North Texas Enterprise. (Bonham, Tex.), Vol. 4, No. 30, Ed. 1 Friday, April 3, 1874 Page: 1 of 4
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NORTH TEXAS! ENTERPRISE.
Wol. 4 No. 30.
f HE NORTH TEXAS ENTERPRISE
l« published every Fridny,
l»y
TOM B. BVBNKTT,
Bonham, Fannin Go., 'l’exat.
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FRIDAY, APRI|| 3, 1874,
Be A Woman-
Tfexae, April 3, 1874,
The gpclal Side.
$2,00 a year, in advanc©
_Paris has twelve schools.
_ A bed of coal has boon discov-
ered near Sulphur Springs.
_Judgo Semicolon McAdoo is
practicing law at Jefferson.
Six thousand hides were ship-
ped from Austin during February
Professional Cards.
DR. W. WILIS,
PHYSICIAN 4- SUItaICON,
I,ulema, Texas,
Tender, hia p.olesaiortaj .erncea to tho
people of Ludonix and vicinity, Oflico ut
Jj; 1). Kennedy’, .tore, went aide of the
Sijuaro. *l8
Jilt. .T. T. KENNEDY,
PHYSICIAN 4 S UIIO HUN,
Tenders liis pi-ofcsniotial services to
the citizens ol fiiiijumu mol vicinity
OlBee at Drugstore, oast side of the
sipturu, Lndotiia. Texas.
8, /?. Mu Tty, J, y. Chenomth
MAXEY & OIIBNOWETII,
A TTOHNETS A T LA IU
The un(Tnr«igned liqvp. formed a o'part-
ner.liip in the practice gf law m the Dictriet
(>nrt of Fannin County Pei mm. deairou.
of our servirei car. o n.ntt with cither of the
Firm. All bua Jie.a entrusted to u« »i.l re-
ceive our atrict attention.
8 B. MAXF.Y,
J Q. CHENOWKTH,
J. S. Saunders,
Physician, Surgeon
-a n n-
0 B S TE T It IC I AN.
Office at T. R. William.’ .tore. Red-
doueo Emit aide Main »triv>t. ono block
North of the .quire. Desire, especially
to treat HEMORBHOl OES (pile.) no
all ether chronic diseases,
Charges will be in accordance with tho
custom, "y the Profcnnion-
Feb. if, 1873. no301v.
JIM FARE,
ATTORNEY AT LAW
. and
Land Agent,
Grcotiville, Uuut Couuty, Texas.
Practices in Hunt and surround-
ing counties, mid in tlio Supronn
Court of the State.
\\ . M.
JONES
Respectfully
n n un u uco
t )i» t t h cy
have on hind a full line of carriage., buggie.,
p'.neona, ngd hack, tor hire.
Horae* Taken Cairo pt.
ty Feed, oats, <fc. for »»•« oha.p
BONHAM, TEXAS
DR J. 8. SAUNDERS, would announce
to the Phy.ician. ofBonhainand the .11 r-
rnunding country, and to the public, that he
lia. recently vi.ited medical headquarter,
that he might "rub up” a little and bettor
qualify liiin.elf for the arduou. dutie. of hi.
profeiiinn. Re ha. supplied a lack that ha.
long existed among the medical men ef this
County—viz: n good assortment pf m.tru
mnt«, late books and other appliance, nec
e.*nry for treating all di.ea.es sud difficul-
ty. pertaining to Female., 80 it i. not
now ncccarjr for ladie. to go a great dis-
tance at heavy expense in order to he
treated according to the advanced itate of
pur noble art.
Bonham, Tex., Jan. 15th, 1874.
“Evening Star” .tore for .ala At Coat
pj Chat. Ravi.
hTc'ot is V ilb^LoSrry
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— Charley Noyes, tho cirous nyan,
and his wife at e teaching a riding
and training school at Brownsville.
— Tho Dallas Herald notes tho
successful introduction of chestnut
trees in that county
_They are blowing tho stumps
out of the bayou and lakes below
Jefferson with nitroglycerine,
_A littlo girl nine years of age
lost, attended by a black dog , was
picked up in Houston tho other day.
v!— A stone church building ts be
ing orooted at Thorp Springs
Hood county.
— Ths Houston Mercury is to be
movod to Galveston, and published
as tbo Galveston Times.
— Tho tent of a monkoy show
blpw down at Palestine and the
monkeys escaped, and wore at large
at last uccounts.
— Elliott, of tho Stato Gazette,
has bean appointed to do tho state
printing temporarily, until bids are
rocoivcd.
— At a marriage jn Medjna coun-
ty tho other day the bride grflbm
Oft I’ve heard a gentle mother,
As tbo twilight hours began,
Pleading with a aon 9h duty,
Urging him to bo a man.
But unto hpv bluo-eyed daughter,
Though with loyo’s words quite
as Toady,
Points she out the other duty*
‘•Strive ray dear to be a lady,
Wjxat’s a lady? Js it something
was a widower and had fifteen
children.
— Our Lsgislators act upon the
motto, “ The greatest good to the
greatest number," but thoy tliinla
number one the greatest number.
— A train was precipitated ffom
tho bridge on Cypress, between
Jefferson and Marshall, on the 25th
ult., killing one man.
— The well* of the capitol a
udorned with only four pictures of
distinguished Texans — Houston,
Aurtin, Burleson and Crockett.
_A band of immigrants from
Missouri, with ten wagons loaded
with bacon anal flour, passed
through Denison one day last week
_Midy Morgan, agricultural ed-
itor and stock reporter of the New
York Times, is enjoying horself lor
a short while on tho prairies of Tex-
— T'ba “Twin Sisters," two can-
nons presented to the Republio of
Toxaa by the people of Cincinnati,
have been stolon, and the Adjutant
General cauaot got on the track ol
them.
_Hammond’s revival in Galves-
ton continuesj’ministers are arriving
from all parts of the country. Dr.
Lewis, of St. Louis, with a band of
preachors has come all the way
from that city.
0, Moses!
The Austin correspondent of a
St. Louis Radical paper, says that
there is not a well dressed man in
either House of the Texas Logisla-
turo. He says the “fashionable tai-
lor has, evidently, never been con-
sulted, but the cheap clothing man
generally patronized/ .This
ous **“
fastid-
writer is hard to satisfy in
■s of style. He says: “Ths
1 is presided over by a short
man named Hubbard, the Lieuten-
ant Governor^ who is bursting with
personal vanity, and is very thea-
trical in his performances. When
ever he addressos a Senator, he pro-
faces his remarks by ‘the distin-
guished Senator,’ and the habit has
grown upon that body until the
stranger who drops in upon their
deliberations is astounded by the
number of ‘distinguished’ men he
secs about him.
Like tho fancy rugs and chairs?
it is oqo that wastes on novels
Every feeling tbat is human?
If ’tin this to be a lady,
_"Tis not this to bo a woman.
Mother, then unto your daughtor
Speak of something higher far
Than to be mere fashion’s lady—
Woman is the brightest star.
If ye, in your strong affection, *
Urge your son to be a true roan,
Urge your daughter no less strongly
To rise up and be a woman.
Yes, a woman! brightest model
Of tho light and perfect beauty;
There tho mind, and soul, and body,
Blond to work out life’s great duty,
Be a woman—naught is higher
On the gjlded list of fume;
On the catalogue of virtuo
There’s no brighter, holier name.
Be a woman—on to duty,
Raiso tbo world from all that’s low,
Place high in the social heaven
Virtue’s fair and radiant bow!
Lend thy influence to each effort
That shall raise our nature human;
Bo not fashion’s giddy lady,
Bo a brave, true, whole-souled
wo|r»an,
I wonder.
When a young man is a clerk in
a stoiv and dresses like a prince,
smoking “Bvcb^cigar*do
We understand that some of the
young ladies aro talking of forming
thomselves into a society banded to-
gether and pledged to each Other not
to (tfspeiate with or be soon in the
company witb-any gentlemen who
drives intoxicating liquors; that
they will emphatically and com-
pletely, and absolutely ignore and
cut tbe acquaintance of a|l euoh.
This jve consider one of the most
enoofrogmg signs of the times
WH MaJtumtM
nK
Fri
“nice Fronch Brandy"* afTontling
theatres, balls and the liko, I won-
der if ho doos all upon the avails pf
his clerkship?
When a young lady sits in the
parlor with lily-white fingers, cov-
ered with rings, I wonder if Tier
mother don’t wash the dishes and
do all the work cf the kitchen?
V\ hen a deacon of tho church
sells strong buttor, recommending
it as excellent and sweot, I wonder
if ho don’t rely upon the merits of
Christ for salvation?
When a man goes three times per
day to a tavern to got a dram, I
wonder if ho will not by and by go
four times?
When a j-oung lady laces her
waist a third smaller than nature
made it, I wonder if hor “pretty fig
ure ' will not shorten hor life some
dozen years or more, besides mak-
ing herself miserable while she doos
live?
When a young man is dependent
upon his daily toil for his income,
and marries a lady that does not
know how to make a loaf of oread
or mend a gnrmont, I wonder if he
is not lacking somewhere, say to-
ward the top for instance?.
When a man roceivesa periodi-
cal or newspaper weekly, and takes
?roat delight in reading it, but peg-
ects to pay the printer, I wonder >f
bo has a soul or a gizzard.
Never bum kiruily written lotters;
it is so pleasant to read them over
when the ink is brown, the paper
yellow with age, and tho hand that, ¥______
traced it folded over tbe heart that* shall now
prompted the words, under the sentance
;reen sod. Above all, never burn
ove letters. To read tnem in after
years is liko a resurrection of one’s
youth. Tho elderly spinster finds
in the impassioned offer sho rejected
twonty years ago, a fountain of ro-
juvenesconce. Glancing over it,
she realizes that she was once a
belle and a beauty, and beholds her
former self in a mirror much more
congenial to her taste than the one
that confronted hor in her dressing
room. Tho “widow indeed" derives
swsot and solemn consolation from
the letter of tho beloved one who
Oung ladies of this city banded to-
gether with such purposes, would
npke drinking disrespectful #nd a
disgrace very quickly. Wo never
saw a time before, when such a
fiiove was practicable. But now is
a gold^B opportunity. The country
J?awake. Jbe tinio'is propitious.
By all jheans, girls, form your so-
ciety, make your rules rigid, make
thojiouplly of the breach exclusion
of the girl that breaks it from all
respectable socioty. Dq thjs, aud
our word for jt, there will bo such
a refownation among young men as
was niA’er hentd of before. And
Oh! tho suffering you may save
yourselves. Look over tho blight-
ed homes, tho blastod hopes of the
youDg and the beautiful; tho long,
long, dreary years of suffering so
many Of your sox have drawn out,
tied to u loathsome brute }tou aro
compelled to call husband. Look
at the suffering in a thousand differ-
ent forirs, entfiilod on you and on
thijsc you love, by twunfon with an
intemperate husband.
If you knew tne Idhthsome debt of
depravity, licentiousness and dis-
ease that the vico of intemperance
lefttls to, wo are Bure you would
form this resolution. Young ladies,
you are in a vepy great measure re-
sponsible for the state of speiety
that exists in your beloved country
to-day. You allow young men to
escorfcyou to the social party, to the
loctufe, apd to the dance, that you
know as wotl as y-ou are living are
both intemperate and imp 11 r
in the gidoyball room with tho
arms of young men around your
waists, young mon who were not
fit to be spoken to.
Jf one of your own sex were as
impure as those yoqng men, you
would scorn to notice them on tho
street. Thb eyes pf the Christian
world aro on you, young ladies.
Tho eyes of refined society are
watching j-ou. WilJ yop resolve
pow to act well j our part.—ex
—■ «•» —---------------
A Novel Reprimand.
Tho other day while tho Lower
House of tho Louisiana Legislature
was unduly excited over the pass-
age of what is known at the Fund-
ing bill, two colored representa-
tives, holding opposite viows Jet
their angry passions rise to such an
oxtent that finallj' one of them flat-
ly dubbed the other a liar. Such
imtemperate languago could not bo
allowed to pass uqrobukod; accord-
ingly be was called before the
speaker.
Hon. Mr, Bones timi(|ly apf
proached the speaker, who sat sul-
lenly upon his elevated sent scowl-
ing upon his shrinking victim liko a
very genius of vengeance. All eyos
wore turned upon the two.
“Mr. Bones, said the irate speak-
er, rising to u tease of over-power-
ing dignity, “you has fended de
’spectable senso of dia yere house
by callin’ a brudder member a liuh,
and dts yere house flat 'solved dat
shall bo repermanded, and I
must find employment elsewhere or
burtipn men with theif support
Who has not seen one anxious
careworn man delving morning
noon and night to support a house
lull of idle women, who take as a
natural consequence that they are
the ravens roforred tp by the Lord,
and they ueod not to Vork. A lit
tie sweeping, dusting, regulating,
sewing, chatting, goastping, shopping
and making calls, constitute the
sum total of their industries. Doing
jtny labor that would bring a penny
»flfe
General Items.
T^ll mop live “longer" than
short onos.
1ST Andy Johnson is opposed to
tho ladies’ temperance war.
JW Tlie Legislature of Maine has
abolished the death penalty.
has journeyed before her to tho far
off land, whence there comes no
message, and where she hopos one
day to join him. No photograph
can so vividly recall to tne memory
of tho mother the tenderness and
dovotion of the children who have
left at the call of Heaven as the epis-
tolary outpourings of their love.
A letter of a true son or daughter
to a true mother is something bet-
ter than the image of the featares;
is a reflex of the writer’s soul.
Koep all loving letters; burn all
harsh ones, and in burning them
forgive and forget.
purceod fur to ’flict de
ob do law on jou—Mr.
Bones it nr de opinion ob dis yere
house, likewise of dis vere speaker,
dat you is a reg’lpr puke and a plum
jackass."
This was followed by intensp sen-
sation throughout the 'spectable
house, and roars of laughter from
the lebby, amidst which the victim
retired, a crushed man and ruined
statesman.
Mrs. Pomeroy on Women.
In regard to the duties of women
and their responsibilities, we extract
from a paper read before a New
York Literary Society, by Mrs. M.
M. Fomeroy, wife of the fearless
brainworker, Mark M. (“Brick”)
Pomeroy. We commond it to the
careful consideration of al| Intelli-
gent ladies.
Unquestionably woman is adapt-
ed to b°mo life, which is essential
to human progress and happiness.
But as it does not fall to tho lot of
more than one in throe, to have a
home of her own, the unlucky two
overworked man would* think.
Such a departure fVom established
rules of idleness, would be disrepu-
table! Their position in society,
oven of tbe middle classes, would
be materially injured if the women
pf tho family went tp work as boys
aro expected to do before they are
old enough to shave. A largo class
of people eutertain this view of the
subject and encourage the difficul-
ties to which unprotected, unshel-
tered women are subjected in their
struggle after Business success. Tho
consequence is that a few of them
are brave enough to fight against
tho odds thoy constantly encounter,
and tho rost drop into hoDest but
hopeless poverty, or enter the dis-
honost life of marriage for a mere
support. Thore is an -other evil
that ovorlakes too many in the
hard struggle against want, which
ostracises them forever from good
society. In the sight of Heaven
marriago is only justified by love,
and a woman who avails of it for
tho sake of a Jiving is not better or
purorat heart than many a ppor
creature who cannot enter the so-
cial gates.
The Trqe Manhood.
Wo all recognize the advantage
of powerful auxilliarius. While it
is good for a man to be born of
good parent., and while great sd-
vantages may be potet, the loss of
them may bo a far boti
ol men
great ad van
side are seen men~ ruining their
cbildron with advantages. These
children are born to comfort, if not
to luxury; they are carried in the
arms of love; they have wealth
Abundant, and their hereditary
names are of thomselves a crown of
glory. And, growing up without
having an ambition to make them-
selves better, thousands and thou-
sands of them have beon ruined by
thoir .opportunities. How pan a
man have patience when he has
never felt on him even so much as
the weight of a dew-drop ? It is
the tree with whoso branches tho
wind has beon playing through
Summer and Winter for many
years that is sturdy aod strong.
How many men who grow up in a
dunghill aro juicy, succulent, and
good for nothing. How many msn
e7*
opportunities, and j
in the end. Many a man hasgain-
ed much information by lying on his
Mrs. Todd, stepmother ot
FresidentLincolm^dicdju Indiana,
• •::3
■*-
I®* Judge Dent, of Mississippi-
a brother-in-law of President Grant,
diod on the 23rd ult.
-:—T-Y—-rr
Garibaldi has twenty-
one swords of honor that have been
presented him.
AW Gen. John Tyler, son of
President Tylor, is a Methodist
preacher in Florida.
AWlt is gettypg into the ehurohes,
A Troy spjton tbe other day walk:
ed off with 12,000 of pew rents.
--- ■ .*..■» ,r
AW An oil tank containing 12,-
000 barrels of oil was struck by
lightning near Pittsburg, and igni-
ted. It made a big biaxe,
—" ♦ »♦» m ■ I »rn
An Illinois town has passed
an ordinance prohibiting boys un-
der sixteen years of ago from using
tobacoo or liquor,
» «»»■■■■ —
Ono thousand merchants of
York petitioned Congress to
fix the amount of legal tender at
1400,000,000.
Emperor William was visit;
od by tho generals of the army on
the 22bd, aud congratulated on lus
*> i« ,
complain that they have nevor had
yetoomo out well
eu muen lniormauon by lying on ms
belly in a smith-shop, with the forge
fire for a light, and studying, and
ohl wbat stalwart men they are.
All the wants of adversity cannof
harm them. They stand in a
strength that has been bred out of
weakness, out of oppressions, out of
infirmities. They have heroic pa-
tienco, heroic courage, aud self-reli-
ance which is not self-conceit. How
many men tbat are strong and pQr
bust roll through life without per-
forming greater functions than a
swine at a trough. They are round
of person and pleasant to look up-
on; good eaters and good eloepers.
Thoy eat well, drink well, sleep
well, and die wpl|. “They are
goot
The
d fellc
owe," so the world says,
y are men that one finds wher-
ever bp gopp. They are of pleasing
address and carry about with them
a good fund of oomio .tones, and
can tell you the time of day easily,
because they know well the hour
when dinner and supper comes.
They are nioe men. as the world
joes. But my asparagus brings
orth something betto;- than they
aro. I would rather have a good
eee.
. work in
your manhood; and if he wanta you
to stand, stand in yonr manhood.
Men that have loet all wealth and
more than
aro. 1 would rather have a go
vegetable than such fellows as tbe
If God wants yoq tp work, work
all popularity may gain
they have lost. lie tbat joins him-
self to a good principle joins him-
self to God. There are men of
whom people, say ‘\Yell. that man is
well cleaned out.’* J should like to
see anything in the business or po-
litical rorltf tbat can clean a man
out. Misfortune can overthrow
nothing but the outward manhood;
the inward is or should be, invul-
nerable against iL—Beecher.
Senator Morton read an ar:
tide of ten or twelvo pages in Con*
grass on the 25th ult., in regard tq
tbe Texas m*ttpr, Oongresa
to sustain the deoision of tho court,
A»*A passenger train on the
Union Pacific railroad between Lo-
ano and We|ls was thrown from the
track and rolled thirty foot down
an embankment, killing a great
many persons.
AST As an evidence of the speed
of the tejegrsph, the San Franoisoq
Call repaired dispatches from Swo,
den, printed them and kavo them to
its readers before the hour at which
they wore dated, the news out-trav-
eling the earth's revolution.
A BeauMIil Trtb»tc.
. A palatine hae fallen, and the
winds that sweep across the Lone
Star State are ladened with lamen-
tations. Lewie T. Wigfall has
wrapped the d. apery of his couch
around him and laid down to his
eternal slumbers. He was a type
of ihe trno Southron, now fast pasa^
ing away, leaving none behind wor-
thy to hear the sbeilds that were so
nobly born# in the face of battle.
When the crash of armies came,
when the South unfurled her bonny
blue flag and flung it boldly to
the perfumed breexe# pf that laud
of heroes, none responded
promptly than the Senator from
Terae; and his speeoh in the U. 8,
Senate as he bade his comrades
farewell, was pne of the most elo-
uent and patbetio svar heard In
t ball. A ripe scholar, polished
ater, an eminent lawyer, poet
and legislator, bis loss is ureppara-
ble to the aeotioa that be work so
hard to mvo, and many manly
breast# will heava with sorrow at
tbe brief announcement that be will
be no more aeen amid tbe busy
scenes of life, but the fragrance of
his many deeds In the field and in
the forum shall lingsr with ua like a
benison. We, too, mingle one tears
with those of our brethren of the
. garlanded Sou**, and lay
our laurel jegf upon bis confined
que
thal
deb
T. Wigftll wilt
cred ground to every lover of true
manhood. Caucasian.
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