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Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-12-28

Ing the ena"tment of laws restricting and regu-
lating migration. The recent disclosures OF
deception and bad treatm mt practicsd on emf
grants TO Brazil are male the pretext for the
proposed action. but the real motive is to
prevent loss to the empire OF males from whom
military service would at some time be due.
he kasier is said to have himself suggested the
necessity of retaining all sound and healthy
males until they have performed the legal toll
Of military service.
Inc kaiser has aso ordered an inquiry into
the methods aud objects OF the Internal onal
Sociaiis: league which takes in nearly all
of continental Eurone except Russia and to
which The hungarian Socialists have just given
their adhesion. While going farther than
Ri marck in trying to appease popular
the emperor sternly set his face against inter
national agitation and will not tolerate the
amalsamation OF German with foreigE organiza-
tions.
THE SCOTTISH RAILWAY STRIFE
is in fair way of settlement. The companies
find it hard enough to contend with the weather
prolonged struggle witt their employees,
and the traffic Of North Britain is
At a. stsndsi Thu unit, settlement !aansd
that the unemployed would q ok in to take the
strikers places, but they were disappointed.
The railway unions of Great Britain are thor-
ough!y ORGANIZED and keep well in hand even
those of their members VINO are out oil work, and
the strikers with Caledonian prudence had laid
means beforehand tor struggle Of six weeks
before nav ing 10 ask aid from anyhoiy. The
contes being resolved to an issue of endurance,
the companies could less afford than the
strikers to lie idle for six weeks. and
besides the British public would not stand it.
The strikers chose time when travel
by water is almost unendurabie in the stormy
pillows of the Nor h an / irish seas, and when
travellers must go by rail not al all. Consul
tations now being held, which it is hoped
will result in a Compromise honorable to all
parties.
AID FOR THE EyICTED.
The tenants evicted from the Smith Berry
estate who have been for some time past on the
short commons will receive with pls asure to-
days news that the funds held II Paris tls
National league ara to be used for their support
however the conflict between the two fac .OnS
may go. This arrangement has been arrived
by Timothy Harr !ngton, acting for Parnell
and O'Brien for the McCarthyites II was
eminertly requisite that some such unde stand
ing should be consented t.. otherwise the plan
of campaign would have forthwith collapsed.
1 idetd it is very doubtful tina: IL can be main
tanel as the faith of the evictee tenants in the
natural ctuse is so seriously shaken that some
openly and others secretly are making peace
with their land .ords.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-12-28
A FATAL SHOOTING.
A Christmas Eve Fight in Mississippi
Town Renewed-Four Men Shot. One
Killed. Two Fatally Wounded.

New ORLEANS, La, Dec. 27.-A Lumberton,
Miss, special says: Daniston. a small town
one and one-half miles below here. was the
scene Of fatal shooting ARRAY this atternooH
about o. clock, in which four men were shot
one being killed instantly and two
Others fatally wounded. The trouble oriSi-
mated in fight on Christmas over
near Red Top, between four men,
F. 1. Favre, Ore Parker. Neal Strhhsn and john
Hickman. when Favre fred on the crowd killing
Parker and dangerously wounding the other
two. Favre was arrested and placed in Files
vile Jail for safe keeping by J. F. Cocie. JUS
tice OF the peace of precinct No. /. Justice OF
the Peace ]. NJ. Smith of dis
trict No. dispatched deputy sheriff, w w.
Stockstile. with tine necessary papers to obtain
Favre's release on bond. Sheriff Shigers hear
ing Of his release, summoned his deputies and
came to DayIston on a local freight to re-arrest
lavre. just as the train came to a halt firing
began. Farve was killed instantly, and Sheriff
j. NJ. Shivers was shot through the left lung
with Winchester ball. and Deputy Sheriff T. X.
White was shot with pistol. the bali passing
through him and coming out on the right side.
Bo'h the latter are pronounced mortaiiy
wounded. The two wounded shefifs were
brought to this place, whore they are receiving
the best attention.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-12-28
Moran.Eood Contest.

WEATHERFoRD, Tex, Dec. Is, 1850.
Editor Gazette.
note in your paper to-day my reply to crit
icism for which am under obligations. 1 wish
to make an explanation. however. in
connection with it. / stated from memory
the vote OF this county for the commission
amendment to be 1850. This proves incorrect.
The vote as shown by the official returns WIS
1913. This may seem immaterial to you,
but lest my motives may be impugned
l send you a m irktd copy of the Daily
Constitution of November II, which was nv au-
thority, and went unchallengad at the time and
l thought correct, but it reversed the hgu res
of the vote upon the two amendments, as shown
b. the record.
If my motives are impu gned / hope This state
ment will appear in explanation:
II. S. MORAN.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-12-28
OpponenIto Ingalls,.

TOPEKA, KAN, Dec. 27.-Jerry Simpson. the
Farmers Alliance congressman elect from the
Seventh district is becoming dangerous q
senatorial candidate in the race for the seat
made vacant By the expiration OF Inga Is term.
Thef ermers Of the Seventh district have
poused his and the Thru and
Sixth district farmers have caught the conta-
gion and the ''socsess statesman" Is develop
ing good senatorial bonn.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-12-28
rarrs, Practice at a Negro Daues

PINE BLUFF, ARK, Dec. 27.-Meagre details
were received here to-day of bloody ARRAY at
Swan Lake, in Africa, this county. Two
groes reported dead and ten injured. This
row originated a; dance, and target practice
was kept up all night. No names are oDtsina-
BILE because Of the excitement.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-12-28

DR.. n. F. Fisher will devote the time
from to 9 p. NJ. on Tuesday and Fri.
day of each week, beginning FEIiGaa6
uary 2, 1891. to the tEsaf11 u worthy
specialistsSsaD0 led with diseases of the
eys.d Throat and nose, charging only
q Nominal sum for medicines furnished.
Office 5l4 Houston, corner Fifth street.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-12-28
HEESONiL.

f. Saunders of Austin will spend Sunday in
Fort Worth.
TT Atkinson of Henrietta is registered at
the Pickwlck.
Ed. S. Lockett ef Dallas is in the city, stop
ping at the Mansion.
F. w. Brazeton OF Cleburne is in the city. He
is stopping at the Ellis.
Mrs Go. don Randall of Dallas is spending the
holidays with relatives in this city.
Mr.. John L. Brown OF Jackson. Tenn, is the
guest of Mrs. r. A. Sneed, S0I Florence street.
Col. John W. Ruster OF Dallas, the well
known cattleman. was in Fort Worth yesterday
Mrs. o. S. Bronson of Eureka, Kan, sister of
Mrs. j. B. Roberts, / visiting the latter in this
city.
Rev. R. NJ Tinnon arrived home last night
and Will fill his pulpit to-day, morning and
evening.
D. D. Mcconnell, editor and proprietor of the
Vernon Cal. was in the city. yesterday and
called at THE GAZETTE Office.
W. g. Randall came from Dallas last
night and will spend Sunday with Mrs. Ed F.
Warren, on Jennings avenue.
Mr.. Robert Msbry, an old Fort Worth boy,
but at present representa- a commercial house
in Jefferson, is here for the holidays.
Mrs. Laura L. Small and her two bright little
Gaughtsr%, of Tyler, have been spending the
Christmas holidays with friends in the city
D. E. Duggan and wife and Miss Mary 4. Ball
of Sioux City, Ia, spent Yesterday in Fort
Worth, the guests OF Air, and Mrs. F. W. Tib-
be IS.
Thomas Brewer Peacock, the poet is stop
ping in the CITY. He is en- route to TIE sunny
South TO winter there. He is accom- panied By
his wife and his only child. limke son. Mr.
PEACOCK is the poet who has so lddenly &C.
CURED fame in the North by his foems of the
aims portions OF which v copied all
over. Il few words of praise froI kathew Ar
hold were to the book brilliant king.
5: |: $: !; ! %; :; :
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1890-07-02

work performed by the ponies" con.
tinued Colonel Majors, ''was In the de-
nvering OF one Of President Buchanan's
messages in q few hours over eight days.
The message was received in st. Joseph
by wire, Immediately placed upon light
manifolding paper and given to the mes
senger. The pony was of like the wind.
Forty of the little fellows were required
to do the work and it was done to the
queens taste. But the telegraph camo
soon." said Colonel Majors, sadly, land
that broke the pony's back. Later the
railroads came and we had to stop our
wagons and close up our business"
The pony express company employed
abcu six hundred of the hardy little
animals indigenous to the West. Post
houses were maintained every ten
miles, at which several OF the ponies
were always kept. Tho run for each
animal was ten miles without rest
And it was a run, too. Nota step of the
way was walked or trotted. For ten
miles the driver urged his carrier and
the horse fairly flew over the familiar
ground, whether it was mountain or
prairie, plain or desert. Each rider
rode three horses without resting, and
there was one fellow, loose, easy-go-
Ing daredevil who always rode sixty
miles at that breakneck speed without
resting. At the post-house, the man in
charge stood in front of the door hold
ing the charging pony that was to carry
the approaching rider. With rush the
expressman came. There was cloud
of dust jump an instantaneous
change of the small, light saddle bags
carried and in ten seconds from the mo-
ment of his arrival the rider was on the
rearing little animal that was so anx-
ious to be off. Away they went with
plunge and shout, to be lost moment
later in a cloud of flying dust. The
ponies entered into the spirit of their
work quite as fully as the men bestride
them. They never faltered, whether
the night was dark or the road uncer-
tain. 1t was always plunge ahead as
if on ride where life and death were
concerned. In his "Roughing It," Mark
Twain tells of his first and last sight of
the pony express from a stage coach
window. The humorist pays a high
tribute to the pl ucky little horses and
the daring fellows who rode them, clos
ing thus:
$50 sudden is it all, and so like a flash
of unreal fancy, that but for the fake
of white foam left QuiVering and per-
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1890-07-02
LOCOMOTIVE CEMETERY.
what IL Done With Engines After Their
Term of Usefulness II Ended.

What IL Done with Engines After Their
Term Of Usefulness II Ended.
Near the Chicago, Milwaukee & 81.
Paul shops, at West Milwaukee, there
rs cemetery where WORKOUT loco
motives complete the metamorphosis
which they, no less than the men who
made them, inevitable undergo. Lately
lot OF old engines from all parts of the
st. Paul system have been brought to
Milwaukee to be broken up and con-
verted into scrap-iron, and now some
fifty of them stand on the side-track
west of the shops. They form line
moro than quarter of a mile long, and
there is something picturesque about
their rusty dilapidation. Almost every
style of locomotive is represented, from
the old-time wood-burner, with its
bullying smoke-stack and comparatively
clumsy mechanism, to the more
modern coal-burning engine that
has been set aside, not because it Is
worn out, but because it is too light for
the sort of work locomotive has to do
nowadays. Some OF those light engines
have been sold to small roads in various
parts of the country. Many of the loco
motives have been very nearly reduca&
to scrap-iron as the result of collisions,
and have been taken to the shops merely
to have the process completed. One Of
them has had its boiler pushed back.
ward through the cab, its pilot knocked
of, the working parts of the engine dis
membered, and the smoke-stack hangs
over with q melancholy lop, like the
head OF an expiring fowl. Even the
number disappeared in the general col
lapse, and the old iron steed has lost its
identity. One of the most antiquated-
appearing engines at the shops is one
that was lately brought up from Sa-
vannah, where it was used for
transfer purposes. Its smoke-stack
has an ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS appearance,
and the whole locomotive bulges on all
sides in most preposterous manner.
Its boiler is low and its cab is high, and
the engine cylinders stick out beyond
the dwarfed drive-wheels in a way that
gives the old engine very mummy ap-
pearance. Compared with the huge,
powerful locomotives now in use, it is
an absurd looking old concern.
Many of these iron hulks have an in
teresting history; some of them have
been great travellers in their time, and
have traversed almost every part of
the United States. As for the number of
miles that have been run by these fifty
retired locomotives, it would, if COM
puted, amount to something colossal in
figures. Each locomotive in use now
travels from IS, 600 to 100000 miles
year, and in 1889 the 7s3 locomotives in
service on the St. Paul road travelled an
aggregate distance of 10, 10000 miles.
Milwaukee Wisconsin.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1890-07-02
THE FAST MAIL.

ishing after a vision had flashed by and
disappeared, we might have doubted
whether we had seen any actual man or
horse at all, may be-"
William Cody, Buffalo Bill" had his
first experience on the plains as pony
express rider at the age Of eighteen.
He rode over route that lay Just along
the eastern slope of the Rockies. He
was considered one Of the bravest of all
the brave lot.
The precious stuff carried by these
messengers was made up Of business
communications of the greatest impor-
lance. No love letters freighted with
promises and verses ever weighed the
ponies, and no bulky newspapers were
carried as m@il. The ponies were light
~ shod, If they wore any Shoes at all;
the riders were clothed as simply as the
weather would allow, and every mes
sage conveyed was written on the thin
nest of paper and folded into the least
possible space. The messages were
placed in light saddle-bags, which were
thrown over the small racing saddles
used. The bags were the only thing
changed, the new pony always having
stood, saddled, ready for the express
man to jump on his back.
The ponies started from Sacramento
and St. Joseph daily, so that there was
a continuous procession of the little
racers extending both ways across tn
great West Despite the fact that five
dollars letter was charged as express
age, the scheme lost money for it's man
ayers and Colonel Russell died a poor
man largely as result of his efforts to
maintain the pony express. The tele.
graph came about the time the ponies
began paying for themselves, and with
it came the end of one of the most re.
markable institutions in the always
wondrous annals of the great West.
No Sunol Axtel or Palo Alto ever re-
ceived better care or more petting than
these wild, tough ponies of the plains,
and in their rough, big-hearted way the
miners and pioneers cheered the little
fellows as they sped along, and in every
camp and within every stockade their
virtues and wonderful work were laud'
ed to the skies.-Kansas City Times.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1890-07-02
THE DuELIsT BOUGHT Off.
How the Honor of Scrupulous french.
- man Was Satisfied.

How the Honor Of . Scrupulous french.
- man Was Satisfied.
The French craze for dueling reached
during the time Of the restoration its
most extravagant development. Nine.
de Bassonville gives a striking example
of this frenzy In her memoirs. The
royal body-guard at that time was COM
posed for tho most part Of arrogant aris-
tocrats, and was by no means favorite
corps. The popular wit lost no oppor-.
tunity Of ridiculing the objects of its
antipathy. One evening at ball In
the opera-houso the Viscount Siran-
dior, an officer of the guard, was talk
ing with q friend, when suddenly an
unknown man came up and boxed the
Viscount's ears. The result was natur.
oily tremendous sensation.
The stranger craved par6or. ut once
and said he had made mistake in the
person, but the apology was not eshsid-,
cred sufficient to prevent duel. The
aggressor was an American, and on the
fold of combat he received a sword
thrust through the arm. The Viscount
was still dissatisfied and a fortnight
later he again challenged his adver-
sary, who, in the meantime, had re.
covered from his injury, and this time
gave him dangerous wound in the
breast. The Yankee recovered sec.
ond time and promptly took ship for his
home in Louisiana.
In the meantime the local papers OF
the French capital teemed with jests
and sarcasms. 1t was said that the peo-
pie who were killed in duels by the off.
GERS of the body guard always turned up
afterward in excellent health, etc., etc.
This determined Sirandier to follow his
opponent to Louisiana. In New Orleans
he presented himself before his foe and
declared, with great frankness, that he
must kill him. The Southerner asked
if the nobleman's hatred was not yet
satisfied
II don't hate you at all, my dear sir"
replied the Frenchman, politely, but
owe it to my military position to take
your life"
''Then resign!" promptly suggested
the Louisianaian.
but have no property"
''Oh! is THAT where the trouble lies?"
said the American, overjoyed. Then
have way to help US both. I have a
pretty daughter; marry her and I'll give
you 1000, 900 francs as dowry.'
The Viscount found the lady charm
ing. fell in love with her and married a
fortune, which permitted him to give
up his military career and spare the life
of his father-in-law.-Excha
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1890-07-02
DIDN'T QUITE CATCH ON.

Tho Suffering Mans Wit Was Little
Too Deep for tho Editors Brain.
The man who shutters comes in at the
last moment. He is q wit, and, like all
philosophers who 60 by that syllable,
enjoys his own as we'll az others discom
future. "Ah," says the editor, ''that
last. batch you sent us had some delight
full things in it. have, however, just
ten minutes to reach my boat. Good
bye!'
The man who shutters is little slow
as to his hearing as we'll as his speech
"Ye-yes," he says, II th-think that
story about Mrs. S-s-mlth was p-p-p-ticul-
'ar-larly g-good."
Fatal moment! The editor says, gath
ering his straps for departures: Him!
don't recall it just az this moment But
goodbye"
"Y-yes, you d." says the man who
shutters, with great confidence. "Mu-
must recall 1T if y r-re-read it! Del
delightful w-wit and m-most e-excelent
humor. Ve-very sh-short. Mrs. .S-smith
g-going to evening p-party, v-ve-very
l-lavishly dressed in-in-in n.n-noth-
ing par-par-particular, v know
"Ah, yes," says the editor, squeezing
the hand of the man who shutters and
again uttering good-byes. SCOT to 60
at one, old fellow, or have to stay all
night in town. Remember the story
very we'll indeed. Capital-capital!''
"Y-yes," says the man who shutters,
81 kn-knew you'd l-l-ike it. Wh-wh.
when S-s-smith says: Don't f-f-forget
y-your fnger-ring-y'-y'y' might CO.
catch c-cold,' and M-M-Mrs. S-smith
says: :D-darn it, I've g-got ttP"--
"What!" says the editor, in state OF
extreme doubt and perturbation aud
with an aspect of profound despair
"the cold?"
"N-no," says the man who shutters,
with grieved surprise-"th-th' finger.
ring, y'-y'-y' know"
"Blazes!'' says the editor, snatching
at his watch and rushing out. Guess
I've missed that boat"
'S-seens t mo-" says the man who
shutters, looking after him with mingled
establishments and regret, ''h-he di.
Didn't c-catck the p-p-point. Acts al
I th'-th' joke q s-scared i'm off,
Judge.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1890-07-02

"A curious case was lately decided
by q Berlin court A well-to-do lady
refused to pay painter for a picture Of
herself and three daughters, on the
plea that the likeness was not good.
The picture of the ladies was brought
into court by the plaintiff, and the
judges decided that in order to find
whether the likeness was good or bad
the defendants should appear in the
rich evening dresses they wore in the
picture, This was arranged, and the
result was that overcome BY the beauty
and splendor Of the four fair danes. the
case was decided in their favor.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1890-07-02

waters as clear, but Wnen inc iron
wheels of progress swept over her sandy
plains and scaled her mountain tops,
there was change. 1t is indetlnable,
for all that, but still one likes to read
Of the stirring times, of the times
of border hardships and excitements
and of the gradual giving away OF nature
to the hand of man. A man OF middle
age may look back within his memory
and see the heavy, slow freighters
measuring their sQueaky way across the
plains, the Santa Fe trail within his
memory wound, serpent like, from the
banks of the Missouri at this city to the
lonely Spanish settlement in New Mex.
leo. One by one he saw the relics of
earlier days slip out of existence toward
the setting sun, the railroad and the
telegraph pushed their way from the
East, and the pioneer glories of the
great West were over.
One of the last, and at the same time
the most prominent of these features of
the West before the railroads and the
telegraph came, was the pony express,
by the means of which messages were
carried from the Missouri river
to the Pacific. coast IN less than
ten days. How remarkable it all
seems now! Ten days from the Missouri
to the Golden Gate on pony back. But it
is remarkable after all. Now it is ten
seconds; but for ponies, over mountains,
plains, through storms and sun, the
work was wonderful. One of the foun-
ders of the pony express system lives
in this city at ripe but active old
age, prominent in business and as bright
as in the days of his youth. Colonel
Alexander Majors is seventy. For years
he was member of the firm of Russell,
Majors & Waddell, of Leavenworth,
Kan, perhaps the most prominent
freighting house in the West in the days
before the railroads came.
It was in 1858 that Senator Gwynn, of
California, known as "Duke" Gwynn by
reason of some title conferred upon him
in Mexico, conceived the idea of trans
hitting the mails across the plains on
swiftly running ponies. Senator Gwynn,
by the by, was killed in California be-
fore the war in duel with the famous
Frederick. Gwynn thought the coast
deserved DeCCeT mali SerV1co tAaH tuAt
afforded by the stage coach route
through the Southern territories by way
of Los Angeles, and he went to Wash
ington with his mind full of plans for
pony service directly across the country,
over what was known as the Central
route. he was laughed at by his col
leagues, however, and told that an all
the, year-round service across the mid
die Rocky moutains, through Colorado,
Nevada and Utah, would be an utter
impossibility. Nothing dauntee, Sen
ator Gwynn sought Colonel Russell, who
spent great deal of time in Washing
ton and the two worked out q plan for
the service. The fact that Russell,
Majors ard Waddell were the heaviest
freighters in the West suggested that
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1890-07-02
Birds in tho Window.

There is one piece of advice, says
Olive ,Thorne Miller, writing in the
Christian Union on the care of birds,
that should like to put into letters
forty feet high, and stretch from the
Atlantic ocean to the Pacific coast-that
is: never put bird in the window! I
rarely 60 into the street in the summer,
or even on mild day in the winter, that
i do not see unfortunate canaries hung
in the window. Even If the sun is rot
broiling the brains under the little vel.
low cap, draught Is blowing all the
time over the little body. People have
been told q thousand times that they
must not put bird in draught, yet
how few remember that there is always
a draught il an open window.