Corsicana Observer. (Corsicana, Tex.), Vol. 34, No. 2, Ed. 1 Friday, November 1, 1889 Page: 2 of 8
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THE CORSICANA OBSERVER.
G. P. Miller, - Editor.
Dorsicana, Texas-, Nov, 1. 1889.
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Selma, Ala. lost $200,000 by
fire Sunday morning.
Ben Butler is going to write a
book.
A gin was burned in Hills-
boro last Friday. Loss $1500.
Miss Minnie Davis, the daugh-
ter of the “confederacy’7 has
gone to Europe on a visit.
Van Zandt county took second
premium at the Dallas fair for the
second best county exhibit.
Two men with revolvers in
hand robbed the express agent
at Floresviile, Texas, of $1800
last Friday night.
The Austin Statesman is still
crying dam the Colorado river.
It will make water power at Aus-
tin cheap. _
Taylor county took the sweep-
stakes prize at the Dallas fair for
the best county exhibit in the
state.
A forger Was arrested in Phila-
delphia, Pa. the other day named
Albert Sutherland. He is said to
be Tascott under assumed name.
The Limestone New Era last
week was a splendid paper. It
contained eight pages printed
matter, 64 columns in all. Bro.
McFarland deserves credit for
his push ond energy.
Green McCoy and Melton* Ha-
ley were taken from jail in Lin-
coln county, Ky., by a mob at
midnight and hanged. They were
parties to the McCoy-Hatfield
feud which has been such a ter-
ror in Kentucky for years.
A vessel loaded with 2400
bales of cotton at Galveston was
discovered on fire a few days
ago. It was flooded with water
and then pumped out, but the fire
broke out a second time and the
vessel was again flooded with
water.
Charles R- Barth, Esq. return-
ed last Saturday from a tour to
New Orleans, Charleston, S. C ,
Savannah, Ga., Washington City
and Louisville, Ky. He attend-
ed the Knights Templars con-
clave in Washington, met Col.
Mills and enjoyed a pleasant trip.
Ft. Worth suffered a loss of
$60,000 by lire lust Friday. The
fire originated in a livery stable.
The water works pressure was
weak and the fire raged with
great fury. It is thought the
cause of the lire originated from
school boys hiding in the stable
to smoke cigarettes. The insur-
ance on the building destroyed
was less than $10,000.
If so-called remedies have
failed, Dr. Sage’s Catarrh Reme-
dy cures. 50 cents, by druggists.
The Observer expects six of
the states that bold elections on
the 5th inst. to go democratic and
the other four republican.
Stanley, the explorer, has been
heard from again. He still lives,
and is still searching for the at-
tractions of the dark continent.
At Helena, Ark., 150 feet of
bank caved in, carrying with it
150 feet of Iron Mountain rail-
road track. It will cost $15,000
to repair the damage.
It is about settled now that the
Cherokee strip will be opened to
the whites next spring. Then we
may look for another flood-tide
of humanity to make a rush for
these lands,
Charles Dillingham, receiver
of the Houston & Texas Central
railway, offers a reward of $1000
for the arrest and conviction of
the man who killed Conductor J.
W. Brown near Sherman.
A subterranean river has been
discovered in France. Explorers
have traced it seven miles. They
report it as dark as midnight and
full of cataracts, grottoes, &c. It
vfill be explored further very
soon, as it is a great wonder.
It is said Laredo is built on a
vast coal bed, and that large
forces near the city take out
over 6000 tons of coal every
month, that the coal is of the
very best quality and is inex-
haustible. New machinery has
been purchased to work the
mines.
The article of the Observer to
build cotton bagging mills in all
the southern states as a means of
defeating the jute trust, has been
extensively endorsed by the press
and planters. It seems to be the
only way out of the difficulty.
We think it would be better for
the planters of this part of Tex-
as to build a bagging factory than
to build an oil mill, but if both
are built it will be that much bef
ter.
A prospectus for a Methodist
Protestant paper, to be called the
Texas Methodist Protestant, is
out. It is to be established as a
joint stock company, shares of
$5000 at $10 each. Rev. Edw. L.
Wood, late of North Carolina
conference is pushing the enter-
prise. It, will be presented to
the Texas Central Conference
which meets in Blooming Grove
this week, also to the Colorado
Conference and the Texas Con-
ference. The object is to pub-
lish a church paper of 8 pages for
the denomination in Texas.
Since Halstedd of the Com-
mercial Gazette of Cincinnati,
Ohio, acknowledged the big for-
gery which was to crush out Gen.
Campbell, the democratic candi-
date tor governor, the campaign
has gone very hard with the re-
publicans, and the democrats are
pressing the battle all along the
line with bright prospects of suc-
cess. Campbell is fairly fringing
the lines with tire. Foraker is
sick, his lines broken and the
tide flowing in democratic chan-
nels. The republicans are mad as
wet hens at Halstead for ac-
knowledging their forgeries.
WEEPING WATCHING WAITING.
The Van Alstyne News is a lit-
tle wicked, a little humorous,
mixed with lots of common sense
but it does not express in tears
its appreciation of the Harrison
administration, yet it does ex-
press sadness iu the following-
lines:
The skies wept for many
months after Benjamin Harrison
was elected president, and now
the trees are weeping. This is a
sad story.
JBucklen’s Arnica Salve
The best Salve in the world for cuts
bruises, sores, ulcers, salt rheum,fever sores,
tetter, chapped bands, chilblains, corns, and
all skin eruptions, and positively cures piles
or no pay required It is guaranteed to
give perfect satisfaction, or money refund-
ed Brice 25 cents per box. For sale by
Booton & Barry, druggists. 12-lv
PRESS CULLINGS.
The Ladies Messenger, a paper
of ability, ’edited by a lady in
Houston, says:
It is, or should be, extremely
gratifying to all lovers of law and
order, to see ill;; U.e general ten-
dency of ihoug i. as expressed
by the great insiders of public
opinion—the leading dailies of
the United States--is in that di-
rection. Even those journals
which are openly agnostic in
their oDinious, seem to realize
that the safety and well-being of
the human race lies, in a great
measure, v iih the teachers of
moral responsibility and religion.
The Rusk County News has the
following to say about the dis-
tinguished congressman whose
home is in Corsicana:
Col. Mills is in Washington
taking things quite easy and pre-
paring for the tariff agitation that
is sure to come up during the
next session of congress. The
Colonel is a recognized leader on
the tariff issue and protectionists
have a holy terror of him.
The Houston Post makes the
following correct statement:
The Post was encouraged to
believe that when the last legis-
lature met Texas would be given
some kind of a law under which
the state could be provided with
good roads. But the hope was a
vain one. The members were too
busy trying to regulate railways
to give their efforts to county
roads; and yet, it is hardly an ex-
aggeration to say that the far-
mers of Texas lose more each
year through impassable high-
ways to market towns than they
do through the exactions of the
railways.
The Kaufman Review says:
The western fever still rages.
Every day we hear of parties
contemplating moving werst. The
Review is of the opinion that
Kaufman county stacks up with
the best counties in the state, and
that those who move west will
soon drift back to their first love.
The Review must let the boys
trv the Greely policy. “Go west,
young man, go west.”
The New Orleans Times- Dem-
ocrat, in its “Questions and An-
swers,” says that the plural of
Knight Templar is Knights Tem-
plar. Webster’s dictionary says
the plural is Knights Templars,
both words being nouns and
forming the regular plural. The
same column says that the word
“Pan-American” is not correct,
being a bastard in philology, de-
rived from Greek and English,
mixture which is not admissible.
Strictly speaking the word
“American” is Latin, being de-
rived from Americus, the Latin-
ized form of-Amerigo, the alleg-
ed Venitian discoverer of the
continent of America, so that the
bastardy is not so apparent, and
belongs to a class of words
adopted into the language of
which “Pan-Slavic” is strictly par-
allel.
The Waco Day says: A great
event has happened in China.
The son of heaven, that is'to say,
the emperor, has issued a decree
that a railway shall be built from
Pekin to Hankow. The road will
be 700 miles long, and will pass
through a portion *of China into
which the daylight of western
civilization has never before pen-
etrated. For many years the
Liberal party of the country
have striven to get government
permission to build a railroad
there, but in vain. At length,
however, the Chinese authorities
have concluded to take the risks
at once of the wrath of the
earth and of their ancestors, and
construct the road. Its first re-
sult will be to give an immense
impetus to the internal trade of
China and after that to foreign
commerce.
The Ennis Local says: The
press is the great m.oral and reli-
gions teacher of the day. It
reaches all classes and conditions
of men, and is the only safe-
guard of the people. Then give
us a free press.
The country is safe as long as
the people foster a free press,
but when the boycoters, social-
ists and anarchists are allowed to
muzzle the press, farewell to the
religious, literary and political
fabric. Every lover of liberty
ought to encourage and aid the
press, independent, free and un-
tram meled.
t he Rockdale Messenger says:
The Corsicana Observer has just
closed its 35th volume, ajvery
respectable age for a Texas
country paper. The Observer,
under its present management, is
a sound and conservative paper.
STRENGTH OF BAKING POWDERS
By Actual Chemical Tests.
OR.PRICE’S,Pnrestl^*B^*li^^»M*a*S»
Johnson’s (Alum)... .a
RAMSEY’S (when fresh).
HAY\VOOD’S(A!amPowder)l
Rider’s..................
Queen (AlumPowder)... .
CLYBURN’S (short wt. 1-2 oz.)
Payne’s........................
DARNELL £ Cc's (Alum Powder)
F.3VSL..........
AURliICA (Alum Powder)
Herbert £ Co’s.....
.'UIEF (Alum Powder)..
AFT I’O" PEERS (contain Alum £s Ammonia).
iCHLME DoV.'DLRS;eu3taii! Alum & Ammcn:a)S
DULKt P0V,'D::R (sold loose—Alum & Ammonia).
' AMdEY'S (n'.vn not fresh)..................... .S5SBB9
----PORTS OP GOVERNMENT CHEMISTS AS TO PURI-
n AND V.'HOLESOMENESS OF DR. PRICE’S
CREAM BAKING POWDER.
T.r. I’i/ic.-’d Cream Baking Powder does not contain
Alum, Ammonia or Lime, or any adulterant.—R. S.
. Raton, P.'i. i>., Chemist for the United States
G'verninent.
The Cream of Tartar used in Dr. Price’s Cream
Baking Powder is the strongest and free from all
lime and other impurities. The best Baking Pow-
der made.—Prof. Peter Collier, Chief Chemist for
the United States Department of Agriculture, Wash-
ington, D, C,
J.D. LaPointe
DEALER IN
PIANOS 1 ORGANS
AND ALL KINDS OF
Musical Instruments,
Sheet Music and Music Books or-
dered on short notice. Store room
No 122 North White Street Cor-
sicana, Texas.
I have several times examined baking powders in
le market to determine their purity, raising power
uence on the health of those using them. I
niformly found Dr. Price’s Cream Baking
• the best in all respects. In raising power it
Powder the best in all respects. In raising power it
stands at the head. It is a pure, clean, elegant and
healthful preparation. I have used “Price’s” in
my family for years.—Prof. R. C. Kkdzis* Late
President Michigan State Board of Health.
and is doing most excellent work
for its town and county.
Thanks Bro. Messenger, but
Corsicana is a city of 10,000 pop-
ulation, hence the Observer feels
like it was a city paper.
The Nashville American says:
The Brown-Sequard elixir ap-
pears to have gone into a hole
and pulled the hole in after it.
Just so, it was more holy than
righteous.
The American changes the sub-
ject to the war cloud in Turkey:
The oppression of the Armenians
by the Turks still continues, and
Russia keeps on massing troops
on the Armenian frontier. Bis-
marck may get the best of the
Czar in a diplomatic transaction,
but the peace of Europe is not
secured thereby. Russia has too
long cast covetous eyes on Tur-
key to abandon her policy at this
late day. The cruelties practic-
ed on Christians in Armenia is
excuse enough for Russia, and it
will not be hazarding too much
to predict active military opera-
tions before long.
We are hardly prepared to be-
lieve that orders wiil be given
the census takers to omit the
counting of negroes in order to
cut down southern representa-
tion in congress.—Itaska Mail.
No, Bro. Pardue, the republi-
can enumerators will count every
negro voter. It is to their inter-
est to do so. Had it not been for
the negro Harrison would not
have been elected president.
The Alverado Bulletin says:
The farmer has to work from day-
light to dark—frequently sixteen
hours a day—and yet he is ex-
pected to join in the crusade and
vote for a party pledged to an
eight hour law.
A WISH.
If you wish to do a good act try to get some one
to use Reed’s Chill Cure. 50W4
R, H. Skinner,
Bookseller and Stationer,
Keeps Constantly on Hand a Full Line of
* Window Shades, Musical Instruments, *
HOLIDAY GOODS, ETC.
is Publisher’ Agent for ♦♦♦♦♦♦
SCHOOL BOOKS! *
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45 GENTS PER DOZ Corsicana, Texas
Dry Goods, Boots, Shoes, & Clothing,
A Full Line of Carpets, Etc.
We ask ali cash purchasers to call and
price our Goods as we can afford to sell
for cash as cheap as anybody, but you can
not expect to buy as cheap on time. Don’t
fail and call with your money, it will be to
your benefit.
J.E.WHITESELLE&CG
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Solicit Your Trade,
And can assure you that you
will not meet with better treat-
ment than we will give you, We
are sure to satisfy our custom-
ers, if
onestGoods
Honestly Measured, Honestly
Weighed and sold at Honest
Prices will do it, We buy
Country Produce
of ali kinds and Pay Highest
Prices. Call on us at
I I O W. Collin St.,
Corsicana, . Tex.
H. L. MOSELEY,
LAWYER,-:- NOTARY PUBLIC.
Office over First Nat’l Bank
-DEALERS IN-
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Shingles, Sash. Doors, Blinds, Mouldings
Lath, Lime, Cement, Plaster, &e.
We do all kinds of turning
and Scroll work. Window Frames
etc. made at short notice,
JOHNSONfBROS,
Thanking the public for their liberal
patronage for past fifteen years, wish to
say that they recognize the popular de-
mand for Cash Houses and gladly fall
into line with a much larger stock at
LOWEST CASH PRICES!!
Please call and let us show you how
cheap goods can be sold for Spot Cash.
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Miller, G. P. Corsicana Observer. (Corsicana, Tex.), Vol. 34, No. 2, Ed. 1 Friday, November 1, 1889, newspaper, November 1, 1889; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth875142/m1/2/: accessed June 2, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting San Jacinto Museum of History.