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Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-08-20
FOUGHT WITH BEER BOTTLES.

Two Twelve-Tear-OId Decatur Kids Fight
Desperately.
Special 10 The Gazette.
DECATUR, WISE COUNTY. TEX. Aug. IS
A serious difficulty occurred here to-day be-
tween Forrest, the twelve-year-old son of
Judge Spencer, and Lou Spencer. son of
Ed Spencer, the butcher, who is about
the same age. The boys fought with beer
bottles, and rs result Forrest Is laid up
with a fractured skull. His wound is a
serious one, but his physician thinks it is
not necessarily fatal. The other boy is
pretty badly used up, but not seriously so.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-08-20
The Presidential Party.

-HRsEY CITY, N. J., Aug 1S-The presi-
Dental party arrived promptly at 1880 and
after stop of only five minutes proceeded
on its way to Albany. There was no dem
onstration here, as it was said the party
would stop but few minutes.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-08-20
Wants $4,000.

Special to the Gazette.
SHERMAN, GRATsoN COUNTY, TEX, Aug.
17.-Alge Perry fled suit against the Fort
Worth GAZETTE to-day in the district court
for SIS, GOO, growing out of 4 special sent
from Dodd City on July rejecting upon
Yloiurif
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-08-20
A TEXAN KILLED.
j. II. Nays Run Over in New Orleans by
Train.

Special to the Gazette.
New ORLEANS, La, Aug. lS.-Jas. II.
Mays, formerly of Texas, was run over here
to-day at the corner of Dublin and Twelfth
streets by the switch engine of the Louis
vile, New Orleans and Texas railroad and
instantly killed. Mays was driving over
the railroad crossing when the train came
suddenly on him without giving any signal,
and his wagon was destroyed and himself
crushed to death. He was thirty years of
age and married.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-08-20

Galveston Spot.

Comparative Statement of the Spot Mar
kets.
Special to the Gazette.
GALVESTON, TEX, Aug 1S--The following
are the closing quotations for cotton on the
spot to-day at the leading markets together
with the closing for middliug yesterday, with
to-day's sales:
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-08-20
UniversaliSts Union.

CLEVELAND, OHIO, Aug. 1S-The second
annual convention of the Young Peoples
Christian Union of the Universalists
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-08-20
FINANCIAL.
British Consols.

Special to the Gazette.
LONDON, Aug. 1S.-Consols closed, e6 i-1s for
money; for silver, % lilo.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-08-20
4 BROADER RANGE.
ue STOCK AND BOND MARKET
" MORE SATISFACTORY.

,.ci6c ia Again on the Downward
rniou Money Easy-Prices Gener-
ally Firm With Some Gains
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1891-10-31
A Big Game OF Poker.

The game began at Texarkana. twas
the oldest and one of the biggest poker
games ever played, says the Pittsburg
Dispatch. 1t was early in the fall lasi
year when four big ranchmen, who ow.
between them thousands of acres arc
tens of thousands of cattle in Texas, me,
at the terminus of the Iron Mountai
Road.
They were bound for Chicago, wher
they intended to sell their cattle, and AZ
the wealthest cattlemen of the grea,
Southwest often do, they preferred ~
make the journey in the caboose of +.
stock train.
The value Of the chips was stated il
unusual terms, white standing for on.
steer, red chip for five steers, and /.
blue chip for 10 steers.
From Texarkana to st. Louis the play
ers' luck was about even, although hun.
dreds of hands were played in that time
But when they struck the Alton and
entered the homestretch for Chicago tho
contest grew fiercer, and at about every
third hand the betting ran high.
Luck turned in one of the players favo,
the man who had least rooks, by the
way-and when the multiplying lights
on the prairie showed that the train was
nearing Chicago the game ended.
The other three men had lost every
chip they had, had borrowed again and
again, with the same result And when
the winner counted up he found that he
had won 40, 900 head of cattle belonging
to the other three men In the game, or in
dollars close upon $3.50, 900.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1891-10-31

When the sky is blue and the wild
morning glories bloom and the trumpet
MOSES and trailing ivy cover the ground
then on the edge of the hazels and under
the frs it occurs to the woman who is out
of the city for month or day or an
hour to wonder how she can take home
some maiden hairs. 1t would be better,
of course, not to disturb the shy beauties
eNept early in the spring and late in the
fall, but when she will she will, and so let
her dig very carefully, not wrenching the
roots from the soil.
Wrap each fern with a bit of damp
moss and roll it in stout brown paper,
letting the fronds project well. Leave
three or four fronds on a fern of average
size, six or seven on one that is quite
large. Look for gold thread and Solo.
mons seal and partridge vines to dig also.
and put all into boxes covered with birch
bark, if you can find it on reaching home
If they don't get too much dust OF toe
much gas the ferns will live indoors over
summer, and in the autumn you should
put them out to be well cooled and resteu
in the snow.-New York Recorder
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1891-10-31

The custom of collecting spoons doubt
less had its origin in the visits paid bg
our well to do people to Europe, since il
has from time immemorial been the Gus
tom "to bring back something" in the
way of souvenirs of the trip. Repre-.
sentative articles from the several coun.
tries visited were easy to obtain, and i,
was but step to the fashion of getting
like articles from different lands by way
of contrast-as, for instance, head dresses.
foot wear, gloves, and the like. Press
emily it was found that the various coun.
tries INDUCED in different patterns OF
spoons-that in England the handle ten.
terminated in representation of a fun
blown rose; in Scotland thistle took
the place of honor, the stem of the ham
die more or less representing the pricklv
stalk of the national flower; in Iollano
the traditional windmill is not only rep
resented, but is arranged so that the
slightest movement of the spoon sets the
fairy wheel in operation. These, as wcli
as the gold enameled mementoes from
Denmark and Norway, are representa-.
tive of the countries and stand for the
entire domain. Still, many of the Euro.
pean cities will be found to have emblem.
attic spoons, the engraving of which is
calculated simply to recall the single mu.
nicipality.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1891-10-31
She Gave Him a Gentle Hint,

One of the late matrimonial engage
lnents is said to be the outcome of dar
ing little piece of repartee on the part of
he young woman, who has enjoyed the
reputation of being not only wit, but a
1cauty aud belle as well. Although quite
'oung, she was known to have declined
the honor of matrimonial alliance with
.everal of the best so called catches" of
he season, and it began at last to be ru.
nored that her mind and heart We're set
on one of her admirers who had not as
yet, the temerity to come to the point.
However that may be, the young man in
question was her partner in one of the
Harvard assemblies during last winter,
and during the intermission for supper
was seated with her in sequestered nook
far from the madding crowd" Apro
pos of something that had been said, he
asked her laughingly if the report were
true that she had refused all the eligible
men in her set. She blushed vividly for
a moment, then suddenly raised he
head, looked him full in the face. and
said pointedly: "Yes, it is true-present
company accepted" 1t is, perhaps, need
less to state that they remained in the
"sequestered nook" during the rest of the
german, and that the young lady wore o
sparkling solitaire on her left hand within
few days. Rumor also has it that the
above conversation was overheard by one
of the discarded suitors, who forthwith
gave 1t away. Boston Gazette.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1891-10-31
CRUSHING A CLERK.
French Comedians Little Joke
Which Worked SuccessfuIIy

Which Worked Successfully.
1t is related of a certain French come
dian, says the Philadelphia Times, that
he would rather indulge in an inotfensive
practical joke than keep faith with his
manager.
An incident in the latter line that he
confessed to himself was that on certain
occasion he entered a prominent hard
ware store when nobody was in attend
ance but a young clerk. This individual
on his entrance treated him with that
distant and fippant condescension which
although it exists there, is. perhaps less
characteristic of the Partisan counter
jumper than his kind elsewhere.
The actor took in the youths mental
proportions at glance and said:
Il would like, if you please, nice copy
Of Hugo's complete works.
I'VE don't sell books here. This amt
no book shop. You're in hardware
store"
"Oh, well, I'm not very particular.
continued the player, pretending with an
excellent imitation of nature that he was
very deaf. 1t doesn't matter whether
bound In calf or morocco.
But this is no bookstore!" shrieked
the attendant, getting red in the face.
Just so, just so," went on the come
dian. Pack it up in your incest shape.
But | would like to write my name in it,
The young man gasped and fell back
against the counter. Then, with voice
that made the very nails in the door
rattle, he yelled:
"This-ain't-no no-book-STORE!"
"Oh, very well, then I'll wait, of
course" and the actor quietly took a
chair
The clerk choked another effort to
either burst blood vessel or make some
impression on the others tympanum, but
at that moment the proprietor entered.
For heavens sake, Mr. Chysel," he
cried excitedly, rushing toward him,
"hurry up. There's crazy man in here
and can't make him understand me-"
Mr.. Chysel approached the comedian
and inquired blandly:
"Can do anything for you, sir?"
Certainly you can. l want a flea
common five inch rattail file, if you please.
You have them?"
"Certainly."
The side look of whitening scorn the
proprietor gave the clerk was such that
for months afterward he dreamed he was
so small that deaf customers were con-
tinually lifting him up and dropping him
through the eyes of needles.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1891-10-31

As he talked with Clementine-a little
constraint being apparent on both sides
he toyed with the lid of the jar, and the
slant eyed mandarin appeared to wink at
him three times very knowingly.
Under some occult but imperative
pressure Randall removed the lid and
touched with his finger tie slken texture
of some mysterious contents.
Curiosity further constrained him. and
he pulled from the bosom of the now
jubiant mandarin pale blue article of
singular description for a parlor orna-
ment, and, following it, he extricated a
pale pink strip of similar shape and
structure.
Turning to Clementine for explanation
of these unforeseen apparitions, he found
her speechless with wild eyed astonish.
ment, and, without word or gesture,
she seized the old blue jar and hurried
from the room.
Randall smiled the first real, soul felt
smile that he had INDUCED in for several
months, and vowed by the pigtail of the
old slant eyed that he would stay rooted
to the spot until Clementine returned.
What she said to tt genius of the blue
jar as she flew up stairs with it only the
mandarin can reveal
AS Randall paced the parlor, pulling
his mustache, and wondering if Clemen-
tines keen sense of humor would carry
her safely through the trying hour, she
came shamefacedly into the room, bear
ing in one hand the blinking old man.
DARN, and in the other the pleading let.
ter he had borne so long hid in his clever
old bosom.
Randall met the dear girl more than
half way, and as she whimpered gently
on his shoulder he promised never, never,
to tell.
And when they were married, if you
believe me, that ridiculous old ginger
jar accompanied them on their wedding
trip, and Randall packed the bosom of
the grotesque mandarin full of Clemen-
tines bridal roses, there to fade, and
there forever to remain.
Now, as Randall never told and Glenn
entine never told, the entire responsibility
of this revelation lies between you and
me and the ginger jar.-Emma Carleton.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1891-10-31
The Lesser Evil.

Lawyer Grind (whose office is across
the hall from the dentists 's)--Whati is your
object in having that bagpiper play ing in
your room every time you have pa
tient? Does it ease his pain any?
Dentist Snaggs-I am doing that foI
the benefit of my neighbors. The music
deadens the patients cries.
Lawyer Grind-Well, if that is the
reason, you may shut off my part of it
hereafter. thought if the music made
it any easier for the patients I'd try to
stand it. But if it's for my benefit, ]
prefer the howls. Weekly.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1891-10-31
A TARTAR IDYL.

Now Razoola Khan
Was fine man
As ever you want to see;
He lived in state
ASS potcntate
In distant Tartary.
But his daughter Loo
Was a maiden who,
Being neither young nor fair.
With saw-like voice and temper tart,
Was regular drug on the nuptial mart
For to marry her none would dare.
But the potentate.
Growing desperate
With the sandless Tartar swells,
Resolved to try
And a spouse supply
For this cream of Tartar bellies.
In vain were bribes,
Among the tribes.
And SO he caught a Tartar,
And offered to him without waste of breath,
The choice of boiling in oil to death,
Or marriage with his darter
The Tartar grim
Shook in every limb, .-
But manfully made reply
IF you offer life
With such u wife
rather prefer to die"
Says the khan-"My lad,
If things are so bad,
think I'll change the group.
'Tis You had better live, by far;
To Tartar Loo We'll say la, ia,
And put her in the SOUP"
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1891-10-31
LAMENT.

Oh, what Is the earth's endeavor,
That it's work is yearly repeated3
And what is mans. that forever
The work of his hands is defeated;
And the goal he strives to attain
Must be reached again and again?
o Labor, o cruelest Master,
Why sendeth thy angels of wasting
Thy agents of woe and disaster
Corrupting the fruit at the tasting
And setting term to the plants of the
field,
And weaving ruin with all that they
yield.
%. C. Stevens, in An Idyl of the sun"
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1891-10-31

In le comparatively small country Of
Argentine Republic there are as many
italians as in the entire United States
about soc, ,OO0-and they represent great
part of the wealth and industry of the
land.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1891-10-31
Miscellaneous Advertisements.
f E M OV Al.
DIR. ]. G. PFEIFFER,
DENTIST.

II AS removed his office to the well-known
IL dental parlors over Mrs. +. Gross
store, opposite Central Hotel, Frostburg,
where he can be found hereafter fully pre-
pared to execute his profession in the best of
style from a. m. until II M; from until
s, and from until 9p. M.
All work promptly attended to and satis-
faction guaranteed. [Oct 3
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1891-10-31

n church with poor foundation neve
gains anything by having veiy tai
stcpple.-. Ram's Horn.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1891-10-31

A cable between Spain ard the island
of Porto Rico is projected by the Spanish
government.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1891-10-31
Cumberland and Pennsylvania
RAILROAD.
SCHEDULE.

*On theatre nights leave Cumberland at close
of p:rlJ Iuince.
All trains stop at Hays street station, Cum
berland
Nos. /, 2, 3 and 4daly except Sunday. Nos. 5
and Tuesdays, THURSDAYS and Saturdays only.
l.. NJ. HAMILTON.
May 30 Superintendent
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1891-10-31

We promise according to our hopes,
and perform according to our fears.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1891-02-27
WHAT AN ASS AM II"

The ass thought himself as fine look
ing as his neighbor, the horse, until he,
one day, saw himself in the looking
glass, when he said "What an ass am II"
Are there not scores of people who
cannot see themselves as others see
them? They have bad blood, PIN
Piles, blotches, eruptiors, and other kim
dred disfgurements. All these annoy
ing things could be entirely eradicated,
and the skin restored to "lly white
ness" if that world-famed remedy, Dr..
Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery,
were given a fair trial.
1t cures all humors, from the ordi-
nary blotch, pimple or eruption to the
worst scrofula, or the most inveterate
blood-taints, no matter what their ma
ture, or whether they be inherited or
acquired. The "Golden Medical Dis
coveryn is the only blood purifier
guaranteed to do just what it is rec
commended to, or money refunded.
WORLDS D1spENsARY MEDICAL AS.
ISOLATION, Proprietors, Nc. 663 Main
Street, Buffalo, N. 7.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1891-02-27
Tic Darkey of the Rice-F1e1d.

W SfS SAW ~
It is of the rice-felds of the tide-lands
of the Georgia and Carolina coast, and
of the adjacent islands, that we would
speak. 70 those who have never been
among them, these rice plantations
would afford much that is both novel
and interesting. This evergreen region,
| where the plaintive notes of the whip
poor-will and song of the sweet throated
mocking-bird float up through the moss
covered trees; and negroes, fever and
ague, rice.birds, and alligators abound,
would indeed seem to be a new world
to our Northern brethren, and the
| picturesque effects charm the eye of the
stranger artist. The rice-feld darkey
is himself q distinct type, totally differ
ent in both aspect and dialect from the
negroes of the interior; and a not unin-
teresting sight is the force, as with
song and shout they take their way
along the embankment to the rice-field.
Their ancestors for generations back,
or, as they would tell you, uni farrar an
mi grandfarrar," have lived and labored
in these malarial regions. and they &C
cept chill and fever and other infelicities
incident to these localities as unavoid-
able evils, plodding or with no higher
aim nor hope, careless for the future,
and not o~ver-anxious for the present.
The cost of living is small, as not many
nor very warn garments are considered
necessary, and the rice.field darkey's
ideas of a wardrobe are extremely
limited, from both blissful ignorance
and choice. Fish and game are plenti-
full. aud in these regions a heavy diet is
to be INDUCED in only at great risk
L. ". Roberts, IN the Popular Science
| M0nthlM.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1891-02-27

2 Job andstook II. His services on tbaA
boat did not last more than thraa
months. At no time during that period
did the young man say anything or do
anything out Of the common. Peopla
didn't quote him. Nobody ever said.
that young Lincoln will make lis marx
some Of these days" No predictions
We're made that he would be hanged or
go TO the pe%nitentiary. It was the cus-
tom in those days for the Aunt Nancys
IN the country to meet during the apple
season and either mark u boy in the
vicinity for some high office or put him
aside for the Sheriff. Nobody about
Maxville ever noticed Lincoln in those
days, although" said Uncle Clint
Jones, the exseditor, @after Lincoln was
elected President you couldn't meet a
mar IN Spencer County who hadn't
eaten mush with Abe Lincoln out Of
the same pot and with the same SPOON
The house where young Lincoln
stopped on the bank Of the Anderson
River is not standing. Some of the
houses hereabouts look as II they
might have been here ut the time of the
James Taylor ferry. But the one in
which young Lincoln stopped is not
here. There is nobody living here ex-
cept IN old fisherman who remembers
ever having seen young Lincoln. This
old fisherman has told SO many fish
stories that, somehow Or other, when he
talks about Abraham Lincoln he
wanders and gets his dates mixed.
For instance; He tells that when
Abraham Lincoln left Spencer County
to move to Illinois Lincoln bought some
goods, such as peddlers carry; to sell on
the road; that he bought them on
credit; that when he was out one day
the man who had sold him the good
got scared, overlook him, and demanded
the goods that when Mr.. Lincoln was
in the White House as President q dele.
CATION from Spencer County went te
Washington to congratulate the mar
who had once lived in their midst; tina
among this number was the man who
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1891-02-27

boat it appears to abound in hotels
the old-fashioned sort-with wooden
awniegs in front.
To the west, q stones throw by o
small boy, is D stream that looks like O
sleeping alligator between two yawning
yellow banks. 1t is spanned by an Old,
covered wooden bridge, once painted
red. What o mania the good old souls
Of the good old days had for painting
things red. Ancient as this bridge APP
pears it is not SO hoary, 1t has been
built within the recollection of the
present inhabitant. The stream that
doesn't seem to be doing anything at
present except fishing. has been digni-
fed blythe name of Anderson River.
But it used to be Anderson Creek.
1t was across Anderson Creek, at the
place spanned by the bridge above
mentioned, that Abraham Lincoln used
to pull an old iatboat for ferry II
poses. How long ago9 Well, that
was what the writer asked. And this
was about the way the answer was
given:
ut was in 1927 that the Lincoln
family moved from Hardin County,
Kentucky. to Spencer County, Indiana.
The house where they lived was right
close to the depot in Lincoln City, Ind.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1891-02-27
a RILEY ECHO.

When the crop e IN the market and the cashis
In your sock,
Ard you hear ths climb and jingle Of the key
And ths ellnkins & the pennies" and he
the g~rocsrynsan Is paid up and no more
o, It's then's the time q Teller is feelini at his
best,
When he rises from his supper, then down
ward pulls his vest:
= As goes eaaon n II ast the q Clock cG.ll0ls anu elsn
When the crop is on the market and the cashis
In his sock.
There's something kind 6, cheertul-like about
the farmers eyes
When he knows the summers over and he
doesn'thave to rise
About the time The ~dhyHghts A-peepfh1 thro,
the gloom;
And work until the moons up mid the grain
that's all In bloom;
But instead he sortsr calculates ne'ii hook old
To his cutter in the evenin'; and put on his
Sunday dress:
Then go a-courtin' Lizer. with her apron and
new frock,
When the crop is on the market and the cash
is In the sock.
O, the huskin' and the spellin' bees-the win.
The raspin' OF the fiddle when the dancin' is
begun;
The Jingle Of the sleigh bells, your best gal In
Ths kissin' and the huggin' when the old folkf
are In bed;
TIL roastin' OF the chestnuts, tie n~eiehbors
The eatln Of the apples, drinkin' cider fiom {
tin;
o. it sets my heart a-pacin', like a struttin
turkey cock,
| When the crop Is on tho market and the cash Il
in the cock.
-U0Tsehedds B0s00.