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The daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1892-1897, 1896-11-13

1st. 300 acres of land, two must
from city hall of Brownsville, sihi-
ated on Resaca la Guerra, and
horseshoe affluent of such resaca
on mail road, suitable for fruit or
chards, 30 acres now in irrigation
with pecan, walnut, chestnuts
plum, peach, pear, apricot, cherry
Japanese persimmon, fig grape and
ribbon cane. Can be sub-divided
INTO 5 or 10 acre lots, giving each
abundant water supply, there being
a depth of 5 to Is feet Of water all
seasons of the year. Price $40 to
$50 per acre, according to location.
VIII sell in body at special rates
I'd. 80 pieces adjoining, one of
200 and the other of 100 acres, stu
ated on Resaca Rancho Viejo, FIVE
miles from city hall on mail road.
Both pieces almost surrounded by
water of 10 to Is feet in depth, 40
acres under irrigation. This land
is equal to If not superior to the
Mississippi bottom lands, and can
be made a paying investment for a
fruit orchard or truck gardening.
Can be sub divided into . to 10
acre lots Price 80 to S25 per
acre; whole tract on special terms.
Sd. 100 acre tract two miles
from the city of brownsville, on
resaca, with good water supply.
Ebony, Mesquite, Ash, blackberry
and other tinbers. Alluvial soil.
10 one who desires to sub divide in
small tracts, this is a paying in
yestment. Sold in bulk only. Price
SO per acre.
4th. $4,000 acres in one body,
having a frontage of about six
miles on the Rio Grande Railroad
pm the south, and the Arroyo Col
orado on the north. Well timber
ed along the streams and lakes; ba-
lance prairie. Includes within its
limits the famous battle fields Of
Palo Alto and Resaca de la Palma.
Arabic and pasture. Price So, per
acre.
9TH. A tract adjoining No. 4,
which together with that tract will
include 100000 acres in one body
very desirable. Special terms to
colonizist.
| 9Th. 10000 acre tract about
three miles, from the Arrovo Post
Office. This land is well timhered
and watered, soil aIluval, adapted
to fruits. cotton, corn, cane, etc
Special terms to any one buying
tract, obligatiug to colonize.
9Th. 1900 acre tract, fronting OF
the RIO Grande. ahout twenty mile
from Brnwrsv lie ard s miles from
Sauta Mara, 80 Ncops under cultr
vai'on 90 i,w lArds on river front
All good arabic land. Price So pc
acre.
Sih. 725 acres, triangular form
fronting on Rio Grande, IS miles
above Brownsville good land. Wei
wafered. Price $1,000.
9th. Numerous tracts Of pastur,
lands from 1000 TO 5000 acres eac!
10 different parts Of the county.
. 10th. This is very desirable
place for small fruit or truck farm
containing 10i acres, with a neV
brick dwelling Of 6 rooms, frame ST..
. BILE and other ont 'h9Gses, md lsrcr
Underground ciste,B: .bree IL lie5 from
Brownsville on R6aaca de "a Palm
on the county roqd.
The daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1892-1897, 1896-11-13
WEYLER TAKES
THE FIELD.

Havana, Nov. Captain
General Weyler has taken the
field in person against the in
surgents under Antonio Maceo
in the province of Pinar del
Rio, and reliable news received
from the front indicates that
the Spanish columns are aP-
preaching close to the enemy
WeyIer left Havana on the
cruiser LegazPy half an hour
after midnight, his destination
being the port of Mariel prov
ince of Pinar del Rio. From
Mariel, it is said, the general
will go toward the highway to
the town of Artemisa and
along the line of the trocha.
Strong reintorcements are be
ing embarked to support the
captains general in the opera
tons now in progress against
the Cubans.
The daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1892-1897, 1896-11-13
SAVE MONEY
Also YOUR TEETH
by Visiting the.
Chicago Dental ParIOEs,

2l0 f. Houston St, San Antonio, Tex,
Acknowlei G the best dentists in the
state. Piice5 much cheaper than Others.
he only chTte ell dental iusti uti3n in
Texas for the practice of modern den
tistry. Painless eXuation of teeth 50
cents. Painless filling 10 cents and up
wards. lest teeth, including extract n
from S. 10 S., Thousands OF references.
Work guaranteed Tor ~ years.
DIR. a. GOODMAN Pies.
Dr. RoBT. LEE HAYS.
Secretary and treasure
The Van Buren press., 1896-04-18
"Confusionment Confounded.

But that want all that come to pass
in the settlement last week-not by q
whole tremendous big lot.
A town man come through the set
tleDfent ridin of n wheel as he called it,
and scatterin death and ruination
everywhere he went.
Old man Mart Mayo was goin to
town in his OK wagon when he met the
thing down there in the old stage road.
And bless gracious his oxen broke
loose and run away and split seven
dozen eggs, four bushels OF potatoes,
eight POINTS of fresh butter and one
man. When old Mart recovered and
come back to his senses sufficient to
seek that which was lost he found the
remains of his wagon THEE miles down
the road, and when he caught his oxen
the next day they had hid out in a cane
brake way over the Murder creek.
Old Misses Simpllins she was out
milking the cows that mornin when
the town man rid by on his wheel, and
about the next thing she knowed she
didn't know anything at all scarcely.
She got to the bars ahead of the storm,
but there she tainted and fell over in
it, and when the cows had all passed
over and they picked the good old lady
up she was more dead than Twin. The
doctors are still tendin on that case.
Little Bunk Weatherford was plowin
in his new ground when the wheel
man come whizzin by, and from the
general signs of destruction it is my
private opinion that him and his mule
both got skeered and run away. They
tore down IA panels of new fence
comm out OF the field, and Misses
Weatherford maintains till yet that
Bunk came to the house runnhl
neck and neck with his mule.
On his return lack late th@s evenin
the town man stugped off atSe Cross
Roads to let the crowd see his wheel.
Andy Lucas was there as usual, and
tanked up on white ink" to about six
bits in the dollar. And nothin would
do Andy but he must ride the "durn
thing" So up he got and down he
went. The "durn thing bucked, and
when the natural-born horse trader
picked himself up he was eatin dirt and
spittin blood at the same time.
But it would take more time and pa
thence than the law allows to write out
all the storms and troubles that come to
pass in the settlement last week. SO l
will close for this time in the best of
health and spirits, hoping that this will
find you enjoying the same general
blessins. RUFUs SANDERS.
The Van Buren press., 1896-04-18
FIRE AND AIR.
Scientists Early Noticed the Intimate Re-
Iations of These Elements.

Scientists Early Noticed the Intimate Re-
lations of These Elements.
The intimate relation between fire
and air was early recognized, seeing
that experience soon taught that air
was necessary for fire. The experiment
of burning a candle in a closed vessel
now so familiar to every schoolboy, is
very old one, and the influence of a
blast of air on furnace had been
probably noticed from a very remote
period. By some it was affirmed to be
the food of fire, while by others the
same belief was embodied in the phrase;
"Air nourishes fire." Again, it was
long ago observed that nitre, a sub.
stance well known to the chemical phil
osophers of the past could produce in
tense ignition. 1t was hence inferred
that, since nitre possessed this proper.
ty, it necessarily followed that the two
substances resembled each other in
composition. According to Robert
Boyle, the air contained volatile nitre,'
while Lord Bacon held that air con.
tanned volatile, crude, and windy
spirit" and thunder and lighting were
supposed TO be due to the presence OF
minute particles of this nitre diffused
through the air.
The important bearing of such OBJ.
servations is due to the fact that
oxygen gas, which is one of the CHIEF
constituents of air, and the one to
which it owes its power of supporting
combustion, also forms the largest
elementary constituent of nitre, and is
likewise the source of the power pos
sessed by that body of supporting com.
bustion.
The action of heat on metals in caus,
ing them TO lose their metallic lustei
had also not escaped notice, and Car.
dan, philosopher who lived during the
10th century, in noticing the increase
in weight that Iced undergoes when
heated in air, attributed it to the gas
in the air which feeds flame and which
rekindles a body presenting an ignited
point.-Scottish Review.
The Van Buren press., 1896-04-18
An Inside Coat Pocket.

There is nothing more handy to have
than an inside pocket in ones jacket,
Every woman has noticed how nice il
seems and convenient for the male
folks of her acquaintance to have an
inside coat pocket into which may be
slipped a pocketbook or note that
wants to be particularly well cared for
The shallow little outside pockets OF
coats will hardly hide poeketbook
from the sight of piekpocket, and are
thoroughly unreliable for holding
things generally. If you wear jacket,
take piece of silk little more than
twice as long as you want your pocket
deep. sew one end of it into G point
and in the other run deep hem. Then
sew this into the shape of bag, allow
ing the pointed end, of course, to ex-
tend above the hemmed end and fall
over in flap, in which work but
tonhole and sew a button to the
hemmed part. Tack this securely into
the left side of your jacket, just far
enough back so as not TO show when
you leave your coat unbuttoned, and
Just low enough down to be gotten at
handily. Ia fact, put it just about in
the same position as you will find a
mans inside pocket.-Detroit Free
Press
The Van Buren press., 1896-04-18
A Plain Case of Pushency.

About the next news we got from the
old lady Hasseltine she come up power
full student and unexpected like at the
Buckalew place-the first settlement
on this side of Caney Branch. And from
what | can hear and pick up around
amongst the women folks, she had left
the mainest part of her clothes down
there on the branch--hangin around
promiscuous in that terrible tight-eye
thicket, the canebrake and the bamboo
oriar patch.
OF course, that was nothin' to me and
none of my business, but mother told
me that Sallie Virgins told her that
Rosebud Buckalew told her that the
poor old soul had one shoe on when
she come up at the Buckalew place,
And Bunk Weatherford was in the
crowd which went down there after
The skeleton, and Bunk says there was
enough calico hangin' around on the
briars and cane and in that tight-eye
thiclet TO make new bed quilt.
1t was the followin Thursday before
the old lady got we'll enough 10 return
back home, and me and mother went
over there the next day to comfort and
condole with her as best we could.
Il had ketched three mud cats, four
red pearches, seven hornyheads and one
skeleton, Rufus, and it was then high
time for me 10 take out and quit" says
the old lady TO me, and right then she
went sweatin great drops of perspira-
ton as big as your fist. 81 had ketched
everything in the waters of Caney
Branch, from a specified trout to a
5hnt-tail moccasin, but up TO that day
/ never had pulled on the line and came
forth with a human skeleton, and il
vas jest simply one too many for me.
of course, | knowed it wouldn't bite
lor sting, but the looks and the thoughts
If the thing, Rufus, was more than
,ould stand. Naturally, of course,
.ore out of that place. 1t was a plain
ase of pushency, Rufus. Twas bleedged
70 come out from there"
don't make out like it was right,
you understand, TO think funny
The Van Buren press., 1896-04-18
BLIZZARD AND SAND.
Thousands of Buffaioes Driven Over q
Preeipice by the Fierce Wind.

Near Cheyenne Wells is u long stretch
of level prairie, which suddenly ter
inmates in preeipice, making a per-
pendicular descent of perhaps so feet
to another plain below. In the winter
of 1853 great blizzard ragged for several
days. The snow was driving at a terrific
rate before u hurricane of wind, and
the buffaloes were Obliged in self-preser.
walton, to turn their backs and run with
the wind. The result was that vast
numbers of the buffaloes were carried
over the precipice, and their dead bod
les were covered with 20 or 30 feet OF
snow. For many years people visited
the spot to look at the bones, which lay
in piles ten and fifteen feet high as far
as the eye could reach along the preci.
pice, and it was commonly estimated
that 100000 buffaloes found a grave ON
that fatal spot.
Sand-sterms in those days were SO
destructive that it was not unusual for
freighters to lose their entire outfit
During the prevalence of storm no
attempt was made to move forward,
and drivers cleared the sand out of the
nostrils of the horses and oxen, as other.
wise the animals were threatened with
death from suffocation, A sandstone
usually lasted only two or three hours,
but its effects were felt for days by men
and animals exposed to the fury IF the
blast.
A curious phenomenon noticed in dis
ferent places on the plains was the im-
mense excavating power of the wind in
sand storm. There were areas of
three or four acres, where the wind
scooped out the sand 40 or so feet deep,
and whirled il away in the air. Ii
seemed as if the work began at central
spot no larger than could be covered
with a mans hat. In an incredibly
short time a round hole would be exca-
waited. The wind then took hold in
real earnest, and the probabilities were
that an entire sand-hill would be
leveled down in the next 30 minutes
Denver Field and Farm.
The Van Buren press., 1896-04-18
Terrors Of q Tight-Eye Thicket,

In the beEfnnln to start with, bright
and early Monday mornin old Misses
Hasseltine took up fool notion all of
student that It was Jest about her
time of year to go a fishin. Conse-
quentially she went out behind the gar
den and dug some earth worms and
caught few ericllets and put EN- in
her gourd and lit out for Caney Branch.
was out to the lot tendin to the stock
that mornin when the old lady come by
our house, with her fshin pole in one
hand and her bait gourd in the other,
burnin the wind and splittin the big
road wide open for Caney Branch. She
was in such a tremendous big hurry to
give them fish a chance to bite till she
didn't even slow up at the front gate.
The early worm fetches the fish,
Rufus says she, in passin by, "nnd
| told the girls to have the grease hot
when | return back home.'
1t was then three days and nights
that l never laid eyes on Misses Hassel-
tine, but in the main time before the sun
went down that day everybody in the
whole settlement had heard the news
in regards to her fishin trip down on
Caney Branch, and the great gobs of
sorrow and confusionment which filled
that poor old ladys cup to the brim,
pressed down and runnin over.
From general appearments and all
the surroundin circumference of the
case, it would seem like the old lady
got bite when she want loollin for it
and caught somethin which she didn't
need in her regular business. In fishin
and foolin around she had finally at
last worked her way and wedged her
self into a tight-eye thieket in the most
lonesomest place on Caney Branch.
And now presently it come to pass that
she got her hook hung where as she set
back and pulled and pulled till she
pulled out human skeleton. The thing
was as natural as death, and every bone
was there from skull to toes.
Wen, to be certainly of course old
Misses Hasseltine didn't go way off
down there on Carney Branch by her lone
self fishin for the bones of dead men,
and she didn't need any human skele-
tons to speak of on her string Where
as, she throwed down her fishin pole
and dropped her bait gourd on the spot
and tore out of there. And she didn't
fool off no time piclin her way out
neither. She jest naturally hit the grit,
and hit it movin. There was that
tight-eye thicket all around, a big cane
brake on one side of the branch and a
great mass of bamboo briars on the
other. But old Misses Hasseltine she
tore out of there.
The Van Buren press., 1896-04-18

Attorney Garrett McEnery recently
appeared as counsel in case before
justice of the peace at Suisun. Nc
emery found it necessary to make FIRE.
quent objections to the evidence that
opposing counsel was attempting to in
troduce. The justice, whose rule of evil
dence is everything goes" looked first
annoyed and then indignant. Finally
he could contain himself no longer. and,
as a ruling on one Of Mr.. MeEnery's OBJ
iections, roared:
mir. McEnery, what kind of law
yer are you, anyway
81 am a patent lawyer" replied the
attorney, facetiously.
well, all I've got to say is that when
the patent expires you will have hard
time getting it renewed. Go on With
the case."-San Francisco Post,
The Van Buren press., 1896-04-18
SQUIRE RUFUS SANDERS.
Tremendous Confusionment" in
the Rocky Greek Settlement.
Old Misses Haseltine Went Arising and
Conahta Human SkeIeton-A Town
Man on His "WheeI" Leaves
Death and Ruination.

Hit amt very frequent in this day and
generation that the Rocky Creek settle
The Van Buren press., 1896-04-18

in the greatest plenty and the ground
tore up as with bear fight for miles
around.
White people, there was trouble last
week, and the most loveliest strip of
country on the broad bosom of the
earth went heels over appetite into the
most goneleyest confusionment yon
ever heard tell of or read about per-
haps. 1t would seem like everything
come crooked and went twistin-feet
foremost, catawompused and wrong
side up with care.
The Van Buren press., 1896-04-18

"1Tow much fur a PHOTOGRAPH" he
queried as he entered the room at the
head of the stairs.
MY dear sir, you have made a mis-
take" replied the occupant Of the of.
fee. This is a dental Office, while the
photographer is next door"
ooh, you pull teeth?"
"Nes, sir"
"IIow much?'
FIFTY cents apiece"
well, go ahead and yank out one OF
two. It's about the same to me. De
troit Free Press.
The Van Buren press., 1896-04-18

thoughts IN tines OF SORROW and OF
trouble, but old Misses Hasseltine put
me in mind of Sol Eddins and his dog
that day.
The last time / was out in Texas |
went down to Hood cohnty to see the
Eddins folks, which Sol and me had
come up as boys and girls together
back here in the states, In them days
Sol had tremendous fast dog, and he
went on to tell me OF how that dog
jumped jack rabbit and made him
take sycamore tree.
"The rabbit couldn't find no holler,
Rufe, and he jest naturally clum that
sycamore tree says Sol to me.
Now, as everybody Knows, a rabbit
couldn't climb scruhby black jack,
and hit bendin, to say nothin of a slick,
slim sycamore, and give out the facts
aceordin to Sol
"fThat mought serter co with regards
to the common run of rabbits and dogs, "
says Sol. "But in this case that dog OF
mine was so elost in behind the rabbit
and hcatih the grotind SO seandlous hot
till the rabbit was Jest naturally
bleedged to clam that tree"
The Van Buren press., 1896-04-18

ment turns her
self loose for a
high heel time.
But when the
day and hour
have come to
pass, and she
does slip the bril-
die, GU C n IL
stand from I'M
der and watch
t ii e ur fl Y.
There will be
blood and hair
The Van Buren press., 1896-04-18
So Different.

She-I weighed l21 pounds this morn
ing.
Hem your heavy winter coat,
thought
She-No, I held IL on my srm.-Chi.
eago Record.
The Van Buren press., 1896-04-18

No bandit fierce, no tylant mad
with pride, no governed hermit rests
self-satisfied, who most TO shun or hate
mankind pretend, seek an adnirer or
would fix friend.-Pope.
The Van Buren press., 1896-04-18
aEarth to Earth. Dust to Dust"

But in the main time the skeleton hit
want gone nowheres. The posse of citi-
zens in charge of the case finally at last
come to the conclusion that old Misses
Hasseltine had caught the mortal re-
mains Of a certain colored individual
by the name of julie Turner, which he
had come up missin one night last year,
about the time that Ben Chris Weaver's
ginhouse got burnt up mighty strange
and pecurious like.
Andy Lucas was plum certain that
oIct upon a time them bones had belt
julie Turner in the flesh, cause he had
one game leg which had been kicked by
a mule, and there was the scar On one
shin bone OF tbe skeleton.
Old Misses Hasseltine couldn't say
what was what in regards to color, but
she knowed it was the skeleton of 3
from the general shock till | raley don't
think she knows anything for certain.
But, at any rates, the skeleton was
turned over to the colored population,
and they put in and had big fu-
neral the next day over at Pinetop
church wherein there was some tall
weepin and wailin and smashin OF
teeth. julie Turner's wilder she was
there, and when the procession driy
up with the skeleton she fell into a
trance and didn't wake up no more till
some time that night.
The Revrent L. NJ. Butler, colored
(Long Meter Butler, as most everybody
calls him), made few scattering re-
marks from the text: "There will be
q mighty rattlin in this valley of dry
bones" He didn't preach nobody's
funeral for certain, but cut the sermont
SO it would fit anybody's skeleton in a
loose, general way.
Then they sung q song and went out
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-05-30
HARD RAPS GIVEN HOWELL.
CONTROLLER ECKELs REPLIES To
TEE EDITORS ABUSE.

The Columbia Theater at Atlanta
Crowded 20 Hear the sound Money
Speaker Secretary Hoke smith
Also Called on for a short Speech
A Rival Meeting Called by the sill
verftes "A FizzIc.
Atlanta. Ca. May 29.-Hon. James II.
Eckles. controller Of the currency. and
Secretary Hoke Smith made speeches at
the Columbia theater tonight, under the
auspices of the Sound Money League.
The house contained larger crowd than
has yet turned out &c hear speakers on
either side Of the financial campaign. and
much enthusiasm prevailed. In opening
his address Mr.. Eckles paid his respects
20 Capt. Howell and the local silver or
gan. which has been slurring him TO the
best Of its well known ability in that
line. since the announcement was made
that he would speak in Atlanta. Mr..
Eckles was referred to as a man who had
been repudiated in his own home county
on the financial issue.
In his remarks. Mr.. Eckles said that he
was delegate to the last national con-
vention. sent there by his county and
state. but he noticed that Capt. Howell
was not there. having tried manfully 10
make the trip. but being turned down
by his people and a good sound money
Grover Cleveland man elected 10 the place
to which he aspired
Mr.. Eckles also took up the cry Of the
free silver organs about federal Office
holders making speeches all over the
country. He said he helped to make the
plank in the Chicago platform. which
declared against pernicious activity on
the part of federal ogficeholders, who
seek to perVert votes, but maintained
that he and others identified with the
administration do not violate that decla-
ration. At the same time he said that
making free silver speeches. and nothing
is said against them by the cheap money
press.
Secretary Smith followed Mr.. Eckels
and was received with a great demOnstra-
ton of enthusiasm. He was not on the
programme Of the meeting, but being in
the city by chance. was present and called
upon by the audience
Tonight in opposition to the rally of the
Sound Money Club, the silver club had ar
ranged TO hold a joint rally Of the silver
clubs of the second and third wards,
which were organized this week. The
court house was selected as the place for
tnan thirty people had made their appear
ance in the hall. no rally was held, and
the leaders gave il out that mistake had
been made somewhere a the event was in
tended to be only a committee meeting. As
a matter of fact the rally was advertised
quite extensively, including notices in the
silverite organ, and the mistake appears
silver strength and enthusiasm Of this
city.