Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-09-23
THE DAY AT DENTON.
A Verdict of Not Guilty in the Ben
Cox Murder Trial.
A Visitor Returned from the Pacific
Coast States.
special to the Gazette.

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DENTON, TEX, Sept. 22.-District
court opened this morning with the
criminal docket. Ben Cox was tried
for the murder of Wash Biggerstaff,
on the 9TH of February, 1877. The
jury rendered verdict of acquittal
this afternoon. This is the third time
the case has beer tried. First a YER
dict of guilty was rendered, which
was set aside, and the second time
there was hung jury.
This afternoon the case of Bill Bean,
charged with theft, engaged the atten-
ton of the court. This case has also
had one hearing, but with a hung
ury.
George Festhofi' returned to Denton
this morning. He aud his brother
Henry have been travelling through
California, Oregon and Washington
territory since the LIST OF last May. He
reports pleasant trip and nice time
generally. He says business has been
about 80 per cent. below the average
in all that Western country, with the
exception of few mining towns that
now and then happen TO be on boom.
George left his brother at Santa Mo-
naco, a watering-place on the Pacific
coast, about eighteen miles from Los
Angeles. Henry will go to his
old home in Illinois on a visit
and will return TO Texas
in a month or two. Much interest is
being manifested in politics out there,
and George says Blaine will sweep the
whole Pacific coast. However, George
is one of the boys that does not let
anybody down him on long yarn or
a big fish story. He is also an admirer
of Ike grand old party, and this &C.
counts for the milk in his Blaine CO.
coanut. Then, he left that country
before the tattooed candidate wrote his
confession" TO Brother Phelps and
answered the Sentinel's interroga-
tories.
Our friend the postmaster has also
called official comparison of the prices
paid laborers In this and foreign coun-
tries posted up in the pOst-Office for the
benefit of the workingman, presum-
ably. In this table it will be noted
that the prices in this country are al
ways higher than abroad, aud on &C
count OF tariff protection. Is it posi-
6le' And does protection cause all
the "strikesn in the Eastern manu-
factories? Does the tariff cause all the
reduction in the workingmen's wages?
Surely there must he something wrong
in the table somewhere.
This table might perhaps be Justly
compared TO recent statement of
Mr.. MCPHERSON, secretary of the
republican national committee, and
Mr. Coon, the acting secretary of the
treasury, saying there had been more
money stolen from the treasury
under the Democratic admin
istation of seventy-two wears
than during the Republican adj
ministratiOn of twenty-four wears,
when the facts are the reverse
according to the solicitor of the treas
ury's reports taken all along at proper
Times and not made for political pur-
poses. The actual stealings in round
numbers are as follows: Under Demo.
cratic administration. seventT-two
years, $24,000,0O0. Under Repub-
lcan administration twenty-four
years, $4,000 600 or propor-
tionately about six times
as much was stolen by the Republicans
as by the Democrats.
The Guthrie presbytery will meet
here next Friday.
The Methodist Episcopal church
South will give an ice-cream festival
tomorrow night.
Inc county clerk to-day issued mar
rage license to Joel A. Ithoads and
Miss Laura A. Edwards.