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ESTABLISHED IN 1871.
HOUSTON. TEXAS, MONDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 1,1875
VOL V. No. 112
New Advertisements.
fELEGRAPHIC.
A Horrible Crime.
DAVENPORT.
remarkable sociable event—theo. Barbarous Russia and Progressive Texas.
TILTON’S LECTURE.
The following letter is from
complaint that her father, for a year
who has hold many positions of trust
and honor in the State.
Texan would know him were his
JNO. SHEA
LLOYD.
TEXAS
HOUSTON,
W. J. HUTCHIN8.
S. K. MCILHENNY.
HOUSTON.
TEXAS.
A. WHITAKER,
TEXAS.
Letter from Brownwood.
PERSONAL.
HENRY HENRIGKS.
1
Houston,
HOUTTON,
Texas,
showing them how to farm. The land
End of a Lengthy Mnrder Trial.
BOARDING AND DAY SCHOOL
Corner McKinney and Crawford Streets,
HOUSTON,
TEXAS.
TEXAS.
if the Constitution don’t suit
we can
1000 Barrels of Flour,
100
FLOWER BULBS.
NEW ADVERTISEMNETS.
Houston,
EXAS,
ROBT. KIRK & Ce-
Texas.
Aug2 tf.
an
one
HOUSTON.
ectlitf
xou purchase.
oct28
T. W. KAFFENBERGER,
Wholesale and Retail Dealer in
Staple and Fancy
GROCERIES
would meet our wants. We might as
well adopt the ten commandments,
Washington, Oct. 31.—Jos. Wil-
liams, president of the board of fire
commissioners, was reported as say-
ing at the fire engineers convention
SHEARN & LLOYD,
Cotton and Produce Factors.
THE DUTY.
Wines, Liquors and Cordials
JOHN EATRDYTE.
Congress Street, opposite Courthouse.
A gipsy has told Queen Viotoria
that she will live forty years yet, and
the old lady smiles blandly and or-
ders more peaches laid in for the
winter.
. —o—
HM Cotton and Hides on account solicited
Just Received,
A large and complete assortmoht ef Lamps,
Glassware, &c., which we offer way below
he market, to close consignment. Also, all
kinds of Cooking and Heating Stoves, which,
if you want to save money, examine before
... -wulullul u, xu x arker cuunuy, came
before Esq. F. A. Leach and made
and adjourn to our little beds, leav-
ing to others to do the things left un-
done. Peter Simple.
MoILHENNY & HUTCHINS,
Wholesale Dealers in
Domestic and Imported Drv Goods,
Notions, Boots and Shoes.
crime with her. He first approached
her, and when she peremptorily re-
fused to acceed to his unnatural pro-
position, he drew his knife and
EOUSTON FLOUR MILLS CO.
New Texas Flour at reduced prices fot
sale at wholesale and by single package at
‘Houston Flour Mills.” On and after the
first proximo prices will be based entirely on
cash, and sales made low accordingly. Fresh
Corn Meal, etc., always on hand.
July 30th, 1875. ' July30 tf.
THE RUBY,
P. E. DOWLING, Prop'r,
Main Street, near Congress.
Pure Wines and Liquors always on hand,
and drinks put up in the very best style.
The saloon is not surpassed by any in
city. Give us a call. iv17- tf.
Hays, the Arctic traveler, is run-
ning against Tammany for the Leg-
islature. The climate at Albany is
warm enough for him.
Liberal cash advances made on Cotton
AVool, Hides and Western Produce.
aug25 tf
YOUNG LADIES’
HENRY HENRICKS & CO.,
GROCERS,
COMMISSION Ml R CHANTS,
And agents for several of the most
Popular Brands of Family Flour,
No. 20 Main & No. 23 Commerce St.,
A Hartford correspondent of the
Boston Globe says Gideon Welles is
halo and hearty, and appears to bear
lightly his seventy odd years. He
lives in a delightful part of the city,
and is surrounded by all the comforts
and luxuries of life.
AN8895
c
LIQUORS, &c..
MAIN STREET, Corner of Commerce,
Houston, - Texas.
ue Special attention given to Eonsign_
moctiit all kinds of Country Produce. *
usual firmness of character, and hav-
ing a knowledge of the facts, was
determined that some kind of justice
should be done. Many flattering
official positions were offered him if
he would desist from his purpose,
which he sternly refused to do;
when suddenly one of the papers
announced that he has committed
suicide! The other papers do not
dare even to mention his death, or
to make any comments. And the
courts have taken no notice of the
whole business, though the story is
already repeated from Lisbon to
Barcelona. The mother and daugh-
ter have been privately hurried off
to Bayonne.
Already rhymes like the following
have been printed and circulated on
the streets;
En la doctrina Christiana
Dice el quinto, no matar ;
Pero la gente Alfonsina,
Por miedode no pecar,
Tiene un Septo que asesina.
Which literally is—
in the Christian doctrine
Says the 5th commandment, Do not kill,
But the Alfonsist gentry
For fear uf not sinning,
Have a sixth : Do thou assassinate.
The pun on the Duke de Sexto’s
A Bad Young King — Alfonso of •
Spain is Caught in a Horri-
ble Affair-
M. C. WELLBORN,
Dealer In
FE^B, FLO UR PROB UCE, AC.,
IF YOU WANT
Cheap and Fresh Goods.
Go to the well known
SIMON ROOS,
DEALER IN
Dry Goods, Clothing, Boots, Shoes and
Furnishing Goods.
Studte’sNew Building, opposite the Market.
oct14tf
wealth, prosperity and influence we
enjoy—the Immigration Bureau.
Who would have supposed that
the wisest and best representative
men of the State would have been
guilty of such utter folly. It is econ-
omy become insane, and evinces a
penuriousness unworthy of crdinary
intelligence. And then their indif-
ference to other pressing needs of the
country—to the urgent want of a
State sanitarv and vital Statistic De-
partment. Of an Agricultural Bu-
reau ; to founding a State Institution
for the teaching and training of Teach-
ers. Fifty years ago Russia—barbar-
ous Russia had sixty institutions de-
voted solely to the teaching of teach-
ers, while refined and progressive
Texas ignores the benefit it woull
derive from such institutions.
U M. JONES,
Dealer in Dry Goods, Clothing, Etc.,
No. 7 Preston St., near corner of Travis,
The Grand Lodge of the Odd Fel-
lows of Kentucky, opened its annual
session at Louisville, yesterday
morning, alter a parade through the
city and addresses by the principal
officers.
—0—
(- Has just returned from New York
With ft large and varied .assortment of new
and fresh goods. Septi 6 1m
grants are moving in, and of a class
that will build up and enrich any
country. Most of the old settlers
Harrison, of Dubuque, seventy-one
years of age, and up to to-day an in-
corrigible bachelor, was married to
Miss Emma Clark, daughter of Capt.
W. L. Clark, an old river captain.
The bride is thirty-one.
Theo. Tilton had an audience of
twelve hundrod here last evening.
HAIR AND FIRE BRICK
Bremond’s Building, Commerce St.,
Houston, - Texas.
augll tf.
A B. HALL.
In the Vermont Journal of March
31, 1874, there was the following
epitadh on a lawyer :
Baneath this stone lies Robert Shav,
Who followed forty years the law,
And when he died.
The devil cried,
“Ha! Bob ! give us your paw.”
Some system of public education
worthy of our great State and peo-
ple, it is certainly a paramount duty
of the Convention to devise. Why,
half a dozen practical men could be
found in every county in the State,
Sedalia, Mo., Oct. 31.—Conductor
Lemon, of the Lexington Branch
Railroad, was awarded §1000 dam-
ages at the Saline circuit court for in-
juries received a year ago by being
thrown from a transfer coach at Lex-
ington. .
A Peculiar Resignatiou.
MISS M. KLEIN
IHas opened a FIRST CLASS LADIES’
SALOON at her old stand, corner Main and
Texas Avenue, where she will, from this
date serve to her lady customers the best
chocattrstinihorry.stylej also Coffee and
The Confectionery Department will
be conducted as usual, where all the Candies
can constantly be found to suit every taste.
LU New Advertisements
Ladies’Oyster Saloon.
The World is Governed tco Much.
is rich, well timbered. and water of
the finest kind in abundance. Brown
county has many fine, bold streams
running through it, Gamo is very
abundant deer and wild turkeys can
be killed whenever you wish to go
out and hunt them.
The Age has found its way up
here, and the good people say that it
is a lively sheet, and by working a
little you can get lots of subscribers
up here. What about ths Convention ?
It seems to take an awful time for
them to make a constitution. What
has become of the wise men from the
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of all details of this horrible story.
But there seems to be no doubt that
the officer came home at night and
found Alphonso and the Duke de
Sexto in the company of his wife and
daughter; that he was shot by one
of them, and his body disposed of
secretly ; that the maid servant and
her lover have suddenly disappeared
and the wife and daughter have been
secretly conveyed to Bayonne; that
the Judge died by violence; that there
has been no judicial investigation of
the villainy; that tnere is an intense
feeling in the community; that the
papers have been profoundly silent;
that several persons have been im-
prisoned for talking of the subject;
that Canovas del Castillo, the Prime
NOTItE.
Estate of John Lawrence, decesed.
Letters of Administration in the above
estte have been granted the undersigned, by
the District Court of Harris County. All
claims for money against said estate must be
presented to me within one year from date,
for allowance, or the same will be postponed
as required by law.
All persons indebted to said estate, will
please call and settle at once.
Witness my hand, this October 27, 1875.
MARY E. LAWRENCE, Admx.
oct28-4w
St. Joseph, Mo., Oct. 31.—The cel-
ebrated Alexander murder case pend-
ing for two years in the Andrew
county circuit court has terminated
by the conviction Alexander of mur-
der in the second degree. Few trials
have excited more interest. The
verdict creates much surprise and
some regret.
He wus rapturously received. Rev.
J. G. Merrill, Congrgationatist, who
i Saturday morning of last week a
: daughter of Joseph Griffetb, aged
16 or 17, living a few miles south of
Brownwood, Brown Co., Texas, )
October 20, 1875. J
Dear Age—Thie section of our
great State has a peculiar fascination
to one who, long years ago, traveled
all over it, hence I could not resist
the temptation, and have traveled
out of my way to visit again this de-
lightful region. As many readers of
the Age may not have seen this live-
ly portion of our favored State, I
don’t think it will be out of place, in
this letter, to say that it is settling up
very fast, great numbers of immi-
—AND—
General Commission Merchant,
HOUSTON, TEXAS.
Has RED RUST PROOF OATS, at 75
cents per bushel.
Rye, Barley, and Nicaragua Wheat (rust
proof) at $1.50 per bushel. oct14tt
East, West, North and South part of
our States, are they ajl asleep ? We
want for this State a good system of
common schools, but from the looks
FASHIONABLE MILLINERY!
—AND—
FANCY GOODS.
I have received a full assortment of the
spring style of Hats and Bonnets, Ribbons,
Flowers and Fincy Goods ; also,
HAIR GOD-.
Switches, Braids, - Plats, Curls, Etc.
Hair made up to order; Stamping for
Braid and Embroidery. je17.
DAVENPOET, Io., Oct. 31.—A some- old Texan, a man of wealth, and
what remarkable matrimonial event
occurred here to-day. George J. W.
SMALLWOOD,
JOB PRINTER,
Over the Postoffice,
HOUSTON, - . . TEXAS
DAMAGES AWARDED AN INJURED CON-
DUCTOR.
name used.
Montgomery, Oct. 30.
Dear Young Vigorous Age :
of things, we won’t get it. However, Minister, has resigned, and that a
iciR---isdi , .. radical change has been made in the
BROWNE & BOLLFRASS,
BAKERS,
And Dealers in
Groceries, Feed, Produce, Etc.,
Cor. Preston & Milam Sts. Market Square,
Houston, Texas.
—o—
(g Our Bread, Cakes, Feed and Groceries
are not excelled in Houston. aug11 tf.
had advised people to stay away
from the lecture, received an excori-
ation from Mr. Tilton. He left this
morning for Marshaltown.
SEDALIA.
I see in your isssue the 21st your
Bill of Indictments against the Con-
vention for its folly in depriving us
of one of the chiefest means of the
—o—
mger Increased facilities enable him to fill
orders at most reasonable rates. Patronage
solicited. Auga tf;
Ministry in a liberal direction in the
hope of warding off a revolution.
The young King appears to be
going the way of his mother. As is
customary in Spain, those who sur-
round the sovereign try to govern
him by his passions. So, it is said,
Amadeo was ruined and the peace of
his family destroyed. They sow the
wind and reap the whirlwind. The
corruption in high places and in low
is appalling. From the crown of
the head to the sole of the foot there
is no soundness in them.
Morton and Hayes are talked of as .
possible Republican candidates for
the Presidency by those who hope
that Grant can be beaten for the
nomination. They will not do. Mor-
ton is too weak in the lower story,
and Hayes is too weak in the upper.
—Cincinnati Inquirer.
Jay Cooke’s collection of pictures,
which cost him §100,000, brought
680,000 at auction.
terrible thing on Alfonso, if its true.
A correspondent of the Boston . , ,_____ ______ --
Journal, writing from Madrid tells aWeatherford,in Parker county.
MRS. A. BENTLEY,
No. 91 Main Street,
in New York, that when he ran with
the machine, if a party refused to
contribute to the support of the fire --u--v-y uuuly al ull0 ovau,
department, they spotted his house, who could frame a constitution that
The Sixteenth (16th) Scholastic Term com-
mences D. V. September 1, 1875.
For term, etc., please apply at the Insti-
tute. M. B. BBOWNE,
aug23 tf. Directress.
____ _______
W, J. HUTCHINS,
HOUSTON, TEXAS,
Cotton and Commission Merchant,
LIBERAL ADVANCES ON CONSIGNMENTS.
Bagging and Tes Onstlyen Hanv.
Sept2 tf.
and when a fire came, they saved the
adjoining property and permitted his
to burn. The commissioners of the
district informed Williams he must
either make an absolute denial of
the report or resign, and he chose to
resign.
vote it down. . There is a good trade
up here, and your Houston mer-
chants ought to wake up and watch
for it. R. Cotter & Co. of your city,
are working up the business up for
themselves, distributing printed mat-
ter and soliciting business, their
Sarsaparilla and Pills are taking
the lead and will soon drive
out of the country North-
ern made goods. Their Liniment
for stock, and also Horse and Cattle
Powders sell well.
I will write you again from the
frontier, and hope the Age may flour-
ish, and that your subscription list
may be doubled.
Yours on the tramp
- Wanderer.
Let the Convention adjoyrn for
two months.—Statesman.
Yes, let it edjourn for two years,
and let its members go home and
post themselves concerning the will
of the people.—Palestine Advocate.
I -__
(GEO. GOLDTH WAITE,
ATTORN n.Y AT LAW,
Houston, Texas.
-O-
09 Office—In Pillot’s new building,
on Main street, opposite T. W. House’s.
Sent2 tf.
The facts appear to be as follows: past, has been guilty of a nameless
The King and the Duke of Sexto -i- 1 ‘nx . .
have been corrupting the wife and
Every old only daughter of an officer in the
----- -i army, whose home is second or third
name is very telling, as the* last line
have been exclusively raising stock, may be also read in Spanish, '‘Have
and the new ones coming in are a Sexto, who assassinates.”
’ ’ ...... ’ i I cannot vouch for the truthfulness
door from Mr. Cushing’s. He was
in the North fighting, but hearing of
the King’s frequent visits at his
house he came suddenly to the city,
and entering his home late at night
found the King and the Duke of
Sexto in the house; shot at the King,
but missed him, and was himself
shot dead by the Duke of Sexto,
who was behind him. The street
police heard the pistol shots, and
came running to the rescue, and
were sent about their business. The
body was given to a night watch-
man, who carried it nobody knows
where, and is now receiving, it is
said, §400 a month. The maid ser-
vant, who was an eye witness of the
murder, disappeared the next day—
some say was assassinated. But she
had had time to tell her lover.
When he found she was disposed of
he hid himself for several days, but
venturing out at last was found dead
in the street, stabbed, one morning.
The judge before whom the case
of the first murder should have
come, being a man of more than
G C. MATTHEWS & CO.,
Dealers in
BUILDING MATERIAL, LIME,
CEMENT, PLASTER,
From Montgomery.
A Bill of Indictments Against the
Convention.
A Brace of Absconding Murderers Re-
captured.
Louisville, Oct. 31.—George Har-
mon, convicied of the murder of John
Long of Alabama in this city in
March, 1871, and who forfeited his
bond several years ago, has been re-
captured and brought back to the
city. Harmon dared to visit Louis-
ville two weeks ago, when he was
recognized and pursued and captured
at Jackson, Tenn. In fleeing he pro-
cured an Alderman’s pass in some
manner, and in turn gave itto a game-
ster named John Young. The latter
while on the P. & S. W. train forced
a female passenger to consent to his
desires. He and Harmon then fled
to Tennessee and there both were ap-
prehended.
threatened her life if she did not
Since then he has, by threats of vio-
lence, intimidated her into submis-
sion and silence.
His wife and a younger sister who
i slept with the outraged daughter,
came to a knowledge of the fact, and
when remonstrated with by his wife,
he kicked her out of the house, and
threatened dire vengeance if it were
ever revealed. They took advantage
of his absence on a trip to Jack
county, and appeared before Esq. L.
with the above shocking story. A
warrant was placed in the hands of
Constable Hanby, who arrested him
as he passed through Weatherford
on his return from Jack county on
Sunday. Judge Hood promptly re-
assembled the Grand Jury, which
had adjourned, and they found a bill
against him. He is now in jail. He
has heretofore borne the character
of a hard working, honest man, but
the evidence leaves no doubt of his
guilt.— Weatherford Times.
A young lady of Paris was left at
home the other day to mind the chil-
dren, while the good mother went
visiting. Shortly after this the chil-
dren began to cry and be very cross.
The little miss becoming tired of this
annoyance thus inflicted upon her,
took down a flask of old Bourbon
and began sweeten toddies and dis-
tribute them around with a lavish-
ness fearful to behold. In short,
while the whole place glowed with
merriment, and such a Bacchanalian
feast as they had was never witnessed
before under that religious roof.
The little housekeeper says it didn’t
make the children quiet, but that
they laughed a great deal.—North
Texan.
•9 I
Uhe
66 6‘ Meal.
THOS. KEATS. I S. B. TILLEY.
Ladies Oyster Saloon,
OPPOSITE EXCHANGE HOTEL,
TILLEY & CO., Proprietors.
We would respectively inform the ladies
of Houston that, to meet a demand long re-
quired, we hav opened a first class oyster
saloon, where ladies may feel assured that
they will receive polite attention. Families
supplied; also, for sale Foreign and Domestic
F ruits oct27
Mrs. Eldridge, of Norfolk, Conn.,
is to give a §1200 clock to the new
Yale chapel. Her husband was a
member of the Yale corporate.
Mr. W. F. Gill, of Boston, possesses
the original MS. of Poe’s poem of
“The Bells.” The handwriting is
very handsome and as clear as print.
Bismarck is of the opinion that
German sailors are the best in the
world, and that their lives should
not be imperilled by unseaworthy
captains and vessels.
They killed so many fatted calves
and beeves at the late funeral of the
Khedive’s daughter that the butchers
of Alexandria have since raised the
price of meat.
The celebrated heroine, Fanny
Lear, who last year influenced the
Czar’s nephew to steal for her his
mother’s diamonds, has justpublished
her memoirs in book form at Paris.
Rear-Admiral Goldsborough is
pictured as the perfect picture of a
jolly tar, seeming to belong to that
Shakspearian age suggestive of fat
capons. Ths admiral is, however,
dangerously ill at the present time,
A pair of canaries last week made
the trip from Nebrask to Richmond,
Va. They came by express, and, at-
tached to the cage, was a tag bearing
an appeal to passengers along the
route to care for them.
Miss Nannie Ficklen, of Fredericks-
burg, Va., has married Mr. Daniel E.
Lee, a nephew of Gen. Robert E. Lee.
Miss Ficklen was one of the belles of
the White Sulphur Springs, last sum-
mer.
Mrs. Robeson, the wife of the Sec-
retary of the Navy, while visiting
Baltimore, last week, lost a camel’s
hair shawl, valued at one thousand
dollars, by leaving it in a hired car-
riage.
Richardson’s Building:
HOUSTON, ....
'on HAND
Parties wishing to buy Flowers Bulbs will
leave orders with F. Schweikart,
oct24 Bt Market Square.
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