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Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-10-17
AppIrIoNAL oLAIMs FILLED.

Special % the Gazette.
DENTON, TEX, oct. l6.-Two addi-
tIonal claims were filed in court to-day
against r. q. White, closed under at
tachment yesterday, as followa: Eu-
banks a. Go S72 "a, and Il b. Waples
q Co, $267 20, both OF Sherman. These
amounts bring the claims filed up to
IS 080 SO. IL is also reported that a
New Orleans hrm will putin claim
for something over $1,000 The stock
Of goods will invoice about $500 or
g4l00
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-10-17
ooTros REcEIPTs.

Special 10 the Gazette.
HLLsBoRo. TEX, oct. l6.-our
towns reputation for a cotton marke.
Is still unimpaired, as will be shown
by the statistics as follows;
Cotton receipts 10 date, 1900 bales.
Cotton receipts this week to date, T4l
bales.
Cotton receipts to-day, 2lO bales.
Prices range from 81 TO 0 cents per
pound.
Cotton Is seen here on our streets
from the vicinity OF Cleburne, Waxa-
hachie and Meridian.
Our merchants have had splendid
trade all the week.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-10-17

NEW YoRK, Oct ls.-At a meeting
OF the directors Of the New York,
Lake Erie & Wedern Railroad COM
pany, to-day, the president remarked
that he hoped TO complee his annual
report for the present year earlier than
heretofore and that 1t would show
NOT outstanding the stAgnaiion Of
luainess and the low rates Of trans
lortation, That the net earnings after
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-10-17
PROSPECTS OF RAILWAY TO RusE
Special 10 the Gazette.


Special 10 the Gazette.
AUSTIN, TEX, Oct. l6.-The prop
oaition submitted to the penitenllary
board with regard to the construction
Of a railroad to Rusk was from con-
tractors on the extension Of the Kan
sas n Gulf Short-Line and was In the
nature of a proposal to sub-let a por-
lion of the work. II certain altera-
tinns are concurred in by the propOsers
IL is probable that II will be accepted.
The board Is compelled TO iipd employ
ment for the convicts at kusk. whose
charge reverted to the state through
the recent failure of the lessees, Cowart
& Ferris, and IL has not the means Al
its command 10 make such improve
ments as would he necessary 10 keep
them within the walls,
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charging up all the current expenses.
were equal TO all the fixed charges Of
the company including the interest on
the per cent consolidated mortgage
bonds less about 500 600 which, under
the circumstances, was a very favor
able result aud better than he ex-
pected.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-10-17
A BRoKER FAILS.

SAN Francisco, CAL, oct, 10 -
A. w. Bowman. real estate broker,
failed today. He was director Of the
Clay Street bank, also holder Of
many important trusts. He refuses
TO make a statement at present.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-07-11
Chimes, and How They Are Rung.

Bells may be rung in two ways: first,
by swinging them with rope and wheel;
and secondly, by striking them either
upon the outside or inside with hammers,
the bell itself being stationary. In Eng
land the former method of rope and wheel
was almost universally adopted, requiring
man for each bell From this method
we get the interesting and peculiarly
English kind Of chime music known as
the changes" which gave England the
name Of the Ringing Island. In Belgium,
however, the stationary method was used.
Chimes played in this manner were rung
by one person and were called carillons,
because the Italian quadrjqliO, or quar-
drille, "a drcary kind of dance music, ;"
was the first ever played upon them
To play upon carilons the performers
used an instrument known as the "clave-
cin," kind of rough key board ar
ranged in semtones. Each key was CON
nected by wire or rope with hammer,
which struck the bell when a sharp blow
was given the key with gloved fist.
This machine was, necessarily extremely
crude at first; and since chimes have
never been played half so well as in the
days of this invention, it is all the greater
wonder that the art ever progressed at
all. Recently some great masterpieces
in chime music have been found, which
were composed and played at Louvain
in the latter half of the last century, by
the most skillful and wonderful chmer
who ever lived, Matthias van den Gheyn,
No one in Europe or America can now
be found who is able to play this music
which rivals in the depth and subtlety
of its composition some of the finest
works of Bach, Mozart, or Beethoven
Hence the inference is that the art of
playing carillons has sadly declined, with
small prospect of ever recovering the lost
ground. Atlantic Monthly.
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Rice Culture,

The best rice is that raised in South
Carolina, where the rice is sown in
trenches, which are eighteen inches
apart, and flooded to a depth of severa
inches. The water is then drawn off and
later, the fields are flooded again, to xii
the weeds. The water is allowed tC
stand nearly two weeks this time, and is
not again turned into the field until the
or in is almost ripe. Marshy places are
not so good as well-irrigated land. Mos
of the rice used in Europe is imported
from India. There, and also in China
the hills are chosen rather than the
plains, and are so we'll irrigated that Otter
it is only with the greatest difficulty that
the fields can be weeded on account Of
the water. In some districts canals are
carried along the hillSdes. Upland rice
is a species cultivated in Ceylon, Fara
and Hungary, which requires dry land
rotting if placed under water. The only
States of North America which cultivate
rice for market are South Carolina and
Georgia. Rice will not grow as fal
north as Minnesota. What the Indians
use there is Canadian or wild rice, which
grows abundantly in the Northwest, II
miry places, and often on the margin o.
the lakes. 1t reaches the height of sever
or eight feet, and the long and narrow
seed makes nourishing meal, of which
the Indians are very fond. CHieag,
Inter- Ocean.
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SELECT SETTINGS.

The Confederate statutes in paper
covers sell for $50 a set. The Guiteau
trial for 1926.
1t is noticed as a curious fact that after
the PRAIRIE grass is once killed on Western
cattle ranches the same grass does not
reappcar.
Philip, of Spain, says the Philadelphia
Caterer, gave as a reason for not eating
fish that they were nothing but elements
CONCEALED or a Jelly of water.
Fumigation was first practised by
Acron, a physician of Agigentum, who,
when Athens was visited by plague,
caused great fires to he lighted and arc.
matte substances cast upon them.
Queen Mary, of England, in 1894, the
emperor of Germany in III, and the
dauphin and dauphincss of France and
their son in 1872, the emperor of Russia
in 1880 and Louis XIV. of France in
1774 are few of the royal personages
who have died Of smallpox.
The Bishareen members of one of the
Soudan tribes have rather amazing
method of arranging their hair. They
part it just above the ears and above the
line they dress it so that it stands erect.
Below the line it is plated and frizzed
and drawn out almost straight, so as to
shelter the neck from the sun.
Roger Bacon believed it possible for
men to fly by the help of copper ball
filled with fire. The Persian story -tellers
say that Persian king named Kai-Kavos
tried to fly on a litter borne by eagles
dashed below javelins, on which pieces
of goats flesh were fastened, but the
eagles became tired and the monarch
persisted miserably in a desert place.
A medical observer who has been
taking notes in the infant homes and
asylums of Paris, reports that infants
under three years of age cross the left
arm over the right, older children cross
ing the right over the left, sixty per cent
doing so at six years of age Robust
children cross the right arm over the
left; the idiotic and weak, including
those who are incapable of working, cross
the left over the right.
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Old Customs in Holland.

The old customs are held in great
reverence. No innovation is tolerated.
If baby is born in a house IA small pla-
card bordered with red silk and lace is
nailed TO the door, and before the day is
over the friends come and drink " kan
deel. which is a sort of mulled wine,
and eat - kaneel kock ies, - sort of Gina
mon cake. If a member of the house
hold is sick, IA bulletin is fixed or the
door, so that passing friends may learn
about the invalid without loss of time
If a young couple are betrothed the
event is celebrated 10y great consump-
ton of " biuidsuiker''- bridal sugar-a
sort of a sweet cake, and copious
draughts of bruidstrauen, or bridal
tears-which is a kind of spiced wine
The women carry foot-warmers in win
ter. When you order cup of tea, a
small portion Of tea is brought to you
with kettle Of boiling water, and you
make it yourself When the clock strikes
the quarter of an hour the chimes in the
church tower playa few bars in an opera
tic air. When new herring arrive at a
shop, a crown decorated with box leaves
and gliding is displayed with the Dutch
red, white and blue flag. When there is
a painted Turk or Moor's head before you
as sign, you can get your American
dose of blue pills, for it means drug
store 81. Louis Republican,.
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A Wild Run.

An incident which we believe has
never had a parallel in railroad history
occurred on the Burlington and Missouri
railroad, between Sinclair, Neb., and
Denver. At Akron tornado ,unroofed
the round house and did some other
damage. About o'clock in the evening
when the wind was at its strongest, it
started train of eight box cars loaded
with coal, that were standing on the side
track at that place. Two brakes were
set but they were not enough to hold it,
and it ran through split switch without
being derailed and started East.
The track was nearly level where the
train started, but there is down grade
this side of Akron. The wind was so
strong that it took the train more
rapidly than the passenger trains over
the line move, even on the level
rack, and when it reached down grade
of course the speed became something
fearful.
The operator at Akron noticed the run
.way train soon after it broke loose and
sent the alarm down the line. Every
thing was ordered sido-tracked and the
crazy train had the right of way. The
,annon-ball train barely escaped. Mar
velous as it may seem, those runaway cars
ran one hundred miles, passing eight
stations, over a track which is for great
part of the distance almost perfectly
evel, with no propelling power but the
wind.
They ran the hundred miles in less
han three hours, and the station agents
and others who witnessed the strange
train held their breath with awe as it
whirlcd by at the rate of nearly mile a
minute. 1t passed Haiger at the rate OF
forty miles an hour, and is said to have
;un the twenty miles of down grade
his side Of Akron in eighteen min.
ltes.
At Benkleman, ninety-fve miles thi,
side of Akron, freight was standing or
The side-track. AS the runaway trair
passed the engineer ran his engine out
with brakeman on the tender to make
The coupling, and gave chase. 1t was al
exciting chase, but the engine, which
brought to the aid of the wind the powe
Of steam chests, soon closed the gap be
tween itself and the flying train. Abou
halfway between Benkleman and Ma,
the fugitive was overtaken, the oouplin.
successfully made, and the cars after pull
ing the engine some distance, brought i
to a stand still.
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Coming TO Pieces.

/ Mark Twain once made very funny
story Of man who was engaged TO be
married, who lost first leg, then an arm,
then an eye and so on. lie offered to re-
lease the lady from her engagement, but
she bravely said that she would marry
what there was left of him. The follow
ing Scotch story has the same idea in an
other form:
Before the erection of the new pier at
the Castle Rock, passengers from Dunn
barton had to be conveyed down the
Leven to the Clyde steamers by a ferry
boat, rowed by two sturdy and generally
elderly ferrymen. On one occasion an
English commercial traveller had seated
himself on the gunwale at the stern. One
OF the old ferrymen, aware of the danger
to any one so placed when the rope oil
the steamer should be attached to the
bow of the boat, took occasion to warn
the man of his danger.
"Noo, my man, come down aft that, OF
yell coup over"
The traveller replied by telling him to
mind his own business, and trust him to
take care of himself
"Weel," said the ferryman, "mind
I've telt ye; as sure as yere slttln' there,
yell coup over"
No sooner had the rope been attached
and the boat got the inevitable tug from
the steamer than the fellow went heels
over the stern.
{" | tell him that"
However, being in the water, it be-
hooved that every effort should be made
to rescue him. So the ferryman made q
grab at what seemed the hair of his head,
when wig came away. Throwing this
impatiently into the boat, lie made grip
at the collar of his shirt, when the front
came away. Casting this from him with
still greater scorn, he shouted to his com
panion:
"Taams, come and help save as mucklC
O this man as ye can, for he's comm
away in bits"
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Educated Men in Congress.

The number of college bred men in
Congress, says Washington letter, is
larger than usual, although its treatment
of great public questions has not devel-
opcd any of the expected results of col.
lege breeding. AS is well known, tho
President is a graduate of Union. Sec
rotary Lincoln was educated at Harvard,
and Secretary Chandler is o graduate of
the law department of that university.
The Harvard men in Congress are
Senator Hoar of Massachusetts, Repre-
sentative Adams of Illinois, Covington
of Maryland, Hunt of Louisiana, Burns
of Missouri, Weaver of Nebraska, Till
man of South Carolina, Dorsheimer and
Belmont of New York, Davis, Long, Col
Inns, Stone and Lyman of Massachusetts,
Yale is represented by Senators Dawes
of Massachusetts and Gibson of Louis
lana, and Representatives Davis of Mis-
souri,, Seymour of Connecticut, Beach of
New York, and Phelps of New Jersey.
Union graduated Senator Warner Miller
as well as the President he so much dis
likes, Representatives Spriggs and Wem-
pie, of New York, MilIiken, of Maine,
and Paige, of Ohio. Two Senators.
Maxey, of Texas, and Camden, of West
Virginia, and two representatives., Rose,
Grams and Slocum. were educated at the
expense of the government at West Point.
Slocum was Sheridan's room mate.
Princeton has in her alumni Senators
Don Cameron and Colquitt, of Georgia,
Representatives Everhart, of Pennsylva-
MIA. Findlav, of Maryland and Jones,
of Alabama. Hamilton educated Sena-
tor Hawley and Representatives Van
Alstyne, of New York, and Hatch, of
Michigan.
Dartmouth is represented in the House
by Ranney, of Massachusetts, Dingley, of
Maine, and Brewer, of New Jersey. The
gifted Ingalls, is an alumnus of Williams
and Representatives Potter and Nlllard,
of New York, graduated there also.
Amherst prepared Rockwell, of Massa-
chusetts, and Hutchings, of New York,
for public life. Brown university is the
alma mater of Senators Anthony and
Hill, of Colorado, and Representatives
Cox and Spooner, Senators Conger and
Allison, are graduates of Western Reserve
college, Ohio. Senator Palmer came
from Michigan university. Senators 1ar-
rison and Williams, of Kentucky, from
Miami Beck and Vest from Pennsylvania
university, of Kentucky, and Senator,
elect Blackburn from Danville university
in the same State.
Keller and IIorr were educated at An
tioch college, the institution planted by
Horace Mann. Frank Hurd graduated
at Kenyon at the age of nineteen, and
Bclford got his learning at Dickinson
college. The University of Virginia has
more graduates in Congress than any
other institution, for before the war it
was the Harvard Of the South. The old
William and Mary college has two Con-
gressmen among its alumni-Coke, of
Texas, and George d. Wise, of Vir-
ginia.
1t is a singular fact that many of the
ablest men in either branch of Congress
did not have the advantages of collie
giate education This applies to Edmunds,
sherman, Wilson of Iowa, Bayard and
Pendleton in the Senate, and to Randall,
Carlisle, Kelley, Mckinley, Reagan and
Curtin in the House.
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The Telephone Fifty Years Ago.

A little more than fifty years ago the
employees of the Arms Shoe mandatory
at South Deerfield beguied their leisure
hours by kite flying, Kites large and
small were sent up daily, and the strife
was to see who would get the largest. The
Irvine which held them was the shoe
thread spun and twisted by the ladies' of
the village. One day TO the tail of the
largest Kite was attached kitten sewed
in a canvas bag, with a netting over the
mouth to give it air When the kite
was at its greatest height some nine
hundred feet or more-the mewing of
the kitten could be distinctly heard by
those holding the string. To the clear
ness of the atmosphere was attributed
the hearing of the kittens voice, and
no telephone patent was application
Springfield Mass Republican,.
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The Young Man With a RccOnmen.
datiDn

Many years ago, Colonel Hoxic, who
has recently been connected prominently
with the Gould railroad system, was man
ager of a new railroad line in the south
and lived in excellent style in little
Southern town, almost as quiet and sleepy
as Dubuque. One day a very dudish
young man pushed by the servant at the
entrance, presented himself at the door
of the reception room and exclaimed with
a pronounced New York air:
SIS this HoXie's roomp
eyes, sir, it is"
care you Hoxie2"
81 am"
"Well, here is letter for YOU"
Colonel HOXie took the letter and after
carefully reading it, turned to his visitor,
and said:
young man, l find this letter is a
recommendation for you from a very
warm friend of mine, and if you had ap-
preached me in a gentlemanly way,
knocked at the door, and addressed me
as Mr. HoXie, and presented your letter
l should have said, Young man, how
can | serve youN As it is"
"Give me that letter. exclaimed the
young man, as he darted out of the door,
evidently knowing that the fat was all in
the fire.
Presently there was a hesitating knock
at the door, and the young fellow re-en-
tered.
is Mr.. Hoxie in1'
Gle IS"
SIS this Mr. Hoxie2"
1T is"
"Ah, Mr.. HoXie, allow me to present
you with my card, and letter OF intro.
duction."
Colonel HoXie took the lester, gravely
read it, and said: Young man, | oh.
serve that this is a letter of recommends.
ton from a mutual friend; allow me to
ask what | can do for you"
"Well, Mr.. HoXie, you can oblige me
by going to the deGcen exclaimed the
young man as he skipped out Of the door
just in advance of the eolonel's toe.
1t is matter of record that Mr. Hoxic
chased the young man four blocks, but
being lame, the rascal got away. - Cecta,
Rapids Chat
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IXtaccihuatl, which, next to Popocat-
apetl is the highest volcano in Mexico,
is universally called the ''white woman
in the land of the Montezumas. Its
shape, as viewed from Popocatapetl,
$50 miles away, is suggestive of dead
giantess robed for burial, the white
shroud showing the contour of breas,
and limbs. The face is perfect in out
line, and long hair seems to stream in
silvery locks from the snowy forehead
down over the side of the bier. Her
feet are turned toward Popocatapet,
and between them lies a line of low
hills, brown and treeess.
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He Had Triod II.

Two Rockland citizens were toddling
up street the other day, and the close
and earnest manner in which they were
seen to be in conversation clearly be-
tokened that they were exchanging their
experiences with dyspepsia.
"And did you ever try the hot water
cureE asked the thin man, as they paused
at the melancholy mans gate
did II" repeated the melancholy man
in tone of sarcasm; "well should say
l did. why I've been married fourteen
years, "-RockLand Courier.
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They Were SuperGtuous.

"Why do you always wear bunch of
flowers in your buttonholel" inquired
Miss Fussanfeather, viii Mr.. Titepants
was calling the other evening.
''Oh, 1t gives one an air of freshness, "
responded the poetical young man.
"Well," replied the young lady, frank
ly 81 don't think you need any artificial
means to prove your freshness.
And then Titepants went out and sat
on the hitching post to think it over
Baltimore Eoc1y SATURDAY.
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Don't suffer any longer with the pains and
nches of rheumatism, which make life bur-
den to you. Relief speedy and permanent
the form of Kidney-Wort Elbridge Malcolm,
of West Bath, Maine, says: 81 was complete
ly Frustrated with rheumatism and kidney
troubles and was not expected to recover.
The first dose of Kidney-Wort helped me-
Six doses put me ON my feet 1t has now en-
tirely cured me and l have had no trouble
since
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FOR THE LOVERS OF FUN.
A BATCH OF STORIES THAT WILL
RAISE A LAUGH.

She Will Go IL A1Onc-They Were SUI
pcrfIuOuS-HHc Has Tried It-Com-
ing to Pieces, Etc.
"Arabella, you do not doubt my love3"
"No, Alphonso, why should II"
''Listen, then; have taken a solemn
vow, and you must aid me in its fulfill
ment."
with all my life. What is it2"
81 have solemnly sworn to eat no ice
cream this season, Arabella."
"Ah, Alphonso, you shall not find me
lacking courage. will aid you to keep
your vow. l will eat it for US both. -
Pittsburgh Chronicle.
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NYNU-2T
He F ell in the Streets,
KENNEDY'S FAvORITE REMEDY
Cures Terrible Case of Gravel.

Nothing is more urgently needed than reliable
medicine for Gravel, the disease seen1 on the in.
crease, and we glad to say that such + DR. DA-
NlD kENNEDl'S FANORIrE REMEDY, Of Ron.
dont. \. \. We put In evidence the following let
Ter, selected from many similar communications:
PIrTsFIELD, Mass, March, lSsL
Dr. Ddrid Kennedy:
DEAR SIl: You have a 'ght to know. and de-
sire the public to tno my eX p-rience with Gravel
and my remarkable recovery through the use o4
your "FANURlTE ltEMEDl.' ! am carpenter
living in this place and tHer are plenty Of witness.
Is TO the truth OF what say. My first compare.
lively slight attack Of Gravel was In the year 1873
1t pass d away, and had little more trouble until
astJuly, 1883 One day when at work in my shop
was suddenly seized with a keen and terrible pain
in my eft side. consulted two hy ,Ci ms at once
One said: ~ can 10 nOLrG for Won, Your case
Is incurabc :" l fright ned and went to the
second, who said little but gave me prescription.
1t did no good.
Then began a series of experiences the az ny and
horror OF which words cannot depict Think Il ii!
was metimes taken in the street, and would fall,
VIZ hing with agony, upon the sidewalk. 1t was
death in life. 1ha k Heaven, | then hard Of
"kENNEDI'S FAVORITE REMEDY through
Mr.. =. 7. Cooley. had not used half bottle when
pas ell three stones IN succession, one of which
was nearly one-haf an inch long. | pecsevered
with the medicine, the symptoms gradually abated,
and | hsve had no more trouble since. am well,
shanbs to you and "FANOHlTE REMEDY"
Yours most gratefully,
JAMES d. ENNEDY.
What "FAVORITE REMEDY did ia this case
i has done in many others II you desae to do so
Add. css-Dr. David Kennedy, Rondout y. Y.