Denison Daily Cresset. (Denison, Tex.), Vol. 4, No. 153, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 29, 1877 Page: 1 of 4
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DENISON, TEXAS. THURSDAY EVENING. MARCH 29, 1877.
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GENERAL :
PURCHASING,
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Woodard Street. DENISON, TEXAS.
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Have just put tn operation, one of Straub's best oorn mills. Also a Bolt,
and are prepared to fill any orders for,
Fresh MealJ
BOLTED OR UNBOLTED 1
BY THE SACK, BARREL OR CAR LOAD.
A SPECIALITY MADE OF
GROUND HORSE PEED,
The Beat Thins Out lor •tools*
HIGHEST MAltKET PRICE PAID FOR f
CORN, OATS AND WHEAT
Com Ground or Meal Ex
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" TEXAS NEWS.
The fruit business is overdone in
Houston.
Tbe population of Austin is six
thousand. *
Henrietta has an organisation of
“I}ead Beats.” A
Tbe beergardefts at DaTtbs are in
a flourishing condition.
Haveriy’s Minstrels delighted the
good people of Fort Worth on tbe
24th.
Austin has a daily runaway and
strange to say the people are get-
ting tired of it.
The toll receipts over the now
bridge at Austin during tbo past
week was 2108.80.
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There is bnt littlk excitment , felt
by the citizens of , Dallaa over the
coming city olection.
Dal la* policeman uee their clubs
to a good purpose. They throw
themat the rats which infest the
city,
W. R. Homan resigned the coun-
ty attorneyship of Caldwell county
because there was no money in it
Corn is worth $1 per bushel in
Hrnnetta, Clay county, an^ flour
brings |5 1-2 per hundred pounds.
The Jacksboro Echo is for sale.
Mr. Robinson, the proprieror, in-
tends going into the sheep raising
business.
Country Produce, Corn, Oats and Hay.
Graham Flour and Produce For Sale !
HemeiHber--WOODABX STHE2CT MILL
TELEGRAPHIC.
WASHINGTON NOTES.
Omplexloa of the LovMaaa
C.R. TIBBS.
NEW AND COMPLETESTOC K
Boots, Shoes, Hats, Caps
Just Opened and For Sale at
Lower Prices
Than the same goods have ever been offered before in this city.
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If you wish to prove the truth of what we say.
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Call at 119 Main. St.,
_Nearly - OpposiW-Post-Offloe -
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NOTHING BUT THE TRUTH
COME AND SB VS
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Everything Cheap and Warranted trbe as Represented.
A gentleman w ho piyd 81,600
gold TofaVesidencl lot in Austin,'
one year ago, recently sold it for
81,250 in currency. W hat does that
mean?
The Dallas Herald says the ruin
was rough on tho Carnival flags.
The rain took the color and starch
out of them, and tho wind toro them
in shred*. We imagine Dallas pre-
sents rather a dilapidated appear-
ance naw.
Thejlenrietta Journal crodits a
little Clay count}’ girl with the fol-
lowing:
“Now I lay me down to sleep,
All cuddled up into a hook;
If I should die before I wake,
’Twould puzzle the devil to make me
, straight.’’
The San Antonio stage was rob-
bed on the 26th about three miles
from Blanco, by tho same person
who overhauled the Austin and
Gonzales stage, as ho made the re-
mark as he left his victims : “This
is the second- party I’ve gone
though to-day.”
81,250 reward is offered for the
capture of tbo man who robbed tho
Anstin and Gonzales stago, by Unit-
ed States Marshal Purnell. Twelve
men,on horseback loft Austin on the
night of tho 26th in search of the
bold highwayman and tho States-
j man says a vigorous effort will bo
mace to secure his arrest.
GENERAL NEWS
Alonzo Hakes, was drowned in
the Illinois river, near Rome.
The police are making it warm
for the gamblers in Cincinnati.
The “Independent order of For-
resters" is increasing rapidly in
Nashville*
The potato bug is doing for Eu-
rope what the grasshopper is doing
for America.
A very malignant typo of measles
is prevailing in the Cherokee Na-
tion, I. T.
The Indianapolis Typographical
Union have disbandod and returned
the charter. "
Susan B. Anthony, Esq., is lectur-
ing in Chicago, on temperance.
Casting pearls before swine.
Arkansas has more newspapers
according to -its population than
any other State in the Union.
Why has Mrs. Governor(?) Cham-
berlain, with the children and fam-
ily baggago quitted New Orleans ?
The wife of Wm. O. Avery, of
Whiskey ring notority has been ap-
pointed to a 81,200 clerkship in tbo
Interior.
Dr. Deems has returned to bis
pulpit in the church of the Stangers,
after a Southern trip of nearly two
months.
The Catholic religious establish-
ments of Quebec provide gratui-
jou* instruction for about 4,00(1 pov-
erty-stricken sick people.
A passenger engine on the I. & St.
L. R’y., struck John Cochran and
knocked him thirty feet in the air—
also knocked the life out of him.
Moody, speaking on tho duty of
waking tho sleepy fellows who
slumber in church.says: “A hunch
from the elbow may save a soul.”
The Raloigh Chaistian Advocate-
is polite. It peasantly calls the du- warded, and everything is being piit
linquint deadheads “Our forgetful in readiness for this campaign,
subscribers.” But it nudges their which will bo opened as ^pon as
memory-by asking thefn to pay up. possible.
It is said the grasshoppers have
Hampton’* Arrival—Sker
man’s Indian Pwlley,
Washington, D. C. March 28.—
General George A. Sheridan bad an
interview with tho President this
fnorning. He sees no reason why
tho friends of Governor Nichollsr
government should have the least
uneasiness.
A dispatch of this date from New
Orleans says the three members
who have heretofore occupied seats
in Packard’s House of Representa-
tives, Frank J. Davy, of St. Lan-
dry, Benard Davis, of Point Cou-
pee, and Ulga Romero, of Iberia,
were to-day sworn in, and took
seats in the Nioholls' Legislature.
The commission consists of ex-
Governor J. C. Brown, of Tennes-
see; Way no McVeigh, lawyer, was
minister to Turkey in 1871, is a eom-“
itf-law of Simon Cameron and a pro-
nounced Republican; General J. It.
Hawley, of Connecticut, a moderate
Republican; General J. M. Harlan,,
of Kentucky, emphatic Republican;
Judge C. B. Lawrence, of Illinois,
wa» a prominent candidate for Sen-
ator last winter, a Republican and
formerly chief justice of the su-
preme court; The commission will
bo instructed after tho President has
consulted Vico President Wheeler.
.General Sherman says it is not his
purpose to parley further with the
Indians, or to delay tho campaign
while negotiations between Spotted
Tail and tho hostile# are pending.
Supplies are now being rapidly foi-
severely injured the wheat in Mi-
lam county. In some places have
stripped the ground of vegetation,
and are now leaving the country
going north.
A now sect of Babtists in the |
West insist that converts must be
immersed threo times, once in the
name of each person of tho Trinity;
and the immersions must ho made
NO WATER HALL!
Lee Gobbles Siege Robbers-
[Special to the Dallas Herald*]
Austin, March 28.—The men who
robbed the stage between this place
and Lockhart and San Antonio, on
------------------------------ Monday last, were caught this morn-
forward, instead of backward in thoT jnf,( near Luling, by Captain Leo
ordinary way.
Tfco Jersey ‘City Congregational
Tabernacle, which has been for
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A nbgro woman, mistaken for
horsethief, was killed by a Mr.
Longmire, who lives about twelvo
miles frbm Dallas. Mr. Longmire
is hold as perfetlv blameless in the
matter as several attempts had beon
made to steal his stoek and he
theught this was another.
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Tho Gonzales stage, about twelvo
miles from Austin, oh tbe open prai-
rie and in broad daylight, was rob-
bed by one man while there were
throe passongers in tho stage. The
robber got about $32 so far as heard
from. The Statesman gives a full
description of the robber..
Hall, of the frontier force recently
organized. Most of tho money was
Tbiihd. Captain Hall will be here
nearly three years sampling tho* with his prisoners to-morrow. Score
minister market in the hope of find-j oue *or Governor llubbard s ap-
ing a man exactly fit to be it# pas- i pointce from North Texas.
tor, has at lust made choice of^Mr. j -*■------- •—-------
Foster, of Chelsea, Mass. It offers TCPF.KA TOPICS
him 8LOOCK i I * '
man, who made gtrch a stir in Pitta- J* Clack SivajK<N Editor Tope-
burg, is holding temperance meet- j ka Blade Killed,
ings in John Vanainakers great | Topeka,-Iian., March 2b.—At six
Bethany Church, - in Philadelphia, j 0*c|ock lhig evening a shooting af-
Tho crowds are large, and the 8tgn* ifray occurred between J. Clnrk
ers of temporance pledges numer- j g^*a-r2e> cditoi'-of the Blade, and
dOB‘ ■ j John Wilson,'Tbrinerly of the Tope-
A Michigan missionary writes ‘to, ka Times, in winch Mr. .Swayze was
say that if some of the disused com- killed. The testimony before the
mentaries and cyclopedias which !; coroner’s jury shows Swnyze drew
lumber tho libraries of Eastern min-! his revolver first, but both fired
isters wore sent to this section of j stiniultancously. Wilson received
tbo country, they would find thank- only u slight flesh wound m one
fdl and appreciative readers, and - ehc'ek. V iIson was arrested and la
meet with a great deal of iodustrir I now in jail. Swayza frUfe shot
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Burson, J. W. Denison Daily Cresset. (Denison, Tex.), Vol. 4, No. 153, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 29, 1877, newspaper, March 29, 1877; Denison, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth524244/m1/1/: accessed July 9, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Grayson County Frontier Village.