Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-09-12
LOCALITIES.

Tonight the Sons of Veterans will hold
special meeting to transa Ct important business
The camp will meet at Gil Main street, upstairs
A great deal of cotton was marketed in Fort
Worth yesterday; in fact, 1t was about the
heaviest day this market has had this season.
The recent rise in quotations ia the cause.
The cotton compress at Fort Worth has
handled o. yer $500 bales of the staple this year.
Business is brisk at that institution, many
han DIS are busily employed, and the place wears
an aspect of great activity.
A letter from Col. Webb Flanagan, Republic
can nominee for governor of Texas, has been
received in this city wherein the gentleman
states that he will soon be in Fort Worth to
wake things up. In other words he Will make
speech.
The ladies of the auxiliary to the Young
Mems Christian Association and all other ladies
who are interested in the work are requested to
meet at their rooms, corner Rusk and Fifth
streets, this day Friday ~. at o. clock p. m.
MRS. ]. P. SMITH, Preside Mt.
Yesterday there was left at THE GAZETTE
office bunch of fine pears grown by Mrs. NJ. j.
Loving, corner Macon and West Seventh
streets, Fort Worth. The fruit were fine sam
pies of their variety, and speak well for the
productiveness of Fort Worth soil.
Last night an attachment was filed in flle office
of the clerk of the court against N J. Knox of
Arlington. dealer in general merchandise. The
amount could not be learned exactly, but 1t is
not over $1,000. Sheriff Richardson and Deputy
Rea drove out to Arlington about IL O'CLOCK TO
serve the papers.
Later particulars from the runaway engine on
the Fort Worth and Denver railway which was
reported in THE GAZETTE yesterday morning
develop that the wild race resulted in 3 col
lision with incoming train, and much dam
age to the two locomotives, though fortunately
nobody was hurt by the accident.
The chamber of commerce is still in the field
for membership. 1t is astonishing after the
record of accomplishments presented b. this
body since its formation that any citizen who
has the welfare of Fort Worth at heart can stand
by and refrain from aiding in 1.-THE great work.
The latest accession to the ranks is Mr.. W. A.
Barter, who joined yesterday.
At the annual election of the Democrat Pub
fishing company yesterday the following direc-
tors were elected: Mrs. w. A. Huffman,
James w. Swayne, George B. Hendricks. E.
w. Taylor and w. L. Malone. Mrs. w. Huff
man was elected president w. L. Malone vice
president. Wallace Hendricks secretary and
George B. Hendricks treasurer.
Yesterday afternoon a laboring man in the
employment of Contractor Hurley was put under
the treatment of a competent doctor for screw
worms which were operating in his eyes. The
insidious insects could be plainly seen at work
in the eyelid, which was swollen to the width of
suit of a night spent in the woods while under
the influence of liquor. The man was suffering
awful agony.
A few days ago there appeared in the special
Washington correspondence of a Texas paper of
some repute the statement that one G. W.
Davenport had been commissioned postmaster
at Fort Worth, an announcement that greatly
astonished the present incumbent of the office,
Mrs. Burchill. The statement a careless
bluuder. No such commission has been made
Davenport was commissioned to a fourth-class
office. The error was probably in the name,
Yesterday afternoon an old woman applied to
Mrs. B. NJ. Burchill, and afterwards to Alder
man J. P. Nicks, for assistance to get to Lam
nosas Tex She hailed from the Indian Terri
tory and had only 81 with which to continue
her journey. AS she spoke freely to Mr.. Nicks
about her houses and lots, horses and carriage
in Lampasas, he did not think it a where
the public charity fund could properly apply.
Yesterday Officer Sebe Maddox stopped about
every body he met in the city to inquire if he or
she had met or knew "a colored woman named
Polly Harper - Nobody knew the party. She
was wanted in connection with ring found in
leading iewelry shop which she had taken there
to get cut down. The ring is the property of
member of the hooking klub. for it bears the
letters tx. K.'' set in garnet on the gold ring
Officer Maddox has the article.
1t is probable that sprinting contest for
blood will break the monotony in sporting cir
cIes in Fort Worth in a short time. The
hundred yards dash made on labor day at tn
Rosedaie pavilion was won by q cigar
maker named Miller. some say fairly,
of the Fort Worth Union is now anxious to meet
Miller, and race for purse has about been ar
ranged. Then there is another man whose
name is withheld who is willing to stake his
pile that he can defeat the winner OF the con-
test.
raised platform is being placed in the audi
torium of the board of trade building with a
view to accommodating the mammoth con-
vention Of business men and manufacturers
which convenes in this city on September "A for
the purpose OF devistng ways and
means to induce capital to seek
this state and accomplish its purpose.
This auditorium while one of the handsomest
and most pleasant in the South is not large, and
evidence accumulates each day that win not be-
gin to accommodate the large throng OF Texas
most influential men which will congregste in
this city on the date mentioned. 1t is under
stood that the opera house will be brought into
USE In any event the platform in the Board of
Trade auditorium will not come amiss.
Does Fort Worth want any more baseball this
season? In short time Manager McClosky will
be in Dallas with team of sphere manipulators
who will hold down that city during the fall on
the Joint stock plan. The Dallas people will
SEND McClosky the tickets for his men, ten or
eleven and they will play in various cities on the
way down. Arriving IN Dallas they will suhsist
on what they can make. 1t is believed that they
will be able to do very well-for Texas ball
players. 4 Fort Worth man, whose interest in
the national game has not been altogether killed
by observations in Texas during late years,