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The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1883-01-28
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TrvERpoor. January 27.-Cotton l.
firmer Uplauds, ll-l6d; Orleans,
. I'D. Sales, $1,000 bales; receipts D..
uUD bales; American ',lOO les
NEW ORLEANS, January 2L-Cotton,
quiet; middliug, nc; receipts, 5000
bales.
ST. Lours, January 27-Cotton tirmer
active; middling 9'sc; low middling
c; good ordinary e, Sales 3,iOO
bales, receipts, 1000 bales; shipments,
l BOO bales; stock, GG, 500 bales.
New York, January H. Cotton steady
Uplands 10 3-l6c; Orleans 10 7-l6c.
Futures st aIv January livery, 10 l5c;
February, lO07c; March, lO.3Oc; April,
lO4ic; May, lU5Sc; June, l0.i2c; July
l0.sj,; Aug st. lo9ic, September, lO65c;
October, 1927
NEW ORLEANS, January 21-Cotton
firm and unchanged, Net receipts
$500 bales, gross, $3.50 bales Ex-
orts, Great Britain : $40 bale CONT
The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1883-01-28

Eruptions. sores, pimples, rheumatism
are but indicators of impure bl cd.
Ackers Blood EliXiris therem y. Sold
by Castles, Morrison n Co., Waco, Tex
AS, OllGdW1y-2
The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1883-01-28
ni-s Helen IserkONV,

Dress making cutting and fitting III
french thilors' model. Patronage So
hcited aud satisfaction guaranteed,
Residen. e south Fifth street, near Waco
creek. WIN work at residence Of atron
when desired.-l2Atc
The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1883-01-28
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loon day board or board with rooms can be
VI had by Amply Ing To Wiley Mctrary, ON
south Third street, between Mary and Jack
suu streets, ul21lw
The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1883-01-28

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proved.

o"lhg to the fact that my business in
y" asuands my undivided attention /
The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1883-01-28
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The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1883-01-28
ItENlON Al.

nRs II W. Brown and o. nancrt will
~ occupy the same office In the Chalmers
building, corner Austin aud Fourth streets,
SAME door with telephone aud tclegragh offices,
and viii keen their site at Castle. Murri-
sons drug store, where all orders lett Will be
promptly ATTENDED to. ulu-lm
The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1883-01-28
" AN TED.

A GOOD cook. Apply to e. ", Donovan
~ corner Eleventh a 1t Jackson streets.
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The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1883-10-13
NO. l2
4 TazOo county Girl.

Miss Florence. daughter of Col.
Bruce Gerald, formerly of this
county, but at present Of Waco,
Texas, has gone on the stage. aud
will start in a society drama cnti-
tied "A Friend, during the months
of November and December in
leading Texas cities. THIS drama
was written by herself, aud is to
be supported by a strong compa.
ny. Miss Gerald has been two
years in the East preparing her
self for the station she is expect.
cd TO fill in the future. aud those
who know of her talent and the
progress she has made feel no ap.
prehensiOn as to her success on
the stage. We take an interest
in this young lady because she
was born in this comfy, aud pass.
ed her younger days Mt Deason.
vile, where her father merehan
dised directly after the war.-Ya.
zoo City Herald.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1883-10-13
Lay A Painting Person Down.

1t is surprising how everybody
rushes at a famting person, and
strives to raise him mp, aud espe.
cially to keep his head erect.
There must be an instructive ap-
prehension that if a person seized
with fainting or other fit fall in.
to the reeumbent position, death
is more imminent. | must have
driven a mile to-day while lady
fainting was held upright. found
her pulseless, white, and appar.
entity dying, aud | believe that if
| had delayed ten minutes longer
that she would really have died.
| laid her head down on a lower
level than her body. and immedi.
ately color returned to her lips
and cheeks. and she became con.
scious. To the excited group Of
friends said: Always remember
this fact, namely; fainting is caus.
ed bya want of blood in the brain;
the heart ceases to act with suff.
cient force to send the usual
amount of blood to the brain, aud
hence the person loses conscious.
ness because the function of the
brain ceases. Restore the blood
to the brain, and instantly the per.
son RECEIVERS. Now, though the
blood is propelled to all parts of
the body by the action of the
heart, yet il is still under the inilu.
ence of the laws of gravitation.
In the erect position the blood as.
cends to the head against gravita.
tion, aud the supply to the brain
is diminished. rs compared with
the recumbent position, the hearts
pulsation being equal. If, then,
yor place a person sitting whose
heart has nearly ceased to beat,
his brain will fail to receive blood,
while if you lay him down, with
the head lower than the heart,
blood will run INTO the brain by
the mere force of gravity; and in
fainting, in sufficient quantity to
restore consciousness. Indeed,
nature teaches us how to manage
the fainting persons, for they al'
ways fall, aud frequently are at
once restored by the recumbcnt
position into which they are
/ thrown.
! --s-e-
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1883-10-13
The New York Ferries.

The ferries of New York City
employ 72 large steamers. The
principal company is that which
controls the FIVE most important
ferries to Brooklyn. 1t employa
about 400 men and 10 boats.
About 60,O0O,000 passengers are
carried by it annually, and the
daily earnings are over $500 in
winter and $500 in summer.
The pilots are paid $3.50 month
each. They are seamen who en-
tered the river service as deck
hands, and before promotion they
have been required to show thor
ough familiarity with the treach-
erous current of the river. y
countless hotilla is In their path
day and night, and they must have
both discretion and nerve to avoid
the sloops and schooners which
drift about helpless when the wind
falls.
The engineers are paid 500 and
sl00 a month; the freinen $50
and the deckhands $50 a month.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1883-10-13
Intoxicating Grass.
ago.

II appears that the genuine
good name of the Grass family
for innocence aud sobriety does
not extend to MI its members.
There is a "Drunk. Grass social.
ed by the Dutch Colonists, a spe.
cics of Melica, which in some
parts of South Africa "intoxicates'
cattle to All alarming extent, and
the evil is spreading with the in
crease of sheep.farming; the
sheep, we believe, sorting out tho
other grasses, while they totally
abstain from this.
The account is given by DR..
John Shaw. in the Journal of the
Linuean Society, Vol. II. In Tri.
mans Journal of Botany, Doctor
IIance-a well known botanist
resident in China-describes an.
other grass, a new species of Sti-
pa from Mongolia, which intoxi.
Gates horses. A French Roman
Catholic Missionary and his party,
making an excursion into the Ala
dian mountains, north of the Great
Wall, one morning found their
horses dreadfully dcbauchcd-in.
deed quito 'hors de combat'--
through partaking freely of this
grass. On appealing to a family
of Mongols encamped in the neigh.
borhood, the Missionary was told
the proper antidote was vinegar,
followed by a broth made of a
goats head. No vinegar being ut
hand. the Missionary administered
sour milk as a substitute, while
the goats head was cooking; the
broth completed the cure, and the
party returned safe aud sober to
Pekin, bringing some of the grass,
which DR.. Hance christened "Sti.
pa inebrians.r The intoxication
and poisoning of cattle, horses,
aud sheep, in California and Neva-
da, is said to be caused by some
species of the Pulse family. which
is generally thought to be as harm.
less as grass.-Villa Gardener.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1883-10-13
Edison's Electric Railroad.


A large party of prominent rail
road men and electricians visited
Menlo Park, New Jersey, to wit
ness the operation of Edison's
Electric Railroad. Mr.. G. W. Ro-
gers, viee-President of the Elec-
trio Railway Company of the Unl-
ted States, took the party III
charge. They were shown the
stationary engine affording the
motive power, and then, taking
seats in a car, made a successful
trip around the track, a stretch oil
two miles and a half. In reply TO
the favorable comments of the
railroad men, Mr.. Rogers said he
hoped to show them the system
much more complete in two
months-the system as the COM
many desired TO use it. The en-
CINE would then pick up current
from a third rail, laid between the
others.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1883-10-13
How Fast They stick Hogs in CHI
cag0.



arose early this morning and
went TO the stock yards, where, it
is said, they kill, dress and freeze
a steer in one minute. | thought
this gross exaggeration, but
when saw pig put through It's
performance in IS seconds, | can
believe the other story.
For instance, we saw n piebald
pig grunting and snorting in his
pen, a qnarreling msmber of a
quarrelsome family. Now, what
happened to that porker was this:
He was suddenly seized by the
hind leg and jerked mp on a small
crane. This swung him swiftly to
to the fatal door through which
no pig ever returns. On the 9th.
CT side stood man with a long,
glittering knife in his hand. One
plunge of the cruel weapon in his
fair, fat neck, and the dead pig
shot across a trough and through
another doorway, and then there
was a splash He had fallen head
first into Il vat of boiling water.
Some unseen machinery passed
him along swiftly to the other end
of the terrible bath, and there u
water wheel picked him up and
flung him ont on a sloping count
er. Here another mac.lino seized
him. aud with one revolution scra.
ped him as bald as a nut. And
down the counter he went, losing
his Head as he slid past a man
with hatchet, aud then presto !!
be was up again by the heels. In
one dreadful handful man emp
tied him, and while another squirt
ed him with fresh water, the pig
registering his own weight as ho
passed the teller's box,--shot
down the steel bar from which he
hung, and whirled around the cor
ncr into the ice house. One long
cut of the kni'e made two sides
of pork out Of that piebald pig.
Two hacks of hatchet brought
away his backbone. And then in
35 seconds from his last gruht-
dirty, hot.headed, noisy-the pig
was hanging up in two pieces,
cleaned, tranquiled, iced.
Think of it. That poor and most
unfortunate porker, who, before
he had quite made up his mind
whether to resent the first liberty
taken with his hind leg, was dead
AS a door nail, and half a minute
later was actually ready for the
pook.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1883-10-13
Capital prize Louisiana Lottery,
October 9th, S75, ,0O0.
Secure your tickets in time.
POSTAL DIRECTIONS.

All postage must he paid by
stamp.
Letters In the United States per
half ounce, 3 cents.
Drop letters, half ounce, cent.
Registered letters, 10 cents and
proper postage.
Pamphlets, newspapers, maya
zines, books, posters, etc, each 2
ounce or fraction, | cent.
Printed cards, blanks, seeds,
merchandise, | cent per ounce.
All matter not at letter rates
must be prepaid in full, wrapped
so that II can be examined without
destroying the wrapper.
Liquids, poison, explosives aud
othet dangerous matter excluded.
Unpaid letters are sent to the
Dead Letter Office.
Letters part paid forwarded, bal
ance collected of the receiver.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1883-10-13
VOL. 16.
1 Diamond Larger Than the Koh-
i-n00r.

The arrival in Paris of Mr.. Por.
ter Rhodes, with his diamond
weighing 80 karats, or 43I karats
more than the Koh-i.noor. is re.
ported. Competition for the ac.
QUESTION of the gem immediately
arose between the empress of Aa
stria and Mrs. "Bonanzan Mackey.
with the chances decidedly in the
latter's favor, so the correspond
ent of the London Globe thought.
Il shall have a good nights rest
when | get rid of that baublen y
said Mr.. Rhodes; stalk of a hun.
dred-weight on your back; I've
got a ton weight on my mind.n
He related that at first, for four
months, the discovery of the
stone was kept a secret; but at
last it leaked ont, and then the
diggers were so wild with curiosi.
ty TO see it that he put it on exhi.
bition and took s25O0 in entrance
fees, which sum he handed over
to the managers of the hospital
on the diamond fields. "Then,r
he says, "my first thought was to
steer homeward, and | was speed.
lily on my way to England with my
treasure carefully concealed. AS
o loyal Englishman, | resolved
that Queen Victoria should be the
first out of South Africa to see
the stone and to break the seal of
the envelope which contained it.'
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1883-10-13
STUMP Fences.

People who have never been in
the far inland mountain region of
Pennsylvania, cannot Imagine what
attractive fences they make from
the stumps of trees. Here we
burn them. There the stumps are
pulled out and placed on the fence
line, the roots to the road. The
gnarled roots make an impassable
barrier, and would not be consid.
ed attractive in themselves, but
the wild Woodhine, Wild Hop, and
other thrifty vines. are planted
alongside aud in the deep hol.
lows Of the roots. The consc.
quence is, in n little while, they
are one mass of verdure. At the
gate.ways, large wooden posts
are set TO hold the gate. These
have the half of n s~all kcg, paint
ed red, on their top, filled with
tho hardy English Ivy, aud the
whole makes as beautiful Il fence
as can be found. aud gets rid OF
the stumps in very practical
manner.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1883-10-13
CuriOsitles of statistics.

Let us observe what our farms
and farmers are annually produ-
cling for every man, woman aud
child of the country's population.
The year 1880 produced tor each
person thirty bushels of corn, uine
bushels of wheat. eight bushels of
oats, one bushel of barley, two
tifths of a bushel of rye. ene tenth
of bale of cotton. three pounds
of wool, two thirds of ton of
hay, half a pound of hops, two
pounds of rice, ten pounds of to-
baeeo, three and half bushels of
Irish potatoes, aud half a bushel
of sweet potatoes.
Of animals there was one hog
for every person, one horse for
every five persons, one mule for
every twenty-eight persons. one
milch COW for every four persons,
and two sheep for every three
persons. There were fifteen and
half pounds of batter and a half
pound of cheese made for each
person, and the cows averaged
sixiy.two and half pounds of
butter each for the year.
Although our farm products
seem immense in amount, it is an
astonishing fact that if every acre
of Illinois was devoted TO wheat
for one year, and the average yield
should be the moderate amount of
fifteen bushels to the acre, the
crop would exceed in amount the
entire wheat crop of the country
for the last year.
III the State Of Missouri was
wholly planted with corn, and
should give Yield of forty bush.
els to the acre, the crop would
equal the entire corn crop of the
country for 1880.
The State of Kansas alone can
raise beef enough to feed the pres.
ent population of the country.
When we have ten times the
present population, and when all
our lands are as well cultivated as
the Valley of the Nile, the aggre-
gate Of the farm products will be
expressed in figures difficult to
comprehend.
Agriculture is becoming chem.
istry, and husbaudry is becoming
mechanics, so that one good man
to-day can do as much work upon
a farm as four men did fifty years
ago.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1883-10-13
Obscene Pictorial Prints.

Richmond, Virginia, October 2.
The Grand Jury of the Hastings
Court here having indicted all the
newsdealers in the city for selling
the Police Gazette, Police News
and Weeks Doings, classed as
obscene prints,r the newsdealers
met to-day and resolved to discon.
tinue the sale of those papers.
They hope in this way to escape
the fine of five hundred dollars
and Imprisonment, the penalty
fixed by law. Some of them pro
pose, in order that the booksellers
may also feel the rigor of the law,
that Zola's works, "EAssamoir,' .
" Nana,u etc, shall also bc placed
under the ban rs obscene litera.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1883-10-13

English papers speak of an ex-
traordlnary discovery DR.. Brown
SeQuard claims to have made. 1t
is an anRsthetic which suspends
sensation without affecting either
consciousness or activity, and may
be used for an entire day or for y
longer period with impunity. In
other words, lie has "inyeutedn a
drug which will enable sick per-
son to perform all the natural
functions and to assist in his own
cure without enduring any pain.
The exhaustion which comes Of
intense suffering will be put an
end to; but there will be no sus.
pension Of those activities the ex-
crcise of which are necessary to
recovery. The announcement
seems too remarkable to he true,
but the wonders of science are
not yet exhausted.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1883-10-13
Instinct OF Plants.

The movements of the squash
vh.e when pressed by hunger or
thirst ere truly wonderful. Du.
ring a severe drought place a ba.
sin of water at night, say two
feet from a strong vine, and in the
morning it will be found bathing
in the basin. Is not this an indi.
cation of thought in the vine :
Does it not indicate a knowledge
in the vine analogous to human
understandings There must be
some agency employed to bring
the vine to the fountain; either
the plants own volition or its di.
rect guidance by the unerring hand
of Providence. Consider it in
either light and the facts are no
less wonderful, and they cannot
but awaken within you all that is
noble and pure in your nature. 1t
will also teach you the garden is
not altogether the creature of your
own hands, however much you
may be devoted to its care aud
arrangement. You will not say,
like the proud Assyrian; "By the
strength of my hand have ! done
it, and by my wisdom" II will
also teach you that lie who cares
for you cares no less for the flow
crs that both are objects of the
same tender, loving care; botl
are chapters in the unwritten book
of life.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1883-10-13

Mr.. VIM. +. Rabb, who lives be.
yond Benton. az all industrious,
thorough-going farmer, has few
equals in the county. He has
brought to town and sold this
wear GOO bushels of corn. and only
recently he disposed to our mer-
chants 240 bushels of what is
knows as the "Rabb oats" ut one
dollar a bushel. The oats referred
to were raised on six acres of pre-
pared land, the yield averaging, as
any one can see, 10 bushels per
acre. Mr.. Rabb, in consequence
of his raising plenty of corn and
oats, always rides and drives fat
horses, and any person can do
this who will use his methods and
exercise his energy aud industry.
-Yazoo City Herald.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1883-10-13

The Florida Times Union esti-
mates the orange crop this year
TO he one eighth greater than last
wear. IL the October gales do
not prove damaging there is every
prospect of large profits for the
orange growers.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1883-10-13
Gen. Hoods Children.

Mr.. Russell, \ wealthy Missis.
sippi planter, who is ut the Rock
bridge Alum Springs with his
wife, ha. with him also an adopted
child, Il years old, who is the son
of the late General John Il. Hood.
OF the Hood children the two eld.
est daughters were taken by Mr..
Maury, n relative Of Mrs. Hood.
and are now being educated IN
Germany, with his daughters.
John i. Hood, Jr., the eldest boy,
is the one adopted into the family
of Mr.. Russell. A pair Of twin
girls are the adopted children of
Mr.. Adams, of New York; an
other pair of twin girls are in the
family Of Mr.. Mckee, of Mississip.
pi; another boy, Duncan by name,
is the adopted child of u wealthy
maiden lady of New York, aud an.
other, Oswald, is in the family of
another New Yorker, residing
near the empire city. Thus have
the fatherless been cared for. A
singular coincidence is related in
connection with three of the gen.
tlemcn who hTve thus taken the
care of these interesting children.
Messrs. Russell, Adams and Nc.
kee were classmates Mt Yale Col.
lege. They are all married, but
neither has children. Without
concert of action, or even know.
ing what the others were about to
do, each applied for and was Civ.
on tho charge he now has.-Mo.
bile Register.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1883-10-13

A Woodford county (kentucky)
farmer estimates that it costs st:39
Ia raise an acre of wheat from
blowing to tllreshiug; $40 to
raise an aero CT corn, aud III 10
raise an acre Of potatoes.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1883-10-13

Mr.. Frank X. Ward, proprietor
of the Alderney Diaries, Mary.
land, sent from Baltimore to San
Francisco 200 gallons Of milk on
the hotel ear of the train which
conveyed the Baltimore aud
Washington Knights rcmplar to
the Pacific Slope. The contract
was that ii the milk upon arrival
was found to bc ~ sweet as whcu
IL LETT ho was to receive 81 pei
gallon for it. The experiment
which was watched with consid tr
able interest by both dairymer
and milk consumers, was entirely
successful. Mr.. Ward claims that
he can ship milk in large or small
quantities to any distance without
any danger of its turning the least
/ bit sour,
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1883-10-13
ru,ycERY COURT. 4.

=. eountv-Begins on the LIST
4, April and October and may
| Esndlcial days.
|iogtcn eounty-Begins on the 2d
Fl April and October and may
\ IS judicial days.
A ecunty-Begins on the LIST NON
|.r and November, and may con-
Judicial ! days.
M. county-Begins on the Sd
IN nav and November, and may
\ /. judicial days.
kwer eounty--Begins on the LIST
|ofmne and December, and may
\ s Judicial days.
|py eoanty-Begins on the md
IN lime and December, and may
\ q judicial days.
|ar meetings are held by the
n Supervisors as follows: Bien-
/ Monday of January to elect
4 commissioners. Annually first
| |oiuarch. to receive Tax-Collec-
IOrts Of delinquent and insolvent
| Monday of August to receive and
M the Assessment Roll; Isl Mon
keptember to levy taxes; and on
|day next preceding each term OF
|Court.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1883-10-13

The smallest bird of America is
the humniingbird; and of Europe
the golden.crested wren. The
smallest quadruped in the world
is the pigmy mouse of Siberia.
The most dininutive plant is the
Arctic raspberry, which is SO
small that n six-Ounco vial VIII
hold the whole. branches, leaves
and all.