Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-06-17
LOCALETTES.

secure TICKETS Tor the grH2l@inuslcale
'' An 1'' lover. Agoqassau !sss S should no,
fail to be at thssefa house the 2Srd OF
this month. 81.
A bill for Sl260 for the use of gas in
the different Offices occupied by city Of
iieers has been presented to the city.
Mrs. and Mrs. L. Fife rejoice over
the arrival of q fine baby boy at their
house on East Fourteenth last evening.
Marriage licenses were granted yester-
day to J z. White and NJ. J . Pennell
Guadaloupe Martins and Mrs. Camilla
Falcon.
A couple Of negro women of bad rep
utation were driving at a fast rate up
Main street when their buggy came in
collision with a cart. The vehicle was
demolished but the women came out all
right.
The city council will have a large
amount of routine work to come before
it tonight. The North side bridge will
no doubt be up again. A franchise for
new and important line of street rail-
way will be asked.
Citizens should remember that only
TO have their names enrolled on the CEN
sus. If you fear you have been omitted
call on the chamber of commerce and
Tectify the mistake.
1t is understood that a new whole
sale gents, furnishing house is soon
to be established IN Fort Worth, to be
located in large building at present oc-
cupied by wholesale Dry goods house,
which will remove to other newer quar-
ters.
A sprinter of some fame, Mariana
Beilsa, a Spaniard who has made q
record as a long-distance runner, came
to Fort Worth yesterday, and now the
sprinters of the city are talking matches.
1t is likely some sport OF that sort will be
arranged.
Queen City encampment No. l03 1. o.
o. f. met last night and elected the fol-
lowing officers for the ensuing year: C..
p, c. W. Smidt; S. w, Il. W. Dehn;
H. P, J NJ. Perry; j. w, Thomas
Fear; treasurer, w. B. RTownsend;
scribe, N. Wilson; trussee, Thomas
The GadtAAid sooiessSf st. Andrews
Episcopal chikch wiIESsive grand must
Gale at the 8Hsraa6use Monday, night
June %, the pfsQsEds to be given toward
the erection of anew church. The pro-
gramme is veEFfHe. Fort Worth IS artists
and a numbfFof otkers from abroad will
particularly All shdald attend.
The managers of tina opera house are
already booking attractions for next
year, and say the outlook is good for
fine list. All those who played here last
n 60
ton in the North and East, so that now
there is no difficulty in securing the best
companies that travel in these parts.
The city's artesian well is down 100
feet or more. The contractor is now
roaming it out for larger size of casing.
It is desired TO have a six-inch diameter
at the bottom at a depth of 1000 feet, but
with a ten-inch diameter at the top only
six inches is had at the present 100 foot
depth, hence the necessity for roaming.
The electric light people have their
material on the ground and are ready to
put in their machinery. Work on the
building has not been commenced,
though tine United Edison company
would be glad if they would build it at
once. Alderman Mes says the machinery
appears to be the finest thing OF its kind
in these parts.
W. b. Elliott There is no greater
evidence of the growth of Fort Worth
than the growth of the telephone BUSH
ness here. Every month l get an in
crease in the exchange; in fact, l can
hardly supply the demand. Although
the plant i'll Fort Worth now is the best
of any city IN the state we ara going 20
make extensions right away. We are
going to have a new multiple board right
away. The system is being extended to
the new factories and other institutions
beng located on the outskirts of the
city.
The yoang people g society of Christian
EndeaVor organized q Sunday school
Sunday afternoon at the corner of Four
teenth and Calhoun streets. There were
names enrolled. Mr.. N. A.
Stedman was elected superintendent.
There will be @ regular prayer
meeting held every Friday night.
ON Thursday morning at 8 O'Clock the
Woman Christian Temperance Union
will hold mother s meeting, and it is
earnestly requested by Mrs. Mary NJ.
Clardy that all the mothers in that
neighborhood be present.
eslbTuAy 1Duul L U GLuCh
ileton was startled by the intelligence
that one of his little boys had been bitten
by some poisonous insect and was in a
condition. The youngster
was on a farm q few miles in the
and Mr.. Pendleton Immediately
started therefor. The poison appeared to
be dangerous at first, but it soon began
to yield TO the effect of q copIous admin
istration of whisky and other such anti
iotes in such cases, and soon the boy was
all right. Then Mayor Pendleton re-
when too late, that in his
anxiety for the welfare OF his boy be had
eft the council in a state of perspiriDg
disappointment.
The new 2 900 900 gallon worthington
pump is about in place at the
Another week will con-
clude the work of arranging it, and then
the waterworks will have a pumping ca
pacity Of 1000 200 gallons per diem
II such a water supply is hernandez.
The terms upon which this new pump
has been secured are unusually reason
Bble-no payment is to be made until six
months after IL is placed in position
and put in operation, though as the
money for payment is at hand it is likely
It will be PAID over at once to stop inter-
est The new Worthington pump will be
worked alternately with the old Holly so
as TO keep both in good repair.