Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-07-17
NEWS AND VOTES.

The society which has for its object the
! prevention of cruelty to animals in
England has been in existence since 1924 +,
and during that time has secared over
eighty thousand convictions. 1E
American breweries already IN the
| hands of English syndicates have been
capitalized to the extent of about $50, >
600 900, and the securities are largely
| dealt in on the London stock market.
The cable road system of San Fran
| cisco, which is twenty-five miles in eX-
tent, has been partially completed, and
one division of it has been turned over to
the operating department. The cost of
the whole system is 81 800 900, and the
claim is made that the power plant Is the
largest in the world.
The Boston banking house which has
the best foreign connections is advising
the purchase of copper stocks on the
prospect of a Continental war. The
Bank of France Is said to have increased
it's store of gold $50 900 900 within the
last few weeks, and to be still paying
big premium for the precious stuff.
Senator Joe Brown IS son, who is an
Atlanta lawyer, thus delivers himself:
"Our great question at the South Is the
negro don { believe anybody knows
vet what is the best solution of the negro
problem. I have come lately to think
that if it Is let alone it will solve itself
better than statesmen can solve it. -
Representative Burrows of Michigan,
who is candidate fSg the speakership,
expresses the apprehension that there
Will be deadlock in the house at the
opening Of the Fifty-first congress The
fear OF Mr. Burrows is founded upon the
small Republican majority which is now
three, and may be increased TO six by the
elections in the new states.
The railroads of the Northwest and the
Grand Army of the Republic are at war
over rates to the Milwaukee encamp-
menE. COMMANDMENTS Chief Warner has
issued general circular to all @. A. r
posts, urging the members to attend the
national encampment at Milwaukee, de-
spite the refusal of the railroads to
grant the one-cent -a-mile rate. It is the
general belief at Gen. Warmers head
quarters that the attendance will be quite
as large as if the dispute with the rail-
roads had never occurred.
The Birmingham Courier, the leading
paper in Alabama, owned and edited by
colored men, has come out IN a double
loaded editorial denouncing President
Harrison IS treatment of the negroes of
the South. It says: G'Let the colored
race give Benjamin Harrison a receipt i'll
full for all the claims they have on him,
and i'll 1892 let the self-respecting ne
groes Of the South show this man that
they have rights which even a president
of the United States must respect - The
paper goes on to say that Harrison had
treated colored men with contempt, and
seems to think he has discharged every
obligation by appointing a few of them
TO small and unimpertant offices.
The French cable company has been
amalgamated with the Mackey-Bennet
commercial cable company, and it is
proposed to build q cable from Carso to
Boston as soon as possible in order to
give another independent outlet Mana
ger q. G. Ward is now in Carso looking
after the matter. and arrangements have
been perfected with the Canadian Pacific
telegraph company system TO build to
Carso aad Halifax. The new line of the
Postal telegraph cable company has been
completed as far as Richmond Va, and
within sixty days all the large cities in
the south as tar as New Orleans will be
in the system This company handles
business very rapidly, sending and re-
ceixing answers from Boston, Buffalo
and Cincinnati in from five to seven
minutes. There are thirteen branch
Offices in Baltimore, with a central office
thoroughly equipped with all the latest