Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-11-22
TEXAS NOTES.

horses.
Clarksville is handling over 800
bales OF cotton daily
Notification demonstrations are the
order OF the day all over the state.
A Denison undertaken bet metallic
coffin against 1925 on Blaine's election
Washington county farmers are re-
pairing fences and preparing for next
seasons crop.
NOISY and unintellectual' il what
the Clarksville Standard calls eX-can-
dldate Logan.
IN Milan county fourteen-year-old
boy was sentenced to the penitentiary
for burglary and horse-stealipg.
The admirers of the Dodd city Spec
tor editorpresented him with q fine
overcoat during the election yjoiciDg.
Texas has the largest st0sk ranch in
the world, 1t is owned by Charles
Goodnight and comprises 700, 900 acres.
Two years ago Irelsnd's majority
over Jones in Milan county was 1872
AT the late election IL increased to
1888.
The ci,y marshal of Palestine has
killed o man for every finger on his
bands and is ready to count two more
for his thumbs.
When big, healthy, able.bodi d
tramp is found begging IN Laredo he
is taken before his honor and fined.
This system is considered sure cure.
The St. 10 Times is holding it's
poultry In preparation to crow in 1888
over the election of Thos. A Hem
bricks as president of the United
States.
a new pest which the farmers Of
Bosque county and vicinity complain
of Is what Is known as guinea grass.
1t Is said TO be worse than the Cana
dian thistle.
a good many of the small stockmen
of Middle and Northwest Texas are
preparing shelter for their cattle to
protect them from the rigor of the APP
preaching winter.
The editor of the Sabine Pass Times
was notified Of Cleveland's election by
his wife, who said she WAS sure OF 1t
because her Plymouth rooster crew
that morning for The first time.
a citizen of Denison went over to
Sherman the other day to secure Ii
cense for man that wanted to marry
and to iile petition for divorce for u
man who was sorry he had married.
Sabine Pass is not getting to be port
of entry very rapidly. There have been
ten years labor and half million dol
lars spent on the harbor and there Ia
less water now than at the commence
ment.
The Texas & Pacific have taken up
the cudgels for the Western UuIon
and are eDjoining the Baltimore d
Ohio Telegraph company from build.
ing along its line on the Transconti-
mental.
The stage line between Bowie and
gainesville has changed hands.
Messrs Vail & Miner have sold out to
Messrs. Cables & Cook, who intend
improving the accommodations and
making better time.
A man named Williams promised TO
deliverlhe election tickets for the people
OF Larned, but instead scattered them to
the four winds. Many could not vote,
as 1t was late when other tickets could
be received from Bonham.
McGregor reioices over the prospect
of fast mail train TO st. Louis over
the Narrow-Gauge To compete with the
Missouri Pacific. Heretofore, when a
passenger went on the Narrow Gauge
to Cairo he had to prepare to camp out
and settle his worldly affairs before
leaving,
/ The Staked Plains are no longer the
barren deserts of the geography. Wells
of splendid water are being dug and
the welcome fluid springs up any time
after twenty feet has been dug. Thie
water not only supplies stock, but
! enough Is expected TO be obtained ia
use successfully for irrigating pur.
poses.
a young man rode up TO two citizens
near Waxahachie and told them n
they wanted to see man XIII him.
self to watch him. They did not
believe him, but before they had col
fifty yards from the place they heard
the shot Of a pistol which killed him,
| No one knew him and no reason can
be learned for the act.
The people living along the limo nj
the Erie telephone wire. such as Rnr'
lington, ST. 10, Montague and Others.
are loud in their complaints against
the Western Union for refusing them
election news without extra nav. and
against the Erie Telephone company
for not securing it for Its customers
These people contributed thousands OF
dollars toward erecting these lines and
feel that they have a right 10 some re.
turns for II.
The Big Springs Paragraph tells OF
slick trick attempted to be PLAYED in
that county by refugee from Tom
Green county, who through some
hoeHs-pocns had himself appointed
county judge 10 fill an unexpired term
As soon as he had qualified, We se,
about TO find errors in the election re-.
turns with u view of annulling the
same. This was easily done, and the
chances for his holding over for two
years were booming until the peonle
indicated their desire for a change in
county affairs. He gave up the AT,
tempt right quick.
The champion mean man of the