Fort Griffin Echo (Fort Griffin, Tex.), Vol. 3, No. 20, Ed. 1 Saturday, May 28, 1881 Page: 2 of 4
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THE FORT GRIFFIN ECHO.
XYour sutwrriplion his •■xpircil it
you Hail a cross on tb« margin of I his
paper, {'lease remit.
saturday. may m. 1h81.
Who will tare for Coukling
now I
Wheat barvnuD has commenc-
ed in Grayson county.
The United States senate ad
joarned sine die, last Friday.
Two colored boys were killed
by lightning in Harrison coun-
ty on Tuesday.
A granite monument is to be
erected on the spot in Mexico
where Maximilian was shot.
The prisoners confined in the
Decatur jail cut out of the
building. Monday night and
made their escape,
A Johnson oounty stock man
eold 900 steers last week at
$30 per head. Another stock
man of Iki same county sold
100 head al 13*.
Col. Thomas A. Scott, the
great railroad builder and man-
ager, died at bis home near
Philadelphia, last Saturday.
United States Senators will
be elected Tuesday, 31st inat.,
to Jill the vacancies caused by
the resignation of ' Coukling
Piatt f, ' ■ V
A terrible storm, two miles in
width, passed over; the western
portion-of Collin county Mon-
day, completely destioying
crops and fruit. Farmers will
have to replant.
Mr. Pattison, a leading citi
sen and prominent cattle man
of Mitchell county, was killed
by the rangers last. Tuesday.
Mr. Pattison was accused of
some' little misdemeanor and
resisted arrest.
"Where is Tom Collins? Too
good a man to be lost in the
wilds of Indiana.—Press News.
Lord love you soul and for-
give yonr ignorance, Tom was
here a abort time ago and got
< his work in on a pilgrim from
St.Lonis. ,, .''
It is stated in a dispatch
from San Franeiseo, that Den-
nis Keanney, Karl Brown, and
other Sandlots agitators, are
building fine residences. They
went into politics poor, and are
now in comfortable circum-
stances.
The first parlor cattle car left
Cincinnati recently for New
York. It contained twenty
head of cattle and attracted
great attention at both ends of
the route. They lost 2 per cent,
in weigHt. during transit. It is
claimed that but for an una-
voidable detention on the road
there would hare been no
shrinkage.- _________
One of the special agents of
the Post office department
attack one of Dorsey's star
xoiites in Oregon the other day
on whieh the cavrier was mak-
ing his trips without even a
mail pouch. He bad once car-
ried the ponoh and one letter,
but both had worn out, and he
was going it alone. No mall
robberies have ever been com-
mitted on that route.
In the revision of the New
Testament many familiar pas-
sages have been changed so that
they will not be recognized.
Some of the strongest passages
relied upon in support of the
doctrine of future endless pun-
ishment have been entirely
omitted, they not appearing in
any of the old text* and manu-
scripts examined by the revis-
ers. The following is one
among the many very familiar
passages which have been left
out:
"Where their worm dluth not, and the
lira is notqiicnchcd.
"And If thy foot rtlH'iid the«! fill" it off ;
it in bettor for thee to enter Imll Into Ufa,
ihim having two feet to !><• raut Into ball,
into thu lira that never ahull tin
jueucbeU,"
Mr. 13. It. Webb, at one limn
a resident of this place, but
lately of lkeckeiiridge, has ta-
ken up his abode in the tlirifly
new town of Baird, . where he
will practice law. Mr. Webb is
a young man of rare ability,
and has gained much distinc-
tion as the author pf "Webb's
Texas Criminal Law." The
Echo wishes him success in his
new home.
Trouble Brewing Between State
Vroopa and Cattlemen.
We are altogether too modest,
retiring; are lacking in that
quality called cheek,to be a suc-
cessful publishei; we do not
toot our own horn sufficiently.
A few of our friends, however,
take up our bugle at odd times
and give us a blast. One of
these friend?, a minister of the
gospel, blows for us as follows :
"The Eono visits me weekly.
I hail it with toy. It is to me,
an echo indeed, for through its <
columns I hear echoing the'
voices of friends. Besides it
echoes the high moral senti-
ments of your niost estimable
people. It commends the hon-
orable and virtuous, ministers
condemnation to the incorrigi-
ble, and in a word, manfully
advocates the right. May the
Echo li ve long ana flourish as a
green bay tree—fighting faith-
fully to the end."
This is only a sample of
many letters to the same im-
port we receive! We> feel that,
we have reason to be-proud of
our efforts to make a readable
paper when the Eoito is so
highly extolled.
. Eminent occulists have pro-
nounced the readiug of (German
text to be injurious to the eyes.
Jasper has a tar weir which,
aside from the curative proper-
ties attributed to it, is some-
thing of a curiosity. The well
1b shallow and the tar collects
and floats on the surface of the
water to the thickness of a
quarter of an inch. The tar is
highly, praised as a salve for all
kind of sores and ulcers.
Competent judges are of the
opinion that there is a subter-
ranean lake of coal oil in the
neighborhood.
To take a drink in Portland,
Oregon, costs a man so Indulg-
ing $5. The rum is not worth
that money, but the city re-
quires a license costing' that
sum before a man can get any
bitters at any hotel or saloon*.
It is a penal offense for the
proprietors of these establish-
ments to sell to any person who
is not armed with such license.
Every six months the local par
pers publish the names of all
who have applied for such doc-
uments, and the public thereby
know who are the drinkers.
Texas 8iftings is a new can-
didate for public favor and it
has its abode in Austin. Bob
Burnett, Old Si, N. Y. Commer-
cial,Detroit Free Press,Rev.P.V.
Nasby, and the balance of the
boys will have to brighten up
or lose their laurels, for Alex.
Sweet in shaking the sieve will
riddle them through. Mr. Sweet
gained great popularity, not
only as a funny man but as a
vigorous, logical writer for the
Galveston News. His associate,
Mr. J. A. Knox, is a gentleman
of acknowledged ability.
Accounts from southern Colo-
rado represent the outlook for
the summer as very gloomy.
The Ules are said to be mixing
their war paint and laying in a
large supply of amunition, and,
besides, an alliance between
them and the Arrapohoes and
Comanches is repotted. To the
disgrace of the white traders it
is said that these tribes are
equipped with the best patents
of modern improved arms.
Col. Broad head, an army pay
master, regards an outbreak as
certain, but the government is
doing nothing to prevent the
mattvacre of the lJorder towns.
Galveston News.
Fort Worth Advance, May 25th.
There is evidently trouble
brewing between the cattle men
and Texas rangers at and near
Colorado City; and a conflict
seems imminent. The adjutant
general at Austin received some
days ago a number of tele-
grams relative to the shooting
at that place of W. II. Patter-
son by members of the state
troops. The coroner's jury
found that Patterson was shot
by three parties—Sedbetter,
Wells, and Milton, all three of
the Frontier Batallion, and all
of whom were arrested by the
civil authorities, and, on prelim-
inary examination held to bail.
Parties jlist in from that point
give the following account of
more recent developments. The
captain of the rangers, finding
Buch strong feeling among the
stockmen against tho state
troops, has moved them from
Colorado City to their original
quarters, nearly twenty miles
west. The ca tile men swear
they will avenge the death of
Patterson, and feeling has been
raised to such a pitch that a
conflict is deemed almost cer-
tain unless something shall im-
mediately cause a change of
affairs.
GAINESVILLE.
Govejuor Overton of the J
Chickasaw Nation is deterinin-j
ed the white men shall vacate
his domain.
V' n. YORK.
u. e. chafoi
, Shipment of Cattle.
Special to the Dallv Advanec.
Gainesville, May S3.—Prepa-
rations are making for the ship-
ment of immense numbers of
cattle by the Missouri Pacific,
commencing June - 10th. The
Northwest Texas cattle men's
contracting committee have
contracted for the shipment of
5,000 oars, nearly 110,000 head.
Gainesville is most happily fav-
ored this year for cattle ship-
ments, and will have almos t a
monopoly of the business, as
the rates from here are $37 per
car, from Fort Worth and Ab-
ilene $80. In addition to the
combination shipments, there
will be about three thousand
cars shiped by individuals from
mirth Texas and the Indian
territory. v
Young 'county district court
is in session.
The bonded" debt of Texas
amounts to $4,999,920.
The sherifi of Grayson coun-
ty is the youngest sheriff in the
State.
Twelve hundred men are at
work on the western division of
the T. & P. railroad.
Under the new drummer law
$20,000 have been paid into the
comptroller's office.
The re-union of Gen. Ector's
brigade will take place in Hen-
derson this year, on the 18th of
August.
There are seven ex-governors
of Texas living, via.: Bell,
Pease, Lubbock, Th rockmorton,
Davis, Coke, and Hubbard.
The annual re-union of Hood's
Texas brigade occurs at Hous-
ton, this year, convening on
Wednesday, June 22d.
During a storm Jone day last
week, lightning entered the tel-
egraph ' office at Baird and
played the mischief with things
generally.
Dr. Leslie Frost; a prominent
citizen of Fort Worth, died sud-
denly of heart disease, on the
streets of that city Tuesday.
He was formerly from Waltham,
Mass.
A republican government is a
government of, by. and for the
people. The officers under a
republican government are only
the attorneys-in-fact or agents
of the sovereign people; the
constitution and laws, stare and
national, being their power of
attorney, beyond which they
cannot go. They are not the
masters but the servants of the
sovereign people.
Citizens of {Austin have issu-
ed a card setting forth inauy
reasons why |the State Univer-
sity should be located there
ami want the people to vote for
their town at the election to be
held in September.
|F. B. YORK & CO.
I
DIED.
Tuesday, May 24th, Annie.
eldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
J. A. Matthews, aged three and
one hall years.
The grim monster seems to
care not upon whom his hand
rests, he seeks not the aged
a Ud decrepid alone, but reaches
out his relentless hand and
grasps the young and beautiful
and innocent.
Little Annie was a bright,
beautiful, loving child, father's
pet and mother's darling. We
have romped and rolled on the
floor and played with her for
hours and felt that a little child
was leading us in paths of holi-
ness. J
Sadly will'she be missed but
we know that she will; lead
loved ones to that blessed eter-
nity and when their times'
come, will welcome them joy-
fully. ■ ■
• IO.OO Reward.
Estrayed from my . place in
Fort Griffin, two black horses,
each about 14 1-2 hands high,
each about 7 years old, both
harness marked. One branded
E A on right hip; the other
branded 6 on left shoulder and
J with bar through it, on
left thigh. Will pay the
above reward for their deliyery
to me. : . > y"
C. K. Stribling. _
Ft. Griffin, April 8,1881.
FOR SALE.
Tha welt known
Planters Hotel,
Located In Fort Grlfflu, with «U Its fur-
nlture, fixtures, etc., Is for sal., mjr
health being such that I cannot attend to
the business,
The house Is a new frame building of
flfteeh rooms, With flood collar, well of
fine clear water, large lot and all neces-
sary out houses.
MavSlst the house will be closed fo
the public. All persons indebted to mo
will do,hie a favor to como up and settle
by June 4th, as I shall leave here the fol-
lowing day.
The hotel and unpaid accounts will be
left -with W. L. Spears, who is author-
ized u> collect debts and sell theprop-
ertyn20 JOHN SWAETZ.
W. N. PORTER. C. A. PARK.
PORTER & PARK,
Commission
Merchants,
Eastland and Cisco, Texas.
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THE BEST
Advertising Medium
IN NORTH- WEST TEAXS
11 through tho column* of the
FORT GRIFFIK ECHO-
It is ruuil by more jM-oplf In thl* country
tllHIl .
ANY OTIIKll PAPER.
MERCHANTS AND BANKERS, I
& b k Js is k k i b k !s b fe
HAVE THE LARGEST ASSORTMENT OF
I AND I
tw "MOT
IN UI J
LVJilN Ij
M J J <1 :* f J
LADIES' AND GENTS' FURNISHING GOODS,
BOOTS AND SHOES,
HATS AND CAPS,
SADDLERY AND HARNESS,
GLASS AND TINWARE, .=
CROCKERY AND HARDWARIi
DRUGS AND MEDICIN1S,
LIQUORS AND CIGA1B"
AND
TO BE FOUND IN WESTERN TEXAS.
F. B, YORK A CO.,
Caldwell* Kanaais.
YORK DRAPER,
Dodge City. Kl
Plofblag,
GREAT REDUCTION IN PRICES.
NEW GOODS, NEW STYLES
. LOW PRICES AT
FORT GRIFFIN.
Our immense stock of CLOTHING, FANCY GOODS, HATS
BOOTS, SHOES, and HARDWARE, GROCERIES, FUR-
NITURE, and UNDERTAKERS' GOODS, GLASS
and QUEENSWARE, was mostly purchased since
the wonderful decline.
We are now in shape to defy competition. Come and in
ns, examine our stock and prices and be convinced.
J. M. CUPP & CO.,
Griffin Avenue, Fort Griffin, Ten*.
WHOLESALE ONLY.
fSebaef &er I Davia,
•14 ft 516, ELM STREET, DALLAS, TEXAS.
Carry the largest stock of
IN NORTH TEXAS.
We are tho oldest and best known house iu Dallas and alwavs strive to pleas. <
patrons. ylnlt
" PALACE SALOON "
AND
BILLIARD HALL,
(Formerly Uui. llubcr's slsml on tlmcomer,)
KORT URimN,
•IKXAA.
JONES &' RUSH. Propictors.
THE BEST AND OLDEST PLACE OK RESORT IN TOWN
Only tho Finest Winos, Liquors and Cigars Handled Over th« Ber
The kiml patronage of the public is respectfully solicited.
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Fort Griffin Echo (Fort Griffin, Tex.), Vol. 3, No. 20, Ed. 1 Saturday, May 28, 1881, newspaper, May 28, 1881; Fort Griffin, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth233165/m1/2/: accessed May 1, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting The Dolph Briscoe Center for American History.