Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-02-22
SHERMAN.
Some Go 10 Church, Some Loaf and
Talk EIection-Addition 10 the
sherman Race Course.
Unto Him That Hath SHAH Be Given, but
from Him That Hath Not Shall BE
Taken That which lie uaih.
specIaI q the easetLe.

Special TO the Gazette.
SHERMAN, TEX, Feb. u This has
been lively day with Sherman church
goers, but aside from the well-dreesed
citizens who enlivened the streets on
the way to and from the houses OF wor-
ship the city has been unusually quiet.
Many gentlemen who did not feel deyo.
tionally inclined lounged about the
streets and In the corridors of the
hotels, talking about the approaching CITY
election, or what was the more popular
subject, the prospect for other railroad
connection for our solid old city. Sew.
eral inviting prospects are held out to us
and unless we mistake the present frame
OF the public mind there will be one or
more railroads breaking dirt in the city
! limits before harvest time. We have no
secrets to reserve and no boasts to make
on the railroad question, but candor re.
quires us to say that the solid wealth OF
Sherman sees its values gradually reced-
ing and the former prestige of the city
waning so clearly that unless we come
forward with energy and money
we will stand in an attitude
that can only be described by that
apochryphal text of scripture, "Unto
him that hath more shall be given, but
from him that hath not shall be taken
away even that which he hath" Our
people are in earnest, and being pos.
sessed of large store of hard cash, are
prepared TO offer such inducements to
other roads that they will be slow to
ignore US In the great moves that are
about to be made on the commercial
chess-board where locomotives and rail-
road trains are the important pieces with
which the game Is won or lost
The rear guard OF the delegation that
went over Friday evening to attend the
grand mask ball at Gainesville reached
home jaded and weary at II O'Clock to-
day.
Some inspired poet has recorded the
warlike episode that occurred In Denison
few days ago, and now N. Nj. Lee and
Abe Burgowcr will live in song and story
as long as mankind admires a crippled
epic or limping rhyme. We have dodg.
ers floating about among the drummers
on which the tragic recital is told, to the
amusement of all who read it.
Capt. Lee Hall of Anodarko Indian
agency arrived in the city to-day, having
left the agency on Friday. He reports ali
quiet.
Tom Randolph, cashier of the Mer.
Cnants unu Ilanters Dank, returned this
morning from business trip to Gaines
vile, where he went Friday.
Capt. j. Nj. Cullers returned this morn
ing from trip TO the Territory.
Rev. Young of Melissa lis in the city
visiting the family of his brother, John II.
Young, Esq.
Capt. L. l.. Turner Of the Texas &
Pacific road was in the city to-day and
says he is now daily expecting 1900 tons
of new steel rails with which to begin the
laying of new track from the Texas Cen
trail junction, i've miles west of Texar-
kama, westward to where steel is al
ready laid. He expects to put in
fifty or sixty miles this summer, and have
the road in tlrst-claSs condition for the
fall trade
j. w. Willbite, superintendent of the
Sherman course, received two trotters
from Denton yesterday to add to his al
ready fine stables. I.ibbie S. Is one of
the two accessions, and is good trotter,
with Il bright future before her.
About 9 O'Clock to-day pair of street
car mules got away at the depot with the
double trees attached, and in spite of all
efforts to stop them fairly set the streets
ablaze, until they ran half mile and met
a car at the second switch and quietly
subsidized.