The Post-Mirror. (Pilot Point, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 44, Ed. 1 Saturday, December 15, 1888 Page: 1 of 8
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U • Lira stock
rwith Pilot Point Bank.
•■ V. DARWIN, Agent,
IE Porter, M D.,
lN nod SURGEON,
i professional services to
mobile. Can be found at Dr.
»o's drag store dag or night
1 promptly respond to all
KSSS WRIGHT S STUfilG
4T THE SEMINARY.
Open every afternoon flrqln Ito
Instruction given in Pencil
l Crayon, Oil, Kensington and
afntlng. Cali and see the
' class. F*it terms apply
Studio. > '
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sitting sad Fitting a Specialty,
i stairs at Wilson AElmoto'a.
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W. Smith,
HAN and SURGEON,
>t Point, Texas,
Star Drugstore.
A. DALE,
MamifMitiirer of
I Galyakusd Wash,
work a specialty. Tin
sooth side square, at old
)t Point, Texas. . • s
J, Pearce ■,
Proprietor City ' ■;&,.
tY, FEED STABLE
will carry paeaeu-
any part of the <-lty
it Point, Texas.
POINT BANK
General Banking and Col-
&e Pilot Point, Tax.
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TEXAS.
1JfUBTON, & CO;.
and Stationer»,
> <m«U 2dl«lH Sew.fH-
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Texas*
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P. SANDERS,
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drains nr—
AND HARNESS,
Deaton Tar*,
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A comparison of district and eom-
mnnity systems in Texas baaed
the statistical reports of county judg-
es and county superintendents,
proves conclusively the superiority
of the district system. .Thsaveragp
eobool term in districts the past year
was a little over five and' one-quar-
ter months, while the average in
counties where the community sys-
tem prevails was only less than five
months. The»average annual sals'
riea paid teachers in districts was
$238 41-100, white the anunal sala-
ries in communities was only $192.-
56; average monthly salaries in dis-
tricts, $42.27, and in communities,
$39.04. The percentage of scholas-
tic population enrolled in districts
is 83 per oent, and in communities
only 74 per cent. Under the dis-
trict system the school term is long-
er, has a larger enrollment of pupils
teaches a larger percentage of chil-
dren and pays teachers better saV
ries.
The Sam Houston normal school,
located at Huntsville, I as an attend-
ance of $00 pupils who are prepar-
ing to make teachers of themselves.
No one hit admitted to this school
except Jfu*g ladies oyer toyeittoem
years brfgf sad men-over eighteen.
(l The Prairie View normal school,
located near Hempstead, is for tho
education of colored teacher^ and
should be under the •contra? of the
state department of education, as it
receives its quota of the available
school fund and is supported alone
from that fond.
*
Ail tho Alliances, Granges and
Wheels iu the world will never do
the fanners any good as long as they
have their smokehouses iu town.
if organization is to do the far-
mer any good, it must have as its
first plank, “I solemnly swear that I
will raise my own corn, wheat, oat*,
molasses, m.eat and potatoes; and
then, if I have time, I will raise a
few balsa of ootton.” An organisa-
tion on this principle, with Us rules
rigidly enforced, though it oUy had
members in each con-
do much towards
banishing mortgages, deeds of trust
t.3
four, or
munity,
mortgages, dee
and 24 per cent, interest If Would
help to keep money at home too..—
Blossom Bee. „ .... , a ■ '
$ - . - j g » r ■ ,i -I,.......
Within the past few weeks there
has been many business failures
throughont Texas in large and small
towns and soipe very heavy ones,
Everybody regrets ^hose business
disasters, they arc detrimental to any
town. Thps far Pilot Point has es
oaped. Not a failure has occurred
the past year, and perhaps could
safely say for .a longer time. Our
business men financially solid, and
we need apprehend uo danger in this
direction. It speaks well for our
business interests, and for the eity
and oountry generally.
■BTTT AWD TUB BBAB.
Last Thursday two young ladies
of Sacramento, chimes the Califor-
nia Tocsin, who have been camping
in the neighborhood of Bolinas, went
on a huckleberry picnic, and were
somewhat surprised to encounter ■*
large brown bear, engaged in the
same kind of business. One of the
young ladies, who is an expert shot,
happened to have a rifle, and though
not wishing to ronse any hard feel-
not, propose to have her fan
>AJf DECEMBER 15,1888.
TERMS—$1.5o Per Annttw.
NEW SERIES—VOL. 1 NO.
to assert a monopoly of the entire
huckleberry crop el 4kt district, and
quietly hut resolutely took tbs offen
sive, and sent a ballet ftkroigh He
bruin. This is the first bear, we be-
lie ve, that has ever been killed by a
woman in Marion County. The car-
case was brought to San Rafael by
the Bolinas stage. It was a big, ug-
ly brute* and a look at it was suffi-
cient to arouse admiration for the
grit of the two quiet-looking ladies
that put it to sleep.
. nuDBMESfl ix .sraxen.
Some pride themselves upon say-
ing rude things. They fancy they <
have done a smart thing when tpey
have given a rugged, ooari* rebuff.
We have known some Christian men
to be very unohristian ip this par-
ticular. All such ought to ponder
this remark, made by One of the
greatest of great men: “Sir, a man
has no more right to say an nnoivil
thing than to act ons->-BO more right
to say a rude thing to another than
to knock him down.” «
DRUMM & BAKER BROS.,
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XTiOBISTS -A-JNX) BllBIDMmtT,
VOXTH U4 DALLA1, TIXU. .
W« vers swarded the following Fmslsws oror TUrtoon Ooapotrton st tho
llexas Stats Fair and Dallas Exposition, October, 1888:
mrnnT sunmnn. aermwn
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Terrible as Armies wli& Banners:
Two large processions
each other1 on the
near Indianapolis.
Mid the leader of
man that first
fqr president.'
(Harrison
“We have the right
of way,” haughtily replied the lead-
er of the other precession! “We are
the man that went<40 school with
him when we were a boy!” And
the shook of the collision' shook the
earth and broke all the wlnlows for
miles around.
Preparations are being made for
the celebration of Washington's in-
auguration in N«w York on the 80th
of April next. The president and
his cabinet, with the justices of the
supreme sotit, will be in attendance,
and the ceremohies will be conduct-
ed as nearly as possible a<> they were
a hundred years ago. There will be
festivities on the evening of the 29th,
attendance upon divine worship up-
on the morniqg of the 30th and the
inauguration itself at a later hoar.
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The Austin Statesman, after giv-
ing a synopsis of the annual report
of Superintendent W. A. Kendall of
the Deaf and-Dumb Assy lam, pays
the Supt., tho following compliment:
All in all, the institution was qav-
er more prosperous and it moves
along under Superintendent Kendall
without disoord.or a jar of any kind.
It it a credit to the genial superin-
tendent arid his corps of able assist-
ants, and an honor to the whole state.
Newspaper man—“Did you see
that clever little puff I gave you this
morning shout your recent success
in business and how well yon were
doing?” Potts (gloomily)—“Yes I
saw it” Newspaper man—“Well,
weren’t you pleased?” Potto (ear-
nestly) —“Umars, there were seven
creditors at my house this morning
before breakfast”
The ooolest robbery on record oo-
ourrod at Colorado City last Thurs-
day morning. The thief, with the
aid of an auger and a glass-cutter,
entered Burns, Walker A Co.’s store,
lit a candle and helped himself to
all tho money in the drawers,
amounting to about $200. It has
not been ascertained whether be
took any goods. There is no olew
to the perpetrator.
, ----—- ,
Fanner "White wan robbed Satur-
day evening near FortWorth of $85
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FIRST PREMIUMS
Sweepstakes, Best Celleetlei tmihw fiasti
Cat Hewers.
Bait Cellectiea Enrgmai,
“ Istfcerrj Tree*,
“ Denaeaai ia Wee*,. r
“ CkryuaUtmaai la Ileea,
“ Cat Cfnataais,
IMMi*
SECOND PREMIUMS.
Seat Cellectiea Peaeh Tree*,
" - Him Treee,
“ “ Aprtcetfme,
“ “* Flewcriag RhraK
“ “ Cat Seen,
“ SisgifSpeciacirUat,
“ Deni Resign,
“ Saiktt Flewen.
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afirlUuatrated Cstslogue of Trees, Plants and Heeds seat flrse on spplicstioo.
rum
Cxebufa N«Im.
The man who will beg fifteen cento
to buy a drink with, and then go off
and buy a lunch with it ban reached
the lowest depths of humanity.—Par-
is News. ■ V*
There is one step below him, neigh-
bor, and that is the man who will
■teal a dollar from his local paper
to send off for a foreign one.—Lado-
nia News.
What do you say of a man who
wil! read your paper for a' year and
when you ask him to pay for it, says
he don’t want it any longer, and
yet don’t pay? or what of ihs man
who, after taking- your paper for a
year or even more, on aredit, moves
off without paying and don’t even
ask you to change his address or tell
where he is going, or what of the
man who subscribes and never in-
tends to pay, who puts you off from
time to time and finally says you
may stop it? , Oh, there are lots of
men in the world, and some of them
you don’t know till you have paid
to find them out.—Sherman Herald*
The St. Jo Herald has a seuutmen,
tel turn. It says:
We like kind words. They are,
the sweetest flowers that grow along
the journalistic pathway—except the
little greenbacks. *
The Baird St/Tr has a tired spell.
It says:
It makes ua tired when we ask a
man to subscribe tor Tbe Stab fer
him to say, “Oh! I am taking the
Galveston News, Fort Worth Gazette
or the Dallas Mercury, and that is
all the paper I can afford to take.”
8uch a man is nothing but a knot
on a log, so far aa being any benefit
to tbe oommunity or county in which
he lives is concerned. If S10 is too
stingy to. patronize his home paper,
he ia too selfish to patronize his home
people, but will send off for erery-
thing he has to buy, if he can make
a nickel by so doing.
Tho Della Plain Review rejoices
over the fact that two families are
to be added to its town. It says:
Wj have been informed by good
authority that there will be two fam-
ilies move to Della Plain in a ftw
weeks, and that ten of twelve more
will move here in a few months.
Canadian on a boom. The Cres-
cent says:
Another new dwelling started in
Canadian this week. Oar boom Is
of the staying sort.
The St. Louis Advocate asks the
pertinent question:
How many preachers are killing
themselves by the use of tobacuo?
How many that are not preachers
are killing themselves by the use of
it, and above all the cigarette is the
most killing.
Forty-two houses were burned at
Isabella Do Sagua, Cuba, by the ex-
plosion of a lamp, rendering 100
‘ ess.
STATE ARB SENERAL NEWS.
At the meeting of tbe National
Grange held at Topeka, Kansas last
mouth, a. resolution wss adopted
strongly urging congress to secure a *
deep water port on the Texas coast.
A young bride in Burnet, who has
recently gone to housekeeping,
thought to surprise her husband with
some light rolls of her own make a
few mornings since. As she hand-
ed him the plate one of them fell out
and dropped on the est’s head, kill-
ing it instantly.
J. M. Dawson, of the famous Dav
son, Nord A By ler ranch firm, arriv-
ed from a trip all over the range
country. He summed up the situa-
tion by saying that cattle are worth-
less, it being neoessary to throw in *
obromo in order to give them away.
Tho San Augustine News gives
this scrap of the history of the first
appearance of Protestant preachers
iu Texas. The Catholic was the es-
tablished religion when the country
was under the dominion of Spaiu.
and Mexico.- .
An Irish philosopher says the best
pumpkin pie is made out of squash.
A little five-year-old child of Mrs.
Sims at Rockwall was left alone in
the house last Saturday while the
mother was in tho field picking cot-
ton and before her mother could
reach her w as burned to death.
Of the 45,000,000 or more of oat-
tic in the United States, Texas is es-
timated to have 7,724,053, the val-
ue of which reaches the sum of $06,-
518,900. There are more cattle in
Texas than any other state, but in
values, New York, Illinois and Iotra ,
lead.
Miss Lizzie Smith, living on Bear
creek, Hamilton county, was so se*
vercly burned on Friday that she
died the following Sunday, Decem-
ber 2.
All tbe blackbirds in the world
are now down in Cherokee county.
One flock that passed over Tyler
was five
wide.
m
m
1
i 1 K
miles long by two miles
Mrs. Harrison will be the thirty-
third lady to preside over the exeo-
utive mansion, although Mr. Harri-
son will be tho twenty-third presi-
dent.
Stockmen from tbe ranges in New
Mexico state, that grass is now short-
er at this season than for the past
five years. Thqy also claim that
should the winter be a hard one
many head of cuttle will die from
actual starvation.
Chicago has now on exhibition the
skin of the serpent that tempted Eve.
The e lake was on a visit to that
city and went out of hu*ine$*l
gust at find!
the times in 1
pi.it
,4
so far
wofsild.
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Cadwell, H. D. & Moffitt, D. J. The Post-Mirror. (Pilot Point, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 44, Ed. 1 Saturday, December 15, 1888, newspaper, December 15, 1888; Pilot Point, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth982879/m1/1/?q=%22%22~1: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; .