The Brownsville Daily Herald. (Brownsville, Tex.), Vol. 6, No. 271, Ed. 1, Tuesday, May 17, 1898 Page: 3 of 4
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TIE IFFISIAL COUNTY QR6AN
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Tuesday May 17 1808.
A15UUT TUWJN
The Casino Matamorenso is pre-
paring to give an elegant ball at the
Matamoros opera House on the 21b.
instant.
The steamship Clinton sailed from
Morgan City at 3 :50 this afternoon
for Brazos Santiago with 18 cars of
freight.
Mr. Floyd Frisby who left Cor-
pus Chrlsti last week for Laredo
has joined Judge Earnest7 company
of volunteers. Caller.
YOU NEED Hood's SarsapariHa
if your blood is impure your appe-
tite gone your health impaired. Noth-
ing builds up health like HOOD'S-
Lawyer "W. N. Parks returned last
evening from a visit to the interior
of the state having been in San An-
tonio Austin and .other cities. He
found the war fever high wherever
he went. At Austin he saw . the
volunteers in camp and says the
tos are ail enthusiastic and anxious
to get to the front. Thoy aro a fine
looking lot of soldier? Mr. Parks
says. While he was in San Antonio
the-last of TJ. S. troops left Fort Sam
Houston for the front leaving the
place vacant.
The new United States navy is of
unusual interest to Americans now
that we are at war with a foreign
nation and everyone will be inter-
ested in the beantifuliy illustrated
pamphlet entitled "The New Unit-
ed States Xayy" by Capt. Chas. M.
Harvey which contains a brief ac-
count of our navy's history and forty-four
handsome full page picturfs
representing our largest and most
important warships with footnotes
describing each. It is a beautiful
and desirable souvenir and every
American should have one of them.
Mrs. Geo. Krausse has them for
sale.
The Democrata observes that some
of tne pupils of the public school
"When leaving school have the habit
of throwing stones at the house near
that locality known as the "Casa
B!anca" and suggests that a police-
man should bo stationed there to
prohibit this ugly practice- It is to
"be regretted that some of our school
boyBhaveno better manners than to
be throwing stones at houses the in-
stance mentioned by the Democrata
not being the only one by any
means. Boys who are not checked
in such unbecoming and even law-
less conduct will soon develop into
Tegular toughs or "hoodlums" who
will be a menace to peace of the
community. Both parents and teach-
ers should at once endeavor to pre
Tent the children under their care
from falling into such practices. It
may be added that these bad boys
Er not altogether confined to the
rougher element but some of them
belong to the" more cultured fami-
lies and some parents would doubt-
less be surprised to see their sons
throwing stone 3 and clods at not
onlv unoctippied houses but also at
private dwellings. Our boys should
be trained to more manly and be
coming conduct .
The Fifth to the Front.
According to the San Antonio Ex-
press the Fifth Cavalry left Fort
Sam Houston last Saturday for New
Orleans. Brownsville has many ac-
quaintances among both officers and
men of the Fifth and is interested in
learning of their setting out for the
scene of war. The boys were nicely
treated by San Antoniaus before
their department as the following
clipping from the Express shears:
fcCapt. H. W Wheeler through the
coldmnsof The Express wishes to
thank the Lone Star Brewery for a
half barrel of beer sent to the Fifth
Oavwry yesterday afternoon The
troops also wish to thank Mt.
Schnrch of Goverment Hill for two j
fcegs cf beerj sent them last right.".
la Meraoriam.
The Corpus Chrftl Caller publish-
er the following interesting sketch
i of the life of the late Judge T. E
Macnianns who was well known in
Brownsville his former home and
whoe death on May 5 in Houston
where ho had gone the week pre
vious on business was sincerely re-
gretted by his many old friends
here :
Francis F. Macmanus was born
in Jamestown. County Letrim
Ireland February 25 1829. Coming
to this country when quite young he
settled in jNew York where he se
cured a position as congressional re-
porter for one of the 25ew York dai-
ly "oapers. A few years ago after-
wards he moved to New Orleans and
became connected with Audubon
college as professor. Later on he
published and edited The Mirror in
New Orleans. Soon after he began
to read law graduating in the class
of 1959-60 gaining in a short time a
successful practice which he con-
tinued to enjoy until the breaking
out of the war. On May 20 1861
he was commisioned first lieutenant
of the Washington Light Guard 1st
regiment of Louisiana. He was
some time aftepfrards promoted cap-
tain of the artiffery atVicksburg un-
derGen .Pemberton. At Vicksburg he
was captured and held until releas-
ed by the Federals. After the close
of the war he moved to Brownsville
Texas where he resumed the prac-
tice of law and whore during the
days of reconstruction in 1866 he
was annointed district attorney. In
December 1S67 he returned to New
Orleans on an important mission
marrying in the Crescent City on the
17th of that month Miss Emily Julia
Lavender daughter of the president
of Audubon college and member of
one of the most distinguished
French families of the Crescent City.
Returning to Brownsville accom-
panied by his bride Judge Mac-
manus continued to make his home
there until about the year 1875
when he moved to Corpus Christ!
with his family making his homo in
this city where continuing his law
practice ho met with renewed suc-
cess. In 18S6he was nominated by
acclamation for state senator by his
Democratic friends in this district.
It is almost needless to say he was
elected and sorvod his constituents
faithfully. During the past few
years he has spont much of his time
in Galveston and Houston having
an important suit in the supreme
court the land being situated in the
counties of Walker and Montgome-
ry. He fought the case for 27 ears
winniug it the eighth time here
lately hearing of his grand final
victory on his death bed. Judge
Macmanu3 leaves to mourn hi
death besides his devoted and faith-
ful wife a family of seven children
viz: Chas L. Macmanus agent of the
Santa Fe at Cameron; A. F. W. Mac-
manus county attorney of Nueces
county and captain of the Kenedy
Rifles; Gerald O.C. Macmanus sten-
ographer and clerk of the Mexican
National shops at Laredo; Misses
Eugenia Margaret S. and Julia
Marie Macmanus and alaster Ar
nold Macmanup also Manuela an
adopted daughter who has been
with the family for thirty years.
Deceased also leaves a most devoted
nephew Mr. C. J. Macmanus also
two brothers Dn Chas. Macmanus
of Matamoros Mexico and Terence
Macmanus in Ireland besides other
relatives and a host of friends. The
remains were brought to this city
last Friday from Houston for inter
ment the funeral taking place on
Saturday forenoon from the Catholic
church. The following members of
the bar acted as pall-bearers: W. B.
McCampbell J. C. Scott G. W. Wes-
tervelt IL B. Spinellf Delmas
Givens W. B.Hopkins .
Judge Macmanus who was con-
scious to the last was man of gr&at
energy and perseverance always
ready to battle for the right & man
of courage not afraid to speak out
scorning ddulicily at all times.
He died a consistent Cathelic. About
his last words were '-I forgive all
who have injured me as I hope the
Merciful Father will forgive me.5'
His wifo asked htm if there was
anything ho wlshod His answer
was "Hestr
Old newspapers for sate at
his oSkel.
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: The Citizens of The
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Spanish Gunboat Blown Up in Havana Harboar
The Sagasta Ministry Resign-Sampson's
May Yet Meet the Cape de Verde Fleet.
Galveston Bombarded.
Galveston Texas May 17
It is reported that cannonading
off this point was- heard" this
morning and some alarmists
think it was scouting vessels
of the Spanish fleet.
Spanish Gunbeat Blown Up -.
New York May 17. A dis-
patch from Havana says that
a Spanish gunboat while des-
troying torpedoes near
ica
vana was blown up and all
on board perished. A dis-
A c i
patch from Madrid confirms
this report saying- that seven-
teen were killed.
After the
Oregon
St. Lucia West Iudies 17.
Spanish warships are seen
off here. If is I said they are
looking for the iU S. battleship
Oregon.
New Fightinr Craft
Washington j May 17. The
torpedo boat McKee and tor-
pedo boat destroyer Yankton
were placed in commission to-
day at the Norfolk navy yard.
The cruiser Njewark will go
into commission1 Satuarday.
Provisions for the French Consul.
Kingston May 16. The
French curiser Fulton from
Havana on May 8 arrived
here yestarday and landed
thirty seven refugees at the
quarantine station. The Ful-
ton will now proceed to San-
tiago with provisions for the
French consul there who has
cabled to Kingston requesting
that food be sent him and an-
nouncing that the famine prices
prevail at Santiago de Cuba
SUNK A. ''TRAP" Schooner.
Letters From Gomez for Com
modore Watson.
Key West May r?. -The
Wilmington has skilled a
"trap" schooner thirty miles
off Havana and sunk it. This
schooner was placed there by
the Spanish to destroyed
American ships".
John F. Jova former Amer-
ican consul at Sagdala Grande
Cuba arrived here today with
letters from Gomez for Com-
modore Watson 1
v
& Another Rnmoi'.
Kingston Jamaica 16. A
unconfirmed report which says
several engagements have Oc-
curred off Cienluegoshave not
yet been confirmed.
Pr'ice of Bread Rise.
New York May t6.-
-The
price of bread was raised one
cent a loaf by nearly all bakers
in the city today
Of GALVESTON
Oleander City Expect
the Spanish Fleet.
1 $HE NA.VAI BOARD'S PLAKS.
ToDdfend the Boekading Squad-
ron and Be Ready to Attack
the Spanish Fleet.
Washington tj. Spain's
fleet in the Carribean sea is to
be met by our armor clad
squadron. 'Hie naval bdard
is preparing to unite the flying
squadron with Sampson's fleet
south of the coast of Ciiba Iri
order to protect the hlockad-
ing fleet and also to the Amer
ican force in a strategic posi
tion to attaGk the Spanish
squadron at whatever port it
aooear. Monitors will
probably be placed at the va-
nous southern ports for pro
tection against bombardment.
The opinion is growing that
the capture of Havana will Be
no easy matter as the city will
make a stubborn resistance.
Litde reliance is placed on aid
from the insurgents.
OFFICIAL BULLETINS.
Navy Department Announces
that Men and Supplies Will
Be Sent Dewey .
Washington May 16. The
navy department issued the
following bulletin at the close
of office hours todaVj embody-
ing such official information as
the department considered
proper for publication:
"Admiral Dewey was inform-
ed that officers men and sup-
plies would be sent to Manila
by the City of Pekin. About
1200 troops will go.
"Mr. Knight correspondent
to the London Times having
received the necessary per-
mission from Spanish govern-
ment to land at Havana is to
be conveyed to that port by a
neutral vessel. He has been
granted permission by the
navy department to take pas
sage by the German steamer
Polaria which vessel is given
permission to pass the block-
ade. "The department hopes to
make an exchange of prisoners
at an early date
LAtE W AR BULLETINS-
The Hague May i6.The
ministry of the colonies of the
Netherlands knows nothing
it is said of the movements of
the Sspauish ships 2t Ciiracoa
Dutch West Indies and it is
pointed out that all vessels are
permitted to remain fdr a cer-
tain time at neutral ports;
New York toy 16. The
British steamer earnwood
which left Barbadoes May
i 6th arrived today. She re-
ports that on May 3 the Span-
ish transport Alfonso XIII;
with five' hurdred troops on
board put in at Barbadoes but
'was ordered to leave by the
authorities. '
Nev York May -16 -The
steamer Spoftari Prince which
i arrived this morning irom
Mediterranean ports reports
that while passing Gibraltar
straits on April zS she was
spoked by a Spanish torpedo
boat which steamed . rapidly
around her and then bore away
to the shore.
Fort Au Prince May 16.-
The U. S. torp'edo boat Porter
returned to Cape Haytien this
morning having left Reaf Ad-
miral Sampson's fleet in the
offing. Lieut Bennett confer-
red with the United States con-
sul at Cape Haytien and filed
dispatches from the Admiral.
The rendezvous of the fleet is
north from Cape Haytein. The
Porter left here at five o'clock
to rejoin the fleet. While go-
ing to Cape Haytein yesterday
the Porter4 sCfaped & reef but
sustained no damage.
The destination of the fleet
is uncertain. The store ship
Supply was expected td wait
for the Minneapolis at Cape
Haytein and her departure
from there is said to be due to
a mistake The cruiser Min
neapolis is likely to be inter-
cepted with new orders.
Madrid May 16. Senor Sa-
gasta visited the palace and
formally handed the queen re-
gent the resignations of the
ministry.
Ogdensburg N. Y. May 17
The U. S. cutter Partly was
sunk in the St. Lawrence river
today.
The Hague May 17.
Washington has not yet pro
tested against the Coaling of
Spanish warships at Curacoa.
Washington 17. Gen.
Greely chief of the U. S. Sig-
nal service today prohibited
the sending of cable messages
from the United States about
ihe war unless sent by the
government.
Kingston Jamaica May 17
The Cuban provincial gov-
ernment has instructed sym-
pathyzers to enlist in the Span-
ish arm'. Many are following
the instructions.
Madrid May 17. The mar-
itime office has been instruct-
ed not to permit the departure
Of vessels which could be used
as auxiliary cruisers
TeBaysea sad the Peerage.
Three times th& baronetcy was offered
to Tennyson and as many times he re-
fused it When therefore one day in
1883 Mr Gladstone said to the laure-
ate's eon that for the sake of literature
he wished to offer his father the higher
distinction of a barony there was grave
doufet dbout its acceptance. The unly
difficulty which the prime minister
thought insurmountable was the possi
ble insistence by Tennyson on his right
to wear his wide awake in th'e house
of lords. Tennyson .was so well beyontJ
the mere flattery of an offer of the peer-
ago that be took the friendly urgence of
Mr Gladstone with great calmness.
Mud at first was not to be moved from
his determination to remain plain Mr
Tennyson to the end of his days.
He was finally persuaded however
that as the foremost representative of
literature in Englarid he otigbt-noi to
put aside a distinction wbich would
mark the formal recognition of the place
and function of literature In the life of
a great peoples "I cannot but be touch
ed " he wrote to Mr Gladstone "by
the "friendliness of jour desire that this
mark of dfstinction should be conferred
on myself and i rejoice that you who
have Shawn such true devotion tor liter
ature by pursuing it in the midst ;i
what seems to most of us overwhelming
and all absorbing business should be
the first thus publicly to proclaim the
position which literature ought to hold
in th world's work. Hamilton W
1 liable ib -Atlaatre.
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PURELY PERSONAL.
L- A. Jagoti returned this after
noon from a flying trip to Hidalgo.
Capt. Gns Thorself the well
known pilot of Point Isabel spent
the day in the dity.
Fred Marks and Francisco La-
borde of Rio Grande City arrived
on the M. & M. this afternoon.
Chas. Kransse of Galvesfctt tritli
his little fire year old son Charlie
arrived last evening to visit hid
mother Mra. Geo. Kratisse- He was
met at Alice by his brothers George
and Henry Krausse who escorted
him to Brownsville. Mr.Krausse ia-
a former Brownsville boythit. be-
ing his native placej and his ttdmer-
ods old friends are delighted to seo a
him again 1 This i3 hK first visit to
his old homo in nino year" during
which time he has been living in
Galveston where he holds the posi-
tion of book-keeper in the largo
wholesale house of Gus. Ileyor &
v;o. He Will spend about ten day
here with his mother
tewell aad the Boy.
Ah author whose home was in a cotut
try town had planned a day's outing iri
Boston. He intended to transact a littla
busineES see a few sights and crown the"
day by attending a reception giveh td
James Eussell LowelL He had made
np his mind after some cousideratioii
to take his. little son with him for aif
early glimpso of distinguished sociev
Of course the small boy who had neve
before been in the city was delighted
and in due timo the pair set out
On their return the other members d
the family clustered about theft and ai
they unwound the little fellow from hi
heavy furs and mufflers he was asked
eagerly ""What Sid you Eesin Boston?"
"We thaw" came the answer in a
breathless burst "the anaconda and the
fat woman and the Living Ferculethe."
They had been to a museum of curik
fisities as well as to an author's recep
tion and according to youthful rule
of precedence Mr. Loitell naturally;
ranked a loiig way after this renowned
trio.
KeverfheleSs the boy bora away two"
distinct memories of the poet though
in the first it is probable that th9 Liv-
ing Hercules had his share having
doubtless suggested the topic of conver-
sation which was physical strengths
Mr. Lowell had narrated to his open)
mouthed small auditor an anecdote
a prizefighter who In dftriger of bein
run over in a crowded London thorough-
fare had knocked down and killed '
horsa -with a blow between the eyes.
His other recollections are of his owri
pleased embarrassment and the insistent
cordiality of the" poet so often spokerf
of as ovorpunctilious and fastidious r
who would shake hanis with him. ex"
tending for the purpose a hand" fanlt-i
lesaly gloved in gray kid which cla&peCt
without relnctance the child's hesitate
ing fnzzy paw. clad in a woolen mtS
ten sticky with recent molasses caady"
Ynnth'R ComTuwnnw
Welseley fclosa Call. j
On one occasion Lord 'Wolseley'slife
was saved by Prince Victor cf Hohen-
lohe known as Count Sleiehen. It was
in the Crimea when young "Wolseley I
badly wounded wa3 pasied by the sur
geon as dead. Undisturbed by the suri
geon's remarK Prince "Victor tried. t
p.xtract a jagged piece of ctenfi which
was seeking in the woundy and thar
prince succeeded in restoring.Wolsciey
for. after a. Mfct-T TvrrTx:N7' h-A ;.
poured down his throat said mor asp
severations from the surgeon that h
was dead he sat up and exclaimed "Ifo
more dead than you are. you feci!"'-
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