Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1894-10-19

Immensity OF the Cotton crop-Jef-
ferson Davis Daughter Coming.


ferson Davis Daughter Coming.
DALLAS, Tex. Oct. 1s.-Capsain Billy
Ross. a good authority in all matters
agricultural, was out in the Richard
SON neighborhood yesterday and he
saws In many places the yield Of cotton
ans year will be two bales TO the acre.
1T Is only as the season advances,
said Captain Ross, that the people are
beginning TO realize what an immense
cotton Yield there is this year. III the
weather continues favorable Tor pick
ing there is no telling how much the
state will beat her measley record OF
900 900 bales In fact, the people are
compelled to quit grumbling at low
prices long enough to make a rev
calculations OF wonder and astonish-
/ ment al the enormous crop
The receipts at Dallas so FAR thls
( season are averaging up about twice
1 what they have been for many years
snd day and i IA "a under all the
time. The long lines Of wagons rad
I latlng from tile compress at It's sew
eral approaches recall the days when
an the cotton OF North Texas was
brought to Dallas.
The receipts today are larger than
: usual, and there is business-like air
on Elm street, where the street men
/ operate.
/ Prices today range from $50 to 4so
/ cents.
The seed market Is stationary at
$3.50 per ton.
Judge clint OF the criminal district
{ court, having disposed OF the cases set
for this week, yesterday evening dis
charged the jury and adjourned court
until next Monday.
Deputy Sherins Winfrey and Crush
this morning arrested and Jailed John
Z Roberts on the charge Of stealing cat
tie from Casey Pemberton, on White
Rock creek.
The roundup the police made Tues
/ day had the effect Of making idle and
suspicious persons live in extreme
Ieivacy yesterday and last night. At
least the records Of the court showed
no traces Of them this morning.
There were fifty breakfasters at the
city prison yesterday morning. The
squad who We're shown the road out OF
town went on their way with full
stomachs.
Mrs. Hayes, daughter Of President
Jefferson Davis, Will reach Dallas on
the 2Ith instant.
J, w. Thompson has returned home
from an extended trip in Europe, much
improved in health.
Major /. G. Rundle. who is in Jail
{ pending the action OF the higher court
on his appeal from the Judgment Of
| the criminal district court giving him
twenty years for the slaughter Of Ed.
| $. Randall two years ago. has been
a sufferer from typho-malariaI fever
for the last three weeks and has been
/ quite low.
J HIS physician today believes he has
the fever broken. At all events It has
/ very much abated. and the chances are
| mat Major Randle will from now ON
] improve.
! Mr., Henry Jones, deputy clerk of
] the district court, has Just hunted III
| the divorce statistics Of the county for
/ the year 1893, and he reports that the
total number Of divorces granted was
/ seventy-one.
This ltberaies from the matrimonial
! yoke l43 persons, but the condition OF
family matters is not half so bad as
! would appear 10 most people, as fully
40 or these persons have gone right
back into the same old state again.
The laidss of the w. c. t. u. will
nave under their auspices at the Fair
I grounds REST Cottage" This en-.
terprise Will embrace a nursery. whore
mothers can leave their small children
ana babies FOR safe keeping. and where
sweet M Tx and cookies will be on hand
Tor the children, and hot coffee for nst.
sons who bring their lunch. There viii
I ne toilet room for ladies' and whero
. lhey can leave their packages