Rockdale Messenger. (Rockdale, Tex.), Vol. 17, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 25, 1889 Page: 1 of 8
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SHHrESi1
.. .5 per cent off.
..10 per cent off.
. .18 per cent off.
..20 per cent off.
. BRANCH,
OrviOK o» Pubuoatioh, 107 Bocth Main BTiuucr. 1£nt«.iuu> at tuk Pohtofitoie, at Hookpale, as Meconp-c lakh Matte*.
THE LARGEST AND CHEAPEST
jj-' '*:: ■ •,;*/. v ..-wJ*:*V^V-* ' •' '
urniture House
IN THE CITY
ESTABLISHED IN 1878.
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Bargains in
BEDSTEADS,
CHAIRS,
SAFES,
WARDRQBES,
BUREAUS,
SPRINGS.
PORLOR AND BEDROOM SETS
A SPECIALTY.
Carpet*, Window Cliudos, Wall Ptiper,
etc., etc., all lowor than the lowest.
COFFINS AND CASKETS OF ALL KINDS*
W. P. BRANCH,
Rockdale, Texas.
11-15-88
SEVENTEENTH * EAR.
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tLE, MILAM CQU.dXY, TEXAS, THURSDAY, JULY 346, 188D.
EIGHT PAGES.
J. R. ROWLAND
-DEALER IN
Groceries, Dry Goods, Clothing, Hats, Caps,
Boots, Shoes and General Merchandise.
All Kinds of Country Produce Bought
and Sold.
MAIN STREET, ROCKDALE, TEXAS.
Mawor Paf + e fliwmlf is lo
il it v I a * a in a « « aiainaaaa iv a a wiiavi NlliMa
We Want it Distinctly Understood
that TZZZS '1
»F "IPBImLI*1 • -.....
t.,;. y> i itiVvCyATrl Nfcjl.
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*h fjurt* of tlh* Ratted
dteil&i'
BBauemNo awcvik,
Ke^kdiiU.’{«*#•»,
. ■*.*•*« jra^nwr hmiy w* iothmi *a*i him n* iwwi., r
QPDg AND ENDS. „
Flattery 1® a sort of M.xaqafiff v-
which our vanity gives oumadbcy*--
EXCHANGE SALOON!
L. PHILLIPOWSKI, Proprietor.
Masonic Building, Rockdale, Texas.
ON HAND AT ALL TIMES A FINE LOT OF
£■33
“OURS TRULY!IE
„i „ ours to oou manil
Jig sixteen ae- it of the twenty-
or. We hare someone at home who
bosses the rbst of the time. Any of our
goods, consisting of
TTT5
V i aa^ivwi
T .-»» ■» 13 iTi* r~P.
PH
ce
Is one of Our Leading Lines of Business, and that We Sell
SADDLES, HARNESS, BRIDLES,
--AND ALL KINDS OF——
Saddlery Hardware
LOWER THAN EVER BEFORE «^vr r> rvr ».()C3CI1'ILF
WE ARE REGULAR ASSASSINS
j Of High Prices in Every Line of Goods Represented
in our
Tliree Stores.
WITCHER iP COFFIELD.
wth
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Architect Vail from the department
t Washington has made an inspec-
ts 4 the now fedoral buildipg in
c o of construetion in San An-
t as an expert, and has, it is t^id,
f» 1 no serious defects.
:ue is now being boomed in
t >n Post, which paper cveiy
f ives from one to two'■«& f tbi-
rirom
probably needs a go<
The LaGrange Journal Bays the
examinlag trial of Lon Hill of Manor
charged with the murder of Dr. T. J.
Jordan^ Ledbetter, wtu» closed
Tueadi^l last wee^ and Hill ma
admittedfco bail ih the earn of 118,00$
The Jo&l^doee
solid freight
ly, in tank cars.
death betptjat
she had saved, .....„. ; ...
the remainder to a granddaughter of
her employer.
A Wcotoi.i Union wpemloi- tu Aiu-
barna, while taking a .message, W«ft#.. .
shocked by alhwh of clcct;*icity which. .
came from the sky. He died m a few
1 lours.
An Ohio church deacon,exclaimed;
“Gonsarn itidl toT-xsVi!” and ihc ver-
dict of Checlmrr4!) investigation was:
•Not guilty, but in bad taete1',
Archseological researches apfwar to::. '
show that the island* and tho coast of
Norway- were well populated in nro-
lii.-,'.t)nc uuu-.*, lmt U>at Uw»«mHivelion
of the soil did not begin until a late
<!a!;- ' .; ; * Yt’’'Af
Adelar I’tisisette, sitting on thed*mlr
»f the river ut (Jntp|::.nva huj[]p, Wis.,
was taken with on apoplcctie Ot, rCfUed
into tho river and was drowned before
tho eyes cjf tha tmuds with whom aha
hud been chatting. '
bo twenty feqt long with a
diameterof three,taolus*. Sulphuric
acid will bo used in the tube.
Always deduct' about forty years
from the age of a veteran claiming to
bo 120 years old. Medical scienoe ba»
no record of a person in this country
living beyondl(J3 years.
Tho richest ^niuft, like the moat
fertile soil, when uncultivated, shoots
up into the --32* * ^ —
of vines auu
use of
ovm»
r
t end inafoad
,8rtfafi.
int crop' of
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BJptttlr*
A*
May be Truly Yours for
A Trifling: Cash Consideration!
The goods in all lines are extra high
grade, and the prices we ask are merely
nominal. We do not mean thiB to be a
formal, but a cordial invitation to visit
os. You will find us as we say,
Yours Truly,
T. B. KEMP & GO.,
Main Street, Rockdale, Texas.
5-23-2m.
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TRACY & ISAACS,
Land and Sollectifig Agsncy
•ONE OF THE HANDdumJT BARS fli ikis iM'wuutt.'
My friends and the Public Generally are
invited to call and see me when they come
to town. I mean to keep a quiet and order-
ly house, and furnish none but the very best.
L. PHILLIPO WSKI,
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STATE NEWS-
Crops in Grimes county are report-
ed to be excellent.
John Schackey, for many years a
citizen of Brenham, died last week.
A public park midway between
Belton and Temple is being talked
about.
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OUB SrECIALTUES:
Collection of Collectable Debt#.
Bale of Real Kstato.
enting Keal Katate.
4'
We haVe Several Farms for Sale.
We Aar «sa J
good water\ good range, and a 40-acre
bottom Farm in connection; 100 head
of cattle; 25 Dead of fine pigs and 10
mares; all of which we will sell or- trade
for lands.
LAW DEPARTMENT*. SPECIALTIES:
LAW AND LAND TITLES.
ADMINISTRATION -gA
DIVORCES- |.ffrsiy>
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No claims sued upon except hy special
instruction of the holder. \
TRACY & ISAACS.
\
Crop MortgaifM.
The latest improved pattern of
gilt-edged crop mortgagee for sale in
quantities to . suit at. the Mbssbnobb
offlbe.
Brenham; it is near the junction of
the Santa Fe and Central roads.
Corn is selling at six-bits a bushel
at New Birmingham. Here in Rock-
dale it is only worth twenty-five cents.
The remains of John Dashiell ar-
rived at Brenham from El Faso last
week and were buried in the city
cemetery.
Ute dS&magc &5T ’srisfe Sn
Llano river in the vicinity of Junc-
tion City is estimated at from $40,060
to $50,000.
Dick Richardson was convicted at
Greenville last week of the murder
of John Ladd and given 1G years in
the penitentiary.
There was a rise ill tho Medina
river the other day and James Hill,
a prominent stockman, was drowned
18 miles above Bandera. ~«™—— —
Cotton worms have appeared in
force in many parts of Washington t
and Austin counties. Farmers are
using London purple freely.
Fourteen of the prominent grocery
merchants including the keeper of
tke Alliance store at Greenville have
been indicted for forming a coal oil
tfusi They deny the charge and
claim that the agreement that* they ___
made was abrogated before the trust j altering penmen so that he could
laW went into effect. pass them for dimes.
William Griffin,a farmer living near
Hearne, is the champion melon raiser;
many of his melons will weigh fifty
pounds and one weighed eighty-three
pounds.
The Milwaukee Iron and Bridge
Company has been awarded a con-
tract by tho commiaeioners’ court of
Bell county, for nine iron bridges, to
cost $05,000, __ - -
All the bids for the courthouse
and jail at Conroe, Montgomery
county, were rejected by the com-
missioners and new advertisements
will be published.
Bud. Ellison, a white man, was kill-
ed last week by a negro near Moffatt,
Bell county. Ellison and others had
gone to the negroes house, called
h«sx.<3<s4 v.«r<d h*-£-sn shooting at him.
The old Baylor college buildings
at Independence have been sold to
the Catholic chureh and it is under-
stood that denomination will use
them for an orphan asylum aad
schools.
The state’s attorney at Dallas has
dismissed the sla*dor sni^ against
the Rev. Dr. Hayden and Rev. Dr.
Holt. The suit grew out pi tho
troubles of the First Baptist.church
at Dallas.
The trial of Brother M. T. Martin,
evangelist-, by the Baptist church at
Waco for heresy, has resulted in tbf
gentleman being found guilty. The
sentence of the church has not yet
been announced.
Ed Tingstone was arrested at Fort
Worth by a deputy maashal from
Dallas on aohargeof tampering with
Unhod Staton coin. He had be<-wi
Aion dPtv:1 InRzftl|aftle the
Aopitary condition of the town is ad-
mirably managed by publishing
notices that the sanitary ordinances
will be enforced.
The recent tragedy at Ledbetter
seems to have grow’- out of a person-
al difficulty betVAl IfOr. Jordan and
Lon Hill, of Man Mrs. Hill in-
formed her husbanjd, some time after
occurrence, that Dr. Jordan had in-
sulted her. At the time of the alleged
insult Jordan was living at Manor
apd had been a very intimate friend
of Hill.
Rev. W. W. Warren, a Cumberland
Erosbyterian proa ohm- who preached
in Grimes county last year, but late-
ly bad been living in Bryan, is
charged by his wife with arson, hav-
ing burned the house in which he
lived in Bryan in May last; she also
charges him with abandonment.
Brother Warren enters a general de-
nial.
, Lev. Dr. M. T. Martin of the Bap-
tist church at Waco is about to be
tried by the church for heresy, or
for not teaching according to tho
Standard of all Baptists, the Bible.
It is said that Brother Martin has
not an enemy in the church, but he is
charged with being unsound on doc
trinal questions. Martin is well
known throughout the state as an
evangelist.
, The .pbjAAsop&w- of the, Calvert
Courier says: “Between their indis-
position to work when it is dry
enough and inability to labor in the
fields when it is raining and the
ground is too wet to plow, some of
o-itr agriculturalists will remftin “in
the grass” till the frost destroys the
weeds. It is a disagreeable fact that
the fault of failure this year, if fttil-
nro there be, will lie with the farmers I
themselves.”
■H0; Mason Lmne; the renogadr? n ewfl- j
p iper man from Texas, charged with
rhping a 18-year-old girl in Oklahoma |
City, escaped from tho cars while, \
bdijigtaken to Wichita, linn., to be ;
tiffed by the United States court |
ikne was handcuffed and chained to j
tie end of a car seat; ho broke off
tqp ond of the car seat and jumped
fipm the train when it was running
very fast, and got away with the
handcuffs on before the train could
Hjp stopped.
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tbD .MPIMKIKII
>r» has during put
surveyed four lines from
the mouth of the Brazos
,He found the country and
»ns most favorable and a line
»n be selected. The Houston
tys: “In case the hopes for
w ater at the mouth of the Braz-
os jue attained, the line will be of
gr««i«benefit to this city, and valua-
ble to the projectors.”
Pat Hennessey, a deserter from
company H, Fifth infantry, was ar-
rested at Han Antonio and turned
over to the military authorities He
was found in a nude condition. The
night was hot and Pat took off his
clothes aad lay down under a bush;
during the night he arose and walked
a few paces and was not able to lo-
cate his duds.
The town of Paige has incorpor-
ated for school purposes. The vote
fey.....mcoxtHaratign ami 46
against; only two voters missed go-
ing io the polls.
Sadie Bates, a IG-year old negro
girl, was shot and killed last week
while going home from church, at
Ames Station near Liberty. The
shooter was a guard- on u convict
train at Ames and tho murder was
wholly unprovoked. If he gets any-
thing like justice ho will be hanged.
The Galveston und Dallas Nowses
will establish a bureau in Washing-
ton by the time the next congress
sits. Governor Bill Sterrett, ‘the
well-known and popular newspaper
man, will be in charge of it.
In an alleged interview noted else-
wboro Muldoon, Sullivan’s trainer
said that Sullivan was a loafer and
a blackguard. Mr. Muldoon now
publish* s a card over his own signs
turtnatafing that lie I ms been falsely
reporfob; that he is a warm personal
fri--ti44i>f the big slugger, who is a
paj-^P^ gentleman in every. r<*sj>ect,
■ uTalkho may be from Muldooii’i
int.
has been arrested in London
ion of being Jack the Rip-
is oyuient ly insane and con-
it fie murdered the woman
a pel last week, and also
#women murdered in thai
;«#si.mnaer and autumn.
Kb
of UW J
iron ini
next martin
oozed but
saved by the
a vessel ~fu!
dried. It Iuk
to malts a ]k
through a nl
it ?s ready f|
hi 1885
down as a k>
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wss not
fused payr
hud taken
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thru, yonsic
of tho work*|
excessive Uz
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Rider Ilaf
visit Persia i
unattended,
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Rockdale Messenger. (Rockdale, Tex.), Vol. 17, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 25, 1889, newspaper, July 25, 1889; Rockdale, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth694818/m1/1/: accessed July 7, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Lucy Hill Patterson Memorial Library.