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The daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1892-1897, 1897-04-12
MAJOR ARMSTRONG IN TOWN
Reports Cameron County To Be
Blooming and Stock Fat.

Austin, Tex April Major
John Armstrong prominet Cam
eron county stockinan is spending a
day or two in the Capital City;
where he is we'll known; having
at one time resided here. Major Arm
strOngreports the country looking fine
down his way, with grass plentiful
anu cattle rolling fat. He alao re-
ports plenty of cattle buyers, who
are Offering tip top prices, and he
says fully $4,000 or 10000 cattle will
be shipped this spring from Alice,
the main shipping point OF the low
er country.
The daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1892-1897, 1897-04-12
ONLY LOOKED
Like MARBLE.
a san Antonio Artist Arrested
at Corpus Christi.

Corpus Christi, Tex April 81
Manuel Klein, an artist from San An
tonic, was arrested ard Jailed here
last night, on a ahaavit charging
him with swindling Miss Carmen
Mqrel kennedy out Of $4,000.
Klein is alleged to have obtained
the money and had 1t expressed to
San Antonio. Legal proceedings
have been taken to recover it. The
grand jury is now in session, and is
thoroughly investigating the case.
Klein presented Miss Kennedy
with " hat purported to be marble
bust of her late father, and then
prevailed upon her to advance him
$1,000, alleging that he desired the
amount in order to enable him to
prepare himself for the ministry.
1t was afterwards discovered that
the bust was only cheap imitation
ef marble, and Miss Kenedy's broth
er-in-law had Klein arrested. lie
was advised TO refund the money,
but declined to do SO.
The feeling against him here is
very high, and he will be prescott
ed to the fell extent Of the law.
The daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1892-1897, 1897-04-12
PURELY PERSONAL.

Lieut.. Cole spent Sunday at Point
Isabel.
Mrs. Jesse S. ThOrham and Mis-.
Nora Kelly visited the Point yester-
day.
Mrs. Ralph Nichols left for HI
taalgO this morning after a few days
stay in the city.
Dr. and Mrs. Kendall aud Madame
BOugardier We're visitors to the
Point Yesterday.
Capt. Geo. Stowe Of the Padre Is.
land light house is speniihg several
days with his family.
Gen. Andres Michel who com
nands tie 18Th. Mexican regiment,
srrived IL MaianiSros on Saturdays
n. s ". train.
VIM. L. Sprague, OF ,l1efhna, HI
dalgo county, was here last sunday
and Monday delivering cattle
Alice Reporief. 10.
Aiesafs. j. t. Putegnai. i. A. Tarre-
ganO and his son Charlie, and c. F.
5,ilvhn,au formed breakfast party
a, the seaside yesterday.
Burt E. Hinckley; Of the Feft
BroNh hospital corps, accompanied
by Mrs. Hmckley and Burt E. 5rs
were among the ekcursionIsLs to
Pint Isabel yesterday.
Veto: Egly, accompanied by his
daughters Misses Nina and Marian
ma EgIy, and son Victor ESIy, jr,
spent yesterday st The Point, return
iss &c IS sfsaiag tksla
The daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1892-1897, 1897-04-12
4 SERIOUS ACCIDENT.

A boy named Rihaldo SalaEar,
who follows the occupation OF a
goat-herd near Point Isabel, nearly
lost his life Saturday afternoon, BY
going 10 sleep with his head pillow
! ed Oh tie end of a railroad tie, being
struck on the head By the cow-catch-
er of the engine pulling freight
train and badly hurt. I. seems that
the boy was found by a Mexican
early after midday asleep on the Rio
Grande track. The man Weakened
him and warned him that he might
be run over By the train. The boy
replied that the train had aIrsady
passed, forgetting that it was steam
err day, and trains not running regu-
larry. lie moved on, however, but
returned later and lay down in an
other place, where his body was al
most completely hidden in the high
grass; putting his head Oh the end
of tie; and when the freight train
going to tie Poiiit. between three
and four O'Clock passed, he was
struck by tie fange OF the COW
-
catcher; and knocked from the track.
As sooin 4 the engineer saw what
happened he stopI ed the engine.
and the injured boy was picked up.
1t was found that his skull was frac-
tured and several ribs were also
broken. lie was conveyed to the
Point and hiedical sssehdaiice
erofiptiy Summoned. While his in
juries are serious, the boy is report
ed as doing very we'll, and will pro-
badly recover.
No blame can attach to the rail-
road eotlipshy for the occurrence, as
the boys body was not visible in the
long grass. General Manager Jose
Celaya regrets the accident very
much and is doing all he can to al
leviate the unfortunate youths con
dition.
The daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1892-1897, 1897-04-12
WILL BE TRIED.
Krueger's Grandson Must
Answer For His Insult.

Pretoria, April President
Kruger has ordered that lis
grandson, Lieut.. Elof, shall
be placed on trail before a
special court martial for the
offensive language recently
used by him in a public refer
ence to Queen Victoria al
johannesburg.
The daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1892-1897, 1897-04-12
AIDALGo HAPPENINGS.
Crops ia General in Fine Condi-
tion.-0ther Notes.
20 THE nERALn

| TO The HERALD
DeIfna, Texas, April Crops Of
IAN kinds are looking fine, and if ine
have a little more rain this month
Of early IN May yields will be more
than abundant. Grass is good and
sSock water abundant.
IN. vela has Just delivered a
fine lot Of cattle to Ed. Corkill, at
Alice, for which he received good
prices. Cattle are looking we'll.
Sheep men are generally busy
shearing, and the clip promises TO
be a good one.
There seemsto be an epidemic OF
mad cayotes around the county at
present, aid in this county three
persons have been bitten. One case
proved fatal where the victim was
confined in the county Jail to prevent
him doing injury. The other two
cases I understand have Yielded to
treatment. The woman and child
rem in the isolated ranches are terri
bly, worked Up, and none viii ven
ture under any circumstances more
than d few rods from their homes.
The writer has just returned from
San Antonio, having left Browns
Vile on the 9th of March and tfay-
eIed across the country to Alice,
paying close attention to everything
he saw in the way of farming ard
stock raising on the route and while
the pastures in Eueces county look
well, and are stocked with line cat
tie. Hidaigo county shows up as
well as any, and if re include Lasa-
ter's pasture in the En:ihai, which
is mostly in this county we are
ahead. 1 saw many. fine helds OF
corn all the way to San Antonio,
bat on the whole route I saw moth
ing in that line that surpassed what
saw at the Closner & Lipsc0fnb
plantation on the Rio Grande seven
miles below Hidalgo. But prospects
al his time of the year generally
were never better.
Col. Boil Ingersoll once remarked
that ga mule was an animal without
pride CT ancestry or hope of posteri-
ts, and in the absence Of prof to
the contrary the.aphorism was gen.
orally accepted, but ike many other
pet theories it has been proved false
here in Hidalgo county. A few
days ago mare mule belonging to
Don Julio Gusman, at the Sardinas
ranch gave birth to fine mule colt.
In the language of the rural press
"mother and child are doing we'll"
The daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1892-1897, 1897-04-12
WHEN NATURE.

Needs assistance it may be best tc
render it promptly, but. one should
remember to use even the most per-
feet remedies only when needed
The best and most simple and gen.
tie remedy is the Syrup of Figs,
manufactured by the California Fig
Syrup Company.
The daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1892-1897, 1897-04-12
ABOUT TOWN
Holy week began yesteraay.


Holy week began yesterday.
The Clinton sailed from BfaaOs a
one O'Clock This afternoon
The Ailcs mall stage passed EI
Sauz at 8 O'Clock; no passengers
The remainder of the steamer
freight will arrive this afternoon
Or. PRICES Cream Baking PowGa
Ass.rsAd 6~aS E.S.1 nsi6vintsr Fair sar Fr.neissa
A party of about ten soidiers went
to the Point yesterday to enjoy fish
and oyster breakfast.
A full line of straw hats for men
and children, iaces, embrOideries,
ladies cuffs and collars, and gents
furnishing goods received by last
ship at Mrs. ii. Bollack.
The we'll known empFessariO Jose
r. villalobOs, who now resides in
Victoria, Tam, recently wounded
himself accidentally with pistol
so we learn from FL Cronista.
The advertisement OF Paul d.
WrefOrd appears in ioday's HERALD.
Ha- sells alcohol for export, aour,
grain, coffee, etc. Office next door
to the Western Union telegraph OF
ice, Levee street.
The Rio Grande company will
begin running excursion trains be-
tween here and the Point about the
middle of June. when the schools
win be closed and the annual hegifa
to the seashore will begin.
A handsome monument will be
erected shortly over the grave Ofthe
late Michael Schoits, in the city
cemetery, by his daughter, Mrs.
Marie 1. Armstrong. The marble
will cost about $500 in currency.
@Bc regular and runctual in all.
things" was one of the old ma1ims
taught long ago. Tie last is not
forgotten, but the first is: scarce re-
membered, so irregular is the life of
most people nowadays. The only
corrector of this evil is Simmons
Liver Regulator, which keeps the
liver active and prevents The Ills of
irregular living: dyspepsia, Bill
iousness, Constipation, etc. 1t also
cures these troubles.
A move has Beeh started by that
patriotic citizen AdoIphus Glaev-
ecke for the celebration of the 5oth
anniversary of the battle OF PaioI
Alto on May stk. Iii. aIaevecke
called on Major Wagner at Fort
Brown this morning to ask his assis-
:ance in tho matter. Tie major
heartily encouraged the plan and
said that the post would contribute
towards the celebration. Though
he cauld not promise a parable; he
would send a squad of soldiers and
do all he could to make it a suc-
cess.
The daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1892-1897, 1897-04-12
roe oVER FIFTY YEARS

Mrs. WINsLow's SooTHiSe SYRUP has
been used for over. fifty years by
millions of mothers for their child
rem while teethihg, with perfect sac
cess. It scothes the child, softens
the gums, alIays all pain, cures wind
collie, and is the best remedy for
Diarrhea. 1t viii relieve the poor
little sufferer immediately. Sold by
Druggists in every part OF tie world
twenty-five cents bottle. Be sure
and ask for "Mrs. WinsIow's Sooth-
ing Syrup" and take no other kind
The daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1892-1897, 1897-04-12

FouSD "a white, hem-stitehed
linen handkerchief, with initial.
ell Il this Office
The daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1892-1897, 1897-04-12
TINTED STATES COURT-HoUsE,
u CUSTOM HOUSE AND POST

OFFICE Building, Brownsville, Tex
as, April Ia iSe7.-Sealed ttoposals
viii be received at this building until
4 O'Clock p. m, Friday, April goth, 1897,
for furnishing fuel, lights, water, ice
miscellaneous supplies, washing towels,
hauling ashes, am sprinkling streets for
this building during the fiscal year ending
June 30, 1858, or suEhportion of the wear
as may be deenied advisable. The, right
TO reject any and all Bids IS reserved -
the Treasury De artment.
]. A. MICHEL, Custodian
The daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1892-1897, 1897-04-12
Gladness Comes

NTH better understanding Of the
Wv transient nature OF the many phys
ical Ills, which vanish. before proper eff
forts-gehtle efforts pleasant Efforts
rightly directed. There is comfort in
the knowledge, that SO many forms OF
sickness are not due to any actual dis
ease, but simply to a eonstipated eondi-
ton of the system, which the pleasant
family laxative, Syrup of Figs. prompt
" removes. That Is why it is the only
remedy with millions of families. and is
everywhere esteemed so highly by all
who value good health Its beneficial
effects are due to the fact, that tits the
one remedy which promotes internal
cleanliness without facilitating the
organs on which it acts 1t is therefore
ali important, In order to get its bene-
fetal effects. 10 note when you pur-
chase, that you have the genuine arti-
c,e, which is manufactured BY the Cali
fornia Fig Syrup Co. only and sold by
all reputable druggists.
If In the enjoyment OF good health,
and the system is regular, laxatives or
other remedies are then not needed IF
afflicted with any actual disease, one
may be commended to the most skillful
physicians, but If in need of laxative,
one should have the best, and with the
well-informed everywhere, Syfup Of
Figs stands highest and is most largely
used and gives most general satisfaction
~
Democratic Northwest and Henry County news. [volume] (Napoleon, O. [Ohio]) 1894-1905, 1897-01-07
AN OLD STOVE.
It Is One Which Once Caused a Bitter
Church War.

It Is One Which Once Caused a Bitter
Church War.
Henry #. Middleton, a New York anti
quarian, has found at the hons OF Jason
Aldrich, farmer living near East Corn
wall, the old box stove which was the in
nocent cause of Litchfeld's celebrated
stove war in the Sabbath day house on
Litchfeld green during the ministry of
Rev. Lyman Beecher and has carried it
off to New York in triumph. He had been
IN search of the stove for several months.
Aldrich had owned the stove for years,
having bought it at an auction
The stove is box shaped affair, stand
ing on slender wrought iron legs more
than IS inches long. 1t is wood burner
and will take in sticks feet long and 12
inches through. The door is at the front
and the pipe is at the back. With good
bed of Goals at the door, a pile of larg.
sticks laid over them, and with the damp
er open, the old stove will get up draft
like that of small blast furnace in an in
credibly short time. Its heating powers,
when fed on unlimited quantities of sea-
soned oak or hickory, are indisputably
good.
There are still a number of Litchfeld
people who remember the story of the stove
war. Lyman Beecher, the Congregation
alst, preached in the Sabbath day house
from 1910 to 1895, and it was during his
term of service here that the trouble oc'
Cured. Henry Ward Beecher, his son, was
born in this historic town, and more than
once referred to the matter in his after life
as good story illustrative of the difficult
ties encountered by progressive church
people in the early days.
Democratic Northwest and Henry County news. [volume] (Napoleon, O. [Ohio]) 1894-1905, 1897-01-07

oughIy he remaf Ss1 chat he guessed there
wasn't much poison about It, The copper
bottom snakes are similar to the snakes
found in Florida and other southern states
Pete also handled them with great readi.
perhead and mud snakes from the box he
used more caution
While the reporter was talking to Pete
long box arrived by express which was i'm
mediately opened 1t contained a large,
bright colored snake which is known as a
coach whip. 1t was feet long and came
from Chadwick, Mo. The man of many
snakes took the reptile and threw it in
with the others and locked up the cage.
AS he locked the door he pointed to q
four foot snake which was curled up in
one corner of the cage. He was q copper
bottom from Florida He had just swal-
lowed field, or garter snake measuring
about feet in length. Another snake in
the same cage had just been fed on 10
small mice and one kitten week old. In
order to prove that the snakes would eat
almost anything, Pete opened the den and
paced an ordinary egg in front of one of
the largest reptiles. His snakeship was not
long in encircling the egg, and when he
swallowed it he was seen to tighten his
body as if to break the shell.
The attention of Rattlesnake Pete was
called to statement which was published
from Cleveland, which stated that the
army worm which had been doing much
damage in the northern part of Ohio had
an enemy in the rattlesnake. Pete stated
that not only did the rattlesnakes devour
tho army worms, but all snakes were fond
of them.
"If the farmers only knew when they
wero well off, said Pete, "their garden
truck would be much better if they allowed
the small snakes, which are generally
killed. to live, that they might deyour the
insects"
Pete has known for fact where snakes
have gone through gardens and picked
bugs off the vegetables. Hence his appeal
for the "harmless little creatures" Pete
wound up the conversation by describing
the attitude of the black snake toward the
rattlers, and, in fact, all Others, but par
ticularly the former. Pete has a large
number of black snakes and rattlers in the
same cage. When one of the rattlers starts
to devour smaller snake or anything that
one or the black snakes wants, Jhe latter
twists around the rattler and squeezes SC
that he cannot swallow the object.
The result is thar the rattler invariably
chokes up whatever he has started to eat
/ and moves slowly away. He never at
tempts to strike at black snake. Rattlers
often strike at objects which tley miss and
happen to bury their fangs in other snakes
but in all his experience Pete has never
had one of these cases which proved fatal.
However, he claims that suicide is 6
common thing among rattlers, as only
yesterday he had large rattlesnake dit
from wound self inflicted. 1t appear.
that about week ago this big snake
turned slowly around when Pete was
standing in front of the cage and struck al
himself. Its fangs were buried deep in hi
skin and yesterday he died Rochester
| Democrat and Chronicle.
Democratic Northwest and Henry County news. [volume] (Napoleon, O. [Ohio]) 1894-1905, 1897-01-07

Ten years ago, we are assured, hardly
o letter of the alphabet could have been
deserted, either on the Surrey or the
Middlesex shore of the Thames, but now
mills, wharves, hotels, chimney stacks
and sheds seem to vie with one another
in the exhibition of these huge painted
placards, which are an abomination to
the eye and an effectual bar to the i'm
provement of London from an aesthetic
point of view. But if any one is SAN
guire enough to suppose that "husiness
men" will give up the system on the
ground that, while it annoys other peo-
Pile, it does not benefit themselves, we
are afraid he is doomed to disappoint-
ment. The people who go to the expense
of putting up these placards must know
best whether they are of any use, and it
can hardly be believed that they would
continue to spend money on them un-
less they were. Whether many among
them would be found public spirited
enough to sacrifice the advantage de-
rived from such erections to the mere
love of the beautiful-whicb, rnhappi-
ly, has not that influence among Eng
lishmen which it possesses in some other
countries-we should be disposed to
doubt. London Standard.
Democratic Northwest and Henry County news. [volume] (Napoleon, O. [Ohio]) 1894-1905, 1897-01-07

<---sgc COX stove nad alTcsdy invaded tho
sacred but frigid precincts Of a number OF
churches In Connecticut Some Of the
most influential persons among the Litch-
field Congregationalists determined TO get
one, to soc what it would do toward tenn
perlng tho frost fingered gales which howl
in winter across the bleak Litchheld hills
An unexpectedly determined opposition
was Immediately encountered In the
church, however, and fierce war was
waged against the stoye, the principal
grounds for which were that IL would des-
ecrate the house of God; that 1t would pro-
mote disease by rendering the members OF
the congregation unduly sensitive to cold,
and, still further, that the auditors ought
to be so imbued with the fire and glow OF
religion as TO pass unnoticed the rigors of
winter during the delivery by the preacher
of the two long midday discourses, which
were then the invariable rule on Sunday.
The church split in two factions upon
the matter, the stove party and the anti
stove party, and for several weeks the stove
was tho topic of the hour. The deacons of
the church were besought and buttonholed; I;
the members were arrayed individually on
one side or the other; the women were es-
peoially active, many of the older ones who
had lowered shiveringly over foot stoves in
the old church for years being most pro-
nounced in their condemnation of the in
novation as an invention of the evil one -
Litchfeld Letter in New York Sun.
Democratic Northwest and Henry County news. [volume] (Napoleon, O. [Ohio]) 1894-1905, 1897-01-07
The Visibility of Colors.

It's frequently observed that as twilight
comes ON red objects lose their color sooner
than others, finally appearing black, while
other colors are still visible When the
luminosity is gradually reduced, the vari-
Gus colors in great measure disappear, a
person with normal vision passing through
a stage of red blindness as the intensity Is
diminished before he arrives at absolutely
monochromatic vision. Captain W. do W.
Abney shows that the curious color of a
moonlight landscape is entirely accounted
for by this fact. White light becomes green
ish as it diminishes in intensity, and the
reds, blues and yellows being reduced or
absent are not reflected by surrounding OBJ
jects; hence moonlight is cold, while the
sunlight is warm, owing to their presence
Further, the loss of colors in flowers as
night draws on may be easily followed
Thus, orange colorod flowers may be plain
ly distinguished, while scarlet geranium
appears black; green grass viii be gray
when yellow flowers may be just visible
Democratic Northwest and Henry County news. [volume] (Napoleon, O. [Ohio]) 1894-1905, 1897-01-07
BLACK SNAKES AND RATTLERS!
Some Interesting Facts Told by Man
Who Understands Reptiles.

"It's shame to kill those harmless lit
tie snakes" said Rattlesnake Pete yester-
day afternoon when reporter told of a re-
cent trip to the country, where he saw
farmer kill several garter snakes. Pete
had just finished placing 13 new snakes in
the case adjoining the den of rattlers,
which has long been tie pride of his heart.
GAS soon as any one commences talk
ing snake" said Pete, II am right at
home. How many snakes have l in allS
Oh, about 75 Those in that side are all
poisonous, but these are not known to be
very bad"
At this the snake fancier took from o
bunch of reptiles a light brown snake with
dark spots ON its body. Pete explained
that it was spotted adder and was one
of a new lot he had just received.
"The spotted adder can bite" said Pete,
hbut there is no poison" AS he said that
he opened the snakes mouth with his fin
gers and exposed dangerous looking
tongue, but there were no fangs such as
the rattlers and other poisonous snakes
have.
The new snakes received yesterday were
contributions from friends of Pete In
Miami, I. T. The box in which the
snakes came was marked, "11H pounds
of snakes, So cents pound. )" There
was no other writing on the box 9TH
er than the address of Peter Gruber, !"
which is Rattlesnake Pete's more formal
name. The box contained snakes of the
following species: Cotton mouth snakes,
copperheads, chicken snakes, copper bottom
and mud snakes.
1t will be seen that most of these snakes
are very poisonous. The cotton mouth is
similar to the rattlesnake in every way ex-
cepting the lack of rattles. 1t is said that
these snakes are more poisonous than rat
tiers, but Pete, who has had considerable
experience nursing snake bites, does not
believe it.
The chicken snake is black snake, with
red spots dotted here and there on it's body,
and is quite pretty. AS Pete took one of
them from the case and examined it thor
Democratic Northwest and Henry County news. [volume] (Napoleon, O. [Ohio]) 1894-1905, 1897-01-07

the water lilies she handed me a sketcn
of myself and asked, is that q picture
of Henry Mortonf
Its perfect 1 answered, though
dumfounded. A shadow of anger crossed
her face, and she was about to tear the
picture to pieces when / caught her
hands and suddenly showed the repro
duction of herself that had made in
Paris. 1t was her turn to be surprised,
and when I told her of my experience
at the fortune teller S ON Rue de Bouges,
giving her the date, she quickly ex-
claimed:
Why, was there with Marcia Ar
mold. Mamma and / did Europe that
season, and we two girls visited that
Indian princess just for lark. That
was where saw Henry Morton, whom
l was told fate had decreed as my fu-
ture husband
Before we rowed home it was all
explained, and the sequel of cur strange
experience was happy marriage. Tho
dusky prophecies who had confused the
name of the two girls was cultivated
fraud. 1t was all trick of the mirrors,
ladies. "-Detroit Free Press