Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-12-22
LOCILETTES.

| IeSteIudy WIS IuS SHORTEST uiy III tne
year.
No cases were tried in the county court
| yesterday.
Miss Ida Chase will entertain number
Of friends ut her home this evening.
st. Andrews Sunday-school. DO not
forget the rehearsal this morning at 10
| o'clock.
The old Methodist church has been for
some days strolling down Rusk street in
| sections.
Twin boys were born yesterday to Mr..
and Mrs. Freeman, living near the new
| cemetery.
| Yesterday was moderately good day
at the county collectors office, and the
receipts reached an average amount.
A night force was at work last night
! putting i'll the street ear switch on Third
| street, between Houston and Throck-
| morton.
The directors of the Fort Worth Union
stock yards will meet at > o o'clock this af-
| ternoOn to take steps to put the yards in
| operation.
An old-time deed was filed for record
| in the county clerk S office yesterday. 1t
| bore date 1867, and had q fifty-cent gov
| eminent stamp on it.
There will be interesting ceremonies to-
| night at Masonic Temple when the en-
tered apprentice degree will be conferred
on well-knOwn citizen.
John n Swain and Miss Angelina Col
Inns, Wesley Underwood and Miss Ollie
Whipple, received wedding permits from
! County Clerk King yesterday.
Nine suits were filed in the county
| court yesterday. Eight of them We're
appeals from Justice McCluing's court,
and one was small suit in debt.
The Williams building, corner Houston
ana Fourth streets, viii be taken down
soon and Il handsome iron, stone and
press-brick front erected i'll its place.
The Fort Worth National Bank sued
Joe 7. Rolf for 500, and the Citizens
Building and Loan Association sued I. j.
Smith of California for 5000 in the dis
trict court yesterday.
Al Hicks and Miss May Comes were
arrested and thrown into prison yester-
day. Late III the day Hicks gave bond
and was released. The woman still Ian
cuisines behind the bars.
w. T. Blivens of Grapevine was rolled
for his wallet i'll the Bloody Third on
luNI SilII IliShl. II tOIiutiitOl al III CGtSu
ana some valuable papers, including tax
receipts. He thinks q negro robbed him.
We learn that an important deal was
consunated last night by which two val
liable Arizona mining properties were
consolidated. The lew stock is called
the ''sOuthern Bell" and is strongly
held. NJ
Under 3D. aqgpScs of St. Andrews
Sunday sch66 az stcreoptican exhibition
viii be given aaafIuffman 8 hail Tonight
at 80 o 'clqa Children are especially
notified. 88Het q u novel will be can
vazsed. 4pissiohsk0 cents.
Deputy $ArifF inlay spent yesterday
III the country looking up some fifteen or
twenty attached witnesses wanted in
Cleburne to testify in the celebrated case
! of the Sta.e of Texas vs.. A. I. Wooten,
charged with cattle stealing.
Professor George y. Wright, formerly
a teacher in school No. I, this city, and
lattCTly 1t the head of school near
Prairie Chapel, has been gone from his
accustomed haunts for some weeks, and
careful inquiry fails to throw light upon
his whereabouts.
The ''Kooking Klub'' will give one
more entertainment and then disbaud to
De organized under different name and,
perhaps, with different object The
members have all become such consul
mate cooks that they need TO further ed
uc&tIon III that line.
The Benevolent Orphapst,ss Home 'lIss 60
sire to give the orphan cEfltfrdIEa Thrisk-
mas dinner, and to tAisssnd appeal to or
kind hearted eitislensf 70 assist them. ANY
provisions or sEpP1ies left ut Collins 4
ArmsttaasSs store will be promptly sent
for; anu very thankfully received.
Local sports who backed the Fort Worth
colt, Jim Reed, SO win yesterdays race
at Victoria were made jubilant yesterday
afternoon by the news that he had come
first under the string. The colt belongs
to CAPTAIN d. Reed and Jake johnson,
and they scooped in $40 900 on the race
jim Reed is a Tarrant bred colt.
''Sleepy, - the black shepherd dog be-
longing to the Fort Worth boot blacks,
was caught mapping in the sunshine on
Main street yesterday and run over by
float loaded with cotton. He now sleeps
the dreamless slumber known as death.
''Sleepy'' was brought to Fort Worth by
boy named "Sleepy,' and had many
friends and admirers among the gamins
of the street. ~
The ladies' of Broadwa* Presbyterian
Church opened thenSfhrstmas market
last evening IN SeaRon's building, next
door to Lamptoiissshoe store The dis
play of holida%gHeds comprised every
thing that coysG Be Desired i'll the way 81
Christmas psreants FEhe ladies also fuE
nished an e2Sellent lifsch and oysters in
all styles a good cro7a was in attend
ance, and an enjoyabTs4 evening was
passed. Il,
J. z. Smith and N. B Lloyd closed
trade last night, by which they transfer
to PortG& Raymond s. Co. and Skinner
Bros. of Eenver, Col. some 325 acres of
land lying 3apng the Missouri, Kansas and
Texas road ,'Apout three miles south from
the court house. The consideration was
$500 an acre, s6iae SIS ,OC0 III all. They
bought the land ~, years ago at Sc an
acre. over 500 pes cent. a year they
have made Oh their Investment.