Fort Worth Daily Gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 12, No. 344, Ed. 1, Monday, July 11, 1887 Page: 6 of 8
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THE OPIUM HABIT
omothlnc About lta Prevalence In New
York City
Brooklyn TImce
The recent highly sensational divorce
case of Mrs Grace Brotherton Deems a
daughter of a wealthy banker against her
husband Frank Deems a son of the Rev
Dr Deems of the Church of the Strangers
has caused the liveliest surprise in all
grades of society Both husband and
wife had been reared in pious homes and
ooth are well educated refined and intel
ligent The letters of Mrs Deems which
were produced in courtrevealed a woman
of remarkably clear mind and of consid
erable force of character Both however
are
undoubtedly opium liends and it is
discovery that has so
astounded nearly everyone
greatly
But there is no reason vI17 it should
Tne records of the police courts the
books of private physicians show that the
drug habit the use of morphine opium
and even cocaine has spread very greatly
within the last few years The fact that
its victims ere to be found mainly among
the rich and educated explains why its
prevalence has not been more widely
known Nearly every druggist or phy
sician in the fashionable quarter cantell
of many patients wno are slaves to opium
The former is perhaps the best authority
for the confirmed opium eater writes his
own prescription and knows where he
can buy nil he wants without applying to
a doctor
Two months ago another prominent
case wncre both husband and wife were
the victims attracted public attention
The Rev Francis Gerry Fairileld a min
ister journalist and physician a man of
good family and of remarkable talent
died in a tenthrate hotel on Third avenue
from the effects of opium His wife
Tosepnme Griswold Falrfleld a daughter
of Judge Griswold once en influential
New Yorker and a member of the New
York bench died a week previous to her
husband in the same manner Had it
not been for Mr Fairfields brother a
well to do lawyer husband and wife
would probably have been buried In pau-
pers graves
Daring the middle of last month I had
occasion to visit the Jefferson Mrket
Police Court I arrived there just as the
presiding magistrate Justice Murrayleft
his bench and walked into his private ex-
amination I followed
room him
In the room were three persons be-
sides the court officers Two of these
were women and both were dressed in
black and heavily veiled As the
Justice entered both drew
aside their veils The elder of
the two was a lady about fifty years 01
age with remarkably delicate and refined
features on which rested a sad and mel-
ancholy expression She was laboring
under great amotion and at times could
barely restrain her tears
Her companion who was at least
iwentyllve years her junior resembled
her somewhat in appearance but there
was an indeilnite something about her
that marred the beauty of her face and
at times made it almost repulsive
The third person was a man of middle
age well built and of a serious cast of
countenance One peculiarity I could
not help noticing He could not keep his
gaze fixed upon anything and moved
about uneasily in Lis chair when he saw
that he was being observed
I see Mrs Francesco observed
Justice Murray nodding to the elder
lady that you charge Mrs Hale your
daughter with being addicted to the use
of morphine and opium and with being
habitually intoxicated
Yes replied the lady while tears
rolled down her cheeks I am forced to
take this step to save her from utter de-
gradation She and her husband point-
ing to the man seated besde her have
for years been addicted to the opium hab-
it He lias several times been confined
in asylums and discharged as cured only
to sink back again into his old habits
When they are together they are worse
than when they are separate She is now
In a terrible condition and we desire to
place her in a private asylum at Amity
vllle where she can be taken care of
Up to this time the young woman had
remained in apparent letbarsy and had
not betrayed the slightest emotion while
tne mother wept as she spoke of her af-
fliction Now however as though sud-
denly realizing her situation she jumped
from her chair and shrieked in most
piercing tones
Its you you that have brought me to
this she cried pointlug to her husband
who shrank away cowed and frightened
you taught me it you got me into the
habit she continued llercely
It was a sad scene and the poor old
lady wept bitterly The young woman
had to be removed by force and later in
the day was taken to a private asylum
It seems that she had no grounds for
accusing her husband of forcing the habit
upon her Tha fault lay with her physi-
cian who had prescribed morphine for
her during a iong and serious illness
When she recovered the habit had been
formed and she was not strong enough to
rssist it Her husband contracted the
taste from her
Tnat is frequently the origin Taken
psr force during sickness the drug holds
the victim relentlessly in its power Un
fortunately not all physicians aro as
careful in prescribing it as they should
10 CHARLES J HOSKlUULT
Encllah With Variations
Aryouaut
The vagaries of slang are infinite Last
night
as I stood waiting for a car two
Sixth avenue gentlemen met and greeted
each other cheerf ally
IIullo Chimmie said one with a ra-
diant Emile still wearin them gall way
slugs for whiskers I see
Still wearin em Andy I notice
youve got yer feet wid you
Yaas
Better keep em along y may go floh
in this summer and youll need em for
sinkers
Well raythcr a slight pause
dont you tiuk you better close yer
mouf m son Might git cold in yer
leet
Have t so yon
Well good night old man
Good night taid the other shaking
hands warmly ag he turned into a restau
rant Axcuse me will yer
in here to feed me face
jfe
Im goin
Mrs Olovolnnd Uses Dnmb Bells
Washington Special
It has been remarked that Mrs Cleve-
land possesses exceptionally strong
wrists and is consequently able to en-
dure the prolonged handshaking of pub-
lic receptions without over fatigue Her
strength of muscle is attributed to her
persistent use of dumo bells She is said
to be quite a gymnast and owes much of
her graceful carriage to the thorough
command of
Elc exercises
her body given by calisthe
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LADY COLIN CAMPBEL
AStw and Very Attractive Picture or the
Famous YVorunn
London Letter to the Philadelphia Itecord
A few evenings since I attended at the
university a Shakesperean concert where
I heard among other Lady Colin Camp
bell sing The music was as a rule ex-
ecrable but I would have endured even
mere in experimental singing to gratify
my curiosity to see a person whose notor-
iety has overrun two worlds She has a
strong and good natural voice but crude
and without cultivation She is not at all
vocally fitted to appear before a public
whose artistic sense has been developed
either empirically or by study She would
doubtless take either to the lyric stage or
the concert room if she could feel that
see would have the proper preparation
to sustain her when the novelty of the
While Fort Worth is making such rapid
strides in material development while
she is at work building up her trade and
devoting so much attention to manufac-
turing industries it will be well If she
does not lose sight of the many opportun-
ities offered for beautifying the city and
surroundings and thus adding vastly to
the attractions which will
bring to our limits to
reside permanently the refined
and the cultured of all classes of society
and at the same time enable our home
people to enjoy the beauties of nature en-
hanced by the work of art General
Barrett the famous landscape engineer
who has been with us for some weeks
working out plans by which North Fort
Worth may be made a desirable place of
residence and a man who has seen nearly
all of the cities of this country was upon
his arrival at once impressed with
the transcendant and marvelous natural
beauty of Fort Worths location The
more ho has seen of our surroundings
the more firmly is he convinced that Fort
Worth is now the most beautiful city in
Texas and that it can be made the most
heautiful city in the United States
Built upon a hill surrounded by valleys
and again a line of elevations the
possibilities for oeautifyiEg this locality
are endless Difference in elevation is it-
self beauty the monotonous sameness
of the prairie or of a gentle incline from
a river or gulf being dillicult to improre
With our majestic bluffs descending ab
thing should have passed away Her
husband is a bankrupt as insolvent pro-
ceedings show and any means which
would enable her to subsist independent
of him and also to provide for the rainy
days she would probably accept I saw
at Paris a photograph of her which
represented a beautiful woman one as
fair and as eqaal a representative of the
brunette type as Langtry is of tne blonde
As she stood upon the platform on the
night In question during the playing of a
prelude by the pianist she presented a
notable figure more than ordinarily tall
well shaped except that her imprudently
praised waist is much too slender for the
rest of her person In the physiognomy
of figure this is Bulwers phrase ttiat
was the one defect quarrelling with the
other parts of her person She was auda-
ciously selfpossessed as If her previous
life had been flawless and looked over
heraudience with an easy stare of conceit
which indeed shocked me Whether It
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sides but one
and verdant
valleys covered by primeval forest
with parklike openings it requires but
the expenditure of a limited amount of
money and time to make Fort Worth in-
deed a beautiful city Heretofore our
citizens have only in a measure realized
what cmr location is but they aro awaken-
ing to the reality and with characteristic
enterprise have determined to begin the
work of improvement
The accompanying cut exemplifies the
first plan to be executed A number of
public spirited citizens have determined
to purchase all the land and houses from
Bluff street to the river between the east-
side of Kusk and the west side
of Houston street eometbins like
00 feet in width The Lindell
hotel and the brick residence of W P
Thomas with all buildings between are
to be torn away and Bluff street widened
At the outer edge toward the riTer a
beautifully ornamented wali is to
be built and adjoining this
a tesselated promenade 600x50 feet
is to be made Along the wall at inter-
vals of fifty feet will be placed gorgeous
gas lights and between these statuary
and tropical plants in beautiful vases
the whole to be given a beautiful
Parisian effect Rusk street is to
oe extended in a circle over and
down the bluff the curves gaining
in the grade as the decline is made
Houston street is in like manner to be
extended over and down the biuff form-
ing a junction with Rusk street at a line
extended from the centre of Main street
At this j unction wili begin a massive
was the composure rank is supposed to
have superior claims to whether the con-
tempt that rank too often expresses fur
all inferior degrees or whether the con-
fidence springinc from a heart at ease
with itself I will not venture to say but
I who auring all the trial gave her many
unexpressed sympathies and in many a
silent mood there slipped from me un
uttered prayers for her safe deliverance
even I was disappointed Tnere she
stood under the lire of a full audience
amphitheatncally seated without any
abahedness whatevercomposed as eould
be and once recognizing some one in
front of her
She was dressed in a striped black
satin fitting her so exquisitely that one
would have sworn she had been melted
and poured into it garnished with
passementerie open sleeves high and
banded at the neck and a gauzed window
in front through whose open reticula-
tion I saw the throbbing fullness of her
white bosom Her hair is black some-
what course in texture and over her fore-
head is hung in short curls but not of
conspicuous abundance Her bright
brown eyes and the curved jet eyebrows
are the features which give the greatest
beauty to her almost swarthy face and
yet mingling with the lustrous light of
the former there is an eclat which is
either heroism or deviltry I cannot say
which At one moment they fascinated
and then repelled me That very oppo-
sition that Dr Jekyll one instant and Mr
Hyde the next the alternating besetment
by angel and demon has bothered and be
wildered me ever
sence as it bothered
and bewildered me at the time
Going
down her face you find an
inappropriate nose broadened at
base and a little turned at
point as If drawn into a constant contem
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THE GAZETTE FORT WORTH TEXAS MONDAY JULY 11
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masonry viaduct gently declining until
the river is crossed and beyond growing
lower and lower until the grade on the
other side of the river is reached when
the viaduct opens into a grand boulevard
running for three miles to the high lands
beyond A short distance from the viaduct
on the boulevard wiH be a beautiful
circular plaza where trees and flowers
will grow fountains 01 artesian water
constantly play birds in the trees and
gold and silver fishes sport In the pellu-
cid marble confined pools of natures
purest fluid
Below the ornamental wall on the bluff
will be several terraces and flower courts
with walks through the woodland rustic
benches for the weary mothers and
their little children On the promenade
in summer evenings will gather
the people of the city to enjoy
the beauties of nature and the cool in
vigorating breezes From the wall a
magnificent view will be had while to
those approaching Fort Worth on the
boulevard from the north the city will be
seen in all its glory
The plan is that of General Barrett
and that it is a grand and feasible one
cannot be doubted As stated before
several citizens have taken the matter In
hand and have been working
on it for some time past Sev-
eral pieces of property have been
obtained and options in others secured
Messrs Huffman Byer3 and James W
Swayne are particularly active in the
matter Now is the time to make pro-
vision for these things and it is hoped
this project will be successful
sensuous fullness but the exterior lines
of face and head are symmetrical along
all their length When she had fiaiehed
her song she descended from the plat-
form and sat so near that the folds of her
dress touched me She dropped her fan
and smelling bottle and when I restored
them to her she thanked me with a pretty
grace She h3S walked over the heated
plowshares but exteriorily there is no
burn or wound I will not presume to
enter foro couscienti to measure the
effects of that trial and its indecent dis-
closures but I And that in private life
the juries who sit upon her condemn her
For him her husband there is expressed
a scorn whhich charitably consigns him
to limbo instead of to the hell lying near
The Popes Garments
New York Epoch
The outward robe of the Pope is red
and made from the wool of the lambs of
the convent of St Agnes near the Porta
Pia The cloak and the cape are lined
with purple and trimmed with gold lace
his sombrero or hat is red and has a gold
cord and tassel Beneath the cloak he
wears an alb made also of wool of the
lambs of St Agnes and which is girt
about his waist with a sash of white
moire antique garnished with gold
fringe His hands are covered with kid
mittens and his feet are burdened with a
pair of slippers worn over his ordinary
shoes which produce a very awkard ap-
pearance
Great Redaction
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BlackburnMrs A E
Boothe Miss M C
BrlgtjsMrsTA
Busby Mattte
Conghllnlicuna V
Collins Mrs Maria
Curtis Julia
Cartwrisht Mrs Ellen
Camel Mrs Calllo
Cnssldn Miss Minnie
EnnioreMlss Lizzie
Fraztcr Mrs Mamie
Fletcher Miss Mannic
Guerly Mrs AW
GulnnMra Fannie
Frledlander Abe
Finch Ben1 2
Fitzhugli DrT
Fletcher L
Flincher J W
Floyd W II
Ferguson WJ
Goff L
Gellet J V
Gibson Jules A
GUIcy G W
Gavelan Manuel
HuH2MrIInrdware
Ilulhnan Kd
Ilugbvbgil
Holland Mark
Hodges C II
Iloliman XVII
Henry Wcjlfy
Helm Kelly Co
Hart David
Hamilton Wh
Hav s J
Hayne Matt
Jones J L
Jones Kobt
Jonos Claude
Jones Bob
Johnson Win T
Johnson Mrs II C
Johnson Joe
Johnson Walter
Jefrec Silas
JayCE 2
Jamoa Mr
Kyle Clabe
Koyer J XV
King Dave C
Meraaster Mndie
McLean Mrs Dr Dapter
McConnell Teresa
McAughan Ellen
Njknst E isc
Newl Ella
Real Madora
PotcrMrs Gennlc
Porter Mrs Geo
Phelps Bettle
Parker Mary II
Kusscll Mrs E
KcymondMrs G E
Kanaom Saryrar
Stewart Annla 2
Graves Miss Henrietta Smith Eller
Grtilin Miss L
Green Melopla
Graham A J
Grifiin D A
Hushton Lizzie
Iluber Louisa
JMI Kate
Henard Mrs Julia
Helm Amanda
Hanmer E J
HadleyU XV
Johnson Jessie
Johnson Sallle
Johnson Mattic
Lukcrs Mattic
Lipsey Molllu
Lea Emma
Moore Grade
Anttin llafe
ApncseJohn
linker Charlie W
Bean F E 2
Jlcaugncr XV S
Bennett Leondsa
Boll J C
Bell CK
Blddle JW
Bishop Bill
Black B W
Blair J II
Black Bob
Black Flnfe
Bflsck Dr Charle9
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Bovd JL
Bdane WJll
B ra f oltepKA mp 6
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Brooks L l
Burkeen
Burns Cra
Buckncr It
Dunn J > J
Crouse Jatp cr
Grow John S
Cook Col It S
Cooke W W >
Cooper A J S
Clancy Ed f
Chase Edwin Q
Dunn Joq
Dogans Forrest
DeVerc Peter
Davis J T
DavlsJelf t
pavfa Gtiorgai
Davis
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Culpepper Dr Wilbur
Oarhart J W
CavanaugH Je
DlespinrftMr
Ea8t < > r J E
Eva bs John T
EvartSiE J i
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ReaganJ II
Soon T Tait
Sargent Phillip
Stevens Dr DA
Stevens Henry
Stewart A M
Sparks Charles
Smith F M
Smith G M
Smith A L
Snow J W
Shlpp 11 II
Schrew Lcel
Scoggins KM
Scruggs Jim
Santca W1I
Smith J II
Turner DM 2
Taylor Henry
Vanlncr S U
Wood L D
Worth Dr A C
Wilson Dr Sam
WiUon XV D
White E H
Williams Y C
William1 Joe on
Wlly F
Wingfleld C D
Wyman Prof Chaa
Whltson Ai inc
Weidxoohn hi
Weaver XV K
Weirs John
wims Horace
Walker Dr AC
Wlllett It B i
Ward CM J
Young J II
Simmons Mollle
ShcltonMlss MA
Scott Mrs LC 3
SacdersMrs Pat
Turner Mrs M
Tucker Mattle
Tltfec Mrs Cella
Thompon Anna B
Uluth Ilettlc
aught Emma
Wilson Lizzie
White Mollle
Williams Sallle
Williams Alice
Watson Bella
Ward Willie
Warden Mrs E E
Young Laura
Gents
King D C
Kingston J O
Jvyskau M E
Kpnnon Kobt
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LUt er Hon D II
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Murea ific II
MnewtovdtfnA
Morrjs Ed Mfcj
Morrow E G
Moore J It
ower G G
Milton Granthcn
Mills Luclnda
J MIdley J
I Meliam J L
Martin John A
McLeoch C Y
McCordA
McCoy i W
IcKay James G
IcFadden Clias
Nicholson Andrew
Xcl6on II G
OzbnrnJ C
OShanghnessy E
Osvesncy Frank L
Orr It II
Pllgrans E J
Philips Zlll
Peter J I
Peterson Dr L
Parker W
Prions J
KhymeM
Buss J M
Uobcrtson Coie
Kobinson Jaraee
Hose William
Boatn Dr XV XV
Illchards Walter
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JULIAN FEILD P M
The whisky distillers of Ohio Indiana
and Illinois are combining to foTm r
whisky trust on the plan of the Standcrp
oil trust to control the entire spirit dj
tilling business of the country j Phe
persons interested in the scheme havftal
ready it is stated some 812000000 in-
vested in the business which is not pay-
ing as well at present as it might be made
to pay if producers should bring the pro-
duction and sale of whisky under a single
management The plan is to buy the
spirit distilleries at tneir actual
value giving in exchange for them
6 per cent in cash and certificates of
siockon the basis of S60 per bashel of
the daily mashing capacity of well
equipped houses A distiller who mashes
1000 bushels per day will thus receive
660000of stock Persons who wish to
run their own stills in cooperation with
the trust will be permitted to do so un
Jfier certain conditions Those who re-
fuse to sell or cooperate will be driven
to submission or ruin by the process the
Standard Oil Trust has found so effec
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Correspondence of the Gazette
Eastland Tex July 9 The we = T 1
bound passenger train was wrecked z m
terdsy between this place and Rar2t
No lives were lost One gentltcij
whose name your correspondent did c
learn was Injured slightly The res
coach which it seems was not occuj 4
was literally torn to pieces
Confidential
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ground in Fort Worth before xalllng
the office of Morphy fcyHicfcey SOi 3ls
street We havQnionr2bobk3 som t
the mostdesipaofe properties in the city
andwn selrthem at bed rock ilgurt
We have some special bargains to o2
for the next few days and invite you
Call and examine them
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