Fort Worth Daily Gazette

TEXAS NOTES.
Graham has a natural-born poet.
Gainesville wants another railroad and some factories.
The court-house at Cisco is rapidly nearing completion.
The Pilot Point Post is snugly quartered in a new office.
There is a general cry for public roads throughout the state.
Prairie dogs are making their appearance around Mesquite.
Cisco has a boy who can squirt tobacco-juice across the street.
Denison is said to have a newspaper man feeling around for the post-office of that city.
Out West the boys in blue claim that only Democratic news is allowed to come to Texas.
Mr. James Bothe of Paris caught a Roman candle in his sleeve during the celebration there.
The earl of Aylesford is said to be running a barber eating-house in connection with his saloon.
The Tyler Courier promises to astonish the citizens of that burg with the report of the city treasurer soon.
Ennis wants to blow a little herself and says that thriving young burg polled 1176 votes at the last election.
The Hico Reporter is advertising for the Exposition association of Hamilton county, which has 'gone lost.'
Bonham claims to have paid ten cents a pound for cotton when the news of Cleveland's election reached there.
The morning after the election the court-house and fence surrounding it in Denton was draped in mourning over the defeated candidates.
On the day of Cleveland's election a child was born to a deaf mute couple in Colorado City—a fine, healthy boy and equipped with a full set of teeth.
The treasurer of Johnson county has just found out what it is to be out of funds. This is the first time the treasury has been empty in many years and the inconvenience will be but temporary.
Comal county gave Blaine a majority of sixty-three. New Braunfels is a manufacturing place and the people wanted protection 'against the pauper labor of Europe.' Strange to say, but every mother's son of them are from Germany.
Pilot Point has a Merchants' Protective association, and when a delinquent fails to come to time after being notified for thirty days he is put on the 'black list,' and cannot obtain credit from any member of the association until he pays up.
Platinum in large quantities is said to have been discovered in Hamilton county. If this report was well authenticated Thomas A. Edison, the New York electrician and inventor, would be down here and have men to work digging it up in less than a fortnight.
A cheeky individual got off the train at Mesquite, and after having dinner announced his desire to take a short ride. He claimed to be a consumptive traveling for his health. He procured a horse from his host and started out. Up to the present he has kept on riding. The landlord thinks the young man has made away with his horse, and the young man has never come back to deny it.
A German shoemaker of Pilot Point induced his fair Katrina to come from Ferrell to that place and marry him. They spent the honeymoon in bliss and happiness, and all was going merry until one morning the young bride awoke to find her husband had vanished, leaving her alone in the world. Her grief was augmented when she discovered that he had taken $70, all her earnings.