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Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-02-10
TEXAS NEWS ITEMS.

a red alligator lady's hand-satchep,
has been lost in San Antonio.
Itasca has shipped ll5 carloads of
corn during the present fall and win
ter.
The Texas & st. Louis Narrow
Gauge railway has discharged one-half
It's bridge and section hands.
The Bells high school building
burned last Friday. 1t was valued at
% 600, and insured for 81, 500.
AT the leap-year ball in BRYAN. a
young lady's slipper came off and re-
Veaied-a hole in her stocking.
An Upshur county man has an old
notice OF George Washington ever pub
lished.
The "boss orator. tramp who
makes speeches on any subject for a
dime each, is on tour through Texas
towns.
Sam Wheeler, under sentence of
death IN upshur county, has been sent
TO the insane asylum If he RECEIVERS
us reason he will be brought back and
hung.
The ladies of Trinity Methodist
church in San Antonio are giving n
series of successful mush and milh so.
ciables. Coffee and cake are the two
adjuncts.
Senator Lamar has written to Messrs
Baum IL Bro. OF Gainesville that he
VIII cooperate with the : enator from
Texas in giving the federal court ia
that city.
The bad boys at the Yates school
house, in Hill county, amuse them
selves by shaving the name and tail
OF the parsons horse and others who
come to church.
Calico balls are getting to be the
rage. The young people of Hillsboro
enjoyed very brilliant event of the
Kind last week, and Bolton is booked
Tor another on st. Valentines day.
While Mr.. Monteith, at his home in
belton, was pouring gasoline out of a
can into pitcher the whole room
seemed suddenly to be filled with gas.
which gnited fromthe heat of the fire
ana enveloped everything in flames
almost Instantly. The house was
burned.
The moral effect of the legislature
does not seem to have stopped fence
cutting. Reports come in from all
around Austin that the work is going
on. The day after adjournment a man
came into the city and reported several
miles OF his fence cut, with the usual
threatening notice posted.
The three homeless and destitute
children, orphaned by the sudden
death OF their father at the Texarkana
depot, found kind friends among
strangers. The two boys we given
thirty dollars in money and free trans.
portation over the Texas Il Pacific Ia
md their relatives, and the little girl
y, MAS taken TO the home OF Ticket Agent
Trigg and kindly cared for.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-02-10

THE Houston Post, Democratic as II
is, cannot for the life oft keep steI
with the music of tarifi.reform. Its
protective tendencies will crop out in
spite of it and throw it out of time
almost out of the procession. II
is now engaged in depreciating the
Morrison tariff bill, of which it says:
There is many a legislative slip between
the entrance of bill into congress and its
final passage afier having been returned from
the. senate, and not unlikely Mr.. Morrison
win not recognize his own bill any more ar
lr the senate has analysed aud dissectcd II.
NJ any rate, NJ. Morrlson's bill is as yet but
a proposition, and 1t is premature to base any
political speculations upon II.
Nobody expects the senate to do 9TH
erwise than slaughter the bill. What
the Democratic house will do with 1t
is the question. If the house doesn't
pass it, or something very like it, the
Democratic party had as well shut up
shop.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-02-10
AN aged and stronp-minded female,

AN aged and strong-minded female
who edits n paper called the North
west somewhere in the wilds of Ore
gon, has made a most vicious attack
on Miss Paul, the charming aud YER
satile editress ofthe Memphis Scimitar,
because the latter is young, cookbook
ing and does not believe In female
suffrage. We of the South do not con-
slider it crime in a woman TO be
young and handsome, and believe she
is best fitted TO adorn home. Such
an one is the editress of the Scimitar,
and the GAZETTE lifts its tile in admi-
ration TO one who dares TO make her
living by honest work without drifting
intoa Initiated yearning for the unat-
tainable. Miss Paul is an industrious
journalist, and as such is
an ornament to her sex and q credit to
her profession.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-02-10
Not an InsurmOuntable Objection.

1t would seem that an oversight was
made in the appointment of Mr.. Shep.
herd, the new uperintendent of the
deaf and dumb asylum at Austin. II
IL said that he is ignorant of the sign
language employed by the inmates of
the institution. We do not know that
this can be classed as an instrumental.
BILE objection to his holding the posi-
ton. 1t is TO be doubted if old Rip
Ford knew anything about the sign
language when he took charge of the
institution, and yet he made one of
the most efficient superintendent the
institution has ever had. 1t would be
better, however, IL the new superin-
tendent were familiar with the man
usl, and he will no doubt proceed to
study II as diligently as any of his pu.
pills. II is said to be easily mastered
by any person of ordinary intelligence.
On the whole, unless there is some
other more weighty objection to Su,
IN'NpNNpt 'htpheih lucuHlDeNCy
1t would seem to be better to let him
hold the place, and learn, as soon as b
can, to talk with his fingers. This is
too small n matter on which to dis
place him, merely to appoint some
body else, who may be proficient in
the deafmute manual, and yet not so
well fitted in other respects as Mr..
Shepherd to fulfill the duties of super
intendent.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-02-10

sicians the needed expert testimony Is
: always to be had, and 1t is to be feared
plant judges too. The victims of the
plot may be seized at night, hustled
before the court, and everything con-
Quoted secretly. Once in the asylum,
virtually prison, and the promoters
of the plot are at liberty to
carry out the scheme or pur-
pose in view. Before the mad'house
doors can be opened an estate may be
appropriated or squandered, a business
enterprise wrecked or home dis
graced. The press of New York time
and again has exposed the wrong
and iniquities perpetrated under this
system, but somehow public opinion
there is either lethargic on the subject
or is powerless to effect n change. We
have alluded to the exemption of
Western and Southern states from
such occurrences. The explanation,
undoubtedly, is TO be found in the
laws governing the commission and
restraint OF the insane. In
Texas it is practically inn
possible for fraud or wrong
TO be perpetrated in proceedings in
lunacy as we read of in New York.
Here the investigation is as public as
a trial of any kind. A jury
hears the testimony, any number of
witnesses may be summoned and the
alleged lunatic is afforded full oppor-
tunity to prove his or her sanity. AS
a result Of this system we cannot re-
call an instance in this state, suscepti-
bile of demonstration, where wrong or
injustice has been practiced and any
person of sound mind restrained of lib
crty. 1t is indeed astonishing that
the Eastern states cling to a system
whose defects are so patent !,
and glazing. With all their
advancement they lag in this
natter They have inaugurated val 9
able reforms in the care and treat J.
nent of insanity, all of which are I
reditable to the humanity and en- s
ghtenment of society. But the value o
the reforms is largely negatived by +,
he adherence to an effete, semi-bar- d
arous system, that permits persons W
sane TO be made victims of "
ppression and wrong. Next to the ~ ~
ian who is convicted of crime he OF
ever committed, it is almost impossi- IL
conceive of a more pitisble instance v,
suffering than the man of sound o.
ind who is an enforced inmate of a he
matte asylum-placed there as the tn
ctim of selfish motives or even of ig- "a
rant but misplaced solicitude. ~
rely the progress of the age must go
IN render such things impossible. pc
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-02-10
An Instance Prior to IrAlnnd.

"why, sir" continued this gentleman
The Galveston News thought 1t ran the state
Of Texas, and John Ireland is the drst man
that ever had the temerlty to contest its die
tation and defy its power
This is from Houston Post inter-
view with distinguished senatorn
at Austin. Gov. Ireland has shown
pluck in resenting what he regarded
as injustice, but he is not the first gov
ernor of Texas who has had the temer-
| ity to lock horns with the News and
dare that paper to do its worst. When
Coke was governor he incurred the
News displeasure. Coke is a more
positive man than Ireland. He spoke
his opinion In terse, vigorous English
that made the welkin ring. 1t was
years before the breach was healed. if
indeed it is really healed yet The
bugles finally sang tn ce but the first
soothing notes came from the News. |
This is history, familiar TO every man
who has lived in Texas during the
past eight years and kept pace with
current events. AS to the animus of
the Coke-News imbroglio. we shall be
silent. Each side pleaded justification
for its course, and was perhaps sin.
cere. But the facts are as we have
stated, and the Post, its Austin CORE
spondent and the distinguished sena.
tor viii doubtless recall them with
very little effort, Coke and the News
treat each other very politely now,
and we hope they will let bygones be
bygones.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-02-10
Sane Inmates Of Insane AsHlnms.

Any reader Of the daily papers must
be impressed with the number of cases
reported recently of the improper de-
tention, In institutions for the insane.
oil men and women alleged to be luna.
tics, but who, when afforded oppor-
tunity, demonstrate their sanity. tits
also noteworthy that New York fur
nishes larger percentage OF such
cases than any other state, or, indeed
any two or three states. 1t is rare that
We read OF such a thing happening In a
Western or Southern state. The explana
ton of this is 70 be found in the laws of
New York, aud other Eastern states.
regulating proceedings in lunacy.
There one judge and physician may
actually consign mao or woman TO n
lunatic asylum, from which there is
no escape save through long and te-
dious course OF red.tape litigation.
The physician furnishes the medical
testimony and the judge commits the
alleged lunatic. With such "A system
IN force 1t is not at all surprising that
some outrageous cases of improper In.
carceration are from time TO time
brought TO light. II Is n convenient
resource for getting rid, even
temporarily, of people who are
In ones way. A husband wearies Of
a wifeiawife ola husband; a parent
OF a child; children of parents; one rel.
ative OF another. Money or illicit pas
sion Is usually found to be the control
ing motive, With money to fee ply
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-02-10
What the News Wanted.

The Galveston News excommunica-
ted Governor Ireland because he
didn't see fit to put himselfat the head
of the militia and march out i'm search
OF fence.cutters. The same paper is
now trying to eXcommunicate the leg
islature because it took sides with the
governor and Endorsed his actions on
TINS question:-Mexia Ledger.
III the legislature and governor Ire
land would only make fools of them
selves the News would be satisfied.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-02-10

BISHOP PIERCE of Georgia re-
Gently celebrated his golden wedding
He made speech to the assembled
guests, In which he said the combined
capital Of himself and wife after tho
marriage ceremony was performed was
sixteen dollars. The ceremony was
performed by the Rev. Richard I
Winn of Texas, who is still living
and was an invited guest at the golden
wedding
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-02-10
MY WORLD.
ny ErrA M. GRIFFIN.

ny ErTA M. GRIFFIN.
For the Gazette.
there's world OF love In my heart far ,ho,
nis pound by one Notwithstanding,
me north of my world are golden bo,,ns
eternal hope and golden dreams
,.I see no clouds In its steady ray,
lis bright ms summers briehte,, ,.
Forever and forever" lies
Written In the purple skies
mat bind the south OF this. my ,voaa
Inc crimson clouds float out unfnrlad
The east, where rises mir ana brlsh,
me sun OF my worlds golden lich,
l see Two words upon that shore
9iimmsrins brightly Ever morem
,. urn mine eyes with rapture swee,
' mhere In the west the shadows mea,
"here purple grows each sunny hean,
IKE Iading memories OF a dream
p pna see The sinking even sun
r ~, when the day is done,
.ueh on the flowers sun-llt breath
.ne,e words iread-"Untii death,p
feb.s, 1854.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-02-10

WITH the adjournment of the legis,
lature' the ISSUES, almost purely per-
sonal, of the next state campaign. will
begin to shape themselves. In the
meantime we wish to remark that Fort
Worth is fine place for the conven-
tons, Democratic and Republican, to
meet. We will even guarantee the
Greenbackers, if they want to hold a
convention, a good time.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-02-10

Uncle Dan'l says the legislature will
violate the constitution wherever ii
appropriates money for any such pur-
pose as the New Orleans expositi IN.
ana, according to strict construction
OF the constitution Uncle Dan'l is
right.-Corsicana Courier.
Look out, Brother Wood; you will
rlle the bile in the bowels of the Fort
worth GAZETTE and the San Antonio
Express; and they will stand on their
heads and tear the air with their heels
and swear you are a mossback and n
bourbon. "AN I"
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-02-10

EX-Gov. RoBERTs' statement de-
filming his position as to political aspi.
Tations, is as frank and explicit as
could be asked or expected. 1t veri-
4ies the opinion OF the GAZETTE, ex-
pressed few days ago, that the Old
Alcalde is not man to go of half
cooked.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-02-10
A Bad Citizen.


mr.. Nelson, our own Richard, so Ia
SPEAK, politician and journalist, is I'm
n p worm endeayoring to work up a
Mepuoilcan convention boom. Mr..
Neisoh gives out that Texas Is entitled
" .wenty-slX votes in the presidential
Illuminating convention, and the col.
pleu population propose 10 have at
i ,te nan OF them or make trouble i'm
s ., camp lie says they have onlv
,i'.i TWO heretofore, b It this time tbey
WI, WI ~ make axe things howl II they. don't
gel aii they ask for. Mr.. Nelson ia a
~ man when he gets started and he
Is getting started now. ""' nv
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-02-10

GENERAL SHELBY of Missouri, who
has gained some notoriety as the
friend and defender of the James boys,
is now on trial at Gallatin, Mo, for
carrying pistol which he displayed
during the trial of Frank Jane, at
that place.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-02-10

The leading Journals of New York
and Boston speak in the highest terms
of the worlds exposition at New Or
leans. Ii the East takes so active an
interest in this matter, no Southern
state can afford TO be behind in 1t.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-02-10
The People are for Him.

John Hancock will not make a,v
good hay will the sun shines If ~ ~" Wy
poses Gov. ireland. The goyernor " +
80 nrhiiy iSei 10 the affections OF the
peopie inal u will take great deal 10
inJure MN. fhe great and good Gal.
WESTON paper tried 1t, without effect.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-02-10

To celebrate the first year OF its ex-
istence the Big Springs Paragraph
printed tifty-six-column paper filed
with matter calculated TO advance the
sn'erest' of Big Springs and of Texas.
the Pantagraph should be tenderly
nourished by the people of Big Springs.
1t will do them coed.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-02-10
Owen Brown.


lCleburne Telegram.
Owen Brown may vote in a way to
displease some folks, but when you
count noses you'll find his on the side
OF The majority. Some how or other
he has trick of thinking the same
way that his constituents do aud that
is what he cares for.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-02-10

GOVERNORS of Southern states are
pretty busy just now appointing COM
miSsioners to represent their states at
the New Orleans exposition. Gov.
ireland will soon follow suit, and 1t is
90 be hoped he may have as little
trouble over the matter as the other
executives have.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-02-10

AND now British Columbia says
John Chinaman must CO. Crowd him
out of Canada, and Mexico will be his
only chance on the North American
continent. And to think, too, in this
utilitarian age that Johns chief crime
rs that he works cheap and saves his
money.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-02-10

THE editor of the Nashville World
is writing series of sermons FOR his
Sunday issue on man. We would
like for the genial colonel when he
has finished the present series, to tell
all he knows about women.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-02-10
VALIDATING LAND prRouA
SEZ

of nnh act 70 validate certain purchases
In ,ho school lands made by clerks
;" 1 ne general land office. - Wv y"
the cn rneas ny an erroneous ruling of
oflics ,,niSsioner of the general land
hava some Of the clerks in said ofIjee
a Iega III. in led to believe that they had
certsi m right to file upon and purchase
of H. oi The public free school lands
PLY h nr so believing, they did ap-
lands, aud f'Se some oil said
chase ,,., said applications and pur-
thronoh" s , innocently made by them
'sh having been so Inisied, there.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-02-10

=, TOE thirty years have lived "a ,rexas
~ anose 'hiriy years l have known abou,
twenty governors. while trying 10 raiusn,,,v
s'sonArse me obligations Of their positIons
ous : say 10 you that Of this number. whI,n
~ went mo their Office bnnyant ara ,,s,,,.
hearted not ono but what cams out sore re-, !,
neait ana isotweary."--senator Torreli's
hpeech. '.'
once there was little boy eating
an orange His mother told him he
had better stop or he would make his
mouth sore. The little boy looked at
his mother and then at the fruit, aud
said II want my mouth sore.uv
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-02-10

TIE author of the "Bread Win.
ners," a powerful novel that appeared
IN the Century magazine, the author
snip of which has been ascribed Ia
almost every prominent writer in the
United States, has written card In
winch he declares only two persons
KNOW who Is the author Of the bool,
ana mat he prefers to retain his secret
because he belongs to a profession In
which his standing would be affected
n II We're known he had written a
novel He must be preacher
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-02-10

THE killing of stranger on the
streets of Big Springs bya random
shot is another argument against the
practice of carrying six-shoOters.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-02-10
DESTRUCTION OLE GRASS

| grass. vi
= section !. BE it enacted by the lepis.
,a.ure OF the state of Texas: That anv
person who shall willfuIly fire any
Hrass within any Enclosure not his own
III tnis state, with intent to DESTROY the
th ,ass IN such pasture or any part
,,hh e or any person who shall fire
' .ne grass on the outside of anv incIos-
s ure with the intent TO destroy the
grass gi'.s Il, In such Enclosure by the eomnu-
in,ca,ion OF said fire to the grass with.
a ard s , be deemed guilty Of a felony
t dna upon conviction, punished by con,
aia meme in the state peniientiaTv for for
tb .er'a OF not less than two nor more
FIJI, Zee =. That il any person shall will
n au,y and with intent to iniure The
tba ner or owners of the stock grazing
not eI set fire to any grass upon land
s nue nus own with intent to destroy the
s nam !, Lac shall be confined in The staie
IHhuann,'e ny for a period of not less
v .nan one year nor more than three
'e''S' Approved February 4 1891
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-02-10

Now, SAY, Uncle Danl, dorsSsou
honestly believe that representation at
New Orleans will be Of incalculable
benefit to Texas?
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-02-10
IL Will Live.
Gainesville 1ndencnden.

Gainesville independently
Axtell's New Mexico organ calls the
GAZETTE an obscure Texas paper.
This is hard hit to the GAZErTE s
veracity, but we suppose it will live
over il.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-02-10

THE work of the called session is like
wine. 1t improves with age. Mr..
Speaker Gibson was not fulsome in his
farewell address.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-02-10
back.
LOVE OF MONEY.

LOVE or MONEY.
A poor woman, known in the ficws
paper world. Mrs IT,, died here las!
week. She had recently returned
from California, where q good lawyer,
she said, had appropriated her deau
brothers estate. She came back u
Washington penniless and helpless.
Her relatives In Philadelphia are poor
and she starved. A doctor attended NJ
her bedside in her last moments,
called In by sympathetic
neighbors. But the poor creature was
tbeyond the reach of humans aid.
Anxiety and want had done their
worst.
PITIFuL.
When the undertaken of the poor
house was doing his duty, the doctor
levied an attachment on the coffin ana
its contents, and a wretched sister OF
the dead paid him ten dollars for the
release of the dead body. Another
creditor of the dead correspondent
became body-snatcher, and snatched
two dollars and half by the same
process from the same poor
woman, the sister of the
dead and it occurred to me that these
facts gave better illustration of the
narrow, little and pitiful condition of
trade and speculation in Washington
and of the habits even of professional
people than any commentary could
present.
REASONS FOR THIS STORY.
concluded to present
the facts in this shape
l,AtIipov tho ,,,lnl, community, nf thA
capital responsible for the vices of two
of its members rs do the Republican
papers of this city hold the South re-
sponsible for the vices Of conduct and
character of few dozen people in
Virginia and Mississippi. Have not
fairly turned the table on the South's
lccusers? Is not all / have written
perfectly just? Can these Republican
organs gainsay it? The facts IL state |
IRE facts and | apply them as the Re-
1ublicans apply them to those of the
Oanville "riot."
PERSONAL.
Acknowledgement Brewster said |
Ionday to your Washington cores
ondeht that he did not know when
he federal district judge and attorney
Or Texas would be appointed. The
Whole matter, he said, was in the
ands of the president.
Mr.. Joseph G. Orr of Dallas, who
AS been spending several weeks in
Washington n an applicant for the
Jnited States district attorneys place,
as gone to his old home, La Porte,
He will ensconce himself,
t an early day in Dallas worn out
nth the pains of otlice-seeking.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-02-10

A Jealous Worker.


The GAZETTE is Jealous worker
for Fort Worth, and never misses an
opportunity to make its advantages
known.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-02-10

Judge Reagan says as soon as lie gets
his Interstate commerce bill through
he will quit public life. Now, let ev-
erybody hurry up and pass the bill.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-02-10
suNp ~ MORNING, FEBRUARY 10.

THE administration is not likely to
suffer from the called session.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-02-10

Mr.. LANHAM is wrestling with the
location of a federal court Mr.. Lam
ham is to be pitied.