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Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-09-28

OF the ancient Greek poets celebrated in
stately verse the merits of the tonsor Eu-
gathea, and the tales of Haroun al Raschid
would lose much of their flavor were all
mention Of the knight of the razor elimi-
mated. Who that has read Don Quiyote"
does not pleasurably remember the adven-
ture of Mambrino's helmet, and who that
loves the theater has not reveled in the ex-
PLOTS of the barber of Seville? Turn to the
pages of authentic history and trace in
them the doings of the hair clipping fra
ternity. Three hundred years before the
Christian era Sicilian BARRIERS established
themselves at Rome, and their shops soon
became the common resort of loungers and
idlers of every description"
1t was the poet Horace who, some centu-
ries later, wishing to show how widely
bit Of news had been disseminated, wrote,
"All the BARRIERS know it," Lcinus, who
shaved Augustus Caesar, accumulated an
enormous fortune, and died in his own
marble palace surrounded by host of
slaves and freedmen. Peter of Brosse be-
gan his experience at court as the hair
dresser of Philip the Bold of France. He
became prime minister, grew naughty and
avaricious. stole too much money from his
royal master and persisted on the scaffold.
Another monarch Of France, the fierce,
capable and treacherous Louis N, made
his barber feared and powerful. Olivier
le Daim was his name. Olivier lie Diable
people called him, for he had all the re-
source, plausibility and falseneSs of an evil
spirit. Coming down to more modern times,
Adolph Paques is found occupying re-
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-09-28
Baseball.

LOUISVILLE, KY, Sept 27.-First game
Louisvile-Runs, s; hits. ID; errors, 5. st.
Louis-Runs, 3; hits: S.; errors, 9. Bat
teries-Fitzgerald and Cahill, McGin and
Boyle. Umpire-Mahoney.
Second game, six innings-Louisville-
Runs, IL; hits, -; errors, 0. st. Louis
Runs, 0; hits, 2; errors, 4. Batteries
Meekin and Cahill, Burrell and Boyle. I'm
pire-Mahoney.
MILWAUKEE, Wis, Sept. 27.-Milwaukee
Runs, IL hits, IL; errors, 4. Columbus
Runs, 1; hits, 2; errors, 9. Batteries
Keller and Vaughn, knell and Donohue.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-09-28

the watchman had made the round of the
building and found everything all right.
The capacity of the mill was 1900 barrels
per day and it was one of the largest in the
country. George P. Plant, president of the
company, placed the loss at $250, 200, with
insurance about the same. The original
Plant milling was established in 1851, and
the company is one of the best known in
the country. The mill will be rebuilt.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-09-28
PERSONAL.

Mr.. j. B. Buchanan left for Austin last
night on brief business trip.
Mrs. DR.. Williamson was brought home
seriously i'll from Dallas Friday and has
been very i'll ever since.
Mrs. w. H. Coffman and little son re-
turned yesterday from Indiana, where they
have been spending the summer,
c. B. Maxey has returned from Alley.
ander Bay, n. Y. where he has been in At
tendance at the postal clerks NJ. B. A.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-09-28
Close of the Tent Meeting.

The tent meeting on the South Side closed
last night. The audience was an unusually
large one, considering the heavy rain that
occurred yesterday. The tent was filled,
and some were on the outside. DR..
Iowber preached an able sermon
on ''The Evidence of Future
state The meeting has been very sue
cessful one in every respect and number
have been added to the church. The Chris
tian church has established q mission Sun
day-school on the South Side which has a
large attendance and promises to be sue
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-09-28
A HAZARDOUS DASH.
Some 10000 People Ready to Rush to
Chandler.

GUTHRIE, o. r., Sept 27-A courier just
in from Chandler brings the following dis
patch from an Associated Press correspon-
dent: ''They are still at the post and in all
probability the flag will not fall for the
great race for town lots until Monday
noon. People about the site are
restless, but the restlessness is Kept in
bounds by the military and United States
deputy marshals. Several fights have oc-
Cured, but no one SO far has been severely
injured. People who are still hanging on
now are determined to stay with the game
if it takes all winter.
When the town site is opened at least
twenty thousand people on foot and horse
back will make dash for the center, intent
to get corner lot. 1t will be hazardous
dash through woods and over rocks. The
final result may be list of dead and
wounded
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-09-28

of Ally Glosson of Dripping Springs. Hayes
county, Tex, ars here. Much
interest has been manifested in the trial of
this case and the courtroom was crowded
during its progress. 1t is expected that the
case will be submitted to the jury on Mon
day next.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-09-28
A Hish-C.ass Wedding.

New YORK, Sept IA romantic court
ship, which began at Austrian Spa just two
years ago, will end in wedding in this city
early in December. The bride-elect is Miss
Cora Cahen, the daughter of Henry Cahen,
the millionaire importer of ISL East Sixty
third street, and the bridegroom is LieVte
Herr Oscar Voncalm of the Ninth hussafs,
aid-de-camp of hereditary Duke Ferdinand
Este, who will succeed the present EN-
peror Francis Joseph on the throne of
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-09-28
AGreat Chess Match

LONDON, Sept. 27-The much-talked-o of
chess match of Blackburne VS.. Gunsberg,
is at last insured. A Southampton enthu-
siast declared himself willing to pay the
expenses of the masters, provided the
match shall be contested at SOUTHAMPTON.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-09-28
HIS NECK BROKEN.
A Texas and Pacific Brakeman Struck by
the Spout of a Water Tank.
Special to the Gazette.

Special to the Gazette.
HALLsvILLE, HARRISON COUNTY, Ten,
Sept. 27-John Long, brakeman on a
Texas and Pacific freight train, while
passing the water tank at this place at 2:30
p. m was struck by the spout of the tank,
knocked from the top of the caboose to the
ground some thirty feet and instantly
killed, his neck being broken. The train
being 4 stock train, was running at con-
siderable speed and Long was thrown to
the ground with terrible force. 1t is
thought he was from Indiana. The body
was buried at Longview, Tex.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-09-28
Notice.

/ have four combine Kentucky horses.
good drivers and saddlers, for sale at E. NJ
Browns stable, on Main street.
GEN w L. C4BEII
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-09-28

Mrs. George England viii receive pupils in
vocal culture at her studio, Trinity hall, be-
ginning Monday, 2Sth. Terms, $40 per
month-teu lessons
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-09-28
Earthquake at Cairo.

CAIRO, Ill, Sept. 27.-Quite shock of
earthquake was felt here last night at 10 80
from the northwest to the southeast 1t
was about minutes duration No dam
age DONE
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-09-28
PERFECTLY SOLVENT.
The Bank Examiner Found the Merchants
National that Way

The following is 4 telegram sent out SAT.
urday by the Associated Press from New
Orleans, and places the Merchants ua-
tional OF this city before the public in a
proper light:
New ORLEANS, La, Sept. 2f From 4
private telegram it is learned that the Mer-
chants national bank of Fort Worth. which
closed month ago, has beeL found per-
fectly solvent by the national bank exam
iner, and it was unnecessarJ for him IL
remain. BY special request OF the board OF
directors he, however, remained in charge
The bank resumed business and opened is
doors at O'Clock this morning, prepared &c
meet all demands. The correspondents Of
the bank here are the State national.
Southern and American national banks.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-09-28
THE VERSATILE BARBER.
HOW TENNYSON FINDS AMUSE-
MENT IN HIS OLD AGE.
Topsorial Artists Who Have Been States
men and who Have Associated With the
Great-AbraIIam Lincoln's Barber.

R E 4 D in an
English paper the
other day an &C.
count of the gray,
somber and almost
cherries old age
Of Lord Tennyson,
poet laureate of
England. At four
score he finds him
self out of touch
with his fellow
man, surrounds
his beautiful man
slim on the Isle
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-09-28
Gilt Edged Officers.

Special to the Gazette.
LINDEN, CAss COUNTY, Tex, Sept. 90
The Farmers Alliance closed their meeting
last night. Speaker Rhodes assembled the
rostrum again yesterday evening and en-
lightened the audience for two hours. His
store house of anecdotes is very full and a
large majority of the farmers present We're
delighted with their orator. He advocates
the third party, sub-treasury, etc, and adj
vised the prople at the next election to elect
men for offie who are ''gilt edge' and not
old chronic Office seekers. The executive
session Of the Alliance met in the after.
noon. sAz7etzx
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-09-28
THE TRIAL ON.

Go to ]. P. Woods, .toascthDA6es liver
and most cowalstGUles N the city.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-09-28

Save 25 per cent xsap6fs the Ouita an,
thracits saa1a TIE Victor coal company,
, 1891-08-18

The heavy rain on the afternoon of
July A was the cause Of much excite
ment in Waterbury. A Hebrew dealer
in sponges, with his stock in trade on
his back, was walking through the prin-
cipal streets when the shower came on.
he was not dressed in holiday attire, SO
he did not mind the rain, but his load OF
sponges evidently enjoyed the shower.
They swallowed every drop that fell
upon them, and pretty soon they began
to swell. The faster the rain fell the
bigger grew the sponges, until finally
they took up the larger half Of the side
walk.
A policeman whose coat sleeve had
been dampened by coming in contact
with the mass of sponges ordered the
man to walk in the middle of the street.
He obeyed, but this only made matters
worse. His pack grew larger and larger,
until the peddler looked like a gigantic
walking mushroom. Carriage horses
were frightened at the sight, and even
street car horses, which rarely pay atten-
ton to anything but the conductors
signal, turned out for him and drew the
cars off the track. Dogs ran after the
man, and made life miserable for him by
shifting at his heels and barking.
People stood totally oblivious to the
heavy rainfall and laughed until the
tears came. Finally the peddler, still
unconscious of the trouble, became wor-
ried and a hunted look came into his
eyes. He turned off into a side street
and started toward Naugatuck, and the
celebration Of the Fourth went on.-An-
sonia Conn Sentinel.
, 1891-08-18

"That's what 1 call making glad the
waist places" said Smithson, as he put
his arm around a lady's waist. But
Lilly won't care much for this show
of affection II Smithson doesn't get
rid of that disagreeable catarrh of his.
Won't somebody tell him that DIR. Sage's
Catarrh Remedy will cure him.
By its mild, soothing, antiseptic,
cleansing and healing properties, DIR.
Sage's Catarrh Remedy cures the worst
cases of Chronic Catarrh in the Head,
as thousands can testify. "Cold in the
Head " Is cured with a few applications.
Catarrhal Headache is relieved and
cured as IL by magic.
In perfect faith, the makers Of DR..
Sage's Catarrh Remedy-the Worlds
Dispensary Medical Association, of Buff.
falo, N. Y, offer to pay $500 to any one
suffering from Chronic Catarrh in the
Head whom they cannot cure.
Now, If the conditions were reversed
If they asked you to pay $500 for q
positive cure you might hesitate. Here
are reputable men, with years of honor
able dealing ; thousands of dollars and
a great name back of them.
They believe in themselves. Isn't II
worth q trial ? Isn't any trial prefera-
BILE to catarrh
, 1891-08-18

The trouble with Tim Keefe is the same
thing that occurs to many other men who
have been in active harness as many years
as he has. Tim himself thinks that he will
be all right and will be able to pitch as
good a game as he ever did. don't agree
with him. He pitches as well as he ever
did for about three innings and then he
seems to lose all his speed. While he says
that his arm does not trouble him, It is an
undoubted fact that after an inning or
two all the strength seems to have gone
out of his arm. Keefe is a royal good tel
low and an ornament to baseball, but 1t
begins to look as II his usefulness as n
twirler is gone. His release by the New
York club was not a surprise. The case OF
Captain Buck Ewing is similar in many
ways. Ewing's shoulder seems to be all
right and he says that the injury has done
him no lasting harm, but he has not got
the strength ia his arm and shoulder that
he had in past years. He can catch and
bat as well as lie ever did, but his friends
doubt that he will ever be able to snap the
ball down to second and third bases as he
has done in past seasons. Ewing thinks
that his strength will return, and every
true lover of baseball hopes so, for no ball
player who ever stood behind a bat could
throw with that same Buck Ewing. His
lightning snap shots to the bases have never
been equaled and probably never will be.
, 1891-08-18
Tho oueerest of Deer Stories.

George Bell, keeper of Picnic Island,
in the lower harbor, has two little girls,
to whom a pet deer belonging to the zoo
Of R. s. Warner g. Co., on the island, is
very much attached. The little fawn
follows one child wherever 1t goes. Yes
terday the children stole away from
home to a place on the wharf, when the
youngest n accidentally fell overheard.
The deer at onc jumped in after the
child, which o sank out of sight.
The deer then swam to the beach and
ran at lightning speed to the keepers
house, where the mother of the child
was. 1t reared up on his hind feet, blew
and snorted and cut queer antics SO as
to attract Mrs. Bells attention. 1t then
started down the beach in an excited
run and jumped into the water again.
Mrs. Bell missed her children, and, drop
ping everything, she followed the saga
cious animal, which she saw plunge from
the wharf into the bay.
One leg of her little girl was sticking
out of the water, and when rescued she
was unconscious. By rolling and rub
bling the child was resuscitated. Captain
Bob Warner is so proud of his fawn that
he has ordered it a handsome collar and
silver bell. He says n thousand dollars
could not buy it.-Tampa (Fla.) Cor. At
lanta Constitution.
, 1891-08-18
SPORTING NOTES.

TIL visit Of Lord Hawkes. amateur Eng
lish cricket team to this country the latter
part Of September will be an interesting
event. While in Philadelphia the team
will be the guests OF the Germantown club.
The first games will be played Sept. 25, 90,
2s, 30 and Oct. ! and 2. After these games
the team will. probably visit New York,
Chicago and Toronto.
The summer games of the New Jersey
Athletic club are scheduled for Sept. 8.
On Sept. 10 will be held the first annual
championship meeting of the Atlantic As
ISOLATION OF the Amateur Athletic union.
Baltimore is the place.
The Manhattan and New York Athletic
clubs each gave 1900 to the Frederick
Brokaw Memorial Athletic field at Prince
ton. Brokaw, It will be remembered, was
the Princeton baseball player who lost his
life while endeavoring to rescue a woman
from drowning not long ago.
The nineteenth annual regatta of the
National Association of Amateur Oars
men is down for Aug. IS and 10 at Wash
ington.
A novelty in nautical architecture on
this side Of the water is Pierre Lorillard's
new house boat, now being built at VIII
mington, Del. 1t is much larger thar the
house boats common on the Thames, Eng
land, and will be propelled by steam
power. The boat will be 96 feet long and
fitted up in luxurious style for a trip up
the Indian river and along the Florida
HOaqf
, 1891-08-18

seemed dead against him." and he quit
the game" without a sigh, n protest or a
complaint, save to a dissolute woman who
left him when his funds gave out and
queened it with the scoundrels of Paris,
while Gentleman George starved In the
big city across the channel.
Gentleman Georgei Yes, that was his
title among the people who lived as he did
by their wits and without work. Out
wardly he showed the polish Of the Nine
teenth century carpet knight. Physically
he is spoken of by those who knew him as
the most grandly handsome fellow who
ever walked Broadway" Mentally he was
80 superbly equipped that he could cope on
any subject with a specialist in the range
from Greek to garden culture, and morally
he was as brilliant and as bad as an apple
of Sodom.
BE was a desperate faro player, and like
that other famous confidence man, Canada
Bill, lost all his illgotten gains in futile at
tempts to break the bank" He gained
his chief prominence In the criminal circles
Of New York four years ago. Before that
time he had done nothing of moment, but
In 1887, as the originator, manager and sole
proprietor of the British American Claim
agency, he swindled 80, 00Opeople, who were
persuaded to believe that they were heirs
TO English or Scotch estates.
After Parker had amassed nearly n mil
lion the police arrested him, but they could
prove nothing, the jury was ordered to &C
quit and the man went free. He iourneyed
TO London, lost his money On "the high
card" was abandoned by his female friend
and ended with a sensational suicide n SEN
s%ational life. Wavy white hair covered his
massive head and, with a coal black mus
tache, set off his ~aristocratic features and
rosy complexion.
George F. Parker and Don Gil Areny
never knew and never heard of each other,
but 1t is probable that they might nave
done well as partners, for one was and the
other is dominated by an INSCRIPTIONS
greed for gold. The American sacrificed
those who might AVE otherwise been his
best friends in order to make an extra dollar.
Don Gil, who is chief syndic of the repub-
Lilo Of Andorra, has gone much further-he
has sold out his country for n bag full of yell
low metal, and will look on complacently
while its stern virtues, nodded in the ad-
v~ersities OF a thousand years, give way be-
fore the demon Establishments of dishon-
est ayarice. To state it briefly, Andorra is
TO become the plague spot Of Europe.
, 1891-08-18

old, by King Ban out OF Wigwam. His
victory over the mile and a quarter course
in 2:064 branded Ban Chief as a running
horse OF premier quality, for the time was
the best ever made over a circular track
with the single exception Of Salvator's
e;05, when he defeated Tenny. Ban Chief
defeated such worthy opponents as Racine,
English Lady and Marion c, and lowered
Teuton's record for the Wheeler handi-
cap by half a second. Ban Chief WAS
piloted unde the wire by Jockey Overton
and was a ten to one shot.
Ban Chief Is owned by Scoggan Bros,
and has had a very successful career. As
q ~2-year-old he won four races; last year
he captured three events, including the
Raceland and Phoenix Hotel stakes.
, 1891-08-18

VIM, Tmmons, postmaster OF ldaville,
Ind writes: Electric Bitters has done
more for me than all other medicines
combined, for that bad feeling arising
from Kidney and Liver trouble" John
Leslie, farmer and stockman, of same
place, says: Find Electric Bitters to be
the best Kidney and Liver medicine, made
me feel like a new man." j. W. Gardner,
hardware merchant, same town, says:
Electric Bitters is just the thing for a man
who is all run down and don't care
whether he lives or dies; he found new
strength, good appetite and felt just like
he had a new lease on life. Only SOC. a
bottle. at A. u. RoEpEL's drug store.
, 1891-08-18
NEWS OF THE wHeELmEN.

Banker and Brinker, of Buffalo, have
come to the front rapidly of late as a tan.
dem team. At Syracuse recently they de
feated the famous Murphy brothers and
won the n mile tandem New York dis.
trict championship. At Detroit, July IL,
they broke the worlds half mile tandem
record, reducing 1t from 1;19 10 to los.
Columbus, o., has a ladies' bicycle club
composed of thirty-two members. 1t is
called the Buckeye Ladies' Cycling club.
The race meet by the Quaker City wheel
men will be held at Philadelphia, Aug. 30.
The Hartford tournament is down for
Sept. Z and 8. A record or two will prob
ably be smashed at this meeting.
The thifd annual tournament of the
Peoria Qlls.) Bicycle club is booked for
Sept. ls and 10.
Allen W. Sevan, Of New Bedford, Mass,
Is well on his way across the continent on
his bicycle. He has averaged nearly fifty
miles a day and will make San Francisco
his goal.
Chairman Dunn, of the L. A. w, has
completed the racing board by adding to
1t w. II. De Graft, of New York, and George
o. Street, OF Chicago. The board next
meets at the Hartford tournament in Sep
TENDER.
, 1891-08-18

IetL DtlOW,
picked out the particular soft spot he
wished to strike and retired to the rear of
the platform. A long breath, a swift run
across the sixteen foot platform, a clasping
Of the hands before him and, straight as
an arrow from the bow string, Leuven-
marks body sped from the derrick top into
the water far below.
The dive was a successful one and made
the young Swede champion OF the world.
The best previous feat Of the kind was the
70 # z. In. plunge of G.. A Blake, of
London, England, Oct. 8, 1888 Although
Steve Brodie jumped n much greater dis
lance when he dropped from the Brooklyn
bridge, his performance was far from
equaling Leuvenmark's In daring. Bro
dies feet were weighted, and he was very
certain to strike the water in an erect and
safe position, but Leuyenmark used no
weights, and in ~plunging head foremost
ran n great risk Of turning in the air and
receiving his deathblow when he struck
the water. Leuvenmark is twenty-eight
years Of age, and can dive much better
than he can speak English.
, 1891-08-18
DAKOTA HOT SPRINGS.

The popularity of these springs is fast IN
cressing. both as a summer and n health re-
sort The cures effected by Its waters are many
and marvellous. The altitude of the place
fs.500 feet) makes the atmosphere eNhilerating
aud absolutely free from malaria They are
surrounded by wonderful freaks OF nature,
and delightful scenery. The elegant new
plunge bath go feet long by 80 feet wide, just
completed has added a very attractive feature
to this resort. The hotels are fltted up with
all modern improvements, and accommoda-
lions are ample.
The Fremont, Elkhor a Missouri Valley
railroad goes direct to the Springs with palace
sleepers from Omaha without change. Tourist
tickets good Tor ninety days from date OF sale
can be had all the year round. For pamphlets
concerning these Springs or any Information
as to rates, etc, call on or address any agent
Of the Fremont, Elkhorn & Missouri Valley
and Sioux City & Pacific railroads, or
y. r. General Passenger Agent,
Omaha, Neb.
h. G. BURT, General Manager.
, 1891-08-18

hour bicycle record of 2s9 miles by cover
ing Sl1H miles. Then along came r. l..
Eide, who placed to his credit 6s miles and
40 yards in only three hours. The latest
astonishing achievement of the British
riders is that Of F. j. Osmond, who recent
ly gave the mile record a black eye by re-
ducinR it to the astounding figure OF 2
minutes 10 seconds.
The best previous record was made last
September by the English wonder, Jones,
who trundled his silent steed over the mile
course in 2:2O 9-5. Then Osmond mounted
his wheel again and reduced the hour
record to % miles 1850 yards. Com
pared with Osmond's mile, the best
achievement Of that remarkable American
rider, Champion w. W. Windle, looks
very slow. Windle's top notch mile was
covered in 225 3-5, but it was done on a
hard tired bicycle, whereas Osmond's
record was made with a pneumatic, it is
said. II the wheelmen keep up their pres
ent assaults upon the record. Maud S,
Sunol, Nelson and Stamboul will nave
reason to become apprehensive for the
safety OF their trottlng laurels.