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Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-10-06
A FATHERS LETTER.
A Few Suggestions 10 Son at School.
BIN Nyo

A Few Suggestions 10 Son at School.
BIN Nyo.
My DEAR Son: Your letter OF laet
week reached us yesterday, and / I'M.
close Sl3, which is all | have by me nj
the present time. may sell the other
shote next week and make up the
balance of what you wanted. 1 will
probably have to wear the same old
buffalo overcoat TO meetings again this
winter, but that doesn't matter so long
as you are getting an education.
hope you will get your educstlon
as cheap as you can, for 1t cramps your
mother and me like Sam I'm to put ap
the money, Mind you, / don't COM
plain. | knew education came high,
but l didn't know the clothes cost so
like sixty.
/ want you 10 be 80 that you can 90
anywhere and spell the hardest word.
| want you to be able to go among the
Romans or the Medes and the Persians
and talk to any Of them in their own
native tongue.
never had any advantages when /
was a boy, but your mother and de-
cided that we would sock you full of
knowledge, II your liver held out, re-
gardless OF expense. We calculate TO
do 1t, only we want you 20 go az slow
ON swallow-tail coats IA possible TIL we
can sell our hay.
Now, regarding that Bodybuilding
suit, and that baseball suit, and that
bathing suit, and that rollerrinktum
suit, and that lawn-tenis suit, mind, 1
don't care about the expense, be-
cause you say a young man
can't really educate himself thorough
ly without them, but / wish YOU
would send home what YOU get
through with this fall, aud I'll wear
through the winter under my other
clothes. We have good deal severer
winters here than we used TO, or else
Pm failing In bodily health. Last
winter i tried to go through without
underclothes, the way did when |
was a boy, but Manitoba wave came
down our way and picked me out of n
crowd with its eyes shet
In your last letter you alluded to
getting injured In a little "hazing
scufile with pelican from the rural
distriets,n j don't want any harm to
come to you, my son, but IL ] went
from the rural districts, and another
young gosling from the rural districts
undertook 10 haze me, / would meet
him when the sun goes down, and /
would swat him across the back of the
neck with fence-board, and then I
would meander across the pit OF his
stomach and put a blue forget-me-not
under his eye.
Your father amt much on Grecian
mythology aud how TO get the square
root of barrel of pork, but he
wouldn't allow any educational instl-
buttons TO haze him with impunity.
Perhaps you remember once when
you tried TO haze your father little,
just to kiln time, and how long It took
you to recover. Anybody that goes nj
II right can have "a good deal OF fun
with your father, but those who have
sought to monkey with him, Just to
break up the mOnotony of life, have
most always succeeded in finding what
they sought.
| amt much OF a pensman, SO you
will have to excuse this letter. We
are all quite well, except old Fan, who
has galded shoulder, and hope this
will find you enjoying the same great
blessing. Your FATHER.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-10-06
THE ENVY OF BRIDES.
Preparations for the NuptIals Of Miss
Astor-EIaborate Toilets.
New York Morning journal

New York Morning journal.
The arrangements for the Astor we'd
ding are progressing rapidly, and socl-
ETY. bellies are on the tiptoe of expect
ancy. The great social event has been
the topic of every drawing
room since the announcement
and the possibilities Of the trous-
seau of the bride-elect have been fully
and freely discussed. That the we'd
ding will be more brilliant than any
that has taken place In New York for
many years is conceded on all sides.
AS previously announced, it will be
celebrated In this city about the mid
die of November. 1t is not yet de-
eided whether or not II will take place
In old Trinity church, on
Broadway, where the Astors
have worshiped for several past gener-
atoms. But the service will be read
by Rev. DIR. Dix, rector of Trinity,
who baptised and confirmed the ex-
pectant bride. There Is to be recep-
tion at the Aston mansion on Fifth
avenue, corner of Thirty-fOurth street.
The three long drawing-Tooms will
be festooued with rare flowers of every
description, and bower OF palms,
ferns and india rubber plants, lined
with pink roses, win be made
fer the bride and groom to stand
IN. The large art gallery will be
brilliantly lighted, and an orchestra
Of stringed instruments will occupy
one OF the balconies. The broad
white enamel stairway will be decked
with garlnnds OF roses twinlng the
balustrade, and the large reception
room will also be made gay with rare
and costly flowers. Large pink La
France and Glorle de Paris will be
among the roses used.
Miss Astor's wedding dress is now
being made Ia Paris, and will be sent
over about the first of November.
IL Is TO be Of very heavy pearl-white
satin. made with full princess train,
which will be bordered by pellsse OF
the satin, and on the edge a ruehing
Of fine point lace in wild rose de-
sign. The front Is TO be covered with
rufiles of rare point lace that belonged
TO Miss AstOr's grandmother. The
VIII not be cut, but will cross over
IN ilounces, and at the sides will be
caught down In twist, and held by
cluster OF orange blossoms and pearls.
The corsage will be cut square and
bordered with lace, while the sleeves.
slightly pulled on the shoulders and
reaching To the elbow, will be met
with long white kid gloves, which are
being made 10 order to 1T The slender
little hand Of the bride. The slippers
are 10 be made Of the dress materials.
and embroidered in white pearls
while the stockings will be OF
the finest white elk. The veil will
probably be Of Illusion. There h
rare old point lace veil Ia the family.
and this may be worn, although lulle
% more becoming and preferred by the
bride. 1t VIII be fastened by half
wreath OF natural orange blossons
and caught by diamond pins. she
viii wear other diamond Jewels and
carry large bonqneL Of rOaes and llllea
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-10-06

hair ferns.
There viii be six or eight brides-
maids, among them Miss Edith War
rem and Miss Belle Wilson, sister of
the groom.
About two thousand Invitations
have been issued, and everybody
prominent ia the New York and
Newport social world will be present.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-10-06

Ground has been donated AZ Biz
mlnghAm, Ala, TO the Victoria Burn
nam Crate com 9any. on which will be
erected an establishment for the man
ufacture OF CRATES.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-10-06
what ProhibltIon Would do.
Chicago Herald.

The national prohibition movement
now in progress is menace to thou
sands Of people and 10 millions OF
money. III successful IL would deprive
many people Of means of earning a
livelihood, and ii would wipe out
property and fortunes as remorselessly
as war. 1t is not possible TO show how
many people would be affected Ia one
way or another by prohibition, hut
those who would be directly concerned
are as follows:
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-10-06

Besides the above there are thous-
ands Of laborers and others dependent
upon them for work who would neces-
Harily be thrown out Of employmen IL
the liquor traffic should be suppressed.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-10-06

TT The Z. : bet smoking tobacco is ''LltrIo
Connecticut western news., 1884-07-02
The Lime-Kiln Club.

Upon the opening of the meeting, the club took up the matter of unfinished business, and Whalebonc Howker called up the case of Playfair Driggs. Brother Driggs borrowed an aggregate sum of $17 from various members and skipped for Toledo. The matter was called up ln session and his name was stricken off the rolls. The other day he made hi at policy, and now desired to square up and be reinstated. Brother Howker would therefore move that Brother Driggs be permitted to pay his debts and then be welcomed in with open arms.
 "How much does he owe you [" asked the President.
 "'Leben dollars, sah."
 ''I thought it was about dat way or you wouldn't took sich deep interest in de case. However, de case will not be reopened. De man who borrows money on de kalculashun of returnin' it when somebody leaves him legacy or he makes a hit by gamblin', am drawin' it altogether too fine fur dis club. Brudder Howker, you am fined S6OO fur bein' willin' to sacrifice de honor of dis club fur de sum of $11 l'
 Whalebone sat down in a chill. and during the rest of the evening he was busy figuring how long it would take a man who could lay by twenty five cents per week to pay the fine named.-De- trOh Free Press
Connecticut western news., 1884-07-02
Where is the Abbe ?

Before the French revolution there were many ecclesiastics known as the abbes. They were without office or duty, and picked up, as they were poor, 8 meal here and there, among the charit- able. At the houses of the principal nobleman there was usually plate left for some chance abbe who might drop in at dinner time.
 At that hour it was no uncommon sight to see the abbes picking their way from one nobleman's house to another. Tapping at the gate, the hungry eccle- siastic would inquire of the reporter, els there a vacant place ?" If the answer was "No, monsieur" he would walk onward.
 This custom will explain a story told by Rogers, the poet, which illustrates the horrors of the French Revolution. Just after it had broken out, party was dining, one day, at nobleman's house, and among them an abbe. While at dinner, thecart rtcarrying those condemned to the guillotine went by.
 All the company ran to the windows to see the horrid sight. The abbe, being short man, tried in vain to peep on tiptoe. Determined to see, he ran down to the front door. His curiosity cost him his life, for, as the cart went by, one of the victims, knowing the abbe, bowed to him. The abbe returned the salu- tation.
 "What youare hisfriend ?" exclaimed
 one of the guards. "Then you, too, are an aristocrat. "Away with him p shouted the crowd, and the poor abbe was seized, thrust into the cart, and hurried to the guillotine.
 The company, having satisfied their curiosity, returned to the table. "Where is monsieur, the abbe ?" asked guest, seeing vacant place. No one could answer. He was already headless. -YoutRs Companion.
Connecticut western news., 1884-07-02
LATEST NEWS NOTES.
Happenings of Interest to All,
 At Home and Abroad.
KILLED BY LIGHTNING.
Several Persons and Much Property De"
 strOyed by the Electric Fluid.

A terrific thunder storm passed over a DOT ton of western Pennsylvania and eastern Ohio the other day, damaging property and killing several persons and large amount Of live stock. At Murrayvillc, Pa., boy named Wolf aud four horses were struck by lightning boy was badly burned. At Waynesburgh, Pa., Miss Josie Keener and William Payer were se- riously injured by lightning bolt, which also killed three horses. At Corry, Penn., several head of blooded stock, belonging to Henry Case, were killed. At Salem, Ohio, Miss Minnie Westphar aged sixteen, was standing in the doorway, when lightning struck and killed her instantly. At Youngstown, Ohio, lightning str uck the residence of Abner Mead sker, killing his daughter Minnie, and seri- ously injuring several other members of the faniy. TGree barns were also destroyed near Youngstown. At Newcomerstown, Ohio, the storm was accompanied by furious tornado which uprooted trees, blew down fences and did great damage to grain.
 George Brooks house in Grant, Clark county, Wis, was struck by lightning and his daughter Fife, sixteen years of age, was killed, and another daughter named Cora was stunned. The house was burned to the ground, but Cora crawled from the burning tmbers and was saved. The body of Fife was found almost totally destroyed. The mother and father were at the circus when the accident occurred.
 Jack Waffle started from Richfeld Springs, N. Y, with load of lumber for Springfield, and when about three miles from the village 8 bolt of lightning knocked down one of his horses and a second one killed Waffle instantly. The horse finally recovered and got up, and the team took the wagon to the home of his father, where it drew up in front of the door. The hands of the dead man still grasped the lines. The fluid appears to have run around his body and then jumped to the ground, which it tore up for several feet.
 At Exeter, suburb of Richfeld Springs, Mir. Newkirks large barn was set on fire by lightning and consumed.
 HornDeck & Co.'s blaming mill at Greenfield, Pa, was struck by lightning and was entirely consumed. The loss is $20,0
Connecticut western news., 1884-07-02
Boring for Water.

Boring in the earth for water is an operation often attended by great un- certainty. Some few years ago in the heart of London a firm of brewers bored to a depth of several hundred yards without tapping the precious fluid, and the expensive we'll had to be abandoned. Quite recently, at Burton-on-Trent, n similar failure occurred upon a far smaller scale. When the operators had pierced depth of 176 feet without find. ing water, they called in the advice of some experienced artesian.well en- gineers, who recommended the abandon ment of the works, aud the commence ment of a fresh bore upon a site which they selected 200 yards away. At a depth of only IA feet copious supply of water was found, yielding, in fact, be- tween 5000 and 5000 gallons per hour. It is remarkable that the sites of both bores were at the same level. -Chanlbers' Journal.
Connecticut western news., 1884-07-02
The mufled drums sad roll has beat

The mufled drums sad roll has beat The soldiers last tattoo No more on hfe's parade shall meet That brave and fallen few. On Fame's eternal camping ground Their silent tents are spread, And Glory guards with solemn round The bivouae of the dead. No rumor of the foes advance Now swells upon the wind, Nor troubled thoughts at midnight haunts, Of loved ones left behind. No vision of the morrow's strife The warriors dream alarms. No praying horn, no screaming fife, At dawn shall call to arms. Their shivered swords are red with rust, Their plumed heads are bowed, Their naughty banner trailed in dust Is now their martial shroud- And plenteous funeral tears have washed The red stains from each brow, And the proud forms by battle gashed Are free from anguish now. The neighing troop, the flashing blades, The bugle's stirring blast, The charge, the dreadful cannonade, The din and shout are past. Nor wars wild notes, nor glory's peal,
  Those breasts that never more may feel The rapture of tho fight. Like the fierce northern hurricane That sweeps his great plateau, Flushed with the triumph yet to gain, Come down the serried foe. Who heard the thunder of the fray Break OCT the field beneath, Know well the watchword of that day Was "Yictory or death ]" Full many mothers breath has swept Der Angostura's plain, And long tho pitying sky has wept Above it's molder'd slain. The ravens scream or eagles flight, Or shepherds pensiye lay, Alone now wake each solemn night That drowned OCT that dread fray. Sons of the dark and bloody ground Ye must not slumber there; Where stranger steps and tongues resount Along the needless air. Your own proud lands heroic soil Shall be your filter grave She claims from war it's richest spoil The ashes of her brave. Thus meath their parent turf they rest, Far from the gory field; Born to Spartan mothers breast On many bloody shield. The sunshine of their native sky
 Smiles sadly on them here, And kindred eyes and hearts watch by The heroes sepulcher. Rest on, embalmed and sainted dead Dear is the blood you gave No impions footsteps here shall tread The herbage of your grave; Nor shall your glory be forgot
 While Fame her record keeps, Or Honor points the hallowed spot
 Where Yalor proudly sleeps. Ton marble minstrel's voiceful stone,
 In deathless song shall tell, When many vanished year hath flown, The story how you fell Nor wreck, nor change, nor winters blight Nor Time's remorseless doom, Can dim one ray of holy light
 That gilds your glorious tomb
Connecticut western news., 1884-07-02
\ Sinking Mountain.

Nature reports remarkable land subsistence at Bona, in Algeria. label Naiba, an isolated mountain, 800 meters in height, is rapidly decreasing in alti- tude, aud considerable cavity is form. ing round its base. The whole mass of the mountain is evidently sinking. The neighborhood of Bona must, however, have formerly been the scene of simi- lar phenomenon. Lake Fezzary, which measures over 12, GOO hectares in extent, had no existence in the time of the Ro- mans. Its depth at the center is only 2.60 meters now. Investigations made in 1870 disclosed the remains of Ro- mau town lying ill the lake. The infer. ence is that the town had sunk long ago just aA the mountain is sinking at the present. dsy,--Bosten ZY1ss.
Connecticut western news., 1884-07-02
Bogus Brilliantss

"How do your diamonds compare with the genuine?"
 "Put them side by side and you can't tell them apart. Let me show you some samples" and the dealer turned to his iron safe and got out box of un- set " diamonds of about three carats each. Handing the scribe dainty pair of tweezers he requested him to examine the stones before tine light. The report CT picked up one of the gems as careful ly as though it were a $20, 900 stone, and held it befope his optics. It spark led brilliantly, was cut perfectly, and anybody but an expert would suppose it to be a genuine diamond. The reporter was tempted to slip the stone up his sleeve, until he asked the price of it, when, getting the reply, cone dollar" he dropped it as though it was poison ous.
 "Here are some thirty beautiful spec imens," remarked the merchant ashe un- folded another paper and laid before the scribe half dozen stones about the size of door-knob. These are worn prin- cipally by gamblers on account of their extraordinary size. "They come a great deal higher than those others l have shown you. I sell these at $2.50 apiece, or pair of them for serio-com- ic singers earrings at S4.25. They are exceedingly brilliant, you see, and at night shine like locomotive headlight. Here are a lot of little diamonds that sell from 25 to 75 cents each" "Are those made of paste or fishscales ?" "Oh, no i; I never deal in paste goods. These stones come from the Sierra Nevada mountains, and are cut and polished in New York; and some are even sent to Paris to be cut and are then returned to this country. They are the best imita- ton of the diamond made, and retain their brlliancy forever. Not being as hard as the diamond, care has to be taken in not getting them scratched. |" " You remarked before that the trade I was simply immense. I suppose that the second or middle class of society are the greatest purchasers of these imita- tions ?" "That's where you're wrong. The principal buyers and wearers of 'snide' diamonds are those who move in the highest society, and I'll tell you the reason why. Let lady who counts her wealth by the hundreds of thousands ap- pear in public with pair of six or eight carat diamond earrings, and the people never suspect that they are 'snide. They imagine that because the wearer is wealthy she would never degrade herself by wearing g. diamonds, but such is the case. Hundreds of times have matched genuine diamonds for high-toned ladies, and it was actually impossible to tell them apart. You see, when a per son of wealth wears 'snide' diamonds, you can hardly make people believe that they are anything else than genuine while, on the other hand, let person in more reduced circumstances wear genu- ine diamonds, and everybody they meet will turn up ther noses and remark that they are 'snide.' So that is the reason the people of wealth can throw on so much style with very little expense. --C5ncipnGti ITn1es-Star.
Connecticut western news., 1884-07-02
SEVENTEEN HOUSES BURNED.
The Town of shenandoah Swept by R
 Fire-TwO Persons Injured.

A fire broke out in & block of tenement houses at Shenandoah, Pa., owned by per son named Malone, and before it could be checked it had spread to six other tenements. Telegrams asking aid were sent to Tamaq1a, Ashland and Pottsville, and the entire town was thrown into fever of excitement The water supply gave out and the hose proved useless. Seventeen houses were destroyed be- fore the fire was gotten under control Men, women and children crowded around and im- peded the work of the fremen. The houses were inhabited by about 200 Hungarians of the lowest class. Four American families were rendered homeless. The loss to the property owners will be about $15000, one-haf of which amount is covered by insurance. The loss to the tenants will reach nearly 6,000
 One Polish woman was fatally burned while attempting to remove some of her household effects, and 8 small boy named Grimes was seriously injured in attempting to escape from the second-story window of blazing tene- ment. The fire is supposed to have been caused by sparks flying from an engine on the Lehigh Valley Railroad near by. The build ings were all frame structures, and the roofs being of tar-covered material rendered them exceedingly combustible. The alarming prev alence of fires in that city during the past six months has destroyed all feeling of confidence on the part of business mrn. The HunSarians are destitute of the necessaries of life, and are camping out on the hillsides. The feeling against them being very bitter, they are re- fused any assistance by the native classes.
Connecticut western news., 1884-07-02
The Army Appropriation Bill.

The Army Appropriation bill, as agreed upon in conference, with the exception of the clause regulating the compensation of subsidized rail- roads for army transportation, appropriates $24, ,454, 450. The provisions for the ap- pointment of post quartermaster ser geants, limiting their number to eighty, are restored to the bill, having been stricken out by the Senate. The appropriation for the pay of the army is fixed at SIP, 150 600, being an increase of over $25O, 900 over the original appropriation. It is provided that hereafter any paymaster of the rank of major who has served twenty years in the army as a commissioned officer may be placed upon the retired list until the pay de- pertinent shall be reduced to thirty-five mem bers. The appropriation for the medical de- pertinent is increased to S225 000 and pro- vision inserted that medical officers of the army shall attend the families of the officers and soldiers free of charge The appropriation of $15,0OO for field steel guns is stricken from the bill.
Connecticut western news., 1884-07-02
THE BIYOuAC OF THE DEAD.
One of the Most Beautiful Poems in Oul I.RnEuRge-The Author n Gallant Sol diPr.

Of the thousands who have read or listened to the famous and pathetic war poem entitled "The Bivouac of the Dead" but few, probably, have ever heard the story of the authors lGe. The author, Col. Theodore O'Hara, was widely known as a poet, especially in the Southern States, where he ranked high among the best journalists. On the breaking out of hositlities with Mexico, in 1846, he joined the army, and crossed the Rio Grande to uphold the honor of the stars and stripes in the land of Montezuma, and in the cam paign which followed, gained a brilliant fighting record; and, at it's close, when the State of Kentucky honored her citi- zens who had fallen in the struggle, by gathering their remains for final inter ment in Frankfort cemetery, where she erected a monument to perpetuate their bravery aud fidelity to their country, he was one of the first among his country men to remember those who stood side by side with him in the hour of battle. 1t WIS then, and not after the late Southern rebellion, as many enormously suppose that he wrote 'The Bivouao of of the Dead"