Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1883-08-22


"A photograph from which to have cuts
made. II will contain correct pictures
OF all the noted men OF Texas.
Francisco Luna died few DAVIS
since ut Floresville at the advanced
age of ninety-nine years. She saw
Padre Bedalgo ut Flascala during the
war of liberation. She possessed all
her faculties up to the hour of her
death aud died OF old are with no APP
parent disease whatever.
Gatesville .idUuncc: Parties going TO
Waco from Gainesville have to lie over
Mt McGrcgor just eight hours, ard
coming from Waco to this point, they
have to walt nearly four hours. This
Is positively outrageous. and there
never has been, 10 our knowledge, a
railroad before that made Mch un-
ointed connection with is own lines.
Denton Monitor: a Mexican lion
has been prowling in the vicinity OF
the city graveyard during the week.
On Tuesday night II entered the house
of Ann Wade and drove the dog from
under the bed and on "Wednesday
night 1t appeared on the porch OF the
same house, and frightened number
OF negroes that were sleeping thereon.
Ii ranges from Pecan to Hickory
creek, and has been the occasion of
great deal of excitement.
/ Waco Examiner: Mr.. Jesse Cargill,
one of the attaches Of the Examiner,
had severe experience Friday night,
caused by eating canned beef He
and his mother. Mrs. Cargill, and her
neice, Miss Susie Lambdiu, were all
taken SUDDENLY and violently i'll, and
for several hours suffered great agony.
These cases of tin poisoning are be-
coming very frequent, and should
have the effect OF making people care
FIJI how they use goods put mp i'll tin
cans.
san Antonio Express: Stockmen
and farmers from all points around
the city, and especially those living to
the westward, report that their stock,
such as horses, cattle and sheep are
dying in large numbers, because all of
the water holes and most of the
streams are dry, and nearly all the
grass dead or burned up. The num-
Der of stock that have already died is
very large, and serious fears are enter
tanned that a greater number will die
unless Il copious amount of rain falls
in season to prevent such 4 catastro-
phe.
Galveston Print: Mrs w. NJ. Ed
wardy, formerly of this city, created
something of q sensation at Bryan n
! few days since by suddenly leaving
/ the house at which she was stopping,
/ and lie wing notes to friends stating
1 that She was under pressure that sh e
/ could not stand aud was going away
| 10 find place among strangers where
| she could earn II living. She left her
I children behind, with Il request that
/ they be taken care of until their father
| could be heard from. MIR. E6lwardy
! received telegram from his wife
Thursday announcing her departure
/ and asking him to come to Bryan and
! take care of the children.
! sherman Courier: Richard Maughs,
| who shot Collins in Denison hast sun
! day. had his examining trial Friday,
4 and WAS held To answer in a bond o.
$500. He was placed under guard in
an upstairs room while his friends
We're making his bond and asked the
guard to let MIN go into a back room
to change his clothes. He walked out
on back roof. clambered down into
an alley, mounted horse and left TIL,
city. An acquaintance met him neal
Red river short time after, ridin.
leisurely along but he wore two pistol:
and was prepared to maintain his free
dom against any small force sent t.
arrest him. No effort was made t'
catch him and the general hope wa
. that he would get away.
Greenville Heru d: George White
youth thirteen years of age, VIII
lived with his parents on East CaddC
west of town, met with an accident OF
o Monday, July 80, that caused III
: death. He was working with
:, thresher on the farm of Stokely Cha
;, ney, and had climed on top of a whea
I stack for the purpose of throwing o.
Y the bundles to be threshed. He pule
8 the stick out of the top of the stack
:, and lost his balance, falling to tn
" ground with the stick in his nc
e the sharp end of which penetrate
- ach to the leighborhood of his heart
> He lived about eight hours after th
! accident, suffering intense pain unit
1T death gave him relief.
u Howard II. Doughty, who killed p,
l. liceman Mode at Ill Paso some tin
a, ago and whose subsequent flight an
ta capture increased the excitement ove
the homicide, has been admitted I
- bail in the sum of $500, In come
r. ton with the result of the preliminar
ut trial, the Times of that city says: ''rt
a,, case is one that presents some very III
- satisfactory features-the departs
u and absence OF important witnesses o
es cupied with other facts, being high
~ suggestive, and the public OF III Pa
40 would just rs Willingly subscribe
~ any fund for the prosecution of an
1t, person who either by criminal negle
rs, of duty or any act of conspiracy h
VS. made himself in this case amenable
"a the law, as they did tothe subscriptit
~, list opened to reward the capture
III Doughty.
az Gatesville Adednce: a rather laug
m able case of suicide attacked John Ma
ri field, citizen of Jonesboro, the 9th
day. He procured as he thought, 5
gratis of morphine from the Dir
store, but in reality the druggists p
up one gain, divided into Six par
49, Very soon he went to saloon and sa