The Democrat. (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 54, Ed. 1 Saturday, January 13, 1883 Page: 2 of 4
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THE DEMOCRAT.
HOLLAND & CO., PROPRIETORS.
Tit Oily Democratic Finer ii Fort Worth
SATURDAY, JAMUARY 13, 1883.
Tito Bad Man of White Dog; Dig-
gings,
Tub total of British army and navy
pemione i $16,244,865; about one-
fourth that of the United States.
Jay Gould has a letter five pages
long from the president of Mexico to
prove that the Mexican government
^uid not captured the Oriental railroad.
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. Plain house-room for the insane,
plenty of it, quickly previded, but no
finery, is what the governor recom-
mends.
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Whew the Greenback papers are all
dead what will become of the party ?—
Brenham Banner.
The party was dead before the papers
got sipk.
Hh
A diver at COO yards distance from
the persons communicating with him
oan converse with ease with persons
above water by means of the telephone,
as was recently proved by Mr. Ware,
of the Biver Meare Commissioners
Let? all fathers in law heed the noble
example set them by a gentleman of
JTew Orleans, who sent his daughter's
husband a check for twenty-five thou-
sand dollars as a Christmas present,
This princely munificence deserves
imitation.
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The London Lancet says the habit
of riding early and going to bed late
is a pernicious one. It is burning the
candle at both ends. A sufficiency of
sleep is indispensable to health and
longevity,
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More than 440 yard* of the English
Channel tunnel had been bored at
Sandgate about the end of last month
and the work of excavation was being
prosecuted night and day at the rate
of not less than 78 yards within seven
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The governor is earnest t« the last
on the subject of education. He is
somewhat apprehensive of the expense
of a separate educational department
of th« state government, but he con-
templates with approval the ultimate
adoption for a change in the constitu-
tion to permit the formation of per-
manent school districts in which the
residents shall be empowered to tax
themselves for educatienal purposes.
.WXCUpiD WILLIAM TRIPP.
William was wicked.
When I pick out one man from a min-
ing camp made up of 800 runaways,
pqrs, cut-throats, gamblers.
deiH-JMUIl«7 0, uuv-lllivuw, joiuuiwr.
horse thieves and murderers and call
him wicked, I mean for the reader to
inffc that he was right up and down
bad.
Which is exactly the case with Wil-
liam Tripp.
Nobody seemed to know when or how
William settled himself down in our
midst. - For all 1 know he was the
founder of White Dog Diggings; and,
erhaps, It was the rest or us settled
own in his midst. Be that as it may,
he was there, and there he remained,
notwithstanding several broad hints
that be would look handsome at the
end of a rope.
Wicked! , Well, he was that!
Such a swearer as W ilium was! He
would begin as soon us his eyes were
open in the morning and keep up a
steady Are until 10 o'clock at night. He
spent more time in Inventing new oaths
than some of the men did in digging the
?old. He swore by every saint ever
ueard of. He swore by heaven und
earth—the angels—whales—sharks—pi-
rates—wild-cajs—preachers—and even
oork and beans. I think his greatest
anxiety was to And something new to
swear by, but he found enough to make
a man's flesh creep.
And he was a cheat and a liar.
There wasn't a man in camp who
would believe him under oath, und no
man ever played cards with him who
escaped his "knavish devices. He was
quarrelsome, overbearing, hasty, and
inclined to shed blood, and, though shot
at.a dozen different times, he always
escaped without a scratch.
You wonder that we didn't run him
out or hang him.
Well, somehow, we always intended
to, but always put it ott'to a more con-
venient date. The success of bouncing
a man depends a good deal who the man
is. On our tirst gentle hint to William
Tripp that unless he was packed up and
out of camp inside of 510 minutes his
anatomy would be riddled with bullets,
he produced a couple of revolvers,
backed up against the lied Eye saloon,
and calmly observed that he was aching
for a little excitement. I think this ac-
tion at that particular time had some-
thing to do with our giving him rope
and seeking to get along with his eccen-
tric traits of character.
•'I move," said Elder Beacon, one
night when we were talking about Wil-
liam's bad ways, "that the committee
f'et the drop on him and then run him
nto the hills."
Just so, but who were the committee ?
That was another point we could never
satisfactorily determine, and. that was
another reason why William continued
to abide with us.
Shoot! Well, you never saw such an
eye and such a nerve. Just as far as he
could see the bowl of a pipe in a man's
mouth he could smash it with a bullet.
Almost every hat in camp had an air-
hole made by one of his bullets, and
though I Was prejudiced against William
I had to admit that he respected men's
heads in shooting at their hats. No
doubt he would have felt real bad had
his bullet curried too low.
One day when a sort of a parson came
over from Turkey Creek to wrestle with
William and entreat him to turn from
the wrath to come, what happened?
Why, William backed oil' fifteen paces
and cut every button off the parson's
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. The governor, in his message to the
legislature, referring to the subject of
quarantine, explains some obscurity
in the Revised Statutes. The law id
a compilation of laws passed at differ-
ent times. It should be revised. The
governor has acted to preserve life
rather than promote trade in doubt-
ful oases. He gracefully thanks the
officers ot the national board of health
for work done at Brownsville.
A firm in Boston that thirteen years
ago employed only five women, now
employs 860; another firm that six
years ago employed only 50 now em-
ploys 400, and still another firm gives
work to 1,200. Everywhere there is a
drift of women into industrial employ-
ment. The wages of some of them,
however, is scandalously low, and it is
hard to imagine how they manage to
live; so that the question as to wheth-
er the result will be altogether for the
good of women remains as yet unde-
cided.
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. The report to the senate of the mil-
itary committee on the subject of sen-
iority in the army, says: Your com-
mittee do not believe that it is within
reasonable power of congress, in fact,
life is too short to undertake to min-
utely review and reconsider and rem-
edy all the seeming o? imagined
grievances of every officer now in the
regular army, in regard to the dates
and entries to the service and relative
to the rank etc., after a lapse of seven-
teen years from the close of the late
war and the disbanding of a large num-
ber of officers in the volunteer.service
and the reorganization and reduction
of the regular army. At present the
dates of entry into the service relative
to tlw rank of officers now in service
has been known and acted on for years.
They have been nominated by the
president and confirmed by the senate
and accepted. There must be an end
t* legislation upon 4>ese questions or
Confusion and worse confounded strifes
and contentions will exist and increase
With eVery act of the legislature. The
time of congress and the valuable
time of officers of the army can be
taaore profitably and pleasantly em-
ployed, than in overhauling and at-
tempting to correct or change the ex-
isting statutes. Lei peace prevail in
the army as in oivil life. Your com-
tnittee recommended the bill and
toholfe subject matter therein.
button off the
coat with bullets, and, as a grand wind-
up, he made a long shot after the flying
Victim, and left his mark on the man's
ear in order to know him a^ain.
But there came a halt in Wm. Tripp's
mad career, and it happened In a curi-
ous way. A tire in his tent one night
burned up a lot of his traps, and he hud
to make a ride of thirty miles on Col.
Cooper's old mare to replace them wit h
new. The morning he rode out of camp
was the last time we saw him, but we
heard from a dozen different ones just
what happened to him. About twelve
miles from our camp was the overland
trail, andjust where ourown trail struck
it was a pretty little valley with plenty
of water und wood. It was a favorite
camping spot with emigrants, and the
day William Tripp reached it he found
half a dozen wagons and as many fami-
lies halted for a breathing spell.
The deviltry in William's nature bub-
bled over when he struck the valley and
beheld such a scene of peace. Children
were playing around,women were wash-
ing and mending, and the brawny men
were mending wagons and harness and
whistling over their work. William
drew rein and gazed upon the scene for
a few minutes. Then he out with a
revolver. Seated before one of the fires
was an old woman with her knitting in
hand and a pipe in her mouth. It was
a long shot, but the evil one urged Wil-
liam to try it. and try it he did.
What happened ?
• Something even worse than murder.
The bullet went straight for the old
woman's head and crushed into her
brain. Then something awful followed.
She rose to her feet, whirled around to
face the shooter, and, true as yon live,
she seemed to look at him for thirty
seconds before she tottered forward and
shieked out:
"William! oh, my son William!"
Then she pitched forward on the grass
and was dead in a second, and the red
blood oozed out and made a terrible
stain on the green grass.
And William—what did he do? He
was like one turned to stone. The wo-
man's words plainly reached his ears,
and he must have recognized her face.
In the one awful moment in which he
sat gazing at the corpse on the grass It
must have flashed across him that his
poor old mother had made that journey
with neighbors for no other purpose
than to huift him up—he, the boy who
had left vears before, and had been the
subject or her nightly prayers ever since.
Wicked as he was, he must have felt her
devotion and sacrifices.
And then?
He sat there in his saddle, his eye fast-
ened on his mother's corpse, and the re-
volver still in his hand. The situation
had petrified "him. While he sat thus
one of the immigrants, who believed the
camp was to be attacked by a force,
leveled his rifle over the wheel of a wag-
on and sent a bullet plowing through
Willain's heart.
Ah! well, it's years and years ago, and
the twin graves in the valley have long
since been trampled out of sight, ana
White Dog Diggings can be round no
more, bnt the day the neWs of that aw-
ful tragedy came back to us we dropped
spade and pick, and could work no more
for the day. Aad after a long period of
silence among the men, who had in-
stinctively gathered around Judge
Desire to hear his opinion, the judge
arose and said:
"Feller-citizens, the wicked don't live
out half his days, and don't you forget
DR. If. 8. BROIL
Physician and Surgeon,
OFFICE—West Fourth Street, ont-W _
half blocks west of the pouiottice. '
.Residence on same blo^k, cor
ner 4th and aylor streets,
FOKT WORTH. - - TEXAS.'
Ou Laap loit tt Omsk. «. SaU k«M JtamulMttta
OFKICX HOt 'KS :
8 to 9 a. m. and 7 to 8 p. m.
F.E.Daniel, M.D. J.A. Matt^pvs, M.D
Drs. Daniel & Matthews,
SURGEONS AND PHYSICIANS.
Office on Second stroet between Main
and Houston, in First National Bank
building, Telephone csnncction.
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RINT
ST. LOUIS TYPE FOUNDRY
PRINTING MACHINE WORKS
—AMD-
FORf WORTH,
TEXAS.
J. T.WILKES
urv^eirr-,
Feel and Sale Stable
Comer Rusk and Seoond Streets; also, cor-
ner Rusk and Fourth.
PAPER WAREHOUSE
Corner Third and Vine Streets,
ST. XjOXTXS-
Hav* XTirything Undid la a Printing Offlct.
IMIWHWWIIIIWIWmiMWIII
THE
FORT WORTH,
TEXAS
Telephone Connection with all parts of the
City.
Fii st-Class Buggies, Carriages and
Horses at all Times, on Rmson-
able Terms.
OUTFITS FO R DRUMMERS.
JRuby Saloon
Hail st„ Next to Pytbiai Temple.
Texas and Paciff Railway
The Short Line
TO
NEW OllLEANS
And all prominent citics in the
; Southeast
The Direct Line Between
TEXAS
AND
New Mexico, Arizona and California,
And all points
NORTH, EAST AND SOUTHEAST.
Ed. B. BROWN, Prop'r.
Fine Wines,
Fine Li(|uor«f ' ^
Fine Cigars,
Fine Billiard and Pool Tables.
THE FAMOUS
\ld hermitage whiskey
Always in Stock.
9-1-tf
THHS
INTERNATIONAL & GREAT
NORTHERN R, R.
IS THE DIRECT LINE BETWEEN
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T IE IX -A_ S
AND ALL POINTS IN THE
North, East, West,
AND SOUTHWEST
PASS E ItfiERS
Can lake their choice of routes either via
Taylor and the
NEW WACO LINE!
Or via the ^ '
SV Louis, Iron Mountain &
Southern Railway.
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Close connections at
^ 4., ,
LITTLE ROCK
FOR ALL PRINCIPAL CITIES
' , r. v \ . , .... " 1 ,">* i" MV
IN
THE SOUTHEAST
Trains leave Fort Worth, as follows:
CiOING EAST:
St. Louis express leaves Fort Worth,
daily, at 4:45 a. in.
Local passenger leaves Fort Worth, ex-
cept Sunday, at 12:01 p. m.
GOING WEST:
California express jpives Fort Worth at
10.30 p. m.
Close connection at Little Rock for all
points in the Southeast, and in the Union
denot, St. Louis, with express trains in
all directions.
Pullman Palace Sleeping Cars
Daily between
DEMINtx. Eli PASO, FOllT WORTH,
DALLAS AND ST. LOUIS,
1 And
MARSHALL AND ATCHAFALATc A
Without change.
For rates, tickets orany information,ap-
ply to any of the ticket agents, or to
II. P. IIl'QHFS,
, Pass, Agent, Houston,
* B. W. MCCullouoh,
General Agent, Marshal.
F. Chandlkh,
Gen'l. Pass. Agent.
C. B. Kinnan,
Asst. Gen'l. Pass Agent.
H. M IIoxie,
Vlcc Pres. and Traffic Manager, St. Louis
The Illinois Central
RAILROAD.
Grand Entrance into'the CITY
of CHICAGO,
OVER THEIR GREAT
Four Track Route,
Along the Luke Front
No streets, Draw Bridges or Railroad
Tracks to Cross,
The Illinois Central
Rum two Daily trains from St Louis and
Cairo without change.
Palaoe sleeping cars from St Louis and
ro to Chicago.
The Equipment ot this line is first-class,
consisting Jof
fine, commodious:,pay: coaohes
aND
PALACE SLEEPING CAR8.
BARGAINS
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CAN BE FODND AT
Randall & Chambers Co.,
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In NEW GOODS of ev|ry description, including Ladies, Mi
and Children's S4CQUES| IIOODS, IsUBIAS, MITIENS I
ZEPHYR SHAWLS. We offer our handsome lino of
Satin and Diagonal Dolmans
tand Fine Walking Jack
At COST, and tlioss wishing tolmako Holiday Presents should tak
vantage of thefte extremely "low prices. *
il
Ytry Respectfully,
RANDALij & CHAMBERS CO.
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THE HIGBEE," RANDALL & DARLING CO.,
WHOLESALE %
Dry' Goods, Notions,
FURNISHING GOODS, ETC,
CORNER SECOND^ THROCKMORTON STS
C. B. Daggett, J*.,
WHOLESALE GROCER.
Orders Solicited and Satisfaction Guar-
anteed.
OFFICE BETWEEN HOUSTON AND MAIN STS. NEAR T & P DEPOT
1
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HP
TIIE OLD RELIABLE
Merchants' Restaurant,
IS TO THE FRONT TO-DAY WITH
A Large S uppJyof Fresh Oysters.
FISH AND ALL KINDS OF GAME.
Lav/son & JExarley.
C.W. BARRADALL,
DRUGGIST and PHARMACIST,
COR. FIRST AND MAIN STREETS,
FORT WORTH, TEXAS.
Inscriptions carefully compounded
by efficient druggists, both day and
night. 11-14-tf
F. G. BOUND
MANUFACTURER OF
BOOTS and SHOES
Shop on Houston Street, Between Gth
and 7th.,
FORT WORTH, - - TEXAS.
gpflF*Repniring Done Neatly and at
Reasonable Rates.
KCio Wei3c 1b First-Class,
And always gives Satisfaction.
A. D. ANSELL, M. D
M
Fhyslcian, Surgeon nnd Obstetrician. Office
and residence First street, between Main
and Houston, over Barradalt's drug store.
Special attention paid to diseases of the
ifiye, Ear, Nose and hroat, Surgery and
Surgical diseases, el ephone connection
with all points of the city. 8-3tf
ONLY S20
for a PHlLADBIiPHIA SINGES
of thla style. Equal to atijr
(Singer In tho market Re-
mamber, tee jvrnrf it to be
Mtamtned before you
fiirii. Thla I* the same
other companies retail for
Machine# warranted tori
yean. Send for Illnatriited Clr-
cular and Testimonial*. Add***
CHABLES A. WOOD ft
17 Uatli
i. WOOD ft CO..
FARMER & HENRY,
Livery, Sale and Feed Stables,
Rusk Street, between First and
Weatherford.
Breaking aad Training HoraM a Specialty.
OBDER3 FOR
Hacks or Buggies
Promptly attended to.
THE
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STAR & CRESCENT
ROUTE
The Short Line
TO ALL POINTS
V
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East Southeast North
IS BY THE POPULAR
Star & Crescent Route
The only 'all rati rout* from
T$xas to New Orleans,
STARR fj. JONES,
Pass. Ag't Star and Crescent Route,
Grand Union Ticket Office, Cor-
ner Tremont and Market
Telephone Connection with all parts ef the City, J r,en. riuengjj&t h5SS?W
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