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Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-12-21
THE PROTECTION IDEA

The debate on the senate tariff bill be-
| tween Senators Berry and Hiscock We'd
nesday shows what that idea signifies to
| the Southern farmer. The debate arose
on an amendment to the senate substi-
tute tariff bill proposing the free admis-
sion of cotton ties, Senator Berry said {:
| The proposed tax illustrated the useless injus-
tice of the whole protective idea running through
| the senate substitute. The article in question
! was not manufactured in the United States. If
the tax was removed that article would not in
| jure any business interest in the United States.
| 1t was mere proposition to see the farmers of
the country pay los per cent duty on the value of
the article. The tax was discrimination against
| the farmers OF the country.
In reply to this Mr.. Hiscock gave the
the whole "protection snap" away as
follows:
He believed in a bill that would afford adequate
and complete protection to all American indus
tries that might be SO successfully prosecuted in
this country SO as to supply the American
market, More than that, he was willing to de-
pend on American competition to force down
prices.
That is to say We must not only pro-
tect infant industries and manufacturers
must be taxed to protect industrial in
fants yet unborn. For years and years
the cotton planter must pay
taxes into the national treasury TO
be voted out by Republicans in ex-
travagant appropriations in the eXpec-
tation that some day another infant in
dustry will be encouraged to come into
the world, demanding more protection
and affording more grease to the fat
fryers Of the Republican party.
And the Republicans affect surprise
that the Southern farmer is a Democrat.
The New York Tribune, the leading
Republican journal of the country, pub
fishes report of the popular vote in the
late election, which may be accepted as
entirely just to its party. This shows the
Republican victory to be artificial, not
real; the misshapen output of cumber-
some election machinery, rather than the
expression of the voice of the people.
III GlIi NOloiiuo, az
eording to the Tribune, Cleveland re-
eeived 1926 ,7O3 votes, and Harri-
son 5,lS5 ,799, making Cleveland IS
plurality 10 ,9O4. The estimated plu-
rality of Harrison in Colorado is u SAB,
which reduces Cleveland plurality to
SO ,2Gl. Exclusive of Colorado Fisk S
vote is 242 1884, and Streeter's l42 ,96S.
Cleveland increased his vote over that of
1884 by nearly a half million and his plu-
rality from % 900 to nearly 100 600
Harrison lacks nearly half million votes
of an endorsement by a majority of the
sovereigns.
These confessed facts show that the
Democratic party is stronger in 1888 than
it was in 1854; that it was beaten because
of single flaw in its intrenchments which
the enemy were shrewd enough to dis
cover. That weakness will be remedied
before the next engagement takes place.
The battle of November 6, 1888, was
not Waterloo but Bull Run.
Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-12-21

THE grand master of the Pennsylvania
Patrons of Husbandry, in his report to
the annual meeting of that order re-
Gently held at Harrisburg, complains that
the state EFFORTS more than five millions
of dollars from the farmers, above their
first proportion of the taxes. This is the
result, he says, of dividing the subjects
of taxation into two classes, corporate
and personal property, to be taxed ex
clusively for state purposes, and real
estate, to be taxed exclusively for
the maintenance of township, borough,
county and municipal government.
Under this system the corpora tons and
the Weather classes, whose property
consists chiefly of personality, maintain
the state government, while the more
serious burdens of local government rest
upon the shoulders of the farmers and
real estate owners. The Pennsylvania
theory that the legitimate purpose of tax
alton is to make richer the rich is not en-
tirely forgotten even in the local affairs
of the state.
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TIE OLD. OLD STORY.

The latest figuring places West Virginia in the
about $50 majority This is bad for that plueky
and enterprising little state. A Republican ma
iority would have at once given it credit and q
prestige in other parts of the country which it
can never hope to gain while it is controlled by
the Democrats. However, West Virginia is less
Bourbon and more progressive than any other of
the old slave states in the eastern section of the
Union.-[St. Louis Globe Democrat.
Now, why; pray? What has the poll
tics of any Southern state to do with its
credit save to commend that credit to the
public because appreciated by honest To-
cal government? Texas is something of
a Democratic state itself, and the credit
of Texas is as good as that of any Repub-
lican state in the Union. The q ID.
would have US believe that all the
money in the country is owned by Repub-
licans who will not lend it to people I'M
less they become Republican in politics.
This kind of nonsense is tiresome Mon
ey wants interest, and only avoids locali-
ties represented to be dangerous. DEM
ocratic and Republican money has come
i'll millions to Tennessee, Arkansas, Ala
bama, Georgia and Texas, and yet
all these are Democratic states.
Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-12-21
4 PROPHET OF REFORN.

In an heroic effort to deal with the
Southern question in spirit of candor
the Chicago Tribune, the high-priest of
the gospel of sectional hate, talks in an
interesting vein. Here is great truth
that the Tribune has lately learned:
The North fully recognizes that the political
trouble in the South is Of races. 1t under
stands that the whites of the cotton South do not
want the black people to make their laws, levy
their taxes. hold their courts. and rule them. In
all probability the white people Of the North,
under sim ar circumstances loouId take the same
position.
To escape the difficulty the Tribune
makes a suggestion, which, interpreted
in plain English, is that the whites of the
South shall pervert the negro vote in To-
cal elections, but permit it to be counted
for the Republican candidates III national
contests.
The logic of the Tribupe's plan is that
the guilt o. fl lud is eliminated when it
ceases to be h-:rmful to the Republican
party. 1t sees no wrong in a traffic in
the negro srigHts, under the constitution,
provided the Republicans are a party to
the transaction.
OF such are our censors, the pure souls
whose peculiar mission it is to reform the
political morals of the South.
We laugh at their threats, we mock
their anger, aud we will have none of
their counsel.
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A sine-Year.old Girl Official.
Trenton Time

trenton. IiIneS.
The city of Trenton can claim the
brightest and youngest city officer in the
state. Miss Hattie Owens, very cute and
clever for q girl of nine, has been made
second assistant city clerk, and can now
be seen on duty at certain hours filing
away in their proper order the official
documents in the city clerks office.
When Colonel Owens, the city
clerk, took possession of his new
quarters the public documents
appeared to be considerably disarranged,
and, on complaining, he found cheer
full volunteer in the person of his young
daughter, Miss Hattie, who is very small,
but sharp and methodieal. She was as
signed the work of reassorting, and is
doing it we'll She is rather annoyed on
account of being girl and announces
that, as second assistant clerk, she de-
sires to be called Harry, - and as such
she is saluted by all the city officials.
Miss Harry Owens is pretty girl of
pleasant address and with the manner of
one twice her age.
Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-12-21
INDIANA WHITE CAPS.

Several Indictments-A Vigorous Prosecution
Promised Until the Regulators Are No More
INDIANAPOLIS, IND. Dec. l5.-Goyer-
nor Gray has been notified by the prose-
cutor at Corydon, Ind, that William S.
Gregory, james L. Lynch, Lewis Jobe,
Daniel Vest, Samuel Bolt, John R. Haw-
lings, Floyd Morgan, Curtis Morgan,
William Wiseman, Reuben Robson and
Charles Miller have been indicted for the
White Cap outrages. The men are all
well-to-do citizens of Harrison county
Attorney General Kitchener who directed
the prosecution against the White Caps,
says there will be twenty-five or thirty
more indictments in the various southern
counties, and from his knowledge OF the
evidence he believes there will be Q good
many convictions. Mr.. Kitchener said
every possible effort would be put forth
to rid the state of regulators and that he
felt certain the efforts would succeed,
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ENUMERATED.
Result of the Investigation OF the Charges
Against the Rev. z. T. Hanks OF Dallas.

Result Of the Investigation OF the Charges
Against the Rev. R. 7. Hanks OF Dallas.
Special to the Gazette.
DALLAS, TEX, Dec. 1.-THE council
investigating the charges against the Rev
R. 7. Hanks which were fully set forth
in this molning's GAZETTE concluded
their labors about O'Clock this
morning after considering the evidence
all night. The report is a lengthy one.
1t exonerates the pastor of all charges
preferred against him and affirms that
the council after weighing all the testi-
mony found nothing that could attach a
spot of suspicion against his character
The charges and the evidence are consid-
cred at length in the report
which will be acted on by
the churches Sunday. The report
also advises that no legal contests grow
out of the investigation and that the re-
fractory members be permitted letters of
withdrawal. 1t is barely possible that
the church may dissent from the council
in this particular and take precipitate ac-
ton in regard to its ill-humored minority.
As far as the report refers to the pastor it
gives general satisfaction
Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-12-21

To THE NOBLE OLD Rips: What is the
matter with the South? 1t was a South
ern Democratic governor who gave cleo
ton certificate to a Republican congress
sional contestant; it was Southern sher-
iff who set an example to sheriffs all over
the Union; it was the South that gave
the Republicans their majority in the
lower house of congress; it was the South
that gave those truly loil" Republic
cans: Mosby, Chalmers, Malone and
Longstreet, to the Union, and it is a
Southern state, Texas, that will some day
soon walk INTO the house of representa-
tives and take what it sees and ask for
what it does not see.
Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-12-21

An OHIO paper, defending the carpet
Dagger, and insisting that he shall have
his usual slice of the federal pie in the
South, refers to A . B. Norton of Texas
as specimen of that species of govern
ment barnacle. This is pretty severe on
the judge, who, after living for over a
quarter Of century among Democratic
friends that have honored him for his
consistency and rugged boldness, hears
himself styled, for the first time, a car
pet-bagger by one of his party's organs.
1t is safe guess that there is no man in
the South who has less respect for the
genuine earpet-bagger than A. B. Nor
toJ
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OPIUM SMUGGLING.
Twenty Thousand Dollars Worth of the Drug
Seized Near Detroit


DETROIT, Mich Dec. A Journal
special from Port Huron says: For some
time it has been well known here and at
other points along the border that Il
big consignment of opium was EN- route
through Canada and an. effort would
be made to smuggle it across the border
somewhere III this customs district Yes
terday afternoon four customs officers
were dispatched up the shore, with in
structions to look after consignment of
the drug which would be landed
probably at Sand Beach or
near there. The plans of the officers
were successfully executed in so far as
securing the drug is concerned, but no
arrests have been yet made The opium
was taken from a little schooner near
here and hidden on the shore, the
schooner at once putting back to
Canada. The officers found the opium
last night, but the confederate, who
was guarding it escaped. The opium
is valued at about $50 200 and
was brought i'll from Eanceburg. 1t is
believed that Labelle, the famous SNUG
gler who recently escaped from the
United States officials after he had been
arrested here and was being taken to De-
troit, was engaged in the present enter
prise. Arrests are almost sure to follow.
Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-12-21

9TH proxirno. Tie governor of the state
and the Twenty first legislature and the
people, all, want good roads. The need
of improved highways has been preached
by the newspapers of the state
for years and the rains have impressed
the necessity upon the minds of all men.
This Dallas convention will advance the
convention all men will lend their best
efforts. The suffering retail trade of
Texas and the demands of a growing
agricultural population imperatively de-
mand good country roads.
Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-12-21
Nan With Experience Describes How His
Hair Was Lifted.

a 11du Nitu ENpefleuce DesCr!UtS nOW his
Hair Was Lifted.
New York Telegram.
A man who was scalped and still lives
to tell about it, is now in San Francisco
His name is Carroll Bronson, n pioneer of
the Selkirk Mountains in British Column
bia. 1t is forty-two years since he made his
way alone from the headwaters of the
Missouri to these mountains. His face is
SCARED from arrow wounds received in In
dian fights, and if he lifts his long white
hair from the side of his head he shows Il
great circular scar extending from above
his right eye clear around the right side
and back of his head almost TO the left
ear. That is where the old man was
Scalped.
1T was in 'G6 with the Sioux he
exclaimed, 'and it was the worst brush
l ever had with the Indians They came
upon camp of nine of us, and one of
them bounced upon me, seized me by the
hair, and cut around my head, where
you see this scar. Then he gave sharp
wrench upward with his right arm and
laid the skull bare l can not describe
the pain it gave me, and L don t believe
could have endured any more without
dying of it. There is 10 other torture
man can be subjected TO that will
begin to compare with being scalped.
1t is common belief that a man can t
live after being scalped, bat I've sur
vived the experience, a matter of twenty
two years, and l don t think m quite
to the end of my journey yet, even if l
am seventy years old. l know another
man up there, too, who didIi't die under
the scalping knife, The scalp was torn
completely off from the whole top of his
head, so that it had to be constantly
swathed in cotton and oil. He lived a
year. That man knew what suffering
means if ever a man did -
Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-12-21

of Texas may be expected to do no less
than is expected of him. There is gov
eminent and law in Texas, and
this state has no need
of naobs or secret organizations to right
real or fancied wrongs; and as long as
Sui Ross is governor that law will be en-
ministered according TO law. If the
local authorities Of McLennan county
cannot suppress the White Caps the state
government can and will.
Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-12-21
ALTAR AND TOMB.
lected from the Gazette's Texas
Exchanges.
MARRIAGES ,

VII. Swift and Mrs. Ada C. Swift
Palestine, December 5.
DR.. W. W. Cunningham and Miss
Bette NJ. White, Corrigan, December
10.
s. w. Duncan and Miss Fannie Lindsy +,
near Bagwell, December 6.
Harbert Chinnice and Miss Wardie
Daugherty, Tioga, December 5.
A. L. Tabor and Miss Mollie Robbins
near Pilot Point, December 8.
Frank White and Miss Sue Cow
ard, Midlothian, December 8.
s. c. Rutledge and Miss s. Stewart
Poetry, December 5.
Ed Campbell and Miss Eliza Elliott
Temple, December 10.
j. P. Latin and Miss NJ. F. Smith
San Antonio, December IL
Charles H. Tyler and Miss Lula De
Witt, Lamar county, December II.
Eugene Mangham and Miss Fannie
Wommack, Belden December ).
Thomas L. Scuggs and Miss Louise
Rigsby, Ennis, December 10.
Fulton Scott and Miss Lizzie Fred ),
Ennis, December Z.
Gustavus B. Bourland and Miss Jessie
Brown, Valley Springs, December 6.
r. II. Carr and Miss Ellie d. Martin
Ladonia, December IL.
w. V. Douglas and Miss Anna john
ston, kaufman, December 6.
John w. Williams and Miss Lucretia
Parkerson, Kaufman, December 5.
Phil Allen and Miss Daisy Graham,
Temple, December II.
Wedenmeyer and Miss Mary Hirsch,
Gatesville, December s.
George Dorsey and Miss Lorena E
Murchison, Crockett, December u.
Prof. w; B. O'Quin and Miss Lula
McMickle, Lufkin, December ..
DEATHS.
Mrs. W. Il. McNeley, Sherman, De-
cember -
ELAN f. Coleman, Ellis county, No
vember 80 i
Mrs. Gabella Quarts, Houston, Deem
Der 10.
Judge E. C. Bonham, Llano, Deem
Der 10.
Mark Stroud, Henderson, December 5.
Spencer Thomas, Kaufman, Deem
Der g.
G. L. Krowbs, Corsicana, December
IL.
August Weller, Lavaea county, De-
cember 8.
DR.. q. W. Baker, Temple, December
IL.
H. H. Strain, San Angelo, December
IL.
Mrs. E. P. Boyce, Fisher, December
IL.
Mrs. c. J. Hinson, Groveton, Deem
Der IL.
Mrs. c, F. Easton, Groveton, Deem
Der 3.
l. W. Teel, GAINESVILLE, December s.
Mrs. William Moore, Whitesboro, De-
cenIber g.
DR.. j. R. Marlborough, Mexia, Decem-
Der l2
Miss Eunice Canon, Huntsville, De-
cember 10.
J. B. Gillis, Gabriel, December II.
W. R. Nix, Lafayette, December II.
Jasper Nish, Uvalde county, December
6.
DR.. Gustave Holland, Ell Paso, Deem
Der IL.
Rev. W. G.. Galloway, Belden, De-
cember 6.
Mrs. Martha J Duncan, Bolton, De-
cember s.
J. J. Beeman, Lampasas, December
Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-12-21
THE FACTORY BOOM.
A Chicago Man to Locate in Fort Worth The
Collar and Bagging Factory.

a Chicago Man TO Locate IN Fort WOrth-Ihe
Collar and Bagging Factory.
1t looks as if Fort Worth was on the
turing enterprises started here in
small way have proved successful,
and those who have surveyed the
field taking into consideration the
unrivaled distributing facilities the fine
water supply, the proximity to coal, iron
and timber, have come to the conclusion
that Fort Worth will do to
tie to in manufacturing
way. Some time ago gentleman
came from Kansas City with machinery,
and has established an excelsior factory
TO work up cottonwood into the material
out of which mattresses and other
articles are made. A week ago
L. Gerlinger of Chicago came to Fort
Worth and looked around. He is man
of business and SOON mastered the
situation. He runs four fac
tories in Chicago and decided he
would build another one here. He
planted $500 spot cash in lot,
on which he VII build three
story 50x90 feet store, bank,
office and saloon fixture mandatory.
He has returned to Chicago and when
he returns he will bring with him two ex-
tensive builders with capital who will
erect one and two story houses which
will be sold on monthly payments.
The Spanish Moss Manufacturing Com
pany have sent a representative
east to purchase machinery for
moss collar and jute bag
ing factory, and have begun
work on a building 50x200 feet, two $50
ries, for the factory. This is but be-
ginning
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VIRTUES OF HOT WATER.
An Effective and Harmless Remedy for I'M
paired Digestion.
St. Louis Globe-Democrat.

paired Digestion.
St. Louis Globe Democrat.
The virtues of hot water have had a
great development of late years. People
of fashion, whose digestions have been
impaired, fancy that they still can eat
half a dozen courses at dinner if the wa
ter they drink with them is only hot
enough. 81 must trouble you, - they
whisper to their hostess, ''to let il be
very hot; merely warm water, you know,
has-ahem!-an unpleasant effect. - The
water is, therefore, brought as if for
shaving purposes, and generally cracks
the tumbler. The broken glass in one IS
pantry which the butler used to attribute
to 1.-the cat - is now set down to the
guests who adopt this new regime. An
other purpose for which it is used is to
send people to sleep at night. 1t is q
little inconvenient to have to supply boil
ing water in the small hours of the morn
ing to one S wakeful visitors, but TO do
them justice, most of them bring spirit
lamps and kettles of their own. 1
have a private suspicion (says James
Payn, in the Illustrated Lon
don News that they put
something in the water to induce
somnoieney; but, as they bring this with
them also ). that is not my business. The
Russians have now discovered that hot
water has quieting effect upon pris-
oners who are insubordinate-by
means of short hose, specially made to
resist the heat, and attached TO steam
pipe nozzle, they squirt boiling water
upon the offenders, and at once produce
peace and quietness-by parboiling. The
proyerbial phrase of being Gin hot
WATER has, therefore, not so much lost
its meaning in Russia as obtained pre-
cisely contrary Specification. This will,
probably, form supplementary chapter
Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-12-21

The action of Governor Ross in writing
10 the county attorney of McLennan
county and directing the latter to hunt
mp and prosecute the perpetrators of the
White Cap outrage at Waco, and if nee
essary TO call on the executive depart
ment of the state for assistance, will meet
the hearty commentator of all men. 1t
was no more than what was expected of
Sui Ross, and at all times the governor
Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-12-21
A REALISTIC PERFORMANCE.
Actors In Border Drama Engage in Lively
Fracas-The Result


CLEVELAND OHIO, Dec. l4.-During
the presentation of a border drama at
Sandusky tonight by a travelling COM
pany three Indians engaged in quarrel
in the pressing room. John Ungerer,
stage manager, interfered. He was
struck with a tomahawk and shot at, and
he fired in turn. Ungerer was forced to
retreat and his wife grabbed his pistol,
discharging blank cartridge in the face
of an Indian who fired at her three times,
infiicting slight wounds. By this time
the audience had begun to stampede,
and four policemen carried three red
skins to the city prison, where they were
locked up. Their names are Charles
Williams James Deer and John Deer.
Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-12-21

WHEN the vice resident-eleet and his
wife visited the Harrisons at Indianapolis
recently Mrs. Morton, SO the wires tell
us, expressed herself as very much
fatigued by the tourney and General Har-
rison invited hep to take a seat on the
sofa. Polite man, that Harrison; some
men with Jess gallantry would have re-
manned stfetched out at full length on the
= EaSe the fair guest hustled out to
~ =! 5SsrsN Nor q rawhide chair.
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Bur few weeks have elapsed since
California rolled up a good round MAORI
ty for the Republican party, and now
the people are clamoring for an addi-
tional insane asylum. They need it;
they needi it.
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kfor a rawhide chair .
CELEBRITY has come to Boston man

CELEBRITY has come TO Boston man
as a reward for drinking twenty -four
glasses of sherry and egg within seven
hours. Umphl Texas can beat that
with hands down. THE GAZETTE recalls
an instance of a man eating box of
sardines, two boxes of oysters eight
weight, one-pound cans) a two pound
box of peaches, % cents worth of cheese
and 25 cents worth of candy. And he
WASH t an editor, either. What is the
matter with Texas?