Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1883-11-09
DUyAL COUNTY.
Close of the Fiesta-Salc OF Goods and
other PronertN DOIs from niegn.


Coriespondenceof the Gazette.
SAN Diego, November Having
been absent some days from our little
city In the woods, and but recently re-
turned, | cannot give you much news
of what is going ON here. The fair or
/ fiesta IA the MeXicans call It, which
was still going on when | left, had
come to an end, and the night after
! my return home, walking through the
plaza, instead of the gay and festive
scene which IL represented at my 20.
ing away found il sombrc, dark and
dreary. ! could not but repeat the
lines;
81 feel Ike one who trcnds alone some
banquet han deserted,
Whose lights have nod, whose garlands
dead and all bur me departed"
~ change came DER the spirit of my
droam;n no longer the merry laugh Of
the gay youth was TO bc heard or the
graceful form of the pleasure-loving
senorita TO he seen upon the plaza.
san Diego had come down to the usual
routine of daily life once more. While
! was nj Bonavides | attended the
sberiif's sale of all the perlshphle prop
erty of the late lrm of Toklas X Go.
! This firm, which consisted of j. w.
Toklas and III. Maas, had during the
life of Mas been doing prosperous
| and extensive business. Mans, who
was well liked and esteemed by MI
who knew him, had the confidence of
the people, and drove Il rousing trade,
but he was brutally murdered last
July, and since that time the
concern has been running
down. Toklas, who did
tin grny NssNp1- extraordinarily. ~ 80.
with too big nm nuger, could not ma Ike
IL turn, consequently the creditors
have brought MIN up with q round
turn 10y attachment ON the store In
Benavides, and one which he Ind
startedt IN Burnet. The goods at BEN
avides were mostly sold at IA great sac.
rilice, being nuctioned OF in large lots,
so that only those In the mercantile
business could hid. There were some
thirty-three head OF horse stock also
levied on ANA sold at $3.50 per head.
! think $500 pretty low lorgood young
stock. The establishment formerly
carried on 10y TolIlas IL Go. will now be
carried on 10y Davidson Il sterling,
who have a fair prospect of doing
good business ut the old stand. The
only other store nc Benayides Is kept
by MIR. a r.. Glover who does good
trade. Benavldes, however, Is a grow
ing place, and being in the heart of
the wool-growing section of the coun-
~, could maintain two or three more
stores, "A blacksmith and wheelright
shops and other industries which for
the present 10 has not the benefit OF,
but which will In all probability be
found there In the near future.
oar town Is somewhat duh Just now.
The most Of the wool producers are
shipping their ilccccs to the Northern
markets, not liking the low prices
which are offered here.
Pat Whelan. the energetic sheriff of
Nueces county, was here last Satur-
day. He took with him TO Corpus
Christi in the train one of our Jail
birds, who through the wlac 90 dc.
cision of our local magistrate, had
been put in the wrong cage Capt.
Whelan Is not only iirst-rite officer,
but lac Is gcntlemanly and clever
man.
The old Mexican whom wrote 10
you about some time back, having
been run over by cart and having
his leg fractured aud the foot Of the
other terribly crushed, under the skill |
fnl treatment Of DR.. kupfcr has On
tirely recovered. This may be con-
sidered IA miraculous cure OH man 50 |
years old with u compound fracture IN |
one leg, and modification setting IN |
the other foot, and restored 10 health |
with only the loss of one toe.