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J. C. SON, Editor am/ Pi oprietor.
ALBANY
"LET JUSTICE BE DOSE TlJoUdH THE HEAYESS EA1.L."
STAR
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ALBANY, SHACKELFORD COUNTY, TEXAS, FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 21, J-S-S.!.
\o. 39.
NEWS IN BRIEF.
did oonflidtti*i>ie
•nil along the valley
Tl e loss on tobacco I
in Massachusetts is
at Pall Kiver were
by the &
.tion and labor.
of the ntill -operative* owned
poration* were found to be
condition. An old En
__ that the operative* were
in Englaad than hare.
in Boston
the 8d,
The Japanese
_ i*~ large an* artistic, i*
„ .. native* in their hnmo oas-
Among the pr duoteof Ireland
are a stono oroe* weighing five ton*,
and a model of the treaty-stone of
Limerick The Bajah who eatertained
General Grant in India has sent a cast
„f imfiAM mniical iiisti uiitenth, Mu
sicis furnished by the Victoria Bifl**'
hud, ef Montreal ,
2,238 oar load* of graiiw of
DO were cjrn.
line the prooe*ion would be
i mile* in length. .
A who boarded a train at Smith-
field, Utah, covered eight passenger,
and two trainmen with a revolver, robe
bed thf? of their wctohe* and money
and escaped in the darkness.
ami Tnttle, who rebbed
, stage and killed the ex-
ger the night of dug. 11,
rat Florence,
The oowbov* assembled in
tbehangmg.
d paper warehouse on Wal-
Cinoianati, wa* gutted by
*t girl* jumped fwn the
1 story, one breaking a kg and ra-
ng internal injuries. A man in at-
■cape fell unoonciou* on
*iit> tit- —j i *nd hi* head andfaoe
were almost burnt to a criap. A fire
TfeU from a Udder, and a.peoiato
" t a wall by a hook
uud fatally injured,
employe* of the ng house
^H£_feared they per-
The total ioa* is
yiUJUlD'H
,y of distiu-
_ _ en a gorgeous
at StPauTand Minneapolis,
being arrayed in a wealth of
«, The prooeeaions were
■rioae. the different indu*-
I in the rank*,
machinery in wagon*
daring the entire
it,sawing logs and
stMmi A'tliur and
the latter
unbound-
Lafay
banquet
province in Java, drowned all the in-
habitants, about 1( ,000 people.
At a mast-meeting held at Cappa-
lore, Ireland, Michael Davitt delivered
an addresisatatiagthat by the tyranieal
operations of landlordism in Ireland
0,000 householders had been deprived
of their homes within the quarter end-
ing July 1. Davitt contended that the
of the complete abolition of
must be kept before the
The Land act, he stated, if
not a failure at the present time, was
rapidly becoming so, and that not one-
sixth of the tenant fanners of the
country have yet snooeeded in having
their rents fixed. He urged the people
te be resolute and calm and not lose
self-control. ...The obsequies of the
Count de Ohambord took place at Ge-
nts, Austria, in the presanoe of 60,000
foreigners. The funeral oar was
drawn by six horses, and followed by
vehicle-laden with wreaths. Five
thousand French Royalist* were in the
procession, and delegations af work-
men from Fans and Lyons—While
a number-ef people were waiting for
a train at 8tegliti,Germnny,*n express
dashed into their midst, killing thirty-
nine parsons. Hie corpses were mu-
tilated in a shocking manner Seri-
ous anti-Jewish rioting took place at
Ssigetrar, Hungary, the mob oommit-
ing terrible havoc upoa property. One
m was killed and four wounded
The- Deuteronomy manuscripts
have been deolared forgeries and ef-
forts s£r being made to trace the
author, who is supposed to bo a clever
artist and counterfeiter oI Moabitic
Near Naples, Italy, a
flooded house crumbled, killing eleven
Ivan Tourgueneff, the Rus-
sian novelist, is dead.
Chief Postoffice inspector D. B.
Parker tendered his resignation, to
take effect in October. His successor
will be Alonso (J. Sharp, ef Ten-
eity, and
■ system, the
resources of the
*nA complimentary to the
Arthur and party arrived
i the West on the Urd
lunched at the State
he made a brief con-
eess to an assembled
in the eousso of fhioh he
I great surprise a* the general
of development in the North-
the unbounded resources of
He predict* for the twin
td suocess and prosper
the speech thel President
e people for a half an hour,
then departed by special train for
1. Mas* the nJxt mo^L^lhl dU
party kit tor Chicago .where
wsi gives at Jthe Grand
i Hotel, and everybody rhetolt
d wss given an opportunity
; the Chief Mag.strate bj the
Bamvxl Bulger, colored, tor outrag
ing s white child same time ago, wsi
hinged in the jail at Maysville, Ky.
two HT ®f Edwards, Miss., con-
leased to having robbed the grave of
v.. Howell. One ef them who at-
tempted to escape was riddled with
bullet/ Tbeother was taken from
lhariff and hanged. The* coo
J that they stole the body tor the
wse of securing the bones of the
which they need in carryiagH
i aa conjurers.
Ee* He vised.
A dog and a rooster who worked
the Damon and Pythias racket were
traveling together one summer, and
finding no wayside inn en route
wherein to rest at night, took np
their abode on the soft aide of a tree.
The fowlflew readily to a leafy branch
i the top, bat the dog remarked
i ^t was a heathen climb up
there," lay down on a root and slept
the sleep of a democrat.
At early dawn the rooster waked
and tooted his oalliope as only s roos-
ter can. By his noise, whicn indeed
was louder than the bark of the dog,
i or the tree tor that matter), he at-
tracted the attention of a fox, who
was in search of his morning meal,
and who viewed with delight the pros-
pect of rooster on toast.
"Ah, my pretty bird," said he,
"how useful you are. Will you not
come down and live with me, and be
my owny little alarm clock? Come
down; it is raining; you'll get wet—
'Does it rain hard?" smiled the
lowL
'Don't move," said the tox. "A
lard that will make such tough pons
must, according to the proverb
'toughs from tbe tough,' be unfit for
my purposes. Why, I believe that
rou are fo tough that if you were a
> you'd lay hard boiled eggs.
Just then the dog awoke, and
striking the tox on the collar-button
•eat him to hi* hole, thereby deduc-
ing the moral that it don't pay to vi-
tuperate a rooOter.
who killed
to London* journals say
flhinsss troops have entered
I territory and otUn are movl
the (natter. The Franch Cab<|
laided to send reinforcements to
Toaaain. Advice* received from Berl
Ifc an to the effect that Chins
Why He Wanted
A genUemap who hod seen much
The
■ ,
may serve themaelves.
[Ten were oertainly
under which many of our con
nyrn and legislators are chosen,
and the man was very likely more
honest than most politicians:
In a certain town not far from Bjs
ton, than bved a large family, of eev
eral generations, by the name of C—
At one o# the elections, whereat mem
ben of the Legislatnre wen chosen,
William C—. was a oandidate. Tha
whole family wan praaant distribut-
ing votes for him
"Won't you vote for William?"
asked one of the family of t
"Why shottld.I? I never heard that
William had any qualification for
The tiood Old Time.
The more you find out about the
much yaunted "good old times" the
better pleased you are not to have
lived in them. The people did not
only live like dogs, but they fed like
hogs. A pauper in a workhouse
would kiok now at the meal which a
noble used to devour then. The
roast beef of old England was unheard
of; beef was only eaten salted and
boiled, and bread was a luxury, not
in oommon use even by the nobles.
The records of the Percy family, in
the reign at Henry VII., show the ex-
treme ooarseness of the mode of liv-
ing, and an extract or two from the
household book of that famous fami-
ly will give a good idea of the manner
in whibh the most famous noble of
the time Uvea. The permanent
household numbered 166 persons, and
the average of guests was fifty, and
the whole of the washing for these
216 was for one year 40s; a sum
irobably equal to $2 in the present
lay, most of which was for the ohap-
el linen.
From midsummer to Michaelmas
was the only time they indulged in
fresh meat, and the instructions sat,
My Lord has on his table for break-
fast , at 7 in tbe morning, a quart of
beer and wine, two pieoes of salt fish,
six red herring, four white ones; and
on flesh days half a chine of beef or
mutton,boiled." At dinner, men rank-
ing as knights had a table, cloth,
which was washed once a month;
and as they had no napkins, and the
fingen being extensively used in feed-
ing, this portion at least of their lin-
en must have been in a sad condition.
Until the thirteenth century, straw
was the bed of Kings; and before that
date the King and « ■ family slept in
the same chamber. The first change
was to throw a coverlid over the
sleeper; then another was used, and
the persons undressed, their linen be-
ing substituted for blankets. Beatrice
ys she would "as lief sleep in a
woolen," which shows that such a
thing was done even in Shakspeare's
time. The use of nothing but coarse,
dirty woolen next to the skin, seldom
changed, and the heavy, exciting na-
ture of highly salted food, on which
all lived, of oourae tended to produoe
those diseases for which hospitals
wen founded all over England; hos-
pitals for leprosy in particular abound-
ing .---New York JJitpatch.
How Tacks are Made.
The iron is received from the roll-
ing r"'11" in sheets from three inohes
to twelve inches wide, and from three
feet to nine feet in length, the thick-
ness varying, according to the kind of
work into which it is to be made,
one-eighth to one-thirty-second
of an inch pieoes, and by immersion
acid cleansed of the hard outside
flinty scale. They are then chopped
into strips of a width corresponding
to the length of the nail or tack re
quired . Supposing the tack to be cu t
an eight-ounce oar pet tack, the
strip of iron, as chopiid and ready
for tbe maohine, would bo about elev-
en-sixteenths of an inch Wide and
thirty inches long. This piece is
firmly in the feeding apparatus,
and by this arrangement carried be-
tween tbe knives of tbe machine. At
each revolution of the balance wheel
the knives cut off a small pieoe from
the end of this plate. Th« piece cut
off is pointed at one end, and square
or forming the bead at the other. It
■ then earned between two dies by
the inHi"" of tbe knives, and these
dies, coming together, form tho bodv
of the tack £r *bs head, feoogb
of the iron projects beyond tbe face of
the dies to form lbs head, and
while heldfirmly by them a lever
strikes this projecting piece into a
This, as we
try to dam a river with a sand bauk.
Then we tried fines, but that did not
work, they would resort to all manner
of trioks to get a moment of gossip,
they would rather lose half a week's
wages than be deprived of their talk."
"I found it would not do. 1 just
racked my brains to find some way to
stop their clatter. At one time I
thought of building a lot of little cells,
where each one could be kept alone,
but I was afraid my girls would all
desert me. Then I toed bribery. I
bought some spruce gum and had it
announced I would give each girl one
bit morning and evening on oondition
they did not talk. The plan has
worked admirably. You can go up
in the work room and all the noise
you will hear will be the "slush" of
one hundred pairs of jaws in constant
motion. Hardly a word is spoken.
The girls are contented. The prob-
lem is solved. A girl miiBt have em-
ployment for her jaws, and if it isn't
chewing it iB talking."
Java sad
of the horrors in
arrive with every
A whole district is entimly in
ble, aad the population is sup-
wstrs nearest to iftra. The tidal
which swept over the Tjeringin
"Well," nplied tbe relative, "I'll
tell you how 'lis. William's got a
leetle behindhand, and wants to
shingle his barn. This will
about 1100- Now if he can get to
tbe General Court one session be'l
save |100, and so you see he can
shingle his barn."' -F<Muut
Sum s Tom Ochiltree has been in
tbe bar* in that
ed the legend,
icau drinks
Tib ben with a single ebiek makes
the moat cackling, and tbe tower
Ideas a man has tbe more note* be
UXQ§i oi
city have disphrjred UM
round head. This, as we have said
>efon, is all done during one revolu-
tion of the wheel, and the knives, as
soon as tbe tack drops from the ma-
ohine, an ready to cut another pieoe.
Tbeae an run at the rate
of about S60 revolutions per minute
The shoe nail mrJ,in*'i tor cutting
shoe nails, an run a^ about
100 revolutions per minute, and cut
torn three to flEnails each revolu
Three Ways of Life.
A certain rich mail being reminded by
the increasing weight of years that
he would never be any younger, and
must one day go the way of all flesh,
called about liim his three sons, whom
he Ums addressed:
"My children, when I die all I have
will be yours, but in addition to the
property, which I shall divide among
you equally, I have a ring in which is
set a diamond of great value. This
I intend for him who after a twelve-
month shall have made the greatest
advance toward success in life. Here,
take each of you one of those purses
containing a hundred pieces of silver,
go out into the world, and at the ex-
piration of the time prescribed,return,
that I may jud^e which among you
the sons received their
father's tlessmg, and taking the
purses of silver went away. But when
a year and a day were passed tliey
returned and presented themselves
before their father, and it appeared
they had chosen widely different
mews of gaining a common end.
"My father,"said the eldest, with
apart of the hundred pieces thou gav-
est me I bought a certificate setting
forth my great skill in healing the siok.
I cultivated my beard and put on my
glasses that 1 might appear to be a
man of learning. I gave out that 1
was able to cure all known diseases;
administered bread pills and sweet-
ened water to all who placed them-
selves under my care, and as a result
I have gained wealth to the extent of
one thousand pieces of gold."
"My son," remarked the parent,
well-pleased, "truly, thy cheek is co-
1 l
uu,
My father," then said the second
youth "with thy hundred pieces of
silver I purchased votes by winch I
secured to myself a Government con-
tract. I engaged to transport the
mails for one thousand piece* of gold
per annum, and by exceeding pru-
dence of management I have garnered
profit* upward of fifteen hundred
pieoes of gold."
prudence is monumen-
tal, exclaimed the father, "but thy
irother hath not yet spoken."
"With one of thy pieces of silver, O
my father," began the youngest son,
I purchased some tools ana became
, dumber—"
My son, thou pride of my heart!"
cried the enraptured old man, falling
on his neck, while the happy tear*
coursed down his aged cheeks, "thou
needst say no mon. Thou hast clear-
y shown that thou hast discovered
the true road to success. It is to thee,
without a question, tho rings belongs.
—Toronto Olobt.
Uirts Whe Chewtlim.
Jn « Division Street millinery store,
says tbe New York U mi*g h
girl ooi
mUBIi
suspect what I gave tbe
aurntJ,
oomee down and
theoounteranote ami
is given a package
Do you susk
girl?" asked tbe
"No."
It was spruce gum. There>
strange about the matter.
We can't get the girls to work well
without it. We found that they
so much that a gnat deal of
time was lost Into eur work, and al-
though they workky tip p eoe,wh«
va an rushed with orders we get be-
hiad.
Our forewoman issued aa order tor
lireati.
Whirl. Hill lull bM WhiU or Brtiita.
MtwleouUi Coutury.
The earliest agitator in the lual/vcr
obscrvod two yearn ugo, when travel-
ing in Sicily, that the laboring class-
es live healthily and work well upon
a vegetable diet, the staple article is
bread made of wcll-grouud wheat
meal. Nor are the Sicilians by any
means the only people so supported.
"The Hindoos of the Northwestern
Province can walk fifty or sixty miles
a day with no other food than 'chap-
ettios,' made of the whole meal, with
a little 'ghee,' or Gallam butter."
Turkish and Arab porters, capable of
carrying burdens of from 400 to 000
pounds, live on bread only, with the
occasional addition of fruit and vege-
tables. The Spartans and Romans
of old tim'S lived their vigorous lives
on bread made of wheaten meal. In
northern as well as in southern cli-
mates, we fiud the same thing. In
Russia, Sweden, Scotland, and else-
where, the poor live chiefly on bread,
alwayB made from some whole meal
—wheat, oats or rye—and the peas-
antry of whatever climate so fed al-
ways compare favorably with our
South English poor, who, in condi-
tions of indigence precluding them
from obtaining sufficient meat food,
starve, if not to death, at least into
sickness, on the white bread it is our
modern English habit to prefer.
White bread alone will not support
animal life. Bread made of the whole
grain will. The experiment has been
tried in France by Magendie. Dogs
were the subjects of trial, and every
care was taken to equalize all the
other conditions—to proportion the
quality of food given in each case to
the weight of the animal experi-
mented upon and so forth. The result
was sufficiently marked. At the end
of forty days, the dog6 fed solely on
white bread, died. The dogs feu on
bread made of the whole grain re-
mained vigorous, healthy and well
nourished. Whether an originally
healthy human being, if fed solely on
white bread for forty d^ys, would
likewise die at the end of that time
remains, of course, a question. The
tenacity of life exhibited by Magen
die's dogs will not evidently bear
comparison with that of the scarcely j
yet forgotten forty daytT wonder, l)r. j
Tanner. Nor is it by any means as
serted that any given man, or any I
given child, would certainly remain in }
vigorous health for an indefinite j
length of time if fed solely on wheat-;
meal bread. Not a single piece of |
strong evidence has been produced,!
however to show that he would not; |
and, in the only case in which whole- j
meal bread has been tried with any
persistency, or on any
scale among us—to-wit: in jails-
facts go to show such bread to be an
excellent and wholesome substitute
for more costly forms of nutritious
food.
most of which has gone to Texas.
He also statos the shipping of live
stock is wasteful and expensive, and
cattle arc unnecessarily bruised in
transfer. The company, of which
he is a partner, could alnp dead meat
to England much moic economically
than, live stock, air' the refrigerating
system is now nearly perfect. This
opinion supports our contention for
a dead-meat trade.
'i
TEXAS TOPICS.
—Cotton pickers are not in as great
demand this season as formerly. The
crop is so short that planters need
but little help.
—Heavy rains visited Southern
Texas during the first week of S?p-
tember, filling the water tanks and
creeks that had been dry for month?.
Stock that had been suffering for wa-
ter and food now have plenty.
—With favorable weather Texas
will produce an immense crop of
small grain next season. The ootton
crop i6 so short that farmers will have
time to put in a large crop of wheat
this fall, and prepare their ground for
oats.
—For several woekspast disastrous
fires have been raging in the timber
region of Eastern Texas, destroying
mills, lum,ber, railroad bridges, tit:.-,
fences, wood, and killing thousands
of acres of young pine and oak forest.
These fires have been unusually dis-
astrous this fall on account of the
protracted drouth.
—Texas has the largest crop of
corn ever produced in the State, and
since the drouth has made tire cotton
crop so short, the farmers see the
wisdom of the "more corn and less
cotton" theory. It is not necessary
to sell their entire cotton crop to buy
at a high price, corn and flour enough
to c.ury them through to another sea-
son. Most farmers have corn to sell.
— IUttttiated World. The people of
Texas are to be congratulated be-
cause of their spirited movements in
behalf of public education. In the
rush of business, with vast holds to
conquer and industrial centres to es-
tablish, it might have been feared
that they would overlook the schools;
but they are too wide-awake to make
such a blunder. Pioneer and immi-
grant alike are helping to place a
foundation-stone upon which to rear
the fabric of the common weal th.
Mow t* Destroy the Cotton Killer.
Sau AaLoulo Ln>r*m.
A Louisiana planter has wntten to
the New Orleans Cotton Exchange
proposing a cheap plan for destroying
considerable ^ ^tto.u w.°™ ft
migbt also be tested in this
and should any of our planters
such a test they will confer a great
benefit on their brother planters if
vicinity,
make
A Verjr Hoiuelj 1**.
A correspondent writes that during
Us trip on the great American lakes
bis companion was a Canadian, a jol-
ly fellow, who loved a joke, told a
good story, feared Ood, admired the
hidies, and was withal an abominable
stammerer. We hadn't been long
aboard when the captain called our
to a remarkable-looking
individual seated at the other end of
the cabin, whom he deolared was tbe
ugliest man that ever lived; when-
upon our friend from over tbe line
offered to bet the drinks he had
a worse one in the steerage. The bet
was taken and oil be started to find
his """■ and bring him up for com
pwison. He found the fellow, who
was a bit of a wag, as an intoUnld;
homely man is apt to be, and
MewoauD issuea
uddiju during woduni
We tried this, but you might as w«D
rably
witL
the promise of a~"nip" readily gained
bis assent to tbe trial. As they en-
tered the cabin, Kanuck, with an air
of conscious triumph, turned to direct
attention to his companion, when be
found him trying to insure saeea
faces. "^H'St-st-st-opI"
be, "bo-bom of that. Stay lust as
Ood Almighty made you. You ea-
ca-can't be boat." And he
She Wa* * Singer.
"I have warned the people of tliis
State not to apply for, divorce," said
an Arkansas Judge who was ap-
proached by a dissolution consults
tion. "Under the law, there are but
few grounds for divorce."
"I don't know, Judge, that any one
has ever gotten a divorce on similar
unds; nut, sir, I think I have the
cause in the world. My wife is
a very sweet tempered woman and
never gives me a cross word. She
has always been devoted and true, and
we love each other dearly."
"Then why do you want a divorce?"
"Because she's a singer."
"A singer?"
"Yes, sir, a singer. Every time
there's a festival in the neighborhood
she has to sing. Why, air, she'll
leave my breeches with a patch half
sewed on to go out somewhere to sing.
don't hear anything but songs.
When there's a charity concert any-
where within reach she has to go and
sing- Bhe's so given to the habit,
that when I ask her a question she
sings to me. She pour* out my cof-
fee by note and pats her foot when
she hands round the bread. What
do you think of these grounds?"
"New, out striking. Your
will go through without a hitch.
A rkantau Traveler.
they will promptly communicate the
result of their experiments to the Ki-
)treu. The planter writes as follows:
"The cotton worm fly feeds on sweets,
such as sugar or honey; it does not
feed on vegetable matter. It may be
seen sucking the sap that flows from
bruised trees or plants, or melons, or
figs, or other fruits.
"I have seen the cotton miller col-
lect just after night in myriads on a
-bagasse pile, near this place, to suck
saccharine from the half-pressed cane.
It is a common experience or fact at-
tested by many, that if one of the lit-
tle vacuum pans used to grind the
small patches of cane in the cotton
countries, is left uncovered at night
and is allowed to cool that the ootton.
worm fly will collect about it just af-
ter night in swarms, and feed upon 1
the syrup. It feeds at night. It will
find bagasse piles and mills nmots
from cotton fields. Saturate more
cotton, rags or bagasse with solution
of half water and one-half molasses
and honey—or a solution of any
sweet. Poison this solution with ar-
senic, strychnine or cobalt, or any
other poison; put on platform*.
"All experience teache* that birds,
snimsls or insect* fin 1 their food with
a wonderf ul instinct; for instance, fox-
es, buzzards, etc.
"This plan is very inexpensive."
Th* JJrocer'* Journal of (imago, '
111., says: Dne of the most interest-
ing things to be seen at the stock-
yards, in connection with the live
stock business, is tbe maneuvering of
trained dogs in driving sheep from
itrtyi*li Capital ia Cattle.
The following significant statement . , . L. . „ _
is made by the London /.m Stock, ?he sagamte
Journal | of a weU tnuied shepherd dog in this
It would appear that a oonsiders
Ijle amount of British capital has
been invested in American cattle. An
English company has been organized
to go into the ranch and cattle busi-
ness on the line of the Northern Pa-
cific railway. Mr. Fewer, who has
been in business in Wyoming and
southern Montana tor five years, esti-
that figfiiil to tbe n>
it of .sight millions is now invested
fltilf QU lbs Auicncun
different
sheep will stray sway from
and start off in an entirely diflei
direction. The moment the dog /
tins he scamper* after the *lr*ggler, >
runs ahead of him. and by dint of
barking and growling (but without
any violence) succeeds in turning the
woolly wanderer towards the gang,
and compels him to rejoin his com-
panion*. Bocb a doe, for thai kind of
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Son, J. C. The Albany Star. (Albany, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 39, Ed. 1 Friday, September 21, 1883, newspaper, September 21, 1883; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth394043/m1/1/: accessed June 12, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting The Old Jail Art Center.