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THE DAILY DEMOCRAT.
VOL. I.
>¥ORT WORTH, TEXAS, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 31, 1883.
FIRST NATIONAL BANK
•*' CORNER HOUSTON AND SECOND STREETS,
ffWt Worth,
Texas.
CAPITAL,
SURPLUS,
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$10®,000
20,000
25 CENT COLUMN
This column will be appropriated to
"Wants," "For Sale," "To Kent,"
Found." "Lost," "Personal." and such
other advertisements as can be con-
densed into five lines or less, for which
2.") cents only will bo charged for one in-
sertion and 00 cents for three insertions.
For each additional Hue above live lines,
flye cents.)
O^kickks-M. B. Lojd, President: D. C. Bennett, Vice President; George Jack-
son, Cashier.
Directous—Godwin, Jas Watkbu, Geo Jackson, M B Loyd, Jaa O Reed. D C Ben-
•Wit, J Q Shiuiidge.
TRANSACT A GENERAL BANKING BUSINESS.
A. M.Britton, President, John Nichols, Vice President, S. W. Lornax, Cashier.
THE CITY NATIONAL BANK
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OP FORT WOK T II.
Capital and Surplus,
$165,000.00
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A SIOCLiR BASKING 3DSISKSS IN ALI-ITS BRANC HEN TRANSACTED.
Exchange bought and sold and collections made on all accessible points. Draw
eight exchange on England, Ireland, France, Germany, Austria, Italy, Lenmurk, Swe-
des and Norway. ,
CoRRvsroNDKNTS—Doiuiell, Lawson & Simpson. New York: Valley National yank.
LLouis, Mo; Importers' and Traders' National Bank, New York; First National
ik, Galveston, Texas; Citizens Bank of Louisiana, New Orleans.
THoflb A. Tidball, K. M. YanZandt, J. J, Jarvls, J. P. Smith.
TIDBALL, VAN ZANDT & CO.
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TEXAS
A General Bankin^Bnsii&ess Transacted,
COLLECTIONS MADE AND PROMPTLY REMITTED.
JJgyEx change drawn on all the principal cit ies of Europe.
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DEALER IN ALL KINDS OF
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eumberances, board in a lirst-class pri-
vate house or in a family. Address in
care lock box No. 122. tt.
WANTED by the Daily Democrat 500
additional city subscribers at 20 cents a
week, or 75 cents a month.
wXxTED—Every one to bring
job work to the Democrat office.
their
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> O'. ALL GOODS PROMPTLY DELIVERED.
86 Houston St.,Fort Worth,Texas.
KNEELANP, UTTLEJOHN & MARTIN,
Insurance i Land Agents,
21 Main Street,
FORT WORTH, - TEXAS.
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Eclipse Lumber Yard !
Corner NintU and Throckmorton Streets,
R. M. PAGE, PROPRIETOR.
Has the Largest Stock and Beet Assortment of .
ILiTJMBEB ITsT THE STATE.
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It Defies Competition. Call and See TJs.
FORT WORTH, - - - - - . - TEXAS.
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S, SPRING HACKS,* CARRIAGES AND BUGGIES RE-
PAIRED OR PAINTED.
f Houston and Fourteenth Streets, Fort Worth, Texas. l-17-3m
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Fancy and Toilet Articles, Etc.
KO. 48 MAIN STREET,
FORT WORTH
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NO. 48 MAif
FOR SALE,
FOR SALE—Old papers at
50 cents per hundred.
this
ofllce,
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FOR SALE—Stock of groceries for sale
cheap. Also store house for rent; doing
a first-class cash business. Inquire of
Clias. Baggett, 20 Weatherford street.
FOR RENT.
FOR KENT—A large comfortable ofllce
in front part of building. Apply ut this
ofllce. 25-tf
THE BRANCH ASYLUM PROPO-
SITION.
Has Port Worth the Intelligence
and the Energy to Accept ItP
The proposition t« locate a branch
of the State Lunatic Asylum at this
point is well worth the consideration
of the authorities and citizens of Fort
Worth. According to the. letter of
Mr. Chambers, published yesterday,
tho legislature is inclined to locate the
institution in this vicinity, and to ex-
pend something like half a million
dallars in grounds and buildings.
Now, whin such propositions are made
to cities, they do not involve the idea
that grounds in tho business or rcsi
dence districts shall be selected, nor
even in tho corporate limits. Asylums
for the insane, for" the deaf and dumb,
^he blind and the inebriate and the
maimed and helpless may just a"3 well
be located a mile or ttfo outside the
city limits as not, and in very many
instances such is the case. It is not
presumed thata legislative committee
appointed to confer with the authori-
ties of Fort Worth for a site lor the
proposed branch asylum, would ask
for the square on the blufl', or squint
at Quality Hill. Neither would they
be ao silly as to desire Tvvombly's
grove, or the mythical oil works pur-
chase. Society summit, of course,
would bo out of the question, since
the piincipal society man on its crest
has already opened a pop-gun fusilade
on the lunatics and the generous oiler
of the legislature. The Loving
heights would answer the purpose ad-
mirably, and an imposing structure of
Texas lime rock, two or threo hun-
dred feet in length and three stories
high with a lofty tower, and the whole
enclosed by a substantial wall ten or
twelve feet high, would be somewhat
ornamental as well as useful, and
might be pointed out to the stranger as
one of the attractive public buildings.
But it is not necessary to put the asy-
lum so close to the city—tho grounds
would cost too much, and tho noise pi
the inmates might render adjacent
property less valuable as residence
lots. The site should be located on
some one of the commanding emin-
ences that surround tho city, and at a
convenient distance—say two or three
miles—where two hundred acr£s of
land could be procured at compara-
tively small cost, and where the in-
stitution would be sufficiently re-
moved from nervous people, to cbviate
all objections arising from that class
of people who abhor the horrors of the
mad-house and live in constant terror
of aberated violence. Would an asy-
lum so situated disturb any citiz.cn, or
affect tho value of any property detri-
mentally ? The objection that tho
lunatics are liablo to break out
and do great harm is not
worth replying to, since no
instance is on record of that charac-
ter, where asylums are properly built
and properly protected by stone
walls. At Tuscaloosa, Alabama, the
asylum and grounds constitute the
most attractive resort of the citizens.
They are situated about a mile from
tho business part of the town, the
buildings arc splendid illustrations of
aesthetic architecture and the
grounds are artistically planned,orna-
mented with trees and shrubbery, and
the walks are most inviting as fash-
ionable resorts. Tuscaloosa is proud
of the institution and would not part
with it for many times its cost. The
same may be said ol the asylum at
Staunton, Virginia, at Milledgeville,
Gn., at Lexington, Kentucky, Fulton,
Mo., and in fact of all tho asylums in
tho states where money, taste and
philanthropy have been wisely ex-
pended. And so, too, would it be
with regard to tho asylum at Fort
Worth within a few years after its
construction. Would it not be a boon
to the city? Mr. Chambers puts the
expenditure in tho construction and
the furnishing of adequate buildings
at from three hundred thousand to
five hundred thousand dollars. Sup-
pose tho smallest figure bo taken as
the basis. The expenditure of #300,-
000 hero will afford lucrative employ-
ment to hundrm's of workmen for a
long period of time. Tho stone ma-
son, the brick mason, the wood work-
er, tho plumber, tho gas-fitter, the
hardware man, tho upholsterer, the
house furnisher, and in fact every class
of mechanism and all mercantile pur-
suits will have work to do and sup-
plies to furnish. The stone quaries
and brick-yards in this vicinity will
have something to do, and all will be
remunerated with liberal and certain
pay. Fort Worth would enjoy the
cream of this vast expenditure, as the
money paid for material and skill and
labor would, in tho main, bo distrib-
uted among tho merchants, hotels,
boarding houses and other- places
where live, energetic, enterprising
men usually spend their earnings.
Would the advantages stop with the
completion of tho building? Not at
all. On the contrary the machinery
of supply and expenditure would just
then be put in motion, and for all
time thereafter many thousands of
dollars would How into the city an-
nually on account of the asylum and
its inmates. It would bo a nevor ceas-
ing source of income, and that in
the most quiet unobtrusive and
least annoying manner of any
.that public institutions bring.
The benefits to tho city would
be as silent as tho dews and as fructi-
fying as the rains that heaven sends to
water the earth and nurture vegeta
tion. Now let the city speak. Does
she want tho asylum? If so sho can
get it by the asking, and all the bless-
ings referred to will assuredly follow
THE CREAM OF THE NEWS.
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Cot.. C. G. Eddy has been appointed
eastern agent for Gould's entire sys-
tem of roads, with headquarters at
New York.
A Sthuv got afloat in New York
that a company had been organized
to kidnap Mr. Vanderbilt on his west-
ern trip and hold him for a ransom,
and in consequence of the bad weather
he will not take his departure to-day
as announced, but indefinitely post-
pones his royal.continental tramp.
A poi.l of ilie Missouri house of re-
presentatives shows eighty-one against
submitting a constitutional amend-
ment to tho people prohibiting the
manufacture and sale of spirituous
liquors. A wise example for the gen-
tlemen now fooling with the question
at Austin.
a-numrer of prominent citizens
called on the Daily Democrat thiB
morning to express their approval of
Mr. Chambers's letter on the asylum
question and to subscribe for tho Dem-
ocrat. Several stated they intended
writing Mr. Chambers to press the
matter, and knew of others who would
do likewise to-day. So it seems it is
not true that "Fort Worth don't want
the branch asylum."
The News's New York special of the
29th says: "It is reported that Presi-
dent Arthur will call an extra session
of congress if the present one fails to
pass a tariff bill, as he is pledged to a
reduction of revenue. It is under-
stood that the sugar tariff will cor-
to,inly be repealed." It is quite en-
couraging to see signs of spinal ear-
nestness in tho administration. A
summer session will afford tho Demo-
cracy a fine opportunity for recrea-
tion, and Washington would reap a
rich harvest from tho hungry horde
of office seekers who would beset the
new house.
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Gov. Ikeland's first message to the
legislature is a vigorous production,
and evinces thought, work and will.
He is very decided in his views on
most leading questions, except the
convict problem. In disposing of the
state's criminals he seems to profer
that tho peoples' representatives shall
speak first and formulate-a plan. Per-
haps he is impressed with the appre-
hension that many of them will insist
upon the right of originating and
shaping the law that may eomo day
affect their personal liberty and in-
dividual comfort.
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Bremhnd mourns the death of a pop-
ular citizen, Mr. !£• J. Houston, a mer-
chant. He died on Sunday morning.
The efl'ort to repeal the felony clause
in the gambling law of St. Louis, made
in thf Missouri legislature Tuesday was
defeated by a largo majority.
Losses by wind storm In Denver on
Monday will probably exceed $2<X),000.
The workshops of the Denver & Rio
Grande lost several thousand dollars.
There are no new cases of small-pox
in San Antonio- One of the four cases
under treatment died Tuesday night.
The increase of general sickness in the
city is attributed there, as everywhere
else, to the remarkably cold weather.
Francis L. Nordell, a pension agent,
in Detroit pleads guilty to four charges
of forgery. On the ground ef former
good character, efl'ort will be made to
secure mitigation of the sentence.
Professor Alexander Dimltry, of New
Orleans, a man of great learning and
very highly regarded, beloved by his
friends and as a philologist noted among
scientists, was thought to be dying Mon-
day night.
The robbers who attacked tho Pacific
train at Montello, Nevada, are reported
as surrounded in tho mountains. They
aro not yet captured, but three of them
are said to be convicts escaped from the
Salt Lake prison and the others are
cowboys.
In Dallas a liberal contribution Is be-
lug made for the relief of the sufferers
from the flood In Germany. Six hun-
dred dollars were collected yesterday.
Thousands of dollars will follow.
The need Is pressing and what is to be
done should be done without delay.
The famine in Ireland Is terrible.
Father Gallagher says the people of
Donegal are living on food only fit for
beasts, and from others information
comes that the supply of that Is scant,
barely sustaining life. Sons of Erin,
help your brothers. Americans are al-
ways ready to extend a helping hand.
The burning of the hotel and the drug
stere of Dr. M. D. Woods, at Thorp
Springs, on Tuesday, was a serious loss
to the owner end to the town. The
faculty and st udents of Add Ran college,
with all the citizens, did their best to
save the property. There was no insur-
ance, and the loss amounted to several
thousand dollars. Another defective
flue.
Lewis Ladd shot another negro, Jor-
dan Holly, near Sherman yesterdny.
Ladd rode to the sheriff and gave him-
self up. lie said Holly made the attack;
that Holly was not dead when he left
him, but would die. A complaint was
filed in the justice's ofllce against Holly
for tearing down and carrying ofl'Ladd's
house, and the justice's court had been
busy settling their difficulties.
By the time the wires are trained to
uniform rendering of the French ad-
miral's name, a new minister of marine
may be appointed for France. Just
now those unfamiliar with the politics
of that disturbed republic are at sea In
the matter of the name of the minister.
Jnngrigebery, lanbrigebery, Janregl-
bery, etc., etc. Take whichever sounds
most euphonies, until a successor Is ap-
pointed.
Captain Henffy Freeman has returned
to St. Louis after spending a year and «
half in prospecting for tin mines in
Mexico. lie has discovered rich de-
posits and obtained valuable grants for
working the mines. Immediate prepara-
tions re making for vigorously work-
ing old and new mines of as rich
deposits and expensive as any in the
world. Captain Freeman was formerly
government Inspector of the tin. mines
of Austria.
Yesterday morning in Terrell a spark
from a railroad locomotive set fire to
tho cotton on Wilson & Co.'s platform,
connected with the Texas & Pacific
depot. Their warehouse, containing 400
bales of cotton, was burned. The loss
on the warehouse and platform is $1,500,
insurance $850. The cotton was owned
by merchants and was Insured. Mr.
Wilson Is Pacific express agent. All
the property of the Express company
wss lost. The broken telegraph line
was repaired In a few hours.
•>*'Squire Mr ^^"^vas the judge In the
case of the St£" ' .'Reaser. The peda-
gogue Reaser* .uied a young man In
school. The assaurt and
battery. The j;.. ^ «ffht in a verdict
„r not .
switch will eqrj^* y tj\:eptre until
a new teacher, fcoJ^Jvf'-rhere was in
old times n onstot%|,^-wnlpplng children
In school. But tuewhlpplng of even a
child is rare nowadays, in enlightened
communities. ,
Great grief Is felt over the death of
the Chief White Shield In the Indian
Nation. He had been on a business trip
to the Kansas border, and while return-
ing home was taken suddenly 111, unable
to proceed he was taken to King Fisher's
ranche. He had a congestive chill and
died in great agony. The household
and neighbors witnessed his death.
Sorrowing friends conveyed his body in
a handsome coflln to the agency at Der-
llngtown, where with profound grief it
was received by a large number of his
prince's owr
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tribe, to whom the sad news ofK.
death had been conveyed before the ^
mains arrived. With great solemnllL
the Indian funeral tites were performs
in the presence of large numbers of hi*7Jg
owu tribe and many others. He was
well known and highly esteemed. In
his veins coursed the blooii of warriors
and heroes, and his tribe relied on him
as a counselor intelligent, honest, brave
and true. No death has been so de-
plored In the Nation in years.
A fair is in progress in Dallas to be
continued till.Saturday night for St. Pat-
rick's Parish church which is to cost
over $50,000. The ground has been pur-
chased and work will soon begin. There
will not be many voluntary compeltors
at the fair for the gold ring to be given
to the ugliest man. but voting will be
lively for tho diamond ring for the most
beautiful lady, and for the gold headed
cane for the most popular doctor.
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PRINCE NAPOLEON.
History of tka Pretender—His Personal
Appearance. j
MK
lgnotus, in tho Figaro, gives the folf{
lowing speech of the pretender: It was"
in 1840 that Prince Jerome tlrst set footf
In Paris in company with his fn^hen. who
claimed of the government of Louis
Philippe a military penslou. which was
accorded to him. He lived In the Rue
Mogader then the Rue d'Alger—and so
quietly that he himself used to open the
door to the visitor. In 1848 Prince
Jtrome was elected deputy for the
Yonne, and then came the coup d'etat,
by which, although innocent thereof,
he greatly profited. But the prince
soon became vastly unpopular with
with the Imperial party. Ills opinions
were regarded by, them with dis-
trust, and he displayed in his character
rather the craft of the statesman than
the generous courage of the military
man. He served, however, as evex*y-
body knows, in the Crimea as well as In
the Italian campaign. At the begin-
ning or the war the Emperor Napoleon
III. sent Prince Jerome to his father-
in-law, King Victor Emanuel, to beg a
contingent of 100,000 men, and when
the ill-starred monarch was Interned In
Russia his cousin wrote to him to ask
to bo allowed to share his seclusion.
Then he was elected deputy for Corsica;
ahd would doubtless have been chosen
fer a second time but for the well-
known letter of the late prince
Imperial, written at M. Rouher's dic-
tation. Soon afterward Prince Jerome
left his apartment, which looked on the
Pare Monceau, and moved to No.
Avenue d'Antln. The salon, hung in
red and containing eight busts or the
tlrst Napoleon, Is described as exceed-
ingly striking. Its principal piece of*
furniture is a large armoire, filled with'
a variety of articles that once belonged
to the founder of his family, and to nls
father. King Jerome. Next to the
drawiflK-room is tho study or library,
on the book-shelves of which are ranged
the works of the great emperor, pr
fuselv lnnotated by the prln""'*
I and.
HOW JIK I.OOKS.
Now for a portrait of the tenant him-
self': A larger man than either the
First Napoleon or his father. Prince
Jerome resembles the latter more than
the former, though In lvls earlier years
his likeness to the great emperor was
simply extraordinary. His expression
is placid and often extremely agreeable,
but now and then the fire of the Corsl-
can burns in his eye, and his finely
chlsseled mouth adds to the intensity of
his look. The prince is flfty-seven
years of age, not yet gray, though some-
what bald. His head, says lgnotus. is a
superb one, worthy alike of the prince
and the thinker, and second only in
what the enthusiastic reactionary
wrltor calls aristocratic beauty to that
of Comte de Chatnbord. At home
he usually walks to and fro while con-
versing, smoking cigarettes and keep-
ing one or both hands in his podkets.
Suddenly ho stops before the visitor:
his language becomes animated ana
even vehement, while his words teem
with color and picturesqueness. He
never laughs but only smiles. The
prince has a wonderful collection of an-
ecdotes at his disposal. In the street
Prince Jerome may be recognized by his
broad-brimmed hat; mincing along,
will suddenly quicken his steps when he
is in deep thought. He rides every
morning, being accompanied on Thurs-
days by his two Bons. Although a fair
horseman, he does not shine particularly
in the saddle. The prince is a faithful
friend, and among those who are wel-
come guests at the Avenue d'Antln are
M. Emlle 011lv|er, Baron Boyer, Gen.
de Chanal, Col. Stofl'el, M.Iienanand M.
Alfred Arago.
HIS FAMILY AND ItK.r.ATIOXS.
Now for the two sons, the Princes
Victor and Louis. The former is tall
and looks more than his age, seventeen.
The upper-part of his face is that of Na-
noleon; the lower reminds one of the
Hapsburg type. Quiet, intelligent and
teserved Is this Prince Victor. Prince
Louis if thirteen, and unlike hts brother,
small for his age. He is pale, and as
yet resembles none of the members of
the royal and imperial families from
which lie is descended. His hair Is verv
black, and he Is lively and intelli-
gent. He Is full of fun, but hard-
ly a prodigy at school. Such is the fam-
ily which has juBtibeen raised out of semi-
a prodigy at school
Lv which hai
obscurity to' that fierce light which
glares upon a throne. There are in all
eight males now living who bare the
name of Bonaparte—namely, three
nephews and five grdnd nephews of the
first Nrpolaon. They are: Prince
Jerome Napoleon, son of Jerome, ft
brother of Napoleon I., and his two
the Princes Victor and Louis; t"
descendants of Prince Charles,
Luclen Bonaparte, seconc^got
great emperor. This j-fa of
sons are Prince Lucie
Cardinal Prince
president of the con'm^h
sica. Prince Louis Sftim Vi
senator and long a crvlaii d
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