The La Grange Journal. (La Grange, Tex.), Vol. 19, No. 41, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 13, 1898 Page: 2 of 8
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TEXAS NEWS NOTES.
Ha ex-Kentucky club at Cle-
Irarne has a membership ot 91.
Excavation for the foundation ot
the Third Christian church at Fort
Worth was begun the other day.
Seven prisoners escaped from
the Mckinney jail the other day,
two of whom are life-termers.
The fall term of the Fourth I
eourt of appeals has convened at
San Antonio, with seventy-two |
cases on the docket.
Waco has a street oar strike on. I
The motermen requested that 9, in-
stead of 12, hours constitute a
day’s work, at $1.50 per day in|
eluding Sundays. Their request
was refused; hence the strike.■
Pendletonville, Bell county, fur-1
wishes this cotton picking record :|
Three brothers, John, Tom and
Jack Harper, in the order named,I
picked 640, 611 and 695 pounds,)
making a total of 1856 pounds in]
a single day.
The report that Ernest St. Leon,I
thie ranger killed recently near El
Paso, was buried by public charity,
is refuted by the adjutant general,
who announces that the bills inci-
dent to his funeral expenses—
amounting to $160.35-—have been
approved and paid by the state.
Sister Claire, mother superior of
Nazareth convent of Victoria, felll
dead Sunday at the convent at Cor-
pus Christi, while visiting her sis-l
ter, St. Mary Angeline, mother su-
perior there. Sister Claire was 70
years old, nnd one of the oldest
nuns in Texas—having recently
celebrated her golden anniversary
as a sister.
YELLOW FEVER.
Tbe Boom ga Spreading In Mlaaiaalppl
Situation In Louisiana.
Jackson, Miss., Oct 9.—The yel-
low fever situation throughout the
state grows rapidly worse, and the
disease is spreading in new places
almost daily. In Jackson the area
of infection is increasing, and
there is now a case within 100
yards of the capitol.
Six new cases were reported in
Jackson Sunday.
Memphis, Oct. 9.—In Mississip-
pi the fever area has been so
larged that the infection may be]
said to be general throughout the
state. Three interstate railroads
are practically suspended, and sev-
eral short lines are on the verge of
Itemporary shut down. Twenty!
thousand or more people are refu-
geeing in northern cities, awaiting
the approach of cold weather. At
Jackson there have been 44 cases!
since Sept. 27, of which 24 were
negroes. Only 5 deaths since the
beginning, A majority of thk ne-
groes are well and feel none the
worse for their yellow fever expe-
rience.
New Orleans, Oct. 9.—The yel-
low fever reports show a total of
465 cases in Louisiaua so far and
30 deaths, and in Mississippi 351
cases and 37 deaths. The Morgan
lamship line between here and
w York has changed its termi-
nus to Sabine Pass, Texas, incon-
sequence of the numerous quaran-
tines in force.
FXHBT TEXAS REGIMENT.
Last Saturday night Hon. S. W
T. Lanharn delivered an address at
Abilene by invitation of the Demo-
cratic Rough Riders’ club. There
was a good audience. He started
out by speaking of the necessity
for democratic organization and
the benefits to be derived from
same,and commended the organi-
sation of the young men’s club at
whose invitation he delivered the
address.
Says an Oakland, Cal., dispatch
Sev. Dr. Briggs, of Austin, Texas,
has been acquitted of immorality,
though found guilty of falsifying
In minor matters by the jury of
the Methodist church South, which
has been trying his case. By the
dose vote of 30 to 32 the oonfer-
f cnees then "located” him, which
will prevent him from accepting a
pastorate elsewhere. Dr. Briggs
protested vigorously against tins
action.
STATE CAPITAL NOTES.
ASSESSMENT BOLLS.
Clay county-—Total valuation,
,847,992; decrease, $557,212.
*4,84
CHASTEUB GRANTED.
Sabine Pass Cemetery associa-
tion } capital stock, $1000.
Van Alstyne waterworks bonds,
$9000, approved and registered.
In response to a question from
Hempstead, Assistant Attorney
General King has ruled thus as the
statutes require a clerk of election
to be a qualified voter a woman
can not serve in such a capacity,
Texas Battleship Souv^^
Governor Culbers- has revived
from Captain ^uiiiip8 of the bat-
tleship TjXaa ft gection of tho
arm0' pjate 0f 8ahl ship about two
feet square, in which is the eigh-
teen-inch hole shot into the ship at
Santiago. The block of metal is
handsomely framed and is sent to
the governor to place in the State
museum as a souvenir in remem-
brance of tho engagement at San-
tiago.
Soldiers Disfranchised-
8an Antonio, Oct. C.—Registra
tion for the state and congressional
electiou in November has begun,
A question has arisen over the
right of voluuteer soldiers whose
regiments have been ordered mus-
tered out but who are yet in the
service of the United States to vote.
The members of the first Texas
cavalry are now at home on fur-
lough and- it is expected that the
regiment will be mustered out
about the latter part of the month.
The registrar has refused to regis-
ter them and it now seems proba-
ble that the registration will have
olosed before the regiment is mas-
tered out.
Judge John M. King of the at
tomey general’s department in re-
ply to the query of the registrar of
voters at Galveston holds that the
registrar can not register volunteer
or regular soldiers in the service
of the army of the United States
Wltb Baventb Army Corps, Ordered
from Jacksonville.
Jacksonville, Fla., Oct. 11.—
General orders were issued from
corps headquarters to-day for the
movement of the seventh army
corps from Jacksonville to Savan-
nah. The regiment will move in
the following order:
Ninth Illinois, second South
Carolina, fourth Illinois, first
Texas, second Lonaiana, third Ne-
braska (Col, Bryan’s regiment),
one hundred and sixty-first Indiana,
second Illinois, first North Caroli-
na, forty-ninth Iowa, fourth Vir-
gina and Bixth Missouri.
The sick are to be left at Jackson-
ville. The quartermaster and
medical departments are directed to
provide each regiment ninth Iowa,
fourth Virginia and sixth Missouri,
mental field hospitals.
It is also understood that an
order will be issued on the return
of Gen. Lee from Washington,
during the week, re-briga-
ding the regiments of the copps.
The brigades will probably be in
order above named, the first three
forming the first. brigade of the
divission, the next three the second
brigade of the division, and so on.
It is not anticipated that the
stay of the troops at Savannah will
be long, only suffleent to allow
transporting to Cuba to be provided
.nnd for embarking the troops.
DsseiU: Shot Dead,
New York, Oct. 10.—A deserter
from the seventh United States
artillery was shot dead while try-
ing to escape. He said ho did *• '
Dreyfus Closely Ouaidad.
Paris, Oct. 10.—A steamer ven-
turing too close to Devil's island
was fired at. Extraordinary pre-
cautions are being taken to prevent
the escape or rescue of Dreyfus.
Shelter Beiverely Criticised.
Washington, Oot. 10.—Gen.
Lee’s chief surgeon criticises
Shatter severely for lack of medi-
cal and hospital supplies at Jack-
sonville.
KLONDIKE KHUOQETS.
Klondike Miners now Work tor $100
Per Month and Bosrd.
Vancouver, B. C., Oct. 10.—
Navigation ou the Upper Yukon
river is closed. The last passen-
gers who came out from Dawson
up the river ou the steamers Colum-
bia and Onuada have arrived here,)
some with hard luck stories and a
few with gold. The most interest-
ing news from DaWson relates to
Commissioner Ogilvie’s reforms.
He is making sweeping changes
and intends to make the Klondike
a model mining district. Mr. Jex|
says September 13, a small army
of the half world and gamblers|
were arrested and fined to the
amount of $10,000. The money
will be spent in improving the
streets of the oity.
Wages in the Klondike are be|
coming lower and lower according
to J. B. Chambers, of Victoria.
"The new system now in vogne
was inaugurated,” he said, "by
Kirkpatriok and Bohner, two of
the biggest claim owners of - the
whole district. When I left the
miners were hired for $100 a
month and their board for the
winter months.”
John Barber, oolored, was exe-
cuted at Conchies on the 7th inst.,
for the murder of hia wife.
GENERAL NOTES.
Meridian, Miss., baa quaran-
tined against the world, and will
admit no person under any cinsum
stance until frost.
The middle-of-the-road populists
of Colorado have nominated a com
plete state ticket, with Simon Gug-
enheimer of Denver at its head
Another train load of negroes
from Birmingham, Ala., were dis-
embarked at tbe Pana, 111., mines
the other day without disturbance
The Illinois, which will be the
largest battleship of Uncle Sam’s
navy, was launched at Newport
News the other day in the presence
of 20,000 people.
It is said that the proposed
American railway in China may
have a political aspect, as it will
traverse the spheres of British and
Russian influence.
The administration, it is said,
will recommend to congress the re-
vival of the grade of admiral and
tho promotion to that rank of
Rear Admiral Dewey.
By a decision of the court of ap-
peals of New York, George Gould
will be compelled to pay the state
$132,784 as a tax on a $5,000,000
bequest left him by his father, the
late Jay Gould.
In the Georgia state electiou on
the 5th Hon. C. N. Canler, demo-
cratic uominee for governor, was
elected over Hogan, populist, by
about 70,000 majority—being
double the majority for governor
two years ago.
Riley Brock, a saw mill band
and Miss Dora Richardson, the
divorced child-wife of Gen. Cassius
M. Clay, were married at Keene,
Ky. The couple went immediately
to the home given Dora by Gen.
Clay some weeks ago, where they
will reside.
The big Drummond-American
tobacco deal has been finally con-
summated, the Drummond plant at
St. Louis passing into the posses-
sion of the American Tobacco Co.
The St, Louis concern received
fourteen certified cheeks to value of
$3,457,500.
In Mississippi a white tramp
took refuge in a church, where he
died of what was supposed to be
yellow fever. The neighborhood
became alarmed and the, church
was burned and the body cremated
with the building.
It is said that the number of
Jews in the United States army
aud navy is about 4000. In the
inquiry into the Maine disaster,
the judge advocate, Lieutenant
Marx, is a Jew. While remem-
bering the Maine the Jews were al-
so remembering the persecutions
of their people by Spain.
A. J. Biddison, Republican nom-
inee for the upper house of the
Oklahoma Legislature, has been
arrested at Pawnee on a charge of
gambling. It is said that Biddi-
son, with four others, was en-
gaged in a game of draw poker.
One man claimed that'he was cheat-
ed and all were arrested. Four
pleaded grjlty but. BiddijQA will
batiried. ’ '
M. S. Quay of Pennsyl-
vania has been arrested and placed
“YANKEE DOODLE ”
Origin of tea Wards of tka Famou.
Ballad.
under bond, ou charge of conspir-
acy with his son, Richard Quay,
ex-State Treasurer Benjamin Hay-
wood, and Charles McKee of Pitts-
burg, law partner of Lieutenaut
Governor Lyon, and John S. Hop-
kins, formerly cashier of the Peo-
ple’s bank, to make use of state
funds deposited there.
When the circus owned by Jesse
Coxey, son of the commander of
the once famous Coxey’s army, be-
came stranded in an Indiana town
last week, the celebrated general
put in an appearance to deliver a
lecture on non-interest-bearing
bonds and good roads, under the
circus tent and for a price of ad-
mission.
James Ammons, an old and res-
pected citizen of Scott county, Ar-
kansas, was the other day arrosted
and taken to Louisiana on a charge
of murder committed twenty years
ago. It is said that Ammons went
from Texas to Arkansas fifteen
years ago, where he has prospered,
married, and has an interesting
family.
Died from Eating Matches.
Waelder, Gonzales Co., Oct. 5.—
Jimmie, the 14-year-old daughter
of Mr. J. H. Stephens, who lives
five miles north from here, having
read of a suicide by eating the
heads of matches, she being tired
of living, set about the task last
Sunday noon of bringing her
young life to a tragic end by eat-
ing the heads of 212 parlor
matches, from the effects of which
she died. After eating the match
heads she repented of her act and
sought to save her life by swal-
towing bacon and lard, bnt in-
6ead of it being an antidote for
phosporoug poison it hastened her
death.
The schooner Palmer is reported
lost in a storm off the Bahamas.
The origin of the word "yankee”
has never been quite' satisfactorily
settled by etymologists. Anbury,
in his "Travels Through North
America,” says that it is derived
from the Cherokee word "cankke,”
meaning a coward and slave. Oth
ers deduce it from the Scotch word
“yankee,” meaning a sharp, clever
woman. A writer in the Boston
Weekly Magazine for Jan. 29,1803,
says that it is from "yankan,” an
Indian word for conquer. The
most reasonable ided, and that
which is held by tbe best authori-
ties, is that the term "yankee” is
a corruption of the word English
or the French Anglais, as imper-
fectly and gutturally spoken by
the Indians, and the real meaning
of "Yankee Doodle” would be the
"English simpleton.’’
The tnne of "Yankee Doodle
seems to belong to America only
by adoption, its origin being very
obscure. In 1858 Buckingham
Smith, secretary of the legation at
Madrid, wrote Mr. Nason, author
of "A Monogram of Our National
Song,” that the tune bore a re
markable resemblance to the popu-
lar airs of Biscay, and that it was
also recognized as being much like
the ancient sword dance of San Se-
bastian. "Our national air,” says
Mr. Smith, "certainly has its ori-
gin in the music of the free Pyre
nese ;the first strains are identically
those of the heroic Danza Esparta,
as it was played to me, of brave
old Biscay.” The French claim it
as one of their vintage songs. The
Magyars recognize it as one of
their national dance tunes. Eng-
land has dim tradition of its birth
before Cromwell’s time. The
Dutch claim it as a low country
tune sung to these words:
"Yanker didel doodel down;
Didel dudel lanter.
Yanke viver voover vown,
Buttermilk and tather.’,’
Whatever its birth, it first ap-
peared in America on the banks of
the Hudson, June, 1775, in the
following manner:
The British general Braddock,
was assembling the colonists near
Albany for an attack on the French
and Indians at Forts Niagara and
Frontenac, when in marched
"The old Continentels
With.their ragged regimentals,”
keeping time to music 200 years
old. They presented such a vary
funny appearance that they at-
tracted the attention of Dr. Rich-
ard Shnckburg, a regimental sur-
geon in the British army, who was
a wit and a musical genius. As
the continentals marched into the
handsome British lines the contrast
was so great that the traditional
UOPg of Cromwell on the Kentish
pony, with a macaroni to hold his
plume, as opposed to the elegance
of Charles and hie eavg!ier.«; flashed
into the surgeon’*! mind, aud set-
ting down the notes of the tune, he
wrote with them the lively satire
upon Cromwell well known then
in England:
"Yankee D6odle came to town
Upon a Kentish pony,
He stuck a feather in his cap
Upon a macaroni.”
The band quickly caught the
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PLUG
pemember the name
1' when you buy again.
Last Tribute to Columbus.
Havana.—Americans will, on
Oct. 12, pay their last tributes at
the American tomb of the great
Colon. For it is quite certain that
with the evacuation will come the
transfer of the body to the soil of
his adopted country.
The restless spirit that drove
him to the Indies seems to pervade
the withered frame that lies within
the new sarcophagus. From Val-
ladolid, whye he died in
misery, to the new world, back to
Spain, then back again to San
Domingo, then to Havana, and
here cast about from tomb to tomb,
with doubt thrown upon the ident-
ity of the remains
A “FatTake.”
Atlanta, Ga.—The city primary
yesterday—equivalent to an elec-
tion—which nominated James G.
Woodward for mayor, places in
public life a man remarkable for
his lack of politicial experience.
Woodward is a printer by trade
and works at a case for the Atlanta
Journal, which strongly supported
him in his race for the mayoralty.
As a laboring man he commanded
the entire vote of that section of
Atlanta, and his popularity worn
him many others. This morning;
he was at work again at his case,,
in his shirt sleeves and as uncon-
cernedly as if he had not won a
notable triumph. The laboring
NW they are to go back to [classes consider that they have
Spain, the cd^utry that took him ! scored a great victory,
up, then cast him lip" chains and
let him die in abject misery.
simple air, and although the
British soldiers sneered at it, tho
Americans liked it, and sang it
with gusto when, twenty-five years
later, Cornwallis marched into the
American lines to its soul-stirring
strains aud surrendered his sword
and his army. The rhymes with
which the tnne has been connected
are many. Besides the one refer-
ring to Cromwell we find the
nursery song;
"Lucy Locket lost her pocket—
Kittie Fisher found it;
Nothing in it, nothing on it,
But the binding round it.
Tne song given as the original
"Yankee Doodle,” is from a broad-
side in a collection of "Songs and
ballads purchased fron a ballad
printer and seller in Boston, in
1813,” made by Isaiah Thomas.
A version differing a little from
this one is given in Farmer &
Moore’s History Collections of New
Hampshire, volumne 3, page 157.
The earliest song runs as follows:
"Father and I went down to camp,
Along with Capt. Goodling,
And there we see the men and boys
As thick as hasty pudding.
Chorus—
Yankee Doodle keep it up;
Yankee Doodle dandy,
Mind the musio and the step,
And with the girls be haudy.”
The song is very long—fifteen
verses—and may be found, with
the tnne, in Familiar Songs.—
Detroit Free Press.
Settles the Controversy,
Ex-Gov. Proctor .Knott and a
distinguished professional gentle-
man of Danville, Ky., were dis-
I enssing the claims of Sampson and
JSchley to the credit of smashing
Cervera at Santiago. The pro-
fessional gentleman took the ground
Alaskan Amber Mine.
In search of a mine of amber;
which, if found, will make the
members of the party inpedently
wealthy, an expedition left Sitka a
few weeks ago for one of the isl-
ands off the Alaskan coast. At
its head was an old Russian, Pop-
off by name, who for forty years*
has been trying
to get someone
with money to send him in search
of the amber mine. His story is
that all the honor of that meinor- an interesting one Some thirty
able conflict belonged to Admiral years ago he was a sailor on board
Sampson and was inclined to ig ja Russian sealing vessel, which
uore entirely Commodore Schley’s I ,w?s wrecked on oue °f the small
islands off the Alaskan coast. The
Senator Sherman Hoar of Mas-
sachusetts died on the 8th of ty-
phoid fever.
mOaPHINK as-wfis:
k*7 bahtti cured at home. Remedy *5, Cure
•aortateed. Kodor»«i by ph>*lci*iM. mi on-
wit end other*. Book of pertloulare, teeUmc.
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part in the affair. The governor
listened until his companion had
finished and tbeil, with that char-
acteristic twinkle in his eye, said:
"My dear sir, it, is exceedingly
gratifying to me to hear you take
the position you have in this mat-
ter. It is like a balm to my con-
science nnd settles a point that has
worried me many a day.
"I was walking through the
crew managed to reach another
small island in the schooner’s:
boats, and nearly starved ^before a
Russian war vessel happenod along
and rescued them.
While on the island they found
quantities of amber and traced it
to a big ledge. The pieces of am-
ber which they had in their pos-
session when taken on board the
warship were taken away by the
woods with a boy friend of mine | officers. Popoff managed to
when we saw a rabbit run into a J smuggle one small piece away and
sinkhole. We stood around the has hung to it ever since.
hole a while, then I told the boy
to keep watch while I went to get
some lire to smoke the rabbit out.
When I returned the boy had the
rabit. I promptly took it away
from him, claiming that it belong-
ed to me because 1 had told him to
catch him if he came out.
Ho tried many times io have ail
expedition outfitted, but never suc-
ceeded. During the recent mining
excitement in the north he got as
far as Sitka, where he became
stranted. He confided his secret
to a few friends and they furnish-
ed the money that outfitted the
,mi v iuvuvj bllllU vUUllVUvU
That was over fifty years ago party. Popoff goes with them aa
and you are the first man who has guide and expects to be back in
ever agreed with me that the rabbit Sitka within six months.-Seattle
wasimne I feel now that I was Post-Intelligencer,
right m taking it and my —
science is at rest. ’ ’
The gentleman looked solemn
for a few moments, then smiled a
feeble smile and changed the sub-
ject.—Kentucky Citizen.
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