Graham Leader. (Graham, Tex.), Vol. 4, No. 33, Ed. 1 Friday, April 2, 1880 Page: 1 of 4
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VOL. IV.
DR. J.HJDAVmSOR
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PHYSICIAN and STTCUHBON.
— GRAHAM, T
*KXAS.
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Drs. Price & Atkinson
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_An oat!‘attends! to In town and country
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Oftice at Ryua Drug
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N. V. REAGAN, H. D.
Physician I Surgeon.
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GRAHAM, TEXAS.
Office West aido Publio aquraa.
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lleaidenct? on N(
tan | Surgeon,
'!HAIIAM, TEXAS.
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Gratiam City
Steam Flouring Mills and Cot-
riven to aU bustnMaen trusted to thenL-
*- r^ fI * Fcdecal practice,1:
ton Gin,
IB- MCXiOXTID, Frep*tv
Flour, Meat, Fogm], Etc., For Sale.
Grind Every Pay? Z
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1)1 Hero on Hufbre.
fafcto York Graphic.] i~,
I believe that I havA*wore patience
Ahau any thing living exoept an allga-
1 tor, but even that phlloaophic aniiyaj
would not endure what I have'durlng
the past six weeks without wishing
Shat he had been born a crow-bar.
___of references given when desired.
Office lu Ryna’JJrick Build highest
ilde pnbllc square. -—^
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RREVKENRT&VE, ’* TEJttft
Will practice In the District Courtpf
Stephens,Shackelford and Young Coun-
Pee, and in the U. S. Court at Graham.
Snseisl StUution Siren to collection*
iltUaten land o*mi tnirorimiatl business
Correspondence solicited.'- J-
J. A. WooLritajc,
Ait or n e y- a t-L a w.
BelknapT7~ - Texas.
“WILL practice in the Courts o( Young
_ jind adjoining counties.
B. B. GARRETT,
Contractor and Builder
Material furnished wKcn desired. AUx
AH. gfrZZ.^ promptly attended. Q^aham,,
Da. J. F. RIGGS
-SURGEON DENTIST
I*(ttp of Pales tzmrp Telcos*
d r*fei permanently located In Graham
for the purpose practicing hla profession.
All work done with neatness and dls-
i^tiJi.Tfeiisfhetlon guaranteed.
- oma, aagajgi'fe pum. b<iu.?;
I refer with pleasure to
jTg(loy, bu
Dr. Tima. M.
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burgeon fur LG.
I>r. J. M. HUllmnn,' Palestine, Texas.
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Carnage A Gregg, A tty’s. “
Rev. 8. M. Luekett, / « > “
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James MeKey-, Corsicannr-*1
./ J. tt. MeCarver, Mexla, ’**
» John Adams, Tyler,
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Mr. John R. Keartstn,
Mesrs. Pock A DeBoard, Fairfield, *r
Rev. Andrew Davis. “
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0. E. FINLAY,
ATTORNEY - AT - LAW,
Graham, and Stale Courts of Young,
Palo Pinto, Stephens and ^adjoining
counties.
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WILL practice In the Courts of Young
aud adjoining counties.
R. HOLLINGSWORTH,
klM ul Collidag &g;at;
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WILL 'pay spertnlnttentlon to the pay
ing of tuxes for non-residents
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CrahamHotal.
(L W, BlCKkRUS, Proprietor
GRAHAM, TEXA8. '
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A. B. CAINIT,
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left Texas immediately after Christ- tf
mas for New York, ill good circumstan-
ces, and with no physical ailment be-
yond two bunions aud a brand-new lit-
tle MerO^tlBr Itttte Mero trade has
R2S1 ESTATE.
Graham, Texas.
Office, West Side Public Square
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vlng Chum Dasher.
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lltaj-lWlwl lui I Fancy tomes, ' Notions,
f it Tn, lojs, SUlioin,
bean lust Shoot brisk enoMfh, alnas T
he lit out of tha door, as though be had
urgent^busluess at the’ equator whiob
required 1>im attention wlthing the next
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half hour.
I wenTmtOthetllulng-room fur break-
fast, and three of The ugliest waiters
that were ever 'tJWJi ^topd behind my
chair and tnmmred Pinafore, while I.
ran over the bill of fere and wondered
n city where one
song was sdhg by every creature that
oouMjaifig wad by nhout m sUainhfBt
loadsythat could not:
an establishment around
■msuus
married, to inspire me with a fellow
feeling jbrWBSs^ " /
, Babies are age chills; ifypiumce-com-
mence having them, the Lord only
knows where the thing will end. -ft-
coets something to keep Vm ha good
spirits, too, for. these little humanities
have appetiteii that will lay perpetual
motion dean In the shade. . • . .. ...... ..
tl»e eortter kh»1 tieoigitt ihnb^t gias^ of
"HOW I LAY ME”
Man/precious memories-not aafoet-
aled with childhood are cl niter ed
around the child’s evening prayer,
"Now I lay me down to sleep,” stc.
It was sald of John Quincy Adams, late
In his life, that he never went to bed
without repeating this simple prayer,
aged saint, forgetting all intervening
yean has fallen (sleep in death*repeat-
The following little poems, the anthos-
rhip of which we <k* UOt know, have
beer'would soothe me, but—would you
believe it^-that heathen Du
Just fleftlod himself against the oofcter
and began: ‘ - J T
“I vae named leedle puttergup,
Boh weed leedle pntU»rgup,------ _
Uud I deaned toid. vat’a der reason.”
He Wa* the jlfbt genuine buttercup I
not a single one is, bow-legged, and only
one wears hia eyee biased .and intakes
that after his mother.
However, I should have been content
to Continue experimenting in growing
bad seen since the war, and I was glad
to-note that.the plant gave evidence of
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p%ttnt lUsyi* “famlires but for a song that has traveled
such healthy growth, to a|y nothing of
>erfunie. He weighed about 800, and
eqiitted an odor of beer and Sabbage
tiiat would buve made a cam* df hydro-
arotmdin my fbotetepe ever since we
came, like a second hand tlokoUscajpefr
at a railroad depot."
It is called Plnafere.T;Rerhaps~jrou
have heard it. If not, ana you learn
- main there tmtB after the epidemic.
worse ^itan the epizootic, cholera,
Christmas gifts, Maine trouble, cipher
dispatches, rheumatism, Irish distress,
Fruits, Cigars, Tobacco Etc
Ffesh Bread, Cakes, Pics, Ac., daily.
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twins, gmssliopperw, end t&e^kife~Wir
cheapest.
combined.
Pinafore—It doesn’t seem Vcryj
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nriidll<W»N,rililB«^N the'fece of tl>» ft moment’s reflepthiiR^J
lltnrjr W»rr*n.
H I- Kanr, C**klM
earth, except a small boy with a fath-
«r and shingle aftachmehf,
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* Accounts of merchants and others soiielt-
ed. We make remittances and collections
at all accessible points. vfnSIjr.
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t and shingle aftachmehf, or.^re^ „ 7' , Z Z
mouse arc both loose at. the came time.
We arrived at the Grand Central de-
pot on new year’s day. The bauds
Wet* playing Pinafore; soidlea -Were
wjtbflntml
flags flying and bayonets flashing; guns
were booming, bells ringing and cab-
men whistling Piuafere. Everybody
was full of Pinafore-and egg-nogg. Mrs
Mero was hurrahing around ttke a one-
eyed Mexican at a chicken fight; little
Mero was pipping up and down like
an India-rubber suspender, sod I felt
so alhflrcd hlgh-mlbded that I ordered
3 Whole femily on the
lagOr beer for the
programme would be hsaithy, -hut it
.wastt’tto be had
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Pinafero was what the people wsn^
ed, and Pinafore they were going to
have. We drove tn the hotel through
about forty acres of Pinafore. While we
registered the ckyrk humpied it; as we
ascended to our room the bell-boy rat-
tled it off on the bars of the elevator,:
but before we reached the second floor
little Mere, no doubt thinking that We
had qptpturcd a balloon, or the bottom
of the hotel was flying off with us, set
up such a revolutionary yell that the
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of goods they cannot be called cheap, but are as low as any one can
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sell in this country. Our stock consists of the following lines:
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Dry Goods, Groceries, Boots, Shoes, Hats, Clothing, Saddlery,
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Gents* Furnishing Goods, Stationery, Queens ware, Etc.
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That night I retired early^ and tried
to aleep, but all night long aoiiia' Idiot
in the kpext room was ehdeavorlng to
XHliiU-. In a tuneful style, how be~had
polihlied fS? handle of someHiIrig Of
other eo carefully that he got to be the
ruler of the queen’s nav-ee (aa he called
it.) Well, I suppose it’s aU right;, but
if I had been the queen for about fifteen
minutes that night I'd have polished
hia head.
*. The next morning I awoke to find
Pinafore stealing through the eh utters
with the first beams of sunlight; and
In a fit of desperation, I rushed to the
window and emptied a .pitcher of wa-
ter on the first thing that passed, which
hsppoued to be a skye terrier pup, with
a Idg Englishman tied to it. . ^
, Entering the barber shop leaked for
a shave, but no sooner was 1 seated
than the murderous barber beggn 10
lather that nmfounded -song all over
heir If'
our hotal, and wbUe-Mrs. Mero was xVnl Hie dear vricOroftfrwlrisporedy
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taking, her afternoon nap I slipped out
to get • glimpse of the felr. damsel.
id Just stationed myself on the corner
front of her house as if waiting toi w
been published before, but we^repeat
them, aa they will be new to many and
intesesting to all:
___“ CMIrPHFT»fii«»X> MUTXfo ——~T7~L
‘‘Now I lay”—“repeat it darling,”-*....
“I^ay me,” lisped the tidyjip*
Of my daughter, kneeling, bending ^____s.
O’er her folded flnger^tipa. , . ; v.'JgS
“Down to sleep”—“To aleep,^she mur-
mured,
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Aud the curly head Iwnt low;
'T pray the lomd,** i grntiy added,
“You can say it all.Ykuow.”
“Pray the Lord”—the souml^iauno
fuintl
_||np^ faintly^
-tSSKled nim; " ^ ^....... —.....
I had seen a very pretty hut rather
thin young lady across the street from
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God knows all the rest.”
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Golden head so lowly bending,
Little feet so white aud bare,
o^a^waagemhgr^
tlnguiahed when she went off just like
the others:
“I wear knee breeches, and I don’t
like pants,” Well, I should hope she
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t to my room snorting like a
tfTr* aud?
kDftwy.eyoUMlf shyLJialfoponed^.
, Lisping out her evening prayer.
Well she knows when she la saying,
“Now 1 lay me down to sleep,”
’Ti« to fJod that «be is praying,
Praying Him her soul to keep.. _
Half asleep, and murmuring faintly,
“If I should die before I wake”—
Tiny fingers clasped so jndn\AXmOm
“I pray the Lord my soul to take.”
would have as soon have resurrected aa
earthquake. Not that Mrs. Mero has
_ bit, but she can do some of the tallest
acting on reoord when She pretends to
he mad.
Bhe rose from the bed like a firs ea-
ith a boa-oonstriotor tied around
Whenever I see her begin to tramp
arouhd the roonof like a Texan steer
hitched to a trotting sulky, and atop oc-
casionglly to kick something over the
stove, J know that she’s getting ready
for a rehearsal, and, in order not to dis-
turb her,cl usually meander out of the
back window. Things began to look
ttaatrway this ttme, and t meandered.
On this occasion I concluded to go
ait ou thswtiMi l. dUTiPt flit.lfly
ns L dhhPt vrant Any
subper, and, besides, it #as cooler; but
I hadn't t*e«
Adn’t been there fi ve
the hired girl in
Vay began to screech eomethlng about
aunts,” alnt gouge an old spavin piano
had swallowed the whole ca-
boodle of her kinfolks, and tbiqr were
all trying to orawl out through her
fingers at once.
The tune has got a grip on New York
that nothin# leas thafi the yellow fever
or k toot of Gabriel’s horn can shake off.
If 1 could epare lhe money I’d buy
two or three orphan asylums and turn
SSTWw** a d0
hostilities were agon resumed.
me some good, and, besides, it would
please the orphan*..
The majority of the little Hero#,
thank goodness, have no more taste for
music then they have for eaUng pad
looks, and if UinJ^^uil»er_nuniber ev-
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f the soul who wi
Children’s myriad voices
Up to heaven, n
If, of all that has uw«
I could choose what'riiight be mine.
It should be that child’s petttfcui, •. :
Rising to the throne divine. —
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[&xn Antimto Jfferaid.\~
Broadly * pen king, j^ro pay and we -
do not go. THe public donrain baa been
friitored away; taxes have been multi-
plied; unheard of Inquisitorial modes of
taxation have been resorted to; the free
school system is Imperfect; the appro-
priations for it have been reduced; Itn«
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Htate, b«‘i*ausv tlie Constitution
tha way; and this has been so for years
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the Initiative has not been taken by
the legislature or executive toffeave the
> her “sisters and her couslns and her prohibition remove* Texas, one of
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the feirest States 4n the Union, one of "r
the most fruitful of lands, is to-day
sleepy1 hollow. The enterprise of the
founders of the republic has departed;
the foreign-born citizens are oppressed
in their social customs and habits; the
defense of tiie frontier is stinted; repay-
ment is withheld from those who ad-- .......-
vanccd means to keep rangers In the ,
field when the Slate had no money; -
criminals are not followed up outside
the state for want of fUndK*nd y®* *•_....
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ar manifests an^ symptoma,'. J'l 1 dis-
tribute him in the first lottery that
If the author of Pinafore was pinned
to the hind leg of a buffalo for about
seven miles and a half, there would be
abodt one foot of gushing serenity hov-
ering kbout the oouutenanoS of
• • , Di M«Bo.
The following general order was xe-
cently issued by the salvation army In
New York: -
and the laboring nMB otrUide of corpo-
rations are made bomtalaves, to work
tsn days lu the year on the publie roads
zahfla the wealthy , man pan non tha
•a*,!* i ,| am huffy.
and ©soap© any equivalent taxations for
local purposes. Is thU Democraeyt
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Kentucky Ontlawft.
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Cincinnati, March 2d.—A Grayson,
Kentucky, dispatch aaya: A party of
one hundred Regulators rode to James T
Binion’s house, on Upper Big Sinking >-£
creek, Thursday night, and asked for j'
John Boggs, a notorious character, Who V'
®. was concealed about the house. Blnlon
refused to open the deer. and. opened
• the salvation army will attract th* KUHni6
kingdom of the devil it Harry Hill's jjh/wi»o hKdofily come to
Vrariety theater, on 8un<lay, March 14,
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We thank oar customers for past patronage and solicit a coqtin-
ofthe same in future, and promise to deal fairly and honestly
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with ali.
he bawled: ~
' h#y, ai-rry raMM MkA tfc* tm*P
Now, I can stand almost anything,
from measles to a mother-in-law, bak
When he Vgan to talk about smear-
1SH0, commence ai 6:90 F.W. sharp.
After which the panorama of Unele
Tom’s Cabin. Admission iSoenU. -.
like a martyr until ovidontly intimde<t Jfo
say that the would “attack” the dev!l»e
kingdom. .The uniform of this female
army consists of a shor^, blaok dnfes
black cloak, the collar of whloh is edg-
ed with red cord, and black slouch hat
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Respectfully,
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concluded to Stop him before he called
for featliers also. With that chi v alrous
f bill went careering around inside of
me, I arose almost unanimously, and
exclaimed. In a too# UAt would be
worth $40 to a congressman:
Is printed In gilt letters, “The Bal Va-i
tion Army.” , They alt have a strong fo any munnar/ or
English pronunciation, and adhere to vwk^OT^bosin«w
W. C. BECKHAM k SONS,
GRAHAM,: TBXAS.ti^,h^ZS
six ahobt—hut before I could finish
English pronunciation
the old English alphabet of twenty-
five letter*.:'
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The Miasiaaippl Leglslalmv WI lm-
poned a p»*H tux on all bucbehHPi over
S5 year* of age.
[notify Boggs to leave the oountry.
They then broke down the doors.
Three shots were fired at Blnlon, who
was InstantlyAllled. Mrs .Billon’s right
leg was broken. The Regulators took
Boms and haafnd hlifojkfotree and
fired two shots into ■
...u> his body.
" A bill, IMrir Mn«i©r
the California Le;
with a fine of from
prisonment from fl
California la*^
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Graves, J. W. & Graves, W. L. Graham Leader. (Graham, Tex.), Vol. 4, No. 33, Ed. 1 Friday, April 2, 1880, newspaper, April 2, 1880; Graham, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth880318/m1/1/: accessed May 26, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting The Library of Graham.