Waco evening news., September 20, 1888, Image 2

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ofkici:: 512 ausiix ayhnuk.
fcnlercil at tho postoillco at Waco, Teens, as
second-clan mall matter.
JunscufiTios Kirrv cknts a month.
.Waco, Tkkas, Ski'tkmiieii 20, 1888.
Peaches grown in Wheeler County
Panhandle, arc of fine size. One re
cently measured was nine and one
half inches in ci-cumference of deli
cious flavor,
The probability is that the projected
South Polar expedition in which Henry
Villard is interested will be postponed
until a year 'rom next spring;. Mr.
Villard's private secretary says: "The
report which was recently telegraphed
throughout this country and Europe
that contracts had been awarded at
Philadelphia for the construction oftwo
vessels for the expedition was unl.ue.
No such contracts were even asked
for, and I do not know where or when
any vessels will be constructed."
The recent action of the Irish-American
Independents of New York gives
at least iooo votes to Cleveland that
were cast for Blaine in 1884. Edward
E. Rowe was the originator of the
Blaine movement in 1884, and organi
zed Blaine clubs in each of the twenty
four assembly districts in New York
City. He has been chosen president
of the new organization, which held
its initial meeting on Tuesday evening
and adopted resolutions indorsing as
protectionists the Mills bill and Presi
dent Cleveland's course generally. The
Irish-American vote for Harrison will
be an inappreciable quantity.
Mr. Fred A. Benjamin, of Stratford
Conn., a Republican of "prominence
in Connecticut, who was a Republican
' presidential elector in 1864, has writ
ten a letter to his fellow-townsmen
showing why old Republicans ought
to support Mr. Clevebnd. He firds
nothing in the Republican "principles
that are now taught to the young gen
eration of voters in harmony'with those
which gave b'rth and life to the Re-
, publican party, and concludes that
"the prestige of a name should not
prevent us from giving our suppoit
to the able and sturdy leader of reform
who now occupies the presidential
chair,"
The ivory harvest on the upper
Congo has begun. The trading
steamer Florida, of the Sanford expe
dition, returned 'to Leopoldville on
July 27 with a big load of ivory gath
ered on some of the southern tribu
taries. For a long time to come the
vast region south of the great northern
bend of the Congo will be the world's
richest source of ivory, Sir Fmcis
de Winton, formely Governor of the
Congo State, says it will.take many
3 ears to clear this region of the dead
ivory which the natives have in their
villages. Dr. Wolf reports that on
the Sankuru and Lomami rivers, in
this region, he saw a great abundance
of ivory among natives who had never
seen a scrap of European goods. The
only use they have for ivory is to con
vert it into war horns weapons and
household implements.
A romantic incident is reported
Jrom Chisivick, England. About two
years ago the wife of a hotel keeper
there suddenly disappeared from her
home, and 'about the same time a
"gentleman" in well-to-do circum
stances and believed to have become
acquainted with the landlady over the
hotel bar, was musing also, it being
surrrised, which afterward proved to
be true, that they had eloped to
gether. The husband, finding that
his wife did not return, sought a ?'-
vorce and succeeded in obtaining the
usual decree nisi, auosequentiy tne
"Gentleman" died, leaving the runa
way wife his fortune by will, of $14,
000. She hereupon revisited htrhus
band, with her old love returned and
the money to recommend her, and
asked his forciveness for her past
misconduct. He forgave her and re
ceived her back into her former home,
the barrier to their resicng together,
owing to the legal proceedings taken
alter her hastv departure, being svr
mounted by remrrnage.
Los Angelos claims a population
of SS.ooo.
Patti's twenty-four perfoimonccs
at Buenos Ayrcs brought in $370,873
gross.
A St. Louio bookseller, who a year
ago did a thilving business in Vola
nuk text books, says their sale has
dropped off to almost nothing.
A'Russian stag hound, the gift of a
United States consul to the wife of
President Cleveland, arrived at New
York from Europe on Satuiday.
An inveterate thief anested in Lon
don boasted to the police authorities
that he had committed 120 burglaries
in different parts of the metropolis
since Jan. t.
John Lucar, the head waiter at Sara
toga hotel, who died the other day,
left a fortune of only $60,000. And
now the heirs are wondering what be
came of his money.
The Prince of Wales owes at pres
ent over $500,000, and is thinking
seriously of appealing to Parliament for
an allowance for Prince Albeit Victor,
who now keeps up a household of his
own. ,
The steamship Catania, which clear
ed at Baltimore on Friday last took
out as part of her cargo 54,000 bush
of wheat. The shipment of wheat to
Brazil is a ve.y unusual thing.
Since oyster planting and the leas
ing of oyster beds has been regulated
by tbe government the industry has
grown rapidly in importance, until now
in New York State, about 7000 men
and $6,000,000 capital are employed
in it.
It is said that Dr. Margaret Crump
ton, who has just been elected a dele
gate from Pittsburg to the Pennsylva
nia Medical Society, is the first wo
man in the United States to receive
such a commission.
The latest cure for rheumatism, ac
cording to a Georgia doctor, is to pur
chase a Mexican hairless dog and make
the animal sleep so that the feet of
the sufferer can touch the dog's body.
It possesses the merit of novelty, at
any rate.
The question as to the sale and
publication of the "De Cameron" of
Bocaccio recently came up in the En
glish courts. The publishers of the
work set up as a defense the fact that
the book had been reconized as a
work of high literary merit for the last
500 years, that duiiug that period it
had never been out print, and that
the British Museum possessed 200
copies of it. The magistrate, recog
nizing the truth of these claims,
dismissed the case.
The movement to erect a monument
over the grave of Gen. Pickett in Hol
lywood Cemetery, Richmond, Va., is
eliciting sympathy in a'l parts of the
country. Among the numerous let
ters received by Gov. Lee on this sub
ject was one from W. M. Barshfield,
of Cambridge, O., late of the Fifteenth
Regiment of that State, who closed
as follows: "We are all Americans
and the fame of Pickett is ours ot the
North in common with you of the
South. Ill-feeling has died out. We
are now one and the same. I would
like to subscribe to the erection of a
monument to that hero of Gettysburg.
Will you place me in communication
with those having the matter in charge.
Boiled down, Gen. Harrison's posi
tion is simply this: "I am in favor of
what the Democracy proposes todo,
but I want to do it myself." Philadel
phia Times, Ind.
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If Mr. Cleveland shall be re-elected,
it will be upon his clean and
worthy administration of the chief exe
cutive office: not because of this let
ter, and in spite of his tariff message.
Philadelphia Ledger, Ind.
Ben Butler will doubtless rnntimm
to bob up politically as long as he
lives. If he will only bob up as a Re
publxan, and never try to make him
self out a Democrat, no honest man
will ever be disturbed by his antics.
Lousville CouiIp -Journal, Dem.
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25 stdoboards from $12.50 to $250,00.
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100 reod and ratan chairs from $2.50
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150 leather and plush chairs at prices
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2-5 folding beds from $18 to $150.
100 sofa lounges from $6 to $50.
25 hall racks from $7 to $50.
500 fancy and plain tables of every
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IN ADD1MIOX TO THIS WE HAVE
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Where we make all kinds of
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in the best of style. Our Up
holsterer has Twenty Tears
Experience and stands Second
to None.
MOVE INDUCEMENTS
We offer for tho next forty days
to make room for our
Mammotli Fall Stock.
Which our Mr. Peck has
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Eastern Markets.
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We Carry a Full Une'ot Coffins, from
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Also a line of cloth covered caskets.
Metallo cases, and a full lino of robes
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Arterial Embalming a Specialty.
Prices to jSuit Everybody.
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