The Fairfield Recorder. (Fairfield, Tex.), Vol. 19, No. 33, Ed. 1 Friday, May 24, 1895 Page: 3 of 8
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AXL OV|]S THE WORLD
HAPPENINGS OP GENERAL IN-
^TEREST.TO ALJL,
I OsmprtMmlrt Epitome of Barton*
»d Senaatloaal tortlop Condensod
from all tki LMdlai Oalllas (or the
Past Wank.
W. M. Breckenridge of Tucson,
Arlz., a special officer of the Southern
Pacific railway, recently run onto
Grant WhaeldYx one of the train rob-
bers who held up a passenger coach
near Wilcpx. Ariz., on January SV
last, near Maucos, Colo. Wheeler
was surrounded by officer* and two
shots were fired at him. when he ran
into a small ravine anc} then commit-
ted suicide by putting a revolver into
his mouth, the bullet coming out
through the top of his head.
No steps have been taken as yet by
the treasury. department looking to
the payment of this year's sugar
bounty, for/which-Congress appro-
priated $5,000,000 at the last session.
From the estimates of the claims al-
ready presented to the commissioner
Of internal revenue, they will exceed
the amount of the appropriation by
between $600,000 and $1,000,000.
Secretary Carlisle has already virtu-
ally decided that the payments on the
claims .will be pro rata.
The steamship. Norge, Capt. Knud-
aon, which arrived at New York re-
cently from Scandinavian ports re-
ports that” on April 00 in lati-
tude 42.56, longitude 49.2!, she
passed a very large iceberg. On the
same day, in latitude, 43:20, longi-
tude 47.45, she passed a large num-
ber of cotton bales apparently bright
and new and not long in the water.
Within three-quarters of an hour
fdrty-four bales were passed.
it is reported that President Diaz
has issued a decree opening tho ports
of Tampico, Guaymaa and Y'era Cruz
tyr the entrance of bonded goods in
transit fox the free zone. The mer-
* chants on the Rio Grande do not be-
liieve such a measure will be enacted
by lue‘Mexictui government,' and if it
"dpes the people on the border will ap-
peal to th*e United States congress
to place them on an' equal footing
with the Afcixican.zone.
At South Acton, Miss., recently,
three of the powder mills of the
American Powder company blew up.
Five persons were killed. Fifty men
in one of the mills had a narrow
escape. The woods close by the
tn|ll8 were set oir fire and burned
fiercely (or a tirqe, threatening the
destruction, of the big store-
house of the company, containing
SO,000 pounds of powder.
The importation* of salt in tho
United States have increased from
281,569,704 pounds in the eight
months ending February, 1^94. to
”$.797,949, pounds during the cor-
responding period onding tjjo current
year The latter importations include
289,638,093 pounds entered free of
duty and 101,059,056 pounds subject
to the old duty.
Near New Castle, Col., recently, as
C. *A. King was driving down a long,
ste’ep hill on Divide creek, one ring
came oil the neckyoke. By the time
the bottom of the hill was reached
the horses became unmanageable and
tipped tbo wagon completely over,,
bruising eight persons and killing the
three-months' old baby of Mr. King,
Mrs. Burbara Fisher of Petersburg,
Ky.. a suburb adjourning Covington,
and her two tons were caught the
other night on the Lick Run trestle.
Mrs. Fisher could not hang on the
timbers and fell forty feet into the
water and was killed. The boys,
aged 10 and 12, crouched at the end of
the ties as the, train passed and were
saved.
Recently, noar Baker. Lincoln
County, O. T., two masked negroes
held up Mr. and Mrs. George Will-
iams. robbed and hound K{r. Will-
iams and then both assaulted his
wife. Hayes and William Boach
were arrested and identified as the
guilty parties and were jailed at
Chandler. There is talk of lynching.
At Houghton, Mich., the high
school class of 1895, In-a body, have
struck. Principal Koeler expelled
ono member for asking him to resign,
and the balance of the class wont out
also. Two of tho principles of the
departments have been hanged in
effigy by tho pupils. Tho school
■ board is divided.
The homo of Stanford Kimley, noar
Atchison, Kan., was burned tho other
day during tho temporary absence
of Mr and Mtb. Kimley and their two
children, agoh 3 years .and 15 months
respectively, were cremated. The
origin of tho tiro Is unknown.
At Coshoctqa. Now York, recently,
five young people were standing on
the edge of a 'rock overhanging tho
park whun'the rook gave way. Four
were found dead and one seriously
iujureu wuou the Inhabitants readied
. the spot.
A report comes from Cuba that
the Spaniard* Were recently ambushed
by the Cubans and defeated, losing
(toll killed aud 200 prisoners.
Seventy-five thousand weavers at
Pawtucket. R. I.; 1000 bricklayers at!
at St Louis. Mo.; 8000 garmentmak-
ers at HaRltnore, Md.; the molders at
Cleveland, O., and cottonworkers at
Janesville, Wis., are all on a strikp.
Four hundred Indians are in camp
three mills north of Rolla, N. M.f
and prepared to resist arrest. Dur-
ing one night recently they descended
on a trader’s store and helped them-
selves to ammunition and firearms.
A dispatch from Dubno, in the gov-
ernment of Volhynia, Russia, an-
nounces that half the town has been
destroyed by fire. Dubno has a pop-
ulation of about 8000, a castle, numer-
ous churches and a Greek abbey.
Dr. Alberta Obertin, a female dent-
ist, is in prison at Fort Soon. Kan.,
for having used a substance on the
gums of several persons in extracting
teeth that resulted in poisoning the
patients,-some of whom died.
Sixty-one German cities represent-
ed'in a congress of communal bodies
have adopted resolutions declaring
(hat the anti-rovolution bill now be-
fore the Relchtag to be aimed at the
freedom of public criticism.
Tho Woodmen of the World have a
membership of 34,000 in good stand-
ingTand on March 1, 1895, there was
$8,081 beneficiary fund, and $3,104
general fund on band in the .national
treasury, and out of debt.
Kxp'orts of staroh from this country
dropped off from 17,322,121 pounds
in tho eight months ending February
28, 1894, tO'4,576,325 pounds during
the eight months ending at corre-
sponding date this year.
It,is said that seventeen soldiers
have died In the military hospital at
Vitro, France, from eating American
canned meat. It is added that sev-
eral others are ill, suffering from the
same cause.
The french losses at the capture of
Marpvovay, Madagascar, the taking
of which plaoe was announced some
time ago, was one killed and four
wounded. The loss of the Hovas was
severe, f
-The lower house of the Tennessee
legislator*) has passed a bill providing
/or the itJaching in the public schools
of the injurious effects of alcoholic
drinks. [
The state departments is making
diligent inquiry into tho arrest and
qonviction \of ex-American Consul
Waller in Madagascar.
The revolution in Cuba is progress-
ing;'victory comes turn about, and at
present it -looks as if the rebels
would be sVciksful.
Twenty business housfes were de-
stroyed by fird the other night at
Lonmor, la. L^ss $65,000 with] only
$15,000 insurance.
Two hundred thousand tods of
wheat, that had Boon stored for two
years, has been thrown on th? market
at San Francisco. ,
Norton Reed of
18-year-old boy.
accepts**
I^artford, Conn., an
Went crazy over
“Trilby” and finally committed sui-
cide / $• '
"“’Secretary Iloke Smith has fust
leased 2,000,000acres of Indian lands,
without competition, through a rijr
tive.
. The city treasurer of fc.au Clal**,
Wis., has been arrested, being a de-
faulter in the sum of $30,000.
Senator Voorhees has come out
strongly in favor of tho free .apd un-
limited coinage of silver. - .
Twwwuuio \Iiooseveii has
the appointment as polioa commie
sloncr of Mew Yorjt city.
The leather trust has notified deal-
ers of a 25 per cent advance, hence
shoes will also advance.
A portion of the Missouri legisla-
tors, in a recent canape, adopted a
free coinage resolution.
A resolution for the overthrow of
the present govermont of' Nicaragua
is threatened.
Bank robbers have been successful
at Orion.. III. They got some $5000
and escaped;
It it Hitid that the Illinois silvor
Democrats have gone to the I’opu-
lists. . *
The population of New York city
according to a late census ig 1,849,866.
Champion Corbett will second
O’Donnell in bis fight with Kllrain.
Three earthquake shocks wore re-
cently felt at Chiotchesz, Turkey.
Six persons lost tholr lives In a cyc-
lone at Haltstoad. Kan., recently.
A cousin of Abraham Lincoln is In
an almshouse at Reading, Pa
There is a bribery investigation
going on in Now York state.
A son of Secretary Morton is en-
gaged in “cornering” salt.
George Gould will have to pay per-
sonal tax on $10,000,000.
Tho New York Maritime exchange
has 1212mcmbors.
Yellow fever prevails in tho Span-
ish army in ('ulia.
Six inches of snow at Denver, Col.,
a few days ago.
Selma, Ala., is to havo another cot-
ton mill.
Too much rain at Granada, Mis*
TEXAS NEWS BRIEFS.
IS •( osasral laterest CMsfull;
*eloo«od Vrsa Many Iwuoh.
The following bills h»*e been ap-
proved by the governor: Making the
offense of assault with intent to rape
punishable by confinement la the pen-
itentiary for a term of not less than
two years; providing for a supple-
mental assassuieut roll and to ooiieci
taxes due by persons upon property
not listed by the lax assessor; pro-
viding for the prosecution under one
bill-«jf indictment of all forgery cases
growing out of the same transaction;
to re-organize tpe forty-first judicial
district; authorizing the managers of
lunatic asylum to dispose of tho water
from the artesian well on the grounds
of said asylum; lengthening the terms
of oourt in Fort Bend and Brazoria
counties; the union label bilL
At Chllllcotpe, a few Sundays a go,
while the choir was singing an open-
ing song, a white pigeon alighted in
an open window near the music and
remained there until the minister
commenced his sermon, when the
bird changed its position to the pul-
pit, walking about over the open Bi-
ble and the preacher’s .notes during,
the'entire sermon, despite the clergy-
men’s eloquence and gestures, and
remained until after the congregation
was dismissed. The preacher alluded
to the appearanoe of the pigeon by
saying: “That In the days of Christ
the Holy Spirit came in lie form of a
dove,” and he hoped that the same
spirit was with us to-day.
The governor has signed the follow-
ing blllsr Lengthening the term of
court in Hamilton and Coryell coun-
ties. Making the introduction into
the state of property embezzled in a
foreign country, au offense under the
statute; defining the offense of intror
duclng stolen goods. The anti-trust
bill. Bill providing for the publica-
tion and distribution of the revised
civil and criminal, statutes and the
bill amending the act providing (or »
more efficient road system for Guada-
lupe and auxiliary counties, became a
law withoutthe governor’s signature.
A negro camod LorVczo Burnett
was killejl the.oJ.her morning at Me-.
Cullum’s store, three miles north ol
Wharton, while attempting to burg-
larize the store. Mr. McCullum was
awakened, by bearing a noise'in the
store and. going in to learn the cause
found a negro there who had forced
{in entrance through the window.
McCullum ordered him to throw up
his hands, but instead of doing so he
rushed upon McCullum with a razor.
McCullum fired and killed him. The
negro is laid to bo an ex-convict from
Jackson county. 1 j
The following bills, which were en-
rolled and ready for the speakers
signature, were lost in the shuffle i$
the hurry of adjournment and died
because they were not presented to
Mr. Smith for his autograph: Mr.'
Watkins’ “anti-ringer” bi(l, Mf.
Cocke’s bill exempting Gonzales
■county from the operation of the
stock inspoqtidp law, and Mr. Mc-
Bride’s bill to regulate the pleading
of setoffs and claims for unliquidated
amounts.
Among other curiosities, J. S. Pot-
ter of the American Express company
at Waco has a relic of the revolution
in the shape of a bill issued by au-
thority of the continental congress,
dated May 9, 1876. The bill bears
the imprint of Hill & Sellers of* Phila-
delphia, government.printers, and is
ilgOeu by Fred Kuiii, treasurer. It
is stated on its face “that it is good
for four Spanish milled dollars, or
the value thereof in gold or silver.”
Abutting affray took place at Ter-
rell the other day In which the princi-
pals, Editor Wv T. Jones and R. L.
Dorbandt, ol a hotel, were consider-
ably* disfigured. The difficulty arose
over a board bill amounting to a lltjjflS
over $2 ttuo the proprietor of the
hotel andV,which was contracted by
one of the editor’s employee. Dor-
bandt was cut in several places and
Jones badly bruised.
A brutal murder was committed in
the southern portion of Wharton
county recently. A negro, after
whipping his little stepchild very
severely with a quirt, struck it over
the head with the butt end, killing it
instantly. Constable Hall arrested
the negro and started to town with
him, but his horse became unmanage-
able near a cane break, the man
escaped and his not since been re-
captured.
As G. M. Pritchard of Groesbeeck,
was driving Ihto Mexia the other
morning, hia team became frightened
aftd ran away, throwing him out. and
the wagon fell upon him. Physicians
were hastily summoned, who pro-
nounced his Injuries very serious if
not fatal. His. wounds are internal.
It is said, that a granddaughter of
William B. Travis who wao kilted at
the battle of the Alamo, lives at
Mexia, Limestone county.
At Cook’s Point, Burleson county, i
recently, soma littlo boys were snap- j
ping an unloaded pistol, when It wa* j
discharged, tho ball entering Willie :
Taylor's neok, just beloVr tha look of |
the jaw, and ranged up and back and :
lodged under the skin of the buy’s '
heck. . j
Mowrey Mill* of the Mills ranch is
Duval county, while running cattle
recently came in contact with the
limb of a tree, breaking hia collar
bone and all of his jibs on one side.
He was driven to San Diego, in a
road wagon and suffered terribly be-
fore receiving medioal aid. Being
young and having a strong constitu-
tion, hopes are entertained ior his
recovery.
iford ha^ reached Rio Grande City,
Starr county, that Emllo Boons, the
mail carrier on the route between
that place rod Brownsville, has been
killed near »ha-Cueavas ranch, abodt
twenty miles from Rio Grande City.
The mail cart was found by a traveler
standing on the - roadside and the
driver on the ground dead. A de-
tachment of troops has gone to the
place.
At Greenville a short 'time since
Claude, the 6-year-old son of Henry
Childress, lighted a match and put it
to the nozzle of an oil can.' The can
exploded enveloping him in flames,
severely and perhaps fatally injuring
him. The house was burned.
At Groveton, Trinity county, re-
cently, Moha Johnson was .shot and
kllletj/frora ambush while working
in his brother’a field. There has re-
cently been a feud between the John-
sons and another family and more
trouble is anticipated.
Mr. John Jackson shipped four cars
of fat beeves from Belton to Kansas
City, recently. This makes a total of
13Z qars of beeves shipped over the
Santa Fe to the northern markets
this season, making in all something
over 3000 head.
St. Mary’s Catholic church at Tay-
lor, Williamson county, was dedicated
recently by Bishop N. A. Gallagher
with imposing ceremonies. A vast
audience was in attendance, and the
Catholic choir of Austin assisted in
the services.
George Schroedor, a farmer, was
drowned while fishing in the Colo-
rado river reoently a few miles above
La tfrange, His body was recovered
and Squire Cole held an inquest, re-
turning a verdict of accidental drown-
ing- ,
The, city council of Houston haB
granted a franchise for a new tele-
phone company. limiting charges to
"‘2,Wr'rosidenoes and $3 for .business
rouses i
THE STORY 1*£lD HIM WELt*
per month.; and also passed an
Self-gratification an Emlnant Ate
tornay’a Fes.
The most eminentconsulting lawyef
oi Paris at on* time in the laet cen-
tury was the Abbe May. Hie opinion \
had great weight in forming the de-
cision of the judges, and he was often
conpulted in important matters cat-
side the law. His fee for ap opinion
was usually a large one. The-etory
of one of his exceptional fees ia related
byM.de Boia Saint Just in bis his-
tory of Paris. A cure from the
country called on the Abbe one day,
and after -complimenting him with
earnestness and sincerity on his credi-
table and deserved reputation said
that he was involved in a law suit
which he did not understand. He
asked the Abbe to advisehim whether
he was in the right or in the wrong,
and whether he bad better carry on
the suit. saying he delivered to
the great jurist an enormous package
Of papers covered with almost illegible
handwriting.
; The. Abbe cheerfully accepted the
task, and told the cure to call again
in three weeks. He was pleased with
|the good, simple-hearted man, devot-
ed his beet energies to the csss, though
ho was obliged to put other matters
aside in order to do so. The cure
palled On the day appointed, took
the Abbe’s writteh opinion and read it
through critically. He was delighted
with the enthusiasm <and clearness
with which his rights were set forth.
He embraced the Abbe gratefully
and cried: “Ah, monsieur no one
feould be better pleased than I am,
and I want you to be satisfied also.
Here is monsy, monsieur; please take*
what is due you,” ifod he threw a
three-franc piece on the table. Not
to humiliate the good’man, the Abbe
picked up tho coin, took 36 sous
from his purse and handed his client
‘‘the change.” Some one said, when
lie told the story, that as usual he
pad lost his disinterestedness. “Lost?”
paid the Abbe. ‘‘And do you count
the pleasure of telling the story noth-
ing?”
-For the Sake of the Bees.
-Prof. A: J. Cook, of the Agricultural
college, of Michigan, who is «an active
worker in the cause of bee culture,
End one of the best authorities on the
ordidapee regulating variety shows, j Bubject says. It hft8 aeemed tQ m,
Ihe receipts of interest during (and I am stronger in the faith now
April on free school and university thau ^ that every Btate ghoul(,
land leases were $12,473. Receipts
of interest on sales of free school,
university and asylum lands $22,836,
principal $22,534.
Hon. O. R. Morrison of Hamilton
county, chairman of the house finance
committee of the twenty-fourJh legis-
lature, has been appointed by • the
governor state revenue agent,vice W.
B. Page. t
Yancey Jones of Palestine, was out
driving in a gig recently, when his
horse began kicking and struck him
on the kneecap, breaking the bones.
It is feared that he is permanently in-
jured.
Fix-Gov. J. S. Hogg of Texas will
spend the ensuing season at Fire
Island, Suffolk eftunty. New York,
having leased a cottage adjoining the
State’s hostelry there.
At Dallas Louis Jacoby, county tax
oolleotly, recently, lodged information
charging his, chief deputy, M.W. Tag-
gart, with embezzling $4998.59 of the
funds of Dallas county.
Gov. Culberson has appointed
Judge N. A. Stedinan of Fort Worth
as railroad commissioner to succeed
L. L. Foster,
Tho colored people ol Houston, held
a mass a meeting recently, aud, voted
to boycot the Italian merchants in
that city.
Gregg Barber bad'll finger cut oil
by machinery while at work in the
International and Great Northern
shops.
The dewberry season is upon us,
and many snake bites are reported.
The'oity council of-Dallas has appro-
priated $348,906 for the maintaiuauce
of the government for the year ending
April 16,1896. The income for that
period is estimated at $373,000.
An unknown man was found dead
in a vacant house at Nan Angelo, the
“other day. He had been dead several
day a
Matthew Cartwright »hippe<ir4^roe
carloads of .cattle .to St. Louis via the
Midland fro,m Terrell a few days ago.
The governor has vetoed tho bill
prescribing the qualifications of su-
perintendents of lunatic asylums.
Thu house bill providing for the In-
carceration of insane convicts passed
the senate at the last moment.
At Denton the other morning the
infant girl of S. A. Pritchett was found
dead in bed beside her mother.
N. A. h ted man has qualified as
railroad commissioner vloe L. L. Fos-
ter. who resigned Jan. 30.
The rate
this year will be 25 cents and for next
year 20 cents on tho $100.
The tax collectors of Waller, Cald-
well and Bastrop counties have just
settled with the state.
pass a law making it a serious mis-
(lemuanor to spray out fruit tree*
whils in blossom. I do not think
buch a law would, need to be used
touch, if ever; but os an educator it
would do signal service. It would act
as our foul-brood and yellows laws
liavu. Whan men find that there is a
law against any proposed course ol
action, they will almost always hesi-
tate before they act. In a case lik«
this, whore there ia no cause for wrong
action, but every reason for doing
bat which work* no one ill but ths
t good to all, then purely if a
loftire act will have influence, it
be urged by all, whether dir-
tly interested or not. Is it not wise
for every bee-keeper to agitate this
tter, that the public may b«
located, at least, and that such
jslation may bo secured as will aid
to prevent any spraying during the
tirps that the fruit trees are in blos-
som? j
Winter Care of Fowls!
When fowls are shut up-in the win-
ter they often want „for somo things
which are essential to their well be-
ing, and which can /be supplied with a
little labor and fore-thought. The
dust bath is necessary to keep them
free frohi vermin, and this should be
prepared now while the ground is dry.
Road dust is excellent for this pur-
pose, and a sufficient amount can
easily be gathered and put away in
barF$ls to last until the ground be-
comes dry in the spring. Keep an
open box filled with it all the time in
the hen honse. U you neglect to pro-
cure the dust in time, wood ashe*
|nay be used*as a substitute. A 8U1>-
ply of lime is also necessary, and the
(test way to provide this is to give
pounded oyster-shells. Bones pound-
ed fine, so up to have no long splin-
ters, may also be used, or fine gravel
Which containe limestone. Atten-
tion to these little things Is what
Inakes po.qltry pay in winter. Add to
I hose comfortable quarters, good food
hnd perfect cleanliness, and your
income from the fowls should be very
tatisfnctory.
Car* rrf Cow’s Tsata
The cows’ teats That crack and
deed should carefully be dried after
milking and then every part of each
crack touched with solid nitrate of
silver. The nitrate comes In the
shape o(, lesncils or sticks, which, be-
fore using. should be sharpened to a
(lqe point, so that the deepest part of
Ihe cracks may be reached. After
Of state ad valorem for tne nitrate cover tts crack.
with a little benxonated ox de of «ina
ointment, this to be carefully wiped
i>fT just before milking, If the nitrate
of silver is not obtainable, a finely
pointed crystal of sulphate of copper
may be used
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