Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-02-11

Won't Rusk nc handsome street when
al those improvements are completely
There is an active demand for good
Texas brood mares, principally from Col
orado.
The improvements on Weatherford
street will make that fine thoroughfare
for driving
The amateur gardener Is beginning to
get In his work, and the spring IS COM
ing, gentle Annie
One local firm has sold 225 crates OF
cabhagcs this week, which Is pretty good
for "dead town."
A marriage license was Issued yester-
day 10 Mr.. Jas VI. Maddox and Miss
Josie b. Douglass,
Mr.. Annisser's new hour mill, soon to
be put In operation, will have capacity
OF 100 barrels per day.
Mr.. i. w. Smith of Columbia, Mo, Is
Just in with $50 head Of fine graded Here
fords for local firm.
The hotel registers are silent but trust.
worthy witnesses Of the truth OF Capt.
Britton's historic remark.
GAZETTE man saw patch OF rye
near town, the verdancy of which sug-
gested the glorious epoch Of picnics
All the home cattlemen that have GOT
back from their trip to Denver unite in
saying they had jolly time whether they
accomplished much good or not.
There was pleasant dance Tuesday
night at the hospitable home OF Mr.. Jim
0rrick 10 the White settlement. num-
Der of couples from the city attended.
Only one case was tried in the county
court yesterday Ia this the demurrer of
defendant IN the suit Of NJ 7. Bruce vs..
the State National Bank was sustained.
Plaintiff appealed.
1t was rumored at the courthouse yes
terday that Judge Beckham would return
from Weatherford and hold a special ses-
sion Of the district court Sunday evening
to try n certain divorce suit.
The Western Union Office Is undergoing
some changes, railing, new desk and
other improvement having been made
The business has increased so lately that
another operator has been added TO the
/ force.
4 The first case under the new city
ordinance prohibiting the harboring o
| tramps was tried before his honor
Recorder Field, yesterday. Gus Rintle
man was the defendant, and was acquitted
( by a jury.
The Orange County Reporter notices
4 the purchase of half interest in ninet,
acres of land near Clay Springs, in thu
county Of that name in Florida, by Mr.
| r. A. Bacon of Fort Worth. We trus
the gentleman win not forget THE GA
zETTE when his orange crop is harvested
The employees OF the Texas Express
company at the depot say they can see N,
effect of the boycott at Galveston in thu
increase of express freight from thu
South, but that it looks as If the Western
merchants were afraid of it, for the busi
ness done IN that direction has all of
sudden taken great boom.
Two gentlemen living on the road &
Grapevine said yesterday that If our com
missionersi court would only provide 70
the grading and graveling of straigh
road between Fort Worth and Grapevin
they were satisfied they could raise ever
dollar needed TO put the work through
They say the people along the road woul
willingly take the county's scrip withou
interest and wait until the money was i
the treasury if they can only get a goo
road,
OF Mr.. M. b. Curtis play, which wi
BE given here tonight, the San FrancisC
Daily Alta says: A crowded audienC
last night at the Bush Street theat'
laughed their ill at the shrewd remarl
of Sam'l Of Posen Curtis has made
study for years of the more pronounce
character, and has become master
that particular line of imitation. The
is nothing il-natured in the conception
the character, and nothing that at s
arouses race prejudice.