Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-01-14
CLEBURNE.
Tho New Greenback Paper-LOcal and
Personal Notes.

Special to the Gazette.
Cleburne, January l2.-The Green
back paper issued its first regular mum.
Der this afternoon, and will regularly
appear every Saturday morning. The
"True Democrat" which is its name,
is siX-column folio, patent outside.
| The publisher announces that he will
soon enlarge to five-column quarto.
| The Greenbackers in this county are
| not very numerous, but are very zeal
Gus, and it is expected that they will
support their organ. The platform
and principles as formulated are very
extreme, being anti-monopoly, anti
! bank.
The district court to-day finished the
| business Tor the term and will adjourn
tomorrow after the minutes are read
and signed. The business transacted
| has been heavy and laborious both TO
the officers and lawyers.
Prof. Fowler gave his final lecture
on phrenology last night to moderate
audience of men exclusively. He left
here to-day for Fort Worth.
Harry Patton, who got up descrip-
tive sheet of johnson county, leaves
o-morrow for Dallas, where he will
| undertake n similar publication.
Business generally is light, with
small cotton receipts. The stock on
hand is little above six hundred
bales, the holders OF which wait in the
hope of an advance of the market.
The shipments to date aggregate S, S23
bales.
II. r. Keene returned to Dallas this
morning.
S. b. Allen intended to take in the
stock convention at Austin, but Dallas
proved too attractive and he did not
go.
A gentleman from the saw mill dis
trict of East Texas was here to-day
prospecting, with the probable inten-
ton of establishing lumber yard.
This is good point for the sale of
lumber, the two yards ALREADY in the
business having together received
more than five hundred cars during
the year ending December 3lst. A
large part of their trade comes from
Hood and Somerveil counties.
The lack of drainage of that part of
the town Immediately west of the
railroad right-of-way, has been n stand
ing grievance and nuisance for NOR
than year. The city council several
months ago notified the Santa Fee COM
pauy TO open the culverts at the cross
ings, hut IL has not yet been done.
To-day when General Manager Sealy
and superintendent Crowley reached
here on their inspection tour, they had
consultation with the street commit
tee of the council in regard to the mat
ter, and agreed to take steps imme-
diately TO abate the nuisance. Ample
culverts and ditches will be put
in by the company across
it's reservation and the city will eX-
tend them the necessary distance to
secure thorough drainage.
Eight convictions for penitentiary
otieAses were had at the term of the
district court which closed to-day.
The greater part of them have been
cattle aud horse stealing cases.
The war against wire fences has not
diminished the demand for barb wire
ut Cleburne. Sales are large, and the
demand active. This wire is not pur-
chased for the purpose of repairing
fences which have been cut, for all the
wire destroyed in the country tribu-
tary to Cleburne would not make IA
dozen spools.
Work on the school house has been
suspended during the cold snap but
will be resumed at once. A large guam
tity of iron shingles for the roof came
yesterday.
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