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Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-12-26

Angostura Bitters are Endorsed by all
the leading physicians and chemists for
their purify and wholesomeness. Beware
Of counterieiis aud ask your grocer aud
druggist for the genuine article, prepared
by DR.. j. g. Is. Slegert & Sons.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-12-26
FATAL AFFRAY AT A DANCE.
one Man Killed aud Another ssrioual,
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Ono Man killtd aud hn0thtr hsrlOnaly
wounded.
Special TO the Gazette.
CAMERON, Tex, Dec, 25.- A difficulty
occurred last night with fatal results.
Dunng dance at Tho residence OF Bill
H0lten At Buckholts, John Barnett ana
Sam Parker got into an alteration, which
resulted IN Barnett shooting Parker
twice and some party or parties killing
Barnett. Parker is ynry gerlously, II not
fatally wounded. fhe ofIlcers are active
ly engaged inyestig tbs uffir
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-12-26

Why will you suasr with those terrible
bilious headaches, when Morris Csscs-
rine never falls 10 drive them away
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-12-26
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Worth to Waco.

4. Saunestlons At Fort Worth for 81. Louis,
"A all points North, East and West.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-12-26

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Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-12-26

The vendetta broke out several years
ago. In the vicinity of Fayetteville is a
section OF country known as tn, West
Fork of White river which has long been
t1e abode of desperate characters. These
men for years terrorized the entire
county. at length some Of the law.abid.
irg citzrns resisted them, and Ia the
fght which foil wed two or three outlaws
and one or two citizens were slain
Thencetorth life after life was sacrificed,
each year adding victims TO the bloody
roster. At this time eight or ten persons
have been killed and the feud is by no
means allayed.
The former leaders OF the desperadoes
were brothers named John aud George
Reed THY were daring and merclless.
John Reed declared that no living man
could arrest him One night, four years
ago, he was In / yettevile, threaten ng
10 kill somebody when Town Marshal w .
d. Patton "got the drop on him." as the
saying goes, and hurried him to jail be.
fore his friends could interfere. Ia the
corridor Of the prison, Reed made an
fl )rt TO escape. He Knocked down the
guards, but was confronted by Patton.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-12-26

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hints in the United States.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-12-26

In May, 1882 Reeds friends struck a
retaliatory blow AT midnight, during
that month, four horsemen rode quietly
into Fayetteville. Marshal Patton and
Deputy Sheriff Mounts were standing on
the sidewalk conversing. Few persons
were stirring The streets were de-
serted. The noise made by the
horses hoofs on the stony streets
rang out loud and clear. The
norsemen drew rein in the shadow
OF some tall buildings, At given sig
nal four pistol shots broke the stiffness,
aud Patton and Mounts reelrd and fell
on the ground, pierced with bullets.
They lived only short time. The sssss-
sins dls0pp AIRED, while the crowd gath
cred about the dying men. A large re.
ward was offered for the
arrest OF the murderers, but
only last week was any Of them taken
Perry is believed to have instigated the
double murder. He appears TO have
succeeded TO the leadership Of the band
after the killing Of George Reed. His
conviction will ,ffectually dispense the
outlaws. The people Of Washington
county ere, in the main, law-ahiding and
intelligent. They depr, cate the troubles
caused by these drsperadoes, and hope
that the end is near.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-12-26
A DUEL IN THE DARK.


A terrible fight followed. The lights
were overturned but the struggle went
on in the darkness, bullets flying in every
direction Soon there was loud cry
and heavy fall. A guard approaching
at the moment with lamp, Reed was
discovered dead on the 4 ,or, with bullet
through his head. The killing was con-
sidered justifiable, and no arrests were
made Reeds friends swore to avenge
his death, but before they could do 30
another tragic event added fuel to their
rage. On the night OF April 10, 1882,
gorge Reed was in Fayetteville Like
his brother, John, he was an
ugly customer at all times, partic-
ularly 80 when drinking, liquor bringing
TO the surface all his 6end-ike qualities.
Marshal Patton attempted to arrest him.
He resisted and the marshal shot him,
INJECTING wound from which be dlrd
shortly. Patto1 surrendered, was ad-
United to bail aud his trial set for the
next term OF the circuit court He was
advised to leave the country but, though
knowing he carried his life ia his hand,
refused
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-12-26

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Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-12-26

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Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-12-26

Under this cspiign the ban Angelo
STANDARD u 6 recent date INDUCES 10 4
little sophistry 10 show that Tom Green
enuuty SHOULD not beirut up into ne@
counties, and bases 10 balderdash upon
the fect that 4 section of land In Midland
county l. nov taxed al el7 50, wnercat,
usder the guardianship Of Tom Green y
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-12-26

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The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1886-01-15
What a Young Couple Did.

A charming family hotel was bull,
in a suburb of Boston two years since
1t was finished with all modern con
veniences and Inconvenience. There
were electric bells in a row at the door,
SO that the afternoon caller could ring
up nine different and peaceful maid
servants before getting into commune
cation with the family she came to see.
There were fire-escapes and telephones
and elevators and speaking-tubes and,
for aught l know. submarine cables.
But the browning joy of all was the fact
that no children were allowed within its
walls. 1t was built for the accommoda-
ton of childless couples, and to ten
childless couples were the suites let. How
great was the calm of that sheltered re-
treat until one ill-starred morning when
the 1v of an infant shrilly and piteous.
ly bro lie stiffness. Horror and in.
dignation on the part of the nine guilt
less couples; so weak is humanity, that
before the end of the second year there
were children in seven of the ten fami-
lies. The childless young couples were
childless no more, and when the owner
of the building complained to his friends
of the unfair treatment he had received
at the hands of his tenants they all
laughed in his face and advised him to
let apartments TO bachelors. BOSTON
Cor. Providence Journal.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1886-01-15
Daudet at Work.

A Paris correspondent writes: j went
TO sec Alphonse Daudct the other day
and found him delightful installed in
Il handsome apartment in the Rue de
Bellechase. where he seemed definitely
to have settled, and where, surrounded
by his intimate friends. and happy in
the society of his wife and his bright
son who is a medical student. he would
hardly respond TO the popular American
or English ideal of a book like '.Sapho.
NJ. Daudet went pleasantly into the his
tory of his negotiations with American
publishers for the publication of ''Sa-
pho" and is evidently still Il little per-
picked rs to reasons which the publish
ers have for calling the work objection
able. 'Of course" he said. Il gather
that the kind of life described in 'Sapho'
was not familiar to Americans, and that
they were in some mysterious manner
horror-stricken with it. Whatthe Ameri-
can publisher wants is n book which
may be put into the hands of every one.
always write them nor do l pretend TO
do so. M. Daudet said that he should
hardly finish another novel before the
close of the coming year, and that he
undertook to complete a book in
any given time, so much depending up
on his condition of health. upon his
moods, and upon his studies. At present
his existence is of the most regular char
acter. He goes in the early forenoon to
a bath-house, where he remains an hour,
and goes back iesh after a walk to
breakfast: then the middle of the day is
passed in receiving visitors and in PLAN
ming work. In the afternoon he looks
in at the theater where ''Sapho" is in
preparation, and it is hard to see how
be can find time for careful composition.
NJ. Daudet said he was sincerely desi.
rous of creating an American public for
himself, and of course he thoroughly re-
spects the differences of opinion con-
corning literary methods which prevails
in the United States and England.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1886-01-15
New Diseases.

1t is almost impossible. the London
Standard asserts, for any new occupa-
ton to spring into existence without de-
vcloping some new malady. Scores of
such eases could be adduced. But per-
haps the most curious was one which
for a time puzzled the Washington
physicians. Some years ago it was MOTTO
ed that almost every M of the women
employed in counting bank-notes in the
treasury began after a few weeks of the
work to look i'll, and then to have sores
upon their hands and heads. This ex-
traordinary indisposition increased to
such an extent that many of the clerks
had to abandon their labors, after
periods varying from a few months to
several years. Some of these cases We're
worse than others; but there seemed no
more possibility Of escaping the treasury
malady than of leaving Bagdad without
the curious ''button" which marks for
ever the resident in the city of Haroumal
Raschid. AT last, however, the mystery
came out. The note-counters. We're one
and all suffering from blood-poisoning,
caused by their having uncOnsciously
absorbed the arsenic used in cOloring
the ~''greenbacks. Their moist fingers
were applied to their forehead, or to rub
the eye, and in this way the arsenic got
entrance to il system, and duly worked
the mischief mentioned. The hurry and
scur1y of civilization are rapidly bring
ing new diseases in their train. Soften
ing of the brain was very little known
before the age of competitive examina-
tons and high-pressure business. Stock
brokers are now so liable to it that DIR.
Wynter proposed to call it the Capel-
court disease. The first beginning OF
this terrible malady very often came up
on a man i'm the heyday of his prosper
ity. It's approach is so insidious that
he may be walking about and transact
ing his business. while all the time the
fatal disease is slowly working its way.
Then, suddenly. he is missed. As in the
vision of Mirza." a parsonage is every
now and again noticed to have vanished
from the cbb and flow of city life, and
none but the family physician and the
bereaved relatives know that he has
dropped through the pit-fall on the
bridge. and will never more mix i'm the
busy haunts of men,. The .tennis ell
bow happily. is not quite so serious.
1t is only temporary, and it is affirmed
that one attack acts as a prOphylactic
against a return of the disease. But it is
none the less a new malady, caused like
the hOusemaid's knee. OF the chimney
sweeps ancer or the clergyman's sore
throat. or the bent shoulders of the stu
dent or of the pitman, by circumstances
to which nature is a stranger.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1886-01-15
A Fair Specimen of His Glass

A journalist in Australia has received
a shock. He has been in the habit OF
getting his clothes made by a tailor in
the old country and forwarded to him,
and the last box reached him NIL but
empty. There were three tweed suits in
il when it left England, but when he
opened it he only found n waistcoat.
Why the thieves should have left the
waistcoat will ever remain Il mystery.
The well-nigh broken-hearted editor in
stituted inquiries. and by and by the
thieves were caught. So far well; but
there was another editor in the land,
and though the little affair had been
kept quiet it reached his ears. While
the N editor was rejoicing oven the
recovery of his garments. the other
editor called attention to Il singular cir.
cumstance. 1t was that his rival had
written most c~loquently about the IN
enlargement of native industry, WINE
oil the time he was getting his clothes
made in England. There has been
quite a little stir over this aiiair.-S
James Gazette.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1886-01-15
Collecting Poll Taxes i'm Maine.

High up in an apple tree the other
day was a delinquent Auburn poll tax
payer when Collector league called on
him. The collector had been after him
once or twice, and on the day in ques-
ton he had driven q mile or two and at
last stood under the tree while the man
picked apples. ''Will you pay that
tax?" he asked. Never" was the re-
ply. You won't. ehp" went on the
conversation. Never was again the
reply. Then l arrest you,' Said the
tax collector. In less than a jiffy the
man was out of the tree. He quietly,
with a good deal of grumbling, was in
duced to enter the wagon. His mother,
like the Roman matrOn of old, adjured
him rather to rot in the jail than pay
his poll tax. Coming down the man
was stout in resistance. When the col
lector sat down to make out the papers
to commit him 10 Jail he wilted. He
paid tax and interest, 75 cents to the
collector for the trouble of the arrest,
and then walked home. losing his days
work. The collector reckOns that he
has driven twenty-five Or thirty miles
after that poll tax.-LeWiston (Me.)
Journal.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1886-01-15
Frequent Freshets.

Congressman from the west, twenty
years or more ago. though possessing a
large share of .'hOSs sense" were decid-
edly deficient in ''book larnin." Among
the most noted of this class was John
Reynolds, who is im~mortaliZed i'm the
following sketch of two freshets in one
day:
The governor having been selected
by his district to represent it at the fed
eral capital. on arrival there became an
object Of great curiosity, and the center
of many a laughing crowd. During
the recess of congress for the holidays
he accepted an invitation to spend a
week i'm Baltimore with some new
friends.
On arriving there. he determined to
see all the sights of the monumental
city alone, and appeared to enjoy moth
ing better than loafing, generally, in
all parts of the city. The ships and
steamboats, and oyster boats all attract
ed attention, but especially the river.
Now, il must be stated ut this stage of
my story that the governor was from
tina banks of the Mississippi. whose
mighty waters at times resemble an in
WV oNt, VI al ihtIioNs lOhSs SH0iiOW
pond, according to the volume of water
created by the rain which has fallen
upon the country it drains.
Well, it was noticed by his friends
that the governor for several days made
morning, noon, and evening trips to the
wharf and returned with a puzzled, alb
stracted air. On being asked the rea-
son for this manner, he would reply,
shaking his head: Mighty strange
river. this-quarc country"
He was very much afraid of being
guiZzed or sold. and hence fought shy.
On n occasion, however, being thrown
off his guard. while in an exhilarated
condition, on being asked the reason
for his opinion of the country and the
river, he told the story of his puzzled
condition thus:
Gentlemen, you see, | 90 down to
your river in the mornen and find it up
to the banks, in the afternoon it is very
low. and in the evening boomer full.
This is the quarest country and quarest
river ] over seed. You have two. fresh
cts in IN day, and nary Il drop of
rain" The theory of the tides was
soon explained TO the governor.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1886-01-15

Among the passengers on the st. Louis
express on the Erie Railway, between
Port Jcrvis and Jersey City. yesterday
morning, was II very much over-dressed
woman, accompanied by a bright-loOk-
ing Irish nurse girl, who had charge of
q self-willed, tyrannical 2-year-old boy,
of whom the Over-dresscd woman was
plainly the mother. The mother occu-
pied a seat by herself. The nurse and
child were in a seat Immediately in
front of her. The child gave such fire.
quent exhibitions of temper and kept
the car filled with such vicious yells
and shrieks that there was a general
feeling Of savage indignation among the
passengers. Although he time and
again spat in his nurses face, scratched
her hands until the blood came and tore
at her hair and bonnet, she bore with
him patiently. The indignation of the
passengers was made greater because
the child's mother made no effort to cor
rect Or quiet him, but, on the contrary,
sharply chided the nurse whenever she
manifested any firmness. Whatever the
boy yelped for, the mothers cry was,
uniformly:
Leu MIN nave III, Mary.
BY the time the train passed LINERS
the feelings of the passengers had been
wrought up to the boiling point. The
remark was made audibly here and
there that at would be worth paying
for to have the Young one chucked out
of the window" The hopeful mother
was not moved by the very evident an
noyance the passengers felt, and at last
fixed herself down in her seat for a COM
Portable nap. The child had just
slapped the nurse in the face for the
hundreth time, and was preparing for
IA fresh attack. when IA wasp came from
somewhere in the car and flew against
the window of the nurses sea-. The
boy at once made u dive for the wasp as
it struggled upward on the glass. The
nurse caught his hand. and said to him
cOaxingly:
Harry mustn't touch! Bug will bite
Harry
Harry gave Il savage yell and began
to kick and slap the nurse. The mother
awOke from her nap. She heard her
sons screams and. without lifting her
head or opening her eyes. she cried OIL
sharply TO the nurse:
why, will YOU tease that child so,
Mary? Let him have it at once.''
Mary let go of Harry. She settled
back in her seat with an air of resigna-
ton. but there was a sparkle i'm her eye.
The boy clutched at the wasp and final
ly caught il. The yell that followed
caused joy to the entire car, for every
eye was on the boy. The mother woke
again.
MARY" she cried. ''let him have itr'
Mary turned calmly in her seat, and
with a wicked twinkle in her eve said:
''Sure, he's got it. num-
This brought the car down. Every
one in it roarcd. The child's mother
rose up in her seat with a jerk. When
she learned what the matter was, she
pulled her boy over the back of the seat,
and awOke some sympathy for him by
laying him across her knee and warm
ing him nicely. I'm ten minutes he was
as quiet as a lamb. and he never opened
his head again until the train reached
Jersey City. Y. SIN.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1886-01-15
MANY eases of heroism occurred in the

Many eases of heroism occurred in the
city of Saragossa, Spain. during the re-
cent cholera epidemic. Every citizen
gave money, food or labor to the suffer-
ing. A poor washerwoman, bringing
home clothes to a lady whom she found
in a state of collapse, in which it was
impossible to warm her, threw off her
dress, jumped into bed, took the dying
woman into her arms. and chafed the
clammy limbs until circulation was re-
stored. When the disease had spent it.
self the Spanish Government offered re-
wards to the principal officials, who
promptly refused them. 1t then be-
slowed the Grand Cross of the Order of
Beneiicence on the entire city. This
cross is given only to q few individuals,
who have riskcd their lives for the help
of others; there is no order more highly
valued in Spain. Never before has it
been conferred on an entire town.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1886-01-15
Very Remarkable Recovery

Mr.. Geo. V. Willing, of Manchester,
Mich, writes: "My wife has been al
most helpless for five years, so helpless
that she could. not turn over in bed
alone. She used two Bottles of Elec-
trio Bitters. and is so much improved,
that she is able now to do her own
Electric Bitters will do all that
is claimed for them. Hundreds of tes-
timonials attest their great curative
powers. Only fifty centsa bottle at ].
B. JoHo,a
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1886-01-15

Our most successful farmers are not
those who work hardest nj manual
labor; they work, nevertheless, with all
their energies. None are exempt from
labor: but i'm all il is not equally well
applied and directed. If we take any
two men, physically equal, the n will
accomplish most who eXcels in BRAIN
power. Therefore, let that small in
closure within his own skull be cult
waited us a~ssiduously and as carefully by
the farmer as is his choicest crop. What
ever farming may have been in the
past, the time has come when the high
est intelligence is demanded as a neces-
sary qualification on the part of tho
agriculturist.
Book farming, however, is decried,
and farmers are not u reading class"
We, on our part, neither underrate the
| practical knowledge, nor overrate the
Importance of the scientific study OF
farming. The one is needful to the
other, and science is futile if il does not
help practice TO do its work better and
cheaper. But there is one great want
in most of u farm houses, and that is
the almost entire absence of agricultural
literature, both book and periodical
form. The volumes one most expects T.
see on a farmers table are generally
| conspicuous by their absence; and, will
it he believed, there is many a farmer
| who does not take an agricultural news
: paper. Boys and girls grow mp ON the
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1886-01-15
Edcar A. Poe WROTE a remarkably

Edgar A. Poe wrote u remarkably
legible hand with a steel pen. and was
extremely careful TO introduce all the
needed commas, s~cnicolons. and other
punctuation marks. Each page Of the
manuscript was Il small limo, pasted
carefully 10 the next page rs soon rs fin
ishcd, so tina. the result was Il long sheet
of matter which looked like II scroll. A
gentleman well-known in New York
City has Il beautiful example Of POe's
penmanship, which hr prizes highly.
and for which nj has heen offered a large
sum-.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1886-01-15

A Glasgow merchant has adopted a
very simple arrangement of telephone
wires by which to do away with the
annoyance of induction. The Office is
connected with the proprietor's dwelling
house, some thirty miles distant, by a
private line. To prevent disturbance
from the induction of other wires, he
employs n return wire. and the wires
are simply arranged in u spiral Oh hell
cal form as follows: Suppose each post
to be provided with four insulators, Ar
ranged at the four angles of Il square,
the sending wire is attached to insulator
| on the first post. = on the second, 3 on
the third. 4 on the fourth. ] on the fifth,
and SO on. The return wire is attached
to the insulators at the opposite corners
of the square, or what would correspond
to that position, thus forming the helix.