Waco Evening News (Waco, Texas) Vol. 1 No. 218, Saturday, March 23, 1889

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VOL. 1 WACO, TEXAS, SATURDAY, MARCH 23, 1889. NO. 218
SIU BROTHERS.
ARB DISPLAYING
EMBROIDERIES
AND
Dress T r immings
OF THE
West jjvipOFTATJO^
In high-class and i exclusive Eu-ropean
Novelties. Artistic Per-sian
Gimps. Silk msh Point Em-broideries,
Drapery Netts and
FLOTJNCINGS
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Everything especially^ new. We
also call attention to the late de-signs
of Back Chantilly Flounc-ing,
63-inch wide, for Killarney
Cloaks, and the Marie Stuart and
Little Lord Fauntleroy
tCuffs <& Collars
SANGER BROTHERS.
\ F- JONES -w. H. JONES.
JONES : BROTHERS,
ESTATE AGENTS
WACO, TEXAS,
^JSTJD SELL ALL ZKIlSTiDS OIF
REAL ESTATE.
On Farm and Wild Lands on
Long Time, at Low Rates of
Interest,
All Business will have Prompt
Attention.
J. D. Mayfield,
BANKER,
RETAIL DEPARTMENT >»
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J. B Gilmer’s Special Column:
The real estate market for week end-ing
March 16 1889.
The excitement this week over the
Artesian well has stopped every
other thought, but this abeyance is
pregnant with well founded hopes of
a tremendous spring in the early fur-ture.
If you want to invest, Invest now.
Plenty of pure water means health,
beauty, manufactories, work shops,
railroads—in fact everything that is
worth living for. But Waco is just
in the attitude of a fellow who has
drawn the capital priee, she is dazed
and fails to realize her good luck.
There will soon be an awakening
thought and she will leap ahead of all
competitors.
The free water idea is taking shape
and will be a reality. Waco as a city
can well afford to invest $100,000 in
free water, one-half that sum will get
it. The citizens as individuals could
and would willingly raise a handsome
sum to help the city buy Moore and
Bell wells. The city owes eter-nal
gratitude to those men for their
pluck and energy and they should not
be allowed to loose anything. If free
water costs $500,000 we can’t afford to
loose it now.
The Grand Trunk is a certainty,
the Brazos Valley hopeful, the ice
may any day be broken, then look
out for a boom.
Some of the properties added to
our last this week:
43 lots on Webster, Clay, Boss and
Cleveland on Hogan and Bell Hills
ranging from $200 to $600 per lot; 7
acres near Artesian well,cheap; lands
in the Panhandle counties, 19,320 acres
in a solid body, fenced and improved;
ten 100 acres farms in McLennan
county, two story house, plenty of
water and splendidly improved; 190
to exchange for cattle or horses; 1280
acres in Crocket county at $1 per acre
to exchange forMcLennan county laud
2500 acres in Hamilton county, splen-didly
improved; improved farm 3
miles south of McGregor; 160 acre
farm near Valley Mills.
Call at office and see our list—We
will show you some fine fresh bar-gains
never offered before. Look at
our city property.
Leave word at the office and we will
call for you and your wife and show
you city property that three months
from now will be worth from 50 to
100 per cent more than we ask for it.
Don’t foraret our cheap money.
Just as this goes to press the follow-ing
piece of property is placed on our
books: A number of ten-acre blocks
in the western suburbs, fine building
cites, price $200 per acre.
THE MIND , READERS.
Go. to G. W. McLaughlin’s for fat
chickens, turkeys, fresh eggs and but-ter.
He has a large poultry yard and
you can alwavs get from him fine, fat
healthy poultry at the lowest market
prices. *
Buy your lottery tickets of Geo.
Campbell. t
A. Short History of a People to Whom
Speaking Is a Lost Art.
Some three centuries before Christ
one of the Parthian kings of Persia,
of the dynasty of the Arsacidae, un-dertook
a persecution of the soothsay-ers
and magicians in his realms.
These people were credited with super-natural
powers by popular prejudice,
but in fact were merely persons of es-pecial
gifts in the way of hypnotizing,
mind reading, thought transference
and such arts, which they exercised
for their own gain.
Too much in awe of the soothsay-ers
to do them outright violence, the
king resolved to banish them, and to
this end put them, with their families,
on ships and sent them to Ceylon.
When, however, the fleet was in the
neighborhood of that island, a great
storm scattered it and one of the ships,
after being driven for many days he-fore
the tempest, was wrecked upon
one of an archipelago of unhabited
islands far to the south, where the
survivors settled. Naturally the pos-terity
of parents possessed of such pe-culiar
gifts had developed extraor-dinary
psychical powers.
Having set before them the end of
evolving a new and advanced order of
humanity, they had aided the devel-opment
of these powers by a
rigid system of stirpiculture. The
result was that after a few
centuries mind reading became so
general that language fell into disuse
as a means of communicating ideas.
For many generations the power of
speech still remained voluntary, but
gradually the vocal organs had be-come
atrophied, and for several hun-dred
years the power of articulation
had been wholly lost. Infants for a
few months after birth did, indeed,
still emit inarticulate cries, but at an
age when in less advanced races these
cries began to be articulate, the chil-dren
of the mind readers developed
the power of direct mental vision and
ceased to attempt to use the voice.
The fact that the existence of the
mind readers had never been found
out by the rest of the world was ex-plained
by two considerations. In
the first place the griup of islands
was small and occupied a corner of
the Indian ocean quite out of the or-dinary
track of ships. In the second
place the approach to the islands was
rendered so desperately perilous by
terrible currents and the maze of out-lying
rocks and shoals that it was
next to impossible for any ship to
touch their shores save as a wreck.
No ship at least had ever done so in
the 2,000 years since the mind readers’
own arrival.—Harper’s Magazine.
Celebrated Budweiser beer at Cotton
Exchange. f
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Trustee Sale; Clothing
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We have just opened a large
line of Youths’, Boys’
& Children’s Suits,
bought at a
Trustee Sale.
These Goods were bought by
us way under value and
to Boom our
ClothingDepartntent
We will sell them at a
Small Alliance on N. Y. Cost.
Don’t delay as these goods are
bound to go and you will
Come at once before sizes are
broken.
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Cor. Austin & Siitl Sts.
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Trustee Sale? Clothing
OVER THE WIRES.
Telegraphic Miscellany Care-fully
Culled From Sundry
Sources.
A Deliberate Suicide.
Burnet, Tex., March 22.—Mayor
Y. Morgan of our city having been
missing since last Thursday afternoon,
the citizens to-day began a search for
him, when City Marshal Darhant found
him in the attic of the courthouse, stiff
and cold in death. He was lying on
his back with a razor in his left hand
and his jugular vein severed, and a
terrible gash cut in his throat. He
had pulled off his hat, collar and neck-tie
and placed them with some papers
in his hat which was sitting close to
him. He also pulled off his shoes and
coat, and every indication showed that
he deliberately proposed to commit
the rash act of self destruction. At
the coroner’s inquest the testimony
showed that he had committed suicide.
He left no letter nor anything to show
what caused him to commit the act.
The general opinion is that the deed
was done in a moment of temporary
insanity caused by spinal affections.
The deceased was a man well liked by
all, and was a candidate for mayor at
the April election, with a favorable
chance for being re-elected. His re-mains
were taken in charge of by the
Odd Fellows, and will he interred by
that order to-morrow. He was about
35 years of age, and originally of Fair-mont,
W. Va., where his relatives
reside.
An Officer’s Criminal Haste.
Houston, Tex., March 22.—This
morning Policeman Richart shot and
killed a young colored man named
William Hunter. Hunter worked for
the navigation company, and being
late was going to work in a run. A
colton hook in his roar pocket caused
his coat to pertrude and Kichart
thought he had committed some crime
and was fleeing. He commanded him
to halt, but the order was disobeyed
and Richart fired two shots at Hunter,
one of which struck the fleeing victim
in the leg severing the femoral artery
and causing him to bleed to death in
two hours. Richart is in jail and the
examining trial will he held to-morrow.
East Texas yellow yams at Joe
Thompson’s.
Will Sue El Paso for Damages.
El Paso, Tex., March 22.—The
party retained in jail here charged with
being S. G. Montague, the forger,
proves to be ex-Mayor Rose, of Kissim-mee,
Fla. Leading citizens suspected
his innocence and had gone on his
bond, and to-day the proof from New
Orleans was so clear that he was re-leased.
His incarceration was mainly
due to the alleged conduct of police-man
Carberson, and suit for heavy
damages will be brought against the
city and railroad for the arrest. Rose
receives attention from prominent citi-zens
to-night.
A Famous Trio.
They were all Boston boys, and
neighbors, playmates and constant
comrades. Appleton was a man of re-markable
wit and quaint originality,
with strong literary and artistic tastes,
which, however, did not reach the
point of high creative power. A syb-aritic
temperament, favored by pros-perous
circumstance, held him satis-fled
all his life within the conservative
circle of the most delightful social
companionship, in which the wonder
was that the latent forces of his nature
took no definite and enduring form,
so that “Tom Appleton” remains only
a marvelous memory, a man tenderly
beloved in life, and now affectionately
remembered.
Butin him, as in the others, were the
stern old Puritan conscience and truth
fulness, a scorn of dishonor and indi-rectness,
yet blended with such suavity
and accomplishment, such grace of
mind and rectitude of life ana delight
in refined enjoyment, that in no other
group of friends in New England, prob-ably,
were the characteristics and en-gaging
qualities of Puritan and Cava-
Her more happily combined. Their
careers were widely severed, although
Boston was always their home. Phil-lips
passed on to the renown of a great
orator and leader in one of the noblest
causes in history; Motley won the
highest laurels of literature in the
works which record the defense and
development of liberty in Holland;
Appleton placidly drifting with the
current of his time, watched with the
keenest interest and admiration the
cause of both, and if perhaps he some-times
felt, with Browning’s Pictor
Ignotus,
I could have painted pictures like that youth’s
men praise so.
there was no hint in word or manner
that he regretted any prize he had
not won. Long after the college days,
and after Motley’s first unprosperous
literary ventures and his diligent study
in Europe, he sent Appleton the sheets
of his “History of the Dutch Repub-lie.”
Appleton received them in New-port,
where he read them with de-light,
and one morning, bursting into
the room of a friend, he exclaimed,
with unwonted enthusiasm, “I’ve read
it all, and, by Jove, Motley has done
it at last!”—George William Curtis in
Harper’s Magazine.
George Campbe
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