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Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-09-05
TANNER THE CAUSE.
The Proceedings of the G. A. r. En-
camDment Slightly InharmOniOus.
A ComFade Introduces 4 Resolution to IndOrSe
Tanner and Causes Bad Feeling-The
Logan Monument Fund.
SECOND DAY,

MILWAUKEE,, WIS, Aug. 29.-At this
campmcnt the election of officers for the
ensuing year was completed DR.. Hor-
ace p. Porter of Kansas was chosen sur
geon- general, W. H. Chiiders of Ken
lucky chaplain, and Comrade Loyett,
Jr. vice commander.
The encampment refused to recognize
the Sons of Veterans as an auxiliary to
the G. A. r. because of disturbing fac
tions in the former.
Instead OF giving the two womens or
CARNATIONS, the Loyal Ladies of the q.
A. Il. and the Woman 5 Relief Corps,
formal Endorsement which would be con-
trary to the rules, it was recommended
that the encampment bid them Godspeed
in the work.
Gen. Alger, president of the Logan
monument fund, reported that the col
lectiOns to date aggregated Sll ,ll9. 90.
A committee Of five was authorized to
place before congress proposition to set
apart a portion of the $40 900 appro-
priated for the site, to be added to the
fund for the monument.
Gen. Warner made a strong appeal for
the monument scheme. He suggested
that the committee be enlarged to in
CIude one representative from each de-
partment with Instructions TO push the
work until the monument was finally
erected at Washington
ComTade Perkins of Kansas introduced
resolutions ndorsing Corporal Tanner 5
actions in regard to pensions. They
were supported by an Eastern delegate
and a lively time ensued. Many of the
delegates thought the adoption of the
resolutions would amount to an indOrse-
ment of Harrison IS administration and
they opposed them on this ground.
During the discussion motion to adj
jOurn until 3 clock p. n. was carried.
THE GREAT NAVAL BATTLE.
MILWAUKEE, WIS. Aug. 29.-This has
been the great day Of the encampment as
regards crowds. Day trains brought in
about eighty thousand additional visit
ors, mostly from Wisconsin and Illinois,
the great attraction being the night ma
val battle in Milwaukee bay. Fully
quarter Of million people occupied the
beach, and the vast amphitheater on the
hillside of Lake Shore park was packed
with Grand Army men and their wives,
the seats being reserved for
them The battle was splendid
spectacle, being participated in by about
sixty vessels, besides stationary mortar
fleet and by about three thousand in
fantrymen and artilIerymen, including
several companies of the Fourth battal-
ion of Wisconsin, the Chicago Zouaves,
Battery d of Chicago, Milwaukee First
light battery, and several hundred Sons
of Veterans. There were fired 10 900
rounds of musketry, 5000 shells, $500
rockets, and 20, 900 pounds of fireworks
were exploded.
Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-09-05
BULLY FOR CRANFILL.
He Introduces a Resolution InQuiring
After Deacon Shepard's Mental
Condition.
Copeland of san Antonio Also Gives Shepard
Dig and so Does Loyal
Florida Man.

DETROIT, Mich. Aug. %. The third
day 5 session Of the national editorial
convention opened with an incident which
somewhat married the harmony of the
proceedings. Col. Elliott Shepard s in
terview with the Detroit Journal, as re-
ported in these dispatches yesterday,
created q veritabIe sensation in the con-
vention, and the Southern delegates es-
pecially were most emphatic in de-
nouncing the words attributed to Col.
Shepard. Upon the meeting being
called to order this morning DR.. j. B.
Cranfll of Waco, Tex, moved that a
committee be appointed to investigate
the mental condition of Elliott F Shop
ard of New York.
J. T. Stark of Orange, Tex. seconded
the motion.
President Belts promptly ruled the
motion out Of order.
". s. Capperleer of Mansfield, Ohio,
was then introduced and read paper on
''The Nature and Limit of the Obliga-
ton of the Newspaper to It's Party.
J H. Copeland of San Antonio, Tex.
said the people of San Antonio would be
glad to welcome the association there
when it wanted to come, assuring them
they would be received with open arms
by a happy, prosperous and loyal people,
and they would look in vain for Rebel
fire eaters.
David Elliott of Sanford. Fla. pre-
sented the association with an American
flag which he had with him in Paris, July
last, and displayed it on the flagstaff of
of the EifTeI tower, il being the only
foreign flag ever allowed on the tower.
Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-09-05
1T MUST GO.
Longing for the Flesh Pots, the Republicans
Denounce Civil Service Laws.

DeHouHCS NIfll o6GNlcS LAWS
BALTIMORE, Md, Aug. 29.-Last
night the federation of Republican clubs
of the Third congressional district, whichs
represents twenty-three associations,
adopted the following:
Resolved, that we as Republicans
pledge ourselves not to support anyone
for office, national, state or city who is
in favor Of the present odious civil
service Or its application in
the distribution of public patronage
whereby the majority of appointments
are awarded to young men fresh from
schools and colleges, while active, in
telligeut, educated and deserving men of
our own party are barred out on account
of age or having failed to answer foolish
questions not pertinent to the service i'll
which they are seeking employment.
We believe that the present civil service
law is q relic of European governments,
is injurious to party success and not at all
appropriate to Il Republican form of
government, and therefore should be re-
pealed.
Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-09-05
HARNESSED LIGHTNING.
The West Fort Worth Company Start the Flee
trio Cars on Their Line.

The West Fort Worth Company Start the Flee
tric Cars on Their Line.
The West Fort Worth street railway
company harnessed up the lightning yes
terday, yoked it to one of their hand
some Pullman cars and drove a large
number of guests over their long line of
road.
The first run was made in the morning,
when the inventor of the system, Mr..
Frank B Rae, and two or three officials
of the road took over the line a small
party consisting of TWO or three capital
lists and pair of newspaper men.
The trip was so successful that in the
afternoon a larger excursion was organ
Ized, and at 2:57 one of the elegant
Pullmans started out from the power
house, fre1ghted with the dignifed
mayor of the city, some FIVE or six ac-
tive and aggressive members of the city
council, two or three bankers, lawyer
or two, several miscellaneous citizens
and the inevitable and ubiquitous news
paper scribe.
Mr.. Rae had his hand on the lever and
his foot on the bell, Mr.. Wright held
the trolley line, and Capt. Quigg, SUI
perintendent of the system, made himself
agreeable to the guests.
The trip was successful in every re-
spect. The machinery worked perfectly,
and the car, yielding the readIest obedi-
ence TO the master hand that directed it
whistled over the straight track and
whizzed around the curves at a speed
which sometimes was thought to approx
innate twenty miles an hour. Both trips
were around the lOup beyond the hos
pital, returning by the college, dis
tance of five miles, and it was covered in
the morning in thirty-flve minutes.
The time was not kept on the afternoon
run, as stops of considerable length had
to be made; at one time for the removal
of an obstruction on the track, and twice
again at refreshment stations along the
line of the road.
The track was found to be in fine con-
dition, and both rides were greatly en-
joyed by all who participated in them.
The road runs through beautiful suburb
OF Fort Worth, which the acquisition of
this new style of locomOtiOn brings right
into the city, so to speak. From the
high ground over which the road
passes magnificent view Of
the city, as we'll as large
part of the surrounding country is OBJ
tanned, and trips on the electric lines will
doubtless soon become popular diversions
for citizens and visitors.
The West Fort Worth company have
fifteen Of the large, handsome and eIe-
CANT Pullman cars, which are soon 70
take the place of the old mule propellers
now in use. They are being rapidly
fitted up with the electric motors, and all
will soon be in running order. Four of
them VIII be run over the line on Sun
day.
Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-09-05
More Appointments.

DEER PARK, MD. Aug. 29.-President
Harrison has appointed Gen. James
Warner postmaster at Albany, n. y,
and James NJ. Bailey surveyor of the
port of Albany, n. Y.
The president has signed the commits
sions of Charles R. Flint of New York
and Hon. Henry G Davis of West Vir-
ginia as delegates on the part of the
United States to the congress of Ameri-
can nations to be held in Washington in
October.
Hon. William NJ Mckinley of Ohio
called on the president to7as.
Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-09-05
A YOUNG GIANT.
NIne-Year- Old Boy Who Weighs Two Hun
dred and Five Pounds-News Notes.
SDecio1 70 the Gazette

A NIne-Year- Old Boy Who Weighs Two Hun
dred and Five POunds-News Notes.
Special to the Gazette.
MINERAL WELLS, TEX, Aug. o.
''There is a child in town this morning
only nine years old that weighs 2O5
pounds. You ought to see him.
This was the remark made to a Ga
zETTE reporter as he came into the street
yesterday morning. Further inquiry led
to the fact that the child had left town
but would return in the evening. The
reporter, somewhat doubling the ex-
istence of such a being, thought no more
about it until returning home late in the
afternoon. Passing the residence Of
Mr.. Calvert he observed
crowd standing around the door
looking curiously at something moving
around on the porch that more resem-
bled a big fat bear than anything else.
On approaching nearer the reporter dis
covered it was a human being, with
decidedly bOyish look on his face 1t was
the fat child, and his father and mother
were with him. The fathers name is
GOdsoe, and he resides in Jack county,
about thirty miles north of this place
Neither father or mother are of medium
size, both being rather below the medium.
The father kindly consented to give the
reporter a brief history of his wonderful
offspring. HIS name is John Y. Godsoe,
and he was born June 10. 1880, at New
port, Clay county, Tex. His weight at
birth was twelve and One-half pounds
At three months old he weighed thirty
pounds. He was paralyZed at one wear
old and did not grow any until after he
was two years old, when he was cured of
his paralysis and began to grow. At
nine years old he measures forty-oue
and one-half inches around the waist,
fortY-5ight and one-half inches around
the shoulders, twelve and one half inches
around the arm above the elbow, Is FIVE
feet high. and weighs POS pounds The
boy is healthy and eats more than an
ordinary man.
Hundreds have visited him, and all
pronounce him the biggest child they
ever saw.
Cotton is opening up rapidly, and is
being gathered and ginned in
many places. Our ginning facili-
ties have been greatly increased
this season by the addition of two gin
stands belonging TO the Farmers Al
lance. We now have four gin stands
within radius Of FIVE or six miles from
town.
Visitors are still coming in on every
stage and viii probably continue through
next month.
The parties on whom the Brown-Se-
guard elixir was tried here some two
weeks ago are recovering. from the eff
fects produced by it etoSwit, blood
poison Our doctors SIS tffey want no
more of it.
I'VE flsFe new cfspfurnip seed IN hand
fb5sow theHhtire s1Sp fqSffhe State of
Texas. s TURN7fisIs n o.
- fart Wortk Tex.
Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-09-05
The Farmers Fight.
Savannah News .

The farmers do not seem yet to have
got hold of the idea fully that the presAs
tariff on jute bagging, for instance, were
removed there would be no necessity for
hunting for a substitute for that article.
The price of it would be SO reasonable
that it would afford no cause for com
plaint. A lutte baSging trust wouldfnot
be heard Of. At the next session of
scongress the Southern farmers should
make a combined effort te,have the duty
on jute bagging either removed OF
greatly reduced. They should also de-
mand a general reduction of the tariK
on all articles which are needed for the
farm. Agricultural machinery and inn
Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-09-05

the Embreville iron works, comprising
about fOrty-fiv hundred acres of timber
and mineral lands near JonesborO,
Tenn, to an English company, who
viii, it is reported, develop the prop
erty on large scale at an early day,
and the organization Of two companies
with capital stock of 81 600 GOO each,
with Gen. W. 5. Rosecrans, register of
the United States treasury, president of
one, to build a town at Waynesboro
junction, in the Valley of Virginia, and
develOpe large iron properties there.
Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-09-05
CARLISLE TALKS.
He Says the Cherokee Strip viii Certainly be
Opened by Congress this Winter

He Says the Cherokee Strip viii Certainly be
opened by Congress this Winter
WICHITA KAN. Aug % Elk Speaker
John G Carlisle is in the city from his
trip to Mexico. Being asked to express
himself on the subject of the Cherokee
strip, Mr.. Carlisle said: 81 think there
is no question that 1t will be opened to
settlement, but just when | am not able
to say, although congress will settle it
this winter. The Springer bill, which
included the strip, died with last session
of congress, but it IS safe to presume that
a new bill of the same nature will be
introduced this winter and it
will have to go through
the usual formalitv. I notice that Chief
Mayes is receiving q great lot of censure
from the press that is uncalled for,
owing to the fact that as executive officer
his actions in the matter Of dlsposing of
the Cherokee Strip are controlled by the
constitution of the Cherokee nation
which directly forbids the selling of the
Strip l saw it stated that treaty was
made in 1875 authorizing the chief of the
Cherokee nation to sell the Strip. IF the
constitution was in vogue at that time
that act was unconstitutional, and if the
constitution was adopted since then it
annulIed that act. When the Cherokee
legislature meets this winter / presume
the sale will be made. If not the gov
eminent will probably condemn the
Strip, appoint appraisers and take pos
session of the land on the same principle
that property is condemned for railroad
PURPOSES
Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-09-05
To Save the Wooden manufactures.
Philadelphia Record.

The agitation for free raw materials is
gaining ground rapidly in the New En-
gland states. Special stress is laid on
the necessity for untaxed coal, iron ore
send wool. These taxes sap the life blood
of Eastern manufacturing enterprises.
In a strong letter showing the impolicy
of 4ke .yooI tax, Nj. Robert BleakR
quotes Statistics prepared bg No. Joseph
sP. Truitts of theairm OF Thomas Dolan &
go. in this city, to show that in the last
three years there mas been a falling OF
Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-09-05

FOR GOVERNOR OF VIRGINIA.
Philip Watkins Mckinney was born in
Buckingham county, Va, and is sixty
years of age. He was educated at Hamp-
den Sidney college and at Judge Brock
enbOrOugh's law school in Lexington >,
Va. His experience of public life began
early, as he was elected to the general
assembly from Buckingham when but
twenty-one years of age. He served
with distinction in that body. When
sectional trouble began he was strong
Union man, but subsequently, went with
his state. He was captain of the Buck
ingham Troop, was badly wounded at the
battle of Brandy Station and incapaci-
tated for further field duty, but served
in crippled condition to the end of the
war. After the war he went 10 Farm
vile to practice his profession, and he
still resides there. Cap. Mckinney was
a member of the platform committee
from Virginia at the Democratic national
conventions Of 1884 and 1888. He has
twice been a presidential elector and
was an electoT- at-large on the Hancock
ticket
Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-09-05
IRON PROPERTIES.
What the Manufacturers Record Learns will be
Done by Powerful Syndieates.

BALFINoRE, Nd, Aug. 29.-Manufac-
.tlrers Record learns from authoritative
sources that New York syndicate viii
make liberal investments in the purchase
of one or more fully developed, extern
sive iron proRerties in the South if any of
that character With good profits in the
past cean be had reasonable prices.
IarsA properties THAI have been making
goodprofts are what sEhey are after.
TIE Record also reports the sale of
Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-09-05
THE RICHMOND TROUBLE.

Inc 0lDsOhs ana len Othefs Granted BalE-Ihe
Wounded Doing Well.
Special to the Gazette.
RICHMOND, TEX. Aug. 29.-The pre-
lIminary trial of the Gibson brothers and
the ten others charged with the killing of
Sheriff Garvey at Richmond closed to-
dayS They were granted bail in the sum
of $4,000 each. Everything quiet and
the wounded doing we'll
Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-09-05
WASHINGTON.
A Number of Texas POStmasterS APP
pointed Officers Commissioned by
the President.
District Republicans Meet to Abuse the Ad-
minlstration but Praise ClarksOn's
Ak Swinging.
Postmasters Appointed.

Special to the Gazette
WASHINGTON, Aug. 29.-The following
Texas postmasters were announced to-
day: Roanoke, w. o. Prather; Keller,
J. NJ. Pipkin; Kerns, j. S. Caldwell;
Roxton, John A. English; Workman, W.
j Kennedy; Quanah, W. NJ. Griffith;
Petty, d. NJ. Mathew; Newport, q. W.
Wilkerson; Martin g Mills, Fred Shaw;
Meridian, John Harvey; Albany, J. c.
Taylor; FoTney, John Velner; McGTegor,
H. A. Sparks.
THEY WERE ABUSIVE.
A lot of district Republicans met last
night to engage in abuse of the admin
istration for not turning out every Dem
ocratic clerk. One speaker was particu-
larly savage and roasted Harrison in a
speech that met with tumultuous ap-
plause. ClarksOn was held up as q
model man for chief executive, and at
mention of Garrison IS lightning system
of decapitation the applause was
redoubled. Republicans of the spoils
persuasion which embraces 80 per cent.
of the party are alarmed lest the mug
wumD tendencies of the administration
will result in defeating the party in the
Ohio and Virginia elections. There are
thousands of eXpectant office seekers
wild-eyed with hunger for official pap
who will see in Democratic triumph in
the states & just retributiOn for the
naughty indifference with which their
prayers for office were regarded.
Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-09-05
A Splendid building.

Arrangements have been compEeted
for the construction of magnificent six
story and basement office building on the
corner of Main and Seventh. It will be
of stone, 50x100 feet, and finished with
ali the modern appliancessfeF a complete
and convenient Office blsHdilg It is to
cost Sl25 900, and ssss5ll be the finest
building of its kind Il the South. Work
viii egiu at oncs8
ssfaution ~ only 1lls 1850 ghomp-
ssssEi 8 Ely atsrF None 5ehef genuine. -
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RIDDLED WITH BULLETS.
4 continent Politician Murdered as He Was

a continent Politician Murdered as He Was
Entering His Home.
NTw ORLEANS, La, Aug. pa
special TO the Times Democrat from Sa-
4ga, Miss. says: James NJ. Newbaker
Was assassinated IRst night about 9
O'Clock, being riddled with bullets as
he was entering las own house. New
baker was 4 promigeRt politician and
candidate for the STATE legislature before
tae last county nomiQ&in@ convention.
About a year'ago an ssttempt was made
To assassinate him, 90
I Sew tRZnIis Sc s1owKhile Lac ground
Is ny - sin in1ae 49, Fresh
Seed c9lS5e - a. lfnes Mcclure &
Co.'S
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plements of nearly all kinds are more
costly than they would be if the tariff
were reduced to the extent it should be-
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NE haze new 5Rfurnip seed IN hand
70 Sow theHhtire sdspp fs&<the kfate of
Texas. TUR9Ig a5Sa o.,
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St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1889-12-14
About Self-lmprovement.

Propose to yourself an object that is
noble; pursue it from motives that are
high. Let what is best in you take
the mastery. You shall be ranked
with the wise and good long before
you are fully either. And as you 60
on in the course of improvement the
idea Of your better self shall become
more definite. and the life of this idea
and wisdom and goodness shall be
dearer and stronger in you. You shall
be named after the idea of your life;
you are wise. for you are becoming so;
you are good, for you are becoming so.
In all right courses Of life. a man rcs-
olutely desirious of becoming a wiser,
better informed. better disciplined,
more useful individual, will find his
thoughts. both of the end and the way.
get clearer as he precedes in his work.
He secs more truly and more brightly
what it is he wants; he sees more full
" the means for its attainment. And
with better prospect both of the end
and the way. there comes increased
motive for the self-improving effort OF
the journey.-N. Y. Ledger.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1889-12-14
THE OLD PLANTATION.

'leah's de ole plantation. Milly, dat we LET .,
long ago.
But de groun is nlrd wild tisflcs. whar de cot
ton use 10 grow.
Oars de ole church an de pars'nage m do ole
home near de mill,
Bus de dubbed ones am q Resin in do grate
yard on de bill
Oars de skoolhous ober yonder, whar d
chl'en use ter 60.
An think hyar der prattle IS dey traselcd 70
an fro:
An dar's de little streamlet, still a-nown side
de hill.
Whose bright and spsrklin watahs he'p'd ter
run de big ole mill.
chuchyard groun;
An de chllden hab all marri'd and am scat.
terd all aroun;
Deys gone an ler us all alone to scufne de
bes' We can.
But we shell soon be wild dem in de happy
promis' Ian.
De tirds don't sing as sweetly a. dey did long
yeahs ago.
When l use ter fro you kisses As I pass'd de
kitchen doah:
Eberyt'ing seems strange ter me, but it dug
me good to roam
Among de silent ruins dat wuz once . happy
home.
tink I see de ch,ren now aplayin on de
grass:
ltink see ole massa like seed him In de
pas:
Itink / hyar de chu'ch bell, and de good ole
parson speak.
Whose burnin words OBJ cllerquence fetched
tears ter cherry cheek.
Wen scatter flowers on DER grades, and pray
fer dose we love,
An kno' dat deg will bless us in d.ir happy
home above,
Kase massa he wuz good ter US, IN 90 wux
missus, too.
An fer-day well show our grattcrtuts In De
flowers dat We strew.
Yves ole, an n arly he pless. an ives alEos run
our race,
An de trumpet soon will cali us up befo de
Trone o. Grace:
we's bin ligious, an bin faithful, an ives alters
KEEP de road
Dat will fetch us ter de Gorcn Gate wild little
ter unload.
N O. Picaynne