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The Abilene Reporter.
VOL. XI.
Abilene texas Friday morning jtjly i 1802.
no. 27
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The St. Louis and Southwestern
railroad have put on a double dally
service between Fort Worth and Mem-
phis. The poet John G Whittier will
write the opening ode for the world's
fair at Chicago. The title is still a se-
cret to everybody but himself.
C. N. Porter president of the Fort
Bend county bank of Richmond Tex
as was arrested in Kansas City Sun-
day on a charge of embezzlement.
tt ts said that Judge Grcsham of
Indiana will head the peoples party
national ticket provided the sub-treas-ury
plank is left out of the platform.
The largest nugget of gold on record
was found the other day in the Plancha
placers Sonora Mexico. It weighed
14 J pounds and the percentage of pure
gold was 87 1 fine.
Col. John S Ford in reponse to the
resquest of many old comrades has
suggested a re-union of all Texas sol
diers rangers and confederates of va-
rious commands to he held in San
Antonio in October.
Prol. Foster the weather prophet
says that from about the 20th of June
until the 25th of August the excess of
heat above the average of the season
"will be very great. The first half of
August will be much hotter than the
last half of July.
Great Britian's world's fair commis-
sioner Sir Henry Truman Wood is in
Chicago fot the second time m the in-
terest of the English exhibit at the fair.
His mission this. time is to get the ex-
position authorities to grant more
space for the exhibits of Great Britian.
The thirteen delegates chose.i at
the peoples party convention to rspre-
sent the state alliance at the Houston
convention of the state federation of
labor will receive credential from
President Evans Jones and they
will be duly accredited delegates.
This will represent the alliance and
not the convention of the peoples
party-
V. A. Tuley traveling passenger
agent of the Gulf Colorado and Santa
Fe who had charge of the party of the
Texas delegates to the Chicago con-
vention was presented with a hand-
some souvenir a gold badge in the
center of which is a lone star with a
laurel wreath around it with the in-
enption "presented by the Texas
delegates to Chicago 1892." The
presentation speech was made by
Coon Potter of Gainesville and was
responded to by Mr. Tuley.
A medical student of Tlirocklnorton
unearthed the skeleton of a negro that
was killed by the Indians on the Clear
Fork in 1887. The bones were all in
a perfect state of preservation. A
steel arrow head was driven through
the skull another imbeded in one of
the vertebra a third had passed
through one of the ribs three more
were found in what had been the chest.
The negro and several other men were
taken by surprise by the Indians and
in their efforts to escape the negro's
hat blew off and he stopped to pick it
up which resulted in his death. He
was buried by the loldiers- of Camp
Coover.
Something of a sensation was cre-
ated in Waco Friday night over the
announcement by one of the medical
examiners who pronounced King.
Sims who was hanged that day as not
being dead. The undertaker's estab-
lishment where the body was lying
was crowded with negroes taking a
last look at the body and when they
heard what the physician said they
made a break for the door. The way
out was through a ware room contain-
ing coffin cases and other funeral mer-
chandise and they were in such eager
haste they ran over one another and
one negro fainted and fell into a coffin
case and was nearly frightened to
death when taken out. The negro
Sims was very dead however and was
buried next day.
Horse Notes.
As the time for holding the colt
show draws nearer the interest in-
creases and now it looks like a goodly
number of good colts will be shown.
There will also be a good many visitors
here on that day who will inspect the
stock shown with a view to purchasing.
The Reporter is informed that gentle-
men from as far off as Austin have
written signifying their intention to be
in Abilene on the 16th inst. to buy
special classes of horses. Let every
owner of a good colt have that colt
here. Every man interested in live
stock and the upbuilding of the horse
interests of this country should attend
the show. A surprise is in store for
the best of you though many of our
colts are on eastern courses being fitted
for great stake races this fall
The breeding season is now closed
and those of you who have bred ' good
mares to good horses should see to it
that the mare is kept healthy and
strong and not too fat through the sum-
mer and allowed to starve during the
winter. Keep your brood mares in a
thrifty condition.
Pilot farm youngsters are doing
finely.
Cameron & Phillips are breeding a
fine lot of young horses They can
supply you ' witn most any kind of a
horse you may want.
Lone Star stock farm colts are
taking their work with a relish at Nash-
ville Tenn. Someo these youngsters
face the starter for the first time next
month. They have very important
engagements and will meet the produce
of the greatest farms in the United
States .
The Pecan Valley fair premium list
and race program has been received.
The dates for their fall meeting are
September 26 to October 1st inclusive.
$3190 is hung up in the racing depart-
ment which should insure pretty lively
contests of speed in each race.
The double team trotting record on
a regulation track was reduced to
2.13 by Belle Hamlin and Globe at
the Baltimore driving track. The
world's double team trotting record
was 213 made by Belle Hamlin and
Justina over the Independence la
kite-shaped track October 27 1890.
The fastest previous time on a regular
tion track was 2.15. made at Baltimore
recently by the team that broke the
record.
As the prisoners at the ore beds of
the state prison at New Birmingham
were going to dinner Monday nine cf
ilieni with rocks in their hands under-
took to make their escape. Although
rorks were lying around the guard like
hail he fired on them killing one and
wounding four others two of whom
will likely die. Four escaped but one
Was re-captured. Waller Freeman
once a guard at the coaling camp and
who secreted arms tor prisoners for
which he was sentenced to seven years
was shot through and there is no hope
for his recovery.
The new warship "Texas" was chris-
tened by Miss Madge Williams at the
Norfolk navy yards Tuesday before a
crowd of perhaps 15000 people. The
launching was under the supervision
of Francis T. Bowles constructor in
the Norfolk navy yard. From lack of
proper notice of the time that the
launching would occur none of the
Texas congressmen and in fact no
Texans from Washington were present
A young man named Youqg Harris
was accidentally shot and killed at
Hempstead Saturday. He was lying
down with a saddle blanket for a pil-
low when a negro boy about seven
years old pulled a pistol from under it
and by some means the pistol went
off the ball going through Harris' jaw
mortaljy wounding htm.
The rainy season has opened in the
city of Mexico and small pox is epi-
demic .there. There ate fully two
hundred cases in the city and the
death rate is increasing rapidly.
W. F. H.il
It is reported tha twelve deputy
U. S. marshals mettheDalton brothers
the other day in Oklahoma but didn't
have the nerve to try to arrest them.
THE CHICAGO CONVENTION.
CLEVELAND THE SPONTANEOUS
CHOICE OF THE PEOPLE.
Facts to Show That He Was The
Strongest Han Popularity of
the Platform A Talk with
Col. Seth Shepard.
Col. Seth Shepard who made a
strong fight for Cleveland in the con-
vention at Lampasas was interviewed
yesterday by a News reporter regard-
ing the result of the national conven-
tion at Chicago. Col. Shepard pro-
ceeded: Mr Cleveland seemed to be
the spontaneous choichof the people.
The only question that the Cleveland
men had to determine at Chicago was
as to his availability. It was very
easy for men opposed to Cleveland to
say that he was not strong in certain
states or that he could not be elected
if nominated; but when asked to name
some one who was stronger they could1
present no name that had any assur-
ance of having anything like the
f trength of Cleveland in the doubtful
states. I went U the convention a
Cleveland man believing that he was
the strongest man in the party and I
neither saw nor heard anything that was
calculated to change my opinion. On
the contrary my opinion was strength-
ened after coming in contact with rep-
resentative men of the different states
who were reasonably impartial and
well acquainted with the sentiments of
their own constituents at least. Mr
Cleveland was the only man who it
seemed to me had any appreciable
strength over and above the mere
weight of the nomination. His record
is a tower of strength with the voters
who have become suspicious of the
sincerity of party declarations. It was
indeed a most extraordinory spectacle
to see a man nominated over the wish
and protest of a united delegation
from his own state but that simply
emphasizes the strength of his popu-
laiity with the masses of the1 people
throughout the union. I am satisfied
that his nomination has been accepted
in good laith by the opposition to him
New York and that all the elements of
the party will be found co-operating
heartily for success.
The nomination of Stevenson for
vice-president is a very satisfactory
one also. Illinois hitherto a very
staunch republican state has become
the battle ground and our chances for
success there seem to be fair. It is
generally believed that the nomination
of Stevenson has strengthened the
ticket in that state. A thing 1 ob-
served there and it struck mt as very
favorable was this: The Texas dele-
gation was invited by John T Dickin-
son secretary of the Texas Colum-
bian exposition to a lunch and a drive
through the exposition grounds where
we found thousands of men at woik on
the buildings and in the trenches. A
few of them hurrahed for Harrison
but a large majority of them cheered
for Cleveland as we passed. I was
assured by gentlemen reasonably well
informed that a large majority of the
laboring men of Chicago were friendly
to the nomination of Cleveland. In
fact a delegation of laboring men
headed by a speaker of first rate in-
telligence waited upon and addressed
the platform committee. This delega-
tion seemed pleased with with the ex-
pressions of the platform with respect
to their desires.
The platform is very satisfactory.
While rather lengthy and argumenta-
tive yet it contains sound and straight-
forward utterances upon ever material
question. The two great issues made
between the parties in their platforms
and the oeclaraiions of their nominees
are the force bill and protection. The
declarations of our platform on the
tariff issue are plain and straightfoward
and they gave great satisfaction to the
representatives of the western states in
which tariff reform has grown wonder-
fully in the past six years. Upon this
issue states hitherto staunchly republi-
can have become uncertain and we
may not be greatly astonished if sev-
eral of them will wheel into the demo-
cratic column next November One
thing seems certain the battle ground
is not only in New York and Indiana
but the republicans have to contest
every inch of ground in Massachusetts
Michigan Wisconsin Illinois Iowa
Nebraska and Minnesota.
I do not think there is a probability
of our losing a single southern state.
The prospect of the "force bill ' with
all of its probable consequences ought
to keep these states solid; besides too
in my opinion the strength of the third
party is greatly exagerated. No I do
not think the currenc) question will
cause any serious trouble in the nation!
campaign. The subtteasury fallacy
has about played itself out. The.
democratic platform is unmistakably
in favor of bimetallic coinage without
any discrimination whatsoever against
silver. It only demands that each
dollar whelhef of silver or gold shall
be of one intrinsic value; in other
words that there shall be no other
dollar but an honest one.
I cmnot see how any Texas demo-
crat can oppose that. It will open up the
mints to the coinage of an honest sil-
ver dollar and add to the money in
circulation all the silver bullion pro-
duced in the United States save what
is consumed in the arts and manufac-
tures. The onlv people who would
be directly benefited by the free coin-
age of silver at its present ratio would
be the owners of the mines and the
silver bullion who deposits 70 cents
worth ot bullion at its market value
and receive 100 cents in money which
would in effect be giving 30 cents on
the dollar bonus to the producers of
sil'er bullion which it seems to me
would be as objectionableas the bene-
fits given to manufacturers under the
high protective tariff.
Tammany will 1 think honestly
support the ticket Ths men com-
posing that organization are democrats
and they have nothing to win by tl e
defeat of the ticket but on the contrary
they would have everything to loose.
Dallas News. '
The Income Tax.
It has long been one of the demands
of the farmers alliance that a national
law be enacted fixing a graded tax
upon incomes. Of course the man
with a big income who would have his
taxes increased b this law is opposed
to it. The argumentum ad hominem
is the most potent argument known to
the human reason; and yet considered
abstractly without reference to the in-
terests of the individuals or classes
their seems to be no fairer way possible
to secure the necessary revenue for the
government. No doubt such a law
will be enacted some time for the ob-
jections made to it are actually puerile.
The Philadelphia Telegraph has
been discussing the subject but its
objections as shown by one ot our
exchanges are absolutely without
force:
It calls such a tax "offensively in-
quisitorial." a phrase which has been
heard before but which really means
nothing in such connection.. It is no
more inquisitorial" for the internal
revenue assessor to ask a man the
amount of his income than for the cus-
tom officer to search his trunk on the
steamer dock and it is certainly a less
"offensive" proceeding. All tax assess-
ments are "inquisitorial" and taxes are
"offensive" to thost who desire to
avoid paying their share ol the public
revenue.
Again the Telegraph says that this
would be a "class tax." That means
that people with large incomes would
have to pay it. while people without
such incomes would escape. But the
like is true of all taxes. It is only the
owners of land who are assessed for
real estate taxes and so on through the
list.
Further the Telegraph complains
that only the wealthy are to be
required 10 pay this tax." This state-
ment is not quite true but taking it for
what it is worth is it not fairer to
place tax burdens upon assured
wealth than upon poverty or still
worse upon industr)? It is the crying
evil 01 our existing system that it beats
relatively harder upon the poor man
than upon the rich and that while the
poor man must contribute every penny
exacted of turn as taxes upon the nec-
essaries of life the rich know and prac-
tice many arts by which to escape a
part of their just contributions.
A tax upon large incomes is needed
to relieve the necessaries of life of the
taxes that now not only enhance the
cost of living but give opportunity for
monopoly and oppression. It is the
fairest of all taxes and the one best
tending to relieve pressure where pres-
sure is least easily borne. Revenue
should be drawn from wealth not from
want.
The Texas world's fair auxiliary
will open at Galveston Nov 5 and
close Jan. 9 1893 The auxiliary as
planned will be an extensive and very
complete exhibition of Texas products
industries manufactures etc. . It will
be preparatory to the world's fair at
Chicago for from the collection there
shown the state will take most of the
exhibits which will constitute the Tex-
as display at Chicago. It is believed
that the auxiliary will be the means
also of supplying a large share of
money to be expended on the state's
representation at the exposition.
According to its prospectus recently
published the auxiliary is to be quite a
pretentious afTair and greatly promo-
tive of the trade interest ot the state.
Mexico and Central and South Amcr
lean countries are invited to participate
in it. A $40000 building is being
erected 'at Galveston for us accommodation
TEXAS VOLUNTEER GUARD?.
CIROULAR FROM THE ADJU-
TANT GENERAL'S DEPART-MENT.
The Texas Companies to Vte
Narao of the Stato Camp
Grounds Roads Garnishing
Free Transportaion.
AtmiN Tex. June 19 The following cir-
cular haebeen issued from the Adjutant gen-
eral's office:
Austin June 13 1892. As It will he im-
tiosible to procure nt AuMln the fifty or sixty
lories necessary for the use of general regi-
mental anil stall officers during the encamp-
ment those office living At or near stations of
calvary or artillery companies can have horses
sent to Austin for their own use in the tame
cars conveying'the horses oflhc calvary or ar-
tillery companies by applying to the troop or
battery commanders. To others I would
advise that they direct some friend in Austin to
procure a horse Tor their ue during encamp
ment. V. II. Maury
Adjutant General.
Ausim lime 15. 1892. Company com-
manders and band leaders will notify this office
not later than the istof July next the exact
number of officers and men in their -organizations
who will attend the encampment in July
next. This information is necessary in pre-
paring tenlage supplies etc. on camp
grounds. YV. II. Maury Adjutant General.
Austin June 16 1892. The state has now
encampment grounds belonging to the Texas
volunteer guard which are beautifully located
and well arranged and equipped for all pur-
poses for which it is intended.
A name for said grounds should be bestowed
upon it and the name of it will be determined
by the vote of the companies of Texas volun-
teer guard. Company commanders will send
to this office by the 1st of July next the name
selected by their company.
byti
V.
II. MAlikY Adjutant General.
Austin June 10 1892. General Order
No 30.
1. Free transportation for officers soldiers
bands cooks and waiters of llie Texas volun-
guard in uniform will be furnished by the fol-
lowing railroad lines viz:
Houston & Texas Central A. Faulkner
general passenger agent Houston.
Southern Pacific (O.- II. & S. A.) V. C.
Watson general passenger agent Houston.
Fort Worth & Denver D. II. Keeler gen-
eral passenger agent Fort Worth.
San Antonio 6: Aransas Pass R. V. An-
drews general passenger agent San Antonio.
International & deal Northern. J. E. Gal-
brailh geneneral passenger agent 1'alestiMe.
Texas & Pacific Gaston Mealier general
passenger agent Dallas.
St. Louis Arkansas & Texas V. II. Win-
field general passenger agent. Tyler.
Gulf Colorado & Santa Fe. II. G. Thomp-
son general passenger agent Galveston.
East Line & Red River W. M. Giles re-
ceiver Greenville.
This office regrets that the Missouri Kan-
sas & Texas does not see in wayaeario follow
the generous example of the other roads and
the officers and companies will bear this in mind
in making application for transportation over
routes into Austin.
2. General field and staff officers regimen-
tal hands and commanding officers of compa-
nies will make application at any early day to
the general passenger agents of the several
roads over which they have to travel to reach
Austin for transportation over such lines
stating the number of men to be carried and
the dale on which they embark which must be
so regulated as to reach Austin on the evening
of Monday July n.
3. Regimental adjutants quartermasters
quartermaster sergeants and acting company
quartermaster sergeants in their application
to the general pawengcr agents for tranjporta-
Uon wi I name a date twenty-four hours in ad-
vance of the departure of other troops and reach
Austin on the evening of Sunday July 10 or
the morning of the nth. In making applica-
tion they should call attention of Hie general
passenger agents to their rank in llie service
and mention they are acting under this para-
graph. 4. Company commanders making applica-
tions as indicated in paragraph 2 will stale the
number of officers and men who will attend the
encampment including cook and waiter
and also the musicians if there is a band at-
tached to the company.
5. Commanders of artillery and cavalry
companies in addition to application for trans-
portation of the company will apply at an
early date for transportation of field pieces
Galling guns equipments and horses. They
will contract with the railroads at the lowest
possible rates of freight for guns horses etc.
and the freight charges will be paid by this
office.
6. For the convenience of general passenger
agents a list of all the officers bands and com-
panies will be furnished to enable them to is-
sue transportation direct from their office or
to instruct local agents to do so. General pas
senger agents will be promptly noticed of all
changes in officers and companies etc made
before the encampment.
lly order of the commander-in-chief.
W. II. Maury Adjutant General.
There is great complaint throughout
the wheat-growing region of Texas of
the scarcity and high price of binder
twine. Texas being several weeks
ahead of the regular demand goes into
the market for.twinc belore the com-
bine by which the output and price
are regulated lias fixed upon the
amount of tix the "tariff will bear."
As the tariff on twine had been largely
reduced and the raw material lor its
manufacture put on the free list it was
very reasonably expected that' prices
would be reduced; but the trust has
strengthened its position and thus gets
the benefit of the tariff reduction and
free raw material instead of the farmers
as was the intention of congress. The
man who will invent patent and place
on the market a certain ineans of kill-
ing trusts will earn the gratitude" of
every sensible producerand consumer
in the country. Farm and Ranch.
DIXON'S DENUNCIATION
He Excoriates Tammany After Tell-
ing His Story.
Rev. Thomas Dixon Jr. now un-
der bail pending trial on a charge of
libeling Excise Commissioner Koch
from his pulpit preached in as-
sociation hall for the last time during
the summer months. As a prelude to
his sermon he made a statement of
the facts and the official record of
Commissioner Koch upon which the
so-called libelous sentences in the Re-
view of May 39 were based. Mr
Dixon said he had never seen Koch
until he took the witness chair. "I
have a supreme contempt for this man
who is utterly obscured by the hopeless-
rascality of the record he has made in
office. If we are to believe the testi-
mony of uncontradicted witnesses and
the decision of the supreme court
Koch" said he" is sunplv the cat's
paw of the quiet young man who spells
the king's English with difficulty and is
aversed to publicity of any sort
Hughey Grant. Tammany is simply
trying to tluottle the free Speech of
the pulpit of New York Koch found'
at last in his pal Grady a judge whose
opinion he was willing for the public
to hear. Hut he did not venture into
Judge Grady's court Until he ascer-
tained by private confab what the decis-
ion would be.
"When the farce at the court house
was ended the complaint was rail-
roaded down to the district attorney's
office in a few hours. The indictment
was drawn in a few hours and hurried
to the grand jury. Why this extraor-
dtnary haste? Is such haste usual in
New York? I found out when I got
in the grand jury room. Not expect-
ing a job I foolishly risked privilege
to make a statement; For public
show they allowed me to enter. The
foreman however drew a line at any
evidence in justification or excuse of
the alleged libel. I learned subse-
quently that the foreman was Frank
Higgins a Tammany hall 'heeler.
There is hereforc no mystery in a
Tammany complaint before a Tam-
many judge being shot like lightning
into the district attorney's office. This
same grand jury dismissed eight indict-
ments sent in through Dr. Parkhurst's
society while it took them only three
minutes to find an indictment against
me for words which occurred in public
defense of Dr. Parkhurst.- Tammanv
hall is the most powerful coterie of or-
ganized cnmials that ever dominated
the life'of any civilization. It makes
and unmakes judges and juries. It is
the one withering blasting curse of
our city life damning with the hot
breath of dishonor every ramification
of our body politic.
"If it be true that the life of a min-
ister of the gospel is not safe who
dares seriously to attack Tammany
hall then in the name of the Almighty
God it is time ihe world knew it. By-
birth tradition and association as a
southern man I am a democrat and I
voted that national ticket last election.
"Hut the democracy I learned in
ny old native state meant honesty
integrity and dectney. A southern
man cannot affiliate with iammany
without first lowering the standard of
his nunhood and celling his soul to
the devil I take occasion to warn
the national democracy that Tammany
hall is a load it cannot carry longer.
Before the partv comes before the na-
tion to win another victory it will have-
to kick Tammany out of its back door
and turn on the hose pipe. After try-
ing to destroy the state of New York
they come sneaking back from Chi-
cago siying they will support the ticket.
They lie. They come back with
honey on their lips treachery in their
hearts and knives in their boots.
They will do in November what they
have done before and epend another
four years in trying to lie out of it.
The difference between the present re
gime of Tammany and that of its
founders is the difference between the
ethics of a bunco steerer and a highway
robber. If the slippery godchildren of
William Tweed believe they can intimi-
date this pulpit let them take due notice
they have made a mistake."
An exhibit showing the press resour-
ces and accomplishments of Michigan
is contemplated by the world's fair
board of that state and it is believed
that the Michigan press association will
undertake the preparation of it. It is
proposed to procure copies of the pa-
pers published in the sUte and bind
thenr the dailies in one volume the
weeklies in another and. the monthlies
in still another It is also proposed
to have photographs of many of the
best known editors in the state and of
newspaper offices equipments etc.
1 m
A drummer named H. C. Uty fell
between the cirs of the Iron Mountain
passenger train near Mandervillc.Ark.
and was crushed to death .Saturday
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