The Lampasas Leader. (Lampasas, Tex.), Vol. 10, No. 28, Ed. 1 Friday, June 3, 1898 Page: 4 of 12
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THE LAMPASAS LEADER,
J. E. Yemos, Proprietor.
Published Every Friday.
Entered at the Postoffice at Lampasas
Texas, as second-class mail matter.
A NIGHT OF TERROR.
fT PROVED THE DOWNFALL QF NEG-
LEY AND HIS PALS.
-———~
A Thrilling Incident ot Life In the City
of Pittsburg Early In the Present Cen-
Jules Farquhar lias returned
from the war and is better pre-
pared than ever to make good pic-
tures at low rates.
See what you Cali bny ilt the
Racket Store for a mighty little
GRAND MUSICALE
AND OPERETTA,
Authorized Primary Ticket.
The following is the authorized Dem-
ocratic primary election ticket printed
under the direction and by the authority
of the County Democratic Executive
Committee, to be voted in the primary
elections to be holden on Saturday,
June 11, 1898:
For United States Senator—
CHARLES A. CULBERSON,
For Governor—
JOSEPH D. SAYERS,
R. M. WYNNE.
For Lieutenant Governor—
J. N' BROWNING,
J. R. GOUGH.
For Attorney General—
MANN TRICE,
T. S. SMITH.
For Comptroller of Public Accounts—
R. W, FINLEY.
For State Treasurer—
SETH P. MILLS,
T. S. GARRISON,
J. W. ROBBINS.
For Commissioner of the General Land
Office—
F. T. ROCHE,
G. W. FiNGER,
G. W. SMITH,
M. E. GROOS,
D. F. GOSS,
R. T. MILLER.
For State Superintendent of Public In-
struction—
J. S. KENDALL,
S. T. MARRS,
A. W. KINNARD.
For Railroad Commissioner—
ALLISON MAYFIELD,
W. M. GILES.
For Associate Justice of the Supreme
- Court—
T. J. BROWN.
For Judge Court of Criminal Appeals—
BEN H. RICE,
M.-M. BROOKS,
DON A. BLISS.
For Associate Justice of the Court of
Civil Appeals of the Third Supreme
Judicial District—
F. G. MORRIS,
W. E. COLLARD.
For Member of Congress for the Eighth
Congressional District—
S. W. T. LANHAM.
For State Senator 27th Senatorial
District—-
R. W. MARTIN,
D. E. PATTERSON.
For District Attorney 27th Judicial
District—
JAMES P. KINNARD,
For Representative 53rd Representative
District—
A. J. NORTHINGTON,
D. W. PHILLIPS.
Teeth on rubber plates, $5.00 a
set upper or lower. Dickason
the dentist.
As will be seen by announce-
lhent elsewThere, the democrats of
Lampasas county will make no
nominations for county officers.
Whether this is a banter for a
free foi all race, or a desire to
pull some strength from the op-
Xiosing element this writer is not
informed, but it will eventuate in
providing an efficient and compe-
tent set of officials for the county,
pis the people, and not the politi-
cians, will have the final say as to
who shall hold the offices. Some
pteople long for the good time to
come again when political issues
will be confined to the two great
parties in the national struggle,
and all state and county issues
shall be decided upon the merits
of tire men who hold the offices.
Christian liiuleavor
tury, Relate*! by a Woman—Presence of
Mind Alone Saved Her.
The following incident, which, at the
time, caused much talk, and is still
told by the children of old settlers who
heard it from their parents, has never,
to my knowledge, appeared in print,
and the only object in telling it now is
that so many people are interested in
anything of an historical nature pertain-
ing to the days of our grandfathers.
My ancestors .were among the first
settlers of western Pennsylvania, my
grandfather being one of the garrison of
old Fort Pitt, dj'ing there during the
Revolutionary war. The incident refer-
red to was told mo by my mother, who
was attending a school in Pittsburg at
the time, and my grandmother Culber-
son, wbo was a resident of the city for
many years and who died there in 1864
at the ago of 89 years.
About the first of this century a man
named Negley built a house five miles
east of Pittsburg on a road running east
and west, midway between the Alle-
ghany and Monongahcla rivers. It was
a tavern and farmhouse combined.
Teamsters, drovers and travelers stopped
on their way to and from the city to get
a meal or stay overnight.
These wayside inns were numerous in
early days, and are still found in many
parts of the country. They are generally
pleasant places to stop at. After Negley
had occupied his tavern a number of
years the place was named Negleyville,
afterward Rising Sun and later East
Liberty.
Negley was as bloodthirsty a villain
as could have been found ou th^ fron-
tier and had associated with him a
number of men as bad as himself, wbo
made bis tavern their headquarters, and
whose business was to rob and murder
unfortunate travelers wbo might stop
there. The undoing of these men was
brought about in this way:
A poor woman with her two small
children started afoot from some point
east of Liberty to walk to Pittsburg. In
the evening she reached Negley’s tav-
ern, and as her children were too tired
to go farther she put up for the night.
Soon after entering the house she began
to feel uneasy, as there was something
mysterious about the actions of the in-
mates. Before she retired to rest a trav-
eler rodo up and dismounted, and after
seeing his horse cared for entered the
house. ITe seemed to be a drover return-
ing from the city after disposing of
some cattle.
Concealing her alarm, she followed
the landlady, a coarse, brawny woman,
to a room up stairs, whose door was
without fastenings and which contained
only a bed and stool. Retiring with her
children, she was unable to sleep. An
hour or so later she heard the traveler
being escorted to an adjoining room and
heard him complain that his door could
not be secured, and the landlord assured
liim that he was as safe as he would be
in his own house, an assertion the trav-
eler evidently believed, as his heavy
breathing soon told that he was asleep.
Near midnight the woman, who was
still awake, heard stealthy steps pass
her door and several persons enter the
adjoining room. In a few minutes there
was a heavy blow, followed by a low
cry and then a short struggle. A little
after the murderers came into her room,
but seeing that she seemed to be asleep
left her, and she heard them carry the
dead man through the hall and down
stairs.
In the morning they were very po-
lite, inquiring how she rested, etc.,
stating that the drover had got up early
and gone on.
After breakfast she and the children
started for the city, but were soon met
by a man coming from there, who stop-
ped her, inquiring who she was and
where she was going, where she had
staid the night before, etc. Believing
him to bo one of the band, she answered
truthfully, but told him that the people
at the tavern were very nice people and
had treated her very well. He passed
on, but she met another coming from
the city who made the same inquiries,
and still another; but she told the same
story, and they, believing that she knew
nothing, let her go.
On her arrival at Pittsburg, she in-
formed the authorities and the place
was broken up, but whether any of them
were brought to justice I am unable to
say.—Sarah P. Farmer in Pittsburg
Dispatch.__
A Brave Woman.
Meets every Sunday at*tlie Chris-
tian church at 5:30 p. m.
^SuBject": "^Christ’s Mission on
Earth.”—John x:7-18.
Leader—Miss Maude Thomas.
Do you wish teeth that cannot
be detected as false? Dickason
can make them.
To my customers. I wish to
say that I will be prepared to buy
oats .this season and Avillbe in the
market when ytra are ready to sell.
H. M. Yates.
Mrs. Lizzie Goodman lately walked
30 mixes, from Memphis to St. Louis,
i.frying in her arms her crippled
year-old son. Her husband had died
l poverty, and her granduncle, a farm-
• living near St. Louis, offered to give
3r and the child a home. The soles
ere worn off her shoes long before she
cached the end of her journey, but the
irmers all along the road were kind to
er, giving her food and a night’s lodg-
lg whenever she asked for it. In St.
ouis some compassionate women sup-
Lied her with shoes, and she set out
Durageously to walk tlie few remaining
dies to her uncle’s home in Baden.—
■oston Woman’s Journal.
me n Ay.
Dickason solicits difficult
cases in dentistry.
The chickens still go to foreign
markets from Lampasas. The
fact that this place shipped to
foreign markets more than sixty-
five thousand* dollars worth of
poultry last year, besides supply-
ing all the home demands, causes
the people in the lower country
to call the regular passenger train
on the branch the Lampasas
chicken Avagon, and it is not a
name of which our people are
ashamed. The country is special-
ly adapted to the raising of poul-
try, and many of our country peo-
ple find it exceedingly profitable
There is always a market at Lam-
pasas for any and all kinds of
produce.
If you get the best, you will
have to go to the Tent Gallery.
If your teeth do not fit or you
have been led to believe that
you could not Avear teeth satis-
factorily, call on Dickason the
dentist. No improA’ement no
Pay.__
The times may be dull, but the
average merchant of Lampasas
neA7er complains. Business is
good most of the time here tAArelve
months in the year.
The prettiest, nicest and cheap-
est laces you ever saw, at the
Bucket Store.
Mrs. Alvie Blair came in yesterday
from Fort Worth on a Adsit to her hus-
band's parents and other relatives.
Ahde is expected Monday.
Bicycle Club Organized.
The bicyclists of Lampasas have or-
ganized a club, and they propose to
have all the pleasure possible while
passing through this vale of tears. A
jolly crowd Avas out Wednesday night
enjoying a moonlight ride. The mem-
bership of the club is as follows:
Misses Maymie Campbell, Annie
Williamson, Kate ToAvnsend, Kate Sen -
terfitt, Helen Hooker, Pensie Cook,
Kittie Noble; Messrs. Ed. Hooker, Gus
Jackson, Rube Martin, Tom Huling,
C. A. Claypool,- Charles Jordan,. Cliff.
R igers, Will McGee and Ross Bailey.
The club officers are: President—
Ross Bailey; secretary—Miss Annie
Williamson; treasurer—Miss Kate Sen -
terfitt. The club will have another
meeting Saturday night to adopt a con-
stitution and effect permanent organi-
zation.
Mrs. Nellie DaAds and Elder C.
W. Turrell were selected as dele-
gates to the Y. P. S. C. E., which
meets at Dallas June 7 to 9.
This office had a compl ete sur-
prise Thursday morning for Judge
BroAA'ning. He has a client ayIio
had the misfortune to get a sen-
tence to the penitentiary, and it
is necessary for the attorneys to
s md up a printed brief in such
cases. Mr. Browning brought
t m copy to this . office after 3
o’clock Wednesday, and the brief,
Avhich made eight pages besides
the coArer,' aams set up, printed
bound and delNered before nine
o’epek the next morning. If you
have a job of work which requires
haste, you Avill find this office
ready to do it, and then if you
Avant something artistic, we are
capable of doing that kind o.
work, and it Avill not be delayed^
The Leader works for the ad-
vancement of your city and the
surrounding country, and thinks
it is entitled to all the business
you can give it. Send in your
orders.
Joe Bauer, the honest shoemaker on
West Fifth street, near the San Geron-
imo hotel, does his duty by his toAA7n
paper, as he does everything else—that
is, having his subscription moved up
till 1899. Let there be others.
Mrs. Montgomery’s music class will give an entertainment at the Hanna Opera
House on Tuesday night, June 7th. An operatta, Cinderella, in four acts, will
be given in connection Avith the musical entertainment. The musical program
wrill be short, The whole program, with operetta, will last about two hours,
aid the evening will be an enjoyable one to all Avho attend.
Curtain rises positively at 8:30 o’clock. Tickets, 25 and 15 cents.
The program of the musicale follows:
Marche des Tambouse, (two pianos).....................................g Smith
Lizzie ToAvnsen and Mary Matthews.
A Welcome to All............... Weber
Nine Girls.
Soldiers’ Chorus—Faust—(eight hands)..............................Schubert
Pearl Frazer and Kittie Noble first piano— Vgnes Townsen and ’Ethel Markward,
second piano.
Les Huguenots de Meyerberer..................................... Hoffman
Maymie Campbell.
Rondo—(duo)...........................................................................Gurlett
Ethel MarkAvard first piano—Kittie Noble, second piano.
Pandora March, (trio)...........................................................Drumheller
Pearl Frazer, Hilda Dale and Agnes Townsen.
Wandering JeAv Grand Valse Brilliante, (duet) .........................Burgmuller
Ethel and Frances Markward.
Dance of the Fairies—Polka Brilliante—(eight hands)............ Fowler
Beulah Baker and Kittie Noble, first piano—Minnie Wiley and Prirna Baker,
. . second piano.
Belisario—Grand* de Dozinette Duo de Concert—A Goria Op., 27 his
Annie W illiamson, first piano—Sadie Phillips, second piano.
Waltz, (trio)..........................................................f......... Hoist
Ethel Markward, Frances Markward and Katie Stokes.
Duo de Norma....................................................... Weis Op 28
Prirna Baker, first piano—Beulah Baker, second piano.
Mazurka de Traineaux, (eight hands).................. .....................x. Bissell
Maymie Campbell and Sadie Phillips, first piano—Mary Matthews and Lizzie
_ . Townsen, second piano,
L' Alliance—II Trovatore de Verdi....................................;......]? Beyer
Maymie Campbell, Annie Williamson, Minnie Wiley, Beulah Baker, Myrtle
Ramsey and Prirna Baker.
Awarding the Medals— Hon. W. H. Browning.
Cinderella in Flower land—Operetta in four acts.
Yvonette Orchestra Between the Acts.
Commodore DeAvey’s Victory March, by the Orchestra.
CAST OF CHARACTERS IN OPERETTA:
Prologue..................................Fairy..................,............ .Katie Stokes
Cmd erilla :...............................Daisy.........................Daisy Williamson
Proud Sisters......................(Hollyhock...................Annie Williamson
_ ,, (Tiger Lily.................Maymie Campbell
Godmother.................................Nature............................ Beulah Baker
Bonnie Bee..............................Little Page......................Agnes Townsen
Butterflies.................Katie Stokes, Frances Markward, Jessie Jackson,
.....................[Lula Taylor, Stella Hooker and Exah Browning
Robin Red..............................Prince’s Herald................Hilda Dale
Prince Sunshine.........................Sunbeam Castle.........Theresa Lincecum
GUESTS AT THE BALL :
Poppy.......................Minnie W iley
Pansy.........................Prirna Baker
Buttercup.................Mary Matthews
Daffodill..................Pearl Frazer
Violet......................Kittie Noble
Sweet Brier......Sadie Phillips
Lily Bell..........Myrtle Ramsey
Mignonette......Lizzie Townsen
SAveet Pea......Ethel Markward
Narcisus...............Ruth Skinner
SIX LITTLE SUNBEAMS :
Aralee Jones, Bernice Clements, Eli Whitfield, Alma. Rogers, Ruth Key
.............................................................................[ and Jessie Carter
SIX LITTLE RAINDROPS :
Jimmie Brown, Inez Oliver, Ruth Cautlien, May Dell Burns, Emma Sue
..................................................................[Wilson and Ilene Haynie
* SCENE I.
Prince Sunshine’s invitation to the May-Day ball.
SCENE II.
Godmother Nature sends Daisy off to the ball.
SCENE III.
The May-Day ball and the shoAver.
SCENE IV.
The Princess of Sunbeam Castle.
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The Lampasas Leader. (Lampasas, Tex.), Vol. 10, No. 28, Ed. 1 Friday, June 3, 1898, newspaper, June 3, 1898; Lampasas, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth871121/m1/4/: accessed July 5, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Lampasas Public Library.