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Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-05-01
FLOOD SITUATION.
Report Direct from the Relief
Boat Sent to PoiGte Coupee.
The Boat a Godsend to Suffering HUI
nanIty Men, Women, Children .
and Stock in Danger.
Capt Grant Says the MOrganzs Break Could
Have Been Avoided II the PEBBLE Had
Only Made an EhOft


NEW ORLEANS, La, Apiii2s.-A special from
Bayou Sara says: A
''oN BOARD OF THE STEAMER DAcoFAH-Ths
steamer has at last rezched the real point Of
distress. TIE boat had stormy passage Up the
river, and after many delgys IN furnishing
sistsnce to weak and breaking levess in West
Baton Rouge reached Bayou Sara yesterday
evening. She has made the trip to Points
Coupee, and has come back to Bayou Sara. Her.
lives are in jeopardy, for she has not only al
ready saved en- incalculable amount of property,
but goodly number of lives. The real condi-
ton OF things in the overlooked district is Just
oomi1g to light. No pen is equal to the task OF
picturing the devastation OF the country or the
restitution of the people. The entire front of
Pointe Coupee is under water. The most Of the
levees have gone, of course. The entire stretch
OF the eighteen miles of frontage has not been
swept away, but crevasses are so nn-
the situation is about bad as it possibly could
be. All that REMAINS now are strips Of leFees
here and there, showing above the food. The
water back ofthe leVees is SO deep now that
hundreds OF lives are in danger. The small
stretches of leYees still standing are crowded
with men, women and. children, side by side
with horses aud mules and COWS. At Calcasieu
place, several miles above Bayou Sara, the
water is waist deep at the base of the levee. In
an old raised ginhouse 500 negroes were found
huddled together while hundreds OF heads OF
stock are standing in water up to their necks.
The condition OF the unfortunate blacks was
pitfable. The water was gradually rising, and
their horror knew no bounds They were afraid
OF their lives and were piteousiy begging 70 be
taken to some place of safety. The Texas and
Pacific boat, E. B. Wheeler, succeeded yester-
day in saving 200 people from the black country
around MorganzA. -
Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-05-01
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BEGINNING DEC. /, 1889.
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Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-05-01
Pr..,dentiaI Mammalian.

wAsHNGroS. April 24.-The president
to-day sent to the senate the following
nominations: John 8. jackson, assistant
United States treasurer at San Francisco.
Postmasters, Texas-Lemuei D. Camp
Corpus Christi; George j. ELAN, Marlin;
William W.. waddelI, NacogdeAhes.
Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-05-01

CENTER, TEX. April 26.-On account
of the large amount of rain which has
fallen the past two weeks and the .neces-
sary attendance upon court, the farmers
have much vet to do on their farms :,
which unusually has been doae at this
time. A heavy wind and rain storm
passed over the central portion Of our
county last night. No damage has seen
reported to date.
Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-05-01
The Tariff BIZ.


Special to the Gazette.
WASHINGTON, April 24.-The provis-
ions of the tariff bill are thoroughly well
known, and the chief merit claimed for
it by its friends IS that It will reduce the
revenues of the government some $50, =
600, 200 annually and afford a maximum
protection to infant industries This de-
ing increased duties. Trainers of the
bill are not .sagainst giving the
manufacturers, the monopolists
and the trust Agangs increased
revenues. Another presidential cam
paign is coming not far of; more e fat,
win have TO Be, sfried out Oft the pro-
tected pleutoc9ststo mest campaign ex-
penses and While the tariff reformers
have spent anxious days and nights in
the struggle 20 satisfy conflicting in
terests, they >: have not been able to do
SO. The Ssgar rafiners and growers are
rebellious at the cut on the sugar duty
demanded by Western farmers; the tan
ner's and shoe manufacturers OF the
on hides. which the Western cattle
barons demanded and obtained. The
wooden carpet manufacturers say they
Will be ruined by the higher tax imposed
on wool at the dictstiou OF Western sheep
raisers. There will be a chorus of pro-
tests against the bill from such iniuen-
tial Republican journals as the Boston
Advertiser, the New York Press, the
st. Louis Globe Democrat and the Chi
cago Tribune.
Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-05-01
Ana rhsy Fssqasa.Iy ooas nlrhsr.

First Sweet Girl--Just th-tk! The ear Of Rns-
STA has q throne that cost Sft. 0q0.
Second Sweet Gir1-Reslss9 Why, that Is not
half as mach IS papa PAID for ais seat in he
senate.
Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-05-01
THE VETERANS.

AsFull List of the Texas Veterans, With Their
Postoffee Addresses and the Year in
Which They Came to Texas.
Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-05-01

soalso are all the brickyards along the
river and the cotton compress The
watsrwork's engine Is again submerged.
The new county bridge below the
Marsaiis road which was sup
posed TO be ADORE high water
Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-05-01
The English woman's Foot.

Every American woman who soiourns
In London raises her voice against the
large and ll-ntting shoes which she finds
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1890-09-17
scoRN OF SMALL CHANGE A DETRIMENT
TACOMA (Wash.) Daily LEDGER
PERSONAL AND PECULIAR.

A Derby Comm boy has found an odd
way of making dollar. He walks along
the bank of the Naugatuck River with glass
When asked what he was looking for he
said simply, Snakes" When asked what
he did with them he said sell 'em to de bar
tenders" 1t Is fact that Derby saloon
keepers when they think man has drank
enough. quietly slip snake out of jar and
put it,on the counter before the eyes of the
inebriated customer. 1t is said never to
fail In working a cure, and the man goes
home and sobers up. The boy has caught
and sold Twenty-Five of the reptiles this
season.
In Pycroit's ways and Words of Men
Letter. we read conversation with
printer: Really" said the printer, gentle
men should not place such unlimited cont
dence In the eyesight Of our hard-worked and
half-elinded reader Of proofs; for / am
ashamed ASIA to say that we utterly ruined one
deed and what was the unhappy line?"-
"Why, sir, the poet intended to say, See the
pale martyr IN a sheet of fire. Instead of
which we made him say, See the pale martyr
Nth his shirt on fire.
A close friendship is said to have sprung
up between Senator ingalls, and Carlisle. To
friend who spoke to him about it Ingalls,
said: "Do you know how I was first attract
ed to himP / read In the newspapers that
when his election for senator was pending
before the Kentucky legislature he was so
short of money that he arrived at Frankfort
with only 10 cents in his pocket. Iexclaimed
that's the kind of men we want in the SEN
ate; no more millionaire Give us poor men
Of brain and integrity. The more intimately
/ bave become acquainted with Mr.. Carlisle,
the more / esteem him. Setting politics
aside, he is the kind of stuff that senators
should be made Of"
The arrival of the Earl of Aberdeen at
Quebec is reminder Of the fact of his elder
brother, Lord Haddo. having spent some
time at Government House there with his
uncle, Hon. Arthur Gordon, about twenty
four years ago. He was tall, young man,
aud known to our Fredericton people.
He left here for Boston and New York via
st. John, and entered as a common
sailor before the mast on board New York
schooner tOund for the West Indies, his in
tention being to follow the sea. The vessel
was never heard of Afterwards. His case is
very much like that of Sir Rodger Tichborne,
whose adventure was the same, lost ON the
coast of Africa In a sailing vessel IL that
young man was alive today, he would be the
Earl of Aberdeen, and not the gentleman
now In Canada.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1890-09-17

A certain Western mayor, the chief magis-
trate of Algona, Iowa, has distinguished him
self. He has issued proclamation under
his Official hand and seal directing that in
the future no.baby carriages shall be pushed
pulled, propelled or perambulated on the
sidewalks. Hesays that baby carriage is
OF the same class Of vehicles as lumber
wagon, or coal cart, and that it has nc
right to be on the sidewalk. 1t is needless
to say that the fathers and mothers are all
banded together in opposition to this. az
they think, utterly inhuman order, and that
even the babies are up in arms in conse-
quence of it. 1t is also needless to say that
the mayor is cross-grained, near-sighted
bachelor whose only knowledge of baby
carriages was gained by collisions with them
on the sidewalks. Eminent counsel have a
advised married people to pay no attention
to the proclamation.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1890-09-17

Anybody who has travelled about the
country in search Of particular peoples resi-
dences. knows how hard it is to get an ex-
plicit direction that shall send him straight
to the desired dooryard. "Half a mile or so
beyond somebody's hay-barn, on the other
side of the road" or sits the second white
house beyond the cross road, ON the road
you see after you pass the town pump" is
about as near as the average person can
come to the desired information. This state
of things has heretofore been considered un-
avoidable as no useful system of numbers or
other designations has been invented. Now
fornia has devised plan which local papers
say works TO a charm In Contra Costa
county in that state. Every road In the
county has name, and each mile is divided
into ten blocks. To each block there are
two numbers, one for each side, and the
houses are given the same. number as the
block. Should there be more than one honse
In block they are distinguished by letters,
as 10 A, 10 B, 10 etc. As there are ten blocks
to the mile, No. 100 denotes a house ten miles
from the point of starting, and SO of any
other number. AS Contra Costa county is
not much smaller than Cumberland county.
with only about one-fifth of the population
Of this county, the plan which works well
there ought to work much better In this
county and state. Ii it were put into prac-
tice, complete directory of the state could
easily be compiled, and many weary mile
of cross country travel be saved.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1890-09-17
hIII's pemaeoeuery Kicks Back.

The last legislature of New York passed a
reform ballot bill modelled very closely after
the Massachusetts law which has worked so
well in practice and given general satisfac-
tion to all parties. When, however, the bill
was presented to Gov. Hill he first objected
to it as unconstitutional, but finally consent
ed to sign 1t provided certain amendments
which he suggested were made to it. The
most important of them was one that provid-
ed for separate ballots, instead of one blank
ct ballot. as the bill originally contemplated.
and one for the numbering Of the ballots.
Hills motive, as given by himself, for desir
ing these changes, was to make it easier for
the iiliterate man, of whom there are very
large number in the Democratic party In the
city OIL New York, to mark his ballot cor
rectly. Very likely that was one mo-
1--WE; another. and the controlling one,
was probably, though not avowed.
that the system might be made more
expensive, and therefore less vel
come to the voters. Separate ballots COM
PEELED the printing of some six times the
number of ballots that would otherwise
have been necessary, and the numbering Of
the ballots made the printing more difficult.
and therefore more costly. The Republicans
were opposed ito both of the amendments,
but as the result Of rejecting them was GER
tain to be the veto of the whole bill, and the
postponement of ballot reform for another
year at least they reluctantly accepted
them.
The result in one direction has been just
what the Governor no doubt wanted. The
expense entailed upon the people for the
printing Of the ballots bids fair to be large,
and therefore provocative of some opposi-
ton to the law. But in another direction
the result has been exactly the oppo.
sue Oh what the Governor professed
uesire Instead Of simplifying the
ye'om 70 the comprehension of the
isno,an' Iammany voter it has compl.
cated H. The voter will carry into the booth
large number Of ballots. and he win ba
Obliged to pick out Of the assortment with.
out assistance the ballot he wants to throw
or the ballot his master wants him to throw.
Is TINS work of selection that is causing
.ue iammany leader great alarm. He fears
snas the effect Of the multltudes of hal.
Tvs on the ignorant Tammanv voters
WIN De similar to that of tho NM
tltsoe Oh ballot boxes ON tho &c.
rant negro OF South Carolina. Tho So
falls In selecting the right ballot no.. "a
the Tammany voter, 1t is feared. will tau;e
selecting the right ballot. One Tamma -
leader is quoted as saying that the confus,o1
resulting from SO many ballots will disfran
shise 1l,CO0 or 1900 votes In New York citv
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1890-09-17

1t looks as though the naval battles be
tween poaching fishermen and police officers
that have had their situation in Chesapeake
bay for several years past, would be trans.
ferred to the shores of Massachusetts. The
state police are reported to be laying the
ammunition and sharpening their rusty
sword for raid on porgy fishermen who
seine fish in the protected waters of Buzzard' S
bay. Ii the war attains large dimensions,
the new naval militia of Massachusetts
aan he nsad adYantaPa0uSlY.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1890-09-17
CURRENT CO M M EMIT.
SUCH is THEIR CUSTOMARY ATTITUDE.
Lewiston Journal

SUCH rs THEIR CUSTOMARY ATTITUDE
Lewiston Journal
According to the Bangor correspondent of
the Boston Globe, the license Democrats see
their mistake but are disposed to try itagain.
Ha, ha! Why we laugh Is because the De-
mocracy has been so many times in just such
an attitude.
STEP IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION.
Springfield Union.l
A movement is said to have begun 10 Lon
don under the patronage and inspiration OF
Queen Victoria for "the elevation and i'm
provement Of the British aristocracy." 1t
includes social boycott of all titled gam
blers, spendthrifts and scalawags. This
would be a good thing for England, but the
best thing would be to abolish the aristocracy
altogether and put every man in England on
his merits and good behavior. The real
noblemen would be noblemen still and the
now titled bummers would speedily grayi.
tate to their own place.
sCoRN OF SMALL CHANGE A DETRIMENT.
TACOMA (Wash.) Daily Ledger
A gentleman who has visited the Pacific
coast at intervals of four or five months for
several years. is reported by the New York
Press as saying that "California is the cost
Hest place in America for anyone to live who
has no local means of earning living. There
is no small change in the state, hotel rates
are enormous and railroad rates are higher
than in any state in the union. California
is no place for anyone to go unless he has a
fat pocketbook and expects and is willing. to
crafty which has been shown in California
by scorniDg small change has been serious
detriment to the state. 1t is beginning to
tell more strongly now that the northern
coast Is opeu to settlement.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1890-09-17

ALMOST every one of them Democrats 1t
looKS very much as though this was case
where Gov. Hills demagoguery had over
leaped itself, and that the provision which
he had put into the law for the special bene-
tit Of the ignorant voter was destined to
prove potent means for his dsfranchise-
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1890-09-17

IL inc persistent fight against the sale OF
tue Knox q Lincoln is kept up by the town
Oh Waldoboro much longer, the citizens will
enjoy the luxury Of taxes at city rates for a
lew years. Litigation comes high but the
people must have it.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1890-09-17
THE PRESS.
WEDNESDAY MORNING, SEPT. II.

We do not read anonymous letters and comm.
acations The name and address OF the writer
are IN all cases indispensable, not necessar,v 70,
publication but as guarantee Of good faith.
we cannot undertake to return or preserve
communications that are not used.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1890-09-17

There are two kinds of fair weather.
weather bureau, and agricultural. A large
olock OF agricultural fair weather has been
allotted to Maine of late.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1890-09-17
EASTMAN BROS. & BANCROFT.
CONSUMPTION.

Few consumptives, after having hemorrhages
OF the lungs so bad that their lives are despaired
of. realize the value of Nutrition found In Muir
several times OF periods of to 4years each apart,
by taking 1t for to months after each attack.
tThc hemorrhages would not occur In half the
cases If the patient each spring would take our
Liquid Food for monthly
We illustrate in the case Of Mr.. ID. II. Kirby,
Boston, being one Of many cases whose iiyes haye,
been despalred OF one or more times during the
last 10 years:
In 1881 he was told that there was no help for
In 1884 ditto. $50 ''' - M '''' '''''"'
In 1880 ditto.
GENTLEMEN Permit me to acknowledge to YOU
what think Is due you for the very great benefit
have received from taking your LIQUID Food
am troubled with scrofula catarrh very badly
orrhages Of the lungs. After recovering from na
me to try your Liquid Food. Twas very much run
bottles felt so well stopped taking IL.
IN January, 1894, was again taken with hem
orrhage OF the lungs and was Frustrated In bed for
three weeks. ltook your Liquid Food in tea
spoonful doses, which was the only nourishment
could take. When able TO get out OF bed /
wSSiighhe q one hundred and thIty-iye pounds,
fore. feel as II IL was drawing the humor out of
my blood, as am not troubled with It now wha'-
ever. can truthfully say IL has benefited me
greatly. Very respectfully yours.
d. Il. KIRBY.
AUG. i. 1890. He returned to the store enjoy
ing bis past good health after an absence of Jour
months, suffering from an attack OF La Grippe
followed with congestion Of his right lung, which
did not yield to medical treatment and was con
sidered beyond relief, but by the use of our LIQUID
Food he is now enjoying his former good health.
dyspepsia Is not relieved, 1t will develop In
to Chronic Dyspepsia. Then the stomach re-
fuses food, and medicine cannot reieve but
Nutrition, as found In Murdock's Liquid Food will
OF the many that have been relieved by our Food
- nd we have cases where physicians who have
not retained meal for years have been able TO
cat All kinds OF food in thirty days-we quote the
"Mr. Albert Ferguson, engineer with webster
q Co., tanners, Maiden, was taken In 1879 with
dyspepsia. Inc same would not yield to medical
treatment, growing worse daily for three years
Wnen MS stomach refused all kinds OF food He
then changed his ply stefan, who ordered MUIR
DOCKS Liquid Food, and 1t was all that he was
able 10 take for six weeks, which restored his
stomacn TO action, and Ia three months he was
able to eat all kinds Of common food, and was
able TO take his former position, and enjoyed good
health until December, 1889, when he had an
attack OF La Grippe, which developed into pIeurisy
FEVER, from which his life was despaired OF. Dur
ing ms four months sickness his physician de-
pended chiefly for treatment on Murdock's LIQUID
ROOD, and after two months he gained three
pounds weekly. Today he Is In perfect health.
and working daily without exhaustion or fatigue
81 Inc worst OF all diseases to treat, the Medical
Profession admit,
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1890-09-17
is PARALYSIS.

1t comes always from portion of the muscles
nerves, and tissue. being unable TO perform their
cutles, and II not restored. then death follows In
lew days. or life VIII linger In paralyZed state
u one-half OF the organs, for few months then
death OF the whole BODY follows. IL Is such cases
as these that show the value of MuTdOck's Liduid
Food, by making new blood to build up and re-
store the muscles, nerves. and the tissues 10 nor.
mai life; and being able to do this In from thirty
to sixty days. Is the reason all other diseases are
so easy to relieve, and cleanse the system Of. by
the use of this Food -
In some of our former advertisements wa have
mentonea the TACT that life Is supported ON three
plvots. FIRST, when hungry we want food secOnd 4,
when exhausted we need rest; thirdly, when cold
We want neat, II not we must expect to find our
plvots developed into either Consumption, Dys-
pepsia or Paralysis. All Of these diseases are in
creaslng with the American people from the want
OF proper nutrition.
we spent In our Free Surgical Hospital for
women IN SIX years, on 1000 women, over $780,
W and OF the last 1000 operated on, lost five.
Inc women OF Boston die 20 to 1000.
since closing our Hospitals we have shown IN
all elasse; OF diseases that have become chronic
lunless tney need an operation) that they can be
treated al nome by the use OF Murdock's LIQUID
Food without medicine, as 1t will restore them 10
nealtn, even when life Is despaired Of with those
suffering from paralysis, Consumption, Dyspepsia
consumption OF the Stomach and ali other dis
eases. 49,
Any person suffering from disease that has not
yielded 10 medical treatment, we will furnish
murdoch Liquid Food sufficient to cure them. or
make them better. ie3OMW&Ftf
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1890-09-17
MAINE CENTRAL X. II. co.
ANDROSC0GGIN & KENNEBEC R.R.CO
$I,Ioo, 10000 LOAN,

VvHE Bonds Of the Loan falling due August /,
turity on presentation at the Treasurers Ofice OF
Maine Central r. r. Co., Portland, Maine.
y. A. LlNSCOTT, Treas
Jnly "a, 1890. jy25du
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AmUsRmENTs.
p. l.. s. B. s.
THE TENTH ANNUAL EXCURSION

4 NE IENIU ANNUAL EALUhSIUN
OF THE -
Portland LOngshOremen's Beney-
Olent Society.
Atsebago LaIe, Wednesday, sept. I7h
All amusements, aquatic and field. will ba con
tested as previously advertised ~
All tickets previously sold are bona ide Boata
head OF Custom House Wharf
TlcketS-Adults, soc; Children 25e
Trains leave the head Of Custom House Wharf
at 9.46 a. M, taking exeursionlsts at the East
ern Depot Train leaves Union station al 10 a
m. Afternoon train leaves Union station at O5
D.. sepl6d3t
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1890-09-17
A STARTING POINT

A SIAhIINU IO1NI Islands
Reaches or anv place OF business, as well as a
WERCHANT's EXCHANGE HOTEL,
Temple sc, Just on Monument So. stop your horse
car aL Temple ST.. and 20 20 above House.
Popular prices there; house newly renovated
and painted throughout; telephone, electric bells
and modern Improvements; table nice and sup.
piled with fresh vegetables, daily, from OakdaIe
farm good livery furnished at hort notice.
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