Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-10-10
LOCALITIES.

Mr.. William Capps has been elected
secretary of the Mail publishing COM
pany, vice John NJ. Conner, resigned.
Capt. c. &. Wood caught out of the
| West Fork of the Trinity yesterday two
| large blue catfish, weighing respectively
forty-two and fifty pounds.
The Fort Worth police benevolent as
ISOLATION met yesterday N orning and
| transacted routine business. The or
senization is IN fine shape.
In the county court yesterday in the
case of Walsh VS.. the Santa Fe Railway
| Co. judgment was given the plaintiff for
! 1898. Burned grass was the ground of
action.
The Unitarian church society will COM
mence services again next Sunday moru-
ing at Huffman hall. Sunday-school
at 10 and preaching by Rev. n. Schultz
at II O CLOCK.
The stranger passing through the South
Side will observe in many OF the streets
the weeds have been cut according to or
dInance. He will also observe that in
other streets the weeds have not been cut.
Three marriage licenses were ground
out yesterday, the happy couples being
Mr.. Douglas Irving and Miss Virga jam
ison, Mr.. F. p. Walker and Miss Eta
o. Farris, and Mr.. W. F. Valentine and
Miss Anne D. Runnels.
Professor Windsor, the phrenologist,
lectursd last night at the Huffman hall
on phrenoiOgy. He had full house
again, and sustained the interest of his
audience throughout the address. He
closes his lectures on Saturday.
The wires for the city's arc light sys-
tenn have been about oil strung. The
globes have not been fixed on, though the
arms stretching into the streets have
been about all put up. The system is
expected to be in working order by No.
yember l.
The postoffice department, recognizing
the growing need for street mailing facil-
tiles in Fort Worth, has placed in the
business part of the city large boxes
painted a gay and gaudy red for the
mailing of papers and large packages.
The innovation is appreciated by those
who have beer in the habit of mailing
large amounts of advertising matter and
such.
Yesterday morning there was held at
the old Spring Palace Office a meeting
of the directors of that institution for
the winding up of business. About q
dozen members of the directorate were
on hand. The accounts were gone over
and amounts due on subscriptions and
otherwise were put in the hands of
committee for collection. Arrangements
were made for the paying off of all
claims against the Spring Palace COM
pany.
About 2:30 o'clock yesterday morning
fire alarm was turned in from box 7,
corner Pecan and Weatherford streets.
The department was quick to respond,
but the alarm was false. Chief
Don Adams was seriously hurt
in the attempt to get to the
scene of the supposed confiagration on
time. He attempted to catch q hose
wagon while going at full speed, but he
missed the step and fell heavily on the
pavement. His injuries will lay him up
for day or two. He was getting along
nicely last evening.
The general order bulletin of the rail-
way mail service issued by Superinten-
dent Weaver, from the headquarters of
the Eleventh division at Fort Worth, I'M
der date of October s, contains the re-
suit of the case examinations for Sep
TENDER. Seventy mine clerks were ex-
amined, handling so, $40 carts and Imak-
ing an average per cent. of 96.13. The
names of clerks deserving special men,
ton are: G. W. Ratliff, K. Bottorf,
w. n. Mcconnell, j. w. Lougstreet,
r. w. Turner, Wayne Foster, 1. n.
Smith. f. S. Campbell, II. L. Cary, II.
E. Trylor. C. n. Garner, W. e. Camp
bell, w. NJ. Swift. J F. Anderson, D. !
Fallon, George Burdick, w. w. Goo
gerty, j. c. Mccullough, T. Fl. Bailey,
d. T. Hart, j. L. Oliver, Leon Morris,
H. E. Redenbaugh, Fl. B. Vaughan,
King Grain, E. F. Giles, 7. A. Bedford, |
A. 7. Nibbs, o. c. Alspaugh, W. l.. |
Smith.