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The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1889-07-04
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The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1889-07-04

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faro bank and almost Invariably ilHll
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The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1889-07-04

PARIS, July 8.-Ths worlds peace
congress to-day resolved 70 hold the
next conference In London. Senator
sherman was elected Vice President
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-01-19
The Libel Law.

The libel law is question especially in
teresting us at the present, and we quote
what the New York Herald has to say
about the effort being made by the Michi-
gan press to have the libel law of that
state improved:
tAs win be seen by our dispatch from Lansing,
the Michigan press association has made pub
lie spirited move for a decent libel law. Il has
prepared billwhich the Legislature viii be called
upon 10 enact.
The bill abolishes the absurd rule that malice
is always to be presumed. 1t requires malice 70
be proved 1t provides that only act1al damages
shall be recovered. That very properly cuts OF
exemplary, - punitive or fancied damages.
Here is another salutary provision:
1t shall be unlawful for any attorney to con-
duct an action for libel for contingent fee or on
any understanding that he shall receive part of
the damages as his compensation; nor shall he
advance money to his client or incur any liability
in the case.
The Herald congratu1ates the Michigan press
association on this important and praiseworthy
step, and trusts that the needed reform viii be
carried through the legislature. 1t is but simple
Justice 10 newspapers.
Let the Herald, oh! We legislators of
our Twenty first legislature, have the
chance for congratulating Texas upon
securing humane libel law.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-01-19
CONSTITUTIONAL MSREPRESEN-
TATION

TATTON.
The criticisms of Gen. Cameron upon
the immigration clause of the Texas con-
stitution in his speech at Huffman s hall
in this city Wednesday evening were I'M
answerable. That provision in the state
constitution puts to blush every Texan
abroad who is asked to explain its pur-
pose. The evil does not consist in the
fact that Texas makes no appropriations
for immigration purposes, but in
the constitutional inhibition of
such appropriations. The provision is
interpreted to mean actual hostility to
immigration, and to a great extent that
idea explains the Indifference of home
seekers and capitalists of the East and
the North to the advantages of Texas.
1t is true, as Gen. Cameron says,
that people do not usually go where
they are not wanted; nor do they
often seek homes in strange places
without a local invitation. The
policy of Indifference may have repre-
scented the dominant sentiment in 1875,
but thirteen years have sufficed to Danish
from the public view, the most of the
leaders of Texas thought, whose chief
concern was to escape being elbowed in
to the deep blue sea. Yet
while they have gone some of
the policies they engrafted upon the
institutions of the state remain to impede
its development.
This is matter upon which the state
ought as quickly as possible to set itself
right Whatever it has to say about i'm
migration, whether i'll the constitution,
on the statute book or through the press,
ought to encourage rather than dis
courage the coming of the world home
seekers
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-01-19
The Downfall of Most.

What are we coming to when the
anarchists denounce Herr Johann Most
as bloated capitalist, and turn up their
noses at his teachings because they are so
mild? His leadership is no longer
recognized, and Herr Most even asserts
that plots have been made against his
life. But the anarchists are not likely to
endanger their necks for the sake of re-
venge, and Herr Most is not yet enough
of capitalist to deserve determination
on that ground.
Herr Most S downfall is due to prosper
ity. A little money and an assured live
hhood have changed him from an an
archist to a socialist, and the ownership
of a house and lot would probably make
him respectable citizen and prompt tax
payer. Prosperity tanes social reformers
more effectually than prison bars. A we'll
patronized beer saloon sobered Justus
Schwab. He still discourses grandilo-
quently to a small circle OF friends, but
he has ceased to be a celebrity. Beer
paid him better than fame, and, like q
wise man, he chose the buttered side of
his bread.
We almost wish that Herr Most would
prosper and become a bloated bond
holder. Not that he deserves good for
tune, but the ex-anarohist, transformed
into capitalist, would be an interesting
social study.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-01-19
oATEcHET7cAL TRUTHS.

What is it that has given prices to
Texas lands and made Texans rich, and
swelled the aggregate of Texas produc-
tions, and increased the congressional
representation of Texas? immigration.
What has Texas done to promote immi-
grafton? Nothing.
What, then, has brought immigration?
The vast area of the state, aided by
few enterprising towns and individuals
that have worked uphill with mill stones
about their necks.
What is expected to develop our coal
mines, oil wells, iron fields and granite
quarries and to establish factories? OUT
side capital; and yet it required force
pump to secure a geological survey of the
state.
What is the great mistake of Texas?
That people outside the state know all
about the vast possibilities of Texas.
What does the world know about
Texas? Nothing. Letters go back to
England telling of Indian depredations
in Texas, and letters come to Fort Worth
asking what troops are stationed here,
and every man who comes TO the state for
the first time cannot conceal his surprise
at the soil, climate, buildings, business
and the refinement of the people.
How can Texas enlighten the world
and reap the harvest that will
come with knowledge of its
capabilities? By laying aside
the conceit that doth so easily beset it,
shaking the moss off its back and adrer-
Using itself.
What is the best method of advertising
Texas? By devising some plan which
viii attract men to come and see for
themselves. Newspapers and circulars
and immigration agents have their work
overcome by a malicious and lying press
which has the ear of the world, but if
people could be induced to come and see
for themselves, they would return with
the truth on their lips and thus do more
for Texas than its own people can do
for il
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-01-19
THE GAZETTE: FORT WORTH. TEXAS SATURDAY JANUARY

domination of ignorance and semi-bar-
barism-to the rule of 'Republicanism
blighted by ignorance.
The negro can do much to aid in the
solution of this question; he can render
this assistance by learning how to be
free; by acquiring education and prop
erty; by the cultivation of the virtues
rather than the vices of the white man,
by attaining selt-reliance and giving up
all hope that in the success of any politi-
cal party there is some special benefit to
black people.
1t is significant commentary on the
popular estimate of the negro IS capacity
that not even his chosen friends count him
as factor in the solution Of question -
brought to the front by the mere election
of Republican president; and the negro
should learn that as long as he depends
on partisan success for special benefit to
himself he will never learn that freedom
is self-reliance, self-respeet and self-ele-
vation, and that without this self-effort
there Will always be a negro question, TO
his disparagement and detriment.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-01-19
Damage by Smoke.
New York Sun.

The question of damage done by smoke
in great cities where bitumnous coal is
burned has received new light by a re-
cent paper contributed by the Hon F
A. R. Russell, published under the
auspices of the London smoke abatement
institution. He shows that during the
great fogs of London in 1880, fogs which
we're doubtless due in the main to smoke
in the atmosphere, the death rate rose
in January from the norman winter figure
of 81 lilo to 48 lilo for the week
ending Feb uary l which was the period
of densest fog. AT the same time the
death rate for nineteen provincial towns
was only &c $40; in other words, the
ordinary winter period was 1894. He
estimated that at least fen times as many
persons were i'll from the same cause. It
thus appears that the dead and
wounded in this contest with a
preventable nuisance was equal to
that of many famous battles. Mr..
Russell computes that the annual
loss to the population Of London in the
way of damage to buildings, furniture,
extra Washing, waste of coal, extra
lightings, etc., not taking into account
the enhanced death-rate, amounts to
about So, 900 900 year. On this basis
he makes a new appeal for an effective
resistance to this great evil. Many of
our American cities, particularly those
of the Mississippi valley, are interested
in this problem, and Mr.. Russell's adj
dress might very well find republication
hare
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-01-19
NEWS AND NOTES.

New York IS licensed saloons number
1885.
Some of the fashionable young women
of New York have giver up piano play
ing because it IS so common.
Ten million bushels of peanuts were
imported into Marseilles, France, last
year, to be pressed for olive oil. -
A London paper says that the art of the
goldsmith is disappearing, owing to the
cheapness of diamonds. The value of
jewelry now depends on the precious
stones it contains, rather than the beauty
of workmanship.
Since ''Little Lord Fauntleroy, - the
play, has been a success, no less than
fifty stage-struck children have offered
themselves to play the part of the hero.
And the manager says that most of them
were thoroughly competent for the part.
There was trouble in a New York
boarding house recently. boarder
asked a red-headed waiter girl if she had
any white horse radish. She had heard
enough of the white horse and the
reddish girl, and she hit him with sugar
bowl.
a diamond owned in Buffalo, and
known as the buffalo Gem - weighs
sixty caratS, and is supposed TO be the
largest in the United States. 1t IS about
the size of an almond, and before cutting
weighed ninety-fiye carats. 1t was
bought in Amsterdam for $50 600.
If Benjamin Franklin had only stuck to
his original idea of making it a part of
the treaty of peace with England that
Canada should be ceded TO the United
States, what Il heap of trouble might
have been saved But England would
not listen, and the idea was abandoned
A lady member of the staff on an East
ern paper does not take any stock in the
statement that Edison s new photograph
will transmit kisses. She asks, How
does he get 'em in? And after he puts
them in the old machine and kept them
for century or TWO they viii be spoiled
when they are taken out I don't be-
lieve the yarn.
Brooks county, Ga, is about twenty
two miles square. Last year the farmers
raised their own meat, corn, oats, syrup,
etc. Many make the sugar that they
use. With many cotton is surplus crop.
Their bank deposits amount 5000, GOO,
without interest. Farmers of the county,
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-01-19

have offered to lend money to responsible
persons in Quitman at per cent. Every
year the county ships thousands of
bushels OF homemade corn and oats, and
large quantities of homemade meat.
Probably the oldest timber in the
world which has been subjected TO the
use of man, is that found in the ancient
temple of Egypt, in connection with
stone work, which is, known to be at
least 1000 years old. This, the only wood
used in the construction of the temple, is
in the form of ties, holding the end of
one stone to another. When two blocks
were laid in place an excavation about
an inch deep was made in each block, in
which tie, shaped like an hour glass,
was driven. 1t is, therefore, very
difficult to force any stone from its posi-
ton. The ties appear to have been of
the timarisk or shittim wood, of which
the ark was constructed.
An idea of the density of London fogs
can be had from the following from the
Pail Mall Gazette: Yesterday s fog was
simply horrible in patches. At Queen IS
road, Bayswater, at $50, had to hire
boy with a lantern to find me a hanson
which was buried in the fog in the middle
of the roadway. My cabby had TO walk,
leading his horse with his lamp in his
hand, close to the curbstone almost as
far as the Marble Arch. The sound of the
voices of those lost in the fog, the ghostly
glare of the hanson lamps which seemed
strangely far apart, and the far-away
simmer of the gas lamps made the frosty
fog of last night thing to dream of, not
To fell
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-01-19
BANK CASHIER IN TROUBLE.
The Bank Fails Several Months After He Re-
signs and He is Charged With
100000 Embezzlement

PITTsBuRG, Pa, Jan. 1S.-The arrest
last night of Henry F. yoight, late cash
Ter of the defunet Farmers and Meehan-
les bank of the South side for the alleged
misappropriation of funds, amounting to
nearly $500 GOO, caused great
deal of excitement Mr. Weight was
cashier of the bank nineteen years.
Last April he resigned 10 go into business
and in September the bank failed,
heavy shortage having been discovered.
After the suspension an expert was put
TO work on the books and the arrest, il is
alleged, was made on information Ie-
ceived from him On Tuesday President
Sorg and Hugh Lafferty and John Musser,
directors of the defunct institution, pre-
ferred four charges against Weight of en-
bezzlement, perjury and falsifying ae-
counts. The matter was kept quiet till
last evening when VoIght was arrested
and placed IN jail at midnight in default
of $40 200 bail. 1t was stated this morn
ing by man who has some knowledge of
the affairs of the bank that probably
others outside of the bank will be found
to be implicated in its wreck.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-01-19
Help EROM TIE NEGRO

There are many plans proposed in be-
half of a settlement of ''the negro ques-
ton, F" and it is significant that in none
of them, whether emanating from North
ern Republican or Southern Democrat
is there anywhere an appeal to the negro
himself. Is not this most remarkable
commentary upon a quarter of century
of freedom and public schools and the
ballot? After all these years the negro
is still with one party ward of the ma
ton, and with the other menace to
government and TO progress.
To all suggestions of Acknowledgement
the South will lend no serious attention
Revolutions never go backward :, The
negro is free, wholly free, and, while the
South remembers all that negro rule has
meant and fully appreciates the obstacles
to bringing the negro up to the standard
of self-reliance, and while it endures
persecution and misrepresentation, it
will not-at least, Texas viii not
take favorably to any solution
that looks TO acknowledgements be-
cause of race or color. Texas has no
wish to abridge the rights of the negro;
and the black man ought to see in all
this discussion the imperative need of OBJ
tanning selfhood. The negro should
pause now and ask himself whether the
result of the great Civil War was to make
him free man or simply Republican
dependent, blind and unreasoning.
The South solidly Democratic, and the
North Republican, is an unhealthy state
of affairs; the negro blindly Republican
and the white man of necessity n Demo-
crat, is an unhealthy state of affairs.
The negro owes much to the white man;
the Northern white man freed the negro;
the Southern white man is paying taxes
to educate the negro. The negro should
help to solve this question. He owes this
to the white man as well rs to himself
The Southern white man has a personal
good viii for the black man impossible
for the Northern white man to feel; the
Southern white man has no desire TO re-
strict the freedom of the black; but the
white will never consent to submit to the
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-01-19
Ballot Reform.
Memphis Avalanche


Several weeks ago the Avalanche pub
lished the full text of the law governing
elections in and for the city of Louisville,
with the comments upon it of writer in
the Nation. II is a modification of the
Australian system, which is now being
generally discussed by the press of all
sections. 1t is in operation in England
and Canada, IN the city of Milwaukee,
and has just been adopted for the whole
state OF Massachusetts. 1t will probably
be adopted by New York, and bills are
to be introduced in various other
Northern states for the same purpose.
The passage of some such law by the
legislature of Tennessee would go far
toward silencing the bowls of Northern
sectionalists and restoring to US that
peacefulness which is essential to the
progress of any Southern state.
The law is not intricate Its provisions
are plain and easily understood. 1t pro-
vides that the state shall print the ballots
each ballot to bear the names of all the
candidates. No other ticket can be used
An Inspector puts his initials on
the back of a ticket before handing it 10
g voter, who retires to a stall, makes a
cross mark opposite the name OF each
candidate for whom he desires TO vote,
and, folding it with the Endorsement
showing, hands it back to the inspector,
who deposits it in the box
This is one way of providing for an ed
ueational qualification without a decrease
in representation. And yet no objection
could be made to it, since numerous
Northern states are adopting it for them
selves
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-01-19
IT ISM FUNNY NOW.
IJlF 7 T UNIV 7 " . "
FoRr NORTH. Tex. Jan. II. 1889.

FORT WORTH, TEX, Jan. II, 1889.
Messrs. Editors Gazette.
I enclose you one of your funny campaign
pictures. Please publish the same again; it viii
be just as funny now as it was in August last.
Yours happily, ''PIoUs REPUBLICAN.
Nothing pleases THE GAZETTE more
than to oblige its friends, but nothing is
more distasteful to THE GAZETTE than TO
delve into the dead past. The election is
over and THE GAZETTE s time and atten-
ton are engrossed with ways and means
to develop the vast capabilities of Texas.
Life is too short to fight over battles that
have been fought and lost.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-01-19

iron bands couples whose union is q hor-
rible mockery OF the true marriage rela-
ton than it is TO permit their separation.
If the gradual exteI,sion of facilities for
divorce had not worked 70 the welfare of
society and the happiness of individuals,
1t is fair TO conclude that these states
would have gone backward rather than
forward ON this questicn.
It is no douht desirable that there
should be greater uniformity in this mat
ter. States which make divorces easy
owe it TO their neighbors of more rigid
views to require q term of residence so
long as 10 discourage removals for the
sole purpose of securing a separation.
But we imagine that it win be found diff
cult to induce the states to surrender
their right to independent action, or to
frame Il general law which will satisfy all
sections
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-01-19
JARVIS ROAD BILL.
A Farmer Raises Two Objections to the Pro-
posed Measure.

Farmer Raises Two Objections to the Pro-
posed Measure.
oscEoLA, TEX, Jan. Il, 1859.
To the Gazette.
wish to raise two objections TO the
Jarvis road bill.
l The question of issuing bonds in a
county should be submitted to free hold
ers only. It is possible that the majority
of voters in county may not be tax-pay-
ers, and would have none of the tax
burden to bear. The majority OF
voters in this county are not
fixtures and could, without as
Stunning any burden themselves place
one upon their neighbors. The free
holders pay most of the tax and are in
for it till the bonds are paid, while other
classes can bundle up and leave when
they get ready.
2. In the Jarvis bill the county seat is
made the center of the road system. All
roads lead there Now this viii work
hardship on the smaller towns and the
farmers surrounding them. We are four
miles from ItaSca and eleven from Hills
boro. Do we not need macadamized
road to Itasca more than
we need one to HiIlsboro? In
some counties the railroads do not run to
the county seat, but to other towns, as
Bowie, in Montague county. People
need good roads TO market, and it seems
TO me that the law should be made with
this end in view, rather than to afford
nice drives 10 the county seat.
If the question is submitted to the peo-
pie of our county I shall vote TO issue
bonds, but do not like the two features
mentioned A FARMER.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-01-19
Secretary immigration Committee

THE weatherford Constitution says;
Fort Worth is trying to get up spring
palace. We wish her success, and, if she
succeeds, Weatherford viii be on hand
by the banner. That viii indicate to the
thousands who may be there that Fort
Worth is in the county adjoining the ban
ner county of the state. Their proximity
will prove beneficial to both counties and
their capital cities - without some I'M
forseen accident the Texas Spring palace
will be opened to the public next June,
and Weatherford' g response indicates that
all Texas will be on exhibition at that
time.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-01-19
Pilot Point.
rrespondence Of the Gazette.

Correspondence Of the Gazette.
PILOT POINT, TEX, Jan. 1.-THE
matrimonial epidemic is still raging.
Two weddings were celebrated last even
ing. Mr.. Robert D. Stelzer, a leading
stockman, long connected with the Mata-
dor cattle company, was married to Miss
Victoria Gilmore, daughter OF a promi-
nent merchant of this city. The presents
were numerous and costly.
Mr.. Wash Mcfarland, formerly of
Pilot Point, now of Baird, was married
to Miss MoIlie, the lovely daughter of
Mr.. John Skinner of this city. Many
handsome presents were given the happy
couple.
The clearing weather of the past day
or two encourages our farmers to hope
for a release from the embargo of mud
Col. Copenhaver, one of our oldest citi-
zens, declares that snch winter as the
present has not occurred since 1913.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-01-19
BLACK JACK GROVE.
A Bad Wreck on the East Line Railway-One Of
the Oldest Citizens Dead.

Bad Wreck on the East Line Railway-One OF
the Oldest Citizens Dead
Correspondence of the Gazette.
BLACK JACK GROVE, TEX. Jan IL
Mr.. E. A. Rollins, one of the oldest citi-
zens of this.county, died ut his residence
in this city Tuesday morning of consump-
ton, and was buried by the Masonic fra
ternity at the Oakland cemetery, about
six miles north of this place, yesterday
Mr.. Rollins settled in this county in the
days of the red men, and was one of the
Mexican veterans.
The continued rain has ceased and
to-day looms up bright and clear.
wreck occurred on the East Line
railroad yesterday about three miles
above Campbell, near Greenville, in
which five fiat cars were totally demol-
ished No one was hurt When the
wrecking engine was returning to Green
vile, after clearing up the wreck, it left
the track and caused considerable delay,
making all trains about six hours late.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-01-19

Kemp.
CORRESPONDENCE Of the Gazette.

Correspondence of the Gazette.
KEMP, TEX. Jan. Yesterday and
the night before there fell the hardest
rain in six months. The streams are all
swollen out of their banks. 1t is still
cloudy but seems to be clearing off.
The bad crop year has not been felt as
much as was thought here. The mer-
chants are laying in large supplies for
another year.
Two boys by the name of Thompson,
living on Bakers prairie, brothers, and
young man by the name of Canady,
were arrested and tried before Justice
Pinckard yesterday on charge of rob-
bling one Rodgers, who was here during
the holidays. They were bound over to
the district court.