Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-12-21

aud advantages of that growing and
prosperous young city.
The Gate City has abandoned the daily
telegraphic report. 1t says LAREDO will
not support paper publishing it.
W. l.. Newman and S. T. Farr have
| started the Waller County Courier at
Hampstead. Mrs. Farr is associate edi-
| tor.
The Greenville Banner pretends that u
citizen of that place is trying to cross his
bees with lightning bugs so that they will
wOrl. after dark.
The holiday edition of the San Antonio
| Express is a handsome piece of work, and
what is better than good looks, it will
| prove of material benefit to the Alamo
| City.
! The New York Mail and Express says:
| Commodore Vanderbilt had eight sons
in-laW, and Elliott F. Shepard is not one
or them; he belongs 10 the next younger
| generation.
The Ballinger Eagle rightfully congrat-
uIatcs itself on being now planted Oh n
solid foundation meath its own vine
and fig tree. - The Eagle has purchased
a house and lot and the material formerly
used i'll the publication of the Bulletin.
George Augustus Sala, the English
| journalist, always wears a white waist
coat. lie says: ''You can t very weli
murder when you have white waistcOat
on. By DOMINIC that snowy garment
| you have, in manner, given hostages
to responsibility Perhaps he is afraid
of being mistaken for "Jack the
Ripper. -
MIR. c. A. Sn0wden, editor of the Chi
cago Times since the new management
came i'll Il year ago, has retired, and J u,
j West, the representative of the syndi-
cate controlling the paper, assumes ed
itorial charge. There will be various
changes in the editorial force, but none
i'll the policy of the paper, which will
continue independent with Republican
leanings. There are rumors that eI-
Mayor Harrison intends buying into the
paper, but they are without foundation.
West represents the Iowa syndicate which
furnished the money TO purchase the pa
per.
The Gainesville Hesperiau tells peril
nent truth when it says: Take the news
papers of the various cities and toYnse in
Texas and you will find in them a:IeheX
OF the community from which they are
issued. If the town is active, energetic
and enterprising the fact is ShOwIas in the
advertising columns and in the general
appearance of its newspaper. TfIix. is
inevitable and unfailing. 1t somstiiss
happens that the newspaper isssJette&
than the town i'll which it Is pugNsh ed,
but the town is never better thafEShe
newspaper. Such q thing is a moral i'm
possibility. OF course, reference is had
only to the leading newspaper.
McEachin & Davis of the Arson West
ern have declared contemplated trans
fer off, i'll this vigorous language: We
know there are men in the county who
could not live without lying on and abus-
ing the Western To this class we will say,
Cod bless you, we love liar, and we
prosper on your villitication. Wade in.
From the number of good men who have
said they are glad the trade fell through,
we are constrained to remark that we are
here to stay. The Western Is on a paying
basis; owes no debts but what it can pay,
and can stand just as much of the devil
as you can shove at it. The Western
will continue business at the new office,
where we will always be pleased to meet
our friends and swap lies with the public
generally