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Thu debt of the city of New
"York1 is only 149,000,00a
Gex. Grant and company ar-
rived ia
last
Mnbay on Thursday
lrlls"beHeved that President
Hayes -win call aft extra session
oT congress.
MitcMA"US, a prominent
merchant and bankerof Chihan-
hau, Mexico, is dead,
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0 " The sesame, oa the J2th pass
ed, thcHouse bill creating the
.northern judicial district ofTex-
as. ""
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TBXegtskttire of Alabama.
has fixed fee ratcof taxation at
70 cents on the hundred dollars.
a Fhjwb -scme strong talk oj"'
-'rettdwiig'the State capital of
Missouri from Jefrerson city to
4 " GaroBEkTsIs ofthcopin-
ion.that the. State. Asylums at
Austin might be more econom
- icaiiy. managed.
i BkntHEK is" In receipt of
flifeJhatcopy- ofTAtf Texan a
vBQataaaH paper, published at
ljrtinnge,?3'exas, byHausild'Sc
-Qacksaiag."
t s"TKB"pedestrian fever has pen
etrated War- east as England. A
tu Miax-fr T-rtirirr wa rnHi ILI
Ing matches, they will be away
over tit China.
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GovRobests is a strong be-
- liewer in TrontieCf defense, and
insists that the legislature should
mike provision for a force "for
-tnatpurjKse at once.
Tfce-biH Introduced in the
senate byi'Homan for the sim-
plHkation ofindichnents should
become a law. There would be
5 no more quashing indictments.
" Euzbs.ts Cmr, Ni ., owes
i-dt, of 6,000,000, wiuleher
totad assessed valiis is only
Jtii)ooopcx. It is said, that
$2,coo,ooo( worth of property
has been abandoned by its own-
'
ers, who are-nqt able to pay
taxes upon it
D&MtsaK IsLneminentlymor
5 al dryland its great and good
Set aid is an eminently goodpi
, sj per, yetituses dodgers printed
ia its office for a "champion
game oTJceno" for wrappers.
-All events the Banner re-c&tpd-a.
'Unaa in a keno bill
gfpl---- "
Jtvrfe Irving, a negro living
near Huntsville,in a fit ofjeal
ousy shot his wife and -skipped.
Two days afterward.he returned
and iound her alive; he shot her
again and then nearly cut her
head off with a razor; he then
cut his" own throat -and fell be
side her; he. didn't die at once.
ATxy ten years-old, a brother
" the wife came into the cabin
. -d picking up a'shot gun, fin
ished the man by shooting his
ked offT
Farmers, says Coleman's Hu
lal Wotld, read much about en
riching the farm, and appreciate
the fact that by so doing they
will get better crops. But do
they sufficiently appreciate the
fact that it pays to enrich the
mind; it must be fed as well as
stock or crops. It must have
food adapted to its growth. Well
r cultured brains in these days of
active competition, must be had
to make farming, stock raising
and fruitgrowing pay.
The Austin Statesman con
cludes an 'editorial on convicts
and the opposition manifested to
he whipping post in the folfow-
ing strong and emphatic lan
guage: "Enough absurd twad
dle" in reference to this subject
has been indulged in, and the
sooner we have, in densel pop
ulous counties, perfect work
houses for idlers and inspiriting
whippings posts to expel thieves
from Texas, the better for all
classes. And yet the Legisla
ture, it appers, is not ready to
fc enact such healthv measures.
Dallas, which according to
all reports, is themost moral
town in northern Texas, has
been most supremely humbug
ged by a spiritualistic lecturer
who took in an immense theory
and entertained them for more
than two hours. After the two
hours set the audience departed,
every man satisfied that he had
been, most completely humbugged-
The inference is that Dallas
is a live town but that the peo
ple in that neighborhood are
easily taken in.
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The San Antonio Expiess ad
ministers to Gov. Roberts a very
severe, and we are sorry to say,
a "well merited rebuke on his
newly inaugurated policy of of
fering.no rewards for criminals.
In, the MeJaskey case a stain has
L been placed upon the fair es
cutcheon of Texas that will take
years to remove. 'Never in the
history of any state in the un
ion has it occurred that a crim
inal has been released because
of the state's ability to pay for
bringing him Taclc to be tried
for his crime.
The Houston Age calls at
tention to the fact.there is man
eyin raising early vegetables.
It-says'thcre is now a demand
from the towns of northern Tex
as .and the cities -still further
north for more vegetables than
the gardeners in the vicinity of
Houston can supply.
The Ban'ser ha for a long
time contended that there was
money in raising and shipping
vegetables, but if the gardeners
have to" wait until May, June or
July It is much better to let the
vegetables remain ,ia the garden
and save expense ofjnandiing.
iTiie, Galveston Nexs com
menting on the release 'of the
murderer, Melasky, in another
-state, says "that Texas desper
adoes, should be turned loose
after arrests in other states for
want of funds to defray the ex
pense of bringing them ba;k io
the scenes of their crimes, is
too humiliating to be tolera
ted, and the legislatture wjll
meet public expectation in the
premises by at once making ap
propriation required, and so
shaping legislation that such an
emergeacycan not possibly -oc-v
cur again." We may: be per
mitted' to'1 add that at is a dis
grace that it has happened.
TliE Polk county J?a-says
"our present road law is unjust
We. have noticed a:young man
who has" been in the county on
ly a shorf time put to work ten
days on the roads, while the
wealthy land owner over 45
years of age is exempt" It for
gets to mention the fact that the
road'lawisso constructed Slat
a man acquires the privilege of'
working the roads after fifteen
Ldays residence in the county,
while it requires a six months'
residence to vote. This proves
to the most skeptical that the
privilege-of -road working was
more highly esteemed by our
law makers than that of voting.
Young Melaskey, who kill
ed a man and woman in an Aus
tin saloon last summer was ar
rested in a western state and
turned loose jon habeas corpus.
There was no money at the dis
posal of the governor of Texas
to pay for his transportation to
this state; hence he could not
be held indefinately. This is
certainly a pretty state of affairs
with the legislature in session; a
coldblooded murderer is arres
ted in another state and turned
loose because there is no money
to pay for bringing him back to
Texas. If this state of affairs
continue all the murderers in
the state will step across the
line and defy arrest
The county commissioners of
Harris county have passed a
resolution that in the opinion of
the court the commissions and
perquisites of the county officers
of Harris county should be cut
down and reduced, so that no
county officer shall be allowed
over $2000 a year in the aggre
gate, exclnsive of allowance for
deputies. They also resolved
that the legislature be requested
to pass appropriate laws for the
reduction of salaries to the fig
ures named. The Telegiam
says the officials around the
courthouse arc decidedly oppos
ed to the measure.
SMALL GRAIN.
TheBwNER has for seeral
years insisted that wheat should
be grown in this county, not a
a "crop" but for the purpose of
home use It is a universal say
ing among farmers and planters
that they can raise nothing
which will bring ready money
except cotton. This we are
willing to concede, so far as field
crops are concerned. We hope
that our farming friends will ex
cuse us for our frequent refer
ence to this'matter, but we can
not refrain from quoting from
the San Antonio Hoald when
it says, "the region about San
Antonio will soon be famous
for its small grain, and be able
to place the earliest grain in
market from any portion of the
United States." This is a just and
commendable boast on the part
of our friends of thelieiad, but
we submit to our home planters
that San Antonio is a long dis
tance west of here and the soil
there is perhaps no better ad
apted to the cultivation of small
grain fhan is that of Washing
ton county. Now it may not
have occurred to any of the
planters of this county that the
first new wheat shipped to St.
Louis, Chicago or Cincinnati al
ways brings a fancy price. It
has been usual for the past few
years for Mississippi to ship the
first new wheat to market If
our San Antorjio contemporary
tells the truth, -and there cer
tainly is rto reason to doubt it,
that section of Texas will have
the first new wheat in market
From the experiments made
here year before last there seems
to but little doubt that wheat
can be successfully raised.
It has been said by old farmers
that one bushel of corn on a
man's place is worth more than
five bushels if be has to haul it
five miles w ithout paying a cent
for it Taking this for granted
it certainly would seem reason
able that the same rule Tvould
apply to wheat There
is no man who pretends :
to respectability but who
uses more or less flour, and as
we arenowbuy ing every pound
of flour used in the county
from a distance, most of
it from StLouis. Northern
Texas claims to be, and no
doubt if, as fine a wheat country
as. there is in the jvorld, yet her
wheat is shipped to Missouri,
ground into flour and shipped
back to Texas for consumption.
The same rule applies to cotton,
but in this conection it is not
nescessary to say anything. To
make farming, successful it
should be a point with every
farmer to. raise as much at home
as possible; to, in fact, make his
farm self-supporting. In order
to accomplish, this the farmer
should as a primary object raise
his own meat and bread,
COUNTY COURTS-
It appears from the report of
Grayson county that she, one of
the most northerly counties in
the State, is in a most pros
perous condition. Here in
southern Texas, where we are
under radical rule, it is we are
sorry to sayt entirely different
Our county commissioners'
court has just made an order
making county scrip receivable
for all county taxes, but in spite
of this, taxes having been gen
erally paid, this particular scrip
will not command over 80 cents
in cash. Parties who buy with
a view to paying taxes cannot
get it at less than 90 cents on
the dollar. The late order of
the court, ought in reality, to
bring county scrip up to par, as
every dollar of it now in exis
tence is receivable for counry
taxes. The commissioners'
cout as now constituted is doing
some very good work for the"
county, and if they only keep
up the present good conduct
they have established, old
Washington county will soon,
be out of debt and be able to
hold up her head with some of
the wealthier, but not older
counties. Judge McAdoo, our
county judge, was once a judge
on the supreme bench of the
state, under, we are sorry to
say, radical rule. He has come
dow n a peg or two, to use an
expression of Mr. Mark Two
Twain, he calls himself for short
he has struck bottom and is
now on raising ground. We
have every confidence in the
commissioners and have no
doubt but what they will come
out favorable, not only for
themselves but for the people of
the entire county.
BUG UNDER THE CHIP.
Finlay's bell-punch or liquor
register bill has passed the
house. The purpose of the bill is
to increase the revenue. We ha e
heretofore stated that we have
no faith in the bell-punch; it has
been tried and 'proved a fail
ure. The legislature is anxious
to increase the revenues of the
state without resorting to direct
taxation, and with this object in
icv they, like a drowning men,
grasp at a straw. We believe
there is a cry large and very
healthy bug under the chip in
this bell-punch business. We
have no statistics at hand, but
taking the average county as a
criterion it is, we think, a low
estimate to say that there are
from 6000 to Sooo dram shops
in Texas; these figures are per
haps below the true ones. Now
if the register law passes, each
dram shop will be compelled to
buy a register or the counties
will have to buy and furnish
them. This accounts for the
presence of the bug. The man
ufacturers of the register will at
once have a big job on hands.
Times, it is said, are dull, and
the manufacture and sale for
cash of from 5000 to 10,000 reg-
isters or bell-punches or what
nots is no small tiling. The sen
ate wiil do well to give this mat
ter a pretty thorough investiga
tion before adopting the regis
ter law.
In 1S67 when the tax on whis
key was two dollars per gallon,
congress passed an act requir
ing every distillery in the Uni
ted States to buy and attach
thereto a machine known as the
Tice patent meter; the cost of
these meters was from $$co to
S5000 according to site. The
radicals who got the job through
congress, made a handsome
thing. In due time it was found
that the Tice meter was not the
thing and It was abandoned to
its fate.
The question in regard to the
bell-punch register law suggests
itself Is it not a Tice meter
scheme on a smaller scale?
SAD.
House of Represent vtives 1
Austin, Feb. ii? 1879. J
Editors Barmen
I was visiting the asylums to
day; in my rounds I visited the
Deaf and Dumb Institution at
3:30 o'clock p. m. Myself and
guests, werevery politely invited
into the Kitchert, to which one
ofmy lady friends friends Miss
S. B. replied: "I did not come to
see the Kitchen but the asylum."
After reconsidering the matter
they did condescend to ask us
up to see the printing office.
I did not know that it was
contrary to the rules of any of
the State Institutions fot a mem
ber of the Legislature to visit
them; and, had I known it to be
the case I certainly would not
have -intruded.
Very Respectfully &c,
B. G. Gur.
Hon. Guy is evidently wroth';
this is very sad. Hon.Guy is a
colored gentleman and repre
sents a portion of the people of
this county in the legislature.
The portion he represents, the
black and white radicals, will
no doubt feel as sad about this
affair as the honorable gentle
man himself. That portion of
the people of the county whom
Mr. Guy misrepresents, will, we
doubt not, coincide with the
Banner in the opinion that,
when Mr. Guy and his guests
were invited into the kitchen
they were invited to the proper
place Had Mr. Guy's"status
been known he would no doubt
have been receivee with the
consideration due his position
as a membur of the legislature;
his guests, however, would have
to stand on their own merits.
In Waco on Thursday eve
ning a German or Norwigian
woman, sick and unable to
move, was burned to death. She
was in the house alone, her hus
band having gone to the coun
try. The fire occurred late in
the evening and when discov
ered it had made such pro
gress that neither the woman or
the building could be saved.
Mr. Rowe Womack's
daughter, in Marshal, received a
comic valentine and he suspect
ing a young man of sending it,
w ent for him with a pistol. The
young man also had a pistol
and honors were "made easy
without wasting gunpowder.
LEGISLATIVE.
Senate Feb. 13. Committee
reported favorably on criminal
code and code of procedure,
recommending adoption of some
of the house amendments.
Favorably on bill to more ef
fectually prevent gambling.
Favorably on memorial of
late sheriffs convention
Discussion on bill to sell
school lands was resnmed. The
discussion lasted all day. The
majority of the senate tavor the
general idea of converting the
lands into available school funds
but the difference among then
is how shall this end be attain
ed.
House. Senate bill to or
ganize the penitentiaries and
regulate the officers thereof.
Referred.
Bill to relieve county courts
of all jurisdiction except pro
bate matters was taken up on
second "reading. After some
discussion a motion to refer the
bill to judiciary committee No.
3 to determine whether Galves
ton and other counties can be
exempted from operations of the
bill. Carried. '
Senate bill making appropri
tion for repairs on governor's
mansion referred.
Senate bill for protection of
laborers and mechanics work
ing for railroads, passed.
Report of penitentiary visit
ing joint committee presented:
Find present managementgood.
At Huntsville, cell room for 350
and cells for 300 more are near-
ly ready. Rusk penitentiary is
up to contract" The two have
cell room enough to confine all
the convicts. The interests of
the state demand that all con
victs should be confined within
the prison walls, but-the finan
cial condition df the state does
not admitpf that step now.
Committee reported unfav
orably on bill preventing con
victs being worked, outside the
penitentiary. Favorably on bill
providing for purchase of the
Alamo building. Favorably on
bill providing-- changes in the
road law and against creating
county supervisors of roads and
bridges. - -
Mr. Finlay: To amend the
charter of the Gulf Colorado'
and Santa Fe railroad, extend
ing time
Finlay's bell-punch bill taken
up, amended; for register ap
propriations to carry law into
effect reduced to $10,000. The
bill was ordered engrossed by a
vote of 61 to 19.
Senate. Feb. 14. Mr. Hous
ton: Resolution by citizens of
Menard county asking protec
UonYrom depredations.
Favorably, on bill authorizing
cities and towns to compromise
their debt and issue low rate of
interest bearing bonds.
Favorably on bill creating a
state board of health.
Mr. Terrell: Bill to organize
16th district and for holding
court in same. Referred.
The house report on criminal
code was taken up and three
out of the six house amend
ments concurred in. The Sun
day law amendnjent by the
house was concurred in by a
vote of 13 to 15; it provides for
closing all places of business all
day Sanday, except markets
for daily supplies for table.
The bill to sell the school
lands wa3 taken up and after
various amendments was pass
ed to engrossment by a vote of
313 to 7. Mr. Homan being one
of those who voted in the neg
ative. House Further time was
asked to report on propositions
to fix tariffs of railroads.
Committee reported unfavor
ably on bill to license gambling
houses and other places of evil
resort
Favorably on bill to appro
priate $15,000 to provide ma
chinery and apparatus for school
of mechanics and agriculture at
Bryan college.
Resolution to adjourn March
15, referred to committee on
state affairs.
The bill to .exempt products
of the soil in hands of producer
from taxation was taken up and
after considerable discussion
passed to engrossment
Senate. Feb. 15. Commit
tee reported railroad omitting
all important features.
Amended report on schools
so as to make $45,000 answer
r
the place of $600,000
in the
1 original bill.
Favorable rq
various judicial di
Favorable report
schools Tor year
31st, 1071
The senate
o -
mittee re
A'exs'
c&
tion; this ends the coi
so far as the iVatt'.h-dncemed-
Mr. Homan,introduced a biIl-4
to prevent the liquor trafic
The discussion as to how the
Galveston Sfeios' reporter ob
tained his information in regard
to the secret session of the
senate occupied a considerable
potion of the day without ar
riving at any definite result, and
so far as appear without doing
any good.
School bill passed to third
reading.
House. Quite a number of
bills and petitions were intro
duced.
Mr. Shepard, of Delta coynty,
introduced a bill to establish
whipping post for sheep steal
ing and other petty thefts.
By Mr. Gause: To take care
of county papers. Each coun
ty to take care of its own.
The bill abolishing the smoke
house tat is very likely to pass
the house, as an amendment to
the same was requested.
Bill to make sentences final
in lower courts unless reversed
upon appeal.
Penal code consumed bal
ance of the day.
FromBnrlejoa County.
Caldwell Feby 11. 1879.
Editors Banner:
I borrowed the.following from
a man who was a candidate 'in
the recent canvass; successful,
however. He had kept a diary
of his doings during the canvass.
The book contained many fig
ures and memorandums, from
which the following summary
is made up;
lenjomin Joseph Mullen, can
didate Tor the lower house of
the legislature. Received 390
votes. Lost g njonths 33 days
time; 13761 hours sleep; 4 acres
tobacco; 25 acres corn; whole
sweet potato crop; 33 sheep; 2
front teeth; one handful of hair
(from my own head). Gave
away: 35 reapers garden seed;
97 pings flat tobacco; 803 drinks
whiskey; 7 Sunday school books;
2 pair galluses; 4 calico dresses;
7 dolls and 19 baby rattles.
Sundries: Told 2499 lies;
shook hands 14,770 times; talk
ed enough to have made in print
1600 volumes patent office re
ports; held 125 horses and 125
babies; kindled 6 kitchen fires
and cut 2 cords of wood; pulled
99 bundles of fodder; toted 17
buckets of water; hung out one
washing; put up 6 stoves; dog
bit, 2 times; baby broke watch, 1
time.
' Loaned out: 2 barrels flour;
20 bushels meal; i5o"pounds
bacon; 18 pounds butter; 5 doz
en eggs; 3 umbrellas; 13 lead
pencils; I bible dictionary; 1
mowing blade; 1 hoe;, I pair
pants and 2 boxes paper collars
none of which have been return
ed. Personal: called my oppon
ent a perambulating liar doc
tors bill $10. Had 2 arguments
with my wife-r- result I flower
vase broken; I dish of hash
knocked off table; one "biled"
shirt ruined and 10 cents
worth of sticking plasterbought
Spent $351 in good hard earned
money.
The gentleman informed me
that there were many other
minor items and incidents in
the canvas of which no note
was taken. Enough however
is given to show what the aer
candidate will do to obtain an
office.
L. L.J.
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Judge Norton of the Dal
las postoffice. has made a bril
liant scientific disco ery, viz: by
a mixture of salt and coal ashes
any old stove, coal scuttle, tin
pan or any other worn out
household article can be mend
ed to last forever.
The Crockett Patron says
the thing works in the usual
way that is to say, the farmers
are beginning to sign those
mortgages. It is the worst thing
a farmer can do to mortgage his
farm.
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STATE NEWS.
Polk county has but two
oners corked up inhercoun-
ug.
Zekc Bradley, a negro,
onvicted at .Bryan of mur-
the first degree.
Medical Asso-
onvene at Sherman
pril next
f a malignant
on the Colo-
ct county.
county farmers
arc going to Houston via Brc-
mond's railroad with their cot
ton. Burnet has twenty busi
ness houses, all doing tolerably
well, aneVroom for ever so many
more. At Sulphur Springs, last
Thursday, John Coffee killed
John Lindley, in a drunken
spree.
Last year the San Antonio
postoffice cleared above expen
ses upwards of seven thousand
dollars.
Brown county is filling up'
rapidly with immigrants from
Mississippi and the Southern
states.
A democratic convention
will be called at Dallas to nom
inate candidates for municipal
offices.
The San Antonio Repress
opposes the bill before" the leg
islature for licensing gambling
houses.
The Waco papers contain
full reports of the Twenty-fourth
annual conclave of the Knights,
templar ol Texas.
-..The wheat crop of Tar
rant county looks promising,
but is not so great by 15 per J
cent as that of last year.
, The bathing reason at
Galveston was opened, on
Tuesday last by a lady and
gentleman from Philadelphia.
A bevy of. drunken cow
boys went into San Antonio
and had lots of fun without fall
ing into the hands of "the peel
ers. J- W. Rowles, an old and
respected citizen of Bryan was
convicted and given two years
in the penitentiary for aiding
his son in escaping arrest'
Over in Crockett they
hung a young man in effigy.
He was indignant, instead of be
ing thankful for being spared
the pain of being hung in per
son. The assessment of Mc
Lennan county, for the present
year, for county purposes is 15
cents on the $100; the state as
sessment is 50 cents, making a
total of 65 cents.
San Antonio handles'from
12,000 to 15,000 barrels of St
Louis flour every year. At six
dollars a barrel this represents
$90,000 which could be kept at
home by raising wheat
The body of an unknown
negro man was found in the San
Jacinto River near Wlilis. Sev
eral pieces ofironwere found at
tached to the body. He is sup
posed to have been shot and
dumped into the river.
Femtnlno Pagillsts-
The San Francisco Chronicle
of January 26 says that the spor
ting world is excited at the
prospect of a glove contest be
tween two women, to come off
on the 24th of February at one
of the public halls of the city.
Both candidates for the honors
of the ring are as yet untried
in fistic warfare. They will,
however, be given the requisite
disciplineby competent trainers.
Their names are Mollie B.erdan,
a Lanceshire lass, and" Jessie
Lewis, a California damsel, born
in Calaveras, and their homes
are in two of the small and de
lectable streets that nestle under
the aristocratic skirts of Nob
Hill. Miss Berdan is a blonde
of a pronounced type, with hair
almost flaxen. Her features
are regular and havebeen hand
some. Her hands are small,
white and well lormed. Her
air is mild and quite rather than
noisy and belligerent. Miss
Lewis is a decided brunette,
with sparkling eyes pcepincr
out from under a tangled fnnge
of jet black hair. She is lithe
of figure and her arms are long.
She seems inclined to be bellig
erent and slightly vicious. Her
conversation is snappy and en
ergetic.
Ostrich feathers are down.
At Grahamstown, South Africa,
perfect white feathers can be
had forS25 a pound, fine white
plumes for $200, black ones for
$70 and drab and fancy colors
for $20.
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Brother Jaspar.
" Gcn'lenvif you See a pus
son rushin' roun' de worla en
veloped in a dimond pin an' an
ulster, am dat any sign dathc
pays taxes, rents a church pew
an' brings his chill'cn up in de
way dey should go?" The
Elder Toots heaved a deep sigh,
and Huckleberry Jones silently
scratched his oti leg jsst below
the knee. "When a man takes
up fo' seats, in de kyar. pushes
folks'aroun on de market el
bows aroun' de city hall, an gits
de fust place tt de stamp win
dow -41 de postoffice, am dat
any sign dat when it came to de
pull he'd give half a dollar's
worth of wood tcrkcepanorfun
asylum from frcezin' to death?
Doan' you black folks git dust
in yer eves! Dar's a heap of san'
an sawdust in dis worl dat
passas for sugar to de man walk
in' by, but when you come tode
pinch de sugar ain't dar. De
sawdust bulges up an' desan'
creeps out, an' you am dis'pint
ed an disgusted. It's kinder
hard to have to eat cold turnip
when you know dat the family
next door am luxuriating on
sweet cake an' turkey, but if de
turnip am paid for yer needn't
fear for yer digestion. I expeck
dat de h'arafter am de biggest
fing enny of us hev got to work
fur, an' I tole you, bruddcrs, dat
big seal-rings an pants cut
tw enty-tw o inches across de hull
arc nowhar 'longside ofa kin'
word an' an honc,st heart Rev.
J. Jasper.
The Best Friend.
Honor the dear old mother.
Time has scattered .snowflakes
on her brow and plowed deep
furrow;s jn her cheek, but isn't
she swecdy beautiful now? The
lids are thin and shrunken, but
those are the lips which have
kissed many 'a hot tear from the
childish cheek, and they are the
sw eetest lids in the w orld. The
eye is dim, yet it glows with
tlje radiance of holy love which
never can fade. Ah, yes, she
is a dear old mother. 'The
sands of life are "nearly run out,
but feeble .as she is- she will go
further and reach down lower
for you than any other upon
earth. You cannot walk into a
midnight in which she cannot
see you; can never enter a pris
on whose bars will keep her c-ut;
can never mount a scaffold too
high for her to reach, as she
may kiss and bless you in evi
dence of her deathless love.
When the world shall despise
and forsake youby the wayside
to die unnoticed, the dear old
mother will gather you In her
feeble arms and carry you home1
and tell you of your virtues un-
til you almost forget that your
soul is disfigured by vices Love
her tenderly andcheer her de
clining years with holy devotion-
A cement that resists'the ac
tion of fire and water: Take half
a pint of milk, mix with an equal
quantity of vinegar, so as to co
agulate the milk; separate, the
curds from the whey and mix
the latter with the wjiites of four
or five eggs, well beaten up.
The mixture of these two being
complete, add to them quick
lime which has been passed
through asievemakethewhole
into a thickpaste, to the consis
tency of putty, when used.
This cement has been used to
close the fissure "of an iron caul
dronlor the boiling of pitch, and
which has been for five years, -without
requiring further repairs
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Sympathetic old lady (giving-
money to a solemn-looking
tramp); "It is your inability
to getgork, my good man, that
causes your dejected air?" S. 1. 1
(preparing to light out); "No,
mom; it is my liability to git
suthin to da that keeps me all
the time pensive and cast down.
The Marlin Ball b of the
opinion that the Daingerfield
Banner is given to exaggeration.
The editor is building a house
near the Methodist church and
the Ball hopes "he avUI get close
enough to the drippings of the
sanctuary to reform.
"Jane," saidfher father, "I
thoughtyou hated stingy peo
ple; and yetyour young man "
-Why, pa, who says he is stin
gy?" "Oh, nobody," replied
pa; "only I could see that he
was was a litde near as T passed
through the room.
Brenham.in Washington coun
ty, is certainly a thriving little
city. It supports two good pa
pers. The Daily Banner is Tip
to the times,. while the weekly
has recently been enlarged and
beautified Galveston Ckristiaa
Advocate.
The best flavored meat "and
at the same time of the richest
quality, is attained when the
cows feed on old and rich per
manent pastures in summer, the
fla or being particularly sweet
"Yes, Job suffered some,''
said an llllinois deacon, "but he
never knew what it was to have
his team run away and kill his
wife right in the busy season,
when hired girls want three dol-
llarsaweek."
CAPTAIN KeXEIiY.
After the Bank Red Rwer
campaign when the UrdWar-, "
my had rallied and fortified-'
themselves undertheppoteccj -of
their ironclads aFMofganefa " -.
Louisiana, Cap t Mac was de-'
tailed to cross the AtcWWsyC ..
and scout around the-forfc. He
then commanded thefincsGk
ing and best armed company of -tv-4-
cavalry 1 ever saw, and a. mdnz, t
dashing; gallant set never MvetL "
The Captain not bang- thor
oughly acquainted -withtha
swamp trails of Point Coupecl
and West BatonHouge, prevail'
ed upon the authorities iat
Shre esport to send him several
boys from the 2nd Louisiana
cavalry, who had homes south"?;
of the Atchafelaya to. act a& -
guides for his scouts, andjseiag -'
one of those chosen, T "had the
good fortunco become wettae-
quaintcd with the" cSfvalrous i
Texan.
If he had been operitisg'm'J1,
Virginia or the Western depart-'
ments, some able pen would ?"
haye recorded in history Hs
knightly courage and many hak--breadth
escapes. , .
During our stay In the lower -
parishes we. wereobliged" ta
ceepwell hidden in the swamps
and, cane-brakes, only sallying,
outwhen we saw a'phacet. '
ambush a raiding part" orcSt,,
off a bunch ofstragglers Sevs
eral times we crowded "things-
too far, and barely escaped be- '
ingsurroundedandcuttopteeec i
or captured wholesale. "g
Iim fully satisfied, that dar"-" "
ing its stay in thaVscctwm..tiie
company killed ,and- cagtuted ?
morethan- three times its' asm "
number of the enemy.," General . .
ALK. Lawler oTJHndis-iiiut.
then commandant at Monraniia.
He was a fat, good-natured old ""
insnman, ana -apt.inac.s-ex-ploits'around'the
fort gave Jmn
great' annoyance,::r-Repeatdl3r
the "entire Union force would be c
underarms and in .battle inxy,
oh, dark orramyjiiglitsexpect
Ing an attack, when.really there '
were not fifty .Rebs withiwsev- " .
enty-fivc miles of the place, and sjl
these by.firing on pickets on all
f'the roads at oncejToc otherwise
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masing, a great, snow wur dui
small capital, had created the
impression that the -whole of "
DickfTaylorVarSyhadcTossed
theBayou. ""-
,Oneu day while hiding In
brake aboutthree"milesfromth
fort, we sawan officer and a dot
en "men. raiding plantation
nearby; gathering up chickens
and other -small game by the"
haversack-TulL With about 20
men Capt .Mac:. made"a dash
and killed or, captured rae en
tire lot at "the first pass, except
"the 'officer, a lieutenant, who
finding5 himself haft pressed.
sprang' from his horae and slid
ing into a, deep ditch,' made ait
.speed to escape. The Captain
was aicer mmmt person, ana
dismounting (a high cross fence
prevented his pursution horse
back) also entered the ditch and
ran -down 'and" ""captured the-
But, in the meantime.
Captain s mare- had.
"broken loose,, and trotting but
int6,tieroad,strucKjofffna 4rit
for the, fort VTsenLthis less
was made knownlto him, .Capt
Mac. rejeasedr a prisoner and
sent him into Morganzia with.
note to Capt 'Lawier, saxtsrg
that if themare would te renam
ed he would give-up tJft Sew
tenant in exchange, and &(tt f
,the.'offer was.. refused he weuhf
hangeverjrprisoBer" he had by
10 o'clock, next. day. " Early .
next. morning, 'to -ear great
ainusementandtJie intense' re
lief "of our captives, wo thought
like Gen. Lawier, that the Cap
tain intended to put ls threat
into execution, an. orderly caww
out to the appointed place.leadr
ing the rcare, and the Deutn
Lant was sent on his way rejo
ing. Lapt Mac. said ae corq
easily afford, to exchange ttei
for.ht could overhaul S prison
er nearly any day, and vould
have considerable "diftkaty is
replacing such a charger.
The latepoftartteeem
missibnersa'hd supemidest
of the Teas pentenriTi3fais
mat aiwnp uc pn
the' operiiBgo the
t-i -f .iT-" - 52.--
thereave.been . oaej
years oiaDecween
teen.63; between
twenty, 1025; betwi
and twenty-five, 25
A professor, examini
dent on Bible Mst
him why Moses was
sucn a secretplacei
ra elites cowd?;.
The youtlyfc
posed it wfUR
dig upS&el&ody ;
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xnis young man
a showman,
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poems reads thusr :'OtireSck .$
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replied, "It -would gjyejm "
rheumatiz, and so itlpoAdyof "
A Connetticutxnan. .wcwitf ." .
said "Lend me a "doliar.vMjf -wife
has left me an3"wa,6
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