Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-02-20
QUARANTINE AGAINST FORT
WORTH.

Clebume has quarantined against Fort
Worth on account Of the smallpox! So
much for the black headlines in Dallas
papers and the sensational gossipers OF
our own city. Up to the hour of this
writing Dallas has not quarantined, but
that town is "getting in its work" by
threats of quarantine, by kilograms OF in
quiry and by sending its city physician to
'make a thorough investigation" of
smallpox in Fort Worth Whatever of
injury is done this city by all this
much ado about nothing will be due
TO the Dallas papers and to the
miserable idlers and sensational idiots
of Fort Worth. In all the annals
of the ills that human flesh, is heir to,
there was never such causeless and un.
justifable agitation. 1t is difficult to
speak of IL with patience, On the one
hand is newspaper which reports the
"dismssal of school at II to-day"
under the heading OF "Small-pox Mat
tiers" in Fort Worth. On the other
hand are score or more of idle people
who stand on the streets or run from
house TO house promulgating the most
absurd stories, not to say unmit-
igated lies, about this or that person
being down with the smallpox, which
acquire general circulation and only few
learn the truth by seeing the reported
sick person on the streets in utter ignor-
ance of the wild rumors. 1t would
seem that there is a deliberate plan TO
convince the people of Fort Worth,
themselves, that they are revellng in all
the revolving luxury of smallpox cpl
demic, and some Of them are such eyre
gious asses that they give aid and COM
fort to the enemy without appearing to
realize that their Idle and vicious sensa-
tionalism is calculated to do serious iniu-
ry to the town. An intelligent
gentleman of Chicago, in conversation
with THE GAZETTE yesterday, said; "If
one listened to all he heard on the
streets of Fort Worth he would believe
there were hundreds If cases of small.
pox here.n
There have been twenty-four cases, all
told, in Fort Worth from the first APP
pearance OF the disease until to-day.
What cause is there in this for the sense
less agitation promoted by the Dallas
newspapers, one of which, in its issue of
the 18th, contained the following astouud-
ing statement;
a ROTTEN TOWN.
A Fort Worth special begins aTherc are now
in different portions OF the city twenty six
oases OF fully developed small pox, not
counting those In the est.housc" Two
deaths have occurred and flags are flying so
thick that the town looks like solid auction
house.
The columns OF The GAZETTE show that
merchants come and buy goods aud 20;
the hotel arrivals are not diminished
country people eylnce no fear; there is
absolutely nothing TO indicate the .'epi-
demic" which Dallas papers and Fort
Worth gossips would iastcn ON this city,
aud yet Cleburne guarantees and Dallas
threatens TO do SO! II is time to put an
end to this nonsense Let the fools who
ask about smallpox be answered
according to their folly, and let
men who have seen the deadly
ravages Of typhoid fever in both
Dallas and Fort Worth in the past with
out thought of fear, have done with this
twaddle about an epidemic of smallpox
In city where the number OF cases at no
one time has averaged one to 1000 Of its
population.
II every man who talks smallpox in