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VOLUNE 1.

"Deep Water a Facm-Not a Promise."

VELASCO, TEXAS, WEDNESDAY MOANING, DECEMBER 30, 1891,

NUMBER 10

ABBOT & MARION,

First Real Estate Men in the Field.

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Remarkable Parentage of a Man

Born in a Poorhouse.

Hodges Drayton who yester-

day in Fall River, Mass., was held

in ¡5*1000 bonds for trial at the next

term oí the supreme criminal court

charged with assaulting Sadie

Manchester, aged nine years, has

KI'.I KK I'V 1'1'R.M ISSI< >\ TO-

Brazos River Channel and Dock Company,

Vclasco National Bank.

Correspondence Solicited.

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HIS MOTHER TEN YEARS OLD. about it says that "Old Dave" will

arrange his own battle, and had

entered the race because he

thought there was an excellent

show for him to win. Neither

Culberson nor Chilton, in the

opinion of the other members,

would be a party to a deal.

An interesting question here is

hada remarkably checkered ca- whether any or all of the candi-

ré er, He was born in {jie almhouse 1 dates will go to Austin to aid their

in Taunton on FebrVary 1, 1858. j canvass by being on the field. It

I His mother at that time was only is .probably that all will go or that

10 years and 8 months old, while j ull will remain in AYashington and

! his father was ;i lad of l.r> years, trust to their respective adherents.

The records of the overseers of i H Mr. Mills should conclude to

, the poor of Taunton furnish indis- ¡make a visit to the Texas capítol

1 putable evidence of these facts. • about the time the legislature con-

His mother, Kli/aheth Drayton, venes. It is not improbable that

was herself horn in thtí same insti- the same journev would be under-

; tution on May 24,18*7, and always ¡ taken by the other two. The

ived there previous and subse- chances are, however,' that all

queut to the birth of the boy. the I three will remain here.

case was looked upon as¡¡ extraor-

dinary in this climate, and was

thoroughly investis^ted by Dr.

Curtis, state registrar of statistics.

Drayton, like his |*Lople before

him, was brought up in the alms-

house, and remained a ward of

ENTOMBED IN A TREE.

Peculiar Discovery by Woodohoppers in

the Indian Country.

From Velasco.



that institution until fourteen years

of age. For some li^iuor offense

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THE DAILY TIMES,

VELASCO,

T33XA8.

he was sent to the reform school

and two years later wa\ sent to

the house of correction in New

Bedford for the larCeny of a gun.

After leaving there lie led a nOmad-

ic life in the western country,

and finally entered the army. He

deserted, was papturned, court-

! martialed, and sentenced for a

term in the government peniten-

tiary in Kansas. After his release

he wandered from state to state,

oftentimes changing his location

hurriedly. He returned to Taun-

ton, and within five hours after

his arrival was arrested for steal-

ing a horse and buggy. He was

sentenced to the house of correc-

tion again in November, 1890, and

served a short term. He then

came to Fall River, was married,

and lived an exemplary life until

Monday. Although born a child,

he is six feet tall, straight as an

arrow, and in every way is a re-

markable appearing man.

HORACE IS TICKLED.

It P.'iys to Advertise."

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Over the Senatorial Gossip In the Lone

Star State.

Washington. Dec. 28.—Sena-

i tor Horace Chilton laughed heart-

! ily when asked if he had read an

i Austin special which alluded to

the gossip at the state capitill re-

garding a combination between

himself and Culberson to defeat

Mills. The same special set forth

I the full programme of the (Cul-

berson-Chilton combine, which

I embraced the re-election of (lov-

lernorllogg and the election of

Charley Culberson to the govern- the young man to tin

<iiiiiicsvillt' Sijiiuit.

Mil. Editor: After we separ-

ated at Waco I turned south, vis-

ited Houston and from there to

Velasco, the only deep water port

on the gulf, and will be the future

great city of the coast. 1 spent

five days at Velasco looking into

every nook and corner for three

miles around.

The plans of the company are

complete and far reaching. They

have passed the crisis, have plenty

of capital to carry out their plans.

.From twenty to thirty feet of

water is an assured fact the first

big rise in the river. This fact

will settle all other questions as to

the future of the city. All Texas,

yea, all the great west and south-

west will be greatly benefited by

this enterprise. My visit was

mainly in the interest of the M. E

Church. A grand opening for

Christian Endeavor, room for all

to do their best. We are planing

large things for the church.

Yours truly,

H. Webb.

Velasco, Texas, Dec. 11, 1881.

YE FEsflVE CRANK.

A dispatch from Tishomingo,

I. T., says: A strange discovery

was made by some wood chop-

pers who were working in the

hills west of this place a few

weeks ago. They have brought

to this town a skeleton and a sec-

tion of a tree bearing evidence to

the truthfulness of this story.

They cut down a large oak tree

which was partly hollow, but the

entrance to the hollowed portion

had almost entirely grown over

leaving only a narrow slit in the

outside of the tree. When the

tree fell to the ground it was split

opon by the shock and there lying

in tlw center of the broken wood,

was the skeleton of a man. On

one ankle of the skeleton was a

band of iron attached to a piece

of chain evidently from tin mana-

cles which liad been upon his per-

son when he had sought refuge in

the hollow tree. From all indica-

tions the skeleton had been en-

tombed for at least 100 years, for

the tree had grown sufficiently to

almost cover the opening through

which he had craw led to hide.

Two of the ribs were broken in

such a manner as to lead to the

belief that it was done with a bul-

let. The supposition is that the

man had escaped from some pris-

on and had tied with a portion ol

his manacles, and, being shot and

hard pressed, had sought refuge

in the tree and there died. As

there is no record kept of the

past criminal history of this na-

tion his identity will ever remain

a mystery. One peculiarity of the

skeleton is that the tree had grown

partly around one of the legs and

was solidly encased in the wood.

The specimen is now on exhibi-

tion at the courthouse here.

PICK UPS.

He Wanted to Analyze the Brains of

Cornelius Vanderbilt.

New York, Dec. 28 Last

night at 10:30 o'clock, when Cor-

nelius Vanderbilt was entertain-

ing a number of friends at his

residence, a good looking, well

dressed young man, apparently a

German, rang the door bell. To

the page win answered the sum-

mons the visitor said he called to

see Vanderbilt personally to get

his brains, which he preposed to

have subjected to an expert ana-

lysis in order to determine why

he (Vanderbilt.) had been able to

amass a fortune while he was per-

fectly poverty stricken. The page

summoned fin officer, who took

police sfa-

GOODipi) $ njcE^LTip Bf^OS, Publishers.

orship two years thereafter.

"The fellow that got up that

story," said Senator Chilton, "had

better imagining power than any

¡reporter in the United

There has never a word passed

between Mr. Culberson and my-

self'regarding the senatorial elec-

tion." .

The members of the Texas dele-

gation regard Culberson's candi-

dacy as having no such ulterior

purpose as the correspondent

intimates. Every one questioned

tion. in his pocket was found a

card bearing the name of John N.

Alaman, 616 East Eleventh street,

also a membership card of the

States, i Voting Men's Christian associa-

tion. The prisoner was taken to

the Yorkvillc police court this

morning and committed, pending

an examination as to his mental

condition. He was uncommunica-

tive and is doubtless insane.

Tom—Ts it true that 1'hill calls

on Miss Bond quite regularly

now?

"Not the least, marm," cried the

attendant, "he never bites; he

swallows his wittles whole."

"Is there any danger of the boa

constrictor biting met" asked a

lady visitor ot the zoological gar-

dens.

A. asks 'how to remove paint?"

We have found * that a coat

sleeve will take a good deal of it

off.

"And now that we are engaged,

Frederick, I only think it right to

make a confession. I love on

ions."

Jack—He is getting ready todo

so, I believe, f saw him trying to

make friends with the dog the

other evening.

"It is so cold in Sweeden," said

a returned traveler, "that in win-

ter time I invariably put on my

gloves t< wash with."

Little Mable spells kitten

"k-double i-t-e-n," and assures her

teacher that thekitten has two eyes

whatever the spelling book may

siiy.

Smith has wound up his clock

regularly every night for fifteen

years, and only the other day he

discovered it was an eight-day

clock.

