26 Apr 1879
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Newspaper
Graham Leader
Location
Graham, Texas, United States of America
Date
Apr 26, 1879
Page
1
Lige Cusenbary digs twelve feet to strike water and panic turns to triumph as he bursts into his house declaring a new supply. Neighbors gather, children and animals watch as water runs in a wrist thick stream.
A diver finds an oyster shell containing a gospel tract and becomes a converted man. A Franklin bookstore anecdote follows where a price bargaining redoubles the cost of a book, with Franklin noting he would have preferred the lower price.
An out of town couple named Thomas and Jane spend three hours on a hotel balcony. They chat and gaze at the street as the man holds her hand. She jokes about wiping her nose to avoid seeming mad, and he reluctantly frees her hand.
General Ord reports Fort Griffin and Fort Sill heard that 45 Kiowas led by two brothers of a ranger killer last winter started toward Texas on the 7th. Griffin officers plan citizen riders to join mounted troops in pursuing the band.
A Golinda area tale describes a man uncovering a large metallic vessel full of gold while seeking worms. He counted eight thousand sixty dollars before confessing to others after drinking. The legend ties to a 1860s murder linked to a hidden treasure and Beard's gang, with relatives of the murdered man still nearby and the gold reportedly remaining with the finder.
In Ellis county a Rice church crowd prayed for rain but a prank by local youths drenched worshippers with buckets of water dropped through roof holes. The incident, witnessed during a fervent rain prayer, left ministers and parishioners soaked and puzzled. Dallas Herald.
The schooner Anna from Tuspan Mexico, bound for New Orleans with fruit, docked at Indianola for water and provisions. Officials feared contagious illness after doctors diagnosed typhoid fever, but allowed unloading for supplies and water while keeping the ship at sea.
A Scotch druggist wakes to serve a customer with a dose of salts. His wife grumbles at the price and jokes about the ha penny profit. He answers that the dose of galls will keep him awake, noting the profit but not the pain of the transaction.
The legislature has enacted an occupation tax of $1,000 on insurance businesses, altering the levy charged to insurers. The measure specifies the tax base and implications for policyholders and firms operating in the state.
Dr A J Folsom married Miss Fannie Powell in Hearne after her illness with fever. The ceremony took place on a Sunday as planned though she was ill, Rev Horace Bishop officiated, and the bride is recovering while Dr Folsom tends to other patients with Dr Wilson from Bryan.
The London Lancet suggests a cure for bone felon using a thumb sized fly blister placed over the spot as soon as pul sation is felt. The blister should stay six hours then be removed to reveal the affected area beneath the surface.
Geo W McFarland, ex editor of the Vinita Vidette, plans a new colony east of the sixth parallel in the lands ceded to the United States in 1866 by the Creek and Choctaw. He forecasts 25 000 settlers in six months, with St Louis as the organizing center. Vinita natives oppose the plan, calling it a last-resort settlement.
The legislature patched bill reduces clerk pay with ordinary clerks at about 75 dollars monthly and skilled positions from 100 to 125 dollars. Many clerical posts are expected to be filled by females.
A speaker recounts a folk cure claiming nine of ten croup deaths could be prevented by roasting onions mashed and placed on a napkin with goose oil or lard applied warm to the throat chest and extremities. This folk remedy emphasizes warmth and simple kitchen ingredients.
An Iowa man who has been married four times shares a single house with all four of his mothers-in-law. The family reportedly enjoys unusually harmonious relations and daily life together.
Inquest into a man frozen to death returns a verdict accusing the thermometer of murder in the tenth degree, below zero, in a dryly satirical Whitehall Times report.
The Legislature imposes a tax of one hundred dollars on drummers and the house reduces the frontier defense appropriation to one hundred thousand dollars.
The circular from the Office of Colored Colonization Society Topeka Kan dated Feb 2 1879 advocates emigration of African Americans from Mississippi and Louisiana to 160 acre free land in Kansas near Topeka. It condemns southern policy and invites families to seek equality and land, urging secrecy among black men.
A New York Star reporter exposed a fake divorce scheme run by a lawyer advertising fast dissolutions with contingent fees. No party appeared, affidavits were forged, and summonses never served, exposing a grand swindle. The piece notes a mass of women in Massachusetts and cites R Rutherford as state quarantine officer appointment.
Old John Walsh a thrifty banker and moneylender keeps a strict vault of personal securities in a grimly humorous tale. A bold young man asks for five hundred pounds for six months and offers his own person security, which Walsh declares as the only security he accepts.
The Illinois State Senate reports a bill recommending passage to tax all property of church societies and other religious organizations exceeding 5 000 in value. The measure targets nonresidential land buildings and investments held by religious groups.
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