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The Washington critic., 1890-02-26

One of the iolliest men connected in
any way with the House is tall and blue
eyed with good natured wrinkles radia-
ting from the corners of his eyes like
the rays of setting sun. His chin
beard is tinged with gray and his hair
is mass Of ringlets. This is Mr.. T. B.
Snyder, messenger on the Democratic
side of the House
The Washington critic., 1890-02-26

The happiest looking man in Con-
sress is Frank Lawler of Chicago. The
soberest looking is-well, all of the
New Workers
The Washington critic., 1890-02-26

"What caused New York's defeat?"
was asked of Congressman Amos J.
Cummings. He answered:
Twenty Republicans from the
New England and Eastern States, aud
one Democrat from Boston, all of the
Southern Republicans and nearly all of
Texas voted for Chicago. This is what
Defeated New York" /"
The Washington critic., 1890-02-26

Friends of the metropolis that received
such an inglorious defeat in the fight on
Monday are cOnsoling themselves in all
manner of ways, while the Chicago
people stand OIL and smile in a most
tantalizing manner.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-11-29
lie RAILROADS.
Union Pacific Excitement Giving Way
to Il Feeling of Certainty.
2 Denver officials Thinks There is More Talk
I'.r sense in The R'prts OF Removals
nnI designations Local News.

There is no need OF anticipating
trar'1p. " said an official of the Denver
to reporter for TIE GAZETTE yester-
day IN speaking of the prospects of a
number OF decapitations in the service
lal,l ine new arrangement of things,
''grl VIII bet dollars to bananas that
u.re will he none TO speak of. There is
s.rnvs considerable uncertainty follow
ia- d change in the presidency Of 3 large
system ike the Uuion Pacific, but this
Usually wears away III few days.
There Is not an emp!oye on the Fort
Worth and Denver who will not hail this
change in the road = affairs If il is for the
ba.G And we Will be- glad of 1t, just
as soon as nnIters settle down to hard
pan. uu so we can know what To ex-
rt.' aui what TO DO. The disagreeable
part % the mutier is the talk of re-
u.ra.S, designations AMI SO on, aud
alter fellow listens 10 these rumors for
a vN.lr he begins TO believe them, and
lu turn wonders who is 20 be his success
I1-, yr co-worker, rs the case may be. -
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-11-29

Just as the affairs of the San Antonio
and Arkansas Pass railroad company were
out comes another setback. MIR. Wharf
ton Barker, of the recently failed Barker
Bros, Philadelphia, was one of the lar
Cest holders of the bonds of the Aransas
Pass company. MIR Barker was favor
ably inclined to the scheme of reorgani-
cation, that is TO put the road once more
solidly on its feet, but his recent re-
verses will prevent his exerting any IN
iuence anv Longer in the councils of the
bondholders, and an unavoidable delay
is thereby occasioned. 1t Is the hope of
the bondhoders Of the road and Others
concerned in it, however, that some-
thing definite will soon be accomplished
in the work of reorganization. - New
York journal of Finance.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-11-29

special TO the Gazette.
NEW YORK, Nov. PA bull on
Texas and Pacific says: "The decrease
in the earnings for the past three weeks
has been due 10 the falling off OF about
- per cent. IN cotton shipments Oh ac-
count of tight money. the freight is
there and in larger quantity than last
year, and will soon move freely. The
Texas Pacific has bought 5000 tons of
steel rails and paid for them out of the
net earnings. The road has no floating
debt ami will have good surplus after
paying the interest on its bonds Decem-
Der |. The road is in a better shape
physically AMI financially than ever be-
fore, and predict that it will earn full
interest on its second mortgage bonds
next year.
Another authority on Texas ard
Pacific says: ''Shipnents of cotton have
fallen off oDe-half in the last two weeks
as compared with The same two weeks
last year, solely because shippers have
not been able to sell their bills in New
Orleans. The cotton crop on the Texas
and Pacific lines is at least 10 per cent.
larger than it was last year, and there
will be heavy movement as soon as
bills can be sold. -
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-11-29

Tia Arkansas VALLEY railroad will be
t. u..t-i 10 "ritizrnShip' by the Cher
os.t council, now in session. Congress
g-an'ei tins road its right of way
O. u-h the Cherokee nation, but the
trrr. hres refused 10 recognize the valid
IFrf the act, and have therefore never
r..s.vrd any revenue from the railroad
cr.lauv. They have decided that to
'". the United states and Jay Gould is
kn.nr against the pricks.-[ Chickasaw
fam.
T.r santa Fe will run special train
frm North Texas to New Orleans during
t. .a.YIays, beginning December 20.
l.liHv EXCURSION tickets will be sold at
caa fair for round trip.
90 she l4th OF December the Cotton
l'at will put on a double service from
tbs CITY 10 the east, running two trains
each way daily. The morning train Will
!f.s- here ut :25 and the night train ut
lock. I he bed of this road is now
20 ugtop shape and is able to stand up
L.. '-r Il iity-m lean hour speed.
Iae boys IN the yards and around the
o...-s were not in usual trim yesterday.
They were in many instances. getting
oEt- The effects of eating Thanksgiving
lia.rrs, and, in making the usual
Pounds, a reporter found but little news.
j.. 4. Carter. travelling passenger
H-.u, Tor the Cotton Belt. got in yester-
anv from "A trip Enst, aud saws that the
'~ of IMMIGRATION is still on aud that
D., .iur i, getting its share OF the patron
t-e. Most of the new arrivals in the
s'-:r are headed for the Panhandle, al
though ueurly all parts of Texas will get
'ur ION of the Influx. The Cotton Belt
viii put on hglf-fa tickets for the holi-
davs
IL talking to General Freight and Pas
sengrr Agent Newlin of the Denver, IL
was learned that the number of passen-
gers going into the Panhandle was never
before equaled. The passenger trains on
his road are loaded to the rails, and
there seems 10 be no indications of let
up.
Rumors have been flying around for
several days that General Manager Meek
OF the Union Pacific intends TO resign,
hut 20 far as known it Is only rumor.
i will not surprise anybody, however,
II he does hand IN his resignation. Mr..
Meek Is now in New York. Ii has been
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-11-29

said that he was recently offered lucra-
tive position with the Chamberlain In
vesfment company.
The people who are talking 30 much
about an extension into Dallas OF the
Fort Worth and Denver should stop and
ask themselves what Jay Gould needs OF
two roads paralleling each other east of
this city. A good many other things
will happec before the Denver Is built
into Dallas.
Fl. G. Kroke, livestock agent of the
Katy, was in town yesterday.
w. D. Lawson, travelling passenger
agent of the Missouri, Kansas and Texas
left for trip down the road yesterday {.
The people at the other end of the Fort
Worth and Rio Grande are anxlously
awaiting the extension of he road.
Every crumb of Information is eagerly
Gevoured. II is pretty generally settled
that Brentwood will bs tapped, but the
balance OF the game is yet mystery.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-11-29
THE COUNTRY'S TRADE
Weekly Review as Gathered by L. 6
Dun & Co.'S Mercantile Agency.
Transac ions Less spirited, Merchants Buy
Ing With More Caution Tight Money
and slow Collections.

NEW YORK, Nov. 2S.-R. G.. Dunn s.
past broken week has not improved the
business outlook. The difficulty of OBJ
tanning commercial loans increases, not
here only, but at most other points.
Banks and other lenders. from the larg-
est to the smallest approximate have
been induced by recent events to
strengthen themselves, merchants have
been more cautious about extending OBJ
legations or making purchases which can
be deferred, experimenting that retail
buying may be cut down somewhat by the
reduced ability of some consumers and by
the disposition of others to economic in
view of the extensively reported adj
vance in prices. Meanwhile speculation
has been reyiving TO an unhealthy ex-
tent in some directions on the theory
that the troubles are over and things
will improve. The money markets are
thus loaded with increased demands for
carrying secureties and products fat
at the time when traders specially need
more liberal supplies. At most interior
markets money grows more stringent
aud the scarcity begins to affect trade at
important centers, though the volume OF
business is still very large.
Southern reports are less encouraging
than they were last week. Money is in
sharp demand at New Orleans, the
movement of sugar being preredented;
exceedingly light at Savannah, with
commercial prospects less bright; more
timid at Atlanta, though the holiday
trade opens with good feeling, and in
Western Florida short corn crop and
embarrassments of merchants cloud the
prospect. The situation Of great indus
tries is less clear. The week has been
one of peculiar dullness In the iron trade :,
and the tone is weaker. There Is ap-
prehension of forced sales by some South
ern furnaces, and enc large transaction
at $40 for grey forge is reported ct Biz
mingham. Rail purchasers hold off I,
and there is a visible decrease in orders
for finished products.
Business failures occurring throughout
tile country during the last seven days
number 249. as compared with PA last
week. For the corresponding week last
year figures were 249.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-11-29
RnoRGAN1ziNG THE CENTRAL.

Huntington Meeting With Unexpected OBJ
stacies in His Efforts to GobbIe the Line.
specisi to the Gazette.
NEW YORK, Nov. 2S.-An evening pa
per has the following: c. P. Hunting
ton s scheme to get control of the Hous
tou and Texas Central railroad encoun-
tered another obstacle yesterday, when
R. H. Sanda!e, acting for a large num-
Der of old or 'frOZen Oui'' stock holders,
sent notice to the governing board OF
the stock exchange protesting against the
listing of the new bonds of the organized
company. This action may prove very
embarrassing TO the promotion of the re-
DETERMINATION scheme, as every legal Oh
siacle will he placed in Huntington S
way. Another and much more serious
trouble threatens the holders of the new
bonds. 1t has been discovered that dur
lug the recent argument of the case be-
fore United States Circuit Judge
Pardee at New Orleans, that under an
act of the legislature of Texas, which
granted the Houston and Texas Central
nearly 5 900 900 acres OF land there is u
saving clause which provides that only
the old railway can retain the land.
Under the foreclosure which was agreed
to by Huntington . friendly board of d.
rectors. this land was bought in by
Frederick W. OlcOtt of the Central
Trust company at low figure. The
plan of reorganization required that the
entire railway plant, franchise and lands
should be turned over by OlcOtt to the
new company.
1t is now shown that the company has
no rig ut under the laws of Texas to own
more land than is absolutely necessary
for the purposes of n road Tor the road
beds, turn-Outs and switches, and there
fore it cannot acquire good title TO the
lands which were the property of the
Old company. The real situation APP
pears when it is known that these
3 900, 600 acres represent great part of
the security of the bondholders. If the
land cannot be transferred, then the
bondholders Will lose the security which
at the lowest estimate of 81 an acre,
means So 900 900. The land, however,
is estimated as worth at least S25. 000,-
600. Another pertinent question which
looms up is, if the new company does
not get these lands who does, Hunting
ton or The Southern Pacific railway or
the state of Texas?
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-11-29
TWO SUNSET WRECKS.

Passenger smsshas In'o Freight-FCur
Cars of n Freight Train DeraiIed.
special 10 the Gazette.
SAN ANTONIO, Tex, Nov. 2S.-Two
wrecks occurred on the Atlantic division
of the Southern Pacific system to-day
near Sanderson, four hundred miles
west. A west-bouud passenger smashed
into freight train aud the locomotive
and cars were badly damaged. No one
was killed.
Near La Grange, one hundred and
fifty miles east of here, four cars of a
freight train were derailed, tearing up
the track. Damage about 5000. No
one hurt.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-11-29
Gould at Work.

syecia, 20 the Gazette.
NEW YORK, Nov. 2S.-1t is reported
that Jay Gould is getting the signatures
TO a call for a meeting of the presidents
and prominent bankers for some day
next week.
The Commercial Bulletin says an aver
age of 1875 estimates of members of the
cotton exchange on the SIZE of the 1890
crop was I, 79S 900 bales.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-11-29
San Antonio Fair.
Special to the Gazette.

Special to the Gazette.
SAN ANTONIO, TEX, Nov. 2S.-At a
meeting to-day of the board of directors
of the San Antonio International fair as
sociation. the designations of A. C..
Schrrver as president. B. F. Yoakum.
vice. president, and Louis J. Workman, ,
secretary and manager. were accepted.
Sam Maverick was elected president
Henry Elmendorf, vice-president, and
J. s. Alexander, treasurer. The man
aver of the fair will be selected in Feb
ruary, and steps will then he taken to
prepare for the holding Of the fair next
fall.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-11-29
Over 5000 Chinese Railroad Laborers.

SAN FRANCISCO. CAL, Nov. 2S.-Ly-
man Mowery, an attorney whose princi-
pal clientage is among the Chinese, ar
rived Yesterday from China on the
steamer Gaelic. He went to China in
the interests of the Tehuautepec railroad
company, and at Canton contracted for
5000 men to work on the railroad. They
will he shipped direct TO the field of la
Dor. Already 900 men have reached
Salinas del Santa Cruze, on the Gulf of
Tebuantepec, and are engaged on
tween y-nine miles of road running from
that point to Coatzacoalcos along the
Gulf of Mexico.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-11-29

A Washington dispatch quoted Senator
Cullom, chairman Of the interstate COM
merce committee, as saying that there is
no Likelihood of Interstate commerce leg
islaton this season. The most I'm portant
bill pending is that permitting railroads
to agree upon a division of freight con-
tracts. subject to the review of the COM
missioner.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-11-29

has been well done has been done at the
behest OF the whole board; while alone
am responsible for those errors of judg-
ment to which the board, acting as
whole, has found itself committed. In
this room at least, whatever contrary
belief may ut tines have prevailed out
side of il, there has for theasst six years
been no majority and no minority, aud
best OF all. no faction.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-11-29
Christmas dysErcursions TO the South

The Gulf. Colorado and Santa Fe rail-
vav will sell excursion ,ickets from all
stations on its lines in Texas to the
Southanst On December 30 u. %.
and %. 1890, at the very low rate of
ONE FAIR FOR THE ROUND TRIP.
eood TO return within thirty DAVIS from
dale of sale.
TrCEeTs VIII PIE sorD VI, All RoIrTEs.
A special excursion train will be run
from North Texas on December 90,
1890. through TO New Orleans. La.
wIihout change of oars via Rosenberg
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-11-29
Victor Goal Co,
A NICE XMAS PRESENT.

What more useful or appropriate
Christmas present than nice light ruiz
ming sewing machine. GAZETTE sub
scribers can get just such machine sOr
o oaly s.. SO; TSSsss91 III + ! n : r;
UyQS6st546fnk 70 either the Daily, SUN
day of Weekly GAZETTE for one year.
Sample machine can be seen at the
GAZETTE counting room.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-11-29

push of A,apam. to Succeed himself

MONTGOMERY, ALA, Nov. 2S.-Mr.
Pueh was elected United States senator
this morning by the legislature to sue
coed himself. Kolb and Watts with
drew.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-11-29
Dallas Railroad Soiea,

Special to the Gazette.
Col. W. Fl. Masters, general freight
agent Of the Gulf, Colorado and Santa
Fe railroad, is up from Galveston.
Bryan Snyder of Houston, is in Dali
las. Mr.. Snyder is the travelling freight
agent for The Southern end OF the San Ia
Fe, while W II. Cogswell holds down
the same position on the Northern end.
Mr. Cogswell started on a trip North to-
day.
j. A. Hendry, travelling auditor of
the Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe, Is in
the city.
L. w. Campbell, the efficient tram
master of the eastern division of the
Texas and Pacific, is over from Marshal.
Col. s. 7. Judy, of the Pecos Valley
railroad, came to town on the morning
Texas and Pacific east bound train, but
has returned as far west as Pantherville.
H. Duran, general advertising agent
of the Wabash, is doing Dallas.
W. f. Conner, southwestern passenger
agent OF the Wabash, has returned from
Detroit, Mich. where he went to deliver
thirty Fedt raj prisoners to the prison at
that place.
Charles E. Ware. representative of the
large railroad printing house of Wood
ward & Herman of St. LOUIS, is at the
Texas metropolis.
The family of Mr.. {. P. Feean. the
able travelling representative of the
Texas and Pacific railway passenger de-
partmeut, started Tonight for Clinton,
Ia, in company with Mr.. Fegau's
mother, where they will spend the winter
at the home OF the latter. Mr.. Fegan
will make one OF the party as far as
TeXarkana.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-11-29
Fort Worth &DGlVGr CityR'y
DENVER, TEXAS kEoRr WoRTEa b.
Texas Panhandle Route.

Shortest line, quickest tim. from IN, Gull o.
Merto. Fort Worth and all prirciosl point, II
Texas to Rocky Mountaiu resorts and Paci 10
6, asst. Including Trinidad. Pueblo. Msnitol.
Colorado Springs. Denvef, COL. salt LsVs.
Utah Portlsnd, Oregon. Tacoma. Seattle and
Port Townsend. Daily train, leaving Fort WexH1
Pullman Palace sleegnA l.s73sa.
D. Uyl6fafs MIDLAND RAILWAY
and Unl5d Pacific Railway. having tnrou q
cars Tor san Francisco Los Angeles AMI
Port'aDt- Oregon.
Ogden and Salt Lake City and return, sT..TI.
limited to ninety (esO days. with . transit lirnit
CT 80 days in each direction. CheSp tours
rates to all points in Montana, idaho CaIiioraiI
Oregon and all points North and Northwest.
The shove comprise more noted and magnificent
scenery than ia compassed in any other routes IN
the known world. Do not completes your ar
rangements for q tourist trip until you havs s2-
piled to the undersigned.
Wv. NEwLIy
G. p. A., Fl W. D. C. Ry. For. Worth. Ter.
GEO. ADY,
G. P. A., D. T. F. ". Ry., Denver. Col
Fl. NJ. DEHAR7, GerersI Agent, Dallas. Tex.
n. :. DAVIS, City Passenger and Ticket Agsu-
Third and NJ ain streets, Fort Worth. Tex
c. D. LUSK, Ticket Agent. Union Cepos.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-11-29
Surveying H. and T. c. Lands.

surveying II. ana Il. y. Lanus.
Special 10 the Gazette.
MARIA, Ten. Nov. 2S.-The Houston
aud Texas Central railway compBuy's
surveying party are here making a sur
vey of the company's lauds in this
county.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1890-02-12

Recently was conversing with po-
liceman who is rose enthusiast, and
he told me he had strong bushes of some
of the best hybrid perpetuals upon their
own roots, that he had rooted himself
in way quite new to me. Having OBJ
tanned suitable shoot, or several Of
them, they were placed in an ordinary
bottle which contained some water, and
this bottle was hung upon the wall of
the house in sunny position and there
left, water being supplied TO make up
the deficiency caused by evaporation.
In this water, which often becomes very
warm from the heat of the sun, the cut
tings remained, and after short period
they calloused, when they were taken
out and dibbled into pots in the ordinary
way, the formation of the roots soon
taking place.
The above plan was claimed as expedi.
tious, as the cuttings calloused much
sooner in water than they did in the soil.
1t is known that many things root read
lily in water, and oleanders are frequent
ly propagated in that way, whilst some
Sedum Specialize that have lately had
in cut state had rooted freely long be-
fore the flowers faded. With the roses,
if cutting is once nicely calloused, success
is almost certainty, and If this needed
state can be brought about by immersion
of the base in water, we then have a
simple and valuable aid to rose propaga-
ton, because it is much easier to preserve
alive cutting placed in water than it is
one in the soil during its early stage. =
Vick's Magazine.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1890-02-12
Tho Normal. Diet.

According to Dr. G. Munro Smith. in
The Bristol Medico- Chirthgical Journal,
the daily destructive metabolism, which
is the great criterion of work done, does
not vary much among different occupa-
tions. Promising that lie does not con-
slider moderate over eating injurious he
finds that very many men eat consider
ably more than the most liberal tables;
it is not an uncommon thing for an aver
age sized man on very moderate work to
eat twenty-five or twenty-seven ounces
Of chemically dry food day. Women
eat much less than men, after making
allowances for differences in weight
and work. Where man eats nineteen
ounces, woman of the same weight
and of active habits eats only fourteen
or fifteen ounces.
On q diet from which all meat Is ex-
cluded, he has found that twelve to thir-
teen ounces per diem viii comfortably
feed hard working man. A moderate
amount Of stimularlts appears to increase
the average; moderately free drinking
diminlshes it. A diet consisting Of one
part of heterogeneous to seven or eight nom
heterogeneous is a good combination; 1t Is
greatly exceeded on the heterogeneous side
by the majority Of men and women, es-
pecially the former. A diet Of twelve to
fourteen ounces Of chemically dry food.
digestible, with the ingredients in proper
proportion, is sufficient to keep in good
health an average sized man on moderate
work. The majority of people lin Eng
land) cat literally twice as much as this.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1890-02-12
Au,hors a proofreador Had Met

Some one, man apparently, who
signs himself "B. f. P.," is writing a
series of papers on "Authors I Have
Met" for The Boston Transcript. How
do you suppose he has met his authors?
At the club or in the dining room? Not
at all. In much more practical way
as proofreader and compositor; and he
discusses them from manuscript point
of view. The most Of his meeting was
done in Boston, and he tells us how
amiable were such men as Robert G.
Winthrop, Josiah Quincy, Joseph Story
and other equally distinguished Boston
ians when they visited the printers. AS
rule these gentlemen wrote carefully
and their manuscript was not difficult TO
read. 1t was not until "B. F. p" came
to New York and had to read the proofs
of q pamphlet on "Intagliotype Print
ing" by Horace Greeley, that he learned
what it was to have really hard time
with a manuscript. When the galley
proofs came to him they were almost
"pi," but he and his copy holder strug-
gled with them and did the best they
could. He says:
Horace came in one morning to read
the authors proof, for he did not want
Tho Tribune folks to know just then
what he was upto, We were in fear and
trembling. But what was our surprise
to hear him remark to the boss, Your
proofreading here is better than it Is in