Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-03-04
LOCAL MARKETS.

The cotton market remains unchanged and
| receipts gro" lighter as he season advances.
but little Interest IL manifested among buy.
ers, as only odds aud ends remain unsold.
ihehfiher feeling reported In the dry goods
market some days ago still continues, and u
slight advance ON standard brands OF cotton
| goods both heavy and light weight, would
emo surprise to dealer. Trade In the dry
soous line shows marked Improvement over
last week 'S.business, and the respects Tor a
| heavy spring trade are continually growing
| brighter.
groceries are without material change
PUBLIC USE OF HIGHWAYS,
The supreme Judicial court of Massoohus
etts has rendered an impor ant decision ON q
suit brought 10 cnJoln the select men ol
Brookline from giving permission % the
| American Rapid Telegraph company, under
public statute. TO conStructa line Of telo.
| graph ON certain highways in that place
| The objection raised was that The st,tute fl.
self was unconstitutional. II Is held by the
court that the u.s. or u portion OF the highway
for the poles ana wires Of company formed
ugdcr the laws OF the state FOR the transmits
sion of intelligence by electricity. and subject
10 the supervision OF the local authorities is
"A pubic use of The kind Tor watch the land
was originally tRke1, Ia other words when
the lana was acquired for "A highs way, 10 was
not intended 10 HIM, the public uses OF IL to
the vehicles then knowu or 10 tho methods
thcn IN vogue of transmitting intelligence or
conveying properly; and the use or the high.
Way for telegraph linesfanks with liz use FOR
gas ana water pipes and horso-car tracks, ~
"a new way ofexcrclst Z the old public ease
ineni. All such methods OF use must be !
deemed 10 havebeen paid for when tho land |
was taken and the road laid OUT hut no |
right is given TO telegraph corporations TO |
use tho highways Mt their own sweet VIII. or !
TO compel The authorities to give them loca.
tons as des red
SIGNING NoTFs-Exponrs
person who, being in full POSSESSION Of |
all his faculties and able TO read, though |
slowly and with difficulty signs negotiable !
promissory note under tho belief that IL Is an |
instrument OF q different character, and does !
so without himself sding the Instrument, |
but relying ON the reading and representa- |
lions OF stranger, Is guilty OF such negli- |
gonce as Will render him Liable on The note to |
n houa-fldc holder thereof SO held by the su-
preme court OF Kansas Ia the recently decid. |
ed case OF Ort w. Fowler. The court held In |
the same case that one who had for conBld |
cradle time boon engaged In nbuslness which |
necessitated the frequent comparison OF
handwriting, aud who showed that he had
In fact been In The habit of making such
comparisons, was quail fed BS IN expert 10
testify AS 10 the genuinoness OF disputed |
signature by comparison with others adj
mitted 10 be genuine.
GKowISG PROSPERITY or TIM SOUTH.
ii II Interesting 10 Doiice. as pows comes TO
hand from day 10 day. the growing prospect.
- OF the South. a report from Atlaniasiates
that in that city there are contracts for about
s2,G0 90 worth OF new buildings In tho hands
OF contractors and architects, besides the new
capitol which Will be- started during the |,
spring. Large sums ara being invested In
private residence In Macon contracts FOR
over on, 0O) worth ~ new buildings have
about hcen closed out. giving "A now appear
nnce 10 the city. In Columbus s1Di,0)O worth
Of residences has been erected since last sum
iDor, aud about 5000 owOrih OF WORK Is en-
gagged for the coming season, a half dozen
new residences recently erected cost 5000 to
si5,l % each. IN savannah 81 90 600 has been
expended during tic year Ia improvements
much ofwhicii has gone into tho liver front
and much into private residences. There -
scarcely a lars- town in Georgia from which
HE same story does not come. Calculation
shows that over Is, COcOl VIII be Invested IN
Georgia during The present yea7 In new
buildings. Heretofore an the money has
b en- invested In business houses, Lut the eN.
penditnres az the pTe2eni time in residences
show that people are geitIrg in easy circum.
stances aud returning h some OF the luxn-
ries OF former limos.