Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1883-11-11


Thre hundred bales of cotton were
burned in WnXahachie last Monday.
Burnett has ten candidates for cltv
marshal. Its the first city election,
| too.
II Is claimed that $50 new resi-
dences has been built in Cisco this
year.
| Bowie Is incorporated, and the aues.
ton Is, who shall be the frat lord
mayor?
Nearly five thousand bales of cotton
are now stored in BRENNAN awaiting
shipment.
ID. G. Newman's gin near Antonio
burned last week. Loss covered by
insurance.
Machinery has been received to be-
gin work ON the prospective oil well
near Georgetown.
The Albany school has 12G enrolled
/ pupils, and II new school house will
soon be completed.
Hon. w. w. Merritt is the only can.
didate announced lor the legislature
from toillH county.
Mrs. G. w. Cox of Montague was bit
/ by small black spider the other
night, which came very near resulting
in her death.
Losses by fire in Austin for twelve
months ending October 3lst amounted
to 100000, on which there was $ll7,-
$50 insurance.
Several families lave recently
bought property and moved To Cisco
! for the purpose of sending their chill
dren to school.
| A county seat election between Ell
I Paso and Ysleta takes placeon Deem
Der 4th. The court house is now at
the latter place,
The c1lored porter ut the Jordan
/ house in Montague is the only negro
/ in town, aud consequently he attracts
considerable attention.
The Cisco d Brownwood Stage Co.
have recently ordered several buffalo
robes for the benefit of passengers
travelling over their line.
Numerous applications for state
lands now in the market have been
| filed in the surveyors Office ut San
Angela, Tom Green county.
/ Waco wants cemetery. With wood
ut eight to fifteen dollars cord, in.
cineration would be an expensive
way of dispo7ing of the dead.
George Reeves shot himself through
the head near Gainesville the other
day. He had deserted his WIFE and
had been drinking hard of late.
A thief entered the Presby terian
church ut Calvert, last week, and stole
the bible eight hymn books, aud four
or i've dollars sunday school money
The Ranger public school has about
eighty Weight students in attendance
There is also another excellent school
in the place, taught by Mrs. Niucel-
her.
The Cisco Telegraph has interviewed
several leading citizens on the ques-
ton Of Incorporation, which Is to be
voted on soon, and iindsa majority OPP
posed to it.
Cattle are coming into Denisou in
large numbers for shipment North.
give or six long trains loaded with the
Texas staple leave every day from the
Union depot.
The human remains lntely found
concealed in brush pile In EIearne,
near house of bad reputc, are sup
posed to be those of AN actor named
Brown, of Haverly's Ministries.
A company of Virginia Jubilee sing
ers arc travelling through the North
ern states for the benefit ofPaul Quinn
(colored) college of Waco. A novel
mode OF raising IN educational fund.
The North Texas Methodist CON
ference which meets at McKinpey
next Wednesday embraces abnLi, Z ~
hundred and twenty-siX ministers and
more than twenty-slx thousand mem
bers.
Judge Abbott, in his charge to the
iiill county grand jury, said that in
local option districts physicians have
bhe right to prescribe and sell alcoholic
stimulants and with the same propri-
ETY. as they would calomel or quinine.
Last week *. j. Touchstone, of the
lirm OF Touchstone Brothers, black
smiths, Gainesville, started to his
ranch IN the Indian Territory and
mas not been head of since, aud is
supposed to have been drowned in
Red river.
j.. a. Bond who, acknowledged that
he was wanted at Sumteryille. Fla,
on a charge Of robbing tie mails, sur
rendered himself to the authorities at
Jewett, stating that he was tired of
evading arrest and that he was not
guilty Of the charge.
A crowd of Ierrell's fast young men
went to Elmo to attend dance and
tried to run things their own way, and
while they We're running the dance
the Elmo boys shaved the tails of their
horses, mutilated their saddles, and
played other pranks on them.
Polk Jellrles, cowboy working for
sam White, was found dead I'm the
prairie Wednesday, about two miles
from the JbucSle headquarters ranch,
IN Wheeler county. He had been shot
through the head, and placard label
eh Cow thlef' was pinned 10 his
clothing.
The Right Jingle,