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GALVESTON, TEXAS-
VOL. YI—NO. 275.
GALVESTON, TEXAS, SATURDAY MORNING, MARCH 20, 1875.
PRICE, FIVE CENTS,
City Advertisements.
t
AN OKVINANCE /
TNo. 1.]
To 1evy taxes for the municipal year com-
mencing March 1, A. D. 1875.
Be it ordained by the (Sty Couacil of
the City of Galveston,
Ssctiox 1. That there is hereby levied
for general purposes for the municipal
year commencing March 1st, A. D, 1875,
an ad valorem tax of one per centnm on
all red, personal and mixed properties
within the city of Galveston. The mean-
ing of the term 'personal property,' as uaed
in this ordinance, is, and is intended to be,
the game as conveyed and defined in Arti-
ticle VI., Title I, of the City Charter.
Sac. 2. That there is hereby levied for
the same year a poll tax of one dollar on
each and every male person between the
ages of twenty-one years and sixty years,
and who has resided in the city of Galves-
ton one year prior to and preceding the 1st
day of March, A. D. Irt75.
Sbc. 3. That the several taxes com-
monly known as occupation or license
tax -s, shall be the same as now estab-
lished and fixed by the Ordinance of the
City of Galveston.
Sac. 4. That three Commissioners, who
) qualified voters,' and who own real es-
tate within the city of Galveston of the
value of three thousand dollars, shall be
appointed by tbe Mayor and confirmed by
the City Council, who shall constitute and
be a Board of Appraisement, as provided
by Article IV., Title VI. of the City
Charter.
That this Ordinance go into effect and
be in force from and after its passage.
Approved, March 19, 1875.
R. L. FULTON, Mayor.
Attest:
C. C .ALLEN City Clerk.
gALE OF IMPOUNDED ANIMAL*.
Office or Chief of Poucb, í
Galveston, Texas, March 20, 1S75. f
In conformity with Article 7, Revised
Code.of Ordinances of the City of Galveston,
Texas, I will sell at public auction at the
public pound, corner of Church street and
Bath avenue, on MONDAY, the 22d day of
MARCH, 1875, at 10:30 o'clock a. x., for
cash tothe highest bidder in United States
currency, if not claimed before, the follow-
ing desciibed property, to-wit:
Xed and white COW, no brand.
Brown HORSE, Spanish.
Brown COW, branded Z T.
Bay HORSE, branded P S.'
Iron-gray MARE, no brand.
Iron gray COLT, no brand.
Brown HORSE, branded E,
The above described property can be
seen at any time previous to the sale at
the public pound, corner Bath Avenue
and Church street
jno. h. westerlagk,
Cliief of Police.
Steamships.
M
ORGAN LIKE ttF STEAMERS, | QLii K TU,t*
Traveler's Onide. | Miscellaneous.
K. G. BOWZER.
d. 0. weight.
Orleans,
loniitw
rPo New
Via Bruhwur and
DAILY.
Steamship WHITNEY, Captain ¿orbes,
SUNDAY and WEDNESDAY, at 3 P.M.,
Steamship JOSEPHINE, Captain Hopkins,
MONDAY and FRIDAY, at 3 P. M.
Steamship MORGAN, Captain
TUESDAY, at 1:30 P. M.
Steamship CLINTON. Capt. Brown,
THURSDAY at 1:30 P. M.
Steamship HARLAN, Captain Lewis,
SATURDAY, at 1:30 P. M.
Carrying Passengers, connecting in New
Orleans with all routes North and West.
Tickets for New York, Philadelphia,
Baltimore, St. Lous, Chicago and all points
North and West, cttp be procured at the
MORGAN LLNR<íicket Otfce.
Morgan Line Indiano!*.
Steamed: „
CLINTON, Capt- every VON
DAY, a fir:. il-
HA RL AN, Captain Lewis, every THURS-
DAY. at 4 P. M.
MORGAN, Capt. StaDles, eveiy SATUR-
DAY, at 4 P. M
Carrying Mail, Passengers, and Freight,
connecting at Indianola with the'Gulf,
Western Texas and Pacific Railroad.
Tickets, by this route, for San Antonio,
Gonzales, Seguin, Belmont, Yorktown,
Cuero, Sutherland Springs and Lavernia,
can be procured at Morgan Line Ticket
Office. #
NOTICE.—Consignees of freight-by any
of the above steamers are notified to re-
move same from Wharf before Sr.i on
the day of arrival Otherwise the same
will be stored at the risk and expense of
the consignees.
F. A. McGEE, Ticket Agent,
114 and 116 Tremont 8t
CHAS. FOWLER, Agect,
OfM* on Central Wharf.
International and Great North-
ern Railroad.
WE8TTIQH0P1E SAFETY «BáO.
Pali * Drawing-Boom sad Sleeping Ooaohaa.
Close Connections.
LONE STAB ROUTE.
\w dikjbct BOUTÍ mA
To the North, East, West and
Southern Stated.
St. Loai*
To
STATIONS.
Expresa.
eu route
Hours
Leave CALV KSTOff, G..HAH
11:00 A. N.
......
...
" HOUSTON, 1 A G.N.
2:00 P. JL
2 4*
Arrive Pdertine, "
fcl* P.M.
......
1 U
" Loogview, "
l.-tt A. M.
......
13 14
" Texarknne, "
" Little Rock, StL.LM AS
6:25 A.M.
....
18 4
l:tt P. M.
29 31
u Memphis, M.&L.R.R.K
1:00 A. M.
......
27 45
" Popl:.rBluff,StL.LM.*8
10:50 P.M.
......
25
" Cairo,
2:30 A.M.
......
' m u
" St. 1.0UÚ , M M
«:25 A.M.
43 00
Bowzer & Wright,
IIP0BTERS OF AND WHOLESALE
—dbaleks ik—
POCKET & TABLE CUTLER!
Razors, Scissors, Shears, Etc.,
Keep the most comprehensive assortment
of goods in their line ever seen in this
section of country. Dealers from the in-
terior should call and see for themselves.
Particular attention given to orders by
mail. * * *
107....
...8TRAND
. .107
Galveston.
Gift Concert.
FOSTER'S
SECOND REAL ESTATE
DBA. WING.
Texas Items.
List mt tke
TH&OU0H PULLMAN
—Drawi g-Koyhi and Sleeping Coaches —
houston to
without c
Close connect! tis at Liül.- Bode, Cairo and
St. Louis with all li- es leading to the £i
North, West and Southern States.
Best, Miortest, Quick e t nnd Cheapest
Rente!
Do not be deceived, but obtain tickets via the
International & Great North-
ern Railroad. -
S M. MILLER, Geni Ticket Ag't
H. M. HOXIE, Gen'l Sup't
SUNSET KOUTE!
halves ton, HarrMmrg and San
Antonio Railway.
OUTHEKN OTTO
poned
N
OTICE OF FINAL ACCOUNT.
N< . 909—The State of Texas, to the
Sheriff or any Constable of Galveston
County—Greeting:
Stephen V. Blake, Administrator of the
estate of Joseph Germond deceased, hav-
ing filed in our District Court his final ac-
count of the estate of said decedent, to-
gether with au application to be discharg-
ed from said administration
Yon are hereby commanded that, by
8ivo wets in a uewspauer regrrtSI ly pub-
lished in the county of Galveston, you
give due notice to all persons interested
Si the Administration of said State, to file
their objections thereto, if any they have
on or before the June term of said District
Court, commencing and to be holden at
the Court House of said county, in the
city of Galveston, on the FlR&r MON-
DAY IN JUNE, A. D. 1875, when said
account and application will be considered
by said Court.
Witness: David Wakelee, Clerk ofthe-
District Court of Galveston County.
Given under my baud and
\ ls. I Seal of said Court, at my office,
( ) in. the city of Galveston, this'25th
day of February, A. D. 1875.
DAVID WAKELEE, Clerk D.C. G. C.,
by E S. Fj-ktchek, Dep'y Clerk.
A true copy I certify.
jos. ATKINS, Sheriff Galveston Co.
by Joe A. Owens, Deputy Sheriff.
üailroads.
c
RANGE OF TIME.
GALVESTON, HOUSTON,
and
HENDERSON RAILROAD.
On an l After Feb. 15, 1875,
Trains leave Gal Tea ton daily, except Sun-
days, at 6:10 A. M., 11 A. M. and
3P,lt
Trains leave Houston daily, except Sun-
days, at 6:30 A. M., 10 A. M., and
8:40 P. II. /-
Thin Road la bow Completad and Train
Running to
L ULING,
Seventy-one miles west of COLUMBUSt
and one hundred and fifty-five miles wes
from HARRISBURG. forming, in oonnec'
tion with the daily stages from LULING,
the shortest, quickest, cheapest and best
route to
SAN ANTONIO,
—AND—.
All Points in Western Texas.
- WEST.
Galveston... 6:10 ah
Houston
LLOUI8 Ail
GE. I At
At-f
At
At li
At li and over, 85c. per bale.
to great britain, whether direct
via coastwise ports—payable i!
gold.
At ■}■!. and under 7-16d., 55c. per bale
At 7-16 and under -J, 65c. per bale.
At -J and under 9-16, 75c. per bale.
At 9-16 and under 80c. per bale.
At f and under 11-16d., 85c. per bale.
At 11-16 and under }, 90c. per bale.
At $ and tinder Id., 95c. per bale.
At Id., $1 per bale.
And every 1-16 above one penny an ad-
vance of 5c. per bale.
to havre and all contutental ports
director via coastwise ports—pat-
able i gold.
At J and under -J, 55c. per bale.
At £ and under lc., 65c. per bale.
At lc. and under 1-J, 75c. per bale.
á.t li and under 1¿, 80c. per bale.
At 1^ and under 1-f, 85c. per bale.
At If and nnder li, 90c. per bale.
At li and under 1 J, 95a per bale.
At 1} to 2, f 1 per bale.
And every i of a cent over 2 cents an ad-
vance of 5c. per bale.
The charge for compressing shall be de-
termined by the Charte'r Papers, unless on
cotton shipped coastwise to Europe on
through Bills of Lading. When the reg-
ular rate -of freight by sail direct, a?
quoted by the Galveston Cotton Exchange,
shall determine the charge for compress-
ing.
When Additional Ties are ordered,
(over six), by ship, 15 cents will be charged
for each Tie.
No Cotton delivered to vessel or lighter
wthout a written order from master or
agent of same. On all cotton sent on
such orders or not received, and ordered
back to press; drayages made and paid by
Press will be charged to vessel.
The Spring Meeting
o May 13,
Insurance.
the
ALABAMA
GOLD LIFE
Insurance Company
of mobile.
Is believed, IS SOUNDNESS, to be sec-
ond to no Life Insurance Company IN
THE WORLD. , ,
It issues Policies on all approved plans,
and at recognised STANDARD RATES.
WV charge for Insurance its cost asnear
as experience has demonstrated to be safe
and for the common interest of both
parties. What proves to be an excess we
return under the name of Dividends.
We are not familiar with NECRO-
MANCY, by which we can promise SOME-
THING for NOTHING.
12:50 P. M„ ai>fl
For G. H. Jb A. lhtilway,
Galveston take the li .0 A. M..and 3 P. M.
trains. From Houston &:?•> A. M. train.
For International and Great Northern
Railway, take the 11 A. M. train.
For the Houston and Texas Central
Railway take the 6:10 A. M. and 3 P.M.
trams.
On Sunday, Train leaves^ Galveston at
10 A. M.; Houston at 2.10 P. M.
The 11 A.M. Train connects with the
St. Louis Express via International and
Great Northern Railway.
The 3 P. M. connects with the St.
Louis Express via the Houston and
Texas Central Railroad; also connects
with the Galveston, Hoiwlon and San An-
tonio Express at .Harruburg for San
Antonio.
Ticket Offices, corner Mechanic and Tre-
mont Streets, and at the Depot-
Commutation tickets to local points, one
thousand and five hundred miles—ticket?
enn be purchasc-d at the Ticket Office.
GEO. B. NICHOLS,
Superintendent.
H. B. ANDREWS,
General Ticket Agent. my«4tf
ar
Schulenburg.
Flatonia....
Waelder
Harwood..
Luling *11
3:00 P H
8:25 am 2:10 p v
San Antonio
Mail. Express..
■ 1.011
2:02 a m
tm a h
3:45 a n
4:40 am
6:15 AM
GALVESTON
KEY CLUB
Hamsburg..
Junction.
TEXAS,
GALVESTON,
7:14 p m.
5pm
9:21 p m
KA T.
Luling.•• 5:45 am
Harwood 6:29 am
Waelder
Flatonia - • •
Schulenburg .... A M
Weimar 10:17 a m
Columbus- 12:01 p m
4:35 p m
6:47 pm
7:30 pm
Richmond ...
Junction
Harrisburg..
Arrive:
Horston...-.
Galveston ...
T
HE FASTEST TIME ON KICOBU
FIVE HUNDRED AGENTS
(Modest Gentlemen)
Wanted immediately.
j. S. BYINGTON,
Special Agent, Galveston,
of the
Ala. Gold Life Ins. Co.
WABASH LINE.
Br special arrangement a
lightning Express Train
Now run* between the Mississippi River,
New York and Boston, yia the Wabash A
Lake Shore Route, leaving daily except
Saturday, stopping only at principal sta-
tions, and arriving at
Fort Wayne, 1 hours,
HOME INSURANCE
-asi
BANKING COMPANY,
.STRAND 61
61.
TEXAS.
GALTMOH
CAPITAL STOCK, $305.000 00.
BOARD OF DIRECTORS:
John h. Bubnbtt,
gkokue f. ai.fori ,
f. k. Lubbock,
j. m. w u.thew,
T. N. Wacl,
j. E. Owens,
Y. J. Baulard,
,t. aikkh,
c. H. lee.
s. g. Etheridub,
l. leGiekse,
s. W. sydsor,
r. B. Lawtukr.
By resolution of the Directory the Com-
pany will hereafter «.-online itSelf to the
Insurance Brauch of its business, and so-
licits thfc patronage of its friends, stock
holders and the public.
COL. john 11. burnett...President
col. gbo. f. alford....vicb President
W. B. sorley.. .Cashier asd Secretary
In advance
of all
competing lines.
.. 8:15 p m
.11:30 p m
San Antonio
Express.
8:30 P m
9:21 p m
10:31 p m
11:34 p m
: a m
1:22 am
1:25 am
5:3d a m
7:11 a m
7 10 a m
8:5
a m10:
am
1875.
office op thf texas real estate
Drawing, Houston, March 1, 1875. (
Owing to the invariable custom of all
similar enterprises, of postponing their
drawings, the public will not patronize a
drawing till it has done that which they
consider a certainty—postpone. This, to-
gether with the unprecedented bad weather
dariug the last two mouths, causing
destructive floods and much suffering in
the Southern States, where I expected the
greatest support, has rendered it necessary
to postpone my drawing for a short time,
in order to make a full drawing, which I
am determined upon. The liberal patron-
age bestowed upon this,the second drawing,
in the face of an expected postponement,
is flattering evidence of confidence, aud I
have no doubt every ticket will be sold.
The drawing will take place May 13.
FOSTER,
Train- leaving GALVESTON at6;15 a.
m and HOUSTON at 8:25 a. m. make con-
nection with trains of the Intonation*!
and Great Northern at Junction for Saniy
Point and Columbia, and at Harwood wi'h
dailv stage for Gonzales.
Trains leaving GALVESTON at 3:15 p.
* and HOUSTON at 2:10 p. m. make con-
nection at Lulieg with d ily stage for San
Antonio, arriving same evening, making
quicker time than is made by any other
line5 FARE reduced.
ar route to tbevWest
on each ticket to
By taking thu poj
you save Five Dol
San Antonio. *
Tickets for sale at all Ticket Offices an
at the Depot
Sleeping Cara' Attached to a'l Nigh
Trains.
Sections and Bertha secured at 1«0 Tre-
mont street, and at the Depot of the Gal-
veston, Houston and Henderson Railroad.
H. B, ANDREWS,
General Manager.
HARDY EDDINS. Gen'l Superintendent
N'
OTICE 1
NOTICE
B
OOKS, LEDGKRS,
jüüBIfALS
and
BOOKS
Toledo, H "
Detroit, 3
Cleveland, 7 "
Buffalo, 7 41
Rochester, 1 "
Albany, 7 "
New York, ) fi, „
(via Buffalo) ] 4
Boston, 6i ' _
With corresponding last time to other
points. The only fast line landing passen-
gers in Grand Central Depot, New York
City. Thereby avoiding all ferry transfer.
A PALACE DAY CuiCH
is run through to Indianapolis and Cincin-
nati without chaiijre. via Danville, making
this the most devi -'ble and ••i.iufortablc
route to all points ii Oeun i ami Southern
Indiana and Ohio.
Pullman Palace Sleeping Cars from 1st.
Loui« and Hannibal to Toledo and Cleve-
land, connecting with Drawing Room and
Sleeping Car line for Rochester and New
York without change.
All Express Passenger Trains of the At-
lantic and Pacific, Missouri, Kansas and
Texas, and Iron Mo ntoiu connect at Han-
nibal and St. Lotus with the Toledo, AV a
bash and Western Railway.
The Day Trains have recently been
equipped with new passenger cars, -fitted
up with everyfimprovement for comfort
and safety, and stand unrivalled for style
and elegat.ee. Miller's couplers and the
patent air brake are used on all fast trains.
Ask for your Tickets via the Wabash
Route.
W. L. MALCOLM,
Gen'l Pas'ger Agt., J. S. LAZARUS,
Toledo. We tern Agt.,
St. Louis, Mo.
CASH
Manufactured in a cheaper manner at the
MERCURY OFFICE.
We have reopened, on
MECHANIC STREET,
between Tremont and 24th streets,
where we are prepared to wait upon all
ur old friends and the publio as usual.
We solicit the patronage of the trade,
and the past will be a sufficient guarantee
tlat all who patronize us will receive
proaipt atiention.
JOHN G. ROST ft CO.
Commencing April, 20; 1875.
First Day, Tuesday, Ap«1 «0.
FIRST RACE-r-The OleanderfPark Stakes
for colts atid fillies three years old, $25
entrance p. p., Club to add $^00; second
horse to receive $100, tliirdf'to save en
trance. Mile heats. Closed November
1,1874, with 11 nominations.
SECOND HACE—Purse of $250; secdnd
horse to have $75. Mile and a half
dash.
Second Day, Wednesday, April *1.
FIRST RACE.—The Texas Stakes for
four year olds, $50 entrance, half forfeit,
club to add $400; second horse to have
$100, thud to save en ranee. Two mile
heats. Closed Nove ber 1,1874, with
six nominations.
| SECOND RACE—Club Purse of $200,
second horse to have $50. Mile and
an eighth dash.
Third Day, Thursday, April 39.
FIRST RICE—Club Purse of $400; sec-
ond horse to have $100. Mile heats,
three in five.
SECOND RACE—Club Purse of $2W);
second horse to have $75. One and a
naji mile dash.
Fourth Day, Friday, April 23.
FIRST RACE—The Gulf City Stakes for
colts and fillies three years old; ?$25
entrance, p. p.: Club to add $300;
second horse to receive $75; third to
save entrance. One and a half
dash. Closed November 1,1874, with
thirteen nominations.
SECOND RACE—Free Handicap, Raw
heats. Entries to be made on Wed-
nesday, the 21st, at 6 p. m. Weights
to appear on Thursday at 3 P. m.; and
declarations to be made in writing the
same day at 6 p. m. Club Purse, $250,
Second horse to have $75
THIRD RACE—Club Pur.^e of $100.
Free tor all horses not entered iu any
other race of this meeting. Half
daslk weigh
Fifth DaWHatnrday,'
FIRST RACE—The Galvi
Club of $500 for alleges; $25 en-
trance, p. p.; second horse to receive
$150; third to save entrance. Two
and a quarter mile dash. CloBedNov.
1, 1874, with seven nominations.
SECOND RACE—Club Purse of $700;
second horse to have $150. Three
mile heats.
THIRD RACE—Consolation Puree of
$250 for beaten horses; second horee
to have 75. One and a quarter mile
dash.
Entries for the first day's races -mil
close at 6 p. m April 19th, and those of the
other days immediately after the tennina-
tion of Races ou the day preceding. Three
or more required to fill.
Club Rules sent on application.
All communications should be addressed
to THEO. K. THOMPSON,
Secretary and Treasurer.
v* cm,.
Tr^^SS
One Gift is guanmreeato vm
eleven consecutivo numbers.
$50,000 for ONE DOLLAR.
The San Antonio Herald pays the
following flattering compliment to
Gen. Augur:
The time when this universally
popular officer will remove to New
Orleans is unknown even to himself.
As as an evidence of the high regard
in which he is held a memorial to
him, expressive of regret at his de-
parture, has been signed by every
citizen of San Antonio, that had an
opportunity of doing so.
Gen. Augur has deserved well oí
the people of the frontier, particu-
lar in guarding their lives and prop-
erty against the Indians. We are,
moreover, of the opinion that that if
the building of the military telegraph
had been entrusted to him, it would
have been completed long ago.
k'linnan county.
A brute, calling himaelf G. W. El-
liott, was arrested, fined one hun-
dred dollars and committed to jail
for two months for beating a woman
living with him as bis wife. They
are from Missouri, and havvbeen
enoamped on Cow bayou, near .Waco,
for a short time. ^
A party of gentlemen went'from
Waco to Big creek for a deer hunt, a
few days since. They found game in
abundanoe, bnt their sport was
spoiled by some unknown scoundrel
poisoning their dogs, with small
pieces of meat full of strychnine scat-
tered near the camp. It was a vil-
lainous piece of bo8incs8, and de-
serves the " extreme penalty " of the
law.
A mass meeting of the citizens of
McLennan county will be held in
Waco on the 20th instant, to organ-
ize a county immigration society,
and devise ways and means to pro-
mote immigration to this county.
travis county.
Says the Austin Statesman:
Charles Nyberg, convicted of theft
from a house, being asked by the
conrt what he had to say why sen-
tence should not be pronounced,
said:
I have nothing to say why the sen-
tence of the law shall not be pro-
nounced against me. I have
been convicted on my own plea
of _ guilty, and the sentence
which is about to be pronounced
is just. I will submit to my pun-
ishment with cheerfulness, and,
when my term of imprisonment is
ended, I hope To return to m^Vamily
a wiser and better maa, and in the'
future it will be my purpose "to live
honestly, to hurt no one, and to ren-
der to every man his dues." During
my confinement I commend my wife
and child to the tender considera-
tion of those who whose business it
is to administer and enforce the
laws.
Nyberg was sentenced to two years
in the penitentiary.
We learn from a gentleman who
came from Bound Bock yesterday,
that a man named Brown was killed
near that place on Tuesday. Brown
had accused a negro
calf, and it watoiue "' oj qgjn 9ni jni
followed him 1 ^ lrm
HO? f*}tu3pom v
Privileges and Elections: Mortoa,
chairman; Means. Logan, Alcorn,
Mitchell, Wadleigh, Cameron, of
Wiaoonain, McMillan, Saulabury,
Merrimon.
Foreign Belations: Mr.
of Pennsylvania, chairman;
Morton, Hamlin, Howe,
sen, Conkling, Mi
Johnson, of Tenn<
Finance : Mr. Sherman,
Mesáis. Morrill, of Vermont^ Ferry,
of Michigan, Frelinghuysen, Logan,
Boutwell, Jones, of Nevada,
Kernau.
Appropriations: Mr. llorrill, ef
Maine, chairman; Mesera. Windom
West, Sargent, Allison, Dorsej,
Eaton, Wallace, Davis.
Commerce: Mr. Conklin, chair-
man; Messrs. Speaker, Boutwell,
Cameron, of Wiaoonain, Bnmside,
McMillan, Gordon, l^finnin Mo-
Donald.
Mauufactnree: Mr.
chairman; Messrs. Booth, Bruoe,
Withers, Wallace.
Agriculture: Mr. Fretinghuyeen,
an; Messrs.; Robertson,
vis, Gordon.
Mr. Logan, chainbaa;
Messrs. Cometón of Pennsylvania^
Spencer, Clayton, Wadleigh, Ban-
som, Burnside, Bandolph, CockrelL
Naval Affairs: Mr. Cragin, chair-
man; Messrs. Anthony, Morrill of
Maine, Sargent, Conover, Norwood.
White.
Judiciary: Mr. Edmnnds, chair-
man; Messrs. Conkling, Frelinghuy
sen, Wright, Howe, Thurman, Stev-
enson.
Postoffice and Post Bo ads: Mr.
Hamlin, chairman; Messrs. Ferry of
Michigan, Dorsey, Jones, of Nevada,
Dawes, Paddock, Saulsbury, John-
son of Tennessee, Moray.
Public Lands: Mr. Oglesby, ohair-
man; Messrs. Windom, Harvey,
Boutwell, Paddock, Booth, Kelly,
McDonald, Jones of Flo ida.
Private Land Claims: Mr. Thur-
man, chairman; Messrs. Bayard,
Bogy, Ferry of Connecticut, Allison.
Indian Affairs: Mr. Allison, chair-
man; Messrs. Oglesby, Morrill of
Maine, Ingalk, Clayton, Bogy, Mc-
Oreery.
Pensions; Mr. Ingalls, chairman;
Messrs. Allison, Hamilton, Booth,
Bruce, McDonald, Withers.
Revolutionary Claims: Mr. Ste-
venson, chairman; Messrs. Johnson
of Virginia, Goldthwaite, Morrill of
Vermont and Wright.
Claims : Mr. Wright, chairman ;
Messrs. Mitchell, Wadleigh, Chris-
tiancy, McMillan, Cameron of Wis-
consin, Caperton, Cockrell, and
Jones of Florida.
District of Columbia: Mr. Spen-
cer, chairman; Messrs. Hitchcock,
Robertsou, Dorsey, Ingalls, Merri-
mon and Eaton.
Pateuts: Mr. Ferry, Chairman;
Messrs. Windom, Dawes, Johnson of
Virginia and Kelley.
Public Buildings and Grounds:
Mr. Morrill of Vermont, chairman;
Messrs. Cameron of Pennsylvania,
Paddock, Cooper and White.
Tmwfnwaa s lfei Hsfc
OPJO pn« 96y
KS
Tfca WmIvs of the
The Tspy Whig nbtee the follow-
ing:
" We have beard much of the wow-
¡dea of cable telegraphy in outrun-
ning time and """hi'-Nrg spaoe,
but an aueodote related to us last
evening by Mr. W. P. Phillips, as-
aisteat ageut of the State Asapeiatad
Press ia New York, who is on a viait
to thia city, surpassee anything that
wo have ever h£d!^ A^nttSanof
the Wsstern Union Telegraph offioa,
at No. 145 Broadway, New York, was
in the cable-room when a tele-
ra Philadelphia destined for
came over the wirea. This
like all others for Franoe,
to go over via Dnbuiy, Mass.
The operator oalled Dnxbury a few
times, and said: "That fellow ia
ssleep evidently; but the cable mea
ere always awake I'll have to get
one oí them to go and wake him up."
So he stepped to another desk, oalled
Plaistar Grove, in Newfoundland, aad
aeat the following meessgeTo
cable operator, Dnxbury: -'Please
p> in and wáke up my own true
love." This message Plaister Grove,
hastened to land across the ooean to
Valencia, Ireland, who in tern
rushed it to London. Thence it was
hurried to Paris, and still on to the
European end of<the French cable at
St Piérre; the operator there flashed
it back to Dnxbury. In less than ten
minutes of the clock the message
accomplished its journey of some
8000 miles, by land and sea, as was
evidenced by the clinking of the In-
strument on the Duxbuiy deftk,
which ticked ont in a manner a little
more petulant: That is a nice way to
do; go ahead. Tonr own true love."
Giant Trees la California.
" NOW IS YOUR TIME."
Dame Fortune helps those who help
themselves.
500,000 Tickets at |1 each, numbered
from 1 to 500,000, inclusive. Tbe ex-
ceedingly low price of Tickets brings it
within the reach of all.
grand gift concert
In Aid of Public Improvements in the City
of Denison, Texas.
The Texas Gift Concert Association
Will give a Grand Concert
Wednesday March 31, 1875,
And will Distribute to the Ticket Holders
$250,000 IN WIFTS.
depository. first mtioml bank,
denison.
Distribution to commence immediately
after the Concert Managers of the Dis-
tribution chosen by the Ticket Holders and
Prominent Citizens.
lw r of gifts :
1 Grand Cash Gift, |SO,000_
JOHN COLLINS
THE G-BOOEB,
ADD
Dealer in Teas,
54 & 56 Market Street,
GALVESTON. TEXAS.
JOS. T. L PLANT,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
COMMISSIONER OF DEEDS for Texas'
Louisana, Missouri and Kansas, 708 E
street, Washington, D. C.
■gxamine ucb prices
FOR PRINTING, RULING
AND
BINDING.
MERCURY OFFICE.
"■RON COTTON TIES-
Special Notice to dealers in
baling stuffs,
PLANTERS AND COUNTRY MER-
CHANTS GENERAL Y.
In consideration < f the reduced cost of
Iron, the Agents of the American Cotton
Tie Company are instructed to reduce the
price of the CELEBRATED ARR W TIE,
to live (5) cents prr pound, on and after
the First day of March next, with usual
discounts, and to continue selling the same
at lowest market rates during the coming
season.
c, W. HUKI.EV & CO., "seats,
AMERICAN COTTON TIE COMPANY,
GALVESTON, TEXAS.
Price 1,1st, March 1st, 1875:
Lots under 500 bdls 5 cts. f) 2>Nbt.
of " ... 5 " " 2} ofl
n Gf "... .5 " " 5 ofl
1 Grand Cash Gift, $25,000
1 Grand Cash Gift, $15,000
1 Grand Cash Gift, $10,000
1 Grand Cash Gift, $5,000
1 Grand Cash Gift, $2,500
1 Grand Cash Gift, $1,500
10 Grand Cash Gifts, $500 each, $5000
20 Grand Cash Gifts, $250 each, $5000
30 Grand Cash Gifts, $150 each, $4500
50 Grand Cash Gifts, $100 each, $5000
100 Grand Cash Gifts, $50 each, $5000
100 Grand Cash Gifts, $25 each, $2500
Grand Cash Gifts, $20 each, $4000
id Cash Gifts, $10 each, $5000
Cash Gifts, $5 each, $5000
d Cash Gifts, $2 50 each, $3750
,6^250 Grand Cush Gifts, $1 each, $46.250
49,767 Grand Cash Gifts, amounting to
$2 0.000. 4
<¿2 Prizes in Real Estate, amounting to
$50,000.
49,789 Gifts, amounting to $250,000.
Please address as for circulars giving
references and full particulars.
A statement of the Distribution will be
published and forwarded to ticket holders,
and all gifts will be promptly paid after
the distribution.
tteod ft Re ponsible Persons Wanted
to work for the interest of this Associa-
tU>r LIBERAL COMMISSIONS AL-
LOWED. „ ,
How to remit to US—Money should be
sent by Express or by Draft, Postoffice
Money Order or Registered Letter.
Address all Communications to
AT.Pff.KTTS R. COLLINS,
Sec'y, Denison, Texas.
MENDEZ k MORALES,
12 TREMONT STREET,
AOENTS.
Phelps, Dodge & Co.
CLIFF ST., between Jolu and Fulton,
NEW YORK.
ijtpoktkbs and dealers in
TIN AND ROOFING PLATES,
OF ill SIZES AND KINDS.
PIG TIN, RUSSIA SHEET IRON,
Charcoal and Common Sheet Iron.
Lead, Sheet Zinc, Copper,
SPELTER, SOLDER, ANTIMONY, Etc.,
manufacturers or
COPPER BRASS AND WIRE
hare been klled by some of the
friends of the men who were recently
taken from the Mason county jail
and hung.
Five counterfeiters out of the seven
who entered the State at Denison,
and there divided, have been securely
lodged in jail at Austin. They had
succeeded in distributing considera-
ble spurious currency over the vari-
ous routes of their travels, semetimes
getting $20 aud $5 bills changed in
return. Their prompt arrest has
saved the people from being de-
frauded by sharpers.
There is a fair prospect of a female
college being established in Austin
by Prof. Fontaine of Virginia.
A Mexican who was an important
witness for the State in a murder case
has been kidnapped. There is much
of mystery in the affair.
bexar county.
Says the San Antonio Herald, 16th
inst:
There, was a frost last night; the
fruit crop is too far advanced to sus-
tain any injury, but the more tender
vegetation will have to " shoot" over
again.
In speaking of the neglected streets
of its city the Herald remarks:
Then again, those large boulders
on Commerce street and on the Plaza
keep down the grass, all of which
goes to keep up tbe delusion that we
are keeping pace in the grand
ward march of civilization.
A correspondent to the same paper
says: " The division question is not
dead, nor even sleeping sonndly. In
a few days the Provisional Commit-
tee will lay before the people of Texas
an address setting forth minutely the
causes that impel the separation that
is to follow."
grayson county.
The Denison Times says:
A car of apples, one of potatoes,
and one of bacon «was transferred
yesterday and went south.
A colored man's Indian wife left
her husband yesterday, and started for
the Nation. She was at home when
he .came up town, and when he went
home to supper she was not there.
A nigger should never trust an Indian;
red and black mixed makes a bad
color.
9by uoqsnojj smj f -[oefufly
;rron.Torx oi itanrffTi. na
uumjiil, „
Mines and Mining : Mr. Sargent,
chairman ; Messrs. Hamlin, Alcorn,
Harvey, Sharon, Goldthwaite and
Randolph.
Revision of the Laws of the United
States: Mr. Boutwell, chairman;
Messrs. Alcorn, •Christiancy, Caper-
ton and Wallace.
Education and Labor : Mr. Patter-
sou, chairman; Messrs. Ingalls,Mor-
ton, Ferry of Connecticut; Burnside,
Bruce, Gordon, Eaton and Morey.
Civil Service and Retrenchment:
Mr. Clayton, chairman; Mesara.
Wright, Oglesby, Sherman, Patter-
son, McCreery and Randolph.
To audit and control contingent
expenses of the Senate : Mr. Jones,
of Neveda, chairman; Messrs. Dawes,
Dennis.
Printing : Mr. Anthony, chairman;
Messrs. Howe, Saulsbury.
Library : Messrs. Howe, Edmunds,
Ransom.
llules : Mr- Ferry, of Michigan,
chairman ; Messrs. Hamlin, Merri-
mon. , , .
Engrossed bills: Mr. Bayard, chair-
man; Messrs. Withers, Anthony.
Enrolled bills : Mr. Conover, chair-
man; Messrs. Kelly, Robertson.
Transportation routes to the sea-
board : Mr. Windom, chairman;
Messrs. Sherman, Conkling, West,
Conover, Mitchell, Norwood, Davis
and Johnson, of Virginia.
On levees of the Mississippi River:
Mr. Alcorn, chairman; Messrs. Clay-
ton, Harvey, Cooper, CockrelL
It has been supposed that the
Sierra sequoias, or big trees, of Cali-
fornia, were confined to a few "nail
and isolated groves like those known
to tourists by the name of Calaveras,
Tuolomne, Siegued and Mariposa,
scattered at considerable intervals
along the western slope of the moun-
tains for a distance of sixty miles. It
was known that a collection of big
trees larger than any of those known
in the Mariposa and Calaveras re-
ions exists in Fresno couuty, where
Thomas' Mill has for several years
been sawing the red wood of the
Sierra to supply the market of Visalia,
but it was discovered last summer
that this body of bigtree timber is
not properly a grove, but a forest ex-
tending for not less than seventy
miles in a northwest and southwest-
ward direction, with a width in some
places of ten miles, and interrupted
only by the deep canons; which cnt
across the general course of the for-
est, and reduce the level to an eleva-
tion below that at which the tree is
found in a wild condition, although
when cultivated it thrives in all our
valleys.
Different persons have traced the
forest from the basin of the Tule
river, in latitude twenty-six degrees
and twenty minutes, across those of
the Kaweah and Kings, to that of the
i ^Aauin. The elevution has not
measured, but it is
vary from 4000 to 6000
t one point, and one only,
-
places alnost excit-
an d there are also a multituuo _
small ones in all the ages of gr
some just sprouting and ot.
through. The largest standing t.
as yet measured is forty feet in ui-
ameter; a charred stump—the tree
itself having disappeared—measured
forty-one feet across. A tree twenty-
four feet in diameter, four feet above
the ground, is precisely the same
thickness sixty feet higher. A fallen
trunk is hollow throughout, and the
liole is large enough to drive a horse
and buggy seventy-two feet in it as
in a tunnel.
The forest is so extensive, the tim-
ber is so abundant and excellent in
quality, and the demand for it is so
great in the bare valley at the foot of
the mountain, that it can not be
withheld from the ax and saw mill.
The wood is similar in general charac-
ter to the coast sequoia, or common
redwood, straight in grain, splitting
freely, even enough in grain for fur-
niture, and far superior to oak in its
keeping qualities in positions exposed
i Sierr
A joke, and all the more palatable
as its truth can be vouched for, says
a New Jersey paper, occurred at a
prominent church in that State. It
seems that a worthy deacon had been
very industrious in selling a new
church book, costing seventy-five
cents. At the service in question the
minister, just before dismissing the
congregation, rose and said: '*A11 ye
who have children to baptize will
please to present them next Sab-
bath." The deacon, who by the way
was a little deaf, having an eye on
selling the books, and supposing the
pastor was referring to them, imme-
diately jumped up and shonted: "All
who haven't can get as many as you
want by calling on me, at seventy-
five cents each."
Miss Vinnie Ream is credited with
having captixitated a certain dusky
brave who represents the Cherokee
nution in Washington, and who de-
lights to watch her "patch up" the
statne of Farragut. A correspond-
ent says that as she straightens out
the Admiral's nose, a pure prayer
goes up from the dark bosom of the
Cherokee to the Great Spirit that he
may incline the heart of the white
fawn towards him.
A Doohed Town.—Kansas City
has reached a crisis.. Its people have
got to befriend it, regardless of party
and pretty much regardless of con-
sequences, or it is doomed. It is in
the toils of a combination of men
who will never release their grasp
upon it as long as it can yield them a
dollar, unless they are torn loose by
force and violence. In our capacity
of journalist we have for more than a
year been trying to impress upon the
people the deadly and inevitable dan-
ger by which they were menaced.—-
Kansas City News.
Von Moltke married an English-
woman, the daughter of a gentleman
who, for his second wife, married
Von Moltke's sister. She lived for
some time at Constantinople, where
her step-mother frequently received
letters from the Marshal, and it was
through these epistles, read aloud in
the family circle, that the young girl
first learned to admire the man whom
she afterwards married.
1 Do you lend money here ?
asked a farmer, as he accosted a
broker yesterday. "Yes, sir, was
the reply, "How much inter«t ?
"One per cent, a month." "Well,
that's a durn high interest, 'pears to
me," continued the old man, " but I
guess I'll take a dollar and a half for
two weeks, as I've got to raise some
boots for Hiram, and I'm aleeue
short." [ |
Milwaukee Neics: "Well, what
can I do for you ?" said Damon, ol
the Milwaukee poor department to a
Ninth ward female all rags and tat-
ters. ' Td like a cord o' wood, a bag
o' flour, and if ye don't mind. Mister,
a daily paper for six months, jest
to see how this Beecher trial is a
comin out, ye see."
Give your son a good education
and settled purpose in life, and when
he is a man he will not be content to
sit back of a grocery stove and crack
his finger joints.
to alterations of moisture. The Hierra
sequoia does not throw up sprouts
from its stump, as does the redwood,
and can therefore be felled out more
readily. It was wise for Congress to
make a reservation for pleasure pur-
poses of the Mariposa Grove, which
is near Yoeemite, small and conve-
niently accessible to tourists by the
present route of travc' * but the Tu-
lare-Fresno forest—it is all in those
two counties—can not be converted
into a public reservation. Numerous
saw mills will bo built on its'lines,
and flumes will carry the lumber
down to the consumers. Wagon roads
will ascend from the railroad turns
to the California Alps, passing
through the forest and receiving
great attractions from it.
A han in San Francisco entered a
police atation in a state of intense ex-
citement and told the captain that
he wanted to prefer a charge against
his room mate. "We both wanted
to go to heaven," he said, "and we
knew we couldn't get tbere if we
committed suicide. We talked the
matter over a good deal, and finally
we agreed to kill each other. The'
plan was for each of us to have
sharp razor ready at the other'a
throat, and at a signal to cut as hard
and deep as we could. We got all
ready, with the razors at our throats,
and I gave the word. I cut his throat
all right, but he failed to do as he
agreed, and here I am alive. I want
to make a regular charge of false pre-
tenses against him, so he can't get
into heaven." The captain locked
up the for such he was, and
went to the room described by him.
There he found that a man had been
murdered by having his throat out
while asleep in bed. The lunatic had
invented the rest of the story, and
while under an hallucination had com-
mitted the deed.
The centennial ef the death of
Warren is near at hand, and the fol-
lowing verse has been prepared for
the ably edited obituary department
of the Philadelphia ledger:
u Upon his awful should* r
Ha took his blunderbuss;
And he was tharat Bunker Bill,
In the thickest of the muss."
The saddeat thing in life is the
spectacle afforded by a young person
who has burnt all ber hair off her
forehead with a hot slate pencil and
cannot afford to bny a row of curls.
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