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Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-09-11
FORT WORTH'S WATERMELON.
What Philadelphia Paper Has to Say of the
Gift to President Harrison.

What Philadelphia Paper Has to Say of the
Gift to President Harrison.
The PhiIadSphia Telegraph has the
~s'oPnolo the pa president Sc snt BY the he
members of the Fort Worth chamber
commerce:
Texas is certainly destined to be one of
the great states of the Union. Her
natural treasures are rapidly being
utilized, and her growing population
makes the visits of the census-taker de-
sirable. AS a token Of what Texas can
do, the members of the Fort Worth
chamber of commerce have sent Presl-
dent Harrison 100-Iound watermelon.
1t is no fiattery to say that this mighty
melon is au object of national interest.
The human eye likes to rest on anything
of unusual size, especially If the object
be edible. A giant potato or turkey is
drawing card at o county fair. Large
fruits and vegetables are dear to the
farmers heart. No one jeers at scars
save he who never felt a wound, and no
one speaks lightly of the prize melons
and cabbages save dog-in- the manger
scribes who cannot get away for a vaca-
ton,
Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-09-11

IN his Portland speech, which was
largely glorification of himself, Boss
Reed declared that congress should econ
omize further in the use of its time by
suspendIng the practice of adjourning
bad one by any means. But if the time
saved in that way for useful legislation,
is to be consumed in political legislation
for the benefit of the e. o. p, in wash
ing the party's dirty linen, and in pro-
fame and indecent harangues and slug
ging matches in the house, it would be
better to leave the situation as 1t is, or
until party takes the reins that can use
the time TO some purpose.
Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-09-11

The census is going to make some
startling revelations when published. 1t
is already ascertained that the value of
farms has declined so 200, 900 in the past
decade. Suppose that enormous falling
off in value were true OF manufactures
instead OF farms, would Brer Mckinley
tear his linen in an effort to remedy it by
raising the tariff still higher? Yet that
is the sort of logic with which he tries to
bamboozle the farmer when he asks him
to support his tariff bill.
Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-09-11

YE WHO live in luxury and fare sumpt-
uously every day, who enjoy the boon of
bodily health, without perhaps being
thankful for it, who know not what aches
and pains are, or what trials poor IN
fortunates willingly undergo to regain
health and the use of their members
think of the fate of Mrs. James G.
Blaine, Jr., the abandoned wife of q
young vagabond, who had her right arm
broken the other day by the surgeons,
and will have her right leg broken near
the knee in a few days more, with the
hope of Strengthening those members,
distorted by rheumatism.
Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-09-11
AN OLD SCORE REVIVED.

Two of the Woodpeeker- JaybIrd Followers
Have Spst- Likely to Cause Trouble.
Specialize the Gazette.
SAN ANTONIO, TEX. Sept. 3.-About
II o'clock this morning H. Booton o
Richmond, swore out three afidavits
against one Tom Smith of Fort Bend
county, one for making threats, one for
carrying a pistol and one for assault
with intent to kill. The man was put
under three bonds, amounting to $3.50,
which he promptly gave. 1t ap-
pears that Smith and Booton, who
belong respectively TO the two we'll
known Woodpecker and Jay bird factions,
met In front Of the Southern hotel, where
the trouble, which is said to have grown
out of the old political feud, ensued.
From words the affair went to blows, IN
til Smith slapped Boolon with one hand
and drew his pistol with the other.
Booton, who was unarmed, withdrew
aud made the above mentioned charges.
Both men have a number of friends with
them, and more trouble may ensue.
Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-09-11
SCALPED BY INDIANS.
Two Drunken Redskins Near Spokane Falls
Scalp Section Foremen.

Two Drunken Redskins Near Spokane Falls
Scalp Section Foremen.
SPOKANE FALLS, WASH. > Sept. L.
John Wolyertone, section foreman on
the Northern Pacific, was knocked down
and scalped by two drunken Indians near
Hope, few miles from Spokane Falls,
last evening. wolvertone was walking
on the track near the station when he
was met by two Indians, one
of whom he recognized as John Deer.
The red skins seemed considerably under
the influence of liquor. and Wolvertone
turned aside to allow them to pass. They
stopped him and asked him for liquor.
He replied that he had none.
when John Deer struck him a blow
over the head with club, knocking him
senseless. When Wolvertone recovered
consciousness sometime after he found
his scalp missing. He crawled to saloon
some distance away where he was cared
for. His condition is considered critical.
The Indians escaped.
Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-09-11

Col. FLANAGAN admits that he has a
mighty poor show to beat Hogg, but pro-
fesses to believe that the commission
amendment will surely fail. If the gal
liant colonel had the emphatic, cordial i,
enthusiastic and practically unanimous
Endorsement of Democratic conven-
would he then despair of an election? In
a campaign in which nothing direct is to
be gained by gasconade, the colonel
should not be nonsensical all the time.
Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-09-11
j. NJ. Wyatt to Mrs. L. I.
Brown, lot 2, block 16,
Field s subdivision, WEIGH

Brown, lot 2, block 16,
Fields subdivision, WEIGH
| survey Observation-Disclosures. 9 ,S75 90
J. NJ. Wyatt to J. Fl. TraIler,
lot 8, block 16, same .. 2,S75 90
The total transfers OF real estate in
Fort Worth for January, 1890, amounted
to 81 1864, Ills. 80.
The total transfers for February, 1890,
amounted to 81 ,746, ABS.
The total transfers for March, 1890,
amounted to 81 1896, S54.47.
The total transfers for April, 1890,
amounted to 1852 ,l6G.
The total transfers for May, 1890,
amounted to 81 ,289, 546.47.
The total transfers for June, 1890,
amounted 10 1868, 1926
The total transfers for July, 1890,
amounted to S524 $40. &C.
The total transfers for August, 1890,
amounted to $3.50 ,662 SO.
The largest aggregate sales for one day
in January amounted to S6l5 ,440. so.
The largest aggregate sales for one day
in February amounted to S31S ,74O.
The largest aggregate sales for one day
in March amounted 10 1924 $50.
The largest aggregate sales for one day
in April amounted to S191 1852.
The largest aggregate sales for one day
in May amounted to S6l5 ,794. 81.
The largest aggregate sales for one day
in June amounted to S2l9 ,03I.
The largest aggregate sales for one day
n july amounted to S74 ,432 .2l.
The largest aggregate sales for one day
In August amounted TO SLY 40. so.
Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-09-11

HON. G. WARWICK CLARK, at present
Eoiourning in Washington, arraigns the
farmers of Texas for managing the
politics" of the state. most auda-
cious thing, TO be sure! The farmers
ought to be ashamed of their impudence.
Do they not know that their place is be-
tween the pillow handles, and not in con-
ventions? What right have they to place
their programmed feet on the neck of such
q patriot as the bounding Warwick?
Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-09-11
ENGLAND AND THE IRISH FAMINE.
reprimand

The irish famine, which is now as
Stunning alarming proportions, is as much
q tax on this couutry-a voluntary tax oil
course-as the burdens of the Mckinley
bill, alike in kind and differing only in
amount. In the one case our contribu-
tions go to starving foreigners, the sub
5ects of powerful ruler, and the citi-
zens Of the wealthiest nation IN Christen-
dom. In the other they go into the
pockets of u favored few among our
selves, rich, arrogant and greedy. We
tax ourselves to the tune of hundreds of
| millions annually to bestow enormous
and put our hands in our pockets to feed
the starving of other nations. A gener-
GUS people to be sure.
England robs the peasantry of Ire
land through her land laws and her
landlords, ard when starvation comes,
as it surely does every few years, the gen.
erous people of this country are permit
ted, il not expected by the robber nation
TO supply that which she has exacted or
plundered from her own people. Gen.
erous Americans are expected to send
raiment to the plucked and plundered
subjects of Christian England, besides
the millions that are sent over in money.
FAMINE or no famine enormous sums are
sent annually by immigrants and friends
in this country to relatives in Ireland to
help pay rent and taxes and keep
enough potatoes, almost the sole food,
on band until another crop natures.
There is scarcely q town in the United
States in which one or more Irish boys or
girls, earning their own living, do not
send part of their earnings regularly to
parents or relatives in the old country.
From the cities hundreds of thousands go
in this way annually. The total of these
contributions annually is enormous. In
famine years it is swelled to.a stupendous
sum. These millions go ultimately into
the pockets Of the nom resident landlords
who spend it gambling and dissipating
in Europe.
The contributions sent from this coun-
try to Ireland 10 feed and clothe the
starving and naked are a virtual tax
upon this country as though laid by the
British government. X i: virtual taxa
tion without presentation, and is all
the more hateful, odious and damnable
because the miseries woes and wretched-
ness of the Irish poor are made the occa-
sion of it. OF course no complaint is
made about the charitable disposition of
Americans. On the contrary, too much
cannot be said in praise of it. It has re-
lieved many a pang of hunger in county
Glare and Kerry.
But what ought to be said of the laws
and rulers of a mighty nation that, by
plundering and stripping their own peo-
pie of their substance, impose this char
liable duty upon foreign and distant
people! Is it not the acme of rapacity.
and shamelessness?
Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-09-11

THE San Antonio Express and other
papers argue very ably and correctly in
favor of married women as school
teachers. There are arguments, plausi-
BILE and cogent on both sides of the ques-
ton. But it seems that any ruling that
excludes married women-among which
class is found the greater number of
competent, experienced and capable
teachers-from the school-room, is plao-
ing ban and stigma of unfitness and
disqualification on the sex strangely out
of harmony with the spirit OF the age,
which is rapidly enfrauchising woman,
the spheres of her activity.
Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-09-11

Ex-Governor JARVIS of North Caro-
lima declined the presidency of the Agri-
cultural and Mechanical college of that
state because he did not feel himself
qualified for the position. Let future
o"upilers OF geography state that North
Carolina is noted for tar, pitch, turpen-
tine and modest ofice-holders.
Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-09-11

transferred through commercial credit
which appears TO be unusually healthy.
Business failures occurring throughout
the country during the past seven days
number 203 as compared with total of
lS9 last week. For the corresponding
week of last year the figures were 20l.
Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-09-11

ACCORDING to the official report of the
New Orleans cotton exchange, the crop
of 1890 amounts to 1911 1929 bales, an
excess of PCS, 49S over any cotton crop
ever grown. Come on with the factories
the South makes the cotton.
Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-09-11

A TRIFLE over 26OO farms were sold by
the sheriff in Kansas during the past six
months. That officer is doing O land Of
fee business in acreage of property in a
state where the farmers have been fall
ing over each other for years in their
eagerness to vote for Plumb, ingalls, and
the tariff. Did not the Chicago platform
of two years ago reclte bit of humbug-
gerry about free trade promoting nothing
but the calling of the auctioneer and the
sheriff? How much worse could the con-
dition of the Kansas farmer be under
any sort of trade, free or otherwise than
it Is? But as he is mainly the architect
OF his own misfortunes, let US not save
our tears.
Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-09-11

WHAT with Reeds brutal hectoring
Cannon's vulgarlty, Blaine's bogus rec
iprocIty and Harrison's pig-headedness,
the G. o. p. does not know whether it is
on its head or feet.
Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-09-11
Ireland Urged to Run for Congress.
eciaI IN the Gazstta

SEGUIN, TEX, Sept. 6.-Oxcart John
Ireland IS friends are receiving numerous
and enthusiastic letters from his former
friends throughout this entire congress
sional district urging him to be candidate
for congress before the convention to
meet at Gonzales, and 1t now seems that
his friends here are determined to bring
him forward. When he speaks or writes
no one is in doubt about bis meaning.
Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-09-11
A FATAL MISHAP.
Mans arm So Mangled in Gin that He dag
from the Loss of Blood.

Special to the Gazette.
RocKDALE, TEX, Sept. AT his gin
house, about seven miles south of town,
Mr.. David Thompson met with an aoci-
dent yesterday afternoon, which resulted
in his death at O'Clock this morr-
ing. In attempting TO clean
the saws of the gin his arm
was caught ana terribly lacerated. Be-
fore competent assistance could be OBJ
tanned, he had bled to a condition from
which no human art could save him.
Mr.. Thompson was one of Milan g most
honorSd and substantial citizens. He
leaves family well provided for, as the
result of his life IS work.
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state Farmers, League Incorporated.

ALBANY, N. Y, Sept. 6.-The New
York State Farmers League was incor-
porated by, the secretary of state to-day.
The object for which the league is formed
is to unite the farmers of The state for
political action and to secure the fedora
ton of all farmers organizations IN the
state. The principal uffios of the League
will be in the town OF Stanfordsville,
Dutchess county.
Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-09-11

Mr.. GEORGE GOULD 1t is said will run
the Western Union, vice Dr. Norvin
Green, superRnnnated. Mrs. George
VIII continue TO run the union in the
East, with two little Goulds as auyil-
liarIes.
Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-09-11

was afterwards srraiened by the COM
pany for stopping his train to milk
COW, but upon declaring that he felt it to
be his duty, and one that he would do
again, ne was let off with good-natured
reprimand
Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-09-11

GAIN of nineteen representatives in
Vermont is the best Democratic play of
the season. Hurrah for the Green
mountain boys!
Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-09-11

Hon. CHARLES STEWART of the Fifth
congressional district is another of the
fortunate members to enjoy the distin-
Ruished honor of unanimous reelection
Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-09-11

to congress. Texans have a wholesouled
way of testifying their regard for and
confidence in their public men, when
found true to their trusts.
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y. BRLCKETT REED is not filling the
position FOR which nature intended him.
lie should have become baseball UNI
pire.
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Editor Gazette:
Can you give the present status Of the position
of tine probable opening of Indian Territory?
When 1t may be expected, etc.,
No one can tell anything about it.
There is no such scheme on hand as the
"opening of the Indian Territory. The
government is making an effort to pur-
chase the Cherokee Strip from the Cher
okee Indians, having in the last year
purchased other areas from different
tribes of Indians with a view to declaring
the whole open to settlement and incor-
poreting it with the new territory of
Oklahoma. This plan Will probably be
carried out during the coming winter, so
that settlers can put in a crop next wear.
But nothing certain can be said about it.
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A NEW COURTHOUSE.

Contractor Ratican will have the Riv-
erside electric street car line completed
before October 10.
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NOTHING is commoner than to hear it
said that railroad employees are an I'M
oblgiing set of fellows. A Kansas story
does not confirm the idea. A baby tray
cling over the Santa Fe with its mother
became hungry, its bottle being empty,
and no milk to be had at any of tie sta
lions. Its cries distressed the poor
mother so grievously the conductor
stopped the train, while trainman went
into an adjoining lot and MIXED COW.
Thus supplied, the train sped on to the
great joy of everybody, but especially
the mother and babe. The conductor
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Total transfers September to date. 49,, 5l1. SO
Total transfers 1880 to date. IL 52I sI2 O6
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FOR SALE OR EXCHANGE.

A well improved Farm OF 533i9 acres OF land in
johnson COZ unity, AZ miles south of Mansfield;
All acres in prairie and l22l$ in timber miles
distant. improvements consist OF 1 dwelling
Of rooms and good outbuildings. also, ? tenant
houses; well watered. Price. so per acre, u
cash, balance to suit purchaser; 10 per cent on
deferred payments. Will exchange for good
Panhandle or Western lands. Apply to
JOHN CASSTEVENS,
Mansfield, Tex.
Or, P. A. HUFFMAN & CO.,
Fort Worth, Tex.