Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-02-05
NEWS and NOTES.

The United States has 700 railroads.
They employ 500, 600 persons.
Thirteen cotton mills in and around
Augusta. ga, employ 1900 persons,
In Germany workingmen g societies
cannot hold political debates nor carry
baLners other than loyal ones.
The New Haven Conn } Courier says:
The last day of January, and no winter
yet. Perhaps it will come in the spring.
MontreaI's ice palace opened on the
2Sth uIt. It is Is0 feet long, 40 feet
! broad, and liz central tower is l50 feet
high.
''Let a girl bleach her hair, says
| Boston doctor, and within three months
! she viii have trouble with her eyes, pains
| in her head, and be well on the way to-
ward some nervous disorder requiring
| doctors services half the time.
The mild weather of December and the
| first half of this month had its effects on
the naples of New England In Maine
and Vermont and other sections, trees
yielded good flow of saw, and sugar
was made in midwinteF-a very ususual
| occurrence
a new remedy for skin diseases, says
the Hospital, is a continual bath, the
/ patient eating, drinking and sleeping
| there until cured. One patient has been
kept in such bath for $50 days. He is
tied up always at night TO prevent him
from slipping so as to be drowned. The
palms and soleS become much shriveleti,
but the rest Of the Skin is unchanged.
The water is kept at % degrees.
Walking sticks are now being made
that are useful as well as ornamental
n 1Is-nl 10 N n a NUN
and screwed to the cane; another has
receptacle for nickels and cents, and is
convenient for those who ride on street
aud other city ears and cross ferries;
another contains measure for the height
of horses, and has spirit-level attach
ment; and still another has good little
watch set in the crystal handle.
The San Fran cisco Bulletin says thaY
the proposition of the Southern Utes to
sell their reservation IL Southwest Colb-
RADIO and remove to a reservation in Utah
west of the Colorado line, is a shrewd
business manelyre on the part of the In
dians. For a strip of land fifteen miles
wife and nearly 100 in length they ask
$50 900, 200 ZOO sheep and 81 900 each
for their five chiefs, besides permission to
hunt in the LaSalle mountains. The
Utes only number about 500, are lazy and
worthless and will not work since an
agency was established from which they
draw rations. The LaSalle mountains
are SAID to be rich in minerals, but from
which prospectors have been kept away
by the hostility of the Indians, who have
waylaid and killed several parties at
tempting it.
The great copper corner ism t doing
well, that is for the cornerers Nearly
ol tho rraot oonpoT ,,,iYas Of Tho would
were induced to cooperate, selling their
output to the syndicate at q price con- !
siderably higher than the market rate
and sharing III the profits obtained by |
fixing the price TO consumers nearly /
twice as high as it had been under the |
unrestricted operation of the law of sup |
ply and demand. Having a monopoly of |
the world s supply, the syndicate could |
make its own terms and gain enormous |
profits, but the consumption fell off and /
the syndicate accumulated immense |
stocks TOR which it could find no market. |
Now it is reported that the syndicate has /
refused to buy more copper, the market
is demoralized and the great monopoly is
breaking up.
Iii Hung Chang, the viceroy of China,
and the most powerful man in the en-
pire, declares that ne will advise the en-
pefof TO exclude Americans from MS
country. The Worcester Spy makes the
following appropriate comment upon this
declaration: And our government viii
have no right to complain. We have, in
defiance of treaties, decided that Chinese
viii not be received in this country and
China has submitted to the exclusion,
because there was no help for it, but not
without feeling the insult and intending
to resent it. The action which the vice
roy proposes would seriously interfere
with, if it should not entirely destroy,
our direct trade with that country, which
would be a considerable loss, but not
more than is deserved for the arrogant
and offensive character of our legislation
as regards that nation.