The Daily Fort Worth Democrat. (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 2, No. 56, Ed. 1 Wednesday, September 5, 1877 Page: 2 of 4
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CDailj) {Democrat.
Office, Houston Street, Next Door to
Brown’s, Up Stairs.
SEPTEMBER 5, 1877-
TO CONTRIBUTORS:
No attention will be paid to anony-
mous communications ; every article
mst be accompanied by the writer’s
real nam:.
Correspondence on all matters ol
public interest is respectfully solicited,
Correspondence for the benefit ol 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
.'IDES OF THE SHEET ARE NEVER CON-
IDERED.
Communications calculated to
subserve Private Interests, ciiarg
ED FOR AT THE RATE OF ADVERTISE
—Messrs, Curtis and Dunham arrived
in the city last evening en route for the
East. They have been sojourning for
the past few months in Chualtepee,
Mexico. They report considerable ex-
citement along the border.—Dallas
Mail.
We knew that Weatherford
was a long ways West of here,
but had no idea that it had gone
over into Mexico.
—One system of Government
swindling in Washington is so
transparent that it ought to
be seen through by every one
and be stopped at once. It is
the hiring of private buildings
for the transaction of Govern-
ment business. Every depart-
ment of the Government is an-
nually paying for the rent of
numerous buildings what is
equal to from ten to twenty-five
per cent, ol what the buildings
cost. The beneficiaries are of
all classes, from Ben Butler and
Boss Shepherd to the owners of
small tenements. The build-
ings are generally frail ones,
and none of them fire proof.
This system is sheer waste
when the Government can bor
row mouey at four per cent.
Not only that, it is the cause of
demoralization to the service;
for, in order to induce Govern-
ment, officers to rent buildings
and pay excessive prices, mid-
dlemen are called in who are
known to be on terms of inti-
macy with the officers. The
addition, division and silence
which distinguish Pennsylvania
Republicanism prevails there as
well.
Enterprise, Vim and Vitality. D AND MEDICINES
[St. Louis Republican.]
Among the numerous enter-
prises of this gay little city,
none are entitled to more credit
than the Fort Worth Daily Dem-
ocrat. It exhibits more enter-
prise, vim and vitality than any
other daily paper in North or
Middle Texas.
She Knew His Whistle.
T. W. POWELL,
-0 G
—When the Houston Telegram jumps
on Gail Hamilton, the world will un-
derstand that she is a very bad woman
indeed,—Dallas Herald.
We opine that the premises
granted, the Herald's conclusions
are correct. There are some
people who would entertain a
suspicion if Bartow were simply
seen lurking around the same
neighborhood with Gail.
Irregular Advertising.
— It would seem that in a
country, republican in form,
where the people are governed
by laws of their own making,
and by rulers ostensibly of their
own choosing; a country at
peace at home and abroad, with
no internal discussions or for-
eign imbroglios to demand any
interferenc of, or protection
from the military arm of the
government, that twenty-six
full regiments were a sufficient
military force, to be supported
by the tax payers. Yet we find
that there are those high in au-
thority and high in the confi-
dence of the people, who favor
an increase of the standing army;
some going so far as to contend
that an hundred thousand men
are not too many to sustain the
dignity and maintain the peace
of the republic. The Indian dif-
ficulties could be suppressed by
the use of one-balf the present
force properly officered and com-
manded. Aside from this, and
the supervision of the ballot-
box, there is no present or pros-
pective necessity for an increase
of the army. For the latter pur
pose there will never be another
occasion. The setting aside of
the will of the people, began by
Terry, in Georgia, and was fol-
lowed np by SSheridan and De?
Trobiand in New Orleans, Ruger
in South Carolina, and culmina-
ting in the seating of Hayes in
the Presidential chair, against
the expressed will of the people
will never be repeated. While
Sherman, Sheridan, Blaine, Mor-
ton, et id omnes genus, favor an
increase of the army, it is re-
freshing to know that the wisest
statesmen and unselfish patriots
oppose it. In a speech at Whits
Sulphur Springs, in answer to a
serenade, Gov. Hampton said :
“I am opposed to an increase of
the army, or, in fact, to any large
standing army; and believe that
the gallant citizen soldiers could
always be relied upon for the
protection of life and property
and the enforcement of the laws.”
These, says the New York Sun,
are sound views, which will find
a responsive echo from the
American people, without re-
gard to party or section. This is
a government of the people, and
no large standing army in need-
ed to fulfil its functians.
The propensity to seek irreg-
ular advertising is one of the
queer things in this life. The
prices that some men will pay
for sticking their advertisements
in an irregular place, where no
one looks lor an advertisement,
is unaccountable, especially
when compared with their un-
willingness to pay anything for
advertising in the regular chan-
nels. This habit of some good
business men is thus commented
on by the Cincinnati Gazette :
“They will pay large sums
for inserting their cards in a
section of a frame in a hotel,
bar-room, street car, railway
station or a hotel register, or an
almanac, or guide book, or an-
nual of one sort or another, or
in a theatre programme, or in a
special advertising sheet, issued
when it can get enough to pay.
“The by-ways they seek, or
that successfully solicit them,
are innumerable. Likewise they
will spend large sums in print-
ing special circulars, and in
postage to send them. In all
this they ignore the most essen
tial condition in advertising,
namely, that it has character
and effect from the mediums
through which it is given to the
reader. Advertisements thrust
into irregular and unbusiness
places impress the general mind
that the concern is of a similar
character. On the other band,
an advertisement in a general
newspaper of a first-rate stand-
ing, carries the impression that
the advertiser has a standing in
his own community, which he is
not afraid to show to his neigh-
bors, and that he does not shrink
from competition with the best
of them.
“These are the impressions
made on all minds by advertise-
ments in Journals of a high
character and general circula-
tion among the reputable classes,
and the same when seen in by-
places and irregular channels.
Everyone finds this in his
own feeling, if he will but think
on the subject. If any one is
going to a place to buy, whether
he be trader or buying for bis
own use, and has to seek the
dealers through advertisements,
where will he look for them?
To registers, almanacs, theatre
bills, frames iu railway stations,
occasional advertising sheets or
circulars? On the contrary, he
looks to the most reputable
newspaper in the place, and lie
thinks that advertisements in
these give assurance of the good
standing of the advertiser, and
of his business enterprise, and
of the sufficiency of his stock.
That was a touching incident
last week, at the death bad of
Mrs. Gaylard. Her husband is
an engineer in the Cincinnati
road, and upon reaching Rich-
mond found a dispatch announc-
ing the tailing strength of bis
wife. The difficulty among the
railroads made it impossible for
him to get off. A second dis-
patch arrived saying that she
was sinking fast. It was then
that he decided to run a locomo-
tive to Dayton. The dying wife,
whose ears were fast closing to
alLearthly sounds, listened for
the familiar whistle which she
knew he always gave as the sig-
nal ot approach. The hours
flew fast, and the sands of life
were running swiftly; still she
could not go without saying
farewell to him. At nightfall
when the sun had set over her
last day on earth, when the chill
of death was creeping over her
and the pulses were failing, her
ear caught the sound of his com-
ing. She alone heard it, and
said: “Will is coming; that is
his whistle.” And he reached
her bed-side iu time to receive
her dying message of farewell
—JRichmond (Ind.) Independent.
GROCERIES.
-DEALER IN-
Dings, Medicines, Paints, Oil, Glas» &c.
MOLE & LOUGHERY,
mmm, mm m
CONTRACTORS,
Shop 25 NSairt St,
Joseph 1. Bren,
WHOLESALE
GROCER
Cor. 1st and Houston street,
FORT WORTH.
Is constantly receiving
MISGELLANEO US.
BANKS.
ICE! ICE!
W. Y. COOK,
—DEALERS IN-
PURE LAKE ice,
Ice delivered twice a day to
A1YY PART
OF THE CITY
24—.
1
BERGIN’S
MARBLE WORKS
—The total bond of the Hob-
bys is $20,000 -$10,000 each. It
is reported that their law
yers, when the case is called,
will demand a separate trial,
that A. M. will be arranged first
and that Barney will be shown
up as probably guilty, but not
so undoubtedly so that upon his
trial A. M. will be proven the
guilty man, and that thus A. M.
will be first cleared, quicklv fol-
lowed by the vindication of Bar-
ney. The plan is very much
that of the boarder at the Cali-
fornia hotel in the early days.
His bargain with the landlord
was board for $2 a day and a
reduction of $2 for every day
he missed. He stayed two days
and was absent three. The
landlord made out his bill lor $4,
and the boarder offset it with
three days missed at $2 a day,
$6, and made mine host fork
over the $2 difference. To this
day the landlord admits that
was the bargain, but insists there
was something wrong about the
figuring.—Houston Telearam.
Cor. Houston & 5th Sts.
Fort Worth, Texas.
MONUMENTS,
TOMBS, TABLETS,'
HEADSTONES,
URNS, VACES, &0.
7-8tf.
W. G. MILLER.
W. II. McCLUKE.
A
DEMOCRAT
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-GET YOUR-
LETTER HEADS
Printed in Style at tlie
DEMOCRAT JOB OFFICE.
—Before going to Congress,
Prof. Seelye of Massachusetts
went to India, and he seems to
have been considerably aston-
ished by some of the. sights he
saw there. At Calcutta he was
the guest of a rich Baboo, a
Judge of the high court, and
a very cultvated gentleman,
whose English was as fluent and
correct as the Amherst Profes-
sor’s own. In the elegantly
furnished parlors lights were
burning before a statue of Jug-
gerDatbra, the Nurse of the
World. The gentlemanly and
scholarly host was a thorough-
going and devout Pagan. No
—Senator McDonald, of Indi- iadies w*™ V' tbe
ana, thinks the labor question! nomse of talk, the piotessor
will cut a Mg figure, in the elec ! the Baboo why he neve •
(ions and no doubt be forced Kook hls wlle w,.tb ‘'‘“V1™ be
-HAVE YOUK-
Or15 J-L\ Jj
P1J1NTED AT THE
DEMOCRAT OFFICE.
upon Congress. The General
Government, he thinks, should
exercise a general supervision
over the through traffic on rail
roads, somewhat analogous to
the Federal power over naviga-
ble rivers. Blaine aud Morton,
he thinks, are running a race to
see which will be the champion
of “the solid North.” The
President's policy suits him well
enough, and though the Presi-
dential question will not be
reopened, it is probable that the
methetls in whieh Louisiana
was carried for Hayes will be
investigated and put upon rec
©rd.
drove out on the Maidan—the
fashionable driveway of Cal-
cutta. “She does not wiih to
go,” was the polite but prompt
reply. On inquiry, the Amherst
Professor ascertained that Hin-
doo ladies are not in the habit
of accompanying their hus-
bands to public places. He
sees in this fact an additional
reasons for increased snbserip
tions to the missionary fund.
—When a four per-cent, hold-
er cuts off* a coupon, he is under
bonds to keep the piece until he
cau consult with the redeemer.-
N. O. Picayune.
-Have your-
STATEMENTS
Printed at the
Democrat Office.
Miller & McClure,
Mil ESTATE AGENTS,
Fort Worth, Texas.
and City property, Will pay Taxes on prop-
erty. , .
Have for sale several No. 1 improved farms
at reasonable prices. Several houses and lots
in the city. .
Enquire at 17 & Houston Street, up stairs^ ^
CITY GUN STORE.
STEVEHSON,
Jffeifigg
SUGAR,
SUGAR,
SUGAR
SUGAR,
SUGAR,
SUGAR,
SUG-AR,
COFFEE,
COFFEE,
COFFEE.
COFFEE,
COFFEE,
COFFEE,
CfFVEWEFEl
SYRUPS
SYRUPS,
SYRUPS,
SYRUPS,
SYRUPS
SYRUPS,
SYRUPS,
DRIED FRUITS,
DRIED FRUITS,
DRIED FRUITS,
DRIED FRUITS,
DRIED FRUITS,
DRIED FRUITS,
XYFLIIBID PYFLTTXTS,
ROPE,
ROPE,
ROPE,
ROPE,
ROPE,
ROPE,
I©E! I©E
Leave orders for
NORTHERN ICE
At the corner of Main and Second Streets,
or at Gus Rentleman’s, near the depot.
All Orders Promptly Filled
We are also agents for the celebrated
ANHEUSER’S LAGER BEER,
made iu St. Louis and kept on ice
SCHMITZ «& GHMEY.
9-2S-tf’
DENTISTS.
Thqs. A. Tidball.•
J. 8, Jarvis.
K. M. VanZanctt.
J. P. Tmith.
Tidball, VanZandt &Co.
BANKERS,
Fort Worth, Texas.
A General Banking business
transacted. Collections
made and prompt-
ly remitted.
COEEESPONDENTS :—Moods &Jemison, New
York, Mobdy & Jemison, Galveston; Ex-
change Brnk, St. Louis, Mo.; City Bank,
Dallas, Texas; Louisiana National Bank,
New Orleans, La. ju7-12m
McCreary & Barlow
BANKERS,
—AND—
HEALERS Il\ EXCHANGE.
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Collections made and promptly remitted.
Houston Street, (Howard’s building,)
Fort Worth, Texas. 6-21-tf.
N. Wallerich.
D. M.Mayfield.
ROPE
CAN GOODS,
CAN GOODS,
CAN GOODS,
CAN GOODS,
CAN GOODS,
CAN GOODS,
CANDIES,
CANDIES,
CANDIES,
CANDIES,
CANDIES,
CANDIES,
TOBACCO,
TOBACCO
TOBACCO,
TOBACCO,
TOBACCO,
TOBACCO,
PICKLES
PICKLES,
PICKLES,
PICKLES,
PICKLES,
PICKLES,
POTATOES
VINEGAR
APPLES,
BACON.
LARD,
SALT,
CIGARS,
CIGARS,
CIGARS,
CIGARS,
CIGARS,
CIGARS,
BY PHE CAR LOAD.
-DEFIES COMPETITION-
IN QUANTITY QUALITY' AND PRISES
Gun Maker and dealer in Five Arms, Am-
munition, Sporting Apparatus, &c. All of
the beet makes, latest styles, and lowest prices
Repairing done at Short Notice. Also Locks
and Sewing Machines, All work warranted.
Old Reliable Sharp’s Rifles always on hand.
No. 8 Weatherford Street, Fort Worth, Texas.
CITY
JEWELRY STORE,
J- IF. KIBXjX.EII,
DEALER IN
m
i us c
JOHNSON,
a'K
O J <
NORTH SIDE OF PUBLIC SQUARE.
The Stable is stocked with the best
assortment of
BOOGIES AMD CARRIAGES
to be found in the city.
Parties going to points WEST, NORTH or
SOUTH furnished with conveyances
Our Stable contains the best selected stock of
SADDLE & HARNESS HORSES
in Northern Texas.
A new HEARSE for funeral purposes.
July 13, 6-m.
Mayfield & Wallerich,
BEMTIS
ESTABLISHED 1870.
Office over the Railroad Store, Houston St.
Fine Gold fillings a specialty. aug29-ly
STATE
COLLEGE
OF TEXAS.
THE SECOND ANNUAL SES-
sion of this College will begin on the
First Day of October Next-
The entire cost of a student for a session o
torty weeks is ONE HUNDRED AND NINE-
TY-SEVEN DOLLARS, payable as follows
October 1st. $i>4 00
December 1st. 44 33K
February 1st. 44 33}£
April 1st. 44 33>3
The above amount covers all charges for
board, washing, matriculation, surgeon’s fee
lights and fuel, and two suits of uniform.
The faculty is complete, the buildings ele -
gant, and every appointment first-class.
Every indication points to the fact that pa -
ronage will be very large, and parties inten -
ing to enter would do well to register at a
early day and be present on the first day o
October.
For catalogues or for special information
address
Til OS. S. GATIIRIGH1,
President.
College Station P. O. Brazos Co., Texas, July
16,1877 . 7-22-lm.
^MISCEL LANE O US.
COFFIMS
AND COFFIN TRIMMINGS
Always on hand. Also coffins mad<
'to order mi short notice, at
Swa\ne & Cromwell, North
west corner public square oet.l9-tf.
rma&tg
uorEic,
MISCELL A NE O US.
Dillon Hous ,
Centrally Located.
House and Fixtures all new. The Table
well supplied, and
Terms Reasonable
Wm. D. DILLON,
Proprietor
0-2-tf.
Notice to Those Contemplating
Building.
JOSEPH KANE, J, J, KANE,
Architects & Contractors,
Carpenter Shop and Office on
Belknap Street.
Plans, specifications and full sized detail
drawings for every description of buildings;
public or private, city or country, including
estimates of cost, of materials and labor.
J. J. KANE, an experienced architect,
will give his personal superintendence to all
work performed by them, to insure satisfac-
tory and good workmanship. Charges mod-
ere; work done promptly.
l’ostoffice box 39. * marln-im
STAR
Watches, Jewelry,
silver in rural toe.
Repairing Properly Executed.
Repairing Fine Watches a Specialty.
East Side Jllain Street,
6-6-tf. Fort Worth,
I * I
2, H
Northwest Corner Public Square
Fort Worth, Texas.
C- K. FAIRFAX, Proprietor,
The best Hotel in Northern
Texas, Try it once.
1877.
1877.
1011 MW RATES I
THE PEOPLE of TEXAS
Will do Well to Bead this.
Iiw Mmi M Him
TRANSPORTATION COMPANY
Leaves SHREVEPORT Wednesday and
Saturday evenings on arrival of T. & P. train,
putting passengers through f.iom Fort Worth
to New Orleans in sixty-two hours.
Fare less than by any other route, meals
and state room included.
Ample Room for Feeding
and Watering Stock.
Gives through Bills Lading from all points
on Railroad to New Orleans, Eastern and
Northern Cities.
BONNIE & CO.,
Dealers in Kentucky Bnrbeon and Rye
WHISKIES,
Wines aud Brandies,
66 Second Street,
JLOTXIS'VTITLIEL
UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE, FIRST-CLASS
Passenger Rates will be as follows:
FROM LITTLE ROCK,
VIA MEMPHIS,
To Louisville, only $ 2.00
To Cincinnati, only 6.00
To Indianapolis, only 6.50
To Chicago,*onIy \' 13.25
To Cleveland, only 13.75
To Baltimore, only 20.00
To Philadelphia, 22.50
To New York, only 24.00
To Boston, only 25.00
YJ= Rates t.:> Cliatanooga and Southeastern
points, via Memphis & Charleston Railroad,
are also very low from Little Rock.
Coimectioais Sure via
Tills Stowte.
TRAINS ON MEMPHIS AND LITTLE
ROCKR. R. leave Little Rock daily on arriv-
al of North-bound train ofthe St. L., I. M. &
S. R. R. taking up the Texas connection for
all points North, East and South-East. In
cases of delay, trains from Little Rock to
Louisville, and Little Rock to Chatauooga,
and points East, are run under Special Or-
ders. Hence the passenger may rely upon
Prompt and Sure Connections via. this Short
and Popular Route. Pullman Sleeping Cars
through to Louisville, and Sleepers through
from Memphis to Lynchburg, via M. & C. R
R. ou evervtiain without chance.
M. S. JAY,
GeuT Pass. &-Ticket Agent.
Apply to L. J. SWINGLEY,
• Agent T. & P. R. R.
JOSEPH A AIKEN,
President, New Orleans.
JAMES E. PHELPS,
Contracting and Traveling Agent.
L. J. SWINGLEY , Agent, Fort Worth.
feb-25-dtf
TIN SHOP
Keeps on bund
STOVES
TINWARE <S£C-3
CHAS. GAY, Proprietor,
Make a Specialty of
ROOFING and guttering
ud out door work. Defies competition in
ce and work. Wholesale and retail Tin-
rare. Examine our prices before making
your purchases. Sign of Tin Star, South end
of Houston Sts 4 8-tf.
Bribgyourfiob Work to the
DEMOCRAT OFFICE,
East Side of Houston St.
C. BAIN & CO.,
HARDWARE AND STOVES.
J. N. RUanuel & Co.
H ARDWARE
i
ISON, NAILS,
My HI Mail ad % line
To Weatherford.
Three times a week to Palo
Pintu, Caddo, Breckeuridge
and Fort Griffin. Leaves
Weatherford Monday, Wednes-
day and Friday morning.
Three times a week to Jaeksboro
Leave Weatherford Tues-
day Thursday and
Saturday,
On arrival of Stage from
Fort Worth.
C. K. REAVES, Agent,
83 MAIN SEREET.
sep27-dtf
DAN TAYLOR,
te^asaL
U. S. .MAIL LINE
Fort Worth toCIebune,
Leaves Fort Worth Daily at 1\ a. m
Good hacks and first class accotnmo
dations. Office 83 Main Street.
C. K. REAVES, Ayent. .2t3-tt
DAILY HACK LINE
7-27-tr
WAGON MATERIAL, AND
AG RIG U LTD R A L IM-
PLEMENTS,
Agents lor
Whitewater Wagers,
Corner Houston and Third Sts.,
uln-ly; FORT WORTH, TEXAS,
To Becatur.
Hack leaves Trans Continental Ilote
every morning at seven o’clock.
C. K. REAVES, Agent.
sppSO-tf S3 Main Street,
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