Evening Tribune. (Galveston, Tex.), Vol. 7, No. 118, Ed. 1 Tuesday, January 18, 1887 Page: 1 of 4
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TELSFHONE NO 63.
Finest Raisins, Choice Citron, New
Currents, Almonds, Seedless Raisins,
Lemon and Orange Peel all nice and
fresh at
WM. H, SIMPSON’S
Southwest corner of 19th and Market Streets
VOLUME VII.
BUY OtEOMARGABINB,
It is better, cheaper and cleaner thasn
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the city.
WM. H. SIMPSON,
Southwest comer of 19th and Market streets
TELEPHONE NO. 63.
GALVESTON, TUESDAY, JANUARY 18, 1887.
NUMBER 118.
Tremont Opera House.
rS'WO Nl^IlTS.
Monday and Tuesday,
January 17th and ISth,
Tuesday Matinee, 2.30,
Great Proudction of Bartley Campbell’s
Great Play,
-THE-
WHITESLAVE
The New York Star Cast.
Entirely Set & Mapifont Scenery
Startling Mechanical Effect and the Wonderful
RAIN STORM OF REAL WATER.
THE SEA-WALL PROPOSITION LAID
AWAY IN AN UNTIMELY
SEPULCHRE.
A Move for the Public Weal that Seems
to Have Taken the Wrong: Road to
Popular Favor and Success—The
Usual Amount of Routine Busi-
ness Disposed of.
JTasi. 19.-AI>AJMUL.:E»g JEJDEUi.
C. F.CtfEESMAN’S
Panging Academy.
ARTILLERY HALL,
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Residence—N. W. Cor. Broadway and 22d.
O. IBIMIIES,
C.O.D. Merchant Tailor
Is Making Cloths to Order
In Suits from §20 to §45, and pants from §5
to §15 in all Woolen Goods.
Ill POSTOFFICE STBKET,
Between 22d and Tremont Streets.
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24th, Bet. Strand and Mechanic
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Importers and Wholesale Dealers In
Staple and Fancy
DRY GOODS,
Rats, Boots and Shoes,
NOTIONS, ETC.,
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Rooms,
ENQUIRE AT
113 Church St., hct. 22d and 23d
The twelve wise men of Galveston met
in regular confab yesterday afternoon
and got* fairly down to work without
much preliminary skirmishing, after dis-
posing of.a number of petitions the
REPORTS OF PFF1CERS
were submitted in substance as follows:
Of Win. Oldenberg, chief of fire de-
partment, for the month of December,
showing expense account in ,a sum total
of if2502.05 outlaid for sundry necessar-
ies. Adopted.
Of M. M, Jordan, chief of police,
showing fines and costs collected during
December amounting to $218.45 and
pound fees amounting to $22. Referred
to finance committee.
Of H. T. Wilson, city engineer in
reference to the filling of Twenty-Fourth
street between K and L, that the total
expense has been about $208 of which
the city’s share will be about $70. Same
arrangement made on Avenue L between
Twenty-third und Twenty-fourth streets.
Adopted.
Of H. T. Wilson, city engineer, re-
porting on the bad condition of the alleys
throughout the city, suggesting that they
be filled; Snd that they can be filled with
sand and shell, which is advisable in the
aboence of a thorough system of water
supply, and advising that the ordinance
preventing traffic through the alleys be
enforced, excepting the owners of garb-
age carts, and suggesting that the alleys
thus improved could be made serviceable
for a long time. Adopted.
Of J. W. Jockush, purchasing agent,
showing a sum total of $698.84 expended
during December for sundry purchases.
Referred to finance committee.
Of M. M. Jordan, chief of police, show-
ing why the alarm was not sounded at
the fire on December 21, 1886. The re-
port shows that there is no patrolman
regularly on that street, but which is
patrolled by the roundsman. And fur-
thur, that the alarm was sounded by Offi-
cer Shaw, whose beat was in that neigh-
borhood, and that he (the chief) did not
have sufficient keys to allow the officer
one. Received.
REPORTS OF COMMITTEES.
Report of committee on finance and
revenue approving the re; ort of the city
treasurer for the month of December.
Adopted.
Of committee on claims and accounts,
submitting approved pay-rolls for con-
tracts amounting to $15,238.06, and a
biil of Messrs. Kaufinaun & Runge.
Adopted.
NEW BUSINESS.
Under the head of new business the
report of the joint committee on sea-
walls aQd breakwaters was read, recom-
mending that necessary legislation be
secured to enable the city to construct
a sea-wall to protect the city from over-
flows and restore general confidence.
Attention was called to the fact that the
constitution made it the duty of the leg-
islature to vote aid to protect
the seaports of the state and it was re-
commended that the question of issuing
30-years city bonds not to exceed $800,-
000 and bearing interest at a rate not to
exceed 6 per cent, for the purpose of
constructing a sea wall be submitted to a
two-third vate of the taxpayers of the city.
Should the finances of the city not permit
the issuance of bonds is so large a sum
that in the judgment of the com-
mittee bonds in tbe sum of $500,-
000 with what ' aid might reason-
ably be expected from the state would be
sufficient to protect the city from danger
on the gulf side. The committee had no
suggestions to offer as to the proper plans
to be adopted for the work but left that
to the judgment of men skilled in such
matters. A draft of a proposed charter
amendment authorizing the construction
of necessary sea walls and breakwaters
and the issuance of necessary bonds was
then read. The proposed amendment is
a very elaborate affair and provides for
the appointment of a sea-wall commission
by the governor, consisting of three, two
of whom must be bonafide residents of
the city and at least one a member of the
city council. The term of office shall be
for two years and the salary not less than
$1000 per annum. The commission shall
adopt plans .for the construction of the
necessary work, make contracts and audit
all bills. It further contemplates the
appropriation of 640 sections of public
land, set aside for the payment of the
public debt, as the state’s share of the
LOCAL LEGIS! AT10N je;£PeDSeof the work, provided the work I
is completed within six years from July
1, 1887.
Alderman Fowler moved the adoption
of the report, which actiou was the sig-
nal for a general discussion. Alderman
McDonald, tbe Holman of the council,
was first on his feet an<? wanted a few
flickering rays of light shed upon the
word “taxpayers.” If it was proposed to
submit the matter to a two-thirds vote of
the tax-payers of tbe city, he desired to
have it settled once for all whether a poll-
taxpayer would be allowed to vote on-
the question. He said that while there
was- only about thirteen hundred
property taxpayers in the city there were
nearly 7000 poll taxpayers. A lengthy
discussion followed, arid City Attorney
Finlay was called upon for an opinion.
He said that “taxpayers,” in the legal
acceptance of the term, mean property
taxpayers, but thought the question
of but little importance, as the
matter would be thoroughly aired
when it got before the legislature.
He thought it would have been better
had the proposed amendment bee i
drafted in the shape of a general law for
the protection of all the coast towns and
cities. That such a measure would seepre
the hearty co-operation of represen-
tatives from all the cost towns. Alder-
man Wies said that Representative
Gresham had introduced a charter
amendment to raise the entire city several
feet, when Attorney Finlay replied that
such a motion was irregular, and not
worth the paper it was written on. Iu
the general discussion which followed
Alderman Weis made a very logical
speech in which he opposed submitting
the matter to the legislature, as it had no
possible chance of being favorably con-
sidered, and to adopt the committee re-
port would simply be for the city
council to sign a certificate to the effect
that Galyes on was in imminent danger
and further destroy confidence through-
out the country; did not think.the city
needed a sea wall; considered that its
safety lay in not having it but that if the
people wanted it and would vote for it
and the measure could receive favorable
action at Austin, he would not oppose it;
thought Galveston’s loss from over-
flows in the past twenty years would not
exceed $200,000, and that if proper care
was taken in the construction of houses
in the exposed district the loss would be
very t-ifliDg. No city in America had
ever appealed for state aid for such a
purpose.
Alderman Cuney took issue with Al-
derman Weis and favored the adoption
of the report.
Alderman Weis moved that the measure
be referred back to the sea wall commit-
tee with the city attorney added. Adopt-
ed. This disposition of the report is
considered by many to simple amount to
the death of the sea wall project for this
year at least.
The finance committe then submitted
a resolution to the i-ffect that the city
treasurer be instructed to advertise for
the redemption of such of the thirty
years debt 8 per cent. bonds as
may be legally retired. The resolution
was adopted and the council adjourned.
LEGISLATURES
AND HOW THEY ARE RUN BY SOME
OF THE NEW HIRED HANDS,
If the Senseless Inventions of so-Called
Newspaper Men are to be Relied on—
A Prominent Knight of Labor De-
nies a Lot of Cheap Twaddle
that is Attributed to Him.
AT THE TREMONT.
A large audience greeted the initial
performance of the White Slave company
at the Tremont last night. The company
is perhaps fully up to the standard and
the scenery exceptionally fine, while the
play itself is regarded by many as Bart-
ley Campbell’s masterpiece. If this is
true Campbell will hardly take rank with
Sardou and Sheridan Knowles. Whi'e
pleasing enough throughout it is exceed-
ingly prosy at times and almost entirely
lacking in strong dramatic situations.
It is of the same order of plays as the
Octoroon, and candor compels tbe state-
ment chat if it was stripped of its gor-
geous scenery and wonderful mechanical
effects but little would remain to com-
mend. Taken all in all, however, it
forms a very pleasant evening’s enter-
tainment and acquires an added interest
on account of the misfortune of its
author. The same play was presented
to a good matinee audience to-day, and
to-night the presentation of the same bill
will close 4he engagement.
To-morrow night the Adamless Eden
company will begin a two nights engage-
ment. This is necessarily a spectacular
entertainment, but judging it by its suc-
cesses and the verdict of the dramatic
critics it is undoubtedly one of the best
of its kind, and will doubtless merit the
large patrouage which such plays gen-
grally receive.
—Sargent has a cottage for rent.
— Remember the Bank Saloon when in
}uest of refreshments. J
—Get Sargents’ grey mules to move
your safes and machinery.
Special Correspondence.
Austin, Texas, January 16.—It is
time that hired hands at legislative log-
rollings are as old as the legisla-
tive bodies of this beautiful and
free land. Iu this unpoetic land
of business and tamales legislative
hired hands have dubbed themselves ac-
cording to their own tastes, and now the
world knows them as “members of the
third house”—or lobbyists. It is a very
neat and significant name and may
mean much or little as tlie case demands.
A lobbyist, or member of the third house
has come to be about as well-known and
little respected as a dude—and still lobby-
ists, like dudes, continue to gull the pub-
lic and push themselves to the front.
Like dudes they are strictly N. G., with
a big N. and a big G.,—but like other
worthless things they continue to flour-
ish. l:ou can tell one of them (dude or
lobbyist) as far as you can see or smell
him. They are rarely ever large but
always loud. There are a great variety
of them in Austin about this time. As a
rule they have on hand a better supply of
gab than tbey have of brains, and as the
old farmer said they rattle like a few
grains of corn in a bladder. The fol-
lowing is republished from an up country
paper by an Austin paper for no other
purpose, it seems than that of placing
Mr. Wilson in the category of that super-
numerous and utterly .abomniable class
above described. Your coriespondeni.
has seen Mr. Wilson, and that gentlemai
denies that he ever uttered such trash as
is below attributed to him, or that he is
ia any sense here as a lobvist. He is a
member of the Knights of Labor com-
mittee sene here for the purpose of pre-
ferring charges against the capitol syn-
dicate contractors for importing laboi.
The following is tne purported interview,
together with the Austin paper’s adenda:
O. C. Wilson of Terrell, has gone to
Austin to run the legislature in the in-
terest of the Knights of Labor so he
thinks. On his way there a reporter met
him, and the following extracts are a
part of a long interview with him:
“Will you take any hand in the elec
tinn of a Senator.”
“We are not instructed on that point,
but it is a fact generally accepted by the
Knights of Labor that Terrell is the peo-
ple’s candidate, and the committee will
throw their whole s.upport to him. If
he fails we will go for Ireland. Ireland
is a good man, but he lacks Terrell's
brains. A good many people say Terrell
is slippery. You know we call him “Slick
Alick,” but we want a slick man, for if
he does anything iu the United States
Senate he’s got to be slick. I ain’t afraid
of him, for a man can’t go back of tbe
people that make him. If Terrell or
Ireland can’t be elected I am for J. O.
Terrell, Senator from this district. It’s,
any thing to beat Reagan with me.
“Of course; as you ve going on a
special mission, you expect to accomplish
a good deal?”
“It looks like we ought to. A com-
mittee of good workers, with upwards of
$6300 in the bank to their credit, ought
to be able to do something.”
“Youi; comurttee will be on hand at
the opening of the session?”
“You bet. You see it is important to
get there at the beginning, so as to keep
on the inside and to take advantage of
every turn. By the time the important
voting comes off we’ll have a lot of the
members in debt to us. You see only
twenty-one of the members of the House
have even been there before, and even
these old grangers who are out for the
first time and want to see all the sights
can’t live on $5 a day. Some of them
will Spend that much for drinks. A lot
of them will be short, and we can easily
have them in debt to us by the time we
want to use them. In a thing like this
you must study you men, as different
ones require different handling. Some
of them will want to go to ‘Mexico.’
others will have to be reached by champ
ague suppers, and others still will want
to go up to the Baptist church. We will
see them through all.”
“What strength will the Knights of
Labor have in the legislature?”
“We have a big majority of the House
and a safe majority on joint ballot.”
“How about your local senator and
representative?”
“J. O. Terrell was nominated and
elected senator in my office, and I made
Waskom the representative. Thev can’t
go back on the people that made them.” !
“Wljo will be your leader on the floor ,
of the House?’’
“I don’t know exactly, but our leading
men and best talkers are Waskom, from i
Kaufman county, the member from Mon- '
tague, the man from Lavacca, and the
one from Grirngs.”
The above is about the richest stuff we
ever read. We regret we haven’t room
to publish the entire interview. Wilson
certainly has more gall and impudence
than any man we ever heard of. We ad-
mit he is as shrewd as he is wicked, but
the devil would be put, to shame bv IV-
unparalelled brass and impudence. Her
in Kaufman county he is indicted for
theft, and yet he boasts of nominatirg
Senator Terrell and electing Waskom 1
is a shame and a disgrace that Kaufman
county has such a man as Wilson living
within her borders. He ought to be
shown up in his right colors and the Su >
is strongly tempted to do it.
Cbas. B. Farwell Republican and Wm
R. Morrison, Democrat are the nominee -
of their respective parties for the seat in
the senate made vacant by the death of
Gen. Logan. It will be a hard fight with
the chances at the outset in favor of re-
publican success.
—A new departure just introduced bv
Wendl & Weis—corn-fed sausages; don't
fail to try it. *
—Between the acts to-night wander
down to Henry’s and tackle those excel-
lent lunches.
“Hackmetack” a lasting and fragrant
perfume. Price 25 and 50c. Sold by T.
Tarrant & Co. 2
Col. Wenll, the Beau Brummel of
the Galveston butcher brigade, left for
the stockyar ds this morning to purchase
another car load of corn fed beef for his
film. *
—T. E. Bollinger & Co., the leading
Market Street Grocers, have a few more
boxes of that justly popular “Silvir
Prize Soap” which they will close out at
the reduced price of 20 cents a bar. Call
at once before it is all gone. §
Ancient Egyptian Perfumes.
Two ancient Egyptian perfumes haw-
been reconstituted through the researches:
of a French professor at Lyons, who has
devoted himself to studying the Egyptian
sculpture and the plants of the Nile val-
ley. By hunting through the papyrus
texts and the inscriptions on the walls of
the temple lavatories he has found the
recipes for the manufacture of “tasi” and
“kyphi.” The former was a temple per-
fume, used to anoint the statue of the
Egyptian Venus. “Kyphi” was more
.mpoitant, and besides being used air
home for the rites of Isis and Serapis, was
imported into Greece and Rome after the
conquest of Egypt. It then became the
favorite perfume among the luxurious
Greeks and Romans, who were anointed
with “kyphi” after the-bath,, and were
sprinkled with the essence during the
grand banquets, while sometimes it was
used to perfume the wine.—Chicago
Herald.
England’s Picturesque Scenery.
English scenery, already famous, lias
not been overpraised. A day’s ride
through England in almost any direction,
will reveal some of the most beautiful and
picturesque scenery in the world. The
eye is never wearied-of reaching out over
the round hills and exquisite valleys and
the charming alternation of harvest fields*
of grounds plowed as if a rule r had drawn
the lines for straightness, the hedges for
fences, the absence of bairns and the sub-
stitution of ricks of grain or of liay, beau-
tifully formed, clustered together* furnish
a succession of delights. I11 Wales the
scenery is bolder, but not less beautifuL.
All the world knows of the r ugged beauty
of Scotland.—Henry Ward Beecher in,
New York World.
A Precious Oil.
‘ ‘Here is a little vial, the contents of
which are worth more than its weight in
gold. It has the trade name of melon
oil because it has the fragrance of the
muskmelon. This oil is a secretion in the
nose of the pilot, whale. No other oil has.
so low a congealing point as melon oiL
It remains liquid with the thermometer
at zero. There is absolutely no corrosive-
ness in it and for that reason it is used as
a lubricant for the most delicate mechan-
ism. It is about as rare as ambergris,
that strange secretion of the whale.”—
New York Sun Interview.
Electricity In Surgery,
Dr. M. J. Roberts, of New York, after
drilling holes in bone to investigate the
existence of diseased conditions, intro-
duces a small incandescent lamp of half-
candle power into the opening, and by
this means illuminates the cavity.—De-
troit Free Press.
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ITlHSTIimv STOP, !M A® EXAlilSE
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At the Following Unprecedented Prices:
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200 Pair Sample of Boots at........................................$2.00 per pair;
200 Pair Ladies’Kid Button Shoes at..............................§1.50 per pair.
Ladies’ Scolloped Home Slippers at..................................85c per pair.
Men’s Best Box toe Brogans at.....................................$2.00 per pair.
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