Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-08-17

| pleasantly. OF the county candidates
! Messrs. Pool, Harris and Gillespie were
| present. Several interesting speeches
were made, the important address being
by Evan Jones of the Alliance.
Jim Phillips is the name OF a young
man who was lodged in the county Jail
yesterday on charge of lunacy. He lives
few miles south Of the city. This Is
not the first time he has been inoaroer-
sted for the same cause. Yesterday
morning he attempted to kill his grand
mother.
Cards have been received In this city
announcing the marriage of Leroy ].
Randall, NJ. D., and Mss Eleanor L.
Young, which occurred at Troy, n. Y,
on August u; 1890. They will be at
home in Fort Worth after September L.
DR.. Randall and his bride will be well
coined in the city.
Lizzie Grant is @ colored woman who
lives on West Thirteenth street. She
left her house for q brief period last
night, and when she returned found that
a white man named Hugh Travis had en-
tered her house and gone to sleep on her
bed. Ofhcer Pat Stevens gave him
free ride to the 'boose and provided him
with a couch somewhat harder but none
the less secure.
Petition for divorce was fled by Clara
NJ. Woodall from her husband. Rowland
C.. Woodall. This case ia in connection
with the attachment run a couple
of days ago on the Main
street fruit stand, which the woman
claims as her individual property
and which is now in the hands of n
trustee. The petition for divorce alleges
wrongful treatment, and sets forth sew
eral instances of abusive language used
by the husband.
There are many different ways OF maxi
ing living. A Tarrant county farmer
named Lightfootye discovered one
he had never heard of before.
He was driving into the city
early in the day, when he
came upon a couple of young men driv-
ing several head of his stock, which
they proposed to impouud in
the city, although found outside
the corporate limits, in order to get
the fee which the city pays for stock
driven to the pound. Mr.. Lightfoot re-
captured his stock and drove them back.
1t is said that such game as that de-
scribed IS carried on quite extensively in
Fort Worth.
Henry Bohannan, youthful negro,
who has been engaged in jerk
ing beer In down town va
riety theater, was Yesterday taken in
by the police for supposed connection
with certain bogus money which has
been recently circulated somewhat ex-
tensively in the city. Three bogus
dollars were found on the negro, which
he said, had been passed to him in
the theater by purchasers of beer. The
police, however, suspect that he knows
more than he tells. He has been in the
city something over a month. The
counterfeits are of dollars, and are of
poor execution, easily detachable by per-
sons who examine their money ut all.
Federal authorities at Dallas for hearing.
There was quite o coucourse of young
people at the residence of MIR. c. J.
Hohl, No. 517 Arizona avenue, on FRI
day evening, gathered there to celebrate
the twenty first birthday of Messrs. John
McMurrey and Ben Mazza. Among
those present were noted the Misses Hat
tie Scott, Ella McMurrey, Essie White,
Belle Morton, Tomis and Lea Crebtree,
Emma Campbell, Lena Cooper, Anna
Guentert, st. Louis, Mamie Myers ,Gertie
Hightower, Katie FarrIs, Susie Scott,
Josie Bush, Messrs. Robert Barr, John
McMurrsy, Ben Mazzs, E. H. Perry,
John Hass, ] johnson, J. Bryan, John
Scott, James Cosley, Will Moffatt, Rob-
ert Meyers. There were thirty-six |
couple at supper, and they did not dis |
perse until the early hours of morning.
a most enjoyable time was had.