Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1883-08-25

city was married at Cleburne Tuesday |
last. He returned home and finding !
his mother strongly opposed to the
step he had taken, he procured large |
dose of morphine which he swallowed. |
BY the timely efforts of physicians he |
was restored, when he immediately at |
tempted TO take another dose.
b. Wilson Edgell has been are.
moved from the editorship of the
Vernon Guard by the proprietor of
the paper. For some time Edgell has
been in the habit of chasing the
sheriff and other reputed good citizens
of Wiibarger county with COW thieves,
and accused them also of being the
friends of murderers and gamblers.
San Antonio Times: From January
lst TO August Is, inclusive. the Inter
national road shipped from this point
2203 bead of cattle and $500 head of
sheep. The value of the stock would
not fall far short of 100000. The Sun
set line has carried from here about
1900 head of cattle and 10 400 sheep,
aggregating in value about 100000
Waco Examiner: AS the assessors
returns come in Comptroller Brown
stands amazed. The increase in taxa
BILE values surpasses all expectation.
County after county comes forward
with its tribute to the state and Treas
urer Lubbock talks of new vaults to
| hold the gold, silver and greenbacks.
! When all the returns are in ii will be
! found the state is nearly Sl00,0)00)9
| richer in taxable values than she was
! this time last year. The governor es-
! Inmates that twenty cents ad vala-
rem tax will suffice for next year.
Brennan Banner: Some years ago
a party of Mexicans passed through
here selling Mexican canary birds and
sharing hooking birds. They let
some of the canalies, which resemble
the singing canaries in general form
but are much smaller and dark colored
escaped from captivity. The birds,
have increased and multiplied until
| they are now far more abundant than
the native hooking bird. The Next
can canary does not sing, but he is Il
comely little bird to the eye, has n
splendid appetite and can eat grass
seed with voracity that is almost as
tonishing.
Woodville Eureka: IF what we hear
be true the convicts who are being
worked on the Tyler Tap railroad, in
this county, are treated most inhu-
namely. They are made to labor till,
from excessive heat in these sultry
August days, they faint and fall very
like so many beasts. With returning
life they are forced forward again. I'M
der penalty of beng scourged like
hounds. The guards seem to vie with
each other in treating them with
utmost cruelty. Only few weeks age
II convict was mercilessly shot, and
there was almost deadly contention in
camps among the guards rs to who
was entitled to the credit of the bar
barous deed.
Marshall Herald A villainous act
, OF some party on murder intent was
: intercepted last Tuesday evening or
: the plantation of Mr.. james Galloway
1 in this county. about eight miles NORTH
a of town. A small vial was taken from
: we'll on the place, the water from
u which well is used for drinking pur
e poses by Che hands on the place ant
i by the family of Mr.. Galloway. Tn
! vial was brought to town and the con
: tests subjected to the usual chemica
e test and pronounced to be strychnine
a The vial was stopped with brown pa
n per, and only q few grains of strych
= nine were remaining in it, and it i
l. was dissolved in the water in the well
o Marshall Herald: The negro Bo
! Johnson, who was confined in the jai
@ mt this place some time ago for tamper
:, ing with the mails, made his escape OF
- Tuesday evening last, and is now n
II large. 1t seems that by some mean
lie that Johnson had gotten an instrumen
"a like saw. with which he had cut TIL
!, bars of the corridor railing and on tina
u evening as Jailer Hargrove went il
H. and upstairs to fasten the uppe
rs cages, he unthoughtedly left the doc
40 open or unfastened behind him, an
80 while the jailer was up stairs Johnso
"a opened his secret hole in the corrido
he railing and passed out the door an
is through the gate, not seen and no
RS known by the jailer or any one elst
ne 1t was not discovered that Johnso,
re was gone until yesterday morning
to some eighteen hours after.