The Day (Waco, Texas) Vol. 4 No. 304, Thursday, December 8, 1887

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VOL. 4. NO 304 WACO, TEXAS, THURSDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 8, 1887. PRICE 5 CENTS.
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Sanger Brothers.
i ANOTHER WEEK OF BARGAINS
L IN OURCarpet
department
. New and pretty patterns of Tapestry Brussels at 5o, 55
f 65 and 75 cents a yard,
Standard qualities of Body Brussels at 85c., $1 00 and $1.25.
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' Wilton Velvets $1 a yard.
' Wilton Velvets $1 a yard.
Extra Super all wool threeply at 85 cents a yard.
Moquettes in newpattrens at $l.oo, $l.lo and $1.25 a yard.
All Wool Extra Supers 55 Cents.
All Wool Extra Supers 55 Cents.
Superfine all Wool twoplys at 5o cents a yard. And a
new lot of choice rich patterns in Royal Wiltons.
CLOAK AKD SUIT DEPARTMENT.
Our special sale of Ladies’ and Children’s Cloaks and suits
is receiving a great deal of attention, as our new price attached
to each and every garment shows a decided reduction
that buyers are taking advantage of. The stock is still cornplete
and early purchasers will get the advantage of same.
Ladies’ Newmarkets at $4.00, $4.05, $6.00 and $7.50,
are almost worth double.
“Ladies’ Walking Jackets at $2.95, $3.45, 4.9o and $6.oo,
are all new and choice goods and ire offered at these low
prices to reduce stock.
MISSES’AND CHILDREN’S CLOAKS. ¥t no previous season have we shown such a large line of
choice things at such very low prices.
Sanger brothers
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PA. W NBKOKER S
D. Domnau & Brother,
]The oldest established pawnbrokers in the city, No. 266, South Side Square,
Blue Front, Waco, sign of three gilt balls, and 611 Maid Street, Dallas. Money loaned
on diamonds, watches, jewelry, furniture, clothing and all articles of value. Railroad
tickets bought, sold and exchanged. Highest cash prices paid for old gold and silver
Notes discounted. Also a fine line of unredeemed pledges for sale at onehalf of their
actual value. Before purchasing elsewhere it will be to your iuterest to call on us.
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OPENING.
Holiday Opening At The New Drug Store,
• COMMENCING MONDAY MORNING, DEC. 12, 1887.
Everybody invited. Beautiful souvenirs imported expressly
for this occasion will be presented to every lady
visiting our store during the opening.
MORRISON, RISHER & CO., PHARMACISTS,
539, AUSTIN AVENUE, WACO, TEXAS
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ISAAC LEWIS,
Corner Fifth and Austin Streets.
It Is A Conceded Fact That
1. I sell goods cheaper than any house in the city.
2. I give better value than any house in Waco.
3. I don’t misrepresent any article in my house.
4. I uniformly offer at prices advertised.
5. I don’t advertise good goods at low prices and offer inferior goods.
6. I am totally opposed to anything that would possibly tend*to humbug
or delude the public.
7. I do business tpon strict business principles, believing that success can
only be its legitimate result.
FOR THIS WEEK 1 WISH TO BRING MY HOSIERY DEPARTMENT
PROMINENTLY BEFORE THE PUBLIC, WITH
Unprecedented Low Prices Affixed Thereto.
Ladies Full Regular Made Hose 15c, 20c, 25c; Former price  25c, 30c, 35c
Ladies’"Fu)l Regular made woolen hose, 22 r2c, good value for   35c
Ladies’ heavy weight all wool hose, 30c, good value for .    50c
Ladies best quality English cashmere hose,ribbed and plain,only 45c,fully worth 75c
Boys’heavy gray ribbed hose, omy    10c
Boys’ heavy ribbed full regular made, 15c sold elsewhere at  35c
Boys’ heavy ribbed double feet and knees, 20c, sold elsewhere at   40c
Misses’ all wool hose, sizes from 6 to 8 12, at 33c, worth   50c
GLOVE DEPARTMENT.
Ladies’kid gloves 500,650,85c, worth  75c, $1,51.25
Ladies’silk gloves, lined, 20c. 25J, 35c, worth from    5octo$i
Misses’ and children’s mittens, leggings, etc,, in profuse quantities, at greatly reduced
prices.
SPJEG I A TL
Ladies’ knit Jersey vests, regular made, with or without sleeves, for $1 and $1.25,
all good value, and would be cheap at ... $1.50 and $2
Finest quality of ladies’ scarle.t all wool vests and pants at 90c, worth  $1.50
Best camel’s hair ladies’vests and pants at $1, worth ... $1,50
Ladies’ extra heavy merino vests and pants only 50c, worth from  75c to$l
A real good ladies’vest for 25c, sold everywhere at    40c
GENTtt PURJSriSMINGi
f Gents satin and gros grain silk scarfs at 25 cents, always worth 50c,
I new, desirable and handsome patterns. Gems’ white shirts, twenty
qprpiAj { pleat front; a full dress shirt, reduced to $1.50, formerly sold at $2 and
01 LblnL 1 $2.25. The best value offered this season is our $3 gents’ suit ot under
[wear, all wool, .tnndard weight and fast colors.
My entire stock will undergo a SPECIAL REDUCTION during this month,
making each department a place tor bargains for the holidays.
ISAAC • LEWIS.
A BLAINE INTERVIEW.
WHAT HE THINKS OF THE PRESIDENT’S
MESSAGE.
A ClearCut Issue on the Tariff Question—
Fidelity Bank Bribers—
Boulanger to the Front—
The Woolfolk Trial.
Blaine on the President’s Message.
New York, December 8.—The Tribune
this morning contains a long interview
with James G. Blaine, on President
Cleveland’s message. It was taken in
short hand, under the direction of the
Tribune’s press correspondent, and sent
by cable last night. It is as fodows: “1
have been reading abstracts of President
Cleveland’s message, and have been especially
interes'ed in the comments of
the London papers. Those papers all
assume to declare that the message is a
free trade manifesto, and evidently are
anticipating an enlarged market for English
fabrics in the United States in consequence
of the president’s recommendations.
Perhaps that fact has stamped the
character of the message more clearly
than any words of mine can.”
“You don’t mean actual free trade,
without duty?” queried the reporter.
“No,’ replied Blaine, “nor do the
London papers say thatffhey simply mean
the president has recommended what in
the United Slates is known as revenue
tariff, rejecting the protective feature as
an object, and not even permitting protection
to result freely as an incident to
revenue duties.”
“I don’t know that I quite comprehend
that last point,” said the reporter.
“I mean,” said Blaine, “that for the
first time in the history of the United
States the president recommends retaining
an internal tax in order that the tariff
may be forced even below a fair revenue
standard. He recommends that the tax
on tobacco be retained, and thus many
millions annually shall be levied on domestic
produce, which would far better
come from tariff on foreign fabrics.”
•‘Then do you mean to imply that you
would favor a repeal of the tobacco
tax?”
“Certainly, I mean that,” said Blaine;
“1 should urge that it be done at once
even before the Christmas holidays. It
would in the first place bring great relief
to the growers of tobacco all over the
country and would materially lessen the
price of the article to consumers. Tobacco
to millions of men is a necessity.
President Cleveland calls it a luxury, but
it is a luxury in'no other sense than tea or
coffee are luxuries. It is well to remember
that the luxury of yesterday becomes
a necessity of today. Watch, if you
please, a number of men at work on a
farm, in a coal mine, along a railroad,
in an iron fonndry or in any calling, and
you will find ninetyfive out of one hamdred
chewing while they work. After
each meal the same proportion seek the
solace of a pipe or cigar. These men
not only pay the millions of tobacco tax,
but pay on every plug and every
cigar an enhanced price, which
the tax enables the manufacturer and re
1 taller to impose. The only excuse for
such a tax is the actual necessity under
which the governmeut found itself during
the war and the years immediately following.
To retain the tax now in order
to destroy the protection which would incidentally
flow from raising the same
amount of money on foreign imports is
certainly a most extraordinary policy for
our government.”
A SmashUp.
Council Bluffs, Iowa, December 8.—
An outgoing Kansas City, St. Joseph
and Council Bluffs passenger train was
run into late last night by a freight train
at Perceyville, and according to reports
of officials, two tramps on the freight
train were killed. The passenger train
had stopped on account of a hot box.
Other reports state that the freight train
went almost through the sleeper and one
passenger was killed and about twenty
injured. No names have yet been
obtained.
Fidelity Bank Bribers.
Cincinnati, December 8.—The Commercial
Gazette this morning publishes
a sensa’ion wired from Washington and
confirmed by the parties concerned here.
The story is to the effect that United
States District Attorney Burnett, of this
district, was offered a cash bribe of $20,
000 if he would obstruct the government
in the Harper Fidelity bank case. It is
asserted that District Attorney Burnett
immediately informed Judge Sage of the
United States court and Receiver Armstrong,
and then went to Washington
and laid the matter before the department
there This was about the middle
of last October. It is not stated who offered
the bribe. The Commercial Gazette
interviewed both Receiver Armstrong
and the district attorney last
night on the subject in each other’s presence.
Receiver Armstrong admitted
freely that Burnett had given him the mformation
in October of an at empt to
bribe him. Attorney Burnett admitted
that the attempt was made about the
middle of Ociober and that he informed
Judge Sage, Receiver Armstrong and the
department at Washington. He refuses
to say where the offer was made, by whom
it was mace or whether it was in behalf of
Harper or some of the other Fidelity
culprits. He regrets veiy much that the ,
story got out during '.he trial or in any ‘
way except directly from the department.
The Woolfo.k Trial.
Macon, Ga., December 8.—The trial
of Thos. G. Woolfolk for the murder of
his father, Richard F. Woolfolk, and
eight other members of his family on the
morning of August 6, was begun in the
Bibb superior court yesterday morning
before Judge G. W. Gusfn. The prisoner
came in accompanied by Sheriff Westcott,
J. C. Rutherford and F. R. Walker, his
counsel. His ntainer was bold and defiant,
his form erect, and head thrown
slightly back. He faced the large crowd
calmly, exhibiting not the slightest trace
of fear or nervousness. His countenance
bore a serious, but not sullen or unpleasant,
aspect. His face was covered with a
short beard, not having been sh ved
since he was brought to court
on November 21st last. On leavjog
jail in the morning he asked Sheriff
Westcott to let him siop at a barber
shop and be shaved before coming to
court, but as the hour for convening
court was already at hand this privilege
could not be gran ed. Woolfolk was attired
in the brown suit recently giv.en
him by Mr. Cowan, his bi otherinlaw,
of Hawkinsville. He wore a
good pair of shoes, a clean
shirt and collar and black necktie.
Woolfolk’s feet have been shacKled ever
since he has been in the Bibb county
jail. This precaution was deemed necessary
for several reasons. This mefrning
when Sheriff Westcott entered Woolfolk’s
cell and started to unloosen his
shackles he fo.und that the locks wouldn’t
unfasten, owing to the wards in them be,
ing twisted, and it was necessary to send
for a blacksmith and have the sha kies
sawed off. Counsel Ruthe ford moved
for a continuance, because of the absence
of two of the main witnesses on which the
defense relied. Solicitor Hardeman opposed
the motion. Judge Gustin
refused to grant the continuance,
and ordered the case to trial.
Woolfolk turned a shade paler at this announcement.
The indictment, charging
him with the murder of his father, the
first bill, was then read, to which the
prisoner responded: “Not guilty.”
The work of selecting a jury was then
begun. At the hour of adjournment
oniy one juror had been obtained. Four
panels have been exhausted.
Another Death from Hydrophobia.
Hot Springs, December 8.—The wife
of Alderman John Laughran, of this city,
died ot hydrophobia last night. About
nine weeks ago Mrs. Laughran was bitten
bya rabiddog while heroic; 1 yjdefending
her child from a ferocious' attack
made on it by the dog. Just as the mad
brute was about to spring upon her babe
this brave lady grappled with him,
and, although the animal tore one of
her hands to pieces, she seized it by the
collar, dragged it to and incarcerated
it in a room. Medical aid was at once
summoned and all that tould be done
by the best medical skill of this city was
done to kill the poisonous effects of the
bite. The brave and noblehearted lady
was satisfied that she saved her child and
did not appear to fear the serious and
fatal results of the wound. The family
and friends had alrpost forgotten the unfortunate
occurrence until Saturday
morning last,when she was taken violently
ill, and from that moment suffered indescribable
agonies until death rel eved her
last night. The attending physicians
pronounce it a well developed" case of
hydrophobia. Mr. Laughran, her husband,
it is feared, will lose his mind as
he is frantic with grief and blames himself
because he did not kill the dog days
before.
Boulanger and the Cabinet.
Paris, December 8.—It is stated that
M. Goblet, who has undertaken the task
ot forming a ministry, intends to demand
that Gen. Boulanger shall be minister
of war.
New goods arriving by the car load.
50 varieties of canned fruits and vegetables.
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Preserves, jellie> and jams in glass,
wood and tin.
Atmore’s Mince Meat in 5 and 18 lb.
pails.
New mackerel in 5 lb. tins.
Fresh Imported Olive Oil and Olives.
The largest stock of fine groceries ever
offered in the state.
Purchasing by the car load from first
hands for cash and on short time enables
us to offer superior inducements to parties
wishing to purchase in quantity.
Marshall & Heard
Seven pounds of choice tea siftings
for one dollar. Waco Supply Co.
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