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The daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1892-1897, 1895-07-24

has asceAtsined from oficidl
sources that mp to this date
there hasf1sefn shipped from
the North Laredo vineyards by
the Southern Pacific Express
company three thousand four
hundred crates Of grapes aver
aging twenty pounds Of grapes
to the crate. These grapes have
brought in the eastern and
northern cities an average price
OF twenty cents per pound. The
calculation shows that 340GX20
amounts to $4,000 pounds OF
grapes, which at 90 cents per
pound nets the handsome sum
Of thirteen thousand SIX hun
bred dollars. Besides this,
large quantities of these grapes
have been sold in the Laredo
market. Now compare for a
moment these figures with those
of cotton raising, and we readily
see that to realize $4,000 it
would take at the price of
S25 per bale, its market value,
inst five hundred and forty four
bales of cotton. As cotton
averages less than a half bale
to the acre it would require
more than one thousand acres
in cotton to equal this sum.
When it is further considered
that there is not more than one
hundred acres in grapes ar
told at North Laredo this year,
and the crcp is not yet gather
ed, some Intelligent idea may
be formed of the possibilities
of irrigation and grape culture
at Laredo.-Laredo News.
Il is said that there are thir
teen families in New York
each of whic has over $500,00C
invested-in diamonds.
The daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1892-1897, 1895-07-24

II IS astonishing how few
news papers in the Southwest
Seem to distinguish the differ
ence be tween the words close
and loose" The latter is most
frequently used for the former
by many of our exchanges.
The daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1892-1897, 1895-07-24

ATcHfsoN GLOBE: An Atclli-
Son man went to sleep the other
night and dreamed be was in
81 city entirely governed by
women. it was scriptiously
clean and while wandering
arouhd lie saw three lnen arrest
ed for splitting on the pavement.
& garbage box at the rear of
each lot was hand painted and
tied with blue ribbon. Mail
boxes were decorated with
drawn work throws, and fire
plugs had cushioned seats on
top of them. Sweet peas were
climbing over the electric fight
poles and a hard painted
euspidor occupied a prominent
place on every coflfer.
The daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1892-1897, 1895-07-24

The idea that it Is easier TO
Kill an old paper than to buy
it is becoming every day more
groGndless and absurd. The
old papers that have weathefed
the storms and stood by their
towns through evil as well as
good report, will FIVE on and
do business after sach mash
room ventarss have tiickcred
in half a score Of fields already
occupied.-Cuefo Star.
The Star states q fact that
has Frequently been demon
strated. Knowing ehis tendency
ofthe people to cling TO an old
paper, TIE HERALD nan
purchased tie Daily Cosmopoi-
Stan which was published here
for sixteen years, thus succeed
ing legsfimately to Tire prestige
sud good will Of the long estab
9isbea Journal. And that is
ane reason why TIRE HERALD
eaD't be killed Off SO easily rs
swg foiks ahsied sateSs.
The daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1892-1897, 1895-07-24

EVERY little town in Texas
now has its board of trade or
some sucl, organization to pro-
mote progress, advertise its re
sources and secure the estab
ment of industries-that is,
every town bat Brownsville.
Why this place has nothing of
The kind can best be explained
by our leading business men.
But there is no town in the
state which has greater resour-
ces to advertise or greater need
of foreign capital to develop
them.
The daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1892-1897, 1895-07-24

DIR. SwEARfNGEN calls Cor
pus Christi Il small port" and
now it would not be a safe
thing for the doctor to visit
that city by tire sea.
The daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1892-1897, 1895-07-24

DAeGBBs' points are flourish
ing in the lurid air over in the
locality of that to-be new deep
water port, and Rockport won't
play in Corpus Christi's back
yard any more.
The daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1892-1897, 1895-07-24

Now for that canning facto-
ry. Fit is to beready for bus
iness next year, Row is the time
to begin preparations.
The daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1892-1897, 1895-07-24
WEDNESDAY, JULY o. 1885,.

The GOODNESS that seems to
De rising between Rockport and
Corpus Christi threatens to be.
come frigidity.
The daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1892-1897, 1895-07-24

Active operations have final
~ begun at Arkansas Pass
Prosperity will also begin &C
five operations Immediately in
that section. 4 railroad con.
meeting Brownsville with Cor
pus Christi would cause the
extension of Prosperity hitler.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1895-08-16
THE MASSACRE IN CHINA.

The announcement of the formation
at Shanghai of joint British and Amer
lean commission of inquiry into the mas
sacre at Ku-Cheng entirely ylndicates
the conduct of our government and 81
lences those critics who have been clam
oring for it to "do something" The
Commission is composed of two British
Consuls, two missionaries, one Ameri-
can Consul and an officer Of the United
States Navy. This joint action of the
American and British governments is,
as we have already pointed out, likely to
have more effect than separate action.
Inquiry must precede action, and we are
fully represented in the inquiry. The
Chinese government has provided an
escort of 100 Chinese soldiers for the
Commission and has offered every other
facility for the prosecution of the inves-
tigation. Several of those concerned in
the massacre have already been arrested
and will be tried Immediately.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1895-08-16
THE CUBAN REVOLUTION.

The statement that General Campos
has resigned the Captain Ganeralship of
Cuba is significant. If it is also true,
as reported, that he is urging
Spain to grant the people of that
island self-government the fact Only
goes to show General Campos' general
good sense. 1t is not likely that the
veteran warrior is prompted by motives
of justice and humanity to set free the
island that he has been trying to lay
waste with fire and sword. The
Cubans have very clearly demon
strated their ability and willing
ness to fight in way that
taxes SPANS utmost resources and Gen.
Campos' action is confession of Span
ish defeat. History shows Enthusiastically
that when colonial people have these
two qualifications for freedom, they are
certain sooner or later to achieve it.
And the sooner the mother country in
such case relinquishes its hold the bet
ter it is for the mother country. The
insurgents apparently have the upper
hand and they should not surrender this
advantage until they have obtained the
glorious guerdon of freedom for which
they are bravely battling.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1895-08-16
WARNING TO THE DIRECTORS.

The fact that the meeting of the di-
rectors of the North Carolina Railroad
Company has been called to meet at the
principal Office of the company, which
for many years has been unusual, gives
color to the report, telegraphed from
Salisbury yesterday, that the directors
may to-day make contract to renew the
lease of the company's road to the South
ern Railway Company. Although the
directors may meet at any point on the
line of the road, and have nearly always
done so heretofore, and transacted bust
ness of Importance, yet in matter of
such supreme Importance as contract
for the lease of the road for so long a
time it is not likely that any risks will
be taken, especially since so much oppo-
sition has been developed against the
proposed renewal of the lease. If aeon
tract is made at all it will be made at
meeting held in Burlington, the princi-
PAL OulC6 Oh tHo COnpdny'
Now, we do not know whether the
directors will attempt to renew the lease
or not, at the meeting to-day, but we do
know that if they do so they will be fly
ing in the face of the almost universal
opposition of the people. No measure
Eve will not say scheme) has ever met
NTH more disapproval on the part of the
people, as expressed through the news
papers of the State which are the true
barometers of public opinion. If, de-
spite the protests which have arisen
from all parts of the State, and
the assurances that, when the pres
emit lease expires, there will be other bid
ders in the field, and despite the fact
that the State, especially that part ira
versed by the North Carolina Railroad,
is growing yearly in population and en-
terprise so as-to render line of trans
portation more and more valuable as the
years pass by; we say, if in spite of all
this and in spite of the protest made by
the press of the State and by the State
Farmers Alliance, the directors shall at
tempt to make contract which binds
the State for so long period
and on the terms contemplated, or for
any period or on any terms, $50 far in
advance of the expiration of the present
lease) then the condemnation of the peo-
Pile will fall upon their heads and upon
the heads of those who have encouraged
or connived at it. That condemnation
will be voiced in no uncertain, ambig-
uous or half-hearted tones, and sure
reckoning will be had by the people with
those who are responsible for such
hasty and unpatriotic disposal of the
States property for generations to come.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1895-08-16
GOLD RESERVE AND THE BOND
SYNDICATE.

The bond syndicate, true to its con-
tract, prevents fall in the govern
ment's gold reserve below the 800, o00,-
900 mark by handing over 100000
more IN gold coin in exchange for legal
tender notes. This makes nearly $15,
900, 900 which the syndicate has paid
over to the Treasury in gold since last
February above what it was obliged to
pay by the contract.
Assurances continue to come from
Washington that there is nothing in the
present situation or the movement of
gold abroad to excite alarm. But Wall
street is not paying any attention to
them. 1t is studying the face of J.
Pierpont Morgan, the head of the bond
syndicate. If he looks cheerful stocks go
up, if he is glum in the morning the
market opens down several points. If
he goes yachting, the government re-
serve is known to be all right. II he
shuts himself up in his office, rumors of
gold shipments play havoc with the stock
market. Morgan is running the fnan-
cial end of the government just now,
and syndicate of bankers have the
credit Of this country at their mercy.
Senator Vest says that the gold re-
serve is steadily decreasing, and the
Treasury is likely to be obliged to make
soon another bargain with the syndicate.
He adds:
81 regard it as an outrage that we
should be obliged to pay bonus of elev-
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1895-08-16

en- millions to a foreign syndicate, repre-
sented by Belmont and Morgan, in order
to prevent gold shipments. Their con-
tract expires in October, and there is
nothing to prevent them from again
forcing the sale of more bonds or let the
obligations of the United States 90 to
protest, as Morgan threatened Mr..
Cleveland before"
Our only hope is, that before the ex-
piration of the contract, the opening of
the fall trade will bring return flow of
gold to this country.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1895-08-16
Congress of Librarians.
ATLANTA, Ca, Aug.

ATLANTA, Ca, Aug. IA.
To the Editor of the News and Observer:
Please extend through the columns of
your paper an invitation to the librarians
of North Carolina, and others interested
in library work, to attend the Congress
of Librarians to be held in the Woman's
Building during the Cotton States and
International Exposition, November
goth and 30th, 1895. The object of the
Congress is to encourage library growth
in the South.
Yours truly,
ANNE WALLACE,
Chairman Librarians Congress.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1895-08-16
Weak and Nervous

Describes the condition of thousands of
people at this season. They have no ap-
petite, cannot sleep, and complain of the
prostrating effect of warmer weather.
This condition may be remedied by
Hoods Sarsaparilla, which creates an
appetite and tones up all the organs. 1t
gives good health by making the blood
pure.
Hoods Pills are the best after dinner
pills, assist digestion, cure headache.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1895-08-16

Some other year the Maryland Repub-
licans may elect their ticket. 1t will,
however, be so far off that people in this
age will have no interest in the matter.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1895-08-16

TEE NEWS & OBSERVER TELEPHONES:
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Blu giness Office. I2'
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1895-08-16

The Southern Pacific Railway will use
petroleum and discard coal for steam
producing. In that way smoke and Gin
ders will be avoided.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1895-08-16

The ex-pugilist John L. Sullivan has
applied for saloon license in Boston.
Well, he will start in with at least one
good customer.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1895-08-16

Tennessee will celebrate the centennial
of her admission into the Union June l.,
1896.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1895-08-16

Mayor Strong is said to be laying pipe
for the Republican nomination for gov
ernor of New York.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1895-08-16
THE WEATHER.

Maximum temperature, so; minimum
temperature, 10. Rainfall, 0.01 inch.
Forecast for Raleigh.
Friday: Showers.
Forecast for North Carolina.
Friday: Showers; probably slightly
warmer in the interior; southerly winds
The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1895-02-12
BATTLE DEBRIS IN a WELL.
Tons OF Musket Balls and Other Natsria
Found in Tennessee.

Tons of Musket Balls and Other NEifsrial
Found in Tennessee.
W. A. Woolson has just returned
rom a business trip to Cumberland
Sap and A1iddlesborough, says the
Chattanooga Times, and while there
took pains to look up the truth Of the
report that a well had been recently
discovered which was filed up by the
army during the war with several cases
If guns and number of barrels of
whisky, all in good condition, and that
4 shrewd saloon-keeper had reaped
1uite a harvest by having this same
;hirty-year- old whisky on tap and sell
ing it rapidly at so cents drink. The
ruth of the matter is that the well
vas discovered, but no whisky or case
If arms in good condition, but it was a
remarkable discovery just the same.
Through the courtesy Of gentleman
who cleaned out the well Mr.. Woolson
was shown the whole matter just as it
was. The well was located at the
headquarters OF Gen. George ". Nor
ran of the Federal army, and is about
sight feet across and forty-two feet
ieep, and was filled up by that Gener-
trs order upon his hasty evacuation of
me gap, which was Immediately occu-
oied by the "Johnnies."
The well contained about four and;
lalf tons of musket balls Of the old
Belgian or Harper's Ferry type; many
If them were the round ball with three
ouckshot. Also number of eight and
1ine-inch shells, with a few other
kinds; grape and canister were also
:ound, besides a quantity of other
;hings, such as damaged gun barrels,
oayonets, camp kettles, tripods, stew
pans, one anvil, full size; wagon
wheels, some pieces of steam engine,
several picks, shovels, mattocks, parts
If tents, army shoes and an endless
Quantity of other articles, such as boys
lsed about camp after they had got
we'll fixed and settled. a felt hat was
aiken out with the letter c of the COM
,any still intact; also several hundred
nusket wrenches in good condition.
The paper had rotted off the cartridges,
which left the powder to mix with the
mud, making it black mass some
hing like plum. A little back from
headquarters was the burrying ground,
rom which the bodies were afterward
,enoved to the National Cemetery at
Knoxville. At this place was fiat
limestone with the following inscrip-
ion: SIN memory of Hardin H. Nc
Cullum, Company H, Forty-ninth Ind
ina. Died of wound Aug. 26, '62."
And at headquarters board about a
foot wide was found with this inscrip-
ion: "T. F. Williams, Company a,
1855 O. V. l." The most remarkable
oart OF this was the fact that after thir-
y years beneath the surface wood,
Gather, and cloth came out in very
good state Of preservation.
The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1895-02-12
KNOWLEDGE

BRINGS comfort and improvement and
tends to personal enjoyment when
rightly used. The many, who live bet
ter than others and enjoy life more, with
less expenditure, by more promptly
adapting the worlds best products to
the needs of physical being, will attest
the value to health of the pure liquid
laxative principles embraced IN the
remedy, Syrup Of Figs.
Its excellence is due to its presenting
in the form most acceptable and pleas
ant to the taste, tie refreshing and truly
beneficial properties Of perfect Lax
ative; efectually cleansing the system,
dispelling colds, headaches and teVer3
and permanently curing constipation;
1t has given satisfaction to millions and
met with the approval of the medical
profession, because it acts on the kld
news, Liver and Bowels without weak
ening them and it is perfectly tree from
every Objectionable substance.
Syrup of Figs is for sale by all drug
gists in SOC and 81 bottles, but it IS man
IIlfactured by the California Fig Syrup
Go. only, whose name IS printed on every
package, also the name, Syrup OF Figs
and being well informed, you Will n's
accent any substitute if offered.
The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1895-02-12
CURIOUS FACTS.

Paper-making ranks fifth among on.
Industries.
The Roman supper was in three
courses-soups, meats and fruits.
The King Of Siam wears colder
hat which weighs twenty-seven pounds.
The use of cotton cloth was brought
to Europe by the Saracens, A. D. 800.
A one-armed resident of Youcalla,
Oregon, built, during the past month,
house twenty-four feet square With
out assistance.
The State of Massachusetts at one
time previous to the Revolution
claimed the Pacific Ocean as its West
.rn boundary.
The relative ratios of the smaller
letters in ordinary printing is: q, 1;
k, j, q, K, 8; b, Y, 7;g, wy, 10; C.,
+, u, m, -; d, l, 20, b, r, 80; a, i, .,
0, s, 40; t, As; e, 60-total, 532.
In Eeligoland Sabbath begins at 6
p. m. on Saturday, when the church
bell is tolled, and ends on Sunday at
the same hour. Formerly no vessel
could leave port between those hours.
Vinegar will not split rocks, so Han
nibal could not thus have made his
way through the Alps. Nor will it
dissolve pearls, so that the story OF
| Cleopatra drinking pearls melted II
vinegar must have been fiction. i,
NJ, W. Thomas, of Richmond, Va,
waved his arm to his wife out Of the
open window of "a moving railroad car
one day recently and had it badly
broken. It was hard to account tor
the accident, but his arm is supposed
to have struck the mailbag catcher.
The discovery of the process of tint
ing white paper was the result OF sheer
cerelessness. The wife of an English
paper-maker named East accidentally
dropped the "blue bag" into vat Of
pulp, where it lay long enough to give
the entire mass blush tint before she
could recover it.
The ibis, the sacred bird of Egypt,
is occasionally met with in the South,
particularly in Florida. In st. Angus
tine and other coast towns the birds
are frequently seen perched on the
ridge Of the roof of house OF stable.
They are easily tanned, and seem tone
Of human company.
The age Of the late dragon tree OF
orota7a was veriously estimated at
from 5000 to 10000 years. On the
lowest estimate it surpassed not only
Domesday oaks and Soma Expresses,
but the Hedsor yew, with its 1920
years, and Alphonse Karr's baobsps OF
Senegal. Bafour gives the ages, as
ascertained by De Csndoie, of the cy-
press as $50 years, the oak 1900, the
yew 1920 and the baobab as probably
the same as the yew.
The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1895-02-12
WHEN IT'S COLD.


When needles are in your fingers and toes
When icicles hang from the snow-man's nose
When the frost on the pane makes sugary
trees,
And wagon-wheels over the hard grounc
wheeze;
When the toughened old farmer aings rouna
his arms =
As il he'd throw them across two farms 4:
When ears are rubbed and noses are red,
And sheets are like Ice in the spare-room
bed1
When water-pipes burst, and wells freeze up
And the tea isn't hot when it leaves the cup
When stray dogs coming along the street );
Never stand for second on all four feet -
When little boys cry if they have to be out,
And are heard for full half-mile II they
shout;
When the day is as clear as the thoughts thes
out into the world from shakspere's head
When the air about seems IS still as Sock,
And sudden noise is sudden shock,
And the earth seems deserted, lonely, and
old
You are pretty sure that it's pretty coldi
st. Nicholas.
The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1895-02-12

TUX on so, and we sent for the doctor,
hnd when he come and felt her pulse
and talked with her he shook his head
and told US how Sal was dyin'.
The old man stopned in bis talk and
:umbled around for his pipe. His
7oice had grown husky again. He
finally found it, and after filing the
bowl with some rotten oak leaves which
ne had picked up from the ground and
pulled to pieces during his story, tried
to smoke, but with q pitiful lack OF
success. With tears in his eyes he sat
for q long interval gazing off into the
distance. At last he laid down his
pipe, and taking Jeannette's hand IN
us, went on:
When she was laid out in the coffin,
foe come ter see her, and he Jest broke
down and cried like baby. Joe loved
her, he did, and if she had only TUX
up with him it might hev been dlf'
terent.
''Her mother only lived year longer
and she died too, and we buried her
by the side of Sal, and when I was back
shere four years ago come next August,
the flowers was a CROWN over her
,rave as I'd planted there afore left.
81 hev never heerd anything more
bout thet city feller, but yeou know
now why I feel so much asin' people
IS hev lots O. time and money ter waste
and nothin' ter do"
Jeannetteput her arms around Uncle
Jabez's neck and kissed him, while the
tears rolled down her cheeks. 81 am
awfully sorry" she sobbed. "Poor
Sal, poor Sal"
A month later, while Uncle Jabez
was taking another observation OF the
moon, some one nudged his elbow.
He turned and there stood Oscar
Hobbies, his honest, sun burnt face
radiant with happiness, and by his
side was Jeanette. They said moth
ing, but Jeanette raised her arms un-
til they encircled Oscars neck, and
Uncle Jabez understood and blessed
them Oh the spot.-Chicago News.