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Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-02-26
where the Negroes WIN Go.


A country newspaper in Louisiana, in
discussing one phase of the race ques-
ton, SAYS:
1t is unquestionable that there has been grow
ing in the negro mind for several years a spirit
of nomadiSm which has been to some extent en-
couraged by labor, real estate and railroad pas
senger agents.
The Virginia darkey wants to go to Carolina.
and the Carolina negro to Alabama, and the
Alabama ne gro to Georgia, and the Georgia ne
gro TO Mississippi. and the Mississippi negro to
Louisiana, and the Louisiana negro 70 Arkansas,
and the Arkansas negro todd you ever see
hoop-snake?
one of these fine days there win be great
Tapping of black wings and such hustling
there viii be, and forever thereafter two negroes
in the same township win be as rare as flock of
black sheep.
The negroes will never emigrate in
wholesale numbers to a very distant re-
gion. Undoubtedly there is a migratory
impulse beginning to make itself felt
among them, but it works along certain
lines. and it win not at any one remove
carry them very far from their old
homes.
AS the New Orleans Picayune pointed
out the other day, the negroes are grad
ually moving in squads southwestward
They hunt sunny chimes and rich soils,
where nature Is the toiler and man the
idler. From the Piedmont slope they
drift to the black belts along the gulf
and beyond the Mississippi They
viii go into the Indian Territory,
Arizona and New Mexico Possibly,
in the course Of a century or so, they
will almost entirely disappear from the
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-02-26
WANTED LITTLE GIRL.


Where have they gone to-the little girls,
With natural manners and natural curls,
Who love their dollies and like their toys,
And talk of something besides the boys?
Little old women in plenty find,
Mature in manners and old in mind:
Little old fiirts who talk of their ''beauX, -
And vie with each other in stylish clothes.
Little old bellies, who, at nine and ten,
Are sick OF pleasure and tired of men,
Weary of travel, of balls, of fun
And find no new thing under the sun.
Once, in the beautiful long ago,
Some dear little Children used to know;
Girls who were as merry as lambs at play,
And laughed and rollicked the livelong day.
They thought not at all of the 'style' of their
clothes.
They never imagined that boys were 'sbeaux''-
''Other girls brothers and ''mates' were they;
Splendid fellows to help them play.
Where have they gone to? If you see
One of them, anywhere, send her to me.
/ would give medal of purest gold
To one OF those dear little girls-of old,
With an innocent heart and an open smile,
Who knows not the meaning of ''firt'' or
''style. = Ella Wheeler.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-02-26
Fortr.Two stnrs.
Cleveland Plain Dealer.

NieEe1AuO ram Oealef.
The president yesterday signed the bill
providing way for the addition of four
new states to the national family. As
one of the states will come in with the
name Washington it was very appropriate
that the act should be signed on Wash
ington S birthday 1t win be premature
for flag makers TO increase the number
of stars from thirty eight to forty two
just yet, as the new states cannot come
in for several months and provision is
made for continuing part or all of them
as territories if the conditions of the
enabling act are not fully complied with.
The first step under the act will
be a proclamation in each territory,
April 10, for an election of delegates TO a
constitutional convention These cleo
tions are to be held May IA and the con-
ventions are to assemble July L. The
constitutions then framed are to be sub
united to popular vote October s, and all
the papers transmitted to the president.
If on examination the constitutions are
found to be in accordance with the pro-
visions of the enabling act and have been
properly adopted by the people III each
proposed state, the president will make
proclamation of the fact admitting them
into the union as states ON an equality
with all the other states. Then, and
not before, the flag of our union will
rightfully bear forty-two stars.
For the admission of those four states
the Democratic party Is to be thanked.
The Republican majority in the senate
passed bill for the admission of South
Dakota only, but the Democratic ma
jority in the house insisted upon the adj
mission of other states at the same time.
North Dakota, Montana, Washington
and New Mexico were added by the Dem
ocrats. Although they yielded New
Mexico they stubbornly refused to saeri-
fee any other of the proposed
states, and their persistence was crowned
with success. 1t is said by the Republic
cans that all four of the states will be
Republican and will add to the Republic
can majorities in the senate and house.
That makes no difference. With that
possibility staring them in the face the
Democrats in congress compelled the Re-
publicans, against their viii and after
hard fighting, to add four stars to the
flag instead of three. If the new states
should never give Democratic vote they
will owe their existence to Democrats in
congress and to Democratic president.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-02-26

No GREATER piece of demagoguery was
ever perpetrated in a small way then the
action of the senate committee in report
ing resolution that would virtually ex-
clude steam presses from the government
bureau of engraving and printing, 1t is
the result of base and coward1y sub
servience to the demand of few
men that the work of the gov
eminent shall be performed in a
primitive manner in order to increase the
number of positions to be filed in the de-
partment. There would be quite as
much reason in demand for daily papers
to use hand presses to accommodate all
pressmen who desire situations. When
such truculency is exhibited by members
of the highest legislative body in the
Union what wonder is it that those of in
ferior bodies should be frightened by The
cry for beef.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-02-26
Obituary.
Bowie Cross Timber

DIED-In this city on February II, at
l CLOCK a. IN of pneumonia, Geo. II
Davies aged thirty-tw years five months
and tWenty-seven days.
And as they sat at midnight with anxious hearts
Gazing on him through their tears,
Death, that cruel enemy of mankind,
Passed through their midst to his bedside
And said: He is mine.
With profound sorrow we are called to
recall the death of our friend and neigh
Der, Mr.. George H. Davies. Death at
any time is the saddest of all scenes in
the bewildering drama of life, and yet
while it is the saddest, it is also the only
one over which man has. absolutely no
control, for die we all must, and the only
uncertainty there is about it, is we do not
know. when.
Mr.. Davies was born in the city of New
Orleans, La. August Il 1856. His pa
rents moved TO Shreveport, La, in 1868,
where deceased engaged in the printing
business about 1872. From there he moved
to Texas about the year 1876 was mem
Der of the Typographical Union, and was
engaged with the Dallas Herald, Calves
ton News, Houston Post, Waco Exam
iner, and other leading papers of the
state until 1884, when he moved to
Bowie to assume the management of
lhC AAOSc AL4hNlo1 paper Ut
afterwards purchased and continued to
edit up to- his death Mr.. Davies was an
active and prominent member of the
Knights of PYthias, and as citizen stood
high in the estimation of those who knew
him. AS an editor he laboFed zealousiy
for the good of his town and county, and
it is bEt paying him slight tribute when
we say that his town and county will miss
him more than nearly any other man that
could have been taken from us And as
an evidence of this fact every bust
ness house in the city was closed.
He left a wife and child and many
other relatives to mourn his loss, with
whose grief is sadly mingled the signs of
regret of ali who knew him, and we, who
knew him intimately, and knew his
generous and sympathizing nature, ex-
tend to the bereayed widow our sineerest
sympathy and pity, and hope that as the
summers come and go, the fingers of
ting may sweep the cords of her sorrow
with less and less distinctness. until his
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-02-26
dear memory becomes to her what he
himself had been.
Peace to his ashes 4 FRIEND.
Increase of Divorce.

The statistics of divorce il this country
show an increase in the last twenty years
of nearly 10 600 eases annually to ever
% 600 The population in the meantime
has increased only from 80 900 900 20
IS 900 ,000. Divorces, therefore, IN
creased four times as fast as the popu-
latioR
This indicates a profound moral and
social disturbance The present con-
ditions of life promote more un-
suitable unions; or those who enter
them are less tolerant of them;
or there is very positive public
liberation of looseneSs in the marriage
bond All three elements probably
account for the increase in divorce. Tn
der the reckless pressure of modern ways
of living, marriage has become more of
an incident aud less an event il people $
lives. Social ambition and the restless
ness which seeks excitement ia boarding
and avoids the burden aud vexation OF
household cares, and the predOminating
sentiment that two people who cannot
live together should not be obliged to do
so, are all responsible for this fOur-f0ld
increase of domestic anarchy.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-02-26

WHENEVER Fort Worth takes step
forward, Dallas sets up yell about a
railroad TO the Northwest. This is the
game our esteemed sister city has played
for four years. The graveyard is full of
dead charters for Dallas Northwestern
railroads. The talk of such roads has
done duty in the past until it has become
a chestnut. Dallas is sly, devilish
sly, but the game is played out. All
our people recall that Dallas horseshoe
bend Northwestern railroad that was to
cross the Fort Worth and Denver at three
places, circle round by Seymour and find
terminal al Glen Rose. There are too
many arrivals at the Fort Worth hotels
and too much money going into Fort
Worth real estate, and the period for
building another Northwestern railroad
from Dallas that is to choke Fort Worth
to death has arrived. Rats.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-02-26
THE ROAD QUESTION.
SHAwMUT.

SHAwMCT.
While the bountiful rain fills the air, gfse
And converts county roads into lakes,
To the patient road builder be fair,
AS on paper fine highways he makes.
Let him tile the old black waxey lane,
IT'LL its surface is covered with dust,
Until teamsters and droyers complain,
AS of thirst they assuredly must.
Furnish bales of pressed wheat straw and hay,
To absorb from the bottom their wet,
And so serve all the crossroads he may
Without eavil or hindrance or let.
If he win, let him spread on the ground,
For protection, tarpaulins galore;
To the travellers gum-slickers hand round,
While the food gates their torrents shall
pour.
While we list to the various schemes,
That are offered and canvassed and scanned,
Lo, the sun with his plan intervenes,
And we've then the best roads in the land.
But you see we should be well prepared,
And not put all our trust in the sun,
Long eclipse or injunction declared,
Then farewell to cheap road building fun.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-02-26
JOHNSON GRASS.
The People OF Hill County Considerably Stirred
Up on the Subject

BRANDON. Tex, Feb. %, 1859.
To the Gazette
Nothing has occurred in this section of
country for some time that has caused as
much disturbance and hard feelings as
the sowing of johnson grass seed. Mr..
W. G. Giles, one of our most energetic
and prosperous farmers, having become
discouraged in growing the fieecy staple,
purchased last fall 225 bushels of Johnson
grass seed, for the purpose of sow
ing 200 acres in grass, and thereby
limiting the amount of cotton
Great remonstrance has been made
and petition has been circulated for
seven or eight miles in every direction
asking Mr.. Giles not TO sow the johnson
seed as the spreading of same viii cause
destruction to farms for miles around
him Some have threatened him with an
injunction and the petitioners have also
asked the legislature to pass a law pro-
hibiting the sowing of Johnson grass
within the state.
Mr.. Giles states that he has studied
the nature of the Johnson grass, and
that he can prevent spreading by
not allowing it to go 70 seed, and
that he does not intend injuring
I'LL yOIl0 DN SHOWliS L1i6 Sceu near incuis
but he has been thoroughly satisfied that
the grass will pay better than cotton and
wishes to give it a trial, but says if the
people will pay him for the seed he viii
not sow.
We would like to hear something
through the numerous correspondence of
THE GAZETTE in regard to the johnson
grass, as to whether or not there is great
danger of It's spreading and making
farms useless for growing anything else
when once set III johnson grass, and also
whether or not it will pay TO raise it.
Mr.. j F. Ferguson, our prominent drug
gist, will soon be off to the Panhandle te
locate permanently at ChilOcothe.
Oats sowing is about over and people
are preparing to plant corn. Some corn
has been planted, but a very severe
norther is blowing to-day which will put
an end to planting for a while.
J w. SPALDING.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-02-26
AFair Measure.
Waco Day.

The Johnson libel bill seems to be IA
vorably received by the legislature and
may pass if not ruled out by the pressure
of other business during the closing DAYS
of the session. We have not seen the
text of the bill, but the San An
tonic Express says of it: ''The john
son libel bill is one of the fairest meas
ures ever submitted to a legislature 1t
was conceived in exact justiee;to all men.
Under it provisions the malicious creator
of falsehoOds viii be punished and the
press protected in the enjoyment of its
freedom. 1t gives not license but liberty,
and will wipe out the race of barrators
who make living by stirring up strife
between the journals and the individu-
ais -
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-02-26
BLAINE RESIGNS.
Not the Cabinet Position, but an Office Given
Him by the Governor Of Maine.

Not the Cabinet Position, but an Office Given
Him by the Governor of Maine.
AUGUSTA, Me, Feb. Ex-Governor
Burleigh has received the following let
ter from Hon. James G Blaine:
WASHINGTON, D. c., Feb. %
To His Excellency, T. C. Burleigh, Governor OF
Maine:
DEAR SIR hereby resign my position
as member of the delegation to rep
resent Maine at the centennial Inaugural
ton of George Washington as president
of the United States, and respectfully
request that you viii fill my place as
promptly as is CONSTANT with, the selec-
ton of a man who will be certain to dis
charge the duties required of him, and be
present in New York. Very respectfully
yours, JAMES G.. BLAINE.
Governor Burleigh has appointed ex-
Governor Connor, who has been acting
chairman in the absence of Mr.. Blaine,
as chairman of the Maine commissioners
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-02-26

South Atlantic states and congregate in
the far Southwest, perhaps III some part
Of Mexico, where they can enjoy a sort
of drowsy domination, observing in a
fashion fifty-two Sundays IN the year
and setting aside the remaining days for
holiday festivities What they want is q
land of perpetual summer, where they
can milk the trees, booze on pulque, and
reap ready made harvests and wear any
thing or nothing
IT may not come to this, but there is q
drift of things IN that direction.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-02-26

OVER 500 nominations by the president
have been hung up in the senate since the
election. Six hundred of President Ar
thur nominations were confirmed after
his defeat The elasticity of the Republic
can conscience corresponds precisely with
the length and breadth of the Federal
blue-book.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-02-26

Mr. A. W. HODGES of Bell county
thus writes THE GAZETTE: CT am reg
ular reader of three newspapers, but
think THE GAZETTE is the purest, clean
est and best that 1 have ever read. It
gives the sectionalism of the North good
advice. May it ever live to send its
witty and unerring darts into the camps
of the bloody shirters.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-02-26

SECTION 50 of the new Fort Worth
charter needs amendment if this city
ever expects to make contracts with
water or light companies. man, firm
or company that would accept a privilege
from or enter into a contract with a town
without specified term and that was re-
voeable at the win of such town is not to
be found outside of lunatic asylum.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-02-26

FORT WORTH invites all sections of the
state 10 avail themselves of the Texas
Spring Palace opportunity to exhibit
their products and advantages. If any
fail the fault viii be with themselves.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-02-26

NINE. RHEA thinks that it is horrible
for woman to sue a man because he won t
marry her. 1t would be scant courtesy
for Baby Bunting to do less than send his
autograph to the dashing French woman.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-02-26
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Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-02-26

THE Fort Worth GAZETTE sees the point
which the Austin Statesman failed or refused
to see in the Galveston business mems petit
ton for a railway commission bill.-[ Houston
Post.
The man who cannot see that this rail-
road commission law would be to the
commercial advantage of Galveston, at
the expense of interior cities, should go
to Galveston and sign petition in favor
of the commission-just for patriotism.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-02-26

A ST. Louis clergyman regrets that
there are $50 many sweet sinners and
sour saints. All, but doesn t theology
teach that it is better 10 take ones fun
hereafter than here?
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-02-26

OSCAR WILDE has published an essay
entitled 1.-The Decay of Lying Amer
leans are fortunate in living for the most
part in a high altitude. If lying decayed
in this country thesatmosphere would be
odorific beyond doubt
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-02-26

WHENEVER Fort Worth takes long
step forward Dallas holds a Northwest
ern railroad meeting, and the Dallas
branch of the Galveston News tells IN
double-leaded editorial what Dallas has
done since il subscribed $50 600 to get a
branch newspaper. Chestnuts.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-02-26

DEACON RICHARD SMITH and Governor
Foraker are having a little tilt up in
Ohio. Judging by the number and
nature of his appearances in public, the
Ohio governor made a great mistake
when he took up politics instead of be-
coming a song and dance artist.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-02-26

WITH Oklahoma opened to settlement
and railroad building discouraged by the
harsh commission law, passed by the
lower house of the Texas legislature,
West and Northwest Texas would be set
hack many years.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-02-26

A NEW brand of Biographies viii be
needed after the admission of four new
states There is some consolation in
knowing that when the Democratic
pillars in sight.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-02-26

THE Nevada assembly has passed bin
prohibiting the sale of intoxicating
liquors to women. They begin at the
top of a wall in Nevada and build down
ward
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-02-26

THE name of the Chinese emperor,
Tsai, is forbidden to be written by any
of his subjects. Even in this land Of lib
eIty poor John Chinaman does not always
hare his - saw -
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Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-02-26

When you feel yourself gradually breaking
down, don't wait until you have taken to your
bed. While you are still able to be up and about
fight the grim monster disease by the use Of
proper restoratives. The best remedy for ma.
laria, indigestion. weak kidneys constant
fatigue fits of dizziness short breath and other
complications of a disordered system is Brown 5
Iron Bitters. Its magic influence in eonquering
disease of an exhaustive nature is most astonish-
ing
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-02-26

Cor. SHEPARD has bought a 1862 900
Office for the New York Mail and Ex-
press. The colonel fonnd it impossible
TO run daily newspaper and war de-
partment in an ordinary building. Now
that ne has more elbow room, a vigorous
prosecution of hostilities may be looked
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-02-26

To FoRP WoRrH: Be calm. If the
railroad commission bill becomes law,
there viii not be any railroad building
or extensions very soon. for no man is
going to put his money into an enterprise
which is TO be managed by THOSE who
know nothing of the business and have
no interest in it. And if the bin fails 20
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-02-26

JUDGING by the latest intelligence from
Washington it seems that Mr.. Randall
has his grip on the tail with down-hill
pull in front of him.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-02-26
As a Nerve Tonic

Or. s. L. Williams, Clarence, Iowa, SAYS.
81 have used it to grand effect IN case of nsl-
ralgic fever, and in uterine difficulties Also in
eases where a general tonic was needed. For q
nerve tonic think il is the best. l have ever
used, and can recommend it most confidently. .