Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1883-12-09

the class. Now 1t is almost impossihl
TO convict one of the worst cbaracter
because their companions In Grim
VIII come up and swear lie after lie /
eXonerate. Put n few of the periur
ers IN the pen and the ends of iustic
VIII oe the more easily attained.
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Inc Improvement in the grade an,
style of the horses driven to plensnr,
carriages in this city has been yrea,
during the past year. There mn,
numerous turnouts here now tba,
would attract attention on any fnsbion'
able drive, and the tendency Is IN Inv
letter ea' sun. BY the way, did you ever
a.e as many ana as handsome spotted
pronchos us are driven here I?
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IL. III. Allingham, a telegraph onera.
,or AT fort Worth, Tex, and Miss
Minnie Odell, employed in the West
ern Union office at ST. John, New
brunswick, have, says dispatch from
Cnlcago' been using the wires CON
siuerably during the past eighteen
months IN conversation. They at last
exchanged pictures. A proposal OF
marriage was then sent by telegram
ana accepted in the same manner, and
the lovers were married at Chicago
hotel last Saturday, the 25th uit
The Operator Yes,and Allinyhamis
many friends here are not vet done
congratulating him on the beautiful
prize he has won in the lottery of life.
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1t is frequent comment of old resi-.
dents of the city upon the large number
OF new female faces to be seen upop the
streets daily. Said an old inhabjtant
to me yesterday: "Time was when |
knew every gal in town, but now there
are hundreds of pretty and stylish
ones l never saw before.r And so
there are. Blue, brown, black and
gray.eyed girls hurry through the
streets, their cheeks glowing with
the. health impaired by the climate,
and their curls tossed by the wind,
they are AS pretty a picture as one
may see in hundred towns.
To me Jefferson Davis, in his simple
and transformations retirement, is n
grander hero than when u people
obeyed his beck and call, and in his
bounding ambition he saw nation
spring from his mighty brain. A
nation destined to go down in defeat
amid the blood and thunders of war,
but none the less mourned Ivy those
who gave their all to uphold it. Since
the Confederacy went 10 pieces he has
lived in secIusion amid the orange
trees and rice-ields of his sunny
Southern home; apparently oblivious
to the clash aud clamor of the world
outside, where mems hate and pas
sions were surging tiercer than ever
! In his self-eniorced retirement Mr.
Davis has shown himself greater
hero, truer patriot and better friend of
/ the South and ner people than the So
/ called statesmen who buckled on their
armor and entered the arena of pol
tiles. And think what he must have
endured to school himself into con-
tentment with the humdrum life he
now leads. He who all his life had
been soldier or an aggressive poll
| tician; whose life and animation arose
from his Ambitions to conquer and
excel. Suppose he had possessed the
nature of Andrew Johnson, how
much trouble lie would have entailed
upon the South. But he was too
much OF q patriot; he saw how lie
could serve his country and he did it,
though it buried him alive.
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The management of the opera house
should at once suppress smoking in
The galleries. 1T is dangerous to the
building and exceedingly offensive TO
the ladies in the audience.
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The manly forms and smiling faces
of number of prominent Western
cattlemen We're seen on the streets this
week. Your Texas cattle king is the
jolliest and most companiOnable of
men-whcn the range Is good and all
things else work together for his
good.
see an inquiry in Philadelphia
paper as to the whereabouts of the first
s. greenback. Note No. /, series one,
. the s. treasury notes Is the prop
erty of the Tennessee Historical So
ciety, aud handsomely framed, hangs
on the wall of the library at the capt.
toll in Nashville.
Christmas is near at hand and each
day between now and the great event
will drag YEARLY away to the little
iolks. What pity il is men cannot
experience on This day of peace and
GOOD will to all the unall0yed happi-
ness they did ~ boys. But then years
bring experience and ofttimes misery,
and happy is he who can retain even
until middle life u touch Of boyhood's
pleasures.
.1nGnau l1onlg 1olo IA y /
right 10 charge more than the regula-
lion fee fixed by law came up before
the city court "a few days ago aud re-
suited ..sastroualy TO the Jehu. A
Young gentleman wished to escort
lady to an entertainment. and engaged
"A hack "a take hlm 10 her home. bring |
them back, ami then take them nome |
again. For this the driver charged ~,
when Il most liberal construction 81
the fifty-cen ts-a-trip law could make II
amount to only So. The young nnaii
paid the So, but had the driver arrested
for over-charging and the court COM
pelled him TO disgorge ever ten OF MS
hard earned dollars. At the antlon OF
the court there was great indlgnalioh
among the hack-drivers, and II Is SAID
they resolved among themselves 10
boycott the young man VINO had re-
fused to be squeezed. However, they,
will think better Of this when told
they are public carriers and have no
egal right TO refuse passengers wileh
The many engineers OF
oublis hacks are prone TO over-esu,
nate the value Of their services, ana
he eve of the law should be constaAtly
lpon this class of them, to prevent
heir overchargipg unsuspectlhg GU
.ens. During the races, ! am toid,
me of them charged gentleman SpV