Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-07-22

the tlay wagons loaded down with fami.
lies and their effects from the western
counties have been streaming through the
city. They are fleeing from the drought
that now prevails 10 those counties, and
have come here m quest Of work on the
farms or TO endeavor TO get work on the
railroad extensions TO and from this city. |
They gave the most gloomy accounts OF /
the condition OF the crops In the west |
and the lack OF water for stock, and II
their statements are not exaggerated, the |
stock interest in some localities win
suffer severely Greer, Donnelly and the-i
counties in the southwest have, they say,
better water supply than others, yet
they are suffering 1t has not rained In
some Of these counties for nearly year,
and the effect is fearful.
sUMFiN GwINE TER HAPPEN.
Special to the Gazette.
MARSHALL, TEX, July 2l.--A Mr.
Stokes, commercial traveller, gentle.
man of intelligence, who has tras ersed
the greater portion of East and North
Texas, saws the crops are the finest ever
known He has travelled over Texas
for twenty years and such cotton crop,
so luxuriant and heavily boiled, he has
never seen. An old negro looking over
his cotton neid said: "Something gwine
ter happen TO dat cotton, sho! Why,
dere's three bales TO de acre hangin' to
dem limbs. OATS 'tirely too much. |
tell you, dere's something wrong Some
thing gwine to happen to dat cotton,
shot"
RAINS NEAR ABBOTT.
Special to the Cav ute.
ABBOTT, TEX, July 2l.-The weather
continues dry and hot. Although there
have been some districts blessed In tht
county with good rains, Abbott failed
to share her part of the blessing.
The first open boil OF new cotton wat
} brought into town this morning by Mr.
Jas. M. Ellis. MIR. Ellis has been blessed
with plenty of rain and says he will maxi
one bale OF cotton per acre unless SOM
calamity befalls 1t.
q SMALL CYCLONE.
a Special to the Gazette.
BowfK, TEX, July 2l.-Mr. h, I. Rick
: EFT of Myrtle, Clay county, about twenty
q miles west Of Bowie, came in to-day an'
= reports good-sized cyclone VISITED
q MYRTLE on Monday about p. m, blowlni
q down his store house and scattering III
u goods all over the place. He estimates
}, his loss at $500 His wife, who was \
= the building at the time, was badly hur'
g The cyclone was followed by a heavy raj
Il storm.
SPLENDID RAIN,
n Special to the Gazette
Pn.oT PoINT, TEX, July II IA splei
did rain fell here this evening, win
prospect OF soaking rain, which WI
make the cotton crop ard give supp
| a ig we
O. nigh a failure, and is too far advanced
a receive any benefit from the rains.
s. GOOD RAIN.
IN Special to the Gazette.
lr DENTON, TEX, July PA good ra
~ to-day makes all happy and breaks u
Of monotony of the drought Cotton WI
y, beginning TO suffer, but the present ra
III will almost insure fair crop OF cotto
at least.
ne AT PALESTINE.
H. Special to the Gazette.
PALESTINE, Tex, July 2l.-Two sple
did rains have fallen in this county du
40 ing the past twenty-four hours, eXten
:, ing over q large scope OF territory.
AT SHERMAN.
- Special to the Gazette.
o. SHERMAN, TEX, July 2l.-Rain fell
~ that portion of the county bordering
" the river this afternoon, but there
on only slight sprinkle at Sherman,
he A GULLY-wAsHER.
Special to the Gazette.
ABILENE, TEX, July PA light RI
fell this morning and prospects are go
81 for "gully-washer" before night.
4, AT VALLEY MILLS.
~ Special to the Gazette.
NC VALLEY MILLS, TEX, July PIT
re weather remains hot. Rain is need
o. badly