Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-04-12


razor. The deed was done in cold blood,
apparently. He stood in front Of the mirror
which overhurg the marble mantelplece
and deliberately cut his throat from ear TO
ear. Then, as appeared from the condition
N which things were subsequently found,
ne clune with one hand to the mantelpiece
while his blood poured out upon the hearth,
until he fell and died
That was the story as the tenants here
referred TO understood 1t afterward. Their
notion of the ghost when they took the
house was altogether indefinite, and they
only laughed at it, considering 1t rather IN
the light Of joke than otherwise. II SO
CHANGED that what, as they found out lister,
was reputed to be the particularly haunted
chamber was occupied by the two daughters
OF the family-ifteen and eighteen years OF
age respectively.
From first to last there was no such thing
observed as al appar:uon. The girls slept
well, save for the fact that they were an
moved on occasions BY a sound of dripping,
which they at first supposed was caused
by leak Of some sort. But their sur
prise was awakened by the continuance OF
this dripping during a long spell Of dry
weather, and more particularly did they
find reason at length for wOrder1nent IN the
circumstance that the dripping began in
varia5iy Ut about HIS p. NJ. and lasted for
perhaps twenty minutes but not longer.
TEE DRIPPING SOUND
seemed to come from the mautelpiece, and
they carefully investigated that fixture and
its surroundings, but without result, save
for the discovery Of a slightly followed
area IN the stone underneath, which had
apparently been made by scraping away its
substance.
Inquiry developed the fact that the stone
had been scraped away for the purpose
Of eliminating the spot whore . pool of
the suicides blood had formed. Also i.
was learned that the hour at which he
killed himself was about Ii :l5 p. IL. The
tenants moved out. As for the cause OF
their fears, 1t may have been real or i'm
aginary; hazard no conjecture, but merely
relate the bald facts, of which l have per
sOnal knowledge.
Among the ghosts which haunt Washing
ton houses is one at 1919 * street. which
exhibits itself in the shape OF an invisible
cat or dog-no one knows which--that trips
people up on the staircase. The residence
on the northwest corner of Thirteenth and
h streets is supposed to be inhabited by
the Spook Of a certain Col. Lindsay, who
died before the war and has since then
been seen at various times in the act Of
wandering about the mansion. On the
south side OF II street, three or four doors
east of Eighteenth, IS a house concerning
which stories are t0ld Of very extra0r-
binary nature. One of the most surprising
the present occupant states. appeared to min
and his family several times for the Dur-
pose, which was finally accomplished, Of
revealing the whereabouts of some money.
The mystery OF the old Tayloe house al
ready referred to, st Seventeenth street
and New York avenue, has never been IN
ravcled yet. The spectral goingS-On there
are so extraordinary that no one will live
IN the house, although the United Suites
government once occupied it for awhile in
the daytime as the war record Office, and
previous to that, during the war, Sisters of
Charity lived there, after purifying 1t from
top to bottom
WITH HOLY WATER.
The tale is that the former proprietor of
the establishment either whipped one OF
his negroes to death in the garnet or tor
tured his human chattel TO death in the
cellar. 1t is said that faces are often seen
at the windows Of the empty dwelling by
passers-by at night. Much superstition is
connected with Secretary Blaine's house |
opposite Lafayette square, in which SecIe- |
tarE Seward was so nearly killed By an as /!
sassin, and in front OF which Gen. SiclllaS |
killed his wife's lover, Barton Key. There |
is 4 popular superstition to the effect that !
fatality attends any one who inhabits the |
mansion. Certain it is that, soon after he |
took possession Of it, Mr.. Blaine lost his |
favorite son and daughter.
THE FISH COMMISSION
announces that new fishing industry for /
this country has been discovered, which I
adds more than ten thousand square niles |
10 the fishery area at present available of 1
the Atlantic coast.
This means that novelty in the share !
Of what is known as bean trawling' has /
been introduced to the coastal waters # !.
the United States as q means Of catching !
fish. Up to the present time the fisheries /
of the North Atlantic have been confined (!
almost wholly TO the great shadows. called |
banks. > far OF the New ENGLAND shore
where cod, haddock and halibut are caught !
by means of hooks and bait. But the tish \
commission has for some time past enter !
tanned the notion that the waters elsewhere |
than on the banks might be made greatly |
productive by the use OF such drag-nets as !
are employed in British seas for the capture |
OF fishes, most particularly the sole and !
other varieties of the founder, which bring
4 high price in the markets OF this cOun- |
try. The fact has been known for long
time that the lemon sole'' and the cock +.
SOLE" which are of the varieties so highiy /
priced by epicures in Europe, are eror-
mouSly plentiful on the bottom of the At
lantic declIvity. But these fishes have
been almost unknown even to the markets /
of our seaports. owing to the fact that no
effective mode of taking them was under
stood.
Il
the taking of such nshes by ready means
under like conditions is pursued on q vast
scale from BllllngSgate, Hull, Grimsby and
other ports of Great Britain. The fmple-
Inent used for the purpose over there IS of
very simple character, and is known AS the
beam trawl." The reason why it has not
been adopted here is to b. found in the
preiudices OF the fishermen, who, like men
who follow other simple crafts are consti-
indisposed to adopt new depart
ureS. Besides 1t was feared that the bot
tom was too rough for the purpose and the
water too deep.
However, it was destined that the time |
should arrive when beam-trawling would !
be given trial on this shore OF the great
pond. a few pays ago the schooner. Mary
F. Chisholm OF Gloucester, Mass, seventy
five tons burden, made the first expert
ment with beam-trawl imported from !
England. She returned on March 80 with /
an enormous catch Of cod. haddock and hall
but captured in the tra8l, besides 5000
emon sole, which sold fer cents apiece,
wholesale. The captain. whose name is
Bradford, threw overheard ten tons of
these same soles, because he did not know
hat they were Saleable. His traHl-net
,amc up time after time SO overloaded with
fish that the greatest difficulty was expert
epcsd in getting them to the surface be-
cause his vessel was only IN ordinary
schooner and not properly equipped for
such work. So great were the catches that
i took Is mech Us nine hours to fetch the
.rawl on board, SO that most OF the fish were
too badly injured to be saved. He esti-
mates that fully 24O tons Of fish were taken