Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1892-03-17

ate his opposition to an appropriation for &
Federal building in that city.
Superintendent Whatley of the state peni
tentiaries has been recently visiting JhC
sugar plantations on the Columbia tap.
The Railroad Agents associa ton are
holding meeting at San Antonio.
The contractors on the government build
ing at FL Paso think the work will be fin
| ished in two months.
A contract has been completed by the
| trustees of the State Orphans Home al
Corsicana for boring an artesian well, the
| work to begin April l.
It is reported that Republican paper i:
| to be started at Laredo.
The Foard County News suggests pos
| sibility for governor might be found in Pan
! handle woods.
| 1.-THE La Plata Star issued its first num-
Der on Saturday, 1t is under the editorial
management of MIR. ]. B. Jennings.
The building committee of the Baptist
church at Marshall has advertised for
bids on the new ediice, which is to cost
$4,000, and the work to begin not later
| than May.
The city council of Marshall has passed
an ordinance prohibiting the use of barbed
wire for the protection of trees or arounE
any structure upon or near the edge OF tn
sidewalk. An ordinance which should b
enforced in every town,
Corn in Nueces county is said to be foot
high and looking splendid; it has beef
plowed once, and an immense crop is ex.
pected.
The Tulia Gazette reports the grass green
on the prairies and the people eating turnip
salad from their gardens.
Subscriptions are being made toward the
building of a Presbyterian church at
Canadian.
The suit of the contested judgeship of the
Amarillo district was brought before the
district court this week
Mr. Walter o. Dunbar of New York is
now managing editor OF the Houston Post,
and r NJ. johnson is still chief editor.
Homegrown Strawberries are selling at
Houston and other Southern cities in Texas,
at 40 cents box.
Local papers say that thousands Of acres
of virgin soil have been turned over this
year in Donley county, that the wheat is in
splendid condition and the oats are doing
well.
Lumber for the new courthouse at Dim
nit, Castro county, has been purchased at
Amarillo.
The GAINESVILLE bar Endorsed V. NJ. Hale
and T. J. Brown for the position of judges
of the civil court of appeals.
I'll Bolton Reporters out in new dress
and as proud of it as any woman with
her Easter bonnet or young man with his
first tile.
The private bank az Daingerfeld has been
changed into national bank, under the
name of the National bank of danger
feld."s
The East Line and Red River railway
will build new depot opposite to the site
of the burned one.
The Limestone New Era, in view of the
fact that irate subscribers who stopped
their papers last summer, because of its
policy, are now returning, quotes the IA
miliar lines:
Long as the lamp holds out to burn
The vilsst sinner may return.
Eillsboro is TO have two oil mills.
A mass meeting has been called at Co.
manche March 20 to ratify or reject the
platform OF tn Labor party prepared at
the St. Louis conference of the labor Or
CARNATIONS Of the UTite6 States.
The members Of the Baptist church at
Colorado gave their pastor a pleasant sur
prise BY donation party on Tuesday night
. The Democracy of Brazoria have organ
lied club, and in compliment to the We
lasco Times it is called ''The Times Demo-
CT attic club"
A new vault is being put into the county
clerks office at Breuham, and work on the
Baptist church is progressing nicely.
Iron was expected at Rosenberg on
Wednesday for the Pan-American railway.
and the ties are being distributed along the
route.
The days of the strawberry festival have
arrived, and Laredo viii open the ball on
the 18th.