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Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-05-12
T1NAHCEAL,

sNGLlxB coNsoLs.
Lt,spos. May i. -Consols closed 80 s-l6c for
money; silver 423si.
HONEY.
NEW YokM. May ll.-Moosv on call easy
at X t. per cent. Last loan IL close 81 4
per cent. p ime mercantile Dsper AZ. Ster
ling 1chang. active "a s61S for 81 Cay bills,
and 81 Ss1 Tor demand
suaps.
NEW YORK. May n.--Bonas ana ssocka
closed at the following urlcpa Die
United States fs, registered 1854
Unttsd States e., coupon -. ...... 126X
United States lhp, coupon ......-.-....., l01&
Central Paeino fs........ ......... lilo
Denver and RITZ Girsrhs As. .-......... 7SA
Missouri Pacific consolidated 6s. e,
Missouri. Kansas and Texas general 6's -. &c
St. Louis and Iron Mountain general S.. SO
St. Louir and San Francisco general mort. ll6<
Iexas and psciflc land granIs. ::........... ~
Te1as aud Pacific, Bio Grando div........" 20
Union Psoihc ps, ...... ..ll4h
U6nuh PkSluC Six
Chicago, Burlington and Quincy ...........ll5I
Uelsusra s5f Lacka~aEna..
Denver and Bio Grande. .-............ Is
for' WORM and Denver -. -............... S6x
Houston and Ts1ss Central ............... u
illinois Central Observation-Disclosures. 120H
Kansas and TexEs. .......-.................1 lax
Louisville and Nashville. ................... 6s3.
Missouri Pacific. Observation-Disclosures. TX
<oItnSth r6cinc.,,..-. neutrality-suspicious.. AN
Northwestern OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. 10g
New York Central. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 1857
Pac!no Mall. Observation-Disclosures 3Ix
Resting .-......- ............... ...-...... 60Z
Rock Jslsua .........l09H
st. Louis and San Francisco. %
st Louis and San Francisco, preferred. 67H
81. Pae common .-........ -. 70
st. Paul preferred .............-.. lis
Tennessee Coal and Iron ,.................. 96Z
re xas and Pactno NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. :0x
Union Psatbc e. l3X
Wabash, st. Louis and Pacific certificates. l315
WABASH, St. Louis and Pacific certir's p'fd. 81
Wells FARGO Express ................. 1875
Weetarp Union T legraph.... ..-.......... 76K
American Cotton Ofi...... .............. 81 X
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BIT. LOUIS, Mo. May 1i.-Wool-Demand,g good
values, sIeady; unwashed, bright medium. 140
2lhi course braid 1l0l9c: low sandy l0617c;
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Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-05-12
In Llano Oountv.

4SAs Gazette.
TR1, May ll.-Grass never
! ssma 1 u mis- season Of the year, and
NC horses are ist.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-05-12

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Ti.Aa! Ssssn:. sys.s p.tt s, 2
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-05-12
MONTH";,
lat call. 4
Sales IL. 600 bales.

Liverpool.
Lrv1RPo0L, May u.-Cotton-Spot closed
q ,iet and UNCHANGED.
Ordinsry Is l6d; good ordinary l.6d;
low middling oxd: middling upiandI 7-16d;
middline Orleans 6Hd.
Total sales 500; American @ 500
Imports, 2OC0; American, l50Q.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-05-12

OTTAWA, Orr May 1a.-Dr. E. Stone
Higgins predicts an earthquake in Call
fornia between now and OctObyr, saying
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-05-12

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Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-05-12

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GALVESTON. TEX, May H. Coiies - On
changer.
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NEW YORK., May IL. Cotton - Spot clos ID
ess7 and unchanged.
Sales. 594
Stock, 205, 1876.
Low ordiusry, -; Ordinary. Nv: enos
'sdihatt Ice; tow M:cd.ing, 9 9 To-. nIddling
10: 9ood mict!iEg, l0kI; middlilz fair
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points. closing easy at s to points lower.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-05-12

Bran-90c peg hundred.
Bafley-90c per 5ushal.
Rye-9oc per bushel.
Hay-Loose local, 81 GOES co; JohnsoA grass
$si 90; best prairie hay, IS ooe9 80 per ton.
baled; alfalfa, retail, 1870 per y; Alfalfa
Dose, SIS 90 per ton.
Johnscn grass seed-s2 2502 50 par 2sA
buehea
Malst seed-Largr German. 81 50. whole
Tar cane seed-3a Is per 80 bushel.
3 HORSES AND NULKS-A or or Rain load
Wichita eagle., 1888-09-02
DECEPTIVE SOPHISTRY.
The DREAMER.

Ex-senator Mcdonald, in his set speech
at indianapolis the other day, accepted
the question Of protective tariff on one
side and tariff reform, otherwise free
trade, on the other as the issue in the
present campaign. He took high ground
in opposition to the protective system
because, he said, it breeds trusts. This
is bold assumption, and is unsupported
by proof. Admitting, however. for the
sake of argument, that it is true, and
what does it prove? 1t certainly does
not prove that protection is wrong, for
if protection is right as an abstract prop
osition, the fact that it does foster trusts
argues nothing against it. Trusts are
only private corporations. They are
merely fictitious bodies, created by law.
Certainly they are, therefore, subject to
law. The creature cannot be greater
than the creator. There is just about as
much logic in this argument in favor of
destroying protection as there would be
in an argument in favor of burning the
mills and elevators of Wichita in order
to get rid of few rats that might infest
them
Such talk is mere rot, even if it is the
talk of man SO justly distinguished as
Mr.. Mcdonald. The law is able to reach
the pernicious system of trusts, as has
been proven in New York where Repub-
lican officials have instituted legal pro-
ceedings against them. 1t is worthy of
note in this connection to bear in mind
that with all their high sounding denun-
citation Of trusts there is no record of any
Democratic official taking any legal steps
to thwart or suppress their operations,
which fact cannot but be regarded as
significant of that party S real sentiments
on the subject.
Wichita eagle., 1888-09-02
EXPLAINS ITSELF,
WINFIELD, KAN, Aug. sc

WINFIELD, KAN, Aug. so, 1888.
To the Chairman OF the Republican County Com
mittee Of Sedgwick County, kansas:
DEAR SIR-Our attention has been
called to certain items appearing of late
IN the Wichita papers concerning 0. RI.
Bentley, Esq, your nominee for state
senator in the Twenty-ninth senatorial
district of Kansas, and in justice to Mr..
Bentley we will say that he was the
counsel for the construction company
which built the Kansas Midland railway
from Wichita to Ellsworth, Kan. On
January "a, 1888, the st. Louis & San
francisco railway assumed control of
the Midland railway in all its depart
ments. From April 90, 1888, we have
been and are now in charge of the legal
business of the Kansas Midland railway.
Mr.. Bentley is not now nor has he ever
been connected with the legal depart
ment of the st. Louis & San Francisco
railway or any portion of its system.
On two occasions in our litigation in
your county Mr.. Bentley was specially
employed as the attorney of this COM
pany. He was employed for a certain
business and was paid as any litigant
would pay his attorney.
We will say however, in conclusion,
that If our company should have impor-
tant litigation in your county that there
IS no lawyer in your city that we would
sooner intrust with important law bust
ness than o. FL. Bentley.
MANSFIELD, EATON & POLLOCK.
Wichita eagle., 1888-09-02

nothing stuck up about Garden City
beauties.
The subscribers of the Wellington
News raised big kick on being fur
nished the other morning with an edition
two or three days old,
The Kansas City Gazette offers a years
subscription to that paper to the Kansas
girl that will make the best loaf of bread
and send it to that paper.
Kansas City Star: Topeka alone will
build three new Methodist churches this
year. John Wesley is almost as big a
man In Kansas as James G.. Blaine.
The next term of district court of
day. The criminal cases will be tried
first. The docket is now a voluminous
one.
K c. Star: The Salvation army has
struck Lincoln and sinners are tumbling
into the fountain and catching onto the
chariot in way that inparts n deeply
cerulean tint to satan around the girls.
The Young Mems Republican club Of
Lawrence have issued neat invitations
for all league and uniformed clubs in
Kansas to join them and assist in open
ing the campaign in that city on Septem-
Der 9Th.
The Catholics of Wellington headed by
a brass band attended a barbecue last
Thursday afternoon, but the beef that
was the object of the festivities was af-
fected with blackfoot or some other
horrible disease and did the whole crowd
up. 1t is safe TO say that none of the
Catholics broke the Friday fast.
Arkansas City Republican: Yesterday
morning Marshal Nash nipped an at
tempted Jail break in the bud. In ex-
aiming the prisoners, and seeing if all
was right and looking over the inside Of
the jail, he found revolver hidden
away in joint of stove pipe in the cor
ridor. 1t was claimed by a man by the
name of Burt, who was put in Monday |
for fast riding and discharge of FIRE /
arms. When put in jail Burt was
searched and his weapons taken from |
him, and Marshal Nash is Of the opinion |
that the revolver was handed him from |
the outside, through the Jail window,
and he hid it away in the stove pipe. .
Burt claims he had it on when put in /
jail. 1t is believed that when prisoners |
were all out IN the corridor an attempt /
was to be made 70 break jail, and II 4
necessary the revolver was 10 be used. J
Wichita eagle., 1888-09-02

The writer was an interested listener
to this Union Labor orator at G. A. r.
hall during the recent convention. A
close nearer, who wished to arrive at
correct political notions, could not but
be struck with glazing inconsistency
which pervaded the effort Of this sophis-
teal orator.
He started out with vehement con-
demnation of Capitalization. He thought
the liberties of the dear people, especi-
ally of the working classes,
are now put in jeopardy by
the present tendency to centralize power
in the government. On account of it
monopolies and the money power have
gotten their feet upon the necks of the
people. But, strange to say, before con-
Guiding he enunciated the doctrine that
the entire business interests and finance
of the country ought to be in the hands
of the government AS means to this
end all national banks ought to be throt-
tied and fiat paper money take the place
of our own national currency. The peo-
pie should have nothing but greenbacks
without exceptional clauses, etc., etc.
How any Republican who has watched
the history of our currency from the
days of wild cat banks whose issues
We're SO unreliable that one could not
cross state line without submitting to
more orIess deep shave, to our solid
national bank currency, good through
out our wide domain for its face, is a
strange phenomenon in politics. Surely
we have enough of hard times and bust
ness prOstratiOn now from wild theories
without taking our steps toward this
fearful plunge. No wonder Garfield
pronounced this the widest scheme that
ever entered the human brain. Such
denunciation of the fiat
money craze is worth to thoughtful Re
publicans more than all the shallow
sophisms of the De la Matye school.
CITIZEN.
Wichita eagle., 1888-09-02
IRELA AN EXAMPLE,

Hon. John F. Scanlon. author of the
work, ''Why Ireland is Poor, in recent
speech at Nation, Ill.,, said:
Ireland has had free trade for sixty
six years, and if the theory of our Dem
ocratic friends is true, then Ireland must
be the happiest nation, and the Irish
people must be the most prosperous peo-
pie in the world.
Did you ever hear of any of our Dem
ocratic boys going to Ireland looking for
a job? Laughter. Did you ever hear of
the Democratic millionaireS going to the
country to invest their capital? | know
it seems ludicrous to ask such question
in view of the unfortunate and deplora-
BILE condition of that country: yet poverty
was not always the fate of the Emerald
Isle
1t is not generally known that Ireland
is as rich in natural resources as any
part of Europe. She has million and
half horse power in her beautiful rivers
running idle to the sea. She has the
largest coal fields in the British Isles,
with iron, lead and copper mines IN
worked. She has $3.50, coo acres of peat
600 kinds of stone, marble and slate,
with magnesia, alum. pipe clay, fudler's
earth, fire and tile clay, and many other
natural resources that go to make a
country happy and wealthy, with a sa-
lubrious climate, rich soil and seven hun
bred miles of harbor. And under the
protective tariff of the Irish Parliament
from 1882 to 1900 Ireland was the most
prosperous spot in all Europe. Her in
dustries were in full blast, and her peo-
pie found profitable employment at good
wages in their native land. Then the
Irish people did not have to wander
over the world seeking work
which is now denied them in
their native land. In fact.
Ireland. during the protective
tariff period of the Irish parliament of
1892. was TO the workingmen of that
country what the United States is today
the best place in the world for good
wages and plenty of employment.
England, jealous of Ireland's prosper
ity, set on foot the most infamous plot
that ever was concocted to steal the
prosperity of people. Under the guise
of tie ''act OF union" in 1900 she imposed
free trade on Ireland. that has left her
since in the most abjeCt poverty. Under
thi. ''act of union" Ireland was to have
free trade in cottons in 1910: calicoes
and muslins in 1893: silks and woolens
in 1920. and from that day to this she
has lost $500. 900 of her inhabitants. Of
these 2,000. 900 went 10 protective coun-
tries and l.5o0. 900 went down to fam
ines graves-God's creatures starved BY
British free trade.
Wichita eagle., 1888-09-02
KANSAS KOLLARY.

The school population of Topeka is
1884.
Editorial page of Kansas Democrat:
Humphrey has refused.H
The state deaf and dumb asylum at
Olathe has 200 pupils under its instruc-
ton.
The question of how the Coolidge
opera house caught on fire is to be inves-
tigated.
1t is a good town, indeed, now where
the gas, electric lights and waterworks
are living.
A ..Potwin Place Mystery" is the latest
at Topeka, and bids fair to rival that Of
Rue Morgue.
Two Parsons men were attacked by q
seven foot blacksnake. The men live,
the snake is dead.
Watermelons are drug on the mar
ket at Lawrence. One fine lot of l62
sold for 81. IS Yesterday.
A stock train Of palace cars was loaded
at Hunnewell on Sunday. the cattle 10
be shipped to England.
You can always Judge the prosperity
of Kansas newspaper by the amount
OF space devoted TO royalty.
Gazette: Coffey county viii have a
mock hanging al her fair. II ought to
rope the farmers IN dead sure.
1t is reported that the parties who hold
the Wellington wa;erwoTks' bonds are
making arrangements 70 foreclose the
same.
The chintz bug now is dropped iEto
everlasting desuetude with his prede-
cessors, the grasshopper. And prosperity
reigns.
Three Garden City girls went ont nd
ing On one mule the other day. There's
Wichita eagle., 1888-09-02

| A few minutes after o o'clock Tuesday
evening large meteor passed oyer Nc
farland in a northerly direction aud mp
parently not far from the ground just
as 1t passed over the town il seemed to
) increase in size. lighting up everything
! Tor some distance around as light rs ,lav
for about twenty seconds, and looked
like mammoth electric light; then sud
denly appeared TO grow smaller and dis
appeared in the north, followed by a
long train of hight. IL probably fell to
the ground ut no great distance from
here. 1t was also seen at Topeka. But
the most curious thing about this meteor
Is that no one has sprung the war gag.
| Governor Martin yesterday issued a
| proclamation offering "a reward OF $3.50
for the arrest and conviction Of the par
ties, or each of the parties, who on or
about June %. three miles northeast Of
Atchison, murdered John Murray. An
other proclamation was issued offering
a reward for the arrest and conviction
OF Joel T. Harris. who is charged with
the murder of Benjamin Nottingham. in
Rocks county, on August Il, 1851. Har-
RS IS described as follows: Height about
five feet ten inches. slim face and M
beard, but thin moustache: talks fast
and impulsively. Said Harris. whey
last seen. wore blue Overhalls. blue shirt,
white SLOUGH hat, Scoth lace brocans
with very heavy soles Last seen about
ten miles east Of Colby on August II.
A. n. Snow told a Courier reporter
this morning that he heard that while
party Of thresbers were at work ia the
southeast part Of the county day before
yesterday, little boy who was helping
around the thresber accidentally got hi.
hand crushed in the belt Of the machine.
This 50 enraged one Of the men standing
by that he grabbed the little fellow. who
Wa screaming with pain and threw him
into the rapidly revolving machine. liter
ally grinding the little fellow To pieces
The horrible crime thus committed as
founded the other men for a few mo
ments, but they soon caught hold Of the
bag brute and strung him up % the raft
ers IN the barn fssar BIZ. Nothing ~ a
substantial nature in regard 70 the crime
has as yet reached the city. and the
Courier gives the story for what ~ -
worth. Mr. Snow says be got tire pap
ticulars from man by the name IL
Percival, who came up from that part 0.
the county.
Wichita eagle., 1888-09-02
BAD EGGS.

The Kansas City Times refers to the
time when ?. P. Elder was chairman
and Marsh Murdoch was secretary of the
Republican state central committee. The
EAGLE could also refer the Times to the
time when Beelzebub and Michael were
high old lights in Heaven, but the fact
that Beelzebub found he'll more congen-
ial quarters does not affect the glory of
Heaven or the happiness of Michael nor
their constancy. Of course Elder was q
big Republican once, so was Judas Is
CARROT at one time slick apostle, and so
was jeff Davis at one time an ardent
union man; but in spite of all
these traitors Christianity, Republican,
ism and loyalty still stand as the three
leading living principles of the nine
teenth century, and the Times is in
mighty small business in defending the
names, actions and memories of the
three recussant failures alluded.to. which
defense implies disbelief in the three
most exalted and far reaching principles
known to our civilization, viz. Christi
anity, Loyalty.and Republicanism. If
the Times should keep on its present
course its readers need not be surprised
to find it. ere long, not only defending
lscariot, Davis and Elder, but Botkin
himself, who not only went back on his
political principles but on his loyalty to
party and and on his religion, trumpet
ing the tuneful trio of Elder, jeff and
Judas
Wichita eagle., 1888-09-02

\ late London telegram gives the res
son Of the continued rise in the price of
wheat during the past two months. 1t
says: Europe will use more wheat than
she can raise this year, Russia having a
good yield. The cold wet weather af
fected both the amount and quality.
The estimated deficiency OF France is
loo, 400, 900 bushels The decrease in
Great Britain is 1000, 900 and Germany
100000. India will exceed the Weld
of 1882 by 20. 600 900 bushels and Russia
by l5,000,0 600. No great demand is ex-
pected at once, but higher prices must
come. This is encouraging news ior
Kansas farmers, for while the surplus of
that cereal from this years crop is not as
large as 1t should have been. and would
have been under more encouraging Cir
cumstances at last seeding time. still it
Is sufficient. with fair prices, to add con-
sloeraoiy to the income of the producers:
and not only SO, but will stimulate the
farming community to put q larger area
to seed for that crop this fall. The
chances are that the crop OF 1889 will be
III. greater demand and consaanently
bring better prices than any for several
years.
Wichita eagle., 1888-09-02
SILK CULTURE.
CITIZEN.

The following correspondence will be
read with interest by all who feel concern
in the subject Of silk culture. 1t explains
itself:
VALLEY CENTER, Aug. %, 1855.
Hon. s. P. Peters. Washington, d. C.
Dear Sir-I wish to call your attention
to the following fact in connection with
silk culture. l can care for one million
silk worms a day when they first hatch,
because they are small and eat compare
lively little, perhaps not to exceed a hat
full, but when they are nearly grown on
account of their large size they will con-
sumo wagon load of leaves day. Con-
sequently people have ordinarily only
undertaken to raise some twenty thousand
each annually-wasting most OF their time
waiting for them to grow. 1t is also a
fact that silk worm eggs hatch out in the
spring just aS the season starts the growth
on our hedges, provided the eggs are where
they get the Influence of the warm weather
to develop them, or may be retarded by
keeping them out of that influence.
Then why not place those eggs in re-
frigerator to be taken out as needed dur
ing the growing season SO as to extend the
time of caring for them SO that one can
care for several times as many with several
times the gain and profit in one season,
making 81, coo or $4,000 instead of $50 to
$780, Will you ask the department if they
will make the experiment as it would result
in great advancement to silk culture
in Kansas, and oblige. Yours respectfully,
IL II. BIDWEII
Wichita eagle., 1888-09-02
TOT lne Eagle. 1fr
REMEMBRANCE.

Down In the human heart this longing lies.
10 be remembered by the friends we love;
whether we pass beyond their ken on earth,
Or journey TO that fairer cline above.
So universal is this fond desire
That minor strains creep into songs Of glee.
This sentiment all farewell words pervade:
When am gone wilt thou remember mel"
Methinks from morbid elements arise
This melancholy longing, and the thought,
Twin brother TO that innate dread. that fears
Annihilation, and the sequence wrought
U, foolish heart, what matters it how soon
Remembrance ceases after ali is DER;
Must not all mortaIs bow TO this decree
They lived ana loved and died and are no more;
For generations tread upon the heels
OF generations that have moved apaco.
But atoms in this worlds economy.
These mortal beings called ''she human race"
But still, o. foolish heart, this truth remains,
Tho Heaven and earth dissolve in feryent fire;
There is one Friend whose memory never wanes
It's He alone can meet thy souls desire.
-ALMEDA Z. WIGHT.
Wichita eagle., 1888-09-02
ANOTHER PRoH1srT1oNIsr TALKS
To The Editor u the Eagle.

To The Editor u the Eagle.
The letter published in yesterdays
EAGLE from Ir. Galloway, secretary of
the state Democratic central committee
TO Thomas Noble. the Prohibition orator
of this city, shows that the Democrats
are up TO their old tricks and should be
warning to every true Republican Prolii-
biuonist in the state The fact that the
Democratic state central committee are
secretly writing letters 10 and offering
TO employ Prohibition orators TO stump
the state Is an evidence that the devil
still lives and that the Democratic party
Is his chief ally. Everybody knows that
the Democratic party hates the cause Of
prohibition as bad as they do the devil
himself and yet here is the
secretary of the state Dem
ccratic central committee Offering 10
put Prohibition orators IN the field. 80
consistency thou art truly a jewel
Wichita eagle., 1888-09-02
Ell DORADO's SALT HOLE

III Do'ado struck an immense salt vein last fall
Eagle.
Yes, we have beautiful two thousand
foot hole in the ground which is filled to
the very top with salt water-a strong
brine which Is 20 or so per cent salt, but
somehow the boys have not yet gotten to
work making salt. They may be waiting
until it QUITS raining How many car
loads do You think Phil Armour will want
for his Wichita packing house?-El Dorado
Republican.
We can't give exact figures on Phil.
but taking all the great packing interests
which are here and coming soon we
should say about q million car loads.