The Stephenville Empire. (Stephenville, Tex.), Vol. 21, No. 5, Ed. 1 Saturday, September 10, 1892 Page: 1 of 3
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Notwithstanding the fact that we are now located in our commodious new quarters on south side of the Square, our house is packed rroi
end to the other with choice goods at prices to correspond with the low price of cotton. Read some of the quotations we giv<
Our stock is so large we cannot begin to go half way through it to quote you prices, but be sure to come and see us before you mi
all purchases.
Valenciennes lape l$o ppr yard. Ladies' h<pse, fast^blaok^flne and good 20o per pair:
BeautifcQ s^oarf^pins 15 ots each. a “ silk h^Tlffs, w^jite a^d assprte^fshades^ loot*!
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$1.40 ANNUM, LN.ADVANCE.
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8TEPHENVILLK. ERATH COUNTV, TEXAS. SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER lO. 1892.
NO. 5.
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There was never Anything truer said than that “MONEY SAVED IS MONEY MADE.”
YOU MO
pera of brass Pins for 5 ots.
3-rd heavy ootton Check for 5 cts.
pair ladies’ fast black Hose for 5 cts
l>dtoJSs5fhnoy dress,buttons for 5 cts.
1 yard pretty Ruohing for 5 cts.
nr. *x nice woe tor 6 cts. ■■■
1 “ silk dress trimming for 5 cts.
1 pair of good half hose
u2 good steel thimbles for 5 c.
K —3tty bead necklace ‘
Is of boss ball Thread for 5c.
fine cotton handkerchiefs 5c.
Ladies’ fine handkerohieffe 10 cents.
1 pair fine fast blaok extra quality ladies’ hose lOcts.
Gents’ fine linen handkerchiefs 10c.
exra fine bandana *'
Assorted shades of fine dress trimming 10c.
Children’s extra fl$e hose 10c.
Gents
i°c.
1 dozen fine dress buttons 10<
r hi
in. P?r ^
Pillow oase lace, superior quality
idies’ pleated fanov hairpins 15 cts eaoh.
vide Valenoienneslace 16 ots per yard,
adies’ hose, assorted colors 15 ots ea^h.
l-ents* ® “ “ “ “
ress goods, new and lovely styles 15 ots per yard.
' , trimmings new styles
Lovely Kuching * “ “ “ “
Handkerohiets, ladies, gents and children 15 ots.
rard.
20 to 35c
fvfl
“ silk hu’l
A select line
Boys’ waists, extra good, 25 ots per yj
Come and see our 10-4 sheeting, 25 cents up.
Ladies’ underwear, f ine assortment, 25 cents up.
Gents’ underwear 25 oents up.
Ladies' seamless hose for 40o up to $1 fbr silk hose,
pockets 25 oeqts.
Boys’ Waists, laoed fronts 50 ots.
Ladies’ oorsets 50 ots.
Ladies' fine kid gloves 75 ots.
i is much larifor than W0 have fiver carriod. ---—„—-------------—---------——- ***•«. „ v mv .v«n,v» n.«u ——ir-w-—, wauvii-
ktton Checks, Calicos, and the most complete line of Dress Goods and Trimmings we have ever carried. You cannot well afford not to see us this fall if you want to get stylish goods
prices that will save you money. Respectfully,
E. O. McILHANY <fe CO
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Stephen^
I HAVE FOR SALE, PAYABLE ™
[HALF THIS FALL,
ONE HALF NEXT FALL,
Car FISH Bros. WA60NS.
AB LaBELLE WAGONS.
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Jder Grain Drills, LaDow Disk Harrows
and Seeders, and Oasady Sulky Plows.
'also have just reoeived one oar
* GLIDDEN WIRE *•
• TO SELL
For Cash at Bottom Prices.
Oome and see the Goods and get
Prices. Respectfully,
t
W, A. BASSEL
:GO TO:
?RAYT08'S»HKW ♦GALLERY
-FOR-
iRTISTIC PHOTOGRAPH WORK.
lYTOR CANNOT BE EXCELLED.
^OSITE ERATH HOUSE.
iE OLD CiTY DRD& STORE
INE M JEWELRY
.ottke First CttUpKat Bank Staphenville, Texas.
lcenix like, has arisen from its
i, and its proprietors are 'now
doing business
A.T THE OLD STAND!
in a Handsome New Brick Building.
of Drugs, Patent Medicines, etc., is fresh and complete; and if
THE FORCE. BILL.
A Brief Sketch of that Most Wick-
ed of Republican Measures.
Memphis Appeal-Avalanche
This paper has besn requested by
a number of its readers to give a
synopsis of the force bill. This
measure has to be read in its entirety
before its dishonesty, cowardice and
infamy can be thoroughly apprecia-
ted. It starts out with along, ram-
bling illogical and incoherent an-
nouncement which oo mortal mind
can read without bewilderment and
paralysis. From the beginning to
the end it shows the band of a
master ecoundrel, for i( does not be-
gin at the beginning, namely, with
he appointment of ohief supervisors
for life, but it rambles about, and
the most important provisions of the
measures are carelessly studied. We
will attempt to give here the most
importsrt points in jt. The Force
bill authorizes, in the first plaoe, the
appointment of chief supervisors for
life, and circumstances are such that
all of the ohief supervisors in the
United States will bo republicans.
The State of Texas, which has four
whites to one negro, and three dem-
ocrats to one repbulican, would be
presided over by a Republican
chief supervisor appointed for life,
and the power of this man would be
greater than that of the government
of that State in the matter of elec-
tion returns. He is to have control of
all the Federal officers appointed to
control elections. He can examine
voters under oath and receive re-
turns; aud he has control of the dep-
uty marshal and absolute power to
order arrest. The bill applies
to “elections at which represenatives
of delegates in Congress are voted
for.” At these elections State offi-
cers and presidential electors are al-
so voted for; and ao all over the South
the representatives of a minority par-
ty would have the right to meddle
with even our State elections, and
set at defiance our secret ballot law.
On an application to the chief sup-
ervisors of 100 persons in any eity or
town of 20,000 inhabitants, or of 50
persons in any one or more coun-
ties in any Congressional district,
supervisors may be appointed. Ac-
cordingly, at every polling place in
the South, there would be two Re
publicai.s supervi-ors, and one of
aomeortber party, aud tbeee supervi-
sors Deed not be residents of the
town or county of which they are
appointed election officers. There
is nothing in the bill to prevent the
sppointment of supervisors practical-
ly being made by local Republican
committees;'and supervisors may be
appointed on the eve of sn election,
and thus complaints against their
character cannot be effectively made.
The Force bill slab authorizes tbs
supervisors to challenge the right of
any person to be registered, and to
“require”,of the State or local officer
that he do not register the name, or
that he atrikee off the name of any
person already on the register.
Thu is a distinct interference with
State elections. There ia only
registry list, and if a person’s name
is stricken off be is thereby disquali-
fied from voting for State officers.
The bill, therefore, permits these
Federal officers to forbid citizens of
a State to vote for their own local
cars. A supervisor oaa thus
Feet sven a town election The su
to alt
canvass of persons registered in all
oities having 20,000 inhabitants or
upward. They may be accompa-
nied by deupty marshals. In cities
of 100,000 inhabitants or upward
they are to make a thoroug house-
to-house canvass five weeks before
election In other words, tho local
registers are tjo be given to Ilepubli
oan campaign workers to enable
them to spy upon people, to intimi-
date them as Davenport has done
in New York, and to briug their own
voters to the polls. The Republi-
can campaign, State and national, ia
to be conducted at the expense of
the general government.
Thh supervisors are authorized to
administer the State statuary oath if
the local officers decline, and to ex-
amine persons offering to vote as to
their qualification uuder the State
law. If the State officers, obeying
their own law, refuse to receive a
proffered ballot, the Federal officers
may first direct them to do so, and
then, on refusal, may themselves re-
ceive end deposit the ballot. As the
law of most States requires the
names of all candidate^ to be on one
ballot the Fores bill gives to Feder-
als officers the power to reoeive or
rejeot votes for Stae, county and
town officers.
The board of oanvassera of the
congressional vote ia a body which
makes the canvass for the United
States. It is appointed by the Cir-
cuit Judge, who is dragged into
party politics by nearly every section
of this extraordinary bill. The board
consists of three, two of whom can
be the same political party. If their
certificate differs from that of the
State officers their candidate ia to be
seated. If the opposing candidate
appeals it must be to the Circuit
Judge, who ia consequently a return-
ing officer. The decision of the
Judge is to be conclusive with tfae
clerk of the House. The arrange-
ments for counting in Republicans
sre perfect.
The appropriations for the pay-
ment of all the expenses of this Fed-
eral interference in State affairs, in-
clu ding the pay of chief supervisor,
supervisors and deputy marshals are
made permanent. TUs is anticipa-
te^ of the refusal of a Democratic
House to appropriate money for tbe
execution of the law.
The cirouit oouci is empowered
to compel State boards to rectify
alleged errors in thoir count. This
Would affect the rote for governor in
moat States.
The supervisors may go into the
votiug booth with a voter to assist
him In the preparation of his ballot.
Under the present law juries sre
drawn by tbe clerk of tbe oourt and
a commisioner of another political
party. The bill repeals that law
whioh waa intended to secure non-
partisan juries for the trial of politi-
cal offenses, and providea that juries
shall be drawn by commissioners ap-
pointed by the circuit judge, who
may all belong to the same party.
Again the judiciary is dragged into
party polities and made subservient
to campaign managers.
Tbs Force bill, in short, is a meas-
ure which places the control of elect
ions absolutely with the republican
party for an indefinite period and
any man wbo favors it is as bass a
traitor as Benedict Arnold.
Thirty-five carloads of silver ore
from the Valetdema mins, passed
through Eigle Pass on 29th ult.
fur Omaha, Neb. The ore will yield
about three
m v.-V.
UHOLEHA REACH EH AMERICA.
A Steamer Arrives at Now York With
• Number of Cases.
A dispatch of Aug. 81, says: Asi-
atic cholera reached the port of
New York on the steamer Moravia
from Hamburg, to-day. Twenty-two
deaths occured during the passage
on the oceans, two patients, both
adults, are recovering the diseaso on
board. Mdre vessels will arrivefrom
Hamburg this week and it is proba-
ble that further deaths will be report-
ed, and cases in their worst from, it
is conceded, may arrive within the
next few days. The situation ia very
serious. Unless all immigration
from the infected ports ia stopped it
is not beliaved this country is safe,
and it ia believed now that this step
will betaken. Aug. 18th tbe Mora-
via sailed from Hamburg aud the
following day cholera broke out and
the first death took place within 25
hours. The disease spread rapidly
among the 208 passengere. Children
sufferod most, and by Aug. 29
tho number of deaths reached a
total of twenty-two. Of these two
were adults and twenty were children
They suffered much and their deaths
were peculiar to ol olera.
To Dam the Rio Grande.
A company has been Incorporated
under the laws of New Mexico for
the purpose of putting in a big in-
ternational dam across the Rio
Grande for the purpose of irrigating,
both in Mexico and the United States,
ffm. Hamilton, of New York, is at
the head of the projeot, and tbs com-
pany is incorporated with a capital of
$10,000,000. The dam will be built
above five miles above El Paso, in
the mountain gateway. It will be
560 feet long, of solid masonry from
cliff to cliff, resting on a solid lime-
stone foundation aud will be 70 feet
high. Col. Addison Mills, of the
United States crop of engineers,
estimates the coots of the dam at
$300,000.
There will be two double iron
gates on the 1'exaa side of the canyon
and two of precisely the same size
and pattern on the Mexican ( aide.
From these gates two canals will be
cut through the rock, following tbe
bluffs on the Texas and Mexican side,
capable of carrying a volume of wa
ter 20 f> et wide and 10 feet dei p
Col. Mills estimated the full coat of
tbe completed system, including tbe
dam, canal, ditches, laterals, head-
gates, drops, etc., at $2,500,000.
The construction of this dem will
create an inland lake 15 miles long
and about five miles wide, with an
average depth of about 25 feet.
Storage reservoirs will be construct-
ed on both sides of the canyon above
aleo, ao as to replenish the lake from
ti.me to time and kaep It up to high
water mark. _
Looking fbr Home*.
Yesterday the Cotton Belt brought
in on its morning and evening trains
twelve special coaches containing
nearly 300 harvest excursionist from
points in the southwest to Fort
Worth; they are coming to this city
by virtue of its railroad facilities,
rendering it a common point from
which they oan scatter out to all
portions of Texas, principally south
along tbs Hants Fe a d Rio Grands,
west along tbs Texas and Pacific
and northwest along the Fort Worth
and Denver. The party consists of
well-to-do formers who are desirous
of securing larger farms in the cheap
and productive land* of Texas.
Another party will arrive this morn
Headquarters for Furniture.
We are now located in the new building on Graham street, north
of Johnson’s blacksmith shop, ana for 16w prices we
Distance all competition on Furniture,window glass,Wall parper & Sewing machines
We also keep a complete line of Burial Gaskets, etc.
If you want goods at low prices don’t fail to call on the low*prioed
furniture man. _ _
T. E. COLLIER. »
WE BUY EGGS.
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WE BUY BUTTER,
WE BTJY
IIIIVNI1 PRODUCE!
We sell these things to our customers at the very-
closest figures, fresh from where
they were produced.
We do not think that any other concern in the county can compete
with us in anything in
The Line of Fresh Groceries
*
As we knock the Persimmon when it comes to re$l
close buying, therefore our customers are given
a great advantage in prices. We give fair weights and measures, and
patrons all along the line, and we invite your
strive to please our
trade.
Respectfully,
DAVIE & GRAY.
Miss Mauj McClellan was acci
dently shot at, Comanche one night
laat week white cleaning a pistol.
The ball entered ber breast about
two inches below ber heart, lodging
in bar spins. She lived until 5
o’clock next morning. Hhe was about
20 years old.
A Cure fbr Paralysis.
Frank Cornelius, of Purcell, Ind. Ter.,
says: “I Induced Mr. PinsoD, whose
wife had paralysis In the face, to buy a
bottle of Chamberlain’* Pain Balm. To
their great flirprlse before the bottle had
all been used sho waa a great deal better,
ller face had been drawn te one side; but
the Pain Balm relieved all pain and sore-
ness, and tbe mouth assumed Its natural
shape ” It Is also a certain euro for |
rheumatism, laino back, sprains, swel-
lings and lameness. SO cent bottles for
sale by A. P. Young, trustee. eep
Ed Ysrboro, of the Currycomb
ranoh near Van Horn shot a large
black eagle last wsok while it was
killing a calf, the eagle measured
eight* feet and two inches between
tips of the wings and has olsws as
SaSHrssI
partly eaten on the range
now thinks the bird that 1
I am preparing for the Fall and Winter Trade.
I am baying from FIRST HANDS and can make Prices as
low as any house in West Texas.
I shall close my books on September 1. •
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Moore, Eugene. The Stephenville Empire. (Stephenville, Tex.), Vol. 21, No. 5, Ed. 1 Saturday, September 10, 1892, newspaper, September 10, 1892; Stephenville, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth857320/m1/1/: accessed July 7, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Stephenville Public Library.