Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-02-19
FANNIN COUNTY.
TONES of Interest from Bonham-C Cur
rent Notes of the Day.

| TNut NVtNs VI INV IN
correspondenco of the Gazette.
Ronbam, February 1.-THE com
mis- toner's court was In session las
week. and disposed of considerable,
business. but did not finish up IL.
work. IL will convene again to-mor
row and will probably he in session
nil week. More than one hundred
road oyerseers are to be appointed
The county tax has already been
leyied-fifteen cents for general reve.
nue and ten cents on the 500 for roads
and bridges. This, added to the state
and school taxes, makes % total for all
purposes of iifty-tive cents on the 500
which is quite light for Il prosperous
| county like Fannin.
Tomorrow district court convenes.
| The docket is light one, but ii is ex-
pected that the grand jury will be
busy, and some of the sporting frater-
nity may have business elsewhere dur
ing its sitting.
w. w. Brotherton, an old settler
and an honored citizen, died at his
home, four miles east of the city, Fri
day morning, and was buried at Dodd
Yesterday, the Masons conducting the
funeral.
Bots dare creek, east of the city,
has overlooked its banks, and the bot
tom is covered with water. Our local
nimrods are having fine sport duck
hunting.
The special from Jefferson in the
GAZETTE of the 18th, announcing that
Col. Culberson would offer again as
n candidate for congress, created some
Re Ia OF - In, hn Gi haI
been announced, by several of our
county papers that they understood
that dOid Dave" would not be on the
track this time. Col. Culberson has
many friends in this county.
The political pot is beginning to bub-
BILE, and hand shaking will soon be the
order of the day.
1t is generally understood that Col.
Chenoweth will be a candidate for con-
gressional honors, and County Attor-
ney Lusk will ask for place in the
legislature. II is also rumOred that
the friends of Hornbeck of the Honey
Grove Independent are quietly talking
up his claims. FanDin has an interest
in more than one representative, and
the claims of the two gentlemen may
not clash.
Some scap-graces, not fearing the
penitentiary nor regarding the rights
of their neighbor, one night last week
destroyed about three hundred yards
of wire fence for John McGrady, who
lives seventeen miles northeast of
town. They not only cut the wire,
but pulled the posts out of the ground
and destroyed them. The night was
very rainy and disagreeable when the
parties were engaged in this devilish
work 1t is to be hoped that the gull
ty parties will be found out and indict-
ed. If they can be caught up with,
Fannin county will make an example
of them by giving them the longest
term possible in the penitentiary.
Col. j. @. Chenoweth, Fannin's rep
in the legislature, has the
and has been confined to
his room most of the time since his re.
turn from Ben Thompson's city,"
Marion Keithley who has
been n typo on the GAZETTE
for several months is visiting relatives
and friends in the city.
Work on the Texas ~ Pacific round
house at this place has been suspended
On account of the severe weather, but
will be resumed when the weather
VIII permit. There are also a number
Of residences which will be finished in
A short time.
One duck hunter got lost in the
woods Friday evening and did not |
reach home until two o'clock the next |
He has enough for one sea-
son.
The GAZETTE is gaining favor here
every day. 1t has been giving some
good advice concerning the laws /
passed at the late session of the legis-
Azure asking the people to try them
before condeming them as worthless.
We look upon the press as an educa-
or of the people, and believe it to he a
iuty which is due society and good
rider that it caused the masses to obey
he laws or at least to give the rene
lies suggested by the laws Il trial.
This the GAZETTE has done while
ther papers have published articles
almost every law as it was
nacted before the people or the papers
ither knew what it was.
Those of our citizens with whom we
ave conversed are in favor of holding
he state convention at Fort Worth,
rovided the Fort will prepare Il suita-
lie house TO accommodate the conyen-
ion.
Tha Nuty On Wool