Halletsville Herald. (Hallettsville, Tex.), Vol. 18, No. 35, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 23, 1889 Page: 1 of 8
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HALLETSVILLE, LAVACA CO., TEXAS, THURSDAY EVENING, MAY : 23| 1889. NO 35
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The Cnerc Star is fourteen years
old
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The 30 inst will be soldiers’ dec-
oration day.
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Tin ore has been discovered near
Topeka, Kansas. * ' V ,
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Mississippi will elect state of,
ficers on the 5th of next Novem-
ber.
The national convention of the
Farmers’ Alliance and Wheel was
held.at Birmingham, Ala., the lat-
ter part of last week. The object
of the convention was to consider
the cotton bagging queston.
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All the state tire underwriters’
associations have disbanded since
Attorney-General Hogg declared
that they must do so under the
provisions of the recently framed
1 anti-trust law, and an early and
■ The AJexia canning factory has
. ... „. . - been put in operation. • • . v -'
The Poet is crying for just what heavy rise . hi insurance rates is’ , . The Texas Spring Palace will
Houston needs—a decent opera predicted.
bouse.
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James P. Newcomb; of San Any
Illinois will soon eregt a ,ipou- tonioj is the latest new'-com(b)er.
utnent to the late General John A.
Logan.
at the United States capital. Jim-
mie has an eye on the San Antonio
postpffiee, biw before he knows it
The Scotch law ‘fixes the mar- his oppoment, Mr. Harn, will seal
riageable age at 12 for girls and 15 J his squinter with an ancient egg.
'for boys.
and that will settle^the matter.
The Michigan legislature has In referring to the Herald
passed the woman’s municipal suf- “State Press,” of; the Galveston
frage bilL ___ News, pays us the following com-
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LONE STAR LACONICS. •
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Lockhart now ‘has a national
bank. ^ ?
Weimar now has three fire com-
panies.. ,
Rockwall is ; to have a $15,000
flouring mill. : ’
: .District court of Jackson county
convened last week. . ,
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R. W. DODD,
. • . • X~-—1-i Is still lbs old stand at —-—£ ■
YOAKUM, TEXAS.
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With a choice' and well'selected stock of
Is still -at his old stand at £—
YOAKUM, TEXAS. .
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General Merchant
CLOTHING, DRY GOODS, BOOTS, SHOE*, GROCERIES HARDWARE
Agricultural Tmplomeraents, etc,, etq.,.etc.
Hig-liOKt Prices paid for Country Produce,
The Hays county Times has ek- Pliment> which isfhighly appreciat-
tered upon its fifth volume. Sue- ed: •
j “The Halletsville Hebald is
a good reporter of local events.” '
0668 to it
Ibvin W. Bishop, the great
.mind-reader, died in New York One of our exchanges says that
the other day. “every editor must go to the Press
~ . UiTUT . , ! Association next vear and take his
IT is said that 4,500 immigrants -v What' editor that
landed at Castle Garden, §. T., i L.,1 L,
one day last week. - has not got a_.wife going to. do?
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The annexation of Mexico to
the United States affords a new
them© for the metropolitan press.
^ T?:ie Southern Baptists’ associa-
tion will hold its next annual con-
vention at Fort Worth in May,
i!890. T I .
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The famous Mexican’ military
band and President Didz, of Mex-
'' ico, will attend the Galveston cele-
bration next month.
An Indian was hanged at Tuc-
son, Arizona, for murder, Friday—
the first instance of the kind in the
history, of that -territory.
opBii on the 29th inst
' fThfere will be a big free barbe-
cue at Victoria on the 30th inst. ■
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A hail storm did cansidejabh
damage to crops in Fayette county
last Vreek. . . ' •. ''' , :
Wool is being marketed at .San
Saba at the fate of 15,000 pounds
per day. V - •'
, B, H. McGill,-a' prominent citi-
| z^n qf Colorado county, died a few ’
days ago. . • ' • J
At Wichita, Jobe StewaFt was :
sentenced to Jife in prisonmeut for
murder, Saturday.
The \ ictoria, <fe Beeville branch.
of the Southern Pacific has been
completed to Goliad.
V John Zodich, , of San Antonio,
desires to purchase new Irish po-
tatoes in car-load lots.
wife.”’ What is a poor editor that. Tsham Tooke, Jh, has served his
t-e.rm in the penitentiary and feturnr
ed to Weipiar, his home. ;.’
.Eight thousand dollars of the.
that we could help you out of your i 810,000 stock for a state prohibj-*
predicament, Bro. McFlarlandf., * !tlon paper has been, raised, ; ; V
•—-—• “Crop prospects better , than
Agent for (Hidden Steel Barbed Wire.
A. STANKIEWICZ,
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Ahuaya has on hand*'complete and
select stock of
JEWEtllY, WATCHES
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Watches, clocks hna jew pity repaired
on short notiice
Also a full stock of fire arms, am-
munition, shells, cartridges, etc.
Gun and Eistol Material for tale Cheap.
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Poor,, innocent;, thing! Would
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Groceries,
Hardware, queens war::; \Oi >ts, shoes,hats & caps. •
All cf vhich.-will be sold at the lowest price for oath. Headquarters for
V.BUTTEB, EGGS, POULTRY,
a ud to&i kinds of Produce. , Highest market prices paid Hides and Cottow
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[r On to the sea will be the watch-
word when dirt is broken for the
Waco and Aransas Pass railroad.
4 —f Waco Evening News.
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The Texas Farmer, published
<at Dallas, by the Farmers’ Co-op-
A »erafcive Publishing Co.,, is a wel-
come visitor to our sanctum.
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Hon. “Lit” Moore will not be so
•easily “downed” in his next race
JEor congress as some of our neigh-
bor!
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ing exchanges may think.
The citizens of Austin • have
withdrawn their §75,000 bonus to
the Aransas Pass branch from
Shiner, because the road"* was not
completed to that eity within the
time specified in the contract.
Austin would better “come to
time,” or the S. A. & A. P. .may
give her the go-by by a few miles.
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The authorities of Burlington,
Iowa, seized four ckr loads of beer,
that were sent there one day last
week. Iowa is a prohibition state.
The brewing companies (Anheuser
and Lem p.) have begun suit for
damage, claiming that the seizure
was a violation of the rights of the
interstate commerce act. ’
^ * 8uluvan, the slugger, is train-
l ing for his fight with Kilrain for
v-; the championship of the world,
| to take place on the 8th of July.
r Alljen Thorndike Kice, thei
'/ aiewly appointed LTnited States
- minister to Russin, died suddenly
. I .at the Fifth Avenue Hotel in
7 Tork last week.
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The Supreme Lodge of the An-
ment Order of United Workmen
Ke United States and Canada
will meet in Omaha, Nebraska, on
the 3d of June.
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The fastest' time on record was
by the steamship City of
recently: it made the trip
Queenstown to New York in
five days and twenty-three hours. .
'> ^ECBETABY Blaine is said to be
sinking rapidly under the weight
of the great responsibilities resting
upon him. The fact is, the “un-
crowned king” should have been
retired long ago.
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’Itseems that the white-house is
not large enough to hold all of the
“fan folks” that are sponging on
\ and Mrs. Harrison; at least
$tn. H.. Is clamoring for an ad-
dition to the mansion.
One hundred persons were pois-
* oned by eating ice-cream at a
church festival at New Haven,
Conn., Friday night. Thirty-four
of the cases were pronounced fatal
attending physicians.
The Scott Chinese exclusion act
being rigidly enforced at El
iso. This is as it should be.
scrubs of the Celestial -king-
have been permitted to dis-
our border and coast cities
enough.
A horrible tragedy was enact-
ed on the main plaza at Forest
Citv, Ark., Saturday evening. Sev-
eral negroes and several white men
became involved m u dispute over
a school election, which resulted
in the killing of’the pity marshal,,
the sheriff and a deputy county
clerk. The. streets have since
been paraded by squads of armed
citizens and excitement over the
affair runs high.
Attorney-General Hogg lias
written a letter to the district at-
torney of the Austin district, re-
questing him to institute proceed-
ings to remove from office County
J udge J. M. Brackenridge, of
Travis county, on the ground of
incqmpetency and misconduct
Major Brackenridge/s friends are
standing nobly by him and assert
that the attorney-general’s action
was prompted by prejudice.
A fireman made his will under
peculiar cireumstapces near Den-
ver, Colorado, the other day. His
engine was ditched and he was
caught underneath, the red-hot fire-
box and pinned to the ground. His
head projected fro;n under did en-
gine, and while his body was roast-
ing he called a brakeman and dic-
tated his will, leaving §15,000 to his
two brothers in Han Francisco. Af-
ter suffering untold agony for about
an l our, lie offered up a prayer
and lied.. . ^ !
To the. Halletsville. Herald :i
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ever before”, is the report that
comes from all over the state.
Dallas has. commenced work ,on
a six-story hotel. The building
will have 175 rooms and a base-
ment. •
The handsome sum of $02,250
was offered for a.business lot front-
ingonMain street in Dallas, the
other day.
.. The commissioners’ court of
Colorado county has- decided to
erect a .840,000 court house arid* a
§20,000 jail.
New Birminghry»rin East Tex-
as, is not yet old and al-
ready has electric Alights and a
street railway-. I
The DeAVitt Vollunteers, , of
Cuero, have ordered new uniforms,
which will arrive in time for the.
Galveston drill.
A* carpenter named Blender fell
from, the dome of the Teias Spring
Palace at Fort Worth and was
-killed, last Friday-. •
The citizens of Rockwall will
soon build ft 3-ipile bridge across
the large . bottoms near that town
at a cost of §1(^000/ '. Y .
The DeWitt'‘Volunteers aredril- \
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INTENT ATS
£N©AM1®M£NT
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6,000 SOLDIERS IN CAMP. $80,000 IN PRIZES.
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The Largest Number of Prizes for State Companies Ever Offered,
TSE MAGNIFICENT HISTORICAL OPEN-AIR SPECTAClJE OF THE
Fall of Paris 0 Reign of the Comiiiahe
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A Realistic, Panoramic and Ffcrewor^ Drama of Paris Befbre, Hurine and
After thre Franco-Ghertuan War ,
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Startling Mechanichal Effecte; -Realistic TraiisfonnaRon; Byrolechnle Display:Balloon Asfeensions;
Reincefl Rates for- Ronnd-Trip Mets Oyer All UMd-Froi All Points.
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UNDERTAKER SUPPLIES.
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MURCHISON LODGE, No. 80.
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'■ MURCHISQN LODGE,No. 8#.-A. F. A A- M
^tatr-i meeting at the*Ma9omc.Bfe(U, in the town
ot Halietayille,' on the Saturday of, or preeeeamg,
[ 'the foil moon of each month. All Master Masons
in good standing are nvited toattend. ‘
Besj. F. Mij-Lia, WM j
8 a if UiVall, Sec. V '• . •
Jos, I Kainer.
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ROUGH AND DRESSED
CALCASIEU LUMBEE,
SASH, DOORS, BUNDS. ETC.,
Halletsvill?, TeIas. - -
EVERYBODY INVITED.
A. M* SELAJfNON, President. .
J. W. BURSON, Secretary.
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GALVESTON EXHIBITION ASSOCIATION,
^ CALVESTOP, TEXAS-
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Watches, Clocks
Instruments, etc, ✓
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dane on short nor
ling night and day and will no silver remodeled.
doubt make a good record at the j
Galveston exhibition, *
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Friday’s rain was was quite gen-
eral throughout TexasfJ^o damage
done by hail, though slight dam-
ages were done by the wind.
Liiling has at' last “come tip”
with its bonus to tlie Aransas Bass
and the road will be completed to
that place by the 1st of August.
Mrs. Ann Uptbn.' pother of the
late Col. AYm.^ Upton, of S,chulen-
burg, died at the home of her Son-
in-law near Huntsville last'Thurs
day.
eler and Optician
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^Diamonds, Musical'
All .kiijds of work
YE-MUm {
T. A. HILL,
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•,r tice. Old-gold and
Call and examine
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LUMBER!
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HaRetsYitie, ' Texas.
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keep constantly on hand'a full line oU
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The Wharton lack'
pendent says
that grazing in.thafteounty “is re-
•thfe spring,
in.prime cou-
of the year.”
ported at the besll-
Cattle of all ages are
dition for this season
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ROUGH AND DRESSED, LUMBER,
SHINGLES SASH, DOORS, BLINDS
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ful experience, about that. ut6ot”y Air. John -C.'Pfeucli, well knowii
Gonzales is anxiously awaiting
the completion of- the- Aransas i ’ . . ...
pass and the Inquirer says the H. j Call and see us* what .we hav’nt got, we will take" pleasure
A. <fc A. P. means cheaper freights,! in getting for you.
better shipping.facilities, and bet-^ • 1 ..
ter accomnidelations to the citizens
business?— [ Y.oakum Graphic,
No, Brothers, we are nut biiilt
that way; and when the Herald
begins’to “toot‘d for anything
something is ^oing to “d-rap.” In-
inditing the squib ’“about that
toot business” we-^were prompted
merely by a desire to give you the
valuable information' contained
therein—from a neighborly, broth-’
erly st^ndpoint-r-that you might
profit thereby. Give us something
harder!
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in this part of the state,' ..died at
tlie MiitL hotel at Cuero last Wed-- . -
nesday, iji the 03d year of liis age.
He was one of the ’ company who
built the railroad from Victoria to
Port Lavaca, before the war.
A few days ago, at the Alabama
crossing of tilt* Trinity * river, in
Leon county, a ferryman mimed
Webb found §40,000 in gold under-
neath a large rock which he Avis
prying out of his way. Tl|e.
money is supposed to have been’
put'there by the Mexicans in- the
early days of Texas. . ,
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YHLOW PINE & CYPRESS LUMBER,
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Particular attention given to all
dMrs entrusted to bis eare. . ,
WM. - MUENTER.
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GEN® MERCHANDI8F
S. W. Cor.Pub. Square, Halletsrille.
IVCy eatablTshment doesn’t lay claim
LIA' to the. brilliancy of a bazar, ndr
the expansion of an emporium,
but I do claim to have cheap goods,
and defy aompetition. Coifia, give mo
a call, price niy1 goods, and yon will %
be convinced. J
H. J. Heye,
MAaOrAOTTREB o» AHB DUU1 t*
Saddlery & Harness.
[Bet\«*n Derail & Bennett's And Eosenherg^J y .
HalletsHilc, Twcqs. • - H
•Keeps on hand a complete stock of
: saddles, harness, collars, bridles,
whips, etc/ Afty style.of harness,
saddle, bridles, etc., made&p or-
der on short notice. Repair-
ing neatly and cheaply done.
ttg^Triitiming neatly tloiie
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As he always keeps a full -supply of
.Hrimming material on hand.
Cattle with the above brand, dn
side^—also some branded likewise
on liip - belong to 11. M. AhdersoS^
Seclusion, 'Fexasi ‘ ■ • •
S. A. CARNES &C0.
SIIIXtlL TEXAS.
. Sasli, Doors, Blinds,;Buikler^ Harchvai^^ - ■ f
Agricultural liqplenhc'nts, ITacks and Buggies. '
Agents for the celebrated > . ■-
H . 1.A liiCT.Gri WAGONS,
Call and see u:s before b-lving ejsewbore; we .will do btir best
• to please yoo l»'.t!i ;n quality and prices. '
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STAPLE and FANCY GROCERIES,
I . Crockery and Glassware,
and ail kinds of homo produce
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flwt edaas goods, and »t
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to at .tain cmr
polite treatment,
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Mair, W. A. Halletsville Herald. (Hallettsville, Tex.), Vol. 18, No. 35, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 23, 1889, newspaper, May 23, 1889; Hallettsville, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth995505/m1/1/: accessed May 24, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Friench Simpson Memorial Library.