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VOL. XI.
MINEOLA, TEXAS, SATURDAY, MARCH 24, 1888.
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PROFESSIONAL CARDS. Tom Corwln and Gov. Bibb.
b. u. jiakt.
jxo. t. craddock.
HART & CRADDOCK,
Attorneys - at - Law,
Minkola, Texas.
The Ohio Orator's Ore at Speech for His
Old Friend.
Practice in the District and inferior
courts of the State and the Supreme
and Cederal Courts at Tyler.
HORACE M. GATE,
Attorney - at - Law,
Minkola, Texas.
Otters his professional services to the
people of Wood and surrounding coun-
ties. AY'ill practice in all the Courts of
the State and the Federal Court at
Tyler.
W. M. GILES,
Attorney - at - Law,
Mineoi.a, Texas.
R. N. STAFFORD,
Attorney - at - Law,
AND
Real Estate Agent,
Mineola, Texas.
Will practice in all the Courts of the
Seventh Judicial District. Special at-
tention given to collections of all kinds.
Remittances promptly made. Will also
bay and sell and rent real estate and in-
vestigate land titles; render and pay
taxes on same.
' Many years ago Ohio had a Gov-
i crnm* of the name of Bibb. At the
' expiration of his terra he concluded
: to leave the State. Ho bought a
farm in Winnebago conntv, 111., and
not many miles from Rockford.
One of his family was a daughter,
and a young man loved and mar-
ried her. The people where the
wedding occurred believed in ex-
tending their congratulations in
their own way, and this was the
charivari party. Governor Bibb
and his wife objected to the Illinois
charivari. He sent a message to
the leaders that they must desist,
and if they attempted to carry out
their plan somebody would get
hurt. In the midst of what the
Winnebago tribe considered fun,
the old man, who had to deal with
an Ohio Legislature, got his gun.
He took it from its place over the
doorway, -walked out in the dark-
ness and fired. Two of the men in
the party—estimable citizens, who
liked a bit of fun—fell wounded,
and Governor Bibb was arrested
and taken to jail.
Before the meeting of the grand
jury, which indicted the Ex-Gov-
ernor of Ohio, a man rode into
Rockford one evening and tied his
horse to a post. He walked over
to the tavern, talked to the land-
lord a few minutes, went to his
room and to bed. The landlord
walked out and put the guest's
horse in the stable. The next
morning the guest called for his
horse; was gone all day and came
in at night. The appearance of a
stranger in a place like Rockford
at the time was an event, and as
this one rode out every day and
came back for nearly two weeks,
people plied the landlord with
questions, but he knew nothing,
not even his guest's name.
The day came for the trial of
Governor Bibb, indicted for mur-
der. The character of the men
imirdered and of the man who was
indicted for the crime, crowded the
little capital of Winnebago county,
and the court house was jammed.
Governor Bibb was brought in by
the sheriff. The Court asked him
if he had a lawyer. He replied in
a most dignifieel way that he had
not. The Judge asked, "is there
no one to defend the old man?"
The prisoner was standing like a
white pillar in the midst of the
people present. Ho was silent and
had the stateliness of an Indian
brave. There was another man in
the audience who quickly attracted!
i their attention. He was, like thorn,1
and in a few weeks will have a saw mill a pioneer in manner and dress, but
located Ave miles North-east of Mineola, ^ years had not vet made any in-
m a first-class pinery, when everybody I r ,. ,r , v. .
can be supplied with Lumber and Shin- road upon Ins facc. lie had not
gles without crossing Lake Fork. Good , the acquaintance ol tailor or bar-
D. W. CROW,
Attorney - at - Law,
Quitman, Texas.
Practices in the District Courts of
Wood and surrounding counties, and in
the Supreme and Federal Courts of the
State.
J. H. WILLIAMSON & SON,
Surgeon Dentists,
Minkola, Texas.
All work wrrranted and satisfaction
juaranteed. Plate work a specialty.
)fl3ce over Co-Operative store.
Lumber f Shingles
Having bought out the Lhingle Mill
formerly operated by Dan Shamberger,
two inileS Kast of Mineola, I have in-
creased tle facilities and am getting out
Shingle/ t'A
-I <
Supply any Demand,
i * , le from town and country.
The lawyer who had defended Gov-
ernor Bibb came out, mounted and
rode away. The landlord watched
as the horse and rider disappeared
in the distance. He lived to tell
the story many a day, and always
finished it with this remark: "lie
was the easiest suited man, and the
funniest man, and took the least
kiver to keep him warm, that ever
stopped at the tavern."—Chicago
Mail.
Tlie Bald Knobbers.
Items of Interest to Farmers.
ED. MTJRRIE
American Rural Home: Beets or
mangels can be raised in great i _ _ . _ n _
abundance and at a low cost. With Til© leader 111 Quality Of G.
our best lands and in all seasons it; "
is possible to raise ten bushels ol1 _ , .
beets to the same ground space that | and J.OW PriC0S. Highest
will produce one ot corn. The cost i
of raising is only about three times . _ _ _
that of corn per acre, and the feed- paid IOT COUIltry PrOdUCe.
nig value ot an acre ot beets as a J
supplemental feed to corn is equal "
to five or more acres of corn,
roads to haul and good prices.
J. M. DREW.
Ullman,Lewis Co
Wholesale Grocers,
A N D
Galveston, Texas.
Represented by
J. LEOPOLD.
her. He was slovenly attired. He
J walked inside the bar, threw his
old slouch hat upon the table, and
| straightening himself to his fullest]
!measure, lie said: "Your Honor,!
I'll defend the old man."
"Who are yon? Where did you
j come from?" asked the Court. |
"In the country that T hail from, |
| your Honor," replied the stranger,|
whose words were clear cut, "they
call me Tom Corwin."
I lie was the stranger who had
| ridden into town and had excited
the wonder of the community. He ;
I M P O R. T E R S , had traveled all the way from Ohio
ion horseback. lie had vi-iUd
I nearly every house in Winnebago
county, felt the pulse of the peo-
ple, learned that all they asked for
was justice, and presented himself
as counsel for the prisoner. When
he told the Judge who he was and
what lie was there for, he did it in
a manner which crowded the little
town thereafter during the trial. I
am told that when lie addressed
the jury the doors were taken from
11II Of" I n n I the hinges of the court house and
III 11 \ I the sash from the windows, so that
| i IIU III fl • the people without could catch the
matchless eloquence of the man
who hailed from Ohio.
Governor Bibb was acquitted,
and in the scene that followed he
said: ".All I have is my farm; take
jit, and when I am able I will p.i..
j you more."
Corwin replied: "Why, 1 am still
. I in your debt. You took me from
fetagner & LnForce, at their mill1 ^]H. towpath in Ohio and gave ine
on Winshoro and Hawkins road my first opportunity. And when I
nine miles from Hawkins, cut tho i heard you were in trouble I rode
finest quality of Heart and bap lu help you.
... . , r.., , . One morning t!
Pine Shingles, i hey keep also a
John Matthews Confesses to Participa-
tion in tlio Murdor of Edens and
Green.
St. Louis, March 18.—The trial
of the Bald Knobbers at Ozark was
interrupted yesterday by the break-
ing down of John Matthews, whose
case was called at 1 o'clock. The
prisoner at once presented the pros-
ecuting attorney a paper, which
was handed back to him. He then
handed it to the judge,, who return-
ed it with instructions to first sub-
mit it to his attorneys. He was ev-
idently desirous of making a con-
fession to any person who would
listen to him. Matthews confessed
to a liberal share in the Edens-
Green butchery. He says it was a
blow from his Winchctcr rifle, and
not with an axe, that he knocked
old man Edens senseless. Bill Wal-
ker shot Charles Green through the
temple with a pistol while the
young man was held by another
knobber. Wiley Matthews, defend-
ant's nephew, shot Bill Edens in
the back with a load of buckshot.
The statement exculpates Graves.
"I want to tell all I did in that
thing and take my punishment."
said the brokenhearted man. "I
don't want any body to suffer for
what I did. I don't want any trial.
I came up here this evening to tell
all I know and ask my sentence
to the penitentiary. I was led to do
that thing. I don't think I am guil-
ty of murder in the first degree."
The State refused to entertain
his offer to plead guilty of murder
in the second degree. A motion
for a change of venue was refused.
A Touching' Story.
A New York Commercial gives a
touching narrative that shows the
worst of men still have tender
spots in their hearts and that the
milk of human kindness has not all
soured or dried up. A prisoner at
Newark, in jail for murder, was
found to grow weaker daily. It
was discovered at last that lie was
starving himself to provide food
for his wife and children, who had
no other means of support. On j
learning tlie fact the Warden dou- j
bled the ration, and took future!
steps to keep the family of the j
prisoner from utter destitution*
We do not believe that any man is |
entirely bad—that he has no good!
spark that may not be kindled.
Tlie Age of Payer.
We knew it would come. The
announcement has been made that
a paper collin has been invented
and put up. n the market. A nun'
may now build his house of jvqw.
eat bis dinner from paper plates,
wipe his face with a paper hanker-!
chief, buy his wife a paper piano,
and go to his grave in a paper cof-
fin. The coflin may be paid for
with a piece of paper, and the
death published on another piece.
There are few things more useful
than paper.—Philadelphia Record.
Haiuly Things to Know.
Here are some figures and rules
very handy to know and have at
hand, in the mind or on paper.
We advise every young reader to
learn most of these "by heart" so
thoroughly as to always think of
them in an instant. l)o it while
your minds are young and impress-
ible, and they will stay by you like
the marks made in clay or brick,
or dough of bread or cake, before
it is hardened by heat. Older
people who do not preserve their
papers can cut this out and keep it
handy for ready reference.
A rod is 16 1-2 feet or o 1-2 yards.
A mile is 320 rods.
A mile is 1700 yards.
A mile is 5280 feet.
A square foot is 144 square
inches.
A square yard contains 9 square
feet.
rod is 272 1-4 square
contains 435G0 square
contains 4840 square
The Iowa Homestead: "So well
are the protective effects of groves
understood by old and experienced
farmers that they would prefer to
have their cattle behind a grove
alone than in a stable on a wind-
swept prairie without groves. Pub-
lic interest and private profit alike
demand that tree planting be gen-
eral and abundant next spring."
Record and Farmer: All of the
old wood should be cut out and
cleared away from the blackberry
and raspberry bushes. This work
ought to be done now so that they
will not need to be disturbed after
they start to grow in the spring."
Record and Farmer: It is pos-
sible to transplant old grape vines,
but care should be taken to prune
back considerably; to do the work
early in the spring; allow as much
soil as possible to adhere to the
root; to not bruise or break them;
to fill the soil well in and around
them after putting them where you
want them to grow, and then to
keep well mulched the first sum-
mer, at least until they get well es-
tablished.
National Stockman and Farmer:
Fine straight stems aro all in place,
in the young apple, pear or other
trees; but plenty of clean, bright
roots are of much greater impor-
tance. Good roots will make a
good tree, other things being equal;
but if the roots are poor no amount
of beautiful stem can make com-
pensation.
pruning the c.hape.
Texas Farm and Kancli.
' In the effort to secure fruit in a
short time and in good quantities
many fail to prune the grape as
they should, says the Kansas City
Live Stock Record and Farmer, and
in consequence fail to secure in the
end as good fruit or as large a quan-
tity as might be secured if more
care in this direction was taken.
Grape vines bear fruit upon
shoots of the curront year, but
these are produced from eyes of
last year's wood. This
ways be kept in mind as it is im- pure, healthy vegetable oil, such as
portant that a supply of new wood that •obtained from cotton seed,
should always be left in pruning in ; One of their witnesses testified the
order to^ secure shoots for the next [other day that lard was really
year's fruit. There are quite a | adulterated to a shameful extent,
number of general plans of pruning but to their dismay ho said little if
'ho grape. Each, to some extent,i anything about cotton ,:eed oil, but
has merits of its own, or, at least j confined hi ■ remarks to telling
that claim is made by those recom-j about "while grease." This mu-
A square
feet.
An acre
feet.
An acre
yards.
An acre contains 160 square rods.
A section or square mile, contains
640 acres.
A quarter sections contains 160
acres.
An acre is 8 rods wide by 25 rods
long.
An acre is 10 rods wide by 16
rods long.
An acre is about 208 3-4 feet
square.
A solid foot contains 1728 eolid
inches.
A pint of water weighs 1 pound.
A solid foot of water weighs
62 1-2 pounds.
A gallon of water holds 231 solid
inches.
A gallon of milk weighs 8 pounds
and 10 ounces.—Household.
The Value of Tnrpei
After a housekeeper fin
izes the worth of turpentine
household she is never will
be without a supply of it.
quick relief to burns; it is ;
ccllcnt application for corns;
good for rliumatism and
throats, and it is the quickest
edy for eonvultions or fits.
it is a sure preventive ag
moths; by juBt dropping a trith
the bottom of drawers, chests
cupboards it will render the ,
ments secure from injury dur
the summer. It will keep a
and bugs from closets and stoi
rooms, by putting a few drops
the corners and upon the shelve,
it is sure destruction to bedbugs
and will effectually drive them
away from their haunts, if thor-/
ougnly applied to the joints of tho
bedstead in spring cleaning time,
and injures neither furnituro nor
clothing. A spoonful of it addod
to a pail of warm water is excellent
for cleaning paint. A little in the
suds on washing days lightens
laundry labor.
The enemies of cotton seed oil
who have been conducting the anti-
adulteration warfare at Washington,
have gone a little farther than they
intended going and have brought
to light some of the secrets of lard
making that may cause "pure lard"
of all kinds to take a back seat,
must al-1 and may put a premium on good,
By referring to tho first pago it
will be seen that Tho Iron News
has hoisted at its masthead the
name of William R. Morrison, of
Illinois, for Vice-President. Mr.
Morrison has spent ner.rly a dozen
years of his life in Congress, and
during hiB entire career as a Con-
gressman has always been an ear-
nest advocate for tariff reform, and
many of our readers no doubt re-
member his celebrated tariff bill
introduced in the House of Repre-
sentatives nearly four years ago.
He was defeated at the last election
for Congress by Hon. Jehu Baker,
his republican opponent; but he
now occupies the exalted position
of one of the Interstate Commerce
Commissioners, and lias filled that
office in the most satisfactory man-
ner. Mr. Morrison is a candidate
for the second place on the Cleve-
land ticket, and the National Dem-
ocratic Convention could not se-
lect a more worthy man. Let it
be Cleveland, Morrison and tariff
reform.—Iron News.
beauty in every-
cheerful view of
A Trip South—Mr. L. M. Martin, a
prominent Iowa railroad limn and .Su-
perintendent of the St. Louis, Dos
Moines & Northern K. It. says: "On
my return from a recent trip south,
where the water was very impure, I was
attacked with a violent case of cholera
morbus. Having heard a great deal of
Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera and Diar-
rhoea Remedy, I concluded to try it and
with the most beneficial results; within
six hours I was completely curod." No
well regulated household should ever lie
without a bottle of Chamberlain's Colic,
Cholera and Diarrhoea Itemed v. Solo
by C.\of. & Co.
i <
Tim . •!!•..;. 1,1: Looking back over
the proceedings of the; last Dcmo-
craticconvention, the Times-!Ferald
was struck by a description of Col.
Swain's presentation of his ease to
tie '''gate-, in which In,1 intimated
Unit, the then administration of I re-
mending the different plans.
The easiest plan is to cut
the fruit a year after the vine is set
out; or when the plant is two years
old, is to cut back to the eyes ami
two shoots be allowed to grow, pro-
vided, of course, that a good, vig-
orous growth has been made the
previous year. 1 f this has not been
done more pruning ought to be
given during tho spring and sum-
mer; the side shoots should be
pinched so that no ,-hoots or suck-
ers below the cane can grow. By
cutting back each year and properly
training and pruning, a good growth
can be kept up and a good supply
of fruit be secured. The vines
should not be allowed to overbear,
and to avoid this thinning can often
be done to good advantage.
Concerning fertilizers for straw-
berries, a errrespondent in Farm
Life recommends stable manure as
j terial called "white grease" is the
back 1 product under a patent process of
a pate
tho rendering ol tho carcasses ot
dead animals gathered in large
cities, whgther they be dogs, cats,
horses, mules, sheep, cows or hogs.
Th ) fatty substances obtained in
this way are deodorized and
bleached and have the some appear-
ance and something of the taste of
lard. This is what the packers are
said to use in adulterating their
lard. It is pretty evident that the
anti-adulteration advocates will not
have to cxaminejjniany more wit-
nesses before the people will rise
up in a body and petition Congress
to forbid the manufacture of any-
thing also than pure cotton seed
oil lard. The situation is rapidly
narrowing down to where the News
predicted it would be, where, if
Congress transgresses its power
and interferes at all in the matter,
Look out for
thing and take i
every event.
When you go home fill the house
with joy, so that the light of it will
stream tmt of the doors and. win-
dows, and illuminate even the
darkness.
Never interrupt any conversation,
but wait patiently your turn to
speak.
Why doe a cow l:e down? be-
cause she cai not sit (h-vffl.
Somebody say ' polib 'v ■ 'like
an aircushion (here may be noth-
ing in it, but it eases our jolts won-
derfully.
Take hold of the knob and shut
every door without slamming it.
S. S. Teacher. "Jennie, do you
know what a miracle is? Jennie—
"Ves'ni. Ma says if you don't
marry our new parson it will be a
miracle."—Our Dumb Animals.
■f public opinion will cause to pass a
ui peri or to anything else. He | law forbidding the adulteration
advises broad-casting and
under in the fall, and top dressing
ing dm ing the winter. The corres-
pondent adds tbi caution: "be
careful not to use any (stable ma-
nure) that contains cow droppings
for this brings in the white grub,
the egg boil)!.' deposited by the May
beetle.
fat.
of
The
plowing cotton seed oil with hog
investigation has been
but beneficial to the hog
while it has done the greatest good
for cotton seed oil by showing its
healthfuliiess and purity,—Dallas
News.
Tho Vcloclty^ol' Electricity.
There is, as Prof. Thompson re-
marks, no assignable "velocity of
electricity," as this must vary with
the current and tho conductor.
Wheatstone, in 1833, seemed to
show a transmission velocity of
183,000 miles a second through
copper wire, but in. late experi-
ments signals were sent over ordi-
anytbing nary telegraph wires on poles, and
fat men, had a rate of only 14,000 to 16,(KM)
miles. With wires near the earth
the velocity was 12,000 miles, but
reached 2 1,000 on very high wires,
—Ex.
(lid h
,1 1
<! vo'ed t 1
)l'e
yard at
Fork.
d one at Lake
rvwKins aim
Address,
STAGNER & LaFORCE,
Pine Mills, Wood Co, ']
which had brought
I''iekford was Viroim
front door of tin
ex,
ol 1 gray horse
the stranger to
t around to the
tavern. Th
id-
put them over the sad-
was crowded with
j landlord brought out a pair of si
, dlebags and put them over the sn
1 die. 1
hi' 1 ' wn, Two "el r- hi vo pa.-sod.
That administration is gone. It had
enemies and it had friends. But
enemies and friends alike must
admit that if Col. Swain told the
truth, it was an administration that
did thin'' 1 feetnall v
There an I !,0'.;0 of vine-
yards iib-o:: the Hudson river val-
lay, and the average yield is four
tons to the acre, At three cents a
pound this mean ■ .?210 per acre to
the grower. Some grow larger
crops than this average, and realize
Vi per acre in sales.
.Mr. C. W. Rattle, a traveling man
representing Messrs. S. Collin,i' Son <\:
Co., printing inks, New York, after suf-
fering intensely for two or three days
with lameness of the shoulders and
back, completely cured it, with two ap-
plications of Chamberlain's I'ain Halm.
It cures lameners and rheumatism when
all other treatment fails. Guaranteed
i and sold by 0 v08 & C >,
Whooping Cough mav be kept under
complete control and al' dr'ige- avoided
by frequent do.es of Chomlwrlain's
Cough Itemed.v. No better treatment
can bo presi
& Co.
iil/cu lor it, So.d
Caoi:
Are you made miserable by in-
digestion, constipation, dizziness,
loss of appetite j yellow skin? Shi-
loh's Vitalize)- is a positive cure,
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