Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-03-15

with such swiftness and force against
turreted or other monitors that they
will find their breath knocked out the
| first round.
~ haven't much money, and can't
| take stock in the Dick Hubbard BIZ
sulphide of carbon substitute for steam,
'but have applied to the owners of
the patent for its use, that may not
be ovcrburdered with fuel on my trial
trip across the ocean, and IL don't go
TO Liverpool aud back within II week
you may send me to the lunaiic asy-
lum. ! tell you, gentlemen, / have
been working at this problem fortwen-
ty-six years, and lived aud
made money by other triiling
discoveries and inventions made
IA an incident to this, and
this Is best aud greatest of all. because
II is simplest. Nobody ever looked ut
ii who did not exclaim, How wonders
full that any other sort of boat was
ever rnadei' When had finished IL,
even wondered that 1 had been so
stupid in not making il perfect twenty
six years ago. Its very simplicity of
mechanism constituted the only Oh
stacle to success felt like the stupid
bird entrapped. always ioolsingup and
away of, when the open way ofescape
was mt my very feet and before my
very eyes.
TIIE ROW IN THE CoLoRED CAMP.
telegraphed an account ., t..e Sc
cessiou of the Northern from the
Southern wing of the coored party of
the United States. a truce may be
patched up TO last till after the presi-
Dental election, but the severance of
the mulatto from the black race seems
irremedlable. Rev. G. S. Smith, mu-
Ia To, who made himself notorious 10y
denunciatons OF the supreme court
because this court annulled the civil
| rights act, was accustomed 10 assert
the utter uniitness OF Southern me-
grCes for any task of government.
| Smalls of South Carolina, pinchbaclS of
Louisiana, Bruce OF Mississippi, regis
1 ter of the treasury, Laugston of Viz
| gipia and Aaron Alpooria Bradley of
Georgia, all colored, were exasperated
10y ilasse assertions of Smith and his
organs, and when Rev. Smith
proposed 10 have n convention
of Northern negroes ut PHI ihurg that
these might define proper methods and
make proper platforms for the "plan-
tation darkies,p and instruct them
how 10 act and for whom Ia vote in the
Republican national convention, Mr..
Bruce was first to resent the insult, and
his protcncy was such hat the Rev.
Smith came To Washington. But
Bruce was implacable. He refused To
go 10 Plttsburg, and appealed to Fred
Douglass To stand by him. Douglass,
who has persuaded as an
! cient yankee m2iden Ia cooperate with
| him IN showing how TO put period To
| the race conflict, assented 10 Bruce's
! plans, and the rest Of the Southern ne.
1 groes have taken up arms against the
1 pin h,trHnr sttl al A f,i..n NArtl, nd
| South, puts on war paint.
FoLGlR ON ms METTLE.
Secretary Folger was in Infinitely
! good humor this morning. He was
! alone Whom ! entered his presence
chamber. He asked me to be seated.
Depositing hat aad cane on the table,
we faced one another and the inter-
view began:
"Well, Mr.. Secretary, when will the
Brow npyiile custom ho,ise be disposed
| of?n
"oh, he answered, you are from
! Texas, are you ?"
'Yts, sir,n replied, land this Iona
! Libre' constitutes Il pretty Kettle OF
fish, and II Is and has been for years ia
u fearful stew. hive letters from
tridespe0ple, who shy that they can't
| compete with the smugglcrs, and that
great reforms are needed in the South
vest
YES" answered the secretary, ait
is Il troublesome affair, and have
within the hour sent the president the
name Of Mr.. Lubry, who will be con
iirmed, | think, al once by the senate,
and the whole bpsin, - IL settled y
us Mr. Lubry Republican or DEM
Ocrat ?" ! modestly inquired.
Certainly, he is n Republican"
said the tIeasurerO The United States
why. sir, he has been postmaster,
and nobody but Republicans are post
masters, and then the grave and dig
niiied treasurer drew toward him IL
great book containing the names OF the
$1,000 p0stmas;crs, and he began TO
look solemnIy over these interminablc
catalogues for the juicy name "Lubry.p
But IL was 10 fabricated that
IL slipped from the vision of he great
tinancier He couldn't find IL, and
turning {, me, as he closed The book,
he said, "lt's there. He has been post
master, aud he Is all right
] suggested that Democrats were
often and ofpecessiiy assigned to post
masters places 10 the south. because
the average Republican can neither
read nor write.
MIR. Folgtr seemed TO go of by him
self into a brown study, ana before he
got back u very handsome young gen.
tieman took a seat beside him with
an omiDous bundle of official papers,
aud bade the secretary good morning
and was going out, when he called TO
me: See here, that's my hat sou have
appropriated. Did you come here 10
rob the treasury In this manner? but
then you told me you were from Tex
as.p Aud the treasurer face was
wreathcd with good liumor.
No, no. protested, "but this bat
thought could MI 'itu And | did,
but exchanged Mr.. Folger's fol my
own, ant went out. having learned, at
least, That my head IL big enough 10
carry ali that Mr.. Folger knows.