The Galveston Daily News. (Galveston, Tex.), Vol. 42, No. 287, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 3, 1884 Page: 2 of 4
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Thursday, January 3. 1884.
Tom Butord seems to he again in tlie saddle.
Johh a. Joyce's Chequered Life is reported
to b« doing well.
dakota wants to be a state worse than
Blaine •▼•r wanted to be president.
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Tmx selectness of Matthew Arnold's audien-
ie* is only equaled by their smullness.
Benjamin F. Butijcb is now open for an en-
gagement. Robinson is governor of Massa-
chusetts.
ClYn. service reform is a go od thing, but
■when a fellow gets in power it is very hard
to practice it.
Walkir Blaise, son, etc., is a candidate
tor a diplomatic appointment under the pres-
ent administration.
The Sua, as was frequently predicted, has
thrown Holnma. It now admits that he is not
equal to the occasion.
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The bloody shirt and a negative candidate
seem to b« the highest ambition of the Repub-
lican party at the present time.
admirers of state sovereignty and local self-
government should endeavor to infuse healthy
life and effective vigor into both.
Philadelphia dudes have taken to fox-
hunting. If the fox should ever turn on them,
wouldn't there be some scp.tuperiug*
The manner i» which Irving has dwindled
in this country seems to confirm Major Ochil.
tree's original criticism of his powers.
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General Hancock is till in California, and
if he doesn't leave the State with a good dose
of gout his constitution must be cast iron.
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Some Pacific coast novelist ought to write a
Story on the woes of an offlicted millionaire
makiag William Sharon the hero of the tale.
AnfMUR has the dead drop on the Republi-
can party of New York, notwithstanding the
coldness of Conkling and the opposition of
Curtis.
^ The system of party ethics that would make
Arl'uiix president and retire Conkling to pri-
vate life oan nbt be commended, to speak very
111 7'
John A. Logax is comparatively a poor
man. There are so very few things that could
be said in his favor that this is deemed worthy
of notice.
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A COU»LE of years vacation might do Perry
Belmont considerable good. There are other
elements than rich papas r&quired to make a
statesman. __
Considering the amoant of fence-cutting
Jiterature that has been lavished on the public,
it it strange that Rutabaga Johnson has not
t&ken a hand.
It is to be haped that the ways and means
committee will not stand so much on the order
of going to work, but squat right down and
tackle the job.
The cause of Ireland would be vastly im-
proved, and Irish patriotism mora generally
Respected, if Irish blatherskites were severely
sat down upon by their own countrymen.
The Chicago Tribune's ticket seems to be
for president and Robert G. Lincoln for
Vice-president. With du« respect to the pro-
prieties, that seems to be a of a ticket.
Tfe New York Tribune labors daily to con-
vinca its readers that the South is governing
the country. When did the South turn solidly
Republican and take the laad in the dominant
party? ______
Ma. Beschi.ii uttsred a great admonition in
a sermon delivered last month. It is simply
this: " Don't oppress a mac because his iguor-
ance does not yet keep pace with yoiir intelli-
dence."
What is the use of preachii.g about state
rights if the State is not strong enough to
govern and protect its law-abiding and tax-
paying citizens in their peaceful industries and
property rights ?
The Evening Transcript, the esthetic organ
of dear, delightful Boston, is booming old
Tecumseh Sherman for the presidency. Te-
cumseh knows what is good for him, and will
not be affected. His name is not Grant.
Now that Ochiltree is a member of the
committee on agriculture, it is to be hoped
that he will not let his well-known habit of
realistic accuracy of delineation interfere
with his picturesqueness in describing a Texas
potato.
A Mexican writer thinks it is after judg-
ment day and the torment has begun when
people are forced to take their pay in nickels.
Bad enough, but the averago Mexican conser-
vative would say that the common people were
happier when they did not own a nickel.
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Miss Jennie Flood, the handsome young
heiress, says she will not marry a titled
foreigner, but will bestow her heart, hand and
fortune upon some worthy young American.
Now that it is leap year, many a sturdy youth
hope* that the tide in his affairs may be taken
by the Flood to lead him on to fortune.
The Chicago Tribune, the Cincinnati Com-
iineroial Gazette and the St. Louis Globe-Demo-
Crat have sent commissioners to the South to
aWake the fiend of the bloody shirt. As it is
more than probable that the commissioners
reoeired definite instructions before departing
on their missions, there is hardly a c: ubt that
they will make the lurid garment dance.
Pbobabl? Prince Bismarck will not greatly
encourage Spain to ask for the cession of Gib-
raltar. The Anglo-French entente cordiale is
not yet so utterly flattened out but that it
might revive on such provocation. There is
#o power in Europe that can absolutely domi-
nate the field, disregarding all possible combi-
nations against it. There is no power that can
do so even if certain of an ally of the second
rank.
The late George D. Prentice was once play-
ing at poker on a Mississippi steamer. Prentice
bet a thousand on his hand; his opponent
raised him five hundred; Prentice raised a
thousand; his opponent raised him five hun-
dred ; Prentice again raised the stake a thou-
sand "Mr. Prentice," said the opponent, con-
fidently, "you are betting more than your
hand is worth." Prentice looked at his hand,
turned it down on the table, and said: "Sir,
if I were playing with Jupiter, at a star aute,
I would darken the everlasting firmament on
the hand 1 have just turned down."
Scientists confess themselves perplexed
■with the discoloration of the sun observed
duripg volcanic action. Some have advanced
the hypothesis of fine dust in tj_a atmosphere;
but again it is urged that dust would not con-
tinue floating so long as the facts show the
strangs ooiors to have continued. An opinion
is advanocd that the red-and-green appearance
9f the sun was caused by minute particles of
ozen vapor. Tie New York Herald infers
Bat if such was the fact the northern hemi-
sphere will experience a heavy fall of snow
and rain this winter, with some mitigation of
the average cold.
Ma. A. B. Hewitt, it would seem, has not
got quite ready to discard protectionism entire-
ly. Ho proposes, according to the Albany Ar-
gus, as a basis of principle, " the freeing of
raw materials from all duties" and "the re-
duction of the extra-protective duties on
manufactured produots to a reasonable
standard of specific duties" which shall
be " not more than sufficient to make
good the difference in the amount paid for
labor in the productien of any given article in
tfcis country as compared with the amount
paid for the same labor in other countries with
-which we compete." There is no question that
Mr. Hewitt means to promote a considerable
feform, but he asks Congress to take a good
deal upon Itself in acting as a guardian of some
employers of labor as to the rates of wages.
TIIK PHILOSOPHY OF SHUTTING DOWN:
When workingmeu strike it is not invari-
ably a si^n that th^y can not live on the wages
they are receiving, more especially is it not so
when they strike in organized bodies. The in-
dividual striker will generally be found to have
an idea that he can get more than he is get-
ting. The organized strikers at all events
would ridicule the idea that their rule should
a reference to whether their wages are suf
ficienfc for them to live exclusively upon. If,
then, the iaw and not private arrangements
determined their wages, 01* made them higher
in any branch .than the / would be under free
competition, it would be a palpable absurdity
to inter that a strike was any evidence of the
man's inability to subsist upon their
wages. Acting by the law of self-
interest, standing together in volun-
tary associations, working men frequently
strike against a reduction of wages. The law
does not step in with a tax of 30 or 50 or other
per cent, upon the earnings of any workmen,
of whatever nation, who shall offer to take the
place of the strikers. Let their case be com-
pared for a moment with that of the protected
manufacturers who close the doors of their
workshops, alleging that a trifling reduction
of tho tariff has compelled them to " shut
down." The protected manufacturers usually
have an organization. When ©ne or two
mills refuse to shut down with the
rest, the action is frowned upon
as a sort of rebellion against their common
trade interest and its authoritative counsel, as
if they were workingmen and refused to strike
with the majority. The duties are relied upon
by the striking manufacturers to keep out
foreign goods, while the manufacturers1 strike
continues against their workmen and the pub-
lic who buy their wares. The high duties on
imports give the striking manufacturers a con-
siderable advantage. Suppose that striking
workmen had some equivalent protection
against outsiders coming in to interfere with
their industry, would they not oftener be suc-
cessful? It will not do, then, to as-
sume that when the iron-mills, or other
works, shut down, the reason is truly that
the employers can not make expenses. They
have a tariff to protect them, and they are
expected, according to the rule of self-interest,
to make what the law will allow them, and
what thoy can make by their best combination
in their common interest as members of a
trade3 union of employers. If the workman
can exist on fifteen dollars a week, and be is
making eighteen dollars, still if he sees a
chance to make twenty dollars by organiza-
tion, he will generally try for it. The wisdom,
or unwisdom, of the matter is practically lim-
ited to the question, can he succeed in exacting
it? Men, organized or not, concede to
each other the right to earn or
exact for their services more than a bare liv-
ing, andjthey may spend or save as they can or
as they like. If certain workmen, by com-
bination, have been getting high wages, £hey
will not readily consent to work for less with-
out a struggle of endurance. How much
more marked would their determination be if
the government eave them anything equivalent
to the special j>rotection given many of their
employers, the manufacturers and some others,
by the tariff law. TV hen, therefore, the or-
gans of the iron and steel mills and other pro-
tected concerns ask the public to assume that a
lock-out or stoppage of work is a sign that the
manufacturers are suffering and can not run
their works without loss, they are asking the
people to tax their cffedulity. It is fairly to be
inferred that the manufacturers are, in
su^h a case, making a struggle to retain their
accustomed high profits. Until specific evi-
dence is furnished that a business does not
pay there is no necessity in reason to take the
lachrymose wails of the protection organs as
the heraldry of truth, or any uuited actions of
the managers of a trade combination as any-
thing more or less than a calculation how best
to conserve the interests and realize the high-
est possible rate of profit. They shut down
with the utmost complacency under a high
tariff. Burst that tariff barrier and see
whether the mill-owners and other arrogant
protectionists will not speedily give their work-
pecple steadier employment. Taking human
nature into account and seeing what the work-
ingrr.an will do where he has the whip hand,
let it be remembered that the manufacturing
boss is made of the same protoplasm, only
clothed with greater power, not only by means
of his capital, but by special laws to exclude
competition from abroad, and it does not seem
very difficult to find a better solution of the
phenomenon of shutting down than the ring
organs furnish. That solution may be stated
in few words. It is the greed of the banded
beneficiaries of the swindling protective sys-
tem. ^
H UNTIXG~Di?Elt BUT NOT THE FENCE-
CUTTER.
A correspondent, writing to the governor
from Karnes county, states that ten armed
men employed by the citizens have so policed
That county as to stop fence-cutting. Before
the citizens came to the conclusion that the
state authorities did not intend to protect the
fences they had suffered heavy losses, and the
entire destruction of all fencing in the county
was threatened. The citizens had the right to
employ special police, although they had
already paid the state government to perform
the duty of these policemen. What is most
singular is that the State had also the right to
employ policemen for this duty. The State had
employed them, armed them and pro-
vided them with provisions, forage
and ammunition, and at least one
company so employed and equipped
was, as the Governor in his Austin speech said,
on the pad. The dispatches to The News from
El Paso state that Captain Baylor's company
of state troops have just returned from a trip
in the mountains, bringing back fifteen
deer. These deer cost the State $113 each.
Now if it cost that much to catch wild deer,
how much would it cost to catch the cunning
fence-cutter? This problem is submitted to the
legislature as worthy investigation and solu-
tion. If the company, so successful in a deer
drive, could be induced to police Karnes coun-
ty, might not the services of tha special police
employed by the citizens be dispensed with,
and what would be the additional cost? In
making the change of base and estimating the
expense, the value of the catch of deer in the
El Paso mountains ought to be considered,
and probably the Karnes county people would
be willing to make up the difference. How-
ever, as compensation for their venison, the
troops to operate as suggested in Karnes
county might be supplied with carp from
the state fish ponds at the capital. It is also to
be considered that in killing deer the reports of
the guns reverberating in the mountains
would give straggling Indians notice of the
presence of their foes, so that they would con
siderately abscond and give the troops no
trouble or uneasiness. This precaution the
troops scouting for fence-cutters in Karnes
would forego and they might accidentally
meet foes. Thus the ehange of service in-
volves the loss of game, the probability of
embarrassing complications with the old De-
mocracy, and also the loss of sleep, and so
probably it is useless to urge the change of
base any further. The governor says, too, that
fence-cutters would not go and surrender to the
militia if he should order the militia into the
infested districts, and it may fall out that they
would not hunt up the state police and sur-
render. It is a very troublesome business, but
might be simplified by ascertaining how the
deer in the El Paso mountains were induced
to come to terms.
SLEEPING AND FENCE-CmA±
Governor Ireland thinks that the mats, or v
newspaper charging that he ha&^not done his
whole duty with respect to the fence-cutting
lawlessness had better go to sleep. Let us see
what bo has done. He has offered rewards,
called the special session of the legislator
sent small squads of troops to two or
counties, and made his recent speech at a;
tin. These efforts have not been effective, Jfcufc
they are what he claims it was his doty to <to.
First, he kept a standing reward of $o0, and
found out in two months, as he admits in his
proclamation increasing it to $100, that he
had made a mistake in the amount. Was it
his whole duty to experiment two months
with the paltry reward first offered?
Next he called a special session of the legisla-
ture. From his standpoint this was in the line
of his duty, but he failed in his whole duty in
calling it to convene at so late a period that
lawlessness had time to destroy millions of
property. His whole duty required that he
should convene it two or three months sooner.
Again, ho admits that it was in his line of duty
to send troops to any district infested, and to
remove them if the local authorities did not
need them. They were ordered to the locality
because local authorities, through sympathy
with lawlessness, or through indifference, or
through actual and utter inability, would not
or could not protect property. When
they came their presence was as distaste-
ful to local officers who sympathized
with fence-cutters as it was to the fence-cut-
ters themselves. # Their presence also was
a reflection upon the efficiency of local officers.
Hence the governor was asked by local officers
to march back his squad of police. When he
did so, did he do his whole duty? There was
lawlessness known to exist and the governor
had men to suppress it in the localities indi-
cated. But the sheriff invites the men to retire
and let the lawlessness proceed. The troops
could be ordered to remain in the infested dis-
trict, protect property and answer the object
of their employment. But the sheriff is dis-
satisfied. Their presence is a reflection upon
himself and deputies: their absence is simply a
reflection upon the governor. The governor in
the discharge of entire and charming complais-
ance to the sheriff does sound a retreat. What
has become of his whole duty in the premises
toward fence-owners? Indeed it is true, so far
as the governor's repute for spirit and vigor
as chief executive is concerned, that it were
better that the man or the newspaper who has
marked this hesitation and this procrastinating,
deprecating and wavering course, while devil-
try has been alert, active and destructive,
should go to sleep. What good is there in
wakefulness of all concerned—the governor,
fence-owner, the press or the people ? It is
only the fence-cutter who is not advised or
required to go to sleep. But inaction is not all.
When fence-cutting commenced the gov-
ernor sent his adjutant-general to inves-
tigate it. That military aid of the chief
executive met fence-owners and fence-cutters
in council or convention, learned their respect-
ive grievances, and, returning to the capital,
prepared and issued] in relation to the matter
a manifesto, which was reported to have been
first submitted to the governor. That paper
declared, unequivocally, the impotence of the
executive arm of the government, and set
forth in pfaintive phrase the grievances of the
fence-cutters. It first notified the lawless that
the governor would not, and could not, inter-
fere, because, if he would, he had not the legal
power: and if he had the legal power, he had
not the means. Then, when relieved of appre-
hension of interference by state authority,
the fence-cutter was coddled and cajoled by
the enumeration of his various wrongs,
and this susceptibility proceeded from
the chief military officer of the
State. What "was there, then, to deter him?
He was in effect declared to be a persecuted
victim of land monopoly, and notified that the
State would not interfere to prevent violent
redress of his wrongs. What followed was
calculated still further to give him encourage-
ment. The governor offered rewards, but re-
sponsive to the views of the adjutant-general,
signified to the fence-cutter that the chief ex-
ecutive appreciated their grievances, for he
called a session of the legislature, declaring in his
call that fence-owners needed to be corrected as
well as fence-cutters. This call was declared a
double-edged sword by the goveror's intimates
while the fence-cutters were fain to believe
that the sword was poised with the business
edge toward the fence-owners. The fence-cut-
ter knows that inimical legislation may injure
property. While, without the necessary pro-
tection for property, the lawless may laugh in
security. So it was that while the governor
3 telling how it "were better to go to
sleep the festive fence-cutter was ply-
ing the nippers within a few miles of
the capital city. What had there been in the
discharge of the whole duty of the governor to
make this fence-cutter afraid? What did he
care for the thundering speeches then being
made at the capital? The only official influ-
ence opposed to his performances he could ob-
serve, the governor, was intent upon com-
posing itself into solid sleep. But in that
sleep what dreams may come?
The British parliament opens February 5.
Mr. Bradlaugh, who intends, of couree, to go
and claim his seat, asks his friends to let him
go alone, as their presence in numbers could
do him no good. In this he shows his usual
good sense. It is almost the fashion among
newspaper writers to indulge in a little aside
deprecation of Bradlaugh's views, methods
and peisonal characteristics. It is assumed,
because the man does not believe in any theo-
logical system, that he is an improper or in-
discreet man. The fact is, there is not a per-
son more scrupulous in separating politics
from religious opinion. Bradlaugh is a big-
brained and big-hearted, studious and schol-
arly gentleman, whose fault in the eyes of
aristocracy is not alone his disbelief, but his
self-developed talent, which shames those born
to fortune. Mediocrity in the pulpit fears
nim, because he lives cleanly enough to shame
the theoretical moralists, and not to furnish a
point to their homilies.
The New York Times olaims that experience
has proved iron shutters to be among the worst
of the obstacles firemen have to contend with
while striving to enter burning buildings. The
time taken to batter them open is for the ad-
vantage of the flames, and when the firemen
get enough of them open to permit water to
be thrown into the building, they find that
fire that was of little account when discovered
has acquired almost resistless energy. It i;
nearly certain, therefore, that a fire origina
ting in a building whose windows are sealed
with iron shutters, will destroy the building.
The most recent testimony in proof of this is
to be found in the fate of a New York
warehouse the other day. If the firemen had
been able to throw water through the upper
windows of the building when they first got to
work they could have drowned the flames, but
the iron shutters stood in their way, and they
were compelled to follow the fire from the first
floor until it reached the fourth, where it ac
quired such fury that the tons of water poured
on it had for a long time very little effect The
Times further asserts that the idea that iron
shatters keep fire out is a fallacy. Flames on
the outside will keep them red-hot, and they
can not be made so tight that tiny sparks may not
pass them. In support of this view the fact is
recalled that merchandise of the value of $2,-
000,000 was destroyed three years *go in
Brooklyn storage warehouse by a fire started
by sparks from a fire engine that was at work
in front of the building, the sparks having
passed through crevices at the hinges of a
shutter.
Northern newspapers should endeavor to
give Texas credit for her legitimate belong-
ings. The Lone Star State is the sole pro-
prietor of Flanagan, who wanted to know
what "we are here for?" at Chicago in 1880.
It will not do for the benighted organs of
Chicago to credit him to Arkansas. He is a
. Texas institution.
LOGAN'S PRESIDENTIAL ASPIRA-
TIONS.
The New York Sun, with its usual per-
verseness, sticks a pin in the Logan presiden-
tial bubble by giving editorial prominence to
an interesting remisniscence in the life of the
swarthy statesman. The story has often been
repeated, but, strange to say, it never found
its way into an "official" biography of the
distinguished sucker. Here i3 how the Sun
puts it:
Although several biographies of the senator from
Illinois hare been written, one epoch of his dis-
tinguished career is still involved in darkness.
When the war of the rebellion broke out, when Mr.
Blaine himself promptly sent a substitute to tha
front, and turned his energies to the task of supply-
ing the Union array with seven-shooter rifles,
Logan also unsheathed his sword. At the head of a
small band of chosen followers, and with a military
commission in his pocket, he took a position in the
neighborhood of Cairo, 111., and awaited the begin-
ning of actual hostilities. The question that is still
to be settled to the satisfaction of some of General
Logan's admirers is whether the warrior's originai
commission attached him to the Federal service, or
proceeded from the Confederate government. Did
Logan start in on the Northern or on the Southern
side?
This is a question that has caused the pros-
pective presidential candidate much annoy-
ance. It is a notorious fact that he was a dis-
tinguished copperhead and a very enthusiastic
Democrat about 1860, and as many years be-
fore as the memory of man can reach. He
lived in that classic portion of the State of
Illinois known as Egypt, and was recognized
as the undisputed boss of the region. A tra-
dition is current that on election nights
he telegraphed to the chairman of
the Democratic State committee at
Chicago or Springfield asking: "How
many more votes do you want from Egypt?"
This inquiry on its face seems harmless, but
what Black Jack was supposed to really mean
is that he was able and willing to return
enough Democratic votes from Egypt to give
his party a majority in the State. This is il-
lustrative of the general character of the gen-
tleman now prominently mentioned as Mr.
Arthur's successor. He is thoroughly unscru-
pulous in politics. He is uncultured and vin-
dictive, the soul of demagogism and the es-
sence of uurelenting partisanship. It
would be difficult to conceive of
any person more thoroughly unfitted
for the office of president than Logan. He is
not known to possess a single quality fitting
him for that eminent distinction. With him
statesmanship is an unknown quantity, and
principle is something he never knew, or if he
did, he failed to cultivate. Formerly his pres-
idential asperations were merely looked upon
as a joke by sensible men of
all parties, but within the past few months
strong indications have been sent forth that
he has a certain following and that contingen-
cies may arise whereby he would become the
Republican nominee. Without any reference
to party victories or defeats it is to be re-
gretted that Logan has attained such promi-
nence. It is a slur upon the country's fame
that a man of Logan's character, attainments
and abilities should ever be seriously men-
tioned for the first office within the gift of an
intelligent people. Arthur is of material
cheap enough, but he is so infinitely superior
to Logan that a comparison between them is
well-nigh impossible. Every American, with-
out reference to party, should endeavor to put
a damper on the Logan boom.
s Say-
a for " tam-
able-lx editor and a
printer fron* essing three
rows of teeth an<. ** vpreferred."
He says one of the erlito* s bulldozed
st a ball the other night. " mld-be hero
threatened to chaw us up bodtfy, and to
further satiate his appetite by devouring our
printer and our devil"
The Eocket says: "The DailV El Paso
Times, after a precarious existence of over a
year, and changing hands a dozen times, sus-
pended last Sunday."
The papers state that Commodofe Day,
United States navy, in charge of the Eighth
Light-house district, has just made a tour of
inspection along the gulf coast as far as Brazos.
He reports eight feet of water at full tide in
Cavallo pass, at the entrance to Matagorda
bay. At Aransas pass, at full tide, nine feet,
and nine and a half feet on the Brazos bar.
The Gainesville Independent says:
All this talk about a herd law is to our minds the
worst of folly. The remedy is not at all applicable
to the evil. The effect of such a law being put in
operation is Jpractically the same as a law requir-
ing every man to fence his land, which is the very
imaginary evil complained of by the wire-cutting
element. Suppose you allow a man to buy all the
land he wants to own and provide that he shall
herd his stock and keepthennoff the land of others,
in so doing he will keep other people's stock off his
land, and the effect is the same and as effectual to
destroy free range as if he was to fence. The facts
are, there is no law much needed except one that
will deter men from the destruction of property.
Protect men in whatever property rights they may
acquire is ail law can #0. The courts and law-
makers can not become fue guardians of individ-
uals. Indeed, competition in business is what
makes men. The ownership of the soil is like any
other property, it will regulate itself. The rich
men of this generation are raising the fathers of
the poor men of next.
It takes a wise man to see the wit of some
Texas pajpers. The Pilot Point Post prints the
folloVing:
Startling Outrage.—Last Wednesday night,
about 9 o'clock, in his own house, our fellow-towns-
man, J. C. Newbury, was caned by two of our bus!
nessnjen, and so severely injured about the head
that at first his life was despaired of. Drs. Elmore,
Lank ford, Wylie and Ragland were called, and by
faithful service Mr. Newbury was brought to.
Later—The weapon used was a fine walking cane
which Mr. Newbury poises his ponderous person
on, with commendable dignity.
From a communicated paragraph in another
part of the same paper it appears that the
above was meant as a humorous description of
the complimentary presentation of a cane to
Mr. Newbury. The papers should label their
jokes as well as their politics."
The Two Laredos says there were " fewer
drunken men in Laredo during the holidays
than in any city with the same population in
or out of the State." The Texas twin of the
two towns seems to lack the spirit of pleasure.
The same paper says:
The fiesta on this side of the river, though mod-
est in comparison with that of the other lass of the
twin sisterhood on the opposite side of the Rio
Grande, is being pretty well patronized.
The Seymour Cresset reports another mur-
derous affair from whisky:
It took place Monday night at Charley Rumble's
ranch, in Knox county, between James Curtis and
James Soders. Six-shooters were used, resulting
in the serious wounding of the former. James
Curtis, James Soders and Oscar McClaiu were in
camp together and proceeded to celebrate Christ-
Bias by filling themselves with the contents of the
whisky bottles, and when in this state of intoxica-
tion the shooting was done. Curtis, the
wounded man. says he does not remember
anything about the cause of the row, nor
any of the occurrences connected therewith.
Heretofore the parties concerned have been the
best of friends, and it is probable the only cause
was bad whisky.
This is but one of many such events all over
the United States during the holidays. People
seem to relapse into savages on such occasions.
The Recorder reports an improvement in the
manner of observing Christmas at Fairfield:
Last year there was considerable drunkenness,
noise and disorder; but this year everything was
much more quiet and orderly. We heard no very
boisterous conduct and saw no one staggering
drunk.
The Recorder, however, detracts somewhat
from the merit of the reform by saying,
"many besides us ascribe the comparative
quietude to a lack of the 1 wherewith' to frolic
on." The colored people, however, seem to
have made more of the occasion. The Recorder
says:
The negroes of Mr. J.C. Evans's farm,a few miles
west of town, had a " festival " Christmas day,and,
like most of those affairs, it ended in a serious cut-
ting affray. A negro named Bill Natt, living on
Mr. al Carter's place, was stabbed in the neck and
seriously wounded by another negro named John
Brown.
The Fairfield Recorder remarks:
Some persons who are too cowardly to express
their dislikes for others in an honorable way take
advantage of Christmas trees, Valentine's day and
the 1st of April to send insulting missives to those
who have happened to incur their displeasure
Such people should be found out and watched, for
a man u ho Is so void of all sense of honor as to
take such a low, mean advantage is mean enough
to do worse if his instinct should prompt him.
The Recorder is right about the meanness of
such things, but sensible people will only re-
gard them for what they are worth. If they
allude to foibles and foilies that may be cor-
rected they can do no harm except to wound a
liltle personal vanity, and may be of advan
tage to the parties aimed at.
The Texas Western says:
The buildiug boom in Anson is not dead: It is
only taking Christmas.
The Dallas Times did not die for good on the
1st, though it went into a state of suspended
animation and did not appear in public. After
explaining the reasons why it could not appear
decently, it says:
To avoid the mortification of being forced to
issue a paper of this kind, we shall not go to press.
As compensation to our subscribers for depriving
them of an issue, we promise to abstain from issu-
ing a New Year's address. When they consider
that we have never afflicted them with home-made
poetry, and now feelingly spare them the horrors
of such an address, we know they will agree that
we merit the holiday which we propose to take.
The Times is more reasonable than Dogber-
ry, and can give a reason for everything but
its hostility to Galveston. This it tries to con-
ceal under a sardonic grim. It describes itself
as about to die laughing at the idea of ob-
taining deep water under the Eads plan, and
says, "to those acquainted with Galveston is
afforded the luxury of a laugh," and imagines
a general cachinnation on the subject. The grin
of the Times is not of the sardonic kind. That
is involuntary, while the facial contortions of
the Times are forced and unnatural. The An-
The sophists of protection argue that that
system is to produce such domestic competition
that prices will be lower than the natural cost
of importations. They conveniently ignore
the fact that the manufacturer is not a ma-
chine, but will stop production when it suits
him. When prices come down under over-
production in the limited market he shuts
down. When liberal trade relations are es-
tablished, and prices come down, he will not
shut down, but make the best of it, while the
protectionist sophist will have to shut up. The
bosses will stop their subsidies, and can econo-
mize on their lobbying.
It is said, on official Methodist authority,
that Sojourner Truth was not a hundred and
eight years old when she died, nor a hundred,
nor even ninety. Convincing evidence was
years ago collected to refute her claim of cen-
tenarianism, and, worse yet, to indicate that
she was a conscious humbug. That was the
reason why her revivalistic work never re-
ceived any sanction from clergymen who knew
the truth. _
Wells' May-apple (Liver) Pills, 10c and 86c.
BIG
IN GAB WE TRUST.
tAx.x on the prevail-
ing outrage.
son Western says:
Owing to our having a first-class case of jaun-
dice, we have not enjoyed the Christmas hohda3'S
as we should have done otherwise.
The attack of the Western is natural, but
the Times and some other papers have an arti-
ficial kind of jaundice, that shows itself when
ever Galveston is named.
Texas papers which find it hard to say any-
thing new about Galveston, though they never
fail to say something, may take a hint from
the following in the St. Louis Southwest:
The splendid attracti6ns of Newport and Long
Branch as popular summer resorts for health and
pleasure are widely known, and all that can be
written in their behalf is far surpassed by the gran
deur and beauty of Galveston on-the-Gulf. To its
marvelous scenery, incomparable beach, magnifi-
cent hotels and other surroundings, may be added
_ commerciai importance, and all of the conven-
iences of a city with a highly cultivated social life.
As a winter resort it is without rivalry in the land.
Wealth can lavish upon the shores of the sea
its wondrous resources, and in
tificial efforts make it highl/ attractive,
but it can never relocate climate, scenery, and the
charms which nature has husbanded /or centuries,
for the gratification and health of mankind. All of
the millions of New York could not produce the
9)l*ndor of a beach like that upon the island of
alveston, nor could all of the artists in the world
reproduce upon canvas its essential grandeur and
beauty, because the murmur of I the waves
can never be painted, nor the storms
and frozen winds of the North be
stilled with money. In these respects Galveston is
favored beyond any other popular resort in the
country. Its winters are mild and genial, and
every gift of a semi-tropical climate is there to be
enjoyed, and the trip from St. Louis, over the Iron
Mountain route, in one of Pullman's superb buffet
cars, which run through without change to Galves-
ton, is a pleasure not elsewhere enjoyed, because of
the gradual and fascinating change trom the snowy
North to thte sunny South.
The New York Herald, quoting from Mr.
Hewitt, who, it says, has disappointed timid
Democrats by Lis latest declaration, finds what
it wants in his position. The Herald says:
The labor of the United States needs " fuller trade
and better wages," and 31r. Hewitt's argument
that "cheap raw materials and cheap capital mean
higher wages for labor1' deserves to impress itself
upon every workingman. As to the relations of
this " onlv living issue " to the muster-rolls of par-
ties Mr. Hewitt's test for classifying any man as a
Republican is that he shall " believe in protection
for the sake of protection;" and his
test for classifying any man as a Democrat is that
he sha.ll " insist that the protective system shall
not be enlarged, and believe that moderate duties,
producing on the average of years a sufficient rev-
enue, are adequate for protection at the only times
it is now needed." When the Democratic House
of Representatives shall have passed a bill to re-
form the tariff on this 44 basis of principle," and
the Republican Senate shall have rejected it (events
which Mr. Hewitt seems confident will soon occur),
then the iseue will be made up for the presidential
campaign of 1884.
;f Adequate for protection " is a compromise
expression, and a somewhat curious one for
any anti-protectionist to adopt. Indeed, it is
utterly impossible to adopt it and oppose inci-
dental protection. Protectionism is not
needed by the majority of the people. Ade-
quate protection means adequate oppression of
the many by the few.
Rev. Jos. Cook's audience don't always
have the pleasure of understanding him, for
he takes them through a regular puzzlemaze of
words. A Bostonian, who read the report of
a recent lecture in that city, says that he
found in it ten words that are not given in any
dictionary of modern times.
The colossal statue of John C. Calhoun will
be fifteen feet high, and, when set up in the
city of Charleston, will be, with its pedestal,
forty-five feet high. At the base of the granite
resta will be seated life-size figures of Truth
Justice and History.
At the recent dinner of the Scottish"cor-
poration in London, on St. Andrew's day,
over which the Marquis of Lorne presided
everything suggestive of degenerate Saxon
dom was carefully suppressed. There were
only two pairs of trousers present.
The emp
that has 1
or of China sleeps on a bedstead
1 in use for two centuries.
Fence-Ontting Effectually Quelled-'
The Stockmen and Citizens of Aus-
tin Oive Vent to Their Views, fitc
[Special Correspondence of The News.1
Austin, December 30, 1S83.—Last night
Representative hall, in the temporary capitol,
was the place of meeting of citizens of this
couuty to express their views with reference to
the fence-cutting lawlessness, and to suggest
remedies if it should be found the public con-
demns the practice. Stock-raisers and promi-
nent persons from other counties were present.
Mr. A. P. Wooldridge, chairman in general
for nearly all public meetings, was selected to
preside, and did so with grace and dignity.
Will Lambert, secretary, and Alderman Piatt,
as sergeant-at-arms, completed the official list.
Hon. G. W. Jones, of Bastrop, was the first
speaker. 1 submit outlines of his and other
speeches:
Colonel Jones said: This is one of the most
important questions, if not the most important,
;be people of Texas have ever been called
upon to settle. It has come out in the news-
papers that there is a demand by a large class
of men in Texas that other men shall not fence
in their own lands. I can't believe it. In
grave situations passion should not rule. You
must take men, good and bad, as you find
them, and not lose your temper. I say the
first thing is to get right, and when we have
found the solid ground of truth and justice
plant ourselves firmlv upon it. The idea has
obtained ground that all men are entitled to
free use of earth, air and water. Ideas of this
kind are spreading over the country. Now,
what is right in reference to this land question?
Some things are wrong, because, as the law-
yers say, they are forbidden by the law.
Others say there are things in themselves
wrong, as theft and murder. These are called
evils in themselves. There are, as stated, rela-
tive evils wrong, because forbidden by law.
Now, in this case what is right—what makes
right? Blackstone says the will of the creator
to the creature determines what is right or
wrong to the creature. We can readily see
that murder and theft, by this rule,
are wrong. Now, then, we come
to the fence-cutter. The rule, remember,
is that the will of the creator to the creature
determines what is right, but you will hear
lawryers and politicians state that the will of
the people is supreme. They invoke the
phrase vox populi vox Dei, and there is a pro-
found truth in it„ In our very nature there is
necessity for Society, and in the very nature
of society there is in it a necessity for supreme
Dower, and whenever that power is exercised
t becomes the voice of your creator—to you
and me. It may not be what is termed a di-
viue truth; but whenever the people have de-
clared the law it binds every citizen. This is
the great question now. When you elect your
governor and your legislature it is no matter
low you and I voted, for they then became
your governor and legislature and my gov-
ernor and legislature, and when they
made a law the law became our law, and bind-
ing upon us. Then no man true to his creator
and to his government will trample this law
under his foot. Here is your government and
mine—our constituted authorities—expressing
by law tho will of the people, which is bind-
ing upon you, and hence the man
who assails this law is a traitor to
his country and an enemy to lib-
erty. [Applause.] In government there
can bo but two ideas—constitutional liberty
and tyranny. Government must be personal
or institutional. You have your choice.
Now go back in the history of your country.
Once it was a wide, unsettled country. In-
dians were here. It was hundreds of miles
from house to house. The Mexican govern-
ment invited your grandfathers to come here
and settle, which they did, receiving grants of
land for reclaiming the country from the sav-
ages; but now you say we can't fence this land.
After you have acquired your lands and made
your laws a rascally lot of fellows from Geor-
gia, Tennessee, Illinois and other States, who
3ave been hiding in the brush the last ten or
fifteen years, you say, can come here and take
possession of our lands and cut our fences.
. STow can not the people who have rescued this
country from barbarism rescue it from lawless-
ness ? Now you may talk about the principles
of the old Democracy and about Republican
ism, but the truth is you must have a master
or you must accept and enforce the law. If,
in making laws, the legislature has erred,
elect a better one, and if the
governor has made a mistake,
elect another and improve on him. Of course
we all make mistakes. But the bottom fact is
that, mistake or no mistake, the law must be
supreme, or you must have a despot for your
master. When you make laws, support and
abide by them. Let us see what we can do
and how we stand. How many acres of school
lands are there? I understand you^have 35.000,-
000 acres, and that six months ago these lands
were worth $70,000,000. It ought to be enough
to educate the children a century without tax-
ation. Only six months ago this land was
worth $70,000,000 at $2 an acre. Now it is de-
manded for free pasturage, and you can't sell
it for a cent an acre. Are you going to sur-
render this $70,0?)0,000 to fence-cutters? Are
you going to surrender the rights of private
owners of lands? Other lands are also to be
rendered valueless, and cattle have declined,
entailing an aggregate loss of millions of dol-
lars. 1 call your attention to these palpable
truths. Now what is to be done about it?
There are $70,000,000 at stake, and the
immediate shrinkage of the immense
property of private owners. There is
one way to prevent it. *The law must be
enforced. I do not wish to make a speech or
to advise plans, but I only want to identify
myself with the good people of Texas on the
e of law and order. The only hope of free
institutions is the supremacy of law. Unless
made supreme you will set back prosperity,
peace and liberty half a century. The same
causes have kept Franco in chains—the Paris
mob of communists. What keeps English
liberty back but the fear of mobocracy? We
are passing through the same craze that
afflicted Prance. This western continent, from
its situation and in the nature of things, is
consecrated to liberty and humanity, taking
that position of superiority over Europe in re-
lation to liberty and humanity that England
occupies with "reference to the countries of
Asia aud Africa. You who are here, whether
rich or poor, have the same rights, laws and
liberty. Here, where every man has the same
chance to.grow rich, no one has the right to
complain. The humblest child or man, the
black as well as the white, in the land, has the
same chance that Jay Gould has to acquire
wealth, but still they talk about a landed
aristocracy or plutocracy.
Colonel Jones showed the fallacy of such
demagogism, and closing said: We have to
make this fight for the law and institutional
government. You can't dodge, but in the end
you must take one side or the other. Are you
for law and order ? Do you want..to see the
State flourish, the schools prosj>er and liberty
take deep root, or lawlessness usurp their place
and good men trampled under the foot of the
bad { If you do, stand up for the fence-cut-
ters. If not, come out for law and order, for
God, liberty and your country. [Applause.]
the governor speaks.
Governor Ireland spoke for some time. He
said because the legislature was near at hand,
when he would submit his views on fence-cut-
ting very clearly, he thought it not desirable
to speak on the subject now. This meeting is
in the proper direction. When I said, some
months ago, in a conversation given to the
country through the press, that the fence-cut-
ting trouble was in the hands of the people,
some men thought it monstrous that their
rights should be relegated back to the ma-
chinery which had been instituted for their
protection; that the officers having the power
of protection should be invited to step
to the front, and when they found
men depredating upon property should not
turn their backs, but should go forward. Some
men thought this monstrous, and asked shall
we take shot-guns in our hands and inaugu-
rate lynch law? I reply, no. Do not vindi-
cate the law by breaking law. I say the ordi-
nary machinery of government should be put
in motion. I would have been glad to have re-
stored order and protected your fences, but it
has not been in my power to do so. Occasion-
ally you hear a growl from an individual or
newspaper asking, why don't you stop it? When
1 ask, how am I to do it? Some fellow says, why
just stop it. Well, 130 men are placea at the
disposal of the governor, and in no single in-
stance have I failed to furnish men when
called upon. These 120 men have been kept on
the road from the first day the trouble began
to this hour, and in no instance has an appeal
for men been made that they have not been
sent as soon as the wires could transmit the or-
der. But I regret to say that in only one in-
stance where troops have been sent to act, as
by law they must act, in obedience to the or-
ders of sheriffs, have the officers and people in-
dicated any wish to use them. The coun-
ty judge of Jack county, when I
sent a detachment there, wrote a letter
declaring the act was a slander upon his
couuty and people, although the detachment
had been asked for by men whose property
had been destroyed. I'his county judge said
we can execute the laws. The troops were not
received and welcomed in an^' couuty to which
they were sent, except DeWitt. And yet, it is
said, I ought to have ordered out the militia.
In the name of God, in the name of all that is
holy, have we people in Texas with so little
judgment as to suppose the militia could find
fence-cutters? They would have me play the
role of the King of France, who. with 10,000
men, marched up the hill and then marched
down a^ain. As for the gentlemen whose
pastures have been cut no onw deplores it more
than I. If their friends and their sheriffs have
not been able to find the fence-cutters, how
could the militia find them ? The law ex-
pressly requires the militia to act in obedience
to the sheriff. Suppose they had been sent to
Brown county, who would the militia have
been called upon te protect? Why, the
last dispatch from there to one
of the newspapers says: "More fence-
cutting last night. It was purely malicious
and is not done by the fence-cutters." So it
seems even the newspaper correspondents are
ready to defend the fence-cutters. Then what
can the governor do? The governor has ap-
pealed to the moral forces of the country. He
has appealed to the people, and when the peo-
ple abandon their duty, there is nothing left
but the sword, and it has not been placed in
the hands of the governor. A grave state sen
ator has said it is the duty of the governor tc
employ a secret police force. Now reflect
back a few years, and who was there in Texas
who did not curse the secret police? In getting
rid of a government odious to our people it ir
possible that our people went a little too far in
the opposite direction in the limitation of exe
cutive power. Why, to-day I can not send a
messenger a mile for any purpose without
paying him out of my private purse. Not
dollar is placed in the governors hands, ex-
cept for specific purposes, save a certain
amount to pay rewards. When it was sup-
posed an armed mob was threatening a little
town, some days ago, in a neighboring couuty.
and 1 asked the volunteer guards to go there, J
was humiliated to tell them to beg their way
over the railroads and to pay their own expenses.
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Has now in stock arul in shipment the largest and most complete line of Railway, Mill, Machinists and Engineers Supplies ever brought south of St \Lou' west ai
the Mississippi, as follows: Improved Rubber Belting, any width,- Circular, Shingle and Cross-cut Saws; Fire Brick; Rubber Hose and Packink Oak tanned
Leather Belting, any width; Lace Leather, Belt Hooks, Rivets and Burs; the Blake Steam Pump, any size; the Worthington Steam Pump, an, size^XLubricatinr
and Signal Oils; Babbitt Metal, Square Rubber Packing, Rubber-line,I Cotton Hose, Flue Brushes, 'Casting Brushes, Italian and American Hemp Packihsr Asbestos
Packing and Mill Board, Nicholson's and Diss ton''s Files, Bisston's S\iw Tools, Coe's Wrenches, Emery and Emery Cloth, Gas and Water Pipe and Fitttnps Glob*
and Angle Valves, Lath Yarn, Shafting and Pulleys, Valves and Hydrants for Waterworks; the Keystone Portable Forge, any size. '
We can furnish, on short notice, Engines, Boilers and Saw-mills of well-rtco°nized character as to manufacture; H. K. Porter's Light Loconwtiv,*
Steel Tram Rails and Fastenings; Shingle Machines, and all kinds of Iron and Wood-working Machinery. * '
TEXAS RAILWAY ANJD MILL SUPPLY COMPANY
Northwest Corner Hatching House Building. HOUSTON. TEXAS.
under the expectation that the State would
refund the money. I have not the money to
Jay an army in the field an hour. But even it
■ had the money, how foolish to think the
troopi would find fence-cutters. The fence-
cutter is not an idiot. He goes somewhere else
than where the troops are. I am here to-night,
not to make a speech, but I wished to show you
that the executive of the State shrinks from no
responsibility, and I have no apology to make
for the fence-cutter or the large pasture owner.
Let the law take its course. Nothing justifies
men in taking the law into their own hands ex-
cept a great and imminent danger. If the
fence-cutter is prevented by fences from going
from his home to the oounty seat, he should go
to the county commissioner's court for redress,
and if he finds the law under which that body
is controlled insufficient let him go to the legis-
lature. There is no excuse for fence-cutting.
It is a species of vandalism that, unchecked,
sooner or later, begins upon the burning of
your houses and your fields and provender, for
men progress in criminal education as they do
in virtue. There is no truce with lawlessness.
If the people had acted properly in
the beginning—if they had gone for-
ward as one man and as they now
propose doing, the fence-cutter would have
shrunk from his lawlessness. If Mr. Taylor's
fence is cut Mr. North has no right to push
Mr. Taylor forward alone to protect his prop-
erty. It is his duty to assist his neighbor.
You should put your heads together and act
together and force your officers to go forward.
Bui as this was not done, and men shrank
back, the fence-cutter became bolder and has
gone on until the people are aroused. Anony-
mous letters nave been sent to me warning me
to "keep still—we do the voting, and the elec-
tions are coming on." Thank God I have
virtue enough to rise above such considera-
tions. I am afraid of nothing except to do
wrong or to fail to do my whole duty, and he
who says I have not done it had better go to
sleep. I feel warm, because there is an ele-
ment in this country—thank God it is small
and hard to find—that would see this country
drenched in blood, all "nature upturned, and
would invite your executive to trample under
foot the constitution he has sworn to support.
The man or newspaper who would do this is a
traitor to society and to his country. You
can't restore law and order by violence. I ask
for no votes. I am not a candidate for any-
thing. I shall speak to the legislature in very
plain terms, and to you, fence cutterg, if any
of you are here to-night, I say you will never
gather fortune* by doing wrong to others, and
if you can't brand 100 calves without destroy-
ing fences, brand only fifty, or even only ten.
When your executive was a boy and couldn't
honestly get four bits he was content with
two, or with fifteen cents, and in place of
tearing down his neighbors' fences, when he
saw them down he put them up again. He
bas managed to get along into middle life on
this principle, and he can not now afford to
compromise with lawlessness, and he won't
do it.
The governor was repeatedly applauded.
colonel btthges, of seguin,
made a stirring speech, showing the duty of
the State in the protection of land, and com-
puted the losses from fence-cutting at many
millions.
judge rector, of austin,
particularized the losses and damage to the
State and people from this lawlessness. He
felt that it was within the power of the State
to correct this evil. We can't rely upon
moral force of public sentiment. While it is
great in quieting and deterring men in ordinary
es, yet it is apparent we need something
more than that. Iti
;reat strong State like Texas, when its wealth
is destroyed by millions, as it is in this ~"
that the State government should stand limp
and helpless before destroying
; is jjitiable, indeed, that
weal
State,
lawlessness.
But the" legislature is soon to assemble, the
sentiment of the people Ls becoming known,
there are no two sides to the question, aud the
legislature will act. But we are not
here to formulate laws, but to ask
that if it be nessary, a sufficient
ranger or police force be furnished the gov-
ernor, and, if needful, a secret fund placea at
his disposal and also whatever more he may
require. The legislature should pass such laws
as to venue when fence-cutters are to be tried
as may be indispensable to meet the trouble.
Judge Rector adverted to the fact stated by
the governor that county officers and citizens
did not want state troops, and held that people
of other States and counties holding property
In those counties and paying taxes on it want
protection, and if local authorities do not af-
ford it are entitled to have it from some other
source. He expected the legislature would
jive relief, but if it should not, this being the
' asi hope, then there will be a darker side to
the picture. Property-owners will not always
stand still. A struggle will ensue from the
effects of which the country will not recover in
fifty years.
senator terrell
said he telt that just now in Texas civilization
was on trial. No one was more gratified than
himself at the views expressed by Colonel
Jones, he alluded to twenty years back when
Colonel Jones resisted and defeated a mob.
The meeting, he said, could not expect of him
now more than a declaration of his anxiety to
see the laws enforced. He thought it impolitic
for legislators to be interviewed or to commit
themselves now, and he was not going to give
his views as to remedies, unless there was force
to operate, and the necessary veneration suffi
cient to stop this destructive civilization is at
an end. He wa9 ready, if necessary, to the en-
forcement of law to use every dollar and every
able-bodied man in Texas. But he did not for-
get that in this fence cutting business as in
otLer extraordinary cases of a similar nature
the truth lies between the two extremes. There
never was a lawless movement likethis.gather-
iug the strength of this, that was not provoked
by something wrong. I say to you that the
man who swings his 100,000 acre pasture fence
around 40,000 acres of school land3 is the first
wrong-doer, and I say to you that in my, hum-
ble capacity as legislator, he is the first man
to whom I »ill pay my respects and then drive
back the lawless fence-cutter.
representative browning,
of Wheeler county, said there had been no
fence-cutting in about one hundred miles if his
place. He thought there must first be measures
against illegally fencing land3, and, next, im
position of severe punishment for cutting
fences.
The rest of the proceedings were as tele-
graphed Saturday night, except that while the
committee was out getting ready their resolu-
tions, a committee of fence-outters were out
some twelve miles below town cutting the fence
of Mr. Driskill, who was at the meeting.
COMMERCE AND FINANCE.
COHHEBCIAL DISPATCHES
FROM LEADING CENTERS.
were about 1200 head. Market sl-»w, hut
Good to chSice steers sold from $5 400*6 00.
Sheep in light supply, active and 25<&5Do higher
on fat stock. Fair to choioe $3 75<&4 50.
Wheat quiet and lower, 80^c was bit1 for No. 2
red cash. No. 3 cash was offered at 70c.
Corn also declined sharply. No. 2 mired cash
sold at 8?Vifi&37c; 26c was bid for No. 2 cas.x oats.*
Flour is moving more freely at steady pricas.
Bacon guoted in carlots at 8%c for long clear.
8lie for snort clear. Lard 8^c.
The very cold weather is interfering considerably
with the movement of produce. Valees generally
short, but no particular change. Butter Is weak,
and apples, potatoes and cabbage about steady. \
firm*
New STork Daily Report.
[Special to The news.1
new York, January 2.—Four hundred million
dollars of new securities were listed on the Stock
exchange last year.
The Oregon Transcontinental report was gen-
erally considered indefinable and unsatisfactory,
but the stocks represented nevertheless advanced,
as did the whole market.
Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fes, $113, ex interest,
bid.
The Stock exchange sales include $6000 Texas
Pacific, Rio Grande division, at 71^i; $10,000 Tej
Pacific land grant incomes at 45; 8000 shares at
16%<3H7H.
Sterling firm. Ordinary commercial, for all
January, sold at $4.80^; bank Indorsements, de-
livered to-day, $4.81J4.
The Memphis and Charleston road will issue a
million and a half more bonds. The Quincy offi
cially denies that it will build to St. Paul. Vander-
bilt has put on a new fast freight line between
Boston and St. Louis.
Mr. Fabri, of Drexel's house, charges Villard
with very grave mistakes, but there is no intention
of prosecuting him. His resignation of the Pacific
pi esidency will be accepted Friday. It is rumored
Villard and wife have transferred ail their pro-
perty to the Northern Pacific company. Careful
authorities estimate the Oregon Transcontinental
assets at $16,000,000.
Cotton advanced on better Liverpool, increased
bullish feeling aud lighter receipts. This week's
estimate of receipts is 150,000 bales. There were
very few tenders iu Liverpool to-day.
Mr. John Travers retired from the firm of Tra-
vers & Hackman on the 1st of January, and Mr.
O. A.. Walsh comes in, with S. B. French and C. F.
Woerishoffer as " specials.M
St. Zionis Daily Report.
[Special to The News.1
St. Louis, January 2.—Influenced by the bril-
liant cold weather and liberal receipts, there was a
rush to sell early, opening lower for both wheat
and corn, but subsequently improving under a
sharp demand from shorts. The deliveries on con-
tract todiy were heavy. Heavy shipments of
corn have gone forward from here to Chicago late-
ly with more to follow. Receipts—Corn 494 cars, 315
Trading No. 2. The market closed: Wheat, $1 00^
or January; $1 02^ for February; $1 0SU for
May. Corn, 45%fi^46c for January; 47V4<&4?^c for
February; 5154<a51^c for May. Stocks of grain
to-day in St. Louis elevators. 1,8G2.561 bushels
wheat, 1,159,826 bushels corn. Country advices in-
dicate a frse movement of grain to "market, and
the weather favors it, being clear and cold.
h Limestone County Alan's Ideas of
the Fence Question.
LTo The News.1
Armour, Texas, December 31, 1s8s.—i see
various views expressed through The News
on the fence problem This section has plenty
of rail timber close at hand. Nothwithstand-
ing this the farms and pastures are mostly
fenced with three barb wires, many using two
wires between farm and pasture, and some
using only one barb wire for cross fences
where horses alone are put in pasture. This
is ample proof that the danger of stock being
cut on barb-wire fences is very light, or a man
would not put his own stock in pasture with
two wires.
The bugaboo about stock being cut on barb
wire in the stockman's argument is one of his
points for free grass. Just let the herd law be
enacted and you would see the stockman put
his stock in pastures inclosed with barb wire.
It is the prevailing opinion that the greed for
free grass is the main incentive to wire-
cutting.
It is believed that to make the barb wire a
lawful fence would be the first and main step
toward a remedy for fence-cutting: the herd
law,| o come in by counties or half counties,
the next. There should be a heavy penalty and
fine; then the State police force and fence-
cutting ends. Citizen.
A young foreign doctor who had lost heavi-
ly at the gaming table at Monte Cario recently,
entered the church of St. Bartholemy at Nice
just before closing time. Having been re-
quested to leave, he begged for a few minutes
grace, declaring that he was about to kill him-
self. He was taken for a lunatic, and com-
pelled to leave. He shot himself just outside,
and fell dead.
Chicago Daily Report
(Special to The News.]
Chicago, January 2.—To-day 's postings of stocks
show the following amount grain in the eleva-
tors here: Wheat, 11,800.410 bushels; corn, 2,489,980
bushels. The receipts to-day were large, consider-
ing the many inbound trains snow-bound, baing 235
cars of wheat, and <76 of corn. The inspection of
corn arriving shows an improvement, and the indi
cations are that a still larger per cent, of the ar
rivals will inspect No. 2 with this bright cold
weather. St. Louis and Kansas City selected ship-
ments, to unload on manipulators, are inspecting
well. The opening was unsettled for corn, but un
der the influence of rather free deliveries on Janu-
ary, the bears raided that option lively, it selling
off 2c, with others sympathizing:, the break being
assisted by rumors of Henry Villard's failure ana
assignment, which was later denied. After 11
o'clock stronger prices ruled, but the closing rates
show declines of ^(a^c for wheat, white corn
closed neariv unchanged. Provisions strons. The
receipts of hogs were very small, being only 5000,
with some trains snow-bound. The market closed
for wheat; _93'^c for January; 943|c for February
$1 02% for
ic for Febru-
95££c for Murch; $1 01 for Alav;
juue. Corn- 5G34c lor January; 55l£<
ary; 59c for May.
Pork—$14 25 for January; $14 45 for February
$14 62^ tor March; $14 97# for May.
lani— January nominal; $8 97^ for February
$9 30 for May.
Curbstone trading was done at 58££c for May
corn, but later sold at 59c. Wheat, $1 013£ for
May.
The receipts of cattle amounted to 3500 head, and
the market ruled strong. Export, $0 00<?&6 60
good to choice shipping, $5 60tf>6 00; common to
medium, $4 25(&5 50.
The arrivals ot sheep were 2000 head, the market
ruling firm. Inferior to fair, $3 25^3 75: medium
to good, $4 00(2^4 25; choice to extra, $4 50@5 25.
Kansas City Daily Report.
[Special to The News.1
kansas City, January 2.—The receipts of cattle
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Looseness. Diarrhoea, or painful discharges from
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or inflammation, no weakness or lassitude will fol-
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ACHES AND PAINS.
For headache, whether sick or nervous, tooth-
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rheumatism, lumbago, pains and weakness in the
back, spine or kidneys, pains around the liver,
pleurisy, swelling of the ioints, pains in the bowels,
heartburn and pains of all kinds, Railway's R»»ady
Relief will afford immediate ease, and its continued
use for a few days effects a permanent cure. Price,
50 cents.
DR. RADWAY'S
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The Great Blood Purifier.
For the Cure of Chronio Disease, Scro-
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or Contagious,
Chronic Rheumatism, Scrofula. Glandular Swell
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_ 'iseases, Mercurial Uiseaseg, t emaie uomul
Gout, Dropsy, Bronchitis, Consumption. For the
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SKIN DISEASES
ERUPTIONS ON THE FACE AND BODY. PlM-
PLES. BLOTCHES, SALT RHEUM, OLD SORES,
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the blood, restoring health and vigor: clear skin
and beautiful comnlexions secured to all.
Liver Complaints, Etc.
Not only does the Sarsaparillian Resolvent excel
all remedial agents in the cure of Chronic Scrofu-
lous, Constitutional and Skin Diseases, but it is the
only positive cure for
KIDNEY and BLADDER COMPLAINTS
Urinary and Womb Diseases, Gravel. Diabetes,
Dropsy, Stoppage of Water. Incontinence of Urine,
Bright's Disease, Albuminuria,and in all cases where
there are brick-dust deposits, or the water is thick,
cloudy, or mixed with substances like the white of
an egg, or threads like white silk,or there is amor-
bid, dark, bilious appearance and white bone-dust
deposits, and where there is a pricking, burning
sensation when passing water, and pain in the
small of the back and along the loins.
SOLD BY DRUGGISTS. Price, >100 per bottle.
FARMERS OJST THE" GULF COAST
In order to meet tlie wishes of parties who do not
want to sell
COTTON I 1ST THE SEED.
We are now "building another ginhouse, and next
season shall be prepared to gin
Spoo Bales Cotton,
whien we expect to receive, having ginned nearly
that number this season.
COTTON GHSTJSTJEI3 FOR THE SEED-
BAOGING AND TIES FUKMSHED FREE.
GALVESTON OIXj COMFY.
FOR SALE.
150,000 lbs. Steel PlowShapes
-ADDRESS
J. S. BROWN & GO.
STRAND, GALVESTON.
THE UNPRECEDEN TED
OF OUB
Celebrated
S^EES
Jersey Lily
AND
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siderations of our patrons; and, as we are daily expecting another large shipment, we would
suggest to our friends to avoid any future delay to send in their orders at once.
p. j. willis <£ bro.,
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5
Iron
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strengthen.
RAsf)WAY'S PILLS for the cure of all disorders
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table, containing no mercury, minerals or delete-
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A few doses of RADWAY'S PILLS will free the
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TO THE PUBLIC.
Be sure aDd ask for Radway's, and sea that
the name of Radwaf is on what voii buy.
THE PHCENIX IEON CO.
410 Walnut Street, PHILADELPHIA,
Manufacturers of Wrought Iron
Beams, Deck Beams. Channels, Angle and Tee Bars
WROUGHT IRON ROOF TRUSSES, GIRDERS AMD JOISTS,
Ana all kinds of Iron Framing used in the construction of Fire Proof Buildings, Patent Wrou^nt
_ ^ Columns and built up .shapes for Iron Bridges.
MILLIKEN &. SA'IITH! Sole New York Agents, 95 Liberty St..N. T.
Mitchell & Scruggs
DAXiXiAS, TBZ., Manufacturers' General State Agents for Farm and BEill
Machinery and Agricultural Implements. General State Agents
for Brown Cotton Gin Oompanv.
IN STOCK—Hay Presses, the cheapest and best in the
United. States; Bay State Engines; Brown's Celebrated
Gins; also Cotton Bloom and Lummus Gins, Chicago
Scales, Reynolds's 4 and 5 inch screw Cotton Presses,
Knowles <te Blake Steam Pumjps, Pulleys, Belting-, Brass
Fittings, Pipe, John Deere Plows, Cincinnati Barbed
Wire, Tumbull Wagons, "Pride of Texas" Corn Mills,
Bolting Cloth.
Will furnish plans and specifications for Flouring Mills, etc. Sen'd for prices ajid terms if
we have no local agents in your vicinity. Our motto is «m«ii profits and quick sales.
R. V. TOMPKINS,
CORNER COMMERCE AND LAMAS STREETS, DALLAS, TEXAS,
exclusive state agent for
SKXNXTEB. SFABKLESS ENGINES,
STEARNS'S STATIONARY ENGINES,
OTTO SILENT OAS ENGINES,
REMINGTON TYPB "WRITER,
ZIMMERMAN FRUIT DR^BR.
COLUMBUS ALL-STEEL SCRAPER,
HUGHES'S SULKY FLOWS,
HAFGOOO'S PLOWS, and
DEDERICS'S PERPETUAL SA7 PRESSES.
I also handle Miller's Buggies. Champion Hay Rickers and Loaaers, Fairbanks's Scales. Victor Scales,
Chief Threshers and Engines. Victor Cane Mills and Cook's Evaporators.
Wood Hoapers, Minnesota <
C. A. KEATING,
Dallas, Resident Partner.
GEORGE J. KEATING,
Kansas City, Special Partner.
C.
A.. KE ATIN G-,
WHOLESALE AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENTS
% GINS AND MILL MACHINERY.
State Arent for FURST £ BRADLEY M'F'G CO. Plows. Culti-
vators and Sulky Rakes. ERIE CITY IRON WORKS, Enerines,
Boilers and Saw Mills. J. I CASE, Hteam and Hcrse-Power
Threshing Machinery. OHIO STEEL BARB FENCE CO. FISH
BROTHERS Farm and Spring Wagons. RICHMOND CHAMPION
GRAIN DRILL.
DALLAS. TEXAS.
SPECIAL NOTICES.
NOTICES.
First National Bank of Galveston, I
Galveston, Texas, January 3, 1884. (
The Board of Directors of this Bank
have declared the Semi-Annuai Dividend of
FOUR PER CENT,
payable on and after January 8.
J. E. BEISSNER, Cashier.
First National Bank of Galveston, I
Galvsston, Texas, January 3,1884. f
The Animal Meeting of the Stock-
holders of this Bank for the
ELECTION OF D1RECTOBS
will be held at their banking-house on TUESDAT,
the 8th day of January, 18S1, between the hours of
10 a. m. and 1 p. m.
J. E. BEISSNER, Cashier.
Gr Gr
a
r r
to-night, 7:30.
BY OBPZP.
ON" CONSIGNMENT.
3000 barrels
SEED POTATOES.
Early Rose, Goodrich and Peerless. This lot of
Sotatoes must be sold to close. Also, sJOO bbls of
ELECTED SEED POTATOES, from Landreih's
nursery.
&• SESLZGSON & CO., Galveston*
JOHN C. HALL & CO.,
STOCK & BOND BROKERS
204 N. Tfiird st„ St. Louis, Mo.
HfHisrhest prices obtained for Texas State, City
and County Bonds. Correspondence solicited.
befbhextcrs:
TEXAS BANKING A INSURANCE CO., Galveston.
BONNER 4 BONNER, Tyler.
FLJPPEN, ADOUE A LOBIT, Dallas.
CONTINENTAL BANK, St Louis.
Notice.—Galveston Oil Co.—January 3d, 1884.
—The annual meeting of the stockholders of this
company for the election of Directors, to serve
during the ensuing year, will be held at the office of
the company, on MONDAY, JANUARY 14th, be-
tween hours of 10 and 11 a. m.
J. T. JAQUES, Secretary.
OFFICE
Texas Cotton Press and Mfg. Go.
Galveston, January 2,1884.
THE ANNUAL MEETING OF THE STOCK-
holders of this company will be held at the
office of the press,
tuesday, january 8, 1884,
at 10 o'clock a. m., for the purpose of receiving re-
ports ot officers and committees, ana the election
of nine directors to serve for the ensuing year, and
for the transaction of such other business as may
be presented.
By order of the president.
R. W. SHAW, Secretary.
of Pure Cod
Liver Oil and Lime.—The advantage of this
componnd over the plain Oil is, that the nauseat
ing taste of the Oil is removed, and the whole ren-
dered palatable. The offensive taste of the Oil has
long acted as a great objection to its use; but in
this form the trouble is entirely obviated. A host
of certificates might be given nere to testify to the
excellence and the success of " Wilbor'* Cod-Liver
Oil and Limebut the fact that it is prescribed by
the medical faculty is sufficient. For sale by A. B.
wileor, Chemist, Boston, and all druggists^
Neither Captain, owners, nor the
undersigned agents, will be responsible fof any
debts contracted by the crew of the Bi
Elissa, Poineroy, master, from Tampico.
CHAS. H. HAYNES & CO.,
155 Strand.
bark
Notice.—National Baxk ofTkxas, Galveston.
December 86th, 1883. The annual meeting of the
Stockholders of this Bank, for the election of
Directors to serve during tho ensuing year, will be
held at Banking House, between the hours of 11
A. M. and 12 M., Tuesday, January 8th, 1884.
ROBT. J. JOHN, Cashier.
Notice-—The stockholders of the TEXAS
BANKING AND INSURANCE COMPANY are noti-
fied that the annual election for thirteen Directors,
to serve for the ensuing year, will take place at the
banking-house, on MONDAY, JANUARY <, 1884.
Polls open 10 a. m. and close at 1 p. m.
W. G. Veal.
VEAL, COOPER & CO., LAND DEALERS, DA.L-
r
H. Cooper.
LERS, DAL-
LAS, Texas, buy and sell lands in Texas, Mex«
ico, New Mexico and Arizona. Render and pay
taxes on land in Texas. Time to render for taxes,
1st of January to 1st of June; time to pay, 1st of
October to 1st of March; sales for taxes, usually 1st
Tuesday in May. If you desire to buy cheap graz-
ing land, a productive farm, or to invest in Dallas
city property, the Chicago of Texas, address or
.11 on VEAL, COOPER 8l CO, 612 Elm street, Dal-
las, Texas.
THE RECENT MARKED TENDENCY OF THE
popular taste for gin results as much from the
fact that it is susceptible of being an admirable
adjunct of mixed or fancy beverages, as that it is
an almost infallible specific for all kidney affec-
tion , the increase of which is as remarkable as it
is alarming.
WOLFE'S SCHIEDAM AROMATIC SCHNAPPS
is the best form in which to take it, as it is diuretic,
tonic, a palatable stimulant and an agreeable ex-
hilarant.
Persons should look for the W. A. S. label.
N otice.
THE GALTESTOFliS COMPANY.
All orders or complaints, to
receive orompt attention, should be left as
the office of the Company, in the Brick Builaing, oa
Rlarket Streets Between 24lh and ioth
Streets,
Between the hours of S and 12 o'clock a. m.
aug. bl'ttlar, Secretary.
NOTICE.
THE WOOL AND HIDE BUSINESS. HERETO-
fore conducted in this city
Pichard, is this day, with the ..
transferred toC. G. Portier, and, in
by the late A. V.
good will of same,
. nd, in the name of
the late A V. Pichard, I bespeak for the new firm,
the patronage and confidence heretofore so gener-
ously borne the late one. JOHANNA PICHARD,
Surviving widow of Athen V. Pichard, deceased.
Galveston, Texas, January 1, 1384.
Referring to the above, we beg to announce to
our city and country friends, as well as those of the
late A. V. Pichard, that we will continue the Wool
and Hide business at the same old stand, Nos. IT
and 19 Strand,and most respectfully solicit the con-
tinuance of their business and confidence enjoyed
by the late firm. C. G. PORTIER ft CO.
Galveston. January 1, 1SS4.
OFFICE OF THhi
GALVESTON WHARF CO.,
Galveston, Jan. 1, 1834.
THE Annual Meeting of the Stockholders of the
Galveston Wharf Company, for the purpose ol
ELECTING DIRECTORS,
For the ensuing year, will be held at the Com
pany's office on
MONDAY, THE 7th DAY OF JANUARY. 1884,
At 11 o'cloct A. M.
By order of the President.
JOSEPH AIKEN,
Secretary.
Continental Meat Co.
FO^T WORTH AXD VICTORIA, TEXAS.
A. F. HXG-G-S, President and General
Manager.
This Company is no& delivering
Dressed Beef, Mutton and Veal
at our Refrigerator RootnS, TWENTY-SECOSD
AND AVENUE A, and the publicr are invited to
inspect the same.
AYERS & CANNON,
aBNSBAIi AG£NIS.
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