Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-12-27
WACO
A Temperance Lecture Booked for
Sunday Livery Stables Sold
at Forced Sale.
Old Dame Nature Dons q Pure White
Christmas frook Cattle Suffer
ing from the Cold.

Special 70 the Gazette.
WACO, Tx, Dee. y The Christ
mas season In this orderly city Is hap.
PLY over, with but one slight afl'rsy,
wherein negro was cut IN the body
by another negro, bnt not seriously.
Alra, Kate Raymond Howe IL 10 lee
I ture at tho Methodist church Sunday
afternoon on gospel temperance, The
clergy and local temperance people are
taking considerable interest IN her
visit.
Local festivities continue, largely
attended masquerade aud fancy dress
ball being in progress at Chtesnlan
hail to-nirnt.
Mr. J D, SHAW, the agnostlciectnrer
Is considering a PROVO ,ition TO deliver
= series OF lectures IN Fort Worth and
| Dallas
A cold rain has been falling nearly
all day, aud business Ia almost entirely
suspended. None OF the courts were
la session to-day.
The Riverside livery stable were
sold under deed OF trust TODAY, TO
safety n debt due M Il McI4Aren. Mr.
h. Rntan bid tii the property for $500
The severe and unexpected cold
wave did not Interfere tOAny material
degree with the holiday trade or fea
uvilies, Trains brought hundreds Of
vlsitora fcom adj AGENT towns; country
folks Hooked hi by hundreds, aud the
dealers In holiday gn0ds were rushed,
Christmas was ton cold for the small
boy ana jewellers TO paint the town
red so the clerk of The weather ear
peted 10 with white The fimt snow
Of the winter lay ON the ground yes
terday morning aud the mercury reg
lstered Ia. rhls was Indoors. Ont-
side where the wind blew Il WAS
colder. The anOS was light and soon
disappeared, being so light and dry
that the wind blew n away, The
cold weather Ia here yet, Christmas
: day has passed OF quietly, with u very
moderate display ol drunkenness AZ
several Of the churches religious ser
vices took place In the morning. All
business was suspended and no courts
were IN sesalon. The police reported
a few arrests, md most OF these were
released on their own parole.
On Christmas eve, at the Episcqpa-
Ian, Baptist aud other churches hun
dreds of children attended the Christ
mas treea for the Sunday schools, and
had the usual good time Banda oi
revelera also parRdsd the streets
blowing the inevitable tin horns, and
I, the air was lurid with fireworks anC
+ the smell Of powder. The Catholl,
9 church, which was beautifully deco
: rated aud brilliantly illuminated, wa
filled with spectators 10 attend thu
midnight mass, a very Imposing reli
gious ceremonial, which concluded
about o'clock n, IA,
n Reporta FROM the country say tina
+ stock are suffering severely. rhel
have next 10 no protection and wher
, out on the range many will die from
!, the eiIeotH Of the cold spell
Railroad tralnr, especially from thl
Il north, have been more or less delayed
y On the Texas Il 81 Louis pasHengo
4 rates tleoaD until December 81 are tw
"a cents mile. This Is the manage
4 menps Christmas gin TO the travelling
public
Mr.. A, h Hutcbins, Commercial
traveller, well known TO travelling met
throughout the state IL lying AZ thr
Ia point Of death at hia residence In thi
y City.