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Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1885-07-22

walls at the two houses OF wor ship in
West Sherman, and the outpouring
of the Holy Ghost has brought marvel
Gus Joy to the hearts OF hundreds Of
sinners The material at hand
was about exhausted by getting every
body happily converted and safely
enrolled In the army Of the Lord,
but about that time some OF the
earlier converts began TO show
signs Of returning to the paths of
wlckeduess, and church councils were
organized to lead them back to the
fold, or, In the absence of due contri-
ton, TO purge the church from their
unsavory presence. Last night an
erring sister was up for trial at the
Baptist church on charge OF i'm.
moral conduct, but several OF the ell
ders and leading members ardently
espOused her cause and she
was acquitted. When the trial
closed the pros and cons got into dis
pute over the facts, and Elder Town
8. md got blow Ia the mouth from the
fist OF Brother White that sent him to
grass, and he came bowling after the
police to arrest the offender. The lat
ter voluntarily surrendered, and the
case was set for trial this evening, but,
as all the witnesses could not be found,
1t will consume part Of another day.
Prof. ]. M Terrell Of Fort Worth,
principal of the colored summer nor
NAL school in this city, reports most
Interesting and instructive session
II ia assisted by J. w. Ray OF Dallas,
aud they have twenty-five teachers
from this district In daily attendance.
Alta meeting OF the city school trus-
tees here last night, Prof. Porter, col
ored, of this county was elected
principal for the ensuing year. He
was second assis ant teacher last
session, and gSve satisfaction. Laura
Patterson and Anna Skinner Of Sher.
man and colored man from Van AL
styne were chosen teachers. Our
trustees are taking great interest in
the colored school, and boast OF the
progress II has ma ie.
Nose Chaplin, one OF the trustees,
who has been visiting his native state,
New York, for the past five weeks, re-
turned home Sunday night. He says
he succeeded in reeonstructing IL old
Yankee friends.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1885-07-22
WACO.
Temperance Council to Meet To. Day
Lone Star Guards Reorganizsd.

Temperance Council to Meet To.Day
Lone Star Guards Reorganizsd.
Bptclal 10 the Gazette.
WACO. TEX July 81 The fire de-
pertinent has been notified that the
new steau fire engine left for Waco
the 18th inst, and would reach here
about the sd. A meeting Of the differ
ent companies Ia called for tomorrow
night, when arrangements will be
made to receive the engine and name
selected for it.
Tomorrow the grand council OF the
United Friends Of Temperance meets
here. The session will be held in the
large and comfortable hall OF the Odd
Fellows. At night there will be
speaking at the courthouse, and
Thursday night banquet will be
given. The council will be In session
only two days.
The committee II hard at work try
ing 10 raise the $40 900 TO secure the
Waco and Baylor university. All but
$4,000 has been raised.
The Lone Star Guards met tonight
and reorRanized by eleotipg officers,
Twenty four years ago 10 a day they
marched out OF Waco 10 the scene OF
war, and passed through that great
struggle with credit 10 Themselves.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1885-07-22
SHERMAN.
Town Cow Given Carte Blanche Row
Over q Colored Sisters Virtue.

TOWN. OOW UlV6n SdIpo DidhCho -rsoW
Over q Colored Sisters Virtue.
Special TO the Gazette.
SHERMAN, Ten July 81 One Prof
Curr, "capny Scotchman" from the
bluegrass region Of Kentucky, was in
the city Last night and delivered lee
ture, at 25 cents per bead, at the
Christian church. His subject, the
Battle OF Life,n was not good enough
to draw this hot weather, and his gate
fees were small.
The city council held red-hot meet
ing at its room in the courthouse last
night, when the subject that has
shaken every incipieht city ON the
continent, the town COW, came up for
consideration. An ordinance was pre-.
scented at former meeting to require
| this disturbing bovine to be kept up at
night, and more than one OF the city
| fathers signified that she ought TO be
banished from our streets at all times.
The subject was deferred for last
nights session and all parties came
| forward with views TO present. Af(er
many speeches by the talking mem.
| bera the vote was at asst taken aud
result I'd In tie. His honor cast the
deciding vote in favor Of the COW, and
she will have another prolonged
season 10 forage off the gardens and
beautiful shrubbery Of the citizens and
vary her rations by stealing horse
! feed from the farmers' wagons about
the reefs,
The colored folks here have enjoyed
about three months OF perpetual reyi'
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1885-07-22
HENDERSON,.
A white Man Assaulted by Negro.

A White Man Assaulted by Negro.
Special to the Gazette,
HENDERSON, TEX, July 2l.--Late
yesterday afternoon q mulatto by tho
aame of y oah Penn assaulted white
man by the name Of John Collier, iiv-
ing about five miles south Of town,
and beat him very severely over the
head with stick. II seems that the
negro and Collier had a difficulty yes
terday forenoon, but without conclu.
sion. In the afternoon Penn
returned with a shotgun and u
large stick, He approached Col
Her and began beating him with
the stick. Sheriff Rogers went down
last night and arrested the offender.
He now lies In the county jail.
q ar y, ople are actively vt work 10
obtain the Dallas Trunk railroad bnilt
10 Henderson.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1885-07-22
THE REBEL RIEL.
he Pleads Not Guilty-A Postpone
mont Granted.

WINNIPEG, MAN, July u In the
Riel trial, prisoner being asked to
plead, said after some hesitation: ~
have the honor to answer that / am
not guilty.
Being asked II they were ready for
trial the counsel asked for an ad-
iournment in order to prepare afli-
davits, stating the importance OF
having certain WITNESSES for
the d,fense. They wanted Gabriel
Dumont and Dnmas flom Montana,
and 1t won Il take nearly two weeks
to bring them. An adjournment was
granted until tomorrow. The piis.
oner WAS very quiet and frequently
prompted his counsel on points occur
Ing to him. He will be closely guarded
every night in the barracks until the
close Of the trial.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1885-07-22
DENTON.
special to The Gazette.

Special TO the Gazette.
DENToN, TEX, July 2l.-.George
Beam, livery-stable keeper, and Burt
Ar,erbury, alias Frank Anderson,
were arrested here this evening
charged with cattle-stealipg Beam
gave bond nut Arteibury was Jailed
because unable 10 give bond.
Il. u. Gerren Of this place received
his commissiOn a. United States depu'
ty msrs lal 10 da7.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1885-07-22
DENIsoN.

Special 20 the Gazette.
DENIsoN, TEX July q Wits were
today served ON Tom Grace Libbe,
Tom Cutler and number Of bar-tend-
era or selling liquor TO minors.
Hegawood O. 90. sole out to-day To
Jesse Young.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1885-07-22
SULPHUR SPRINGS.

special TO the Gazette.
SULPHUR SPRINGS, TEX, July 2l.--
The summer normal school has been
in session ut this place since the sth
inst. u der the management OF MAJ. j
NJ. Richardson, an old veteran edu.
Gator. About fifty teachers are en-
rolled.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1885-07-22
MARSHALL.

Special 10 lne Gazette.
MARSHALL, Tx, July 2l-Mr
james A. Colt, one OF our Oldest and
mts. highly esteemed ciiis ans, DIED
yesterday afternoon. Mr. Colt had
lived In this city for nearly forty
wears He leaves wife. several chii-
dren and many friends TO mourn his
loss.
The case Of Jones w. johnson WAS
closed yesterday. The jury hung"
as al the others In the case heretofore
have done.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1885-07-22

The steamer in which Roscoe Fonk
ling sailed for Europe broke iis shsit
on the way over. We infer from this
that Mr. Conkling insisted upon max
ing the greatest effort OF his life over
the weather rail.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-08-19
Mormon Island. August Il. 1856. !
Sacramento River Decadence

A correspondent of the San Francisco
Gail, seeking facts connected with the rapid
destruction of the Sacramento river and
San Francisco bay, interviewed the Captain
of one of the river steamers, and the result
of which is given in the Gail as follows
The Captain stated that on his last trip
from Sacramento his steamer was detained
two hours and a half on the bar when only
a little more tn mile from Sacramento.
The actual del-y was more than five hours,
as he was Obliged to wait until barge
could be relieved. This took place where
the river was about 1000 feet wide. In all
this width there is a channel of only so or
80 feet i'll width and that channel has
depth of but 3 feet and 10 inches The
banks from either side of the river stretch
out i'll an almost unbroken plain of hard
sand. This sand is not the fine sand made
from pulverized rock, but is of the black
variety which accompanies gold when run
off in rockers. The mere slickens of thei
mine could, in comparison, be easily han
died, but this black sand is nearly as heavy
as gold, and remains firmly bedded, except
when the current is very rapid. Heavy as
it is, however, in a recent visit to North
Beach he found the same material there,
showing that it already has located itself
at the bottom, as well as along the sides, of
the bay.
The proportion in which it has been dis
tributed is best shown by an examination
of the whole river from Marysvile down.
Between Sacramento and that place the
river is nearly all filled up From that
point it shelves gradually until it washes
by degrees into the Bay of San Pablo, and
from thence into our own. At Wilcox's
Crossing the depth is only four feet. The
bar at Sacramento where the water is shall
lowest is one-half mile in width The
merchants OF Sacramento on Saturday had
called together the Board of Trade to take
decisive action in the matter The Captain
in conclusion said that if no decisive steps
were taken the navigation of the river must
within five years entirely cease.
The Captain of the T. {. Walker saws that
at Suisun, few years ago, any vessel could
dock, but that now there are not over ten
feet of water at the landing. Also that at
q point in the bay to the eastward and
southwark of Red Rock the Walker would
ground. In all the places where a lodge
lnent can be found for the debris its accu-
mutation is rapid. 1t is only where there
is great natural depth, and where the strong
currents created by the tides keep the way
open, that the adverse results are not no.
ticed in the bay But the time is surely
approaching, unless at once active interior
ence prevents, that those who now take a
pride in the superiority of the Bay of San
Francisco must become more than passive
agents in the great question OF the preser.
walton of our naYigable waters.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-08-19
BROUGHT TO A POINT.

a clever lady, now living in the Cove
was once caught in the wrong. hut extri-
Gated herself gracefully. She was trying
to milk her first cow, her husbands gift,
and in her ignorance had stationed herself
on the left. 1t was near the public road
A man riding by stopped at the novel sight
and blurted out Madam, you are on the
wrong side of that COW II was news TO
her but her ready wit came to her aid
" es. sir" was her pleasant reply, :" but
this isn't 4 common cow. She was raised
by leit-handed woman" - Walker
County (Ga.) Messenger.
The longest respite on record has been
granted by the Governor of Delaware in
the case Of Lewis f. List, who was SEN
fenced to death for murder committed in
Wilmington. The law prohibits the Gov
ernor from committing a death sentence
so he Overcame the legal prohibition by
respiting List until Friday May 20, 1910
over iifty-four years. He is now in his
twenty-fifth year.
The number of working holidays in
France, including Sundays, amounts to 100
whole days in each year In Greece they
have 100 days; in England there are 81 :
in Russia, &c in Brussels, G5; in the
United States il varies in different States :;
but few, if any, of the latter have more
IMAM seven or eiShl regal DoldaNS III the
year in addition to Sundays.
The internal heat of the earth is.being
investigated by the German Government.
A shaft sunk at Schladebach has penetra-
ted about 1866 feet under ground, believed
to be the greatest depth yet reached by
boring. At this point the eartll's tempera-
ture is 1909 Fahrenheit.
Paper baskets for farm and factory use
are now manufactured. The rims are pro-
tected by wooden hoop ON each side, both
nailed together, and the large baskets two
bushel size are strengthened by wooden
ribs and furnished with iron bottoms and
ribs
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-08-19
Is THE ENCAMPMENT A FAILURE

The hope was entertained that the gen
eral cncampment of the State troops at
Santa Cruz would be in every way sue
cess. But it cannot be unless the officers
and men enter upon its work cheerfully
and heartily. When there is disaffection
amounting almost to open insubordinaton,
there can be no success in volunteer
camp. The relations existing between
militia men in every day life are at best
antagonistic to disciplinary methods in
camp. As one of the camp correspondents
forcibly puts it: "The insuperable diff
Guilty everywhere apparent in volunteer
camp is to sink in few days the social
considerations of respect and disrespect
which years of acquaintance have engend-
cred Unless the reports that come from
the officers and men of the Fourth Brigade
are entirely untrue, the Major-General
commanding at Santa Cruz mistakes his
position, has lost his head in the magni-
tude of his rank and ignores utterly very
large portion Of his command An exalted
virtue in commander is his impartiality
and his jealous care of every unit that com
poses his whole trust. Certain it is that
the interior commands are greatly dis
couraged and disguised over neglect of
their requirements in the matters of com.
moneSt moment, at headquarters This is
unfortunate and must contribute to the de-
feat Of the ends of the law authorizing the
encampment. In fact it appears that the
San Francisco commands have absorbed the
entire attention of headquarters, and so far
as can be observed in the San Francisco
press camp correspondence there is deplor-
able ignorance of the presence or needs of
any other State troops than those that hail
from the metropolis. We trust that the re-
ports that come up from the camp are ex-
aggerated and that the Major-G General has
been miSjudged, for unless this is so, it is
safe to say that the encampment will
amount to but little more than hollow
effort to elevate the guard and improve the
esprit de corps If there is not respect for
the head of the Guard, the sooner the
camp ends the better. If there is not that
respect, 1t is altogether probable that the
fault is with the head
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-08-19
That Flag Pole.

Eds. RECORD UNION In your issue of
the 10th instant there appeared commu-
nication signed Eye Witness" purport-
ing to detail an occurrence at Mormon
Island on the Sth, in which it was stated
that the undersigned had attempted to cut
down flagstaff on which a flag was being
placed at half-mast in honor of General
Grant. Believing that you are willing to
give both sides fair hearing, respectfully
ask that you publish my version of the
story, which is as follows In the first
place, anyone conversant with the facts in
the case is aware that the whole matter
grew out of malice, Mr.. Stephenson
and myself having for some time past been
engaged in law suits-and this story is evil
IDENTITY calculated to prejudice the public
against me, both as man and as q loval
citizen. In regard to the latter, will only
state that | served in the Union army dur
ing the rebellion, and was honorably dis
charged. No one would be slower than me
to insult the flag or our lamented President
Mr.. Stephenson, while not taking the
trouble to hoist flag on his own premises,
made it his business TO walk across the
street to my property, and was engaged in
tying pole to a post when | objected to
his intrusion. Had | known that he in
tended TO hoist flag in honor Of General
Grant, certainly should not have inter
fered. | had no reason to think that his
remarkable proceeding in trespassing on
my property was inspired by patriotic mo-
tives. | had no reason to think so, for no
one here had ever suspected Mr. Stephen
son of being patriotic. AT President Gar
field death Mr.. Stephenson did not deem
1t worth while TO hoist a flag at half-mast.
and as | have before said, on this latter oc-
casion his patriotism did not begin at home,
but was made manifest only on prop
erty that did not belong to him. Even
then the flag that he hoisted, after carrying
his point, was sorry emblem of grief be-
ing tied up in Il bundle, like a barley-sack.
Hoping you will do me the justice Of pub
fishing this, am respectfully,
w. H. HAWK
Mormon Island, August II, 1885.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-08-19

about 100000 now in the river reclama-
ton fund is not drop in the bucket We
may as well face the fact now as when Con-
gress meets. There is needed at once
sum reaching up into the millions, to be ex-
pended in saving two great rivers and
three of the noblest bays in the world,
that very many good judges believe will
be past salvation after another flood season
or two. River and bays of the south and
west and the south Atlantic coast have
drawn many millions from the Govern
ment for the purpose of navigation inn
provement and preservation, where only
few thousands have been doled out for the
Sacramento and San joaquin, and weakly
distributed over a series of years for snag-
pulling and puttering" with bars.
California needs two or three millions of
dollars of appropriations, the best possible
engineering aid and determination on the
part of the Federal Government to reclaim
the rivers and save the bays Our Con-
greSsmen must go up in December so
charged with the Importance of this sub
iect, and the danger that threatens Cali
fornia, that their appeal will be needed
and Government aid extended Coupled
with it and as a condition precedent
which the Federal Government has the
power to put in the form of an imperative
order of iniunction-must come the edict
of the United States of America that those
who are contributing to the destruction of
the streams and bayD must not only re-
frain from such acts, but shall rot in the
future impair any works of the Govern
ment devised for river reclamation, or in
any way contribute to the undoing of re-
clamation work. There must be no works
erected by the Government to be used as
barriers behind which hydraulic mining
may continue to send down the cause of
offense
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-08-19

WHOEVER of mature years and moral
stamina has read the Pail Nal Gazette
exposes has not been injured there
by. We have no hesitancy in saw
ing that every mature man and
woman with sound moral convictions
will be bettered ny knowledge of the dis
closures made, because they will influence
every such man and woman to cast his and
her influence in the right scale and for the
betterment of the race. There is nothing in
all the published disclosures that can pos
sibly tend to corrupt the well-balanced
mind. They disgust, excite EXTREMIST pity.
arouse Indignation, appeal to native chiv-
airy, and if the reader has huctuatinc
opinion regarding the expenditure of SYM
pathy upon the class known as fallen
women, he will find it, as he reads, crystal
lizing into unhesitating form and filling
his soul with tender and merciful emotion.
AT the same time he will find that his per-
ceptions become clearer and his Judgment
more settled as to the weakness of the laws.
their uncharitableness towards women, and
their impotency to protect the weak against
the strong and innocence against the
cunning and unscrupulousness of the Vi
cious. And yet, when all this is said, we
would not in public journal removed
from the scenes of the awful crimes, pub
lish even synopsis of the full disclosures,
since they are not fit for general reading.
But that properly published they are
means for great good and the breakers of
ice for mighty reforms, we are firmly CON
WINGED.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-08-19
PACIFIC COAST ITEMS.
.wney is to have a fair

Downey is to have a fair.
Goats are very troublesome on the Ari-
iona cattle ranges.
San Bernardino merchants keep black
list OF non-paying customers.
A hail and rain-storm did much damage
at Globe, A. T., last Wednesday.
A large winery is to be put up by Z.
Nodeau at Florence. Los Angeles county.
The jury in the Nowlin case at Weaver
vile brought in verdict of manslaughter
A big strike of free-milling ore in the San
Predros mountains, about seventy miles
northeast of Tucson, isreported. The assays
are large, and the ledge crops out for a
mile and half.
The Marysville foundry had narrow es-
cape from destruction Saturday night. A
huge kettle of melted iron was overturned,
but an employee seized q shovel and covered
the flowing mass with moulding sand.