Daily Democrat. (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 5, No. 95, Ed. 1 Sunday, March 27, 1881 Page: 3 of 4
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fHE Democrat.
SOCIETIES.
Fobt Worth, Lodge, No. 251, I. O. O. F.
meet9 at the,r hall over City National Bank
jVery nlght'cHAS. BAGGET, N. G.
C, IF. Black, Secy. tl.
K. ot P. meets every Monday night at 7 :30 p.
m a their castle hall on Main street, between
S'C°“d T. w. Powell, C. C.
G. M. Otibk, K. of E. and S.
ANNOUNCEMENTS.
Attention Candidates !
The Daily Democrat will charge the
following prices for announcements ot
candidates for city offices, the announce-
ment to run from this day until the day
of election :
For City Attorney.. .......... $10 00
“ “ Marshall................... 10 00
“ “ Secretary.................. 10 00
| “ Treasurer.................. 10 00
“ “ Assessor and Collect’r 10 00
“ “ Alderman.................. 5 00
For City Secretary,
1 hereby announce myself a candidate
(or the office of City Secretary, at the en-
guing April election. J. P. Booth.
For City Marshal.
We are authorized to announce the
name of George W. Davenport as a
candidate for the office of cLy marshal, at
the ensuing April election.
We are authorized to announce the name
of Benton R. Elliott as a candidate lor
City Marshal at the April election.
We are authorized to announce the
name ot T. I. Courtright as a candidate
for the office of City Marshal at the en
suing April election.
We are authorized to announce the
name ot Sam M. Farmer as a candidate
for re-election to the office of City Marshal
at the ensuing April election.
We are authorized to announce the
name of John Burford as a candidate tor
the office of City Marshal, at the ensuing
April election.
For City Attorney.
Weave authorized to announce the name
of Ror’t. McCart as a candidate for the
office of City Attorney, at the ensuing
April election.
We are authorized to announce the
name ot William M. Melton, Esq., as a
candidate for the office ot City Attorney
at the ensuing April election.
We are authorized to announce the
name of J. W. Swayne as a candidate for
city attorney at the ensuing April elec-
tion.
For City Assessor and Collector.
We are authorized to announce R. J.
Ware as a candidate for the office of City
Assessor and Collector. Election April
5th, 1881.
We are authorized to announce the
name of R. E. Maddox as a candidate for
re-election to the office of city assessor
and collector at the ensuing April election.
For City Treasurer.
We are authorized to announce the
name of J. S. Loving as a candidate tor
"e-election to the office of City Treasurer.
Election April 5th,
We are authorized to announce the
name of George Mulkky, as a candidate
for City Treasurer, at the ensuing April
election.
For Alderman.
We are authorized to announce the
nameotW. O. Stillman as a candidate
for Alderman ot the first ward at the en-
suing April election.
We are requested to announce George
B. Holland as a candidate tor Alderman
of the First Ward, election April 5th.
If l don’t hurry, 1 will get lelt, as it is
n°w train time, but I must have a glass ot
that Milwaukee beer.
If you want a neat delivery wagon, get
E* H. Keller to make it. He can heat the
World in anything of the kind.
For sale Cheap,
A fire and burglar proof safe. At this
office. 12-6-tf
Clean Up.
The attention of the citizens of Fort
Worth is called to the sanitary condition
ot our city, and all persons are requested
clean up their premises immediately,
as the nuisance ordinance will be strictly
enforced. Especially would I call their
tRtention to their water closets. Disin-
fectants will he furnished free, by calling
at the City Hall. John T. Brown,
Mayor.
The Prohibition Question*
Tliis question, it seems, still agitates the
minds of some of our readers, and we
have given considerable spac« to commun-
ications, pro et con, from advocates of both
sides. As the legislature has seen tit not
to submit the question to a vote ot the
people, we cannot see much good result-
ing from a further discussion ot the mat-
ter just now. Nothing is likely to be ef-
fected at this term ot the legislature, and
the vexed question remains to be brought
up at the next term, and will, no doubt,
cut a considerable figure in the next cam-
paign. We give space to one more com-
munication on the subject believing that
our writers will see lor themselves that
their efforts will have to be deferred until
some future time:
“Should prohibition in the states be-
come a law the country w?ould be bank-
rupted?” or in other words if all the in-
toxicating liquors in this country were
taken away, could it exist and prosper
and the people have money enough left to
buy food and clothing? Have the people
of “this enlightened and progressive 19th
eentuay” the right to protect themselves
from crimes, disease, and death, coming
in through the harbor of a great city, or
out at the bung of a whisky barrel ? or
from a pistol with a bulletin it? gen-
erally harmless, unless it has whisky at
one end of it; or be compelled to drink
poison because there is money in the oper-
ation ! a small traction of the cost ot which
goes to help pay the government revenue ?
Since the day Americans threw British
tea into the ocean, they claim “the right
to settle all such matters tor themselves.”
“Who are the temperance fanatics ?”
They are, many of them, those who have
had their souls and bodies dyed in the de-
grading, polluting, solution of the “still;”
or the tears of woe and sorrow it begets ;
and by whose “fanaticism,” begotten of
their sad experiences and dearly-bought
knowledge of the liquor traffic, it is doom-
ed, “in this the 19th century, in this en-
lighted and progressive,century” to ever-
lasting oblivion.
And while the drunkard and all those
dependent upon him—women and child-
ren—in all their financial ruin, poverty,
crime, insanity, death, and eternal woe,
are before us, our hearts refuse to be
moved or our tears to flow, in sympathy
for the whisky “makers and dealers,”
their ‘‘bottle and cork manufacturers,”
&c., &c., But we, the “temperance fanat-
ics,” take a great deal of encouragement
from their assurances that prohibition by
law, can and will work such financial ruin
to all concerned in it, and will save the
money, now spent for intoxicating liquors
for the consumers of it, to put into their
own pockets with which to bujT land, and
make comfortable homes, and to buy food
and clothing from the merchants and gro-
cers, of which they stand greatly in need,
while they make the whisky dealers’ pock-
ets their safe deposits.
With $30,000,000, which' is Texas’ share
of the national liquor bill, estimated at
$15 to each inhabitant, and Texas gets all
of her share, she can, when it is saved by
prohibition, pay the revenue or her share
of what is raised by liquor, which is $2 30
to each individual of the United States, or
$4,000,000 to Texas share, and have $25,-
400,000 left, for the benefit of the poor
people, who now spend it for liquor, and
the tax payers can save $L.80 each, out of
their share of the $90,000,000 liquor costs
the United States for crimes, insanity, and
pauperism caused by it.
Texas raises and saves about 1,0#0,000
bales of cotton, which, at forty dollars a
bale, amounts to $40,000,000, enough to
pay her $30 000,000 liquor bill. Then
acres of the cotton remain in the fields to
be lost for the want oi laborers to save it,
while her working men spend their time
in saloons or disabled lrom the effects of
liquor, thereby discouraging the emigra-
tion of farmers with capital, who Avould
buy up her vacant lands and add hundreds
of thousands ot dollars to the wealth of
the state. This is some of the ways the
liquor traffic works, and before the elec-
tion ot many more law makers, the people
will find out that it don’t pay to permit
the existence of a traffic which only results
in crime, poverty, misery ar.d death, and
which never has, nor ever will, produce
any good, and bankrupts hundreds and
thousands of those who buy and drink it.
That it don’t pay to keep men in peni-
tentiaries, prisons, hospitals, and lunatic
asylums, at the expense of honest, indus-
trious tax payers, in order that a few liq-
uor capitalists may grow rich by the man-
ufacture and sale of whisky, and by
swindling the government out ot three-
fourths of the revenue tax, on the liquor
they make
That it don’t pay to have thousands of
homes blasted, ruined, defiled, and turned
into hells, discord and misery, in order
that one liquor dealer may amass a for-
tune.
That it don’t pay to have one citizen
hanged for murder because another sold
him liquor.
That it don’t pay to have one citizen in
the county jail because another one sold
him liquor.
That it don't pay to have fifty working
men idle, poor and ragged, in order to
have one saloon-keeper dressed in broad-
cloth, and flush ot money.
It don’t pay to have those fifty men live
on bone soup and half rations, in order
that one saloon keeper may flourish on
roast turkey am! champagne.
A Tale.
[By the Author of “Slade on his Rambles.
CHAPTER 1.
Once upon a time there lived a man-
men have lived at different times, but this
tale has nothing to (jo with any only this
certain man. This man was once a boy.
Like most other boys, he had a mother,
which, of course, necessitated the use ot a
father. Well now this boy’s father was
honest and plowed oxen. He had never
wasted much of his time at school. In the
schools which he attended they used Smi-
ley’s arithmetics and Smith’s grammars, if
indeed any one wished to study these
branches. The three It's—'‘‘reading, ’ritin’
and ’ritemetic”—were at a premium then.
This good old man, the hero’s father
could read and knew the multiplication
table. He plowed oxen and dug sassafras
sprouts among the hills of Alabama. He
made an honest living. Got drunk once
or twice a year aud then he was emphatic-
ally a bad citizen. He would walk ten
miles to see a coon fight, and lie wore cop-
peras breeches—which was altogether his
own business. He had a wife named Bet-
sey, who wore a cap, was industrious at
the wheel, and they both believed it was
right to multiply and replenish the earth,
which they did accordingly. Once a year
an old woman came and stayed with them
a few days, and when she left the old man
scratched down in his Bible something
like this: “Daniel Jeremiah Hawkins,
born June 5,1824.” On one of her visits
this old woman left the hero of mj tale
registered, and that’s all I can tell my
readers about the origiu of my hero.
Some authors would have gone further
back and given more particulars of the ad-
vent of one who was destined to be so
celebrated in the future, but I was never
of a prying disposition and am satisfied
with what I know of his advent—and the
gentle reader will have to content himself
with what I’ve told him. This boy ran
rapidly in the ways of wisdom. By the
time he was fifteen years old he could
ride any steer his dad had, climb to the
top of any tree, make two cats fight with
greater success than any boy in the vicin-
ity, could kill more frogs and lizzards than
any of his competitors. “Excelsior”
seemed to be his motto. He could crook
a pin more accurately and place it more
dextrxously on the teacher’s chair
than any boy in school, and when the
teacher arose hurriedly from his seat and
inquired who had done the mischief, he
would be more industriously engaged at
his studies than any of his fellow sud-
dents, and then it wouldn’t be five min-
utes until he would go to the teacher with
a pleasant face to ask some tavor, which
was always granted. He could tie a can
to a dog’s tail more securely, and could
roll one of his neighbor’s watermelons
further and not get caught than any of his
schoolmates. He could read in the third
reader, knew some “spellin’ ” and four
lines of the multiplication table. He never
learned to smoke cigarettes, be it said to
hie everlasting lame. He grew up, and
at the age of nineteen married a girl by
the name of Sarah Ann, who made her
own dresses, knit her brothers’ stockings,
made sassafras tea tor the family and was
a good girl generally, who never wore
bustles nor banged her hair, nor anything
else before she was married. The happy
couple moved on splendidly. Alf— 1 for-
got to state before that that was my he
ro’s name -bought him a mule and a grey
mare, and raised pigs, hominy, pump
kins, hens, butter, eggs and some chil-
dren, all of which his carelul wife saved
carefully up and sold, except the children,
which she spanked and trained up in the
way they should go. All of the above-
named articles grew and flourished, and
soon this couple were able to have a wa£-
on made with long hubs, like unto the
unes used in Arkansas, Alf wasted rot
his substance, but saved up every nickel,
and whenever he got a chance he cheated
some man out ot a pig.
[To be continued.]
REMOVAL.
MARKETS BY TELKGBAPH.
GOLD AND STOCK TELEGRAPH CO.
(Commercial News Department.)
New Orleans, Mai-ch 26, 11:30 a. m
The Candy Manufactory of F.
P. Capera.
This popular establishment, formerly
on Houston street, is now more conven-
tly and commodiously located on Main
street, cornea second, where Mr. Capera
is better prepared than ever to put up
HOME MADE CANDIES.
Here too you will always find a full line
of nuts, raisens, fruits and cigars very
cheap. 3-4-lm.
Early Amber Sugar Cane Seed
At Brunswig’,s Drug Store, 10 cents per
pouud. Choice seeds, such as Peas,
Beans, Corn and other vegetables, offered
by the pound or bushel, at the seed grow-
er’s wholesale rates, at Brunswig’s Drug
Store. 3-10-ts&sd.
Choice Country Produce and Family
Groceries, at R. Boaz & Bro, south of
public square, 2-24-tf
Choice Flower Seeds
At BruQ3Wig’s Drug Store. 3-10-is&sd.
WHERE TO BUY
Family Groceries.?
—OF—
R. BOAZ & BRO.
THEY KEEP
Flour, Cranberries,
Sugar, Pickles,
Lard, Butter,
Bacon, ;Eggs,
Coffee, Canned goods,
Tea, Apples.
Sell cheaper than anybody, and deliver
all goods free to all parts oi the city,
d&vv-tf.
Wall Paper.
An endless variety, and now being sold
at very low rates, at Brunswig's Drug
Store. 3-10-ts&sd.
Help Wanted.
A good girl, white one preferred. Can
get a good home in a small family and
reasonable wages by applying to
Mrs. J. W. Putman,
3-11 d&w-tf. Birdyille, Texas.
If you want a good home-made buggy,
call on E. H. Keller, on Throckmorton
street.
•i ..........
February..
March .... lOATbid
April......10 43 bid
May .......lO.nOjbid
June....... 10.MalO.56
Maiket steady
July....... 10 6 al0 61
August____ 10 65al • 66
Sept....... 10. :J5al0.27
Oct ......
Nov.........a—
Dec.......
Sales-
Wanted,
At the El Paso Hotel, a first-class baker
12-18-tt
New Orleans, Match 26, 4:80,p.m
BOOTS AND SHOES.
Jan.........
February...
March......10.4- >10.50
A; ril.......10 40al0 47
May........10.46al0.43
June......10.47al0.48
Market quiet and easy
July....... 10 5 alO 53
August____ 10 57a 10 53
Sept...... 10 20ai0 23
O t........
Nov..........a--
Dec........
Sales 24.SOO
Irish Potatoes, the New York Rose, at
2’24-tt R, Boaz & Bteh.
MelM^jSeM Hitth Sclool.
You will get Bottom
Rates on Window Glass, at Brunswig’s
Drug Store. 3-10-ts&sd.
__
*So soon as the people fully understand ; . ,_
these tilings we will let you know “ i*iw W»U P^per at Brunswig’s Drug Store,
prohibition will work.” M. P. I bofayti
“You Don’t Know their Value.”
“They cured me of Ague, Bilousness
and Kidney Complaint, as recommended.
1 had a half bottle left which 1 used for
my two little girls, who the doctors and
neighbors said could not be cured. I am
confident I should have lost both of them
one night, if I had not had the Hop Bit-
ters in my house to use. 1 found they
done so much good [ continued with
them, and they are now well. Thai is why
I say you dp not know halt the value of
Hop Bitters, and do not recommend them
high enough.”—B. Rochester, N. Y.
BROTHERS.
STOCK
COMPLETE
“Bejabers, aud did ye hear ot that Mil
waukee beer at the Tivoli? It’s noice, it
is. and is calculated to ^knock the blues to
smithereens, in a mon, in these days of
evictions and cruel tratement of Erin’s
children. Hurrah! be gorraand I’ll jist
stop in at the Tivoli and spoil a few more
glasses of Milwaukne.”
My life was saved by Warner's Safe Kid-
ney and Liver (Jure.—E. B. Lalrly, Selma,
Alabama.
White Lead, Linseed Oil &c.,
Headquarters at Brunswig’s Drug Store.
3-10-ts&sd.
The Ntanncti Old Reliable Jones Sc
Tucker Bros., Still lu the Field.
Tins live firm of grocers, by a strict ad-
herence to thorough business principles,
and a continued effort to supply the wants
of their many customers with
Groceries of the very Best Quality,
are fast becoming the grocers of the city.
At this well-regulated establishment, you
will always find a complete assortment of
Staple and Fa\cy Groceries,
Canned Goods, Dried Fruits, Country
Produce, Confetioneries, and in fine every-
thing usually found in any first-class
grocery house. Remember the place, cor.
>lain and Weatherford streets. 3-lQ-lm
Jay D. Dunking, Cl<rk, Wabash Shops,
Toledo, Ohio, says:—I am now wearing
an “Only Lung Pad,” and it has afforded
me almost instant relief from asthma.—
See Adv. 3 15 2 w
If you want a real fine, first-class buggy
>r carriage, go around and leaye your or-
ierwith E. H. Keller.
Light and Fancy Harness.
Strickfaden & Co. , make a specialty ot
Light, Fancy Harness, 3-9-wfsu-d&w
The I. C. Cigars
Are the best. Sold at 5 cents each, at
Brunswig’s Drug Store, corner of Fourth
and Houston streets. 3-10 ts&sd.
R S. Philpot has placed in my hands
tor sale, the Fort Worth Elevator and
Mill. Possession to be given June 1st.
Parties wishing to purchase will please
address W. R. Vivreit,
3 22-lm. Weatherford, Texas.
R. Boaz & Bro , south side of public
square, is the place to get Family Gro-
ceries and Country Produce. ‘2-24-tl
The Railroad Bill Should Not
Pass.
Neither should ladies or gents pass their
mammoth dry goods house, without buy-
ing ot Malone, Hitt & Co.
3-25-tl2-wl
2000 Gallons
Vain, Calvert & Co's., mixed paint, war-
ranted to be better than lead and oil, or
any other mixed paints manufactured,
lust received and tor sale by
8-ll-we fr&sun-2w. Wm. Cameron;
The Best, the Lightest
Hand-made harness. The best Litriat and
Fancy Harness at Strickfaden & Co’s.
3-9-wfsu-d<tw.
Have You
8een to see th(F immense stock of dry
goods at
3-25-d2-'vl
Malone, Hitt & Co;
Wanted.
Situation as clerk in a store by a middle
ig *d German.
Address, A. J. G., Democrat Office.
3 24-dlw
We Claim
To have the best selection of Lamps
Chandeliers and Lanterns in the city, anc
always make the very lowest prices.
Brunswig the Druggist. 3-l0-ta&sd.
HAND MADE
Boots & Shoes
Purnislilns
Goods,
Five hundred bales of hay for gale, at
the Missouri Wagon Yard.
3-10 tf. Taos. Wittin.
E. H Keller puts up the best spring
wagon that is made m the state. Call
around and see hib work.
For bnagies, waggons, carriages,
spring wagons. &c., go to E. H. Keller on
Throckmorton street.
Head Light Oil.
WHITE SHIRTS la
3-10-ts&sd.
Etc., Etc., Etc.,
All Complete.
Just Too Mee
Are those gentlemen's spring suits afc
3-25-d2-wL Malone, Hitt & Go’s.
Burts,’ Ziegler’s,
Hannan & Reddish’s,
And every standard make of Ladies,’
Men’s, Boy’s Girl’s, and Children’s Boots
and Shoes, just received, and offered at
astonishingly low prices, by
S. M. FRY,
l b Main £r. Rtkft tfqij bVue ^43,
Cor. Houston and First Streets,
FORT WORTH,
SAMUELS & MAUINTIRE
Manufacturers of haud-made an 1 machine
BRICK.
SUPPLY CONTINUALLY ON HAND.
I. B. SAMUELS, Architect.
SiEnwr IIo«®on aud First strttets, over
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