Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1883-11-26

HENRY FLEMING of Philadelphia
is suing Mrs. Young pretty widow to whom
he has been engaged, for suddenly declining
to receive his visits,
SPEAKING of the labors of the Nor
mon missionaries sent south the salt Lake
Church journal says; "Thc field is unfruitfu
and the climate unheolthful."
THE regular appearance in ST. Pc
tersburg OF the nihilistlc organ, the WIN o.
the People, suggests that policemen must be
about the same all the world over.
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a LITTLE white boy was found in
the market ut Augusta, Ga, the other day
by some colored people, who took him over
into another county and sold him for So
EY-Gov. CoBuRN, who has never
been married, is the richest man in Maine.
with no spring and fall bonnets TO buy,
man may acquire wealth in the bleakest of
climes.
O'CoNNELL told n story of an usher
in an Irish court one day being anxious to
thin the courts, and who called out: IAN we
court
IN Austin the Democratic candidacy
for mayor has gone on a still-hunt after
taker The idea that the office should seek
the man seems to prevail, but perhaps 1t is
because II is n Republican town.
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THERE are 1871, 1865 bee hives in
France, from which lave been taken this
autumn 1887 ,2Si pounds of honey aud $780,
SOS pounds of wax, the total value of the pro-
duct amounting TO about si,6O0,00.
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The Galveston News actually notes
the defects in its daily contemporaries. There
was n time when IL didn't condescend 10
rec gnze the fact of competition.
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THE fine Italian hand of O'Brien
Moore is recognized in the electricity that
seems TO have been applied to the old lady's
spinal column. 1t sparklcs now like Il young
thing away from her mother
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THE boys are anxious to see the "a
hour clock introduced. They want TO know
II the old man is going TO cheese the racket
he has hitherto been making when the hands
on the dial point to the hour of II.
FRANK L. BARNES, II young Georgia
negro, is in New York developing great gifts
as n painter. He paints landscapes and por-
traits-is fine colorist-and has painted the
portrait of President Arthur.
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IT is related of John b. Cough, the
lecturer, that when IA boy, alone, friendless
and penniless In New York, he sold his knife
to buy postal stamps and letter paper with
which TO write to his parents.
FRIDAY, at New Lisbon, Ohio, n di-
vorcc was granted to an aged couple ON the
ground of the improper intimacy of the wife.
sixty years old, with her pastor. The evil
dencc tnat convicted her was given by her
son.
BENEFITS Herald heads the account
of an afiray between two farmers in this
state "a Texas Argument AS between the
bullet MS Judge and the dollar as n voter hon
ors a'e almost even between the Empire
states.
CAMERON delights in fighting men
and thinks Malone cannot he killed of so
young. II has been said though that Ma
hone never was n fighter he merely bobbed
up serenely when tho division of the spolls
began.
NEARLY all the idols worshiped by
the heather in Africa and India are manu-.
featured in England and pay n handsome
profit, exceeding, in commercial value, that
OF the books, bibles aud tracts sent TO the
same destination.
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DIGGING out tarantulas and their
nests has become quite an industry in Santa
Barbara, Cal. The insects are sifiucatcd
with gas, then stuffed, dried and fastened to
"A card. The retail price is 20 cents each, but
many hundreds are sold wholesale for So or
81 per dozen.
The interest on Mr.. Vanderbilt's
United States bonds goes on at The rate of
= jS minute. 1t makes Mr.. Vanderbilt
horny handed to cut of all his coupons, but
as they don't cost him cent in taxes he tries
to he cheerful and to abstain from mention.
ing his fatigue.
IL New England alone last year
there Were 22l persons killed by railroad
trains and 5I5 wounded. There were many
important battles during the late war in
which the casualties were less. The princi-
pal causes ofsuch n large number of accidents
are single lines OF track crossing at grade
and track-wnlking by careless people,
TEXAS STATE NEWS.
Cotton receipts at Tyler this season
will probably reach $4,000 bales.
The Methodist Sunday school at