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LaG RANGE JOURNAL
JOB PRINTING OFFICE.
ALL kindi of Job Worn* done in the
noalust and rnoet
APPROVED STYLE
at priced that defy competition. t
kikkk HH <
PROFESSIONAL.*
L. W. MOO KB.
Office on Travis tStroet onposilo Masonic
Hall. [38-]
W. W. I.UNIf.
C. K. SMITH.
J. C. B. KIN FRO, M. D. O. W. UADKOKI), M. D.
nKNPKO & RADFORD,
Physicians and Surgeons,
LaQranob, — Texas.
llavo RFRocintod thomsolves together in the
practice of medicine and surgery and solicit
a continuance of public patronage. Office at
Moyonborg’s drug store, West side of public
square.
(June 1st ly 1888.)
yy N. MURPHY, D. D. S.
(DENTIST,)
LaURANGE, - - TEXAN.
rjiAUNMAN LODGE, NO. 78,
K. &L. of H.
yjy M. logan,
MERCHANT TAILOR,
Shop opposite the Masonic Building.
La GRANGE, TEXAS.
Clothing made in the latest fashion and at
roasonabln rates. Have always on hand
SAMPLES
of all the I as test and beet styles of goods.
THE DIRECT LINE!
Texas and Mexico
TO ALL POINTS IN THE
Nortk, North-East, Wat ad Sootk-Cut
IS VIA THE
Missoni Pacific Railway.
—...—
The T. B. A H. division trains make con-
nection at Taylor for all points North, South
and East, only one change of cars between
JaGrange end SL Louis.
Pullman Palace Sleeping Cars,
run through from Taylor to St Louis.
Passenger trains leave IaGrange daily going
North at 7t#0 Am.; going South at 8:» p. m.
Freight—every other day. South et 2 p. m.; I
North #:26 a. m.
Through tioketa sold to nil port* In the
United States and Canada.
For tickets, rates, tints cards or any other |
information apply to
S. K. ELY, Ticket Agent LaGrange.
I
lCa<®r«wt?if Journal.
r
Office op Publication : Opposite to Post Office. Published every Thursday and Entered at the Postoppich at La Geanob as Second-Class Matter.
VOL 9.
La Grange, Fayette County, Texas, Thursday, November ‘^9, 1SS8.
ISTo. 49.
J. 0. BBOWM, B- F. DUNE.
I^ROWN & DUNN,
Attorneys at Law,
LaGranuk, .... Tbxab.
rl. A. WASHBURN’S
........ ......... i
PRESCRIPTION
J. T. DUNCAN.
TyjOOKK, * DUNCAN,
Attorneys at Law,
LaGkanuk, - - - Tbxab.
Will pmctioo in tho courts of the 22nd, and
and adjoining district*.
YY H. LKDHKTTKR,
Attorney at Law,
LaGranuk, - - - Tbxab.
R. II. PHKL.l'B, i. i
I )HELPS & LANE,
Attorneys at Law,
LaGranuk, .... Tbxab.
Office in Masonic Building.
S. ROBSON,
Attorney at Law,
LaGranuk, ... - Tbxab.
Monoy loaned and borrowed at reasonable
rates of mtcrost.
DRUG STORE,
I | BAST SIDE n
LaGrange, - ■
THE EIGHT OF HOME.
Texas.
When every star that gems tho sky
In darknuss hides its silvery ray,
And midnight shadows thickly lio.
Like sable curtains on tho way,
One light remains to pierco the gloom,
One ray—it is the light of home.
That light whoree'er undimmed it shines,
Unnumbered blessings shed around ;
Where fall its soft and tender linoa
There truest happiness is found.
There is no light beneath the dome
Bo precious as the light Of home.
Within its sacred circle blend
The purest virtues, true and strong;
Here (Viend deserves the namo of fHend,
And love resides, nor fears a wrong;
Andwhen the heart meets pain and ill
That friendly beacon cheers it still.
For one afar its radiance streams
The proof of joy and hope and oheer,
And draws him with its welcome beams
To all he holds most prized and dear
His heart is glad, his ove grows bright,
As he behold its faithful light.
EEP on hand a hill line of fresh drugs, mudicinos. also a soloct stock of toilet ^n(j jj,ub
and fancy articles. Fine soup, porfiunory, school books, stationery, paints, oils,
window glass. Fine cigars, (soda and vichy in Hummer,) and also the largest and most
took of Standard Patents handled in the interior.
AV > W ^lUCD. A IHO VI
omploto stock of Stun
tnivo 26 cts. on the dollar and buy your drugs here.
Guarantee to beat RENFRO PRIuEB.
(No. 46xtf.)
W. M. MoKINNEY.
LIVERY, SALE * FEED STABLE,
^ J. ROSENTHAL,
Attorney at Law,
LaGrange, ----- Texas.
Will practice in all courts. Loans nego-
tiated for large and small sums. [88-]
■ >ERCY FAISON,
Attorney at Law,
LaO range, - - - - Texas.
LaGRANGE,
TEXAS.
I UNN & SMITH,
Physicians and Surgeons,
LaGranob, Tbxab.
Privatooffico over White* Bradshaw’s store.
(No. 2—)
Tho undersigned will do a general livery business. Horses and mules bought and sold.
Turnouts, either single or double furnished on short notice.
Commercial travelers fitted out in good stylo. Horses boarded by tho day, week or month.
Bay-Charges reasonable.*^!
(47 ) MoKINNEY Ac IIOMUTH.
pjK. k. a. McKinney,
Physician and Surgeon.
LaGranok, Tbxab.
Office at T. C. Gregory’s Drug Store. —
Residence tho McClellan — Burns place.
j^R. R. S. FOSTER,
Physician and Surgeon.
WARD A, - . . TEXAS.
Q W. SOUTHERLAND, M. D.,
Physician and Surgeon,
Winohkstzr, .......Tbxab.
OFFICE AT GATES’ DRUG STORE.
20.1.)
G. FMEDBEHCEB. V. JOHNSON.
FRIE08ERCER * JOHNSON.
^DEALERS »
DRY GOODS, NOTIONS, ETC.
/~\UR new stock of dry goods, including Btaples, fancy goods, dress goods, notions,
VI shoes, clothing, and gentlemen’s furnishing goods; house furnishing goods, carpets,
oil cloths, was recently purchased in New York, and are offered to tho public at reduced
prices. Call and examino our goods and prices.
(88x-)
Meets third Tuesday night of each month
at tho K. ofH. Hall, in LaGrange. AH mem-
bers are requested to attend.
H. A. BRANDT, Protector.
J. N. HALL, Secretary.
with its Commercial, Penm .nship, Shorthand, Typewriting and Telegraphy departments,
and tho
German-English Academy,
Opens its fall session September 10th 1888. Prof. O. G. Neumann, an educator of broad
culture and experience In German and American schools, is now a partner in this institu-
tion. A new supply of patent seats (40) has been ordered for the Academy. Parents de-
siring a thorough general or business education for their children please examine our
inducements. Young ladies arid gentlemen preparing for the State University, for t<»eh-
ing, or business, shall rereive thorough, practical training. Business, shorthand, and Pen-
manship students have access to the Academy without extra cost. Wc will not be under-
bid in rates of tuition nor ovorbid in thorough work. Ploasc examine our facilities and call
for circular. ___ ...
O. G. NEUMANN, Secretary. J. J. ANDERSON, President.
Austin. Texas
Centaur
I inimenf
The moot wonderftil Paln-Curcr the world has ever
known. Its effects are instantaneous.
Children Cry for Pitcher’s Castorla.
nd thus as we, with weary feet,
Life’s dark and tangled mazes tread,
Let us take heart, for, pure and sweet,
There is a light that shinos ahead,
That loads us onward, while we roam,
To find in heaven the light of homo.
—Boston Journal.
B. H. HOMUTH.
UNAPPRECIATED.
Without Reserve.
Bargains! Bargains!! Bargains!!!
-TIIE I.AHG E STOCK OF-
Staple! Fancy Groceries
of tho late A. E. Wlllonborg is for salo in bulk or in lots to suit purchasers. Thoso goods
hove to be sold and will bo sold at greatly reducod prices.
Tho stock embraces a fine lot of old whisky, which can bo had nt a bargain, os tho
license expires on the ilrBt of October. This is a rare opportunity, so don’t miss it.
(88xlm) Mrs. A. K. WILLENBERG.
Mr. White Finally Convinced of Hie
Wife's Importance.
“I don't think,” said Mr. White,
“that hay crop ever promised so
finely.”
“Indeed 1” said his wife absent-
ly-
“And if there isn’t any fall In
the price of fruit,’’ he said, “our
peach orchard is going to net us
a cool hundred dollars.”
As he spoke he flung the home-
spun towel, with which he had
been wiping his hands, over the
back of the chair.
“Oh, George, do hang’ up the
towel,” said Mrs. White, “the nail
is just as near as the chair hack,
and I have enough steps to take
in the course of the day without
waiting on you.”
“Yon are always grumbling a-
bout something,’’ said the young
farmer, as he jerked the towel to
its nail. “There! Does that suit
you V
“Here is a letter from Cousin
Dora, George,” said Mrs. White,
wisely avoiding the mooted ques-
tion. “She wants to come here
and board for a few weeks.’’
“Well, let her come,” said Mr.
White. “It won’t cost ns a great
deal, and a little extra money al-
ways counts up at the year’s end.1’
“But, George, I was thinking—’’
“About what t”
“Why, lain so hurried with the
work, and there is so much to
do-’’
“That Is the perpetual burden of
yonr song,’’ said Mr. White, irri-
tably. “Women do beat all for
complaining.”
“Won’t you hoar me oat t” said
Mrs. White. “So I thought it
would be a good plan to give Do-
ra her board if she would help me
with the home work a little. It
would accommodate her, and it
will accommodate me.’’
“But it won’t accommodate me!”
said Mr. White, cavalierly. “Real-
ly, Letty, you are getting abso-
lutely lazy.”
Mrs. White crimsoned.
“No one ever said that to me
before,’’ Baid she.
“But just look at it,’’ said the
farmer. “Tell me of any other
woman in the neighborhood who
keeps a girl! Why they make
boast of doing their own work.”
“They all have sisters, or moth-
ers, or grown up daughters ; I
have none.”
“Pshawl” said White. “Ridicu-
lous 1 Of coarse you have to work.
We all do, don’t wet But your
work don’t amount to a row of
pins. I don’t know of any wom-
an who has it easier than yon do.”
“That is all you know about it I’’
said Letty. in a choked voice.
“Write to Dora that we’ll board
her for five dollars a week,’’ said
White, authoritatively. “We must
earn all the money we can while
there is a chance. Make the hay
while the sun shines, eh f And I
gness you'll do as well as other
women do, Letty. Now run up
stuirs to the garret, dear, and get
me my bine jean overalls, that’s a
good girl I”
Letty obeyed, but the tears were
iu her eyes, and a big round ball
was rising up in her throat, and
she could hardly see the jean ov-
eralls, as they hung up high on
the end of the beams.
As she reached up a loose board
in the garret floor tripped her;
her foot slipped through on the
laths and plaster below, and, with
a groan, sank to the floor.
The time passed on, and George
White grew tired of waiting.
He shouted up the stairway
“Look alive there, Letty 1 Do
you mean to be all day t’’
But no answer came. He ran
up stairs to find Letty lying on
the floor,‘with one leg broken just
above the ankle.
“Now you’ll have to get some-
one to do the work,” said Letty,
not without a spice of malice, as
she lay on the calico-covered set
tee, with her ankle duly set and
bandaged.
“Not if I know it,” said George
White. “Hire a lazy woman who
will want a dollar and a half a
week aud her board into the bar-
gain to do the work of this honse 1
I gness not 1”
“Bot what are yon going to dot”
asked Letty.
“To do it myself, to be sure.
Half an honr every morning, and
half an honr every evening onght
to be enough to square np ac-
counts.”
He rose early next morning aud
lighted the kitchen fire.
“Pshaw,” said he, as he piled on
the sticks of wood, “what does a
woman amount to,anyhow! What
is the next lesson, Letty f’’
“I always skim the cream and
Btraiu the milk," said Letty, who
was bolstered upon the lounge,
and was combing her hair- with
more deliberation than she had
practiced for a year.
“Well here she goes then,”said
George.
Ana a period of silence ensn-
ed.
Presently he shouted.
“I haven’t got milk pans e
no ugh !” •
“Of course you haven’t,” said
Letty. “You most scald your yes-
terday’s. You know you said yon
couldn’t set up a tin-shop when I
asked you for a dozen more last
mouth.”
“They smell like a fat-boiling
factory,” said George, disdainful
ly. “What ails ’em!”
“You should have scalded them
last night,” sighed Letty, wishing
that she had wings like a dove
that she might soar into the milk-
room aud restore order out of the
chaos.
“Here’s a go I” said Oeorge.
“There isn’t hot water.”
“Oh, George, you’ve forgotten
to pat the kettle on I”
“So I did,” said her husband.
“And the sticks, hang ’em, are all
burnt out I”
“You know I wanted you to get
a ton of coal,” said Letty, “but
yon said as long as wood cost
nothing but the chopping and
hauling, wood it would be.”
“Have I got to wait for that
coufouuded water to heat t” groan
ed George.
“I don’t know anything else for
you to do,” remarked Letty, dry
ly-
“Humph I” observed that lord
and master. “What’s for the
breakfast!’’
“Ham and eggs, 1 suppose.’’
“Well, I’m up to that part of
tho programme, at least,” he said
cheerfully. “Oh, the dickens I
What is the use of keeping your
knives so sharp! I’ve nearly cut
my thumb off! Where do you
keep the oatmeal! I cau be at-
tending to your old milk pans
while the breakfast is cooking, 1
suppose. There is uothiug like
economy in work.”
But it was a mortal hour before
the milk was strained and the pigs
fed, and by that time the house
was blue with a sort of a smudgy
smoke.
“Hullo,” shouted George, com-
ing in. “What’s all this—is the
house on fire !”
“No,” said Letty, calmly, “only
the breakfast has burned np.”
George uttered a long sigh.
“Who’d have thought the fire
was so hot!” said he. “Whatam
I to do now !’’
“Cook another, I suppose,” said
Letty.
“And what next!’’ demanded
George fiercely.
“Why, set the table, and then
clear it away and wash the dish-
“With this cut finger!” com
plained tho husband.
“I was obliged to do it all the
weeks I had a felon on my little
finger,’’ remarked Letty. “The
young geese and the turkeys
onght to have been let out and fed
long before this; and the three
calves in the barnyard to be at-
tended to. And then there are
the kitchen aud the sitting room
to be swept and dasted and the
beds to make, and the string beaus
to be picked, and the bread to
bake, aud the huckleberry pies to
make, and your white vest to be
iroued, and the potatoes to be
peeled, and the preserves to be
scalded over, and the cheese to be
turned, and the dishes to be wash-
ed-”
“Hold on I” cried George, “you
have said that once.”
“Very likely, but it has to be
done three times a day—aud the
chickens to be looked after, and
the linen pillow-cases to bepntto
bleaching, and the wiudows to be
washed, and your trousers to be
patched, and the stockings to be
darned, and the fire to be made up
again, aud tea to be prepared—
you know yon always want some-
thing hot for supper. And there’s
the night’s milk to be brought in
and strained, and the pans scald-
ed and the geese and turkeys to
be fed and put iuto their coops;
and, oh, dearl 1 forgot the churn-
ing 1 That will take an hour at
least. But, dear George, 1 am get-
ting hungry 1—and I don’t see the
least sign of breakfast. George!
Where are you going! I want my
breakfast.”
For George had disappeared In
the midst of her exordinm.
In twenty minntes or so he re-
turned, aud by his side trndged
Mary Ann Pult, the nearest neigh
bor’s twenty-year old daughter.
“I’ll take it all back,” Baid Mr.
White. “I lower my colors, Let-
ty. Yonr work is harder than
mine. I’ll be everlasting blest if
it ainR. Why, I couldn’t take care
of the milk and oream for the wa-
ges a girl would ask. 1 never real-
ized before bow much a woman
bad to do.”
“Are you quite sure that you
realize it now!” asked Letty,mis-
chievously.
“Well, I’ve got a pretty fair idea
on the subject,” nodded George.
“But you should be here on
washing day,” said Letty, “or on
ironing day, or on the day when
we chop sausage-meat, or make
sofLsoap, of-”
“Stop, stop r shouted George
I said I’ll take it all back! What
more would you have!”
“Wal, squire,” Baid Mary Ann,
who by this time had removed her
hat and shawl, “what will I do
first !”
“Do!” echoed Mr. White. “Do
everything aud let me go off to
the hay field as fast as 1 cau.”
“Jes’ as your orders is,” said
Mary Ann.
“And I say, Letty I” he added.
“Yes, George.”
“Write to your Cousin Dora.
Tell her we’ll be glad to board her
if she will assist you about the
house.’’
“But you’ve hired Mary Ann
“There’s work for ’em both,”
said Mr. White.
And he sat down and took ref-
in last week’s paper, while
Bf
Ma
ary Ann wrestled with the char-
red remains of the breakfast aud
oat freBh slices of home-oured
ham.
Iu this world there are blood-
less battles and victories won
without a clash of steel, and in
this category may be classed Mrs.
White’s victory over her husband
in respect to the question of“hir-
ed help.”—Yankee Blade.
Southern Dependents.
A great deal is said aud written
about the New Sonth aud the won-
derful strides in the march of
progress and development, but it
is as nothing compared to what it
should be. There is scarcely one
of the old Southern states but
what if it would, be entirely inde
pendent of the rest of the world.
How many are so situated! Not
one! No where in this great and
beantiful South, where the handi
work of man has been, can one
hide so as to shat oat from his
view evidences of our dependence
upon the North. Pursue life iu
whatever profession or occupa-
tion we may, and our books,tools,
implements of industry or con-
trivances for pleasure, conven-
ience or comfort,ninety-nine times
iu one hundred are “brought on.”
An exchange, commenting upon
this lamentable state of affairs,
speaks tlfus of a funeral which oc-
curred in Georgia: “He was dead,
and they were putting him away,
in digging a grave for him they
dug through three feet of marble
as pure as any Parisian sculptor
ever molded, and yet the slab that
went at the head of his grave was
imported from Vermont. Although
pine forests were all around him,
the pine cottin in which he lay was
imported from Philadelphia. Al-
though iron was in the hills with-
in a hundred feet of his grave,the
nails in his coffin came from Pitts-
burgh. Although there was hard
wood in the same forest, the
handies of the shovels and picks
that dug his grave were imported
from Cincinnati. The truth is
that his own country, as rich or
richer in natural resources than
any in the state, furnished noth-
ing for that funeral but the hole
in the ground and the corpse. He
was clothed in shoes from Massa-
chusetts, a suit from Chicago, a
shirt from Cincinnati, a hat from
Lynn, and his own country furn-
ished nothing but the marrow in
his bones and the blood in his
veins.”
In the name of that same South
which we love with a feeling akin
to that we have for our mother
and our God,—yet untainted with
treason to the Union,—we ask how
long must such dependence con-
tinue!—Marshall Messenger.
A HORSE’S AGE.
f MMMHI
LETTER-HEADS,
NOTE-HEADS,
BILL-HEADS,
8TATEMEMT8,
LAWYER’S BRIEFS,
ACCOUNT SALES,
C1RCULA1I8,
DODGERS. Ac.
“Well,”said Mrs. White,“I shall
like to see you do It.” . ----- --
■ “Then you’ll have your wish,” “If you say another word, 11) go
aid her husband. I for Mahalia Dinks, too. Haven l
How to be Loved by All.
Never try to outshine, but to
please.
Never press a favor where it
seems undesired.
Never intrude ill health, pains,
losses, or misfortunes.
Never unavoidably wound the
feelings of a human being.
Never talk or laugh loud in pub-
lic places or upon the street.
Never forget that vulgarity has
its origin in ignorance or selfish-
qess.
Never urge another to do any-
thing against his desire unless you
see danger before him.
Do not ask another to do what
yon would not be glad to do un-
der similar circumstances.
Never omit to perform a kind act
when it can be done with any rea-
sonable amount of exertion.
Never needlessly wound the van-
ity of another or dilate unneces-
sarily upon disagteeable subjects.
Do not make witticisms at the ex-
pense of others which you would
not wish to have made upon your-
self.
Remember that good manners
are thoughts filled with kindness
and refinement and then translat-
ed into behavior.
Be not ostentatious in dress or
deportment; uothiug can be more
vulgar. See that costumes fit the
time and occasion.
Be rude to none; rudeness
barms not the bnmbleetand poor-
est to whom it is directed, bot in-
sures the exhibitors.
Always give precedence to el-
ders, visitors, and superiors. Of-
fer them the best at the table, the
best place by the fire,and the first
of everything. Go . farther than
mere form and see that they are
comfortable and bappy.—Phila-
delphia Newa.
The oldest verse in existence—
the universe.
An Old Jockey Gives a Few Sugges-
tions on the Subject.
A dozen artifices are resorted to
by horsemen and horse sharpers
to conceal the age of an animal af-
ter he has passed his tenth year.
No buyer need be deceived, how
ever, who will follow the rules
herewith laid down. You want to
buy a horse—an animal not over 9
years of age. The report gets out
some way, and you receive a pos-
tal card inviting you to call at a
certain place. The would be sel-
ler takes you for a greenhorn and
is all ready for you. Your line of
proceeding is as straight as a
board. Ask to have the horse
brought out into the alley, where
you have the full light of day. Be-
gin by looking at his feet, aud af-
ter you have inspected them shake
your head in adubious way, as if
you wouldn’t give $10 for the
beast.
Next hold the horse’s head
close to your face and jab yonr In-
dex finger at his eyeB. If you jab
bard enough you’ll hit the eyeball.
Then pull his right ear down and
blow iuto it. You may blow him
off bis feet, but it is not probable.
Then punch him in the ribs, preBS
ou his spine, look very dubious
and inquire:
“How old do you call him!”
“Eight last spring,” the man will
reply.
Then you will for the first time
open the horse’s month, take a
lightning survey, and turn away
with the remark:
“He’ll never see 25 again.”
“What!”
“It was very foolish in you to
put up such a job ou me.”
“Job I Why, sir, you are badly
mistaken I”
“Yes, I know; bat I didn’t want
him just the same. He’s got all
the marks of a horse who has
passed his twenty-fifth year. I
want an old nag for grinding tan
bark, but I can’t take one over 16
years old.”
“Say, mister, I see yon know
your gait, aud its no use to try to
work you. He’s 15 years and a
month, and you cau have him for
$125.”
Yon can make any excuse you
wish to get away, but you have ac-
complished the great point in a
horse transaction.
If yon are selling an old horse
the case will be different. When
the would be buyer makes his call
keep hiui waiting for at least five
minntes. Then, when he has sta-
ted hie errand, you must dubious-
ly observe:
“1 did say 1 would sell him, as I
want to get a big cart horse, but
the wife and children take on so
that it goes against the grain. We
raised him,you know,audhe’slike
one of the family.”
“If you raised him you must
know his exact age.”
“Oh certainly. Got his birthday
down in an old diary. Billy is 9
years and a month old.”
The man looks at Billy’s teeth
and replies:
“Ten year old 1 Why, the beast
is above 20, or I’m a liar.’”
Now you want to leadthehorse
back into the stall and innocently
remark to the visitor:
“You will excuse me, sir, but I
am very busy this morning.”
“But about the horse!”
“Oh, he wouldn’t please you, sir.
You’d always feel that you were
cheated.”
“Isn’t he 20!”
“Didn’t I say I had his birth-
day in writing! Didn’t I feed him
milk with my own hands!”
“He has the teeth of an old
horse.”
“Very well, sir. No harm done,
of course.”
“I—I rather like his looks.”
“So does everybody. He’s
horse to be proud of.”
“Just what I want if I was only
sure about his age.’’
“Exease me, sir, bnt I must go
in and soothe the children. They
are crying for fear I will sell Bil-
lie/’
“Well, I’ll take him at $150. If
yon say he’s only 10 that settles
it, for I know yon to bea man who
wouldn’t lie nor deceive in a trade
of any sort.”—Detroit Frea Press,
Duel With Kinves.
The Associated dispatches of
the 15th iust., contained the fol-
lowing blood-curdling account of
a fight with knives at Birmingham
Alabama, ou the 10ih luat:
Some time ago Dr. Robert Na-
bors, residing at Montevallo, this
state, employed W. W. Short-
ridge, a lawyer, to collect a few
claims against delinquent patients.
The returns were not satisfactory
and the two men quarreled, bnt
parted without ooming to blows.
Word has just reached here last
Saturday Nabors oalled at Short-
ridge’s office and trouble broke
out again. They finally agreed to
fight with bowie knives in a dark-
ened room juit off the office. Re-
moving their eoata and shoes the
men entered the room and fought
blindly, but desperately, for near-
ly ten minutes. The duel was one
of the most vicious ever known
in Alabama. People living in the
lower stories heard the noise as
the dnelists rolled upon the floor
and ran np stairs. When the door
was broken open NaborB stagger-
ed into the office with blood
streaming from a dozen gashes in
his face aud breast. Witkont say-
ing a word be rushed down stairs,
still clasping the gory knife In
his baud. Lying upon the floor of
the room was Shortridge. His
head had been slashed In a fear-
ful manner. The arteries of bis
neck had been severed, one eye
bad been gouged out, and bis
hands were cut so terribly that
the fingers hung only by tendons.
The man was dead. Nabors after
leaving the office, ran ont upon
the street, where his bleeding
face and gory garments spread
consternation among the negroes.
Tbe doctor seemed to be crazed
with pain, and stuggered wildly
along the streets until he reached
a store, where Albert Kenuan, a
negro, stood In the doorway.
Without saying a word Nabors
rushed at Kennan aud struck at
him with the knife which he still
held in his hand. The negro start-
ed to run in the store when the
now thoroughly iusaue man made
another desperate lunge at him.
Kennan seized a guu which was
lying upon the counter aud then
turned to face the madman, who
was in the act of taking another
swing with his knife. The two
men clinched, but Nabors, who
was weak from tbe loss of blood,
was no match for bis antagonist,
and was quickly thrown upon tbe
floor. Before be could get upon
bis feet again Kennan dealt him a
terrible blow upon tbe head with
the stock of the gun, and then
leaping over the body ran into
the street and can not now be
found. Nabors never regained
consciousness. Both bodies were
buried yesterday, the funerals
being largely attended.
They Talked pf Other Things.
“Yee,” said he, “life is so lone-
ly.”
“It is lonely, sometimes,” s
anfi VATAfl
“Wouldn’t it be sweet to have
a little cottage covered with ivy
and honeysuckle and rose bush
es !”
“Oh I wouldn’t it 1”
“And when a fellow comes home
tired from business, to have a nioe
little wife meet him at tbe door
with a kiss.”
“Y-e-e-s.”
“And then the summer nights,
the windows open, and the sun-
set giving light enough in tbe oo-
zy parlor, and—you—I mean
wife at tbe piano, singing In the
gloaming. It wonld be lovely.’
“I—think—it—would—be—nice.
“And then—”
At this point a care worn worn
an came around tbe corner with a
pair of twins in a perambulator.
A dead silence fell upon the sum-
mer air for a little. Then they
changed the aubject.—Ban Fran
cisco Ohroniele.
“I oannot give yon a
011a Podrida.
A vacant lot—Dudes.
Town pnmps—Local editors.
Well drilled—The oil region.
The age of humor—Badinage.
Food for refleotion—Brain food.
A printer's row—A quad rangle.
The fat of the land—Petroleum.
Paper cuffs-Newspaperattacks.
Epitaph on a printer—Dead mat-
ter.
Tbe shades of night go about
dewing good.
Sweating for one’s daily bread
is a pore way of doing it.
In the great battle of life many
win by “shooting off their mouth.”
Why is tbe world like a piano!
Because it is fall of sharps and
flats.
A new shade of silk is called
“lemonade color,” whatever that
meaus.
It is the poor straggling attor-
ney who is addressed in a little
“brief’ authority.
A suitable inscription for a to-
per’s tombstone—On earth be will
never smile again.
A twenty dollar gold pieoe and
a reliable watoh always go for
what their face indioate.
However extravagant a contor-
tionist may be, he always manag-
es to make both ends meet.
The widow of a railroad bag-
gageman always refers to her de-
ceased bnsband as her ex-oheeker.
definite
answer to-night, Mr. Paperwafe,”
said the girl, softly; “yon must
give me a mouth to think over.”
■ -Very well,” was the young
an’s response, “and in the mean-
time 1 cau think it over myeelf.”
The Seaworthiness of Monitors.
The eeaworthlneee of tbe moni-
tors has been thoroughly tested.
The old ManadDOckrounded Cape
Horn in 1866 and behaved admir-
ably in tbe long seas of tbe Pa-
cific Ocean. Soon after tbe eivil
war tbe old Miantonomoh made
a ernise to Europe, enoounteriug
heavy weather. The aeae would
come over bow and stern four
feet deep at timea, bnt paaa off
quickly without even preventing
the use of her guns. She rolled
about 7 degreea, while the two
ships accompanying -her rolled 20
to 30 degrees. In the report of
this cruise by Assistant Secretary
Fox we find: “a vessel which
attacks a monitor In a aeaway
most approach very dose to have
any chance of bitting such
bull; aud even then the w
Is half the time covered i
three or four feet of
teeting hereetf and i
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Edmondson, P. E. The La Grange Journal. (La Grange, Tex.), Vol. 9, No. 49, Ed. 1 Thursday, November 29, 1888, newspaper, November 29, 1888; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1145695/m1/1/: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Fayette Public Library, Museum and Archives.