Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-01-24

~ tHtA " IstAt 4Qtl0t ctiit-HA ~ hNtIrt
views. SO strong bne this sentiment be.
come, that few u these trust
ees laieiy made Up purse among
themselses and hired Prof. Mob /
ert Ellis Thompson "a the university |
Of Pennsylvania, the leading protection |
lst writer Ia the country, and author OF /
the standard textbook on that subject, 60 /
come 60 Yale and deliver series Of six I
protection lectures. Thlp Is carrying the /
var INTO free-trade Africa Prof. /
Thompson delivered his first lecture on
Monday, and his, understand, pre-.
pared some very hot protection shot for
sumner classes The outcome win be |
Interesting.
queer old gentleman IL Davl1 Davis, {
ex-senator from Illinois lie has mag
nitcent residence as Bloomington and
charming young wife % wait upon him.
He has also more money than he knows
what TO do with. Stiil he is not happy
Strange, isn't il, how SOME people are
never satisfied. Davis had secure seat
on the bench OF the United States supreme
court, bat he left " for six years ia the
United States senate. The six years ox.
PRED some time ago, and now the old
gentleman Is so anxious 10 continue TO re-
side within the political whirlpool that M
doesn't enjoy his money, his home or his
Young wife, but PUSHES back 90 Washing
ington--why he hardly knows. Davis is
very large man, as everybody knows,
and one day shortly after he en-
tered the senate he had occasion
to leave his own chair, which he had had
the preCaution to have made strong on
purpose for him, and 90 over to the other
side of the chamber In order to hear Gen.
Brown of Georgia, who was speaking
When the white-haired old senator was
In the midst of most eloquent passage,
crash, beng, went something or Other,
and everybody held his breath TO see
what had happened. Brown stopped in
his speech, for near him lay David Davis
sprawled out on the floor, mass of
avoirdupois unable tolift itself up. Davis
had, without thmking, sat down on the
edge Of one of the ordinary senate chairs,
and bis nearly four hundred pounds Ia
weight had broken IL down Davis saw
Conkling laugh heartily over the incident,
and 1t Is said never forgave him.
David Davis was once worth about
100000 chiefly in land IN Illinois.
shortly before he left the senate he went
specializing in New York, and succeeded
ia blowing In something over million,
SO that he bad to sell land right and left.
His Bloomington neighhors were consid-
erahly astonished, and 1t was several
months before they knew what had hap
! pened
when Davis was young man he taught
: district school in Bloomington, and by
this means had saved up a few hundred
dollars. when he loaned to an uncle, who
1 was Boston dry-goods importer. Davis
made up bis mind TO marry, and notified
: his uncle that he wanted the money on Il
certain day. About q week before that
time he received word that his relative
> had failed, but that some deeds
! to some Illinois lands were
? at his disposal. Davis couldn't pay
. wedding expenses ON deeds TO real es'
= tate, SO he postponed his marriage day
7 cursed his luck and went back TO HE
: school-goom.
He took the deeds, however, though he
had little hopes of anything from them
. for the land they called for lay in swamp'
!, hOrding on Lake Michigan, so far, HI
y thought, from the then hamlet OF Chicago
> as 10 be good for little or nothing, even
the water could be drained off IL. O
course Davis was disappointed. SOutl
VI Chicago was good enough to settle itsel
II Oh the land, aud the result was Davi
" of wedding money and. lik
s. many other millionalres, boiling owe
ID with political ambition. He ha,
ID previously been admitted TO the bar, an
IL when Lincoln came 10 the white llous
H. he appointed Davis an associate OF th
10 supreme court bench
~ Phil Sheridan is lutte in body but nc
r. in temper. lie has enough of the latte
" for the whole regular army. He Is PEE
Id feet Martinez in government, and his wi
a is absolute law to his subordinates---c
d. else the fur lies He has quarreled vii
ed both Lincoln and Endicott, the only tw
he war secretaries there have beer since !
,i- came 10 the head OF the army ! was
dc the corridor OF the Grand Pacific hote
lp Chicago, in September last, and chance
TX IL, see Phil coming towards m
he He was intently engaged Ia reading
-e. rather large book that hid gaudy cove
,le ana gilt-edged leaves. just as he can
he. mn 10 me, he also came by chlnce opp
lin site the elevator. That portion OF not
nv economy happened at that moment 10
ID descending. Scarcely raising his ey
es- from his book, Sheridan ordered the 81
lief yator TO stop But 1t didu't do anythil
nv Of the sort. Phil sheridan or 40 Pa
by Sheridan it kept on the steadily lnwefl
est tenor of its way toward the main floor
Just as the body of the elevator di-a
The reared Sheridan caught glimpse OF l
he hoy who had dared 10 diSOney MS oru'
OF IL was too much Tor his Celtic teihp'
dc There was a crash, and the great Fla
lie. door was ia Il million pieces. The he
ew OF the army ~ the United States hhd, II
DC. 1T of anger, thrown his boot through
me at the luckless elevator boy who had !
rod needed his command. There was &c
v eral cleaning up Of broken glass, aud
The hapless youth got scoding from
sbo clerk, but that was All ever heard OF Z
IDS Incident. The clerk declined to tell
ans whether Sheridan paid for the repairi
,ful OF the damages or not.
eat ss
Y a Katie Bayard deadl She was one
the brightest women and pest spirits
? the Washington world, Killed ny I
een sntce'' OF social life to-day. She dread
ore h, youd measure. let me tell you, the 4
,bia tnointment Of her father AS SECRETARY
ss state. The BayHrds are not re
nm Thanks 10 a social footing which made
our posstble 10 do as they pleased, the I
ian .ition could ns maintained while NJ
sye R,vard was one Of the senior senators
4 a. sum which would scarcely pay
up- house-rcnt OF some secretaries oi state
ure the last ten years. Now secretary
Tact state must entertain, MOI don't ten
any that this is simple republican Cove
had meut. Il NAV be Tor the men, nut j.
blic 20 70 Washington once ana see WAT
women there have to say. OF course,
every woman knows, the iaoor,