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The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1883-02-16
Decatur.


DECATUR, Feb. 10 Especial This even
ing about 7 O'Clock, Billie Colon, book
keeper for the Wise County Coal company,
and very popular young man oithis place,
was thrown from buggy by runaway
team, and one ankle badly fractured. Drs.
Carpenter and York are attending.
sheriff Allen started this morning for
Leadvil!e, Colorado, with the two stage
robbers, Judge and Sears, captured here
two weeks ago. Upon information from
Sears since being arrested, the stage driver
Forest, and a citizen of Leadyille, named
Lawrence, have been arrested for compiled.
ty In the robbery.
George Il. Atkinson, prominent stock.
man, whose rancho is situated in Knox
county, today bought Of Wyle Moore.
agent for Ike Pryor, Of Austin, $50 head Of
horses. ~
Weather fair, and business good.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1883-02-16


BAsrRor, Feb. 15.-[special. Mr.. W. A,
McCord, ofNashville, Tennessee, was mar.
ried to Miss Sallie i. Powell, OF this place,
this morning at 10 o'clock, at the residence
Of the brides parents; Rev. J. A. Duncan
officiating. They left ON the 9 O'Clock tain
for Nashville, via Galveston and Now Or.
leans. Quite number of handsome pres.
ents were presented the bride.
The commissioners court, which has
been In session all the week, CONSIDERING
plans ana specifications for the erection Of
new courthouse, decided this morning to
accept those presented by ]. N. Preston, OF
Austin. y.
: Last evening, about three miles from,
town, colored boy named Houston Jones'
Ia years old, was shot and killed bv his
cousin, Jim Moore while carelsssly hand
ling,a pistol, which they supposed was
not loaded ""'
Weather at present warm and business
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1883-06-15
Temperance Reading
Temperance in England.

The London Standard has some inter-
esting statistics in regard to the progress
OF Temperance principles and practice
in England, and the consequent diminu-
ton of the evil effects of intoxicating
drinks. In 1877 Dr. Gilbert calculated
that tifty-four per cent. of the cases of
insanity in the United Kingdom arose
from drink; for this total there NAV
now be substituted thirty-two. Accord
ing to Mr.. Nelson's well-known tables!
habitual intemperance produces, as a
rule, death in women after fourteenl
years, and in men after between fifteen
and eighteen years. Among the lower
orders beer is estimated by the same
authority as killing in twenty-five years.,
anu spirits in seventeen. While the
deaths Of which drunkenness could be
directly assigned as the cause rose from
GWenty-nlne per million in 1870 to forty
i've per million in 1876, it is computed
that In 1881 they had sunk to thirty per
million. But the idea conveyed by
mere numbers is wholly inadequate to,
express the realities to which they corr
respond. The change Indicated by,
them in the social habits of the popula-:
ton is enormous. Some of these were
mentioned by Mr.. Game in his address
to the Central Temperance Association.
Thus. to take single instance, COM
mereial travellers who, only fifteenI
years ago, were called upon to paw
at hotels for bottle of wine whether
they drank it or not-being charged
in consideration of this usage only
shilling for their dinner-are charged
now three shillings for that meal, but
are not expected to order anything "for
the good of the house" Mr.. Game also
narrated a personal experience, from
which it may be hoped that the practice
OF ''wetting bargain is gradually fall
ing into disuetude. tits to be feared
that in most great commercial cities,
furnished as they are with their wine
shades and subterranean drinking
saloons, there is still a good deal too
much tipping at odd hours. But, on
the whole, no one can shut his ewes to
the fact that there exists strong and
growing public opinion against drunk
ennesS, even among those who are less
rigidly abstemious than might be desir-
able. For the first time in the history
of England, intoxication, irrespective of
the social level on which it may be seen,
carries with it lasting stigma. The
whole tendency of the day is opposed to
excessive drinking. The Temperance
movement is, as Mr.. Game pointed out,
not only making a great number of tee
totalers, but influencing those who are
not abstainers greatly to decrease the
amount they take. At the great ma
jority of dinner parties the quantity of
wine taken after the ladies have left the
room is very small; and if Thackeray
were to rewrite Chapter X. in his "Book
of Snobs," he would represent Captain
Rag and Ensign Famish as ordering a
"lemon squash in the small hours,
rather than a sixth glass of whisky
punch.-M Y. Observer.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1883-06-15
HUMOROUS.

The Brooklyn bridge is a great nov
city, but the people are beginning to get
over it.
A Yale student swallowed his dia-
mond pin and is ninety-nine cents out
of pocket thereby NorYistoa0aa Herald.
Josh Billings has this playful APP
plication of see-saw: 81 saw a blind
wood-sawyer. While none ever saw
him see, thousands have seen him
saw"
"A Western paper announces the
fact that an acrobat turned somer-
sault on a locomotive smoke-stack.
That is nothing. We know of an en-
gineer who turned on the steam. - CHI
cGgo Herald.
Elderly philanthropist to small boy,
who is vainly striving to pull door
bell above his reach-s'Let me help you,
my little man" pulls the bell Small
boy you had better run. or we
will both get licking!'' FHegende
Blatter.
An absent-minded editor wrote a
love letter and an editorial at the same
time. The love letter he sent out to be
set up in type by the printers and a
long editorial on tariff to his girl.
There was fun at both ends of the
route.
Authors wife, at Long Branch, to
her Irish maid: II say, Honora, where
can Mr.. Inkslasher be? 1t is past lunch
time. What can be keeping him. away
SO long?' Maid -stOch! shure. don't
worry, ma am; he's only down beyant
there, at the batch, decomposin'''-
Brooklyn Eagle.
The addresses of certain young
man having been declined by young
lady, he paid court to her sister. 'sHow
much you resemble your sister, said
he, on the evening of his first call
You have got the same hair, and the
same forehead and same eye" -'' And
the same noes, she added quickly. He
has stopped calling at that house.
When young Hodge first came up
TO town, his father told him that it
would be polite. when being helped at
dinner, to say to the host: " Ealf that,
if you please" It so happened that,
at the first dinner to which he was in
vited, a sucking pig was on the dishes.
The host, pointing with his knife to the
pig, asked Well, Mr.. Hodge, will
you have this, our favorite dish, or
haunch of mutton?o Upon which,
recollecting his first lesson, he replied:
"Half that, if you please, to the con-
sternation of all present Boston Post.
AT singing school the other
night a young man was Dragging about
the strength Of his lungs, and invited a
girl in the company to hit him in the
breast. She said she was left-handed,
had been washing all day, was tired,
didn't feel very active, but at his
urgent request let go at him. When
his friends picked him up he said he
thought he would die easier lying
down. He had lost every recollection
of having any lungs, but the young
woman eonsoled him by admitting that
she didn't hit. him as hard as she might
have done, because she rather liked
him. 81 Chicago Tribune.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1883-06-15
Set Down at the Wrong Church.

There was a narrow escape from a
mixedness in connection with the Me-
mortal Church wedding the other even
ing which is appalling to contemplate.
After few of the more favored guests
had been admitted, and the ushers were
preparing to seat the crowd, a small
party entered led by a young man with
look of expectancy on his brow and
considerable baggage in his hands. He
was asked by the sexton if he would
leave his impedimenta in the chapel, to
which he consented. and he then re-
marked, in a matter-of-fact way: IT
suppose this is the Episcopal Church. !"
mo, sir, answered the sexton. But
you don't mean to say that this isn't
Christ Church, where | told the hack
man to take me, and where there is to
be a rehearsal for wedding tonight"
II mean to say rejoined the sexton,
that this is the Memorial Church, that
we are all ready for wedding, and that
the bride and groom are expected every
moment. = How can get where /
belong?n gasped the stranger. II
think you will have to take horse-car
if your hack has gone was the reply.
But the unwilling intruder could not
brook a horse-car. and so he rushed to
the door and struck bargain with q
hackman who had brought some guests
to the wedding to carry his party and bag
gage to the Chestnut street sanctuary.
He was married there the next day, aud
is doubtless happy. But if he has any
g n
honeymoon he may wonder why the
Springfield hackmen are SO oblivious to
distinctions as to make life temporarily
unpleasant for a metropolitan Journal
ist. - Springfield (Mass.) Republican
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1883-06-15
Every Day q Little.

Every day little knowledge. One
fact in day. How small is one fact!
Only one! Ten years pass by. Three
thousand six hundred and fifty facts are
not small thing.
Every day little self-denial. The
thing that is difficult to do to-day will
be an easy thing to do three hundred
and sixty days hence, if each day it
shall have been repeated. What power
of self-mastery shall he enjoy who,
looking to God for grace, seeks every
day to practice the grace he. prays for.
Every day little helpfulness. We
live for the good of others, if our living
be in any sense true living. 1t is not in
great deeds of kindness only that the
blessing is found. In ''little deeds of
Kindness y repeated every day, we find
true happiness. At home, at school, in
the street, in the neighbours house, we
shall find opportunity every day for
usefulness. philadelphia Methodist.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1883-06-15
PERSONAL AND LITERARY.


Mrs. Booth, mother of the actor,
lives in Philadelphia. She has kind,
sad face, and she loves to talk to her
birds.
Rev. John Fl. McIlvain, formerly Of
Princeton College, has written a work
entitled the Wisdom of Holy Scrip
ture.n
Ex-Sergeant-at-Arms John R.
French will enter the lecture field next
spring, his subject being Ten Years
Among the Senators. =
Miss La Forge, the young authoress.
| died at Washington recently, of grief
at the death of her betrothed, Lieuten-
ant Chip, of the Jeanette. - Washing
ton Star.
CLARK Russell, the successful novel;
ist, is son of Henry Russell, the music
al composer of "a Life on the Ocean
Wave,n and father and son live together
in London.
Miss Lucy Larcom, in her lecture
OH. women as lyric poets, mentions Miss
Sigourney. Hannah Gould and Alice and
Phebe Cary as the representative wom-
en- Wrists of America. - Chicago Journal.
-Theodorus Gregory, for long time
a prominent citizen of Poughkeepsie,
N. Y, and widely known as a temper
ance leader and the landlord of the
Gregory Temperance House there, died
recently at the advanced age of ninety
| three.
j. R. Hollins and Miss Tina Smith
i o. l,n
other day, Mr.. Hollins being an old
stager of seventeen who had been mar
ried once before, and his bride four
teen year old girl who was going to
school in short dresses. atlanta Con-
Stitattioa.
-Anandabai Joshee, Brahmin lady
of high social standing, has come to
Philadelphia to study medicine so as to
practice in India. She is only nineteen
years old, and determined upon this
sell imposed ostracism for the benefit
of her sex. She is a graduate Of Ser
ampool College at Calcutta. Pbiladet-
plsiG Record.
in recording the death of Mrs. Bet
sy (Lee) Sherman, at the age of eighty
two years, the st. Adams (Vt.) Messea-
ger saws she had distinct recollection
of President Arthur's father, as he used
to come, leading his little son Chester
by the hand, on Sundays, and preach
in the Fairfield (Vt) school-house where
she first taught school,
Florence Marryat says that when
Dickens was writing "David Copper
feld,' and at time when it's publica-
ton in a serial form was about half
completed, an American firm procured
somebody to write a conclusion, and
thus put a bogus book on the market.
The version Of the story married David
to Agnes rather abruptly. Dickens had
intended the same thing, but when the
news of this audacious piracy reached
him he forthwith introduced Dora and
made her David's wife, with as little
delay as possible.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1883-06-15
An Arkansaw Farmer.

A cattle-dealer stopped at the house
of an Arkansaw small farmer, and called
to a man who was drawing water with
an old-fashioned windlass that cried out
with an alarming screak at every turn
of the crank.
"Light!'' shouted the drawer of
water
The man dismounted and approached
the well. 81 am a cattle-buyer, said
the man, "and I'd like to talk business
to you. "
Cant talk business till I give these
steers as much water as they want
How long will it take YOUR
"Blamed if | know. They amt had
no water for two days, and the wells
seventy-fve feet deep, and the bucket
leaks; now make the Gale lation.'
+" How long have you been drawing?"
essence sun up; and they're just as
rampant now as they was when | COM
menced. 1 don't low to do nothin
else fer several days yet, fer by the time
one gifts 'nough, the other one is spilin'
for some"
"Why don't you drive them to the
creek?"
"Thar amt no creek in the neighbor-
hood
"Why don't you drive them to the
river?"
"'Cos they'd rush in an drown their
selves"
"Why don't you drive them to the
pondP''
"They won't drink that sorter
water
"Don't you want to sell them?"
81 would if l had the ole woman s
consent, an think she's willin'.'
"Where is she?''
"She's jes' gittin' ready to go over
to see one of the neighbors. y
you'd better consult her before she
leaves.'
"You don't know that woman like
do. 1t amt safe to poster her when
she's gittin' ready to go any whar.
Well halter wait till she gifts thar"
"How far is it?"
"About nine miles"
81 see you don't care to talk bust.
ness.n
"No, amt so powerful KEEN
If you'd pay more attention to bust
ness you'd live better"
"Don't wanter live no BETTER 1 am.
Suits me-
care you making any attempt to ed
ucate your children?''
eyes, an they're gittin' along fine.
Jim hit niger with rock Yesterday,
Bob sassed Jestice Of the Peace, and
Buck Unit afeerd of the devil. That's
a mighty good shown. let me tell you;"
and the windlass screaked and the steers
walled their eyes.
"Are all of your children boysP''
"They might have been eff it hadn'f
been fur one thing
"What was that?"
"One of them was a gal"
"Where is she now?"
married to the trifin' est fellerI ever
seed"
"WelI, there's no use fooling with
you; good-day."
" Good-day." And he turned the
crank, muttering to himself: "Nosin'
round here tryin' to lind out who's got
whisky. A man haster be mighty smart
these days. "-ArkGnsat5 Traveller.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1883-06-15
Geological Hosiery.

The rage of the moment among women
is Zoolog ical hose. Stockings are dis
played in the shop windows up and
down Broadway. They show designs Of
fowls of all sorts of gay plumage. Tie
caprices of the fashion-makers are limit
less. One pair, noticed, were of bark
gray, with long green lizards crawling
up the ankles on either side; another
had insects of all sorts, such as bees,
Brazilian bugs, caterpillars, etc. The
best of these stockings cost from ten
dollars to forty dollars a pair, and there
is ready sale for them. Many of them
have real lace let into the instep, and
others are woven in artistic limitations
of flowers. A pair that attracted good
deal of attention had wreath of for
get-me-nots deliberately worked around
the calf with spray of vine running
in and out among the flowers; anothe
had rosebuds scattered loosely over the
surface. The rage for highly-colored
stockings has reached men. Silk half
hose is now the fashionable thing, and
all sorts of fancy patterns are in vogue.
Orange, scarlet, Nile-greel, crushed
Strawberries, and other hues, are the
correct thing. Men are becoming more
fastidious and expensive in the matter
of personal adornment than ever be-
fore since the dandies of the olden time.
Only few years ago it was considered
that man had done his duty to himself
and society when he bought plain half
hose and white underwear of the utmost
simplicity. Now he must have all sorts
of fancy stockings, brilliantly-colored
underwear, Turkish slippers, pajamas,
dressing wraps and Jerseys, or else he
will feel that he is miserably Glad
~ 7. Cor, Washington Star.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1883-06-15
HOME, FARM AND GARDEN.


Cover plants with newspapers be-
fore sweeping. Also put little am
monia upon them once a week.
Small chickens can be made useful
IN garden at insect catching as long as
they do not scratch newly planted
ground. IN z. Herald
Figs are an excellent food for in
valids. They are best if boiled about
i've minutes and eaten hot about fifteen
minutes before breakfast.-N r Times.
In sowing melon seed, Joseph Har-
| ris' advice is to sow at least three times
| as many as are needed, and reject the
poorest plants. The soil should be
made as rich as possible.-America
Farmer.
"A pretty heading for the top of a
muslin curtain is made by hemming
each edge of strip of muslin and gath
erlng it in two places so that there Shall
be puff in the center and a ruffie on
each edge.
No other garden vegetable has
grown more or faster in public favor
than the tomato. 1t is one of the most
profitable garden crops, if cultivated
right and got in market early Cincia-
natl Times
Another Corn Bread: Take two
quarts of milk, five eggs, half ounce of
salt, one teaspoonful of saleratus, one
teaspoonful of cream of tartar two
| ounces of butter, and Indian meal suffi-
Gent to make thin batter. Bake in
buttered pans in quick oven. The
Caterer.
"A writer in the Country Gentleman
says the following recipe will cure hams
and beef: To four gallons of water add
six or eight pounds of fine salt accord
ing to the length of time that meat is to
be kept. and three ounces of saltpeter,
with molasses or sugar to give flavor to
the brine. This pickle should be scald-
ed, but not boiled, and stirred till the
salt is dissolved, skimming off all the
rises. Apply hot; then the brine will
strike to the BONE.
T. B. Terry reminds farmers that a
"stitch in time' saves labor in looking
after potato beetles as well as in any
other business. By picking off the first
beetles that appear, the second crop
will be largely diminished. For those
which escape, and there are ALWAYS
some, he uses pan with handle and
long paddle. With these implements
a man need not stoop, and can gather
from two rows at once, the tops are not
injured, and there is no danger OF
poison.-ErchGnqe
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1883-06-15
THROUGH THE WOOD.

Through the woodlands when the day
Drives the dusky night away,
And the hill-top's pearly height
Catches first the creeping light,
And above tue valley pale,
Slow the night-mists lift their veil
Then, with whistle clear and low,
Down the woodland path / go.
Dim the dew upon the grass
Prints my footsteps as i pass,
And the cowslip's carpet sweet
Crushes meath my springing feet,
And the daisy-blossom' S eye
Closes as my step draws nigh,
Lest bruise her tiny cup,
Ere her lord, the sun, is upl
First chirrup to the bird,
Ere from rest he scarce hath stirred;
Whistle shrill with laughing lip
just to see the rabbit slip
Through the fern or budding clover
That his swift form closes over;
And with merry heart ring out
Now carol, now shout!
Thus / wander ere the sun
Half its midday course hath run,
Listning to the forest noises
Call Of partridge, wild things voices,
Yet with tenderest heart of all,
Where the cool damp shadows fall,
List ning-list'ning go
To hear the brooklets water flow.
Flowing fowing-'ti song,
Glad I'd list to all day long;
For it tells me, soft and clear,
OF a woodland cottage near;
And beneath that woodland shade
Lingering waits a brOwn-eyed maid;
Hasten, brookletl whisper low
All thy tell-tale wave doth knowl
--Willtdm ~ Briggs, in Century Magazine.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1883-06-15

sun until their clothes are dry. Bobby
often tumbles into the water, but be al
ways comes up ike rubber BALI He
loves that bay and says: This kind of
water does not drown folksl''
one day new boat lay waiting for
IT'S mast. The men in the boat-nouse
heard noise like that of a great sea-
bird happing its wings On the deck.
They ran out, and there Law little body.
dressed In short pants and red stock.
ings, beating the deck with his hands
and feet. 1t was Bobby-all bnt bis
head! And where was his headp Down
in the dark hole of the boat! The boyvle
and sobs told that Bobby's head was
still on his neck.
Bobby's father took small saw. and
sawed piece of plank out of the deck.
He had to saw very near the little white
neck, but he did not even scratch it.
Then he pulled Bobby up by his heels.
The little face was very red. He was
nearly dead. They gave him some
water, and when he was better, asked:
"How did you get your head down
there?n
AS soon as Bobby could get breath
enough he said: 81 thought that mast
hole would just fit my head; and SO it
did! But my ears and nose wouldn't
let it come up again when wanted it
to-"
"What did you think when your head
was down there?" asked his father.
Bobby caught his breath again, and
sobbed out: 50 thought if my head had
to stay down there l couldn't see the
torchlights to-night!'
A man said: "You'd better keep away
from the water"
Then Bobby sprang to his feet and
cried: alt wasn't the waters fault that
l put my head into the mast-hole."
Every summer we expect to hear that
Bobby has been drowned. But the first
face we see, staring in at the stage door,
is always Bobby's.-0 our Little Ones.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1883-06-15
What the st. Louis Grand Jury AScer.
tanned.

The Grand Jury of st. Louis, after
careful examination into the workings
of the dram-shops of that city, report
in substance as follows: We have taken
large amount of testimony in regard
to the relations of these institutions,
both to the expenditure and revenue of
the city. The witnesses were those who
would give us the most indisputable
facts and intelligent opinions, unquali-
fed by prejudice. 1t was shown by Elm
contestible proofs - that at least eighty
per cent. of the crime and pauperism of
said city comes directly from the saloons;
that in some cases the line of separation
between the proprietors of these estab-
hshments and the desperate characters
who infest them is so faint as to be al
most unrecognized; that to them as to
their most congenial haunts come the
drones and leeches of society; that in
many of them the hoodlum gangs con-
coct schemes by which idle youths, not
yet criminals, are initiated into the way
of vice; that from some of the wors.
sally forth, on their marauding mission,
the bummers and burglars VINO return
III Vic SlndlI uOuIS Vi lllC ulGub Will
their booty to the still open saloon,
where they find GER. slcome, and
no inconsiderable m-asure of protec-
ton.
l. The cost of policing the lower
grades of these dens is manifold greater
than the revenue derived from their inn
mensely preponderating contribution to
the dire CATALOGUE of crime and misery
with which the social compact of st.
Louis is burdened and afflicted.
2. The members of the Grand Jury
would be unfaithful to their deliberate
judgment, to their oaths, and with their
present light, to their duty as citizens,
if they did not at this time declare un-
biased conviction that in this city there
is to-day no subject which SO imme-
diately and imperativelv demands the
earnest consideration of the tax-paying
community as the case; The People vs..
the Liquor Traffic"