The Day (Waco, Texas) Vol. 3 No. 90, Wednesday, February 17, 1886

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1 HE LARGEST LINE OF j
Builders’ Hardware and!
Edged Tools
I si the Gty,
—A!'—
Horsfull & Cameron’s,
, VOL. 8. NO. 90.
ALL KINDS OF
Cotton and Garden
Hoes, Garden Forks end Rakes
—AT—
HORSFULE & CAMERO N'S
WACO, TEXAS, WEDNESDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY IT, 1880. PRICE 5 CENTS.
SANGER BROS.
Ration and Fancy Goods Department.
Wo Keep ltit*, most complete line of Notions and Fancy Hoods, and Toilet
:irii.•:<■<. of any house in the city. It is very seldom that we
cwil am ntioo to these lines through this medium, but this
week we quote some sp:cial low prices.
NOVELTY JEWELRY
We have just received a new line of Ladies’ Novelty Cuff and Collar Buttons,
Lace and Scarf Pins, Watch Charms and Bracelets.
BRUSHES.
Leather hack Cloth Brushes at
25 cents.
Double b ek good Bristol Cloth
Brushes at 50 eents.
H;*avv, double back, well made,
Hair Brushes, worth 75. at 50 cents.
English Tooth Brushes, worth 20
cents for 10 cents.
Toilet Soaps,
Oakley’s Jockey Club 25c
Oakley’s Camelia Bouquet lti%c
Oakley’s Glycerine 8Rc
Colgate’s Honey 12jTc
Colgate’s Oatmeal 12Jie
Colgate’s Turtle Oil 10c
Colgate’s Turkish Bath 5c
Colgate's Imported Castile 8JJc
Culicura 20c
We Have Just Received
A full line of Lundborg’s and Lubin’s
celebrated extracts.
Our Prices are Lowest in the city
fiir Pozzonni’s, Tetlow’s, Pears’ Lubin’s
and Pay’s Toilet Powders.
COLGATE’S.
Bay llum, EaudeCologne, Violet
Water, Cashmere Bouquet and Lavender
Water ahvavs on hand.
25 Cents Each.
At this price we will sell it lot of
Ladies’ Leather Belts in black, red and
tan that are worth 50 cents.
50 AND 75 CENTS EACH.
Two new lines ot Ladies’ Hand
Bags w e offer at tl iis. They are Bargains.;
Kerr’s ( Irochci Eg;D’S 5 cents
Whisk Brooms 10 rents
Tooth 1 ’owders 15 cents
5 Cents A Dozen!
Look on our Bai|'ga in counter for a
large lot. of Dress JHuttons at Ibis
price.
10 CENTS A DOZEN.
Steel cut and fane:v dress buttons
worth 25 aiul 115 cents a dozen.
15 cent:s EACH.
Eight inch rtibh<*r dressing Combs,
worth :>0 cents.
20 CENTS A HANK
For t lie new Tense! Macrctna
Cord.
WE KEEP
Thousands of different notions that we cannot quote, as space will not
* permit ns, our lines in notions are always complete.
We Have Jnst Received
An entirely new line of patterns of Novelty Braids. Just the thing for
spring fancy work.
ELASTIC WEBS.
Wo have just received some new lines of Imported Cotton and Silk
Elastic Webs that are superior to anv ever before shown here.
SANGER BROS.
Status
W. M. RAGLAND,
(Established in '1871)
OLDEST & LARGEST
JEWELRY HO M
In Hie City.
No. 860. Austin \vem19, Waco, Texas
Qttrcrtptioj Bcajmsis. ___
CASTLES & .MORRISON,
Pro prietors of
THE OLD CORNERDRUG STORE r
Leading Prescription Drug Stcre in the City
HEADQUARTERS FOR EJ.EGAJX T /IOJ./DA1 PRESENTS.
FINE TOILET ARTICLES. &c
PANELECTRIC ECHOES.
THE ATTORNEY GENERAL PROPOSES IT0 UNLOAD
HIS STOCK AT ONCE.
Strikes and Adjustment oi Strikes—An Alabama
Earthquake—Northern Floods—The
S Fort Worth Small Fox Cases—
Other Items of Interest.
IN GENERAL.
Washington. February 16.—Attorney
general Garland today said to the
agent of the Associated Press that he had
nothing new to say concerning the mar,;
ner in which he became interested in the
PanElectric Telephone company, or the
circumstances under which the suit at
Memphis against the Bell company was
instituted by the direction of the solidtor
general last autumn; “for,” he added,
“my published statement to the president
last October, said everything I knew
about these matters, and my attitude in
regard to them has not changed in the
least since then. Besides this, it now appears
that an investigation covering the
whole question is to be had by the
house of representatives. I am glad of it,
and hope it will be thorough and complete,
and that all there is of it will be revealed
and made public. In advance of this investigation,
which I heartily welcome, I
feel disinclined to go into the subject in dctail.
I will say this, however: It is asserted
by some persons that as 1 am a member of
the company opposed to the Bell company,
and that as the government is now prosecuting
against the Bell telephone company,
this suit may result to my benefit or
advantage, and that, too, while 1 am head
of the department of justice—through
the solicitorgeneral by whom the suit is tx>
be carried on—and that, therefore, something
ought to be done by me to relieve
myself and the administration from the
apparently delicate situation indicated. 1
have considered this suggestion’in all its
bearings, as far as I am able, and 1 rccognize
the fact that there is much in it worthy
of thought. I have discussed in my mind
most thoroughly what 1 could and ought to
do in this state of the case, and I have tieterminedto
meet this in a way that will, I
think, receive the approbation of all peopie
who really desire to be satisfied. This
would be at once consummated, but as
investigation by the house is now to proceed,
1 do not think it right for me to do
anything or explain what I intend to do
until an investigation is concluded, as my
motives, in view of this investigation,
might be misconstrued; but whatever the
result of the investigation may be I will
carry out and execute the determination
I have reached, and of which I have
already spoken; and more than this, I
hope you do
dicate.”’
CIO not expect me to say or in
“But, Mr. AttorneyGeneral, will you
allow me to inquire whether this foreshadows
your resignation front the rabinet?”
“No, it does not.”
Washington, February 16.—'The
ways and means committee, of the house,
today agreed to report a bill in lieu of
the bills touching the same subject referred
to it, directing the secretary to
apply all above $100,000,000 of the surplus
fund in the treasury to the liquidation
of interestbearing bonds.
Milwaukee, February 16.— A special
from Plymouth, Wis., to the Evening Wisconsin
says: This city was startled this
morning by news received by courier, and
since confirmed, that J antes Ehle, his wife,
father and three children, and Mrs. Kinnock,
perished by the burning of the Ehle
residence, in the western portion of the
town of Greenbush, in this county, at an
early hour this morning. As the hired man
alone escaped, and as he is known to be of
doubtful character, it is thought the fire
and consequent great loss of life is the resuit
of his revengeful incendiarism. The
remains of some members of the family
have been taken from the ruins, and an inquest
is now in progress.
Washington, February 16.—The
house committee on Indian affairs today
instructed one of its subcommittees to
draft a general bill, to grant a riglitofway
throughout the Indian territory' to
railroad companies in place of various
bills now before the committee granting
such rights to particular companies.
Washington, February' 16.—The educational
bill was taken up in the senate
and Mr. Jackson took the floor in favor
of the measure.
Mr. Jackson said the chief objection to
the bill was that it was unconstitutional.
If this was well founded that ended the
discussion. The bill did not compel the
States to take the money. The action of
the States was voluntary. He contended
that Congress had the power to appropriate
funds for educational purposes. He
cited the action of President Jefferson in
signing the act appropriating money for
the purchase of Louisiana, and President
Madison in recommending’the establishment
of a great National University to be
supported out of the public funds.
Mr. Jackson also cited instances from
the state papers of Presidents John
Adams, James Monroe, John Quincy
Adams, Andrew, Jackson and others; also
from those of Hamilton and other authorities,
to show that since the foundation of
the government deserving objects that
were not purely local, but were national
in their character, were regarded as fit
objects to be aided by appropriations of
public moneys. In conclusion Mr. Jackson
said this measure might fail, but he
esteemed it a great personal privilege as
well as a high and patriotic duty, to give
it support, for he was impressed with the
conviction that if we would provide
against the dangers which the goveminent
has survived, we must
take wiser precautions than any nation
had ever taken, by infusion far and
wide among our people of that intelligence
which alone will consitute the
safeguard and protection of our political
institutions.
Mr. Maxcy followed in opposition to
the bill, believing it unconstiutional.
He yielded to no
man in his regard for cducation,
but he would never consent to transfor
to the genera! government the duty of
a state, especially as there was no warrant
in the constitution for this departure in
government policy.
Discussion of the bill for the day then
ended.
CHICAGO, February 16.—The great
McCormick Reaper works closed down at
9 o’clock this morning. Not a wheel is
turning, and 14,000 employees have begun
to undergo a siege of enforced idleness.
The threat of certain employees to
precipitate a strike, unless the nonunion
men working in the moulding department
were dismissed, appears to be
the cause of the suspension. At a meeting
of dissatisfied employ'ees last night a
committee was appointed to wait upon
Mr. McCormick today and insist upon
the demand. Mr. McCormick had intimated
yesterday that if this condition
was insisted upon he would shut down
indefinitely. Today, he declined to
meet the committee, saying his time was
otherwise fully taken tip, and ordered
the suspension of operations. Very few
of the employees are in good circumstances
and if the lockout is long maintained,
many families will suffer for the bare
necessities of life.
THF< STATE.
Fort Worth, February 16.—It is now
generally admitted that small pox in this
city is rapidly on the increase, several
new cases having been reported today.
The prevalence of the disease has hurt
business in all branches, and there is a
decided falling off in hotel arrivals. Cute
Jordan, the inmate of the county jail, who
was reported yesterday to have smallpox,
was today removed to the pest
house. The city secretary is reported by
his physician, lir. 11. W. Moore, to have
a very bad case. He is at present in his
room on Belknap street, near the county
jail. Other cases are reported in different
parts of the city.
San Antonio, February 16.—News
reached ihc city today of a killing which
occurred at Sanderson on Sunday last,
in which a man named Fox, proprietor of
the Pacific eating house,shot his German
cook. The man refused to obey the orders
of his employer in the morning, and
Fox chased him out of the kitchen with a
butcher knife. In the afternoon, as Fox
was passing the yard, the cook drew a
pistol on him. Fox then drew his pistol
and the first shot failed to explode. The
second, however, passed through the
cook's head. A jury of inquest was impaneled
and a verdict of killing in selfdefense
was rendered.
Mobile, February 16.—Saturday last
people living on both banks of the Tombigbee
river, in Choctaw, Marengo and
Sumpter counties, Ala., were startled by
a succession of rumbling noises, followed
by sharp tremblings of the earth, continuing
about two minutes. At Moscow the
ground heaved up a foot and trees swayed
violently. At Beckley’s landing slight
damage was done to houses. At Palachia
cattle were thrown from their feet,
and throughout all the counties mentioned
the shock was very heavy, and people
were badly frightened, but no one was
hurt.
Scottdalk, Pa., February 16.—The
representatives of nearly 700 striking
miners and cokedrawers assembled in
this place this morning for the purpose of
considering plans looking toward a settlement
of the strike by arbitration. Father
Lambing presented an authorized proposition
from the operators similar to the
one offered early in the strike, viz.: That
the men return to work now at the old
price,with the advance to take place March
15. The strikers report that this offer is
very favorable to their interest, but it is
not believed it will be accepted by them.
A levy of three cents per wagon and five
cents per oven was laid on all men now at
work to support the strikers.
Louisville, February 16.—But little
change has taken place in Henry Watterson's
condition tonight. The symptoms
developed since 5 p. m. are not considered
quite so favorable as throughout
the day.
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Landreth’s garden seed and onion sets,
new crop, just received.
Marshall & Beard.
Mrs. Bill can be found at O’Neil’s, on
South Fourth street.
EVERYBODY AGAINST IT.
Look to your interest, and buy your Tea
n Waco from Marshall & Heard.
Pare sugar house molasses and syrup.
Marshall & Heard.
If you wantjppure, unadulterated Teas
goto ^Marshall & Heard.
The Mass Meeting Last Night Anent the Water
Works Contract.
The Day does not believe the city
council will adopt the proposed new contract
with the Waco Water company
Public opinion, so far as it is disposed to
express itself, is against the contract
opposed to it in fact. There was a mass
meeting last night—held in the courthouse
and called by the opponents of the
measure. We presume there was an avcrage
attendence of two hundred and
fifty people at this meeting—sometimes
they came in and then^they went out
but that is a fair average estimate:. The
personnel'of the audience was representarive.
Such men as W. D. Lacy, C. H.
Higginson, Sam Sanger, G. D. Streeter,
Win. Brcustedt, Wm. Edmonds, W. A.
Taylor, J. V. Smith and others attended.
Mr. Sam Sanger presided—not that he
wanted to push himself forward, but the
meeting insisted on it. Mr. Lacy and the
quiet business men did not make
speeches—they never do—but we know
they are opposed to the contract all the
same. Of course Mr. Prather made a
speech. He is the lawyer who drew up
the existing contract with the waterworks
company, and it was a happy and consistent
arrangement that Mr. I’rather
should make a speech. He made an intercsting
talk, too, pouring hot shot into
the proposed new contract. Aldermen
Wood, Stephenson and Alexander made
short talks. It is a pity to say it, but
what they said was evidently dictated by
the sentiment of the moment. Mayor
Wilkes made a short speech, and it was
the most practical and bold delivered by
any of the advocates of the new contract.
He said he had acted conscientiously in
the matter as a member of the committee
to frame the contract, and had no apologies
to make. Col. Wm. A. Taylor, who
has just finished building the Midland
railroad, figured out what waterworks
ought to cost in Waco. 1 Ic said he knew
all about such things, and had reduced it
down to a mere matter of figures. He is
opposed to any new contract, and he made
a strong speech. Ex  alderman
Herbert and Dr. Mobly, of East Waco,
also made “short addresses on the
subject. They both wanted a better service,
but neither one didn’t suggest anything
new or better than what is proposed.
Finally Mr. A.J. Caruthers offered the
following resolution, which was adopted:
Resolved, that it is the sense of this
meeting that the contract proposed by the
city council to the water company be not
ratified by the city council.
Resolved, that the chairman appoint
committee of ten citizens, two to each
ward, who shall make a canvass of the
city for the purpose of ascertaining the
sense of the property owners in regard to
the adoption or rejection of the proposed
new water contract.
Dr. Snead, exlieaith officer of the city,
was asked to give his professional opinion
as to the wholesome nature of the water
furnished by the water company. He
said it wasn’t pure. A vote was taken to
test the sense of the meeting in regard to
adopting the new contract. Out of at
least two hundred present only one voted
for the new contract. Then the meeting
adjourned.
Gainesville,February 16.—This morn
ing the report of a pistol was heard in a
small house in the Star wagonyard, on
Di e street. Immediately after, William
Sharp, the proprietor of the wagonyard,
staggered out of the door and fell dead,
shot through the heart. It was reported
that he had committed suicide, but on exanimation
no powder burn could be
found. A coroner’s jury was impaneled
and witnesses were examined. In the
meantime Walter Cobb, who was in the
house at the time of the shooting, was
arrested and lodged in jail to await the
report of the jury.
Utica, N. Y., February 16.—The funcral
of ExGovernor Horatio Seymour
took place front old Trinity church at 2
o’clock today. The Rev. Dr. A. A.
Goodrich, of Calvary church, offered
prayer at ExSenator Roscoe Conkling’s
residence, with the family and relatives
of the deceased, at 1 o’clock. After the
funeral services in the churches, the remains
were taken to Faust Hill cemetery
and placed in the Chapel of Roses.
At 9 o'clock this morning the doors of
the Conkling mansion were thrown open
for the public to view the remains of the
illustrious dead.
Df peopl<
Utica and surrounding towns filed into
the house past the casket, taking a last
look at the features of the dead statesman.
The silver plate on the coffin bore
the following inscription :
“Horatio Seymour. Born, May 31,
1810; died, February 12, 1886.”
A number of beautiful floral tributes
received from Washington, New York,
Albany and other places were placed on
the end of the casket. .
Norwich, Ct., February 16.—The cntire
eastern end of the state has been inundated.
The damage at Jewett City is
$200,000. The $100,000 dam at Greenville,
about two miles above this city,
went to pieces. The loss to the Norwich
& Worcester and the New London &
Northern railroad companies here is
$100,000. The total loss in this part of
the state will exceed $1,000,000.
Haverhill, Mass., February 16.—The
water shows no signs of falling here, and
futile efforts have been made to blow up
an icegorge with dynamite. Homeless
and almost naked families arc striving to
gather up their debris.
New York, February 16.—The agreement
between the car drivers and the
officers of the Broadway and Seventh avenue,
and the Broadway surface roads,
whereby the drivers are to receive $2.25
per day for twelve hours work—with an
hour off for dinner—went into effect yesterday.
The new arrangement is very
satisfactory.
The striking cardrivers of the Fourth
avenue line held a meeting this morning
when the assistant superintendent waited
upon them, and in behalf of the company,
asked the executive committee of the
drivers to call upon Superintendent Skitt
at the depot, and he would sign an agreement
by which the troubles would be settied.
The men replied that the superintendent
would have to come over to their
hall and sign a set of agreements in the
presence of the men, because they had
been deceived by the company before.
These agreements provide that twelve
hours shall constitute a day’s work; that
men who work full time shall receive $2
a day; that no more than twenty trips
shall be made each day. The men, so
far, have maintained good order, and a
peaceable settlement is expected.
Galveston, February 16.—There died
in this city, today, under deplorable circumstanccs,
one of the bestknown resjdents
of Galveston—Captain Hamilton
Jefferson Gedney—aged 68. He is a
brother of RearAdmiral Gedney, of the
United States navy. For twenty years
he was familiarly known to the marine
world of Galveston as “Captain Jeff.”
For eighteen years past, and up to the
time of his death, he was master of goveminent
lightship No. 28, which lies in
Galveston roads near the outer
harbor. In his latter years the old captain
was the slave of liquor. On shipboard lie
was a commander and a gentleman, maintaining
a strict discipline, and it was his
boast that in sixteen years, through storm
and sunshine, the lights were always burning
at the appointed moment. On the
shore, the old mariner degenerated into a
groveling drunkard, and would spend his
time and money hanging about saloons.
One peculiarity about him was the
fact that he would never go to bed
when he came ashore and began his
spree, but lie would sit around, sleeping
in chairs, for a week or ten days, and
then totter down to his supply depot and
ask to be sent to the hospital, from which
he would emerge in a week’s time, pay
his bills and go back to his ship where
his life was one of sobriety. On Friday
last, he came ashore for the last time,
and immediately began his quarterly
spree. Entering a saloon on Market
street toward noon today, he bought a
few ginger cakes and began eating one,
ween he was observed to be choking, and.
after a few feeble efforts, he fell back in
his chair, dead.
New Orleans, February 16.—Brakemen
on the Louisiana division of the
Southern Pacific railroad went on a strike
Saturday for an increase in pay from $54
to $65 per month. The strike was local,
only fortyfive men becoming engaged,
but now threatens to become general, as
brakemen in Texas have offered to cease
work if the Louisiana division will sustain
their demands. This assurance has
been given. No freight has left this city
in three days, all trains being stopped
and uncoupled at Gretna, just outside the
jurisdiction of the city authorities. This
little village is inhabited by working peopic
exclusively, and all sympathize with
the strikers. A train started out
today with Sheriff Wagner, of
Jefferson Parish, and fifteen deputies
aboard. When it reached
Gretna the engineer found that 2,000
people had placed themselves across the
track, and he was compelled to stop the
train. People swarmed aboard, and, paying
no attention to the officers, uncoupled
every' car, and the train had to be sent
back. Finding they could send out no
trains, the road today met the strike by
closing their shops, thus locking out half
the working people of Algiers, the eastern
terminus of the road. Freight handlers
met this move by refusing to work, and
the steamships El Paso, Eureka and Whitney,
running in connection with the road,
are now lying at the docks idle, being unable
to discharge and receive cargoes.
Freight handlers make no demands, their
object being solely to assist the brakemen.
Incoming trains meet with no interference.
Boston, February 16.—The water,
which for four days has covered two
square miles of the city in the Roxbury
district, has for the most part disappeared.
The danger of washouts and buildings
falling down from undermining is over,
but the greater danger from foul cellars
exhaling moisture and miasma, croupand
pneumonia, will be very great. There are
now some one hundred patients demanding
attention, and the number is increasing
every hour. Doctors walk all the
streets in company with the police and
agents of the poor, dealing out drugs and
cordials. At 7 o’clock this morning the
day’s supplies began to arrive, and nearly
all the sufferers were relieved. The fund
for the; distressed now reaches $65,640.
Philadelphia, February 16. — The
physician of the distinguished lecturer.
John II. Gough, says late tonight that
tis condition remains unchanged, and
that he is critically, ill.
Stamping ami embroidery at Mrs. Ball’s,