The Democrat. (McKinney, Tex.), Vol. 6, No. 47, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 19, 1889 Page: 2 of 4
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DIE3 S%
OPPOSITE THE POSTOFFIOE, ON E. LOUISIANA STREET.
As we uiuat have room for goods yet to arrive, in the sect ten days we oflfcr great and special bargains in oar line, consisting of
Furniture, Stoves, Queentware, Tin and Glassware, Table and Pocket Cutlery,
AND MANY OTHER USEFUL ARTICLES.
We must have room. We must and will sell. Don't be misled:
Our Roods are new and first-class! We are here to aell and to stay Give na a call and be oonvinoad. Don't forget the place, oppoaite postoffloe.
Nale & Dies.
THE DEMOCRAT
KIHTEI> AMI I'L'Bl.lbllKP
By tti DsiMcral PnUlsWnc Coapaaf.
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null insertion. Obituaries of more ......
timt) 1u line* vill In ilmrgetl for at our politiral bigots, w lio bow vvitu
ucuai ratea. , hypocritical reveretice to ens
All coiilrHi'U will I « c-liarjfed for
proportion to the uljote.
Add rest-.
j km(k iu1 i'l ii. Co ,
McKinney. Te*es.
Tlu* Men We Need. < An Open Letter to Uncle Hike. | tweeu two of the woi
.. ~T\ i %t „ —T ' in my opinion, that Texna ever
1 he history «>t the paHt con McKinnky, Dec. 17, 1h8sl produced
tains many examples of noble, Dear Sir: I see a letter from j^QW j0 what you
far seeing individuals, who yon staling that you have pull-j tMnk £ righl/ftIld if you beat
were brave enough to scale ihe *d with me always iu politics, me j wiU |||ke x the hand
dangerous walls of blind cus but you can go no further if 1 and work for you to the bitter
torn, and pluck front the broad go for Throckmorton ; that you
fields of investigation its are for Hogg. Now, Mike.
Notice.
sweetest flowers and cheerfully
uouate them to his fellow man.
We say "dangerous," be
cuuse iu all ages and countries
the times are burdened with a
lot of narrow minded, preju-
diced, conceited, religious and
1,1 tom's laws.
We need men, young and
old, to day to scale these walls.
It is worthy of repetition
that, "there is always room at
; that is all right. We will not
full out about the two men.
Kither of them will do me for
governor, and if Hogg proves to
the' strongest man, 1 shall
go the whole lio^g with you
and u shoulder into the shoat,
and if Throck beats Hogg 1
know your democracy well
enough to believe you will go
with the majority. Now, Mike,
you will remember that we
have been held down by the
railroad towns for the last four-
end.
John Johnson.
Funny.
THURSDAY. DEC. 10, 1880.
KUlTOltlALM.
Only a coward will feast on
the misfortunes of his oppo-
nent.
' JM
While the world ungrateful-
ly sleeps, the invenior works
with tired brain in behalf of
i lit- huniuii race.
the top," of the ladder of fame. I teen years and the people have
We want the torch of intel-
ligence carried into the dun
geons of ignorance. We want
to lighten the burden of the
human race as much as pos-
' sible. To accomplish this, one
should arm himself with truth,
and then march, Paul like, iu
to the arena of life, and with
i true devotion, stand firm in
behalf of the right. Though
you may fall by the wayside
, you will not fail to inspire the
confidence of some observing
brother, who will quickly
We would rather have the
tears of grateful poverty drop-
ped upon our graves than to lie
beneath the cold and towering
monument.— McKinney Demo-
crat.
That's right. Don't do any
lying beneath "the cold tower*
ing monument." Come ont
into the warm noon-day aun,
with the green sward beneath
your feet and the blue cano-
py of the zenith above yon and
lie to your hearts content.
That's the way for a newspaper
man to lie. This lying where
been swindled out of from
$10,0(H),(MM) to #15,000,000 each
year by making them pass on . . . ..
wal«r/d stock that they n« r no "nB he" 5,011 "tric">'
had, if there is any truth in our
representatives. We have pai^
uu Mcvli <*ai £?V! (Hill nil unnli milu
n. g —Houston Tribune,
The preaa of the state la
unanimously in favor of "hog
as high as #78,000 on each mile
of certain railroads, when the ; ttn^ hominy."
cost was only $15,000 per mile, j ~ .
Now, Mike, you will remem- Additional LiOC&lS.
ber that we have tried our leg- i * ■
islature for the last fourteen g^~Collin county for cotton
years to regulate the freights and corn, but Brazoria connty,
of the ruilroads, and the rail-
road towns would send lobby
grasp the standard and plant fists, and with money and whis-
The greatest genius is one
who is able to discard preju-
lice, and thereby add to his
it firmly in the enemy's camp.
A soldier once fell outside
the breastworks, when a pass-
ing comrade remarked, "Ah,
my dear brother, you have
failed." The dying hero point-
ing to his tlag that was tri (
umphantly waving over the
ky they defeated us every time,
Our farmers have become near-
ly bunkrupt. There are mil-
lions of bushels of grain that
are now rotting tor the want of
near Aivin, for pears
beriies and grapoe.
straw-
Smith Bro's., drug store ia
the place to find everything
kept in the drug line, east side
square.
A young man, who gave hia
name aa Willie Polk, died
about daylight on laat Sunday
morning, at the City hotel, af-
ter a lingering illneaa of sever-
al daya. It ia olaimad that ha
died ofanervoua diaeaae. Ee
said he was from Carthage,
Smith county, Tennessee; that
his father had a large family
and waa poor. He was kindly
taken care of during hia aiok*
neaa and after hia death a
Jurse waa raiaed to give him a
ecent burial, and a good num*
bir of sympathizers followed
his remains to the grave.
A report waa current that he
was a son of Tenneaaee'a de-
faulting treasurer, but we do
not credit the atory.
lie waa about 20 years old.
Thus in the bloom of youth;
far away from "home, aweet; receiving from one to thirteen
nong strangers, this | mem
are anxious for all the Al-
Prairie Grove Farmers' Al-
liance, in regular aessiou, Dec.
14, appointed a committee to
meet all delegates that come to
Parmeraviile and Copevill* to
the oounty Alliance on the
care, with conveyances to c.trry
delegates ont to Prairi" Grove,
and we, the committee, would
ask all of onr sister Alliances
to send a full delegation, and
let's have a good time together
We will meet you at each de
pot on Tuesday before the 8d
Wednesday in January. 1800,
and convey yon to Prairie
Grove school house, where
the Alliance will be in
aeaaion and give yon all good
placea to stay.
Onr Alliance ia on a boom,
home," among atrangera, this { members each meeting, and we iftt,.J V .m-
poor boy yields to the mysteri
To the Sub-Alliances of Collin
Cohnty :
Iluviug been elected by your
oouuty Alliance to lecture to
the sub-Alliances, and being
prevented from meeting as per
agreement by sickness, 1 deem
it my duty to lecture as many
subs ae pus-able before our
iiexi county Alliance meets, 1
will be at the following named
places :
Johnton school-house, Satur-
day, Dec. 28, at 7 p. m.
Cedar Alliance, Monday,
Dec. 30, at 7 p. m.
ltock C^uary, Tuesday, Dec
31, at 7 p m.
Spring Hill, Wednesday,
Jan. 1, at 7 p. m.
Prairie Grove, Thursday,
Jan. 2, at 7 p. m.
Little Creek, Friday, Jan. 3,
at 7 p. m.
New Hop'e, Monday, Jan. 0.
7, at
ous summons.
"Give Our Hide a Chance."
yesterday,
New York
In our article
taken from the New York
Herald, entitled "Buaineaa
Men in Theatrioals," we note
that "Caaev'a Troubles" is go-
ing to make a few stops be-
fore making a run in San Fran-
ciaco. Now why can't we have
this performance stay one
night with ua! They muat
aurely have a firetolnaa com-
pany to oontemplate so lone a
season in the metropolis of the
western seaboard. Such a
would be a relief from the
o. 2, 3, and sometimes No 4
companies New York generally
sends us. Give us a chance.
t^Tlf you want to grow rich
reasonable transportation, ^ou | raising strawberries and peare,
will know, Mike, that nearly write a w. Durant & Co., Al-
all the wealth and talent of old viUt Tex > who win Mnd full,
ow ii knowledge the intelligence enemy's grounds, exclaimed in Collin were against us. There particulars.
of others j his latest breath, -You are w«re but three lawyers that we „
knew of in McKinuey that were Wanted
lor the commission until!
The farmer is to the world
what M*?iui i? to the majestic i
engine -without hie aid the'
grand machinery of the human
race would cease to move.
The laborer deserves the
highest price possible for his
work. I poti his contentment
the happiness of all the rest
depends.
He is a gentleman who will
boldly advocate his
mistaken. I helped to place that
banner yonder."
So it is with all reforms,
their paths are strewn with
brave defenders lor,
"NY ntv ln'nlm Iwi, in iiiiiiij 11 iVnx.
Hut newer Mivnjrtli weWorroM ;
A u< 1 v\ IM*r*' I In v aiiv ilitr< 1 ritiii|ii tn-ibo .
Tlii' n'in slmll r«'-i lii.innrro«
Marriage Chimes.
The following couplea have
procured license to wed since
our last issue:
J, W. Goodnight and Maggie
A. Montgomery, N. G. Dinwid-
die and A, E. Burns, W, F.
Throckmorton spoke out. Now .100 bushels of seedlings peach Baker and Jennie Thomas, C.
think what nerve it took for 8 Hur8t and Ida Ra8BeU«
a man lo take a aland against | .took at McKlnney nursery J|f Ballinger and T. A. Jen-
all his big friends and against „ , _ . I kins, J. W. Jennings and M
five papers out Jof six in his Furniture I Furniture!! | B. Collins, J. M. Hendfljp and
lianoes to take new courage
and press forward and the vic-
tory will be ours. Done by
Jok B. Marshall,
One of the Committee.
IHsgiiMtcil Old Toxuiim.
A special from Collinsville,
who
religious
and political conviction and at talking gentlemen passed
the same time duly regard the1 through the county hunting up
old lexiaufc and asking them
them to give the history of
lex., to the Dallas News, says : jjj^ tttppj„g a tarapin
"About n y«ar uk«' « „„ ,|1%Ni. N„, pa,,er, uor
county. Another thing, Mike, —
11 don't want you to say any- The best and cheapest furni-
thing about it, so it will get turec-nbe bought at Kendall
out) Throck made all our big & Barne's, north side of square,
rich enemies go baok in their
opinions of others.
Defeat and bribery can never
swerve the Dkmoikat from its their lives, incidentally men-
duty in advocating the right, tioning that lie supposed they
The greatest achievements of | would like to have a copy of
ail ages have manb id triumph- the book iu which their biog-
antly through repeated fail- rapines were printed, the price
ures, and after all shoue with only $!.* ; and kindly sign the
greater lustre. agreement, etc. As a result
I between twenty-five and thirty
"old Texaus' living in and near
Collinsville (many of
having come to the state since
the war) subscribed and were
Our
counts
exchanges contain ac-
of many "sad deaths"
and "sad suicides." We would
like to read of a real funny,
cheerful "death" or a"sulcidc." t , .. ,
Please report one and send us reCe" J 1 tt '1
a niatkeil^ciipv. ^ different portions of the state)
Last Sunday uight the Wells . lo puy their *1."'. A more dis-
1'argo Kxpress company at gusted lot of "old Texans" has
Brownwood, Tex,, was robbed n^ver been seen iu Texas.'
of ??.(mm>, by two men, who This is just about the case
entered the office and sand over here. Many of our beat
upon i as were
Some 12(H) or l4(Mi others living
bagged the agent, Walter
.(ones, after which they tied
Jones' hands, locked thd door
and made good their escape.
citizens were taken in. We
might mention some of their
Kev. J. P. Pinkerton preac li-
ed his farewell aermon at the
a lawyer dare say a word Christian churoh laat Sunday
against the commission. Now, evening. Mr. Pinkerton is at
Mike, there is but little differ-1 cultured gentleman, who haa
ence between us and the so- endeared himself to al! who
called straights. That differ- know him. He goes from here
ence is, we went for principle; • to Auatin, Tex., to oontinne his
they went for men. Now, their ministerial work,
best man ie for our leading,
principle, and the destiny of, Alexander Walters files suit
the farmers of Texas depends; ^or divorce, alleging that he
upon that issue. Now. my marled iu 1872, and two days
reason for going for Throck thereafter his wife left him and
. . over any other man is, we never lived in adultery; that he after-
thwin got into a fight place when the ward instituted suit for divorce,
country was in danger, but bin W*,M wa® dead
what Gov. Throckmorton came dismissed
to our aid. When secession carried and haa several chil-
catue up there were but seven dre°5 that his wife after nine-
members of the legislature, who;t,een y*,ar> turne op alive and
were opposed to secession. wel1- He renews his suit and
Throck was one of th<yn. He *al children be la-
spoke out when he did not gitiniatised. ^ ^ ^
know but what his life would
pay the penalty ; but after the
afate seceded Throck was
C B. Hensley. L. T. Wilson
and Lula D. Lile, J. M. Webb
and Sallie Harvie, J. T. Free*
man and M. J. Russell, Hen-
ry Weatherall and Ida Webb.
m
New York Heral<l« June llUi.
The Siberian blood honnda
to be used in the production of
"Casey's Troubles" have jnat
arrived by ateamahip City of
Paria. They are on exhibition at
"Theia" on 14th street. These
dogs are attracting much at-
tention on account of their
wonderful aize, one in particu-
lar being apotted so peculiar
one would feel certain it waa
a leopard. We noticed among
the many viaitors a gentleman
looking very anxioualy at the
tted hound. It seems he
A Big Hush
At the City Drug Store on
holiday goods, come early and
secure bargaina at Bristol Bros.
•
Letter ot Appeal.
SisTin Grovk Alltanck, i
No. 77ft, Collin County, }
Tixas, Nov. 27,1889.)
Whereas, Bro. J. S. Gray, a
member of thia Alliance in
good atanding, baa been blini i
tor a number of years and has
a family of small children to
support, and Brother Gray has
been very unfortunate the paat
year, in having a great deal of
aickneaa in hia family, and the
boll worm damaging his cotton
haa placed him in almost desti--
tnte circumstances, we, the
brotherhood of this Alliance,
make appeal to the different, ,, _ , , , ,
•ab-AUinnoM of the .tat. in I « od ">« ' "<* W w"ul
f.Tor of the brother, believing ,f. canls tqlio ceiua.
i— a -I-.- a White and colored dress
shirts, 35 cents to $1.<M).
Gents' half hose, .*> cents to
Trinity, Tuesday, Jan.
7 p. m.
Cottonwood, Wednesday,
Jan. 8, at 7 p. m.
St. Paul, Thursday, Jan. 9,
at 7 p. m.
Bloomsdale, Friday, Jan. 10,
at 7 p. m.
Brethren be prompt and
come out, everybody is invited
as all the above lecturea will
be public. Other appoint-
ments will be made.
G. S. Wilson.
mm 9 m
A Biff Rmli
On fine Kentucky and Ten-
nessee liquors and brandies at
City Drug Store, prices to
please all. Come and see.
Bristol Bros.
|39*Yes, they have come
form New Y'ork—the uew
Christmas goods at the Racket
atore are here. If you don't
see what you waut call for it,
for we have got it.
Men's and boy's winter suits,
$4.00 to $12.00.
A jeans coat, $1.25.
Good duck overalls, 55 cents
to 75 cents.
u i
Md thermions It cannot be <
plications. It requires ft
edy llko Hood's SarMpMlllft,!
through the blood,
which mums and promotes the <
•Sects ft permanent cure,
people testily to the success o!
partita as a remedy for <
preparations had fnllod. llood's I
also builds up the wbolo rystem i
you fid tvnetvpd In lu'iilth and i
"Hood's Sarwapfirllla has helped ,
tor catarrh and linpuro blood 1
•lse 1 ever used." A. Ball, I
Mood's
■old I* Ml (lrur«t t«, fl; tlx for ft.
by C. 1. itooD & co„ A|iotbacaites,
IOO Ooaaa Ovta
BusiuesH Men in ThestrU
The New York
June 14, says: It's st
what strides the stage has i
during the paat five yeai
to speak of a century,
ness men have now tai
haud in the pie, and fii
very prolitable outside
ment. Barrett, during
rand str.iggle thro' nt
ess difficulties, was back<e
some of the solid busint
of London, who ivcognh
ability during his sei
London, saw a chance
gqod investment. Ric
Manslield, who eleotrifie
country as a comedli
"Prince Karl," and is
of London as a
Richard III., was furnish*
necessary funds by. a
goods house in Bostoi
now a few business
New York have taken h(
a comedy drama called
sey's Troubles," which
will put on with wonderfn
fects. They have mom
tank in which takes pic
river scene of real water,
tank contracts and expt
fit the size of any stage,|
during their trip acrosi
country, prior to their
weeks run in San Fram
they can take in some
minor town and thus mal
journey to the Pacific
more ease. Arrangement
under way for a big pi
Lion at the Academy of
spo
baa QPHHj
vill lin in the piece
baa been engaged to play the
, and he eaya
if he had to face that beaat be
.. . ^ . , is going wear a steel armor,
his suit; that he re* i we |,,m we would se* d
a dummy.
If
on
that he deaervea assistance, and
knowing that he will have to
have aupport by aome means.
Pleaae send all contributions to I
W. H. Slater, Farmersville,
Collin County, Tex.
W. H. Slaten,
S A. Walters,
Committee.
P. S, Brethren, this is onr
first appeal from this Alliance,
f,
Ladies' genuine kid gloves,
The London Uatet>- Company
reaped a rich harvest from
their American tour, and have
namw but fur the sympathy' '<"llu' i'I« dln8 ^r^nly e.pli«d New York,
_. u_!._ .i j ?..j...i After we were cruahed, aa he Boston and Philadelhia,
we have for the poor deluded
fellows, we will keep <|uiet—we
Ijater reports convey the
news that .lim Cummings, who wtJMS them.
shot Mrs. Adams last Sun-
day night at Dallaa. committed
suicide near Garland, Dallaa
county, by blowing his braina
out with
The officials of the M. K. k
T. railroad came ovet the H. k
and we have always been very
liberal in contributing to ap*
peals.
W. H. S. and 8. A. W
Committee.
Holiday Goods.
Buy your holiday winea and
fine Kentucky whiakies and
brandiee nt the City Drug
8t re.
Bkimtol Brum.
40 cents to 85 cents.
Hnrdware, tinware, glass-
ware, toys, and notions of al)
kinds too low in prices to ad-
vertise.
Plush toilet glove and hand-
kerchief boxes.
A Fire.
Fort Worth and Dallas Busi-
„ „ _ —r. t neaa College offer better advan-
M. B. Teague informs us that ^ages to young men and ladies
while he was on the road to |c acquire a business educa-
McKinney yesterday, hrf no- tjw|l than any iu the 8onth. We
tioed fire issuing from the roof • w|„ tM0h you shorthand and
of Burgess school house. He tjpewp|ting in ona third of lhe
immediately pot whip to hia
In fact "we have got 'em."
Come aud see Racket store, on
west side of the square.
We learn that aome voung
kida have been throwing rocka
at the electric lighta late at
night. If any parent learna
of hia boy throwing at the
lights, he should proceed at
once, to raiae an "electric"
blister on him, if not, the man-
ager informsus, that he has a
very stout, No 9 shoe, which
he will apply vigorously if
necessary.
The Time haa Come
"CiMoy'ft Troableft.
predicted we would be, and the Nellie Farren and Fred Itatlle
iron heel of martial law was taking their audiencea by
pl.red on ne. Throck. w«. found
pleading for us. We elected ^gpaoially in the fan-making I fore he could fntat tile fire,
him governor. He was classed ii„H. By Jhe way we hear that J He Ifinally succeeded In as-
whioh
When you should pay R, M.
time required by other schools ' Board, he is the pioneer mer-
nnd guarantee success Our;chant of McKinney, aud has
June class of sixty gradustes favored the farmers by wuii
team he proceeded to climb to j are all holding good paying, ing on them. Call and aettle
the top of the house. He had. positions. Catalogue and one your account with him. We
to tear off several rafters be-1 " -
horses
house.
and was soon nt
Hnsfily bitching kin
He was classed
Manager Sliain informs us lie with us and thrown ont. Now "Caaev'a Tronblea" is made up ^ hi ' .w_
is negotiating with the manager wh|,H l lhink ehat A great0r solely of English actoia and
of "Casey s Troubles' for one . " .. actresses. They come kick, J?" •boul 10 disastrous^
night. He says there is a very *nan than Uogg does not live, m miM| have them. "Bv Mr. Teague deaervea much
small chance for such a comoa- (taking his age into consiaera- Daah it all," "Don't credit for hia timely effjrta
ny having a date open. No
matter; let them know we are pay
on earth. We may catch them llme l8 about out, This ia the
aember^twu ' « -
tiou, we have plenty of time to yon know."
T.C. road laat Monday, eeem matter; let them knotv we nre pay him for his work—Throck's _—.. ■ ♦ T
ittKly on an lareedgaiion '"yL0*™!!.',1',? ""e ta *hoat
tour. It I. rumored lliat they, nelI1b„ twae wind that made r"°"4 ,urhl"-
are contemplating buying the Chicago. Keep blowing your ahould drop all prejudice
^hom. ) do what we think ia light
We have planed all of onr ao
oounta in Mm hands of H L
D.ivia for collection. CVl at
once and aettle and save forth- r
torts. tutelar A Carroll.
of the finest sp^rim ns of peu- say pay Board.
manahlp ever eeut out by any 1
school free.
Addreaa F. P. Pnnt'irr,
Xmss Ucods
Preeident, Ft. Worth or Dallas
T""' cheap.
to City.Drug
Christmas
Store for
presents.
BnwroL Bkoh.
to us
and sattle at
Wanted—Partner with small
capital to take the general
on
ns soon as "Old Homest
hns had its run. Tlieat
manager", look sharp,
business m*n will crowd
out.
The f tllo'ving named g«
men called on ii<* during tl
week: W. 11 Brummet
Brummett, \V. L. Yarbr<
F. T. Pair. N. Fisher, G.|
Cantrell, A. B. Armstead.i
Garner, W. A. Melton,
Early, A. M. Thompson,
Mc'lVe and I)r. J. B. Hill.
.ne-—' +
Piano.
The only notable evt
the past week was a jack
bit chase on a broad
west of the city, which
proved to be of twe
citing nature. The gay
composed of young
tired in tailor-made
habits'and silk hats, and
esoorts, were the oynoi
nil eyes es -they passed
the principal streets,
party returned late in
ternoon, having run down
the aid of fleet grayl
five large rabbits, the
same being brought
trophies of ths chnae.
I
STOP THAT COI
:
Pine Tree Tat
The only eoegh drop* i
cures couph*. colds, mm
ins, bronchitis Mid w«nl
by drunl«t t>n!y,
W. H. HA1
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Democrat Publishing Company. The Democrat. (McKinney, Tex.), Vol. 6, No. 47, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 19, 1889, newspaper, December 19, 1889; McKinney, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth191607/m1/2/: accessed May 7, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Collin County Genealogical Society.