The Galveston Daily News. (Galveston, Tex.), Vol. 40, No. 90, Ed. 1 Wednesday, July 6, 1881 Page: 2 of 4
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Wednesday, Jul}' 6, 1882.
A SOT HER NEED OF CIVIL SERVICE
REFORM.
Tlia New York Nation has an editorial
article which should startle those anti-
monopoly agitators who clamor for legis-
lation to bring the great railroad corpora-
tions under the control and regulation of
National or State authority. The tenor of the
article is to show that no such legislation could
lie effective for the protection of the public;
without a reform in the civil service that would
secure its faithful execution in the inter-
est of the public. The anti monopoly agi-
tators propose a system of inspection
through government officers — National or
State boards of commissioners — who are
to exercise revisory authority over
the charges and general business of the
railroad companies as public carriers. Mr.
Reagan, it is true, does not believe in the sys-
tem, and the Reagan bill, which has been in-
dorsed by the anti-monopoly league of New
York, makes no provision for it. But the anti-
monopoly agitators have generally insisted on
supplementary legislation, designed to extend
the executive arm of the Government as a di-
rect ]x>wer in the regulation of railroads, and
th*-y cite as an argument the success which
i .s attended such a policy in England,
Fiance, Prussia and some other European
countries. The Nation, however, notes
the curious fact that they never
mention one feature in all foreign in-
sj)-i t.'tm and control of railroads which alone
give ; tiie inspection and control offioacy. That
f - ,Uire is the separation of the administrative
machinery of the Government from party
politic*. " AVe know from our own expe-
rien o," says the Nation, "that no partisan
politician can be trusted to inspect anybody
who is rich, and keep anybody who is rich up
to his duty or within the law. The class known
in our politics as ' workers' is the class which
supplies most of our government officers, either
in person or through recommendations of
others. This class is above all things interested
in carrying elections, and money is more and
more necessary to the carrying of elections.
It therefore makes everything subordinate to
the raising of money. It distributes the offices
only to those who will consent to make contri-
butions from their salaries for party purposes.
It gives contracts, whore it can, only to those
who will pay a percentage oa their receipts for
party purposes. If it has to inspect banks, or
insurance companies, or railroads, it makes it6
reports depend on the readiness of the corpora-
tions to contribute to campaign funds, or to
give places to persons who will contribute to
campaign funds. The inspection of insurance
in this State by the late superintendent Smyth
elucidates the whole system admirably,
and so do Brady's star route con-
tracts, coupled with General Garfield's
letter to him during the canvass."
There is no gainsaying these calm but melan-
choly observations. No amount of legislation
against corporation monopolies, or against any
organized form of the money power, can be
effective for the substantial maintenance of the
rights and interests of the public without a
pure, incorruptible, faithful and efficient civil
service. The present civil service, based upon
the execrable spoils system of party politics, is
utterly unfit, intellectually and morally, for
the exercise of a wholesome control over
monopolizing capitalists of any description.
As the Nation remarks, "mostof the execu-
tive, and even the detective, talent of
the country, is now employed by the
'monopolists.' The great railroads, for
instance, use the mast effective means yet de-
vised in any part of the world to get the best
men into their service and to keep them there.
They carefully select their employes in the
subordinate positions; they give them tenure
during efficiency, and sure promotion and
good pay in return for marked zeal and long
service. They have, in short, just the kind of
servants the Government ought to have, but
the Government has a kind of servants that
no money-tnaking corporation would employ,
and who, when pitted against the corporation
servants in any kind of competition, naturally
go to the wall."
A POSSIBLE INTERREGNUM.
The death of President Garfield would leave
but one life between the country and technical
anarchy. The Constitution provides that the
Vice-President shall succeed the President in
the event of a vacancy; that the President of
the Senate pro tern. shall become President in
case of the death, resignation or ruiiiovaJ of
the Vice-President, and that in the event of
his death, resignation or removal the Speaker
of the House of -Representatives *hail be Presi-
dent. The f ramers of the Oonstituticn thought it
unnecessary to go beyond four lives in guarding
against possible contingencies, and consequent-
ly the death, resignation or removal of these
four, each in torn, would leave the Government
■without a head, and technical anarchy would
be the result. There is neither a president pro
tern, of the Senate now, nor a speaker of the
House, to take the presidency in tbe contin-
gency of the death, resignation or remawal of
the President and Vice President; but, as neces-
sity and experience are the wisest lawmakers,
and are usually equal to the emergency pre-
sented, the interregnum would probably be
•peedily terminated by proclamation from the
State Department convening the Senate to
elect a president pro tem. The Senate should
httre provided against this contingency
fcefore its adjournment, but the Republicans
were unwilling to elect Mr. Bayard president
pro tem., and not being able to elect one of
their own party, refused to let the Democrats
clect. On the adjournment of Congress Mr.
Raunail g functions as Speaker died, and there
can be no Speaker until the assembling of the
new Congress. If Mr. Arthur is called to the
presidency, the Democrats will organize the
Senate when it meets, for whether the present
General Assembly of New York elects two Re-
publican senators or none a* all, the Democrats
■will has® a majority of two oa the or-
ganfeataoii, as the organization would
have to take place before the new sena-
tors oould be sworn to. After thoy are
sworn in, provided they should be Republicans,
■wfcirfi depends on an election by the Legisla-
ture now in session, the vote will be-a tie, the
President pro tem. elected from the body re-
taining his right to vote, this would result in
* deadlock on all party questions until a change
coofurred in tj*t> political oompteaJon of the
Eenate, or onto tto Democratfa Jfresitteut pro
taw. ot tboJs body was appelated to tbe presi-
dency ot tbe TJtlSted States, to succeed Ckeatar
/k. Artbmv tooiriag at the coatfngeoGfes and
possifcCUfetea, tbe Atiaata Constitution prints in
loud tettera the pertinent bityjiry: "Hasn't
Georgia.ia the Seopfea Mites man for this re-
sponsible place tii&a Mr. Harris or any other
BonatortP tb evidently refers to Senator Joseph
E. Brown.
FOCIETT AND THE RAGE FOR MONEY
It were well enough to survey the situation,
end probe the philosophy of the money-getting
methods of the age in which we live. It is a
scriptural saying that tbe love of money is the
root of all evil. The greater the tendency of
money to excite inordinate and .criminal lust,
the greater the responsibility of society with
regard to the pursuit and accumulation, the uses
and abuses of money. Money itself, apart
from its dishonest and viciou9 associations, is
the root of much of the good there is in the
world, and society can not escape the responsi-
bility that rests upon it, of so cultivating the
root as to prevent the growth of rank and
noxious weeds and smothering thorns and this-
tles. When society discards merit and erects
£olUi ftf tiie standard ot excellence, it at once
virtue and offers a premium for
venality. Every country has some peculiar
and distinctive feature in its social organism
and civilization by which personal value and
social rank are gauged. The celestials
honor liberal education and a thorough com-
prehension of the "golden rule" of Confucius.
The French worship beauty, wit, military
glory and education. The Germans give tbe
highest rank to learning, philosophy and the
arts. The English, while honoring the great
in science, literature, oratory aad statesman-
ship, gather beneath the branches of the old
family tree and pay homage to ancestral re-
nown. But here in America the almighty
dollar is the divinity of society, and the pos-
session of money alone, without a stogie
redeeming trait of character, personal
attractiveness or intellectual adornment, is
recognized almost universally as a passport to
the first circles and the highest stations—the
chink of gold is the talisman of introduction to
the saloons of rank, fashion and wealth, and the
recommendation to preferment in politics and
religion. Beauty bows to its persuasive in-
fluence,virtue melts in its presenoe, and honesty
grows pliant under its touch, As the Nash-
ville American truly says, " the woodchopper,
suddenly converted into a millionaire, becomes
at once ' one of our foremost citizens,' and a
kitchen maid, becoming an heiress, is all at
once transformed into ' one of the most charm-
ing of our society belles.' This is the present
aspect of American society. Why, then,
should there not be dishonesty iu all trades,
peculation in all professions? Why not whisky
rings and Star Route robbers? The measure
of excellence, in the social relations of life, is
the length of the purse—the amount of the
bank deposit. Some day society will pay for
this." Yes indeed, while society sanctions the
unwritten law that riches may atoue for, and
even render beautiful and attractive Almost any
kind or degree of moral deformity, society
is a guilty sharer in every pecuniary wicked-
ness, in high places or low places, whieh ite
idolatry of gold has incited, and sooner or
later it must suffer a terrible penalty, meas-
ured by the extent of its complicity. The oter-
nal moralities can not be insulted and outraged
with impunity. There is no force under heaven
as mighty as the conscience whieh dwells inex-
tinguishably in the deeps of human nature, and
there is no power under heaven as dreadful as
this conscience when it rises, and clothes and
equips itself, as incarnate and militant justice,
to smite some monstrous fabric of wrong, of
gilded vice, of sensual idolatry, of Babylonian
iniquity. .
RECIPROCAL RAILROAD RELATIONS.
The St. Louis Railway Register pays a high
compliment in one of its recent numbers to the
Gulf, Colorado and Santa Pe Railroad. Speak-
ing of that enterprise, the Register remarks
that it " is pushing on its extensions from Bel-
ton to Cleburne and Fort Worth, and
will soon have its trains running from
Galveston to Cleburne, where connec-
tion will be made with the Chicago, Texas and
Mexican Central The latter company is build-
ing on northeastwardly from Cleburne through
Dallas to Paris, where it will meet the St. Louis
and San Francisco. It is stated that the Gulf,
Colorado and Santa Fe has made a contract
with the Cleburne Company, whereby
it will have control of the road from
that city to Paris as soon as it is com-
pleted. There is but little said about the Gulf,
Colorado and Santa Fe, and yet it is one of
the most enterprising and important
companies of the Southwest It is now
operating 283 miles of road from Galves-
ton to Houston and Belton, which passes
through the finest counties in Texas. The
land along this line is high, and is said to be
very fertile. New towns are springing up,
and tlm older villages are growing rapidly.
The Gulf road will become a most valuable
connection to the St. Louis and San Francisco,
and will, together with the Houston and Texas
Central, send much business to St. Louis
merchants." The last remark of the
Register, upon first reading, might be taken in
the light of a somewhat violent presumption
in favor of St. Louis merchants, yet, upon re-
flection, there can be but little question that
a connection of the Gulf, Colorado and Santa
Fe and the Houston and Texas Central roads
with the St. Louis and San Francisco Rail-
road will be of considerable benefit
to St. Louis. It was hardly expected,
in the inception of the Galveston
enterprise, that it would ever become much of
a St Louis feeder. At some time or another,
however, and that time is apparently not
far distant, the Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe
will intersect p.nd be intersected by other
roads. A certain portion of business
originating thereon must necessarily
seek an outlet to the West and
East The St. Louis and San Francisco road,
as an ally of the Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe,
will share in the trade of Texas, and St. Louis
business will assuredly not be lessened by the
prospective arrangement There is this to be
said, nevertheless, the benefits are likely to be
mutual. Galveston will get business from off
the St. Louis and San Francisco road. What-
ever St. Louis may receive in this connection
will not at all prejudice the interests of the
Island City.
STATE PRESS.
What the Interior Papers Say.
The comet caught most of the papers unpre-
pared to do the subject justice. A good deal
of the literature it has evoked is decidedly com-
ic. Many of the papers say the hot weather
comes from the comet, and a few hold to the
old superstition that it portends such little evils
as war, pestilence and famine, if not the near
approach of the end of the world.
The Blanco Star says:
The law restricting the jurisdiction of the County
Courts appears to work well, so far as we are capa-
ble of judging.
Mr. A. A. Pittuck, of Hempstead, proposes
on tbe 1st of August next, to begin the publica-
tion of an Agricultural and Horticultural
Monthly, at the town of Hempstead, to be de-
voted entirely to the davalopement of the re-
sources of tbe soil of Texas, and says:
It is assumed that the success of an enterprise of
the character contemplated will depend upon its
merits—that to succeed, it must deserve sucoess.
The publisher hereby accepts these conditions, and
will venture every effort or whloh he is capable,
for the purpose of meeting the requirement.
The Denison Daily Tribune will be enlarged
to a six-column paper between the loth of this
month and the 1st of August.
The papers mention (in connection with the
foot that among the visitors at the Southwest-
ern University commencement was Rev. J.
W. DeVilbiss, of San Antonio) that:
Mr. DeVUblss came to Texas nearly forty years
ago, and preached the drat Protectant sermon and
organised ths flrgt Protestant ohurch in San Anto-
nio. He taught a sch»ol there, which Augusta J.
Evans Wilson, the celebrated novelist, attended.
Mr. D. must have put his pupils through the
whole of the unabridged. 'Gusta got all tha
big words some way.
The Delta County Banner says:
We believe that when truth and justice are fairly
administered, and public inquiry is divested of per-
sonal malice or political venom, General Maxey
will cem« out untarnished by this ordeal, and
stronger than ever in the confidence of the people
who have chosen him.
The Greenville Herald is going to get hurt
It says:
The tail of the new comet is nearly as long as one
of the Dallas Herald's paragraphs.
When persecutors once get on a man's track
they multiply like wolves. The Cleburne
Chronicle tells how Primus, an intelligent
freedman, is being treated:
First he got his back well sprinkled with bird
shot while robbing a hen-roost. He then wanted
to visit Waxahachie and celebrate Emancipation
Day and do honor to the memory of " Massa Lin-
curn." He stole a saddle and two horses, went to
Waxahaehie, had a goed time and returned to Cle-
burne on foot, where a warrant for his arrest
awaited him on the charge of the theft of the sad-
dle. Primus is now in prison, and is greatly pue-
zled to know what he is in jail for—whether it ia
for stealing the chickens, the saddle or the horses.
He says, however, " if it is nuffin but de stealin of
dat saddle I kin prove myself cl'ar of dat" He is
not so sanguine in regard to the horse# and chickens.
The old Texan trtoic of the Clarksville Stand-
ard takes a firm stand against both of the pro-
posed constitutional amendments. Of the one
that proposes to lengthen the sessions of the
Legislature be says:
Sixtp days Ig long enough, even if the services of
semblies could be got at one dollar a day—laborers'
hire. They would be dear at that price, after sixty
days. And when we get the new and luxurious
capitol, seven-eighths of the representatives who
come ouo of log cabins or stripped plank ahanties,
at lioB6, will have so imperial a sensation as they
c;ove wftfc. solotno dignity threugh the tall corri-
dors and broad
one of thorn will comprehend that he _
•me of the bia roeji of the Empire, and
fhjfc he can not afford to hurry through BTe, and
of marble, that eve'J
lay dewn the purple of his dignity, to go back to
his little snuggery at home. It will be nearly death
to abdicate, and he will hold on to his lofty emi-
nence and his five whole dollars per diem until the
last minute of the last hour allowed by law. From
a colossal legislator, the embodj-mant of all human
wisdom, to the quiet unostentation of a ten-acre
farm and a log cabin, or a law office of 12x14. with
one or two sparsely filled shelves of old, dry look-
ing; books, is a terrible fall. What human nature
is equal to its voluntary acceptance? Speakingfor
the average modern legislator, none—no. not one!
Cleburne is not preparing for prohibition.
The Chronicle says:
Two of the three fine brick buildings now being
completed on the square are rented to saloon men.
The next building to go up on the square is the
Baird building, which will be rented for a saloon.
One room of the Masonic building, on the corner of
Chambers and Caddo streets, will also be used for
a whisky house.
So the drinking will all be dono on the
square, with no blind tiger in the business.
The Chronicle, however, says this multiplica-
tion of saloons on the public square will have
a tendency to concentrate the merchandise
trade on the streets leading from the square to
the depot.
Th» Corsicana Independent is gratified at the
changes ia the curriculum of the Agricultural
and Mechanical College with a view to making
what its name implies.
„ (Gregg county) New Era
delivers the following oracle in behalf of the
Greenbackers;
Alt money is God's money, if money at all. But
nothing is money without the flat of law, hence
God's money is fiat money.
The Corpus Christi Free Press says of the
efforts to secure the location of the medical de-
partment of the State University at Galves-
ton!
AS that is necessary is a fair presentation of
natural advantage- for the purpose, and it-is cer-
tainly without a rival among the cities of the State.
This much must be fairly admitted not in the inter-
est or for the l>enefit of Galveston, but of the pro-
posed institution. Which should be made as efficient
as possible.
Mr. W. P. Draughon announces that his
connection with the Giddings Lone Star ceases,
and the paper passes into the hands of T. E.
Cox & Son. Mr. D. says:
I assumed control of the loue Star for the pur-
pose of making money, and now for the same pur-
pose I sever my connect! n therewith.
Those who seek for lucre should not seek it
in newspapers. Men who make money out of
newspapers would make more in some other
pursuit with the exercise of the same tact en-
ergy and care. Some people can make money
out of almost anything, while others can make
it (or, what is the same thing, save it) out of
nothing. What the journalist needs is the ca-
capity to make very little of the vile dross an-
swer his purposes.
The San Marcos Free Press says "the
founders of our government, with all their
wisdom and patriotism, made, as is now
obvious, some grave and lamentable mistakes."
The Free Press cites the failure of the attempt
to elect presidents without a vote of the peo-
ple, and the election of United States senators
by the legislatures asjleaditfg errors, and says:
The simple and effectual remedy Is to make the
president and senators elective by direct popular
vote. Then there would be no further trouble with
repard to the point referred to. Let thert- b~ a new
waking up, iu action, to the fact that the people
are capable of self-government, and all will be well.
A good many other writer's tako the opposite
but not more hopeful view that the people can
not be trusted to regulate their own affaire, as
demagogues and professional politicians con-
tinually usurp the powers supposed to be re-
served by the people at large. A late writer
says:
The process of election has become a mere form
It has been superseded by that of nomination, the
process of nomiuatioa has ialien into the hands of
the professional election workers, the professional
election workers have fallen under the control of
their leaders, and the leaders trade and bargain
over the people's offices.
The eminent author, George William Curtis,
says:
If our politics ore becoming more and more mer-
cenary, and, therefore, more and more dangerous,
it is because we, the citizens themselves, encour-
age the tendency. When we practically sell the
public service in the small places, we have no
right to wonder that huge private interests try to
buV it in the large places. When politicians are
allowed to trade in the postoffice and the custom-
house, great corporations will naturally try to
drive the best bargains they can in the legislature
and on the bench.
About fifty Texas papers keep conspicuously
before theft- readers, in every issue, the conun-
drums " Who is Mrs. Winslow?" "What in-
ducement can a counterfeiter have to produce
anything good or reliable?" and " Why do so
many people we see around us seem to prefer
to suffer and be made miserable by indiges-
tion, constipation, dizziness, loss of appetite,
coming up of the food, yellow skin, when
for 75 cents we will sell Shiloh's Vi-
talizerj" Will no one answer and put
these vexed questions to rest? " State Press "
gave them up long ago; never knew
Mrs. Winslow, and don't think any one else
ever did; don't know what induces counter-
feiters to put in their dangerous work, and can
not say who would prefer six bits in their
pockets to its equivalent in Shiloh's Vitalizer.
Some social science association should relieve
the doubts of an axious world on these mo-
mentous questions, which ostensibly keep edi-
tors awake of nights, though they are in
reality only advertising dodges. Romance
writers now find their best jobs in writing ad-
vertisements for patent medicines.
An exchange retorts the statement that
some Texans eat frogs by saying that Galves-
tonians are proverbial typical toad-eaters.
This is putting the boot en the wrong leg.
Our toadies are taken in by mock magnates,
instead of taking in the itinerant mounte-
banks.
Brenham cost bills are something wonderful.
The Banner tells of two cases where parties
were "fined $2 each, which, together with the
trimmings, made their bills $37 each." The
culprits could not foot their bills and are
boarding them out.
Burglars are growing desperate. The
Georgetown Sun says:
A few nights ago somebody tried to roll Mr. Nat.
Q. Henderson's iron safe out of his office.
Nat should cache his cash in some other
place. Iron safes are not always safe.
The Gainesville Register, speaking of the
arrangements for the special September
edition of The Galveston News, says:
Gainesville will make a creditable showing in
that edition. One hundred and fifty thousand
copies will be printed, and ever}- important rail-
road town in the State will have its trade pros-
pects, history, etc., shown up.
Texas papers are still crowded with accounts
of school exhibitions. More interest is mani-
fested in the cause of education in the State
than ever before.
The Fairfield Recorder denies that the pro-
hibitionists design to form a new party, and
says:
A very large majority of them are Democrats
and want no new party. They only intend, in
electing the next Legislature, to know how a man
stands on the question before they no nam at e or
vote for him. And this is perfectly right and fair,
because the anti-prohibitionists are going to do the
same thing. When the issue comes, as come it
will, we think it will be seen that more Republi-
cans than Democrats will vote against the measure.
The Gainesville Begister briefly remarks:
We have heard but little opposition to the Con-
stitutional amendments to be submitted in Septem-
ber. Guess they will pass.
The Register says:
The Administration has stopped following the
Route swindlers.
trail at the Star
They are like
the hunter who followed the trail of the grizzly
bear until he found it was getting too "darned
fresh."
A writer in the Atlanta (Cass county) Ex-
press tells that paper and its readers who were
the seven wise men of Greece, and what the
seven wonders of the world were, and signs his
name to the communication. The news is re-
liable though somewhat stale. The writer may
be a little egotistical, but his object is good:
" That those who are unable to own histories,
nor have time to read them, shall read in the
Express some of the best points of history and
science." There is always a large class to
whom the oldest facts in,history are new and
interesting.
The advent of the North Texas Journal, Lee-
mon & Adamson, editors and proprietors, is
announced, but the paper has not reached The
News.
The Telephone charges Galveston with stud-
ied attempts to "strike telling blows at the
commercial prosperity and development" of
Waco — a thing no one in Galveston ever
dreamed of. The Telephone probably alludes
to the fact that the northern terminus of the
G., C. & S. F. Railroad was not made at Waco.
The Telephone says Galveston expects too
much when
She assumes that Waco, in considering the site
for the medical department of the State University
will be actuated simply and solely by a desire to
have it located at the point possessing the greatest
advantages. It is pleasant to know that we are ex-
pected to return good for—not evil perhaps, but
certainly for something that is not good. That Gal-
veston anticipates this of Waco is creditable, highly
creditable to the latter.
This is about on a par with the late sugges
tion that Waoo would support Galveston for
the medical department, if Galveston would
support Waco for the balance of the institution,
and is probably inspired by resentment because
Galveston showed no desire for such a bargain.
The Telephone takes no account of the favor-
able mention made by The News of the circu-
lar recently issued in advocacy of Waco as a
location for the State University. The argu-
ments of the circular were fully stated by this
paper, and th^chances of Waco to secure the
prize, by no means underrated. The bulldozing
style at the Telephone is better calculated to in-
jure than benefit the city it undertakes to
serve.
The Brenham Banner says:
The city of Waco, through the columns of the
Galveston News, is officially announced as a can-
didate for the location of the University of Texas.
The many advantages of the city of Waco are fully
set forth, and The News says the chances of
Waco's success are apparently as good as those of
any other place yet mentioned in * connection with
tbe location of the university. The opinion has
been freely expressed by a number of papers that
Austin was ahead in tbe race. It is basely possible
that Tbe News, in calling attention to Waco's ad-
vertisement, gives that oity a large piece of
"taffy,"
W. E. Penn't Camp Meeting in Bell
and Burnett Counties.
i.To The News.]
The time for holding each of these meetings
has been changed. The one in Bell will begin
on tbe 38th of July, and the one in.Burnett on
the 13th of August. 1 am authorized and re-
quested by Major Penn so to announce.
Let all tbe campers at the meetings, if possi-
ble, be on the ground the day before the
meeting begins, and be at the first service.
M. V. Smith, Pastor at Belton.
The college-bred youth, who thinks no
printer-born editor bas brains enough to "cut"
his copy, will never make a journalist, or even
a readable writer.
The Czar has succeeded in maintaining ab-
solute monarchy. But he is afraid to come
out and see how it is getting along. [Burling-
ton Hawkeye. _
A Great Enterprise.
The Hop Bitters Manufacturing Company is
one of Rochester's greatest, business enterprises.
Their Hop Bitters nave reached a sale beyond
all precedent, having, from their intrinsic
value, found their way into almost every
household ia the load. [Gragkic,
rrira,
Characteristic Letter from the Wash-
ington Correspondent or the News.
Tyler, July 1,1881.—After an advehturous
and interesting tour through several of tbe fa-
vorite cities of Texas, and a cordial and spirit-
uous greeting from many genial friends, your
correspondent had the good fortune to get " a
California stand-off " (tbat is, lost hie money,but
saved his life), and landed in the classic shades
of the Athens of Texas, tbe capital of Smith
county—the citv of statesmen, scholars, office-
a-spiruiits and Peun's converts, to wit, Tyler
—a city whose bosom swells with emotional''
pride when she points tb her distinguished sous,
her railroads, her lafge square and her new
jail (with a big hole in the wall, where the
prisoners get out). When I landed here after
the severe ordeal I had been through on my
trip, gratitude inexpressible rose in my breast
for the honor of being a citizen of the foremost
city of Smith county—an Uouor which only
several thousand of .us enjoy. I do not
mean that the population is only several
thousand. We cluim more, ah, many thou-
sands more, and before many moons have
waned we propose to claim thousands still,
whether we have them or not. 1 simply mean
that there are several thousand of us honored
by being citizens ot the Athens of Texas, and
there are several thousand more of us willing
to be honored froin the office of alderman up
to presidential emoluments. This is the confi-
dence we feel in ourselves, the pride we take in
our city und the joy we feel iu our groat
and glorious State, if anybody doubts us we
point to the past and display our proud record*
there. It is not our fault that Tyler has pro-
duced more statesmen to the square inch than
any other city in Texas; it is the climate, good
water, energy, enterprise and Bermuda grafes;
We try to live here in all the comfort which
nature and ingenuity can afford. No country
can raise statesmen on corubread, burnt liver
ami rye coffee—the brain can not enlarge or im-
prove on such grub. You may raise or produce
the average county court lawyer on *uch fodder,
but to develop the towering and progressive
statesmen which our fur-famed city has sent
forth to honor Texas, it requires broiled chick-
en, waffles and Mooa ooffee, with an occasional
nip at some genuine old whitc-mule whisky.
This quality of liquor is a favorite beverage
also with the lawyers of Marshall, though thuy
seldom indulge in the chicken and waffle part.
At Dallas they drink red whisky en-
tirely, and jthrow dice with strangers
for that—tlj? strangers generally getting
mulcted fori the drinks. SucVi is the
proficiency of the average member of tbe Dalles
bar in handling the box containing the square
ivory. No stranger can beat a Dailasite
throwing for drinks in Dallas.
Well", to return to progress, enterprise and
development—subjects which please all man-
kind. First, it afferds me pleasure to mention
our railroad facilities, their conveniences and
comforts. Tyler is now on the main lines of
the Missouri-Pacifio and International, and also
the Texas and St. Louis Narrow Gauge,
with otber roads in prospect.
Trains on these roads run through
daily and enable us to leave here and
make all connections. Mr. Hoxie, whom we
consider the ablest railroad manager in the
South, controls his trains on this track with a
system truly perfect and the trains from Deni-
son via this place, both to San Antonio and
Houston, are always on time. The Texas and
St. Louis Narrow Gauge is in perfect running
order and its trains seldom get in here behind
time. They leave Texarka'na at 9 a. m.
and arrive here at 5 p. m., promptly, and
then go to Corsicana over a good" track
and on splendid time. Ail these things
with the other blessings we have developed
and distributed make us truly proud. We feel
gratified at this, especially when only a few ■
years back we traveled so slow between here
and Troup, and recall the old blind mule who
used to trot in front of the train between here
and Mud Creek bridge for his own amusement
Even the old mule realizes the change and is
no longer facetious, but grazes contentedly
along the bottoms, recognizing the fact that
progress and enterprise have supplanted the
orthodox train which he used to bring into
disrepute.
Our people have been of late much exer-
cised over the comet and the jail escapes.
Some seem to attribute the escape of the pris-
oners to the comet, and others attribute it to
the insecurity of the jail. Anyhow, sixteen
criminals—murderers and other bad men—
have escaped from our jail within one month.
The leading spirit in all these escapes was Dr.
Ball, who was charged, jointly with Mrs. Hea-
cock, with poisoning her husband at Wilis
Point a year ago. The doctor and the woman
were lovers, and after the murder were con-
fined in the Canton (Van Zandt county) jail.
It is said that the doctor while in that jail
manufactured a key, which when night came
enabled him to unlock his room in tbe jail and
enter hers, and would return to his own before
daylight carefully locking the doors after him.
Thus be would spend the sight with his para-
mour without the knowledgeof any one. He
was separated from the woman and sent here
for safe keeping. The dootor has now bid us
st touching adieu—the woman is still in the
Canton jail, and it is predicted that tbe
doctor will devise some means for her escape
and take his guilty lady love and fly to more
congenial climes.
I have been a thorough student of the pro-
gress and development of Texas town#, and
am acquainted with Government operations to
obtain deep water for our commercial ports,
and I have come to the conclusion that Galves-
ton will always be the chief port of Texas. I
have traveled all over the State, and there is
no city equal to it in any respect The one
thing needed in Galveston is a concert of ac-
tion on the part of all her citizens—a united
effort for deep water and more enterprise
and inducements for new railroads. If Gal-
veston buckled down to this, nothing could
stop her speedy development and in a few
years there would be water sufficient over her
bar to float the largest vessels. Something,
however, seems to be lacking. Tyler's enter-
prise would be a good example for Galveston
to follow. If we want a railroad, we all meet
in the Court-house, make two or three hundred
speeches, pass twenty-five or thirty yards of
resolutions, rip and snort around for a day
or two, appoint a committee of our lead-
ing meu to press our claims, offer the
railroad one-half of the town to come here,
and we generally get it Whenever the
Athens of Texas wants an additional railroad,
she offers sufficient inducements and always
gets it We never fail. We have two fine
roads now, and the Kansas and L ,ilf Short Lino
will soon begin to build from this place, and
this, too, with other roads in prospect. This,
with our natural advantages, will make Tyler
one of the grandest oities in Smith county. We
have strong hopes of being the Chicago of
Texas.
How strange that many people would rather
suffer a long time, believing they were re-
covering by scientific skill so-oaUed, than be
cured—of rheumatism for inatence—quiokly
by common sense—and St Jacobs Oil. We
take the latter plan and article, and observe,
too, that tbe Right Rev. Bishop Gilmour in-
dorses the remedy.
MED.
SABEL—On June 26, 1881, at Irwin, Colorado,
Captain Zack. Sabel, of this city, age sixty-two
years.
Leadville and New Orleans papers please copy.
REGINI—Infant son of L. Regini, eighteen months
old.—Funeral will take place at 4 p. m., To-dar,
at his residence, corner Sixteenth street and Avenue
L. Friends and acquaintances of his wife and him-
self are invited to attend.
SPECIAL NOTICES.
Notice to Consignees, — The steamship
RIO GRANDE. Pennington, master, from New York,
is now discharging cargo at Willialns's wharf.
Consignees will please pay freight and receive
their goods as landed, receipting for the same oa
the wharf. All goods remaining on the wharf after
4 o'clock p. K. (not receipted for) may, at option of
steamer's agent, be placed in warehouses or oover-^d
with tarpaulins on the wharf, but they are entirely
at risk of consignee or owner. All claims for dam-
ages must be adjusted be foe the goods leave the
wharf. J. N. SAWYER. Agent.
OfHce ot the Galveston City Railroad
Compauy, Galveston, June 31, 1381.—Notice
is hereby given that the outstanding
issue of one hundred thousand dollars at the
first mortgage eight per cent bonds of the
Galveston City Railroad Company, Issued in 18V?
and due in 1858, by virtae of the option reserved
to retire the same at the end of any six months
after one year,suid of a resolution of the stockholders
adopted this day, are hereby called fer redemp-
tion, principal and interest coupons, at the office of
the company, in tills city, on the first day of
A iieust, A. D. 1881, on and after whioh date said
eight per cent bonds, to wtt: Nas. 1 to 100, one hun-
dred bonds of $600 each, and Noa. 101 to 180, inclu-
sive, fifty bonds of $1(500 each, will cease to bear
interest. WM. H. SINCLAIR, President
H. T. MacGregor, Seoretary.
NOTICES.
Notice.
Building,
market Street, Between 24th and 25th
Street*,
Between the hours of 8 and 19 o'clock a. m.
AV'G. Bt'TTLAR, Secretary.
J WIH PA
$300
PREMIUM
for the
FIRST BALE OF NEW COTTON,
Raited in Texas, If Shipped to me from
first hands.
WM. D. CLEVELAND,
Cotton Factor and Wholesale Grocer. Houston,Tex.
ISLAND CITY
Protestant Orphan Home.
The annval meeting of the
members of this Association, for the election of
IS Trustees and 28 Manarers, will be held at Eaton
Memorial Chapel, ou THURSDAY, July 7. at 6
o'clock p. m. M. KOFPERL.
President. Board of Trustees.
Mes. W. 1'. BALLINQER,
Governess. Board of Managers.
T
HE well-known sportsman,
— Harry Hamilton, 132 West Thirty-first street.
New York, did not believe a rinsrbone could be
cured until he used GILES'S LINIMENT IODIDE
AMMONIA, and now cures Spavins, Splints and
Thorough-pins by its use. Sold bv all druggists
Send for pamphlet. GILES'S PlLLS cure Dys-
pepsia. Dr. GILES, 120 West Broadway, New
York. Trial size lift cents.
Economy is wealth-send to the
Galveston News Bindery for estimates for Blank
Books, Ruling and Binding,
GREAT CERM*
REMEDY
FOB
RHEUMATISM,
NEURALGIA,
SCIATICA, '
LUMBAGO,
BACKACHE,
GOUT,
SORENESS
or TIME
CHEST,
SORE THROAT,
QUINSY,
SWELLINGS
AND
SPRAINS,
FROSTED FEET
AND
EARS,
BTJUKTS
AND
SCALDS,
General Bodi] j ?aiu,
TOOTH, EAR
AND
HEADACHE,
AND
ALL mil FAINS
AND
ACHES.
No Preparation on oartu equtli St. Jacobs Oil af a savji,
srax. simplb and oweap External Remtdy. Atrial antaili
but the comparatively trifling uutiav of i) Ckmtk. and evirr
ens suffering with pain clUap and p«sitiT« proof ox
its claims. niltSCXlOKS 15 SXETJES LAXOFitlia.
SOLD IY AU CSaaaiSTS ARB BEAIHS III MIBieiK.
A. VOGELER A CO.
itfrf., V. 8. A*
Drayage! Drayage !
Office Texas Cotton Press and Mfg. Co., i
Galveston, June 27, 1881. j
PHOM DATE IINXII TBE 15TH
JT day of July, i881,
THE TEXAS TON PRESS AND MFG. CO.
invite sealed proposals for the
DRAYAGE IN AND OUT
on all cotton tli"t may bo received and shipped by
ssid Company between the
1st Day or September, 1881, and the
31st Day of August, 18S2.
A specific bid per bale is required. The right to
reject any or all bids is reserved.
r. W. sha.W, Secretary.
AUCTION SALES.
Auction': auction !—This day, 10 a.
m., at our mart,
eottonades, pieces gr<
hosiery, embroideries,
etc,
SYDNOR & DINKELAKER.
Auction ! Aixction !
The large building known as
Ryland Chapel and two-story Dwelling House,
situated on lot northeast corner inter-ectlon of 22d
and Church. We will sell the above property
WEDNESDAY, July 6, at 12 o'clock m.,
on the premises. Building to be removed. Am-
ple time allowed for removal.
Terms—Cash.
SYDNOR & DINKELAKER, Auct'rs.
FOR. SALE CHEAP.
ONE SINGLE WAGON, WITH TOP, 1
laiffe COPPER GENERATOR, 1 IRON OAS
WASHER, 2 COPPER BOTTLING CYLINDERS, 1
FTHEW! ~
ip and magnetic tier, complete,
PATENT PRESSURE GAUGE. The above offer*
MATTHEWS BOTTLING TABLE, with syrup
pump and magnetic tier, complete, 1 MATTHEWS
a good chance fer investment in a well-paying
business by any person desiring to enter into soda
aerated water or bottling business. For particulars
and conditions, apply to JULIUS SOCHA,
110 Market St.
PUBLIC SALE
of
TOWN LOTS
AT
PEARSALL,
ON THE LINE OP THE
INTERNATIONAL AND GREAT NORTHERN RAILROAD,
Wednesday, Jnly 20, 1881a
PEARSALL IS SITUATED IN THE
center of Frio County, fifty-two miles west
from San Antonio, 100 miles from Laredo, seventy-
five milos from Eagle Pass, thirty miles from
Plea3anton, and fifteen miles from Frio City."
The country surrounding Pearsall is a high roll-
irairie, interspersed with meequite. The soil is
sandy loam. Plenty of good water in weils
fifty feet deep, A daily stage for Laredo leaves
Pearsall evanr day. It is expected to become the
county site or Frio County,
Termi of Sale.
Amounts less than 3)90, cash; exceeding $100,
one-third cash, balance in one and two voars, with
eijfht per cent, interest. Liens reserved to secure
payment of notes.
Sale to commence at II a. m.
An excursion train will leave San Antonio at 7 a.
m., railroad time, ou the day of sale, and return to
San Antonio same day.
Round trip tickets, good for that day and train
only, from San Antonio to Pearsall and return, $3,
Barbecue and lunch on the ground free.
For further Information apply to
N. W. HUNTER,
Right of Way Agent, San Antonio, Texas.
PUBLIC SALE
OF
TOWN LOTS
AT
VALIET MILLS,
Ou tbe Gulf, Colorado aud Santa
Fe Railway
ON TH1SM!, MI 14,1881.
The new town of Valley Mills is on the Fort
Werth branoh of the Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe
Railway, in Be«que and McLennan oounties, on the
■h Boaque River, picturesquely located in the
beautiful Bosque Valley, at the foot of the Bosque
Hills, Hi a fine agricultural section, and will bean im-
portaat nhippinjt point for aotton and grain. With-
in a radiUB of fi»* miles there are eight gins. It is
estimated that 18,000 bales of cotton will be shipped
from this point.
Valley Mills is DBS miles from Galveston, 41 miles
from Temple, 84 miles from Fort Worth, 25 miles
fyem Waco, 21 miles from Whitney, 12 miles from
in, 23 miles from Meridian, 12 miles from China
[s, 10 miles from Garrett's Mills, 12 miles from
l»»r» ayMiUs,5mjloa from Vaughn's, 12 miles from
Coryell Oity, 85 milefi from Gatesville, 28 miles from
Jonesborough, 40 miles from Hamilton.
TBRIWS OF SALE.
Amounts lasa^han $100. cash: amounts exceed-
ing 5100 and legs than $200, half cash, balance in
one and two years; amounts exceeding $200, one-
third cash, balanoe in one and two years. Interest
en deferred payments at«8 per cent. Liens reserved
to secure notes.
Sale to Commence at lOi30 O'clock A. I?I.
EXCURSION.
sale. July 14, 18S1, at 7 o'Gl
An excursion, train will leave Belton on day of
" 881 - - - -
SOo
, Jltl
Belton same day.
, *.< , ./ ujvua a. n:., and Temple
_ clock a. m. Returning, will leave
Valley Mills after the sale, arriving at Temple and
14, 1881
Junction at 7:80 o'clock a. m.
Excursionists will have an opportunity of view-
ing tiie magnificent scenery along the tort Worth
branoh, which for boauty is unsurpassed in tha
South.
Half Fare from all Station*, Good on
all Pu§«u{er Trains. Barbecue
on the Grounds Free to All.
For maps and information apply to
C. C. ALLEN,
Sec'y Land Dept. Galveston, Texas.
4SCAR G. MURRAY. Gen. Passenger Agent.
SYDNER & DINKELAKER. Auctioneers.
COFFEE.
COFFEE.
IN STORE:
4000 SACKS.
All Grades aud Good Styles.
KALFFMAN & RUKGE.
COFFEE.
IN STORE:
3000 SACKS.
ALSO, ONE OF THE LARGEST AND MOST
COMPLETE STOCKS OF
GROCERIES
IN THE SOUTH.
MOORE, STRATTON & CO.,
Wholesale Grocers,
LIQUOR DEALERS,
AND
IMPORTERS.
RATES AND REGULATIONS
OF
WHARFAGE,
OF THE
UiffiTO! WHARF CO.,
April 1, 1881.
All vessels and their own-
ers landing goods on the Wharves tbereby
contract to pay, and are responsible for the wharf-
age on the same, according to tbe following rates,
to be collected from the vessels or their agents:
$ cts.
Anchors and Chains, per 100 lb o
Barrels, wet 0
Barrels, dry 5
Barrels, empty, wet 3
Barrels, empty, dry 2
Barrel Staves, per M 30
Bacon, per cask 25
Bacon, per case 13
Ba«s or Sacks in bales, per cubic foot 1
Bulging, per cubic foot 1
Barring, per 100 yard roll, each G
Btipging, per £0 yard roll, each 3
Baskets, per nest ®
Ballast, per ton 25
Bales, over 5 cubic feet, per foot 1
Bedsteads, each 1»
Bedsteads, common, each *
Bedsteads, boxed, per cubic foot 1
Bellows, per cubic foot.. '
Bananas and Plantains, per bunch 2
Breakfast Bacon, per box 5
Boxes, liquors, cheese, soap, candles, etc 3
Boxes, extracts, coffee, ink, bluing, etc 3
Brooms, per doien 3
Broom Handles, per M 50
Broomcom. per bale 5
Brick, fire, per M 60
Brick, common, per M 50
Bran, per sack 4
Bran, per ton of 2000 tb 53
Blinds, Poors and Sash, per cubic foot 1
Boilers, steam, per 100 lb 5
Bofies and Horns, per ton 50
Bone-dust, per ton 50
Bone-black or Bone m- al. per sack of 100 lb 3
Holts and Spike;. Rivets, Nuts and Washers, per
fee? 5
Buckets, per doz 5
Buckets, well, per doz 8
Butter, per ke r S
Butter, per firkin 4
Building stone, rough, per ton 50
Buggies, each 50
Buggies, boxed, par cubic foot 1
C.trboyg. each, full 10
Carboys, empty 5
Casks, wine 20
Casks, hardware, per 100 5> 5
Casks, merchandise, per cubic foot 1
Carriages, each 75
Carriages, boxed, per cubic foot 1
Carts, each 25
Casting*, hollow or solid, per 100 © ' 5
Cattle, grown, each 30
Cattle, two-year-olds, each 20
Cattle, yearlings, each 10
Cattle, calves, each 10
Champagne, in baskets 5
Chairs, per bundle (2 each) 5
Charcoal per >agk 8
Cotton, per bale, landed 10
Cotton, per bale, shipped 10
Cotton, per saok 10
Coal, dumped in carts, per ton 30
Coal, dumped on wharf, per ton 50
Coal in Casks 25
Coaches, Stage, each 100
Corn per sack 3
Corn, in shuck, per bbl 3
Cotton Seed, per ton of 2000 It) 25
Cotton Gins, per cubic foot 1
Cotton Planters, eaoh 10
Com Planters, each 1®
Com Shellers 6
Corn Mills, per cubic foot 1
Coffee, per sac£ 4
Codfish, per drum 15
Cordage, per 100 H> 5
Cotton Ties, per 100 lb. (inward)
Cotton Ties, per 100 lb. (outward) 3
Copper, per 100 lb 5
Copper, pig, per 100 16 5
Canned Beef, per casa 2
Coal Oil, per case 2
Coeoanuts, per 100 23
Collars, Horse, per doz 5
Crates, Crockery or Merchandise, per cubic foot 1
Cultivators, each 30
Drays, each 25
Doors, each 3
Demijohns, full 2
Demijohns, empty 1
Dry goods, in case, per 100 ft> 5
Filters, boxed or otherwise, per cubic foot 1
Flour, per sack 3
Flour, per half sack 2
Fustic and other Dye-Woods. per ton 50
Fertilizer or Guano, per ton 60
Furniture, boxed, per cubic foot 1
Groceries, dry, boxed, per 100 lb 5
Grain, in bulk or sacked, for export, per bushel
Grind and Millstones, per 100 lb 3
Gunny Bags, in bales, per cubic foot 1
Hardware, per 100 lb 5
Hames, per doz 4
Hams, per cask 25
Hay, per bale 10
Hay, per half-bale 5
Hogsheads, empty 5
Hogshead Staves, per M 50
Hay Cutters 6
Halt" Barrels, wot 3
Half Barrels, dry 2
Half Barrels, empty 1
Herring, per box 1
Hoop Poles, per M 25
H^i-ses and Mules, each 30
Hogs. 5
Horseshoes, per keg 5
Household Goods, per 100 lb 5
Hides, loose, each 1
Hides. In bales, per 100® 5
Hides, green, in bundles of two each 3
Ioe iu hogheads 25
Ice, as per invoice, less 30 per cent, for waste,
per ton 50
Iron, boiler, plate, bar, hoop, wrought, sheet
and Galvanised, per 100 B> 5
Iron Pipe, Gas and Water, per 100 a 3
Iron Shutters and Wrought Fittings, per 100 ft.. 5
Iron, junk and scrap, per ton 50
Iron, pig, per ton 50
,fes.
Iron Sar
per 100 ft 10
Junk, in bales (except iron).. 10
Kegs, merchandise 2
Kega, empty J
Kits Fish 2
Laths, per M 10
Lemons, per box 4
Lead, per 100 ft 5
Lumber, per M 30
Leather, per 100 ft 5
Malt, per sack S
Marble, per 100 lb dreased 5
Marble, per ton of 2000 lb., rough 50
Marble dust, per bbl 5
Machinery, per 100 ft a
Mineral Ores, per ton 50
Mowing Machines, each 50
Moss, per bale ; 5
Matting, per roll 5
Nails, per keg 3
Nails, per half keg a
Oakum, per bale 5
Oats, per saok 4
Oil Cake, per sack 3
Oranges, per box 4
Ordnance Stores, per 100 lb 5
Oysters, per bbl 3
Paint, per 100 lb 5
Pails, per doz 5
Pails, flour, per nest 3
Paper, printing, per buudle 3
Paper, wrapping, per ream 1
Pecans, per sack 3
Pianos, boxed, per cubic foot 1
Pine-appios, per. 100 25
Plows, each 5
Plows, Sulky, 23
Plow Material, k. d., per 100 lb 5
Potash, per 100 1b 4
Post, Fencing, each 1
Powder, kegs 4
Powder, haft kegs 2
Powder, quarter kegs 1
Railroad Material for construction and opera-
tion:
Railroad Iren and Steel Sails ) Per Ton
ft. R. FUh Baps. {States and Chairs
R. ft. Frogs. Spilcea, Bolts aud Nuts ,
R. R. Iron Bridges, Locomotives... I PerTonof ( . m
R R. Trucks, Wheels, Axles, etc.. f 25M01>.. j
R. R Passenger Cars, each 13 00
R. R. Passenger Cars, Narrow Gauge 10 00
Railroad Platform Cars 8 00
R. R. Platform Cars, Narrow Gauge 5 00
R. R. Lumber, per M. feet. 30
R. R. Ties, eight feet long, each 2
Raisins, per box 3
Raisins, per half box 2
Raisins, per quarter box 1
Rags, per bale 10
Refrigerators, per cubic foot 1
Rubber Belting, per 100 lb 5
Roofing Slate, per ton. 40
Rope, per 100 ft 5
Salt, per sack 3
Sand or Soil, per dray load 5
Sewing Machines, each 10
Sewing K. D., per 1001b 5
Sieves, per package, 2 dozen 4
Sawdust, per dray load 10
Shot, per 100 ft 5
les. per 3L 10
5
SOO
1 Perron 1
1} 2340 ft. )
30
Shingles, per 3L.
box, per oarload .
Sheep, each
Shocks, box, pei
Shooks, box. less than carload, per 100 ft 3
Shell, per dray load 5 bbla 5
Soda, in casks and drums, per 100 1b 2
Shovels and Spades, per dozen 6
Spices, per sack 5
Stoves, per cubic foot 1
Sugar, per hogshead 25
Sugar, per bbl 5
Sugar. Havana, in boxes 15
Smoke-stacks, perlOO 1b 5
Stoves and Trimmings, per 100 ft 5
Sulkies 25
Tierces Beef 10
Tierces Lard jo
Tifyce^ Rice 10
Tierces Hams 10
Tierces Tallow, etc 10
Tierces with bbls. inside 10
Tierces, empty 4
Timber, Walnut, etc.,per ton 25
Tin Hate, per 1001b 5
Tin pig, per 100 lb 5
Tobacco, chewing, per 100 ft 5
Tobacco, smoking, per cubic foot 1
Tiles, per M 50
Trunks, filled with merchandise or nests. (J
Tubs, per mtat 5
Trucks, Railroad, per 100ft 5
Wagons, each 50
~ ~ 75
er 100 0 5
Washing Machines, each
Washboards, per doz 4
Watermelons, each 1
Water Coolers. 2
Wire, per 100 ft 5
Wheelbarrows 5
Wheels and Axles, railroad, per 100 ft 5
Wheels and Axles, log carrier 75
Wood, peroord 25
Wool, per sack 10
White Lead, per 100 ft 5
Zinc, in rolls, per IdO 1b 5
Goods not in above list will be charged in pro-
portion, say: Lobs than forty pounds to tbe cubic
root will be classed as measurement and charged 1
cent per foot; forty pounds and aver t» the cubic
foot will be olassed as weight, and charged 5 ceate
per 100 pounds.
All goods and articles of every kind, laaded or
received upon any of the wharves, are thereafter
at the risk of the owners, and aot at the Ootopanj ,
and'must be removed the same day, or, at far-
thest, the next dav. After which time, any of
said geods and articles remaining on the wharves.
m remaining on the wharves.
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sible for, and will be
age of one-third tiie
ing schedule for evei
the owners and consignees thereof wiH be respon-
chargad an additional wharf-
age of one-third tiie rates specified in the preced-
ing schedule for every day they so remam, and
may be removed by the wharf Company without
further notice (at the risk and expense of the
goods and the owners and consignees thereof) to
any part of its premises, continuing the charge lor
additional wharfage each day they remain on said
premises. Or the Wharf Company may have the
suns removed and stored elsewhere than en its
own premises without further notioe (at the risk
and expense of the goods and the owners and con-
signees thereon, and the same will be held until
all charges are paid
The Company bereby gives notice that It will not
be liable for losses if caused by excessive and un-
usual weights, or by piling up heavy articles, such
as salt, more than four sacks high, and railroad
iron more than three tiers high, on the wharves.
Or by landing articles of extraordinary weight,
such as locomotives, without special permission (in
writing) from tbe Company's agent; but tbat it
will hold all persons liable for such damages as
may be occasioned by overloading the wharves,
without special permission.
The Company also gives notice that it does not
undertake storage, and will not be responsible for
losses or damage, from any cause, to goods or ar-
ticles landed or received on its wharves.
All vessels of fifty tons and over not engaged in
receiving or discharging cargo, or seixed by legal
process, and lying at the wharf after such seizure,
will be charged wharfage at the rate of five cents
per registered ton for each day. Vessel* of less
than fifty tons will be charged wharfage at the rata
•of $3 per day.
THOS. C. SHEABKB, Secretary.
SANBORN & WARNER,
Manufacturer*' Sole Agents for the State of Texas for
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Washburn Mocii iflanulaotiirins Co., Worcester, mass., aud A. L. ElwooA
Co., OeKalb, 111., Sole Mauulacturrrx and Owner* of all the JPatents govern*
lng the manufacture ol Barb I'ence Wire. Acknowledged hy all to be the best Barb Wire
ever lnaUe. It is evenly twisted, a,1 steel, genuinely galvanized, barbs uniformly fife niches apart at
right angles with main wire. Hereafter our prices will favorably compare with anv other style of Barb
V. ire made under license, regardless of their inferiority. SANBORN' & W4.RNER. Houston, Texas.
J. S. BROWN & CO,
Hardware Merchants,
GALVESTON, TEXAS,
ARE HEADQUARTERS FOR
EYE AND HANDLED HOES
GEAIN CEADLBS,
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MACHINISTS' & CARPENTERS' IMPLEMENTS,
BUILDERS' AIsTD PLAJNTTATIQ^ STJPPLIEIS.
BKIDGEFORD & CO.,
THE PLACE TO BUY
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WATER COOLERS
Call and See, or Send for Prices.
BRIDGEFORD & CO.,
G-ALVESTON, TEXAS.
SOMERVILLE & DAYIS,
STRAND, GALVESTON, TEXAS.
I TIES.
The Merchants of Texas will please take notice that we now have
in Store and to Arrive the Largest Stock of Bagging and Ties ever
brought to the State, viz.:
2,500 - - Rolls Double Anchor Bagging
5,000 - Half Rolls Double Anchor Bagging
5,000 - - - - Rolls Texas Mills Bagging
10,000 - - Half Rolls Texas Mills Bagging
15,000 - Quarter Rolls Texas Mills Bagging
All of our Bagging is made of the BEST QUALITY SELECTED JUTE BUTTS, and is warranted
NY FLAX FIBRE. Wa have sold these brands of Bagging for many years, and they have
FREE OF A
given PERFECT SATISFACTION.
We are Now Receiving from Liverpool
15,000 Bundles Arrow Ties, ex bark Weymouth,
14,000 Bundles Arrow Ties, ex bark Nore,
18,000 Bundles Arrow Ties, ex bark Herbert C. Hall,
16,000 Bundles Arrow Ties, ex bark Roma.
In addition to which we have in Liverpool awaiting transportation
100,000 BUNDLES ARRQW TIES.
These Ties are all guaranteed to be the GENUINE NO. 2 ARROWS, manufactured by the " McComb
Arrow Tie Company." In these Ties the public can rely on getting the BEST QUALITY OF ENGLISH
IRON.
Parties wishing to purchase will find it to their interest to give us a call before buying elsewhere, as
we are prepared to meet competition and accept very low prices.
SOMERVILLE & DAVIS.
BANKS AKD BANKERS.
Abode 4 Lobit,
BANKERS.
DOMESTIC & FOREIGN EXCHANGE,
Cable Transfers.
Slgbt Drafts on England, France,
Sweden, Norway, Etc.
MISCELLANEOUS.
calveston.
SHIP CHANDLERY AND NAVAL STORES.
Apuil stock of hamlla, hemp
and Rope, Blocks, Sheave6. Flags, Bunting and
Canvas, and all Goods in these liuesalways on hand.
SAILS, TENTS, TARPAULINS and AWNINGS
made to order. Order* solicited.
THEO. Iv. THOMPSON,
(Successor to David Wakelee,)
208 A: 21» Strand, GALVESTOX, TEX.
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EMZY TAYLOR,
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Georgetown, Texas.
Bennett, Thornton & Lockwood,
BANKERS,
SAN ANTONIO, ... TEXAS.
Collections solicited on All Points in the State.
Commercial paper discounted. Bills on Mexico.
GEO. H. Dillet. Clatie.VCE E. DILUET.
GEO. M. DILLEY & CO.,
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Round Rook, Texas.
Prompt attention given to Collections and business
intrusted to our care.
W. W. LIPSCOMB,
BANKER ID EXCHANGE DEALER,
Lulling-, Texas.
Special attention paid to Collections. Correspond-
ence solicited.
J. R.
Washington Oo.
Joa. Bajldbidob,
J. & J. R. BALDRIDGE,
BANKERS,
And Dealers in Exchange,
EUNIS, TEXAS.
JESTER, PREJiDERGAST & CO.
BANKERS,
CORSICANA, TEXAS.
Prompt Attention f Collections.
Will Discount Corsicana Acceptances.
everybody Chew*
NAVY TOBACCO.
ITHlP^feS REACH OP ALL—ONE
Dollar for six months^ Delay not. Keep
na <
- ... _ Keep
posted as to the markets. Full ana accurate re-
portsio each iasuaof the W«kklt Nsws.
Drayage, Storage, Forwarding: and Her-
ring Safes.
R. P. SARGENT,
aENERAL Transfer and Forwarding Agent and
Warehouseman, Mechanic Street, between Tre-
mom and Twenty-fourth, Galveston. Texas,
having the best facilities, is prepared to tranfer or
store all kinds of light and heavy merchandise.
Wool, Sugar, Etc.
Moving Safes, rloilers, Engines and all kinds of
heavy Machinery In and out of buildings a specialty.
Agents for the Sale of
Herring's Patent Champion Safes,
A Fine Assortment Coustantly on Hand.
PHCENIX
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WORKS.
P^TJI, 8HEAN,
Manufacturer of improved STEAM TRAINS, BAT-
TERIES and CLARIFIERS for making sugar, and
all descriptions ef Copper and Sheet Iron Work.
Dealer in Lift and Foroe PUMPS of all descriptions:
Iron Pipe, Fittings. Valves, and all descriptions of
Brass Goods; PLUMBING and GAS FITTING;
Steamboat, Steamship, Engineers' and Plantation
Supplies. Agent for the oelebrated KNOWLE8
STEAM PUMI%aj»d MACK'S PATENT IN JEOTOBa
All sices sold at manufacturers' prices. All orders
promptly filled. 1ST, 168 sad 1«1 Mechanic Street.
6AI1TB8T6H1 TEXAS.
C. B. LtSC,
D. WKBXS,
JOSBtJJ. UllJLCS.
LEI IRON WORKS
C. B. LEE & CO.,
M i BUSS FOUNDERS
AND
MACHINISTS.
manufacturers or
STEAM ENGINES, SAW MILLS,
Boilers, Mill and Gin Gearing,
Shafting, Pulleys, Brass
and Iron Pumps,
Etc.
_ Particular attention given to Orders for iron
rrontsand Castings for BoHdinga,
ah Kinds ot Job Work sonotsd. Satisfaction
(wsatead.
Cwaer Winnie aad Thirty-second Sts.,
(Seas Bnfb-oad Be pot,)
oalti8tor, texas,
nkw orleans.
JOHN GAUCHE,
AT US
MORESQUE BUILDING,
A«4 110 C Mart res Street,
NEW ORLEANS, LA.,
Hsa the largest sad beet selection ot
Crockery, Glassware,
TTOOMN, TIN AND HARDWARE,
or Any nooae la (Ms South.
lea are guaranteed u low, tt aot lows,
egtebUshmra* north or south.
10USTON.
im M. PERL,
Mil PUCTITIOBB,
HOUSTON, TEXAS.
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IpHAtLENGES COMPARISON — THE
^NEWS B!NDERY chaUen^ comparison "ft
work, both for quality of material and elegance of
40a^£U Mujtjifjuui/. finish with any done elsewhere.
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