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Morning journal and courier., 1892-02-11
THE srAKED PLAIN OF TEXAS. As Smooth as an Inland Sea and a Mystery to Geologists.

From the St. Louis Globe -Democratl
 The geological mystery of Texas is the Llano Estacado or Staked Plain. It lies south of the Canadian and east of the Pe- cos and west of the 101st meridian.
 'Tn surface features, Professor Hill says, "the northwestern half of this Plain is similar to the plain of Colorado, Kansas and northward. But there is this differ ence. Instead of extending to the Rocky Mountains on the west or imperceptibly grading into the level of the eastern areas, it is surrounded on every side, exept few miles at its southeast corner, by a more or less precipitate escarpment of erosion re- sembling palisades. This isolates it from the surrounding region except the Edwards plateau, which is its southeastern connec- ton already mentioned"
 The Staked Plain is there, a great, steep sided island in an ocean of land. This ele- vated surface embraces 50, 900 square miles. The geographical tradition is that the Spaniards gave the name because they had to drive stakes to mark their way across. This accords pretty well with Professor Hills description. He says this vast sur face is perfectly smooth, with the exception
Morning journal and courier., 1892-02-11
Dogs Remembered in a will.

lFTom the fIltSuufE blspANcn-l
 The last dog in whose interest testa- mentary provision was made in this coun- try is dead. It is often remarked that pensioners are noted for longevity, and in looking over some old cases in the regis ter's office the other day MT. Newton Pe- trie found that dogs were no exception. Louisa Simpson, the owner of the Old Drury Theater on Fifth avenue, made her will on March 13, 1868, and took her de- psTture soon after.
 Mrs. Simpsons likes and dislikes were evidently very strong, as she remembered every person and brute with which she had been on good terms. Her horse Rocket" she directed her executor to have shot, as she said he had been faithful servant, but as services were frequently forgotten, he might be allowed to suffer from cold and hunger. As her other horse, ''Fannie," was blooded, the testa- trix thought it best that her life be spared, but the executors were charged to see that she found kind master. Mrs. Gransin- ger and Hetty Jackson got the poultry evenly between them, and also considera- ble furniture and other stuff. The former got Mrs. Simpsons COW "Diggie" on con dition that she would be good to the dogs. It was charged that instructions on this point to Mrs. Gransinger be very pointed. The executors were directed to see that fifty cents a week was expended for meat for the dogs, and to give Mrs Gransinger a reasonable compensation for their care.
 Mrs. Simpson appointed her brother, General w Hoffman. and Benjamin Rush .A. rss through with his trust until July p, 1883, when Squire Glenn officially reported the death of the last dog, and the fact that i, died seven dollars and a half in debt to Mrs. Gransinger. In addition to groom ing, medical service, etc., Mrs Simpsons pet poodles cost her estate after her death three hundred and ninety-two and one, half dollars. The age of the last canine survivor is not given, but as he was an adult when the testament was made, and lived fifteen years, two months and four teen days afterwards, he must have been l gathered to his fathers full of years and | surfeited with honors.
Morning journal and courier., 1892-02-11
one Mans Experience With Light
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 From the Dallas Morning NewsJ
 A News reporter met a man who was struck by lightning five years ago and has never quite recovered.
 "When was first struck" he said, 'I was dead for two or three days. Then con- sciousuess returned, and with it sense of most acute pain. My muscles were all con tracted and whenever I was at rest for ten minutes at a time the torture was positive ly unbearable. For days and nights walked the floor, and when wanted to sleep got two of my friends to walk with me and walked in my sleep. Seven doctors worked on me constantly for weeks, and they did not alleviate the pain in the least. So let them all go and started travelling and kept up perpetual motion. One thing l noticed. For two days before rain or electrical storm there would be rigid con traction of the nerves and my sufferings were intensified. Many time have pre- dicted storm when the skies were clear, and people laughed at me for while, but to this day I have never missed it. After the storm passes there is a relaxation to a certain extent After the doctors confessed they could do nothing for me was in des- pair for while. Then tried hot springs and got more relief than from anything else. drink water almost boiling now, and it comforts me. sm getting little more like myself now, but still suffer hor- ribly at times. The least exposure brings on an attack and during one of those spells my whole nervous system is, for the time being, perfectly shattered
 He was asked his recollection of the shock.
 'I was standing by my house one cloudy day. Suddenly saw flash of light, which looked as if all the heavens were being op- ened and the stars running together. l could feel a pain as if men were sticking needles into thousand different portions of my body at once, and then l knew noth- ing until opened my eyes and heard a doctor say, He's alive, anyhow, and that's all.' It's unlike any pain and far more terrible to my notion"
 The gentleman still keeps his body heav- ily protected from head to foot, wearing twice the clothes sufficient for ordinary mortals, and in damp weather he piles on still more.
Morning journal and courier., 1892-02-11
R4fscp1laneu11s.
Itch and Salt Rheum.

TlNO all afflicted with the itch, salt rheum or
 1 any skin disease that scales and drops on and then scales again, etc., make salve which Is as harmless as butter, that will heal the dis eased parts in from to 10 weeks, no matter how iong standing or what remedies you have tried
 and build a new skin as healthy as new born babes, the disease never to return again. Not PETRE, East Haven, Conn, 31 .O0 and l0c stan. 0of matD for . os. 5ar. jy16 1ys
Morning journal and courier., 1892-02-11

Q straight black feather, three feet high, in his cap; and, as for decorations, several individuals roTis riddle past my solving, Who they were or whence they came'0, rattled like tinker's barrow as they strode past. At last came the coffin itself, borne upon soldiers shoulders, and quite simply covered with pale-green silk, upon which lay the dead mans sword, his Turkish and Egyptian orders, and upon little pillow in front his fez. Crowding and jostling behind the coffin came 8 mob Of women, bowling and tearing their clothes. Then in closed carriages, each with its snug black eunucn on the box, the ladies of the harem. do not know whether the first of these contained the Khedivia. The procession halted for prayer at the Khe- dives fsvorite mosque, and then proceeded through the eand and over the hills and round the narrow ruined streets leading to the tombs of the Khalifs, dusty and foot-sore, and dwindling at every step, till the tomb was reached at sunset, the body lifted from the coffin and inserted in it. hardly finished from the hands of the workmen.
 So his Highness Mehemet Tewfk passed to his long home, and as sit here at the foot of the Pyramids I think that of old he would have had a nobler burial. He governed Egypt well-or rather he con sented, let up hope willingly, to Egypt be- ing well governed. His son receives diff ferent heritage from his own-not bank ruptcy and inconceivable corruption and serfdom and the kurbash, but their oppo- sites. For this let the countrymen of the Englishmen who have done it be proud of them, for to them the praise is due. For tunstely the dead mans power passes to the son who takes after his father, and not to the son who takes after his grand father. His Highness the Khediye Abbss will have no foes except they be of his own household; his land has been well rid by others of the rest
Morning journal and courier., 1892-02-11
@fsIe1la1Ieums.
GREATLY ENLARGED,

Having fitted up the entire floor over our store, the capacity Of our dining parlors is greatly in creased. We are prepared to arrange for Ban quets, Suppars or Dinners, with Societies or lodges Private parsors reserved for Theater Parties. Rooms especially arranged for the ac- commodation of ladies.
 A, N. LOPER CO.,. o0l tf st6 and S6e Chapel
Morning journal and courier., 1892-02-11

Woman is doing business in the town of Lexington, Mississippi. Miss Dixie Cole is the express agent, Miss Emily Wright the postmistress, and Miss Mollie Hotch- kiss the telegraph agent.
Morning journal and courier., 1892-02-11
APPLES :!

25 bbls XX Baldwins and Greetings, repacked,
 $l.75 per bbl
 PIE TIMBER. Evaporated Fruits-Raspberries 22c lb: Eyaporated Peaches and Apricots 12c lb. Evaporated Huckelberries 15c lb. Apples 1Oc lb. Old-fashioned Sun-dried Peaches 16c b. Prunelles 15c lb. California Prunes 1Oc lb. Turkish Prunes, XXX, 3 lbs for 25c.
 Fancy New Crop Porto Rico Molasses. The sale of our French Mocha and Java m. 2. soc will do you good.
Morning journal and courier., 1892-02-11

Some people have very definite idea of what constitutes freedom. A woman at Little Falls went skating and cut great dash on the ice. Her husband ordered her home, where they quarreled. When the husband said something too terse the wife cut his head open with the skates. Then he knocked her down in the presence of witnesses. When she came to, the police asked her if she wanted her husband ar rested. "No,' she said, "this is free country; husband has right to thrash his wife and wife has right to go skat- ing if she wants to-"
 A sensible Englishman wrote thus in his will: sI desire and direct that my funeral may be of the simplest and least expensive kind, without carriage if possis ble, and that my body be inferred in ground which has not undergone the cere- mony of 'consecration,' believing that the Lord and Saviour has by His burial sufi ciently consecrated the earth for the re-
 ception of my poor remains, and desiring to testify against prevailing superstition
Morning journal and courier., 1892-02-11
EDITORIAL NOT ES.

They live rather slowly in Philadelphia. One of it's residents has just celebrated her 114th birthday.
Morning journal and courier., 1892-02-11

Score another for the jury system. The members of an Iowa jury have confessed to the judge that their recent verdict of guilty against man charged with burglary was decided by the drawing of lots. Good men and truen
Morning journal and courier., 1892-02-11
D. M, WEIGH & SON
 OFFER:

The finest full dressed Turkeys 1sc lb; st !" Chickens l5c lb. The finest Cape Cod Cranberries qts 25c. Maple Sugar. Maple Sugar. Just in, 1,000 lbs pure Maple Sugar 121kc lb.
 Mixed Nuts, Mixed Nuts. 1000 lbs new Mixed Nuts only 10c lb. Try one of our Sugar Cured Hams, He 1b 1000 lbs new Zante Currants 6c lb.
 Canned Goods. 800 cases fine Table Peaches, 12c can. They are full syrup goods and are very cheap 100 cases finest Canned Squash, cans 25c. 50 cases Canned Lima Beans, 7c can 50 cases Canned Peas, 6c can. ZOO cases Guilford Tomatoes, $1: % dozen. 100 cases Jersey Tomatoes 90c dozen.
 ORANGES AND LEMONS. Large Fine Lemons only 15c dog. Fancy Florida Oranges 25 and 30c dog. Sweet Havana Oranges 15 and 20c dozen.
 Beans, Beans. 100 bush. new Dried Lima Beans, qts 25c. 50 bu. new Red Kidney Beans, 1oc at. 200 bu. new State Medium Beans, 3 ats 25c. If you want to make your coal last longer try Try our Java Coffee, 3Oe ID !; it beats the world
Morning journal and courier., 1892-02-11
MICHAEL FITZPATRICK c. B. MATTHKWMAN, ~ Fr NnNT

Bosrd Of Compensation for Assessment Of Sew
 CTS and Pavements.
 City Of New Haven, Jan II, A D. lS9s- The following is description of ihe above layout
 The easterly line commences al 8 point which is the southeasteriy corner Of Carmel avenue and Gore street thence dcfiecting westerly seven degrees CD from the easter9y line Of Carmel av- enue extended, and running in a straight line 10 . point in the southeTly line Of Henry street The westerly line commences al A point in the northerly line Of Gone street and extends in straight line five hundred and seVenty-hV ieei C57C parallel with and fifty C5ol feet pelpendicn- lArly distant from the above described easteray line
 That portion Of the old highways lying wester- ly Of the above described new westerly line of Crescent street. and easterly Of inc above de scribed new easteriy line of Crescent street IS hereby discontinued.
 The amount Of land taken and given by the said new layout of Crescent street and The above described layout shown by blue lines upon the map of the said Crescent street on file in ihe ofice Of the City Engineer, dated October Ssfh, 1891, and numbered No. 595
 In Court of Common Council, read. accepted, and asses nenis ordered lsAd as reported.
 Approved Feb uary & ita2-
 A true copy of record. .,.-,,
 Attest: EDWARD DOWNES,
 friN City ClerE.
Morning journal and courier., 1892-02-11

Prohibition in Maine is queer thing. A Bar Harbor saloon keeper declares that he is going out of business on account of excessive competition.
Morning journal and courier., 1892-02-11

People who take pleasure in thinking that they can Chit" the Louisiana lottery are invited to ponder the following table showing the chances they have to win:
Morning journal and courier., 1892-02-11

D, M, WEIGH & SON, 28 and 80 Congress Avenue.
 Branch Grand Avenue.
Morning journal and courier., 1892-02-11
Crescent Street Assessment.

rIsO the Honorable Court Of Common Council
 u Of the City Of New Haven
 The Board Of Compensation 10 whom WAS re- ferTed the order Of said court bearing dHie the <ih day December. is9l. directing ahc hssessr1eui and cctcrTninatSo1 by this board Of all damages or benefits Accruing 10 all parties interested hF the layout of c csccni street. lrsherlg of 6ofie street. As the same adopted hy said court. hereby respectfully report
 Thai VIC have attended 10 the duty assigned us. That we caused reasonable notice to be given 10 all persons Interested in the sad public improvement. In all respects pursuant 10 Inc provisions Of the charter of said city, to appear before us and be heard in reference thereto: and we fully heard al the time and place speci- fed in sAid notice, all persons who appeared be- fore us
 And we do further assess and determine dam ares and benefits equal 10 all parties interested in the foregoing proposed public tmproN sIneni.
 Al Of which is respectfully snbmiiise
Morning journal and courier., 1892-02-11
Rruutstums, &I.

POULTRY, BEEF, Etc. Received to-day an excellent stock of the very
 finest Poultry in market Chicks, Ducks, Geese, Turkeys,
 Grouse, Squabs, etc. Prime Beef Veal, Lambs and Muttons a. spe- cialty You can buy here for cash cheaper than E. SCHONBERGER'S,
 and Central Market, Congress Avenue.
Morning journal and courier., 1892-02-11
Streets
 Wheatine,

The perfection of Grain Foods. You can eat mo- thing more healthful.
 s. 4. STREET & co
Morning journal and courier., 1892-02-11

DELIVERED BY CARRIERS IN THB CIrY, 16 CENTS A WEEK, 50 CENTS MONTH, 8 FOR SIX MONTHS, $6 YEAR. THH SAME TERMS BY MAIL.
Morning journal and courier., 1892-02-11
4nmrna1 aud Gnmrier.

The Oldest Daily Paper Pub
 Iished in Connecticut.
The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1892-02-27
OUR CROWDED COURTS.

Among other matters now before our
ject of redistricting the judicial circuits
of the state, and fixing the salaries of
the judges of these circuits. There is
no subject of legislation that affects the
citizen more directly than this. The
prime object of all courts is to admin
lister and apply the law so as to pro-
tect the citizen from all wrong, and to
adjust and enforce his rights, and this
ought to be done speedily and imparti-
ally, and with AS little cost and trouble
to the cItiZen rs possible. The ques-
ton of costs, however, ought never to
be considered where the life, or liberty,
or reputation of the citizen is involved,
or where the peace and general pros
perity of the commonwealth is at stake.
The ''Saline Comfy Bar" as will
appear by resolutions published in tn,
present issue, have expressed the prop.
er views in regard To our judicial cir
cult, and the advantage of having the
civil and criminal causes tried by sep
arate courts. We have tried this sys
tenn of courts for nearly twenty years
and there is not II lawyer, or cour
official OF citizen OH the circuit, VIII,
has not occasion to know its advan
tages, who rs willing or desires to g
back to the old system of mixed juris
diction.
Leaving out Of question the city o
st. Louis and the county of Jackson
The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1892-02-27
so. 900 GIVEN AWAY.
BY the Great Southern Weekly. The
Atlanta Constitution.

Ten thousand dollars will be distributed
this year by The Weekly Constitution,
published ut Atlanta, Ga, among it's sub
scribers.
This great newspaper has already the
largest circulation of my weekly news
paper published in the United States, and,
With n exception, in London, the larg-
est IN the world. 1t is, first and foremost,
"a newspaper, chronicling every week the
tnli news of all the world, and devoted
especially to the development OF the south.
Its circulation now exceeds 10000, and it
is pushing for 200 1000. Sample copies will
besent on application.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. DISTRIBUTIONS.
Five thousand dollars will be divided
among its subscribers between now and
July Isl, aud . 5000 between then and the
end OF the year
The hrst division will be based on the
result of the nominating conventions oil
the " great parties i'll June, and the
5ther on the result of the presidential
lection.
'he national democratic convention
cts at Chicago June Dist.
he national republican convention
It's at Minneapolis June 9TH.
9TH will nominate Il candidate foI
ident and vice-president.
$500 FOB II FRS PRIZE.
wenty-fiv We hundred dollars in gold will.
given by The Constitution Ia the sue
'sful answers OF the question:
Who will be the nominees OF cacl
president and vice president?"
y selecting the four names
IL be entitled to the first
ash, and if, by chance
answers correctly, the
accordingly.
The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1892-02-27

the NIarcn' ,,rarrIun1,ln4 s9pIIq lGql l!'A -
the eases awaiting the action of the
grand jury. Then take the amount of
civil business that has been before the
circuit court, and the civil cases tried
in that court for the same time, then
multiply all this by three, and what
judge can do the work of q circuit COM
prising these three counties, with a
mixed jurisdiction? 1t is impossible.
1t is not the courts that make the
business, but it is the amount of busl-
ness that necessitates the courts. Then
when we remember that the cOnstitu-
ton guarantees to every one the right
to a speedy public trial, and that this
guaranteed right gives to the criminal
causes ''the right of way" Gas the Sa-
line County Bar put it,) we cal easily
see and understand what those .sreso-
~lutiOns" mean, when they speak of the
saving of money to litigants, to jurors
and witnesses.
There can be no difference of opinion
on the question of salaries. The Judges of
these courts ought to be men learned
in the law, of pure character, of spot
less reputation, and the amount of
labor to be performed by them, and
the labor and expenditure necessary to
fit them for such high and responsible
positions, demands that they should be
reasonably compensated. The truth is,
that Notwithstanding the advancement
our great state has made in wealth and
population, and the commanding posi-
ton she holds among her sister states
for the intelligence of her people, II
rich mineral and agricultural resources,
still she is away in the background in
the way of paying her Judiciary. She
has as able judges on the bench, and as
laborious and incompatible as are to be
found in any of the states, and although
she has but n meager public debt, and
81 NIhiIfsrs~ SEM 10 SU she PAYS
smaller salaries 10 her Judges than any
other state, and in some instances not
half as much as some of the states
pay, as will appear by reference to the
last message of Governor Francis, made
to the present legislature. We hope
the Legislature will consider we'll before
it acts in this matter of reducing the
number OF judicial circuits, or of CON
solidating our circuit and criminal
jurisdictions, or of changing our
courts or circuit. IL would be n great
calamity to have our nisi prisus courts
so crowded or blocked with business
as to delay the dispensing of Justice.
The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1892-02-27
MaREW,s BIG DAMAGES.

A special from Richmond to Wednes-
days Globe Democrat says:
The jury in the ease of James G. McGrew
against the Santa Fe Railway Company
which has been on trial in the Ray county
circuit court for the past eight days,
brought in a verdict this afternoon award
ing McGrew damages in the sum OF ST.
$50. McGrew was operating a coal mine
at Camden when the Santa Fe company
was building its Chicago line through
this county and was compelled to cease
business because defendants track was
laid so close to the entrance OF the mine
as to make il impossible to hoist coal.
He was awarded damages by commissions
ers appointed by Judge Sandusky. Nc
Grew refused to accept the amount desig-
mated by the commissioners and brought
suit In the circuit court. When the case
was tried the jury rendered a verdict in
his favor for $1,000. The case was appeal
ed to the supreme court, but was remand
ed for new trial, with the above result.
The case will again be appealed by the
railroad
The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1892-02-27

~
IL should not take two hours to con.
vince the General Assembly that Of I'LL
towns asking for the State University
independence is the best. II is higl
and ireathful, well located and a~ccessi.
Bile. Situated ten miles from Kansa,
City, the students would have all the
advantages of q city. Located ter
miles from the city they would be un.
disturbed by its rumble and tumult
II Missouri would make of its universe
ty Il second Harvard, or a first Oxford,
let it respond to the petition OF the
people of Independence and locate il,
greatest educational institution there
The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1892-02-27
of New York. buu 1

of New York. buU' nc
had ell..,. Jew York when 4 candi-
date for governor, and his friends gave
assurance that if he was nominated for
president he could again carry it. 1t
was not because of Tildcn's popularity
that he was nominated, but simply
because he could carry New York.
When Grover Cleveland was before
the democratic convention 1t Chicago
in 1884 the same arguments that had
prevailed in Tilden's behalf were made
in his favor. Cleveland, like Tilden,
was comparatively unknown outside
his own state, and had only the pres
tige of success ut a state election to
base his claims upon. His nomination
was clearly a triumph of the principle
of availability.
Whether the same arguments, which
will be urged in favor of Senator Hill,
at Chicago next June will prove rs
potent in his behalf as they did in the
other two instances cited, il is too
early TO say. But conventions are
very much like indiyiduals-they are
nightly taken by a s'sure thing"
The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1892-02-27

-sJs as e~.scLIon :,
tse once OF REPRESENTATIVE IN the Legislature
~ he newocratI 10 Min, ru"Jec' 10 'Hc act"oi
COUNT TREASURER.
We ard authorized to JOSEPH u.
hELb as acandldate forthe oiiieeof County
Lrsanursr OF IaIhyette county, subject To The
aotloh OF the aemocratic primary.
We are authorized to announce ROBERT ID
GhnpS1E as u candiaale Tor the Office OF
~ So shays aTensurss . aLaiayett county, subject
10 the action OF the democratic primary.
We are authorized TO announce LEE II.
DLLLAhD as q candldate Tor the office OF
CoxnSy Lreasurer oi LaIayette county, SUB
'eSs = ao.ono ~ uemoeratle prlnnary.