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Thursday, October 16, 1S79.
Since the beginning of the government, ac-
coQiing to a statement recently compiled, the
Indians have cost over $ 181,000,000. It is
estimated that there are about 300,000 Tndians
now in the country.
Mrs. Isaac Walton, the inventor of the
sound-deadening system now in use on the
New York elevated railways, is out with a
new idea. She claims to have discovered a way
to prevent dust, smoke or smeli from poisoning
the air where railroads or factories emit foul
gases.
In the way of a " taking title " for a public
discourse, that chosen bj' the Rev. Joseph B.
Cleaver, of Brooklyn, New York, is entitled
to the first place. " Drunkenness Among
Preachers," may seem to be a rather startling
theme, but it did not require Mr. Cleaver's
authority to establish its truthfulness. It
would probably be hard to find an inebriate
asylum where there was not a fair per centage
of ministers as inmates, while the newspapers
almost daily chronicle such conduct upon the
part of clergymen as would lead to the suspi-
cion of more or less intemperance in something
besides zeal and strong language among many
of them. It will not do, however, to sav that
drunkenness i6 very prevalent with preachers,
as a large proportion, * majority, perhaps,
avoid temptation by total abstinence, while
others are restrained by the fear of public
scandal, but there seems to be a considerable
basis of facts for Mr. Cleaver's assertion that
preachers do now use alcoholic drinks as a
beverage, and in excess." »
Some Inwardness of Railroad Sharpers
During the recent sessions of the railroad in-
vestigating committee of the New York as
■embly some very startling disclosures have
been made by witnesses, concerning the opera-
tions of Gould and Fisk while the Erie railroad
was under their control. Mr. Geo. P. Guppy,
who was general superintendent of the Erie
railroad in Jay Gould's day, testified that when
Gould went into office the capital stock of the
road was $25,111,210; the funded debt, $22,-
429,920, and the floating debt, $2,517,301, mak-
ing a total indebtedness of $51,075,943, and
that when Jay Gould went out of ptfice, in
March, 1872, the capital stock was $S6,536,910;
the funded debt, $2t>.895,000, and the floating
debt. $3,534,813. Of the entire stock and debt
Increase. $47,332,171 was accounted for in the
state engineer's reports by the cost of the old
New York and Erie railroad, but there was
nothing to account for any other part of the
increase; thus $4,323,350 increase was not ac-
counted for in any way. The annual rental
paid for the lines leased by the Erie *hen Mr.
Guppy was connected with the road was $1,-
100,000, and, according to his statements, there
wer© some remarkable facts connected with
the said leases. He said that when
the Northen railroad of New Jersey was leased
to the Erie it had a small capital stock and
debt, but both of these were enormously in-
creased under Mr. Gould's management. Ac-
cording to the witness, however, president-
Gould's most successful ventures were in his
dealings with the Chemung and the Canan-
daigua and Elmira railroads. The Erie had
leased the two roads, the contracts being that
if the rental was not promply paid the leases
•hould be void. Gould quietly bought up all
the stock of both lines, and then, in his capacity
%3 president of the Erie, stopped payment of
the rental. At once the leases lapsed, and both
the smaller roads were Mr Gould's private
property. He sold them to the Pennsylvania
Central, realizing a profit of $2,500,000. The
capital stock of the Chemung road, when the
Erie leased it, was $380,000, and that of the
Canandaigna and Elmira $500,000. Mr, Guppy
said that he had accepted a proposition to ex-
change his salary of $5000 a year under the
Krie for the presidency of the Jefferson car
company, $100,000 worth of its stock and
$10,000 a year, but Jay Gould said the Erie
could not spare him, and finally he accepted
$50,000 of the Jefferson car company's stock,
and continued in the employ of the Erie. He
did not dream, he said, that the Jefferson
car company were simply bribing him to act
as their tool and use his influence with
Jay Gould in their interests, for the cars of
the company were run over the Erie road, and
a little favorable recognition from the presi-
dent would have been of great service to them.
Upon being asked whether a certain contract
with an officer of the Erie road for the supply
of cars was a '* fraud," tho witness replied
that he did not consider it a " straight" trans-
action, and finally admitted it " was a fraud."
Witness further stated it was understood that
the then attorney general would not press the
suits of the people against Erie owing to the
pressure brought to bear upon him by Gould
and others. He had $10,000 worth of stock
that never paid him a dividend—perfectly
worthless in fact. Once he could have soid it
to Mr. Jewett, but declined, as Mr. Gould
wanted a consideration—namely: that he (wit-
ness) would give evidence in the McHenry suits
against Erie. Witness testified that Mr. Gould
said that with his evidence he could put the
"Sickles gang in state prison,'* but he declined,
as he considered one party as bad as the other.
He did not think the offer of the " Sickles
gang" to him a bribe. He was not offered
any money down, but they said the other side
had not robbed all—there was some leit, and
they would divide the 4; slag.''
POLITICAL INDICATIONS.
It would be ridiculous affectation to im-
pute trivial significance to the feault of
Tuesday's election in Ohio. Thai the re-
publicans would carry Iowa by one of their
usual majorities was fully expected. Bat in
Ohio the case was very different. There the
democrats had the state government and had
the two United States senators. The returns
of the election as far as reported indicate
that they lose the state offices, and that by
failing to secure a majority of the legislature
they will lose a United States senator. The
result takes Its gravest and most far-reach
ing significance from the fact that Ohio wa6
made tho hotly contested battlefield upon
the issues thrust to the front by the demo-
cratic majority of the forty-sixth congress in
their struggle with the president over the
appropriation bills. That memorable strug-
gle was commenced and prosecuted in ac-
cordance with the resolution of a caucus,
whose great purpose seemed to be to organize
controversy and excitement about matters
not calculated to directly imperil democratic
unity, and to keep down the agitation of sub
Jects upon which the leaders and the rank
and file of the party were largely at variance.
But, however admirable the caucus pro-
gramme a5 a device for avoiding schism
and division in the democratic party with
regard to currency, banking, the
national debt, the navigation laws, the
tariff, an Internal improvement
policy, the regulation of railroads, and other
questions of b material and economic char-
acter, it exactly played into the hands of
shrewd republican leaders who feared to be
put on the defensive in this field of argu-
ment and agitation, and who courted the de-
bate about state rights and national author-
ity to which the programme inevitably con-
ducted. It enabled theth to assume the ag-
gressive, and they made a splendid though
unscrupulous use of the opportunity to
charge their adversaries with reviving seces-
sion heresies and with designing a practical^
annulment of the results of the war. Gen.
Ewing, democratic candidate for governor
in Ohio, though origiuallv disposed to assert
the paramount importance erf financial and
economic questions, felt constrained, after
giving his adhesion to the caucus programme
as a member of congress, to stand by its
issues and make the most of them in the Ohio
canvass. His efforts were superb. He
managed to gain a large part of the green-
back vote. But the conclusion is irresisti-
ble that a large body of voters were turned
away from the democratic ticket by the per-
suasion of republican orators, who appealed to
their fears and their prejudices, their union
sentiment and sectional pride, regarding a
solid south, the results of the war, and the
course of the democratic majority in con-
gress. It is needless to say that
the recent campaign in Ohio, which
was a sort of introductory battle to the
presidential contest of next year, has re-
sulted in a manner profoundly unpromising
for the democratic ticket in that contest.
It looks as though the democratic leaders
have managed to maintain a kind of me-
chanical unity for the party by processes
fatal to its prospects of national success and
ascendency. Shrewd politicians of the
party will not fail to make a uote of this in-
dication, will avoid heavy investments in
presidential schemes, and will cultivate with
more especial diligeupe the resources at
their command in states or districts supposed
to be durably democratic.
LOCAL SANITATION THE BEST SAFE-
i GUARD.
The history of the yellow fever epidemic
that prevailed at Shreveport in 1873 is
against the position that in total non-inter-
course alone is there safety against the
spread of this virulent infection. With the
exception of a light visitation in 1807,
there had been no yellow fever at
Shreveport since the fatal year of 1853.
The fever had never before existed at
Shreveport until it was epidemic at New
Orleans. In 1873 the public health at New
Orleans was remarkably good, no fever be-
ing announced and only a few cases exist-
ing there. Quarantine against New Or-
leans was not even thought of. About the
beginning of August certain sickness made
its appearance in Shreveport, which in-
creased as the month wore on. It proved
fatal in its consequences. That year' the
great raft in the upper Red river was being
removed, and vast quantities ef floating
timber were passing the lower river and
lodging on the way down. The summer
had been comparatively moist, and vegeta-
tion was very rank. The sanitary condition
within the city's limits was simply frightful.
The town was under rule af a mayor and
council thrust upon the citizens against their
wishes by the governor of the state, and
whose ordinances in no direction were re-
spected or complied with. It was a period
of political reconstruction. The place was
crowded with negroes from the country, who
were packed into <?very hovel that
could be found. A steamboat lad§n
with cattle was wrecked a short
distance below town, all the cattle were
drowned, and their bodies washed ashore
and left to putrefy. The stench from the
carcasses was almost intolerable. These de-
tails are necessary to understand exactly the
situation. Sickness increased as September
approached, its type beiug virulent fever.
It was called by a variety of names—raft
fever, black tongue, malarial disease, etc.
The death rate rose, running up from two
and three a day to as high as six
and eight before the true nature of the infec-
tion was declared by the medical faculty.
There was no reported fever in New Orleans
—from whence Shreveport in former years
had contracted the disease—and the people
were off their guard. The symptoms of
yellow fever were marked from the begin-
ning, but medical men were content to pro-
nounce it a pernicious malarial fever in ab-
sence of known infection from a distance.
On the 2d of September a case of black vomit
occurred, and on the day following the
prevailing disease was pronounced yellow
fever, and epidemic at that. It had been in
town over a month, and this was the first
public intimation of its presence. The type
was fearfully fatal, it will be rfemembered,
the mortality being over 60 per cent, of the
remaining population. This same disease
infected Memphis a month later, and to sev-
eral places in Texas the same year was car-
ried the Shreveport disease. After the
fever subsided at Shreveport a number of
medical gentlemen convened there for the
purpose of investigating its origin. Among
them were visiting physicians from New
Orleans, including Drs. Choppin and Beard.
The conclusion arrived at was that the dis-
ease was introduced from New Orleans. It
was shown that on the 28th of July a deck
hand was transferred sick from a river boat
to the hospital at Shreveport, where he died
a day or two afterward of yellow fever
There was no mention made of the circum
stance'at the time, and no precautions were
taken against the spread of the disease.
As before remarked, the sanitary condition
of the place was at a dreadfully low ebb.
Some important deductions are to be gleaned
from the history of this Shreveport epidemic
upon the theory of its origin adopted by the
medical investigators. The case that started
the disease at Shreveport was traced to New
Orleans, where the disease did not become
epidemic* and Galveston that season, in al-
most constant communication with New
Orleaus, and with points in the interior
likewise where fever existed, had oo yellow
fever to speak of. The inference is that
the sanitary condition at New Orleans and
Galveston that season was not favorable to
the spread of the disease. At Shreveport it
was highly so. There was some fever in
both New Orleans and Galveston in 1873,
but it was easily controlled. If a high state of
sanitation will curb or exclude the spread of
this disease, the remedy is seemingly in
the hands of every community. Notwith-
standing other differences, all authorities
agree, we believe, upon the importance of
local sanitation. To relieve commerce from
all unnecessary embargo, therefore, an ef-
fective responsibility should attach to local
communities They should lie made to
realize the necessity of maintaining proper
systems of local sanitary police. It was
death and destruction to filthy Shreveport to
hold communication with New Orleans in
18781 yet Galveston did so with impunity.
Wise and vigorous measures of local sanita-
tion are esaeuUai to the health of every com-
munity, whether within or without the so-
called yellow-fever belt When this truth
is turned to right account in practioe, aine-
tentha of the danger wiH have been obvi-
ated. The inconvenient and, to eertain
cases, unjust and barbarous rule of total non-
Intercourse will be consigned to oblivion,
along with othei relics of the past, when
the conviction prevails that certain immuni-
ty from disease Is the price of vigilance and
energy in the province of local sanitation.
Police OfficiouinesB.
The press of New York is frequently called
upon to chroniole outrages committed by po-
lice officers, nominally in the name of the law.
In fact, the instances are ©f such common oc-
currence as to render the details of compara-
tively little interest to the general public,
whose immediate attention seems to be fully
engrossed by reports of the walking matches
and other prominent sporting events. How-
ever, when such a gross and infamous outrage
as that lately perpetrated by one officer Rad-
mus is made public, a general feeling of in-
dignation is aroused, and it is pleasant to
record that, in this instance, at least, prompt
and speedy justice has been meted out to the
offender. It seems that Mr. Mclnty re was re-
turning from a theater with a young lady, and
they laughed louder than officer Radmus
liked. Radmus told the young lady to go
home, and pushed her escort away with his
cluo. The latter protested, and demanded the
officer's number, whereupon Radmus arrested
him ard locked him up. A suit by Mr. Mc-
Intyre for $5000 against Radmus resulted in a
decision for $2500. In rendering his decision
in this case, judge Speir made use of some
seasonable observations relative to the fre-
quent complaints of police officiousness, among
which were the following:
I say to you, first, that mere talking or sing^
ing does not, at common law, constitute a
breach of the peace, and an officer can not
arbitrarily make it one by calling it a disturb-
ance. Second, unless there is an actual breach
of the peace or an affray, there is nothing of
which the common law takes cognizance-
nothing which justifies an officer's interfer-
ence ) and if he interferes and parties do not
desist, and he then threatens force, they may
then threaten resistance. Third, being merely
drunk is not bv the law sufficient to justify in-
terference. The words "drunk and disorder-
ly " must mean disorderly not only in the
sense of being drunk, but of causing annoyance
to others. It has been decided in our courts
and in the courts of England time out of mind
that where a policeman arrests, unless he is
legally justified In arresting, resistance to him
to any extent necessary will be lawful and
justifiable.
"Free Pratique and Free Fever,"
LTo the News.]
Richmond, Texas, Oct. 14.—In the inter-
view with Mr. L. C. Fisher, as published
in the News of the 12th iust., that gentle-
man says " the idea of free pratique and
free fever means death to our people and
ruin to all our material prosperity."
Are we to understand this as ex-cathedra?
Will it be deemed heresy in a layman to
question, just a little, it3 infallibility, and
also the infallibility of the board of health
in refusing to raise quarantine against New
Orleans?
Let us ' present a few facts. It will be
remembered that only three or four years
ago. yellow fever prevailed at Calvert,
Bryan and Columbus.
There was no dnspute whatever, even
among the doctors, who are proverbial for
disagreement, as to the character of this
fever—all agreed, so far as I ever heard, that
it was genuine yellow fever, and, at Colum
bus at least, of a most virulent type. Doc-
tor, nurses and supplies were sent from
Galveston to some, if not each of the places
named. The fever prevailed for about its
usual term of three months and then disap-
peared.
If the " idea" and action of Galveston
during the continuance of the fever at above
places did not mean "free pratique and free
fever," what did they mean? Every day,
during the time this fever prevailed at these
several points, trains came from each one of
them into Galveston, bringing all who
wished to come—sick or well—to remain as
long as they liked, without let or hindrance!
Hundreds, if not thousands, did thus come.
Did '' death to our people and ruin to all
our material prosperity" follow?
Not by any means, that any one knows of
yet.
All this without disinfection, fumigation,
expurgation, proclamations, detentions, etc.
Mr. Fisher and the board of health will
confer a most valued favor upon a very
large portion of our people, I mean that
portion who, like the ban Antonio Siftings
man, are not " doctors," and who are not
presumed to comprehend all the science of
the age in a lump, if they will explain, in a
plain, commonseuse way and language, so
that common people can understand it, just
how it happens that communication with
New Orleans, four hundred miles away on
the east, and where there is no yellow fever,
is now so dangerous, while there was no
danger, as the result proved, in daily com-
munication with the above-framed places,
only two hundred or less miles to the west,
while at the latter the yellow fever was pro-
vailing, and at Columbus, (the nearest point
of the three,) to a most fearful extent, kill-
ing its victims each day and night? If
death and ruin did not follow then, in the
wake of " free pratique and free fever,"
will they kindly explain to the common peo-
ple what great changes (scientific) have
since taken place in the circumstances, to
render the danger of communication with
New Orleans, where there is no yellow fever
now, so frightful?
Circumstances, we know, do alter cases—
why not let the people have them in this
particular case?
Mr. Fisher says further: "The effort to
relegate the people back to the middle ages
will fail.** May he not be mistaken in this?
He announces that the people, in this ad-
vanced stage of Christianity and civilization,
" have learned that a shot-gun is a good pre
ventive of infection, if used in time!!"
Was it not by some similar means that in
the middle ages people were taught that the
sun revolved around the earth?
Will Mr. Fisher and the board of health
kindly state what importance the people
should attach to those remarkable facts late-
ly published by the Hon. W. J. Jones? Are
they to be dismissed with the Scotch verdict,
"Not proven"? What, too, of the several
facts stated by H. Rosencrans. M. D. ? Are
all facts not coming from the board of health
to be thrown aside as not proven?
Observer.
Ji CTLEJi'S BLOOIJIIO VXDS.
They Give an Exhibition of a Very ZUild
Kind of Feroe ity.
jNew York Times Oct, 10.]
The announcement that Col. Thomas But-
ler, of Hamburg, S. C., would give an exhi-
bition of negro hunting, with bloodhounds,
drew about twenty men and fifty small and
ragged boys to Fleetwood park yesterday
afternoon. The day was so wind}* and the
attendance so small that Col. Butler deter-
mined not to give a regular performance,
but merely to bring the dogs out for a dress-
rehearsal, without charging any admission
fee. At 3 o'clock a colored man and twelve
dogs were brought out, and the chase began.
The colored man was black enough to l>e
genuine, but the degs were meek and mild
little fox-hounds, of the kind that could
hardly frighten anything larger than a rabbit.
Col. Butler said tiiat they were the only kind
ever used in the south tor tracking negroes,
and that they were not bloodhounds, which
was evident." They bayed continually, and
made a great deal too much noise for dogs
that had any biting at hand. They looked
very sleek and neat, and also looked as if a
man with good nerve and a heavy pair of
boots coulJ easily overcome their alleged
ferocity. Col. Butlef also said that the
colored boy who was to be hunted was not
his regular boy, but that 'ue brought him
along because he knew how to cut the
worms out of dogs's tongues to keep them
from getting mud. The colored boy Sam
Britton. a tine specimen of the southern
darkey, took a run around the park, over
the grass, and then m milted a pony and
rode a short distai, • • Then he took another
run, bringing up at a big gate, that had a
broad board fastened across the top trom
post to post. The dogs hunted around a
short time, found the scent and followed it.
When they arrived at the place tiiat was
traveled over on horseback they were puz
zled for a short time, but after a while they
found the trail again, and made a circuit to
the gate. When "Sam " saw them nearing
him he climbed up on the wide board,
and sat there, where the dogs could not
reach him. The ferocious beasts stood un-
derneath wagging their tails and looking as
if they wanted something to eat. A man
came out of a neighboring house with a
green branch and a pail of water, and hand-
ed the branch to the colored boy. He set
the pail of water on the ground, and in half
a minute the dogs were so busy drinking it
that if Sam had been a fugitive slave he
might easily have walked away. Sam then
began to whip up the dogs with his green
branch, and Col. Butler, who walked up be-
cause his horse Wouldn't go. said, "Hiss!
hiss' hiss!" With this urging the dogs be-
gan to bark, then Col. Butler blew his horn;
Sam slid down from his seat, and in a mo-
ment the dogs were rubbing their heads
against him in the most friendly way. This
ended the exhibition. Col. Butler says that
he will give two performances next week,
when the dogs will have a chance of tearing
another unfortunate fugitive to fragments.
A man is always wanting some one to tell
him how handsome he looks. A woman
will just stand before a glass and see for
herself.
XT. LOUIS LETTER.
Fair Notes—Veiled Prophets—•Ytelou.
Papers—Immigration Motes.
IfSpaolal Correspondence at the News.}
St. Louis, Oct. li—The exposition snd
fair »re over. This seasos is lO St. Louis
what Mardi Oraa week U to New Orleans
and Galveston, with this exception, that the
thousands of visitors here derive much more
practical benefit from the fair exhibits than do
those who witness simply the entertainments
of the Knights of Homus and the Mystic
Krewe of Oomua It is s little remarkable
how much money can be raised tn New Or-
leans for % big frolic or a political contest,
and yet how difficult It is to raise subscrip-
tions for any material enterprise. The
money that has been frittered away in
these follies would have completed
the railroad to Texas long ago.
There is, however, a good deal of the south-
ern apathy in thiB the " future great," as it
styled itself just about the time Chicago be-
gan to distance It, and to-dar out of the
twenty great railroads that find their ter-
mini here, 8t Louis controls absolutely but
one, and that ts the Iron Mountain. This
roaa has proved to be a most prolific feeder
to business here, especially during the last
couple of years, as it traversed Arkansas
and has done the bulk of the trade that here-
tofore belonged to the unfortunate city of
Memphis. This partly accounts for the
large receipts of ootton here thus far this
season. It can not be denied, however,
that the cotton factors of this city
have spared no expense or efforts to create
the revolution which took cotton up stream
and away from New Orleans and Galveston,
and also captured a ptirt of the Memphis
quota even before the yellow (ever broke up
that market. Last month the cotton ex-
change here awarded to A. C. Smith, of
Queen City, Cass county, a premium of $400
for being the largest shipper from Texas to
St, Louis, and at the fair just closed the fol-
lowing premiums were awarded to Texas
growers for the best cotton grown in that
state: 9. H. Green, Marshall. $200; W. H.
H. Moore, Texarkana, $150; 8. H. Green,
Marshall, another $100; B. M. Camy, Sul-
phur Springs, $75, and W. H. H Moore
another $50.
One of the features si the fair Is the
annual banquet given by the cotton ex-
change, and from actual participation the
News correspondent can pronounce the
occasion this year a most enjoyable one.
It was exceptionally so, In the absence of
speech-making, which is what the good old
fashion of toast drinking has degenerated
into. The champagne was Missouri made,
but not inferior to nine tenths of the im-
ported brands. On this score much more
may be said in the future.
the veiled pkophets,
This is an organization which, copying
after the K. O. M.'s, gives a brilliant pro-
cession to add to the attractions of fair
week. Tlie theme this year, their second
appearance, was "A festival of Vulcan and
the Muses, and Visit of Hephaestus to the
Vrei!ed Prophets." There were twenty-two
gorgeously- gotten-up cars in the parade.
They represented the following subjects,
and appeared in the order given below:
The imagination of your readers will have
to elaborate to suit their fancy, and those
who have seen our displays will experience
no difficulty In picturing the pageant. 1.
Volcano. 2. Cave of the Cyclops. "3.
Pottery. 4. Wood carving. 5. Sculpture.
0. Music. T. Weaving. 8. Paiatiiig. 9.
Agriculture. 10. The wheel. 11. Naval
architecture. 12. The engine of war. 13.
The glassmakers. 14. Artificial lights. 15,
Mechanical recorders of time. 10 Astrono-
my. 17. Printing. 18. Steam. 19. Elec-
tricity. 20. Cauldron of the veiled pro-
phots. 21. Their dinner silver service. 22,
The veiled prophet himself—a figure of a
sturdy monarch about 30 feet in height,
seated on a gorgeous throne.
The " cauldron of the veiled prophets "
was, despite the glitter and tinsel, tntenselv
suggestive of the " veiled profits " that it is
alleged are made out of the cauldron most
common in this community—the lard kettle.
The ball which followed the procession
was one of those immense mashes of silks,
satins and broadcloths, where dancing Is
impracticable and promenading even is pre-
posterous.
The magnificent hall of th« merchants
exchange, where the ball was given, was
beautifully adorned with flowers and fes-
tooned with flags, without, however, de-
tracting from the tine fresco work with
which the room was originally decorated.
It is estimated that a quarter of a million
people witnessed the display on the streets. Of
tiiis number one-half were strangers. It
ought to be stated that there were very few
Texans here, and It is also worthy of note
that with cotton excepted, the fair exhibits
from Texas were trivial. The New Braun-
fels woolen company walked off with the
first honors in the textile department, and
their exhibit was a very creditable one. Why
Texans take so little interest in their own
affairs Is one of those problems that can not
be satisfactorily explained. Here is an ex-
cellent opportunity presented annually to
advertise the variety of the products of the
state and its resources, and to remind the
thousands of farmers and visitors to this
great gathering of the people, of the unex-
celled advantages wiiich Texas offers to the
immigrant. This question so vital to the
immediate future of the state needs stirring
up badly. The land owners, the railroads,
the tax payers and the people, but possibly
not the politicians, are interested in making
this question one of the vital issues in the
coming state canvass. Every settler on the
soil of Texas enhances the value of the
ground he cultivates, and all that which ad-
joins it. The benefits of this appreciation
are distributed in the increased revenues of
the state and the consequent prospect of re-
duced taxation. Kansas, with a climate
much more rigorous and no greater attrac-
tions than Texas, is filling up with extraor-
dinary rapidity, but the state government
spends money liberally and judicious-
ly to accomplish this, and the rail-
roads spare neither men nor means to
to promote the movement. To be sure, the
Globe-Democrat and a few more of the same
class of journals, actuated by political mo-
tives, and, perhaps, if the truth were known,
by subsidies from the western railroads
themselves, are doing a great deal to divert
the migratory stream of humanity from Tex-,
as, Arkansas and Missouri by making their
sheets the medium for magnified reports of
crimes occurring in the states mentioned.
These tales, when true, are always twice
and sometimes thrice told, and the repeated
sensational headings suggest a new outrage
each time, whereas it is often but a revamp-
ing of some stale subject. The Globe-De-
mocrat gets no specials from Texas except
such as are criminal in character, and
occasionally it appropriates specials of that
sort from other papers without due credit.
It can not be denied that this constant parade
of the worst feature of the lowest order of
Texas society to the exclusion of all credit-
able Texas news of material interest to the
world at large is damaging to our immediate
prospects. The remedy is not so plain. It
involves either a revision of our criminal
code or a more radical construction of the
present laws, and a governor who will take
more pains to prosecute criminals than to
search for pretexts for cheating the gallows.
Another method would be to discourage
commercial intercourse with communi-
ties which accord a liberal support
to our villifiers and defamers.
The Texan who welcomes in his mail an
Inter-Ocean or Globe-Democrat is only to be
compared to the fool who warmed the
frozen viper into vitality that it might turn
and fasten upon him its poisonous fangs.
The details of the accident which befell
Galveston's much beloved citizen, Mr. John
Scaly, have been wired to the News. He is
still at the Lindell hotel here, suffering, but
recovering speedily from his injuries. That
he was not killed by the fall is almost
miraculous, as the train from which he feH
was running at the rate of about thirty
miles an hour. With all their enterpise, the
newspapers here did not get the above item
until the News had reached here
containing the details of the mishap.
Among the Texans here during fair week
were Mr. W. D. Cleveland and family; of
Houston, and W. H. Sinclair, of Galveston.
The latter is purchasing stock for the Gal-
veston City Railroad company, and he has
also ordered a number of new switches,
which will obviate the necessity of each car
stopping and changing the switch to turn off
the main track, as is now done. Mr. N H
Ricker is also here, presumably for the pur-
chase of stock.
The passenger agent of the International
and Great Northern road, Dr. Ennis, whose
office, No. 206 north Fourth street, is Texas
headquarters in St Louis, has recently had
the responsibility of freight agent added to
his duties. The I. and G. N. is the only
Texas road that has an office here.
spondenfs mistake about all the ootton go-
ing north from heri
Ii
St. Louis vs. Galveston.
ITo the Newa.1
Tyler. Oct. 13.—I have noticed in the
X*ws lately one or two letters from Tyler,
and have been surprised that a correspond-
ent of the News should not be posted as te
what affects Galveston so nearly as cotton
shipments. Your correspondent creates the
impression that St. Louis gets all the cotton
here. Now, the truth is, since September 1
Galveston has gotten, in round numbers,
1500 bales, St. Louis and other northern
points, by all rail, bales; Houston none.
Tyler originated the Tyler Tap railroad,
and this railroad is now generally conceded
to be the Texas branch of the St. Louis, I.
M. and S. railway, and is styled the Texas
ami St. Louis railway. It has been pub-
lished generally that thi6 road will at an
early day penetrate Texas to Waco, and
also that St. Louis expects to get all the cot-
ton tributary to its line.
This road is not yet an accomplished fact,
and one can not say what revolution its com-
pletion mav bring about. We would for
the presiikV merely explode your corre-
!n Tyler is located the general offioe* of
the Texas fcnd St. L. railroad. Tyler also
hopes to have their machine shops located
here, and builds great expectation! on this,
very Juatlj.
A. meeting of the merchants and cotton
buyers was called and assembled some three
weeks ago in the offices of the T. and St L.
Ry. Co. here and was addressed by sev-
eral distinguished gentlemen in the Inter-
est of that road. St. Louis quotations were
shown to be better than Galveston, attention
called to equal rates of freight and many
points of local Interest forcibly and elo-
quently enlarged on; the principal point
being that the much coveted machine shops
.would never be located here unless the cot-
ton was shipped to St. Louis. Now, it can
be readily seen that there is a very strong
St. Louis influence at work here.
The result of the meeting was that every
cotton buyer shipped every bale he could
get to St. Louis for two weeks. Well, to
make & long story short, in due time (and
this is about three weeks), the account sales
came to hand, and utterly exploded the ar-
guments so eloquently and forcibly enlarged
on by our distinguished orators, as above
mentioned.
Every man who shipped to St. Louis is
disgusted, because, In the first place, it takes
from two to three weeks to get returns from
St. Louis; In the second place, quotations
will not do to pin your faith to, and every
one who has tried"it will say, don't ship
good grades of cotton to St. Louis, for the
classification will ruin you; in the third
place, no one can tell how much his cotton
will lose In weight (all the way from one to
twenty pounds per Dale). A good Judge of
cotton here knows what the Galveston mar
ket is by the quotations, but can tell nothing
about the St. Louis market. He knowB that
bis cotton always gains m weight at Galves-
ton; he knows, "too, that he will get returns
from Galveston in from five to eight days,
and that he can turn his money over twice
while the St. Louis shipper is purchasing a
dear experience by one investment. These
causes resulted last week in the shipment of
500 bales cotton to Galveston and 7 bales to
St. Louisj and considering the pressure
brought to bear on Tyler by St. Louis, fur-,
ther comment as to the comparative merits
of the two markets Is unnecessary.
Your correspondent, we all admit, ts a
funny man, and his genius in the facetious
line runs rampant In ridiculing the Interna-
tional and Great Northern railroad. From
Troupe to Mineola is a branch line, and jus-
tifies only a mixed train. The track is am-
ply sufficient for all demands on it. Every
traveler familiar with all the roads In Texas
knows that for equipment, good track and
general good management the International
and Great Northern railway exoels any road
in Texas, and is equal to any in the south,
and therefore needs no defense. Within the
next two years 1 predict the finest and fast-
est trains in the state will run over this de-
spised branch. Faib Plat,
HOLINESS PROFESSIONS.
Preacher Haynes Declares Himself a
Second Christ, and Professes to Per-
form Tliracleg — Citizens Indignant
and Disgusted.
ITo the News.l
Corsica>\\, Oct. 14.—R. J. Haynes, the
holiness preacher who created so much dis-
turbance here one year ago, causing a rup-
ture in the Cumberland presbyterian church,
has commenced another meeting here. He
claims to be a second Jesus Christ, or
rather that Christ has come a second time
in him. He also declares that death, hell
and the grave are placed under his feet, and
that the devil and his imps are under his
control. He avers from the pulpit that he
Is bullet and knife-proof, and Impervious to
heat or cold. He professes the power to
work any miracle ever worked by Christ,
such as healing the sick, by laying on of
hands, etc. Stranire to say, he "has many
followers. Rev. Thomas M. Goodnight,
the former pastor of the Cumberland church
here, and formerly a professor inthe Tehua
cana university, where Haynes graduated,
embraced this doctrine of pure life or com-
plete sanctification as enunciated by Haynes
and his followers, a year ago on their former
visit, the result of which was bis dismissal
from his pastorage, and the calling of Rev.
A. Templeton from Tennessee to fill his
place.
clinging ro ais false gods.
After Haynes left here, Goodnight's
friends, and he has many of them, tried to
win him back from bis false gods and had
nearly succeeded. A large, fine female col-
lege was built for him and he was placed in
charge. Last week Haynes and his crowd
arrived, and Goodnight left school, wife,
child and home to follow again this cursed
doctrine. Last night it was thought by
many that his wife, a most estimable lady,
was dying. Goodnight was sent for three
times before he would come, and then would
not go near her bed, a6 he said the Lord
had told him not to approach her, but
that she must come to him in the
tabernacle, where the spirit would impart to
her a great blessing. After he left, Mrs.
Goodnight begged and plead so hard that
finally,"more dead than alive, she was car-
ried to the place where the preaching was
going on, and laid at the feet of her hus-
band.
no blessings came.
After waiting for an hour or more tor the
blessing and receiving none, she was carried
home. This morning she wrote him a very
pathetic letter to come home and get his
breakfast, and if it was the Lord's will she
would go with him. To this he replied the
" Lord had told him he must not go
to her, but that she must come to
him." Our eitizens are greatly ox-
cited over the matter. Goodnight was ar-
rested to-day on a writ of lunatico inqui-
rendo. This created even greater excite-
ment among his friends, who, one and all,
hoped he would be adjudged insane and
placed in the asylum, where Haynes's crowd
could not reach'him. The warrant for his
arrest on a oharge of Insanity was issued on
a sworn eomplaint by one of his best friends,
and upon the approval and expressed desire
of Mrs. Goodnight. He submitted very
quietly to arrest, and was carried before
county Judge J. L. Harle. A jury was im-
paneled and several witnesses testified.
When Goodnight was asked if he wanted
any counsel to represent him, he replied:
"the lord is my counsel."
During the trial he kept his; eyes closed,
and manifested no concern in the proceed-
ings. When asked if he wished to ask the
witnesses any questions, be said: " This is
the Lord's controversy, not mine." The jury,
composed of six of our best citizens, were
out but ten minutes when they returned
their verdict, which pronounced him insane
and recommended that he be placed in con-
finement. An officer took him home, where
he will be forced to remain for awhile at
least.
Haynes, with a part of his crowd, were
present at a portion of the trial. All had
their bibles with them, in fact they are
scarcely seen without them. He exerts a
powerful influence over every one who fol-
lows him, and no one knows of any real
good he has ever accomplished. He has
done more harm in Corsicana by causing
dissentions in families, in some cases almost
causing separations, than all the villains
ever indicted by our grand jury. These are
plain words, but they are nevertheless facts.
xc9t think of it.
A minister of the gospel, Ja thoroughly
educated man, well versed in every lan-
guage, and classed among the best educators
in the south, enticed from an invalid wife
and only child and made to succumb to
the mesmeric power of this man Haynes.
Again, think of a loving husband and
wife. The wife goes to these meetings, as-
sociates with Haynes and his crowd for a
while, and what is the result? The husband
walking the streets with a downcast look,
and the wife—well, 'twere best not to say.
This last may seem almost incredible, but it
was told your correspondent and others to-
day by oae of our citizens, who always
stands "by what he says. Why is it—yes,
why is it that men of such character as these
can exert such power in a christian com-
munity? Are they of the false prophets
who were to arrive, and would deceive
even the very eleot? Or, are they devils in-
carnate, allowed by God to roam at will for
a season to see how much devilment they
can do? On the other hand,
abe they christians?
Has God really revealed himself a second
time to mankind through the medium of R.
J. Haynes, who declares all other jkurches
to be of the devil ? Haynes says mat two
years from now God is going to put him in
command of tlie whole United States, or
that he will control them through him. He
says that the second presidential election
from now will be the last ever held; that the
Almighty will run matters to suit himself
thereafter. Can this be so? No doubt of
it. but will it be so?. Is Hayaes the oracle
of God to eive these facts to the world?
Our people think not. They will not be-
lieve tbat the religion of their forefathers;
the religion they have lived by for years is
not a religion good enough for them to die
by, and they feel that ail good people will
say amen.
Mr. Horatio Seymocr declares that he is
glad to see railroads succeed, but not at the
expense of the canals. " The railroads,"
the Buffalo Express quotes him as saying,
are not creative, as the canals are. Trans-
portation on the canals stimulates industry
and labor in a great many more ways than
does transportation on the railroads. The
latter, for instance, can not carry quanti-
ties of stone, clay or lumber in bulk, as the
canals do. yet think of the vast amount of
employment that is given to men in pro-
ducing lumber from the forest, stones from
the quarries, and clay from the earth.
These things lie directly at the basis of in-
dustry, and they represent values in a larger
degree than most of the freight carried by
the railroads."
WHY SOT RjUJIH QVABAJTTIWX f
[Speoia] OomepoudeBo* of the News.]
Nhw Orlbans, Oct. 10/—It seems to me
that people must be getting tired of hearing
so otten repeated. There it no fever In
New Orleans," and there will be none this
season. I have given the Nswa a report of
eaeh case that did occur.
No one here thinks of fever i business goes
on, and the city is filling with strangers and
returning citizens. There could have result-
ed no hurt to your city's health by raising
the quarantine blockade a month ago, and I
think with the exercise of caution inter-
course with New Orleans oould have been
kept up with safety all the summer. Any-
how, It ought to be resumed now.
The feeling of hostility strikes deeper root
every day you keep your doors closed. Thifl
is disinterested and honest testimony re-
spectfully offered for what worth your peo-
ple may be pleased to attach to It
Houston will be given every preference
possible tn the line of business and travel,
and the day is looked for with unconcealed
anxiety when the railroad will be finished
and the feeling of preference can be shown.
Tbxax.
Thb Liverpool Post tells a strange adven-
ture of a venturesome small boy. It ap-
pears that he played truant from school, and
dared not go home at night. He managed
to get into the station-yard at Chorley, with
the intention of passing the night in one of
the passenger carriages, but he failed to gain
access, the" doors being locked. He then
crept under the guard's van, and pulled
himself on the couple of short iroo rods btt
tween the axle of the wheels and the car-
riage floor, and between which the brake ap-
paratus passes. In this position he went to
sleep, snd at 5 o'clock in the morning the
train started for Wigan. The lad was ac-
tually brought-to Wtean, and again taken to
Chorley, clutching the rods. At the latter
place he was discovered, still fast asleep.
and rescued from his perilous position. The
marvel is how the lad remained on this frail
support during bis 18 miles journey, and
asleap all the while. Had he moved death
was certain.
THE GENUINE
Dr. C. McLANE'S
LIVER PILLS
are not recommended as a remedy " for all the
ill* that fiesh Is heir to," but In affections of
the Liver, and in all Bilious Complaints, Dys-
pepsia, and Sick Headache, or diseases of that
Oharacter, they stand without a riral.
AGUE AND FEVER.
No better cathartic can be used preparatory
to, or alter, taking quinine.
As a simple purgative they are nnequaled.
BEWARE OP IMITATIONS.
The genuine are never -ugar-coated.
has a red-wax seal on the "
si on, " Du. McLANE'gi
bears the signature of Q
Each box has a red-wax seal on the lid wttk
McLLNE'G LTVRH
rapper
nd Fleming Baoe.
the _
, prepared by
FLEMING BROS.,
Pittsbnrfli. Fa.,
the market being full of imitations of the
name MrZmn*, 6pelled differently but same
T*onuneiation.
h
McLane and
•^-Insist upon having the genuine D*. C.
mclake-s Liver pills, i
SPECIAL NOTICES.
Notice to Conilgnees-CoDsignee8 of goods
by the steamship
STATE OF TEXAS,
Xickerson, master,
from New York, will please call cm L Lovenberg,
Notary, corner Strand and Twenty-second straet,
and make affidavit that no goods to their consign-
ment have been in any place infected with yellow
fever since July 1, 1870.
J. N. SAWYER, Agent.
Notice to Consignees.—^The steamship
STATE OF TEXAS, Nickerson. master, from New
York, is now discharging cargo at Williams's wharf
Consignees will please pay fretoht and receive
leir goods as landed, receipting for the same on
the wharf. All goods remaining on the wharf after
4 o'clock p. m. (not receipted for) may, at option of
steamer's a^ent, be placed in warehouses or covered
with tarpaulins on the wharf, but they are entirely
at risk or consignee or owner. All claims for dam-
an justed before the goods leave the
i must be adjusted before the goods
J. N. SAWYER. Agent.
AUCTION SALES.
AUCTION SALE
SUNNY SOUTH SALOON.
WILL BE SOLO SiTl'BOAY, OCT.
18, 10 a. m., unless disposed of at private sale,
the fixtures of above named saloon, consisting, in
part, of fine Mirrors, Countering, Tables. Screens.
Crockery, Kitchen Utensils, Ice Boxes, Ph
Sugar-bowla, Shakers, Strainers, etc.. etc.
Due notice of sale.
7$T)>
oxes, Platedware,
SYDNOR & DINKELAKER, Auctioneers.
AUCTION SALE.
WE WILL SELL THIS DAT, AT 10
o'clock, at our sales-rooms. Strand,
30 bbls. APPLES, in very good order.
ASSORTED GROCERIES and SUNDRIES.
« new COOK STOVES.
PARgt LYNCH & CO.. Auctioneers.
NEW
ADV
TT
VERTISEMENTS.
otice.
All persons are hereby riu-
tioned not to trust or harbor any of the
Crew of the German Ship Julius,
as I will not be responsible for any debts contract-
ed by them.
H. 3IEEXTZKN, Master
A Novelty in This Market.
IN A FEW DAYS I SHALL COM-
mence the manufacture of
SELF-RISING- FLOUR,
using only the Galveston Mills Leader brand, ac-
knowledged to be the best in the country, and this,
combined with chemicals of equally as food quality.
is warranted to produce the very best Bread or Bie-
ouit that can be made. GEO. SMITH,
170 jJOth street.
When your horse is lame and
you have tried every remedy without success,
and you despair of ouriag him, and begin to think
of trading him off—befere doing so. obtain a bottle
of Giles's Liniment Iodide Ammonia, and see its ef-
fects in twenty-four hours. Those are the kind of
cases Dr. Giles likes; where all other remedies fail,
bis is the one that never disappoints. The doctor
will willingly prove and demonstrate what he says
on application to him at his office, 120 West Broad-
way. ST Y.
Sold by all druggista Send for pamphlet.
DR. GILES,
190 West Broadway, N. Y.
Trial size 35 cents.
GROCERIES—PROVISIONS.
GALVESTON.
a Word to Our Interior Friends.
At no time since we have been
in business has our stock been so large aud
varied. This season it has been our aim and special
attention to keep in stock, in addition to staples, a
most complete assortment of all kinds of Fancy
Groceries. Canned Goods. Preserved Salt and Pre-
served Fish. Jelly, etc. Imported and domestic
delicacies of every kind. We would aleo call the
attention of our interior friends to our CANDY
DEPARTMENT, which business has assumed such
proportions, that we can safely say is the largest
In tne state. We will continue to meet any com-
petition. both in price and quality of goods. The
nigh and well-known standard of our stick candy
will be maintained as before. We will continue to
receive weekly shipments of Oranges. Lemons,
Dates, Figs, Currants, Cocoanuts and Citron; in
fact, all kinds imported Fruits, Nuts, etc. Our
stock of Prize Boxes. Fireworks and Sugar Toys,
will be larger than usual. All we ask is a trial, to
convince any one of our ability to corhpete with
any and all markets Cr. SEELICiSON Ac CO.
just arrived—
1000 cans TOMATOES,
500 " PEACHES.
100 - PINEAPPLE8,
109 •• STRAWBERRIES,
MACKEREL, kits and half-barrels.
1500 Sacks COFFEE, nil trades,
Hand*
340 hhds. LOUISIANA SUGAR
Sole Agent for the CELEBRATED
gilt edge butter
Ef TUBS,
which gave such universal satisfaction during past
seasons.
LeGIERSE & CO.
HOUSTON.
lifiiEE
AND
Cotton Factor,
37 MAIN ST., AND 9,11,13 AND 15 FRANKLIN ST,
HOUSTON, - TEXAS. m
LARGE STOCK OF
Ml AND STAPLE GROCERIES,
TOBACCO, CIGARS,
And Whiskies,
WOOD AND WILLOW-WARE,
BAGGING AND TIES.
LIBERAL ADVANCES
made on consignments of COTTON, which I handle
exclusively on commission, and give my special at-
tention.
Superior advantages in freights to and from this
point make it the cheapest and best market for all
classes of merchandise, and enable us to realise as
good prices for cotton, with less expense and in less
"me than any other market in the stats.
Special Notice.—My stock of GROCERIES
IMBSST THREAD^SEWINGMACHINESl
f I I LLIIIIMM I I O
SIX-CORD
SOFT FINISH
rrvT
THREAD IS ENTIRELY OF
American production; is strong, smooth and
"* owtn^to its earceltem qualities, is fast
wefl-lnown brands of foreign manu-
re at home and abroad pronounce
^ ANTIC SPOOL COTTON superior to
eads for machine sewing, and housewives
i over the country prefer it for hand work. In ad-
lltion to medals and diplomas awarded at the Cen-
tennial and Paris Expositions, and at the American
Institute, many testimonials have been receivfsi
from the largest manufacturers and merchants in
the L nited States, and from others who have given
the Wiluamaxtic Spool Cotton the severest prac-
tical tests.
The following indorsements are submitted, some
Jlngrrqm - -
two hum
ning:
Galvsstox, Feb. 17, W0.—Gentlemen: Pereonal
investigation and exhaustive tests have convinced
us that the Wilua*aj*tic Si$ Co*d Spool Cotton
is equal in strength, smoothness and elasticity to
anv m the market and we have added to our stock a
full Hne, for which we solicit your orders. Cabinets
furnished without extra chaige. trul£^
We have thoroughly tested the Wmjllulantic
8ix-Cord Spool Cotton, and find it superior to any
other in the market, and strongly recommend it to
the agents, purchasers and users of all sewing ma-
chines. WHEELER & WILSON MFG. CO.,
THIS
X Amor
elastic
of them being"h-qm manufacturers who have more
than two hundred sewing machines constantly run
DOMESTIC SEWING
WILSON SEWING
W.
N. WHjEua. Prest.
home sewing
Davis sewing
»x, Pres't.
O.
O.,
l. A. johsuon, Treas.
CHINE CO.,
this season is larger and cheaper than at any time
before, and I invite
FALL STOCK to _
where. They will save time and money.
UM. D. CLUEVLAND.
» pin-chasers about to lay in their
give me a trial before going else-
WEED SEWING tfAChfxj w.,
VICTOR SEWING MACHINE CO.
The W illi am antic Thread only hpf given perfect
satisfaction, EARL & WILSON',
Manuf'rs Gents Linen Collars, N. Y.
MILLER & BINGHAM,
Manufacturers Heart Shirt, Troy.
We find it preferable to any other make of Spool
Cotton. MORISOSt & HUTCHINSON,
Manufacturers of Star Shirt, S. Y.
We are convinced that the Wtt^i am* vtic beatsall
other leading Cotton Threads for our work.
PRESTON B. KEITH,
Boot and Shoe Manufacturers. Mass.
We prefer Wiuj^ttaimo Spool Cotton to any
other thread for use OB Sewing Machines.
G. W. SIMMONS & CO.. Boston.
We consider
chine thread ts
After three years use we concede Willi am antic
Spool Cotton to be the best
MASSASSOIT KNITTING MILLS, Cohoes.
After seven years constant use we are convinced
of the superior merit of Willi a mastic Spool Oot-
ton. C. ¥. HOVEY & CO., Boston.
We consider William antic Six-Cord Spool Cot-
Ton the popular thread for Sewing Machines to-day.
LEWIS COLEMAN & CO.. Boston.
For Sale to the Trade by
L.& H.BLUM
GALVESTON.
COFFEE,
TO AKHIVKl
I have worn this Corset I I have worn the Flex-
three days, and every I ible Hip Corset three
bone over the hip is bro- months and every bone
ken. I is still perfect.
1he monet will be refunded
fob evert
whioh breaks over the hips. It fits elegantly an
with perfect ease.
For sale bv all leading merchants.
LT& H. BLUM, Galveston,
agents for texa8.
HE it
for fli
west.
ities at the Galveston News Bindery
work are unsurpassed in the south-
The facilities at the galtes-
ton News Bindery for first-class work are un-
surpassed in the southwest.
HOTELS.
Ill m/imj,
MRS. S. B. WHITE, PROP'ESS,
Corner Tremont and Mechanic Sts.,
Galveston, Texas.
ty Cheapest Fare of any First-Class Hotel in
the C'ity.
LOTTERIES.
ONLY" 25,000 TICKETS!
ROYAL HAYANA LOTTERY.
CLASS 1047 draws October 18*
CLASS 1048 draws November 4.
CLASS 1049 draws November 19.
CLASS 1050 draws
M. 0RRANTIA,
168 Common St. New Orleans.
DRAWINGS EVERY IT DAYS.
A SPLENDID OPPORTUNITY TO SIN
A FORTUNE.
1879—GRAND MONTHLY DISTR!BITH)N—1S79
At New Orleans, Tuesday? Nov. 11.
STATE LOTTERY CI).
This institution was regu-
larly incorporated bv the legislature of the
state for Educational ana Charitable purposes in
1868, with a capital of f1.000.000, to which it has
since added a reserve fund of $3TAOOO. Its Grand
Single Xumber Distribution will take place mouthlv
on the second Tuesday. It nrinr Scale* or Post-
pones. Look at the following distribution:
CAPITAL PRIZE, $30,000.
100,000 tickets at $2 each; half tickets $1.
LIST OF PBIZKS.
1 Capital Prize $ 30.000
1 .. 10.000
1 5.000
8 Prizes of $2,500 5.000
5 .. 1,000 5.000
m .. 500 h'.OOO
100 .. 100 10,000
200 .. 50 10.000
500 .. 20 10.000
1,000 10 10,000
APPRCXIM aTIOS PRIZES.
9 ApprorimatioD Prices of $300 2.700
9 aoo i,soo
9 .. 100 900
1.857 Prizes, amounting to u $110,400
^^Applications for Agencies or Kates to Clubs
should only be made to the offion at New Orleans.
Write clearly, Statin# full address, for further in-
formation, or sesd orders to
M, A. DAUPHIN,
P. 0. Box 692. Xew Orleans, 1-%
JSTFor further tofyfWMlen apply to J. D. SAW-
YES, next to N.ws offloe. Gutmu>o.
All our Grand Extraordinary Drawings are under
the supervision and management of
Gens. Q. T. Bsasrenrl and M nbal A
Early.
Capital Prise, fl09,0»3. Whole Tickets. $10.
MACHINERY—STOVES.
GALVESTON.
O. S. LX£. n. WEBU. JOSBUA MILLER .
Li
1 IMS
C. B. LEE & CO.,
IRON AND RRASS FOUNDERS
AND
MACHINISTS
MANUFACTURERS OF
STEAM ENGINES,
SAW MILLS,
BOILERS,
MILL AND GIN GEARING,
SbaAInc, Pulley., Bru. and Iron
Pamps, Etc.
tVParticular attention given to orders for Iron
Fronts and Castings for Buildings.
A11 kinds of Job Work MlltttM. Satis-
faction (Guaranteed.
CORNER WINNIE AND THIRTY-SECOND STS.,
(Near Railroad Depot).
# Galveston, Texas.
H. Sclierffiiis,
agent for
HOISTON, TEXAS.
ALL NEW CROP.
Par CJfDA.
IN SXOREt
Id. KOFPERL.
AFLOAT FROM RIO,
PekMabia,
First Cargo this Season,
* 3500 Sacks
In Store,
1500 Sks. COFFEE.
KAIFFMAN Sc Rl'NGE.
Barrels, wet
Barrels, dry
Barrels, empty, wet
RATE OF WHARFAGE
or TBS
iESTON WHARF CO.,
June 1, JS77.
■WHARFAGE ON ALL GOODS LANDED BY
VESSELS WILL BE COLLECTED FROM THB
VESSEL
WHARFAGE ON GOODS SHIPPED OUTWARD
WILL BE COLLECTED FROM THE SHIPPERS
CENTS.
Anchors and chains, per 100 lbs 5
1 5
5
3
2
30
23
Bacon, per case 15
Bagrs or sacks in bales, per cubic foot 1
Baling, per cubic foot 1
Bagging, per 100 yard rolls, each 0
Bagging, per 50 yard rolls, each 3
Baskets, per nest 2
Ballast, per ton 25
Bales over fire cubic feet, per foot 1
Bedsteads, common, each 10
Bedsteads, boxed, per cubic foot 1
Bellows, per cubic root 1
Bananas and plantains, per bunch 2
Breakfas^baoon, per box. 5
Boxes, liquor, cheese, soap, candles, etc 3
Boxes, extracts, ooffee, Inc. bluing, etc 2
Broomt per do* 3
Broom handles, per M 50
Broom-corn, per bale 5
Brick, fire, per M
Brick, common, per M
Bran j>er sack —
Bran, per ton of 9000 lbs
Barrels, empty, dry
Barrel staves. t»er M
Bacon, per cask
Blinds, doors and sash, per cubic foot.
Boilers, steam, per 100 lbs
tjnee and horns, per ton
jne-dust, per ton
tone-black or bone meal, per sack of 100 lbs
olts and spikes, rivets, nuts and washers, per
100 lbs o
Buckets, per dozen 5
Buckets, well, per dozen . 8
3
4
50
50
1
10
Butter, per keg.
Butter, per firkir
Building stone, rough per ton
Buggies, each .
Buggies, boxed, per cubic foot
Carboys, each, full
, per cubic foot
Carboys, empty 5
Casks, wine
Casks, hardware, per 100 lbs
Casks, merchandise, j
Carriages, each. .•
Carriages, boxed, per cubic f»x>t
Carts, each
Castings, hollow or solid, per 100 lbs
Battle, grown, each
attle, two-year olds, each
Cattle, yearlings, each.
Cattle, calves, each
Champagne, in baskets
Chairs, per bundle (2 each)
Charcoal, per sack
Cotton, per bale, landed
Cotton, per bale, shipped
Cotton, per sack
Coal, dumped In carts, per ton
Coal dumped on wharf, per ton.
Coal in casks, each 25
Coaches, stage, each l 00
20
5
1
75
1
25
5
30
20
10
10
5
5
3
10
10
10
30
50
Corn, per sack
Corn in shuck, per bbl
Cotton seed, per ton of 8000 lbs
Cotton gins, per cubic foot
Cotton planters, each
Corn planters, each
Corn shellers
Corn mills, per cubic foot
Coffe©. per sack
Codfish, per drum
Cordage, per 100 lbs
Ootton Ties, per 100 lbs
Copper, per 100 lbs
Copper, pig. per 100 lbs
Canned Beer, per case
Coal OH. per case .. 2
^ tuts, per 100 25
, Horse, per do* 5
as. Crockery or Merchandise per cubic foot 1
vatori, each 30
25
Drays, each
Doors, each
DemUohna, full
Demnohns. empty 1
Dry <joods, in case, per 100 lbs 5
Fishbars, Plates and Chairs, per 100 lbs 5
Flour per sack 3
Flour, per half sack 2
Fustic and other Dye Woods, per ton 50
Fertilizers or Guano, per ton 50
Furniture, boxed, per cubic foot 1
Groceries, dij, boxed, per 100 lbs .... 5
Grain, in bulk or sacked, for export per bushel
Grind and Mill stones, per 100 lbs 5
Gunny bags. In bales, per cubic foot 1
Hardware, per 100 lbs * 5
Hamea, per dos 4
Hams, per cask *** 23
Hay, per bale **.*.. 10
Hogsheads, empty 5
Hogshead Staves, per M 50
Hay Cutters 6
Half Barrels, wet. 1 3
dry I I.. 3
empty 1
Herrings, per box 1
j Poles, per 1000...
Horses and Mules, each
Hoop 1
Horset
Hogs.
25
50
5
Horse shoes, per keg. 5
Households goods, per 100 lbs [". 5
Hides, loose, each 1
Hides, in bales, per 100 lbs 5
Hides green, in bundles of two each .."!*.!! 3
Ioe, in casks 03
Ioe. as per invoice, less 30 per cent, for waste
per ton 50
Iron, boiler plate, bar. hoop, wrought, sheet
and galvanized, per 100 lbs 5
Iron, railroad, per ton 50
Iron, pipe, gas and water, per 100 &s .!!!!!!! 5
Iron shutters and wrought fittings, per 100 tt-s.. 5
Iron, junk and scrap, per ton 50
Iron, pig. per ton "" 50
Iron safes, per 100 lbs 10
Junk, in bales
Kegs, merchandise ! . 2
Kegs, empty ..1111111" 1
Laths, per thousand 10
Lemons, per box 4
Lead, per 100 lbs 5
Lumber, per thousand... 50
Leather, per 100 lbs 4
Malt, per sack 5
Marble, per 100 lbs 5
Marble anst per bbl I. .... 5
Machinery, per 100 lbs ...*.*!! 5
Mineral ores, per ton 50
Mowing machines, each 50
Moss, per bale 5
Matting, per roll 5
Nails, per keg 3
Oakum, per bale 5
Oats, per sack 4
Oil cake, per sack 3
Oranges, per box 4
Ordnance stores, per 100 lbs 5
Oysters, per bbl 5
Paint, per 100 lbs. 5
Pails, per dozen *. 5
•' nour, per nest 3
Paper, printing, per bundle 3
wrapping, per ream 1
Pecans, per sack 3
Pianos, boxed, per cubic foot. ill!] 1
Pineapples, per 100 25
Plows, each ] 5
sulky .* 25
Potash, per 100 lbs 4
Posts, fencing, each . j
Powder, kegs.. !!!.!..!.. 4
half kegs [*** 2
quarter kegs. 1
Raisins, per box 3
per half box 2
per quarter box ... \
Rags, per bale 10
Refrigerators, per cubic foot 1
Rubber belting, per 100 5
Roofing slate, per ton 40
Rope, per 100 ®s 5
Salt, per sttok 3
Sand or soil, per dray load 3
Sewing mat-nines, each 10
Sewing K. D., per 100 lbs. 5
Sieves, per package, 2 dozen. 4
Sawdnst. per drayload. 10
Shot, per 100 lbs 5
Shingles, per thousand 10
Sheep, each. 3
Shooks, box. per carload. 5 00
Shell, per drayload, 5 bbls 5
Shovels and spades, per dozen 0
Spices, per sack 5
Soda, per Keg 3
Stoves, per cubic foot \
Sugar, per hogshead 25
Sugar, per barrel 5
Smokestacks, per WOlbs a
Sulkies 25
Tierces beef 10
44 lard $
; nee 10
hams 10
" tallow, etc JO
44 with bbls, inside * jq
" empty ' 4
Tin plate, per 100 lbs 5
Tin pig, per 100 lbs I.....Ill 5
Tobacco, in boxes !.*!*!!** 5
Tobacco, half boxes I!!!!!!!** 3
Tobacco, quarter boxes
Tiles, per 1000 l.H 1 ^
Trunks, tilled with mdse or nests .111111"! 6
Tubs, per nest ^
Trucks, railroad, per 100 t>s " 3
Wagons, each ..[ . 50
Wagons, spring or cane 73
Washing machines, each jo
Washboards, per dozen .1.1111 4
Watermelons, per dozen HI "* 3
Water, in tanks or casks, each 10
Water-coolers o
Wire, per 100 lbs 11111111111*1 5
Wheelbarrows 1 5
Wheels and axles, railroad, per 100 lbs!!!!!!"."!" 3
Wheels and axles, log carrier 1 75
W ood, per cord 25
Wool, per sack .1"H 10
White lead, per 100 lbs 1.111111 5
Zinc, in rolls, per 100 lbs .11111111 5
Goods not in above list will be charged in propor-
tion to analagous articles at our own option.
All goods to be removed from the wharf the
day they are landed, or they will be liable for addi-
tional wharfage as per tariff above for every day or
part of a day they remain on the wharf. Same
wharfage to be charged on all goods delivered from
one vessel to another, provided either of such vaa-
sfels are fast to the wharf.
Vessels landing without cargo will be charged
wharfage at the rate of ten cents per register ton
for each landing, and after forty-eight hours, five
oenis per ton for each subsequent day.
Vessels discharging in the stream will not be per-
mitted to <»ccupy a berth at one of the company's
wliarves without permission of the agent of said
company. Vessels to leave the wharf or chance
their berth as soon as requested to do so bythe
wharfinger, or they will be liable to be charged,
twenty-five cents per ton per day for every day or
part of a day. they remain.
Vsssels loading cotton, or other cargo, outward
must i>aj wharfage on same, unless dotifled by the
wharfinger that the wharfage has been paid by tlie
shipper. Wharfage to be paid as soon as the ves-
sel completes her loading.
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