Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-10-05
LooALETTEs.

Inc 1OunB Democracy 40 not Hltet
again until next Monday night.
The Fort Worth base ball club leaves
for Dallas this morning. The fur will
fly this afternoon.
The campaign is getting warm and
the Cleveland men are beginning TO
bet on their favorite.
The case of Wash Berry, charged |
with robbery, in the district court re-
suited in hung jury.
A marriage license was issued In the |
county clerks Office yesterday TO
Joseph McLarty and Miss Thena |
Young.
Miss Long, recently with Miss M.
B. Loughridge, has opened up dress
making establishment over the post
Office on Main street.
The directory of the Santa Fe road
will meet In Galveston in few days
| TO consider the question of building
the road north from this city.
A private letter TO this city states
| that the government authorities have
released Payne, the Oklahoma boomer,
| without trial, and that Payne is going
back to the scene of his former eX-
ploits 20 remain until again forced
out by United States bayonets.
DIR. John Cravens of the Fort Worth
| Pharmacy jmpany has gone into the
show husiness-that Is, he has an inn
ported Maltese cat and Sandwich
Island dog which he Is training for
private exhibitions for the amusement
of his friends. John says the girls are
all stuck on his show, and that's the
reason he takes so much trouble in
training the animals.
The following divorces were granted
in the district court yesterday: 10.
Brown from j. Brown, on the ground
OF cruel treatment; Mrs. M. A. Nc
, hurry from A. McMurry, on tine
ground of abandonment and cruel
treatment; Clara Weldon from w. f..
Weldon, ON the plea of cruel treat
ment and adultery; Mrs. M. A. Price
from w. A. Price, on the plea Of cruel
treatment.
DIR. n. ID. BarTadall leaves the city
this morning for Serralvo, Old Mexico,
where he will assume the management
of the Daggett 81 Mitchell mines. DR..
/ Barradall recently returned from So
zorro, n. NJ, where unfortunate cir
cumstances caused him to leave very
, fine mining property in which he was
interested. His matured Judgment
and practical experience eminently
fit him for the position he Is soon TO
assume, and THE GAZETTE joins his
host of friends in Fort Worth in wish
, ing him merited and abundant success
in his new field.
: A very serious difficulty came near
occurring in the southwestern part
the city yesterday. Officer Walker
! whose duty IL Is to enforce the pound
ordinance, captured several COWS be-
longing TO Charles Coppinger and i'm.
: pounded them. Coppinger hearing OF
J this wenf 10 Walker and dispute en-
sued which ended in Walker
drawing pistol ON Coppin.
} ger, who went off. He shortly
: afterwards returned with Mayor
: Smith and the quarrel was renewed
, and IL Is alleged that Walker leveled o
: shotgun at Coppinger. Fortunately nc
} blood was shed.
Jos. III. Brown has ornamented his
handsome new wholesale grocery
building with u new clock which will
> neighborhoOd. 1t has three sets OF
. hours, fronting east, south and west
: and the letters of the word ''Silver
: Loaf and two 'starsp mark the hour
points. This is novel way to adver.
l tise the celebrated Silver Loaf baking
. powder which Is manufactured by Mr..
e Brown. The bell which sounds the
: hour strokes 10 a musical one, and at
/ IL o'clock when this and the city
E clock is striking the notes sound some.
e what like the chimes In the Eastern
: churches.
: H. NJ. Hoxie, third yiee.president OF
( the Gould system, passed through the
t city yesterday in special going north.
0 He was accompanied by j. b. Van
8 Dyne, superintendent OF the Missouri,
t Kansas & Texas division; Il. q, Gold.
en-, assistant superintendent OF trans.
, pOrtation; o. A. Haynes, superintend.
5 emit Of machinery OF Texas q Pacific
+ railway; b. w. Mccullough, general
8 passenger agent, aud other officials.
8 II is understood here that
I. this trip by Mr.. Hoxie Is fol
! the purpose OF cutting down the force
I OF the system, and that many heads
will fly of soon after his return to st.
Z Louis. A railroad man WAS asked yes
q terday II Mr.. Hoxie had said anything
about building machine shops In thin
city, and the reply was that the com,
pany could scarcely build hencooI
i unless business got better.