The Daily Democrat. (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. [99], Ed. 1 Friday, March 9, 1883 Page: 1 of 4
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DAILY DEMOCRAT.
VOL. I.
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FOOT WORTH, TEXAS, Flit DAY EVENING, MAliOH 9, 1883.
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SHOE STORE!
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Li! dies and Gcnls Fine
OUR SPECIALTY.
LEWIS BROTHERS & CO.
53 Houston Street, Fort Worth, Texas.
CHAS. H. FRY,
PRACTICAL WATCHMAKER,
mid dealer In
FINE JEWELRY, CLOCKS, SILVERWARE, ETC,
HOUSTON STREET,
FORT WORTH
FIRST NATIONAL BANK,
CORNER OF HOUSTON AND SECOND STREETS,
FORT "WORTH.
CAPITAL,
SURPLUS,
TEXAS.
$1
00,000
33,000
Directors— M 11 Loyd,
Burnett. J D Reed
Geo Jackson, D C Rer,nett, Zn.e < c't\ J S Godwin, SB
TIE CITY NATIONAL BANK
FORT WO-RTH
PAID UP CAPITAL
SURPLUS,
% TEXAP.
1 - $150 000
19,000
All matters pertaining to conservative bunking receive prompt
and careful attention.
Drafts Sold on the Principal Cities of Europe.
Praaidrtit, A. M. BUITTON.
Vice-President, JNO. NICHOLS.
I Cashier. S. W. LOMAX.
J. "W. ALDERMAN,
<3-BiTBZ3^.3L, BOECja-lTIC,
BLACKSSITMNG. FORGING, HORSE SHOilNG.
Wag®, Spring Sad;, Gimp mi Higgles Eprsi o? Painted.
CORNER OF HOUSTON AND FOURTEENTH STREETS,
FORT WORTH,
TEXAS
TO TEE ' PUBLIC.
Tkh office of the city assessor and col-
lector at Palestine was broken open and
voucher!), stub receipts, and lomeof the
books stolen. Investigation will follow.
It is now certain that the legislature
will have to prolong the session, or leave
Important and necessary legislation un-
finished. Perhaps linal adjournment
will not he reached before the tint of
April. Hfof, ' f
BtnNiti't paid handsome tribute to tli«
son ol 1888, wo tool coutidont .in stying that in point ol style, oxcolloncof nieinory or Governor Stephens, of Geor-
and completeness it is unquestionably superior to any in tlio State. Each
dopai'tmoul is now displaying the choicest products of
i'UI Li jf\ / liiiJililili 1T *
In inviting your attention to our stock fur the Spring and Summcr'Sea-
gla, yesterday. Residences and busi-
ness offices were draped in crape in
honor of a man whose death the World
mourns.
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The Men's Clothing Department. .
The Youth's Clothing Department.
The Children's Clothing Department.
The Furnishing Department.
The Hat and Cap Department
Present an airay of attractions that wo (eel sure will moot ypur approval.
Hating but odd pi'ico, end that prico marked in plain figures, from
which thero is no deviation-, tho price'bo marked may bo relied upon as
being tho
"VERY LOWEST.
a: Reputed, or tlu lie; Mi
Tim Monitor building at Mlneohi, with
everything in its office, and the mayor's
office, owned by D. C. Williams, editor
and proprietor of the Monitor, with a
livery stable, photograph gallery,.and
another building, were consumed by
tire Thursday, the 8th. More liberal In-
surance would have saved heavy loss.
Thanks to a generous and apprecia-
tive constituency the Daii.y Dkmockat
has thus oarly found'its space inade-
quate to the business requirements of
its friends, and to-day unfurls a seventh
column reef to its sails. It will con-
tinue to do this when occasion demands
•it, though six columns will be its stand-
ard unless admonished to l,keed it up"
to seven by a permane.t increase of bus-
iness. a t ■
Thk statement yesterday that the
earnings of the Fort Worth and Denver
City railroad for the month of February
were $58,000, was taken from the New
York special to the Galveston News.
The Gazette, this morning, states the
earnings at $5,800. That special corres-
pondent seldom errs, but as the Febru-
ary earnings of the International are put
at only $23,000 he or the wires, or the
printer, probably added a surplus
cypher.
Things will more now that a woman
enters the lists. Lady Florence Dixie,
in a letter to tho London Times, says
lilggor and Parnell have not accounted
for 150.000 pounds of the land league
funds, and have no right to mock the
sufferings of the distressed in Ireland
by their sham chamnionship of the
starving peasantry. It Is to be hoped
while the lady is engaged In clearing
up that matter that she is collecting and
forwarding funds to appease the hunger
which can not wait the finding of the
missing funds.
Whenever it suits your convenience to call we shall bo most happy to
receive you, cither as visitor or as purchaser. Yours Truly,
WASHER & AUGUST,
58 HOUSTON STREET,
[3-1-8 m]
FORT WORTH, TEXAS,
Tint "redlculous ruutor" that im-
pelled tlie Daii.y Dkmochat to call at-
tention to the condition of Godwin
hall, had, at least, the effect of Inducing
those In charge to resort to the precau-
tion ofbracing the floor on each side of
the central plate, which was done late
yesterday evening. Whether this pre-
vented a disaster and holocaust, of
course no human Intelligence can un-
dertake to say, but It certainly caliued
the fears of the timid and increased the
sense of ie;uilty. It was t ils, and to
prevent a catastrophe, that the Dkmo-
i'hat responded to the expressed wishes
of many fathers In calling attention to
the matter.
Mh. Jacou Adi.kii. of Jollet, Illinois,
was among the excursionists who visi-
ted Wichita Falls lust Wednesday. He
isoneofthe party who Intends to see
and know more of Texas than can be
learned by a single trip. He Informed
the IJlmoi'uat reporter that, being In
poor health, he had Joined the excursion-
ists with a view to benefit his health,
and find a plaoe Tor permanent resldenoe
where he could engage In some business
that would enable him to pay expenses
while sojourning In the south. Ills
plan Is to return to Texus soon, and In-
vest two or three hundred thousand dol-
lars In buying ranches and stocking
them, and holding them for sale again.
Meantime he will purchase, as well as
! raise two und three year old cattle, and
.transfer them to his ranches In Wyo-
ming Territory, where a year's grazing
and feeding will fit them for market.
Mr. A. has abundant means to carry out
his programme. Is a thorough cattle-
man, and has mora faith In this than
any other business. He says that cattle
handled In this way will nearly double
In value In one year.
acouimUate money. But the preslden
and great officials were guests where al)
went "merry as a marriage bell.-' \
Which was the marriage may be left to v-
t he judgment of a discriminating publio,
the marriage In St. I.ouls last Septem-
ber or the inarriago in Washington In
Lent. Both r.re very much married.
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The Gulf, Colorado & Santa
makes a good buainoss showing for
Pebruary. Tho following compara-
tive statomont ot its earnings for thut
month for 1882 and 1888, i« moat
gratifying, exhibiting healthy pro-
gress and aSMirod prosperity:
Febrnarv, 1883 $138.580 09
February, I8U2 82,002.9ft
106
Mile
Increase $ Bl,40®,74
Estimated earnings two
months ending February
1H8U $205,604,118
Estimated earnings two
months endlag February 38,
1882 !mj
Increase
183,028,91
.$112,575.47
Mr. A. L. McCoy of Mobile, Ala.,
living in Texas since 1837, was lieuten-
ant in the army of the Republic ot
Texas, after that assistant clerk in the
House of Representatives during Pres-
ident Sam Houston's administration,
and a Texas veteran. He died at Mil-
llcan at 3.30p. m., March 8, 1883, aged
(!{>. Many friends mourn his loss. How
frequently of late lias Texas been made
to mourn the thinning ranks of the no-
ble army of veterans as they answer to
the last roll call. Honor and cherish
the few remaining; they will not tarry
long behind the comrades so promoted.
THAT CEREMONY.
When certain papers published arti-
cles calculated to reflect injuriously on
the character of tho indlviual who inci-
dentally fills the chair of the president
of the United States, thero was a gen-
eral impulse of the press to spare the
office Invidious comment by Ignoring
the calumnies set adrift, but since Mr.
Arthur aided and abetted, In that he
countenanced by his presence, the wit-
nessed marriage ceremony of Senator
Tabor, of Colorado, to the divorced wife
of Harvey Doe, formerly of OsbkoBh,
Wisconsin, now a member of the Colo-
rado legislature, a doubt creeps in as
to the Immaculate purity of Mr. Arthur's
sentiments, and thero is not such ready
assertion that certain charges are and
must of necessity be utterly Impossible.
Father Chapelle rellevtd his. church
of same of the scandal by his declara-
tion that lie did not know that both par-
ties had previously been married. Both
Mr. Doe and Mrs. Tabor are living and
it is a grim retrospect to Mrs. Tabor
when looking back to the early days,
when she helped by burdensome drudge-
ry, and In ways known only In the mining
camps where gold dust was the curren-
cy, to lay the foundation of that fortnne
which her husband Is squandering on
ona.as young as she was when he ap-
proved and encouraged her efforts to
The Proposed Great Port on the Pa-
cific Coast.
According to tho plans to estab-
lish a lir.o of steamships on tho Pa-
oifio ocoun in connection with tho
Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fo rail-'
road, it appear# that a direct lino is
to bo built from Kansas City to
Guaymos, through a fino country,
lionco a stoamship lino is to run a
number of tho finest iron vessels di-
rect to tho Sanwich Islands, Auck-
land, Now Zealand, then Sydney,
thoro connecting with anothor steam-
ship lino tor Melbourne and all parts
of Australian, or by way of Sandwich
Islands to Yokohoma, Japan, and
tho Chinese ports. Guaymas, it is
claimed by the promoters of this
schomo, is tho fine«t Pacific coast
port. Tho town lies on a slopo, with
platoaas that act as rain-shods, loav-
mg thooity thoroughly drained. Tho
la-gest steamships in tho world can,
it is claimed, go right up to the
docks to unload. Any sized fleet
can find liarborago. Among other
advantages claimed, it is pointed out
thnt it is right near tho mouth of the
gulf of California. It is 000 miles
noarer tho Australian and Japanese
and Chino.se steamship ports than
San Francisco, tho present port for
that traffic.
Discrimination.
Tho Now York Times finds that
certain railroads establish what it
calls discriminative and protective
internal tariffs, which tho govern-
ment can not establish. In tho
printed tariff of the "groat &
freight and pnssonger lin<
TO CONVENTION OF STOCKMEN.
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Greeting;
As America is to an American his pride and the world's
$ltift'ions,lTnion and Eort Worth the Queen €ity of this
envy, so is Texas
Grand Common-
v.
r WE INVITE THE STOCKMEN,
Ever Noted for Profound Judgment and Foresight, as was their Pioneer Jacob, to visit our
i New Store, 59 and 61 Houston Street,
And Inspect the Most Elegant
Dip Goods Emporium of Northwest Texas.
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OPEN UNTIL 10 O'CLOCK B.
i * f* f* ft r' r •?<***> I«
norihorn and eastern citios, via
leston and Savannah, to all pc
tho south and bouthwest," I6SL
that domestic donims, sheetings,
shirting and ticking, in boxes and
bales, south bound, aro rated as first-
ola°B, while precisely the same goods,
"shipped direct from southern fao-
tories to all points north, east and
west," aro sixth dais. The result
is that, taking, for instance, Colum-
bus, Ga., an important southern
manufacturing point, the rate for'
these goods sent north to Baltimore^
Philadelphia, Now York, Providence
or Boston, is 40 cents por hundred
pounds, whilo lor the produots of
custom mills Bent south it is $1.25
por hundrod. pounds. Matters of
this sort load morchanta to ask
wholhot* tbo gonoral government
ought not to rognlato railroads.—
Ualvoston News.
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The porcelains mostly souj
by collectors are old Sovres,
Vienna and Borlin.
Percales are brought out in plaids,
stripes, and figuted patterns) colors
are very bright. .
"The "Lenox" jacket is one of the
most convenienWand pretty stylos of
wraps tor a young gin.
Opalino looking-glass bead*, and
irriuescent boads glitter on the latest
party costumes favored in Paria.
As many as six different oolon ap*
pear in somo of the new Ottoman
ribbon cocks'-comb corsage bows.
Cloth for pelisses is seon amonrf
the new spring goods with rough
finish in the new shade of corn bine.
Lenten lilies, mingled with delicato
fern fronds, constitute the moat cor*
reot corsage boquet of th« present
season.
Now cotton dress goods exhibit
greater variety in color and design
than evor, whilo tho finish is simply
admirable.
Extremely pretty embroidered
silk, muslin, crape and gaaaes are
employed this seaaon
and ball dresses.
Golden brown,
beautifully
ttlyV-'-0# rf. Br0°-kl,5-S4
For dinner [
dresses, ia
l"hftaUoriy-nlb..rd«l
The new sprit41.
been opened rfUMhoover
American twoft
in admfipblo miA (
Sorrow foi,
yellow green
of stylo, but l
and oil to shades i
tr* as ever.
I
ma gaaaes are
on for eveokut.
^eqpaod bf^
a fire Than*
est Y far'
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Styles, Carey W. The Daily Democrat. (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. [99], Ed. 1 Friday, March 9, 1883, newspaper, March 9, 1883; Fort Worth, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth233602/m1/1/: accessed April 30, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting The Dolph Briscoe Center for American History.