Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-06-14
LOC4LETTES.

Read the amusement column on the
Sth page.
The west bound Texas and Pacific was
couple of hours late last night.
The county commissioners we're en-
gagged during all yesterday going over
tax lists.
A marriage license was issued yester-
day to a modest couple, whose names
are not obtainable.
The subject of the Rev. DR.. Mitchell s
sermon tomorrow morning at the
Broadway Presbyterian church Will De
"The Love of the Beautiful In Re-
ligion.'
This morning at 40 an alarm of fire
was turned in from box 50. bringing out
the entire department in quick order.
,ssIhe alarm proved to be false one.
There will be no preaching at the First
Methodist church tomorrow, the pastor
beng at Itasca attending the district
conference. Sunday school at $3.50
a. m.
There is to be picnic to-day on Wal
nut creek, five miles east of Mansfield.
and it is understood that the candidates
for the numerous county offices will be
on hand in full force.
Meeting for men only will be held on
Sunday afternoon at the Cumberland
Presbyterian church, corner Fifth and
Taylor streets, under the auspices of the
Young Mems Christian association.
Cause division uniformed rank knights
of PythiaS, will meet tonight at Castle
hall to initiate several knights, and also
to enroll ali members who intend going
to Milwaukee. The members would be
glad to see all visiting Knights present.
The Young Mems Christian association
have moved their rooms TO 6l0 Main
street, where they haYe much cooler and
pleasanter quarters. Their Sunday
afternoon meeting will be held next Sun
day at the Cumberland Presbyterian
church, corner Fifth and Taylor.
1t is not improbable that the agitation
of the matter of representation from the
newly added South Side territory will
result in a redistribution of all the wards
in the city. The figures presented by
Mayor Pendleton in his veto have stirred
up considerable discussion of the matter.
1t is not generally known that bed
of coal has been discovered within
the corporate limits of Fort Worth; but
Assistant City Secretary Burns has in his
possession sample of the black diamond
with the label: "Specimen of coal from
artesian well on fuckers Hill, $50 feet
down.
Mayor Pendleton has been approached
by many parties during the last few days
regarding the fight which is to occur at
the ball park on Sunday. There is OPP
position to the affair. But the mayor
has consulted with City Attorney Powell,
and no means by which the fight can be
prevented are to be found.
The ordinance against the burning of
paper snd other refuse on the streets has
been acted upon, and there may be a
moral in the fact that the first complaint
under the ordinance is against the negro
porter at the city hall who sought to
burn the sweepiugs from the council
chamber after last Monday afternoon s
session.
The architectural draughtsmen of the
city met at Sanguiuett s. Dawson 8 Of
flee last night and organized an associa-
tion of their craft by ell citing F. n. |
Fuller president; James Meagher, score |
tary, aud George Kane, treasu rer. The |
object of the organization is to secure |
shorter hours and larger pay. Regular |
meetings will be held every Friday night. |
The entertainment given last evening |
by the Lend a Hand club at the resi- |
dence of Mr.. J. NJ. Hartsfield. on East |
street, was successful affair in
every respect. There was good at
and the programme rendered |
was of great interest. Music, instru-
mental and vocal, recitation and dia-
logue filled the evening, and each artist
did credit to the occasion
Last night at IL 80 'cIock one of the
inmates of Oracle Lane's bagnio, Nellie
Davis, young Jewish girl, was found
in her room unconscious from an over
dose of laudanum, taken with suicidal
intent. At a. M. physicians were still
with her with fair chances of
arresting her exit to the great beyond
IS alleged to have been the
cause of her attempt at self-destruction.
At the next session of the city council
there will be presented an application for
q franchise for a new street railway
line, the Hyde Park street rail-
way, to traverse Weatherford, Throck-
morton, Fourth, Rusk, Fifteenth and
ones streets, under the railroad tracks,
and on out to the Hyde Park addition.
The road will be of the elevated variety,
4 that system is perfected in time, other
wise it will be of the ordinary sort, but
n any case electricity will be the motive
power.