The Daily Cosmopolitan (Brownsville, Tex.), Vol. 6, No. 21, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 11, 1884 Page: 1 of 4
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BROWNSVILLE, CAMERON COUNTY, TEXAS, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 1884.
000 (sic.)
NUMBER 21.
j, c. SCOTT* manager.
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lilinhers of (he fuot.
one of blune's triors.
Out of the old files «f the
[jííew York Tribune, printed in
he summer of 1876, the New
[York Evening Post lias un-
earthed a new ajid character-
istic proof «>f one of the frauds
¡■that were resored I,o when the
■mgreasioinl iijvestigition of
IBlaine's corrupt acts as speaker
was going on, to save the im-
periled reputation of til it al-
leged statesman. It was
planned. to have a fraudulent
dispatch cabled to London,
an<} from that point to have it
J cabled back, as coming from
Caldwell, tlie builder of the
Little Rock road. The idea
Wto exonerate'Blaine. It
was the last device he nesort-
|«d to, to get out of the tighten-
ing grip of the Congressional
investigation, before trying the
[ sunstroke dodge. The Ne>v
York Eveni g Post says:
A piece of evidence which
[ dues not appear in the Blaine
investigation house document,
or the reason that the jndicia-
ry committee went on taking
testimony after the date of the
nal examination of witnesses
!n thaJ' Guille, 'is to be found
in t ie Washington dispatches
lK7fihe ^,ibune of '¿0,
AS'6. It consista of an un
"■gni'd dispatch received at the
West
building in
8 city and telegraphed to
fiXw 00 3l' 1876, a8
"Favo, London; Dispatch
11 IVe^ Cable this immediate-
[,.1 chairman house judiciary
«tomittee, Washington: |JaVe
just read Scott's evidence
about our bond transaction in
New York newspapers and
fully corroborate it. I never
gave Blaine any Little Rock
bonds, directly of otherwise.
Am now building three Eu-
ropean railroads and can not
leave with pecuniary loss, or
would gladly voluntarily come
home and testify. Can make
affidavit to that effect anil
mail if desired. (Not signed)
Philadelphia."
On the same day another
dispatch was received at the
same place:
"Josiah Caldwell, Cannon
street, London: Thanks for
your cable confirming all my
statements. Thirty-first.
Scott."
On this, the Evening Post
makes the following significant
comment:
"Some days later Thomas
A. Scott went before the com-
mittee, admitted sending the
second of the above, and t.oJd
them that a dispatch closely
resembling and identical with
the one received by the chair-
man of the committee in-
Washington, had been brought
to him by a young nia¡n named
Read, who represented him-
self to be Caldwell's private
secretary, with a request that
he (Scott) should assist him
in sending it so that it should
be cablcd back as coming from
Caldwell. This Scott refused
to do, and Read said ho would
cut it down and send it him-
self. It is evident, therefore,
that, as a matter of fact, this
queer "exoneration" was dic-
tated to Caldwell by some one
acting in Blaine's interest
here."
The trick was worthy of
Blaine. But, like some others,
it failed to accomplish all that
was intended.
OLD
ARTICLES OP FOOD IN
MEXICO.
In one of his letters describ-
ing life in Mexico W. A.
CrofFut says: Most of these
suburban canals are covered
with what looks like a green
scuin, but is really like most
of the green "scum" on north-
ern ponds, a fine vegetable,
a cort of cress, which frequents
places of special fertility.
When Cortea besieged the
city, the inhabitants pieced
out their rations with stuff
skimmed from the pools, and
tJ)or*by postpone! their death
by starvation. It was a lesson
they never forgot, and the
people who dwell iu these
bamboo huts make a sort of
salad of his. frail blossom of
decay.
But the Mexicans eat oven
odder things than this. There
are no fish in those great salt
laHes ijear the city, but. a re-
markable spotted reptile lives
in them with a fish-like body,
four legs like a lizard and
webbed feet. It is a batrachian
of the salamander type, about,
ten inches long and its flesh
is white and toothsome. This
hideous protean is devoured
in great quantities by the
peons, as were the toads, tad-
poles, lizards and bulrush piths
by their ancestors. I suppose
there is some truth in what
an old fellow who was fond of
horse-steaks told me in Paris
last summer. "Why we eat
one thing 'stead of another is
just a matter of fashion, like
the cut of a coat. E verything's
good to eat."
Another curious product of
the Mexican lakes is a marsh
fly called axayaoatl, which de-
posits its eggs in myriads on
flags and rushes, from which
they are gathered by the
bushel and made into cakes
that are sold in the market
and eaten with a relish! I liad
read the description of this
food by the raonk Thomas
Gage, who was here 250
■years ago: "The Indians gath-
ered much of this and kept it
in Heaps, and made thereof
Oakha, like unto Brickbats,
and they did eat this Meal
with as good a Stomach as we
eat Cheese; yea, and they hold
opinion that this Scum or fat-
ness of the water is the causo
that such great number of
Fowl coineth to Lake,,which
in the winter season is infinite."'
These eggs, looking like fine
fish roe, are still collected in
"Heaps" that look like hay-
cocks along the mud flats of
the lake margin. The insects
themselves, about the size of a
house fiy, are also caught in
enormous quantities, pounded
into a paste and boiled in corn
husks.
I neglected the two or three
opportunities I had to taste of
the eggs, but I atoned for that
sin of ommission by eating
some of the flies one morning.
They are not bad. They are
pretty good. About like
shrimps and the large red ants
of Brazil. Dear Newspaper!
there's hardly anything th¡H
I wouldn't do for you. I even
drank pulque for you, and the
flavor thereof lingers in my
mouth as I write, like a dia-
bolical reminiscence.
FROM A BAILIFF TO AN EAltL
The topic of conversation
in Oamaru has been the
discovery that a gentleman
who has had many ups and
downs in the district and who
lately earned a living by act-
ing as assistant bailiff to the
resident magistrate's court,
bids fair to end as the ©oc-
cupaut of an earldom with an
annual income of some £70,-
The gentleman
referred to is Mr. F. W. O.
Grant, whose father, the
Hon. James Oggtivc Grant,
has just succeeded to the title
and estate of the Earl of
Seageld, consequently upon
the death of his nephew, the
late earl, without issue. Mr.
Grant—who now becomes
Lord Reidhaven, and the
direct heir to the earldom—
has long been a resident in
the district and has filled a
variety of positions, from
commission agent down to
laborer. When the news
arrived of the death of his
cousin, an event which gave
him a title and a competency,
hewas and is still the man in
possession at a farmer's
homestead in this district, a
duty from which he stoutly
refuses to bo relieved, so that
the unfortunate farmer has
the satisfaction of knowing
that under compulsion, he
is entertaining a lord and
prospective member cf the
British House of Peers. The
present "Karl of Soafiold is in
his sixty-seventh year, so that
the Oamaru asistant bailiff
will in all likelihood bo the
ninth to bear the title con-
ferred by William JIT. He
is married to a daughter of
Major Evans, of Oamaru, and
has a family.
OIUÍÍIN OF THE
"HOOKER '
TERM
A story is told by some of
the old residents of the . State
to the effect that the word was
first applied to I ml i an a ns
about the time when Madison
was the confer of a large pork
trade, and the farmers for a
hundred miles around would
drive their hogs there in great,
droves. The peculiar noise
that they kept up in driving
their swi'ie—sounded some-
thing like lloo ie! lioo-io!
hoo-ie!—led to their being
called, by a corruption of the
sound, "Iloosiers." The story,
if true, would make the
origin of the word compara-
tively recent, and it cannot be
accepted with credence for
the reason that the balmy
days of porkopoly days of
Madison were long after the
lloosiers had become known.
The first that is known of
the word appearing in print
was in 1830, when Finley,
the W vne county poet,
wrote a New Year's poem for
the Journal, entitled "A
Hoosier's Nest." in which a
description of the pioneer
cabin in Indiana is given.
riding somewhere
I'm told in
West
A straueer found a "Hooaier'*
nest,"
Iii other words a Buckeye cabin.
Just enough to hold <Qi«ea
Mat) in.
Pa situation—low but, airy—
Was on the borders of a prairie;
And fearing he might t « bought-
ed,
lie hailed the house and then
slighted*
The Hoosier met hita at the door.
Their salutations soon were o'er.
It whs the custom among
the early pioueers in Indiana
in ti'aveling through the coun-
try to hail a cabin by calling
out, "Who lives here?" and
"Who's here1?" About the time
of treaty of peace with the Iu
diana, in 1818, and when the
State was very sparsely sett'ed
travel was attended by great
dangers, and no man ever rode
away from borne without his
rifle. As a common precnutiou
of safety, when a traveler saw
in the distance the smoke from
a camp or cabin fire, he
would call out, upon coming
within hearing diatance,
"Who's here'}" and from the
response he would know if
he was among friends. Froui
a corruption of this form" of
«Militating tho people of India-
na was called Hoosieiv , Doubt-
less, settlers, in wiiting back
to friends at t/ieir old homes,
wonld Say that they "were
here among the Hoosiers.''
and in a few years the ap-
pellation sprang into general
nse.— Indianapolis Journal.
A LINCOLN STORY.
When Mr. I/incoln was run-
ning for Congress on th«
'Whig ticket in 1H14, in the
old iSangammon, Illinois, Dis-
trict, there were a few kicker*
ill his party. In the course of
a speech in the district, ho
i II list rat >d the state of his
mind '>ti this subject by telling
the story of a jackass ho owned
when a young man. He said:
"The case of that jackass
was most singular. When
everything was pleasant all
around he would kick tho
worst. When his rack wag
fullest and his stall fixed with
new straw, and everything real
com fortable, that jackass would
start in oti the almiglitiest
spell of kicking that was ever
seen. All the veterinary sur-
ge<Mis in the neighborhood
came around and tried to find
out just what made that critter
kick so. They never could
agree about it. One thing wo
all noticed was tAat ho always
brayed and kicked at the samo
time. Sometimes Ac would
bray fi'st and t/teu kick, but
ot/zer times Ae would kick first
Tho poem, in the light of one j and t/ten bray, so tAat confused
of tho traditional stories, gives. us, and nobody in t/iat county
something of an idea of the was ever able to find out
manner in which the word wAetAer t/mt jackass was bray-
came into use The firs! new ing at Ais own kicks or kicking
liues read; at his own brays."
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The Daily Cosmopolitan (Brownsville, Tex.), Vol. 6, No. 21, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 11, 1884, newspaper, September 11, 1884; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth177854/m1/1/: accessed May 7, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting The Dolph Briscoe Center for American History.