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The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1889-12-12
DUDE SUPPRESSION.
How the job is Done by Wide Ava
Chinese Governor.

How the job is Done by Wide Awake
Chinese Governor.
In view of the fact that the city of
Shanghai has of late become infested
with swarms of the variety of human
beings who are commonly called dudes
in the western world, the Governor Of
the province of Kiangsu, in which
Shanghai is situated. has issued an
edict directing that all young men
within his bailiwick who shall be
''found dressed in foolish, extrava-
CANT way shall at once be taken into
custody and punished. The nature of
the punishment is not told, but prob
ably it will go hard with offenders
caught in the overt act. Its not likely
that they will be beheaded and prob
ably the public executioner will merely
be called upon to exert one of his
minor functions by administering to
each of the culprits sound bambooing.
The Chinese government is thoroughly
paternal and may be depended upon to
put present check upon the progress
of dudism among the Celestials.
The Chinese dude must be even
more singular and distressing specta-
Gle to his more sober countrymen than
the American or English dude is to the
people who object to him. Chinamen
have been said to see every thing at an
angle of forty-fve degrees, and at this
angle a Chinese dude would be any
thing but a pleasant sight. At one
time the American dude affected a sort
of Grecian bend from the waist up,
and the people who remember him as
he was at that stage of his develop
ment will see how greatly he has i'm
proved himself by learning to stand
erect, and even in some cases to bend
backward. Now, it is manifest that if
his Chinese congener who, when
really upright appears to the Cover
nor of Kiangsu as walking at an incli-
nation of forty-fve degrees to the hor-
izon, assumes for the sake of form an
additional angle, the Governor, if he is
a man of sense, must be irritated be-
yond measure. Especially would this
be the case if the young man, ''dress-
ing in foolish and extravagant man
ner. favored his pigtail by adorning
it with long flowing ribbons. In that
event he would present the appearance
of small elephant, and when he stood
still it would be almost impossible to
say in what direction he had been go
ing or intended to go. The Chinese
mind is not fond of perplexity. and
probably it was for this reason, as
much as any other, that the Governor
issued his anti-dude proclamation
Y. Commercial
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1889-12-12
Free and Easy convicts.

A correspondent of the Havana
.Progreso describes a visit to the Isla de
Pinos, the 'sPine Island, on the south
coast of Cuba, where the Spaniards
have established a penal colony for
political offenders and certain classes
of criminals. The colony is nominally
under the supervision Of military
governor. who, however, seems to de-
vote his time chiefly to nautical expert
.ments, leaving the conyicts to enjoy
their leisure the best way they can.
Some of them own quite exten-sye
banana gardens; others assist the gov
ernor in the construction of patent
life-boats: but the plurality gain iiv-
ing by the training of fighting cocks
which they raise by hundreds and ship
10 Havana and C'ienfuegos with every
outgoing steamer.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1889-12-12
WHAT TALKS.

There are women who are fairer,
There is beauty that is rarer;
!, fart tho neither fair nor fat, she's forty II
day;
But YOU bet I'm not repiningl
There s golden glory shining
poHnd her head, tho It's beginning to be slightly
bald and gray,
Allher charms indeed are golden.
Twas their glitter did emboiden
Ne to pass by fresher faces. E'en cross-eyed
could not abash
Me when once knew the figure
d but wish 'twere ten times bigger.)
OF hat precious spinster's pretty pile in good,
cold, solid cash.
Tho she may not draw admirers,
Like some ladies that have lyrers
10 praise them, who for beauty's sake would
gladly walk the plank;
Tho her face is not a magnet
TO draw lovers, like drag-net,
There is one thing that she can draw-that is
tucats from the bank,
And there's eloquence about her,
Tho the Boston bas bleus fiout her
n she's neither wise nor witty as we wander on
our walks
She's as dumb as any oyster,
Or as Trappists in a cloister,
Vowed to everlasting silence, but, my how her
money talks.
Boston Globe.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1889-12-12
A Cautious Criminal.

'.Bill.n said one burglar to another.
81 know where there's an Al haul to
be made"
Where is that?n
fright around the corner, second
house"
occupied by a real-estate man,
isn't it?''
Yes.
Excuse me. / don't want to take
chances in meeting any more real-
estate men. I've had trouble enolgh Z
Merchant IlaYeleg,
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1889-12-12
PUNaENT PARAGRAPHS.

Figures can't lie. but lies figure
quite extensively in almost all statis-
tical articles. Boston Transcripts.
"A new play is entitled: ''The
Headless Man." Another opportunity,
perhaps, for brainless actors. Chicago
Herald.
Pupils at the school of politics
learn the arts of paving the way to
Office and the drainage of the public
treasury. m o. Picayune.
Wife (who never lets her husband
forget that she is doing the houseworkl
my poor hands have been working
ever since I've been married" Hus-
BANDIT know your poor tongue has.
Epoch.
Tommy" said a mother to her
seven-year-old boy, ''you must not in
terrupt me when I'm talking with
ladies. You must wait till we stop.
and then you can talk" ''But you
never stop" retorted the boy.
did you take me for fool when
you married me?" cried an angry hus-
band, in the thick of domestic quar-
rel; to which the wife meekly re-
sponded: eNo, james, / did not; but
then you always said was no judge of
character. IN. Y. Ledger.
Said a physician, fGood health
demands that the mouth be kept closed
while asleep" We have known in-
stances where a mans health would
have been materially improved if he
had kept his mouth closed shut while
awake.-Burlington Free Press.
-Enamored swain-''For you darl-
ing, I wad lay me doom and dee
Practical maiden-"That sort Of thing
is clear out of date, Willie. What a
girl wants nowadays is man who will
get up and hustle for her. "-Terre
Haute Express.
-Husband-" Well, my dear, what
did the magnetic physician say to youP''
Wife-'.He says am a sick woman,
and that my nervous system is not in
equilibrium. He says l am too posi-
tive" Husband 'Humph! / could
have told you that and saved a couple
of dollars"
Down to hard facts. .-Testy old
gent-"Huh! Do you think you can
support my daughter in the style to
which she has been accustomedg"
Young suitor-''Weh, no; but I can
support her in the style to which her
mother was accustomed a good many
years after she married you" Old
gent (subdued) )-''Take her. my son,
and be happy. IN. Y. Weekly.
-Baldheaded and very homely old
gentleman to photographer = "Drat
such pictures. Can't you make me
look any better than that after five sit
tings?" Photographer (thoroughly
exasperated) 81 think I can, sir, If
you will allow me to take the back OF
your head. 1t hasn't so much express
sion as the other side, but it's blamed
sight prettier. - Burlington Free
Press.
-snagsby, in his Office ito trim look
ing book-agent)-.'We don't want any
of your blarsted literature here. Git
out!' Agent thought you might
want copy of How to be Happy.
Though Married snagsby-''Hold!
I'll subscribe for my wife. She's been
wanting that book these ten years. -
brakes Magazine.
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A Machine for Paying Money.

General Harrison, Inspector of the
money order branch of the Post-Ofice
Department, is in town for the purpose
of making arrangements to put into
the post-office here machine for pay
ing money into the post-of1iee. It has
been found that the greater the num-
ber of persons who handle money the
greater the risk of loss. In the ex.
tessive operations of the postal order
system it has been necessary for sew
eraI persons in large office to receive
or pay out money. This machine trans
fers all the responsibility to @ single
cashier. It consists of small electric
motor which furnishes power to run
continuous belts from clerks issuing
orders or examining orders to be paid,
to the cashier. who pays the money.
The clerk making an order puts it upon
the endless belt which carries it TO the
cashier, who receives the money. The
clerk receiving an order for payment
satisfies himself as to the authenticity
of the person presenting it, has him
sign the paper and sends his name and
the amount to the cashier. who asks
theperson appearing to state the order.
his name and the amount, which being
correctly given. the money is paid over.
The system has been introduced only
in the larger cities, and this is the FIRST
where an electric motor will be used.
st. Louis Globe-Democrat
Electric discharges are Of three
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1889-12-12

-Tommy-''Pop. what's a philan-
thropistPn Mr.. Gill-"A philanthro-
pist. my son. is man who would
rather supply a dozen men with a col
lar apiece than give one man shirt. Z
Boston Gazette.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1889-12-12

Electric discharges are of three
kinds--intermittent. continuous, oscig-
latory Or alternating
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-07-18
CANADIAN CITY.
The Panhandle Country Blessed with Plenty
of Rain and Good Crops.

The Panhandle Country Blessed with Plenty
of Rain and Good Crops.
Correspondence of the Gazette
CANADIAN CITY, Tex, July 15.-Your
correspondent has just returned from
trip into Gray and Wheeler counties.
Both of these counties as well as this
nave been well favored with rain thus far
THIS summer, and everything indicates
good crops of all kinds This (Hemp-
hili) county during the last two weeks
mas been visited by three heavy, soaking
rams, which insures crops of all kinds.
The people of Middle Texas who have an
oea that il never rains in the Panhandle
would be surprised if they would come
up and see the farms that haye been
started here the past year.
Nj. d. j Jasper, fersmany ysars q
resident of Hill county, has opened a
iar1h oTsthe plains in Gray county, and
Is Showing With good sresults what can Ire.
cone in the Panhandle by. a practical
farmer. He came up in March, broke
'he sod, and has just harvested ten acres
OF wheat that went fifteen bushels to the
acre, and he has corn which will go
ram viii 90 sixty bushels to the acre
ms sorghum, milIet and garden are also
looking well.
ar. A. ]. Shaw of Galesburg, III,
Fought several sections of land on Gage
.! creek in this county last year, and his
we, who had been long a sufferer with
luhs trouble, concluded TO come out and
zee II this climate would help her lungs
enc secured so much relief that she has
concluded to make this her home, and
mas built very nice cottage, set out TO-
wv forest and fruit trees, has changed
Tue course of the Gageby creek, which
: hne running stream of water, has
Cu' out an island in the stream, planted
pOuu lilies in the creek and has made
many other improvements, having as
Aue flower garden as the writer ever
saw IN the older settled part of the states
me heavy rain of yesterday and last
uight caused the Red Deer creek,
stream = Of water which empties into the
canadian at this place. to rise and over
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-07-18
Melted shirt-fronts can be met with on

melted shirt-fronts can be met with on
all sides.
Last night a deputy county clerk drove
his wife from his house She went TO a
neighbor 8, procured q pistol and re-
gained possession
The habeas corpus examination Of
Dick johnson, charged as accessory TO
the murder of Charles Bradley !, the bali
playef, was postponed to-day until the
3Ist.
p. p. Martinez, the well-known tobac-
conist, has gone to the Paris exposition.
From Paris he will go to Spain to visit the
scenes of his nativity. He took with him
competent artist to catch the principal
attractions of the exposition, which he
viii reproduce here on his return.
The activity in real estate continues,
aud the indication points to s. 900 600 as
the amount of transactions this month.
Sanger Bros. have purchased several
mofe lots in their block, and now own
all except the two corners on Main
street. They win erect on this property
gradually, SO rs TO not interfere with
business, one of the greatest buildings III
the South. 1t is understood that plans
are being prepared. -
The city board of equaliZ en have
adjourned. In many s:Gassess-
ments were increased and paw. city
property values appro ximaEe 700,
900. e.
me Esasss zoss a. the West
At AnderafSssz tsun store
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-07-18
THE VISIBLE WHEAT SUPPLY.

Within week the visible supply of
wheat in the United States and Canada,
east of the Rocky mountains, as reported
by Secretary Stone of the Chicago board
of trade, has decreased 1 ,345, 200 bush
els, thus cutting down the total quantity
in sight at twenty-one points of accumu-
slsksen and on canal and lakes to 10, $780,
1913 bushels. The outlook is for con-
tinued decrease in the visible supply
throughout July. Receipts of winter
wheat at five leading primary markets
are only moderately in excess of those
for early weeks in July, 1888, and only
one-ffth of the total received in like
weeks in 1887. Last year, it will be re-
called, the wheat crop was unusually
small. More than three-fifths of the
officially reported stocks in sight is stored
at Minneapolis, New York, Chicago and
Buffalo, nearly one third at Chicago.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-07-18
KNIGHTS OF LABOR.
a Charter Granted to the First Assembly in
France

a Charter Granted to the First Assembly in
, France
9 CHICAGO, ILL.,, July 17.-General
Master Workman Powderly of the
Knights of Labor and his coadjutors
Holland, Hayes, Devlin and Costello,
got fairly down to business at the Sher-
man house headquarters to-day and
made considerable progress in examining
complaints, petitions and reports in rela-
tion TO the order III the Northwest.
--s.The charter of the first assembly of
France said Mr.. Powderly to a re-
porter, twas prepared this morning and
started on its way to the old country. 1t
was given TO Mrs. Barrett, general di-
rector and inspector in woman's work
and she started for Philadelphia, from
whence she starts for Paris. The first
assembly has been organized for some
time, but we have held back the charter
preferring to send it by special mes
senger.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-07-18
TILE WOOL MARKET

The receipts of domestic wool for the
week ending on the 18th were 81 ,028
bales against 81 ,665 bales for the corre-
spending week of 1888; % 1928 bales in
1887, and 81 ,767 bales IN 1886. The i'm
ports of foreign wool for the same time
have been 1874 bales; against 2741 bales
in 1888; 592 bales in 1887; and 3O8 bales
in 1886.
The last three days of the previous
week were very quiet ones for the wool
trade, but few manufacturers were on
the market, and sales were small. So
far this week, how ever, there has been
more activity and more manufac-
turers on the market. The tone
of the market is steady, and
dealers will not sell except at full
current values. The markets on the sea-
board have all been comparatively quiet,
and leading Western markets have also
been doing very little. In st. Louis,
Chicago and other leading Western mar
kets there is some disposition noticed on
the part of dealers to accept more rea-
sonable terms. That is, prices had been
marked up to nominal position, and
dealers have now come down to prices
where buying results. Growers, how
ever, are as firm as ever in their views,
ann high prices are being paid them. In
Ohio wool is pretty well cleaned up, ex-
cept in some of the fine sections, and the
same is true of Michigan and Texas.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-07-18
Boiler of a Locomotive Explodes.

Topeka, KAN, July IA frightful
explosion occurred yesterday on the
Union Pacific railway, three miles west
of this city A switch engine employed
in the yards here was hauling a train to a
point where the track was being re-
paired. Just as it was slowing up the
boiler of the engine exploded with ter
rifle force, SCATTERING it into fragments
for a distance of several hundred yards.
Fireman James Dutton and Engineer r.
T. Seacord received fatal injuries. Four
other trainmen also received serious inS
juries. The track was torn up forA1e
feet and the cars were scattered< Bfon1is-
oOusly about.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-07-18
ruE FoRT WORTH MARKET.

BUTTER-Good Texas, 1O@12l1ac per ID; north
ern, I5@20c.
COFFEE-Rio, l734@1S3zc; prime, 1910
choice, 20N @2Olsc; fancy, 2OG4 S2le; Java, 273sc
Golden, Rio, &C; Pea Berry, 2119c.
CHEESE-Fun cream Wisconsin, Il1hGI21Sc;
Badger state, 121a6 13lzc; Young America, l2Ja0
CANNED GooDs-Prices per dozen: pineap-
ple standard. 2bs, 81 55aI 65; reaches, stan
dard 2bs, 81 80; 3tbs, 50 10; seconds Chs, ST Is;
3hs. ST 10; strawberries, 2tbs, s. Is; blackber-
ries, 2ibs, 9oe@$1 90; green cages, -; raspber-
ries, 2bs, 81 90; marrowtat peas, abs, 81 30;
oysters, full weight, b, 95cQ$1 90; 2ibs, 81 60@
i so: tomatoes, standard, 2bs, e5ceSl 90; 3ibs.
81 2o@I 30; green corn 85essi SOi salmon e on IN,
imported, sl2 GOALS 90; Eagle condensed milk
So Is California canned goods: Cutting brands
are on the market and are quoted: Apricots
az MS 81 Is; peaches, yellow free, 81 40; peaches
white cling, 81 %; plums, 3 90; pears, 81 40;
DRY GOODs-Price list of spring, 1889:
Prints-Anen's fancy, &c; American fancy, Sc;
American indigoes, 6s4c; American gingham
styles, elac; Anchor shirtings.. sslc;. Arnold
fancy, 6Isc; Berlin solids, 5s4e Berlin oil colors
&c; Berwick fancy, Age, Chocco fancy, 61sc
Dolly Madison, heavy, 74c; Eddystone fancy;
Eddystone Eonlard, &c; IEddyssone sstines 5c;
SC; Hamilton black and red, size; Hamilton
staple checks, &c; Lodi fancy, 5lIc; Simpson s
mourning, &c; Simpsons silver grays &c; Simp-
sons FouiaTds, 7c simpson, linen finish, 6lsc;
Sultan turkey red, 6S4c; Venus oil co.ors, sac;
Washington rubies, &c; Washington green and
orange, &c; Windsor fancy, SIC.
Observation-Disclosures staples, TIC; Arlington
dress, SC; Bates staples 7ikc: Bradford novel
ties, i0&c; Empire dress. 71sc; GTeyloek dress;
I0kc; Greylock novelties, Pie; Normandy,
SIC; Plunkett, 7iaac; Renfrew dress, size; Rem
frew novelties, l0ikc; Renfrew high art, 15c;
York staples, 7isc; Victoria suitings, I4c; War
wick, Sc; Mikado, 7isc; Waltham, 7pzc; Zanzi-
bar. l0c; Roydon, nc.
Brown Decentralization ~. SIC; Argyle,
nc; Augusta, CSC; Boot G, &C; Belfast r, 6lzc;
Chapman, SIC; Shamrock, SIC; Exposition B,
size; Exposition A, SIC; Black Grow, %; Peid-
mont. &C; Marshall, Al.c; Hanover. SAC; al
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-07-18
Rridces Washed Away.

Correspondence of the Gazette.
MIAMI, TEX, july 1.-two bridges
were washed out OF the Santa Fe last
evening, one below and one above Mi
ami, and in consequence thereof we have
had no trains, but the railroad company
has crew Of seventy-five men at work +,
and win have temporary bridges in by
noon to-day so trains can pass.
News was received here this morning
that young man driving some cattle up
from near Fort Worth was killed by
lightning on the Canadian river few
miles below Miami yesterday evening.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-07-18
Notice.

A competitive examination OF appli-
cants for appointment to the Sam
Houston normal institute fTy bic
Twentieth senatorial district hsposed
of the counties Of Tarrasf wise, Parker
, 111ztss=Laplts9 viii nj the county
upeTinfendents zee in the city of
Fort Wortiss on Satnrdao, the Sd
day Of a d 1885, at 10 o 'cloek
y ppliearts must be residents of
sesid Senatorial district. Male applicants
must be eighteen years old or older;
J. j. JARVIS,
trict. SD
July l9, 1889.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-07-18
DALLAS.

Dick Johnson's Habeas Corpus Examination
POstpOned-0F for the Paris Exposition.
Special to the Gazette.
DALLAS, Tex, July Thames a
Baker of Houstonis in the city.
Gus O'Keefe, manager of C. C.
Slaughter s Howard county ranch, is in
the city.
t. f. Fisher Of Fort Worth spent
to-day in Dallas.
The weather to-day has been a trifie
warmer than usual and dozens OF
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-07-18
LABOR ORGANIZATIONS UNITING.


The Object is to Form the Most Formidable
Labor Organization that Ever Existed
CHICAGO, ILL.,, July IA local pa
per says a circular has been issued that
bears the signature of the chief ofsstaes
of the principal labor organizati9ns1 of
the United states-T. V. Powderly, gen
eral master workman, and John w.
Hayes, general secretary of the knights
of Labor; Samuel Gompers, president of
the Federation of Labor; w N Sar-
gent, chief of the Brotherhood of Loco
motive Firemen and others. The loco
motive engineers, through p, NJ. Ar
thur, true to their principle of exclusive
ness and antagonism to other Ia
Dor organizations, have kept out
of this concerted action Of the
others and have thereby heightened the
bitter feeling existing against them
among other trades. The circular is the
outcome of a conference held some time
ago in Philadelphia, the object being the
formation of an alliance between the or
CARNATIONS represented by the signers.
1t has been issued privately to the organ
izations and is not supposed to be known
to the public. If the alliance is realized
it viii be the most formidable labor or
ganization that ever existed in the United
States or elsewhere. The circular calls
upon all organizations of labor to
strengthen their ranks to the end of
bringing within their membership every
man and woman in America who tolls A
convention OF delegates is to be called if
the various organizations approve of the
plan for the purpose of devising some
definite scheme of ecalitio4k
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-07-18

flow its banks, washing out two bridges
between here and Mama, ana but for the
careful running of Conductor Billy PHIL
lips, who was running the santa Re train
which left here at 6:22 last evening for
Panhandle City, the tram would GER
taiuly have gone into the creek, as one
of the bridges which was washed was
around q curve and could not be seen un-
til right on 1t.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-07-18
Another large cohslgnment OF ice cream
freezers, stsslf Sizes at w. f. Lakes.
Cooper.

Correspondence Of the Gazette.
COOPER, Tex. :, July l5.-We have had
no rain for several days, and the farmers
have been making good use of the fair
days. working out their cotton crops. 1t
is now thought if nothing happens to the
crop that there will be larger cotton
crop raised in this Delta) county this
year than for the last ten years.
The Farmers alliance of this county
have set down on jute bagging and
adopted cotton bagging instead, and re-
quested the merchants to aid them in the
move, as they want to down the baggS
trust. TX .
Refrigerators &sss6fifie stoves, ice
tongs and pisslkS eV erything in summer
specialists at w. Z. lakes.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-07-18

COMPARATIVE STATEMENT OF THE SPOT
MARKETS.
Special to the Gazette.
GALVESTON. TEX. July 1.-THE following are
tho closing quotations for cotton the spot to-
day at the leading markets. together with the
closing for middling yesterday, with to-day
sales: