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Use "KITCHEN QUEEN"
BAKING POWDER.
Manufactured By
BABCOCK, FOOT & BROWN,
DALLAS, TEXAS.
3l)c iltcKinucn (Sajcttc.
VOLUME 1. NO. 21.
McKINNEY, COLLIN COUNTY. TEXAS, THURSDAY, SEPT. 30 1886-
USE HERMOSA COFFEE.
For Sale By All Grocers.
Put up Hy *
BABCOCK, FOOT & BROWN.
DALLAS, TEXAS.
81.50 A YEAR.
COLLIN COUNTY DRY GOODS CO.
WE ARE JUST NOW OPENING UP
The Largest Stock of Dry Goods
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That we have ever presented to the people of McKinney and vicinity. We have selected carefully
with a view to your wants and wishes, and feel confident that our efforts have not been in vain. When
buying our goods we figured so that we could meet any competition that could be brought to bear, and
now if the people will come in and price our goods we promise to please.
COLLIN CODNTY DRY GOODS COMPIY
igCOLLIN COUNTY
FAIR ASSOCIATION
-:SIXTH GRAND ANNUAL EXHIBITION:-
BEGINNING OCT. 12, AjnD CONTINUING TO OCT. 16
PREMIUMS LIBERAL, ATTRACTIONS GREAT, FEATURES NEW I
The Directors take great pleasure in announcing to the public that the coming Exhibition and Races
promises to be the most interesting and attractive Fair ever held in Collin County. There is on the
grounds a handsome, commodious and altogether substantial Exhibition Hall, in which all Domestic
Manufactures, Field Products, &c., are shown. Our Premium List this year is much more liberal than
our last, and we need only the substantial appreciation of our farmers, stockmen, manufacturers and
merchants to encourage our efforts, and we will insure them in turn our untiring efforts to improve their
respective products. In conclusion we ask the farmers of the county to begin now to get their stock in
trim, and turn out in full force. Thanking you in advance for any favors you may show us we are
THE COLLIN COUNTY FAIR ASSOCIATION.
for distribution.
A Year Without a Summer.
Lost in u Snow-Storm in the Month of
June.
"I worked all day in my grain
field with a heavy coat on yester-
day, and the day before the ther-
mometer was standing at 46 de-
grees," said an old resident to a
Ilonesdale, Pa., correspondent of
the New York Sun, "and that is
the most practical and vivid re-
minder I have ever had of the
year without a summer, when it
was a common thing to see the
farmers, every day from June till
September, wearing not . only
heavy coats but overcoats and
mittens as well, as they went
about their work. That was in
1816, and I was twelve years old,
and so I have a lively recollection
of the remarkable summer. I
lived in Vermont then, where the
season was at its worst, as in New
York State and Pennsylvania,
only three inches of snow fell
during the month of June, while
in Vermont we had ten inches.
Snow fell several times during
that month, and ice came daily.
•'One of the severest snow-
storms within my recollection fell
in Vermont on the 17th day of
that June; that was the day we
got the ten inches, and it was ten
good, solid inches on the level.
I have good reason to remember
that day. My father had some
sheep in a back pasture, to reach
which we had to go through a
piece of woods for nearly a mile.
The snow began to fall on the 17th
about 11 o clock in the forenoon,
and my father started, after din-
ner, to fix up some sort of a shel-
ter for the sheep in the pasture.
No one had [any idea, cold and
eccentric as the season was, that
we could have snow to amount to
anything at that time of year. I
remember father, as he went out
of the door, turning to my mother
and saying in a jocular way:
"If I'm not back here in a hour,
mother, call the neighbors and
start them after me. June is a bad
month to get buried in the snow,
especially when it gets to be so
near as the fourth of July." The
snow increased in fury, and by
night it was drifted so that the
roads were almost impassable,
but even then, and when it grew
dark, none of the family felt un-
easy about father. The weather
had grown intensely cold. When
night set in, however, and there
were no signs of father's return,
mother sent me to alarm the
neighbors and tell that we believed
father had been lost in the snow.
In spite of the severity of the
night all the neighbors that could
be reached turned out and search-
ed the woods all night, but no
sign of the missing man could be
found. The search was kept up
till the next day and the night
without finding any trace of him,
except that he had reached the
pasture and built a shelter of
boughs in one corner of the lot
under which the sheep were hud-
dled. On the forenoon of the
third day they found father half
buried in the snow a mile from
the pasture, in almost the oppo-
site direction from home. He
had evidently become lost in the
blinding storm, and had wandered
about until he succumbed to
fatigue and exposure. It seems a
most improbable thing that a per-
son ever fell a victim in a snow
storm in the month of June in this
latitude, but I have sorrowful
knowledge of one instance where
it was only too true.
"That wind during June, July
and August ol 1816 was almost
continually in the north, and it
blew fiercely and cold. Farmers
put in their crops and shivered un-
der their wraps while doing so.
There was but little use in plant-
ing. Nothing grew, to speak of.
There was very little rain during
the entire summer.
"July was colder than June, and
August was still colder. Ice
formed a quarter of an inch thick
in July, but in August, in Ver-
mont, water was frozen to the
depth of near an inch. On the
30th of August there was a se-
vere snow-storm. August was as
cheerless and dreary as Novem-
ber sometimes is. There was not
a green thing to be seen any-
where. The first two weeks in
September brought the first real
warm weather we had experienced
since May. The thermometer
registered as high as 70 degrees.
"The general opinion had been
formed that the cause of the cold
weather was a sudden and rapid
cooling of the sun, and many be-
lieved that the end of all things
was not far off. The appearance
of the warm spell in September
destroyed that fear for a time, but
on the 16th the cold weather re-
turned, and the people were once
more thrown back to their old be-
lief. An old man named John
Gooding killed all his stock and
then hung himself, after vainly try-
ing to induce his wife to hang her-
self also, to escape a gradual and
terrible death by freezing and
starvation, which he believed to
be the common doom. Cold
weather increased from the mid-
dle of September till winter, and
it may be said that the year 1816,
in Vermont, at least, had no sum-
mer or autumn. There wasn't
grain enough raised for seed the
next year, and those who were
lucky enough to have more of the
crop of 1 Si5 on hand than they
wanted for their own use had no
difficulty in selling it for £5 and
more a bushel.
"All the corn raised in Vermont
in 1817 was from seed grown in
1815, and I guess that was the
case all through the eastern States.
Those who feared that the sun
was cooling off in 1816 changed
their mind in 1S17, for that was
the hottest and dryest summer
that ever settled down in that
country."
A Desperate Neuro.
Houston, Sept. 25.—Last even-
ing about 6 o'clock a negro man
named Frank Edwards went to
the boarding house of Mrs. Boun-
dry, 45 Hardy street, and com-
menced to whip his wife, who
cooks for Mrs. Boundry. The
woman's screams attracted the
attention of Mrs. Boundry and
she, upon discovering what was
going on, ordered the negro man
to leave. He refused to obey and
was very impudent to her. About
9 o'clock Mr. C. W. Trulock, one
of the boarders, returned and was
informed of what had occurred.
Shortly afterward the negro came
back with a pistol in his hand and
demanded to see his wife. Mr.
Trulock told him to leave and not
raise any disturbance. The negro
then drew a pistol and said :
"I dare you to say that I must
leave again; if you do I'll put a
ball in you."
Mr. Trulock covered the negro
with his pistol, when he quieted
down and said he would leave.
In the meantime an officer was
sent for, and while the negro was
detained in conversation. Police-
men Gorham and Lewis arrived.
Immediately upon the arrival of
the officers Edwards backed into
the middle of the street and open-
ed fire upon the two policemen
and Mr. Trulock. The three men
then commenced to fire upon him.
One shot from Gorham's pistol
struck him in the thigh but the
negro stood his ground until he
had fired five shots, when he
turned and ran. lie was chased
several blocks, but succeeded in
effecting his escape.
About 12 o'clock, after every
one had retired, lie returned to
Mrs. Boundry's and knocked at
the front door. Mrs. Boundry
awoke Air. Truelock and told
him that the negro was at
the door, whereupon Mr. Truelock
went to the door that leads into
the hall and inquired who was
there. The negro put his hand
through a broken glass in the side
light, fired, and then ran. Mr.
Trulock followed them with pistol
in hand, and before the negro
could open the gate fired three
shots at him, two of which took
effect in his back. Edwards threw
up his hands and hallooed, opened
the gate and fell. Mr. Trulock
then fired upon him again, but he
got up again and ran.
He was pursued for more than
a block, when he was met by
another negro, who joined him.
Mr. Trulock then fired another
shot and returned home.
The negro, it has since been
learned, was carried away from
the city during the night by his
friends, but it is highly probable
that he will be caught soon. His
wounds are thought to be serious.
Edwards is a cotton roller at the
Bayou City Press and bears an
unsavory reputation. He is known
to be a desperate darky.
Terrific Explosion.
Baltimore, Sept. 26.—The pas-
senger train on the Philadolphia
extension of the Baltimore and
Ohio Railroad coming south this
evening met with a serious acci-
dent. When the train reached a
point on Eighth street, near Third
avenee about 8 o'clock the loco-
motive, No, 776, exploded with
terrific force. The train came to
a sudden stop, and when the
steam cleared away it was found
that the locomotive was ruined,
and the force of the concussion
was so great that the baggage car
had telescoped the foremost pas-
senger coach, injuring its two oc-
cupants slightly. Their names are
unknown. Engineer Morningstar,
of 483, and Engineer Overstreet
received severe scalp wounds,
while Fireman Charles Lizer was
terribly scalded and will die. Had
the foremost passenger coach been
filled with passengers the loss of
life must have been great.
Down Among Skeletons.
The decayed woodwork cover-
ing the old cemetery at Portland,
Me., gave way beneath a strolling
couple recently, and they dropped
sixteen feet down among the dead
men. Their cries brought a citi-
zen, who found them wedged be-
tween coffins and badly hurt. The
young woman's mental shock is
likely to prove quite as serious as
her bodily injuries.
Settled the Bill.
An Old Fellow Who Learned to Admire
a Circuit ltidcr.
[ Arkansaw Traveler. ]
A circuit rider, in a neighbor-
hood where he was unacquainted,
stopped a man in the road and
asked :
"My friend, can you tell me of
a place where a preacher can stay
all night without money and with-
out price ? "
"Yes, in the woods."
"Of course, but can't you tell
me of some house ? "
"Yes, (pointing) that one upon
the hill."
"Will it cost me anything?"
"No."
"Who lives there ? "
"Nobody."
"I don't want to stay in a va-
cant house. Come, now, my good
man, tell me of a place."
"Well, I will. Go about two
miles down the road, then turn to
the left. The fust house you
strike will be old Sam Potter's.
He'll take you in."
"Will he charge anything? "
"No."
"Treat me well, of course?"
"Like er jedge—give you the
best in the house."
"Will he feed my horse ? "
"He'll founder him, if you say
so."
"I am a thousand times obliged
to you."
"Say," the man called, as the
preacher started off, "he's a sorter
curis feller, an' if you ask him
how much he charges he'll get
mad. Jest act like you was at
home, an' it'll be all right with
him."
"Thank you, I'll do so."
The preacher found old Potter
to be a tall, gaunt man, with a
harsh voice and grizzled beard.
Just before bed time the minister
asked Mr. Potter if he would join
him in prayer.
"Not jest yit," Potter replied.
"Jest git down and pray when yer
feel like it. Don't wait on me, fur
I have got to feed the hogs afore
I go to bed."
After breakfast the next morn-
ing, when the preacher's horse
had been saddled, the reverend
gentleman, turning to Potter, and
said:
"When I leave a place I always
feel that I'm forgetting some-
thing."
"Wall, ain't yer? "
"No, I think not," the preacher
replied, as he began to fumble in
his saddle bags. "No, I havn't
forgotten anything."
"I am putty certain that you
have. You've forgot to pay me."
"What! I didn't know you
charged anything."
"Yer know it now."
"But, my dear sir, I am a poor
preacher."
"Never hearn you preach, but
jedgin' by the way you talk, I
recken you air a po' preacher."
"I mean that I havn't any
money."
"Not my fault."
"That's all very well, but I can't
pay you."
"Then I'll have to take in out'er
yo' hide."
"Look here, my friend—"
"Oh, I'm lookin'. Goin' to
keep my eyes on you."
"I say that a man told me I
could stay here without paying
anything."
"Yas, but I wan't the man."
"I really can't pay you."
"What ? After eatin' as much
as you have ? W'y, parson, you
can make a table look the delicat-
est and puniest uv any man I ever
seen. The very first pass you
made the hind leg of a shoat dis-
appeared and then you made a
motion at the last pound uv but-
ter we had an' it wan't no longer
fur this 'airth."
"I admit that I was hungry, but
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"Oh, you needn't admit it fur I
soon diskivered the fact."
"This is surely a very awkward
position. I really do not know
what to do."
"Settle up, is the only advice
I've got to offer."
"But I can't."
"Then some uv yo' hide must
come off."
"I wish you had more soul."
"Yas, an' I wish yo' had more
money."
"You certainly would not com-
mit an act of violence merely for
a few dimes ? "
"Yas, b'leve I would."
"My friend, I'm on my way to
feed my flock, and—"
"I recken yo' think mo' erbout
feedin' yoursalf. Why, that dish
uv cabbage turned pale every
time you looked at it. I ken stand
er good deal but when a vidults
cyclone comes along it breaks me
up."
"I'm occupying a terrible awk-
ward position."
"Better squat, then."
"If you'll let me off I'll send you
the money."
"No, I'm erfeerd that after you
begin ter feed your flock you
won't think uv a sinner like me."
"Well, I'm in an awkward po-
sition."
"Yas, so I've hern."
"Is there no way by which we
can settle this affair ? "
"Oh, yas, pay up."
"But I tell you, I have no
money."
"Yas, so I've hearn."
"Well, as you've driven me to
the wall I suppose I must fight
you ? "
"That's my ticket. Skin your-
self."
The preacher took off his alpaca
coat, folded it and put it 011 a
bench, then, after deliberately roll-
ing up his shirt sleeves, he said :
"Just step this way, please."
Mr. Potter stepped that way
and was promptly knocked down.
He got up just in time to be
knocked down again. The next
time he got up cautiously and
tried to seize the preacher, but
was knocked flat on his back.
"Hold on, parson," he said, get-
ting up. "The bill's paid. Look
here," he continued, brushing
himself, "you have got to eat din-
ner with me before you go. At
first I didn't think you had much
religion, but now I know you are
one of the elect. John take the
parson's horse back to the stable
kain't afford to let you go, sir.
Best man I ever saw. It was old
Bill Simmons that told you to j
come over here an' he's been 1
dodgin' 'round to see you whup- j
ped. Say, what business was you ;
in before you 'guter preachin' ? " j
"I was a prize fighter," the j
preacher replied as he seated j
himself and smoothed back his;
hair.
Monte Carlo.
The Most fiiguntie (iainbling Establish-
ment on Kartli.
A Novel Way to Churn.
Prof. J. P. Sheldon, an English
writer, in his admirable work on
Dairy Farming, written about ten
years ago, gives the following ac-
count of churning in Texas and
New Mexico: "In Texas and
New Mexico making butter is a
rare occurrence. Many owners of,
cows by the thousands seldom!
use milk; but there are times and
places at which scenes like the
following can be witnessed: A
portion of souied cream, or the
whole milk (for, in this climate the
milk usually thickens before the
cream separates), is placed in a
stout leather bag, that is tightly
closed and fastened to one
end of a long, rawhide rope,
or lariat, the other end be-
ing fastened to the pommel of a
Mexican saddle, on the back of a
half wild mustang pony, with the
rider quite equal to the occasion.
All being in readiness, the rider
puts spurs to his steed, which
goes off with a bound. The lairat
suddenly straightened out behind,
jerks the bag violently forward, so
that it falls beside the horse or
perhaps hits him on the rump or
heels, or strike's the rider's back
and then falls to the ground, only
to be the next moment jerked in-
to the air again. Thus the mus-
tang careers over the prairie, with
fantastic appendage, until the
practiced ear of the rider detects
the rattling sound in the contents
of the sack—as perchance it
deals him a sound blow on the
head—and knows that the butter
has come. Then, reining in his
horse power, he draws up his
churn before him on the saddle
and canters back to the ranch."
The Farm and Ranch is author-
ity for the statement that a simi-
lar method is in vogue even unto
this day in Old Mexico. It says
wild horses are driven into a pen,
lassoed, the milk in bottles,
gourds or other suitable vessels is
then tied, Mazeppa fashion, upon
the animal's back, which is liber-
ated and made to rush about un-
til the butter comes, when he is
again lassoed, and the butter gath-
ered and put into vessels, with a
perfume something like the cell
lately vacated by Mr. Cutting.
A Terrible Neighborhood Quarrel.
Galveston, Sept. 26.—Informa-
tion was received to-day from
Ash Flat, Sharp County, of the
poisoning of ten or twelve per-
sons riding in that neighborhood.
It appears that a feud, growing
out of a divorce suit, had existed
in the community for some
months, the outcome being the at-
tempted extirpation of several
families. A well on the farm of
John Hotchkiss was poisoned
with "Rough on Rats." Twelve
persons in all used the water, and
all were prostrated, some of whom
will die. Jesse Phillips, one of
the wealthiest men in the county,
and Comb Phillips, his son, have
been arrested, charged with the
crime. They were bound over.
The neighborhood is intensely
excited.
Terrible Forrest Fires in Y ellow-
stone Park.
Chicago, Sept. 26.—A special
from Fort Keogh, Montana, says
numerous destructive forest fires
are raging in the Yellowstone
National Park, and immense
bodies of timber have been de-
stroyed. The Blacktail Moun-
tains, near Mammoth Hot Springs,
are one mass of smoking ruins.
This tremendous conflagration
was started by lightning and is
beyond human control.
The story is cabled from Europe
of a foreign lady who lost some
s6o,ooo at the Monte Carlo gam-
ing tables, and who in despair
committed suicide. It is added
as an awful commentary on the
tragic record of Monaco, that this
self-murder makes the seventy-
sixth case since the season began.
Monaco, the name of the prin-
cipality of which Monte Carlo is
the larger part, is the oldest and
smallest kingdom in the world. It
is by the Mcditeranian Sea, near
the boundry line between France
and Italy. Its area is eight and a
third square miles, its army num-
bers seventy-two men and its popu-
lation is about 7000 persons. The
tourist who visits it—and every
one who goes to Nice rides on
nine miles east to Monaco—is in-
formed that an arrow can be shot
over it in any direction, and yet
it is the center of gambling in
Europe. The clin.ate is delightful.
It rivals even Nice as a watering
place, and Baden in its palmiest
days is eclipsed by this splendid
seat of sin. In the year 1869 all
taxes in this diminutive principali-
ty were abolished, and the reve-
nues are now derived entirely
from the rent of the Casino, where
gaming is carried on. Gambling,
or rather the gaming establish-
ment, is in the hands of a joint
stock company, with a capital of
15,000,000 francs, or about
53,000,000. The inhabitants of
Manaco are not permitted access
to the gaming tables. They, how-
ever, have a deep interest in the
game, as it is by it they are se-
cured complete exemption from
taxation, while at the same time
large prices are paid for the use
of their lands in the principality.
It is thirty years since gambling
tables were introduced into
Monaco, in the days when the
present small prince came into
possession of his kingdom. Noth-
ing is wanted to attract and retain
the visitor, especially if he or she
be wealthy, for both sexes fre-
quent the tables. There is no end
of play-rooms, ball-rooms, dancing
rooms, and concerts are daily
given. The sportsman can have
his pigeon shooting in January,
and races at stated seasons. All
these are under control ot this
company, who conduct these es-
tablishments to make money
rather than to make character.
The hotels are among the finest
in Europe. The princedom, thus
supported by the earnings of the
gaming tables, has also modern
conveniences, such as a harbor, a
newspaper, a palace, and, like all
good, enterprising Mediterranean
towns, has a first-class patron
taint, who is turned to excellent
account by having an attractive
fete given in his honor annually.
Terrible Railroad Accident.
Providence, R. I., Sept. 26.—
About 11 this morning a shocking
accident occurred on the New
York, Providence and Boston rail-
road, at the village of Poquonnoc,
Conn. Benj. Gardiner, a farmer,
his wife and the wife of their son,
while on their return from meeting
in a wagon, were struck by a west
bound express train going at the
rate of fifty miles an hour. The
horse was killed and the wagon
demolished. Mr. Gardiner was
hurled forty teet from the crossing
receiving fatal injuries. His wife
was killed outright and Mrs. Jas.
Gardiner died before she could be
removed. The accident happened
at a crossing just west of a culvert,
a short distance from Noank, and
as the railroad is banked up at
that place the engineer, Charles
Colburn, did not see the party un-
til within twenty yards of the
crossing.
Such Nonsense.
The Ft. Worth Gazette very
truly says the term "Labor day,"
savors too much of a class spirit.
What a very just subject of ridicule
it would be if some one should
get up a "Capital day,"—a holiday
for capitalists—and yet it would
be quite as sensible as a day for
laboring men. All this talk about
the separation of capitalists and
workingmen, and of capital and
labor is simply asinine and devil-
ish. The more "labor days" we
have, the more capital exclusive-
ness we have, the worse it will be
for the interests of our common
country. The foreign element of
New York, having banded them-
selves together, obtained the pas-
sage of an act making labor day
in that state a legal holiday. Ev-
ery day in the round year should
be labor day, and every day capi-
tal day as well.
John Donovan, an inmate of St.
Mary's Industrial School, Balti-
more, in making an attempt to es-
cape, knotted his bedclothes to-
gether and lowered himself from
his fourth story room as far as he
could by them. Then he dropped
and falling on his head received
fatal injuries. As there was no
wall about the place he could have
escaped by simply walking away.
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