Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1883-08-23

considerable parleying their request
was granted and they resumed ,
work Tuesday morning at $3.50 per |
ten.
Houston .dac: The appropriation to |
pay bounty money to Texas veterans
for two years is exhausted before the
payments are completed for the first
half OF the first year. There are evil
IDENTIFY more veterans than the legisla-
ture thought.
Jackshoro Citizen: The telephone be-
tween Coleman and Henrietta has
I been established aud last Monday
morning the first talking between this
/ place and Henrietta was done. Just
think of standing in Jacksboro and
J talking with a man in Coleman, q dis.
/ lance of near 200 miles.
4 The Free Thinkers association of
Bell county, appointed Il committee of
! three to issue call 20 the Free Think
] ers throughout the state inviting them
/ TO send delegates To IA convention TO
4 lie held In the city of Waco on the
! fourth Sunday in October for the pur.
( pose of forming n state association.
/ Jacksboro citizen: More wire fence
I WAS cut last Monday night. We have
not learned the full extent of fence
/ cut, but Il considerable portion of
! Sherwood's was cut. Our townsman,
j. G. Lindsey, had three miles cut on
/ his ranch, north of the West Fork and
/ adjoining Sherwood. The work was
( done efiectnally, the wires being cut
/ twice between every post.
/ Baird CydrGndoR: G.. S. Hood, one
Z inf YNinpnat. ha., Il i,,f
that his bees are doing well: he has
( now about $50 pounds of honey. Mr.
I Hood commenced about three years
( ago with but one or two stands aud
now he has several, and his crop OF
/ honey for this year will be some four
or five hundred pounds.
! Coleman Poice: John Adams pro-
4 poses. for the sake of economy, and to
| prevent the bankruptcy and eternal
/ ruin of the county, to move the seat of
4 justice to Santa Anna, where court
house can be constructed by digging "a
hole in the side OF the mountain Cen
eral Brooks will lend the commission
ers' court q grubbing hoe To do the
work.
San Antonio Times: The little
/ daughter of MIS- Tanner, aged about Z
] y
( quite thorn. The thorn penetrated the
heel to the bone. inflammation set in
and the foot began TO lester. The ply
sicians attending the child, Messrs
Herif, decided this morning that the
| only way to save the child's life would
be by amputation Of the foot, which
will be performed to-day.
I Waco Iscda,iner: The boxes for the
fire Gyste.T, iaN,. ~ ~, a A ~,
! now ready 10 be placed in position
The fire alarm has cost the iiremen y
large sum of money. The boxes cost
Sloo each. and they ask that the citi-
zens IN the neighborhood in which
zach of these boxes are placed viii sub
scribe that amount The balance OF
the expenses of establishing the sys-
TEN IN Waco, amounting To about ST.
300, the boys will pay themselves.
Cuero Star: The drouth is really
distressing, TO say the least of il.
Water IL SO scarce that considerable
number of stock have not quenched
their thirst for several days past, aud
grass has almost entirely disappeared
from many places where il grew lux.
uriantly but u few weeks ago. This
; fearful condition OF things is sad t.
contemplate, and it seems that the end
is not yet. 6
Paris Tribune: There is u stout
healthy negro man aged u years liv
ing beyond RoXton who has never
been to town but twice in his life
About three years ago he visited Hon
ey Gro g, and last Saturday he was il
Paris. He WAS surprised when b,
: went to Honey Grove, but didn'
. know what to think of this place ~
he didn't know there was as big
place in the world.
Temple Specials A large delegation
from this place attended Major Penn
. camp-meeting yesterday. AS tn
4 meeting was TO close that evening the
: baptism of converts was in order. 4
: pretty spot on the Leon river abou
/ half "A mile from the canp-ground WA
e selected, and at O'Clock p. M mul
d titude computed ut three thousand
! took up the line of march. 1t was
: dreary trudge, through dust and sun
II shine to this Bell county Jordan. Tn
Il place selected proved TO be a pleasan
n one for both lookers-on and pnrtici
. pants, About three hundred CONVEX
: sions are the result of the meeting.
= Jesse Hughes, Mrs, Enoch Hughes
l. and negro woman of Denison, wer
@ arrested Wednesday afternoon on tn
e charge of abducting sixteen year oil
girl from the home of her parents fo
purposes of prostitution. The accuse
W were arraigned before Recorder Nevin,
IS and all gave bond for their appearance
- at the examining trial Friday. 1t
charged that the girl was enticed ava
y from home without the knowledge
rs her parents 10 take situation wit
r Mrs Enoch Hughes, but that With
A. one week after her having left honl
! she was debased by Jesse Hughes, VIII
~ lives with the family. The father dill
~ covered her place of concealment an
Il had the parties arrested.