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Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-02-22
4 mcHIGAN mEASrRR,

In 1887 the Michigan legislature moved
by just Indignation at the frequent resort
to the courts to levy black mail upon the
press of the state, passed law regula-
ting civil suits for damages for libel.
This was declared unconstitutional a few
Michigan because it limited the
amount Of damages that could be re-
covered in any suit. Tt was held
that the plaintiff if entitled to a judg-
ment was entitled TO all actual damages
that jury might think he had sustained.
To meet the exigeney caused by this de-
eision bill has been drafted by one OF
the ablest lawyers in the state, and hay-
ing received the unanimous approval of
the state press association, is now pend
ing in the legislature which will probably
pass it. The measure is commended
to the Texas legislature, which now has
the same subject before it. as an adj
mirable and concise expression of equit-
able principles, giving full protection to
aeter and depriving shyster attorneys of a
source of profitable speculation. 1t is
given below:
Section /, The people the state of Michigan
enact: That in actions for libel there shall be
presumption of either express, actual or legal
malice from the mere fact of the publication of
the libel, and the burden of proof on the question
OF malice shall be On the plaintiff.
Sec. 2. In actions for libel if there is no proof
of express malice, or the court or jury shall and
that there was no such malice, then no exemplary
or punitive damages shall be awarded nor shall
any general damages be awarded that are not
strictly actual and real.
Sec. 3. No action for libel shall be brought or
maintained unless the plaintiff SHALL before
bringing suit, request the defendant to publish
retra ction of the libel and allow to the defendant
a reasonable time IN which to pub
iish such retraction, and to make such
amends as are reasonable and posi-
bic under the circumstances of the
case, and proof of the publication of any
such retraetion or correction shall be admissible
in evidence under the general issue on the ques-
ton of the good faith of the defendant, and in
mitigation and reduction of damages. Proof Of
the failure or neglect of the plaintiff to comply
With Ihe provisions OF inns section may De gwen
in evidence under the general issue in bar Of the
action.
See. 4. It shall not be lawful for any attorney
at law to bring or conduct any action of libel for
q contingent fee, or any understanding, ex-
press or implied, that he is to receive any por-
ton, or all the damages recovered, as eompensa-
ton for his services; nor shall any attorney at
law advance any money or incur any liability for
the purpose of defraying the expenses of the
plaintiff in any such action.
Sec, 8. All acts or parts of acts inconsistent
with this actare hereby repealed.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-02-22
PATRToTe sHoPKEEPERs.

There was time in the history of
Texas when Galveston was the entrepot
of all this mighty empire; the goods the
people bought came through Galveston J,
and the produce of the people was sold
at Galveston.
But the railroads came and the scep-
ter has departed from the oIeander Jul
dea. Towns and cities have been built
up in Texas far from the coast, and in
these fourishing communities there are
congresses, mills, factories and whole
sale stores, and the empire that was Gal
weston s is divided among many soyer-
eigus.
a railroad commission bill is before the
Texas legislature, and the merchants of
Galveston are in favor of 1t. They have
the deep blue sea upon which float the
vessels that bring them eargees at
cheaper freight rates than the more
expensive railroads can afford, and much
of what Galveston merchants buy abroad
comes at this cheap water freight rate;
but, with patriotism as beautiful as it
is rare, these Galveston tradesmen favor
a railroad commission.
Say it not that these shrewd Calves
tonians, who grew rich in the past by
levying tribute on an empire and then
saw their revenues cut off by "railroad
towns, - now think they can recover
something of their old time enrichment
through the regulation of interior AFTER
les of trade by trio of men who
know nothing of railroad man
agement. Say it not, for that
would be uneharitable, but say,
rather, that Galveston is patriotic and
would not recover any of its lost domin-
ion if it could, and that it rejoices at
the rivalry to itself which railroads in
Texas are daily building up and strength
eniug.
The fame of Galveston for unselhsh-
ness has passsd into a proverb, and to
question it now would be defamation.
Despite its own independence of rail-
roads, Galveston favors the commission.
Galveston is unselfish and patriotic, and
thinks Texas railroad commission would
the strength Of its interior rivals
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-02-22
ANSON.

Town and County Attracting mm'eratiOn-
Roller Mill aFd New School Rai dig.
Correspondence of the Gazette.
ANsoN, TEX. Feb. I9-Our town aud
county is on a sure enough boom. Jones
county is attracting immigration faster
than any other county in Northwest
Texas Our town is taking on steady
growth, new residences are daily going
up. j. s. FOy of Baird, recently opened
a large stock of dry goods here, and J
w. Davis of Grahbury viii open another
large stock on March l.
Our alliance friends have applied for q
charter for their roller mill, which Will be
built in time to handle this years wheat
crop. 1t will be located III Arson.
The citizens OF the town are
determined to have high
school building. About $1,000
has been raised for the building. tax
of 80 cents on the 500 worth of proper
ty i'll School district No. win he voted
unanimously, and it is proposed TO util-
ize the public fund and teach one term
as a subscription school The building
to be erected will cost $4,000.
Our people recently elected progress
sive committee, composed of ". Ned.
Bower, j NJ. Hanna, j. A. Cox, Hec
A. McEachin, Frank NJ Smith. These
gentlemen are pushing every enterprise
calculated to advance the town and
county.
In the district court, which is now in
session, 7. C. Suggs has been found
guilty on a charge of b,gamy and was
sentenced to the penitentiary for six
months.
Wheat and oats are looking well, and
the indications of good crop are very
hattering.
A little child of Capt. J. d. Piekens
was badly scalded yesterday by upsetting
a kettle of boiling water.
Governor John Ireland, who has been
in attendance upon our district court,
left.fOP home Yesterday.
So far our grand jury has only been
able to find three true bills, and two of
these were for betting on the election.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-02-22
MEa IND WoMEN.
ice Howard says that Charles A. Dana
is worth 81 200 900.

ice Howard says that Charles A. Dana
is worth 81 600, 900.
c.. P. Huntington, the California mil
lionaire, paid. S26 800 for Meissonnier s
's1he Game Lost at The recent sale of
the Stebblns collection of paintings in
New York.
1t is said that Mrs. Potter, Mrs Lang
try and Kyrle Bellew all wear the same
size shoe The same man makes the
footgear for all three, and he says they
wear Ne. 6 shoe.
At Memphis on the 18th Mrs. TAYLOR
of FL Paso, Tex. fell down the elevator
shaft at the Clarendon hotel, distance
of thirty feet, and escaped with slight
sprain of the wrist. She landed on her
hustle and it saved her.
By the terms OF the viii of Mr.. SaF-
toris, father of Algernon Sartoris, the
husband of Nellie Grant, his entire for
tune, valued at eI45, 900, is bequeathed
to his son during. his life, and at his death
to his wife absolutely.
Mrs. Stanley Brown, formerly Miss
MolIie Garfield, is described as a singu-
larry beautiful woman, with slender,
but almost faultless form. There are
suggestions of sadness about her eyes and
mOut6-eiOquent tributes 10 the memory
of her idolized father.
The millionaire railroad man, Col.
Peters, who recently died at Atlanta,
was the first, person to bring the Angora
goat from The Ural mountains to this
country. He was great scholar, and
said to be one of the best-read men in
the South In his youth he was an en-
gIneer OBJ a Georgia railroad.
A very touching reunion took place on
the floor of the United States senate
chamber on Tuesday between Senators
Bowen and Sabin. TWAS their first meet
ing since they both failed of recollection.
They are the only Republican senator's
with terms expiring in March who tried
to succeed themselves and failed. This
fact has established>a romantic bond of
union between them, and they now
spend a great deal of time together
Perhaps Gen. Harrison will be touched
by their sad condition and give them
something fat.
Madame de NoYikoff, the ezaF's agent
in the management of the Pall Mali Ca
zftte, is a notable locking woman, The
brilliant eyes are now. perhaps, the only
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-02-22
Prove 1t by Showing 1t.
Hico Courier.

The charter for the Texas Spring Pal
ace at Fort Worth has been filed at Aus
tin. This grand exhibition will take
place in June, and will be an immense
affair. Hamilton county should have
her products there in full fnrce, for this
will be her best chance to show to the
thousands of strangers that viii visit
Fort Worth what can be grown on our
rich soil. Why not bring our county TO
the front (Where it belongs) in this mat
ter? We know we have the best county
in the state, but strangers don t know it.
We will have to exhibit some proof of
this fact before they will believe it.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-02-22
The Spring Palace.
Kemp Herald.

Fort Worth is always ahead in every
move that is of benefit to the whole
state. She is now beyond doubt the
Commercial centre of Texas. Her latest
move is the establishment Of a Spring
Palace. Every county in the state
should be represented there. The Palace
viii be built of such produce as are pro-
duced in the state. Our county, and
our immediate vicinity as well, should
be represented. Go to work and get up
a collection of some of Kaufman county s
products and send it to the Spring
Palace in Fort Worth. This is the great
move by which thousands of immigrants
can be secured for Texas, aud if you
wish to get some of them you should
make an effort. This and the rest of
Fort Worth IS enterprise is due in a meas
IRE to THE GAZETTE, the most enter
prising paper in Texas,
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-02-22

THE indianapolis News, which is with
in telephoning distance of the president
elect and, therefore, ought to know,
prints the following in its issue of the
18th as the composition of the new cabi-
net:
Secretary of state-James G. Blaine of Maine.
Secretary CT Treasury-William Window of
Minnesota.
Postmaster General-John wanamaker of
Pennsylvania.
Secretary of Navy-John R. Thomas of Illi-
nois.
Secretary of war-Jeremiah Rusk of wiscon-
sin.
Secretary of Interior-J. W Noble of Mis-
souri,,
AttOrney-eenersl-W. H. H. Miller of Indi,
ana.
Secretary of observation-disclosures Miller of
New York.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-02-22
Cold Baths for Typhoid Fever.
philadalnhia Rnnord


DR.. Simon BaPueh, attending physician
to the Manhattan general hospital, pub
lished paper in the Medical Record on
the treatment of typhoid fever which
WI interest not only those of the medical
profession hut thousands of other people
whose attention has been arrested by the
startling mortality attending this disease
DR.. BarHch shows that under the pres
ent expectant, antipyTetie treatment
which consists in neuFishing the patient,
placing him in good hygienie surround
iRgs, combating complications aud re-
ducing the tempeTatuTe-the death-Fate
is appalling. According to the report
of the New York City board of health
for 1876-1SS5, out Of 7712 cases of
typhoid fever there were 1854 deaths, or
Alps per cent. The deaths In the New
York hospitals III 1855 were p .66 per
cent. In Germany, under similar treat
ment, out of II l2t cases reported upon,
there were 2I.7 per cent. of deaths.
This side of the case, however, does not
need statistical fertilization. The NOR
tally in typhoid fever cases is too well
known,
DR.. BaTueh advocates the abaHdon-
msnt Of the present method Of treatment
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-02-22
The Spring Palace.
Wichita Light.

Wichita county should not forget the
fact that the Texas Spring Palace asso-
citation of Fort Worth has been chartered
under the laws of the state and that it
will be visited during May and June by
thousands of people from the Northern
and Eastern states. Our county must
maintain its position in the ranks as the
banner wheat county of the finest sec
ton of the greatest state in the Union by
having a credltable exhibit at that great
show of the industrial resources of the
state. Wichita has rendered and the Pal
ace folks have accepted sufficient wheat
to cover the dome of the structure.
Wichita county must look to her laurels
and be up and dong or her competitors
in the race for public attention Will be
leading instead of following
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-02-22
FAME.


One day minstrel wrote q song
So tender and so sweet
That al who heard it, loved it,
The world was at his feet.
The fair court ladies sang
IN voices half divine,
The king and courtiers echoed
It's praises DER their wine:
It was song of summer,
So full of melody
That one could hear the signing winds,
The murmar of the sea,
The twitter of the happy birds,
That told OF life in May,
And almost breathe the wild flowers
That grew along the way.
Oh! happy was the poets heart
To hear his verses sung,
And very proudly went ne
His fellow-men among.
He thought in quiet self-centent,
Ny honored poet name
This song viii ever echo
Within the walls of fame.
When am dead and those love
Have joined death S noiseless throng,
There still will be remembered
The poet and his song.
The other day heard a song,
a sweet old-fashioned tune,
Whose ripping music made me think
or mountain brooks in June.
asked, for l was fain TO know,
Who wrote the song you sing?'
She said. "A poet long ago
Composed it for a king.
What was his name? when did he liver"
She shook her pretty head,
Indeed, cannot answer you,
Twas long ago, = she said.
she laid her hands upon the keys,
Her voice rose clear and true,
/ thought, how fair she is, and I
Forgot the poet, too.
ID. Fl. n. in New Orleans Pieayune.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-02-22
The Texas Spring Palace.
Center ChanDio0

This Palace is to be built entirely Of
Texas products, to be constructed at
Fort Worth. It will have eight towers
and magnificent dome, which Will be
dressed with cotton, wheat, corn, sugar
cane, oats, variety of grasses, vegetables,
fruits and fioWers-all grown in Texas.
The coal, iron ores and iron products,
lead, copper, platinum, mica, granite,
marble, sandstone viii be erected into
temples. In huge aquaFiums. win be
the fishes found in Texas rivers, lakes
and in the gulf bordering the state.
Wool, leather, salt, sugar and gypsum
will be made in houses, and, in fact
every product of Texas will be put into
the construction of the Palace and dis
PLAYED in the interior. The entire state
VIII be interested and represented.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-02-22

TIE Chicago Herald states the case in
three sentences: ''The Republican par
ty established negro domination over the
entire South. The Republican party let
that negro domination collapse of its own
ignorance, servility and cowardice.
What reason has the Republican party
for recognizing he'll in the South that
did not exist when the Republican party
abandoned the carpet baggers in IS87?'
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-02-22

a NEGRO exodus is disturbing the
farmers of North Carolina, who are be-
ing left without labor TO cultivate and
harvest their crops. So serious has the
matter become that immigration agents
have been driven from the state, and the
legislature is asked to intervene. The
following resolution, adopted at a
monster meeting of negroes held at
Goldsboro, shows their temper and ex-
peetations from removal:
God is at the head of this move, and not the
Richmond and DanYtlle railroad company. The
voice of John Brown is sounding IN the ears of
the sons of Ham, and the great Southwest says:
'Cemei we have lands, and the oppressed
conscience Of the negro says, &c., and we are
going.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-02-22
4 STATE RECEIVERSHIP FOR RAIL
HAYS


% What is the nature Of the railway
commission bill passed by the house OF
representatives? asks a correspondent
Briefly stated it is a bill to take the man
agement of all the railroads in Texas out
of the hands of their owners and vest it
in three men to be appointed by the gov
ernor. The proposition is startling
one, but it has been seriously considered
and adopted by one branch of the Texas
legislature. If finally enacted into a
law the stockholders of Texas railroads
will cease to be an influential quantity in
their control, so far as state traffic is
concerned, and it Will pass into the hands
of an executive board, created by the
state and charged with the multifarious
and conflicting duties of managers,
prosecutors ana judges, in all differences
growing out of local commerce.
The commission is to be charged with
the duty of making rules to regulate
every feature of the railway business. 1t
will arrange freight ciassifcations, fix
charges, and exercise supervisory
power over the minutest details of rail-
road management. If it does all that it
is required to do apparently there would
exist no necessity for a directory or for
any officials in the conduct of the affairs
of a Texas railroad, except so far as they
relate to interstate traffic. The bill vir-
tually creates a forced reeeiYership for
the roads and makes the state receiver.
1t is undoubtedly true that the bill pro-
poses the most economic management
ever known in the history of rail-
roads. With three men, on salaries of
$4,000 a year each, it expects to perform
duties now requiring several score of
men whose salaries aggregate hundreds
of thousands of dollars. There is not to
be found, perhaps, in the United States
or elsewhere, a general manager of
railway, however unimportant, who does
not receive more than the salary fixed
for the railway commissioners. Yet the
pending bill is based upon the idea that
three men can be found, either of whom
is competent to manage nearly 5000 miles
of railway. who will undertake that stu
penduous task for $4,000 year.
To obtain a responsible position in
railway management is the work of a
lifetime. In ordinary avocations con-
neeted with minor interests, promotion
only comes as the reward OF experience
and of faithfulness. So complicated and
so important are railway affairs that only
men of the best executive ability and
long special training are charged with
their management. The commission bill
to subject them to the absolute
control of men, of whom it is specially
that they shall have no interest
of any character in railways, and who
would necessarily be tyres in railroad
matters, The same results might Fea-
senably be expected that would follow
the selection of raw recruit TO lead an
army into battle, or the promotion of a
stoker who never pulled a throttle 60 the
position of engineer.
1t is not the railroads alone that. under
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-02-22

WITH North and South Dakota, Mon
tana and Washington territory, added as
states to the Republican column, as they
undoubtedly will be before the next pres
idential election, the Democratic party
must go beyond New York, Indiana
Connecticut and New Jersey, of the
Northern states, for success in 1892. Vir-
ginia viii DE doubtful, West Virginia
more doubtful, and 100 900 visilant and
sieepless odioe-heldeFs will lead the Re-
publican cohorts. Yes, Mr.. President,
ii is a condition, a deuoedly uneomforta-
BILE condition, that confronts us.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-02-22
Biggest Kind of a success.
Hubbard CITY News.

The project to have a Spring Palace at
Fort Worth in May or June, promises to
be the biggest kind of a success. They
have raised $50 200 fer that purpose, and
the Fort never does things on the halves
hence ii viii be a grand success The.
Cold Corner of Hill viii be represented
upon the occasion, and don t you forget
it, Mr.. GAZETTE!
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-02-22

contention as that made at Aus
tin is the seed of a doctrine which
leads Ignorance or desperation to
anarchy and the gallows. Men Of, brain
and patriotism owe duty TO the less
informed to guard their speech and make
it plain.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-02-22

Having been troubled for many years
with eatarrh of a stubborn charac1er,
which manifested itself both in the broa-
ehial tubes and urinary organs, success
fully resisting the best medical skill, I
was induced 20 try DR.. ThurmouI's
Catarrh Cure, which has, upon a short
trial, produced most, beneficial results,
and l can heartily recommend it to all
who suffer from this most disagreeahle
maladT EM. J BASSETF,
Pastor of Dixon Street NJ Z. Church,
Gainesville, Tex.
o. NJ. Waterhouse, Fort Worth.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-02-22

Mr.. GREsHAM's bill 10 prevent dis
ordinations was opposed by the leading
Of the Texas legislature. Mr.. Gresh-
am 5 bin was aimed at a public demand.
but it DID not provide public places for
five or six men
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-02-22
In the Mouths of People.
CIeburne Enterprise.

NItDu4LS 4utEip iisC'
Fort Worth is already reaping benefit
from the agitation of the Spring Palace
The city is in the mouths of people
abroad, and such as have been thinking
of seeking other homes are attracted to
Fort Worth by this talk about the new
project. Some Of the new and extensive
movement in real estate in that city is
doubtless owing to the proposed exhibit
tioD
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-02-22

OF All the INDUSTRIOUS propositions
ever advanced in a legislative hall that
proclaimed in the lower house of the
Texas legislature is most full of evil,
tO-wit: That the right to regulate is
the right to destroy. OF this
doctrine is socialism born and COM
munism propagated. When leg
islators claim this right, is it strange
that the people are mistaught and mis-
led? The right of destruction is thing
apart from the right of regulation, and
between these two is the path of
patriotism and social safety. Such
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-02-22
reporter

THE platform upon which Gen. Har-
rison was elected, pronounces against re-
moval from Office without cause, and in
favor of appointments for fitness, not
for party service. - II the G. o. P. had
another chance at that platform, just
now, it is probable that there would be
few material amendments.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-02-22
Purdon.
Purdon.
Correspondence of the Gazette.

Correspondence Of the Gazette.
PuRDeN, Tex, Feb. 20.-DF. T. J.
Meredith, an old-time ana respected cit
zen of this place, after a serious illness Of
four months, died last evening at the res
idenee of his brother, Capt. Alex Har-
rison. His remains will be carried to
GorsicaHa for inteFment. The doctor
was Christian gentlemen.
Since Saturday evening the weather
has been extremely cold and cloudy.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-02-22

TIE ST. Louis wash bill is said TO
amount to about 500, 900 annually. If
the city has as many people as it claims
the average man changes his shirt once a
UuaptpP
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-02-22

AN INDIANA man has invented ballot
box to prevent election frauds. It ought
TO come into general use at low rates,
for, under Republican, he viii never be
able TO get il patented.