Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-02-13

be issued. As fast as the same five
, cent pieces are received by federal of
} ficers they are to be destroyed by reg
ular process. Article of the new law
says that the resp ctive states must
: compel their officials 10 receive niclSels
: m the same proportion ms federal oilic-
lals are. All parties whosoever, under
, peuaitS of fine and imprisonment.
: must accept nickels in payment of
debts due up TO the sum of twenty
cents only. Copper money having
been put out of circulation in the com
puisoiy, exchange for nick
els during the last thir-
teen months, the one and two-cent
nickel pieces are necessary evil. The
new law does not mention them in
any respect. Whether federal and
state officers will receive them for re-
tirement is not yet fully determined
/ upon, stu up TO the present they are
accepted.
HOW MANY MILLIONS
of these coins have been issued and
distributed over the country none
know except the powers that have
controlled the business. Messrs. Wexel |
u Degrees, merchants, importers, rail-
road concession brokers, OF the city of |
hItAlCO NOW Oih, nGIt AllOlttl
contract for the $4,000 900 authorized
by congress They bid the lowest for
thd job. Nickel manipulators in
Europe and the states made bids. 1t
is alleged that there are $4,000, 900
in circulation, of which
four only are out by law.
Recalling them and change of admin
istration combined will tell the story.
believe that political enmities of the
administration caused the people to
move against the nickel. This is the
year in which, as in our country, II !
president is TO he elected. The
CURRENCY or MEXICO
is badly conglomerated. 1t requires !,
fine financial analyst to assay IL to OBJ
tain trace of well planned finances. i
The twenty-five. cent, fifty cent and
one dollar shinplasters, which clrcu A
late out of three banks in this state ut /
4 discount OIL their face Of eight per "
cent, below silver money, the thaco
and nickle middle, the one, two, five q
and ten silver bills of private banks, al
the premium on Mexican gold one
dollars, the quarter and
pieces not passing
at par with dollar pieces, the premium :.
Oh American paper currency ana our =
gold differing, no premium being al =.
Owed on American small change, the u
premium on American money over u
Mexican silver and shin-plasler paper !"
IS sufficient to puzzle not one only, but ~
. score of Philadelphia lawyers. No ~ ~
,hauge to this state of affairs eau be ~
loped for until there occurs change q
# administration, Porferi0 Diaz, eX- u
PRESIDENT aud general of the army. ~
sill sail into the helm of the ship OF w
ta.e. He will wheel the old land ~
MO financial success, His name Is w
IS n candidate IL already at the mast
iead of three.hiths of the newspapers
# the country The army Is his
,ackeI. He is u host in himself.
While not in his day 10 be
he Washington OF his country, he is ia
Is Lincoln. He not ol.ly conquered u
he foreign enemies of the republic, r.
ut lie set free the slaves OF the poem ~
&c system of Mexico. Gu
AMERICANS IN a DUNGEON. "
Fourteen months ago Henry Hoag- II
and of Virginia and Emil Appel OF OF
owa were arrested on the statement nj
I young Jew named Stetthiemer
nat they had burglarized the store of re
huester & Co., In which Stetthlemer re
vas clerk. There was no evidence, "a
irect or indirect, against them which M
you'd hold water before any Jury or
Judge Of the universe. The entire
american population here were con- ii
dent that they were innocent. Stett.
Iiemer had his fast women, gambled
nd squandered money by hundreds 50
n ballet girls of q low variety show OF