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The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1884-05-13
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HOT SPRINGS.

HOT G srGh,Fsas, NAY & &lsTl5pes,ai, LnAye
Saturday nights aifrsy. will recover,
though Prints condition 's critical. How
el's wounds are not serious. Both men
deny ell isslings o. enmity aud express r..
gret over the nfftsy. Howell was considered
q wsrm friend to Print, but being in .
frenz zied state Of mind from drink, friend
and enemy were alike considered. IL is
stated by a witness that Colonel Print,
father ~ the wounded man, could have
killed Howell, but the lsttcr begged for his
lie. A mesting OF tho citiEsns committee
hiss been called ip behalf OF law and honor.
The trial Of J. Luens, one OF the six par
ties indicted tor murder in the first degree
in the killing OF John Flynn, was begun this
evening.
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GALVESTON.

GALVESTON, May 12-TPress.l Mr.. w.
g. Chesley, OF 81. Louis, recently Of Little
Rock, an old aud reliable employe OF the
Western Union company, to-day TOOK
formal charge OF the management OF the
Western u ion Office of this city, succeed.
ing Mr.. David Hile, who resigned to en-
gage In other business. Mr.. Cnesley's er-
perieuce and ability guarantee his success
as manager.
John Highland, an old ard well-known
resident OF Galveston, wss.to-day commits
stoned deputy collector and inspector OF
customs for the Galveston district, by Gen.
eral Malloy. the collector, under instruc-
tion's from the secretary OF the treasury.
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lxOssE.

Korsn, Nay 12.-[5pecisll-Mr F. b.
Paterson, one oi our popular young mer.
chants. and Miss Dnkie Ferguson, one OF
our bellies, daughter OF W. II. Ferguson,
one OF the oldest and most popular mer-
chants and citizens, were married Sunday
night ct s o'clock ut the Baptist church,
GRO wds that ever Assem- blsd In our city wit.
messed the ceremony. We all wish them q
long, prosperous and happy life.
The weather has at last settled, and
farmers are pushing their work with untir-
ing energy.
excessive rains.
A negro boy by the name Of Jim Brown
wss arrested Sunday morning by Constable
Croweil, charged with stealing q horse OF
Bob Brosch, SATURDAY. night, three miles
east OF here He was lodged In the Groes'
beck Jail to-day.
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COisslCANA,

ConsicAsA, May II -tSpeciall - The
commissl 0nsrs court to- lay accepted the
resignaiion Of County Judge Il. U. Bsale,
10 take effect on tho lon instant. By .
unanimous vote the court then elect. d
James L. Au,ry 10 fill the vacancy. H.
will qusify Friday and assume the duties
of the ofllcs.
Mr.. u. U. Cham berlain left this morning
rs delegate from this place TO attend the
state lodge meeting OF The Catholic
knights OF America, which conyerel o.
Ga weston this week.
Folly thousand people were OF Col.
lum's iank last evening to see the negro
bap,izing. Twenty were immersed.
Drane, Johnson & Drane, of Corsicana
have lust closed n contract with the Co
mencne Roller Mills company for fifty
barrel mill of the celebrated Nordyke Mar
mon company manufacture, to be erectos
| at once.
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l. ANPASAS.


LAMPAsAs, May l2. - Especial. The
new stone court house was received from
Kane Bros, contractors, by commissioners
tsis afternoon. Several baskets OF cham.
psigns were used by the assemblsee. and
sll went of like merry marrisee
bell. Toe main feature OF the
banquet was an ora,ion from Captain +. ID.
Wilkes Of this clty. who spoke OF the order
Of voters and inrymen coupled with the
generosity of q, lionel Lstwgn Weaver. our
ex.mayor who kindly donated the square OF
ground to the county on which tho court
house stands. This event was
ono which will he lo1g
remembered In the records OF this CITY and
county. The Grand Park hotel opened Sun
day Tor the reception OF visitors, who are
pouring In. A certain wool firm OF Bur
net. Texas, failed to pay IL smart by COM
lug over to this city in opmplisncs to u
boast to buy oil the wool there
at 1 cent per pound advance
on our market price Saturday.
they were ascertained to find our supply
more than they had the wherewith to pay
for, henca their return to their favorable
town, ssdder, but wiser.
Wool Is rushing TO this market. Cattle
and sheep are in 6ne condition.
Our supply OF vegetables from the gar
dens near here IL fine.
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EaeLI PAse, MAY A.-Tspecial.1 1-Yester-
dav Or r,scsncio Bales, Mericsn barber st
this place. committed suicide by blowing
out his brains with Q revolver. The Get
was caused BY temporary insanity, owing
70 the osres Of q large family. depre,s,on IN
business ana t,o much mescsle. He was
one Of our oldest Mex.osn citise1s.
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TYLra, May 70 2-Tspecisl. l-Fedcrsl court
convsu, q, 10 q clock this morning. yu tge
q. B Ssoin presiding with Marshal james
q, T,scy and deputies Kirkpasrick, North
ard Ere o, IN st,eni lance The nev tndges
con mission and oath Of Office was beiDg
ppread upon the minutes. The petit inrv
eDe The term was smpsuoeled. fne apgoiot-
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ABILENE. May l2.-t5pecial Wool is
coming in from nll quarters at a rapid rate,
aud bringing from ~ 10 20 cents per pound.
The c'iD this season il an immensely good
one. One herd OF sheep, numbering l30,
located some miles from town, we're sheared
last week and averaged % pounds to the
head.
A man by the nsme o! Joe Collins, while
| herding a bunch OF sheep yesterday, wa,
bitten by a rattleenake, from the effects ol
| which he died In three hours.
| Seven carloads of enligrsnts arrived herf
last evening, They seem much delighted
with our thriving little town. Many oI
them will doubtless locate here perma
aently. Some OF the crowd LETT this morn
ing Tor Midland In order TO attend the sale
o. lots on tomorrow and next day.
Dr Young. the state lecturer on temper
ance, lectures here tonight. Although II
ia threatening rain, he Will have good
crowd.
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Laredo,

LAREDO, May l2.-tSpeclal.l- i Several
changes have taken place ou the Mexican
National railroad during the past few days.
Mr.. simpson. who has been the company's
agent Tor some time In New Laredo, re-
signed and Mr. Trevino. who has hereto
fore been agent IN Monterey, viii take hi
olace. Mr.. Trevino's brother will act ~
agent in Monterey.
Six arrests were made here Saturday
night. yielding $50 to the county funds.
County court is still Ia session.
Toe NJ limo bank trouble in New Laredo
has reached terribly exaggerated proper
tions, Judging from acc Iunts OF IL In the pa
peIs, but the fact Is that 1t Is really Of no
Consequence. Even the loss of the 81 900
which IL not the case, amounts oniy TO be-
ing h,ld by the Judge ss a kind OF guaran'
tee until the matter - settled In court,
would not hurt the bank, for 1t bas splen'
did credit and Y large capital.
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GAINESVILLE.

GArr1svILLB. May l2.-[5 peoisl News
has Just reached this city OF terrible feht
indnlged In by the men on Andy Adding
TOMS ranch and a lot OF neeross. They
we're oil having a general roundup, ard
some difficulty arose, csusing them to resort
10 arms. Four negroes and two white men
are reported killed, but nothing definite
csn be learned. Only last Friday they had
difficulty Ia which one negro was seriously
II not fatally wounded. and yesterday II was
repeated.
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GRANIiuRY.

GnAsDUgY, Msy 0-[Oo'respondencc j
Coupty court has been in session oil the
week. and will continue Que or two weeks
more. Gases disposed of rs folio 10: w. A.
Kerr, charged with selling liquor contrary
20 local option, n verdict of not guilty; ii.
j. Kerr charged with same ofense, rame
verdict; w. A. Kerr, charged with selling
merchandise on Sunday. not guilty; w. f.
Ssllars, charged with selling mustang wine
o trary 10 local option, not guilty. In the
ast case the defense introduced ample evi.
dence 10 prove thit sbij vine IL not intoxi.
eating. In the other cases the jury decided
hat the Law 10 defective on general princ'
Piles.
This puts a quietus on
local option In this county.
Jord and jesse Duken. charged with the
heft Of hog valued at $40; Six months in
all and $50 ine, esch.
We ore having little railroad boom
Several prospectors have been here pricing
rsal estate.
j. N Chandler haa announced Tor repre-
&c tatiye from this district. Candidates
tor nearly all the county offices have an
nounced and the campaign Ia warming up,
especially for sherifa d county clerk,
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JrryERsoN, May l2-f5pecisl.l-Whil
Sam q. Alton was cleaning well out In
the west end Of town he struck gas-dsmp
and came very near being kilisd. He was
drawn mp In IN unconscions state, but 10
nov ali right.
District court convened here ,his morn.
tnc. Judge b T. Estes presiding. The
wh"le day vac tsKen up In the charae to
the Jury. There are several very prominent
murder cases on the docket for this term.
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MIN h.t,LA.

MrSyoLA, May 12.-I5pecial l-Depu.y-
sheriff Niblack TO-DAY arrested Henry Har.
Ian, u colored preacher, on the charge OF
forgery. Harlan bought mule Of w. w.
Rsiuwstsr, a farmer, living about four
III les west OF Qlitmsn, and ia payment was
so give his note endorsed toy feveral u his
c,lored friends. He gave note, the back
OF wnich showed the endorsements OF SIX
colored men. but ths .indor5ss subsequent.
ly found these signatures 10 be fcrgeries,
Harlan had, meanwhile, realized S75 on the
mule, snd had gone On trip of several
days duration. He returned yesterday.
Mrs. N. 4. SodeRson. tue wife of a promi.
nent merchant here, Is seriously i'll from
The effects OF spider bts.
NJ. B. Crossiunn, one OF our prominent
merchants. has Just returned from a pros
pecting tour through west fexis, aud sx.
presses himself highly pleased with the
country.
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TERRI ELI.

TKRRRLL, Nay 12.-rspecisl. l-Oaptain
A. A. Nelson, of Naoogdochss, and his
daughter Miss Fannie, left here yesterday
for Portland, Maine. Aftsr an sbsence OF
forty years Captain Nelson returns to visit
his aged mother, who is 90 years Of age.
Mr.. p H. Lavne. superintendent of the
water works company. had q large force OF
men at work this morning, mdking the
necessary excavation preparatory TO laying
pipe.
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BURNET.

BuRNrf, May 12.-fSpecial l-Our dis.
trict court opened to-day. with heavy
docket.
]. r. Woodward, Of this pl.cs, was
awarded the rock. and W. T. Bieme, Of
Jackson, Mississippi, the iron work, OF
the new jail.
Wool IL coming In at fast rate, seventy
five thousand pounds wss received to-day.
Weather fos and business good.
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BELTON.

BlLros. May i2-fspecial.l-After an
untiring search OF many citizens, the body
OF the little girl that was drowned a few
days ago, was found near Davidson ford
to-day.
The commissioners court Is nov 10 se,-
sion. They are now discussing county road
matters. They will also receive and inspect
the new Jail this week.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1884-03-28

bark at Liverpool for America, it would not
only have occasioned serious inconvenience
and delay, but possibly the forfeiture OF my
passage money.
1t is quite unnecessary to describe the
American check system, with which all the
travelling world is now familiar. 1 first be-
came acquainted with it as a boy thirty-tve
years ago, since whenI have been three times
in the country, and have had on each occasion
the more to admire this simple and admirable
system, which saves one from the worst wor-
ries of travelling here.
Americans cannot understand how we
quietly submit to travel in carriages IN which
we are half frozen in the winter, which are
very, very stuffy in the summer, and in which
murder and other outrages may be committed
with impunity, while our baggage system they
regard as simply barbaric.
It is because I agree with my American
friends that I have noted down these re-
Elections, in the hope that they may con-
tribute, in however small degree, to rouse our
railway directors to a recognition of the dis
gracefully uncomfortable and inconvenient
accommodations afforded by them to the
travelling public. l am, &c. ScoTUs.
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DIDN'T PAY.

A Detroit lawyer was looking out of his
window, when he recognized a familiar figure
and made hurried preparations to vacate his
room, leaving on the desk a card bearing the
legend:
"Gone over to Circuit Court-be back in
two hours"
He was scarcely out of sight when the in
dividual seen from the window entered the
room, read the card, and at once planted him.
self in chair with the look of a man who
meant to sit right there for twice two hours if
necessary. But it wasn't necessary. He left
the room in about half an hour, and the
owner hurried back to find note reading:
"DEAR SIR: came up this morning to
borrow SIS of you to help me out on my
board You were not in, but one of your
clients has called and left $40. l have re-
ceipted for the money in your name, and will
consider it as loan until see you again.
Ta-ta."
The lawyer wasn't over ten seconds realizing
thar he could have saved five dollars by stay
ing there and lending as much, and he wasn't
of any good the rest of the day.-Detroit
Free Press.
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THE MARCH WINDS WHISPER.
RY JuLIA GODDARD.

BY JULIA GODDARD.
What are the March winds whispering
Through rustling trees to-day!
The weeds and the rushes bend their heads
To listen to what they say
And the little birds twitter an answering song
AS the whispering March winds blow along
The violet opens her eyes of blue,
And the lambs leave off their play;
The primrose shakes out thousand stars,
And the birds sing louder their lay;
Good news, good news must the March winds
bring
Or why would the song birds so joyfully sing !?
The sun shines out, and the purple clouds
Are sailing in haste away;
For they would not dash with drop of rain
The robes of the fowerets gay.
All, what is the news, one would like to know,
That the March winds whisper, now loud,
now low?
The lambs have strolled to the paling where
The birds are singing away:
''Now what do the March winds whisper
about
Oh, tell us, kind BIRDS we pray"
And the birds made answer, 1.-The March
winds sing
That they're going to bring us beautiful
Spring" Selected.
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go out, young man; she's not here, )"
said preacher one Sunday, in the midst of
his sermon, to a youth whom he saw stand
ing hesitatingly in the doorway.
A bill pending in the legislature of Wyom-
ing territory provides for the taxation of
bachelors, lawyers and other animals"
Never judgea girl by her color. She may
not be as bad as she is painted.
About $4,000 have been SO far subscribed
toward the fund for Mrs. Fitzpatrick.
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ALWAYS A RIVER TO CROSS.

There's always river to cross;
Always an effort to make
If there's anything good to win,
Any rich prize to take.
Yonder's the fruit we crave,
Yonder the charming scene;
But deep and wide, with a troubled tide,
Is the river that lies between.
For the treasures of precious worth
We must patiently dig and dive;
For the place we long to fill
We must push and struggle and strive,
And always and everywhere
Well find in our onward course
Thorns for the feet and trials to meet
And a difficult river to cross.
or rougher the way that we take,
The stouter the heart and the nerve;
The stones in our path we break,
Nor e'er from our impulse swerve.
For the glory we hope to win
Our labors we count no loss;
IT'S folly to pause and murmur because
Of the river we have to cross.
So ready to do and to dare
Should we in our places stand;
Fulfilling the Masters will,
Fulfilling the souls demand;
For though as the mountain high
The pillows may war and toss,
THEY'LL not overwhelm if the Lords at the helm
When the difficult river we cross.
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SHOOTING IN TEN
NESSEF,.

"What have you in that basket ?" asked
reporter of Nashville paper the other day OF
rough-looking man, as he came up Church
street Juggling bushel basket, which seemed
to contain something heavy.
cartridges" said the man, as he shifted
the basket to the other hand.
"Kill them yourself? ?"
"Me and my partner did"
"Kill them to sell?'
"That's our business. We have sold nearly
800 here this winter"
.sEight hundred Where do you find so
many?"
"Hunt for 'em. We killed all in this basket
in one day and part of another"
"What do you hunt with?"
s'Guns and dogs, of course"
"You must be pretty good shot What
style of gun do you use?'
ssI use the old fashion double-barrel shot
gun, muzzle- loader. You see, we hunt for a
livelihood. We have two well-trained bird
dogs, and two good guns, and don't put on
any style when we go into the field. We
don't have any hunting suits and fancy traps
like those fellows from town. They go In
more for show than game"
"How do you manage it when you get into
the felds?''
"The partridge is curious sort of bird,
and you have to learn his ways just like you
study the ways of the trout On fair days
we start out early for the stubble-felds, for
the birds will be sure to be on their feeding
ground by sun-up. We then hunt right
along until near noon when we call in the
dogs and rest for two or three hours during
which we eat our dinner. You see along
about noon the birds leave the fields and
gather along the banks of some stream or
watering place. Here they will remain until
far into the afternoon, and are very difficult
for the dogs to find. Three hours before
shutdown we take the field again. In dry
weather it is useless to look for cartridges in
the hill and highlands. We always look for
them at such times near water. If the
weather is damp we go to the uplands and
work our dogs into the driest and sunniest
places. If the weather is cold and windy we
work the dogs along the slopes of the valleys,
and in the briars in the hollows and on the
borders of the woods If these habits of the
bird were understood better hunters would be
more successful than they usually are"
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1884-03-28

OWING to the exhaustion of the appropria-
tions for their maintenance, the offices of the
government photographic service are in great
danger of being closed. The central Office is
in Washington and branches are located in
New York, Philadelphia, Boston, Baltimore
and San Francisco. The object for which
the service was established was to collect in
formation for the guidance of mariners at sea.
From this source have issued the sailing charts
on which the sea captain in the past has placed
firm reliance. In possession of his chart he
was never in ignorance of the dangers to be
avoided in his ships course, nor of his local
ity. These sailing directions, however, con-
stantly need correcting and here lies the dam
ger of having the photographic service discon-
tinued even for day. Shoals, bars and chan
nels are indicated on the charts by buoys or
marks and are particularly described thereon.
Lighthouses may change the character of their
lights, buoys may disappear, shoals shift about
and new reefs appear, all of which changes
are sources of great danger and should be
marked upon the chart. For this purpose
, notices to mariners have always been post
ed conspicuously in the cities before men,
toned, Immediately on the changes becoming
known to the officers of the government, in
which full details were given for future voy-
ages. If the offices of the government are
closed these corrections will of course cease
and cannot be obtained from any other source.
The consequent danger of the neglect to pro-
vide sufficient appropriation for them is APP
parent Unless the committee ON appropria-
tons hasten to submit to Congress deficiency
bill to meet the present emergency the worst
will happen and the offices not again be opened
till the new appropriation can be used, to be
voted for July 1. In Philadelphia, the direc-
tors of the Maritime Exchange, on Monday,
passed resolutions petitioning congress to take
immediate action in the matter.
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Of all the evils abroad at this hour in the
world, insincerity is the most dangerous
Dear girls, look before You lsap-look at
the young mans bank account
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EXPERIMENTS have been recently made at
Folkestone, England to determine the
efficacy of oil as a means of smoothing the
surface of the ocean in a storm. For this
purpose lead piping with openings along it's
entire length closed with valves was laid
under the water from one part of the harbor
across to the opposite side, with which force
pumps were connected and oil pumped from
barrels through the pipe. The oil rose to the
surface and as it spread over the water the
white crested waves disappeared everywhere
within the enclosed space, leaving in their
place only a gentle swell upon which the
Folkestone lfe-boat rode lightly, though be-
fore, when outside the oiled region, it had
been dancing about like cork, and her crew
had hard work to make any progress. One
fact noticed is the small quantity of oil neces-
sary for quoting the waves within an extern
sive radius. 1t is said one drop of oil will
spread itself over a square yard of water !;
and vessels, while laboring in stormy sea,
have been known to hang bags filled with oil
from their sides and to have experienced an
commotion to condition nowise unpleasant.
The captain of the Airlie, in storm on the
Atlantic in the winter of 1882, determined to
try the oil cure. He hung out two canvass
bags each holding about two gallons of oil.
In half an hour his deck was dry and for
forty-eight hours not even spray broke over
the bulwarks. When the gale blew over he
hauled in his bags and found there was over
quart of Oil left in EACH Another exped-
lent with which experiments were made at the
same place was to fill iron projectiles with oil
and to shoot them into the sea from a mortar
or from ship on shore. These proiectiles
are one-eighth of an inch thick and two time
fuses connect with a metal chamber at the
bottom filled with gun powder. When the
shells are shot from the mortar they burst,
scattering the oil far and wide over the waters.
Experiments were also made with third plan
for distributing oil, more specially adapted to
shallow water, the materials of which were a
long, flexible gutta percha tube to which q
solid iron cylinder of about 70 pounds was at.
tached. This was shot from mortar and
kept in place by weight. Oil was then
pumped through the tubing and rose tc
the surface through the valves which, as
in the case of the iron pipes, were fitted tc
openings along its whole length. All of these
methods are feasible and might with advan
tage be brought into service along our Jersey
coast. Mr.. Shields, the inventor, has taken
out patents for his appliances in Great Brit
ain, France and America.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1884-03-28

Is this true? At recent temperance
meeting in Brooklyn, speaker said: cit is
christian people who support the grog-shops.
Eighty seven per cent of all the liquor holes
in Brooklyn are owned by people who profess
to love God and believe the gospel. Prove
this assertion to be false, and will give this
church my check for $500. 1 will also say
that eighty seven per cent of the property in
New York city used for the sale of rum and
other denominations is owned by processing
christians and church members. 1t is all
well enough to blame the politicians for the
success of the rum traffic, but the politicians
are what the people make them, and rum will
never be put down as long as christian peo-
pie will vote with the rumsellers."