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Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1890-12-24

have had occasion to try Salvation Oil in
my family for neuralgia and rheumatism. In
every instance it effected permanent cure
also tried it on my child suffering with a
sprained back with like success. take
pleasure in recommending it to ALL P, s..
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Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1890-12-24
Monday. December o, 1890.

SwINE-The receipts are much lighter than
last week, more than $500 head less, but the de.
mand Is quite slow and the numbers are ample
for the trade, being holiday week, and no I'M
provement in the demand Is anticipated for
the same reason next week Prices range at
414a45s cents per b net. few OF the best West
ern Hogs at the outside figure; most sales at
41la4% cents per b net. Receipts of Hogs this
week 1858 head,
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1890-12-24
Tine stock. Exchanre Tro,n,o

| The examination OF the charges against Ern
est Howard. president OF the Virginia Stock
Exchange. for embezzlement of the funds OF
the institution. which commenced on the 18th
instant, and was continued on the Goth and
2Srd, is still going on before Mayor Fultz. A.
G. Gordon, Esq, Commemorative Attorney
for the city. is assisted by Meade F. White
Esq, in the prosecution. and Capt. Bumgard-
ner and w. E: Craig, Esq.,. are counsel for the
accused. who is on ball.
The proceedings yesterday took place in the
County Court House, the accommo dations
there being much better than at the City Police
Office.
A large number of witnesses were examined.
and the evidence offered by the prosecution was
all taken. Late in the day the evidence of the
defence commenced, when the accused was put
on the stand. He passed through lengthy
leading and cross examination. The case was
then adjourned over till this morning.
In the early part Of the day, the crowd in at
tendance was small, but in the afternoon, and
particularly when Howard was on the stand,
1t largely Increased.
< The witnesses introduced yesterday by the
prosecution we're Messrs. w. P. Tams, Cashier,
and F. B. Berkeley, Teller of the Augusta Ma
tional Bank, and Messrs. b. "A. Walker. Cashier,
and A. F. Kinney, Teller of the National Val
ley Bank. W. H. Hyer of s, M. Wilkes & Co..
P. N. Wilson. Henry Witt. James l.. Wheel
wright, E. P. Botsfol of Shenandoah, and J. J.
Prufer.
AS stated, the defence commenced their side
of the case with the accused as witness, and
then the Court adjourned till this morning.
Marrying Couple sncw- Bound.
1t seems that Love laughs d I snow storms as
wei. as at locksmiths and always finds way to
overcome obstacles, This was illustrated here
last week. by couple contemplating matri-
mony from the neighborhood of Spring Hill,
consisting of Mr.. Thomas Dunlap. son of MIR.
Madison Dunlap, and Miss Blanche Sheets.
daughter of MIR. Benjamin Sheets. who arrived
here on Tuesday evening of last weak. accom-
panied by their friend, Mr. Ernest Fisher, with
the view of taking the train the next morning
to be married in Washington city. On We'd
nesday morning. to their disappointment and
perplexity, they found that the ground was
covered with q deep snow that blockaded the
roads SO that to go to Washington at that time
was impossible. In this state of affairs, Mr..
John M Carroll, Clerk of the Virginia Hotel ct
which the party were stopping, came to their
relief by suggesting that minister be sent for,
ofin Washington. This suggestion was adopt
ed, and Rev. II. F. Shealiy, Pastor of the Luth.
eran church, made of the twain one flesh"
in the Parlor of the Virginia Hotel. On Thurs
day. the trains were running and the party
went to Washington as man and wife.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1890-12-24

Sweet and balmy slumber secured for the
little ones suffering with coughs and colds. by
the use of DIR. Bulls Cough Syrup. Price Is
cents bottle.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-04-15
Colorado After Lower Rates.

The Denver people who were in Chicago
to urge a reduction on rates IN Trans
Missouri territory, presentedasstsepg
case to the NJ issouri associations
They have shown that ratea from Kansas
City to Denver are gherAproportioR&
ately from 200 to 400 per cenfSshan cor
responding rates from Chicago to Ka4sae
City; that traffic to Denver has increasSA
100 per cent. in four years, and &hat
manufacturers nave increased 400 per
cent. IN seven years. In spite of this
there has been but little or no reduction
in rates to correspond. trans Miss ouri
officials admit the justice of the claim
made by the Colorado men and may
yield somewhat when the situation be-
tween Chicago and the Missouri is less
muddled. The Colorado people ask a
reduction from the present SLIGO basis
to a 81 basis on first-class.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-04-15
A WORD TO FORT WORTH.
What the Northwest will Pour into this City
when the AIbuqnerque is Built.

Western Texas, the country tributary to Fort
Worth, has productive resources greater than
the state Of Kansas. Fort Worth can have a
population OF 200, GOO people in ten years. 1t is
Just as the pushers say. If they will it so,
ing houses, stores, and jobbing merchants.
Think, friends, of the rich, pure milk and cream
this Fort Worth COW has given to you and yours
foc years back. VIII you let her slcken now for
a certain kind of no~urishment her body so much
n~eeds?-LFort Worth GAZETTE.
''Fort Worth can nave a population OF
200 900 in ten years. 1t is just as the
pushers say. If they will it so, it Will be
so.' Truer words were never written,
but Fort Worth, the would-be idle of the
West, don t seem to realize it. All of
Northwest Texas is partial to Fort
Worth, and would prefer business con-
nection with her to any other place. No
other aspiring young city ever had
grauder or more golden opportunities
Iaid before it than are now open to Fort
Worth in the building of the Albu-
querque railroad, if she will do it
promptly and prepare for the results.
The business to be acquired by her from
the territory that would be penetrated
by this road, on a direct course to Albu-
querque, through the counties of Young,
Throckmorton, Haskell, King, Dickens,
Crosby, Floyd, Hale, Lamb, Bailey n
contiguous counties would alone, IN a very
few years, support a commercial city of
200 900 population. The area and fer
tility of its tilabls land IS not eXcelled in
Texas, nor, the United States, and its
acq uisition or loss by Fort Worth will in
a large measure, fix her destiny. If
she does not speedily control it
some other place will. Though we have
an interest in urging Fort Worth to ao-
CELEBRATED action, in that we want the
Albuquerque road, yet, we believe most
sincerely that we speak the truth and
only the truth as to the value of this
road to Fort Worth and the peril to her
in delay. Believing this, it is incompre-
hensible to us why she will daily along
with the building of it as she does. Why
limp along and be unit 1ctober getting
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-04-15
STOPPING TRAINS QUICKLY.

The Test of a New Invention Made on the
Old Colony Road.
A special train of four cars left the Old
Colony station on Kneeland street, Bos-
ton, recently, with a party on board to
witness the working of a safety appliance
for stopping trains known as the Howell
automatic safety top. This appliance
may be used in two ways-as a guard
against an open switch when it is made
permanent, or in q portable shape, to be
used the same as a danger flag. In the
permanent form a piece of steel, hinged,
is placed parallel with the track and a
few inches from it, about five hundred
feet from a switch or draw and connected
in SUCH a way by wire with the switch
lever or draw opening that when these
are opened unless it is especially discon-
nected, the steel rises a few inches,
forming q triangle with the hinge as an
apex. The engine on each side near the
~cowcatcher is equipped with a movable
rod running vertically, which, when
lifted, will open the bTake-valve. The
triangle by the track raises the rod the
brakes are applied, and the train comes
to a stop. The engineer has to get down
from his cab and adjust a spring before
the brakes are T6ledS6u. A portable
triangle of wood is made for the brake
mans use. It works IN the same prin-
ciple, being clamped on the rail by
means of spring bolts. This machine alb
s%oluteiy compels the engineer to stop, if
the brakes are in working condition.
This test was made on the old Milton
branch of the Old Colony road, just be-
You'd the Neponset station. j. n.
Lauder, superintendent of the motor
power of the Old Colony, conducted the
test. 1t was made first at very slow
speed, TO show the working of the part
on the engine. The train then backed
down about a quarter of a mile, empty,
and ran under full head Of steam until it
had crossed the automatic stop, coming
to a standstilI about 80 yards away.
The same experiment with the loaded
tram, steam shut off about ten yards
from the automatic check, at speed be-
tween twenty-five and thirty miles an
hour, resulted in O stop within a less
distance. This last stop was made in
seventeen seconds. A large delegation
Of railroad men and g dozen members of
the legislature were present. The main
objections to the appliance seems to be
its liability to use for malicious mischief.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-04-15

here. Some of these suggestions
are evidently wide of the real object,
but some of them no doubt hit the truth.
During his social visit last week, speak
ing Of the Union depot, Mr.. Gould re-
marked that the present building when
it was erected vas good enough for the
town, but since Fort Worth had made
such rapid progress, and the railroad
business here had increased so greatly,
IL was not such a building as was de-
manded. This is undoubtedly true, and
so urgent is the demand for q better
building that il is almost certain that one
commensurate with the needs of Fort
Worth will be built. This depot will not
be built by Mr.. Gould himself or by
the Texas and Pacific system alone,
but, upon pretty good authority
it is stated that several roads VIII be
parties to the building of it.
The Texas and Pacific, the Santa Fe
system and the Fort Worth and Denver
all ave ground joining at the foot of
Jones street, and it has leaked out from
railroad men that it has been agreed
upon by the different roads interested to
erect the depot building on this property.
This would put the entrance to the depot
on the west side of all railroad
tracks, the necessity OF which has long
been recognized, not only by the citizens
of the city, but by the railroad officials.
While it has been determined to build
a fine Union depot, and build
it at this point the time for the begin
ming of work on it has not been fully de-
teTminod, but in view of the fact of the
Denver running into the city over her
" track and Of the meeting of the
Texas and Pacific people at Dallas to-
day, it will in all probability be deter
mined on in a very short time.
Another thing that will follow Mr..
GOuld's visit to Fort Worth is the en-
Iargement and reconstruction of the
railroad yards here, and this was clearly
foreshadowed, when, on viewing the
reservation last week, he remarked:
cit is a fine piece of property, en-
bTacing as it does nearly 200 acres, but
it is no more than we will need here
All of the improvements suggested
above are not to be made simply for the
system as it is to-day, but there will be
extensions of it from points west of Fort
Worth. 1t is a fixed fact that Ii of
these extensions will be from Sierra
BIanco to FL Paso where MI. Gould has
purchased since his advent in Texas on
this trip, ample ground for terminal
facilities. Another extension that will
in all probability be made, if not this
year, in 1891, will be from a point not
less than 200 miles west of Fort Worth -,
to the southwest, and it is among the
probabilities that another extension will
be made to the northwest. This is not
official information, but 1t comes rather
straight and has color of reliability about
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-04-15
They Want a Road.

The people of Montague are Eed4hot
for a railroad, and will do anything in
reason to get one. Sometime ago a COM
pany was organized to build FROM that
town to the Denver road, and about nine
miles of the road bed graded. At tkis
point the bonds gave out n the nine
miles Of grade has remained there ever
since. Some time since coal was dis
covered in Montague county west of and
about three miles from the Denver
track, and the parties who own the coal
fields propose to build a road from the
Denver to them and operate it. The
Montague people, seeing in this a chance
for railroad connection with the out
side, are willing to give, outright, their.
Mn miles of graded road, the rightS5f-
way for the balance got and other con-
siderations, to the coal field people, if
if they will take the Montague road up
where it was left of and build it to a
connection with their spur from the Dem
yer. Montague wants a railroad-Wants
it bad, and is going to do all she can to
get one. THE GAZETTE wishes the plucky
little place success in her efforts.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-04-15

Jay Gould Pays a Third Visit to Fort
Worth on the Quiet.
Union Beno5 said to be Agreed Upon by Three
ROads-What the Albuquerque Would
Give 10 Fort Worth.

Yesterday afternoon the special train
of Nj. Jay Gould arrived in Fort Worth
over the joint track from Whitesboro.
the party, which consisted of the same
persons that were here last week, coming
from Sherman. The train did not re-
main at the depot long, but as soon as
Mr.. Gould, superintendent Charles
Thorne, superintendent Leroy Trice,
Land Commissioner Abrams and others
alighted from il, il was ran on to q sids-
track, and there remained until the party
left the city. Mr.. Gould nor none Of the
party came up into the city, but at once
after the train was left they started on q
foot tour of inspection oyer the yards
aud the immense railroad reservation,
and did not stop until every portion of
them was visited. The Union depot, the
freight depot, the shops and the round
house now b~uildiug-and in fact, every
thing connected with the system here
was thoroughly inspected by Mr.. Gould.
While here on his former visit, after
leaving the dinner party at the Airing
ton restaurant, Nj. Gould made q
hurried tour Of the yards, but a not
ihe time that day TO make his inspection
Is thorough as he desired-henoe his
visit here to-day. What the object
OF this double inspection is, is of
course a matter Of great speculation, bur
haiti has been made as a preliminary
step to'eStenSive work in the near future
is geReSally believed. His visit last week
was social one, bat his visit yesterday
was aStTstly business one.
During his tour of the yards, and when
approaching she Union depot building
from NEWEST. Mr.. Gould stopped, and
pointing j. she portion Of the yards en-
Traced between the e'Y' and the Mis-
souri,, kansas and Texas, Santa Fe and
Denver tracks ca the east and the Texas
ana Paclhc'on the south, remarked:
'Ihat hole should be filed up; that
property IS too valuable TO be allowed to
remain IN. such a shape. It must be
put ID condition in order that we can
use il -
AIter having remained in the yards
aud IN and about the. different buildings
lot several hours the party left for Dali
Jas Where Mr.. Gould will attend the an
nual meeting Of the stockholders OF the
1eHas and Pacific, which will be held
'nere to-day and Which it is generally
conceded will be the most important
meeting Of stockholders held for years.
MS visit, yesterday, is the third made
~ ar. Gould to Fort Worth since he
nrst entered the state, and this TACT
gives rise to many suggestions as TO his
Intentions with reference to his property
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-04-15
General and Personal.

J.B. Wadleigh (Gen. Jake) CONNER
cial agent of the Cotton Belt, was in the
city last night.
Maj. d. s. Wathen, chief engineer of
the Missouri, Kansas and Texas, with
headquarters at Dallas, was in the city
for a short time yesterday, en- route home
from up the country.
The Santa Fe has reduced the rate
from Fort Worth to Colorado Springs
and Pueblo to $40 co, and from Gaines
vile to the same points to SIT IS, to
meet the reduction recently made by the
Fort Worth and Denver. Tickets sold at
these rates are limited to three days from
day of sale.
W. A. Tuley, travelling passenger
agent of the Gulf, Colorado and Santa
Fe, is back in the city after a long alb
senoe. 1t is observed that he is fully as
large as when he left Fort Worth and
makes the same track on the sidewalk.
viii has many friends IN the Fort, and
they are all glad to see him back. He
is still single.
Contractor John P. Hughes, who with
q large force of men is pushing work on
the Texas n Pacific shops and round
house, has returned from Nashville,
Tenn, where he was called by the Sc
Eious illness of his mother, who is now in
her eighty-second year. When Mr..
Hughes left Nashville his mother was
much better.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-04-15
THE SITUATION
In Railroad Legislation the Constitution ii
Wholly Ignored.

In Railroad Legislation the Constitution is
Wholly Ignored.
The Iowa legislature has the glory of
upon the railways, in violation of JUS
tice, and indeed in c~ontraventioR of re-
cent judicial decisions. In spite of the
array of facts and produced
by representatives of the different rail-
Ways, the legislature las passed the
%''joint rate'' bill, the object of which is
to compel different railways connecting
with each other within the state to, make
one rate for shipments over t%as
or more lines the 3$eame as
if they constituted 2and were
operated as one continuous line, each
road being allowed to receive only that
share OF the through rate indicatedtRy its
proportion of the mileage. T~nis;EeIuire-
ment ignores the difference of expense
to a railroad company between avery
short haul and a long haul, disregards
the cost of transfer from one road to an
other. and in short is an attempt to con-
solidate independent and perhaps COM
petitive roads, so far as their service to
the public is concerned. 1t is not probable
hat this outrageous act of a disJinotively
anti-railway legislature will be tolerated
by the courts. 1t is but recently that in
the case of the Little Rock and Memphis
railway company VS.. the st. Louis, Iron
Mountain n Southern, Judge Caldwell
of the United States court decided that
this very thing could not be done. The
case involved a construction OF the third
section of the interstate commerce act in
regard to joint through rates for freight
and passengers and it was held ''that a
court of equity has no power either
at common law or under the interstate
commerce act to compel a railroad COM
pany to enter into q contract with an-
other company for a joint through rate
or joint through rating of freight and
passengers The railways took the
same ground before the Iowa fegisla-
ture, claiming that a law to compel a
railway company to make contracts for
sharing business with a competitor was
unconstitutional, besides being Anrea-
sonable and injurious. But u consid-
erations as constitutionality and justice,
do not seem to have much weight with
the Iowa legislators in their warfare
upon railways. 1t now remains to be
seen what the lows courts and perhaps
then what the United States supreme
court has to say upon this question:
Railway Age.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-04-15
Large Earnings and Heavy Expenses.

Large Earnings and Heavy Expenses.
Railroad earnings continue large, but
they are entailing a heavy expense upon
the railroads. The New York Central is
accommodating a floating debt all the
time, although it shows a surplus; and
now, when its traffic is so much heavier
thar it was last year at this time it be-
comes necessary to order I25 locomotives
and 5000 freight cars, it is apparent that
the floating debt will be still further
increased n q further issue of deben-
ture bonds is inevitable. We have seen
the Erie steadily piling up Its floating
debt in the effort to make good its fixed
charges because what little surplus of
earnings there were, if any, was insult
1cient to pay for the increased motive
power and equipment that was required.
AS for the Reading it is a sig
niffcant commentary on the average
condition Of its equipment that it
has been running for years old four
wheel coal cars of which it is now
making bonfres, for they are so expen-
sive and dangerous that it is actually
cheaper to the company to burn them up
than it is TO use them IN the line. The
business of the last yea on a great many
roads was larger than ever before, and
on many more larger than the average
of the last three years, and yet there
was no addition to motive power and
equipment proportionate. This year
operating expenses will be increased tor
the lack of that equipment Wall
Street News.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-04-15
Woman Suffrage in Kansas.

NEW YORK, April IA letter from
Salina, Kan, received in this city
asserts that Mrs. Laura NJ. Jones, presi-
lent of the Kansas state woman suffrage
association, contradicts the statement
that women are getting tired of voting
at municipal elections, and are refusing
to vote. She saysthe facts are just the
reverse, that women are steadily gaining
influence in nominations and elections,
Fnd will sooR have full suffrage.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-04-15
I 4 c Il :

have, Of course, interferred somewhat
with the construction, but it will now
only be a short time until trains will be
running over the line and active opera
tions begun. The bridges and the greater
part of the grading have been finished
far some time, and the track laying will
be completed within eighty days. The
p%rospected branch from Houston to AL
exandria will be constructed within the
next few months. Fifty miles of the
route is now being graded. The company
now have more than 100 miles of road
in oDeration-
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-04-15
"A Gnnd RIM.

The Fort Worth and Rio Grande Is
coming to the front as a cattle hauling
road in great shape, and has made as
good time with cattle trains as any road
in Texas. Last Saturday a full train of
cattle made the run from Dublin to Fort
Worth, q distance of ninety miles, in
four hours, including stops, averaging
twenty-five and a half miles an hour.
The boys have been calling his the eta
male Route, - but they Will have to let
up on it now.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-04-15
THE. GAZETTE: FORT WORTH. TEXAS. TUESDAY. APRIL Is

to sp%ringtown? Better 'tprize up all
creation if necessary to get the money,
and put a hundred miles or more of rails
down by that time. This is a case in
which delay will prove to be dangerous.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-04-15
Work on the S. A. and A. P.

"UNh Oh III De Ne Thu ~ DA~~~
Special to the Gazette.
SAN ANTONIO, TEX, April 14.-''Ths.
work on the branch of the San Antoa4e
and ransa Pas railway is progressing
as fast as can be expected, - said an
official of hi road this morning to !
GAZETTE reporter. tfThe spring rains
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-04-15

.sSFanted-A good appetite. You can
nave it easy eusus by taking Hoods
S~arsaparilla. 6nes the digestion and
cures sick headachAs
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-04-15
Hardeman's Crop Prospects.

SUNNIaI 10 INT UaLCtICs
QUANAH, TEX, April 14.-Hardeman
county is being visited by a good rain I,
and reports from all parts of the couRsy
are to the effect that crops are growing
rapidly.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-04-15

The celebrated IF. o. Stanard St.
Louis royal pAteHt Hour.
TURzER & DINGEE, AgeBss&
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-04-15
Martins, agent Sou

%CaIl auSG. T.. Martins, agent South
aeDmg Company, whe handIsszthe
three SsF k1ogn aIFsSspepalaE remedies
VII. 1T IhuTmnndk EoneAstar GatasrfF
CuSe, UThnrmoneFs Lone StaTB4Sod
Syrup and Sugar Chill Cure.