Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-02-06

pied much attention in the state and
federal courts, originated between
white and black citizens in the vicin-
ity of the little town of Ben Franklin.
A colored widow and a prominent
white citizen, it appears, had been liv-
ing on terms of unlawful intimacy.
The widow was shouting member of
the colored Methodist church, and the
affair soon grew into church scandal,
resulting in the expulsion
of the woman from the
congregation. The woman then
demonstrated the truth of the saying
that "Hell hath no fury like wo-
man scorned.n She took the war-path
with her tongue a-wagging against the
minister and other leading colored
men who had been against her in the
church prosecution, and succeeded in
inflaming eleven of the white citizens
to such an extent that the minister
and other black men were taken in
custody, logged and otherwise rep
rimanded.n The treatment was in no
sense delicate-they received the
I beech with the green bark on it,.
These whippings are what came to be
known throughout the country as the
"Delta county outrages.n The whip.
pers were arrested by the United
States authorities under the civil
rights law and drifted through the
| federal courts until last fall, when
they were dismissed from the Dallas
docket on account of the famous
decision of the United States
supreme court that the civil rights act
was unconstitutional. Thereupon
the Delta county prisoners instituted
suits in the state courts against the
parties already named for false arrest
imprisonment, etc. The defendants al
the Dallas term OF the United State:
circuit court started proceedings fol
the removal of the cases, which has
just been accomplished. 1t is not a
all likely that the public will be treat
ed to any further proceedings or eX
penses in this scandalous and sensa
tional affair.
| The GAZETTE correspondent ac
knowledges the receipt of invitations
to the marriage of Mr.. Alex Cockrel
of Dallas, and Miss Elite Fulkerson .
Columbus, Mo-, to occur at the resi-
dence of the brides parents at Column
bus, February 18th; also to the mar
riage of Mr.. b. w. Bedford of Mem
phis, Tenn, and Miss Grace Gibson n
st. Matthews Cathedral, Dallas, oil
, February IA.
Tom Roberts, colored, called on tn
local authorities to-day to make
statement and exhibit some seriou
wounds about the head. He says H.
purchased ticket from Dallas to For
Worth last Saturday night; that
number of tramps boarded the sam
train, intending to "beat" their way
The train porter became involved in
difficulty with them, and mistakinl
him as member of the gang, hit hin
over the head with the lantern ant
otherwise assaulting him. He is gOinl
to have the porter prosecuted an,
sue the Texas d Pacific company TO
damages.
The dockets of all the Dallas courts
state and federal, are crowded will
damage suits against railroad com
panies. The suits are mostly brough
by relatives of persons who have beef
killed; some few from those who hav
sustained injuries. The plaintiffs n
a rule complain that the railroads fore
them into litigation for settlement
and keep the suits pending as long a
possible.
There is much ill.feeling between
the white and black Republicans 10
Dallas caused by the aggressive spiri
and position assumed by the blacl
wing since the advent of Richard Mel
: son among them. A big meeting
with closed doors, was held last night
The principal speaker was Nelson. Ill
reminded the c0lored voters that Their
are q, OOORepublican voters in the state
OF whom $4,000 are colored, and thel
asked II they were getting their polit
zeal rights. He said the white Repub
ilcans In Texas were such from merce
nary motives, and not from principle
and II was time they were sat dowi
on He said that the colored man ba'
always received more consideration
AZ the hands of the Democrats than a
Tue hands OF the white Republicans
me speech woke up the meeting ant
inspired Melvin Wade, George Haw
kins, Frank Fletcher and others Y
speedily. The chances are that II
,ne state convention the white RepuD
mean VIII not be so potential as in tn
past. To-day the white leaders ar
uenouncing Nelson. They say he j
organizing the col0red vote SO as u
sen II out to the highest bidder--Dem
ocrat or Republican. They assert tina
ne belongs TO the gang of Cune * GO
| ltney mean HcOOnn and cOninany) q