Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-07-09

A Brave Boy Arrives 10 Care for His
Distressed Relatives and Takes
Them 10 His Texas Home.
More Street Railways TO BIO Bailt-CoDjagAl
InfeL city willis Adams Trial
Postponed.
M.L's wnLL rnAr nNns MrI1.
Special to the Gazette.


morning they We're accompanied by the
son and brother to find whom they had
Travelled ell the way from the mountains
OF Tennessee. In answer TO question
Of the presiding Judge he stated that he
was abe to take care of his widowed
mother, sister and brother and they were
given into his keeping without further
ado, the inquest Of lunacy being summar-
lily dismissed. All appeared to be per-
fectly rational to-day and the disorder
which caused their Incarceration in the
county jail on the assumption Of insanity
is now believed to have been nothing
more serious than hysteria. Their story,
briefly told, is that the mother, two sons,
one OF them about grown, her daughter
and son-in-law started from Ten
nessee for Texas. They had never seen a
populous town, knew nothing of modern
methods OF transportation and had got
but a short distance from home before
they were financially bankrupt. They
continued To travel, mostly on foot,
working In the fields en- route long enough
at time to enable them to continue their
journey. In the course of time the SON.
in-law and the older son either strayed off
and got lost or grew tired OF the TRAMP
and deserted, but the mother and her
other son and daughter continued to
tramp until they finally reached Dallas,
where she vainly supposed everybody
would know her son John, as everybody
did in her Tennessee home, bounded, In
her limited knowledge of the world, by
narrow range of mountains and fiow-
ing stream. Arrived here in a city much
larger than she had ever seen or known.
footsore and weary, without food or shell
terror the means TO procure them, her cour-
age failed and she gave way to hysterical
weeping and screaming, in which she was
joined by her offspring, who, following
her example, probably thought that was
the proper thing to do. When approached
by an officer of police, they were unable
to give any account of themselves or to
control their Mysteries, and he lodged
them in jail as dangerous lunatics. Char
liable people gathered around the unfor.
tunate mOuntalneers at the courthouse
this morning, and the brave boy who had
come to Texas to earn a home for his
mother and sister, and who, though only
a farm laborer, was willing to undertake
their care and maintenance, was given 10
understand in very substantial way that
his efforts should not go unaided. They
were taken to their new home in the
country in Mr.. Garvin's hack in which
bundle of clothing was generously slowed
away, and Mr.. Garvln had q nice little
purse in his pocket to be used for their
temporary needs.
MORE STREET RAILROADS.
One good result of tue split which Gull
minated in the organization of two fair
associations and the selection of two fair
sites, has been the opening of new
ct
the market some desirable residence
property. This is not trifing matter,
when it Is considered that suburban prop
ertY, at all accessible, commands S25
foot, practically taking it out of the reach
of the poor man who desires to own
home near enough to the city to enable
him to reach his place of business in less
than an hours walk. With the opening
of the new streets and avenues comes
the extension Of the street-rail way serv-
ice, which was commenced by the laying
of the track to the Dallas
State fair grounds. This track, which
has been used since Sunday last,
by transferring passengers from one road
to the other, is now being connected with
the Main street line, large force having
been put to work with that purpose in
view this morning. The same company is
considering proposition to extend their
San Jacinto line to the Texas State fair
grounds, and the feasibility of laying
track TO connect the same line
with the Dallas State fairgrounds.
Mr.. Royal Ferris, one of the
largest stockholders and an officer of the
street railway company, informed THE
GAZETTE reporter to-day that it was the
purpose OF his company to extend their
lines in all directions, and to perfect
system which, to say the least, is only
measurably satisfactory at present.
CoNJUGAL INFELICITY.
Two petitions for divorce were filed in
the district clerks office this forenoon,
the better half being the complainant in
each case. Mary Mccoy, who says that
she was married TO John Mccoy in April,
1881, asks that the bonds be annulled on
the ground that her husband, one wear
after marriage, was convicted OF stealing
a COW and was sentenced to term of
four years in the state penitentiary, which
term he Is now serving out. In the other
case Arilla Sellers, nee Tuggle, asks to he
divorced from William Ii. Sellers, to
whom she was married in Ellis county in
1879, on the ground of alleged cruel treat.
ment and failure to support.
CHIPS.
Dick Koenneke was to-day fined $3.50
and sentenced to the penitentiary for
nine months for stealing watch and SO
from l.. I. Seaman.
b. German, about forty-hve years old
died at the city hospital of inflammation
OF the bowels. His home or nativity is
unknown.
A number of witnesses in the Willis
Adams murder case returned from Kauf-
mon this morning, the case having been
ontinued until the next term OF court.
A light shower fell this afternoon from
an almost cloudless sky. The sun was
shining brightly when the raindrops
commenced 10 fall, and pedestrians were
taken very much by surprise.
The crop report for Dallas and the
surrounding counties, sent to the Mer-
chants exchange and bulletlned to-day.
is quite encouraging. Reports received
were from Dallas, Denton, Collin, Ellis,
Hill, Hunt, johnson, Kaufman and Tar.
rant counties, ali of which report cotton
irultlng well except the latter, which
llOn1tQg tfG f,.s.