The Daily Fort Worth Democrat. (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 50, Ed. 1 Friday, September 1, 1876 Page: 2 of 4
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jAi, oEPl ,y t, 1876*
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FOR PRESIDENT,
SAMUEL i. TILDEN,
OF NEW YORK.
FOR VICE-PRESIDENT,
THOMAS A. HENDRICKS,
OF INDIANA.
For Congress, Third Congressional
District.
JAMES W. THROGKMORTON,
ol Collin.
Subject to the action of the nominating
convention—should one be held.
FOR CONGRESS.
Throckmorton Unanimously Nom-
inated on First Ballot-
The Dallas Convention, de-
spite the assertions of the Mail,
and other interested parties to
the contrary, renominated on the
first ballot, that sterling patriot,
wise statesman and honest cit-
izen, James W. Throckmorton,
as the candidate of the Democ-
racy of the Third Congressional
district, for Eepresentative in
the Congress of the United
States. The compliment is well
merited, and was handsomely
bestowed. During a period of
nearly twenty-five years in which
Gov. Throckmorton has been in
public life, and in wbich he has
served the State of Texas in
various capacities* from the least
even to the greatest, no act has
ever been committed but which
will bear the closest scrutiny,
and leave no tarnish on his good
name. In all his public and offi-
cial life, the acts of Gov. Throck-
morton have been characterized
by an almost prophetic wisdom,
and time, the only test ol the
correctness of a man’s judg-
ment, offers indubitable testi-
mony of his mfallibfe} judgment.
As a Eepresentative in Con-
gress, Gov. Throckmorton has
been industrious and energetic,
in his efforts to secure lor Texas
her rights, and her portion of
the legislation for the public
good. Her mail service has been
increased, and the appropria-
tions for coast and harbor im-
provements have been decidedly
liberal. That he has establish-
ed a good record among his fel-
low members is evideuced by the
fact that he was selected by a
Democratic caucus, as a member
of the resident Executive Com-
mittee, under whose direction
the campaign is to be conducted.
We hope to see the third dis-
trict roll up a unanimous vote
for him in November. He is
wort.y of, and should receive the
vote of every man in the dis-
trict.
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—The New York Sun is of the
opinion, and so asserts, that the
President has agreed to pardon
Avery and McKee, and they
would have been released from
durance vile before now but for
the fear of an outraged public
opinion. It is not a question of
right, or wrong that restrains of-
ficial action, but simply one of
expediency. Avery holds in his
possession letters and telegrams
that would send others far more
important than he is to the pen-
itentiary. He was their instru
ment in betraying his trusts,
and their accomplice in the whis- j
key frauds.- >
The Washington Monument.
It is a source of the highest
gratification that Congress has
at last taken active measures
for the completion of the monu-
I ment to the father oF our coun
| try, in the national capital. As
! the unfinished shaft appears to-
! day, with its one hundred and
! seventy-four leet of chiseled
marble, it is a positive disgrace
to the American people. The
appropriation of $200,000 to-
wards this work, will go far to
inspire confidence in its ultimate
completion. It is the result of
wisdom and good sense. Our
rulers could have done nothing
better. The donation to per-
petuate the sacred name of
Washington, will be hailed with
satisfaction from Maine to Cal-
ifornia, and from Michigan to
—Tarrant County presents a
greater variety ot scenery than
any spot we have ever seen.
Look where you may, the eye
rests on hills and valleys, forest
and stream, in endless variety,
and of the most pleasing and
charming character. The broad
rolling prairies, skirted with
belts of timber, traversed with
sparkling streams, dotted with
well improved farms, and count-
less herds present a view equal-
led in few countries, and sur-
passed by none. Nearly in the
centre of this stands Fort Worth,
the county seat, situated on the
commanding bluffs, that over-
look the Trinity, and which have
given it the beautiful name of
“The City of Heights.” Here
the most enthusiastic artist or
most romantic writer can find
full scope for pencil and pen.
John W. Forney, a prominent
TEMPERANCE COLUMN,
Florida. Now let the people act
promptly, let the State Legisla- journalist of Philadelphia whose,
tures make appropriations ac-
cording to population, and when
the next Congress convenes, a
sufficient sum can be set apart
to finish the whole work.
When completed, the monu-
ment will be a plain obelisk, 485
feet high, with stone terrace ap-
proaches, 200 feet in diameter.
Only 174 feet have been erected,
at a cost of $230,000. The esti-
mates for the balance of the
shaft, are $310,086, and a little
less than six hundred thousand,
additional, for the elaborate and
magnificent pantheon, or base.
name is familiar in every house-
hold in the land, and who has
traveled much, in his book en-
titled, “What I saw in Texas”
truly says of Fort Worth :
“Fort Worth is beautifully sit-
uated on a broad plateau. Im-
mediately on its northern and
western borders are the waters
of the Clear Fork and West
Fork rivers, which here unite
and form the Trinity. The banks
are steep and precipitous, one
hundred and ten feet in height,
covered with luxurant foliage.
The prospect from this pla-
teau is grand beyond descrip-
tion, decidedly the finest we en-
The original act for the mon J°~ved durin& our visit to Texas
me original act toi the mon j_especially m the western di-
uineut was passed December 23,; rection and the course pursued
1799. Its history, is in the high- by the Texas and Pacific Eaii-
est degree, discreditable to the
nation, when we consider the
road. For fifty miles away there
lay stretched before us a suc-
, n , ,, ,.r I cession of cultivated lauds, in-
life and character of Washing-1 tersl>(Jr8ed witl, 1)cUs of Um ber,
ton, whom Napoleou, on hearing j wide expanses of prairie lands
of nis death, said “his memory i with the natural grass, and in
will be always dear to the! the dim horizon, so far off as
French people, as it will be to f^rcely to be distinguished from
,, e_____1 ^ ,, j the clouds themselves, a succes-
sion ol lofty mountains. The
breezes at this elevation far sur-
passes anything wo ever experi-
enced.
Fort Worth is a city set upon
a hill, and at the point of junc-
tion between the two branches
of the Texas and Pacific, is par
all freemen of the two worlds;’’
of whom Fox, in 1794, said in
the British House of Commons,
“before him all borrowed great-
ness sinks into insignificance,
and all the potentates of Europe
become little and contemptible;”
and of whom, Kev. Albert I ticnlarly enviable, inasmuch as
Barnes, the distinguished bibli- j 5,0!n s 1 °cality the Grand
. , , , ! Trunk line to ttie Pacific wilbhe
cal commentator, wiote, who | projected and pushed. Lands in
can tell how much the liberty ot | the vicinity of Fort Worth have
this nation is owing to the j been selling at exceedingly low-
answer to the secret prayer of! Pri«es,- but they will be greatly
enhanced on account, of its pro-
Washington.” On August 9,
1783, Congress ordered than an
equestrian statue of Washing-
ton should be erected, “to tes-
tify the love, admiration and
gratitude of hie countrymen;”
and on December 24, 1799, it
was enacted that a marble mon-
ument should be erected, “to j to ta^ the stump against the
commemorate the gieat events j Eadw^’jTaj-ty, by reason of an
of his military and political life.”
In 1833, a voluntary association
posed railroad facilities. Dur-
ing the last year 500,000 head of
cattle were driven through Fort
Worth on their way to Missouri
and Kansas, and as wre left town
we ment a single drove contain-
ing 1,250 head.
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-£(^n Maguire, not being able
was formed to carry out the
Congressional idea of a national
monument, with Chief Justice
Marshall, as President. On
July 4. 1848, the corner-stone ivindicating to do, and »m able to
1 show that some oi our would-be Re-
eh gage ment to remain a definite
length of time in the Missouri
penitentiary, writes to a friend
that :
“When I again Imre the privilege of
meeting with my fellow-citizens, which
will he before election, I shall have a
of the present unfinished shalt
was laid, and up to this time, up-
wards of twenty-eight years, it
is not one-third finished. The
“Washington National Monu-
ment Society,” was incorporated
February 26, 1859. It has
struggled hard to accomplish
the purposes of its formation,
but every effort has signally
failed. It would have been a
grand thiugto have finished this
great work during the Centen-
nial year, but that is utterly im-
possible. The Centennial year
has been made glorious by an
appropriation that looks to the
finishing of Washington’s Mon-
ument. This is the year for ac-
tion. This is the time to accom-
plish purposes have long seem-
ed impracticable, and with a
genuine, heartfelt sympathy in
the work, that which has long
been an eye sore in Washington
City, will be the pride of every
visitor to the national capital.
When completed, it will be the
highest structure in the world,
except the spire of Cologne, now
building, which is to be 509 feet,
and the tower on the new public
buildings in Philadelphia, which
when finished, will be 510 feet
high.
publican leaders, engaged now in
preaching moral reform, ought to have
striped suits on, and, with their heads
shaved, be serving out a term in the
Missouri Penitentiary.”
—Perhaps the best testimony
as to the moral of these investi-
gations, is that furnished by the
parties most directly interested
in preventing them. When Sam
Ward, the epicurean philos-
opher, who is known in Wash-
ington as the King of the Lobby,
or, as classically described by
himself. Rex Vestibuli, was a
witness before one of the com-
mittees, he testified that “the in-
vestigations have killed the
lobby business.” He spoke the
words of truth and of soberness.
In twenty years no Congress has
adjourned with less taint upon it
than that which closed its first
session a week ago. Not a sin-
glejob was put through. Hard-
ly one was even proposed. The
Senate did its best to . protect
the rings, by standing out
against all the economies of the
House. Windom, Sargent, and
the appropriation committee
fought retrenchment at every
step, with a desperate determi-
nation to defeat it. They sue
ceeded to the extent of ten mil-
lions, with the aid of tiie Pres
ident; but with all the intrigues,
combinations, and venal ap-
pliances, they were not able to
carry one of the great schemes
which had been concocted with
so much care and cunning.—
N. Y. Sun.
—The Prince Imperial of Aus-
tria will start next autumn on a
Leap frog is their j two years tour through Europe
land America.
[This column is edited by the Friends
ot Temperance, who are responsible for
all articles that appear herein. Ed.
Democrat.]
TEMPERANCE.
According to promise in my
last article, we will now speak
briefly concerning the origin
and history of our order. The
United Friends of Temperance
is a consolidation of the Inter-
national Sons and Friends of
Temperance. These are the
great, fountain heads from which
sprang the pure water that is
symbolized by our order. The
order of United Friends ol Tern
perance was organized in July.
1872, at Ohatanooga, Tennessee.
The first meeting for that pur-
pose consisted only of delegates
from Louisiana and Mississippi,
at Crystal Springs, Mississippi,
on the 31st of May, 1872, but on
account of the misunderstanding
of the wording of the call, the
delegation was small, and hence
the adjourned meeting to Ohata
nooga whence birth was given it
as an order. The chief founders
are Drs. W. H. Harmon and S.
M. Angel, of Louisiana; S. M.
Haywood and John Jones, of
Mississippi, with a few others
the] names of whom we do not
now remember.
This order exists only in the
states of Louisiana, Mississippi,
Teunesse, Alabama aud Texas,
with general headquarters at
Nashville, Tennessee. It num-
bers more, than 500 lodges, in
our State, with a membership of
30,000, and a total membership
in all the states of about 200,000.
With it is connected au insu-
rance degree, which in case of
the death of any brother, a tax
of 10, 20 and 50 cents, according
to age, is imposed on all the
members, which amount is col
lected by the respective lodges
and sent to Nashville, from
whence it is then forwarded to
the party or parties, for whom
the insurance was left. So far
as we have been able to inform
ourselves, such is a sketch of
the history of the United Friends
of Temperance as a national or-
der.
On the night of the 24th of
last March, we met with [broth-
ers C. H. Ellis, W. H. Williams,
J. W. Mliton, L. P. Campbell,
and T. J. Netheray, and organ
ized the Council of U. F. of T.
No. 419, in the town of Fort
Worth, and from that day we
have moved onward aud upward
with a never faltering step, un-
til we number 83. See how
much can be accomplished by a
lew when they have will to make
an effort. The small baud num-
bering only eight bad the moral
courage to array themselves be-
fore the mighty power of intem-
perance and fight to vindicate
the moral law of the Universe.
By being constant in their devo-
tion to truth, virtue, and morali-
ty, they succeeded in throwing
around eighty-three the protect-
ing arm of temperance, which
will ever shelter them from the
great tempest that blows so fu
riously from the grog-shops that
dot and disgrace our country.
For the present we will close.
The succeeding article will bear
more directly oa the merits of
our order:
Eespectfully,
W. M. M.
DODD <£ GO.,
—Dealer? in—
STOVES,
TINWARE,
Wooden and Willoware,
QUEENS WAREf
Glassware, Lamps, and House Furnish-
lug Gofxis Gennerall,
sepl-tf FORT WORTH, TEXAS.
J. E. STREEPER,
Manufacturer and dealer In
FURNITURE,
MATTRESSES,
LOOKING GLASSES,
CROCKERY, PAINTS,
OILS AND
WINDOW GLASS,
HOUSTON ST.,
FORT WORTH TEXAS.
All Goods Warranted.
au29-tf
MUro's.
are the
MOST RELIABLE,
and only
EXCLUSIVELY
CLOTHING
—AND—
Furnishing House
lu the City.
East. Side Main Street
FORT WORTH, TEXAS.
THE MEW FORK STORE
HAS OPENED ON
CENTENNIAL YEAR.
One hundred years have passed since
our country achieved Its Independence,
and now in our Centennial year, our
city has improved by connection direct
with the Atlantic Ocean, and the
New York Store
has removed to FORT WORTH
with a large stock of
Tidball, VanZandt &Co.
BANKERS,
—and dealere in—*
EXCHANOti,
South side Square, FORT 'WORTH*
Collections made on all accessible
points, and remitted for on day of pay«
ment, at curreut rate of exchange.
jitf-lSra*
THE
“HOWE"
IS THE
IN USE. HENRY MILLER, Ag’t.,
ju-f) Houston St,, Fort Worth, Tex*
CITY MUSIC STORE,
Main Street, opposite Post Office,
NEWS DEPOT,
and everything pertaining to
the business.
Picture Frames and Mouldings, &<§.
an26-lm. T. I. CARRICO & SON.
PITTS & HEARD,
Receiving, Forwarding &
Commission Merchants.
Foot of Houston Street, near Texas
Pacific Railway Depot,
FORT WORTH, TEXAS.
With our new fire-proof warehouse,
and superior location, we possess
advantages for handling freights en-
joyed by no other house in the city.
Rkfkrknces Tidball, VanZandt &
Co., Fort Worth: Grinnan & Duval,
Galveston; Jno. Phelps & Co., New
Orleans; Shryoek & Rowland, Saint
Louis. * au24-2ra.
eaxgT&srsFXAtSc
PLANING MILLS
Near Pacific Depot,
FORT WORTH, TEXAS.
BRACKETS,
WINDOW AND
DOOR FRAMES,
COUNTERS,
SHELVING,
TRIMMING AND
Scroll Sawing,
PLANING MILL WORK DONE
ON SHORT NOTICE.
aul0-6m,
DENNY, MOORE & JOHNSON.
Dr. J. T. COZAD
S w - J-ifll S i tenders his professional services to the
a Jest» -®- Lrl/ j citizens of Fort Worth, in the practice
of medicine, Surgery and Obstetrics.
Chronic cases from the country will re-
ceive treatment at office over Swavne &
Cromwell’s furniture store. Referen-
ces: Cincinnatti College of Medicine
and Surgery; County Medical Associa-
tion, of Houston County, Texas,
july 19-U-6m,
CLOTHING,
BOOTS AMD SHOES AND
FURNISHING GOODS,
Which we are able to sell by retail at
wholesale prices, by our 'connec-
tion with large houses, we can
undersell in fact any whole-
sale house in Texas.
Try and secure your bargains and
convince yourself by buying
your goods of
Jr H Sr BRIN,
NEW YORK STORE, MAIN ST.,
Goods are sold at Wholesale and
Retail. jul5-d&\v-ly.
T XT E
NORTH TEXAS FAIR
ASSO 0IAx.TXO3ST.
Dallas, Oct. 23, ’76.
—A fine-looking young strang-
er arrived in Readiug, Pa., and
said that he was Dorn Pedro’s
clerk. He showed a roll of
greenbacks, and he had a high
old time. He got nearly all his
his refreshments on credit, how-
ever. He hired a livery team,
and sent a boy home with the
team and did not pay for it. In
many places he cut a wide swath
and after he had given a dozen
or more people a fine game he
lit out.
—A Colorado paper says:
“The Canon City girls don’t
take kindly to croquet. They
say it isn’t high-toned enough
for them,
best hold.
Grand exposition of Agricultural and
Mechanical productions, immense
collection of Splendid Machinery,
the Finest Blood Stock from
all sections ot the country,
noted Racers and Re-
nouned Trotters.
The North Texas Fair Association
will hold their first annual fair October
23d, 1876.
Splendid premiums will be offered in
every department, and insuring the
finest stock and machinery display ever
held in the South.
No expense will be spared to make it a
grand success in every particular.
It will be held immediately after the
St. Louis fair, and the managers are al-
ready assured of large contributions of
Machinery and Stock of every kind.
The fair will continue the entire
week, with splendid military drills and
M@TM£e»
Northwest Corner Public Square.
|
Fort Worth, Texas,
| C. K. FAIRFAX, Proprietor,
JThe best Hotel in Northern
| Texas. Try it once.
THE TEXAS
EXPRESS COMPANY
Announces with pleasure the estab-
lishment of an offiee at
FORT WORTH.
Charges for transportation reasonable.
No Charge for Drayage.
Patronage respectfully solicited.
JNO. CAMPBELL, Ag’t.
—By the seaside; bathing.
Gush and impudence:
She—“It’s too lovely for any-
thing. Do you know, Arthur. rXtwSV exhibition are respectlul-
that one of out poets calls it [ ly solicited from farmers, stock raisers,
“The all-embracing arms ol the sea?” q[anufacturers, artisans, merchants and
the public generally, especially the
He—“Yes, by Jove ! and I be- ladies of Texas,
lieve that’s what some of you .. Questions or correspondence to
. , r ,,, ^ j the Secretary promptly answered,
girls go in for !” CHAS. BASKERVilgE, Sec’y.
She—“You horrid thing !” | W. E. Hughes, President.
au4-tf
E. Y. Ringo. E. E. Samuel.
Web. M. Samuel.
I M. SAMUEL &
COTTON FACTORS AND
Commission Merchants,
NO. 101 N. MAIN ST,
ST. XjOTTIS, TsvEO.
Solicit consignments of Wheat,
Wool and Hides. }u4-ly
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