Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-09-12

against his name. Evidently Martin mas
had too many irons In the fire.
The Misses Beard, four sisters, run q
farm In Clay county, Indiana, and run II
well. They manage everything, and toll
crate no other boards upon tie place
save those growing on their wheat.
j. II. Berkey has established at Geuda
Springs, Sumner county, Kas., the Crank,
which he claims Is "the crankiest news.
paper in bloody Kansas though there
are several editors In that state who
might successfully dispute the claim but
for their excessive modesty. Here is
editor Berkey's platform: "Anti-mon-
opoly, antl-dyspeptic, anti.polygamy,
anti-foRylsm, antl-whisky, anti-anarcby,
anti cussedness generally"
In Mlddletown, N. T., three miles
from the village, Is curiosity that Is
| creating widespread attention. 1t is a
spring, the water OF which Is cold as ice
and as clear as crystal. In digging down
two or three feet, wherever the water has
touched everything is crystalized. Leaves,
grass, feathers and grassnoppers can be
clearly traced in the beautiful white
limestone. Large numbers Of these specl-
mems are carried away daily.
Mrs. Mark Hopkins palatial residence,
In process Of erection at Great Barring
ton, Mass, has state dining-room 40x60
feet, two stories in height, with a roof Of
glass. The walls Of this room are fin
ished In all varieties OF Italian marble.
There are two breakfast-rooms, one capa-
BILE OF accommodating large number OF
guests. The residence has several beau
tiful towers and lawn Of over 100 acres.
The place will cost nearly $S,000,000,
The New York Sun points out that Of
the twenty-six Democratic congressional
nominations made up to the date of its
writing fourteen were of men who have
never been in congress. Year by year
this disposition to change has been grow
ing more noticeable. 1t takes, nowadays,
a very strong man, and one with some
peculiar specially, to hold his place In
the lower house OF congress more than
two terms. The most of them go there
but once.
The country's export trade in cotton
goods is constantly increasing. Returns
of the treasury show that during the first
seven months of the current year the ex-
ports OF cotton goods were 50 ,0lI,578 in
value, against S7S90,22 for the same
months OF last year. There is no tax ON
the raw material Of our cotton manufac-
lures, as there Is on woollen and other
textile fabrics. Hence the cotton manu-
features of the United States are steadily
pushing their way into the neutral
markets of the world, while woollens are
confined to the home demand.
A farmer near Chambersburg, Pa, re-
Gently prepared some home made phos-
phate from lime and chicken manure,
which he left in heap upon his barn
floor. Some time after 1t was discovered
that peculiar smell, as of some SUBJ
stance burning, was issuing from the
barn. Upon investigation 1t was found
that the phosphate was mass of fire. |
The different compositions of which it
had been made generated such great
heat that spontaneous combustion was |
the result With the aid of others the |
farmer succeeded in pitching the burning |
mass from the barn. The barn floor, |
wherein the mass lay, was considerably |
charred and blackened.
N. d. Monroe, Familiarity known as
"Wild Neill," lived with an only sister In |
the woods about fifteen miles from Fa- |
yetteville, N. G.. Before the war he was |
a man of property, but lost 1t in the con- |
filct. He served throughout the war, and |
on returning he found his home in ruins, |
and then retired to the retreat where he |
has lived the last twenty years, taking |
with him his only sister. There he built |
two little huts about ten feet square and |
about one hundred yards apart. From
that day brother and sister never spoke to |
each other. Neill lived by hunting and |
gathering roots. He would always leave |
part of his game at his SISTERS door On |
the morning of his suicide he went over
and spoke to his sister for the first and
last time. He then returned to his own
cabin, took leather strap and tied 1t
round his neck and to rafter and then
jumped of. He was found dead.
George H. Kingmsn, manufacturer of
Brockton, Mass, has conceived a plan
which he thinks will prevent future
strikes and lock-outs in his factory. He
has taken In his workmen as members of |
the firm. The workman agrees to con-
tribute any stated sum he may think best
to the capital stock OF the business. Upon
this sum Mr., Kingman agrees to pay a
certain percentage per year from the
profits OF the business, while personally
assuming all risk Of possible loss. They
agree that the wages paid shall be those
generally In force throughout the city,
that Mr.. Kingman shall have entire
charge and direction Of the business, and
that any workman can withdraw by Civ
Ing him thirty days. notice, taking with
him the money he had invested in the
business. The men may belong TO any
labor organization they see flt, but, being
members OF the firm, they could not be
ordered out In case of general strike.