Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-09-16
SHERMAN SIFTINGS.
Emigrants Returning East From the
Drought Stricken Districts-A
Short Cotton Crop.
Memorial Service for Bishop Pieroe-In-
yestigating the Killing of Dan
Thompson.

Special 20 the Gazette.
SHERMAN, Ten, Sept. l5.--In addi-
ton to the usual services yesterday
there was a memorial service held at
the South Travis Street Methodist
church last night on the life and la.
bors Of the late Bishop Pierce. Rev.
j. NJ. Binkley, DIR. Johnson of Pilot
Point and Rev. Dan Young made APP
prOprlate addresses and were lis
tened to with marked at
tention by a large audience.
Bishop Pierce had grown old in the
work Of preaching the gospel and had
gained the reputation of the "silver-
tongued orator of the Southern pull
pit" His life was enlinCntly pure and
useful. The good he accomplished and
the splendid example of holiness he
set before the world in his daily walk
aud conversation has made him man
OF mark In our generation, and
It was meet that his brethren
in every section OF the South
should do honor to his great name.
The grand jury met again this
morning, and while their delibera-
tions are secret 1t is easy to judge from
the witnesses who are called before
them that they are investigating the
case of Jot Gunter for the killing of
Dan Thompson Friday night last.
From the additional facts about
threats on the part Of the de-
ceased that have come TO our knowl-
edge since Saturday last we doubt
If a bill Of Indictment will be present
ed In court.
NUaara anrrxy 40. raonrH ha lnatl, ,f
/ Mrs. G.. &. Jones to-day about noon.
after lingering illness of two months,
| first from malarial and second from
typhoid fever. Her life has hung on a
slender thread for three weeks past,
one day giving evidence of rallying
strength and mastery over the dread
disease, and the next a prostration
that destroyed all hope. Between
alternating despair and hopeful
ness friends have stood by her
bedside In eager watchfulness only TO
see her young and useful life cut OIL by
the fell destroyer and leave hundreds
of sorrowing friends TO mourn.
Several emigrants from the drouth-
stricken districts of Texas passed
trough the city to-day on their way
back 10 visit their wife's people in Ar
kansas. Their teams were rather
sorry, to use Texas idiom, and the
families gave evidence of long Jour
ney by the unkempt and unwashed
appearance of the numerous urchins
that always accompany such eXpedi.
tions. These people are never settled
from the day they leave the old states
until the clods OF the valley are rolled
over their restless remains, for what.
ever evil betides them in a new country
will be laid to the countryis fault
when If tine same should visit the old
home 1t would be set down TO the
credit of Providence and counted as
something that could not be helped. II
Is really blessing to Texas that
hard times do come now and then, for
In these ordeals the drones skip out &c
other lands and leave us the men and
women of nerve, resolution and pur
pose, and stability of character, needed
10 make the country great.
Nat Smith, Esq, of Martin Springs
and H. g. Nabors of Gordonville Were
in the city to-day and report the
cotton fields in the northwest
part Of the county white with
their ileeoy harvest. The latter
gentleman IN one OF the largest cotton
buyers in any of our country towns
and his observations are doubtless ms
thorough as need be, and he says that
around Gordonsville the present pick.
ing will about exhaust ali that is valu.
able OF the present years crop. SINH.
lar reports come up from Bud Drye, a
merchant at Pilot Grove, In the other
extreme OF the county. He tells ms
that some of the fields that one month
ago promised three-quarters of bale Ia
the acre cannot possibly yield over a
bale to five acres and some farmers re.
port that 1t will take eight acres q
make bale. Having already secured
good crops of wheat, oats, hay and
corn, these farmers will not suffer foi
the substantial things of life, but those
who are In debt and expected reliel
from their cotton crops are sorely dis
appointed.
A game OF base ball came Off yester.
day at the Driving mark between tht
Dallas colored club and nine of oul
Sherman coons. The Dallas club wor
an easy victory.
Rev. DIR. johnson, of Pilot Point, re
turned home by the o'clock train
this afternoon,
The hospitable citizens living neal
Rockport school house, eight
miles southwest Of the city
stimulated by the example Of
Saturdays picnic between Collinsville
and Whitesboro, contemplate giving q
grand candidates picnic at their place
In the next two weeks. IL is ihefr de-
sire to have some gentleman OF en- the