Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1883-03-20
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Burglars robbed several houses in
Groseback last week.
The wagon for the Temple hook and
ladder company is en- route.
A huggiug party il to be given in
Temple for the benefit of the church.
Charges $3.50 per minute,
A lodge of knights of rythias has
been organized Mt Temple.
At Lampasas storm last Tuesday
blew down several buildings.
Harve Morrison shot and badly
wounded w. ID. Haggard, twelve miles
east of Gainesville.
The trial of Gumbert who killed
Samuels in Paris, occurs Wednesday,
A young man named Radcliffe, of
Beaumont, had his leg badly shattered
by the breaking OF n circular saw.
Blind Tom is now appearing,to audi
ences in eastern Texas.
Tom Naruell has not been captured
rs yet, but the Mirror says the Hill
county officials are making every effort
to catch him.
The citizens OF Hubbard CITY, near
which place the .Narnali- Land outrage
was committed, held meeting and
adopted resolutions condemning the
act and pledgidg themselves to up
hold the officers in enforcing the law.
! Speaking ot the parties to the tragedy
the Hubbard City Nocs saws: 1--WE
have no comment to make. Let peo-
pie read and draw their own conclu-
I sion, which, in the face OF the above
! evidence, cannot be favorable To VAR
nell. The Land family stand as well
as any family in the country who have
been here no longer than they have,
! and If the girls have not always acted
In u lady-like and proper manner, 1t
has been kept from the public ear,
which Is not apt to be the case. Mr..
Land was member of the Ma
/ sonic lodge at this place, and
/ Miss ELLA had taken the daughters de-
gree in the same lodge. Speaking OF
! the same case the Hillsboro Miro,
says: Tom y. Narnall was engaged in
The saloon business in Hillsboro, q
4 partner of his brother-in-law, John
Sweeney. His mother, Mrs. +. L..
( Narnlal, lives on Ash Creek, neai
| Massey, about II miles from Hillsboro
Is a clever old lady and is looked upon
] ms one of the kindest-hearted women
in Texas. She has seen a great deal
trouble Her husband was murdered
in cold blood few years ago, and n
son, aged rs, was also shot and killed
at Patton's mill in Me
/ Lehman county. Tom u, was
! the youngest child, and INDUCED by /,
/ good mother in all his wants and
whims, never learned the value of n
! dollar, and on account of the luke.
warmness of officials in failing to dc
their duty, he had began to think
everyone was afraid to arrest him
which he imagined gave him licens,
TO do ~ he pleased. As far rs tn,
statement that he has been changing
around here intimidating and shoot
ing negroes and mdulging in Nariou.
other acts of desperadoism, y Is CON
cerned, the prominent citizen 4
very much mistaken,
Evidently Narnall il somewhat of q
( pet and hero IN Hin county, though II,
4 committed the most dainnable deed
+ that ever disgraced the annals o
/ Texas.
! Isaac and Rufus lie Fors returned
I from Fort Worth on "Wednesday last
On their way up through Greer coun.
I " they killed a Qu, er Kind of an ami
( nal, dressed its hide and brought Il
( ON to town. Numerous persons hay,
Z examined II but none have satisfac
/ torily said what 1t is. Ii measure,
/ twenty-five inches in length and Il.
I body was about the size ola large rat
~ had neck six inches long. IL wa.
/ colored like prairie dog, hut had linel
/ fur, and WAS killed in prairie dos
4 town. What is it, The Panhandi,