Daily Fort Worth Standard. (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 2, No. 156, Ed. 1 Friday, February 22, 1878 Page: 2 of 4
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THE DAILY STAND ADD.
DRURY LACY, Editor.
FORT WORTH. TEXAS. FEB. 22. 1878.
Since 1870 the convicts received
in the Georgia penitentiary number
1,585,482 tor burglary from bouses,
862 simple larceny (including hog
stealing), 67 murder, 98 manslaugh-
ter, 155 attempt to murder, and
only two tor horse stealing. Texas
would make a very different classi-
fication of crime.
“Heat is life, cold is death.” Scotch
sanitary authorities have shown that the
death rate distinctly follows the thermom-
eter. The more cold the more deaths, and
vice versa. Herein is the argument of ar-
guments in favor of immigration into the
south.
A person might jump out of the
frying pan into the fire and thus
increase bis vitality. If the argu-
ment was pushed much further, the
necessity for a still better country
might be made in the interest of
suffering humanity. Cold, when not
too extreme or long continued, is a
tonic, and there is more vitality and
energy in people raised in cold cli-
mates, as a general rule.
The .New York Herald devotes
an article to the subject of beauti-
ful women and the various plans
they adopt to make an honest liv-
ing in Hew York city. It refers to
several cases where, driven by ex-
tremity, beautiful women had regu-
ar engagements with artists as
lodcls. In this way they make a
ipport by availing themselves of
te advantages which a fine form and
;accful attitudes can afford. If
fire is anything in this wicked
trld which redeems human nature,
al makes it almost angelic, it is
tl heroic struggles of a pure and
mle woman to make a support.
ie Galveston Hefts is disposed
to eep the gubernatorial caldron
bohg and occasionally throws in
son fresh ingredient—no allusion
to t witches in Macbeth intended.
A facial dispatch from Sherman
given full a long interview with
Colol John Johnson, “who was
recogzed as the leader of the
grangs in the constitutional con-
ventic,” Colonel Johnson it states,
will n support Throckmorton for
any cce, but esteems him as a
neighb and*1 a friend. He is in
favor cColonel George Flournoy
for govnor, but thinks Hubbard
has ma a good governor. We
have caffi attention to this dis-
patch asmatter of news.
THE INDIANA PLATFORM.
The series of resolutions intro-
duced by the permanent chairman
on resolutions, ex-governor Hend-
ricks, in the convention which as-
sembled at Indianapolis on the 20th
and unanimously adopted, sound the
key notes of the next campaign. It
is sufficient to state that they are
farm advance of any previous offi-
cial utterances of the party, and
may to that extent be pronounced a
new departure on the financial ques-
tion. They favor “greenbacks as a
full legal tender in payment of all
debts jmblic or private, unless other
wise expressed in the contract.
That the government alone has the
right to issue paper money. The
taxation by states of United States
notes. They oppose syndicates for
funding our debt abroad, preferring
it to be taken at home. They de-
mand the restoration of the silver
dollar, the repeal of the resumption
act, favor economy and the reduc-
tion of salaries, and the repeal of the
bankrupt law.
Those who have not read the res-
olutions can see at a glance that the
platform is at variance with the
views of the Democratic party in the
eastern states, but is in accord with
the sentiments of a very large ma-
jority of the people of all parties in
the west and south. These differ-
ences cannot be reconciled, and a
bi’each is inevitable. What the re-
publican party will gain'in the east,
the democratic party wrill more than
counterbalance in the west.
A resolution was passed in which
it was asserted that the “wages of
employees of corporations engaged
in business of manufacturing and
transportation, should be a first lien
upon the property, receipts and earn-
ings of said corporations” and that
these claims should be enforced by
appropriate legislation.
The following resolution, with ref-
erence to subsidies is a most serious
blow to the prospects of the Scott
bill, or indeed any other bill before
congress, asking for aid in any form.
We give it in full :
We are opposed to class legislation, and
protest against the grant of subsidies by
the federal government either in lands,
bonds, money or by pledge of public
credit.
The ccjctorship in Hew Orleans
is still ber hotly contested. There
are ©nlyfieven republicans who
favor Wilmson, and Senator Eus-
tis thus tafias induced the demo-
•erats to Dose him. While Wil-
liamson hi made himself very ob-
noxious to e white people of Lou-
isiana, yetm is not infamous as
Packard, Wmouth, Wells and the
vile creaturt who have kept Lou-
isiana! ns nap negro rule by false
returns, bacd with federal bay-
onets. We cnot believe that the
people of Lofiana would ever for-
give Senator',ustis if he voted to
confirm the ni who deserted them
in the darkestour, and threw the
weight of his ffuence in the scale
of African donation.
Mr. Huntingtoi grip on Congress is
getting stronger, bin Scott, in his palm-
iest days, never V’ the Pennsylvania
Legislature as Iluhgton runs the House
at Washington.
We clip thepigraph above from
an exchange andar that the state-
ment is too tr His influence
with the admiitration is also
great, judging hi the opinion of
the attorney genei that it is not
the duty of the pndent to enforce
the law with referee to the con-
tract betwmon the non Pacific and
Central railroads, d the United
States, but of congig. We are no
lawyer and cannot pfie these nice
distinctions, but reang the consti-
tution op. the legislfye the execu-
tive and the judicial departments
of the government, does appear
that the president required to
see that the laws ar&ithfully ex-
ecuted. In olden tim 0ur public
officers endeavored tond out how
to do it; now they iVe become
smarter qnd point outje way not
to do it. This is progfe.
Turney, the pacing jler of the
Dank of Horth Ameri^ was rob-
bing that institution nil years be-
fore he was discovere He was
trusted implicitly, had n^ad habits,
and is of good family. X \0&t the
money in sly speculation
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A. WILLINGHAM,
Late Kimball, Texas.
J. A. ’WILLINGHAM,
Late Cleburne, Tex
RDJNANCE NO. 141.
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ul of the city
section i. That all male persons i.»hr
pair the jteeete6:in the ettyof FoH w^nh* ^ ^
Be it ordained bv the eitv .
of Fort WXrthf the City C0Uncil of the
Section 1. That all
wiLLiwGHAH bros.,
AGEHTS FOE
MITCHEL WAGON, ARROW TIE CO., ATLAS .ENGINE
And Latin &, Rand Powder Co.,
WHOLESALE GROCERS,
AND
Commission Merchants
•that ministers of the gospel, actually enitaow,’
their ministerial duties, invalids, and
firemen, who shall present a certificate from ke
chief of the tire department that he is an whe
fireman to the overseer or person siimrrmw-
him to work shall he exempt. n°Ulllg
Sec. 2. The said city shall be laid off i,.
street precincts, by an order of the city counf-,
and an overseer of streets in each precinct 1
'Wm'"" attji -mm 4P
S T. L 0 CIS,
Iron mountain and
SOUTHERN RAILWAY.
Cor. Houston & Jj-th Sts.,
&Wtfl
FORT WORTH
Mew Firm and Mew Goods,
COLTISH, cfe CROZIER,
WHOLESALE AHD RETAIL
Jut
Passengers From
all points in Texas
Fort Worth Country Produce Bought and Sold.
AND BOUND FOR
Thereof, should purchase their ticket via
Texas and Paeilie,
-AND'-
Corner of Main and Weatherford Streets,
FORT WORTH - - - TEXAS.
St.L.,I.M.&S. -W- HEP.. LAKE
EAILWAY8
Which lorm the Great Through Texas Line be-
tween the south-west and the fiorth and north- u
east, possessing tee advantages of shorter dis- g
tance, quicker time, and a more pleasant and “**w ?
comfortable route than aay other line can offer.
Pullman Palace Sleeping Cars are run by thts
Sole Agent for the Celebrated
line through to St. Louis without change, mak-
ing direct connection with the morning trains ot
all lines leaving that city, and giving passengers
to the east the advantage of one train in advance
of anv comuetimr line from Texas. dtf
WILLIAM’S TIME
General I
cook: s t o v e s
pointed .by order of the council,
serve for one year, unless sooner relieved'#1*
good cause, and all persons .subject to \vork°r
the streets shall be required to Work in the ,)r011
cinct where he resides, and the place where
person sleeps shall he considered the place vpheJ
he resides. ere-
Sec. 3. The overseers of streets shall w
power to call out all persons liable to work „
the streets at any time when it may appear nek
essaryto work or repair the streets or any
of them in their precinct; provided, that no
person shall be required or compelled to w
in any other street precincts than wherefe./
sides, or more than ten days in one year . Jt®.
Sec. 4. It shall be the duty of the overset,
give three days previous notice by summons,
person or in writing left at their respeefe,
places of abode, with some person of the ian%
not less than ten years of age; il no person, w
years old can he found at the place of abode
then he shall post said notice on the door of the
place of ahode of such person or persons so noti-
lied and who is liable to work on the streets in
his precinct, which notice shall designate the
time and place of working ou the streets. Each
person liable to work on the streets, when sum-
moned to work by the everseer, shill take with
him an ax, hoe, pick or spade, or such tool as
may be desired and directed by the overseer
provided also, that the overseer shall have
power to appoint some one to warn the hands to
work on the streets, and such person shall he
ing on the streets as many
days as he was actually engaged in warning the
hands.
•Sec. 5. It any person liable to work on the
streets so summoned shall fail to attend or send
an able-bodied substitute to work m his place
or fail to pay to the overseer the sum of one dol-
lar per day for each day said person may have
been notified to work on the street, or when at-
tending shall fail or refuse to perform his duties
as required by this ordinance and by the over-
seer, such person shall be deemed guilty of a
misdemeanor, and upon a conviction of such
failure, refusal or neglect, befofe the mayor
shall be fined one dollar for each and every day
he may so fail to attend or refuse to work, to-
gether wilh all costs of suit in either ease, and
all such fines and the money paid in by persons
liable to work on the streets, as above provided,
shall go to the overseer of the street precinct
where such person or persons reside, and be
used Tiy him in hiring wagons and teams, in the
purchase of material and the hire of labor, as he
may think best lor working and improving the
streets in such overseer’s precinct; and theovei-
seers shall keep a true and correct of all such
money and from whom received and how ex-
pended and to whom and for what he has ex-
pended the same, and shall make a full report
of the same, under oath, to th. city council once
every three months, at the first meetings of said
council in the months of January, April, July
and October in each year, and each overseer
'"Iain as compensation for
cent, of all moneys that
BURNING THE WOODS.
At the agricultural convention in
Americus, Georgia, Prof. J. W»-
Glenn read an interesting paper up-
on “burning the woods annually,”
as a sanitary measure and a mi ans of
destroying insect life and preserv-
ing timber. The germ theory of
Prof. Tyndal and others were
introduced by way ot illustration,
and the fruitful cause of disease was
referred to the insects and fungi
which were raised in the heaps of
of rotten leaves. Hot only the
health of man but also the health of
timber was dependent upon the
regular burning of the woods. He
also maintained that the character
of the soil as well as the depth was
improved by the potash. It was al-
so made more porous and the atmos-
pheric influences upon it were
greater.
His views were combatted by
those who contended for An increase
of vegetable mould from decayed
leaves, but we do not think his ar-
guments were refuted. The de-
struction of insects alone is a suffi-
cient reason for burning the woods,
and applies with equal force to the
prairies. In no other way can we
explain why new countries, free
from underbruteh, which have been
burnt over for centuries, are so
much more fertile than the same
lands are when settled and permit-
ted to grow up with young timber.
The subject is an interesting one,
not only to the scientist and phys-
ician, but to the practical farmer.
It may be possible that the alkali of
the potash in the ashes, is essential
in neutralizing the acidity of the
soil, and that the destruction of in-
sect life may be conducive both to
the health of man and vegetation.
There is a great deal yet to learn
before we can arrive at important
truths.
The Homan correspondent of the
Hew York Herald has interviewed a
number of Cardinals on the subject
of the Papal succession. He ven-
tures, with some reserve, to predict
that Cardinal Pecci will be chosen
supreme pontiff.
The Hon. Thomas A. Hendricks,
of Indiana, has accepted an invita-
tion to address the literary societies
of the University of Virginia, on
the evening of the 26th of June
next.
Wholesale
and He tail
dealer in
NAILS, BAR
IRON, CA53-
Sliell and heavy
Hardware,
Tinware,
House Furnish-
ing Goods.
Manufacturer of
all kinds of
RIAGE AND
WAGON MA-
TERIAL.
Gas fixtures,
Simmons’
Keen Kutter
Axe.
Corner Houston and Second Sts., Fort Worth, Texas
council, it shall he the duty of the city attorney,
T I W A KP s within five days thereafter; to make out a cobi-
■ inn mission to such nerson and deliver the same to
the city marshal, who shall immediately deliver
the same to such appointee, find make A return
of the fact and of the date when he so delivered
n=J o b b i n g
done ou short
notice.
D. M. WILLIAMS & €0.,
MANUFACTURERS AND DEALERS IN
FiHE JEWELRYi,
American and Swiss
W il TOHES !
SSLYEB and PLATED WARE !
No. 25, Davis’ Block, Fort Worth, Texas.
They are also the soleagents in this section, foi
the celebrated * ‘Perfected eye glasses and spec-
tacles.” The material from which the lenses
are ground is-manufactured specially for optic
purposes, and is pure, hard and brilliant, and
not liable to become scratched. They have jusi
received a large stock of goods in their line to
which they call the attention of the public.
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HARPER BROTHERS,
n29-7_New York.
CITY NATIONAL BANK.
OF FORT WORTH.
Capital, : : $50,000.00
South Side Public Square,
FORT WORTH, - - ... TEXAS.
Directors:
JOHN NICHOLS,- W. J. BOAZ, C. R. MOREHEAD,
J. MAEKLEE, A. M. BRITTON.
Transacts a general banking business. Makes
collections on all accessible points and buys and
sells exchange on all the principal cities in the
United States. d&wtl-
war
'§TOTM§ AMD TINWARE,
QUEENSW ARE,
Wood and Willoware, Japanned,
ware, Furniture, Lamps, etc.
A GENERAL ASSORTMENT OF
HOUSE IlSMISHIMG GOODS,
HOUSTON STREET,
TOUT - WORTH, TEXAS
I). R. MILLER,
W. P. ANDERSON
MILLER cA ANDERSON.
Wholesale and Retail Dealers in
Hardware, Btoves 1 Tinw are
Special Attention Given to
SPOUTING and ROOFING
Agents ter Hager's Texas Wagons.
Corner Houston and Third Steets,
FORT WORTH, TEXA^-
NOTIOE TO THOSE CONTEMPLATING
BUILDING.
JO. KANE ! J. J. KANE,
ARCHITECTS AND BUILDERS.
Carpenter Shop and Office on Belknap street.
Plans, specifications and full sized Detail
Drawings for every .description of buildings—
public or private, city or county—including esti-
mates of cost of materials and labor. J. J.
Kane, a practical and experienced architect will
give his personal superintendence to all work
performed by them, to insure good and satisfac-
tory workmanship. Charges moderate. Work
done promptly. Postoffice Box 39. nl65-tirn
JOHN .. BOBBINS,
City Bill Poster,
'And Commercial Advertiser,
FORT WORTH, TEXAS.
A trial package ot Dr. A. Q. Simmons’
Vegetable Liver Medicine can be had, free
of churge, at all the Drug stores in the city
Bray TicKete,
Dray tickets, in lots to suit purchasers, for
sale cheap at tins office. d-tf
shall be allowed to retain as compensation for
his services five per t.11 +>...»
come into his hands.
Sec. 6. It shall be the duty of the street
overseers m each precinct, within ten days.after
the failure or refusal of any person liable to work
on the streets, as required by this ordinance, to
report the same to the city attorney, who shall
prosecute such person in the same manner as
for any other misdemeaner in the city; and if
any street overseer shall fail, refuse or neglect
t-o report any person xvho shall fail to attend or
neglect or reluse to perform his duty after being
lawfully summoned to work on the streets, such
overseer shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and
upon a conviction thereof shall be fined not less
than five nor more than ten dollars, which shall
be applied to the improvement of the streets in
the precinct where such overseer resides.
Sec. 7. When any person has Seen appointed
overseer of streets in his precinct by order of the
council, it shall be the duty of the citv attorney.
,nd of the date
such commission to such appointee ; and if any
pei son exempt from working on the streets or
wishes to be excused for am cause from acting
as overseer, he shall make out in writing his
reasons for wanting to be relieved, and file the
same with the city secretary within ten days
from the time his commissi;, p has been delivered
to him, which matter shall be submitted to the
council at their next, regular meeting, and if
such person is exempt from working on the
streets, or presents what may seem to the coun-
cil a valid and sufficient reason for not serving
as such overseer, the council shall excuse him,
aud by an order appoint some other person in
his place, aud a failure ol any appointee to file
such excuse-within the time aforesaid shall be
deemed an acceptance of said appointment.
Sec. 8. If any person subject to work on the
streets, and who has been appointed overseer as
aforesaid and not excused by the council from
acting, shall refuse to serve* as .over seer in his
precinct agreeable to the order of the council,
shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and
upon conviction before the mayor shall be fined
in a sum not less than ten nor lho.e thah twenty-
five dollars; provided, that protracted sickness
or other reasonable excuse may be set up as a
defense.
Sec .9. If any overseer removes from the pre
cinct over which he has been appointed, be shal
settle with the council and his place become va-
cant, and his unexpired term filled by a new
appointment. All appointments for overseers,
except to till appointments, shall be for one year,
and appointments to fill vacancies shall be for
the unexpired time of the predecessors; and
provided that no one person shall be required to
serve as overseer more than one year in every
ihree successive years.
Sec. 10. If any overseer of streets shall fad.
neglect or re fuse jto perform the duties as pro-
scribed by this ordinance, or if he should not
keep the streets within his precinct clear and in
good order, or if he suffer them to remain out of
repair for twenty days at any one time, unless
for good cause, to be judged of on the trial, such
overseer, shall be deemed guilty of a misde-
meanor, and upon conviction thereof before the
mayor shall be fined not less than ten nor more
than one hundred dollars, which shall be ex-
pended on the streets in theprecinet ot said over-
seer.
Sec. 11. Every'person liable to work on the
streets by calling on the oversere at anv time
said streets, shall be exempt from working for
every day so paid for and exempt from penalties
for such failure. It shall be the duty of overseers
to receipt all such persons for the money so pahj
and also his duty to receipt the treasurer for all
lines turned over to him.
Sec. 12. It shall be the duty ol all street over-
seers at the expiration of their time to make oat
a list of the names of all persons living in their
precinct subject to! street duty, and tile the same
with the city secretary, and shall also make a
final settlement with the council within teu
days after he expiration of said term and turn
over to the city secretary all such sums of w(!11I
ev as he may have on hand and take his receipt
for the same, which money shall be paid uver,
bv the secretarv to the city treasurer, andhy
him turned .ve. to the several successors in’110
different precincts, to be by them applied inim"
proving the st.eets, as hereinabove provide11;
and if any street overseer shall so fail to repo']
and settle as hereinabove provided, for a pm
of ten day's after the expiration of his time
until after the first meeting of the council a--
ten days, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
upon conviction before the mayor shall be fi'16"
in a sum not less than twenty-five nor more than
one hundred dollars, and such fine sh*il not re-
lease the offender from an action onbehalto
the city' for any amount of money that may ie‘
main in the hands of such overseer. ,,
Sec. 18. That this ordinance take effect anuu;
in .force from and after its publication as requite
bylaw. ,nr,v
Passed Feb. 5, 1878, approved Feb. 7, kbo-
Attest: C.McDougall, G. H. DAi .
2-9-4w _Secretary._ Mayoi-L.
BATTLE HOUSE,
A. IS. THOJUAS, Proprietor.
MEALS 35 CEJSTTg
BEDS NEAT and CLEAN.-
Waiters polite and attentive. Table supP^.
with ail the dainties of the season. (kA_:—-
SAMUEL L. CHALK,
Land Agent, Surveyor and Locator.
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