Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1883-11-08

ST. Louis has one hundred and SIX
~ poker rooms.
Mrs. LANGrRY has said once more
that she doesn't care for social recognition.
AN English woman, calling herself
Engo, has walked 80 miles in 1000 hours.
REV. L.. CLUrE of Iowa City has Il
swarm Offices whose honey brought him
1880 this year.
ENGLrsu doctors say tea drinking is
causing more mental and physical diseases
than beer drinking.
THE night population of the city of
London proper, which answers to our Wall
and adjacent streets, is only 1900.
GENERAL Grant has finally consent
ed to be the orator at the next meeting of
the societ of the army OF tho Cumberland.
WEST Troy, n. ", is excited over
maniac living so hoe IN The woods near
there. He offered q BOY 100 TO let him cut
his throat.
FIVE women are candidates Tor the
oaice OF superintendent OF public schools in
as many Nebraska counties, and all arc
regular party nominees,
WoEKMEN digging in the bed of
phosphate recently discovered AZ Cam bridge,
Md, found last week Tho psmdcd skulls OF
three children, and tho foo5, ankle and alp
per ora woman.
THE big diamond recently found in
South Africu, though Weighing nearly six
ounces, Is not estimated as worth more than
$4,000, the color being bad. However, bath
ofacid has Improved H.
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TIE wills of Canton, China, are of
sandstone, capped With brick. They are
twenty feet thick and from twenty-five to
forty feet high There are twelve outer
gates, four in the partition wall, and two
water gates through which boats pass into
the moat east and west The gates are all
shut at night, and II guard is stationed near
them to preserve Order.
IN 1866, in the reorganization of the
army, Col. Frederick w. Bentcen refused
mnJorship In Ninth cavalry, because 1t was
colorcd regiment, deciding 10 wait for va
cnoy. The vacancy has come at last and II
Is the malorshlp OF the Ninth cavalry, the
one lac refused seventeen years ago, and for
declining which he has lost $500, the differ
ence IN the salaries OF II captain and a major
W
"pOMPEYn GRAHAM, an old darkey
at present living in the town of Montgom.
ery, y. y, Is not less than one hundred and
bgrs the dlsbsniment OF the Rovolutionar
/ army at Eewburg, the event taking place
when he was about eighteen years old. At
HUT time 'Pompey" was slave in the era
ham family at Shnwangunk, md after his
emancipation lie retained the Graham name.
80
a PRETTY young girl told n plaintive
story before justice of Albany, N. y =, recent
Is, complaining that dashlng Harry Finkle.
| stem ofTroy had won her affections and.
under promise OF buying her "a trousseau,
borrowed Ste nom hor. The girl aiterward
learned that her Harry was engaged TO sew
"nteen other girls of whom he had borrowed
similar sums. 20 the match was broken Off
and an attempt made to recover the money.
800 ---
AN Immense dressed-meat depot Is
10 bo erected in Plttsburg this winter. II Will
be u stock concern with n capital OF s2OOC0D
me IDEA orthe promoters Is to crowd out all
the city butchc sand dealers. The plan Is 10
rent and III UP butchers shops In various
parts OF the city, probably 80 or 30 of them,
ana supply them with Observation-Disclosures
Deer, brought there In refrigerator cars. The
company VIII hold the ownership of these
new shops, but will let them out TO RESPONSE
nie parties, who must take their meat from
| the PROJECTORS,
IHE following, which is an extraor-
o'hary event, is from u salisbury, WL1
correspondent: MIR, and Mrs. josiah Kurd
reside In SYNDICATE, VI. lie Is 90 years of age
ana his wife is three years younger. Wed.
hesday last about sixty-hve friends assem-
ped nj their residence TO celebrate tho
seventeen anniversary of their we.,ding
The old couple were In good hee.th ana
seemed to enjoy the gathering. Mr.. Hur1,s
ialher was Cap, Lewis Hurd. who served
through the war OF the revolution. The agad
couple are now living In the same house iho
bride occupied seventy years ago, and thew
nave resided there ever since.
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! CONSIDERABLE excitement was &c.