Fort Worth Daily Democrat. (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 5, No. 257, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 13, 1881 Page: 2 of 4
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Thk Democrat
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 13, 18S1.
The agony is over in Ohio, and
our dispatches this mornffig will
probably show the result.
The Mexia Ledger says the
country has run wild about like
insurance, and we believe
more thau half right.
it is
The Houston Post has received
a copy of Gov. Roberts’ book on
Texas, but dares not attempt to
criticise it till it has read and di-
gested it.
The Weatherford Commercial of
Monday seems to have been on its
head about something. One side
of it was printed one way and the
other another way.
From the notices of departure
for Atlanta, that we-see in our
State exchanges, we think Texas
will be well represented, so far as
persons are concerned.
Like a lamb led to the slaugh-
ter, our religious contemporary
is perfectly silent about those spe-
cials the Dallas Times accuses it
of stealing. Oh ! shame, where is
thy blush !! !!
PROBABLY A HOAX,
Several days ago it was rumor-
ed through the papers that the
English creditors of the Confeder-
ate States bad held a meeting,
and agreed to petition the Legisla-
tures of the different states com
posing the. Confederate States to
pay their pro rata share ot the
bonds. There was nothing wrong
in these creditors petitioning as
much as they pleased. But no one
on this side of the Atlantic ever
thought their petitions would be
seriously considered by any of
the Legislatures. However, upon
this action by the creditors. Con-
federate bonds began to have a
marketable value. That is, they
were quoted at two or three cents
on the hundred dollars.
What other action has been
taken by the creditors we do not
know. But shortly after this,
some of the banks in the South
received the following circular:
New York:, October 1.188E
Dr ah Sir.—Please advise me by return
mail how many Confederate bonds you
can let me have, and at w hat price, not
to exceed $5 p r $1,000 on lace value.
The bonds to be delivered at this office,
free of expense, within live days of re-
ceipt of telegarm, as per enclosed mem-
orandum.
Respectfully,
Raphael J. Moses, Jr.
The memorandum reads: “We agree
to deliver at 6L Wall street, New York, to
Raphael J. Moses, dr., on demand within
ten days from date;
Mr, Feed H. Gaines has given
up the editorial chair of the Em-
ory Argus because, as he states,
there was tpo much work, too
much cussing, and too little grub.
The last of which is a very potent
reason.
Cart. G. G. T. Kendall, of
San Saba county, whose case was
transferred to Washington coun-
ty, has been tried and found guilty
of murder in the second degree,
and punishment assessed at five
years in the penitentiary. He has
appealed the ease.
The Iron Mountain train rob
bers have been placed in the peni-
tentiary at Little Rock, and, what
is nearly as bad, interviewed by
several newspaper men. It seems
they wanted to raise money enough
to get married on. That was all.
A laudable purpose; but a bad
way to accomplish it.
Not a Growing- Party.
Clvc go Express.
In 1878 the Greenbackers polled,
they claim, a million votes, If
times had continued hard, there
is no doubt that they would have
grown rapidly, and in a few years
carried the country. But the pe-
riod of depression passed, or
seemed to pass, away, and in 1879
the Greenback vote showed a de-
crease of 30 to 50 per cent., and
in 1880 had fallen to 350,000, being
a loss of 65 per cent. What the
vote would be if taken now must
be a matter of conjecture, but we
have no doubt that, so long as the
people have what they are pleased
to call prosperity, the Greenback
idea will continue to lose ad-
herents rather than to gain them.
3L, © JW
An editor who was evidently
insane, or had a strong and vivid
imagination, recently got off the
following:
I had a dream the other night,
When all around was still;
I dreamed that each subscriber
Game up and paid his bill.
Each wore a look of honesty,
And smiles were round each eye,
As they handed in the stamps,
Saying “How is that for high?”
-thousand dollars
of genuine Confederate states bonds, of
the issues and amounts specified below,
at the price ol-dollars per thousand.
February 28, 1881; August 19,1881; Feb-
ruary 20,1803; February 17, 1861. Dated
October-1881.
The rate fixed is $2.50 per thous-
and for genuine Confederate
bonds. This looks like business,,
and it is said Mr. Moses is amply
able to pay for all he can get.
We confess that we are at a loss
to understand what it means.
Surely no sane man can expect
the Southern states to pay these
bonds or any part of them. And
it would be the height of absurdity
to ask the United States to liqui-
date them. It strikes us as a
great hoax. It may be an effort
of the bondholders to unload at
any price, or it map be a dodge of
Mr. Moses to get some free adver-
tising. At all events if we had a
billion or two of Confederate
bonds we would sell them to him.
The Democratic Convention at
Albany, Hew York, seem inclined
to ignore Kelly. It would be a
good thing for them and the party
if they could get rid of him. With
Conkling eliminated from the Re-
publican and Kelly from the Dem-
ocratic party, both parties would
be better off. Their room is more
acceptable than their company.
Mr. Hal Gosling-, of the Cas-
troville Quill, has been off attend-
ing court for two or three weeks.
During his absence his paper has
dropped those long alliterative
heads, in which Gosling so much
delights. We think this is an im-
provement, but in many 'other re-
spects the paper shows that the
Gosling is oat.
Ex-President Hays’ friends
have all along claimed that what-
ever else might be said about bis
administration it was pure and
honest, and yet the partial inves-
tigations made under Garfield,
and those to be made under Ar-
thur will, it is said, develop an
indefinite amount of rottenness
and corruption.
He XT to the morphine route,
the route by the railroad is the
most popular now for suicides.
To be run over and mashed to
pieces by a railroad, leaves the
people is such a glorious state of
•uncertainty as to whether one laid
cn the tiack on purpose or was
run over by the carelessness of an
engineer, that it makes the going
off a little attractive.
Our dispatches yesterday morn-
ing indicate that the Senate would
go regularly to business yester-
day. It was intimated that the
Republicans would endeavor to
unseat Bayard. But we do not
think thej would have the audaci-
ty to try it. With this question
settled, and a permanent Secre-
tary elected, we do not anticipate
any serious trouble as to any oth-
er business that may come before
the body.
—When a young man tells you
he doesn’t believe in churches
begging all the time, and he won’t
go to church at all it he can’t listen
to a sermon without having a con-
tribution basket stuck under his
nose, you will generally see that
man whack in to make up a purse
for a horse race, or subscribe for
the Sunday concerts without a
murmur.—Hawkey e.
W. K. WHEEL0CK,
f Manufacturer amT Wholesale Deale rim 1“
Confectioneries,
Baking Powders,
Canned Goods,
Brandy Fruits,
Texas Tolu,
Canned sweats,
Etc., Etc.
Toys of all Kinds.
Corner ^ain and Austin Sts.,
w.p.
GIF
JL*J
SOUSE,
Mill,
—REPRESENTING-
aiiager
Y>allas,
Texas.
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HOWARD Sl Go.
Shaving Parlor.
Joseph Williams would inform the pub-
lic that he has opened on West Weather-
ford street, next door to A. Bookser’s
meat market, a fashionable Shaving Par-
lor, where shaving, hair cutting and
shampooing will be done in the latest
style of the ton serial art. Special atten-
tion paid to ladies’ and children’s hair
cutting and shampooing, either at the
parlor or at the residence. First-class
workmen only employed. 10-7-lwk
Call On
Slrickfaden & Co. for;your saddles and
harness. They keep none but the best of
hand made goods, 21clwlm.
J J. KANE,
II
STONE-THROWING GHOST.
Something Mysterious Which is Puzzling
Baltimore’s Police.
From the list of engagements
for Barnum’s circus, as published
in the Galveston Petes, it seems
that he is going to give Fort Worth
the go by. If he does it will be
one of the grandest mistakes of
his life. But our people may take
courage and consolation from the
fact that there are two or three
other “greatest shows on earth’’
heading for Texas, and some of
them will certainly come here.
The Waco Examiner says the
friends of Roberts, Hubbard ’ and
Davis are each claiming for their
man the honors of the “cash bal-
ance”. But it thinks jnore honor
is due Coke than either of them.
It says, and truthfully too, that
the “cash balance” resulted from
measures adopted during Coke’s
administration, blit brought to full
fruition under Hubbard and Eob-
erts. This is a matter wrhich
Roberts and Coke can debate dur-
ing their canvass next year.
—In Clover.—He promised to
cleave to her and when they went
to the theater and he came back
between the acts with a piece of
cork in his whiskers she knew
from the fragrance he exhaled
that he had clove.
Baltimore American.
There is reported to be a mys-
terious visitor hanging about the
corner of Frederick and Fayette
streets, who for the past week has
been throwing stones and coal
about in the most reckless man-
ner. Where the missiles come
from is a counudrum. The “spirit”
commenced its woik during the
latter part of last week, and
throws stones at stated pe-
riods. The morning seances
began about ten o’clock and
and continued for an hour. Then
in the afternoon stones began to
fly soon after 3 o’clock and con-
tinued through the night as late
as 1 o’clock. On Monday last the
stones fell so frequently that it
alarmed the neighborhood. The
principal place where they seemed
to drop was in the rear of a saloon
on Fredrick street, next to the
corner. On Tuesday the servant
girl was struck on the arm by a
falling stone and severely injured.
Windows on Fayette street were
next broken; the skylight in J. A.
Ives’ machine shop, No. 11 Fred-
ric street, was smashed, and
other windows of the shop facing
the yard were damaged. The
firemen of No. 1 truck house de-
termined to ferret out the mystery,
and for some nights laid upon
the housetops or frequented the
yards in the vicinity, but still
the stones fell and the thrower
could not be discovered. The po-
lice w ere applied to, and Sergeant
Nippard and two officers were de-
tailed for duty at the place. The
officers spent the night on the
roof, but the stones flew around
as usual. They came the next
night, bnt again faded to unearth
“the ghost.” While the officers
were watching Wednesday night,
and Sergeant Nippard was talk
ing to Mr. James H. Bolhnan, the
engineer of Mr. Ives’ shop,
stone came flying through one of
the windows and just missed the
sergeant, who made an investiga-
tion, but found, as usual, nothing.
---e»— s —-
—We think the poet who hand-
ed in the following is encroaching
upon the domain of “Uncle Sam,
but he appears to have the “divine
afflatus,” and we do. not wish to
suppress genius:
Deal with him gently,
Brush off his clothes,
Somebody’s hit him
Dab on the nose.
Too late in the season
He wrote a brief ode,
Simply entitled;
“How sweetly it snode.”
--s*=—a—-
“England sir! England rules
the seas; Bntiannnia rules the
waves,” pomiscuously remarked
an Englishman to an American.
“That’s nothing,” was the reply,
“every Yankee has a notion of his
own.”
S3* Office at the Mansion Hotel.*=£3
Plans and specifications with all modern If r
provements, including estimates of the costn-
every description of buildings, in city cr coc
try. u
Postoffice Box 39 9-25-tf
THS
practical;
WATCHMAKERS
and
Jewelers,
Dealers in
Watchss, Clods: Jewelry & Spectacles.
Second St., next to First National Bank,
FORT WORTH, - TEXAS
Repairing done promptly. Work warranted.
3-8-t
SAM FURMAN,
LAND AGENT
Office No. 6^Main Street,
FOYtT WORTH, TEX.
3 Atf.
Iron Mountain Route.
W ACT
IHDg
Mllisltn
Announces to his friends and the public that he
has opened at
SS
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"c5
as
A : ;UlUGAa
(Oasey & Swasey’s old Stand.)
Fort Worth, - Texas.
A full and 'complete line of Men’s, Youths’
and Boys’
Clothing,
GIF
Mil *
Hats, Trants,' Valises, k
figfReoeiying ids stock direct from the manu-
facturers, he can offer bargains in
prices that defy competition.
Call and
9-18-tf
See for Yourselves.
BRICKS! BRICKS!!
RAILROAD
-WITH ITS-—
Two Daily Trains
Shortest,
Quickest
and. Best Route
to all points in'the
East and Southeast.
Remember i is
144 Miles Shorter
44 Honrs cgixielxer
-TO-
Chattanooga and all Points in
TEMsTESSEE,
ALABAMA,
GEORFIA,
AKD THE OABOLIHAS,
than by any other route.
Pullman Sleeping Cars
Leave Little Rock dai! y for Louisville without
change. Only one change of cars lio.n
LITTLE ROCK to
OIHOIHHATI,
IHDIANAPOLIS,
CLEVELAND,
COLUMBUS
PITTSBURG,
WASHIUGTOU,
PHILADELPHIA,
BALTIMORE,
ixr^iw york:
Jd^Fares by this popular route always as low
as quoted by other lmes.
Don’t Fail to See or Address
P. II. CARNES, Jas, P. HARRIS,
Ticket Agent, Ticket Agent,
Argenia, LitLie Rock-
—cn—
TO. G ROBERTS,
General Fassengei Ticket Agent,
febl«tf Li it] i Rock, Ark.
The St. Louis,
iron fountain &
Southern Bailway,
With its connections, forms the best ro* e from
For Worth tcqSt. Louis and all points in the
WEST, NORTH and EAST.
Pullman’
Palace SI
ing cars and
fei new and ele-
gant coaches
run from For
Wort, Texas, to SffiLouis.without change.
THERE
is only one ehange^o
cars from
Fort Worth, Texas,
Kansas City,
Cleveland,
Cincinnati,
Buffalo,
Washington,
Philadelphia,
Chicago,
Louisville,
Indianapolis,
Pittsbu! gh,
Baltimore,
New York,
And ST. LOUIS is the point where
passengers via the
Iron Mountain Route
“ Make connections, with
Henry Feild,
Brick Manufacturer.
Keeps continually on hand a large sup-
ply ot the finest hand-made brick for sale,
in quantities to suit purchasers. I am al-
so prepared to lay brick inwall for parties
desiring it. For further information apply
to, Julian Feii.d, Agent,
8 21 tf At Brick Ami, above Ice Factory.
SHREWDER & HOPES.
And Contractors
Corner Belknap and Houston Sts.
FORT WORTH.
.To!) Work Promptly Attenned to. Estimates
made iree of Charge. Large Contracts
a specialty.
10-7-dlf
Hoist® & Texas Central Railway
WHOLESALE
GROCER,
Kails, Gas Pipe, Wagon and Carriage Wood Work,
Stoves, Pumps, Pump Supplies, etc
CORKER HOUSTON AND SECOND STS,
Fort Worth, Texas.
The Oldest and Largest Stove and Hardware House in the City
Every Description of Job Work done on Short Notice. d&w
6 8,10,12 ai 14 FIRST ST
* (Cor. Throckmorton)
Fort Worth, Texas.
W A
—Agent Western Texas for-
John Deere and Oliver Chilled Plows, Whitewater Wagons and H. B.
Scutt’B Barbed Wire, Fish Bros., Wagons, Smooth Wire, Rub
her Belting,. Coleman’s Corn Mill, Tents, Sheets, Etc.
j3l JUa w A3l nr IB JCN S T O O KL.
jggj^-Do you need anything or desire any information in regard to implements or
machinery, write to me.
WALTER A. HUFFMAN,
Nos. 9, If, 13 and 15 First Street,
Fort Worth, Texas.
B. P. FAKES.
W. G. TURNER.
J. N. MAMUE.L
AND CONNECTION!.,
The only Line running through the Central and
best portions ol tie State of Texas.
Passenger Express Trains
AND
Daily Fast Freight Lines !
T EJ X. A. m
9
THROUGH FAST
To all Points West,
'North and. East!
THE TRACK W
tially bus it,, a
large portion laid with steel rails, the entire
passenger equipment of the most modern cone
st,ruction, combining every improvement to se-
cure tho comfort and safety of passengers, in
eluding the celebrated Westinghouse Air Brake
and Miller’s Safety Platform. To secure thes.
advantages, see that your ticket reads via ST-
LOU1S, IRON MOUNTAIN AND SOUTHERN
RAILWAY.
Rates Always as Low as iiy Any Ollier Line
Full add reliable information in regard to-
this popular line, with maps, time tables, < tit os,
etc., will he cheerxully Jumisheu by calling
upon or writing-to
H.1W. STOCKING.
Agent, T. & P. R’y
Fort Worth, Texas.
W SOPER, O. W. RFGGLES,
Gen’1 Supt., Gen’l Pass. Aw t,
St. Louis. St. Lords.
Kansas City, St. Lous and Chicago
Pullman’s Palace Sleeping Cars
Each way, daily, with tut change,
BETWEEN ST. LOUIS & HOUSTON
via BE DALI A and
Missouri Pacific Railway.
THE SHORT LINE.
THROUGH TICKETS
From or to any point in Great Britain or Conti
nent of Europe, via the
Houston & Texas Central B’y.
And all-.Tail to New York, thence via
NORTH GERMAN LLOYD,
WHITE STAR & INMAN
STEAMSHIP LINES
On pale at the following stations:
Houston, Calvert, Bremcnd
Brenham, Waco, McKinney
Hempstead, Whitney, Sherman,
Austin, Morgan, Denis r
Corsicana, n -!! ”1
Austin,
Navasola,
Bryan,
Hearne,
Dailas,
desiring to selt:e in the
srV For informotion
as io ratei of
Special indue, merits to emigrants'and people
Attirin*. fn RPit’ft in the State.
i ~ passage
and Height, routes, etc., apply in person, or by
letter, to:
.J. K. HOG AN, Gen- Immigration Agent,
F,. D. TRUE. A. G F. A.
C. B. GRAY, A. G.’P. A.
A. Hi SWAJiStiJf, Gene -al Supt
.1 ;WAI,l»0, General F. &P. A.
HOUSTON TEXAS
Carries the Largest Stock
Northern Texas.
Keeps Everything in the Line
of Groceries, Woocienware,
Etc. Etc. Etc.
urniture
Bar Fixtures, Glassware, Queens ware and.Tinware. Coffins and Coffin Trim-
mings. Corner Houston Street and Square.
Fort Worth,
Texas.
re
Thos. A. Tidball,
K. M. VanZandt,
J. J. Jarvis3
J. P. Sraifa
Will Duplicate any Bills from
New York, St. Louis or
New Orleans, with
Freight added.
Carries a very iarge Line of To-
baccos, Cigars, Etc.
Agent for the Dupont Powder
Company, and Carries a lull
Line of Cartridges.
Invites the Trade to Call and
Examine His
STOCK AND PRICES.
TIDBALL, VANZANDT &CO 1
BANKERS,
Fort Wortji,-- «= « ■ - . * . Texas.
A General Banking Business Transacted,
1ST COLLECTIONS MADE AND PROMPTLY REMITTED.
Exchange Drawn on all the Principal Cities of Europe.
Agents for the NORTH-GERMAN LLOYD line of steamers, from
Bremen to Baltimore.
d Aw
0 & Simmons,
General Commission Merchants.
-o—o-
LIBERAL AD VAN OES MADE ON CONSIGNMENTS
OF COTTON, RIDES AND WOOL.
Office and Cotton Yard on Houston St., near R. R. Depot,
Fort Worm, Texas.
R. L. Turner.
Chas. Turner
II. L. TITHNES! BMO.,
MFTUirYwfU UUI'U363 in the city, and having on hand a large supply'o
YiUnSlU aURlAL CASKS, ROSMt OOP, MAHOGONY, WALNUT and PLAIN CASES, and
aloO a. Ur^e Supply oi burial Robes ol all sizes and dualities.
AU orders promptly attended to.
Undertaking Department, Up-stairs, ever Brick Stable,
Bonier Seventh and .Houston streets, Fort Worth, Texas.
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