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The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1896-12-24
A REORGANIZATION

Georgetown, Tex, Dec. 16.-(Special)
BY mutual consent the Georgetown
hardware company is dissolved and is
succeeded by the Chapman Hardware
company Incorporated.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1896-12-24
THE BRYAN FRANCHISE SOLD.

Raleigh, N. c., Dec. 17.-Anthony
Comstock, manager of the McBee-Brice
company, stated to News and Observer
reporter that the contract with Mr.. Bry-
an had been sold by Mr. McBee at an
advance of $500. The purchasers are
said to be an Atlanta syndicate.
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NJ E CONFERENCE

Paris, Tex, Dec. 16.-(Special) 1.-The
thirty-frst annual session Of the Texas
conference of NJ. Il. Church, north, met
here this morning, Bishop w. X. Ninde
presiding. Rev. ]. III. Reed was made
secretary. Rev. 0. /. Jones treasurer and
Rev. K. Parker statistical secretary.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1896-12-24
nEFIcIAL DENIAL.

Madrid, Dec. 18.-The minister Of war.
Gen. Ezcarrara denies the report that
the ministry intends to replace Gen
Weyler as captain general OF Cuba. II y
untrue that the American steamer Lau-
rada has appeared at the entrance OF the
harbor of Malaga.
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OLD PAPER WITH NOW EDITOR

GEORGETOWN, Tex, Dec. 18.-(SpeciaI.)
MFR minor II. Brown Of Taylor has
purchased the Weekly Georgetown Dem
ocrat and will continue its publication
at the old stand.
Its politics will be as its name implies,
and Mr.. Brown takes charge under the
most favorable auspices.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1896-12-24
CRYSTAL. IVEnnINC

Tyler, Tex, Dec. 16.--(Specal.)AM Mr..
and Mrs. L. L.. Jester celebrated their
crystal wedding last night. Many friends
from abroad were present and many hand
some presents were received.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1896-12-24
FATAL STROKE OF PARALYSIS.

Mineola, Tex, Dec. 17.-(Special.)
Mike Henrietta was stricken with paraly-
sis last night and died in about an hour.
He was formerly road master Of the
Sherman, Shreveport and Southern rail
way. When road master Of the Texas
Eastand and Red River he was run over
by hand car. and since then has had
several times slight paralytic shocks.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1896-12-24
MONEY THROWN AWAY

Paris, Dec. 1.-THE chamber of depu-
ties today adopted the credit asked for
to meet the expenses of the visit of the
car and czarina to Paris.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1896-12-24

PRESBYTERIAN UNIVERSITY.
Dallas, Tex, Dec. 17.-(Special) THE
trustees Of the Texas Presbyterian uni
versity held another session and trans
acted much important business.
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DEED OF TRUST.

Smithville, Tex, Dec. 17.-(Special.) y
Miss Lee English, milliner of this place,
has executed deed of trust, naming X.
f. Turner as trustee. Liabilities, $3.50
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1896-12-24

OUTLAW RECAPTURED.
jackson, Tenn, Dec. locus Thomas,
the outlaw who broke Jail early this
morning, was recaptured here today
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1896-12-24

Albert Lea, Mimi, Dec. 16.-The State
Dairymen's association today. endorsed
Ex-Governor Hoard of Wisconsin for sec
rotary of agriculture in Mr.. Mckiney's
cabinet
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1896-12-24
CABINET MATERIAL.

CABINE1 MA I ENIhIL
Manchester, N. H., Dec. 16..The state
grange. Patrons of Husbandry, today
adopted resolutions recommending to
President-elect Mckinley, John II. Brig
ham of Ohio, worthy master of the Ma
tional Grange, for secretary of agricul-
fnrp
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DECLINED THE HONOR.

Berlin, Dec. 17.-In the Prusslan upper
house today the vice president announced
that Prince Solms- Hohenzolms-Llch, WHY
was yesterday elected president OF tnat
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RAD EREJGHT WRECK

BAD FREIGHT WRECK.
Meridian, Tex, Dec. 16.-(Special.)-
The southbound freight ran into the local
engines and three cars were wrecked.
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CGwAN RE-EI.ECTED

Baltimore, Md, Dec. 18.-The direct
ors of the Baltimore and Ohio Railway
met today and unanimously reelected
John X. Cowan, president.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1896-12-24

body, has declined the honor. pleading
that he is suffering from heart disease
and is, therefore, compelled to abstain
from all business.
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ro sITCcErn FELLOWS

Albany, N. Y, Dec. 16.-Governor Nor
ton today appointed w. X. Olcott of New
York district attorney of the county Of
New York. in the place Of Col. John X.
Fellows. deceaped.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1896-12-24
POSTAL CONGRESS DELEGATE.

Rome, Dec. 17.--Signor Chirardi, a
member of the chamber of deputies, has
been chosen a delegate to the interna-
ticnal postal congress, which meets at
Washington next year.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1896-05-08
NO WHISKY THIS TIME.

We are informed that the proper
officials will issue stringent orders
to the United States Marshal's
force to carefully watch the ex-
press office for shoe boxes and 9TH
er suspicious packages from this
evening until after the election is
over, in order to prevent red eye
from entering as factor into the
pOstoffice election Monday. This
is as it should be, and no candi =
date who is worthy of the support
of his fellow citizens for this re-
spOnsible position will do other
wise than applaud the officials for
their thOughtfulness.
This is our first election, and
the manner in which it is conduct
ed will have much to do with the
worlds opinion of our ability tC
govern ourselves.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1896-05-08
NATURES ADVERTISEMENTS.

Everything in this wide. vide world
Believes in Advertising:
whenOnce you come 10 sum Il up
Results are most surprising.
In March the few warm days we have
Proclaim the coming spring.
And tell us we must bid farewell
To grim old Winters King.
A hen will cackle long and loud
When from her nest she rises
The farmers wife comes out and takes
The thing she advertises.
The rattlesnake will first alarm,
When IL has been surprised;
Then quickly you will get the bite
The thing IL advertised.
The bumble-bee before he stinRs
Will warn you by his humming;
'Tis but the means that nature gives
To advertise his coming.
The donkey. too, will bray aloud
This fact merely mention
To show that even humber things
Desire the worlds attention.
J. NJ PAxsoN.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1896-05-08
Remarkable Rhrnlnr EpI,aph..

The village of Pownal, VT, surely
once had a poet who had missed his
calling and become marble cutter. Be
low are some specimens Of his famous
"rhyming epitaphs, " samples Of which
are still to be seen in the little cemetery
adjoining the town mentioned:
Here lies in silent clay
Miss Arabella Young.
Who on the twenty first OF May
Began to hc:A her tongue
Here lies the wife OF Simon Stokes.
Who lived and died like other folks
Here ! lie, and no wonder I'm dead,
For q wagon wheel passed over my head
Here lies john Hill, n man OF skill
His age was ave times ten
BE never did good. nor never would
Had he lived ms long again
st Louis Republic
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1896-05-08

Red wine vinegar is made Just like
slider vinegar, shade greater care be-
ing taken, perhaps, to keep it clean and
pure. The wine used comes largely from
California and Ohio, which Of late years
has been making n good deal Of it The
factory can easily turn out so barrels q
day. and where one considers that tea
spoonful at q meal is a very large aver
age for the ordinary adult it will be
seen how far such quantity win 60
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1896-05-08
A HsAlth Pnlmlrt.

Mrs. ST. Hill is a woman who has
made Of palmistry something more than
n means Of amusing an idle crowd or
frightening a eredulous one. She has
studied it with reference to its medical
side and has proved the connection be-
tween brain and hand The London hos
pitals, asylums for idiots and the blind
yes, even Hanwell-all have opened
their doors TO her. From wax impres-
Sions made Of the hands Of the inmates
she has learned that each disease brings
its own sign on the hand London Lss.
ter
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1896-05-08

THERE was tall hustling among
the various aspirants for POstmas-
ter Hammers official position to-
day, by reason of the withdrawal
from the race of G. H. Bruce,
each anxious to capture his follow
ing, which was no incOnsiderable
factor in the situation. 1t is hard
to tell where his supporters will
90, but most likely they will, like
the darkey's gang of quails, scat
ter. Each candidate claims the
lions share. The final result alone
can determine.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1896-05-08

EVERY candidate for postmaster
is friend to the ARDMOREITE and
they are all good men, but of the
whole number we can not help
being for D. T. Nisbett first, last
and all the time. He is pre- EN- :
inently we'll qualified for the
position, is good democrat, is a
poor man who needs the office. has
been in Ardmore from the be-
ginning and in our judgment is
the coming postmaster. Vote for
him next Monday.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1896-05-08
LAFAYETTE's GRAVE.
It Is In Old Paris, and . SIlICen American
Flag Always Floats Over 1t.

&c Is In Old Paris, and = SIllen American
Flag Always Floats Over 1t.
"While in Paris a short while ago, {"
said a traveller recently, cit occurred to
me that it was fitting act to make a
pilgrimage to the tomb of that illus
trious Frenchman, dear to the hearts Of
all American patriots, Marquis de La
fayette. asked a number of people be-
fore 1 could find any one to enlighten
me as to the spot, but after repeated in
quiry ascertained its location The grave
is situated in old Paris, within the
grounds of a convent that the ancestors
of Lafayette founded, and where repOse
the remains Of many of the French no.
biity. The first thing that attracted my
attention in connection with the hero's
tomb was that above it fioated a silken
flag bearing the stars and stripes.
1T seems that a good many years ago
an American gentleman left in his viii
q sum Of money to be used for the spe-
cial purpose of keeping an American
flag forever flying above the grave of
Lafayette 1t has done so, without in
termission, from the day the will went
into effect, and whenever, through the
wear of the elements, one flag becomes
unserviceable q new one straightway
takes its place. Through untold centuries
the emblem of the country which, in its
early struggles for liberty, had his be-
nelicent aid VIII wave above his ashes "
-WashinQton Post
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1896-05-08

EVERYBODY who gets their mail
at ArdmOre is entitled to vote in
next Mondays election fOI post :
master. You can spare il few
hours from your plOw or other
farm work for the purpose of help
ing to endorse the man You want
to serve you in handling your mail.
The ARDMOREITE trusts you can
see your way clear TO east your
vote for ID. T. Nisbett. He is the
man for the place and he wants
your support and will appreciate it.
Vote for him.
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TO CANDIDATES,

While the ARDMORTITE, for rea-
sons heretofore stated, is unequiv-
Ocally for d. T. Nisbett in the
pOstmastership contest, its columns
are open to any and all of the as
pirants if they desire to use them
in presenting their claims to the
people. There is not a single as
pirant in the race which, if run
ming alone. we could not cheerfully
endorse; they are all we'll qualified
for the duties of the position, and
in supporting Mr.. Nisbett, we do
so without the least desire to take
any undue advantage of them.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1896-05-08

The ARDMOREITE will publish
the announcements of candidates
for postmaster at Ardmore at the
uniform price of So. so each strictly
cash in advance. If you want
0your name brought before the
people you can do so at the above
rate.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1896-05-08

The people of Ardmore are man :
ifesting a cOmmendable interest in
the pOstmastership contest, and
they are with the winning man for
the appointment to that position.
It is dollars to dOughnuts that the
one receiving the majority vote
next Monday will be the appOin-
foa
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1896-05-08

/ hereby announce myself as a
candidate for the Ardmore pOstoffice,
subject to the voters of Ardmore and
vicinity, May 11th, '96. If my friends
elect me, and receive that appoint
ment, will strive to honor the call,
by doing my duty faithfully and
impartially. Very respectfully,
l-Iw G. NJ. YARBROUGH.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1896-05-08

A PRIVATE letter from Healdton,
informs the ARDMoREITE that
steps ore being taken to organize
a Democratic club at that place
This is a movement that should be
adopted in every town and com
munity in the Chickasaw nation.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1896-05-08
Accommodation Trains.

Commencing Feb. 18th trains No.
13 and IA local freight trains) be-
tween Gainesville and Purcell will
carry a coach for the accommada-
tton of passengers and tickets will
be sold for passage between all sta
tions, Gainesville and Purcell inclu-
sive. Respectfully,
l. r. MASON, Agent.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1896-05-08
ANNOUNCEMENTS.

hereby announce myself as can
didate for postmaster at Ardmore,
subject to the endorsement of the
people at an election to be held in
this city Monday, May IL, '96.
ID. T. NISBETT.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1896-05-08

hereby announce myself as can
-didate for postmaster at Ardmore,
subject to the endorsement of the
people at an election to be held in
this city Monday, May IL, '96.
l.. G. SLAUGHTER.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1896-05-08

l hereby announce myself as can
didate for Postmaster at Ardmore,
subject to endorsement at an elec-
ton to be held in the city Monday,
May IL, 1896.
R. M. (Uucle Bob RINER.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1896-05-08

To the voters of Ardmore and vi
cinity: We wish to announce the
name of MRS. A. F. GARDNER as a
lady thoroughly qualified for the po-
sition of Postmaster for Ardmore,
and a worthy applicant for the same.
We earnestly solicit your votes in
her behalf. MANY FRIENDS.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1896-05-08

How Ia your hair, or have you got
any ? II you have none, or IL you are
losing what little you've got, go to
Jim Sharp's barber shop and get
aome hair tonic.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1896-05-08

1 hereby announce myself as a can
didate for Postmaster at Ardmore,
subject to the endorsement of the
people at an election to be held in this
city Monday, May IL, 1896.
]. A. LEATHERwOOD.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1896-05-08

hereby announce myself as can
didate for postmaster at Ardmore,
subject to the endorsement of the
people ct an election to be held in
this city Monday, May IL, '96.
L. B. ROBERTSON.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1896-05-08

hereby announce myself as can
didate for postmaster at Ardmore,
subject to an endorsement at a pOpu-
lar election to be held Monday, May
IL, '06. MORAN SCOTT.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1896-05-08

The Daily Court Reporter, pub
lished by the ARDMOREITE for the
Ardmore Abstract Company, has
suspended. Cause-a lack of pat
ronage to justify its continuance.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1896-05-08

MRS. H. G. FRIsBIE.
Experienced nurse, VIII answer
calls promptly, Charges reasonable
Can be found at Mrs. Vernor's, hrsl
door west of Lee Cruces residence
West Main street. Ardmore, ]. T.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1896-08-12
Watterson's Greatest Dinner.

The greatest dinner that ever / sat
down to consisted Of a leg of mutton
dressed with mustard, Il bit of hot wheat
bread and some fresh butter, with half
a jug Of fine whisky to wash it down.
It was in front Of New Hope church in
the summer of 1864 Some one had sent
Eustis d leg of mutton. Some one had
sent Yeatman o large pillbox OF butter.
Bragg, General Polk cook, had some
flour. Eustis and Yeatman invited Gov
ernor Harris and myself. The governor
happened to have key which fitted Gen
era1 Folks medicine case. All OF us
united in making the robbery of vial
of Irish whisky, the general himself
being absent, and that was the dinner!
Glorious dinner!
Please God, the quartet still survives
to tell the tale, which they do whenever
they meet and can get an audience.
Eustis is in Paris, ambassador, the same
cool, self possessed man in diplomacy
he used to be under fire. able, brave and
lazy. Harris, touching the eighties, is
the dashing, brilliant, impetuons boy
he was SO years ago. and, silver or
gold or neither, I look toward him as
write! Yeatman, obtrusive only i'll his
courage on the battlefield. lives the life
of cultivated leisure and unambitious
rusticity which delighted him post
when he was both younger and richer
than he is, though he still has his an
cestral acres.
That was dinner!-Louisville Cou-
rier-Journal.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1896-08-12
Pope as a Trickster.

Mr.. Leslie Stephen writes strongly,
but not too strongly, when he says in
reference to the correspondence Of Pope,
'It is painful to track the strange de-
ceptions Of man Of genius as q detect
i've unravels the misdeeds OF an accom-
plished swindier Pope was confirm
ed liar, and he lied very hard indeed
about the publication of his letters
Having by means Of trick secured
their publication by notorious pirat-
ical bookseller, he at once declared that
the letters were forgeries. Yet while he
was calling out fer their suppression he
was really anxious for their SALE The
details of all his trickery and lying need
not be gone into here.
Pope, full Of vanity and longing to
publish his correspondence, had pur-
posely employed q notorious bookseller
to issue an edition in order that he
might then be able to say that the YER
sion was piratical one, and that in
self defense he must publish the genu--
inc text. The odd thing is that, though
the whole affair was exposed at the
time, it does not seem to have done
Pope any harm. DR.. johnson, indeed,
says that it did him good, and that the
nation was fall CT praise for the admira-
BILE qualities Of candor, benevolence and
fidelity which the letters revealed. Here
is some comfort for any living literary
genius who has not yet published his
private correspondence. = Longman's
Magazine.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1896-08-12
A Jewel of Wife.

A certain Russian nobleman visiting
Paris was noticed to be constantly
plunged in deep sadness. He wore on
his finger very remarkable ring, large
enough for bracelet, and which ex-
tended over his hand like a buckler fol
the ring finger. 1t was OF greenish
color and was traversed by red veins
A lady, meeting him in public, ven
tured to say:
"You wear a very handsome ring.
sit is not ring" he answered, "but
sepulcher.
''This jewell" he continued. sis my
wife. I had the misfortune to lose her
some years since IN Russia. She was an
Italian and dreaded the led which
awaited her after this life. 1 carried
her body to Germany, where was &C
ouainted with a celebrated chemist,
whom 1 directed to make of the body a
solid substance which I could carry
about with me. Eight days after he sent
for me and showed me the empty coffin
amid a horrid collection Of instruments
and alembics. The jewel was lying
upon the table. He had, through means
of some corrosive substance, reduced
and compressed that which was my wife
into this jewel, which shall never more
leave me. Chips.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1896-08-12
Writers Pride.

Dickens has told US Of the keen emo
ton that overcame him on seeing in
print his first ''effusion, as he styled
it, which he had dropped stealthily one
evening at twilight, with fear and trem-
bling, into dark letter box, in dark
Office, up a dark court in Fleet street;
and how, when it appeared next morn
ing, he went for half an hour into West
minister hall, because my eyes were SO
dimmed with joy and pride that they
could not bear the street, Charles
Mathews the elder describes the delight
with which he gazed on the first proof
of his translation of 1.-THE Princess Of
Cleyes," which appeared by monthly
installments in The Lady's Magazine, as
"boundless," and how he fancied the
eyes Of Europe were upon him, and that
the ladies who subscribed to that peri
odical would unite in calling on the ed
itor to insist on sc. M" declaring
himself.
Poor Hayden has left vivid record
of the fuster of citation with which he
greeted the result of his having dropped
a little composition into the letter box
of The Examiner. "Never," he writes,
"shall forget that Sunday morning.
In came the paper, wet and uncut; in
went the paper knife-cut, cut, cut.
Affecting not to be interested, I turned
the pages open to dry, and to my certain
Immortality beheld, with a delight not
to be expressed, the first sentence of my
letter. I put down the paper, walked
about the room, looked at Macbeth "a
print on the walI, made the tea, but
tered the toast, put in the sugar, with
that inexpressible suppressed chuckle of
delight which always attends conde-
scending REIMBURSEMENT of an antici-
pated rapture till one is perfectly ready.
Who has not felt this? Who has not
done this?''-Chambers' journal.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1896-08-12

son. she mas strong afrectlons, accord
ing to the long heart line. "
A contrast to Miss Elliott's foot was
that of factory girl from Kensington.
This was foot common to people OF
little education. There was scarcely any
instep to the foot. The lines Of imagi-
nation, mental capacities and intuition
were very short, and the artistic line
was entirely lacking. The heart and
love lines were we'll defined and long.
The lines also indicated firmness and
great ambition, with decided fondness
for pleasure, SO the pedalogist explained.
Still another foot was that OF socie-
ty girl. Here again was the high arch.
It showed. among other things, that she
did not have to stand on her feet. as did
the poor factory girl. The lines told Of
her having less heart and less ambition
than the factory girl too. There were
selfishness ard vanity in the impression.
It seemed well that silk stockings and
dainty shoes usually kept it from the
sight of those who would read its OWL
er's character i'll the soles of that foot.
There was the foot of the preacher
and the policeman and the lawyer, and
each seemed to tell story in keeping
with its owners vocation and habits.
Last of all came the print of the man
about town. There was no arch there.
1t had come down ''fat footed. 1t
looked as if it was used mostly in walk
ing up and down fashionable street
and standing about the club. It had
good nature and self satisfaction, some
generosity and some brains i'll it, but
little ambition. philadelphia Press.