Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-12-09
DALLAS.
No Indications or Possibility OF a Cen
eral Mercantile Crash The Business
Men Conservative.
Neat Compliment Paid The Gazette-s. H.
Hurlock Released on Bond-0f for o
Hunt-Residenee Burglarized.
THE COUNTRY SAFE !.


| Special to the Gazette.
Reardon, cashier of the City National
Bank, said to-day: s'Your report in
Fridays GAZETTE in reference to mer-
camille troubles is liable to cause erron-
eous impressions concerning Dallas,
While you may hear street rumofs ~
failures, it is seldom there is sufficient
ground for them, and l positively lSilow
there is no good ground for the .unsf.si-'
ness you reported in. your special .sOf
course there may be occasional srHall
failures here as at other business points,
but the general mercantile outlook IS.
uot only encouraging but i'll my opinion
better than it has been for years.
The merchants of Dallas generally are in
good condition and they find no trouble
in getting money. We have more money
loaned now than ever before, and any
Dallas bank has plenty of money to let
on good paper. There has been some
depression in trade owing to short crops
and bad weather, but fair collections are
being made by all, and no doubt these
will improve in a few weeks.
"There is no reason for us to expect
anything like general mercantile
crash. In fact l know positively
that there can be none in Dallas.
My acquaintance with the business in
terests is intimate and 1 can say with Ger
tainty that have never known more
conservative business community than
that of Dallas. 1 regret that you gave
these general rumors sufficient import
ance as to publish them. -
Hon. Henry EXall, vice-president of
the North Texas National Bank, said:
"The information upon which you pub
lished your Fridays special was quite
unreliable. Dallas is all right and the
worst part of the year is over. Cotton is
beginning to move freely now,
and the depression which ex-
listed here month ago
is well nigh relieved. The
merchants found no trouble in getting
money to carry them through the duh
season, and certainly they find no such
difficulty now that trade is revived and
collections are being made. As far rs
Dallas is concerned, l can say that know
of several great enterprises that are on
foot, and which will eliminate soon in
actual work. So far from being panicky,
plans are being matured for 1889 that
will eclipse any record of progress that
Dallas has made in any previous year. -
THE GAZETTE this morning received
many compliments on its metropolitan
appearance. The makeup as well as
the splendid selection of matter and COM
prehensive telegraph reports all brought
out favorable expressions. The Evening
Journal said: ''The Fort Worth GAZETTE
makes its appearance in its new dress,
and worked upon its new press, now pre-
sents a handsome appearance. 1t is I'M
deniably, the morning paper of North
Texas. -
LOCAL MATTERS.
S. II. Hurlock, who was ar
rested on a capias issued
from the JUSTICES court Precinct No.
l Grayson county, charged with swind-
ling, was released to-day on habeas
corpus trial before Judge Aldridge, and
his bond placed at $3.50.
The residence of j L. Peacock, corner
Magnolia and Ruth streets, was burglar
lied last night.
A drunken man named Brown scared
several East Dallas people to-day by
threatening death with Ratchet. He
was arrested.
Real estate transfers to-day aggregate
S13 900.
Judge E. G. Bower, Tom Cade, Lewis
Lenway, Stewart Cravens and A. Smith
left this morning to spend month at
Rockport, hunting, fishing, etc.
J. B. Crowdus of Fort Worth was in
town to-day.
The December term of the district
court begins Monday.
I S. W. Smith and John Daugherty were
arrested to-day charged with lunacy.
e. English was sentenced to two years
in the penitentiary, to-day for theft.