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Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-03-09
Poor Old TrunR.

To say that the Texas Trunk Railway
is in terrible condition, is expressing il
too mildly. If we we're accustomed to
such lingo, the profanity Of an old sailor
would suit best. 1t scarcely makes trl-
weekly trips; never fails to founder in
the mud and is utterly unsafe for travel,
and any day. we expect to hear Of some
trestle giving way, and score or more
of humanity go down to disaster and
death. The attention Of 1he proper su.
thorities ought to be invoked, and either
stop It's running at sll in its presen;
status or compel its owners to fix II, &c
that life will not be endangered every DAY
on this public highwsy.-[Kaufman b.
view,
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-03-09
Santa Fe onacers Elected.

special to the Gazette.
GALVESTON, TEX, March g.. The
stockholders Of the Gulf, Colorado and
Santa Fe met yesterday and reelected
the following board of directors to serve
for the ensuir year: W. B. Strong, T.
T, Burr, A. T. Nlckerson, George Sssly,
R. S. Willis, Webster Snyder, Thomas W.
Jackson.
The board of directors met st noon TO.
day and elected the following officers
President, W. B. Strong; first vlce-presi.
dent, C. W. Smith; second vice-presiden,
and general mansger, W. Snyder; audi
tor, W. A. Frost; secretary and treasurer,
John NJ. Bird.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-03-09
Home Notes.

Bqgineer Walker Of the st. Louis, Ar
kansas and Texas was in Fort Worth last
night.
WE. Bogart of Topeka, Kan, assist
ant chief locating engineer Of the Chicago,
Rock Island and Pacific, was in Fort
Worth Yesterday on his way from Cisco
to Topeka;
Present indications are that two trans
will have to be run from Fort Wortn :"
Denver to accommodate the NUMBER OF
csttlemen and citizens who express the
intention of attending the Denver con-
vention.
The Union Depot and StockIYsrds Rail-
road location will be made in few
days when the SrbitrAtors selected, Cap
tain Lloyd, Major Van Zsndt and B. F
Ellington would award the damages and
work would begin.
It was stated by one OF the bridge car
penters Of the St. Louis, Arkansas and
Texas, who was in Fort Worth last night,
that the track WAS laid to the west end OF
section 81, which would make 1t fifteen
miles from cort HolLn.
-.
General Dodge, General Manager Meek
and General Passenger ind Ticket Agent
Adg of the Fort Worth and Denver, are
expected to be in Fort Worth about
March 81, and will remain here until the
great excursion train leaves for Denver.
-
Ell. Preston, chief locating engineer
Of the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific,
was in Fort Worth last night
and was seen at the PickWick.
He said that the line had
been located definitely as fax as R1no III
the Indian Territory, while the line had
been run as far as Cisco passing through
Wichita Falls. II Chief Engineer Parker
was satisfied with the lines as runs they
would be adopted as the located line.
His Information was to the effect
that teams were now beiog
gathered at Caldwell, Kansas,
preparatory to building to Rene, but he
had no positive knowledge mat such was
the case. He said the company had
large amount of work on hand in pushing
its Colorado lines. AS far as the Fort
Worth line was concerned he could say
nothing At present.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-03-09

of extending its trsnscontinental line to
that city. There Is no doubt ameng we'll
informed railroad men but that the Santa
Fe has made several such surveys and
that before very long 1t will be running
Its trains into San francisco or Oakland
over its own track. Mr.. A. A Robinson,
chief engineer, has just returned from
the Pacific slope, where 1t is said he
completed arrangements for terminal IA
cilities on the Bay Of San Francisco.
These negotiations have been pending
for months and the final transfer was
made few days sgo. the company pay
ing s67S, 600 for 5000 acres OF land st
the south end of the bay extending along
the shore for seventeen miles. The tract
is three miles wide.
The channel along the shore has .
depth of about thirt7-seven feet at low
tide and is about mile wide, sffordipg q
continuous waterway to the Golden Gate
free from all danger to navigation. This
shore Of the bsr south Of Oakland which
is accessible to large vessels. It IS also
asserted in this connection that the com.
pany has secured right OF way
through the valley of the ssh
OOouulus 1uo new IOhu Will run III Q
northwesterly direction from Mojsve,
through TETON pass paralleling the Gen.
trail Pacific to the northeast corner OF
Tulsre lake. It will then follow up the
valley of the San Joaquin on the east side
to Whites bridge, where 1t will cross the
river, continuing up the valley on the
west side to point near Tracy. From
| there 1t will run in northeasterly direc-
ton to Antioch, and from
there in northwesterly direction
to Oakland. The distance from
Mojsve to Frisco by the Southern Pacific
is 3S2 miles, and it is thought that the
Santa Fe's new line will be equally az
shcrt. One hundred and twenty-five
miles of the proposed line Is now graded
from near Tracy to Whites bridge under
the name of the San Joaquin Valley Rail-
way, which is unquestionably being back
ed by the Santa Fe. By the construction
of this line the Santa Fe will develop 6
new and fine fruit country, and will con-
troll its own line to the coast Kansas
| CITY Times,
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-03-09

what's tae matter with Ill HAeO9 In
this city it seems as II we had over four
railway outlets and those very important
trunk lines. II you are not aware of this
fact take holiday and come west. Come
and see FL Paso and Ell ~ The hospitaIi-
ties Of her excellent ciIizens. Come al d
learn her resources aud future. At this
time, as you ought to know, we have the
following outlets: AthisoD, Topeka and
Santa Fe, Galveston, Houston and San
Antonio, Mexican Central, Southern
Pacific and Ttxss and Paciic-fve
And please be spprised also
that the Chicago, Burlington
and Quincy, Kansas Southern
and Rock Island-3, are coming a.
rapidly as possible, making s; and the
White Osks is Ger ain, while the Denver
and Rio Grande, Pslomas, Gusymas ana
Missouri Pacific are highly PROBABLE.
So THE GAZETTE Will please obseTvs
that the possibilities Of TIE E. Paso out
lets will fully equal, in the not remote
future, all certainties Of the fourishlpg
and enterprising Fort Please add 81
Psso tn your list of "ive outlet towns. I"
lei Paso Tribune.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-03-09

The following unique advertisement
recently appeared in the morning Post OF
London: acknowledgements eng
lish) for three children, eldest fifteen /;
must be q thorough disciplinarisn and
well able to administer corporal punish.
ment; good salary; sge about twenty
four; write full partic ulars as to mode Of
iniicting punishment, also salary re.
quired; personal interview insSEond6n
necessary
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-03-09
Rock Island Construction.

President R. R. Cable of the Rock
Island, who is now in New York, is
authority for the statement that his COM
psny will not build more than $50 or 800
miles of road during 1888, and that the
bonds which the company may issue
IN connection herewith have all been
disposed Of. He expects the road to be
extended to Denver by December l.
West Of there the Denver and Rio Grande
will furnish connection Kansas City
Times.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-03-09
A Thing of the Past.

President Morgan Jones and Superin-
tendent r ]. Duncan of the Fort Worth
and Denver Road passed up Saturday to
meet General Dodge and General Man
sger Meek at Trinidad. Connection Is
made between the two ends eff the track
by travellers by means Of days drive in
vehicles, and travel is already turning
that way. Going around by Kansas City
to get from Texas to Colorado is just now
played out, or about it, Tascosa Pho
neer, March 8,
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-03-09
AM.s,inRn, AIxord.

Special TO the Gazette.
ALvoRD, TEX, March s.-Several days
ego 1t was announced that meeting Of
the citizens OF this place would be held
for the purpose of inviting the MANAGERS
of the Gainesville and Southwestern Rail
road 10 survey the route via Alvord. The
meeting was held last night. DR.. 2. n.
Proctor was elected chairman and John
Beyett secretary. Speeches were made
by Captain S. z Hatehett, q. P. Bailey
and several others. All present expressed
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-03-09
sitka to Fort worth.

A brilliant meteor passed over this
place last night. It was of immense size
and brllliancy, and Was flying low. AS it
passed swiftly by our reporter was able
to read ) part Of great gclden-lettered
bulletin on its side:
Special to Fort Worth Gazette.
Sitks, this ball will fellow the line OF q
railroad from here to Fort So Man
gum Greer Coz Star.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-03-09

a willingness to do all in their power to
secure the right of way through Wise
county and committee composed of q.
P. B .ileY, S E Hstchett and ]. W. Dale
was appointed to confer with the mana
gers of the road at Gainesville and make
proposition to procure the road cross
ing for Alyord.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-03-09
Terrell Electric Light Plant.

TERRELL, TEX, March s.-Mr. Cook
and another gentleman are here in the
interest OF an electric light plant In Ter
reu. They agree to put one IN on cur
ing certain number Of lights and are
perfectly satisfied with its success. So
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-03-09

Many persons keepcarrel's Little Liver
Pills n hand to prevent bilious attacks,
sick headache, d5zziness, and dndSthem
Just what they need. eg1s5ag
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-03-09
Granted Right of Way,

6Po1IdI % Ino NhEOtVc'
WH1rEwR1GHr, TEX, March S.-The
City council met last night and passed
an ordinance granting the st. Louis, Ar
kansas and Texas Railway right OF way
ever Pine street.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-03-09
TIE SANTA FE.s PLANS.
IT WILL BUILD LINE FROM MoJAvB 10
SAN FRANCISCO.

IT WILL BUILD A LINE FROM hOJAFb 10
SAN FRANCISCO.
The question fsAgaiu being agitated as
to what are the Santa Fe's Intentions in
Cslifornis. For the past tive or three
years this road has been oredite, at IL
ferent times. with having made surveys
from Moisye to San Francisco with sview
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-03-09
THE RAILROADS.
What Chief Locating Engineer Preston
Of the ChIcsgo, Book Island and
Pacific Has to Say

OniciAIs of the Fort worth and Denver
Said to be Ooming-ssnta Fe Eleo-
tion-Home Notes
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-03-09

The E1nsss Rasors In Ghs wordI
At AndeYBonSs gun store
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-03-09
Rssors, RaFsss

The finest in the cltys Money refunded
in every ipstents Il not IS represented.
A. Stert,s Gsn Store. '.--'''' =
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-03-09
WITH HIM ALL NIGHT,

BERLIN, March 9-At 2 O'Clock this
morning all was quiet, and the Emperor
was sleeping soundly with some Prospt CT
OF improvement.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-03-09
Double daily line OF Pullman Palace Sleeping
Cars through to st. Louis via the
IRON MOUNTAIN ROUTE

See that your tickets read via Texas and Ps
cifc Railway. For maps, time tables, Elcket
rates and all required information, call on
o. D. LUsK, Ticket Agent, Union Depot, Fort
Worth.
JAKE ZURN, Ticket Agent City ONCE, cor
ner Msin and Third ST. eeIs.
H. O. ARCHER, Travelling Passenger Agent
Dallas
b. W. MCCULLOUGH, General Passenger
ard Ticket Agent, Dallas, Tex.
JEO A. GRANT, General Manager.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-03-09
SOUTHWARK. TnIECARD. NoRTHwkRr
In effect Dee q 1881

JAMES s. OARK, Cent Pass. Ag't. Galveston.
]. J MULLAHE, Ticket Agent, City ONCE.
O. d. LUsK, Ticket Agent, Union Depot
Fort Worth.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-03-09
medicine.

OF sll kinds. Cures guaranteed or no pay
A. Sts.i's Gun Store.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-03-09

The Fort Worth GAZETTE gives the fol-
lowing list of cities and towns in Texas
hat have over four railroad outlets:
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-03-09
SIGNRD An ORDER.

BERLIN, March 8, l A. M.-The En-
peror this morning wss able to sign sr
order proroguiDg the Rsichstag. Other
wise the signing burdens have been as
sumed By Prince William. All troops
are kept in barracks in readiness for the
contingency Of taking the new oath Of
allegiance.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-03-09

thresTezs or sfiicts, tat 1t neutrsl.zs q
poison and fortifiss she sYstem.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-03-09

] usdieinsl merit Austin
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-03-09

"FOlIsd cattle have the instinct % butt |
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-03-09

This morning iswss
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-03-09

e zised at fs09. Fi'3d FEAbrfsfY Is. zsss.s
J. sgayae. gouHtg Geek, Tarrans oouasy, 4
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-03-09

Bqgineer Walker Of the st. Louis, Ar
kansas and Texas was in Fort Worth last
night.
The Arkansaw traveler., 1888-06-23
Santa Fe Yestibule Trains.

The vestibule train is new factor in western railroad transportation. It is claimed for these trains that on &C., count of their being connected by steel hoods all danger of telescoping in case of accident is removed, the train being practically one long car. It is certain that the oscillation of the cars is greatly reduced, and it is also certain that the vestibule trains afford the greatest comfort yet known to travel CTS. The adoption of this style of train by the Chicago, Santa Fe < Cal ifornia railway between Kansas City and Chicago, is 8 strong bid for the passenger traffic between the west and Chicago. This new road is in many particulars ahead of any of it's older competitors, and will undoubtedly be the popular road to Chicago.
The Arkansaw traveler., 1888-06-23
Old Age and Alcohol.
Nineteenth Century.

The records of centenarians prove that many do well as total abstainers, but that many also do well who take alcohol in some form or other, and, for the feeble type of constitution, which is never destined to such length of days, certain moderate amount of alcohol stimulant is, perhaps, one of the greatest blessings they enjoy.
 Of centenarians, who certainly were not abstainers, the following instances may be mentioned: Cardinal de Salia, Archbishop of Seville, died in his one hundred and tenth year in l7S5, with every faculty except his hearing unimpaired. He imputed his green old age to sober, studious life, regular exercise and good conscience, as well as pint of the best sherry at each meal, except in very cold weather, when he allowed himself a third more. Macklin, the actor, who lived one hundred and seven years, two months and ten days, up to forty lived, his blographer states, very irregularly, drank hard, sat up late at night, and took violent exercise. Subsequent to that period he proceeded by rule. He drank tea, porter, wine, punch, and ate fish, flesh, fowl, etc., till he was sev- enty, but he never drank to excess. His usual quantity was seven or eight glasses of wine. He was always mod crate at his meals, never abstemious. At seventy he gave up tea because it disagreed with him, and his drink with his meals for the last forty years of his life was white wine and water made very sweet.
 Philip Loroque, who "went to bed intoxicated at least two nights every week till he was one hundred years old," and Thomas Wilmington, who lived to one hundred and seven, and twas an ha bitual drunkard," are two further instances. Wilmington drank nothing but gin, of which compound, until within fortnight of his death, he took from pint to pint and half daily.
The Arkansaw traveler., 1888-06-23
Clinging to the Last.

The virus of rheumatism often re- mains i'll the system through life. when it does not cut the thread of existence suddenly, as it is always lia- ble to do by attacking the heart. Ere the grip of this tenacious disease tightens, it should be unloosed by that beneficent hberator from disease, Hostetter's Stomach Bitters, which will free the sufferer at the outset from subsequent pain and danger. No purer or more agreeable blood depur- ent exists, as multitudes ot the rheu- matic and neuralgia have ascertained by certified experience. It is through the medium of regular action of the kidneys and bladder that an outlet is afforded for the escape of impurities which beget not only rheumatic, but gouty ailments, and dropsical effusions. To these organs the Bitters gives an impulse, never verging on the bounds ot irritation, but sufficiently vigorous to cause them and the bowels to per- form their functions with clock-like precision. Use it also for dyspepsia, biliousness, fever and ague and debil- ity. :.
The Arkansaw traveler., 1888-06-23
JUNE.
BY LUcIEN ARNOLD.

Tnder the moon of gentle June, Where the leaves to the breeze in murmurs
 talked, And the buds promised roses soon. My love-my queen-the faIrest flower That blossomed in the world that hour My love and in the moonlight walked! Sweet is a flower for one short hour, Soft is the murmuring dream of leaves, But what If the fruit is bitter and sour? And the falling leaves bring not ripe
 sheaves! What were it this: that love Is a kiss That is-and is sweet and is gone with a
 breath A moment of June and flowers and bliss, Then the fruitless and silent winter of
 death!
 Shall sigh that moment sweet Came and went on wings that were fleet? Dear lips to kiss dear hands to hold, In lite of iron one moment of gold, One hour of June, when all too soon We lost the flowers, and the kiss and the
 moon, And found once more the toll and the pain, And walked our ways in the world again! An, love's but a memory sad and sweet But greeting of hands, and a going of feet, And our night-my queen of glorious June In darkness went down with the sinking
 moon -FetersOn's Md0dztne.
The Arkansaw traveler., 1888-06-23

be sawed down." Whether the crabs were in the custom of saving down the timber of the virgin forest, and thus aiding the colonists in making "cleariDgs" when they were so unfor- tuhate as to be stranded on the shore, or if simply the "three- edged saw'' tail might be used for that purpose in the hands of man, is not clear. It is interesting to note with what an ad- ditional and vague terror the crab is ingeniously invested by being termed "sea spider"
 The rattlesnake was not made suf- ficiently repulsive and terrible by na- ture and so the Swedes were seriously assured that "there is here also large and horrible serpent" which "has 8 head like the head of dog and can bite off mans leg as clear as if it had been hewn down with an axe. There are horny joints in their tails which make noise like children's rattles; and when they see man they wind themselves in circle and shake their heads, which can be heard at the dis tance of 100 yards. These snakes are three yards long and thick as the thickest part of mans leg"
 It is not strange in view of these and similar statements about the country that the immigration of the Swedes was slow and amounted to lit- tie, for even the Scandanivans, whose prowess has been proverbial from the time of fabled Thor, might be beappalled by these dog-headed serpents, and giant saw-tailed "spiders." These passages and others which might be quoted from the volume of the Rev. John Campanius are interesting as showing the love for the marvellous ard for exaggeration which exists even in minds supposed to be the most serious and prosaic, and they afford an excellent example of the manner in which wildly false impressions were carried to the old world con- corning the new in an era when the wonders of the world were less under stood and mans credulity was greater than now.
 There is something of poetry in the fact that within stones throw of the spot where the first permanent Swed- ish settlers landed, on the shores of which Campanius told his wondrous "traveler's tales," is great industrial establishment which, of all in the world, was chosen to manufacture a palatial palace car for the king of Sweden in the year of our Lord 1876.
The Arkansaw traveler., 1888-06-23
An Authors Superstition.
Buffalo News.

Howard Seely, the Texan writer, who has been attracting attention for several years past by his clever sketches and stories of frontier life, and whose recent novel, "A Lymph of the West" received favorable com ment, has some curious superstitions about literary composition; and is unique in his methods of work.
 The most unique feature of his study is human skull and femora surround ing bookcase. The thighbones are those of a man, but the skull is wo- mans, said to have formerly apper- tained to Mexican senortto of great beauty. There is some mystery about this relic, for the author is reticent about talking of it. The brain cavity is lined with black velvet, and the top ot the skull opens with a hinge; for this ghastly box is a receptacle for pens and the names of his heroines in- scribed upon bits of ivory. It is his custom when the name of a heroine has been selected, and her character and physical attractions are in process of development, to put this title in the head ot the skull and let it remain there uutil the story is finished. The eyes of the skull are provided with silver fonts to contain ink-the left red and the right black. When in the throes of composition this skull is used, and his fiction may, therefore, be said to emanate from the left eye, and consequently from the right hemi- sphere of the skull of the Mexican senoTitd.
 Readers of Poe's "Gold Bug" may smile at this singular analogy between the finding of material and mental treasures by this sepulchral process, but in MT. Seely's case, oddly enough, the result is neither morbid nor grue- some. His fiction is eminently whole some, natural, and even of humorous turn. Cynthta Dallas, the heroine of GA Lymph of the West" is said to have been drawn after a prominent beauty in New York society. In this re pect Mir. Seely follows the tradi- tion of Sir Walter Scott in "Ivanhoe," for Re6ecca is currently believed to have been the portrait of Jewish lady of Philadelphia.
The Arkansaw traveler., 1888-06-23
Too Hot For Herr Wager.
Kentucky State Journal.

"Good evening, Herr Wager. Hot this evening""
 "Yah. Aber it don'd vas so hot here oud as der house in"
 "Well, of course it's cooler in the shade out in the air than in the house."
 "Yah, ouf der oldt vomans wasn't der shade in. ped you, mein frendt, out dot vas some Icelandt vedder mein frau could make it SO hot like a pake. oven. In winter times I don'd need some coal purn where mein frau is."
 "Ah! Your wife hasn't red hair, has she?"
 "No. Him got black hairs; und Katrina got black hairs doc also like wise , hen him don'd vhitevash it init dose yaller dings. Aber mein frau got some red tongues; dot vas what der matter vas init dot Hammer. By 'nenty, dot nd tongues vas more hot ter as red hairs init some fire coals on, und don'd you dot fongot."
The Arkansaw traveler., 1888-06-23

in the fever of delirium. The next day MT. Lambert went to the lake, and at the same spot soon found out the old gator lurking in the weeds. As footsteps were heard approaching, he came forth menacingly, but two shots from a 44-calibre Winchester soon placed him hors de combat. The wounds in his head were deep, and showed that the mothers arm had struck a terrible blow. The little child was not hurt, as the 'gator's teeth had caught in it's dress.