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The Coconino weekly sun., 1893-11-02

 official envelope with most serious air.
 "Now you listen to this. I fatter meself it's neat: Dear Sir--(that's her father) Dear Sir: As you a:e doubtless aware, am ardently in love with your charming daughter, and itis the wish of my heart that she should become my wife. My family is the oldest and the proudest in Ireland, and my wife must have no defects. My love for your daughter does not blinl me to the facs that her education has not been without it's defects-defects which are inexcusable in this young lady. She has a tendency to drop her h's from one end and her g's from the other. My family could forgive anything but that. Now my dear sir, l would respectfully but ur- tly propose that your daughter should be placed at once in an establishment for young ladies, where she would be perfected in the elegant use of her mother tongue, and fitted for the high honor of a union with my family Believe me to be, etc, etc. '" s.s 'tYou surely tdo not intend to send that extraordinary document to her father?" " N'-Er' ''That's my intention. It's only due to me family" ..-. ..r Well, then, send it Tn, and prepare to leave the country in hurry" Dye think he'll take offense? But think of the honor of an alliance with the ouldest family in Oireland. I'll chance it, anyhow"
 left soon after for Maritzburg, aud
The Coconino weekly sun., 1893-11-02
A BIRD OF THE SEA.
The Mates Story of Mother Careys
 Chickens.

Chickens.
 The mate had romance of his own to tell of the Mother Carey's chickens. He had first great deal of roman ce about them to dispel In the first place. they are not lowering about the water for the love of it. There is no poe yic intention in this continual haunting of the salt waves. Far from it. The birds are simply feeding themselves. And what, think you, are they feeding upon? Upon the drippings of oil from the machinery of the steamer. which rise to the surface in it's wake; and when you see them lingering so lovingly for an instant, seeming to float upon the water and kiss it, they are scooping up this unpleasant sub stance with their beak. The mate says that, if you were to catch one of these birds in your hands, you could not for weeks eradicate the evil odor that it would leave there. He told pathetic story of little dog which he had aboard ship once and which worried some of Mother Carey's chickens that were brought aboard, and after that, for the space of at least month, the little dog hated the world and himself, and received nothing but kicks where he had received caresses, and thereupon wisely abjured the worrying of ''old sailors souls" for the rest of his life.
 The mates own romance about the Mother Carey's chickens was this: He declared that they never went ashore or near the shore under any tircum- stances; that they breed at sea. carry ing their eggs under their wings until they hatched and nourishing their young there. He averred firmly and on his word as mariner and an officer that he had seen the bodies of females of this species which were carrying their newly-hatched young close under their wings, and the bodies of other females with the unhatched eggs there. This was certainly most in teresting story. The mate was a sea faring man of years, solidity and char acter. It was shock, therefore, to bt told, on the authority of one who really must know, that this is not true and that the Mother .Carey's chicken, like other marine birds, goes far north to breed every season and matches its yonng in due orinithological fashion by sitting on the egg somewhere in the waters of Labrador.-Boston Tran script.
The Coconino weekly sun., 1893-11-02
HIS SHINES UP.

Gov. Fishback Writes Like an Angry Por-
 cupine About an Approaching "Event.'
 HoT SPRINGS, Ark, Oct 27-State's Attorney c. V. Teague has received a communication from Gov. Fishback relative to the proposition to have the fight between Corbett and Mitchell fought here It instructs Mir. Teague to take all necessary steps to prevent the fight Arkansas, adds the gov ernor, must not be the only state and Hot Springs the only place in our en- frightened country where two brutes can exhibit their brutal instincts and animal attributes for pay with i'm punity.
The Coconino weekly sun., 1893-11-02

returning at the end of a week, l found the gallant captain seated on log, the interested spectator of duel between Indian gamccocks, both armed with murder'ous blades Their shackles stood out like enormous ruffies, the long tail feathers dropped and the gleaIning eyes flashed like fire under the fierce excitement of the battle. They met together in midair, there was scatter ing of feathers, a fierce thrust-home, and one of the gallant little birds was stretched out on his back. -,s His owner, an excited coolie, picked him up, thrust finger into the gaping wound, stitched the ends together, and placed the bird aside, where it stag gered to its feet, weak but valiant
 Here ye see the epitome of war, said Fagus. "These birds have no real cause for enmity, they have no feath- cred harems to defend, or stores of golden grain, yet at command they rush to battle. Upon me word when ye see the tragedy of glorious war played out in cockpit it makes you weep"
 His merriment of few days back hs d given way to a fit of moralizing.
 How was it with the ultimatum" asked.
 "Och. bad luck to it."
 "It did not answer then?"
 "lt did not The other contracting power did not receive it in a proper spirit" .,
 1.-The father declared war? told you so."
 Did you, then? would not have credited you with so much sense. He
The Coconino weekly sun., 1893-11-02
oUN's REVIEW.
His Lnst Weekly Report shows an I'm proved Condition.

HIS Lnst weekly hepOrt bDOWS an Iut~
 proved Condition.
 NEW YORK, Oct 2s.z-R. G. Dun q Co., s weekly review of trade says:
 Port is in sight after long and stormy voy age and the prospects of speedy end of the struggle over repeal has brought bright hopes to business It is still too soon to expect much effect in trade and manuf uflctures, and though monetary obstacles are to large extent removed there still re- main other legislative questions which create uncertainty. A fact of real encouragement is that railroad earn ings for the third week of October show an increase of per cent over last year. the first increase for long time Wheat rose cents, although exports fell l, 100000 bushels for the week, against l,90o,00c bushels last year. in part because western receipts were but 5.S63,00), against s,901 900 last year. Bu, corn declined an eighth with better reports of yield, coffee declined three-sixteenths, pork products made only slight gains and cotton fell quarter, receipts being 60,0oJ bales greater than last year.
 As yet there is seen only continuance of the slow increase in distribution of products which has been noticeable for several weeks Nor does this gradual revival in demand ex' tend 10 all branches. Most of the increase seen in cotton and shoe manufacturing may be explained by mere exhaustion in stocks Of dealers as frequent requests for immediate de- livery show, but there is also reported some- what better demand from consumers and four more cotton mills have started and seven have increased their force, against seven decreas- ing A similar demand has increased by six the number of hosiery and knit goods works reported in operation The shipments of shoes from the east in four weeks of October are 2s per cent less than last year, against B per cent in September
 Against eight woolen mills starting up five have stopped, including one of 3O0J and another of 1000 hands The total sales of wool at three chief markets, including several cases believed to be speculative, have been {, 9,2U7 l27 pounds in three weeks, against 2l, ,975 0O last year Two additional fire furnaces have gone into blast and the present output may be little larger than at the beginning of the month
 It is hoped that monetary ease and security may encourage railroad extensions and i'm movements and more architectural work, but the shrinkage in demand is not wholly due to the state of the money markets
 The number and magnitude of failures de- creased less than had been expected, the liabil- lities in three weeks of October amounting to 5072 92U against S7, ,000, QUO for the same week last year. This week there have been 372 fail. ures in the United States against 1s7 last year, and 4a in Canada against 20 last year. Includ. ing one bank and two western failures for sl,- OU 0N or more there were 65 with liabilities exceeding S50O) each
The Coconino weekly sun., 1893-11-02
FRENCH SOLDIERS RESCUED.
A British Traders Gallant Rescue of Q
 Cartured Military Enrca

A British Traders Gallant Rescue of Q
 Captured Military Force.
 LONDON, Oct. 26-The steamer Volta, which has arrived at Liverpool from the west coast of Africa, brings the re- port that owing to the trouble in the French protectorate of Assinie the French commander and thirty Senegal soldiers ascended the river to suppress the disturbance. The natives attacked the French and captured them. They took their arms away and prepared to kill them when an English trader, Capt. Walsh, attacked the natives and killed many, including their chief.
The Coconino weekly sun., 1893-11-02
Crazed by Cigarette smoking.

DENIsoN, TEX, Oct. 2s.-F. M. Fish CT, a young attorney of Whitesboro,
 has become deranged from the excess sive use of cigarettes The young mans father was in the csty yesterday in pursuit of his son. The father stated that the habit sad obtained such complete mastery ever his boy that every penny that he 'aade was in- vested in cigarettes Tbs consumption was appalling The young man started out in life with every pr respect of ris- ing to distinction in the profession of law. He was known to have been in Denison Wednesday nigh. and his
The Coconino weekly sun., 1893-11-02
NEGRO GRIEVANCES.
A Committee from Tennessee to Present @
 Memorial to Congress.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 27.-A committee from the Colored Lawyers convention, recently held at Chattanooga, is here before congress with a memorial set ting forth the grievances of the race in the south. The memorial asserts that. inasmuch as the south cannot cope with mobs and the states are powerless to suppress them the national government should inter fere and asks of the government in case it fails to protect the negro in the en- joyment of every right to appropriate sl, 900, 900, 900 to colonize the whole ne- gro race in some place to be hereafter selected R. C. Benjamin, of Ala abama, seems to be spokesman of the commit. tee
The Coconino weekly sun., 1893-11-02

The hotels were crammed with war riors, the lodging houses were stuffed with beds almost to bursting, and the very gaol was cleaned out by the white coated Zulu police for the accommoda- tion of timid strangers. If report is to be credited, very high official indeed took up his feather bed, in that time of scares, and sought safety every night within the thick walls of the prison.
 Young officers camped oat on the lawn of the Royal hotel. All day long there was the click of ivory balls, the genial popping of champagne corks, the clank of sabers and the jingle of spurs.
 Through the drowsy afternoons smart traps rolled out from the yard and went spinning through the leafy roads of the Berea, driven by military nondescripts with high collars and waxed mustaches Ladies with spark ling eyes and hair of pale yellow held court, and always had at beck and call string of gay cavaliers.
 Some three weeks after Ulundi sat on a veranda overlooking wide court, wherein a horse dealer from Buenos Ayres was entertaining crowd of idlers.
 He had high-shouldered mustang which he had brought over as a speci- men of the troopers he could supply, and was showing the various uses to which his wonderful saddle could be put. Suspended from either end by a lariat, it made serviceable hammock; spread out it served as blanket or a tablecloth; thrown over the shoulder it became cloak; folded up it was again a saddle.
 Then he made cast with his lasso, and swung the bolus feat which. one of the spectators attempted with signal disaster to his own limbs.
 "Divil take the thing" he exclaimed, as he endeavored to unite himself. Wont some one loose me?"
 Nobody did, all being too tired from laughter to help; so he spun himself round, and the bolus, unwinding, dealt out hard knocks to the helpless crowd.
 It's as I towld you," he said. "l'm good at this, and what lovely weapon t'would prove in foight."
 Skipping away from the crowd he dropped into a cane chair beside me and offered me a cigar, as though he had known me all my life.
 ''The lazy beggars," he said, 'they wanted stirring up. and I did it for them illigantly. Pm Capt. Fagus, of the Oirish Blower, and am delighted to make the acquaintance of fellow-cor- respondent. You needn't inthroduce yourself. I know who you are. just inquired of the bar-man, and by the same token I'm dhry" He whistled to waiter and called for two whisky squashes.
 Capt Fagus was a good-looking fel- low, with smooth face, flexible mouth and pair of bright, merry, rowing black eyes. l felt at home with him at once.
 II heard ye were here incoming away like a sick dog-excuse the simile-and straightway came. along, for com panionship's moighty foine pick-me-. up. Heigho! It's meself that's in need of brightening." a..y .av- 3.
 He did not look it. In fact he winked at a pretty coolie girl who went by with a dish of pineapples. I remarked that he seemed cheerful enough. ..
 Appearances are deceptive. What ud ye think if I towld yez was in love?" He looked at me seriously. "Ay, that's the truth. It's love that's killing me. with all its distressful c'rcum-
The Coconino weekly sun., 1893-11-02

Are those the gloves you bought at the special sale?" Yes" Were they q bargain?' Goodness nol l suppose there must have been sorns mistake, for they are wearing splendid. ly."-Inter Ocean.
The Waco evening news. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 1891-1894, 1893-04-01
DUB FEDERAL JUDGE.

When the federal Judges 90 so faI
as to decide and undertake to hold as
law the proposition an employee IN
the service, by contract of railroac
corporation engaged in transport
ing goods from one state to another
if he should refuse 10 work 10 com
pliance with said contract, he shall be
deemed guilty Of an ofense subject
ing him to pfisonment, they cease
their functions as interpreters OF the
law, and become Legislators, and what
is more, 90 back to the days OF the
inquisition when the star chamber
judgments were enforced and i'm
prisonment for debt was the rule Mod
etn civilization and Anglo.Saxon love
of iber'y have buried out OF sight
such barborous rubbish and Judge
Kicks and Judge Billings Will find
to their sorrow the approving nod of
few railway magustes will prove but
poor Shield against the arrows of
md guation which a libertyloviug
people will hurl at them. Federal
udges arc fast demonstrating letter
son to have been near the truth when
he said; "The germ of the disolu
ton OF our federal government is in the
constitution of the federal ldiciary,
an irresponsible body working like
gravity by night and day, gaining
little today and little tomorrow.
advancing its noiseless step, like a
thief in the night, over the field Of
uriediction until all shall be usurp-
ed ~ These petty usurpers should be
the states in the courts
should resist their encroachment
The Waco evening news. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 1891-1894, 1893-04-01
CURIOUS CULLINGS.

Australian Santa Clauses wear
linen busters and carry fans
Clay eating is practiced by negro
miners in Nicaragua. Whites and
Indians are, as rule, free from the
vice.
The village of Grfton, n. c., is
situated Ia two counties, three town.
ships, two congressional districts, two
senatorial districts and two judicial
districts
Three good washes are received by
an Abyssinian during his career-at
his birth, on his marriage morn and
at his death. At all other times he
shuns soap and water.
1t is customary throughout Spain
for the walters of cafes to fill a glass
of wine or LIQUOR so that it overt ows
upon the saucer. This custom, in
which it Is desired to show an ap-
pearance of liberality, is called "the
foot bath"
The Waco evening news. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 1891-1894, 1893-04-01

The Waco News in replying to an
argument of tho BALLAST alveston
News on the silver question, says:
Throughout the entire article, after
making its extravagant declaration
above quoted the News writes of sill
yer rs an article of merchandise, and
not as one of the precious metals"
Does the Waco News deny that silver
lis an article of merchandise -Dal-
las News.
THE WACO News does not deny
that silver is handled by the govern
ment as an article of merchandise.
and the law which makes it merchan-
disc is the law which robs il, so far as
legislation can without demonetizing
It altogether of its value as one of the
precious metals The trouble with
the Dallas News was it denied that
silver legislation discriminate
against silver, which was equivalent TO
saying the government recognizes it
as one OF the precious metals, pos
'essing the debt paying power at a
given ratio eqaal to gold, which
sta tement, il true, would make silver
one of the legal measures OF value, and
consequently not an article of mer-
chandise. The Dallas News merely
started its argument based on false
statement, and consequently was &C M
PEELED to blunder clear through its
article.
The Waco evening news. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 1891-1894, 1893-04-01

The Fort Worth Gazette, speaking
Of the potency OF the press as factor
in upbuildiug the great state, say.
We are assured by the purchasers
that a potent factor IN inducing them
to undertake the building up Of a
livestock market in Texas was the
attitude of the Texas press. They
were persuaded that, through its as.
slstance, the project was feasible
and promising one. They recognize
the power OF the press to stimulate
the spirit of local pride, so essential to
the success OF manufacturing enter
prise in its early stages. They have
been impressed with the energy and
the patriotism of Texas journalism as
a whole.
The Waco evening news. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 1891-1894, 1893-04-01

Judge A {. prendergast, having
received the unanimous endorsement
OF the bar of this city, will, without
doubt. receive the appointment as dis
trlct Judge to preside over the new
court, which Waco has just secured.
The Judge possesses, in an eminent
degree, the requisite qualifications,
and will make most excellent Judge,
The Waco evening news. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 1891-1894, 1893-04-01
Deane, The PH0gQgRAPHER:

Has reopened for business Ala Austin Como
Tucker Co.'S He has the newest and latest styles in bacgroo
accessories and everything pertaining to elegant photography
plastic grounds the latest extension grounds never befo
brought Waco Also the largest photo box and tense
the city which will enable him to make esze bust photos d
and introduce large Photographic work Waco he will give
ABSOLUTELY free of charge all during February Mar
and April May s FIVE large portraits handsomely framed
One 22X27, 2Ox24, ISX22 I6X2o, I4XI7.
Will be each and ore
te w
price it. DON'T FORGET THIS.
The Waco evening news. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 1891-1894, 1893-04-01

the legislature to see that the interests
and rights of litigants before her Judi
cial tribunals should not suffer from a
congestion of business in the courts.
The six court bill OF the senate pro-
vlding for three additional civil courts
of appeal without awarding one to
Waco, was busted all to smitbereens
in the house today Tyler hooked on
to the FIVE court measure with San
Antonio, but the handwriting was or
the wall and this measure also died
bornin' The house finally passed to
engrossment four court bill locating
the new court at Dallas. The tender
OF free quarters in the new court house
there had much to do with the case
ira Ia, and the flowers will bloom in
the spring over the dead and buried
hopes of San Antonio. San Antonio
had yearned with an exceeding great
yearn, fer the court, and could have
gotten one had the substitute six court
bill Of Representative Rogers, Of Nc
Lehman, been adopted But San
Antonio played lone hand instead
of joining forces with Waco and Ty
Ter, and as result she fell between
the cars, and all the good beer and
grub and hack rides she had set up
to the legislature, were lost
The Montgomery county case will
come up tomorrow. Montgomery
wants to get loose from Harris county
and have herself added to another ad
joining judicial district. Both her
EDITORIAL representatives favor the
change as we'll as her senator who
introduced the measure in the upper
house, where it passed without serious
opposition The change proposed
give Harris separate district, thing
both her representatives. demanded on
their arrival here, and in which they
were sustained by the Harris county
bar by tremendous petition. Dis
trict Judge Brashear, however, pre-
tested against reduction OF his work
without a reduction of pay and insists
upon holding Montgomery in his dis.
trict over the protest Of the entire
democracy of the county. There will
be music in the air tomorrow if the
matter comes up.
The Waco evening news. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 1891-1894, 1893-04-01
Our Austin Letter.

! 5pscial Correspondence OF Tho News
Austin, Texas, March 3l-The
senate Today passed the McLennan
county separate court bill over the
governors vete by vote OF % to i.
The senators voting for the measure
were Agnew, Atlee, Bowser, Crowley
Dean, Dickson, Douglas, Goss, Greer,
Hutchinson, lmboden, Jester, Lawton,
Lewis, McComb, Mckinney, Presler,
Shclburne, Simpson, Smith, Steel,
Tips and Woods. Against Boron,
Browning Kesrby and \ oahum Ab.
sont, Baldwin, Crawford, Swayne and
Whitaker There was little speech
making on the bill The senate made
requisition on the house for the veto
message of the governor, which was
read and ordered spread upon the
Journal of the senate. Mckinney
spoke brif fly, explaining that the
governors reasons were good for not
approving the bill if there was like
lihood for the I'M Immediate redistricting
OF the state, but talk of relief from this
source had been INDUCED in tor the
past six years and no relief had come
ne explained to the satisfaction of
the senate the reason the suggestion
of the governor that Falls county be
added to some adjoining county was
impracticable, and that the general
rule laid down by the governor would
MT 81 ,hts oOao5Er cocn
Senator loakum opposed the
passage OF the bill lie thought the
reasons for the veto were as good ID
the case of the Mclennan county
court matter as they were in the Gray
son county matter. The remedy
suggested by the governor in the
Grayson county case had been applied,
the Grayson docket had been relieved
aad no new district had been created.
McComb spoke for the bill He
denied that the passage Of the bill
over the veto Of the governor was any
more a dlsoourtesy to the executive
than the veto of the governor was
discourtesy to the legislative branch of
the state government. In fact both
had doubtless acted and should act
from a sense Of duty alone, and that
considerations Of courtesy should not
obtain in such cases, lie WAS glad
that members of the legislative de.
psrtment of the government had the
high sense Of dignity which was in
cumbent upon them to discharge
their duties as they saw them. He
believed the relief asked for should be
granted, and that the peculiar con.
ditions surrounding the counties
affected would not admit of different
solution.
Senator Steele also favored the bill
on the ground that it was the duty OF
The Waco evening news. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 1891-1894, 1893-04-01

Give Judge Billings authority and
he will imprison for debt
The Waco evening news. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 1891-1894, 1893-04-01

For Waco TO grow and prosper is
for her business men to prosper. Help
Waco and thereby help yourself