Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-10-06

Enquirer wasn't fined, but was asked 70
destroy the plate from which the fac.
smile was printed.
Garrett w. Brown, druggist In Ander.
son, Ind, administered dose OF
iuid extract Of belladouna Instead
of extract of dandelion. lie was con.
siderate enough, however, 10 take the
dose himself, and he died Of paralysis
OF the heart.
DR.. Andres estimates that the peril
from lightning Is now from three to Ave
fold greater than 1t was fifty years ago
owing TO the vastly increased electical In.
tensity induced by the charging OF the at.
mosphere with steam and smoke at all
ccnters Of population.
The Marengo Gala News says: Ola
Washington, negro woman, said to be
ll5 years old, died in the Barton's Hills
neigbborhood, five miles below Old
Spring Hill, on the sth She had sixteen
children, the youngest OF whom, a son, is
known to be hity-six years old.
II. L. Clark Of Higganum, Conn, 0rags
because one OF his ducks has laid leo
eggs this season, which is four times the
yield of the average duck What is more,
from one OF those l60 eggs was Matched
four-legged duckling that still lives and
walks, using all of its legs, as Il that was
the proper thing for young ducks.
Colorado has 500 miles of hrst-class
irrigating canals, $500 miles of secondary
canals and 40, 900 miles of smaller bitches
which have cost In the aggregate about
Sll ,o00,0 900, and will irrigate 2,200, 900
acres. The operation Of this great water
system has developed conflicting claims
of various ditch companies In regard to
the use OF water, which is very difficult
TO settle.
A silver dollar was received at the Bos.
ton sub-treasury recently that evidently
got there by mistake, for some skiIlful
worker in metals had followed out the
center so that it could hold the photo.
graph Of child, while the face OF the
coin formed a cover, fastened by hinges
aud clasp. So excellent was the work
that the changes In the piece could not
be detected at a casual glance.
Bolivian coffee is newly introduced
into this market. The berry Is large, lus-
trous, and although Of good flavor, is of
surprising strength. Used as Mocha,
Java, or Rio coffees are, in infusions, II
is so much richer in the active principle
OF coffee that its effects upon the nervous
system are almost like delirium tremeus.
1t promises to be OF much use in mixing
with weaker coffee or giving strength to
adulterated mixtures.
The Circulating Library, an English
periodical, has this in notice of the
memoirs of Gen. Grant,; "Grant was
the son of afarmer, who gave him much
better education than he had himself re-
ceived. The civil war obliged Grant to
become soldier, IL which capacity he
served for fourteen years, when he again
took to farming, which he had to relin.
quish on account Of i'll health. He then
became successfully estate agent, clerk
In store, and senator. In this last vo-
ca ion he distinguished himself so highly
that he was elected president"
A singlar case of legal interference
with church government is worrying the
Methodists OF Canada. A member of the
New Brunswick conference was under
arrest on charges impeaching his
moral and religious character. The
disciplinary court OF the conference was
examining Into the truth of the charges
when an interim order issued for the de-
PENDANT by the supreme court of New
Brunswick stopped the proceedings, and
cited the conference to show cause why
an order should not issue prohibiting the
conference or any committee of the con-
ference from proceeding further with the
examination of the case. The argument
will be heard with interest, as the 9ues-
tion raised is, whether a church has the
right to examine into the character and
conduct OF its own members without in
reference from the civil powers.
Accounts of the massacre OF Catholic
missionaries and converts in Southern
China show that the race OF martyrs Is by
no means extinct. Father Terrace, who
had lived for nine years Yunnan, when
a mob surrounded his house at night,
gathered his followers in the chapel, gave
the last absolution, went to the door, and,
presenting himself to the rabble, said:
Here am to answer for ALL" He was
at once cut down by sabers. Father
Bechet, young priest in Tongking, saw
number Of his converts beheaded, and
then, refusing to be bound or blind
folded, offered his neck to the execution
er without a tremor. Father Chatelet,
ordered to descend to the place of ex.
ecution, as hundreds of his converts had
done, said; 81 shall not go SO far. If
you want my head, come and get it,
The swords made short work of him
where he stood.