— TEXAS BO “The Campaign Against Garza’s Band of Bandits. Official Report of the First Fight With the Mexicans. The growth of the insurrectionary move ment headed by the bandit Garza causal great excitement among the Mexican and American populace on either side of the Rio Grande, snd the efforts of the United States troops to suppress it were watched with keen fnterest. It was the general opinion that the Mexican outlaws had no less than 2000 active followers, scattered at various points along the Texas border The revolutionists were all magnificontly armed with repeating rifles of the latest pat- tern and side arms. They were paid $1 per day and given good supplies The ranchmen who came in © +t with Garza all state that he was abundantly sup- plied with money, and compelled them to r beef and oe alter nta furnish cattle I< receive pay native of «ither for the ar baving therm taken br force I'he re port that revolutionisis dred strong were ops rating in the Tamaulipas, Mexico, was received with con siderable credence by the majority of the eonle. The neighborhood of Mata Faown to be a perfect hotbed of r¢ ary spirits, and it is the general opinion that Garza received large reinforcements from there A great many of the people in the interior of Mexico are secretly in sympathy with any movements that may be on foot to overthrow the present Diaz administration The supposition that some strong secre power was backing the revolutionary move- ment gained ground, and a correspondent heard a citizen state that in his opinion some of carrying on the warfare came fi he City of Mexic imals or take ti everal hu State sat the 1 s break into mocent citizens, fect zation, a good know wintry thoroughly, without uniform, can change then to rauchu and at herds in five Utes, H. J. small squads and They havea per syst plun salves ine mine celeod a J. 8 M sted be the o and was almost surrounded, attacking party at bay until our ly came up, We charged across a soft. open muddy flat, exposed theenamy's fire from rifles and carbines. But our men t to be restrainsd “In the face of or four to one they made a gallant rush for the outiaw ban A headed by Bergeants Ihling and Gibb and Corporal Honeyman. The infantry with their long guns did « and other minute the bandits were scam] for the brush. “Hampered with prisoners and wounded we could 1 pursue We lost man killed vas Corporal Charles E« most excellent 80d i er, who was st » head and ones through the leg, | Lieutenant Charles Hayes, Eigh- itry was slightly wounded in the ullet: Private David 1 Cavalry, was grazed cers were all niform and Were Disain 4 #, among whom 1 was { the train wreckers of the Railroad last spring. They and ealled out in Eaglish and ! Il the gringos fighting was pretty close strom, after he fell, was again sho ’ ant being 80 close that his face was gowder burnt Aftor the fight we returned to the post, there being no way of findmg the trail in that heavy thicket, Wo captured ten or twelve horses belonging to the | three in Kn- ering wt twice and Cor bandits, but they stampeded through the cactus on the wayback, ““The capture an i destruction of these out flaws will be an easy matter the moment proper facilities are supplied, but until they are nothing can be done worth nen tioning. “The Rio unanimous in followers buy they want and practically whose Grande valley is support of Garza, all the ammunition sll other necessaries, They are ali equippec, ns a few things we | captured show bey have one hundred and twenty or one hundred and fifty eartridges | to the man and their saddle bags are loaded | with coffee, sngar, fresh beet and wheat biscuits made with baking powder.” General Hchofleld also received informa. tion at Washington of the surptiss by United States troops of one of Lar 's camps of revolationista moar [ascuevates and Riag- Id, in Texas, and of the capture of one of the rebel officers, II — 5h C03T OF THE CENSUS. Superintendent Porter Thinks it Will be Eleven Conis a Mead, Superintendent Porter reports to the Secretary of the Interior that the cost of collection of data for the Eleveath Census has been $2,000,855, and that the total cost | afternoons ago WO WASHINGTON LADIES. The Wives of Speaker Crisp and Postmaster-General Wanamaker. 1t Is not likely, says a Washington spec- fal, that Mra. Crisp will feel like assuming the social position and accompanying hon” ors belonging to the Speaker's wife. The death of her son a few weeks ago cast a gloom over the Crisp household, and the be- reaved mother will Lore little heart for the pleasures of the Washington season. Mrs. Crisp was born in Ellaville, near her present home in Americus, Ga. Her father was a planter before the war. She was married to Mr. Crisp while quite young, and four children, two daughters and twos ns, blessad the union. The elder daughter is married to a druggist in Americus, while the two younger children are still at sch ol. Mrs. Crisp bas always spent the winters in Wash- ington with her husband since his first tion to Congress, She is thoroughly domes tic, most about being in her Georgia is accustomed to dispense eloce and cares spitality, She is abou eyes and hair sli John Wanamaker, Wana- wn in slti- i ‘ % is Mrs MRS. JOHN WANA snmarried, only Wanamaker, tera are stil Miss Minn made her d Mrs. Wa hus t Preside ones and husband Ww “a and when it now ie the: Mrs nberad that # rors 8 appreciation AacoOML L3H peaipnoed. Une wher nay | in Phila- the early - A lishing 1 IAnAZemen homes is spond of theses family of November and cember The rest ¢ Washingt { the winter season is given to where they have a =e sad beautiful home, The summer is divided be. tween Lindenhurst,” & ms raiflomnt house and estates about fifteen miles from Pailia- lel ttage.” a smaller which riginal iaughters 1 he house gallery name fr of the house in Washingt which must mistress statuary In appearane face, th ugh n charming and delightia ., and bh pression, while usu grave Cou pled, in r i : les whic brighten h ing m media pounds. fine art . 8A moss ar ox ————— [I —— DISASTROUS BLAZE. Firemen Killed and Mach Property Destroyed Three The disastrous fire that Nashville, broke Rtavens most out a few & Co's has had since 158] in Webb, A strong wind was blowing from the ”” penn. store northwest and, although the firemen ware promptly on hand, they could do practioaily nothing. The fire was confined to this store for nearly an honr, but gradually found its way into the adjoining store, occu. pied by A. G. Rhodes & Co, and then into Atwell & Sneed's. The wind then changed, and the fire started In another direction Neakly & Warren's ssven-story furniture porth and Webb, Stevens & Co, was soon a mass of flames The members of the colored fire company wore standing across an alley on a three building of the Phillips & Buttor Manufacturing Company. when Weakley & Warren's building suddenly bulged, out in the centra and fell across the alley. The following firemen, all colored, were caught under the falling building and instantly crushed to death: Aaron Cockrell, stocker: Allen Harvey Ewing and C, C, Gowdy, the latter the captain of the com. pany. Captain Gowdy was one of the leads ing men of the city, and ex-Member of the Legislature A vacant bullding adjoining Atwell & Hneed's was soon burned. The Noel blook then caught fre and was destroyed, It fs supposed that the fire was of lncen- diary origin, ss Fireman Daly, while in the Atwell & Snead bullding saw a man ag n torch to a mass of inflammable ma in the rear of the store, The los is estimated at about $475,000, with insurances of $807,900, story Tie total coinage at the Philadelphia Mint for the year just ended was about 83. 000,000 pieces, to tae value of $18,000,000. Tue railroads are all busy, Tur coffee harvest is short, Wk have 400 electric roads, Honses havo the grip in California, Tue cocon crop of Ecuador is a failure. Loxpox, England, has 75,000 Germans, Tix grip is spreading rapidly in England. We made 40,000,000 false teeth last year. MAINE reports the warmest season yet on record. Tue Russian Government has ordered four now fronclads, Tre Bermudas are now connected with the continent by eable, Baroy Hinscn colonies have lished in New Mexico. been estab Russia's foree on frontier is 90. 000 strong Axericax florists sold worth of flowers last vear, thy Austro- Russian over £14,000 000 IT is forbidden to use the word or “famine” in Kazan, Russia Tie New Y in the block “hunger rk Central Rallroad wil system at a cost of §75H0,00 f Tie orange crop of Florid x Durixa 18 t partment pal . UNTENDENT the Eleventh Census Ox) Tue bu numerous 1500, sinoss Taliures than in y OUNCE mor out among t dians A VEIN of black liscovered at IX Greriuany marble has been berg, Mixxp blood Indians are organizing mand the same treatmont the Govers gives full bloods, BourH DAXora has a trot whi i NAN us sh has been also called *'t The Largest Tot Grown in Any Conntry Hiates i alue, *» The aggregate yet produced, and fifty-five bu The port averaging against Y in 1554 farmer is § and 31.40 cents is greater thar of the short 1 The pr bushels. wheat =~] in — BE — BIG GUN, Huge Itifle For the United State Vessel Monterey Ihe The twelve inch gun mace al stom ordnan sel M San Francis nlerey tel Oar was thus ia tru WaR PON aa the continents ACT have to the Pennsyivania gun has met all requirements, judge frem results so far obtained with both weapons, superior to the Army rifle of sim {lar calibre. The car will return to Wash fngton for the se onl twalve h gun for the Monterey, which Is having its bree mechanism fitted preparatory to being at the Indian Head (Md) proving Iv A Man Asks you vw point out nis errors, that he may improve on them, don't take him at his word. Men don't like to be taken at their word in things like that. The best friends we ever knew were never so friendly after a certain unlucky day when one friend suggested to another that he he pay a little more attention to his spelling. - ——- - . Cosiskry has been engaged to play base-ball for three years at a salary of $20,000 and 20 per cent. of the profits. This should be an encouragement to all young men to go © college and take an athletio training, or, at any rate, to learn to play ball pay a freight bill of Railroad C ) and is rround —— : Gints will be girls, but when Mag- gle Mitchell becomes the Duchess of Something-or-other she will see the inappropriatencss of kicking off her shoe in her impulsive, youthful way when she wishes to remove It The London County Council has at last signed a contract for a tunnel under the Thames, It will cost about $5,000, 000. FIFTY-SECOND CONGRESS, In the Senate 100 DAY. On reassembling afder the Christmas recess, the Vice-President laid be. fore the Senate the annual report of Public Printer Palmer, and also the fifth annual re. port of the Inter-State Commerce 'ommission, signed by Ww H. Morrison, Acting Chairman Among numerous petitions pre ented wera memorials from Prestyterian synods and other, stated by Mr. Frye to be signed by over 0,000 communicants, favoring the ratification of the Bussels Congo treaty for the suppression of slavery - Resolution was passod authorizing the charter of a ship toconvey corn to Russia, 11TH DAY. ~The Vice-President took the chair at pnoon——Mr., Pasco presented a memorial from the State of Florida, asking that a pension be granted to the sury of the Beminole Indian war Tho President laid belore the Benate throes me from the President, transmitting sements made by Commissionsrs with Indians of Colville Reservation of } 2 the Wichita and affill ann and w They we mitten Vie El on spoke } WES answare Immigration, Territories, Exec ments and Helations with Dolph reported favorably a bil appropriation for and authorizing struction of elev on the Pac Other bills were offered: Provi {f a monument to the Nathaniel Greene, on the site Guilford; a vement of the making an the AW Lors erection « ary General, of the battlefield of resolution regarding the impr harbor of Philadelphia; providing for a ney to Indiana farmers; 0 eroe carried on by telegraph i's resolution for ry ai n of the Nicaragua Canal joint an ing House sn ———- PROMINENT PEOPLE. sach the sated from the Harvard ol. nd suo edited] a paper siudly FOALS ARTS J inexs he boen 1 nA banking magnificent en , at Philadel; man of and straight, ment of the Direx Penn, In a forehead powerful nose | ins YiR ro tard brigh pe-Jooki fine, ft eve BoMe idea of the tremendous strain under which the late Senator Plumb, of labored can be gathered from the fact tha here are now more than six ti wand claims for Kansans pending in the Pension Bureau which had been filed and pushed forward by Senator Piam RAansas, Jases Wmrroou $5000 a year from from his readings be spends a good FLOTes, Of watch Ricey is said to make his poems, and §15 00 When visiting Now York deal of time in old book walking up and down Broadway ig the people and looking in shop windows. He accepts very few of the in. vitations which are showered upon him, but likes the company of a few chosen friends Prixce Gronar, of Gresoe, who saved the Crarewits from a Japanese assassin several months ago, has recently performed another herole deed. While on board a vessel in the Bay of Pireus during a hoavy storm he saw a boat capsize, in which was a sallor bound for his ship. Instantly the Prince sprang overboard, seized the drowning man sod warn with him to a point where help was possible, Coxanesemax MoMiruix, of Tennessee, says that he was a physical wreck at nine toen, though now he isoneof the most robust members of the House. In his youth be was a martyr to dyspepsia and had the additional allment of weak Jungs. By means of dieting 1or & low years and taking a daily walk fol. lowed by a cold bath he cured hinsell so completely that nowadays he compares his stomach to that of an ostrich, " I — - Jowx Dieree, a fat man on exhibition Cincinnati, Ohio, died a fow | for reading SABBATH SCHOOL, ————————— INTERNATIONAL LESSON JANUARY A. Fon Lesson Text, “Overcome With Wine” lsniah viti,, 1-18 — Golden Texas Wroverbs xx, 1 ll ommentary. As most of the ver: in this lesson are ton Jong to quote in full in brief notes 1 rust beg the reader to peruse with Bible in hand, as should always be other wise lesson helps may become a hin- drance 1. “Woe to drunkards of those done snare and the crown Ephraim, with wine This isn lesson of the sensuous, self Isracl—a curse pr stead of the blessing theirs had they niy been jent (sa {imerve how ext three » of pride, to the $8 Gveronimne warning to unbelievers in upon them in. might have been willing and obed. this and ith “WwW induigent monneed which ’ wapters begins w 4 xxxil,, EXARN Behold the Ar than wine joys of kingd 3 His they prefer the hey ust expe ae i . xiv.. 18. 19 4. “And the gloriou the head of the Is flower risntly fruitful hills of worl r . » The terraced MRaria are a xy HY uxuriance al a truths sr the Sax ®isn, wilh Joving kis ake us il tong they ered DY w ence, woak bie (11 Cor despised and they carried rw y vi wherewitia v and this is the not a " give r re i i was tot ' 8 nmands and s and cone would only pinin of the In i " ) precept fall back went upon they might : EK broken and snared and taken Gospel gives life and © rf oursing, Joy of Inst if and PER blessing « if received, the 15 16: Math, x Let all wi thus intemperate, not, take heed ) word of the Him. But we might vainly written that wn he oann of God” (John #i, § church and oh know nothing of the birth are van uafety ff peace, It is wr without hadding of blood thers remission, for it is the blood that maketa atonement for the soul (Heb, ix. 32 Lev, xvi. 11). and yet many will net heat the blood of atonement, tut vainly think %o reach heaven without it Lot all such res member that the coming storm wil away the refuse of lies «Lesson Helpes y live whether give this waran and learn also ap Ask nbhove ROOTS ing of that = no sweep —————— THERE IS A goat war on the DOYS dime novels and blood. and-thunder stories, but the girls are doing something just as bad, Itdoes pot hurt a boy half as much 10 read a dime novel as it does a girl to eram her mind with sickly love stories. But the boys are so watched that they have to crawl up In the loft to read thelr favorite literature, while the girls sit in the parior and read theirs Tir busy *b* is very busy in the word *hubbub.* { spoonfuls sugar and the | an hour: take from the oven dh ll HOUSEHOLD AFFAIRS. QUEEN OF PUDDINGS, milk and crumbs, five table yolks of four beaten, and one Bake for half Mix together one quart of one pint of bread eggs, previously tablespoonful of butter, well and spread over the top a layer of jelly Have ready the bes‘en to a stiff froth, spresd over the the top of the jelly; then bake a light brown. Berve with Detroit Free ress. Or preserves. whites of the egos Two rabbits, a half head onion, one bl per to taste, n one-fourth pit Pei vy 4 » nos. iil Alw AVS Keep { pre than the vost delice IGArdn You can prevent your pretty ginghams from fading il you jet for has Ix 3 lie several hours in water in n dissols gondly quan salt, it while is hot, r+ ting it out dry i’ the head instantly nol wa ponged with « Id water be danger of taking cid i ter closes the pores natural left open unnaturally alter after s warm bath. Commonplace but importast is the suggestion, ‘Be carelul of fire Never take risk by lightning fire in stove orf furnace not known to br ready an | sale. In building or preparing see that the pipe holes in the caimney are tight and well protected from lath aad siding by use of clay pots made for the purpose. The beauty of a bedroom does not consist in the costlivew of the furniture and other appointments, but wholly in their harmoniousness and suitability, pays ® consistent decorator, An hoa bedstead painted white, with cano,y and spread of a pretty chintz, will look better than a brass belsteal in a room where the other furniture is of a sunple canrag- ter,
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