The Democrat. (McKinney, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 38, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 23, 1884 Page: 1 of 4
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HE DEMOCRAT:
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UN BOBKKTrtOH, Kdllor 4 Prop'r,
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DEMOCRAT.
THE BEST SHOES
AND BOOTH,
W. M. NTIICILAII,
McKt n«.v,
OL. 1, NO. 38.
McKINNEY, TEXAS. THURSDAY. OCT. 23. 1884.
$1 A YEAB.
HUM Of 1NTHMMT
is to bare a
ly paper.
leura-pneuiiioniu it epidem
uew
on Long island.
Tkejr Him."
BLACK FUND MBAB BOVB-
TOH.
Ttn lit MiMrlili ud fair fay1 mad" in (bis country. Mr Bui
For Capital and labor. I lock, with his accustomed ener- ^
The enlargement of the flee «>'• ono« undertook to correct!
list to cover nine nrtlcles of uui- by introducing new E . .
versa I use—coal, iron ore, wool, cbiuery; but he found that In* woman, Blabbing lior aeversl
The lone star verdict will be heuii>, jute, Hux, salt, lumber ! could not in tliut way counter Times With a Knife—▲
ren November 4th. ; aud copper—as shown in The ct oppressive legislation, and j Band of Cow Boy.
nator Coke is waking1 Record yesterday, would only ',e ',UB abandoned the effort. •* lm'
lugs up wherever he goes. cut away from tin* surplus rev- Mr. Bullock will also testify Houston, Oct. 17 —The Even-
Am Randall has been mak- euue about nine million dol- ttuU to day manufactured goods ing Journal to-da> gives the fol-
speechesin West Virginia, lars. This may be deemed by imported at a less duty than lowing account of tho lynching
, . '• 1 a j. e - . « \ is iiiiittiMi'd uiHiii the raw ma- °* negro a lew miles from
,wi campaign song poet is in ardent revenue reformers a too 1H impost u upon ru ,,,w •-
ild I Shoot hiiu on sight, moderate measure of rettench-1 teiials, while American woik-
governor has been cau- meut. Hut when it is remein- arw MtuI,ding idle, oi work- — —
ling among the Chinese of tared to what extent the cheap-, at reduced wages, because , train on the Sunset w as \
I cuing of these crude materials rttW materials are thus made into Randon, a Ha,? and
Houston, on the Sunset road :
. "Day before yesterday, when
an eastward-bound * freight
pulling
stock
station, about four miles west
The mruer-stone of renl pro- iof Howobem. the tminmei. ««
* fit crowd of about thirty men
I ening - ..
ery rich lead ore has been will cheapen the thousand pro-1 to° tleiir-
d twelve miles south of. ducts into which they enter as „ wvnw v#. .......
a prime element of cost it will taction to American industry pursuing a negro ami shooting
and the freedom of American ut him. All the parties were on
workmen is free raw materials' horseback, aud the crowd wiw
aud unrestricted markets. ! rapidly gaining on the frighten
v d darky. It was evidently
A Letter Pram Rack Hill.
Rock Hill, Oct. 15. 188-1.
To Kdllor ||niO('«4Ti
1 notica an article iu the tin-
BBMULTB
Vat Proved Tat.
The Dkbockat, in iw warfare
upon the conspiracy that have
been holding the couirty moi «*y
quirer of week before last, iu with an iron grasp, has dealt in
some respect discrediting the
statement made iu the Dkmo-
ckat of the previous week iu
reference to Mr. Toliver Cline,of
this seetiou. 1 wish to say. iu
justice to Mr. Cline, that the
IJoliti McCulloiigh rain uff'irii be seen Hint the mensure of tar
lake rest He is wort!. #*>.• i|r re(ll„.,|„,m B,| ul|| iw in.
. .. , , 1 definitely enlarged by enabling
UetLEhd" 1,orae supply
ict.
IThe Mississippi river is again
Ntranyc Phenomenon.
Verified by Ono of the Bait Old
Ladies in Denton County.
the home market, thus cutting
off the importations of foreign
Lreatening a* Heavy and do- goods. \\ e paid last year
Iructive rise. * twenty-nine million dollars tar-
|The coinage of the various j ^ duties on woolen goods
iuts during the month of Sep-• which we ought to make at
[tuber was 14,013,303. J home—-largely iu the city of sixty-six years of age, a mem-j to|(j
[Lord Houghton is preparing Philadelphia—ami which wi
work "Literary and Political j could make iu competition witti | 4« years standing, living on the
Elections." the world if we did not break Shahan prairie, twelve miles
I The Rocking Chuir Cattle
tympany shipped last week
irtli J ,800 head of line beeves.
A HACK Foil LIKK,
and the horse of the pursued
mun was nearly blown. The
crowd disappeared behind a
'•There are more thing* in Ilearen ami ; prairie island, and the ttuilt
earth than are dreamed of in vonrphi-1 pull,.,! „p to (lie stock pen and
o«o|> t> — on v o. (waited lor a load. A cowboy
Mrs. L. V Muse, un old lad\ ()|| a jmrsu rode up and
the conductor that he
ber of the Methodist church of | would not get an\ cattle that
Herbert Spencer is writing
|i analysis of "Comptes Poll-
[lie Positive."
I The decrease of the public
t bt during the month of Sep-
hnber was $12,047,0tf9.
Revivalist Jones, of Georgia,
stirring up the sinners of
raco at a fearful rate.
The cholera reported front It-
iy in tlie last few days is
13 cases aud IU7 deaths.
the backs of our woolen mnnti-
acturers by taxing their raw
materials. We paid eight mil-
lion dollars on the manufactur-
ed products of flax, hemp, jute,
etc., which, with free raw mate-
rials, would soon be furnished
e&st of Denton, and two miles
west of Little Elm, ill this coun-
ty, was the beholder of one of
the most singulur phenomena
we have ever been called upon
to record.
On the 7th of last May her
day as all the boys were after
"a d—d nigger," and that tliey
would rather lose three car-
loads of cattle than "one black
steer." lie was asked to
explain, and stated that the ne-
gro was
A WOfl.D Ut UAI'IST.
He was a tall, slender, black
African, and has been working
| around there for two or threw
by our own factories. We im- j grandaughter, Miss Ella Gilbert, i{e |uuj u small tints
ported in 1883 over forty million i about I ft years of age, was ly-
The surviving Duke of Wcll-
' (ton is engaged in editing
private correspondence oi
i great Duke for publication.
here has been about #3.<X)o.-' „0 ()j
invested in Montana ranch-
In the last four months by
iw York capitalists.
rOno hundred and sixty large
*h of goods left Yalpariso
dollars worth of iron and steel
in one shape and another aud
paid duties on it amounting to
sixteen million dollars. How
much of this might be saved to
the home trade if we
made the raw material
iron manufacture free (
ing at the point of death. Mrs.
Muse lay upon a bed in an ad-
joining room, at the residence of
Mr. S. A. Gerald, feeling a lit-
tle unwell. As she lay upon
the bed, four little boys canu
of! aud sat on the side of the bed,!!1'1" ,l!' right, but site
A aud a man stood at the head.
tance and rode a small pony,
with a flaxen-colored inane and
tail. That morning lie had
gone to the section-house aud
asked the section boss's wife
for something to eat. As she
suspected from his manner that
something was wrong site told
would
in the Enquirer of last week
will W found a pretended «*di
torial something more than a
column and u half long, which
iViisists mainly of a few haif-
wrlt/en assertions, the purpose
of which was to show that H. C.
Mart -did vote tor that.laud bill.
It h«ar* the ear marks of li. A.
Kindt. a4u> e chief claim to
glory is that Aie wrote this arti-
cle, voted for the l*ase law and
a few iruiro *uch atari* and tits
ITe is rendering hi# friend,
Wolfe, great service ft* a can
didate for count."' '*y
That Taa Aon Field af
Brawn's Actual Battler
facts made manifest by the pub
licatioiis of the C. C. IS. Hank
and the Treasurer himseLf. We
have been candid and free in
our expression upon the issues
raised. The Tikmockat was
statements made by the 1>i:mo born ami reared up in the nu-
ckat are in ever}' respect true, j ture of things, as a necessity, to
111 conversation with Mr. C. a vindicate the right* of the peo-
few days since, he told me that) pie. It has no friends but the
he started six years ago with people. McKinuey is said to
only one heifer and from that, be against it. The corporations ^
lie now has 80 head, plus are against it. We look to the i dirty ring work. Hi."* |,hb'tl) he
head which lie inherited I'roin 'people and will do our whole lis displaying his toti"* 'gnor
his father's estate some « or 8 duty by this people. There is ance of what he writes
month.'- ago. making in all loo j no true democracy c.v<vpt in a
head. He does not, nor do we hard fought defense of the peo-
p res tune that any rational man pie. Stand or fall, survive or
would claim that the remaining parish, we stand by the hewers
7D head are the immediate off of wood and drawers of water.
spring of this one yearling hejf We have no candidates except
er. Hut being situated near those that represent these prin- j show that the bill which the
free range, w hen lie had tictpiir ciples. We favor no man who writer refers to was one of a
ed sufficient money by hard la- is not a vigilant defender of the multitude of hind biils intro
bor and economical living to people. We have nt. de the i duced during that session of the
buy ii heifer calf, he made the best ti^ht we eotiid for the peo j legislature—none of which bills
investment, and w hen his steer ule. knowing that the only ' are at baud and can not be read
bout
Aud what is worse gets it
on the hen-pecked editor of the
Enquirer. Why don't the man
that writes such stuff put his
name to it
In the tirst place the records
calves were two years old lie hope of good government is in
would sell them aud invest in a thorough vindication of the
heifer calves. In this way. by rights of the people. The rich
alternate selling aud buying, and the monopolies are amply
aud at the same time adding able to take care of themselves,
his small earnings, lie hn < ac-
quired his stock of no head.
The above statements we have
direct from Mr. Cline, aud lie
says that if they are question-
ed lie is willing to testify to
them under oath.
As the case of Mr. 1*. <>. Sl.ep-
ard was also mentioned by the
Dkmochat in connection with
that of Mr. (Mine, and as sittcn-
Tlie people need protection.
For this we have made the li^iit
| and still wage the battle. Our
■faith in the people is yet un-
shaken.
On tliu 4th of November we
look for such results as will
demonstrate that our hope has
not Veen iu vain. It is now a
contest squareh between the
people upon the one side and
! bring it out to him. He follow
laying down a car- Two of tin
iron ore in Philadel-1 children, who had died when
phia or a cargo of cheap coal! quite young, and two were her
lias to pay a penalty of | grandsons—Jimmie Slade and
on 3,000 tons. These taxes are Kzckiel Gilbert, who also died
a direct encouragement to the, young. The old lady did not
ed her into the house and ask-
boys were her own j if t|tcre Wure any men about.
The frightened woman gasped
uesday last for the New Or- foreign manufacturer, and a j see the face of the gentleman at
ins exposition.
burden, a blunder and a curse the head of the bed, but thinks
The dead body of Prank Kd- in so far as they concern either
it was Mr. Henry Gilbert who
rards was found suspended to American employer or the
he trestle of the Santa re road , .
ker Knob creek. American work.ngman.
_ . .lhe American mechanics to
ie'atlierfortl."'"'as'X.wn fro"; ''"J"to"""1 th" rllains "f " "'■ r ncitrhhor. entered
lis horse in that place recent- protection in a slavery only j the room, when they disappear-
died about ten years ago. She
says they sat upon the bed aud
conversed until Mrs. O. C. Tun-
and killed almost instant- second to the slavery of the old
South. The vast majority of
ed. When the lady left the
room they reappeared and con-
Heury Lawson, charged with the slaves South never realized versed with each other until
le rApe of his own daughter, j their slavery ; they were born 1 Miss Mollie Holmes entered the
Ms recently sentenced to the to aiHi bred in it. American ' room, when they again disap-
WaxahachYe*1141 ^ ' * IOIM i workmen, aud particularly peared, but returned when this
, , Philadelphia^ and Pennsyl-1 young lady went out. They
>f wie^inen ttTlie ^Hssom i'l'a^ vanittU8 liro ftl)oUt in the same remained about half an hour,
jilic shops discharged a large condition. The beauties ofjAs Miss Gilbert breathed her
lumber of bunds for want of "protection" and the horrors of
rork for them. ! '•free trade" and "pauper la
Only one-seventh of the in- j bor" have been dinned into
labitants of the 10,000,000 of their ears so long that they
piare miles over which Brit- b]jr,dlv follow the crv without
flfir* in (IM ■■ IIIrtli nwi • w.
in's flag floats iu triumph are
;hristians.
At a political meeting in,'l"""J
Charleston, W. Va., recently, "
lohn Nunnelly, iu a drunken tlio largest carpet inanufacturer
|t, shot recklessly into the iu the world, says: "The car-
fowd and killed two men. ; industry is crippled be-
ever catching a sight of the
quarry.
vet Mr. James Dobson,
last breath, the oldest of these
boys said: "It is now time we
were going," and immediately
disappeared, and she has not
seen tlieiu since. Miss (lilbert
wore a most happy expression
as she died.
tion h:is been called to that by' rings and monopolies upon the
the Knquirer, it is nothing but other. There cau b«
justice to Mr. S. to give his case tion as to where the people of
further notice. Nine years ago Collin county will stand in
Mr. S., with his family, settled such a tight. The people who
oil an 80 acre school claim, four have been robbed of the inter-
miles west of Rhea's Mill, tin est on their
"no," and springing into Iter
room, locked it. The wretch
immediately
kickki> tiii: noon ocii.v,
and sis the woman attempted to
pass him lie struck her on the
shoulder with a knife and cut
her severely. She screamed for
help and ran into the yard, the
fiend following and cutting Iter
iu several places. When the
yard was reached a gang of
cowboys front the pen were seen
coining toward the house, and
the negro abandoned his victim,
jumped on his pony and began
a race for life. The cowboys
hearing the woman's screams
and seeing the fleeing negro, at
once started in pursuit, they
being about yards in the
rear.
TilU Y < «>MMKNVKI> SIMM T1 NO.
and the alarm being given their
band of about seventeen were
re-in forced by nearly a dozen
hay men. They all hud good
horses, and if they caught the
rascal, tin.' chances were thai
a bonfire would be built, as the
woman was very much liked by ,, , , . , . , r
the boys of that section, and I P®1^ to bore holes in the slats favor
school
..... permanent
dur a hay shelter, without a fund for one year by a rich cor
hoof in the world, save one cow poratiou cannot fail tobearous
and calf, and not a single farm-j ed to the necessity of prompt
ing implement not so much us ami vigorous action to defeat,
a chopping ax, and with only j the further plans ami schemes
cents iu his pocket, and this of such a combination, Two
he spent with Capt. Hlica for a
butter-bowl.
Then, without money or otli
er means, lie set about by duily
labor to pay for a cow and calf, j shown by the history of the
which he gave for ft set of house j past two years. The people
logs 8x 1«J ft, and iu order to get j had as well understand that if
his first ticre of land broken, he they submit to the dictation oj
had to give two days'work for i a National bank they will pay
the use of a team and the same j for the honor of serving them,
amount of labor to get one These gentlemen art; for the
of
years more of such an admiuis-
(ration of countv affairs will
cost the county thousands of
dollars. This is abundantly
load of shits aud posts hauled
from the cross timbers with
which to fence the first five
money strictly. It matters not
whether it be the Collin County
National Hank or the First Na-
tional Hank; both are cold-
Tin* old lady says she knows , |y tough customers. The train
this was neither an optical illu-1 waited six or seven minutesaud
sion nor an hallucination of the ; "" to Houston w ith-
, , out the cattle. On yesterday
Neither was she asleep. Lhe illfwn>um W„J8
Several charters were filed cause of high priced raw ma , When the apparitions present- (,„t tjH.,v again, and was told
rith the secretary of the state terials." Mr. Dobson knows, ed themselves she dosed her that the boys caught the rascal
-ontly, among w hich weie j.j|t pftyH |,jH profits to the Ciis- eyes, and then opened them,and iu a strip of woods and
acres of his laud.
For the want of money with ' blooded in money matters, and
which to buy nails, he was com w ill not show the people any
s. The people have only
many of the gang were especial-1 and pin them to the posts. I o- join* vsa\ to protect themselves
day lie has his 80 acres under and that is by pursuing tin
by tliw people, lleucc their
scheme to assert what they can-
not prove or be caught in. Sec
otid any assertion that the land
monopolies of the state grew
up under the bill is unsustaiit-
ed by the facts. And any sen-
sible mind will see that to as
serl it without proof is a dis-
honest act upon the purt of the
writer which was intended to
deceivw the public. On the
contrary nothing but Htupid ig
iterance or reckless untruthful-
ness would induce any man to
make such a charge in the face
of the fact that since the ini-
tio ques- joiirnuient of the regular session
of the 18th legislature the Land
Fraud Hoard has report-
ed to the Attorney General the
titles wrongfully obtained un
tier the Seven Se< tion act,which
had the effect to prevent the cs
tablishiueiit of any such enclos-
ures as lie speaks of. Mack's
enemies just selected what they
pleased from the Journal to
base their charges on, thinking
they could fool the people. At
th«« beginning of the canvass,
not having the Journal at hand
Mack give Muse the benefit of
the doubt aud plead guilty to
voting for the bill, It was not
such a bad measure after all.
Its provisions were violated
and that is all these fellows
make out of it, and is the mak-
er of a law responsible for its
violation, if it had been as
bad a measure us they mukc it,
what of it. Here is one vote,
granting all these fellows say,
out of two sessions, that is char
! ged upon Mack. Pretty good
Deacon Hrown say«that U tka
fli+nnl settler who buys a HO
acre homestead iuside of a 100,•
ooo ranch fences tan acrea aad
builds a house worth 990 ha
has complied with the law that
says ihat he **mcst A
llorgF. a Nil PKXCK TltKKBOV."
Another lease law man saya to
"build a chicken-coop and a
four rail pen TiiKUKoff," coai*
plies with the law. Suppota
this is aU ho aud.that both are
correct The actual settlei must
put ylj li,is stock iu flie T6n aci%
lot <>i in lite lour rail add
the cuttle king gets freejrass
on the other acrtp of the
homestead and the settler pays
for it. Poor men paying trijj
♦e to the rich agaiiu '
u
Tl/o People Against Bins*.
It- is n*)V,r contest against
ring* f. monopolies. The jmo.
pie 'Wj "ny the I'"1 P'o
the git)Wi*i ft*"1' arrayed against
their •.ppis'fls^1'8-
tie ,<rowr warinet
Let the bat*
mid warmer
until the 4th of Nove *n^r'
once in Collin County liu*
looks bright over the heads o/
the jsniple. The riugs and
plunderers are cowed] and da*
moralized. Let the peopLa
stand firm ;'the hour of victor}'
is at hand. Let those who have
been robbing the ebildren of
their school money stand aalda
and make way for honest men,
who w ill stand by the people.
— m m
That (fohool Money.
And still the men who got the
interest for the last year on the
school money grin at the people
and refuse to hand over their
ill-gotteu gains. They don't
deny having pocketed this mneh
of the school money belonging
to the people but say by their
acts w e have got it and uow you
l.>cts voters help yourselvea.
Let the people say aro theaa
the iixiii to till the offices and
control elections. Why have
not these men come up and
long since us honest men should
have done, paid over tkia
school money. Let the people
drive the whole crowd from of-
lice. Mr. Bitglcy who is the hum*
ble instrument of the school
money crowd needs to be sent to
the rear.
A colored voter on one of tha
corners of the square a few even*
iugs ago was heard to say to
his neighbor:
"Sam,d'ye see how dose white
foax done gouii an' mixed up de
darkies in dnr politics f"
"Hush,Jim. nigger git a front
seat till after de 'lection."
"Hats so, Sam, but what da
for a man to serve two sessions • white trash want sinuate on a
hi* enemies find
wrong iu it than this.
ilie Cleburne water works, cap-
looked at the furniture, etc., to
try her vision,
I.OST HIM.
and ascertain i At least they didn't bring him
whether this was a real tangi , ,ark and didn t vexed
ii # - . * ui a: a 11 that he had "escaped.
ble fact or not. She satisfied 1
herself that she was not deceiv-
ed, and now gives the facts to
A Big Verdict.
itai stock W,000, ami the rattle1 «°,n Hou <'
company, Sweetwater, $100,000. Mr. Thomas Dolan says that
. j • with free wool he could com-
MUville' Friday for Termor'; P*'« 1,1 ">' n"'r^t in ,l'" wor'd
r of his mistress. He did a in selling Philadelphia-made
considerable amount of prav-; cloths. Mr. Dolan w ill n<jt say
|tig before the drop, lie macie |u, in favor of free wool, be-
special plea for gamblers and Cftuse he "doesn't know how far is willing to make affidavit if
rhisk} i r n ers. ^ would hurt others." He necessary.—Denton Monitor
Rtat istics go to prove that knows it would benefit himself j
hicngo uses U0,000,000 gti
^uroe^ckies^not'1 inclncEe thnt ><"neiu asas us ut iove our | . tie r,e.,j contract in failing to transport
ised in whisky. There is no | neighbor as ourself." Mr. Do- i th«over one of its branch lines cer-
ray of figuring with any de- lan wants to love his neighbor; * . Po,ii,„.sed of Uermnn civ?l tain ite froln l,,llintin s p*- «ds
S-of (vrtalnty on this pirt of j Wtw. We commend Mr. Do- Th"
io business. - • • - - - ■ - -
the public as facts to which she
is willing
necessary
German Technologists Organising
'In; preliminary steps toward
New York, Oct. 17.—Frank
K. Bean brought suit some time
ago against the New York,
West Shore & Hudson River
railroad company iu t he court
of common pleas, for #300,000
damages for alleged breach of
a good fence, in a good state of, same cold blooded policy. To '
cultivation, a good house and , illustrate; it is now fully shown
granary on it and furnished! by our experience tliut if the
with plenty of stock and tools! bank gets possession of the
with which to run his farm sue county money they .vill skin
cess fully. He pays annually j the people. Then let the coun
into the county treasury be-j ty adopt the same policy. Thnt
tweeti $3o and #40 for county' is, if the county lets either
and state purposes, the greater bank have the money just let
part of which goes directly Into I the people skin a little. Let
the school fund for the educn- us require them to pay for the
cation of the children of the use of the money In this way
county. We have made men- we can make an equal fight and
tion of only a few of the many "t otherwise. No man should
hardships that Mr. S. and his (be elected I reusurer, County ' actualsettlers are excluded. It
good lady have undergone in Judge or County Commission- J jH |() hoped that the Com-
Tlie Ucneral Land Office has
b en investigating the appro-
priatioti of the public lands,
and it has been discovered that
upward of 5,t*.Mi,ooo acres of
the public domain have been
illegally fenced in, iu Colorado,
New Mexico, Nebraska, Wyo-
ming, Kansas, and Nevada by
large cattle companies, many of
which are Knglish and Scotch.
The large corporations gobble
the land and the poor men and
no more colored man's write to vote fori
hut Inquirer man thinks nigger
jist made to peck on."
"Jim, don'you know dat da
all plumps for de middle man #
Well you see de news papara
know dat de side dat git de nig*
ger vote gets de game. Data da
reason dat Binguiu's cusslnand
ly in' on de niggers."
The late Mr. Darwin confirm*
ed the observations of Huff*
mcister that, although deatitata
of eyes, the ordinary aarth
worm is sensative to light.
Uirls should be trained in
some form of hand work, ao
lan to the political economy of tical chemists, have been taken
order to improve their home and jer, who floes not stand >qtiare|y missioner will make a clean job' that, if necessary, they may
procure an honest living for on this sort of a platform. There j ,,f anj oUf)t the illegal hold-1 help themselves. There is noth*
themselves aud family. Yet; is no sort of justice in the tax (>t|,
during these nine years of irk^-I payers being required to pay!,.nough
Joe McKlnney, Priestly Pool
ind Adam Stinnell. all colored,
rera arrested in Van Alstvne
'ri.n*prJt7cl«iHy estnl'llsh" l«e hath denied the faith nd is
that tney murdered ami threw worse than an infidel
St. Paul: "But if any provide
not for his own, and specially
for those of his own household,
It is proposed to secure the or-
ganization in the principal cit-
ies of the country of local so-
cieties similar to the Tecbnisher
Yereiu of this city, of which II.
Belgram is President and Her-
ended today, the jury finding a
verdict in favor of Piaintilf tor
*75,000.
jpon the Houston & Texas C'en- Mr. George W. Blaboii will man Dieck Secretary, and
hral railway track the man who |e|| ttny ,,m. who will ask him 1 whose object is the promotion
ras rejHtrted^ as having been t||a^ witli free jute American
over and killed.
In Oskaloosa, Iown, Thurs-
fday night, about 1 o'clock, at
a saloon where t<gi or twelve
ivere assembled, a man by the
na:ne of William Harrison
' eked up what he supposed
_ be a ran of fruit and wan
jpening It with his knife when
It exploded killing him instant-
fly and seriously injuring a
I number of others. Instead of
fruit it was powder. What a
idful admonlsher that it
a too lata hoar tma
oilcloth makers could sell Phil-
adelphia oilcloths in London,
in competition with Knglish
makers. Besides, we could
make the bagging to cover
American cotton, that is now
made in Scotland.
Mr. George Bullock, of C'ons-
hohocken, declares that owing
to the high dnties on some
grades of wool, the yarns Ills
of engineering nml chemical
science among Germans. The
only other existing societies
are those of New York and
Chicago. When a sufficient
number of local societies have
been organized a national or-
ganization will be effected,
which will, in addition to the
work of the local societies, seek
to facilitate the securing of em
Mrs. Billet, wife of a New
Orleans grocery merchant, ran
ofF with a negro the other day.
taking Billet's child. They
were tracked by detectives aud
found in Houston. The mother
agreed to give up the child if
allowed to go unmolested, which
she did. Mrs. Billet is WJ and
handsome. Lewis, her mulatto
companion is V8.
some toil they have not been
free front misfortune. Still tin-
der the Free Grass rule they
have done well.
K. B. II \< Klilt.
Granny Bradley.
Under the head of "The
up, crop or no crop, iu order to
enrich a bank and enable the
officers and stockholders and
their families to "wear purple
and linen and fare sumptuous
j ly every day." If the money
j mud be paid let it be placcd,
Mc-; if it goes out of the hands of the
Elections have been held in
six States this year, the Demo-
crats have carried four -Ala-
bama, Arkansas. Georgia and
. . „ - . West Virginia-and the Repub-
plovment for German engineers Ucftn„ tw<?_Malm ami Ohio,
and chemists arriving in this | t ,
The" cost of raising a scrub is
Have you laid away sufficient | as great as that of an improved
firta would produce cannot be provender for the winter seaaonf animal.
Kiynev King and its Boss" old I treasurer, where it will do the
Granny gets off a half column : hard-laboring tax payers the
of most outrageous falsehood, most good. Let the people
We suppose it was furnished! have the benefit of their taxes
herby the eourt house ring here, jand not the bank. The sense-
All the mud she flings is ftirn- less twaddle about it being
ished by the school money and LAWFUL to put it in the bank
court house rings here. They and UNLAWFUL to accept an
select her to do their dirty j interHst for the county is too
work. She had better tie up
her old dirty stocking and set f111*? and th n* ^ lhu c",,n
flown. j ""nay "e handled purely as
— a matter of buainess. and it will
It is too late for the rains to! be much safer and more profit-
bring out a profitable top crop i able to the county. I<et tue re-
of cotton. • aulta innure to the people.
ther monopolies are bad distressing than tha
i... .. . . „ . , helplessness of well-to-du wo-
. t . hen comet men when misfortune ove*-
t he peoples heritage, the pub-1 takes them; and misfortuaa
lie lands being monopolized by may cotne any clay.
a few capitalists, it is time to ^ ^
halt. Astronomers appear to bedi*
recting their whole etiergiea to
the solution of the questioa of
the physical constitution of tha
Cincinnati, Oct., 17.—The | sun. The evolution theory
Ixidy of Mrs. Antik* Madison gins to obtain that the aun'a
was fotiii' 1 iu her liomtf at Coring- j heat is the result of the gradual
ton this morning on the floor. | consolidation of the aolar
A Woman Murdered.
She had been choked with' globe
a rope and her throat then!
cut. Her husband was ab-l Austin, Oct. U.—Since tha
sent when the discovery adoption of the new rnles of tha
was made. He was sent j Land Board sixty-one applica-
for aud arrested but denied all i tions have been received, Nil
knowledge of the deed. A little
boy says an old man with gray
whiskers committed the crime.
sales of land made nndar tha
new rule now in vogue. ShoaM
two applications for the aaia
parcel of land be received th#
Storekeeper-Stockiugs,miss, same day the first gets tfcalaad,
Yes, miss, what number, miss,' notwithstanding tha laal la May
do yon— Matter-of fact young | offer a much higher piiaa. la
lady—Whv, two, of coaraet Da i other worda there la ao
youthlxh I've got a wooden lag I1 tition.
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Robertson, Orrin. The Democrat. (McKinney, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 38, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 23, 1884, newspaper, October 23, 1884; McKinney, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth191413/m1/1/: accessed April 20, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Collin County Genealogical Society.