Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-05-08

The COtiiliOn cIuD VIII give al ehtSA
tainment at the Mansion house tomorrow
night.
It is likely that series of balloon as
tensions will be made another big at
traction at Fort Worth during May.
Offers to entertain some Of the dele
gates attending the Baptist convention
are wanted by the COMMITTEES vino have
that business in charge.
The alarm which was sounded for the
fire department at the corner of Front
street and Jennings avenue yesterday
afternoon was false one.
ssPatsy'' IS back. Everybody knows
Patsy, the bootblaek. He has been
pushing his trade in st. Louis for the
past two months. There is no reason
now why the Fort Worth baseball team
should not win few games.
Died, in Christian hope, at Fort
Worth, Tex. May 4, 1890. Mrs. Mag
gle B Kidwell, after a sickness of three
weeks, leaving her husband, two little
children, an aged grandmother and an
only sister to mourn her loss.
A meeting OF the committees of man
agement for the Maifest was held in
Como hall last night and the accounts
audited. Although not so successfufas
if there had been no rain, yet the enter.=i
tainment yielded pretty sum over ex-
penses, one third of which goes to the
orphans home.
Mr.. G.. W. Hollingsworth last evening
left at THE GAZETTE Office sample of
wheat stalks and heads which he gath
cred on the edge of the city, and which
go to show that the grain is maturing
rapidly and well in this vicinity. The
samples were plucked from fine stand
which promise big yield.
Some of the Baptist convention dele
gates are still unprovided for, and the
committee are anxious that the citizens
should come forward with entertain
ment This is necessitated by the fact
that great many who have promised to
take delegates have friends visiting thea
and cannot take the full number TINY
signed for.
sample of Wichita county fall wheat
has been left at THE GAZETTE office By
Mr.. John Howard, which is a reliable
index of the wheat producing capacity of
the section from which it comes. The
stalks range in length from thirty-five to
forty inches, while the heads are WE'LL
developed AID large. The sample was
cut on May. The Wichita country can
produce wheat.
When Hon. Seth Stewart, chairman of
the county Democratic executive COM
mittee, was told yesterday that there
was considerable interest felt in the date
of the county Democratic convention, he.
said that the COMMITTEES, so far as ne
could learn, were in favor of having the
convention about the middle of July
The calls for the primaries and conven-
ton Will be made at the same time about
July l.
Woman 3 mission society, auxiliary to,
the Southern Baptist convention will ifs53
their annual meetings in the61n3ksF-
land Presbyterian chngeha1tf sFeT TAYLOR
and Fifth streets .ogd f<fay, Saturday
Sunday and 5aay, beginning May 8.
The weekaa sessions are from 10 q. m.
to lSaQm. On Sunday at D. IN. a
MISSIONARY service will be held. All
Fades interested in mission work, home
and foreign, are cordially invited to at
tend.
Delegates to the Southern Baptist con-
vention, which meets IN this CITY to-
morrow, have begun to arrive. They
must be entertained. The pastor of the
First Baptist church, who was arranging
for their entertainment, is sick in bed.
It is earnestly desired that all citizens
Hospitality inclined will report the num-
Der they will entertain to Mr.. Judd
Boyd at once once on Third street, be-
tween Houston and Throekmorton
streets. ~
The programme which will be rendered
by the Flremen's band at its free enter
taiument at the pavilion tonight will
contain several pieces Of descriptive
music just from the press, such as The
Night Alarm, illustrative of q call at
night, with the striking OF the alarm. the
rush of the engines, r5eling of the hose.
etc.; Sounds in the Alps, in which two
bands take part, one giving the echoes
OF the other. Cujus Amman, from Ros-
sini' 5 Stsbat Mater, will also be given as
a trombone solo.
Henry MeNally is the name of young
man of gorgeous appearance who was
gathered in yesterday by Officer Sebe
Maddox on a telegram from Waco.
charging him with embezzlsment. and
later in the day DEPUTY Sheriff Maban of
Waco arrived to take the prisoner. The
charge is to the effect that McNaIiv got
a Waco woman drunk and took from her
$500 and valuapls; iewelry, the money
being part paymehs for business which
the woman had just sold. When arrested
the young. man had S2l4-oa his person :;
He had been having e gay time in, Fort,
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