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The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1896-12-12

In the Agricultural line, sTexns leads all
other states in the variety OF its products.
Cotton. coru and the cereals grow and are
raised in every section OF the state and In
the central and southern portions sugar
cane and sorghum are probably cultivated.
On the Gulf Coast two aud three crops OF
vegetables are laiscl each year. Berries are
shipped six weeks In advance OF tue homo
crop In the north. Pears, peaches, plums,
oranges, figs, olives and nuts all grow album
dainty and can he marketed from two 10
three weeks IN advance OF the California
crops. Large quantities OF rice are now
grown.
IL the land seeker, the home seeker and
the settler desires 10 secure farm larger
than the ono he occupies, on VASTLY more
reasonable terms; III lie wants more land 10
cultivate, greater variety OF crops 10
harvest, with propOrtionately increased re-
muneration, at "A less outlay for cost OF pro-
duction; III he wants an carrier season with
correspondingly higher prices; II he wants
mlder winters, all the year pasturage Tor
his stock, improved health, increased bodily.
comforts and wealth and prosperity, ~
should go 10 Texas.
Send for pamphlet descriptive OF the re-
sources Of this great state (mailed tree.
Low rate Homeseekers excursions via the
Missouri Kansas a. Texas Railway on Nov.
Bird and nth, Dec LIST and 18th, 1895. H. A.
CnERisIER, Northern Passenger Agent, ZIG
Marquette Building. Chicago.
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1896-12-12
FOREIGN.

On account of the crop deficiency
Australia requires 100000 tons OF heat
and flour from America. and half OF that
quantity has already been ordered.
The seasons catch OF seals by the
Canadian scaling fleets was 55.G7s skins,
against 70,75o taken last year.
Local newspapers in Cuba are urging
the necessity for carrying on farming
operations in the island. otherwise a
disastrous famine is inevitable.
Joseph james Cheesman. president of
Liberia, Is dead, and Vice President
Coleman succeeds him.
The estimated wheat crop OF Great
Britain is 2O,00O,OOo bushels above that
of 1895.
Maddcned by unrequited love, Homer
Howell, nged %, shot his former sweet
heart, Miss Annie Sims. aged "a. at Mon
treal. Que. and then put bullet in his
own brain.
Dispatches from Havana report that
Capt. Gen. Weyler has been wounded at
the front. 1t is not stated how serious
his wounds are.
Venezuela has accepted the arbitra-
ton as agreed upon by Secretary Olney
and Sir Julian Pauncefote.
The Barron block at Montreal, Que
bee. was burned, the loss being $500, 900.
1t was stated in positive terms by the
Spanish authorities that Antonio
Maceo. the great insurgent leader and
the heart and soul OF the Cuban cause.
bad been killed in Havana province
after having effected the passage of the
western trocha, near Mariel.
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1896-12-12
LAeoR NOTES.

shiploads OF wheat are leaving Cali
fornia for Sydney.
Small merchants of Toronto have
combined TO fight department stores.
The label OF the Boot and Shoe Work.
ers' union is now used by 10 factories.
A young woman in St. Louis has
opened a cooperative dining-room for
members of her sex.
Associated retail liquor dealers OF
Duluth agreed to handle only union
label cigars.
Miners in the Monogahela valley
threaten to strike unless their wages
are advanced.
More than 100000 cotton spindles
have been added 20 the cotton facilities
of Japan in less than a year.
Textile workers throughout the south
are being unionized by American Fed
Grafton of Labor organizers.
Nailmaking machines now produce az
many nails in a given time as were forS
merly made by 1000 men.
Six thousand African Kafiirs working
IN the Transvaal mines have struck
work against reduction of wages.
OF the $4,000 persons employed direct
ly in the sugar industry in Queensland,
5000 are composed of Japs, Kanakas
and Chinese.
A project OF the managers of the ST.
Louis house of refuge to start q weekly
paper and teach inmates the printing
trade is being bitterly opposed by or
ranized labor.
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1896-12-12

Chicago, Dec. 5.--Rev. Judson Smith,
secretary of the American board OF for
eign missions. who has been In this city
lecturing at the Union Park Thcolog-
ical seminary. has received copy of q
cablegram which had been sent TO his
cilice in Boston from an American resi-
dent in Constnntinople. The message
conveys intelligence OF recent outrnges
and massucrcs OF Armenians by Turks
in the villages near To Bitlis and in
some places remote from that city, In
which 1000 children were made or
phans and 800 women confronted with
widowhood and starvation.
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1896-12-12
The News Condensed.
important intelligence From All Parts.
CONGRESSIONAL.


The Proceedings OF the Second Session.
At noon on the 18th the senate was called
20 order by Vice President Stevenson and
prayer was offered by the blind chaplain.
Rev Mr.. Milburn. The roll call showed IL
senators present A committee was APP
polsted 10 wait upon the president. and
soon after the message was received and
read The senate then adjourned for the
day. The house was called 10 order AZ
noon by Speaker Reed and Chaplain Con-
den offered prayer. The roll call disclosed
the presence OF Hl members The
presidents message was received
and read. The pension appropriation bill
(yl4i. 2s3, $500 was reported. The death OF
ex-Spcaker Crisp was announced and APP
propriate resolutions were adopted, after
which the house adjourned for the day.
In the senate on the Sth many petitions
were presented from manufacturing bodies
urging the passage OF the Dingley bill.
Mr. Cullom gave notice that on the 10th
ne would address the senate on the Cuban
question A resolution was adopted TO
appoint a special committee OF five SEN
ators 10 devise legislation 70 secure an In
ternational monetary conference. In the
house the pension bill (Sl4l $500 was
passed. A bill was introduced TO make
blackllsting a conspiracy against the
United States and punishable as such.
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1896-12-12

New York. Dee. AIRS. Eliza m.
Cummings. a wealthy woman OF Hills.
boro. o.. committed suicide by jump
Ing from the sixth story window Of the
Empire hotel. She was dcmented, and
was being treated for her trouble.
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1896-12-12
Guilty OF Numbering ul. wife.

Cincinnati. Dec. .. - William Wiley.
who has been on trial In the criminal
court for the past three days charged
with killing his wife. was Friday after.
noon found guilty of murder in the first
degree. Wiley's two little children were
strong witnesses against him.
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1896-12-12

Willimantic. Conn, Dec. J.-fhe New
York express freight, No. Is, from Brat
tIcboro TO New London. was wrecked
at point IA miles FROM EagleviIie. on
the Central Vermont railroad. at about
1880 o'clock Friday night. aud in the dis
sster three prisons. members OF the
trains crew. lost their lives.
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1896-12-12

w. b. Franklin, president of the
board of managers of the national home
for disabled volunteer soldiers, in his
report TO congress says that the whole
number cared for at all homes during
the year was 40.44s and applications for
admission are more numerous than ever
before
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1896-12-12

Saratoga, N. u, Dec. 5. - The Rock
City Falls Paper company. doing bust
ness at Rock City Falls, this county, has
made a general assignment. The com.
pany employed about 90 people. all OF
whom win be thrown out OF employ
ment.
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1896-12-12
Prominent southerncr Dead.

New Orleans. Dec. s.-John w In
Bourisse. eN-president OF the Cotton ex-
change and one OF the best known men
in the south. died Of heart failure Mon
div
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1896-12-12

BETTER times como 10 all cured OF aches
and pains by st. Jacobs OIL
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1896-12-12

THE devil can meet eloqucnce without
trouble, hut he has never been able 10 stand
before love.-Ram's Horn.
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1896-12-12

WHILE man Is growing life Is in decrease,
and cradles rock US nearer TO tho tomb
Yong.
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1896-12-12

It is brave to overcome; it is sanity to
endure
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1896-12-12

Coon times. Happy state st. Jacobs OH
cures pain right up to date.
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1896-12-12
Cheap Excursions to the West, North and
Northwest.

On December | aud 10, 1896, the North
Western Line Chicago a. Northwestern
Railway Will sell excursion tickets 70 o
large number OF points In the west, north
aud northwest For fill information apply
To ticket agents OF connecting lines, or adj
dress w. B. KNIsKEKN, General Passenger
and Ticket Agent, q. a. N. w. R'y, Chicago,
Ill
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1896-12-12

No MErAPuYsIcfAN ever folt the deficiency
of language 80 much as the grateful. Col
ton
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1896-01-04

On one occasion, needing the name of
circuit judge who had been appointed
from Missouri by the president, l asked
the telegraph operator whose wire ran
from here to ST. Louis to inquire of the
Globe-Democrat the name of the man.
few strokes of the key were made,
and the operator said: amos NJ.
Thayer." Inside of two minutes, had
sent an inquiry half across the con-
tinent and received IN answer which
was necessary to the completion of an
article which was being prepared in the
capitol building at Washington. That
was quick work. Wasn't it?
The special correspondent ut WASH
ington during the present important
session of congress will be sort of
free lance. He will not be circum-
scribed by iron-clad orders from the
home Office. He will be intrusted to
accurately inform himself concerning
all matters of particular Importance
to the readers of the paper which he
represents. He will write stories of
general interest and mail them; or, If
anything of unusual interest tran
spires, he will telegraph thousands of
words regardless of the expense of
telegraph tolls. He must use good
Judgment, be economical or lavish ac-
cording to circumstances, and he must
decide and act as promptly as gem
eral upon the field of battle. His re-
sPonsibility is great, and he realizes
that fact all the time. He has rowing
commission, but he must never become
an Apache nor guerilla.
The new members of congress usual
ly refer to the correspondents as ''re-
porters" for the newspapers which
they represent. The average cores
pondent does not like that designa-
tion. Reporters are usually regarded
Ms local writers who work under the
direction of their city editors, while the
correspondents are generally men who
have gone notch or two higher than
the position of city editor. 1t is pro-
fessional distinction, of which states
men know nothing, until they COM
mence to learn the ways and whims
Of this new class of citizens, composed
as it is of men of distinct class, with
whom the new congressman have never
before mingled. Inasmuch as their
intercourse is usually pleasant and mu-
tually agreeable, they soon learn these
distinctions.
Journalism is to-day profession, as
distinct and as positive as theology,
medicine or law. 1t is one of the
learned professions, and it has grada-
tions from the young man who "pol-
ishes up the handle of the big front
door" to the editor in chief or pro-
prietor and business manager. 1t may
be truly said that no man who would be-
incompetent to fill the position of city
editor or managing editor should be
adjudged tent to represent a
prosperous spaper as it's Washing
ton correspondent SMITH ID. FRY.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1896-01-04

ceipt of that fire my feelings underwent
revolution impossible to describe. I
grew suddenly buoyant. had felt no
disposition to run, neither had single
individual of my company. Instantly
my mind, which had almost ceased 10
act. began to operate as usual. Ibegan
to plan and studied out the details OF
the fight. Time and again the federala
charged us, but every time they got the
worst of it. We killed several of th.n
and wounded a good many, but not u
man of us had been seriously hurt.
FINALLY, after two hours of hot work,
us was to surround US, and very r..
luctantly saw the necessity of retreat
ing. This was bitter pill, and I fel,
that would be held up to ignominy for
turning back to the foe. A message
came, however, from Col. Rhodes, al
this crisis commanding our retreat
and we retired in good order.
"a few days later | was the recipient
of a message from Col. Rhodes to report
tc him. l looked on it as my death
warrant. My course in that skirmiah
was TO be investigated, and | was going
to be court-martialed for cowar'lice,
Judge of my surprise when he showed
ME a communication signed by Beaure'
gard, complimenting the conduct of the
officers and men in that very affair. II
struck me as the most fragrant case oi
nndeserved praise. and | told Rhodes
that didn't propose to take a particle
of it to myself, for ever since the en-
counter | had experienced nothing but
humiliation, which Gen. Beauregard' \
compliments did not alleviate. Wash
ington Post.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1896-01-04
WAR "REMINISCENCES.
WELL-EARNEo LIBERTY.
A Norvy Confedorate's Desperate Dash
when Caught In n Tight Place.

A Norvy Confodorate's Desperate Dash
when Caught In n Tight Place.
'"f1ie greatest act of daring that re-
member to have seen performed by sol
diers of the confederate armies," said
Gen. G. p. NJ. Turner, was performed
by a couple of men who now stand high
in official life in the Lone Star state.
One is II. p. Mnbry, the adjutant gen
eral of Texas, and the other is John f..
Love, who is now sheriff of one of the
Texas counties near Dallas, the name OF
which just now fail to remember.
'At the time speak of Springfield
was invested by federal army of $4,000
under Gen Fremont. The confederate
force, a comparative handful, was quar-
tered at Camp Harbin, not far from
Cassville, under Gen. Mccullough. The
'confederates had no knowledge of the
strength of the federal forces, and,
having been approached by some small
federal divisions that were evidently in
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1896-01-04

and his honor, and died rather than
break II promise.
II monuments are to be built, IL Ia
better to build them in commemoration
of noble character and a simple life,
true to the last breath to knightly
standard of honor, than to genius or
to brilliant achievements. There is a
lesson for the humblest as well as the
highest in the martyrdom of Sam Davis.
Every man cannot be n genius. Only
the highly favored can win renown by
great deeds. Sam Davis was not Of
these. His title to the admiration of
his countrymen rests in simple, stead
fast, unwavering devotion to duty and
to principle of honor. 1t is n char
acter in which the common soldier in
life's battles may attain. The youth of
the land cannot copy the mighty genius
of Lee, but they may be taught to love
truth and honor, to be faithful, even
unto death, like Sam Davis.
Raise him a monumental monument
to the young hero of the common peo-
ple-that will hold aloft the lesson of
his glorious martyrdom-that will
teach the proud and the naughty that
even among the humble and the OBJ
scure there are hearts of gold and souls
of iron to suffer and endure.-Memphis
Commercial-Appea
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1896-01-04

tended to incite an offensive movement
by the confederate forces, general at
tack on the federal lines was meditated.
/ was then serving as private secretary
to Gen. Mccullough, and, being con-
stantly at headquarters, was conver-
SAINT with ell movements in contempla-
tion. Before making the attack Gen.
Mccullough deemed it prudent to have
accurate information as to the strength
and position of the enemy, and called
for couple of volunteers to go through
the enemy's lines into Springfield and
secure the desired information. There
were plenty of volunteers for this des-
perate undertaking, but the two who
were selected were HI. p. Mabry, captain
of a company in the Sixth Texas regi-
ment, and John e. Love, captain of Gen.
McCullough's escort company. Mabry
was of New York birth. He had been
sent to Texas to manage branch mer-
camille establishment, but when the war
broke out he donned the gray, shoul-
dered rifle and marched forth to the
music of Dixie" Love was a southern
born man. Both were in the prime of
young manhood, filled with visions of
glory and fame. They acquired both.
Dressed in civilian clothes, they had
no great difficulty in passing into the
invested city, and they found accommo-
dations at the residence of Col. Parks,
a man of wealth and southern sympa-
thies. With this hospitable residence
as their headquarters, the two scouts
soon accumulated what information
was needed and at night lay down for
good rest, preparatory to the difficult
undertaking of getting back to Nc
Cullough's headquarters the next day.
"There were negro servants in the
house of Col. Parks, who, of course,
were sympathizers with the fcderals,
and these negroes betrayed the scouts,
with the result that as they lay in bed
in separate rooms they were awakened
by the sound of q martial tread, the
clatter of accoutremcnts, and words of
command. Peering out from the win
dows, the scouts saw the house sur
rounded by soldiers, with the captain
OF the company pounding on the door
and demanding admittance.
Capt. Mabry, already dressed, made
at once to the front door, which he
threw open. He stood face to face with
the federal captain.
Surrender was the command he
heard.
"'All right he responded, coolly.
"He put his hands behind his back
as though to hand forth his weapons
to his captor, but instead his arms
shot forth, revolver in one hand, a
bowie knife in the other, and with the
quickness of thought the knife was
sunk to the hilt in the shoulder of the
federal captain, who sank to the ground.
Leaving his knife where it wns plant
ed, the nervy Mabry sprung forward,
emptying his revolver point blank at
the nearest soldiers in his pathway,
killing two of them before reaching
the gate, and himself receiving a bull
let that, curiously enough. struck him on
the thumb and ranged upward under
the skin to the elbow, breaking no
bones"-Chattanoo News
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1896-01-04
REED AND THE sILvERITEs.
The Speaker Appears to BE FavorinE
Cheap Money Men.

Cheap Money Men.
There are few over 100 democrats
in the house. About one-half of them
are sound-money men. The rest are
advocates of the free coinage of silver.
It is the speakers present policy 10
ignore and humiliate the sound-moneyt
democrats and to bring the silver men
to the fore. He will brutally suppress
all that element of the minority that is
safe, wise and of good counsel, while
he gives prominence and such power as
he can to those members who would
instantly destroy the nations credit IL
they could.
The committee on rules is one OF the,
most powerful and important of the
house committees. Speaker Reed and
Speaker Crisp made it so. This commit
tee can at any time bring in a rule that
will determine the fate of a pending
measure. 1t can guide and virtually
contro. the action of the house. In the
SD congress this committee consisted
of Speaker Crisp, Mr.. Catchings, OF
Mississippi; Mr.. Outhwaite, of Ohio,
and Mr.. Reed and Mr.. Burrows of the
republican minority. Speaker Reed
will be a member of his own commit
tee. One of the two other republican,
members will succeed Mr.. Outhwaite-
But it is Mr.. Reeds intention to depose
Mr.. Catchings and put in his place Mr..
| Benton McMillin, of Tennessee, an OBJ
stinate, utterly unreasonable silver
man and one of the leading promoters
| of the unconstitutional income tax
Mr.. Crisp, an equally hopeless silver
lunatic, will be the other democratic
member.
We need not remind Speaker Reed
that this proceeding will give the lie
to the solemn assurances he gave to
some of the leading business men and
financiers of New York, that it would
be his aim to promote sound and con-
servative business legislation. Mr..
Reed knows it, and the New York busi-
ness men who relied upon his honor
and good faith will know it. He cannot
play the honest patriot here and the
dishonest and dangerous partisan in
Washington without detection and dis
grace. The silver craze is dying out in
the country. 1t is dying out in the
| pdIly anu III lhS
party. Every business man has per
sonal interest in it's early and complete
extinction. For Mr.. Reed to give it
every encouragement in his power, to
make it prominent, to give it prece-
dence in the minority party in the
house, is not only an act of unspeakabie
perfdy, it is an infamous attack upon
the credit and the industries of the
country.
The soundness of Mr.. Reeds own
financial views are by no means beyond
suspicion. His ambitions and his poll
tics are his own, of course, but he has
no such hold upon the confidence OF
serious men and sensible voters rs tc
put the realization of the one beyond
danger of fatal hurt from even small
mistakes in the other.-N. Y. Times.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1896-01-04

spected them for their loyalty to their
friends. Many state secret Ia con-
fided to gentlemen of the press, solely
for their individual information, in or
der that they may have inside facts to
use several weeks or months later on,
when such knowledge may prove of
great value. The journalist who would
butray his senatorial friend would be
nn anathema on the floor of the senate
and also among his confreres of the gal
lrrics. 1t is part Of the unwritten con-
stitution of the profession that secrets
SO obtained shall be held inviolable.
The illustration of the press gallery
OF the house of representatives might
be misleading without word of ex-
PLANTATION. The picture shows the press
gallery pretty well filed. 1t shows
the presence of many reporters at a
time when an exciting debate is being
carried on between two congressman.
Upon such occasions the seats in the
gallery are well filled; but ordinarily
they are empty. The correspondents
never get news in the galleries except
upon startling occasions. They usual
ly get their best information in the
senate and house restaurants, at the
homes of the statesmen, or in the pri-
vacy of committee rooms. Very little
writing is done in the galleries, al
though everyone OF the rdepresenta-
tives of leading newspapers is pro-
vided with pen, ink, pencil, stationary,
and messengers to carry their manu-
script to the telegraph offices in the
rear. There are press lobbies back of
the galleries, where running accounts
of daily proceedings are written with
agile fingers, or dictated to stem
ographers who click the keys of type
writer's, while the confused din of tel
egraphic work merrily makes conglom-
crate clatter showing that business is
being carried on from that point with
the entire continent.