Waco Evening News. (Waco, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 136, Ed. 1, Monday, December 17, 1888 Page: 2 of 4
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WACO TEXAS DEC. 17 1888.
An iuestigatiota is to bo had into
the Louisiana election. An amend-
racnt should bo moved to substitute
Indiana for Louisiana in the text of
the resolution.
The Texas Iron News has dono
splendid work in the way of booming
Jefferson and the iron interests of
Marion county. Such work should bo
appreciated by tho citizens of that
section.
Tho Littlo Bock Gazette says: "Lit-
tle Hock cotton dealers will appeal to
tho Interstate Cotammcrco Commission
to secure freight rates on cotton to
New Orleans in proportion to the rates
to New York. Tho difference is now
too great." Tho New Orleans Cotton
Exchange has already moved in this
matter.
In New York at 9 o'clock on the
morning of April 30 noxt a Thanks-
giving service wil bo held in all tho
churches of tho city it being the
100th anniversary of tho Thanksgiving
service held on tho occassion of Wash-
ington's inauguration on April 30
1789. President Cleveland will be
asked to declare April 30 next a day
of thanksgiving.
Tho Texas Farm and Ranch says:
Fiom now until spring you may find
dozens of farmers (?) "in town"
nothing to do after cotton is picked.
Next summer they will ' be howling
about hard times and legal oppres-
sion and studying how to beat the
crop mortgage. The election is over
the ballots aro counted and the can-
didates arc all happy or rcaaj to ex-
plain how they got beat Now then
take a higher hitch on tho backhand
and sock the plow point way down deep
and keep it going till Bpring.
Tho river and harbor bill reported
to the house appropriates for all the
great rivers and harbors of the great
est nation on the earth the sum of
$11906850. This sum is distributed
in pitiful handfuls on a system of
frittering waste and' expenditures
patching up and repairing. It is just
about enough to make a great harbor
on the Texas coast.
No secret is made now in Balti
more of tho proposed ohanco in the
Baltimore and Ohio management
Tho Qarrctt pconln announco that
when the new administration takes
ehargo every officer and employe on
tho road appointed through tho in-
fluence of Senator Gorman and other
Stato and city directors must walk tho
plank. Only tlio'so friendly to tho
Garretts will bo permitted to remain.
Among others who will bo displaced is
Vico President Orland Smith. Third
Vico President Lord is tho only offi-
cial it is said who will retain his
position. Some doubt is expressed as
to Mr. Bobcrt Garrett going back in
tho directory. Ho is pat all euro:
but Judgo Frick his father-in-law
will act for the family and carry out
their wishes.
From 1850 to 1870 was tho palmy
da s of rher traffic. Tho Mississip-
pi was a great artery of commerce
rroni ono end to tho other the mer
was black with steamboats heavily la-
den with valuable freight and human
beings. Now a steamboat passing is a
curiosity aad men women and child
ren rush from their cabins to the river
bank to sec u steamboat go by. Ocean
commcrco is fhc timos greater than it
was in thoso days and yet congress
votes ast Bums for tho improvement
of water ways no longer used and
small sums for harbors that are an im-
mediate nccossity. Why should it
try to galvanize a corpso back to life
when there are tho living are to be
cared for.
NEWS NOTM.
Waco has had a number of great
commercial failures in tho year now
just closing. Tho Advocate can and
will give the explanation. It is tho
enormous rentals charged. Bents are
a hundred per cent too high there.
With the stato filled full of sharp com-
petitions and railroads in ccry direc-
tion tho merchants daro not claim
such a margin on their goods as will
enable them to pay tho rent and Ihe
besides. Tho price of real estate and
rent is generally too high in Texas
but far in excess of all reason in Waco.
Here is a competent lesson for Vic-
toria and many other ambitious towns
in tho state. Victoria Advocate.
George Baby a St. Louis contractor
in overhauling some old papers re-
cently found a missing bank book
which ho had received from'Moss &
Co.'s bank of Liverpool England
over thirty years ago showing that ho
had made a deposit in tho bank.
Upon finding the book ho sent it to the
bank together with his sworn state-
ment of the matter. Sir Thos. Ed-
ward Moss ono of the bank officials
recognized the old form of the bank
"book and official stamp and Mr. Baby
has received notice that the claim will
bo paid shortly with interest.
Even in republican Philadelphia tho
color lino still continues to be sharply
drawn. Becently one of that city's
councilmen who is also an architect
and builder sold a house to Seldon J.
M. Brock a light-colored negro the
latter paying down $25 to bind the
bargain. Subsequently tho builder
discovered that parties on tho same
block who had also purohascd bouses
from him would not tolerate tho pres-
ence of a colored neighbor and ho de-
clined to consumato the bargain.
Brook brought suit but as tho build"-
er's wife refused to sign ths deed with
her husband he Bimply asks for $125
damages.
The statute in Now York whioh
changes tho mode of executing crimi-
nals from hanging to that of death by
electricity also provides that no de-
tails of any execution shall be given
by tLo publio press. The Now York
Sun ridioules tho latter provision and
says: "We should urge tho imme-
diate repeal of tho prohibition againBt
publishing tho details of tho execu-
tions by electricity if wo believod that
portion of tho law to bo constitutional.
But wo do not. No law shall be pass-
ed to restrain or abridge tho liberty of
speech or of tho press Bays the con-
stitution. Tho eloetrieal execution
Din so far as it attempts to restrain
tho newspapers from tho publishing ac-
counts of tho (. manner in which tho
death penalty is inflicted seems to ub
plainly in conflict with this conBtitu-
' tional provision."
A remarkable featuro connected
with cattle ranching in Texas is tho
utter collapse in tho demand for sad-
dle horses Even before the spring
round-ups the demand was extremely
quiet. This is one of tho enconomies
of tho pasture system that the cattle
can be handled with less men and a
smaller number of horses. The
ranch companies are buying plows and
heavy farm teams mules etc. San
Angelo Standard.
The Waco Evenino News comes
to us as ono of our exchanges and is a
bright sparkling paper just such as
wo predicted our young friend .Will
White would get up. Cynthiana Ky.
Democrat.
Thanks friend Brown. The .kind
words of tho Democrat in our far
away home fall on our ears like grate-
ful rain on thirsty flowers.
"Where 1b My Boy To-night."
An exchange says: "In nearly ev-
ery -case tho boys who bring disgrace
and sorrow upon their parents are al-
lowed to run the streets at night.
With the shades of night around ' a
boy comes tho opportunity for bad as-
sociations that do not tempt them in
tho broad light of day. Evil doers do
not stalk about at noon-day and hence
tho boy is not apt to come in contact
with it when the sun at meridian
height is tho beauty and glory of the
sky. Keep your boys off tho streets
at night or rather safely sheltered in
the home nest where evil influences
nover enter to lead them estray."
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Northern capitalists havo purchased
150 acres of land in tho suburbs of San
Antonio and proposo to erect a $50
000 hotel and large sanitarium for the
treatment ot consumption and other
diseases.
People who havo gone to Bichmond
to the exposition speak of the many
handsome womon seen in the crowds
there. This observation is no doubt
well founded. Biohmond is a verv
provincial city in many respects but
she is metropolitan if not cosmopolitan
in tho beauty of her womon if this
means that tho beauty of her women
is unsurpassed. Thoro aro no pre-em
inent belles in Bichmond now as there
wore in the days olosely following tho
war when Mattio Ould transfixed with
both her beauty and wit everybody
sho met but what has been lost in in-
dividual celebritios has been raoro than
mado up in a grand multitudo of won-
derfully attractho women.'
OurioB.
Evevy body rloh and
uuuoumeaiv give
noor. will
tne lovea ones
present you can buh your purses at
Morrison Rlsher A Co's. Presents
new and beautiful at from $5 to
920.
T)nlitti Afrtoa aliin fAnlnw la
(operated by electricity.
Maryland's 188 cunning factories
employ 25000 men and 15000 can-
makors. There is no law against a wife's
picking a husband's pocket in order
to buy him a Christmas present.
Philadelphia has jusl consecrated a
church for deaf mutes tho only ono
in tho world. No oncvis allowed to
sleep during tho sermon.
Potatoes aro a drug in tho market at
Colfax Wis. owing to the enormous
crop raised in that section. Tho best
price to bo got is 10 cents a bushel
and one farmer olfcrod to eive a friond
a wagon load of clioico ones if he
would take tho troublo to send for
them.
Thcro is a bootblack in the Now
York Citv hall who is nuitc a curiositv
Ho has ono arm off below tho elbow
and wears a wooden limb strapped
tichtlv to tho stumn. To this wooden
arm is fastoncd a brush and ho uses
it as ardently as tho ono used in tho
other hand.
Hon. W. W. Lang will return to
imiuuurg uus weeK. nc win nrst go
to Paris where his daughter Miss
Chase and his son Will are at school.
From there ho will ro-onter upon his
duties as consul-general at Hamburg
to await tho pleasuro of President-
elect Harrison.
Tho farmers allianco of Minnesota
is already organizing to have a voice
in tho election of a United States sen-
ator. Tho allianco claims that it will
control at least twenty-five otes in
the legislature and proposes to cast
these first for Ignatius Donnelly but
has no hope of securing his election.
Tho success of Mrs. Shaw tho pro-
fessional whistler has created a sort
of furore. Every pair of lips shows a
tendency to puoker tunefully. The
old adago concerning whistling girls
and crowing hens must bo amended by
the elimination of tho first clauso or
the country will go to ruination at a
mad gallop.
The recent failure of Elijah Gilbert
a New Hacn grocer is said to hac
been occasioned by the loss of $60.-
"000 at draw pocker which he played
ior amusement with some ot his
' friends" who combined against him.
This is another incident in tho ex-
change of the culturo of the East for
tho vices of tho rowdy West.
They are giving Attorney General
Hogg merry particular in certain quar-
ters for his late circular against bet-
ting on elections. It docs seem just a
little too steep but no worso than the
law on tho subject itself. Why not
attack the law instead of Hogg? Hogg
is one of those old-fashioned sort of
men who have an idea that laws were
mado to bo executed and obeyed. Vic-
toria Advocate.
Mr. Gladstone will spend a part of
tho winter in Naples. Ho. must
guard his health with the utmost
care for ho has a great deal of work
before him and much depends on the
way in which if at all ho will be oble
to disposo of it Tho fato of homo
rule in Ireland for tho prosentat least
depends upon tho lifo of this old man
whoso strength has alroady been taxed
far beyond the enduraneo of most
men
A foreign correspondent notes the
differences between an English and an
American girl in dancing. The Amer-
ican girl is a nervous creature. Sho is
as excitable as a thoroughbred marc.
When sho dances her eyes sparkle
her cheek flushes her face is lighted
up and every nerve is at toasion in
tho thrill of music and motion. The
English girl on the contrarv. does
not altor her amiablo torpidity in tho
least. Sho docs not smile. Sho turns
solemnly around without a vestige
or abandon. She docs not dannn.
but trots.
Tho postago stamp collection mania
cannot ba said to be dying out. At a
recent auction in London the following
prices for raro specimens were realized:
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mum uiuu uiuuk. vapu error Aio; tne
"LadyMoLeod" Trinidad local 13
13sj tho three-lyre Tuscany on tho orig-
nal envelope 12 12s: tho NewBruns.
wick shilling 5; Nova Scotia shilling
4 5s; the penny black Great Britain
wjm v. i. in corner o job. All tho
colonial stamps realized good prices
showing that tho interest in varieties
has largely increased.
Marriago brokers are a distinct in-
stitution in Corea and most alliances
aro arranged by them. The father of
the boy consults by letter with the fa-
ther of tho girl through the agenoy
of theso go-botweens and generally the
whole matter is arranged without tho
interested parties having been con-
sulted ot even having Been caoh other.
Indeed tho wholo transaction is con-
ducted vory much as a real ostato
transfer would bo in this country ox-
copt that tho purchaser would natural-
ly take a look at tho property. In
Corea no such preliminary viow of the
prospective wife or husband is permit-
ted. Unless a man marrios he is con-
sidered of very little importance in
vmrean socioty. juvery unmarried
man is considered a boy though he
should live to bo 100. Henco mar-
riages take plaoo very early in life.
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CHRISTMAS GOODS IN TEXAS
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EVERYTHING
BRAND NEW
ancT of the
LATEST STYLE
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Sideboards by the
dozen Parlor'and Bed-
room Furniture of
Every Description.
Rocking Chairs &
Fancy Tables. Hall
Racks by the
Hundred and Every-
thing Calculated to
Make a Handsome
Present from
Fifty cents to $500.
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Holidays for the be-
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