The Jacksonville Banner. (Jacksonville, Tex.), Vol. 11, No. 11, Ed. 1 Friday, July 29, 1898 Page: 1 of 8
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The Jacksonville Banner
Devoted to the Interests of Jacksonville and Cherokee County.
SUBSCRIPTION, $1.50 PER ANNUM.
J. E. McFARLAND, Editor and Proprietor
JACKSONVILLE, CHEROKEE COUNTY, TEXAS, JULY 29, 1898.
Vol. 11.
No. 11.
THE STANDARD BALE.
SPAIN ASKS PEACE.
He was not long in discovering
HE WROTE “DIXIE.”
Subject.
French Ambassador.
JACKSONVILLE,
TEXAS.
DR. ANDREW SIBLEY,
Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat,
Palestine, Texas.
was
DRS. BRITTAIN & GUINN,
Office in Ragsdale Hall.
A TEXAS WONDER.
JACKSONVILLE.
TEXAS
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Those were the palmy days of
burnt cork art,
GUT
FRIOES!
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I’ll show
He went in-
Practice limited
to diseases of the
right for $500, which
ever made from it.
you my first copy.”
COPY-
all I
last Spain had taken the initia-
tive toward peace.
Phone from
Office to Residence.
Early Summer
Organdies, Lawns
and Ginghams,
BEN SHAYNE’S...
Bargain Store.
AT LATE-
IN-THE-SVMMER
PRICES!
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r
WEEKS & FLEAGER,
LAWYERS,
seWill practice in all the courts.
This is the place to get your money’s worth—and a little bit
more. OUR STOCK OF SHOES IS COMPLETE.
C S. LANE, M. D.,
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON,
Jacksonville, Texas.
Calls answered promptly day or night.
Office up stairs over Fuller & Earle’s old
stand—next door to J. A. Templeton.
Hall’s Great Discovery.
One small bottle of Hall’s Great Dis-
covery cures all kidney and bladder
troubles, removes gravel, cures diabetes,
seminal emissions, weak and lame back,
rheumatism and all irregularities of the
kidneys and bladder in both men and wo-
men; regulates bladder trouble in chil-
dren. If not sold by your druggist, will |
for its own. I sold the
I. & G. N. Excursion Rates.
Summer tourist tickets' now
on sale to all tourist resorts north.
and will cure any case above mentioned.
E. W. HALL,
Sole Manufacturer, Box 218, Waco.
Sold by W. P. Devereux.
READ THIS:
Gonzales. Tex., July 4.—This is to cer-
tify that I have used Hall’s Great Discov-
ery for kidney and bladder troubles, and
I am satisfied that I have been very great-
ly benefited by it. I can fully recommend
it to others similarly afflicted.
' JAS. F. MILLER,
Save Your Good Looks.
Without beautiful hair no woman is
beautiful. Parker’s Hair Balsam will re-
store its growth, silkiness and color.
Ballard’s Snow Liniment will cure
lame back, sore throat, wounds, sprains,
bruises, cuts, old sores. Ladies, it will
cure your backache. At Devereux’s.
northeast and northwest. Good
for return until October 31, 1898.
Account state democratic con-
vention, Galveston, Aug. 2 to 5;
sell Aug. 1 to 2, limit 6th.
Account U. C. V. reunion Gal-
veston, Aug. 5 and 6, will sell
Aug. 4, limit Aug. 7; greatly re-
duced rates.
Tabler’s Buckeye Pile Ointment relieves
the intense itching. It soothes, it heals,
it cures chronic cases when surgeons fail.
It is a scientific certainty. Its sales in-
crease through its cures, it is no experi-
ment. Every bottle guaranteed. 50c.
Tubes, 75c.
Our baby has been continually troubled
with colic and cholera infantum since his
birth, and all that we could do tor him
did not seem to give more than tempor-
ary relief, until we tried Chamberlain's
Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy.
Since giving that remedy he has not been
troubled. We want to give you this tes-
timonial as an evidence of our gratitude,
not that you need it to advertise your
meritorious remedy—G. M. Law, Keo-
kuk, Iowa. For sale by A. Johnson.
theatre on lower Broadway was
one of the most popular resorts
in New York City. Emmett was
born in 1851, at Mount Vernon,
coming of a family, all of whose
members had a local reputation
—still traditional in the county—
as musicians. In his own case
this talent was but little less than
a crude and undeveloped sort of
genius.
He began life as a printer, but
soon abandoned his trade to join
the band of a circus company.
be sent by mail on receipt of $l. One
when Bryant’s ■' small bottle is two month’s treatment,
The Request Was Presented Through the and the boys were invited to at-
tend to the feast presented them
I.
Ballard’s Horehound Syrup is not a
mixture of stomach destroying drugs,
but is a scientifically prepared remedy
that cures coughs and colds, and all
throat and luug troubles. Its action is
quick, prompt and positive. 25c and 50c
at Devereux’s.
To get a pair of pants out of our factory
that are not perfect in each detail is next to
impossible. Of course, once in a while we’ll
miss a flaw. To cover such a possibility we
put a printed guarantee in the pocket of each
pair. If you find a fault that we missed you
can get another pair or your money back.
Thus the BUCKSKIN BREECHES mean as
The cotton buyers at Waxa-
hachie, which is the second larg-
est inland cotton market in the
world, have issued the following
circular letter to ginners and
farmers in that section:
“We think it proper to advise
you at this time of the action that
will be taken by cotton buyers
with reference to the prices that
will be paid for different sized
bales the coming season, in or-
der that you may have ample no-
tice and an opportunity to so ar-
range as to secure the full bene-
fits thereof. You are doubtless
thoroughly familiar with the
movement for the adoption of a
uniform standard square bale 24
inches in width and 54 inches in
length, and we deem it unneces-
sary to dwell on the subject furth-
er than to say that bales of this
size will insure to the farmer sav-
ings in ocean freight of not less
than $2,000,600 per annum on the
I Texas crop. Some may think
this would be saved to the trans-
portation companies only, but we
and all other cotton buyers from
practical experience know that
any advance in freights compels
us to pay less for cotton, and de-
clines in freights enables us to
pay more, and that any saving in
freight goes into the pocket of
the farmer, by means of better
prices.
“We would therefore urge the
ginners to adopt this change and
the farmers to use every influ-
ence they have to induce them to
do so in time for the next gin-
ning season. Co-operation will
be necessary. The farmer
should not ask the ginner to
make a bale weighing over 525
pounds, and to this end should
not bring more than 1600 pounds
of seed cotton to the gin.
“We are reliably informed that
a vast number of boxes will be
changed to this standard in the
southeastern cotton states, which
compete with us, aud also that
enough ginners in this state will
make the change to make the
24x54 square bale the standard.
Therefore, we shall be compelled
the coming season to discrimi-
nate against large bales by pay-
ing higher prices for the stand-
ard bales.”
The circular is signed by fif-
teen firms, including merchants,
and will doubtless provoke very
general and great interest in
that section, if not elsewhere.
that he could compose songs of
the kind in use by clowns. One ! Action of Waxahachie Cotton Buyers on the
of the finestof these was “Old
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load of good things. In the depot
building was a pile of watermel-
ons, 600 of the luscious beauties,
For the purpose of closing out the remainder of our summer
goods and to make room for fall stock,
A Reduction Sale
has been inaugurated, to continue the balance of the season. All
goods will go at
Dan Tucker,” of pleasant inebri-
ate memory. Its success was so
great that Emmett followed it
with many others. They were
all negro melodies and all won
popularity.
Finally he took to negro imper-
sonations, singing his own songs
in the ring, while he accom-
panied himself on the banjo. He
made a specialty of old men, and
he assured me with pride that
when he had blackened his face
and donned his wig of kinky
white hair, he was “the best old
negro that ever lived.” He be-
came such a favorite with the
patrons of the circus in the south
and west that at last, partly by
chance and partly through inten-
tion, he invaded the stage him-
self.
This was some time in 1842, at
the old Chatham theatre in New
York City, when, with two com-
panions, he gave a mixed per-
formance, made up largely of
songs and dances typical of slave
life and character. The little
troop was billed as the “Virginia
Minstrels,” and their popularity
with the public was instan-
taneous.
This was the beginning of ne-
gro minstrelsy. From New York
the pioneer company went to
Boston, and later on sailed for
England, leaving the newly dis-
covered field to the hosts of imi-
tators who were rapidly dividing
their success with them.
Emmett remained abroad for
several years, and when he re-
turned to New York joined Dan
Bryant’s Minstrel Company at
472 Broadway. He was engaged
to write songs and walk-rounds
and to take part in the nightly
performances. It was while he
was with Bryant that “Dixie”
was composed.
Strangely enough, “Dixie” or
“Dixieland” referred not to the
south or to any part of the south.
It was the name of an estate on
Manhattan Island, the property
of a man named Dixy, who was
one of the largest slaveholders of
his day until the rapid growth of
the anti-slavery movements in
the north compelled him to sell
his slaves to the south. It was
from these blacks and their de-
scendants that the words “Dixie
land” came, expressing their
love and longing for their former
home and master.—Philadelphia
Press.
Lan Emmett Lives to see the North and
South Sing His Famous Song Together.
Perhaps very few people know
that Dan Emmett, who wrote
“Dixie,” is still living.
His home is in Mt. Vernon,
Ohio, where he was born and
where he hopes to end his days.
The old man is a picturesque fig-
ure on the streets of the town.
In his prime he was one of the
mid-century dandies of New York
City, but now with calm indiffer-
ence to the conventional, he
usually carries a long staff and
wears his coat fastened in at the
waist by a bit of rope.
His home is a little cottage on
the edge of the town, where he
lives entirely alone. On almost
any warm afternoon he can be
found seated before his doorread-
ing, but he is ready enough to
talk with the chance visitor,
whose curiosity to meet the com-
poser of one of the national songs
of America has brought him out
of town.
It was this curiosity that took
me to the cottage. The old com-
poser was seated in the shade by
his house with a book open be-
fore him. As I went up the path,
I said, for I had some doubt in
my own mind:
“Are you Dan Emmett, who
wrote ‘Dixie?’ ”
“Well, I have heard of the fel-
low7; sit down,” and he motioned
to the steps.
“Won’t you tell me how the
song was written?”
“Like most every thing else I
ever did, because it had to be
done. One Saturday night, in
1859, as I was leaving Bryant’s
theatre where I was playing,
Bryant called after me, ‘I want a
walkround for Monday, Dan.’
“The next day it rained and I
staid indoors. At first when I
went at the song I couldn’t get
anything. But a line, ‘I wish I
was in Dixie,’kept repeating it-
self in my mind, and I finally
took it for my start. The rest
wasn’t long in coming. And
that’s how7 ‘Dixie’ was written.
“It made a hit at once, and be-
fore a week everybody in New
York was whistling it. Then the
south took it up and claimed it
The Galvesion Immunes.
This regiment passed through
Jacksonville last Friday night,
enroute from Galveston to New
Orleans, where they will embark
for Santiago. There were three
trains, scheduled about an hour
apart. Only a short stop was
made here for water. At Pales-
tine they were given a supper
and reception by the citizens,
a description of which is given
below by a Galveston Tribune
correspondent:
One of the cities enroute es-
pecially outdid itself in caring
for the regiment, and that was
Palestine, the little town which
Capt. Allen and his boys hail
from. When the first section ar-
rived the train had scarcely com-
menced slowing up when a brass
band stationed at the depot en-
trance struck up the enlivening
air of "Dixie.” The crowd began
shouting, and were answered in
a thunderous tone by the boys on
the train. Out in front of the
depot was ranged a series of ta-
bles simpiy groaning under a
Washington, July 26.—The
Spanish government has sued
for peace, not indirectly through
the great powers of Europe, but
by a direct appeal to President
McKinley. The proposition was
formally submitted to the presi-
dent at 3 o’clock this afternoon
by the French ambassador, M.
Jules Gambon, who had received
instructions from the foreign of-
fice at Paris to deliver to the
United States government the
tender of peace formulated by
the Spanish ministry. At the
conclusion of the conference be-
tween the president and the
French ambassador the following
official statement was issued
from the White House:
“The French ambassador, on
behalf of the government of
Spain, and by direction of the
Spanish minister of foreign af-
fairs, presented to the president
of the United States at the White
House a message from the Span-
ish government looking to the
termination of the war and the
settlement of terms of peace.”
This was the only official state-
ment made public, but it sufficed
to put at rest all conjecture and
to make clear and definite that at nerrpaeoioninBontsas, jjacsoihlfine.
while two or three thousand of
their admirers stood about and
entertained them.
When the second section bear-
ing the Palestine company came
up, the scene simply beggared
description. It seemed as if the
feelings of the people, apparently
exhaused in expression on the
arrival of the first train, had re-
ceived a new impetus, and com-
pany I was overwhelmed with
attention. Fathers, mothers,
brothers, sisters and sweethearts
met the boys, threw their arms
about them, kissed them and
made over them as if they had
just returned from war, instead
of being on the way there.
There were many pitiful scenes
when the train finally pulled out,
just as the third section came in
view, and preparations were
made for the next big crowd of
several hundred or so.
to the house and returned in a
moment with a yellow, worn-look-
ing manuscript in his hand.
“That’s ‘Dixie,’ ” he said. “I
am going to give it to some his-
torical society in the south one of
these days, for, though I was
born here in Ohio, I count my-
self a southerner, as my father
was a Virginian.”
Half a century ago Emmett was
a famous “nigger” minstrel.
E. E. Guinn, M. D. J. M. Brittain, M. D.
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McFarland, J. E. The Jacksonville Banner. (Jacksonville, Tex.), Vol. 11, No. 11, Ed. 1 Friday, July 29, 1898, newspaper, July 29, 1898; Jacksonville, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1538103/m1/1/?q=%22~1%22~1: accessed July 15, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Jacksonville Public Library.