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Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-05-08

blood hounds after you, and who have
thought that God had forgotten you. Try
Him, and see If He will not help. Try
Him and see if He will not pardon. Try
Him and see If he will not save. The
flowers of spring have no bloom so sweet
as the Towering of Christ's affections.
The sun hath no warmth compared with
the glow OF His heart. The waters have
no refreshment like the fountain that will
Stake the thirst of thy soul. At the mo-
ment the reindeer stands with his lip and
nostrils thrust in the cool mountain
torrent the hunler may be coming
through the thicker. Without cracking
stick under his foot, he comes close by
the stag. aims his gun, draws the trig-
ger, and the poor thing rears in its death
agony and falls backward, its antlers
crashing on the rocks; but the painting
heart that drinks from the water brooks
of Gods promise shall never be fatally
wounded,
AND SHALL NEVER DIE.
This world is poor portion for your
soul, oh business mani An Eastern
king had craven on his tomb two fingers,
represented as sounding upon each other
with snap, and under them the motto:
"All Is not worth that. - Apicius
C9lius hanged himself because his stew
ard informed him that he had only
eighty thousand pounds sterling left
All of this worlds riches make but
small Inheritance for soul. Robespierre
attempted to win the applause of the
world; but when he was dying, woman
came rushing through the crowd, crying
to him, Murderer of my kindred, de-
scend to hell, covered with the curses of
every mother in Franoel" Many who
have expected the plaudits of the world
have died under its Anathema Mara
natha.
Oh, find your peace in God. Make
one strong pull for heaven. No half
way work will do it. There sometimes
comes time on shipboard when every
thing must be sacrificed to save the pas
sengers. The cargo is nothing, the rig
ging nothing. The captain puts the
trumpet to his lip and shouts, "Cut
away the mast!'' Some of you have
been tossed and driven, and you have,
in your effort TO keep the world, well
nigh lost your soul. Until you have de-
cided this matter, let everything else go.
and burdensl You will have to drop the
sails Of your pride and cut away the
mast. With one earnest cry for help,
put your cause into tine hand of Him who
Helped Paul out of the breakers of Melita,
and who, above the shrill blast of the
wrathiest tempest that ever blackened
the sky or shook the ocean, can hear the
faintest imploration for mercy.
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WEATHER AND CROPS.
Another soaker, in Many Places Accom-
panied by Hail, Visits North Texas.
whitswrighs's Water Bound FIshlng Party
Returns Safe and sOund-Young Man
Drowned Near Corsicana
FISHING PARTY CAUGHT OUT.
Special to the Gazette.

Special to the Gazette.
ALvARADo, TEX, May At was
cloudy and drizzling rain yesterday
morning when fishing party of twelve
started for Turkey creek, bent on pleas
ure, but after getting out there it began
to rain and hail, which put all roads in
an impossible condition, and the young
folks had to "camp'' out last night.
They came in this morning with long
faces and muddy clothes. and express
themselves satisfied with fishing parties.
The hardest rain and hail storm that
has visited this country for several years
passed through here yesterday, dong
great deal of damage, the farmers fear
ing their crops are ruined.
WATCHING THE BRAzos.
Special to the Gazette.
WACO, TEX. May "A very heavy
rain fell here last night and it is very
likely the Brazos may take another rise
soon.
The damage done by the recent foods
has been repaired and trains are running
again on schedule time.
HAIL IN CALLAHAN COUNTY.
Special to the Gazette
BAIRD, Tex, May 2.-Yesterday af-
ternoon and last night another very
heavy rain fell here and occasionally q
monstrous hail stone would tall that
would fairly shake the surroundings,
but fortunately they fell so far part
that they did no damage, but 1t is
thought that very heavy hail fell north
and west of Baird as heavy clouds were
seen In those directions and a roaring
heard that it was thought indicated the
falling OF hail. Noone has been to town
yet and it is not known for certain that
it hailed, yet it is believed and feared
that it did.
Later-A heavy hail fell north and
west of town yesterday evening. The
hail which tell for half an hour ranged
in size from that of small marble to as
large as goose egg. One man reports
that it killed his chickens and knocked
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dead body of her husbands suicide.
There are in this house to-day 300 men
pursued, harassed, trodden down and
sealped Of business perplexities, and
which way to turn next they do not
know. Now, God will not be hard on
you. He knows what obstacles are in
the way of your being Christian, and
your first effort in the right directioniHe
will crown with success. Do not let
satan, with cotton bales and kegs and
hogsheads aud counters and stocks of.
unstable goods, block up your way 70
heaven. Gather up all your energies.
Tighten the girdle about your loins. Take
an agonizlng look into the face OF God,
and then say, 'Here goes one grand
effort for life eternal!" and then bound
away for heaven, escaping as 'twith the
skin of your teeth. -
In the last day it will be found that
Hugh Latimer and John Knox and Huss
and Ridley were not the greatest mar
tyrs, but Christian men who went up in
corrupt from the communications and
perpiexities OF Wall street, Water street,
Pearl street. Broad street, State street,
and Third street. On earth they were
called brokers, or -joobers, or re-
tailers, or importers; but in heaven,
Christian heroes. No fegots were heaped
about their feet; no inquisition demanded
from them recantation; no soldier aimed
pike at their heart.
But thew had mental tortures.
Compared with which all physical con-
Stunning is as the breath of q spring morn
ing.
1 find In the community q large class
of men who have been so cheated, so lied
about, so outrageonsly wronged, that
they have lost their faith in everything.
In world where everything seems
so topsy-turvey, they do not see
how there can be any God. They are
confounded and frenzied and misanthrop-
10. Elaborate arguments to prove to
them the truth Of Christianity, or the
truth of anything else, touch them no.
where. Hear me, ell such men.
preach 20 you no rounded periods, no
ornamental discourse; but put my hand
on your shoulder, and inYite you into the
peace Of the Gospel. Here Is q rock on
which you may stand firm. though the
waves dash against it harder than the
Atlantic, pitching its surf clear above
Eddystone lighthouse. Do not charge
upon God all these troubles of the world.
AS long IS the world stuck to God, God
stuck to the world; but the earth seeded
from His government, and hence all
these outrages, and all these woes.
God is good. For many hundreds of
years He has been coaxing the world TO
come back to Him; but the mhre He has
coaxed the more violent havesmen beeE
in their resistance, and they have Step
ped back and stepped back until theT
have dropped into ruin. -
Try this God, ye who have had The
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- AE4ARKazSA, 4s,Assf htay AT point
on Red river opposits ~ plses is.awa-
ter rose six inches last night, aithoneh It
was reported on stand opposite NV
Boston. The Cotton Belt road kas
COW zoe men at work ;&on
tpelr road bed between tha
tteace and the Red river. They have
Their track bulk-headed with plank and
gravel and will keep the water of the
tleck il possible. II was reported here
as, that the Iron Mountain bridge at
Fult gwen away, but that report
is cSh1fadicted 81 tharailroad oficials;
the water Is oRzr ave OF six
miles of thefracl The tirsr, va
rying in depth fr1 fonr 4bs asa.
inches. All the -tfAfho and travef
is suspended on that routes Iersthe pres
emit. Some 200 passengers With sickets
over the Iron Mountain road are a.
tanned here They held an Indignation
meeting this evening and denounced the
railroad officials OF that route, stating in
the preamble that travel was
not obstructed on the Cotton Belt.
that many were without money
and that the superintendent Of the Iron
Mountain refused to effect transfer for
them Your reporter knowing nothing
Of the merits OF the case, deeIined the
resolutions.
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s'Do you know what the dollar sign is,
Teddy?' s'Yeth 'um. It's an eth
wid wailwoad runnin' over t.'i-
EHarper's Young people.
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holes in the roof of his house. The re-
suits are serious.

holes in the roof of his house. The re-
suits are serious.
IN NOLAN COUNTY.
Special to the Gazette. r.
swEETwATER, TEX, May 2.-We had
another glorious rain last night. We
have had great deal of rain during the
last two or three weeks, but not drop
too much. No crops are injured, but,
on the other hand, everything is fairly
booming. There viii be fair crop of
oats and wheat, and the prospects for
cotton, corn. millett, etc.. are simply
magnificent, with a largely increased
acreage.
THE COLORADO AT BAsTRoP.
Correspondence OF the Gazette
BAsTRoP, TEX. May 1.-The Colorado
Is very high at this place. All the lower
bottom is flooded and crops damaged,
and the water Is still rising.
IN MALE COUNTY.
Special to the Gazette.
PLAINvIEw, Tex, April SO.-Farmers
and stockmen are pleased at the outlook
Tor good crops and fat cattle.
AT BELLS.
Special ta'lhe Gazette.
BEnEs. TEX, May had auoth-
er heassgasn yesterdas afternoon that,
VIII keep farmers ou of their fields ssF
eral days. The sun sznlusag to-dzz
AT DENTON. y
Special to the Gazette.
DENTON, Tex, May 1--WE had an
other rain here yesterday, BUTT was very
light and added but little moisture to the
groaE Ehe weather is pretty and clear
to-day aI;k il it will remain so for fa~s
days wos#ill have forgotten all about the
recent heavy raizsozE farmers are
smiling Aa6 happy 1fId ere the mer-
chants.
YOUNG Ma DROWNED. -
Special to the Gszetts-
CoRsIcASA, Tex, May "A terrible
rain and wind storm prevailed in this vi
entity yesterday afternoon and last night,
doing great damage to the corn crops for
fifteen miles south and southwest of the
city. Streams were swollen 50 a. to be
impossible.
owen waters, eldest son of W. C.
" aters of Waters station, on the Cot
ton Belt railroad. was drowned while at
tempting to cross 3 creek four miles west
of Corsicana. He wasjuss twenty onS=
years Of age, and was but recently mar
ried.
RAIN AT RUsK.
Special to the Gazette
RUsK. Tx, May AFTER two days
of fair weather second rain again set in
this evening. and the crop prospects are
beginning 10 be very gloomy. The re-
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I shall go home to-day feeling that
some of you, who have considered your
case as hopeless, will take heart again,
and that with a blood-red earnestness,
such as you have never experienced be-
fore, you will start for the good land OF
the gospel-at last TO look back, saying.
"What o great risk rani Almost lost,
'Bat savedI just got through, sSlnd no
moxsiss Escaped by the skin&of my
teetn'
In orSsss that the systsas skopIaGne strong, as-
tiHeHsd Eealthy, the Blood shdeld beeTich and
pufz Gscarine fegulate fthe lt7er, which keeps
tie nloed pure and healthy.
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Fop MARPLEp EoLEs

NocoSA, Tex kpffl IS, 1890.
DEAR sliss&FsS reixe1 Sic Encyclopedia
all rish TheaibSE an thet is e6imed
foEsfk.s or s f1Rt, Bad save got
ehs ten yeas ago whsa IsEAsa rst mar
Red. l would recommend tfEm to any
young couple; they are bFimf Of 9gnod
advice and instructions lease accept
my thanks. Yours, ST. B. STUMP.
Look at ~ 6ats a. ~ IaAs & sss eses's
terappsr thff your S5bseziptlc aot nun OFT
before yosflbsolO it. = ~
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IN JOHNSON COUNTY

bptCIaI % inc OHZtILe.
CLEBURNE, TEX. May 2.-The farm
ers in from the country to-day say the
rain of Yesterday did considerable dam
age, and report that crops will necessa-
rily be late. Mr.. Shropshire of Barnes
Vile was in the city to-day and reports
heavy hail storm yesterday afternoon
about o 'olock at GAINESVILLE.
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The ballot is the vital force q. republic,
=2sfsse-'' But health Is the vital forcs OF per-
feet hvsicaa i1e0i.t, llousfa dsordered liver IS
q is, latest esesE7ne Is the great
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1890-07-07

duees The total returned plurality TO 1850; that
IN these seven cou1ties there is a number OF
boxes as to which no testimony was taken, but
IL may De safely affirmed that in not OF these
counties. taken as a whole. was the els clion an
honest one; that at these unexsmined boxes.
the returned plurality. for the contestee. is
100; that If they be rejected it leaves plu-
raiity for the contestee of 226; that there
was general terrorizng of Republican
voters IN this district; that counsel for contest
ant stopped taking testimony at Hernando to
avoid bloodshed: that his counsel q. Oxford, on
account OF the great excitement there, did not
deem 1t prudent to take testimony at that place:
tnas the taking OF testimony at Holly Springs
was prevented by the refusal of the Democratic
mayor TO proceed, after he bad agreed TO take
the testimony; that the contestant exhausted
time and took a large amount of testimony,
put was delayed by dilatory cross-examinations
by counsel for eontestee On this statement Of
fscts, on which there is a substantial agree-
ment we confidently ask the Judgment of the
House IN favor OF the contestant
When the majority of the committee found
fraud enough ut twenty-three boxes to reduce
the returned plurality 6l22 votes, can 1t be DOS
eloie that further examination would not have
shown further fraud at the unexamined boxes
sufheient to give the contestant even a greater
ms1ority than is here counted for him? For
this House to declare the contestee legally
elected, alter all the fraud shown in this report
and the fist sixteen pages of the maioriiy re-
por, with which We agree, will be to uphold
ana maintain state OF things dIssraceful to
our civilization and to encourage its continu-
ance ana repetition, SO that /: will grow with
theirgrowth and strengthen with their strength
untiiit becomes imbeded in the politics of that
sec iar. never to be ersdieaed except by revo-
luton"
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Shot by a Cowboy Desperate.

DENVER, July "A Folsom. New Mex
leo. special to the Ne,cs says: About s
o'clock this morning w. III. Riley. an
operator for the Denver & Fort Worth,
stepped into saloon TO transact business
with the proprietor. He was covered by
revolver in the hands of Charles Ellis.
Riley grabbed the man and tried to pre-
ven him from shooting. but Ellis. being
the stronger of the two. got Riley's head
under his arm, placed the revolver to the
back OF the boys neck and fred, the ball
passing near the juguiar vein into the left
lung and near the heart. coming out on
the left side. Riley is but Is years old. and
a quiet. inofFensive boy. while Ellis is a
drunken, dsreputable cowboy, and consid-
cred one Of the toughest characters in the
country. He is under arrest. and if the
boy dies will probably be lynched.
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PLANS OF CONGRESS.
River and HarbOr Bill Comes
Up in the Senate.
AND AFTER THAT THE TARIFF.
The Federal Election Law May Go
Over Until the Next Session.
Contested Election Cases-The Bank
ruptcy Law-Irrigation Survey to Be
Transferred From Poweli's Charge
to the Secretary Of Agriculture.

WASHINGTON CRY, July 6.-Frye's ship
ping bills are unfinished business on the
Senate calendar for tomorrow, and he
hopes to have them disposed of without
further delay.
He will then ask TO have the river and
harbor bill taken up. This bill, with the
amendments which The committee on COM
merce has authorized Frye TO offer. carries
an appropriation of about $16,0J0,000, and
he says it is the best bill of the kind ever
prepared.
Morrill,, chairman OF the finance commit
tee, will endeavor to have the tariff bill
made an order of business after the ship
ping bills are out of the way. The tariff
bill, it is understood, will be in charge OF
Senator Aldrich. If the river and harbor
bill gets right-of- way it is more than prob
able that the tariff debate will not be begun
in earnest until next week. as there are
three appropriation bills to come before the
Senate this week. one of which, the sundry
civil bill, is likely to precipitate debate of
some length. Among its provisions as it
passed the House is an appropriation of
$4,000 for geological and irrigation sur
veys TO be expended under the direction of
Director Powell, and this will be antag-
onized by Stewart, and possibly by other
Western senators. who want the irrigation
survey to be conducted by the agricultural
department. The other two appropriation
bills are the Indian, and consular, and
diplomatic.
The report of the conference committee
on the silver bill, which is privileged
matter, is likely to be presented before the
close of the week, and it will probably give
rise to debate of SOME length.
A caucus of Republican senators is ex-
pected this week to decide whether or not
. TO take up the election bill, which will
probably be received from the House to-
morrow, at this session.
Proceedings IN the House promise to be
comparatively uninteresting. Probably
the general deficiency appropriation bill,
the last of the appropriation bills. will be
acted upon before the week is ended. The
election committee is desirous of securing
consideration of the two contested elec-
ton cases. Miller VS.. Elliott, of South Car
DINA, and Longston VS.. Venable, of Vir-
ginia, which have been for some time on
the calendar. The friends of the bank
ruptcy bill also expect to be able to get
that measure before the House this week.
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THE MISSISSIPPI CONTEST.
Methods by Which the Democrats EIec
Congress1 IN.

Congresss Fn
WASHINGTON CRY, Jun 6.-The Cbal.
mers-Morgan election contest will probably
be called up this week. The majority nj
the committee reported in favor of Morgan
the sitting member, who is Democrat. but
Mr. Houk has presented a minority report
in favor OF the Republican contestant. Gen.
eral Chalmers, and he will make a speech
in the House in line with his report. The
minority report admits the commission of
fraud in the Second Mississippi district
during the election, but declares that the
showing made by the contestants is not
sufficient 10 warrant the uDseating of the
contestee. Upon this point Mr.. Houk
dwe!ls in his report, and it is understood
he will cite the same vigorous facts in his
speech. Alter quoting from the majority
report, he says:
These statements show that at twenty-three
boxes out of ninety-seyen the COMMITTEES find
fraud enough to reduce the plurality returned
for The coDtestee at least thrae-fourths or IN
put il in figures, from ssl6l 10 2oi0 So that by
en- examination OF one-fourth OF the boxes
ihree-iourths of the plurality is wiped out. I
lave examined thirty eight boxes where think
the validity of the election is successfully as
sailed, and which wipes out the total returned
majority for the coDtestee, aud gives a msjority
TO the contestant It is greatly 20 be regretted
th { the m iority report did not give at leas.
the names of the boxes which were considered
successfully assailed and those which they did
not, 50 that the House cou d decide inselligentiy
sbout the boxes, upon which the majority
and minority reports did not agree. There is q
substantial agree ment that the couiestee was re-
,urnsd or elected By plurality OF g. 465 votes in
the seven western counties, which. in fair
election, are largely Republican thar al twenty
l.a-ee boxes in these counties 6.l21 of this plu-
raIity was found 10 be fraudulent; that this re-
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POWELL WILL BE DEFEATED.
Irrigation to BE Placed Under the Sec
rot nf A0r ftr,r

Irrigation to BE Placed Under the Sec
retary of Agriculture.
WAsHINGroN CRY, July 6.-The senators
from Washington, Montana, North and
South Dakota, took another whirl at
Powell yesterday before the appropriation
committee, and this time were reinforced
by Senator Teller OF Colorado, who has
been Powell's friend heretofore. The irri-
CATION committee submitted a new propo-
sition to be incorporated in the appropria-
ton bill in place of the $3.50, 900 Powell
proposition in the House bill. 1t is that
$20O.0o0 is to be appropriated for artesian
experimental irrigation and $l00 600 for an
irrigation survey. All the work to be car
ried on by the department of agriculture,
instead OF the geological survey. Chair
man Allison, of the appropriations COM
mittee was very searching in his questions.
He asked Allen about the irrigation of
Washington, Power about Montana. and
Casey and Moody about the Dakotas.
Senator Casey. having spent considerable
time in investigating irrigation matters in
North Dakota, was able to give the COM
mittee great deal of information relative
to his state.
While no conclusion was reached by the
committee, it is believed the Powell faction
will be defeated and the work of irrigation
IN the future will be placed in the hands of
the secretary of agriculture. If this is
done Powell will be checkmated in his at.
tempt to withdraw all the irrigable lands
and all lands in the vicinity of such lands
from homestead settlement. tits probable
that the secretary of agriculture would di-
rect that all reservoir and canal sites be
withheld and the other lands be opened for
settlement as before. 1t was developed at
yesterdays examination that the North
Dakota artesian basin extended as far
west in Montana as where the thirteenth
meridian crossed the boundary line. and
from this point southeast along the foot
hills of the mountains. 1t is said that two
senators asserted that they would bring
charges against Powell in the Senate and
have him invest igated.
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SAN FRANCISCO. JAY "a Chronicles s
Eiko, New. snec'ai saws: A westbound
last mail train eoilided with a light engine
and some freight cars this morning at
Lucin a side track aear the Utah and
Nevada lii.e. fEe co son was caused by
the freman Of The light engine leaving
the switch open 10 the side track.
after the train had backed in. The pas
senger train was running thirtv-hve miles
per hour when they struck. The fireman
OF the light engine. Red Sbeehy, had an
arm broken and q severe scalp wound.
Mr. Evars and wife. Of Detroit. Miss Nina
Lane and Mr.. Johnson. Of Los Angeles,
and Cir. Sears. of San Francisco. were
slightly bruised IN :he head, brat none seri-
ously. Two drummess nained London and
Levy also received slight bruises
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Fighting With a Madman.

Barbourville, Delaware county, on July 4,
Adelbert Cumming. who is undoubtedly
insane, inflicted fatal wound upon Syl-
vanus Palmerton. When neighbors tried
to arrest Cumming he attacked them with
knife. Three or four times he made the
crowd flee before him. The farmers armed
themselves with shotguns, and Cumming
was shot in the legs and wounded in the
head. He continued to slash right and
left, but was finally overcome and jailed.
This morning while Sheridan Macarthur
was giving him food he would in all proba-
bility have been strangled by the mailman
had il not been for assistance rendered by
the other prisoners