The Sunday Gazetteer. (Denison, Tex.), Vol. 12, No. 38, Ed. 1 Sunday, January 14, 1894 Page: 1 of 4
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Commercial Printing
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OF ALL KINDS AT
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Commercial Print
VOLUME XII.
s SUBSCRIPTION TWO DOLLARS A YEAR.}
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DKN1SON, TEXAS, SUNDAY, JANUARY 14, 1894.
OF ALL KlfrDS A1
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j AS SECOND CLASS MAIL MATTKX. I W UMUUiK OO.
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rue peace MAKERS
We can suit your
taste in Styles, Qual-
ity, Quantity and
Prices-
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305 W. IMLA-IJST ST. J
F. R. GUITKAU.
T. B. WALDRON
PURE DRUGS
Oifc Glass, Putty, Wall Paper,
-*3|CTOILET ARTICLES^.
Perfumes, Scissors, Pocket Cutlery,
And Everything found in a First-Claes Drug Store*
No. 223 Main Street, Denison—In Opera House building.
If in the language ot St. Paul, we
are merely "members of one body,"
then why not harmonize and co-
operate
Free Pr
aoo
ith one another.—Terrell
0 you want to harmonize-
fate with?
1 aaid that Colorado will
that her welfare does not
depend u4 >n silver, ,land that what
ahe took to be a deadly blow at her
welfare was /eally hut an imaginary
misfortune.—Terrell Free Press.
| think it did depend
Kn we read in The
Srependent" Denver
costs only $23.50 a
hundred dollars to mine gold in that
state. Silver rhining never paid any-
thing like that in its palmiest days.
But probably that 22 t-s per cent
gold atory origination the brain of
that "independent"^|tor.
shouldn
upon silver, v
Road, an "i
paper, that it
L. Eppstein & Son, the most ex-
tensive wholesale dealers of liquors
and cigars in the state, have just
closed a contract for one million
Vanderbilt cigars which they are
placing on the Texas market. Re-
tailers will do well to secure local
agencies for this superb five cent
cigar from L. Eppstein & Son, who
are Sole controllers of this cigar for
the Southern states.
The government is not responsi-
ble for goods placed in bond, hence
the loss of the French and other ex-
hibita destroyed by ^the fire in the
White City last week will tall upon
the owners, as all insurance policies
•re said to have expired. The loss
is indirectly due to the railroad com-
panies, who delayed removing the
exhibits which had been ready for
shipopnt some time.
Harahaw's English Literary Academy.
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First-class instruction. The
most jecent methods. 7 A o rough -
mess. s Good discipline. Health-
location.' Fine Penmanship.
eap IBoard. Good surround-
's. /Address, h
G. L. Harshaw,
>4t No. 1431 West Main St.
.Wednesday morning a Mr. T. A.
iFannin coiinty, pre-
le Grayson county com-
missioner's court, an account for $40
and asked for its payment although
the bill was over 27 years old.
The Register, ^ Sherman, says the
order of the county court which ac-
companies the petition states that in
1S67 the account of B. F. Williams
fpr $40 for turnishmg the county
three coffins, was filed and allowed.
Twenty-six years have elapsed and
the account has not been paid, ac-
cording to Mr. Trotter. The com-
missioners discussed the matter
thoroughly and finally decided to
give it a rest. The claim appears
to be genuine, but they cannot un-
derstand why a man should wait
more than a quarter of a century
before presenting his claim.
Bargains.
Lota in north part of city for sale
cheap. Denison Land & Invest-
ment Co. i if
Chamberlain'3 Eye and Skin
Ointment.
A certain cure for Chronic Sore Eyes,
Tetter, Salt Rheum, Scald Head, Old
ironic Sores, Fever Sores, Eczema,
Prairie Scratches, Soro tipples
ancf-Piles. It is cooling and soothing.
Hundreds of cases have been cured by
tt after all other treatment Lit* failed.
j. E. Wolfe, the evangelist, who
made a dismal failure as an imita-
tor of Sam Jones in Denison two or
three years ago, and subsequently
got his clerical nose peeled at Tex-
arkana by the city marshal for using
inBting language 'when told that he
court! not obstruct the principal busi-
ness street of the town by collecting
a crovyd to listen to his harangues,
is noWi at small town not far from
Vinita, called Guinndale. He mar-
ried a Cherokee lady about four
years ago,1).and the two are editing a
fonr-page monthly paper called
John Three-Sixteen, "devoted to
bible testimony and the evangeliza-
tion of the Indian Territory of the
United, States." Wolfe and wife
are also the proprietors, but it is
"published by the John Thtee-
Sixteen Co.," which may be the
same firm for all we know. We
find in a copy of this paper now be-
fore us that "J. E. Wolfe & Co."
are running what is termed the
"Guinndale Orphanage Manual La-
bor Training J^chool," Evangelist
Wolfe says no salaries are given in
this. "Home," it being understood
the Lord supplies all needs, and that
is enough. That may be enough
for orphans who make chairs, tables
and the like for J. E. Wolfe it Co.,
who can't do any better, but it does
seem as though the Lord could
afford to agree to a division of at'
least a small portion of the profits
of the business with the unfortunate
boys and girls who do - the work.
However, God's ways are not our
ways, especially when evangelists
are his agents, and we suppose be-
nighted worldlings should not criti-
cise. But this Wolfe in the Lord's
vineyard doesn't appear to be satis-
fied with the stupendous work of
publishing gospel testimony, evan-
gelizing the Indian Territory "of
the United States," and supporting
orphans, providing they work in his
factory without pay, but is now
turning his attention to exposing
Freemasonry. He doesn't seem to
know that Masonry has been ex-
posed a hundred times. In fact,
there are so many exposures of this
venerable order that the chestnut is
stale—too stale indeed to enable
Evangelist Wolfe to work up even a
little bit of a sensation out of it.
Mr. Wolfe had better by far devote
his time to bottoming chairs and
give his orphans a shcut season of
rest. '
The Shipp Brothers' English
Hand-Bell Ringers Company scored
a great success in Dallas last Tues-
day night, and the Uniform Rank
are to be congratulated upon secur-
ing them for one evening. Every
member is an artist, and their enter-
tainment possesses the attraction of
being entirely different from any-
thing else on the road. Their date
here is Friday evening, January 19.
at Wilkinson's opera house,
Mr. A. L. Matlock, chairman of
the state democratic executive com-
mittee, has issued a call for a meet-
ing of the executive committee at
Dallas Thursday, February 1. This
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has been done at the solicitation,
Mr. Matlock says, of a number of
earnest democrats, who believe it to
| the interest of the patty to 4jet to-
gether and consult as to further ae-
l tion. There should be a ^ full at-
' tendance. v
The intriniio 'Gold Dollar.
If Mr. Cleveland really wants a
money with intrinsic merits he has i]
in the gold dollar. The following
from The Road, published in Den
ver* Colorado, shows that the golc
dollar really has very much of tht
"intrinsic" in its production.
It is estimated that the $10,0 o,-
000 worth ot gold produced by Colo-
rado in 1893 cost $2,200,000 to pro-
duce.
Twenty-two cents on the dollar!
Say where is the idot who talks so
glibly about a gold dollar being
worth a dollar because there is a dol-
lar's worth of gold in it?
Why is a 22 cent dollar worth.one
dollar?
Simply because "Rothschild"
legislation says it is worth a dollar!
Where does the law of supply and
demand come in on this proposi-
tion?
Where would the price of gold go
to if the legislation that bolsters up
its price were removed by fraud and
cunning, as was the legislation that
held up a 60-cent silver dollar!
Think this out a little, kind friends,
and if you can't talk sense quit talk-
ing?—Dallas Mercury.
Who says that it costs only twen-
ty-two cents to the dollar to mine
gold in Colorado? Where did The
Road get the figures? We don't
believe the "estifrate" is reliable;
but it it costs only twenty-two cents
on the dollar to mine gold in Colo-
rado it has nothing to do with the
value ot gold per se. How much has
all the gold in the market, or in cir-
culation as coin, cost? As well
might you say that the cost ot grow-
ing a bushel of corn in Texas should
regulate the price of corn all over
the world, as to say the cost ot min-
ing gold in Colorado should be the
world's standard by which to meas-
ure the value of that precious metal.
Such sophistry may pass as logic
with "pops," but to a man of aver-
age intelligence it is the variest rot.
Bargains.
Lots in north part of citv for sale
cheap. Denison Land & Invest-
ment Co. m tf
THE BUGAR BOUNTY.
THE MANUHE8TER CANAL.
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GARSXSHEMENT V3. DAMAGES.
OUR PHILADELPHIA LETTER.
The power of combined capital j Three years ago the firm ot
for either good or evil is almost if j Moton & Bro., of this city sued a
hot quite beyond the pale of com-! Mr. Hull for $6^ and in the #uit
putation, but probably the world j garnishment was issued against
has never seen a clearer and better j the payment of Hull's wages, he
illustration of this than th it of the j being an employee of the Missouri,
construction of the Manchester, j Kansas & Texas railway. Messrs.
90, Cunningham and Miller coming
in for the neat sum of $60,774.86.
It is always advisable to patron-
ize home manufacturies, especially
when the goods are just as good as
the foreign article. Drink Fort
Worth beer, it is equal to the best.
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L18T OF PATENTS
Granted to Texas inventors this
week. Reported by C. A. Snow &
Co., Solicitors ot American and
Foreign Patents, opposite U. S.
Patent Office, Washington, D. C. :
H. G. Schumacher, Hockheim,
insect powder distributer. Seeling-
er, Lockhart, horseshoe-nail clincher.
The leader five-cent cigar is "The
Vanderbuilt," just introduced in
this city. tf
THE OLEVER BRAHMAN.
England, ship canal. The wonder-
ful , prosperity of the southern
states of America for a period ex-
tending over more than one hun-
dred years was largely due to Man-
chester and its suburbs and sur-
rounding towns and villages. Man-
chester was, and as to that, is yet,
the world's center of cotton manu-
facturies. Within Manchester's
Moton & Bro. obtained judgment
in the lower court, wnereupon, Mr.
Hull applied to the district court
and was g'anted an injunction re-
straining the collection ot the .debt.
With the ir,junction suit was also a
petition asking for $1000 damage.
When the suit came on for hearing
the* attorneys on each side fought
the case with all possible power and
trading circle, in a local sense, over j the result was: The Court quashed
25,000,000 cotton spindles are in ! the suit lor damages but granted a
operation. This number staggers j perpetual injunction against the
the imagination but when the pros- absorption of the wages in the judg-
perity and happiness of some io,-j ment. Judgment tor the $65. how-
The sugar bounty paid our pro-
ducers by the government affords a
handsome pick-up to five hundred
and sixty sugar raisers. A recent
discussion of the subject in congress
brought out the following facts:
The amount paid out by the gov-
ernment on last years' crop at 2 cts
a pound, was $8,763,830.75, an
average gift by the government to
each producer of about $15,650.
The largest sum paid to one person
or company was $440,119.38 to the
Miles planting and manutacturing
company of Louisiana. Forty plant-
ers got over $50,000 each. : Twelve
Texas sugar planters got $174,943.-' possible to raise under any other cir-
cumstances. The success of the
000,000 people on another conti-
nent are united with almost indis-
soluble ties to those of the factory
people then it is that we begin to
understand the true situation and to
realize the great necessity of a peace-
ful solution of any difference that
may arise. Manchester is an inter-
ior city, the county site of Lancaster
county, and stands principally on the
south and east bank of the river Ir-
well, a tributary to the Mersey.
By direct line it is about forty miles
from Liverpool with which city it
has been connected by rail since
1S30. Prior to that year the tonage
was chietly conducted over small
canals and although four or five
trunk line railways have been con-
structed the canals continued to
move no small amount of the enor-
mous tonage. Since the beginning
of the industries thatjhave made the
city famous throughout the world,
Manchester has paid tribute to
Liverpool and the latter city has
long since occupied the first posi-
tion in regard to the commerce
of the world. For sixty to seventy
years the establishment of a ship
canal connecting Manchester with
the sea has from time to time been
discussed, but it was not until 1SS2
or '83 that Mr. Hamilton Fulton
brought forward a practical plan of
tide-water navigation, and soon
thereafter Manchester set about to
establish her maritime independence.
After eleven years of patient t jil
and united effort the undertaking
has been brought to a successful end-
ing, and this week Denison has
issued through bills of lading on cot-
ton via Galveston to the new seaport
city. The canal is the product of
something over $85,000,000, a sum
of money that would have been im-
ever, was rendered in favor of
Moton & Brother. The suit was
carried up to the supreme court
where the decision of the lower
court was affirmed throughout.
Judge Head was then on the dis-
trict Jbench and the decision was
quite lengthy. In as much as the
matter is of much local interest and
as causes of a similar nature are of
almost local occurrance in Denison,
it is quite appropriate to refer at
some length to the main features of
the decision:
Where parties to such suits are
citizens ot Texas, the causes must
come on tor trial in the Texas
courts. Services rendered by a citi-
zen of Texas to a non-resident or a
non-resident firm or corporation, al-
though the tender- ot payment for
such services is made outside of
Texas, the wages are sacred to the
employee and are not subject to the
law of the state in which such ten-
der is made. Where such suits are
brought in the face ot Texas consti-
tution and statutes, the defendant has
recourse through the Texas courts
for any damage that may result.
In the case of Moton & Bro. vs. O.
Hull the siiit for damage was
quashed on the ground that the cus-
tom in Grayson county had been to
sue and garnishee in Missouri, and
in as much as the cause in question
was the first of the kind on record
and from the further fact that the
debt seemed to be a legitimate one,
and as Moton & Bro. were only pro-
ceeding as others had done to secure
the payment of an obligation that
had not been denied, the court ruled
that O. Hull, in equity, had no
cause for damage.
success
undertaking,, however, permeated
every industry, every class and every
man, woman and child in the city,
and to the fund contributions poured
in from banker and peanut vendor—
all alike to the extent of their ability.
The successful completion ot the
canal marks an era in the world's
history, as did that of the water way
connecting the Mediteranean and
Red seas, and no people, save those
of Manchester, have a greater cause
for rejoicing than the cotton raisers
ot the south.
If you have not found a five-cent
cigar that suits you try "The Van-
derbuilt," now on sale by retail
dealers. tf
Speaking of the great power the
Brahmans in India possess in local-
izing thought, Purushotam Aor Te-
lang said the other day: "We
would consider a game of chess as
played in this country mere child's
play. An ordinary Brahman chess
player could carry on three or four
games at a time without inconveni-
ence. The usual game played by
the Brahmans consists in checkmat-
ing with one pawn, designated
when the play begins. I have seen
a man perform a long problem in
multiplication and division, at the
same time noting the various sounds
and discussions' going on about him
in the room. I have seen a man
compose a triple acrostic in San-
skrit in a giyen meter, at the same
time having three well versed men
trying to overthrow him in his areu-
ment on religion."—Pittsburg Dis-
patch. '
The Texas Brewing company
challenge the country to produce a
better beer than that which is now
being supplied from the Fort Worth
brewery. Give it a trial. tf
The Dallas News of Friday pub-
lished a Chicago dispatch to the
j effect that the attorneys of George
j Hi Painter, the murderer, sentenced
to be hanged for killing Alice Mar-
tin, claim to have discovered a fresh
| batch of new evidence connecting
"Dick" Edwards more clearly with
| the killing Of the Martin woman.
Neil Dacey has made affidavit that
while in jail with Edwards in this
state the latter intimated that he had
killed a woman in. Chicago. The
. .. ,T "7 1 Chicago witnesses, which it has been
"A bird in the hand is worth two in j
the bush," and a bottle of "C. C. C. Cer-1 reported for a week or more.were
lain Cough Cure" is worth twenty times G),mj[jar to Sherman to see if tney
its cost, in a case ot emergency, tor . , . , ., t- , , 1 1
Croup, Coughs and LaGrippe. Sold by could identify Edwards as the Dick
Guiteau & Waldron. jan Edwards who it is thought was the
real murderer of the Chicago wo-
man, have not put in an appearance
yet.
Some rough weather is coming
and your horse would be more com-
fortable if blanketed. Get one at
Horan's.
A mule that is 18 3-4 hands high
and weighs 1,975 pounds would be
pronounced a giant of the species.
But that is the "statistics" of a mule
sold in Kansas City a few days ago.
Coffee is adulterated in various
ways. Machines have been in-
vented and large factories erected, Shipp Brothers' English Hand
, .-■-•! ir u „i Bell Ringers Company, Friday even-
where artificial coffee beans are.. T " .- ,
ling, January 19, in \\ llkinson s
made from acorn flour and gum j Upera house, under the auspices of
arable, and these are mixed with the the Uniform Rank, Knights of
real coffee. . Pythias, will be one of the most
————— j unique and delightful entertainments
Gov.-Hogg has issued an Arbor' ever offeted to the people of Deni-
day proclamation, naming February ] so '
as such date.
NOTIUE TO U0NTRAUT0R8.
An Intelligent Bird.
A species of woodpecker inhabits
the driest parts ot Mexico, where,
during thfe droughts, it must die of
starvation unless it made a store, j jounJation
To prevent this it selects the hollow
stem of a species of aloe, the bdre
of which is just large enough to hold
a nut. The woodpecker drills holes
at interval in the stem, and fills it
from bottom to top with the nuts,
the separate holes being apparently
made for convenience of access to
the column of nuts within.
The charges preferred against
Chief Harris, of the Choctaw nation,
have been withdrawn by resolution
adopted by the house and senate.
| .....
According to a dispatch published
in the Sr. Louis Post-Dispatch, the
26 counties in the Choctaw nation j depth and joints rougnly squared so
have voted unanimously against that the distance between stones at
statehood or any severance of
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Contractor to do all excavating
ing and back filling anil deliver rock
on ground. Work to be done under
I supervision of city engineer and sub-
A dispatch from Turin, dated the iect to approval of the committee on
nth, says there is not the slightest j Permanent Improvements and Per--
for the recent report
Plans.and specifications for street
crossings. Crossings to be of good
limestone without seams or flaws,
not less than 10 inches thick, 2 feet
in length and 4 feet wide. All stone
in said crossings to have top rough
scabbled, outer edge rou^h pointed
to line from surface tour inches in
face .will not be more than one
tneir toP, .
_ , land One-half inches at any place,
tribal relations. The same feeling excavating, fill-
exists, it is stated, in the other tour
civilized tribes.
Gov. Altgeld, of Illinois, has
granted Painter, sentenced to be
hanged for the murder of Alice
Martin in Chicago, another respite
until February 6, to give his attor-
neys further time to investigate the
evidence supposed to connect Dick
Edwards, now in the jail at Sher
man, with the murder.
"A wise son maneth a glad father,"
and a sick child a sad mother, lveep
them clear of Co\ighs, Colds and Croup
. by using "C, C. C. Certain Cough Curr«.''
| Sold by Guiteau & Waldron. laii
freely published, that the aged Hun-
garian patriot, Louis Kassuth, was
dead.
It is not now thought that the case
against Senator Breckenridge of
Kentucky, by Mrs. Madeline Pol-
lard for breach of promise, will never
come to trial. .The matter has pro-
bably been fixed up some wavv
Her brother, J, D. Pollard says he
will do nothing to bring further dis-
grace upon his family, and has
written his mother that the case will
never, come to trial.
VORWAERT'8 MASQUERADE.
Tuesday, January 33d. Tor
tickets apply to committee: E.
Esser, W. Geigerjun, H. Burmes-
i ter. Tohn Wenz or Victor Banzer.
35-at
mils, bids to specify price as fol-
lows; "Rock furnished by contrac-
tor'' or " Reek furnished by city on
East Main street near Travis ave-
nue," bids to specify price per run-
ning foot of 4 feet wide. The city re-
serves the right to reject any or all
bids. Bids close 7:30 p. m., Jan.
18, 1894.. ' ' P O'DOVNELI.,
Chairman Per. 5mo. Com.
Attest. W. J- Scott, Sec'y.
Sews From all Quarters Oondensed-
What the WorKers are Doing--
Business Prospects.
January 9, 1894.
Bad as business was during 1893
only two out of every 3®o persons
in business failed. The total num-
ber of individual firms and corpora-
tions in business was 1,050,000; the
liabilities of the concerns which
failed were $542,000,000. Beside
all this, railroad mileage amounting
to over 25,000 miles went into re-
ceivers' hands, representing nearly
$700,000,000 in value.
By reason of improvements in
machinery the Homestead iron and
steel workers can earn higher pay,
even after a reduction of wages
ranging from 5 to 40 per cent, but
rail workers' in other mills are in
consequence kept idle—which is the
other side of the case.
The two great aluminum manu-
facturing companies of the United
States, at Pittsburg, Pa., and Lock-
port, N. Y., have consolidated and
will remove to Niagara Falls, where
they rent 6000 horse-power and
make the biggest aluminum works
in the world.
The toy manufacturing business
has become a very large one. A
concern with $200,000 capital has
started to build big works at Lan-
caster, Pa., to manufacture electric,
steam and other mechanical toys.
There is a heavy demand for guns
and revolvers everywhere, and most
of the factories are running full
time. Powder mills are also very^
busy.
A great many iron and steel mills
which have been idle for months
have started up, and things look bet-
ter in the iron trade.
Large suppliers of New England
axes are going to South America.
That country, as a country, is the
laziest 011 the face of the globe. It
is a good sign that so much Ameri-
can machinery and so many tools
are going there. '
Workmen at several hundred east-
ern manufacturing works have sent
petitions to Washington protesting
against tariff reductions at this time.
Reductions in wages have been made
all over the country since January 1.
The manufacturers of threshing
machinery are busy in Ohio, Indi-
ana and Illinois.
All the puddlers in the Mahoning
and Shenango valleys have been
asked to accept a reduction from
$4-75 to $3-75 per ton.
The general business of the coun-
try is in a mournful condition, and
the causes lie deeper than generally
supposed. The worst is over, how-
ever, and an improvement is in
sight, but labor has lost what it will
require years to recover.
United States treasury receipts
will be about $60,000,000 less this
year than last. The surplus reserve
at New York is now nearly $84,-
000,000, which shows how dull busi-
ness is. There is very little specu*
lation in railroad bonds.
There are still indications of a
general drifting to lower prices in
nearly all kinds of trade, but it will
not be safe to rely on these indica-
tions.' There are probabilities, of a
general hardening of values.
Chicago salesmen will soon start
on their first trip for the year,; and
believe business will bti heavy.
Cleveland manufacturing is al-
ready picking up. Business at
Pittsburg is 011 the increase.' Re-
ports from New Orleans show great
improvement. Many southern cities
feel an impetus in business, but it is
the outcome of a long stagnation.
An electric motor weighing fifty
pounds, placed at the breech of a
Gatling gun, will enable it to dis-
charge 3000 shots per minute. It
looks as though electricity would
soon be used on the Erie canal.
There is a good deal of talk about
it.
In 1SS0 California produced 36^4
tons of gold; in 1S92, 23 1-6 tons.
The production will now be in-
creased rapidly, as a law has been
passed allowing hydraulic mining.
There are in use in Germany 25,-
000 gas engines, representing 100,-
000 horse-powder. The average
price of gas is $1.20 per 1000 feet.
It is proposed to build small yes*
sels to go before big ones, in rough
seas, to spread oil on the water,' re-
ducing the roughness of the surface.
A bad fire on a cotton-laden ves-
sel, from Galveston to Liverpool,
was kept down by forcing large-
quantities of steam into the hold.
The greatest engineers of the
world are interested in the construc-
tion of immense canals to connect
distant bodies of water, the effect of
which will be to cheapen communi-
cation and increase traffic.
Four times as much power is got'
ten out of the same amount of coal
A RATHER SPIOY LETTER.
Certain papers have a Way of tap-
ping officials, candidates for office,
and public -characters generally by
write-ups, charging so much a line
for biographical; sketches, furnished
by the parties themselves, the price
usually governed by the suscepti-
bility, gullibility, or vanity of the
"subject." The publisher of a cer-
tain tural paper in Texas has re-
vived this hoary scheme for raising
the wind, and here is a letter a cer-
tain gentleman who served with dis
tinction as representative in the last
legislature, wrote this enterprising
editor in response to his proposition
to make htm famous by a literary
boost in his "special edition" tor
the modest sum of $16.50:
Dear Sir—Your favor of Tan
3d, 1S94, at hand. In reply I wish
to say that the honor of a conspicu-
ous write-up and illustration, pro
posed to be appropriated to myself
in the columns of cyour valuable
special edition, is duly appreciated
by me, but circumstances conspire
to deny me the privilege of enjoying
this simple njiethod of securiug dis-
tinction. .
I may, perhaps, be insensible to
my individual merits, and do not
properly appreciate my importance
as a citizen of ^his great state, but I
assure \ou. that if I have done any
thing to merit a place among the
great 'men of Texas, I can not now
call jt to mind. Nor can I see in
what respect a narrative of my
"pedigree and performances" would
interest or enlighten the many intel-
ligent readers of your paper. To
my m'odest view of your proposition,
it appears that the details ot a rather
checkered but uneventful and a rather
unsuccessful life, would be an
unprofitable study to most of them,
and would, if given in extensio, go
farther to mark me as an egotist,
than to impress the reader with an
idea of iny superior talents, or use-
fulness. Besides the foregoing rea
sons for not embracing your kind
offer to aid me to renown, I find
that a faithful answer to the' inter-
rogatories propounded would entail
no little labor, and demand a review
of several chapters in my life that I
have striven for years to forget. ,Not
that these chapters would reveal any
thing of which I am ashamed, but
because of suffering and distress,
disappointments and bereavements,
that would come stalking forth from
memory's closets to renew their
claims upoij me, however unwel-
come they may be.
My life in Texas has so little in it
of which to boast, and is so full of
lost opportunities and neglected
offers to better my own condition,
and help the community in which I
live, that I would rather not review
it in detail.
These premises considered, and
the further fact that it would cost
me from a dozen dollars to $16.50
to become famous, and would also
require about $20 wortn of careful
composition to be done by me while
every intelligent reader would know
at once it was self-laudation and a
"paid ad," all conspire to make me
decline the proferred honor.'
With a profound wish that you
may succeed in your laudable en-
terprise and find plenty of biogra-
phies of great men and handsome
pictures to adorn your pages, I am
yours most gratefully.
Why pay rent when you can buy
a home on such easy payments from
Franz Kohfeldt, at H. Tone's office
122 Main street ? Building and loan
stock taken in part payment.
THE VISION OF BIRDS.
It Is Often Microscopic and More Acute
Than Man's.
HOLMES.
to
all
Everjj
Birds have very acute vision, per-
haps the most acute of any creature,
and the sense is also more widely
diffused over the retina than is the
case with man ; consequently a bird
can see sideways as well as objects
in front of it. A bird sees—show-
ing great uneasiness in consequence
—a hawk long before it is visible to
man; so, too, fowls and pigions find
minute scraps of food, distinguish-
ing them from what appear to us
exactly similar pieces of esirth and
gravel.
Young chickens are also able to
find their own food—knowing its
position and how distinct it is—as
soon as they are hatched, whereas a
child only very gradually learns
either to see or understand the dis-
tance of objects. Several birds—
apparently the young of all those
that nest on the ground—can see
quite well directly after they (come
out of the shell, but the young of
t sums will
at direction,
between
5
rocks are born blind, and have to be
ted.
Families can now be supplied
with the celebrated Fort Worth
bottled beer in case lots—a dozen
pints or quarts.
tf Stanford & Sov.
NOTICE TO 00NTRA0T0R8.
8tate and County taxes! !
For 1S93 are past dut, and as the
recent law requires me to make final
settlement a month earlier, all per-
sons due taxes will please give the
matter prompt attention.
You can drop a card asking the
amount ot taxes, I will reply,- and
you can remit by money order or
check on either bank.
January 1st, 1S94. Address
R. T- Cunningham,
Tax Collector,
37-2t Sherman, Texas.
on steam vessels as was obtained 30 the birds that nest in trees or on
years ago.
It will cost about $150,000,000 to
build the ten proposed bridges to
connect New York city \lith its Su-
burbs.
There is a great stir jamong Euro-
pean governments as t4 the need of
larger navies, and va;
soon be expended in th
The shortest time made
Chicago and New Orleans is
hours. Faster trains wi0 be placed
011 several roads as soon as'lraffic in-
creases a little. Trains have lately
started from' New York with less
than 40 passengers for Chicago.
Bankers and brokers who handle
railroad bonds say there is very little
prospect for selling bonds to build
new roads at present.
A rushing business for 1894 is by
no means an impossibility. The
country is strong and has, in all busi-
ness .channela, the ablest men the
world ever saw.
Goods,
and
Half
Prices Reduced 25
33 1-3 per cent on
Winter Goods.
thing goes in Cloaks an
Wraps, Woolen Dress
Blankets
> , Ladies'
Gents' Underwear,
mere Hose and
Hose, Gents' Buck Gloves
Ladies' Cashmere Gloves
and Mittens, Ladies' and
Misses' Union Suits, Knit
Goods, Shawls, etc. We
are cleaning up now, get-
ting room for our Spring
Goods, and this is the
consumers' opportunity
to buy goods very cheap.
Respectfully,
S. G. HOLMES,
Eubank Building, East Side No. 203 West Main Street,
Square, Sherman, Tex.
Denison, Texas.
MENTAL TELEPATHY.
Remarkable Oiroamst&noe with
Ends at New Orleans and
Zealand.
the
The people of Gainesville think
they can secure aitesian water and
Mr. George A. Boughton, Of Dal-
las, an expert in that work, is now
in the city at th^ solicitation of citi-
zens and investigating the matter.
He stems to think the matter of se-
curing the flow quite feasible and
will likely be employed to begin
work soon,
Manv have tried to Imitate *'C C- C.
Certain Corn Cure," but have titled.
There are none like it." Manufactured by
J. C. Mendenhall ^.yo., Evansville. Ind.
Sold by Guiteau ro . jaa
Bids will be received at<the office
of the eity secretary until 7:30 p.
m. Thursday evening, Jan. 18,
1S94, for the construction of side-
walk crossings, known as Belgian
crossings,to be six feet wide, of rock
set vertically on edge with face
scabbled to smooth surface and face
of stone to be not less than 6 inches
by 8>in diameter, to be not less than
10 inches1 deep and to be set on 3
inch ^cushion of sand. Contractor
to tnove all earth and do all neces-
sary back filling at his expense and
work to be done under direction of
city engineer and subject to the ap-
proval of the Permanent Improve-
ment and Permit committee. Stone
to be furnished by city on East
Main street near Travis avenue,
contractor to haul stone at his ex-
pense. Bids to state price per run-
ning foot, 6 feet in width. The
city reserves the right to reject any
or all bids. ■ \
P. O'Donnei-L, Chairman of
Permanent Improvement and Per-
mits. '
Attest, W. J- Scott, Secretary.
Bareains.
Lots in north part ot city for sale
cheats Denison Land & Invest-
tf
G. H. Miles, a traveling man
i'rom New Orleans, wh© has been
stopping in Guthrie, Ok., for several
days, tells a remarkable circum-
stance that recently occurred in the
family of a relative of his in that
city, that may be looked upon as a
confirmation of the doctrine of men-
tal telepathy.
The family, which is one of the
prominent ones of New Orleans,
numbers among its members a lady
and her twin brother, a youhg man
who for the past few years has been
in business in New Zealand, but
who was recently expected home on
a visit to his sister. One evening
lately as the lady was sitting sur-
rounded by friends, she suddenly
gave a piercing cry and placing her
hand to her side fell fainting to the
floor. On reviving she declared
that she had been suddenly stabbed,
just above the heart and under the
left arm, indicating the spots. She
was assured she was laboring under
the purest imagination, but was
hard to convince that she had not
been stabbed so plainly had she felt
the knife enter her body.
That night a little daughter was
born to her, and the child was
found to be marked on the identical
spots where the mother imagined
she was injured. The marks on
the child looked as if they might be
the cicatrix of old knife wounds.
The next day a cablegram was re-
ceived from friends of the twin
brother in New Zealand, informing
the sister that he had been stabbed
to death by a native in a quarrel,
and the date given of the youbg
man's death was that of the night
when the sister had felt the pang of
a knife entering her own body.
Further inquiry developed the fact
that the hour was also the same and
to complete the remarkable coihci-
•dence it was learned that he was
Stabbed twice, once over the heart
and once under the left arm.
The lady believes that through
her affinity with her twin brother
she felt his death the same instant
he received it. The whole cirfiurtf-
stance is fully vouched for and adds
another to the long list of mysteries.
LITERARY.
KVKRVBOOY SHOULD HAVE IT.
The Gazkttker Is in receipt of an-
other-part ot Bancrott'c Book of the Fair,
which is fully up to the hif(h standard of
excellence ot those which preceded. The
history ot the fair, as produced tn thla
magnificent work, will be very thorough,
and the illustrations are tbe finest that
the artist can produce The Book of the
Fair, when the twenty-five parts are fin-
ished, will be the best work of the kind
published, and should find a place in
every "well regulated family." Thf fol-
lowing notice of the work is clipped from
the Haskell (Texss) Free Press:
"Assuming to portray by pen and pic-
ture in enduring torm the highest
achievements of mankind in the arts and
sciences, it is itseit the highest produc-
tion of the printers' and engravers' art.
It is profusely illuminated by the photo-
graphic process ot engraving, which
brings out and preserves every detail ot
the most beautiful building or most com-
plicated piece of machinery as distinctly
as the photograph itself can do. Noth-
ing is left to the imagination; the indi-
vidual exhibits, the exhibits ot every na-
tion and every scene about the buildings
and grounds is faithfully pictured and
described."
Each part, of forty large pages, is fur-
nished at $1 each. Two parts are issued
each month. Nine have now been pub-
lished. Address The Bancroft Cor," Audi-
torium Building, Chicago, for further in-
formation.
"Sweet Sixteen" is the title of a
charming chrotno which surmounts a
convenient calendar pad sent out by the
proprietors of that old standard blood
remedy, Hood's Sarsaparilla. It is the
head of a beautiful girl, ^ovely picture
in several delicate colors. Three letter
stamps sent to C. I. Hood & Co., Lowell,
Mass., will get a copy.
DIRECT0R8 AND 01TI0ER8.
Tuesday being the day fixed by law for
that purpose the banks of Denison
elected directors tor the ensuing >ear as
follows:
FIRST NATIONAL.
Directors—W. G. and J. T. Munson,
Sam Sur, f.. Eppstein, J. W. Blassen-
game, J. M. Ford, J. B. McDougall, W.
G. Meginnis, W. F. Haynes, P. E. Fair-
banks and Paul Waples.
THE NATIONAL BANK OF DKNISOV.
O. Fisher, E. A. Stack, E. H. Hanna,
J. D. Quinn, D. H. Bailey, P. V. Mun-
son, J. B. McDougall, C. S. Cobb, N. S.
Ernst, R. S. Legate and W. H. Cobb.
STATE NATIONAL.
Directors—A. Rennie, A. F. Platter,
John Doyie, A. W. Acheson, W. C. Tig-
nor, A. H. Coffin, J. B. McDougall, D.
N. Robb, R, C. Shearman and G. D.
Blackford. Officers—President, R. C.
SliCa^man; Vitee President, A. Rennie;
Cashier, ti. L. Blackford,
Some time last fall a young man by the
name of Clarkson came to Denison and
secured employment at the wocdyard on
Woodard street, corner ot Rusk avenue.
In December, while operating the steam
saw, he lost the end of one of his fingers,
and a* he seemed to be aii honest fellow
he found no trouble^in establishing him
self in the esteem of those with whom .
came in contact. Just bffore Christmas
he called on Mr. J. V. Doughert^ and \
stated that he wished to make two or
three Christmas presents and would
probably need a little accommodation.
The following week Clark^fl^ame in
and stated to Mr. Doughert^hat he had
two spans of mules and a piece of land
out in the country a few miles, and he
would give them as security for the pur-
chases he wished to make. When the
time came Mr. Dougherty did not de-
mand a mortgage, thinking the young
man had told him a straight story, %nd
that it was not' necessary to draw up the
legal papers. Christmas week Clarkson
came in and purchased three watches,
agreeing to pay for them within 30 days.
The second chapter in the transaction
closed Friday morning in Justice Mix-
son's court, where and when Clarkson
was bound over to the grand Jury in the
sum of $400 for obtaining goods under
false pretenses. Immediately after ob-
taining the watches one of them was
"soaked" for money with which to pay
his board; the second was "soaked" for
pocket change, while the third was re-
tained as an evidence of Mr. Dougherty's
generosity. Clarkson left Denison
Christmas week, and nothing of hi«
whereabout* was learned until Wednes-
day,, when he was located in Bonham.
lie was arrested, brought back and tried,
with the result as stated ktjove.
VOBWAERT'S MASQUERADE,
Tuesdav, January 23d
tickets apply to committee;
Esser, W. Geigerjun, H.
Smith's Bile Beans act on the j ter, John Wenz or Victor
bQe, cure constipation and malaria. {
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