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Evening journal., 1891-09-04

We believe that the right Of free honest and
secret ballot is the preservatve Of all political
rights We approve the largest measure 81
ballot reform, and believe the whole advantages
Of the Australian ballot system should be se
cured to the electors Of Pennsylvania. The
ballot bill enacted by the last general assembly
was a step in the right direction, but IL needs
90 DO supplemented by measures 70 protect the
secrecy Of tho ballot and 70 secure reform in
registration. To this end and for these pur
poses only we favor the assembling Of a consti
tutonal convention.
Evening journal., 1891-09-04
THOU SHALT NOT STEAL
That Is the Democratic Plat
form, Mr.. Wright Says.
BE WAS NOMINATED FOR AUDITOR.

rhs other Candidate Placed Upon the
Democratic State Ticket Was A. L.
TiIden. of Erie county, for Treasuror.
The BRrdslsy Matter Referred TO.
HARRISBURG, Sept. 4.-The Democratic
state convention has adjourned after nom
mating Robert e. Wright, OF I.ehigh coun-
ty, for auditor general and A. L. 1ilden, of
Erie, for state treasurer. II. Willis Bland,
of Reading, was temporary chairman. He
was hopeful Of success and his laudatory
mention Of Grover Cleveland aud Governor
Pattison called forth great applause.
George w. skinner, Of Fulton county, was
made permanent chairman. The platform,
reported by the committee was unani.
mously adopted.
Evening journal., 1891-09-04

We are confronted by the fact that our whole
administration Of government In Pennsylvania
and her great cities has passed under the con.
troll Of a corrupt political combination that per
mits none to aspire 10 public place, except as
they may consent 10 become participants in
these wrongs, or TO permit them without OBJ
juction.
There can be no reform In Pennsylvania
until the machine that creates and maintains
this system Of organized robbery is torn up root
and branch and destroyed.
Evening journal., 1891-09-04

The vote for auditor general was; Wright,
872; McSparren, 80.
Wrights nomination was made unani-
nous.
The vote for state treasurer was; Iilden,
S94; Raymond, 55 The nomination OF I'll.
den was made unanimous
NJ NNrInhtta Ar.nnrh
Evening journal., 1891-09-04

Therefore It has come 20 pass that your plat
form is a very simple one. II emphasizes the
old truths Of the ton commandments.
The injunction, Thou shalt not steal, is the
cardinal one. On that plank the impending
battle must be fought We must permit no
confusion Of the issue when the honor Of Penn
sylvnnia is at stake. The discussion Of the tariff
duties ceased with us when the treasury Of
Philadelphia was looted. The silver question
lost It's interest as the wave from the hoodtide
Of corruption reached your state capital, and
the only reciprocity the people of Pennsylvania
should hear Of now is that which was exempli.
fed when the doors OF the eastern penitentiary
closed upon the disappearing form Of Bardsley.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-09-26
The Alchemy swindle in India.

Such small trife as absolute nakedness
does not interfere with the flight of an
East Indian swindler who has turned q
trick" and wants to get away. Recently q
fakir appeared at Secunderabad who
claimed to be an alchemist and offered to
teach the science" to a Mohammedan
The dupe took the fakir into his house and
offered him food. The fakir then told him
that he 1.-THE Mohammedan) should get all
the necessary things ready by the next
day. as he (the fakir) was forbidden to stay
in one country for more than three days.
When questioned as to what things should
be brought. he told him that, as he should
turn the copper into ash, which, If thrown
IN small quantity on well heated copper,
would be converted into gold, an equal
quantity Of copper and gold was first re-
quired for the production of that ash The
man, believing all that was told, took a
few jewels from his wife to the value Of
about fifty rupees, and, melting them into
a mass, got them ready. On the next day,
the fakir, while covering both copper and
gold with the cloth to be burned, stealthily
removed the gold and put a stone in its
place. After about ten minutes the fakir
went away, leaving behind all his clothes,
and saying that he would return with the
juice of a certain plant TO be poured on the
metals. The man, after waiting for about
two hours. discovered the fraud.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-09-26
What a Real University Should BE.

In the true sense a university is not an
assemblage of colleges, nor coordination
of faculties, nor is its existence or its eff.
fectiveness dependent on any details of or
ganization. Its essential quality is indi.
vidualism- A university is an assembiage
OF teachers and students. It's sole purpose
is to bring teachers and students together,
to give the power of association and there
by to produce results impossible in isola
ton. There can be but two units in the
ideal school-the teacher and the student
and the value of these may be sometimes
interchangeable. All structures and all
restrictions which tend to subordinate
teacher or student to the needs of the i'm
aginary departments to which he belongs
are useless and may be vicious.
Most Of the details of organization in
American colleges and. universities are
simply survivals Of old traditions They
are remains of old barriers erected in un.
democratic times for the porpose of Great
ing artificial divisions where real distinc,,
tons do not exist The essential funcsion
of the university, as President Coulter
has recently said. is ''the emanejeation OF
thought" This was the origipG impulse
which in the dark ages gave rife to the fis9
universities. To this end thfsimplests6s-,
sible organization is the one whicbtzrye5
the purpose best.-D. s. Jordsain- Forum.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-09-26
Waated-A Correspondent.

A man registering as Sam Morgan of St.
Louis, but who was identified as the fellow
johnson, the Kansas City Sun man, Is in
the city and stopping at the Pickwick,
where he occupies room AZ. 1t will be re-
membered he had the felicity of enjoying
the hospitality of the Dallas jail
Tor some time. As if it was not insult
enough for him 10 show his head in Fort
Worth, he had the immaculate gall TO call
at The GAZETTE Office at IL O'Clock last
night and ask a member Of the local force
10 act as correspondent; that he desired q
reliable man here. He was informed in
terms more emphatic than polite that
The GAZETTE force had not yet
fallen SO low in the scale of human degra-
dation as to act as correspondents for 4
sheet whose name is synonym for all that
IS we and mean and nasty II ne had pos,
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-09-26

rades had fought so fiercely, dashed past
the swarm OF assailants on the parapet,
and, with the Gag floating defantly, ran at
the top Of his speed back to the Confederate
main line, where he was received with wild
cheers. Scores Of bullets had been aimed
at him as ne few across the open plain, 500
yards, within range of hundreds OF Union
muskets.
There was no formal surrender. Glib
bon's men crowded in on all sides and the
Confederates resisted to the last The
fighting did not end when the Gssailants
got inside, for, despite the efforts of their
officers, some of the enraged men exacted
the victor's privilege Of vengeance upon
the unfortunstes who had made such a
hopeless yet bloody defense
The dead Confederates numbered 81; the
uDwounded prisoners were only 60 The
most Of the wounded prisoners were dis
abled- The artillerymen had suffered ter
rthly, being the most exposed on the top of
the wall. Nearly all of them had died at
their guns. The men of Chew's MARYLAND
battery were volunteers in the fight, their
term of service having expired some days
previously. Unlike the soldiers Of the
states in rebellion. the Marylanders were
not held to Confederate service for the
whole period Of the war.
The loss on Gibbons column in front of
Fort Gregg is placed at 600 te Goo in killed
and wounded. As soon as Gregg fell its
caDtors turned the two cannon upon the
neighborinS Fort Whitworth, and the gar
rison Of that work marched out and sur
rendered. The gap in the lines along the
Appomattox was now flied by Grants
troops, but some hours had been consumed
in accomplishing this result, and mean
while, thanks TO the delay in the Union
march caused by the holding out of Fort
Gregg, Lee had been able to man his in
terror line in such strength as to hold it
the remainder of the day. His circle Of de-
Tense around Petersburg was still COM
plete and no further impression was made
upon it by Union assaults.
The exploit at Fort Gregg, though by no
means marvel, was all the more unique
because OF the many detachments under
separate commanders that took part in the
defense. No single officer exercised su-
preme command. The Mississippiau,
Lieut.. Col. Duncan, held the highest rank
OF any, but seems to have assumed author
ity over his few personal followers only.
He was severely wounded in the fight The
artillerymen belonged TO two different com
panies, one from Maryland and one from
Louisiana, yet they acted in harmony IN
der Louisiana oLfcer.
Lanes North Carolina brigade had the
most men in the Tort OF any single organ
iZstion and the greatest mum Der of officers.
The detachment from Thomas Georgia
brigade had 20 commissioned officer pres
emit Usually in such crisis there is a
fatal division Of opinion; some element
holds aloof from ths rest and acts indie
pendently, to the peril of order and sue
cess Any one of these groups might have
spoiled the whole game by running up a
white Gag at the time Of the first Union
charge. On the contrary, all were animal
ed with determined, daring purpose to
hold the fort" or die in the last ditch.
GEoKGE L. kILMER.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-09-26
PERSONAL.

J. r. Porter, son-in-law of District Clerk
L. r. Taylor, has returned from a summer
vacation.
II. W. Tallant and wife have returned
from an extended trip through the East
and Canada.
Rev. Mr.. French, who is attending the
Presbytery of Dallas at Milford, will re-
turn in time to occupy his pulpit on Sun
day morning.
Miss Marie Bragassa, the sweet singer,
after an absence of some time, has returned
home, at her Cousins, Mrs. w. p. Lewis.
90l East Third street.
Miss Annie Goggin of Galveston and her
friend, Miss Breen of Virginia, are visiting
in the city. The many friends of Miss
Goggin will find them at Mrs. Groves, cor
ner of Taylor and West Fifth streets.
United States Senator Coke is in the city
en- route to Granbury. He addressed the
Democratic club last night and upon his re-
turn arrangements viii be made for him TO
address the Democracy of the city soon.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-09-26

causing them to waver and then give way.
4 second charge followed. and the assail-
ants reached within thirty yards. The
C0nfederHtes held their fire until the prop
er moment, and then, with a wild yell, let
80, sending down n man for every musket.
The Union men stood for q moment and
then broke and scattered A third, a
fourth and a fifth charge followed, each
with much the same result Us the first two.
With the fifth charge on the front line
Of assailSnts swung around in rear OF the
fort and attempted to gain an entrance.
On the front the attack was carried as far
as the moat. Over an hour had passed
since the first assault and the artillery in
Gregg used sll it's ammunition and had
lost heavily. The surviving gupners took
up small arms and joined the infan-
try in beating of the assailants- The work
was virtuelly surrounded. Some Of Clio
pon's men crossed the moat and clambered
up the sloping walls, only to be received on
the bayonets of the defenders.
Such desperate resistance had not been
looked for on the part OF the Union Off
GERS, but when the character OF the strug-
gle became clear, renewed orders were
passed along the line that the position
must be carried at all hazards. Again
rush vas made on all sides. The pluckY
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-09-26
LOCALITIES.

r. NJ. Strawn and Miss Lula r. Lotsperch
were yesterday given license to marry.
There will be an important meeting at st.
Andrews Episcopal church Sunday, Sep
TENDER %, 1891, in regard to the Sunday
school work of the parish. All members
and friends are urged to be present
The third party advocates have called a
meeting tonight in the courthouse. Pro-
fessor Perryman of this city and Judge
Cartwright. late of Dallas, will address the
audience. The public is invited to attend.
The lady commissioners of the Worlds
fair gave delightful parlor entertainment
last night at the residence of Mrs. j. Peter
Smith. An enjoyable programme was had
and those who attended passed delightful
evening.
There will be meeting of Parmley post
No 4, Grand Army of the Republic, at Odd
Fellows hall, GAZETTE building, Saturday
night, September 26, to which you are all
cordially invited to attend. By order of H.
". Nye, commander.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-09-26
An Informal Meeting.

The city council held an informal meet
ing at the waterworks office yesterday for
the purpose Of discussing the matter of a
site for the new waterworks plant Two
sites are proposed. One is the present
site of the waterworks, the other is
in the field of Mai. Van Zandt
just west OF the head of North street
Some of the councilmen advocate the pres
ent site, arguing that, situated as it is on
the West Fork, it would in case of drouth
receive the water of this fork, which is in
greater quantity than that in the Clear
Fork. Others favor the site on the
Clear Fork, and argue that though
the water is in less quantity here, the supe-
rior quality of it makes it much more de-
sirable, and in case of drouth the water
could be stored up by flood gates in such
quantities as to tide over the dry season.
OF course this would not be done unless the
water supply in the artesian wells which
it is proposed to sink gave out
The meeting yesterday was more for the
purpose of looking over the grounds than
for anything else, SO that the members of
the council may form some ideas on the
matter for the regular meeting on Tuesday
night, when the waterworks question
comes up.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-09-26

,eI zoe yourself wife and ehis3rsassss Welt
n N & Bros. IlexkxSe Bargains for you.
See. ess1c Shcement they make to-day.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-09-26

Does your foot scrape the ,pa6s4ff If
so, make bee line for lfsan s. Bros.
1t won't c9stxeasfsaeh to get fine pair of
Shoes their announcement today.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-09-26

defenders used the butts OF their Muskeos
and their bayonets, when there was not
time to load, and many of them, sparing
their ammunition or being short Of it,
caught up stones and brickbats and hurled
them from the parapet upon the daring
fellows who foundered in the moat or
were climbing by hook or crook up the
walls. In some cases the backs and shout
ders of the Union men were ueed as seal
ing ladders by their agile comrades.
At Il o'clock the strul gle was at its
height and was carried on at arms length,
but so far on the exterior crests Of the
walls only. About that time some of Glib
bon's men made a discovery that showed
the one weak spot in the forlorn citadel It
seems that when the line at that point was
originally built, Forts Gregg and Whit
worth were intended to be connected by a
trench and breastwork sheltered by pal
issde. The work had been begun at the
Gregg end and about thirty feet Of trench
had been made. the dirt thrown out form
ing an embankment as high sst the walls of
Fort Gregg and connecting with them. In
attempting to surround the fort the assail
ants mounted this strip Of embankrent
and very soon found it means of getting
UPON GIc SOSeUSO "leAOue hI8S
descending into the deep moat beneath it.
Rushing upon this point they over
whelmed the handful who manned that
corner Of the work. Many of the deter
mined garrison were already down, but
the survivors only redoubled their vigor
and fought with any weapons available.
At length the parapet was lined along the
top with bluecoats busily occupied in
shooting down on the men in gray who
stood on the low platforms inside. So
desperately did the garrison defend their
ground that the parapet was covered with
Union dead. At one time six Union flags
were floating on the walls, while the Con-
federates fought around their own stars
and bars in the interior Of the work.
But there had to be an end to it. Glib
bon's men swarmed so thickly that the
Confederates couldn't turn from one tc an
other Of them quickly enough to do their
deadly work, and were at las. overpowered.
Yet, though forced to abandon their ban
quotes at the base Of the parapet, they fell
back fighting, and in scattered groups, on
the open parade of the fort, struggling
against fate. At the last moment, when
the Union men in numbers were leaping
down inside from all directions and max
ing prisoners of their opponents by sheer
physical strength, one of Lanes North
Carolinians, boy named Atkinson, seized
the colors under which he and his COM
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-09-26
HOTEL ARRIVALS.



William Lee Johnson, Waco; S L Dale,
W L Crawford, ST Louis; n II Kirch,
Marysville, Kan; j w Wood, Galveston; G
w Sims, Houston; d Dear, Pittsburg,
Kan; William G Tucker, Wellesley, Mass
T l. Wilkins. Austin; ? Adair, NJ d
Blum, Chicago; S Flanagan, Galveston
Mrs E Russell, Dallas; j H Bassett,
Washington; n Techenor, Indianapolis
+ Burns, Dallas; W Dazell, New Orleans
Lee Linn , Sunset; John W Ivy, Chicago
Writ Mann, Dallas; George II Settlers,
Kansas City; 7 Lawrence and wife, Gle
burne; Thomas Lawson, st Louis; 0 c
Tinkelnberg and wife, Comanche; H B
Hilgeman, st Louis; D w Bowser, Dallas
Sam Morgan, St Louis; S Z Borders, Dial
las; Arthur Hodge, Railway agents asso-
citation; S r Coggin, Brownwood; A d
yer; j R Stevens, Greenville; w H Mckee,
Louis; " Il Stafford. Gainesville,
Tex; E o Ewing Gainesville, Tex;
VS. Dunn, Chicago; o P Schuyler, SYRIA
cuse, n Y; Miss D rnhart, Kansas City; j
F White, Lampasas, Tex; o McGowen,
Bicbnen, New York Mrs H Sprague, Gal
weston; S E Lathrop, Austin, G c Pratt,
Weatherford; A w Rosenfeld, Atlanta,
Ga; S J Criss, Gainesville: A Irwin,
Gainesville; w w Gilbert, Vernon; Joe
Hayes, Chicago; D o Parker, Texas; Mrs
B r Russell, San Saba, Tex; Mrs S
Clark and children, San Saba, Tex.
MANSION.
W A Grice, Eastland: j " Burney, New
bern, Tenn; j W Stephens. Weatherford;
Mrs Hart, Cleburne; S Fulloss, Frank
lin, Tenn C A Cosby, Chicago: A NJ Nc
Elwee, Minneapolis; r G Cochran, J F
Cochran, Columbus, Mo; r Ruggle, John
son, 4-Paw's show; W A Brooks, Calves
ton; w Fl Dana, New York; P S Peck,
Chicago; John B Owen, St Louis; George
L Tucker, Cave City, Ky; John w Sulli-
van, Austin; w o Mcdonald, United States
army; Mrs Florence Hill, Lampasas, Tex;
Clarence Bawne, New York; c B Fly, New
York: S ] Legg, Texarkana; B Wilcoxon,
Galveston; f a Schwabel, Stephenville; J
p Hamilton, Grandview; j J Truscott,
Benjamin; D F Murphy and wife, Milwau
kee, Wis; W Matthias, Chicago; r D
Greener, Grandview; Miss Matte Mutt,
Granbury; w B Ogilvie, Shreveport. La;
w H Davis, Dallas; j w Hayden, Wichita
Falls; II H Pelton, Waco: ] f Smith, Dali
las; ID w II Baldwin, Denton: Il l. Car
lock, W B Mcdowell. st Louis; C II High
tower Dallas; w l. Culver, st Louis, Mo;
W Fielding, ga Dark Secret company:
Mrs S E Galloway and daughter, Hale
City. "A. sssss'
@'Sf"7N
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-09-26

ants that are so numerous here he would have
resented the epithets and language applied
to him and his sheet. He added insult to
injury by claiming that it was considered
eminently respectable in Missouri to pander
to his rotten sheet. 1t was not generally
known he was in the city until he had gone
to his room, else The GAZETTE might have
enjoyed the exquisite pleasure Of chron
icling another Roll Reel episode. He
is still in the city. but if he is wise he will
lose no time in putting the Red river be-
tween him and the Texans whom he and
his alleged paper have villified and abused.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-09-26

Don't throw thatsaiueSSaollars away bu
give it to- sssztfifah Bros. and get five
&onarp dir of shoes for it.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-09-26
The Honest Agent.

New Clerk-That house you rented to
Mr.. and Mrs. Suburb has nothing but a
cistern, and that is fifty feet from the door.
You told them there was water in the
house.
Suburban .Aeent-There is-cellar's half
fulL-Good News
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-09-26

RANT never
closed the lines
c o N p | e Z e y
around the Con
federates at Pc
tersburg, but came
very near doing
SO on the morning
OF April 2, 1855,
the last day of the
siege, about the
hour when Lee
telegraphed TO JET
ferson Davis at
Richmond, my
Telegram-herald. ([Grand Rapids, Mich.) 18??-1892, 1891-01-19
THE LEADER EDITOR SORE
1t 10 Claimed That He soured Becauss
He Couldn't Got IN Once.

1t 10 Claimed That He soured Because
He Couldn't Got IN once.
The attention of Warden DAVIS was
called to tho following dispatch pub
lished in Saturday nights Leader:
LANSING, Jan. 17.-Gov. Winans told
Grand Rapids gentleman, who called
upon him q few days ago, that there
had been no special efforts made TO
secure q staff appointment for Gen.
Rutherford. When the governor Was
told that 1t was understood IN Grand
Rapids that Messrs. Davis and Rosen-
thai were working in Rutherford's be-
half he looked astonished.
1.-THE trouble with that dispatch, !"
said Mr.. DAVIS, ''is the fact that il is
false. Governor Winans never said
any such thing. Mr.. Rosenthal, julius
Houseman, I. NJ. Weston aud myself
visited Lansing in the interest of Gen.
Rutherford, and IN the presence of all
the gentleman named Julius House
man presented the name of Gen.
Rutherford, as q candidate for ap-
pointment. in . powerful speech. Gen.
Rutherford knows all about what was
done for him. The trouble with Mr..
Weston. of the Leader, is that he is
sore. He was q candidate for game
warden, and failing to secure any
assurances of success, he has become
sore, very sore. He was 1T Lansing,
Thursday, and it may be just possible
that q dickev bird whispered into his
own ear, what the dispatch ascribes TO
the governor. Mr.. Weston, of the
Leader. would be quite apt TO say
things Of this character; the governor
would hardly be expected to.