Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-01-31
PARTISAN PENCILINGS.
A Charming Little City-Its Pleasant
Homes and People.
Happy Blending Of Mossbackism and
Progressive Ideas.
Editorial UtteranceS of Cranky Com.
muniSt.

Special Correspondence OF the Gazette.
Paris, January 2S.-Long before a
stranger has come on his first visit TO
Paris lie will have heard of the beauty
of the place. Nor will he be disap-
pointed. The old settled condition of
the citizens has begotten about them
comfortable homes imbedded in neat
gardens and surrounded by pleasant
trees and shrubbery.
Bu' Paris Is not so great city as is
within h,r power to be; and the reason
Tor the lack is said to be that moss
oacklsm finds opponents here. BY
tnat expressive term seems to be meant
that the city fathers are economical,
so economical that not Il public light
auorns the uneven streets, although
good gas is made here. Not fire plug
exists, for water works have not been
put In, anda fire has little opposition
when once started. However public
matters may be, private citizens give
evidence of enterprise and good taste.
> ONE OF the stores are nowhere sur
passed. The volume of business trans
acted, is large; the stability of the
merchants is well established. and
their prosperity satisfactory.
Socially, Paris is all that one would
desire-reiined, lively and hospitable.
III has been said that Paris reminds
one of an old Kentucky town. With
splendid farming region round about,
occupied by people who are fast inn
proving their condition, the little CITY
has naught to fear for the future.
w hen the time shall come that public
affairs will be administered by the
young men and the old ruts be obliter-
ated, then will Paris go ahead more
rapidly and mOssbackism be forgotten.
80 one may feel thankful to have his
l0t cast among these Parisians.
and show life to be worth
the living; but some have lost ali ter
ror OF death, for Paris has an amateur
brass band. Death is fast losing its
papgs.
me poor should rebel and with the
oayonet compel the rich aulocrscy
everywhere to administer the wealth
ana possessions they create with their
labor so as to equalIze the actual nos
SESSIONS of life.o Now if YOU can tell
WHAT that means, you may have 1t.
have the article before me from which
the quotation is made. 1t was written
ny White man who builds the week
lhiiamer," and controlled by color
gu people. 1T would probably have
pose better to have inserrtad
after the adjective "poorn the noun
negroes. Neither this same weakly
nnnailler nor its usual run of infiam-
aa .y articles Justify ordinarily the
n,';, i.iol, Dut the last number suggests
Ini.e moral II II does fail in adorn-
r raeri. as a tale. Some time ago then
aespecteu colored preacher made his |
apP IN Paris and by his orderly |
81 sensible walk secured the esteem |
H. Ia 'ue white people. In an evil hour
heao was inspired with the ambition !.
inc na,, ah editor, and secured print
trH s v',ice outilt. Mistaking himself as
becSy,s great, ne sought to have his pen
9 H. mightier than any sword.
othsr paper eventually fell into
a whit, anus, and about this time
ha wa,'o man fell into the paper. 1t was
figura ~ lhe paper. Imagine a lnnk
biaen topped ny tangled head of
hesd aiair when curls about his fore
praw o anu With his busy whiskers and
lsdgorS ss' gives one an impression Oft
1 nnsa - "a. roe or Guiteau. His general
s ,,a,la,; his literary efforts are as
ovaI,g as 1t is to be hoped harmless.
POSSIBLY the negro race never had
' y before them a more out
.rs seeIus piece of folly and mis-
laps La outpouring of an unset
. . an mental condition than this
Ian article, To such yillainous rub
Inris uo we owe the possibility Of the .
,p,lsing OF the negroes. OF which 40 4
he;r was said last fall. Traced to
onnd 'o .he u may nearly always be 1
,,Ilu I INA. .nal lnstigated by SOME to. t
'rn9s Irresponsible white man the ne g
n ,J ~ ue LED TO dissatisfaction. Left d
y ss,nu'llselyes, here as elsewhere, the v
n 1diase coiored man OF ordinary sense
AUS w molestation but meets with d