Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-11-20
LOCAL ETTE3.

C. J. Terrell and Miss C. T. Burnett
were licensed to marry yesterday.
Charles OfeuheIm was yesterday fined
SIS for selling liquor on Sunday. He
was tried before Judge Harris in the
county court.
Nath Harvey was before the county
court yesterday on charge of aggravated
assault, and was fined S25 and sentenced
beside to thirty days on the county roads.
The ladies' who have so kindly inter-
ested themselves in the boys no me are
requested to meet at the postotlice to-
day Ut 3 O'Clock p. m. Mrs. j. z.
Smith, president.
Red Cross lodge No. IA, Knights Of
Pythias, will TO night work the first and
second ranks, besides which officers for
the ensuing year will be nominated.
Visiting knights are invited to be
present.
Suits were filed in the district court
yesterday us follows: Mollie Welsh VS..
John Welsh, divorce welsh is i'll the
penltentiary for burglary); j. Nj.
Henderson VS. J. Merkle, possession Of
lands and $1,000 damages; l.. J. Polk VS..
J. p. smith. suit TO try tide
1t NAV be well for patrons of the
opera house to rem ember thu; the cur
thin rises every evening at O'CLOCK
prompt. Manager Phil Greenwall SAYS
he proposes to arrange so that persons
coming in between acts will have TO re-
main standing until the curtain drops in
order that those in Interested i'll the play
will not be annoyed.
Jim Mnddox has become used to Look
ing after the public peace for so long
break off from his Old habits. Yester-
das when on FIRST street, be-
tween Main aud Houston, he en-
of tailor shop with the pro-
thiefl' Jim quietly gathered in the
duo ana had marched them half way to
Jail before it occurres to him that he was
no longer tn officer. He turned the men
over to Constable Billy Maytieid, and
they are now in the county jail.
G. Il. Slaught of Los Angeles, Cal.
was IN Fort Worth yesterday luquirlug
into the prospects for locating here an
establishment for the manufacture of
fibre goods. He is interested in okre,
ramie, jute, hemp aud other hbrous ma
terial, and is DESTROYS of making a
market for a product which he thinks
farmers in the South would find more
valuable and remunerative than any
other to which they could devote them
selves. lie Is greatly pleased with the
operations of the jute factory already es-
tablished here. He expects at the next
session OF congress to get through large
appropriation to be devoted to expert
meuts in tibre-making and manufacture.
SUPERINTENDENT Weaver of the railway
mail service, in his general order bulletin
issued under date of November 10 from
the headquarters OF the Eleventh d.
vision Ut Fort Worth, says: A compare
tive statement OF errors made ny postal
CLERKS in this division during July, Au-
gust, September and October. 1889, aud
the CORES pondng months of 1890 shows
q murKed Improvement, the NUN Der
of errors on incorrect slips having
been reduced over 2t, 900. y cor
responding reduction III the number OF
ynsssut and INSTRUCTED pouches and iet-
ter packages aud missent registered
packages. pouches and sacks is also
noticed. l hope that the good work that
!s now being done in this division viii
continue and that every clerk will en-
oeavor to make further improvement
IN the service.