Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-08-08

understandable shape. In consequence OF
the small attendance no organized action
was decided upon, and an adjournment
was had until some future day. In the
meantime an effort will be made to
induce Galveston capitalists to take hold
of a rolling mill enterprise.
RHoaIE, TEX. July 3l.-our farmers
are buoyant over the splendid cotton
prospects; no indications of worms. and
the plants are loaded down with fruit
We have big corn crop assured, and
farming people OF the Eastern states who
contemplate coming TO Texas should
locate here, where they viii be able to
get plenty of 3 and 20 cent corn.
Cattle are doing AaelY. There are mil
lions of acres of fine grass and plenty of
water, but the low price prevents much
trade and dealing III cattle.
JOSHUA, TEX. Aug. 5.-Mr H. E.
Slaughter, about twenty-five or twenty
three years of age, attempted suicide
near Joshua last night BY swallowing
broken glass. He was found early this
morning in the woods vomiting blood
He was at once carried to Mr.. A W.
moned, who reports him doing well this
evening with a good chance of recovery i.
He gives as a reason for his rash act that
the Young lady to whom he was engaged
to be married had changed her mind and
accepted the heart aud hand of another,
and that the pressure was more than he
could stand ana still says that he can t
stay here, but must 50.
TYLER, Ten, Aug. i,-This morning
Mrs. Talb6rt, lady over sixty years old
and who lives with her son Mason Tai
bert Q teamster of this city, was knocked
down by Cotton Belt car while crossing
the above track at the junction with the
International and Great Northern rail-
way. Her right foot was crushed III such
9 manner that the amputation of that
member was necessary No other seri-
Gus injuries resulted. She is doing very
we'll under the circumstances and there
is hope of her recovery. she has d son
and daughter living at Daily Springs.
ENoN, TEX. Aug 4.-OWing to a heavy
rain now falling our threshers in this sec
ton are all stopped. This makes the
third time they have stopped work on ac-
count OF the weather. J. T Stephens s.
Co IS threshers have so far this season
had only twelve crops of grain, some of
them before the flood of two weeks ago
and the remainder since. The largest
yield so far has been thirteen bushels at
Mr.. Charley KilgQre's Messrs. Jerry
Asberry and p. K. Smith making twelve
bushels TO the acre. The smallest yields
since the rain are five aud six and one
fourth bushels per acre. The supposition
at first was that the heavy rams would re-
duce the crop at least one-third, if not
ope-half, but we are glad too report it
better than expected.
The best yield of oats has been forty
bushels per acre.
l send you q Japan plum grown in Mr..
J l.. Stephenson S orchard. The trees
are only two years old and bore about
one hundred pluns apiece, as many as
eighteen growing on a limb not over
twenty inches long. Even now before
the time for maturing the fruit will mel
low when put in dry, warm place, and
has fine flavor. 1t is tbs coming plum
for North Texas in my opinion. The
sample sent measured when pulled six
and one half inches in circumference.
The health of our section il very good
for such rglSs5sssalE YARN weather as wea
have passs6 througRss for the past two
months. ks,,,.,,,s3jfsss by CLEVELAND.