Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1883-12-08

dumb supper the other night, Not 7" :
word was spoken during the enlire
meal.
| Col. II. G. Suggs of Burlington NO.
robbed of $40 at Gainesville. Inv !.
sneak thief who entered his room NJ
night. ~
Strawn has a flourishing school os
sixty-tive pupils, and it will have the
finest Christmas tree west Of Fort
| Worth. ~
The nippers cut n wire fence which
MI. II. a. thompson, near Runnels
was having erected. 1t was a notice
to quit.
] Cleburne is not very large town.
yet IL supports % variety theater and
the consequences Isl row there every
few nights.
Charley Rumrills artesian well Mt
Gainesville Is 2lS feet deep, Work
has been suspended until the arrival
of new machinery.
The walls of the college building nj
Cleburne have been completed. and
the work of putting on tile mansard
roof has commenced.
MISS Maggie COX, the young lady
who ran away from her home in
Mexia, has been captured in San An
tonic and taken home.
A cotton buyer in Alvarado. struck
q match on the tire of n wagon and set
six bales of cotton on fire. 1t was put
out before much damage was done.
Rev. Mr.. Russell, a Congregational.
4 igt Ininiltnr hnH
fire and birthstone sermon at Cleburue
last Sunday. So says the Chronicle.
About eight thousand dollars were
paid out to the troops ut Fort Davis
last week. The gamblers came in for
| their usual share, which is about two
thirds.
The little ten-yearold boy, who had
tramped all the way from Blooming
ton, ILL.,, and was found in Huntsville
sick and destitute, will be sent back to
his parents.
Mollie Hogan, who suicided at
Wichita Falls last Sunday, was form
erly the wife of Tom Hogan of Deca-
tur, who ended his life in the same
way about two years ago.
The Brenham public schools have
organized society, composed of pu-
pills, for the purpose of Ornamenting
the school grounds with shrubbery,
trees, etc. a good idea.
District Attorney Temple Houston
of Mobeetie, son of Gen. Sam Hous-
ton, is making things hot for evil
doors in his bailiwick, especially in the
suppression of disorderly houses.
No action has yet been taken in the
case of the imbecile murderer, Juan
Duran, now lying in Jail at Fort |
Davis. and respited to December l4th. |
He will probably be hung on that day.
Frederick Warde will give matinee
benefit to-day at Sherman to Miss |
Lillian Brown, half the proceeds to lie
given to help the brave but unfortu-
nate little lady out of her financial
troubles.
The Mobeetie people think that
others ought TO be more interested in
bridging Peas river than those whose
trade is sought. However, Wibargcr
county will help, when others show
the right spirit. +.
G. b. Sharp, charged with
rape and given fifty years in
one. case and condemned to be
hanged in the other, in the dis
trict court of Cooke county, has had
his sentence affirmed by the higher
courts, and must serve fifty years in the
pen and then be hung.
In Encinal county, a Mexican boy
fell into u well about fifteen feet deep
and containing nine feet of water.
The mother jumped in to save the
boy, the grandmother followed suit to
rescue her daughter, and the great
grandmother was in the act of going
over the brink when she tainted.
They were all saved by one man.
Mr.. Marlborough, who mysteriously
disappeared from Cooke county and
was suspected of being in some way
connected with the robbery of Squire
Yeakley, is in Illinois and will send
for his family. Perhaps he thought
highway robberies were becoming
rather too common in Texas, and he
had better get away.
There liz a place near Longview called
the Junction, where the Texas d Pa
citic and the International & Great
Northern railroads intersect. 1t is
outside the corporate limits o! Long
view, and the Surprise says it is the
pms Sipuhu vi tnlcNCSy ltDl-pu0b
and robbers. Still it is growing fast
and Longview begins to view it with
q jealous eye.
Mrs.. Riggs, near Morgan, was re-
Gently very i'll and apparently died.
While preparations were being made
for her internent she showed signs of
consciousness. Physicians were sum
moned and she completely revived,
her restoration being Immediately Sic
ceeded by the birth of a child. While
IN such critical situation nature gave
way and real death ensued.
Last Saturday, while Prof. Pratt was
stopped over mending some window
glass in his school house near Broom
field. in Cooke county, some one APP
preached him from behind and dealt
him a heavy blow on the back of
the head, Telling him to the
ground and kAocking him senseless.
On his recovery from the shock he
found that he had been robbed of all
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