Daily Democrat. (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 5, No. 113, Ed. 1 Sunday, April 17, 1881 Page: 1 of 4
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Job Printing.
Business men of Fort Worth should
not forget that the Democrat office is
prepared to do all kinds of commercial
printing and book work. We can make
as good a book as can bc,had in St. Louis,
and on as good terms. Specimens of
our work can be seen at any time. | VOL O
A first-class show.—Galveston News, March 27th
SrSKm688 the g0rge0U8 P"n- A performance’
Ten Times Greater than the Greatest.
A Million Dollar Amusement Pool.
THE NEW GREAT PACIFIC!
The largest railroad menagerie and circus ever organized, in colossal combination with
WELSH <& SANDS’
Great New Orleans and San Francisco railroad circus and royal English menagerie,
making this the most stupendous show on earth.
Daily Democrat
FORT WORTH. TEXAS. SUNDAY, APRIL 17, 1881.
NO. H3
BALLS AMD PARTIES.
The Democrat job office has
just received 3,0iM) of the finest
invitation and dance program-
mes ever brought to this city.
Remember this committees, tf
Will Exhibit in its vast entirety at FORT WORTH,
on THURSDAY, APRIL 21st.
Seven enormous continental menageries in one, alone presenting full
a thousand shows. Among its Titanic and transcendant marvels,
the only 830,000 living white Nile Hippopotamus, the genuine
gore-sweating, tremendous Behometli of Holy Writ.
1, r A TWO-TON PAIR OF NEW-FOUND UNNAMED ARCTIC MAMMOTHS.
A $12,000 cavalcade of 14 performing KENTUCKY THOROUGHBREDS, the larg-
est number ot the. most beautiful and best trained horses in the world,
and more than a whole show alone. The colossal $10,000
bareback equestrian ('hacma. the most remark-
able and intelligent animal on earth,
A $100,000 Orient Caravan of Elephants, Dromedaries
and Camels.
The largest animal known to man.
Thrice the smallest elephant ever seen.
Fifty tons ot educated beasts.
Prof. Sam Reinhardt’s $20,000 troup ot
performing dogs and monkeys.
The Great ROBERT STICKNEY
Tho universal genius and hero of the ring.
The wondrous man and woman water
witches.
The champion circus ot a 100 chiefs.
An enormous Polar sea aquarium.
A huge den of hideous tropic saurians.
A rainbow rivaling aviary.
A grand, free, cloud walk, hazardous
ascension.
4 Quarter of a Million Street Parade, a tidal wave of Splendors in Procession.
Three superb martial musical brigades. The new leviathan locomotive steam band.
A 100-yoiced jubilee colored chorus. Always exhibiting just what it ad-
vertises. Each promise made is kept a sacred pledge.
ONE TICKET ADMITS TO ALL ADVERTISED SHOWS. J&M
Children under nine years—half price.
TWO GRAND EXHIBITIONS DAILY.
It controls millions, backed by millions more, and so far as it is concerned, no other
show exists. Will also exhibit at
DALLxYS, Apiil 19tli.
WEATHERFORD, April 20th.
IOHN NICHOLS,
President.
A. M. BRITTON,
V ice-President.
--T lUX IB---
S. W. LOMAX,
Cashier
City ]NI ational Bank
OF FORT WORTH,
&. Regular Banking Business in all its Branches Transacted.
Denmark, Sweden and Norway.
COX-UX^ESr5OISIIDBX'^',TS;:
W. A. HUFFMAN
DEALERS IN
JP’airiM.i ngr Im <
n Reapers and Mowers; Buckeye Reapers
;hed Iron Plows;Garden City Clipper Plows : B *. Harrow Teeth
^Attachment; Plain and Barbed 'jJameg clevises, Double and Single
ssell Threshers and Engines; Hoes, Chains Ham ,cultivators, Double
*», Com Shellers, Wheat Fans, Fire Brick,
Weis, Grain Drills, Wagon Bows and Sheets, leats, etc.
Artesian Well Drilling Machinery » Specialty.
FORT WORTH, TEXAS. Branch House at WLA-lilLtliUiill, liiAAo.
1 PtitfuTries promptly answered. wW*
Aiken, Lambert A Co’s
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GOLD PEHSI
MANUFACTURERS’ PRICES
I I S DRUG STORE
A. T. STEWART’S BODY
Deposited in the Cathedral at Garden
City—The Circumstances Attending
a Mysterious Midnight Funeral.
Republican Special.
New York, April 13.—Many per-
sons in Garden City and Hemp-
stead believe the body of A. T.
iStewart now lies in the crypt iu
the Stewart memorial cathedral at
Garden City. The story told
there contains many particulars.
It is said that about two weeks
ago two large slates of blue stone
were brought up on a freight
train. Each was eight feet long,
four feel wide and four inches
thick. They were so heavy that
special appliances had to be
brought into requisition to take
them from the car and carry them
to the cathedral. In each corner
of these slabs were eve-holes for
the insertion of heavy bolts. Of
this part of the story there is no
doubt. What the slabs have been
useu used for, however, is uot a
matter of equal certainty. It is
supposed that one was designed
to lie beneath the coffin and the
other on top of it, and that they
were to be bolted together.
Next, the story has it, that about
twelve days ago a special train
arrived at Garden City at mid-
night, consisting of an engine, bag-
gage car and a passenger car;
that Mr. Hilton, Mrs. Stewart and
about half a dozen others got off
the train and went directly to the
cathedral, while from the baggage
car was taken a coffin, which was
also taken to the cathedral, and
that the party was there a long
time, the cathedral being lighted
and the doors locked. It is fur-
ther said that the body was put in
the crypt in the basement of the
cathedral beneath the chancel, and
that masons laid the stones, bolt-
ed them, poured lead around the
bolts in the eye-holes, aud sealed
the masonry with cement. It is
further said that electricians skill
fully led wires from various parts
of the masonry and upward to the
chime of bells in the steeple in
such a manner that if any person
should attempt an entrance every
bell in the steeple would ring
Several strong batteries were
placed in the cathedral some time
ago with the sole intention, as
then understood, of aiding an or-
ganist to play the several orgaus
in the buildiug aud with the mere
touch of his Augers, to ring the
chime in the steeple. It is further
related that the cathedral has
been lighted frequently since that
time and much work has been go-
ing on in it. Formerly there was
a watchman only in the day time,
bat now it is said there are also
two watchmen at night. The re-
ported arrival of the midnight
train is talked about among rail-
road men. All of them conversed
with yesterday had heard about
it, but uone of them had any cer-
tain knowledge obout it.
A reporter visited Garden City-
yesterday. On bis entering the
catbedrl he was told by the watch-
man that be must have a pass.
Doing to tl}9 o$e Jjfe »
pass from an assistant of Mr. Hil-
ton’s manager, not only to visit
the cathedral but to enter the
ciypt. This pass was given free-
ly aud without question. The re
porter on presenting this pass to
the watchman was conducted
down stairs to the beautifl marble
enclosure built to contain the
body of Mr. Stewart. The visitor
had previously understood that
the body, appropriately enclosed
and supported, was to rest on the
marbie floor of this octagonal de-
partment. There was nothing of
the kind to be seen, but two work-
men were then? busying them-
selves in relayiug one of the mar-
ble slabs that constitute the floor-
ing. These slabs are polished and
wedge-shaped pointing to the cen-
ter. Others of the slabs appear-
ed to have just beeu relaid. The
earth in the open space was loose
reddish loam that was easily
smoothed with a trowel in the
hands ofione of the workmen. “I
see that the body is not where I
expected it would be placed,” said
the visitor, “but this inspection
does not show that it is uot be-
neath the floor of tile crypt.” The
watchman said nothing in reply.
The visitor then requested per-
mission to speak with the work-
men, but this was refused him.
Subsequently such permission
was asked for at the manager’s
office, but it was again refused.
Anticipated Scramble for Pub-
lic Domain.
Galveston News.
The act of the Seventeenth leg-
islature known as the Crippled
Confederate Soldiers’ Land Pen-
sion bill goes into effect the flrst
day of July next. However con-
siderate and generous in purpose,
it is very defective in detail. By
the terms of the act the confeder-
ate soldier now living in Texas
who was a resident of Texas when
he enlisted in the military service
of the confederacy, and who be-
came disabled by reason of
wounds, is entitled to an alternate
land certificate of 1280 acres. He
is required to prove by two eredi
ble witnesses, to the satisfaction
of the county commissioners’
court of the county of his resi-
dence, that he is entitled to the
certificate. The proof is easily
made. It is a law that would,
were the public domain of the
state less reduced that it is, be
found to open the door u> the most
stupendous land thieving known in
this home of the land forger and
land pirate. Such loose, shamb
ling laws have from the beginning
invited and encouraged the spoli
ation of the public domain. It
may, however, he said of this par
tieular measure that it comes too
late to be of any great harm, All
the public lauds in the Panhandle,
and, in fact, all north of the south-
ern line of the Texas ami Pacific
reseivation, have been reserved
from location, and the lands south
of that line, mainly situated in Pe-
cos and Presidio and Crockett
counties, have been largely located
for the railroads, the school fund.
U?e Uain^ity. tje pmtip
western counties the rauoheios
and railroads have located and
bold nearly every acre worth the
surveying fees. Every certifi
cate issued under the act in
question \\ ill call for 2560 acres,
half to be located for the soldier
aud half for the school fund. In
addition to this, the Seventeenth
legislature authorized the issue of
a land certificate of 1280 acres to
each of the Texas veterans of the
war of independence and their
widows, including 640 acres each
to those who have already receiv-
ed 640 acres under the Lana Pen-
sion act of the Sixteenth legisla-
ture. Besides, the railroads are
extending their hues with great
rapidity, and for each section of
ten miles completed receive 160
alternate certificates of 640 acres.
It was computed that two disabled
confederate soldiers in each coun-
ty, entitled to the benefits of the
acts, would be found, but legisla-
tives estimates of the kind have
always fallen much below the
mark, and it is safe to be prepared
for the issue of 600 of these certi-
ficates to the soldiers, and quite
as many to the widows of Texas
solders killed or who died in the
confederate service, for the law
also makes the same grant to these
widows, provided they have not
acquired husbands since their
loss. It is sate to estimate that
1200 certificates will be grant-
ed under this law. The Sixteenth
legislature granted certificates to
soldiers of the war of ’36, of whom
there were less than 5000 :u ’36,
and 250 certificates were issued in
a very short space of time. Here
is a more recent war in which Tex-
as had not less than 50,000 men
eulisted. Hundreds of these men
were disabled, and thousands died
aud were killed in the service.
The best informed persons en-
gaged in the land business esti-
mate that in the next two years
there will be certificates issued un-
der the two land pension acts of
the Seventeenth legislature for
about 1750 sections, or for about
4,000,0U0 acres, including the alter-
nates for school fund, and that toe
railroads will be entitled to about
12,000 sections under certificates
catling for upward of 7,000,000
acres lor the roads, and the like
quantity for the school fund.
More than half of the unappropri-
ated public domain has, as stated,
beeu reserved from location, the
Pauhaudle lands being held to pay
the state debt, and the lands in the
forfeited railroad reservation be-
ing set apart for public schools. Iu
September last the land commis-
sioner submitted his official state-
ment, computing the entire amount
at that date subject to location of
certificates at 10,069 890 acres. It
is a reasonable conclusion that
two years hence certificates to
more than cover every acre of the
vacaut public domain will have
been issued, and that July 1, of
this year, and thence forward, a
grand scramble for certificates
end locations will be witnessed.
To render the raid upon the pub-
lic domain more exciting and in-
letting, to org&ui^u tho jjicutiual
:;-n WKAsu
crew that will hustle honest claim-
ants out of the. way, and to enliven
proceedings with sensational and
adroit manipulations of county
courts, surveyors notaries, and ed-
ucated witnesses, the governor
ought to at once liberate Ham,
Tullis and the other fi teeu or
twenty experts in romantic land
business now wasting their ener-
gies in painting wagons, mending
shoes and bottoming chairs in the
penitentiary.
The Czar’s Miserable Life.
New 1'erk Sun.
At one time the late czar was
prevailed upon to wear a chain
breastplate under his tunic, but
though one of the lightest kind
was made for him he could not
bear its weight, so the expedient
was adopted of causing his tunics
to be padded with cottn wool
steeped in a preparation which
hardened it, and rendered it, if
not bullet-proof, at least knife-
proof, and difficult for even a bul-
let to pierce at a long shot. An
attempt was made some time ago
to poison the czar by sending him
a petition covered with some nox-
ious powder, since which he ceased
lo receive letters, papers or peti-
tions. For similar reasons he gave
up smoking, thouga he used to
like a cigar, and drank no wine but
from bottles uucorked in his pres-
ence. In the imperial kitchen the
czar’s food was prepared by a
French cook who plied all his avo-
cations under the eyes of two po-
lice guards—not that the cook
himself could incur any suspicions,
but because some couspirators
might have got at the ingredients
he was preparing. The food was
always cooked in the simplest way,
without sauce, and it was tasted
by two officials before it was
si-rved at the czar’s table. Every-
thing that Alexander II. ate or
drank wa« tasted iu his presence,
and the attendance in the dining
room was performed by servants
of tried fidelity.
Photographs in Courts.
New York Sun.
A curious question of law has
arisen iu the case ot‘ James Walsh,
convicted in Brooklyn of murder
in the first degree for the killing
of Barbara Gioenthal. Miss Gro-
enih.il was a beautiful girl of sev-
enteen. The district attorney, in
opetiiug a vehement argument to
the jururs, suddenly thrusts be-
fore them a photograph of the
murdered girl. This likeness had
not been iui reduced in evidence,
aud the court promptly ordered it
to be withdrawn for ihe view of
the jury. But the mi.'-chief,if any,
had already been done.
Considering the powerful influ-
ence of beauty upon the heart of
mau, is it impossible to say that
this irregular introduction of a
photograph which displays tho
loveliness of the fair victim may
uot have influenced the verdict
aud caused the jury to bring in a
verdict of murder in t e first de-
gree instead of iu tlio second de-
gree.
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