Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-02-20

nor In say that he removed Jesse JAMES ""u
y ~ n,opr NJ ~, Further 9Th man that calls
: mo nm assassin is u co temptiolo sneak anu
j. Ithc wishes 10 resent 1t he VIII ma me NJ inc
, 81. James hotel In this city
A MAcKrNAc Island man suggests u
new way of crossing the straits In winter py
lay ing narrow gauge railroad track anu Pu',
ting an light equipment lie THINKS IT cou'u
he used sboutthrae months in the car "n"
taken up when the Ice hecnm unsafe
The little red oranges, tomato
shaped. that are now seen at the frut stores
are Florida production. Under the skin IS
loose layer OF dry nbor and the fruit Is
called the "kid-glove orange" because indies
can peel and eat 1t without soiing their
gloves
A Wild boy recently captured in the
santa Rosa mountains and taken To Taucau-
blntz, Mexico cannot be tanned aud eats
only new vegetables aud flesh. The other day
he seized a thee.yearold child, CHECKED II TO
death. and then devoured Its left arm ana
part OF its h,re.
A PLAY from real lie
Acr 1.-The people: The fencecut ter must
go.
Acr 1.-THE legislatures The fcnce-cutter
IL going
! Acr lII.-Tho governor; The fence-cutter
has gone, but not the $5o,0N
s~-.----
MARGARET l.. DeLand of GrandRap-
ids. Mich. has Sc lured divorce from her
husband, Hooker q. iceland, on the ground
of cruelty. She Will be remembered rs the
woman whose name was connected with that
of The late Rev j. +. Thompson In scandal
Gus manner some years ago.
| sNs
SOME of Wendell Phillips epithets
are being revived. He called Web ter n
"bnnkrupo statesman" Chonte II 'cha,tcring
d onkey," Everett "cnckoo," Chase
'trickster," Washington "the graf slave
holder" Lincoln n 'slave hound Of illinois"
and Greeley u "moral suicide"
TEXAS FARM and RANCH perpe-
| trates another ofthose cartoons. GOV. Ireland
| is jumping up ON his chair,h ascent iacili
| tatcd by II pin placed ON the seat 10y John
| Hancock or O'erycn Moore of tho News.
! Go ,. Roberts, cob pipe In mouth, looks on
willing to taAe the chair and risk ali the pins
| TINT may be placed there. Farm ana Ra ch
grows happier In IT. conceptions with each
successive cartoon.
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THE sad news came from Washing
ton that Tom Ochiltrec, applying for mom-
bcrship in the high-toued Metropolitan club
was blacli-ballcd. This to II congressman
from Texas, the chum of Bonanza Mackay,
Gen. Grant and President Arthur-the favor
| lite OF royalty event But Ochi tree may con.
| sole himself that Jay Gould received similar
tret lment from the New York Yacht club
hardly Il year ago.
THE Democratic national executive
committee Will meet In Washington city to
morrow, for the purpose of choosing a time
and place to hold the national Democratic
| convention. \ lot of new officers will also he
ected. AS the indications are that the par
ty will come West for candidate, 1t might
do well to come West for the convention city,
too. Ex.Gov. stockdao viii represent Texas
| at the meeting of the committee.
WHILE other men are standing de-
murely at the street corners and averriug
that If they accept II nomination for govern
or or any other state office, It will be AZ an
.'imperative duty" Tn lie Frank Lubbock,
the stale trcasu "er, makes no bones Of admit
ting that he would like to be his own succes.
hOT. llClt y INuR y N'thhbl 10 ltl4 'Ni'hF' w
say the least oft; and Joined TO hts compe.
tency and popularity 1t has served him well
| for now more than forty years
es
| REPUTATION With posterity has ever
been esteemed one the most powerful in.
centivcs To deeus OF heroism; aud one mod
| ern school of philosophy recognizes as the
| only true imm ,rtaity OF man thu enduring
benetiCent nflueI &c of his VirtuOus action.
| II, However, the fabric of our civilZ ton
| We're seen to be tottering, IL Is plain that this
particular stimulus To virtue W uld fail.
But ais our Civilization pershable?" The
question Is asked in the North Amercin Re
view for March, by Judge j. a. Jameson, who
cons ders the several agencies by when the
overflow Of the existing civilization might
be effected. In the same number of he Re.
view there is an article Of extraordinary in.
terest ON agricultural Politics in Engl and"
| by WI liam l.. Bear, editor of the Mark Lane
Express ~ Defcns less Sea-board" by
| GIN. II. a. Smalley, is a description of the
unprotected condition of the harbors and
coast cities of the United states; aud though
the author employs none OF the arts OF the
rhetorician, his statement canuos fail To
awaken the people ofthls country to the i'm.
portance # beng in peace prepared for war.
'NeltheT Genius nor Martyr Is the judg
ment pronounced upon the wife of arlyle
by Alice Hyneman Rhine, whose contrhu-
tion to the carlyle controversy is character.
lied by much force. In "rhe story OF Nom.
nation" W. q. stoddard recOun's the hith.
erto unpublished history OF the means by
which the nomination OF Abraham Lincoln
for second presidential term was brought
about. Other articles are Literary Rcsur.
( rect iDulgts iy
10 Improve tine Mississippi" by Robert $.
Taylor, and the Constiutlonality of hepu,
dlation," by ID. II Chamberlain and John $.
Wise. Published at 30 Lafayette Place, New
York
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