
agent of the force dominating it.
Millions of you were bimetallists
in 1896 and remain so to-day.
Now that the promises then
made you are clearly seen to have
b en insincere; now that as a ^ben some people get in
c< qsequence of the deception : b^ck, ail the others laugh.
practiced upon your honest con- At all events Roberts can claim
ficence your country is about to that he attracted more attention
s — - — -—
It is customary to give ^aoh
candidate who abhbunces ^ com-
plimentary write-up along with
the first appearance of his an*
nouncement This custom is a
bit difficult to carry out and at
the same time do equal justice to
all. It is difficult to say equally
nice things about a half dozen*
men in the same amount of space,
at the same time tell the truth
about all without forking off a
lot. of stereotyped phrases that
mean nothing and are worth noth-
ing. It seems to us a better
plan and one that would result
more satisfactory to the aspiring
candidate if we give each tLa
sftme amount of space in which
to make his own statement in his
own way and on his own respon-
sibility. In that way the s ate-
ment would be worth something
and a whole lot of gush would be
eliminated.—Leonard Graphic.
Bachelor Button*.
New York PrM*.
Love is a bee; marriage is the
same bee with the sting pulkd
out. |; ™
No man objects to having bfa-
wife talk baby talk to him if sbe
knows enough not to do iribefors
people.
As soon, as a girl begins to
think sbe wants a certain ma, n
she begins to put her hand a foot
above where her heart is when
he tells her lie was ill yesterday. >
The man who won’t sit tfronnd
the house in his shirt sleeves be-
fore his wife is about as aare as
tbe woman who .will never
let her husband see her comb her
hair. >
Anybody can fire off a gun, bi t
ft takes practice to hit the target.
An old bachelor says that some
women are born foolish, some
achieve folly and the rest marry
fools.
be hauded to the ownership
control of the great specul
than the president's message.—
1 Exchange.
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