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Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1885-01-06
DALLAS.
A Grsy-Haired Stranger Dies Sud
denly After Long Illness with
Little or No Care.
The Merchants Exchange UnfavOrable to
the Eads Galveston Harbor I'm
provemspt Scheme.

Special to the Gazette.
DALLAS, Tex, Jan 5.--An officer of
the city was summoned to look after a
sick man at the old st. Charles hotel
this morning. The call was responded
to, and an old man giving the name of
Robinson was found, who stated that
he was affected with dropsy.
While speaking, he arose
from pallet and walked
up and down the room in state of
nervous agitation. The officer left to
secure a vehicle in which TO transfer
him to the city hospital. He returned
to find the man lying dead upon the
floor He had been confined to the
room for several weeks with but little
attention just who he is or where he
came from no one seems to know.
He was an old man, eyed perhaps
sixty years, with long gray hair and
whiskers. The city will bury him.
The members of the Merchants ex-
determine whether the exchange
was i'm favor of the govern
mental donation Of S. 800 for
the Improvement of the Galveston
harbor under the Eads system. The
discussion was prolonged and action
was postponed until tomorrow after
noon The sentiment OF the meeting
was strongly opposed to tn donation.
In fact Galveston boosted of only one
champion among the speakers.
! A serious washout occasioned by the
recent rains is reported ON the Texas
d Pacific road near Eagle ford to-day.
Mountain creek is said to be out Of its
banks.
Sheriff Smith was summoned to
TexarkaRa yesterday by the city mar
| shall OF that town, who stated that he
had captured horse-thief from Dial as.
The sheriff responded aud landed in
TeSaIkana last night. He inter
viewed the thief on his arrival, who
stated that he purchased the horse in
Cooke county from man by the
name of Miller. j. j. Taylor,
the marshal of TeXaTkana
and James Reynolds, his deputy, then
msde an engagement with Sheriff
Smith to meet him at $3.50 o'clock thi:
morning, when the criminal would bC
delivered o him. He waited, but was
told by the local officers at that hour
that the prisoner had escaped and they
had fired number OF shots after
him "a he fled. Mr.. Smith Is OF the
opinion that the marshal and his
deputy were bought, and he returned
thoroughly disgusted. Tue ANNA
was branded T o on one of his shout
ders, and was sold to farmer living
near peXarkRna for $40.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1885-01-06
BUSINESS NOTES.
COMING no LIFE AGAIN.

PITTsBURa, PA, Jan. 5.-The iron
trade is beginning to show signs of re-
viving.
Shoenberger's old mill and nail fac
tory started up to-day after suspension
Of several weeks.
The finishing and pudding depart
ments of Tug & Co. have also resumed,
and the bar mill will start up immedi-
ately.
AT the Keystone Bridge company's
works there was resumption of all
the departments al slight reduction
of wages of all the employees except
those governed by the amalgamated
scale.
By these assumptions about fifteen
hundred men were given employ
ment.
The Westinghouse machine works,
the Pittsburg locomotive works and
Oliver Bros. 81 Phillips side mill are
again in operation after an idleness OF
several weeks.
Other mills will resume in a few
days.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1885-01-06
The Duello in Panama.

PANAMA, Jan 5.-During a political
dispute in the town hall Saturday
warm words passed between Col.
Fegueroa and Senior Francisco ossa on
the question of the presidential cleo
ton. Both withdrew to the cathedral
plaza, drew revolvers and began firing.
Eight shots We're exch inged, result
Ing in the death of Fegueroa. Two
bystanders were shot and one killed.
A guard of soldiers quelled the dis.
turbance and dispersed the crowd.
Politics throughout the republic OF
Colombia are in disturbed condition.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1885-01-06
A Captain Misslng.

GALVESTON, TEN, Jan. 5-The po.
lice we:e informed to-day that
Jacob Smith, the captain and half
owner OF the schooner Daybreak, has
been missing in this city since last
Wednesday. Grave fears are enter
tanned for his safety. There is reason
70 suspect that he has been foully dealt
with. When Capt. Smith left the
vessel last Wednesday he had several
hundred dollareof freight money ON
his person An active search is being
instituted for the missing Anan.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1885-01-06
An EIeelIon at Mineral wells.

Special 70 the Gazette.
MINERAL WELLS, TEX, Jan. o.
An election was held here today To
decide whether or not to dissolve the
cooperation, the vote resulting in a
triumph for the antl-corporationists,
there being considerably more than a
twO-thirds majority for the suspension
Of the corporation We have law
abiding set of citizens, and II Is the
general opinion that the city will
move along harmoniously. The re-
sponsible men of the place have
promised TO look after the sanitary con.
dition of the city.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1885-01-06
EuOrmous Loss by Fire.

New YORK, Jan. .. The Daily
Commercial Bulletin OF January 6 esti,
mates the hre loss inthe United States
and Canada for December at SlI ,OOO,'
900. and for the year at Sll2,O 900 OOO
This Is $40 0O0, 500 more than the aver.
age annual loss for the nine years pre-.
ce0ing.
In December there were 2aO tires
where the reported loss was $40 600 aud
upwards. Otthese twenty-five fires
were Of SEQ 600 OF more, aggregatinQ
50 10000 or nearly 30 per cent. of the
entire fire loss for the month.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1885-01-06

settle with his principals, hence the
suit for embezzlement. Forster APP
peared before the recorders court to-
day and gave bond for his appearance.
The grand jury meets tomorrow and
1t is understood that Forster's case
will be considered at once, Forster
has been financially embarrassed for
some time past, He stood well In this
community, and the present proceed
ings against him are a surprise to his
mnnV frlenda.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1885-01-06
Tne Snprams Conrt Cnnranes.

GALVESTON, TEX, Jan. 5.--The SUI
preme court convened in this city to-
day, but owing to the late arrival of
some of the judges of the court no
business was transacted. The court
on assembling adjourned until to-
morrow.
A number Of prominent attorneys
from various porttonl Of the state are
in attendance ON the higher courts
now holding in this city.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1885-01-06
RrookIrn Rrldre non,L nar

NEW YORK, Jan. 5.--Mayor Low, In
his annual message, has Informed the
board OF aldermen OF Brooklyn that
the bridge don't FAY. He says 1t must
earn sos 900 a year In order to provide
the sinking fund required by law Tor
the bonds issued By the two cities FOR
US CONTRADICTION.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1885-01-06
Funeral Of The Mother Of Louise Michel

PARIS, JRu. 5.-The burial of the
mother Of Louise Michel, the famous
Socialist, to-day, was attended by three
thousand persons. Henri Rochefort.
editor Of L'IntrsnsIgesut, was con.
spicuous among those present.
An attempt to make the occasion a
revolutionary demonstration proved a
semi-fAilure. the services were COM
pleted and the people dispersed with
ont disorder,
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1885-01-06
RAILWAY NOTES.
a BIa HAUL FOR THE MEXICAN GOV
ERNMENT.

= N3NNE II NJ = ITNN n n ENaNlN NV
kRNMENT.
NEW YORK, Jan. 5.-Judge Barrett,
in the supreme court to-day, rendered
a decision in the action brought by the
republic OF Mexico against the Amer
lean & Mexican Railroad and Tele-
graph company and Geo. G.. Taylor,
jeremiah Grunney and Charles w.
Baker. In 1875 the defendants OBJ
tanned permission from the Mexican
congress to build railroad and tele.
grakn lines across the states of Chihua-
hua and Sonora, and filed bond for
$500, 600 that the work would be begun
within year, which was not done,
The result gives the republic the full
amount OF the bond with interest.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1885-01-06
A CatlIemAn CHARGED VIM EuDtaalo,

GALVESTON, Ten, jan. 5 johnson
Forster, an old citizen Of Galveston,
for many years prominent cRttleman
and livestock dealer, was arrested
Saturday evening on the charge OF
embezzlement Of $60S. Ii seems that
Forster sold carload OF
hogs consigned to him by Weaver &
Chnmley OF Hico, Tex, and failed to
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1885-01-06
A Landslide on the TEXAS 4 PacIrrc.

A LANDSLIDE ON the Texas \ Pacific.
special TO the Gazette.
WRArHERFoRD, TEX, Jan. DO
day was estray sale day. Although
the roads were almost impossible, the
sale brought about one hundred and
tif cen dollars.
The rain commenced falling Satur-
day night about 10 o'clock and con-
unued all day yesterday, but this
evening It looks as IL we might have
some fair weather, the first for two or
three weeks
Owing 10 the terrible condition OF
the roads, neither the Graham nor
Jacksboro stages left here this morn.
ing.
The east-bound train which was due
here this morning at 4:50 has not yet
arrived, owing to land slide at Red
Bluff which threw some very large
rocks on the track.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1885-01-06
In Tnn HANns or rHE sHERIrr.

PITTsBURG, PA Jan. 5.-Execu.
tions aggregating over sll 900 were is
sued this morning to the sheriff against
Morris II. Danseiger, dealer in fancy
goods and notions, and the establish
ment Is now in the hands of an officer.
Danseiger's assets are estimated
at $4,000 and the liabilities at about
S35, 900.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1885-01-06
uATTERs AssIGN.

CLEVELAND, ONO, Jan. 5,--Butts
& Smith. wholesale dealers in hats,
caps and furs, made an assignment to-
day. The firm Is one OF the Oldest In
this city engaged In this trade. No
statement Of assets and liabilities Ia
made, but Il Is said that the firm can
nay dollar for dollar, and il Ia believed
that the suspension will be only tenn
pOrary.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1885-01-06
ArpoINrED rRANsFRR MANAaER

ST. LOUIS, Mo, Jan 5,--Informa-
ton has reached here from New York
that w. II Robinson, recently Of the
West Shore railroad, has been APP
pointed traffic manager OF theSt. Louis
Narrow-gauge.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1885-01-06
Italr,a Grnh.

ROME, Jan. "a high military ofli-
Ger declares that the italian govern
ment has decided to occupy Tnpoll aud
that the necessary troops are already
DESIGNATED.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1885-01-06
Tennessee Law.Makers.

NASHVILLE, TENN, Jan. 5.-The
legislature met to-day. Both houses
elected temporary speaker and ad-
journed till tomorrow.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1885-01-06
Cattle Disease.

CoNCEpCIoN, CHILL, Jan. 5.--An
alarming pestilential disease has APP
peared among the cattle.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1885-01-06
Fast Time. Firsf-class \
Sure OHnecto1'

sure oHns0''''
Boo that your ticket reaas
Pncinc railway. For hAl.,i
Tickets, Rates and all requh ff| "a \
call on or address any 81 i nso VI.
Passenger Agsn., isoI
II. w. Attt'III'
Pass. a Ticket Az g,.aiI
Gen. Tranie Manager CAY
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1885-11-14
MISCELLANEOUS.

Nearly every village church in Rus
STA has Il bottle of water from the Jor-
dan.
"A Missouri girl who didn't get a
five dollar album voted TO the hand
soonest girl went at it and scratched
the face of the girl who Id and she
may never be pretty again. --DctrOH
Free Press.
1t is said that Cinnamon will steal
and eat poodles. Before any decided
steps are taken towards firing out the
heather let us tempt them to turn their
attenE on to cats for a brief period
Toledo Blade.
Mr.. T. c. Mendenhall, formerly
professor of physics in the Imperial
University ut Toxic, Japan says that
one never gets used to earthquakes.
The more experience a man has the
more he breads the phenomenon.
The late Walter Weldon was one
of the five men. and the only man out
side of France, deemed by the French
Society d Encouragement worthy to re-
ceiye its grand medal" 1t was he
who invented the process by which
bleaching powder is made, thus, as the
chemist Dumas sad, cheapening every
sheet of paper and every yard OF calico
in the world.
The evidence of the value of oil to
lessen the dangerous effect of heavy
seas is reported by the United States
photographic Office as continuing to be
''of the most satisfactory nature" and
with its latest Pilots Chart it 9 YES in
structions for its use, and invites sug-
gest'Ons from mar nerS as to Their prac-
tea experience in oiling the waves.
The safety of navigation may be much
increased by their hearty compliance.
-Cbjcago Jo2971ai.
Our frail humanity is so dependent
UnOn our surroundings so need
each other help, that we can not af-
ford to be other than good neighbors.
For however Independent Of our fellows
we may IMAGINE ourselves to be. there
is sure to come time when we crave
human cOmpanionsbjp and aid, and then
it will be well for us to have sought
"thc good folks" who really and truly
live "everywhere, if you only find
them. III Annctic Poole, IN GOOD
Housekeeping.
In 4 recent lecture Prof. Virchow,
Of Berlin, stated that the Semitic race
more readily adapt5 itself to change
OF climate than the Aryan, and that
the South Europeans owe their advant-
ages in this respect to the admiXture Of
Semitic blood, through contact with
the PhTnicians and Arabs. The want
OF adaptability shows itself especially
in diminished fertility. Creoles die ont
after the third generation, or become
absorbed with the natives
In his "Historical Sketches of the
town of Swampscott,' Mr.. Waldo
Thompson states that about 1885 Mr..
John NJ. Ives, Of Salem, received two
or three marrow squash seeds from q
negrcss whose husband was a cook upon
one of the merchant ships, Captain
Lord from Valparaiso He also OBJ
tanned the tomato seed in the same
manner as ''love apple" and after
growing them year or two back of his
store he was told by a sea captain that
they were eatable, and from that time
they were used as food.-BoStoH Tran
script.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1885-11-14
HOW 1T is DONE.


Working Up to the Point of Ahectionate
Intimacy.
Did you ever listen to a young couple
working up to that point Of atfectionate
intimacy at which they call one another
by their Christian names?
1T has been lovely party, hasn't it,
Miss Jackson?"
Lovely, Mr.. Wilkins"
81 have known you long time, Miss
Jackson"
''And I have known you quite awhile"
1--WE often heard my sister speak of
you"
And my brother is always talking
about you"
'Is he? I hear so much about YOU
that | feel quite at home with YOU.
"Its lovely night, isn't it, Mr..
Wilkins?"
beautiful. [ think Edith's such a
pretty name
DO you? l don't like it"
edith"
"What did you say"
go, nothing; l was merely repeating
the name
Il don't like all mems names. I like
some. | like Phillip and Ferdinand,
and
what do you think of George?"
That's your name George"
81 beg your pardon
80, nothing; l was only repeating
the name"
What lovely night it is, isn't it,
Miss Edith''
80, there! George wilkins, what did
you let me slip on that cobble for?"
Pom my word, l didn't do it, Miss
Edith"
wei, we are home, or I am, Mr..
George"
81 am very sorry"
80 am |. I'm so much obliged for
your escort; I've had such a lovely
time
"And so have l."
Good night, Mr.. wilkins"
Good night, Miss Jackson"
Good night"
Good night"
Good night-Edith. -
Good night-George. San Fran
cisco Chronicle.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1885-11-14
DUTCH STOVES.

Tho Primitive Concern, Used by Holland
crs for Heating aud Cooking.
The real Holland stove cons SITS of
cast iron pot with a hole in the bottom
in which sits loose CRATE and 50 loose
is it that woe be unto the fire maker
that pokes too strongly. Even a good
draft is apt to upset the whole business
into the ash pan. The fire pots set in
box of sheet iron with a hole
in the side to admit the pipe
to the pot and one in the
front for draft. They are not provided
with any thing like Gamper. The
more expensive kind are made fine with
much open work of cast iron; others
have top of marble, white gray or
black, while the most expensive are en-
cased in tiles of old Delt. 1t is unnec-
essary to say these stoves. "kachels,"
they are called, give very little heat, so
little in fact that people of all classes
use q sort of heater similar, think,
to the kind that our grand
mothers used to carry to church with
them, consisting of a wooden box or
foot-stool lined with zinc or brass, the
top well perforated; inside is an earthen
pot filled with turf or charcoal, which
has been first burned OFF, in the kitsh-
en- fire. Ladies making calls here in the
winter are at once supplied with such a
"stOVe."
The kitchen stove is on the same plan
as the others, only tn sheet-iron box is
larger to give more space on top, which
/. o.. ..;.. IL /
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1885-11-14
GAVE 1T UP.
Why a Bookseller VIII Hereafter Kaan
No Illustrated School-Books.

Why Bookseller viii Hereafter Kaan
No Illustrated School-Books.
A wan school teacher entered a book
store near Greenville, Miss, few DAVIS
since, dragging after her a small fat
boy, who held in one little paw mutt
lated "first reader, and with the other
wiped his weeping eyes and pug nose.
Have you any first readers except
these?" asked the school teacher
"Any except these?" repeated the
book man. "Why, ma'am, these are
the nice little books l sold you the other
day, surely you haven't any objection
to them"
They have pictures in them and the
boys can't learn anything from Them"
said the fearful teacher.
Not learn because of the pictures;
impossible, Why, ma am the pictures
are put there for the purpose of helping
the scholars to Learn. Allow me to rive
you a lesson in the art. - Then turning
to the boy: Come, sit in this chair,
my man, and let me see if you are not
a wise fellow; take your book and begin
here on this page, now look at the
picture, then spell the word"
The boy, having cleared away sufli-
cient tears and dirt to enable him to
see, sat upon chair with his stumped-
toed boots two feet from the floor, and
taking the book began:
Dog, dog"
u - ii fbo hDo1r Co1Io,., .t,,o,, -,
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1885-11-14
WAITING.

With waiting and wishing our courses we
We wait for the port as we battle the wave !;
TITS waiting forever from cradle to grave.
Waiting for morn, 50 serene in its light;
Waiting for noon day, so brilliantly bright;
Waiting at eve Tor repose in the night;
Waiting for zephyrs in Spring time that
Waiting for Summer and flowers that grow;
Waiting for Winter and swift-falling snow.
Waiting is ever the bosom's refrain,
In moments of pleasure and moments Of
pain;
Waiting, though stricken again and again.
Waiting in childhood for youths joyous
time;
"Tm WAITING" says youth, ''but I'll certain
ly climb
The top Of the ladder on reaching my
prime"
In manhood awaiting the time when he
Find rest on a calmer. a happier day,
When age shall relieve from the worrying
fray
Waiting when Fortune sheds brightly her
smile;
When choice are the pleasures the pathway
beguile,
There always is something to wait for the
while.
Waiting in poverty anguish and grief;
Waiting for Heaven to send us relief,
Telling the heart that the trial is brief.
Aye, waiting for joys that will never APP
pear;
Waiting for voices we never shall hear;
Waiting for moments that never are near.
Waiting when SHINING and worn in the strife,
With peHitent throDbings the bosom is rife,
Waiting the dawn of a holer life.
Waiting at last for the spirits release;
Waiting a rest in the Dwelling of Peace,
Where waiting and longing forever will
cease.
Exchange.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1885-11-14
A MICA MINE.


ton, New Hamphshire.
The chief attention at Groton, aside
from its mountain scenery, is the mica
nine, opened something more than
year ago and now operated by large
force of men. The ledge is really
large hillof solid rock, composed in the
regular order, after the covering OF
schist is remOyed-quartz, mica, field
spar and quartz, mica, feldspar again
and again, down through the hill to an
uncertain depth. The work of blasting
has been carried forward here until an
open drift has been cut three hundred
feet long, at least forty feet wide and
not much less than fifty feet deep.
Branching of from this cut is tunnel
now about seventy feet long and twenty
high, drilled horizontally into the ledge.
Small iron tramways lead to the
dump and little cars, pushed by
hand, carry the refuse rock out of the
way. The mica crystals, of all sizes,
from an inch across to more than two
feet in their larger axis protrude from
sides and from above and below, with
their planes at every conceivable incli-
nation, waiting for some well-placed
charge of giant powder to free them
from the mass of worthless rock in
which they are imbedded. These
crystals vary from the size of ones
hand to blocks two feet in length
and from six inches to foot in
thickness, and are rapidly split into
oh htv n Of onntAI lOtrr
stools. The thin sheets are carried
from this group to long line of men
standing at benches, who cut them to
the largest possible patterns with tin
mans shears. The market value of
mica depends on the size of the sheets,
and it is here that one first understands
the real character of the work that is
going on around him. for these sheets of
mica. seven or eight by nine or ten inch
es, bring in the market no less than fifteen
dollars pound. The smaller portions
vary in value from five dollars a pound
up Beryls abound, and some valuable
specimens have been quarried here. In
the roof of the covered drift was one, q
perfect heXameter, two feet of which
had been laid bare, while each end was
still imbedded in the rock. 1t would
be a magnificent specimen if it could be
cut out whole, but the mining company
is not seeking beryls, and some day,
probably, blast that has been arranged
with reference to a mica crystal will
throw the beautiful specimen shattered
to the floor of the tunnel. Mica
mining is not new thing in Groton.
A few years ago the Hartford mine
yielded large product, and doubtless
would to-day, but there was no con-
venient place for dsposing of the enor-
nous bulk of refuse rock, and the eX-
pense thus incurred drew heavily from
the profits. At this time shaft more
than one hundred feet deep is now
abandoned and filled with water.
Other mines have been opened at va
rious times in the past eight years, but
none of them have been found as
profitable rs the one described. - Boston
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