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Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-02-24

every Day. Excellent state lands can be
had here and good location secured By
coming at once. The sooner you come
the better y n will be served. When you
e)me call on us and we will take pleasure
iu telling You sill we know about the Pam
handle Il Panhandle News.
Land which has heretofore been known
in the state as purely grazing, IS distin-
guished from agricultural, wstered or
tlmbered sections, is intriRsically of more
value TO the farmer than either Of the
other two classes. What is known as
grazing LANDS resembles the plains OF
Kansas and Nebraska, gently roll
ing prsiriss On which water cs.
be found 81 depths varying from twenty
i've to seventy-hYe feet On the
higher lands, the depths st which water
j. found is greater. On what ere known
"a watered lands in Texas, there are
large tracts Of barren country, either
sand or rock, ana their value is much
less than that Of the rich prairies covered
with grass, on which the stock range.
As for the timber sections, there are bat
W OF them and hey are absolutely
worthless for any purpose after the tina
Der has been cut OF.
Land Commissioner Hall is doing every
thing in his power to get the lands CLASH
Nd and in marketable shape by the Let
o. September, and has so fully outlined
Ehe policy he intends to pursue thst an
actual settler, taking up and occupying
any Of the unoccupied stste lands, can oe
certain OF having the first right to pur-
Chase. MIR. Halls entire policy is shaped
with view to inducing settlement in the
Panhandle.
The difference in the land laws of
Texas from those of the United States is
hat when the state entered the Union she
preserved her autonomy, and all OF the
snds within her boundaries were re-
served TO the sole use and benefs Of the
Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-02-24

Les the Commissioners Open a Straight
RoaA TO the suuth-A Liberal Ofisr.
To the EDITOR of the Gazette.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1888-12-14
MISCELLANY.
Gen. Hnrrison,s Presents.

Gen. Hnrrison's Presents.
| have letters by the hundred and turn them DER
TO Lige,
Except those from the autograph hends who ask
me 10 oblige;
have callers by the hundred who come to take
my hand,
And some Of them, sub rosa, an office to demand
get suggestions by the ton from people don't
know,
I've a cabinet to fashion, and find the process
slow:
But there's one thing above all that continually
worries me.
And that's that have got to keep big menage-
rie.
I praise the kindness of my friends, but still my
my heart regrets
That they insist on sending me so many Of their
pets.
The cinnamon bear and catamount are fighting
all the day,
And the bulldog and the grizzly are somewhat
The white mice make their uestlets in Sunday hat
shoe,
And the back yard is the play ground Of the frisky
caribou;
The moccasin snakes a gifted chap and has
pretty shape,
But my household is 50 crowded that wish he
would escape
butterhump, great horned owl, two buzzards
and loon,
big and little 'possun, a beaver and "a coon
very bald-headed eagle, an athletic Angora cat.
family Of ground hogs, aud an educated rat,
a mink, Roslin, black and tan, a tame perairie
dog,
monkey that does Juggling tricks, pig that
drinks eggnogg.
mountain sheep. two guinea hens. burro and
grouse,
Such are some Of the pleasant gifts that decorate
my house.
With bark and NEW and scream and screech and
squawk and roar and bray,
They keep the house as lively as circus night
day;
And folks that come to see me- in a panic turn
and flee
| When they hear mighty rumpus in my menag
erie.
But still from st. Croix river clear out to the
Golden Gate
Men are packing curious animals and birds in box
The very next express that comes may chance to
bring to me
An elephant or rhinoceros or unicorn, c. o. D.
Now, want here and now to thank nv friends of
every race,
And decline further contributions ON account Of
lack Of space.
| haven't got the land to found natural history
park,
And / don't care to make my house another
Noah's ark
do not pine for other pets, for furred or feath-
cred guests
Please keep your birds and beasts at home, and
let mt take rest
! -Netr York Sun
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1888-12-14
A Shocking Tragedy.

An indianapolis despatch of Dec. 81 saws
Geo. Hacker, poor German. was taken
into the employ of John P Bruce, baker
about three years ago, and taught the trade
He showed little gratitude, however, and
gradually became a fiery anarchist. He
disagreed with Bruce in politics, and AWAY.
became greatly enraged when discussing
them, This morning when Bruce entered
the bakery 10 mix the flour for his bread
Hacker, who had concealed himself in the
room, sprang on him with a hatchet and q
long knife. He struck Bruce about the eve
with the sharp edge of the Ratchet and on
the head with the back then he crowded
his victim against the wall and deliberately
plunged the dagger nine times into Bruce.
neck and face. The victim then cried out
for his wife, and the brave little woman
rushed into the dimly lighted room and
grabbed the bloody anarchist about the
neck, dragging him away from her husband
just AS he was lifting the Ratchet to brain
him. terrible struggle took place. He
was wild with murderous hate. and holding
his bloody knife in his hand he rushed
about the room endeavoring to again get at
the dying Bruce. He finally did get hy the
shielding wife aud reached Bruce, when the
latter who is of giant frame, struggled Ia
his feet in dying effort and grabbed him.
striking Hacker blow on the head which
made him flee.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1888-12-14

QUEEN NICToMA's PRIVATE ESTATES ex
tend over b, 312 acres, the annual rental.
even Mt the lately deprecilted prices. being
ego, 133 This does not include Claremont.
which in the year 1866 was granted to the
Queen for life, with the reversion to the
country. Some years ago her majesty, act.
ing under the advice of Lord Sydney, pur.
chased the property for the sum of e1S, 600,
estimated at the time as being II little over
half its market value 1t is said to be
worth today fl50,OOO. The Queen also
possesses property at Coburg, and the Prin-
cess Hohenlohe left her the Villa Hohenlobe
at Baden, one of the best and most valua.
BILE residences in the place As to personal
property, there was the bequest of a quar-.
ter of a million left to her majesty by Sir
James Camden Neild This will was prov
ed in 1852, and at the compound interest
upon which it has been nurtured the be-.
quest must now have reached magnificent
proportions. Then there is the property
left by the Prince Consort, estimated t.
have reached nearly $500, 600, but as this
will was never proved and so escaped pro.
bate duty, the exact amount is not known.
These items are over and above the Queens
annual savings.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1888-12-14
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Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1888-12-14

fairly snap as they disappear in the hole at
the corner Of the table. The yardmaster
raises his head and yawns His mind is a
little hazy. What are those freight cars
moving slowly 10y the window
He yawns again. There is a piece of ia
per under his hand lie picks it up me
chanically-
Hold No. Co
With wild shout the old yardmaster
SEXES his lantern, throws open the door,
and bounds out upon the platform. The
caboose is just drawing slowly by He
shouts and waves his lantern frantically.
The conductor sees him. Other lanterns
are waved There is a shrek from the
engine, and the long train comes to a stand
still
THE dispatcher has some orders for
you" was all that Mr. Toby said and af-
tar had received and delivered the warn
ing messages, and the train had gone. |
found the old man in his office alone, cry
ing like a child.
And then he told the story have told
you but no one besides Mr.. Toby and my
self, excepting, perhaps, Shem Ham and
Japhet, ever knew how near the old yard
master came to fatally neglecting his duty.
DyuEo's u,tugyin
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1888-12-14

From the New York Mail and Express
A play thing-The piano.
Modern Grease-Lard.
Caught on the fy-Trout.
A loan fellow-The pawnbroker.
Always nosing 'round-Pigs.
The burning question-Smoke
Stationary pressure-Paper weight.
For hard sleepers- The iron bedstead.
I'm the soup'-The ladle.
Always cutting up'-rhe carver.
A short story-"Declined with thanks"
Out-of- the way-places-Siberia and Alas
ka.
Usually dark as pitch-Tar.
Human enthusiastically bores
Have the laugh on them-Minstrels
Very head strong-'ioats.
An ale ing uation-The English
An old, well-known club man-Hercules
The real Cabinet makers-Carpenters
Always striking oil--Salad makers.
Cutting off income-Clipping coupons.
Magazines for sweet singers" Harpers'
Boards of charity-Station house hunks
A wedding present-The clergyman's fee
a private residence Military barracks
Motto Of ragpickers-"By hook or b!
crook
How to raise the wind-Use a fan.
Some very old masters-Yale professors
Hump themselves over the desert-Cam
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1888-12-14

A WOMAN DEFAULTER is rarity, and
we believe will continue to be So 1t is
said that there has been only one instance
of dishonesty proved against woman dur,
ing the many years they have been EN-
ployed in the treasury department, and the
case of the internal revenue clerk in Har-
risburg is 50 unusual that it excites univer.
sal remark, 1t is perhaps worthy of note
as going to prove that financial dishonesty
seems more unnatural in a woman than in
man that this person. who is a defaulter
to the large amount, considering her op-
portunties, of 81, 500, was peculiarly mas
cuine in her dress, manners and ways of
life. One Of these traits was her habit of
entertaining men friends in a lavish way
IN restaurants at the governments expense.
To fill out the picture, it should be added
that her brother who is one of her bonds
men, and who has agreed TO make good the
loss of the others, must sacrifice the saw
lngs OF years in order to do sou. Y.
ITibuug
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1888-12-14

The streets of st. Johnsbury are to he
lighted by electricity.
A. A. Earle has sold the White River
Junction Landmark to his foreman, Chas.
r. Jameson
new steam lumber mill with a capaci-
ty of 900, 900 feet a year, will soon be
erected at the foot Of Dandy mountain.
Barre people are talking of a new public
library.
Eleven out Of herd of 10 cattle belong
ing TO Isaac Tubbs Of Clarendon, have died
from pleuropneumona. The farm has been
quarantined.
The postmaster general has ordered the
establishment of the free delivery system
at st. Adams
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1888-12-14

An Albany compositor wrestled with
scripture after this fashion They would
strain at goat and swallow canal !"
The person who first mentioned Gen.
Harrison for the presidency has been found
at last. She is gypsy queen, and she
isn't looking for a reward, bless her Bos-
ton Herald.
Dobson-We just heard of your mar
riage, old boy.
Hobson-(sadly)-Yes, l was married
three months ago.
Dobson-Well, it isn't too late to offer
congratulations, of course.
Hobson-A little late, Dobson, a little
late. Life.
81 was getting measured for a suit of
clothes this mawning," said young Mr..
Sissy to his pretty cousin and just for a
joke, y know, awsked Snipem if it veal
" took nine tailors TO make a man. He
said it would take more than nine tailors
TO make man of some people, | thought
il WAS quite cleVah ~
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1888-12-14
FreaL- of the English Language

The curiositieS of literature are certainly
doubled by the English language There is
little wonder that a Frenchman prefers the
gulllotine to an extended course of English
instruction, while the German looks at his
task in wild despair and hopes for an early
death. The addition of a single letter so
changes the pronunciation of word that
one who is unused to the language stumbles
at every step The letter changes lover
into clover makes IA crow a crowd 4
makes eyed keyed . changes a son into
song I transforms pear into pearl $
changes "A hoe into IA shoe; makes bough
bought; ~ makes omen into women. Lit
tie wonder that some one has called our al.
phabet pugnacious, aud declares that he has
known the time when b fit, d cried, ragged
and { pounded The academic.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1888-12-14
Terrible Confession of an Incendiary.

William Radiger of Kalamazoo, Mich
has just made public the sensational con
fession of a dying man, Heinrich Schance,
a bridge builder of Chicago, made to Radi-
ger in that city last May Schance's con
fession, in substance, is as follows "In
1914 my partner, Schultz, and myself rob
bed barn in Colverte, Prussia, and to
throw off suspicion we set fire to the barn.
A strong wind was blowing and soon, to
our horror, 100 houses and stores were in
flames. The village was burned to the
ground. The suffering that night was hor-
rible, many mothers and children perish
ing in the flames Large rewards were Of
fered for the perpetrators of the deed, but
we were never caught. As people gather
ed at the fire we stole away through the
woods. | Immediately took a steamer for
America, came to Chicago and have been
here ever since. My partner was Drawer
criminal than |. He remained, and is still
living in Colverte, Prussia, where he is a
wealthy merchant" Schance enjoined up
on Radiger that he should forward the con
fession to the German authorities, and the
latter made a sworn statement of the facts,
which he has forwarded to the German
consul at Cincinnati
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1888-12-14

A correspondent of the Northwestern
Railroader advances curious theory for
the increasing prevalence of floods and rain,
storms. He says that there are over 30, 900
locomotives in use in North America, and
estimates that from them alone over 81, 900,
OOh, 600 cubic yards of vapor are sent into
the atmosphere every week, 10 be returned
in the form of rain, or over 1000, 600, 600
cubic yards day-''quite enough, " he says,
to produce good rainfall every "a hours Z"
gines in use as eight times the number of
locomotives, the total vapor thus sent into
the air every week in this country amounts
TO more than 470, 900, OOO, 900 cubic yards.
us this not, he asks, Sufficient reason for
the floods of terror Is there any reason to
wonder why our storms are so damaging -
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1888-12-14

Gulf. Several men in that region became
interested in the discovery and determined
to investigate. A shaft was sunk about
30 feet, but nothing unusual was noticed
until the other morning a workman pushed
bar into the crevice inside the shaft and
detached a mass of material, opening a
small hole from which and into which air
seemed TO rush, accompanied by loud
noise as of escaping steam. A sound as of
running water over a shoal is plainly heard
on top Of the ground, but more plainly
when in the shaft Those who have de
scended the shaft agree that the sounds are
Enthusiastically those of an underground
river Of considerable size. The discovery
has caused no little excitement in that re-
gion and it is proposed to continue the in
Vestipntion
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1888-12-14

Some time ago workmen were digging a
well near Blacks, S. c., when crowbar
used by one of them fell through crevice
and disappeared Blacks is ON a direct
line between Raleigh, N. c., where an I'M
derground river was recently discovered,
and Lawrence, S. c., where immense caves
have been brought to light by the sinking
of some land, and it is thought that an I'M
derground river of considerable size runs
along the mountain belt of North and South
Carolina, finally working it way into the
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1888-12-14

A hamlet in valley sleeping;
Moonlight DER the tree-tops creeping;
A ripping stream, like bar Of gold,
Glinting the mountains shaggy mould.
The tender notes Of the whip poOr-will
Are family heard from distant hill,
And the sick man turns on his bed Of pain,
To hear the plaintiye call again.
Darkening shadows deeper grow,
And signing zephyrs whisper low.
Upon the brow Of the quiet street
The hallowed dead our visions greet,
And marble forms In longing rise
To touch the jewels of the skies!
M.,Ey
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1888-12-14
A Man withOu, Ance.,r,.

As soon as the American negro seeks to
rise above the level Of the former time, he
finds himself confronted with the past Of his
race and the woes of his kindred. The
white man traces his ancestry back for gen
erations knows whence they came where
they lived and guesses what they did To
the American negro, the past is only dark
ness replete with unimaginable horrors.
Ancestors he has none. Until a quarter of
century he had no record Of his kindred.
He had no father, no mother, only sire
aud dam. Being bred for market, he had
no name, only a distinguishing appelative,
like that Of horse or dog. Even in com.
pnrison with these animals, he was at a dis.
advantages there was no "herdbookn of
slaves. The remembrance of this condi-
ton is not pleasant and can never become
so. 1t is exasperating, calling, degrading.
Every freedman's life is colored by this
shadow Thus the life of the negro, as a
slave, freedman, and racial outcast, offers
undoubtedly the richest mine of romantic
material that was ever opened to the Eng
lish- speaking novelist since the Wizard of
the North discovered and depicted the com
mon life of Scotland. The negro as a man
has an immense advantage over the negro
as a servant, being an altogether new char
acter in fiction.-4. w. T'ourg6e in the Dec.
FORUM
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1888-12-14
Con.nn,nlion Cured

An old physician, retired from practice. having
had placed In his hands by an East India mission,
AIRY lhe formula ut simple vegetable remedy for
the speedy and permanent cure of COnsunption
bronchitis Catarrh, Asthma and all throat and
Lung AHectiuns, ulSu'a positive and radical cure
ailer having tested It's wonderful curative powers
~ thousands of casTs has felt II his duty to make
II khowhto his suffering fellows. Actuated by this
WIN sen, Tree Of charge, 10 all who desire H. this
ntclpr, In German, French or English, with fun
alrrcli9hs Tor preparing and using Sent by mail
W. A. MOVES ll9 P0wcrs Block. Rochester, N y
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1888-12-14

'A''7Ansf
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Verlislng that has been done for II. / know il Is
good tling or ! should not take the trouble Ia
sri T. james X. Murrrl secretary Of the West
srn Massachusetts, Poultry Association. l.. b. Lord
Proprietor, Burlington, NtSod Brattleboro by
all dealers In poultry supplies
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1888-12-14
Back NumberH.

The bald-headed man, IN his family pew,
Leaned back on his cushion and slunbered,
Aud he dreamed that the preacher these words
had proclaimed
THE hairs of your head are all numbered"
The bald headed man uwoke with start
From his weekly devotional slumbers;
Then he sank ON his knees and feryently pray ed,
80, Lord! send me down the back numbers"
Judge.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1888-12-14

shop without them | consider your Sulphur Bit
ters remarkable blood purider | know OF sew.
eral people whose cases were considered Homeless
1 1nat nave eeen entirely cured by your medicine
The sale Of sulphur Bitters h So large here thaf (
could not Keep shop without them.-E 81 Yates
Pharmacist ~ Essex st. Lawrence, Mass
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1888-12-14
THE new YORK TRIBUNE

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Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1888-12-14

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