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Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-01-28
SAN ANTONIO.
Sale OF the Menger HOtel-The Soldiers
Barracks-Fence.C Critters Ar.
rested and Oh Trial.

Special TO the Gazette.
San Antonio, January 27.-Col.
Hord has sold out his interest in the
Menger hotel to his partner ICurtis Da-
Wis, for S20, 900, and will retire from ac-
i've business, giving attention to his
ranch.
The military will buy forty-five
acres more and add to the grounds re-
Gently purchased for soldiers barracks.
This gives them about one hundred
and fifty acres, inclusive of what they
already own.
Two young Germans named Ute
We're arrested to-day for fence burning
and liberated on $500 bond each.
Many witnesses who were summon
ed In the Medina company fence-cut-
Ting examining trial have been at
tached and will be forced to testify.
About twenty witnesses have been eS-
amined, and the examinations will
continue all next week. The develon.
nents are grave and interesting. Two
good citizens are kept present as wit.
nesses to the evidence elected.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-01-28
PARIS.
line Mystery Of Ledger's Disappear.
ance--A Texarkana Failure.

Special TO the Gazette.
Paris, January 27.-The father and
nao,ner OF w; II, Ledger, who disap.
,eareu from Dallas early this month.
i liave returned to Paris. They briefly
slale that The mystery as to the disap-
pearance Is cleared up, but are ayerse
70 giving the public the causes LEADING
thereto, or information of the where'
health. =" soou
AZ Texarkana yesterday, l.. Muir.
ray saddlery store was attached by
ahe Cltizen's bank and others, seven
attachments in all being run. Padejt,
bros. OF Dallas are interested This IL
me fourth failure at Texarkana sinca
tha i nv OF December, including that Of
'ne iexas d st. Louis railway.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-01-28

man for forging money order on the
Denison postoffice and fined him 500
and costs.
The jury in the case of the Younger
brothers of Sunset, Wise county, is
still hung. The Youngers are charged
with resisting a United States officer
serving processes and creating what is
known as the Sunset riot of about one
year ago.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-01-28
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far ths' aa years Of age, shipping clerk
~, res,a ade anchor Milling Co., Was ar.
i i' yesterday charged with defraud.
ing the company out Of $4,000. ""'
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-01-28

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The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1884-11-06
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IMPORTANT ANiAluANNIloN.
uudon. Nov. o The CuWrd and
Cuuu steamship companic- have pr-
ranged To- amalgauaic,
AN rI~u NINurE SUSPENDED.
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The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1884-11-06

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If green Hops on the white label
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Hop or Hop, IN thrir nam.
The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1884-11-06

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uIr Wruh,r Hud- generally from upMi u
.t.l Haurt tclowtry temperature"
The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1884-11-06

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The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1884-11-06

The vote of Austin for Cleveland h.
about - per cent. larger than for Han
cork No complete returns ar" lil
saver, ldcmJ, for congress. has
carried Travis county by 200 votes
over Rector lludJ
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-12-07
nnST OF ROYALTY.
press.

Queen Victoria is said to have given, or
intends to give. to Prince Victor, eldest son
of the Prince of Wales, and heir presump-
tive to the throne, one of her London pal
aces, and means to have Mr. Gladstone ask
Parliament for an allowance of Els, 900 an
nually to support his establishment The
Radicals as q body, and good many Liberals
will resist this demand, on the ground that
the royal family is a very needlessly ex-
pensive decoration as it is, and there is no
reason in making it more So especially as the
she never fully expends, and has besides an
income larger than any of her nobility from
her immense private estates She is heaping
up more money every year, and the country
needs it worse than it has ever needed
money at least since the great railroad panic
in Hudson's the railroad kings, day. She is
more than amply able to provide an adequate
support for all her children or grandchildren
who may require separate residences, and to
burdened people, suffering from depressed
trade and foreign competition, with tens of
thousands of workmen out of employment, is
felt by the popular party to be coming it
little too strong" The Queens sordidness in
this respect, and her Indifference to the con-
dition of her poorer class of subjects, have
made her more unpopular than is generally
thought To that influence more than any
other is due the feeling that coupled her name
indelicately with John Browns, in many
story and doggerel rhyme, that never got
wider publication than repetition in tavern
parlors and second class club-rooms. Nearly
twenty years ago, when resident of this city
was in England, he saw satirical burlesques OF
the f'Court Gazette" in which it was noted
that "John Brown walked an hour in the
grounds at st. Buckingham Palace yesterday
morning." or John Brown, accompanied by
her Majesty, took an airing in the royal
coach yesterday afternoon" While the bet
ter class of people gave no heed to these hints
of scandal there were many of a lower class
that believed them, and the Queens selfish
persistence in coming upon the treasury and
the taxes for the support of her children as
they came of age, when she was able to take
ample care of them herself, from her own
public allowance, helped the ill-will that dis
credited her, unjust as it of course was.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-12-07

might otherwise be rendered him, owing to
the fact that he added to the natural perils of
life by taking up his abode on Long Island,
where so many untoward things happen.
However that may be, the Rev. Downs lived
there with his wife and two children-it
is to be supposed at least that they were
cherubic; preachers children always are.
The Rev. Downs awoke the other morning to
find that his spouse, with whom he had lived
most happily, had gone off with deacon of
the church, leaving word that she was happy
with her ''dear Terry" and would never re-
turn. Mr. Downs probably does not, under
the circumstances, desire her return, but he
doubtless regrets that the condition of things
gave him no opportunity to ward off the dis
aster, and thus protect himself and the little
Downs
For the comfort and stability of society,
something ought to be done to guard now
helpless mankind from this growing evil. So
great is the uncertainty connected with mat
rimony that wedding-cards are, in some sec
tions of the country, no longer considered a
reliable indication that a wedding is to occur
as stated thereon. The friends who
send their gifts to Miss Smith are
prepared to hear that she has married
Jones instead of Brown, or that she
has suddenly elected to remain single. On
the other hand, after she has become Jones,
or Brown, or Downs as the case may be- it is
safe precaution for a visitor who designs
calling after months absence from town, to
first inquire whether the lady is still of the
same mind and name or has gone away with
handsomer man. Unpleasant interviews with
the late husband may be avoided by this
means, and social serenity to some extent pre-
served. But the uncertainty of itself is a dis
turbing element in aristocratic and ministerial
circles, and steps should be taken to do away
with it. Insurance companies which would
agree to reimburse the abandoned lover OF
husband for his pecuniary losses, suffered by
the desertion, might do something to mend
his broken heart, and would probably do
good business. Other measures may be need
full to mend the matter entirely, but the man
who is assured against being out of pocket on
account of his venture is prepared for storms
and will soon recuperate. Insurance seems to
be the first thing needed; additional proceed
ings will suggest themselves later.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-12-07

pure as well as in applied science. Even meta
physics has its column with physics and biol
ogy in the wellbaanced paper. We shall
take pleasure in referring Prof. Cope and his
co-laborers to the scientific department of the
Journal whenever their souls are vexed with
the scandals of Eastern politics and the econ
slant absorption of histories Of crime as they
find them in the columns of the Atlantic
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-12-07
A NEW FIELD FOR INSURANCE.

There is an element Of uncertainty about
matrimony which is becoming more pro-
nounced every day. 1t is not the old-time
risk of encountering family jars by reason Of
having secured a partner not entirely In har-
mony with yourself. Adam took that risk,
and met with domestic infelicities; all his
sons to this day have taken chances in the
same lottery, with greater or less success in
These ordinary hazards are assumed by mar
ried men as a matter of course, and in some
manner guarded against. A mans wife may
be quarrelsome and disagreeable, but the lord
and master can leave her to the society Of her
self and the cat and himself
go TO the corner grocery and talk
politics. She may demand sealskin
sacques and other good clothes, but he may
sternly refuse to give her the wherewithal to
buy them. She may encourage the advance
Of the serpent in other ways, but for all
ordinary emergencies there is a remedy in the
husbands hands. 1t is the new and eccentric
development of rebellion against matrimonial
bonds, and time honored customs in connec-
who is or wishes to be married has no means
of protecting himself. Formerly the trouble
was with the wife, after she had become such
Now it consists in getting her after she has
promised to be yours, and no others, or in
holding her fast when she is once married
The case of Mr. Simpson, late of New York,
who believed that he was going to marry Miss
Willard, of Washington, is an illustration
of the difficulties in the path Of the young
man intent on obtaining wife. Mr.. Simp-
son thought he had everything fixed He
had proposed, was accepted, and "the day
set; but man proposes and lovely woman in
these days, disposes of herself as she sees fit
Mr.. Simpson had unfortunately, not consid
They bore south by southwest with the pur-
pose OF making the harbor of Kansas City.
Mr.. Simpson had ''located" in Kansas City,
iii fact, and meant to take his BRIDE there. She
rebeed She desired to move in aristocratic
circles Of at least as high grade as those to
which she had been accustomed, and her keen
vision failed to discover them in Kansas City.
Frank James and his family stand high in the
social scale in that primitive town. and the
Washington young lady did not look favorably
upon association with the Jameses. In order
to avoid controversy which might be unpleas
ant, she adopted the simple expedient of
marrying another man, and leaving Mr. Simp-
sou out in the cold. 1t is little rough on
Simpson; but, as before remarked, where is
his remedy
The Rev. Downs, of Long Island, eneoun-
tered another sort of calamity. Mr.. Downs is
probably not entitled to as much sympathy as
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-12-07

mails should endeavor to check her theatrical
aspirations in order to prevent deadly havoc
among the dudes
SOME English capitalists are said to have taken
out letters of incorporation In this country for a
''Bighted Affections Insurance Company" After
March 4, this company can undoubtedly do a
rushing business in insurng that vast multitude
of unfortunates who, having set their hearts
upon offices, find their passionate hopes nipped
and dead. 1t will, indeed, be a bonanza of blight
to insurance men.
PAPA CORRECT is not pleased with cornetist
Levy, his new son-in-law. Papa Corbet says his
daughter, the bride, is an angel but she can
never be happy with Levy because he does not
pay his bills. Perhaps the excited parent is
mistaken Levy blows his horn industriously
and an angel ought to be able to live upon wind
if any one can.
ST. Louis arithmetic is something little out
of the usual order of that exact science A certain
firm advertises that it has floor room of AZ, 500
square feet (which is equivalent to 425 rooms 100
feet square" In point of fact, it is equivalent
to just four and quarter rooms 100 feet square.
A LoNDoNER who sued for divorce found $50
empty chloral bottles in the house after his wife
had left. He did not know before that she was ad-
dicted to the choral habit, and regrets now that
he did not save the expense of divorce suit by
waiting for the inevitable overdose of the drug.
PEOPLE belonging to church organizations
struggling for existence will read with envy that
the sum of $31, 600 will be spent on the Pitts
burg team" of base ballists this season. But
then, base ball players are not put on the super
animated list That's something
STELLA COSTA is the stage name of the pretty
soprano who has become the third-or is it the
fourth or fifthl-wife of Levy, the cornetist. She
will be apt to cost a pretty penny before his
regular year for getting divorce comes about
again
MAJOR BITTERs has taken charge of the
Rochester Republican. We thought the Indiana
press needed tonic but hated to say SO.
FIVE hundred dollars was the price paid for a
pair of shoes last week 1t takes a good deal of
material to cover Kentucky girls feet
EDGAR NASH enters "a plea for romance in
the last Current La Edgar; where were you
during the campaignl
New YORK young lady named Fanny L.
Cowboy has gone insane. No wonder.
THE News is fifteen years old to-day. Here's
looking at you, boy.
SWEET Eva Mackay
The gossips do say,
Will wed real prince at no distant day;
So now be still pray,
Lest the gentleman may
Take sudden alarm and fly far away
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-12-07

mails should endeavor to check her theatrica
aspirations in order to prevent deadly havo
among the dudes.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-12-07

ST. Louis arithmetic is something little out
of the usual order of that exact science certain
firm advertises that it has floor room of AZ, 500
square feet (which is equivalent to 425 rooms 100
feet square" In point of fact, it is equivalent
to just four and quarter rooms 100 feet square.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-12-07

New YORK young lady named Fanny L.
Cowboy has gone insane. No wonder
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-12-07

PEOPLE belonging to church organizations
struggling for existence will read with envy that
the sum of $31, 600 will be spent on the Pitts
burg team" of base ballists this season. But,
then, base ball players are not put on the super
animated list. That's something.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-12-07

SWEET Eva Maokay,
The gossips do say,
Will wed real prince at no distant day;
So now be still, pray,
Lest the gentleman may
Take sudden alarm and fly far away.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-12-07

A LoNDoNER who sued for a divorce found $50
empty choral bottles in the house after his wife
had left. He did not know before that she was ad-
dicted to the choral habit, and regrets now that
he did not save the expense of divorce suit by
waiting for the inevitable overdose of the drug
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-12-07

The News is fifteen years old to-day. Here's
looking at you, boy.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-12-07

A NEW JERSEY mill girl, who wants to be an
actress, is so pretty that she is followed on the
street by train of admiring youths and she
says they become so annoying that she is obliged
woman is so attractive in plain dress her brilian-
cy will be without comparison on the stage
Unless she can restrain her pugilstic tendencies
the society for the prevention Of cruelty to ami
The Portland daily press., 1884-12-20
Christmas Fringes.
(Springfeld Republican,

The special provision of the publishers for
the Christmas holidays.is in accord with the
spirit of the superficial society of the time; it
is matter of display, of the outside, and all
the vices of taste that mark the fussy draw
ing-rooms aud boudoirs of fashion are in q
measure copied or parodied in the clothing
of gift literature, This year step has been
taken into absurdity even beyond the adorn-
ments of the Christmas cards, with their
perfumed sachets of orrs-root at the sim
plest and musk at the extreme. We have
now individual poems, not ouly illustrated,
but wrapped in Illuminated covers, and
those covers friuged with silk, as if they
were infantile toys,-for in this guise they
ara like nothing else so much as they are
like the loving constructions of our little
girls to glorify the habitations OF their dolls.
We have even great poems, and portions of
great poems dressed up in this minifying
guse. In this there is q serious in
suit both to literature and to the public,
for it assumes notion that belongs
to neither-as that sculpture or painting
needs embroidery to attract; and so, like the
wayside thrones in Europe, we must have
these incumbering and incongruous drape-
ries aid fiIagrees to attract the vagrant rev.
erence. A Christmas card is one thing, and
a book quite another, and the endeavor to
combine the two ruins both. There is small
chance for true art or true literature in such
trivial ornations as are now in vogue.
The Portland daily press., 1884-12-20
Editorial Passes.
A Modest Request from the Country Edi-
tor.


''We have some queer experiences with
the country editor" said General Passenger
Agent Horner of the Nickel Plate to a Cleve-
land Herald reporter. ''It is hard for any of
them to learn that pass is issued to them
and not to their employees. Here is letter
from the Editor of small country paper
down on the line of our road. He writes
that there was some dispute about his pass
and he turned it over to the conductor. The
facts are that he lent his pass and the con-
ductor took it up and turned it over to me.
did not signify that 1 observed his limo
cent little mistake, but sent him another
pass" General Passenger Agent Ford of
the Pennsylvania company, received from
an Ohio editor the other day most unique
application for a pass, which was forward
ed to him. The letter was as follows:
81 have modest request to make.
want to get pass for myself and wife from
- to Washington, D. c., and thence to
New York, with stop privileges at Baltimore
and Philadelphia and return. know that
the general rule is to refuse such requests as
this. wish, however, to state my case.
Firstly-This is to be my wedding trip,
and country editors, you know, 10 such cases
depend upon their railroad friends standing
by them in the worthy effort to make their
brides believe they have caught a million
aire when they hook on to country editor.
Poor little innoceDts! They think all they
will have to do will be to ride free over the
country and be the honored guests of the
great in the land. Little do they dream of
the painful truth that they will have to exc
out scanty subsistence from tickets to
snide minstrel shows and "Uncle Toms
Cabin" troupes; orders on corner stores
which will be coldly honored for goods at
four times their value; contracts for organs
and sewing machines, by means of which
editors are permitted, after giving several
hundred dollars worth of advertising, to pur-
chase an instrument after paying eight-sev-
enths of it's value in cash.
BY the courtesy of railroad officials, edi-
tors usually succeed in concealing these un-
pleasant things from brides, and therefore
follow the custom and bone you for the
passes.
of the rascals who must go, l will have to
hump myself to get back in time to be
kicked out, and l will not be able to move a
peg until that momentous event occurs.
think that have mace my case; if you think
not, let me know, and 1 will add an amend
ment and supplemental petition. Mark your
answer 'private.' | have not yet billed the
town nor requested any ones presents at
my wedding"
The Portland daily press., 1884-12-20
For Sale.

GTEAMER GORDON, owned by Harpswell
- Steamboat Co., now running on the route be-
tween Portland and Harpswell. touching at Long,
Little and Great Chebeague and Orr's Island is in
good condition. over $4SO0 has been expended on
hull and machinery during past three years, is light
on fuel has good machinery and large cabin accom-
has a regular passenger and freight
traffic besides the excursion business in summer
which is increasing each year; has special IT, S.
license in summer for 225 passengers. viii sell
for cash or exchange for other property.
Apply to GEO. F. WEST, Manager,
33 Plum St.. Portland
The Portland daily press., 1884-12-20
For Sale.

rEsHE McGlinchy Brewery lot with buildings
thereon situated on Fore street, opposite the
Fore St. of 152 feet and extending back about 1913
feet and containing 26, 1862 square feet of land.
The lot of land and buildings, an its location, it
portation, axes it very desirable for manufactur-
ing purposes.
Also for SALE Steam Boiler, Engine, Shaftfng
large copper refrigerator ard grain elevator.
oct28 diff
The Portland daily press., 1884-12-20
MERCHANTS NATIONAL BANK.

THE Stockholders of the Merchants National
Il Bank of Portland are hereby notified that
their annual meeting will be held at the Bank
Tuesday, Jaruary 13, 1885. at 10 O'Clock A. M,
for the following purposes.
1st.-TO choose directors for the ensuing year.
2nd.-To decide whether they will amend the
sixth article of association and extend the corporate
existence of the bank twenty years.
3rd.-The transaction of any OF ber business that
may legally be brought before them.
CHAS. PAYSON,
Portland. Dec IL, 1884. Cashier.
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