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Fort W>rth Daily Democrat.
YOL. 3, NO. 64.
FORT WORTH, TEXAS, SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 1878.
PRICE FIVE CENTS
Look at the NewPriee List
17 bars W. E. soap for........$1.00
18 “__.blue “ “.........1.00
22 # olive “ “........1-00
22 pounds sal soda “..........1.00
18 “ best loose starcb.......3 00
16 “ best English soda for.......1.00
20 “ new dried peaches for.....- 1.00
2 cans string beans for ........25
2 “ lima “ for........ 25
2 “ 21b tomatoes for ........25
3 “ 31b “for......- - 50
Everything cheap; cash down; no bad debts.
Come and See at Moss’ Cash Grocery._
JOHN NICHOLS,
President.
A. M. BRITTON,
Vice-President.
-T HE E--
S. W. LOMAX,
Cashier.
JOSEPH H. BROWN,
WHOLESALE
GROCER.
Cor. First and Throckmorton Sts.,
PALL AND SHROUD.
The Fever Demon Spreads
Poison with the Pall-
ing Dew-Drops.
A Resume of the Work of the
Saffron Destroyer in the
Fated Cities.
FORT WORTH, TEXAS.
Qity N ational Bank,
OF FORT WORTH,
A Regular Banking Business in all its Branches Transacted.
Exchange Bought and Sold and Collections made on all Accessible Points. Draw Sight Ex-
change on England, Ireland, France, Germany, Austria, Italy
Denmark, Sweden and Norway.
COHHESPONDENTS :
Importers and Traders National Bank, New York,
Manufacturer’s o( TeMa’
MAX EHSEB,
WHOLESALE AND RETAIL DEALER IN
BOOKS AND STATIONERY,
WALL PAPER, WINDOW SHADES,
Chromes, Croquet, Base Bali., Fancy Goods, Etc., Etc.
I make Jobbing of School Books, and Writing Papers a Speciality.
COUNTRY ORDERS SOLICITED.
No. Houston Street,__- ■ FORT WORTH, TEXAS.
GROCERIES.
GROCERIES.
CHEAPER THAN EVER.
Dili, AUSTID SATISFY TTOXTB.SBI.3r AT,
I>. O. Aldrich,
No. 51 Houston Street.
lIouorsT wines, ales, etc,, etc,
OF THE CHOICEST BRANDS,-
POR IVCjErDXCAXIb YNInTID OTPIER PURPOSES YXrU
Beardslee, Reinhardt & C&’s,
Ho. 51 Houston Street
AGENT FOR
DUPONT’S POWDER COMPANY.
DOES AN EXCLUSIVELY
WHOLESALE BUSINESS.
d&w
1L. MUELLER,
Merchant Tailor
--AX T--
Number 19 IMain Street,
Informs bis Customers and the Gents
Of Fart Worth and Surrounding Country,
that lie has just received a large lot of the
Newest
Fall and Winter Goods,
Consisting of Plain Goods, Fine Scotch,
English and French Cloths, Diagonals,
Kersey, Toskins, Worsteds, Etc., which
he makes up according to the latest styles,
in the most finished workmanship man-
ner, of the finest and best material, and at
the lowest possible prices,
Being able to compete with all abroad
made clothing, it is his aim to build np
his reputation as a
FIRST-CLASS TAILOR,
and invites every one to call and convince
himselt that he cannot be undersold bv
any one using the same quality of Goods,
Trimmings and Linings, and finished in
the same substantial and elegant manner.
Remember the place,
No. 19, Cor. First and Main Sts.
Col. Keating Defends tlie Mem-
phis Negroes from an
Unjust Charge.
The Holly Springs Nurses are
Deserting their Posts.
Weather, Personal, Mortuary,
and Other Incidents.
YEAST POWDER!
A PERFECT BAKING, ABSOLUTELY PURE.
Uniform and Reliable. Full weight and full Strength. Made from standard materials and
erfectly wholesome. All grocers authorized to guarantee it. ____
F. D. GURLEY & CO.,
Nos. 19, 21, 23, and. 25, Corner Weatherford and Taylor Sts.,
FORT WORTH,........ TEXAS.
STORAGE & COMMISSION
FOR THE SALE OF
Cotton, Hides, Wool, and Pecans.
Agents Los* tlie iMiltoiiriu Wagons.
LIBERAL ADVANCEMENTS MADE ON CONSIGNMENTS. “®a
THE BEST COTTON PLATFORM IN THE CITY.
N. M. MABEN, Deputy Weigher.
REMOVAL
—OF THE—
mammoth
DRY GOODS HOUSE
-OF—
SANGER BROTHERS!
—TO—
MO. 14 HOUSTOM STREET.
Will hereafter offer their
THE UNION STOCK YARDS, CHICAGO.
THE LARGEST LIVE STOCK MARKET IX THE WORLD.
The entire svstom of all the Railways in the West centre here, making the Union
Stock Yards the most accessible point in this country. The large capacity of the
Yards ; the facilities for unloading, feeding and reshipping are unlimited. The city of
packing; houses located here, together with a large Bank Capital and some eighty dif-
lerent commission firms, who have had years of experience in the business, also an ar-
my of eastern buyers, insures this to be the best market in the country, this is stiici.-
]y“a Cash market. Each shipper or owner is furnished with a separate yard or pen for
the safe keeping, feeding and watering his stock, with but one charge of yardage dur-
ing the entire time bis stock remains on the market. Buvers lrom all pints of foe
country are continually in this market for the purchase ot block Lathe, Hogs and
Sheep/ Ao-ents for the purchase of lat stock are continually on this market, repre-
senting Eastern and European markets. A regular Horse market is now established
here which is claiming the attention of buyers and sellers from all parts of the country; this is the
best point in the West for the saie of blooded stock. To the stock growers and shippers ol i exas,
Kansas and the Western Territories you aro invited to become acquainted with us by hilling your
s ock through to the active and quick market of Chicago.
JAS. M, WALKER, JOHN B. SHERMAN,
President. General Superintendent.
IMMENSE
STOCK
OE
GOODS!
-AT GMSATLY—
REDIJGED PRICES III
GEO. T. WILLIAMS,
Sec’y ar.d Trees.
ELLIS & HUFFMAN
DEALERS IN
Agricultural Implements,
AND AGENTS FOR
FISH BRG’S WAGONS, GARDEN CITY CLIPPER PLOW;
Avery Steel, Cast and Sulky Plows, Oliver Centre-draft Chilled Iron
Plows, Eureka Riding Attachments, Russell Engines and Tin<s!nm
Vibrators, Threshers, Reapers, Mowers, Etc, Adams & I tench Hai
vester and Binder, Cultivators, Wheat Fans, Com Six Hits. Ur
Bricks, Etc , Etc.,
E. G. PETERSON,
Clerk.
R. S. EOYD,
Clerk
TRAICOWllHAL HOTEL,
THE BEST $2,00 A DAY HOUSE IN THE STATE.
Baths Connected With the House.
JT. W. PETERSON, Proprietor.
(FORMERLY OF DECATUR HOUSE, PIERCE CITY, MG.)
A general invitation is extended lo all to ex-
amine the large lines of
Dress Groods,
OF AI.L SHADES AND PRICES.
LADIES' HOSIERY, 8c. to $1.25.
PARASOLS, 15c. tc $8.00.
And other Goods in proportion.
The stock of
GENTLEMEN'S FURNISHING GOODS
AND
ClotHing
IS THE MOST COMPLETE EVER DROUGHT
TO FORT WORTH.
In
Slioe^ 1 Boots
THE ASSORTMENT IS LARGER THAN IN
ANY STORE TN THE CITY.
Call, examine and be convinced that
The Goods are as Represented
One Price Cor Everybody
Sasig’er Bros,
Xew Orleans, September 14,
12:20 p. m.—Weather clear and
pleasant.
Xew cases, 309; deaths, 59.
Grenada, Miss., September 13.—
Dr. Woolfolk, of Paducah, died to-
night at 8:15 p. in., after an illness
of one week. He came to us
highly recommended by the citi-
zens of Paducah. His skill, en-
ergy and devotion during this pe-
riod of woe have been the theme
of every tongue, and his death has
filled our hearts with grief.
Six other deaths occurred to-
day, and two new cases are report-
ed. Dr. Veazie, of Xew Orleans,
and Dr. Henry Stone, of Xatchez,
are the only physicians here- They
are going night and day. On sev-
eral occasions, Dr. Veazie has
been conveyed to stations north
of here to prescribe for yellow
fever patients,
A slight frost occurred here
last night.
Washington, September 14.—
The Post of yesterday published
an interview with Dr. Ramsey, a
physician just returned from Mem-
phis, in which he stated that ho
had beeu authentically informed
that white women have to take
negro men for nurses, or go with-
out ; that such negro men nurses
have taken advantage of their
helpless victims.
Mr. Keating, editor of the Mem-
phis Appeal, having his attention
called to the statement, pronoun-
ced it utterly untrue, and added,
‘‘Xo man, white or black, would
be allowed to breathe the second
breath after such a crime becom-
ing known. Xo such crime has
been committed. White women
have not beed reduced to the
necessity of taking negro men for
nurses. The statement is a libel
on the negroes of Memphis. All
honor to them, they have done
theii duty ; they have acted by us
nobly, as policemen and soldiers,
as well as nurses ; they have re-
sponded to every call made upon
them in proportion to their num-
bers quite as promptly as the
whites. A few of them threaten-
ed trouble about food at one time,
but they were at a moment sup-
pressed by a company of citized
soldiers of their own color. The
colored men of Memphis, as a
body, deserve well of their white
fellow-citizens. Wc appreciate
and are proud of them.”
Grenada, Miss,, September 14.—
Dr. Woolfolk, of Paducah, died
yesterday. Two new cases were
reported to-day.
Washington, September 14.—
Contributions for the fever suf-
ferers are still being reported from
all sections of the country.
Canton, Miss., September 14.—
Total number of cases to date, 373;
total deaths, 54. Xew cases in the
last twenty-four hours, 34 ; deaths
seven. Dr. Cage, one of our four
physicians, was taken down this
moaning. A hospital has been es-
tablished, and we are managing
the yellow fever as best we can
with the limited number of physi-
cians and nurses. Thanks io our
friends everywhere for their liber-
al aid. Robt. Powell,
Mayor.
Baton Rouge, La., September
14.—Official statement of cases re-
ported for tlie twenty-four hours
, ending this morning, nine o’clock :
| Deaths, one; new cases, 42; total
deaths to date, 27; total cases to
date, 433. J. W. Dupree,
Health Officer.
Memphis, Tenn., September 14.
—The weather has taken a change
it is feared for the worse. The
nights are cool and the days warm.
The number of new eases may rea-
sonably be expected to continue
large. 46 deaths were reported to
noon, and 91 for the twenty-four
hours ending at noon.
Death is taking many of our best
citizens. Col. S. Knowlton, act-
ing postmaster, died this morning.
Also J. C. Ward, Eugene D.
White’s son, Rev. #eorge White,
Ernest Cleaves, J. J. Sears, Miss
M. B. Page, Phillip Erbs, Rev. J.
T. Early, A. T. Thompson, Mrs.
Holst, mother of Holst & Bros.,
and Horoce H. Briggs.
Gardiner, Me., September 14.—
A movement is on foot to raise
one thousand tons of ice among
the ice merchants and companies
in this vicinity,- for the fever suf-
ferers. Six hundred tons have
been secured.
Cairo, 111., September 14.—Xo
new eases of fever have been re-
ported. A heavy frost was re-
ported in the low bottom lands
around the city.
San Francisco, Cal., September
14.—The matinee of the California
theatre for the fever sufferers net-
ted $2,700.
Montgomery, Ala., September
14.—Total contributions for the
yellow fever sufferers, $6,000.
Savannah, Ga., September 14.
Contributions to date, $10,000.
McFarland, Duncan and Young
leave for Memphis to morrow.
Memphis, Tenn., September 14.
—To-night’s report shows an in-
crease of deaths. 127 deaths were
reported, of which, however, ten
should have been reported last
night, leaving to-day’s mortality
at 117, of which 40 were colored.
Among the deaths are Henry
Stein, John Walcn, P. B. StewaH,
John O. Gee, O. Jesche, Dr. Xu-
gent, of St. Louis, Dr. Harker, of
Hot Springs, and Mr. Jarvis, a
drug clerk of Xashville.
Hone of the resident physicians
made reports of new cases to the
board of health this e veiling,
About noon, a foul stench was
discovered in the neighborhood of
Mosby and Front streets. Upon
examination of the premises, in
one of the rooms was discovered
the dead body of H. L. Warring,
cotton buyer, who evidently had
been dead for several days.
Xew York, September 14. - Car-
dinal McCloskey has ordered a
collection in all the churches of
this diocese on Sunday, the 22d,
for the fever sufferers. He also
exhorts the Catholics to unite in
offering up fervent prayers to
God, that He, in His great mercy,
may be pleased to deliver His
afflicted people from the scourge
under which they are now suffer-
ing, and arrest its progress.
Holly Springs, Miss., September
14.—The nurses did not arrive.
Send twenty good nurses, mostly
females; send at once, as we are
sadly in need.
Kinloch Falconer,
of relief committee.
The nurses are leaving us, and
our doctors are overworked. Can
you help us.
Walter Barley, M. D.
RAGING FLOODS.
High Water in Ohio, and Other
States-Terrible Destruction
of Life and Property.
Crop Reports.
Washington, September 14.—
Returns to the department of ag-
riculture indicate an average of
87 per cent, in the condition of the
wheat crop, against 90 per cent, in
September, 1877. The reduction
is mostly due to disasters to the
spring crop in the Xorthwest.
A preliminary examination of the
returns acreage in 1878 about one-
sixth greater than in 1877. This
will more than compensate for the
loss from the decline in condition,
and p job ably bring up the yield to
the popular estimate of 400,000,000
bushels.
Havana, September 14.—A Cien-
fugas paper publishes a report,
said to be most reliable, to the
effect that this year’s sugar crop
amounted to 525,485 tons, of which
quantity about 100,000 tons were
consumed in the island. The bal-
ance was exported, mostly to the
United States.
John Sherman, Mrs. Jenks and
Elixa Pinkston will go down the
sewer of history together.—[Cin-
cinnati Enquirer.
Washington, September 14.—
Dispatches from various points in
Virginia, West Virginia, Ohio,
Pennsylvania, and as far north as
Canada, give accounts of destruc-
tive gales, accompanied by heavy
rains, causing extensive damage
to railroads, canals, and other
property, and in some instances
loss of life. Much anxiety is felt
in Richmond, Virginia, owing to
reports from Lynchburg that the
water in the James river is rising
rapidly. A number of merchants
doing business in the lower part
of the former city, near the river,
are removiug their goods in an-
ticipation of a swamping freshet.
The Staunton river bridge on the
Virginia Midland railroad, between
Lynchburg and Danville, two
bridges over the Roanoke river,
between Salem and Big Spring,
and one at Dry Hollow, ond the
Atlantic, Missississippi and Ohio,
have been washed away.
A dispatch from Covington, on
the Chesapeake and Ohio railroad,
says that the Jackson river is
higher than at any time before,
except in November last.
Cincinnati, Ohio, September 14.
—Advices from paints in Ohio,
West Virginia, and Pennsylvania,
indicate that the storm of the past
two days was the most severe ex-
perienced for years. On the line
of the Chesapeake and Ohio rail-
road, serious damage was inflicted.
A fireman, engineer and brakes-
man were killed by washouts.
On the Pan Handle route, a
bridge was washed away, and a
freight train plunged Into the
stream, the engineer and fireman
of which have not been seen since.
Xo trains have passed Steuben-
ville on the Pan Handle, Pittsburg
Wheeling and Kentucky, or Cleve-
land and Pittsburg roads,
The Ohio river at Steubenvilie
rose sixteen feet in eight hours.
Eight inches of rain fell in the
same time, and at Youngstown,
Ohio, seven inches. At three
o’clock yesterday morning the
residents on the streets in the vi-
cinity of the Mahoning river were
being removed from their dwell-
ings in boats. On Mahoning ave-
nue the water was eight feet deep.
Several small dwellings were
swept away like drift wood. The
Wood county commissioners say
that the loss to the county, inclu
ding bridges, will reach $100,000,
The following were almost totally
destroyed : Brown & Co.’s rolling
mill, Morse bridge works, Dingle
& Co., lumbermen, Himrod fur-
nace, and Andrew’s furnace.
At Mechanicsville, near Paines
ville, Ohia, a dam gave away. A
number of bouses were inundated.
At Salem, a bridge fell with an
engine and two cars, upon the en-
giaeer and a brakesman. Several
were injured.
Hear Alliance, Richard Teeters,
engineer of a coal train, had both
legs broken, and a fireman severe-
ly injured, by running into a
chasm left by a bridge, which was
swept away.
The Kanawha river is higher
than in the flood of 1861, and is
still rising. It has overflowed a
portion of Charleston, West Vir-
ginia, and the Kanawha valley,
sweeping with it the new steamer
advance, and numberless lumber
rafts, etc.
a race.
Loudon, September 14.—A race
will take to-day for $500 a side,
over the course between Putney
and Mortlake, between Joseph
Sadler and John Howdon. The
latter belongs to Xewcastle-on-
Tyne, aged twenty-three years.
He came out in 1876, and was win-
ner of the second class sculls in
the late international regatta.
Howden has engagements now at
Lunsden and Cannon.
London, September 14.—The
race to-day between Jos. Sadler
and John Howdon was won by
the latter, by four lengths.
A FAILURE.
Athens, September 14.—The
mission of Muhktar Pasha, who
was sent to Crete to endeavor to
pacify the island, has failed. The
Cretans rejected all the proposals
made by the Porte, and refused to
enter nto any arrangement look-
ing to the establishment of any
reforms in the administration.
FOREIGN AFFAIRS.
THE CHRISTIANS APPEAL.
Constantinople, September 14.
—The Mussulmen of the surround-
ing country threaten to make a
descent on the Erzeronm Chris-
tians, when the Russian troops
leave the city. The Armenian
archbishop of Erzeroum has tele-
graphed the British and French
ambassadors at Constantinople,
asking that steps be taken for the
protection of the Christians.
Illicit Distillery Destroyed.
Xashville. Tenn., September 14.
—Collector Woodcock received a
letter announcing the des*ruction
of one of the largest illicit distil-
leries yet found in this district.
The still was of four hundred gal-
lons capacity. The distillery ap-
paratus was valued at $1,000, and
located near a place called Smok-
ton, in a neigliboridg county.
The Fire Record.
Lewisburg, Pa., September 14.
—The agricultural works of James
S. March were totally destroyed
by fire this morning. Tlie loss is
estimated at $100,000; insurance
$10,000. March made an assign-
ment this morning.
W eather ^Report.
Washington, September 14.—In-
dications for the west Gulf States
—warmer clear or partly cloudy
weather; winds mostly southerly;
stationary barometer.
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Maritime.
Boston, Mass., September 14.
The steamer W. Crane, which -ar-
rived here on the 13th from Balti-
more, was run into at 8:20 a. m. on
Wednesday, off Cape Delaware, in
a fog, by the steamer Gulf Stream
from Xew York. The Crane was
struck amidships on the port side^
and her mainsal and bulwarks
were broken. The Gulf Stream
lost her bowspring and had her
bow damaged considerably.
A Lock.
Treasure Trove in a Tree.
Altoona (Pa.) Tribune.
On the banks of the “blue Juni-
ata,” in Huntington county stands
the quiet little town of Alexandria.
Years ago in and about the village
lived a man, the terror of the
country, known as “Lewis the rob-
ber.” Many a night traveller lost
bis gold, and many a wagoner on
the old Pittsburg and Philadelphia
pike was berelt by force of his
valuables. Last week two gentle-
men went out hunting on Short
Mountain, a mile or two west of
town. They shot a squirrel, which,
wounded, ran into the trunk of a
large oak. What was their sup-
prise when, grasping into the hol-
low trunk for their game, to dis-
cover an old Dutch oven full of
Spanish doubloons, Mexican dol-
lars, English sovereigns and other j
coins, all dated previous to the
year 1820. Several packages of
papers were found which crumbled
to dust as soon as touched. Their j
glittering wealth, which they divi-
ded among them, amounted to sev- j
era! thousand dollars. It is sup-
posed that all this wealth was de-
posited in the tree by “Lewis, the
robber.”
The hotels and railways in Eng- j
land do not furnish ice-water to
their customers free of charge.
The Liverpool Post admits that
ice-water in England is a luxury
that must be paid for, extra, the
same as wine. This is a curious
fact, considering the proximity of
frozen regions to the central ter-
ritory of Her Majesty’s realm.
A woman near Clover Orchard,
X. C., has given birth during the
twenty years of her married life
to nineteen children. Score—1, K
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1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0,1—19.
All but two fell dead out of the
bounds.
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Montgomery, Ala., September
14.—The Democratic convention
of the third district met on Thurs-
day, and is still in session. Maj.
Williams, the present incumbent;
is in the lead.
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Eight prizes offered by the Ag- wjim
ricultura! Soeiety of Paris were |j g|g
won by Americans.
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It takes tin ee days to carry one j|HS
thousand dollars in silver.
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