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Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-07-18
GOT THE BEST OF THE OFFICER.

A Man Wanted in Tarrant County for Thei,
Gets Away from a Parker County Officer.
Special to the Gazette.
WEATHERFoRD, TEX, July Ito
day Constable John whatley of SPRING
town arrested one Alexander for carry-
ing a pistol, aud started with him for
this city to be placed in jail here. When
within a few miles of this place Mr..
Vardy of Cartersville. in this county,
met Constable Whatley with his prisoner
and told him that he had met an .Oiicer
from Arlington in Weatherford who had
gone on to Springtown to arrest Alexau-
der (whom Constable Whatley had I'M
der arrest) on charge of theft of a
horse in Tarrant county. This statement
was made in the presence of the pris-
oner Alexander. When within about
a mile of this city Constable Whatley's
horse stumbled and fell, and when be
had recovered he found that Alexander
had gotten hold of his pistol and left the
horse he was riding and had gone over
the fence into A. Woods pasture with a
shackle on MS right foot. leaving the
constable helpless so far as recapUuring
him, being disarmed MIR Whatley
came INTO the city ana gave the news TO
the officers, and Sheriff Sisk, Constable
Warner and Deputy Marshal Henry ac-
companied him to the scene.
Later-To- night Messrs. Varney and
Henry returned and reported the failure,
so far, to recapture the escaped prisoner,
but Sheriff Sisk and Constable Whatley
are still III pursuit and may return with
him before morning.
Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-07-18

Of a ''child staring at vacancy while If
holds a spoonful of pudding in its
mouth. -
Col. Daniel s. Lamont is making his
mark as a street railroad president in
New York city. He has equipped the
Avenue c line with new cars, drawn by
two horses each, and with uniformed
| conductors, two months before the time
set by the board OF aldermen for the dis
| appearance of the one-horse 'jiggeTs.
Since Mr. William H. English of Indi-
ana was defeated for vice. president on
the ticket with Gen. Hancock in 1880, he
has almost completely disappeared from
! public view. 1t is now stated that he is
writing history of Indiana. He ism t
writing it to make money, however, for
he is reputed TO be the wealthiest man in
the state. He owns nearly one thousand
houses, beside other property, in Indian
apolis.
Macon county, Mo-, proposes to give
high license fair test The tax is fixed
at $3.50 per annum, strictly IN advance;
and the saloon is restricted under heavy
penalties as to the manner of conducting
the business. This tax is distributed as
follows: $1,000 TO the city or town, $500
to the county and $50 to the state
Under these conditions and restrictions
but few saloons will be established, and
they viii have to sell good many drinks
to pay the heavy tax imposed.
Fred C. Prentice of New York was
millionaire before, but he was not salts
fed and has been stirring things up until
he has secured verdict in the United
States circuit court giving him about half
of the city of Duluth Mimi Prentice
bought the claim of one A. B. Butter
field, who was given deed for half
interest in 120 acres of property in the
city by Martin Beaser over thirty years
ago. The deed was improperly executed
and Butterfield was deprived OF possess
sion. The property is valued at
S., 600 900.
Thomas Ewing Sherman, at his ordi-
nation as priest in Philadelphia, received
many handsome and costly presents.
Among them are a solid silver chalice
and paten, the gift of Hugh Campbell of
st. Louis. They are made in the gothic
style, large and of very delicate work
manship. A set of white and gold vest
ments, richly embroidered, is the gift of
his sister, Miss Rachel Sherman. A
white lace alb was the gift of his mother
TIE work on this was done by Miss Mar
tin, the young priests nurse, and he
said to-day the value he placed upon this
was immeasurable.
In the state of Maine women are en-
gagged in over fifty different employ
ments, ranging from cotton and other
manufactures to the professions BY far
the largest number are employed IN man
ufacturing, there being about seven
thousand thus employed. The average
weekly salary is about eight dollars, and
one maker of portraits in crayon gets
SIG. One woman is proprietor of pros
porous newspaper; another owns an ex-
tensive orchard; there are dozen regu-
larry Endorsed physicians in practice and
several ministers, all Universalists.
Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-07-18
A woman's Greatest Luxury.
Chicago Herald.

O0lCaSO Herald.
The other day lady found herself in a
group of femininity where the conversa-
ton drifted into the subject of wealth
and as to what constituted luxury. Each
woman present was asked to name
here hearts desire if money grew
on bushes and woman were
turned loose in the field The ladies
by the way were of moderate means, OF
their notions of luxury would have had
no weight. They were educated and well
bred, or their fancies would not be worth
repeating. Now, man would naturally
say that every woman braced herself up
and shouted in chorus: Diamonds, Iaces
silks and horses and carriages. Well +,
their verdict was nothing of the sort.
The prepouderance Of desire set in the
direction of a MAZDA trim, tidy, deft,
cat-footed maid, who would keep all the
paraphernalia of woman in exquisite
order, who neglected nothing from the
buttons on her boots to the perfume on
the mouchoir, who superintendent the
bath, who understood the proper use of
all dainty toilet appliances, and who,
lastly, could relieve q woman of the
never ending WEAKNESS of combing her
own hair.
That group of women spoke for all
other women.
Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-07-18
GORDON.
The Pacific Coal Company Doing Flourish
ing BUSINESSMAN Abundant Harvest.
Special to the Gazette

The Pacific Coal Company Doing a Flourish
ing Business-An Abundant Harvest.
Special to the Gazette.
GORDON, TEX. July 1.-THE farmers
in the vicinity of Gordon are blessed with
an abundant harvest Wheat is turning
out fifteen TO thirty bushels per acre.
Corn is extra good and selling at 10 to 20
cents per bushel. The prospect for cot
ton is excellent.
The Palo Pinto coal company, under
the direction of Col watkins, is brush
ing up the New Castle coal mine near
Gordon, preparatory to working the mine
i'll good earnest The strikers from the
johnson mine have engaged to put the
coal on board the cars by contract, as we
are informed, furnishing their own top
men, etc., for certain price per ton.
The Pacific coal company is shipping an
average of 600 tons of coal per day and
while the output of coal is constantly on
the increase, the company is expanding
large sums Of money in improving the
premises by building good comfortable
dwellings and boarding houses. They
now have near five hundred men on the
pay roll, and the enterprise seems to be
moving on IN perfect harmony since the
right has been conceded to the president
Of the company (COl. Hunter) to manage
his own business as he sees proper.
The Gordon roller mill is nearing com
pletion and ere long the denizens OF Cor
don will be supplied with first class flour
made at home
Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-07-18
A MURDERERs' GARDEN.
How Murderers, Thugs and Highwaymen are
Using the Sac and Fox Indian Reservation.

How Murderers, Thugs and Highwaymen are
Using the Sac and Fox Indian Reservation.
ST. Louis, Mo-, July 12-Informa-
ton from Northern Kansas is to the ef-
feet that the Sac and Fox Indian reser-
vation on the Kansas and Nebraska line,
lying just north of Doniphan and Brown
counties, has become the refuge of
thugs, murderers and highwaymen. and
the law seems powerless to suppress
them. They carry on war against honest
people so boldly and successfully that an
effort will probably be made with the
government at Washington to secure the
abandonment of the reservation and
the removal of the few Indians living on
it to the Indian Territory. 1t is not the
Indians who commit these depredations,
but farmers and others are held up al
most weekly by these criminals, and. in
their treatment of the victims they do
not hesitate to murder.
Last week a number of railroad men
were sandbagged and robbed, and few
days before two farmers were held up
and their possessions were taken. The
inhabitants OF the locality live in terror
Of these criminals
Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-07-18
Why Women Don't Like Jokes.
Washington Pos


Women as rule are not fond of jokes;
they listen to clever stories with stimu-
lated amusement and forget them imme-
diately. The reason of this lies in one Of
the essentials of the make up OF woman
her profound and tender sympathy.
Humor deals with the weakness Of
humanity; it exposes foibles and
punctures tender skin. Humor
sets the world laughing at some blunder
Of a man. It is woman nature 10 cover
up, excuse and reform Follies are too
serious in her eyes TO laugh at.
If women were humorists they would
not be the most earnest church workers,
the most tender of nurses and the most
sentimental and refined portion OF
humanity. The same inherent quality
which would make true
woman, a real woman shrink as judge
from pronOuncing a death sentence,
or as a soldier from shooting al enemy
through the heart, makes it impossible
for her to become a humorist. Wit q
woman may have, wit she does possess,
and is a formidable adversary with her
stiletto points of irony and satire. But
humorous in the common acceptance OF
the term, in the careless, rOllickfng,
singing art of current quibs and jest5-
never.
Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-07-18

Hon. JESSE JENKINS, Bosque county s
representative in the Twenty-first Iegis-
Iature, was in the city yesterday, re-
turning home from Wichita county. He
Is enthusiastic over the capacity of that
section for producing grain, and says the
farmers are now threshing out twenty to
thirty five bushels of wheat to the acre.
Mr.. Jenkins is like every other practical
observing man who goes into that north
west country. They all grasp its posi-
bilities and sing its praises. And land
up there can be bought at 81 an acre,
with forty years to make payments. The
lands lie well, the soil is deep, water is
plenty and easy to get. Northwest Texas
is destined to be the greatest grain
growing section of the country.
Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-07-18
"a Lot of Thinking"
n LO' Va AhhhAAnS'
Baltimore Manufacturer Record.


Northern newspapers are beginning to
open their eyes to the steady progress of
the South in industrial development
The recent agreement to place a con-
tract for 3 900, 900 yards of cotton bag
ging by the Georgia alliance with Georgia
and Louisiana mills have caused several
Northern papers to make editorial COM
ment. In reference to this contract the
Philadelphia Telegraph asks:
''Where has it (the Alliance) gone for that
considerable quantity of goods? To the New
England millsF Not at all. 1t might have done
so once, and notso very long ago, but now it has
need to do so. The contracts were given to
mills in Louisiana and Georgia and the incident
is very completely illustrated of the many radi-
cal changes which have taken place in one of
our leading industries. The South has no longer
any need to divide an important part of its rev.
enues with the cotton spinners of Massachusetts
and Rhode Island. 1t does its own work and
keeps its money at home. This incident will
bear lot of thinking. -
Several other similar incidents have
occurred recently that have caused a
lot of thinking The letting of con-
tract IN Boston for ironwork to a Geor-
gia firm caused "a lot of thinking -
not only on the part of Boston editors,
but of editors throughout New England
The skirmish of Southern ironmen in the
North and West preparatory to an inva-
sion of the country with their products
has caused "a lot of thinklng'' on the
part of Northern mine owners and iron
producers, and the intention of En-
glish IRON and steel makers to, spend
$40 900 900 in building an industrial
town at Middlesborough Ky, is causing
ga lot of thinking all over the coun-
try. The Telegraph, the Boston and
other New England papers, the Northern
and Western iron men, and many others
who have been doing "a lot of think
ing will find as they read the Manu-
facturers' Record from week to week
that there is ga lot more thinking in
store for them to do. They will find that
thew have not begun to think yet, and
before they get through with 1t they will
find that thinking under such circum-
stances is hard work.
Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-07-18
sarlIs-stevens.

ARLINGTON, TEX. July IA very
brilliant affair at the residence of DR..
and Mrs Stevens on Yesterday even
ing was the marriage of their daugh-
ter, Miss Mamie. to Mr.. Richard Z .
Sarlls Of Troy, N. Y. The interesting
moment was $50 O'Clock, when the
handsome couple entered the parlor, she
attired in an elegant travelling costume i,
and he in the conventional black, when
DIR. Nall of Fort Worth arose aud pro-
nouneed the beautiful ceremony that
made them one. A more pleasing dis
play of womanly beauty and manly grace
would be difficult for the imagination to
picture, as Miss Mamie was the acknowl-
edge belle OF Tarrant county and North
Texas, and her beauty is exceeded only
by her sweetness of disposition
After the ceremony and usual
congratulations the guests were
invited to partake of an elegant supper
Numerous presents were received from
various friends, and the happy couple
departed at 'clock for Mount Vernon
Ind, the former home of the BRIDE
groom. May the many scenes of their
future lives be as bright and gorgeous as
the scene of yesterday evening A number
of Fort Worth people were present ,among
them; Mr.. and Mrs. Dock Clark, Mrs.
Farnsworth and Messrs. ". D. Farris
John P. King and j A Thomas, and
Miss Lille Ferris of Ennis, Tex.
Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-07-18
ALIVE WITH A BROKEN NECK.
The Strange Case of J. f. Woodland, a Con-
ductor on the NJ, K. and I.

The Strange Case of J. F. Woodland, Con-
ductor on the NJ, K. and 7.
Special to the Gazette.
DENIsoN, TEX. July IA very Sc
rious and perhaps fatal accident hap
pened to Conductor J F. Woodland Of the
Missouri, Kansas and Texas railway yes
Ierday. just as the train entered 81.
Joe station of the Henrietta division,
Conductor Woodland attempted 10 apply
the brakes on a fiat car. The brake stand
gave way and the conductor was thrown
between the moving cars. He fell
between the rails and a brake
beam catching him he has rolled along
the track quite distance. He sustained
severe bruises about the head and
shoulders and his neck was broken
although that fact was not discovered
until the case was diagnosed by Dr.. 4.
w. Chesson, the company physician.
The case is one of the strangest on
record in the medical world Dr.. Il.
ChessOn says the vertebrae next the skull
IS dislocated and that instances of the
same kind are exceedingly rare. Similar
cases have occurred, but the injured one
Invariably died, but the doctor is of the
opinion that Mr.. Woodland will live.
Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-07-18

THE question as to the authorship OF the
famous arthur Richmond letters in
the North American Review has again
been brought up. At the time they ap-
writer, but if the people would stop to
reflect they would soon see that Gail
would be the last person in the world to
write anything without her own sigma
ture. An associate editor of the North
American Review told reporter that
those ''who attempt to fix the author
ship on Julian Hawthorne and Gail Ham
ilton are Oh the wrong track.
Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-07-18
STEAMED UP.
The New Bagging Factory Nearly Ready to
Begin Operations.

The New Bagging Factory Nearly Ready to
Begin Operations.
Saturday night and Sunday morning
fires were SIT rted for the first time under
the new boilers of the Fort Worth bag
ging company, the object being to test
the boilers and see that the ma
chinery was all working we'll In
a few days the factory will begin
operations and give employment to fifty
men and women. AS will be remem-
bered last year the Spanish moss COM
pany put in one loom and began max
ing iute bagging as an experiment. The
short time the machinery was
kept running day and night, and
both bagg1ng and moss collars were made
and sold in large quantities. Just as
the enterprise was prospecting came fire
and the building and most of the machin-
cry was destroyed. Nothing daunted,
the company decided to rebuild and en-
large the plant, and accordingly a
5Ox200 feet two story stone
fireproof building has been erected, and
instead of one loom, six looms have been
bought and placed in position, while the
plant for making collars, door mats,
pads, moss mattresses, etc, has also
been enlarged. Quantities of jute
butts are on hand and in
a few days the factory will be running
day and night. Mr.. Thomas Roche said
Yesterday there was but one other bag
ging factory in Texas, that at Galveston,
and while it was larger it was no better
than the one here. The moss collar fac
tory is the only one in the United States
1t is intimated that another mandatory
closely akin to this one will soon be
started in Fort Worth.
Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-07-18

Prior to June Is Fort Worth and GAL
weston were the only Texas cities re-
ported, and are therefore the only two
included by the Post in its half-yearly
report.
An examination of the above figures
will prove of interest In the weekly
report Fort Worth shows 4 percentage of
increase of 90.3, while only one ether
city shows an increase as high as 20 per
cent. The report ending June %, the
week previous, shows gain of 81 ) for
Fort Worth. The seini-anEual report
shows that only one city had greater
increase than Fort Worth, viz: Denver;'
but the monthly report of the Pest shows
the gain Of Fort Worth to be Il per cent.
and that of Denver &c g per cent.
Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-07-18
The Truth About 1t.

Some of our contemporaries are vast
concerning the next presidential ticket of
the Democratic party The Cincinnati
Enquirer, for instance, has made the
brilliant discovery that Mr.. Whitney :,
Mr. Brice and Mr. Cleveland are cCn-
spring to run either Mr. Cleveland or
Mr.. Whitney for the presidency, as the
one or the other may prove to be the
strongest when the time arrives.
If the writer of this absurd gossip had
stated that all three of these gentleman
together with all the other leaders of the
Democracy, had solemnly agreed that
they would maintain a keen lookout
during the next three years, and at the
end of that time they would support for
the presidency the strongest Democrat in
the Union, and that Mr. Cleveland or
Mr.. Whitney might possibly be that
man, he would have struck the precise
truth. Nobody inside the Democratic
party is concerning himselfs about the
candidate of 1892 The candidate of
that day will appear with the same ire
sistable strength as that which came
with Tilden in 1876 and Cleveland IN
1884 When the hour arrives the
man will arrive with it, aud neither in
trigues nor combination, three years in
advance of the time, viii delay or en-
barrass him. IF the Democracy were
called into convention to-day for the
nomination of a national ticket, the
name of Grover Cleveland would go TO
the head of it unopposed, and that ticket
would be elected. But many changes
may occur in three years. 1t is not an
impossibility that the en- ire Pacific coast,
and three out of tour Of the new states,
may be safely Democratic by that time
It is safe only to say tat at present, in
this year. 1889. the Democratic party is
Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-07-18
GIRLS AND THE VIOLIN.
Why the Girls Should be Taught to aPIsv a
FiddIe"-No IMPROPERLY init


FiddIe"-No Improperly init.
For the relief of the young man VIII.
frequently entertained CD at fans-
gatherings, would like to point ont !,
young women the desirability Of pIar;.
some instrument other than their ;s
pressible pianofortes-weT it oniv for -
sake of variety, says writer in the Risb
field News.
Much or little, every girl PLAYS -.
piano. The young lady who cannot VS.
through at least two-thirdS of Bas,s
oven sonata is indeed rara 49,
Equally rare would be the man ~
would not admit that he has often ~
bored by the universal aecomphsbms,.
of piano playing.
The soothing effect upon the ear m,
duced by even a mediocre violinfst af,--
the gyrations of three or four Iislts i.
petticoats, is sufficient reason why -
should have another bow on their strir,.
In musical culture the study of =.
violin is Of prime Importance. CarafrI
practice upon a string Instrument refine,
the ear and trains that organ TO a uios
perception Of tone and information
a violin can always be tuned perfsotI-
and at a moments notice; his. we Nh
know, can not be said of the piano Tbs
violin can be carried by the player aDv.
where, thereby saving him the inc,o.
venience of performing upon an IN.
familiar instrument. Furthermore a
good violin can be secured for less uons1
than bad piano usually costs.
A violinlst of average attachments can
touch the hearts of his listeners. while :
requires a Chopin or a List to produce a
similar impression with the cold and nm
grateful pianoforte. The violin. com
paratively to the pianoforte, lends Itself
with ease to the production of pathstio
effects.
The position of the violin player is mors
graceful than that of the pianist. can
hardly conceive anything more charming
to the eye and the ear than 81 beautiful
woman playing well on the violin.
PunctiliOus mothers should dismiss
doubts as TO the propriety of their daugb-
tiers playing the violin, for that iusrru.
ment is already popular among women Of
the upper ten. Even princesses scrape
through Kreutzer's studies, and.
might say apropos, that Mrs Cleveland
is one of the recent additions 10 the long
list Of prominent women violin amateurs.
Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-07-18

more attached to the candidates of 1888
than it ever was, and that it would, if
the opportunity were at hand, support
them with greater unanimity and Ivelier
zeal than ever
One thing is certain: Whether Mr..
Cleveland shall ever be a presidential
candidate again or not, the tariff reform
issue, which he nobly made and upon
which he nobly lost, win remain the issue
until the industrial emancipation of the
American people has been fully and
finally accomplished