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Use "KITCHEN QUEEN"
BAKING POWDER.
Manufactured By
babcock, foot & brown,
DALLAS, TEXAS.
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USE HERMOSA COFFEE
For Sale By All Grocers.
1'ut up lly
babcock, foot & brown.
DALLAS, TEXAS.
VOLUME 1. NO. 12.
McKINNEY, COLLIN COUNTY, TEXAS. THURSDAY, JULY 29, 1886-
S1.50 A YEAR.
Selling Goods at
A Great Reduction
Gall in and Seeds,
Will Save Money.
The Robbers' Cave.
COLLIN COUNTY DRY BOODS CO.
East Side Sc
In Opera Bui
uare,
ding.
Wantto Make Room
FOR FALL GOODS!
Everything Drying Up.
Mr. Dyer, who formerly lived at
this place, but went west to grow
up with the country, has just re-
turned from Baylor County. lie
gives everything but an encourag-
ing report of the country around
Seymour. Everything is as dry
and desolate as if passed over by
fire. Mr. D. will go to work at
his trade at the well-known saddle
and harness house of B. F. Mel-
ton.—[Gainesville Hesperian.
Jones County Drouth.
The Heathen Persians.
Jones county farmers are leav-
ing their homes in quest of work.
The drought has been so severe
on them that they will not make
enough for seed. They have spent
what they had in improving their
places, and will have to make pay-
ments on their lands in August,
which they cannot do. Conse-
quently they will use everything,
and will not have enough to sub-
sist upon until next year.—[Gates-
ville Star.
A gentleman traveling in Per-;
sia, says he has been in a town
where the bells ring for prayers
five times a day, and business men
rush out of their stores, to the
churches, leaving their stores alone
and unlocked, and nobody ever
has a thing stolen. But we must
remember that those people are
heathen. Take it in this country,
where we send missionaries to the j
heathen, and a man who went out \
to attend prayers would lock both
ends of his store, tie his clerk's
hands behind him, and have a po-
liceman to watch the store, and
another man to watch the police-
man. Besides, the man who own-
ed the store wouldn't go to pray-
ers either.—[Ex.
Over a Keg of Whisky.
Muskogee, I. T., July 21.—About
4 o'clock last Sunday several par-
ties were drunk at John Terrell's,
near Tahlequah, drinking from a
keg of whisky. Two Cherokees,
Ellis Rattling Gourd and Leonard
Williams, got to wrestling for the
keg. Ellis succeeded in getting
possession. Williams then mount-
ed his horse and pulling his pistol,
shot Rattling Gourd through the
legs. He may recover.
Let Ds Have Peace.
A Startling Fact.
Now, You are Talking.
The Boston Herald takes Mr.
Ingersoll to task for telling the
workingmen that the ballot is a
cure-all for their ills. It points out
that the ballot can no tmake the
wasteful man prudent, the intem-
perate man sober, nor the lazy
man industrious. It cannot cut
•down the supply of labor nor mul-
tiply consumers. The ballot has
!been the means of placing on the
;statute books many laws for the
benefit of working people, and
there are other safeguards and
advantages which it can secure.
But it is not a panacea for all the
hard conditions of human life in
this world, and he is a false teacher
who so instructs the people.
The Boy Without a Trade.
I •
im
What about the boy who does
not take up with a trade or pro-
fession ? Look around you, and
the question is speedily answered.
He must cast his hook into any
sort of pond, and take out such
fish as may be easily caught. He
is a sort of tramp. He may work
in the brickyard to-day, and in the
harvest-field to-morrow. He does
the drudgery and gets the pay of
a. grudge. His wages are so sm^ll
he finds it impossible to lay
a dollar, and a fortnight of
will see him dead broke.
The manufacture of lager in
America only dates back about 40
years, but it has gone ahead and
spread itself like the mustard seed
in the parable. There is now about
2,200 breweries in this country, and
they sold last year over 19,000,000
barrels of malt liquors. Of this,
New York and Brooklyn contribu-
ted nearly a quarter. The next
largest producers are Milwaukee.
St. Louis, Cincinnati, Chicago, Bos-
ton and Newark, in the order
named. An estimate of the capi-
tal invested in the trade would
probably reach $150,000,000.
Ninety-five per cent, of the brewers
are Germans.
A Volcanic Region in the Atlantic.
Recent observations indicate the
existence of a submarine volcanic
crater between the Canary Islands
and the coast of Portugal. From
a cable-laying steamer, in latitude
39 degrees 25 minutes north, longi-
tude 9 degrees 54 minutes west,
the water was found to measure
1,3000 fathoms under the bow and
800 fathoms under the stern, show-
ing the ship to be over the edge
of a deep depression in the ocean
bottom. An English geologist,
Mr. T. Mellard Reade, remarks
that great irregularities are lound
in the bed of the sea off Lisbon,
due, probably, to a submarine
chain of mountains.
There is said to be but one
Confederate flagstaff standing and
that is at Blakely, Ga. It is 100
feet in height.
God never created two men that
agreed on all things. It was not
His intention for men to look at
everything alike. But He did not
intend for men to fall out and
abuse one another because they
cannot agree on a question. While
we may not believe as another be-
lieves, let us respect each other's
opinion, and not quarrel like two
dogs over a bone.—[Daingerfield
Herald.
A Fight Imminent.
Decatur, Texas, July 22.—There
are now near Chico, in Jack
County, about 10,000 head of cat-
tle being drifted or driven toward
the South-east, down the West
Fork of the Trinity. The citizens
of Wise County are orginizing,
preparatory to resisting and driv-
ing them back. It is reported that
there are sixty men behind them
armed, who will resist the effort to
drive them back, but the citizens
are determined to oust them.
Trouble is looked for. Both sides
will go in armed and with rations
for five days.
A Good Democratic Showing.
The Democratic party seems to
be getting along very well in
reducing the public debt. In the
first year of Mr. Cleveland's ad-
ministration the reduction foots up
nearly one hundred million,
against sixty-five millions during
President Arthur's last year. The
public debt is now a little less than
$1,400,000,000, and at the present
rate of payment it ought to be
wiped out in ten or twelve years.
Vast Subterranean Cavern—({lowing
Accounts of It by Parties Who
Have Visited It.
The General Theological Semi-
nary, of New York, an Episcopal
institution, holds a mortgage on
Wallack's new theatre as security
for a loan of £95,000.
Since the "Robbers' Cave" has
come into notice by the finding
of the bones of the poor young
man, Frank Harris, so foully mur-
dered and pitched into it, several
parties have visited the cavern, and
all bring back wonderful tales of
its vastness and of the beauty of
its formations. This cave was
explored by County Surveyor
Lock and wife, his father, mother
and brother, and by Mr. Lacy and
several others who live in the
Locke Hill neighborhood. Mr.
Locke returns to the city with the
most glowing description of his
explorations. He says that he
explored sufficient space to store
away a whole block of buildings,
and that there is 110 end to the
cave; that one recess or chamber
leads continually to another.
Mr. Locke describes the cave as
looking, when lighted up with the
burning pine knots and lanterns,
like a gorgeous palace with its fine
columns, sparkling chandeliers,
elc. There are innumerable stalag-
mite and stalactite formations,
some of pink color, some crystal,
and some of darker shades, which
glisten in the light of the torches
like diamonds. In one cave he
and his brother went straight down
sixty feet before striking the bot-
tom, and landed very near a big
rattlesnake, which they dispatched.
There is a spring of cold water in
the cave, from which the explorers
quenched their thirst. No one who
has so far explored these caves has
found the limits. A party is being
made up to visit them in a few
days They will take dynamite
along to blast an entrance, as the
apperture for the first eight or ten
feet is so small that it is difficult
to descend. Mr. Locke worried
ten minutes before he wiggled
through.—[San Antonio Times.
Mr.- Powderly's Liquor Views.
General Master Workman Pow-
derly has no love for the liquor
sellers. They are one of the classes
proscribed by the constitution of
the Knights of Labor. In his last
address made to the general con-
vention of the Knights of Labor,
Mr. Powderley said :
"The temperance question is an
important one, and 1 sometimes
think the main issue. The large
number of applications during the
past year to grant dispensations to
allow the initiation of rum-sellers
was alarming. I have persistently
refused them, and will enjoin my
successor, if he values the future
success of the order, to shut the
doors with triple bars against the
admission of the liquor dealer. His
path and that of the honest, indus-
trious worker lie in opposite di-
rections. The rum-seller who seeks
admission into a labor society
does so with the object that he
may entice its members into his
saloon after the meeting closes.
No question of interest to labor
has ever been satisfactorily settled
over a bar in a rum hole. No labor
society ever admitted a rum seller
that did not die a drunkard's
death. No workman ever drank a
glass of rum who did not rob his
family ot the price of it, and in
doing so he committed a double
crime—murder and theft. He
murders the intellect with which
the Maker has endowed him. He
steals from his family the means
of substance he has earned for
them. Turn to the annals of every
dead labor society, and you will
see whole pages blurred and de-
stroyed by the accursed footprints
of rum. Scan the records of a
meeting at which a disturbance
took place, and you will hear
echoing through the hall the
maudlin, fiendish grunt of the
drunken brute who disturbed the
harmony of the meeting. In the
whole English language I can find
no word that strikes more terror
to my soul than the one word
'Rum.' It was born in hell ere the
fiat 'no redemption' had gone
forth. Its life on earth has been
one of ruin to the hopes of youth
and the peace of old age. It has
robbed childhood of its delights,
It has stolen the laugh from the
lips of innocence, the bloom from
the cheeks of manhood. It has
touched the heart of age like the
tip of a poisoned arrow. Its sound,
as it gurgles from the neck of a
bottle, echoes through many a
desolate household as the hissing
of a thousand serpants. You may
deem me too radical 011 this point.
Yet I never interfere with the
rights of a man to drink if he so
elects. 1 hold I have a right to
and do shun rum as I would an
enraged tiger, neither meddling
with it nor allowing it to meddle
with inc. So long as it keeps its
distance I am content to leave it
alone, but the moment it attempts
to interfere with my rights by com-
ing into the Knights of Labor,
then my soul rises in arms against
it, and I can find no words too
bitter, 110 denunciation too scath-
ing to hurl against it."
Lost in the Mammoth Cave.
Recently a party of men and
women returned from the Mam-
moth Cave, where they had a
thrilling experience. Twenty-seven
persons traversed the cave, taking
the "long route," nine miles in and
nine miles out. During the even-
ing, while in the winding passages !
beyond the Echo River, nine of!
the number become seperated from
the main body. The only guide
was at the head of the line, and
the absence of the rear guide was
not noticed. The unfortunates
were lost for eight hours. They
were Huber Ringgold, John Gra-
ham, the Misses Ida Culp, Jodie
and Bettie Claypool, of Oakland,
Ky., two students from Brazil, and
a professor from Philadelphia.
To add to the terror of their sit-
uation their lights went out and
they shouted themselves hoarse in
the horrible darkness. The main
group did not notice that any one!
was missing until they all gathered
in the hall at the end of the long !
route. Then their anxiety was
great, and they began a vigorous;
search. The lost wanderers finally j
adopted the plan of leaving small
articles of clothing in the path as j
they walked along, and by this J
means they were finally found sit-;
ting on the banks of the Echo !
River, at which they had finally
arrived. The women in the party |
suffered greatly from nervous ex- j
citement. — [Louisville, (Ky.,)
Soecial.
A Withering Simoon.
The people in Dakota thought
the world was coming to an end
the other day. The wind was like
a simoon. Birds, horses and cattle
apparently became crazy with
fright, anticipating some catas
trophe. Early in the morning
people were awakened by a roar-
ing blast as if from a furnace. Fear-
ing a cyclone they took refuge in
cellars. The hot wind lasted an
hour. The temptrature was 120
degrees. At midnight it had been
100 degrees. People feared death
from the hot air, and had it lasted
much longer the fear would doubt-
less have been realized. Fortunately
it soon abated, and comparative
comfort was found in a temperature
of about 100 degrees which had
prevailed for several days previ-
ously. During this terrible night
there were strange barometic
disturbances throughout their
region. Passengers who came
through on Northern Pacific trains
say that it was like passing through
a furnace. Trainmen had their
faces and hands blistered by the
heat. Grass and other crops are
badly damaged.
A Miser's Hard Luck.
For years past Frank Moore,
who lives on Stewart's Run, this
County, has been know as a miser,
keeping large sums of money
secreted about the old log hut in
which he lived, and in nooks and
crannies in the rocks outside.
Fully $20,000 in cash, mostly
specie, was popularly supposed to
be thus concealed, by the neigh-
bors. At irregular intervals Moore
would examine and count his
hoard, and at such times his friends
say gold and silver would lie in
great piles about the table in
Moore's sleeping room. Two
weeks ago he made an examination
of three lots of specie, and last
night he concluded to look at it
again. An overhauling of the
bags and old stockings in which
the cash was kept showed that
$5,500 in gold, and $2,000 in bills
had been stolen by some one who
had watched a previous examina-
tion, and noted where the money
was concealed. There is not the
slightest clew to the thief.—
[Pennsboro (W. Va.) Special.]
The War Cloud Growing
That Threatens the Two Itepublics—Amer-
ican Troops Ordered to Ite in
Headiness.
El Paso, July 23.—The Cutting
difficulty is the leading subject of
conversation on the streets and in
the public places of the city. The
action taken by the State Depart-
ment at Washington increases the
interest ten fold, and the case in
all its bearings, from beginning to
end, is eagerly being discussed.
The case briefly stated is as fol-
lows :
N. A. Cutting, who previously
published a paper called the Bul-
letin, 011 this side of the river,
moved his office to Paso Del Norte
and continued to issue it and to do
job work. He got along well and
secured influential and wealthy
friends among the Mexicans.
Emeglio Medina, a Mexican who
has figured in the newspaper busi-
ness, and who bears a bad reputa-
tion, undertook in an underhand
way to damage Cutting, as he did
others. Cutting exposed him in
the columns of his paper. This
was over six weeks ago and he was
taken up before the local courts
and forced to sign a reconciliation
and ordered to publish a retraction,
which he did, as he knew that Me-
dina possessed great influence.
RENEWS THE CHARGE.
The humiliation to which Cut-
ting was subjected angered him,
and in the following issue of the El
Paso Sunday Herald he published
a card in both languages, in which
he renewed the charge against
Medina and offered to fight him
on American soil. When he
crossed the river he was arrested,
brought up before an alcalde and
charged with the offense. A clip-
ping from the Herald containing
the cards was appended to the
charge. Cutting was not permit-
ted to have a lawyer, and he stat-
ed that he was an American, that
his offense, if he was guilty of any
had been committed on American
soil, and he did not recognize the
jurisdiction of the court and would
answer no questions. He was put
into a dungeon and has been there
ever since. From the first he
maintained the position that Mex-
ican courts had no jurisdiction.
Whenever he has been taken out
to answer questions or submit to
the examination he has ignored
the rights of the officials. He
was sustained from the beginning
by United States Consul Brigham.
The Mexican officials claim that
by their laws they can punish any-
one in Mexico for an offense com-
mitted in America or in any other
country. The matter was at the
very first laid before Minister Jack-
son and the State Department by
Consul Brigham, and the
PEREMPTORY DEMAND
for the prisoner's instant release
was the outgrowth of the consid-
eration of weeks. The Mexican
authorities from the beginning
showed a disposition to act in an
arrogant and disrespectful man-
ner. The local officials of Paso
Del Norte seemed to be sustained
by those higher in authority at
Chihuahua and the City of Mexi-
co. The letter of Marizeal, the
Minister of Foreign Affairs, to
the Governor of Chihuahua, which
was sent on account of the urgent
demands of Minister Jackson, fail-
ed to touch at all upon the ques-
tion of jurisdiction, and was couch-
ed in such language as to lead the
Governor and the State Courts to
believe that they were sustained
and could take their views of the
case.
Cutting would be confined in-
definitely if his freedom depended
upon what was done toward his
trial and release. The Washington
government has been kept regu-
larly informed as to the way the
authorities of the republic were
acting.
A CHIHUAHUA OFFICIAL.
An official representing the
government of the State of Chi-
huahua arrival at Paso Del Norte
to-day, and with the mayor of the
town called upon Consul Brigham.
He wished to have Cutting releas-
ed on bail, but the consul inform-
ed him that such actions could not
be permitted, and that the United
States government would have to
settle the difficulty.
Excitement over the difficulty
has somewhat subsided. The peo-
ple even on the Mexican side are
more quiet to-night. The princi-
pal instigator of the punishment of
Cutting was disarmed, jailed and
fined by the Paso Del Norte au-
thorities. He insulted and at-
tempted to shoot an express agent,
and subsequently insulted the sec-
retary of the American Consul.
One hundred
MORE TROOPS
from the State capital will arrive
at Paso Del Norte in the morning,
and it is stated that a still larger
force will follow. Men are being
taken into the service in the city
of Chihuahua. The excitement
at the latter placc is reported to
be much greater than at the border
towns.
The report that the Cabinet was
considering the difficulty has the
effect of aiding to reduce the
excitement for the time.
Items of Interest.
set-
Gen. Toombs' estate, just
tied, was worth $250,000.
Queen Victoria's chicken house
is a palatial, semi-gothic building.
The English sparrow has cross-
ed the continent and appears in
full force in California.
The friends of the late Mr.
Woerishoeffer attributed his death
to the excessive use of cigarettes.
Uncle Sam welcomes into his
domain 3200 babies a day, not
counting those who come by sea.
Dr. Seward Webb, one of Van-
derbilt's sons-in-law, has a stock
farm of 400 acres on Lake Cham-
plain.
Gen. J. E. B. Stuart is to have
a monument on the Yellow Tavern
battle field, where he received his
fatal wound.
A Buffalo father, to encourage
early rising, offered a prize of
money to that child who should
rise earliest next morning. At a
very early hour a bright little girl
made her appearance, claimed and
got the prize, and then went back
to bed.
Tfie run of seals along the Pa-
cific coast is reported to be almost
phenomenal. Old sealers say they
never, in their recollection, knew
the seals to be so numerous, and
had it not been for recent bad
weather the catches of the schoon-
ers would have been enormous.
A moonlight mirage was lately
witnessed in Illinois. The moon
was shining brightly, but a dense
fog hung over the flat lands near
St. Joseph, and the passengers in
a railway train saw a phantom
train suspended in the air under
the fog bank. The apparition was
visible for several minutes.
The oldest and smallest repub-
lic in the world, San Marino, is
inclosed on all sides by Italian
provinces. It is in a flourishing
condition, although it has but one
principal town, and four or five
villages, with an aggregate popu-
lation of between 8000 and 9000.
It is 2200 feet above the level of
the sea.
A French explorer in Central
America, who sailed for France
recently, said : "I have found the
first Maya cemetery that was ever
discovered by explorers. From
my excavations I have taken, and
have already sent home to France
many curious and most interesting
things that go far to sustain my
theory as to the newness of the
civilization there. The most
ancient cities probably date from
the eleventh or twelfth century,
and the last ones were still being
builded at the time of the arrival
of the Spaniards. Among the
things I found in that cemetery
were pottery, axes, and utensils of
copper and bronze, and other ob-
jects of use and adornment in
stone. There were also beautiful-
ly made toys, representing small
animals, that were doubtless in
the graves of children."
Discouraged Farmers.
Some Kcasons Why They Should Make
the Best of Hard Times.
There are hundreds of discour-
aged farmers in this country. They
do not hesitate to advertise their
condition. One can hardly blame
them. The world looks dark, in-
deed, to the man who has lost his
courage. Courage is fickle ; it is
hard to win it back when once it is
driven away. It is customary to
sneer at the discouraged farmer,
and tell him that his failures arc
his own fault. This talk does no
good. It only makes a man more
bitter to say, "I told you so,".to
him. Such men need encourage-
ment and hope, and not sneers.
Many a man who has worked care-
fully, honestly and well, finds him-
self no higher up the scale of agri-
culture than he was a year ago.
No wonder the long days of
drudgery that lie behind him
blacken his prospects now and
magnify his obstacles. We appre-
ciate the position of such a man,
but would beg of him, for the sake
of his family at least, to keep his
courage and cheerfulness. You
owe a duty to your family. The
strong must uphold the weak.
Strength comes only through suf-
fering. When you give up, you
give every one of your children a
lesson in cowardice. Life is not
so bad after all. Your work has
not been all in vain. There are
plenty of people worse off than
you are. Hundreds of these city
people who go about with plenty
of money, who never seemed to
be troubled, have a life-long hun-
ger gnawing away at their hearts.
Rest assured that some man en-
vies you your lot. You would
not sell your own health or the
health of your wife and children
for any money. The world is bet-
ter than it might be, friends. Let
us make the best of it. Never get
so sour and discouraged that you
can not enjoy the good times
when they come.—[Rural New
Yorker.
Couldn't Resist the Temptation.
Put Out By a Cowboy.
The postmaster at Fort Keogh,
M. T., who declined to vacate in
favor of the woman appointed to
succeed him, has been ousted in a
summary manner by a cowboy ad-
mirer of the new postmistress.
Eight shots were fired. Four took
effect in the postmaster and none
in the cowboy. The postmaster
is dead. Long live the postmis-
tress. The cowboy should now
marry her and the romance would
be complete.
It sometimes looks as though
there was a streak of deceit in the
breast of ever human being. A
man may sail along quite serenely
for a time, and until he shall meet
temptation in some form that
strikes the weak point in his make
up, when he falls, and all the good
that was in him "don't count."
West Virginia has a game law that
forbids the killing of deer at cer-
tain seasons. The immunity af-
forded by this law has had the re-
sult of making these animals quite
tame in some sections, and at the
village ot St. George, the other
day, two stately specimens of the
antlered tribe actually stalked
through the streets. This was too
much, though there was an organ-
ization there to enforce the pro-
visions of the State game law. The
deer had hardly got outside the
village until they were shot at by
some one who made a mistake
and wounded another man, bent
on the same errand. They tried
to keep it a secret, but it finally
got out, and the worst of it was,
they are both officers in the asso-
ciation formed for the protection
of deer. This is "Nasby" reaching
for the whisky bottle in the church
corner stone in another shape, but
in effect it is all the same.—
[Drovers Journal.
A Peaceable Colony.
Since the foundation of the gold
colony in the new California on
the banks of the River Amoor,
there has been only three murders
and two inflictions of the death
penalty—a Russian having been
hanged for adulterating the gold
dust, and a Jew flogged to death
for having spread false news as to
the approach of a body of Russian
troops, hoping thereby to send
down the price of gold owing to
the panic. There are twenty-seven
taverns in the colony, and, owing
to the competition, the prices are
not high, except for spirits. The
gold fields, which are twenty-five
miles in length by three miles
broad, are said to be very rich.
Moses A. Dow, the proprietor
of the Waverly Magazine, died
last week at the ripe age of 77.
He left a fortune of $2,000,000.
Mr. Dow was a firm believer in
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