Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1883-09-14
TEXAS STATE NEWS.

Rev. Clarence II. Brader is lecturing
at Glen Rose in Somerville county.
A Statesman reporter was shown a
COW fish caught at the mill dam ON
the Colorado river. 1t was nine inches
in length and looked like IA lobster.
Beaumont Enterprise: Shipments
of lumber and shingles average fifty
car loads daily from Beaumont, and
about thirty cars a day from the Sabine
4 and East Texas.
Gainesville Hespelian: The scarcity
! of stock water is being seriously felt In
these parts now. We hear of some
near town driving five miles, the water
in their particular neighborhood hay
ing given out.
San Marcos Press: The falls of our
/ river over the new dam are in range
I with the old Austin road rs you leave
town in that direction, and furnish a
most beautiful sight. They look like
a flow of molten silver
There are eighteen prisoners in the
! Sherman Jail, all charged with felo-
I MES, and it Is Il remarkable circum-
+ s;ahce that among the number there
( is not single negro; there is, how
Z
charged with horse stealing.
/ FIoresville Chronicle: Rev. T.. Y.
Scale of Helena, states that stock are
almost on starvation for wantof wGter
in the vicinity of Helena. Pasture
men IL some instances are forced to
( turn their stock out To obtain water.
No rains have fallen lately and the
crofs are very short, making the out
look gloomy.
El Paso Times A small black cloud
moved slowly over the city yesterday,
and as il parted disgorged itself of pa
pers. leaves and trash OF every de-
SCRIP ton. One of the letters bore the
words, Fort Worth, August %, - upon
1t. 1T is possible that il was caught up
at that point in whirlwind and has
been carried this distance.
Paris North Team: We fervently
hope the refrigerator fellows will eX-
tend their operations on to Paris, and
give us beef that is better and beef that
is cheaper. You pay ~ cents for Your
steak III Paris. We believe that strictly
ilrst-class beef can be shipped from
Kansas TO this place and sold for 10
cents pounds at fair profit.
BRENNAN tanner: Tamales are re-
gnrded ms II great delicacy by good
many people here, and two or three
Mexicans are making fortune rapidly
selling them. The taste for tamales
like that for beer, has to be cultivated.
Iamaes, however, ought not to be
sold or eaten in the summer time.
They belong to the ''Rn months. as
oysters do.
Gainesville UesperidR: The fine
hnl IN, 10,
team, of which we made mention n
few weeks since TINT he had been
stolen. turns up in the brakes of Red
river near Browns ferry, where he
had been tied, and his remains show
that he had iretted and scuilled to ref
loose, but at last fell and broke mis- |
neck, and died there in famished
condition.
The Galveston CjGitaa reports the
uealh OF The cooperative grocery store
that did business on PuslUilice street
FOR over n year it was successful. fur
nlShing goods at less than retail prices.
TO increase business the credit svs- (
tenn was adopted aud soon the store I
had several thousand dollars i'm bad !
debts on its books and but few goods I
on It's shelves. The cooperators con- |
Guided TO wind up.
Gainesville Hesperian: Lanolev,s
father arrived last night and met 6is
son in the Jail. Efforts will at once IL,
made to get bail for him and which
now seems quite probable. He knew
nothing OF the trouble in which his
son had become engulfed till Sunday I
when he took the tain to Gainesyille
| Is quite probable also that Hapgard
viii give bail and go to the protection
and care OF his family who stand sadly
IN need ofhis assistance.
Fairfield Recorder: Old Barcus mn
old family negro of the MoOdy's. for
merly citizens of the county, died last
week at II very old age. thought To he
something near 100. He had lone
been truthful servant OF the Moodyis
had nursed their father in Viz inio
In recognition of his former worth
and services, he had IA pleasant home
at General Moody's ever since the war
ana when the family broke up and
moved away last year they kindly pro-
vide for his board and maintenance
NJ the old home, which he did not
want TO leave. Old iSarcus was
privileged character with .all thot
knew him. He talked as he pleased
ana dld as be fleased; and by his own
Color was regarded with the greatest
Nsheratlon ana awe, some thinking
MN nearly supernatural being.
ki Paso Times; A petition is being
circulated here and extensively signed
asking The president TO pardon yonn,,
300 Doughty. who was convicted ovsr :
year ago OF robbing the mail coach
running between Corpus Christi and ,
san Antonio, 10y the United STATES ,
court held at the latter place. Three.