The Galveston Daily News. (Galveston, Tex.), Vol. 41, No. 2, Ed. 1 Friday, March 24, 1882 Page: 1 of 4
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Mcllhenny Company,
HOUSTON, TEXAS,
COTTON FACTORS,
And Wholesale Dealers in
Dry Goods,Boots and Shoes,
HATS AN® NOTIONS
883jslloq jo qlrj
HOUSTON,
Office of Publication : Nos. 113 and 115 Market 8nuacr, Galveston, Texas. Entered at the Postoffice at Galveston as Second-Class Mattes.
2500 bbls. Whisky
IN STORE AND IN BONDED WABE
HOUSE.
ESTABLISHED 1842.
GALVESTON, TEXAS, FRIDAY, MARCH 24, 1882-PRICE 5 CENTS.
VOL. XLI-NO. 2.
ROs^y PHOTOGRAPHER jfJIMB & COWtl
159 and 161 Market St., Galveston.
A LARGE ASSORTMENT OF
Frames, Easels, Engravings and Other Novelties.
^ Copying and Enlarging Pictures to any size Desired.
Members New Yore Cotton Exchange. Members Galveston Cotton Exchange.
B. ROENSCH & CO.,
Brokers and Commission Merchants,
STRAND, GALVESTON, TEXAS.
Orders for Cotton contracts promptly executed in Galveston, New York, New Orleans and Liver-
pool, and for Corn, Grain and Provisions in Chicago and St. Louis.
AMUSEMENTS.
THE l3^-"VTHiI03Si\
SUNDAY, 3IABCH 26, 1882,
Grand Pedestrian Tournament
Great Twenty-five Mile Race.
DANIEL O'LEARY, ex-chamoion of the
world, vs. FIVE GENTLEMEN AMATEURS,
for $250.
R. HENDERSON. E. WILSON. W. REGAN,
BILLY McGEE. T. BIRD.
In addition to the above there w ill he a twenty-
mile run for residents of this city. First prize-
Handsome silver tilting water set, double lined and
heavily embossed. Second prize—Silver water set.
Third prize—Silver jewel casket. Prizes now on ex-
hibition at Julius Socha's jewelry store. Market
street. Entrance fee, $5. Entries to be made to
H. J. Magee, business manager of D. O'Leary, at
Mr. T. J. Owens's Bank Exchange.
FULL BAND.
admission 25 cts.
Help Wanted.
yy A N TED — AN EXPERIENC ED SECOND
Cook, at Commercial Hotel. Apply at once.
Wanted-TWO GOOD BREAD BAKERS
at. the Tremont Bakery, corner Winnie and
Tremont.
3 good shoemakers wanted.
Steady employment ail the year round, and
good wages. Apply to Wm. Hoffman, Cuero. Tex.
Wanted—A good gardener, with a small
family. Must be a sober, steady man. Ap-
ply. by letter, to J. JOSEY. Luling. Texas.
Wanted — canvassers — Male and
female, in every county, city and town in the
State. Inducements liberal. For particulars ad-
dress the home office of "The Texas Mutual Aid
and Charitable Association," No. 608 Main street,
Dallas
Situations Wanted.
A man, AGED 19, WISHES A SITUATION
as waiter in a hotel or restaurant. Address
Box P, News office.
Situation wanted—A man of good
education aad address, well acquainted in
Southern Texas, wants a position as Traveling
▲gent. Good references. Address Box E. this office.
Miscellaneous Wants.
Wanted to rent—Second or third floor
f >r light manufacturing purpose; must be
from 70 to 100 ft. deep. Add. E.Wesley, this office.
WANTED TO RENT—A COTTAGE OR 2-
TT story house, with 4 or 6 rooms, on or about
15rh April. Address Box Q, News office.
Wanted—BONES—Clean and dry. Address
BAUGH & SONS, successors to S. B. Allison,
20? Strand. Galveston. P. O. Box 127.
Horsehair, mixed mane and tails, 12>£c.;
cattle tails, mixed, 9^c. Consign goods to me
and secure cash payments. N. T. Arthur, Galv'n.
N otices. Etc.
tvfew butcher stand—At 8'. Old
JLl Engine-hou e, 17th St. Choice Meats always on
■ale. Give me a trial. THOS. McNAMARA.
n consequence OF OUR LONG EXPE-
rience ana the employment of none but skilled
labor, not only are we enabled to make stylish
clothing, but claim to equal in finish, fit and mate-
lial that of the best of Northern establishments.
SCHLOSS BROS.,
105 Tremont street.
1 rilling—
; Filling with the best garden soil or sand, at $1 50
per yard, delivered, or $10 00 per car. Apply to
HART SETTLE,
Corner 22d street and Avenue A.
Wool growers AND DEALERS—
Attention is respectfully called to Hill, Slay-
den & Settle's celebrated Extract of Tobacco. Send
for price list
T. II. ZANDERSON, Galveston, Tex. s,
Sole Agent.
M
RS. E. BRADY,
GRADUA'lED MIDWIFE
and PROFESSIONAL NURSE
Speaks German and English.
Corner Avenue O and Bath Avenue.
hsubscriptions taken for all the leading
j secular and religious papers in the United
States or Europe. Address Geo. Dealey, near P. O.
Persons having veteran, Do-
nation ana Confederate land scrip may find a
purchaser by stating price to J. H. COLLETT,
Land Agent, Austin, Texas.
passports
Procured by
I. LOVENBERG. Notary Public.
Business Cards.
Rubber printing stamps, for
business men, marking elothiug, etc. FRED.
A. SMITH, 114 Tremont street.
The 'longshoremen stock. As-
sociation is prepared to taice contracts for fill-
ing lots, moving machinery and safes, or hoisting,
loading and di-charging general cargoes at low
rates. Apply to JOHN GROTHGAR, No. 19 West
Market *treet, or P. O. Box 275.
B
AILV ifc SWINGLE,
COMMERCIAL JOB PRINTERS,
"8 Strand,
Have received new presses and new type, with a
good supply of stationery. Patronize home in-
dustry, and save money.
& IfiOLLAClIER, successors
to G. W. Nordholtz, show-case manufacturers,
Galveston, Texas. Superior workmanship guar-
anteed and at prices that defy competition. A trial
kolicited. Catalogue and price-list furnished on
application.
West strand iron works.
Manufacturers of bridge bolts, car bolts,
wharf bolts, and bridge washers; also, dealer in
iron, iron pipe, steam and hand pump fittings,
brass goods, and syphors. Estimates promptly
furnished. JESSE AST ALL, Galveston, Texas.
Blessing, the Photographer, 170 Tremont,
makes negatives instantaneously, therefore ex-
quisite portraits,the best expression. Frames cheap
Oysters, f Regular and fuil supply at
j lowest price.
FISH.
E. PYE, Agent.
Labadie's Wharf.
r l. meunier, WHOLESALE DEALER
. in FRESH FISH and OYSTERS.
Central Wharf. Galveston.
B. mars an—WHOLESALE DEALER IN
G.
FRESH FISH AND OYSTERS,
solicits orders from the country.
Gents' furnishing Goods.
yite have a complete stock of Gents' Fur-
f T nishing Goods for spring and summer wear.
An inspection is solicited, and proof will be ten-
dered that we sell at a small profit. SCHLOSS
BROS., 165 Tremont street .
Just received, 100 doz. Fine Bleached
Jean Drawers at 50c. a pair; 50 doz. White and
Colored Shirts at $1; 100 Business Suits at from $!
to $10. Hats and Caps by the million, very cheap,
at J. GROSSMAYER S, 171 Market street.
OUR $1 50 SHIRT deserves a trial. For
lit and quality it has not found its equaL
SCHLOSS BROS., 165 Tremont street.
Fancy Goods—.Notions.
Just received—BY H. C. SCHAEFER,
Tremont street, between Postoffice and Market—
A fine line of Specs, Eye-glasses and colored Specs,
Silk Watch-guards; also a fine line of Ladies' Gents'
and Children's Rin^s.Ear-rings, Lace-pins, etc. Call
& examine my stock before purchasing elsewhere.
rilHE LATEST NOVELTIES in Neckwear
X can be iound at SCHLOSS BROS'., 165 Tremont
street.
JUST RECEIVED —Willow and other Baby
Carriages, Mr. and Mrs. Garfield's Pictures,
Steel Engravings and Oil Paintings, Toys, Willow-
ware. All sizes of Looking-Glas< Plates refitted.
Picture Frames, Shades and Cornices made to or-
der at I. C. LEVY'S, Market, between 2lst and 22d.
Personal.
>elng compelled to redlte
■ 9 ray stock within a short period, 1 therefore
offer large reductions on my former prices. Call
and be convinced. A. W. SAMUELS, wholesale
and retail tobacconist, corner 22i and Strand;
branch Tremont street, under Opera-house.
O" UK STOCK OF UNDERWEAR CON-
sists of plain and fancy Lisle and Balbrigean
f^auze. Nainsook, Damadnes and Silks. Call and lay
!i your supply,at Schloss Bros'., 165 Tremont street.
Hotels.
R'
> AlfMOND HOUSE,
L P J. LAWLESS & CO., Proprietors.
AUSTIN, TEXAS.
Z. Burns. Manager. H. C. Magruder, Chief Clerk.
Only hotel in the city having electric bells con-
necting rooms with office.
southern hotel,
o CROCKET PEERY; Proprietor,
Austin, Texas.
)aper for shelves and house-
hold purposes, for sale cheap,
at the News Counting-room.
Poultry, Eggs, Etc.
,!or sale—PLYMOUTH ROCK and BROWN
Leghorn Eggs for hatching. Price $2 a setting.
My stock is first-class, J AS. A. HILL,
New Waverley, Tex?s.
mhoroughbred polltr1 and
A EUGS for hatching, always on i-ale in season by
M P. T1DP «Ss CO.. 22d and Postoffice streets.
I!'
lv
Teas, Coliee, Groceries, Etc.
tl) i* a nt's flodb—
-WHITAKER'S HAMS,
BABBIT'S SOAP, Etc.
JOHN' KIRK,
168 Market, between 21st and 22d streets.
Keal Estate.
For sale — choice residence and
3% lots northwest, corner Broadway and 16th
sts., handsomely improved with choice trees and
^Shrubbery; also two lots in same block, fronting cn
I. For terms applv to
H. 31. "fRUEHEART & CO., Real Estate Agents.
FOR RENT—Cottage, with Seven Room ■,
stable and carriage-house, southwest corner I
and 12th st. m. w. THOMAS.
FOR SALE—Three and one-half lots and Cot-
tage, northwest corner 38:h and K. together or
single. E. E. CRAWFORD, corner 20th jtnd K.
/CONFEDERATE AND VETERAN LAND
Cer;ificates b'ght at market prices, by Maddox
Bros. & Anderson, 509 Congress A v., Austin. Texas.
Maddox bros. & Anderson, 509
Congress Av., Austin, Texas, buy and sell
Cattle ana Sheep Ranches, Fa: ms and Farming
Lands, and Austin city property; also, pay taxes,
redeem lands, procure Patents, and do a General
Land Agency business.
J- C. M. Campbell.
Shepakd & campbell,
i^and and General Agents. Have farm and
rancn lands for sale in various portions of the
State
Brenham, Texas.
JOHN DURST,
LAND AGENT,
T Tyler, Tex.
lianas bought and sold, taxes paid, landi sur-
veyed, titles examined, etc. Maps and catalogues
iurmsned on application. Correspondence solicited.
HOLT Ac wise,
* and Land Agents,
ABILENE, TA\LOR COUNTY, TEXAS.
Control ranches and farming lands in Taylor,
Jones, Fisher, Haskell. Runnels and surrounding
counties. Buy and sell Sheep on commission
"VT ALUABLE Hotel Property in Austin for
3-story rock building, 25 rooms; double
rock house, 4 rooms; all newly furnished; U block
trorn the Avenue, in center of city. Apply to
LA WREN CE & EDWARDS, Austin.
tjuilding lots OF SMALL AND LARGE
J-J dimensions, east and west; some with cottages
j her.-on For sale or lease. SAM MA AS.
For Sale.
413 EAST CHURCH ST.
Erf?.? SALE—LANG'S OLD STAND. CENRTAL
Wharf. Apply to E. J. LANG,
On premises.
or sale—a new piano, of
cellent tone, at a bargain.
LYNCH & PENLAND.
ex-
[RON SAFES-
NEW AND SECOND-HAND—CHEAP.
lynch & penland.
Ij^OR SALE—A second-hand set of parlor fur-
niture, in good condition; also other articles of
furniture, can be bought very low at 65 Church
street.
Corn, oats, hay, CRACKED CORN',
Mixed Feed, Wholesale & Retail. Storage solicit-
ed. An office to rent, by J. J. LEWIS it CO., Strand.
For sale —Lot with Bakery and complete
out-houses, on North side Market, between 26th
and 27th streets. G. A. MEYER.
E
[ASTER CARDS-PERFECT BEAUTIES.
Call and see them at
J. E. MASON'S.
kA{| PAIR skates of the best make at
fJXJU Wholesale and Retail, at
j. e. mason's.
visiting cards—PLAIN, GILT-EDGED
and Ornamented. 25 cems a Package, at
J. E. MASON'S.
^urgical instruments, sur-
>3 geons Sponges, Surgeons Needles, Hair, Tooth
and Nail Brushes. All by late arrivals, and at
reduced prices, at C. W. PRESTON & CO.'S Phar-
amacy, 180 Market street. Illuminated Morter
—Electric Light.
Just received—Per last steamer—Wool
ens for spring and summer suits. Our stock
consists of all the latest designs, and are of the
finest and best foreign fabrics. Styles are par excel-
lence and confined exclusively to ourselves in this
State. SuHLOSS BROS., 165 Tremont street.
Thirty-fifth texas kepout
not ouc of print. :i00 copies on hand a, §o
each, postage paid. Also 32. 33 and 34, at the same
price. WILKIN S & adey,
Booksellers,
46 Main st., Hou ton.
Jersey bulls for sale—ALAMO,
4 years old, to avoid inbreeding, $200; calf, 10
months old, $150. Both recorded in A. J. C. C. Ad-
dress J. C DUVAL, Bastrop, Texas.
WOOD, Wood—Price reduced 25 -per centT
Sawed, split and delivered at $1 50 per load
Leave orders with J.J. Lewis & Co, Strand, be-
tween 19th and 20th.
For sale—IN STORE AND To AliRIVE^
10,000 bbls. Ro endale and Portland Cement,
6U,UOO Firebricks, Plaster, Laths, Drain Pipe, Stone-
ware, Marble Dust,White Sand.Cedar Bayou Bricks.
Full stock of all kinds of building materials.
GEO. H. HENCHMAN, Importer and Dealer.
IiU>R SALE—10.000 FLOWER POTS, 1000 Feet
drain-pipe, 20,000 fire-brick, fire-clay, and all
kinds of stoneware, cement-pip,?, Portland and
Rosendale cement, lime, lath,s hair, plaster, etc
Prices low. W. H, POLLARD & CO., Agents for
Wright's Brick. Mechanic, bet. 25th and 26th sts.
Mathushek pianos are the
Best. Prices and catalogues promptly sent to
all applicants. P. Werlein, 135 Canal street. N. O.
Buggies and phaetons-assort-
ment of all styles for sale cheap. Warranted
as represented. LEVY BROS. & OWENS,
For Bent.
For rent—nice, large two-story
House, on Postoffice street, bet. 11th and 12th
For terms apply to MRS. ASCHOFF. No. 652.
For rent-a two-story residence,
furnished, corner 15th and Cnurch: possession
given 1st of May. Apply to r. 15. hawley.
I.10r rent—A TWO-STORY RESIDENCE
on Avenue I, between 12th and IStli streets. In-
quire at 608 Eas' Broadway.
For rent—THE SECOND FLOOR OF THE
Crosby Building, corner of Tremont and Ave-
nue A. Possession April 1. Apply to
J. c. STUART, Agent. Texas Exp. Office.
F;
or rent—A RESIDENCE, ON CHURCH
street, between 14th and 15th. Ren , $35
J. I.. MrKF.EN.
Rooms and Board.
For rent—Rooms, furnished and unfur-
nished, 272 East Broadway, between Nineteenth
and Twentieth.
TWO GENTLEMEN, OR A COUPLE,
can obtain room and board in a private
family, in central location, by application tj B >x
614. References exchanged.
Ciood board and LODGING MAY"
I be obtained at MRS. UOMBERT'S, 114 East
Twentieth street, b tween Market and Mechanic,
at the following rates; Board and lodging,
$4 50 per week; board alone, $3 50; per dav,
75 cents.
For rent-large, well-furnished
south room. Apply No. 66 Avenue h, between
26th and 27th streets.
I^lrnished rooms TO RENT, WITH
or without board. 51 Winnie street, corner 24th
street
House Furnisliin gr Goods.
ICE C RE AM PL A TES, NIC K EL ED
spoons, door springs. Cheapest and best crock-
ery, glassware. LABADIE.
Sportsmen's Supplies.
ur~ new " stock of fishing
TACKLE, GUNS, PISTOLS and PREPARED
AMMUNITION, of all kinds, have arrived. Ameri-
can Powder Co.'s Gunpowder, Herring's Patent
Champion Safes, and U. S. Standard Scales of all
kMds vu hand. W. J. HUGHES & CO.
Steel carvers, Stag Handle, 75c pairi
Tin Toilet Sets, $2 25; Bronze Chandeliers, $2;
Fine Engraved Goblets. 75c set; Gi-anite Cups and
Saucers, 60c «et; Granite Dinner Plates, 50c set;
Moss-Rose Chamber Sets, ?5 ^et: Decorated Tea
Sets, 44 pieces, §6. MEY'ER & BENEKE.
ing
Cook
Sto ves-sto v es —We are selling Cook
Stoves at from $6 50 to $45. A good No. 7 Cc
Stove for £12. Also a full line of House-Furnishing
Goods. Tinware, etc., which we will sell cheap.
D. A. KEARNEY, opposite Tremont House.
Hkauffman, CORNER ( ENTER AND
• Church, buys and sells second-hand and new
Furniture. Upholstering and repairing at low rates.
Old newspapers in packages
of One Hundred, at 25 cents. Call at News
Counting Room.
B
uy your wrapping-paper
at the News Counting-room.
25c. PER HUNDRED.
_ Professional.
\\f I." JIcKlE, ATTORNEY AT LAW,
" • Corsicana, Texas. Special attention given
to commercial collections and to land litigations.
I have^ an abstract of titles for Navarro county.
Real Estate, improved and unimproved, for sale.
Loans negotia ed wit. out expense to lenders.
j^r. med. n. hegnauek,
CENTER AND BROADWAY.
QHAS I. EVANS,
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW AND LAND AGENT,
ABILENE, TEXAS.
Noah F. Flood. John Bailey.
Flood a: bailey,
Attorneys-at-Law,
EL PASO. TEXAS.
-pOINDEXTER Ac PADELFORD,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
CLEBURNE TEXAS.
Refer to Leon & H. Blum.
B. D. Tarlton. Geo. I. Jordan. i>. Taulton
rjlARLTON, JORDAN dc TARLTON,
Land Lawyers, Real Estate Agents, Conveyancers,
and Abstractors of Titles as of Record at Austin.
HILLSBORO, TEXAS.
H
lme &. shepard.
LAW OFFICE,
56 Strand.
H
W. PATTON,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Masonic Block,
CLEBURNE. TEXAS.
Collections promptly made
oo d \i i—old newspapers AT $2 00
tyZ V/U PER THOUSAND, a the
NEWS COUNTING ROOM.
| STATIONERS,
PRINTERS,]
And Manufacturers cf
BLANK BOOKS,
69 Tremont St., Galvtaton.
| Low Charges,
First Class Work,
and Prompt Dispatch I
Have placed C. & C. ahead of all com-f
petitors. TRY US.
NOTHING
In a man's outfit has to stand more wear and tear
than his Shirts. These should always be of good
material and well made. Let this remind you of
Keep's Celebrated Dress
SHIRTS.
6 FOR $9, MADE TO ORDER.
537" Ask for them. Sold only by
JO WEMS,
THE SHIRT MAN,
Corner Market and Tremont sts.
The Following Brands of
Straight Whiskies
are for sale either in bond or from store. Select
your brand—we will make you a rea-onable price.
MARX cSc, KEMPNER.
LIST OF
50 White Mills
50 do
100 do
100 do
200 Anderson
25 do
50 do
25 Waco
30 do
25 Guckenheim
20 Cameron Springs
50 Old Crow
50 Glencoe
15 do
100 do
100 R. Monarch....
20 J. T. Welch....
15 do ...
10 do
5 do
48 Rhorer Bourbon
50 Kentucky Club
50 do
65 do
50 do
55 do
25 do
50 do
45 do
40 do
90 C. B. Cook
55 do
20 Kentucky Club
10 co
200 Nelson
200 Kentucky Club
25 Buchanan
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1. LOVENBERG
NOTARY PUBLIC
IXSURAXCE AGENT.
LEVY & WEIS
Have received their immen e
NEW STOCK OF SPRING
CLOTHING,
BESTS' FURNII& GOODS
And
9 YLISH HATS.
BOYS' AND CHILDREN'S
CLOTHIISC
A SPECIALTY.
Call and see our large display
Chinese l'ajamas and Imported Under-
wear, of Finest Fabrics, at very
low Prices.
Largest and Finest Stock of
SHIRTS
in the city, at astonishingly Low Figures, at
Weis'
The Popular Clothiers.
EXAMIME
MY FINE LINE OF GENTS'
Furnishing Goods,
WHITE VESTS,
FELT and STRAW HATS.
WHITE & COLORED SHIRTS,
BOOTS & SHOES,
Before purchasing elsewhere. Jake Wenk's
" LEADER " SHIRT, at six for $9, made to order,
and a p« r ect fit warranted. Send lor rules for
sel f-measu re ni en t.
JAKE WENK, 165 Market St.
Attention! Attention!
HAVING BOUGHT THE ENTIRE STOCK OF
MESSRS. HEIDENHEiMER BROS.. WF OFFER
AT REDUCED PRICES IN BOND OR FREE:
100 Casks CLARET.
50 Casks FRENCH VINEGAR.
100 Ca*ks FRENCH VINEGAR.
1000 Ca<es IMPORTED SARDINES.
250 Ca*es IMPORTED SARDINES in TOMATOES.
100 Baskets OLIVE OIL.
100 Ca^es VERMOUTH.
50-8 Cask COGNAC.
100 Cases COGNAC.
1000 cases Cm=es and Fils Freres CL.A RET.
500 Cases Cruses and Fils SAUTERNES.
Write fcr prices before purchasing elsewhere.
CHAS.HEIIIEIIER&C().
FRESH! FRESH! FRESH FRC3I
the FACTORY, a lot
Blaekwell's Durham Tobaooo
CIGARETTES
AtR. P. SARGENT'S,
63 Mechanic street.
Sewing Maciiines.
mHE Latest Improved Light Running Howe,
JLWniteand Stewart Sewing-Machines soli for
cash a ,d on terms by C. Ernes, Tailor,ill Postoffice.
superiority proved—The simplest
IO and biit machine i-; the
LIGHT RUNNING
NEW HOME.
Perfect in every particular. Annual sales, 200,000.
H. BLAGGE. Agent, 131 Postoffice street.
Educational.
Island city business college,
Mason'- Corner. Business office, 173 Market. P.O.
box 512. Write ior catalogue. joss<£ Benish. Propr's
Old newspapers in packages
of One Hundred, at 25 cents. Call at News
Counting Room.
_ Ocurist aiid Acirist.
p. hall, M. d.,
OCULIST AND AURIST,
No. 115^6 Market street, next door to News Office,
GALVESTON. TEXAS.
The Great Growth of Wlieat Product
In California.
Writing of tlie prospects of the California
wheat crop, the San Francisco Journal of
Commerce says nothing except the richness of
the early ^old placers has been half as mar-
velous as tlii development of wheat-growing
in the State. In eaily times it was deemed by
tli! se accustomed to the tiilage of other lands
that the hard adobe soil 9f our valleys was
almost worthless, and that we would be as we
were then, ever dependent on foreign countries
for our wheat supplies. But the history of the
past quarter of a century tells a different tale.
The crop since 1S55-56 has been as follows:
Centals. Centals.
1855-56 3.500,0')0 1878-79 22,825.350
1863-64 5,000.000 1879-80 19.8oi.000
1869-70" 10.000,500 3880-81 31.500,000
1874-75 17,000,u00 1881-82 27,000,000
1876-77! 20,000,000
Here we have a nine-fold increase from
1855 to 1880, a period of a quarter of a cen-
tury, while the advance from 1809-70 to
1880-^81, a period of eleven years, is more
marked still, being nearly three-fold in a pe-
riod of little more than a decade. But we are
not yet done with surprises in that regard.
When the product increased from 19.801,000
centals in 1880 to 31,500,000 in 1881, few could
believe it. Our future advances in this re-
spect may be fairlv measured by those of the
past. We have 38,000,000 acres of wheat
land, 30,000,000 of w hich are first class, and
these are being brought rapidly under cuitiva
lion. Half a million new acres have been
brought into culture during the year in which
we now are, and even with a failure in the
San Joaquin valley there may be expected a
crop at least equal to that of 1880. It may be
larger.
*4KIM6
POWDER
Absolutely Pure.
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c&fecstanHttos.
The Philadelphia Times thinks President
Arthur is too loyal to consistency to go back
on his Dorsey dinner speech, and that there-
fore " the Stare-route plunderers will have a
hole made for them to escape through."
The United States Signal Service Depart-
ment has some ten or twelve stations on the
Mississippi river and its principal tributaries,
where observations are made every eight
hours, not only o£ the fluctuations of the
barometer and thermometer, but also of the
rise and fall of the rivers. These observations
are thoroughly reliable, and during periods of
excitement like the present would be of great
interest could the government furnish them
to the different cotton exchanges throughout
the South. The News makes the suggestion
with the hope of calling the attention of the
department thereto. If complied with, the
action will certainly be appreciated through-
out the cotton-growing districts, and will be
but another evidence of the efficiency of Gen-
eral Hazen in his efforts to improve the ser-
vice of which he is the head.
The Boston Post is partly responsible for the
rumor that Senator Rollins, of New Hamp-
shire, will soon introduce a bill appropriating
$100,000 or so for the purchase of corn pop-
pers and rat-traps for country postmasters.
Tis an ill wind that blows nobody good,
and a bad flood that doesn't help the high-
lands. The Natchez Democrat of the 5th
instant said the deer were coming to the Mis-
sissippi hills in droves from the Louisiana
swamps.
Says the Baltimore American: *' James
G. Blaine is losing nothing in stature or
avoirdupois. The Maine statesman casts a
big shadow when he stands in the sunlight."
So he does when he stands in the light of
recent events.
Some lexicographers in England are at work
on a new dictionary, which will fill 7000 quarto
pages, or four and a half times the size of Web-
ster's Unabridged. The first part, letter A,
will require 400 pages, and will probably be
done this year.
While honest men stand back reluctant to
illuminate the government gambling dens of
the United States, they are confronted with
the statement made in open daylight that just
before the crash of the Union Generale the
pope sold his shares for $500 per share, realiz-
ing a handsome profit.
The New York Mail and Express regards
Mr. Frelinghuysen's saying: " The United
States is " as an evidence of affected 4< con-
tempt for literary methods." " But," asks a
leading Republican daily, " has not that editor
heard how the war was fought to settle that
point of grammar in favor of Ms'?"
Prince Leopold, Victoria's youngest son,
will lead Princess Helen of Waldeck to the
altar on Thursday, April 20, the ceremony to
take place in St. George's chapal, Windsor.
In sending out the invitations the queen is
said purposely to have overlooked the queen
of Holland, the sister of the bride-elect.
General Skobeleff, though a veteran in
service, is but thirty-nine years old, and is
said by London Truth to look almost ten
years younger. He is tall, has a lithe figure,
and shows an elastic nervous organization, but
no athletic muscularity. The habit of poring
over military books, maps and plans has in-
duced a slight stoop.
The Philadelphia Press speaks mournfully of
the fact that in Washington the defense of
Garfield's memory has fallen upon the Post,
the Democratic daily. The other dailies are
stalwart organs, and have particular interest
just now in not speaking well of the dead pres -
dent. The truth is Mr. Garfield's memory is
not safe in the keeping of the Republican
party.
There is a strong drift of stalwart senti-
ment in Pennsylvania to run Attorney-General
Brewster for governor, and there is a vague
s^hawdow just about taking the form of a
popular movement to run Colonel McClure, of
the Times, for congressman-at-large. It
would be a proud day for Pennsylvania to
have such a man as McClure at the head of
her Congrersionnl delegation.
The se'ection of Congressman Rosecrans, of
California, for the chairmanship of the Demo-
cratic Congressional Committse, seems to be
received favorably by the Democratic prefs.
It looks like getting awa5r from the corrupt
influences of Wall street, and will doubtless be
worth more to the party in the Western and
Pacific States than Mr. Flower and his money
would have fce?n worth in the Eist.
The Springfield Republican, referring to the
mendacious statement of Colonel J. G. Bry-
ant, of Georgia, to the Methodist ministers of
Philadelphia, that the Southern people are
preparing for another rebellion, pointedly re-
marks: " The natural inquiry arises, what
does this colonel expect to make by such talk?
The answer is furnished by Bryant h'mself—
he wants support for an allege J newspaper
somewhere in Georgia."
Congressman Black, who has been lying
at death's door for some time, was stricken
down by paralysis, caused by indigestion, after
taking a plate of raw oysters. He was appa-
rently in fine health, having the day previous
delivered a vei y eloquent and able speech in
the House. Mr. Black's father, also a member
of Congress from the same (Georgia) district,
was prostrated in tho same way, at about his
son's present age, and died after a few days
illness.
The letter-writers say that the members of
the Congressional Democratic Campaign Com-
mittee at Washington aie constantly receiving
favorable and most encouraging reports from
all parts of the country and that, with the ag-
gressive fight that will be made, they enter-
tain no doubt of securing a good working ma-
jority in the next Congress. They think the
placing of General Ro--e;rans at the head of the
committee will strengthen the party in the
doubtful districts of the North and South.
Because the council, composed of the re-
presentatives of the people of Prussia, re-
fused to pass Prince Bismarck's bill vesting a
monopoly of the tobacco trade in the govern-
ment, the prince takes umbrage and threatens
to resign the chancellor-hip. The cunning old
minister is eviJently desirous of accumulating
a great fund for some purpose, or he would
foot resort to so obnoxious a measure or urge
it with such menacing pertinacity. He is,
doubtless, endeavoring to prepare for war in
time of peace.
The "inspired" distemper seems to be con-
tagious. It flies without chart or compass,
nor is it influenced by any currents known to
scientists. From Russia to America, thence to
England, now to France. It is not safe to re-
semble great personages. A crank grazed the
face of one Dr. Meymar, 4n Paris, whose bril-
liant foreign decorations attracted the atten-
tion of the crazy man, who was searching for
Gambetta for a target. Twenty years at hard
labor in the penitentiary will perhaps cool the
ardor of his quest.
Absence does not conquer love. In 1861
Mr. and Mrs. Harry Treadway lived in their
happy home in Arrow Rock, Missouri. Harry
was supposed to have been killed in the Con-
federate army, and their home being burned,
the widow went to live with a schoolmate in
Arkansas. Last Tuesday the man and wife
met in Austin, after nineteen years separation,
and are happy. Nor does drunkenness cool
its ardor. Fifteen years ago Edward O'Brien
kissed his wife good-bye on the quay at Cork.
Last Thursday night two drunken tramps
were in a Brooklyn lockup, and despite their
degradation the meeting was affecting between
Edward and his Mary.
There is probably little doubt that the sen
timent of the country is in accord with the
anti-polygamy bill now awaiting the presi-
dent's signature, nor need the Mormons longer
cherish the hope that the storm will pass over
and leave them in tranquil possession of their
wives, their industries and their domain. The
voice that has gone forth for their suppression
or extinction is as remorseless as death and as
irrevocable as fate. Colonel McClure, of the
Philadelphia Times, writes from Washington
concerning the bill:
There is a flavor of prospective plunder about it
that makes many reluctant voters for the bill, but
the Mormons must go, and to amend or to hesitate
is to antagonize the popular tida of the hour. It
Is a dangerous precedent, and it is idle to say that
the whole industrial system and wealth of the Mor-
mons in Utah must be placed at the mercy of an
irresponsible tribunal to destroy the moral cancer
of polygamy, but the Mormons Must go, and there
are plenty who mean that they shall p^y well in
their going.
Hon. L. M. Nutt, whose death and burial
are announced in a dispatch frrra Shreveport,
was a leading member of the bar at that
place for many years, and was one of the
brightest iutellects in the profession. He was
a native of Virginia, and at the time of his
death was in the fiftieth year of his age. He
was a member of the State Senate at the
time of his death, and had held many public
trusts in Louisiana. During the late
war he commanded a company of cavalry in
the Confederate service, aad was a gallant
and fearless officer. A man of modest and
unassuming disposition, he made no great
noise in the world, but in the community in
which he lived he was esteemed for his fine
legal abilities, scholarly accomplishments and
warm and generous traits of character. Cap-
tain Nutt leaves a wife and three daughters
to mourn his loss.
The decisive vote by which the Chinese
bill passed the House of Representatives after
the summary rejection of offered amendments,
would scarcely surprise obs rvers who have
watched the tone of tho debate. The time
consumed in speeches might evidently have
been shortened had members had their minds
well made up as to how they should vote.
The Democrats had, in their traditional re-
spect for the rights of States, something of an
additional reason beyond what many of them
and the Republicans otherwise agreed in—pro-
tection from the Mongolian. Democrats, seeing
that California does not want the Chinese, are,
perhaps, more especially willing to let the
question rest upon that State's preference.
Republicans, in this instance, have deferred
more than usual to a State sentiment. Both
parties have felt the force of the Pacific vote
with reference to the next presidential elec-
tion, and have bowed to it.
The following notice which is going the
rounds of the press is simply a fraud:
The mutilated coins, by punching holes through
them, have become so common that the govern-
ment officials have been compelled to establish a
scale of depreciation as follows: Double eagle-
with holes in them are worth only $19; silver dol
lar~; with holes in them are worth 85 cents: half
dollars, 35 cents: quarter dollars, 18 cents; dimes,
5 cents. This is a government order, and is regard-
ed generally by the banks, railroads, etc.
It was most likely started by brokers and
money changers. Government coin is re-
deemable at its value in weight, and no
amount of mutilation can change that value.
A silver dollar, therefore, with a hole in it is
worth one dollar, less the depreciation in
weight value caused by making the hole—
possibly, in some instances, as much as three
cents. It is not in the power of government
officials, except by special act of Congress, to
fix or change the value of our circulating
medium. "The same game," says an ex
charge, "was successfully played with the
silver trade dollars. They were nearly all
bought up by brokers at eighty cents, and
afterwards sold to the government for the pur-
pose of reminting at a premium of from two
to three per cent. It is a sin and a shame for
such tricks to be plaved on the people, and it
is particularly hard, as the loss falls on those
least able to bear it—the laboring class."
OVER THE STATE.
transmitted bv wire by special correspondents.
SEW ORLEANS.
DAILY HA PPENIXGS iy THE CRES-
CEXT CITY.
Another Break, but More Hopeful
General Condition of Levees—Relief
and Aid—Libel Suit Decided.
(Special Telegram to The News.1
New Orleans. March 23.—Another break
occurred ia the levee thirty-five miles below
the city to-day. The extent of the crevas e
and prospective dairiagi have not been ascer
tained. The belief is that it will be closed
before much injury has resultea. Material
for this purpose has already been forwarded.
The levees still hold out in West Baton
Rouge, and a large force is con-
jtantly employed in strengthening them.
In Ascension work continues on crevasse
on the Landry plantation with good results.
The steady if slow fall of the river at points
above Red river gives eneouragome it to tie
planters that the levees still standing in the
State may be maintained, if vigilant efforts
are made "to that end. The levees along the
line on both sides of the river are carefully
watched, and nothing will be left undone
to prevent further disaster. Large sums
<.f money *re collected in the city every day
and sent to threat* n d points in order to assist
in holding the levees and procuring material
necessary to strengthen them. An immense
flood is pouring down the A'chafalava, over-
flowing the country along its borders. It
threatens to injure the Mi rgan road at Mor-
gan Cit3r, where the wa'er has been steadily
encroacning upon the land for over a w.*. k,
and Superintendent Pandely has gone to that
point with a largo force of men to prevent
damage, as far as possible, to the road-bed or
bridges.
The relief committee organized last night
met this morning and portioned the city into
a number cf districts, to each of which was
assigned a subcomm ttee, whose duty it is to
thoroughly canvass its div sion for subscrip-
t o.is to the fund for the rolief of sufferers by
the overflow. The various committees pro-
ceeded with work at o ice. A handsome sum
was raised to-day, which will bs largely in-
creased to morrow.
The iibel suit of Wm. P. McLean aga:n^t the
Times Democrat was decided to-day,nominally
in favor of the plaintiff, the jury giving him
$1 damages instead of $50,000, which he asked
1 or. The suit was based upon a publication in
the local columns, in which it was stated that
Mr. McLean b re a bad character, and was
suspected of setting his furniture on fire to get
the iusurance money. In view of the dam-
aging testimony against the plaintiff, the ver-
dict created much surprise. Defendants will
move for a new tiial on Monday.
SHJRE YEPOJLT.
Convicts for Railroad Worlt~The
River—Planting—Died.
ISpeciai Telegram to The Nows.1
Shreveport, La., March 23.—-One hundred
and seventy more convicts arrived to-day per
steamer for work on the Vicksburg, Shreve-
port and Pacific railway. The work is being
pushed across the river east.
The water has been falling here for several
days at the rate of six inches per day.
Planting is now being actively pushed for-
ward,
Hon. Leroy Moncure Nutt, member of the
legislature from this parish, and an old mem-
ber of this bar, was buried tc-day—barne to
his last resting place by his comrades in
the army during the late war.
A Sacramento builder and architect named
Sloan has adopted a novel system of proving
the value of a new patent fire-e cape attached
to buildings by him. He invites a large crowd
into the upper story of the building for pro-
tecting which he has a contract. The doors
are then nailed shut, and one of our Western
Addition amateur elocutionists, exported for
the purpose, begins to recite Sheridan's Ride.
In less than three minutes the audience is oa
the ground outside, and making tracks up the
different streets.
A Chicago reporter called on a dying man
to see what he'd like to have said in his obit-
uary, and the deceasing was so mad at the in-
trusion that he got up and Jicked the reporter
like a sack, and then concluded to get well
and fight the lawsuit the reporter brought
against him. All of which fearfully dis
?usted the undertaker wbo does the work
or that man's family, and who had got al-
ready for this funeral. This is a life of disap-
pointment*
HOUSTON.
Cotton Market and Receipts—Meet*
ins to be Held at the Exchange on
Saturday—Concert--The Races.
[Special Telegram to The News.1
Houston, March 23.—The cotton market
closed quiet and unchanged; no sales. Quota-
tions: Low ordinary, 9c; ordinary, 10c; good
ordinary, 11c; low middling, 11%; middling,
12c; good middling, 12)£c; middling fair,
12Kc.
Cotton Receipts—Per Galveston, Harrisburg
and San Antonio Railway, 138 bales—Hous-
ton, 38; Galveston, 100.
Per Houston and Texas Central Railway,
79 bales—Houston, 23; Galveston, 56.
Per International and Great Northern Rail-
way, 256 bales—Houston, 92; Galveston, 164.
A general meeting of the Cotton Exchange
and Board of Trade with citizens of Houston,
will be held at the Exchange rooms on Satur-
day, the 25th instant, to consider the condi-
tions submitted by C. P. Huntington in rela-
tion to the location of the Southern Pacific
Railway shops; and to confer with representa-
tives of the Houston Press Club regarding the
entertainment of members of the Texas Press
Association in April next.
The Apollo Club concert at Lyceum Hall, to-
night, was a very creditable affair. The fol-
lowing was the programme:
Part I.—Piano duet May-pole Dance, Schmidt,
Misses Claudia Girardeau and Lilly Burke. Violin
solo, Theresen waltz, Strauss. Master Frank Her-
rie. Vocal solo, soprano, Titania Torry, Miss Minnie
G. McMillan. Piano solo, Miss Julia Rogers. Vo-
cal solo, tenor, It Ought to Be, Abt, Mr. Adolph
Boccius. Duet f r flute and piano, waltz, Mr. Wm.
Andersc>n and Professor Gerstenberger. Chorus,
from William Tell, Rossini, Apollo Club.
Part H.—Polonaise for piano and violonicello,
Chopin; Miss Louisa and Professor Schmidt. Vo-
cal solo, song, Buffon; Mr. Joe Harris. Piano solo,
banjo, Gottschalk; Miss Julia I. Herrie. Vocal
solo, soprano, from Olivette, First Love. Audran:
Miss Lilly Burke. Vocal solo, soprano, My Dear
and On:y Love, Sullivan: Miss Claudie Girardeau.
Vocal _ solo, baritone, S tved From the Storm,
Obarri, Mr. W. J. Smth. Chorus, finale, from
Robert le Diable, Meyerbeer; Apollo Club.
The attendance at the races to-day was
very good.
First Race—Running, for $300 purse; mile dash
for three-year-olds. Peyton Barry won. Time—
3.48J^; Mary S., second; Heartless, third; Devotion,
fourth.
Second Race—Running race for two-year-olds;
five furlongs; for $300 purse. B. C. Holly's Hard-
w. o.l won. Time—1.06*4;S P. Lorillard, second;
Laura G., third; Josh Billings, fourth.
Third Race—Trotting, 2.30 class, for $300 purse.
First heat—Blind Tom first, Kokomo second, Dick
Shane third, Tom Moore fourth. Time—2.40.
Second heat—Kokomo first, Blind Tom second.
Tom Moore third, Dick Shane, fourth. Time—
2.38%. Third heat—Blind Tom first, Tom Moore
second, Dick Shane third, Kokomo distanced.
Time--2.38J^. Blind Tom's jockey, E., claimed
foul again-t Kokomo in third heat, which the
judges sustained and Kokomo was delared dis-
tanced. Fourth heat—Bliud Tom first, Tom Moore
second. Dick Shane third. Time—2.41^.
[N. A. Floyd, owner of Kokomo, then entered a
protest, claiming that one of the judge's was bet-
ting on the race, which he acknowledged, and it is
likely that this race will be declared off or will be
run over.]
Mr. V. W. Cleveland, lessee of the grounds,
extends an iuvitation to teachers and scholars
of the white schools to attend to-morrow. They
will be admitted free and seats reserved for
them.
The following are the real estate transfers
for the past week, as reported for The Gal-
veston News by II. H. Dooley, real estate
broker:
R. F. & H. C. George to John Danaly, lots 1 and
2, in block 270, south side Buffalo bayou, for S3000.
Houston Homestead and Loan Association to S.
Conradi. lots 1, 2, 3. 4, 5 and 11, block 349, south
side Buffalo bayou, for $1600.
Jacob Binz to Houston Homestead and Loan As-
sociation, lots 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 11, in block 349, south
side Buffalo bayou, tor $1600.
Sarah A. Pannell to Ophelia Herrie. lot 7, in block
347, south side Buffalo bayou, for $200.
Heirs of D. Alexander to Benjamin F. White,
east half of 369 acres, John Waugh, survey for
$18150.
A. T. and Mary A. W. Holmes to J. W. Oats, 501
9-10 acres. Reels & Trobausrh survey for $501 90.
.T. C. Butcher o George W. Butcher, one-third in-
terest in lots 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12, in block 3, in
the town of Harrisburg, for $90 85, and other valu-
able considerations.
Henry Butcher to George W. Butcher, all inter-
est in lots 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12, in block 3, in Har-
ri burg, for $10, and other considerations.
A. McCracken to Joseph Conrad, 150 acres S. C.
Herones survey (bond for title.)
John Whalen to A. Groesbeeck, 9 acres John sur-
vey, north side of Buffalo bayou, for $2500.
J. H. Hutchens to L. & H. Blum, 11 acres, more
or less, John Austin two league grant, known as a
part of the R. Kuykendall place, for $1000.
Mike Perkins to W. G. Halsey, 7 acres Luke
Moore survey, for $50.
Bettie and W. C. Johnson to E. B. Lomax, lots 2
and 3, in block 418, south side Buffalo bayou, for
$200.
Louis Telee to Louis Gerloff, 139^ acres R. Tur-
ner survey, for $13 95, quit claim.
liailroud Re d Estate Building and Savings Asso-
sociation of Texas to Adeline Tavlor, lot 11, in
block 505, south side Buffalo bayou, for $100.
Railroad Real Estate Building and Savings Asso-
ciation of Texas to E. Davis, lot 10, in block 505,
south side Boffalo bavou, for $125.
Wm. Frederick to Charles Vevveger, part of the
north half of lot 8 in block 148, south side Buffalo
bayou, for $125.
Wm. Cummlngs and wife to Henry Watts, lota 1,
2 and 6 of the Thorp & Cummings - ubdivision of
lot 3, Turmester quarter league, for $150.
R. J. Thacker to Simon Latson, a nart of ten-
acre lot, No. 32, J. S. Holman survey, for j?50.
Jame-; cowling to Regina Lesch. lot No. 11 in
bl'>ck 57, south side Buffalo bayou, for $-500.
C. C. Morse and wife to G. N. Graves, 19 acres J.
D. L'aylor league, f or $30.
T. E. Byrnes to G. A. Clark, parts of lots 6, 7, 8
and 12 in block 70, south side Buffalo bayou, for
$1250.
Cieo. A. Clark to John Illg, parts of lots 6, 7 8 and
12 in block 70, for $1450.
A. B. Briscod to Mary J. Briscoe, lots 2. 3, 5. 6
and 8 in b ock 58, south side Buffalo and Bray's
bayous, in the town of Harrisburg, for $800.
A US 'llX.
Legal Appointment—Marshal Russel—
Charter—Official Rulings—Sequestra-
tion—Ladies9 Art Exchange, Etc.
[Special Telegram to The News.1
Austin, March 23.—Senator Houston has
been appointed district attorney for the Bra-
zoria District.
Two or three suits upon promissory notes
have been brought in the County Court against
Mai shnl Pai-sdl. Tho government agents in-
vestigating Russell are extremely active.
Since^ vheir return from San Antonio they
have been looking into his private accounts,
hotel bills, cigar accounts, etc.
The charter of the Hymeneal Union, of this
city, was filed to-diy.; object, to carry in-
surance into matrimony.
The attorney-general ordered high-ball poker
to be treated as a banking game, such as are
proh bited by the g mibling laws.
By the ruling of the comptroller Masonic
lodges are not exempted from taxation, as
claimed, because their property is used for
public charity. Toe ruling was based on a
general idea as to the objects of Masonry, and
is subject to modification, upon the showing
by the fraternity of the true objects and pur-
poses of the same, and the uses made of their
property.
The comptroller notifies tax-collectors hold-
ing as-essment roils f >r back taxes f >r 1871 to
to 1870 not to enforce collections by sales of
the land--, as the legislature may make a
change in the law.
Street, improvement bonds of Weatherford
for 510,000 have been registered by the comp-
troller.
Accounts filed in the comptroller's office
show a deficiency of about $200,000 due sheriffs.
Most of the sheriff, have i etaiied State funds
as tax coilec orssufTic ent to cover.th-ir claims.
Tax collectors have been n t tied that the law
requiring prompt settlements will be strictly
enforced.
The Lad es' Art Ex -hangs selected ex-Gov-
ernor Hubbard to deliver the o^o ling address,
b t that geutiem in declined, not having the
leisure time. Indications are flattering for a
very general attendance and intertsting ex-
hibition here on the 20th of Apiii Dy the Ex-
change.
ZJLliEDO.
Price of Mcxican Sheep—Machinery for
Mexico—Personal, Etc.
[Special Telegram to The News.]
Laredo, March 23.—The bad weather has so
moderated that no damage is now anticipated
to the sheep on the Rio Gran le border. To
correct a wrong impiession, I quote Mexican
sheep in Mexico at from $1 75@2 00 per head.
To this must be added 27 per cent, ad valorem
duties. Graded sheep on this side of the range
at from $2 50(£4 00 p^r head. Many strangers
come here expecting to buy Mexican sheep at
$1 per head. There are no Mexican sheep on
this site for sale.
One hun ;red thou^nd pounds of heavy
machinery has arrived here from New York,
on tho International Railroad, for Monterey.
It will be shipped on the Mexican National
road for that p ace.
The negro arrested here a few days ago by
Assistant Marshal Johnston, on suspicion of
being the person who murdered a Jewish ped-
dler at Hoffman Gin, near the town of Mexia,
in Texas, about eighteen months ago, will be
returned to that place for trial.
Mr. Hennessey, of Galveston, arrived by
this evening's train.
MARSHALL.
Citizens' Meeting—The City Election—
Religious and Educational.
ISpeciai Telegram to The News.1
Marshall, March 23.—The citizens' meet-
ing at the court-house last night was well at-
tended, Samuel Turner presiding, W. W.
Heartsall secretary. A primary election will
bo held next Monday to determine who shall
be the citizens' candidate for mayor. Amory
Starr appears to be the coming man. Mayor
Hawley is still indisposed. Alderman McGill
is acting mayor in the meantime.
The Sunday-school convention is still in
progress and much interest is manifested.
Professor Mowery, of Tennessee, is deliver-
ing a course of lectures at Wyley's University,
in this city, to the normal class.
Bishop's Baptist College will be dedicated
to-tuorrow. Their buildings and grounds are
very fine. They have a flourishing schooL
DALLAS.
Old Jail Torn Down—Arrested—Water-
Works Extension—Pollti cal—Person-
al—Salt for Death Damages.
ISpeciai Telegram to The News.]
Dallas, March 23.—The work of tearing
down the old jail began this morning. The
prisoners have been transferred to the new
jail.
Jim Snow, charged with forging the name
of his step-mother, Mary Snow, at Fort Worth,
yesterday, was arrested here early this morn-
ing and taken back to Fort Worth to-night. It
is alleged that he forged two checks on a bank
in that city for $250 each, got the money, and
skipped out.
The city fathers have resolved to extend
the waterworks as follows: Down Market
street from Main to the foot of the street; on
Houston street from Commence to Wood,
watering the jail; on Harwood from Ross
avenue to Liveoak street. Fox's mains are to
be used. The pipe has been ordered and work
will commence about the 5th of April. The
next contemplated extension is from Pearl
street out Ross avenue to the Central Railroad
crossing.
Independent candidates for aldermen in each
of the four wards have boen announced. This
makes an entire independent ticket, except for
city marshal, against the regular Democratic
nominees.
Ridge Comley, of whom it was telegraphed
last night that he was an absconding agent of
the El Paso Times, on information given by
Ralph Carrico, is in the city. He proves him-
self to be straight with that paper from
credentials published this afternoon, and also
shows that Ralph Carrico is only a
brother of the proprietor of the Times.
In the District Court to day suitlwas filed
by Mrs. M. M. Potts against the Texas and
Pacific Railroad Company for $20,000 damages
for killing her husband on January 22d last.
CORPUS CHRIST1.
A Chapter of Accidents—Live Stock-
Personal — Railroad Notes — Court
Items—Sudden Death.
[Special Telegram to The News.1
Corpus Christi, March 23.—Ylario Solis, a
Mexican laborer oa the wharf, while unload-
ing a vessel laden with ties for the railroad,
let a bundle fall on his leg and mashed it flat
above the ankle. It will have to be ampu-
tated. Another Mexican let fall an iron rail
on his foot, severing a toe.
By a misplaced switch the yard engine was
detached, with considerable damage to the
engine.
Fifty-three fine Hereford two-year-old bulls
and heifers arrived to-day on the Aransas for
Captain Thomas Mathis's ranch in San Pa
tricio county. The Aransas arrived to-day
with a heavy freight and sixteen passengers.
Major G. Clinton Gardner, general manager
of the Palmer-Sullivan works in this section,
arrived from Galveston on the Aransas. He
will examine everything and make prepara-
tions for commencing work on the branch
from San Diego to Galveston, so we have been
informed.
Major Penn is drawing crowded houses
nightly.
Railroad rumors state that the Mexican Na-
tional Railroad will reach Monterey in eight
weeks.
District Court is progressing slowly. Two
felony and four misdemeanor convictions had.
Smith's case, for the murder of Riley, is set
for next week.
Dr. J. J. Gregory, a well-known physician
of this city, was stricken with paralysis yes-
terday evening while attending a patient, and
died this evening.
EXNIS.
Foundling—Strike of Railroad Hands
—Election Notes—Personal.
ISpeciai Telegram to The News.1
Ennis, March 23.—Some unknown person
laid at the door of Ford Hines last night an
infant child about four days. It has blue eyes
and red hair. City Marshal Horton took
charge of the little fellow, and will try to fer-
ret out the mother. Mr. Hines is an innocent,
inoffensive old man. who has been a street ped-
dler here for several years.
The hands of T. Y. Goldsborough, one of
grading contractors on the northeast extension
of the Central, struck yesterday; the reason
given is because he wanted to work them four-
teen hours a day. No compromise has yet
been made.
The local option question is being agitated
in the county and will doubtless be made one
of the issues in the fall campaign.
Candidates for county officers are beginning
to announce themselves, and a warm time is
expected. Our election for city officers will
be held April 4.
Farming is progressing finely.
Ged. Forsyth will be out on crutches next
week.
FORT WORTH.
Pork-Packing—Round-House Finish-
ed—Sparks—Road-Making—Personal.
ISpeciai Telegram to the News.1
Fort Worth, March 23.—The Packing Com-
pany received nine carloads of bogs from
Bel ton this morning.
The Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe round-
house was finished yesterday.
Sparks from an engine on the Texas and
Pacific road set fire to the window awning of
the Union Depot last Tuesday; being soou dis-
covered, the building was but little damaged.
The awnings have been dispensed with.
James Snow, accused of forgery, was ar-
rested in Dallas last night: Sheriff Maddox has
gone to bring him here to-night.
The fill for a general road and a street car
track from the foot of Main street to the Union
Depot, being 1900 feet long by 45 feet wide,
is assuming huge proportions, and will b
completed within two weeks by Early and
Hammond, contractors, at a cost of $5000.
Captain Mallory, of the Mallory Line, New
York city, and Colonel Ben. Walker, of the
Santa Fe road, are in the city.
SAN ANTONIO.
Argument in the District Court—Health
—Military Band at the Park, Etc.
[Special Telegram to Tho News.1
San Antonio, March 23.—The suit of Her-
nandez vs. The International Railroad, is still
before the District Court. It will be argued
to-morrow.
Contractors at the front complain of a
scarcity of hands.
Physicians report a few cases of pulmonary
diseases, but not much sickness.
The San Antonio Debating Society to-night
discusses: " Is conscience an innate principle
or a matter of education? "
Sheep freights between here and California
have risen nearly 100 per cent.
Major Dickey has offered to let the band of
the Twenty-second Infantry play in San Ptdio
Park Saturday alternoon. The mayor has ac-
cepted the offer.
Mrs. Swisher is to deliver her second lecture
iu the city, at Turner Hall, on Saturday af-
ternoon. Subject: Stumbling-block in the
way of Temperance Reform.
Weather dull and still.
HAINES VILLE.
Ball and Banquet, Ending the Stock-
men's Convention.
[Special Telegram to The News.]
Gainesville, March 23.—The fifth annual
meeting of the North Texas Stockmen's Asso-
ciation ended last night in a grand ball and
banquet—a brilliant affair. The bail was held
in the opera-house, which had been decorated,
and tho banquet was spread in the large court-
hall in the court-house. Great credit is due
Mr. Frank Sierwood, secretary of the asso-
ciation, in his successful management of both
ball and banquet.
A special train to Whitesboro left this morn-
ing at four o'clock, to make connection with
the Fort Worth train, but a great many st» ck-
men are still on the streets. The town is alive
with sporting men who gathered in during the
week.
The prospects are that several big cattla
trades will be closed this week.
The weather to-day has been cloudy and
damp.
CLEBURNE.
BASTROP.
Agreement for Rail Connection with
Austin.
[Special Telegram to The News.1
Bastp.op, March 23.—Messrs. J. D. Sayers,
B. D. Orgain and W. C Powell cn the part of
the citizens of Bastrop, met to-dav and signed
a basis of contract with General Griffin, presi-
dent of the Austin and Southeastern Narrow
Gauge Railway. Griffin agrees to begi a work
within ninety day.-, and to have the rop.d com-
pleted from Austin to Bastrop by April 1,
1883, and t o La Grange by October 1883. Bas-
trop gives $10,000 cash, two leagues of corp n-
ation laud, depot ground and right of way
-om th' upper edge of Bastrop county to the
vrn ' bastrop.
General Griffin left this morning for Austin.
4 Ire at Grand View—Losses.
. ISpeciai Telegram to The News.1
Cleburne, March 23.—This morning, at
four o'clock, a fire broke out in the town of
Grand View, thirteen miles east of Cleburne,
and destroyed four wooden business houses
and one brick saloon. The principal sufferei-s
are A. J. McAdams, building, loss $1250, in-
sured for $700; stock up stairs, undertakers'
goods, insured for $.500; lower story occupied
by Noal & Allen, groceries, loss $3000, insured
for $2000. Brick building, value $1350, no in-
surance, occupied by Satterwhite; stock valued
at $1200, partly saved, insured for $1000.
Chambers's building, valued at $500, insured
for $275; used for an office. Brewer building,
no insurance. Howard's shoe shop, no insur-
ance. The buildings insured were with com-
panies represented by Graham & Rutled&e, of
Cleburne. _
CALVERT.
Burglary — Fine Weather- Lectures —
Building.
ISpeciai Telegram to The News.1
Calvert, March 23.—Last night Messrs.
Adoue & Mestrot's store was broken open, but
fortunately nothing of consequence was taken.
No clew as yet to the guilty parties.
We have had good weather, and the farm-
ers are about through planting.
Dr. Meredith, of the Episcopal church, is
delivering a series of lectures on the subject of
what constitutes a good wife. Much interest
is manifested, as tha doctor is a learned man.
Several reside
very handsome.
FRANKLIN.
Arrested on Suspicion of Horse-Steal-
ing—Bay Horse and No Saddle.
[Special Teleeram to The News.1
Franklin, March 23.—A man giving his
name as H. V. Davison was arrested and
jailed here yesterday by Deputy Sheriff A.
D. Wiser on suspicion of being a horse-thief.
He claims to be from Bexar county. He was
riding a bay horse with no saddle. He says
he rode that way from Milano. He trif d to
sell the horse here for a * mere trifle. He makes
a contradictory statement. He is a young
man, with beard on his chin.
Farmers are very busy plowing. The town
still improving.
LIBERTY HILL.
then passed. Yeas, 167;
ISain
and Sleet—Blind Staggers-
Grangers Alive.
[Special Telegram to The News.1
Liberty Hill, March 23.—Rain, accompa-
nied with sleet, last night.
The blind staggers is raging among the
horses in our community.
The grangers are going to build a business
house in this place.
Weather del ghtful. Farmers busy. Busi-
ness in town lively.
RANGER.
Personal—Promise of a Good Crop of
Wheat.
[Special Telegram to The News.1
Ranger, March 23.—Mr. C. H. Reed and
family, who for the past year * have made
Ranger their home, have removed to Paris, in
this State.
Farmers in this locality say that the wheat
crop promises to be the finest that has been
known for many years.
are hsing erected, some
NEW YORK.
REGULAR DAILY COMMERCIAL DIS-
PATCH.
Cotton Dull—Gold Shipments—Hides
Firm—Coffee Strong—Silver at Lon-
don—Stocks Active—Sales of Texas
Railroad Securities—Sterling Firm.
ISpeciai Telegram to The News.1
New York, March 23.—Cotton dull, with
little interest on either side, though Ranger
sold Augusts freely. A further reduction of
stock will reawaken the bull feeling. A con-
siderable portion of the cotton arriving here
is in transit for Europe.
Probably a million dollars in gold will be
shipped on Saturday.
Hides firm, but sales of Texas light; 800 dry
at 17%@18Xc., cash.
Coffee strong.
Silver at London advanced to 52d.
Government 4s active at 118%.
Stocks active, with frequent narrow fluctua-
tions. Sales: $4000 Santa Fe* at 108; $4000 In-
ternational firsts at 107}^; $1000 6s at 84; $60,-
000 Texas and Pacific incomes at 6S%; $30,000
Rio Grand?s at 84@84%; 25.000 shares of stock
at 46^@453^; 500 shares of Houston and Texas
Central at 63. Denver advanced to 63% on
reported purchases for the Atchison, Topeka
and Santa Fe interest.
Sterling firm for commercial bills at 4.S4%
@4.85>.<.
WASHINGTON.
FORTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS --
REGULAR SESSION.
FIRST
Personal and Political Notes—Impend-
ing Changes — Greer County — Ar-
rivals.
[Special Telegram to The News.1
Washington, March 23.—Governor Davis is
expected here to-night, and it is thought his
presence here will create some developments
in Federal patronage in Texas.
Colonel Culberson returned from Texas last
night, and had he been here he would have
voted with the Texas delegation against the
anti-polygamy bill.
Authoritative sources say that Blockers
name was sent to the president to-dav from
the department of justice for marshal, vice
Russell, but tfce president substituted Ridge
Paschal, and thafc Paschal will be nominated
instead.
General Bee and Colonel Swisher will leave
to-morrow for Texas. C lonel Swisher states
that the government has no title to the Greer
county land, and that it will, when the matter
comes up for final settlement, be conceded by
the government to Tl x is.
Marshal Norton had a long interview with
General Grant ac the White House. WThen
Norton's term expires be wili b3 reappointed.
Hon. John Hancock arrived here yesterday.
Colonel Tom Ball is here.
[Associated Press.]
senate.
Washington. Ma-ch 23 —Mr. Windom, from the
Committ e on Foreign Relations,reported adversely
Senate bills in relation to Venezuela awards. In-
definitely posponed.
Mr. George, from the Committee on Agriculture,
reported as a substitute for several measures be-
fore that committee on the original bill to consti-
tute the department of agriculture an executive
department, and to enlarge its powers and dattes.
Place;! on the calendar.
A bill wa; introduced by Mr. Johnson appro-
priatine* $100,000 for the erection of publics build-
ings at Lynchburg.
On motion of Mr. Kellogg the secretary of war
was directed to transmit information of the amount
of supplies, ten's and transportation furnished t>y
hi - department to the several States for the relief
of sufferer- by the Mississippi overflow, and what
further supplies will be necessary, with an estimate
or their cost.
Mr. Morgan called up his pending concurrent
resolution declaring for a reciprocity treaty with
Mexico.
Mr. Sherman said there was opposition on both
sides of the chamber to all reciprocity treaties,
and moved a reference of the resolution to the
Committee on Forergn Relations. Agr ?ed to.
The life-saving service bill was again taken up,
and discussion upon amendment proposing ne«v
stations occupied the remainder of the "time allot-
ted to the calendar. Addit onal stations provided
for include three on the South Carolina coast, near
Georgetown, Charleston and Beaufort , inserted
on motion of Mr. Hampton; and one nearTybee
island, one near Brunswick, and one near Cumber-
land island, on ihe Georgia coast.' inserted on mo-
tion of Mr. Brown, of Florida. Senators spoke in
advocacy of new stations on the Atlantic and
Gulf ccas s of Florida. The bill was not voted
upon. Finally, at 2:10. the tariff commission bill
came up and Mr. Sanlsbury opened the debate in
oppositi u to it, followed by Messrs. Garland,
Frye, Aldrich, Williams an,! Beck.
The Indian appropriation bill was reported from,
the Appropriation Commute-* with amendments,
making i's total amount $1,807,300.
Mr. Mdler, of New York, was awarded the floor
to-morrow on the tariff, and at 3:35 the Senate
went into executive session, and when the doors
reopened it adjourned.
House of Representatives.
The H^use met at 10 o'clock in continuation of
Wednesday's session, and debate on the Chinese
bill wa- resumed.
The Chinese debate lasted till close of Wednes-
day's session.
After formal opening of to-day's session, the
moraine hour having been dispensed with, the
House at 12:25 resumed consideration of the
Chinese bill. At 3 o'clock the previous question
was ordered on the bill and amendments which
wer« offered by various members
Mr. Page then took the floor for the elo-inghour
of debite but yielded ten minutes o Mr. R bins<>n
of Massachusetts and Mr. Curtain of Pennsylvania,
Mr. Curtain said that Congress had now come faco
to face with a • quare, unadulterate I question < f
labor. 100,000 Chinese lab >rers in California took
the place of 100.000 American laborers, and the
naked question was presented to Congress whether
that state of aff.iirs should continue. Wneu the
Paci^c coast came and asked that American laoor
should be preferred the whole American people
were touched by the appeal, and it was the right
and du y of Congress to protect American citizens
against the iutroduc ion ->f heaihen Chinese labor.
This American government should set u > for itself
and say to all the world "we shall say who shall
c me and who ?ball not < ome, who sliall become
citizens and who shad not." H- then proceeded »o
give a brief history or' the conflict
of the European and Indian races, and lie wa-«
frequently interrupted with applause. He had to
speat of another race—the negru race, stolen from
their home i» Africa. Then the people or" Mas-
sachusetts had forgotten the sublime declara ion
of independence. The people were favorable with
the colored race. They know it wel', the negro wa>
a disturbs!ig element in politics. When tli/- gentle-
other day, beautiful and poetical and classic as
were his remarks, there *a>a mute eloqneuce iu
the wave of his armless sleeve, which Iwougnt to
him (Curtain) the consolation that America was a
unit and would remain a uu t, now and forever. II«
protested against compelling the people o: Cali-
lofuia, to underero the evils of Chinese immigra-
tion. Pot 100,000 Chinese down in Massachusetts
to displace the enlightened workmen of that great
State, a .d the violence of ihe Puritan denuncia-
tion would dwarf the utterance of the sand lots
and brambles of California. In conclusion lie
stated that he would vote tor tha bill as it stood
because it was thought by representatives of the
Pacific coast that it w«>uid remedy the evil of
which they were complaining.
After a brief speech by Mr. Cannon, of Illinois,
in support of the bill. Mr. Page, of Camorma.
tooii the floor to close the debate.
The House then prooied^d to vote on the amend-
ments.
That of Mr. Kasson, reducing the period of sus-
pension of immigrant .n to ten years, was rejected.
Yeas, 100; nays. 131.
Mr. Butter worth's amendment, limiting the term
of suspension to fifteen years, was lost without a
cad ot yeas or nays.
A large number of am»naments were then voted
upon, but were uil lost without division being
called. The bill
navs. 65.
^ The foflowlng is the vote in detail on the Chiness
bill. Yeas—Messrs. Aik--n. Aldrich, Armfleld, At-
kins Bayne. Belford, Belmont, Berry, Bingham.
Black!.urn, Blanchard, Bliss, Blount. Brewer.
Brumm Buckner, Burrows of Missouri. Butter-
worth Cabell, Caldwell, Calkins. Carapell, Can-
non, Cassidy, Caswell. Chalmers, Chapman, Clark.
Clements Cobb. C >nverse. Cook, Cornell, Cox of
Nt-w xork, Cox of North Carolina, Covington,
Cravens, Culberson. Curtain, I>arrelL
Davidson, Davis of Illinois, Davis of
Mispottin, Demolle, Deuster, Dezendorf,
Dibble. Debrell. Dowd, Dugro, F.rmentrout, Errel.
Farwell of IIIinoi , Finlev, Flower, Ford Forney
Fulkerson, Garrison, Geodes, George* Gibson!
Guetther, Gunter, Hammond of Georgia, Hardy.
Harmer, Harris of New Jersev, Hazeltine, Hatch*
Hazelton, Hillman, He ndon, Hewett of New York.
Hill, Hiseock, HobJitzell, Hoge, Holman,
Horr, Houk, House Hubbell, Hubbs,
Hutching, Jones of Texa*, Jones of Arkansas,
•Jorgensen, Kenna. King, Klotz. Knott, Ladd,
Leedecom. Lewis. Marsh, Martin. Matson, McClure,
McCook. McKenzie, McKentry, McLane, McMillan,
Miller, Mills of Texas, Money, >Io-
Moulton, Murch, Mutchler. O'Neill,
e?°' tj> Paul, Payson. Peele,
D „ 'p„s: P' ister, Pound, Randall, Reagan,
Kice of Missouri. Richardson. Robertson, Robin-
son, Kosecrans Scranton Shallenberger, Sherwln.
^ngleton of Mississippi, Smith of Penn-
olJrvi e Smith of Illinois, Smith of New York,
^ Speer- Springer, Stockslager,
Tbpmas, Thompson of Kentucky,
t 'J eiid °hio< Townsend of Illinois,
Georgia. Turner of Kentucky,
Kornfr w? w k?"' Valentine, Vance. Van
^ a8h^urne' Webber, Wellborn,
Whithorne, TV llhams of Alabama. Willis, Willetti.
w:ionwWN»r^it. W'SB °f Virginia-
Nays—Anderson, Barr, Bragg, Brires Brown
Buck, Camp, Candler, Carpenter, Chase, Crapo!
Cullen Dawes. Dernng, Dingley. Bunnell, Wight,
Farweil of Iowa, Grant, Hall, Hammond of SeW
HorL, udl'I|berf; Harris of Massachusetts,
Haskell, Hawk, Henderson, Hepburn Hooker
Humphrey. Jacobs, Joines of New Jersey*
Joyce, Kasson, Ketchum, Lord, McCord*.
Morse, Norcross, Orth, Parker, Raney, Rice oi
Ohio, Rice of Mass ichusetts. Rich, Richardson of
New York, Ritchie, Robinson of Massachusetts
Ru-sell, Ryan, Schultz, Skinner, Spoone, Stone,
Tavlor, Thompson of Georgia, Taylor, Upde^raff
of Iowa, Urner, Wodsworth, Wait, Walker, Ward.
Watson. White, Williams, and Wise—65.
Adjourned.
CURRENT EVENTS AT THE NATION-
>. AL CAPITAL.
The Attorney-General—Parity of Elec*
tions.
Washington, March 23.—A long letter from At-
tornev-General Brewster to Dallas Saunders, assist-
ant Lnited States district attorney at Charleston,
is published, with Mr. Saunders's reply. The first
paragraph commends Saunders for the part he has
so far taken in cases on which he was sent from
Philadelphia. The remaining portion is as follows:
By the by, I was upon the point of writing you a
letter this very day upon a subject that concerns
me very much, and I desire you to convey what I
now write to Mr. Milton, and read every word I do
write. If I were not about to write to
you I would write to Mr. Milton him-
self. An investigation has been recently
had here in Washington in the contest be-
tween Smalls and Tillman in the House. I send
vou now forthwith by this mail a printed copy of
the proceedings and the testimony and argument
that were sen1". _ to me only yesterday. I desire to
cad your attention to it. and Mr. Milton's attention
to it. and I respectfully request you to say
to Mr. Mi!ton that it is my determination
to have these matters thoroughly investigated and
thoroughly pursued. The right of suffrage must
be protected, no matter who suffers. I wish Mr.
Milton to be told by you that I expect that he will
prosecute forthwith the most important persons
who have been concerned in these attempts to de-
feat honest elections by fraudulent or forcible
means. I sav the highest and most responsible
people are those whom I desire to be first prose-
cuted and first pursued. There will be no exam-
ple if merely insignificant persons are taken hold cf.
Those who stand in the community and have thus
ventured to violate the law and encourage others
to do it are the very persons to be first prosecuted,
and, if convicted, punished in a signal
way. Then things wili begin to change and
voters will be encouraged to vote according to
their convictions, and those who do vote will feel
satisfied that their votes have been duly counted
and surrender cheerfully to an honest result. I
am very much in earnest about this, for I have
heard what I can not credit: that it is currently
said in South Carolina that the only persons who
will be prosecuted will be insignificant and obscure
persons. Such prosecutions I will not consider as
being those that justice requires to be instituted
and pursued. The Criminal Court-house must not
be used only for punishment of the obscure. It
must not be a poor man's court-house. All who vio-
late the law, and especially the fundamental law,
such as the right of suffrage, must be made to feel
the terrors of that law. Abuse of right o^ suffrage
such as is charged to have been perpetrated in
South Carolina is practica treason against the dig-
nity or the people and the fundamental principles
of their power, and it must be signally punisned.
At this point I have paused and re-read my letter.
I was about to send i off to you, and as I read over
I saw that through it ran a pretty sharp tone of
reprobation of this supposed attempt to pursue
the poor and obscure, and to permit the prosper-
ous and important to escape prosecution,
though they merited prosecution for of-
fenses they were charged with having
committed. I see nothing in my letter that
ought to be modified, for I am deeply in earnest
about all this. You are a Democrat, and very
properly sympathize with your party, and I talk
to you with a little more vigor because you are a
Democrat, and also because we enjoy such per-
sonal and friendly relations. I wish to express
my Republican convictions upon this subject, but
irrespective of my Republican convictions I in-
tend more emphatically to indicate how important
all of this is to both sides, that there should be
fair play all round. There is no just judg-
ment of the popular will in any election that is con-
trolled or biased by force or fraud, and 1 do insist
that both Democrats and Republicans should have
their faces set as flint against any abuses against
a free and fair use of the ballot-box. Colonel Mel-
ton. I desire, shall read this, and I would write
directly to him upon this subject if it were not that
it might look like an official! admonition that to a
certain extent was prompted by a belief in the
rumor that I have before repeated, that the poor
and obscure were to be pursued and the conspicu-
ous and prosDerous were to escape the judgment
of the law. I would not in any way impeach him,
and. therefore, I will not write even a letter in the
kindest spirit that might be construed as giving
color to such imputations, for I believe as the
public believe, that he will do his duty. I am, with
great respect, your friend,
Benjamin Harris Brewster.
To Dallas Saunders, Esq., Assistant District Attor-
ney of the United States.
Charleston. S. C., March 23.—The letter Is
dated March 18. In his reply, dated Charleston,
March 21, Saunders says:
I inclose you a list of election cases so far se-
lected for trial, the extract being selected from
yesterday's Charleston News and Courier. When
I reached Columbia last month, Judge Melton in-
structed, on visits to various counties, to select the
strongest cases against important and influential
men; not to take little fellows. You will see by
the list inclosed that the men we propose to try
are, except from Barnwell county, managers of
elections—that is, election officers, who carry on
election on the day of election like judges and in-
spectors of election like judges of election in
Pennsylvania. Then we have a case from Sumter
county against the Board of County Canvassers,
and they are men who count returns from each
precinct of their respective counties and forward
it to the Board of State Canvassers.
The Red Cross.
Washington, March 23.—The .following call hfl<
been issued: T » the American People—The presft
dent having signed a treaty of general con
ference, and the Senate having on the 16th instant
ratified the president's action, the American Asso-
ciation of the Red Cross, organized under the pro-
visions of said treaty, proposes at once to send its
agents among the suffers by the recent floods, with
a view to ameliorating their condition so far as can
be done by human aid and the means at hand will
admit of.
Contributions are urgently solicited. Remit-
tances may be made to Hon. Chas. J. Folger, sec-
retary of the treasury, chairman of the board of
trustees, or to his associates, Hon. Robert T. Lin-
coln and Hon. Geo. B. Loring, commissioner of
agriculture. Contributions of wearing apparel,
bedding and provisions should be addressed to Red
Cross agent, at Memphis, Tenn., Vicksburg, Miss.,
Helena, Ark. Clara A. Barton,
Bancroft Davis,
Fred Douglass,
Alexander Y. P. Garnett,
Mrs. Omar D. Conger,
A. S. Solomons,
Mrs. S. A. Martha Canitsld,
R. D. Mussey.
A Contested Nomination.
The greater part of to-day's executive session
was consumed in a contest over the nomination of
Thomas M. Cooper as internal revenue collector
lor the sixth district of North Carolina. His con-
firmation was earnestly opposed bv the two North
C rolina senators on the ground that the appoint-
ment is obnoxious to them and to a majority of
the people of the State. A vote on the question of
confirmetiou resulted—yeas 22, nays 24—but a mo-
tion to reconsider 'he rejection was immediately
entered, and all efforts to lay this motion on the
table were successfully resi-ted by a resort to fili-
bustering tactics, and the Senate adjourned witn-
out final action. 1 he vote was strictly a party one,
except that Senator Davis, of Illinois, united with
the Democrats in the vote against Cooper's con-
tinuation, and Cameron, of Pennsylvania, and Lo-
gan did not vote with the Republicans, but were
understood to be paired with each other, although
in what manner was not stated.
Hospital Tents for the JVIlsslssIppl
Valley.
Washington, March" 23.—The secretary of war
to-day issued instructions that 50 additional hos-
pital tents be forwarded from Philadelphia to
Vicksburg, Mississippi, for the benefit of the suf-
ferers from the floods.
Star-Routers' Trials.
Washington, March 23.—The Star-route cases
were called in the Criminal Court to-day, before
Judge Wvlie. but as the defendants were not
ready, tliev were postponed until Saturday, when
t;.e necessity of pleading to the indictments will be
peremptorj*.
Nomination by the President.
Washington, March 23.—The president to-day
nominated John H. Smith, of North Carolina, to
be minister to Liberia.
Florida Contested Flection.
Washington, .March 23.—The sub-committee of
the House Elections Couim.Uee on the Florida con-
test. have agreed to report favorably to seating
Bisbec.
Confirmation by the Senate.
The Senate, in executive session, confirmed
Enos J. Pennypacker, of North Carolina, collector
of customs lor the District of Wilmington, North
Carolina.
The Anti-Polygamy Bill Approved.
Washington, March 23.—The president has
signed the anti-polygamy t ill.
Representative Black.
Washington. March 23 — Representative Black
is somewhat iuq>roved to-day.
Acquittals in North Carolina.
Petersburg, Va., March 23.—Gray Latham, a
prouni.enw cuizen Weldon, N. C„ and Edward
Richard, colored, ch.u-gcd mtu uie murder of
Rufus F.elds ac Weldon some time a. o. were yes-
terday acquitted in Halifax (N. C.) County Court.
Fieicis wa> killed while committing depredations
on the premises of F. L. Emory. On tha inquest
Latham and Richards wore coui.xiitted to jad oy a
ue^ro coroner.
A Railrouu Accident.
Bismarck, Da., March 23. —The accident on the
Northern Pacific road, reported 3'esierday, was
caused by u broken wueei unuer a construction
car. It . ave way as the train was passing over a
bridge, and two cars nt.e.i vvit.i laborers fell into
t.ie river. Ligat were ..ilieo. Tlie cars t«»ok fire,
and the bodies were hadiy burned. Twenty-two
were injured, two serious v.
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