Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-01-24
SHERMAN.
A House-W Warming Attended by The
Elite of the Ciiy---A Young Folks
Party Personal.
The Register Prints It's own Obituary
why Daily Papers ran nt sherman
as Wen as Elsewhere.
special 70 the Gazette.

rpcclhl 70 Tue daAetlts
SuERMAN, Tx, Jan 28--The only
social event OF Importance that has oc-
Cured 10 the city within the past week
was house warming last night 40 the
residence Of Hurry Handy, on South
Walnut street, at which there were pres
ent about dozen and a half couples of
the best young people Of the city
Mr.. Handy and Miss Minnie Wallace,
daughter of our estecmed iellow-cIliarn,
Capt. j. X. Wallace, were married on De
cember 10 past, and Immediately
went to housekeeping IN u com.
street. Last evening they gave a
party to their young friends, aud
quite number assembled to enjoy the
good cheer that had been provided for
them. Prof. j +, Cuhler was engaged TO
furnish the music, room was cleared for
the dance and the company had the free
dom OF the house for an evening of pleas
ure which they enjoyed in tripping the
"light fastastiC toe" or az Il social game
OF cards, as suited their several tastes
About the hour of midnight all were in
vitcd To partake OF sumptuous rcpast,
and with every dellClcy that the mar
kets afforded before them In princcly pre-
/ fusion All parties enjoyed II must heartily,
| The Kind host and hostess left nothing
undone 20 make the occasion pleasant TO
every guest, and when the time 30 dcpar,
arrived their young friends left Tor nome
with an earnest wish that other friends
might marry aud be as happy as they,
Tho sherman Evening Register puh,
/ fishes its own obituary this afternoon
and confronts the readers with Gothic
monument on the editorial page, about
six inches high, with The signlnca nt Ia,
scripton. "Sacred TO tue memory of Tho
Sherman Evening Register, which dc,
parted this lie January 20, 1856,
on account of too much moral
support The paragraphs Ia IA,
same columns convey the idea that Sher.
man "moSsbackism" is the rock on which
the Register split, and that the city l.
| lacking In that liberaiity which alone can
support live daily paper. sherman bust
ness men. like those of every other city
desire to know that they are getting II fair
| equivalent for what they pay OUT in al,
vertisements; and knowing that this pa.
| per, like all others that have been issued
here, is short ON circulation beyond the
city limits, they did not feel disposed TO
/ spend their mon Y as q grat1iiy.
! lutil the mail tralus are So arranged
/ Ahub ~ pdHNl AhA XVI RAh w wv NpltN
while the news IS fresh 1t is useless TO at.
! tempt the publication Of daily journal
here, and so long as the circulation I,
confined TO the city no business man Will
| give mp his money 10 publish what every
| body IN the city limits already knows.
This Is the secret OF the failure OF daily
papers IN sherman, and no abuse OF our
people can alter the facts,
! Col. J II, Brltton returned this morn.
ing from III Paso, and will spend few
days at his old headquarters, the Binkly
house.
j Strother Brown OF Delaware BEND
returned this morning az O'Clock from a
dive weeks' Visit Ia New Orleans, his old
home. He WAS accompanied by Miss
Eliza Kidd, an old member of the family,
who comes 10 Texas 10 live with Mr.
Brown and HIS mother az their home on
Red river, Ia this county,