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THE DAILY STANDARD.
DRURY LACY, Editor.
FORT WORTH. TEXAS. APRIL 5. 1878.
At the election in Rockdale, on
Tuesday, Mr, A. A, Burch was elect-
ed mayor for the fourth time. H.
L. Mntcher was elected marshal;
J. P, Curry, assessor,
Ned' Booth, who was sentenced
to be hung at Liberty, has been ta-
ken to Galveston for safe-keeping.
He asserts his innocence, and still
hopes to establish it.
The Houston Telegram reports in
full,- the arrest and subsequent
escape of Jeff Luo day, a desperate
negro, who killed a negro, Ben
Butler, near Sandy Point, last week.
Thirty buckshot were lodged m the
body of Butler, and his skull was
also crushed,
Senator Toorhees in a speech at
Terre Haute, Indiana, last Friday,
placed the responsibility for hard
times upon the republican party,
and showed that the democratic
party was doing its utmost to coun-
teract efforts for contraction and re-
sumption.
A DRUNKEN MAN iu Houston Oil
Tuesday night, fell off White Oak
bridge, a distance of thirty-five feet
to the water, struck out for shore
and landed duly sober. The Tele-
gram attributes his escape to the
fact that he was drunk, which ren-
dered him less sensible to the shock.
An advocate of the Murphy move-
ment might contend that he would
not have fallen, it he had been
sober.
Mr. II. I). St. Cyr, now residing
in Paris, but long a resident of Gal-
veston, where be has large interests,
has been appointed a commissioner
by Governor Hubbard to the inter-
national exposition. The Galveston
Hews thus speaks of his peculiar fit-
ness for the position as follows :
Intelligent, educated, well informed, a
close and accurate observer, a Frenchman
in speech and cultivated address, he com-
bines qualities eminently calculated to ren-
der him' useful' and creditable as a repre-
sentative of Texas at the exposition.
Mr. J. II. Sleeper, of the firm of
Sleeper, Jones & Kendall, was
arrested in Waco on the first, on a
charge of perjury. Mr. Sleeper, in
a card hr the Examiner, states that
the proceedings are instigated by
malice on the part of A. J. Evans,
United States' district attorney.
Mr. Sleeper gave a thousand dollar
bond, and left for Austin on the
second, to attend the preliminary
trial. Great surprise is expressed
and the result anxiously awaited.
The citizens of Burleson county,
in mass meeting, on the 1st inst.,
passed resolutions unanimously
pledging the Gulf, Colorado and
Santa Fe Railroad $200,000' in the
way of local aid and right of way
through the county, A consider-
able'amount of mono}- and land was
subscribed. The county court last
week, in called session, granted the
company exemption from taxation
for five years. Mr-Kopperl, of Gal-
veston, the president of this com-
pany, is-meeting, with great success
on the line of the proposed road.
The comptroller; in reply to a
telegram from a large -meeting, of
the taxpayers of Harrison county,
asking for the postponement of
forced sales for delinquent taxes,
referred the matter to the tax col-
lector,- who- did not feel authorized
tc defer the- sales-. It seems that
relief can only be obtained through
the legislature. The great question
for the next legislature is the reduc-
tion of the expenses of the state
and of the counties,- with a corre-
sponding reduction of taxes.
The Waco Examiner gives a full
and interesting account of the inci-
dents connected with the death of
Charles L. Wagnhals,- one of the
proprietors of the City hotel, East
Waco, who committed suicide by
taking morphine. He was aged
about thirty-four years, and former-
ly resided in Columbus, Ohio, He
had been drinking, and took the
potion in the presence of his friends,-
bidding them good-bye. They sup-
posing that he was joking, took no-
notice of it. He went to bed and
was found dead the next morning.
A paper was found on the floor la-
beled, “ Morphine—fifteen grains.”
FAILURES IN NEW YORK.
The failure in Hew York on Mon-
day last of the well known sugar
refiners,- Booth & Edgar, was unex-
pected, as the firm had a good repu-
tation. The business manager
stated that the firm had suspended
because they did not think it right
to go on and spend other people’s
money. Thej' can pay everj’thing
they owe, and have a surplus. The
liabilities are probably half a mil-
lion dollars.
On the same day the failure of
James Foulks’s Sons, one of the
oldest shipping and commission
houses in the city, was announced.
The firm has been in existence
nearly a century. The' same sad
cause of suspension is given, de-
preciation in values generalljq busi-
ness depression and bad debts.- The
liabilities are about $500,000. Most
of the indebtedness was in the West
Indies, and the suspension was pre-
cipitated by a sudden demand of
their correspondents in the West
Indies.
The times are - fearfully hard, not
only in this country but in Europe.
A war between Great Britain and
Russia would be most disastrous to
our cotton interests, and will in-
crease the distress in oUr cities, by
enhancing the cost of provisions of
all kinds.
Manning & Sears, eottou dealers,
also failed last Monday in Boston,
but will resume by paying fifty
cents on the dollar. That would
be the most practical way of re-
sumption, for all parties to settle
their debts on these terms.
The repeal of the resumption act,
which was so confidently expected
to follow upon the remonetization
of silver, hangs fire. Indeed it is
now asserted that it will not pass
this session, if at all. Secretary
Sherman is opposed to the repeal,
as we all know, but admitted before
the senate finance committee, that
the legal-tender function must eon-
oontiiuie to apply to fully $300,-
000,000 of greenbacks. With green-
backs taken as legal-tender by
enactment, or by general consent,
and by use of coin certificates, it is
believed that resumption will take
place next January. As much as
we regret the standstill in financial
matters, it is no more than we ex-
pected after the passage of the sil-
ver bill. It devolves upon the gov-
ernment to give relief to the coun-
try by giving employment to the
idle labor, thus increasing the circu-
lation.
A special telegram to the Hew
Orleans Times, dated Washington,
31st ult., gives intimations that Rus-
sia is desirous of making an alliance
with the United States, and that the
imperial government at St. Peters-
burg has given Mr. Stoughton some
official hints to this effect, which
have been sent to Mr. Evarts. It is
thought that it would strengthen the
administration with the Irish voters
to form an alliance which might
menace British possessions in Amer-
ica. Of course, this is all sensation-
al, as the senate ia the treaty-making
power, and not the president.
General B. F. Butler, in a letter
to the Boston Herald, gives the con-
gressmen from Hew York and JYew
England fair warning ihat, by op-
posing the proposition to stop the
funding of the public debt, in order
to meet the expected deficit of twen-
ty millions in government revenue,
they will invite the imposition of
an income tax. This tax is by far
the most just and equitable that could
bo imposed, if there were not so
many ways of evading it. At pres-
ent the matches and tobacco used by
the poor and the decrepid are'taxed,
while the princely incomes of the
capitalists are untaxed.
The municipal election in Hear tie
resulted in the re-election of F. II.
Bailey, mayor, and Albert E. Bishop
marshal, by a two to one vote. W.
P. Ferguson was elected city secre-
tary and H. L. Royster assessor and
collector.
Palestine, April 2.—A gentle-
man who left Huntsville, this even-
ing,- states- that a conspiracy was
made among convicts in the peni-
tentiary to' murder the two guards
on duty inside the yard, to fire the
buildings,- and attempt, during the
excitement occasioned by the fire,
to escape. The plot was divulged
by one of the conspirators and nine
of the leaders arrested, ironed and
placed in close confinement by
order of Superintendent Gore.—
Galveston Hews special.
1*. MICHOU’S^S
RESTAURANT,
54 Houston st.,- on West side, corner
Houston and Third,
Fort Worth,
Texas.
£3= This place of resort is the Rest iu the city.
id” The rooms set apart for the ladies are en-
tirely private, and fitted up in the mosthandsome
style.
53” He keeps the REST of everything that can
be possibly obtained.
53=* He gives to all customers polite and cour
teous attention. 2 27 dtf
GREAT UNION RAILWAY DEPOT
ST. LOUIS, MO.
The only Railway running through cars from
DENISON, SHERMAN and DALLAS
INTO TUB
GREAT UNION DEPOT
AT
SAINT LOUIS, MISSOURI,
IS THE
M. It.&T.R.B.
And the only Railway running through cars
from
T E X A. S
TO
CHICAGO, ILL.,
without change, is the
M. R. T. KM.
If you are going north or east remember about
this Union Depot matter, and yob will avoid the
disagreeable'omnibus transfer in St. Louis, inci-
dent to other routes. All lines from St. Lonis
to the east start their trains from the great union
depot, and the M. K. & T. R.R. is the only rail-
way from Texas that has the right to run their
sleepirg cars, coaches, baggage and express
cars into the great uni >n railroad at St. Louis.
And the M. K.&T. R. R is the only railway
that can run through sleeping cars from
Texas to Chicago,
and the only route through the beautiful JndiaD
Territory. Through tickets, baggage checks
and sleeping car aecommoc aliens can he secured
at all principal stations of the H. & T. C. R.R.,
or on application to ihe undersigned .
W. H. SANFORD, Agent, Union Depot, Den-
nison, Texas.
H. R. HUGHES, Southern Passenger Agent,
LeGraud Hotel, Dallas, Texas.
BISSOL UTZON NOTICE.
The copartnership heretofore existing between
Joe and J. J, Kane, as carpenters and builders,
is dissolved by mutual consent. Joe Kane as*
sumes all liabilities, and is alone authorized to
receive and receipt for moneys due the firm.
JOE KANK,
J. J. KANE.
February 26, 1878.
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--AND--
CONNECTIONS
FORM THE
Direct 1 Quickest Line
From all points in
TEXAS
ST. LOUIS, CHICAGO. CAIRO, INDIAN-
APOLIS, TOLEDO, MEMPHIS, NASH-
NILLE. LOUISVILLE, CHATTANOO-
GA, ATLANTA
-AND ALL POINTS-
Trains leave and at arrive Fort Worth as
follows:
Arrive. Leave.
No. 1, Mail and Express......11:,io r.x.
No. 2, Mail and Express...... 5:00p.m.
No. 3, Accommodation.......5 :00 p.m.
No. 4, Accommodation....... 6:10a.m.
CONNECTIONS.
At tVxauk ana, with alt trains bn St. Louis &
Iron Mountain Railroad for all points North,
East and South-East.
At Lo.to view Junction and Mint? no la with
all trains on International for Tyler, Palestine,
Houston, Galveston, and San Antonio.
At Dallas, with trains of the Houston A
Texas Central Railroad Corsicana, Mexia, Bre-
moud, Waco, Calvert, Bryan, Hempstead,'Bren-
ham, and all points in Middle and Southern
Texas.
At Sherman, with H. & T. railway, for all
points on the Ime of that road.
At Fort Worth, with stages for all points in
western Texas.
At Shreveport, with a regular line of first-
class steamers for New Orleans
PULLMAN’S PALACE SLEEPING CARS
FROM
Fort Worth, Dallas and Sherman
—TO—
ST. LOUIS.
Any information with regard to rates offreight
or passage Will he cheerfully furnished, and
claims for overcharges, loss or damage, Will
meet prompt atten tion if addressed to
IV. H. NEWMAN,
Gen’l Fr’f <$ Pass. Ag’t.
Marshall, Texas.
Gko. F. Xobt.k, Gen’l Supt.
Marshall. Texas.
R. W Thompson, Jr,, Gen-'IP & T Agent,
Marshall, Tex ‘as
Notice in Probate•
mHE STATE OF TEXAS, COUNTY OF TAR-
I. UANT-*To all persons interested in the ad-
ministration of the estate of Pauline and Eliza-
beth _ Willumson, minors:—Paul Dismukes,
guardian of said minors, has filed in the County
Court of Tarrant countv an application for'sale of
the one-hitlf Interest belonging to'said minors,
in and to certain lands described in said applica-
tion, situated in the counties of Jack Stephens.
Palo Pinto, Shackelford, Clay, Young, and
Throckmorton,- said state of Texas., to pay the
debts of (be estate of said minors for their .sup-
port and maintenance, which will be heard on
the third Monday in May, A. D. 1878. at- the
court-house thereof in the city of Fort Worth, at
which time all persons interested In said minors’
welfare may appear and contest fhe same if they
see proper. .Issued 30th day of March, 3878.
Witness—J. P. Woods, Clerk of said
f t c \ Court, and the Seal thereof, at office,
l ‘ ) ii> the city of Fort Woith, the 30th
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dav of March, 1878.
J. P. WOODS,
County Clerk, T. C. T.
TOB PRINTING OF EVERY DESCRIPTION
axbCUted with neataess and dispatch at the
DatlY stANDAmp office. cor. Main and square,
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SAM. L. CHALK
Buy Tour Tickets and Ship Your
Freight by the
The following Offices and Agents have been es-
tablished by this Company, where information
mavbe Kad concerning not only the H. & T. C.
Railway, hut Texas generally:
F. L. ,M ANCIIESTER, Eastern Passenger*
Agent, 417 Broadway, N. Y.
GEN. J. B. ROBERTSON, Passenger &
Immigration Agent, 113 >T. Third Street St.
Louis, JVlo.
A. A LLEE.N orthwestern Pass. Agent, 101
Clark street Chicago, 411.
NICK HOLMES, Southeastern Agent, No.
Burnett House, Cincinnati, Ohio.
J. R, COFFIN. Southern Passenger Agent,
Chatanooga, Tenn.
Information may also be liad at the agen
cie^s of the M. K. & T.,Ranwayin JNew York
Chicago, Cincinnati, Hannibol and St
Louis. j. WAJLDO.
Gen’l Pass. & Freight Agt, Houston, Ter,
.*. dtramd,
Gen’l Supt., Houston, Texas.
WOODWARD’S
European Hotel,
Corner 3rd and Houston sts.,
FORT WORTH, TEXAS.
Land Agerst, Surveyor and Locator.
Will buy , sell and locate hinds and scrip; pay
taxes, and, in fact, will do a general1 laud busi-
ness. Furnishes abstracts, pays taxes, exam-
ines and perfects laud titles. * Western lands
made a specialty.
Bell Plain, Calal an County, Texas. 2-7-3m
DISSOLUTION TiOTIOE.
113HE partnership heretofore existing between
_L J. T. Leef & Co., has this day been dis-
solved by mutual consent of all parties, and the
business will be conducted by J. T. Leer. 1
will assume all liabilities of the late firm and
will collect all bills due the same.
Jm. 1,1878.,. [l-Mfl- J..T. LF.ER..
D. R. MILLER,
NOTICE TO THOSE ‘ "CONTEMPT^
BUILDING.
JOE KANE,
^ARCHITECT AND BUIfJEH,#
Carpenter Shop and Office oh Belknap street!
Plans, specifications and full sized Det
Drawings for every description of IniildirtV?
public or private, city or counft—including
mates of coat of materials and labor 6 G,
Kane, a practical and experienced architect ant
give his personal superintendence to all V<V
performed, which will insure good and satisr.,-
tory Workmanship. Charges moderate.
done promptly. Postotlice Box 39. nlO.5-6^*
W. P. ANDERSON *
MILLER & ANDERSON.
Wholesale and Retail Dealers ift
Hardware, Stoves 1 Thro are
Special Attention G-iven to
SPOUTING and ROOFING
Agents for Roger’s Texas Wagons.
Corner Houston and Third Streets,
FORT WORTH, TEX A Q.
New Firm and If ew Goods,
COULTER CROSIER,
WHOLESALE AND KETALL
GROCERS
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Country Produce Bought and Sold.
Corner of Main and Weatherford Streets,
FORT WORTH/ - - - TEXAS.
Is the only first class house on the European
plan in the city, one block from Sfreetcars and
postoffice. J. I'. WOOI>W A RD.
Proprietor.
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143.—A N O DIN A N C E
one of Ordinance No. 140
Mrn 1 it ti 1« rr +1\ ^ f.
CARDIN A NOE NO.
amending section .. ,. _____.....
entitled “An ordinance regulating the Storing
and Keeping of Powder. Kerosene amt other in-
flammable Oils in the Cm' of Port Worth.”
Be it ordained by the C’ily Council of ihe Cirv
of Port Wor:h—
Section 1. That section one of Ordinance No.
149, entitled “An Ordin mce regulating the Stor-
ing and Keeping of Powder, Kerosene and other
inflammable Oils in the City oi Fort Worth,”
be so amended as hereafter to read as follows,
to-wit. Section l. That it shall be unlawful fori
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LAHIE:
Sole Agent few the Celebrated
C O O K S T O V K S
any person or persons to store, or keen, or per-
mit to be stored or kept on their premises, or in
any bousb or building urn: er their control in the
or kept
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city of Port Worth, any powder over the amount j
of twenty-five pounds, or any kerosene oil, or
other inflammable oils, over the amount of two
hundred and fifty gallons: Provided, die provis-
ions ol this ordinance shall not be construed as
to apply to or prevent the storing or keeping oi'
powder, kerosene or other inflammable oils in a
fire-proof powder or oil magazine.
Sec 2. That this ordinance take effect and be
in force trom and after its publication as re-
quired by law.
Passed' March 7, 1878, approved March 9, 1878.
Attest: C. McDocjgall, G. H. DAY,
3-12-4w Secretary. Mayo
LIVERY,
SALE AND FEED STABLE
Taylor st., bet. 2d and 3d,
KENDALL & POLLEY,
Good BUGGIES and HORSES for hire.
The best of attention given to stock entrusted to
our care.
The BEST SADDLE HORSES i« the city ran he
found at our stable 228
Wholesale
and Retail
dealer in
NAILS, EAR
IRON, CAR-
RIAGE AMD
WAGON IVIA-
TERIAL. ilfea
Gas Fixtures, “-Ar?
Simmons’
Keen Kutter
Axe.
/•LATy.
Shelf and heavy
Hard war ,
Tinware,
House Furnish-
ing' Goods.
Miinsdftctfirer of
all kinds of
TINWARE.
Tl'Y’J o bb in?
done on short
notice.
Corner Houston and Second. Sis.-, Port Worth. Texas-
WILLIAM T. GAY,
GROCER,
49 HOUSTON ST..
(Between Second and Third,)
FORT WORTH, - - - TEXAS.
OFFERS FOR SALE
CHOICE GROCERIES
AT LOWEST PRICES.
Coffees, Sugars, Syrups, Canned
Goods, Spices, Fish, and eve-
rything called for in the
Grocery Line.
Wholesale and Retail Dealer in
Hardware
STOYES AMD TIN WAKE,
QUEEN SWA EE,
Wood and Will©ware, Japanned
ware, Furniture, Lamps, etc.
A GENERAL ASSORTMENT OF
HOUSE FURNISHING GOODS.
HOUSTON STREET,
FORT WOKTH, TEXAS
8PKCIAI.TY IN
TEA. COFFEE, SUGAR 1 BACON.
2-7-tf_
K. D. Bateman,
Fort Worth.
W. Q. Bateman.
Jefferson.
BATEMAN & BR0.
WHOLESALE
GROCERS,
AND
Commission Merchants,
West side Public Square,
fort worth, - - Texas.
On hand at all times a full stock of bagging,
Ties and all kinds of Groceries, at prices to suit
both merchants and planters. 10 J-dAwtf-
A. YLlLLINGUAM,
Late Kimball, Tesas.
J. A. WILLINGHAM-
Late Cleburne. D*
WILLINGHAM BROS.,
AGENTS FOR-
MITCHEL'WAGON, ARROW TIE CO., ATLAS Ef CH®*
And Laflin & Rand Powder Co.,
WHOLESALE GROCERS*
AND
Commission Merchants
Cor. 77oiiston Sf 4 th Sis.I *wwi
FORT WOKT#
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