The La Grange Journal (La Grange, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 13, Ed. 1 Wednesday, May 12, 1880 Page: 4 of 4
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fl^r
•old witbont
the wife, nor mort-
or both, except for
money or improvement*
this Stele can wages
be garnisheed
to five their _
do *o. )■
Several jeers eg61 trench plowed
•boot 90 acres, rising Kobinson's
jjett
I bring".
ftVOJltic
I RAISING.
Mi
BK
rmtOi:
The greet wealth-growing industry
of the aoothwbeet is stock raising.
It has never flailed to be remunera-
tlve io *ny cenntiy end hardly under
any circumstances, The greet plains
with their teeming millions
sheep, ere still cepeble
_ millions more of cettle.
fact acknowledged by England
thet ebe cennol supply herself with
beef, pork or mutton. She looks to
Amcrioa for this supply, and she
the best The demand for
lively during the
end the shipments
England have proven
a success. The complications in
European politics are serious, and
may yet bring on a long strife, which
will add ten fold to the present
demand. In England beef was re.
from twenty-five cents per
aeven-teen the past season,
Kml
trench plow which had in front
Inch plow which out the and and
turned it, whUe a 14 Inch plowtntwad
from 8 to 4 lnchee of dirt belb# the
sod on top of it, covering' it clear out
of eight, I need (bar joke of oUep
to the plow. On land Urns french
plowed aibont sesWtt or eight iawrfie*
deep In the month of lk r got
about fifty bushels of good^aouod
Corn to the acre. OU‘lahd' ptttrifd
in the samfe why in Hay this yttUt 'trim
no better than on common
All of the trench plowed
was planted about the tame time and1
was all plowed in m». TWfrnriond
plowed In May did not rot the eod
so well ae that plowed in April. The
corn on the May ploWed got to:
by the frost, while the other did not
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oded 1
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»iv—cA4
ib«5 plain
aAo^
fed*
»t U»u puli
•oath side
A
95®''t
I by the heavy ship moots
>,£SM w
of beef. The chances aro very
vorable for stock raisers. Sheep
raising, the most profitable of nil
stock, will also receive an Impetus,
because American mutton cells for a
good price In English markets. Tex-
as offers tlie best of advantages to
the stock minor, sad he should at
V . once seek thk clime, where cattle can
‘ma grassees the entire winter
yrnsu have become rich tn stock
exaa and there is room
thousand more to become I
rich, purl make no perceptible change]
J1 t. *k- irtftiui D[ Texas.
Land and HomeJ
The first regular '
ojwwWd 'Febmsrt ftortr-
man class of 25. During the inittcJ
term, which closed in November, the
work done by the students amount-
ed to Just gtOO, and Consisted in
narVosUngr cMps, gtoiMtofc ^founds,
tanking fence and digging ditches.
They were paid promptly at the end
of the term, the maximum price per
hour being 10 cento. Every student
IS required to work at least two hours
a day. The work to be done this
term will be the bhikHug of 40 tdds
of wire fence, plowing, planting and
cultivating 40 acres in ebri; ©ats and
wheat, And three in' garden .togeta-
trees beside* making IMWOS, Md^s^!n^£%L
flower garden and an arboretum.
Pre'.*-:1;
m
Ghroat Eastern, the largest
stcammp In the American waters
has been fitted up tor the purpose o<
engaging in the cattle trade between
Nevr York and Liverpool, and every-
thing indicates good luck to the
southwest this season. The times
are improving and our products are
sweeping the markets wherever they
are sent. The east cannot compete
with os, and since we have the soil,
the climate, and an upward start, wo
have the kind and will endeavor to
keep it.—Ex.
bice, and setting out liOOft forest
The ,college totfl^dugWy^Klir
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HoarnhuoLurwi
llt« fit's i
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chnJS
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to neovkl*
.
[dr the ears
iuid tor __
■total to, oolt Of
this writ TuSke
hand
sc in
>oe Cigars
fek fael * HUM
of i.
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fe>W»VnHsftt Mhmet rm Of JPattagm f \
Wfm, . .. „ , . '•,»
•'HP18ptUU.ee oepto* wmt Trtt on eppBCMioo.
■1 OCMJtrON.
lOTABfcfcllEp IN 1812.
A ■ wholesale fend retail!!
-\gt aud Job Work dons
——
BAftiROADS.
“Sunset Route.
IIUHSTM, mi!
suite £ Ml AKisiO
RAILWAY.
Paatmage, Baaturagal "
short notice.
All work warranted.'
- ^ILeGrange, Texas Jananry 16 1879.
I tf.
NKW GO(>»
At Mxs S. G. Robertson’s
DfiDEtiE A. CLARK,
Sole Agent, y
400 Brobdtcay, Netc York.
wvi rurto
........
"-gamaJA. KIRSCH,
^ort'rK SinfePOBLioShoasut.
one* and the‘Acuity cany oo£ the
law to the letter, *o far* as bull
d1 ng« and means allow. ,
A viLlJAJBTiE Sat-NT.
?«np!'*ie atoek* of Ladle
Sui^^th^markm9 lifiare phi
IY OK THE FARM.
w:
"Wr?
Americsu PoultrjfJ 3uiu»).]
The poultry and ogricttltnral preat
The sunflOWtSr ife tufded to Cttra
ordinary accoant in LUbania. The
seeds yield it first presure excellent
salad oil, and the residue fortni ex-
cellent oil cake, for cattle, wbe are
also fond of the’leaves and stalks
chopped np.r The flowers a little
short of bloom are. when cooked,
nearly ns good as artichokes, and ore
in flie garden very attractive rd bees,
lbs leaf, well dried, is used as tobac-
co. Tho Seed receptacles are made
Into blotting paper, anti the tuner
pArtofthe stalk 1« made into a fine
Vrritiog paper. The more woody
portions of the plant, which attains
V.r lKJ
To suit my
Old
Patrons, I wiU M^ pt fe
All my-
of the ooantrv are doina much aood Lgrtf at ^ 8r<5 tor lWh ^
% rJSSSiSS
farming community to their especial
interests, Farmers In general, end
more particularly Weatorn farmers,
•re very slow to heed timely sugges-
tions, end y»t slower to abandog*old
usages and methods In keeping and
breeding domestic stock. No class
of men have bettor facilities for tale
lag poultry, ample runs, orchards,
meadows and grain field to roam in
and-pick np what is left after the
plow and tickle; and to feast on the
grabs, Insects, and worms that Infest
the vegetation and’ frnit trees of the
hodfcffetead. To abandon poultry
keeping for other stook is sheer
I the man who couoeivee
I ench ideas Is a fitting
_ ; Ulnnatto asylum and
bealdsa bsing a fessil of the worst
type. Now If U pays to keep homes,
oowt, sheep and swine, moetamnred-
ly it pays to keep good fowls. The
relative properties of fell kind* of food
■ ' ...... ' ‘ ‘ fell
on fe f»rm • bnsh-
I then fejmfer, and
i coat the farmer
sixty cento a*
00
bo
an anti-malarial afeat the soofloWter
is most valnable^Ffeif and' Weinf[,■
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FARM DR AIK AG A
thy Htock beferiipU¥etmriugebWW)iers
■4 Him. % C.'ftoBwiTSof,
Ove<‘ 0. W. ftreift^y's a^ug^stoip.
LiuSqoAi
Tobacco aad Cig-
stock of Ladies1'
*r
China
of Bo-
Lifir
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- »
,.il-1 »•••;•
- The '{Hstlnctive features of this
spool cottouara- that it |* made froiu
the very finest
SE A ISLAND COTTON.
It is finished soft as the cotton
from which it is Midw ; it bos wo
waxing or artificial finish to deceive
the eyes ; it is the strongest, smooth-
est and most elastic uvag thread in
tholararket ^ for .machine sewing it
has no equai 5 It is wound on
waiTE SPOOLS.
Tito black is the most perfect
JET BLACK
ever produced in spool cotton, being
dyed by a system patented by our-
selvos. The colors are dyed by the
ANiline Process
new them ius oad of setting-silks.
A Oold Medal was awarded this
spool cotton at Paris, 1878, for “great
strength” aud “general oxoelleuce,”
THE'StkTE OF TEXAS, V
You are hereby commandod 'ts
mPHuwebrl
Xummoisby publication' of this writ
ta me HoOrawce - (V**ruH” '
a resident of
if K^K^enrtty/tb ito tthhl hi
fofsidd county ax the ' oeurthefene
thereof in the town of LaGrange on (
tho second Md»day In May, A- D. i
r the
eaahv?
W
•tiers,
to f(jn*rs, oornsr next
bh»p.
-TO—
SAN ANTONIO.
TMKOIOH xxrm.t MIT.
t(»»« SW Antonio P*i)y (csospt sjuntlsyj t
Weiniu.
Cohunbn!,
7:00 a- M. A4.1J. »,R.
A2:05 r. mjA iV:S# a a,
10:90 ji io. d IV,42 A. In.
Arrirm, Houston,
*• Gslvooton,
W.» A. ' ■ v’,: n>.
p .11. « I 70 u III
being the highest award given for
spool coWoti. >
Wt invito comparison and reupect-
frilTr tsk the ladies to give it a fair
THROUGH KXVi’. KK8 TV FI.
Lm.vs« .Galveston iMlljr wj»i > «t
- •• . ..
_ '-•i» s.fl: * a upm
Houston 0 45 « in. it. :<M )>. m
Arrirss, Oilunsims
" Ssl, Antoulo
112 p.m ,4 luNt.a'
l:.Vi pm. A l;4fi IKm.
7t0o p.m. A 1:20 M .r
CHEAPEST, SHORTEST, tjfJICKEST
and best Boats to all pain to. East
and West. ...
All trains eqaii
Air Brake and
Platform.
twnujjhpmv
Coujil :r and
Only Line in Texas Running
PARLOR CARS
IH;
hogbb vmmmim
r • YrAJ«xs~HOUttJB„
-of
where!
j.'iT*1
Wt:
.. r#
derof
ifeuejr.
mams to ba
said conn
school
he ex<
to said
The experience of the (fast flew >
yean tn IlUaola, Indiana, Ohio And
loot. 'U.-dnOnln, Umop.MAUis
eyes of agteatmany farmers b» theee| m#Q0y ,
and other Western slates to ttovalae.
The meeting of the mfeaufkcturen du-
ring the past two or threfe months in
different states havo disclosed (beta
which are not devoid of interest
There are 1,140 tile fso tori** In '
six states of Ohio,
Illinois,
there were bnft
ana has 436, «he?Ifcooie 880, and[j
Ohio 880. During the past year the
manufactory Aaohed 175.000,000f ____
valued at 88,8ir,tK)0. The average!tod
2
from 15 to 80 oentfe . fard but to *
yield of crops the Increase is from
85 to 100 per cent
r Indians, Michigan,
i, Wisconsin end lows, where
rere but 400 in 1870, Indi-
s 436, fhe Illinois 82<
LJlOHAN«E; -----TEXAS.
ben, o«u be had all kiudt of
FURfJtTUaE
Wall-par ?r, . \
Bash, Biiude end, , % *
Cheep for Cash. Fl^tlk>bo#* 'Bto'i'
lion eft
Bosh, minus, Mio
trial and convince themselves of its
superiority over ail others.
To.be bed at wholesale and retail at
JOHN SGffiJHMACHER'S.
IVCWtAL
»««t mo*:
o iifto In
• •. ■
TltllfBl’S TOR SALE t a’’ rinclpoi
Railroad Ticket offices in United
States and Canada.
Lowest rates of Freight, uiv’ In rough
Bills of Lading given loj anc!s|fn'iu ail
point*.
All olaiine for Loss aref Banmae
promptly tt'IJustcd.
C. GVOIBBS, T W. PIER K. J..
Gen’l Fr’t Ag t. OSn'i PiwsAg't.
H.B. Andrews, Jas. Con viewer.
Oeu’i Man»aier. Shiperintondeui.
TOY TlIE
Ilf HIH
OPEN FROM GALVLSTON
TOSEALY SWMII.S
Wm.' Logan,
EnOrimjt, -• - - - lina.
nttm!ws
Drafts.
c®se*-*
•L'
Postmaster.
ways on hand
oi fell the lkteeC and beet Styles of
T S SHHiSOH.
v eOrrow faotobs
-■'*m if
WHOUHSAL* OROCERS
WiHfc'
*1 svmxnm
South tide PMto Bqurt.
fe;
Ut IWi 1 iti:i Pi
BA I LAY VY.
ft
The. first seotion of this nan Kail w ay
FBOM O-A.Ii'DTBiA'j'OIsr
To oonnootion with the G. H. »V. t- a. R'y
u C-'V 'f*!. •
At Boeenburg Jvmction,
—66 MILES-
- OPENED FOE BUf JNKSS
On Monday, Deo. 22 1879,
Forming the sbortMtiwwl line
between
Galveston and San Antonio.
And nil iutArmsdiato polnir. I
PA88ENGERS |
Direct oonnectlon with passonger
trains of G. if. A 8- A. Rail wuy at
ROSEN BURG mTTTOjr,
Leave Galveston 7$ ; a. m.
Arrive AJIeyton »0 i*. m.
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Phelps, R. H. The La Grange Journal (La Grange, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 13, Ed. 1 Wednesday, May 12, 1880, newspaper, May 12, 1880; La Grange, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1113149/m1/4/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Fayette Public Library, Museum and Archives.