Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1883-01-13
hmping Treasurer Of Tennessee
Queer Facts in His Per-
sonal History.
Bragg Notes for the Coming
|storian What is Said Of
the Civil Service Bill.
h Intellectual Effects of Clerical
Re in the Capital Grant
In Washington
Gay Time With the, Mobility
A Dead Cat.
b Theory Of Disease Climbing
the Golden Stair.
III ~ \
and His Ajax Telemon- Fat Fee
the Government to Pay.
.respondcnce of the Gazette.

Jurisprudence of the Gazette.
NAsHINGToN, ID. c., Jan, 8.
I'm. Polk, late treasurer of Ten
as q plucky, ambitious sol.
Gated ut West Point, and a
gof President Davis and of
eneral Polk; he had, In 1851,
Vantage demanded by youth
ing ambition. He was, how
licted to gaming and the bot
and S. p. Bankhead. both
of artillery, at Columbus,
n, in 1861, were engaged one
ii a great game of old sledge,
hidden quarrel put an end to
basement. Bankhead broke
/ over Folks head and Polk
&nkhead out of the window of
b they occupied.
has devoted TO the bishop-gen-
Is name. and his family. Gen
H. confirming the bishops per-
foism, constantly asserted his
h for the duties and position Of
commander. Bragg always
that he lost the fruits of two
B&because of the bishop-gener-
mess. AT Perryville the con-
delayed five hours by Folks
y in obeying orders, and fail
bring on the action as
at sunrise. Darkness had
hen victory was won and every
Lee lost save victory.
ickamauga Bragg had ordered
begin " action at sunrise.
o'clocx c..,ile, on the morning
little, Bragg was striding back
th watching the sun and his
ce. He would stop and listen.
R8hear Folks gunsH he would
Ris aides-de-camp. He finally
of them, Polk b. Lee, to Gen.
HE the message, ASK Gen.
In in the name of God he has
R2ht on the battle?n Lee found
% armed rocking chair by a
fire reading u newspaper.
mivered Bragg's message,
Eat once got about the bust
pving his divisions upon Ros-
4bht it was too late. Night
w down upon the victorious
ties, but darkness made pur-
beaten enemy and perfect
Xmpossible. Bragg said at
b the morning of the battle,
would sleep that night in
bga. He afterwards ascribed
ire to the bishop-generaPs
Be and comfort. Lee, the gal
eede-camp, recited these facts,
iyen, and was virtually as
By Marsh I. Polk. A
was agreed upon, but
Srevented it, and Bishop-Gen-
III having been killed soon
Ids by n stray cannon shot,
never any public discussion
&cts. Bragg would have de-
Mneral Polk ut Perryville, as
Xamauga, but President Davis
BIT suffer it. Bragg used to
FIRING to his lieutenant gen
mo man could be a soldier
~ keep a COW and-mug."
% CIVIL SERVICE BILL
theme of discussion in this
loee-holders. The Republi-
Wdelighted. They confess, in
coming supremacy of the
PIC party, and by using
have perpetuated the
offices by the barnacles
Il twenty years. Then, too,
heme devised for the estab-
pr divers courts in China and
kding Republicans secure rich
with fat salaries. Mean.
hing men trained for exam
this board and those who
IS to its chiefs will be pre-
/ ten thousand places sought
band could be better filled by
d more satisfactorily than by
rical duties in the depart
of the simplest character,
erk has the same trifline
lgned him every day and
the year. Two hundred
erks in the pension bureau
siefs of letters from one
to another forever. Three
the postofiice department.
IN printed contracts. Wom'
re best clerks in the dead-lettel
SO 1t will be found in each
4spartments. Why, when thc
Is open for herdsmen and
and tillers of the soil, are
Young gentlemen converted
1Rmies and unthinking ma.
these government offices
linly when male and female
for places illustrate
linations equal fitness
oQies to be imposed
uld be preferred. But there
ness of sex that overrides
ions of public policy and OF
women, outnumberIng men
pne in states that furnish
14f number of clerks find il
m difficult to secure places
OF equal intelligence. The
y always sober and discharge
gned them with greater
Y care and fidelity, and
The qualities demanded in
Hral offices. But then they
and welding little polit'
lence are excluded that
ercss-road speech-makers
embed within white wall:
r IN monotonous tasks thai
lai weakness akin to idiocy
SOFT places, begetting soft.
MA, may be multiplied, the
eau is to be endowed with
NE. II will close up its re
decade with The beginning
and here we have another
OF clerks and stipendiarie'
oil the absorption of money
f by these modern methods