Daily Democrat. (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 5, No. 139, Ed. 1 Wednesday, May 18, 1881 Page: 2 of 4

                                
The Democrat.
WEDNESDAY, MAY IS. 1881.
Austin is to have a telephone
exchange.
Ex-G oyEkoe J. W. Thuock-
moETON has gone to the Hot
Springs*
Who will care for Mahone now 1
has been set to music, and is sung
in high C on the capitol steps.
Mrs. 0. M. Bailey, wife of the
senior editor of the Hesperian,
died at her home in Gainesville on
the 19th inst.
We don’t know who matle the
score, Garfield "or Conkling. But
this we do know, the Democrats
are bagging the game.
The tax on property for the
current year, including a tax for a
new jail, of Dallas county, is sev-
enty cents on the dollar.
McLennan county finances are
in 2 a healthy condition. There
are $16,000 in the treasury, and
not a dollar of debt hanging over
the county.
Madam Du Free closed her
six day’s walking match at Hous-
ton Saturday night with a score of
402 miles, winning the race from
her four competitors by sixteen
miles,
The artesian well at Galveston
has reached the depth of 270 feet
where a stratum ot hard, blue
sand in which bits of wood and
shell are found, was reached aud
fresh water brought up.
At Brackett last week, Louis
Rivera, the murder of Sam Griner
was, on strong circumstantial evi-
dence, found guilty of murder in
the second degree and sentenced
to the penitentiary for thirty
years.
On the 25th inst., the govern-
ment will sell the buildings, bar-
racks, office furniture, wagons, am-
bulances, and various other gen-
eral property of the post at Fort
Griffin, which has been discon-
tinued.
The Denton Press says : There
are 566,000 acres of land in Den-
ton county, and the average value
of said lands have been carefully
and correctly estimated by com-
petent parties. The estimate is
$3.53 per acre.
A farmer editor of the St.
Louis Globe-Democrat was sent to
the penitentiary from Wills Point
last week for atealing seventy-five
dollars. In defence of himself he
made a speech which electrified
both bench and bar.
We don’t understand why the
St. Louis papers should complain
of the waste of water, when all
the world knows they have had
more than they wanted or could
use, or take care of. Some papers
are inveterate grumblers.
The Galveston branch of the BEACONSFIELD’S FUNERAL.
Irish Land League have forward-
ed to the Irish World office one
hundred and five dollars for the
benefit of the Irish National Land
League. This makes two hundred
and five dollars that has been re-
mitted by the Galveston League.
Austin Statesman:    “ S ferret t
says God Almighty, the Demo-
cratic party, and the Dallas Times
hates a man who can’t be depended
upon. The Times is in perfect de-
lirium of excitement over the ap-
proaching municipal election and
goes for the ‘Independents’ in its
usual red-headed manner.”
Hon. E. R. Lane, state senator
from Goliad county, and Mr.
Alonzo Millette, his brother-in-
law, have purchased the Slaughter
cattle ranee, on the Frio river, in
La Salle cuunty, containing 30,000
acres of land. They will shortly
stock it with 5,000 head of cattle,
and it is their intention to raise
improved cattle, crossing their
long-horns with short-horns.
The Brenham Banner says : In
Austin they play shoo-fly in-
stead of chuch-a-luck for the
drinks. A couple of lumps of su-
gar are placed on the counter ot
the “wit-grocery,” the flies are
shoved away, aud the owner of the
lump of sugar on which the first
fly alights, pays for the groceries.
Poker dice has been legislated out
of Texas.
The illness of Mrs. Garfield has
been attributed to the sanitary
condition of the surroundings of
the white house and a congression-
al committee have been investi-
gating and analyzing the smells
that pervade that locality. They
could not from the mansion detect
any of the odors that arise from
the corruption with which the
several departments are reeking.
Just as the Conkling organs
had begun to sing low on the Rob-
ertson imbroglio,he executed a coup
d’etat that startled them out of
their wits, and the ensuing days of
this week will be devoted to tack-
in'gback to their old position.
The law for the protection of
fish and game went into effect im-
mediately after its passage, March
15th, 1881. It is unlawful to net
quails or partridges at any time of
the year. No seine is permitted
to be used with meshes less than
two and a half inches ; all seining
is prohibited between the first of
February and the first of July in
each year. The law should be
vigorously enforced.
Slade’s valedictory in another
column will be read with regret
by the many friends he has made
among the Democrat’s patrons.
Our best wishes attend him in his
new field of usefulness. We have
an abiding faith in his sense of
gratitude and affection, and when
the gentle bumble bee bumbles up
his trousers leg, as he gathers the
turnip from the vine he will some-
times think of those who are
slaving with a pencil and wrest-
ling with the scissors and paste
pot in the futile effort to fill the
vacuum caused by his withdrawal
from journalism. The fraternity
have lost one of its brightest jew-
els, but the patient house keepers
who have had to feed him on his
rambles are to be congratulated.
Judge S. S. Weaver, late a
resident of Greenville, but more
recently of Crooker, Delta county
died at his home last week of dip-
theria. He had been a member of
the legislature from Plunt county,
had been district judge, and was a
lawyer of prominence in that sec-
tion of the state.
The discovery of two comets in
ten days, and the voluntary retire-
ment to private life, of two dis-
tinguished United States officers,
are matters calculated to set the
superstitious to reflecting upon
Mother Shipton’s prophecy. The
world may come to an end in 1881,
after all. The Democrat will
publish an accurate report of the
finale when it comes. Terms as
usual, cash in advance.
Eight passenger trains now run daily in-
to Fort Forth. The general boom in that
city has caused the Democrat to or-
der a new dress and to make preparations
tor enlargement. Paddock says his pa-
per has plenty oi money and brains—es-
pecially brains—to make a first-class
journal for that city.—Austin Statesman,
May 15.
The Statesman draws on its own
fancy for the facts in the latter sen-
tence ; our greatest regret is found
iu the fact that the Statesman
seems to be bankrupt in the two
things—money and brains—essen-
tial to the conduct of a first-class
journal.
The president has given the cue
to the office-holders of New York
in a statemeut to the effect that
those who antagonize the adminis-
tration need not look to it for any
favors. . The president himself is
not a stalwart, and sympathy for
the stalwart wing of the party will
not be considered as good cause
for recognition. Those whose
nominations for offices in New
York will hereafter fight shy, if
they hope to have their names sent
in. The lines have been drawn
sharply and the fight will be an
earnest one. Neither side show
any disposition to yield. For the
first time iu the history of the par-
ty that it has quarreled over the
spoils. Heretofore the “machine”
has been all-powerful and has dic-
tated the distribution of patron-
age. If the quarrel now pending
shall have the effect of breaking
up this pernicious practice, it wiil
have rendered the country valua-
ble service.
—Major John M. Wilson, Uni-
ted States engineer, has been sur-
veying two possible routes for a
ship canal to connect the Ohio
river with Lake Erie ; the first by
way of the Erie and Wabash ca-
nal, which can be enlarged at a
cost $24,236,000 ; the second by
the Miami and Erie canal, - at a
cost of $28,557,000. These are the
routes so earnestly advocated by
the New York Herald as a means
of securing communication with
the Mississippi valley and offset-
ting the new barge line. The Chi-
cago Tribune thinks the figures
are incorrect, and places the least
cost of either enterprise at not
less than $80,000,000.
Scenes a:td Incidents—The Ti-lSmtos
of Use Royal Family.
[Loudon Letter to the New York Tibu.ve.]
An amusing incident took place
m connection with the arrival of
the guests. The Earl of Derby
and Earl Stanhope took it into
their heads io walk the two miles
from Wyeomb to Hughenden. On
arriving at the gates, however,
they were stopped by the rustic
policeman, who disputed their
identity, refusing to believe that
such genteel persons would come
on foot. During the lew minutes
to spare before the departure for
the churchyard, the guests ran
over the rooms oi tlie mansion and
examined the portraits of the late
Earl’s public friends, the library
aud the small study, where the
late statesman transacted his busi-
ness, were minutely examined,
and then the strangers went out
on to the teriace where he walked
m the morning sun and enjoyed
the splendid view of Wycombe
town and vale, which lay out like
a map before him. Outside the
steady black stream of country
folks and town visitors creeping
up the park had grown to a con-
course of several thousand people,
who pressed round the churchyard
and along the sloping path from
the manor. The crowd was order-
ly and duly respectful. The deco-
rum was disturbed only by two in-
cidents : when a number of boys
clambering up the trees to get a
better view startled some squir-
rels and drove them over the
heads of the people; and again
when the First Bucks Volunteers
were forming into positions to
line the way from the Manor
House to the churchyard. These
rustic soldiers and their officers,
not over well disciplined at the
best, were confused by the duty
which they had undertaken to
perform. They either marched
too far to fall into line, or halted
too soon; but before two unbro
ken ranks could be formed there
was an ordering and countermand-
ing hardly creditable to the Brit-
ish auxiliary force. The presence
of the volunteers was superfluous.
The division of well-drilled met-
ropolitan police whi3h went down
was amply sufficient to maintain
order, and if any military show
had been .desired, it would, as
some bystanders observed, have
been better to have gone to the
Abbey, where the Horse and Foot
Guard would have made a grander
show than the Buckinghamshire
Fencibles.
A striking feature of the crowd
within and without the church-
yard was the great number of
clergymen of the Church of Eng-
land. By their appearance they
seemed to be mostly country par-
sons, and it would scarcely be
possible to account for their pres-
ence in such numbers were if not
for the fact that in one case at
least a clerical admirer had walked
across the street to Hughenden
and back, a distance of forty
miles.
The royal and distinguished
mourners arrived at the Manor
House after 3 o’clock, where
everything was in readiness for
them. Prince Leopold, who per-
sonally represented the Queen,
laid on the bier a wreath of
primroses and wild flowers
gathered in the Isle of
Wight that morning and bear-
ing a card with the following
inscriotiou in her Majesty’s hand-
writing: “His favorite flowers;
from Osborne, a tribute of affec-
tion and regret from Queen Victo-
ria.” The Queen also sent an-
other wreath of everlasting flowers
and bay leaves. At the ends of
the white satin bow with which it
was tied, were embroidered in
gold, on one side the words “Prom
Queen Victoria,” and on the other
“A mark of true affection, friend-
ship and regret.” Two wreaths
denoting “tributes of friendship
aud affection,” were laid on ihe
bier by the Prince of Wales, one
being from himself and the oilier
from the Princess. The Duke of
Connaught brought a wreath from
the Duchess. Prince Leopold also
laid a wreath ou the coffin as “a
mark of friendship and respect
from Leopold,” and one from his
sister inscribed “ A mark of re-
spect from Beatrice.” Other mem
bers of the royal family sent
wreaths which were taken charge
of by the officers and gentleman
representing them. The distin-
guished visitors arrived about the
same time as the princes. There
was a good deal of disappointment
at the non-appearance of Mr.
Gladstone. He had been general
ly expected, and the 1:20 special
train was delayed for him. Why
he did not come no one knows,
and his adversaries are busy cir-
culating stories which may or may
not be true, but which are hot flat-
tering to the Premier. It may be
that the cold wet morning induced
him, in his delicate health, to re-
main at home; but so far no ex-
planation lias been offered, except
a sort of officious note in the news-
papers that he had not accepted
an invitation to the funeral, but
merely acknowledged the invita-
tion.
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