Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-03-29
GRANpyIEw.
Burglars and Fire-Bugs-A Full Local
Batch.


special TO The Gaset'o 49,
crondvie,v March 2S.--This country
~ getting fall of burglars anu tr@a'p'
and II IL time som,thing Whs neiug
| done 10 rid us OF thehi. ,sswiutnay
n,o,ning nbnut 4 O'clock Col. itubt. w.
! Mnnre was aroused by someone enter.
! ing his sleeping room anu nc uus'I ",
! the tbief turning down the lamp. Col,
| Moore made fur his gun, hut was TOO
late for the expert tramp, who was
! s,on I'm The dark Upon examination
! wns found THAI the thief had VISITED
mo dining room, pulped down The
rrfnm. bolped himself toa fire lot of
sousacp and lightbread, winch Mrs.
Moore had prepared for a fishing cN.
cursion. had taken n milk crock aud
some other little articles of not much
yalue. Col. NJ. traced the tramp after
dnylioht hy his tracks some two or
three hundred yards distant II. the
woods and found where they (lor IL is
supposed there were two had "A buggy
or hack. They found the crock, but lost
trace Of them, IA they soon TUNED in
the main road. Circumstances point to
n couple of strangers in the neighbour
hood, and Esq. 4. j, Forian, our ELL
cicnt Justice, Is working up the case
with some holes of bringing the ras-
Gals To time, MS Col. Moore thinks lac
would rec oIui2e the one who came in
the room.
This morning about o'clock Col.
II, NJ. San-om discovered that one of
his store noisrs was on fire. He gath
cred bucket of water and in few
moments had the fire out. The fire
was kindled in two or three places, the
tiend using lot of coInice and mould
ing with which to start 1t. The clti-
zpns of this, the new town, surmise
that This house in the old town was
fired by thieves with the view of de-
coying Off the people here and then
pillagiug the place. 1t IS nighttime for
vigilance, committees, AS there Is room
for good wo.k
Aunt Rosa of the Alvarado Bulletin,
writing from Esgan, tells us thata num-
Der OF trunks belonging to w. ID. Far
ri.of the Martin Brown company have
been lying on The platform of that
place several days and Mr.. farris
bad not put in an appearance. Now
this makes the many friends of MIR.
Farris here little apprehensive us to
his well.being and whereabouts, es
pecially with the IeXter escapade
fresh in our minds. \ little cXplana-
lion is the next thing in order.
ThOs. : Wade son of our towns
map, Col. John II. Wade, has opened
stationery store IN our town.
Where is the wisdom, the beneii-
cence, the maguanimity and the con-
sistency of this, the richest govern
ment the world ever heheld, when
there is no provision III the law of our
land by which II poor postmaster
losing funds by burglary, can be
reimbursed when every precaution
was taken by d,positing the funds in
las good a safe ns the town afforded,
where every individual church,
Sunday school, association
or firm gracefully agreed to sustain
their own 'o-ses, hut fursooth when
the pos master, who had taken all
reasonable care with the funds. applies
to this government with 800 00O, 300
In the treasury to make him safe, the
reply comes back, "Iou must pocket
the los" How does it happen, Mr.. Ed
itor, that IA government 40 careful of
It's funds as TO exact such enormous
bonds, and then compel twenty-five
cent postmaster to pocket such losses
or keep n burglar proof safe
May the wise s0lons, 50 dear benni-
ally 10 the tOillng constituency, who
bask IN the glitter of the millions and
swell the Imagination OF their own
who stumble over the
sand hill and grasp at the mountain,
live long enough 10 feel the mercile ss
iron heel of the government they rep.
resent.