Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-03-02
OUR MAN ABOUT TOWN.

appearance here the press have dcnounceu
| Anna Eva Fay MS q grand humoug' III
| Waco the sensation loving eN'preachef' MI
shaw, who was of The committee on inc
stage, announced the ghastly hands wore 'he
same rings as Miss Fay. In the case OF MISS
Fay auu Mir. shaw A. was the clash of one
| who believes In everything and one VINO
believes in nothing. Anyway, the division
| between the spiritualist and the free-ihihkoi
afforded sunday nights amusement to the
pious wscoltos.
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The only thing that occurred in this city to
remind one OF Mardi Gras was the presence
| on he streets. and making the tour OF the
saloons ut a late hour, OF several female
maskers-and they should nave been locked
up by the police. The mad revclry OF the
carnl val as II is seen in New Orleans is quite
! different from the drunken hllariousness OF
such creatures
The police of the city appeared this week
In new caps of the regulation style, and in
them are much more imposing shan they
were In their broad brimS. Officers Thorn
ason and Nicely look as If they were dressed
for entrance to the policeman chorus n the
Pirates of Pcnzance
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Remark ed an old citizen 10 me: "There are
about one hundred saloons in the city, and
how they all manage to exist is a mystery.
And now here comes the new White Etc
plant, furnished nj a cost OF fifteen thousand
dollars. 1t will either have to bankrupt and
absorb the business Of half a-dozen of the
small ones, or else prove n veritable elephant
on the hands of its owners" There is good
"A ,ol Inf NNhf L IN nh N
but there is not enough In this one TO war.
rant the maintenance of n costly saloon tor
every hundred and fifty people.
a..
a gentlemanly appearing modest looking
little man Of quiet demeenor was pointed
out to me the other day as the individual
who kept Dodge, Kan, in such n turmoil
some months since. 1t was Luke short, the
man some of the citizens OF Dodge wanted TO
ca II cut the military to conquer because he
would not allow himself run out of the town.
He is small but clearly there is no discount
as to his grit.
The comparatively few houses with
sew or connect, ms IS shame. After spend
ing thousands for the sewers the authorities
should see TO it every house in town is
connected with thrm.
Within the past week neat, durable pave.
ments have been laid in front ola number of
business houses on Main strect-a wonderful
improvement on the ramshackle wooden af-
fairs that preceded them. But there are still
miles Of property front unpaved, ard II is to
be hoped the good work will go on until
pedestrian can go dry.shod from the Trinity
to the railway hospital.
\ wealthy cattleman who resides in a DIFF
lerent section Of the state, but who frequently
has business in that city, says Abilene is
growing much faster than any town west of
For orth, aud prophecies it Will be n city
OF no small proportions. He says there is a
generous but spirited rivalry between the two
sections of Abilene separated by the railway,
and that rivalry has developed into fine
schools aud churches. He says he fully be-
ieves there nre rs many rs fifty houses
week erected there.
a large number OF ladies visited the White
elephant ON the day it was first thrown open
or inspection. As heard a man remark
hat was the only chance hey win ever have
o see the inside of that building.
The death of Marsh n. Polk, is the last act
n the life ola man with more ola history than
$ accorded to the ordinary mortal. The
nephew and adopted son of president of
the United States, reared in stately man.
lion in one of the gayest, wealthiest, most
lrlstocratic cities OF the South, educated at
West Point and graduating with the dis
lnction betting youth Of more than
ordinary talents, in the beginning his IA.
lure was brilliant one. He, with the wa.
like b!shopand other members of the llustri
Gus family, allied his fortunes with the cause
If his native state, and af,or vallantiy fight
ns for four years went to defeat
With the cOnfederacy. Then, with
broken fortunes and manned for
life, he came home TO farm IN West Ten.
lessee and settled down to pastoral If. of
,eace that would have been better for him
lad II continued unbroken until ne was
'alled to the shadowy land. But so quiet Il
Ifo was not for man of his attachments,
md SO soon as tho dark era OF reconstruction !
lad passed from Tennessee, he appeared In |
public life as the editor of weekly paper in !
/ country town. with the oust,ng of the !
8rownlow crowd from place and power came |
/ demand for good men to I'll the positions |
Ii trust, and among the first chosen was NJ. |
|. Polk, 10 watch over the treasury, already |
depleted by the vampires that had SO long |
Trained IL. He accept ed, and Tor three Goa. |
ecutiYe terms he Tecelv ed the endorsement /
" his people IN the shape OF n re election, |
)nce who the Republican party held the
pover In the legislature. But. un fortunate.
y for him, lac had not the moral courage TO !
the seductive alurements and dis
lpations OF a state capital. Men whom he
ieemed his friends used him rs their tool
ma almost before he was aware he had |
oaned them the state funds to further their
ipecuatlons. Once in, there was no drawing
pack, and soon hundreds OF thousands ofdol-
airs OF the public monte had been swallowed |
INTO wall streets Unsuitable NAV, or gone In
% the pockets of men, who, under the gulse
d friendship bled him. Four years ago when
ne l. gislature ordered an investigation OF his
lccounts,two banks loaned him certificates of |
ieposit sufficient TO tide him over the invest. |
CATION, when In fact he was short several |
hundred thousand dollars at the time. IL
has always been question In my mind
whether or not those banks profitted by
Folks defalcation. The crisis passed and
FOLK was reelected. Then cam3 the famous
contest OF two years ago. when the mas..g of
the Democracy elected Bate over the Repub-
lican governor and overthrow the
scheme OF the bond. holders and capitalists
Not single Democrat holding
The same views with Polk was elected To tine
leslSiature' SO soon a. the general assembly
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