Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-02-16
SHERMAN.
The Daughters Of ST. stephens En-
gagged in the work Of Raising
Funds for the Church.
suing n Railroad Company-A Generous
Donation 90 0rsyson County
Case Dismissed.
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,uEkaAN, LEX, Feb. l5.-The county
court was epgAged to-day Ia the trial Of 4
case oil damages IN the suit Of Charles II.
Crenshaw agaiust the Texas 4 Pacinc
railway. Plaintiff purchased and shipped
several carloads Of cattle from Dckalh
70 Sherman, had ne claims that the stock
was 20 abused that several died aud
others were greatly Impaired In value BY
reasen of the treatment they received.
Tue young lady members Oi ST. Steph-
ems Episcopal church, who are known as
tue Daughttis of ~ stephens, viii give
an oyster supper ut Steedman's oyster
parlOr on Wedit sday evpnilg, February
IL, beginning At $50 o'clock, and ending
wnen ali the huugiy are ted. The sum ct
80 cerss Will command the entire bin of
fare, aud when IL h considered that some
vi The sweetest girls Ia town are 10 attend
upou tnu tables, the sum looks small
enough The object Is to raise funds for
The nrGt OF the cnurch, and they viii
no doubt be generously patrOui2ed.
! Col VOegle, who lives on a fine farm
on Range creyk k. some fifteen miles south.
vet from sherman, has brought In
tweuty.iUur ulce Russian mulberry trees,
aud has delivered the same to Judge
/ tir' - as q present to GraysOn county to
decorate the cOuri-h use yard. This sLe-
cics Of tree Was brought TO Minnesota
many years ago, by the Mennonites, and
prnpagttcd in That state, from which
Col. YOrgcl obtained the seed aud raised
tie trees, They are nice ones, aud no
doubt the judge will have them well set
Out aud property cared for Too much
praise cannot be. given TO the generous
colonel Tor his noble enterprise. Would
OBJ.
mis- example ana try to max our court
house yard something we can poiat 10
W tn pride
Osmer Sirpless, one Of the young men
who Circuates THE GAzETrg in this city,
was taken suddenly sick last night aud
could not distribute over his route to-day.
No one familiar with his work could be
substituted and several patrons were
missed by the new man. The desire to
read Mr.. Talmage's sermon will make
many regret the incident, hut we have
reserved thele copies at the Bnkly house
news stand, where they can all be sup
plied WHO Will call
Deputy United States Marshal Lum
johnson OF Gainesville came over this
morning in charge OF George Tucker aud
Charles Cook, charged before United
Sta Commissioner Ricketts, with theft
Of CONS. They were dismissed by his
honor and went home on the O'Clock
tram with quite number Of witnesses
who came over to testify at the examining
trial.
NJ, b. Curtis "saml of Posen''
troupe came in | ST evening and occupied
the opera house tonight Several MEM
hers of the troupe w mt out with gun aud
dog to-day TO Try quail shooting and had
very fair success.
Your representative here was to-day
summoned to appear at Dallas at
10 O'Clock on February l6 TO give evil
dence IN the case of Sealing & Tamblyn
of ST. Louis In an action for damages
against Ed Emberson Of Grayson county,
now pending in the Quilted States district
court for North Texas. Jot Gunter was
also summoned in the same case, and
went south on the 1850 train
Some burglar attempted to rob the
Kentucky store on North Travis street
this morning at o'clock by raising the
back window and drawing goods from
within by means OF long-handled rake.
Julius frankie, who slept there, heard
he noise, assailed the thief with an old
pistol, which he snapped In the robbers
face several times, but IL failed to fire.
The thief returned twice between that
hour and daylight, hut as he was observed
HI failed to get any booty. Mr.. Frankie
says the would-be robber was white, but
he does not say who he was.