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Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-07-16
Charged witt Embezzlement.

SHERMAN, GRArsoS COUNTY, TEX. July
a G H. Montgo merry, an ex-sheriff of
Georgla; was arrested in the Territory by
day, on an old charge of embezzlement. To
a reporter the prisoner owned up to having
been guilty of wrong-doing, and attributed
it all to strong drink.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-07-16
A GOOD SIGN.
Commercial Bills Make Their
Appearance in New York.
EUROPE MUST BUY OUR WHEAT
Henry Clews Says the Old Countries VIII
Need $50. OOO, 900 Bushels Of tho
Wheat OF the United
States.
A Good Sign
snecinl 70 the Gazette.

Special TO the Gazette.
NEW YORK, July 4-Prices of stocks
we're lower this morning. Chicago gas was
he feature, breaking on the news that the
:ity council last night passed the Economic
'ueI company's ordinance without change
over the mayors veto. Trading was dull
and cevoid Of interest.
Denver preferred was weak.
Exchange rates declined.
Railway bonds Were dull and featureless.
Closing prices were generally below yester-
lays.
London lent no support, and exchange
'ates fell of.
Commercial bills are beginning to appear
II the market
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-07-16

afternoon a convd bon was held at the
courthouse py tne nlue and the Gray to fix
date Tor Their anvual reunion, which re-
suited IN SuaLah 9fng chosen as the place,
anu tne sth and nh of September as the
county's old soldieS will turn out en- massa.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-07-16
House Burned-Arm Broken

SPeVIdI 20 tHt UdZtllc
SHERMAN, GRAYsoN COUNTY, TEX, July
14-This morning at 3 O'Clock the house of
Annie F'reeman, in which thSe colored
women VFera living, was destraSed by fire.
The Women discovered the fire Just in time
to eSfape.
Nmes Dehnison had his left arm broken
laSt evening by 2~team running away. He
vas hsu!ing 2heavy load of lumber.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-07-16
ADVICE to Moths.
n Examining Trial Postponed.

Special to the Gazette.
DECATUR, WISE COUNTY, TEX, July IA
The examining trial of Saunders Eddins,
who is charged with the shooting of George
Bass at Cottondale last week, has been
postponed till Thursday week. Bass is still
slowly improving.
W. B. Currie has filed suit in the district
court against his wife, Benny ,Currie, for
divorce on the ground of cruel Treatment.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-07-16
New Orleans Spot.
Galveston Spot.

Comparative Statement of the Spot Mar
ketS.
Special to the Gazette.
GALVESTON, TEX, July 1.-THE following are
the closing quotations for cotton on the spot
to-day at the leading markets, together with
the closing for middling yesterday, with days
sales:
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-07-16
People Who Travel. q

| Change Ordinate or water very often
sffectssthe bowels seriously.fsIf on the first
symptSrls of your disttrban you would
tal5s1r. Biggers' Huckfebefry Cordial much
suffering might bssaved. N7.7
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-07-16
FINANCIAL.

British Consols.
Special to'the Gazette.
LONDON, July 4.-Consols closed IS 1915 for
money; for silver, 45.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-07-16
Exchange at New York.

Exchange at New Orleans.
NEW ORLEANS, La, July Il
Special to the Gazette.
Sterling Commercial, 60 days-....4 s2H04 ss.x
FrancS-Commercial, co days......5 g3I
New York sight-Bank -. 49,. . premium
Commercial.-...- ............ 8 discount
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-07-16
Galveston Sugar Market.

Galveston Wool Market.
Special to the Gazette.
Galveston. Tex, July Wool-GIarEet
closed quiet.
Unsecured wool
SPRING-TiyFTyE MONTHS CLIP
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-07-16
Governments, Stocks and Bonds.

rators in the stock market, and its result
ant dizziness and stagnation in trading, in
all probability reached their limits to-day
all feature disappearing from the market,
while trading on the floor was practically
paralyzed. The morning operations showed
some life, the selling by London and Chi
cago encouraging further efforts by local
trading bears to get prices down, but when
esyNttemptsx utter stagnation
toof ptsaSsyon OF she market. The mar
kef clSsd dull, but heavy, in most cases
oDy slightly changed from prices of last
SveTDg.
Ralroad, government and state bonds,
dml and STEADY.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-07-16
Bonds and Stocks.

Special to the Gazette.
NEW YORK, July I4.-Bonds and stocks closed
al the following prices bid:
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-07-16
GENERAL MARKETS.

Freights from Galveston.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-07-16

British ConSols.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-07-16

Mid Mid !
PORTS. TONE. ding ding Sales
to-day yesd'y
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-01-17

to drive mills and electric light plants
suggest that the reservoir action
OF water bearing strata can be
considerably augmented. Flowing artesian
wells, especially if large enough to use
proftably for power, for water supply or for
extensive irrigation, are very profitable to
their owners; nearly as much so, in fact, as
oil or gas wells, for they do not play out. It
is reasonably to be supposed that were
attention to be directed to such wells as
sources of profit, geologists and drillers
would explore for them, the subterranean
reservoirs would be tapped and drained,
their capacity developed to the utmost, with
out expense to the Government, and what
General Greely calls the perennial flow of
the rivers, or flow from springs, etc., very
considerably increased. General Greely
estimates the present perennial flow of the
Ohio to be three-ifths of a cubic mile per
month or 7.2 cubic miles per year. If it
were possible, by opening springs and
flowing wells, to double the perennial flow,
the extreme food conditions would be
mitigated and the low water discharge i'm
proved to considerable extent, and that
with profit to the citizens as individuals and
without expense to them collectively.
What the Farmers Can Do.
There are about 81, 600, 900 acres, or 49,
$50 square miles of farm lands in the Ohio
Valley. 1t every farmer would plow his
land in deep burrows, at right angles with
the slope, as is practiced on the hillside
farms in New England, the flood outfall
would be very materially diminished, pos
sibly to the amout of AZ cubic miles. This
would NOT only mitigate flood conditions,
but also prevent denudation of the soil, and
sitting up of the rivers.
This may be thought rather strong state
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-01-17

retard the reservoir development as in the
Ohio, the Yosemite, and other well-known
streams. The effect Of the length of the
water course as related to the duration of the
flood is we'll illustrated by comparison
of the Niagara with the Mississippi. The
Niagara is a very short river, and its
maximum dischargeis practically continu-
ous-therefore its reservoir volume is triflng
relatively to its discharge. The Mississippi,
or the contrary, has sufficient reservoir ac-
ton to moderate almost to obliteraton at
Carrolton the extrema flood oscillations at
Cairo. The Columbia is good example of
reservoir action, as is shown by its extremely
smooth flood diagram.
A river OF little original fall has deficient
power OF erosion, generally meanders
through marsh, and its reservoir action is
naught.
General Humphreys Testimony
Such rivers as the Allegheny, the Con-
necticut, the Potomac, and in fact most
rivers, exemplify the normal relation, in
which the river, at high flood, fills or nearly
fills its banks, and there is neither great eI,
cess of channel capacity nor extern
sive or destructive floods. In any such
stream the portion divided by d of the
flood volume, would if CONCEALED, be
very nearly or entirely contained within and
NIL the water course; and where I divided by
D equals 1, or the food duration is equal to
the time OF traverse, the entire food volume
could be so contained, as is probably
the case with the Missouri river
and many of its tributaries. The
accompanying diagrams show the effect of
channel reservoir action in very interest
ing manner. The food oscillations in the
smaller tributaries are short and sharp, ex-
tending over but day or two; further down i
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-01-17
A COMEDIAN PUNCHED.
The Manager of the Company Knocks Out
Actor Hampton.

Actor Hampton.
NEW YORK, Jan. 16.-Alfred Hampton,
the comedian, who is shining light in the
"City Directory" carried bloody nose on
the stage during the performance at the Lee
Avenue Academy in Brooklyn few nights
ago. The attaches of the theater said that
the manager OF the show had punched Mr..
Hampton, and it got into print that
Ariel N. Barney was the assailant. But
Mr.. Barney was in Baltimore at the
time, and he has since vigorously tele-
graphed denial. This led to an explana-
tion, and it has been revealed to the
surprise of the theatrical fraternity in town,
that Mr.. Hampton's injuries were received
at the hands of John 81. Russell, manager
and owner of the "CIty Directory and
several other farclcal shows. Hampton, it
appears, had recently signed to join another
company.
News of this came to Russel's ears, and be
visited Hampton's dressing room. There
he reproached the actor with base ingrati-
tude. qualifying his regret by asserting that
it was not because Hampton was talented;
it was only because Russell had ordered
Autographs OF him and would have to pay
for them. An eye witness says that Russell
then struck Hampton several times, and
also grabbed flask which was in the room.
Hampton is slender and not strong, while
Russell is portly and always in training.
Naturally the comedian sunered consider
ably. He will leave the troupe, and his
friends say he will sue Russell.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-01-17
MORE THAN SATISFIED.
AN EXCITING EXCURSION AFTER SOME
NEGRO LABoRERs.
The Lively Experience of a Passenger Agent
in North Carolina-Driven From Town
as Soon as His Object Became Known to
Indignant Whites.
ESPECIAL TELEGKAM TO THE DIsPArCH.i

HI
BIRMINGHAM. ALA, Jan. 16.-Charles
Jones, passenger agent OF the Kansas City,
Memphis and Birmingham Railroad, has
just returned from North Carolina, where
he went to secure 500 negro laborers for
planters in Arkansas. He returned without
the negroes, and says he is glad to get back
with his life. "If the Arkansas planters
want negro laborers from North Carolina
they may go after them, I'm not going any
more" said Mr.. Jones. When asked to tell
his experience the passenger agent shud-
dered.
ST came near being mobbed three times,
and had to slip out of several places at
night and on foot. At Enfield, N. c., as
soon al the white people learned was in
the town and my business, they called a
meetingyof the Town Council The Council
at once passed an ordinance that any man
who came there to entice negro laborers
away would be regarded as a suspicious and
dangerous character and given one hour to
leave town, never to return. If he remains
over the allotted time he will be fined
$50 and then imprisoned, if he still
persists in remaining on any pretext. Well,
sir, when the Town Marshal came to notify
me of the new ordinance, which went into
effect at once, there were fully 100 white men
right behind him, and most of them looked
like they wanted to lynch me on the spot.
They would not listen to a word 1 had to
say. must leave within an hour. The
Marshal finally consented that 1 might re-
main until the next train, but he detailed
man to watch me and see that did not talk
to any negroes.
cat another little town over there they did
not take time to call the Council together to
pass law. A committee waited on me five
minutes after got off the train and gave
me 80 minutes to leave town. had to
leave that place on foot and walk ten miles
to the next station. At a small station
where 1 stopped one day the crowd caught
on to me while was talking to the depot
agent, and they made rush for me. Now
you git, an you want to be nifty quick
about it too, said the leader; and again 1
had to walk out of town.
Twenty thousand negroes were taken
out of North Carolina last year and sent to
the big Mississippi river plantations, but
some of the railroad passenger agents who
90 over there after negroes this year are go
ing to get lynched if they don't mind. /
don't want any more of this negro business
in mine. I'll go out in the mountains and
ticket some Mormon converts to q tab. You
see there are not enough negroes left over
there to run the plantations, and the white
men know their tenants would not have left
except for the passenger and labor agents.
They are laying for agents now, 1 tell you,
and they'll make it hot for some of them."
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-01-17

important improvements are contemplated.
which will greatly add to the capacity of
the works as well as cheaper the cost OF
making steel rails. The present converting
mill, which contains four ten-ton converters,
Is not sufficient to operate the works to
their full capacity, and new con-
verting mill, which is expected will be the
largest and best equipped converting de-
partment in the world, will be erected in the
site of the present mill. The new mill will
contain four 18-ton converters. The present
cupola house is a small affair. and will also
be replaced by new one, which is under
construction at present. 1t will be erected
separate from the converting mill being
built on the south side of the present mill.
1t will soon be ready for the placing of the
four cupolas, and other machinery. The
remainder of the old blooming mill will be
torn down and furnaces similar to those
built under the supervision of the late
Captain Jones, and capable of holding ten
1ngots will be used entirely.
The charging buggies, invented by Cap
tain Jones, will be used with improved ma
chinery. A new 40-inch blooming mill, to
be the largest in the country, will be built
and will be capable OF rolling an ingot over
22 inches thick, while heretofore the size OF
the ingots rolled was only IA inches. A
hCW SuRluc anu an eublrely new SET Oh TOLLS
and heavier machinery will be necessary to
run this mill. In the new rail mill a larger
and heavier engine will replace the engine
now operating the smoothing rolls. Larger
blooms than have ever been rolled before
will then be put through, and rails heavier
than So pounds to the yard can be made.
A Bright Prospect Ahead.
The outlook for the steady operation of all
the mills making iron and steel in this vi
cinity for the year 1891, which is a very i'm
portant question to the thousands employed
at manual labor in the mills, as we'll as to
the small merchants, who are in a very
great degree dependent on these workmen
for their trade. is very bright and encourag-
ing. AS general rule, fluctuations in the
value of iron and steel products do not af-
feet the wages OF the skilled and unkskilled
workmen. To them it is more a question of
activity in trade, steady demand and con-
Sequent steady work.
The united opinion of local manufacturers
is that the year just ushered in will surpass
any previous year in the history OF the
in the point of production and con-
sumption of iron and steel, and which will
insure uninterrupted employment to mill
workmen, and increased prosperity for this
city. C.K.
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H-(Evl

r. Reservoir volume of channel
.. I. Time OF traverse through the channel of a
particle of water.
d. Duration of food.
V. Volume of flood.
+. Total original fall, or fall of the original
bank from the source to the outlet.
f. Full necessary to ERODE the material of the
bed.
e. A factor determined by the character of
the material of the bed.
+ and are eXT re ised as tangents.
Evidently yCI be greatest in sand or
loan, much less Iu clay and mari still less in
shales and least OF all in rock.
The above may be expressed in common
language as follows: The normal reservoir
volume Of a water course is to the total fiood
volume as the time of traverse of particle
O. water through the channel is to the dura-
ton OF the flood; for instance, if it takes
one day Tor particle of water to traverse
tne channel, and the food duration is three
days, then the reservoir volume is one-third
tue Hood volume; but this ratio is modified
by the original fall of the water course, and
by the erodable qualities of its materials.
Controlling Conditions.
A few examples will well illustrate the
principles. Great original fall, together
Win erouaole material, results in reservoir
capacity more than sufficient to contain the
greatest Hoods, as in the Colorado and other
streams IN our great Western plateaus. in
stone country; the water courses in the
shsles oil Western New York; and the deep
guilles so frequent in clay and mari coun-
tries. The effect Of non-erodsble strata is to
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-01-17
AT THE PISTOLS POINT,
DARING AND UNIQUE ROBBERY IN A
KANSAS CITY HOUSE.
Three Women Relieved of Diamonds and
Jewelry Worth S1, S1,3OO-Strangers Who
Suddenly Proved to Be Desperadoes-
A Queer Case.

KANSAS CITY, Mo-, Jan. 16.-A daring,
unique snd successful robbery was perpe-
trated at house kept by Mrs. Mollie Gore
on McGee street, in the very heart OF the
city, about 2 o'clock this morning. Three
men at the muzzles of reyolvers robbed
Mrs. Gore and two girls, who were
her companions OF ST 800 worth of diamonds $
and jewelry, and made good their escape.
The unique feature lies in the fact that the
robbery was the ending of little theater
party. Last night two men whom Mrs.
Gore described, but does not know, and who
claimed to be from Denver, went to her
house and invited her and one of the girls
to go to the theater to see the "Sea King"
On the way home after the show a third
man was met at Twelfth and Walnut streets.
with whom the two men with the women
seemed well acquainted. He was asked to
accompany the party to Mrs. Cores house.
and did So The time until o'clock was
spent by the whole party drinking and
carousing. just as the clock struck 2, all
three men suddenly drew their reyolyers
and pointed them at Mrs. Gore and the two
girls in the room at the time, and demanded
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-01-17

the larger streams the food duration is pro-
tracted, and the rise and fall are gradual; a
lurther operation of the reservoir action OBJ
llterates the impression of individual foods
from the tributaries; while at New Orleans
the discharge becomes "a simple drain from
lake, as General Humphreys aptly ex-
presses it. the river having high stage and
low stage, neither exhibiting great irregu-
larlties In height or discharge from day to
day or from week to week.
1t must be borne in mind that the fall has
great effect on the reservoir action. The
rapidly-draining food-producing tribu-
taries have excessive fall, and pour out
their flood waters in immense waves, which,
because of the excessive fall, are not
checked and tempered by the reservoir ef-
feet OF their channels But this very excess
OF tall at the same time that it causes sud-
den and great floods, has created in these
tributaries enormous reservoir capacity
which man can utilize by art and 90 con-
troll the excesses of nature with the agencies
mace possible by those very excesses. We
have but to fully develop the great channel
reservoirs OF the tributaries, 10 make the
mississippi "a mere drain from lake" not
only at Carrolton, but at st. Louis and
Cairo as we'll.
This is true in a commercial no less than
In physical sense. The tributaries (Which
would be great rivers in other lands) pierce
the great storage warehouses of nature; and
their Improvement will bring to the people
OF the lower valley not alone safety from
destructive floods, but cheap coal, cheap
iron and steel, cheap commodities of all
KINDS, convenient markets for their prod
ucts and bene6cent commerce, profitable
because direct and natural.
Some Other Natural Reservoirs.
The recent extraordinary strikes OF
artesian wells in Iowa. notably those at
Belle Plains, where artesian wells are used
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-01-17
THE APPROPRIATION TOO SMALL.

A Site for the Allegheny Government Build
ing VIII Cost About 100000.
Inspector Clus is still examining sites for
the new Government building in Allegheny.
The two sites which he favors most are the
Central Hotel property and the Rhoades
Hotel, corner Of West Diamond street.
As each OF these sites will cost about
100000, it will nearly consume the
present appropriation of $3.50, 900.
As the postoffice in Allegheny earns
S4O, 900 year, which is the interest at per
cent on 81 600, 900, it is thought the Govern
ment could at least spend $500. 900 on . new
building.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-01-17

their jewels and money under threats of in
slant death. The frightened women obeyed.
and gave the taller one Of the party fine
gents gold watch, and lady's gold watch
with three diamonds mounted in the case.
The robbers tAeu relieved Mrs. Gore of
two diamond eardrops, valued at $500. took
the rings off the fingers of herself and girls.
one of which was a solitaire diamond, an
other with two diamonds and an emerald.
and still another with pearl and ruby set.
ting. The men then left the house and
quickly disappeared. The police have no
clew other than the description given by
Mrs. Gore. The latter was recently made
defendant in $4,000 damage suit brought
by Mrs. Charles Purvis, the wife of a we'll
known sporting man, who charged Mrs.
Gore with alternating her husbands affec-
tions.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-01-17

forces, which raise and lower continents
and induce climatic changes, may affect the
normal reservoir function of rivers, as they
affect all natural relations. These are be-
yond our ken But the normal relations,
such as ordinarily prevail. may be expressed
in the following formula:
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-01-17
REV. J. T. RILEY FOUND GUILTY.

Another Methodist Preacher Convicted of
Imprudence and Unministerial Conduct
The Riley trial ended yesterday after
ten days session. The Methodist preacher
was found guilty of imprudence and unmin-
isterial conducts The finding will be brought
up before the conference at its next meeting.
The charges against him are as follows:
"First-1mprudent and unpinisterial con.
duct, as revealed in the practice of improper
familiarities with women other than his wife.
Seeond=lmmorality, based upon the al
legged fact that Mr.. Rileys conduct with Mrs
Minnick contributed to the strained relations
which eliminated in Mr.. and Mrs. Minnjck's
separation.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-01-17
To Be Non-Partisan.

VANDALIA, ILL, Jan. 16.-A petition is
being circulated here, and is being numer-
ously signed by citizens, whereby the petit
TONERS pledge themselves to eschew politics
at the coming city election and to support q
eitiEens' ticket
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-01-17

ment of what may seem to some a trivial
thing. Let anyone who thinks it trivial
walk In rainy weather across a
newly piowed bottom where the fur
rows run with the fall; and then walk,
ankle-deep in water. up a steep hillside
properly plowed, as he NAV do on any New
England farm, and he will be convinced
that this Is aF"trivial thing" of such vast
proportions as to be of national concern.
The addition of two inches to the amount of
water retained by the soil of the farm land
in the Ohio Valley is equal to the reservoir
effect ofa basin 1900 square miles in area
flooded five feet deep.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-01-17

MOTHERS, do not be without Shiloh's Cure in
your house. 1t will cure Group and whooping
cough. Sold by JOS Fleming 4 Son, 4I2 Mar,
ket ST.