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GALVESTON TRIBUNE :
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prince, Max of 'Saxony, who- has re-
nounced his riotot of succesmoin to the
throne of hlis country and entered the
Gathcfic priesthood. The prince recently
preached an eloquent sermon in White-
chapel and said he should devote his life
to parochial work.
rating the Most Resplendent Circus Display Ever Seen in This or Any Other Country.
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Note—Agreement—Goda teral ■Security.
—The supreme court of Georgia held, in
■ the recent case of Montgomery vs. Hunt,
where, construing together a promissory
note -sued upon and. a contemporaneous
written agreement between parties, it ap-
peared that the note was given merely as
a collateral security to the payee for one-
half of certain commissions which it was
contemplated would 'be earned by the
maker upon sales of a certain patent
fence, that under the terms of the agree-
ment it was clearly incumbent upon the
maker to use reasonable diligence in en-
deavoring to effect such sales, and if the
failure to make them resulted solely'from
a wan t of such diligence, he would, as to
the commissions, be chargeable as if the
sales had been actually made, to the ex-
tent that they could have been made by
the exercise of such diligence; and that
otherwise he 'would not; that it was the
right of the plaintiff suing upon the note
to show that the defendant had made no
effort to effect sales, and a corresponding
right upon the part of the defendant to
show that this resulted from the failure
of the payees to comply with their .agree-
ment to furnish him samples of the fence,
and that if the plaintiff purchased the
note before its maturity, bona fide and
for value, without knowing what the con-
sideration was and without notice of the
alleged failure thereof, and also without
notice of facts sufficient to put him upon
inquiry which would lead to a knowledge
of the'truth, he would in any event be en-
titled to recover the full amount of the
note, and if he purchased 'with such
knowledge or notice, he. would be in no
better condition than the original payees.
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CITY GUIDE'S FOR .SIGHT 'SEERS.
New York Letter.
A company was incorporated last week
to furnish the public with guides under
bond for the faithful performance of their
duties, and incidentally to do various other
kinds of work for hotels and steamship
companies. These guides, according to the
prospectus, are to be uniformed and sta-
tioned at railroads stations, steamship
landings and in the large hotels. Similar
attempts to introduce guides in New York
have been made before, but on a much
smaller scale. In the palmy days of the
old Tenderloin, when country visitors
wanted to see that precinct by night, it
was not unusual for the ward men to act
as guld4s, and thus frequently found i't
very profitable. This has been done away
with in recent years. Nearly every one of
the large hotels employs a useful all round
man, who is officially known as hotel de-
tective, and on occasion he also acts as a.
guide. If guests of the hotel want to see
the town he is pretty sure to be at their
disposal for an evening. He will show
them the “tiger,” if there happens to be
one on exhibition, take them to two or
three of the better known all night res-
taurants -and point out the frequenters of
them who occasionally figure in the news-
papers as “men about town,” or “sou-
bret'tes,” and perhaps wind up in China-
town. The average hotel detective, how-
ever, knows very little about the paintings
worth seeing in New York. It is this field
•that the guide company hopes to cover.
The number of sight seeing foreigners who
visit New York has been increasing rapid-
ly, and this summer it has been no uncom-
mon sight to see parties of them finding
their way to various points of interset
around -the city toy the aid of a well known
red guide book.
At Heine’s 'bedside a priest was exhort-
ing him when the dying man said: “Don’t
worry yourself, dear father; God will for-
give me; it is his -principal (business to for-
give.” This, 'whiclh to some sounds al-
most like blasphemy, on the other hand
might be the confession of a magnificent
faith.
pr foot.
It is whispered in England that when Li
Hung Chang was unutterably bored by
statesmen, diplomats and great men gen-
erally he would remark in Chinese with
an engaging smile: ‘You are stupid,” or
‘‘You are drunk,” thus letting off his feel-
ings, confident that his interpreter would
translate, these trite remarks linto some
oriental compliment. If this is the case,
what a humorist Li must be and what a
marvel that interpreter is as well as cynic.
The late 'Baron Hiiisc'h was said to give
nearly all his winnings on the turf to
charity and in pursuance oif thlis idea his
widow (lias set a side a yearly sum of $50,-
000 for distribution in England alone to
charitalble institutions.
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Nuisance—-Railroad Dam.—Thet Ken-
tucky court of appeals held, in the recent
case of the Louisville and Nashville rail-
road company vs. Daugherty, that the
maintenance of a dam in such a way as
to emit disagree able and unwholesome
odors affords a right of action to those
who may be made sick or even iuconveui-
enced; that this is true, however innocent
of intentional wrong may be the party,
erecting the nuisance, or however need-
ful the structure in his business; that one
who actively procures another to create a
nuisance will be presumed to consent to
its continuance until such consent is with-
drawn by a notice to that effect or until
objection is made, and that in an action
against a railroad company to recover
damages for injury to health of plaintiffs
resulting from the maintenance by de-
fend'an't of a pond, a gooi defense was
presented by a paragraph of defendant’s
answer alleging that plaintiffs were active
and influential in the negotiations result-
ing in the purchase of the ground where
the pond was erected, having reason to
know at the time from previous observa-
tions of similar conditions there that veg-
etable matter would 'work into the pond
and become offensive and unwholesome;
for the reason that if these facts were
true the company was at least entitled,
before the suit was instituted, to some
notice from the complainants that the
pond was offensive or obnoxious to them.
Grod'Jtors — Lion — Priority.—The Ken-
tucky court of appeals held, in the recent
case of Emery et al. vs. Vaughn et al.,
that where one -creditor-has a lien, upon
two pieces of property and aimther h'as
sj junior lien upon only one of them, the
junior lien holder may require the holder,
of the. senior lien to look first to1 the pice
of property upon which there is but one
lien l.iefo-re '.subjecting the other piece of
property upon 'which the junior lien ex-
ists; that if the senior lien holder, having
notice of the junior lien, redee-ses his lien
upon the piece of property in lien to' him
alone, out of which he might have made
his debt, the junior lien holder .xv.ill be giv-
en priority as to the other piece of proper-
ty, anti -that the senior lieu liolder will be
regarded as having notice of the junior
lien if he has notice of facts suf-
ficient to put him upon inquiry, and falls
•to make any investigation; but the ques-
tion whether the record of the. junior lien
was^ constructive notice to him was not
determined.
Soks
Boerhaave, one of the greatest doctors
of his time, carefully handed the small
key of ihlis diary to- his executor when
death was very near with the instruction
that immediately after his decease the
diary was to ibe opened and the contents
published. The diary was found to be
blank excepting the Cast page, and on this
was 'written: “Keep your feet warm and
your head cool and trust for the rest to
Providence.” Another such grim satire
on the medical profession has never been
voiced and fit certainly was not the idea
of a man 'whose brain iwas numbed by
death’s -approach.
The development of the silk industry in
this country has assumed such propor-
tion's as to really astonish those who have
not 'watched its iprogress. According to
the bureau Of statistics of iPcnnsylvania,
silk mills in that state produce annually
about $25,000,000 worth of silk goods. The
product has increased 25 per cent since
1890, and at present 14,000 persons are em-
ployed, receiving annually $4,000,000 in
wages. There is consideralble in this
statement for southern people to think of.
Silk factories ought to be as profitable in
most of the southern states as in Penn-
sylvania. Power is- as cheap, the trans-
portation facilities-arc as'good, and as to
raw material - the son therm states have
equally as good opportunity to secure it
as Pennsylvania. In some other features
of the industry they really have the ad-
vantage. The Manufacturers’ Record toe-
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Another writer refutes the idea and in
proof cites several instances which seem
to prove that dying people retain to the
last their wit and intellect. He asks,
“Was William the Silent absolutely un-
conscious of what he was saying when,
stricken down by the bullet, lhe cried:
‘Oh, my God, have mercy on my soul!
Oh, my God, have mercy on this poor
people!’ ”
at a TICKET Admits to all the
. . .3’0'L Combined Shows . . . .
. . JI Children under 12 Half Price.
Galveston, Wednesday, Oct, 7
£37“Reserved seats andmimission tickets show day at J. T. McClanahan’s Opera House
Drug Store, Tremont and Market streets, without any advance in prices, Reserved
numbered seats only 25 cents extra.
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Insuran ce—'By-1ja w—Suicid e.—The su-
preme court of Louisiana held, in the re-
cent case of Daughtry vs. Knights of
Pythias, that under a contract of life in-
surance issued by a mutual company, con-
ditioned to be subject to any'by-law there-
after to be enacted,' the insured was
bound by a subsequent by-law forfeiting
such policies when the insured should die
by his own hand.
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Railroads — Taxation—Assessments.—
The supreme court of Louisiana- held, in
the recent case of the state ex rel. St.
Charles 'street railroad ermpany vs.
Board of assessors et al., that where, un-
der, the statutes the earning capacity of
the plaintiff company formed a basis for
estimating values, and an a'S-oessment was
made by 'taking gross earnings and de-
ducting therefrom the cost of operating
the road, the payment of debts secured by
bond and mortgage of a date long an-
terior was not a running annual expense;
that under the terms of the statutes i't
was not deductable from the gre-ss annual
earnings of the year 1895 to fix the net
earnings of tha t year, and the consequent
value at the time of the fra: chise. The
court said that fr'anclriises are property,
and amoujits applied from the gross re-
ceipts to the payment of property, bought
many years prior, are taken account of'in
fixing net revenues; that the franchise
was bought for cash, the amount needed
to this end having been borrowed at the
•time, and being now bonded ami paid;
that these past liabilities were not annual
expenses of operation les'seniug annual
revenues, and that the liability on prop-
erty did not, in assessing, constitute
an offset.
A furious discussion has arisen in Eng-
land, all through the sad death at one of
the theaters recently of an- actor acci-
dentally stabbed in a dagger scene by a
friend playing the opposite part. The
dying man’s 'wihispered words to his
friend were: !'Don’t worry, old man; I’m
all right.” Everyone -on reading -this said
the young actor had voiced as brave and
noble a dying speech as dying hero ever
spoke, but here appears a calm journalist
who contends the words were uttered
meehanicailly. “Very likely,” says this
wnjter, “they' 'were a phrase the dying
man had uttered in other circumstances
and had therefore come glibly to his
tongue. Of heroism the poor young fel-
low had doubtless his share, but I am
convinced that in the last scene of all it
had no place.” The writer surmises that
merciful nature at the last supreme mo-
ment rclb-s us of consciousness.
says a Bryan orator. You bet, but it’s for
that other 50 cents that he is screaming.
'Greenland has no cats. How thankful
■the Greenlanders should 'be.. Imagine
cats in a country where the night are six
months.
Stoves and trimmings, per 100 lbs
Tierces, beef, lard, rice, ham, tallows,
Tierces, with barrel's inside
Tierces, empty
Timber, walnut, etc., per ton 50 cubic
Tobacco, chewing, per 166 pounds
Tobacco, smoking, per cubic foot...
Tiles, per ton of 2000 pounds
Tin plate, per ton of 2000 pounds
Trunks, filled with mdse or nests...
Tubs, per nest
Trackage per loaded freight car....
Wagons, each
Wagon material, K. D., per 100 lbs.
Wagons, spring or cane
Washing machines, each ..........
Washboards, per dozen
Watermelons, each
Wire, per 100
Wheelbarrows
Wheels and axles, log carrier
Wood, per cord
Woll, baled as cotton, per bale
Wool, in sacks, per 100 pounds
White lead, per 100 pounds
Zinc, in rolls, per 100 pounds
Admirers of the late Ambroi-se- Thomas
will be glad -to learn -that honor is done
him in his native town of Metz. The Rue
de la jG-art'libdi'ale^.'.'H'iherein he was born,
-AraS been changed to tbe-JRue Ambrofise
Thomas, 'the fact 'toeing annqjpiced toy
blue placques in French and German
erected on the street corners. •'
Virtue is not always its own reward/
A poor woman in London last week
picked up a bundle of 25 £5 notes. She
im.mediatefiy turned the money over to the
police. When the owner 'was found he
not only refused to reward tilie woman,
but actually threatened to have her ar-
rested because two £5 notes were 'missing
from the oriigina'l number he had lost.
The magistrate reproved him and added
that it was conduct like this that led
people to keep what they found. This is
the champion mean story of the day.
Rediscovery of the Dark Companion of
Brilliant Sirius.
Dr. See, in New York Herald.
Lowell Observatory, Flagstaff, Ariz.—I
furnish herewith an account of the redis-
covery of the great dark companion of
Sirius on Monday morning, Aug. 31:
“Ever since the body was lost to human
vision in the closest part of its elliptic or-
bit around the great central star during
1890, when the companion was lost seen
by Burnham with the 36 inch refractor of
the Lick observatory, the recovery of the
■object ba-s been a matter of high inter-
est.
“With tbfis object in view several em-
inent astronomers have made elaborate
investigations of the parh which the ob-
ject would pursue, the illustrious Dr.
Auwers of Berlin going so far as to use
in his researches more than a thousand
oto'Servat-ions, extending over the whole
period since 1890. Prof. Bumham had
previously published a careful table of all
■the micrometrical measures, and to reave
no doubt in my min'd as to the path of the
star, I made during the present year a
new examination of the whole question.
“More than a year •ago, uhen measur-
ing double stars with the 26 inch refrac-
tor of the University of Virginia, I
searched for this body in vain, although
convinced that it ough: to be visible at
tha t time.
“Profs. Barnard and Hussey of the
Lick observatory, and Browfi of the na-
val 0'bservato.ry at Washington, likewise
made unsuccessful attemrjfis to find the
object.
“On the morning of Aug. 31, -about 5.30
o’clock, we pointed the great telescope on
Sirius, and I at once entered upon the ex-
amination. 'The air was clear from re-
cent rains and perfectly still and the see-
ing magnificent. Nevertheless the bril-
liancy of Sirius was -so .great that it still
blazed with extraordinary splendor, and
I found the field about the large star daz-
zling and almost painful to- the eyes.
“A search of five minutes proved un-
availing, and then Mr. Douglass placed
a diaphragm in the eye piece of the 'tele-
scope, -so as to- cut off the light of the
groat star.
“On placing 'Sirius behind the bar I
soon perceived a smaller star of the 11th
magnitude in the field of vie'w, and re-
moved from Sirius by nearly 6 seconds of
arc. The observations of position, angle
and distance left no doubt of the discov-
ery of the lost companion, but the reduc-
tion of our measures showed' that while
the Keplerian law of equal areas in equal
times was strictly fulfilled, nevertheless
the body, had fallen 30 degrees behind the
position indicated by the coiuputers, and
at the same time receded to a correspond-
ingly greater disitance from the central
star.
“As soon as we had once located the ob-
ject, it was seen with comparative ease.
Mr. Douglass then recognized it, as did
also Mr. Gogshall.
“Our measures were then made and
found to be in 'substantial agreement. The
position angCe proved to- be 219 degrees,
and the distance five and nine-tenths sec-
onds.
Even after the rising of the sun,
which came within 15 minutes after I
had found the object, the star remained
visible as a brownish yellow dot in the
outer rays of the central star. We could
then see it in the open , field of the tele-
scope without the use of the- bar to ex-
clude the blazing lighit of Sirius.
“Practical astronomers recognize' the
great difficulty in measuring this object,
both on account of its owh faintness and
on account of the lu-illiant field of light
in w hich it is seen. The rays of the large
star play about it in the most bewildering
manner, and in order -to minimize the dif-
ficulties, Prof. Hall and other former ob-
servers frequently..close the moment of
sunset and sunrise, when the atmosphere
is still.
“Our measure will necessitate a revi-
sion of the orbit 'and the mathematicians
will now be- called- upon to solve a moist
interesting problem. Previous computers
generally made the period less than 50.
years,' -but a hurried examination of my
previous researches shows that the period
•of revolution will be about 53 years.
“The nature of the orbit is now so well
known that we can say quite accurately
just where it will be at any future time.
It also becomes possible to give the size
of the orbit in known teiTestial units.
“Wo find that the semi-major axis has
a length 23 limes' greater than the dis-
tance from the earth to .the sun. or two
thousand, one hundred and thirty-nine
million miles. The orbit is thus a great
deal larger than tlm nlanet Uranus, but
smaller than that of Neptune.
“'We also find the mass of the system of
■Sirius to be more than three times the
combined masses of t'h-e sun and earth. It
is found that the dank ‘body—'the star of
the eleventh magnitude, just rediscov-
ered—has a mass just half that of Sirius
and just equal to that of the sun.
“'Wonderful to relate, this massive body
gives only one ton-thousandth part as
much light as Sirius, which has only
twice its mass. It .seems incredible that
a (body as large as our sun should have
almost planetary darkness, but such is
the case with this celebrated star.
“To investigate the cause of the dark-
ness of -stars of this class, of 'which sev-
eral are known, is a great problem await-
ing the attention of astronomers. The
satellite of Sirius seems to 'be a burned
out 'world, which in its evolution has far
outstripped tha t of the central-'body, and
wmle we now know -its mass and the na-
ture of its motion quite thoroughly, we
are still ignorant, of the cause of its dark-
ness in contrast with the exclusive brill-
iancy of Sirius.
“'According to the direct statement of
the highest astronomical', authorities in
antiquity, Sirius itsel'f was fiery red in
th-(~t’me of the -Romans, and its change
in color to bluish white during the last
2000 years is equally remarkable and
equally without known explanation.
“The existence of this dark body was
first 'recognized in 1844 by the great Ger-
man astronomer. Bessel, from the per-
turbations of the bright star; the unseen
object was first detected visually in 1862
•by Alvan Clark .the celebrated maker of
our great telescope's.
“For this discovery he received the La-
lande medal of the Paris academy of
sciences. (He .deserves another medal for
the construction of the splendid glass
which has rediscovered the lost body.
“Since Monday morning further obser-
vations have been made on the dark body,
with results confirmatory of our 'work on
the first night. Though the atmosphere
on the next morning 'was not nearly so
steaa-- and the companion therefore
much ifiiore difficult to observe, I could
still see it.
“Even when the conditions of our at-
mosphere are favorable the dark 'body is
difficult to see. but it is not the most diffi-
cult object I have seen in the clear air of
Arizona with the splendid telescope of the
Lo well observa tory.”
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recited facts indisputably appeared, and
at which the existence, validity and su-
periority of the landlord’s lien, though the
same had not been foreclosed, were
shown, to direct a verdict for the plaint-
iff. The court said that, under the cir-
cumstances above stated, the respective
rights of the parties did not depend upon
the question of foreclosure, but upon the
question of legal superiority as between
the lien and the bill of sale, and-under
the evidence submitted the verdict should
'have been for the defendant.
'Savings Bank—-(Depositor—By Law.—
Under the statutes of Michigan the of-
ficers of a savings bank are the agents of
the 'bank and not the agents of the de-
positors, and a by flaw passed by them is
^by Jaw of the bank and no-l-ul-th^'cl-e-
■FsrnnAaild if thjeeffect ofJMs to change
■he rejatioh'-fiFtlKecreiTiror to the debtor,
so as to relieve the obligation of the debt-
or to the creditor, the creditor must have
his attention called to the by law in such
a way that he shall understand its effect
before he shall be bound by it. So held
by the supreme court of Michigan in the
case of Ackenhausen vs. People’s .savings
bank, reported in the Detroit Legal News.
The court said: “Sectiop 26 of the bank-
ing law (S. L. 1'887, p. 238) provides that
savings banks s'hall have power to re-
ceive deposits, and says.: ‘Alii deposits in
said bank shall 'be paid to the depositors,
or his or her lawful representatives, when
required, at such time or times, and with
such interest and 'Under such regulations
as the board of directors of the 'bank from
time to time prescribe, 'which regulations
shall 'be printed and conspicuously ex-
posed in .some place accessible and visible
to all, in the business office of said bank.’
* * -\ye -think the requirement of
the statute that the deposits shall be paid
to the depositor or his le'gail representa-
tives can not be changed by a by law, un-
less the attention of the depositor is called
to the by law. and he assents thereto,
actually or impliodly.”
It Furnished Reading 'Matter. When the
Papers Did Not Come.
Chicago News.
A 'bicyclist recently made a 'little jour-
ney into the country. As he- wheeled
along the road he came to a farm house,
the owner of which he knew slightly. As
he drank a gourdful of water at the pump
he noticed that the farmer’s barn had an
unusual look. 'The last time he had seen
it it had the usual coating of silver gray
painted 'by time and weather, says the
Kansas City Star.
“'Been fixing up the barn, haven’t you?”
he a«ked the farmer.
“Yes. It’s all new painted,” answered
the farmer proudily. “An’ I reckon it’s
mighty pretty lookin’, too. Ye see, a feller
came along one day an’ says he belongs
to a paintin’ syndicate in Chicago as was
out to paint all the barns in the country
free and he s-'nid' he 'would paint mine if I
•wainted him to. 'So I says: ‘Go ahead if it
don’t cost nothin’.’ I went to town with
a toad of hay, an’ 'when 'I got (back the
barn •w'as painted, shore enough.”
The barn had been painted a 'bright
yellow, as a good background for vari-
colored advertisements with letters a foot
or two long. The 'advertisement of a pat-
ent medicine covered both sicles of the
roof in letters of red. blue and green
against the yellow. Chewing tobacco,
shoes, soap, hams and other commodiitiies
were pictured and told about on every
available space.
“When I got back,” continued' the
farmer, “the feller that was paint’-n’ says
to me: ‘I put a few •signs on the barn,’
says he, ‘but you won’t mind that none,
an’ they’re good readin’ matter when the
paper don’t come.’
“Anyhow, it didn’t cost nothin’ to paint
the barn, an’ I’ll be darned- if the boys
ain’t, a darnin’ to read from it. which I
consider pretty cheap ediicatioin these
hard times.”
Texas Sifter.
Gout is the greatest promoter of foot
baiwl.
With a young lawyer’ self possession is
nine points of law A
Criminals and judges differ widely in
regard to the length of sentences.
The most unhappy feature about being
a jail 'bird is said to be its inability to fly.
A man abiding in a penitentiary is, In
one sense of the word, a la w abiding citi-
zen.
It isn’t the man who oftenest breaks
his 'word who is the best authority on
parts of speech.
The secret of success in life is for a
man to be ready for his opportunity when
it occurs.
“Blessed are the piece makers,”, said
the small boy 'when he dropped a costly
porcelain ornament.
If a police officer is after you, -the best
thing you can do is to lock the door am!
then bolt yourself.
It does not take a school boy long, to
evince a love for division, provided an-
other boys owns the apple.
A circus performer wa's once knighted
in England, says an exchange. Did he
become Lord Somerset?
It was a church .mouse shot full of holes
that gave rise -to the expressiou, “As
porous a church mouse.”
Chauncey Depew rhinks the American
girl has had her day in England. But
can’t she secure a knight?
Strike when the iron is hot does not al-
ways apply to blacksmiths. "When they
“strike” the iron is apt to be cold.
“The American eagle still screams,”
Europe’^ Greatest and Highest <^^mni'c ^a1;"
3 DA COMAS, Parisian Aerialists. i| SMoiIS. JoS. Le Filler, ^aul/Divene1'
9 LANDAUERS,PicturesquePosers.4>FRENCH FAMILY, Bicycle Experts
M’LLE IRWIN, The Human Top. U2 CHAMPION RIDERS,
AND HUNDREDS OF QTHER HIGH CLASS ARENIC SPECIALISTS.
ssSUPERB SPEGneULAR FESTmL OF OLYMPUS
Produced Upm a Scale of Magnitude Never Before Attempted and Grandly Inaugu-
ratine' the Tvinst Re.sn’.en(lent Cirrus Disnlav Kver Sppti in rPhiq nr Anv Gthpr Cmintrv.
Landlord ami Tenant—Bien.—The su-
preme court of Georgia held, in the recent
case of Cofer et al. vs. Barnett, that
where there 'was a controversy between
a landlord and 'another concerning cer-
tain cotton rai'se-d 'by a tenant of the for-
mer and which had been delivered to him
by the tenant, the 'landlord contending
that he had a lien upon the same for sup-
plies furnished the tenant and the other
person contending that he was entitled
to this cotton under a -bill of sale from
the tenant, and these contestants agreed
that the landlord might retain and dis-
pose of the co,tton and that he should pay
the other . .contestants its value, if in-
debted -to him, “in a settlement of this
matter before tho/Court,” and the ques-
tion of the landlord’s liability -depended
upon whether or not his lien was in law
superior to the bill of sale, it was error
on the trial of an action of trover for the
recovery of the cotton, subsequently
brought by the holder of the bill of safe
against the landlord, at which the above
V -
T) ATES AND REGULATIONS of
JX wharfage of the Galveston Wharf
company:
All vessels and their owners landing
goods on the wharves thereby contract
to pay, and are responsible for, the
wharfage on the same, according to the
following rates, to be collected from the
vessels or their agents: $ cts.
Ale, beer and porter, bottled, per bbl.
Anchors and chains, per 109
Barrels, wet
Barrels, dry
Barrels, empty, wet
Barrels, empty, dry
Barrel staves, per M
Bacon, per case
Bacon, per cask
Bags or sacks In bales, per
Bagging, pr cubic foot
Bagging, pr 100-yard roll, each .
Bagging, pr 50-yard roll, each .
Baskets, pr nest
Ballast, pr ton
Bales, over 5 cubic feet,
Bedsteads, each ------------------------
Bedsteads, common, each
Bedsteads, boxed, pr cubic foot
Bellows, pr cubic foot
Bananas and plantains, per bunch....
Breakfast bacon, pr box
Boxes, liquors, cheese, soap, candles,
etc
Boxes, extract, coffee, ink, etc. (small)
Brooms, pr dozen
Broom handles, pr M
Broomcorn, pr bale
Brick, fire, pr M
Brick, common, pr M
Bran, 10 sacks and under, per sack...
Blinds, doors and sash, pr cubic foot.
Boilers, steam, per 100 lbs
Bones and horns, pr ton of 2000 lbs...
Bonedust, pr ton of 2000 lbs
Bone black, or bonemeal, pr sack of
100 lbs
Bolts and spikes, rivets, nuts and
washers, pr keg
Buckets, pr dozen
Buckets, well, pr
Butter, pr keg ....
Butter, pr firkin
Building stone, r
lbs
Buggies, each
Buggies, boxed, pr cubic foot
Carboys, each, full
C.arboys, empty
Casks, wine •••
Casks, hardware, pr 100 pounds
Casks, merchandise, pr cubic foot....
Carriages, boxed, per cubic foot
Carriages, each, on wheels
Casttogs^holiow or solid, per 166 lbs"
Cattle, grown, each ..
Cattle, 2-year-olds, each -.
Cattle, yearlings and calves, each ..
Champagne, in baskets
Chairs, per bundle, two each
Charcoal, pr sack ....
Cotton per bale, landed
Cotton, per bale, shipped
Cotton, per sack ....
Coal, dumped in carts or cars, per
ton of 2000 lbs
Coal, dumped on wharf, per ton of
2000 lbs
Coal, in casks
Coaches, stages and omnibuses, each
Corn, 10 sacks and under, per sack....
Corn, in shuck, per 100 pounds
Cotton seed, per ton of 2000 lbs, cargo
Cotton seed meal, per ton of 2000 lbs..
Cotton gins, per cubic foot
Cotton planters, each
Corn planters, each
.Corn shelters
Corn mills, per cubic foot
Coffee, per sack of 135 pounds
Codfish, per drum of 500 pounds
Cordage, per 100 lbs
Cotton ties, per 100 pounds (inward)..
Cotton ties, per 100 pounds (outward).
Copper, per 100 pounds
Coal oil, per case
Cocoanuts, per 100
Collars, horse, per dozen
Crates, crockery or merchandise, per
cubic, foot
Cultivators, each
Drays, each.
Doors, each
Demijohns, full
Demijohns, empty
Drv goods, in case, per 100 pounds....
Filters, boxed or otherwise, per cubic
foot
Flour, in sacks, per 100 pounds
Flour, per barrel
Furnaces, large, 3c; small
Fustic and other dye woods, per ton
lieve'S that 'here is a matter which capi-
talists who desire -a -paying investment in
the south would do we-l'l to investigate.
While the south is 'btiilding bo many cot-
ton miiCs, iwhy not erect a few silk mills
as well.—Manufacttirers’ Record.
WIHY WE ARE- CAlLiLiE'D YANKEE'S.
Origin of the Nickname Applied to North
Americans.
Baltimore Sun.
Everyone is aware that the word “yan-
kee is applied abroad indiscriminately to
all citizens of the United States, but it is
used genera.ly as a “nickname,” and not
always in a complimentary spirit. Our
Spanish .friends just at present are’doubt-
less inedned to employ it in a sneering
and 'derogatory sense, hut however it mny
he used by them or other Europeans, it
has iong since ceased-to carry with it the
slightest sting of latent satire. From a
term of reproach or ridicule it has be-
come to the citizen of the United 'States a
verbal (badge of honor, and is now syn-
onymous the world over with shrewdness,
enterprise, pluck and achievement.
Its origin is 'uncertain. According to
oue authority, “yankees” is a variation
of “y-enkees,” or “yengees,” or “yaun-
ghees,” a name said to have been given
by the Massachusetts Indians to the Eng-
lish colonists, being, it is supposed, an In-
dian corruption of the word lEnjglish or of
the French ‘‘Anglais.” Washington Irv-
ing, in his history of New York, explains
the derivation somewhat differently. The
first settlers of New Engtland, he says,
came to America “to enjoy, unmolested,
the inestimable right of talking. And. in
fact, no sooner did they land upon the
shore of this free spoken country than
they all lifted up their voices and made
such a clamor of tongues that we are told
they frightened every beast and bird out
of the neighborhood and struck such mute
terror into certain fish that they have
been called dumb fish ever since.”
The simple aborigines of the -land for a
while contempilated these strange folk in
utter astonishment, bn^Bscovering that
■they wielded harmless,- though noisy,
'weapons, and 'were a lively, ingenious,
good humored race of men, they became
very friendly and sociable, and gave them
the ‘name Ya-noki.es, which in the Mais
Tchuisaeg (or Masachusetts) language sig-
nifies silent men—a waggish appellation,
since shortened into the familiar epithet
of “yanikees.” It had gained great cur-
rency as descriptive of the colonists' in
1755, when Dr. Schuckbu-rgh, British sur-
geon, is said to have composed, the words
of “Yankee Doodle” in.derision of the
colonial militia, but the tune to which it
'was set is declared by some authorities
to have been 'popular in England during
the commonwealth, at which period its
doggerel words, it is alleged, also existed
and were applied to Cromwell.
Whatever its ancestry and original sig-
nification, it has comp in the light of his-
tory and accomplishment to be a designa-
tion of which the people of this country
have no reason to be ashamed. They
■have no objection to .being called by a
nickname which is. associated with dar-
ing, skill, energy and triumph, that even
when used in derision or anger it creates
■in the mind of the Very railer and scoffer
a secret feeling of envy. 'The English-
man, 'Frenchman, German, Russian,
Spaniard and the rest will have to con-
tent themselves- with their narrow na-
tional appellations, except on special oc-
casions of merit, when they show 'them-
selves worthy of being decorated with
the Yankee cross of honor and being .com-
plimented with -the. title of English, or
French, or Spanish yanikees. The sug-
gestion as to the selection of some-other
nickname than “yankiee” may be wise,
’but it is not practicabile. Nobody would
ever adopt it here or abroad. Let us be
content with 'the designation as it is. We
can stand it if out Spanish cousins can.
CONSCIOUS OiR NOT?
HTOI
.'Sale—(Promise—(Evidence. •— The su-
preme court of Minnesota held, in the re-
cent .case of Cochrane et al. vs. West
Dul'iith Industrial, construction and im-
provement company ot al., that an action
to recover for goods alleged to have been
'furnished to a corporation at the request
of the defendant (who was its president),
and upon his promise to personally pay for
them,/where.'there was no written con-
tract, and the evidence of the parties was
conflicting as to the alleged promise of the
defendant to pay for the goods, evidence
that, at the time the- corporation was in-
solvent and already largely indebted to
the plaintiffs, and its credit 'worthless,
.sw.as competent as directly tending to
show that the testimony of one party was
more reasonable than that of the other.
Furniture, boxed, per cubic foot
Fertilizer or guano, per ton of 200 lbs.
Groceries, dry, boxed, per 100 pounds.
Grain, for export, per 100 pounds
Grind and mill stones, per 100 pounds.
Gunny bags, in bales, per cubic foot..
Hardware, per 100 pounds
Hames, per dozen
Hams, per cask
Hay, per bale
Hay, per half-bale
Hogshead, empty
Hogshead, staves, per 1000
Hay cutters
Half-barrels, wet
Half-barrels, dry
Half-barrels, empty
Herring, per box
Hoop poles, per 1000
Horses and mules, each
Hogs
Horseshoes, per keg
Household goods, per 100 pounds
Hides, loose, each
Hides, in bales, per 100 lbs
Hides, green, in bundles of 2 each ....
Ice, in hogsheads
Ice, per ton of 2000 lbs, net delivery...
Iron, boiler plate, bar, hoop, wrought,
sheet and galvanized, per 100 lbs
Iron pipe, water, per ton of 2000 lbs..
Iron shutters and wrought fittings,
per 100 pounds
Iron junk and scrap, per ton of 2000
pounds
Iron, pig, per ton of 2000 pounds
Iron safes, over 3000 lbs, per 100 lbs....
Iron safes, under 3000 lbs, per 100 lbs..
I Iron wire, telegraph and fence,
100 pounds
Junk, in bales ('except Iron?
Kegs, merchandise
Kegs, empty
Kits fish
Laths, per M
Lemons, per box
Lead, per ton of 2000 lbs
Leather, per 100 lbs
Locomotives, passenger
empty cars, free
Lumber, per M
Marble, per 100 lbs, dressed
Marble, per ton of 2000 pounds, rough.
Marble dust, per barrel
Machinery, per 100 pounds
Mineral ores, per ton of 2000 pound:
Mowing machinery, each
Moss, per bale
Meats, dressed per 100 pounds
Matting, per roll
Nails, per keg
Nails, per half keg
Oats, 10 sacks and under, per sack.
Oil cake, per ton of 2000 pounds
Oranges, per box
Oakum, per bale
Ordnance stores, per 100 pounds
Oysters, per barrel
Paint, per 100 pounds
Pails, flour, per nest
Paper, printing, per bundle
Paper, wrapping, per ream
Pecans, per sack
Pianos, boxed, per cubic foot......
Pineapples, per 100
Plows, each
Plows, sulky
Plow material, k. d., per
Posts, fencing, each
Powder, kegs, 4c; 2c; %
Raisins, per box, 3c; 2c; '4
Rags, per bale
Refrigerators, per cubic foot
Rubber belting, per 100 pounds
Roofing, slate, per ton of 2000 pounds.
R.R. material for const’g and oper’g:
Iron and steel rails, pr ton of 2000 Ibr
Fish bars, plates and chains, ” ”
Frogs, spikes, bolts and nuts ” ”
Iron bridges, locomotives ” ”
Trucks, wheels, axles, etc ” ”
ANCIENT ROMAN- HIPPODROME
A Glorious Picture of the Eternal City Under the Caesars, Reproducing With Startling
Realism the Sports, Gladiatorial Lispl-ys and Thrilling Races of the Circus Maximus,
Together with the Racing Glories of the Modern Turf
Most Complete Zoological Display on Earth !
A Million Dollar Menagerie, Embrac ng KONG, the Only Genuine Chimpanzee in
America, Monster Blood Exuding Hippopotamus and Hundreds of Other Rare Wild
Beasts, Exhtbi ed in Massive Superbly Carved and Gold Illuminated Cages .....
Grandest Free Parade ever seen on the streets of any city leaves the show grounds
atJO o’clock on the morning of the exhibition. Gorgeously resplendent spectacle, passing
iirkaleidoscopic review under the sheen of a thousand shimmeringbanners. Don’t miss it.
Two Complete Performances Daily at 3
and 8 o’clock
Excursion rates on all railroads.
Will exhibit at
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Goods not in above_ list will be cnarged
in proportion, say: Bess than 40 pounds
to the cubic foot will be classed as meas-
urement and charged 1 cent per foot; 40
pounds and over to the cubic foot will ho
classed as weight and charged 5 cents
per 100 pounds. , ,
All goods and articles of every kind!
landed or received upon any of the
wharves are thereafter at. the risk of the
owners, and not of the company, and
must be removed the same day or at far-
thest, the next day, after whicn time, any,
of said goods and articles remaining on
the wharves, the owners and consignees
thereof will be responsible for, and will
be charged an additional wharfage of one-
third the rates specified in the preceding
schedule for every day they so remain
ami mav be removed by the Wharf com-
pany without further notice (at the risk
and expense of the goods, and the owners
and consignees thereof) to any part of the
premises, continuing the charge for addi-
tional wharfage each day they remain on
said premises. Or the Wharf company,
mav have the same removed and stored
elsewhere than on its own premises with-
out further notice (at the risk and ex-
pense of the goods and the owners and
consignees thereof), find the same ■will b©
held until all charges are paid. Same
wharfage to be charged on all goods or,
articles delivered from one vessel to an-
other provided that either o± such ves-
sels is fast to the wharf or to any vessel
fast to the wharf.
The company hereby gives notice that It
will not be liable for losses, if caused by
excessive and unusual ■weights, or by
nllins* un h^avy articles, such as salt*
monfthan three sacks high, and railroad
mon more than two tiers high, on tha
wharves- or by landing articles of ex-
maordinary weight, such as locomotives,,
without social permission ( in writing):
from the Company’s agent; but that it
will hold all persons liable for such dam-
age as may be occasioned by overloading
the wharves without special permission.
All vessels of 50 tons and over not en-
gaged in receiving or discharging cargo,,
or seized by legal process, and lying at
the wharf after such seizure, will ba
charged wharfage at the rate of 5 cents
per registered ton for each day or part of
d^The company also gives notice that It
Pries not undertake storage and will not
be responsible for losses or damage from
anv cau«e to goods or articles landed oe
rcceived'on its wharves.
On all shipments from the interior which
are to be delivered to a vessel or agent,;
whether on through bill of lading or not,;
the carrier placing or landing produce,
goods, etc., on the wharf, also the owner
thereof and the shipper, are each and all
responsible for the wharfage.
‘ But no cottor jr other cargo will be
permitted to be loaded from the wharves
Ln to vessels or lighters without prepay-
ment of the. wharfage or satisfactory pro-
visions therefor by the vessel, except as to.
vessels with general cargo foi gulf ports..
The "owners am, consignees of all goods
delivered on a wharf or levee of the com-
pany thereby become bound to the com-
pany for the wharfage thereon.
All wharfage is contracted to be paid
and is due and payable to the company at
its office in Galveston. ,
Cotton and oil cake will be permitted t«
remain on the wharves for 10 days with-
out extra charge, but an additional charge'
of one-tenth the regular tariff will ba
made per day for each succeeding day tha
articles remain on the wharf, in addition
to the regular wharfage on such articles.
Vessels of less than 50 tons w'll ba
charged wharfage at the rate of $2 pa®
day or pari of a day.
J. E. DAILY, Secretary, .
Trucks, wheels, axles, etc ” ”
R.R. iron for street R.R., per ton of
2000 pounds
R. R. passenger cars, each
R. R. passenger cars narrow gauge..
R. R. platform cars C
R. R. platform Cars, harrow gauge....
R. R. lumber, peY 1000 feet
R. R. ties, 8 feet long, hewn, each.
Rope, per 100 pounds
Salt, per sack
Salt, per sack, cargoes imported..,
Sand or soil, per drayload
Sewing machines, each
Sewing, K. D., per 100 pounds
Sieves per package, 2 dozen
Sawdust, per dray load
Shot, per 100 pounds
Shingles, per 1000
Sheep, each
Shooks, box, per carload -....
Shooks, box, less than carload, per
pounds
Shell, per drayload, five barrels.......
Soda, potash, in casks and drums, per
100 pounds
Shovels and spades, per dozen
Spices, per sack.
Stoves, per cubic foot
Sugar, per hogshead
Sugar, per barrel
Sugar, Havana, in boxes
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