Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1883-01-03
Esthesicism and Vice.
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esrrespsndencs or the Gazette.
CoLoRADo. December 3lst, 1872.
The last day of the year ushered in
the first hard spell CoIoradiaDs have
experienced. We have snow an inch
to inch and half deep and iine pros-
uccls Of more to follow.
Christmas festivities have simmered
down To an occasional insignificant
drunk and u ball every night.
The drunk and the ball have
no connection, however, MS the
gentlemen who take part in the
revelries Of the ball room are cautious
to appear ~ gentlemen In the presence
Of ladies, and consequently are not OF
the number who compose the more
inveterate tacklers OF the ardent.
A wheel of fortune withall the gilt
tering shine of such machines, was set
on its pegs here few nights ago, and
now reyolvcs regularly every night
keeping time TO the eloquent tones oi
the volluhle long-llaired gentleman
who will, doubtless, convince good
many of the 'bucklng'' boys that alls
not gold that glitters before he ceases
! TO crate on this 'systemp for getting
something for nothing. Something
! tor nothing, some one would say, but
is not that the way most fortunes are
accumulated?
There may have been time when
| there was blood on the moon, but there
| has been none here on our streets yet,
! growing out Of the war of words that
! has been INDUCED in between the
] ConBlercin Gunner and the Cofor0dO
! courier. Such u result il not likely to
occur, either, we might add, as WE
take IL, both gentlemen of these papers
have wisely concluded that, as n mat
| ter OF economy, il is better to adopt the
plan of fighting IL out with printers
ink thaa with pistols. a spirit OF
jealous rivalry for the patronage Of cur
! people IL, perhaps, the foundation,
and conviction that the use
of the power Of the press Is pleasanter
and cheaper than getting oneself
really TO compose the chief figure i'm Il
| funeral procession causes these gentle
men editors TO abstain from carrying
the war into Africa.
! The races at Eort C0ncho proved n
| Waterloo to the III paso turlman.
| learned, from gentleman Just re-
turned from there that Manning, the
owner Of the I'll paso stock, never
got second money even on angle
race. Also that the gentlemen from
this place were heavy losers on the
races there.
A new cattle company, composed of
Winfield Scott, General w. r. James,
| Richard Robinson q Bro. and a Mr..
Udei OF 81. Louis and perhaps one or
tao other gentlemen, was formed here
| the other day under the name of the
| Seven Rivers Cattle Compnny;n
Ranch, Seven Rivers, New Mexico:
capital stock, $3.50, 900; number OF cat
tie ut present, 10000 head.
| The Conanche Chief and the Colo
RADIO Coe,merciat-Ulpcr have oonsol-
dated, the former merging into the
latter, when the latter will be enlarged
and otherwise improved. The present
proprietor Of the Clipper IL very
worthy gentleman, and an addition OF
another of the same tyne will
certainly add to the popularity OF this
already popular sheet
There Is . considerable number of
stockmen living north Of this point
who have been very DESTROYS Of get
ling "a postoilice located at
| Snyder's Store point .
miles north, and exactly on
the road over which the mail at
| present passes There Ia no reason
| why such an Office might not he crea-
ted forthwith II the proper representa-
! ions OF the facts were presented to
the proper party.
| Prisoners IN jail here number eleven
nine OF whom stand charged with fell
onies and two are working ont fines
! imposed for misdemeAn IL.
AZ no city IN the state will the tray
| eier find ploassntcr set of gentlemen
engaged In the traffic OF catering to
the taste for suthin' STRONG, than he
may meet here by calling on Mcsars
lhiihnt Il Hall AT their superbly fitted
| up establishment, or across tho street
! inside the walls of he same kind of ~.
adjustment owned by Mr.. Virgins
Mr.. Robert smith OF Lawson s. Smith
" Co., was the recipient OF beautiful
| rinB ~ Il Christmas present.
iaere Is iestheticiStn for you. "Your
presence II very much desired nj thp
grand masquerade bali 20 be given nj
A. II. Johnson >, Colorado City Texas
ON Monday, January | 1883. Gents
without ladies and big smnower
charged double price, Such were
tile words on the cards that confronted
| me gaze OF the stcadiast Traveller of
pthe straight and marrow wayp when
opening their mil on YESTERDAY. and
Uncle Arch, through the action az
some mlschi ei'ioying youngsters, tlr.
urea ~ tho head of another sensation
IA Colorado, This new departure of
the keeper OF the dance hall, or dead.
lali, VIII have the effect of turning
more sheckels into his Golfers, thai
g.9w iuii only on the ruin of Young
men ana Vice of beings once called
women,
LAMAR COUNTY.