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Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-01-06
ALTAR AND TOMB.
chc 0axette's Record OF the Marriages
and Deaths In Texas.

and Deaths In Texas.
MARRIAGES.
Frank Pratt and Miss Cassie Jackson,
Marshall, December %.
Henry Moore and Miss Maggie Ora
ham, Marshall, Decemoe Ger %.
J. G. Clark and Miss Mary Conner,
CoIs.cana, December 20.
E. o. Call and Miss Lila a. Key, Corsi-
cana, December 81.
M. Kennedy and Miss George Waters,
December %.
"A. Boettcher and Miss Sophia Reich
srdt, Houston, December IS.
G. L. Newton and Miss Bette Boyd,
Corsicana, December %.
B. F. Whitaker and Miss Jennie Z. Bar
ton, Tyler, December q.
Howard Hale and Mrs. Lizzie Price,
Tyler, December %.
We. A. Ssurgis and Miss Kate McLendor,
Calvert, December 81.
Will Dye and Miss Ids Wilson, Cook
county, December %.
~. B. Crawford and Miss Lizzie knight,
Cook county, December %.
j. ". Jackson and Miss Addie MetcaH,
Tyler, December %,
T. J. Owens ard Miss Jewett Campbell,
Vetnon, December 81.
III. Petit and Miss Bette Hamilton,
Vernon, December 81.
r. T. Vanderhoren and Miss Eva
Shock, San Antonio, December 81.
james Simpson and Miss Lizzie Top
ping, Denison, December q.
Charley Sims and Miss Nellie Mcclure,
Rosston, December %.
70. B. Kone and Miss Eliza Johnson,
Gainesville, December 2S.
W. J. Nelson and Mrs. L. n. Lois,
Gainesville, December 81.
G.. T. Melrose and Miss E. E. Chapman,
Waco, December 27
81. II. Ledlie and Miss Nj. Z. Wood,
Brennan, December IS,
F. NJ Conrad and Mrs. Nellie Grant,
Mineola, December 81.
james Fl. Wagner and Miss Lou Evans,
Blsnco, December 26.
n. Z Early and Mrs. Jane Dunlap. Bel
ton, December %
W. H Mccullough and Miss Laura AS
kew, Bell county, December 20.
- nj. Carr and Miss Ella B. Tobin, San
Antonio, December 81
o. ii. Cowles and Miss Lena Alder,
San Antonio, December 81.
George G. Gray and Miss Lille Crau-
son, Midland, December %.
Jesse Moore and Miss Dollie Estes,
Alvarado, December 25.
S T. Smith and MISS Lillian Wilson,
Avarsdo, December %
". II Clarke and Miss L. a. Carson,
Alvarado, December IS.
Aaron Biliogsly and Miss A. E. Glas-
gon, Alvarado, December %.
DEATHS.
Mrs. Katie Brown, Sherman, Decem-
Der &c.
Mrs Hattie Scale, Corsicans, Deem
Der %
81 G, Magnus, Shermsn, December %.
Charles G. Denny, Bolton, December
%
Sampson Head, Johnson county, De-
cember 26
Jsnes Maigusgb, Tyler, December 81.
Mrs. E. j. Kenoble, Waxahachie, De-
cember 81.
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"SONE FENCES DOWN."
Are tho Farmers for Blaine or Are They
for Cleveland?
Chicago Herald

for Cleveland?
Chicago Herald.
The present tariff on steel wire rods,
from which barbed and other common
fence wires are inside, is from 40 to 52t
per cent-in the latter case about S13.44
per ton, or over half the price OF the
goods. This is to support the infant
monopoly known as the Washburn &
Moon patent. For the benefit
OF class of iron and steel manu-
fscturers who have not in ten years
increased their investment, who hire no
more men than they did in 1870, and who
lock out their men ten times ss often, the
farmer must pay double price for every
foot of wire he may buy. The iron
workers do not Increase in number be-
cause as fast "a machine is invented the
infant industrialist discharges employees,
while his victims, the farmers, increase
in number, and are as ten to the seven
Of all other Americans. Mean
while, the egricul,urist, seeing his
wheat fall from $50 to 20 cents,
discovers that he must sell his goods in
the markets Of the world, where Rassis,
India, New Zealand, Egypt and all the
other countries are his competitors. II
he sell shipload Of wheat in Liverpool
and take ON cargo of barbed wire, he
must psy from 81 cents pound to $l4 A
3 ton Of ts1, while in the steerage may be
= cargo Of ree Labor which Is to take the
Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-01-06
TIE WORK At DALLAS.

The conference committees of the rail.
roads and people ct Dallas have mapped
out plan Of organized effort which
should commend itself not only to the
favorable but to the prompt, immediate
response of the people Of Texas. The
railroads will make an excursion rate
from specified central points north and
east that must induce men who are look
ing westward and southwark for invest
ments and homes. The roads will run
excursion trains with tickets good for
sixty days into the state bi-monthIy, and
passengers by such trains will be allowed
to return on any regular train. Those ex-
cursion trains will be advertised by the
roads aud every effort made TO bring peo-
pie into Texas 0Oag TO see for themselves
the state es it is.
This is what the people desired. Texas
does not solicit pauper or assisted immi-
grafton, but it does solicit the personal
investigation of all who might desire TO
invest or make their homes here, and to
whom the state has been misrepresented.
One excursion train, bringing one
man from each Congressional district
in the country would do mere
TO place Texas fairly before the people Of
the Union thsn al the protests Of ell the
newspapers of Texas combined. Texas
has been misrepresented to the country,
agricultural y, socially and politically, and
these excursion trains will induce men to
come here and decide for themselves on
personal investigation whist Texas is and
Of what it is capable. THE GAZETTE re-
CARDS this action of the roads IS the her
aid of the day when Texas will not be
considered merely land of
drouth and long horned cattle
and six-shooters. The railroads will do
what the people have asked them to do;
and now what shall the people do2
The response CT the people should be
prompt and full. The roads did not
dampen the enthusiasm of the people by
delays or evasions, and now the people
should not, through lukewarmness Or
hesitation, dispirit the roads. Many
communities have already organized for
the work, but every community should Or
ganize, and organize st once. The roads
will not delay, and no town or county
should delay. Let the good work begin sll
along the line, and let it be made perm
anent. The roads will soon begin to
bring in those who want to see what
Texas is. This is all that Texas asks,
but the people must begin to prepare to
receive these visitors and colate infor-
nation for them. IL Texas is not what
Texans declare it TO be, let these Wis
itors return; but the state is ell
and more than is claimed for it, and to
raise money to demonstrate this fac. is
now the duty Of the people.
The organization Of the state and exec
utive committees is q deserved tribute to
men who were foremost in this move
ment, and THE GAZETTE has implicit
faith in their ability to maintain the good
work SO auspiciously begun. A great re-
sponsibility rests upon Messrs. Daugher-
tY, Giddings and Elliott. but they will
meet its every requirement.
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THE SANTA CLAUS SPASN.

THE SANTA CLAUS SPASN.
During the holidays peculiar "spasm"
seized the minds of those who would OBJ
literate all recollectioDs in the minds OF
children of the mythical SAINTS Claus,
which has for many centuries been re-
vived on the return OF the world vide
festival OF Christmas. The discussion
was brisk one in various quarters, but
1t will pass away with the roll of the gift
season, without leaving any perceptible
mark upon the public mind. Every
body feels that it is a pleas
ing and. harmless illusion, sgreeably
and happily impressing the youthful
mind, while it furnishes fund Of amuse-
ment to those who have lived long enough
to outgrow it's fancies. The ideal Santa
Claus il sn inspirer of hope, and dis
penser OF real JOY, once year, in the
heart of the moving world, without
bringing an accompaniment of fear or
SORROW. Nobody ever was able to tell
exactly how the hoary old visitor could
be everywhere present to make his
simultaneous descent down the
millions OF chimneys OF the world,
to deliver his presents to ex-
pectant children, and so his Wis
itation hangs as an inexplicable mystery
with them, while mature minds laugh At
the temporary delusion. Mythical ideas
and traditional stories, however, are what
the world lives and thrives upon, and that
which is least harmful had better be left
The story Of the swallow
Ing OF Jonah by tns whale, and bis sue
Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-01-06

TARRANT COUNTY farmers who have
land to sell would be more apt to fno
buyers If prospectors could ride through
the country over graveled roads instead
OF pulling through "black waxey"
mud. And farmers in Tarrant
county who have land to cul-
tivate would be able to reach e market
with their produce at any season over
graveled roads. Good roads are TO the
country what railroads are to the town.
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st ites.

In common manufacturing there has
been great activity and seventy-seven
new mills have been projected, many Of
them being now under construction,
which is the largest number Of new mills
ever reported in one year. Cotton mills
are reported as having largely oversold
their production, and many old mills are
being enlarged to meet the demand for
their goods. The industries OF the south
are being greatly diversified a. well as
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any goods advertised in our lumns, or ask 1or
nfornation OF the advertisers concerning them
will oblige THE GAZETTE by stating that they
saw the anneup cenenS in the columns of this
paper. -. oil
persons advertising with us. we ehall continue
70 do our very best to exclude the dishopes or
Intrustworthy from these columns we con-
Stsntlv emil ont and reject all spch that we can
diecayer and shall be glad 10 have the assistance
AZ our subscribers In 40 d. Ing.
ANY failure or delinquency on the part OF 40,
veYttsers, IL reported by our subscribers, WILL
t,e oulv q, d pr perry attended to
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IN no MANS LAMB.
Further Report of this State OF Societ!
North of tho Panhandle.

u1EHsf hePuft OF tifo Dtns0 0H Soof0tS
North of tho Panhandle.
WICHITA. KAs., Dec. so. - Charles
Green, q cattle dealer from No Mans
Land, has arrived here and gives some
details of the capture and lynchiog Of the
Kelly family, and about those horrible
crimes which were published few days
ago, as equally strocious as any
thing committed by the Infamous
Bender family of Kansas. TIE Kel fam
ily left their ranch near Oak City. A
posse of citizens started in pursuit and
found them fifty miles south, in Texas.
The old man escsrei !, but the son, Bill,
was hanged, and the mother and daugd-
ter were shot while the posse were en-
deavoripg to catch them.
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Berry Lewis of Red Oak, In Lawrence
county, Mo makes the claim that he is
the pioneer settler of Illinois. he moved
from Tennessee, his birthplace. to Marion
County, Illinois, in 1926, and supported
himself by(hunting and trapping for many
years. until he finally decided to croes the
river and become Missourian.
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has accomplished since May, 1884, under
the conditions that have obtained since
that fateful date, and not see boom IN
equalled for the future, with It's favorable
conditions is, indeed, blind. There are
men in this city to-day rustling for tax
money who will be swell fixed" in less
than two years.
Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-01-06

THE old year goes out to-day, and the
new wear is coming in. "Ripg out the
old and ring in the new" for this plucky
town has been, for three long yeare, WORK
ing with an uphill pull, while the
new yesr is full OF promise. The man
who can look back over wnst Fort Worth
Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-01-06

NJ. Gown, the organist OF the Church
Of st. HOnore, Eylan, France, while play
ing the dead march 81 the funeral CT M.
R-vilor, suddenly stifened, and fell bsCk
out Of his chSir. His wife cried for aid.
Her husband had been seized with total
paralysis, and died while being carried
on. Of the church.
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cessful return to dry land, has an air of
improbability surrounding it, which the
imaginary exploits of Santa Claus do not
more than fsirly match. The worlds
imagination requires food; let /: be that
which is least Injurious.
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GOOD COUNTY ROADS.
Judge Cummings Gives His Views IOD
the Situation and Offers Several
Suggestions ca the Subject.
What Mr.. Black OF Benbrook has to Say.
Lot the Year 1888 be Known as tho
Good Road Yeer.
TARRANT COUNTY ROADS.

BESBROUK, Ten, Dec. %, 1857.
To the Editor of the Gazette.
Pontiac hits the nail on the head in his
article in tO-day's GAZETTE, when he says
we need good county roads and attributes
the dullness OF trade to the existing con-
dition CT the roads surrounding Fort
Worth. The road from this place to Fort
Worth is q disgrace to the county. Say-
eral valuable citizens have sold out and
left the state on account of the miserable,
crooked, steep, muddy, siding roads from
here to Fort Worth.
There is 8 petition before the Commits
sioner's court to straighten out the road
from here TO Fort Worth, and the people
along the route are mvstly giving the
right OF way. Parties out here are get
ting up subscriptions to grade and gravel
the road as soon IS it is opened. They
propose 20 make frst-class road in every
respect.
The people in the country are always
willing to do their part toward making
good roads wherever they are located Ct
the right place and there is any
prospect Of their being permanent, but as
long as they are made so crooked that q
man can't travel in the direction desired
more than one-third of the time, they will
refuse to work them or try 10 improve
them any. Mon-y can't be spent to
better advantage than in procuring good
roads. II Tarraut county had 100000,
her very best investment would be IN
county roads. It would increase taxable
values sufficiently to pay the largest divi-
dend. G. T. BLACK.
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TIE people and the railroads are now
working in harmony to build mp Texas.
what a common interest hath joined to-
pether LET no demagogue ever put ssun-
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Some idea of the density OF South Texas
inflammation concerning "the Panhandle"
m.y be gathered from San Antonio spe-
ci.l to THE G.zETTE, which referred to
aOdessa on the Texas and Pacific Riil-
wsy.n "Just on the southern border OF
the Panhandle" The fact is, the Texas
and Pacific line is ABOUT 200 miles from
sstbe Panhandle"
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IT WOULD pay Tarrant county big
interest to invest $500. 900 in good coun,
try roads.
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Texas resolved to boom and Texas
will boom. The gods help those who
help themselves.
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TaK railroads have captured the PEG lie,
and the people have captured the rail-
roads,
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Newspaper published in Texas.
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GOOD ROADS.

FORT WORTH, TEN, Dec, 30, 1857.
To the Editor Of the Gazette.
Your article this morning urging the
county authorities to contract for and
have built good macadamized roads is
what we need. Mr.. Pendleton's article
some weeks ago OF this subject, looking
to private parties taking it in hand is
good, provided the feature OF toll to be
paid by tie public be eliminated. 1t will
not do to tax commerce to our !oWn when
it can SO easily go elsewhere and find no
tax. If this cannot be done, building
roads, without private aid, then let the
county SO arrange it that whatever toll is
charged, will be paid out CT the
general tax Of the county Or the
the tsX from roads and bridge
fund. Let as have the macadamised
roads by ali means. l an not in excess
of fair calculation by saying if good
road to the extreme limits of the county
could be built whereby the time and trou
BILE of travel will be lessened e-half, then
thelsnd or farm reached is rendered more
valuable by so per cent Its market
value is determined by its accessibility to
market. l know psrties in this county
who have, sey 500 acres of lsnd, who are
in TWO days travel of town-g0ing and re-
turning home. Now If road could
reach them by which they would be in ore
days travel, in other words il they were
SO they could come to town in the morning
and return at night, the market value
of that land would be increased just 100
per cent. and the land would be rend red
twice es valuable. do not think there
could be found man Of good Judgment
who will dispute this simple proposition.
Then if am correct and it can be made to
be seen thus plain by those who control
this matter, (the Commissioners courO
by all means let Us have the roads. There
is Just the same general necessity for
good roads throughout this state as there
is for an immigration boom. The Ga
zETTE is due great credit for pioneering
on the Immigration subject. Let it press
the good read question home with the
same zeal and We will, mot only in Tarrant
county, but all over this black wsxey
soil which covers vast
area of Texas, feel the beneficial effects
of it. 1t will, by bold and decided
stand, swell with the same proportions as
President Cleveland's position on the
tariff. Many pariissns thought to follow
tue leducEeuip VI Diniuc III piosonftuS o
revision Of The tariff, but the President,
having made the issue fairly and squarely,
and the great west and northwest having
been heard from-all crying tariff reform,
now we fed that the Republican mem.
hers IN Congress are running with their
revised tariff bills to get in first and
claim the credit. So, il you push the
road question, some hero will come for
ward and devise way for US to have 100
miles of good macadsmized roads in Tar
rant county without much burden to the
people. Z. g. CUMMINGS.
The evening world., 1888-04-16

aught to displease you, or justify the strange
moods you have fallen in of late 7"
He bent 80 close to her that Clara was
forced to look up in his eyes.
Very pretty she appeared standing thus,
her heecy mist thrown back from her flushed
face. her white robes trailing around her, and
her bare arms, with their cleaning bracelets,
held tight in Waters grasp:
Have ! given you the slightest reason for
thinking that you were not still the dearest
being in the world to me, Clara ~
Yes" she answered, family.
4" In what Why I"
What could she answer =? Where were all
the Sights and wrongs she had been brood
ing over for months Hadn't she a defense
all ready for this occasion ! And now 1t had
fed from her.
"Since you cannot answer, l must con-
clude that you have been playing this part to
test me-"
Conclude what you please, sir. You
know that ever since your cousin came you
have not been the same. 1t is Ellie this,
and Efie that until | am tired of the name;
CLARA Douglas. ] believed you above all
such petty iealousies, and ON my cousins ac-
count, too. She came here al entire, stranger,
and devoting myself to her pleasure and
comfort while she is with us is only doing
my duty as a gentleman and q friend. II is
true, our many precious meetings have been
tisteFFSSptSsSS, hi III AaStai " ASkS SaS
The evening world., 1888-04-16

vented her from displaying any annoyance,
but sine secretly chafed under Efhe's presence.
She was 80 used 60 being the sole recipient OF
Walters care that it made O very naughty
feeling come up in her heart to see him fold
Elites shawl as carefully around her as he
did her own, or be as particular about ones
feet being warm as the others.
Walter had noticed Clara's petulant ways
lately, and was surprised at such O change,
not dreaming of the reason. He did not say
ANYTHING TO her, however, on the subject
until one night on returning from a party,
CLARA had been unusually silent all the
way home. and hardly vouchsated replying
to Walter's remarks.
He resolved to know the difficulty at once,
and when Clara said Goodnight" on the
steps. he quietly told her he was going IN for
q little while.
He drew her in the parlor, turned on the
light in the chandelier, and waited for Clara
to attend to him.
She was busy before the mirror, unfasten-
ing her wraps. III,
Z Here, darling, let me help you" said
Walter, advancing.
mo, thank you'll can do it alone" she
replied. bending closer over the knot, us her
cheeks burned hotter.
Walter did not like the tone of her voice,
but he made another attempt.
Your little fingers weren't made for sueh
9 81 e fSSt aHsghSsa " Egi ssg s3l'lne ''pf' ashSAs sStS