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Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-02-27

valuation of both Ras about So 40 900, :
900, of WHICH So, 122 500 ,e51 was real
estate and SS46 coo a00 personality The
principal deduction from these figures is
that there is either no use in keeping the
laws in relation to taxes on personal
property on the statute books or that there
is some remarkable laxity III enforcing
them.
Bishop Whitaker of Philadelphia, who
has returned from a visit 80 Cuba, de-
clares that the Cubans would be very
glad to enter the Union. He says: The
sugar Interests are depressed with the
prospect OF the increased growth of the
sugar beet in the United States. Indeed
the mercantile and agricultural eommu-
mites generally exhibit a very gloomy
aspect. The trade with the United States
Is immense, while at Matanzas no less
than twenty three vessels were loading
with sugar tlnd molasses bound fer the
United States, and gentlemen from Phil
adelphia and New York were to be seen
in both eitiss. especially in Havana
eagerly grasping for the growing trade
The resources of Cuba are great and ca
pable of very much larger development,
the soil being unusually productive.
The Petroleum Record says: A COM
pany in New York has perfected an en-
CINE in which both the fuel and power are
obtained from naptha It has been APP
piled to many boats from sixteen to thir-
ty feet in length and works quite we'll
1t is cheap, clean and always ready and
can be managed by anybody. The own
ers of many welI-knewn steam yachts
have had naptha launches made for them
The engine is started hy lighting an aleo-
hol lamp and blowing some naptha vapor
over the flame with 2 little handspring
This makes hot flame and heats the
naptha in a retort. This heated naptha
generates the gas which drives the en-
CINE. After the engine is going, which
is in about two minutes, some of the gas
in the retort can be used as fuel, ana the
alcohol lamp and pumping are no longer
necessary. The engine can be instantly
reversed when at the highest speed. Only
per cent. of the fluid in the retort is
used, the remainder beng returned TO
the tank and used over again. A two
horse power engine runs q twenty foot
launch and uses three or four quarts of
naptha an hour
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-02-27
stSeal of North Carolina Plug Cut
Smoking Tobacco is rich and smooth.
FOREIGN NOTES.

ST. PETERSBURG, Feb. 25.-Novo
yremya and Viedomosti, commenting
upon the bombardment of Sagallo and
the subsequent capture of all the Ateh-
inoff execution by the French cruiser
express Indignation because the French
shed Russian blood. Both papers think
it is doubtful whether the violence was
unavoidable.
The Grashdanin, referring to the same
subject, comments ironically on Franco
Russian friendship. The same paper says
it hears on good authority that the mem
bers of the Atchinoff expedition viii be
brought to Odessa as prisoners of war.
The Svet reproduces an Official commu-
nication on the affair which was published
by the Cronstadt official Naval Gazette,
also report of the incident that appeared
in the same paper. Both refer unfavor-
ably to Atchinoff's conduct.
ALEXANDRIA, Feb. 25.lCapt Wiss-
man arrived here and proceeded to Cairo
where he will receive several hundred
blacks to accompany him on his expedi-
ton to the interior of Africa from the
east coast.
LONDON, Feb. 25.@The marriage of
Prince Alexander of Battenberg to Marie
Louisinger, the opera singer, took place
at Mentone on February 6.
ST. PETERSBURG, Feb. 25.-A dispatch
from Chardjui says the ameer of Box
bara, with large escort, has gone to
Shahrisabz, near the Russian frontier.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-02-27

GOVERNOR GIBBS says: Leaving out
the eonstitutionality of the railroad COM
mission bill and the effect it would have
on the Industrial interests of Texas, there
is more Democracy and more relief to the
people in one justice of the peace, backed
up with plain statute, than in a cowpen
full of discretionary commissioners.
Twenty-Five feet of water on our own
coast win save the farmer and merchant
more freightage in one year than the
best. commission ever devised by human
wisdom could save them in ten years. -
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-02-27

Mr.. PAYNE of Sweetwater, Tex, de-
serves to have his name inscribed on the
records of fame near that of odd Hick-
DRY. {" Payne owned two mules, good
mules; they were borrowed by two men
starting on Mexican tour, who neg
lected the formality of securing his con-
sent. Payne followed with a Winches-
ter. Sequel: The cold winter's winds
now chant funeral dirge over one grave
with two occupants, on the western Dor
der of Texas, and Payne is ploughing
with his mules. The Texas way may be
rather crude, but it fits the Mosaic code
about as closely as any modern system.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-02-27
LET THERE. BE Light.

Haste is never expedient nor safe in
legislation; it is especially to be deplored
when the subject of legislative action is
begirt with false issues and popular fall
laeies. The railroad question is conceded
by all to be the most complicated prob
lem that statesmen and financiers have
been called upon to unravel. 1t is not to
be mastered in day, nor week, nor a
year, but by years of technical study
and training. 1t viii hardly be claimed
by the friends of the railroad commission
bin now pending in the senate that it is
the outcome of a knowledge of the de-
tails of railroad management On the
contrary, 1t is the fruit of speculative
craftsmanship, which, however inge-
MUS, is ever as likely to miss as to hit the
mark.
To THE GAZETTE this appears to be a
conclusive reason why the bin should not
pass. There are very few legitimate
subjects of speculation by state; the
railroad question is certainty not one of
them. If railway commission is de-
manded by reason of any condition of af-
fairs actually existing, it is easy to justify
its creation By revealing to the view of
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-02-27
Partisan Malignity.
Philadelnhia Re,nrd

Washington is laid out upon such a
plan that its avenues reach out TO every
point of the compass. The fact that
Massachusetts avenue has been extended
in the direction of President Cleveland IS
modest little house at Oak View and
that property in that neighborhood has
appreciated in value, has been made the
basis of an attack on his personal integ-
rity. The notorious. correspondent of the
Cincinnati Commercial Gazette is the
conduit for this filth. If the pictorial
journals which are airing this scandal
would only publish along with it cor
rect likeness OF the author the antidote
would go along with the poison.
The malignant dislike which President
Cleveland has achieved at the hands of
the camp followers and heelers who hang
about the national capital is not the
least among the things which will keep
his memory green in the hearts of the
people
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-02-27
IT is Significant that the head Of judi

1T IS significant that the head of judi
oiary committee No. of the senate,
selected for the place because of his
erudItion, experience and legal training
took the lead in the attack upon the
house railway commission bill Senator
Mcdonald is confessedly an exponent of
conservatism and antagonistic to radical
experiments. The reasons he assigned
for opposing the measure are such as viii
appeal to those who are alive to the i'm
portance of the present development of
Texas, and who are disposed toweigh the
house proposal in business instead of
political scales.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-02-27
WACO.
A List OF Suits Filed Charged with Theft of a
Horse.

List of Suits Filed-Charged with Theft of a
Horse
Special to the Gazette.
WACO, TEX. Feb. 25.-The following
cases were fled in the district court to-
day:
Wiley Jones VS.. Porter Prather, tres
pass to try title to part of the John
Morris survey.
Frank Jupe vs.. Henry Uptmore ct al /,
for foreclosure of vendors lien on uni
Versity land, section No. So.
Mary E. Bennett ct al. VS.. Ann Ear
heart ct al, suit for partition in the es-
tate of B. d. Earheart, deceased.
Inga Limbery ct al. VS.. Christine
Christianson, for petition in the estate of
John Christianson, deceased.
Jane Cox VS.. Robert L. Cox, for di-
vorce, alleging cruel treatment
License to marry was issued to Mr.. J
P. Schaefer and Miss Olivia Green.
Real estate transfers fled to-day
amount to $4,000.
County Attorney J. W. Taylor to-day
fled information against William VIII
liams, charging him with the theft of a
horse from FL n. Fort Williams is in
jail at Hamilton on a charge of assault
with intent to murder.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-02-27
Pm A wlckEp wATEK METER.


I'm a wicked water meter, Pharisaic water
meter, with face of white enamel, hard
enamel, trimmed with brass;
Peter, looking out into the future like a
goldfish through glass.
When it happens that the carcass of an infant
alligator plays the mischief with my vitals
in its effort TO get through,
record the strange occurrence on my brass
bound indicator, by the fraudulent addi-
ton of a hundred feet or two.
Oh, the miasmatic matter and the poison which
scatter, with the simple name of water,
unadulterated, pure.
While my friend. the undertaken, wakes richer,
slicker, fatter and the druggists wife and
daughter take European tour!
Oh, I often pause and wonder as I ponder o. er
plumber, pause and wonder why in thunder
honest people let me lie;
Why they do not rise in anger, tear me limb from
limb asunder, and adopt water meter more
ingenious thanH II Wasp.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-02-27

ONE six-line telegram from Washington
in yesterday S dispatches viii be read with
interest throughout Texas and the South
west. The house committee on appro-
prlations has concurred in the senate
amendment to the general appropria-
ton bill, providing for survey of the
Gulf of Mexico to select site for deep
water harbor. The provision responds
to the appeal of the deep water conven-
tions held in Fort Worth and Denver,
and is the most advanced step ever taken
by congress toward securing harbor
facilities on the Texas coast.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-02-27


the public the evils complained of and
convincing the Judgment of the public
that they may be reached by a COM
mission. Surely no champion of popu-
lar rights can object to an
Investigation of this question, having for
its object the enlightenment of the peo-
pie upon this issue. Is it in harmony
with the cardinal doctrines of Democracy
to take step that is radical If not revol-
utionary in government without an intel
ligent and full discussion of the subject
before the people, and a decisive express
sion by them?
Legislators should be careful in their
zeal for the people lest they override in
herent rights of the people. Every far
and candid man must confess that it
would be better to thoroughly investigate
the proposal to establish commission
through the agency of competent COM
mittee, before venturing to adopt it.
There is no urgency in the case;
prudence urges investigation; the people
are entitled to it; no valid reason can be
assigned against it.
TEE GAZETTE moves again that instead
of an executive railway commission a
commission of inquiry be created by the
legislature, of five or seven members, to
be appointed by the governor, author
lied and empowered to make full in
vestigation of the railroad question in its
relations to Texas, and required to re-
port to the Twenty-second legislature.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-02-27
The Kelley Motor.

And now it appears that the power of
Kelley 5 motor is neither steam, iiT nor
electricity, but sound
Most of us have felt, when in church
the trembling of the building and heard
the rattle of the windows when Certain
notes were played on the organ. The
sound waves produced by the organ seem
TO call forth corresponding vibrations of
the bnilding when the right key is
touched. If Mr.. Kelley is able to direct
and control this enormous power he will
prove one of the greatest inventors of all
ages.
Who, by the way, would have given
the old Jews credit for understanding
thorough bass and acoustics so well, and
for tuning their trumpets so nicely that
their blast threw down the walls of
Jericho?
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-02-27

SENATOR VEST says that Chandler is
now sure of reelection by the New
Hampshire legislature because his ear
was pulled by Senator Blackburn, and
Blackburn is certain of reelection by the
Kentucky legislature because he pulled
Chandler 3 ear. Reconstruction will never
be made complete until New Hampshire
ceases to put men on exhibition with such
exasperating ears.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-02-27
Catch ON Now.
San angelo Standard.

san tangeIO ot4nuafu.
The Llano railroad soliciting committee
are still wearing their lives out in San An
tonic trying to get the $50 900 necessary.
When last heard from they required $4,000
more than had been subscribed Why
don t they throw I'D the job and make
arrangements with the Fort Worth and
Rio Grande? e is extending toward
Llano and they need connection with
the East more than they do with the
South. Leave the shroud of San Antonio
alone and catch on to the flying frills of
Fort Worth IS dress that rusties as she
rushes onward.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-02-27
DON'T Cripple the Roads.
San Angelo STANDARD.

If the members of the legislature
would use their eyes they could not help
seeing that there is not paying railroad
in Texas. Every one Of the lines doing
business in the state are either losing
money or barely paying expenses. The
legislature has harassed Texas railroads
enough and had better let Them alone.
Good, paying, eficient raIIroads can do
more to develop aad boom state than
any other agency under the sun, and If
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-02-27
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Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-02-27

THE cherokees are protesting yigor-
onsly against the passage of the Okla
homa bill which they claim would de-
prive them of one-half of their landed
possessions in direct violation of treaty
rights. In his assignment of reasons
against the bill Lo shows profound ig-
norance that almost dissipates all hope of
his redemption and civilization.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-02-27

Special to the Gazette.
LAMPAsAs, TEX, Feb. 25.-News of
the burning of the residence of Mr.. " /.
n. Wofford has just reached here. Mr..
Wofford resides at the village of Lorneta !,
station on the Gulf, Colorado and San
ia Fe railroad, eighteen miles west from
Lampasas AT late hour on the night
of the 2Sd inst the house was discovered
to be on fire. Mr. Wofford hurried the
children to what he considered place of
safety, but one of them, a little girl
about eight years old, ran back into the
burning house AS soon as she was
missed the half distracted father fol-
lowed his child into the flames and res
cued her charred body, but too late TO
save her life. Mr.. Wofford is seriously ;,
though not fatally burned. The origin
of the fire is as yet unknown.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-02-27
Save Us from Cur Friends.
CalGmali Nra,us

The securing of all the great trunk
lines by the booming city of Fort Worth,
or some cause unknown to us, has given
the Dallas News a severe case of hydro
phobia. The question arises, did the
anti-railroad men of the state pay for
the tw0-column editorial on railroad
legislation. Surely no railroad advocate
would have prompted the Incorporate
article
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-02-27

GROVER viii vacate the White house on
Friday in order to admit the baggage of
the incoming occupants. We are not in
hurry to say adieu, dear Grover, but
the Inducement is too stlang to score a
scoop on the Republican press; and be-
sides. in the confusion of the last mo-
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-02-27

Is EVERY act of the legislature that
may be constitutional, expedient? THAT
is the question THE GAZETTE has insisted
on from the first in discussing railroad
commission law. If SO, why not pass
that local option road bond law?
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-02-27

WHETHER the hero or heroine, as the
case may be, of that Maryland mar
rage that has caused such a sensation is
a man or a woman, one thing may be
safely wagered upon: The prima facie
woman thought she was marrying man.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-02-27

oSE grand object of the Texas Spring
Palace is to get the people of the North
TO visit Texas and see a Southern state,
/ It's products and people. Once acquainted
with us as we are, and not as we are mis-
represented, the good work of nniffoa-
ton and differentiation viii go on. more
ranifllv
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-02-27

SECTION eighty-two of the new charter
for Fort Worth Is a stumbling block and
an impeachment. Every man in the city
interested in the further growth of Fort
Worth should write petition to our
senator and representative to have this
section amended.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-02-27

THE New York Press Republican,
dominates s. S. Cox as the Democratic
standard-bearer in 1892, because of his
advocacy of the cause of the Northwestern
territories. The trouble with Mr.. Cox is
that he has laughed and winked too much
to ever receive presidential wink. We
are a nation of parrots and we worship
the owl.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-02-27

THE proportion of divorces to mar
riages in 1870 was to 949; in 1880 it had
increased to to $50. The railroads
brought Texas several thousands of miles
nearer to Chicago in 1880 than it was in
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-02-27

our makers would spend a little more
time Investigating before they rush into
railroad legislation they would discover
that they are doing the state an irrepar-
able injury by making Texas railroad
stocks andsbonds non-paying securities.
Let the railroads alone.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-02-27

THE delight of the Republicans oyer
their resumption of power suggests the
doubt and scare they endured previous
TO the election last November. All
right, boys, it is our turn next.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-02-27

THE wheel of fortune moves noiselessIy,
but it goes on round and round. Who
could have imagined six months ago that
Mr.. Mills would have been flibustering
before the end of the life of the Fiftieth
congress to prevent the repeal of the
tobacco tax
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-02-27
THE GAzETTE FORT WoRT TExAs WDENEsDA4 FEBRUARY az

ment it might be forgotten, anyway
Goodbye, Grover, goodbye. In the
language Of the undergraduate, May
the flowers of prosperity continue to
bloom over your grave y
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-02-27

THE Karporamos that viii grace and
beautify the Texas Spring Palace will
alone justify people in travelling thou
sands of miles to see them. There will
be more beautiful product-weaying in
the Texas Spring Palace than was ever
seen IN any one exhibit on earth.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-02-27

THE state of Texas once delegated its
control of the public lands to state land
board. we all know what happened.
Texas does not want any more land
boards.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-02-27
1900 P,,re Czn,,, .I,,ice.

A delightful beverage either hot or cold. The
best known tonic. Restores lost vitality, viii
cure dyspepsia; settle disordered stomach and
induces sleep when everything else fails. Full
of punishment aud easily digested, 1T is IN
valuable for the sickroom. WORKOUT brains and
nerves find in this their quickest restorer. For
sale by A. g. Rintleman & Co., 1924 Main, corner
Front street.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-02-27

wIcHrrA, KAs., Feb. % The Okla
homa historical exhibition that has been
formed here, closed contracts with the
Burton gar company to build their own
special train. The exhibition leaves here
April 20, going direct to New York City.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-02-27

Diseases can be cured, If properly treated in
time. as shown by the following statement from
D. c. FREEMAN, Sidney: Having been a ereat
sufferer from pulmonary attacks, and gradually
wasting away for the past two years, It affords
n H9sDre to testify that Seoft's Emulsion Of
Oil with Lime and Soda has given me
u e; and cheerfully recommend it to an
SAT, In similar way 10 myself. In addf-
- ~ aid say that 1t is very pleasant "a
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-02-27

CHEROKEE with its iron will be on
representation at the Texas Spring
Palace. What win Llano, Burnett and
other counties do?
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-02-27

THE people who come to Fort Worth
next May and June win see all the
products of this state at glance in the
Texas Spring Palace.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-02-27
GREEsvIl1E, TEX, Oct {, 1887.

GREENvILLE, Tex, Oct. 4, 1887
Messrs. Thurmond Medicine Company, Gaines
vile, Tex.
DEAR SIRs-I was at the Dallas state
fair and got sample bottle of Lone Star
catarrh cure; it done me so much good
please send me another bottle st once
G.. O. D. Yours truly, l.. SNIcHT.
Browning s Nicks, Fort Worth.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-02-27

FOUR, four, four years; then comes
one more our Growers grin.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-02-27

Preside county must send to the
Spring Palace Company that silver to
make a suitable coat of arms for
Nevada.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-02-27

SIX days of grace, and four years of
grass: so reads the oracle to the anxious
inquirer after the future of Democracy.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-02-27
BRANCH OFFICES.
DALLAS

DALLAS.
G.. M. BAILEY. Correspondent and General
Agent, 725 Main Street.
r. GUNNER, Calculator and Subscription
Agent. 6l2 Elm Street, where the paper can al
ways be found on sale. and where orders for
Dallas city delivery can be left.
WACO.
JOHN NJ. CoNNoR. Agent and Correspondent,
WEATHERFORD.
H. 3. DORSEY, Agent and Correspondent
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-02-27

NAcoGDocHEs and Anderson counties
must be at the Texas Spring Palace in
May next with their petroleum exhibit.