The Sunday Gazetteer. (Denison, Tex.), Vol. 6, No. 41, Ed. 1 Sunday, February 12, 1888 Page: 3 of 4
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TEXAS
President Vstfeasl Bosk,
McMInville, Tenn., writes: In my
opinion from experience in my wife’*
case, your Lemon Elixir has few if any
equals, and no superiors in medicine for
the regulation of the liver, stomach, and
bowels. Your Lemon Hot Drops are
superior to any remedies we have ever
been able to get for my wife’s throat and
lung dlseaae. f feel certain, and so docs
she, that rour Lemon Elixir and Demon
Hot Drops have been * he mean of great-
ly prolonging her life. We have not the
least Idea that she would now be living
only for these remedies. Had she only
used these remedies sooner she would
long since, in my opinion, have been
well and been saved the great suffering
she has undergone. Truly,
W. H. MAGNESS.
To Dr. H. Mozley, Atlanta, Ga.
From a Prominent Lady.
I have not been able in two years to
walk or stand without suffering great pain.
-Since taking Dr. Mosley's Lemon Elixir
I can walk half a mile without suffering
the least inconvenience.
Mrs. R. H. BLOOD WORTH,
GritHn, Ga.
Lemon Hot Drape.
I had for several years a severe ulcerat-
ed sore throat, causing much pain and un-
easiness, as there was considerable hem-
orrhage when coughing. I bought one
bottle of Dr. Mozley't Lemon Hot Drops.
It gsve me almost immediate relief; have
used it only fwenty-four hours, and my
throat and cough is almost entirely well.
It is certainly an efficient and peedy
remedy. N. F. THOMPSON.
»«6 S. Forsyth street, Atlanta, Ga.
THE LETTER HE FEVER GOT.
M.
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. (Succasaor to S. S. Thompson.)
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—
JAMES RHEA,
-RESIDENT DENTIST.-
' (Established In 1876.)
ON, - TEXAS.
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extracted without pais by Iks ass of Laugh-
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ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW.
Frank Newton, s ra lroacl man,
was given a preliminary hearing be
fore Judge Cook, Monday, on a
charge vf robbery. The evidence
went to show that on Saturday night
(4th inst.) Newton had knocked
down an old man named Dan Bon-
ner near the Pacific freight depot,
and robbed him of a watch and
chain. Officer Hackney arrested
the thief shortly after the robbery
occurred, and saw where he threw
the watch as he approached him.
He found the watch, and locked up
the prisoner. It being a State case,
it was turned over to Judge Cook.
The evidence against Newton was
of the most criminating character,
and he was bound over to the dis-
trict court in the sum of $s<x> bond.
T. W. STRATTON,
)RNEY AND COUNSELOR AT LAW
ad From” Building, Up Stairs, Room »,
STD BBT, DbmISOH. TSS
rial and Laws LUteaUon Solicited,
liras la Stats sod Federal Coons.
•CKER A HARRIsV
-ATTURNEYS-AT-LAW--
No. aoA Msls Street,
DBNISON, I : : I TEXAS,
apt, Ulolsnt A Thorough Action.
*VID if. RHEA,
-ATTORNEY-AT-LAW-
OSctCoSs'i Insurance Building,
K«««4Ufl.
DENISON, - - • TEXAS.
How often is the light ot the house-
hold clouded by signs of melancholy or
irritability on the part ot the ladles. Yet
they are not to be blamed, for they are
the result of ailments peculiar to that sex,
which men know not of But the cause
m'j be removed and joy rest Ted by the
use ot Dr. Pierce’s “Favorite Prescrip-
tion,’* which, as s tonic and nervine tor
debilitated women, Is certain, sale and
pleasant. It is beyond all compare the
great healer of women.
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f.NDIFER A MOSELEY,
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Ess* Stairway, Mallor Block,
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DENISON, - - TEXAS.
series la UM District sad Inferior Courts
m and surrounding Counties, sod la tku
aad Federal Couth of tke State.
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PERSON,
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Up Stain.
HfeV 1 - - — TEXAS.
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secend Boor, front.
The editor of the Springtown
Pilot gets after his subscribers in
arrests in the following manner:
The man who will take a news-
paper out of the office three years,
as one of our subscribers did at
Briar, and then leave the country
without notifying us, or paying up,
is no better than the man who enters
your bouse and steals your purse at
the hour of midnight. In the lan-
guage of Bob Burdette we exclaim :
God wasted mud when he made
such a man." VVe have sent bills
to several who owe us tor two and
three years who have as yet not
answered even. Gentlemen, we need
our money. It you don’t want the
paper come up like men pay up and
stop it. We have received a propo-
sition to move our office to a town
and county who appreciate a paper,
and have promised a good support.
It depends upon the support we are
guaranteed here how we shall act in
the matter.
HAUSE,
-ATTORNEY-AT-LAW-
d Mala Straw, Ckackit Building
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nts none but first-class companies
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of all female complaints and irreg-
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whites, prolapsis, green sickness,
monthly suppressions or excesses,
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THE BUIKO 0HE8THUT.
About the greenest man that has
struck town this winter stepped into
the Star Store Mo'.day night to try
and trade a pair of pants he had
bought in Tennessee for a pair that
would not fit him so previously. As
he entered the store an Irishman
from Lehigh was telling Major Levy
about being robbed by his pal ol
$6$ tne night before, and the inno-
cent asked:
“Was you robbed, too?”
“I wa- that," replied the Lehigh
Irishman; “sixhty-foive dollars an’
me watch was taken frim me per-
son at the Shaloon beyant lasht
night.”
“I was robbed yesterday, too,”
said the green man.
“Where were you robbed asked
Major Levy, rather interested at
having two victims of the light-
fingered art upon his hands at one
and the same time.
“On tne cars," replied the moss
back. “I just got here from Ten-
nessee, this evening, and while I
was on the cars yesterday a fellow
came around with some fig-boxes,
and sot down beside me and began
to show me what a bargain he would
give me if I’d only a mind to take
hold ot it. He put a $20 bill into
one of the boxes of figs and told me
he would give me my choice of the
boxes for $10. I saw the end of the
bill stickin’ out of one ot them, so I
took him up, but when I opened it I
found that it wa n’t no bill at all,
but just a little fringe of one. He
went away, and in about two sec-
onds another chap came up to me
and said : ‘Did that feller get any
money outer you?’ I said, ‘Yes;
he got $10 outer me tor this box of
figs.’ ‘He can’t do anything of that
kind on this train,’ say* he; ‘I’m
one of the ’ficials of this here train,
an’ I’ll see that you get 3*our money
back. These fellers can’t woik
their smart racket on any passengers
as long as I’m consarned in
the running of this here train.
How much money have you got?’
“I don't know exactly says I.”
“Let me see it, says he.” I pulled
it out an' he stood there an’ counted
it afore me a couple of times, an’
then handed it back, an’ tellin’ me
to stay right there an’ he would
bring me back my $10; he went
out of the car. He didn’t come
back, an’ after awhile I thought I’d
count my money, an’ when I did I
found the second cuss had sneaked
out the only $20 bill I had in the
pile. I’m $30 short, but you bet
I’ll know better next time.”
The Major had a good hearty
laugh over the gray’s misfortune,
- _ -----.. x_.,_ . but assured him that the smartest in
raSoded Price ^ntT oer the land were frequently taken in by
• hr GbMsrr A WMdron. * these long headed sharpers.
TEXAS.
bast ot everything la
, Tsidal’a Dispensary at tha Oid Stand.
Culmbacher
Export
Pu>e
beer. Pale Ex
always fresh and ice cold,
quors and wines for medicinal pur-
and family use. Counter lunch
1 day. Soup every morning. Call j
the Doctor and get thee healed.
BUCKLBT8 AXUOA BALTS.
| The best sabre to the world for cuts,
, bores, ulcers, salt rheum, fever
tatter, chapped hands, chilblains,
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“A very pretty little song,” we
remarked to our friend Tudge
Adams, of Wichita, Kas , as the
last notes of “The Letter That
Never Came” died out in the throats
of the Vtrdt Lfuartette, down stairs
in the drug store, and the guit ir and
violin began to wail forth the pre-
lude to “ Gathering the Myrtle
With Mary.’’
“Do you know,” remarked the
Judge, “I never hear that song that
there ia not brought to m3’ mind an
incident which came under my no-
tice in Wichita something over a
year ago. This was the case of a
letter that never wa» called ior.”
Wichita had a boom in the matter
of mail long before she ever thought
of enjoying one in real estate. Like
Leadville, in her palmy days, she
has always been the point of delivery
for an enormous local mail, and the
crowds that used to swarm her post-
office can be compared to nothing
but those that gather around the
ticket-wagon of the tented aggrega-
tion on circus day.”
“It has only been within the past
year or so that the postoffice facili-
ties of Wichita have been anything
like adequate or satisfactory. There
used to be such a press upon the
time of the office help that the de-
livery windows were kept closed
half the time to allow the clerks an
opportunity to sort the mail, and the
other half, the building and the
street, for a block each way, would
be packed with people, pressing
towards the delivery windows. A
mail would arrive and be distributed,
the windows would go up and the
delivery would commence, but right
in the middle of it another mail
would come in, and down would go
go the windows in the face of a
thousand waiting people, and
another hour and a halt would elapse
before the3* would rise again. This
same performance was repeated
upon the arrival of every mail, and,
no doubt, many a man became old
waiting for his turn at that delivery
window.”
It was in May of the yeai xb79
that C- B. Chadwick, of Wheeling,
W. Va., wrote to Samuel Bishop, ot
Wichita, Kas., enclosing a draft for
$50 in payment of a debt. Bishop
was expecting the draft, and went to
the postoffice to ask for the letter
containing it. There was a crowd
around the postoffice, and be-
ing averse to having himself crushed
in such a mob, he thought he would
go away and return when the jam was
less. He went off, but came back
in about an hour to find the crowd a
little smaller, but to also find the
window down He was told by the
man who kept the news’ stand that
it wouldn’t go up for another hour
and a half, so he went home to din-
ner. In the afternoon he came down
again, but after standing in line till
6 o’clock he had the mortification of
seeing the post offic eshu( up for the
night, and he still 20 feet from the
delivery window. The next day he
came down and did the same thing,
and the next, and the next, but he
never got any nearer that window
than he had been the first night.
Then he wrote a letter to Chadwick
asking him if he had sent that
draft, and, if he had, to write
him at Valley Centre, as the post-
office at Wichita was not very easy
of access. In a couple of weeks
he walked down to Valley Centre
and got a letter from Chadwick
stating, that the draft had
been sent, and that it must be in the
office at Wichita. After that Bishop
became more persevering in his
efforts to reach that delivery win-
dow. He would go down in the
morning, attach himsef to the out-
side of the crowd and patiently wait
his turn until hunger and exhaust-
ion would drive him home.
As t:me passed, and his mission
still remained unfulfilled it became
evident to his friends that his healtji
was failing. The relentless years
were rolling by anil the anxiety and
worry about that letter as well as
the physical fatigue incident to being
crushed around by a crowd for ten
hours every day were beginning to
tell upon his constitution. From
standing upon his feet so much in
boots that were too short for him he
had contracted corns and ingrowing
nails, and looking up
BIOGRAPHY OF 8AM809-
ike Bold, Bad Buccaneer of the B. L T.
toe nails, and looking up all the
time at the delivery window, over
the heads ol taller men, had given
him the pole-evil, and made him
near sighted. Time dragged its re-
morseless length along, and still he
clung to his fruitless task. His de-
cline now became rapid, and many
to whom he was known shed tears
of silent sympathy when they looked
at his wasted and decrepit form and
thought of how strong and healthy^
and vigorous he looked on that
bright Ma3‘ morning, years and
years ago when he came to the post
office for the first time to ask for
that fateful letter.
A year ago last August a gray
headed, palsied old man clad in rags
and with form emaciated and bent
fell dead before the delivery win-
dow. That man was Bishop. I was
sent for to hold an inquest on him,
and upon his person I found a will
bequeahting that $50 draft to any-
one who would succeed in getting it
out of the post office. I thought at
first that I would like to get the
draft my’self, but I found it too hard
to trace. “And Judge, what do 3*011
think became ot the letter?”
“I cannot say. It seems that it
stayed a week at the delivery win-
dow. was advertised, remained in
the advertised list 30 days, was sent
to the dead letter office at W ashing
ton, was opened and forwarded ro
the sender at Wheeling, Va. He
had gone to California, so after lying
7 days in the delivery it was adver-
tised, and finally sent back to Wash
ington again. Then it was sent to
Witchita, Kansas, again. The post
office boys at Wichita recognized
it and fired it down to Wichita,
Texas. Hpre it went through the
same prescribed routine, and was
sent back to Washington. Then
Washington sent it to Wheeling,
Wheeling sent it back to Washing-
ton, and Washington to Wichita,
Kausas. Wichita, Kansas, sent it
to Wichita, Texas, and it was prob-
ably fired back and forth between
these two places until it was worn
1 out.”
Burhans, of the News, is fond of
giving reminiscences from the fives
and adventures of notable Territory
desparadoes, and as these sketches
are generally read with interest by
the public, I have determined to
contribute to the press a short article
upon this same interesting and ro-
mantic subject. I am sure that the
iiero of this romance in real life was
unknown to Burhans, as he certainly
was to me.and his memory might have
passed into oblivion, his prowess un-
heralded by the pen of the great and
good, but that I happened to find
short sketch of his life in an obscure
leather-covered book bv an anony
mous author, which a friend of mine
found in a coal shaft at Savanna anc
lent to me. This book is dedicated
to Jesse James, and must have been
written by a member of the James’
gang, as the dedication reads “To
the most high and mighty Prince
James”—a title which, of course,
would not be applied to him by an
outsider.
The biography is a little hazy as.
to the time at which Samson flour-
ished, but I think it was about the
time the Missouri Pacific Railway
was built through the Nation. He
lived in the Choctaw Nation—at
least, I imagine he did from the fact
that his biographer mentions him
as living at Lehigh, though he
erroneously spells it “Lehi.” I
think Samson was a whisky peddler,
for he was always being pursued by
’he authorities when he wasn’t pur-
suing them. If we may believe this
history, he was a man of extraordin-
ary physical strength, and consider-
able moral weakness. He was
always getting himself into trouble
by his moral obliquity, and getting
out again by his physical straight-
forwardness. He would allow him-
self to be corraled in a poker game
by a company of Texas blacklegs,
and when they tried to sweep in the
pot on a bob-tail flush he would
wallop the immortal soul out of the
whole outfit with a deal table, and
walk off with the boodle. He would
step up to the man who had the lift-
ing fake on the corner, pay his nickle
for a lift, and then rip the stomach
out of the whole institution before
his eyes. If the man kicked and
wanted pay for his machine, Samson
generally picked up the hind leg of
a refractory jackass and mashed him
into the “Sweet By-and-Bye.” He
would go into a saloon to get a drink,
and when a crowd would assemble
outside to assassinate him he
would take hold of the mud sills of
the structure and walk off with it.
Samson was a holy terror, but, like
many another strong man, he had
two failings—whisky and women.
The first trouble he ever got into
was over a woman. He got mashed
on a girl over in the Chickasaw
Nation, and married her. At the
wedding, however, being a little ele-
vated, he proposed that if the friends
of the bride would solve within
seven days a riddle which he would
propound, he would give thetrf
thirty government blankets add
thirt3- pairs of “bull-dog britches,”
from the Red Front Clothing Store,
stipulating that if they failed to
answer it they should give him the
same. The bride’s relations know-
ing that they had plenty of time to
get the answer out of Samson him-
self through his bride, told him to
waltz forth his conundrum.
Some time previous to this, while
on his way down to see his girl,
Samson had been attacked by a
California 1 on, which he had torn
apart in his customary pleasant, off-
hand manner, leaving it by the way-
side to receive the tender attendance
of the coyotes and buzzards, and as
he was coming to the wedding he
had turned aside again to see how
the coyotes were getting along, and
found a bees’ nest, full ot honey,
located in the Cifreas of the animal.
Out of this incident, Sam on con-
structed the following riddle, which
he now proposed to the bride’s rela-
tives :
“Out of the eater came forth
meat; out of the strong came forth
sweetness !*’
f
hadn’t much trouble in catching 300
foxes—the historian does not say
how he caught them, but it is likely
he put salt on their tails. Anyhow,
he got them altogether, and having
tied a lighted pine knot to the tail of
each, he turned them loose in the
cornfields and in an amazingly short
space of time the people of that por-
tion of the country were minus their
winter’s supplies. For this outrage
the people burned Samson’s wife
and father-in-law, recognizing in
them the indirect cause of it, and
Samson retaliated by coming among
them, armed with a circus center-
pole, with which he lulled several
gross of them to their last, long
sleep, and chased the balance into
the Oklahoma country.
He was hiding out among the
rocks of the Kimishi mountains
when his friends came to him, and
told him that the other faction -want
ed them to turn him over to them
bound hand and foot, and if they
didn’t comply they were, going to
butcher them in his stead. This
didn’t scare Samson any. He ex-
acted an oath from his friends, that
they would remain neutral In the
When the relatives heard the rid-
dle they called the bride to one side
and told her that if she didn’t get
the answer to that conundrum out
of her husband before the seven days
were up, the3* would burn the ranch
over her head and run the stock off
into Texas. This lurid prospect
scared the bride into action, and she
was not long in getting the answer
out of Sampson. With all his
strength Sampson was weak in one
respect—he couldn’t resist the in
quisitiveness of a woman. The
bride gave the matter away to her
relatives, and when time was called
on the seventh day, for the answer-
ing of the riddle, they came forward,
made a school exhibition bow, and
said:
“What is sweeter than honey,
and what is stronger than a Califor-
nia lion?"
Samp-on recognized how he had
been “did,” and he was hot under
the collar, and filled up on Choctaw
beer and lit out for the Creek Na-
tion, where he killed thirty natives
with a pick-handle and sent back
their blankets and overalls to pay
the debt he had contracted with his
fool conundrum. He then quit
corresponding with his wile, and
went back to live with the old
folks-
After awhile, however, he got
over his little hot spell and went
back to see his wile, but he found
that she had secured a divorce, and
had married a man who had been
his old side partner. This made
Samson madder than ever, and he
determined to be foully avenged.
Game was more plentiful than in
that region than it is now, and he
event of a fight, and then let them
proceed with the binding. He was
tied with a lariet and taken into
Lehigh, where his enemies were
waiting to receive him. But when
they began to whoop and jump
around him, and punch him in the
ribs with their sharp pointed sticks
he threw himself clear of his cap-
tors and his bonds seized up the
jawbone of a mule that happened to
be handy, and leaping into the
crowd laid out 1000 of them before
they could reach their horses. This
was the largest engagement tor the
undertaker ever arranged by one
man in the Indian Territory.
Everybody was scared of Samson
after that, and he did pretty much
as he pleased, and though every
officer in the Territory carried in
his pocket a warrant for his arrest
there was none brave enough to at-
tempt to serve one. But Samson
was just as susceptible to the wiles
ot the siren as in his younger days,
and this weakness did not fail ulti-
mately to compass his ruin. Sam-
son’s biographer refers his extraor-
dinary strength to his never having
been shaved, but I think it was due
to his total abstinence from the use
of water as a lotion, and I further
think that precedent will support me
in this theory. More people are
strong on account of not being wash-
ed than from not being shaved. I
have met several Mormons who
were very strong from this cause-
very strong indeed. This theory
may not be correct, but I doifMt
care—it is good enough for me.
Samson met his Nemesis when he
got stuck on Delilah. The Choctaw
authorities rightly surmised that
there was some secret to Samson’s
strength, and observing how solid
Delilah was with him they bribed
her to extort this secret from him
and deliver him over to them in a
condition of susceptibility to the re-
fining influence of the law. Delilah
had a pretty hard time in getting
the truth out of Samson, for he was
a pretty good liar with all his other
accomplishments, but at last he told
her the sure enough reason, and
that settled the bus ness for Samson.
Delilah got him full on whisky and
morphine, and calling in a man to
help her, gave him a Turkish bath,
and when he awoke he was as weak
as any man. Then the authorities
took him end put out his eyes and
set him to turning the mill for grind
ing clay in the brick yard.
After awhile the Fourth of Tuly
rolled around and there was a high
old time in Lehigh. Samson had
been accumulating strength in the
regular way all along since his cap-
ture, but his eyes were gone, and so
nobody was afraid of him. The
horse races were over and the side
fights over bets pretty well disposed
of, and it occurred to the programme
committee that it would be a pretty
good idea to bring out Samson and
have some fun with him. They ac-
cordingly hitched him to a platform
dray alongside ja balky mule and
drove him around the race track;
made him run in a wheelbarrow
race, jump hurdles,climb the greased
pole, etc., and when tired of seeing
him breaking his neck in his blind
endeavors to do their bidding they
locked him up under the grand
stand with the oleogenious pig and
a couple of small bo3*s who had
been put there to keep the pig out
of a big luneb basket filled with re-
freshments for the judges. Samson
got one of the boys to show him
how to get hold of the rear sill of the
grand stand, and then spitting on
his hands he humped himself for
his final lift. The stand was crowd-
ed. The mayor and city council,
the clergy, the veteran, the oldest
inhabitant, all were there. The
worst elocutionist in the Territory
had just finished reading the Decla-
ration of Independence, and the
Lehigh cornet band' had broken
forth in a wild rhapsody of “See-
Saw” when there came a crash, and
the stand giving way in the rear its
entire length keeled over backwards
throwing its human burden to the
earth, and then falling on top of
them. There was a good many
bales of crape sold in Lehigh that
month, and the people were not
all given to wearing mourning tor
deceased relatives either.
Samson was pulled out of the ruins
by his father and buried between
Zorah and Ashtaol, wherever that*
is. There have been a good many
bad men in the Territory since
Samson’s time, but none of them
have succeeded in touching his re-
cord. Kitt Lightfoot.
Would I had known of Dr. Drom-
goole’s English Female Bitters years
ago; after ten years of torture with
a terrible female disease, a few bot-
tles cured me—Letter from a Pa-
tient—41-1 m.
GATE CITY PLANING MILL, -
J. W. EDWARDS, Proprietor,
-Office and Factory, Myrick Avenue, and Mo. Fae. R. R.—
EENTSOIT,
tbs LioHT-sumnirQ
A. B.
New Boiler! New Engine! New Machinery
To Goxxtxabotox* skzvdt BuUdszs :
I am prepared to inauufacture all kinds of Doors, Sash.
Mouldings, Frames, Mantels. Stairs, Railings, etc. Turn-
ing, Scroll Sawing, Hard-Wood Finish, Plaining, Sawing,
Flooring, Ceiling and all kinds of Siding made to order.
All work guaranteed. Give me a trialand patronize home
industry.
MERCHANT
No. ioS MAIN ST,
I tax MON, . . - *i 1
lath* only ahaoluWr jkmet Bewuw Mach.n*
It hw now been on the market!.
(MiBBd
on!
or at year*
‘ net %
HON. JEFFERSON DAVIS' LETTER!
TO H. B. EWUBANK, President.
Beavoir, Miss., 5th July, 1887.
Dear Sir—Yours of the 25th ult. has been received. We
have tried your Topaz Cinchona Cordial Tonic and found it
beneficial, and the most agreeable form of quinine.
Sincerely thanking yon for your kind attention and
the opportunity yon have given us to test your valuable
medicine, I am, respectfully and truly,
JEFFERSON DAVIS.
For sale by all druggists in the city.
WILL A. WATKIN & CO.,
737 MAIH ST., DALLAS, TBZA8.
Fine Pianos and Organs
Christmas Presents on Easy Payments. Write for
Catalogue, Prices and Terms.
——. a, naa atna Men on in, maraci lor I
»“«* during *11 there war* aaf taal and trial
»K.iM lua wtarr out or got out of___
ite great popularity Mr caiunl *11 other, to iaaaa
t*tr ■! mm near *a they dure. CrU ami*#, thu *M
machine .ilk its line wood work and it* wooder
-ul new (latent attachments.
Kwn oil a!hd diamond point nee-dire* for all ma-
hrnoa on hand. Nee dim rent by mad aver
OSira at s a to Coot Slate, Dewteaa.
B. TIKBXLL, MARAOl
HAWKE S'
f. dir*
; }
| 1 Dn i L LI ANT MIRE ANlHtrui
LENSES IN THE WORLD
Our MinUter to Japan wntoa-
AiaTiH. Tex., March ,, iSS*.
Mr. A. K. Hawke* Dear Sir: I am much
pleased with the pantiacapir elames you so per-
fectly adapted to myayoo; with them 1 am aa-
Shied to read, a* in my youth, the finest print with
! the greatest ease. I cheerlu 11 y recommend them
> loo public. He*pc-ctfully,
R, B. HUBBARD.
(Ex-Governor of Ttm) Minister to japna.
All Kyaa Fitted and the Kit Guaranteed by
BAILEY A HOWARD.
BEYOOIXTS AMD OPTIC/aMO,
DENISON, - TSXAS.
fCER
THE DENISON MEAT MARI
Bt \n ft Quinn, Propria
The Pioneer Butcher®* 1
p
Floor XriA.t
PIANOS, ORGANS,”
FINECIGARb
The Famous “PUFF’ Cigar
la tho boat in the market.
FACTORY FORTY-NINE, oeri door to hla
ray’s Steam Printing House,
DENISON. - • . TEXAS.
B.N. CARTER,
—AGENT—
Keeps Constantly on Hand S Choice Let
ol Meat*—Beef, Mutton, Pork,
etc.—sad all kind* ot
----GAME IN SEASON——*-
SPECIAL.
Parties owning Real RaUtr,
City^ Property, Farms, or
Ranchen, are invited to regie-
tor the same on the books of
m
A. R. Collins for Sale. Call
at his office,
—
Texas* Pacific [ty.
If you want a Piano or Organ, go me RANSFORD, on Woodard Str—t.^ Ho will —>1 i
Piano of any mtke for less money than any denier in the Suite. Com# nnd •#• kofcri buying And get
prices. It will cost you nothing. »
PIANOS AND ORGANS FOR RENT.
E. V. RANSFORD,
'CKT'ood.sira. Strsst, IDteriAMoaa.. T«acati
Clifford & Esler,
HeasE, SIGN,
Ornamental-:- Painters,
The Oraol Papular Route I
-n HT
And Aiirwotete
LOUISIANA. NEW MEXICO. ARIRONA
and CALIFORNIA.
Favorite Line to tho North, Raat and South Root.
Doubts Dally Line M
PULLMAN FALAOI
through to Sc. L
Iron Mouutain Stoat*.
8rr that
Hallway.__
aed all raguirrd
-
i.r egrar SjErasrat
all ragulrad i. iorAatlon, rail aa
-AND-
And Wholesale and Retail Deafer ia
NORTHERN LAKE ICE.
OSice and Warahouae,
North ofA/o.Pac. Preiqmt Depot.
Decorative : Paper : Hangers, -sDentaon City Bakuy:-
2?To. sas IfeCilxi Street.
DEITISOIT. TEXAS._
I^r-*te< GOBEN’S
is Headquarter, for
riftHOBiFlB $ PORTRAITS
in all Style* and Sizes. HU great Feature U the New and
Rapid Process of Enlarging to Life Sise
It is rapid, it is cheap, it is done in the house regardless ot weather, and U pre eminently
the grandest and tno*>t popular system known.
A ostia At#.. R#ar Star Star#.
. R. HEWITT A CO., Pro*ra.
DEALERS IN
Confectioneries, Cake Oruaeih, Etc.,
Tilth gad Pari triad Diliririd irirj Dij.
Cake* and Pie* Always on Hand and Furnished la
any quantity doairad.
THY THS ITBW BAKBRY,
AND GET THE BEST
3§sW.A.HALLENBECK^e>
OVER FIRST NATIONAL DANK.
DENISON. TEXAS.
HEADLIGHT BAR & BILLIARD PARLOR
AL GARRETT, Proprietor.
Carries constantly on hand a full and complete stock of
Choice Brands of Wines, Liquors
-AND-
IMPORTEDand domestic cigars,
Celebrated Old Crow Whiskey,
SCHLITZ’S -D- MILWAUKEE -□* BOTTLED -0- BEER.
Leading Billiard Parlor in the City.
IT©. 106 ivdl&laa. - DEITISOIT, TEXAS'
Proprietor of the
BAICDRY.
-Al»o Dealer in —
FINE CONFECTIONERY,
FRUITS, NUTS, NOTIONS,
-AMD-
CAKE ORNAMENTS.
SOO Main Stroot,
DENISON. • - - TEXAS.
-1MZ-
W.C. HI OS BY, Ticket d
. A ICHEH.Trav.Piaa.ARMl
r, w. mccullough, o. r. * V. A* l
JOHN A. O RANT, 4
—
Missouri Pacific
-RAILWAY-
The Great “North ul Mk Trail LtaeN
la the Thoreughflara of Travel hoi
Central ft Southweet
I# all point#
North, XCaust sud
Douh|c daily aery ire of elegant
aad Sleeping Cara beta
| SAN ANTONIO,
KANSAS CITY,
Don’t he deceived, hut call Mr your <
the Missouri PariSr Railway. -Tunm
Per any doairad InlnrmMloa, tickets, magi
loldrra etc., call on
W. C. RIGSBY, Ticket A grot, Denial
II. C. ARCHKK,
Northern Texas Pass. Agent, Dalfea, Tea.
H. W. McCUl.I.OUOM,
General Pass aad Ticket,------
J. N. Johnson, Pra. N.jS. Ranoi,
m
STATE NATIONAL BANK.
I OF DENISON.
Authorlaod Capital, • • - f
Paid up capital, surplus and profit, I
DIRECTORS i
Alsx, Rennie, W. C. Tumor,
A. W. Achxson, A. 11. Coffin,
A. R. Coi.line, J. N. Ji
N S. Bunt.
TRANSACT A GENERAL
■■ BUSINESS.
GUI&WALDRON F™-
DRUGGISTS.
KITCHEN
HEADY TO X
Sam Heeey aad Pratera* Yaw Boffed Old i
4
DEALERS IN-♦-
•SgHOTEL & RESTAURANT.^ * E. SAFFRO I
Paints, Oils, Varnishes,
Wan Fapar, Pockat Oatlary. fte.
Largest Stock 1
Lowest Prices!
Best Assortment!
PRESCRIPTIONS
CAREFULLY!
ICOMPOUNDED.
LARGE AND COMPLETE STOCK OF
DRUGGISTS’ SUNDRIES and PATENT MEDICINES.
Under the Opera House,
DENISoN, TEXAS.
1873.
„ EPPSTEIN & CO..
KD. CAST1AN, Prop’r.
No. 106 Main Stbebt, - - Dsnisom, Tavaa
Thi* Hotel and Restaurant ha* Just eccatiy
opened, U newly furniehed and everything neat,
new and clean throughout, where gueete will re-
ceive the beet of attention.
REGULAR MEALS, *5 CENTS.
BOARD A LODG ING, *1.00 PER DAY.
WAPLES BRO’S,
Lumber Merchants,
The Oldest KetxblUhed Lamber Yard la Denison,
Ha* oo hand tha inset gradte of
NORTHERN AND NATIVE LUMBER,
Laths, Shingles,
Ddors and Sash,
Lime, Cement,
Plaster and Hair.
BEST MIXED PAINTS A SPECIALTY.
has opened
FRENCH DYEINO, Cl. KAMI MO. I
ING, RK-LININO, BINDING *1
RENOVATINO OF
Soiled OM Clothing
ESTABLISHMENT.
Orice and Dye Wariu Mi Mala
Coate. Veeu. T
Silk Velvets,
Goode will bo
eo ee to look m
emeved If ike.
RHFKBKN
Terre; Mem re
Hanker; Gen ~
honker; Mr.
(Successors to Epyetole * Weethelmer)
BROWN&HCERR
Thos. fox.
WHOLESALE WIVES, LIQUORS | CIQABS,
-Best Stock in North Texas-
PROPRIETORS OP
DENISON
“THE CABINET”
Mala Straot, Opposite Opera House,
Denison,..........Texas.
KEEP THE ERST QUALITY OF
+ EjSTTI’FE * 7J6EfiT3 FIRE wipLlQUOfjS
Uf. R. TIBBS.
JFIBBg § ALEXANDER
a. BUtXRBEB.
m m mm wee*.
COhOgPRSK flOTEh Bit
meke n SPEcmiiKY of fejwing jieajgEp.
J. J. FAIRBANKS & CO.,
Beal Estate#Lean Agt,
US MAIN STREET.
ALSO A CHOICE LINE OF
FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC
CIGAR AND TOBACCOS. |
Remftr “Tto Cabiatf Fwtor.
FIVE POULTRY.
Parties wishing Eggs from I
thoroughHrad Poultry, such
ee Dark Brahmas, Silver
Spangled H emhorga,white
Crrsted Black POU«i .brown
Leghorna, Black breasted,
Red Game Bantoms, Gel-
den Senbright Bantams.
LIQUORS.
gRANDIES.
VVINES*
No. 317 MAIN STRBBT.
DENISON, TEXAS.
MCDOUGALL*HOTEL.
j. B. McDougall ft Co..
* .7!
DENISON,
PROPRIETORS,
- - TEXAS.
This Hotel ir located *t the Junction M the Ml.
soar! PncMc nod Hre*ten B Te*e* Central *mU
ro.de, bet * step from the Depri, and to I
with ell thr modern .approvements g11
•Offers Choice City and Sukbukban Property Foe Sale.]
MB* 1SM ’
Proprietor Gate CMv Poolto, Yards, j
I te he the
bMteWibdRMlkriM
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