The Galveston Daily News. (Galveston, Tex.), Vol. 41, No. 233, Ed. 1 Tuesday, December 19, 1882 Page: 2 of 4
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ClflCULATIoif EQUAL
to that'of ALL
THE OTHER DAILY PRESS
of the state combined.
esday, December 15), 1882.
Says the Chicago Times:
The majority of congressmen want as little re-
form in U>fir civil rvica l-eform bill as they want
water in their whisky.
The changes iu the English cabinet leavo the
gentleman called the "grand old man " .still at
the head of Downing street (London) affairs,
while Lord Derby becomes secretary for the
colonies.
The president says •' it goes without sayiug"
that such practices as those of HubbeiJ <fc Co.
are b!aek;aailing practices. To offset the mat-
ter, certain alleged reformers say much with-
out going. ^
The New York World is smart, in the Amer-
ican sense. It asks, by way of repartee: 44 Is
a stock gambler, who is not a millionaire, any
safer gaido in the money article of a daily
jiaper than a stock-gambler who is a million-
aire
Mr. Hurbblz. is subjected to a broadside
from the Michigan senator, Mr. Ferry, who is
afrr.id that Hubbell will got his seat. Hubbell
replie and so the Washington papers contain
a good deal about the worthies. Perry is a
bad boss, and Hubbell wants to be one.
Mi OF is said of the report of the tariff com-
missioners and their bill. Congress having re-
ceived the report and referred it to a commit-
tee. will, in the usual course, hear no more of
said bill, but will be presented with such a bill
as Mr. Kelley approves. That is about the
size of the operation—not that there nfeed be
in ch d i fference.
The European markets begin to draw upon
the food supply of the United States. The
money market became easier in New York be-
fore the middle of the mouth. All the indica-
tions in regard to commerce and the receipt of
coin from Europe are considered favorable for
the winter, but this does uot check speculation
or ward off its ultimate mischiefs.
The Madrid Epoca, after declaring that
Spain would ne'er consent, consents. 44 If the
government believes there is no danger in lib-
erating the Cuban refugee Macco in order to
give England a mark of friendship, we cer-
tainly shall find no fault with such a step,"
says the Epoca. The people have, presuma-
bly, been satisfied that the government would
not surrender the prisoners on compulsion.
Quite the contrary: it does not care to hold
them.
In addition to the injury done the material
interests of the .Southern States by the occur-
rence of homicides, there is considerable in-
jury done by sensational and untrue reports in
Northern papers. There are numerous homi-
cides in the Northern States, too. The North-
ern papers to a certain extent divert attention
from crimes iu their own vicinity by directing
attention to the South. As regards swindling,
which must also tend to deter intending immi-
grants from any section. Northern communi-
ties appear to take the load.
It is stated that within the present month
Spain has undertaken to place herself in direct
opposition to the claims and policy of the
United States on the Nicaragua canal question.
It was not supposed that the United States
government was committed to any definite
policy on that subject. The promoters of the
canal, who are anxious to receive substantial
assistance, may have been so thankful to Spain
that they would even wire such a report, if it
was true, at their own cost. Therfc is nothing
like opportune opposition. Jealousy has raised
women oil what was supposed to be a death-
bed. •«■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■«■■■■■»
Beecher is nothing if not a sensationalist
and a quibbler. He has a christian standard
of right and a commercial standard. By the
former, all selfishness is wrong, and all com-
merce is selfishness. By the latter, Wall street
speculation is all right; there is no morality—
nothing but brain-power. That is what is the
matter with Mr. Beecher; his Christianity is
too lofty to be practical. However, the fools
do not exactly fix prices as a rule, but perhaps
Mr. Beecher, whose dealings in corners have
been most extensive in the line of pews in his
church, has had an experience which induces
him to think so.
The manufacture of iron and steel direct
from the ore (Bull's process) was the subject of
a paper read by Mr. Vaughan W. Jones, in
Liverpool, October 28. In this process no solid
carbon is used in the furnace, which is charged
with nothing but iron ore and flux—usually
limestone. The furnace is worked with gas,
which is delivered into it in a vefy highly
heated state, direct from the producers. Highly
heated air is also introduced in sufficient quan-
tities to burn about 10 per cent, of the gas and
maintain the furnace at the high temperature
necessary to allow the withdrawal of the iron
or steel and cinder in a fluid state.
Captain r. Burton, the famous English
traveler, and learned in the Arabic and Turk-
ish languages, has been interviewed in Cairo,
Egypt, by a corresp indent of the New York
Herald. He says the leading element in
Egyptian society is the fanatical Mohammedan
priesthood and students; that the country will
have to be governed with a strong hand for a
generation, before Europeans can live in the
• country without fear of outbreaks and mas-
sacres on account of religion; that the western
interests in the country are now so consider-
able, that if the British did not occupy it
some other European power must do so.
Lord Dufferin is likely to be sent to
Vienna at the conclusion of his business
in Egypt. Reports show that Austro-Hun-
gary is preparing for war. France is en-
couraged by the London Economist to believe
that England and France together will again
lead in the diplomacy of Europe and add Aus-
tria to their alliance—a somewhat shadowy
view at present, but proceeding certainly from
a respectable authority doubtless able to ap-
preciate the embarrassments of the German
Empire. At this rate Dufferin's mission would
be to restrain Austro-Hungary from belliger-
ency against Russia or the Danubian Princi-
palities.
It is generally admitted that public office is
a trust, but if it be considered a trust for party
■use, not directly for the general interest, the
force of the assertion is considerably broken.
Every partisan is supposed to hold that in aid-
ing the success of his party he is ser ving the
public interest. Little profitable progress can
be made unless partisans will constantly bear
in mind the fact that when the party fails to
serve the common interest at each juncture,
some portion of the public observes the neglect
and becomes correspondingly dissatisfied with
the party. Public office is a trust to be exer-
cised with a sense of direct responsibility to
the citizens.
the Ways-and ~Means~ Committee of Con-
gress is engaged on a tariff bill which the com-
mittee is preparing in this way: The report of
the tariff commission, with the commission's
proposed bill, Is before the committee. It con-
tains recommendations of duties for over 1500
different articles and a fre>4 list beside. These
articles are considered one by one by the Ways
and Means Committee, aud a bill is being thus
prepared. By the 12th day of December the
committee had passed on seventy articles. At
such a rate it would be months before the bill
could be reported. There is room for a doubt
"whether it will be ready for presentation until
the last days of the session.
Among the most charming volumes pub-
lished this year is a complete edition of the
poems of Paul Hamilton Hayne. with a bio-
graphical sketch of the author by Margaret J.
Preston. The volume is dedicated to the au-
thor's friend, Colonel J. G. James, president of
the State Agricultural and Mechanical college
of Texas, and is published in beautiful style by
D. Lathrop & Co., Boston, Mass. The illustra-
tions are also good. Those who have read only
a few of this gifted author's poems may be sur-
prised, and can not but be greatly pleased,
with a collection covering so great a variety
of themes, with well sustained feeling, power
and propriety of expression.
That staid counselor of the Democratic
party, the Savannah Morning News, says:
If the Republicans offer fruits ostensibly meet
for repentance, th^y should not be forthwith re-
jected, but every specimen should be thoroughly
scrutinized ere it is accepted. The Democrats
should remember that if "it were possible for all
the reforms demanded to be achieved by the pres-
ent Congress there would be abundant occupation
lor its successor in seeing that the public interests
suffered no detriment by laches on its part.
This is solid advice. Only the immature
statesmen will be ready to conclude that an
expiring Congress can accomplish all neces-
sary reforms, or so many as to leave no room
for its successor to gain well-deserved honors.
Looking at some important chapters of history
it will be found that reforms have been extort-
ed by defeat from those who have long resisted
them. For their advocates to resist, openly or
covertly, when their opponents are ready to
make concessions, would show selfishness and
insincerity, or a too fine-drawn calculation of
advantages from popular faith in party. If
the Republicans now introduce or support some
good measures and the Democrats oppose them,
the public will be well informed how the mat-
ter stands. It has already been noted in Re-
publican journals that Mr. Pendleton's civil
service reform bill is meeting with somewhat
marked Republican support and Democratic
opposition.
It is charged that the absurd tariff commis-
sion's recommendations in regard to some
woolen goods will not only result in retaining
the double rate, but will increase complications
and make employment for experts, and give a
premium on fraud and perjury. As to raw
wool, the commission makes the value of the
wool at the time of exportation and at the last
port or place of exportation the basis of the
rate of duty to be levied. The customs ap-
praiser must first ascertain whether or not the
value of the wool exceeded 12 or 32 cents a
pound at the time and place of exportation, and
then I -:vy a spec. rate b}~ the poa:.«l accord-
ing as the cost per pound may be more or less
than 12 or 32 cents.
The New York Herald shows by a compari-
son of census figures of 1870 and 18-Q<> that there
w:;s a moderate increase of perse ;* employed
aud of products, a great increase in cost of ma-
terials employed, and that profits were partly
kept up by lowering wages; still the net return
as lower afrthe end of the ten years. But this
opens up a urious f ;, which shows the
tin at-cuttmg nature of protection, 'hat, so
far from protecting, positive slaughter to
the manufacturer. For it has not apoeared to
occur to th^se who so strenuously uphold
"protection" that since they are all pro-
tected each one must pay for the protection of
the other, for there can hardly be any manu-
facturer who has not had to pay an enhanced
price for materials used in his manufactures
owing to this tax. And the drift of this writ-
ing is to show, in the first place, that every
manufacturer has to pay his own tax, or for
his own protection, by paying for the protec-
tion of his brothers; and, in the second place,
' Uat he accomplishes this by squeezing the
amount out of his operatives.
The blessed tariff is a'source of never-ending
vexation and numerous lawsuits. It seems,
from a report of a decision by Judge Blatch-
ford, of New York, the other day, that they
have not yet been able to classify cotton ties in
a proper manner. Ties are imported in bun-
dles, each bundle being eleven feet long and
being composed of thirty ties and thirty
buckles. They have been hitherto subjected
to a duty of 1)4 cent, per pound under the
name of "band, hoop and scroll iron." To
which an importer objecting, Judge Blatch-
ford holds that he should have t.hem entered
as 11 manufactures of iron," at a duty of 35
per cent, ad valorem. The United States, on
the argument, abandoned the original claim,
and found still a third classification of duty
for the " cotton ties," but Judge Blatchford
holds that any new interpretation not origin-
ally made either by the collector at New Or
leans or by the importers, D. L.'Ranlett & Co.,
of that city, can not now come into this par-
ticular case. 44 Doubless," says the World,
44 the collector will now try on his new ap-
praisement and so lead to yet another tariff
lawsuit."
The New York Herald has a strong article
on the need of regulatii^j the great railroads
and the manifest inability of the several States
to accomplish this object. There is no unity of
action among State railroad commissions. The
necessity of bringing the inter-state lines under
some one controlling power is conceded on
every hand, and there seems to be no place to
lodge it except in the hands of the gen-
eral government. " The experience of
every day," says the Herald, 4i shows that
the railroad managers can not be trusted.
Neither the interests of their own stockholders
nor of the farmer, the merchant or the con-
sumer are safe in their hands. Directors of
roads, individually or collectively, build rival
routes to their own lines and then vote for a
consolidation at an enormous advance on the
actual cost of the work. This is simple rob-
bery of their own stockholders. 1 Wars' are
made from time to time for purely speculative
purposes in Wall street and London. Powerful
lobbies are maintained at the capitals of States
for the purpose of moulding and influencing
legislation. In a word, our whole railroad
management is honeycombed with fraud and
corruption of the most flagrant and outrageous
character."
That the foreign capital invested in the
Southern States since the war has gone mostly
into railroads, the New York Evening Post
considers no exaggeration. The amount ad-
vanced to Southern men to develop the natu-
ral resources of the country is small. The rea-
son which investors give is that railroads are
conducted "on a cash basis, and controlled by
the owners, but if investors loan money on a
farm and foreclose the mortgage there is no
sale for the land, and they have to hold it
for themselves. This is not true as to many,
perhaps most, portions of Texas, but it may be
true as to many parts of the Southern States
where, as the Post alleges, there is no rising
tide of industrious and intelligent white popu-
lation—German, Swede, Norwegian and Irish
—to buy up every farm which is thrown on the
market on which a fair living can be made.
Moreover, if they lend to the Southern farmer,
aud things go wrong, they shrink from
having trouble of auy kind with an
angry, unsuccessful Southerner. They do
not know what may come of it, but
they vaguely fear some unpleasantness. Every-
man born in any of the countries which now
send emigrants to the United States dreads a
region where, if some one should threaten to
kill hirh, the law will do nothing for his pro-
tection, and his neighbors will do nothing for
his protection, and he will leave his home every
morning fearing that he may meet his enemy
and return no more. The suppression by lav/
of the practice of shooting at sight, and the
stern punishment of uttering threats to kill,
and of carrying deadly weapons, would be
worth within the next fifteen years hundreds
of millions of money, and many hundreds of
thousands of white immigrants to the South-
ern States—would, in fact, effect a complete
transformation of the South from all points of
TAXES FROM SCHOOL LANDS FOR
SCHOOL PURPOSES.
The views of the commissioner of the Texas
State laud office on the problem of getting the
largest benefit in permanency from the school
lands for free education are given at some
length in another place. The News has here-
tofore casually examined the plan recommend-
ed by the commissioner and stated some rea-
sons for doubting its adequacy to the purpose.
The discussion, however, is by no means ex-
hausted. The subject is one of deep public in-
terest in many and various relations. The ar-
guments of the commissioner, if not conclusive,
contain matter at once instructive and of great
suggestive value. For example, a cue is given
for a train of very serious reflections by the
official testimony that the commissioner of the
State land office, after careful study of the
school-land system of Texas, both in itself and in
its relations to the general interests of the State,
has come to the conclusion—reluctantly it is
presumed—that the system 44 is wrong in prin-
ciple and worse in application." The News
has never said anything more disparaging to
the dominant Democratic statesmanship of
Texas than is implied in the above ueliberate-
ly submitted statement; though the
witness in this case is a high
Democratic functionary of the State.
Hon. riustav Schleicher, when opposed and
vexed by shallow and illiberal me ^ wither
party, took a sad ?ort of pleasur e in observing
that this country was immeasurably too big
for its statesmanship. And Mr. Schleicher
was no pess mist, given to somber exaggera-
tion. Facts were only too plentiful to sustain
an observation w nich was true then, and, it is
to be feared, is equally true now, of the Union
at large. No one can read with intelligent
candor the report of Commissioner Walsh
without being impressed with the melancholj7
conviction which it involves that Texas, as re-
gards the single problem of administering its
school lands for the promotion of free educa-
tion and for the general good of the Stato, to
say nothing of other problems of equally pro-
found importance, has been immeasurably too
big for its statesmanship. Seeing the enormous
rate at which the school lands have already
been squandered, the commissioner's anxiety
about husbanding the remainder may almost be
taken as another illustration of the proverbial
futility of strengthening and double-locking
the stable after the hoi'se is stolen.
There is a sufficient remnant of school lands
to make it worth while to consider how these
lands may be best administered so as to do
full justice to free education without detri-
ment to any of the State's collateral interests,
which a wise public policy would protect and
foster. Commissioner Walsh, in his zeal to
take care of both of these elements in the
complex problem, seems alternately to set one
before the other when one or the other must
be more or less sacrificed, according to his
plan, if precedence is given to either. His
plan is to lease the lands for a term of years,
on the theory that the rentals would be equal
to the interest of the proceeds of the lands if
they were sold, while the schools would come
in at length to realize all the profit incident to
holding many millions of acres from sale and
waiting for them to rise in value. This idea,
as far as it goes, savors of monopoly as well
as of speculation. On the other hand, how-
ever, the commissioner proposes to keep a
check upon the forces of private monopoly
by reserving the school-lands in such a manner
that the toiling masses would not be told by
the State in substance: 44 If you want homes
you must purchase from the capitalists to
whom I have sold," but in such a manner that
the State would retain the power to say to the
settler: u Here is a home on long and easy
terms." It is evident that this last idea can
not be carried out in systematic practice with-
out fatally restricting the execution of the
other idea that the lauds should be reserved in
a speculative spirit from absolute sale on any
terms, with the view to reaping for the
schools the ultimate benefit to be derived from
the sale of the lands, after they had largely
increased in value, for the highest prices they
would bring. Then it is to be remarked that
this benefit could be reaped but once. After
that the same trouble about a school revenue
iu interest /rom a stationary fund — no
matter how large — which must gradu-
ally sink into relative insignificance
with the growth of scholastic population,
would necessarily affect the school problem as
nuchas ever. As •Commissioner Walsh has
very pertinently reminded us, to raise the price
of the school lands now, or at any time in the
future, 44 does not change the question, but
simply postpones the final catastrophe." There
* ms to be a way, however, by which an
?;' solute sale may be made of the school lands,
wiiiIt* those lands would remain a source of
in easing income for the schools. At least
t- vriter of the following believes that he has
conceived such a way:
[To The News.l
San Angf.la. Tom Green county, Tex., December
13. 1882. 't is stated that the land commissioner of
Texas favors the withdrawal of the school lands
from sale.
The editorial of The News of the 9th instant
upon the subiect is admirable, but why not j?o a
little further, and say that as these school lands
have been appropriated for the benefit of the
schools they shall perpetually remain so. by caus-
ing: all taxes arising from taxation upon said lands
to be a yearly school fund, and be placed to the
credit of that fund, and not to the funds of the
State ? Then the mere price for which the lands
were sold in the first instance would be a matter of
indifference, for the sooner the lands were sold the
sooner the taxes would be realized. Thus our
university and our free schools would be endowed
with a perpetually increasing fund as the land be-
came more valuable, and our schools would become
perpetual. Henry Clay Burke.
According to the plan above briefly sketched,
the taxes on the lands, after passing into pri-
vate ownership, would serve as an annual in-
terest supplementary to the interest on the in-
vested school fund; but, unlike the latter, it
would be an interest constantly swelling in
rate and volume as the lands advanced in im-
provement and taxable value. Though the
plan may startle many persons by its novelty,
it is certainly worth pondering.
SHALL THE PARTY HAVE A POLICY
OR NOT?
The Boston Herald, in the following para-
graph, reveals its conviction that practical
politics is a farce so far as efficient public ser-
vice is concerned:
There can be no administration party here as
there is in England, where there is an administra-
tion with a policy. Instead of such an administra-
tion, in this country we have a president and cab-
inet all belonging to one party, and one wing of a
party, but with the most diverse ideas on real
issues. This may be the natural result of a state of
things where the main issue is how to reduce the
surplus revenue, and the end of political work is to
secure the offices.
If the object of political work and of politi-
cal parties as at present organized is to 44 se-
cure the offices," it seems plain that any
movement for the reform of administrative
machinery with a view to secure continuous
efficiency in its working, solely in the public
interest, must proceed from the general body
of the people, exercising such a pressure upon
parties that they and all their leaders shall be
obliged to act as ready servants of the public
will, and no longer as dictators and masters.
If the vices of politics can be cured in any
other way than by a decisive majority of
voters swinging loose from party attachments
in the historic sense, and holding their votes as
the means of procuring specific reforms, and,
as an agency to that end, electing men
of character on specific pledges,
that way has yet to be shown.
The case at present appears to
be plainly and truly stated by the Herald,
which simply states a conviction; in fact, an
observation which is general throughout the
country. Then reflection and political cour-
age are needed among the citizens, to teach
professional politicians the necessity of adopt-
ing different plans for gaining public support.
But anti-monopoly in politics is as necessary as
anti-monopoly in trade. If in any place there
be but one, or at most two, transportation
companies with a good understanding as to
terms of business, the public may grumble,
but will have to pay high. Competition being
inaugurated, the high price for transportation
goes down. Without independence in politics
there can be no expectation that politicians
will abate the evils of the spoils system. Until
the politicians of both parties perceive a deter-
mination to defeat, if necessary, first the one
party aud then the other, or to set up new par-
ties if the old ones prove intractable—in fact,
a determination to support parties as con-
venient agencies, not as hoary objects
of veneration—the politicians will continue
to play fantastic tricks and laugh in their
sleeves. The politicians will first become earn-
est when the people begin to laugh at the idea
of party fealty. No monarchy introduces re-
forms in the direction of constitutional govern-
ment till the people cease to reverence mon-
archy for its abuses. Our political leaders have
acted much in the spirit of ministers of a many-
headed political autocracy of alleged divine
right. It is doubtful whether recent lessons have
convinced Democratic politicians that the pedple
mean more than disgust with the Republican
party. If not, Democratic politicians will have
to learn better by experience. Their blindness
would be much regretted, for the monopolies
which control the industries as well as the prac-
tical politics of the country are growing in
power at a fearful rate, and the Democratic
party has a fair opportunity to lead the
country Into the ways of a safe, sure
and permanent prosperity by appealing to
simple justice and business methods. It has
doubtless the men in its ranks whose ambition
is that of pure patriots and whose thoughts are
those of enlightened statesmen. The anxious
question is, whether they will be able to rescue
the party from the claws of its political wolves
aud vampires. A Washington correspondent
of the Chicago Tribune claims to have inter-
viewed many Democratic congressmen. As
representative of a. prevailing opinion upon the
subject of the party's policy, he mentions the
view of a " prominent member from Arkansas "
who thinks that the party will not want to com-
mit itself on the tariff-for-revenue or protection
issue before the next presidential campaign. In
other words, it will want to lose nobody's vote
by espousing either side of that question. By
such a plan it may lose an indefinite number of
votes as a party thought by many to be with-
out practical purposes or stamina except
for office-seeking. If the Democratic par-
ty were to carry a presidential election
without being committed to auy principles on
the tariff, the question ''"or it would then be
whether to do anything by which it must dis-
appoint one sidu or the other, or to do nothing,
by which it would leave revenue reformers
feeling as much aggrieved as now and would
apparently demonstrate its incapacity for
effecting reforms. Action would involve
treachery; inaction continuous imbecility or
want of earnestness. The people would not be
satisfied merely to see a change in the person-
nel of the office-holders. It is even reported
that he Randall wing of the Democracy is
stronger than generally supposed, and that it
can not 1 defeated in .s purpose to make Mr.
Randall speaker unles- the opposition shall
unite and ' egIn at once an open and vigorous
contest which may fix Western and Southern
IX Jiocratic congressmen in the decision that
the party must not be led by Mr. Randall, so
that they shall feel the influence of opinion
from their respective districts. The issue is
already visibly important and grave. There
never has been a more serious emergency chal-
lenging the expression of decided convictions
V v all Democrats who believe that the party is
illed upon to accomplish reforms, and that its
-uccess and stability are dependent upon its sin-
cerity and earnestness.
THE LAND MONOPOLY PROBLEM.
The News is in receipt of the following let
ter on an interesting subject:
Laredo, Texas, December 16, 1882.—The article
in The News, of the 15th, headed A Land Monop-
oly Problem, taken in connection with the acquis'-
tion of land in Texas by aliens, or corporations
composed of aliens, raises the question as to what
rights are accorded citizens of the United States
by the laws of the nations to which such aliens
may beloner. By the laws of Texas aliens have
such rights in Texas as are accorded citizens of
the United States by the laws of the nation to
which such alien belongs. Unless aliens become
residents of Texas and declare their intention to
become citizens of the United States, they can not
acquire and hold real estate in Texas. How, then,
can English and Scotch syndicates purchase large
bodies of land when citizens of the United States
can not purchase and hold land by the laws of
England? Inquirer.
Article 10, Revised Statutes of Texas, reads
as follows:
Any alien who shall become a resident of this
State, and shall in conformity with the naturaliza-
tion laws of the United States, have declared his
intention to become a citizen of the Unit«d States,
shall have the right to acquire and hold real estate
in this State, in tee same manner as if he was a
citizens of the United States.
The condition of residence and of declared
intention to become a citizen is avoided by the
method now becoming so common—having a
land corporation nominally American, formed
and domiciled in Texas or some other State,
and leaving the bulk of its stock to be held as
an investment on account of foreign capital-
ists. As far as the evils of absentee landlord-
ism are concerned, it makes no practical im-
portance whether the non-resident monopolist
is an Englishman, Frenchman or German, or
a New Yorker, or New Englander.
COTTON CROP ESTIMATES.
The time has possibly been reached when a
reasonable approximation of the cotton yield
for 1882-83 may be arrived at. The price
which the staple now commands in the mar-
kets of the world is evidently the result of an
undue appreciation of the world's production.
Estimates made during the past three months
he ve pointed to an American crop of 7,000,-
000 bales and upward. Such assumptions have
been used, as they always are, to depreciate
the value of the staple. Speculation on. either
side of the question being equal, cotton has al-
ways the worst of it in the face of bare as-
sumptions Producers are a small factor in
the scale of prices compared with manufac-
turers and consumers, and. with the specula-
tive interest no more than equal, it can readily
be seen why the price of cotton should suffer
in a contest turning upon the statistical posi-
tion. The bulk of the crop has usually been
marketed before the real situation is known,
consequently only a very few are benefited
by an appreciation in prices toward the end of
any given year, supposing that a mistake has
been made regarding heavy production. A
realization of a lessened crop does not
count in favor of the producer when
the most of the st6ck his passed into
manufacturers' and speculators' hands on
a long crop basis of prices. There is no
apparent remedy for this constantly occurring
situation outside of a full corn-crib and smoke-
house. In discussing the probable outturn of
the year's cotton crop, The News will not say
that there has not been some basis in fact for
the large estimates indulged in. The fall and
winter thus far have been so favorable for
maturing and gathering the crop that the late
start it had has been overcome and lost sight
of. Texas will improve upon last year's crop,
perhaps, by not less than 500,000 bales. Ar-
kansas and Texas together may add 700,000
bales to the crop compared with last year. In
assuming this much, however, some points
must be taken into calculation. The price of
cotton "being low is against clean picking and
saving; a great deal of cotton will be allowed
to goto waste. The crop of last year-did not
exceed 5,200,000 bales, the overplus from that
figure appearing in the account being cotton
grown the year previous. At the opening of
this season there was no old cotton to go for-
ward. The failure in the two States of Texas
and Arkansas made the great deficit in last
year's crop compared with the year preceding.
Allowing 700,000 bales increase this year as
the maximum from the two States named
would give a crop of 5,900,000 bales.
The States east of the Mississippi river
have made good crops, but in some
of the largest cotton producers the
acreage compared with the year previous is
considerably less. This is notably the case in
Georgia, Mississippi aud Louisiana. If the
States east of the Mississippi yield 350,000 bales
more than they did last year, a crop of 6,250,-
000 bales would be the result, allowing Texas
and Arkansas to bring up the additional 700,000
bales. The excess in receipts at the ports thus
far this season is not much more than 200,000
bales, and while the sudden drop that occurred
later along last year in port receipts is not at
all likely to be repeated this season, the excess
up to this time shown points to a crop of far
less than 7,000,000 bales. The estimates of the
yield have been much too great, and prices
have doubtless suffered therefrom. The
News appends the estimates of certain cotton
authorities. Bradstreet's, which was very
correct last year, gives the following figures,
which are the results of adding the estimates
of its correspondents for their respective
counties on the basis of a close knowledge of
the county's acreage. The existing probabili-
ties, as conveyed by Bradstreet's correspond-
ents, are set forth in the following table, which
shows the probable cotton crop of 1882-83, as
compared with the crop of 18S:)-81:
1382. 1880.
North Carolina 434,000 449,000
South Carolina 613,000 602,000
Georgia 845.000 92*,000
Florida 59,000 »K),000
Alabama 765.000 734.000
Mississippi. 978,000 1,011,0<»0
Louisiana 475,000 512,0;>0
Texas 1,311.000 1.151.000
Arkansas 049,000 682.000
Tennessee . 305,000 S8d,000
Virginia )
Missouri V 54,000 56,000
Indian Territory.. )
Total 6,488,000 6,606,000
Latham, Alexander & Co.'s cotton crop re-
port, embracing 2133 letters from 481 counties,
which produce nine-tenths of the crop, fixes
the estimate of the total crop at 6,307,186 bales.
This Ann last season reached a very accurate
estimate of the yield. The agricultural depart-
ment report for December makes an aggregate
approximation of the year's crop, placing the fig-
ure at 6,700,000 bales, but this department re-
port has been heretofore less satisfactory and
wider of the mark than any other sup-
posed authority, excepting the New-
York Financial Chronicle. An advance
in the price of cotton would of course
tend to encourage assiduous gathering
from now on, which a falling market will
not. Labor and the expense of marketing are
high, and many bales will go to waste on this
account. An outturn of 6,250,000 bales is likely
to be reached, The News believing that La-
tbam, Alexander & Co.'s estimate of 6,367,186
bales approximates closely the maximum cot-
ton production of the year 1882-S3.
STATS PRESS.
What the Interior Papers Say-
That 44 wild bunt after office " that disgusted
a prominent statesman half a century ago,
is still kept up with the persistency of sleuth
hounds. The Seguin Times tells how the gov-
ernor-elect is being run to earth:
Our postmaster informs us that applicants for
office are so ravenous and persistent that thev are
now sending registered letters to Judge Ireland.
The judge has to sign a card receipting tor each
letter, aud the card is returned to the sender, who
knows then that his letter has bet n received. The
San Antonio Times talks about the auspicious out-
look for Ireland -rs governor. It is ort, badly off
We estimate roughly that he has about two dozen
offices to make appointments to, and for each one
10j applicants. This makes him 2376 enemies (the
disappointed ones) to start in on, and if this is an
auspicious beginning we don't want any *• auspish "
in ours.
Ethical writers recognize such a phenome-
non a3 moral insanity, as distinguished from
mental unsoundness. And the law goes so far
as to recognize and deal gently v» ith what is
known as homicidal insanity, though it did
not do so in Guiteau's case. The worst mur-
derers, those who, like tigers, kill merely for
the pleasure of killing, and who have no con-
science or remorse, are nearest the point of
moral insanity, although sensible enough in
other respects. The Kaufman Sun speaks as
follows of an instinctive murderess in that
county, and the prospect of punishing her:
It is generally believed that the negro woman
who has been confined in jail in Kaufman since
early in the summer for the murder of a two-year-
old negro boy at Forney, and who has, since her
contlnement, given birth to a child, which she
killed by breaking its skull, will not hang, but be
sent to the penitentiary for a number of years.
Many believe her insane and not responsible for
her acts, and, wli'le she is not crazy enough to send
to the asylum and too unsafe to turn loose, tliey
believe she should be imprisoned. This may be
the best and most humane, but, of all demons ever
wrapped up in human flesh. she is the worst, and
would cor ?nil any crime should she get the oppor-
tunity We believe her perfectly sane, and that
she sno'dd be punished.
The oan Antonio Express calls attention to
the fact that it has not given Governor Ireland
a single wori of advice, but it admits that 44 ii
has required a great deal of self-sacrifice for
the Express to refrain, and has made ft appear
as an eccentric journal, but it ha^. kept in so
far." Tue Express is u<- equally abstemious
in regard to Galveston, but unites with uthar
papers of interior towns in telling how the af-
fairs of this city should be conducted. Charity
should begin at home. Many papers bestow a
good deal more attention on Galveston than on
their own local interests. The Press asaocia
tion should appoint a new fugleman—some one
to furnish a large number of papers with a
new idea once iu s x months. There is too
much monotony in what they say at present ;
and, besides, some of them are indebted to The
News for local items concerning their own
towns and counties, while they endeavor to
balance accounts by devoting their att 'ntiou
principally to Galveston.
The Lavaca Herald and Planter has thought-
ful editorials on two important subjects for
State legislation—the necessity for much
larger accommodations for lunatics and the
importance of schools of reform for vicious
youths. On the first of these topics there is
no room for a difference of opinion. On the
latter the Herald and Planter says:
The legislature of Texas at one time passed a bill
for the establishment of reformatories or " houses
of rescue " for criminal youths, which, however,
was so ridiculously absurd in its grants of power
over the natural rights of the citizen that even
Governor Roberts, anxious as he has always been
to provide some plan whereby the incarceration of
children in the penitentiary might be avoided, was
compelled to place his veto upon it. From the
very beginning of his gubernatorial life he has
made manifest to the people that he did not con-
sider the penitentiary, with all its soul-hardening
and crime-teaching capacity, a proper place for
the youth who had pjraed, and for whom there
perhaps was a fut^e of repentance and honorable
life. He has invar »bly pardoned convicts under the
age of eighteen /ears when any reasonable excuse
for executivej^femency was made known to him.
The peoplejtf our State have not blamed him for
this, nor djf they now blame him. They know that
altbougb/m all human probability numbers of
these p.ufdoned youths, forgetful of executive iner-
<
I
cy, will return to lives of crime, yet the peniten-
tiary was not the place for them—that so large, so
great and so rich a State as Texas owed it to her-
self and to her people to provide places where
youths as yet not hardened in crime might be edu-
cated in the ways of virtue and have one more
chance for an honorable career among their fellow-
citizens. Next year Roberts, the kindly old alcalde,
goes out of office, and Ireland, a man whose char-
acteristic strength lies in doing the absolute right
and the impartial justice without reference to mer-
cy, comes into power. Will Ireland continue to
pardon as his predecessor has done? Or will he. be-
lieving, as we know he does, that crime must be
punished, permit the sentence of the juries to be
carried out, and exact from the criminal youth the
last penny of his debt before he is permitted to
come out? Whose, then, will be the sin of forever
destroying the last glimpse of hope in the lives of
children who have, perhaps, fallen but once into
acts of crime? Roberts has warned us to
build reformatories, and we have not heed-
ed. The press of the whole State has dis-
cussed the subject, and, without a dissenting voice,
advocated the lame measure. The enlightened
prblic sentiment of the good people of the whole
Sta'e has indorsed the opinion of the press. What
will the legislature do about it? Other States pos-
sess these instii'itions and laws by which yo -ths
are sentenced to be confined therein: and if we
mistake not. the experience of many years has
exhibited plainly the wisdom of those who founded
th r.> and legislated for them. If the new legisla-
ture desires to make itself memorable iri all future
time and earn the tifle of " truly patriotic," it will
consider this matter and make for us such laws as
will render practicable the punishment of crime in
children ai d at the same time so regulate their
daily lif«> b labor, by schooling, and by every
other •• • !••*. that the child who has sinned may
yet be able to see the face of the Heavenly Father
forgi i tig and blessing him—not in outraged Neme-
sis tracking his footsteps to inflict vengeance for
his sin.
Although the San Antonio Express alleges
that it has not given Governor Ireland any ad-
vice, it nevertheless feels constrained to say:
The incoming State administration, if it wants
to make a popular move to commence with,
should at once make an effort to stop the sacrifice
of the school lands and promptly put a foot down
upon the stilt further and more inexcusable sacri-
fice of what is saved from the first sacrifice, of pay-
ing 40 per cent premium for State bonds to make
an investment. The next legislature is pledged by
the Stai Democratic Convention to submit a con-
stitutional amendment to the people authorizing
the levy and collection of a special school tax,
separate from the general revenues, and with it
should be submitted another amendment
giving greater • latitude in the matter of
the investment of our school funds; and until
that amendment shall be acted upon, the money
on hand should be locked up. Better have the
fund lie idle a year than invest it at such a ruinous
sacrifice as has been the custom the past two years.
It is robbery of future generations of school child-
ren for a benefit to the present that is a mere drop
in the bucket. In an}* State but Texas, this school
fund investment would have called forth the
closest scrutiny and inquiry as to the manner in
which State bonds were pressed up to a 40 per cent,
premium, and the one transaction showing such
utter lack of financiering skill would have con-
demned the whole administration.
Who has traduced Senator Coke, to give rise
to this bitter denunciation from the Fort
Worth Gazette?
Senator Coke will probably survive the ma. g-
nant assaults of slander, vituperation and false-
hood, and leave a record that will metaphorically
burn the souls of his lying traducers and i ranky
maligners. His defamers can do him no harm in
Texas.
The McKinney Citizen says:
Abuse oftentimes works much good. When the
Citizen first made its appearance it was branded
as a 44 Rutabaga " organ, a little one-horse concern,
a sickly infant. In fact, it was thought by some to
be such a measly specimen of newspaperdom ihat
it could not live mail the election was over. But
here it is yet, at the end of six months, as fat and
sleek, healthy looking youngster as ever smiled
upon 450 admirers in Collin county, and the ad-
mirers continue to increase in numbers as time
rolls on.
The Brazoria Independent discounts the story
that the republic of Mexico was going to lay
claim to Galveston island, as follows:
The Independent is in possession of some facts
that have not, as yet, even been noticed by the
Galveston papers. When Texas belonged to Mex-
ico, that grasping monopoly, the Galveston Wharf
company, had a charter granted them bv the City
of Mexico and when Texas was declared an inde-
pendent republic this wharf company had its char-
ter reissued at the Texas capital, and when Texas
was admitted as a Federal State this wharf com-
pany was granted the full use of the bay and all
the privileges of a wharf company. The govern-
ment has no control whatever over Galveston bay,
and yet she is bound to protect this wharf com-
pany. while the company can prevent any naval
vessel from entering the bay if she so desires.
The Independent is right in one of these
statements: The facts it 14 is in possession of
have not as yet been noticed by the Galveston
papers;" and for the simple reason that, like
the Independent's law excluding United States
vessels from Galveston bay, they have no ex-
istence. The Wharf company was first char-
tered by the State of Texas, and enjoys no
such sovereign power as is imputed to it. The
Independent has probably heard something of
the title to the land on which this city is built,
and builds its story upon this supposed founda-
tion. The City of Mexico never granted any
such charter, nor did the government of the
United States grant the Wharf company or the
city of Galveston any special privilege when
Texas became a State of the Union.
The Henderson Times issues this new declara-
tion of independence. It beats that written
by Thomas Jefferson and the apochryphal
Mecklenburg paper:
Before we will smother up our manhood, pander
to the whims of those who, like the mile-board,
always pointing the right way but never pursuing
it. we will actually lay down our pencil, slide off of
the tripod, shuffle off our editorial mantle, and seek
a position as reporter in a first-class potato patch.
The Waxahachie Mirror defends the right to
solicit office. It is doubtless the right of every
citizen, as well as the right to beg for any-
thing else.
A wicked skeptic once said that when the
lion and the lamb lie down together the lamb
will be inside. It is not so with Texas journal"
ists and pigS. The Floresville Chronicle, quot
ing the high price of pork, says:
The chances for an attenuated pencil-pusher to
get outside of much hog this winter are aepressing-
ly few and small.
Think of the philosophic fox with the h>"gh-
JS;--
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(Saexseori te A. TOOJELKK * CO.> Baltimore, Hd., C. 5». A.
it) ocr friends aud path.
The dealh of oar senior, ATr. Samuel
jfacobs, will not interfere with our busi-
ness, which will continue to be conducted
■with undiminished capital, under our old
firm name of
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Gir.s anc, Boys.
New subscribers to St.
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beginning w h this
Chruuii-is number, <-aa
have Nov.nr.oei FRXK,
i-.:id thus begin the seriil
stories by J. T. Trow-
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WCNBEKFUTi
CHRISTMAS
NUMBER
suicaoLis.
The r>ecembrr or
Christmas num-
ber of this fa-
mous yonn£ folks
magazine js the
r.cst brilliant
•issue of the year.
It is a richly .lius-
tratr.d Chi;sUnas
b«ok,W!th stories
by Louisa M. A!«
cott, Frank R.
Stockton, and
niaBv other fa-
I nious writers;
— a frontispiece
printed in ccl-
crs, etc., ^.tc.
It ihould be in
_ ^ everv boy and
piri's s t c c k i n g
Christmas mcrniap;
it cssts only 25 ants.
To bf had of alidep.lers,
or ly mail from the publishers.
hanging grapes. Moses was right in condemn-
ing the hog as an article of food. It is neither
cleanly nor healthy. The sons of Ham seem to
have got away with the whole animal in Texas
since the war.
The Chronicle says:
We are sure that the vefy small number of
crimes and misdemeanors on the docket at the re-
cent term of our District Court is attributnble to
the fact that local option prevails in our county,
aud is faithfully enforced by the officers of the
law.
The Waxahachie Mirror says:
The venerable Jo A. Kirgan, who has lived in
nearly every town in Texas, will be a candidate
for doorkeeper of the next House of Representa-
tives.
Probably the votes will say "not for Joe."
All his long life He has
Felt the influence of malignant star.
And waged with fortune an eternal war.
Editors, like such kings as Solomon and Lear,
are liable to trouble and despondency in their
old age. The McKinney Enquirer says:
For about fifteen years we have "sweltered" in
summer and played "freeze-out" during the win-
ter In our old shanty. V7e are now g- tting old:
warm, youthful blood no longer courses through
our veins—our old bones shiver, acne when the
chilly blasts come the "near way.' and s r:i s
full on our empty bread-basket: and, to add to tl:-*
horror of the calamitous situation, the subscriber
who promised to pay his subscription in wood ut-
terly ignores his contract, but sitteth afar off on
l.N v agon, wiggleshis fingers to us and says he will
see us later, possibly in August next.
The San Antonio Times has discovered a way
that will, if adopted, send the old alcalde's
cash balance glimmering above the kite that
stopped Beecher's book. It is to reopen (or
rather to widen, for it has always beeu kept
ajar) the door for old claims against the gov-
ernment of Texas since and even before its ex-
istence. The legislature at its last session did
something of the kind, and now the Times
wants to pay citizens for frontier service be-
fore the civil war aud claims originating dur-
ing the war and barred by the present consti-
tution and the reconstruction laws of the
United States. The Times says:
Even those debts for services during the late
war, when such services had no connection with
the civil or military service of the Confederate
States, ought to be paid notwithstanding they have
heen declared invalid We trust that our next
legislature will take some action with regard to
these claims, and make some provision for the
payment of such of them as they may believe to
be just. We sneak of this becanse we understand
that petitions will likely come before the two
houses asking for some action with regard to the
same.
The Departing- Comet*
Professor John K. Rees has read a paper on
the comet of 1883 before the New York Acade-
my of Sciences, in which he said it should be
termed Gould's comet, since Professor B. A.
Gould, of Cordova, was the first to see it. He
read extracts from letters from Professor
Young, of Princeton; from the director of the
Dudley observatory, in Albany; from the di-
rector of the National observatory; and from
Messrs. Chandler and Wendell, of Cambridge,
Mass.; and ho concurred with Mr. Chandler in
combatting Professor Proctor's theory, that the
comets of lS4o, lb80 and 1882 are identical, and
that the comet now vanishing from view
will return within six months. According
to Mr, Chandler's computations, which are
based on all the observations thus far made
at several points, the comet of 1882 will re-
turn in less than four thousand years. The
comet as seen from the cape of Good Hope,
transited on the 17th of September last, and at
the instanco of it entering the atmosphere
of our sun it was 1,600,000 miles from the
surface of the sun. The comet's tail, which
was only 100,000 miles long when first seen,
has since lengthened to millions of miles,
and as this vast body crossed the sun's disk
in two hours, the enormous velocity with
which it travels may be conjectured. As its
light was visible until it touched the edge
of the sun's disk, the inference is that the light
is not borrowed from the 3un, but that it is the
comet's own incandescence.
Touching upon other celestial visitors, the
lecturer said that the comet of 1S43 approached
within 500 000 miles of the center of the sun,
or within 70,000 miles of the sun's circumfer-
ence, and that it must yet plunge into the sun
and be absorbed. The lecturer threw upon
the screen representations of a number of
comets, and then a star shower, such as is seen
once in every thirty-three years, and the next
of which will be seeu when the earth passes
the track of a star shower in 1S99. These
shooting stars are meteors from disintegrated
comets, and the aerolites that fall to the earth
come to us from interstellar space. In con-
clusion, the lecturer said that all the suns of
the universe have comets circulating about
them, and that the universe is as full of comets
as the sea is of fishes.
The duel announced to take place between
Louis de Cassagnac and another officer is to be
marked by a novel feature. The principals
are to fight with cavalry sabres and on horse-
back. The chances are that one, perhaps both,
of the combatants will be hurt by being thrown
from his horse.
Hon. Daniel w. voorhees, United States
senator from Indiana, says: I consider St.
Jacobs Oil a splendid remedy. I suffered
from rheumatism of the back. I used St.
J acobs Oil, which gave me instantaneous re-
lief, and finally cured me completely.
It is now the fashionable time of the year
for young ladies to trot out a lot of cheap Sixth
avenue trinkets and palm them off on visitors
as souvenirs of a recent trip to Europe, togeth-
er with romantic stories of climbing the Mat-
ter horn and sailing over Lake Como at moon-
light. [Puck.
Malarial Fever, Ague and Biliousnctss will
leave every neighborhood as soon as Hop Bit-
ters arrive.
SPECIAL NOTICES.
Get the Genuine Article.-The great
popularity of Wilbor's Compound of Cod-Liver
Oil and Lime has induced some unprincipled per-
sons to attempt to palm off a simple article of tneir
own manufacture; but any person who is suffering
from Coughs, Colds or Consumption, should be
careful where they purchase this article-. It re-
quires no puffing. The results of its use are its
best recommendations: and the proprietor has
ample evidence on file of its extraordinary success
in pulmonary complaints. The Phosphate of Lime
possesses a most marvelous healing power, as com-
bined with the pure Cod Liver Oil oy Dr. Wilbor.
It is prescribed bj' the medical faculty. Sold by
A. b. Wilbor, Chemist, Boston, and all druggists
AUCTION SALES^
AUCTION SALE.
TTE WILL SELL THIS DAY, AT 10 A. M.,
TV
47 SacKS FLOUR, 6 Crates HAMS, 11 Barrels
OOBNMEAL, 100 Kegs RUSSIAN SARDELLES,
aud SUNDRY GROCERIES; 72 CHAIRS, 300 Yards
COCOA MATTING, and Miscellaneous FURNI-
TURE; 1 Good SADDLE PONY, 1 DRAY HORSE.
LYNCH & PENLAND.
Auction Sale of Shoes
"VTTE WILL SELL ON WEDNESDAY, 20th inst.,
V V at our sales room. Strand, at 10 a. m:
490 cases
Boots & Shoes
comprising an excellent assortment of seasonable
goods direct from »r,anufaciurers, and especiailv-
adapted to the retail trade.
auction sale
WE WILL SELL ON
TUESDAY, December 19, at 121.1,
JLt the Yards of SCessrs. George E.
Dobson St Co., Corner Water
and 20ih Sts., in this city,
t or account of whom it may concern, about
1200 Bales of Cotton,
As landed from British steamship Ardancorrach.
Terms: Cash on ^Delivery.
J. MOLLER & CO.,
Agents for ship aud owners.
1A"NCII & PENLAND.
Auction eers.
The Century Co. New-York, N. Y.
TEXAS BRANCH
NEW ORLEANS
Cotton Seed Ass'n.
HIGHEST MARKET PRICE PAID FOR
cotton seed.
sacks and twine furnished.
For turther information adJre-s
G. C. STREET, A^ent,
houston texas.
NEW ORLEANS, August 26, 1FS1.
MR. G. C. STREET is our oniy authorized A^tnt
in Texas.
NEW ORLEANS COTTON SEED ASS'N.
BIDS IjN~VITJED
for the
FOLLOWING WORK
To be I>one3 and KTaterisl to bo
Furnished to the Gorman Ship
Julias, vi^s
unrigging and rigging up, as far as
NECESSARY. including ^ ll labor; black-
SMITH WORK;
m aking new and repairing old sails;
! l rinibhing material for satls and rig-
ging.
All as per specifications of survey in our office,
and work to te done under supervision of master.
Bids to be ready wednesday, 20th instant,
at 12 M.
The right is reserved to reject any or all bids.
KAUFFMAN & RUNGE,
-Agents of Underwriters-
mice to comes.
PROPOSALS WILL BE RECEIVED FOR THE
building of eight (8) cottages, two (2) rows of
barracks and the northeast wing of a hotel, to be
built at Lampasas Texas, for the Lampasas Springs
Company. The piuns and specifications of the va-
rious buildings can be seen at the office of Eugene
T. Heiner, architect. Fox building, Houston. Texas
until the SECOND DAY OF JANUARY, 1*83, and
after that time until the 8TH DAY OF JANUARY
at the office of Walter Acker, at Lampasas, Texas.
All bids must be left with the architect at Hous-
ton by or before 12 o'clock,
Thursday, January XI, 1883.
Separate bids will be received for the cottages
barracks and hotel and for all of the work com-
bined.
The right is reserved to reject any or all pro-
posals. GEO. L. PORTER, President,
Lampasas Springs Company.
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RADWAY'S PILLS for the euro of all disorders
of the Stomach, Liver. Bowels, Kidneys. Bladder.
Nervous Diseases, Headache, Constipation. Cos-
tiveness, Indigestiorf, Dvspepsia, Biliousness, Fever,
Inflammation of the bowels. Piles, and all de-
rangements ot the Internal Viscera. Purely vege-
table, containing no mercury, minerals or delete-
rious druvs.
Observe the following symptoms resulting
from Diseases of the Digestive Organs; Constipa-
tion, Inward Piles. Fiillness of the Blood in the
Head. Ac'dity the Stomach. Nausea. Heartburn,
Disgust of Food. Fullness or Weight in the Stomach,
Sour Eructations, Su:king or Muttering at tho
Heart, Choking or Suffocating Sensation when iu a
lying posture. Dimness of Vision. I> .ts or Webs to-
fore trie Sit:-it. Fever and Dull Pain i.t the Head,
Deficiency ' Perspira" ion, Y* '.owness of the Skin
;\nd Eyes, lain in t; Side, C! it. Limbs, and Sud-
den Flushes of Heat. Burning iu the Flesh.
. f d'»s- s of RAf-WAY'S FliiLF «vill free the
system of ail the above named disorders.
Price, 2d Cents Iter hoz.
SOLD BY DRUGGISTS.
READ " FAISH AK9 TRUE."
Send a letter stamp to &L CO.,
o. 32 Warren Street, N^w ITork*
ksT* Information worth thousands will bo sent
to you.
TO THEPUBLIC.
There can be no b#*tt<>r guarantee of the value of
Dr. Hap way's old established R. r. r. Remedies than
the base and worthless imitations of them, as there
are False Resolvents, Reliefs and Pills. Be sure
and ask for Radway's, and see tliat the name
" Rad way " is on what you buy.
SR. RAO WAY'S
DipimuT ii BO
The Great 15!nod Purifier.
FOR THE CURE OF CHRONIC DISEASE.
Scrofula or Syphilitic, Hereditary
or Contagious.
■WHETHER SEATED IN THE
Lungs, Stomacli, Skin, Bones, Flesh
or Nerves,
CORRUPTING THE SOLIPS AND VITIATING
THE FLUIDS.
Chronic Rheumatism, Scrofula, Glandular Swell-
ing. Hacking Dry Cough, Cancerous Affections,
Syphilitic Complaints. Bleeding of the Lungs, Dys-
pepsia. Water Brash, Tic Poloreaux, White Swell-
ings, Tumors, Ulcers, Skin and Hip Diseases, Mer-
curial Diseases, Female Complaints, Gout, Dropsy.
Salt Rheum, Bronchitis, Consumption,
LIVEH COrJIPLjTLXSr-TS, Etc.
Not only does the Sarsaparillian Resolvent excel
all remedial agents in the cure of Chronic Scrofu-
lous, Constitutional and Skin Diseases, but it is the
only positive cure for
Kidney and Bladder Complaints.
Urinary and Womb Diseases, Gravel. Diabetes,
Dropsy, Stoppage of Water, Incontinence of Urine,
Bright's Disease, Albuminuria, and in all cases
where are brick-dust deposits, or the water is thick,
cloudy, or mixed with substances like the white of
an egg, or threads like white silk, or there is amor-
bid, dark, bilious appearance and white bone-dust
deposits, and where there is a pricking, burning
sensation when passing water, and pain in the"
small of the back and along the loins.
SOXjd bit druggists.
One bottle contains more of the active principles
of medicine than any other preparation. Taken in
Teaspoonful Doses, while others require five or six
times as much. One Dollar Per Bottle.
The Cheapest and Best Medicine for
Family Use in the World.
In from one to twenty minutes never fails to re-
lieve PAIN with one thorough application. No
matter how violent or excruciating the pain, the
RHEUMATIC. Bed-ridden. Infirm, Crippled, Ner-
vous, Neuralgic, or prostrated with disease may
suffer, Radway's Ready Relief will afford
instant ease.
Inflammation of the Kidneys. Inflammation of
the Bladder, Inflammation of the Bowels. Conges-
tion of the Lungs, Sore Throat, Difficult Breathing,
Palpitation of the Heart, Hysterics, Croup. Diph-
theria, Catarrh, Influenza. Headache, Toothache,
Neuralgia, Rheumatism, Chills. Ague Chills. Ner-
vousness, Sleeplessness, Bruises, Coughs, Colds,
Sprains. Pains in the Chest, Back or Limbs, are in-
stantly relieved.
MALARIA IN ITS VARIOUS FORMS
FEVER AND AGUE.
There is not a remedial agent in the world that
will cure Fever and Ague, and all other Malarious,
Billious, Scarlet, Typhoid, Yellow and other fevers
(aided by Radway's Pills) so quick as Radway's
Ready relief.
It will in a few moments, when taken according
to directions, cure Cramp*. Spasms, Sour Stomach,
Heartburn, Sick Headache, Summer Com*
plaints, Diarrhae, Dysentery, Colic, Wind in the
Bowels, and all Infernal Pains.
Travelers should alwavs carry a bottle of Rad-
way's Ready Relief with them. A few drops In
water will prevent sickness or pains from change
of water. It is better than French brandy or bit-
ters as a stimulant.
TK2 TRUE RELIEF.
Radway's Ready Relief is the only remedial
agent in vogue that will instantly stop paiu.
Fifty Cents Per Bottle.
NOTICES.
To Whom it May Concern.
THE UNDERSIGNED HAS BEEN APPOINTED
administrator of the estate of Jose de Sol&rza-
no. deceased, All parties having claims against
said party will present their claims within the time
prescribed by law. A. M. BRUNI,
Administrator.
Laredo, Webb county, Texas, December 4, 1682.
]N otice.
All orders or ceuiplaints, to
receive prompt attention, should be left at
the office of the Company, in the Brick Building, on
Itlarket Streets Between 24th and 25tli
Street*,
Between the hours of » and 12 o'clock a. m.
aug. bittlar, Secretary.
notice
COTTON EXCHANGE BONDHOLDERS.
Notice is hereby given that all outstanding bonds
of the GALVESTON COTTON EXCHANGE are
called in for payment, and will be redeemed at the
office of Boll, Hutchings & Co., on TUESDAY,
JANUARY 2, 1883, and tbkt said bonds will bear
no interest after that date. W. L. MOODY,
President Galveston Cotton Exchange.
Official: A. G. Mills, Secretary.
Ml AGENCY,
E. G. DUN & CO., Prop'rs.
ROBERT S.flftTII,
District Manager, Galveston, Texas.
Reference books issued quarterly, compile!
from the most reliable information. Collection of
past due claims a specially. For terms of sub-
scription apply at our offices in Galveston. Hous-
ton, Dalian, ban Antonio. Fori Worth nl Waco.
mot gas ci).
THE ANNUAL MEETING of TKE STOCK-
holders will be held at the office of the Com-
pany,
AT 11 O'CLOCK A. M.,
On the 21st Pay of Dec nber, 1602,
for the election of Directors for the ensuing year,
and transaction of other business which may be
laid before them. AUG. BUTTLAR, SecV-
Texas go-Dpgrativa teiaiisn
P. "of IX.
CHARTERED JULY 5, ISTS.
Capital StocI;, §100,000.
Organized for tlie purpose of traueact-
in;* a General Purcliu»iug, Pactor»'
and < o!uci'.»>iuu Wuslnes*.
Special attention given to the filling of eider
and to the $-\le of Cotton, Grain, WvoL Hides, E-c.
Correspond a ice, orders &ud consignment* solicited!
P O. BOX 416. S. ROGERS,
Busine&s. Manage cor. Strand ana Twentieth.
the great sauce
OF THE WORLD.
Irapirta the most delicious taste and 2egtto
EXTRACT
Of a LETTER from
a MEDICAL GEN-
TLEMAN at Mad-
ras, to his brother
at WORCESTER,
May, 1351.
"Tell LEA <tPER-
RIN3 that their
sauce la hlghlv es-j
teemed in India,
and is in my opin-
ion. tlio most pala-
table, as well as the
most wholesome
sauce that la made."
SOUPS,
GRAVIES,
FISH,
HOT & CO LB
M51ATS,
GAME, Sc Cm
c£ea>'c&&
• 5
Signature is on every bottle of GENUINE
WORCESTERSHIRE SAUCE.
Sold and used throughout the world.
JOHN DUNCANS SONS,
AGENTS FOR THE UNITED STATES.
NEW YORK.
JERSEY AND HGLSTEIN CATTLE,
Imported, Registered and Pure Bred,
For sale at my Jersey herd farm, five miles west of
Galveston, on the bay shore. 1 have no grades in
my Jersey herd. Both herds are headed bv regis
tered males. The finest milk and butter strains in
America are represented In my herds. Terms rea-
sonable. P. N. HARRIS. P. O. Box 434, Galveston,
Texas.
brid6eford & go.
. MANUFACTURERS OF
[ores and Tin-Ware
i3ip0eteks and wholesale dealers in
raware, i in-im, ,
dinners* Supplies,
riniey Plows, Stunsbaker Wagons,
Nos. <7, 79, 81, 83 and 85 Treniont Street, ami Nos. <0, HG
and )1S Jiechaiiic Street,
lightning#
h ifIPP
Adjustable to
bore from 7
to 19 1-2
inches in
diame- f Smaller
ter. A size f'er free
Sns mail can bore 200 holes a day, in
any kind of soil, we! cr dry. Very clrsrg
and durable. Order from yc*.p mer-
fcfiant or send money to us.
Price eac'3.
t5Es^ SSfj
,:#x 41
4/ plant.r.i;. larger, w^th
extension handle, tV isiegrapl?
construction.
curtis & co. 88fg.c
® Sole Manufacturers, ST. LOU!S, 5U!
wm:.
B
We beg to call the trade's attention to the im-
portant 'fact of having' purchased largely during
the summer of such goods as were lowest in price
and adapted to the requirements of merchants
during the months of January and February ior
agricultural purposes, whereby we placed our-
selves in a position to successfully compete with
distant markets for interior patronage, and can
conscientiously promise prompt shipments.
j. s. brown & co.,
Wholesale Hardware merchants,
Strand, Galveston, Texas.
C. A. KEATING,
Dallas,
Resident Partner.
GEO. J.KEATING,
Kansas City.
Special Partner.
C. _A_. KEATING,
Wholesale Agricultural Implements,
GIISTS AND MILL MACHINERY,
State Asent for FURST & BRADLEY M'F'G CO. Plows. CultiTators and Sulky Rakes. ERIE CITY
IRONWORKS Engines, Boilers and Saw Mills. JI- CASE, steajn and Horse-Power Threshing Ma-
chinery OHIO STEEL BARB FENCE CO. FISH BROTHERS Farm and Spring V, agons. RICHMOND ,
CHAMPION GRAIN DRILL. dallas, texas.
P. y. WILLIS & BRO.,
COTTON FACTORS,
Importers and Wholesale Dealers in
Groceries, Dry Goods,
Boots, Shoes Hats Cats and Notions.
GALVESTON, TEXAS.
SARGENT & 8TEIRER.
CHAIN AHB PSOSUCE COMMISSION KEHCHiKTS,
Agents for the Southwest and Mexico for
IHOSIiSR BAEMANN & CO.'S Fire and Burglar Proof Vaults, Soors and
171 STRAND
GALVESTON1.
BUSINESS CHANGES.
T"~b3titrm of moore, stratton & co.
is this day dissolved by mutual consent.
w. w. moore,
w. h. stratton,
f. a. park.
james moore,
a. d. storey,
S*ovemb«i*l, 188S.
Referring to the above, the under-
sipned have this day formed a copartnership
under the firm name and style of
mensing, stratton & co..
for the purpose of continuing the
wholesale grocery business
of the late firm of Moore, Stratton & Co., and the
Cotton Factorage and Genrral Commission busi-
ness of G. H. Mensing £ Bro.. the new firm assum-
ing the liabilities asd receiving the assets of the
late firm of Moore, Stratton 4 Co., and respect-
fully solicit a continuance of the patronage be-
stowed upon the late firms. q ^ ME^SIng,
W. E. MENSING.
W. H STRATTON,
JAMES MOORE.
November 1, 1882.
MEN&1NG, STRATTON & CO.
SUCCESSORS TO SUCCESSORS TO
MRE,S1MTTQMG0. G.H.MEMG&BRO.
WHOLESALE
grocers
And Importers,
COTTON FACTORS
General Commission Merchants,
Corner Strand and 2:.'d Streets.
DISSOLUTION.
rpHE COPARTNERSHIP EETWEEN THE UN-
dersigned, under the firm name of C. M. PEARRE
& CO., is this day dissolved by mutual constat.
W. L. MOODY,
C. M. PEARRE,
E. S. JEMISON.
Galveston. October 30,1S82.
HOTELS.
THE NEW HOTEL DAM,
Adjoining and connecting with the
UNION SQUARE HuTEL. corner of 15th street
and Union Square, New York,
Is Now Ready far the Reception of
Guests.
Location the most desirable, and accessible to
•iii points of interest in the cf-v Elegancy fur-
nished t .roughvUt aud with eve*y modern oonvea-
iencv- «uid s«.n!tur>- improvement. Superb salons,
eiegsai regtaura: t ana dining room, and choice
cuisine. Jfiftr-two suites, with bath and toilet
room attacnea.
A. J. DAItl & SON, Propr's.
t UJUHU 1 i V IJJUj
Broadway, New York.
Americcn Plan.
3W Rec-ns at $3 50 rer day, including all Meals.
Apartments. Ligats and Attendance. Meals are
served at all heurs from 6 a. m. to 12 p. m.
European Plas.
200 Rooms at f 1 per day and upward, in con-
nection with a very superior
Restaurant ai Moderate Prices.
This Hotel, replete with all Modern Improve-
ments, is very conveniently located on Broadway,
i< Urst-class in all its appointments, and has been
long known as Laving no superior in New York.
URIAH WELCH,
Proprietor.
Also Proprietor of the New American, Kichfleld,
Springs, Otsego county. N. Y , a Celebrated Sum-
mer Resort of great attractions and unequaled
Sulphur Springs. Theodore Gittings.
Room Clerk.
E.
Cx. GUILDS,
Wholesale Dealer in
C0AL& COKE,
DALLAS, TEXAS.
State Agent Osage Ooal and Mining Company.
Contracts made for the delivery of coal ana coke
to any railroad depot in the State.
GROCERIES—LiaUORS.
GALVESTON.
Christmas
TREE OKNAMENTS,
PANORAMA, EGGS &:ASSOKTE9
FIHSWOSKS,
We offer NEXT TEN DATS, AT COST,
CHRISTMAS TREE SUGAR TOYS,
PANORAMA, EGGS
AND
ASSORTED CASES FIREWORKS.
gk seelig-son & co.
i^st store:
2000 BAGS COFFEE.
TO ARRIVE, EX-FATORITSj
3000 BAGS COFFEE,
All of Best Selections,
HAVE STILL ON HAND
ALU ilV. 1 Ui U
We will Close at Great Sacrifice.
We are now again prepared to execute all orders
for that reliable and well-known brand ®i Chewing
Tobacco,
chr0m0,
FOR SALE.
TTMVE Galveston City Lots on Avenue I. between
JP 11th and 12th streets, and several other good
lots in the eastern and western portions of the city.
The northeast quarter of outlot No. 21. corner of
15th street and Avenue M. Also 2d 14 acres of land
in Brazoria county, and 5o0 acres in Colorado
county. Apply to C. H- "IX,
Office of T. M. Joseph, cor. 22d and Fostoffice.
a lai\
COTTON FACTORS,
ffhnlesale Grocers and Importers.
ToTheTrade!
DON'T HE BULLDOZED BY THE WATERS-
Pierce Oil company. Make no contracts
ior oil against your own interests.
i am selling,
and will continue to cell,
(ji! at 15c. per Gallon
SEND ME YOUR ORDERS.
Isaac Beidenheimer.
NEW CROP
SUGARS
AND
MOLASSES.
ILeGierse&Co.
' T JBACCO'!
S. W. Venable's
CELEBRATED
ANCHOR
SELF-CURE FREE
W. will «rD* FRBL. in a »>*in Mated £
CHURCHILL S CF.LEBRATKD PRESCRIPTIONS, far thm
iadj oure af XarTjPoa and Physical Lost Vila.Ity,
Despoadencj. Coafu»i*a of ldeat: aad tba whala
disorders brought au by Indisoreti^n and kzo«M. Any Drug-
giat ba* tba ingrtdicata. Addraaa
£>».. (JAQtJSi» * CO.,
Wm( Sixth St.. CUfCLNWATL O.
AND
66
E. C."
NAVIES.
MILLER & ENGLISH,
SOLE AGENTS FOR TEXAS.
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