The Galveston Daily News. (Galveston, Tex.), Vol. 42, No. 174, Ed. 1 Wednesday, September 12, 1883 Page: 2 of 4
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TO 'WIAT OF ALL
THE OTHER DAILY PRESS
OF THE STATE COMBINED
"Wednesday, September 12. ls$3.
The Ohio college of the future will have a
thair of political jugglery.
Titk Republican party would like to have
the dead past attend its own funeral.
It is indeed a coM day when a London de-
tective can not unearth a Fenian plot.
Is summer lingering iu the lap of autumn,
or is autumn merely peeping arpuud the cor-
ner/ _
Frank James is still wanted iu Minnesota
for his alleged connection with the 2\orthfield
bank robbery.
A dozex hearty cusses from old Bill Allen
would be worth 20,000 votes to the Ohio De-
mocracy at the present time.
Recent occurrences iu New Vork mate it
apparent that neither Jay Gould nor the stal-
warts are able to squelch Cornell.
Sixce Lord Coleridge dined with Ben Butler
it is presumed that George F. Hoar has a slen-
der opinion of the English judiciary.
Unearned railroad laud grants will have a
precarious existence from now until the ad-
journment of the Fortv eighth Congress.
Tite intellect of Boston is dwindling, so to
speak, and only three great men now remain,
Ben Butler, Joo Cook and Slugger Sullivan.
Connecticut will have to have four or five
first-class hangings before Texas can recognize
her as a reputable member of the sisterhood of
States.
It is about time that Shapira Dorsey for-
warded another batch of reminiscences to Mr.
Dana. If he doesn't be careful, the public will
forget him.
Sam Cox is about to take the stamp in Ohio.
Now it is in order for Mr. Carlisle toprocecd to
Virginia and Mr. Randall should wend his
way to Iowa.
Sam Randall's speakership boom is suffer-
ing from a severe attack of nervous prostra-
tion. Messrs. "Wellborn and Culberson will
please observe.
Two sovereign States are ready to extend
hospitalities to Colonel Frauk James, and still
some effete monarchist will occasionally bob
lip and say that republics are ungrateful.
The New York Sun is not gambling on
Democratic success in Ohio, but then the Sun
never was much of a prophet. It is not more
than six years ago since it predicted a North
American empire.
If the Democrats have pluck enough to
—off Randall and come out squarely for
tariff reform, the Republicans may as well pre-
pare for a second edition of the Java earth-
quake in November, lb^4.
Iowa is trembling in the balance, and it will
require all the efforts of the "grand old
party" to keep on its stems on election day.
Two years ago the State had a reliable Re-
publican majority of 70,000.
In the general discussion of Democratic Mis-
souri and the acquittal of Frank James, it
should not be forgotten that a statesman
named Dorsey was turned loose by a "Washing-
ton jury a few months ago.
Politeness is the chivalry of debate. It by
no means prevents those who practice it from
tmhorsiug an antagonist, and cleaving him to
the chin; it merely enjoins a lofty and ef-
fective courtesy for their own sakes.
Lord of the Admiralty Chandler is still
cruising, and the officers of the Tallapoosa are
doubtless still cursing. Lady Chandler, how-
ever, deserves credit for making the gold-laced
gentlemen do something for their living be-
sides playing poker.
If Henry Villard had any political foresight,
he would move to Dakota and get himself
elected a United States senator. It is pre-
sumed, of course, that the Northern Pacific
will own the legislature, else what was Mr.
Villard taking lessons from Gould so long for?
The New York Times is fighting Mahone
. vigorously, and the National Republican, by
way' of rebuttal, makes known the fact that
the Times proprietor contributed £500 to Ma-
houe's corruption fund in 1S8L Party harmony
this year is of a very flexible character, and
seems to be contagious.
J. J. Astor is considered wise because, be-
fore he went down into Wall street to tackle
the king of speculators, he made all his prop-
erty over to his sou. The act is wise or other-
wise, according as the son is both wise and
dutiful or otherwise. Probably it were wiser,
having enough, to keep out of Wall street.
In the latter part of August, Cardinal How-
rd arrived at Kissingen, where Prince Bis-
taarck was then taking the waters, and it
would not he surprising if the two conferred
on the subject of the C'ulturkampf. At Kis-
singen the chancellor has in past years con-
ducted much negotiation with the Vatican.
The United States Senate committee's in-
quiry into the relations of capital and labor
may have some purpose beyond allowing the
leading speculators to air their satisfaction
with things as they are; but if the commit-
tee's labors result in anything but a feeling
that nothing can be done by such agencies,
there will be general surprise.
Devens, Talbot and Robinson have declined
to enter the lists against Butler in Massachu-
setts, and Henry L. Pierce will doubtless be
selected as the victim. In the meantime But-
ler is laying cables and carefully planning the
nature of his next year's administration, al -
ways, of course, keeping his game eye on the
Democratic National convention.
Rev. Thomas K. Beecher, a brother of the
divine Henry, is the Greenback candidate for
secretary of state in New York. It is not very
long ago since an article from the pen of the
Kev. Tom was floating around tho press, justi-
fying suicide when a man became useless to
himself and society. Mr. Beecher should be
more practical and less theoretical.
The Chicago Herald nominates General P.
H. Sheridan for president, and finds an unex-
pected ally in President Arthur, who said to a
Pittsburgh interviewer seeking his opinions
about polities: "General Sheridan knows
more about polities than I do. He would make
a first-class president." Phil, has been a great
general among the politicians, and he may lie
a great politician among generals, but he does
not begin to compare with Mr. Arthur as a
politician among politicians.
Mr. Gocld begaa his pastoral life tending
and milking his father's cows. In this, the
Hour remarks, ho resembled Joseph of Egypt,
■who, when a boy, minded his father's sheep
and cattle. Joseph invented the first corner iu
"wheat, and made the Egyptians pay for it
pretty dearly. Mr. Gould profited by the les-
son. Poor Joseph was sold several times. Mr.
Gould took warning and preferred rather to
be the seller than the person sold.
Harper's Weekly is quite certain that with
Mr. Edmunds to head the Republican ticket
next year, the Democrats would encounter a
Waterloo. The same journal thinks that Mr.
Edmunds would purify our politics and give a
new lease of life to the Re publican party. Yes,
Mr. Edmunds is a very good man and full of
good intentions, but placing him at the head
of the Republican party would be like placing
a new hen on a nest of rotten eggs.
Tins Democratic House of Representatives
might inaugurate a very neat article of reform
by inquiring the cost of the junketing admin-
istration during this summer. Of course the
cost will be nicely dove-tailod into other esti-
mates, but it is almost certain that the people
■will be called upon to foot the bills. Here is
a fine opportunity for the display of Bill Hol-
man and Sam Randall's peculiar talents. The
junketers should foot their own bills.
After all that is said by way of joking and
Complaint about boarding-houses, no persons
connected with those institutions are really so
much deserving of a generous sympathy as the
industrious landladies who do their best to
please many different tastes. There are all
tastes to gratify—for fat meat, lean meat,
vegetables of all kinds, pies, cakes, fruits. The
landlady patiently does her best, and yet there
are growlers, and withal a regular percentage
who never pay their board bills. As a down
East paper says, the young man recently from
a ferm, who never saw so many vegetables
before, because his father raised them to sell,
and lived on salt meat and codfish, thinks it
** c^vfi'-'i *' an J well bred to snilT at his food
ami talk of leaving "unless tlif> table is im-
proved." The delicate young woman ot the
lioaiding house n vrr takes exercise, and, be-
in- a voracious ■rater, blau.es Hi" landlady for
•til her Utile ache • Everybody ••an blame the
I indla.iy, but. hmv many could do better, and
Ik.u- many would try under the inspiration
complaints'
1 jik New York .f republican State convention
will be held at Richfield Springs, on the "iOth.
A wigwam btus been weoted for t-hew.c.ommo-
dation of the delegates. The temporary struc-
ture will hold 1500 people, and the stalwart
State committee has issued 1500 tickets to 1500
stalwarts, and rtxs* balance of ttro spttce will be
occupied by the half-breeds. 'Tis a very ooki
day when a stalwart £<rts left.
Speculation m Southern timber-lands is
increasing. Enormous tracts of timber laud
are ' oing purchased by companies and indi-
viduals. This causes the Maritime Register to
remark that millions of acres are being bought
by comparatively few persons, and in a short
time most of the timber districts will be con-
trolled by a small number of companies or syn-
dicates. Low prices can not long continue,
and before a long time, owing to this control
of the timber and the dependence of the man-
ufacturers upon the owners of the timbered
district, jvrices must increase materially and
remain high.
ifact.
f the canvass. This is admitted to be
Another fact i-«. that $5000 were spent on
:lie faith of Mr. TiKleh s promise, and to this
Mr. Til.'en has not repaid a solitary cent of that
That is a very -extraordinary article of the
Toronto (Canada) Advertiser, which says:
" The evidence is satisfactory that the Marquis
of Landsowne, the new governor-general, is a
harsh landlord, and a mean, narrow-minded,
selfish man, and it is glad Of it.7* The reason
for this singular conclusion is that the appoint-
ment will be all the more calculated to disgust
Canadians with what It calls the present svs-
tem, and to strengthen the feeling tn favor of
independence. Presumably the Advertiser is
somewhat different from the ordinary run of
British colonial papers. It seems to bo what
that part of the British public that calls itself
the respectable portion Of society Would call
not a respectable paper. Truth is not respect-
able with selfish class interests.
Tite Charleston Ne<vs and Courier, re-
ferring tn the revamped story of the invitatiou
of Mr. Tilden to furnish a bribery fund of
$rto,000 to buy the South Carolina returning
board, and stating that the money was never
furnished, adds:
But. Mr. Tilden did agrcfc, earlier in the year, we
believe, to contribute §3000 towards the legitimate
tii.
t
Mr. Tilden has not rep:
wi-.irMi was expended in his name. So the story
and we have every reason to believe that it is
an •" o'er true tale."
It is not known that Mr. Tilden has any
organs. He is said to detest the idea of allow -
ing any journalist to speak for him generally,
as such a course would probably lead to more
or less misrepresentation of Mr. Tilden:s views
ia well-meant endeavors to defend them. If
Mr. Tilden had an drgan it might reply to the
News and Courier, while if some matter has
been forgotten tho publication will put Mr.
Tilden in possession of information he may be
glad to obtain.
The greatest advocates of protection by a
high tariff have argued for it as a temporary-
measure. to build up American industries, so
that they will be adequate to supply the de-
mand of this country. The larger manufac-
turing industries, those using cotton and iron,
are generally stated to have been so increased
that they can more than supply the domestic
demand. Has not the time come, then, when
some of the staunchest advocates of protection
must say that tho system has reached its cul-
mination in those industries, and that what is
now to be feared is overproduction of cotton
and iron mills where there are plenty? If they
must now average three months inactivity in
tho year, it seems time to give them relief
from heavy tariff taxes on their materials, and
to give their employes relief from tariff taxes
which make food, clothing, rent and furniture
dearer, so that these great industries can fairly
compete with tho foreigner and keep bus}* all
the year, exporting their products to any
market? If protection was a temporary
measure, what better evidence could be
desired than now exists that the time for a
change has come?
There is a great deal of truth in public
speeches, and consequently in the papers when
they have to report them, but the assertions
are not often fatiguingly new or difficult to
comprehend. President Arthur said at Chicago
that that city was the hub of the universe—the
most enterprising city he was ever in. Some
persons would not hare thought of saying that,
as every Chicagoan knows it; but President
Arthur was wise enough to say it. St. Louis
received a very high compliment not long ago
as to its future from a distinguished Eastern
senator, but President Arthur has chosen to
let St. Louis go. Chicago takes the tribute of
admiration just as a pretty girl takes flattery.
It scarcely calls for thanks. She knows it is
true. But there are variations. Will the ap-
preciation last? That depends upon its founda-
tion. Is there beauty skin-deep only, or truth
and locality of chaifeeter? As the answer may
be, it will fade with fading charms, or endure
tranquil and Arm as virtue. Chicago is no
mushroom city. Its prosperity will increase
and ripen, but never fade in any time that
can be contemplated.
that there were fourteen classes taught by
sisters from the convent Their school-hours are
from 8 to 11, and from 1 to 4. making one hour
more per day tuan the hertfK* of tft* public
■v:hO"ls in charge of this board. efcfldrwi in
;'*• homo and atttSuKi^* this Fcfcodl fcre |»»-in«-i-
G ►•fluairt* .-Kid H* th** tax ehlsscs ;?re
ttv-tTiv -r. «: »iw n *u lir.im <»criu;»N *»• an 1 in
H -rht liL.kv «1 tOi-lisli And German.
'I w I.'«1 • n*cd art <• .TfovJKj tvorki-. and not.
thrive auiii nxed by th« iMxu-rf. The six fc>w«*r
rny hHli an iicftW 4vi?toe it veek,
ilSad Th^ et£*tft hiifcer <•?***• •.■; tan.effefc "t-yr «mv»
incur a \\<i-k. in ihe do. j-fues of Catfcolie
ehtfTc'h. the hours for religious instruM^*** rang-
ing the hours of the morning sessiou on diGSTeut
days of the week for the respective classes- Your
ill LU*±
TnTtu UaTTioTli- nrpTuTn Tr.Tfie aiid ttr&n«!Msvt,"being
both maintained by the same parti*-* aire! bring
parts of the same institution, are jA*opferly main-
tained within the law/, but that in the matter of
"sectarian tetranttra^-wETi "asTu s3ufie other mat-
ters. violations of the law nave for a long time ex-
isted and stiii The officers of the institution
seek to avoid the imputation of a viNation of the
law as to sectarian teaching by saying that they
have one more school hour each dav than do th s
«choote_niaifciafned •*»>--<he and rh*t tfte 're-
ligious iw-tructkm frrren tkies not afr^orh more than
two out 6T Hie "five eftra TvVtl!^ PacTi w£eic. This
argument is not wit?T<rrrt-57OTie moral force, but the
ivitiains thnt *if£ p^riiaf or ♦it^ctriWe
of the Catholic e"hurch are inculcated during the
tatnrs e % tJte this
cuiistitutesn violation of the law ia the opinion of
Tofir ^oThfhTrtee.
The Brooklyn fnioti intimates tfcnt is by
no means a singuktr a«d that, per-
haps, an exhaustive investigation would find
quite a number of private schools receiving
support from the public treasury, though of a
thoroughly sectarian character. Be this as it
may, we have here only another illustration of
the apparent hopelessness of the idea of keep-
ing church and state separate as distinct
polities, each with undivided and
indivisible Jurisdiction in its sphere,
and yet organizing and carrying
out a policy of universal education, at the pub-
lic expense Or through cOmpuIsOVy legislation,
which shall be satisfactory to the citizens, ad-
herents or "subjects of both polities. If state
education T)n the purely secular plan ??bonld
prove abottf^e, what then? Why it would
seem that the state must reduce its pretensions
to the theory of Locke and confine its action
exclusively to the functions of a policeman for
guardiafiship of life and property, or it must
take up the cause of universal education in
both its secular and teligiou-5 phases, and thus
resolve once for all the question of the true re-
lations and proper boundaries of church and
state. The final result would not be union, or
alvsoi'Dtion, but comj^lete fusion. It Would
be practicably of no consequence whether
the product stood forth as the state or the
-tmrCIi. When two polities, claiming
jurisdiction over tho same subjects in
the same territory or on the same globe,
mingle, there must remain a single supreme
authority. Then would be exemplified fully
tho theory Of Hobbes and of Hooper, that in a
given jurisdiction church and state, ecclesias-
tical polity and civil polity, can only be differ-
ent aspects of the same commonwealth.
PUBLIC EDUCATION AND CHURCH
AND STATE.
The temper of the controversy excited by the
deliverance of a high official of the Catholic
church in Galveston, forbidding children des-
tined for Catholic communion to attend the
public schools, has been deplorable, to be sure,
but it has not been without its uses for instruc-
tion and for warning. Sincere and thoughtful
friends of the policy of an effective public pro-
vision for associating universal suffrage with
universal education, as necessary to the safety
of society and the stability of the republic,
must see more clearly7 than ever the nature and
the magnitude of some df the difficulties and
perils besetting this problem. It was hoped
that the old quarrel about the true relations
and proper boundaries of church and state
would be avoided by impressing the public
schools with a purely secular character, and
refusing public money to schools of a religious
or sectarian character. • But it is seen that
because of this strict secularization of the
public schools, they are condemned alike by
earnest Protestants and earnest Catholics as
fatally lacking in the requisites of a fit educa-
tion for the youth of the land and at war with
the genius and the interests of a christian
commonwealth. That the influence of these
dissatisfied and censorious classes will be di-
rected, and conscientiously directed, to retard-
ing the growth and sapping the strength of
public school institutions, as long as they aro
strictly secular, is not to be doubted. The
plan of compromising with such opponents by
apportioning public school money pro rata to
denominational or sectarian schools, has been
suggested, and to some extent tried, but with-
out any result to indicate that this would
put an end to the battle of churches aud sect3
over the subject of State aid to education. Re-
cently the Board of Education of Brook-
lyn refused to grant the claim of the
German Catholic Orphan Home for a
share, iu common with other asylums, of the
school money in charge of the board. This
was done upon the report of a committee
stating that the conductors of the school, which
in this case had been regularly for years re-
ceiving pro rata apportionments from the pub
lie school fund, had acted in contravention of
the law which provides that "no school in
said city shall be entitled to any portion of the
school moneys in which the religious sectarian
doctrine or tenets of any particular christian
or other religious sect shall be taught or in-
culcated, or' which shall refuse or prohibit
visits or examinations by the city superintend-
ent or members of the Board of Education of
said city, provided tnat this section shall not
be deemed to prohibit the use of tho holy
scriptures, without note or comment." This
provision, except in one particular, is
identical in spirit aud general pur-
port with the Texas statute which
prescribes that 41 no form of religion shall ever
be taught in any of the public free schools;
and no school in which any sectarian religion
is taught, either directly or indirectly, in or
out of school hours, shall be entitled to any
portion of the free school fund." The excep-
tion is the absence of express sanction of tho
use of the Bible without note or comment. But
in tho eyes of a church which regards such a use
of the Bible as extremely pernicious, such a
permission must seem a worthless concession,
if not an insulting mockery. At any rate the
administration of the German Catholic Or-
phan Koine appears to have paid no attention
either to the prohibitory or permissory part of
the New York law above quoted, while draw-
ifig and using regular allowances of school
money from the Board of Education. So much
at least is testified by the report of the Law
Committee of the board, iu which it is said:
Your committee visited the German Catholic
Heme and found the institution to be under the
charge of the Sisters of a convent of tho Dominican
order. Connected with the con vent is a parochial
school, which is also under the charge of the Sisters,
and which the children of tno asylum attend. This
school is not solely for the children of the home,
hut is attended by the children of the neighbor-
hood. The convent, a church of the samo order,
the Orphan's home and the school are in connected
and adjoining buildings, the yard between them
forming a, Dlayground for the children. We found
i>e converted luto Sash. It does not appear
that the regents of the university are disposed,
however, to use this accumulation of interest
on land notes as an available fund. The presi-
dent of the bftftrd x>t rvgvftt* is even solicitous
that the cfty of Galveston shall contribute an
available university fund sufficient to provide
a hospital or university building in this city,
in order that the rejtency Way establish the
medical brunch of the university. This
surely would not be required if the university
regents were disposed to consider al>oiiV$120,000,
wfticfc has nrmimrrtetrd from interest on hind
notes and from the payment by tho State of
deferred interest on T?%ato bonds held by the
university fund so long classed as bonds of
doubtful validity, an available fund. They
have stated as the reason why the median!
branch is not established at this time that the
available fund is not sufficient. But here is a
large fund which, in the opinion of officials of
the highest authority in such matters, is avail-
able. The regents, then, if not actually hos-
tile to the medical branch, should at least have
this question decided before they plead a want
of funds to establish it.
KlOTi V CA y iXJS.'
It is probably unfortunate for the negotia-
tions now in progress between Marquis Tseng
at*d the French government, as well as for
the Interests of foreigners in China in general,
that a dangerous and violent riot should have
occurred just at this juncture in Canton. The
operations Of the French in Tonquiu and the
development of French afcgfresslye policy in
that quarter had already done much to produce
among the subjects of the Celestial em-
pire a feeling unfavorable to all Europeans.
The circumstances of tho C-antou riot, detailed
in the dispatches this morning, indicate the
extent of this feeling or prejudice. Ordinarily
the kilting of a Chinaman on Chinese 'soil by
some Portuguese sailors, which seems to have
beeu the cause of the outbreak, would hardly
have stirred up such a fierce mob in the streets
of Canton, that it took Chinese troops to
quell it. There is no doubt that this af-
fair adds to the dangers that always
more or less surround European residents in
China—a fact, so well appreciated by the for-
eigners in Canton that many during the riot
took refuge on board vessels in the harbor,
i Howevei, the riot may be regarded as a purely
i ^ccal, not a national, demonstration, while its
effects may turn out to be national. The Can-
ton mob shows that the fearful aud bloody
massacre of foreigners in one of the leading
cit ies of Egj*pt previous to the Inte war in that
country are, under the same conditions, pos-
sible iu the gT£at and populous marts of China.
. '■> " "iHiiifit > •
STATS J?HSSS.
REGISTRATION OF TITLE INSTEAD OF
DEED.
The system, which prevails in every Ameri-
can estate, of a public registry of deeds is un-
questionably a great improvement on the Eng-
lish plan of conveyance by deed without regis-
tration. but in the course of time, with succes-
sive transfers, the chain of title to a piece of
real estate becomes so long that the prepara-
tion of au abstract of title is a formidable task,
and in some cases necessarily so expensive as
to be a serious tax upon owners making a
transfc-r. An abstract is a documentary his-
tory of the property as to its ownership and
all claims that have existed against it. Various
mortgages, tax deeds and certificates of can-
cellation, where they exist, as well as war-
ranty deeds and trust deeds, are sup-
posed to be scrutinized on each sale
or fresh mortgage, and sometipies copies are
furnished as part of the process of forming a
complete abstract. This requires time, and
may cost hundreds of dollars in some case3.
The longer the present system continues the
greater will be the complications and conse-
quent expense of verifying titles. I tis as if a
person had to prove his legitimacy by proving
not only the marriage of his parents, but the
legal union of their ancestors for several gen-
erations. It may be true that the lawyer who
has prepared an abstract in one case has done
work that is sometimes improperly relied upon
in succeeding cases, but really if there were a
flaw in the title and the property had passed
through various hands, it would not help a
buyer to know, after the defect was dis-
covered, that several parties had had the prop-
erty and had passed the title for a consider-
ation, without knowing the defect, the}T having
got their money back aud he having parted
with liis and being in danger of losing the land
in the bargain. The process of recovering
compensation is often a difficult one, on account
of the impecuniosity of those who were
the last vendors. Hence, however costly
the process of verifying title, each purchaser
must have it done as if no preceding examina-
tion were of any account, as he knows not
where there may have been an oversight or
carelessness. In the public ofrrces the textual
recording of all deeds and mortgages is a bur-
densome business, requiring; in the large cities
the employment of large numbers of clerks.
As a substitute for the system of registering
deeds perhaps the registration of titles would
be tho best plan. The Torrens system has been
in Successful operation in South Australia for
twenty-three years and for a shorter time in
other Australian colonies, New Zealand and
British Columbia. A system of registration of
title has been practiced in Hamburg, it is said,
for 600 years or more, and for over 100 in
Prussia, Bavaria and elsewhere. SBome provi-
sion has been made in England by which land
owners can have their titles examined by a
government bureau as if for conveyance, aud
after advertisement and waiting to challege
any possible adverse claimants and give them
time to contest the title, can have it settled
and thus a new start made, from which, of
course, chaos will again begin to develop
itself. The Torrens system provides that the
evidence of ownership shall be in a siugle in-
strument, the certificate of title issued by au
official registrar. On the introduction of the
system, titles and undisputed possession must
be proved. In Australia provision was made
for compensation for mistakes by a tax on
transfers, but in twenty years it is said there
has been no claim made on the compensation
fund. Buyers or lenders look in the registrar's
ofllce for the duplicate of the certificate of
titla There they find, entered on the dupli-
cate as on the certificate, all judgments, taxes,
and adverse claims lying against the property.
The same warranty and quit claim deeds and
mortgages as are now used are executed, as
valid agreements authorizing the registrar to
enter the transaction by brief indorsement up
on the certificate, which, in case of sale, goes
to the buyer, and on th4 registrars duplicate,
which is bound with others in a volume. Each
certificate being on a folio sheet, and tl^e entries
being brief, there is room for numerous trans-
fers. W hen a new certificate is needed a small
fee covers the expense, and all released mort-
gages, etc., are omitted. The number on the
certificate serves as a guide to the page of the
duplicate in the record. Under this system, as
stated in a pamphlet by Mr. T. Sheldon, of the
Chicago bar, it should be no uncommon thing
for large interests to be sold or mortgaged
within the hour at a cost of $3 to $3.
THE UNIVERSITY FUND AND A MEDI-
CAL BRANCH.
In a recent News special from Austin the
statement was made, incidentally, that the in-
terest on university land notes, amounting to
some $1S,000 per annum, constituted a part of
the available university fund. This is, it seems,
by some persons about the capital considered a
questionable proposition. Why it should be
questioned does not appear. The university
lands being sold, it makes no practical differ-
ence whether the purchase be for cash to be in-
vested in bonds, the interest on the same be-
ing admittedly available for all current
university expenses, including the construc-
tion of buildings, or whether the sale is on
time, the interest on the purchase money ac"
cruing yearly being to all intents and purposes
the earnings of invested cawt&l and clearly
available for current expenses. This was the
opinion, it appears, of Comptroller Darden,
aud seems to be the opinion of the present
comptroller as well as that of the governor. It
is true that before there was any univer-
sity established, and while Comptroller
Brown was in office, he indicated a
contrary opinion. It is known that in
other matters Comptroller Brown was dis-
posed to a very strict construction of the laws
relating to the use or expenditure of trust
funds, and in his praiseworthy desire to pro-
tect the available university fund he went to
the extent of denying the legality of a specific
appropriation and placed himself in direct con-
flict with the deliberate judgment of Governor
Roberts. It appears to have been the inten
tion of the constitution-makers of 1875 that in-
terest on land notes should be invested in in-
terest-bearing securities, not because it
was to be considered a permanent fund,
but because there was then no prospect of an
early establishment of the University, requir-
ing the annual expenditure for its support of
the available fund arising from interest on
laud notes and bonds. It would have been
folly to permit this interest to accumulate as
idle cash in the treasury. Afterwards, when
it was required for current expenses, the fact
that it had been invested did not change the
character of ' the fund. Bonds are as
readily applied and as available for cur
rent expenses as cash, for they can
What the Interior Papors Bay-
Macbeth is not needed to murder sleep in
Navasota. The Tablet says:
What with the howliog of dogs, the caterwauling
of Thomas cats an 1 the shooth:st of pistols, nights
in Navasota are Sometimes Worse thai: i>andemo-
nium.
The Pittsburg Camp county Express says:
There seems to be a feeling of uneasiness per
vading almost nil the eastern portion of the State
on account of the attitude of The white and colore 1
30pn!ation, which it is feared may culminate in
>k»cdshed. Our people, we know, cherish no enmiiy
for the negroes', and will always grant
them the privileges to which ritey are
onUtled, but lawlessness and violence will
be put down with a strong hand no matter who
the guilty.oaes may be. That there are l>ad men
in both parties we admit, but the principal danger
we apprehend is from the machinations of that
Cla»s of men who. for the sake of ;i fev. paltry dol-
lars, would stir up strife. That this is true is
amply testified by the history of former troubles
between the races, and we warn our colored fel-
low-citizens to have nothing to do with such men,
for they will only lead them into trouble and then
leave them to suffer the consequences.
The Express also says:
The Baptist Standard growls because the Texas
j&lessengar repeats a little gossip about the min-
isterial excursion from Waco to Monterey a short
time since. Be easy, brethren, the gospel you ad-
vocate teaches the necessity of brotherly love.
The Greenville Herald grows sarcastic. It
says:
The governor should by all means call au extra
session of the legislature, in oner to give the mem-
bers the benefit of Chancellor Roberts's lectures, if
for no other purpose.
Many Texaus are puzzled to understand why
Texas cattle and Texas slaughtered meats
should sell for less in Kansas City, Chicago
and St. Louis than in Texas. It is hard to tell
why, but pleasant to observe that there is a
prospect of a change. The great refrigerating
establishments promise to bring the revolu-
tion. The Pai'is North Texan, after quoting a
remark from the Shermau Courier on the sub-
ject, says:
We fervently hope the refrigerator fellows will
extend their operations on to Paris, and give us
beef that is better and beef that is cheaper. You
pay cents for your steak in Paris. We believe
that strictly first-class beef can be shipped from
Kansas to this place, and sold for 10 cents a pound
at a fair profit. Beef at the price we i>.ny is but of
proportion, otherwise a poor man could not feed
fife family. When you can get the best Nvrd for
12% cents per pound, and bacon at the same price,
beec should not be sold for more than 7 or 8 cents.
Speaking of the announcement that by the
Texas Cotton Seed association, recently formed
for the purpose of regulating and controlling
the cotton seed traffic, the ruling price for seed
had been placed at $6 per ton, the Mexia
Ledger says:
It is suicidal for farmers to sell their cotton seed at
any price the Cotton Seed association can afford to
give, and. as farmers are fast beginning to see tlie
tolly of selling, we are of the opinion that the
aforesaid associations will not prove such a rich
monopoly after all. Cotton seed are worth more
than $10 to any farmer to feed to his Cows or
spread on his land.
The Dallas Times slashes round as follows:
Frank James was acquitted at Gallatin yester-
day, and we are glad of it. It may not be proper
to be glad, yet nevertheless we are glad. He has
some failings, but all in all he would make a Detter
governor of Missouri than Crittenden, and a better
governor of Utah than Eli Murray. Crittenden's
kin-folk; in fact, he is a better man than any of t!ie
Crittenden or Murray breed, aud we are intimately
acquainted with the breed. * * * The Galves-
ton people are in earnest in their re-
solutions to go out to the deep waters of
the gulf. * * * * * * The school fun 1 of
the State is now ready to be tapped. The people at
the last .election announced their willingness to loan
several millions to responsible parties with proper
security, and tbe Galveston people will fil-i the bill
as to responsibility. As to the security, that will
be left to the legislator, who is clothed with the au-
thority to pass on it. The effort to secure tlie
money will be made at tlie next legislature. The
intervening time will be devoted by Galvestonians
showing the proposed scheme practicable, and to
making friemls with the State by being intensely
Democratic.
The Herald says the subterranean noises dur-
ing the great earthquake were heard in Lavaca
county.
The Herald is not anxious for a reduction of
State taxes. It says:
We do not think the large revenue conseouent
upon the increased valuation of property in the
State necessitates the calling of a special session.
The rate of taxation m our State is extremely low,
and the State needs immense sums of money to
properly care for and scientifically treat its blind,
deaf, dumb and insane citizens. a lowering of the
rate of taxation would doubtless be exceedingly
popular, but a judicious expenditure of revenue
would be more statesmanlike and conduce greatly
to the honor and true advancement of our State.
People who think it an easy matter to sup-
press the fence-cutters do not know the extent
of their strength. Tho Wichita Herald says:
From parties who arrived here yesterday morn'
ing we learn that the wire fence inclosing the pas-
ture of Mr. Belcher, in Clay county, was totally
destroyed by wire-cutters Tuesday night. 'lite
number engaged in the cutting is said to have been
between 150 aric^ 200 men.
The Wichita Herald, in the following,
furnishes a sermon that should arrest the
attention of the thoughtless class who
indulge in strong drink under the mistaken
idea that they are to receive pleasure. 44 Wine
is a mocker, strong drink is a raging;" "'at
last it biteth like a serpent and stiugeth like an
adder:"
Two men are now lying here on beds of pain, le
suiting from pistol wounds—one shot through the
bodj\ the other through tlie hand. None other
than themselves can tell what they have suffered
during the late hot weather, and it is unnecessary
to inquire into the causes that led to these
wounds. One truth to be deducted
is that the fate of these men is a warning to others
who tritie with strong drink. Flogue, who bears the
reputation of being peaceably disposed, would
never have pursued Enstui«,n with a knife had he
not beeu under the influence of whisky; and Stokes
wonla not be lying in jai: to-day waiting to be con-
veyed to to the penitenitiary to serve out a sen-
tence of five long yeai-s had he not, through the
maddening influence of strong drink, attempted
the life of a human being. Such scenes are not
confined to any particular locality, but occur all
over the world The only practical solution of the
difficulty is to educate the boy whose habits are just
forming to shnn the wine cup, for by that system
of education only may we expect a race of tem-
perate men.
The F9rt Worth Live Stock Journal, sup-
posed to represent the interest of the great
stock-raisers, takes an impartial view of the
fence war and the evils growing out of it, say-
ing:
The damage is no longer to the stockmen, but to
the community at large: and every man who owns
a few head of stock will find it to his interest to
discountenance this business and seek by every
means to stop it. On the open range stockmen ac-
cumulated the large stocks that are objectionable
to those who have been less fortunate, and these
stocks can now be run to good advantage indepen-
dent of inclosures: for no matter how far cattle
may drift during the winter, either from severe
weather or prairie fires, the system of round-ups
will bring them to the home ranch in the spring.
There are sections of the State that have rejoiced
in the changes tliat have taken place
in tl»e last few years. Small stocks, dis-
turbed yearly by the drift of Northern
cattle have been less trouble to look after, as by
pastures and fences in northern counties the drift
was prevented. This wire fence business maj- be
settled by forcing open the recently constructed
pastures on some of the ranges and be apparently
a damage to the stock-raising interests, but that in-
terest will be the one least aifeetsd. for lands will
not be considered worth having while all can use
them, and the advantcige will be with those who
have the cattle or the means to purchase any stock
that can live on grass. Unless grass and wire, live
stock and every species of nroperty are
protected by stringent laws punishing those
who st«al or destroy either, tlie damage
will be felt by all law-abiding citizens
and emigration will begin to other States from
Texas. The owner of large possessions is not more
interested in these raids being stopped than the
man of small means, for without security from
lawlessness neither can prosper.
The Laredo Times now comes out six times a
week.
The Gainesville Independent says:
Judging from the tone of The Gai.vestox News
the land department has for years been run in the
interest of land pirates, forgers and monopolists.
This is pretty strong, but there must be some
foundation for it when the Land Fraud Committee
uare not investigate and show up.
The Corsieana Journal remarks:
Quite a rumpus has been rai«ed in Galveston on
account of some utterances of Bishop Gallagher, of
the Roman Catholic church, on the subject of •end-
ing then- children to the public schools. The bishop
tikes the ground Ihat ah education that ignores re-
ligious culture is an^nliaHJr wfi-otito in
its character, and should not be encouraged by true
Catholics. There is nothing in Ihte position objec-
tionable iu itself, so long »' is not-accompanied
with a demand f -r a pc? capita of the public
money to sustain the whoOl* of the eftUlvh. If au v
reliuicus order wants to sustain its defi-»Uiinati<Ttjal
sAool, rather tliun >;-*nd to the public school, it
Should have that privilege without being consid-
eeed or bigoted. Wt3 do uhttr rstond
that Bishop Gallagher either asked a division of
ttr? pubtfc money, or ad vised his people
paying their taxes. Hence, his advice to them to
patronise their own schools when at their own ex-
pense was perfectly legitimate and need not have
drawn the ire of any friend of the public school
system.
The Gainesville Register says:
The small boy aud the country deacon are now
happy. The circus bill poster has been in town
and decorated tlie walls with the flying trapeze-
man aud the bare-oaeked lady riders m summer
costume. Two circuses will hold forth during the
month of October.
The Marshall Herald "reports and rebukes a
da^fartlly act:
Oa ta*t Wednesday night, while Oeofs* Hern, a
colored attendant of "a saloon »»• ar the depot, was
closing up and putting out hfc; lights. Lottie person,
armed with toera powder than brains, flred through
tfw winaow, shattering the latopaad any flaw
kf!IInt> the negro. One rtian was arrested, but he
'proved an alibi and was refensed Th* negro
George Hern is a good, peaceable man, attends to
his business, and is well behaved. Such an act was
entirely uncalled for, and is proof that the per*»ou
who did it was either drunk or was prompted by a
willful, malicious desfcn to do violence to an inno-
cent aud unsuspecting ]>erson. It was simply fool-
ish. cowardly and contemptible, and is condemned
by the ehtire community. Such persons are as ob-
jectiomihic as anv others who. by their act^. reflect
ufjon the character and moral tone and refinement
c: our city and count v. and should be taught better
by the fnrce of the aw.
The Terrell Stfir makes this almost incredible
statement:
During all these years Terrell has never had the
base-ball craze.
About fifty men lose their hands yearly in
Texas cotton gins, but froih the number of
cases already reported by the pajjers, this year
will yield more than an average. It seems
that nothing will teach people who run gins
tbe necessity of caution.
Texas papers are repeating the story of an
expert marksman, who was about to be at-
tacked by a ferocious bear ami had hut a squir-
rel gun and single bullet for defense, but man-
aged to put the latter into the .eye and brain
of bruin in the nick of time. The event re-
calls tbe song of the boy:
44 Daddy killed a bear;
He shot him in the eye aud never touched a hair.'
The Paris North Texan is not satisfied with
old-fashioned meeting-houses, but wants that
city to put on modern styl?. It says:
Paris has the meanest lot of church buildings
you ever saw in any .town claiming tWOO people.
With the exception of the Congregational church,
they .ire ad old-style, poorly-finished affair*, with
their beitries stick up in the center of the front of
the building, and innocent of anything that could
be called a tower, a religion that will pile mahog-
any on top of rosewood at home and put the Lord
olf with such sliabs as some of the Paris church
houses are. is liable to be called as thin ns ski tn toed
milk. Pin's has outgrown these old buildings, and
the Lords enterprises are allowed to lag.
People in Corsieana may now li-ten to
preaching without the trouble of dressing for
church or exposing themselves in bad weather
to go there. The Observer says:
Mr. W. K. Vance has placed a telephone in the
Cumberland Presbyterian church. The people can
now hear the music and sermon at tin ir own resi-
dences, where they have telephonic connection.
Between the publication of sermons in the
newspapers and tho use of the telephone, there
is likely to be less demand for fine clothes and
fine church edifices.
cua itefaoiai asifzon*
*What tho Press of tiae State 3riave to
Say About It-
[Temple Tribune."!—Thk News railroad map is of
itself worth the price of the paper.3
[Georgetown Record.]—We are in receipt of the
annual September 1 edition of The Gata*esTon
Nex*\ It is a complete epitome of the business of
Texas for the past year. Its statistical informa-
tion embraces all branches of business and com-
merce. It also is accompanied with a line railroad
map of Texas.
[Terrell Star.]—Thr Galveston* News map is
faulty In one great regard. Terrell, one of the
most noted cities in North Texas, is left out in the
cold, aud Lawrence is blazed where the roads
cross. Evidently map makers are not familiar
with the geography of Texas. We trust The News
will rectify the mistake, editorially or otherwise.
[FarmersviHe Mercttry.]—The 1st of September
edition of The Galveston News has been received
at this office. It is immense.
[Terrell Times ]—The fifth special edition of The
Galveston News Is before us. Many thousand
copies will be read before the end of the week. To
say that this grand summary of statistical and
other matters can be read and digested »s like
searching through all the fields of the world's best
literature aud gathering therefrom the brightest
literary gems. This huge concern is the labor ot
time, and of many writers. The subjects it treats
covers the history of a people. Hence, we must be
content to take just so much of it as will give a
general idea of this great State, and give particu-
lar attention to only such articles as closely con-
cern the section or interest where the reader
dwells. For our part, we shall preserve the paper
as we would an encyclopedia, and refer to it as oc-
casion requires information on some of its subjects.
Those win would like to have a correct idea of
Texas and her boundless resources are cheerfully
referred to this wonderful compendium, where
they will find facts and figures to keep them em-
ployed for many a day.
[Victoria Advocate.!—The annual review of The
Galveston News, issued last Saturday, was a re-
markable exhibition of newspaper energy and en-
terprise. It records the sUuy of the State's won-
derful developmentiduring the past year in a man-
ner highly creditable to the publishers, and the
Advocate takes pleasure in congratulating our
great contemporary ou its work.
(Greenville Herald.]—The special 1st of Septem-
ber edition of The Galveston News, now on our
table, eclipses all of its predecessors.
[Corsicaua Observer,]—The September edition
of The News is received. It is full to overflowing
with valuable statistics and every species of useful
information from all parts of the State. The per-
son who Wrote up our city was a gentleman of
taste and good judgment, as for example when he
calls Corsicaua the city of refreshing dowers,
handsome residences, hospitable people and pretty
girls, every word of which is true as preaching.
[Montague Northwest.]—The Galveston News
1st of September edition contains six eight-column
pages a lid a fine railroad map of Texas. It is rie-
voted entirely to statistics and information regard-
ing Texas, and is valuable to persons wishing to
study the progress of our State.
FEnnis Review.]—The Galveston News special
September edition is at hand, and by far surpasses
ail the previous splendid efforts of that great Texas
paper in showing up the vast resources, wealth,
progress and development of our State. The issue
contains fifty long columns, besides a map showing
the railroad system of tlie State, this latter feature
oeing almost "a necessity, in view of the many new
iines of road constructed in the past few years,
and the many others projected or in process of con-
struction. Copies of this splendid edition may be
had by addressing The News, at ten cents per copy,
and the more widely it is Circulated, both ia and
out of the State, the better.
. [Blanco Star-Vindicator.]—Each succeeding
special edition of The Galveston News is
better than its predecessor. We thought
the one last year was perfect, but the pre-
sent September edition overshadows it so far that
it is bard to believe the two were issued from the
same office and for the same special purpose. And
the good accruing to the State from this publica-
tion is simply incalculable. The statistics are com-
piled with the greatest care, and are, no doubt, as
reliable as it is possible for a thing of that sort to
be, while the map issued in connection with this
edition, shows at a glance the complete railroad
system of the State. Too much credit can not be
accorded to Tite News for the indomitable energy
displayed on this grand enterprise.
"Tho Vacant United States J"udgeship-
£To The News J
Caldwell, Texas, September 9, 1SS3.—Tho
editorial in The News of the 7th instant, con
cemiug the judicial vacancy in the Eastern
District of Texas, deserves more than a casual
reading. The matter of the appointment of a
new judge is a most important one to the dis-
trict and to th#entire State, and the reflections
of The News as to the qualities which should
be found in the appointee are timely and just.
It is to be regretted that political considera-
tions must enter at all into the question as to
who shall succeed Judge Morriil, but the cus-
tom of selecting all officers from the political
party to which the appointing power may be-
long is so venerable and so firmly fastened
upon the country that we are not likely in this
generation to be rid of it, and it is therefore
conceded the new judge will be a Republican.
But, as remarked bv The News, there are dif-
ferent types of Republicans; and the President
owes to "the State the duty of selecting one for
this high position in whom can not be found
that spirit of bitter partisanship which totally
unfits for the judicial office. The fact of abil-
ity, however towering, becomes immaterial if
hampered bv the bias of partisanship. lu-
dteed, the more ability in such case, the more
danger; for The News truly s&ys that " learn-
ing, ability and force in such men, elevated to
the bench for life, aud as fixed m their preju-
dices and animosities as in their tenure, are to
l>e dreaded as fraught with no ordinary pub-
lic calamity," If the Federal judiciary would
be respected as it should be, its representatives
must command the respect and con-
fidence of the people, as well for
their impartiality and freedom from
that vengefulness so justly reprobated
by The News, as for their legal learning. It
is essential that the occupants of the bench
should possess an exalted but natural dignity
of manner, a pure, moral character, and high
sense of justice; aud these should be so promi-
nent iu the individual as to be universally re-
cognized and cheerfully conceded. No one
should be permitted to go upon the bench who,
as a lawyer, does not possess the unquestioned
confidence of his brethren of • the legal profes-
sion in his personal and professional integrity.
Other considerations, as age and intellectual
and physical vigor, shoo Id be carefully weigh-
ed. While it is true, doubtless, as urged by
The News, that 44 there aspire to this position
some who have nursed a vengeful and malig-
nant enmity to the great mass of the people of
Texas aud the South," it is also true that the
president may find among the aspirants one who
with a dignified conservatism of character
combines the qualities of firmness and strict
integrity which attract the warm indorsement
of even political opponents, together with the
intellectual and legal ability, force of charac-
ter and pleasant address that adorn the bench
wherever found. It is to be hoped that the in-
fluence of all desiring to see this position
worthily filled, whether Republicans or demo-
crats, will be exerted to secure the appoint-
ment of such a man. It is to be regretted that
in the contest for such an office it is found ne-
cessary to urge as an objection to an aspirant
that he is popular with elements outside oi tlie
Republican party. No such suggestion could
emanate from the mind of caie qualified for a
judgeship. It will be most unfortunate if the
time shall ever arrive when a jnan
must be tabooed by the appointing power be-
cause by a courteous bearing, a Just regard for
the rights of others and a manly course of po-
litical conduct, added to superior ability, he
has secured the esteem of the large majority of
those most interested in the proper discharge
of the functions of the judgeship.
I President Arthur is himself a lawyer, and it
is to be hoped he will use a sound discrimina-
tion in filling this judicial vacancy, and sena-
tors should urge the appointment of the b#st
among the aspirants, and should s^e that no
Such objectionable character as those alluded
to by Ttffc NkWs be placed upon the bench lrt
Tetas, otherwise tnan against their most
earnest protest a. Benton.
LETTSK FB.OT5 AUSTIISt.
An £xtta Session—^Tho CrOirem&r,e
Perplexities—University Matters-
TKpeCiM Correspondence bf The Nctvs.l
APtf'nx, Sttpt^mber 10, l.vwi.—Au extra ses-
sion of the legislature has not been called and
may not be. The governor is likely to be afraid
of the experiment. Whether he aspires to suc-
ewd htroself or not, an extra session is a politi-
cal agency that may prove dangerous to the
future peace of mind of the aspirant or the
governor who is not an aspirant to succeed
himself. But there is little doubt of tbe gov-
ernor's intention to try for a second term. No
governor can a^Jfd to set himself up against
precedents, and while Governor Ireland, be-
cause it would be premature and because just
now the future is enveloped in obscurity, may
say, 441 have not said 1 wanted to be nominated
again," yet there are so many reasons for run-
ning again tllftt will present themselves next
summer, so great a necessity will exist for a
vindication of official acts, as in all former
cases, that I feel confident Governor Ireland
will be out for renomination. And
if he gets clear of the extra
session troubles he will in all probability be
renominates But there are cogent reasons
for calling att extra session. It is not possible
for the governor to go into the summer cam-
paign without a reduction of tlie taxes. They
are edEee>sive and ought to be reduced. Then
the constitutional changes require immediate
legislation. The articles newly adopted re-
quire to be placed in Operation. The wire fence
eiephant is also on hand and must be attended
to. It is apparent that if things go on uutil
the next Democratic State convention meets
just a-; they are now tending, the entire ad-
ministration will be in jeopardy. The Eight-
eenth Legislature probably is not regarded
with filial affection or unbounded respect aud
contidehce by tbe governor, aud he may be
loath to briug it back to Austin, yet the ques-
tion is whether ho can, without an extra ses-
sion, find any other scapegoat. A hard year,
high taxes and disgraceful conditions
in the stock-raising districts are dread-
ful weights to carry if borne upon
one man's shoulders. So it is my
notion the Eighteenth Legislature will be de-
tailed to help pack the burden. That legisla-
ture may be dreaded, but it is the only oue
available for the emergency. The governor
may consider it extravagant, and fear to gltfe
it another whack at the cash balance.but if it is
not called the taxes will grind the discouraged
producers horribly,' and he will have them
howling about his ears in the next campaign
in a way little calculated to produce quiet slum-
bers and peaceful dreams. So it may appear
I am here placing the governor in a very em-
barrassing dilemma. It is not, indeed, the
most pleasing prospect that is in sight from
the Texas White House. Even the shades of
private life that are always visible fi'om that
domicile would be preferable to many who
mi^ht Dccupv it. Since th»*re is no election for
United States senator in four years to come,
and since all tho desirable places in the univer-
sity have beenlilled, there is little iu sight from
the executive iliftttsion that A gOveVU >Y might
want tbe oltice a second term for tho purpose
of helping him to secure. But Gov-
ernor Ireland is a very positive
and tenacious politician, and is not
the man to calmly retire from oilice until he
has had a fair opportunity to shape public
matters very differently from what they will
likely Ik? at the end of his tirstterm. Ail these
things occur to people here, and consequently
they believe in a special session. The legisla-
ture, university and jack-pot poker, all iu ses-
sion at once, would relieve the town of its
prospective dullness, and are, therefore, neces-
sary and we must have them.
As for ikj university, from ail that is
claimed, it will open with - a larger
attendance than could have been expect-
ed six months ago. But it is a puzzling
question, propounded by one of the supreme
judges tome: "Where arc ail these students
to come from? The attainments required of
matriculants can't be secured in any Texas
schools 1 know of, and it seems to mo that the
standard of admission will have to lie lowered,
or for the first few sessions entirely ignored.un-
less the students are drawn from other
States." There appears to be food for reflection
in this suggestion: but, after all, what appli-
cants fail in coming up to the standard will
likely be taken on probation, as it were, to fill
up and distend the catalogue. As to accom-
modations for the student in the wav of board
and lodging, they are plenty and at fair rates;
about $:-H) per month; four "in a room, furnish-
ing their own lights aud fuel. Students who
come from the east had as well bring their fuel
along with them, as wood is enormously high,
and the coal that is brought here the poorest
stuff dignified with the name. Fuel and lights
will probably cost during the winter for each
student *3 50 to *4 per month. The charges
for washing are reasonable, and will perhaps
not be advanced materially. All reasonable
ex|>enses of a student ought not to be more
than §230 to $241) for the nine months session,
and, in comparison with the expenses at
Northern and Eastern colleges, are very low.
The poor and ambitious youth willing to en-
dure privations, and having a good digestion,
could live at less cost. The principal meal of
a large portion of the population consists of a
nickel's worth of tauiales or a dime's worth of
chili con carne, and the student could afford
to banquet on these viands, however reduced
his finances. He would have the company of
a number of promising young members of "the
legal profession, and a host of writers for the
great newspapers of the country, and he need
not be anxious about lodgings, for, like air
aud water, sleep is every man's property to use
where he finds it. The university regents,
especially Dr. VTooten, tlie local member of the
board, and the executive committee, have
made every effort to procure reasonable charges
for board and lodging for the students, and
$20 per month is the lowest price at which they
have been able to make contracts. Considering
the cost of provisions and house rent, this is
very low, and actually leaves no margin for
profit.
LETTER PKONALVASABO.
Pull Particulars of the Robbing- of Col-
onel J- W. Booth, Chief Clerk of the
House of Representatives -- Other
Z^otes* _
[To The ^sews.i
alvarado, September S, 1SS3.—On the Mis-
souri Pacific train, at this piace, yesterday
evening about dusk, Colonel J. W. Booth, on
his return from Austin, where he had been to
negotiate $$0,000 in Wise county bonds, was
robbed of a bundle, secured by a shawl strap
and containing the following: Two shirts. No.
18; one blue lineu coat; copies of the Austin
Statesman, giving an account of the death of
Judge George F. Moore: a copy of A. W
Spaight's Resources, Soil and Climate of
Texas; a charter of the Tribune Publishing
company; a catelogue of Baylor Female col-
lege, and a £500 Wise County Court-house
bond, No. 89. with nine coupons attached for
$40 each. Also a commission from Governor
Ireland to J. J. Long, of Wise county, as a
delegate to the Louisville exposition.
The facts as obtained from Colonel Booth
himself are these: Colonel Booth and Mr.
Carver were occupying the same seat, and the
bundle was on the ?eat in front of them. A
short time after the train had passed Hill
boro a young man between twenty-five and
thirty years old entered the coach in which
Colonel Booth was and took the seat in which
the bundle was. When the train reached Al-
varado, and before it had stopped, the afore-
said young man seized the bundle and hurried
out. He was discoveivd while leaving the
coach, and Colonel Booth gave chase, but the
thief made good his escape by leaptoft' tho
cars on tho platform and from the platform to
the ground. Ke was seen as he left the train
by Captain Heighsmith, L. D. Mercer and
others with the bundle in his hands. Just as
he was about to leap from the platform into
tbe darkness he was accosted by a Sparks
house drummer. His reply wrs: " Sparks
house, hell! I ain't got no time to go no-
where !"
A dun mare, eight years old and branded
7JP, was stolen last night from the wagon
.yard of Freeman & Adair. It is believed the
thief who got Colonel Booth's property also
stole the mare. Colonel Booth has telegraphed
and telephoned in every direction. Officers
are in hot pursuit.
On yesterday morning it was announced in
some of the daily papers that Colonel Booth
negotiated §80,000 of the Wise county bonds,
and it is tho opinion'of Colonel Booth that he
was followed by the thief from Austin, and
that he awaited the tirst opportunity to perpe-
trate tbe theft under cover of darkness.
Mr. Redd, engineer at Freeman «£ Adair's
gin, on yesterday, had his arm broken and
bAdiy mangled while putting on a rubber
band. His hand was caught under tbe band
and his arm wrapped around the rim of the
wheel. Being a perfect athlete, he locked one
leg around a post standing near the wheel, and
by giant strength actually stopped the ma-
chinery aud saved his life.
A two-year-old,chiid of J. M. Baker fell into
a barrel of water and was drowned before it
was discovered by its parents.
The report that I. A. Pat ton, Esq., member
of the Laud Fraud Board, had accepted the
position of principal of Patrick Male end Fe-
male college, at Anderson, Crimes oounty, is a
mistake. Mr. Patton is actively and continu-
ously engaged in tho discharge of his duties a*
a member of said board.
The public square oC Atvarado is crowded
with men, wagon* and horse*. Trade is brisk.
Cotton is selling lively aud commanding good
prices,
Only one handsouje and commodious brick
busine^ house in Alvarado for rent, and that
was vacated to-day by Sautom, Beaver & Co.,
who aro moving into their splendid two-story
brick, just finished.
Now is the time for business men to make a
judicious and safe investment at Alvarado.
We have good schools, good churches, a moral
and industrious agricultural population, a soil
as fertile and productive as the vatiey of the
Nile, two good railroads, the telegraph, the
telephone and there's room enough for all.
as that would appear in his paper. Peace to
his ashes. Things are now sadly changed.
Much as I regret it I now request you not to
forward your paper to me iu future, if we
Catholics are to have slander and aniflw heaped
upftu us. Please let me know it at once.
In conclusion, ]>eroiit tlie to add that Catho-
lics do not exist in this or au> nth• r civilized
nation by sufferance, but by right.
THO®. PHAN&Y.
The hest periodical for ladies to take monthly
and with the greatest benefit is Hop Bit iers.
It ts said tliat Jennie Cramer's mother, who
still lives itt New is m* eouvioeed that
the body identified as Jennie's was really that
of her unfortunate daughter, and believes the
latter may be still alive.
An iufaltable »^ren*tbener for the nerve*, mns-
cles aud digestive organs, producins strength and
appetite, is Brown's Iron Bitters.
A Inventor has built a ship So that
in case of accident to the bow the stern half
can be instantaneously separated from it, aud
can continue the voyage securely.
Efoi
THE GREAT
POR
OUKIt
Rheumatism, Neuralgia, Sciatica,
Lumbago, Bscfcacfoe, Headache. Toothache,
Sore Ihro.il, Swell*n|R. Hpnilns, Bruises.
Burn*. Si aliis. Trout Bites,
a\0 all otu£ft hudily fa».13 a*ft 4cjtes.
Sold by Druggisu and L»e&lers ererv-wherc. Fifty Cent* a bottle.
PlwcilcM la 11 Laiijrsair^s.
THK CHARLES A. TOGLLER CO.
* Bxititnor*,
gBESSESSM THE
Admiration
OF TBS
WORLD:
I Mrs. S. A. Allen's
s WORLD'S
HairRestorer
IS PERFECTION/ .
PabUc Benef&ctres*. Mrs. S.
A. Allen has justly earned this title,
aad thousands are this day rejoicing
over a line head of hair j. rodaced by
her unequaled preparation for restor-
ing, invigorating, ard beantifv hi g the
Hair. Her World's Hair Restorer
qrickly clcar.ses the scalp, removing
Dandruff, and arrests the fall; the
hair, if gray, is changed to its natural
color, giving it the same vitality and
luxurious quantity as ia youth.
COIIFLIMEHTAEY. "My .
hair is now restored to its
youthful color; I have not
a gray hair left. I am sat-
isfied that the preparation
is not a dye, but acts on
the secretions. My hair
ceases to fall, which is cer-
tainly an advantage to me,
who was in danger of be-
coming bald." This is
the testimony of all who |
use Mrs. S. A. Allen's !
World't-K air Restorer.
•'Oa© Bottio did if' That is the
expression <>f many who have had
ti»eir gray hair restored to its uaturul
color, and their bald sj>ot covered
t*uh hair, alter u*iag one Lottie of
Mas. S. A. Ature-s Worie's Hair
tv£i-OKiiK, it is not a dye.
y4polhnans
'"THE QUEEN OF TABLE WATERS."
"For water drinkers it is of the utmost im.
portance to have at command a table water of
the highest type cf purity, agreeable in flavour,
exhilarating by reason of its sparkling effer-
vescence, and suitable for daily use as a table
luxury; and in home circles, as at public ban-
quets, the APOLLXNARIS NATURAL
MINERAL "WATER has established itself in
public and professional favour as possessing
these qualities, and I believe its introduction
may be recommended and supported as of great
value to the cause of temperance and good
health." s
London, Eng., August 24, 1SS0. (Signed)
NORMAN KERR, M. D., F. L. S.
Of all Grocers, Druggists, & Min. Wat. Dealers.
BEWARE OF IMITATIONS.
SPECIAL NOTICES.
No tico to Csnsignees— The steamship
LAMPASAS, Crowell, master, from New York, is
now discharging: cargro at Williams's wharf.
Consignees will piease pay freight and receive
their £«v«is as landed, receipting for the same on
the wharf. All poods remaining on the wharf after
4 o'clock p. m. < not receipted for > may, at option of
steamer's agent, be placed iu warehouses or cover-
ed with tarpaulins on the wliarf, but they are en-
tirely at ricJc of consignee or owner. Aii claims for
dainages r.n.s: be adjusted before the goods leave
the wharf, J. X. SAWYER, Agent.
yy E ARE NOW SUPPLYING STOCK AND
filling orders for MR. M. SCHRAM, of 111 and 113
Tremont street, from our stock of men's boys'
youths* and children's clothing, and commend him
to those who have heretofore purchased our goods
from the late C. E. BROUSSARD.
CARHART, WHITFORD & CO.
New York. August 30, 1883.
SUMMER IlESOSTS
HIRAM HITCHCOCK,
Formerly St. Charles
Hotel, New Orleans.
A. B. DARLING,
Formerly Battle
House, Mobile.
In vie~w of tlie fact tliat tlie hunting season is rapidly
approaehmg-the confines of oxir Empire State, and sports-
men are consequently making preparations ior the re-
nowned districts of fluff and feathers, the idea suggests
itself to call attention to our extremely popular brands
of Powder, manufactured by the Hazard Company ex-
pressly for hunters of Texas, with the assurance that our
sfco<'k is complete at all times in every particular, which
enables us to supply the demand readily on short notice
with the best ammunition in the market.
J. S. BROWN & CO.,
Strand, Galveston.
P. J. WILLIS & BRO.,
Notion Stock Complete,
Comprising FURNISHING GOODS, HOSIERY, GLOVES,
RUBBER GOODS, OIL CLOTHING, LACES,
EMBROIDERIES AND
Fancy Notions of all Descriptions.
EDUCATIONAL.
GALYESTOX FEMALE INST1TVTE,
Cor. Ave. H and 13th street.
Reopens September 3, Terms from 25 to $7.
Miss E. II. NORTON,
• PrixM-jyal.
Mis* G. Jextson. Assistant.
INSULA IgfSTZTlTTB.
312 Avenue H. between 18th and 10th streets.
Opens September 3. Terms from to $7 per
month. For circular, address
MRE. A. Ht'FFMASTFR, Principal.
( ^ ALVESTOJI ACAPEMY—This select school
vJT for young ladies will or>en September 3 at the
school building, between lith and loth street*, on
Postoffice. For particulars, apply to principal.
MRS. O. B. BRIGGS.
ST. MARY'S UNIVERSITY,
GALVESTON, TEXAS,
Reopens MONDAY, Sept. 3. Colleplate, Mathe-
inatH'nl and Commercial departn>ents: French.
Spanish And German; Musk\ Drawing and! paint-
in" ; Phonography. Telegraphy and Slilitary
Tactics. Our commercial course is more complete
and thorough than tliat of purely commercial
•choote. For last annual crualo^ue apply to
Kr.v. a. >1. TRUCHARD, President.
GALVESTON FEME SEM?
AND
NORMAL INSTITUTE
Will Redpen Monday, September lO*
at the
EATON CHAFEL SCHOOL ROOM.
Mr3. W. E. Djobllt, Principal.
For particulars see Principal, at Xo. 320 Ave. 1.
NOTICES.
HOLLISS INSTITUTE,
VIRGINIA.
1 will meet younc: ladies for this Institute at
Houston ou September 13.
C. H. COCKE,
Busiuess Ascent.
C. Aultman. Pres. C H. Jacesox, Sec. &Treas.
A. Hurford, V. p. E. J. Laxdor. Engineer.
XX^ROUUHT IRON BRIDGE CO., OF CANTON,
V > OHIO.
MANUFACTURERS of ALL KINDS of WROUGHT
IRON and COMBINATION BRIDGES.
For plans, specifications and general information
address
HARRIS & LEYERSEDGE. Agents,
Dallas, Texas.
DOUGLASS GREEN.
10 lL 18 Exchange Place. New York,
broker in
STOCKS. BONDS ANO FOREIGN EXCHANGE.
Qrdwi for Cotton Futures promptly executed.
f GILBERT H. GREEN Jc CO.. Orle*a«.
RinsKXCift CHAELSS GREEN S SON a CO.. S*Taans^ ***«
( O. D. BALDWIN*. Fres'tCth Nst'l Back, New Verl
correspondence solicited.
j^OR BOYS, AVENUE K AND CENTER ST.,
will begin its Eleventh Annual Session ou
3IONT>AY, SEPTEMBER i, 1SS3.
THE EXERCISES OF
ALTA YISTA INSTITUTE
Will be resumed September 5.
For circular, address
DR. R. M. SWEARINGEN,
or Krs. H. M. KIRBY,
Austin, Texa*.
Fifth Avenue Hotel,
XVladlsoc Square? 2Tew Vork-
The largest, best Appointed and most liberally
managed hotel In the city, with the most central
and delightful location.
SrP-gHOOCK* DARLING Sc. CO.
DrayaghT7 - Drayage
ED. KETCHUM & CO.,
Sraymcn and Contractors,
Do all kinds of heavy and lisbt hauling. Machin-
ery, Boilers and Safes onr specialties.
Office, Corner cf 2£d St- and Strand.
No institution in America i« more practical.
Apartments, appliances and methods unsurpassed.
The students actually buy and sell merchandise;
ship, consign, insure, discount, draw checks, draft*,
notss, etc. They have the actual experience of the
real merchant and banker.
For particulars or circular address
R. H. HILl., Principal, Waco. Texas.
S
AIXT XARY*S ACADEMY
AUSTIN, TEXAS,
conducted by
THE SISTERS OF THE HOLY CROSS
JNi otice.
All obmrs or complaints, to
receive prompt attention, should be left at
the ofiico of the Company, in the Brick Building, oa
Market Street, Between 24tii and 25tli
streets,
Eetween the hours of S and 12 o'clock a. m.
AUG. RIYTLARi Secretary.
Professor Maggioli,
Champion of tho South*
FROM THIS DATE,
LOVERS OF THE GAME OF BILLIARDS
Will find Professor Majrgioli in charge of the
s
Beach Hole! Boom
Exhibitions in scientific shots; instruction ia
playing. Tbe pleasure of players and visitors, i
trust, will increase the attraction at my Rooms.
J. HARVEY PIERCE, Proprietor.
Studies will be resumed in this institution
MONDAY. September 3, 1883,
For particulars address SISTER SUPERIOR,
209 Mulberry street, Austin, Texas.
24TH SESSION, 1883.
Young1 Ladies Boardinsr and Day School
MISS M. B. BROWNE, Directress.
2S4 McKinney street - HOUSTON, TEXAS.
ANNOUNCEMENT—Tlie 24th scholastic year of
the above institute will commence September 3,
1S83. No pains will be spared to merit a continuance
of that kind and vaiued patronage hitherto so
liberally bestowed. For term*;, which are moderate,
please address MISS M. B. BROWNE.
J
L.
A Homo School for Boys.
SITUATED AT GLENDALE, M0,
Ou the Missouri-Pacific Railroad,
Eleven miles from St. Louis. Location healthy.
Grounds large and attractive. Mental, moral and
physical welfare of the boys has tlie most careful
attention. Corps of instructors competent.
THE NEXT TERM OPENS SEPTEMBER 12,
1888.
For terms and particulars address the principal,
E. A. HAIGHT, A. M., Kirkwood, Mo.
GEORGETOWN COLLEGE, O. 0.
Founded in 1780. Rev. James A. Doonan, S. J.,
President. Academic and Scientific Schools open
on Thursday. September 13, 1888. Board, tuition,
etc., $300 *p«»r annum. For particulars address
PRESIDENT GEORGETOWN COLLEGE, D. C.
The School of Medicine opens on Monday. Sep-
tember 4, 1S33. Terms for the full course "of lec-
tures, *100. Address J. W. H. LOVEJOY. M. D.,
Dean, 900 12th St., N. W., Washington, D. C.
The School of Law opens on Thursday. October
4,18S3. Course cf studies extended and rearranged.
Faculty: Hon. R. T. Merrick, Hon. Jere. Ma\\ ilson.
Judge W. A. Richardson (U. S. Court of (Satans),
Martin F. Morris, LL.D , and J. J. Darlington. Esq.
C. W. Hoffman.LL.D.. Deau. Terms, $80 per annum.
Add. SAM'L M. Y EAT MAN, Esq..Sec'y, 1425 N. Y.
Avenue. N. W., Washington, D. C.
NOTICE.
GULF, COLORADO AND SANTA FE R'Y. *
Oilvs3Tox, September 11, 1883. J
Notice is hereby given that the aunual meeting
of the stockholders of this company will be held at
the office of the company, in the city of Galveston,
on
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 2,1883,
at 12 o'clock noon. Transfer books will be closed
from September 15 to October 15,1SS3 ; both dayd
inclusive.
F. P. KIXXEEXT,
Secretary.
Z. King, President. Hikley B. Gibbs, Sec'y.
J as. a. Kwo, V. Pres't. A. H. Porter, Engineer»
King Iron Bridge
AND
iUiirllll AVI 1 UllIiA
CJ, fS OHIO.
Manufacturers of all kinds of WROUGHT IRON
and COMBINATION BRIDGES.
Z3T P'ans, specifications and estimates submitted^
on application.
OLIVER & ALEXANDSr.,
General Southern Agents.
Office: Room No. 10, Fox's Building, Houston,
Texas.
Cotton Factors
AND
Agrieuitur at iMecbaRical College
OF TEXAS,
College Station, Brazos Co., Tex.
The eighth annual session witx be-
gin on MONDAY, October 1, i«S3. The course
of instruction extends through three years, and is
specially adapted to the thorough practical train-
ing of younc men in farming, horticulture, stook
raising, engineering, chemistry, mechanics, archi-
tecture, etc., and the sciences relating thereto.
Graduates for the last two years have without dif-
ficulty secured lucrative employment in these pur-
suits. Total expenses for nine months only $150.
For catalogues or special information, address
PROF. H. H. DINWIDDIE,
Chairman of the Faculty.
We Want Everyone to Know
• THAT
GEO. M. STEIRER & CO.,
Proprietors,
Are prepared to do all haul-
ing intrusted to tliem.
3P.AVAC-E ANB STOSAG2 £G-
i-ICXTKJJ.
An Astonished Xtasdor.
[To The NewiJ
CoTru,a, Texas, September 8, 1SS3.—I was
astonished to see ia a late issue of The News
a scurrilous and slanderous communication
from a cowardly anonymous writer calling
himself Paul Catesby. Perhaps he is a lineal
descendant of Mr. Catosby, who, with his dark
lantern and dagger in hand, attempted to blow
up the English House of Parliament. He
seems to be a genuine Knownothing, resuscita-
ted to revive the memories of that odious and
unameriean party. I have been a reader of
The News for over twenty-three years, and I
have never seen anything like that communi-
cation in it before, and if the founder of The
News, Williard Richardson, whom we all
knew aud esteemed, were alive, no such article
GOLD MEDAL, PAEI3, 1878.
BAKER'S
Jl Go®.
"Warranted absolutely pure
C(*coa, from which the excess of
Oil has been removed. It has three
times the strength of Cocoa mired
with Starch, Arrowroot or Sugar,
and is therefore far more economi-
cal. It is delicious, nourishing,
strengtliAiing, easily digested, aud
admirably adapted for Invalids as
well as for persons In health.
Sold bj Grocers everywhere.
¥. BAKER & CO.. Dorchester, Mass.
NOVELTIES. NOVELTIES.
B. EL. Bavis «£ 3ro»,
58 fit 60 TYIABKTiT ST3E2T,
(Opposite Girardin Hotel.)
JTJST RECEIVED
Our new Fall and Winter stock of
Carpeting, Furniture
HOUSE-FURNISHING GOODS.
Having received goods in carload lots we have
made such sweeping reductions as will place our
goods within the reach of all.
Don't forget to give us a call. Our wholesale de-
partment, now complete, ofiers to dealers an oppor-
tunity to have their orders tilled with promptness
and dispatch.
43"»Special attention given to mail orders.
Southern Home Schaal for Girls.
197&lS92?.Cliarle3 st«,Baltimore,r&d
Mrs. W. M. Cary, Miss Cary.
Established 1842. French the language of the school,
M
RS. SYLVAJsUS REED'S Boarding and Day
School for young ladies and little girls. 6 & S E.
53d st..bet.5th A Madison aves., N. Y. (Central Park.)
Course in Col. Dept. thorough. Special students ad-
mitted. Primary and Preparatory depts. French the
language of the school. Begins October 3,1333.
Business and Telegraph College
Corner Fifth and 3Xarket Sts>9
4fT. JyOlIS, .HO,
This is one of the very largest and most successful
schools of the kiud in the United States. Send for
circular containing references to graduates who
have been placed in positions.
DR. W. M. CARPENTER, President.
CENTRAL TTNIVSSSXTTT,
RICHMOND, KY.
Opens Tuesday, S«pt. 11,1S33. Advantages: Full
Faculty of able instructors, healthfulness of loca-
tion (Richmond is more than 500 feet above the
Ohio river); accessibility—the center of State, and
within a few hours by rail of Louisville, Cincinnati,
Knoxvffle and Chattanoogo; moderate expense-
board in tlie New Dormitory $100 per annum, and
in the best families from $3 to $4 per week; total
expenses from $ 130 to $24U. Address L. H. BLAN-
TON,D. 1)., Chancellor, Richmond, Ky.
NEW WINDSOR COLLEGE.
(Chartered 1843. >
SEMINARY I COLLEGE
FOR YOUNG LADIES. | FOR YOUNG MEN.
Preparatory and Primary Preparatory & Business
Schools for young girls. | Schools for youn^ bovs.
FALL TERM OPENS SEPTEMBER 12/1883.
Distinct courses of study and government. Sepa-
rate buildings. One management. For full in-
formation. address
REV. A. M. JELLY, D.D., President,
New Windsor, 3Id.
BBSS,ELLIS & CO.
IMPOETERS,
"Wliolesale Grocers
Oofton Factors
AND
COMMISSION MERCHANTS.
STRAND AND 23d STREETS.
X,«.. KJUUVV.
CROP OF 188 3.
2000 LI*,. Assorted Turnip, 100 Lbs.
Creole Onion Seed.
Also. Cabbage. Lettuce. Beets. Radiib.CauUflcra-er
Celer.r, Parslej". Spinach, assortment Snap Beans
etc., all ot which should be soon planted
For sale by A. FLAKE &. CO.
INTERIOR SHIPPERS
Will please note that
WM, BOYD & BRO.,
Experiensed Cotton Weighers,
will weigh all cotton intrusted to them
after September 1, 1683,
At 5 Cents Per Bale.
We still pay the highest
market price for same, or
gin for the seed, supplying
Bagging and Ties free.
Galveston OilComp'y.
BUSINESS CHANGES.
DISSOLUTION KCTIC2.
VTOTICE Is hereby given that the firm of LA.W-
lN RENCE A EDWARDS is dissolved by mutual
onsent. J. W. LAWRENCE.
L. E. EDWARDS.
Austin, Tex., August 1,1SS3.
Notice.
THE UNDERSIGNED BEGS LEAVE TO An-
nounce that he has this day sold out his
PLANING MILLS, LUMBER-YARD, ETC.,
to Messrs. C. Hildenbrand and P. Barry, who will
continue the business under the firm name and
style of
C. HILDENBRAND & CO.
Thanking my friends and patrons for their favors
extended to me in the past, I solicit a continuance
of same to my successors, who, I know, will con-
duct the business to the best interests of their cus»
tomers. Respectfully, C. F. HILDENBRAND.
Galveston, September 7,1883.
Referring to the above, we solicit the patronage
of our friends and the public at larere, promising to
guard their interests in every particular.
C. HILDENBRAND & CO.
copartnership notice
rp.HE UNDERSIGNED HAVE THIS DA"?
formed a copartnership under the firm name o£'
LEITH & BO0NE.
Will continue the GRAIN, PRODU CE and COM-
MISSION business already estaSished by Mr,
L. C. LEITH and have added thkt of PURCHASING*
AGENTS. We earnestly solicit orders, consign-
ments and correspondence. L. C. LEITH.
L. L. BOONE,
67 Twentieth St.. between Mechanic and Strand.
Galveston, July 25, 1883.
To whom it may concern:
At the request of Mr. L. L. Boone we would say
we have known him intimately the past eight years
and have always found him honorable ana upright
in all his dealings. He intends engaging in the
purchasing and commission business, for which we
think him eminently suited and feel confident all
business intrusted to to him will receive proper aud
careful attention. G. Seelioso>- & Co.
Chas. Beidrnheimer & Co.
Mensing, Stratton & Co.
Willis, Landes & Co.
N. B. Sligh.
BANKS AND BANKERS.
SAST AHTOKZO, TEXAS.
J. M. BROWNSON, President.
J. S. THORNTON, Cashier.
Transacts a General Banking Bnsiness.
Lockwood & Kamimiaim,
BANKERS,
SAN ANTONIO, - TEXAS*
Collections solicited on All Points in tbe State.
Commercial paper discounted. Bills on Mexico,
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The Galveston Daily News. (Galveston, Tex.), Vol. 42, No. 174, Ed. 1 Wednesday, September 12, 1883, newspaper, September 12, 1883; Galveston, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth461146/m1/2/: accessed April 25, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Abilene Library Consortium.