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1'ublinhed Every Saturday.
I. II. JULIAN, Editor.
TEXAS,
SAX MARCOS,
TEXAS TOPICS.
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(utility to deliver coin at 15 cents pi
VUiiiisi-" n
bushel
-r." V,,,.- Hti vm Ibn serew
worms are literally eating up the horses
and cattle on tho prairies.
Dallas is receiving from five to six
hundred bales of cotton per day when
tho weather and roads are good.
Tho city physician of Dallas has
taken from the nostrils of a patient, in
tho hospital, soino two hundred screw
worms;
A yellow catfish weighing two him-
in ton worm recently.
rianters in Western Texas aro be
ginning to fear they will lose consider
ably on their cotton crop by failure to
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secure a sumciont lorce oi picaers.
The Jacksboro Echo says : Any man
who would tako his county paper three
ixiiiM mwl twivor n (Tor tn Duv for it would
lo anything mean, from ornamenting a
log s tall Willi tin-ware or sicamig wmp
bin mumlmother. down the
long list of mean things. Header, is it
you?
Tho city Marshal of Wortham,
Freestone county, was shot and instant
lv Lillixl nn Monday of lost week while
attempting to arrest a man by tho name
of Frank Polk. The Mayor of the town
then shot and killed folk. The Mayor
escaped uninjured, although several
shots were tired at him.
Mr. Delaney, a well-to-do old gen
tleman of more than ordinary intelli
gence, went to the undertaker shop of
.f. M. Mills & Son this morning, and
left his measure for a eolliii, giving
minute instructions as to the trimmings,
and asked that it bo stored away for
him until the first of next month, at
which time he expects to dio.Vvnixun
Herald.
Elevations of prominent points in
Texas above tide water: Houston, !17
feet; Hempstead, 215 feet; Chapel Hill,
:W4 feet; Urcnhain, 8SIG feet; Elgin, 000
feet; Austin, 515 feet; Duval, HKi feet;
Heame, JlOit foot; Navasota, 218 feet;
Millican, ilOO feet; Calvert, 338 feet;
JJremoml, llfi feet; Waco, at depot, 3H5
feet; Corsieana, 427 feet: Dallas, 4(!7
feet; MeKinney, 015 feet; Sherman, 745
foet; Columbus, 210 feet; San Antonio,
at depot, 002 feet.
Rev. Ben. Parkin- shot and killed a
negro named Killingsworth, near Elk
hart, on the evening of tho 27th tilt., at
Hurkett aitirpny s woou canp unuui
the following circumstances : A party, of
which Parker was one, armed with writs,
had arrested tho negro on a charge of
hog and cattle stealing. Killingsworth
got away and succeeded in reaching his
quarters, from which he reappeared with
a shot gun and leveled it at Parker. The
old pioneer was too quick and shot him
dead. Killingsworth bore a bad charac
ter. Mr. William Able, a farmer of Aus
tin county, has picked this season
seventeen bales of rotton from seven
t .en acres, and says that if good weather
continues for three weeks longer, he
will gather eight bales more. The
bales picked so far averaged 351) pounds.
His help in growing and picking the
cotton consisted of himself, wife and
four children. Mr. Milton, in the same
county, has this year made seventeen
bides from seventeen acres, and has
done all the work himself. Near the
same locality W. A. Kherod will make
sixty bales, 'with six hands to help him,
besides an abundance of corn for the
plantation nnd some to spare.
A short timo ago a young man
went to San Saba to act a license to
ha to get a license to
marry his girl. He got the license and
proceeded to the home of his intended,
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Kt the door and said: lour girl is gone; ;
lien lie arrived ine oiti mini ran .i.u.
1 am sorry, but she in mot this mom-,
nir with limit icr feller. 1 lillluier anil i
lightning'." the young man exclaimed.
ssf-ssr
mill n Jut If " Hn lkjtrmn-ioil u liitnu mill
side-saddle, followed them fifty miles, I
overtook .them brought the tickle bride
lrk to her father her sen-ws and the j
altar Soon after their marriage they ,
weuded their wy to his home in Lnn
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-On Tu.-s.lav of last week a little '
.laughter of Will Hire, who lives iilniut ;
f.kiir mi I- fniti IIilItiMiriill(Tlt. f 1 ill
,
.wiuiy.i.iiim.. iiimi.n'..- .i.
. one wax at home ut the time but the
mother who heard it full and mream !
when it hit the water. She ran to the ;
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when II nil me waier. rne ran m uv ;
ell and saw thechild trying to cling to
a lnKir.1 which had fallen in with it 1
She pnn iinil a rx and. fatt ning one i
end to it. tie.1 the 4Iht an.nd her i
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ut'ri".( iin i. - -
rox wa not long enough, and the '
umI niMlHT poniM-II.Hl U v '
child Mnk and drown with-mt the
agonini
her
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ig it aa-taiwe. ne warn
(1..W.1I . I..iur time iNT.-aming f.
awi-taix-r. lint n "iif was nwr to licar.
She finally climliej nt by the rpe and
ran to a neiphl f. help. y'rI,.,h' i
ss; rwvih
ao 1. of cmrv, life wa rntin ly .Atinot.
EDISON ECLIPSED,
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An invention tlmt fur outstrips Edi-
j ull,i in implicity and cheapness of con
: son s telephone in transmiiuug amum,
struetion, lias been invented ny an in
diuna young man, Mr. Israel D. Jewett,
1 assisted by his father, Mr. H. D. Jewett.
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Tho place where this invention, which
bus been called tho agophone, came to
' light is a little village of one hundred
j inhabitants. Ht. Omer, lies two
mile from tho ruilroad town of St. Paul,
in tho Indianapolis, Cincinnati and
. Louisville railroad, about thirty-seven
miles from Indianapolis. Father and
Hon arc proprietors of a drug store,
I prjting ollice, musical instrument store,
, IIOHt.offit.0f , g(.Wal repairing shops,
i ..li i the samo building. Tho instru-
,( ,mv0 Jnventcii j8 ow
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shop and their residence, a quarter of
.. ..;i,, .... Tim ilifTiTimcn between
1 li.,.;.. w.tin .l.irmo n iimir.ftr nf
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this instrument and Edison's telephone
il .... 1L .1 I.i.v.n l llA linlfl 1
IS lllllfc It Wn'n nun ,... i.w... v..
tho mouth and shouted into by tin
speaker while the listner must hold hii
ear to tho tube to hear the faint sounds
In tho agophono tho speaker stands ten
feet away from tho instrument, and his
voice is heard distinctly at the other
end of tho line at on equal or greater
distance from tho instrument. I ho in
vention was inspected by a reporter on
Saturday, who found a group or wonuer
ing neighbors gathered to hear and see
tho great invention. A conversation
was in progress between tho elder Jew
ett, in the store, and his wife at their
residence. Mr. Jewett was leaning on
the counter, thrco or four feet away
from tho little box, which was the in
strument. He spoko in a natural, easj
tone, not especially directing his voice
to the instrument. The answers came
back with such distinctness that they
were understood equally as well in the
further corner of the store as at the mouth
of the instrument. Mrs. Jewett was
asked to sing, and the words of "Ovei
There" came with all the sweetness that
would have been heard if the singer
had been in an adjoining room. Mr.
Jewett went home and, at the request
of his son, took a scat eight feet from
the instrument and played the "Arkan
sas Traveler" on his violin. Every note
was heard distinctly, not only in the
store, but on the street and in the rear
yard, which is separated by another
room from tho store. The closing of a
door, sweeping the floor, footsteps and
conversation between Mrs. Jewett and
others in her room all were heard in
the drug store. The ticking of a watch
placed in the instrument was heard at
tho other end of the line. The inventor
is reticent abont tho principles of his
instrument. It has no battery and no
magnet unless there is a magnet most
artfully concealed. All that can be seen
of the agophono is a little box, open in
front, with black walnut sides, tho back
of thin iron plate. About an inch in
front of the iron plate is as thin pine
board forming a partition across the
box. It has an opening about an inch
in diameter, from which a small funnel
of thin copper plate runs back through
the iron end of the box, and closing on
a small brass wire. 1 ho brass wire ex
a small brass wire, llio Drass wire ex-
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tends out about two yards and connects :
with copper wire, which forms the con
necting medium. The instrument at
iln nlhi-r iMiil of the line is the same.
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of his principle, except to say that the j
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much before that end is attained.
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The general tendency of Sir ''''"TSTw'
Lubl.eks investigations and experi-; lJ tkSI
,,, jK j1IlH iHVn w think, to lower the , u,mr nIIother ,mnrter section, I
cntomolo-ncal in-, Urn L we can have a l.wn around;
. p , . , T,in'm,,.l . linmu'lml
stincts formed bv the disciples of Hub-.your foot? John made a home, but,
.. . n.- .n.1.iM.nn. nf W for ex- Birdie was not the mistress of it.
11" arclnteeture of Ikvs lor ex
ample, appears to be ruder and simpler ,
itt ita it.tlwkilx if tint li'HR It-PrftVt 111 IIS i
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wn. than bad been supiHse.l: and
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lnm and cawble of higher degree of ,
nn. otitH tii.iiicii oi.'vertT iiiun uir
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organization than see
extra - h,,,,,,!! Hoeiet v.
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rtnlml- " d "
.in - iiiiistiiniin for wh
ms to exist in any
are, neverthehs,
or habit have not provi.bil.
know, tlt. mi,it ,f .bff. rt-iit
,
nt ant trilie T
Mmr arc a)wolntlv. other Kirtially.
,
ai-i.lnl. ly. wner wnn..
le'ndiit. The ant alone ha domesti-
d.l rreatnre of another siH-ie: the
aid.U U ing to the ant riatily m lutt the
h.. .xu .y ,r
during the winter, o Sir John
j tells us, by the forethought of tho out,
I wliinli ifwniml9Aa and remembers the
' afirvice
rendered by tha aphides in
rowers of communication we
I spring
necessaril v imnlied in an organization so
nonmlotn uji tlmt of on ant-hill. There
must bo means of conveying orders to
the insect armies on their ruureh,
whether they pause to build a bridge or
a tunnel, turn aside to avoid on obstacle,
or are directed against a particular hostile
nest. But when helped to food, or
callod upon to ossist their fellows, by
human agency, though tho duties im
posed upon them closely resemble those
which they daily perforin with ease, they
are utterly battled, 'j hey could con
struct a mound of earth for any purpose
of their own with promptitude and facil
ity; but when, honey is placed within
their reach by means of such an artificial
mound, and part of tho mound is re
moved, they have not the wit to heap it
. i i
ujrmij. f J1CU JlUUCjr
uy ping ovcr a Mtle ehasui on a Btraw
n . i i u l,t tlm ulmtv.
up again. When honey can De reacneu
the ants hasten to it, but the straw
brjuVe being moved it never occurs to
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them to reulace st. The first ant that
finds honey or other food goes back
ahd fetches her companions, but is not
able to direct them, for, if she be re
moved, the rest wander about helpless
ly. After any length of separation, ants
appear to recognize tho inmates or pnpiu
of their own hill. They destroy
strangers, but receive, if they do not
eagerly welcome, their own kindred.
The extraordinary powers of instinct
within its habitual limits aro not more
signal End striking than its total failure
in circumstances even slightly novel.
London Standard, August 21.
Food, Work ami Sleep.
The thincs that a man most needs in
this world aro food, work and sleep. He
loesn't need riches, for honors of oliiee
to live. He needs society because he is
made for it. He must love and be loved ;
liis life and happiness are promoted by
companionship ; mutual dependence and
counsel enlarge hope and stimulate
.murage. Yet, he lives if his friends
lie. There is no grief, no form of
bereavement, but it has its consolation.
The best preserver of a man's life is con
tentment. Nor is work destructive of
strength. Men look forward to rest to
a life of ease, which to them means ces
sation from toil and from the cares of
business. It is not work; it is care, it
is ovcr-cxertion, it is ambition and de-
siro after gam that bring worn ana
wearv feelings. All we possess we pos
sess in life; tho sooner we get through
life the sooner we relinquish our pos
sessions. The faster a man lives tne
tuicker he reaches tho end of life.
There are threo ends to life, and death
is the last and least desirable. One end
is to live. That is why we were created
to live, and as well as wo can. Some
go murmuring and groaning on their
way, as though life was a burden, and
that it is piety to put a low estimate on
it. The opposite is tine. A man should
seek to live out his days, and he cannot
complish it in a better way than by
using every means to promote me.
Anions these means are the things
mentioned at the head of this article.
When a man denies himself sleep, food,
mill the exercise work irives, brain and
i:i:f. ;ta fn
body work, he robs his life of its full
J ,
T.pt him be cheerful, also. He
is like an engine it will run well and
long if it is well oiled. Contentment i
and cheerfulness are the oil which keep I
w0ri2 out.
Busy ,
taken j
nwi m)(1 women tllink tilat time
r i ,1 f . Ami hinianliiin ia
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time Inst. It is really the cement put 1
. to flU the joiut8i to Upep out tho I
:,i .,... i, v.n;i.l,nr
weather and preserve the building.
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A f luvg John c Moftiti while
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getting a drink of water on ins own gai-
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icry ui iinwR.iu.-, .....
Belton.wiu. shot and killed by an assassin
. , . , , lK(ftril ft.m.e. Henry
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on ::. t
The flouring mill industry of the
United States employs SHl.iMiO men in
JTi.mHt mills turning out y-arly aliout
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tno.
ri..
man rJlfri,t a half promu bear on
tu. j.-Tun.-. m-ar t'orsieana. a short time
ago. j
little bill for hw ife s wanlro).
Mark Twain a a uatuuaaie. saiu
I have pretty much made up my mind
to run for president. What the country
w ants is a candidate who can not be in
jured by investigation of his past his
tory, so that the enemies of the party
will bo unable to rake np against him
things that nobody ever heard of before.
If you know the most about a candidate,
to begin with, every attempt to spring
things on him will be check-mated.
! Now, I am going to enter the field with
! an open record I am going to own up
in advanco to all tho wickedness I have
done, and if any congressional commit-
i toe is disposed to prowl around my bi
ography, in tho hope of finding any
dark and deadly deed which I have
secreted, why, let it prowl.
In the first place, I admit that I did
tree a rheumatic grandfather of mine in
the winter of 1859. He was old and in
expert at climbing trees. But with a
heartless brutality that is characteristic
of me, I ran him out the front door in
liiH night-8hirt,ot the point of a shot-gnu,
nnd caused him to bowl np a maple tree,
where he remained all night, while I
emptied shot into his legs. I did this
because he snored. I will do it again if
I ever have another grandfather. I am
as inhuman now as I was in 1859. No
rheumatic person shall snore in
house.
I candidly acknowledge' that I
away at the battle of Gettysburg,
friends have tried to smooth over
my
ran
My
this
fact by asserting that I merely got be
hind a tree, that I did so for the purpose
of imitating Washington, who went into
the woods at Valley Forge to say his
prayers. It is a miserable subterfuge.
I strnck out in a straight line for the
Tropic of Cancer! simply because I was
scared. I wanted my country saved, but
I preferred to have somebody else save
her. I entertain that preference yet. If
the bubble of reputation can be obtained
only at the cannon's month, I am willing
to go there for it, provided the cannon
is empty. If it is loaded, my immortal
and inflexible purpose is to get sudden
ly over the fence and go home. My in
variable practice in war has been to bring
out of any given fight two-thirds more
men than I took in. This seems to me
to be Napoleonic in its grandeur.
My financial views are of the most de
cided chnracter, but they are not likely,
perhaps, to increase my popularity with
the advocates of inflation or contracti. n
I do not insist upon the special suprema
cy of rag money or hard money. The
great fundamental principle of my life is
to take any kind that I can get.
The rumor that I buried a dead aunt
under one of my grape vines is founded
upon fact. The vines needed fertilizing,
my aunt had to be buried, and I dedi
cated her to this high purpose. Does
that unfit me for the presidency? The
constitution of our country does not say
No other citizen was ever consider
ed unworthy of office because he en
riched his grape vines with his relations.
Why should I be selected as the first
victim of an absurd prejudice?,
I admit, also, that I am not a friend
of the poor man. I regard the poor man,
in his present condition, as so much
wasted raw material. Cut up and prop
erly canned, he might be made useful to
fatten the natives of the Cannibal islands,
and to improve our export trade with
that region : I shall recommend legisla
tion upon the subject in my first message.
My campaign cry will be "Desiccate the
poor working man ! Stuff him into sau
sages !'
These are about the worst part of my
record. On them I come before the1
country. If ray country don't want me
I will go back again. But I recommend
myself as a safe man a man who starts
from the basis of total depravity, and
proposes to be fiendish to the last.
Colored men engaged in picking
cotton, who came in on Saturday, re
ported that the yield of cotton this sea
son is much larger than it has been
since the war. One old man said that ,
the crop could not possibly be picked
out before Christmas, and that on three
farms of which he picked for the last J
two seasons, the yield this season would I
lie double that of either of the others.
The demand for pickers is still very '
great, and several wagon loads of people, 1
men, women and children, went out yes
terday to join the hundreds who hare
left the city before to pick cotton. A
white man stated on Saturday that he
had little boy not sis years old who '
was making 50 cents a iliy pu king cot
ton, and that in almost every field men, '
women and children, white and black,
could be seen working together, gather
ing the fleecy staple. Some fields he '
I, had not yet been touched, aniTi.
though all the availablo force seemeu"t '
be at work, yet there was a demand for
double the amount of help at hand.
AuutlH Statetrman.
Texan.
As the month of October approach,
es, tho inquiries concerning the South
west, and especially Texas, increase.
This is tho natural tendency of the gen
eral inquiry throughout the north and
east. Tho depression in all branches of
industry, the limited quantity of pro
ducts and low prices, the long, sevet
winters that consume all that can be ac
cumulated during the summers, and the
rest! oss desire to accumulate a reasona
ble property for support in old age, and
to give the children a little assistance in
their first struggles with the world, is
the all absorbing thought of the Eastern
fanner. In that section of the countiy
generations struggle for an existence and
pass away, only to be succeeded by an
other that grapples with necessity and
want. Henco it' is that thousands of
longing eyes aro turned toward the west
in the search after new hemes and fresh
opportunities. Away in the southwest
there is a genial and delightful clime,
and millions of acres of tho richest and
most fertile soil, awaiting the hands of
industry to make it yield an abundance
of all the fruits of the earth. There are
no winters there, and the uniform tem
perature, invigorated by the- fresh
gulf breeze, adds new delights to life
and opens new hope- for the future.
There the lands are cheap and vegeta
tion springs forward every month in the
year. The growing cotton, corn, sugar
cane, wheat, rye, oats, barley, fruit and
in fact every product that contributes
to the wealth and support of the coun
try, aro there in great quantities, and
over the numerous lines of railway finI
market among the populations that con
sume more than they produce. Texas
cotton keeps the New England mills in
operation. Texas wheat furnishes flour
to the millions of New York and Penn
sylvania. Texas sugar cane sweetens
the tea and coffee of the people, north
and east. Texas beef not only supplies
this country with meat, but is now be
ing exported to the starving millions of
Europe. Texas wool is 'worked trp in
every factory of the North, and Texas
fruits and vegetables are the first and
best to be found in the markets of St
Louis, Chicago and other Northern
cities.
The country is poor and would be
rich. Let its surplus population go to
Texas and develop the resources of t'a
great State, and not only will they find
prosperity, but the products of all kinds
will bo enough to enrich a nation. Li
going to Texas, however, you will need
a little capital to start with. The climate
will not build houses, the soil will not
produce corn, oats, wheat and cotton
without seed and cultivation. The prai
ries do not yield horses and cattle bat
they produce a great abundance of the
sweetest and most nutritious grasses,
upon which stoek can Bubsist and fatten
the whole year through. So, w ith capi
tal and industry in Texas, the rounding
seasons will bring health and wealth ana
comfort. S7. Lonin Texan.
YELLOW FEVER XE H'S.
Washington, Sept 28. Report to Dr.
Wuodaworth, Surgeon General of the ITnitrf
Statc Marine Hospital service thow: New
Orleans, during the week ending yesterday
020 cases, 332 deaths ; in the past 34 hours, t
cases, fifty-one deaths ; total cases Wrll, deaths
2700. South Pass, to Slith, 40 cases, 3'deasnfc
Morgan City, past week, T9 cases, V3 duatts:
total cases 143, deaths 30. Baton Rouge, to 9
a. m., of the 30th 221 cases, T death; tMal
8! cases, 4 deaths. Plaquemine, week end
ing the 15th, lrt deaths, 130 under treatment to
the 15th; total cases 3ft deaths 53. Pass ChrMr
tian total cases 38, deaths 3. Biloxi, in
week past 5 cases, one death; total case
deaths 8. Mississippi City 8 cases, 1 ;
Ocean Springs 9 cases, 5 deaths; total cs
60, deaths 17. Bay St Louis-53 cases, '
deaths; total, 78 cases, deaths 38; Water a
ley, Miss., eight days to September 21 steigM
cases, 5 deaths, total cases 21, deaths 7. Vuti"
bnrg-for the week, 58, deaths 14, in 24 hmrs,
total deaths 77U. Assistant "Jl
reports the epidemic over, save a few ST"
rases. CreenriUe-ont of the remaining De
lation of 450 cases, 227 deaths. C.renada-sr
the week, 10 cases, 3 deaths; total deathsSS
Port Gibson-total cases CJ0, deaths 210; Jtaj
phis-week ending Sfith, 207 d
deaths, 2428. Brownsville, Tenn., week e
27th; 67 cam; 22 deaths; total cases, 1.
deaths, 68. St Louis-4 deaths at the qM
tine, aone in the city. Cairo, Illinois-2 drti
one refugee; total cases, 14; deaths.
Tille 18 cases and 10 deaths; oUleVjj
deaths, V Gallipolis, to 24U-S eases a
deaths; total casea. 31; deaths.
Clattaaoofa,-refiifee take oa the 21st.
other September; total cases. ;
Mobile, 24th 11 cases and 7 deaths Kf
the board of health as frrer. Key 7
mw eases the past week; om
Dsrum, Ohio, 2!st-oe c-r. TT..ls'r