Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-02-17
THE GAZETTE FORT WORTH, TEXAS SUNDAY FEBRUARY y.

sunday FEBRUARY II.
DURING the prevalence of the iiood
In Cincinnati every good wife puts lamp
in her front window TO tighten the pa'h""'
OF pedestrians. Even the vcriest tramp !"
that city can sing "There Is a lignt IN "o
window for me-"
THE recent storms along the coast
OF Long Island cast mill ons and millions "
clans. moluslSs and shcllh-hu upon the sach'
where they lie rottlng, emitting terno
steuc aud seriously endangerlng the health
Of the natives.
MIR. w. Il. Curtis, managing ell
tor of the Chicago Inter Ocean, has taken
charge OF the Washington department OF that
paper. Rabid Republican though 1t be- the
Inter Ocean as progressive We stern journal
has no superior.
PHILADELPHIA wants ii understood
that tie recent e, plot of some burglars in
Hungary, who carried safe away whole In
stead OF breaking II open. was not an origi'
nal conception; the same thiog was done In
that city years ago.
TuE Kansas railr )ad commission
has given decision on the petitions by the
mayors and councils OF three cities In the
state against the Atchison, Topeka K Santa
&c road, and reafiirmed the old schedule
with few unimportant changes.
THE Weather citizens of Pittsburg
and other flooded Ohio towns acted nobly in
providing for the sufferers In their own city,
and refusing assistance from the relief com
mittee, thus leaving moro for Clnclnnatiand
other places whore 1T is worse needed.
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EVEN the venerable Joseph Medill
of the Chicago Tribune has been taken in by
sharpers. A slick young man in Baltimore
victimized him TO the tune Of ten dollars.
Mr.. Medill is probably the only man in Chi
cago who is chump enough to be thus
swlndled.
THE siXteen-year-old daughter OF "a
pro minent citizen of Baltimore clope with
the nineteen-year-old son of another promi-
nont citizen. when found they were living
as man and wifi in a Philadelphia hotel, al
though no marriage ceremony had been per- |
formed.
4 WHITE woman named Mary |
Vance was mobbed at Gibson, Ga, the other
night, her shoulders stripped and logged |
until blood flowed She had just arrived in |
the town, and the dispatch only says as to
her ofIanse that she was suspected of bad !
character"
The Atlanta Constitution says: |
Gen. Toombs did not read the roll of his |
slaves on Bunker Hill, but he has read the
obituaries of Garrison, Henry Wilson and |
Wendell Phillips Yes, and what has it
proated him? Softened the bitterness of his
heart perhaps
"IF Senator Sherman or Congress
man Wise had seen their daughters slapped
of The sidewalk by negroes as we did ours
they would have done the same thing" said
one with ess speaking of the riot at Danville.
There was n shot that struck home on even
the cold-blo dded John sherman.
Boz FORD, while in st. Louis re-
Gently, wrote a letter to the Republican de-
tending Governor Crittenden from the at
iaclSs of the press, ana offering to satisfy
any man that don't like him. This Is one
more load added 10 the heavy burthen the
governor is already carrying.
IL his play a Friendly Tip" w. j.
Ferguson mentioned from the stage tho
name of n Nashville dude, thereby causing
much merTimcut in the audience. The next
day the dude went on the war-path, and
fin ling the treasurer of the company gave
him an unfriendly tip ON the nose.
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The Philadelphia living skeleton,
who is suing for n divorce from his bride Oft
night, seems to he n masher. He told re-
porter his mail was burdoned with proposals
OF marriage and declarations OF love from
girls ofall ages. The skeleton thinks they
are mashed on his bank account more than
hls shape.
TWELVE MILLION DOLLARS worth
OF p opcrty was burned up in the United
States during the month of January. Tho
losses by Zoo IS in February viii hardly fall
below this sum. II This weeping gait of wet
and dry misfortune is to be kept up FOR the
balance of the year II win cut a big slice out
OF our profits.
FOUR Cleveland men "chanadr each
other about going swimming In the lake the
other day, finally agreed to go together, put
mp slC0 each TO be forfeited II lie baohed out
and then went and found crack in the ice,
in the chilly breeze, and one after
another jumped into the water But their
stay was short,
DAkoTANs have better opinion of
Dakota than any one else. This Is well, but
the overwhelming desire of the territory for
ADM sion ms state and the consequent sea
atorial and congressional pcrqulsites, * lust
now overshadOwed by the desire to divide
North from South Dakota. One state would
not have officers et ough to go around.
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iHE recent massacre has stirred IN
the citizens OF Hot Springs and they fcem de.
toFmlned TO rid the place of the garnb ers
VINO, IKE human yampires, have so long
fastened on all visitors TO that health resort.
Sixty stands of arms have been furnished tho
citizens by the state, and things do not look
bright for TIE desperadoes.
80 accustomed are Senator Sherman
ana other Republican statesmen to grinding |
Lhe outrage mill and waving the bloody shirt I
mat they seize upon the slightest pretext 10 I
set the cd thing going. The testimony in |
ne DanVille investigation shows the row was ,
inc result OF local dissensions with which q
politics had nothing whatever TO do. sim
me responsibility fur The aflray ia charged 20 I
The white Democrats
iiiE New York World thus de-