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Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-02-22
DEATHS IN TEXAS.

In Colorado City, Feb. II, Georg,
Williams, of pneumonia.
In Terrell, Feb. s. DIR. f. ID. Hallon
quist.
In San Antonio, Feb. Is, j. III. Jack,
son of Dennison, known as Good
hearted Jack"
In Cooke county, Feb. 10, Thomas
H. Lynn, aged years.
In Gainesville, Feb. 10, John l..
Bailey, aged IL years.
In Denison, Feb. IL, Mrs. o. b.
kone, aged SO years.
In San Antonio, Feb. 12, Francisco
Miranda, Texas veteran, aged so
years.
In Bolton, Feb. 10, Mrs. Sarah Me
Mahon, wife of j. ID, Mcmahon.
In Tyler, Feb. 10, Rev. james Will
son, aged 81 years.
In Turnersville, Feb. :, Mrs. Mary
Z. Gouldy, aged % years.
In Pilot Point, Feb. IL, Miss Addie
Fowlks, aged 10 years.
Near Pilot Point, Feb. s, Robert Lee
Deets, aged Is years.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-02-22
Cheap Coal and New Railroads.

For the Gazette.
The Erlanger syndicate control Tho
Cincinnati Southern, the Alabams
Great Southern, the Vickshurg d Me
ridian, and the Vicksbure, Shreveport
II Texas railroads. The first three
rofds form continuous rail line from
Nicksburg to Cincinnati, passing
through The great iron and coal regions
of North Alabam and East Tennessee.
and the cities OF Birmingham and
Chattanooga. The Vicksburg, Sbreye.
port IL Texas railroad il completed
from Delta, La, Opposite Wick burg)
10 point some distance west of Mon
roe, and the gap between there and
shreveport is being rapidly built aud
VIII toe completed by May next.
rev persons here are aware that the
railroad between Marshall and Shreye-
port is owned hy the Erlanger svpdi-
cate and not by the Gould system, al
though the Texas & Pacific road has
Tor many years rented and operated it.
The distance from Fort Worth 10
Marshall is only l79 miles. When the
Erlanger syndicate finish their road to
Marshall. they will scarcely be willing
To consider Marshall as their final
western terminus. Where will thut
syndicate build 10, is the question. If
to Mexico, then it will cross the PRO.
posed route of the Fort Worth. Coral
cana d Gulf railroad. Should sIlch a
contamination occur, then Fort Worth
WIN have in addition to the outlet over
the Houston d Texas Central railroad
at WaXahachie another route 10 the
Atlantic and the East by the way of
the Erlanger system. This will Give
ran line TO the great coal fields of
North Alabama, where coal is mined
ana loaded on the cars at 81 90 per ton.
Cheap coal made Birmingham. Chat.
lanooga and Atlanta aud cheap coal
Is all that Is need 10 make Fort Worth
q city of nifty thousand people in ten
The great boon of cheap coal can
only be gained by competing line
INTO the Indian Territory, which liz
Gun, Colorado d Santa Fe will soon
give But In the meantime, if the Er.
Hanger system can be induced 10 ex
tend IT'S rails west ton connection with
me Fort Worth d Corsicana. helm NAV
be had in the way OF cheap fuel. For
instance, the distance from Rirroin0
ham TO Fort Worta by the Erlanrer
line would be 076 miles. AT on,-hnlf
cent per ton per mile for freight. (and
GO has been moved from Blrminc.
ham to Vlcksburg at thai rate) lie |
freight would be 81 IS per ton. 10
this add 81 per ton cost on ears AZ Biz.
mihgham, and So So would lay eoal
downat Fort Worth. The Birmlng.
ham coal is great eoking coal, ms we'll |
es a steam aud crate coal. AZ such |
prices the Territory coal would come
down IN prices las the railroads would |
reduce ireightsl or the Alabama coal
would run 1t ont of this market.
The Erianger system has Just COM
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-02-22
Republicans Avoiding the Tariff Issue

Republicans Avoiding the Tariff Issue.
Senator Sherman entertains the pub
lie with another of his valuable political
observations. ~ can tell you just W hat
/ think congress ought to do,r he
answered query; land that is TO let
the tariff subject severely alone during
the present session." That is the de-
mand Of the Republican party. They
want the tariff let severely alone. No
Republican olliceholder can be cen.
sured for such desire. They natural.
~ dislike defeat, and the agitation of
the tariff question, as they we'll know,
means defeat To them in the elections.
as champions Of the protective cause
they feel that their position is indefens-
IDLE, and they understand perfectly
that they cannot go before the people
ofthe country and demand the perpet-
uation of the present oppressive system
of taxation that increases the cost of all
the necessaries of life, piles up :. sur
plus of II hundred millions or more Of
revenue yearly, and fiIches the profits
eff millions of workers toaggrandize the
wealth OF few thousand capitalists.
Silence on this point is golden to the
Republican party, and they are not
wrong, from their standpoint, in want
Ing the tariff "let severely alone.v
MIR. Sherman is the author of the
resolutions adopted by the senate to in
vestigate the late elections in Virginia
and Mississippi. Senate committees
are now in those states pursuing their
Investigations. Nobody understands
better than Senator Sherman that
congress has no power to interfere to
correct whatever abuses are found to
exist in those states, md that so far rs
the present investigation is concerned
1t is all idle trash. There is no insin.
uation in this that Senator Sherman
did not know what he was about, for
he is too practical politician 10 bay
the moon for nothing, He wants the
tariff let alone, and if II Is to he
dropped from political discussion there
must be something else to entertain
the people. Nothing presents itself
but the bloody-shirt, and it is to
work the people of the North up to a
hloody-shirt pitch of passion tia.
these senate committees are examining
hordes of negroes in the South, sup.
posed to be oppressed and denied their
political rights by the whites. 1t IL
shrewd attempt TO divert the public
mind from the tariff question. Know
Ing this, pereeiving the unwilling
ness of their adversary TO join issue
with them rs defenders of protection,
The Democrats must become aggres-
siye aud force the fight ON this issue,
Their position Is unassailable and pop.
ular, and If they desert it aud let the
Republicans choose the battle-ground
and The issue, another will be added TO
their long series of defeats.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-02-22

dred witnesses TO testify at the Tyler
federal court in regard to the Marion
county election troubles illustrates q
chapter In the official record of the
federal place holders in Texas and
throughout the South. A dozen OF
these witnesses could doubtless rs
easily have established the facts re-
quired 10 be proved as fourteen hun
dred. But there are fees paid for each
summons Issued, and the more sum
mons the more fees. Investigations
now proceeding in Washington show
that in at least two counties OF this
state there are instances where United
States maTshals had summoned the
entire voting population Of counties
where there were election contests.
This record has been beaten in Marion
county, for while there were but 800
votes cast in that county in the last
election, the marshals managed to find
400 persons to issue summons for.
The people loot the bills and federal
pap-suckers enjoy the swig. This is
paternal government.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-02-22

LUCK, as TO getting notoriety is on
the side of Mr.. Ochiltree. When the
Texan member introduced his resolu-
tons OF respect to the memory of Herr
Lasker, some of the newspaper cor
respondents made sport of the matter.
TIL told, in merry sty lie, how Ochil-
tree waited eagerly TO catch the
speakers eye, and how nobody bat
uchiltree paid any attention to the
resolution. not more than twenty
members of the house voting. But
the resolution passed both houses and
went to Berlin. Now the news comes
that Bismarck declines, on the part OF
the imperial government, to receive
the resolutions. He wouldn't even
transmit them TO the reichstag, or
German parliament The American
congress is snubbed by Herr Won Bis
marck, even as he has snubbed the
American hog. The whole country is
talking of it. Congressman are indig-
nant; Europe discusses it. And the
Hon. Tom Ochiltree's mUch-ridiculed-
resolution kicked up all the fuss. The
from Galveston has his re-
venge on those who made merry al
his expense.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-02-22
TEXAS NEWS ITEMS.

A little child of j. II. Stewart M
CT co died from eating strychnin,
pills.
Gainesville people have been very
active this winter in taking care of the
sick and destitute of the town.
The victory for incorporation in
Cisco was celebrated by yells and the
firing of pistols all night long.
Boerne will celebrate Mardi Gras by
a street parade curing the day. and n
grand masquerade ball at night.
1t seems that SOL is rather an exorbi-
tant price for the burial of a pauper.
but that was the price paid for The last
pauper buried in Kendall county.
John d. Leland of Jefferson has
Withdrawn his suit for divorce against
his wife, charging her with infideity.
stating that he was crazed with drink
when the suit was filed.
The Gainesville Hesperian saws
when last Thursdays west-bc und
train reached WhitesborO, W here there
were thirty-two passe ngers waiting to
90 west, party of young people of
erred $50 to be back to u leap-yea ball
in Denison. The offer wa accepted
and the train returned, leaving the
tthirty-two passengers to wait six hours
longer.
AT the close of one of his meetings in
Gonzales, Maj. Pen said there was
going to be bab'izing that evening,
nd he did not want any little boys
throwing sticks in the water. Then
the good major rose to the occasion
and prayed God to curse anybody, big
or little, white or black, old or young,
responsible or irresponsible, who in
,erfered with the sacred right of bap-
tism,
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-02-22

true that all who favor that location
are enemies of Gov. Ireland. IL is
very probable that the fourteen com
mitteemen named as favoring Fort
Worth are as sincere friends "a Gov'
Ireland has In the state. In any
event, their choice of Fort Worth is
not moved by hostility to him. They
probably never considered the effect
OF the place OF the convention upon
its choice. "Outside influence VIII
he as favorable to Ireland here as at
any city in t state, and his strength
in North aud Northwest Texas as III
tie likely to suffer here as at Houston
or San Antonio.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-02-22
A Dire Disaster Averied.
[Sleburne Telegram

The fence-cutting troubles came very
near having much more serious effect
than most people are aware. The dis
cussion of 1t grew so hot that it threat
ened the existence of coy little mu-
tual admiration society," the members
of which We're II great Fort Worth
daily and n certain Cleburne week ~.
In fact ugly names were called and
had it not been for one party's timely
Offering the proper amount of tatly
and consuming good deal of humble
pie, the pleasant little association
would have been broken up. The
matter has been patched up and the
sky is once more serene. The moral
is that little tlattery covers Il multi
tude of differences.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-02-22
FoRr WORTH, February q, IS

WI M ~ WI "'IIJ II TN7F'
Ed. GA AErTE,- Please allow me to correct
you as TO the e. II Hurd article. Toledo,
not Cleveland IS IN Mr. Hurds district. He
was elected upon what was considered n
free-trade platform. q. A. KRAMER,
The error Of the GAZETTE was mere
ly in an unimportant circumstance-
the naming of Cleveland for Toledo.
The force and conclusions Of the
GAZETTE article remain unimpeached
In the protected industries Toledo il,
in proportion to population, as largely
interested as Cleveland; and, as our
correspondent states, In this protective
district Mr.. Hurd was elected on a
free-trade platform.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-02-22

pleted l96 miles Of the New Orlesus 4
Northeastern railroad to Meridian.
and Is one o. the weathiest syndicates
in America. Baron Erlanger is SON
ip-law of the late Hon, John Slidell
Of Louisiana, and takes great interest
in the development of the South. The
prospect of connection by the Fort
Worth, Corsicana & Gulf with such n
system is sufficient of itself to stimu.
late its completion to Waxahatchie at
once. CHEAP COAL.
Fort Worth, February 81, 1884.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-02-22
Statistics Of Business Failures.

r.. G.. Dun & CO., have prepared q
compilation of commercial statistics,
for the year 1883 and five years previ-
Gus, which embodies many interesting
features. For each of the six years,
commencing with 1878, and closing
with 1883, there is given the failures in
each state and territory, with the
amount of liabilities. AS TO the number
Of failures Texas leads the list. Three
hundred and twenty Texas firms, In
1883, went to the wall. During the
same year there were 49, s57 firms in bus
mess in Texas. Louisiana, with only
0,5il firms, or about half the plumber
in Texas, reported III failures. But
these IN represented u greater amount
4 liabilities than were charged against
the $40 Texas firms. The liabilities,
In Texas, were s8o57 1885, In Louis
lana, $3.50 CTS. Kentucky, with
900 more firms than Texas, reported
Slly 1854 failures repre- senting 81 ,667, u
liabilities. For the six. years
he liabilities, I'M Texas. agar gated
$4,000 ern Az compared wifi her
.lstaf tes Of the South isaye one
le&na esAlAesa very creditole slow-
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-02-22
CALLAHAN COUNTY.
The Insurance Companies and the Fire
L0sses-Lacal aud Personal.

L0ssHs-L1cal aud Personal.
Correspondence of the Gazette.
Baird, February 20.-The insurance
companies have not as vet settled IN
| with our citizens for damages by the
are on the Sth of last january. In a
conversation with Mr. S. l.. Ogle. a
merchant of this place, your cores
pondent learned that the East Texas
tlre insurance Co. was more prompt
III adjusting and settling losses than
any'of them. This company settled
promptly and without u suuabble,
while the other companies held back
Tor thirty days and come up and say
ior discount of two to two and a half
per cent. they will settle. Some of
these companies will not be able to do
any more business in this place.
me wind has been blowing very
nard Tor the past two days. rendering
1t very disagreeable.
Inc trains being late with the mail
ior The past week causes considerable
inconvenience with us. The daily pa
pefs don't reach US until the next eve
mug after the day of publication,
"hlie we SHOULD get them ON the next
morning after pa LEGATION.
Mr. hlbbee, an accomplished gentle
aibll ana representative of the GA
4erlE Is registered at the Segal hotel.
The people
me mineral well At this place Is
coming into notice. The water is put
~ kegs and sent TO parties sick In diff
ie.eht parts Of the state. Judge Jas
boone OF sweetwater says this water
~, ms done his wife more good than all
Nv. ine medicine she had ever taken. Mrs |
~ i,one mas constantly improved from
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-02-22

TEXAS has more newspapers than any
Southern state save Missouri. Ayers news.
PAPER annual says Tex IS has 6S Democratic
and II Republican papers, Kentucky has "A
Democratic and The same number OF Repub.
liean papers as eAas.
Can it be supposed that Texas, with
her 100000 and more population, sus-
tains no more l76 newspapers? This
would allow but one newspaper for
every 1870 of population, u man
testify erroneous proportion, In 1880
Texas was credited in the United
Stetes census report with $50 newspa-
pers, and 1t Is not possible, with her
marvellous advance in population,
wealth and intelligence, that the num-
Der Of her newspapers has fallen off
one hundred.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-02-22

ing. Population and other circun'
stances considered, she does not APP
pear to have furnished an undue pro-
portion of the failures. The Ken
tu,&y exhibit, however, affords food
for reflection. The inference Is ire
sistihle that the Kentucky merchant
must not only have had what is called
"a good year" but that he lacked dis
position and opportunity to let his
paper no TO protest and leave creditors
in the lurch. 1t is probable that with
more propitious seasons the Texas re-
! port would have been much smaller
Than IL is. Cotton is an important
factor In determining the condition Of
the Texas merchant, and last year he
found himself short ON cotton. The
crop was materially curtailed aud the
cotton-growers whom he had fed and
clothed during the spring aud sum
mer were woiully slow in settling,
being able, us a rule, to pay only por-
ton of their indebtedness. AS result
the merchant who lacked reserve re-
sources or excellent credit found him
self pushed to the wall and
he assigned. Without doubt
this was the cause OF many
failures. We have often thought,
however, and the same reflection mnst
occur to business men, that our Texas
laws are to some extent responsible
for an important percentage OF the
failures which occur in this state.
There is no controverting the PROPOSE
ton that the laws relating to attach
ments are too often used to drive men
to the wall, who, III reality, are not
insolvent or seriously involved; and
who, If afforded even moderately |
fair opportunity to straighten their al
fairs would do so, pay every dollar
they owe, and leave their credit UNI
One creditor bscomes
and he attaches. Others in
are almost compelled TO
follow suit and the debtor is crushed
III QUICK OIuSE. Anu ~ 10 lIJA w bS
ienied too that the lavish exemption
aws rs to homesteads are too often a
to men of weak moral cali
ore to go into bankruptcy and leave
,reditors TO whistle for their money. It
S possible for an insolvent to hold val
liable property, that will afford COM
ortable living, and yet be absolutely
and judgment proof. Some
men are not able to resist the tempta-
ion and they yield to 1t. Many of
hese men, if no such resource were
pen to them, would set their faces :
gainst temporary embarrassment and
and they would pull
Trough. We incline to the opinion t
hat in time the business community S
4 self-defence will be impelled to move c
n remedial legislation on these two g
aud exemptions,
hey are pernicious extremes, and ac-
lunt for considerable share of the Il
usiness disasters and swindling re- =,
orted from yeaI to year. Ii
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-02-22
NORRIS COUNT
Strong Items From DalSsa'I
and Personal /

Strong Items From Dalssas
and Personal
Corresponding Of the Gals'l
Daingertield, Februarya-
had abundance Of rain, an'l
streets are muddy.
Mrs. Peacock, The molhaa
senator, is quite sick. j
Measles are In town,ah
three cases are reported.
County candidates at j
their heads and cackllnsrI1
Mrs. E. P. Parr oftle Y
on the sick list. II
There is a fellow tia!
selfrich at the auction n
and is going to treat
b G, Smith of the plls
is reported as a probable
district judge at the nell'
Will be hard to beat; reI3
- u str;ngfellOW Is @
measles.
Prof. J. NJ. Dunn y
position as teacher al ~
Our schools are dong
standing bad wealbef, ~
o. b. Colquitt iaIn
place, has started . lll.r
PittsbuIg, Camp coai' "A
1t is reported on ihs I. Y
Gould has bursteo W. n
Louis railway conpaD:
not pay their hands ~
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-02-22
Bismarck Can't Bear the Texas Hog.

ISHh AhIOuIO fNpTtss.I
There is no telling where Texas COM
petition will end. Now we are sur
passing some of our neighbors in the
West, for the st. Louis Republican in
forms us that on the 18th inst. Texas
hogs OF less than $50 brought the I'M
heard-of price of $40 per hundred.
Native hogs of $50 pounds sold for
81 60. This beats Chicago. In fact,
Chicago has been tagging behind St
Louis, and yesterday had to jump an
advance of thirty cents per 100 pounds
in order to catch up with this Market
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-02-22
The Chorus Suells.


Fort Worth will be good place for
the next state Democratic convention
The South and West have had the
honor. Fort Worth promises good aud
abundant entertainment. What she
promises generously she fultils more
generously, this, and the law of rota-
ton giving North Texas again the
right To claim. We hope the execu.
tive committee Will fix the meeting at
the Fort,
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-02-22

The rejection by the Hungarian up
per house OF the Jews aud Christians mar.
rage bin Will PROBABLY prove fatal to the
present constitution OF that body. II has had
an uninterrupted existence from the middle
ages down to the present. day. In Hungary
all the sons OF a magnaie inherit their
fathers TILE and take their seats during his
lifetime as soon AS they are twenty-iour years
of age. This. combined with The division OF
the family estate among oil the sons, not on
~ swells Unfortunately the nu7G YER OF mag
mates hui also includes in the titled class q,
great number OF Impoverished mmilieg.
Throughout Hungary counts aud barons are
to be found who are never summoned to the
UPPER house aud never think OF aiming
their seats. The opposition now reproach
the gOyarnmani for bringing mp members OF
such voters Who had never In their lives APP
peaFed their before.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-02-22
1hsi Cnmes Home.

TIIUDUTnb ICTIETNIIl'I
The impudence of some former
abettors of communistic destroyers of
property is refreshing. They now
claim that the recent enactments did
not stop fence.cutting and were unnec-
essary, as the former laws were sulli-
Client. Fortunately for Texas the leg
islature had different opinion.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-02-22
Wife Murder.

picniand Centre, Wis, February 81.
pa d. /. Barnes, a prominent citizen of
d i,uaI, zen miles from this citv, vesler-
uay hllied his wife ana then attempted
du 'deidn by cutting his tiiroat, and win
N.Y. ,ue. Pfgtracled sicknesa IN the lamlly
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-02-22

ABourth only trait standing boldly
out to mark the character of Logan
above other men Is an intensity of
hate. That is not particularly fitted
to predominant in the government OF
Il great nation.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-02-22

In the next national Democratic
convention, az in the last, the party
will have no trouble in nominating
a candidate. Their difficulty comes in
at the ballot-box. The Republicans
split in convention and harmonize at
the polls. The Democrats sugar-coat
their candidate in convention and do
their grumhling at the polls.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-02-22

THE people along the lower Missis-
sippi and ia southern tributaries are
dreading repetition Of the scenes
that have now cached CULINARY
point in the Ohio valley. Mardi Gras
visitors to New Orleans next week
will probably be treated to some sights,
in the shape of rushing waters, not
down on Rex's programme.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-02-22

FRANCE has missionaries in the
form of soldiers in Tonquln, while working.
men IN Paris are so near starvation as to
suggest to agitators that the lime is propi-
tous for revelation The government may
not be wholly responsible for the "hard
umes,' but aS it wastes morey on foreign
enterprises chiefly for glory, and depriVes
the poor people OF the opportunity to buy
cheap aud good American pork, II Is at L asst
partially responsible for the peoples suffer
tnt
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-02-22
hmm for the static Convention.

TGalyeston ptintl
Besides, onr city being the metro,
polls, il has naturally u conventional
air