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Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-01-26
TWO SUITS.
One Mulcts Galveston County in Big Sum-
the Other Claims Heavy Damages.

One Mulcts Galveston County in a Big Sum,
the Other Claims Heavy Damages.
Special to the Gazette.
GALVESTON, TEX, Jan. 25.-By de-
cision rendered by the supreme court to-
day the county of Galveston was mulcted
in the sum of Sl945. In July, 1877, Gal
weston county sued the Galveston gas
company for Sl945 for unpaid taxes on
its property. This amount it paid under
protest, and suit issued subsequently to
recover the same with interest. The
district court allowed S1945, but denied
the interest The case was then
taken to the supreme court which
to-day decided that the gas company
was entitled to the full amount with 8
per cent. interest from July, 1877. The
opinion also held that the county is as
much liable as an individual for money
collected unJustly.
George England has entered suit in the
State district court against the Galveston
city street railway company TO recover
$40 900 damages to person by being
knocked down and run over by defend
ants car, fracturing five ribs. The
injuries were received last April.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-01-26
Snow at Ell PasO.

Special to the Gazette.
Ell PAso, TEX, Jan. 25.-It COM
menced showing at 10 o CLOCK last night
and continued all night. This morning
the ground was covered to the depth of
two inches. 1t is the heaviest fall that
ever occurred here.
The big st. Louis and Zacetecas mining
company viii move their headquarters to
this place from the City of Mexico next
month. Their general superintendent
was here to-day and completed all ar
engagements and rented the Wells, Fargo
& Company new building.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-01-26
Notice by Publication of Final account.

THE STATE OF TEXAS-To the sheriff or
any constable of Tarrant county, greeting:
A J. Dukes. executor OF the estate of John l..
Wyatt, deceased, having filed in our county
court his final account of the condition OF the
estate of said John L. Wyatt, deceased, together
with an application to be discharged from said
executorship, you are are hereby commanded that
by publication of this writ for twenty days prior
to the return day hereof, in a newspaper regu-
larly published in the county of Tarrant, you
give due notice to all persons interested in the
account for final settlement of said estate to file
their objections thereto, if any they have, on or
before the March term, 1883, of said county
court, commencing and TO be holden at the
courthouse of said county, In the city OF Fort
Worth on the first Monday in March, A. D.
1883, when said account and application will be
considered by said court.
Witness: John P. King, clerk of the county
court of Tarrant county.
Given under my hand and seal of said
court at nv Office in the city of Fort Worth, this
ninth day OF January, A. D. 1883.
JOHN P. KING,
Clerk County Court Tarrant county.
BvJ J. NUNNALLY, Deputy Clerk
A true copy: 1 certify that the above is true
copy of the original in my hands.
j. G. RICHARDSON,
Sheriff OF Tarrant county.
Rv W T. STEELE Deputy Sheriff
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-01-26
FORT WORTH BoARD OF TRADE.
44nmmaE Meetil,g of Stockholders.

Notice is hereby given that the annual meeting
of lie stockholders OF the Fort Worth Board Of
Trade viii be held at the City national bank, be-
tween the hours of and . p. M, on Tuesday
February >, 1883.
Attention is called to section 3 of article of
the bylaws which reads as follows: - No stock
holder shall vote al any election unless the stock
10 be voted by him shall appear in his name on
the books of the association at least ten DAYS
prior TO said election Stockholders who have
paid in full win please call upon the undersigned
and receipt for their stock. MAX ELsER,
January 10. 1883. Acting Secretary.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-01-26
CoMANCHE AND a RAILROAD.

President Paddock of the Rio Grande Makes
Some Encouraging Statements.
Special TO the Gazette.
COMANCHE, Ten, Jan. % President
Paddock, accompanied by Vice-President
Wicker, General Superintendent Har-
vey and Messrs. f. O. Green and R. II.
Kicker, contractors, came in from
Brentwood yesterday afternoon. Quite
a number of the business men of the town
called on them at the Lowry hotel last
night, anxious to learn something Of our
railroad prospects. Your correspondent
was present. While nothing definite was
learned as far as CoInanche is concerned,
Capt. Paddock informed us he hoped in
the near future or at least in the course
of human events to give us something
tangible. The presence of Messrs.
Kicker and Green, well-known con-
tractors, looks like business, and gives
lis some assurance of the railroad. ALL
mall we feel very much encouraged, and
we believe Comanche will be ready to put
her shoulder to the wheel when the time
comes.
The rain continues, and from the con-
dition Of the highways we are satisfied
that the railroad party or any party I'M
acquainted with this country would never
suspect this as a drouth-stricken sec
ton.
Messrs. Hill and Shropshire of this
place volunteered their services to pilot
the party over the route to Dublin.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-01-26
Home Notes.

Home Notes.
w. NJ. Hanney of the Houston and
Texas Central, was in Fort Worth yes
terday.
Several of the Texas railroads have a
portion of their tracks i'll the black soup
of the state.
J. \. Fuller, general eastern agent of
the Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe, was III
Fort Worth yesterday.
W. T. Coulter, commercial agent of
the Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe, spent
yesterday in Fort Worth.
in. Steere, assistant general freight
sgent of the Gulf, Colorado and Santa
Fe, was in Fort Worth yesterday.
w. J Carnahau, roadmaster of the
Rio Grande division of the Texas and
Pacific, was in Fort Worth last night.
1t is said to be almost a fixed fact that
the Memphis and Little Rock viii during
the present year build TO connection
with the Santa Fe at Paris,
Texas If this is done shrewd railroad
men say the Frisco will extend its line
to Fort Worth, and it would be well re-
ceived in Fort Worth if it should come.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-01-26
A Southern Applicant for Cabinet Position

-ApPIIVfiilC l"I V.t.'lIEs' ''s'r'0ll
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn, Jan. 25.-The
Republicans of this section have deter
mined to press the claim of Gen. John
t. Wilder of this city for secretary of war
in Gen. Harrison s cabinet. Gen. Wilder
is popular with the leading Republicans
in the South, and his special champion IS
Congressman-eleet Evans.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-01-26
SEEDS.
SPECIAL NOTICES.
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Observation-Disclosures Meeting.

BY order of the board of directors, a meeting
of the stockholders of the Texas Northwestern
Railway Company is hereby called, and viii be
held at the Office of the company in the city OF
Fort Worth, Tex, February q, A. D. 1859,
and at 10 O. clock OF said day, forthe purpose
of authorizing the board of directors to proceed to
construct and equip said railway, and to issue
the bonds of the company in aid thereof and for
such other business as may properly come before
said meeting. c. B. EASTMAN,
Fort Worth. Tex. Dec. Is. 1SeS. Secretary.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-01-26
LOCAL WEATHER.
Corrected daily by ]. P. Nicks.
Indications.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 2G.-1 a. m.-For
Arkansas = Threatening weather with
rain, nearly stationary temperature, fol-
lowed in Northern Arkansas by colder
variable winds, generally northeasterly
For Eastern Texas threatening weather
rain, nearly stationary temperature, fol-
lowed in Northern Texas by colder
variable winds
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-01-26
The Cattle Trail Route.

Correspondence of the Gazette.
COLEMAN, TEX, Jan. 23.-The people
of Coleman are greatly elated over the
report of the engineer on his completion
of the survey of the Cattle Trail route
from Mason to Doan s, on Red river. 1t
appears that every man in the town with
$1,000 to invest proposes to take stock in
the company.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-01-26
Waco.
Special to the Gazette.

WACO, TEX >, Jan. 25.-G H. Randall
of Waco shipped to-day to a Russian firm
1000 pounds of cotton seed, which are in
tended for use in the experimental cotton
planting in Central Asia.
A negro boy who had been suspected of
stealing from G. c.. MeCulloch 5 store
was shot at last night by the police in
North Fourth street, but escaped.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-01-26

building of road from Terrell northwest
to Gainesville and southwest to New
Orleans. This idea has been for some
time a cherished idea by our people, and
it viii probably be built some day.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-01-26

Oneida community Ideal sweet corn
IN cans is the best For sale by Turner,
Mcclure & Co.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-01-26
CLASSIFIED ADVERTISEMENTS.

al persons Seeking employment as LdboreTs
or seS-r0nfS tCho can not afford to pay may adj
rertise la tfs cOlssBsss for situations free 81
charge.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-01-26

Stillwel's pig hams and breakfast
bacon always IN stock at Turner, Mcclure
& Co.'S.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-01-26
Peculiar

10 itself in many important particulars, Hoods
Sarsaparilla is different from and Superior to any
other medicine.
Peculiar in combination, proportion and prep
aration of ingredients, Hoods Sarsaparilla pos
sesses the fun curative value Of the best known
remedies of the vegetable kingdom.
Peculiar in its medicinal merit, Hoods Sarsapa-
riIla accomplishes cures hitherto unknown.
Peculiar in strength and economy Hoods Sar-
saparilla is the only medicine of which can truly
be said 100 doses one dollar Medicines IN larger
and smaller bottles require larger doses. and do
not produce as good results Hoods Sarsaparila.
Peculiar in its " good name ut home there is
more of Hoods SarsapariIla soldin Love-, where
tits made, than Of all other blood purifiers
Peculiar in its phenomenal record of sales
abroad, no other preparation has ever attained
such popularity in so short time. Do not be in,
Gneedto take any otherpreparation. Besuret get
Hoods 'SarsapariIla
soldby all druggists. 81; sixfOrs5. Preparation
bye. L HOOD s CO.. Apotheearies. Lowell. Mass.
100 Doses One Dollar
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-01-26
General Notes.


Passenger rates on the Housatonic road
have been reduced to > cents per mile.
The rate on dressed beef from Missouri
river points 10 Chicago has been raised
from % cents to Is s cents.
The Missouri Pacific 5 pass regulations
exclude employees from riding on sub
urban trains into and out of st. Louis
-
Passenger fares west of Chicago have
shown little change during the past week.
The Chicago and Northwestern has post
poned its proposed reduction between
Chicago and Council Bluffs.
The ticket agent of the Missouri Pacific
in city Office at Kansas City who sold
the half-f&re employees ticket which
found its way into the hands Of scalper
and caused the recent reduction in the
tariff between Kansas City and Colorado
points by the Rock Island, has resigned.
1t appears that his superiors think he did
not take sufficient pains to examine the
credentials of the customer who claimed
TO be an employe.
The Canadian Pacific hauled a very
heavy consignment of cotton goods from
the Hochelaga cotton company's mills
at Montreal last week TO Vancouver,
whence it viii be forwarded to Japan.
The first shipment OF cotton goods to
Japan was made in 1887. 1t is estimated
that during the past year 900 carloads of
Canadian cotton goods have been shipped
10 YOkahoma.
The Union Pacific Withdraws Its Circular.
CHICAGO, III, Jan. 25.-The Union
Pacific road to-day withdrew its circular
announcing change in through rates on
commission This leaves st Louis in
full possession of its diferential, and
continues the alleged determinations
against Chicago.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-01-26

Parsnips, carrots, rutabaga turnips
and horseradish at Turner, Mcclure s.
Co.'S.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-01-26
a Terrell Enterprise.

Special to the Gazette.
TERRELL, TEX, Jan. 25.-Now ands
then there are those who agitate the
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-01-26

Genuine sugar house molasses at Tur-
ner, Mcclure s. Co.'s.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-01-26
THE RAILROADS.
The Extension of the Memphis and Lit
tie Rock to Paris.

The Frisco to Push on to Fort Worth for Texas
Onnections-General Railroad Notes.
Cattle Trail Route.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-01-26

The Missouri Pacific 5 pass regulations
exclude employees from riding on sub
urban trains into and out of st. Louis
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-01-26
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Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-01-26

A FAULKNER, Gen. Pass. Agent, Houston
G. d. LUSK, Depot Ticket Agent.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-01-26

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Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-01-26

Passenger rates on the Housatonic road
have been reduced TO > cents per mile.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-01-26
Kansas CitNsl3.5O: Chicago, 1896.

When YOU take a trip call on US; we can save
you ali the way from S. TO SO. n. c. Paulsen g
Co Hotel Pickwick, Members American Ticket
Brokers' Association
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-01-26

J. n. Fuller, general eastern agent of
the Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe, was iii
Fort Worth yesterday.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-02-16
HOW BIG BIRDS ARE FED.
Feasting ON White Rats-The Dainty Dishes
Mt the Zoo.


ut the Zoo.
Philadelphia Record.I
Sunday is feast day for the birds of prey
that live in the big cages at the Zoo. While
their favorite dish would scarcely repose
with grace upon an American dining table,
it is regarded as dainty morsel by the
slant-eyed sons Of Confucius, His favored
dish IS white rat. The Chinaman likes it
cooked, but the big condors, vultures and
eagles prefer it served raw and whole.
The birds await their Sunday feast of
white rat with raYenous impatience, and
many valiant struggles for the toothsome
rat take place within the cage. Head
Keeper Byrne sets his traps for white rats
all over the gardens, and when Sunday
comes he repairs to the cage with the feast.
Immediately upon scenting his approach,
the birds begin to screech, and their in
closure is confused mass OF Tapping wings
and gaping beaks.
The rats are thrown in alive one by one,
and with lightning quickness a sharp
hooked beak buries itself in the rodents
flesh as soon as his body touches the ground.
The big ones get the choice, and feast in
peace until the smaller hawks get their eyes
on the prey, Then, with swoop, they
snatch the morsel from the larger birds, and
an interesting struggle ensues between
agility and strength. When several rats
are thus being contested for the conflict is
bloody, and, as Keeper Byrne puts it, there
are enough flying feathers to start feather
foundry. Areporter witnessed such scene
last Sunday, and it took the 30 birds about
20 minutes to fight over and dispose Of
bushel of white rats.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-02-16

cence of child. Newnham Constam had
the frame of young Hercules, and face
like Greek god. He had inherited the
proud, classic beauty of his grandmother,
and his English education, which had been
carefully watched over, had formed him
into the model of an English gentleman,
with a certain dignity of carriage happily
blended with an amiable disposition and
winning manners. He looked like a young
hero who deserved to be loved forshis own
sake, without reference to the broad acres of
which he was lord. Barbara's heart was
carried by storm, and when he poured into
her delighted ears his love plants and vows
of eternal affection, she returned him love
for love, and vow for VOW.
One cloud, however, rested upon this
promising alliance cloud that was des-
tined to grow in volume until it broke and
turned the joy into direct mourning. A
neighboring squire, Mr.. Bretterly, of
Bretterly Hall "a man. at least ten
years Newnham's senior), considered him
self an abused man when tidings Of the i'm
pending marriage went abroad. He, too,
had been enslaved by the bright beauty Of
Lady Barbara, and, whether rightly or
wrongly, considered that the lady had
shown him marked signs of her preference.
In this, Mr.. Bretterly's vanity had prob
ably misled him; although he was able to
plead that Lord Selincourt himself had
shown himself warmly disposed to the
Bretterly alliance, until Newnham's return
from his travels and the ardor with which
he pressed his suit had suggested more
eligible match for his daughter.
Mr.. Bretterly's fury was unbounded when
he heard of the betrothal, and he so far lost
his self-control as to threaten condign pun
ishment on his false love and his treacherous
friend; for so he was pleased to speak of
them. But whatever passions may have
consumed him, he contrived after the first
explosive outburst to keep his chagrin to
himself He congratulated the young
couple on their engagement with seeming
heartiness; and when after brief courtship
the day of their nuptials drew near, his
presents excited general admiration for their
costliness and the evidence they furnished
of the elegance of their donors taste.
AS events turned out, there can be no
doubt that in all this Mr. Bretterly was
playing deep game and preparing the way
for the execution of a deeplv-laid scheme Of
vengeance. Behind a mask of friendship
he was craftily concealing the bold design
of acquiring q complete ascendancy over
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-02-16

Newnham's mind with passion for thor
oughDreds, on which vast sums were lavish
ly squandered, to tune that called forth
temperate but firmly worded remonstrance
from Ballard, the steward.
But once started on this wild career, Mr..
Constam paid little attention to remon-
strances, which he brushed aside with con-
temptuous good humor, He heard of the
wonders at Mountcastle, only to dream OF
the ways in which he could emula1e, if he
could not out-rival the widest eceentrici-
ties of the most eccentric Duke who was
ever decorated with the strawberry leaf
Bretterly was ever at his elbow to give him
counsel when wanted. He was bis Me-
phistopheles, too, to spur him on with some
new extravagance when he showed signs of
tagging; always contriving, however, that
every new departure should appear to be
the spontaneous result of Newnham's own
mind and will, and not the product of the
direct prompting of his idus Achates.
1t would be tedious to trace the successive
steps by which the unsuspecting squire
was lured onward to the ruin planned for
him. A fine inheritance was not dissi-
pated-so far as a strictly entailed estate
could be dissipated-in day. Bretterly's
schemes were spread over a serious of years,
during which this Machiavellian tempter
never once dropped the mask. 1t was not
to be supposed that so redouDtable patron
of the field sports of his native country as
Mr.. Constam was, should not sooner or later
discover a warm interest In the turf or that
when this proved to be the case, that Bret
terly should prove wanting in skill to di-
rect the new pleasure to the furtherance of
his deeply laid plot to bring about Newn-
hams ruin. The turf, and a certain we'll
known club where high stakes were played
for nightly, gradually completed what had
been begun in simple extravaganza. There
were rumors after great race, when money
was risked which might have proved dis
composing to the nerves of million
aire, that Mr.. Constants horse was
''pulled;" certainly, instead of coming in
first, which was declared to be "a moral"
it came in last. These rumors were never
cleared up. There was no evidence of their
truth to be obtained. If ''The Pride of
Greystoke" had been "pulled," it had been
done too cleverly to admit OF detection.
Notwithstanding, there are old "turftes"
who still remember that race, e,and who assert
to this day that Constants horse was
pulled"
Newman turned pale as he viewed the
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-02-16
A PLOT FOR A PLAY.
Marriage rs Affected by Longitude, q
Curious Question.

Marriage rs Affected by Longtitude, Q
Curious Question.
T. Adolphus Trollope, in communities
ton to Notes and Queries, propounds q
knotty point that might be worked up into
a subject for a drama, farce or q comic
opera. 1t is put in all seriousness, how
ever, as question of law.
A. B. goes from London to Naples,
leaving his wife resident in the former city.
But ne, unfortunately, falls in love with a
young lady at Naples; and being a wicked
man, with no fear Of God and little fear Of
the law before his eyes, he determines to
deceive her by q bigamous and invalid
marriage. He is accordingly married, to
all appearance legally, on board an English
msn-of-war in the bay. in the presence Of
the captain, at IL o'clock in the morning Of
February 10-the time being unquestiona-
bly, ascertained. But the wife left in Lon
don died on the same February 10 at 1870
in the morning, the time being certified be-
yond all question. Well, the case is clear
and simple. A. B. had been a widower tor
half an hour when he married and could, Of
course, legally do so.
But sayl When it was 1890 in London
it was 11:23 in Naples. Had q telegram
been dispatched instantly after the wife's
death it would have reached Naples few
minutes later than 11:23, and would have
found A. B. married man of over 20 min
utes' standing! His first wife died, in fact
% minutes subsequent to the Naples mar
riage, though that was automatically de
clared to have taken place at IL A. NJ, an
the wife's death was with equal certaint
shown to have occurred at 1890. Was th
marriage legal and valid or bigamous and
null?
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-02-16
THE BALLOON FISH.
A Strange Creature That Exploded When
Exposed TO the Air.

Exposed to the Air.
Chicago Matl.I
"You never saw balloon '6sh?" queried
the Virginia gentleman of q clerk.
''No never did; never even heard Of one
before"
81 never saw but one, and that one 1
caught while fishing off the dock at New
port News, within almost stones throw Of
where the hulk of the old war ship Cumber-
land is said to repose. When landed the
fish on the dock i. was just an ordinary
looking fish, but I found before got the
hook loose from its mouth that it was swell
ing. I became so excited that forgot to
throw my hook and line back into the
water. The fish kept swelling. and finally
became as round as ball. was more
astonished when its hide began to crack and
it became evident to me that it was on the
point of bursting. It seemed to be suffering
great pain. As I did not care to witness
the suffering any longer ! pushed it off the
dock with my foot. No sooner had 1t
struck the water than 1t gained its normal
condition and shot out of sight like fash.
learned from q man who said that he
knew that the balloon fish could not live
many minutes out OF the water; that they
inhale the air, but were unable to exhale il,
and therefore in its efforts to breath it con-
gested until it was only question OF how
great an air pressure its hide could with
stand. Sooner or later 1t was bound to
burst unless replaced In the water"