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Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-08-03
Arrested for Theft-Notes.


ALvaRADo, Aug. Green Cudd,
who lives four miles north OF town
aud who is indicted for theft of cotton
was arrested Friday by the sheriff In
Cooke county and turned over 10 Off
Ger NJ. NJ. Mosely, who lodged him in
the Cleburne Jail.
b. M, Hord, wealthy citizen of
Hope, Ark, closed trade Yesterday
with Prof. J. II. Posey for lot on the
north side Of the square aud will com
mence at once the erection of two
story brick house. Mr.. Hord will
open and carry a large stock of gents
furnishing goods.
j. Z. Spears IL having a brick store
house bullt on the west side of the
square, and when completed will oc-
cnpy II with his mammoth stock ofdry
goods.
MIR. and Mrs. A. u. Aaron are epioy-
lug the cool hreezes of the gulf at the
Beach hotel, Galveston.
A light shower OF rain fell yester-
DAY. but not enough to do crops any
good.
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Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-08-03

| by telling statistics he exhorted the
audience that much still remains to be
done. E'oquenrly he eulogized those
noble men who have so literally pro-
vided for the education of generations
yet unborn, that the rich and the poor
alike, those blessed with worldly for
tunes no more than those less favored
the orphans of the heroes of San
Jacinto and the Alamo-might upon
the level of equality, that great under.
ment, drink from the bubbling foun-
tain of education. Grandly he por.
trayed in prophecy the grandeur and
wealth, both physical and intellectual,
of the Texas of the future. AS he in
burning words enumerated and illus
trated the manifold blessings accruing
from popular education, was there Ia
that spacious hall, crowded as
it was to its full extent, one man
so insensible and deaf to the
plesdings of the spirit of the age,n
whose chosen mouthpiece was brill.
liant, witty, patriotic Dick Hubbard
that did not say with all his heart:
will pay my school tax willingly gladly
and not grumble.
SAID The governor In concluding: III
there is word In the English language
Il which | harbor decided aversion
II is the word 80 full of pain, Fare
well.' | never say farewell-rather
let it be good-by. Let us hope that
we shall all meet again. Good-by.
God bless you"
AS "Old Dick" concluded his ad-
dress and resumed his seat he was
again vociferously cheered.
Miss Powers ability as director of
the closing caiisthenic exercises de-
serves special praise.
Such was the brilliant finale of the
Mineola summer normal, the equal OF
any in the state in Its personnel, and
superior to most In point of success.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-08-03

many d gay diu the rain!
Hoxie, Hayes and Other, y
pleasant structure bafos 4 B
tured them.
The business street Of III,
the railroad. and Its severn }
solidly built stores presents
pearance. but here aud M
vacant, and Palestine SEEM
fallen behind in the process
ress. Vet Anderson CONT
ductive, and said to be cspilI
things.
Among other handsome
the town one street Is potjs,
all others. Extending fror1
railroad tracks and well NJ
half mile back, this stres,1
be admired, for on Il q,
homes surrounded by trims
and flower gardens adorus! !
tains, statuary and SUNNI
Here evidences Of taste u
ment are abundant, and ihI
true of ones home Is Shltpl
Is true of clothes, "-0hI
the man." ] am told thll Y
of this street, with its lnu
perfect growth Of sycsn1
trees, Is due largely to III /
people and Others who ID 4
made this their home; h,u
may be, Palestine gives b
cities an example well word
tation.
Among the more pronl
lures of the place Is TIE ~
pie built in 1878 at . cost
900. Bonds were issued d
pose but unfortunately
found it impossible to M
terest and SO the building
private hands. 1t contAln I
house, plainly Furnished y
of much identifying II iihsl
fled. An old-lashioned q
near neighbor to q fine mos7l
much pretension, and
are the county's judic1
and helps. The jail \
into good company ITSELF,
society it may contain wli|
by, rising by slow degree
Penn's famous nickel cnal'1]
creek of Palestine there \
and it weeps as 1t remempse)
perity of others OF like fai!l|
Surely such a paraphrasen1
never was more exertion
made in a good cause INV
done by the earnest ma)ol
ress is slow and work Is ae
on the church. But few y
and few Of those are OF lag
the building gathers cobt1
people gather grace ana \ 4
some day the desire o J
heart will be completely
elegant stained-glass wlnos.
walls and cushioned
Methodist brethren a!e y
completion a splendid, In N
laIgs capacity. Whiie ~
merely frame, 1t will oe IN
as to cost upward Of
Christian denominatio,n, Y Y
build opposite the !, ~
| pie. Palestine u
growing to. any 80;
degree, but she nas VI \,
reasonable amount Of WI X
seems no reason why Sue
at least hold her own; .,r
Among the several y
zens of Palestine the m :,
meets none 80 surely ~,
| pleasure that G. A. r'e !,
was never called genera, ~ I
the same basis G. A. sIe ~
digniiied as a ihsjor Q. M N
uniform good nature = .,, =
roaming, rampant dunn d, "
Bile, admits Of ms Nj
simply "Stern;" but .n y
In name. His perez
leads you to believe tn ~
twin brother to foit ~, MA
Chase, (.sign Of the 10 iou, y Y
a meeting OF the Two ',o.
that of the two Dro ~ N
are always found IN 'n'
business life. ofCs
Here is the hone n,s, !. [
Reagan, and State ssn. tb,I
WI, NAV Mt once gue
would be found ~ Vim .,re. b
little city as Is Pale !: : III
nenca aud ability y . ',dsls
that of the men OF Ap
jecent counties.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-08-03
AT BELLvILLE.


BELLvILLE, Aug. 1.-The normal
school at this place closed yesterday
evening. Three of the pupils in at.
tendance will 80 to the Sam Houston
normal, having stood the desired per.
centage in the several branches of
study. The whole wound up with an
agreeable entertainment. AT night
appropriate addresses were delivered
10y Judge Blake of Bellville and Prof.
Watson of jacksonville.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-08-03
THE SUMMER SCHOOL.

Special 70 TIE Gazette,
MARSHALL. Aug. The closing
exercises OF the normal school for the
whites took place at the Presbyter
church last night. There were thirty
one Ia attendance during the term.
Eight first and seven secondclass Ger.
tilicates were issued. The season for
the colored normal school closed to-.
day. About one hundred were In at
tendance. During the term forty-five
applied for certificates, only twenty
We're successful. The examinations
were very rigid. The wonder is that
50 many passed. More general inter-
est was manifested in the success of
these schools this year than ever be-
fore.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-08-03
AT GREEyyILLE.

Special to the Gazette.
GEEESvILLE, Ten, Aug. 1.-The
normal school closed here last night
with interesting literary exercises.
The school has had full attendance
and has succeeded In working up
lively educational interest here.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-08-03
The Exposition Concert.

coRsIcANA, Ten, Aug. .. = The
exposition concert was a success in
every particular. Mrs. Kouns Of Hous.
ION assisting very materially with her
hne voice In making the best amateur
concert ever given In Corsicana.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-08-03
BurIsd a Gr''s'

NEW York, Aug !'!.s ~
was buried At Gf " 4
to-day. AmontH. ,sS;ieisg y
Mayor Edison, inuilF :
NJ. Stone, Benz =.
Blatchf0rd.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-08-03

CHICAGO, LII" {, -
shelby. general freisn'
Union Pacihc r ALL ~
from Omaha that ~. ~ q
the NrbraskA ansssiievtG !
Texas fever, but 81 !.
completely s'smpss Z
cases have been sstn I
last two days anu ! ecrsyvb,
have been taken 70 ,,!s,s Y
from coming IN oo ia
fected spots aud trs'. z
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-08-03

Tue best smoking tobacco 10 Little
Joker
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-03-27
Train Talk.

From the Chicago Morning Herald.
Scene firSt-Gentleman leaves his
wife, saying he wants to go forward
to the smoking car to have a cigar.
Wont be long, my dear"
Scene second-Gentleman in coach
next ahead, which is not the smoking
car, enjoying not a cigar, but the COM
psny of a pretty and vivacious young
woman, with whom he appears to be
on excellent terms.
Scene third (after an hour)-Gentle-
man returns to his wife. II know
I've been long time, dear, but l met
Mr.. Hardy, of Galena; you saw him
get on at Freeport, didn't you? We
had quite long talk about some bust
ness matters" Another gentleman who
turns out to be the Mr.. Hardy, ap-
proaches from the rear coach, and des-
pite the winnings and grimaces of
gentleman No. 1, says: "Why. how
do you do, Mr.. and Mrs. Smithers!
Smithy, old boy, [ didn't know you
were on the train
Then Mrs. Smithers picks a long,
black hair from her husbands should
er Cher own hair being quite red), and
silence reigns. But we can see from
Mr.. STithers' meekness and Mrs
Smithers' flashing eye and compressed
lips, as they, without word, alight at
their destination, that it is but the
calm before the storm sure to break
before the sun has set allow down in
the red west.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-03-27
That Kind of Democrat.

From the Dallas Evening Times.
The G. News calls Hal Greer life
long democrat, and yet Hal voted for
Wash Jones. Ask him if it is not so.
In Galveston ashort time ago we were
seated at table at the hotel with
Greer on one side and a strange gen.
tleman on the other. In few min
utes there was an uneasiness at our
stomach. The fish were not spoiled
and the eggs sound. Hal and the
stranger lally-gagged across our plate,
and as our face bleached in deathly
sickness we asked first Greer and then
the stranger if they did not feel un-
comfortable. An Introduction fol-
lowed all around, when it was ascer-
tanned that the stranger was from
Virginia, and warm political friend
of Malone, and that Greer had jumped
the convention at Galveston when
Ireland was nominated, and voted for
Wash Jones. The cause of the quick
friendship Of the two and our sick
ness was explained. According to the
News standard Greer is a lifelong
democrat, and one whose suggestion
that the tEo-thirds rule should be
abolished, should be listened to. The
Virginia gentleman is somewhere in
the state, and is doubtless in favor of
Greer'S move.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-03-27

tears, starvation, destruction, loss and
misery of all kinds. Are we not pay
ing too dearly for the experience?
Who will dare stand before the bar
and acknowledge that this, the disas-
ter of the ages, is the result of his mis-
taken views of public policy, or of the
incapacity to estimate in advance,
the force of threatened evil such as
this? Who will answer to the pale
mourners who survive the people
strangled by the flood? Who will be
called upon to replace the money and
the property lost by people who obey
the laws, pay taxes and who fight in
defense of the country? These are
entitled to protection from the floods
in the Mississippi just as much as from
the invasion of a foreign foe, There
is dreadful responsibility somewhere
where shall We place it?
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-03-27
Speculative Industries.

Mining is one of those speculative
industries nearest of kin to gambling.
1t is very fascinating and to the novice
who sees a bonanza in every piece of
mineralized rock, it is absorbingly SO.
There has been far too much of the
green-eloth business about silver and
gold mining, but when the same bust
ness rules are brought to bear on this
industry which are universally adopt
ed in other lines, it becomes legiti-
mate and its results may be depended
upon as certainly as on the operations
of skilled and industrious agriculture.
The worst feature in speculative in
dustries is that they induce reckless
ness of living, and expenditure which
is unhealthy and which often plunges
the unfortunates into irremediable
troubles. This has been the history
of mining, of stock operations OF all
kinds as well as of cotton and grain
futures. The fact is there is just a
little dash of gambling in most lines
of trade and the very incest percep-
tions are necessary to enable one to
draw the line between legitimate
speculation and the most seductive
and alluring phazes of business gam
bling.
The people of Texas are speculative
to wonderful degree, and they are
peculiarly exposed to the vices
attendant upon such enterprises
as have the glamour of Mexico
and Mexican mining operations
as a base. Many millions of
money have in the past been invested
in Mexico by citizens of Texas. We
have as yet to hear of a single divi-
dend paid on such investment. The
simple statement of this fact ought
to operate to dampen the ardor of our
people in this way, or at least to in
duce the caution necessary to protect
from the enormous losses which have
the history of the past.
There are legitimate and promising
enterprises in mining but these do not
stand open to al corners, and its stock
is not hawked through the markets at
prices which resemble the fictitious
valuation of confederate bonds
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-03-27

acceptably judicial position, yet he
has always been considered an honest
man and fairish in his instincts.
This is a view democrats take. The
opposing republicans, many of them,
consider hin the sum of all human
villainy. Of James G. Stratton, the
attorney for the district, we know
less, but we believe he is good law
yer, and he will probably make good
officer. Tracy, the marshal, every
body knows. Personally he is good
fellow. Bold, and somewhat reckless,
yet he is reasonably honest, and will
do as well as anyone in the position.
He is a bitter partisan. but has per-
sonal friends among the democrats
where he is known.
There was one appointment, on this
occasion, by the president to which
we refer with exulting pride and in
tense satisfaction. 1t was that of that
glorious, grizzled old hero, David S
Stanley, of the 22d infantry, to
be brigadier general. The writer
stood under fire, if memory serves
him, sixty-three times during the
late warm front of the hard fighting
old Fourth army corps, commanded
by Gen. Stanley, and can speak from
personal observation and experience
of his skill as a commander, his bra
very as soldier, and his gentle, al
most womanly sympathy and softness
as a man. Since those stirring days
we have met him in the quiet walks
of peaceful life, and our impressions
of the soldier were more than confirm
ed by our intimate knowledge of the
man. He is a glorious fellow, physic-
ally towering above his fellows, sol
dierly, frank and manful, and with a
mind active and cultured, makes a
tout ensemble well nigh perfect. We
only trust he will be sent to Texas,
and we can assure him of a hearty
and warm congratulations on every
hand. Hurrah for Arthur for just
this one appointment.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-03-27
The Louisiana Situation.

The situation in Louisiana is really
becoming alarming. The disorder is
already widespread and awful, but a
far worse condition is impending.
The wild, uncomfortable floods are
gradually trenching upon the homes
and fields of the people. Ruin, stark
and awful, threatens the fairer and
richer portions of Mississippi and
Louisiana, and even the peerless city
of New Orleans, the entre-pot to
the vast valley, is in imminent dan
ger of being swallowed up by the
floods. 1t is an awful situation, and
before its terrible possibilities the
heart of man stands still and pulse
less. From every point where the
levees have been preached by the
floods comes the sickening and dis
tressful announcement that the crew
asse is widening and deepening.
The utmost efforts of man are made
quate to the task of even placing a
momentary barrier in the pathway of
the rushing torrent now sweeping in
irresistible force over the habitations
of man on its mad way to the gulf.
What ruinl what despair attends
this awful march of the bosom
of destruction. The homes of the
people, the graves of their dead and
the temples of the.r worship-all that
is sacred, all that is venerable and all
that is valued enwrapped and en-
braced by the tawney monster now
broken beyond all bounds.
AL this because of a pittiful and
niggardlY policy on the part of the
national government. The situation,
and the threatening character of the
sure disaster has been placed before the
national. government many times by
resident engineers, and government
surveys by officersof its own selection
have confirmed the unofficial repre-
sensations, and still nothing has been
done worthy the name. The great
food of "a comes to jibe and ieer at
an economy as cruel as it has been in
comprehensibly false. 1t will cost
the nation more in dollars to drive
back the flood, to reclaim the lost land
than it would have cost to put every
leYee out of the reach of the breach
ing floods, and to have kept them up
for thousand years. This is very
costly economy. 1t is the Watchdog
of-the-treasury act which would
turn out a broad farce but for the
wide spread misery which has come in
its train. 1t has all the elements of a
first-class tragedy. There is death,
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-03-27
The No1nlnat1ons.

Yesterday we presented a list of
nominations by the president to fill
places in the federal administration in
Texas, and the late hour at which the
came preeladed editorial
treatment. That of Judge Sabin to
the bench of the federal court in the
eastern district of Texas was, under
all the circumstances, perhaps the
best that could have been made
Many quivering and inflamed as
pirant viii will dissent from this con-
clusion, but for all that, it is correct
one. Without disparagement to other.
aspirants, now that the presidents
choice has been made, we may say
that while Sabin has been rather
too pronounced as partisan, to fill
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-03-27
Lost In Wall Street.

From the Detroit Free Press.
He was treasurer of a county in
Indiana. The other night about 9
o'clock he made call on an honest old
farmer, who was on his bond for $10,-
900, and after the first greetings were
over he began:
"Mr. Thomas, L have some bad news
for you"
"Great Scott! but are any of my re-
lashuns over in Indianapolis dead?"
81 don't know about that; but you
remember that you signed my bond ?"
"Yes, did"
81 am sorry to inform you that
am $14 900 short in my accounts"
"Nop'
"AlasI it is true"
"And where did the money go?"
''Lost it In Wall street."
ooh! that's it. Well 1 wouldn't Wor-
ry over that. My son Bill will take the
lantern and go back to town with you
and if you'll show him Wall street
he'll find the money if it takes him
all night. Probably lost it out of a
hole in your pocket, eh ?"
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-03-27
American Girl Trlumphant.

From the New York Daily World.
Our cable dispatches from Paris an
nounce the successful debut, last
night, of Mile. Emma Nevada in
Lucia" at the Theatre DIES Italiens.
Many Americans in Europe have ex-
pressed great confidence in Mile. Ne
vada's voice, but critical Paris seems
to have found her even more than had
been promised, for she charmed alike
by her acting and her singing, and was
declared the Californian nightingale
before the performance was over.
The success was shared by Gayarre,
the tenor, whose reputation has be-
come most enviable; and M. Maurel,
to whom Paris owes the joint appear
ance of Nevada and Gayarre, is proba-
bly, the happiest man in Paris, as, for
his enterprise. he deserves to be.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-03-27
Texas DesperadOism.

One of the old distinctive traits OF
early Texas is going out. Every few
days we hear of the death of one OF
the bad band which has so long
thrown baleful glare over the hlsto-
~ of the state. At the rate they are
now being taken off, it cannot be long
ere the last bold bad man will be
quietly sleeping with his fathers under
the daisy be-decked prairie5 of Texas.
The thing Is becoming little unfash-
ionable. and since the death of Ben
Thompson and King Fisher the law
abiding sentiment has developed with
wonderful rapidity. 1t will continue
to so grow and expand, and only
few years more and desperate will
occupy no higher place in the public
estimation than does congressman
or perhaps state senator.
It is just that, after all. 1t is the
applause of the people which nourishes
desperadoism. There would be no
desperadoes if there were no people to
sound the praises of the pistol expert
or the stabber. The crowd in
stinctively reverences physical bra
very, but it never makes any
distinction between that which is
praiseworthily employed and that
which Is directed against society. I'm
til this distinction is 6ade by the peo-
pie desperadoism will live and flour
ish. The masses do not always make
nice distinctions, and indeed some
very broad ones escape the public ken.
They must learn the art of seeking
for and OF valuing the motive ere the
act is taken as the stamp of either
greatness or of goodness. Misdirected
effort is worse than no effort at all.
Physical or moral courage when un-
worthily employed is far worse than
the total absence of these qualities.
So with intelligence. The cultured
and accomplished rogue is far more
dangerous than his fellow to whom
the fates have been less kind in this
respect, and besides, there is less ex-
cuse for well informed villiany. But
desperadoism is not always the result
of high physical courage. On the
contrary arrant cowardice is oftener
at the bottom of it all than courage
of any sort. 1t is indeed coward
who seeks advantage and kills simply
because he has "the drop" We have
too much of this sort, and it Is far the
worst of the order.
There is but one way to be quit of
it all, and that is to froWn it down
socially, stamp it out in the courts
and Danish it from all the decent
places of life. We must make dis
tinction broader and far better defined
than now exists, between men who
obey the laws and men who disregard
them; between the men who gladly
obey sullenly, if they obey at all. Let
willing and glad obedience to law be
made in some sort test of social
standing, and desperadoism and disre-
gard of law will promptly sink into
disfavor. But so long as we make
heroes of and worship the red-handed,
just so long will Ben Thompsons and
King Fishers override the country |
and keep the good name of the state |
far below par.
Texas has a good .chance now to |
deal desperadoism deadly blow, and |
she will be recreant to the brightest |
future which ever beekoned state to
wise policies, if she neglects it.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-03-27
Arch Cochran,

From the Dallas Evening Times.
Did Arch Cochran never as a boy
have pair of red top boots? Did
he never feel the ecstacy of a long,
long kiss of love? If so, why then
say the happiest moment of his life
was when the negroes serenaded him
aud his good family. File, Arch!
Your head is red and your complexion
saw dusty. 1t is such that can
be happier in that kind of kiss than
in all the music ever thumped from
the banjoes of African minsJrelsy.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-03-27
PeIt Ahead.

From the Brazoria Independent
$ The Nations seem to have news
paper monopoly in Brazoria. They
are a good lot, only they give fellow
plenty of chances to pelt 'em.-Austin
Statesman.
Pelt ahead Colonel, if you have just
cause for complaint. However, we
can see no reason for THE STATESMAN
to find fault with us, for we always
had very high regard for that jour
nal under its old management, and of
Col. Barlow we know him of old, and
consider him writer of very great
ability. THE STATESMAN is very
much improved under his manage
ment
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-03-27
He Didn't See Her.

From the Philadelphia Call.
Well, what do you think of the
great Sarah Bernhardt? ?" asked lady
of her husband on his return from the
theatre.
az don't know what to think" he
replied; didn't see her."
didn't you go to the theatre, as
you expected ?" she asked.
"Oh, yes; went to the theatre, but
l forgot to take an opera-glass."