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THE BEST SHOES
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VOL. 1, NO. 36.
McKINNEY, TEXAS, THURSDAY, OCT. 9, 1884.
$1 A YEAR.
HUM OTIMTUUNT.
I NIWM IT TIUMHUMI.
▲LLMOKI) MtKOKKKU JAILMD.
II «m 100 days between ruins
At Waco.
a 1— 1 • 1 1 it I Weatherford, Oct. i.—Joe
Alvarado Dwl. a good, live c,)X, who km^ Ur. Uaulr.ll
cotton lm\o.. and sou, in thin county, three
Marshal in to have a now years ago, wa brought here
steam tire engine. < uiul placed iu Jail this week.
ComicniiA lisui reeeived her He WHB atTSStod at the time the
tl WO steam fl£ eimine ',,,urder WM but was
fi, uo steam nre engine. released on a writ of habeas
It rained so much at Belton ! corpus, the grand jury failing
011 the JWtli as to stop cottonj to find a bill the first time, lie
' eking. is wanted to answer the charge
Webb Plauuagan is at Mar- iof double murder, two indict-
| shall to assume the collector- l,,e tto having been prefers!
ship of iuternal revenue. 1 against him u few weeks after
1 ..... # . his release. His whereabouts
The building of the pressed wer* first learned of soui* time
rick company at Partn was luat year lle WM tlMm Ar.
(destroyed by nre on the 86th. I kadeiphia, Arkansas, and from
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IMarshal I refuse risks until there then bark to Texas, to
FMCJMUILJi
AND OHCLAItATlON OP FBI NCI
FI.KS OP TIIK KNIUIITm OP
I.AHOK OP NOltTII
AMKItlC A.
LstUr Fran Jit. K. Mmith. Es%.
McKiuney, Texas, [
i tot. 4. 1884. \
Kditok Dkmockat:-
couuty. State whether you in letter in a tissue of falsehood canvass Murk has vanquished
the generosity of your heart are from "A to Ixard." The day* the lease law and school money
giving them out yourself to help, when men dropped dead for aud court house rings and this
Something Hew Uadsr the Hsev-
Wu are informed that Mr.
the ring candidates, 01- did the falsehood has passed, or like dark and scheming hosts find: (he ,IHW legislator, fkn* is
I notice iu the Enquirer of the old ring make up a purse to pay Auiianias, he would now be no themselves unable to answor
above date an editorial headed you for them. Also state wlietU- more. If half the iniquity this farts and arguments they re-
The alarming development "Slight Discrepeucies,"in which er you inteud to continue to 1111111 was guilty of as foreman, sort to falsehood and slander
send them out free after the 4th of the grand jury, was manifest expecting to divert attention
of N ovember. Now in conclu- to the public he would hardly from the true issues and by pre 1
aud aggression' of aggregated ! the editor tries, in a sugareoat-
wealth, unless checked; will in- i ed manner, to mnke the irnpres-
avl bly lead to the paupetfaa-18loI1 „lllt, ,Ue
tion and hopeless degradation - . . ..
of the toiling masses, and ren-'0 ' county convention
ders it imperative, if we desire relative to the lease law, and I! prospects very gloomy. Let Let him tell the public that as
to enjoy the blessings of life, now propose to place these dis- me tell you the McKinucy ring foreman of the graml Jury, lit
that a check should be placed • crepcucies where they rightful-
to be, favors a uew attachment
law. He first explained at
Maiilua that under his new law
all attaching creditors should
PPH share equally of the debtor's
siou, Captain, 1 am satisfied find any one so low as to speak judice begotten ef their false- 'property, tfo doubt it would
you consider your political to him ou the public highway. hoods to control rotes against; ttaood
them. All this low scheming is
too thiu and cannot effect any-
has been ruling elections and stated in the preseuce of that thing at this late day. White
trampling dowu the rights of body while in session and iu and the rest of his doomed
, good thiug for the lawyeia
and officers. In case n man
owed $fi(x> to five creditors and
had $loo worth of property,five
attachments under his new law
,y beio"«' ■— - - — -
adopted which will secure to tlwt I stated the lease law pre the people a long time, and, the presence of a witness, that crowd hail better dig their holes iMgtl,ad ofon«, under the present
the laborer the fruits of his j vailed in the county conven-jnow I think this election will old man Wilson deserved to, and begin to crawl in. YuU would be sued out and the law-
toil; and as this much desired tion." Did I not state plainly ' be their last political battle, i have been whipped, and also of wout more than have time to get | V(,rH wuu|(j ^nt five cases and
The insurance companies at there he weut to Georgia and °b,iwt can o'llv be accom- <11 the convention that it would | and that 011 the 4th of aext No- the indecent und obscene lan- j in your dirt closets by the 4th
— t. % % a.. — 1 1 aL S 1 a < a ■ a laa> <>1* S«a 'I'. . a« aa la, |^|||||| pushed by the thorough ' x
|is sufficient water supply.
A strati
le outs
i county, where he was arrested.
f,w «&aouL1,3!
Sday'Tdiht and robbed "of of credit for hunting up
rmay night ana robDetl or andcausillg this man g arre8t
^ m ...
Five hundred and forty-five , NKOito mmoults.
migrants arrived at Galveston
>y a German steamer on Mon- { Atlanta, Oct. 2.—John C.
lay ' Speuce shot himself through
,.*• I wV.°th v. 'sr.
lamage.i t 1 latur n lasttri i Could not get the girl he wanted
ty e\ ening but no lives were and excessive use of whiskey
wiioYwlr "and' n0t DOIn'l,ate I'wlftod, and | vemlier you will bid the t ld guage he used at the same time of November.
s of those who onu 1,0,180,1 ^"ause I didn't; court house ring, the mother of and in the same connection in 1 - - u
* • ■* ? * ,s— 41 " * politicians, a long and lasting reference to that whipping af- "Another
farewell and return to the peo- fair, .lust let this all come to 'p|u, i„aee-law nieii, not satis
pie, your first love. light and then see how much of, lled wil|, whitewashing their
the officer's costs on five cases in*
of
An ex-policeman, Irving,
ouston, attempted to hang
lituself in a house of ill-fauie
^u Monday niglit, but wus cut
>wn in time to save his life.
The residence of Mr. W. T.
'uiuming, a lawyer, Houston,
ras destroyed by fire ou Mon-
ly morning, the family bare-
ly escaped half dressed.
Isaac P. Hutchinson, the Co-
A negro boy
h the hip with a load of and assist us.
shot bis sister
thro
buckshot at th'e same place on
the same day. Cause, she
would not let him cook a bird
ou the stove.
Yesterday another negro at
Alamo station, three miles from
I Springdalc, killed his wife in-
stantly with a shotgun. Cause,
jealousy. This is the fourth
nepro murder in fopr years at
cation of those
the united efforts „„
earn their bread by the sweat | relieve the free-grass men
of their brow, we have formed, would support him, and thereby
the Order of the Knioiits of endanger the success of the
Lahou, with a view of securing! party ? Now I will ask if I op
the organiration aud direction, |' „ , , , . #14.
by co operative effort, of the! p" «"l lrelaud m account of 1U
power oi the industrial classes; | opposition to free grass, is this
and we submit to the world the 1 not proof eviduut to any fair
objects sought to be accom- minded man that I favored free
plished by our organization, g,..lss myselff Now, Captain,
calling upon all who believe in i , .. v*
securing "the greatest good , youfurthei sa} that there was
greatest 1—- " !
Respectfully Yours. what this unprincipled scape pet iniquity in order to decetv.
Ifjoat says will be credited.
John It Smith.
THAT BLACK WHITE LETTER.
to the
number
These things can be established.
Think of the man who says lie
The public is regaled through was sworn to enforce law, stan
the columns of iast week En- ding up in this his sworn enpa
quirer with a lengthy letter ■ city, aud justifying a brutal as
to: not a single dissenting voice in from one J. C. White foreman ( sault on an old man, ami put
stead of one aud it would take
all the property to pay thecoet
and the debtor would have no
part of his debt paid. The law-
yers should all vote for such a
law maker. But we are told he
remoddled it at Blue Ridge. He
1. To bring within the
folds of organization every
the convention against the res-
olution to hold a county con-
vention to nominate a caiuli-
depurtnicut of productive j **
industry. making knowl-!dftto for representative,
edge a standpoint fi r nc-; Also you say the convention
tion, und industrial, moral; passed the report of the oom-
this place.
tnchc lawyer, who was shot kiuH<l another negro ' ut the' that they create; more society
NY.ttCO'a,w?,e m rri*<Jfto Mrs. game place, for which he was advantages ; more of the bene- will state 1 objected to the con
irollnc M. Green, of Houston, senteuced to 18 years ill the fits, privileges and emoluments
the 27th, at Ills bedside. ! penitentiary within three weeks
worth, not wealth, the true
standard of imli vicinal and na-
tional greatness.
II. To secure to the toilers a
Allen Gregg lately ' pro] el share of the wealth
mittce on resolutions as a whole.
Now I ask you to refresh, your
memory on this poiut, or else
get your information from some
one who will report facts.
people into its support, havi
now resorted to old-fashioned nays he meant when the first at-
misreprescutation and fa* > tachmeut was sued out that the
hood. They are now tellin, , cour? sh<nildconsider the claims
people that if a settler buys a, of all the creditors and allow
homestead inside of a ranch < each one his share of the debt-
I lint the stockuinn is required ; ors assets. Will lie as a lawyer
_ by law to fence his homestead i explain how an individual's
cheek gall and impudence it scene ami lotil language and for liiiu, ami give hitu a forty-! claim can get Into court except
■ miaamiu imirtliin.r tt.if nn i.. al :.. . ... I a... 11.1 ... . . . , '
that of the
proposition
impracticable
of the late grand jury. For ting the mailer in the most ob
• ... — r>—n •••• • mm iiiiii, iiihi^i^u 111til u lunv- 11luiui tun muit '
surpasses anything yet put in then coming out and talking foot la,le to the outside world, by his own act 01
print by the desperate and dirty . about his duty to the public! Nothing could be further from , debtor. The last
cans id are now mo\iug| 1 he duty of such men to the the truth than such a statement.! is by far more iu
heaven and earth to rob the | public could bo more properly Section 5 of the fence law pro- j than the other,
people of their rights and defeat performed in the Huntsville vides that if one person owns !
au honest administration of
county ami State affairs. The
man who could write such
A Houston street-car driver; from the
is seriously, if not fatally,
ary
kill
ing.
m
f
of the word, all those rights
and privileges necessary to
make them capable of enjoying,
appreciating, defending and
i perpetuating the blessings of
J Cleburne, Oct. *2.—Gold lliffie j good government.
was arrested at Stephensville III. To arrive at the true con-
aud brou
NEWS PROM Cl.KUl'HNK.
>u^ht here yesterday,; dition of the producing masses
charged with murdek-ing Jim Ir- j in their educatioiuil. moral and
wine in 1870. Irwine is said to ; financial condition, by deinund-
have been a bad luun, uiul the | ing from the various govern-
trouble «rew out of his treat- j ments the establishment of bu-
nient of Tiis wife, the sister of reaus of Labor Statisti
abbed in the back by a rul
i on Monday luoriiing because
would not stop his car aud
it.
^n Monday night six prison-
esca]>ed from the jail at
Irfield and one of them,
f' R. Peters, about 28 years of
is thought to have made
r Dallas. Bifile.
Isaac Hutchinson, u lawyer i Considerable interest is
Comanchu, was shot in a i still felt in tlie disappearance
nibling house at Waco on; of Mark Dillon. A negro re-
ports seeing him Sunday at 11
o'clock with n stranger on the
branch about hulf a qiile from
the court house; some paint
newly mixed, was fonud there,
hid in trash. A more careful
search to-day, furnished
ics.
[hnrsdny night: of Inst week
y James Buchanan, over a
ime of cards.
A young lady, being escorted
blue from the'beuch at Galves-
|>n. on Sunday evening, inter-
fed between a footpad and her
IV. The establishment of co-
operative institutions, produc-
tive aud distributive.
V. The reserving of the pub-
lic lands—the heritage of the
people—for the aclual settler.
Nor AN'OTIIKIi Al'HK POIt HAIIa-
KOADS OK COKl'0RATIONS.
VI. The abrogation of all
laws that do not bear emuilly
uo j upon capital and labor : the re-
ru* Hunpv TnVwa ~iin«i in nit, Dillon had near $100 : uioval of uidlist technicalities,
l -iV ilirv invert Mm life ! ^'ni' an<^ 8ome feir foul; delays and discriminations iu
* ' play, but the general opinion is j the administratiou of justice ;
J. M. Thower, formerly of, that he took the Fort Worth I and the adopting of measures
>aling, Ala., while intoxica- train Sunday night. Marshal providing for the health and
d lay down on the Santa Fe Woody reports seeing a man, safety of ithose engaged in min-
ck near Temple 011 Sunday suiting his description, board! ing. manufacturing or building
ight and a passing train
kered one arm and his head
his body.
| An attempt was made at
irtln on Monday to lynch
files Bass, the murderer of old
|an Sisco, but was prevented
the counsel of Judge Stuart,
id others.
that train. Dillon' was an ec-
centric man, and is likely suf-
fering from aberation of intel-
lect.
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KTM.KD BY MASKED MUX.
pursuits.
VII. The enactment of laws
to compel chartered corpora-
tions to pav their employees
weekly, in full, for labor per-
formed during tlie preceding
e lawful money
week, in the lawful money of
Coleman, Oct. 2*—A most ■ the country.
dastardly outrage was commit-j VIII. The eiiactmeiit of the
iT i 1 1 u. , | ted nine miles west of here last, laws giving mechanics and ln-
I In a fight between Sam Piuk, night. K. C. Simmons was shot. borers a first lien 011 their work
1 Harry Levy, with a negro.' ftnrj mortally wounded by 1111- for their full wages,
g Harrison, at Navasota, known parties, about 2 o'clock.
Nllaat Itliltlitil Manu .tin ftklt.aal III . . « • . a* a —
ling Harrison, at Navasota,
le nr«t named was stabbed in j|y retired, a man on
e breast, but there is hope of J horseback rode up to his gate
s recovery. and asked him to come out and
[T7 ; federal government has: see if he knew a horse that was
IX. The abolishment of the
contract system on nutional,
state and municipal work.
X. The substitution of arbi-
tration for strikes, whenever
a saddle and: and wherever em
eiuployeri
willing to
|v< ;ed its order, removing, on j near by, having
)e nrst of October, all persons bridle but no rider. Mr. Sim-! employees are willing
id property ftxmi Greer conn-1 mons came out without dress- J on equitable grounds
not holding ;under authori- j jug and about 100 yards from 1 XI. The prohibition
rs and
meet
of the
It
If
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delegated by the interior de- his house, three masked tuen employ men t" of children
appeared behind him,and with-1 workshops, mines and factokicn,
out warning, shot him down. ; before attaining their foar-
vention voting on these resolu-
tions as a whole, and Captain
Merritt moved to vote on the
resolution sereatiiu, which I
seconded, and the convention
agreed to vote 011 them separate-
ly. When the chairman put
the motion to the convention in
favor of holding a county nom-
inating convention, the 0 votes
from Farmersville aud 0 from
Weston voted against it. Fur-
thermore when the motion in-
dorsing Ireland's administra-
tion eajtie up the same lft votes
from Farmersville and Wes-
ton voted no agaiu. Now, Cap-
tain, when the resolution came
up to iustruct the delegates to
Houston to support Ireland for
j, letter under such pretenses as
this one coiues from its mali-
cious author, is unworthy *
place in decent society, lie is
as yet not half civilized and
knows nothing of the rules of
I common decency. Let us look
for a moment at a single sen-
tence of that beautiful letter.
After a fourih of a column of
penitentiary. He put up a vile
ami treacherous job on the
i Commissioners Court when he
was iu it. aud the court was try
ing to adjust the court-house
contract, that will not soon be
forgotten in this county. Ask
X. G. Fowler, of Roanoke, Den-
ton county, the greenback can
didate for floater, two years
ago, how this same traitor then
sold out the greenback vote, or
tried to, to one of his democrntif
preambhMiig falsehood he *n\s -opponents and then pretended through the large landowners
It has however, been urge*I Ml)t have known that the
upon me as due the people of greenbuckers had out a
Collin county as foreman of the n<.inina... Tin* i*
iounty
late Grand Jury to make some
reply to the base charges made
upon that body by the Dk\io
orat." Now why did this nutn
wait till this late hour to make
his reply? This late grand jury
mutter was all disposed of by
nominee. This is a spen
men of his dirty, treacher-
ous conduct towards those who
trust him. There is force in
I hat remark made by a green
backer a few days ago when he
said, "th<
lands surrounding another and . Fr0° °rHM "B by Oram."
desires to fence his outer bourn j T,„. a,|voniteH of the lease
dary, he shall also fence his in-; Syn|em argue (hat the grass on
ner boundary, and leave a way t|K, ,and(J to the
of egress and ingress unobsruc-1 ehildren dre. This is more of
ted sixty feet wide, through their gauzy humbuggery. The
gates, one in the inner and one j eoiistitution provides that
in the outer fente. He th not 1 wheii these lauds are sold TliK
required to make a lane as the ,.u<M.Kfc;|,s mhtill be invested for
th* benefit of the public schools.
This, and none other Is the in-
terest the children have in
them. The grass belougs, as
every other temporary use of
the lands does, to the public,
Hi°n and un iniquity. But the j ..Ha,0 <*mss" is only a
cious name under which
wicked and ruinous lease sys-
tem is to be perpetuated. There
is no warrant in the constitu-
tion for tin* present lease abom
illation.
lease law men tell it. This law
simply empowers the rich man
to fem e around the settler and
oinpell hi 111 to go out and in
gates, and is of ifr elf au oppros-
Governor, did 1 not get up and 1T"!'" and why does
uiuke the best argumeut I could budge 1 come digging up
in favor of General Ross for
Governor und against.Ireland ?
Did not the committee on reso-
lease law proper has no such a
proposition as even this hard
one iu it. If the settler goes in-
side of a ranch to settle on his
homestead, lie is required to
fence it ami put a house ou it
ng is gone now, and no way is provided for him
without end; John C. |() g,.j nut or in, but he is left
cat-
spe-
this
world
the Democrat and the public Wl.ire has got into it,and what-, to ,jM. mercies of tin
ever he gets Into is ruined world t|(. Kings
without end."
tile dead past at this late hour < T|„. w|10|e purpose of his ti-
His doing so is a part of the rade of falsehood ami abuse is
dirty scheming of the corrupt made apparent by the last half
lutlons also report in favor of, r'n^ 'l,ls K°n<'wj'h to plun eoliimu of his malirions state-
Gibbs fjr Lieut-Governor, and r l"'0!'''' a,,(' disfranchise meats. This lie directs toward
did not the same crowd that sup-! B'w purpose was e\id H. Ma^k expecting to influ-
ported Ireland, refuse to sup- j n,u'u' fiendish malaceaud i ence his election. This was his
port Gibbs. Now, Captain, if j 'ow 8^u'^,lKK®ry- He tliought true purpose in his pretended | hy them
1 his vicious tirade of falsehood vindication of the rraml *
The advocates of the lease
law and other such oppressive
measures may be expected to
resort to every species of de-
ception aud cuuning that the
ring masters can devise, but
the people have seen too much
of their trickery to be deceived
the report of the committee on
resolutions had been adopted I wou'^'ulv'* HOI,,e. UP , In this he deals in nothing but
as a whole, why was it that the 011 ,0l,rt'h''tfttive race. Why falsehoods ami those such as
delegates to Houston were not '^l^ 1,11 out long ago as the lowest of slanderers would
instructed for Gibbs, and fur-i*^, K'ide and Prater turn away from iu disgust.
thermore did net Captain Mer- ... , „
tion of his course 1 His guilty ^ public man has to go arouud
soul would never have been and get up a one sided story of
heard from, it he not had some his private transaction and
vile present or future purpose r„iy Upou this lie is pretty des
to subserve. His letter was to perate and low down. If the
be a part of the programme of 8tatement« he makes about
the rotten and corrupt school j Mack's private affairs had any
money and political rings that eon tion with his public
jury.
ifftment
IJohn Vineyard, who was ar-
Isted a short time ago for the
kempt to murder his brother-
Maw in the Territory, had his
^n'a ffUrnear't/ninesviUe nionthsago, and was respected and reformatory institutions
tondav I'.v all who knew liim. No Xlll. To 8, cire for b..th
• f ' cause is assigned for the act. ! sexes equal pay for equal
E. Witherington poured. 1 . m w
ir shots frdm a double-barrel1
The bnll entered about midway ! teenth year.
down the back came out in i XII. To abolish the system
front. Mr. Simmons came here of letting out by contract the
Arkansas, eighteen , labor convicts in our prisons
ritt and Thornton K. Shirly both
make speeches in the conven-
tion in favor of Ireland and in
reply to my objection? In proof
of these facts I just refer any
citizen to either one of the Far-
mersville or Weston delegation.
And Captain, since you are so
andKrie"! 1 vl"1' in dT,oe 10 m"> 1 wl"
say that I am sorry to see you
turn against the people in your
"Oeta.'
Mr. George Alfred Townsend
has won a world wide reputa
tion as a reporter, under the
cognomen of "Gatli." So great
an influence does lie exert that
people buy the papers more
readily if they only contain an
article from the pen of this I to blight befo're fruitage,
.popular writer. He goes about the multitude who strUte ont
the streets in the early morning • from home upon the seaot busy
Aspirations oftho Young.
To tlie young tile future Is
usually full of promise. With-
out experience the world seems
full of golden opportunities for
happiness ami profit. Iiuagi-
nation plays upou these vi-
sions, und grand successes are
prophesied. The present often
seems very undesirable because
of restraints and burdens that
keep them back from liberty
aud pleasure. Now no on*
should seek to shadow the
hopes and aspirations of young
hearts. Lot them indulge in
reasonable anticipations of the
future, for 11 lose who are older
know that these are the days
which in after life will bo looV-
ed back to as golden ; as a .IT*
riod light in burden and rich in
blessing. Hut yet the fact
should be realized that the
blossoms of youth are a
The most impressive nionn-
it-gun into the body of \\ m. ment I have ever seen, save
""mile' f^m 7o'h™innV«l I ,h*t «° Napoloon in Pari",
Tat rant comity, on the writes a correspondent, is the
killing him.
dying lion of Lucerne, cut in
are now making their death
struggles to corn tin ue their su-
premacy. He must be a terri-
ble coward to come up to fight
ucts and tlm principles lie advo-
cates White might find some
justification in what lie nas
done. But such is not the case.
old age, for I can well remem
ber how you used to stand with battles of the gran d , man's enemies can always tell
thepoopie in 18H0, and I was Jurv two uf,«r 'he j such tales on him. We are not
with you then; but we hnppen- w,tR OVH' , discussing Mack's private af
ed to be on the losing side. But i 11 cer^n ^'tss of men who, fairs. Such things are only
this year. Captain, I am still <not^ft niH<l at the Yankees dragged into public prints by
e with the people, and am satis- until tw0 ^nrs ftft,'r the w,,r onprlnciph.il pot-house politi-
i fled I will be on the winning over' un<l rhf'n tlj,,y WH|1 j ciaiis. If any voter in the coun-
work.
XIV. The reductions of the
hours of labor to eight per day,, fl , , ,,, , .. . ,
so that laborers may have more | . . \ lf, ' "* "« terpiW anxlom, to fiirht It will' tv t i,.
time for social enjoyment and i thls time, while you, un- J«rrible anxious to tight. It will ty wants to know the truth
intellectual improvement, and fortunately, as of old, will be her mim-cessury to'about any of the charges this
be enabled to feap the advan-
bv
linesville is to have a bar- ^e living rock, in the shadow, tages conferred by the lalsir-
s
le on the 11th, to which all of overhanging trees, reflected
■tate officers have been in- in a clear pool of water below
it which makes it beyond the
'he mother of Mr. George B. reach of even the touch of the
ying. of the Fort \\ orth Ga-, hand. It is a breathing, agon
i, aged 7(t, died at W eath- ,mmA iu,
• on Monday. 1®,l "«atun- whoM agony ho
w * t. . , i comes painfully real as you
n enar, a fruit dealer of
Worth attempted suicide ^ ^ ^ d gnity
laudanum last Friday, on j and majesty are supreme. It
it of nnreciprocalad love. > was a glorious conception, and
. uai. «« . it is as much a monument to
ro men stole a riae on aL_. .. ,, .
Pacific freight train near; Thorwaldsen as to the brave
iple on the 20th. One of j Swiss in whose commemoration
i had both legs broker and | he made it.
I other one
saving machinery which their
brains have created.
XV. To prevail upon govern-
ments to establish a purely
uational circulating medium,
tli
on the losing side. But believ- a®*1)'*0 any of his falsehoods fellow White makes let him
ing that you were under the in- to ",low r<'^ar'1 r"t «'ome or write to this ufflee and
fluence of some intermittent t^ut,, in tt!l 1,iH hail have it. As a sample
spell when you left the people, j,,,entH- °n,t u,j,,8 on iu ,ttn* 'M j of what you will get we will
I hope that, like the prodigal ant* branded by all j state that so for from the
son you will return to your first Ilhe other pamUury-^men. He judgement being bought in for
picking up bits of news and
tells whatever he hears, regard
less of persons or consequences.
It is his business to know the
news ami tell it. lie is the
most brilliant correspondent
journalism has yet produced
oil this side of the water, and
far out strips all others of his
class in popularity, lie keeps,
employed, two assistants, as his
newspaper work amounts to
thirty columns n week, for
which he receives the neaf little
salary of $400. There is a charm
in his style which makes him
inimitable. lie gives the plain-
est facts in a pleasing, captiva-
ting manlier.
He has a strong, compact
- issue directly to tlie people, jove and quit bringing up the counted the county $14, Mack has a receipt from
"! 2$2? rf* tSfcS2,U'rear'of the old court house ring, I m°nfy iu the Collin County ! the rnan he owed for BB, paid
^ .g-i._.,^ _ and txiwinir down nt the Khrinu National Bank, kv uny lioi.L \ k him oucoinpromise. Aud NN bite
life, but few can say they have
realized their most modest ex-
pectations. A host at the emt
of life's voyage have to look
back upon a line of disaatatt
and wrecks. Scores of boy*
who have chafed under pami*
tal restraints and the monoto-
nous labors of home, and have
made their way out iuto inde
pendent life, after a few yean
of experience with life u it is,
have been more glad to get
back into the old family boat
again and work before the
mast.
The gist of the matter is this:
Boys, ei\)oy yourselves. Do
not let gloomy forebodings of
the future snuff out the joy of
the present.
Cultivate noble impulses,
high aspirations, for without
these but little will be gall
red by
Ir B Roe had one arm taken
above the elbow and the
torn into shreds in a gin
Longview on Monday,
•lenro-tmlumonia has
iverea in a herd of
PltcMtixville, Pa.
Clyde Maddox, aged IS, stab-
lied John De Berrv severely-
but not seriously at Gainesville
on the sMlth in a quarrel com-
menced in Jest
MHow dMt In
the seenes of ■
system or banking corpora-
tions, which money shall ue a
legal tender in payment of all
debts, public or private.
m 9 mm ■■ ■
A countryman, who is camp-
ing with his wagon and team In
the suberbs of Austin, missed
one of his horses.
44 Why don't you apply to the
police,'"suggested a city friend.
"Do yon think they stole
liilttf" was the innocent re-
sporiQe.
Now is tha time to subscribe
the DEMOCRAT-—if yon
I worth il 00 a
and bowing down at the shrine
of Mammon. Now, Captain ,of wtc " All the others who
...... Were present state it was cot
oncompro
han mistated all tlie facts
yon say yon charge me nothing1 wvrr Pr,MH,n, "to***waacount-; tlioughout just u* badly as this,
for this advice; alright, bnt if ^'.v bundles and jiackages, The cause of all his malice
you shonld want any pay for and everybody knows this to be and unprincipled uttacks on
the same, why Just call on the the lrut,b an'1 X®1 t, iH foreman Mack is that four years ago
candidates in whose interest
heavy organization, a powerful I ,lot be deceivwl by the
J . . a m i I rainbow that points to the pot
memory and a wide range of In- j (>f ^ b thjfct
formation -three excellent chnr- hangs tbirk valleys, so as to bv
acteristics in his line of lalior. { restless and uneasy, for in ntae
y<
New York, and his wife is on ' having the best of life, not with-
arromplished wonrnn Though tb* ^
not old looking, he was a re
that article was written. You IOOD^r>4
say go slow John K; go slow, \ erable falsehood on the publ
yourself, Captain, until you (This traitor to everybody and
toll who is paying for the im-1 everything, shonld, in an article
manse numbers of Inquirers; nearly two columns in length,
and Wastes that are scattered; have condescended to toll one
strath. (Bnt not
present horde of false- they run a race agninst each P°rb'r before the war, and has j ment ^'Jiat I'oo
oagara gate off thia iul«- other for IW,r and Ma.k acc'imulate,! anextenaivellbia- jyo^ff.*1.W
fhlsehood on the puhlir. i "Mannedhie miHTUHin, for lilm." ■'y ' ng J?" mr duty or pi
every week over this
■Bat not so; his
:«r
And he and tho re l «f ll.o rol ' volninea^for which he haa
j ten school money and court j
house rings kmiw t hat if Mack is t 'ommodore Filiebrown. corn-
elected their indecent crowd , mamling the New York Navy
goes under. Yard, died of heart dissasg on
Since by a vigorous stump ■ the 97th.
I
restraiuts and hardships
vex yon. Et^joy with conteat-
i hnve, pr
her resj
en it
Sour •tuty or privilege
lem. Thus will life w
happy ns it can be, yon
saved from extreme "
ments, and you will
far as possible the
jects la Ufc.
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Robertson, Orrin. The Democrat. (McKinney, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 36, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 9, 1884, newspaper, October 9, 1884; McKinney, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth191411/m1/1/: accessed April 19, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Collin County Genealogical Society.