Wise County Messenger. (Decatur, Tex.), No. 202, Ed. 1 Saturday, December 22, 1888 Page: 7 of 8
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FOREIGN NEWS
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The Suakim deserters say Osman
Digma is at Handoub with 2,000 men
and will march in defense of the
trenches when the attack is made. The
enemy’s right was nearly destroyed to-
day by a heavy, continuous tire of the
To remove grease from garments dis-
solve a tablespoonful of salt in four
tablespoonfuls of alcohol, shake well
and apply with a sponge.
. Mexia—Local option was i
this county by 706 majority.
jailed here to day for the alleged kill
_____ ing of J. J. Fray in Hardeman county,
ton and the International and Great Tex., in 1880.
is writing a narrative of the events oi
his recent visits to the northern capi-
t
TRADE.
London, Dec. 12.— The Mark Lane
Express, in its review of the British
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they will require vigorous rubbing,
with soap or hot water.
offered for sale by Aguilar on the other
side last Thursday night. A party of
regulators waited on him, and after
taking him into chapparal, lifted him
off his feet by means of a rope tied
about his neck and thrown over a mes-
quite limb to procure a confession from
him. Not succeeding they turned him
loose. He shows the marks of the rope
very plainly.
take energetic measures to reassert our
power England’s prestige will be en 1
dangered throughout the world.
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have disappeared from the neighbor
hood, one of which, it is alleged,
Waxahachie—Cotton receipts here
that the receivers have a more gigan- to date amount to 9700 bales. It is
tic scheme in their minds and that the thought that between 3000 and 4000
line will not remain a state affair: that bales will yet be brought to the mar-
the receivers will push the line from ket. tour new two-story brick bust-
Ogden, on the east, straight on to New ness houses are nearly completed, and
Orleans, and from Waco west to the three of them have already been rented
Pacific Slope, which would give the |
UNITED STATES COURT NOTES.
San Antonio, Tex., Dec. 13.—In the
United States court to-day the ease
against Sam H. Neff, charged with
complicity in the attempted train rob- 1
bery at Harwood last August, was con-
eighty-five miles, intersecting the
Houston and Texas Central at Thorn-
direct route from the
English wheats were firmer. Foreign
wheats were steady. Corn was quiet.
Oats, beans and peas were unchanged
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Jk Affiance Department.
Uan this Department will appear regularly,
notes and opinions relative to the progress of
the Alliance and improved tarmint. Corres-
pondence solicited. ED.]
COAL MINERS STRIKE J
Indianapolis, Ind., Dec. 12.—A num
bec of switchmen in the employ of the
tinned upon motion of the attorneys Vandalia railway company on their
for the defense. It was discovered an branch lines in Clay county coal fields,
Shreveport—The fair tdirectors or-
ganized to-day and the deficit in this
year’s receipts was subscribed by a
cash payment for stock.
permanent improvements, machinery
and lands. The rate of escapes has
' WITHIN OURSELVES.
E T BOsQUEVILLE, Texas.
The Alliance at Bosqueville is getting
along very well, notwithstanding in
the early part of August it was hard to
get a quorum present, on account of
Sickness. We are studying hard and
are learning some; but we are young in
the cause.
But something else must be done-
first to get farmers to see money ahead
before we can make any great pr -
gross toward raising ourselves from the
poverty-stricken condition that now
binds the farmer to the merchants and
bauks. We propose to come upon a
level with the money lords and land
syndicates. How will we do it? First,
within ourselves, through co-operation,
build our own factories and manufac-
ture our goods. As long as we tread
as we have in the past, we cannot look
for relief. So long as we sutler our-
selves imposed upon as we have in the
past, so long will we be slaves for other
people. Let us meet together and dis-
cuss the subject. You all know you
cannot raise cotton for 7 or 8 cent s.
Many farmers who were doing well
when cotton sold from 12 to 15 cents,
now have their farms mortgaged. Let
us come out of this, and show to the
farming world that we mean business.
Then we will have the co-operation of
all farmers; then we will move on to
success and not until then.
ships and forts. The Arabs replied, I
wounding one Egyptian.
At Zanzibar a meeting of the British [
Indians was held to day to consider I
the means of rescuing their fellow-sub ,
jects who are forcibly detained by the :
Arabs. The British Indians hope to
prevent the bombardment of Panji,
I’onja, Sadani, Kilwa, Londi and Ale-
been greatly reduced, being only 115,
but the mortality has been excessive, grain trade du ing the past week, says:
especially in the outside forces and Good dry English wheats have main-
camps. In the two years there were tained prices, but the bulk of offerings
223 deaths. The superintendent at- e ... . ... , . .lon ...
tributes the mortality to seeds of fatal is of poor quality and has fallen ot
diseas • planted i i the convicts before New wheat, mixed good foreign, has
reaching the prisons, and developed by dropped Gd. Sales of English wheat
hard work and exposure. The iron in- during the past week were 53,182 quar-
dontrinsanasrohghtipdeapttratna ent tersat ,31 id,
terprise, building upNe w Birmingham, riod L t durrhK Flour' arseon to” ill,
instshutzonopencrctsingelPiwaystacni: milanessofweater,abmdanceqtyg
ities. ne work is nQkas prosperous toes itmiting the consumption of bread,
enaitggsuerb &ot ex^fc. ’ Tlm1^ Foreign what is ft,£<ed Russian
dons have been reduced and largely has eslinay. Liviq/oo records a fall
include convicts whose sentences were 1.,, X:. > , PAMnni
almost expiring and to restore citizen ^/^ussian rid Wheats and Id ptr
shP- _________________ cental on Indian. At to day’s market
The Czar Threatening to Occupy Persia —
The Suakim Trouble.
London, Dec. 13.—The Star says that
Gen. Sir Charles Warren, late chief of
the metropolitan police, is going to
Suakim to settle atlairs there after the
fighting between the British forces and
Arabs is ended.
It is announced at Berne that Italy
will construct a railroad on the Italian
side of the Simplon tunnel and wil1
grant a subvention of several million
francs.
The Berlin National Zeitung denies
that there is any truth in the sinister
rumors regarding Emperor Williams
health It is stated that the emperor
Sulphur Springs—Fifteen dice throw-
ers were acquitted to-day before a jury
because there was a bed in the place
where they played, and it was tuere-
fore a “private residence.”
Aus'in—lion. Abner Taylor has re
‘ceived his 3,000,000 acres of capitol
A GOOD ARTESIAN WELL.
Bryan, Tex., Dec. 12—The strongest
artesian well in this country was struck
last Saturday on the plantation of J. B.
Thomas, ten miles west of Bryan, on
the Brazos river, at a depth of 327 feet.
The water is as pure as melted snow,
and furnishes through an inch-pipe
three and one-half gallons per minute.
This well was made by Win. Clark, a
former employe of the Aurora will
works, who is an expert in ti ebusiness!
SWITCHMEN STRIKE OFF.
Chicago, III., Dec. 12.—At a meet-
ing of striking switchmen this after-
noon the strike on the Chicago, Bur-
lington and Quincy railway, so far as
switchmen are concerned, was de-
clared off at this point by a majority
vote.
Arlington—Terrell Collins was in
jured seriously by having his horse fall
under him.
Weatherford — Tom Anglin was
placed under $1500 bond to-day for al-
leged rape.
well as foreigners. We must maintain
the honor of our army or withdraw it
iltogether. The position is serious ,
both at Suakim and on the southern
frontier. Unless we are prepared to ;
lands and has gone to see about get-
ting deep water at the mouth of the
Brazos.
McKinney—William McGhee, a
— . . . , county convict who had been hired out
California, and from New Orleans to took “French leave” of his hirer some
central and northern Texas 1 he months ago. Last night he ventured
Huntingtons would then have a most into the neighborhood for some old
powerful competition.__ clothes, and the sequence is he is stop-
ONE AND A HALF MILLIONS ping at hotel de Brady.
error of four days had been made in are striking for an advance of pay.
the indictment in fixing the date of the They demand $2 10 per day instead of
crime. 81 70. The scabs employed to taka
The chancery docket was taken up their places were frightened away.
and the suit of James Reed Stewart There were no threats of violence on
against Tait et al. is now on tria; It 110 a.. .. .... _______, i. --
is alleged that Mr. Stewart, an Eng- merus miners3 thrown out of work by
lishman of wealth, gave to 1’ait 830,000 the strike expressed sympathy with the
to purchase a ranch for a scapegrace strikers, and the new men left. Sev-
son and that Tait purchased it in his eral small mines have been shut down,
own name and afterward sold it and__—
olis has terminated in a defeat for the
strikers. Their places have been filled
and trains arc all moving.
The General Assembly of the Knights
of Labor adjourned l ist week. Pow-
derly’s re-election is regarded favora-
bly by the leaders of the order.
It is current newspaper report that
Thomas Barry, ex-Knight of Labor,
will organize a new labor association
on plans differing from the old order
in the following particulars: Individu-
al assemblies will be independent, ac-
knowledging no general executive
head; there will be ne dues to general
offices; a vigorous light will be made
for the eight hour law; it will lake an
active interest in politics and ally it-
self to the Democratic or the Republi-
can party as expediency may advise in
different sections; it will light Powerly.
am A SUCCESSFUL STORE.
WWAvo., Tex.—A reflection back over
Khe past three and a half years, since
which time we have been organized,
points vividly to the grand success we
have attained. There is not a man or
woman in our ranks who has attended
regularly since our organization who
cannot say with emphasis and truth
that they have been benefitted mu-
tually, morally and financially. I he
greatest evil with which we have to
contend is indifference; many of our
members who are energetic and per-
severing at home, go to the Alliance,
fold their hands and patiently wait the
appearance of something, not realizing
the fact that there must needs be an
effort or an ultimate failure. Another
evil is the man who wishes to be called
conservative; we call him a drag; he is
always pulling back; he thinks we had
better go slow and wait till that thing
* proves a success before you take hold,
thus placing his influence against the
efforts of those whose untiring zeal
prompts them to press forward in the
work.
We started an Alliance store about
one month ago with a paid up capital
of $300. We probably have about
eighty shareholders; hence we have a
pretty good show for trade among our:
seves. I think we have averaged
about $100 sales per week. We antici-
pate a better trade from now on, as
the brethren have not sold much cot
ton yet. We have more stock sub-
scribed which will be paid in soon,
and this will enable us to keep up with
the demnd. We hope in the near
future to be able to report a prosper-
ous and profitable business.
A POOR TENANT’S EXPERIENCE
Wilson County. Texas.
A I came to this county in 18S3 as poor
las Job’s turkey. In 1824 I made a crop;
Sthe crop was short. I lacked thirty
4six dollars getting out of debt. In
D 1885 I made fifteen bales of cotton and
plenty of corn, but I owed 2136 for
grub already consumed; but I got
out of debt and had a little money
- left in 1886 I made a good crop, both
corn and cotton, but the storm came
and nearly destroyed my crop. How
ever, I got nine bales of cotton, bold
three for 8 cents and six for5 cents per
pound. lowed ninety dollars, paid it
all and had a little left. I asked my
merchant if he was going to let its
starve in 1887. He said, 'No I won t
let you starve. You can get anything
that I have got.” I came home and
told Fannie what he said, and we felt
we were some of the old fellows pets.
But the winter and spring of 1837 were
extremely dry. The Alliance was in-
troduced here in 1886. The merchants
refused credit and everything seemed
to be trying to crush the Alliance. Mr.
Editor,! got angry and said I would
stay out’of debt if I had to live on
bread and water, and I complied with
both pledges. In the fall of 1887 I gath-
ered 7 bales of cotton and realized
more money from it than I did from
fifteen in 1885; I paid my assessment to
the Mercury and Exchange, and on the
9th of June paid three dollars more
for the Exchange. I have sixty live
dollars in the co-operative store in
Floresville, am now out of debt, have
three bales in the yard, have bought a
& new wagon, have plenty of corn and
hogs—all done by living hard one year.
• ____________J. A. M.
EDUCATE!EDUCATE!
Excelsior, Ark.
The Alliance is doing well here. Our
county Alliance is composed of twenty-
eight sub.Allianees. We have a cotton
ad yard at Fort Smith, built this season.
W The brethren are paying in their sub-
scription to our co-operative store, and
•
Northern at Marquez. The road wili Pittsburg-There were several con-
connect at Trinity .with the,road 0 1 victionstday under the local option
built from trinity to Ogden . d Defendant's attorleys are cir-
owned by the Missouri, Kuns AS and eulating a petition to have the im-
Texa. 1 his mil open up to the ma . sonnent feature of the sentence
ket of central Texas a vast forest ot .
virgin pine, but business men who are
on the inside of railroad matters, say
vey over a proposed air line to be run
from Waco to Trinity, passing through
McLennan, Limestone, Leon, Houston ; Gainesvile_James Hamilton of the
and Trinity counties, a distance of Chickasaw nation was arrested and
Co'ora lo City—Clay Taylor, held for
horse stealing, broke jail here to-day.
refuses to refund.
SWUNG HIM UP.
Brownsville, Tex., Dec. 13.—Santa
Maria Santana Aguilar is a question-
able character who has recently moved
to Las Conception, Hidalgo county.
1 lie was one of the suspected arrested
1 in the Block murder case. Since his
arrival here several mares and horse s
Alliance papers of Arkansas are urg- ' decisive action is necessary in order to
ing the people to establish a state ex- l arrest the anti-Russian policy of the
change. ' Persian government. The Russian gov-
The Alliance men of Parker county 1 ernment desires to safeguard its inter-
Texas have completed a first class ests without provoking a conflict with
flouring-mill. ._____ 1 England.
I Dispatches from Samoa state that
• LABOR NEWS. : the adherents of Nataafas continue to
The switchmens' strike in Indianap- besiege Tamafas, king of Samoa, at
" ' - tna. The German consul has or-
__ I Sherman—This morning Mrs. Fat-.
. . A .en u a lock was found dead in her bed at her
Is ths Amount of Money Used by e son’s residence. Old age is supposed
Penitentiary Outfit. to have been the cause. The North
Austin, Tex.. Dec. 13.—The peniten- Texas Medical Association meets here
.. . to-morrow. The Cotton Belt ticket
tiary reports show an expense the last omice was broken intolast night again,
two years of nearly one and a half mill-
on dollars, including amounts used for REV EW OF THE BR TISH GRA N
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but all on good ground. The object
was to test the pea in dissimilar posi- -2---—1 11 ...
tions. The young plants came up tals, which will be published, togel
regularly and grew vigorously from with woodcuts of sketches mac e "
the start. In fact, the pea made a himself and Artist . alzman.
rampant growth, is much branched Herr von Bennigser, theleader.ofthe
and sends out very long arms. Many national liberals, tok breakfast to-da}
of ours were ten to twelve feet in | with Emperor W illiam.
length, and some possibly as much as The military bill has passed the Aus-
fifteen. On pulling up some of the 1 trian reichstag by an almost unanimous
vines by hand, we discovered that the 1 vote.
roots, too, are of unusual length—many Orders have been given for a arge
being two feet in length at least. increase of the Russian artillery force
From its dense and vigorous growth in Poland The increase is to be made
and great depth of root, we conclude by Feb. 13. .
that this variety is a No. 1 improve: . Premier Sagasta s new cabinet is
for poor land. It cannot be otherwise . weaker than, the previous one, and
it would perfectly shade the soil, and ' will not last. With the exception of
the roots would draw from the subsoil Senor Armijo and Senor Gonzales the
the mineral elements of a century -I ministers are men of small note and
leaching. We think we can safely re- (influence. Premier Sagasta has chosen
commend this pea as am improver. them for pliancy. I tie liberals antici-
__________________ । pate there will be no attempts at gen-
uine legislation, but rather some con-
cession to protectionists and the sus-
i of electoral and military re-
Dodds—Arthur Taylor, an Arkansas
boy, was arrested for pistol carrying
to day.
The LondonMorning Post's Alexan- I Ladonia-The'Ladies’ Aid society is
” ’ • .doing a wonderful work in this town.
Cotton coming in rapidly.
e the first ot February we will bave
that on a firm basis. Now brethren,
the political battle fought, won, or lost,
as the case may be, let us turn our at-
tention in another direction, and strive
to educate ourselves up to a sense of
our duty. Ever remember the words
9 the immortal Webster who savs.
"We must educate, we must educate,
we must educate, or we perish.”
THE EUREKA OR UNKNOWN
PEA
An exchange having tested this vari-
ety of field pea gives his observations
as follows:
In color this pea is reddish brown
with black dots, and about the size of
our common black field pea.
Some of the seed were planted in
rich garden soil about June 1, and
some at various points about the farm.
: .T . cession
1. In digging sweet potatoes, why is pension
it that we find some of them cracked Porms
open, is it so generally in the Southern At a meeting at St. Petersburg at the
States? 2. And why is it that some, foreign ofice high military authority
hills contain no potatoes at all, and yet urge that an ultimatum be sent to the
the vines look equally as well? writes Persian government warning it that
a correspondent of the “Southern Cui- Russia would take sieps for The occu-
livator, which gives the following an pation Of Persia unless it canceled the
swer: 1 he cracking of sweet Potatoes treaty opening up the Karim country to
is most observable on over rich soils, the English M De Giers, foreign
especially if a long drouth occurs after minister, opposed such a course and
the potatoes hav e attained consider a le ■ advised the government to proceed
size, followed by rains and growing With moderation.
weather During the dry weather the A squandron of the twentieth hus-
skin is supposed to become thicker an. I | sars wiii reinforce the troops at Sua-
less elastic, and is forced assunder by kim The government has ordered the
the renewal of growth in the interior, troops now stationed at the Mediterra-
Some varieties of potatoes, especially near to proceed to Suakim. They will
the yams, are much more subject to. be replaced by troops from England,
this defect than others. W e suggest The request for more troops at Suakim
that the non;productive hills may have Which was made after Saturday’s re-
been overshadowed by neighboring connoissance is believed to have been
and more vigorous plants during, he instigated b ythe government itself as
early part of the season, and had the easiest mode of retiring from an
pushed into late and vigorous growthjuntenable attitude and of appeasing
after the earlier ones had ceased to I public misgiving
grow and were developing tubers, but A dispatch to the Independence-
too late to make tubers of good Size/Belge from St. Petersburg says that
and quantity themselves. This is Russia has decided to .send an ultima
merely a suggestion given at a venture tum to Teheran regarding the differ-
,, a e, rce I ences between the two countries.
ALLIANCE NO IES. According to the latest outline of the
A letter from a prominent Georgian proposed new Spanish cabinet, Senor
who has recently been in Raleigh, to Yaga Armijo, minister of foreign af-
! the (North Carolina) Progress Farmer, fairs Canelejas, minister of commerce,
says “It d d my heart good to see so admiral Aides, minister of marine,
many bales of cotton rolling into will retain their places. The other
Raleigh, baled in burlaps. It told elo- : members will be Gen. Chinchilla, min-
quently of the noble work your Alli- ister of war, Senor Xuquena, misister
ance has been doing." The Alliance of of the interior. Senor Vanencio Gon-
our state is as true as steel against zales, minister of finance, Senor Be-
trusts. carra, minister of the colonies, Senor
dered Nataafas to withdraw. The con-
ference of consuls on the situation has
been without result.
Lord Randolph Churchill has writ-
ten a letter in which he refers to the
statement made by Mr. Stanhope in
the house of commons, to the effect
that Gen. Greenmill would not require
reinforcements if offered him as com-
plete vindication of his recent dis-
closure of the inadequacy of military
forces at Suakim.
Mr. Gladstone will go to Naples on
the 19th instant to ri side in Villa Boca
belle near Pesilliament until the end
of February, when he will return at
the opening of the session of parlia-
ment.
Lord Sackville is staying with Earl
of Derby at London.
It was discovered to-day in Madrid
... , ;---UTT-----, 1. . „,bi that $240,000 had been stolen from the
Nice table-cloths and napki 8 : government deposit bank in this city,
not be allowed to become so soiled that The robbers are unknown.
Old North Carolina is second only to Capititon, minister of justice.
Texas in Alliance work. Al Meeklen TheB rlin Post, referring to Germa-
burg they have a $20,000 warehouse ny’s difference with Spain, arising from
and yards. In Greenville county they the recalling of Count Benomar, denies
have' a $100,000 tobacco warehouse and 1 that Prince Bismarck intends to take
factory. Similar enterprises in many ' action in consequence of the count’s
other places. Organized inseventy, recall. The Post also says that no pro-
five counties. Hayes 1,273 lodges and posal was ever made to th? Spanish
65,000 members. Has overridden the government to enter the triple alliance,
opposition of merchants. Harmersare Advices from Chardjar, report ng
becoming independent. Hurrah for that Persia prohibits the sale of corn
the old north state. The Wheel and ■ to Russians, increases the feeling that
A BIG SCHEME IN THE SOUTH
WEST.
Waco, Tex., Dec. 13.—Major Lynen,
a civil engineer in the employ of the
Missour:, Kansas and Texas railway,
started out from Waco to-day by the
order of the receivers, to make a sur
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