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Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1892-02-04
MUSICAL AND LITERARY.
An Entertainments to be Given at the Fir
Baptist Church.

An Entertainment to be Given at the First
Baptist Church.
A musical and liter airy entertainment will
be given in the parlors of the First Baptist
church Friday eve, February 5, at 81 o'clock.
The following programme will be rendered:
PART L
l. Instrumental selection mandolin violin
ana piano. ,-.-.- -. misses + emu
2. Recitation ............ MISS Mildred BeaneG
g Vocal solo. Schubert's Serenade. ........
...-................... Mrs L. NJ Walker
4. Piano solo, spinning song from the Fly
ing Dutchman, Listz- Miss Tomlinson
s. Vocal quartette, Come Where My Love
Lies Dreaming. Foster e. ......--.-.
......... -. Messrs. Furman and Orchard
PART Il
l. Piano solo, waltz, Chaplin ..... Miss Terrell
2. Recitation, Shadow Of . Song Miss Rainey
g. Vocal quartette Sit Women Domini -.
Mrs. Guy Price, Miss Bragassi, MessrS.
Shorb and Miller. Giovanni. Cagliano
4. Reading, selection Miss Watkins
5 Vocal solo, Sing, Smile and SlumSer,
Violin obligata.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1892-02-04
Lonre for Pecos CITY.

the city council, Messrs Orr, Day, Darter,
accompanied by Secretary Burns, leave for
Pecos City to inspect the building stone
there, and will not return before Sunday.
Alderman Ryan will probably go, being
member of the committee, but urgent bust
ness at home may prevent.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1892-02-04
A billiard Match

Arrangements are being made for bill
lard contest between I. j. Ross of Fort
Worth and Aft Taylor of Cleburne. The
game Will occur at the Elk's billiard par
lar, the style of the game being three-ban
balk-line billiards. The number of points
will be 500
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1892-02-04
at the Jail

Nine unfortunates were placed behind
the bars yesterday-vagrancy and theft be-
ing the charges recorded, six for vagrancy
and three for theft. There are now an
even dozen ready to go to the county road
TO do service
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1892-02-04
But Little of Interest Trans
pires in the City.
LITTLE CORINNE IN CARMEN.
A Chat with the Bright Little
Lady.
4 Slightly Shady Transaetlon-Pulied in
the Acre-The Banjo-Guitar Club
Labor Money To-Day-At the Pack
ing Householder City News
Lamar nTnnev Tn.nay.

Secretary Burns and Assistant Collier
were busy yesterday with the check book,
and to-day over $1,000 in hard cash will be
circulated among the city laborers. This
is owing TO an especial arrangement made
by the secretary
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1892-02-04
Fort wor,h,s Gain,

Special to the Gazette
TERRELL, KAUFMAN COUNTY, TEX, Feb
3.-Mr. w. E. Browne has gone TO Fort
Worth to fill an engagement as manager of
one of the large wholesale houses Fort
Worth will get an enterprisiEg citizen and
Terrell regrets to give him up
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1892-02-04
Called Meeting.

The Democratic executive committee will
meet this afternoon at O'Clock in the Office
of the city marshal. Business of import
ance to transact. j. P. NIcKs,
Chairman.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1892-02-04
Death of walter a. Woods.

Walter A. Wood, the head of the big
Walter A. Wood, reaping and mowi ing ma
CT inc mandatory. died at his home
at Hoosick Falls, New York, on January
10, 1892, aged seventy-six years, two months
and twenty-three days The immediate cause
of death was pneumonia, the sequence of Ia
grippe. Mr. Wood was i'll but four weeks.
Condolatory kilograms have been re-
ceived by the family from every part of the
civilized globe
The immense business of which Mr.
Wood was the originator and manager
amounts TO not less than twelve million dol
lars year. II will be continued by the
trustees of his estate.
Mr.. Woods death will not in any man
ner affect the general agency for Texas,
Louisiana, Indian Territory. and New and
ny, now located at Fort Worth.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1892-02-04
sLIGnTLY SHADY.

The Alleged Crooked Deeds of sian in
EIsrd Lucl.
Something over week ago a man came
TO this city with his wife and two children.
He engaged board at Mrs. Pierces, on the
SolssS Side White here, ne, through mis-
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1892-02-04
Republican Congressional Convention.

hepuDlican congressional Convention.
10 the Republicans of the Sixth Congre ssional
District OF Texas;
GESTLEAIES-There has been call for q
congressional convention made to meet at
Cleburne, Tex, 'for the purpose of electing
delegates and alternates to the Republican
national convention, q candidate for repre-
sentative in congress, candidate for pres
idential elector, etc, for this district - The
usage of the party has been to first know
sentation, which can only be authorized by
the state executive committee, and the
custom throughout the past has been to
authorize the delegates elected TO the
state convention to transact all business
relating TO the congressional and sena-
Morning journal and courier., 1892-08-24

Just for this week wei
sell any of our bes,
27 inch China Silks En
all plain colors, regu 10
lar price 75c, for Per !
Morning journal and courier., 1892-08-24

to pay the expenses of royalty In Europe
are grumbling Is to be seen in the fact
that the ruler of wurtemburg receives q
salary of nearly half q million a year,
though this little kingdom Is smaller than
New Jersey, and has debt of sl71 900,
600, with an annual revenue of only about
$50, 100000. 1t has just been called by
the European papers an act of great pa
triotic self denial that this half f-million
dollar ruler has finally decided not to ask
for an increase of salary, as he had serious
ly thought of doing.
Those who have seen the marble palace
of w. K. Vanderbilt at Newport will be
interested in knowing that at it's opening
the.other night the watchman at the outer
gate was dressed IN knee breeches, loose
frock and skull cap with a golden band.
This wonderful creature is known as the
"usher of the black rod" The rug in
material and of gold. The "staf of the
household" or table walters, were clad in
black liveries with full-breast cords and
tho sleeves and fronts studded with gilt
garters and pstent-leathers with buckles.
The general term of the Supreme court
at Albany has decided that the law of the
road for bicycles Is the familiar "Keep to
the right" A bicycle rider was run into
and injured, both himself and his machine,
by a carriage. Suit was brought against
the owner and driver of the carriage for
damages. On trial 1t appeared that the
bicycler was going slowly and was on the
extreme Iight-hand side of the road. The
carriage was being driven more rapidly in
the opposite direction and did not turn to
the right to avoid the wheelman. The
court held that the latter was where he
had right to be; that by turning to the
right he had taken reasonable precaution
to avoid collision with other vehicles; and
that he was not required by law to turn to
the left, even though by SO doing he might
possibly have avoided the collision. The
rule was laid down that bicycles had the
same road rights as other vehicles and that
carriages must turn out for them where it
is possible or take the consequences.
They are not all convinced. In the
British Medical association, the rule de-
claring women ineligible for membership
has been rescinded, and a woman is to
speak at the next meeting of the Church
congress. The latter fact has excited the
wrath of the Rev. Mr.. Husband of Folke-
stone, who has made the following state
ment from the pulpit: sit is wrong and
unscriptural for woman to speak in our
public assemblies, especially at religious
gatherings of the Church of England, and
I felt, as one honest to my conscientious
convictions, must write to the Church
Congress committee, and resign from these
committees of which have the honor to
be a member, at the came time expressing
my great regret that the Subjects commit
tee should have sanctioned the appearance
of lady as speaker on Church of Eng
land platform, countenancing, SO it seems
to me, the desire on the part of some ladies
of the present day to assume to themselves
masculine offices and duties, and to act an
tsgonistically to the beauty and mission
and dignity of true womanhood."
Morning journal and courier., 1892-08-24

The Journal de Ia Sante attributes to @
medical officer of the French Army the lat
est ''cure" for obesity, which is strangely
simple in it's carrying out. The form of
diet was simply restriction to one dish at
each meal. Irrespective of what that dish
might be, and no matter whether the guam
aty consumed was greater or smaller. 1t
was made to satisfy the desire for food to
the full at each meal No supplementary
dishes, such as soups, desserts, or condi-
ments, were allowed; one single dish, and
that taken plain was found to satisfy the
appetite much sooner than a variety of
dishes, even If the quantity was apparent
ly smaller and on almost an sbstemious
scale. This regimen was employed also in
the case of lady whose embOnpoint threat
ened too rapid increase, with good results
and without any discomfort in the observ-
ance of the restrictions. In fact, In one
or two instances the reduction of corpu-
lence has seemed to 90 on too rapidly, and
it has been deemed best to take means for
restoration, in a measure, of that which
hss been lost. Under this system, as un-
der most others, sdds Popular Science
News, the excessive inhibition of LIQUIDS
has to be forbidden, care being taken not
to enforce the abstinence from water, es-
pecially to the point where symtoms of
circulstory depression arise from insufa-
cheney of volume of blood in the vessels.
Morning journal and courier., 1892-08-24
AN INTERESTING SUGGESTION.

i
1t has been evident during the last few
weeks that sheriffs and special deputy
sheriffs are not able to cope with i'm
portant disturbances of the peace. In
several States the militia has been called
upon, and has done a work which could
done in another way. It is evident that
there will hereafter be need of a force
that can be called upon to~keep the peace
when the local authorities find themselves
out all the time. 1t was not created for
such work as it has been called on to do
lately. The New York Times makes
the interesting suggestion that a
State police should be organized.
1t should be the purpose of the State
police to intervene promptly and to chsck
violence at its first manifestation, or where
possible to prevent it. The mere existence
of such an organization, the knowledge
that it could be made uickly available,
and that it would be beyond the reach of
local influences, would of itself induce a
more orderly spirit. The details of such an
organization must be matter for careful
etudy. There should be a purely
State force which would serve as the
framework of the whole. The members OF
this could easily and pro6tably be en-
ployed as a mounted patrol in the vicinity
of large cities, and in other useful work,
and their number should be sufficient to
make them, when acting together, formi'
dable vody. In addition to these the state
should by law be given the right to
call for certain portion of the polict
force of the various cities, in return fol
which it should pay corresponding par
! of the cost of such police. There should
| be small ut highly trained body of Statt
detectives that could be relied on to keel
the central authority thoroughly Informed
of events likely to require the use of th'
| State police.
This suggestion is we'll worth attention
It will not be wise or practicable to go OF
calling out the militia every time there il
disturbance. A we'll organized Stat
police could deal with most of the riot
that may occur promptly and efficiently.
Morning journal and courier., 1892-08-24
How Ruckskin Fired The Gun
from the Detroit Free Press.

When the Old Soldier club had been
that Corporal Buckskin, whose real name
was Boosgene, would narrate one of his ex-
periences-tbat experience, in fact, which
had made him corporal.
The corporal blushingly pnlled the soap
box he was sitting on out in the middle of
the floor and began:
1T happened down there on the Poto-
mac" he said, Zone day when there wasn't
much going on-a sort of between meals
affair, but not pleasant while it lasted. The
enemy had punched over in some woods,
and about forty of us hauled mp a twenty
pound smooth-bore gun and thought we
would have some fun dislodging them.
There was email frame house not more
than 200 yards away, and we tried to gel
behind it, but We couldn't reach it and
they couldn't. We got the gun in position
in some bushes, with a low heavy tree right
, over il, and blazed away once without much
damage, and while we were loading the
second time, thinking we had it all our own
way they made a rush, about fifty of them,
ON us, and though we had got the gun 90
! it covered the house and had it all ready to
! touch off, pn be blamed if they didn't
make it 50 hot for us we had to skedaddle
! That is to say, everybody did but me, and
! / went up the big tree and bid In the
leaves. didn't want to be there bit, i
can tell you, but there was no help for III
1 was treed and nothing short of Provi-
dence was going to save me.
at hugged the tree close and was scared
half to death, until they let up shouting,
and then got cooler and began to look
around and figure on getting away. Tht
cannon was right under me, almost within
reach, citing il the sun as harmless as Z
baby on 9 fence, and likely to remain 81
as long as the other fellows were In thu
house, and our fellows were hid in tn,
brushes out of sight, waiting for night t;
come on or something to turn up to chang
the situation. In the meantime was do
ing q deal of thinking up that tree. wa
hugging limb 90 tight that after swhil
something In my pocket began to hurs N
In the ribs, and ] reached In 10 zee what
Morning journal and courier., 1892-08-24

Inc tanneu anu IIechleu sulnIuef =
Has one absorbing dream
She wants to own that kind OF cow
From which they get cold cream.
Morning journal and courier., 1892-08-24
Travelling In the West Finy Year.
From the st. Louis Post,Dispatch


IFrom the St. Louis Post st-Dispatchl
The projected electric railway between
St. Louis and Chicago, over which passen-
gers are to be conveyed in less than three
hours, excites amazement when contrasted
with the methods of transportation in exist
ence fifty years ago.
AS a contrast, the following instances
among hundreds more of like character
may be cited in illustration of the great
changes in modes of transit that have re-
placed those of pioneer days.
In 1926 twenty-five companies of regular
troops, which had been for some time sta
toned on Green bay, some seventy FIVE
miles north of Chicago, received marching
orders to proceed to st. Louis. With the
present facilities of transportation the trip
| could be made in ten or twele hours, but a
| that time it consumed more than twice thai
number of days, though made wholly BY
water. A suitable number of boats wers
| constructed for the expedition. The troops
embarked on the bay, through which they
proceeded, then up the Fox river to por
tage of 1850 yards, over which the boat
were carried into the Wisconsin river
whence they again embarked and proceed
ed without interruption to the Mississippi
and thence to Q position on its banks ter
miles below st. Louis, where Jefferson
Barracks was soon after established.
Coming down TO . later period, Scotcl
sgricultuIist Of East Lothian, NJ fafrsol
Morning journal and courier., 1892-08-24
A CRUME OF COMFORT.

A CRUMB OF COMFORT.
The decision of Judge Mccormick of the
United States Circuit court in the Texas
railroad case gives holders of western rail-
road securities some needed comfort. The
idea has been growing up in the West and
Southwest that rates should be established
by law and established for the benefit of
the shippers rather than for the benefit of
the railroads. In the Texas csse the rail-
establish rates, and they established such
rates that the railroads could not do bust
ness pro6tably with them. The railroads
applied first to the commissioners for re-
lief, and of course got none. AS they
could not bring an action in the United
States courts directly, the trustees of GER
tain mortgages, representing gnon-residents,
brought suit for an Injunction to restrain
the commissioners from enforcing their
arbitrary rates, upon the ground that such
enforcement would disable and prevent the
companies from meeting the in
terest on their bonds. The in
junction was issued according
to the terms of the petition. The decision
denies fatty the assumed power of State
legislature to regulate rates of freight and
fare through the mediumship of a board
of railroad commissioners, if by such regu-
lation the rates are made 80 low that the
company cannot pay its own debts. Such
regulation is held to be law impairing
the obligation of contracts.
Much of the snti-railroad legislation of
the West has been utterly regardless of
the rights or obligations of the railroads.
The idea has been that the railroads are
for the use of the public and that the
public has right to use them at its own
price. The decision above referred to has
given this idea a decided setback.
Morning journal and courier., 1892-08-24
No. 2O2

was and found q sun-glAss some of the boys
had picked up and traded me for o jack
knife. All of q sudden I noticed the
cannon down there In the sun all ready to
be fred II only anybody could set q match
to IL. Thinks 10 myself, what's the good
of sun -glasef So crept out on the limb
as quiet as could and got close enough to
the gun to get focus on the touch hole
II was most too far away, but I held her
on the best could for about eve minutes,
when bang went the cannon, and As I'm
sitting here, i tell you, IL blowed that house
clean over and full of holes and didn't
leave q man that could run. Nary q man.
and before anybody had time to move on
the other side our fellows jumped out of
the bushes and yAnked that cannon under
cover kndi kept 1t then The Jar oflthe
shot knocked me of the limb and broke
my arm In the fall but the stripes they put
on 1t cured 1t pretty quick and didn't
complain"
Corporal Buckskin's story ercis@d some
doubt in the minds of q few of his listen
ers, but when he pulled big sun glass from
his pocket and showed II as the identical
glass the testimony was considered compe-
tent, ard everybody came forward and
him
Morning journal and courier., 1892-08-24

Good time to buy a
Wool Challie dress
for the next six days! n.
you can buy our 17c u
Challies for Per VI
Morning journal and courier., 1892-08-24
FOUN ID.

The trouble with the Lost Chord il
that go many people find it.-Boston Tran
script.
1t doesn't follow that man approves OF
a cyclone even if he is completely carried
away with it-Boston Courier.
Hardly anybody would like to change
places with the turtle, yet think of the
snap he has-Hazleton Sentinel.
She-Do you love me for myself slonei
He-Yes, and when we're married 1 don't
want any of the family thrown init
Bits.
A Chicago milkmaid has eloped with
bination of business and blissl-Chicago
Times.
The tanned and freckled summer girl
Has one absorbing dream
ha, srSl 2 fHar Ert. nf
Morning journal and courier., 1892-08-24
EDITORIAL NOTES.

Speaking of notable fasters, Boston
man has a Mexican beetle which he knows
has not eaten anything for over year,
and vet it still lives.
Morning journal and courier., 1892-08-24
HsKnsss their weak Point.

lEFNLl Atthk allAaI1Nk-I
Newly Elected Member Of Congress Ito
committee Of the wonen's Suffrage Asso-
cistionl-I will present your bin. ls'3es,
before the house, but you must remember
that every voter must be 81 years old, or
over that age, TO vote.
Committee woman (aged 05)-Oh, dear
me, girls, We never thought of that; we
had better let II go for a few years until
we are old enough
Morning journal and courier., 1892-08-24

Speaking of notable fasters, Boston
man has a Mexican beetle which he knows
has not eaten anything for over a year,
and yet it still lives.
English medical authorities are coming
to the conclusion that the smoking of pure
opium is not nearly as injurious to China
men as has been supposed. England
makes money out of the opium trade.
There will be everything at the fair.
As ordinary carriages are not to be al
lowed on the grounds and as invalids
and others will desire some form of con-
veyance, 1t is now announced that
"electric rolling chairs" will be intro
duced. Each one will be driven by a
storage battery. be capable of conveying
two persons, be steered by the front wheel
as in many tricycles, and will be rented
by the hour, the battery furnishing power
enough to run fourteen hours without re-
charging.
At arecent Sunday school service in Bath,
Maine, the minister was illustrating the
necessity of Christian profession in orde,
to fully enjoy the blessings of Providence
and to make himself clear to his youthful
hearers, said: "For instance, I want Il
introduce water into my house. The pipe
and faucets are all in good order, but I ge
no water, and why notr He expected tn
children to see that 1t was because he hat
| made no connection with the main in tn
street, but they all looked perplexed
Finally o fve-year-old boy squealed on
"I know; It's because you don't pay up.
! One Of the reasons Why those who hav
Morning journal and courier., 1892-08-24

Puck.
A Rapid Growth-She-Do you notice
how rapidly the city is growingf He
Yes, indeed, 1 owe twice as many people as
1 did year ago.-Brooklyn Life.
Easily Explained. Homespun (tsk-
ing his first surf bath)-Gosh. Mandy!
No wonder folks git sick when they go to
sea, eff they hev ter drink water like this.
Puck.
'Some one said to day that the new min
lister preached over the heads of the con-
gregation. Do you think sof' ''He didn't
preach over my head. Ihad on my theater
hat."-Life.
She las Alfred bows politely to a person
of Jewish appesrance)-Who'sy your friendi 2
He-Oh, he's an uncle of mine She-On
your mothers sidei He-No, on the East
side.-Life.
''Do you ever take your wife on your
knee as you used TO do when she was your
sweetheart" al can't cay that 1 do. but
she frequently sits down on me of her own
accord. Cape Cod Item.
A Chicago literary club recently debated
| the question: "Was the inventor of the
barbed- wire fence barbarisnp 1t is safe
to say that everybody took sides and no
body got on the fencs.-St. Paul Globe.
Miss Hitone-I see by the paper that
Miss Catchon gave a lovely golden rod tea.
Aunt Ssmanthy-Poor thing; reckon she
didn't know it, but dandelion tea is a great
sight better for the blood.-Chicago Inter
| Ocean.
Housekeeper-No, no, no, don't want
anything. This is the tenth time I have
had to say this this morning. Tramp
Peddler-Don't yer want ter hire me to
stay here an say it fer yer, ma'ami--Har,
per's Bazaar.
Young wife lat midnight)-Wake upl
| Wake upi Husbaud-What is it, dear
Robbersi Young wife-Mercy, moi You
asked me at supper what allied the cake.
1t just happened to come to me this min
ute. forgot to put any sugar in it,
Truth.
"No," said Mrs. Buylow, "men are not
good at buying bargains. There's my
husband; heard him say the other day
that he paid SIS for box of cigars.
"Yesg' "Well, went down town day
and bought a box for 81. Just fancy that
He'll be surprised when he comes home.
| New York Press