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Christian Messenger.
No. 30.
'THE messenger.
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WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 11, 1875
We received a letter and seven
new subscribers this morning from
Bro. Elgan, who is holding a meet-
ing at.White Rock, in Hunt county.
Ho says: “We had six confessions
last night.”
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Bro. D. Penington writes that he
is in receipt s>f a socond letter from
the church at Stoekdale, Wilson
county, proposing that that congre-
gation will give $600 a year for a
preacher.
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We learn from the Standard that
the rain has been almost continuous
for sixty days, and great damage
has been dono to the crops. Up. to
the 7th instant there had not been
a bright prospect for a change for
the better.
Dr. Hunt’s “Outlines of History
ot the Church” gives these figures :
Adherents of Christianity, 407,000,-
000 ; of Buddhism, 340,000,000 ; of
Mohammcdapism, 200,000,000; of
Brahmanism, 175,000,000 ; ot Con-
fucianism, 80,000,000; of Judaism,
7,000,000; of other religions, 174,-
000,000. " *
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We have a letter from Bro. Jno.
T. Poe, with his views in regard to
the co-operative movement, but
which he requests us to not publish.
In a very Christian spirit, he desires
to not become an obstacle in the
way of any good thing, though he
rathor fears the result of co-opera-
tion. (
Texas Items'.
Bro. A. M. Douglass writes:
M We have just closed a meeting
at Pilot Grove, winch lasted one
week and resulted in fifteen addi-
tions—seven by confession, one from
Baptists, one reclaimed and the rest
by letter. Bro. Wrfi. Reynolds, a
young preacher of much promise,
assisted in the meeting.”
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The convents of Germany arc
breaking up. and their occupants
are selling their possessions and
moving to other cour tries. Some of
these devotees of the Pope will
come to the United States, where
they will seek to overthrow our lib-
erties as they have tried to destroy
the liberties of others. Let them
know that they must not cut down
the tree that shelters thorn from the
storm.
As we go to press, we are in re-
ceipt of the first number of Bro.
Wilruetli’s paper, the Christian
Monthly. It is a very neap, respec-
table pamphlet of 32 pages, and will
doubtless prove a valuable accession
to the cause in our state. If the
Christians of Texas are able to sup-
port two papers, we bid Bro. Wil-
moth a thousand welcomes. Thero
are not journals enough of tiiis kind
in the country. If, however, a di-
vision of pationage between the
two papers should cause the death of
oije or both of them, wo should sin-
cerely regret it, and bo very sorry
that the churchos did not concen-
trate their support upon one paper
Geneva! News.
— Fodder is worth' $4.50 per
hundred bundles at Austin.
— A farmer near Dallas has 100
acres in sweet potatoes.
— The Fort Worthians had - a
$1200 loot race the other day.
— Ice .sells at one cent a pound
at Texarkana!
— The criminal court at Sherman
sent 22 convicts to the penitentiary.
— The drouth in eastern Texas
has not been equaled since 1860.
— August 13th a great Baptist
meeting begins near Pleasanton.
— Texas has five cities with a
population of over 10,000.
— Stephen Wright, editor of the
Guadaloupe Times, died last week.
— Horses nre cheaper in Toxns
now thau ever known before.
— Seven Indians killed Henry
Dell, in Mason count}*,and wounded
one ef his herdsmen.
— The Dallas Herald has been
sued for $30,000 libel for calling Mrs.
Fanny Smith a negro.
— Another young man was killed
by awkward handling of his gun
near Galveston, a few days ago.
— A silver mine has been discov-
ered in Montague county that yields
$2,000 per ton.
The new penitentiary for south-
western Texas is to bo- located at
San Marcos.
— Willard Richardson was 73
years old when he died. Ho came
to Texas in 1837.
— Julius Halff got entangled in a
rop<5 and was dragged to death by a
horse at Houston.
— Valley View and Gainesville
met in a spelling contest, and Gaines-
ville went down.
— The Sherman Register learns
that $10,000 per week is being paid
out for wheat in Grayson count}*.
— Over 100 pounds of honoy
were taken from two bcc hives at
Honey Grove.
— The vote for a convention car-
ried by a small majority. Very little
interest was taken in the election.
— A little lad at San Saba was
burned to death by upsetting a ket-
tle of hot greaso, a few days ago.
— It is now asserted that the T
& P. railroad will certainly ho com-
pleted to Fort Worth before Christ-
mas. ,
— They make omnibus drivers
and hotel drummers stay off the
platform at Dallas while the passen-
gers are getting off.
— They have found the remains
of a mastodon in Trinity county,
sixty’foet below the 6urfacc, with
tusks eleven feOt long.
— Ears of corn grow nine feet
up the stalk at Freestone, and the
people talk about ‘building ladders
to gather tho crop.
— The horse mentioned by the
Austin Statesman, that eats up al
the chickens that come in his way
Tilton's lawyers have served notice
of new trial.
Florida reports 10,000 alligator
hides this year.
Grant’s little grandbaby is called
Ulysses.
Tilton has written a book since
the trial.
There are over 14,000 Quakers in
England.
Cardinal McClosky started for
Rome on the 7th.
Pennsylvania has half a million
Catholics.
The Bank of England employs
800 clerks.
Rain fell almost every day in July
throughout central Kentucky.
Rice is now* coming into use for
brewing purposes.
There arc 40,000 lawyers in the
United States.
There are 2,500,000 farmers in the
United States.
The California wheat crop is only
half what it was last year.
Tho buildings for the centennial
will cost $7,600,000.
Two more of Brigham Young’s
wives bare eloped.
Jno. G. Whittier is writing a cen-
tennial poem.
It takes half a million gallons of
milk per day to do New York city.
The mines of Nevada have yielded
nearly $50,000 of precious metals
this year.
A monument is to be erected to
)r. Watts, and one to the author of
Bobinson Crusoe.
Many people in North Carolina
arc said to be making fortunes out
of the blackberry trade.
During the last six months, it is
estimated, 67,193 persons have lost
their lives by violence in the World.
Judge Otero, of Las Cruces, has
this year sheared 140,000 sheep, and
ins been nominated for Congress.
During tho past year there have
>ccn over 1,000 railroad accidents,
and only 175 persons killed
aud maintain it, before inaugurating Is supposed to havo once been rid
a second enterprise. But we have
it not in our heart to forbid any one
who wishes to speak a word for tho
cause of our Mester.
We hope Bro. J. T. Poe will not
understand that the brethren who
met at McKinney for the purpose of
Christian consultation, were intent
upon foisting in a “plan” for tho
preaching of the Gospel not con-
templated by the word of God.
Bro. Poe may understand, once for
all, that we aro for the Lord’s plan,
and the Lord’s work, and the Lord’s
reward. We do not wish nor want
any of the man in our work, where
the Lord has not pnt any. But
Christ said to his disciples, “Go
preach the Gospel to ever}* crea-
ture;” and the great need of the
present time is to get the disciples
to do their duty in this Work. Very
many of the preachers are doing
more than their share, while many
off the brethren are doing nothing.
This is where the trouble lies.
Teacher Wanted.—A good teacher
for a high school is needed at Ben-
ton, m western Texas. Write to J.
R. Sweeten. It is thought 100 stu-
dents can be had to commence with,
in a new two-story stone bouse pre-
pared for the perpose.
* C. K.
WOLSTON, WELLS & VIDOR
Cotton Factors
W. K. HOMAN.
Attorney at Law,
Caldwell, Burleson Co., Texas.
Will pay special and prompt at-
tention to ucal estate business and
the collection oX debts. 1-14.
—AND-
Comraison Merchants
League Building, 73 Strand,
John Wolston,!
C. G. Wells, ' Galveston, Texas.
Chas. Vidor, ^
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NEW STOCK
-OF-
SPRIN'G GOODS,
AT THE
Williams Brick Store
WEST SIDE OF SQUARE,
—Consisting of—
t* ..
Dry Goods^Clothing,
Boots, Shoc3, Hats, Etc., Etc.
Also, a fine and largo assortment
oi QUEENS WARE.
Those goods are all fresh and new
and will be sold cheap for casii.
J. B. ABERNATHY.
R. W. CAMPBELL.
T. B. COX.
CAMPBELL & COX,
Attorneys at Law,
Bonham, Fannin County, Texas.
Will practice in the Courts ol
Fannin, Lamar, Hunt, Collin and
Grayson counties, and in the Su-
premet Court. 1-11
BOIHAK CHRISTIAN COLLEBE.
DORMAN, HOLMES & CO.
THE GREAT AMERICAN
Piano FQrte House.
SECOND ANNUAL SESSION
BEGINS SEPTEMBER 6, 1875.
year is estimated to be equal to the
aggregate crops of the last ten years.
Wheat, oats and barley are injured
50 per cent, in Kentucky by the
month’s rains.
Ten bridges on the M. K. & T
railroad and six miles of track were
washed away by the late floods.
Henry Ward Beecher is to deliver
the annual address at the NowEng
land Agricultural Fair at Manches-
ter, Sept. 7th.
Ex-President Johnson died at tho
residence of his daughter in Carter
cou ty, Tenn., on the 31st ult, o!
paralysis and heart disease.
Of the 336 members of the pres
ent Congress, 198 aro lawyers, 50
merchants, 20 editors and 18 farm-
ers.
Eighty counties in Indiana and
twenty-five in Illinois aro terribly
injured by the floods. Wheat has
sprouted in tho shock.
The French Court of Appeals has
decided that Spiritualists are not
necessarily insane or in all eases fit
subjects for the lunatic asylum.
An unconscionable husband the
other day told his fashionable wife
Land for Sale.—One hundred
and twenty acres of good timber
land, in Kaufman county, ten miles
southwest of the town of Kaufman
and one mile and a half north of
the village of Union Grove. A good
1 ~ —:—t\ . uui gain-will be given. Apply to
Tho wheat crop of Mississippi this (jy Carlt —
Chas. Carlton, Bonham, Texas.
25 tf.
^den by a Methodist circuit-rider.
Two white men hired two negroes
to murder a man named Smith in
Bosque county. Tho four assassins
were hanged to one tree.
A drunken Rowdy named Frank
Martin shot and killed a saloon! that the most healthful watering
A Catholio Bishop and seven
priests have been arrested and sent
out of Salvador, because of the riots
they had caused.
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On last Saturday, in company
with a number of other editors ot
the city of Bonham, wo ate a veiy
excellent dinner at the Barney
House, upon invitation of Mr. Ford,
the new proprietor.
keeper named Misellorn at Dallas,
and wounded tho officer that tried
to arrest him.
— Two men, Docll an-d Keller,
while out hunting in Mason county,
wore fired upon by a hand of mask-
ed robbeis, and both seriously
wounded.
— An able-bodied colored girl
applied to the police court of Collin
county to be put on the pauper list,
because gho was “conjurod” and
couldn’t work for a support.
— Jo Lilly, near Tyler, was re-
turning home from a hunt, and Ins
sister was in the bushes with her
hand lifted among tho twigs. He
thought it was a squirrel, and fired,
and killed his sister.
— A young man named Simonds
and another named Anderson wtfre
shot dead in an affray with a manby
the name of Hodges, at Black Jack,
a fow days ago, and another young
Simonds perhaps mortally wounded.
The shooting took place in a thick
crowd of men, women and children
gatherod at an Odd Fellows' cel-
ebration.
place he knew was the wash tub.
Geologists have discovered that
tho ground of southern Indiana,
Kentucky and Tennessee is rising
at the rate of one foot every twenty-
four years.
One farmer in Illinois has in cul-
tivation 19,000 acres of corn, 2,500 JV't “np-
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proposes:
1. To furnish regularly and for
each issue, a number of solid, well
digested articles on important and
interesting themes.
2. To give a summary of Gener-
al Religious News, and especially
that relating to the cause in which
we arc engaged. A number of Cor-
responding Editors in different
States, and numerous correspond-
ents in different sections, afford us
superior advantages in this respect.
3. To make suc-h extracts anr
selections as are of striking inted-
est; for which many able exchan-
ges furnish the best facilities. In
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make THE SOUTHERN CHRIS-
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ligious, family and news journal;
and that in both its editorial and
mcchnpioal departments, it shall be
inferior to no journal of its kind in
all the land.
Ten issue.® remain to complete
tho current volume (Now Series,
Vol. 3.) after which, and with the
beginning of the next volume, this
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COMPANY,
acres of flax, 1,000 acres of oats, be-
sides enough in grass to make 8,000
tons of hay.
The library of the late Mr. Brinly,
of Hartford, is said to be worth
$250,000. It contains sevon copies
of Elliott’s Indian Bible, tho first
book printed in New England, which
is valued at $1,000 per copy.
Secretary Fish has notified tho
mayor of New York that a band of
counterfeiters are preparing to issue
in that city twelve millions of coun-
terfeit notes of the Bank of England
and the Bank of Franco.
Of tho lo0,000 cattle driven from
Toxas this season, it is said about
75,000 were driven to Platte river
in Nebraska, 30,000 bought by the
government for tho northern In-
dians, and balance sold as stock
cattle.
Those subscribing for the next
volume will receive the remaining
numbers of this volume fkke ot
charge.
Price of the weekly §2 00 a year.
jtgrAny one sending us the
names of six new subscribers with
the cash, will be entitled to one copy
of the weekly for one year. One
copy for ton renewals.
tafF Now is the time to subscribe.
Address,
J. M. PICKENS, Publisher,
Mountain Home, Ala
THOMAS MOORE.
JAK. T. MOORX.
JIOOllE A MOOllE,
ATTY’S. AT LAW.
WACO, TEXAS.
vol. l-no-27-Gm.
TEXAS DEPARTMENT.
DORMAN, HOLMES & CO.
Manufacturer and Dealer in
Pianos & Organs
GENERAL OFFICE, TEXAS DEPARTMENT
Corner Commerce and Market
streets, Dallas.
Supply Depots or Branch offices at
all important points
in the State.
NEW YORK OFFICES :
No. 14 East Fourteenth Street.
This Institution is located in the
most moral community in the whole
state of Texas. There is less to
tempt the young and inexperienc-
ed from the paths of virtue and
lead them into vice and dissipation.
Being away from the great centers
of trade, and off the great thorough-
lares of the country, yet easily ac-
cessible. The position of the Col-
lege is the most advantageous that
could he desired, because removed
from all the miasmata that pollute
the moral atmosphere of all the
great centers of travel and trade.
The healthfulness of the city of
Bonham and vieinty is well known
to all those persons familiar with
its history, from the forting up ol
Bailey Inglish and family to the
jresent day. Let the traveler visit
the grave yards. Are they crowd
ed? No. . Yet, the citizen and
stranger arealike enjoying the rc
lose of this last resting place. Look
at the doctors. Not one of them
ias grown rich; but they seem rath
or to be livin'' for the good of oth-
ers, insomuch as they havo food
and raiment and «in obtain no
more.
The College was chartered by
the Legislature of the state of Tex-
as, at its lust session, and by this
means invested with all the rights,
privileges ami powers that belong
to any Institution of the same grade
in the state of Texas. Any young
gentleman or lady can here find
ample opportunity to pursue a sci
entific or classical course of study,
and secure all the honor bestowed
>y any college, on all who have
completed the. appointed curriculum
of study. The fullness of the ap
pointed studies is sufficient to satis-
fy the desirds of all the friends of
sound learning and thorough schol-
arship. It will always be the pur
x>sc of the Trustees to make Bon-
ham Christian College all the age
demands, and the course of sound
learning requires.
Since there is a great want of
good opportunity to acquire a pri-
mary education in the different
parts of the country, thero is organ-
ized, to make up for this deficiency,
a primary and sub-collegiate de-
lartment under the control of the
est teachers the country affords.
iStudents can, at any stage ot their
progress, enter some departments
of the College and go on success-
flulv.
The Musical department is of the
first class, as the advancement of
the pupils in tho past clearly dem-
onstrates. In connection with this
department all kinds of needle, hair
and wax work are taught.
The accommodations of th® Col-
lege building are adequate to meet
the wants of three hundred stu-
dents. The building is seated with
the best article of patent seat and
desk, from the Sterling Mailufactur
ing Company, 111. The apparatus of
College is good.; and a good nucle-
us for a library has already been se
cured by the gift of some rare
works from J. T. Walton, of Waco,
and tho purchase of others of great
value.
The teachers of the College are
as good as can be found in the land
—being graduates from the host
schools in the country, and of long
experience in the art of teaching
Tho expenses of the College aro
as small as any school' of the same
advantages in the land.
Tuition per month:
Collegiate Dop’t, - - - - 85 00,
Sub-Collegiate, .... 4 00,
Primary,...... 3 00,
Music,, (no extras) - - - 6 00,
Matriculation fee for Library, 2 50.
Wax-work, cte., taught at tfie usual
rates.
No deductions except in eases of
protracted sickness.* Students may
enter at any time and pay to the
close of the term.
Semi us your sons and daughters
that we may holp them prepare
themselves for the battle of life.
Let tho churches of Christ look
out the young men and women of
talent, energy and zeal in the Mas-
ter’s service and holp thorn to ob-
tain an education, by which their
usefulness will he greatly increased.
For particular* inquire of
CHAS. CARLTON,
PreakUsin.
CENTRAL SOUTHERN DEPOT:
No. 83 Church street, Nashville,
Tenn.
To facilitate business, we havo
made our General office for tho
State, at DALLAS, whore all orders
and correspondences from Texas
should he addressed. The instru-
ments will be sent from the nearest
supply depot.
PIANO S
In addition to our own make, the
DORMAN, HOLMES & CO.’S
Grand Scale Piano,
We control for this and several other
states the renowned
Checkering & Sons
Steinway. BRADBURY
and other first class PIANOS, that
wo can deliver to our customers, at
any railroad station in Texas, just
as cheap as same instrument can ho
bought from Factory in-New York
or Boston, saving them the expense,
delay and risk of transportation.
Wo have splendid pianos for $290,
350 and $400.
We supply families direct, giving
them eveiy advantage usually given
agents.
PIANO S
E
Pianos and Organ* Sold on monthly
IKSTALLHBXI8.
Second Hand Instruments Taken in
Exchange lor New.
Pianos and Organs made to Ordef
With Silver Insertion Plate
when desired.
Tuning aud Repairing done
Skillful workmen and sat-
isfaction guaranteed.
A large stock of PIANO STOOLS
and SPREADS at bottom
prieos.
Pianos and Organs
for Rent.
All kinds of Musieal Instruments,
Sheet Music and Music Mer-
• chandise, furnished at
Lowest prices.
Pianos can be exchanged at any time
for any make, if not giving
perfect satisfaction.
Parties living in towns on any of
tho different lines of railroad
in the state, wishing to test
any of our instruments
before buying, can havo
them placed in their homes
for trial, without extra expense
Wo guarantee the most Perfect sat-
isfaction in every respect.
ORGANS
FOR CHURCH OR PARLOR,
Of any make at wholesale price®.
DORMAN, HOLMES 4 CO.
Arc among the largest dealers in
PIANOS
m the United States.
Their trade is now oxtonding over
nearly the entiro country, and
will guarantee to deliver
PIANOS AND ORGANS,
At any point in the state at lower
prices and better terms than
any other house.
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Burnett, Thomas R. & Carlton, Charles. The Christian Messenger. (Bonham, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 30, Ed. 1 Wednesday, August 11, 1875, newspaper, August 11, 1875; Bonham, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth974500/m1/3/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Bonham Public Library.