Daily Democrat. (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 5, No. 177, Ed. 1 Friday, July 1, 1881 Page: 2 of 4
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The Democrat.
FRIDAY. JULY 4. 1SS1.
The New York Tribune says
Grant continues to drive a nail in
to the third term coffin every few
minutes.
The Press Association of several
of the southern and middle states,
have been taken excursions to the
north and west.
Aspiring cities are growing
fewer. Waxahachie has formally
withdrawn Jrom the contest for
the state university.
It is said that 1,500 people are
attending Maj. Penn’s camp-meet
iug at Flatonio. He is waging a
vigorous war on the sinners.
Rev. J. R, Graves, of Memphis
one of the leading Baptist minis-
ters of the South, is visiting
Texas. He is now at Savoy, Fan-
nin county.
Unless there is some unexpect-
ed interference Adam Thompson,
a negro, will be hung in Dallas to
day. The Democrat will have
a reporter there and will publish
all the particulars tomorrow
morning.
T he governor has granted Wil-
liam Burton, who was to be have
been hung at Weatherford to-day
a respite until the 22d inst., in or-
der that he may have more time
to examine the the petition for
commutation.
According to telegrams re
ceived at Austin Mr. Hollings-
worth has secured teachers for
the summer normal schools, and
all them except the one at Tyler
will be opened on theytth of July.
The one at Tyler is to be opened
on the 11th of July.
The Galveston News come out
of its libel suit with Judge Wil-
liams right side up with care.
That is to say it gained the suit.
We are glad to know it was not
guilty as charged. But we know
of no safer rule for the newspa-
pers and the people, than that
they (the papers) should be held
responsible to the public and to
individuals for any unwarranted
attack either upon public or pri-
vate men.
The Advance of yesterday morn-
ing in language that can hardly be
mistaken that the Democrat is
getting to be such a shining light
that such smaller bodies as the
comet lose their brilliancy in com-
parison with it: Thanks for the
compliment, wish it could be re-
turned. But, no body which gives
only reflected light, can be as bright
as the body from which it reflects,
or obtains its light,we hardly' know
how to say more than that it is a
splendid reflector.
MAO THE IHVESTIGTIOH GEN-
ERAL.
Postmaster General James has
received the commendations of ail
parties for his efforts to unearth
the frauds in the postal depart-
ment. Truly it seems he is doing
a good work. Be has gotten rid
of some grand rascals, whether
they are ever punished or not.
But can it be possible that he is
the only reformer in the adminis-
tration? Or is it probable that
all the rascals have been in
the post office department? Was
the navy department so purjured
when Secor Robinson was de-
posed that no impure man has
dared to take a position in it? Is it
not unreasonable to say that in all
the various and numerous ramifi-
cations of the treasury department
no dishonest man can be found?have
posttraders and Indian supply
agents grown so honest that to
investigate the management of
the department of the interior
would be a sin? Has the war de-
partment become so pure, peace
able and quiet that an investiga-
tion into its various ramifications
would produce no good results?
We think not. The head of each
of these departments should fol-
low the good example set by Mr.
James, and continue their investi-
gations until every dishonest man
is removed, and all guiRy ones
punished.
We dislike very much to speak
unkindly of any ones weakness or
infirmities, but we have received
from one J. E. Marsh, of Bosque
county, (who is evidently crazy)
one of the most sacreligious doc-
uments we ever laid eyes on. It
pretends to be a contract or
agreement between God and J. E.
Marsh, whereby he is appointed
a prophet after the order of Moses.
The contract is proven up, sworn
to and recorded in Bosque county.
It is such a long string of stuff
that we will not take time to read
it. If the man has any friends,
they should take charge of him
and try to get him to the asylum
at Austin.
We are informed by Mr. Irving, super-
intendent of the Dallas Division Texas
and Pacific Road, and other parties, that
we totally misrepresented both the cause
and effect of the creation of the “bacon
and beans houses.” We may be, but it
any person can show us where a commu-
nity or people will be benefitted by the
creation of a monopoly, that person must
work on our head with an auger, aud get
the idea into us through the hole.—Dallas
Herald.
New you have told it yourself,
we may as well say that our form-
er impressions tha^ you kept an
auger aud a set of trepauning in-
struments in your office, for the
purpose of making a way for the
ideas to reach your brain, is con-
firmed.
A New Departure.
Special Dispatch to the Globe-Democrat.
Washington, D. C., June 27—
The appointment by Secretary
Kirkwood as a clerk in the Indian
Bureau of F. Lafiesche, a brother
of “Bright Eyes,” is in pursuance
of a policy which the secretary has
quietly adopted with a view to
training the Indian young men for
the Indian service. Francis La-
flesche received all the education
he possesses in the Indian school
at the Omaha A gency in Nebraska.
He is said to be a young man of
fair intelligence aud good habits.
Having spent his life among his
own people, he of course under-
stands them as
NO "WHITE MAN COULD.
It is intended after his experience
and training in the Indian office
shall have made him thoroughly
familiar with the scope aud the
methods of Indian administration
to send Lafiesche to one of the In-
dian agencies as a clerk or
superintendent, and ultimately,
if he shall be found fit and
qualified, to make him an In-
dian agent. Secretary Kirkwood
hopes, within a year or two, to
place under training in the Indian
office one or two more Indian young
men from the school at Hampton
The secreiary will it is undestood,
endeavor to fill a greater number
of the subordinate places at Indian
agencies with Indian men. He
hopes to find in every tribe young
men willing to become assistants
to the blacksmiths, farmers, car-
penters, millers, ets., employed on
the reservation, and eventually he
expects,to see them do most of the
work undertaken by the govern-
ment for their people. This phi-
losophy has been pursued to some
extent during the last ten years
in the Indian service, and mainly
with good results. A great many
of the employes at the agencies
now are Indians, and their em-
ployment has been, on the whole,
a benefit to their people, as well as
advantageous to themselves.
ESTABLISHED 1872.
*******■«i
JOSEPH H. 101
Tlie Mormons.
N. O. Democrat.
The city of Tyler has a bran
new jail, one of which the city and
county were once justly proud.
But Ithey ain’t so proud now.
Within the last month there have
been three escapes from the jail.
In all sixteen prisoners have es-
caped, and among them murderers,
horse-thieves aud other bad crim-
inals, They are talking of build-
ing a rail pen to keep their prison-
ers in, as they think it would be
quite as safe as the jail that they
have.
--
And here too, locked in the bosom of
her northwester i district, lie in rich abun-
dance the rich sunbeams of other a°Nts
that went down in the carboniferous era
and that loving flower and the leaf loved
them and so built up the trees and then
decended with them into the prison cells
of the deeper earth, remained thus im-
prison through all the transaui rations
trom woody libre to tar, pitch, lignite,
coals, until these black diamonds are now
ready to be put again into service on the
surface of a Texas prairie and to make
our cities busy with the hum of industry
that latent torce can beget.—Dallas Her-
ald.
We’re not too certain about it
but we believe that means that
there is coal somewhere north-
west of this—
The latest and most interesting-
phase of the star route frauds is
the one presented in the criminal
court at Washington the other
day, when Brady through his at-
torney asked Judge Cox to in-
struct the grand jury to proceed
at once with the investigation of
his case. He presented the pic-
ture of injured innocense, and of
course wanted an investigation.
This is about the cheekiest thing
we ever read of. It is the biggest
game of bluff we ever knew to be
played. It was pure unadulter-
ated impudence. The presiding
judge very properly refused to in-
terfere with the duties of the
grand jury.
We had supposed that imprison-
ment for debt had long since been
abolished in this country, but it
seems it has practically been in
force in Alabama. The constitu-
tion of the state forbade impris-
onment for debt, but it allowed
chancery courts to imprison for
non-payment of debts ordered
by them, as for contempt. Un-
der this ruling parties were im-
prisoned until they purged them-
selves of the contempt by paying
the debt. A case ' involving this
question was recently brought be-
the supreme court, and they de-
cided that no person could be im-
prisoned in Alabama for debt, and
the provision authorizing the im-
prisonment by chancery courts
for contempt wras a subterfuge in
plain violation of the constitution.
The New Orleans Times is re-
sponsible for the following coup-
let:
Their legislature a law did pass,
To stop this thing of Arkansas,
And straightway went and made it Jaw
Henceforth to call it Arkensaw.
The Ool. E. J. Davis Republi-
cans in Texas, will jubilate over
Col. DeGress’ appointment. It is
a kind of silver lining to the cloud
that has hung over them like a
pall for so long.
The census department has
made some important discoveries
concerning the Mormons. When
that branch of the department
devoted to the collection of statis-
tics of the churches and religious
denominations of the country ap-
plied; to President Taylor, the
head of the Mormon church, for
informaiion, the latter was some-
what slow to furnish the needed
facts at first, but was finally in-
duced to give them. He then de-
scribed the organization ot the
Mormon church, showing it to be
one of the most perfect and thor-
oughly organized hierarchies that
ever existed. At the head of the
church was the president, who,
with his twelve apostles, presided
over it. Its jurisdiction was
divided between states, each of
which had a president and a
high council,- and the states into
wards, governed by bishops and
councillors, aud so on down. But
the strangest and most important
piece of information furnished by
Taylor against the Mormons was,
that am o tig the clergy of that
church there were regularly or-
dained judges who had control and
jurisdiction over temporal as well
as religious matters. This has
been charged against the Mormon
Church again and again by the
Gentiles, and as constantly denied
by the Mormons, but is now con-
clusively proved by the testimony
of Mr. Taylor himself. It is not
to be wondered at that the Fed-
eral government finds some diffi-
culty in dealing with the Mormon
question, when this church is al-
lowed to have temporal as well as
spiritual jurisdiction.
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CARDS AND CARD HOARDS,
Assorted Colors'
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A Large Assortment.
SHIPPING TAGS.
DRINK TICKETS,
(ri new anil novel pattern.)
I.etter Heads,
Note Heads,
ltill Heads,
Statements.
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WALTER A. HUFFMAN,
Nos. 9, i I, 13 and 15 First Street,
Fort Worth, Texas.
Honston &;Teias Ceatral Railway Iron Mountain Route.
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TIE WORLDS’ STANDARD,
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Northern Texas.
FAIRBANKS’
Keeps Everything in the Line
of Groceries, Woodenware,
Etc. Etc. Etc.
Will Duplicate any Bills from
New Ycrk, St. Louis or
New Orleans, with
Freight added.
Job Type
Of Ihe Eatcst and Most Fashionable
Styles.
The Democrat
Is Prepared to Execute Orders lor
Of all kinds, in a manner that cannot
be Excelled.
Why He Didn’t Take Out His
Paper.
From the Cincinnati Commercial.
The following official notifica-
tion of the failure of a subscriber
to take out his paper, after it had
duly arrived at his Postoffice,
leaves much to be desired, but not
much to be said:
POSTOPFICE AT BoEEMAN, State
of Montana: Dear Sir—-Pursuant
to instructions from the Postmas-
ter General, I beg leave to inform
you that your paper addressed to
J. B, Douglas,-Bozeman, Mont., is
not taken out, but remains dead
in this office. You will please dis-
continue the same. „
J. A. Taylor, P, M.
Reason: He was hung at Yir
ginia City last Friday.
OTTON BEAM
—Colonel R. M. Pulsifer, of the
Boston Herald, is proposed for
the chairman of the executive
lominittee of the World’s Fair.
Frame, Hooks, and all other required attach-
ments.
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Fairbanks’ Standard
SCALES
Of every description. Send for iuvular.
FAIRBANKS & CO.,
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] Warehouses in all *thi eading ciUe3 cf the
Woountry. 4-2P eod&w3m
Carries a very I rge Line of To-
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Agent for the Dupont Powder
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Invites’ ^he Trade to Call and
Examine*His
AND TO MAKE TO ORDER
Blank Books,
Of miy Kind.
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We do it boast of Cheap fori
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T E3 X aY S
—AND—
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Pullman’s Palace Sleeping Cars
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BETWEEN ST. LOUIS & HOUSTON
via SEDALIA and
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THE SHORT LINE.
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via VLN1TA, and
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Speeial inducements to emigrants’and people
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Scf For information as to rates of passage
and freight.routes, etc., apply in person, or by
letter, to:
J. K. HOGAN, Gen. Immigration Agent.
E. D. TRUE. A. G. F. A.
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, .... . lr* SWANSON, General Sunt.
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THERE
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Buffalo, Pittsbuigli,
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Fort Worth, Texas.
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Daily Democrat. (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 5, No. 177, Ed. 1 Friday, July 1, 1881, newspaper, July 1, 1881; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1090349/m1/2/: accessed June 12, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Fort Worth Public Library.