Alvord Messenger from Alvord, Texas • Page 1

Uniteti we we full. i AlA(Hil). WISH (OrNl'Y. TKXAS. OCTOllKi; IrtSU.

NO. S. Horses ut Si buoi. foek the sponge from the tatul Tlinyoaog folk. tbo of thatlUtUthratwin I ikm I mn.l l.v wh.r., for luure timo l.tm.lra.1 tu -i as was il, rhowed off liti four Uff (III.KOllIV I pupi! One afternoon apart for r.

entertainment ns many poor children the house would Imiti, who went charme of truant officers arul hud an whelming good There were sixteen of tun aniu ais, eo.tnting a donkey, grays, bays, cl nut-colored one who If may noi Ih' generally known that seeing that nine remained, went lives in tin North Cur hack and eras' them. olina mountains the last remnant Onedayshe went through a the eastern bund of the Cherot In- which showed conclu that 1 boy a title to can reasen, She dropped Hip 50, (MX) acres of on the Luf- first tiling, anti it foil down behind t.i and Hoco ctcck, known the the platform out of her sight. She got boundary. hey unmlsr at this down, and looked ahont in the saw-duat, time aliout The deer, ant'd for it, the audience curiously watch in the last ten about ten per to aeo what kIic would do next, Hhe nt. They have no nor does the entrance of New York harbor, a colossal of Liberty, whose a i hifi it te la tiu lifted terch aliali proclaim to the coming tie -ts et the nation that it in liberty which toenlightco werbl.

1 be renofallv leokcd the gas-light, in recall ingthern, 1 can not say timt there was white-footed one. What consequence about hite feet you nek Perhape yeu know that they make that of some account in orne bazaars of the East. The Turks say white fore fee? aro lucky ene fei and hind foot are unlucky and they had a rhyme that runs We beast that we are a free people, but who iI pride of he mi premacy of our law? We make our law dependent upon our lilnrty; in ether words, we arc determined to have Httch lawn as we will, to will such lawn as we ought to haie. But when liberty is put llrai, and only the law which choose to permit, the liberty noon sinks to a li I cense, and lice deseocds to an- iiiaues in a 'yr. as evidently much perplexed.

She 1 their manner of life difler in many knew perfectly well that her duty particulars from that of the white Urehy, and an anarchy mil would not be fultiilled until had people among whom ther reMido, Their I despoti' Bi hlfiiit Set the out. and the nponge principal prt ducts are corn, peaches wes not to 1 found. Mr. iJartholomew and apples. JSmall of ponies ftefehrr let sai.l nothieg.

gave her no loek or hint and cattlc are the main source of reve- 1 Or sign to help her eut ef her predica nue upon which these people rely for Galveston porter ii.ier- ment, hut sat in his chair and waited, what money they need. This is mainly vieiu Bcecher during his visit to that At last, ehe deliberately stepped on used as expenses incident to their i city recently, and elicited the following tue platform lain, sttetclied her heud I ornment ai diools. Their i.tiy a I tip and deliberately wiped the figures named Bmflh, and his wife ii '1 to try a with lier mouth, at which the audi- women his children are well educated, sitrns of 1 liree white foot, wttll aisinthiia, euee it they would bring his term of ofliee four years, his 1 not had opportunity Funr (tH, en'hnHt him. the roof dow Tfiat was something 1 and per day hen official all There wns a clearly not in the programme, a bit business for tho There is alne (Mievaliar, a Piinee and a a little of independent reasoning, 'i et, having an assistant a of gOY chief is Opinion of and our people: a white Ueechor, what ftfo yottTimpros prt, Nt-liie, vh-t look as if aho would read, to drink tea out of your saucer and ki; von after her fanhiou; Mustaeg, an irreprr and rude ivage from the Itio 11 region; ll.utns, uml I a Broncho heantv; a a lately tepping A bd I a'n Jim, ho w. a character; ami a Bncephaluf, rtfer that storied steed who would snflei no one ride but his master, the Ale.safuler, but for him to mount would kneel and watt.

It ptrhapt an 1 an ii to tlo ir intelligence for me to tnat they all know their i a wall as veu knew vours. They know, oo, their numbers they are nets ig aa Holdiara formed in line waiting orders; the Brofesaer pa along and inn them tdT with hi fore tinge: numbers them, then falling back, calls out for certain one to form into and they mafce no mi-1 ake. I in ir are es harp, their memory and anawei by, a ivanci Idiots respond to the roll- doneso mneh, knew that Komething No owe eligible to chieftainship noi right. Ahont that uu I chm he ihirty-five vearn of age. what had, heeome of i It was beri Kvery malo Indiati is bii.tneaa to lay it un tiie tulde wheu years ohi is entitlod to a vote, Was throtigli using it.

Hhe licita- 1 will hero relato an intihluui a.s ro- ted, looked this way ami that, startetl portisi lo me, ono tif their former io go, carne baek drcadfully cliiefa. Vounagnsta was bis name. ami uncertaiu, enddenly spied it. llM was an e.truordinary Indiali. Ile her teethou ii, pnt it eti ti.e tahle, had whieh matle hi ni belli to make a ininuta in 1 am in banda of a tiend of manager ho me around troni pince to hwe withoui giviug me any pportunity to observo very mueli.

I ean ay I tliink 1 o.vaa is a great big State, ami that is Iota bf rotila more peoplu in it, 1 eaiinot say that I am iii love with ilio cltmate, however. I felt as if 1 were on a gridiron while I bave in State. I nevcr aetu- ally felt sueh before, hy, man, went back to her place, with a clear unce, no doubt, and the people chct red more wildly than before. This was to of mt tere; ting things I witiie e4 necting it witii Kotoe facts r. Bartholomew communicated, it waa ly ho He interi, what she lid it v.

a. or help t( Four, as call. They came around from ti.e stable an hour ire the rlat niance went up stai by wl I amli- wr. nt; and a erowd gather atternoon and evening see that an free feat. When the curtain there was to be i-een a ige ankle deep with where l.ar- theiemfw id to lia.w kerscs They came in one aftei another, pretending, if tkat iu not a weld, that they wrrc on tue way to school, and that was tlie play-ground; anil there they played to; et or, with auch a soft, graceful aetien, care s- iug ways and trippings as daiaty as in until at ringing of a bell they came at once to order from their mixed-up massy pastime, and waited tie arrival of their teacher, the Professor, who entered with schoolmaster air and gave the order.

take my hat and bring iiv a as you might tell James or John to We t'no same, ami with more promptness than they would have shown, Bucephalus came forward, took the hat between his teeth, eartied it across the stage ami placed it on a desk, an4 brought a chair. The master, seating himself, began the business of the day, saying; school will now form two clssse the large scholars will go to the left, the small ones to the right and six magnificent creatures separattd themselves from a group hoddled together and went as they were bid, while Nellie, the mustang, and other little ones, tiled to the opposite side, and placed them- hcIvcs in a row with their heads turned away from the stage. And there they generally minding tluir business, though sometimes one would get out of petit ion, look around, or give his neighbor a nudge which brought out a reprimand hat are you yon need not look around to see what I am you let Mustang alone! keep in your lie then called for some one to come forward and he monitor, and Prineo volunteered, was sent to the desk for some tried to raise the lid, and let it drop, pretending that he but after being sharply asked what lie was ho careless for, did it, and then brought a handkerchief and made igreat ado about wanting to have something done with it, which proved to bo tying it around leg. Meanwhile one of the horses behaved badly, whereupon the teacher said: you are booked fora and the culprit came out on the floor, straiglitene I himself, and received without wincing what uoenud to bo a sovere whipping; bat in reality it was all dona with a soft cotton snapper which made more sound that anything else. Mustang was called upon to ring the bell, a good-sized dinner-bell, for the blackboard exorcises by Sprite.

He, teo, believe he seized it tlie wrong way, dropped it, picked it up wrong end lirst, as eoolded at, then teok it by the handle, gave it a vigorous shake, and after letting it fall several times, set it on the table. Meanwhile a platform was brought in supporting a tall pest, at tho top of which, higher than a horse could reach, was a blackboard having chalked on it a sum which was not added up eerrectlv, Sprite, being requested to wipe it out, las practice nut to the hor knew jrut Ido. and he preferred to wait and 1 her think it out for 1 if there wa failure or 1 the offender eh watched by them, and in some war approved by them if they could get the opportunity, anti at time this little by-play became very amusing. After wa by Buccpla dua and by Ciccar, wh--se -ti'ppirga were in i ct rhyme to tiie munie. Theti the lat in feared and pected his ople.

lie know how to control their weakness hint you find cool ami and anpt'rsiiiion. Tho Chcrokees, liko nijiht? all other Indians who came in contact ciut nav that I do. A ady with the white man, became Jntemper- jbrt'cze can bo blowing me while ate. Younagusta on in bed, yet if I to roll from one reformation ofhin people. He sank in ode to the other, I I enveloped a trance heavy that the whole town 1,1 I t.

the banks thought him dead, though some signs Hudson geoi. enough for -f life remained They watched and waiteil fifteenth ami determined to perform their turn ral riten. According to their cnstoni of them marciteti and counter-marched around the ti 1 Then ad had returned to life. He ith that you illy think that the uncomfortable heat knocks all the good.ont of the no, not by all mo ms; Texas is a State not only of great but of vast possibilities. It is an empire of itself, if I die sooner Jeep feeling, telling his than 1 expect, I hope to Ite h.wl bet a in trance; people living in your stata in ty of 1 ueir chief, a amblen panse and fright, toi tl that he had communctl with the Ciroat dy and tiuppin Hpirit; that long service for his of at peuple was not ended he was to rei- especially the e.

main with thein as many years, as he ern hov, ul been in the happv hunting that looks to The Mesiimcnt. or (ii tit. The Washington monument it rising so rapidly, that before cold weather the work, it will be 11(1 feet high. Then will vote more money for iis completion, the incu will work hard through the next summer, and the spring of will safe it 1. The monument proper, will be high, with a pyramidal cap of glass 00 feet high, which will give it a calm superiority over the Goddess of Liberty on top of the Capitol dome.

It this glass top is lighted up at night, it will give the handful of mariners on the Potomac river, tho tallest lighthouse in the oild. li would Ik? flattery to call tho ianmenlasit The low part for a hundred feet from the ground, so discolored, as a re. nit ol its long in the open weather, that it is out of accord with the fresh looking three hundred feet, above, it is impressive though, at a distance, and inspiring near by. rive hundred fet ol stone in the I up: noictlUt i more imposing than iUh cii hundred feci of landscape at five The luemln rs of the Washington Monument Association, of whieh Pfehident Arthur is president, are talking of celebration in 1885 in honor of the completion of the monument, to which all nations uhiiil be to send representatives. me nations which have blocks cf stem in the i.tin-stained lower portion of pile, will tike a peculiar in rest iu a celehni- tion.

Of course, Washingtonians expect to eclipse everything that has ever lieen tlont in the way of celebration in this country. I. very body is hoping that white-haired Mr. Corcoran may apart to ce the monti- mi nt finished. I think ho will.

He is nn old man, hut in aotno respects he as young as any of us. llis health is vc ry good. Tho soil and te to be ii.ilie stern portion. has a bleak streak, i theugh it might known as But even vateui of pcoi le of circle to the right or the left und i mu around detiniag the Ugnre grounds: ha told them that he had the continuation juat as any ose in the audience choae served them for more than forty years request; and Abilallak come in with without any pecuniary consideration; a siting of bells around her, and paced, his sole aim was to promote their good; cantered, galloped, trotted, marched he was convinced that intemperance or walked as the word was given. Tho was the cause of the horses were griierally expected to come tion of the tribes who lived in contact to the footlights ami bow to the with the white man.

He directed all enec at the close of any feat; to sign the following pledge; un- ally been made up of people that any ally one would forget to do thisaud then der Clierokees belonging to the community should be proud of. I have some ef his cemrades weuld town of agree to abandon encountered none but well-dressed, or buffet him, or Mr. Bartholomew? i the use of spirituous The good-lookiny, retined, and intelligent would give a rem.itdcr: is not old chief signed lirst, and was foliowod people iu every part of the State. 1 all, is back would come tho what is tho great American desert, that could by artesian do you think of tlu To xas I have no tiuer people in tin world, sir. My au lienees have goner were to ti.u they are wrong, it who now make light service as an American poet, mirers may form no longer a he surely io en the New Worhl fo a sense of Ireanty, and to lead a movement second truly to that which a national school.

I think that the poet himself, reading his own sweet songs, felt the apostolic nature of his ii waa religious, in the etymological sense ef the world, the binding back of America to the Old World taste and i nation. I Ravaria. As for the people they are a mixture et rmaa and French, for a large part highly respectable, ami all workers, writes a correspondent from Kiss ingen. So, not all; all the are, 1h there never a time when people, men and women, lrceomo too old to werk Hero are old, old women driving dogs to carts, ami carrying all kimlfl of wares; or again you will see them the carts by themselvea, or with a harnessed up a sit! them, Men tottering to nily are at all kinds of htlior, the most part, however, of the very hardest kind, while the middle-aged sta id around and loitk on and talk alioui it; or, more frequently, are seated upon the or or as they are called, and drive a four-footed animal, which, by a stretch of tho imagination, could be called a hoi The drivers of these droKchden, are, lieyond all doubt, the most veritable lot of asses that over drew the breath of life. It is not uncommon iu thin part of Oermanv to see a horse and an ox harne mwI together, or a donkey and a but the most singular, still the commonest sight of till, is presented very time a for is an ass diiving a hoi e.

These fellows have not sense enough to cheat, and I would be willing te wager that when they get homo if there bo not an overseer for each and every oae, that sometimes the horse bread while the driver taken hav. delinquent and bow and bow twenty tinjfs as fast as he could, as if there could net be enough el it. At tho close of one acene all tho came up to the front is a line, leaning over rope which was stretched then law. 'o hid S. is lei by the whoie town.

This pledge as eau see no difference between a enforced with the rigor of a written and Boston audience, except that there i are more eye- I ter, and the ami ban. For the last HOC) years there kas been (lasses visible in the lat- ladies can set them on their neses mere graceful. to keep them freni coming down on the steadily gror.ing in the civilized world heads, would bow, and bow again, and it was a wonderfully etty sight to Imamht Ut rr is 1 Why Cetten Seed Sed so bow. A writer the Alvarado says it has been known for some time in business circles, but not generally among farmers, why cotton seed are not worth as much ties year as they were last. That the prospective short crop and tbe liviitcd supply together ith thy superior quality of seed ought to put tho price above an average.

But such is net the ease, lie says the various mills this state ami Louisiana have formed a combination or pooled their interests, so that no mill in this state dares to act independent of this combination, No mill, under the present arrangements has the right to appoint its own lei-al agents. These are appointed by one 31 r. Street, of Houston, Texas, who, with such dictatorial a disposition to assert the individual will above the restraints authority. The strongest governments of Europe have a sense of weakness ami insecurity they hare never felt before. The expenditure in our time of police and military force to rve the existing institutions of authority frons overthrow by violence, is unparalleled.

In this country, the signs of the prevailing tendency, in which Europe ttnds such lorebedings, aro only too apparent. We began our national career with the declaration that Government derive their just power bom tho consent of tho governed, and tlm War of Secession threatened ns with Hr. Bancrerpa Library. George Washington library is of the finest private collections in the United State every book of it is valuable, ami it contains works in all of the modern languages. There are over 12,000 volumes, and these art closely packed in the four large rooms which comprise the literary workshop of their owner.

No display is made in the way of expensive eases for the books. They are in common shelves running along ihe walls, without either glass or curtain, Bancroft knows his library perfectly, and could lind any of bis hooka in the dark, llis chief work-room the street, and is very largo and well lighted. In tho stands a lareo table covered of people the South, appealing to this utterance, refused their consent to the Government of tho Union. It cost us an untold expenditure of blood and treasure deny our original declaration, and to declare instead, that governments derivo their just powers from 1 11 11 V' justice, which determines that to i iu l.w ut COIlaent appoints nis agents, (who are not allow- 1 1 On one ed to give over ten cents per bushel,) and then the seed sent te the mill that may be in arrears as to its pro rata. This monopoly can reduce the price ef seed to any figure they wish, oven te six cents per bushel, just as easily as they can now say they are worth only ten cents.

Cotton seed arc worth more than ten cents per bushel as feed for cattle, and every farmer will do well to store away phmty for the winter and let the mills hungry rather than tho cattle. The 31 eon. Professor Proctor reasons that tho moon has grown old six times as fast as the earth, a comparison of tho masses and radiating surface of the two bodies making if evident that the ia tor mil heart was originally sufficient to lust six times as long as the supply. On the very moderate assumption, therefore, that only twelve millions el years have passed since the earth and the moon were at the same stage of planetary life, this astronomer shows us that sixty millions of years must elapse before the earth ill have reached the stage through which tho moon is now passing. Ax story extends as far as the I can reach.

truly as that to which they have consented. have not neon wanting since the war in the disposition to cast off authority, and to make the individual eelf-will dominant in every issue. Two of our presidents have been shot by assassins. Mon of high position insist upon their light, when tho time comes, to take the law, as they term it, into their exrn hands. A member of the present Congress has just been on trial for murder he sought by blood his own redress for a fancied wrong.

The war upon property and the two institutions upon which the very existence ot society as evident in America as in Europe. 1 am not apt to tako a despondent view ef the world's condition, or of tho promise of our American life, as you well know I look upon our national prospect with largo hope. Never before, it seems to me, has so bright a future sliene to tho eyes of any people. But there is never a privilege without its peril, and wo have dangers which, if wise, we shall not fail te see. Our chief peril, and there are signs enough to show that it is grave, consists, I think, in the undue exaltation of our liberty.

We have set the Goddess of Liberty on the dome of our Capitol at Washington, as though liberty was the preaiding genius of all our law. We are preparing to erect at I Well, but never gives satisfaction. side of this sits tho great historian daily during bis stay in Washington; opposite him a young secretary, and often iu addition another, all writing and working together. Salaries ef Uailreud Dsmacrat. In speaking yesterday of the salaries of railroad men generally, a prominent official remarked that salaries had creased from 50 to 100 percent, during the last three or four years.

Hail road men ought to receive big he continued; work hard and don't live long. Commissioner ink is ono of the best paid officials in tho country, lie must get about $25,000 a year. Some of tho head ollicers of the more prominent roads may get more From $10,000 to $15,000 annually is eeived by a number of general managers or general superintendents, whose orth os are the same on different roads. General freight agents and general passenger agents receive from to 0,000 yearly, the amount, of course depending on tho importance of the roads. In the country there are about 700,000 men employed in railroad work and their pay will probably average about fcSOO annually.

The man who got into a chair, pinned the newspaper around his neck, and began to read the towel may justly be called absent-minded. A watcii like faith, is comparatively worthless ithout works. he mosquito as a pulic singer draws find A I a I Ho was naturally cruel, and he told an acquaintance one day that he hail a new trick to play on public something entirely new. He a long string and a key the end of it, which he said was tho instrument of torture. Over the ont dk a trie sent sonic pretty strong branches, making a si at hidden by leaves.

Into this after dark, the boys climbed. said that awful Iwiy, the first victim comes, and mako a Soon un o.diuarily-ilresHcd woman came along, and, just as she had passed, ho let drop the key on tho walk, immediately pulling it up again. Both now watched dcvclopenicats. The woman came to a sudden stop, began fumbling iu her pocket, and Won dcred what she eoilhl have dropped. She started on, but had not gone far before she came back, impelled by curiosity, an began a careful search of the walk.

Meanwhile the boys in the tree had stuffed their in their months to keep from spoiling the game, and dared hardly look behiw for fear of laughing. A sympathetic sister came along, ami together they picktd up stones, and turned over all the bits of wood ami and orange peel on the walk. No money, no key, nothing could they fin 1, and so went on to their homes, perhaps to worry all night; or perhaps giggle in the tree turned tlu ir looks of disappointment into a cheap smile, and a laugh from same place made them have aw ful thoughts about boys. One victim found a piece of tin, and laying the cause of tho noise to that, was saved a great deal of worry. But she picked it up, and throw it down several to test the sound, the bova nearly foil out of tho tree.

A man, when caught, would slap all of bis pockets, and glancQ around a little, but it was seldom that ho was brought to a right down thorough search. Wheu any one the trick, after searching haif an hour, and saying all kinds of tittles things for the amusement of the boys, ho simply went away hurriedly. To get out of sight as noon as possible seemed to bo most desirable. awful bo is still are and. Beware of him.

Hutjenr Field, in Cavl Wt khj. Mission. Leading features of tho October Cenhtrv are an admirable fruutiecpieco of Longfellow, and E. C. essay, which opens with this summary of mission: poet of grace and sentiment left us in the afterglow of an almost ideal career, lie had lived at the right time, and with the gift of years; ami lie died before tiie years came for him to say, I have no pleasure in them.

Not all the daughters of music wero brought low. Ho scarcely could have realized that people were calling his work element ary, that men whoso originality isolated them, like Emerson and Browning, even metrical experts, the inventors of new modes, -were gaining favor with a public which had somewhat outgrown him; that ho was to be slighted for the very qualities which had made him beloved and famous, or that other qualities too long needed, TEXAS TOPICS. jtrriani There are now eighty-throe resiilcncss in con- struetion, and a flue show of a huu- dred or two neat cjttage resiliences, and several mansions already completed this summer, and now occupied. suits have been entered at Austin, aggregating about 10 000 against the Travis Bridge Company for less of cattle or drowned by the falling of the Colorado bridge in May last. The plaintiffs are John man Field, and Thomas ltainey.

The old counties tkat have to get their full quota of county school lands, by reason of conflicts iu surveys anti defective locations, have liecn paying attorneys and agents from to to get the lands, but Commissioner Walsh says the county judge and any two countj commissioners of such county, by making application, as the law prescribes, can get patents for the tleflceucy of lands without further expense, except to refund to the state the cost of survey, which is about $12.50 per Cameron raid. Breckinridge Texan: Mr. Jacob Weishar is still working his coal mine Crystal Falls, and says he wouhl not take il( 0,000 for it. lie has a number of hands employed, and tiuds ready sale for all the coal he can got out. The mine extends 250 feet into the hill, and the vein is growing thicker and of tiuer quality as the tunneling proceeds.

The coal is superior to that of tho Indian Territory, and the vein much thicker than any found elsewhere in the West. It now measures forty-live inches, and it is thought that it will reach six foot in the further progress of the work. Palestine News: Frank the rseaped convict who killed Sheriff Bodgcrs, escaped) on a horse stolen from Dr. Link, Wis by Sheriff Davis, who, as soon as he reached Tan Zandt county, offered a reward of $100 for his capture. Several citizens of Van Zandt county entered the field in pursuit.

Two young men, named Stete and Baily, had entered a house near Canton, for rest and refreshments, and were just mounting their horses early Wednesdny morning, when a negro came up, mounted on a bay mare. They immediately hailed him, asking if his name Frank Jackson. He quickly wheeled and tried to escape, when one of the youug men, who had a double-barreled shot-gun, tired after him, tilling his back with buckshot. Ho lived two hours. He had a pistol in a sack with some provisions, and did not get it out.

Sheriff Davis, who had passed on some time before, was sent after, ami arrived eight hours after the shooting, and immediately identified tho body as that of Frank Jackson, and paid $100 to the county clerk of Van Zamlt county, for the capture of the murderer. Thus ended the career of one who was evidently determined not to be taken alive, and we are glad ho was not given time to kill another officer or any one else. vt are yon laughing at my dear Mrs. Jones of her husband who was chuckling over his newspaper, I struck he replied', hardly fanny enough for.