Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1885-08-01
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Comments and Opinions Of the stat. Press.
IN prohibition towns In New England the
discouraged tut Ingenious topcre have rcsortcu
10 ESSENCE OF peppermint. which. being la . -
Mion Of alcohol. u diluted down To- a drink.
able point. The drunkenness produced y In
tense aud lasting r lllcspcrian Times.
IN the Nation. Jamaica ginger Is used
for the same purpose During the war
the federal soldiers boiled coffee down
and drsnk ii to state of intoxicaiion
thai discounted ordinary pinr-top'' aud
foriy-rod commissary 81 per cent. The
grand truth of the whole matter j. that IL
a man is bent upon getting intoxicated
there are more ways than by the use Of
alcohol to effect it, and all the sumptuary
prohibition laws that may be- passed will
not eradicate the evil, though they may
restrain IT,
Its stated that the value OF property In G1l
weston, as shown by the last assessment, has
fallen off very greatly Wonder II this has nn
something TO do with the movement OF the
News 10 Dallasl The paper has mover before
had any use for North or Eastern TcNas-bui
where the carrion Is there viii the hulzard 10
nlso"'-l jefferson Jimplicute.
The News VIII fnd some of the liyclicst
"carrion" in North Texas that it seer
dreamed of in its philosophy But the
"buzzard'' is welcome
Fort Worth leads In low prices. one of her
merchants l. selling choice prints for cents
yard. tlic's the man tO buy from Jefferson
Jimplicutc.
Herein may be perceived the benefits of
advertising. ~ prophet is not without
honor, save in his own country"
Now is the time for eyerybod to come to
Texas, and especially for bulionuircs. There
are 3OOO,OO acres of public domain In the hands
of trio for lease Abilene Quill.
Texas is Just now threatened with.an
invasion of bullionaircs, about to he cX-
PEELED from the Territory, under the
presidents proclamation, from the Ch"y
cnnc and Arrapahoc reservations. These
gentlemen, alone, are seeking to lease
about onc-quarter of this vast domain.
Should the president deem It his duty to
cXpcl the balance Of the lcssccs In the Ter
ritory, aud they avail themselves of the
present lease law of Texas, what show
will the "actual settler" stand to acquire
Il homestead;
The Dallas Times refers cditorially to the
engineer corpse" Of the NaNahachic railroad
II y only the accomplished editor who knows
how TO "lHy out railroad with u single
letter. Waco Day.
The Times would be clad enough, UNI
doubleday, to clay out" a Fort Worth
railroad by the use of the whole alphabet;
but the "layng out and building of
railroads by Dallas is always restricted
to the use of letters. The present fnan-
cal condition of "Timcs" in Dallas
does not permit of further expenditures.
The Day has always asserted that Gen. Clai-
borne was a quasi Independent candidate for
sheriff IN the last election. He received less
than 800 votes, which looked like an Irregular
political skirmish. II he was u regular candi
date, II may be said of the Democracy of Gal
weston county as an old dnrky said of his fish :
Good Lord, how You Is TX Waco Day.
"Swunk" Wei, we should smile TO
remark. From u Encouragement of Texas
militia to u common private citizen And
all because he would not recognize the
rankin position oiu "Kiug." Who can
doul his Bepu5llcam,m:
m3gy not he generality known THAT thc new
l''fb' Pcs ~ TT 'llA''tN NA NbNNItEn NNhfr
one subscribing for and raaiIi a. ist,.at
through toe p0sioticc. and then refusing to
puy for 10 guilty 90 nu otcN-e, making hiuf
liahle tna criminal prosecution Georgetown
Record
Il certainly is news to rHE GAZEIrG
and If Incorporated ia the law is q stretch
of authority in favor OF Il class that has
no claim 80 be preferred above other
creditors. II n newspaper makes bad
debt it certainly has no right to ask that
ii be made criminal offcnSc upon the
part of a debtor. The press only asks Il
fair field and no fayoritiSm.
/ We heard three different men say Monday that
/ they would attend meeting TO consult about
railroad matters if such Il meeting should Id
called. That IL very good, but three men cannot
/ build n railroad. How many more will attend u
meeting-that Il all that Is neCdcd-is Ia get the
7 people together, and then she viii BOOM Gle
/ burne Telegram.
The people of Clcburnc and the Tclc-
gram will find that something beside
getting people together is necessary to
build railroads. That is the country
style. The metropolitan style is to "get
the people together" put mp the money
and set the ball rolling TINT is,thc diff,
ference between Fort Worth and hen
would-be rivals