Houston Daily Mercury (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 6, No. 95, Ed. 1 Sunday, December 28, 1873 Page: 2 of 4
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IPMt HSRCURY ALXilAC. ^
John Allen, of New York, date
T's. :S*T' l*M OS bat es c-,1
add tw«Dty more pages of inter
matter to our almanac.
iU be increased five
thousand. The map of the State
ve purpose giving is clearly en-;
i awp- pnbiisfc-
«i Advertisers have but, .a few
days^ore in which to send in
almanac afcd
sdistributed gratis.- '
J. H. Baker, ~
— "Psfeprief cr 4M Publisher.
<f^ .h:
1 The Bev. L G. John, the new
Presiding Elder, who
arrived from Galveston, will
iUctimtU* IS. Chmth
*0$ o'clock A. $L ** . ^ . ,!vSxo
farmer and agmakupif^ - Th®
publication office. isJfo- 4 Soa&X ^yhirt priced
Fifth street, St. Louis, Mo., an^_ Workmen
theterras onljr $1 50 per annnm^
COSFAFfe.
Bveay city in the Union, North
and South, has from one to W
dozen voluntas military compan-
ies. Ifcip plsssaot paat-timeamlis .
lofany ofte "Je
wch l^pug,
gives that exercise
that young men leading seden-
tary lives, so much need. I We
Shiafc Hun b * good ' field ia
Houston for a military company,
Them is certainly ample material
oat of which to form ftr VWe do
sot propose to go into an elabor-
ate discussion of the. question^
wish to eall attention to
pwpose ti^-we
WHAT DOSS TEXAS OFFER THE
■ Q
esterday
on u Hie Wfrkiifc Men
we(state4thf« there
ofli&d i^thft^tate^
be had cheap by par-
ties desirous of settling here.
This is true. No state has a
broader, moro fertile domain than
Texas, or needs immigrants more.
We have room for millions of
men yet, laboring, industrious
men^not drones, all of whom can
obtain homes ckeapty-awi readily*
Labor meets with its reward here
most ; fhlly._ There is. always
of industry,
come,i ^nfS v^liat his
may be; and the price
* >b°VJ*sF
-^axtrem^ J .Te*s
is surely the haven for the
.J^orggfc man. lt rhprtojwor, he
can. soon better himself and pro*
vide Hr home fdf thosfe he loves.
Particularly can skilled labor
find a wide field for its industry,
and energy in TexasT We need
good mechjHlioB everywhere—
men jhM canJjuild houses, arti-
sans in iron, machinists, every
class aad .^haewption of me-
tfc, iiideed, The following
queries showttBVihat the State
aot only needs a ^well regrdated
and conducted bureau of immi-
gration,-but that every eotfnly
needs one, subordinate to that
of the State, of conraefi *** tc~
OS
"I have been a journeyman and
foreman plasterer over twenty
years,- but the present dullness
of everything coifapeiS me to seek
elsewhere what I can ho longer
find here, work. What can a
t^Triih
m
W. Kelley,
-T., same *'**4
Have noT3on€r anyTOg 'E?
the list fclireie months—had -a few
hundred dollars saved up, but
nd very
*V«:
ion.
my case
a man
We ^^aUention to ±h§ ably
writt^F «^bmisHiBication headed
"Something to Think About.* It
treats oi an all im porta nt and vital
to Houston—her com-
I
giveus other articles, as his leis-'
umpsnx&ts. •
PtTWLlC -i. Sites
Grcmge—We have received a eity, says, Dec. 17th:
copy of this paper. It is replete . ^ance has a good me
with valuable information to thier or_ia©ofei;to fiad employ-
iiy**.
ni
>4fk yoii ,ti
your consideration.
easily obtain
acres of lan
What is the cost of living
se- a -family of
ve I Jt costs me here from f^)
30 a week to keep py fWniijr.'
hswer.-rir^ ,eould buy land
,*t: M M ,$i0 per " aeye? living
would cost Stoat®*]!" what j-ou
man
and have
been out of employment most of
for me to
once
think best
I shall at
ori
feis^o
what you
do, which
uppn. Irhave five in family and.
mnst'do'sbmetSfiJg iihwy.,''?*,<- 'J l
Answer.—Otfine to Texas and
make your fortune.
Now,' WM$t ^systeux^f ^anty
Bureau, fornishin
-5 - rr -jr* tr v^w *■* \
organite one.
sea of Houston and all who are
willing to enter into the scheme
*«* •*" «%:
as soon as a sufficiency
ef names are gotten, we will call
a meet^^ ^at the undertaking
may! regularly entered into.
a Ghastly Double Cbime.
Nicholas Byan and his , sister
Mary were murdered in New
Tork on the 22d inat, by, some
snknown party. The deceased
• represented as having been
thrift people, and theft was the
cause of the double murder.
Mary Byan was first found by
an inmate of the tenement house
k the bl#Gdy.
perpetrated lying on a
ob the floor, her face purple, the
cyeiT starting from the sockets,
the tongue protruding, a?d her
•hroat cut. Her brother Ni<jho-
las was Sound with bis throat cot
and the body-covered with blood.
He wore his night clothing, and
after recerrlng has terrible wound
he had evidently managed to
his way down from his-
of exhaustion, as^ ^
the walls, thesteps and thehan-
aistere were covered with his
blo^tes^Fhei#. is no clue to the
P al.-—«we were pleased
to meet in ear sanctum this
morning Mr, Solomon Mahler, a
of the large St. Louis
and Grocery House of
& Mahler, doing busi-
aees at 215 Market street. They
the best lager, which is
to keep in any
Committees on Immigration in
^Sch cottnt^la th^etate, forking
with infor-
snrafe on
all tlip . points raised^ in the
above queries, a thousand iinmi-
gmBt*wwf!dSe lm g6tfc^exas
where oos comes now^-thc very
sort tlmt build citie% thatlevel
forests, that erect factories, mills,
churches, school-fiowsea!,( t that
con struct railrOmls: that develop
a country in fact, '.and raise
on ever^' hand the ' monu-
ments ; of civilization, of
thrift and of Christianity. ' Itt-
fonnatioii of Texas, the price
its lands, the character
soil, the nature of its climate—
all these things, is what people
iug this mfjMiaatifltfij the incom-
i«g waves of immigration will
roil over the sunny ' hills and*
green valleys of -this State, till
hot a nook ^r corner will be left
uninhabited; Th^. Im jij^ation
Bureau must give this informa-
M its
biaopljea, hither and yon until
all ^tik'rtei^ of the globe are
somebody's
upon
pverj- 6ioi)e and Ipy t*jeiyt)i| pif!4i
spring of Texas. 1
-O ■'cil t J < a«<a '.ji.li* - : A3 r';,CEI
:> The Psrse ?e e tn Me#ico jcqpr,
prises a bolt of land pnp. thonaaud
miles long and six miles wide,
on the wesi bank of the Bio
Grande.
:*■, -MSiLs V'
saw a
her husband that you,have seen
an a<^aaj*tance of. his^ and^you
ishodointfnowr "
as
80MKTHTNO TO THIXK
Editor* Houston Iferourr: '
i^We of Houston must begffi to
k ot somo things in dead
_est,';else, inr all jaob^Wlity,
will never build our ship, i
f There- te hardly a merchant in
Houston or Galveston, particu-
larly in the grocery line, who will
not admit, if he is candid, that
business has been excessively
dull fbr some months past ft
is doubtful if the last of '6S, ex-
ceeded in dullness the last half
of '73. Now, it is the custom t9
fpY TELEGRAPH
ot '14. j<ow, it is tne custom 19
attribute5all A# ttris to t^ie late
yellow fever panics, and to the
financial panic, which is still f6lt
to some degree in the North and
West This idea of" the case is
evidently wrong. The yellow
s fever 'panics retarded the
trade of Houston ..and
Galveston a little, but had little
or no effect in diminishing its
general volume, ii The bulk of
goods sold would hardly have
ibeen heavier had there been no
yellow fever blockades and quar-_
antines. The financial panic*
really affected Texas very little.
Our crops never were so large as
this year. Our population has
increased enormously. There
never was so much money in the
country, and the general pros-
perity was never greater. The
consumption of all lines of goods
was never so large in the State
as at present In this condition
Of affhirs, it is simply absurd to
charge to the financial panic the
excessive dullness of trade which
Houston and Galveston have so
long felt. -. T ' |
What is the cause, then, of
this lamentable dullness ? Any
observing man who will take, a!
trip up tiie Central railroad,
stopping a day or so in the thriv-
ing towns; along that road, will
perceive the cause very quickly.
He cannot help perceive that
since the. Central railway has
penetrated through Northern
Texas, making connections with
Kansas and Missouri railroads,
|the coarse of trade is rapidly
aifd utterly changing, and Hons-
ton and Galveston are ceasing to
be the gfigat distributing points
for those articles of commerce
which heretofore have been their
principal stocks in trade. Many-
articles of "Western produce are
how being delivered to dealers
along the line of that railway, as
far south as Hempstead;^ at
figures muchv belOir those
which a Honston or Gal-
veston merchant would con
aider profitable, c Th is notably
the case with wheat products.
In less than six months Houston
itself will probably have received
its last barrel Of flour by way of
the coast, and there can be no
room to doubt that 'by next
Spring we shall receive all our
hog products by way of the Cen-
tral said Great Northern. „ In-
deed/ merchants in the interior
are now supplying themselves
from that direction. Notice the
Receipts pf these articles in Gal-
veston, and compare them with ,
same; time last year. A- steady
diminution., >vil1 be noted, so
steady and persistent that a sim-
ple mathematical calculation will
ther. In wheat products t
e of Houston and Galvesto
ith the interioris already dead,
uttdriy dead, and tne trade in
hog products is in its last ex-
iling throes. This is the expla-
A $f all our present and
recent dullness in trade. It will
be but a little lime when even
the stone blind caa see it- -
The fact being admitted, and
who- is- so potent that he can
i&overf it r seems to circnm-
ibe -the commercial operations
of Houston and Galveston in the
fiiture within verynarrow limits.
iHil^u^all th^wilr be *deft to
them, and it is a fact quite in
accordance with these views,
that trade in that .hue has been
tolerably fair all the fall : ftnd
Winter. In other lines of trade
it &hls ae.ii; we will have to live
upoji ourselves—depend upon
Our own local consumption. Can
an^iisiness as this make any
city great? Will it enable us
to hold thfe footing that we hive
already secured ! Let every man
answer fbj- himself, but as fdt
the writer, he bdie% es it a dan-
gerous experiment when one,
either individual^ city, under -
takes to Kve irpdB the fet of one's
t'Shall we do to be salved?
It is clear that if we sit stall and
let, things jog along their own
way, we are gone up the spout,
ib^it if we stir our stumps and
pi-ore onrselves equal to the 0&
casion, we shall find the black
cloud which now overhangs us
has an exceedingly brilliant sil-.
verBrfing. In my next, I pro-
pose to show how we may most
effectually stir these stumps.
Although for the present "deia,"
iWerare not by any means yet
'4h|mned^ > or udelivered=n
Messrs. Editors, there is a big
outcome in us yet TJ
• ! Houstow, Dee. 27,1872. . :'
L&RGRtttBIXMf SHIPMENTS.
Wl'KCIAI. TO
FROM
srOK
Latest About the
ml/.I ' '1
Case.
Boderigiiez
ATJ8TIK, Dec. 27.
.'4LVmilton. commenced. his ar^
the>6^w
at 10 o'clock a, m., and is still
speaking. He asked for the dis-
charge of Boderiguez on the
ground of the unconstitutionality
of the election law, He cited
■ authorities copiously, showing
the necessity of a strict construc-
tioflj and contended that the
violation.,©!; the Constitution in
this case was plain and palpa-
ble. His argnment was able and
exhaustive. ^ a« u-L
Walton follows for the State,
and Sabin wilt close for the de-
fence. * .'> ' •> . f-tji-
lt is expected Monday and
Tuesday will be consumed in
argument, but it may possibly be
concluded ori; Mondayif so, a
decision is expected Tuesday,
but should not be suprised if
it is not reached before Wednes-
day or Thursday.
I Interest in the ease has sub-
sided and all is quiet S.
F OM MEXICO.
i The Cortlnas War SUlt Raffing.
Matamoras, Dec. 27.—A
fight occurred to-day at the Mar-
ket Place between some of Cor-
tinas men And the police, in
which a policeman was shot and
instantly .killed. The murderer
took refuge in Gortinas' head-
quarters, but the General sur-
rendered him to the police, who
lodged him in prison. Cortinas'
friendri Bays Tie will be installed
Mayor of this city on New Tears'
day, which will doubtless lead ,to
another fight, as both parties are
armed and determined. -,v'. c
K!oody and Fatal Fight at Monterey
An affray occurred a few days
ago in Monterey, over the Muni-
cipal election, in which several
were killed and wounded. ;
The Mayor of Tamplco Imprison ml.
Another disturbance has oc-
curred in Tampico and the Mayor
has been /imprisoned /bjr^^te
troops. . '■*? '• ' . t ,
A New Valuation of Coins.
Washington. Dee. 27. — A
circular just prepared at the
Treasury Department will be
promulgated on January 1, fix-
in g the- yalije. qf foreign, mwey,
acj^rd^eM feefinaxjuntjaff |)rirej
metal in coins. The effect of
this change, which is in accord-
ance with the jaw of March 3,
1873, will be to increase the val-
uation of imported goods and
correspondingly increase cus-
toms duties This change will
affect goodg' nbw: ill bond, if left
till after toe; new year. The
principal changes made are in
the pound sterlihgjof Great Brit
ain and Jamaica, and the franc
of France, Belgi&tfand Switzer-
tell—when they^ will cease alto---land, the drachmas of Greece,
the livre of Italy, pista of Spain,
and the rupee of India. These
Raines have been computed in
" 2I lI/Uj 11
What thfc yr«rtiffcrttvgfci .
i Soon after the arrival of the
President in Washington, he was
Waited by A.ttorney General
•/ 1
liams' firfdids express the 'opinion
1ailrW*wffl be rohfirmeffvenr
soon after the meeting Of <^dn-I
gress, in January.
1 , Alabama Ku Klnz Pardoned
, Binggold* ¥6uri£ tdid Neil
Hawkins, of Alabama, were par-
doned as'Ktf itlux.
' Frands op. JBcr^nae of >3,OOprl)CO, .
i Boston, Dec. 27.—Biirks, Jor-
dan,* Matsh & Co. were seized
for alleged frauds on revenue of
. $500,000. The best iwformfei!
think the. li-ands will reach
$3,000,000.rat*Zt -ia
Enforcement of th« State liqttor tMtr.
I Elizabeth, N. J.
Judg^Dppue decided
case^ ^r^ninent *
ers and" other liqnc
Plainfield, that = local ordinance
permitting sel* r -*^
tect them
the State law"
State Protection
Againtt Striken. 3 ,
The,Sijpriff and State Police
of this ^nu Ihdiana have given
assurance that all men who are
willing.towqrk shall be protect-
ed, and the public not be de-
jnivWI offh% uise of railroads.
.VTetfke* ProbafelUttet.
For . the .Gtulf States, north-
i . 'Galveston, Dec. 27,1873. t /1
Editors Mercury: _
From information received from
the ^bond/agent at Hempstead^
1 find that there have been 3500
bfties sHpped from that point to
Galve^tOiv thus far. There are
about 1500 bales more which will
come down, making a total of
5000 bates. Cottom is still king.
Galveston nwd not growl.
Yours truly,
1. E. Albers.
s A Tucrwt: Thief Caught.—
A man named Clarence Brown
has been stealing; trunks from
lie New York hotels for some
time, and was only caught on,
Friday week. Among others, he
gobbled up the trunk of Mr.
qasey, Collector of the Port of
5few Orleans, from the Fifth
Avenue Hotel, valued at $2000.
Thiff trunk Wail traced to the
house of a receiver of stolen
property, named Solomon Wein-
thal, and recovered.
, easterly to.northwesterly winds,
wi^fo^.^i^ TO%,'a%;p^oy
cloudy weather .
Darreli Commit^* IKxpeeted
4 The Dnrrell sub-eommittee viill
TVoaMe Baded With Railroad StrtkeM.
President Scott and Manager
McCtdlough, df Pennsylvania;'
raflroads, state that, the .en-
gineer's strike lias ended and all
the.trouble over: ^ .... r u .
The Edgar Stuart Guarded by • n t«ini<4
Officials.
) Several sensational ^dispatches
. hav ing been sent from this city,
in regard to th.p_ fitting out of the .
fillibustering ' steamer Edgar
Stuart,fbr an expedition to Cuba,
and i# having lieen stated in the
local press this evening that she
had cleared from this port toil
Jamaica, the following authentic
official statement in regard to the
Edgar Stuart was famished the
press: The steamer now lies at
Jenkins' wharf watched daily by
customs' officials here registered
ip bonds of the collector of the
port, and she will not bo allowed'1
to leave under anycaroumstances
with any knowledge or consent
Of the proper authorities at
Washington.
Arrival at tfew Orleaus or Senata Com-
mittee on Transportation.
Nsftr Orleas) Dec. 27.—The
Senate Committee on Transpor-
tation arrived here last night and
met this morning at the St.
, Charles Hotel for the purpose of
hearing testimony concerning
trade statistics, etc. A commit-
tee from the Chamber of. Com-
merce, headed by Judge J.H.Ken-
nard, waited upon the committee
and tendered them the hospitali-
ties of the city. A committee
from the Cotton Exchange also
called, extending greetings
and inviting them to visit
the Cotton Exchange, and ex-
press their willingness to impart
information possessed upon the
subject. Both committees were
received by Mr. Windom, Hon.
' W. M. Burwell, Mr. Higby, and
j others, and by request of the
committee made statements giv-
ing their views regarding the
proposed Fort St. Phillip canal.
Asftftnlt and Robbery by m Negro—A
°" Mystery#
Louisville, Dec. 23.—Last
; night, between 9 and 10 o'clock,
an unknown negro man entered
the grocery store of Mrs. Ellen
Burns, corner of Fourteenth and
Magazine streets, and called for
a cigar, and on Mrs. Burns turn-
ing her back to him to wait on
him the negro dealt her a blow on
the head with a coupling pin used
on cars and knocked her senseless.
He then rifled her pockets, which
contained $150, also tapping the
tfll, in which were the receipts
of the week, amounting to $50.!
After securing all he possibly
could he made good his escape,
and has not been heard of since.
The detectivesJar^ after him and
soon hope to bring him to jus !
tiee. Mrs. Burns is in a preca-
rious condition, and doubts are
entertained of her recovery. ; >
This morning, while the street
scavengers were engaged' in
cleaning the catch-basin on the
corner of Twelfth and Madison
streets, the skull of a child, ap-
parently five months old, was
fou&l among the filth, : Nothing
could be ascertained as to how it
came there, and the whole affair
ft wrapped in a mystery;. ,-
4 Pastor in Divgnte*..
St. Louis, December 27.—
For a week or more the official
members and eiders of the Tab-
ernacle Mission or Free Metho-
dist Chureh, located at Mozart
HaU, corner Fifth and Biddle
streets, have been annoyed by
grave charges against Mr. W. H.
Neal,the pastor. The accusations
came from two yonng men, named
E.N. Hawkins and Donald Mc-
Oleilan, recently converted and
received into the church. Their
statements were made boldly,
aqd were to the effect that Mr.
Neal had been guilty of unna-
tural conduct towards them, ot
conduct criminal in itself, and to
which even the law does not give
nhme: The young men made
good the charges, and the Bev.
Mr. Neal has been asked to re-
sign. They should hang him.
A Libel Suit for Ten Thousand Dollars—
The- Gamblers Make a New Stand
Omaha, Dec. 27.—Mr. J. W.
Miner, city editor of the Omaha
Republican, has brought a suit
against Geo; W. Crefutt, pub-
lisher of Crofntt's Western World,
a newspaper ot New York, for
libel, with_ damage placed at
William^and the nomination .of: $10,000. Thp allied libel con-
_ * — — - - . _ . . m nvn /\f oti nanalA iinKlinkAr] Ii\ nt*
the latter to be Chief Justice of
the Supreme-^Pourfc was the sub-
ject of earnest conversation be-
tw^eiif *fteni for nearly half air
hour. ..rBuring tb# couversasion
tho President said he did not be-
liev^the*f^p0f,ts "put itt. cirirtifS-'
f tion by enemies of Mr, Williams
for the purpose of encompassing
his deftafc He had nev'e'r inteifd-
0d to withdraw the nomination,.
and, farthermore, he didodiiia- , ^ r.-.-.
iBfid"W" wffiiidrftWiCr'- W. W^-- ^summons,. r Mr.
sists of arn article, published last
June, as foHbws:
" One J. W. Mirier, a low gift
lottery enterprise gambler, and
Canadian Bill, the celebrated
three-card morite man, bbth of
Omaha^haveformed a copartner-
ship. From what We "know of
the parties one isnoted liar and
the other; .an accomplished thief."
Mr. Crofutt arrived in Omaha
thisiuoruiiig on a visit, and was
Miner formerly held an editorial
position on the Western World.
: The gamblers upon whom the
auth^rifaes, have been waging a
war of.,extermination, threaten
that,<> unless the /prosecution
closes, they will, swear but com-
plaints against every person who
has participated in the game of
fhro or keno since the passage of
f^he new criminal code. As this
will include a number of citizens
- Of high standing, some interest
evelopments are looked for.
Heartless Segieet.
In its issue of December 13th,
the Maryville (East Tennessee)
Republican gives the following
narrative, speaking of it as
among the many instances of
1 destitution that have come to its
knowledge, and saying that it is
fully substantiated:
"About five weeks ago, a little
girl, thirteen years of age, named
Bobinson, - living on the further
side of the Chiihowee Mountain,
had her back broken by the fall
of a chestnut tree. As the acci-
dent occurred within the Hunts
of the district attended to by the
East Tennessee Christian Asso-
ciation, the doctor, who is the
agent, was sent for. He promised
to visit and examine her, but did
not go. A short time since, her
mother walked nine miles to
Maryville to obtain some help,
and in speaking of the condition
of her child remarked that she
must return to her that night,
'evbn if she went by torchlight
.Exhausted with fatigue and anx-
iety,- she fell dead when she
reached bonus The condition of
the child is represented by some
.who attended the funeral of the
mother as almost beyond descrip-
tion, she having lain In the same
position and with the same
dothing since the accident oc-
curred . We understand that the
Helping Hand Association has
taken • the girl into its care,
although not within its limits,
and that the poor sufferer will-
lie made more comfortable.'*
The St , Louis Globe brands the
fiemocrat HH a liar and puts $500
op to mako good the charge. 0
FIHIft.
BT T. L. F. HOLUWCAS .
So the year's over! ;
It's dream with it ended!
On lore and on lover,
The snow hath descended;
On lore and on lover, " i>'* >
Lies rigid and chilly;
O'er the grave for both cloven*
<">'er tho shroud lor both woven.
Sings the winter wind shrilly.
The hopes that March measured
So keen cut and clearly,
The blooms April treasured,
Are dust and weeds merely:
Words measured and treasured
That augured so brightly :
All that May promised,
AH that June compassed,
Lie dead and unsightly.
Passion's high fever,
That served in its gladnesx.
The pulse of endeavor
So near unto madnes?,
Is over forever,
With all its wild dreaming.
At the door of the Rebl,
Lies dead the Ideal—
Dead, dead past redeem iug.
Yes, the year's ended!
The hopes it begun with.
Tho sorrows portended
Are over and done with ;
AU it brought, it hath ended;
No light now illumes it:
Let no word be spokep;
Let silence unbroken
Guard the vault that entombs it.
PotcifBca, Texas, Dee. 26, 1812.
TEXAS NEWS.
Pabksb County.—The arms
and ammunition for the Banging
Company of this county has been
shipped to Weatherford
Immigrants are rapidly finding
homes in this county. White-
topped movers' wagons are a
common sight... The Weather-
ford brass band gave a concert
the other night for the benefit of
the cemetery. K
Galveston County.—There
was a slight fire on Friday night
last A brute named Winar,
assaulted a woman, Mrs. Eliza
Winn, who was in a delicate
situation. The law will punish
the scoundrel, but the punish-
ment Will be inadequate to the
offence. A rope and a short
shrift is what he ought to have.
Marion County,—Jefferson
oufhibnsses charge fifty cents
per head on passengers from the
depot to the hotel—distance half
a mile Cypress bayou now
has an abundance of water, and
steamboats run regularly... .The
roads leading into Jefferson are
complained of as being in a terri-
ble condition Jefferson has
been much exercised at having a
drunken woman on her streets.
The sight is a terrible one, but
not unusual at times in cities.
Panola County.—The Odd
Fellows of Carthage will give a
grand simper with an address
on the night of the 31st inst
The object is for the improve-
ment of the public cemetery ..
The temperance cause we rejoice
to know is prospering in this
county... .This county is only
$8000 in debt, and thinks pf
asking of the' next Legislature
to pass a bill authorizing the
levy .of a special tax to pay this
debt off, , . •••-:
Travis County.—"One more
unfortunate" was found banging
by the neek to the limb of a tree
Friday. He was an unknown
man, and the whys and where-
fores of his taking off unknown.
.. . .F. Schubert, a private sol
dier in the U. 8. Infantry, got
drunk, fell into a ditch of water
Christmas night and was
drowned.. -.. .All stage lines com-
ing roto Austin are doing a
heavy business. They are crowd
ed all the time with passengers.
The Christmas trees at all
the churches in Austin were per-
fect successes, filling the hearts
pf all the dear little children
with unutterable delight Frank
P. v > Ford, " an < exemplary
young man of Austin^ only
twenty years of age, died
of consumption on Christmas
Day. He had long been press-
man in the Statesman office, and
that paper speaks of him iii the
highest terms.. May he find rest
and peace in the hereafter. ^
Mr. Barnhart took the prize at
the An8tin tournament oh Christ
mas Day. J^e y .crowned
Miss Haralson a£L t Queen
of Love and Beauty. She ffelt
happy and he thought he was
some, - - - An attempt, by villians,
was made to throw the Central
train off the track, near Manor,
by piling crossties on the road.
The engineer;: saw the obstruc-
tion in time to:stc^ the train. It
would afford us great pleasuto-to
hear that these miserable scoun-
drels had been caught and'.acci-
dentally hung. ,
A BRUTAL STEPMOfrHEB IT
Compelling a Child to Sleep In the
Woods ft r TrimnrPwm.
Salamaxca, Cattaraugus Co., N. yt| i .
Dec. 19, 1873. J
This place is greatly excited
over the developments just made
in g> case of alleged brutal treat-
ment of a child by her step-
mother.
A Pole named Peter Moskey,
a widower,with a daughter six or
seven years old, was married to
a woman who has ever sinee
maintained a system of domestic
tyrrany over both husband and
child. On Friday last the girl
was found in the woods about a
mile west of the place near where
her father and stepmother live.
She was nearly dead from expo-
sure and hunger, and said she
had been wandering for three days
within sight of home, but was
not allowed to come in the house
by her stepmother.
She gave as a reason for this
cruelty that in looking for their
cow On the Tuesday previous,
she had lost a little shawl which
she was unable to find. The
loss being* made known to her
stepmother, she beat the child
until she was black and blue in
places and then compelled her to
go back to the woods and look
for the shawl. The little girl
searched ia vain tor it, and, cold,
hungry and almost exhausted,
had repeatedly returned home
begging to be allowed to come
and warm herself a moment, but
was as often forced to go away
by her Stepmother.
The story of the child created
the most intense indignation in
the community, and the step-
mother and father were arrested
and brought to this place on Sat-
urday. The hearing in tin case
revealed a system of brutality to-
wards the child on the part of
the inhuman stepmother that has
few parallels on record. The lit-
tle girl, for trivial offences, had
been forced to sit in ice-cold
water for an hour at a time; tied
up by the thumbs and whipped:
forced to lie in the woods all
night, with the scantiest of cloth-
ing, in all kinds of weather;
obliged to perform labor that a
man would consider hard, and
kept continually on the most
meagre fare. She is literally
covered with bruises and scars
which she had received at the
hands of the woman chosen by
her father to be her mother.
Singularly, the only result of
the investigation thus far, has
been the taking of the child out
of the control of its unnatural
protectors, and placing her in a
family at Corry, Pa.
HAfUUKD.
Foley—Kkknedy.—On the morning ot
Saturday, the 27th day of December, at
the Church of the Annunciation, by Bev.
Father Querat, Mr. W. L. Foley to Miss
Mary F. Kennedy, daughter of John Ken-
nedy, Esq. All of this city.
We 'uns of the Mhbcurt. to whom such
a pleasurable occasion has come and gone, ■
sec- our congratulations to. the happy,
couple and wish for them the full measure'
of tint bliss which ia one of the concomi-
tants of the married estate. In bumpers
of wine and great sweet hunks of cake we
implore the blessings of Providence
upon them. They have before them a
future of brilliant prospects which we
trust may not be neglected.
"Oh Lovef young Love! bound in thy
" rosy band,.
Let sage or cynic prattle as he will,
These hours, and only these, redeem life's
years of ill 1"
New Advertisement*.
M. H. C.
SPECIAL MEETING.
Tfctra vfllb SpaeUl Xe.fng of tse M g-
aoll HlaMmta Clob. at the Ctnb room THIS
(SUKDXT) irriBHOOH at a •'clock. Baal-
Mcsef the ltount taaportaaeefc to b* taws.
mM, and wwyai| i>itl«i |i> to be ptwut
S? order of th* PrMldcnt:
. JOHN KIRLICK&^t T
AaeS'Mt I'CMtary. -
BLANKETS
BLANKETS
1 .iH>M iu. fcmt.
Cheap for Cash.
larig A.-V"3r SHAWLiS
FROM TBK AUCTION ROOM.
CASES YABD WIDE DOMESTICS,
.13 Ml, WORT! IS 1-4.
For Sale—For Rent.
FOB SALE.
rris 1.018, floating on *on<e xnery
A near th* Texai It Haw Orlaasa Hal
-Depot. Teroc* rta.bntbla. Arp>7 to
"I T .WOXUM80K,
- ot at tbU o<le .
FOB SALE.
1 STATE of BEXBT TILGr, dac
Pi Monday, Jaanary , 1S7S, at Ida
r«aldeae«. all tba movable property beton
to the abova Mtato. nbtamii HOjt* 8
other LITE STOCK. t>4 PZBSOIIAI. PKCFEH-
TT.
t*mw—cash. • * rr
A. DERIKG,
itdlU Adm al-ttatof.
FOB SALE.
A FIRST CLASS ICK MACHINE,
eapabla ef maacfactuhiu (0000 poncdai aJ*
thoasacd ponnda of lea per day. will b* aold
at a lev flgora, on vary &>varab<e tanw.
K. W. TAYLOR.
deell-Clat
FOB SALE.
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TWO F0*klSEED ROOMS TO RENT.
! Ia l|lllll> mljilii an Hwtta Street, op-
poatt* tka Oavrt Hooaa, vtik bead.. A JOT
TABLE BOABDEB3 *iU ilao ba takec. F(
termg,applyea the premise! JSC. XUOBT.
Oae.'M IMS. , -'inA
N^tiee of Admlnlstratioii. _
ESTATE or HBHBY TIME, daeeaaad.—*o
Uee 1« hereby staaattMi I faava bean lataUr
at-pointad < dmintatrataraf the above aetata, end
hare doly qoaliflsd. «n peraona tadabtad to
the aetata MB <*!itnd pay wbat tbeyoipe, atrf
thoca haying olaStna art ifpreaant then for aattle-
saAt ;ri ^T. .A BKBINe.
?oniton. Dee.U. 1«T8. ^ < dacSltf
MILLINERY GOODS .
AT I/ESS THAN COST.
i.n:
Oa aeeoaat of tho hart tiaaa
DIOKSON dbi O®:
ira sea their ; , '
Millinery and Fancy
—,
doods,
Atlaaathan eeet,teniae the
ta pay their indebtedness. "Mee lew te all
thoaa who have -the CMk."
WANTED,
By a pe.-tlepan of to
petition aa
BOOK-KESPEB, OOBMWODEMT or OLKBK.
The hl^aaat t«attaaeolala otead.
; - Addroaa, &7r,:i --'.a
dtcie dtf v. f.ir r.o, as« 4 .
m WELLBOBN,
COMMISSION MBBCHANT,
sad wholeeaje dealer la
ORAIM ASD PROOPt lC. I
. HOPSTOK. TXXAB- .|( . - ,
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CHRISTMAS 1878!
Ladies desirous of making their Husbands
i An Elegant Present,
Oaonot do batter than obtain the aervieee of
dr. OIBBON^,
<{'} ' i/iUO :' - i) llf* ' • ' >.}•■
Who wtil asittty tbehest fttttnc
SUIT OF CLOTHES
la Tesaa. aa aeU a* every article naefel and
arsamental t coded to eomplatea gentleman'a
onMt. " M'-
76 Main 8(ro«t!
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. . . Horfroa, December 2S, ISTS. j
The aaaaal meetfnc ef Mm eteehhe<d >a of
'hie asaoeWten will be held at the Hatahlna
Boaea the Sth day of MMary, UN. at 1-M
tfo>eek. far tho juwm ef a)e«lrg eve«
Ireetora to aervs tor the anantef year.
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My dareillag, land and Improvententa, inemd-
teg Suteage Manufactory with all machinery,
on the north aido of Buffalo Bayou, near
Yoong'a Kick Yard.
Term* reaaonabie: pari oaah, balance on thus,
with good aeenrtty.
—- - -- f. BALDWIN.
Hoaaton, Doe. 1.13T3. deei—lm
TOWN LOTS FOB SALE.
OB the line of the O. H Jt 8. a. BAIL*AT.
at Borden'a Station, 9 m.lea weet of Oolcm-
hna. In Colorado etranty. Aiao. at Weiner. 8ehn
lenbnrg and Vtatoela, Tbaee plaeee promiaa
be good baaineea local!tie a, aitcated in tba
most healthy and deeirable portiont ot tb Stata,
which ia betnit rapidly aettled be an indoatri-
ona and thriving prpolation For farther m-
forniktieo, enqnlre of O. C. tfeigne, et Borden ;
D. A. Jack eon, at Weimer ; O. Kaocgirtln. at
Sehnlenbnrg, aud B. t latto. at F1 tonia.
JAMB1 CONVEBJL,
Henaten. Oct. fl. 18T3-tf t.h'ef Engineer.
AT $100 FEB MONTH RENT.
That elegant STORE adjoteing the Honatoa
Direct Narigatiofl Company'e efloe; three
atoriea, with baeetneat; one atory ahelved. In-
olndea Arat claea hot.tlng appara'na. Well alts
a ted for any wholeaale baaiae a Apply to
deell lm T W. HOQ8E.
ANTHRACITE COAL.
HOOeTON OAS LI3ET COMFABT. I 9*
December SI, 1878. f ft
Sixty tone So. i free hnrning AMTHBAC11K „
OOAL, jnalree*l'ed direct iron B lOmore. For ^
sale at prioea below siren, deliverable at the a
Oas Worka, on Oonuneroe street. £*
3000 peonda for.,, fil 00
1000 pennda for II 00 m
500 peonda for. see
CASH OB DEL1TEBT. . '
Order not accompanied with eaah will not be 3
«lled. g
T. r. WHITE. v
decM-30t Secretary nd.Treaesrer.
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