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Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-12-14
WEEKLY GAZETTE: FORT WORTH TEXAS FRIDAY DECEMBER a.

minute. The motor viii run from
eighteen to twenty hours per day, and if
| the wind and the tide are favorable can
be worked throughout the whole twenty
| four
Telephone girls in London make from
| 81 10 to 81 per week; typewriter girls
| average S6-a few make $40: women tele-
| graphers, civil service examination and
| those on government jobs make 81 80 as
a starter and in eight years their wages
| are Sc rs, the usual maximum figure
Some on heavy wires get 81 80 and SIS so
per week; women clerks in the postofTie
work six hours per day, and receive at
the beginning 1925 per year. An advance
of SIS per year is allowed till they re-.
ceive 800 annually few in the gen.
eral postoffice make $500 per year
Sorters get y snillings per week and are
raised to 20 shillings Women compost
tors make as high rs % shillingS per week
Some dressmakers make 81 per day
The apprentice has to pay from $3.50 to
$3.50 TO learn and serve four years. She
lives at the teacher house and receives
no pay. Board is free.
The New York Civil Service Reform
association has adopted resolutions de-
claring that the declarations and pledges
of the Republican platform, and the
views expressed by the president elect in
his letter of acceptance justify the hope
that the progress in civil service reform
already secured will be maintained and
extended, and deprecating removals from
Office except for reasons connected with
the efficiency of the service One resolu-
ton says: THAT the interference of
members of congress with the exercise of
the executive power of appointments and
removals. and the laws which, by pre-
scribing Il fixed term for inferior offices,
facilitate clean sweep of the civil 'serv-
ice every four years, are the chief bull
warks of the spoils system, and the REM
edy lies in the repeal of the four years
laws, and the prevention of the interfer-
ence of members of congress in executive
appointments.
Montreal has been having gas plague,
which a correspondent thus describes:
As soon as the gas was lit in a room
sulphuric vapor arose which produced
burning and suffocating sensation in the
throat and sick headaches, and many.
cases of actual prOstration are reportSF
to-day. The hotels where gas is burI&d
have been uninhabitable, guests be&Ig
forced to leave their rooms and walk Hhe
streets 10 breathe fresh air. In the
stores and workshops where gas is abso-
lutely necessary all the doors and win
dows have to be kept open, notwithstand-
ing the cold, in order to get relief from
the intOlerable stencil. In houses fur
nished with gas stoves it is impossible to
live, and food has to be cooked by the
neighbors. In the streets not lighted by
electricity the very atmosphere seems
permeated by the poisonous gas. The
superintendent said the trouble was due
to new retorts and would soon be over.
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TEXAS IN TYPE.

Hubbard City is agitated over an effort
to abolish the corporation.
A minstrel entertainment will be given
by the prisoners of the Rusk prison on
Tuesday night, December %.
The wheat crop of Fannin county looks
well and much larger crop will be
raised next year than has been for sew
eral years past.
Rev. James Willie of Collin county
had his leg broken on Thursday of last
week by being entangled in rope at
tached to hog.
Rains county has the best married man
in Texas. He is not yet forty years old
and has been married Ave times Three
of his wives are yet alive and two are
dead.
Bosque had big crop of potatoes,
pecans, syrup, corn, honey and fat
'beeves, - mutton and opossums. There
is not much danger of any one starving
in that county.
There have been 1922 bales of cotton
shipped from Bonham. There are now
about $500 bales in the yards to be ship
ped, making in all something over IL 900
bales received there this season.
There is young lady in Lone Oak,
Hunt county, that can whistle beauti-
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ent land law, and we must pronounce our efforts
a failure. Railroads have been built, towns
started, newspapers, postoffioes, mail lines,
schools and churches established, but the settle
ment of the country remains about the same as
it was two years ago. While many have come
into the country, few have remained; some set
tiers that were supposed to be permanently To-
Gated, have gone, and others are going; some
have settled the land and refused to file, while
others that have fled have let their land go back
to the state.
Shall the next decade show 4 total in
crease in the actual settler population of
the Panhandle of but $50? If not the
lied.
What is the legislature going to do
about it?
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The Talking Newspaper.
New York Press.

1lr. Edison is said to contemplate the
invention of n talking newspaper, on the
principle of the photograph. This is en-
tirely too wizardous.
He ought to remember that a ile of
photographic newspapers could not be
kept in convenient form; that phono-
graphic newspaper could not be read in
the sick room, because the reproduction
of headlines would wake patient from
the soundest kind of sleep;
that the word Extra cs
now printed would, when issued
from the phonograph, be in such tones
as would raise the roof from any moder-
ately well built house; that travel on the
elevated railroad with fifty or sixty bust
ness men grinding out the morning s news
would be intolerable; and that portrait
of Mr.. Holman hurled forth from pho
nograph would be infinitely more homely
than that published some years ago by
the New York Sun
Your scheme will not do, Mr.. Edison.
A man can get all the talk he wants at
home without havisg garrulous news
paper in the houseEss
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SENATOR BLAIR'S LABOR BILL.
Plan to Collect Information and Relieve
Extreme Distress.

Extreme DISTRESS.
The bill introduced by Mr.. Blair in the
senate provides that there shall be estab-
lished by the president, on the recon-
mendation of the commissioner of labor,
throughout the United States, in geo.
graphical sections which shall include q
population of not less than 100 900 nor
more than 900 900 inhabitants, bureaus
of information relating to employment,
occupations, wants, means of livelihood
and homes. Each bureau is to consist of
a chief and the clerical force found
necessary to carry out the purposes of the
bill. 1t is made the duty of these bureaus
to gather, by every available means, the
most complete and reliable information
relative to the people, the wages, the
homes, the opportunities for employ
ment, the quality of lands, the climatic
and sociologic conditions, the transport
tation facilities, and in general every
thing relating TO or that may be of inter-
est to working people. Provision is made
for the publication at least once month
of All abstract giving the information col
lected, and for the giving free OF
charge of any information specifically
asked for by any citizen of the
United States 1t is also made
the duty of the chiefs of bureau to make
known throughout their districts in.
stances of extreme poverty, hardship ana
distress, without needless exposure OF
names of parties, and also to report the
same to the commissioner of labor, who
shall report such information briefly to
congress, with recommendation Of
such means of relief Us may seem to him
to be wise and necessary. 1t is made the
duty of bureaus of information to make
special inquiry in relation to the eondi-
ton, wants and necessities OF
women and children, and to pub
lish the results Of their inves-
LEGATIONS with view to arousing and d.
recting charitable or other effort and
thereby securing employment, homes,
education and such other relief as each
case may require. The president and
heads of departments are required to give
employment on public works only D
American citizens, and to give prefer.
enee in employment to persons resident
ia the vicinity of the work to be done.
The annual salary of the chiefs of bureaus
is fixed at $4,000, and the limit of annual
expenditures Of each bureau at $40 200,
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A LITTLE newsboy OF Waco named
Aleek W. Peckinsou thus writes TIE
GAZETTE, and this paper assures him
that, of all the many kind words said of
TIE GAZETTE, his letter of the l1th inst
is most appreciated:
WACO, TEX, Dec. II, 1888.
Fort Worth Gazette, Fort Worth, Tex.
GEETLEMEN-I, as n9wsboy, would like to let
you know that think your new dress fits you
splendid, and think, as your paper is already
the best paper in-the state, is a much better pa
per than it was.
have been selling your paper for nearly (2)
two years.
work in the mornings for Hail & Waller. I
am Office boy, and in the evenings I sell your
paper.
I saw Mr.. Calhoun, your travelling agent, and
had a little talk with him.
think the sale of THE GAZETTE VIII be greatly
increased by the new dress, and assure you that
if my help viii do any good will help all can.
will close.
3 Hoping you success, remain yours res2ect-
fully, ALEX W. PEcKESsoN,
Care of Hall & Waller Waco, aat
THE GAZETTE is glad to havc the help of
Of this little boy, as it is to have that of
tall its friends.
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fully "She has mouth like an unknown
fiowef, and when she FUCKERS up those
roSe-like lips the sound that emanGtes
there from rival that of the nightin-
gale -
AT Weatherford petition has been put
i'll circulation asking President Harrison
to appoint Mrs. L. NJ. Campbell as post
mistress. Mrs Campbell has been in the
office many years, under the present
postmaster, and the Office has been so
managed that complaints have been
90 few and far between -
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% All letters or Communications for THE
GAZETTE, uhether on business or for
publication, should be addressed to THE
GAZETTE, or DEMOCRAT PUBLISH
ING CO., Fort Worth, Ter., and NOT
TO ANY LNDTVIDUAL.
Al communications intended for p,,Jlica-
zion must be accompanied by the scriter s
name ana address-not for pubiication-tat
as an eridence Of good faith.
Parties acy1tiag to THE GAZETTE on
business personal to themselves aviH please in
close stamp for reply.
Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-12-14

KEROSENE as fuel is rapidly forging
to the front. In Russia they run steam
boats with coal oil; within the last thirty
days railroad engine was run over Loo
miles with coal oil; in Milwaukee and
with coal oil, and now man in Brown
county Tex, has patented smoothing
iron that may be loaded with kerosene
and lighted, and the operator can go
ahead with the work without interrupt
ton for hours. The thing furnishes its
own heat.
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Fonr Worm, Tex. Dec. 10. 1883

FOHT I" uRIH, TEX, Dec. 10, 1883.
To the Gazette.
To settle dispute, will you please be so kind
as to give Cleveland's official majority over
Harrison in the state of Texas at the recent elee-
ton, and oblige A SUBSCRIBER.
The GAZETTE ragrets its inability to
comply with the above request. The last
this paper heard of Cleveland IS majority
in Texas it was 195 200 plus, with seven
counties to hear from.
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viding for the erection of monument in
Maine to General Knox, foretells the fate
of bill in which Louisville is inter-
ested. - Colonel Kilgore is evidently a
close observer, as usual, of congressional
plans for spending money, and he has
mis- Ratchet with him.
Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-12-14

THE president-elect is being severely
criticised for killing woodpecker on his
recent hunt. Perhaps the noise that it
made led the general TO suspect that it
belonged to the mugwump species.
Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-12-14

TEXAS is not mortgaged as some states
are and pays a small tax. That census
report of Commissioner Foster speaks
well for the state and proves it to be {:
fine field for investment.
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country.

REPUBIICANIsM is the party of the few
and Democracy is the party of the many
The few are now in the saddle, and I'M
less the many awake and arouse them
selves to the dangers of class legislation
the day may come when the shackles will
be riveted by an aristocracy of wealth.
Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-12-14

THE Baltimore Herald is of the opinion
that "the country wants free sugar -
The Herald is correct if whisky is to be
made free. We want no English 'alf
and 'alf customs introduced into this
Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-12-14

GERMANY s population, according to a
recent census, is nearly At 200 900. 1t is
second in nupbers to the United States,
WISH mas the largest intelligent citizen
ship of any nation of the earth.
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BRANCH OFFICES.

DALLAS.
G. NJ. BAILEY, Correspondent and Genera.
Agent, 725 Main Street.
r. GUNNER, Circulator and Subscription
Agent, 612 Elm street. where the paper can al
ways be found on sale, and where orders for Dali
las city delivery can be left.
WACO.
e. L. RUGG, Agent aud Correspondent.
WEATHERFORD.
h. B. DORSEY, Agent and Correspondent.
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CLEVELAND IS plurality of the popular
vote in 1883 is over IS, 900 more than it
was In 1884. A very small current of
Jacksonian electricity will max healthy
and belligerent corpse of Democracy in
iooo
Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-12-14

THE farmers should by all means plant all the
wheat they can, for better prospects for an i'm
mense crop were never better.-[ Albany News.
The News might have added that Fort
Worth affords a home market for all the
wheat that Texas can raise. During the
present year wheat has sold at better
price in Fort Worth than in any city in
tba I-niou
Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-12-14

THE New York Mail and Express asks
the South excitedly, edo you want
war!'' Well, colonel, that depends if
it is to be conducted as it was conducted
between 1860 and 1865, to be candid with
you, we don It; but if it is TO be managed
on the plan of 1865 'S4, blaze away; we
will try to stand it,
Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-12-14

TEXAS cast about 10 900 more votes for
Harrison than Maine gave him. There is
nothing small about Texas; not even its
Republican vote.
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1t will be thus seen that we are gaining
steadily, and l cent postage is not far off.
1t ought, however, always to be far
enough off to pay for itself. The postage
tax is the perfection of tax, and it ought
to be kept at high enough rate to pay
the expenses Of the postoffice depart
ment
Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-12-14

SNow-DRIFTs three feet deep in Penn
sylvania; roses in bloom in North Texas.
Come to Texas.
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THE GAZETTE has the largest bona
fide Circulation of any Daily Newspaper
published in Texas.
Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-12-14

SOME time ago TIE GAZETTE humor-
ously suggested certain Texas Republic
cans for the places now filed by Demo-
Gratis. THE GAZETTE s suggestion in
Guided Web Flanagan as a successor to
Dick Hubbard in Japan That item has
made the tour of the Union and now re-
turns home to lis in this shape from
Texas contemporary: ''Web Flanagan,
Republican lis likely to get the Japanese
mission. win he not want rope and
branding iron and a pitching horse to
give prominence to Texas characteristics
abroad?''
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One Cent Postage.
fundamentals NeyvS

One cent postage is approaching faster
than would have been thought little
time ago. The postmaster-general in his
report makes the following showing Of
annual deficiency, beginning with the
first year after the reduction from to 2
napfc int afa,t.
Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-12-14

IF SOME of the solid Southern states don't let
go during the coming four years they viii get a
rap across the kruckles.-[ Minneapolis Tribune.
Oh; don It! The South is in the Union
and part of it, and you can t help
yourself brother. When Republicanism
III the South signifies something. better
than political bummerism and misgov-
eminent and legal robbery, there may be
a Republican, party in the. South. But
until Southern Republcanism can com
mend itself to the respect of men alryour
threats are wasted. Think about it and
never forget that you fought to save the
Union-and savedit
Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-12-14

A WAsH1SGToN dispatch to the Louis
vile Courier Journal says: ''The man
ner in which the Democrats, led by Kill
gore of Texas, knocked out the bin pro-
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whep BabyaSas sick, vsgave her Csstortas
when she Ia Child ssseried for cas.Ori.,
sSheoshe bsssme his$ shselung s4castOria.
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ENTERED A. THE Fort WORTH, Texas, Posi-
OFFICE AS SECoND-C CLASS MAIL MATTER.
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'sed in education, in soc.

wealth. Not till they are sti
and perverted By tha1pozaf5
men havin q pss<
d tie Geraisni Possessions along'the
east coast Of Africa. In view of this
TACT the butchery at Wahalak ought to
be a warning and a lesson. Many
northern editors and other politicians.
in and out of the senate, have until
now discussed the race problem WITH
out due reflection, being of its
serious meaning for all concerned, but
with this instructive incident before
them they will now, it is to be hoped,
see the necessity of treating it with
more care, Or what would be better, of
letting it alone to be solved by those
who have the most interest to work out
q just and correct solution.
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rHE LICKING
To the newspaper workers. A happy
New Year! They work hard enough
for it. No people on earth so.
Early and late like woman's work it is
never done. One paper is not out ere
the labor on another begins. They
have many crosses. Depending upon
a world prone TO lying for their infor-
nation they are expected always to
print the truth. If they are compli-
mentary they are soft, given to "taffy,"
and no good 1t they venture to dis
cuss they are called hypercrilical. They
give more gratui:ously than do any
people on earth, yet are held to get a
great deal tor nothing. They work Tor
the public interests in season and out
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engines.
Kansas City's clearing house reports
show wonderful gains from week to
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IN'THiILIA1
no the professional men: A happy
New Year! They have their trials,
too. Sometimes they labor for a case
and sometimes simply in clipping
THAR commons AS r,lo mn,a
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~" w
, P- -I: 49, nathan q.

Those clauses in the senate bill which
are frauds, which raise rather than
lower taxes, should be fought by the
democrats, tooth and nail.
THE MASSACRE AT WAHALAK.
From the Baltimore Sun, Dec. 49,.
The butchery of a constable's posse
near Wahalak, Miss, Sunday night,
while engaged in an attempt to arrest
a law breaker, is All event of a kind to
warn the public of the serious nature
of the social problem with which
southern civilization has to deal. The
significance of the event lies in the fact
that a body of men of IL race have
defied the law, and are found banded
together against the constituted autho-
rites. Evidently there must have been
some sort of preparation. The minds
of the murderers must have been fired
previously by something Or other to an
unusual extent, else they could hardly
have been ready with 50 brief q notice
to use violence. The exciting cause
must be sought, it is to be feared, in
the indictments to violence published
since the presidential election by the
Chicago Tribune, the New York Mail
and Express, and other journals of like
character. These journals have sought
to create the impression that the cleo
ton of Gen. Harrison altered some how
the relative status of the white and
colored races in the south, and should
encourage the latter race to efforts to
obtain-by force, it necessary-politi-
cal ascendency over the whites. Tho
Chicago Tribune directly melted the
ignorant colored people of the cotton
states TO violence, and the New York
Mail and Express recently informed
them that they would ''soon hear the
approaching march of the northern
army" coming to their assistance.
After asking the whites of the south
whether they "realized'' what s'that
kind of war" would mean, tho Mai
and Express throws light upon its sug-
gestion by the further question: "Do
they understand that it will be waged
in every city and hamlet of the land?'
1t is doubtless to suggestions such as
these that we must attribute the dispo-
sition manifested in Missippi to resist
the officers of the law and commit pro-
miscuous and wholesale butcheries.
What is particularly shameful about
these ex~hortations to violence is the
fact that they are prompted, not by an
interest in the well-being of the colored
maD-whOse best friends are in the
south-but by hopes of obtaining a
political advantage. For this a certain
class OF partisans are willing to have
all important section of the union over
whelmed with every sort of calamity
social, industrial and commercial. Left
10 the guidance of conservative people,
who have their true interests at heart,
the colored race is the most amiable
and p~eaceable in the world. The two
races which occupy the south, if left
alone by outsiders, are perfectly able
to adjust their interests in a manner
satisfactory TO both. They have been
living together in perfect peace under
the wise policy of MIR. Cleveland's adj
ministration. Never in our whole his
tory have the colored people of this
country been mor prosperous than
l.-x.-- A. 1-.A 49,. MI --
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One firm in New York supplies elec-
tricaI powerto $50 different manufsc-
turers. some OF them ten miles from