Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-02-27

,r.,io, of their fortunes in those VI
MIN, how.lepged, jaunty little county
| p,,,,nr u,ho rnme here some non,ns
oao "a secure the best postoilice III ms
stata He was of infinite bras, grew
ond,,rancc. much patience, ana uoV
| lit,le vanity, He set out early spon
morning. 10 make the grand roumu,s W
Inc DEPARTMENTS, taking in the Wh.e
Uouee and dipping occasionally ln,o
| Lhe senate, and then into lhe hovse
He carried specimens OF his - I've
publican in his pockets, thrusting
| eopy of the rousing newspaper, as
letter of introduction, into the lace "
every great placeman lac encothVeIeu..
Af,r telling of himself and gfent
sacrifices and how the Internal reoIis
sought TO bulldoze him, ne
descanted upon the power ",
| his mighty newspaper, ana .heii n nf
sailed In. He wanted the heaus v,
several local ofilce-holde ana tne,,
modestly stated what he hinseii llus i
have. Listened to ana answet,e .'
kindly but evasively, his selt-ioVe ln'
duced the conviction that ne hau ao,
compli-hed his purpose, ana away ne
went TO another department hnch
night, for n week, he returned 70 nis
| lodgings utterly exhausted. Weeh
| apsed and he had done nothing nc
travelled another week, bought new
| shoes and still Travelled. Bnt he WIS
becoming known. lie was spot,,v,u'
Doorkeepers would intervene: lhe
acknowledgement can't see any uouS
| This morning." The TACT OF ms coIil.hB
was pre-aunounced everywhere ny uue
telephone. and he went tearing arouho
from one to another department. anu
bureau, seeking audiences III Valn'
lie iramped over the city Il whole
| week before he began to suspect tlat
his visions of power and Office had
raded into nothingness. He left his
satchel and old shoes and unpaid
board bill, when hope had died WITHIN
hin, os I, rich legacy to his landlady,
and vanished.
THE LESSON.
fell this o'er-true story rs Il lesson
To men of more money but OF no more
uotency IN Washington than this bow
legged little editor. However mag
nitirent the distaucesp in Washington,
there is none so great rs that which
here separates ones hopes from ms
rpalizations, and these Gal
weston people might a
we'll 90 home. Congress has
the presidential election, and the bu
rp,,u of engineers on the brain, ano
will vote no $l0.U0000O to Galveston
Though il has voted round sum Il
sufferers i'm the Ohio Valley, II VII
hesitate to give half million dollars
) tn the people of six states poorer ah'
suffering, during the next six weeks
infinitely greater calamities thah thos
! that have befhllen the people between
! pittsburg and Cairo, where III j
. asked when King of Louisiana alreani
| asks for half II million dollars, WI
/ this thing end ~ Either the "hol
e neonle of the valley or the river com
: mission must leave the low
> land. Charity meet for ti
g occasion nov impending wo'li
/ bankrupt Fo'ger, and then TN
e eXaction of the valley of the Missis
/ sippi might place restrictions upo
, sums lavished upon Bliss and Brew
= ter
EFFECTS or WHOLESALE CHARITY
But the Republicans have turtle
discovered that if they give the nj
groes of the lowlands this 5000, %
, asked for by Gen. King, that Kin
can vote these negroes rs he please
The Republicans have discovered fu
ther. that the distribution OF bacon an
:, bread at the few points above the sc
. i'm Louisiana draws thither all I'll
: blacks in the South, and it will 500
he impossible To collect witnesses l.
:, fore the bloody shirt investigate
J committee in New Orleans.
1 PERSONAL.
I nl lnnnl
A and most propeIly,a few days ago
/ the memory ana virtues Oh an oiu eil
l. zen of Texas. He came to this eli
from Pickens county, Alabama,
1877. his father, the late Col. Nat Smii
/. of Harrison county, soon followii
=, him. The father was a captain und
~ Col. Coffee at the battle of New 9
=. leans. He was many years memb
>, of The Alabama legislature, and was
~, candidate for the same position
y Harrison county. 1t then happene
N showing the honesty of electors
ii those days, that he and his competit'
va a wing, received precisely the sal
Il, number of votes. They ran again, al
- again were tied In the third co
an test Col Smith was beaten one vo
M Like the son whose virtues Bonha
,a honored, the father was esteemed t
IN truest of friends, the best Of neighbo
~ and most beneticent of citizens. |
", " j. G. Smith was citizen of Fam
tc county about thirty years. He W
la singularly silent rs his father was
,a uuacious, but every act of the docto
81 life was eloquent Of honesty. He on
nj owned drug store in Bonham, b
" gave away to the poor more medicin
than he sold. He owned the hotel
the town, but it became while he co
"a Quoted 1t free hospital. lie had I
or finest orchard in Northern Texas al
ne every body except himself were prot
~, ed by the fruit, He went abo
'al through all his life doing good, liviu
~ rather than preaching the precepts
nc his divine master. No wonder [
~ business houses of Bonham We
ne closed and the doorways of its hon
IN draped in grief when DIR. j. c. Smi
W was borne 10 the tomb.
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