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MExICANMIsCELLANY.
Americans Making Big Contracts.
No Prize Fight in Chihuahua.
Laredo News.

Laredo News.
City of Mexico, January l, 1896.
The postal authorities have taken
all necessary steps to meet the SER
vice of new years cards.
The telegraph lines and principal
ly the federal system are crowded.
New York exchange lightweight
and half premium.
An American firm will receive a
contract to built number of school
houses in this city for one million
dollars.
Americans are bidding for ampli-
flying and extending the sewers in
the city at a cost of a million dollars.
A homeopathic medical college
will be inaugurated on January 4tb.
The press calls on the governor of
the state of Chihuahua who is now
here, not to permit any prize fight in
that state. reminding HIM that the
governor of the state of Hidalgo was
reprimanded BY the general govern
ment for allowing fight.
The National railroad Offices were
moved TO the new station last night.
Within eighteen months Mexican
cattle increased in value hundred
per cent.
Minister of war General Hinojosa
has delayed his trip to veracruz as
he is seriously i'll.
orrin's new circus company will
open here Saturday. There is great
anxiety to see the company which
is very popular here.
The expenses of the City of Mex
leo for January are estimated at
1888, 5S01s.
Vicente Luengas has been appoint
cd private secretary to Finance Min
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City of Mexico. Jan. .. 1896.

City of Mexico, Jan. ., 1896.
New York exchange eighty nine
and quarter premium. Reported
General Delgado viii leave com
mand of sapper regiment and Col
onel Plata will take command with
in a few days. :. general change in
the stations of troops viii take place
within the next two months. The
seventh cavalry is already, ordered
to Osxaca.
The Minister of war is enjoying
seabathing at Vera Cruz.
The TaYary Opera Company was a
most complete fiasco at Guadalajara
according to the press of that city.
Senator Apolinar Castillo is a
probable candidate for Governor of
the state of Puebla to succeed Cen
eral Mucio Martinez.
La Pstria newspaper says that in
view of the expected large tourist
travel from the United States a ring
for bullfghts at II Paso is being
enlarged.
Races today at Pates racetrack had
slight attendance. Hsndball games
were we'll attended at Edejay.
Some newspapers in Texas are
elavating a bandit, Manuel Flores
Chapa, in Tamaulipas, to the cate
CORY of revolutionist chief. Col
onel Mainero sent a detachment OF
the Fourth Cavalry after-him and
they will soon end the trouble. II
is strange that this kind of talk
should come up every year about
this time just when the tourest
travel commences. 1t may be a
scheme Of some other, winter resorta
to turn the tide of travel that way,
but fortunately Mexico under Pres
ident Diaz is SO well known that
nobody places any credit in these
yarns about revolutions. Mexico is
enjoying most perfect place and all
her people are more than ratisfied
with the stable and honest govern
ment which General Diaz is giving
them,
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CITATION EY PUBLICATION
No. tess.
FRANCISCO ABREeo

Il ABEL yALl.fz ABnroo.
n the District Court Of G. mercnH
County, Texas. 2Sth Judicial istrict.
The state Of Texas to the Sheriff or
I.ny Constable of cameron County,
Or, eting-
You lehereby M ande tn ~
maxi publication of thi eta ion in
some newspaper published in the
County of Cam ron, once each Elk
for four co.'s cutlve W, eks, re- ious to
the return day hereof, you su mon
Isabel Valdez Abrego, whose rcsiden
IS beyon the Iimis State of
Texas. to be and app' at the next
regular term of the ] stri Court Of
/ the 2Sth .Iud ci / iIstr..t in N 70
Cameron { ounty. to be holden at the
Court House Their of in the ity of
lirownsv lie. on the first Monda j.
febru ry, D 1876. the same bein
the Third day of February, 1896, IN
an there to answer petition fiji in
id court oD tn At, dty fJanuary
1896, in su nuu bered on tue D cke.
OF SAID curt. No 1895. whe Elm ran
cisco Abiego Is Plaintiff d Isabel
vadrz brego is Defendant whe ein
/ Fl ntiff al-ge3 IS follows, 10 Wit:
That III intiff is IA bona fidr nsabitap'
of the tate f exas. and has resided
in Cameron Count more than six
months Pre- ing he institution of thi
suit. That nd Defen mt Ner
lega ly N 'rricd in the yea 1869, ap
lived together until sometime II h.
y.ar 1915, VIII Defendant eft
him III intention of ab .ndonment-
v therefore, fhintiff pr Us for de
cree dis.olving the mar iage letween
him and Dsf ndan,. Tor costs of court
and such ther relief a tn curt may
ste pro er to grant.
Htr4in nil OF but have you before
said ,ur o. the sail first day Of next
TIN thereo this W it with y ur return
faereon. showing how on have execut-
ed tn same.
Witness Louis Kow,l.ki, Gle k of
the District court of ameran ccun y
Texas.
Given under may hand and seal OF said
[~EALl court at ce in the c t, of
Brownsville. this tn 4th d y OF JAN
uary, a. d. 1896
LOUIS KowALSKI,
Clerk District Court of Cameron
County exas
Came to hand January 4tr. y. d 1896.
at 10. 80 o'clock a. m. and publira ion
ordered mad in the BROWNSVILLE
ID lily HERALD.
F. COBB.
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JOURNALISTS VIEW.
The Good aud Evil Things to
Result From the Presidents
Venezuelan Message.


ends the following dispatch:
| am now able to speak at
length with confidence Of the
opinion he highest American
quarters. I he only condition
on which the men whom espe-
cially desired to see would
speak has been my personal
pledge not even by a hint to
betray their names, therefore !
can not exaggerate ray an
thorities.
President Cleveland's message
to congress has done several
things-good and evil.
l. 1t has destroyed every
chance of saving the Arnen
ians-
2 1t has given a strong i'm
petus toward closer ties be
TWEEN Great Britain and her
colonies.
8. 1t has enormously EN-
phasized the line of cleavage
Away existing, but discreetly
ignored, between east and west
in thu United States. The west
today regards the east as prac
sically an European annex, and
New York bankers as allies of
of the "money sharks" of
Europe.
4. It has rendered certain the
creation of a great American
navy, which the next generation
will be most iirpsislibly tempt
ed to use for aggression.
5. And most important, it
has, unless foolish words or
unforeseen events bar its natur
al consequence, paved the way
FOR better future relations, be
eause Americans, having ex
perience Of the consequence,
will case their ignorant denun-
Citations and the Englishmen
will learn 10 show much great
er respect to American nation
\ al opinion, knowing that force
Is behind it. and will, therefore.
refrain from provoking it be
utterances and acts Of yelled
contempt.
Finally, tn message has rem
dered possible the avoidance OF
even a vaster danger, namely
the question of the Nicaragua
canal. An American who would
be yerv near the head of the
American army in case Of wal
said to me:
sit is a blessing the Yenezue
Ian affair has happened, he
canse a spacific solution Of this
will point the way to the same
thing over Nicaragua, concern
ing which otherwise the two
nations would certainly have
fought"
l can affirm positively tina
the American government is
above everything, anxious 70.
arbitration. Whatever MAJ
haSe>-been its actual result, tn
intentions of President Cleve
land were amicabIe.
While it is clear that Pres
ident Cleveland was infnitel.
too clever and too devoted t
his own party not to see tina
his message would deal
knockdown blow to the tw
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1t embraces all the branches of
instruction as expressed below,
as well as the cultivation of
moral and religious principles.
The full course consists Of
Geometry, algebra, arithmetic,
book keeping, astronomy nat
ural philosophy, reading, spell
ing English grammar, penn,an-
ship, political and physical
geography; h to ry-sacred,
profane. ecclesiastical and civil
Special attention will be Civ
en- to the History Of Texas
defamation, calisthenics. Ell
qurtte, catechisn and evidence
ofreligion.
These studies will be distrib-
uted into four classes, accord
ing to the capacity and adj
yancement of the students.
Latin, French, and Drawing
will bestxtra subjects. y
For terms and further,par-
ticulars apply to-
REV, j, A. SIRGIS0 h. /. IRE 1EDET.
The morning times., 1896-07-19

rearing family aud all that. Not at all;
but
How old were you when took pity on you
and married you, Sam Harkins?"
why, you know that 1 was thirty
five"
And how long had you been in receipt
OF Il good, comfortable salary?'
We'll, about twelve years.
"And you'd no one 10 support but your
self in all that time?'
well, no. =
And how much did you have saved up
when we were married?''
Hang it all, Maria, you're always
How much, Sam: I'm doing Il little
figuring in my head. and want TO know"
You know as well as i do
"Yes, do. Sam Harkins, you didn't
have money enough TO last you through
our wedding trip, that's what you didn' t
have. And had to loan you $50 before
We got home, beca use
"You'realways flinging that in my facet"
Its good time to fling it in your face
when you sit right down before me and try
TO figure out how much you'd had today
If YOU hadn't married me. 1t took you
ten years 10 pay off your bachelor debts
after we were married, and you'd been
in the poorhouse today IL 1 hadn't married
you and helped You TO get rid OF some of
your fast habits. You've got roof of
your own over your head, and are fairly
respectable and respected citizen, which
you wouldn't have been if you hadn't mar
ried: Il can tell you tLatH'
And the CALLING part of this statement was
that it was true.
The morning times., 1896-07-19

His most successful tear" SO far was
when the Pi Etas presented The Al
oaide," comic opera from his pen. Not
only did he write it, but he played the
principal part, and girls part at that.
He cast himself for Gitana, a Spanish
girl. and covered himself with laccs and
grease paint, and all sorts of glory.
The boys gave performances not only in
Cambridge, hut in Boston, Lynn, and Salem,
and at all these places Burnett was the
drawing card. The Boston papers fairly
overran with humorous praise of him and
the awful boy pretended he didn't like it
a bit.
He was made up to a Diccty, with
black tresses and Il srort skirt. and when
he sang and danced the way in which his
plump legs flew brought forth applause
galore. He was the heroine of the show,
and people who had seen in the Boston
papers pictures of him as Giiana. shouted:
There he is" That's Little Fauntle-
roy!" and cheered him to the echo.
RANKS HIGH IN VARSITY.
Mr.. Burnett ranks well up for a sophomore.
Heis not the poring, studious, conscientious
book worm which the students call a
grind; neither Is he what SO many young
men In college affect to he, "a sport" but
he stands upon dignified and comfortable
middle ground. He studies hard enough to
Keep up with his class, and he exerts him.
self sufficiently to keep popular with the
varsity men. In word, the word of a
eilow-classman, lie is getting about all
there is to be had out of life
He has apartments in Quincy Hall. His
rooins are furnished in good taste, but not
lavishly. But with all the pictures that
adorn the walls, there's not a solitary one
OF Little Lord Fauntleroy. That chapter
In his life would be closed book if he
had anything to say about it. He never
mentions Fauntleroy, but other people do
it for him.
Most conspicuous there are the red ban.
danna handkerchief, the long hemp rope
and short Iron bar, which are the einbIcms
OF the Pi Eta, which he may look upon as
the dearest things he has ever bought,
The morning times., 1896-07-19
NOW 4 p ETA
Harvard Boys Have Fun With
Vivian Burnett.
HOW HE WAS INITIATED
His Mother Made FamOus-But
He Is a Fine Fellow. and Wen
Liked at CoIlege-Promises to Be
u Leader.
Nee York Journal.

A Washington boy is the latest candidate
10 furnish nonsense Tor the extravagan
fun makers in the big universities. This is
a tedious task, and one bitter in duration,
bg, IT leaves no sting. and the more intense
the suffering aud the more humiliat ating the
ordeal they only serve To weld firmer the
ties that bind the novice TO his new
association.
The Greek letter fraterntics OF the ma jOr
universities have originated many a unique
Initiation for the candidates who seek the
social and fraternal advantages OF their
orders for theycount membership precious
boon and hold il for Il dearly paid ransom.
Not the least interesting history yet I'M
written is the history of some OF the famous
tests to which gritty college men have
submitted in order to wear the pins and
whisper the password OF an exclusive
society.
When this history - written one OF the
most interesting chapters will hc that rar-
ticular one recountinE how, in the spring
of the year S96 and with what attendant
trial and triDulatiOn, Mfr. Vivian Burnett,
son or DR.. Burnett and Frances Hodgson
Burnett OF Washington, was made mem
her Of the ri Eta Society, one OF the ex-
elusive and desirable societies of Harvard
University, where young Burnett has Just
completed his sophomore year.
Burnett, no doubt, signs like other men
OF more or less desirable fame for the
quiet OF in'opnito and the repose OF oh
sourity- He is a victim OF a fame others
might and do Coyet, but il he could sell
hs heritage for mess OF porridgc he
would back il with goodly stipend, for
II has proved mill stone about his neck
which unhappiiy will not sink him, but
draGs him through distasteful publicity.
As most WashingtoBi;ins know, Vivian
is ;he original Little Lord FauDtleroy.
His aininble virtues IN book and dramatic
The morning times., 1896-07-19
OYSTERS GAVE HIM LIBERTY.
How Russian Banker Bought His
Freedom From Serfdom.


one of the best-known banking houses Of
ST. Petersburg and the one to which most
American visitors to Russia carry letters
OF credit, is that OF Messrs. shalounine Il
Sons. the founder OF which, father Of the
present head Of the firm, owed hisliberatiJn
from serfdom fifteen years before tine de-
cree or emancipation to Il barrel OF oysters
Old Sbnlounine was a serf, belonging 10
Count Shcremetiefr, one OF the weal'hiest
mobiles i'll Russia. He had frequently en-
treated the count to grant him his Tree
dom, offering him as much as S5Oo,OOG
for the boon. But money was no object TO
the count and it gratificd his pride that one
OF the leading bankers OF The empire was
one OF his scrfs. unable to marry either hts
sons or his daughters without his masters
consent. Moreover, as serf, the banker was
liable to have his money seized and confs-
Gated by the count, since everything that be-
Ionged to a serf including his wife, chill
dren ana property, belonged ipso facto to
his III aster. ......
One day shalounine, who had just that
very morning returned to the capital from
Odessa. called at the Sheremetieff palace
for the purpose of reporting his arrival
brought with him a barrel of delicious
Crimean oysters for presentation to the
connt, but left them in his carria &c at
the palace door until he should have OBJ
tanned his masters intimation that his
gift was acceptable.
On entering the presence OF the count
the nker founi him surrounded by party
OF guests and engaged in berating the
chief butler for neglecting to provide
oysters for the breakfast, to which they
were about to sit down. The butler was
explaining to the count that there were
no oysters to be got in the capital at that
moment for love or money. Catching sight
of the scrf banker, the count exclaimed
..Ob, it is thou again. Thou art come to
poster me once more for thy liberation.
Thou knowest that it Is useless. should
not know what to do with the money. But,
stay. 1 will tell thee something. Get me
some oysters for my breakfast and thou
shalt have thy freedom.
Shalounine bowed low, left the room,
fetched the small barrel OF oysters which
he had left In the carriage at the door, and
laid it at the feet Il tlte master.
AS soon as the barrel had been opened
the count called for pen and paper, wrote
out a declaration emancpating both the
banker and his family from serfdom, and
then, bowing courteously to the man who
but moment before. had been his slave,
exclaimed: And now. my dear. Mr.. sha-
lounine, will you give sus the pleasure of
your company at BREAKFAST"
The morning times., 1896-07-19
WHEAT.
baltimore Markets.

Baltimore, Nd, July 1S.-Flour inactive
and steady, unchanged-reCcipts q $50 bar
rels; shipments, 1903 barrels. Wheat
quiet and easy spot and month, 61a61 Is;
august, 50 5-Sa6U T-8; September, 81 1-S
a61 3-S; steamer No. 2 red, 5Sa5s IL
receipts, 1871 bushels; export $4,000
bushels; stock, 72s ,235 bushels: sales, 73, :
900 bushels southern wheat by sample,
6Oa63; do. on grade, 90 1-za62 I-2. Corn
quiet and easy-spOt, S2a32 1 4; month,
81 3-4a32; August, 81 5-sa3l 7-S; Sep
tenber, 32 bid; steamer mixed, 80 La
80 3-4-receipts, 4O,72b bushels: exports.
800 bushels; stock, A44, 400 bushels; sales.
1000 bushels-southern white and yellow
corn, "a. Oats firm-No. white western,
% LA "a; No. mixed do, II bid-re-
ceipts, SO 1897 bushels: exports. none; stock.
323 ,236 bushels. Rye steady-No. 2,
nearby, "a asked: western. 36-receipts.
4ss bushels; stock. II, 7,576 bushels. Hay
firm, tending higher-choice timothy, SIG
asked. Grain freights steady, unchanged.
Sugar steady. unchanged: Butter steady
= fancy creamery, 15a16; do. imitation,
1SaI4; DO. Iudle, 12; good Iadle, I0a1I;
store packed, sa1O. Eggs steady-fresh,
IL. Cheese firm, unchanged. Whisky
uncha Dged.
The morning times., 1896-07-19
A POET COBBLER.
Mr. jacques LIE Lorrain Opens Shoe
Shop.

Mr. Jacques lie Lorrain Opens Shoe
Shop.
Paris now possesses a new cobbler who
happens to he genuine literary man, says
the London News. NJ. Jacques lie Lorran,
poet, novelist, playwright, and e1-pro-
fessor, has actually opened cobblef's
stall or booth In the Rue de Sommerard and
proposes to mend the shoes of the students
and Others residing in the Latin quarter.
He has addressed TO his prospective
customers n communication in verse, in
which he refers to other shoemaking or
shoemending poets, like Jasmin of Pro-
yepce and Hans Sachs of Nuremberg.
He points out in this effusion that, as the
times are hard and as it Is difficult to put
I'D with dry bread, he has resolved to start
business as "gniaf," which is the slang
word for the patchers of old boots.
NJ. lie Lorrain has published three volumes
of verse and two novels, which were highly
praised, while a comedy OF his was recon-
mended by Alexandra Dumas fills TO the
manager OF the Vaudeville, who produced
it. The cobbIer bard protests against the
insinuation that he is eccentric, that he
tries to initiate Tolstoi and is seeking an
advertisement.
He has simply wanted to float an enter
prise at which he can make money, for dur
ing fifteen years his literary compositions
have brought him In very small sums. His
play was a failure, principally, he thinks,
because he represented on the stage an un-
scrupuOus man OF letters. Loving his
independence, he preferred to have q small
business OF his own rather than enter an
office. He has had some experience in
the boot and shoe line, for his father was
q follower of st. Crispin.
He therefore determined tos ct up for him.
SELF He has thus given up the life of lit
erary bohemian forever and puts his trust
in leather. N. le Lorrain has a fully Quali
fled cobbler with him as partner, from
whom he intends to take lessons. He Eas
already Obtaineda n few customers and hopes
In time to extend his business.