Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1883-07-27

til hoiOS vi iNt PNHHNa - |
weigh ng 1900 pounds, were received
1t Laredo few days ago from Mex
co.
Austin Citizen: The tomato cannery
If this city is now putting up about
4 900 can day. Seventy hands en-
ployed, mostly boys and girls.
Millerman, sole Texas representa-
tive of Texas at the Louisville show,
left San Antonio few days ago for
Louisville. He took with him
the usual chair made out OF COW
horns.
Dallas Times. The cutting of pas
ture fences still goes on in Shackeiiord |
county. 1t is the result of the owners |
of large pastures fencing up the water
holes. 1t will finally result in reg
ular war.
Last week four men went to the
house of an old lady living in Trinity
county and after tying her securely,
tried to make her tell where her money
was by burning her feet. She did not
divulge.
Gainesville Hespe,idm Gus Myers
mas n brood or puppies, red Irish set
tiers, that represent go d mine. An
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it is known that he was offered $50
for the choice.
Fort Davis Rocket a disease known
as black leg" has appeared among
the cattle of this county. Mr.. Charles
Muble has lost twenty head from it
aud Mr.. Ii. NJ. Beckwith OF Pena Col
orado, seventeen head.
The telegraph brotherhood in San
| Antonio deny the fictitious statement
OF General Grants death was used rs a
signal for the strike. All messages
are sent in cyphers, and the instruc-
tions to strike were sent in the same
way.
The milk vendors of Laredo were
arraigned before the police court and
! the milk offered for sale was tested
with a lactometer, and out of nineteen
/ cans six We're condemned as heing
adulterated with water, one lot being
| half and half.
Galveston Print: The Sunday law is
being closely observed and much dis
cussed now while the grand jury Is in
session. Within week the jury will
/ adjourn and the Sunday law will
scarcely be thought of except as the
! al noyance of n week or so.
San Antonio Light. A warrant is
out for the arrest of Mr. Ernest Never
who was connected with the Tyro-
leans, and who was recently married
in Waco. He absconded with "a lady's
rtunk, has omitted to repay Il loan of
| S25 from Sommers & Peterson, and
has done other things that he ought
not TO have done.
/ Baird Clarendon: The Portuguese set
! Element south of Clyde, we learn, be.
| gins to show favorably. These people
about twelve families settled up
/ there since last Christmas and most Of
them have very fine crops of corn,
nillct, sorghum, Irish and sweet po-
tatoes, together with very satisfactory
gardens.
San Antonio Light: A Mexican,
/ AiphonZo Rodriguez, who discovered
/ 500 in n box short time since buried
I in the ground at San Geronimo, was
in town last night. The money was
in American gold and silver, the box
being heavy one about the size of "A
! cigar box. He says money To the
amount of $4,000 is buried about the
same place, but lie is not certain OF the
| spot.
San Augustine StCcOH' Mr.. Il. G..
Roberts, OF Washington county, who
has been spending week with rela-
! lives in our town, left for his home
this morning. Mr.. Roberts is the last
surviving son of the early Texas pio-
neer, old Elisha Roberts, who came to
Texas in 1924 and settled in this
county. Mr.. +. G.. Roberts il there
! fore one of the oldest Texans i'm the
state, having been here sixty years.
A Chinese laundryman in San An.
/ tonic, who had married Cherokee
woman, filed the following verbal an
! piication for divorce in the recorders
court the other day. 1t is not in legal
form bat to the point Said Weng:
/ Me heap much malice Chellikleee
woman. She raisee top-sidc hellee
/ alice timee. She takee me fore le-
corder. Me, Chinee nance, wantee
washee, she, Chelliklee wantee flghtte
allie allie day. Me no lillee; she no
/ good. Me ,w.antee makee makee her
! divorce samee likee Melilen woman
/ quickee. You gimme Divorce, me
do your washee.h
I Austin MdteSp4dn: I'd Blocker, son
! Of Col. Blocker of this city came near
belng drowned in the South Platte in
] Nebraska. He was in charge of a
large herd of cattle, aud when they
reached the Platte they found it on a
rise ana they had 20 delay two orthree
weeks for ii to subside. When il had
/ gone down enough so that they
thought 1t possible to ford it, they
started the cattle across, young
Blocker following ON his horse When