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enton County News.
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Earnestly Devoted to the Upbuilding of Denton and Denton County and the lient Interests of Their People.
VOl 1.
DENTON, DENTON COUNTY, TEXAS, THURSDAY, JANUARY 19, 1893.
No 38
J.
Leads in low
prices
on
T. RUTHERFORD
^FURNITURE
ADdto the Best lock in the County to select from.
Special attention is called to his line of
EARLY BATS IN BENTON COUNTT.
Cheap Beds,
Inoidents That Occurred 23 Yttra Ago
The frontier ai Our Fathers
Pound It.
i Denton, Sat. March 26,1870.
I I)r. Vermillion, we are sorry to
learn, is dead llev. Mr.
j Scruggs of Marshall, preached a
| good sermon at Masonic Hall in
this place, last Sunday
I Jones, our painter, doesn't think j
)
iH
Bureaus,
Chairs, Etc.
RUTHERFORD t,h« e-oo
see him before buying
llic?. Davis,
makes prices that sells Up0n an(i killed him and two that in which the farmers patron
the goods and it will pay you to oti„,r gentlemen whose names our ize its merchants, the mer-
1 a verbal contract is worth any- j
! thing unless there is a revenue
j stamp on it On Monday be-
i fore last, in Parker county, a party
(of savages entered the yard of a
Mr. Slaughter and lay concealed
until Mr. Slaughter came out to
1 gear his horses,
here on that date
E. C. Vick, tax collector of Wise
county, was relieved of four or
five hundred dollars last week by
a thief who broke into the court-
house ..Denton county is
having a jail built... The disso-
lution of partnership notice of
the firms of J. M. McNeil & Co.,
and Smith, Blount & Hughes ap
Mr I Peare(' week with the names
ofJ. C. Smith, J. M. Mount, G.I
W. Hughes and J. M. McNeil
MASKED ROBBERS.
J. A. Long.
J. O. McCormick.
signed thereto.
A Model Town.
Passengers at the Santa ft Depot Mada to
Hud Over - f)tDg Captured.
Paris, Tex., Jan, 12.—On Mon-
day night, about 9 o'clock, three
masked men went into the depot
of the Gulf, Colorado and Santa
I Fe railway at Dougherty, I. T.
There was a dance in progress in
the town and everybody was in
attendance. A short while before
the north-bound passenger train
was due three men entered the
depot. Louis Parsons, 18 years
old, was in the waiting-room.
The Terrell-T imes Star his this They forced him to give up all he
to say and it is the way to make a hitd. Jn asllort time Fred C. Green
LONG & McCORMICK,
Wholesaler-Retail Crocers.
We have just received —
2 Cars Sugar, 3 Cars Michigan Salt and ship-
ment of finest Molasses, direct from
New Orleans.
Tnj us when in need of Aiujtliinu on our Line.
town grow, the country adjacent | the ticket agent, entered, when
prosperous and the people happy j they mad(, ilim disgorge. Al-
when they fired ' and contented! "A model town is i together they got $60 in cash and
Keeps Largest and Best Groceries inlh3Dt™
ounty.
He sells
T
htt Crown,
lio
Advance,
Sewing
Machines.
J informant had forgotten. Two | chants buying of the farmers
gentlemen in the house, luckily their produce, the laborers spend-
being armed, fired and kille I one ing the money they make with
of the savages. Immediately a ; their tradesmen, and all thorough-
Undertakers' Goods.
Lowest prices.
Also keeps a full line of Coffins
-and Undertakers' goods at the
West Side Square.
\
S.P. ALLISON.
dealer ix
HARDWARE,
i"t U's, Leather Belting, Barb Wire,
Tinware. Rubber Belting anil Hose, Baling Wire,
Glassware, Gas and Water Pipe, Cut and wire,
Queensware, Engine Trimmings, Etc.
Casaday Sulky Plow. Oliver Chilled Plow.
Plumbing
EAST SIDE,
A H[)ociaIti|
Next Door to Denton County
National Bank,
NEW
LIVERY STABLE,
J. R. WHAYNE, Prop.
lasso was thrown over the head
of the slain savage, w ho was drag-
ged off by the flying Indians. Mr.
Slaughter was an old stock raiser
of Parker county Rev. J. C.
Smith will preach at Elizabeth-
town tomorrow. A large crowd
is expected to be present
We were glad to greet our old
friend, Capt. It. II. Hopkins, just
ifrom New Orleans, in our office
| last Tuesday. He says when he
| left t'ie city the retailers were
giving specie in change for cur-
rency Prof. Bell has shown
us a chicken with one head, four
legs and four wings We no-
tice that W. 8. Cash has moved
into his new residence on Pecan
et A man living in Col-
lin county offered H. Hart five
dollars to grant him a divorce
from his wife. Too little. The
I judge came very near putting
I him in jail Twenty-five acres
with few improvements, a mile
j from town, was sold by David
Fry the other day to Mr. Scruggs,
a new-comer, for one thousand dol-
lars For sale—The jail
block will be sold at public ven-
due for U. S. currency on the sec-
ond Tuesday in Apr'l. Terms,
cash Last week at West-
Sern, Collin county, three boys met
a stranger in the streets and rob-
bed him. Fearing he would ex-
ly animated by a spirit that will
prompt them to buy everpthing
that caii be purchased at home.
This feeling of reciprocity or sys-
tem among the merchants and
farmers, the employers and em-
ployed, in every trade and pro-
fession results inevitably in the
making of a town a model one.
It may be impossible to attain
unto perfection, but the harder
we strive toward it, the better off
we will be."
Beefsteak in Winter.
A farmer who kills his own beef
may have the very best steaks
and roasts, if he will hang the
meat in a very cold place and rub
a little dry meal over the freshly
cut part each time he removes a
roast or steak. It will become
more tender each week and may
safely be kept six weeks at a tem-
perature just above freezing. If
you have only a wood fire, you
may still have a broiled steak.
Take an ordinary smooth, clean
frying pan and place it over the
fire until very hot. Lay the steak
011 the pan, having previously cut
through the rim ot fat on the
edges—not into the meat however
—to prevent the steak from curl-
some in checks.
J. Evans, formerly sheriff of
Fannin county, now special agent
of the Santa Fe, was at Ardmore
and was notified in time to catch
the north-bound train. On arriv-
ing at Dougherty he interviewed
Parsons who told him that one of
the men had sustained an iDjury
by getting his thumb hurt and
gave a description of the parties.
The next morning Evans went to
Wade Stewart and found his hands
hurt as descrbed by Parsons and 1
arrested him. When arrested j
Stewart confessed and told Evans
where he had buried his part of
the money, and that Bill Deal and j
Bill Herman hail helped to do the j
work.
By noon that day he had
all of them under arrest. Deal j
and Herman had both been in the
penitentiary. Deal was sent from
Fannin county for robbery while
Evans was sheriff of that county.
Herman was sent from Harris
county for horse-theft. The men
were all brought here to-night and
jailed.
Fatal Blast Explosion. 1 No Division of Ttxst!
Denison, Tex., Jan. 12—This The Times-Democrat has never
evening two men were instantly placed much faith in the story re-
killed and one seriously if not cently current that Texas was to
fatally wounded by the overdue be divided up into lour or five
explosion of a blast in a rock cut states in order to give the Demo-
at Ray's siding, three miles west crats lull control of the United
of Denison. The usual number of Status senate.
charges had been put in and | The 8«.ory has been told very
touched off and thrc ugh an erron- generally in the north since
eons count the caller supposed, tlie election. The people of
that all the blast had been dis- > Texas have fina.ly heard of
charged. He jumped back into \ it and.express surprise and disgust,
the pit and called out "all right," j 1 he proposition is absurd, the
and just as two other workmen 'Lone Star press declares, and
were decending the last and over- "finds no favor among Texans.
due Blast was discharged. Mike ; Tliey intend to bold Texas togeth-
Killerney, the man who called out j er until its so large that New York
"all right," and one of the other: will not begin to compare with it
men were badly mangled. Death j in congress." We have not heard
was almost instantaneous. The of a single paper or person in Tex-
tliird man, E. F. Busch, has his as that was in favor of the pro-
skull across the forehead fractur- posed division.—New Orleans
ed and a small sea p wound on the Times-Democrat.
top of his head. It is probable]
1
Noms-De Plume of Popular Writers.
For the benefit of our readers,
we give the following list of the
real names of authors, together
with their noms-dc-plume, or pen-
names by which they have be-
come more or less famous in the
literary world.
\J«r«ii Billings is Henry \Y. Shaw.
Andrew Jack Drwning is Seha R,
Smith.
Artemus Want is Charles Kairar
Brown
Bill Arp is Charles H. Smith.
Oath in George Alfred Townsend.
Fat Contributor in A. Minor (iris-
wold.
Hawkeye Man is Kobt. J. Burdett.
Howadjil is George William Curtis.
Ik. Marvel is Donald Grant Mitchell
Jean I'aul is Charles H. Webb.
John Phoenix is Capt. Geo. II. Der-
by.
Murk Twain is Hamual L. Clemens.
Max Adeler is Charles H. Clark.
Kit Perkins is Melville D. I.andon.
Petroleum V. Nasby is David It.
Locke.
Bill Nye is William Kdger Nye.
Nym Crinkle is Andrew C. Wheeler.
Old Si is Samuel W. Small.
Orpheus K. Kerr is Robert H. New-
ell.
l'elea ales is William C. Croffut.
Peti t Parley is H. C. Goodrich.
Ned BuEthine is Col. Judson.
Br; ok Pomroy Isil. M, Vomeroy.
Kr ... ■! Knrlque Is Henry C. Lukens.
Josiah Allen's Wile is Miss Mari-
etta Holfey.
Philander Q. K. Doestieks is Mor-
timer Thompson.
Mrs. Partington is Benjamin P.
Hhillaber.
Spoo|iendvke is Stanley Huntley.
Uncle Remus is Joel Chandler Har-
ris.
Hoses Big-low is James Russell
l/>\»'ell.
Fanny Fern is Sarah Payson Willi*.
Grandfather IJcksliingk- is Unlit W.
friswell.
M. Is Clias. W. Lewis.
N:jiu'rou« »-:t!»..r« st>"!i n- !*|«-t
will lie flat and come in contact
with the hot pan. To turn, iusert
.... , i a fork in the outer rim of fat, but
Everything New and Good Gentle Horses.: iiose th,,ni th,,J' s,"'t him th™UBh never puncture the meat, which
o th(' bod-vand «U>e«"se maltreat-. would al|ow th<> to
ed him. His groans brought to .. . , , .. , , ,.
cu uiiii. b & | Have ready a hot dish, lay on the
his side a number of citizens, when . ... ,-
ma oiutuuu , :9teak, season, dot with bits of
he identified the boys who were ... ... „ c , ,
iic uHuuui j butter, pour a tablespoonful of
standing bv wondering who com- > ., . .. ..
" " J " water in the pan, boil up and turn
mitted the outrage, fhey were'
V arrested and will be
round Dead ia Bed.
Denison, Tex., Jan. 12.—This
morning between 10 and 11 o'clock{
Mr. Frank S. Pcttit, of the firm of j
Pet tit & Waltz, was found dead in j
his bed at home on west Main
street. Dr. Bailey and justice;
Hughes were summoned and the j
judgment of these gentlemen was
ing, so that every part of the meat j t|mj yjr petttit had been dead ten
that he will recover although the
full extent of his injuries cannot
be ascertained at this writing.
The men killed were strangers
here and other than their names
on the contractors time-books
nothing is known of them. Mr.
Busch is a contractor and builder
residing two miles west of this
city, and is one of the oldest
citzens. He has a rock quarry of
his own and has supplied stone
in large quantities to parties in
and around the city for many
years, The bodies of the dead
Worthington Confesses
Dallas, Tex., Jan., Jan. 12.—
Bob Worthington, the negro who
killed Jos. Crady (white) last night,
made a confession to-day that he
entered the store ot deceased to
buy a pair of trousers and that be-
| a use he did not make a purchase,
deceased and his brother, Isadorc,
abused him and were about to as-
sault him, one of them with a knife
and the other with a poker, jiud.
that he had to shoot in self defense.
Isadore Brady's statement is that
the murder was entire y unpro-
For First-lass Livery teams call on WHAYNE BROS. Tliey have
the best equipped Stable in the city, and will let them go as cheap "as any
their competitors.
Stroud Block, - - - Denton, Tex.
• |
!over the
pan,
steak. —Ex.
Harte, Fred Nye, John G. Saxe, Geo.
I>. Catlin, John Habberton, Alex.
Sweet, H. ('. Dodge, W. L. Alden,
| Oliver Wendell Homes and many j
others have became known in litera-
j turo by their real names and have not'
thought it necessary to adopt a nom
de plume.
He Desorved a Pardon.
Nashville, Tenn., Jan. 11 ;
| Governor Buchanan to-day par
i doned Samuel W. Jennings ol
Bedfor 1 county, serving 10 years
| for murder in the second degree.
: Jennings, who is only 25 years old
! was a year ago married to a
j respectable young girl of Bedford
county. A few months after his j
j raarrige he was sick wi'h the
grippe, and one morning while his
wife was feeding the stock a man
! named Jack Blaekwell siezed her
and, after choking her into insen-
sibility, outraged her. Blaekwell
then called his son, about grown,!
and told him what he had done, |
i and the son also violated Mrs.
immediate
severely handled. Shot by Mexican Robberi.
Denton*, Sat., April 2, 1870. San Antonio, Tex., Jan. 13.—
Ed. Rector will leave here soon Advices from Laveruia convey
for Abilene with several thousand | the information that J. A, Bundren
head of cattle We are half
into the union. The bill admi -
ting Texas has passed the house
and Grant says he is anxious to
sign it As we g to press we
hear that Mrs Lacy, a> out 'JO years
of age, mother of Col. C. C. Lacy,
died last night. She was one of
the best women in this country.
J. L. Lovejoy, jr., J. M. Her-
od and Joe Minor, all of Denton
county, have had their disabilities
removed. They can now hold of-
fice Indians in Texas—We
learn from a friend • ho resides
about eight miles from Denton,
Texas, that a mos' deplorable con- known. Bundren has a wife
two children in this city.
a merchant there, was mortally
wounded in his store about 11
o'clock last night by three Mexi-
cans, pretending to want to buy
something. The Mexicans enter-
ed the store and covering Bund-
ren with their pistols they com
pelled him to opeu the safe from
which they took $100, after which
fired upon Bundren with the in-
tention of killing him, one shot
penetrating his breast. Bundren
was subsequently found in a dying'
condition but told his story and i 0s Xhe £tf, SUt.
within one hour after the deed a j
posse of twelve men were in pur-1 Mr. Sinison—"W illie, didn t you
suit of the villians, who are well go to the trunkmaker's yesterday
or eleven hours. Mr. Pettit has j
lived in Denison twelve or four- J
teen years and was well known j
and highly esteemed.
Aeeideataliy Killed his Coann.
San Angelo, Tex., Jan. 12. — !
Andrew Williamson, a 12-year-old
lad, was_ accidentally killed in |
Schleicher county Monday even-;
ing by his cousin, Nat Williams,
The latter was shooting at a jack ;
rabbit and did not observe his;
cousin who was in direct line with |
the rabbit. The bullet took effect
in Andrew's forehead and tore the j
entire upper portion of his head
away. The rabbit escaped.
Dead at His Store Door.
Bartlett, Tex., Jan. 12 —Capt.
A. Moss, senior member of A.
Moss & Son, was found lying dead
at his front store door about 1
o'clock this evening, lie hadevi- j
dently just started to his resi-;
dence. Cause of death presumed
to be heart disease
men were brought into the city
late this evening and prepared voked.
for burial. The disaster caused! —
much excitement in the city, and Highwoy Robbery Rumor.
dozens of buggies and earriges Gainesville, Tex., Jan. 12 -
filled with people went out to the it is reported that a man whose
wor'i>' name was not learned, was held
A Columbian Victor. up and robbed of £480 by a lone
He was coming out of the post highwayman near Sivel's bend, in
office with quite a strut in his walk this county, Tuesday night. The
an 1 that sort of triumphant air man robbed was moving and the
which a Roman eonqueier put highwayman came upon him at his
on when his grateful people gave camp during the night. No fur-
him an ovation after he had thump- ther particulars.
ed the enemies of Borne. He was
a little man. too, and the valiauce
of him was the more noticeable.
Burned To Death.
Earl Culluai, th? little 3-year-
old son of Mr. Ashly Cullum,
"Don't hit him again," exclaim-1 brother.in.Iuw cf Mr. C. B. Gil-
and
dition of affairs exists in his sec-
tion of the country. The people
there live in momentary dread of
| the I ndinas, (Comanches) who fre-
... „ ... , . quently make raids in force, and
Jenkincs. Mrs. Jenkiugs crawled ' . . . _
, .. , , . succeed not only m driving off
to the house and told her husdaud " , ...
large numbers of horses, but in
capturing women and childreu,
THE ST. LOUIS REPUBLIC FREE.
Special Offer to Readers of this Faper.
of the outrage. He arose and
went to Blaekwell's home, a short
distance away, and shot his head
off with a double-barrelled shot-
gun. He then jumped on a horse
anu chased young Blaekwell out
i of the country. A petition with
, 3000 names signed to it was pre-
i sented to the governor, and the
pardon was issued.
and tell him to send around the
i trunk I ordered?"
Willie—"Yes sir."
Mr. Slimson—"Well here is the
i trunk, but no strap. Didn't he
say anything about the strap!"
Willie—"Yes sir, but I told him
I guessed you hadu't better have
TWO 5in Kliivu lailiBtly.
Oood only during January anit February, '113.
The "Twiee-a-Week" St. Louis He-
public will be sent free lor one year
to any person sending before March, any strap."—Judge.
whom they keep until redeemed i, is83, a club of three new yearly sub-
bv their friends at a heavy ran- scrlbers, w ith three dollars to pay for
the same. The Republic goes every-, At'STIN, Tex.. Jan. 13.—To-day
where and is the most popular pa|«er Tom Rector, colored, and Cr -is-
ner, a Frenchman, were killed in
the excavation being made for the
power house at the dam. A large
a friend meeting him with a laugh.
"Oh - ah—excuse me," lit- stam-
mered, as if caught doing some-
thing he shouldn't. "However,"
he went on, "I do fe,-l like a glad-
iator, or a champion slugger, and
I guess I show it."
"You do very plainly. What is
the cause of it! Been in a tight?"
"No, not exactly."
"What is it. then!"
"You've seeu those new Colum-
bian postage stamps? You know
how big they are!"
The friend nodded.
"And I'm not a very big man,
am I!"
The friend shook his head.
"Well," and the little man
blew his chest out, "I licked
them four of them 111 there a few
minutes ago and didn't get a
scratch." Detroit Free-Press.
Dallas Has Another Killing,
Dallas, Tex., Jan. 13.—Dallas
county killers do not intend that
the record shall be broken this
lespie, set his clothing on fire
while playing with matches yes-
terday morning about it o'clock
and was so badly burned that he
died yesterday at 1 p. m. Mrs.
Cullum had left the little fellow in
a room while attending to her
household duties, and he. while
amusing himself by exploring the
room, climbed in a chair and got
a box of matches off the mantle
piece. This he told himself yes-
terday morning. When discover-
ed he was wrapped in Hames. A
blanket was thrown around him
and the flames were smothered,
but too late. The little fellow's
legs and body were horribly burn-
ed and suffered terrible agony.—.
Dallas News, of Saturday.
Blaekman-Copeland Killing.
Carthage, Tex., Jan. 12.—Re-
port's came yesterday that Dr.
Sam HUe';r.^c « shot and kili-
1 ed by Wylie Copeland uear Fair
som. The raids are usually made
durini? the liarht of the moon, the .
U K . , published In America. Its readers
Indiaus coining in from the reser- (k,, news half a week earlier than
1 vatiou ill forces varying from 100 j ^ call |,c i,aj from any weekly paper,
: to 300 Galveston, March 26, while its Literary, Agricultural,
year. Out of Reinhardt last night Play. The particulars are not
George Searcy, Ed Cason. Pate known except that there is a
Miller and t has. Dougherty, ne- woman eounected with the aAtir.
eroes, werediseussiug tne weather , A . , ., .
and other important topics. Pate The prelimanary trial of Bolton
Miller said, on the side, that Geo. Neal, who is charged with burn-
Searcy owed him *3, and George ing the barn of Jesse Holder, w as
"Take something with me," re-
marked one laboring man to an-
other, heading him toward a
saloon.
"Take something from your
wife and childreu, you mean," re-
plied the other, and the first man
blushed and looked ashamed.
1870-
Gold 112: Cotton easy; sales Women's and other deprrtinents are box full of cement was being low
180 bales; good"'ordinary 18 l-4e. "n.urpasMd. It tills the wants of ored when the boom slipped and
1 ' ' ,. every member of the family and
Stone coal has been dis
every
should he read In every household,
covered in abundance upon the you 0an get three new suhscriliers
land of Mrs. Wingo, which lies in for it by a few minutes effort. Try it
the forks of Elm Tom Sim at once and see how easily i* oan he
n.OI.8 advertised for all persons If you wi.h a package of sam-
pie coping, write for them, ( ut out
desirous of emigrating to ( alifor thu „,,vertiM.mellt ,nd with
nia to meet at Denton, May 15th, vour order. Address The St. I.oi is
1870, as a wagon train would leave Rkpviii.ic, St. I^oiiU. Mo.
the box striking projecting rocks,
the boom fell and the box struck
the two men. killing them in-
stantly.
The tick t office ut Wortham.
Te\„ was broken open and robbed
Friday night. Only *8 was taken.
So tickets were stolen.
'lowed that Pate was a "d
black ." Pate
knocked him down. George re-
gained his equilibrium and reach-
ed for his pistol. Pate also sprung
the hip-pocket movement. Ed
Cason essayed the role of peace
ma1-er and a bullet from Miller's the workhouse board in Cincin-
pin killed him. Shetiff Cabell
and his men are on the hunt for
Pate Miller and Chas. Dougherty.
0
■i
\
)» d
i 0
held yesterday. His bond was
set at ?1iki. in default of which he
was sent to jail.
Mrs. Jane Hollowav, a colored
woman, 108 years old, called on
liati the other day and secured the
release of seventy-live-year-old
who is wanted as an accessory to son Samuel, who was doing timo
the murder. 1 for wife beating.
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