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The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-10-28
san saba

speei to the Herald
SAN SARA, October q The Baker Valley
mills are in full blast, The damage from
the late floods have been repaired. They OK
pect to have their WOODEN mills in fun oper-
alton in time for the spring clip of wool.
4 new ferry boat will soon be put ON the
Colorado at Warner crossing by Mr.. Jap
Reid
II IS rumored that Hendricksville is for
the future to be substituted to designate
Williams, Rancho Drummers will explain.
IL {. Sheets, who left his rancho in Cole.
man county five weeks ago is missing. Ills
wife, whois here, received intelligence that
shortly after his departure from his rancho
his wagon hat and u portion of his clothing
was found. Foul play is suspected
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-10-28
The Farms and Farmers Of tho United
States.

According to the last report OF the COM
missioner Of agriculture Il appears that
100000 persons in the United States are
engaged in agricultural pursuits. The
tiS, ,46i 200, ,4S3, or about two.thInls Of tbc
productive wealth ofthc nation. The value of
farm products and live stock for 1878 was
$3,oV,OW UC. q tainst 81 8 100000 OF mir
ing and manu- acturing products. Thus Il
appears that not only q majority of tho
adult male population Of the United States
Is engaged In agriculture, but more tbnn
one-half Of the wealth of the I nion Il In.
vested in that industry. There are also a.
W, 900 persons engagedin mining and man.
ufacturing, whose interests are closely
allied with those Of the agriculturalis,.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-10-28

to-day and organized what will hereafter be
known as the Waco Cotton Exchange and
Board of Trade. Ii will drait
a constitution and bylaws and apply for q
charter from the state. None Of the ob.
lectionable element of the defunct ex-
change, We learn, will be allowed member.
ship on any terms.
The Brazos was rising rapidly at this
morning and is now seven feet high. caused
by heavy rains.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-10-28
Denying Reported sickness.

NEf WEST, FLAp October 27.-Mr. Plum.
mer' president ofthc board of health. and
Lester e'lth officer, declai Q that The boarl
OF health denies the truth Of the adyices
given IN the kilograms ofthe Goth of oc,o
ner 10 the national board of health m Wooh
lhglQni which say that there werr Nv A.,
ueaths irom yellow fever and ono f,an, fD,o
smail'po here during the lwcek erd;,,. du
October .ol. 9th, No deaths from yellow s Ievass
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-10-28
The Atlanta E,nnsl.lo.

ATLANTA, Ca, October 27.-.Nine goye,,.
orS o. states are now in the city. The gov.
orot Connecticut with his staff and n
large party of prominent citizens arrival
tnls morning They expressed themsclyes
er4tineu with the reception in Charleston
ana Augusta, and regarded il rs An eNnr,s'
son OF genuine southern welcome, Trnins
are arriving hourly with visitors. '"'
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-10-28
The River Improvement cory.n,,..,

ST. Louis, October 27.-.The Misslssipn,
improvement convention met again last
evening After the convention was called
70 order, again discussion ensned as 10
whether S.l this should be convention of tho
TT,S;sisSppi states, or. all the states Of the
ronS nstHn, y was decided, by the chairman,
;sIIas ;nsImaSs, RON the call, that all states we're
aIi'iuuvu, oI na committees We're then appoint-
Ell on credentials, on order Of business AMI
on resolutions and the convention ~
lourhed until 10 O'Clock this morning. M
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-10-28

70 ,he senate to-day; Chas. ], Folger. OF
nv NV lorH, as SECRETARY of the treasury:
general; Frank Hatton. Of Iowa frs, az
Slstant postmastergeneral Chas Kahlo ~
INDIANA, consul ofthe United States a, S;d'
ney, Australia; Geo. ". Roswell, ot Penn.
Ssylvaniai consul of the United Statas =,
Bordeaux. ]. A. Leonard, Of Minneso,aa' az
consul or the United States al Iei,h snJ
John 1. Robinson, of Tennessee, cons,I I "r
the United States at TripaE N0"SU' VI
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President Secular Society, Toronto.

Electricity is now employed in the rectin-
cation of interior alcohol. The electricity
bya voltaic battery and dynamo
electric machine is passed through the alec.
hol so ns to disenpago the superiiuons
hydrogen. by this means beet-root alco-
h u, which is usually very poor, can bemade
to Weld 80 per cent Of spirits, equal 20 that
ubsgincd from the best malt.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-10-28
Collision Between yc..el,.

wAmiSoroS, October 1.-'rhe signal
corps station at Delaware breakwatef, re.
ports that the schooner William, II. Broad.
man, Captain Richardson, six In the crew,
from Cedar Keys, Florida, Tor New York,
with q load of pine lumber, was run into of
Barnegat on the light Of the 25th instant
by nm unknown steamer and had carried
away her cut.water, bowsprit and iibboom.
The schooner was badly leaking
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-10-28
Tyler.


Special to the Herald,
TYaERi October "a collision of trains
on Ire International near the passenger
depot, in this city, this morning, resulted
in the demolition of one box car. No other
damage was done.
Heavy rains are interfering largely with
our farmers, much TO the disgust Of the
merchants.
The supreme court meets tomorrow to
deliver opinions.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-10-28
Anstin.


Special to tho Herald.
AUSTIN, October Ex-Governor Throck-
morton's resignation asa member of tho
board of university regents was sent to the
state department to-day
The East Texas telegraph. company ,capi-
tai stock $4,000 filed a charter to-day for
the. construction of line of telegraph
from Sabine Pass along the line
and branches OF the Sabine 4 East
Texas railway to the terminus OF
the road. The principal office of the com.
pany is 20 he vt Beaumont and the incor-
porators and directors are citizens OF Beau.
mont, Sabine City Houston and New
York.
Charters were also filed by the Red Cross
and Queen City lodges of the Knights of
PythiaS, Fort Worth. OF the former the
incorporators are w. w. Routh,
S b. Fickler, and Andre Beckman, and of
the latter $ NJ. Fry, John MaSsie and j. D.
Reed.
The commissioner of Insurance, statistics
and history has authorized the Thames and
Mersey Marine insurance company, OF Liy-
erpool, London and Manchester, capital
stock S5,0N,OO0, to do business in Texas
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MIR. Blaine Does Not Expeo, 10 p.,,.,.,

WAShINeToN, October Secretary
Blame does not expect to remain in the cab.
net aiter December LIST, unless 10 oblice
President, Arthur until the new secretary nr
state is selected VI
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-10-28
Entire Democrats Ticket r,,o,.a.

BALTIMORE, Mp, October 27.--The demo.
crats yesterday elected their entire ticket IN.
cluding the mayor and every member of
both branches ofthe city council.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-10-28
The Final Ad,ournm.,,

WASHINGTON, October 27.--After a short
session the senate went into executive ses.
SION and reported that q final adjournment
will he reached this evening.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-10-28
Opposing windon.

Washington, October 27--It is expected
the democrats viii oppose an attempt TO
swear ~ Window MS senator his credentials
not having arrived
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-10-28
Waco


Speual " the Herald.
WACO, October T.--An ersnt of more
than ordinary interest in social circles was
tho union in marriage..st tho residence Of
the brides parents of Nr. W. G. Shaw and
Miss Nannie u. wilkes, only daughter OF
DR., w, IL. Wilkes, senior proprietor
aud managing editor Of the daily Tele-
phone. Additional interest was lent 10 the
occasion by the fact that the young people
were united by the same minister (Rev.
W. ID. Wcirj who united DR., Wilkes
and lady In Tennessee twonty-sir Yeas
ago. Relatives and friends from various
parts of the state were present, and with
homo people crowdad the residence.
Miss Wilkes was raised in Waco, and
has always been popular in society circles.
Mr. Shaw, the enyiod man, Is u young
cotton merchant and has lived
here about four years. The
bridal trosseau and presents caught
the eye Of all, andthe wedding bouquet and
floral decorations were enjoyed and com
mented upon as being the acme oftaste
Leading cotton men and merchants met
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-10-28
THE LATEST TELEGRAMS.

Judge Folger Is Nominated for and
confirmed as Secretary Of the
Treasury With Other
Nominations and
Combinations.
The River Improvement Convention In
Session at ST. Louis Resolves
TO Constitute II a Conyen.
tion for all the States
Of the Union.
IL is Stated That Mr.. Blaine Does not
Expect TO Remain In Arthur's
Cabinet Longer Than AZ.
ter December the
First.
Among the Nominations Is That of
'olney W. Smith, of Arkansas,
TO be Consul General at the
Island of St. Thomas.
aHa-a---
The Purchase of Confederate Bonds
Continues to Grow In the Favor
OF Bankers and Others.
Governor Colquitt Invites the Senate
to Visit the Atlanta Cotton
Exposition.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-10-28

WASHINGTON, d. O., October T.--Thc
president sent the following nominations
Arizona weekly enterprise., 1881-10-29
Rig Trees.

Referring to big trees, the American Register tells us that grove of trees in California, consisting of 1880, con tains not one which measures less than six feet in diameter. A rare and mag nihcent white oak is to be seen in the Quaker burying ground in Salem, N. Y. It is more than 200 years old, and is remarkable for its enormous branches, which have spread of 112 feet. A remarkable chestnut tree is growing on farm in Berks, Pa. It is nearly forty feet in circumference at the base, and the top of the tree can be reached by steps fastened between the limbs. Most remarkable of trees with history is a russet apple tree in Skow- began, Me, which was planted in 1762. In its branches playroom for children has been built for half century. The tree is seven feet from the ground to the branches, five in number, all of which gre very large and average thirty feet in length, covering space of ground sixty skree feet in diameter. It is more than four and half feet in diameter, and has yielded an average of thirty bushels of apples each year. A sprout from this apple tree stands thirty-two feet from the parent stem, but is fcrty-eight yems younger.
Arizona weekly enterprise., 1881-10-29
Indian EDicures.

In the summer of 1875 I stood ons evening near the Quartermaster' office at Fort Wingste, New Mexico, when two Kiowa Indians applied for permission to water their famished horses at the Gov ernment cistern, offering to accept that boon in part payment for load of brushwood which they proposed to haul from the neighboring chapparal. The fellows looked thirsty and hungry them selves, and while the Quartermaster ratified the wood bargain, one of the officers sent to his company quarters for a lunch of such comestibles as the cooks might have on hand at that time of the day. A trayful of Government grub was deposited on the adjacent cord-wood platform, and the Indians pitched in with the peculiar appetite of carnivorous nomads. A yard of commissaly sausage was accepted as a tough variety of ierked beef, yeasted and branless bread disap- peared in quantities that would have confirmed Dr, Graham's belief in natu- ral depravity they slipped the cold cof- fee and eyed it with gleam of suspi- cion, but were reconciled by the discov- cry of the saccharine sediment, and the cook was just going to replenish their sups when the senior Kiowa helped him celf to vinegar pickle, which he proba- ply mistook for some sort of an of-color sugar-plum. He tasted 1t, rose to his feet, and dashed the plate down with & muttered execration, and then clutched the prop of the platform to master his rising fury. Explanations followed, anda pound of brown sugar was accepted as a peace-ofering, but the children of nature left the pest under the impression that they had been the victims of heartless practical joke. - Popular Science Monthly.
Arizona weekly enterprise., 1881-10-29
Gloomy Thoughts.

Dull, depressing, dingy days produce dispiriting reflections and gloomy thoughts; snd small wonder when we renlember that the mind is not only motive but receptive organ, and that all the impressions it receives from with out rench 1t through the media of senses which are directly dependent on the con ditions of light and atmosphere for their action, and therefore immediately inhu- enced by the surrounding conditions. It is a common-se inference that, if the impressions from without reach the mind through imperfectly-acting organs of sense, and these impressions are in themselves set in Q minor @sthetic key of color, sound snl general qualities, the mind must be what is called moody" It is not the habit of even sensible people to make sufficient allow ance for this ratio nale of dullness and subjective weakness. Some persons are more dependent on external circum- stances and conditions for their energy than others hut all feel the influence of the world without, and to this influence the sick and weak are especially respon- sive. Hence the varying temperaments of minds changing with the weather, the outlook and the wind.
Arizona weekly enterprise., 1881-10-29
Phases of Washington Society.

It is the most striking phenomenon of Washington life, the unwillingness, the apparent inability of men who have held office at the capital, and of women who have shared their honors, to go back to the comparative ebscurity and privacy of their former homes. It is quite often true that men, tired of the turmoils of political strife. of the inadequate rewards of legislative and official drudgery, turn with sense of relief toward the quiet law-ofice which years before they left, of amid the hills or on the plains, or to the lucrative personal business that may have suffered while they wore national honors but the wife the daughters feminine phalanx-bears down on the man; and what is any man, beset, over powered by women, but weakness itself "They give up dear, darling Washing tonl-its revels, its pleasure, its priv leges, it's powers-for the old Sunday school, the sewing circle, the home missionary society, or even the village literary lyceum; for the humdrum visits of Mrs. Smith, give up the multitudinous ring of the dear ten thousand, bearing with due humilityI the first card, the social seal and stamp in Washington oi social inferiority! Midtown, with such sacrifices, neverl" The result is, Wash ington is full of gray-haired men who have stepped down from office, more ol less lofty, to go into inconspicuous places, to earn stipend and to stay iI Washington.
Arizona weekly enterprise., 1881-10-29
Rupgs.

The bung is homely device, lacking altogether the symmetry of an obelisk and having little even of the grace which corks often possess. But its uses are of most important kind, and wher- ever liquids are contained in casks or barrels there must the bung be also.
 It is almost impossible to estimate the quantity of bungs made and used annu- ally, but the number is well up in the millions. They are made of wood well seasoned, and are cut by machinery which is patented In no country are so many bungs made as in the Unit ed States, for nowhere else are the woods which are used SO plentiful Oak, nick ory, spruce and pine are among the va rieties utilized, and the bung factories are scattered about the country in the neighborhoods where the woods used are found. By cutting the bungs before s;,y-th0-aast of transporting the waste material is saved. A great many bungs for beer casks are sent both to Germany and England from this cOun- try, not because they are better but be- cause they are cheaper than those made abroad. Bungs are cut by peculiar and ingenious smachinery which works against the grain of the wood, tapering the bung with the grain. In many cases the ta- per is made but slight in the cutting, and then the bung is submitted to power ful compression to increase the taper.
 Bungs of ale and beer barrels are of a standard size, measuring one and seven eighths inches, while bungs for oil barrels are two inches. Whisky barrel bungs are used over and over again. Beer and oil barrel bungs are always picked out, because hammering the slaves to start the bungs is sure to injure the coating Of the barrels. .-Net0 York Sun.
Arizona weekly enterprise., 1881-10-29
Dutch and Germans.

The term "Dutch is considered op- probrious by the Germans of the present. day. It is more properly applicabls to Hollanders than to citizens of the Ger man empire, but, less than 250 years ago, when Van Tromp ruled the ocean, to be called Dutchman was esteemed an honor. This WAS not more becallse the Dutch were great in war than be- cause the people of Holland were great in peace. In those days the bankers of Amsterdam controlled the finances of the world. When speculation drove fnan- ciers to ruin, the supremacy of the sea was lost, and Holland speedily sank toits present insignifcance in the affairs of Eho world. The greatness of Holland and the weakness of the Germans caused the latter to delight in calling themselges Dutchmen, which practice continrled until the time of Kaiser Wilhelm III. and the powerful confederation under Bismarck. The name "German U en became relieved from the odium always attached to it from the barbarism of the ancient days, and as the honor of he name " German has increased with lhe decrease of power in the Holland peok ie, and the metamorphosis Is now SD con plete that "Dutchman has beoomea a term of contempt and derision, while s'German" is honored and respected. England to-day holds the proud pos1- tion of mistress of the seas, and has fhs reputation of holding the purse of IaF tions. Speculation, rapacity, iniusties are rampant in its borders. In a coulde of centuries 1t may be possible that ths word "Englishman " will have sign f
 canoe as low and contemptible as the " Dutchman" of to-day.
Arizona weekly enterprise., 1881-10-29
Taking Adrantage of Nature.

An ingenious application of expansion and contraction in metals was made use of in France, and has frequently been taken advantage of since. The walls of a large building in Paris were observed to be giving way by bulging outward, and the problem was to bring them back to their vertical position. For this pur- pose number of bars of iron having crews and nuts on each end were let trough the opposite walls and across he intervening space between them.
 he nuts and screwed portion of the bars were outside. The bars were now heated by number of lamps suspended below them until they had expanded as much ss possible, and the nuts screwed up against the outsides of the two oppo- site walls. The lamps were nsxt re moved, when the heated bars, in cool ing, gradually contracted in length bringing the walls very gently, but wit irresistible force, into their normal posi- tion.-Scientifc Amaeric0n.
Arizona weekly enterprise., 1881-10-29
The Thehan and the Crons.

It does not seem to be known that by the best process of embalming in modern times, the bodies, though preserved in outline, are in the course of 100 to 200 years found in that offensive condition which the persons so treated would have indignantly scorned as insulting to their memory. What has been the ultimate fate of the Egyptian mummies stored with care in rocky vaults and pyramids on the banks of the Nile2 They have in these later times been dragged from their recessee and ground into powder, as an article of commerce to be exported to Europe. The cereal crops of England are partly produced from the mummifed remains of human beings who walked bout the streets of Thsbes "3, 900 years ago." The bodies of venerable Thebans -swells in their time-laid to rest in
 ,ond anticipation of securing kind of mortal immortality, sold at so much a ton to fertilize the exhausted soil of an island in the German oceanl That is what the ancient Egyptians have got by all their skill in proiracting the dissolu- tion of mortal remains. Their marvel ous preparations have ended in a favora- ly-quoted-manure l-Chanl6ers' Jour- nal
Arizona weekly enterprise., 1881-10-29
BITS OF IMPORTATION.

FLoRIDA was organized as Territory in 1922.
 THE great massacre of St. Domingo was in 1904.
 THE first dime was coined in this country in the year 1796.
 THE Hindoo historians ascribe their origin to 6 period of ages long before the ordinary chronology of modern writers upon the subject.
 dependent state about the year of our Lord 1900. It was governed by the Romans hundred years before Christ.
 THE wedding anniversaries are as fol- lows: First, iron fifth, wooden tenth, tin; fifteenth, crystal twentieth, china; twenty fifth, silver thirtieth, cotton; thirty fifth, linen; fortieth, woolen; forty fifth, silk fiftieth, gold seventy-fifth, diamond.
 THE words of Hail Columbia were written by Francis Hopkinson to the air of march written by German band master on the occasion of visit of Washington, then President, to the old John Street Theater in New York. It was called the Presidents March,"
 ELEorRIoITy has been applied to pro- pei velocipedes. M. Trouve drove an English tricycle. through the streets of Paris by means of electricity stored in a Plante secondary battery and a pair of Deprez electric motors. The weight of the apparatus was 400 pounds, and the speed was not great.
 IT is an almost universal practice among butchers to take the calves that they are preparing for the market twen- i ty-four hours before they are killed and bleed them until they are faint or fall from exhaustion. Some butchers treat all of the cattle and sheep they kill in a like mauner. The reason given for this is that the meat is rendered white, more salable and less likely to spoil. BLAsT-FURNAoE slag or cinder is turned to a useful purpose at the Scles- sin Iron Works, near Liege, Belgium. 1 After the molten slag has escaped from the furnace 1t Is conveyed immediately to stream of cold water. The effect of this is Q division of the slag into @ substance very like coarse sand. This substance Is then raised by an elevator and deposited in wagons, which convey it away to places where it will be ap- | piled as an excellent "ballasting for railroads
 THE Hoosac tunnel is little over four and three-qusrters miles in length, and made large enough for the passage of two lines of railway trains. It reaches through the Hoosac mountain, which is the summit range that extends south ward into Massachusetts from the Green mountains of Vermont. There was some experimental work done in 1851, but it WAS not until 1856 when any act u@ tunneling was commenced. The cost of the tunnel and thirty-nine miles of adjoining railroad, including the ac- emulation of interest, has been between s13. 1000. 900 and s14. .000.00