The Belton Journal (Belton, Tex.), Vol. 23, No. 33, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 15, 1889 Page: 4 of 4
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WOODS' MIDSUMMER &MM A GREAT SUCCESS!
MY MIDSUMMER SALES PRC VED TO THE PUBLIC THAT
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and that no goods can be fonnd for less v 'oney, taking quality into consideration.
- Now, you all knowing that the First Cash Store of Belton did sell the best Bargains through Spr
saving prices, as I have done heretofore. I shall have the best accommodations for my cust^^ ^ -r
all, you shall find
CLOSEST PR3
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%nd Summer, it shall be now my main work to place the Fall and Winter stock before you at money-
1e will be complete and pleasant to you all. I shall give you prices through the papers, and best of
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A Grand Bargain in RED and WHITE TAL.
LINEN. Plain and Fringed NAPKINS to match.
Thanking you for past favors, and promising to
ay promises to you, I remain, yours very respectfully,
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HVE. i J. WOODS, Belton. Texas.
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ICL W. Brace, of Hew York, has given
180^000 to Harvard university for a photo-
graphic telescope to be nsed In the observa-
tory.
IX K. Pearson, the Chicago millionaire,
has, during the last few years, given away
nearly 9800,000 to educational institutions in
the
People with theories about hands, eyes or
noses can deduce their own conclusions from
the fact that Gen. Boulanger's ears stand out
■t an angle of 45 degrees.
Robert Louis-Stevenson's mother, who was
with her son in the South seas, reports him
as in greatly improved health and about
■tarting on another year's cruise.
Simon Cameron, in recently speaking of
his son, the present senator, said: "Yes, Don
had many advantages, but I had one which
overbalanced them all—poverty."
Walt Whitman writes to a friend in New
York: "1 am easier and rather better these
days, and am wheeled out in a strong willow
chair every day. But lama bad old wreck."
in a recent letter Professor P. Max Mulier
states that hardly a month passes that he
does not receive some new proposal for a uni-
versal language. He says they are all more
or less ingenious.
Professor T. H. Huxley says that he has
never entirely recovered from the effect of a
blood poisoning contracted during his first
post-mortem examination, performed when
he was less than 14 years of aga
Sir Edward Baines, of Leeds, is probably
file senior European journalist. He repre-
sented his father's paper at the "Peterloo
massacre" in 1819, and is probably the oldest
mr^ivor of that scene. He is now more than
SO years old.
Cardinal Newman's health has considerably
improvedund be has returned from Malvern
to Birmingham. His mind is as clear and
vigprbas as ever, but his eyes have become
(Dtoenrhat weakened and he uses his bands
great difficulty.
The Hon. John L Blair, the millionaire rail-
road owner, publishes a card in his official
paper stating that he will henceforth treat
with silent refusal all appeals made to him
by letter for gifts or contributions to public
or private charities.
"Bagdad* Ley land, who is to marry Miss
Chamberlain, the famous American beauty,
got his queer name from "bagging" his fa-
ther in the hunting field in Leicestershire.
He mistook the paternal legs for a hare and
filled them with shot.
' The Duke of Portland has decided to devote
all his past and future winnings on the turf
to the erection and endowment of almshouses
tor poor people at Wei beck; the scheme was
originated and suggested by the dnchess, w' -
Mr ■-' : -=—
wge Eennan, the noted Siberian trav —
rUl pass the summer at Cape Breton,
His wife will be all the company be
i, and much of his time will be devoted
3g a large amount of matter not yet
ed relative to his Siberian journey,
death of ex-Senator Simon Cameron,
.nnsylvania, leaves James W. Bradbury
Maine, Alpheus Felch of Michigan, and
l Davis of Mississippi, the oldest ex-
States senators now living, all three
om entered the senate in December.
The belief that Henry 11. Stanley will re-
turn from Africa in September has led an
"English lecture manager to book dates for
e explorer in most of the English cities,
r. Stanley, if he gets back, ran make from
$400 to 9500 a night by the recital of hi9 ad-
ventures.
David A. Wells, who is reckoned a learned
man and has just been LL.D.V1 by Harvard,
•ays that he would despair of getting into
college nowadays were he required to pass
the examinations that young men are called
upon to pass before they receive their en
trance papers.
At a dinner party given to the emperor
and empress of Germany lately the hostess.
Countess of Waldersce, formerly Miss Mary
Lee, of New York, performed the difficult
feat of walking backward the whole length
of a high staircase, managing her train with
great dexterity.
Marshal MacMahon's main employment at
present is the completion of the memoirs he
Is patting together for the information of his
children. It is said to be a very frank state-
ment, for the downright soldier has really
nothing to conceal. One of tho main feat-
uresof his character has always been his
straightforwardness.
Alexander Graham Bell is going to enjoy
his summer in a bouse boat in and near Nova
Scotia, A Baltimore boat builder has built
for him the most singular looking craft that
has ever been put afloat It is an immense
catamaran, housed over with a cottage that
contains double parlors, dining room, billiard
room and spacious sleeping apartments,
besides kitchen, bathrooms and servants'
quarters.
SCIENTIFIC SQUIBS.
Tyndall accepts as sound Pasteur's method
at inoculation for hydrophobia.
The mean dally motion of the ai<- during
1888 at Greenwich was 396 utiles, being
twelve miles above tbte daily average of the
last tuenty-onft years.
Rwglkih scientific journals lament that the
kangaroo is being exterminated. This has
an interest for the United States, where the
•kin is largely used in tanning.
The Russian Academy of Sciences offers a
prize of 5,000 rubles (£500) for the best in-
quiry into the nature and effects of the
poison which develops in cured fish.
The boring for oil in the United States <s
not always successful; for instance, a boring
at Southbury, Conn., has lately been aban-
doned after 200 feet had been explored and
•10,000 lost In the undertaking.
In France they now use for steam and
water pipe joints gaskets made of wood pulp,
which are boiled in linseed oil. They give
satisfactory results and are not subject to
decomposition at high temperature.
At the Society of Engineers, England, it
was demonstrated that tho action of sea
water on concrete blocks, made with a pro-
per proportion of Portland cement, caused
no deterioration, bnt they were actually im-
proved by it. The result was a surprise
to all.
A Mr. Bolton, in recent visits to Egypt and
Mount Sinai, measured the maximum angle
at which dry sand will lie at rest, aud found
It to be from thirty-one to thirty-two de-
grees; higher than this it will move down the
slope. This does not accord with the well
known formula in text boots.
WE Can and DO
Guarantee Acker's Blood Elixir for it has Nvn
fully demonstrated to the people of this coun-
try that it Is superior to all other preparations
for Wood diseases. It is a positive cure for
syphilitic poisoning, ulcers, erupt ions and p!m •
pies. It purifies the whole system and thor-
oughly builds up the constitution. Sold bv R.
H. Hefley Jt CO. 19-1
A Bootblack Trust.
A shining example of the extent to
which the combination idea has devtlop
ed in this country is the recent forma-
tion of the Bootblack Trtiit on Staton
Island and the Eist river feriias io New
York. Here an Italian, who seems to
thoroughly understand the spirit of our
institutions and their modern develop
ment, has outbid bij rivals and srcuied
_ plete conis-ii—of all bootbUct i.;g
privileges, and some c* the largest, opera;
|M (0 pctttng Shot- nave been torrfe? ^fi-
int) involuntary bankruptcy. Small
DAUGHTERS OF EVE.
Ital an boys are employed, thus crowding
out native laborers and substituting the
effect to civil zition of the lethargic sons
of Southern Europe.
The individual is gradually ceasing t«>
be the unit of this country. Aggrega-
tions of individuals have now become
single factors in our development, an >
the man who goes to the front is be who
knows how lo form combinations in^elli
gently. Individual liberty is the liberty
of one man in the combination, and he
who seeks to withstand the power of num-
bers will g<' to the wall.
The principle of trusts, pernicious
though it be, has bitt entered upon the
field i: is to occupy,if some legislative rem-
edy be not soon discovered and appl'ed.
What is to prevent tho fotmati"n of that
grand alimentation company, so graphi-
cally pictured by Jules Verne, wbeieby
■lie food want of an entire peop'e will b;
supplied from central cooking factories,
thus eiimi.iating the restaurant, the cook
Hid the kitchen?
The bootblack trust is typical of tbe
spirit of the age. C;>ncentta i in is d>.-
Jtroying natural competition, and the i> -
dividual, who is weak, is seeking to e -
wrap himself in tbe protective ga-rnt-' t
•fthe combination, that is tt:ong.—N
O. Tiinee-D mncrai.
The German Government is getting Its famous
Socialistic experiment into shape. Finding that
repression and coercion did not accomplish
their purpose. Bismarck is trying the effect of
■-tajoling. He proposes in effect to insure the
whole people against sickness, accident, inca-
pacitation and old age. He douc t iis by levying
asmall tax, say t^s to i per cent., on the nor-
mal wages of workingmeu, and then, when they
are laid asid.e for any of the above reasons, as-
suming in a measure their support and that of
their families. Public service in certaiu cases is
reckoned in lieu of this lax. The details are
complicated, but the chief Interest lies in the
assertion of the principle that it is the business
of the government of a people to provide for
tbe personal needs of the people.
Idlzkess is a Dangerous Fault
In the kidneys. When inactive they speedily
fa>l into disrepair. Those obstinate and fatal
maladies. Bright's disease and diabetes, ensue
with terrible certainty npon the Inaction of the
organs affected. Catarrh of the bladder, enu
resis, gravel and strangury are also to be ap-
preheuded from a partial paralysis of the blad-
der. of which weakness and sluggishness are the
canses Hostetter's Stomach Bitters is a fine
tonic and promoter of activity for the renal or-
gans, and one which can be relied upon to af-
ford them the requisite stimulus without excit-
ing them—an effect to be feared from the un
dedicated alcoholic excitant of commerce. A
'"-• beneficent effect of the Bitters, by re- j
activity or rne KianeysTTsto enable them
- drain from the blood in its passage through
them, impurities productive of rheumatism ana
dropsy Nervousness, fever and ague, consti-
pation and dyspepsia are conquered by the Bit-
ters. 315
t han tauqua and the various other summer
institutes are in full swing. It does seem; trange
that Americans cannot rest. They either go to
Europe and rush through the cities with their
miles of picture galleries, or try to study all
th'ough the hot weather. Information is good,
and though there is no such thing as too much
of it, there Is danger of needlessly turning
'rest" into the hardest kind of work.
Miss Charlotte M. Younge is engaged upas
her 101st book.
The princess imperial of 'Brazil has organ-
ized a corps of negro troops whose office it is
to act as an imperial guard.
Miss Mary Anderson is living in retirement
In the outskirts of Hempstead, her favorite
suburb. She is gradually recovering her
h «lth. ^ — —
leTTStelka Gerster U devoting herself
largely to the musical education of her little
laughter, who already tries to warble oper-
atic airs.
A passing fancy with quite young girls is
for each to paint for her tennis gown a set of
buttons adorned with flowers standing for
the letters of her nama
Mrs. Humphry Ward, who had been rest-
ing in Rome while suffering with writers'
paralysis, has returnad to London and gone
to work on her new novel.
In one or two stone sarcophagi found at
Rome in the Prati di Castello the skeleton of
a girl was found along with a wooden doll
with jointed arms and legs.
Carlotta Patti's voice is said to have been
the highest soprano ever known, reaching to
G sharp in alt, aud her execution was cor-
respondingly marvelous.
The fortune left by Professor Richard A.
Proctor was insufficient to support his fam-
ily, and his widow has determined to sell his
Florida home, together with his library and
scientific apparatus.
The widow of N. P. Willis, the poet, is
living in Washington. She is now a woman
of 00 aud is occasionally seen in society. Her
son, Bailey Willis, is a member of the corps
of the geological survey.
Mrs. Callahan and Mrs. Rogers are Texan
stock raisers, doing business individually for
themselves. The first lady is the owner of
50,000 sheep, and the other is rated at $1;000,-
000 in cash and live stock.
Mme. Melba, of Melbourne, Australia, is
the latest prima donna to take captive the
critics of London. She is described as tall,
elegant in manner and dress, expressive of
feature and seductive of eye
During the last twenty-five years Queen
Victoria has taken 447 agricultural prizes
with stock from her Windsor forms. She
takes great interest in cattle shows, and is a
good judge of Shorthorns and Jerseys.
The widow of Emperor Frederick received
£'40,000 a year from the German government.
The fortune left to her by the Duchess of
Galliera brings her in £12,000 a year; and
she has a life interest in the trust estate of
her husband. In all she has about £70,000 a
year.
There is a woman in a west of England
town who makes a good living by killing
cats. She advertises that if people who are
about to go away for the summer will send
their cats to her she will kill them with
chloroform.
"Marie, Baroness de Veszera; bora March
19, 1S71; died Jan. 30, 1S89. 'Life is a flower
it opens and is plucked.'" Thi -e in-
scription on the headstone of ♦'
cemetery near Vienna where
mains of the woman who r1,
fate of Crown Priuce Rud-
Consumption Bai.i.ar.n's Hokehouxd Syrup.
No single disease has played such sad havoc
With the human race as consumption. No oth-
er disease approaches so stealihily. Its early
symptoms are Ignored because it is thought on-
ly a cold or hacking cough, which is neglected
until this grim monster has such a hold that
nothing but death can relieve It. Ballard's
lloreh'ound Syrup has removed the grip of this
grim monster from many a throat. If taken in
time it will effect a permanent cure and in the
worst stages it will give surprising relief Try
its soothing anu healing virtues. Do not put it
o ffuntil too late. T. B. Rugelcy. agent. 40 -3
Mrs. Suburb—You are very late tonight Sup
per was ready two hours ago. Mr. Suburb-
Yes. I missed the 3:17 train and had to take the
5:19. Mrs. Suburb—But that, is only two min-
utes. Mr Suburb—Yes, my dear, but the 5:17
comes straight throngh. and the 5:19 stops at
173 stations before it gets here.—New York
Weekly.
Is Consumption iscurabce?
Head the following: Mr. C. U. Morris, New-
ark, Ark., says: "Was down with abcess of
lungs, and frit nds and physicians pronounced
me an incurable consumptive. Began taking
Dr. King's New Discovery for consumption, am
now on my third bottle, and able to oversee
the work or my farm. It is the finest medicine
ever made."
Jesse Middlewart. Decatur. Ohio, say?: "Hi d
It not been for Dr. King's New Discovery for
consumption, I would have died of lung trou-
bles. Was given up by doctors. Am now in
best of health." Try it. Sample bottles free at
Tyler £ Embree's drag store. 82-5
The San Antonio Kxpress stylos Queen Victo-
ria "Mrs. Guelph," but she is not Mrs Gnelph.
She was a Miss Guelph. but she married a Wet-
tin. one Albert, of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, and
thereby bi eime Mrs. Wettin, and is now the
Widow Wettin. For further genealogical in-
formation concerning the royal family of Eng
land, plrase call at the heraldic bureau.—Waco
D-\v ___
Cholera in Michiuan.
Dr. F. D. Larke of Rogers City. Michigan, say-
the epidemic of last yea rin P.esque Isle Coun-
ty, in which so many persons lost their lives,
was choleric dysentery instead of cholera as
first reported. He used Chamberlain's Colic.
Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy and says it suc-
ceeded, where all other remedies failed. Not a
single case was lost in which It was used. This
Remedy is the most reiiable and most success-
ful medicine known for colic, ehol -ra morbns,
dysentery, diarrhoea and bloody flux. 35 and
50 cent bottles for sale by u. h. Hefley jc Co
33 tnc.
Ht-Ji:
King Humbert of Italy sq
than $100,000 during bis four oajr.
Berlin.
The oriental gifts sent by the sultan of
Morocco to Kaiser William II turn out to
have been manufactured in Germany.
Tne patronage of the Prince of Wales and
other nobs is asked for the English trotting
races. It is thought that witn tho element of
royalty they will be popular.
Queen Victoria is in the habit of keeping
rooms which have been occupied by deceased
relatives locked up. The apartments at
Claremont in which the Princess Charlotte
died more than seventy years ago are closed,
and nobody is allowed to use them.
The emperor of China has presented his
bride with nn immense tiara of gold, with a
very lofty cap of Siherian sable, embroidered
with rows of pearls and the feathers of the
golden pheasant. Twenty skilled workmen
were employed for two months in making the
head dress.
Royal dramatists are becoming serious com-
petitors to professional authors. Thus the
king of Sweden's one act historical play,
"Castle Croiuberg," is to be produced next
season in six different cities—Stuttgart, Aix-
la-Chapelle, Halle, Nuremberg, Breslau and
Konisberg.
"The King of the Sedangs" is being made
much of and making much of himself in
Paris. His title is "Marie, Roi des Sedangs."
The Sedangs are an Indo-Chinese folk who
inhabit a kind of debatable land on the
Annam-Siamese frontier, notable for .nothing
so much as its swamps.
Prince Ferdinand, of Bulgaria, who is an
ornithologist, has reported that enormous
flocks or rose colored starlings have appeared
in his dominions. They come from Asia and
Africa, and have not been seen in Europe
since 1S76, when their advent immediately
preceded the Russo-Turkisb war.
When the Emperor William visits Queen
Victoria at Osborne, Isle of Wight, he will
find in tho garden, which opens from the car-
riage drive near the flag tower, a magnificent
myrtle, which cannot fail to arrest his atten-
tion. and this great shrub was originally a
sprig from his mother's wedding bouquet.
The royal family of England, a Berlin cor-
respondent writes, is about to be allied by
marriage with a gamekeeper in the forest of
Dognaiska, in Hungary. This will come
about through the forthcoming union of
Lieut. Joseph Loisiuger, brother of Countess
Hartenau, otherwise Princess Alexander of
Battenberg, with Mlie. Louise Kopek, daugh-
ter the head gamekeeper in the forest of
Dosnaiska.
RICH IN YEARS.
A rate of speed eiiua! to three miles a minute
has been attained hy tbe three-ton motor of the
Electro-Automatic Transit Company of Balti
more. In less than five years we may be able to
leave Memphis at fia. m , get to New York at i
noon, see the lions in Central Park and likewise ^ Warosdin, Croatia, a mother of Hi
Mr. Dana and Deacon Shepard, and ik- home for j *™yAeL™a!d!T <£US£l*P
early supper. The prospect almost takes our
Sam Hornsley and Sylvia Cody, both col-
ored, the former aged 75 years and the lat-
70, were married recently in Hephzibah.
Ga.. by O. G. Tarver. at the store of E. J
Tarver.
Xleissouier will marry again at the age of
7S. His coming bride is not particularly
young, and she is Mile. Besancon, sister of
his lawyer, and for the past twenty years,
his devoted companion.
A Mussulman woman has just died in
Meeaa jleer, India, credited with 150 years
of age. She was blind. dr>af and dumb and
almost inanimate. She died in tbe house of
a grandson who is over SO.
breath away
A Famous Texan.
Mr. A. K. Hawkes—Dear Sir: I am much
pleased with the pantlsoopic glasses yon so per-
fectly adapted to my eyes; with Th. m I am ena-
bled to read, as in my youth, the finest prit t
with the greatest ease I cheerfully recommend
them to tbe public Respectfully.
R. B. Hubbard. iEx.Gov. of Texa*.
All eyes fitted and fit gutrante-d at the drug
store of t. B. Rugeley. Bolton. 33-4
Families not already supplied should loose no
time in prwaring a bottle of Chamberlain's
Colic. Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy. It is the
only remedy that can always be depended npon
for bowel complaint in all its forms, -J5 and 50
cent bottles for sale by R 11. Hefley & Co. 33-tnc
to a tramway conductor of 40. The elder
| lady of the two was in an ecstasy of delight
I at having lived to see her child married.
' W. G. Dickson, of Irwin, Ga., although he
has passed his "three score years and ten,"
is vigorous in mind and body, and attends to
business as closely as a man of half his years.
He makes a success of sheep shearing, and
has sheared over COO. which yielded abont
j 1.000 pounds of wool
Guard Against tux Strike,
; And always have a bottle of Acker's English j
Remedy in the house. You cannot tell how j
soon croup may strike your little one, or a cold
or cough may fasten itself npon you. One dose
j is a preventive and a few doses a positive cure.
^ All throat aud lung troubles yield to its treat-
' ment. A sample bottle is given yon free and
the Remedy guaranteed by R H. Hefley & Co.19 1
According to our ideas on such subjects It Is
jnst as much the husband's business "to make
home the brightest and most alluring haven of
rest and peace upon all the earth" as it is the
wife's. The idea that a mother, who has been
"worked and worried to death" all day by the
cares and annoyances of a honsehold, perhaps
with a sick child to nurse, and In feeble health
beyond her powers of
u- me attractive"
id. ' P
,-Eale, and tii
at that, should
endurance v
to some gn.^
muscles of ar
digestion of, ^>.ierly absutd and
inhuman. .Let . work and make home
"attractive to her." Or, not to run to extremes
on either side, let the husband join with the
wife in mutual efforts to make their home
pleasant for the whole family. —New York Led-
ger.
Electric
This remedy Is becominli so well known and
so popular as to need no "fecial mention. All
' who have used Electric Steiqjglns the same
song of praise. A pur< does not ex-
ist and it is guarantees *" t claimed.
Electric Bitters will cnv_ ^ he liver
and kidneys, will remove _4TOls, salt
rheum and other affect' *>y impure
J^ood "Wilt rtri<*e ro-' stem and
' ^ jvers w-
ire of 1 -uu. Indigestion
try Elect ric Bitters—eik ion guaran-
teed or money refunded Price 50c. and $1 per
bottle at Tyler & Embrei t drug store. -32-5
Ballard's Horeiioukd Sybup.
We guarantee this to be the best cough syrup
manufactured in the whole wide world. This is
saying a great deal, but it is true. For coughs,
consumption, colds, sore throat, sore chest,
pneumonia, bronchitis, asthma, cronp, whoop-
ing cough, and all diseases of the throat and
lungs we positively guarantee Ballard's Hore-
hound Syrup to be without any equal on the
whole face of the globe. In support of this
statement we refer to every Individual who has
ever used it, and to every druggist who has ever
sold it. Such evidence is indisputable. Sold by
T. B. Kugeley. 40-4
Texas has the grandest state house in the Un-
ion, for which she gave 3,000,000 acres of lands
in an uninhabited and almost unexplored sec-
tion of the State, but the syndicate now owning
those lands are tnrning them into farms and
ranches and making the Panhandle blossom with
the Sowers of industry. Their taxes on the cap-
itol lands last year were $15,250. Texas not only
has her granite c&pltol building, but Is receiv-
ing interest iu the way of taxes upon what we
paid for it.—Austin Statesman.
Suilou's Consumption Cure.
This is beyond question the most successful
Cough Medicine we have ever sold, a few doses
invariably cure tho worst cases of cough, croup
and bronchitis, while its success in the cure of
consumption is without a parallel in the history
of medicine. Since its first discovery it has been
sold oil a guarantee, a test which no other med-
icine can stand. If you have a cough we earn-
estly ask you to try it. Price 10 cents, 50 cents,
and $1. If your lungs are sore, chest or back
lame, use Shiloh's Porons Plaster. Sold by It.
H. Hefley & Co 10 1
What becomes of all the paper? There are
I,000 pulp and paper miils at work the voar
round. But the newspapers and magazines
consume vast quantities of it. The Century
Company take nearly 200 tons a month for their
publications, and their paper bill amonnts to
$300,000 yearly. Harper & Brothers take 25.000
reams, Robert Bonuer 10,000 reams at a time.
Two cheap literature firms buy $500,000 won li
of paper a year. One patent medicine firm buys
830,000 werth of paper every yen r.
a Child Killed.
Another child killed by the use of opiates giv-
en in the form of Soothing syrup. Why mothers
give their children deadly poison is sur-
>*'ne when child of its pe-
tber.
- R.
■d ht Govei r has
* troops,
SI stand of
arms to equip territorial militia. necessity
for these is not thought to be as great as the de-
sire to call attention to Alaska, bnt our great
Northwestern territory has a right to be heard.
Answer This Question.
Why do so many people we see around us
seem to prefer to suffer and be made miserable
by indigestion, constipation, dizziness, loss of
appetite, coming up of the food, yellow skin,
when for 75 cents we will sell them Shiloh's Sys-
tem Vitalizer, guaranteed to cure them. Sold
by E. H. Hefley .t Co. ie-1
"Any man who accumulates over S10.000
should be made to divide," said Chas Spachs, a
Milwaukee socialist, a few weeks ago. The oth-
er day he got a legacy of $16,000 from Belgium
and we trust that the strong arm of th:* law will
st- p in and take $0000 of i' and divide it among
the poor.—Detroit Free Press.
Bucklen's Abnica Salve
The best salve in the world for cuts, bruises,
sores, ulcers, salt rheum, fever sores, tetter,
chapped hands, chlblaius, corns, and all skin
eruptions, and positively cures piles, or no pay
pay required It is guaranteed to give perfect
satisfaction, or money refunded. Price 25 cts.
per box. Sold by Tyler & Embree. 32y
"The corn crop In Texas this year will be ftn
mense, one of the largest ever gathered and in-
dications are It will be cheap." And If one-half
of It was fed to hogs farmers would not only
save what they pay other states for bacon but
b; able to supply the towns.—Fort Worth Ga-
zette.
Suilou's Catarrh Remedy.
Shiloh's Catarrh Remedy, a marvelous cure
for catarrh, diphtheria, canker month, and
headache. With each bottle there is an ingeni-
ous Nasal Injector for the more successful treat-
ment of these complaints without extra charge.
Price 50 cents. Sold by R. H. Hefley & Co. 10-1
Most persons wiil be surprised when they hear
that the report of The Railway Age concerning
the amouut of railroad track laying in t he Unit
ed States for the first six months of 1SS9 shows
that of the total number of miles of track laid,
namely. 1,522, the South is to be credited with
9'7.
A Duty to Yourself.
It is surprising that people will use a common,
ordinary pill when they can secure a valuable
English one for the same money. Dr. Acker's
English pills are a positive cure for sick-head-
ache and all liver troubles. They are small,
sweet, easily tak* n and do not gripe. Fo- sale
by R. H. Hefley & Co. 19-y
The way the greasy Indian reasons things
Is really puzzling and Inscrutable.
fat if at last his hazy method brings
urrender of the land to which he clings
We pass it by and call it Siouxtable.
—Chicago Mail.
English Spavin Liniment removes all hard,
soft or crlioused lumps aud blemishes from
horses. Blood spavin, curbs, splints, Sweeney,
ring bone, stifles, sprains, all swollen throats,
coughs, etc. Save $50 by use of one bottle. War-
ranted. Sold by Tyler & Embree, druggists,
Belton. 17-y
And So In Onqiieiite Mutt Itenuiean*.
A maiden there is of Duquesne,
Who to procrastination is fuesne;
She starts for the city.
But—more is the pity-
In variably misses the truesne
—Chicago Mail.
Children Cry for Pitcher's Castoria.
When Baby was sick we cave her Castoria.
When she was a Child, she cried for Castoria,
When she became Miss, she clung to Castoria,
When she had Children, she gave them Castoria
Where tbe Ruitle Remain*.
Although the bustle has of late
Beer, shrinking much in fashion's eyes.
It still continues to prevail
In dry goods stores that advertise
—Dry Goods Reporter.
Advice to Mothers. SB
Mrs Winslow's Soothing Syrup should I e nsed
for children teething. It soothe the child, soft-
ens the gums, allays all pain, cures wind colic,
and iithe best remedy for diarrhcea. 25c a bottle.
Your newspaper man ai id your telegraph man
are hard to down. The bi • fire at Spokane Falls
destroyed every telegraph instrument in the
city but one, and that one, badly damaged, was
set on a dry goods box, Just outside of town,
and made to send out all the press matter.—
Fort Worth Gazette. '
Ballard's Snoi|t Liniment.
This wonderful llnimenf is known from the
Atlantic to the Pacific a i from the Lakes to
the Gulf. It Is the most] penetrating liniment
in the world. It will curd rheumatism, neural-
gia, sprains, bruises, cuhf, wonnds, old sores,
burns, sciatica, sore throajt, sore chest and all
inflammation, after all <ft hers have failed. It
will cure barbed wire cuts and heal all wonnds
where proud fresh has set in. It i3 equally efii-
cient for animals. Try it and you will not be
without it. Price 50 centi Sold by T. b. Ruge-
ley. 40-4
Tbe appointment of Wsraouth as collector
of the port o f New Orleans goes a long way to-
ward illustrating Harrison's Southern policy. It
seems to be his idea to giVie the whites the of-
fices and let the negroes have the policy.—Fort
Worth Gazette. <
Bailey's Effervescent Saline Aperient, a pleas-
ant purgative, a cure for dyspepsia, sick head-
ache, biliousness, heartburn, and acid stomach.
A specific for constipation, and is as palatable
as a glass of soda water. :;i -5
Germany has followed Mexico in making a
treaty with -Japan, which recognizes the right of
the Japanese to control foreigners in their coun-
try as well as natives, not indeed to the full ex
tent, but far more than has been the case in the
treaties of other Christian powers.
Any lady sending a postage stamp to Dr. J P.
Dromgoole, Louisville. Ky , will receive a Fam-
ily Medical Adviser; a useful book that shonld
be kept in every household. 31-5
Dancers from Egypt and Siam and various
places have been performing at the Paris Expo-
sition, but the gypsy dancers from tho slope of
the Albambra in Granada practise such movf-
ments and postures that evei the Parisians
think it won't do.
Lodestone Liniment will positively cure rheu-
matism, neuralgia, headache, toothache, ear-
ache—in fact every ache and pain known to the
human frame 30 4.
About two-thirds of thestates in the 'union
have railroad commissions, and are pleasel
with them; still some Texas) papers that would
not know a commission shduld they meet it in
the road, are opposed ttrtnfet^Snlphur Springs
Gazette. '
Why do you harg on to i
have snc^ **-
~oy when you
it**
a St. Louis man claim:
hie discovery. He says
w jys stand the heat of the
in better than any othc
couldn't have been born i
made a vaiua-
• person can al-
■th he was bom
-t a pity we all
/ or August.
Get a 75 cent bottle of Lo«?
and your children will not h
ing all through the night.
nft
aat in sports
supremacy in
the Massachusetts
England has taken it for
she easily leads the wor*
yachting has gone, and ^
riflemen are teaching her th. -t when Americans
set out to do things they faire no odds.
Thos. of the gentler sex (are the greatest ad-
vocates of Cascarine. It Is i:ust what is needed
by most women. j 31-5
Men who "give" nothing ;!ind hold on do not
build up cities and enrich! themselves. They
prosper, if at all, because otter men do invest in
enterprises that promote tbe general advance
ment.—Fort Worth Gazette.^
Why do you keep combifig out your hair ev-
ery morning when Lodestone Hair Vigor is so
near at hand* ' 30-4
Raise hogs. They will wit the corn which
would bring yon a small pric e, and furnish you
meat for which you would b<< obliged to pay a
high price. -Fort Worth Gaz ette.
We have our first bottle of Chill Eradipator to
be returned to us—It is guaranteed. 75 cents
per bottle. 30 4
"Squeezing the Silk Girls" Is the heading of
an editorial in the Philadelpl la Record. A mus-
lin or percale girl is consider -d the best squeez
ing in these parts just now.—);?ort Woth Gazette.
Months of sickness, lonp, doctors bill, and
broken health can all be avo led by taking Cas-
carine. ' 315
W. B. Tate, a philanthropic bachelor of Ten
nessee. has divided a fifth ' of his fortune of
$100,000. between forty nee ^ Confederate vet-
erans of that State.
Cascarine acts as a tonic t<
the only positive cure for co'
and $1.
:he bowels. It Is
'tipation. 50 cts.
31-5
An old bachelor says: "It' 1 all nonsense to
pretend that love is blind. I never knew a man
in love that did not see ten tl nes as mnch in his
sweetheart as I conld."
Boils and pimples are cau:
Cascarine cleanses the syste
liver.
The people do not want t
they only want to fix It s-'
hurt them.—Fort Worth
,by impure blood,
md regulates the
3 31--5
1-jft the railroads:
1 'lroads cannot
is O
Blood Purifi
Begin at once touse L
or, end yon t~11* 11^ - ny-^"
The dog tax of Franceglvet the state an an-
nual revenue of about one m| llion five hundred
thousand dollars.
Flatulency and wind on thef
by Indigestion. Cascarine is
-tomach is caused
best remedy 31-5
should never for-
•dU never remem-
He who receives a good tu:
get it; he who does un:
berlt.
Regulate the liver 'by usi:
sure remedy. Casoa Vine.
!
In England check* reins ar^ now entirely out
of use, being forbid jden by I
Cascarine is an excellent
milu inaction. ple:Asantto
that pleasant but
315
for children:
31-5
It is a wise child that goes*out of the room to
laugh when the old" man maihes his thumb.
The Eighth Wonder of the! World—Lodestone
Dentina for tbe teeth afid gtfms. 30 4
£ J.
Employ no one to do vftbjwr you can easily do
yourself. >"
If you«:ife is made a ton tore by indigestion
and headache, take Caacaris/te and be cured. 31-5
It is not selfish to be correct in your dealing.
If your bowels do not act ,-egularly. take Cas-
carine and relieved. j 31-5
5-Ton Cotton GF Scales* $60
seam box
Br. >s Tare beam.
V (ranted for S Years
Freight Paid.
ACkiUTfiJfifiMTED.
"JONES HE PAYS THE FREI6HT.'
For Free Price IA*, Addrem
J0JTX8 ot UnreHAWQg, Itwghttim.M.T.
Children Cry
FOR PITCHER'S
Casferia
Centaur Liniment is the most wonderful Pain-Curex
the world has ever known.
Kissonri, Kansas & Texas
DOTTi
DAILY T-BAIN
6 3 -fc
%
l\
Doxsee's Pure Clam Juice!
ABNatural Medicine. Ac Agreeable, ret jiusuejcue tcee.
"Throw physics to the dogs."—Shakespeare or]_Bucon (?).
Invigorating and. - Appetizing 1
if taken cold before eating in the morning. It toneh up the system, settles a disordered stomach.
A gentle but sure <*athartic. Ii a inatitudiual cocktuU must be iudulgcd in, it will counteract its
bad effects as to stomach an«l brain.
An ansoiutc anil Mire preventive of sea-sickness.
Its components are closely allied to the gastric juices of the stomach.
An Antidote to Intoxicants.
If taken regularly, Fresh and Cold, three times a day before each meal, it will put the stom-
ach in such a shape that the necessity tor stimulants will not be felt, and excessive desire can be
toned down to simple moderation.
I shall keep clam Juice constantly on hand, to ha served free to my customers. Knowing
positively from experience that it will do all that is claimed for it above, I will try in eeery way
to promote its use, as it is not my wish to encourage excessive drinking, and if I can discourage
it by giving away freely the only known antidote, 1 will be only U*> glad to do so. *
CHAS. HOLZCRAF,
Proprietor Eookboru Sain. " BELTON, TEXAS.
DENISON, PARSONS,
FT. SCOTT, NEVADA,
SEDALLA, .
HANNIBAL,
KANSAS CITY, ST. LOUIS
AND ALL POINTS
IsTOETH AISTIO EAST.
PULLMAN
BUFFET SLEEPING GABS
TO
T. LOUIS
AND
ILansas City
WI rilQUT CHANGE.
iLQ'i Cotton
1 LEVATOR
STATIONS.
i/'uvfr
. Leav«
Leave
ELEVATING
^.ANING
Cleburne
Dallas.
TNG
Pari*..
-Louis
stations.
Galveston
Temple
HJBY E: JONES UTv - ,ROCK^
COMPANY
ARKANSAS
BAKES & YIC&REY
butchers.
DEALERS IU HIDES AND
SHEEP PELTS.
Avenue, Belton, Texas.
FRIEZE & HAYSLIPS
(SUCCESSORS TO .JESSE W. PIERCE)
FIRE INSURANCE AGENCY.
COMBINED ASSETS OVER $100,005,000.00.
Insnres all kinds of property from loss by Fire, L!ghtn!ncr, Cyclones and Tornadoes.
$3000 INSURANCE FOE ONLY 25 CENTS A DAY,
Or $4.50 FOR THIRTY DAYS, in the OLD TRAVELERS LIFE AND ACCIDENT Com
pany, of Hartford. Office ;u xilto liuiltlsr.fr.
BELTOKT.
fii«rv ** pio^pti v t*mo.
-:-C. M. CAMPBELL-:-
Successor to Campbell Bros.
Dealer ie Yellow Pine it Cpss
ii p. nrunra,
Texas Passenger Agent, Fori Worth.
J. Waldo, Gen'l Traffic Manager.
Gaston Mkslier,
Gen'l Pass, antl Ticket A<jt.
W. I). WOODRUFF, Local Aeent, Belton.
SANTA FE ROUTE
Time Csrd is 3£e:t March 10,1SS9.
north WAItl),
Girl vest on —
Tempi*;
B« iton
Ookithwaite.
...
({rowmvood .
Coleman. ...
Siainn«f**r... .
San Amrelo. .
Temple
Cleburne. ..
Fort Worth.
Gainesville .
Kansas City Arrive
Bell on
Golilthwaitc
Lampasas
Lr<v*fuwoo<l
Coit-niai*...
Baliinirer
San Anirelo
Temple
Cleburne
Fort Worth.
Gainesville ..
Kansas City.
i Kan. City I'a^eu
>SauAn-j ire r,
jtonio Ex. s Mixed.
/.eave. «:00 a mi
Arrive 4:30 p ml
Pass'ng'rj
5:10 p m a ni
7:11 p tu j 3:45 p m
9:1(1 p 111 ^:40 p ut
Li ave 10:41 p m 111:50 p 11 •
Arrive 12:115 a n 4n£> a 11.
Leave i>:05 a ml ?3in a 111
Arrive a ni l0:<o m
Kan City Mail and
: Kxpress 1st. L Kx.
Leave 4:40 p ml 5:15 a m
Lear *j 9:or> p m'10:05 a m
Leave 10:% p in 11:45 a m
. .Leave; 1:50 a m ar3:00piu
73W a ml
Dallas Ex j St. L. Ex
Leave -9:05 p m 10:00 a n.-
nijl~::j0 p m
12:^5 p m
5:40 p m
_ _C:*f0 D Jft.
SOUTHWARD
Kan. Cityil'assen-
!*SanAn: per
jtonio Ex I Mixed.
Arrive 10:% p mr
. Leave ,12:35 P m
' Pass'n tr'r
.Arrive! 11:37 a m 1:11 p tn
..Leave 9:37 a in a in
. Leave s:«>0 a tu 4:45 a m
..Leave- <1:08 a m'11:50 p ro
. Leavei 4:15 a m p in
.Leavei 2:44 a m 4:55 p m
.Leave! 1:25 n 111 2:00 p in
1Kan Oty Ma.il and
1 Express st L Ex
Arrive 12:15 p m; 10:20 p m
. Leave 7:45 a nr 5:20 p m
Leave 6:20 a m :i:V, p m
(Arrive 11:35 p i
| Leave ]
..Leave 3:00 a m 12:10 p m
. Leave 9:00 p 111
Cleburne A rrlve.
i Leave t
Dallas
I Arrive
Paris Leavei
St. Louis Leave.
Gal. Ex.
7:35 a m
5.05 a m
it. L Ex
5:15 p m
2:40 p m
2:20 p m
9:00 a ro
8:25 a ni
Elegant Pullman Palaee Buffet Sleeping Cars
daily bet ween Galveston and Kansas City Ma tz
nifieent Free Reclining Chair Cars between
Temple and San Angelo.
TAKE NOTICE.—All ela«ses of European
Steamship Tickets (outward or prepaid > at low-
est rates and all information furnished on ap
plication.
E A. STERLING, Ticket Clerk,
Belton. Texas
AND BILL HOLDER.
It can be used to advantage in any retail busi-
ness.
First, all the small accounts are ny themselves
in a safe place and made out in bill form with
one to three writings saved.
For collecting the b- ok may be carried. If a
bill is paid it is torn out; if not, it is ready for
the next time.
When parties cal': to pay mu<-h time saved,
as the bill is ail ready t« ite receipted.
The Ledger complete with 1000 printed Mils,
costs about the same as *o many common bills,
which would have to be used to render an ac-
count in regular form.
So convenient and complete is the arrange-
ment that parties doing a small cash or limited
credit busines* can use it as their entire set of
books.
The Ledger is not limited to any special bus!
ness, but can be used to advantage in any retail
business.
Full stock and low prices. COKX TAKEN in exchange fur Lumber at
current rates.
Yard ai Office, Corner Peaelope and Railway Sts., BELTON.
Any businessman who Is on the lookout for
| practical and time *avfng inventions can not
aff<*rd to pass this without, a trial, which m-
I volves no risk, as the bills furnished are alone
j worth the monev for the purposes of bill heads
j or statements
The Acme Ledger, complete with 1000 bill
« %■ «nd .i 111 jiu attractive form.
011 go< d paper ii uO there being about :«0
} of the bill heads in the cover ready for use at
: t&e time of delivery. The extra bill heads are
I all-punched ready to be inserted In the cover at
\ the option of the party using.
Renewals can be obtain**! at any time at tbe
rate of $3.00 per 1000. Special discounts on
i larger quantities
; Manufactured and for -a!e bv
| THE BELTON JOURNAL.
Belton. Texas
PROFESSIONAL CARDS.
K. . TALMil', Rl. D.,
Office near Tyler A EmbrceV Draft Store,
Bellon, Texas.
Office hours begin every day at abont 8 a. m ,
and 2 p. m.
Call at office or at Tyler A Kmbrre'8 drug store
during tbe day, and at residence, corner of Wall
and UoUexeetreets, at night. Except In cases of
emergency, will do only office practice on T\io«-
daya and Frl- ays. Telephone oonnectlo*- -
K. fe t*.
Office over Farr Jt Nunn's Drag Store,
Bellon, Teiu.
Residence on Avenne.
W. T. MIA VVO-V
ATTORNEY AT LAW.
Rellon, Texas.
Office In Con rthonse
GEO W TYLEIt. FRANK AXDKEWb.
TYI.I2K & A\l>Kr:ws,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
Bellon, Texas.
Office: Front Room, un sUIrs in Xigro BuiMiug.
DR. TAT MIR II ««)*«>*,
Pliysi<-lan and Surgeon,
Rellon. Texas.
Office at T. B. kngvlcy's druir store. Ko-1
denceon Main street, oi.inwitu iiaptlxl church.
Telephone connection -it n-sMciuw
D. E. I'ATTEKSOW,
Attorney at Law, Land Atcent and Collector.
Ri'liun, Texas.
Office In the 'VottrnaJ Building.
* . .4. ItKA M>,
ATTORNEY AT LAW
Temple. Texas,
Land Ae nt and Collector
I*. I.. RI'MLLL,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Office in NiuTO ISuildiut;.
Helton, Te\ i«.
Special attention paid to <'ominctvi.il an l j'ro
hate Law.
RROW.V I". |.|.E,
ATTORNEY AT LAW.
Rellon. Tex a*.
Oflice vr'tli W S. dolman, in the Court house
03
ftopo
•PURIFIER
fflHE safest and inost reliable P.lood Medi« ine.
J It curt s every form of disease arising fi' in
hnj ii:e and iin-fished and rapidly
builds up brokca-dowu (onstitutiona.
the best known alterative.
PRICE 50 CENTS PER BOTTLE.
WINKELMANN 4 BROWN DRUG CO
Sole Proprietors,
baltimore. m d.. usa
For Sale by TYLER k EMBREE. Belton. Tern
I onre, rrompt, rotitrre
Cure for Impotence, Lota
of Manhood. Seminal
I Emit&ions. Spermatorrhea,
Neruousnett, Self Distrust,
Loit of Memory, Ac. Will
make you a STRONG, Vigor-
ous Man Prlci 9100, 6
Boxes, $5 00.
Special Directions Mailed
OZMANIIS
ORIENTAL
SEXUAL
PILLS
with each Box. Address
B&U&rl S&sv Lialaist Co-,
2918 Lucas AW.
ST. LOUI8. - MO.
UNDENWOOD
college
,or YOUNG UOIES
- If,
•«1 lli.
V tl!
r..nirh I. . *
• uithful \ iu
\rt uml M i-i.-
!tl. For •
— - _ - , ' tr , a/Mr-
Kcv. KOBT IB WIN, D. ! ., Pre.. M- Ikwln, l.
JOB PRINTING!
l^ing fully equipped with the best preppe*. anci
the newest styles of type aou having the inoft.
complete *tock of Stati >nery in this part of iht
Slate the JOURNAL is* prvj«tred to execute any
kind of Job I'rlutin? In-tyie* to nult tbe nx M
exacting and at reasonable prk-ea. Address.
THE 10URNAL, Belton, Texas.
ADVERTISE!
The JOrRNAL b the farorite aroone advertlR
twenut;'. i ?ul« i
-- !
iance Exchange,
MAiN STREET, BELTON.
A Fall Line of Baggies, Wagons, Stoves
AND STAPLE FAMILY GROCERIES,
which will he sol<l as cheap as can lie purchased in any Texas market.
Come in and see ns even if you d > not wish to purchase. We think we
can make it to vour interest to trade with us.
NO MORE EYE-GLASSES
i fiamnmmWe N tearttt
.returned: its circulation i> lar re. and amor* all
elasses; it jroes into every nel::bborb<*od in Bel
•onntv
PARKER'S
HAIR BALSAM
Ci<rarises and beautifies the hair.
Promote* a luxuriant growth.
Never Fa.lt to Restore Gray
I Hair to its Youthful Color.
PretinU 1' in4ro?T hair failing
HOSE
MITCHELL'S
Eye-Salve
A. Certain, 8a{e, and Effective BemecSy for
SORE, WEAK, & IIIFUMED EYES,
Producing Long-Sightedness. & Restor-
ing the Sight of tho Old.
Cures Tear Drops, Granulations, Stye
Tumors, Red Eyes, Matted Eye Lashes,
in m t rne <nt* eluef in rrmiuT cnt,
Also, equally efflcacioua when nsed la other
i£&ladiea. aach mm l lrera. Frrtr Aarea,
Tamora, Hale Rbean. Rima, PI lea. or
wherever Inflammation exlsta. MMTCMKL.Mm'9
MA.lt n may ba naed to advantage.
8*UkriUDrudNiit2}Cnu.
JOB PRINTING AT ST. LOUIS PRICES
n V |#iu|M ■■ awwaypfmiimmcntti _
■ -f"a^ WRAPPIN6 PAPER
I HIE IV ftlUII L V _ _ Old new«i ar*?rs for wrani in* or forr.uttin
AT THE
JOURNAL OFFICE
iv un ■■■ ■« u ■ ni b
i Old newspapers for wrapping or for potting
' under carpets, can be had at the Jul'EXAL
■ OFFICE at cents per 100.
1 Every citizen of Bell County .honld be a <«n
stant reader of tbe
BELTON JOURNAL
tae best County weekly i ubiUb*-d in TVxa? It
enterpr'se in publishing all the news render- it
popular; it$ Independence in all re*pe<-tis com-
mand* respect; it** maTi*ir -m*-nt U literal and
progressive: its *r«tem in bu*ine s i« ►traiiri.t-
forward and satisfactory: it* reputation f«.r re-
liability and enterprise are unqae«l1oned; its
standing a> a newspaper i« second to none any-
where. :iub«<-r!*«e for It
TERMS: 3 Months, 40c; 6 months, 75c;
Year, $1.60.
Sub?cripti« n> taken at th*- office, or by either
ot the following trentlempn. who are author-
ized to receipt for money* for this office:
Ali p* stma.- ters ot Bel- Klileen, E M spencer.
county. Maxdale. J. T Hunt.
B&rtlett. A. Moss. Moffat. J II. Ilobba.
Brookhaven, Forter Noianviile. J.K. Ellison.
Oenaville, A . O. B«,Dey.
Pendletonville, S. J.
Brown.
R'-gers. -las P. Reed.
Saiado. J H. Barbee.
Sparta. T K Tomlin-
son.
Summers Mill. P. D.
Banning
Holland,C J Wllkir«on Temple. M. W. Branch
Howard Jam-# Joyce Troy D. W. McGiaaeoa
Little Blrer City Post Youngsport.T B bpeed
master.
J. c.
ParK
Coperas «"ove.
Clement^
Corn Hill. J W. White.
Daviila. H- S. Wlisoo.
Florence. P stma-ter
Echo. M B. Money.
Heidenhelmer. J. M.
* right.
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