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J. O. RANKIN, Proprietor.
Thursday, April 23, 1891.
-Olatts Spbeckels is said to have
pocketed $2,500,000 within six weeks
by his deal with the sugar trust.
in
SenatobVest, wiio was recently
in San Antonio, says that Cleveland
will undoubtedly be the next democratic-nominee
for President.
Hi" '
Blaine is the ablest and strongest
man of his party, and his talk of not
being a candidate for the Presidency
is a drawback to his friends who are
trying to boost him for the Presi
dency. The executive committee of the
" lady managers of the World's Fair
aro having a considerable little row
as to who is secretary. Miss Couis
ins has been secretary and it seems
that the lady managers want her to
..vacate the place, whichshe stoutly
refuses. They havedeclared the
place vacant however, and appointed
Miss- Cook in her stead.
The Western commercial congress,
which has been sitting in Kansas city
for several days, adopted a series of
resolutions which stamp them as
men who met in the interest of the
country and sections which they
" represent. Their deliberations
Bhowed them to bd men of intelli
gence and the resolutions they
adopted was evidence of wisdom and
patriotism.
Gen. O. O. Howard, who com
manded the right wing of the army
that marched through to the sea,
says that Sherman's promotions in
the army to western commands were
won against the prejudices of those
above him, especially of the Secre
tary of War, who considered him
erratic, his opinions- swollen, his
estimates excessive when he called
for 60,000 men and then 200,000
more to finish the war in the west.
President Harbison's trip through
the South has been one continual
ovation, but no other city out did
Galveston in paying honor to the
Nation's Chief Executive. His trip
-will no doubt be of great benefit to
the country in broadening the views
of the distinguished party concern
ing the south and convincing tnem
that we lire as loyal American citi
zens' as can be found north, and
thereby removing the prejudice of
lease a iew oi tue jtsepuDiican leaaers.
The close season for quail and
turkeys is now in force, and will
continue until September 15. Dur
ing ibis time any one convicted of
shooting this game will incur the
penalty of a fine of not less than $10
or not more than $25. The close
season in Texas does not apply to
ducks and other micrratorv birds.
Those birds do no nest in this counJJ
try and may be shot with impunity.
The close season also applies to
trouir and other fish that breed in
6pring time. The season in regard
to this kind of game continues two
months.
Frank ITGbath, has addressed
a letter to the southern Alliance,
asking them to attend their Cincin
nati convention, and be prepared to
act for a third independent party.
In his letter he intimates that unless
the southern branch of this order
takes this step, the northern states
will go back to the Republican
party. The letter was called forth
by. a number of editorials which
have appeared in the southern pa
pers, opposing a third party and de
daring the Alliance in the south
muHt work out its reforms through
tHo Democratic party.
Some of the boys who twenty
years ago used to clap their hands
and shout with glee at the funny
sayings and doingB of Dan Eice, the
clown, will have a chance to do it all
over, for the old showman has de
cided to go on theroad again with
a big one-ring circus. The show is
to open in Jersey City on May 15.
When asked if the death of Mr.
Barnum liad had anything to do
with his determination to return to
the circus business, Mr. Rice said:
"No, I just felt that I wanted to try
it againj and as there is room for a
first class one-ring show, I'm going
to give the public one that I think
- will please them.
Hi
A young man who is trying to run
a farm in the same way that his fa
ther and grandfather and great
grandfather did, had better sell out
or try some new methods, unless he
wants to make a failure of it The
old-time methods are past and gone,
and cannot be made successful at
the present day. Men in all profes
sions and branches of industries are
tending ' toward specialties, and if
farmers want to keep up they must
do the same. Some farms are adap
ted to stock-raising, others to grain,
nuu eini otners to iruir. jjet every
ono pick out that branch which he
likes best, and to which his farm is
adapted, and then concentrate his
thoughts and energies on that and
make a success of it.
THE SOUTH CAB'OEIXA POSITION'.,
From the present indications 'it
looks as if South Carolina would
not get her share of the Federal ap
propriation for State agricultural
and mechanical colleges until Con
gress meets, unless either Gov. Till
man or Secretary Noble crawfishes
from the position thay have each
taken.
The Legislature of South Caro
lina, at its recent session, passed a
bill dividing this fund equally be
tween the college for whites and the
one for colored youths, which are in
that state. When Governor Tillman
applied for the money to 'Secretary
Noble he was informed by the secre
tary that the money would not be
forthcoming unless it was divided
uppn the basis of the proportion of
the two races in the school popula
tion: of that State. Governor Till
man declined to promise tnat it
would be done and refused lo make
any pledge that it would be divided
in a manner different from that
authorized by the act of the Legis
lature. , The action of Secretary Noble
says the New Orleans New Delta,
brings up a very grave question, and
one that affects the whole Southern
country. In appropriating the money
Congress allots it by States and
does not pretend to divide each
State's portion between the two
races. In attempting to do this
Secretary Noble is paving the way
for Federal interference in and
supervision over the public schools
of the different States. His action
in this matter is but an entering
wedge for a line of conduct which
could dictate to what particular
school or schools the money should
go. That once being established it
would be an easy matter to go still
further and say that the money ap
portioned to each State should go
to but one particular school or col
lege of its class in that State, and
that both races should have free
and common access to its benefits.
The transition from one stage to the
other is easy and if the demands of
the Federal officials were complied
with, if any of them chose to carry
it that far, it would result in a
partial control, of our public educa
tional institutions by tlie officials of
the Federal government.
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OX THE ItOAD TO BANKRUPTCY.
France is on the road to bank
ruptcy. It is often said that France
is one of the richest countries of
Europe, and while this is ,true the
financial policy of the government
has been such that she will have to
repudiate their debts as they did
during the first revolution and start
over again unless there is retrench
ment. xne waste oi tnat govern
ment is something awful, their ex
travagance is frightful, says Senator
St. Hilaire, and the charge is sub
stantiated by the facts, which show
that France is rushing toward
national bankruptcy.
Its public debt has reached the
gigantic figure of- 31,046,000,000
francs, or $6,236,000,000, without
including the. recent subscription,
and the annual interest has mounted
up to 1,318,000,000 francs, or $260,
0.00,000. But great as the debt is it
is still growing larger far more
rapidly than the growth of the coun
try in wealth, and the budgets are
doctored to make a plausible ap
pearance. m
COLUMBIAN EXHIBIT.
The Legislature of the State of
Texas has refused to make an ap
propriation in aid of the Columbian
Exhibition, and, unless immediate
steps are taken, our great State will
have no way of showing to the
world its greatness and vast unde
veloped resources. With a view to
overcoming the difficulty, the Cham
ber of Commerce of Fort Worth
asks that the various cities of the
State, the Chambers of Commerce,
and Boards of Trade, commercial or
ganizations, progressive associations
and county immigration societies
send delegates to a Convention, to
be held at Fort Worth, on May 12
at 12 m. to discuss plans, and, if
possible, organize for the purpose
of having the State efficiently repre
sented at the Coulumbian Exposi
tion. It, is, therefore, requested that
each commercial organization ap
point two delegates for every ten
members; each immigration and pro
gressive association two delegates
for every twenty members; each city
and county two delegates for every
2,000 inhabitants. One-half of each
delegation to be composed of ladies.
Send the names of the delegates to
K. M. Van Zandt, President, or E
Biden, Secretary.
HI
De. Strong, a German physician,
claims to have discovered by experi
ments on men and dogs, that exer
cise and digestion have no relation
to each other; and that the man who
takes an absolute bodily rest of
several hours after meals helps his
gastric function just as much as if he
should spend the time in gymnastics
or in walking-.
A. olUUU in circulation becomes
$10,000 in its debt-paying power,
every twenty-four hours, if it is
used actively kept -on the jump,"
as it were.
SCIESTIFC MISCELLANY.
iODINE AS A DETECTIVE.
Some interesting researches on a
method of delecting changes in writ
ten documents have been communi
cated to the Paris Adademy of Medi
cine by M. G. Bruylants. It is
shown that when, paper, sized and
calendered, is partially moistened,
then, after drying, subjected to the
action of iodine vapor, the parts
which have been wet assume a violet
tint, while those which have escaped
water grow yellow or brown. The
intensity of the coloration varies with
the time of exposure to the iodine.
Places where water has previously
fallen and dried may still be detect
ed after the paper is completely
saturated with water, the parts which
were first wet being turne'd an in
tense violet blue by the iodine, while
the other parts become blue." Even
rubbings, such as those which are
made by bread crumbs and elude
discovery by other methods, are
clearly brought out by iodine vapor,
and erased tracings of a soft pencil
are made legible. The certaintv of
the results depends much upon
the quality of the paper and the
elapse of time, irregular wetting or
rubbing giving fainter differences af
ter three months or more than when
the manipulations are recent, and
the indications being less clear on
thinly sized paper.
THE TENSES OF SCIENCE.
At the jubilee meeting of the
Chemical Society, of London, Lord
Salisbury offered these definitions.
Astronomy is largely composed of
the science of things as they prob
ably are; geology consists mainly of
science of things that probably were
a long time ago; and chemistry is the
science of things as they actually are
at the present time. An electrical
journal adds that electricity repre
sents the science of things as they
probablj will be.
A recent discovery by Mr. G. H.
Varlej should prove of great impor
tance from an economical point of
view, and opens a promising field
for further investigation. By asso
ciating iron salts with with suitable
sensitizers, he has succeeded in pre
paring photographic films quite as
sensitive as any of the modern gela
tine emulsions, and containing no
trace oi any silver compound.
HAIL IN CENTRAL EUROPE.
The record of injury from hail in
Wurtemberg for 60 years (1828-87)
has been investigated by Heir
Buhler, The yearly average of days
with hail is found to be 13, July
having the largest number of any
month and June the next. About
0.92 per cent of the cultivated land
was affected, damage being done to
the extent of $600,000. Of 17 hail
storni paths made out, one very
often taken is from Scheer to Ulm
on the Danube 45 miles long and
10 wide. The paths are all connected
with the configuration of the ground,
slopes with a western exposure suf
fer more than those with an eastern,
while plains are much less affected
than hilly ground. No evidence ap
pears of increase in the fall of hail
in the course of decades, and the
much-mentioned influence "of forests
is not distinctly proven. -
A German electrician, Herr Gul
cher, has made a thermo-electric
battery giving electric power equival
ent to 1.08 per cent of the heat em
ployed and hopes to exhibit at
Frankfort a battery which will yield
at least 5 per cent net effect. With
an economical source of heat, he be
lieves that his thermo-electric bat-
tery will even excel the dynamo
machine in efficiency.
On a small surface of about 1900
square metres, at Mont. Dol, in
Brittany, the remains of about a
hundred elephants have been dis
covered. The bones are all broken,
and it is believed that the animals
were eaten by piehistoric men.
A case of cholera in a dog has
been observed by Prof Ogats, of
Tokio. The dog's vomiting and
purging first attracted attention,
and after its death an abundance of
the comma bacilli were v obtained
from the small intestine.
FEBROID.
A new artificial stone, which can
be melted and cast in moulds, is
said to be a compound, partly chem
ical and partly mechanical of iron,
sulphur and silicon, with more or
less foreign matter. Its normal
color is a dark slate, which can be
modified by pigments. The materi
al has the hardness of bluestone,
and can be worked by the usual
stone cutting tools, turned in a
lathe, or planed. The tensile
strength is from 650 to 1200 pounds
per square inch, and compression of
9000 to 12000 pounds is withstood.
The specific gravity is about 2.6; the
melting point, about 300 degrees
Fahr. The new stone is described
under the name "Ferroid."
Greenland's dust.
The cosmic dust collected by
Nordenskjold in Greenland, in 1883,
has been submitted to scientific ex
amination, and found to consist
chiefly of feldspar, quartz, mica and
hornblende, with a smaller propor
tion of some other common minerals
a nitrogenous organic substance.
and some particles similar to those
obtained in deep sea soundings. It
is believed that the last-named mate
rial has come from space, and that
the other substances have been car
ried in the air from -a region of crys
talline schists. If the dust taken
from the Greenland snow represents
the fall of one year, the total annual
fall on the earth's entire surface is
equivalent to a cube of 31 yards, on
a side.
In 1663, according to a recent pa
per by M. G. J. Symons to the
Royal Meteorological society, Sir
Christopher Wren designed not only
the first rain gunge but also the first
recording gauge, although the in
strument was not constructed until
1770. The earliest rainfall records
were made at the following places:
Paris, 1668; Townley, in Lancashire,
1677; Zurich, 1708; and Londonerry,
1711.
A Swedish metallurgist, C. A.
Caspersson, tests the hardness, of
iron or steel in process of manufac
ture by electrically melting a sam
ple of certain size, and comparing
the strength of current necessary
with that known to be required to
fuse standard pieces of metal of de
termined hardness.
Measurements of a degree of
longitude in 'Russia, England and
the United States give results indi
cating, it the triangulations are ac
curate, that the earth is not a per
fect sphere.
STATE NEWS-
Beeville's artesian well is on the
downward way.
A Young Men's Christian asso
ciation has been organized at Chil
dress. The corner stone of the large
Rosenberg building at Hallettsville
has been laid.
Stephensville is rising from her
ashes better than ever. Three new
stores are almost completed.
The commissioners of Lime
stone county have awarded the con
tract for the new courthouse at $58,
700. Paris. CooDer. Sulnhnr Snrino-s
and Mineola will make a powerful
pull for the Kansas and Arkansas
Valley.
Iron operators are prospecting
at Lampasas, with a view of estab
lishing a foundry and machine shop.
Milford has held a large and
enthusiastic meeting which voted to
build a $5000 schoolhouse imme
diately. It is said that efforts are being
made to raise funds with which to
build another BaDtist church
in
Denison.
The Cisco and Eastland lodges
I. O. O. F. will celebrate at Cisco
the Seventv-secend anniversary of
the order on April 25.
The construction of the Denton
county jail is under way. It is to
be of pressed brick and stone, 54x59
feet, and cost $18,889.
Will Light and Frank Besson,
two fifteen-vear-old hovs. wero ar
rested at Denison for stealingseveral
pair oi pants from a store.
Johnnie Wells, who had both
legs cut off by the train on the Mis
souri, Kansas & Texas near Denison
Wednesday, died Thursday.
William Schube. of San Antonio
the vouncr man recently run over bv
a train of the Aransas Pass railway
died from the effects of his injuries.
Two colored dames of Temple
fight, one with a pistol, the other
with a razor. The one with the pis
tol shot the other, whereupon she
ran.
The Stale association will meet
in Waco on the 28th instant, and
will probably have 1000 doctors in
the assembly. It will continue sev
eral days.
Nine hundred public school chil
dren will proceed in the line of
march to the city park, wherein they
will celebrate San Jacinto day, April
21 in Corsicana.
A telegram was received in Ft.
Worth from Magdalena, N. M., an
nouncing the death of Captain J. D.
Reed, one of the best known cattle
men in the West.
The suit instituted to annul
the action of the city council of
Waxahachie, in extending the city
limits was tried in the district court
and the extension will stand.
A large force of men were put
to work on the big bridge over the
Trinity at Ft. Worth and there is a
great prospect of it being in condi
tion for traffic inside of ninety days.
Active preparations are being
made, says the Huntsville Item, at
the normal for the commenement
exercises next month. They pro
mise to be of a splendid order this
year.
Dr. A. Murchison, of Merit, has
had a well sunk near the town plat
and at sixteen feet struck a good
supply of water, but he and others
think it has very much the taste of
the famous Mineral Wells water.
He will have it analyzed.
The jury in the Richardson
murder case, at Baird, after being
out several hours, brought in n ver
dict of murder in the second degree,
wim a penalty oi nve years imprison
ment. The Presbvterv of Eastern
Texas is to meet at the Presbyterian
cnurcn in Urockett on next Tuesday,
the 2lBt, at 8 p. m. Dr. Crozier, of
Palestine, is to preach tthe opening
sermon.
Preparations are being made
for the hanging of Henry Johnson
on April 27, at Emory for the mur
der of William Shumate. The death
warrant has been placed in the hands
of the sheriff.
Wednesday night at Nava, a
station on the Eagle Pass railroad,
the station agent and his wife were
bound and robbed of S229 and a
gold watch. Two armed Mexicans
did the job. No arrests.
The stock show last Saturday
at McGregor was well attended by
those having sho"y stock horses,
and many citizens (dewed the fine
bloods with delight. The exhibit
was confined principally to stallions.
Harry White, colored, of Texar
kana, found another negro in a com
promising position with his wife.
The infuriated husband pursued
Harris out at the back door with a
pistol which he discharged five times
one ball taking effect in the back in
flicting a serious wound. The shoot
est was jailed.
Twenty-five or thirty miles
northeast of SHnsot in a low range
of hills, says the Texas Wells Her
ald, gold, it is claimed by expert
miners, has been found in quartz at
the rate of $450 per ton. Nothing
is too good for Montague county.
It is also claimed, that silver and
other metals exist in paying quanti
ties. It is well known that petrole
um and coal also abound, but to
what extent has not been developed.
The Cuero cil mill during last
week shipped ten car loads of soap
stock to New Orleans. The mill has
a considerable stock of meal and oil
yet on hand. The cattle being fed
there have kept the hulls pretty
.well cleaned out The managers
expect to put in a soap factory and
a plant for the manufacture of oil
from the castor bean by next season.
The beef cattle being fed there are
in fine condition, and some thathave
been sold have brought as much as
$36.75 per head in some markets.
The Wills Point Chronicle says
of Myrtlo Springs, Van Zandt coun
ty, a new town : The work of lay
ing off the lots and opening and im
proving the streets is being as rap
idly pushed to completion aa men
and money can do it. Some parties
have bought lots and built houses
and opened business before we were
ready to make sales, showing their
faith by their works. The brick
have been contracted for and are be
ing made to build a hotel, which
will be a substantial and attractive
building. The work on the facto
ries will begin in the early spring,
also a bank building and other good
ousiness buildings will be erected m
the near future. A newspaper will
be started in three or four weeks.
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.
Too far east is west.
Force is no argument.
Enough is great riches.
Envy is its own torture.
In every fault there is folly.
Every excess becomes a vice.
Feasting makes no friendship. -An
exil life is a kind of death.
Earnestness is the soul of work
An elephant does not catch' mice.
Empty wagons make most noise.
He that falls by himself never
cries.
Fondness of fame is avarice of air.
A jade eats as much as a good
horse.
It is folly to sing twice to a deaf
man.
-The best thing to clean tinware is
common soda; rub on briskly with a
damp cloth, after which wipe dry.
TENTH ANNUAL IViAIFEST!
-At Firemen's Park,
THURSDAY AND FRIDAY, MYA 21 and 22, 1891,
Under the auspices of
THE BRENHAM FIRE DEPARTMENT.
Grand Procession and Parade by the Firemerf and Military Companies, headed by 'a.
Band of Music and three floats containing twenty 'ittte eirls each, representiifc the ila-
tional colors red. white and blue decorated
Park, May Pole dances, eames lor children.
w neeimen, ana mary otner attractions too tumorous to rccnuon. uau in r-avuion eacn
night. For further particulars, address
CAPT. J.
Good swimmers are ofteneafe
drowned.
A friend at one's back is asaf
bridge.
It is easier to blame, than to do
better. Build erolden bridges for thoflvins-
foe.
A coward never forgave? it is nofc
his nature
No man ever regretted- doing ths
best he could.
The very smart boy is usually
quoted above par.
No one was ever made a hero by
being pictured true to life.
For women to kiss each other is,
good taste two of them..
In friendship so many people want
to invest a dime and get back a dol
lar. To cultivate an acquaintance does
not mean to dig him up by the
roots.
Man studies woman with amaze
ment, woman studies man with re
regret. The man never dies who says he
does a thing so good that it lives af
ter him.
There is no surer way to get
caught in a trap han to set a'trap fpr
some other man.
A woman usually hits what she is
throwing at when she throws the
blame on the men.
Iron grenadine made, over satin
and trimmed with satin sleeves and.
vest and jet gimp.
A man likes the woman he can
reason with; a woman likes the man
she can plead with.
Professor Tyndall, who has been
sufferiner from inflammation of tha
lungs, is rapidly improving.
Frills of white chiffon are gathered
down the front edge of dressy street,
gowns, with a collar of folds.
Some time ago Prof. Parisi, of
Athens, waa surprised at being re
lioved of a tape-worm after a verv
free use of cocoanut. Since then he
has tried this as a remedy with al
most invariable snofiess. rmti rnrf
results are reported from its trial in
America.
Protect Your Health.
Cold and moisture combined have "a tor
porising effect upon the bodily organs, and"
the digestive and secretive processes are apt
to bo more tardily performed ia the winter
than in the fall. The same is true, also, of
tfie excretory functions. The bowels are
often sluggish, and the pores of the skin
inrow on out mus waste matter at uus sea
son. The system, therefore, requires open
ing up a little,and also puriiying and regu
lating, and the safest, surest and most thor
ough tonic and alterative that can be used
for these purposes is Hostetter's Stomach,
Bitters. Persons who wish to escape the
rheumatic twinges, the dyspeptic agonies,
the painful disturbances ot the bowel, the
bilious attacks, and the nervous visitations,
so common at this time of the year, will do
well to reinforce 'their systems with this re
nowned vesetable stomachic and invigorant.
It improves the appetite, strengthens the?
stomach, cheers the spirits and renovates tho
whole physique.
From a series of yearly reports
Mr. B. H.Thwaite finds that 152:.
boiler explosions were due to extern
al corrosion, 133 to overheating, 118
over-pressure, 106 to weak flue, 80
to fracture, 72 to internal corrosion
58 to determination, 54 to defective
stays, 51 to bad construction, 31 to
grooving, 27 to deposit, 13 to weak
man-hole, 11 to bad material, 7 to
lack of safety valve, and 156 to un
known causes.
Dissolution Notice.
y The firm of Vinson, Cleveland & Lott has
this day been dissolved by mutual consent,
and J. B.Vinson assumes all liabilities and
assets of said firm, and will continue to- do
a general land business. Austin, Texas,
office at US West 7th, street- G. W.
Cleveland and Win. 0. Lott have formed &
co-partnership and will do a general land
business. Office, 620 Congress avenue.
Thanks for past favors we 'hope for a.
continuance oj same.
John B. Vinsos",
Geo. W. Cleveland,
Wm. C. Lott.
April 18, 1891.
Strayed or Stolen,
From my premises, near Brenham, on the
4th of October, 1890, one blood bay horse,
brand GL on thigh, about 141-2 hands
hieb, C years old, in eood order and had on
a halter when he left, $10 will be paid for
his recovery. Address Loins Koefp,
Brenham, Texas.
waeons, etc Sones by the children at the -f
Tournament, Exercises by Firemen and
M. BYRNES, Secretary,
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