The Galveston Daily News. (Galveston, Tex.), Vol. 35, No. 281, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 15, 1877 Page: 3 of 4
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(Saltastou ftctos.
A. H. BELO & CO, Proprietors.
STATE: t'ltESS.
Tiie Cleburne Chronicle saj'3 of the
Galveston News:
As a newspaper It has no superior Id the
country, and is everywhere admitted to be un-
•qualed within the limits of the State. No
Texan who loves his state and has the least
pride of knowing what transpires within its
borders, can ail >r !. be without the Nkws.
There are already u copies of the Week-
ly sent out to tlii^. county. Let those that
are without the paper subscribe at once.
The Brownsville papers are discuss-
ing the question whether the govern-
ment should have charge of the tele-
graph lines. The Ranchero seems to
think that it should, but the Sentinel
thinks the government could not con-
trol the lines to make them work with
the same efficiency as they can be
worked by private enterprise, and ex-
plains that the government has control
over all the lines, even at present. Its
messages have precedence over all oth-
ers, and at reduced rates. There are
36,721 postoffices in the United States
and Territories, and the Sentinel thinks
twice that number of telegraph opera-
tors would be necessary to take the
place of these officers, withofit allow-
ing the discontinuance of postoffices.
The San Antonio Express says that a
young man in that office can sent 2000
cms of type in an hour. Not of solid
matter; that would beat anything on
record.
The Castroville Era has an editorial
on local option, but seems to oppose
prohibition. It appears to take the
same view of drunkards as the Spartans
did when they made their slaves drunk
in order to show others the disgusting
example. The Era asks:
Whether it is better to let men get drunk
and disgrace themselves in public or drink
themselves mellow by their own firesides—
which has the greatest restraining influence,
society or family ? A man may get drunk be-
fore h>s family and every member will strive
to conceal it from society. But let him, on
the contrary, drink to excess in public, and
every one will talk about it. In Medina coun-
ty there are few. if any, habitual drunkards.
Our people are a beer drinking oeople. They
drink their beer, smoke their pipes, and grow
fat; they have always done so, and It is doubt-
less safe to ass rt that they always will do sa,
regardless of local option laws or opinions.
With them it is a time honored custom
brought over from the Kathe.land—a custom
which they consider not only essential to hap-
piness but to health.
Hard times in Parker county. The
sheriff sold the Weatherford Times for
$330. It will cost the purchaser some-
thing more to run the establishment.
The Austin Statesman is a regular
scatter-gun, repeats often without stop-
ping to load, and goes for a wonderful
variety of game. As a matter of
course it often misses the mark, but it
occasionally brings down its game, and
its mustard seed shot cause considera-
ble squirming among those who are
only peppered without having broken
skins. It takes up subjects enough to
supply a surgical college; some of them
past galvanizing, but others it captures,
like Burke of Edinburgh, while they
are yet alive. Among its topics on
Tuesday were the following: The cost
of delivering a bale of cotton by rail
and selling it in New York is $12 50.
Therefore buyers about Austin make
bargains with the railroads to
deliver and dispose of their cotton
in New York. The Statesman wants
the merchants of Austin to combine
with those of neighboring towns and
villages and build the narrow gauge
railroad, and concentrate the cotton
trade of the region round about at
Austin, saying it is only needful that
some man like Cone or Douglass lead
the way. The indispensable cheap rail-
way can and must be built. Let the
Statesman get Paul Bremond to invoke
the spirits in behalf of the good work.
Then the Statesman takes a little crack
at professional politicians:
The pestilent trickster, who fawns and
dodgy-; and squirms and panders to the preju-
dices of the rabble, may gain office, but is
desplsod by decency and truth and intelli-
gence; but the man whose name is now hon-
ored i i this practical age, and he who builds
for himself an enduring monument, Is the
man who renders his city and country defi-
nite. tangible and practical service.
Then the Statesman comes down to
the question of rats and dogs:
Instead of costly, taxed, snarling terriers,
farmers and livery stable men should Becure
ferrets, little animals commonly used in cities.
< Jue will follow a rat to tli• death, and simply
for the fun of killing. A ferret often kills 100
rats per diem.
And as many children at night, might
have been added.
Then the Statesman remarks:
They are re-excitiDg the Know-Nothing
question in Galveston, and for the reason that
most <<ffice-seekers and place-holders are for-
eigners. Such is the argument used.
No particular excitement on this
question has been observed here. The
Statesman aims at higher game—or,
rather, points its gun so as to hit if it
proves one thing, and miss in case it
should turn out to be a horse of an
other color:
Gov. Coke served Tom Fcott with eager
zeal, and Tom Scott's people lifted Gov. Coke
into the Senate. There was no trade, we sup-
pose, but such are the facts. If Senator Coke
continue, after March, to bow before the ma
jesty of the great land pirate, who has stolen
an empire from Texas with which to build a
railway for Philaielphia and St. Louis, then
the people can never be made to question
Scott's title to Coke or its mode ot acquisi-
tion- But Coke is honest, and will stand by
the State and abandon the thieves.
The Lockhart News-Echo says that
some of its exchanges are elamorous for
an extra session of the Legislature; per-
haps, it says, " because they want a
little more of the Tom Scott slush
fund." The States/nan adds:
Tom may squander so much of It on Con-
gressmen that he will have very little to spare
for Texas. If, however, he fail to get his bill
through before the fourth of March, he will be
forced to come down into Texas. Things in
this State begin to look ugly for the great
"highwayman." He encounters in Texas a
confiding people who have been swindled, and
everybody begins to see it.
The Age is now the leading daily
pap_»r in Houston—in fact, a hero with-
out a rival—and magnifies the occasion
in the following oracular paragraph:
And so our barque has drifted from the
"soft hours of twilight" into " the morning
sunlight." What a strange figure of speech!
Its helm has not been turned without duly
consulting all the pilots at hand and all the
dangerous points of the port. These pilots
have unanimously advised the course,_ promis-
ing a safe and comfortable harbor, with a fine
cargo, exacting from us that the vessel shall
be seaworthy and at all times "snug alow and
aloft." It is necessary to the ends of com-
merce that both promises be kept—necessary
for the present and the future of our city. A
citr without a daily paper would be a locomo-
tive at night without a headlight, not to pay
without an engineer. The full truth of this
could only bo realized by its absence for one
week.
A correspondent of the Statesmanwa.
dertakes to show how prohibition is
bencficial, and quotes a letter from
Denton county, which says, since the
sale of liquor ceased:
The contrast between the past and the pres
eat is a wonder to those accustomed to behold
the scenes of but a few years ago. At the
late sitting of the grand jury for this county
there was not a single case of assault and
battery before them, nor a single complaint
of a violation of the public peace. Our lail is
without a tenant.
The writer concludes by saying whis
ky beggars families and ruins the pros-
perity and morals of a city:
Therefore vote to banish it, and young men
and husbands and fathers debauched and
lured to ruin, homes made desolate, hearts
broken and lives sacrificed by the traffic will
be known no more, and the bow of promise,
betokening purity and peace.soon be stretched
in all its beauty and brightness aoross the
moral heavens.
He signs himself "Hard Bricks,
probably to intimate that the drunk-
ard's lodgings are not always the gutter.
In Galveston it costs more to take a big
dose of whisky, followed by a doze any-
where out of doors, than to take a phy-
sician's prescription and lodge in a first-
class hotel. By the way, the spirit of
Noah Webster should be invoked to
settle the origin and orthography of the
new but not very elegant word which
is spelled indifferently buldoze and
bulldose. Ono party claims that the
origin of the word was a dose of the
lash sufficient for a refractory bull, ap-
plied to the colored race during the
days of slavery. The other way of
spelling it perhaps has reference to the
wary sleep of Taurus. In this column
the word was used in the former sense
a few days since, but the intelligent
types put a z instead of the s, and so
made an Irish bull of the paragraph.
Perhaps those who use the word in any
way come under the title of bull-heads,
who are defined as stupid fellows.
The Annotator thinks it ridiculous to
make any comparison between Presi-
dent Grant and tho Emperor of Ger-
many, as rulers, except their fondness
for military despotism. There would
seein to be another resemblance quite
as striking. Bismarck, when speak-
ing of the family ties existing between
the Emperor William and the reigniDg
family of Russia, is reported to have
said: "When war is urged it is the
devil's own woTk to convince the old
gentlemen. He thinks always of his
relations."
The State Gazette remarks:
Sharp practice and the tricks of the shyster,
it seems, will make the next President, and
not the will of the sovereign people.
The editor of the Corpus Christi
Times has failed in all attempts at
destroying the grasshoppers. He says
he successively tried sparrows, tar,
vitriol,coal oil, bulldozing and distribu-
ting around Dr. Mary Walker's woman's
rights lectures, in printed form, but
without effect.
It was once said in the Texas Legis-
lature, when some act was proposed in
the interest of the town of Huntsville,
that the place already had Sam Houston
and the penitentiary, and ought to be
satisfied; but she does not seem to be so
at present. The Item says, in reply to
the statement that " the place wants
another railroad, though the one already
built has ruined the town: "
"So wags the world, Horatio." Married
folks, no matter how bad they get along, are
always singing the praises of Hymen, and urg-
ing others to wed. The story of the tame ele-
phants luring the wild ones fnto the trap by
whioti they are caught is another illustration.
The word is, "give us more rail, or give us
death."
The Victoria Advocate makes the fol-
lowing remarks in relation to the re-
duction of the force of the State police:
The command was originally organized at
the instance of the crime-ridden districts,
and it has undoubtedly been of vast benefit
ia ridding many localities of lawless and des*
perate characters. At the time the order for
disbanding the command was given it con-
sisted of but thirty-three privates and non-
commissioned officers, with a captain and two
lieutenants. As soon as the men were dis-
charged Lieutenant Hall, in obedience to or-
ders, recruited a detachment of twenty-four
former members of McNelJy's command, thus
in effect retaining all but seven men and two
officers of the original company. It has long
been a matter of notoriety that Capt. Mc-
Nelly, though charged with the duty of con-
ducting the operations of the command, sel-
dom exercised that function, prefer-
ring to delegate the duties of his
position to his lieutenants. His state
of health prevented his active participation
in the movements of the company, and the
Governor very properly, we think, resolved
to permit his retirement. The command has
lost none of its efficiency by the reorganiza-
tion, as its present commander is the sam e
who really had theliirectionof its movements
for some time. The fear expressed by the
press that the lack of funds will compel the
disbanding of even Lieutenant Hall's reduced
command, is not shared in by the Governor
or Adjutant General. The prime cause of the
reduction of the force was in order to increase
its efficiency, to which the question of econo-
my was sobordinate. If found neoessary.
Gov. Hubbard is prepared to increase the
strength of the command to the number pro-
vided for by the Legislature. His intention is
to maintain order and enforee the laws, and
to that end Lieutenant Hall's company will
be rendered as efficient as the necessities of
the occasion demand.
In reply to a letter to the Governor
from F. D. Wilkes, E=q., District At-
torney, asking for a detachment of
State police in Lampp.sas county, John
W. Swindells, acting private secretary
of Gov. Hubbard, writes that the matter
has been referred to Gen. Steele, Adju-
tant General, who states that Capt.
Sparks is now 011 a scout through sev-
eral counties, including Lampasas.
The Governor directs his secretary to
say that he will do all he can to punish
crime, but regiments and battalions
will do no good unless sherilTs and the
people assist boldly the civil authori-
ties.
The Rockport Transcript heartily in-
dorses the following remarks of the
Corpus Christi Times :
San Antonio is not alone in her rejoicing
over the completion of the Galveston railroad.
We rejoice with her, for it marks an era in
Western Texas that can not but result to the
general benefit of the whole country west of
the 8an Antonio river. Immigration, to turn
our broad valleys and prairies into fields and
farm«, is what we need to make our country
a formidable rival to Eastern and Central
Texas, with its fine cities and air of comfort
and wealth, and it will as assuredly come,
with the completion of the railroad to San An-
tonio. as the day follows night.
Fill up our Western country with producers,
turn its wastes and wilds into cultivated and
improved lands, and how long will it be be-
fore all eyes turn to the coast to seek harbors
of its own for shipment of products, and
short lines for sapplies?
Indianola, Rockport and Corpus Christi
will command attention from their natural
adaptability to the wants of the interior,
and, without high coloring, we believe we
may safely say that we expect to see the day
when our present city front will be a line of
wharves, and instead of a half dosen water
transports we expect to see rows of shipping
from all parts of the world.
It is no idle dream—no over-wrought fancy.
Jt is the Inevitable result of the fever that is
firing thousands to leave the crowded civiliza-
tion of the North and East and seek an open-
ing for their energies within the broad do-
main of Texas, destined to yet be the Bmpire
State of these United States.
%3TReport any boy charging over Jive
cents for the Daily News on the Galves-
ton and Houston or San Antonio roads to
J. D. Sawyer, Galveston.
RAILROAD NEWS.
Detiison News, 7th : Major Shellen
berger, with competent assistants, com'
menced the preliminary survey of the
railroad line from Denison to connect
with the Trans-Continental, Tuesday
afternoon. He started from the elevator
and run about a mile of the line before
night. This route will strike the other
road about eight miles from Sherman.
The Major expects to run three or four
lines, all striking the Trans-Continental
west of Savoy, the object being to find
the most practicable route.
Austin State Gazette: A bill has been
presented in the Senate providing for
an appropriation of $15,000 to enable a
survey to be made, under the direction
of the War Department, of a line of
railroad from our city, across Mexico,
to Topolovampo Bay, on the Gulf of
California. The line is 800 miles, and
is said to be the shortest route connect
ing the railroad system of the United
States with the Pacific Ocean. This
project eatne up last year before the
Congressional Committee on Railroads.
The projectors of the sohesne received
encouragement from the Lerdo govern-
ment a year or two ago, and Mexican
subsidies were promised. But under
the present revolutionary condition of
Mexico it is difficult to determine on
her future course.
Cuero Bulletin : The railroad survey-
ing party of Mr. Swanson, now en-
gaged in the survey of the two roads
on the east and w»st sides of the Gua
dalupe river, has .cached as far as Con
Crete, or beyond. They are running
three different lines, one east, one
through and one west of Concrete
The one east of Concrete seems the
most favorable as far as run.
The Virginia papers are singing
praises of Ran Tucker as the Old Do-
minion's rising man in Congress.
COMMERCIAL.
NEWS OFFICE, I
Wednesday Evenino. Feb. 14.1877.1
The festivities of Madri Gras being
over, numbers of visitors have left the
city to-day, but there still remain a
great many, who, contrary to the max-
im of business before pleasure, enjoyed
themselves first, and to-day went to
work buying goods. Groceries, dry
goods dealers and hardware houses were
busy to day dealing with customers on
the spot and getting off orders that ac-
cumulated during the suspension of
operations yesterday.
There was but little done in the cot-
ton market to-day. Factors are confi-
dently as-king more than quotations,
and, with money easy, they are content
to comply with orders from the coun-
try to hold. The belief that receipts
at New Orleans and this port will fall
off rapidly during the coming ten days
is one reason for the tenacity mani-
fested, and another is supposed to be
the belief that some vessels are on de-
murrage. Certain it is that freights are
demoralized.
Hides have taken another downward
turn, and 15Jc. was, at the close, the
best figure offered for dry selected, for
kips, grubs, salted, etc.; wet salted are
still lower. The tenor of private dis-
patches dated yesterday quote dry
down to 18c. and still declining. Hides
from fallen cattle are beginning to reach
that market, and may cause a further
decline. Quotations as revised to-day
are supplied under the appropriate
heading, and the changes should
be noted by operators. Messrs.
Brooks, Dewson & West, under date
of the 7th, report Galveston dry stock
at 20c. currency; selected, dry salted,
17 to lT^c.; wet salted Texas "knife"
are quoted at to 11c. The circular
reports the total stock in that market
at 104,100 hides, and 10 bales Calcutta
buffalo. Same time last year 72,200
hides and 1189 bales East India. The
sales for the week preceding, included
4-100 Texas, 23 to 25 lbs., at to 21c.
currency; 3100 Texas kips, 10 lbs.; 1400
D. 8. Texas, 33 to 35 lbs., four months,
inl 1100 W. S. Texas, all on private
terms.
TANNING BT PRESSURE.
Tils is an arrangement introduced by lir.
Astoine Claivier, of London, for tanninghides
and skins by forcing the tanning liquid into
the pores of the hides or skins by the agency
of a force-pump, such as is commonly used
for proving the pressure that vessels will re-
sist, for example, steam boiler*. The afore-
said pump may operate to lift as well as to
force. For charging the apparatus with the
tanning liquid the lift pump may be employed,
and for filtering the tanning liquid through the
the pores of the hide or skin to be tanned it is
intended to use , the force-pump. By these
means hides or sTclns may be tanned, it is as-
serted, very rapidly—in fact, in less than six
hours; and it is possible by this means to per-
fectly tan hides or skins of any thickness. The
rough skins or hides are prepared by the
means commonly employed, after which the
hide or skin is placed in an apparatus of pe-
culiar construction, and tanned by the process
abeve mentioned, one skin at a time. The ap-
paratus consists of two frames of wood or
metal, by preference oak of a rectangular
form placed one upon the other; or separate
frames may be made, for tanning "buts," to
those used for tanning whole skins or hides.
The lower frame is made with a groove all
round, in which fits a metal tongue. The skin
or hide that is to be tanned is held between
the aforesaid tongue and groove air-tight, so
as to exclude tie passage of the tanning
liquor from one side of the skin to the other,
otherwise than by filtration through the pores
thereof when the skin is stretched in the
frame. If necessary, a metallic trelliswork
may be applied to the skin for keeping it
stretched or held flat over its entire surface.
The New York Bulletin furnishes the
following article on the subject of
BEEF PRODUCTS ABROAD.
The first experiments with American and
Canadian fresh beef in England would seem
to be received with positive enthusiasm.judg-
ing by the congratulatory way in which the
journals treat the subject. The enthusiasm.
; t may be observed, is abundantly justified, as
people there are now able to buy good meat at
prices much lower than ha3 been the case for
years. At Manchester, London, Birmingham,
Sheffield, and wherever the experiment has
been fairly tested, the public verdict has been
unqualifiedly favorable. The questions now
are, can the supply be kept up, and what ef-
fect is to be "produced on butchers'prices!
We have a seemingly satisfactory answer at
hand in statements from persons who have
been over here expressly to prosecute inqui-
ries on the subject and who have communica-
ted the result to tke London Time*. Accord-
ing to these statements the pioneers of the un-
dertaking are thus far fairly satisfied with
their success,and there is every reason to ba-
lieve that a large number of persons in the
States and Canada will be turning their atten-
tion to the new export trade next spring.
Everything has been against the shipper as
yet, charges being too great and accommoda-
tion defective; but the demands of what i8
now a rapidly growing industry will change
all that, and then there need be no limit prac-
tically to the supply. If it be asked how is
it that beef, after traveling 3000 miles, can
reach the consumer at 8d per lb, when the
native article costs 10d or Is, the answer is,
that hay, oats, barley and all kinds of fodder
are, as compared with Knglish prices, exceed-
ingly cheap; so that though the Canadian
farmer has to hous£ his stuck for nearly six
months every year?he can feed it at no great-
er cost than is entailed upon the English
breeder by renting of pasturage. That is for
the winter, and then in the summer the cattle
run over pastures that provide them with am-
ple food, and that are worth about 8s a year
as rent—8* a year for the whole against £3 an
acre in "the oid country."' So inexpensive,
indeed; is stock-racing that on the prairies
cattle cost next to nothing for three-fourths
of the year, but the outlay for occasional
herding and an annual branding. Thus
the animal can be reared at an expense
which, with the additional cost of transship-
ment, does not nearly equal the expense of
his production in the United Kingdom. Pro-
vide suitable vessels, and eliminate the risk of
high mortality, which is quite practicable, and
there would seem but little doubt that prices
in England will fall 25 per cent. The Manches-
ter Examiner goes still further, in expressing
the belief that " we can also look to the fer-
tile pasturages of the States and Canada to
give us horses much cheaper than they can be
raised here." There is nothing extravagant
in these expectations. The fact is, the capa-
cities of our country as a stosk-raising coun-
try are practically unlimited, and, in order to
make these fully available, it but remains to
solve the question of cheaper transportation
to push the market for our surplus animal pro-
ducts into dimensions over there which will
prove at once a source of wealth to ourselves
and a blessing to the European masses, with
whom fresh meat was becoming more and
more unattainable as daily food.
COTTON.
The Liverpool spot market ruled easier, but
not quotablv lower, with sales of 10.000 bales,
including 8400 American and 2000 for export
and speculation. Arrivals opened with sell-
ers offering l-32d. lower and closed dull. The
imports amounted to 22.500 bales, of which
15,800 were from American perts. The New
York spot market ruled dull and ear-y with sales
of 340 bales. Futures opened easy, ruled auiet
but steady, and closed firm, W'th sales or 70,-
t>00 bales. The New Orleans market closed
quiet and unchanged, with sales of 4700 bales.
The net receipts at the outports were light,
aggregating bat 11,729 bales against 16,824 last
Wednesday, and 16,411 the same day last
year. The stock at all United States ports is
8c3,418 bales, against 8S9.098 for the corre-
sponding period last season.
In this market the pretensions of holders
prevented transactions of any consequence
and sales of only 154 bales were reported, all
of which were taken by one brokerage firm.
The Exchange makes no alteration in quota-
tions, and reports the market as closing with
4k but little offering at quotations."
official quotations:
Class. To-day. Y esterday.
Low Ordinary 9^j
Ordinary lCr
Good Ordinary 11
f ow Middling 11
Middling 1:
Good Middling 1!
Galveston Statement.
This This Last
Day. Season Season
Net receipts 472 444,231 882,227
Receipts from o. ports. 26 9,932 8,340
Gross receipts 497 497,163 385.567
Expt. to Gt. Britain 189,*48 183.367
To France 32,550 4.111
To Continent 22,417 19,161
T j Channel ports 15.612 19,969
Total Foreign exports 199,621 166,608
Erpts. to New Yerk* 60.62r 51,650
To Morgan City* 80.582 79,351
To other U. 8. ports 32.937 25,415
Total Coastwise 174,116 156,415
Total Exports 873,767 828,024
S'ock 78,741 .... 67,643
•Including through shipments to remote
domestic and foreign ports.
Receipts at all U. 8. Ports.
This This This
ports. day. Week. Beason.
Galveston 472 5,857 444,231
New Orleans 4,449 36,338 936,811
Mobile 453 8,112 323,7o6
Savannah 736 3.335 442,123
Charleston 753 4,171 405,746
Wilmington 2il 1,327 88,828
Norfolk 3,595 10,319 440,445
Baltimore 165 11,653
New York 1,117 8,»»7 155,789
Boston 884 4.778 67 664
Philadelphia 40 2,019 40.078
Providence .... 9,1W
City Point
Pert Royal 34,£10
Indianola .... 12,£€3
Total.. 11,729 80,053 3,393,28*
L**t yea* 16,411 76,864 3,275,798
Receipts at all United States ports thus far
last week, 07,856 bales. Exports thus far this
week: To Great Britain, 66,092; to France,
9,012; to Continent, 5876: to Channel ports,
1.815. Stock this day, 888,ilf; this day last
year, 889,1*98 bales.
EXCHANGE, GOLD AND SILVEB.
Selling.
518
^prem.
Yesterday.
Buying.
Sterling, 60 days 508
New York sight ^ prem.
New Orleans sight psr.
Gold 106
Silver 99
To-day.
Closing gold rate In N.Y 105%
Closing gold rate in N.O. l05Vl
Com'cl sterling in N. Y. 482
^onTc! sterling in N. O. 509>£
LIVE STOCK.
1 Reported for the News by Borden, Jones &
Co., Live Stock Commission Merchants. 1
Beeves Yearl'M Sheep. Hogs,
and ana
Receipts— Cows. Calves.
This day 82 29 ....
This week... 151 64
This season.. 6,865 8,604 8,760 8,978
Stock inpens. 49 10 90 Ti
Corn-Feb Cattle.—Market well supplied
with the choicest class. Buyers purchase
freely at 3®4c.
Grass Cattle.—No really full-fat on mar-
ket. The demand is good for beeves aad
cows at 2@2%c. Poor stock does not sell in
this market.
Yearlings—1The demand good and few offer-
ing; choice $8(3i 11.
Calve8—Buyers poorly supplied. Receipts
thus far this week have been light; choice in
demand at $5@8 iO.
«heej»—The supply is limited to the poorer
and medium grades. Ne really choioe on sale.
Buyers readily pay for full-fat Texas raised,
8<&5c.
Hogs—Sales improving and the supply ef
the better grades nearly exhausted. Choice
hogs in demand at 3®4}£c. gross.
TOE GENERAL MAKKET.
QuoUiZwns represent cash prices tor large u>u%
and ore not applicable to small orders unless so
tidied.
Apples—Apples In limited supply and
demand at $5 C0^5 50 per barrel for medium.
No choice offering.
Bacon — Prices 6teady and unchanged:
11c. for clear sides and 1096<aiC$£c.for clear rib.
Shoulders 8J^; breakfast bacon 19@19c. fer
eanvased; hams 13c. for plain; sugar-eured,
canvased 14®14V£c., according to brand and
condition.
Beeswax—Prices steady at 26®27c. for
prime yellow.
Butter—Supplies are ample. Gilt Edged
Goshen weak at 34<cp36c.; Texas, 16@19c.:
Western, 23<gi25c.; Kansas choice, in pails or
firkins, SBtffc25c.
Bran—Is quiet but firm; held in lots from
store at $1 10@1 15 per cwt.
Broom Corn—Dull at 2^j@4c. ^ lb.
with a fair supply and limited demand.
CoITee—The market has ruled quiet and
importers' prices are revised. Ordinary, none;
fair, 20c.; good, 2t^c.; prime, 21c.; strict
prime, 2lJ4c.; choice, 21$4c. Stock in first
hands unsold 7000 sacks. Afloat 8500 sacks.
Corn iTIeal—Is quiet, and selling sr 74 00
@3 25 per barrel for kiln dried in round lots
to the trade. 8tate $3.
Corn—Scarce and held higher. Sacked in
car loads 59(&61c.; bulk on track 55@57c.;
white retailing at 70(&75c.
Candy—Steady. Assorted stick 15@15^c.;
fancy 18@20c.; rock 24o.; cream 18<&20c.; gum
drops 25®80c.; maple sugar 26@30c.
Receipts large and prices lower at
15® 16c. per dozen; Bay eggs 20c.; Island eggs,
30c.
Flour—Stocks light and prices strong.
Double extra $7 50: treble extra $7 75®
8 25; choice family $9 00 per barrel. Fancy
brands $9 00@10 00.
Green Fruit—Oranges, per box, $4 00®
$4 25. Louisiana, $9®10 per barrel with sales
by cargo at $7 50 per barrel; Valencia, (420)
$10 per box. Lemons, Messina $5 00®5 50 for
choice; medium $3 50®4 00 per box. Cocoa-
nuts $6 per barrel or $45 per thousand Plan-
tains $1 CO®2 00 per bunch. Bananas $1 50®
2 00 per bunch. Pineapples $3 00®3 50 per
dozen.
Hides and SKIns—Receipts of hides
large and prices weak at a further reduction.
Telegraphic advices from New York are dis
couraging, and report a decline of fully lc. on
dry stock. In the market quotations, revised
to-day, are as follows: Dry, selected, for
grubs, 15Vj|CC.: light salted. 13^jc.; stacK salt-
ed 1 lc., 2c. off for two or more grubs; damaged
half price; kips 12c., but 2c. off for ene or more
grubs. Glue stock, 5c. Wet salted, as they
run, 6J^@7c. Butchers' srreen 6c.
Deer skins, 19c , do. Indian tanned $1 25®
1 75 per 2>. Dry salted sheep skins, selected:
full wool, L0®55c.; half wool, 40c; shearlings,
12^®15c.
nuy—Firmer. Prime Wnstern $22®2S per
ton, strict prime $24 00®25 00; and choice
$26 00®27 00 per ton; Northern $<K®28 per
ton: millet $21®22 Der ton.
Lime—Austin, $2 00 per bbl.; in bulk, per
3ar load, $1 50 per barrel. Alabama, $2 25
cer barrel. ^
Lard—Firm. Refined tierce 12$4<2H2%c.
in iob lots: kegs 18^c.
TIohn—Moderate demand at 2%®4c. per lb.
Receipts increasing.
JTlolasses—Texas was offered to-day in
barrels and halves at 45c. for strict prime,
with 42®4"ic. bid and refused. Prices close
steady. Prime Louisiana quoted at 42V£®45c.
per gallon in barrels.
Oats—Are in full supply at 42®44c. for
sacked; bulk. 40c.
Onions—Choice $5 50®6 CC; medium $4 75
®5 25 ^ barrel,
Petroleum—Refined is weak at 36®37e. in
lots of 10 to 20 cases from landing.
l*o< atoes—Prices are as follows: Northern
seed $4 75®5 25 per barrel, according to
brand; Western $4 50®4 75.
Poultry —Chickenb easy at $8 00®3 25 per
dozen. Turkeys in good demand at $14® 15
per dozen; Geese,$7 50 per dozen; ducks, $4 00
®4 50 per dozen.
FecanK—Are barely nominal at 6®8c.
per pound, according to quality. New York
letters quote 6® 10c. for Texas pecans,"as in
size.
Mice—Is firm. Louisiana, ordinary, 5c.;
fair 5^c.; erood, 5%c.; prime 6}£c.; choice 7c.
Itope—Sisal, 7-16 inch and above, 10}^c. per
lb.; Sisal, % inch, lie: 5 16 and below, ll&c;
Manila, inch and above, 15c; Manila, $£inch,
15>^c; cotton 17c.
salt—Importers1 prices to the trade are
85c. gold for coarse; line easy at $1 25®
1 30 per sack. Stock 24,0C0 sacks.
Sugar — Is quiet; pure white. 11J4
®ll^c. ; centrifugals, 9V6®9V£c. Open
kettle—fair to fully fair 8%®8^c.; prime
8%®9c. Refined sugars are steady and quoted
as follows: Cut loaf, 1294c.; powdered 12^c.;
crushed, 123£c.; granulated, 12%c.; soft stand-
ard A, 11 %c.
Tallow—Good to prime, in small lots, 634^
6^c.: in large packages in shipping oraer,
7®7Mc. Grease, or inferior. 5V£®5%c.
W >>eat—Is scarce and in demand. No. 1
nominal. No. 2 would command $1 60; Iso. 3,
$1 40® 1 45: No. 4, $1 35.
Wool—There is none offering, and quota-
tions are entirely nominal. Northern markets
are reported dull with large sales of low grade
Texas and California wools at r educed prices.
POST OF GALVESTON.
NEWS OFFICE, February H, 1S77.
RoremfEts ot Fteaim^r*.
Wi ARP.IVJ5.
Name. From.
Lizzie Houston
City of Norfolk Indianela
Josephine Morgan City
City of San Antonio.New York..
to DEPART.
Name. For.
Lizzie Houston
City of Norfolk Indianola...
Josephine Morgan City Feb 1ft
State of Texas New York F.b 17
Dots.
. ..Feb 15
...Feb 16
...Feb 16
. ,.F«b 1#
Dat*.
...Feb IS
...Feb 16
■oarox.
Schooner H W Buell oI4 D«o 1
Schoonar F Nickerson, Benton Id* Jan M
Bchaoner L A Burnham. Harris eld Jaa St
■okdkaux.
Schoonar Win Hunter eld Deo IT
■ATAKSIS.
Bark Douglas Campbell eld Feb I
HATBB.
Bark Mira, Corneliuson sld Deo 18
Bark Unda, Sorensen eld Deo 11
cARDirr.
Steamship Hested, Daren sld Jan 10
uo dc janeiro.
Bark Marie. Schubert eld Dec to
Bark Fleetwing. ldfjan t
HITCHCOCK'S SONS.
Ship Chandlers,
Canvas and Duck for Sails, Tents and Tarpau-
lins, Naval Stores. Paints and Oils. Beats. Oars
and Spars, Manila, Hemp and Wire Rone, all
sizes; Blocks and Sheeves for ferries. Presses,
etc., etc. 308, 210 and 213 STRAND,
ap5'?6 lv OALYESTON.
ARRIVED.
Steamship 'Whitney, Hopkins, Morgan City
Steamship City of Norfolk, Theissen. Indianola
Schooner A H Belden, Terry. New Orleans
Schooner Mary E Simmons, Gandy, New Or-
leans for Harrisburg
CLEARED.
Steamship San Marcos, Burrows, Liverpool
SAILED.
Steamship Whitney, Hopkins, Morgan City
Steamskip City of Norfolk. Theissen, Indianola
Bark Clara Eaton, Davis. Liverpool
Schooner Julia A Ward, Stevens. Portland, Me
Schooner W s Jordan, Stone, Salem. Mass
Schooner James Slater, Hawkins, Fall River
IN THE OFFING.
A full-rigsred brig is in eight In the offlng
some ten miles distant from the city, to the
westward, and is attempting to beat up, but
will not succeed in doing so to-night. No
cotr munication has been had with her.
MEMORANDA.
Bur"in February4.—Arrived—Bark Slgrid,
Taarvig, from Galveston, with 675 bales cot-
ton
Fall River, Mass., Feb. 8.—Arrived—Schr
J D Robinson, Glover, with 1310 bales cotton,
and schooner Jefferson, Gibbs, with 961 bales
cotton, both from Galveston.
New London, Conn., Feb. 7.—Arrived—Bark
Sabine, Williams, from Qalveston.
IMPORTS—COASTWISE.
MORGAN CITY—Per steamship Whitney-
850 barrels potatoes. 75 barrels rice, 50 boxes
bitters, 22 barrels whisky, 60 boxes tobacco, 8
casks claret, 118 sacks corn, 50 boxes canned
goods. SO sacks coffee
NEW YORK—Per steamship State of Texas
800 kegs nails, 61 stoves, 13 pkgs crockery.
318 packages dry goods, 178 cases boots and
shoes. 60 barrels whisky, 978 packages tobac-
oo, 275 coils rope, 58 packages ooffee, 874 bdls
and bars iron, and sundries
EXPORTS—FOREIGN.
LIVERPOOL—Peir steamship Ban Marcos—
S8C8 bales cotton, 15 sacks sea Island oottop,
10 cases smoked tongues, half barrel pecans,
6751 cases beef. 108 sacks fertilizers, 2831 sks
cotton seed oil cake, 3 barrels cotton seed oil,
9i hhds tallow, $1&4,286 Mexican s.lvar bullion
Rcceipta from tbe Interior.
GALVESTON, HOUSTON & HENDERFOV"
R R—352 bales cotton, 8 cars cotton seed oil
and cake, 29 bales hides, 116 bundles w s hides,
3 cars grain, 12 sacks wool, 81 bundles hides,
and sundries
HOUSTON—Per steamer Diana—120 bales
cotton, 6 bales hides, and 14 packages miscel-
laneous
INDIANOLA—Per steamship City of Nor-
folk—35 bales cotton, fi bales hides, 1 coop
chickens
llii of Veaaela
5»ot-JInt, Claared and Sailed for aaiYestoc
nkw york.
Steamship City of San Antonio old Feb !•
Schooner Conservative, Shaw eld Jan 2S
Schooner Washington ldg Fab *
LIVERPOOL.
Steamship San Jacinto, Rlcker eld Tab
Ship Governor Morton, Davis sld Jap U
Marseilles.
Bark Sffeczo, Zargill g]d X<sr 2S
Political.
LECTION NOTICE.
MAYOR'S OFEICE, 1
Galveston, Tex, Jan. 39,1877. f
N Accordance with the requirements of tne
City Charter, approved August 2, 1876, an
election for
; [ay or and Twelve Aldermen
Will be held on
71 oil day, march 5, 1877.
At the following named plaoes, and under
the supervision of the following named pre-
siding officers:
FIRST WARD.
Market,Eleventh and Mechanic. R. T. Byrne
presiding olSo ir.
SEOOND 'WARD.
No. > Engine House, Seventeenth street,
between Mechanic and Market streets. G. W.
Grover presiding officer.
THIRD WARD.
County Court House, Twentieth and Avenue
J. U. Rogers presiding officer.
FOURTH WARD.
No. 5 Engine House, Postoffioe, between
Twenty-third and Twenty-fourth. W. J.
Houlihan presiding officer.
FIFTH WARD.
Glrardln's Market, Twenty-sixth and Win
nia. W. Vowinkle presiding officer.
SIXTH WARD.
Corner of Thirty-third street and Avenue I.
OoL J. C. Shelton presiding officer.
SEVENTH WARD.
Plitt'a Market, Thirty-second street and Ave-
nue K. Fitahugh Ward, presiding officer.
EIGHTH WARD.
Kimley'a Market, Avenue K and Twenty-
seventh street. James Day, presiding officer.
NINTH WARD.
Market, eorner Twerty-irst and Avenue O.
Thos. Flournoy, presiding officer.
TENTH WARD.
Market,corner Nineteenth street and Broad-
way. F. W. Schmidt, presiding officer.
ELEVENTH WARD.
Wit tig's Market, Winnie street. Leo Nich-
ols, presiding offleer.
TWELFTH WARD.
Rltzler's Market, Eleventh street and Broad-
way. Cyrus Thompson, presiding officer.
The boundariea of the wards are as follows:
First Ward—Contains all the territory lying
■orth of Avenue G, ar Winnie street, and east
of Thirteenth street.
Second Ward—All north of Avenue G, be-
tween Thirteenth and Seventeenth streets.
Third Ward—All north of Broadway, be-
tween Seventeenth and Twenty-llrst streets.
Fourth Ward—All north of Broadway be-
tween Twenty-first and Twenty-fifth streets.
Fifth Ward—All norih of Broadway between
Twenty-fifth and Twenty-ninth streets.
Sixth Ward—All north of Broadway between
Twenty-ninth street and western boundary of
the city.
Seventh Ward—All south of Broadway be-
tween Twenty-ninth street and western bound-
ary of the city.
Eighth Ward—All south of Broadway be-
tween Twenty-fifth and Twenty-ninth streets.
Kinth Ward—All south of Breadway be-
tween Twenty-first and Twenty-fifth streets.
Tenth Ward—All south of Broadway be-
tween Seventeenth and Twenty-first streets.
Eleventh Ward—All south of Avenue G be-
tween Thirteenth and Seventeenth street*.
Twelfth Ward—All south of Avenue G and
east of Thirteenth street.
The presiding officer in each ward shall se-
lect two judges and twe clerks. Polls to be
open from > o'clock A. x. until 6 o'clock p. m.
The Mayor elected at such election shall
hold his office for two years. One Alderman
from each ward of tke city, to be elected by
the qualified voters of such ward, of whom
those elected in the odd numbered wards
shall hold their offices for one year, and those
elected In the even numbered wards shall
hold their offices for two years.
fe7 tmhft R. L. FULTON, Mayor.
Railroads—Shipping.
Notices. Etc.
GERMAN CLUB.
A mass meeting of the German Voters Is
called for SUNDAY, 18th of February,in order
to aonsider the action of the Democratic Con-
vention. GEO. SCHNEIDER, Chairman.
H. Gkesseh, Secretary. fe« 2w
ATTENTIONS
SUBJECTS OF MOMUS
Be sure to visit the MODEL PRINTIKG ES-
TABLISHMENT, 178 STRAKD.
fe8 tf SHAW <5: BLAYLOCK.
c. r. johns,
Former Compt'r.
GUH. &H. R.R.
ON AND AFTER
SUNDAY, JAN. 14, 1877,
Trains Leave Galveston daily, Sun-
days excepted. 6 A. M., 10
A. M. and 2.2d P. M.
Trains Leave Houston 6.15 A.
10.10 A. M. and 8.25 P. M.
ON
Train Leaves Houston at 10.15 A. M.;
Leaves Galveston at 2.20 P. M.
For O., H. * S. A. and Houston and
Texas Central Railway take thf
'.HI.1
S A. IS. and 2.20 P.
. Train.
Shipping.
or
STEAMERS
TO NEW ORLEANS,
Tia Morgan City and Morgan's Lou-
isiana and Texas Railroad.
Lsare Galveston with
malls, Passengers and Freight,
as follows, viz:
DAILY MAIL:
Steamship. Captain. Departure.
WHITNEY Hopkins...Sunday, t r. M.
JOSEPHINE...Raynaud.. .Monday, 8 p. m.
HUTCHINSON Talbot Tuesday, 11a.m.
WHITNEY Hopkins. ..Wednesday, 8 p. m.
CLINTON Staples —Thursday, 11 a. m.
JOSEPHINE.. .Reynaud.. .Friday, t p. m.
.Batumi
Galveston Cards.
J. s. amanuM.
b. o. duval.
For International and Great North,
•rn Railroad take tbe 10 A. Id.
Train.
H. in. hoxie, Manager.
O. O. nCRBAY, Genl. Pas. A(t.
J. R. CROWLEY,
mh25T5tf Vlaster Trasportatlon.
" SUNSET_ROUTE."
Galveston, Harrlsburg and San An-
tonio Railway Company.
THROUGH EXPRESS
Leaves GALVESTON 2.20 P.M.
Arrives at HOUSTON 6.05 P. M.
Leaves HOUSTON 9.10P. M.
Arriving at MARION 10.00 A. M.
Arriving at SAN ANTONIO 4.00 P. M.
Only 28 miles from marlon to San
Antonio.
Trains for local points leave HARRIS B URG
daily at 8.46 a.m.
CHEAPEST,
SHORTEST,
QUICKEST and
BEST ROUTE
ALL POINTS WEST.
ELEGANT SLEEPING GABS
Attacked to all Night Trains.
TICKETS FOR SALE
At All Principal Bailroad Ticket
Offices North, Sonth and East.
H. R. ANDREWS, General Manager.
A. W. DICKINSON, C. C. GIBBS,
Superintendent. G. F. and Ticket Agt
oclOtf
I. & G. N. R. R.
QUICK TIME I
CLOSE CONNEOTIONS
I. & G. N. R. ft.
Direst Route to tlia
North, Last,West & Southern States
On and after Snnday, Dec. 17,1876.
ST. LOUIS EXPRESS LEAVES
Galveston dally (except Sun-
day) at 10 A. m.
Houston dally (except Sun-
day) at 1 p. m.
THROUGH PULLMAN
Drawing-Room and Sleeping Cars
FROM
HOUSTON TO ST. LOUIS
WITHOUT CHANGE.
Close connections at Little Rock, Cairo and
St. Louis with all lines leading to the East,
North. West and Southern States.
Shortest! Cheapest I (Quickest lig*
do. do. do.
do. do. do. S"
DO NOT BE DECEIVED, bat obtain
Tickets via the
International & Great Northern R. R.
Purchase Tickets at
AT UNION DEPOT OFFICE,
Foot of Trcmont Street.
3. H. MILLER, Ticket Agent, Galveston.
H. m. HOXIE,
General Superintendent. Palestine.
Janl*76 lv
JOSEPH SPKXCB,
Former Com. Land Office.
JOHNS & SPEJff CE
Austin, Texas.
Will give personal attention to business in
all the Departments of State Government.
Will make collections, pay taxes, purchase
and eell land and land certificates, adjust
titles, and do a general agency business.
The unfinished business of C. R. Johns &
Co. will, when desired by the parties Inter-
ested, be completed by us. de28 dSm
A
N IMPORTANT ITEM FOR
THE LADIES.
POINT LACE, HONITON, ETC., APPLIQUE.
Ladies, make your own Point Laces. For
instructions, call on MBS. N. R. NORMAN, for
a short time at the Grand Southern Hotel.
Try the CENTENNI4L PATTERN. All form-
er worry and difficulty attending the fitting af
garments disappear forever. Positivtly no
trying on necessary. The most irregular form
fitted as easily as the most perfect form. All
are respectfully invited to call and take in-
structions free of tharge In cutting every gar-
ment worn, in every variety of the latest
It is easily understood by the printed
directions and Book of Lessons with each
Pattern. Very small children a specialty. Cut-
ting dene free of ehargt for those wishing to
test the practicability of the Centennial Pat-
tern. NORMAN 8Y6TEM IMPROVED.
Agents wanted. For terms, etc., address
MRS. N. R. NORMAN, Inventor, Galveston,
Texas, or St. Louis. Mo. jal6 lm*
styles.
Iron Foonderfes.
d. wxbxr.
joshua ht,t«.
LEE IRON WORKS.
Ca Be IiEE & CO.,
Iron & Brass Foundsrs
Steam Engines Saw XIIIb, Boilers,
Hill and Gin Gearing,
Shafting, Polleya, Bran u« iroa
Particular attention given to orden fer Iroa
Fronts and Castings for buildings.
All Kinds of 'ob Work Solicit**.
SATISFACTION GUARANTEED.
Ccr. Winnie and KA ste., near Railroad Depot.
Jal tf GALVESTON. TEXAS.
6RINNAN & DUVAL,
fotton Factors and Commission
Merchants.
iSTO
j. a. ottsxvAH, s. a. dpvjll, alpeonsk ucvi
Grinnan, Duval & Co..
b jlhd s3
Commission Merchants.
118 Pearl St.,New York.
d4W
HARLAN..
.Lewis.
day.
jauoh h. haymk.
Steamship CITY OF NORFOLK,
dlanola, every Monday, Wednesday and Irl- |
day, at 4 p. M.
Freight for Indianola, Victoria and Cuero |
received on the above days at 1 p. M.
Carrying .TIaII, Passenger* mad j
Freight.
• NOTICE—Consignees of Freight by all
of the above steamers are notified to remove
same from wharf before S p. M. on the day of
arrivaL Otherwise the same will.be stored at
the risk and expense of consignees.
CHAS. F©WLHR, Agent,
Office ob Central Wharf.
8. 8. JON HS,
Ticket Agent,
Janl'77 dAWly 118 TREMONT 8T.
European Passenger Agency,
Via New Orleans, New York, Phil-
adelphia, Baltimore.
STATE LINE.
Of new full powered Clyde j
^built Iron Screw Steamers, com-
bining all modern improve-
ments of safety and comfort fer
saloon and steerage passengers, sailing be-
tween New Tork and Glasgow, Belfast, con-
necting by trat-class steamers with Liverpool,
Londondmy, Hull, Rotterdam, Antwerp,
Havre a..a Copenhagen. AUSTIN, BAT.fi.
WIN & CO., 78 Broadway, N. Y.
WHITE STAR LINE.
New York, Queenstown, Liver
'pool, sailing every Saturday.
ALLAN LINE,
Ocean Mail Steamers,
■Quebec and via Baltimore.
P. O. Box MS6.
i jahcs abbccx1x.
Arbuckle & Haynie,
COTTON FACTORS
AND
COMMISSION MERCHANTS.
U STRAND, GALVESTON. Liberal cash ad
vancee on Cotton, Hides, Wool, etc. Bagging
and Ties furnished to patrons at lowest cash
prices. auSO '76 d&Wfira
Lee, McBride & Co.,
cotton factors
AND
General Commission Merchants
(Hendley Building,)
BTRAND, GALVESTON, TF5A3.
ao3 TO dAWlr
W. X. H alpine,
Galveston.
jas. baldrirftk,
Washington Co.
jyjoALPINE & BALDRIDGE,
COTTON FACTORS
AND
COMMISSION MERCHANTS,
HENDLEY BUILDING, STRAND,
my!2 76 d&W10m Galveston. Texas.
chas. u. waters. c. m. desel.
Chas.M. Waters & Co.,
Prodnce and Merchandise Brokers;
ALSO DEALERS IN
| HAT, CORN, OATS, RRAN, ETC.,
WHOLESALE AIND RETAIL,
S STRAND 8
^^"Correspondence solicited. sei lJm
Galveston Cards.
alfred c. g ass la.
o. p. htoford.
Alfred C.Garsia&Co.
PRODUCE
COMMISSION MERCHANTS,
Nos. 112 aud 114 Strand.
Liberal advances made on consignments of
WHEAT, COEN, OATS & HAT
Bceon, Lard, Sngrar and Molasses.
Potatoes, Onions, Bntter and
Eggs and all Texas and
WESTERN PRODUCTS.
Consignment* and Correspondence
Solicited.
Always on hand, FRESH BEAN and SHORTS
GENERAL AGENTS FOR
G A I, VEST ON
jaie ly
MILLS COMPANY.
X. S. FLETCHER.
X. E. CRAWFORD.
via
Fletcher & Crawford,
poLntBin^fcuTOpeI Real Estate Agents & Brokers
loon accommodations unexcelled. Shortest I „ . „ , „ , ,,
Sea Route—Superior Ships—Experienced Offl- I Conveyancers & Notary PnbliC.
cers—Disciplined Crews—Safety the Govern-
ing Rule. Three weekly sailings each way.
Emigrant and 8teerage Passage, the very beet
all rei " ' ' "
respects, through to New Orleans, Ala-
bama and Texas, at lower rates than by any
other line.
Through tickets te any point in Europe, all
classes excursion tickets at reduced rates.
Prepaid emigrant tickets from any place la
the Old Country.
Sight draft from (6 up on any city In Eu-
rope, Great Britain or Ireland.
Sovereigns, Francs, Marks and Guilders.
For circulars and other Information, ticket!
or staterooms, apply to
A. E. MILLER ft CO.,
SB Carondelet street. New Orleans.
Or STARR 8. JONES,
Ticket Agent, 116 Tremont street,
Galveston.
N. B.—Tickets, drafts, coins, sold at very
lowest rates. Saloon, second cabin, steerage I
passengers will find it advantageous to make <
mumamta «t Dili ol'av fa2T dAW I9n>
General merchandise.
ON HAND AND CONSTANTLY
RECEIVING.
eo bbls. WHITE BEANS.
3* bbls. GREEN PEAS.
71 bbls. CHOICE DRIED APPLES.
St boxes SALT BELLIES.
!» boxes BREAKFAST BACON.
And a full line of Confectionery, Fruits, Li-
quors, Tobacco and Cigars, for sale at close
prices, by
G. SEELIGSON ft CO.,
no28tf 161. 164 and 166 8trand.
Having a complete set of
ARSTRACT ROOKS
of the Land Titles of Galveston county, we
are prepared to furnish ABSTRACTS OF TI-
TLE to any Lot or Block in the city of Galves
ton. Island Lot, or lands in Galveston county,
at short notice and reasonable charges,
omcx:
Moody & Jemison Building1,
no5 6m fialveston, Texas.
ALBERT SOHERVILLE. WATERS S. DAVIS.
SOMERYILLE & DAYIS,
PATENTEES OF THE
DAVIS HOOK TIES,
The Best and Easiest Adjusted Tie now in use.
And Importers and Dealers in all kinds of
COTTON TIES AND DOMESTIC JUTE BAG
GING.
Strand, Oalrttton, Texas.
feM7Sttm
TURNLEY & BRQ.,
Commission Merchants,
GALTESTOS,
Desire to Inform consiprnorg of State pro-
ducts to this market that they hare leased
and removed to the commodious three-story
brick buildings situated on the Strand, corner
of Bath avenue.
Henceforth All Consignments of
Cotton, Wool, Hides, etc.,
WILL BE STORED
Under the personal superintendence of one of
the partners in this,
THEIR OWN WAREHOUSE.
Havinsr their office and warsrooms thus con-
nected, they can promise shippers that thefr
consignments will be promptly eared for oa
arrival and not suffered to Ik on the
wharves or at the raMroad depot. Charges
will be low. Consignments solicited, and
a faithful discharge of all the obligations
of a commission meachant is promised %o oon-
siarnors of State products. de# 8m
DRAYAGE and STORAGE
II. P. SARGENT & CO.,
GENERAL TRANSFER AGENTS
A>D WAHEHOiMiMhN,
are prepared to transfer or store all kinds of
light and heavy merchandise. Moving of
Boilers, Engines, Safes and heavy machinery
a specialty. Office and Warehouses—*>»4, 36tL
268, 270, 272 East Strand, between li»th ana
20th streets. Orders left with N. H. Bicker,
14 Strand, will receive prompt attention.
nnQ Srr
Machlnery-CastiBS*.
pOK SALE FOE SALE.
A Forty-eight-inch
Steaia Cylinder Tyler Cotton
Compress,
Complete in all of its parts and connection*.
In first-rate working order. Will be sold
cheap. For information, address
SOUTHERN COTTON PRESS & MAN'G CO.
A. P. Lcfkin, Agent.
Galveston. Jan. 27. 1876. iaJ® tf
WINTER WALKER.
....JAS. P. EVAN&
de!5 2m
WINTER WALKER & CO.,
COMMISSION MERCHANTS,
CHEAP TINWARE. I For the Sale of All Kinds of
hardware and other goods i _ , .
Just Received: Large Dish Pans, T5c.; 4 quart 1 Texas and Western PrOQUCtS.
Pans, 20c.; Soup Ladles, Skimmers, Strainers.
Forks, Scoops. Stove Pokers, enly 15c.; Large
Stew and Sauee Pans, 10c.; Granite Diah Pans.
Correspondence solicited.
jy29 6m
$1 93; Cake and Pudding, 35 to 40c.: good
Saw, fl; Hatchet 50c.; Kitchen Knife, 50c.;
Brooms. 25c.; all kinds of Brushes, Rosewood,
Maple, Apple, Brass and Metal Faucets, same
Eutinfor95c. extra; Cotton Clothes Line;
ittle Glue Pots *c., mend anything aad last-
ing; Twines, Iron, Tin and Copper Tacks,
Hinges, Nails, Butts, Screws, Bolts, Fi'es, Car-
penter's Tools, Padlocks, Dog Collars and
Ch« —
lalns. Flower Stands, Bird Brackets, Twine
Holders, Cuspadores, Baskets, Wheelbarrows,
Toasting Forks, Oyster Knives and Skewers,
CENTRAL ROUTE
Hons ton & Texas Central
RAILWAY,
Ar.i Connection, offer the Beet Eon tea from
the
O^lf of M^zleo
TO AT.T. POINTS IN
The North, East and West
Tills la tbe Only Line in Texas
that bas a Uniform Gauge and
raak.es Uninterrupted Connection In
St. Louis with all tbe Great Trunk
Lines Nortb, East and West.
PASSENGERS HAVE CHOICE OF BOOTES
Via St. Louis, Hannibal, Chicago, Fort
Scott and Kansas City.
nllman Palace Drawing-Boom and
Sleeping Cars
Bun through from HOUSTON to ST. LOUIB
WITHOUT CHANGE, making connection
with the fast trains of lines from St. Louis fo
Chicago and all points East.
TICKETS can be procured and BAGGAGI
CHECKED TO *t.t. PROMINENT POINTS In
the United States and Canada.
On and after SUNDAY, Nov. fS, trains for
St. Louis leave daily, except Saturdays, and
arrive daily, except Mondays, as follows:
St. Louis Express
Leaves Galveston 2.SO p. m., Houston 5.TO P. K.
Arrives at Houston 9 A.M.. Galveston 1 P. M.
Leaves daily except Saturday.
Arnves daily except Monday.
Tickets for sale via this line
AT UNION DEPOT OFFICE,
Foot of Tremont Street,
GALVESTON. J. H. MTT.T.ER, Agent.
F. L. MANCHESTER, Southern Passenger
;ent, Houston, Texas.
GenL J. B. ROBERTSON, Eastern Passenger
Agent, 113 N. Third street, St. Louis, Mo.
J. DURAND,
General Superintendent, Houston.
J. WALDO, Genl. Frt. &. Pass. Agt., Houston.
fe25T6 d£W IT
G
ALVESTON AND NEW YORK
Regular TTeckly Steamskip Line,
Consisting of the
fo'-lovring nr>med
steamers:
STATE OF TEXAS Capt. Nlckerson
CITY OF SAN ANTONIO... " Pennington.
BIO GRANDE " Bolger.
CITY OF HOUSTON " Eldridge.
FREIGHT and INSURANCE at LOWEST
RATES.
One of the above named steamships will
leave New York every 8ATUBDAY, and Gal-
veston for New York every SATURDAY, and
on WEDNESDAY when the trade requires.
Steamship STATE OF TEXAS,
KICKERSON. Master.
Will Sail for New York on
Saturday, February 17, 1877,
For freight or passage apply to
J. N. SAWYER, Agent,
54 Strand, Galveston.
O. H. KALLOBY ft CO., Agents,
158 Maiden Lane. New York.
mhl4 TB ly
j^JORGAN LINE NEW IRON
STEAMERS
For Xew
Leave Every
THUBSDAY,
and composed of
the following chips, viz:
8. S. LONE STAB.
S. 6. NEW YORK Capt. Quick.
8. 8. ALGIERS Capt. Hawthore.
S. 8. MORGAN CITY Capt. Beid.
Through btlli ef ladisg to New York, Provi-
dence, Fall River, Boston, Philadelphia, ate.,
and low sates of Freight and Insurance can be
effected at this offloe. CHAS. FOWLER,
Agent, Central Wharf.
SAN,; '
.Capt. Forbes.
,T ft MOBG.
Pier 86 North Biver. auia'76 ly
Pocket Cutlery, Bope, Anchors, Tar, Pitch,
Turpentine, Rosin, Beeswax, Needles. Canvas,
Blocks. Oars, Row-Locks, Oakum, Red, Green,
White, Black, Yellow, Brown, Lead, and Blue
Paint, Oils, Lanterns. For sale cheap.
apis lite joa LADAnrR
A. Baldinger & Son,
Dealers In
OH I2M-A-,
Plain, Gilt and Decorated.
Pressed, Cut, Engraved and Bohemian,
AND
E ARTH EN WARE,
White Granite, Semi-Porcelaine.
ALSO
LAMPS. BRACKETS, CHANDELIERS, WOOD
AND WILLOW-WARE. TOYS. CHIL-
DREN'S CARRIAGES. VELO-
CIPEDES. ET€.. ETC.
Cor. of mechanic and 12d Streets,
GALVESTON. fell lm
1877
WHOLESALE
DEPOT
1877
G. H. Mensing & 3ro.,
Cotton Factors
AJTD
General Commission Merchants,
Office: Cor. Strand Sc Center streets,
aul9 '76 ly GALVESTON. TEXAS.
"yy OLSTON, WELLS & VIDOR.
Cotton Factors,
COMMISSION AND FOKITARDINS
Meroliants,
T3 Strand, League's Building,
GALVESTON, TEXAS.
au4 '76 ly
b. x. bores. s. h. bores.
Boren, McKellar & Co.,
COTTON FACTORS
and general
COMMISSION MERCHANTS,
212 Strand, Galveston, Texas.
Contracts for future delivery of Cotton in
New Yoik negotiated on favorable terms.
sel 6m
J. H. BURNETT & CO.,
COTTON FACTORS
akd
COMMISSION MERCHANTS,
Strand, Galveston, Texas.
seS 6m
BAXTER ENGINES.
III.AKI1S' STEAM PUMPS.
RITES'STEAM INJECTOR.
Prices Greatly Rcdused.
Can be seen in operation at
ii. hiissc 11 & co.'s
MINERAL WATER Adoue & Lobi'.
CARTER & BRO.
No. 71 Mechanic St., GALVESTON
aeral Agents for Galveston, Houston,
New Orleans and Coast Towns for
Cardwell's Soar Mineral Springs I
and Well Water,
From Lollie, Caldwell Co., Texas.
The above celebrated Sour Mineral Water is |
transported by express, in eealsd packages,
and is warranted genuine.
For sale by the demijohn, keg, half barrel,
or barrel, by
CASTER <V BRU.,
Mechanic street, GALVESTON
and E. J. HART Jc CO..
felO lm NEW ORLEANS.
Special Notices.
Consumptives Take Notice.—Every
moment of delay makes your cure more hope
less, and much depends on the judicious I
choice of a remedy. The amount of testimony
in favor of Dr. Schenck's Pulmonic Syrup, as
a cure for consumption, far exceeds all that
can be brought to support the pretensions of j
any other medicine. See Dr. Schenck's Alma-
nac, containing the certificates of many per-
sons of the highest respectability, who have
been restored to health, after being pro-
nounced incurable by physicians of acknowl- |
edged ability. Schenck's Pulmonic Syrup
alone has cured many, as these evidences will
show; but the cure is often promoted by the
the employment of two other remedies which
Dr. Schenck provides for the purpose. These
additional remedies are Scheck's Sea Weed
Tonic and Mandrake Pills. By the timely use
of these medicines, according to directions,
Dr. Schenck certifies that most any case of
consumption may be cured.
Dr. Schenck is professionally at his principal
ofdoe, cor. Sixth and Arch sts., Philadelphia,
every Monday, where all letters for advice
must be addressed. feSthusat&tu
Educational.
CHAPPELL IIILL
FEMALE COLLEGE.
CHAPPELL HILL, TEXAS,
REV. E. D. PITTS, D.D., President.
Spring Term begins January 1 and ends June
30, 1877. ,. |
Experienced Teacher®, excellent appliances j
for instruction. Moderate charges. Normal
°<J^?!rfei^^in1Jthe President's house, and
Tuition and Music for the Spring Term, is |
$1|£ard ean be had in private families. Each j
boarder furnishes her own towels, sheets, pU- |
low cases, blankets, toilet soap, and napkin
_ Bills payable at time of entrance,
e deduction from bills, except for pro-
tracted absence, produced by strictly Provi-
dential dau^A. jail d&W&n
Bankers and Commission Merchants
Buy and Sell Exchange cn
PARIS, LONDON & LIVERPOOL.
STRAND, GALVESTON, TEXAS.
aul3'76 ly
john d. rogers.
j. a. robertson.
John D. Rogers & Co.,
COTTON PACTORS
ADD
General Commission Merchants,
Insurance Building,
No. 61 Strand, Galveston, Texas.
apl0'76 ly
c. c. dibrkll.
john c. hodgss, ^2
Dibrell & Hodges,
COTTON FACTORS
AKD
COMMISSION BIERCHANT8,
Corner Strand and Center Streets,
fel2'76 ly GALVESTON.
^ H. RICKKR,
STORAGE Pid COMMISSION MEE
CHANT
AND
Dealer in Western Produce,
68 STRAND,
(NEXT DO OB TO B.E. DAVIS * EEO.)
aul T6 ly
Gr.
B. MILLEK & CO.,
General Commission Merchants,
akd aqkkts fob
Proetor & Gamble's
Soap and Candles
Full stook constantly on hand, for sale low
to the trade. del"
w. laml(kks. theo. o. vogel.
LAMMERS & VOGEL,
COTTON FACTORS
AKD
COMMISSION MERCHANTS,
Wo. 165 Stroud, CtlTCiton.
anS9 6m
CbOo.
EZAIXRS »
Italian and
American
MARBLE,
Wholesale and Eo.tai.
GalTCStOR, tsts >
Drawsr tJ; P Q.
Brinly's, Avery's
AND
SOUTHERN CLIPPERS
H. H1BSCH & CO.
fe!3 tf
TREMONT STREET,
Opposite Washington Hotel.
SAliESROOM
OF IMPROVED
Plantation Machinery!
No. 53 Strand, Galveston.
PEICESS REDUCED!
THE GULLET T IMPROVED GIN vill la
future be sold at §4 per Saw.
THE GULLETT IMPROVED GIN FEEDER
at $1 tS per Saw.
SETT OF IRONS FOR BROOKS'S IM-
PROVED COTTON PRESS, $lbS.
SETT OF IRONS FOR BROOKS'S IM-
PROVED COTTON PREbS AND COTloN
BOX, $000.
All Itlaclifnery Sold at Jlanafae-
turero' Prices.
fell d&W3m JNO. W. WICKS & SON.
E. S, WOOD & SON,
121, 122, 123 Slrand.
Bali and Spcir, Cast, Wrought
and Steel
Trace Chains, Collars, Hames,
BLIND BRIDLES, HOES, AXES.
NAILS, IRON AND STEEL,
And a full line of
SHEL.F HARDWARE.
Orders from tbe Country vrltl be
Promptly andCarefnlly Excented.
H. HIRSCH & CO.,
GALYESTOX,
Agents for the
Baxter, Koadley, Payne & Sons and
Godwin
STEAM ENGINES
FAUGHT'S PATENT
Horso Powers
Stranb's and Nonpareil Mills,
Corn and Cob Crnshers,
Suirar Mills and Evaporators,
Blake's Patent Steam Pumps.
RICE'S "LITTLE GIANT" STEAM INJEC-
TOR: BRINLY UNIVERSAL PLOW;;
BLACK HAWK CULTIVATORS;
CORN AND COTON PLANT-
ERS, McNEALE £
URBAN
FIRE-PROOF SAFES;
Milburn Wagons, Iron Railing, Belting, etc.
tST-SEXI) FOR CATALOGUE.
jyfl 9m th sa tu
SUGAR & SORGO MILLS
COOK. EViPES VTORS,
EAGLE COTTOX GIXS,
HART'S AND OTHER E1IPROVED
COTTON PRESSES!
Straub Corn and Flouring Mills,
AMES PORTABLE ENGINES
Asbestos Boiler Covering,
Complete Cotton Cleaner,
and all kinds Farm and Factory Machinery
and Fittings, Belting, Brass "Work, etc., etc.
Send in early orders and get advantage of
present low rates ef freight.
W. L. CIAHKG & MOORE
Noa. ITiSmd III sr.rand,
fc'epis'7513ta QALVES1CN.
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