The Mineola Monitor (Mineola, Tex.), Vol. 12, No. 18, Ed. 1 Saturday, February 2, 1889 Page: 4 of 8
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THE MINEGLA WEEKLY MOMM
rCBI.ISIIKD EVERY SATURDAY BY
W. H. THAGAKDEN.
Saturday, Feb. 2, 1889.
Entered at the post office an (second-
class matter.
Biu. Fammku is reported to be in
Austin. Wonder what Bill wants
in AuBtin? Guess lu- went down
there just to gratify that old con-
suming desire to get into the
"legislator." Take a good look
at things Bill while you are there,
it is expensive to travel.
Not a Threat but a Prediction. MR. KIUJORE BLOCKADED.
A Delusion of a Clans of Labor-
ing men.
On January 28th Judge A. \V.
Terrell of Austin, and Gov. Brown,
of the Texas & Pacific railway, dis-
cussed in speeches of an hour and
a half each the proposed railroad
commission,before the house of rep-
resentatives at Austin, the former
advocating and the latter opposing
the creation of a commission. No
two men in Texas are better
equipped for the discussion of this
veiled question than these two gen
tlemcn and there is no doubt that
it will enable the legislature to act
with more intelligence in the mat-
ter.
Important Information.
The gentleman who is no candi-
date, but would serve if elected,
the man who is "in the hands of
his friends," and who has remained
in the same hands for a number of
years, and the man who could ad-
minister the city government hon-
estly, build a new city hall and
prison, pay off the bonded debt,
prove the streets, run the city free
school the year 'round, improve
the police system and sanitary con-
dition and "pay as you go" on
one half the amount of tax now
collected from the people, and a
number of other distinguished citi-
zens who are standing 'round loose
'•waiting for something to turn up,"
are hereby notified that there is to
be an election for city officers in
April and it is probable that the
people will be compelled to con-
sctipt some of them into public
service. Lookout for the lightning.
Tliree Chickens ltlde 80 Mile*
ou the Trucks of a l'assen-
Iter Coaeli.
One of the most serious obstacles
to this country's prosperity i* that!
farmers put their time and labor
into the cultivation of cotton to the 1
exclusion of everything else. They
take the proceeds of that cotton
which has has cost them from 10
to 12 cents per pound—and for
which they received only 9 cents—
and pay it out for meat and lard at
14 cents to make more 12 cent cot-
ton, to sell at nine cents, to buy
more 14 cent meat to make more
cotton, and so ad infinitum; at the
same time fruit, vegetables Ac., are
going to waste round their places
that can ' be converted into
meat enough for home demand.
Now this is an old song—there is
nothing new in it—the people have
heard it talked and they have read
it until by reading the caption of
this article they will know every
idea that it contains. It is not the
object of this article to advance any
new ideas on the subject—it iH im-
possible to adduce new ideas from
a subject so completely exhausted
but if we can succeed in getting just
one man in each neighborhood to
raise his living at home—to put to
practice his often promised plan
tlmt "next year I will not plant so
much cotton," we will have accom-
plished some good for the country.
The writer is not much of a farmer
and on that account has heretofore
avoided the discussion of this sub-
ject though it seems to be the com-
mon practice of country newspa-
pers to make a specialty of in-
structing} the farmers. The writer
has no desire to pose as one of
these instructors or guardians but
desires to give emphasis to this
point—there is nothing but ruin
ahead of a people who will pay 12
cents for cotton and sell it for nine
spending that money for meat, at
14 cents a pound, which they could
have raised for a mere trifle at
home
The people of this State are pur-
suing that method and if they con-
sider it offensive ofliciousness to be
told of it, the writer is willing to
bear their abuse.
The Members of the House Get
the Great Objector Into the
Clialraiul then Pass their
Hills.
The Amorlenu Citizen.
There is a class oflaboring men
who do and have labored under
Washington, Jan. 19—(Special.)ithc delusion that the whole salvo-
—Rather a good joke was perpe- j tion of this country fopents upon
trated last night at the night session them.
RE! HERE!
The IncreduloiiH Story of Hump-
son's Strength Verified,
The most singular chicken story |
on record is told by a number ofl
gentlemen at the depot and vouched
for by some of the best citizens of
the city.. Sometime since while
Mr. T. L. Simpson, who is in the
employ of the T. it P. railway Co.
at this place, was going his custom-
ary round inspecting the wheels and
trucks of an cast-bound passenger
train he discovered three lull
grown chickens siting on the trucks
and brake beam under one of the
coaches, occupying the perch so
much sought after by the weary
and sore footed tramp when he
desires to steal a ride- Mr. Simp-
son captured the chickens, two
liens and one rooster, and has them
at ltis home yet. This strange oc-
currence cannot be accounted for
in any other way than that the
chickens went to roost under the
coach at dark in Dallas while it
stood in some quiet place on the
yard.
of the House for the consideration
of pension bills. The joke was
upon Mr. Kilgore, of Texas. As is
well known, Kilgore has been a
constitutional objector to the pas-
sage of pension bills, and at every
night session has occupied his scat
and let no opportunity pass to ob-
ject to the consideration of bills of
this nature. Last night Mr. Dock-
ery, of Missouri, who has been
designated by Speaker Carlisle as
presiding officer, was interested in
the passage of some two or three
bills personally for his own consti-
tuents. He saw Kilgore in his seat
and knew so long as the Texan was
there that it would be impossible
to have his bills passed. He called
Mr. Kilgore to the chair. Kilgore
was somewhat flattered by the hon-
or thus conferred upon him, and
took possession of the gavel with
marked degree of pleasure and
satisfaction to himself. As soon as
he was placed in tho chair Mr
Dockery,' through the influnce of
friends, had his bills called up,
and they were quickly passed.
The same applied to other bills of
various members who were fortu-
nate enough, also, to have consid-
ered their desired pension legisla-
tion. Mr. Kilgore was compelled
to occupy the chair during the en-
tire session, consequently he was
not in a position to object, where-
upon there was more pension
legislation carried through last
night than had been done at a great
many former sessions. Kilgore, of
course realized the position he was
placed in, and made some two or
three attempts to get some one to
repeve him from the chair, but the
pre-arranged plans of Mr. Dockery
and others were too formidable,
and could not be broken. Conse-
quently he sat the night out, and
They know nothing and care less
than nothing for political economy;
they are void of any tact, are aro-
gant and ignorantly conceited- No
matter how absurd their demands,
if not at oncc acceded to, they have
been unscrupulous in their efforts
to tarry out their purpose of re-
venge. If they succeed in tempo-
rarily paralyzing some great indus-
try, they shout for joy, no matter
if tho rosult is that a large number
of innoffensivo fellow-laboring-men
are compelled to suffer thereby.
They howl their threats of still
greater disasters of the future, and
cry out loudly about their organ-
ized power. They have not in
their actions ever tried to benefit
themselves; they have only tried
to injure others.
They have been tyrannical, ob-
noxiously tyrannical, even to their
fellow-working-men, there is no
meaness that they have not stooped
to, to gain thoif ends. They have
caused the loss of millions and
millions of dollars both to them-
selves and to their employers; they
have caused the stagnation of busi-
ness industry; they have not failed
hesitated to dip their hands in the
thejblood of honest inteligent work-
men who would not be dictated -to
by them; they have stooped to in-
sult, in the most exaspering man-
ner, the women and children of
those who have crossed their path;
their whole mission seemed to be
to cause as much ruin and disaster
as they could.
They are not peculiar to any one
location, they have appeared in all
and they will be found, as a rule,
to be ignorant foreigners, or igno-
rant children of more ignorant for-
eigners.
If not criminals, it is because of
their realization that thev have not
allowed bill after bill to pass which ! the ability to ba criminal. Banded
be would have objected to had lie j together like wolves, they take
been upon the floor. j courage in each other's company;
What
Quay Didn't Do and
What He Did.
(Philadelphia Times.)
Quay didn't steal the mail-list of
the Voice, the Prohibition organ;
he only hired another fellow to j
steal it. Nor did lie steal a li; t of!
I
the Labor organizations; lu*onIy
hired another fellow to steal it.
And why not have anything stolen
that he needed ? The money was
furnished him ' ' r -.•*
without <|ia ' and
it was ' > l nt it
"where it v. ■ 1."
ill' Hill Jti
divided it •
of live"
ci I) I It O ■' r
and sucai
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thieve- a' nt Prohibition and ! ■
bor center II won, and that*
'the end ol" the story.
Try BLACK-DRAUGHT tea for Dyipepito.
Miss Mattie Lee Price, the young
lady endowed with the wonderful
and mysterious power, exhibited
nt the Caspary opera house on
Wednesday and Thursday nights,
January 80th and ,11st, to good
houses. Miss Price is truly a won-
der and the power she possesses is
marvelous. A committee of four
of the strongest men in our city
with their combined strength could
not resist the power of her open
hand which she placed upon a large
stiek in their hands and caused to
move at will. The largest man in
tho city was raise from the floor by
the application of her open hands
to the sides of the chair posts.
Many more equally astonishing
feats were performed by this re-
markable young lady -who weighs
only 112 pounds. No one who
witnesses the extraordinary power
of Miss Price will ever again be
skeptical of the Biblical account of
the exploits of Sampson.
We think the present usury law,
or rather the want of a usury law,
is a great hinclerence to the build-
ing up of manufactories in Texas.
So long as men can loan money at
12 per cent, and then so shape the
contract, as to make it 2"> per cent,
there will he very little disposition
to invest in manufactories. I four I
legislature wants to do something
for the real benefit of the State,
and encourage (he building up of j
home manufactories, thev can do j
it by passing a usury law that men !
can not evade; any rate higher
than 10 per cent, should be usury,
then the penalty for violating or j
evading the law should be severe 1
enough 'o deter men from doing j
so. If they would do this, then
we think much of the money that
is now loaned out at 20 and per!
cent, would find its way into facto-1
ries.- Austin Globe.
Horses and Mules I'oij Sale.
Cheap for cash or on tiino with i
first-class sccui'itv. Apply to
n-lll tf J. A, (/\SPAKY.
Mr. Kilgore to-day felt some
what like a young man with heart
yet the American people, in the
beginning, exhibited sympathy for
bowed down at the advantage taken j this class, but this sympathy these
of him, and said that it would be a men in their delusion took for
long while before be would ever j fear, and it became an incentive to
again be induced to take the chair j draw out their brute force. Their
under similar circumstances. disastrous defeat is not surprising
—— , but that they have learned nothing
Albia. bv their defeat is seen in their acts
Mr. Editor.—I desire you to pub-' aml words. to-fla-V- The rpsult is
lisli the following and oblige a as we predicted three years ago;
subscriber. I want to speak first there are to-day two classes of la-
The entire stock of Drugs, Paints, Oils,
Wall Paper, Pattent Medicines, Books, Sta-
tionary, Christmas Goods, Soaps, Brushes
and Druggist Sundries, will be sold for the
Next Sixty or Ninety Days
regardless of Cost. You can buy anything
you want in this line for from one-third to less
than half what you have formerly been pay-
ing for them. We also have a fine line of
real good tripple plate gold jewelry which will
be sold for anything we can get for it.
All we ask is if you need anything and we
have the same in stock, you can't go out with-
out it. Come early and get the pick.
J. W. McMUHRY,
Assignee, R.T. Smith & Co.
I2T FRUIT TREES, Etc.
At the Nursery formerly condncted by my late husband, one and
a-half miles West of Mineola, I have a large and complete assortment
of all the finest varieties of Fruit Trees, Grape Vines, Berries, etc.,
and all kinds of Ornamental Shrubery, in fact everything usually kept
in a first-class nursery, which I am anxious to sell and must sell in the
next three months.
Now is the time to buy while stock can be had at less than half
price. Write for prices.
Mrs, w. m. Mcdonald,
nl5:tf MINEOLA, TEXAS.
B. F. RED & COMFY,
in regard to a false report on my
self that has been circulated over
the county: It is reported that T
have said that I had no use for a
union labor man and that I had no
meat and bread for a union labor
man. Now, I say that the above
mentioned report is a lie of the
blackest dye; my doors are always
boring imcii, between which, there
can be no union of feeling or con-
cert of action.
"Fort Wortli Sets tho Pace for
Others to Follow."
The spirit of enterprise abounds
in Fort Worth. A contract was
open to relatives neighbors amL Higne(1 on Jammry 2S)th for ten
lriends who desire to conn* regard- , ,
less of their political or religious 11111 ° strcct railway to be opera-
principles. It is a fact that at the j electricity and to be put in
recent election I exercised my right operation in ninety days. This
of suffrage and cast my vote for the will be the first street line,* opera-
party of my choice, and that choice. ted by electricity in the entire
was, as it has ever been, to vote a Southwest. The Gazette truly
democratic ticket. I was a dele- says: "Fort Worth sets the pace
gate to our State convention and I for others to follow."
assisted in nominating our candi- — —
dates for State offices; I also voted Dissolution N'otico.
in our primary election for the men |
of my choice as candidates for the 1
different county offices, and after
having done this I felt myself in
honor bound or under obligation to
support the ticket and it being the
ticket of my political choice I voted
it. And now since the election it
seems that for some of the above
mentioned causes that some of m v
brothers have made a stikc— or as
it is more generally called—boy-
cotted me, and now I say if they
want to boveot me because I am a
democrat they can do so. 1 still
occupy the same ground politically
that I lnive since 1 was 21 years of
age, and 1 still indorse the princi-
ples of Jefferson and .Jackson and
of our national democratic' platform.
1 see no evidence or reason why 1
should turn my political coat eviy
time the wind blows from ('M
I till remain as ever a d nn
and sub-vibt r to the Muxnoa,
A. S. C.MN.
DEALERS IN-
Goods
Notions, Staple and Fancy Groceries, Boots,
Shoes, Hats and Caps, Staple Drugs,
Hardware, Cuns, and all kinds of
PAEMIITQ- -
Farmers, don't buy a elyc-ap pi
that is made out of old r«/teti ra
ings hut go to MeMurry's and :
a genuine Kellvville phfw that
made of pure Texas pigil'on. lotf n 17-4t
The firm of Stunner & LaForee, a firm
composed of ,T. M. Stagner and W. S.
LaForee, doing a shingle manufacturing
ami ginning business, about 1-1 miles
South-east from Quitman, is this day
dissolved by mutual consent, ,T. M.
Stagner succeeding the old firm, who
will pay all firm indebtedness ami col-
lect all debts due and owing to said
firm. \V. S. LaFoikje,
J. M. Staonhu.
Witness:
II. M. Tagn,
K. M. Milks. 17-:jt
Till! STATU OF TKXAS,
I'n the Sheriff iir any Constable of Wood
county:
on are hereby commanded to sum-
nams John Shiver by making publica-
tion of tins writ in some newspaper
•I: I ill your enmity, for four sllC-
ive u.vks previous to return day
to he and appear before me at
my officei nt Coke, Texas, on the 7th
«f ! • it-nary, tss'.i, then and there
-••> r t he com pin in t of \V. 11. Kerhy
: ! of debt due lo open account
tor the siiiu of !'!f. |,-pn1
January ; Ith, A. D. 1889. File No. b't.
Herein fail not, but due return make
of this writ as the law directs.
tiiven under my hand at office, this
11 io loth day of January, A. I>. 18,Sit.
L. F. i.i.ovi), J. 1\,
I'rceini-t No. s. Wood Co. Texas.
Whiskies,
Brandies,
Wines,
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Carries the finest and oldest Liquors in Texas.
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Tinware, Crockery, Glassware, Corn, Lumber and Shingles. We are
doing business in the Munzosheimer building,
and carry a stock of
FIFTY - THOUSAND - DOLLARS.
Wc will meet any competition for cash or on time. We solicit all tho
trade to give us a call and wo will do our best to please you in quantity
and price.
Minkola. Texas.
Cigars,
T obacco,
Snuff.
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The Mineola Monitor (Mineola, Tex.), Vol. 12, No. 18, Ed. 1 Saturday, February 2, 1889, newspaper, February 2, 1889; Mineola, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth254269/m1/4/?q=%22%22~1: accessed June 27, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Mineola Memorial Library.