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Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-03-19
ST. Pntrick's Banquet.


The Irish American club of this city
closed its celebration of ST. Patrick 8
day with banquet last night at Turner
hall. 1t is needless to say that the affair
was an enjoyable QUE. Three rows of
tables, laden with everything to tempt
the appetite. and arranged so as to
please the eye, ran lengthwise of the
hall, with covers laid for 800. ''Fair
women aud brave menu were there and
they did full justice to the bountiful
spread before them. After the banquet
came ga feast of reason aud a flow Of
soul. - Toasts, responded to by men of
eloqueuce as we'll as men of brains, with
vocal aud instrumental music, caused the
hours to pass rapidly to the enjoyment
and pleasure of all.
Rev. Father McGrady responded with
earuestness and eloquence to the ''Land
of the Free and the Home Of the Brave, -
and Mr.. T. Barry Mitten, assistant
county attorney, acquitted himself IN
manner worthy Of his subject in his re-
Spouse to ''The Land of Our Adoption. -
Rev Father Blum responded to Friend
ship Between the Irish and the Ger
mans and surprised everyone by his
wit and humor as well as by his elo-
SIT is somewhat singular that an Irish
banquet should be given in German
hall, and that the best Irish speech Of
the evening should be made by Dutch
man, as Father Blum calls himself 1t
was fine effort, and each telling hit of
the speaker was received with Coars of
laughter and outbursts of applause.
The toast 1.-THE City Of Dallas, - fell
to Mayor Conner, who improved the oc-
casion to sound the praises of Dallas and
poke fun at Fort Worth. He did not
have the field all to himself, however,
for Rev. DR.. Mitchell of Fort Worth,
who WAS the next speaker, and who i'll
speech Of mastery eloQuence responded
to the toast ''Parnell and Gladstone, -
took occasion to give Mayor Conner
Fort Worth Roland for his Dallas Oliver.
He apologized for the fact that there
was no formal celebration of st.
Patrick's day IN Fort Worth. That city
was growing so rapidly and her people
were so busy that they had no time to
get up a celebration. In Dallas, where
business men and citizens, as well as
wives. mothers and sweethearts, had an
abundance of leisure, they were able to
celebrate the day in an appropriate man.
ner, and he was glad, as citizen of the
busy and buStling city Of Fort Worth, TO
be with them and participate in their
celebration. Space will not permit the
giving of a synopsis of DR.. Mitchen's
effort, which was pronounced by all the
speech of the evening.
Between the toasts and responses came
the music. Mr.. Jos. G. o Reilly, pres
ident of the Irish-American club, sang
"Remember, Boy, You're Irish, - and
"Peggy O'Moore,' in manner that
drew forth merited applause.
Mrs. Julia Campbell sang in a clear
voice and with fine effect, that favorite
of every Irish heart, "Killarney, and
responded to an encore in "The Harp
that Once Through Taras Halls. -
After the formal exercises those pres
ent devoted themselves to social inter
course, and passed the time pleasantly
until the "wee sma' hours' warned
them Of the approach of another day.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-03-19

How Hogs were Raised When They were the
Farmers Stand by
There was a time in the past, not very
remote, when hogs were the sole de-
pendence of the farmers, in what was
then the Western states, for the money
10 defray the expenses of the year.
Though this condition has materially
changed, yet the pork crop Is an impor-
taut factor in the sum of farm profits.
But swine culture and the pork market
are neither what they once were.
Formerly spring pigs became "stock
hogs the following winter, and after
summer on clover, they we're fatted in
the fall as soon as the corn was at to
feed, and driven to market in November
or December Pork packing was sea-
son of great activity in the centers of
pork commerce; but il continued only
about three months, beginning with No
vember and closing January. But the
hogs of that period, though nearly two
wears when brought into market, were
seldom heavier than hogs of the present
time of but half the age. But this was
q necessity. Our short-lmbed and
heavy bodied Poland China and Berk-
shire hogs, grown to the gross weight OF
$50 pounds in one year, or less, could
not endure q journey on foot fifty or 100
miles TO market. Our railroad facilities
have relieved us of 'hog-drOvers, - and
with it introduced breeders of hogs which
come TO maturity so as TO save'a winters
feeding. Moreover, the introduction Of
the refTigerating car has extended the
pork market through the whole year and
enables Eastern cities to buy fresh pork
Hogs that are kept through the winter
should have q comfortable shelter aud
bedding. This refers especially to brood
sows.
Though our pork market extends
through the whole year, yet 1t is not
economy to fatteu hogs in cold weather.
The animal temperature is maintained at
the expense of the food digested. In the
very cold weather a considerable per
cent. of the food is used for the main
tenance of heat that in warmer weather
would be appropriated 10 laying on fnt.
2 Hogs are the most prolific OF any of our
farm stock. A few brood sows will fur
nish herd of fattening hogs every fall.
The chief risk is visit of hog cholera.
This scourge of the swine growers orig
mated about the year 1850, ut the large
distilleries on the Ohio river. A COM
mlttee appointed by the Inulana state
board of agriculture in 1855 to investi-
gate the disease, reported that 1t was an
epidemic OF the nature of typhoid fever.
Subsequently United States commission
made a similar report. The disease is
seldom cured, but may be prevented by
keeping the herd entirely separated
from other hogs, and feeding them on
fresh, wholesome food and furnishing
them clean water to drink. No food nor
drink should be allowed in which the
process of decay has began, or in which
any decayinG substance is mixed. With
these precautions, q herd of swine will
generally be safe.-[ Montana Stock
Journal.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-03-19

genial spirits out for an evening Of relax
alton from duty, and bent on enjoying to
the utmost an occasion, fraught with all
the pleasing festivities of good fellow
ship.
Candidates for city offices are getting
to be thick of flies, and some Of them
will be about as short lived politically.
The weather Is all that could be asked
of the weather clerk, and would be thor
oughly enjoyable were 1t not that the
breeze that tempers the heat of the sun
blows the dust in clouds through the
streets, making Dallas deserving of the
title of the s'dusty city
Dallas mortuary statistics, now beng
prepared for his annual report by DR.. J
L. Carter, city health officer, show 556
deaths for the past year. This is about
eight to every 1000 inhabitants, based on
the directory census.
The state fair association have in con-
temptation the erection, northeast OF the
exposition building, at the fair grounds,
of music hall and art gallery. The
music hall will have a seating capacity of
about $500. Architects are now en-
ployed in drawing up plans and specific
cations. It is also proposed to erect an
amphitheatre, within which livestock
will be exhibited, and special features of
the fair, such as Indian races, carried
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-03-19
Wanted I'm Omaha.

Detectives McCane aud KIRBY to-day
arrested as suspicious character and on
a charge of vagraucy, a man who has
been passing himself off as Joseph Cum
mings the sprinter. When taken to the
station he was asked to bare his arms.
Divining the purport of the request, he
not only refused to do so, but engaged
the officers IN u lively scuffie before they
were able to remove his clothing so as TO
expose his arms, on which the follow
ing marks were found: Bust of a woman
and letters ct. E.'' on right arm,
and an eagle on left arm, all in India
ink. These marks tally with desrrip-
ton secured by the police of
Theodore EckIand, of Omaha, who was
sent from Carbon county, Wyoming,
June 8, 1885, for a term of four years to
the Illinois penitentiary at Joliet, for
burglary. Cummings was arrested in
February as a vagrant, but several wit
nesses giving him a good reputation, he
was discharged. In the meantime the
police looked up his record and to-day
were able to identify him as Theodore
Eckland, an ex-convict, and 10 prove
that be has been frauduleutly represent
ing himself as Cummings, the English
sprinter. His mother is living and
resides in Omaha.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-03-19
Supreme Court Decisions.

Special to the Gazette.
GALVESTON, TEX, March 1s.-Su-
preme court met to-day and handed
down decisions in the following cases:
Affirmed. Mass vs.. J. n. Chad
wick, Waller county; ] T. Harness VS..
the State of Texas, Mitchell county; A.
s. Newson vs.. the City of Galveston. .
Galveston county; Robert Miller VS.. the
City of Galveston, Galveston county;
John Swickel vs. the City of Galveston,
Galveston county: J NJ. Rogers VS.. the
Galveston City Railway Company, GAL
weston county; T. II. Smith. executor,
VS.. A. E. Westall, BraZoria county.
Reversed and remanded-The Texas
Land and Mortgage Company, limited ),
rs. w. B. Worsham ct al. Gonzales
county; E. J Biering & Co. VS.. Wegner
Brothers, Galveston county; Texas and
New Orleans Railway Company vs., Mary
CTowder ct al. Harris county; J. w.
Sam VS.. Hochstader Bros, Harris
county; w. T. Osborn ct al. VS.. Robert
Osborn, Red River county.
Reversed and rendered-A. W. Poun-
sey VS.. Margaret ] May ct al. Gonzales
county, Tor appellant; Marion Hunting
ton VS.. w. H. Crofton, BraZoria county
for appellant.
Reversed and dismissed--T. n. Huma-
son VS.. Moses lobe s. Sous, Harris
county.
Motions-L. J. Mlllican ct al. vs..
Annie g Rhodes ct al. Brazoria county,
motion of appellees for affirmation on
certificate overruIed; w. L. Sweeney VS..
A. and J q. Underwood, BrazUria county,
motion of appellees for affirmation on
certificate granted; Thomas Keller VS..
George w. Gaylor, Brazoria county,
motion Of appeleesS for affirmation on
certificate granted; j p. C. Mcneil VS.. Il.
Masterson, BraZoria county, motion of
appellees for affirmation on certificate
granted; NJ. B. Dunlavy VS.. Texas
Standard Cotton Oil Company,
motion of appellees for affirmation on
certificate overruled; NJ. j. Houston ct
al. VS.. G. p. Killough ct al, Burleson
county, motion of appellants for rehear-
ing submitted; the Yellow Pine Lumber
Company VS.. d. R. Carroll, Tyler
county, motion of appellant for rehear-
ing submitted; Mrs. Olympia Freybe VS..
Patrick Herman ct al, Galveston
county, motion of appellees for rehear-
ing submitted; r. G. Dansky vs. Frei-
berg, Klein s. Co., Galveston county,
motion of appellees for reheariDg sub
mitted;. John R. Sutor vs.. George w.
Wood, Hays county, motion Of appellant
for rehearing submitted.
CONSIDERATIONS Land and Cattle
Company, limited, VS.. J. w. Zoak ct
al. transferred from Tyler to Calves
ton.
Court then adjourned until the 21st
inst.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-03-19
AS OTHERS SEE US.
Fort WOrth's Need-It is the Country whici
Makes the Ciiy-Oplnions of People
From Abroad.

Editor Gazette.
Coming down from the Panhandle
wheat region to spend few days in Fort
Worth, by compulsIon, that is, being
detained here by imperative business, 1
have been surprised IN mixing with
you city people at your immense vanity.
Do you know, or don't you, that it is
the country that makes cities? The I'M
mense country tributary to Fort Worth so
rapidly developing, and now pouring the
millions into your Golfers and making
your astonishing bank clearings, and Of
such our Panhandle country is no
small factor; is higher than your peo-
pie seem 10 think. Looking around, l
find you have only seventy wholesale
houses, and not place built to put an
other in, when you should have 200.
What are your real estate people going
to do? Are you satisfied with your
present growth? If you had such peo-
pie as Kansas City has, in two years
you would do as they have done, Dor
row the money In Boston and build u
first-class city of 100 200 inhabitants.
We country people are doing our part
and hope you will keep up.
1t is a damage to us TO have Fort
Worth laying behind Kansas City. At
lanta or Richmond. Yes; you can
hardly tell how it stings US, to have
people from abroad say to us In a con-
fidential way, "Fort Worth has great
chance, but her people don't see it.
She is short of hotels, storerooms, and
facilities generally to do the business
offered her. - VERNON.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-03-19
The Meat Yield of Cattle.

Some one desires 20 know what weight
good beef cattle should dress. There IL
much variation in this, just as there Is
IN the amount of butter good COW is ex-
pected to furnish. Sixty pounds to the
hundred weight is a very good outcome +,
and good cattle may 20 pound or two
less. Strictly choice beeves, though,
should exceed sixty per cent, rather
than 90 below 1t. There are many cases
where this yield Is increased several
pounds To the hundred weight, and in
the Chicago Fat Stock show figures rang
ing from siXty-seveu to seventy pounds
have been secured. In his late testimony
before the the senate committee Armour
stated that the average dressed weight OF
his beef was about 5434 per cent. OF
gross weight. Good feeders should Of
course do better than this average of cat
tie of so many kinds and grades Ma
tioDal Stockman.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-03-19

The "World'' company held the
boards at the Academy last night, and
held them well. The cast of characters
was excellent and the scenery beyond
criticism. The beautiful scene of the
sinking ship and the raft scene on the
stormy ocean were two of the most real
istic and the finest stage effects eyer pro-
duced in Selma, and called forth tumult-
uous applause from the audience. Every
scene was well acted, and the unani-
nous verdict OF the audience was that
the performance was first class in all re-
spects. The applause bestowed on the
many thrilling situations of the play was
of that spontaneous and enthusiastic de-
scription that marks the genuine appre-
citation of an audience. Those who failed
to see "The World'' last night missed
one OF the most genuine dramatic treats
of the season.-[Selma Times.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-03-19
THE CONVENTION.
A Delegates Explanation of Why the Sud-
den Adjournment was Had.

A Delegates Explanation of Why the Sud-
den Adjournment was Had.
Fort Worth Gazette.
1 see by the report in THE GAZETTE
that the adjournment of the national
convention was caused by parties not
friendly to your city. I am sure that
this is a mistake.
There were many men in that conven-
ton who had schemes that they desired
TO put through the convention, and when
the motion TO confine speeches to five
minutes prevailed the schemers were
convinced that the stockmen were not
there in the interest of private or local
schemers.
We consulted with the stockmen, and
it was concluded that the majority of
the delegates would leave Fort Worth
on Friday morning. we did not feel
disposed 10 leave the convention IN the
hands of men that were not friendly TO
our interests, and We determined that the
best thing to do under the circumstances
was to adjourn.
/ assure you that your city has the
friendship of ali true stockmen, and
that the adjournment was not meant to
iujure Fort Worth.
The stoCkmen will ever remember the
big hearted aud liberal people of your
beautiful city, and the grand time that
we had there will be long cherished by
all. j. Q. HANNA,
Secretary Texas delegation.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-03-19

mountain ranges. He was in Fort Worth
for the purpose of purchasing FLOODED
cattle for his ranch aud bought from
different parties large number of Dur
ham and Hereford bulls, which he will
add to his herds on his immense cattle
domain. His ranch was originally
stocked with Texas grade cattle, tut he
has been continually improving and will
not stop until he has the best cattle in
Old Mexico. While in the city Senior
Clocte made many friends and ne will
always be welcome when he sees proper
to visit Texas.
Manager Clark of the Maloney ranch,
which is located in Old Mexico, south
east of Eagle Pass, was also IN the city
during the convention, and since the adj
journment has bought about 100 head Of
Durham bulls from different parties.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-03-19
Notes and Personals.

New Mexico is said to be full of sheep
buyers, and as q consequence the price
of sheep has materially advanced there.
The New Mexico quarantine law
against cattle from the so-called fever
districts of Texas, went into effect on the
18th inst.
The Columbia cattle company of Den
yer, Col. is reported to have made u
purchase or 10, 900 head of Texas cattle
recently.
While hog cholera plays havoc with the
swine in nearly all the Northern states,
killing thousands yearly, it is rarely
heard of i'll Texas.
Will Gilliland, the we'll known cattle
man who has been sick at the PIckwick
hotel since the convention, is about well
again, though he looks a little thin.
There passed through the city yester-
day, for Coffin Bros. of ltaska, a carload
of blooded jacks aud jennets from Ten
nessee. They were splendid animals. and
are fully acclimated.
One hundred head of cattle were found
frozen to death at Boulder, NJ. 7. about
two weeks ago. The temperature was
40 degrees below zero. A good many
cattle are reported to have been frozen
at other points in the West and North
west.
Harvey Speers of Arlington was IN the
city yesterday, and reports the sale of
twenty head of beef steers to J. H. Rob-
enson, ut 21a cents per 100 pounds. He
shipped three carloads of beeves to st.
Louis Monday, and ON Friday will ship
three carloads of beef steers and two
carloads of hogs to Chicago.
Nearly 5000 horses are slaughtered in
Berlin for food yearly. Hundreds of poor
people seldom taste any other kind of
meat. Foreign beef comes into Germany
under such restrictions as are almost pro-
hibitory, and American pork is shut out
entirely. To the unprotected labOrer and
the smaller tradesman meat is positively
q luxury.
In selecting breeding stock it is always
important to know whether they are
from a family noted for fertility. This
is an inherited quality and cannot be too
we'll established. Like all valuable
qualities in any domestic animal, it is
easily lost by bad management. 1t is
also desirable that the parent stock
should be of quiet disposition and even
temperament.
The flock owners of Colorado have had
a fiue winter just past. There has not
been a single storm, such as would de-
moralize and render flock of sheep I'M
manageable this winter. ana there have
been but few days when it has been too
stormy TO send fiocks out TO Craze Those
who have sheep to sell can get good prices
for them. Wool is low, tits true. but
there is bright expectation for improve
ment .-TField aud Farm.
Canadian papers state that there is
quite a scarcity OF frst-class stockers and
good beef cattle throughout the Domiu-
ion. The same thing is unquestionably
true of very many cattle growing dis.
tricts of the United States; in fact the
points from which a fair average supply
of either store or feed cattle are reported
are much more than balanced by those at
which the condition of things is just the
opposite. Cattle ought, therefore, to be
decidedly higher in price than they are
now.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-03-19
DALLAS.
a Negress Taken in Custody for Rob-
bing Blind Man-LivestOck Rates.
An Ex-Convict VITO Passed Himself on for
Cummings, the English Splinter
St Patriek's Night.
Rnhhed a blind Man.
THE GAZETTE BUREAU,
62T MAIN STREET,

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s27 MAIN STREET, I
DALLAS. TEX. March Is, 1880.
Fanny Pendleton, negress, was to-
day arrested for robbing a blind man
under the following circumstances: The
man, whose name is Govianna Pedro
guiana, came here a few days ago from
Kansas City to have his eyes treated by
DR.. Thompson. His money giving QUE,
he sent to Kansas City for more, and this
morning received SS0-three $40 bills and
two $40 bills-in a registered letter. He
took the money with him to his boarding
place, and laid down on the bed, hang
ing his coat, containing the envelope
with the money in au inside pocket, on
the headboar0. While he was lying
there a white woman and the negress
now under arrest called and requested
him to step into another room, saying,
81 want to talk with you He did so,
and while he was thus engaged the me-
gress went into his room and took the
money from his pocket. He discovered
his loss soon after and went to the office
of the county attorney, where he made
affidavit to the facts as here stated, and
the negress was arrested The county at
torney being doubtful OF his ability to tell
$40 or $40 bill from any other denom-
ination, tested the blind man with sew
eral bills as we'll as coins. He told the
number of the bills by sense of touch
correctly in every instance, and also
gave correctly the denominations Of the
different coins. He has one glass eye,
the other at present being sightless, max
ing his blindness total.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-03-19
Increase in Cattle Exports.

The transatlantic export in live cattle
from the United States began in the year
1875. In that year we sent over to Great
Britain 299 head, which comprised about
the sum total of all this class of exports.
In that year eleven other countries each
furnished the United Kingdom with sew
eral times as many cattle as were shipped
from the United States. In the first or
second year thereafter, though 1--WE are
not quite certain which) we had climbed
from Twelfth place to first place in the
trade, a position which We have ever
since held For some years We have been
furnishing from One-fouTth to One-half
of the United Kingdom s live cattle i'm
ports, and last year we furnished coEsid-
erably more than all other countries put
together. Of the 329 ,27l head exported
last year nearly all were shipped to
British norris
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-03-19
In Jail at LamDasaa.
Special to the Gazette.

Special to the Gazette.
LAMPAsAs, TEX, March 1S.-On the
night of the 27th of February William
Veal and Dock Sevels disappeared, and
at the same time two horses belonging to
other parties. Sheriff StillwPll advertised
them throughout Texas, and a few days
since learned that the parties were under
arrest in Trinity county. Sheriff Still
well went in search of the truants, and
last night returned. William Veal and
Dock Sivels are now here i'll jail to await
the action of the grand jury at the May
term Of the district court.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-03-19
AnUnInown Disease

Late news from Wyoming says that for
the past few weeks young stock has been
afflicted with disease that is unknown
10 our stoekmen. It attacks the las
spring calves as a rule. Soon after show
lug signs of the trouble they swell up, and
soon die. Another strange thing is that
it never lays hold upon the poor. scrawnv
ones, always selecting the ,fattest aud
sleekest The L. J. cattle company has
lost heavily in last spring calves, and
other stockmen have suffered more or
less loss
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-03-19
Heavy Losses in Oregon.

Advices of late date from Portland,
Oregon, says the loss of stock in the
state will probably be greater than in
any previous winter. The principal
losses will be in the southern and south
eastern parts of the state. There were
four feet of snow on the ranges and it
thawed and settled to two feet and then
fToze hard. Then more snow came +,
and cattle, sheep aud horses died in
large numbers.