The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-03-03
FORT WORTH.
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Fort WORTH, March ,. 1880.
George Affords case was postponed yes
terday afternoon until this morning, on ac-
count of the main witness for the State being
too drunk to testify. The witness was placed
under the charge of the otiicers.---Mrs.
Marry Il. Scott, of this city, has written a
yery fine drama for the Golden troupe, which
will be- submitted for criticism very soon,
and we know it will be passed upon very tay-
orably, rs the writer is indeed literary gen
ius of rare plishments. life blood
of another man came very near staining the
floors of "My Theatre" last night. The
deadly weapon was drawn, cooked and pre-
sented, and but for third party death would
have resulted, surrounded, as it was, by
the hidious fantasms that cluster within
those unhallowed walls.--The Ell Paso bar
room is richly ornamented by the suspension
of large life-size portrait Of Captain Louis
Mass, the famous and gen al proprietor of
that institution. case of the State vs..
John G. Morris, charged with muir
der, is set for next Tuesday.
Colonel H. Smith, of the Weatherford Times,
has been in the city for the past two days.
Captain John Hanna, chairman OF the
Democratic Executive committee OF larrant
county, has called on the Democracy OF TINS
county to assemble in convention on the "a
of April next for the purpose of electlng del
egats to attend the State convention, winch
meets in Galveston on Tuesday
April Goth to send delegates to the Nationa
Democratic convention. He also called the
primary convention for this precinct TO Sc
iect delegates to attend the County conven-
ton, which meets at the sbove-stated time.
Let every Democrat in Tarrant county be
active in this work. The ultimate success OF
the party depends to a very great extent
upon the work done in the primary meetings.
|Rain has been falling nj the morning.
CAPTAIN hanna is now in Missouri on visit
IN his father and will not return till about
the frst of next month.--It is about time
that our prominent lawyers aud politicians
were giving the two-thirds rule due con-
sheraton and have some defined position on
the subject, for they may be called on soon
70 give an exr ression as to the expectancy and
ACCESSIBILITY ofits abrogation. The campaign
will soon open, and this will be one of the
great questions to be adjusted by the lie.
mocraey of the country, which seems az
this time to be somewhat divided as 70
whether the rule shall longer exist ana De
adhered to. We are constrained to believe
however, that its days of existence are very
few, because its evils have been compre'
hended and the demand for its abrogatisn Is
universal Our citizens are all wlde-awaske
TO the 'main chance and from day to day
we note the departure to the front OF some
familiar face. The last, but not the least
worthy of our departures is that OF Colonel
Barlow, late banker of our city, who leaves
in few days to superintend division Of
work let to our worthy townsman, Peter
Smi,h.-A lively runaway team left the
depot this morning and made a Decline fol
the palace saloon. But the mud was SO deer
the wheels would not bump worth a cent
ard the vehicle did not so much as turn over
No one hurt not even the team
A large number of work mules have beer g.
bought upon our streets, to be used i
drawing railroad supplies 10 the 'front.' We
do not know under whose charge thes'
too,,s will no ,,laced hut presume that Gap