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Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-12-27
NEWS IND NOTES.

There are 10 200 900 books published
in Germany every year.
Musket balls were legal tender as far
| things in Boston in 1886.
The Indians of Oldtown Island, Me. -,
have organized Il printing firm.
Pneumonia is said to be on the increase
| from year TO year in the large cities.
It is estimated that the holiday sales of
| books i'll New York VIII reach 200 200
volumes.
Mandolin music is now preferred for
New York, and expert players get high
prices.
No less than fifty-six agencies for CAL
! ifornia fruits have been established in
the Eastern cities during the last two
| months.
The stamped, ornamental leather so
popular for artistic bookbinding is de-
rived from old boots and shoes, steamed
to pulp.
A Methodist preacher in Tennessee
| once divided his discourse into three
parts: First, will-ability; second, do
abil ty; third, stick-ability.
| 4 New Hampshire woman has set out
to count the kernels of corn on so 900
| full-sized cobs, and at last reports she
had got through with 5000 cobs and was
not discouraged.
The largest electric plant in the world
will soon be put IN operation. London is
to be Illuminated by electricity, and a
contract for the immense undertaking
has already been made.
The brandy cigarette is the latest thing
from Boston. 1t is made of tobacco that
has been soaked in brandy, and the
smoker is enabled to keep mildly intoXi-
Gated without touching drop of liquor.
The following are the figures showing
the size of the European armies: Rus
STA, 1000 600; Germany, $500, 900;
France, > ,430 900, with perhaps l ,00G,
900 more if needed; Austria, ,077 900;
Italy, ? 400 900; Turkey, 500 900.
The salaries of the colonial governors
are very high. New Zealand pays 1880
year; Bermuda, $4,000; Jamaica, $4,000;
Feejee, $4,000 and British Guiana, $4,000.
The entire Feejee revenue is only f15 900.
There are only a handful of whites there.
The most monOtonous city in its build
ings is Paris, the houses there being al
most all alike. An attempt is now being
made 10 vary InlS by Dullulng houses OF
the style of the Renaissance and Louis
XI, and hope is expressed that the ex-
ample will be followed generally.
A newly invented bolt for fastening to-
gether heavy timbers does away with the
need of a nut. The head of the bolt is
provided with spring. Upon striking
this spring with a hammer two arms fly
out from he shank of the bolt, pressing
against the timber and performing the
Office of a nut.
Senator Edmunds says that the tariff
affords the farmer a home market for
his products. The narrow, jaundiced,
though acute, mind of the senator does
not permit him to see any wheat raised in
the United States except the 400 bushels
Vermont produces among her granite
uuarries and ice fields.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-12-27
Our Panhandle Platform.

Clarendon News.
We favor the calling of a state consti-
tutional convention as early as practical
bic to remove the barriers to certain
needed legislation.
That the lease law should be so changed
that no individual or company can lease
more than three sections of land i'll agri-
cultural districts, and this subject to set
tlement.
A revised classification and a reap
praisement of public lands.
All strictly grazing lands to be subject
to sale at price not exceeding 81 per
acre, according to their appraised value
giving no one purchaser to exceed four
sections.
Let the state donate 160 acres of each
agricultural section to some actual set
tier as homestead on condition that he
occupies and improves it for three con-
secutive years, and give him the refusal
to buy the balance OF said section
within the three years, if not taken up
Repeal of all occupation taxes except
travelling shows and peddlers.
a new school law extending the schoI-
astic age from six to twenty-one years of
age,
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-12-27
Fort Worth, Texas.

Few people of the North who have
never visited Texas have any conception
of this, one of the most beautiful, fer
tile and productive states in the Union
Texas possesses a climate and soil suited
to the most abundant growth of all kinds
of grain and vegetation. The soil is ap-
parently inexhaustible and produces from
three-fourths to bale of the best grade
of cotton, from twenty to thirty five
bushels of wheat, and from forty to
seventy-fve bushels of corn per acre
Rye, oats, barley, sweet and Irish po-
tatoes, and vegetation of all kinds are
grown in abundance, with less care and
work than are required to produce
the same in the soil of any
other state. There is probably no
other stats in the Southwest that is re-
ceiving more attention from capitalist
and farmers at the present time than
Texas, and few states offer greater in
ducements to capital, laborers, and arti-
sans than this, the Lone Star state.
The wonderful growth of the cities and
towns of the state is well illustrated in
that of Fort Worth. The city ten years
ago contained only 1900 inhabitants; to-
day it is live prosperous city of over
- ,uuO DODildbAOiJ DNeluliIulIl OuI
handsomely built up with substantial
manufacturing wholesale, and business
houses. The trade of Fort Worth is very
large, as will be seen from the fact that
one wholesale grocery house did bust
ness of over 81 500 600 during the past
year. The city is surrounded by
elegant residences, which for
architectural beauty and finish
are not excelled by any city in the West.
There are two lines of street railway with
track and equipage in first-class condi-
ton and well managed. There are six
banks, and the building is well undex
way for the seventh, which will Sc
opened for business in about three
months.
Fort Worth is reached by eleven lines
of railway which affords unlimited facil-
tiles for business. This city offers I'M
limited advantages to all kinds. of bust
ness, manufacturing wholesale and.
retail. The city is surrounded by rich
farming country which is greater in ex-
tent than Wisconsin and Minnesota COM
bined. This vast section of the state is
dependent on Fort Worth for its supplies
for years to come, which guarantees its
future prosperity.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-12-27

sional district-the votes of the ''doubt-
full states would no longer be the gilt
tering prize they are now, for they would
be divided almost evenly between the two
parties. Under that system New York
would have given about nineteen cleo
toral votes for Harrison and seventeen for
Cleveland Massachusetts would have
given twelve votes for Harrison and two
for Cleveland. Under this plan the min
ority in each state would have some
representation, unless the state is over
whelmingly one way, as in the case of
Vermont or Texas.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-12-27
4BOUT MEN md WOMEM

A correspondent writing from New
York says that Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt
frequently prepares the dessert for her
family.
One of st. Paul s wea!thiest citizens is
William Dawson, who has fortune of
So, 600 900. He reached st. Paul in 1861
with $1,000 i'll his pockets. His wealth
has been acquired i'll real estate.
The delayed installation of Rev. DR..
Lyman Abbott as pastor of Plymouth
church in Brooklyn is causing talk among
the congregation. There is supposed to
be disagreement among the members of
the committee as to the precise form of
ceremony to be used.
Mr.. Topliff of Cleveland is nothing if
not enterprising. He proposes to take a
phonographophone with him around the
world and record his impressions, sending
the phonograms to his daughter What
an improvement over a letter and what Il
great people we Americans are anyway
Professor Chandler Roberts, the English
chemist, has been analyzing the smoke
cloud which perpetually hangs over
London. He estimates that it contains
about fifty tons of solid carbon in gaseous
combination. The expense of this waste
of coal is figured at Sl3 900, 600 annually
Elihu Stevens of Belgrade is supposed
to be the oldest man in Kennebec county
Maine. Though on the Goth of next
January Mr.. Stevens will labor under the
weight of 101 years, his step is as elastic
and his mind as clear as that of many
man of sixty. He has had twenty
children, and his defendants in the third
fourth and fifth generations number 326.
At the recent elections the family cast
thirty-six Republican votes for governor
and forty-eight for president. MIR.
Stevens attributes his longevity in a
measure to the fact that ne has never
smoked tobocco nor drank intoxicating
liquors.
Mary McGovern appeared before a
New York judge rs her own attorney.
The New Home Sewing Machine Com
pany brought action against her for the
recovery of machine which the defend
ant had retained in her possession for two
years and half. Miss McGovern stated
that the agent had left the machine ut
her house against her wish, and that she
had paid 81 for the use of it, She had
never used it, and she demanded the re-
turn of her 81. This the prosecution OBJ
iected to, and she demanded rent for
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-12-27

storage The judge sustained her, the 81
was returned and Mary walked out of the
court room at least an inch taller than
when she entered.
Hon. s. E Sewen died at Boston on
the goth inst. He was born in Boston
November 8, 1893. He was graduated
from Harvard college in 1917, having
among his classmates Hon. Caleb Cush-
ing and George Bancroft, the latter being
now, by the death of Mr.. Sewell, the
only surviving member of that class. He
became early interested in the anti
slavery cause, and was associated with
William Lloyd Garrison in establishing
the Liberator in 1881. He was the coun-
sci for the defense of Sims, AnEhony
Burns and other fugitive Slaves = He
prepared the arguments and assisted by
his counsel and suggestion at the trial OF
John Brown. -.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-12-27
RELIGION AND THE STATE

The pending proposition of Senator
Blair to amend the constitution should
be, and doubtless will be, rejected
TAis proposed amendment is of curious
composition and calculated to subject the
public free schools of the land to va
cillating administration hurtful in the
highest degree to their efficiency. The
contradiction in the bill is vital defect 3,
and will beapparent on a comparison of
the first two sections Section l reads:
No state shall ever make maintain any law
respecting an establishment OF the religion; or
prohibiting the free exercise thereof.
Then section reads as follows:
Each state in the union shall establish and
maintain a system of free public schools ade-
CUTE for the education OF all the children living
therein, between the ases of six and sixteen
years, inclusive, in the common branches Of
knowledge, and. ii virtue, morality, and the
principles of the Christian religion.
This is sort of Hggling-now you see
it, and now you don t. That is, the
principles of the Christian religion shall l
not be established by law, yet
they snail be. For while there shall be
no established religion. the teachers of
the public schools must inculcate the
principles of the Christian religion. The
question arises, what ,sfre the principles
of the Christian religion? One teacher
might answer one thing and the next
another.
The people, and. especially the mem
bers of each religious determination, will
say keep religion out6f the schools, for,
once it gains entrahce. there, sectarian
differences would destroy them. Of all
the citizens of the republic, the Christian
people should pray and vote to maintain
the constitution as it is, and forever per-
petuate the present separation of church
and state.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-12-27
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PARDONABIE PRIDE .

Wills Point Chronicle: The Fort Worth
GAZETTE on the 9th inst. GER
tainly dorned an elegant new
new dress, and came greeting its
many readers with broad smile of con-
scious dissatisfaction. A perfect
beauty, is the most perfect and strongest
characterization of its neat and elegant
appearance, and we will waste no words
in trying further to describe it.
THE GAZETTE is now printed from stere-
otype plates, made in its own office, on a
webb perfecting press, in fine three
story brick building, built expressly for
its own use.
This evidence of the permanent estab-
lishment of one of the great newspapers
in one of the great cities of the greatest
state of the greatest nation should be Il
source of pleasure to our whole people.
The greatness of Texas is locked up in the
greatness of her newspapers, and THE
GAZETTE is one of them.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-12-27
INTELLIGENCE SHOULD RULE.

The question of an educational qualifi-
cation for suffrage is being agitated in
South Carolina as the easiest practicable
method of escape from the political diff
culties growing out of the large negro
population of the state. A majority of
the newspapers of the state are OPP
posed TO the proposed innovation, though
the leading journal, the Charleston
News and Courier, and Governor Rich
ardson are numbered among its advo-
Gates.
The chief argument used against the
restriction OF suffrage is that it would
lessen Southern representation and power
in congress. 1t is claimed by the advo-
Gates of an educational test that such
would not be its effect-that the basis
of representation would continue
the same as at present. For such an
opinion they have the authority of pre-
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-12-27

cedents in several Northern states, that
have abridged suffrage in various ways
without having these restrictions counted
against them in the congressional appor-
tionment
The question is not sectional one,
and should not he considered from sec
tional standpoint. A free government is
necessarily grounded upon popular in
telligence, and every non-intelligent
voter is a menace rather than a prop to
it. Such voter lowers the standard
of popular judgment and lessons the
respect of the minority for the viii of
the majority.
To give a man voice in the decision
of grave public issues when
he is confessedly incompetent
to manage affairs of the slightest import
ance involves an absurdity and provokes
a national danger. This government can
be kept free and made perpetual only so
long as its course is directed by the con-
servatism and intelligence of the country.
Whenever it is shown that the ballot
box is III danger of being captured by
ignorance, restrictive measures are not
only justifable but become imperative.
North and South have a common interest
in making intelligence the dominant fac
tor in American politics, and there is no
reason why they should not join in
movement having for its purpose the
adoption of general restrictions that
would effectuate this end.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-12-27
Not Built That Way.

One of our friends wants to know if we
have ever seen a baldheaded woman No
we never did. Why should we? Nor
we never saw woman Waiting around
town in her shirt sleeves with cigar be-
tween her teeth, stepping into every sa-
loon she saw. We never saw woman
go fishing with bottle in each pocket
sit on the damp ground all day and go
home drunk at night. Neither have we
seen a woman yank off her coat, spit on
her hands and say she can lick any sun
of-a-gun i'll town. No, God bless her :,
she ain t built that way.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-12-27

The State of Texas-To the Sheriff or any COM
stable OF Tarrant County, Greeting: : 49,,
j. w. Trigg, guardian of the estate of Maggie
Galloway and Joe Galloway, minors, having filed
in our county court his final account essthe con-
dition of the estate of said minors, tcSetr with
an application to resign said guardiastshiNA
You are hereby commanded that BY mixing
publication of this writ once aweek for threesuc-
a newspaper regularly publishes. in the County
of Taffsnt you give due noticeS all Persons in
teresteain ssid guardianship tdseppear at the
.snnaTytsr1If of said court, conyris lcing on the
leaslay IN January, Al d. Es3;and contest
said accdtEt if they see p5pber to do So.
r Witness!Salla P. King, sCounty Clerk of the
GfFe& under my Ebsfd and seal of
txEAII saidtlN,rtSs az my office in the City Of
T .Fortf&otth, this 18th day of Decem-
: sber, a. 1sss. NJ
= r. JOHN P. KING,
CLERK County, Court, Tarrant County, Tex.
2 Rv.sa i i. NhiNNAIIiNs Denutv.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-12-27
Pure Cussedness.

1t will be observed that there is no pol
tiles in the quarrels between the black
and the white races down South The
outbreaks appear to be inspired by pure
cussedness, which has unquestionably
been the source of most of the race feuds
i'll the Southern states. Yet 1t may be
anticipated that some partisan fool will
get up on his hind legs and wave the
bloody shirt, with fearful menaces of re-
venge, before the eyes of the testy South
IONS.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-12-27
LEAP YEARS LAST NOTCH.

Young Lionel, the truth to tell,
Called somewhat oft on Isabel.
Twas hard to say, from day to day,
With what precise intent he went;
With persiflagc and badinage
Sped on the hours, and not a sign
There was os motive or design,
Nor any trace Of sentiment.
Now, Isabel, who liked him well,
Was f8in to hasten Lionel
In proper way, TO plainly say
Exactly what intent he meant,
For persiHage and badinage
Amuse one, bat they give no 81 n
OF matrimonial design,
If unalloyed with sentiment.
So Lionel, it soon befel,
Observed change in Isabel.
She turned away from trifies gay,
Her manner, coy, but gentle, lent
To persihage and badirage
= subtle meaning, and q sign
OF something-if 'twere not design
Decidedly like sentiment.
Thus Isabel contrived so well
That. pleased and fiattered, Lionel
Became one day her willing prey;
For, knowing not her bent, he went
Left persidage and badinage-
And plumply said to her, BE mine!''
Since then, 'twcre fair to state, in fine,
No lack there is of sentiment.
i Walter Clarke, III December Table Talk
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-12-27

PARTICIPATING IN the general discus
sion of how .select the president, the
Boston Globe saagests that the electors,
should be chosehgby congressional dig
tricts, SO as to giyS5he minority dsv6&.
,Fhe Globe, says: The electoral SYSTEM
slsavld be retained but the doctors no
lSnger be chosen all ON one ballot for
each statef II EACH voter were allowed
to vote for only three electors-two for
his state at large and one for his congress
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-12-27

THAT county road convention to meet
in this city next Saturday is an import
ant one to farmer and merchant. The
attendance should be in proportion to its
importance. Better roads have been
agitated for years, and the time has come
for action. That meeting will discuss not
so much the need of roads, but the ways
and means to secure good roads, and
every man with practical idea should be
present
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-12-27

EDISON 5 invention comes too late for
Tlny n pair of bright eyes to open in
wonder hereafter if all that is said of it
be true. The statement is made that
this wonderful man has invented doll
that will repeat, photograph fashion,
what is said or whistIed to it.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-12-27

THE leaven is working. The San Antonio Ex-
press contains the following:
And four years hence we will have the pleasure
of shouting the glad tidings Of victory under the
banner of common sense and Samuel j. Randall
of the United States.-iDallas Journal.
You mean three, don't you, arld not
leaven? The Dallas Journal is onei,s-the
San Antonio Express is two, and the
Houston Age is three. Where are the
other eight?
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-12-27

THE Dallas Journal is epigrammatic.
1t says: "Men who deem it necessary to
constantly parade solicited evidences of
their good character will generally bear
watching. The same may be remarked
of great public journals. -
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-12-27
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FROM SCOOPERNILIE.

Willis Index: The Fort Worth Ca
zETTE perpetrated a huge SCOOP on the
Dallas News in being the first newspaper
in Texas to publish the final result of the
Rev. Hanks trial in Dallas, and is not
yet done growing over its achievement.
THE GAZETTE is clearly a scooper from
ScOOperYille.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-12-27

SUI Ross is in hearty sympathy with
the needs of the people,, and any practi-
cal, feasible plan to give Texas better
public road system will have the gov
ernor's hearty cooperation, if, indeed,
he does not point the way himself.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-12-27

SOME of the papers of Texas do not
seem to realize that people do not
"have' to come to this state. Texas is
a great state, but that fact Is much
better known to its own people than to
the outside world
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-12-27

ACCORDING to GAZETTE specials from
Washington, the Texas delegation seem
to be acting in hearty obedience TO the
wishes of the people as expressed in con.
vention at Fort Worth and Denver.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-12-27
Unhappy Demagogue.

The White Caps are raising hob in
Ohio, regardless of Governor Foraker s
reputation for veracity. If he shall sup
press them he viii offend lot of ruralist
fanatics; if he let them alone, practical
anarchy will be established in the state.
Foraker is in Il fix unpleasing to dema-
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-12-27
West Virginia Wants a New Name.
WheeIino TntelIioeDcar
Wheeling InteIlgencer.

The Intelligencer respectfully suggests
that the name of this state be changed to
Kanawha. Every state should have a
distinct name of its own, SO far removed
from the name of any other state that no
confusion Of names can arise. 1t should
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-12-27
Cits;sien by Publication.


sf3[No. 1920 ~"
THE STATE OF TEXAs-To the sheriff or any
constable of Tarrant county, greeting: Oathb
therefor having been made required by law,
you are hereby commanded that, hy making
publication of this citation in somevnewspaper
published in said county once a week for four
consecutive weeks previous to the feturn day
hereof, you summon W. J. Wood aud f. T.
Wood, defendants, to be and appeaSEefore the
county court, to be holden in and StIss afore-
said county of Tarrant at the courthouse hereof
iREort Worth, on the first MondGysin january,
1888, then and there to answer the petition of
S,5orrt plaintiff, filed in said coureon the 18th
day ofDecember, 1888, and nuInbefed on the
docket Of said court 2g2O, against thesaid w j.
WGpd and E. T. Wood and alleffsg fiiSsubstance
as falowss Promissory note dared October Is,
lSS7; <mherehy defendants promised to'pay to the
order q theEast Fort Wo5hlTo own Company the
sum of S2I3 50 on the 18th dSSaof Detober, 1888,
with interest e the rate Of S5sr cat. per annum
valuable conssderatisa transhefred to plaintiff.
PlaiptiI 1ssyalgdg hefa for Ms debt, interest
Ds Ts5s Isfs 5 v sBq tsss5s
same. u
issued thisthe 18th az of December, A. D.
1857, Witness; John ~ King, Clerk of the
county court ofTarrant county.
Given under sly hand and the seal of said
A. D. 1855. Atteste, JOHN P. KING,
BstJ.'J NUNNALax Deputy
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-12-27

Karnes County News: TheFort Worth
GAZETTE, in its new dress, and printed
on its new press, is the best paper i'll the
state. 1t as pretty as Il sixteen-year-
old girl, in Il white muslin dress and a
pink sun bonnet. What higher compli-
ment can we pay it?
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-12-27
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NOTHING TACKY.

Navasoto Tablet: The Bolton Journal
says there is nothing "tacky' in the
new dress of the Fort Worth GAZETTE.
The Tablet fully endorses the sentiment,
but it does not approve of the word
Ftacky'' which it regards as a ''tacky'
expression, or one that may pass for
slang.