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Friday, March 20, 1875.
Fisom a Washington dispatch, dated
the 23d instant, we perceive that the
President has recognized Julius Runge,
consul of the German Empire, at Gal-
veston, Texas.
It is stated that the failure of Ex-
President Johnson to make his ex-
pected speech on the Louisiana ques-
tion was owine; to the sickness of his
wife and his own had health.
A St. liouln Journal on Texas.
During the present discussion of the
proposed reorganization of the govern-
ment of Texas, it might be well to con-
sider whether the old machinery for
conducting our public affairs might
not be dispensed with entirely, and
the business turned over to the
St. Louis papers, which find time,
amid the work of removing the Fede-
ral Capital to that city, and the oner-
ous labors of carrying on the affairs of
the nation, to devote a good deal of
attention to this new State, and in-
struct our people and authori-
ties in their duties and la-
bors — the things they should
do and those things they ought
not to have done. Occasionally Texas,
like a wayward boy, whose education
and manners have not kept pace with
his bodily growth, receives a sharp
reprimand and a long lecture from one
of these amateur mentors. The best
specimen of this superserviceable labor
of love comes to hand in the Globe of
Sunday, and is a very fair specimen of
St. Louis Sunday reading. The oiTtmse
which calls forth this homily of a col-
umn is the fact that the Legislature of
Texas did not make a large appropria-
tion for the benefit of the Philadelphia
fair, which does not come off until next
year. The patriotic fire of the Globe
is fanned into a flame because Texas
does not endeavor to procure another
loan of a few hundred thousand dol-
lars to be invested in Chinese fire-
crackers and other pyrotechnic proper-
ty, for the celebration of the hundredth
anniversary of the Declaration of Inde-
pendence and the benefit of the local
trade of Philadelphia. The patriotic
and pious wrath of the Globe is almost
equal to a cheap exhibition of fire-
works, such as that which attended
the inauguration of the St. Louis
bridge, and for which the city was
sued. The Globe indignates in the
words and figures which follow, among
much more to the same purpose:
We must confess our utter inability to
understand the supiDeneas which can
tolerate this discreditable and silly pout-
ing at a time of national rejoicing. The
State of Texas has done even worse than
the State of Missouri. There the propo-
sition to provide for an adequate and
suitable representation was brought be-
fore the Legislature, and to its lasting
discredit the State of Texas declared that
it bad neither part nor lot In the celebra-
tion of the hundredth anniversary of our
national birth. Yet the people of Texas
are exceptionally fond of boasting of
their own enterprise, of the wonderful
growth and manifest merits of the State;
they point to incoming trains of immi-
grants, to Aladdin cities springing up in
a night, to one of the world's sea ports
daily rising into recognition, to wealth
of soil, to crops of cotton, herds of cattle,
and to varied and ceaseless forms of in-"
dustry, as rich, as busy and as marvel-
ous as greeted the eyes of iEaeas when
his wandering bark cast anchor in sight
of the rising city of Queen Dido. Those
who have heard this lusty horn-blowing
of the average Texan will eagerly scruti-
nize the whole vast area of the Exposi-
tion to see what there is to show for ail
this bounteous self-assertion, and finding
merely a sign-post wi ll the inscription,
"Texas—Nix," will thereafter thrust their
tongues in their cheeks when the mar-
velous resources of Texas are mentioned.
Of course, if the people of Texas think
that their best interests are served by an
unworthy sulking in the presence of the
whole world, no one has any authority to
prevent them. Against stupidity even
the gods contend in vain, and we leave
the vaunting Texans to the enjoyment of
the obscurity they have so unaccountably
chosen.
That is, as a la ly used to say when
she intended to let people severely
alone, "leave them to their own de
struction." Let us hope that Texas
will survive her own fault and the
wrath of her censor, and continue
when even
Th ' trreat Glohe itself
Shall dissolve, and like the fabric of a vision
Leave not a wreck behind."
Tiik trial of the Grant parish pris-
oners by the Superior United States
Court will soon take place, by which
the constitutionality ot the Kuklux or
Enforcement law will be tested. It is
said to be the prevailing opinion that
Judge Bradley will be sustained by the
majority of the court, in which case
the Enforcement act will cease to have
force in all the States which have laws
for the punishment of the offenses un-
der that act.
We notice that in some counties of
Georgia corn is selling at $1 50 per
bushel, and though the farmers have
sold their cotton they have not got
money enough for it to pay for their
corn and.other products they might
have raised. And they now have to
buy corn on a credit at the above price,
and many of them will probably again
try to make cotton to pay themselves
out of debt for corn. Wonder how
many of jur Texas farmers are pursu-
ing that policy ? One good farm hand
in Texas could make say five bales of
cotton, but could make five hundred
bushels of corn with about half the
labor. The five bales of cotton
will now sell for say $350 at the out-
side, and this will buy 350 bushels of
corn at $1 per bushel, or 233 bushels
at $1 50 per bushel, the present price
in Georgia. By making cotton to buy
corn he therefore loses 150 bushels of
corn at one price, and 2G7 bushels at
the present price in Georgia. But he
also loses the corn fodder and all the
extra labor required on the cotton.
The Tehuantepec ltailway scheme is
again on the tapis. The Congress of
Mexico, at its last session, granted to a
company ot citizens of the United
States, a concession and subsidy for
the purpose of encouraging the work.
The company has its principal office at
New York, and is said to be preparing
to commence work the present vear.
This is not the shortest route between
the oceans, but it has advantages which
other routes do not present, particu
larly as regards the commerce of the
United States and the northern nations
of Europe.
As the Railroad Gazette remarks,
people have rather vague ideas of the
Isthmus connecting North and South
America. The Gulf of Mexico re-
duces the distance between tlie Atlan-
tic and Pacific oceans in North Amer-
ica from 1750 to 050 miles—the last
named number being the distance from
the mouth of the Rio Grande to the
Gulf of California. At Vera Cruz this
distance is reduced to 225 miles. One
hundred and fifty miles further down
the Gulf coast the distance is only 130
miles. This is at the point known as
the Isthmus of Tehuantepec. This
point is a thousand miles nearer our
own coast and ports than the Isthmus
of Panama, and accessible through
the Gulf of Mexico without entering the
Atlantic. It is in a line almost due
south of Galveston, and not over seven
hundred miles distant. It shortens
the routo between oceans greatly as
compared with that via Panama, and
if the work cau be accomplished at a
cost within the estimates of the engi-
neers, seven and a half millions of dol-
lars, it may prove a profitable under-
taking. The Mexioan government gives
the company the right to import all
materials entering into construction
and for working the road free of duty,
and to pay the company at the rate of
$12,000 per mile in paper, which will
be the sole legal tender for one-half of
all duties collected at the ports at the
termini of the road.
tiraut Itcwurdliii; III* Supporter*,
A Washington dispatch announces
on the 17th instant that Grant had
nominated for office nine Congressmen
who had voted for the Third Term or
Force bill, but who failed to be re
elected by the people to the next Con-
gress. Grant has thirty more Congress
men on his slate to be rewarded for
their subserviency. The dispatch
further says:
The removal of some of the most ef-
ficient heads of bureaus in the depart
ments here is contemplated to make room
for these hungry members, who have
neither hom<-s nor constituencies to go to,
The bogus Governor Brooks, of Arkansas
the leader of the lately attempted revolu
tion to overthrow the lawful government
of Arkansas, has been nominated as
Postmaster at Little Rock.
Synopsis of the Opinions
of1 the
Sl'PKEME COURT OF TEXAS.
Delivered at Oalveaton Term, 1875.
reported by sayles & bas8ett.
Jons H. Burnett, intervener, vs. E. M. Col-
lins, executrix, and W. D. Williams. Er-
ror from Houston. March 23, 1875.
WHEN FKAUD IS ESTABLISHED, JUDG-
MENT BY DEFAULT, THOUGH AF-
FIRMED IN THE SUPREME COURT,
WILL BE SET ASIDE.
Burnett took judgment by default
against F. P. Collins, appellee's testator,
as assignor, and Williams as maker of a
note. The judgment was affirmed on
appeal in the Supreme Court. In the
meantime the courthouse in Houston
county was burned, and with it the papers
in this suit, and thereupon Burnett
brought an action in the nature of a ncriri
facia* to revive the judgment by default.
Appellee, Collins, pleaded as a defense the
; udgment, and why it should not be re-
vived as to her; that F. P. Collins never
indorsed the note, was never served with
process, and had no notice of the suit,
but that Burnett fraudulently caused it
to appear upon the record that service
had been made, and in this suit she recov
ered judgment against Burnett for $100,
based upon a charge of vexatious litiga-
tion, cost of attorney's fees, etc.
The court say:
1. Such facts as stated in appellee Col-
lins's answer might well have been re-
garded in the District Court as a cross
bill in equity to set aside a judgment by
default as between the same parties. If
the fraud had been established, she could
have put in issus F. P. Collins's liability
upon the alleged indorsement of the note.
Freeman on judgments, 495 and 498,
McCoy vs. Crawford, 9 T., 356 ; McFad
den vs. Lockhart, 7 T., 57G, and other
authorities.]
2. The affirmance of the judgment by
default by the Supreme Court, did not
preclude such an equitable defense from
being set up in scriri facias proceedings
to revive the judgment. [Wilson vs.
Montgomery, 14 Sm. and Mar., Tenn.
205.]
3. To make the defense available the
jury should have found not only that
Collins had no notice of the suit, but that
he did not indorse the note.
4. The jury having found that Collins
had no notice of the suit, but that he in-
dorsed the note, it would be a useless
proceeding to set aside the judgment by
default, as the principles of equity juris-
prudence would have required another
j udgment to be rendered upon such valid
liability, the parties being already in
court litigating the matter. [Taggart vs.
Wood, 20 Iowa, 236.]
5. But the judgment as here presented
must be reversed because of the error in
giving E. M. Collins $100 damages for
expenses in attorney's fees and harrass-
ment in litigating the matter.
Judgment reversed and cause re-
manded.
0. M. Rober s, Chief Justice.
Mark Miller and J. H. Burnett vs. L. D.
Hays. Appeal from Houston. .march ~'i:
1875.
MANDAMUS.
In June, 1867, Hays made application
to the County Surveyor for a file upon
and survey of the land in controversy,
claiming it as a pre-emption under the
act of November 12, 1866. The applica
tion was rejected by the Surveyor, on the
ground that the land had been located
previous to the act of November 13, 1866.
It was shown on the trial that Burnett
had filed on the same land ia July or
August, 1866, and that his survey was
made on the 1st day of November there-
after, and patented on the 9th day of Au
gust, 1869.
The only judgment rendered by the
court was to award the peremptory man
damus directing the surveyor to survey
for Hays the land described in his pe-
tition.
The court say :
1. The act of November 12th, 1866,
in so far as it could be construed
as giving to Hays the right to
survey of the land after it had been
appropriated by Burnett, would cbange
the legal position of the parties, and give
to Hays a remedy which he did not
possess previously, and would violate the
constitution as a retroactive law.
2. Mandamus could not under any cir-
cumstances have been granted befoie
Buruett's patent was cancelled by decree
of the court.
Judgment reveised and cause
manded.
Reeves, Justice.
Ap-
ER-
A Terrible Combat.
a pexnslyvania farmer vanquished
and shockingly lacerated by an
army of rats.
[From the Carlisle (Pa.) Herald ]
Mr. Jesse Laverty, of East Penns-
boro', living near Booser's Mill, was
lately very much annoyed by rats,
which carried off his eggs and made
sad work with his corn in his crib,
and then invaded his granary and com-
menced destroying a bin of wheat. Mr.
L., on examination, found there was
but one place where they got in. He
thereupon resolved to kill the rats by
an artifice well worthy of the cause.
He strewed corn meal liberally on the
floor of the granary, and about one
hour later he nailed the hole shut; he
then called his dog (a Spanish terrier,)
and, armed with a club, went forth to
battle.
Now the door of the granary is fast-
ened with a long wooden latch extend-
ing full across the door, and can only
be opened from the outside, and Mr.
L., on entering the granary, drew the
door shut and heard the latch fall. He
then thought the enemy was his, but
this was an error, for the rats were
more numerous than he expected, and
finding no way of escape, attacked
both Mr. L. and his dog with great
fury. Mr. L. laid on his blows hard
and fast, and one blow, aimed at a
rat, unfortunately hit the dog on the
head and killed him.
Mr. L. being thus deprived of his
faithful ally, would have fled but could
not. He then commenced calling for
help, the rats meanwhile kept skir-
mishing around his legs, ran up his
body, bit his hands, and one bolder
than the rest bit his nose. It is im-
possible to say what the result of this
unequal contest would have been, had
not a passing neighbor, attracted by
the noise and cries, gone to the relief
of Mr. L., who presented a shocking
spectacle, his face and hands bloody,
and his clothes torn into shreds.
Mr. L. being washed and rehabilita-
ted, sat down to reflect, when he luck-
ily hit upon a better plan of warfare.
He went a"d borrowed twelve cats,
which, with his own, made fifteen;
these he in the evening shut up in the
granary with the rats, and the next
morning he found, on examination ten
dead cats, one blind one, and two with
one eye apiece. The remaining two
were unhurt, and by actual count he
found one hundred and nineteen dead
rats; of the dead dog there was noth-
ing left but the bones and the hair,
the rats doubtless having eaten him
while Mr. L. was hunting cats.
Mexico.
The Two Republics of Mexico, of the
12th instant, has the following:
A few days ago a dispute arose be-
tween Gen. Aureliano Rivera and Col.
Abraham Diaz, the commander of the
castle of Chapultepec. Both gentle-
men becoming very much excited, it
was determined to settle the affair
with arms. After Col. Diaz (who was
at the beginning unarmed) had armed
himself, the combatants met and
fought, the result being that Gen. Ri
vera received three wounds, which, it
is feared, will prove mortal, Col. Diaz
escaping with a mere scratch on one of
his hands. It is stated that Gen. Ri
vera's pistol missed fire three times.
A bank is to be established in
Merida.
Small-pox is raging in the most vir-
ulent form in Yucatan.
The law prohibiting the carrying of
concealed weapons is at present strict-
ly enforced.
A street railroad is to be constructed
in Mazatlan.
In Villaldama Nuevo Leon, a silver
mine abandoned by the Spaniards at
the time of their expulsion, has been
reopened and found to be very rich.
The prefect of one of the districts
of Jalisco remonstrated with Bishop
Moreno on the style of his hat, saying
that it would cause a social disturb
ance, as it was an infringement of the
laws of reform.
J. R. Raby, Sheriff of Coryell county,
who has been charged with resisting a
deputy marshal of the United States,
iu relation to the custody of certain
parties arrested for counterfeiting, has
gone to Waco and surrendered himself
to a United States Commissioner, with
a demand to have the matter investi-
gated. He says, in a card in the Ex
aminer, that he arrested the parties
himself; they were never in the cus
tody of the Deputy Marshal; but that
the latter demanded the prisoners after
their arrest, and Raby refused to give
them up because no authority was ex-
hibited for their arrest by the Deputy
Marshal, and then says:
The next morning between daylight
and sunrise Holland (the Deputy Mar
Hhal) entered my bedroom with a pistol in
his hand, and demanded the prisoners. I
was much exasperated at his conduct,
and reaching for my pistol, told him if
he did not leave my hnuse, I would shoot
him. He ran from my house to the hotel
and I saw nothing more of him, although
I immediately went up into town.
I was afterwards informed that he had
a letter from Judge Evans, the United
States District Attorney, for me. He
never at any time told me he had a war
rant for the prisoners from a United
States Commissioner, or a letter from
Judge Evans.
If he had come to me as a gentleman,
an honorable officer, 1 would have either
surrendered them to him, or have gone
with him and the prisoners to Waco, as I
had, also, proposed to him to do. I think
I had a right to drive him from my
house as I did do, because of his manner
of entering it.
I have it directly from the mouth of
Marshal Purnell, that this deputy has
heretofore been discharged by him for
bad conduct and unreliability, and was
reinstated upon promise of better conduct
in the future.
The excursion of Senator Cameron
and others, to Mexico, affords a fine
field for the speculations of the press.
The New York Mercury's Washington
correspondent says that it has for its
object the annexation, by purchase, to
the Lnited States of the northern
States of that Republic:
The Mexican authorities are under-
stood to have already acquiesced in the
transfer, the terms of which are yet to
be settled. The territory proposed to be
annexed is all that part of Mexico lying
north of the Rio Rapido and the Rio
Grande de Santiago, and comprises the
States of Sonora, Chihuahua, Coahuila,
Xueva Leon, Sinoloa, Durango and Zaca
tecas, and one-half of Tamaulipas, one-
third of Jalisco, a small portion of San
Luis Potosi, and the territory of Lower
California—altogether about 438,000
square miles of territory arid over 1,500,-
000 population, of whom less than 500,-
000 are whites, and the rest Indians and
mixed. The boundary line will com-
mence at the mouth of the Rapid ), fol-
lowing that river to its source toward the
town of Pinos, in latitude 22.35, longi-
tude 101.70; thenee to the source of the
river Santiago, along that stream to its
mouth. The movement is understood to
have originated with the Mexican author-
ities, who desire to see this sparsely set-
tled country placed under a power pos-
sessing tnt-ans of enforcing order among
its population, aud of inviting emigra-
gration thither.
It is needless to say that this story
lacks confirmation.
Charles Shkphard vs. State op Texas.
peal from Harris. March 23,1875.
INDICTMENT FOR BURGLARY; NOT
ROR TO CHARGE THEFT ALSO.
Appellant was convicted of burglary,
The court say :J
1. It is not error in an indictment for
burglary to charge theft also; the theft
is included as one of the degree? of bur-
glary.
2. In an indictment for burglary the
jury may acquit of the burglary and con-
vict of the larceny, but can not convict of
both as two distinct offenses. [West vs.
State, 35 T., 91; Wilcox vs. State, 31 T.,
587 ]
J udgment affirmed.
Devine, Justice.
Mary Sylvester vs. The 4}tate op Texas.
Appeal from Galveston. March 23, 1875.
DISORDERLEY HOUSE—EVIDENCE AD-
MISSIBLE TO SHOW GENERAL REPU-
TATION.
Held:
1. Evidence is admissible to show the
general reputation of a house for the
purpose of establishing its character as
a bouse of prostitution.
[Morris vs. State 38 T., 603.]
2. A house of prostitution, no matter
how quietly and peaceably it may be
kept, is within the meaning of the law a
disorderly house.
Judgment affirmed.
Gould, Justice.
E. Sherwood vs. The State op Texas. Ap-
peal from Galveston. March 2-3, 1875.
CRIMINAL PROCEDURE.
It appears by bill of exceptions that at
the request of defendant all of the wit-
nesses were placed under the rule. After
they had all been examined the District
Attorney sent for a witness who had not
been in court, and the judge permitted
him to introduce this witness, although
he had not been sworn and placed under
the rule.
The court say :
The admissibility of a witness who has
violated the rule, or who has not been
placed under the rule, is a matter ad-
dressed to the sound discretion of the
court. [I Greenleaf, 432; 1 Bish. Cr. Pr.
518 ] It must be presumed until the con-
trary appears, that the discretion was
properly exercised.
J udgment affirmed.
Gould, Justice.
Fayette Davis vs. The State op Texas. Ap
peal from Milam. March 23, 1875.
CRIMINAL PROCEDURE. WHEN SPECIAL
PLEAS ARE SUBMITTED THE JURY
MUST FIND WHETHER THEY ARE TRUE
OR NOT.
Appellant was tried and convicted of
an assault with intent to murder. On the
trial he filed a special plea of a former
conviction and also pleaded " not guilty."
Both pleas were submitted to the jury at
the same time. The only error necessary
to notice, is that the jury found a verdict
of guilty on the plea of not guilty,
without any response to the special issue
of former conviction. The court say :
1. When there are special pleas, the
jury must say in their verdict whether
the matters alleged in such pleas are
true or not true. [P. D. 3091.]
2. It is not error to submit both pleas
at the same time. [P. D. 2972.]
Judgment reversed and cause re
manded.
Roberts, Chief Justice.
It is stated that Hon. Carl Schurz
will be in Dallas on the 7th of April,
and that his German friends there will
give him a public welcome. The Ger-
man citizens of Galveston should make
an effort to have the distinguished gen-
tleman visit the Island City. It would
afford all of our people a great pleas-
ure to honor the ex-Senator from Mis-
souri.
The largest cattle raiser in Texas is
said to be Mr. Samuel W. Allen, who has
a rancho eighty miles long by forty wide,
between the Nevada and Colorado rivers,
on which 226,000 cattle graze.—Detroit
Free Press.
The Corpus Christi Valley Times
says the above rancho is but a circum-
stance to some of the cattle ranchos of
Western Texas, which often number a
million in their herds.
The Civil Rights bill is quite as odi-
ous and leads to quite as many un-
pleasant incidents at the North as at
the South. The New York Herald
says:
The mischievous nature of the bill is
in its tendency to provoke and perpetu-
ate social prejudices, which, left to them
selves, might either die out entirely or
become considerably weakened in courBe
of time. Special legislation in such cases
can never be productive of good.
Wonderland.
ICineiijnati Times.]
It is not at all surprising that we
should hear wonderful tales of those
Black Hills. Until the late govern-
ment exploring trip they were a terra
incognita from out which flowed the
sparkling headwaters of the Cheyenne,
babbling of strange secrets, but in a
mysterious language that none could
interpret. Man is an imaginative crea-
ture, and loves to people all unex-
plored territories with the creations of
his brain, letting his fertile fancy run
riot in all manner of marvels and prod
igies that the evidence of the senses
has prohibited in lands better known
But with familiarity the wonders van
ish. Jove and ambrosial nectar were
banished from Olympus when once its
summit had been invaded; and the Si-
rens ceased to sing, and Scylla and
Charybdis to yawn, when once the
Mediterranean was open to traffic.
It has been the same with moderns
as with ancients. The Moskoe-strom,
off the coast of Norway, that dragged
ships and whales into its terrible vor
tex—that sent up a shriek to heaven
like the spirits of the damned—disap
peared with the exploration of the
Norwegian coast. The Upas tree, un
der whose deadly perfume man and
beast fell like stones to rise no more
has vanished with the sturdy tread of
the Eastern explorer. The winged men
of Central Africa, the golden-haired In
dians of North America, the Fountain
of Life in the Floridas, the winged drag
ons of the Valley of the Nile have one by
one passed from general belief into the
realm of romance and fairy tale,
Symmes's Hole alone remains to baffle
skepticism until the combined navies
of Germany, England and America
reaches the pole; but it must be remem-
bered that theories of Symmes's great
predecessor, Mercator, who mapped
the ocean as rushing, by four great
mouths, into the bowels of the earth
at the pole, have long since been rele
gated to the rubbish-house of exploded
fancies.
We are the more led to fancy that
the marvels of the Black Hills belong
in this same category because they
have once before played the part of
Wonderland to the inhabitants of this
country and the other.
Kennedy wrote in one of his works
as follows: ''One of the most re
markable natural curiosities in Texas
is a petrified forest, near the head of
the Pasigno river. It consists of sev-
eral hundred trees, in an erect position
all turned to stone. Some trees, now
growing, are partly petrified. This is
a startling fact for natural philoso
phers, and must cause them to modify
the existing theory of petrifaction.
This "startling fact" remained an
isolated marvel until, a short time af-
terward there appeared in a leading
European magazine the same quotation
above given, together with the follow
ing comments and additions:
"This account, at first discredited
has since been corroborated by the dis
covery of a completely petrified forest
in America,, near the headwaters of
the Cheyenne, or Chienna river, which
has its source in the Black Hills of the
Rocky chain." And further: "There
is scarcely, perhaps, a spectacle on the
surface of the globe more remarkable,
either in a geological or pictures^
point of view, than that presented 'by
the petrified forest near Cairo. The
traveler, having passed the town of
Caliphs," etc., with all the minuthe of
a guide-book. It is unnecessary to re-
mark that the petrified forests of Tex-
as, of the Black Hills and of Egypt
have long since followed the Moskoe-
strom and the Upas tree to the grave
of romance.
And now that the virgin soil—virgin
at least to white men—of the Black
Hills has been trodden by the Marco
Polos of General Custer's expedition,
there come to our enchanted eara mar-
velous tales of greenest valleys, where
velvety grass has its roots buried in the
gleaming gold; of silver mines with a
thousand dollars to the square foot; of
lead, tin and plumbago that lie scat-
tered about in exceeding richness; and
of all the fuel and water necessary for
manufacturing purposes. It may be;
it may be; but some way it smacks of
the Moskoe-strom and the petrified
forest—it sounds iike another Won-
derland.
State Tress.
The San Antonio Herald says that
the people of the West, and of the
frontier particularly, are under obliga-
tions of the weightiest character to
the Hon. John Hancock, for the addi-
tional appropriation by Congress of
58,000 to the completion of the Frocr
tier Telegraph, and also for the appro-
priation of $300,000 to remove Fort
Sill Indians. The proper expenditures
of these amounts will procure for the
frontier absolute immunity from Indian
raids, and with pleasure we bear wit-
ness to the efforts of Congressman
Hancock to this blessed consummation.
The petitions addressed to the Secre-
tary of Wf.r in reference to the speedy
erection of the military depot at San
Antonio, have been forwarded by Mr.
Hancock with the proper indorsements,
and we expect to hear at an early day
of favorable action being taken in the
premises.
The advantages of brick over wood
for building purposes are pretty well
set forth by a correspondent of the
Telegraph. lie says there are in Cor-
sicana, sheltered by brick buildings,
about $180,000 worth of merchandise,
which pays about $3000 insurance,
and perhaps as much more in wooden
buildings, on which insurance would
exceed $12,500. Thus, to keep in-
sured in a town like Corsicana a stock
to supply such a market, it would
cost, in wooden houses $25,000 per
annum, in brick houses less than $0000,
making a difference of $19,000 a year.
No town has any right to claim credit
for property until substantial stone or
brick store houses take the place of
wooden ones, for its people, when
prosperous, have it thrust upon them,
and negligently sap the resources ef
the country to pay necessary tribute
to distant insurance companies.
The Statesman says:
The late sale of $25,000 of State
bonds at ninety-two and a half cents
shows that Texas credit is rapidly ad-
vancing in New York.
W. D. Mima, an old Texas veteran,
succeeds D. C. Williams as editor of
the Tyler Reporter. He says:
I hope to be able to show that not-
withstanding the Democratic party has
control of the State, it is, to a ruinous
extent, still in the "bonds of inquity "
with Radicalism—that its present Con
stitution is based on the centralization
of Grantism; and that unless Texas is
put under the true, genuine and eco-
nomical principles of Democracy, her
ultimate fate will be—bahkruptcy.
The Rockdale Messenger thinks the
International Railroad compromise a
bad one for the State, censures the
Governor and Legislature, and says:
They have given away a territory as
large as New Hampshire, and exempted
it from taxation for twenty-five years.
The International Railroad or its as-
signs may locate this land wherever
they find it. They may pick out the
choicest pieces of our unclaimed terri
tory and build great towns, and we
certainly know from experience what
an influence a powerful railroad can
exert in the building up of new towns.
They may build great cities and manu-
factories, which under ordinary circum
stances would yield a large revenue to
the State Treasury. Still their terri-
tory is sacred. The foot of the tax-
gather can never enter the charmed
circle. The result is obvious. The
rest of the, people who have obtained
their little patches by hard labor and
ceaseless watching and waiting will be
compelled to pay the expense of u gov-
ernment for these other people who
were fortunate enough to get their
land from among that given away to
the International.
The next thing now is a new deal, a
Constitutional Convention, a new or-
ganic law and a new set of public of-
ficials from top to bottom. In the tu-
mult of a political revolution it is in-
variably the case, that a great many
small men coine to the top. The Legis-
lature was no great shakes. It was
hardly up to mediocrity. It was Dem-
ocratic only in name. They can hard-
ly claim to be Democrats who outrage
the fundamental principles of the Dem-
ocratic party as the Fourteenth Legis-
lature did in saddling the International
bill with all its blighting and loath-
some requirements upon the backs of
a helpless people.
The Waco Advance-Reporter plays
upon the same string, and asks " what
constitutional right has the Legisla-
ture to tax one man and exempt
another
The Fayette county Record speaks
thus of the Fourteenth Legislature:
The Fourteenth has had its day, and
has shown how little confidence the
people can place in the promises of
men who are anxious to secure seats
in our Legislature. Farewell, Four-
teenth ; we weep because we know the
treasury of the State is as dry as a
powder horn. You have got all there
was and can now retire to private life
with the consciousness that you have
received all the per diem you will ever
get.
The quarrel over the city printing at
Houston has run into poetry. The
Age got the chicken pie, and thus
crows over the Telegraph:
There was an old lady in Houston,
Who thought that her biz needed boostin',
So she struct for the printin',
And boldly she went in,
But too high was that fat bird a roostin'.
She vowed that her bid was the lowest,
And strongly slie urged, the ould blowist,
That her right was divine
To on chickea pie dine,
Since, being a hen, she was yet a crowist.
But the Council was not to be shaken
By the row the ould dame was a niafein',
So they said to the Age :
By a fair average
Your bid is the lowest—and taken.
State News.
bexar county.
Twelve pistols, confiscated during the
past two months, were sold at auction in
San Antonio on Tuesday. The law
against carrying concealed weapons is
enforced... .On the Monday, Tuesday
and Wednesday evenings after Easter
Sunday, entertainments of the most va-
ried and interesting nature will be given
for the benefit of the Episcopal Church,
at the Literary Hall. And Old Folks'
Concert and Mary Washington Tea Party
are among the features of the occasion.
cameron county.
A few days since another large drove
of cattle was crossed just above the Ro-
sario into Mexico. That place seems to
be one of the worst points on the river.
The people on the other side are in with
the thieves. They are on hand to protect
them when crossing cattle. They are
the same people who fired across the river
at a lieutenant and his man last April.
... .E. H. Williston, a white soldier, who
has for several months past been confined
as a prisoner in the guard-house at Fort
Brown, and through the kindness of the
officers of the above post escaped a two
years sentence to the State Penitentiary,
attacked Mr. John Fitzgerald a few
nights since, while walking near the gar-
rison wall, and attempted to rob him of
his watch and chain, and but for the
timely arrival of the night policeman
would have succeeded in robbing Mr. K.
of his watch and another one belonging
to Mr. John Whitaker, of Point Isabel.
Wiiliston is now in the county jail awaits
ing the action of the Grand J ury.
pecos county.
This is a newly organized county. On
the 9th instant was held the first election
for county officers, the registered vote
amounting to 380 The following is a
list of the newly created dignitaries: E
W. Bates, District Clerk; A. Loomis,
Sheriff; M. Jacobs, City Treasurer; F. W.
Young, City Surveyor; J. Freid, Hide In-
spector; G. M. Frazsr, Presiding Justice;
C. Torres, F. Kooney, F. Caraseo, M.
Kupman, Justices of the Peace. Father
Perry, the parish priest, is also busy try-
ing to organize a school, so that our
young county, although far removed
from the high roads of civilization,
blessed with a healthy and delightful cli
mate, a productive soil, untouched mine-
ral resources, an industrious, peaceable
pQpulation, and hundreds of square miles
room for more to come, may safely and
boldly push out on the high road of pro
gress.
travis county.
There were two lamp explosions in
Austin on Monday night. No material
harm done... .Austin will this year send
some of the best and fastest horses in the
State to the State Fair at Houston. They
are now in training.
the homestead law.
It having been denied by the Chicago In-
ter-Ocean\ih»X there is a homestead law in
Texas, the News takes occasion to quote
from the act of the Legislature approved
August 12, 1870, and still in force, and
under which many settlers hold their
homes:
Section 1. That every head of a fam-
ily who has not a homestead shall be en-
titled to one hundred and sixty acres of
laud, out of any part of the public do-
main, as a homestead, upon condition
that lie or she will select, locate and oc-
cupy the same for three years, and pay
the office fees on the same. And all sin-
gle men, twenty-one years »f age, shall
be entitled to eighty acres of land out of
any part of the public domain, upon the
same terms and conditions as are imposed
upon the head of a family.
Section 2. Any persm who shall occu-
py any portion of the public domain as a
homestead, under the preceding section,
shall have the same surveyed, and the
field notes returned to the Land Office,
within twelvemonths after settling upon
the same; and such person shall be en-
titled to a patent therefor upon filing in
the Land office an affidavit to the effect
that such person has occupied and im-
proved said land for three years in good
faith, aud has complied with the require-
ments of this act, and paid all fees, and
which affidavit shall be corroborated by
the affidavits of two disinterested and
creditable citizens of the county in which
the land is situated.
"Texas Jack" advertises in the Lon-
don Field, offering his services as guide
to foreign gentlemen visiting the Amer-
ican plains.
Twenty-live Cents Tor a Carpet-Bug.
Galveston, March 25,1875.
Eds. News—It may be a small thing,
and I suppose it is, but to the property
owners of this city one of these days it
will be one of the sources of her rapid
decline. I have reference to the charges
exacted on the wharf, and whether by
the corporation or Mr. Morgan I do not
know. On Monday last I arrived here,
and, wishingtoJoo^ about for a few days,
burdened my carpet-bag with a little
more wearables than I felt disposed to
tote in my hands, and, therefore, had it
checked, and not knowing where 1 was
to put up at retained my check to receive
my bag when I had selected my stop-
ping place. Having selected my tempo-
rary abode I delivered my check to a
Fourteenth Amendment, and on his re-
turn was greatly surprised to find that
I had to pay twenty-five cents wharfage.
I presume this is all right, but whether
such charges are exacted by Mr. Morgan
or the officers of the corporation is equally
fatal to the best interests of the tar-pay-
ers, and will eventually so stagger trade
and prosperity, if persisted in, as if a man
was struck between the eyes by a kick
from a mule. This is. a small thing in
itself, but the principle is bad and ought
to be corrected at once. Junior.
The New York World says no party
ever before existed which could sur-
vive the reputation of such intolerable
infamies as have been perpetrated by
the Grant party. It first deprived
Louisiana of the choice of the people
for Governor in 1872, by making use of
a drunken judge and Federal bayonets.
Next Sheridan was sent with Federal
bayonets to prevent Louisiana from re-
covering her freedom in 1874. And
now the Grant majority in the Senate
unite with him to defraud Louisiana of
half of her rightful representation in
that body:
The nominations which President Grant
has sent to the Senate since the 4th of
March, make it plain that he intends to
maintain a good, understanding with the
most facile and subservient of his third-
term supporters, to "say nothing of the
strong color which they give to the
charge recently made to the effect that
many of the votes cast for the Force bill
in the House of Representatives were
purchased with the promise of Execu-
tive patronage.
New Advertisements.
NEW AND NOVEL
lotteries
$13,000 for ....
$12,000 for ...
$100.000 for....
$100,000 »„..for....
. $2 OO
OO
O OO
$20 OO
MISSOURI STATE LOTTERIES!
On the 15th day of each month during 1875,
will be drawn the $2
SINGLE NUMBER LOTTERY.
Capital Prize, $12,000!
10,290 Prizes, amounting to $100,009
Tickets only $2. .JKi
Try a ticket in this liberal scheme.
$1,200,000 IN PRIZES!
Capital Prize, $100,000.
11,590 Prizes, amounting to $1,200,000!
Will be Drawn ...June 30, 1875.
Will be Drawn Sept. 30,1875.
Will be Drawn Dec. 31, 1875.
Whole Tickets, $20; Halves, $10; Quarters, $5.
Prizes payable in full and no postponement
of drawings takes place.
Address, for Tickets and Circulars,
• MURRAY, MILLER & CO.,
P. O. Box 3446 ST. LOUIS, MO,
mh26-wed-fri-aun&W,jyl7
JDASTURAGE.
One to fire hundred head of
Males or Horses
can be cared for where the grazing, shade
and water supply, and all necessary requi-
sites, can not be surpassed. For further in-
formation call at DARGAN & TOBYN'S,
Strand, Galveston, between 9 and 10 o'clock
a. m. mh26 2t
BLACKSMITHS.
I will have for sale shortly & compound that
will actually unite wrought to cast iron, or
wrought iron to steel, or wrought iron to
wrought iron, with very little heat. Will also
restore burnt steel. {Sample had on applica-
tion free of charge, and the above strictly
true. For sale by JOS. LABADIE.
Importer of Hardware Specialties.
mh£6 It*
^he oak leaf.
The Geiiulne Charter Oak Stoves
have an oak leaf on the side doors, and are
stamped with the name of Giles F. Filley, and
are sold by STEELE. WOOD & CO.,
mh26 It 68 and 70 Tremont street.
ryyo whom: it may concern
The mercantile partnership in the name of
Jagers & Byrd, at Cold Springs, San Jacinto
county, Texas, was dissolved on the first day
of January last, by mutual consent. Each
member may use firm name in liquidation
only. 1 his March 24th, 1875.
DAN'LL. JAGERS
mh26 lw * GREEN B. BYRD.
Thepe spelling matches are terrible
things. There was one at Indianapolis
last Wednesday night, and the first per-
son to go down was Professor W. A. Bell,
editor of the School Journal, who spelled
his first word " alledged."
• •-<
DIED:
COOKE—At the residence of Mr. J. D.
Skinner, Galveston, Texas. March 24th, Mrs.
Lou F. Cooke, wife of Dr. J. P. Cooke, of
Liberty, Texas.
44 Blessed are the pure in heart, for they
shall see God."
The funeral services will take place
at the residence of Mr. J. D. Skin-
ner, corner of Broadway and Sixteenth
street, at 8 a. m., Friday, March 26th. Friends
and acquaintances are requested to attend.
Baltimore papers please copy.
Tlie Beit Protection.
The best safeguards against epidemic dis-
ease are thorough digestion and firm nerves.
It is because they assure the regular perform-
ance of the digestive process, and invigorate
the nervous system, that Hostetter's Stomach
Bitters are such a sovereign protective against
the influences which beget intermittent mala-
dies, and those which directly affect tha
stomach and bowels. If the nerves are health-
fully tranquil, the assimilation of food per-
fect, as they are ?ure to be under the influence
of this standard tonic and nervine, malaria
may be defied, and if, in the absence of the
mo3t reliable of medical safeguards, the sys-
tem has fallen a prey to disease of an inter-
mittent or remittent type, the Bitters will, if
persisted in, eradicate every vestige of the
malady. Biliousness, constipation and dys-
pepsia yield with equal certainty to the oper-
ation of this potent vegetable alterative.
mh2b fri sun wed&Wlt
Special x\«tices.
Gnlf Loan and Horae«tend Com-
pany.— Galviston, March 24, 1875.—The
annual meeting of the stockholders of this
company will be held on
Thursday, April 1,
at 7 o'clock p. m., at the Hall of the Galves-
ton Artillery Company, on Market street, op-
posite the Girardin House, over John Collins'
store, for the purpose of electing Nine Di-
rectors to serve for the ensuing year.
The proposition to subscribe for stock in,
the Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe Railroad
will at the same time be submitted.
J. G. MICHAILOFFSKY,
mh25 td Secretary.
Stockholders' fleeting.— Interna
tijnal and great northern R. R. CO., SeC;
retary's Office, Houston, Texas, March 16,
1875.—Notice is hereby givea that a special
meeting of the
STOCKHOLDERS OF THIS COMPANY
will be held at the office of the Company in
Houston, Texas, on Houday,
the 29th day of MARCH, A. D.. 1875, at 10
o'clock, in the Forenoon, for the purposo of
accepting or rejecting
AN ACT OF THE LEGISLATURE OF THE
STATE OF TEXAS,
for the RELIEF 0F SAID COMPANY, ap-
proved March 10, A. D., 1875.
The Polls will open at TEN O'CLOCK in
the FORSNOON, and close at TWELVE
O'CLOCK, NOON, of said day.
IRA H. EVANS,
mh20 td Secretary.
Notice to Consignees.—The steamship
GEORGE W. CLYDE, Pennington, Master,
from New York, is u«w discharging cargo at
Williams's Wharf.
Consignees will please receive their goods
as landed, receipting for the same on the
wharf.
All goods remaining on the wharf after 4
o'clock p. m. (not receipted for) will be
stored at expense and risk of consignees.
All claims for damage must be adjusted
before the goods leave the wharf.
J. N. SAWYER, Agent.
mh25 3t 54 Strand.
Notice to Consignees.— Schooner AB-
BIE CORSON is now discharging cargo at
Kuhn's Wharf.
Consignees will please attend to receipt of
their freight as landed.
mh25 2t J. H. CORSON, Master.
ITlarcli and April, 1875.
Dr. Schencr's Standard Remedies.—The
standard remedies for all diseases of the lungs
are Schenck's Pulmonic Syrup, Schenck s
Sea Weed Tonic, and Schenck's Mandrake
Pills, and, if taken before the lungs are de-
stroyed, a speedy cure is effected.
To these three remedies Dr. J. H. Schenck,
of Philadelphia, owes his unrivaled success
in the treatment of pulmonary diseases.
The Pulmonic fc^rup ripens the morbid
matter in the lungs ; nature throws it off by
an easv expectoration, for when the phlegm
or matter is ripe a slight cough will throw it
off, the patient has rest and the lungs begin
to heal.
To enable the Pulmonic Syrup to do this,
Schenck's Mandrake Pills and Schenck's Sea
Weed Tonic must be freely used to cleanse
the stomach and liver. Schenck's Mandrake
Pills act on the liver, removing ail obstruc-
tions. relax the gall bladder, the bile starts
freely, and the liver is soon relieved.
Schenck's Sea Weed Tonic is a gentle stim-
ulant aud alterative ; the alkali of which, it is
composed, mixes with the food and prevents
souring. It assists the digestion by toning
up the stomach to a healthy condition, so
that the food and the Pulmonic Syrup will
make good blood: then the lungs heal, and
the patient will surely get well, if care is
taken to prevent fresh cold.
All who wish to consult Dr. Schenck, either
personally or by letter, can do so at hi^Jrin-
cipal office, corner of Sixth and Arch streets,
Philadelphia, every Monday.
Schenck's medicines are sold by all drug-
gists throughout the country.
mh3 we fri su lm
jpor sale cheap.
The well known staunch schooner
ST. GEORGE,
with all appurtenanccs, new anchors, chains,
galley stove, bedding, etc.
Berth, "Mew Wharf." Terms cash.
H. GRESSER,
mh25 Elt D9t Office City Railroad Co.
proposals for
ING.
city print-
Citt Clerk's Office, \
Galveston, March 19, 1875. )
n>n. P. H. Hennessy, Chairman Printing
Committee:
Sir—I have the honor to inform you that
the following resolution was adopted by the
City Council, March 18, 1875 :
41 Resolved, That the Committee on Printing
be, and they are hereby authorized to adver-
tise for bids to contract for doing the city
printing for one year from April 1, 1875, the
bids to be in on the last day of March, at 12
o'clock m., and to be opened aud awarded by
the Council at the first regular meeting in
April, 1875."
Very respectfully, sir,
Your obedient servant,
,C. C. ALLEN,
City Clerk.
In accordance with above resolution, we
the Printing Committee solicit bids. Said
bids will be indorsed ktBids for Printing,
and #sent to the Chairman within the time
specified. P. H. HENNESSY,
mh21 Dtmh31 Chairman.
Auction Sales.
BOOKS—BOOKS—BOOKS.
At Auction.
By e. a. blakely & co—auc
tioneers, will sell, commencing on FRI
DAY EVENING, March 26. at 7:30 o'clock, at
Mason's corner,. Center street—
1200 Volumes Standard and Miscellaneous
WORKS, handsomely bound in various styles,
Every volume offered will positively be sold,
The sale will ^continue each evening until
the entire stock is closed out. mh26tf
POTATOES, FURNITURE, ALE, PORTER
WOODEN WARE, ETC.
By e. a. blakely & co., auc
tioneers, 116 and 118 STRAND. Will sell
THIS DAY at 10 o'clock, A. M., sharp, 30 bbls
Potatoes, Bedsteads, Bureaus, Washstands,
Tables, Chairs, Carpets, Matting, Blankets,
Kitchen Safes, Spring Mattresses, etc.
Also, Ginger Ale, McGinnis's Porter, But
ter, Canned Goods, Radiant Oil, Tubs, Buck-
eta. Dried Peaches, Soap, Boxed Liquors, etc.
mh26 It
Co-Partnership Notices
JQISSOLUTION OF COPARTNER
ship.-^The firm of Ratto & Zweifel was dis
solved by mutual consent on the first of
March, 1875. Mr. T. Ratto assumes all liabili
ties of the late firm, and will collect all claims
due the same. T. RATTO,
F. ZWEIFEL.
Referring to the above card, I hope, by
strict attention to business, to merit the con-
fidence of our old patrons.
mh24 lm T. RATTO.
^HE COPARTNERSHIP
heietofore existing under the firm name of
GEORGE SMITH,
expired by the articles of agreement on
16th day of February, 1875.
Mr. Smith's interest in said firm ceased on
that day.
The undersigned continues business at the
GALVESTON CASH GROCERY.
mhl9 tf
EVANS & CO.
J HAVE THIS DAY" DISSOLVED
my business connection with Messrs. T. F.
Hitchcock and A. Wakelee, in the ShipChand
lery business, now conducted at Nos. 205 and
2U7 Strand, Galveston, I having this day sold
and transferred my entire interest in said
business to the said T. F. Hitchcock and A
Wakelee. J. G. HITCHCOCK.
Galveston, March 11, 1875.
We respectfully inform our friends and the
public that we will continue the Ship Ghand
lery business, as heretofore, at Nos. 205 and
207 Strand, the firm name remaining un
changed. T. F. HITCHCOCK,
A. WAKELEE.
Galveston, March 11,1875. mhl4 lm
Seeds, Plants, Etc.
Advertisements.
=ifstore=
1500 SACKS COFFEE
Ex Brig HENRIETTE.
1W. KOPFEKL,
For Sale—For Rent.
FOR SALE.
—ON—
Reasonable Terms,
large number
—OF—
^RRIVED and now DISCHARGING
FKOJl ItIO DE JANEiUO.
Per German brig B. H. Steenken,
4000 Sacks Coffee,
Of which we offer at reduced prices from
wharf 2000 Sacks still unsold.
ja5 una tf
RANGER & CO.
Arrived aud -Landing,
From Rio de Janeiro,
Per British brig "iMaid of Glanwern,"
3700 Sacks Coffee.
For Sale by
J. II. ELSWOItTH & CO.
BUILDING LOTS,
LOCATED IMMEDIATELY UPON
THE LINE
-OF—
STREET RAILWAYS.
For Full Particulars Apply to
C. IB. XODD,
mhiatf Office People's Railroad Co.
A GOOD CHANGE
For Hotel Keepers.
The Central Hotel For llent.
Thi3 favorite and centrally located .Hotel,
corner of Twenty-fourth and Market streets,
is now undergoing substantial repairs, and
will be rented for a term of year3 to a relia-
ble tenant on reasonable terms. When fin-
ished the Hotel will have three entrances ;
two on Twenty-fourth street and one on Mar-
ket. This is a rare chance for an enterprising
man to make money. The Hotel is well situ-
ated for transient or permanent lodgers, being
acknowledged as one of the best hotel stands
in Galveston. The Central Hotel was first
opened by Mrs. S. B. White, in the Fall of
1H70, who, in'.three years, cleared out of it
$30,000. It contains Tnirty-nine Bed Rooms,
besides other apartments for transient per-
sons. Possession may be had on the 15th
inst., or sooner if required. Apply to
J. L. DARRAGII,
mh5tf No. 13 East Strand.
de'-'') 3m una
SEEDS
e— e
SEED
Landreth's, Buist's and Shaker Seeds in
bulk and in original packages. Also, every
variety of Grass Seeds and Seed Potatoes.
Liberal inducements to country dealer#.
Send for catalogue. C. D. HOLMES,
10 and 12 East Market st., Galveston.
de31 3m
LANDRETH'S
New Garden Seed.
IN ORIGINAL
(Crop of 1874.)
PAPERS AND
and AT
PACKAGES
philadelphia prices.
SEND FOR CATALOGUE.
CORNER MARKET AND
del 6m
KIRK & RIDDELL,
21TB STREETS.
QOTTON SEED..COTTON SEED.
Just received—a consignment of
DICKSON'S EARLY MATCHING
CLUSTER COTTON SEED.
For «ale by ALFRED MUCKLE,
Ja'22 fri tu&Wtf 73 Strand.
Miscellaneous.
THE J. M. BRUNSWICK & BALKE
COMPANT.
Sole Manufacturers in the South and West of
STANDARD AMERICAN
BEYEL BILLIARD TABLES,
With the famous PHELAN-COLLENDER
PATENT COMBINATION CUSHIONS,
No. 211 DIarkH St., St. Lenin, Mo.
Parepa, Jenny Lintl, Pigeon Hole and
Yirfflnlus Tables,
Of the Latest Patterns.
BLLLIARP FURNISHING GOODS
OF ALL KINDS.
V£" Send for illustrated cav^lognes,.
de4 fri-sun-wed6m*
a. allen. l. allen*.
jos. aiken.
A. ALLEN* & CO.,
dealers in
Italian and
American
MARBLE
Wholesale and Retail.
Galveston, Texas.
Drawer 48 P. O.
mb21 ly
M
RS. S. J. BALDWIN,
Agent for the sale of
Coltlnglifim's IronSns ITCaclilne,
At No. 128 POSTOFFICE street. Machines
exhibited AT WORK every daj. Washing
done at Laundry on tlie premises. Ironing
of every kind of clothing done in the best
style a^d upon short notice. Prices moder-
ate. Custom solicited.
Galveston, March 19, 1875. mh23 lm*
SHARP'S RIFLE CO.
Manufacturers of Patent Breech-loading, Mil-
itary, Sporting and Creedmore Rifles. Tlie
Bent In tlie World Winner at Interna-
tional and nearly all other principal matches
at Creedmoor. (See Official Record.)
Sporting Itllleft, - - $30 to $38.
Creedmoor Kill**,
With Elevations for 1300 yds. $90 and $125
Send for Illuntrated Catalogue.
Arhory and Office, E. G. WESTCOTT,
Hartford, Conn. President.
^ A WEEK to Agents to sell an arti
tp • tJ cle salable o« JUnir.
Package free. Address
CO., Marion, Ohio.
Profits immense
BUCKEYE M'F'G
A DVERTISlffG : Cheap: Good: Sy*-
tematic.—All persons who contemplate
making contracts with newspapers for the in-
sertion of advertisements, should send 25
cents to Geo. P. Rowell & Co.. 41 Park Row,
New York, for their PAMPHLET-BOOK, (nine-
ty-seventh edition,) containing lists of over 2000
newspapers and estimates, showing the cost.
Advertisements taken for leading papers in
many States at a tremendous reduction from
publishers' rates. Get the book.
^ o (!^9n Per home. T
h Addfess, Geo. Stim
Portland, Me.
Terms free,
son & Co.,
a mouth to agents Gver£vrher«. Ad-
dress EXCELSIOR M?G CO., Bu-
chanan, Mich.
A WEEK guaranteed to Male and
# # Female Agents, in their locality.
» * Costs NOTHING to try it. Partieu-
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44 "pSYCHOMANCT, OR SOUL CHARM
JL ING." How either sex may fascinate
and gain the love and affections of any per-
son they choose, instantly. This art all can
possess, free by mail, for 25 cents; together
with a Marriage Guide, Egyptian Oracle,
Dreams, Hints to Ladies, etc. 1,000.000 sold.
A queer book. Address T. WILLIAM & CO.
Publishers, Philadelphia.
MOST EXTRAORDINARY
Terms of Advertising are offered
i'or Newspapers In tlie State of
Send for list of papers and schedule of rates.
GEO. P. ROWELL, & CO.,
ADVERTISING AGENTS,
No. 41 Park Row, New York.
Refer to Editor of this Pafer.
mchlJ D&W4w
iTbe Best in the World.
Gives Universal Satisfac-
tion. Wonderlnl Ecno-
oiny. 40 lbs. more Bread
to a barrel of Flour. Every
body Praloestt. Whiter.
Lighter. Sweeter, Richer.
Saves Milk, Kgirs, etc,
Sells everywhere like Hot
• 'akes. Send for Circular to
GEORGE F. GANTE & CO.,
176 Ouane st.. New York.
Depot for fancy stvt.es—
NEWS JOB OFFICE
rJ>HE LAMPASAS DISPATCH.
Published every Thursday,
AT LAMPASAS, TEXAS,
IS THE
Very Best Advertising Medium
That could be selected by business men de-
siring the custom of that rapidly filling up
county. Established foar years ago, and
Only Paper Generally Circulating
Anions tlie Veople tliere.
Besides, it is one of the best conducted Coun-
ty Newspapers in the State.
Subscription (in advance), per annum. $2 00.
For terms of advertising see papor. or ad-
drear " DISPATCH,1'
fe27 6w Lampasas, Texas.
Cigars and Tobacco.
CIGARS, Etc.,
WHOLESALE AND RETAIL,
At Greatly Reduced Price*,
THOMPSON'S BUILDING,
Market Street.
A. marinas.
CIGARS S LOTTERY 2 CltJAKS
BORNIO & BROTHER,
COMMISSION MERCHANTS,
(Established 1848,)
Importers and Wholesale Dealers in
HAVANA AND DOMESTIC CIGARS,
Leaf Tobacco, Cigarettes, Manufactured
Chewing and smoking Tobacco.
ATTENTION—To take place April 23, X8T5,
GREAT EXTAORDINA RY DRAWING
of the renowned Royal Havana Lottery. Only
16,000 whole tickets and $1,^00.000 to be distri-
buted. Capital Prize, S50',000.
Be prompt, call for plans and t=end orders,
in advance, to BOKMO & BROTHER,
"t 7 Gravierstreet,
mr21m* • NEW ORLEANS, LA
rpHE GALVESTON NEWS
JOB OFFICE
IB FULLY PEEPAKiiD TO DO
Ail Kinds ol Jab Printing.
ALL THE LATEST STYLES OF TYPE
Will always be found, and every effort made
to give entire satisfaction,
Both In regard to style of work, prices,;etc.
>OR SALE FOR SALE.
An Upright
FLUE BOILER,
Large enough for a Twclvo-llorse Power En-
gine. It will be sold cheap, ar«l may be seen
AT
C. B. Lee & Co.'s Fouudery.
fe21 D&Wtf
OR SALE FOR SALE.
BARGAIN.
f
URE AT
POINT TRACT OF LAND,
ON THE GAUDALUPE RIVER CLOSE TO
THE TOWN OF NEW BRAUNFELS,
COMAL COUNTY.
102 Acres Under Fence.
Wood and Water In Abundance.
Apply to
de6 D&W tf
I>. RICHARDSON,
Galveston.
For sale—some copies of abstract
of Titled and Patented Lands, compiled
from the records of the General Land Office;
published under authority of a joint resolu-
tion of the Eighth Legislature of Texas.
—ALSO—
Some copies of the Proceedings of the
Grand Masonic Lodge of Texas, from its or-
ganization at Houston, A. D. 18S7. to the
close of the Communication at Palestine,
January, A. D. 1857, by A. S. Ruthven, Grand
Secretary and Past Grand Master. In two
volumes. Apply at the News office, Galves-
ton. no26 D&Wtf
pOR SALE FOR SALE.
A nearly new, large. Two-story HOUSE
and seven LOTS GROUND, surrounded by
oleanders and other choice shrubbery, upon
very high ground, one mile from the Court-
house, in southwest part of the city. Will bo
sold very low. within the next thirty days,
and upon easv terms. Apply to
H\ m. TRUEHEART & CO.,
mhl9eod lm* Real Estate Agents, Strand.
JPOR SALE AT A BARGAIN—
A NEW, NEAT
T W O-STOR Y HOUSE,
with one Lot of Ground, corner Avenue N
and 20th street, within one block of Center
street car». To an immediate purchaser a
comfortable home can be secured upon teims
to suit. Apply to
II. m. TRUEHEART & CO ,
mh!9 eod lm* Real Estate Agents, Strand.
J70R RENT FOR RENT.
THE STORE
Formerly occupied by the TEXAS EXPRESS
COMPANY, on corner of Tremont and Me-
chanic streets.
For terms inquire at office of
C. \V. HURLEY & CO.,
mhl6 2w 117 STRAND.
Legal Advertisements.
IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF
the United States for the Eastern District
of Texas.—In the matter of Battle, Ficklin
& Co., bankrupts.
The undersigned hereby gives notice of his
appointment as assignee of the estate of the
above named bankrupts, who were, on the
:23d day of February,18i 5, adjudged bankrupts,
on their own petition, by the United States
District Court for said District.
R. J. JOHN.
Galveston, March 23, 1875. mh25 fri 3t
rj^RUSTEE'S SALE.
At the request of the holder of a certain
promissory note for the sum of five hundred
dollars, dated December 20, 1874, due March
10, 1875, bearing interest from date till paid, at
tho rate of ten per cent, per annum, said note
being due and unpaid, and to secure tho pay-
ment of which note, as well as the payment of
throe other certain notes, which, by especial
agreement, were all to fall due upon the non-
payment at maturity of any one, a Deed of
Trust was executed and recorded in Galves-
ton county, in Record Book 14, on pages 349
and 350, conveying to the undersigned as
Trustee the property hereinafter named, all
of which will more fully appear by reference
to said Deed of Trust; I, the said Trustee,
will sell at public auction, at the door of the
Courthouse of Galveston county, on
Tuesday, tlie 30Ui day of ITlareli,
A. D. 1875,
between the hours of 10 A. M. and 12 noon,
the stock of liquors, cigars, furniture, fixtures
and apparatus now in and belonging to tho
bar-room known as the 41 R. E. Lee Exchange
Saloon," 118 North Market street, near Tre-
mont, in the city of Galveston, Texas.
I will deliver the-goods, and make such con-
veyance to the purchaser of said property as
by said Deed of Trust authorized.
C. GIRARDIN, Trustee.
Galveston, March 22, 1875.
mh24 lw*
DMINISTRATOR'S NOTICE.—
Estate of Chas. L. Bolton, deceased.
Administration pending in Galveston County.
All claims for money against the Estate of
C. L. Bolton, deceased, muet be presented to
us, at the office of Walter Gre&ham, within
ONE YEAR FROM THE FIRST OF JANU-
ARY, A. D. 1875,
for allowance, or payment of the same will be
postponed until the claims presented within
that time are paid.
Witness our hands this 9th dav of March,
A. D. 7875. II. L.LEWIS,
J. T. BOLTON,
mhiO lm Administrators.
SHERIFF'S SALE—THE STATE
of Texaa, County of Galveston. Henry
Rosenberg vs the Galveston Hotel Company.
By virtue of an order or sale to me directed
"in the above entitled cause from the Clerk of
the District Court, in and for the county
aforesaid, dated the 22d day of February,
1875, and numbered 7505, I have levied upon
and will proceed to sell for cash, without ap-
praisement on the 5>IXTH DAY IN APRIL,
1875, at public vendue, in front of the Court-
house door, in the county of Galveston, be-
tween the hours of 10 a. m. and 4 p. m., the
following described property, to wit: Lots
Nos. eigot (8,) nine (9.) ten (10,) eleven (11,)
twelve (12,) thirteen (13,) and fouri een (14.) iu
block No. four hundred and forty-three (443,)
and the improvements thereon, in the city
and county of Galveston, State of Texa*.
JOE ATKINS, Sheriff G. C.
By W. F. SEIFFERT, Dei-uty Sheriff.
Galveston, March 11, 1875. mh lfitd
s
J ewelers-Engraver*.
ILVER PLATED WARE.
—AT THE—
Bazar Jewelry House
—or—
ftt. W. SHAW & BRO.
Just received, per steamship State of Texas,
one of the finest stocks of Plated Ware that
has ever been received in the State, consist-
ing of Tea Sets (six pieces,) Water Pitchers,
Coffee and Water Urns, Ice Bowie, Casters,
Berry Dishes, Wine Stands, Pickle Dishes,
Toilet Sets, Syrup Cups, Cups, Goblets and
Call Bells. Come one and all, and see our 4
stock and prices. de7 D&W ly
JgLANX BOOKS,
MERCANTILE BLANKS,
HILLS OF U4DIN8.
bali, tickets.
WtAY KKCEIPTS,
i'riuted at Panic Prices by tfce
GALVESTON NEWS JOB OFFICE
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