Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-03-13
GENTLE SPRING.
Special to the Gazette.

Special to the Gazette.
DALLAS, TEX March 12.-The weather
has cleared of beautifully, and the day
has been busy one in Dallas. The i'm
preston and hope is that rainy weather is
over for while at least. The streets are
drying rapidly and are becoming hard.
Ladies are out IN numbers, doing long
delayed shopping.
The base ball club has been out prHc-
ticing for the games with Cincinnati next
Saturday ana Sunday The club is i'm
proving rapidly, and they will make hard
effort to capture the pennsnt. The only
clubs which they fear are the Fort Worths
and Austins
PORK PACKERY.
A prominent wholesale grocer here is
in correspondence with northern mschine
men relative to a pork packery to be es-
tablished here in the summer. The gen.
tlemsn, in speaking of the matter to g
GAZETTE reporter to-day, said: "There
is no reason why such an enterprise should
not be q great success. We would want
an establishment with capacity of 400
hogs day. OF course, at first we could
in North Texas is not sufficient to
day. The farmers must begin to raise
hogs. They can use their corn to much
better advantage in this way than to sell
it at 40 cents d bushel. Dsllas and Fort
Worth each spends 1880 900 year for
meat and lard, all Of which could be made
and saved by North Texas farmers"
MEETING OF THE DENTAL AssoCIATIoV Y.
The third semi-snnual meeting of the
North Texas Dental Association takes
place in this city tomorrow ct the rooms
OF DR.. S. Newman. The report that the
meeting was to take place to-day is er
roneous. The visiting dentels will arrive
tonight.
MARCH TERM OF DISTRICT COURT.
The March term OF the District court
convened to day, Judge Aldridge presid-
ing. The following grand jurors We're
sworn and empsneled: II. S. Ervsy,
foreman; VII Castor, J. Fl. Jones,
D. Bolick, James Broadhurst, W. A Nc
Cullum, W. A. Tinsley, J. a. Crawford
j. II. Ellis, A. B. Rawlins, W. II. Haley,
W. Il. Starke. The day has been taken
up in the assignment OF cases. OF the
nine weeks in the term six will be Occu
pied with the civil and three with the
criminal.
ACTORS MADE ELRs.
Messrs. T. II McGrath, Bert Coots and
G. Moerlein, members of the Patti Rose
Combination, came from Dsnison yester-
day to be initiated into the Order of Elks,
for which the company pla7ed benefit
some days ago. After the initiation the
lodge held q social session, which was
presided over by the tragediaD, Mr..
Frederick WaTde
To-DAY'S REAL ESTATE MOVEMENT.
Colonel Traylo- has purchased Of Do
ran Bros, the triangular lot corner of Elm
and Live Oak streets for S14, 500.
Bowser & Lsmmon have purchased on
Grand avenue, in South Dallas, fortY-six
sores from different parties for S65, 900.
A. ". Childress has sold his three two
story brick stores on Elm, Just eass OF
Hsrwood to s arty whose name WAS not
learned, for Sl6,5G0.
a. ". Chiidress purchased Of Luther
Rees the place on the northeast corner OF
Pearl and Ross avenue for $4,000.
PERSONAL.
Berry Gatewood of Colorado City, is in
the city, en- route 10 Colorado, from a
visit to relatives In Tennessee and Ken
lucky.
Mr.. Duff DomnAu OF Waco, is in the
city.
Miss Corinne Baker of San Angelo, Is
visiting friends in the city.