Fort Worth Weekly Gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 17, No. 23, Ed. 1, Friday, May 27, 1887 Page: 3 of 8
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fiUB COUiNTY ROADS
AfiJinsiglit Into the Present Condition
Ijf Tarrnnt County Roads The
Crooked Roods Must Cto
Interview with Colonel A J Chambers on
Uouuty A ffalrs After this Year Dirt
Honda Will lies juullt
The subject of good county roads beins
one in which every citizen in Tarrant
county is deeply interested a Gazettk
reporter was detailed to interview Col-
onel A J Chambers on the subject the
geutleman being perhaps the best posted
man in the county When asked about
the general character of cur roads Col-
onel Chambers replied
About the best way I can illustrate
the way the roads in this county run is by
sketching off a map of one of them I
will take the road from here to Grape-
vine a most important thoroughfare and
a good average Here is Eort Worth
here Blrdville and here Grapevine
The road at present runs as follows
said Colonel Chambers sketching off the
following remarkable map
Grapevine
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I ort Worth
Of course all these turns are not acute
angles aud from an offhand drawing it
is impossible to make the distances geo-
graphically accurate but the outline ap-
proximates precision sulliciently to give
a not intolerable idea of the general char-
acter of the road It is just nineteen
miles from Fort Worta to Grapevine on
the proposed straight road and as the
road now winds the distance is twenty
seven miles This is a sample of the
other roads The road to Decatur bas
not so many abrupt turns but there are
two or three enormous divergencies
around pastures find through lanes which
stretches to fortytwo or three miles a
road which should be only thirtyflve
Then there is the road to Cleburne
wbich is thirtythree miles and should be
twentyeight and others I could name
The Mansfield and Arlington roads are
comparatively straight but could be im-
proved The road to Keller which is
seventeen miles should be straightened
and shortened to thirteen and onehalf
miles and so on
Reporter Is any effort being made to
have these roads straightened and im-
proved
Said Colonel Chamoers Yes sir the
present commissioners on the Grandview
straight road Messrs Walker Brav
Clark Williamson Currie and others
have been faithfully at work on the pro
posed new road and are meeting with
moderate success These gentlemen have j
taken this matter in hand and are pushing j
it through They certainly are deserving
of tne confidence and esteem of the
whole public for their disinter-
ested labor Little can be ac-
complished at present however for lack
of runds The preliminary work ofsur
veving and obtaining right of way can
be completed and after this year there
will be an ample fund in the treasury to
do the work of grading and building
You see one road and bridge fund has
been expended in paying of certain bonds
and the county could not get to use it
The King Bridge Company agreed to
take the proceeds arising from lines and
forfeitures in their original contract and
with this understanding bonds were is-
sued Later in 1883 when the constitu-
tional amendment was adopted authoriz-
ing a tax of 15 cents on the 100 to be
levied for road and biidge purposes the
King Bridge Company some way or
other were allowed to surrender their
old bonds and accept new ones Thete
new bonds not only took up the fund aris-
ing from lines and forfeitures about
810000 but also the furd raised by the
new tax for roads and bridges amount-
ing to about 18000 Thus out of all
her taxes the county had not a dollar for
her own use These bonds will bu
paid off this year after which both
funds will be available Twentyeight
thousand dollars a year will soon give
Tarrant county good roads all over the
county
Reporter We cannot look for any
considerable improvement in our roads
until after the present year
Said Colonel Chambers Well noth-
ing very considerable People are loth
to expend time and money on the worm
fence roads as they are now liable to be
changed any moment When the roads
are straightened and located permanent-
ly It will be different Every davs labor
placed upon a road then is put there to
stay and will be of permanent value
People are fully alive to tne necessities
of good roads Think of it How great
a distance will ten teams a day travel
over a crooked road in a month more
than is actually necessary on a straight
road This extra tind useless travel is
time money motive power and the wear
and tear of wagons and vehicles lost
besides the fact that these crooked roads
being temporary are never kept in first
class condition Why the citizens along
theline of the Gran bury road Messrs
WentPatterson John Burford and others
are now asking the county to give them
a bridge higher up on Clear Fork for the
purpose of straightening their road
They mean to tfife out down at the foot
of Lamar streobn the Texas and Paciflc
and if the co
desired the
grade the
gives them the bridge
Yesterday a Gazette man met
opoee to straighten and
to Benbrook They will
eteffehisi Po f their own pockets and with
ttfeiwewn hands because they realize the
necessity of it I think Fort Worth
should encourage and assist tbem in this
enterprise in a substantial manner
Reporter Will the road commission-
ers encounter much difficulty in securing
right of way for the system of contem-
plated straight roads tnink you
Said Colonel Chambers I think not
I apprehend no difficulty outside of the
expense of purchasinp the ground Many
of our citizens will give the county a rignt
of way through their land when it will not
injure their property too much There
will be others whose small farms will be
divided diagonally by the new roads and
these of course will require remunera-
tion for their loss The state has the
rl ht of eminent domain of course big
people whose property is to be injured pj
should b
sacrificed for the public good
not extravagantly but reasonably rei
munerated
PILLING UP FAST
Mr J M Day or Doc Day as he is
until be had received the macnetizers
permission
One of the writers on the Gaulois was
operated on in a yet more astonishing
manner Placed at the extremity of the
long hall with his back turned to M
Moutin he was told to do all he could
to prevent himself being drawn
backward toward the platform He used
what seemed to be almost superhuman
efforts to stand where he was but soon
his legs began trembling violently and in
spite of all he was soon walking back-
ward toward the operator
After that everybody was made to
laugh heartily by the same gentleman be-
ing made to dance in a most amusing
manner M Moutin also fought a mock
duel with him Asking for two walking
sticks he gave one to the gentle-
man and after crossing swords
with him paralyzed his arm by
his will After releasing his adver-
sary from that disadvantageous posi-
tion M Moutin told him that he defied
him to touch him with the stick The
operator failed in this instance for after
a prolonged effort during which the
journalist seemed to strain every
and muscle in his body he at last tou
Moutins chest
M l c
The operator however won greatr ap-
plause by recommencing the experiment
He stood perfectly still and offered as
before no resistance but his will and
magnetic power The gentleman with
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How Immigrants are Pouring Into orfrW nu thwOjliU
familiarly called a well known stockman
whose home is in Austin but who is in-
terested in large ranches in the Panhandle
Greer county and the Territory He
has been with his herds since May 1 and
reports cattle in excellent fix everywhere
in the northwest In the early spring
the country was very dry but within the
last fiiteen days heavy rams have fallen
filling all the streams and tanks and the
long horns are getting fat and frisky on
as line ranges as men or bovines could
wish
Speaking of the
Day said he
at the tide of
Panhandle Mr
was surprised
immigration
now pouring into that favored
region
It is of a character too he said in
everyway to be desired of the class that
builds up and makes a new land pros-
perous A great many Kansas people are
coming in substantial farmers bringing
with them good outfits horses and
mules and implements to till the soil
These are the sort we want up there
and they are very welcome but
the shiftless kind are not encouraged
In Lipscomb particularly the gentle-
man said the influx of strangers was
most noticeable It is not only a fine
county but the advent of the Kansas
Southern road within its borders had been
the means of bringing settlers in large
numbers The absence of railway facili-
ties had hitherto been one of
the chief drawbacks to the development
of the Panhandle but the construction of
several lines was rapidly going on and in
the near future those advantages would
put it on an equality with anyt portion of
Texas
AS TO iRKKRCOUXTY
In speakina of Greer county Mr Day
was enthusiastic The southern portion
of it he declared to be as beautiful and
fertile a country as the eye of
mau ever rested on and magnificently
adapted to the production ot small grain
The upper or northern half is more
broken and in some parts the scenery is
wilder than words can express The
trouble about Greer county as everybody
knows is its yet undetermined owner-
ship Whether Texas or the United
States government is owner is still an
open question and hence homeseekers
have been headed off from making per-
manent improvements in its limits But
once let that dispute be settled and it
will become one of the most populous
and prosperous counties of Texas
WONDERFUL MESMERISM
A Strangely Gifted Frenchman Who Has
People at His Will
London Standard
The Salle du Zodiaque at the Grand
hotel in Paris was crowded on Wednes-
day night April 20 with doctors journal-
ists and well known Parisians who had
teen invited by M Ilepp the editor of
the Voltaire to witness some interesting
experiments of a newly discovered hyp
notizer M Moutin Without attempt
ting to account for the extraor-
dinary power possessed by M Mou
tin who is a comparatively young
aud handsome man over the doctors
journalists and ladies of the audience
who consented to mount the platform
and allowed him to experiment upon
them I will state in a few words what he
didM
M Moutin does not put people to
sleep but makes them ooey his will
while thoroughly awake He began by
choosing his subjects among the people
who presented themselves by placing his
hand on the nape of the neck While
talking to them he inquired whether
they felt an unusual heat under his hand
If an affirmative answer was given he
knew he had a good subject and wnile
telling him to stand up straight soon
brought him on his knees by simply
placing one hand lightly on his back and
holding the other in fro nt of his knee
It was extremely curious to witness
the efforts made by some people to keep
their feet but it was useless they had
to go down on their knees One gen-
tleman well known in Parisian so-
ciety was dragged around the room
among the spectators by M Moutin who
put that gentlemans hand first on his
shoulders and then on his head and told
him to follow him When they got back
to the platform he told the same gentle-
man when sitting on the ground that he
forbade him to rise Notwithstanding the
most strenuous efforts he could not rise
his stick struggled so to say against the
air but he failed to touch the operator
One of the ladies present was then
told bv M Moutin while she was sitting
y
vain till the operator gave her permis
sion to say the word
The same lady was evidently a good
subject for M Moutin placing two chairs
in tne middle of the platform sat down
on one and then told the lady she
would come and sit down on the other
and lean her head on his shoulder
She protested but in a few minutes she
was seized with a most violent trembling
in her outstretched arms She got up
ana then threaded her way among the
spectators in what seemed to be a nerv-
ous trance for she trembled most vio-
lently Some people thought she would
trip on the platform steps but M Mou
tin who was sitting quietly awaiting her
arrival reassured them by saying Sue
cannot fall I forbid her
She sat down on the chair and when
there seemed determined not to put her
head on the operators shoulder but in
a few moments she closed her eyes and
jjet her head fall At the same instant M
Montin started to his feet and blowing
inger face restored her instantly to con-
sciousness Other equally astonishing
experiments were made by M Moutin on
who cannot be supposed for a
Sifrpment to be accomplices to a trickWV
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ALLIANCE YARD
DUYAL COUNTY
Some Idea How the Mexican Farina Tho
Wool Season but Money Scarce
Correspondence of the Gazette
Sax DiKGOTEXMay IS The wool sea-
son which is now well advancedand really
in this section may be said to be nearly
over with caused business to brighten up
a little and made times somewhat livelier
than they have been though I cannot say
we are having fiush times in our city in
the woods Money has been so very
scarce that what has betn received in pay-
ment of the wool clips sold here has been
absorbed almost if not quite in the set-
tlement of old and outstanding accounts
There has been up to this time a consid-
erable amount of wool sold this season
Mr Laing of Collins in Nueces county
being the largest buyer and Messrs
Ilirsch Murphy Gussett of Corpus
Christi the next heaviest purchasers iu
our markets The prices of the better
qualities range from about 13 to 17 cents
There are still a good many clips to come
in however and the buyers are active
We have had some good refreshing
showers during the last lew days though
no heavy soaking rains to flU our water-
ing places and tanks such as we really
very much need Yet these showers have
done a great deal of good and the grass
is springing up fresh and green All
classes of stock are looking sleek and
fine and are improving in condition
daily This is good growing weather
and excellent crops of corn and other
cereals might be made if we only had
good farmers amongst us but oh how
few there are in this county If the one
horse farmer could see our maizals corn
fields he would groan in spirit to see as
rich valleys as ever a crow flew over so
badly cultivated in the most of them the
rows not more than from twenty inches
to two feet apart and the corn planted so
thick that a person could not possibly get
through it without breaking the stalks so
that they are actually choked and kept
from growing and yet they expect
to make a good crop of corn
The most singular thing is that owing to
the natural strength and richness of the
soil they do in good seasonsmake some
corn and plenty of nubbins probably a
little more than half as much cs they
would make if they plowed the land
properly and at the right time which
they never do and planted their corn in
rows a reasonable distance apart that
the air might get to it Just think if
corn can be made with such a miserable
pretense at cultivation what would the
same fields produce if planted and tend-
ed properly Duval county has no great-
er or more urgent want than that of a
few farmers to develop her magnificent
resources I could give you an amusing
description of the socalled aldeano or
farmer here who with a crooked stick
having a pointed steel or iron to it which
he dignifies by the name of a plow goes
into his field and scratches over the sur-
face where it is not very hard to the
depth of two or three inches then he
puts in the corn at from four to five
breadths of his plow apart As
the plow is not over four or
live inches wide the corn rows are
scarcely ever more than twentyfour
inches apart and as straight well as an
Old Virginia wormfence but I think
this will give you some idea of our Mexi-
can farmers There are some few how-
ever who are beginning to use the
Gringos plow but there are not many
and then it takes two men and a small
boy to guide the oxen or horse aud hold
the plow
A very sad accident occurred about
fifteen leagues south of Pena Station on
the 17th Norman Lid well a young man
some twentytwo or twentythree years
old in running his horse and in the act of
lassoing another was thrown violently to
the ground the animal he was riding
falling on him He never spoke after-
wards and died on the train wtiile being
taken to Corpus Christi where his mother
and sister reside His two brothers were
on the cars with him pbn his injuries
were mortal aud notbjpg qould save his
voting life He was aBuclL loved for his
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among the spectators that he deflehw gp eathamJjChiil
to say Nebuchadnezzar It was nolcH P siiS nor Waine
lousin the extreme to hear her tfyfti anteeo
Location ot the County Alliance Cotton
Yard 2iear tho Compress
The trustees of the cotton yard enter-
prise of Tarrant couuty met at Fort
Worth on Thursday the 19th day of May
1887 and after much labor and inter-
change of thought and ideas it was agreed
that we should utilize the present funds
raised upon our subscription list to the
erectionand equipping of a cotton yard
and also a wagon yard in connection
therewith and after viewing the different
sites and locations offered it was agreed
and determined that the yards be located
about 300 yards east of the compress
and about 200 yards west of Cantos resi-
dence and upon a very desirable lot given
by Colonel J P Smith for a
term of five years free of amy
charge this we regard as the most lib-
eral donation that we have as yet received
from any one individual or firm This
being by far the best location that could
b ° had within a reasonable distance of
the compress We consulted a majority
of the City Countil and they assured us
that they would at a very early day ex-
tend the waterworks to within reach of
our contemplated yards as a protection
against fire and for other purposes
E Nkwtox
R H King
J S Morris
Trustees
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are 167 > Si
00001 worth of mules in this country
fthis Iffsupposed to include only the four
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TEE 1EEKLY GAZETTE FOET WORTH TEXAS FRIDAY MAY 27
Dr Talmage Preaches to the Veter-
ans of the Navy Seamen Remem-
bered at the Decoration Time
Not Enough Said of Tnose Who Fought
and Died on Ship Bonrd in
the late War
Two Great IiichtsHeld Up Before the Sea
larlnj 3Ian In Admirals Foote
and Farragrut
Special to the Gazette
Brooklyn N Y May 22 As this is
the time for the decoration of the graves
of those who fell in the war the naval
posts invitedthe RevT DeWitt Talmage
DD to preach a sermon at the Brooklyn
tabernacle appropriate to the occasion as
often fn the annual commemoration but
little JStl been said of those who served
thffliavy An American
and the
y
with great spirit
flag adorned
congregation
sanj
My country tis of thee
Sweet land of liberty
Dr Talmages text was from James lii
4 BeholdAlso the Ships He said
If this exclamation was appropriate
about 18G0 years ago when it was writ-
ten concerning the crude fishing smacks
that sailed Lake Galilee how much more
appropriate in an age which has launched
from the dry docks for purposes of peace
the Arizona of the Guion Line the
City of Richmond of the Inman Line the
Egypt of the National Line the Germanic
of the White Star Line the Circassia of
the Anchor Line the Etruna of the Cu
nard Line and the Great Eastern with
hull G80 feet long not aifailure for it
helped lay the Atlantic cable and that
was enough glory for one ships existence
and in an age which for purposes of
war has launched the screwsloop3 like
the Idaho the Shenandoah the Ossippe
and our ironclads like the Kalamazoothe
Roanoke and the Dunderberg and those
which have already been buried in the
deep like the Monitor the Housatonicthe
Weehawken and the Tecumseb the tem-
pests ever since
SOUXDING A VOLLEY
over their watery sepulchres and the
scarred veterans of war shipping like the
Constitution or the Alliance or the Con-
stellation that have swung into the naval
yard to spend their last days their
decks now all silent of the feet that trod
them their rigging all silent of the hands
that clung to them their port holes silent
of the brazen throats that once thundered
out of them If in the first century
when war vessels were dependent on the
oars that paddled at the side of them for
propulsion my text was suggestive with
how much more emphasis and meaning
and overwhelming reminiscence we can
cry out as we see the Kearsage lay
across the bow of the Alabama and sink-
ing it teaching foreign nations they had
better keep their hand off our American
fight or as we see the ram Albemarle of
the Confederate running out and
in the Roanoke and up and
down the coast throwing every-
thing into confusion as no other
craft ever did pursued by the Miami the
Ceres the Southfleld the Sassacus the
Mattabesett the Whitehead the Commo-
dore Hull the Louisiana the Minnesota
and other armed vessels all trying in
vaiu to catch her until Captain Cushing
twentyone years of age and his men
blew her up himself and only one other
escaping and as I see the flagship Hart-
ford and the Richmond and the Monon
gahela with other gunboats sweep past
the batteries of Port Hudson and the
Mississippi flows forever free to all
northern and southern crafts I cry out
with a patriotic emotion that I cannot
suppress if I would and would not if I
could Behold also the ships
At the annual decoration of graves
north and south among Federals ana
Confederates full justice has been done
to the memory of those who fought on
the land in our sad contest but not
enough has been said of those who on
ships deck dared and
SUFFERED ALL THINGS
Lord God of the rivers and
the sea help me in this ser-
mon So ye admirals commo-
dores commanders captains pilots gun-
ners boatswains sailmakers surgeons
stokers messmates and seamen of all
names to use your own parlance we
might as well get under way and stand-
out toward sea Let all land lubbers go
ashore Full speed now Four bells
Never since the sea fight of Lepanto
where three hundred royal galleys manned
by fifty thousand warriorsat su nriseSep
tember i 1571 met two hundred and fifty
royal galleys manned by one hundred and
twenty thousand men and in the four
hours of battle eight thousand fell on one
side aud twentyfive thousand on the
other yea never since the day when at
Actlum thirtyone years before Christ
Augustus with two hundred and sixty
ships scattered the two hundred and
twenty ships of Mark Anthony and gained
universal dominion as the prize yea
since the day when at Salamis the twelve
hundred galleys of the Persians manned
by five hundred thousand men
were crushed by Greeks with less
than a third of that force
yea never since the time of Noah the
first ship captain has the world seen
such a miraculous creation as that of the
American navy in 18C1 There were about
two hundred available seamen in all the
naval stations and receiving ships and
here and there an old vessel Yet orders
were given to blockade 3500 miles of sea-
coast greater than the whole coast of
Europe and beside that the Ohio Ten-
nessee Cumberland Mississippi and
other great rivers covering an extent of
2000 more miles were to be patrolled
No wonder the whole civilized world
burst into guffaw of laughter at the seem-
ing impossibility But the work was
done done almost immediately done
thoroughly and done with a speed and
consummate skill that
ECLIPSED ALL THE HISTORY
of naval architecture What brilliant
achievement1 are suggested by the more
mention of the names of the rear admir-
als If all they did should be writ-
ten every one I suppose that even the
world itself could not contain the books
that should be written But these
names have received the honors due
The most of them went to their graves
under the cannonade of all the forts
navy yards and menofwar the flags of
all the shipping and capitals at half mast
But I recite today the deeds of our
naval heroes who have not yet received
appropriate recognition Behold also
the ships As we will never know what
ojgr national prosperity is worth until we
eilize what it cost 1 recall the unrecited
act that the men of the navy ran especial
sks They had not only the human
eoponry tOLContend with but the tides
he fogj JjSe storm Not like other ships
ce run into harbor at the ap
of an equinox or a cyclone or a
hurricane because the harbors were hos-
tile A miscalculation of a tide might
leave ithem on a bar and a fog might
overthrow all the plans of wisest com
Itood rVand admiral and accident might
eatefthem not on the lihd ready for an
fiance bat at tne bottom of the sea
SdE S
as when the torpedo blew up the Tecum
seb in Mobile bay and nearly all on-
board perished They were at the mercy
of the Atlantic and Pacific oceans which
have no mercy Such tempests as
wrecked the Spanish Armada might any
day swoop upon the squadron No hid-
ing behind the earthworks No digging
in of cavalry spurs at the sound of re-
treat Mightier than aU the fortresses
on all the coasts is the ocean when it
bombards a flotilla In the cemeteries
for Federal and Confederate dead are the
bodies of most of those who fell on the
land But where those are who went
down in the war vessels will not be
known until the sea
GIVES Ur ITS DEAD
The Jack tars knew that while
arms might carry the
who fell on the land
bury them with solemn
and the honors of war for the bodies of
those who dropped from the ratlines into
the sea or went down with all on board
under the stroke of a gunboat there re-
mained the shark and the whale and the
endless tossing of the sea which cannot
rest How will you find their graves for
this national decoration Nothing but
the archangels trumpet shall reach their
lowly bed A few of them have been
loving
men
and
liturgy
the blue ensign and He leads you toward
ye whose garments were once red with
your own blood shall have a robe washed
and made white in the blood of the Lamb
Then strike eight bells High noon m
heaven
Dahlgren from the deck of the fiag
steamer Philadelphia saw her gradually
sinking and finally she struck the
groundbut the flag still floated above the
wave in the sight of the shipping It was
afterwards found that she sunk from
weakness through injuries in
service Her plates had been knocked
loose in previous times So you have
in nerve and muscle and bone and
dimmed eyesight and difficult hearing
and shortness of breath many intima-
tions that you are gradually going down
It is the service of twentythree years
ago that is telling on you Be of good
cheer We owe you just as much as
though your lifeblood had gurgled
through the scuppers of the ship in the
Red River expedition or as though
you had gone down with the
Melville off Hatteras Only keep
your fiag flying as did the illustrious
Weehawken
Good cheer my boys The memory
country never forgetting those who
fought for it is an untruth It does for-
get Witness how the veterans some-
times had to turn the handorgans on the
street to get theip families a living Wit-
ness how ruthlessly some of them have
been turned out of office that some bloat
of a politician might take their place
Witness tne fact that there is not a man-
or woman now under thirty years of age
who has any full appreciation of the four
years martyrdom of 18G1 to 18C5 inclu-
sive But while men may forget God
never forgets He remembers the swing-
ing hammock He remembers the fore-
castle He remembers the frozen ropes
of that January tempest He remembers
the amputation without sufficient ether
He remembers the horrors of that deaf-
ening night when forts from both sides
belched on you their fury and the heavens
glowed with the ascending and
DESCENDING MISSILES OF DEATH
and your snip quaked under the re-
coil of the 100 pounder while all the gun-
ners according to command stood on
tiptoe with mouth wide open lest the
concussion shatter hearing or brain He
remembers it all better than you remem-
ber it and in some shape reward will be
given God is the best of all paymasters
and for those who do their whole duty io
Him and the world the pension awarded
is everlasting heaven
Sometimes off the coast of England the
royal family have inspected the British
navy manoeuvred before them for that
purpose In the Baltic sea the Czar and
Czarina have reviewed the Russian navy
To bring before the American people the
debt they owe to the navy I go out with
you on the Atlantic ocean where there is
plenty of room and in imagination review
the war shipping of our three great con-
flicts 177G 1812 and 1865 Swing
into line all ye frigates
ironclads fire rafts gunboats
and men of war There they come
all sails set and all furnaces in full blast
sheaves of crystal tossing from their
cuttingprows That Is the Delaware an
old Revolutionary craft commanded by
Commodore Decatur Yonder goes the
Constitution Commodore Hull com-
manding There is the Chesapeake
commanded by Captain Lawrence whose
dying words were Dont give up the
ship and the Niagara of 1S12 com-
manded by Commodore Perry who wrote
on the back of an old letter resting on
hisnayycap We have met the enemy
and they are ours Yonder is the flag-
ship Wabash Admiral Dupont command-
ing yonder the flagship Minnesota Ad-
miral Goldsborough commanding yon-
der the flagship Philadelphia Admiral
Dahlgren commanding yonder the
flagship San Jacinto Admiral Bailey com-
manding yonder the flagship Black
Hawk Admiral Porter commanding
yonder the flag steamer Benton Admiral
Foote commanding yonder the fligship
Hartford David Glascoe Farragut com-
manding And now ail the squadrons
of all departments from smallest tug
boat to mightiest manofwar are in pro-
cession decks and rigging filled with the
men who fought on the sea for the old
flag ever since we were a nation Grand-
est fleet the world ever saw Sail on be-
fore all ages Run up all the colors
gathered into raval cemeteries of thelRfng all the bells Yea open all the
land and you will garland the sod that portholes Uniimber the guns and load
covers them bat who win put flowers nn I > fire
the fallen crew of the exploded Westiield
and Shawsheen and the sunken South
fleld and the Winileld Scott Bullets
threatening in front bombs threatening
from from above torpedoes threatening
from beneath and the ocean with its
reputation of 6000 years for shipwreck
lying all around am I not right in saying
it requires a special courage for the navy
It looks picturesque and beautiful to
see a war vessel going out through the
Narrows sailors m a new rig singing
A life on the ocean wave
A home on the rolling deep
Tne colors gracefully dipping to passing
ships the decks immaculately clean and
the guns at quarantine firing a parting
salute But the poetry is all gone out of
that ship as it comes out of that engage-
ment its decks red with human olood
wheelhouse gone the cabins a pile of
shattered mirrors and destroyed furni-
ture steering wheel broken smokestack
crushed a hundredpound Whitworth
rifle shot having left its mark from port
to starboard the shrouds rent away
ladders splintered and decks ploughtd
up and smokeblackened and scalded
corpses lying among these who are gasp-
ing their last gasp far away from home
and kindred whom they love as much as
we love
WIFE AND PARENTS AND CHILDREN
Not waiting until you are dead to put
upon your grave a wreath of recognition
this hour we put on your living brow the d cte a
garland of a nations praise
O men cf the Western Gulf squadron
of the Eastern Gulf squadron of the
South Atlantic squad jos ot the North
Atlantic squadron of the Mississippi
squadron of the Pacific squadron of the
West India squadron and of the Potomac
flotilla hear our thanks Take the bene-
diction of our churches Accept the hos-
pitalities of the nation If we had our
way we would get you not only a pension t
and one great broadside that shall
shake the continents in honor of peace
and the eternity of
THE AMERICAN UNION
But I lift my hand and the scene has
vanished Many of the ships have dropped
under the crystal pavement of the deep
sea monsters swimming in and out the
forsaken cabin and other old craft have
swung into the navy yards and many of
the brave spirits who trod their decks are
gone up to the Eternal Fortress from
wnose casements and emorasures may we
not hope they look down today with joy
upon a nation In reunited brotherhood
At this annual commemoration I be-
think that most of you who were in the
naval service during our late war are
now in the afternoon or evening of life
With some of you It is 2 oclock C
oclock 4 oclock 6 oclock and it will
soon be sundown If you were of age
when the war broke out you are now at
least fortyeight Many of you have
passed into the sixties and the seventies
therefore it is appropriate that I hold two
great lights for your illumination the
example of Christian admirals conse-
crated to Christ and their country Ad-
miral Foote and Admiral Farragut nad
the Christian religion been a cowardly
thing they would have had nothing to do
with it In its faith they lived and died In
our Brooklyn navyyard Admiral Foote
held prayer meetings and con
revival on the receiving
ship North Carolina and on Sab-
baths far out at sea followed the chap-
lain with religious exhortation In early
life on board the sloop of war Natchez
impressed by the words of a Christian
sailor he gave his spare time for cWq
weeks to the Bible and t t8 Slid of that
deolrtred operjiy Jlencefortli under all
circumstances I will act lur God His
last words while dying at the Astor
House New York were I thank Go
but a home and a princely wardrobe and j to all His goodness to me He has been
an equipage and a banquet while you eT S ° ° d t0 me When he entered
live and afteryour departure a catafalque neaven he did not have to run a blockade
aud a mausoleum of sculptured marble j for it was amid the cheers of a great wel
with a model of the ship in which you come The other Christian admiral will
won the day It is considered a gallant I be honored until the day when the fires
thing when in a naval fight the flagship
with the blue ensign goes ahead up
a river or into a bay its ad-
miral standing in the shrouds watch-
ing and giving orders But I have
to tell you oh veterans of the Ameri-
can navy if you are as loyal to Christ as
you were to the government there is a
flagship sailing ahead of you of which
Christ is the admiral and He watches
from the shrouds and the heavens are
from above shall lick up the waters from
beneath and there shall be no more sea
Oh while old oceans breast
Bears a white sail
And Gods soft stars to rest
Guide through the gale
Men will him neer forget
Old heart of oak
Farragut Farragut
Thunderbolt stroke
According to his own statement Farra
gut was very loose in his morals in early
manhood and practiced all kinds of sin
One day he was called into the cabin of
the harbor and all the broadsides of j h5s ather wh0 wa3 a shipmaster His
earth and hell cannot damage you and father said David what are going
to be anyhow He answered lam
going to follow the sea Follow the
sea said the father and be kicked
about the world and die in a foreign hos-
pital No said David I am
go
With such anticipations oh veterans of ing to command like you No said
the American navy I charge you bear up
under the aches and weaknesses that you
still carry from the wartimes You are
not as stalwart as you would have been
but for that nervous strain and for that
terrific exposure Let every ache and
pain instead of depressing
REMIND YOU OF YOUR FIDELITY
The sinking of the Weehawken
off Morris island December 6 18G3
was a mistery She was not under fire
The sea was not rough But Admiral
the father
a boy of your habits will never
command anything and his father burst
into tears and left the cabin From that
day David Farragut
STARTED ON A NEW LIFE
Captain Pennington an honored elder
of this church was with him in most
of his battles and had his inti-
mate friendship and he confirms what I
had heard elsewhere that fcarragut was
good and Christian In
everv great
crisis of life he asked and obtained the
Divine direction When in Mobile bay
the monitor Tecumseh sank from a tor-
pedo and the great warship Brooklyn
that was to lead the squadron turned
back he said he was at a loss to know
whether to advance or to retreat and he
previous saV3 II prayed Oh God who created
man and gave him reason direct me what
to do Shall I go on And a voice com
manded me Go
on and I went on
Was there ever a more touching Christian
letter than that which he wrote to his
wife from his flagship Hartford My
dearest wife I write and leave this letter
for you I am going into Mobile bay m
the morning if God is my leader and I
hope He is and in him I place my trust
If he thinks it is the proper place for me
to die I am ready to submit to His will
in that as in all other things God bless
and preserve you my darling
and my dear boy if anything should
happen to me may His blessings rest
upon you and your dear mother and all
of man is poor and all that talk about the j
yoarsisters and their children
Cheerful to the end he said on board
the Tallapoosa in the last voyage he ever
i took It would be well if I died now in
harness The sublime Episcopal service
f for the dead was never more appropriately
read than over his casket and well did
all the forts of New York harbor thunder
as his body was brought to our wharf
and well did the minute guns sound and
the bells toll as in a procession having in
its ranks the President of the United
States and uis cabinet and the mighty
men of land and sea the old admiral was
carried amid hundreds of thousands of
uncovered heads on Broadway and laid
on his pillow of dust in beautiful Wood
lawn September 30 amid the pomp of
our autumnal forests
Ye veterans who sailed and fought un-
der him take your admirals God and
Christ for your God and Christ After a
few more conflicts you too will rest For
the few remaining fights with sin and
death and hell make ready Strip your
vessel for the fray hang the sheec chains
over the side send down the topgallant
masts barricade the wheel rig in the
I flying jibboom steer straight for the
shining shore and hear the shout of the
great commander of earth and heaven as
l he crie3 from the shrouds To him that
overcometh will I give to eat of the tree
of life which is in the midst of the nara
dlse of God
mi
An Outrage
Special to the Gazette
Whitesboro Tkx May 20 Rev
E B Hardee was attacked last night
with a shower of rotten eggs while ho
was returning from a meeting of the
colored people who had assembled to
hear Mr Hardee on the subject of prohi-
bition Mr Hardee went home and went
to bed soon after his residence was
pelted with eggs and several lights were
broken out of his windows It is not
known who did this nor what their mo-
tive was
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