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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-03-05
Ioesps I'M VARIOUS PLACES.

ALTON. Ont, March 4-The Dixie House block was
destroyed by fire to-day. Tie loss = 5000; M
surance $1,000.
petrolea, Ont, March 4-The PctroIea House, Esp'
NV John a. johnson, was burned to-day. Loss A'ooo'
Insurance, &c 800.
K.Ihasba Mich. March 4.-Fire yesterday morning
dsruyod three stores and badly damaged Two oShor'
sa,sIIr = loss of SIS 900; insurance Sl2Ooo'
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-03-05
THE FIRE RECORD.
COVE nusr FACTORY pEsrRoYEp.

A goNE-DUST FACTORY DESTROYED
A Are occurred yesterday morning at the hone-duss
and rendering factory Of Adams a Mum, At Rochs-
way-syc., and New-Lots Road, Brookiye and caused
loss of $4,000. The building was destroyed Defore
the re engines could get to IT. as It was In remots
corner OF the city, near Canarse. coun.y iressusf
N n Adams Is the senior partner Of the hr1h-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-03-05

and was up and at work again at o'clock The
members Of the Cabinet were with him most Of tne
time. large number Of bills were approved, the
most important being the act amending the Interstate
Commerce bill, the sundry Civil Appropriation bill,
the indian Appropriation bill, the Postoffce Appr-
prIaton bill, the District OF Columbia bl the Army
Appropriation bill, and the Agricultural Appropriation
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-03-05
SPEECHES AND Songs IN HONOR OF fh1h

The anniversary Of the birth Of Robert Emmett WINS
celebrated last evening by q massmeetins N oooso'
Union under the auspices Of the 0an-nseaeL suas'
Morgan ]. oBrien, Of the supreme Court pteoHsu,
ana surrounding him upon the platform were man 80,
prominent and influential Irshmen, wno eno.sea
every mention Of the name Of Parneh win IA en'nu
sasrn that was astonishing. After. the oriet nluV
ductory address which was made py INC cAA'l'n'.'
Assistant DlstrictAttorney james ti1serea i,
I ,~ht,h ,v.x reoeivad with round after round OK
anniause Miss Graham sang some irsh s... n al
way that called forth great applause ana s tor par
SsIi' Homo Rale and the legislative Independents "
nd
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-03-05
,ucn MInXn nn0rH's CONDITION.

AT the house Of Miss Mary l. Booth. the Editor of
Haypcr's Basars it was said last evening that her
condition had not materially changed. she has been
m for ave weeks and hei sickness Is regarded as
SERIOUS.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-03-05
coNDEMNIYo TIE FILIBUsTERs

Washington, March Awhile tho Senate was sitting
with closed doors early this morning the conferences
report on the suudry Civil BILL was presented and
discussed at length. Mr.. Allison (Nho made
the Icporp was asked by Mr. Harris what would be
The effect OF the bill agreed upon in the matter
Of the uSc OF the steam presses in The Bureau Of
Engraving and Printing, and tho reply was that II
was impossible 10 say what tho effect would be until
II known whether tie owners OF the patents woro
willing 10 accept the royalty fixed for their uEe,
cent per Thousand sheets, instead OF the dollar
now paid or the 30 cents proposed In tho Senate
amendment. But tho contingency for tho non.usn
Of the steam presses had been provided for in an
appropriation Of 900 for the increased cost Of hand
printing.
Mr. Hale lone OF the cOnferoes) said that the Senate
confcrees had only yielded because the Deficiency bill
was an important one, and IL was necessary that 1,
should DO passed Immediately.
Mr.. Harris characterized the position OF the House
on the subject pRnderng TO n small faction, and
said that no would rather tho Deficiency bill and the
sundIy Civil bill would fail than for the Senate TO yield
He therefore demanded tho yeas aud nays. AZ vote
BY yeas and nays would have shown the absence Of
quorum and stopped business, the demand not
seconded by the necessary onehfth, Mr. Harris decar
ing that Il was the first mo In his knowledge that the
Senate refused to allow the yeas and nays at tho
quest OF senator The conference report was then
adopted without division.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-03-05
PROMINENT ARRIViLs AT TIE HOTELS
.sopp MONEY FOE THE DEFENCE OF IRELAND

FIFTH AvENUE-charles Gibson. q ST. Louis.
aIIsEY-Judge j. 8. BAmorcaux, OF Bellseon, n. X.
WINnsoR-panel N Lockwood. Of Buffalo.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-03-05
SPEAKER CARLISLE LAYS DOWN THE oAvEI.

bPEAhER CARLISLE LAYS DUNN JhE GANEIs
Washington, March 4.-The House to-day unAnI.
mously adopted resolution OF thanks to its officers.
Speaker Carlisle responded by saying:
Gentlemen of the House OF Representatives; Under
the circumstances Will detain you but moment n
return my thanks for the resolution you have Just
adopted ard 20 express my grateml ACKNOWLEDGEMENT.
s your intercourse with mo presiding ohlcer OF the
House. After continuous service ol three terms
Will leave this chair to-day with sentiments OF the
warmes friendship and the most profound respect not
only for the gentlemen who ompose INC present House
but for all hat have preceded tnenl, tra WIG tne
affords Of Itself no occasion for regret cannot with:
out reluctance ssvur the relations which have existed
Looking hack upon the scenes Of excitement and
confusion, which necessarily occur from ume 20 ume
in body Hhe THIS II Is impossible not 70 renenber
with regret many UNPLEASANT incidents and hasty
words but II Is gratifying 20 know that no FEELING
Of resentment survives to disturb our friendly per
eonal relations hereafter, ,, -
And now gentieme1, h declaring an adjournment
history nndc- he Constitution. may be permitted
10 exproSa the earnest hope that when another bun,
dred YEAR shall have r0lled around, the Union pi
thee States under which tho capacity OF tho peopls
Tor seif-coveFnneEt has already boon demonstrated
NAV ssiI endure (applaueel, and that the ropresepa
t1ye on tte people assembled IN this or some greater
hall nav have constituency as Intelligent, a. patr
MID and a FREQ a. those which sent US here. Ore
pewcd and long-continued eppiausol The House now
stands adjourned sins ave
As The speaters eavel emphasized hls dnciaraiion
The members burst INTO hearty cheers, and ImnedL
aisIY fornued IN line 10 proceed 10 tho Senate.
FINAL OFFICIAL ACTS OF MR.. CLEVELAND.
Waahtn6fon March z.--Presidert CLEVELAND ha6 !
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-03-05

FINAL OFFICIAL ACTS OF MR.. CLEVELAND
Washington, March 1.-Prcsdent Cleveland hs6
busy znornine lie remsnsd a. work untn q. M.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-07-23
TEXAS IN TYPE.

Wheat threshers in Hunt county report
the yield at from twenty to fifty bushels
per acre.
A system of waterworSs is being put
down in Amarillo that will supply the
town with water.
The Grayson Rifles and Fannin Guards
will compete for $1,000 prize at BRENNAN
next Thursday, July %.
RID. Hugely of Montague passed sue
cessfully the preliminary examination
for cadetship ut West Point.
Mr.. William Wagner of Donley county
has thirty acres in corn which he expects
will yield eight hundred bushels.
Hemphill county has been visited by
steady, soaking rains, that have been
very beneficial TO the growing crops.
The George West ranch of II2 900
acres in Live Oak county has been bought
by Col. d. r. FAINT, who proposes to di-
vide it into farms.
Peaches of the Cave variety, weighing
thirty three and half ounces and meas
uring over ten inches, have been raised
this season i'll Comanche county.
Mr.. George Lucke was killed by
lightning on tine 18th. He was at the
cattle to start u stock farm in HemphiIl
county.
The Ellis county pioneer association
will hold its annual meeting on Tuesday,
August 6, at Waxahachie The Monday
preceding will be the thirty-ninth ami
versary of the organization of the county.
Col. J. Q. Morrison of Wichita has
raised this year on It's acres of ground,
1000 bushels of wheat, 5000 bushels of
of oats, 100 tons of millet, and expects
to gather not less than 1000 bushels of
corn. This crop he estimates will re-
suit in $500 clear profit.
The editor of the New Boston Herald
has been shown shinplaster more than
hundred years old. 1t was found by
Mr.. J. J Peters III an old Bible, and
bears this legend: This bill of one
shilling proclamation is emitted by law OF
the colony of New Jersey passed in the
fourteenth year of the reign of his ma
jesty, King George the third, and dated
March 25, l776, and signed by John
Stone, Robert Smith and Joe Smith 1t
was printed at Burlington, n. j., by
Isaac Collins
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-07-23
NEWS IND NOTES.

Near Hogan, Mont. is a large deposit
of petrifed clans.
Los Angeles now has a cable road sys-
tenn twentY-tw miles in extent, and the
cost of it was 81 500, 900.
A geologist states that the limestone
around EastOn, Penn. is OF the Siluro-
Cambrian age, and millions Of years old
The English sparrows have almost ex-
terminated the wrens, orioles aud mead
ow larks, and in five years more the
goose VIII be about the only native bird
left.
New York now manufactures an imita-
ton of every mineral water of any merit
and these are bottled, labeled and sent
out as if coming from the different
springs.
Out Of total of 1858 deaths from ao-
cidents for the wear ending July in New
York City only five were caused by cleo
tric light wires, while fourteen were
caused by illuminating gas.
Georgia has the largest watermelon
patch in the world. It is owned by the
Phillips melon company. and contains
500 acres. The company viii snip about
four hundred cars, at a profit, il is
claimed, of $3.50 a car
An editorial bureau is to be established
in connection with the agricultural de-
partment at Washington by Secretary
Rusk, the purpose being to disseminate
the information that is collected in re-
gard to seeds, caterpillars and
sparrows. Thus will the farmer learn
all about those things several years
earlier than through the slow medium of
the regular bound volume of agricul-
tural reports.
A correspondent who dined in Japan
describes wildly the sensations produced
by eating raw fish: 1.-The whole fish was
there, his head and shining blue eyes his
tail and fms, but at a touch the shape
came apart and lay in thin slices upon
the bones, q miracle of the carver's art.
l took q chopstick full. The first taste of
caviare and onions is an event in a life
time; the unknown olive and pungent
garlic have made episodes in every career,
but to close the jaws on a slice OF cold,
raw fish, and have the clammy rubber
like flesh culver and slip under the teeth
has a horror peculiarly its own. The
sense of its being something lately dead,
something corpsey, is sickening. One
slice filed me almost 10 overHowing, and
[ confined myself to the garnish -
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-07-23
MORE s.HOSTILITY'' ROT.

The big, thinly peopled, capital-needing and
comparatively unprogressive state of Texas,
which more than any other state in the country
needs to encourage railway building, has in
dulged in another foolish demonstration against
railways by enacting law providing that no
railway company shall have any legal status in
Texas unless its principal Offices are maintained
and its principal officers reside in the state. 1t
also places severe restrictions upon the leasing
of railways in the state by outside companies.
For some years the Galveston, Harrisburg ard
San Antonio, Texas and New Orleans, and Lou
isiana Western railways have been operated as q
part of the Southern Pacific system, having been
leased to that company. and the people of Texas
have enjoyed the advantages of a great through
line between the gulf and the Pacific ocean. The
new law has compelled the Southern
Pacific company to dissolve these leases and to
turn over the operation of the three roads to
separate set of officers located in Texas, thus
practically disrupting the Atlantic system of
that company and compelling the removal of its
general officers from New Orleans to Houston.
OF course the facilities offered to the people of
Texas by these separate lines viii be no better
than those given when they formed part of
great through line, and very likely viii not be as
good, and the only advantage gained by this
foolish enactment is the nominal one OF having
the headquarters of a few officers and employees
located in the state. The people of Texas are
making great mistake in their persistent hos
tllty to railways and they will find that it viii
defer the development of their vast territory
many years.-[Chicago Railway Age.
Texas has done more to encourage rail-
way building than any state in the Union,
and the "persistent hostility" of Texas
exists only il the minds of railroad man
ayers who consider their own interests
far more than they do those of Texas or
the railroads.
There Is no "hostility 10 railroads. in
Texas save as it has been created by
Texas railroad management.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-07-23

AN INSTANCE wherein a Texas manufacturing
interest lost its legitimate trade because of ex-
cessive freight charges has been called to the
attention of the Weatherford Sun: 'Our water
works company desired to buy its water pipe
from the Rusk manufacturers, but was forced to
go to Nashville for their supplies because OF the
difference in freight rates. It is certainly un-
just and radically wrong that rates from Nash
vile should be cheaper than from an interior
Texas town, and this is but sample case
When people in Texas complain of
freight rates that make manufacturing
impossible or very uncertain, they are
accused of hostility to railroads sim
ply because this state, like all others, is
cursed with demagogues who take ad-
vantage of just complaint to inaugurate
anti-railroad agitation. But is it wonder
that people complain when such facts as
the above are recorded?
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-07-23
HOW no EXECUTE CRIyTvALS.

HOW TO EXECUTE CRIMINALS.
In New York they are having a lively
time over the new law providing for exc
! cutting those upon whom the death pen
atty has been imposed by electricity .
One Kemmler has been sentenced to die
by the new plan, and his attorney is do
ing everything he can to save him. En-
perts in electricity have been called and
examined, and the matter has been
pretty thoroughly investigated. The
other day they had a witness on the
stand who told story calculated TO
make the old tale about Ajax defying the
lightning appear very mild reading in
deed.
This man IS name was West, and he
had a wrestle with lightning in 1881, in
which lightning seems to have done its
best to do him up for good, without eff
feet. He was with a number of
friends in Lee Park, when suddenly
a thunder storm arose and they all went
under a tree. All al once Mr.. West
then knew no more for a considerable
space of time. When he finally came
to his senses he found that the lightning
had picked him up and carried him some
twenty-five feet, and there dropped him
so hard as to shake the wind out of him
His clothes were torn to shreds, and he
had a scared stripe on HIM three inches
wide, extending from his chest to his feet.
He was in bed twenty-one days. His
theory seems to be that the lightning did
not hurt him, but the jar caused by the
fall when it turned loose its grip is what
rendered him i'll. If he had been safe ly
anchored he probably would not have
been hurt.
There is a hint in this to those who
would electrocute people. Have things
fixed so that when the current picks
fellow up it Will let him fall of shot
tower
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-07-23

ment was effected, and thus justice ~,
secured without further process of l,.N
Then, too, the mere fact that tho. =
such an agency at every poor woma,,'
elbow is of itself q potent protac.a.
against attempting wrong. The mn. ny
generally its existence and charaa..'
are known the better. There Co..
hardly be any other charity so pove-'-4.
III the naked fact of its existena,
The protection afforded does nor -
with the enforcement of civil or pro-.-.y
rights, but extends to the punisbmsp. !
crime. In the list of eases reported ~.
tweuty-three charges of bastardy 60
of seduction, three of abduction. and %
less than fourteen of criminal asss,-.
Many of these esses would, no DOM.
have fallen through or never been 60
menced at all had it not been f,r u
agency. There were ISL conrratr.'
Of wives against husbands. SIS
of these were, no doubt.
just, but as q rule there is far more do
ger that the wife will suffer too l0r, -,
too much without complaining than ~
she will bring unjust accusation r.,
protective agency Tor women and oI-
dren deserves the most cordial svu4r,--
of all good citizens of both sexes r-5
ought to Tamify by branches or in8aps-
dent agencies so as to become genera
for Chicago is by no means necIiIfar -
such need, nor are cities in distinct
from villages and rural districts ORE
iZaticns for the legal protection OF v5ms-
and children should become r4nsr.-
throughout the country by cities =.
counties
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-07-23
.Iackshnrn Gazette

The Fort Worth GAZETTE asks the
question:
Why cannot Fort Worth and Northwest Texas
unite in an organized, inteliigently directed
effort to promote immigration?
1t would be an excellent move if the
counties of this entire Northwest could
be prevailed on TO take an active interest
in the matter. There are thousands of
acres of fine land for stockTaising and
farming that could be purchased for
very small amount, and there
are thousands of intelligent, enterpris-
ing people who want homes, and would
be glad to invest III our lands if they
knew the facts as they exist. Such a
move, if conducted as The GAZETTE
suggests, would gain for Northwest
Texas a thrifty population, and many
farmers would secure pleasant homes.
We hope THE GAZETTE will continue to
urge the Importance of the matter until
every county of Northwest Texas becomes
thoroughly Imbued with the spirit of or
ganizing for the purpose of securing an
enteTpTising immigration.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-07-23
Is Ice yyater Ininrlons?
Chicago Herald.

Ice water has become one of the neees-
saries of life in the United States, though
in almost every other country in the
world it is luxury. Here the poor
have it almost as freely as the rich. In
other lands only the rich indulge IN it.
But is if the great ard dreadful GRIM
inai the doctor s Indictment would have
us believe? Do the dread diseases enuIn-
Grated follow in its wake? No person
can prove that they do. So far as those
diseases or any others are concerned, the
Americans suffer froE them to no
greater extent than do the
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-07-23
Protection of Women and Children.
CbicapO Tutar-Ocea


There are few more timely and useful
charities in Chicago than the Protective
agency for women and children II fills a
place previously vacant, and it was just
the kind of vacancy to be most fifty termed
an aching void. The central idea of the
association is to extend to women and
children who cannot otherwise secure it,
and yet stand in special need of it, the
protection Of the law. The humane So
ciety has an eye to children as well as
ANIMALS, but from the standpoint of suf-
fering rather than of wrongs. OF course
suffering and wrongs often run into each
other, and in a sense always do, but the
distinction Is one that leads to practical
differences in domains aud fields OF use
fulness. But the main thing with this
agency is the protection OF women who
have no natural protectors nor the money
to hire legal service in the prosecution OF
their rights or the redress of their
wrongs.
The agency exposed itself to sharp
criticism by its espousal of the cause of
Mrs. Rawson, buG such an organization
cannot be judged by isolated cases. The
ladies who decided in her favor heard
from her own lips, and presumably
credited, a story of cruelty which could
never be published. No doubt in some
instances, however it may have been in
that one, the agency is grossly imposed
upon, but even in such cases there Is not
likely to be harm from affording legal
counsel, and in case of litigation the as
sistance of a lawyer, for every cllent,
whatever the merits of the case, is en-
titled to legal defense.
The total number of cases entered
during the year was 1145, the leading
cause of action being wages due for SER
vice rendered. Hundreds of hard-work-
ing domestics would have been cheated
out of their earnings if it had not been
for this agency. The good accom-
plished IN collecting wages, in defend
ing against Illegal eut-throat mort
gage sharks and frauds of various
kinds, cannot be measured by the num-
Der of suits brought or the amount of
money recovered. In many cases, as soon
as it was known that the poor woman
had lawyer At her back, fair settle
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-07-23
ABOUT REE IND WOWEN.

The New York Times says: Jay Gould
is credited with having lately borrowed
large sums of money, the estimate being
put at IS ,O00, 900.
Claus Spreekles announces that he will
open his mammoth sugar refinery in
Philadelphia on September l, with a ca
pacity of 1000 600 pounds of sugar a
day.
Nine. Grouchy, the widow of the mar
shall who lost the battle of Waterloo for
Napoleon by not coming in time to it :,
died at Pau June IS She was eighty
six. Grouchy died in 1876.
Mr.. Gladstone has increased his allow
ance of wine for dinner, rarely drinking
less than pint of his favorite port now.
He says that quantity affects him less
than a half pint did q generation ago.
Carlotta Patti was noted for her prodi-
gal charity. The poor who came to her
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-07-23

GEORGE MOORE, the London novelist,
says of Jack the Ripper and his murders:
81 have made up a theory almost from
the first, and l still believe in it. The
absence of motives which generally lie
at the root of a murder is very remark
able. These crimes are not committed
for gain. That, at least, is Ger tain.
They are not, [ think, committed out of
revenge. My theory is that they are the
work of some weak Drained zealot of the
purity class. Perhaps this unspeakable
wretch thinks that by creating a panic
among the poor women of the class he
preys on he may brighten them from their
profession. 1t is an insane idea of course,
but conceivable one. He is the loath-
some outcome of the Puritanism of the
day. That IS my idea -
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-07-23

THE Republican press is eloaking its
revengeful spirit towards the South m
der the cry of ''sugar trust The su-
gar trust is an unriGhteous combination
whose effect raises the price of a neces-
-sary article OF food, and it ought to go,
but the Republicans who are fighting it
are not doing SO from any proper desire
to see the right prevail. They are max
ing the fight because they believe the
South is reaping the profits of the trust.
If they viii bust the sugar trust and then
break down dozen or so others which
the robbeT tariff has helped t6 build up,
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-07-23
The Deadly Ice Cream.
Chicago Herald.

Bacteria, in its most hedious form, ac-
cording TO the dismal scientists, has IL
vaded that popular summer delicacy, ice
cream. Death turks in that delacabIs
compound, and with the active spoon tine
vOracious ice cream girl may De dosing
herself with a fatal potion OF ''coId p.-
zen. - The ice cream bacteria, indeed,
is one of the most dangerous of its class.
It is habitually addicted TO throwing Of
ptomaines, which may instantly turn The
ice cream festival or the lover ice cream
treat into feast of death. II takes pos
session of ice cream regardless of flavor,
and the maiden who, warned by the ID
talities that have followed an indulgence
in vanilla, - would so!ace herself with
chocolate, - is in no respect safe. But
the warnings OF dismal doctors, appall-
ing as they are, are seldom needed.