Daily Express. (San Antonio, Tex.), Vol. 8, No. 82, Ed. 1 Wednesday, April 8, 1874 Page: 1 of 4
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SAN ANTONIO
DAILY EXPRESS.
Official Organ of the Uuited
States.
Terms of subscription:—Coin
13 Months - "2'S
£ O.OII
5 " ** 3,00
*» M
advertising
$1.00 ner square of eight lines.
Change able notices 50 per oeiit
tdv&iico on usual rates*
WEEKL. EXPRESS
terms of subsc'iiption: coin
13 Mouths,... *3,0(1
6 ' 1,30
3 " 1,00
Advertisements for Daily an
Weekly 25 per cent discount.
job work.
We are prepared to do all kind
oi' Job Work at the lowest ratei
and In the best style.
VOL. VIII.
san antonio, texas, wednesday. april 8, 1874.
no. 82.
MEDICINES.
A. NETTK
APOTHECARY.
Has iusi received a large stoek o»
drugs.
MEDICINES.
t»t'UKl'MEBIKS, and
8UKOICAL INSTKUM1?MTh
to fact all the leadinir article*. tneh as
PATENT MEDICINES
that are usually Irept >u a
Fimt Wrus More
The stock b«in«r »«lrf*ed W hlWelf fo»
this mark*" 11
rhMt
aictiox
iXI>
COMMISSION HOUSE
by
rtoLFsos,
A N . A N T O N I O , T E X A S
Auoti"» :»l«s of Mil* UouuS, clotuiso
Hats 1I(...ts, Si ok*. Fcrsithrb. and every
description ..f Mi-renandise. promptly
tended to.
§^jp* l.ibwr»l *«>'»i>.'e made on eontian
menu. ..
QooJn c.i privsle sn'e «l Auction rrices
9 s-'esd.
OhT Con'mere# Street, O'V
o7 SAN ANTONIO, TEX. O I
WATCHMAKERS
i •' ' v. \ • .'.
jewellers,
Respectfully inform the public that they
entered into partnership to carry on a
First Clsiss Jewelry Store.
Every artcile in their line of business
manufactured or repaired. Watches and
Jewelry are made to Kive satisfaction at
very reasonable prices.
Constantly on liand a large
assortment of American. Swiss,
Gold and Silver WATCHES, fine
Gold Chains and Jewelry, Silver and Sil-
veri.lated Ware, Clocks, Compasses, Spec-
tacles, Field Glasses, Gold Pens, lencils
and Penholders.
Call aud see for yourselves at the corner
of
Commerce sssul St IHnry Streets
H0-l-dt.f.
w. a. bennett
j. t. thornton
BEANKIT A THORNTON,
ButtKer^t IJenJers tn Lxclmiifii
aud Government Securities.
Will pay particular attention to the collection o
Claims at all accessible points in Texas.
1 6-71dtf.
J. KERN,
52 Main St., San Antonio. Tex.,
Wholesale Dealer in
li&ucrs, cigars,
—AND—
tobaccos.
HAVING opened with a large and com-
plete stock of the above goods, I ain
uow prepared to sell the following brands
iu store:
Monongahela Rye,
iialtiuiore
Baker's "
Camelia W bisky,
Pine Apple "
Magnolia
OliveBrancb
Clark's White W heat,
Robertson County Bourbon,
Old Crow
Chickfu Cock (
T. O. P.
Dan'.el Boone, u
FrenchGCognac, Domestic and Holland
Gin Cordials, Port, Sherry, Catawba,
Haut Santerne Claret, Rhine
Wines ot my own importa-
tion, by casks and boxes
— ALSO
A larg «tock of . n.
Imported and Domestic Cigars,
Virginia Smoking and
Chewing Tobacco*
To be eold at • small profit. '23-7-73dly.
w. W. Sharpe & Co.,
PUBLISHER's agents
No. 25, Park Row, New York,
Are authorized to contract for adverting j
in our paper. j
I t»„;
SIM MONS
THE
FAVORITE DOME REMEDY,
This unrivalled Medicine is Warranted
not to contnin a single particle ot Mercu-
ky, or any injurious mineral substauce,
but is
PURELY VEGETABLE.
containing those Southern Roots and
Herbs, which an allwise Providence has
placed in countries where Liver Diseases
most prevail. It will cure all Diseases caus-
ed by Derangement of the Lirer and Howels.
Simmon's Liver Regulator, or Medicine,
Is eminently a Family Medicine; and by
being kept ready for immediate resort
will save many an hour of suffering and
many a dollar in t line and doctors'bills.
After over Forty Yeats' trial it is still
receiving tho most unqualified testimoni-
als to its virtues from persons of the high-
est character and responsibility. Eminent
physicians commend it as the most
EFFECTUAL SPECIFIC
For Dyspepsist or Indigestion.
Armed with this ANTIDOTE, all climates
aud changes of water and food may be
faced without fear. As a Remedy in
MALARIOUS FEVERS, BOWEL COM-
PLAINTS, RESTLESSNESS, JAUNDICE,
NAUSEA,
IT IIAS NO EQUAL.
It is the Cheapest, Purest and Best Family
Medicine in the World!
MANUFACTURED ONLY I1Y
J. II. Zeilin iV Co.,
Macon, Ga., and Philadelphia.
PRICE $1.00
SOLD BT ALL DRUGGISTS.
2li-2-74-d&wly
GROCERIES.
Eugene Robin,
DEALER IN
FLOUR
AND
groceries
Has just received a fresh supply of the
following articles, to which he invites the
attention of all buyers:
Flour, various brands,
CRUSHED and BROWN SUGARS,
Coffee,
Lard,
Hams,
Bacon,
Breakfast Bacon,
Claret Wines, iu casks or bottles,
Sherry Wine, " " " "
Wliiskieu, " " " "
LIQUORS, A-c., &c.
SUGARS, SEGARS,
Smoking &, Chewing Tabacco,
canned meats,
Vegetables find Fruits,
PICKLES AND SQURCROUT.
Salt and Spices,
Brandy-Peaches,and Cherries in glass,
PEACHES,
PEARS,
PLUMS,
PINEAPPLES
and other Fruits in Syrup.
BY receiving frequent supplies he en-
deavors to keep ou hand
A GENERAL StOCK OF
GROCERIES
ALWAYS FRESH,
which he offers at
MODERATE PRICES.
FLOUR. As in his bakery establish-
ment he usas large qualities of tlour, he
has always on hand a laige stock of the
best brands. 20-5-73-dly
ULANK DEEDS,
OF ALL KINDS FOR SALE AT THE
"EXPRESS" OFFtr*.
From a North Carolina Planta-
tion to the New York Post-
Office.
[From the N. Y. Graphic, March 29. J
Oue warm afternoon in the sum-
mer ot 18S2 a half dozen little slave
boys were playing carelessly about
a cottou press about sixteen miles
from Newborn, N. C., when one of
the smallest ami youngest of them
overheard something that attracted
his attention, and which soon had
the effect to stop the play. From
the conversation between two adult
slaves he learned that 4»U of them
were to lie taken, iu the few days,
back into the interior part of the
State, out of the way of the Yankee
invaders. This set him to thiuking.
A couucil of war was held by the
little fellows. Then was made one
of the most fervent speeches in fa-
vor ot liberty that was ever uttered
by a Southern slave. The posses-
sor of the sharp ears had the repu-
tation ot a mischievous and head-
strong boy among his pjaymates,
but now they listened to him with
a kiud of wonder.
With boyish enthusiasm he rapid-
ly sketched a plot for an escape to
the Yankee lines. The time was
fixed. They were to start the next
afternoon. But about 3 o'clock the
next morning he heard the booming
of the guns at the battle of New-
bern. He knew precisely what it
meant. Rising stealthily herou3ed
his companions in the plot, but at
the las moment their hearts failed
them. Nothing daunted the little
fellow, not yet twelve years of age,
with such clothes as he had 011 him
and with a supreme trust in himself
and in "Massa Lincoln,'' started off
in the direction of the canonading.
He took a circuit around the town,
and came in at the rear of the Union
lines about 3 o'clock in the after-
noon. The distance was about 20
miles. He says now he don't re
member that he was tired. On the
journey he was revolving in his
mind a magnificent scheme of go-
ing back stealthily to organize a
company of boys on the plantation,
with which lie proposed to join the
Union forces. He was taken 011
board the gunboat Chasseur, where
he was soon advanced from the po-
sition ot officers' mess boy to the
more honorable one of powder-boy.
Until 1804 he was engaged in vari-
ous capacities as a boy in the Union
army the position of office boy for
the late Henry J. Raymond. While
he was so employed in the Times
office lie revisited the old planta-
tion. His father, mother, and all
his relatives were dead, but an at
fection for the old place carried hitn
back. He was heartily welcomed,
and by none tnore so than the
widow of his former master, Col.
Streets, to whom he made a pres
sent of $25. The family was still
wealthy in land, but at that time
sadly in need of ready cash. Col.
Streets was killed in the war.
This was the first of several visits
to his old home. During his resi-
dence at the North he had come iu
contact with many public men, and
had cultivated the art of public
speaking. This accomplishment
gave him a great ascendant over
the minds of his old friends. On
his visit in 1872 they insisted for a
long time that they would nominate
him for Sheriff, and it was only his
inability to quality on account of
age that enabled him to silence
their entreaties. He is regarded by
tliem as a patron, and scarcely a
colored man in his native county,
to whom he is not personally
known, ever conies to New York
without a letter of recommendation
to David, as he is familiarly called.
He has secured'positions of one
kind and another for over fifty of
his people from the okl North
State.
The above is the life story, briefly
told, of David F. Nelson, who yes-
terday received a notification that
he had passed very successfully an
examination for a $1,000 clerkship
in the New York Post-Office. He
is a little over twenty years old,
and has held the post of doorkeeper
for the Postmaster since 1870. when
it was secured for him by Mr.Thur-
low Weed. He is entirely self edu
cated. A scrap book in ins posses
sion contains, besides a mass of
valuable statistics concorning his
race, a large selection of miscella-
neous literature, called from the
writings of Whittier, Alice Cary,
and other writers of equal merit.
This morning he was overwhelmed
wit congratulations by his fellow
employes of the Post-Office on the
success he had attained.
Experiments have recently been
made upon the spontaneous com
bustion of cottou when saturated
with tatty oils. Cotton was satu-
> rated with boiled linseed oil in a
box and submitted to a high tem-
perature; this was gradually raised
to 350 degrees Fahrenheit before
any effect was observed, at this
temperature smoke wasseeu issuing
from the box, upon exposure to the
air, the cotton burnt into flames.
Iu a second experiment it was made
to burn at 280 degrees. Raw lin
seed oil and olive oiiywere slower
in their action. Saturated with
castor oil the cotton only charred
iu two days. Seal and lard oils
were brought to combustion iu a
short time, while sperm oil did not
act at all, aud coal and shale oils
were found, when mixed with other
oils, to completely check their com-
bustion.
A Card Discarded.
A Mississippi legislator having
published Col. McCardle, the fight-
ing editor of the Vicksbnrg Herald,
as "a liar, scoundrel and coward,''
McCardle denies the imputation iu
the following language:
With a few words I shall dispose
of this card and its author. The
man whose name is attached to it I
never saw, that lam aware of. From
his own account lie was aggrieved
by my editorial, and for the reason
that it might be construed as a re-
flection upon liiin! instead of asking
tor an explanation, and iu default
of getting one that was satisfactory,
demanding "the usual satisfaction"
recognized by gentlemen, lie rushes
frantically to a newspaper office,
and through the medium of the fore-
going card, seeks to relieve his o'er
charged heart, heal his wounded
honor, and soothed his lacerated
sensibilizes. If he finds relief and
gratification iu that puerile achieve-
ment, it would be cruel iu me to de-
prive him of such a pleasure.
As to auy opinion the Senator
from Monroe many eutertaip or ex-
press ot me, I trust to be pardoned
when I say that I am ouofomully in-
different to it-. He and I were both
born in Kentucky ; and, though it
has been many days since I left the
good old State, I am willing to
have the staple product of that
couutry used in hanging me if 1
cannot get a bettter indorsement
lroiu the gentlemen ot Kentucky
than he can. Fifty tliousaud Con-
federate soldiers will make an affi-
davit that 1 ain no -'coward and,
as I am tolerably well known in
Mississippi, if the gentlemen who
<to know me—Whigs, Democrats
and Republicans—will not say that
I am neither "liar" nor "scoundrel,"
1 stand pledged to drown myself in
the Mississippi River.
KEARNEY'S
FLUID EXTRACT
f. groos & co.
lolesale Lipr Dealers
GKOCEKS
AND
COMMISSION MERCHANTS,
Commerce Street,
SAN ANTONIO, TEaAS
6-12-7 Idt.f.
DEALERS IN
Guns, Rifles, Pistols, Ammunition
AND
SPORTING ARTICLES OF EVERY
DESCRIPTION.
All repairs on Arms neatly executed.
4-73d2w-w-t.f.
Adolk Waitz D. L. Russell.
Deutschcr Advooat.
WAITZ & RUSSELL
attorneys
— and —
COlTXMELOltS AT LAW.
Office : 20th Str., between Market
and Mechauic Streets
GALVESTON, TEXAS.
8 2 74 dtf
Albert Sadusky,
LOCAL and GENERAL AGENT
— for the —
ATE OF LOUISIANA
— for the —
Daily & Weekly Express and
Tri-Weekly and Weekly
Freie Presse.
Address: 90 Exchange Allev, New-
Orleans, La. 14-2-74d&w
The only known remedy for
Bright9 s Disease
Aud a positive remedy for
GOUT, GRAVEL, STRICTURES, DIA-
BETES, DYSPEPSIA, NERVOUS
DEBILITY, DROPSY,
Non-retention or Incontinence of Urine,
Irritation, Iuflatnation or Ulceration of the
bladder & kidneys,
SPERMATORRHOEA,
Lcncorrhcua or Whites, Diseases of the
Prostate Gland, Stone in the Bladder,
Colculus Gravel or Brick Just Deposit and
Mucus or Milky Discharges.
kearney's
EXTRACT B1JCIII,
Permanently cures) all diseases ot the
BLADDER, KIDNEYS, AND DROPSICAL
SWELLINGS,
Existing in Men, Women aud Children.
EF No matter what Ihe age!
Prof. Steele says: "One bottle of Kear-
ney's Fluid Extract Bucliu is worth more
than all other Buchus combined.
Price, One Dollar per Bottle, Jor Six
Bottles for Five Dollars.
Depot, 104 Duane St., New York.
A Physician iu attendance to answer
correspondence and give advice gratis.
RT Send stamp for Pau^lots, free. ^£3
-TO THE—
OF BOTH SEXES.
JVo Charyefor Advice and Consultation.
Dr. J. B. Dyott, graduate of Jefferson
Medical College. Philadelphia, author of
3everal valuable works, can bo consulted
on all diseaded of the Sexual or Urinary
Organs, (which he lirs made an especial
study) either iu male or female, no matter
from whar cause originating or of how
long standii.g- A prrfcliee of 150 years
enables him to treat diseases with success.
Cures guaranteed. Charges reasonable.
Those at a distance can forward let«er
describing symptoms and enclosing stamp
to prepry postage.
Send for thd (Juide to Health. Price 10c.
It' DVOTT. ¥». D.,
Physician and SurgHon, 104 DuaneSt. N. Y.
MISCELLANEOUS.
1 an Aiteiiojioai) Comjaiiy.
SOAP,
SUPERIOR TO AMY « THE R
Manufactured and made to order by the
San Ant. Beef Extract Factory.
Generl Agency for the United States,
Canada & Cuba,
R.DANNHEIM & CO., I?G8 Broadway,N.Y.
Orders received for Soap and Beef Ex-
tract at the othcu of tho Factory, A. F
Wnltt or E. Penteurieder. fl-1-74 d«fc.wtt
RHODXUS & CO
WU0LESALK DtMLEltH f\
Staple ai Fancy Groceries
33 Commerce Street,
SAX ANTONIO, TEXAS
BELL & BROS.,
DEALERS IN AND
MANUFACTURERS OP."
Jewelry, Silrer-ware, Plated-ware
WATCHES, CLOCKS,
Suectacles,
Fine Pocket and Table Cutlery
RAZORS, SCISSORS,
FANCY GOODS, Ac., Ac,
WATCHES, CLOCKS
AND JEWELRY
repaired ahd warrahted>
No. 11 Commerce Street
SAN ANTONIO. TUXAS.
uov!6-68d*wtf
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