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Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-02-15
A RARE CHANCE.
A Golden Opportunity For some Enter
prising Merchant TO do Well.


TO purchase well.estahlished busi-
ness, one OF the best stands In this city,
at great bargain. The Undersigned Of
fers for sale the clothing, gents furnish
ing aud merchant tailoring business, cor
ner Houston and Second streets, for cash
or on easy terms or improved paper.
This stock is complete in every depart
ment and purchased at bottom hgures
from first hands, and fair reduction Will
be made from the FIRST cost TO anybody
who desires 10 purchase the entire bust
ness. To those indebted TO me ! beg 10
state, as am about 10 discontinue busi-
ness In this city, will be thankful u they
will come forward and settle their ac-
counts without any further delay, other
wise | viii place them in the hand OF my
attorney for collection.
Il. MoRRs.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-02-15

| have very large stock OF Johnson
grass seed and alfalfa seed, and all kinds
OF grain and feed, which ] am selling AZ
very low prices. Special inducements TO
M trade w. L. PATTERSON,
Wy Fort Worth
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-02-15
Died.

Old nan High Price departed this lie
Fehruary /, 1886, and was succeeded oy
MI, Tow Price at the Fort Worth Gro
Ger Co.'s
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-02-15

How the trade Of the Fort Worth Grocer
Co. has Increased since the demise o.
Mr.. High Price.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-02-15

Lnluefou urfu yrrriuas, aio -sF s'u,.s
esteemed. He was Atanneh Liberal. hin
remains will be sent 70 Santiaeo to-in9r-
row Tor intermcnt.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-02-15

AN exnaustep ppqnil ms iAN
'neef Augusta are rsiinlpe
capacity. 1be mills arc y
sniall tnafalp ~ prom lor q
~ tAlrleAn yeala
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-02-15

va -7117-1 ~ ~ 49, J n 7
sheriff 20 ict hlm 10, Arnold VINO WEI
yrlth Cannon. urged tho sheriff 70 accept
ana N fl,red him NE position as good
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1886-07-29
BIG SHARK HOOKED.
A Catch That brought the wharf
Rats's Ont of the WuInr.


NEW YoRK, July 25 The nerves of the
unHumbered small boys who, with nm
studied grace and no clothes. plunge
from the pier ut the foot of Beekman
street into the green waters of the Fast
river at all hours of the day were greatly
shocked yesterday morning, and for
several minutes even the boldest forsook
the water.
Captain Charles Hines and Michael
Hanlon, commonly known as Little
Mike were fishing from Whitehall
boat with l5-inch hook, baited with two
porgies and u herring, Mt the end of sew
eral fathoms of ratline stuff. Three feet
of chain served as leader. While the
boys houndered around the fish crates
Hines got bite, aud the next minute Il
shark with twO-foot mouth raised his
ugly head ont of water and shook ii.
Then he sought the cooling depths of the
ferry slip, and Hines passed the end OF
the ratline stuif to an interested crowd on
the pier. The shark had swallowed the
porgies and the herring and two feet Of
the leader.
The small boys climbed out on the fish
crates and encouraged the men who held
the line. The shark was game, and ii wa:
not until after playing with it for half NJ
hour that the fishermen were able to gel
moose around il and land it, hoppinE
vigorously, on the pier. 1t was thumpeC
on the head with sledge hammer ant
then eviscerated. The liver, valued fo
the oil it contained, weighed Al pounds
The fish was about 10 feet long. Ii
hooked teeth were over an inch long ans
quite equal to the task of bisecting an,
one of the lads that had been keeping
company with the two porgies and tn
herring that were used as bait. The fist
was exhibited Mt the Fulton market al
day. The fishermen say it is genuin
maneater, and the largest ever capture
in the harbor. Smaller ones are kille,
there every year at this season.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1886-07-29
ma BoMBg
what Looked Like an Atten,p. cP""
ths s,tte os Prince isoopoido.

NRw YoaK, July 26.--Dom Augusta
I,eopoldo, the Brazilian prince, paid q
visit TO Ooney Island to-day ON the insiIa-
ton of the Sea Beach railroad directors.
On their return they took the steamer
sylvan Stream. II was then ii O'Clock,
and the prince was converting with sew
ami friends on the port side of tho boat,
when suddenly Mr.. j. w. Brown, one OF
tbe ouests had his attention attracted Dy
Coroner Messemer TO a column OF smoke
which was arising from the other end OF
Tia boat. The two gentlemen arose, and
walking back towards the stern found An
ordinary soda water bottle. LAY on tne
fioor OF the main saloon about midway
between the wheel and the stern. An
ordinary fuse composed OF oily waste
nrotruded from the end Of the bottle.
| The fuse was still smoking.
In an instant everybody was IN panic
| Mr.. Brown quickly picked up the bottle,
which began TO emit u faint odor OF SUI
phur, and rushing to the side OF the boa''
threw il overheard.
Coroner Messimer was greatly excited
| by tho event. Prince Leopoldo was not
| informed of the peril in which his royal
life had been placed until he was SAFE
ashore. lie was evidently startled, but
the only remark he made was 'Ih'
devil" Several people look upon tut
bottle as u hoax, while others say that y
was undoubtedly dynamite bomb
Afterwards a private party WINS detailed
TO attend the prince and his party.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1886-07-29
FIGHTING FOR FOOD.
starving Esquimaux Attack n store
1,ous,.nvI00 from starvation.


hOuse-DyIng FrOm starvation.
ST.. JOINS, N. F., July 26.-Further
particulars Of the distress among the fish
ermen Of Labrador have been received;
The 20 Esquimaux who demanded food
from the stores al Mugford, which could
not be given them, owing TO the needs OF
the inhabitants and the small supply,
made q rush for the harbor storehouse,
where the -four and fish were stored. The
men OF the small settlement gathered 10
defend their only hope OF existence and
desperate fight ensued, in which four OF
the marauding Esquimaux were nearly
killed and two of the storehouse defenders
were seriously injured. The Esquimaux
finding that they could not obtain food
| by force, retreated, and sent in several OF
their number to ask for a small quantity
of food. which they said was absolutely
necessary to the continued existence OF
their wives and children. Two hundred
pounds of -four and about so pounds OF
| frozen cod were given them.
/ II was reported that in Astoria alone
out of So or 40 families, or n total OF 200
persons, over 100 had died-mostly all
women and children. In Main the catch
of fish has not been sufficient TO afford
food to the inhabitants. Along Hamilton
Inlet and Sandwich Bay there is not 30
much suffering although many have died.
In Webuck and Indian harborB fish il the
only food besides small quantity of corn
meal They have had no vegetables since
March LIST and the people are almost with.
out clothing. At Hopedale not over u
families remain out of the entire former
population. Many have gone east along
the coast in the hope of getting int
better supplied settlements, while 80 per
sons, of whom 40 were squaws and 81
children, died from starvation in Jun'
alone.
There were some deaths in April and
May, but these were principally from ex
posure to the cold. The 0kkah Indiana
are suffering greatly, but there were no
as many deaths among them as was al
first reported, only II persons having
died this spring out of the 100 who made
up the tribe. The whole settlement is
however, on the verge of starvation. Tn,
=. places spoken of donot include the whole
district where are to be found destitutioI
and death. In the country lying bacl
from 0kkah, Hopedale, Main ant
Cape Mugford there is larg
number of families, most of them
Indians or EsquimAux, among whom
the suffering is really greater thai
it ia in the more thickly populated settle
ments. The deaths here from starvation
cannot be estimated, but tits thought, judy
ing from reports, now and then brough
in, that the number is very large. In New
foundland, along the north coast, there
, great restitution. From Cape Baud :
, Hearts Content hundreds are in dyin
condition. In White Bay alone AZ person
, died last month and no one knows hoy
many since Not less than 500 person
, must have persisted, but the exact figure
can never ne known owing to the isolate
: region in which the suffering exists
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1886-07-29

a FEARFUL hTsq'dKE.
A i.ady Uses SuIphuric Acid I'm Place
Of Holy Water, with FrightTuI IEc-

A Lady Uses SulphuFic Acid I'm Place
Of Holy Water, with FrightTuI Ire
suits.
PtrrsnURG, July 27.-Mrs. John Prill
OF South Twenty. eighth street made
mistake yesterday which may cost her
her eyesight and dishgure her face for
life, She became greatly frightened when
the terrible storm which passed over this
section broke in its fury, and she ran up
to her chamber for vase of holy water,
with which to sprinkle herself, in tine
hope that III that way she might ward of
impending danger.
In the excitement of the moment and
the semi,darkness Of the room she missed
the bottle i'll which she kept the water
and seized one filled with sulphuric acid.
Mrs. Prill was nervous and she was not
sparing with the terrible fluid but dashed
1t in her face and over her head in con-
siderable quantity.
The first intimation she had of her mis-.
take WAS the terrible pain which the acid
inflicted. She cried out in her anguish
and the neghbors, hearing her cries, ran
in to see what was the matter.
They found the lady lying on the flooi
almost craled with pain. Great red
blotches, the work of the acid, were
already appearing ON her face and neck
II was sometime before the situation wat
understood, but when il was everything
possible WIS done 10 stop the work of tLt
destroying agent
The physicians who attend Mrs. Pril
say that she will in all probability los,
her eyeHight, and that her face may b,
distignred. The acid had eaten into tn,
flesh before its course Was stavad
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1886-07-29

II the London Time, is rightly in
formed, the British war Office is in con
ton of incompeteucy and corruption that
recalls the Robeson administration in our
own country. In its issue Of Monday
week the Times charged
The department Is composed Of military
men without mechanical, chemical or metal.
lurgicHl knowlsdge-oi mon who are babies
In the hands Of their suborllnafes, some OF
whom are shareholders In private gun.
merry company. II England should become
involved In war tomorrow she would be-
compelled 10 become a suppllant 10 Krupp
to supply means OF defending her national
existence. Colonel Hope has offered to
prove wholesale corruption against tho de
Panment In supplying guns which burst
rned cartridges which jun bayonets which
bend swords which will not cut, Others
have offered to prove fraud and perjury
against high officials OF the department,
who are said to carry on quite a thriving
Industry In buying condemned stores at one
depot and selling them 10 another as new
stores. n Is u common belief in garrison
towns that nothing Is salable TO the war
office except by bribery. The action Of tbs
war office In refusing to hear evidence Is
unfair and evnsive. 1t Is 10 be hoped that
the new parliament VIII oxtinguish the
scandal and correct this shameful inefii-
cheney.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1886-07-29
AN ExrLosroN IN oiuoAao.
4 Little HOx that some IFOys Found
iH an AiIcy.

CnroAGo, July % Two little boys,
Herman Jacobs and Ed Kroncke, while
playing in Yankee alley, between Bis
sell street and Sheffield avenue, yesterday
found round tin box about two inches
in diameter ana shaped like backing
box II was tightly closed and something
ratified inside like money The boys took
ii into the back yard where young
jacobs lived. He put the box on chop
ping block, and then struck at it with an
axe, On striking the second time nm nx
plosiOn occurred which was heard several
blocks away The boys were thrown on
their backs. The noise aroused the whole
neighborhood and the mother of Edward
Kroncke rus he'd to the spot and carried
her son home. His wound was in the left
arm A piece of the bomb had torn
through his shirt sleeve into his arm and
horribly mangled the limb.
The elder boy Herman was bending
over the can as he wns striking it with thu
axe. One piece OF the metal, or sub
stances in the bomb, struck his face abov,
the Jaw near the chin and passing
through his mouth went out through biz
cheek, leaving two large blackened holes
Two other pieces struck his left arm
making very ugly wounds. The explo
sion WIS of so fearful n MIXTURE as to leaV'
no doubt Of the deadly character of til
object thus thrown into the alleyway TO
any needless boy to pickup or cart to driy
over. II was evidently filled with dyna
mite and is supposed to have been throw
in the alley by anarchists
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1886-07-29
lDnADEr sxPEosrYs.
which severely Esaims an Htallal
Peanut Vendor.


Philadelphia Forth American Monday.
Giovanni Celia, an Italian peanut wonder
ON Market street, above Ninth, was ssri-
ously injured on Saturday evening by the
explosion Of q mysterious package. boms
children noticed small object wrapped
in brown paper and resembling spool of
thread lying on the pavement. They were
looking at Il, when Celia picked il up and
began tearing the paper of Of 10. Instantly
there was loud explosion, and the Italian
staggered and yelled with pain. Blood
spurted In every direction from his hand.
He was taken from the midst Of largo
crowd of startled people, placed in q
patrol and removed 10 the Pennsylvania
Hospital. There II was found that parts
Of three Of his fingers and his thumb were
blown of and the bones OF his hand were
shattered. He had bruise ON his fore
head and fiesh wound In tho breast.
What the explosive was composed Of or
whether IL was left ON the pavement with
the motive TO injure some one In unknown.
A man In the vicinity says few minutes
before the explosion he saw well-dressed
man lay little package on the pavement
and hurry ON. The police are working
on the case.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1886-07-29
FORETGN.
Crawford Gains Isis Divorce Iva tbc
DIlhc GaAe.

LONDON, July % The case of Craw-
ford against Crawford and Dixie was
given TO the jury this afternoon. They re-
turned a verdict finding Mrs. Crawford
guilty of adultery with Sir Charles Dixie
and granting Mr. Crawford n divorce.
The jury we're absent 20 minutes only.
The decision arrived at by the jury is that
Mr.. Crawford il entitled to divorce
from his wife on the ground of adultery
with Sir Charles Dixie as decided
ad nisi by Justice Sir Charles
Butt on February 18th last, the
present case being simply rahearing
NJ the Intervention of the Queens prostor
for the purpose of ascertaining whether
the decree Rii should not be set aside
on the ground of collision between Mr..
and Mrs, Crawford or on new evidence in
validating the wife's confession. The
Jury finding in favor of Mr.. Crawford,
the proceeding confirms the previous de.
cree and makes il absolute at the expita.
ton Of the six months attaching to il.
This six months will expire on August
18TH the decree ai@ having been con.
demned TO pny the costs of the present
proceeding.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1886-07-29

CHICAGO, July ga special from Fort
Worth, Tex, says: All day yesterday
wagons loaded with families and their
effects from the western counties were
streaming through this city. They are
fleeing from the drouth prevalent in tbe
western counties and have come hero in
quest OF work. They give most gloomy
accounts OF the condition of crops and
the lack OF water for stock. Hundreds
OF families are abandoning their cattle
and homes and going eastward to keen
from starving TO death. The situation 4
critical. Rain seldom falls in the dis.
trict during August and by the time il
comes there will, it is feared, be nothing
loft in the country.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1886-07-29
WIImIngton. Thur.oag luIy %. I8st

One Professor Tninter gave q private
exhibition At Washington last week Of
what he called a gr.phophcne, which
from the pnblished description appears
to be essentially an Edison phonograph
with its nametwisted around hindside fore
most. In Tainier'a machine wax IS used
instead OF tin-foil for receiving impress
sious Of the sound waves and it is
claimed that OF yesterday's trial words
spoken Sin natural tone Of voice" were
reproduced ''loud enough to be heard by
every one in the ROOM II has been a
matter OF general surprise that the ap-
parent possihilitesofth the rhonograph have
been neglected 80 long by It's inventor, and
it may be that fainter has achieved somea
thing in the line Of the real Improvement
needed TO lift the instrument from the
place of a curious scientific toy to the
realm of everyday utility. Edison has
also been reported lately TO be at work in
the same direction and ii is reasonable to
credit the genius that brought forth the
crude photograph with the ability to dc.
velop it, The same progress that has
been achieved with tho telephone would
make the phonograph all that wai
originally prophesied of it, il MOI
more. Most obvious of the uses of I
fully developed instrument would b.
the recording Of spoken words will
unimpeachable accuracy-the doing by j
for sound what the Photographic Gamer
has done for visual objects. Allied u
this is another idea, brimful of sentiment
the preservation for future generations o
such mementoes of the worlds grea
men or of our own relatives and friend
as would bring them MS near to the ca
as the photograph does to the eye.
very slight improvement to the originl
instrument would, doubtless, suffice I
enable it to make an almost imperishabl
record Of the voice and tones of an
speaker which could be reproduce
onS The same cylinder, or OIL
Of the same diameter, Gel
tury or two as easily a an hour I
two after their utterance. Imagine VIII
boon ii would be to hear few SCI
fences from the farewell address of Was
ington delivered as in the very voice
the father of his country Why shou
we not bottle mp, us ii were, in this wa
selected sayings Of the men Of our ON
day whose names arc houored in Il
realms of statesmanRhip, literature
science2 Even should the applicable
of the phonograph stop here it will ho
becomea boon of inestimable value to I
human race.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1886-07-29

NATION, Ill. July 27.-Frank kagg,Jr',
of Eflingham, surprised his friends BY re-
turning from a business trip TO Washing
ton, accompanied by newly welded
wife. Their wedding was of romantic
turn. They had not met face to face until
they stood up before the minister who
married them at the bride's home, near
Alexandria, Va, one day last week. They
made one another's acquaintance through
the mails. Mr.. Kagg's Virginia bride was
Miss Harrison, great granddaughter OF
President Harrison.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1886-07-29

NEW York, July 24.--Stephen Brodie, who
jumped from the Brooklyn bridge yesterday
afternoon, was brought before Judge Kill
breth in the tombs court to-day charged
with attempted suicide. He was bailed IN
81 900 to answer Wednesday, at $50 a. m.
Alderman Pat Diver qualified as bondsman.
Brodie looked bright and cheerful. He
said no was all right except little pain In
his right chest. His wife, with baby and
two children was In court with lady friends.
After the bail WINS furnished Brodie left tho
court and went to the office OF his counsel.
Brodie has been offered 800 week to go
into BQwery museum on exhibition.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1886-07-29

II Is not probable that the incarceration
of Editor Cutting by the local authorities
OF Mexican town has ever jeopardized
tho peaceful relations existing between
the United States of America and the
United States Of Mexico. The sensational
reports in connection with the affair have
undoubtedly owed much of their high
eoloring to local jealousies. The dwellers
ON the eastern and western shores of the
Rio Grande do not love each other over
much and this for sufficient reasons Horse
thieves and other scoundrels abound
along the border committing depreda-
tions on beth sides Of the river and gravi-
tating between Texas and Mexico ododge
arrest; a state Of affairs we'll calculated
TO keep up considerable local irritation.
Cutting is represented MS an enterprising
publisher who runs Mexican paper at
FL Paso del Norte, on the Mexican side
Of the river, and an English edition of
the same Mt FL Paso, on the Texas side
In the latter he printed something,
alleged to be libelous, respecting
one Medina, who was about
starting a rival paper at FL Paso del Norte.
Being found afterwards on the Mexican
side of the river, he was ordered to re-
tract in his Mexican paper the libel printed
in his Texas paper. On refusing TO obey
this order he was committed to Jail fol
contempt of court. The local Mexican
authorities held that, although the alleged
libel was printed in Texas, Mr.. Cutting
lived in Mexico and the law regar led th,
offence as having been committed in TIL,
country where he had his domicile. Tn,
presumption TINT when a man enters
foreign country he renders himself sub
iect to its laws appears also to be an ingre
dent Of the case. II is easy to see tina
the double. barreled, international natur
of Mr.. Cuttings newspaper yentur
may have complicated matters somewha
and caused the authorities of FL Paso dc
Norte to regard him as u man upon whoI
they had stronger grip than if he ha
been engaged in business on the Texs
side of the river only. But the difficult
according to this mornings news,
! being satisfactorily Strengthened on
, As there was every reason to sui
pose would be the ease as soon
it received the consideration of Il
4 Mexican government, and Secretal
Bayurd has received assurance that Il
bilingual editor will soon be released fro
= custody. Mr., BayNrd has shown, pr
=, sumably to the satisfaction of the Mexici
government, that the original offence
Editor Cutting was committed in Tex
- and that the local judicial officers Of t
"A Mexican town erred in their Judgment
!, how far Mr.. Cutting could be held !
n sponsible for his acts as an Americ
"a citizen within his country. The report
mr. concentration of troops in that part
20 Mexico, of which so much has been 81
~ has been explained by the Mexican III
ho lister to be only precautionary act
anticipation of some local trouble and
have not the slightest relevancy to @
ting's case
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1886-07-29
The DroueIt Ended In oo,o...,,,

CHloldo, ILL, July 26.-A special from
Denver, Col, says. The drought along
the Platte and the plains TO the east ia now
virtually at an END. There has been n
good rainfall and the ranchmen, who were
IN the dry sections now have homes NJ
saving their crops. The San Luis valley,
the Grande, the Uncompangre, Wet Noun.
tam and all the principal valleys now
have plenty of water and have bountiful
crops OF hay, wheat, oats and barley,
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1886-07-29

ST. PAUL, July PA Hallock, Mimi,
special estimates the damage to grain by
Saturdays hail storm at 10000 bushels
in the country, tributary to Argyll, and
10000 bushels in the country about
Warren, together with as much oats and
barley. A st. Thomas, Oak, special
says 10, 900 acres of wheat in that section
was destroyed in the same storm. Re-
freshing rainswere reported from southern
Minnesota yesterday.