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The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1880-10-30
Which Is Better-Beer or Water :

A man once said to me, "Do you be-
lieve there is more strength in glass OF
water than mug of ale?"
Stop bit,' / answered; "that is not
a fair comparison. You pay five cents
for your mug of ale-I get my glass of
water for nothing. Besides when Idrink
my glass of water, am satisfied with it;
but If You drink glass of ale, directly
you must send down another to keep it
company. Suppose now you get quart
and pay twelve cents for it, and / take
the same amount of money, and pay six
cents for steak, and two cents for bread,
and two cents for potatoes, and two cents
for apples, and have glass of fresh
water for nothing. Which is the better?
eat my dinner and am satisfied with it,
and so back to my work and earn more
money. You go back to the saloon to
get more ale, to spend your money, and
waste your time"
Ii the beer drinker will abstain long
enough to get rid of the effects of his
beer, he viii find himself able to do
much more work than when he drinks.
One of the greatest champions of our
day, when he is training for q contest.
says there is nothing like cold water and
dumb bells.
There is no greater mistake than to
suppose that beer and spirits strengthen
a man. They only stir him up and use
up his strength. l drove twenty-four
miles the other day. When I got within
mile or so of home my horse tagged. 1
gave him sharp cut with my whip and
he went faster, but did not say 1--WE
strengthened my horser' II that's the
way to strengthen him, why not let him
live on whip-cord Alcohol is q whip
to him that drinks it, and he is great
fool that whips himself.
Some years ago two men took an early
start and walked over to a neighboring
town twenty miles away. Having
done their business they walked about to
see the place, and met fellow-towns
man, who proposed to return with them,
and invited them into beer-shop for a
strengthening drink. NO" said they,
I'VE are teetotalers, and we have had our
lunch. But he could not go without a
printing of ale. At last they were off,
and for while they all kept even step,
till after some miles the beer man began
to lag behind, and, at the halfway
house he must have braeer. After
three miles more he wanted another, and
this time it was whisky. Finally at fif-
teen miles, he gave out entirely and
stopped for the night, where he was laid
up for day or two; while they walked
on home and the next day were fresh for
bushes.
oh, no, friends, ali nature works on
water, and we believe that God meant
that man should do the same.
Take the water, friends, and all the
good things that go with it. Gods bles-
sing is in it.
The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1880-10-30

four additional complaints was received
from the new city hall and warrants are
now being made out for tae arrests ofthe
parties.
According to the returns furnished to
the press by the bullion department of
Wells, Fargo & Co.'s express the receipts
of treasure at San Francisco during the
quarter ending September Both, were over
S11 900.
Pilot Doig Discharged.
San FRAScIsco, Oct. 23.-Judge Hoff-
man discharged Capt Thomas Doig from
custody this afternoon on writ of habeas
corpus. q. s. District Attorney Teare
took an appeal TO the U. S. circuit court
for the purpose, as he said, of getting the
opinion Of Judge Sawyer to show the
authorities.in Oregon that he had done
his duty in the premises, although he
believes the conclusion arrived at by
Judge Hoffman to be correct. Judge
Hoffman based his decision on the fact
that the Indictment does not charge an
offense committed within the Jurisdiction
of the U. s. district court of Oregon or
any other u. S. district court.
Fiendisf Murder.
Los ANGELES, Oct. 25.-Yesterday a
most fiendish murder was perpetrated in
this city, the victim being native Cali
fornia boy, aged 8 years. The boy had
been TO a store on an errand. for his
mother, and on his return was met by o
man who told him he would find pack
age of candy on certain window ledge
that had been placed there for him. The
boy got the package and ate some of the
candy, the remainder of which his mother
took from him and laid it aside until he
had eaten breakfast. The child has
scarcely taken three mouthsful of coffee
before he complained ofa burning sensa-
tion IN his stomach, and few minutes
afterwards was seized with spasms. A
physician was sent for who pronounced
tie symptoms the same as those produced
by strychnine. The usual remides we're
applied but the boy fingered for an hour
and died in great agony. Joe Woods and
Bill Justice. white men, and colored
woman, who claims to be Woods wife,
have been arrested on suspicion, the
woman having been heard to threaten
the boys life.
The Little Board Busted
San Francisco, Oct. 25-The California
Stock Exchange. better known as the
Little Board, has suspended business
owing to the depression i'll the stock bus
iueSs
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PACIFIC COAST.
Sacramento Dispatches.

SACRAMENTO Oct. 1S.-The frat instance
OF lady being appointed marshal of Il
political procession in California occurred
here to-day. Miss Kate Cross, the daring
horsewoman, was named by Marshal
Bryte as one of his aids in the Republi-
can procession of Thursday evening. She
is TO command cavalcade of ladies'.
The railroad commission met here Sat-
urday, but though the notice was wide-
spread, not a solitary person appeared to
lodge any complaint against any railroad.
woman Murdered In Sam Francisco.
San FRANcisco, Oct, 21-Last night
man named George Wheeler went 10 the
city prison and said he had killed his
sister-in-law. Adele Tillson, at No. %
Keafny street, Officers went to the place
and found the body of the girl packed
away in trunk. According to Wheeler's
story he had been intimate with Adele
for some time, his wife knowing their re-
lations. The family had been living in
Cisco, but some days ago Wheeler and
Adele came to San francisco and took a
room as man and wife. At Cisco Adele
had become acquainted with George w.
| Peck ham, and they became intimate,
| Wheeler says crimiaally so. Friday A. S.
| Peekham followed Adele from Cisco and
| took room in the same house. Wheeler
became Jealous, and SAYS he made up his
| mind rather than have Adele leave him
! for Peckham he wonld kill her. yester-
| day morning the girl told Wheeler she
| was going to leave him, and lef. the house
| to visit friend. She retnrnedsoon after,
! however, for her clothes, and while in
the room Wheeler stfangled her to death
by placing one hand over her month and
choking her with the other. So quickly
was this done that the occupants of rooms
on either side neither heard or knew any
! thing of the affair. He then packed the
| body in trunk and shortly after went to
1 the station house and confessed the deed
Peckhaul, fhe lover of Adele, says he has
beon trying for some time to get Adele
| away from Wheeler, and finally she had
| agreed to leave him,
/ Doig in yourt Again.
! SAS FRANCISCO, Oct. 21-To. day Captain
Doig. charged with wrecking the Great
/ Republic, appeared in the Z. s. district
court on d writ of habeas eorpns. asking
/ for discharge from custody. His counsel
made the point that he WAS arrested on
complaint charging him with commit.
ting the crime of manslaughter on the
high seas and that he ought not TO be
| sent back to Oregon for trial, as the of
tense was committed outside of the state
] of Oregon. The assistant u. S. district
attorney produced large number of au-
thorities in opposition TO that point. and
Judge Hoffman took the matter under
adyisement.
4 One cf Those Heavy Dividends.
/ SAN FRAsc1sco, Dct. 22.-Golden Terra
declares q dividend of 25 cents.
Various News Items.
Il sax FaAScrscp, Oct. q Mrs. Ralstor
The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1880-10-30

One day recently, as one of our prom +
nent business men was about to ente
his favorite resort for dinner, he was
accosted by an individual with decld,
edly careworn expression who begged
that he would assist him to get some
thing to eat. AS the man looked like a
worthy object of charity the gentleman
told him to go in, and directed the wal
ter to give him twenty-five cents worth
of food and charge it to his check. After
finishing his own dinner the gentleman
was proceeding to settle bis check, when,
noticing numerous look on the waiter s
face, he asked him what the hungry man
had ordered. The reply was, Five glasses
of lager"
The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1880-10-30

Quite number of darkies, young and
old, were fishing down on Kuhn's wharf
yesterday, when boy of about twelve
fell off and would have met with wa
and presence of mind of old Uncle Nose.
After the boy was safely landed bye
stander took occasion TO praise old Nose
for the heroism he had displayed. q Is
the boy your son?a asked tho sympa-
thetic spectator. No, boss, but he
mout Jess as well been. He had all de
bait in his pocket.
The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1880-10-30

It is well known that fuoric acid will
dissolve glass and the practical execution
of etching designs on glass may be done
as follows: The article must first receive
the drowning by hand, stamp or by trans
fer, using as q material an oily lac mixed
with little paint, SO as to show on the
glass, This done, dust over it q powder
made of metal, copal, or any substance
capable of resisting the acid. When
dry dip the glass with the drawing on ii
in fiuoric acid, or paint it on, allow it to
remain few seconds, or until the pow
der begins to come off. Then rinse and
clean with water, and your work is COM
pleted.
The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1880-10-30

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The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-07-29
Communicated

To the Editor OF the Herald.
What do some of our people mean by
trying to drive off good men from our par
ty! Our political organization is no social,
exclusive association. We need votes, we
want good men no matter what has been
their political complexion in the past. We
are striving to make converts and we should
receive them with open arms. We have not
yet heard of any of these asking office with
its emoluments. Let all such moss .bsckism,
such Observation-Disclosures such suicidal sci
tishness, such arrogance, be frowned down
into the odium it merits. The writer knows of
one convert in particular, among others,
to Democracy because of Garaeld's nomina.
ton, and that one is one of the best
and most enterprising citizens of this place,
an active, patriotic, liberal gentleman, who
is lavish with his moneys and his kindnesses,
and his efforts, whenever anything in the
interest of Dallas is to be attended to. And
this same party, residing not many rods
from your office. in that spirit did as much
as any citizen of the place to got the Demo-
cratic convention here, and will contribute
infinitely more than some ofyour moss-backs
will to entertain the delegates. Surely such
q character is to be welcomed into our ranks,
and he is to be taken warmly by the hand
for his friendly services. A party becomes
tyrannous in its power when it undertakes to
reject such people, such citizens as these.
Dallas, July 2S. JUSTICE.
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U. 3. MAIL ROBBERS.
Three Masked Men Rob the Mail He
tween Cleburne aud Mansfield.

Mr.. R. t. Joyce, who has the contract fol
carrying the mail from this place to Cleburne
brought the news Tuesday evening that the
United States mail between Cleburne and
Mansfield had been captured and robbed
by three bandits The carrier was pro-
ceeding along his accustomed route, and
when about half way between those two
places three men, well mounted, rode out into
the road, and throwing their six-shooters
down on him, brought him to q halt. One
of the gang guarded him with his pistol
drawn, while the other two ripped open the
sack and went through the letters and pack
ages, which they threw on the ground when
they were through with them. How much
money they got is not known, though 1t Is
surmised that it was but small amount.
They were all masked, and appeared to
avoid talking as much as possible, speaking
only when 1t was necessary. When they had
gone through the mail they mounted
and rode off in the direction Of Cleburne.
Two of them were riding dark bays and the
other light bay horse. The man on the
light bay had rent in his coat on the left
shoulder. Mr. Joyce thinks he saw the same
parties coming into Dallas Tuesday night.
They rode in front Of him until they struck
the pike leading to the bridge, when they
turned off into the brush. They afterwards
came into the city, and the one with the rent
in his coat tried to sell his horse, but failed.
This is the second robbery that has occurred
within the last two weeks.
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West Virginia Democracy

Wheeling, w. Va, July 2S.-The Demo.
cratic state convention assembled at Martins.
burg to-day, and was the largest gathering Of
the kind in the history of the party in this
state, nearly 800 delegates being present. The
convention was held in Floral hall, on the fair
grounds, which was handsomely iestooned
for the occasion. Among the prominent
strangers present was General j. B. Weaver.
The convention was called to order by
Michael Riley, of Wheeling, chairman Of
the state executive committee, who named
Hon. J. j. Dailys, of Clarksburg, for tenn
porary chairman. The usual committees
were appointed, and the convention
took q recess to let all of
them attend to their work.
The convention. re-assembled in the after
noon, and the committee on resolutions sub
mitted platform which endorsed the plat
form and principles adopted by the national
convention at Cincinnati, and re-affirms allie
glance to the principles. 1t recognizes the
fact that full discharge of the duties of
state officers; points with pride
to the general peace and
presently of the state; it declares enmity to
all monopolies, and particularly declares
against that system of legislation which
tends to discriminate in faver of railroads
and against the people; it RENTS the pro-
posed constitutional amendments to an un-
biased judgment Of the people; declares
against the practice of instructing delegates,
whether county, state or national.
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C0RsICANA.
Correspondence OF the Herald.

Correspondence Of the Herald.
CoRsroANA, July ss, 1880
His honor held a special session this morn.
ing for the purpose of administering dose
OF the essence OF justice TO fellow who was
taking in the town, as tight as buzzard.
1t commenced raining Monday night,
and has continued at intervals ever since.
Last night we had the heaviest rainfall since
April 29Ih. About three inches have
fallen in the past thirty-six hours
Mr.. j. G. johnson Of this city has
purchased the sole right for Navarro county
for the sale OF the Brown patent baby cradle.
TO and see it--Quite serious accident oc-
CURED this morning at the new compress.
Two pieces Of very heavy timber about forty
feet in length, was raised to perpendicular
position for staging. A white man named
Patrick Spillman, and negro named Barnes,
were on top of the staging There was moth
ing but side gang ropes and blocking to hold
them in place. The blocks were
removed, and timbers tell striking the com.
press boilers and throwing the men to the
ground. Their injuries are not necessarily
fatal. Mccormick, division engi neer
on the st. l.. e. N. G. railroad, will start out
from here next week with party TO locate
the ow.guage line between this place and
Waco,--Some steps should be taken by
our farmers to secure the necessary labor
for the cotton field this year. as
the crop prospects are very much better, and
labor appears to be scarce.--Row about
those dog tags the city bought and paid for!
Very few CANNES appear 10 be labeled. The
city should receive large revenue from this
source considering the noise they (the
dogs make.--We overheard a
good Democrat to-day say
that although he had known Mr.. Roberts for
years he would see him banketly blanked
before he'd vote for him for governor
Captain Moore, of the Molloy house, is
singing "Oh, for thousand tongues that
no could talk new hotel, with his present
quarters being entirely too small to accom-
modate his rapidly increasing trade.
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The Denison Herald contains this item d
interest both to printers and business men
"The law steps in to help the printer. BY
the last postal decision business men can
make money by getting their bills and state.
ments of accounts printed. The law now
says in substance that if these are made out
on paper that is printed at the head they will
be sent through the mail for one cent, the
envelope being unsealed; whereas, if made
out on imprinted paper they will cost three
cents. Thus, by pstronizing the printers,
two cents can be saved on every bill! or state.
ment that is sent through the mails, and that
will more than pay for the cost of the
blanks"
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A Savings Bank Robbed.

Hartford, Conn.,, July 2S.-Between II and
/ o'clock yesterday three or four men entered
the Middetown savings bank,of Middletown,
while portion of the officials we're at din
ner, and while engaging the clerks present in
business at the counter, their accomplices en-
tered the vault and got away with. $500
The four men hired teams in this city in the
morning, and returned them just at night.
Various circumstances indicate that they
were the thieves. In one of the Of the wagons
bunch of skeleton keys was found. Two
yalises left at hotel by these men have moi
been called for. They contain nothing OF in
crest.
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GALVESTON,
Correspondence of the Herald.


GALVESTON, July 81, 1850
Yesterday was an off Sunday. Nobody
drowned, nobody shot. Altogether it was
rather an unusually quiet Sabbath.--Fri.
day evening some enthusiastics were engaged
in raising tall flag pole over the roof Of a
building on the corner of 9th and Post office
streets, which came near being the death Of
those engaged in raising it. The pole, after
being raised to certain altitude, slipped from
its fastenings, and came down with thun-
dering crash, demolishing part of the
building and jeopardizing the lives of those
engaged in raising it. The erection of this
particular pole has been indefinitely post
poned.--The delegates to the state conven-
ton assembled on Saturday evening at the
office of F. Charles Hume for the
purpose Reorganization, and the recommend
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-07-29
AUGUSTA FEMALE SEMINARY
STANTON VA.
MISS MARY J. BALDWIN, principar.

WE lnstitution continues to increase In pros
4 perlty nom year to year. 1t offers SUPERIOR
advantages In location. In its building and
grounds; in Its general appointments and SAINT
tary arrangements; Its full corps Of super. I.
and experienced teachers Its unsurpassed g.,
yantages IN music, modern Languages, elocution,
fine ants, physical culture and Instruction in the
theory and practice Of cooking; the successful
efforts made to secure health, comfort and hap
piness; Its opposition to extrayagance; H.
standard OF solid scholarship. For full particu-
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TYLER.
Jurisprudence of the Herald.

Correspondence of the Herald.
TYLER, July 20, 1880.
The announcement Of Lang's name being
taken out of the gubernatorisl race was glad,
ly received By the friends of the old Alcalde.
While Lang had many friends in Smith, it
being Roberts home, the convention will In
struct for Roberts. The supposition is that
Lang will use his influence against Roberts
and for the Acknowledgements The
work of grading through the city is about
completed. The grading and leyeling
OF the grounds for the International & Great
Northern depot is being rapidly pushed for
ward, and the work on the depot will be
commenced at ouce--The location for the
machine shops of the Texs, & ST. Louis rail
road is yet undecided. melons
weighing thirty-fve pounds are being sold at
five cents. Mr.. Thompson, the great melon
man, exhibited one on the square yesterday
which weighed sixty-seven pounds, the larg-
est of the season.--The produce business
IS exceedingly dull at present. Cotton
buyers are preparing to handle the feecy
staple, and soon we may expect to see some
activity in business circles. - Mrs.
Emma Brooks, who died in Galveston
recently, was the wife of DR.. w.
B. Brooks, of Fort Worth. She
died from an overdose of morphine taken
for sick-hesdache. She was the daughter
of DR.. W. NJ. Reed, of this city.-Some
talk of establishing an emigrants' home at
Tyler. Its needed, for the very fine crops
of Smith will certainly bring a few emi.
grants here.--Iron for the extension of the
Texas & St. Louis railway is being received
daily.-The mayors court was crowded
yesterday.--The first boil of cotton was
shown on the square yesterday. 1t was
raised on the farm of w. B. Hendrix.-J.
w. Par4mour, president of the Texas & St.
Louis railway, is expected to arrive soon.
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MATTERS BY MAIL.
NEWS FROM OUR NEAR NEIoHBoRs,
Galveston County Convention = The
Granbury Precincs Convention En-
dOres Hon. Olin wellborn for
Recollection Tyler Topics
WeatherfOrd Waits, Etc.
GRANBURY.
Correspondence OF the Herald.

Correspondence OF the Herald.
GRANBURr, July %, 1880.
The convention of precinct No. l, Hood
county, met to-day. s. q. Cross was called TO
the chair and s. B. Galloway appointed Sec
rotary. The convention selected seven dele
gates to the county convention to be held
July Slst. Five of the delegates are for
Roberts, one for Lang and one for the "dsrk
horse" A resolution was adopted endorsing
Roberts administration and favoring his re-
election; also a resolution adopted endorsing
the political course in congress Of the Hon.
Ohm Wellborn.
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Injustice to Col. TempletOu.

The Galveston News report of doings Of
the Collin county Democratic convention
states that the convention refused to instruc,
for Col. Templeton for attorney general
This statement does Col. Templeton grea,
wrong. A considerable wrangle was gotten
up Notwithstanding for a lieuten, mt governor
when this contest and all others where more
than one candidate was presented, was left TO
the wisdom of the delegates to choose the
best man, and this agreement disposed of the
attorney generalship without any action by
the convention.