The Daily Fort Worth Democrat. (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 180, Ed. 1 Wednesday, January 31, 1877 Page: 2 of 4
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2Dailn democrat.
Office, Houston Street, Next Door to
Brown’s, Up Stairs.
JANUARY 31, 1877-
To CONTRIBUTORS :
No attention will be paid to anony-
mous communications every article
must be accompanied by the writer’s
real tram
Correspondence on all matters of
public interest is respectfully solicited,
Correspondence for the benefit ot the
writer, or of a personal nature must be
paid for at advertising rates, and inva-
riably in advance.
Inflexible Rules.
Under no Circumstances do we
return Rejected Manuscript.
Communications written on Both
Sides of the sheet are never con-
IDERED.
lowed, by a long series of com-
promises between the friends of
centralization on the one hand,
and the advocates of lecal self-
government on the other. The
argument which always induced
each party to yield was, that this
v as the only method of prevent-
ing a terrible struggle and dis-
ruption of the government. But
was it a successful method ? It
could not be so. All the teach-
ings of moral logic and ethics
prove to ns that there can be no
compromise between right and
wrong; and this applies to po-
litical bodies as well as to indi-
viduals. Hence all these com-
promises culminated in the most
terrible civil war the world has
ever known; and even that
failed to establish any fixed
principle. Experience, however,
CONVEYANCES
BAIN & CO
drugs and medicines.
—An Austin correspondent
reports our venerable member
of the last Legislature,—in allu-
ding to the subsidized press of
Austin—as saying that h—1 is an
icehouse compared to the place
where such persons ought to
go” “Old Hick” is emphatic
when he does get his Irish up.
■* The Jefferson Jimplecute,
swells up and grows so black in
the face that we can hardly read
it, all because a Dr. Avinger
subscribed for the Jimp., for
a whole year, and paid it all in
advance. That was plucky con-
sidering it was in Jefferson—but
there is an M. D. here who come
in a few days since, and sub-
scribed for five copies ot the
Daily Democrat to send
abroad to friends ; and there
are several otheis doing the
same thing.
Communications calculated to nowever
^vKPRTVAVEtNTEREsTs, CHAUG seems to teach us nothing; for
ments. tllls year marks the date of
another great compromise,
which, whatever may be the
temporary result, is certainly a
wide departure from the letter
and spirit of the Constitution.
Must we, then, accede to the
proposition that a written Con-
stition is a fraud? Shall this
new compromise give rise Jo
another series, to terminate like
the former? Shall we repeat
the history, of former republics,
and let this strife of factions
finally result in overthrowing
the best form of government the
world ever produced ? Human
nature is always the same, and
yet we, instead of profiting by
the example of others, trust to
our deep-seated love of liberty
and all its principles, to steer us
safely through all our difficul-
ties. But is^this a sure depend-
ence ? There was a day when
every Roman, with scarcely a
dissenting voice, would have
hooted at the idea that anything
should ever destroy the perfect
equality between all Roman citi-
zens ; and yet Rome had her
Caesar, followed by a long line of
emperors.
There was a time when Athens
was the home of freedom and
culture; but she had her tyrants
and her day of doom. While
none of us may live to see it, it
is more than possible that
these United States may meet a
similar fate. We have had our
first civil war, we have had our
many compromises; we have
virtually lost our Constitution.
How many more steps need we
take ?
DAILY FIT CUSS COACHES,
(from Fort Wortli to Weath-
erford, and Tri-Weekly
from Weatherford to
Jacksbor©, Fort Bel-
knap, Ft. Griffin,
And Intermediate Points.
C. K. FAIRFAX, Agent,
sep27<ltfTr”,,S'CO,,t'"e,,talIIol,!l-
CITY DRUG STORE.
Established 1S73,
At JACKSON’S Old Stand,
West Side
Main St
Fort Worth
Texas,
Medicines, Paints,
SSkS?, 25^32,^ Atticks'
G. H. DASH WOOD,
Prescription Clerk.
_______I BANKS,
Great ExcitementiVanZandt &Co.
BANKERS
“AT THE-
NEW STAGE LINE FROM
—We undertook to pay the
Leader a compliment the other
day, and at the same time give
it a little friendly advice. But
it read the article backwards, as
it does everything else, and
came to the advice first, and
flew into a terrible tan trum,and
called us “fellow” in the most
contemptuous manner, and made
us feel bad all over, and the re-
sult is we are forced to with-
draw the advice—but will stiek
to the complimeut, while we
have the spirit of a man left in
us.
Fort Worth to Ft. Cansho Tesas,
Via Granburry, Stephenville,
Comanche, Brownwood,
Camp Colorado, Coleman,
To Fort Concho Two Hundred
and Twenty-Five Miles.
Leaves Fort'Worth Monday and Thurs-
day, 6 a. hi., returns Wednesday and
Saturday. 6 p. m.
JOHNSON & TREWITT, Contractors,
«b C. PRE WITT, Manager,
Fl? fWhJ!“ “ SSS&2S5
Hotel, C. K. FAIRFAX, Agent. oc3
T. W. POWELL,
DRUGGIST,
HOUSTON
STREET,
FORT WORTH, TEXAS,
Commission Merchants.
-CORNER-
Houston and First Streets,
DAN TAYLOR,
U. S, MAIL LINE
Fort Worth to Cleblme,
Leaves Fort Worth Daily at 7| a. m
Good hacks and first class aceommo
da too ns. Office at Trans Continetan
Hotel. C. K. IAIRFAX, Agent .26-tf.
DAILY HACK LINE.
TO DECATUR.
Hack leaves Trans Continental Ho
every morning at seven o’clock.
sep29-tf C. K. FAIRFAX, Agent.
WILLINGHAM BROS.,
GROCERS AND
COMMISSION MERCHANTS,
And Dealers in
%
Agricultural Implements and
MITCHELL WAGONS,
HOUSTON STREET,
Fort Worth, Texas.
nov20-d<& wtf
MISCELL ANEO US.
—Walter Wainwright is al-
literative aud seductive. But
you musn’t be deceived by the
sound of a man’s name. It may
look all right, and still be all
wrong. Wainwright thought it
was not all right, that lie should
be required to live without be-
ing provided with a fortune to
live on, aud as he could not ob-
tain the fortune, he concluded to
take a life—his own life, too. A
knife was the instrument selec-
ted for the accomplishment of
the horrid deed. But he had an
M. D. at his elbow, wh^ sowed
up the wound and he is all right
now. All this at Sherman.
LOOK HERE!
I AM NOW IN RECEIPT OF THE
LARGEST STOCK OF
leather.
Morehead & Co.,
general
Commission Merchants,
Warehouse and Cotton Plat-
form on the Track.
Agents for the sale of
McAlester Coal.
Cash advadees made on Cotton, Grain
Wool and Hides.
Fort Worth, Texas.
aulO-d&w-tf.
To the Citizens of
FfllT fflffl Ml VICIIITY-:
—GREETING:-
Having concluded to Reduce our Great
Stock of Goods, we will offer at
much lower prices than
ever before, all
Staple and Fancy Dry Goods,
Notions, Ready Made Mens’ and
Boys’ Clothing, Boots, Shoes,
Gents’ Fubnishing Goods,
Trunks and Valises,
Mens’ Hats.
Especially Ladies’ Trimmed Hats.
We mean business and will not be
Undersold by any otlter House
in this City or State. All we
ask fs—Come and Examine our Goods
and Prices and Convince Yourself be-
fore Purchasing Elsewhere.
Thanking you kindly for your past
patronage, and hoping to merit your
future custom,
We are yours obediently,
J- & S. BRIN,
jyio-dwly Fort Worth, Texas.
—and dealers in—
exchange,
SOftth side Square, FORT' WOR'ir
Collections made on all accessible
points, and remitted for on day of my
ment, at current rate 6f exchange. I j
Ju7-12ni
W. J. Boaz.
•L F. Ellis.
J. Mark lee.
«L Nichols,
cuna ffiisiiR
—OF—
Fort Worth, Texas.
Do a general Banking business. Sul!
Exchange on all Principal Points.
Particular attention given fa Collections,
in-9-diy.
miscellaneous.
VII E
“HOWE”
ISTUTT
ft
Sanger Brothers,
Wholesale and Retail Dealers in
DRY GOODS, CLOTHING
BOOTS, SHOES, HATS, ’
NOTIONS, &e., &c.,
Houston Street,
lulotf FORT WORTH, TEXAS.
FURNITURE.
—A compromise is always a
defeat to the one party or the
other, and that party is general-
ly the one which has the right
side of the issue. What confi-
dence is to be placed in a princi-
ple which cannot be maintained
except by compromise? Is it,
then, any wonder that Europe-
ans doubt the efficiency and sta-
bility of the United States Gov-
ernment—a government whose
Constitution was conceived and
brought forth in a compromise,
and whose life’s sustenance has
been almost a continued compro-
mise between Constitutionalists
aiid anti-Constitutionalists ?
The Constitution is full of
compromises, notably among
which we may indicate that ap-
portioning Representatives ac-
cording to population, adding to
the whole number of free per-
sons, excepting Indians not
-Speaking of the Texas &
Pacific road, the Houston Age
asks:
After all which we would ask how is
the health of the road itself? Is it able
to get out—of Fort Worth? Or is it
laid up there for repairs, or waiting for
a prescription from Dr. Congress ?
The Democrat’s opportuni
ties for making a diagnosis of
the condition of the patient are
very favorable, and it would re-
ply that the Texas & Pacific is
now suffering from an overdose
of “construction company,” su-
perinduced and aggravated by
an attack of “financial panic”
which occurred some three years
since, and from which it has not
fully recovered. It had a period
of semi-convalescence in the
summer of 1876, brought about
by several of the Tarrant coun-
ty construction companys’ appli-
cations, administered in broken
doses. When the T. C. C. C.
stopped treating the patient it
had a relapse, from which it has
not yet recovered, nor* is it like-
ly to • recover soon. However,
the air around Fort Worth is re
markable^ for jts purity, and a
few years residence here may
enable it to “get about” again,
but unless the Dr. mentioned by
the Age comes to its relief, it
will not be able to leave the cor
porate limits in less than five
years.
S. p. & CO.,
RECEIVING, FORWARDING
—AND—
Commission Nierchants,
Corncq.T 1 mockinorton and Terrell St«
Near Freight Depot,
PORT WORTH, TEXAS.
Grain, Flour, &c., Bought to Order.
Liberal Advances Made on Consign-
ments. ' “
jtm 11-dtf
<T- E- STKEEPEK3
-Manufacturer and dealer in
FURNITURE,
mattresses,
looking glasses,
CROCKERY, PAINTS
OILS AND
WINDOW GLASS,
HOUSTOXr ST
FORT WORTH TEXAS.
AN Goods Warranted.
au29-tl
IN USE. HENRY MILLER, Ag’t.,
I"'5 Eiisk St., Fort Worth, Tex.
^XPEMrMDWTFET'
MRS. BECKERS,
Residence on Fourth Street,
Near Rusk, in Overton’s Block.
,41znu gvpkliagenue op-
*.-ii .-"i I,n,ies wishing hired girls
, ,.t.,1(1|n'.hy calling on me, and
S mv m " PltUi,no,ls C:U1 {i"<l * bent
ar m.\ office.
(Ifc28-d()in . Marv E.Ruckers.
surriMg
AND COFFiN TRIMMINGS
Always on hand Also coffins made
to order mi short notice, at
Svvh uic & Oroni well’s old stand
West side public square. oot.RJ-t
SAAZDZDZLLES
SADDLERY WARE,
WHIPS, IMF Hits
Aud all other material kept in a
first class-
HARNESS AND
SADDLERY HOUSE,
ever received in Northwest Texas.
I manufacture my own trees, and
gu tlis. and can accommodate any cus-
tomers that enters mv house. I will
sell at TEN PER CENT, less than
any othei house in Northern Texas.
COME AND TRY ME AND BE
CONVINCED.
, ,,f R. F. TACKABERRY,
declDtf.
James Metcalf. W. F. Mooi-e. E. j. Senseney
Metcalf, Moore & Co.,
Commission Merchants,
For the Sale and Forwarding of all
kinds of
Live Steels !
OFFICES
Union Stock Yards,
St. Louis, - - *---Missouri.
* National Stock Yards,
East St. Louis,.....Illinois.
oct7 dtf
HARD WARE AND STO VES.
MOODY Si JEMISON,
COMMISSION MERCHANTS
—AND—
BANKERS,
123 Pearl St.
New York.
dec5-tf
—AND—
COTTON FACTORS,
128 Strand,
Galveston, Tex.
—An old lady from tbe inter-
ior, while visiting tbe Egyptian
taxed, three-fifths of all other j department at the Philadelphia
persons. j Exhibition, remembering how
Tbe most famous compromise j deceiving show people are apt
in our history is the Missouri!to be> pointed to the papyrus
compromise of 1820, in which|ant* °.t^er auoient things, and
the Constitutionalists suffered i hi^or^?^ i° 0116 of.the ex-l1,i-
signal defeat. This was fob; them antikerties offi’?”* man’ °
MMro’s.
Dealers iu
GAS FIXTURES AND
ILLUMINATING OILS,
GASOLINE & PETROLEUM,
At the Lowest Cash Rates.
Main Stieet, : Fort Worth
jan 23-d wtf
are the
J- N. Manuel & Co.,
If JtR OWJtBEi
IRON, NAILS,
WAGON MATERIAL, AND
AGRIUULTURA L IM-
PLEMENTS,
Agents for
Whitewater Wagons,
Corner Houston and First Sts.,
julo-ly. FORT WORTH. TEXAS.
BODD <£ CO.,
—Dealers in—
STOVES,
TINWARE,
Wooden and Wllloware,
QUEENSWAJ E,
Glassware, Lamps, and House Furnish-
ing Goods Generaly,
sepl-tf FORT WORTH, TEXAS.
DENTISTS.
Dr. W. R. JOHNSTON,
DE1TIST,
TIaving permanently located, tenders
o F w81'?,naI T'‘Vi<'eS t0 rhii citizens
1r m ‘ a- surroundingcountry.
Peak’s Block, over
Poweii $ Drug Store; \v20-tfid.noTl7
X. Wailerieli.
W. !>• May4*!<T
Jbr
• Afield & aWoTveW,
DEMTISTS
ESTARLISIIED 1870.
{(^•Office over B. C. Evans*
Fine Gold fillings siieeialty. aug29-ly
HOTELS.
1 M'QWM
Northwest Corner Public Square.
Fort Worth, Texas.
C- K. FAIRFAX, Propri tor,
TcSUTn-ifww!01"1 1,1
HOFLE & co. |OLDEST
MOST RELIABLE,
and only
EXCLUSIVELY
CLOTHING
--AND—
Furnishing1 Hons:
Job \r om-
£
COSMOPOLITAN HOTEL
MRS. L. SCOTT, Proprietress.
Reopened January 22d.
Day Board, per week.......... on
Transient! ^ \ g
jan23-dtf * ................ 1 .
of PlivVc
E. E. Root,
Proprietor.
Chas. Bankt,
• Clerk.
REiSEssrl.-^0r^
hafida high. This Jan. 25A877 * '
8 J. P. Woods, Cl’k.
In the City.
West Side Houston St.,
FORT WORTH, TEXAS.
sepl.tf •
“THE EARLY BiRDWMARKET,
W. J. MOUNTS, Pro,*.,
I aihi o11'Atntv1 ^i l r fl11 kim,s-
IXev m‘rket*><>"« .wtoiis^y'08-
Houtton Street, bet. 2d and 3d
FORT WORTH. TEXAS.
: LAMAR HOUSE,
112, 714 and 716 Main Street,
DALLAS, TEXAS.
A"lhtri^,y 75
ode.; SSr°°ms* v'llh
cfe:n,pro™.aj,<! p°!i-
S sue Sample Room Attached
jaiu. l-dtf
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The Daily Fort Worth Democrat. (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 180, Ed. 1 Wednesday, January 31, 1877, newspaper, January 31, 1877; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1007722/m1/2/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Fort Worth Public Library.