The Galveston Daily News. (Galveston, Tex.), Vol. 40, No. 134, Ed. 1 Friday, August 26, 1881 Page: 2 of 4
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to the accession at the Vice-President, bat
adds:
It is not wise to overlook the letter and intent of
the constitution, however unpalatable the per-
formance of its prescribed action may he. What if
riot or rebellion should break out to-morrow? The
President could not even listen to the emergency.
There is no one under the constitution that could
call out the militia or summon an army. It to use-
less to disguise thb fact that the country ha» been
ignoring this question because of its abhorrence of
the agencies and instrumentalities that obedience
to the constitution in this particular case would in-
volve, But it requires no argument to show that
the temporary or even permanent accession
of Vice-President; Arthur is trivial in-
deed as compared to the mischief such a
precedent is bound to provide for the future. The
situation must be looked squarely in the face.
Scarcely one lawful act of an executive nature can
bow be performed. The heart of the country is
with the invalid in his sore distress yonder. He
will be the object of a peculiar tenderness so long
as he shall live, should he reach the years of the
patriarchs, but It is no part of tenderness and devo-
tion to ignore the laws of tlfe land and out of
mistaken sentiment and morbid distrust infringe
the unmistakable letter of the highest law. It Is
now time, and over time, to have this grave subject
dealt with in the spirit of practical statesmanship.
The interests ;of the country must be considered
above men and parties. The constitution is the
sole guide of law-abiding citizens, and under its
terms there is no hiatus in the offi e of executive.
But shall Vice-President Arthur, upon his
own motion, proceed to act as temporary
President under the theory that the duties of
the office devolve upon him in consequence of
the disability of President Garfield? It is evi-
dent that he is reluctant to do so—perhaps re-
solved not to do so—until invited in an official
manner with the express or clearly implied
sanction of the President. The New York
Journal of Commerce insists that such
an invitation should be sent at once, as " it
might prove to be the one thing that would
relieve the President of all anxiety about af-
fairs of State, and leave him free from such
care to attend to his own health and comfort."
But suppose, Secretary Blaine having no relish
for a change of administration that would
make his great enemy, Conkling, the power
behind the throne, the Ca binet persists in not
inviting the Vice-President.to step in as Acting
President. What then?
Friday, August 26. 1881.
CONTAGIOUS EVILS OF THE SPOILS
SYSTEM.
It may not make much difference to the
average peaceable citizen, in a great majority
of cases, whether a member of one party or
the other holds a given office, and if parties
were more correctly aligned toward the public
the administration of either party, even if
conceded to be the worst, would be better than
the practical results of the best as actually ex-
hibited. The mischiefs of the system under
wnich office is considered as booty, and its
emoluments are made in fact a sufficient
temptation to booty-hunters, banded together
Under the name of parties, to sacrifice the pub-
lic interest, are not confined to the immediate
administration of the office-holders' trusts and
the pocketing by the ofixce holders of salaries
not precisely earned by an equivalent in ser-
vices rendered; but a presumption extends,
from the heights of political power down to t|ie
lowest stratum of executive detail, that to get
hold of public money on any specious pretense
Df services rendered, the services being merely
nominal, unconcealedly so m many cases, is
not such a breach of morality as it would be
in private life. The corrupting effect of this
tendency must be in some degree to sap the
foundations of the sentiment of honor in pri-
vate transactions. For whoever in one rela-
tion becomes accustomed to take that for
Which he gives none but a nominal or sham
equivalent will be tempted very strongly to
make an incautious rich patron his victim the
Same as an unwatebful people. Next he will
be tempted to take advantage of those less
rich, and finally, even to rob the most indus-
trious and the poor, from the moral sense hav-
ing been overcome, and the perverted moral
vision seeing the equality of rights through a
medium that debases the grand principle
and substitutes for the sentiment of
equity the robber principle of taking
advantage of those persons and corpora-
tions that are not watching then-
property with sufficient vigilance. Work be-
comes distasteful under these conditions, and
wherever they spread society is on the down
grade. Philadelphia was surprised the other
day to find that street contracts were regarded
as legitimate booty. If Philadelphia had
never allowed the rule of political bosses and
the system of partisan spoils of office, she
■would never have witnessed the extraordinary
spectacle of nominal street cleaning as a po-
litical appendage of hsr municipal admin-
istration. Those who undertake to keep
and feed a lion should not wonder if the
jackals come to partake of the leavings of the
lion's feast. The jackals have hunted for the
lion, and they expect to pick the bones
wherever he is master. They will be street-
cleaners or anything else the people like, in
name only be it understood, but they know
nothing about the work; therefore they can
not do it, and if the donkey that has taken the
task of bearing the lion's provender sees
fit in his presumption to complain,
the jackals look to the lion to silence
the donkey and divide not only the
previously secured booty, but the contents of
the donkey's own skin The city that wants
proper protection against filthy streets and
waste of money must begin, not by complain-
ing of the assurance of the camp-followers of
either band of booty-hunters, in seizing upon
whatever pickings they can find on any pre-
tense, but by choosing business men, of tried
technical fitness and probity to conduct its
municipal business, leaving the big booty-
hunters out in the cold, and then it is quite
certain they can not let down the bars for the
small fry to follow them into the public edifice
and defy it.
THE PRESIDENTIAL DISABILITY.
The Philadelphia Times discusses the ques-
tion of presidential disability with a degree of
firmness and strength of argument that can
not fail to impress the general reader, if it has
no effect upon the cabinet. Except thut it
holds that the word inability in the constitu-
tution fixes the duration of the Vice-Presi-
dent's service as President, its views accord
with those heretofore expressed by The News.
The Times is probably correct in its theory
that the constitution contemplates that in
cases of disability of the President the Vice-
President shall perform the duties only till such
disability be removed, but it overlooks the
absence of any provision in the constitution to
terminate the disability tenure, and makes no
effort to show a constitutional process for
eviction in the event of obstinacy in the locum
tenens. The voluntary retirement of the
emergent president would, of course, answer
for the particular occasion, but it would cure
no defect in the constitution or statutes, and
would establish no binding precedent for the
next accidency. But, however that may
be, the Times is strongly impressed with
the conviction that constitutional dis-
ability exists, and that the affairs of the
country demand the temporary accession of
Mr. Arthur to tho functions of the presiden-
tial' office. " No one," it says, " who regards
the constitution as a real factor in the conduct
of the government can ignore its language in
dealing with the state of things which exists
at this moment, has existed for seven weeks,
and, unhappily, promises to exist for a long
time to come. The constitution is plain in the
premises. In case of the disability of the Presi-
dent to perform the duties involved in his office
the Vice-President assumes his place and per-
forms the duties until the disability is re-
moved." The Times recognizes the delicacy of
the situation and the state of public feeling as
" JUDGE LYNCH IS TALKED OF."
"Judge Lynch is talked of" is ouly too
familiar an appendage to telegraphic reports
of crimes more than usually shocking to pub-
lic sentiment in the localities where they oc-
cur. For example, a telegram from a town in
the interior of Texas, after stating that the
sheriff had placed in jail a white man, who
was highly respected by his neighbors, on the
charge of incest, adds: "Our citizens are
highly indignant and excited over the matter.
Judge Lynch is talked of." Do good citizens
understand and intelligently ponder all
that is implied in such talk when
recognized as the prologue to a sort of quasi
legitimate though grimly ferocious tragedy?
Assuredly they do not. If they did they would
shrink with horror from the too prevalent idea
that it is always in order, when some locaj
community feels particularly exasperated
against a real or supposed criminal, to sub-
stitute the swift and vindictive procedure of
Jutfge Lynch for the administration of legal
justice. There is a savage irony in the use of
the word judge in this connection. There
is nothing judicial in the kidnapping, torturing,
shooting and hanging business, and therefore
Judge Lynch is facetiously presumed to preside
over it. This is a tribunal which begins by
setting aside every right guaranteed to the ac-
cused by the constitutional bill of rights. " He
shall have the right," the constitution of Texas
declares, "to demand the nature and cause of
the accusation against him, and to have a copy
thereof. He shall not be compelled to give
evidence against himself. He shall have
the right of being heard by himself or coun-
sel, or both; shall be confronted with
the witnesses against him, and shall have com-
pulsory process for obtaining witnesses in his
favor." All these guarantees are blown to the
winds, and the accused is hurried to execution
by a power which has predetermined both his
condemnation and his fate. It is amazing that
State administrations having any respect for
themselves, any regard for the majesty of the
law, or any care for the maintenance
of the civil authority, should give, as they
so often do give, a passive sanction to
the code of Judge Lynch, which is nothing less
than the code of anarchy. Men in authority,
who have been noted sticklers for the most ex-
treme assertion of the Magna Charta and con
stitutional rights of criminals in courts of jus-
tice, are found complacently winking at the
violent and bloody suppression of these rights
in the lynch law procedure. Martial law is
supposed to suspend civil law and civil liberty
in the temporary interest of order aud pub-
lic security. Lynch law, however, car-
ried to its logical accomplishment, means
the nihilism alike of civil law, civil
liberty and public security. It is a gross fallacy,
with which a good many minds have been af-
fected, to regard local outbreaks of lynch law
as a rude assertion of popular sovereignty.
The sovereign power of the people can reside
nowhere but in the collective body of the peo-
ple. The civil government constituted by this
collective body is supposed to be invested with
the sovereign power of the people, which
is insulted, assaulted and trodden un-
der foot every time a local mob tram-
ples upon the constitution and the
statutory laws, defies and overpowers the civil
authorities. Equally fallacious is the idea that
lynch law may serve to purge a commonwealth
of crime. Only law, regularly though inexor-
ably administered, can cope successfully with
the elements of crime. Lawlessness, indulged
with impunity in one form, is always a terri-
ble generator of lawlessness in other forms.
Experience has furnished plentiful proof of
this in Texas and other States, where lynch
law has sown dragon's teeth, and propagated
desolating vendettas and endless reciproca-
tions of murders and atrocities from the seeds
of criminal passions. The civilization of any
country may be measured by the degree of
popular abhorrence of every form of lawless
violence, and of popular love of law and of
liberty as inseparable from law.
STATE PKESS.
Wliat the Interior Papers Say.
The local of the Bandera Bugle is siezed with
the idiocy of many others, and prints the fol-
lowing sentences, each standing alone, as a
substitute for news or wit or both:
Wheat. Drummers. Molasses, oh! Hogs are
happy. Where's the sheriff? Dance in school-house,
ft i! fir camp-meeting. A flower of a bower there.
The donkey awaketh the owl.
This epidemic of insanity furnishes another
strong argument for enlarging the lunatic
asylum. For one crazy man in that institu-
tion there are hundreds outside.
The News a short time since had a dispatch
stating that George Munden, claiming to be a
deputy sheriff from Harrison county, with
several persons, became intoxicated and drew
his pistol on Chief of Police Harris, and es-
caped from Longview. The Marshall Herald
gives the following version of the affair:
Mr. Munden is the constable of this precinct, and
not a deputy sheriff, nor did he claim to be. He
went to Longview to serve several citations and
tlier process of this justice court on certain par-
ties m that county. These had to be indorsed by
the justice of Gregg county, which he iiad done,
and the papers were placed in the hands of Sheriff
Campbell to serve. Munden was standing and
talking to iVlr. D. S. Jennings and Mr. Wellborne,
when Chief Harris came up. and seeing the
pistol under tlie coat of Munden, demanded
him to give the pistol up to him (Harris).
Munden told him that he -vas an officer
and had the right to carry a pi !. Harris would
not believe it. and again demanded the pistol. Mr.
Jennings then told Harri- that it was true that
Mun.ten was an officer, and could carrj- a pistol.
Munden prop- s»-d to go with him f> the sheriff and
there satisfy him: but Harris grew desperate and
drew his pistol and commanded Munden to gi ve up
his pistol. Munden replied: " Ail ri ;ht, then,"
and drew his. but instead of giving it up to Harris
he placed himself in defence and told Harris if he
could take his pistol he was welcome to it. Harris
very sensibly i etreated. Munden finished his busi-
ness v. iih the sheriff, and in company with Mr.
J linings went to the junction. Harris and several
part.it s were seen to follow them, and Mr. Jen-
nings went back and met- them, and after talking
with thein -orne time the pursuing party returned.
The Lampasas Dispatch says of the work of
the shrewd politicians of Austin:
It is understood that Austin has two sets of
tickets for the university election—one against
separating the medical department from the main
university, and in favor of locating the entire
tiling at Austin. This ticket is intended for gen-
eral distribution. The other in in favor of separa-
tion, and for Austin for the main university. The
last is intended to catch the vote of Houston and
Galveston.
Galveston can only compliment the shrewd-
ness of Austin like Mr. Parker, the attorney,
did the sharp practice of Dodson & Fogg.
Austin is smart. General Houston used to
say: "lam not smart, but lucky." Austin
may find the rule work the other way. Yet
that city is industrious and full of resources.
It is utilizing the religious organizations in
the present contest, and may hereafter do so in
elections for office. The Statesman thus tells
how well the policy works among the colored
brethren:
liev. J. Fontaine, a prominent colored Baptist,
minister, has ju t returned from San Antonio, His
church held a big convention in that ci;y, there be-
ing present 120 ministers. After adj urnment he
took the vote on the university question, as lollows:
One hundred and eighteen for the entire univer-
sity at Austin, one fortiie main university at Tyler,
one for the medical department at Galveston and
cue for the entire university at Waco. The vote
was made unanimous for the entire university at
Austin, and each minister pltdged himself to work
for Austin.
The Wills Pointer says the cost of living is
less at Tyler than at the other prominent candi-
dates for the university.
The local of the Sherman Democrat takes up
the mantle of Bergh, and exclaims:
Oh for an angel in the way, or a mule that coukl
rebuke the cruelty of his master I The streetcars
in both Houston and Galveston are each drawn by
one poor little mule, between the size of a rat and
the noble animal Balaam rode when he went out to
curse Israel.
As Byron said of Coleridge's apostrophe to a
young burro, "A fellow-feeling makes us
wondrous kind." but the Galveston mules
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hstve an easy time, or at least short hours of
labor, compared with tbeir drivers. Besides
the roads are perfectly level, and the strain on
the animals is not great, though they seem as
small in comparison with the cars and pas-
sengers as a little tug moving an immense
ship. The mules in drays have a much harder
time than those in the cars.
The Denison Democrat puts on its warpaint,
apparently, against some of the business prac-
tices of that young city, and says:
No matter what the opposition, no matter what
the influence, no matter how much prejudice may
be engendered against us, we mean to say our say,
and we are responsible personally for what we do
say, and either the Democrat must be suppressed
and move, or we will have a change m Denison.
This is said with all respect to tho-e who are our
friends, but it is said in solemn earnestness. We
will make our promise good. We will not attack
the Jew because he is a Jew, nor will we spare the
G-. ntile because he is no Jew, but the thief we'll
call a thief, and the swindler we will pronounce,
and we ask ou# friends not to think for one mo-
ment that we have abandoned the fight. We'll
five you music. Brisk, lively music, and we will
ance to the music we make.
It was thus the gallant Don Quixote set out
to redress grievances, vindicate virtue, and
reform mankind. All honor to those who lead
the forlorn hope, whether in war or peace.
Probably the Democrat will embrace the alter-
native it names to " move." Yet there is some
hope of the wicked city, as appears by the
local columns of the same paper. It says Dan
Henry sells none but pure liquors. "The Parnell
saloon has established a reputation unequaled
by any other in North Texas. Some persons
are foolish enough to say there are no pure
"whiskies in Denison. This, though doubtless
honest, can be refuted by trying Cox & Cly-
mer's liquors." A few more such righteous
men may save the city " where the panther
laid down," in spite of the bad practices of
other dealers.
The Brazoria Independent is not only inde-
pendent itself, but wants its county to be so.
It has a seaport and natural advantages of its
own, and says;
We oppose Galveston for the location of the
medical department of the State university, not
that we love Galveston less, but Brazoria county
more. Every favor extended to Galveston by
Brazoria county only helps them to injure us.
This idea has no foundation in the relations
between this city and the people of Brazoria
county. Their business and social relations
have always been pleasant and mutually bene-
ficial.
The Nacogdoches News urges the people of
Eastern Texas to vote for the location of the
university, minus the medical college, at Tyler.
The W illis Pointer urges the fact that Tyler
offers to donate her college building and
grounds to the university, and the other local
advantages of that place as reasons why the
university should be located there, and favors
Houston for the medical college.
The Mineola (Wood county) Hawkeye sees
many reasons for locating the university at
Tyler.
The Hawkeye contrasts the politeness of
Southern men in yielding seats to ladies in
cars and showing them other attentions, with
the neglect of such courtesies at the North and
in Europe.
Many of the Texas papers speak of the pe-
culiar fitness of Chief Justice Moore for the
vacant place on the supreme bench of the
United States. Nothing but the state of his
health could be urged to the contrary.
The Brenham Banner recurs to the old evil
of professional politicians, as follows:
In almost every community there is a number of
men who make a business of politics; such men
rarely have any legitimate business of their own,
and neither are they of any standing where they
are best known. When an election is about to
come off these political bummers come to the sur-
face and are found briefly engaged in log-rolling
with the transient and laboring men who have
nothing at stake. The political bummer, being des-
titute of character himself, always works to get
some man in office who will feel tinder obligations
to him, and who will do his
bidding in case of emergency. An offi-
cer to be perfectly free and untrammeled
should be UHder personal obligations to no man or
set of men. Officers that are under such obliga-
tions place themselves in a very bad position, and
make it possible to get packed juries and to defeat
the ends of justice in various ways. Warrants for
the arrest of petty offenders are issued, as a mat-
ter of form; they are placed in the hands of the
officer > and from the hands-of the officers they are
transferred to the officers' pockets, are never exe-
cuted, he officers being wholly unable to find the
offender, although men who are not officers can
see them every day. There is not an orgnnized
county in all 'of Texas in which the law-abiding
element is not largely in the majority, and as soon
as they determine upon electing no officers who
can not be depended uoon to do their whole duty
they can do so, and no doubt will at no very distant
day.
Waco is not only a candidate for the entire
university, the medical college included, but
advises people to vote for some other place for
the entire institution rather than for Waco for
the main branch and Houston or Galveston
for the medical college. It was hardly to be
expected that Galveston would go to the ex-
pense of printing tickets in favor of Waco and
its grasping idea, yet here is what the Exam-
iner says because she failed to do so:
Galveston's little puny, sickly (like the city),
miserable, pover y stricken, terror stricken, char-
acteristic tickets, have appeared in a few por. ions
o the State. On the tick t Is printed the name of
every candidate for the State University or ant-
portion thereof that has been announced, save
and except Waco. Waco does not feel
lighted that a broken-down city like that,
t at once flourished under the name of the
Island gem, should thus ignore lier. Galveston's
glory is fast fading away. In future a?es. when
Waco shall have become what she is destined to
be, a great inland city, her citizens will, in the
course of conversation, refer to Galveston as a city
thar was and might have been. Waco is or an un-
divided university, and her position is the same
now as when she first announced; but if the uni-
versity is to be divided, Houston, who has defeated
Galveston in every commercial and business con-
test, will 1 e our undivided choice. Galveston once
had the chance of being the queen city o Texas,
but he money loving, dollar-jraspiug spirit that
actuated the meager souls of her leading citizens
robbed her of her advantages, and to-dav she
s ards the laughing stock of the State, deilironed
by the enterprise o:' her voung-er, o ce smaller, but
more enterprising neighbor, Houston.
Whom the gods would destroy they make
mad, but they seldom make any one as mad as
the Examiner seems to be.
In pleasant contrast with this tirade is the
amiable disposition manifested by the editor
of the Corpus Christi Ledger:
While waiting for the waiter to bring our din-
ner. at the Crescent, a sho t, thick-set, red-headed
Irishman lurched up avainst our table, rudely in-
terrupting our meditations, and demanded "in a
husky voice if we wouid fight him for the drinks
Not only as the Ledger man. hut as a member of
'he \. M. C. A., T. A. S. and A. M. G., to say noth-
ing of once having attended services at St. Timo-
thy's, we had th« courace to decline, and at the
same time gracefully glide behind a de-k just in
time to see Mr. C'onstantine clutched in his em-
brace.
Then the Ledger describes a row that beats
that of Nye and the heathen Chinee or the cat
and the parrot, which the good-natured editor
avoided by his peaceful maneuver.
The Texarkana Inter-State has a sensible
leader on the misdirected education, which
turns out men who know more about other
things than those which are necessary to en-
able them to earn their own support and be-
come useful members of society. A writer is
quoted who says many educated negroes and
young white men of the South, who are turned
out of colleges, are fit for nothing:
You can't get any more work out of them. From
that time on they try to make a living by their
wits. Failing in that, they resort to something
lower and meaner—gambling und stealing—before
tliey will resort to honest manual labor.
The Inter-State says:
Of c ur-e this is not always true, baf no one can
have failed to observe the marked tendency in this
direction. Think of the hundreds of idle preach
ers, politicians and loafers living upon precarious
jobs and dishone-t practices; the thieves and game-
sters, all of whom have acquired a dislike for
labor.
Gradually the people of the United States
are beginning to discriminate between merely
ornamental and useful learning. This country,
though democratic, is far behind some monar-
chical governments of Europe in this re-
spect. The United States consul at Bradford,
England, in a late report describes a number
of technical schools in that country, and urges
more attention to such institutions here. There
are eight such schools in Great Britain,
and they are looked upon as promising to
greatly benefit the manufactures and trade of
the country. Too much has long been claimed
for the old educational practices of this
country. A good many useful things have
never been taught in our common schools and
colleges. As a late American writer on edu-
cation says:
The school is not by anv means the only educa-
tive institution. The family, the church, the Slate,
the civil society, each gives a certain kind of edu-
cation peculiar to itself—such as can not be given
by the school or by any other institution.
The Cigarette Tlte.
[New York Evening Mail.]
Of the evils resulting from the vice of smok-
ing cigarettes we have heretofore spoken at
some length. But of the full extent to.which
that vice is practiced many persons, we appre-
hend, are not aware. On that point there are
some appalling figures in the juac issued report
of the Bureau of Internal Revenue at Wash-
ington. By that report it appears that during
the fiscal year ending on the 30th of June last,
there were taxed, at $1 75 a thousand, no less
than 567,3S6,982 cigarettes. Of this large
number it is safe to say that by far the greater
portion was couumed by boys add growing
youth and young men. Of the poison thus
imbibed from arsenical paper and the wretched
stuff which in most cases passes for tobacco,
no calculation can be made. But the effect of
all this on the rising generation the most
cheerful optimist can not anticipate with
pleasure.
The government, during the fiscal year cov-
ered by the report, derived from this abomina-
ble manufacture a revenue of $992,929 22.
Whereas, in the fiscal year ending June 30,1880,
at the same rate of taxation, their receipts
from this source were but $715,337 39: which is
to say that during the last fiscal year the con-
sumption of cigarettes was one-third greater
than it was in the year preceding. This is an
enormous advance, and one which no reason-
able and judicious person can see without deep
dissatisfaction.
That something ought to be done to dimin-
ish the consumption of cigarettes seems clear.
Consideration of public health are sufficient to
warrant government action. It is a notorious
fact, well known to all dealers in tobacco, as
well as to many medical men, that, with few
exceptions, the cigarettes sold are, both in the
wrapper and in the filling, made of deleterious
substances. It is because they are so made that
they can be sold so cheap. Thus tens of thou-
sands who wouid be unable so purchase cigars
use cigarettes because they cost so little. If
cigarettes were made of unpoisoned paper and
the filling was of tobacco, it wouid be impossi-
ble to make them tor the price at which they
are now sold. If Congress has the ri^ht to pre-
vent the adulteration of food and drink and of
drugs, it has an equal right to check
the sale of these fraudulent things
called cigarettes, which are not at all what
they pretend to be. We hope that some one
who has the public good at heart will take the
earliest opportunity at the coming session of
Congress to introduce a bill for governmental
inspection of cigarettes, so that, if our boys
and young men will use these disease-breeding
articles, they shall, at least, smoke something
which can be called tobacco, and not kill
themselves with the deadly paper generally
employed. Of course the manufacturers of
cigarettes will violently oppose such a measure,
for the increased price at which it will compel
them to make cigarettes will greatly diminish
the consumption. But we will not ailow our-
selves to believe that the howlings of these
vendors of paralysis, idiocy and disease of
many kinds will have much weight with Con-
gress, of which the action, we hope, will be
urged by a concerted movement on the part of
all who comprehend the danger of the evil we
are combating.
Humors of Debate.
Two figures of speech served to enliven the
recent debates of the Land bill. One was used
by the Duke of Argyll, who said that when he
looked at his noble friends below him he oouid
not help regarding them as something very
like what he had seen iu the seas of the West-
ern Islands—a row of jelly fish. [Laughter.]
His noble friends need not be affronted by the
comparison. Jelly fish were the most beauti-
ful creatures in the world. [Laughter.] They
had been studied by naturalists for many
years, and it had been discovered that they
were endowed with a most elaborate nervous
system. [Laughter.] But he was sorry to say
that they had hitherto been found destitute of
a skeleton and a backbone. [Renewed laugh
ter aud cheers.] There was one peculiarity
about these jjlly fishes—they made the most
beautiful convulsive movements in the
water, and the poor creatures evidently
thought that they were swimming, but when
one took the bearings of the laud he found that
they were floating with the current and the
tide. [Laughter.] That was the position of
his noble friends with regard to this Irish ques-
tion. He really hoped that success might be
possible for this bill, but it could only be on
one condition, namely, that the jelly-fish quali-
ties were developed into something like a skele-
ton. The other metaphor was employed by
Mr. Gladstone in referring to Lord Randolph
Churchill, better known as the "Member for
Woodeock." " There are in creation," said the
Premier, " small animals whose office it is to
bite—(laughter)—and who are able to produce
a sense of irritation of the blood. There are
other small animals whose office it is to
bite, but who do not even produce in the
victim a consciousness that he is actually
bitten. [Loud laughter.] I must say, as
far as comparisons may be made, that
the speech of the noble lord reminded me
rather of the second-class than of the first.
[Laughter.] One counsel I venture to give the
noble lord, and that is to keep himself to rhet-
oric, of which, at least at his time of life, he is
a not inconsiderable master, and above all
things, eschew dealing with facts—(laughter)
—for 1 listened pretty carefully to everything
in his speech that purported to be statements
of fact, and I believe I am literally accurate
when I say there was not one of them which
could be sustained in point of accuracy. ["Oh I
oh I" and " Hear I hear I"] 1 therefore beg hum-
bly to decline being bound by any one state-
ment of fact contained in the speech of the no-
ble lord. I again counsel him to keep to rhet-
oric, and if he does that he will do extremely
well. [Laughter.] Rhetoric and declamation
are arts in which it is not difficult to excel, pro-
vided you escape from the fetters and servi-
tude which is imposed upon a man by a rigid
adherence to matters of fact." [Loud laugh-
ter.]
The particulars of Mr. Gladstone's scheme
for the reduction of the national debt of Great
Britain have now been disclosed. Terminable
annuities amounting to £3,617,000, and expir-
ing in 1885, are at present payable to the Na-
tional Debt Commissioners, i'or £2.000,000 of
these annuities having only four years more
to run the Chancellor of the Exchequer pro-
poses to substitute an annuity of nearly £4ti0-
000, which will continue to be pavable for
twenty-five years. By this transaction the
commissioners will receive pecuniary equiva-
lent for the annuities they now hold, and by
the saving of the present annual charge of
£1,540,000. Mr. G.adstone will be enabled to
cancel stock to the amount of sixty millions.
From what sources can this stock be most-
easily obtained? is the question which at once
arises in the mind. The answer is easy. Out
of the stock held for the savings banks the Na-
tional Debt Commissioners offer to provide
one-third of the requisite amount, and the
Lord Chancellor has satisfied himse.f that the
residue can be spared, without detriment to
the interest of the suitors, from the Chancery
funds.
Cured of Drinking;.
"A young friend of mine was cured of an in-
satiable thirst for liquor, which had so pros-
trated him that he was unable to do any busi-
ness. He was entirely cured by the use of
Hop Bitters. It allayed all that burning
thirst; took away the appetite for liquor; made
his nerves stead}', and he has remained a sober
and steady man for more than two years, ami
has no desire to return to his cups. I know of
a number of others that have been cured of
drinking by it.-'—From a leading railroad offi-
cial, Chicago, Ills. [Times.
The Emperor of Germany and the Emperor
of Austria will shortly meet again at Gastein.
liastein and other Continental watering-places
have of lata years been the scenes of momen-
tous moves on the European chessboard. At
Plombieres Napoleon III made that secret bar-
gain with Count Cavour which resulted in the
regeneration of Italy. Ems in July, 1870, wit-
nessed the famous meeting of King VY illiam of
Prussia and Benedetti, when the latter, on be-
half of (''ranee, demanded a guarantee that
Prussia would never coui tenauce the preten-
sions of the Priuce of Hohenzollern to the
Spanish crov.n, when the King abruptly told
Benedetti that he had no reply to make, and
that he need not refer to the subject again. In
1873 Gastein saw the birth of the Kaiserbund,
the alliance between the emperors of Germany,
Austria and Russia, which resulted in the dis-
memberment of the Turkish Empire. The
coming meeting of the two emperors at Gastein
bodes no good to France, whose ambition, as
expressed in Gambetta's recent speeches, to
win back Alsace and Lorraine, will probably
be checked bj' an alliance between Germany,
Austria and Italy. In short, Gastein is to
European politics what Saratoga is to the rail-
way war in America.
men who trv to force up the prices of bread-
stuffs, meats "or other articles of food, for
speculative purposes, are very apt to get hurt
even worse than some of those operators wero
in Chicago on Saturday. They get no sym-
pathy when ruin falls on them, for their occu-
pation is the most execrable species of gam-
bling. Their success mdans a scant supply of
food in the homes of nearly all the poor.
Every horse owner, cariug the least for
hit «tock, believe! in St. Jacobs QiL
AUCTION SALES.
4 UOTION SA1E-by s. W. sydnor&co.,
THIS DaY, at 1U a. m. 1 Buggy, 1 Pnaeton
and 2 Horses; contents of five Showcase : large 1 t
job .ot Hosiery, Handkerchiefs, Notions, Cutlery.
General closing out of our lots of Goods. Sale
positive; no reserve.
Auction Sale of Slaoes.
WE WILL SELL ON SATURDAY,
27th instant, at our salesroom, strand-
s' cases
ASSORTED
BOOTS AND SHOES
for account of whom it may concern.
PARK, LYNCH £- CO.,
Auctioneers.
Auction! Auction!
Assignment Sale
of stock of JOHN BODDEKER. consisting of
GROCERIES, 1)RY GOODS, NOTIONS, SHOES, etc.
Agreeably to instructions from assignee, we will
sell the above stock on the premises, corner of
Twelfth and Broadway, on
TUESDAY. AUGUST THE 30TH, AT 10 A. >T.
This is a fine opportunity for any ; arty desiring
to open business: the stand is fil'at-class, andean
he leassd for a term of year- at a reasonable rent.
Store-house and dwelling on the lot.
S. W. SYDNOR & CO.
For information apply to L. C. Michael, office of
Greenleve. Block &Co., Strand.
A. P. Ghio.
JOS. I.O\U1NOTTI.
OHIO & LGNGINOTT!
(Late of Jefferson, Texas),
MANUFACTURERS AND IMPORTERS OF
iiu Ulili
PRINCIPAL OFFICE,
717, 719 and 721 Pine St.,
ST. LOUIS, MO.
All Texans visiting St. Louis are respectfully in-
rited to give Joe a call. He will be happy to see
them.
at
Proposals for Beet' and lUutton
Camp Del Kio, Texas.
Headquarters department of Texas,
Office of Chief Commissary of Subsistence.
San Antonio, Texas. August 8, 1881.
SEALED PROPOSALS, in triplicate, \vith a copy
ot this advrrtiSement attached, will be received
at this office, and the hires of t!u* Acting Com -
missarie• of Subsistence at Fort Clark anil the sub-
post of Camp Del Rio, Tera . until \i o'clock noon,
Saturday, September 24, 18S1, for the delivery ai
Camp Del Rio, Texas, of such quantities of Fresh
Bt-ef aud Mutton as may he riquirel by tiie Sub-
sistence Department at that, sub-post, until June
30, 1882, or ucli less time as tile Co'mmi—ary tlen-
eral of Subsistence may direct. IJi Is will state the
price per pound, net, on the Hock. Bids
will al o bo received for Beef and Mutton
on the hoof. The bids of cattle-raisers or
butchers only will be considered. For con-
ditions, eic., apply to the undersigned, or
to the Acting Commissaries of SubsLteuce of the
Posts above itemed. 1 he government reserves the
ri^ht to reject any or all hids.
M. P. SMALL, Chief Commissary.
R"
E.KAICKABLU cure of an inflamed Tear-
* duct or pa-sage ;o the Eye, without an opera-
tion.—Mrs. Gibson, who has a largo and extensive
confection iry and candv store at No. 25 East Forty-
second street, near the Grand Central Depot, was
about to have a silver tube inserted i i the tear
passage of her left eye. The enlargement and in-
flammation were very great. Before submitting to
the operation tried DR. GILES'S LINIMENT,
rubbed it carefully over the infammed duct. The
inflammation disappeared, the passage became
clear, and I was, through its power, able to do
without a surgical operation. Also took the Lini-
ment internally, a teaspoonfui three times a day,
in a wine-glass of water. GILES'S PILLS cure
Headache.
THB
GREAT fiERPAH
REMEDY
TOM
RHEUMATISM,
NEURALGIA,
SCIATICA,
LUMBAGO,
BACKACHE,
GOUT,
SORENESS
or THJB
CHEST,
SORE THROAT,
QUINSY,
SWELLINGS
AMD
SPRAINS,
FROSTED FEET
AJTD
. EARS,
BTJR3\rS
AMD
BCAZiDBf
JP
TOOTH, EAR
AND
HEADACHE,
4HSK
AIL OTBER FAIRS
AND
ACHES.
No Propmratioa on oarth •quail Sr. Jacobs Oil m % sin,
susa, umflb and cheap External Reuiedy. A trial ontaiif
but tho oomparatirolj trilling outlay of 50 Cknts, and every
one suffering with pain can hav> cheap and positive proof of
iM slain*. DjHacTIOIIS 1* IUTH LASGtUBSa.
tllD IT All DRU43ISTS AKB BEAltfiS HI MEBISIHL
A. VOGELER & CO.
Ji n ItirnoYe, h£d.t 17. 8.JU
EDUCATIONAL.
Summer Heat begets undua languor, loss of
appetite, biliousness, feverishness, headache, and
other symptoms, which|may speedily develop into
chronic diseases. Check them at the outset with
that supremely efficacious saline,
Tarrant's Seltzer Aperient
SOLD BY ALL DRUGGISTS.
SPECIAL NOTICES.
Attention! Galveston AtiUery Com-
pany will meet THIS EVENING in uniform at 7
o'clock, at Pavilion.
W. M. Staffore, Captain.
T. Ratto, Sergeant,
BANKS AND BANKEBS.
4 MBIT,
BANKERS.
DOMESTIC & FOREIGN EXCHANGE,
Cable Transfers.
SIsht Drafts on England, France,
Sweden, Norway, Etc.
j. m. Lindsay,
Wm. Hudson,
• ' ]
Gaines-
j. h. Weaver, t-nt°'
F. L. Downas), | vlue-
G. SCHIFF, J
0. C. Hemming,
late of Brenham, and
10Jr£ years Cashier
of the Bank of
Giddings A Giddings.
LINDSAY, HEMMING & CO.,
GAINESVILLE, Cook County, Texas,
. CasU Capital $100,000.
Collections for Gainesville,
Whitesboro, Pilot Point, Colliiisville, Bolivar,
Dexter, Callisburg, Valley View, Rosston, Marys-
▼ille, St. Jo, Burlington, Forrestsburg, Montague,
Henrietta, Cambridge, Archer City and Seymour
solicited, and will have careful and prompt atten-
tion. BeinjEr fully posted as to the interests of this
section, business intrusted to us will be handled on
the most liberal basis consistent with conservative
banking. Correspondence invited. Desk con-
veniences for our commercial and other friends.
Correspondents: Bank of New York; N. B. A.,
New York; Hibernia National Bank, New Orleans;
Bank of Commerce, Sr. Louis; Texas Banking and
Insurance Company, Galveston.
W. W. LIPSCOMB,
Liiling-, Texas.
Special attention paid to Collections. Correspond-
ence solicited.
Thornton & Lockwood
BANKERS,
SAN ANTONIO, - TEXAS.
Collections solicited on All Points in the State.
Commercial paper discounted. Bills on Mexico.
JESTER, PRENDERGAST & CO.
BANKERS,
CORSICANA, TEXAS.
Prompt Attention to Collections.
Will Di*couiit Corsicana Acceptances.
EDUCATIONAL.
Gr
arnbtt's university school,
Eilicott City, MO. Principal, Jas M. Garnett,
M.A., LL D. Reopens Sept. 14. Thorough Prepara'n.
Gen. G. W. c. LKE
- President,
mKOROl GH INSTRUCTION IN LA\-
iL -uatres, literature and science, and in the pro-
fessional school." of law and engineering. Health-
ful location in the Valley of Virginia. Expen>e-
for 9 months need not exceed $225. Session ouens
se ptember 15, 1881. For catatogue, address J. L.
campbell, Jr., Clerk, Lexington, Va.
UiiL 1 fill 1 LiiiiiULi liiui 11 UlUj
STAUNTON, VIRGINIA,
opens Sepi ember 20, 1881. One of the
First Schools for Young Ladies
in the United States. Pupils from seventeen States,
including Texas. Board and tuition, including
Latin, French, German, Music, etc., for scholastic
year rrom September to June, $23$. Escort fur-
nished Texas pupils. For catalogue write to
REV. \V. A. HARRIS, DTX, President.
Staunton, Virginia.
AM
MECHANICAL COLLEGE,
BATON ROUGE LA.
COL. WM. PRESTON J0HXST0X,
president.
Session of Nine IVIoutEis Begins October
5, 1881.
Healthy location. Free tuition. Board, lodging,
medical expenses, etc., $16 00 per month. Cheap
uniform. Full cefrps of competent professors.
Workshop of Mechanical D panment in operation.
Military discipline. For fur; her particulars apply
to PROF. L. W. SEWELL,
Baion Rouge. La.
SALEM ACADEMY,
SALEM, N. O.
This institution commends itself to tne public
as a notably pleasant, and safe home and high-
class school l' r ^'irls and young women.
It has during the past few j'ears b^en greatly im-
proved. Its Scholastic arrang* ments have been re-
modeled and its standards advanced. It now offers
ai! the advantages of similar institutions of the
highe t grade. A large number of instructors is
employrd, and painstaking instruction is guaran-
teed. U olYe.s a hbe al English, or English aiKt
cla-sieal course for : r .du.tti »n, ami. under its new
administraiioi), has already graduated ^wkh diplo-
ma) four very promising: classes.
The Domestic Arraugements of fhe Academy
have laU«s-iy been readapMrd to secure to its resi-
den* pupils the largest measure of comfort aud
ceiiwiucnee. Fight r< s: ierif teaciv-rs are con-
tinually jii ci.a pv, and give .-pecial attention to the
cultivation of «• r ct manners a hab.ts ii*. grow-
in-. girts. Systematic uu.i enlightened physical
cull ure and care of health are prominent features
in the improvpniftits recently perfected.
Exceptional facilities are offered for ihe study of
Music. 'rlie r^ kilts of practical work in its Music
Department, during the p «st few years, would
warrant the Academy, in the judgment of compe-
tent cri ics. in invit.ng comparison with any other
similar in *ti rut km iu South. A two to
three years' Graduating Course twith diploma) has
quite recently be^n introduced.
Special attention j-. diree'ed to the advantages
now also obtainable in rhe Department of Drawing
and Painting, which has been reorganized and
placed in charge of a lady of special ability and
superior training. A high standard of excellence
will be maintained aud the best methods observed.
A variety of branches of study is ottered and care-
ful tuition is guaranteed.
The 18th year begins September 1. 1S81.
R*v. J. T. ZOR*. Principal.
pbgewoeth boarding and day
J(Zi School for Young Ladi- s and I ittle Girls.
Mrs. h. p. lefebvre, Principal.
59 Franklin St., Baltimore, Md.
The Nineteenth School Year will begin on
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 2a, 1881.
8
chehkbr's business college.
Book-keeping, practical and ornamental Pen-
manship, com mercial calculations, business corre-
spondence, business law. thoroughly and practically
taught. Day and night sessions. Send for circulars.
E. E. Scherrer, Principal, box 119. Galveston, Texas.
Livingston's school--
(MALE AND FEMALE)
WiJl commence its fifth annual session with a (till
corps of teachers, on Septembor 1, corner of Win-
nie and 16th streets.
EDWARD LIVINGSTON, A. M., Principal.
The albert lvon school fob
BOYS. (Lim ited to 40.)
AVENUE K AND CENTER STREET,
will begin its Ninth Annual Session on
THURSDAY, SEPT. J, 1881.
T
ihe thirteenth annual ses-
siou of the. GALVESTON ACADEMY will com-
mence SEPTEMBER 1 proximo. School Building,
Posto/Tlc© street, between Fourteenth and r lf-
teenth. For particulars, address
MRS. O. B. BRIGGS, Principal. _
q.aivkston female academy.
The Exercises of this School will be resumed on
Terms—Tuition invariably in advance.
MRS. J. S. GOODWYN.
Galveston french and en-
glish Institute for Young Ladies and Girls,
Day and Boarding School, Opens September 1.1S31;
continues ten months. Conducted by efficient and
experienced teachers. The languages, mathemat-
ics, music, drawing and painting taught. Boys
und«r ten years admitted. Term -moderate. Mrs.
C. R. FORSHEY, Principal, 282 East VV innie street.
G
alveston female institute
Corner Avenue H and Nineteenth Street Reopens
SEPTEMBER 5TH.
Languages, Music, Drawing and Painting at Pro-
fessors' charges. Miss E. H. NORTON, Principal,
can be found out of school hours, corner of
Avenue H and Twenty-sixth street.
Gr
alveston female seminary
and Normal Institute will be reopened Sep-
tember 1, at the school-room of the Eaton Memorial
Chapel, und er the'direction of Mrs. W. E. Daneiiy
and Mrs. V. W. Campbell, and will continue till
June 1. 1S8J.
For particulars see circulars.
BETTIE STUART INSTITUTE,
SPRINGFIELD, ILL.
The 14th year will commence Sept. 14. First-class
school for young ladies. Course full. German free.
Musical and Fine Arts Departments unsurpassed.
Elocution, or rather good reading, a marked fea-
ture. For catalogues apply to
Mas. M. McKEE homes, Principal.
Yonng Ladies' Boarding- & Day School,
284 McKINNEY ST.,
HOUSTON, TEXAS.
The 22d scholastic year of
this Institute commences
SEPTEMBER 1, 1881.
For terms, which are moderate for Boarders and
Day Scholars, please apply to the Directress.
Miss M. B. BROWNE.
BAYLOR COLLEGE.
For the Higher Education of Women.
Art and Music Departments Unsur-
passed.
The Thirty-sixth Annual Session will open on
FIRST MONDAY IN SEPTEMBER. Address
J. H. LUTHER, Independence.
Baylor University.
T
HE NEXT COLLEGIATE YEAR
opens Wednesday, Sept. 7. No Institution in
the South grades higher in college curriculum nor
in thoroughness of instruction. Expenses from
S1'22 to $157 per annum, according to grade. Send
for catalogue to WM. CAREY CRANE, President.
Independence, Texas, August 3, 1881.
Hapgood collegiate INSTITUTE,
Avenue I, between Nineteenth and Twentieth
streets. This school for Young Ladies and Chil-
dren
WILL BE REOPENED SEPTEMBER 5.
The services of PROFESSOR J. S. BLACK,
(Vocal Teacher) have been secured for the coming
session.
MRS. SARAH R. BEEBE, Principal.
Send for Circular, or apply to the Principal af-
ter 3 o'clock p. m. Residence at the Institute.
St. Mary's University,
A FIRST CLASS
MILITARY, COMMERCIAL AND SCIENTIFIC INSTITUTION
WILL BE REOPENED ON THURSDAY, SEP-
tember 1, 1S81. Discipline strict. Terms
moderate. Write for catalogue to
Rev. A. M. TRUCHARD,
President, St. Mary's University,
Galveston, Texas.
CHAPPELL HILL FEMALE COLLEGE
Located at Ctaappell Hill, Washington County, Texas,
Announces the return of MRS. HELEN L. CARMER, under whose able management the school took
so eminent a place m popular est imation, from 1861 to 186#. The school is entirely under her Control
and she is determined to make it the Home of former years. She. during a large portion ot th* inter-
vening decade of years, nas been engaged in teaching and studv, the better to prepare herself for
the work to which, in the providence of God, she has been called. Session begins
first
MONDAY
Send for circular! j-iving terms, h;.-
(N september.
Galveston, Texas, August 15,1881.
The firm of MOODY & JEMISON is this day dissolved by mutual consent. Each member is author*
ized to settle and pay the liabilities, to collect claims and to sign tlie firm name in liquidation.
In returning thanks to our numerous friends for their many favors, we recommend to them, for thei *
continued patronage and confidence, our succeeding firms of W. L MOODY & CO., composed of W. L.
Moody and L. F. Moody, and JEMISON. GROCE ft CO., composed of E. 8. Jemlsoa and T. J. Groce.
W. L. MOODY,
E. 8. JEMISON.
T. J. GROCE.
JEMISON, GROCE & CO.,
COTTON FACTORS
AND
■SSI
GALVESTON.
WASHINGTON, D. C.
The academic year of the
Institute will begin Sept. 29th, affording every
facility for a thorough education. For circulars
address Mrs. m. r. archer,
1401 Mass. Ave.
Alta Yista Institute,
Austin, Texas.
MRS. H. M. KIRBf - Principal.
A boarding school for yousg
Ladies, will begin on the third day of October,
1881, and close on the twelf'h day of June, 1882.
For further information and circular address
dr. R. m. SWEARINGKN,
Austin, Texas.
Collegiate Institute for Young Ladies,
oovAisrsTOWisr,
Three miles from Baltimore, Md.
rflhis institution, conducted
JL by the Sistel*s of Notre D me, is most desira-
bly located. The system ot" education pursued is
designed to develop the mental, moral and physi-
cal powers of the pupils, to make them useful
women of refined tastes and cul ivated manners.
For particulars, send for catalogue.
URSULINE ACADEMY,
GALVESTON, TEXAS.
•
This Institution for young: Ladies will resume
studies on Monday, September b. 1881. For terms.
Catalogue, etc., address the Mother Superior.
ST. MICHAEL'S I00HG LADIES' ACADEMY,
Corner or Avenue i and Fifteenth St.,
Will begin the Academic year on the 29th of Au-
gust, 1881. _
St. Patrick's Parochial Schools,
Also under the direction of the Ursuline Ladies,
will reopen 011 the first of September.
THE UNIVERSITY
OF
NORTH CAROLINA.
NEXT SESSION WILL BEGIN
.AJLTGrTJST 25, T881.
Combines the advantages of the old Curriculum,
with ]>ecial and extended instruction according to
the University system. Connected with it are
Schools of Law, of Medicine and of
Pharmacy..
Special facilities are given for practical studies,
such as Analytical and Agricultural Chemistry,
Lund Surveying, Drawing, Book-keeping, Business
Law, Phonography, etc.
Expenses, includinsrTuItion and Room
Kent, $185 to $230 Per Annum.
Address, for catalogue and particulars,
KEMP P. BATTLE. LL. D., President,
Chapel Hill, N. C.
rilUUilimtl IU1IU1JJLI VVLIU liUU,
Citristlansburg, Va, (Norfolk & "Western R'y.)
IVIrs. O. S. POLLOCK, Principal.
ONE OF THE BEST SCHOOLS FOIi
young ladies in the fcfouth. issext session opens
September 13, 1881, with full, efficient faculty
thorough methods of scholarship, best moral and
social influences, home comforts, handsome build-
ings and grounds, situated 2100 feot above tide-
water, iu a most picturesque and healthful region,
this institution offers unsurpassed advantages.
Indorsed by Bishops WU'htman, McTyeire and
Doggett, the late Dr. A. T. Bledsoe, Dr. t\ O. Sum-
mers, W. EL Ruffner, LL. D.; Judge Staples, Court
of Appeals; ex-Attorney General Taylor, and Hon.
A. A. rhlegar.
Terms: Board, fuel, lights and tuition in regular
collegiate course, $200 tor ten months. Music and
French, extra, $55 for both. Write for information
and catalogue to the principal.
Mrs. E. A. HUFFMASTER'S,
INSTITUTE FOR YOUNG LADIES AD GIR1S,
EXCLUSIVELY,
312 Avenue II, north side, between ISth and 19th
streets.
galveston, texas,
\TP MAVTUV CTTVm
51 tit It 5.
Professor J. S. BLACK, Teacher of Vocal Music
Prof. LEOPOLD WOLLSTEIN, Teacher of German
Instrumental Music, French. Drawing. Painting-,
etc., taught by tlie bes resident Protestors.
No Extra Charge for Latin.
For particulars apply to the Principal at the In-
stitute after September 1.
S ACADEMY,
ATTSTI3ST, TEXAS,
CONDUCTED BY THE
Sisters of the Holy Cross.
TKACHIXfi IS »:* THIS ESTABLISH-
inent essentially a profession, wherein the
secret of alt succss lies, in the clear, accurate
knowledge of what should be taufht, and the fac-
•uity of Imparting this kaowledg* to pupils. The
c> urse ot instruction is thoronjn aud complete,
embracing all the branches of a solid and accom-
plished education. The scholastic year begins on
the flrst Monday in September. Pupils received
any lime during the sessions. Favorable terms
will be extended to parties desiring admisaiun.
For detailed information apply for circular to
SISTER SUPERIOR,
St Mary's Academy, Austin, T<
W. L. MOODY & CO.,
COTTON FACTORS
AND
liUllSui
GALVESTON.
SANBOE In & W-iV ENEE,
Jlantifiictqrerii' Sole Agent-* for ll»e State of Texas for
STEEL BARB FENCE .WIRE
Galvanized ^Japihhed.
Washburn & >loen Manuia turi ig Co., Worcester, tla-s.. tnJ I. L. El .vootl X Co , DeKdtO. III., Soto
Manufacturers and Owners of all the Patents arn-e-ning thf nan'itac u.-e o: Barb Fence Wire. Ae»
knowledsed by all to be the Best Barb Wire Ever 7Ia<le. It is evenly twisted,
all Steel, genuinely ^alranlzed, barbs miilorialv live inches apart at right SB'
gles with main wire. Hereafter our prices will favorably compare with any
other style of Barb Wire made under license, regardless of tlieir inleriority.
SA\BOK\ 3c WA«.\EB, Houston, Texas.
BRIDCrEFOBD & CO.,
manufacturers ok the
CELEBRATED WOOD COOK STOYES,
IMPROVED
to
©
AND
IS PILOT.
AND WHOLESALE
DEALERS IK TINWARE. WOODESWARt. CEttE&Y J» HOMffllK GOODS CHfUIlT.
BEIDGEPOED & CO.,
Cor. Tremont and Mechanic Sts., GALVESTON, TEXAS.
J. S. BROWN & 00,
Hardware Merchants,
STKAND, GALVESTON,
beg to announce to their patrons that their stock, consisting of the fol-
lowing lines, is now complete for
FALL TRADE.
SADDLERY, SADDLERY HARDWARE,
WAGON & BUGGY HARNESS, PIECED & STAMPED TINWARE*
ENGLISH AND AMERICAN POCKET AND TABLE CUTLERY.
PROPOSALS.
SEA LED PROPOSALS ARE INVITED
until 12 o'clock m., September 1,1881,for furnish-
ing supplier to the Lunatic, Blind and Deaf and
Dumb Asylums for the quarter commencing Sep-
tember 1, 1881, ending November 30, 1881. The fol-
lowing are the articles required, viz:
Lunatic Asylum—40,000 lb fresh beef, best in Aus-
tin market: 600 H> bacon, best clear sides, short; TOO
1t> hams, best susiar-cured canvassed ; 2000 lb lard,
best; 430 lb tobacco, sound bright twist; 75 lb black
pepper, best; 300 lb imperial teas: 20001b Rio coffee:
1200 H> coffee, A sugar; 300 Jb crushed, do.; 5000 lb
choice La , do.; 1200 lb navy beans, best; 12001b
green peas, best; 3000 lb rice; 1000 tb hominy, fresh,
best; 2000 lb grits, fresh, best; 600 2) dried peaches,
fresh; 1000 ib dried apples, fresh; 30001b prunes,
fresh; 300 lb baking powder, Gantz Seafoam; 300 Tb
starch, Fox's; 1000 lb salsoda; 30 bxs Resen's soap;
8 gross launilrv blue liquid 8 oz.; 400 gals, molasses,
best La. reboiled; 8 sacks fine salt; 10 cases Pratt's
Astral oil: 20 eases gasoline oil,87 per cent.; Ecases
candles, 8s; 8 doz. brooms, best heavy; 4 doz.
bucketts, 3 hooped, painted; 4 gross Garrett's
Scotch snuff, 1 oz. cans; 80 bbls flour, bidders must
give brands; 4 bbU pickles, medium: 4 bbls mack-
erel, No. 2.; 300 cords hard wood; 150 cords cedar
do. Dry Goods—2C00 yds. brown domestic, Indian
head 4-4; 400 yds. bleached domestic, Jfruit of
loom 4-4; 1500 yds. calico, fall prints; 300 yds.
Alabama plaids, 600 yds. brown drilling,
Appletons; 100 yds. crash towelling, 18 inches wide;
200 yds oil calico, red; 1000 yds gray twilled flan-
nel: 100 yds bleached sh«eting, 10-4; 300 yds doe-
skin jeans, " Humboldt"; 36 yd- table linen; 500
yds Thorndike " B " ticks; 750 yds canton flannel;
4 doz. towels, linen damask. 1 yd long; 3 doe. table
napkins, linen, 18 inch; 10 doz. mixed cotton hose,
extra heavy; 10 doz. men's cotton half-hose, extra
heavy; 60 prs. La. peg calf shoes, Nos. 4 to 7; 60
Ers. brogans, full stock, Nos. 7 to 11; 1 great gross
rass buckles for pants; 2 great gross brass but-
tons for pants; 5 great gross agate buttons, No. ija;
5 great gross agate buttons. No. 30; 6 great gross
Coates's thread, assorted. Nos. 16 to 60: 3 great
eross shoe laces, 5-4; 3 doz. rubber dressing combs,
8 inch; 3 doz. papers hairpins, steel pointed; 8 bales
cotton, ordinary to low middling; 60 rubber sheets.
bi i»d Asylum.—5000 lbs. flour, (bidders must give
brands); 5000 lbs. fresh beef, round steak, best
roast; 900 lbs. lard, good; 1500 lbs coffee A sugar;
5c0 lbs. bacon and hams; 30 lbs. Imperial teas; 200
lbs prune-; 100lbs. tried peaches; 1 bbl. rice: 1 bbl.
peas, black-eyed; 1 bbl. grits; 1 bbl. hominy, large;
bbl. mackerel. No. 1; 1 bbl. molasses, best La.;
5 ooxes soap, Colgate's laundry; 3 boxes starch,
Fox's; 1 box candles, 6s; 1 bbl vinegar; 1 sack flue
salt; 24 doz. sea-foam, Gantg; 2 lbs. red pepper; 25
lbs. bi carb, soda, druggist's; 3 sacks coffee; 10 irals.
whisky, good Bourbon. Dry Goods—50 prs. blan-
kets: 100 yds. bleached domestic, "Fruit of the
Loom"; 100 j'ds. linen toweling; 40 yds. red oil
calico; 1 doz papers sewing needles,Nos. 5,6, 7 and 8;
1 doz. thread (Coars' black), No. 40, 50 and 60; 12
doz. black dress buttons; 18 doz. white tape (1 inch
wide); 1 doz. boys' plain hats, 6 to 7; 1 doz.
brogan shoes, 4 to 8; 2 doz. girls' plain hose;
1 doz. girls' plain paiter shoes, 12 to 5.
Deaf and Dumb Asylum—8000 lbs. fresh beef, as
superintendent may order; 40 bbls. flour, bidders to
give brands; 1 bbl. rice; 1 bbl. grits, fresh; 1 bbl.
mackerel. No. 2:158 lbs. hams, canvassed; 150 lbs.
bacon, c. s. short; 1 bbl. hominy, fresh; 40 doz.
sea foam, Gantz; 2 bbls. sirup, reboiled; 5 bbls.
sugar, coffee A; 1 bbl. sugar, powdered: 1 bbi.
prunes, fresh; 1 bbl. apples, dried; 100 lbs. apples,
evaporated: 1 bbl. peacnes. dried, unpeeled; 12 gal.
pickels, half chow chow and mixed; 260 lbs. toma-
toes, canned, Texas made; 30 brooms, best quality,
Texas made; 10 cases 100 degree Pratt's astral oil;
1 saok salt, best table; 400 lbs. coffee, Mexican pre-
ferred ; 5 boxes starch, Fox's; 45 lbs. teas, Imperial;
3J4 tes. lard; 3 boxes soap, Lesser's; 100 lbs. mac-
caroni; 2 boxes candles, 6s; 2 sacks salt, common;
6000 lbs. wheat brand.
Samples of all articles not sufficiently distlnguish-
• 1 by brand or description, must be submitted prior
to.opening of bids. Competition will be between
each article separately Included in this advertise-
ment, quality aud price being alone considered;
that is, there will be no grouping of sundry irems
into classes with award for best average bid for
each class as heretofore. Satisfactory guarantee
that bidders will furnish approved bond for the
faithful delivery of articles awarded to be purchas-
ed of them, must in all cases be furnished to seoure
consideration of bids. Bids will be opened Sep-
tember 2, 1881, at 2 o'clock p. m„ in the presence
of the board of managers of the respective asylums
W M. BROWN, Comptroller.
MISCELLANEOUS.
GALVESTON.
H. B. PETERS,
PIAN O-MAKEE.
(Established 1867.)
UNING AND REPAIRING OF PIANOS
- and Organs satisfactorily done. Highest prices
paid for secoad-hand Pianos. Piano* fop sale of
rent at Blagge's sewing-machine store, Postoffica
street, between Twenty.-second and Tremont.
T
J. F. MAGALE,
DIRECT IMPORTER OF 7
BRANDIES AND WINES,
And Wholesale Dealer in
Fine Bourbon, Rye and Rectified Whit-
ltfes, of all grades,
MAG ALE'S BUILDING, 63 and 65 STRAND,
galveston - - - - texas.
All cash orders promptly filled same as if par-
ties were here in person.
V0GEL & AMUNDSEN,
SHIP BROKERS,
157 STRAND.
Office formerly occupied by Messrs. Irvine ft
Bies-ner.
SUP CHANDLERY & NAVAL STORES.
t full stock of manilla, hkmp
-**- and Rope. Blocks, Sheaves, Flags, Bunting and
Canvas, and all Goods in these lines ahvavs on nand.
SAILS, TENTS, TARPAULINS and AWNING3
made to order. Orders solicited.
THEO. Iv. THOMPSON,
(Successor to David Wakelee,)
208 3c 210 Strand, galveston, tex.
Drayage, Storage, Forwarding aud Her-
ring Safes.
R. P. SARGENT,
GENERAL Transfer and Forwarding Agent and
Warehouseman, Mechanic Street, between Tre-
mont and Twenty-fourth, Galveston. Texas,
having the best facilities, is prepared to tranfer or
store all kinds of light and heavy Merchandise,
Wool, Sugar, Etc.
Moving Safes, jJoilers, Engines and all kinds of
heavy Machinery in and out of buildings a specialty.
Agents for the Sale of
Herring's Patent Champion Safes,
A Fine Assortment Ooustantly on Hand.
NOTICES.
Kotice.
u
ALL ORDERS OR COMPLAINTS, TO
receive orompt attention, should be left at
the office of the Company, in the Brick Building, on
iUarket Street, Between 24th and 25th
Streets,
Between the hours of 8 and 12 o'clock a. m.
AUG. BUTTLAR, Secretary.
D. L. RANLETT & CO.,
MANUFACTURERS OF
COTTON TIES,
proprietors
ATLAS STEAM CORDAGE
and
Broom Factory,
EXPORTERS OF
BROOM CORK
Cons i gnments Solicited.
32 Tchonpitoulas Street, New Orleans,
C. b. L*s.
d. wieir,
JMECi Ml I.Mia.
JII fills
AKD
B
TIT
. Ill1
LLi
OF AMERICA.
Home Office: Longview, Gregg Co., Tex.
ISSVES POLICIES FROM ONE TO
M*e thousand dollars, payable DURING LIFE
or at death at same cost.
Strong Inducements to Lire
Men Know What Happens Before
Tlieir Burial.
Funds don't accumulate ia hands of treasurer,
but are loaned *o those who are to be flrst paid
coupon.* if they secure policies on the endowment
plan. For full particulars address
E. -TI. .TIACEY, Secretary,
Longview, Gregg County. Texas
District of North Teias.
COFFEE.
IN STORE:
4000 SACKS.
All Grades and Good Styles.
KAUFFMAN & BUNGE.
C. B. LEE & CO.,
&
AND
7
MACHINISTS.
manufacturers or
ST1AM ENGINES, SAW MILLS
Boilers, Mill and Gi* Gearing,
Shafting, Pulleys, Brass
and Iron Pumps.
Etc.
^ 2?c^rfo,1 sSifcto oM*r'tor
AJl Kin da ot Job Work s5S3led. Satisfaction
guaranteed.
Comer Winnie and Thirty-second Sts.,
fNear Railroad Depot,)
GALVESTON, TEXAS.
N EUOKLEAS ~~~~
JOHN GAUCHE,
▲t m
MORESQUE BUILDING,
ill 110 Cbartrea Itrwl,
NEW ORLEANS, LA.,
Haa the large* anal best Mleotloa of
Crockery, Glassware,
WOODEN, TIN AND HARDWARE,
or Amy Houae In the loath.
The price* are guaranteed aa low, H not lower,
than anv egtabliahmgnt nerth or south.
hOCSTOJi.
ira. M. PERL.,
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HOUSTON, TEXAS.
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