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~ BLACK SILKS! BLACK sILKsl


no" BLACK SILKS. BLACK SILKS !
Special bargains in this line See our 2t-INCH
BLACK SlLk a. Sl.25 per yard worth il.7j. and
our 2i INCH BLACK SILK at 81. which would Dee
cheap ~ $3.50. We have BLACK SILKS from
G0c. 10 81 per yard. LiNN BROIHEES.
ln 30l
1j-NEW-S ESIlIRTiNG CALICOES;
CACUFCO and ORIENTAL CAMBRlCs;
RUCIIGNG and RUFFLING in great variety;
TORCIlDN IACES:
HAMBURG EDGINGS aud INSEETING>;
TORCHON-LACE COLLARS;
TIDES in great variety:
SCRAP-BOOk PICTURES;
TORCHON-LACE COLLARS at Toe. worth 2Qc.
A large assortment OF WHITE GOODS just re-
Ccived;
slIEETINGS and SIlIRTINGS Of all of the popular
makes at lja l0l LEVY BROTHERS.
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MILITARY NOTICES.
T!EET!NGsE.

MASONIC NOTlCE.-The mem. g.
vi beers Of TEMPLE LODGE, No. Q, \. NIX
f. aud A. ~, will alteul 4 stated COMMUNE "
cation ~ ~. Adams Hall on THE tFlidsyl I'VE
MING. February 9Th. al 7 o'coc% Members Of
10 meet with
fe cit r. F. TYLER. Secretary
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Admission, so cents. Reserved seats, % cents
extra.
Box-sheet open at JoHSsTON's Musc-Store on
Friday morning AT O'Clock. f. 5-4t
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YORKTOWN CENTENNIAL.

Mr.. FRAZIER introduced bill coDsitu-
ting Robert Ii. Power, X. I. Lacy, Thomas
Tabb, NJ. Giennan, II. L. Henley, w. j.
Stores, X. Il. Armistead. Fl. Seawell, and
Nelson Smith body corporate under the
name Of the Yorktown Centennial Commits
sion. Referred.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1880-10-14

II don't know" she said confusedly
Il seem TO remember something about
gold dollar which | gave to-"
Exactly he said, which you gave to
midnight robber. 1t has been my tails
man ever SINCE And he touched ii rev.
ercntly with his lips, and replaced it in
his b som.
But how Where did you get it?"
she asked, in amazement
ut was to me you gave it, he an.
swered.
"And you were - she commenced
and halted In the speech, working her
fingers nervously together,
4" | was the would be.robber," he said
8" and but for you, would now be filling a
ielon's cell or a telon's grave" and he
dropped before her as before presence
not OF this earth.
For full five minutes he remained
standing silent and bowed before her,
while she stared at him with the Devil
derment slowly passing out Of her face.
When she spoke it was in her own nat
ural tones, unbroken by embarrassment:
" 1t has been dead secret as il were, v
she said 9 ntly, "all these years. Let it
remain so"
From that evening for several months
the velvet robed and diamond.decked
hostess of the stately MANSION became the
envied of all the other aspirInts to the
statesman's favor, by the attractions her
home seemed to possess tor him, so fire.
quent were his visits. And mbitious
parents and blooming daughters were
shocked and scandalized when, six months
after, the great political star, entering a
carriage one morning, met the governess
at the gate of the stately mansion, and
driving with ler to little church near
by, quietly married her.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1880-10-14

who means that it lies to the west. So
he will describe his sick wife She lays
on the sofa all day." when he means she
lies. Men lay wagers and lay money on
the table; they act, and an active verb is
used; but the money does nothing. 1t is
neutral. ard the neuter verb "lie" is the
proper expression. Lay being the i'm
perfect OF lie, the error easily grew; but
when one says, Il laid on the bed" there
is no excuse for him. If "he laid him
self on the bed" he did something act.
lively, and the verb has its proper object
i've. As clay "-being common in .yo
verbs - became snare to the unwary, so
it occurred with "rd rather" a contrac-
ton of :" | would rather" but which had
been read as if it were 81 had" and so
we get the phrase which defes all at.
tempts at parsing II had rather" But
the exact counterpart of lay for Gle
is curiously enough in the word "sit."
He sets in the north aisle;" 1.-The house
sells back in the street; in such phrases
sit is the obviously proper word The
builder may set the house, the sexton NAV
set, or, more properly, seat " the person !;
but in both cases the objects are regarded
as passive, just as trees are set, But, con-
sidering the raillion cases in which mani.
mate objects have been treated as inteli.
gent agents -" This house to let we
can hardly wonder at the confusiou.
There is a class of adopted words,
among which mistakes are common and
natural to those who forget or never knew
their origin. 81 have these memorandas,"
is improper. Memoranda is the Latin
plural OF memorandum, and this noun is
So anglicsed that it takes a plural form
in the ordinary English way. No one
need be ashamed to say memorandums
aad encomiums. But we have not so
treated etfiuvium, and any one errs who
speaks of the unpleasant etiiuvia, or of
this data - both plural forms of Latin
nouns The safe way in these cases is to
keep the Saxon that we know, aud avoid
the temptation OF sounding phrases, from
which even official persons are not ex-
empt. Even decade of five years
makes a great difference" SAID one yes.
terday, who ought to know better, for he
is q member of Learned profession"
But, considering how the English-speak-
ing people have taken the French expose
and used it, in bad sense, universally,
for exposure, we cannot wonder if words
drawn from dead languages and distant
times are abused and perverted.
We must not however r, too eagerly seek
excuses for ourselves, or regard ourselves
as the involuntary victims of outside
powers, when We are ourselves voluntary
wrong-doers To say II am mistaken
when we mean | mistake, is common,
and dramatically wrong, To be mis-
taken is to be taken wrongly. The mis-
taken person is to be pitied, 70 mistake
is to go astray, to take wrongly lie who
mistakes is active and responsible for the
error. | may mistake regarding any of
these suggestions. | shall be mistaken if
any one thinks that in making them | set
up myself as an iniallible guide, and
deem myself incapable of mistakes.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1880-10-14
BRIC-A-BRAC CHINA.

Miss Clio Jones was rweuty-three,
And wonderful at repartee'
In all her life, her parents say
she never gave herself away
Young T0ngo Yangste Chang Chaw
From Pekin came 70 study law
A Harvard university
He, too was great at repartee.
Mss Clio Jones had often said
iSho knew that She should die unwed.
She never had seen f.liow smart
Enough to captivate her heart.
Young Tougo Yangtse Chang Chaw
Had vowed to die u bache.or:
@'There are no clever girls aid he;
II ue'er viii marry a Cbipee.
They met and loved amid Il G hum
And splendor Of kittle-drum
a tswny ,A to persons clever
Can MAKE no difference whatever.
"Oh, clio. DC you mind my shade"
Said he. Ny Tougo. lisped the maid,
.'GOu are asnOw-drop to Othello.'
All! IoBgO was lucky fellow.
v NfAA iAfl lpNf ran Wv bbllti0f
OF her mamma she made no bones
Her pa replied that he'd be d.
II sh' should marry ChInee.
She shrieked. sObbed. stormed. and blew.
she raved about his lovely queue:
"Oh boil it down" her IA her said:
- Chlnaman you shalt not wed"
Then Clio Jones became emphatic;
Her father locked her u the attic,
Aud left hOrsewhip in the hall,
In hopes that TOnsO Chaw would cali.
GA, gentle friends. my tale is done,
Poor Clio Jones became a nun.
Aud clever rongo did not marry,
But died instead by harl-kuri.
The moral Is that !, is never
Advisable to be zoo clever;
IT Clio had not been, you see.
She might have wed with you or ma
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1880-10-14
THE GOLDEN DOLLAR.

BY LAURA G. FORD.
Sunset FURNISHED the apple trees and
checkercd the path winding through them
and crossed the ragged and dis olored
coat of the man crouching in the tall blue
grass munching "A great red apple.
There vas a ravenous look in his glitter
ing black eyes as he turned them restless
ly from side to side; a ravenous EXPIRES.
sion in his pinChed and swarthy face. and
something exceedingly rayenous m the
way he set his small white teeth into the
apple, and bolted the mputhfuls.
There was also IN alert look in his eyes
rs if he dr. AIDED detection, and he shrunk
back behind the tree, AID crouch d lower
In the grass, rs the laugh of a child and
the patter of little feet came down the
Beaten path neag by.
There came simultaneously with these
sounds the clatter of horses hoots ON
the turnpike road beyond, and the hun
cry black eyes, peering through the tall
grass ht ads, saw the blue dress and white
apron of "a little girl flying down the path
towards the gate, and a large bearded man
entering it, and at the same time throwing
the rcins Of his horse over one of the
posts.
He stopped and held out his arms to
the little girl as she ran glcefully towards
him, and folding them around her, tossed
her lightly upon his broad shoulder.
whats tuaty" asked the child, cling
ing with one arm to his neck, and point
ing with the other to a small bag he car
ried in his hand "a linen bag leuered
with blue.
Money, my little lady" he said shak-
ing the bag until it gave out "A metallic
ring. Little, shiny gold dollars, as
bright as your eyes and as yellow as your
hair"
"Giye them to me" said the child, i'm
periously reaching down her dimpled
hand,
"Too many" he said, shaking his
head in her imprisoned arms, as he
walked slowly up the path, :" It's too
heavy for you"
How muny?" She inquired, still
reaching down her hand.
Three hundre ~ he answered.; three
hundred round, yellow dollars, and III
rive YOU one of teen with hole IN 1t To
wear around your meek when we get INTO
the house" And they passed out OF
sight over the cheCkercd path and under
The Furnished trees,
The man w. he was very young man
49, scarcely more than boy -- crouching
low in the grass, star d hungrlly after
them, unll t"g,' 'p'o's' "S We" and % ~, ,'V
torS' "eLG l'sy ~ ,N Rim "'o ,,,su y.
t'o as
ne m ~, ,,.,.,,,, ,.i,,i,t sni,r 5,lIor.
nL', "u ,t. ~ 80, - tLa3 as,,;ra
- on ana lng,' was ',0n ~, r','.
toh, lohS aI""h ""'' an 0\N''''i'A'9 '"''
en nov, SOUND. ,,...h, ai.a on tho ,roe.
- 49,. ,..,,'Ia,a5 Lr mo sil,arv tissue
tops to De replaced oy ,nq ' Sai,eiS us'G i
Of moonlight M I'm u"EI "Is,'eu 'i' ,, a'.
very SOU on ,'e ''''. g,'' - ~, ~" ,.ht; t
feet quit' seN'o" Vow wv ,.'G -, M 49,,
washed mouse III tne "'tl''u' Mno'[ ,'I
oen'"eu man Sl'p' ",3' .''E 49,, ~
ST his moiheriesS c"'',l on ms 9leaSu az .;,
She bag OIL go.oeh "''l"lS u""e' "'' pa
low. :. a., ~,
me ancient t'ocN SH""s , ~, Wv, gn,, I',i
.lghtoi me h'S". 'Gu,, ''Nt ,a'' sSrmnIs
an me corner 'G ing ou' ''t S,N ,.'.,',,
throO Toy thtob. WIN P'e ala'oll SU'.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1880-10-14
Women All At Sea.
from the Graphic


There is no subject on which women are
more helplessly ahost than on matters re.
lating to marine architecture. Such
knowledge don't stick In her brain. The
Captain who attempted teaching nautical
ism to party OF ladies on yacht, not
long since, Jared as follows:
Lady No. Now, Captain, what is q
sloop?
Captain--A sloop has but one mast.
L. (polnting TO q scnOoner).--ls that 8
sloop!
C-No, that is a schooner. A sloop has
but one mast, schooner has two, as you
aee Now remember, sloop one mast,
schooner two.
L-Certainly. How many mssts has a
ship?
C--Three.
L.--How many masts did you say a
sloop had?
Cone. sloop one mast, schooner two,
L. pointing to sloop)-Is that s
schooner?
C.--No; that's sloop. Sloop one mast
schooner Two, ship t0ree.
l. %, yes, remember. POINTING te 3
ship. Isn't that pretty schooner?
CHATS not a schooner. That's a
ship. Don't you see 1t has thIee masts?
L.--0, yes Isn't that a big schooner
lying al the wharf there?
C.-SClooner? Now, how many masts
has that vessel?
L-Ihlee.
C-Weli, what hiss three masts?
L.-A-a sloop,
C.-Sloop! Soop has one msst, tell
you; schuo uer two, ship three.
Lady No. 2-Why, Jane, how stupid
you are. A schooner always has one
mast
L-(Chstty and quite oblivious of stu
pid tty) What Is brig?
CA brig hiss two masis ana is rugged
like a snip with square sails.
Lady No 2.-J ane, look at this sluop
coming along.
CHATS schooner; don't you see the
two mast SluOp one mast, schooner two
mssts, snip three mss's.
l. Are those sChC, n RS there with three
masis.
C-Yes.
LII thought you said a schooner Lsd
but one mssIY
C-rwo ho masts Sloop one mast,
schooner two, ship three.
L.-But that schooner has three mss's.
C.-Mell. II is a three. masted schooner.
Then - schooner can have any mum
Der OF mssts?
C.-No. Sloop one mast, schooner TWO
and sometimes three masts, ship three
masts,
LIN sure | can't make il out It's
aGtGlly pul1lng. What is bark
c. tuGable any longer to popular2e
nautical science falls back on technical
EXPRESSION Vessel with two masis ship
rugged and one mast sIoop.ngRed, square
sals on tore and matumast, aud lore and
aft sails on the mlZLtn
In izzehl WHAT'S M zleny
C.--Lasl mast at madam
l. AIT! What's the air.
G.-'lhc stern, madsm
lon, I'm sure | can't make IL out.
Ia that a sloop therc1 pointing again 10 a
aenounci)
q Not Il's schooner Sloop one
mast, schooner two, ship three,
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1880-10-14
many masts has a msn.c'.war,

How many masts has msn.c'.ws,,
C.-Three.
L-Well, what's the difference between
q man-o'war and smack
C.-(Groans and is sllent).
L.--What are those sticks scros, tie
masls OF that schooner Captainf
C.-Thats not = schooner. Schooner
two masis, ship three, sloop one. Thsrs
q ship. Those are the yards which mold
the sails.
l. Oil
G. tencoursged)-Now, the first yard on
the foremost Is the fore yard, the second
Is the tore topssil yard, the third Is the
fore gallant yard.
l. What is that yard sticking strsigh,
up out OF that little schooners
C.-tireat Scott! that's not schooner
It's sl0op. Sloop one mast, schooner
two, saip three. What you call her yard
Is her mast.
Lady No 3 Certainly, Jane, how stu.
pld you are. Captain, what are the names
OF the other masts on that schoorer's
yards you were pointing out 10 Us?
=. Internally - - -.
Lady No 2--Captaln, where are the
lubbers?
{, Captain wishes he could telD-Up
there on that SHIPS masts near he tops.
l.. docking attentlvely at schooner)-
Near the top OF the mssls OF that s6op!
C.-No, no! Further down. Where the
futtock shrouds are fastened. No, no, not
that vessel A schooner has no lubbers
(mentally except his one, and they're on
deck.
L.-(Whose interest in the locality of
lubbers suddenly ceases)-Isn't that
pretty ship sailing alongS
C.-Ship! That's an old tub of schoon.
er, ma'sm. Schooner two mssts, ship
three, sloop one, | tell you.
L.~-Can a sloop have two masts?
C,-Sloop one mast, schooner two, ship
three.
Lady No. 2-How many masts has
ship, Captain
C,-Ship three mssts, schooner two,
sloop one.
L.-Yes, | know now. Schooner one
no, TWO mssts, sloop two-no, three, ship
one. There
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-08-26

New J'rsey--whosc iliterate class
amounted to onl 54,6S7 persons Ii,
able to write, and 37,057 uL-
able to read-thst is to say
there were five persons in Texas unable to
write where there was one of that class in
New jersey. Considering the circumstances
it is hardly reasonable to suppose that the
proportion of our iliterates has greatly de.
creased since the census Of 1870. If not, b
picture is presented neither hattering al
home nor attractive abroad-a picture the
completion Ct which has lately aroused the
friends of education in Texas to make some
organized effort to secure for the children of
the state scholastic advantages that would
eventually raise the intelligence of the
masses in Texas 10 the same plane as those OF
other states. 1t was easily seen that to
effect this purpose change in the temper,
complex IN and character of the state admin
istration was, or at least seemed to be, ne
cessary. 1t was an idea of reform, and hence
the alignment of the friends Of an improved
system Of free schools along with the anti.
administration party, which appeared to
hold out the inducements for the proposed
changes.
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ars. Census No. mem. Congress

What the present census will
bring forth, remains a mystery until
General Walker makes his full and
complete return of the population or the
union, and congress determines their num-
Der for the coming ten years. That will fix
the, population requisite for each member,
and then will follow the apportionment for
the states. Whether Parker will be in t',a
next Texas third district no person can
as yet, but it is proper to say it will not 10
main as it now is, and that its numerical
characteristic will be changed. In the con-
gress that assemblies in 1883 Texas will take
more prominent position in the councils of
the nation than previously, and instead of six
members, as at present, the state will be en-
titled to at least fourteen. The population
OF Texas will exceed two millions, and bias.
ng the representation at one hundred and
fifty thousand, will give the Lone Star more
than double the present members of congress,
and number greater than either Of the
states except New York, Pennsylvania and
Illinois.
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Important Announcement.

As some of the dealers in the Home Sana.
tive Cordial felt uncertain whether they
could sell it as medicine, and free from
liquor occupation tax, we beg to state that in
the trial Of case recently decided in the
county court ofEllis county, at Waxahachie,
where Mr.. Benjamin White was presented
for selling, in violation of the local option
law, the defense established that the Home
Sanative Cordial was compound tincture
of calisaya and iron, The jury pronounced
it real medicine, and declared the defend
ant not guilty. 1t is thus medicine in the
eyes Of the law and dealers can sell
it without paving occupation liquor tax.
Very respectfully,
THE HOME BIrTERs COMPANY,
st. louis. Mo
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Warranted not to contain single particle
of mercury or any injurious or mineral sub
stance, but to consist entirely of medical
matter purely vegetable, which is the reason
Simmons Liver Regulator is 50 etfectual, yet
harmless. A complete substitute for ealo-
mel, blue mass or mercury in any of its
forms, as remedy for liver disease, is suppl
ed by Simmons Liver Regulator.
"This medicine is acknowledged to have no
equal as liver medicine, containing those
southern roots and herbs which an allwise
providence has placed in countries where
liver diseases prevail.
Baltimore Episcopal Methodist"
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CFOwding the MOurners.
Waco Examiner.

OF the three papers which assume to speak
or Roberts, the Dallas Times, the Austin
Statesman and the Houston Age, the two first
are crowding the mourners. The first is
making war on Maxey, for the purpose of
deposing him; the second is lauding Throck-
morton for the senate, with the intention of
ousting both our senators, to make room for
Others. The Times says: General Jeems,
whom it calls General James in contempt, is
the finest material for the gubernatorial boot,
and that it is now a question whether he
should not be tossed out of his position at
once. The Statesman goes further, and
urges, in leader, that the minority that is,
those who opposed Governor Roberts, should
be turned out of the party, and that it would
be better for the party. We are waiting for
he next demands Of these gentlemen.
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Reform.
Houston Televram

That the opposition portion of the Demo-
cratic party of Texas, represented by the
anti-administration vote in the Dallas con.
vention, whose views, purposes and ideas are
embodied in the minority platform, was
founded on reform as the leading and essen.
tial element of its existence, is too apparent
10 admit of doubt. Nor did this new politi.
cal entity--a wheel within wheel, party
within pa ty-arise without reason, and a
sufficient reason, for there is nothing without
au efficient cause. Among the thinking men
OF the state, the more progressive portion of
its citizens, all who desire the rising genera
ton to enjoy the benefits OF an education to
an extent larger than that which has
retarded the intellectual and moral
advancement Of It's predecessors, the in.
adequacy of our present free school
system for the requirements of a growing
state had become matter Of no little concern
and much regret. The figures of the present
census are not attainable, but according to
that Of 1870, out OF a population Of less II an
one million there were, above the age Of ten
years, 70,895 whites and 160,6l7 colored. a
total Of 22l 1903 persons out of Sl8,579 popu-
ation who could not write. OF these 263 !.
334 we're native and 1850 foreign born
There were lS9,428 who could not read. In
other words about one In every four was
unaoleto write, and nearly one in every Ave
enable 70 read, This proportion Of litter
craze Will appear the more glarinp when
IsS n n.y. with state whose population in
i''ow@ very little more than that Of Texas
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-08-26

Authorized by the Commonwealth OF Keptuck,
and the Falrest IA the World.
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81 never used such medicine. Nepe
-wcll-hardly ever. 1t foams and sparkles
Just like q glass of soda water. OH 1t Ia
perfectly splendid One swallow cures heart
burn and acid stomach. So cooling and de.
lightful in feyers and sick headache. For
haoltual constipation, use 1t all the time
and prefer 1t to anything else. 1t is sold at
cents per bottle of 20 doses, and is known as
BAILEY's SALINE APRRIENT," Thus speaks
a most sensible woman.
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The GubernatOriaI Ticket.
Breckenridge Texan.

AoAohs
The majority of the people, however, have
spoken, and o. NJ. Roberts is again the
Democratic nominee for governor. Whether
his nomination is due to a prevalent ignor-
ance of his official acts or to the charity of
our people for an aged and honorable Texan,
makes little difference. The fiat has gone
forth, and there is no use kicking against
the pricks The platform is all right, as was
alec that Of 1873. We presume, however,
if the governor were again to oppose one.
fourth appropriation for schools on the
ground Of insufficiency of revenue, and at
the end Of his term there were $780, 900 in
the treasury, he would receive the plaudits of
the populace, as before. And If, by increas-
ing occupation taxes, cutting off appropria-
tons for frontier projections, etc, he should
increase the pile in the treasury to 50 1000, 900,
Judging by the past, we should look for the
people to rise up and declare him czar of
Texas The Texan, however, proposes to
support him for reelection.
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yIaIariaI Fever.

Malaral fevers, constipation, torpidity Of
the liver and kidneys, general debility, ner-
vousness and neuralgia ailments yield readily
to this great disease conqueror, Hop Bitters.
1t repairs the ravages of disease by convert
ing the food into rich blood, and it gives new
life and vigor to the aged and infrm always.
See "Proverbs" in other column.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-08-26
Coughing I'm Church.

No place in the world equals London foI
the constant barking kept up in the churches.
It is likes perpetual fusilade of small arms.
Why don't they take Halls Balsam and get
rid of their cough 1t is the most wonder
full remedy; the proprietors warrant it in
every instance. Let all coughers give it
trial