The Galveston Daily News. (Galveston, Tex.), Vol. 42, No. 58, Ed. 1 Saturday, May 19, 1883 Page: 1 of 4
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LOVE'S
CRKSYLIC OINTMENT
%
AND
CRESYLIC ACID
Supplied to the trade by
THOMPSON U OHMSTEDE,
Galveston.
..TEXAS.
Omci or Pcbucatiox : Nos. 113 and 115 Market Street, Galveston, Texas. Entered at the Fostokfice at Galveston as Second Class Matter.
M=:i SSSJSUOO loqi/j
Wo have now in trmasit t very larf*
stock of the Celebrated
Lucy Hinton Tobacco
AND
PASHA CIGARS
Please send Orders.
ULLMAN, LEWIS & CO.
ESTABLISHED 1812.
GALVESTON, TEXAS, SATURDAY, MAY 19, 1883-PRICE 5 CENTS.
VOL. XLII-NO. 58.
ROSE,
THE PHOTOGRAPHER,
Is prepared to furnish PHOTOGRAPHS in all sizes. His well known and State-wide reputation is such
•» to insure perfect satisfaction to all. Studio, 169 and 161 Market Street*
Copying and enlarging pictures a specialty.
ROSS, ELIJS & CO.,
Wholesale Grocers,
COTTON FACTORS
AND
Commission Merchants,
lamar building,
Strand, between 23d and 24th Streets,
GALVESTON, TEXAS.
TO MY FRIENDS; I am associated
with Meanra. ROSS, ELLIS A CO. in a Wholesale
Grocery, Cotton Factorage and Commission busi-
ness, Lamar building. Strand, Galveston.
J NO SI CLAIBORNE.
SMOKE
FLT
CIGARS.
best fob the money.
CHAS. HEIDEXHEIMER & CO.
GHROMO.
We have now in transit
the largest shipment of this
"well-known "brand of "bright
Navy Tobacco ever "brought
to tlie State. Can have any
styles made to order. Full
reduction of tax in price.
Send along your orders. Af-
ter, the 15th instant there
will "be no m-ore delay in
shipments.
F0CKE.W1LRENS & LASGE
Cotton Factors and Wholesale Grocers
SOLE AGENTS.
THE GREAT CLOSING- SALE!
OF
SONNENTHEIL &"LION
'Will contiime only a short while longer. All that are willing to buy real
bargains in Dry Goods and Ready-made Goods must call soon to secure them.
AMUSEMENTS.
KOTICS,
Professor ioos's Pavilion Sand
Will give a
Fine Concert
ox
SATURDAY AND SUNDAY EVENINGS
from the music stand on the Platform in front of
the Pavilion,
COMMENCING AT 0 O'CLOCK P. 31.
See programmes in cars
KARftlONY GLOB PICNIC.
Members of Harmony Club, and their families,
are requested to be at the train Sunday morning,
May 20, promptly. Trains leave corner Center
and N, at 8:30 and 11 o'clock a. m., and return,
leaving Middelegge Grove at 5 o'clock and 7 o'clock
P. m. „
HOUSE COMMITTEE.
W
Help Wanted—Male.
TANTED—1(XK» hands by
C. W. SLATTERY. Contractor.
at Fort Worth. Tex.
W
ANTED—A good barber.
Address El Paso Barber-shop.
Fort Worth, Texas.
W
ANT ED—A Cake Baker,
at FOX'S BAKERY,
Market, between 19th und 20 th sts.
Help Wanted—Female.
"\\TANTED—Ladies or young men. in city or
\ \ country, to take nice, light & pleasant work at
their own homes; to $5 a day easily and quietly
made; work sent by mail: no canvassing; no stamp
for reply. Please address RELIABLE M'F'G CO.,
Drawer TT. Philadelphia. Pa.
"Y^T'ANTED At Tremont House, one chamber-
maid and one woman to work in laundry.
~\ \ 7"ANTED—A respectable and well-recom-
\ V mended white woman as cook. Apply north-
west corner Tremont and avenue I.
1V7"ANTED A young girl to take care of a
YV child an 1 help about the house. Apply at
No. 6 East Market street.
A\
/"ANTED A GOOD COOK.
Apply at northwest corner of
Broadwa5" and fifteenth street.
IV
Hit iia,tions_Wanted.
ANTED—A situation by a colored man; any
kind of work. Address
Box Y. News office.
"TXTANTED—A position as bar-tender by a man
VV of many years experience. Reference given.
Address box O, this office.
TV7
Miscellaiieoiis Wants,.
ANTED—
A GOOD FAMILY BTTGGY-HORSE.
Address P. O. box 1GS.
AV
ANTED TO RENT—House o? li or 8 rooms
west of Tremont and south of Broadway.
ADVERTibER, Postoffice box 2.
Y7"ANTED—'The people to know that mv l'ateut
\ V Dry Arir Refrigerator, with water-cooler at-
tached, commands the attention of experts, who
say. at last I have found it. Examine them at fac-
tory, 166 Postoffice st., bet. 21st and 22d sts.
J. LEE BURTON.
*1A/"ANTED To buy a house and ground, not
> V more than eight blocks from Tremont A; Mar-
ket. Address. with price. Box A, News oftice.
"ITT ANT ED At the Galveston Bone 31 ills. 1000
\ V tons dry bones. Address BAUGII .£ SONS,
222 Strand Fertilizers for sale.
H
ELEN,
Personal.
STILL MY QUEEN.
HAZEL.
|3ERSON Al.-The Galvt ston City Surf Bathing
J- com { .any are now open, and being supplied with
new clothing are ready to furnish Baths at the
following low rate: 0 tickets for^l; 30 tickets for
f-4. Special attention given to ladies and families.
Houses at the foot of Twenty-first street.
T>EBSOKAL to Dr. <i W. Littleton; 1 «m now
J. at the Waco convention, and will remain until
the 18tli. Come and see me, or 1ft nie know where
you are. .J K LITTLETON.
QTATE G« >ODS DKSIKKD AND i'RlCES~Y<Ji;
O wish to pay and we will guarantee satisfaction
or money refunded. Not dependent on the job-
bing trade, we can offer superior inducements.
A. W. SAMUELS «Jt CO.. cor. Strand and 22d;
branch, Tremont st., under Opera-house.
Notices, Etc.
T_> EH EARS AL of Anvil Chorus at Artillery Hall.
JL V called for this evening,has been postponed until
further no1 ice.
P^ROM J. M. BROWN, Esq., late president First
Natiouai Bank, Galveston: I have been troubled
with Sciatica 25 years. Since using the MANGANIC
WELL WATER am entirely relieved, and now feel
that I can not do without it. Yours truly.
J. M. BROWN.
To Lewis McQueen. Bryan. Texj»s.
JJOUSES RAISED and repaired and in a satis-
1. factory manner; references given. C.G.Busch,
contractor and builder, at 12th and Market street
A P1A N 6 KO R ONE DOLLAR. "
/V Buy u dollar's worth of Sheet Music at
FELIX SCHRAM'S
and get a chance in a new Piano.
NrOTICE to Families and Consumers of Coal Oil.
We have arranged with all the retail grocers
throughout the city that they will keep constantly
on hand an ample supply of Kerosene and Eupion
oil. which they will sell to families, and consumers
generally, at J." cents a gallon for Kerosene, and
20 cents a gallon for Eupion From this date we
will not deliver oil to families, assuring them that
they will be supplied with it in any quantities by
their grocers, at the above prices. Should any con-
sumer have cause to complain of either the quality
or prices, aud will notify us, we will see that it is
made right Respectfully.
TKaas I .AMI- AND OIL COMPANY.
House Furnishing Goods.
Tj INS CORK SCREWS, Dog-Chains, Floral Sets,
J Spades, Rake Hoes, Ice Cream Freezers, Water
Coolers, Ice Chisels. Hatchets. Tacks. LABADIE.
r^( V,, AiND S EVENT VMM YE CENT Window
' '"-'Shades, best Quality; complete with fixtures
ready tor hanging, at the Galveston Art Gallery,
221 Postoffice street.
,, A,.n J- H. FLETT, Proprietor.
Remember the Old Stand.
TNSUKANC"E Oil-. 25c. A GALLON; KEROSENE
.1 16c. a gallon, delivered free. J. p. LALOR &
CO.. Market street, between.24th and 25tli.
OTOVES—STOVES—We are selling Cooking
kJ Stoves at from 50 50 to $45 00. Also, a full line
of House Furnishing Goods, which we will sell
cheap. I). A. KEARNEY, Opp. Tremont House.
Hotels.
MRS. S. B. WHITE Uate of Washington Hotel)
has taken Lie large, three-story establishment
known as the EDMONDSON HOUSE, on Post-
office street, second block from Tremont, and is
now prepared.to entertain both regular and trans-
ient boarders.
A VENUE HOTEL—Briton, lextu..
XA- Special attention to travelers. Good sample-
rooms: new furniture A •«»**'* "
ton. Texas. Just opened.
-..o. ,.oorl sampl
A. M. WALKER, Prop.
Machinery.
TjlORSALE ( 'HEAP—A 30-horsepower engine and
.Ju boiler, togetln r with counter-shaft, od feet of 2
Inch shafting, belt^. pulleys, and an entire set of ma-
chinery consisting of planer, rip saws, jig saw. cut-
off saw. Termoner moulding machine: in fact a
rticulars, ad-
Texas.
...uuuuug Jiiiicinue:
^Complete planing mill outfit. For parti
edress BENDER BROS., Jefferson, Tex;
BEST IN TEXAS—Batttrry, four boilers, brand
new, for sale. For terms and particulars ap-
ply to RELIANCE LUMBER CO.
Beaumont. Te
IN
EW Improved Cotton-Gin Machinery. E. Car
ver & Brown j-ins. See card in another column.
i u •* , ...... """tun coiumn,
JOEL& B. I . 'VOLH, l.eneral Agents. Galveston.
Educational.
"ISLAND CITY BUSINESS COLLEGE, Joss &
J Benisb, Proprietors, Galveston. Apply for our
82-page illustrated catalogue.
Rubber Stamps.
1~)UBBER STAMPS, SEALS AND STENCILS-
\j A amal! rubber stamp apparatus for sale.
FRED. A. SMITH. 114 Tremont street.
Fish, Oysters, Etc.
Real Estate.
TpOR SALE FOR REMOVAL—
.F The Allen Lewis house, southeast corner Broad-
way aud Twenty-sixth sts. Desirable lots on Broad-
way, between 27tli and 28th, for sale.
M. M. TRUEHEART & CO.,
Real Estate Agents and Stock Brokers.
^*OR SALE—Undivided half interest in Block 326,
J Galveston city. Applv to CHAS. A. LEWIS,
Ave. H, bet. 26th and 27th.
suitable for ranch purposes,
plenty water, some timber; title perfect. CHAS.
10 000 A(~RES land for sale in Wharton
plenty water, some tim
BOYD, New Philadelphia, Wharton county, Tet*
TT'OR SALE—lot. with 2-story residence, on
P south side H, east of 16th st., at $3500 ; 2 lots on
north side of Ot£. bet. 19th and 20th sts, with neat
cottage and outhouses, and 1 lot north of above,
with 2-story stable, known as the Starr S. Jones
property—all at $3000. G. A. 3IEYER.
"TT'OR SALE—One lot. with neat cottage, on the
I n. e. cor. Postoflice and 11th sts. Terms reason-
able. Apply s. e. cor. Market and 18th sts.
G\B' DEALEKS&IA°:iSH AND OYSTERS,
Orders solicited from the country.
B^OR SALE—Thirty feet of lot 12 and improve-
ments. Church st.. adjoining Harmony Hall.
Price, $4000. BLESSING, 170 Tremont street.
W
ANTED FOR RANCH PURPOSES.
Twenty to 40.000 acres land. Must have running
water and good title. Give lowest cash price.
Address BOX *>3,
Galveston.
"OUILDING LOTS OF SMALL AND LARGE
JL) dimensions, east and west; some with cottages
thereon. For sale or lease. SAM MAAS.
Real Estate Agents.
E. MOORE, '' ' ~~ T:L. GRAY!
3IOOEE & GRAY,
Land Agents. Temple Texas.
J" STEWART CLE V ELAND-
f.1 . Attorney at Law a.nd Land Agent,
Brownwood, Brown county, Texas.
Land business attended to in all its branches.
On receipt of tax funds, tax receipts will go for-
ward to owner by return mail.
References—Pecan Valley Bank, Brownwood,
Texas: II. M. Truelieart & Co.. Galveston, Texas.
Rrenham Advertisements.
CCENTRAL HOUSE, Brenham—Mrs. L. Biese:
J bach. Proprietress. Rates.$2 50 p. da}'. Largest
Mrs. L. Biesen
. p. day. Largt
and best hotel in city. Large, airy sample rooms.
rpRAYELERS—When at Brenham don't fail to
J_ visit the SANTA FE REFRESHMENT SALOON,
at: depot. Lunches and refreshments of all kinds.
Austin Real Estate Agents.
r A WHENCE & ED WARDS, Austin, Tex., dealers
l J in Land and Land Scrip. Will attend to land
business in all branches. pa>r taxes, locate, buy and
sell, examine and report on titles, etc.
~P> M. THOMSON. Austin, Texas, Dealer in
LV. Land and Land Scrip. Large bodies suitable
for ranches for sale. Correspondence solicited.
rpEXAS STATE AGENCY—Attends to land and
X other business anywhere in State. Johns &
Spence. Austin, Tex. C. R.Johns, former Comptrol-
ler. J. Spence, former Commissioner Gen. Land O.
rp W. FOLTS. Austin, Texas, Dealer in Ex-
_L • change and Texas Lands and Land Scrip.
Business with State departments transacted and
t returns made. Correspondents: Ball,
prompt ^
Hutchings it Co., Galv.; S. M. Swenson & Co.,N. Y.;
i."i'k\von,i Kampman.San Ant'o: 1st Nar.B'k.Ho'u
\ON ROSENBERG, AUSTIN, TEXAS,
. Land Agent, formerly principal draughts-
man in the general land oftice, has twenty-six
years experience in land office business, and offers
to examine and report on land titles, as shown in
the archives of the general land office.
FNO. K. DONNAN, Austin, Texas, dealer in
eJ Lands and Land Scrip.
Correspondence solicited.
For Sale.
/ BATTLE FOR SALE—Four to six hundred choice
v, beef steers—ones to fours—principally ones.
Wintered in Switch Cane bottom. Address Z. T.
WIN FREE, Cedar Bayou post office, Harris county,
Texas. Residence: Barber's Hill, Chambers county,
Texas.
"LpOR S ALE -200,000 Cedar bayou brick: 3500 bar-
rels Rosendale cement. W. II. Pollard & Co.,
agents, Galveston. Tex.
/ CHOICE MIXED WOOD by the car load, %\ 50
per cord. The best ash and oak always on
hand at PEOPLES WOOD YARD.
Corner Market and 32d streets.
Washington Hotel
Cor.Tromoiit aud Mechanic Streets,
GALVESTON, - TEXAS.
Having leased this well known hotel, we have
had it thoroughly renovated by paint and kalso-
mine and newly furuiihed, and will supply the
table with the best the market affords at all seasons
RATES $2 and $2 50 FE» DAY.
We respectfully solicit patronage of the traveling
public.
JOHF W. HASKINS,) P|v^o
"MRS. A. CARSTENS, i" rr°Ps-
FOB. COTTON
L'NGE ^
KAUFFMAN & BIT?
TOR GROCERIES,
Kauffman & Runge.
For Rectified and Compounded
Liquors,
SOUR MASH & RYE WHISKIES,
TC3AOCO, CIGARS, ETC.,
\KAOFF«IAHS HKL^
FLO UR
A S FECI ALT Y.
PATENT; HONEYSUCKLE,
JESSAMINE, and other brands.
FIRST-CLASS FLOUR of all
grades and in any quantity.
FLOUR DELIVERED in Car-
load Lots at any Railroad Sta-
tion in the State.
Correspond with me before Buying
your Flour elsewhere.
My arrangements with Mills are
such that I can supply you with
entire satisfaction a?id dispatch.
WmD. CLEVELAND
HOUSTON.
A AAA HEAD OF FEMALE CATTLE, con
"x\ / sistiug of vPOO cows. 1200 one and two 3
year old heifers, and 800 ca'ves. about equal in sex.
Terms, $20. Address J. C. HUT< HESON. Houston:
J. W. DAVIS. Dayton, Texas.
OTOCK CATTLE FOR SALE—I will sell from
O 10,000 to 50,000 stock cattle at $20 per head, and
will deliver same at my rauches in *Fort Bend,
Wharton and Colorado counties, each place of de-
livery being near the railroad. Address
R. E. STAFFORD, Columbus, Texas.
TTOR SALE OR REMOVAL—Saw Mill, Stern s
J* latest patent, 35-horse power engine; all com-
plete and ready for use; located on bank of Brazos
river. miles above Columbia. Address C. Davis,
Columbia, Brazoria county, or
H. M TRUEHEART & CO., Galveston.
*) FOOT RULES, 10c. Yard Stick 10c. Gauges 10c
— Saw and Plane Handles 10 ' '
10c. Stub File 10c, Niek-
1. Jack Plane 50c. LABADIE.
eled Brace,!
Barrels Rosendale Hvikaulic Cement,
f"V/ \ r\J ex bark Levanter; 4000 barrels Roseu-
dale, 3000 barrels English Portland Cement, to ar-
rive in June: 50,000 Fire Brick. Full stock building
materials. Discount on 100 barrel lots. GEO. 11.
HENCHMAN, Direct Importer and Dealer.
D. Freeman",
Galveston.
WM, Parr,
Liverpool Eng
William Parr & Co.,
IMPOP.TER8 OP
LIVERPOOL SALT.
Large stocks of Liverpool coarse and fine salt
always on hand.
Also Pocket Salt in all sizes.
XXX* SARSAFARXXiXJA,
THE GREAT BLOOD PURIFIER.
It has no equal. Never fails. Try one bottle for $1.
J. J. SCHOTT & CO., Galveston.
M.D.CON KLIN & CO..WholesaleDruggists,Houstcn
■\ RT1CLES ON ALL THE LEADING TOPfCS
JTV of the day are to be found it the columns ol
The Weekly News.
rpo ARRIVE—3500 barrels Rosendale Cement,
1 at reduced price on the wharf; in store all kinv'.s
Building Materials, Stoneware, Flower-pots, Fir e-
brick, Tile-drain pipe, etc.. at very low prices, by
car-load lots. W. H. POLLARD A CO., Importers
and Dealers, Mechanic St., bet 25th aud 26th, <?ialv.
DISSTON'S SAWS. BAILEY'S PLANES. BAli-
ton and Butcher Chisels. Bits and Gauges—tine
tools, at J. P. Lalor & Co.'s. Market, bet. 24th A 25th
lj^or sale—a tine lot of shelving, tables, coun-
jl1 ters and gas fixtures, at m. schramm, ill and
213 Tremont street,
OAWED AND SPLIT WOOD-Delivered, loads
k_7 of §1 50, $2 00 and S4. or at $8 per cord.
j. j. lewis & co.
IpRESH GRITS, CREAM MEAL, HOMINY
' bolted meal, cracked corn, feed meal and corn
bran, always on hand, at
GALVESTON HOMINY MILLS.
TpLECTKIC FED ANT EXTERMINATOR—Guar
_L_J anteed to do the work quickly and effectively
County rights for sale. For particulars, address
TUCKER & WILLIS. Druggists.
Sole Agents for Texas. Waco.
For Rent.
XpOR RENT—Two-story Dwelling, on north 6ide
JL1 of avenue I, between 10th and 17th; rent, $40.
W. S. ANDREWS. »
T7X)R RENT—A cottage house on Church, bet.
_P 14th aud 15th streets; rent, $35. J AS. L. Mc-
KEEN, Dentist, 100 Market street.
Rooms and Board.
Lj'1NE furnished south rooms for rent at No. 164
Jj East Winnie street, between Twenty-first and
Twenty-second streets.
r"1 OOD board and lodging, at §4 50 per week or
X 75 cents a day, boarding $3 50 per week, at
MRS. GOMBERT'S Old Market Restaurant, No. 114
east side, between Market and Mechanic sts.
OTICE—FOR RENT—To gentlemen only, two
rooms, furnished, south exposure, all modern
conveniences, six squares from Tremont hotel.
Meals given if desired.
N
Box T. News office.
Address, with reference,
/ 1 OOD BOARD, with or without lodging, gentle-
men preferred. Apply to Mrs. THOMPSON,
Church street, second door west of 20th.
b
pURISHED ROOMS TO RENT, WITH OR
without board. 51 WINNIE ST.,
cerner 24th st.
Horses, Carriages, lite.
L^OR SALE —For delivery June 1, a pair of match
_I7 mares, about 15 hands high; good steppsrs and
pullers; kind and gentle; can be driven single or
double; one of them has excellent saddle gaits. For
particulars, apply at this office.
J^X)R SALE—A first-class
SADDLE PONY,
in good condition, and sound in every pnrtlcular.
Apply at this office.
Dressmaking.
"T3EMOVAL—Miss M. L. Hoffmann, fashionable
J_\; dressmaker, has removed to 417 Market, be-
tween 16th and 17th streets.
RS. E. MOORE, Fashionable Dressmaker, 67
. Church street, between 23d and 24th streets,
opposite Tremont Hotel. Galveston.
_ Musical Instruments.
K(~\ ORGANS OF VARIOUS MAKES at specially
Ovy low prices, for cash or installments to make
room for car load of Thos. Goggan & Bro. organs
now on the way. Call on or address
THOS. GOGGAN & BRO.,
Cor. Market and Twenty-second tit., Gai-veston.
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Business Notices.
ATTRESSES MANUFACTURED in^R^iaired
at moderate prices. Good Mrork guaranteed.
CHAS. WEISS, Church, bet. 14th and 15th sts.
USTIN LIME.
If you want to be sure of the BEST, order of
P. C. TAYLOR, Austin. Texas.
•JHIP YOUR FRUIT TO
BLAGGE & CO..
208, 210 aud 212 Strand.
PLUMBING AND GAS-FITTING promptly at-
tended to. All work guaranteed. JAMES AS-
TALL & CO.. 64 Market street.
PEACH AND FRUIT BOX MATERIAL—Fpw
carloads Box Material en hand: also, suitable
Nails. Will cheerfully correspond with growers
and shippers as to best mode of shipping, freight
rates being a big item.
LANG, JULIA & WEINBERGER.
Fruit Commission Merchants, Center Wharf.
tF YOU WANT THE ORIGINAL McCLOSKEY'S
Mead, go to
SWEENEY'S.
REFRESHMENTS—The-Board of Trade, patron-
ized by the elite of traveling public. Billiards,
etc. Purdy & Randell, cor. Main aud Austin, Dallas.
"VTTEST STRAND IRON, BOLT AND NUT
V V Works, manufacturers of lag screws, bridge,
car and key bolts, nuts, washers, et<2., and dealer
in iron pipe, fittings, steam pumps, syphons and
cast-iron bridge washers. Estimates promptly fur-
nished. JES&E AST ALL. Galveston, Texas.
BLESSING, the Photographer, 170 Tremont st.,
niakes negatives instantaneously, thereforo ex-
quisite portraits.the best expression. Frames cheap
Proiessional.
TARLTON, JORDAN & TARLTON, LAND
Lawyers and Real Estate Agents, Hillsboro,
Texa^, have a complete abstract of all surveys in
Hill county. Special attention given to buying
and selling Lands, Perfecting Titles, etc.
Chas. 1. Evans.
/WANS & HARDWICKE,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW
and
LAND AGENTS,
ABILENE. TEXAS.
e
S. P. Harpwicke.
j.
M. PEARSON,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
^ . McKINNEY, TEXAS.
Particular attention given to collections and real
estate.
J AMES M. RICHARDS ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Weatherford, Texas, will practice in Parker
and adjoining counties, and give prompt personal
intention to the payment of taxes and collection of
c$aims.
Correspondence solicited.
H
W. PATTON,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Masonic Block,
CLEBURNE
Collections promptly made.
TEXAS.
Charles Miller.
KENNEDY & MILLER,
K
John Kennedy.
REAL ESTATE BROKERS AND GENERAL
AGENCY BUSINESS.
Houston, Texn*.
Plants, Seeds, Etc.
}7VRUIT TREES, EVERGREENS, Etc.—We haver
_ now planted and growing on our grounds SIOJ,-
000 worth of young nursery stock for next fall de-
livery. Agents and planters are invited to inspect
or correspond. WILLIAM WATSON, Rosedale
Nurseries. Brenham, Washington county, Texas.
Sportsmen's Supplies.
BAMBOO AND JAPAN POLES, 25c; 100 feet fish-
line, complete, 25c; sinkers, 10c per pound;
cast-nets, $3 50; crab-nets, 25c; dip-nets, 50c; seines,
trammell and like nets at New York prices. All
goods warranted. LABADIE.
POWDER
Absolutely Pure,
This Powder never varies. A marvel of purity,
strength and wholesomeness. More economical
than the ordinary kinds. Sold only in cans.
ROYAL BAKINU FOWDER CO.. 106 Wall St.. N. Y.
Fine Summer Drink.
Vigorine!
A Won-Alcoholic Exhilarating
CHAMPAGNE.
2 Dozen Pints, in case, at - $8 00
1 Dozen Quarts, in case, at - 7 50
SEND US A TRIAL ORDER.
JAKE DAVIS & CO.,
Sole Agents for Texas.
M . D. COKKLIK St CO.
WHOLESALE DRUGGISTS, HOUSTON,
offer all goods in the
DRUG LINE AT B.OTToM PRICES.
Try them, and save time and freight.
EUPIOIVT OIL
Is the safest and best of all the illumina-
ting oils. It furnishes a clear, bri^lit light,
is crystal white in color, inodorous and
free from deposit or sediment. It burns freely,
does not crust the wick, and is absolutely
sale.
We recommend it above all other oils for use in
oil stoves.
TEXAS LAMP AND OIL CO.
(The C5alUcston41rtvis
Ingersoll's taLk to the jury, yesterday,
slightly revives interest in the Star-route trial.
The Presbyterian readers of The News will
be deeply interested in the report of the Gen-
eral Assembly at Saratoga, this morning, aud
more especially in what may be regarded as a
practical step toward a reunion of the two
branches of the church disrupted during the
great political disruption twenty years ago.
The dying declaration of the condemned
man who ascended the gallows at Kilmainham
jail yesterday morning, that he would carry
his secrets to the grave with him, is evidence
of a fidelity to his cause and the friends who
might be injured by their divulgement, which
death itself literally could not shake. True to
his word, Curley's lips were closed to the last
upon secrets which he admitted he possessed,
and which might implicate the living, while
not justifying the dead. There is something
to admire in ths stern and gentf ous resolution
that wavered not in the very face of eternity
itself.
NEW YORK.
HSGUX.AK DAILY COMKSSCIAI.
DISPATCH.
Texas Sailway P^cvrities—Railroad
Earning,s—»Sterlin£ Advanced—Coffee
Nominal—Cotton-'-'Wool at Phila-
delphia, Etc.
[Special Telegram to The News.]
New York, May IS.— Santa Fes 112% bid, 113>£
asked. Sales, $250,000 Texas and Pacific incomes
atOO^G 1%; $100,000 Rios at 81^® 81^; 15,000 shares
of stock at 35^ shares of Houston and
Texas Central at 74.
The Missouri Pacific earnings for the second
week in May increased over $31,080: the Texas and
Pacific over $21,000; the Iron Mountain $30,000; the
Missouri, Kansas and Texas over $15,000, and the
International $2400.
Tho Treasurer and comptroller of Tennessee are
here to fund the debt at 3 per cent.
The passenger business troublo on the Pacific
roads will be amicably settled.
Eastern railway shipments from Chicago so far
this year are 20 per cent, greater than last year.
Sterling advanced, but sales were mads at 1c
below the advanced rates.
Coffee nominaily at 9^c.
Cotton declined because Liverpool refuses to ad-
vance, aad speculation leaves it alone.
A brig has been chartered for Galveston, with
slate, at $4 50 per ton.
Stocks closed with a sharp recovery of yester-
day's loss.
The Philadelphia wool market shows great
irregularity.
Prices of Mexicau bonds advanced to 45>£ bid on
the expected settlement of the debt.
THE PRESS.
Speech of a Newspaper Iftan at &
Sinner.
Washington, May 18.—The closing passage of
the speech of Isaac H. Bromley, of the New York
Tribune, at the Army of the Potomac dinner, last
night, in response to the toast of the Press, was re-
ceived with great enthusiasm. It was delivered at
a very late hour.
After some playful remarks about the services of
the newspapers in showing generals how to fight
in war, he said:
Pardon me. gentlemen, if on the froth of the
passing moment I have seemed to treat the senti-
ment you have assigned me in a spirit of levity
that relates only to this moment and this carnival
scene. This is not the time, nor is it the place, to
dwell on the tender memories which this occasion
awakens, or the nobler and loftier sentiments and
emotions which it inspires. But I shall be doing
myself injustice if I do not, at least in one serious
word, undertake in some faint way to convey my
sense of the presence in which I stand.
I can not make it seem that twenty years have
passed since you were in the midst of actual war
and the whole world leaned forward to catch from
the press the latest tidings from your scarred aud
bleeding front. I close my eyes for au instant aud
the whole panorama is to my memory enrolled. I
hear the sound of rolling drums and the shrill
music of the fife. I see marching columns stretch-
ing from the sea to the lakes and swinging down
from all the North to swell McCieilan's line. 1
hear the bullets whistle at the picket line. I catch
the sentry's call. The Army of the Potomac flings
itself again and again against Richmond. Grant
hammers Vicksburg into submission. The sturdy
Thomas holds his own at Nashville. Sheridan goes
whirling up the valley and Sherman's legions are
tramping to the sea.
On the torn edge of the battle aro the maimed,
the dying and the unburied dead. The surgeons
are at their work answering the moans of pain. I
hear the low,sad wail that comes down from all the
north from a hundred thousand bleeding hearts
and broken homes.
The vision passes! I open my eyes on the new
land, new life, new people, a new nation; disen-
thralled,' regenerated. Thanks to the kindly
chemistry of nature aud the curing force of time-
all the old scars are healed. Cattle go in and out
of the old embrasures: sheep browse by the side
of dismantled guns; low vines creep kindly over
burstad shells, aud grain is growing in the furrows
of the war. j'
It is well; well for all of us, and well for all who
come after us, that the war was fought, and well
for us that you. and such as you, fought it: and I
count it a high honor to stand, for one single mo-
ment, in the presence of men who played such
parts in such a triumph.
O
INTELLIGENCE.
Disabled Steamer.
New York, May 18.—'Tho steamer State of Flori-
da, from Glasgow, reports. May lt>, in latitude 11
de^s. 12 mius., longitude 64 degs. 2(j min., passed at
anchor a steamer—probably the Alsatian, with her
engines disabled and pistentrod loose; assistance
not wanted.
Arrived, Sailed, Etc.
New York, May 18.—Arrived: Rhyneland, from
Antwerp; State of Florida, from Glasgow; Egyp-
tian Monaivh.
New Orleans. May 18.—Cleared: Barks, Bal-
thaz, for Reval: Celestina, for Queonstown. * Ar-
rived: Steamship Counseller, from Liverpool; bark
Dominico Sanata, from Genoa.
Immigration to Kansas.
Kansas City, May 18.—The land commissioner
of the Kansas and Pacific railway reports an un-
usually strong immigration current into Kansas
this yrar, as indicated by the sales of the land de-
partment of the company. Last year's sales, about
106,000 acres, have already been executed before
the clostt of the fifth month this year. Inquiries
for cattlo and sheep ranches, especially, were
more mumerous than ever before.
Business Failures.
New York. May IS.—The business failures
throughout the country for the past seven days
number 171, as compared with 150 last week: The
Western States have 56; Southern States, 30; Mid-
dle States, 24, New England States. 18: Pacific
States and Territories, 9; Canada and New ^ 24.
OVER THE STATE.
TRANSMITTED BY WIRE BY SPECIAL CORRESPONDENTS.
HOUSTON.
Cotton Xtfarket Report and Receipts
—County Commissioners Court—Real
Estate Transfers— —Miscellaneous
Notes.
(Special Telegram to The News.]
Houston, May 18.—The cotton market closed
quiet. Sales, 139 bales. Quotations: Low ordinary,
7^c; ordinary, 8c: erood ordinary, 9c; low
middling, 956c; middling, lOJ-^c; good middling,
lO^jc: middling fair, ll>ic.
Receipts: Per Houston and Texas Central rail-
way—879 bales; Houston, 70; New Orleans, 504;
Galveston, 30S.
Per Missouri Pacific railway—45 bales for Hous-
ton.
Per Texas and New Orleans railway—2 bales
for Galveston.
Per Houston East and West Texas—C4 bales:
Houston. 12; Galveston., 52.
Total for Houston, 127 bales; for Galveston, 359
bal<»s. Total gross receipts. 990 bales.
Visited the Cotton Exchange and Board of Trade
Thos. W. Sims, Mobile: A. H. Hutchins, Waco;
Jacob Chase, Texas.
COUNTY COMMISSIONERS COURT.
The County Commissioners Court continued its
labors to-day. The bill of T. R. Sorsby, for sum-
moning jurors of iuquest from April "l'.>. 1881, to
January 2, 1883. for $20. was referred to the clerk
for examination, and he will report to the next
term of this court.
Bill of T. R. Sorsby for summoning three juries
of inquest was allowed for $7 50, to be credited to
him on the finance ledger.
The assessment of Mrs. Mary Flarity on lot 11,
block 470. north side, was fixed at SI500.
The bill of R. Cotter Manufacturing company
was allowed for $3 15.
The county judge is granted a leave of absence
from the county for three days at a time, at any
time within the next ninety days from this date.
The committee to whom was referred the report
of S. S. Ashe, of ad valorem tax collected for the
quarter ending March 31. 1883* reported that they
had examined said report, and found the same
correct. It is therefore ordered that said report
be in all things approved, and the clerk will enter
the credits, as hereinafter stated, on the finance
ledger, to wit:
For the year 1SS2 $12,817 53
Fortheyer JS81 942 27
For the v« .rJS$80 128 09
For the "ye»* 1879 172 62
For the year 1878 65 83
For the year IS. * 133 84
For the year 1376 30 66
For the year 1875 125 58
For the year 1874 69 03
For the year 1873 S4 31
Grand total S14.569 76
The bill of C. H. Milby & Co.. for lumber and
material furgished for bridg* v between Houston
and Harrisburg, for $786 31. was approved and or
dered paid out cf the road and bridge fund.
The bill of the Galveston, Harrisbura|and San
Antonio railway, for lumber furnished f<P bridge,
was" allowed and ordered paid out of the road and
bridge fund, for $48 48. ^
John W. Scott was allowed ®1 86 for bringing
John Iden from Westfleld to Houston.
Commissioner Burke called up the report of the
committee on printing* specifications, tracing plans
and advertising for bids for court-house, which
was filed in the court on the 15th inst., by himself
and Commissioner Throckmorton, whereupon the
county judge ruled the report out of order. The
following is a copy of the report:
In the County Commissioners Court the commit-
tee appointed by the court on printing made the
following report:
Houston, May 14,1SS3.—To the Honorable Com-
missioners Court of Harris County—Gentlemen:
The undersigned appointed a committee from this
court to advertise for bids for the building or a
court-house in the city of Houston, and to have
specifications of said work printed, and drawings
of plans for same traced, beg leave to report they
have advertised as directed, in the city papers and
in the Galveston News. The result of said adver-
tisement is a number of competive bids from
various places for your consideration to-day.
We have ordered the specifications printed by W.
H. Coyle, and he has performed the work in a very
neat, "and with the exception of some necessary
delay, most satisfactory manner.
We have ordered Mr. Duhamel, the architect
employed by this court to trace the plans and he is
now engaged in making such tracings for the use
of the court. Iu order to promote harmony in the
court we have endeavored to have Mr. Duhamel
make a copy of the plans by a process known as
blue prints, of which he has made one copy, he
having been instructed by this committee that no
greater number would be necessary. We would
state, however, that we find the print so obtained
to be utterly worthless for the purposes intended
and are so advised and informed by Mr. Duhamel
and by architects, engineers and mechanics gener-
ally. Respectfully submitted,
Frank S. Burke,
Henry C. Throckmorton,
Committee.
There being no other business before the court
it was ordered thAt it stand adjourned until the
second Monday in June, 1883.
REAL ESTATE.
The following deeds of transfer were filed for
record in the county clerk's oftice to-day:
C. R. Hopson to Z. A. Hankinson. lots 8 and 9, in
block 39, Hopson addition, south side Buffalo
bayou, city of Houston, for $400.
M. Raphael to G. S. Garwood, north half of lot
11 and parts of lots 8 and 10, iu block 215, south
side Buffalo bayou, city of Houston, for S600.
MISCELLANEOUS NOTES.
A building committee has oeen appointed to take
charge of aud carry on t!^c contemplated improve-
ments to be made in the Hutchins house in this
city.
Captain John .T. Atkinson, superintendent of the
Houston Direct Navigation company, left for Hot
Springs, Ark., to-day, accompanied by his wife.
Major A. Ruttkay left for New York to-day, to
be absent during the summer.
Congressman-elect James F. Miller, of Gonzales
is in the city.
Jacob Binz. of the Flatonia Mining company, re-
turned from New Mexico last night.
Officer Latimer, hearing cries of police: murder!
near the Tremont house, about 2 o'clock thi;
morning, repaired to that locality and found two
men engaged in a scuffle. He arrested the parties
and carried them to the station-house. Cne of
them (Joe Lougteen) declares the other (Charli
Warren) was attempting to rob him. The oflicer
charged them with lighting on the street, and 011
trial this morning Warren pleaded guilty and was
fined $2; the other, pleading not guilty, was fined
$5. The latter took an appeal from the mayor's
decision.
BAIiXsAS.
Saong-erfest blatters—Coching- X&ain
A Quiet Crowd.
[Special Telegram to The News.l
Dallas, May 18.—The Saengerfest concluded by
a ball in the great hall to-night. The efforts of H.
B. Frees, the young musical director of the festi
val, have been crowned by success, marked for
tireless energy and application. He has spent the
last four years of his life in Dallas as music
teacher and composer. He was born in London, of
Prussian parents, in 1857, and studied in London
Canada and New York; came from Savannah
Ga . to Texas, and, on account of poor health, went
to San Saba to sell groceries. Came from that
place to Dallas.
The procession, postponed till to-day, was inter-
fered with again by the rain. Visitors are leaving
to-day. Many regrets are heard that the full pro
cession as planned and prepared did not come off.
It would have been an extraordinary display, and
it is calculated would have been upwards of one
and a half mile long.
There were several cock-fights to-day. The two
priucipal were won by Dallas and Fort Worth re
spectively. A royal main takes place to-morrow
for $250 a side. Eight cocks will be turned loose
at once in the pit, aud the surviving cock will be
worth $250 to its owner. In order to encourage
eocking mains in Texas a State Game Breeders"
clubjwas organized, J. H. Wright, of Paris, presi
»ieut; W. H. Love, of Taylor, first vice-president
G. W. Robinson, of Cold Springs, second vice-
president, and T. H. Wheless, of Austin, secretary
and .*.reaswrer. They announce that they propose
to ele vate the tone of the amusement in Texas. It
is proposed to have the first main at the Austin fair
in the fall. .
It is worthy of roportonal notice that during the
week of festivities the statistics of law-breaking in
Dallas averaged daily about as usual. Four insig-
nificant culprits held a caucus with 3Iayor Cabell
to-day The credit for this state of affairs may be
divided between good officers and a law-abidin;
crowd.
3ASTHO?.
Died from His Wounds—The Slayer
Arrested.
[Special Telegram to The News.]
Bastrop, May 18.—The negro Burris, who was
shot, Wednesday morning, by Joe Jackson, near
here, died this morning from the affects of his
wounds. Joe Jackson, the man, was arrested, but
not before he had given the officers some trouble.
Our sheriff has had some men on the look-out for
him ever since the shooting, and last night they
ascertained that he had returned home, but upon
going to the house and informing the inmates of
their purpose the officers were refused admittance
and threatened death if they attempted to enter.
The house was guarded, aud at au early
hour this morning Jackson appeared at the
door with a Winchester rifle and commenced firing
upon the office rs who returned the fire with a shot-
gun, the shot taking effect in the head and abdo-
meu. Upon being wounded he dropped his gun
and surrendered. His wounds aro not supposed
be dangerous and he is now confined ia the jail at
this place.
Mr. Campbell Tavlor, one of the oldest citizens
of this place, is very ill with pneumonia, and
doubts are entertained as to hi.; recover}"..
We have had no raiu in this section for a long
time and the crops are reported suffering: for want
of rain.
Business at present is very dull.
T'STXiSn.
Schools Closed—-Very III, Etc.
TSpecial Telegram to The News.]
Tyler, May 18.—The city graded public schools
closed with the examinations to-day the first term
of eight months under the control of the ciiy gov-
ernment. While they may have been conducted
in a very efficient manner, they failed largely to
give general satisfaction.
Miss Mary, daughter of Dr. Starley, late of Cor-
Sicana, is dangerously ill with pneumonia. Her
brother. Dr. Starley. of Navarro county, came in
on the evening train iu answer to a summons to her
bedside.
A ne^ro in the employ of L. W. Flood was iailed
to-day charged with stealing a diamond ring from
Mrs. Flood. He had pawned it at a clothing-house
for goods. The ring was recovered.
POST Wt3££T32.
Pavement Traitors—-Personal men-
tion—School Ssicrcisos, Etc.
[Special Telegram to The News.]
Fort WToitTrt, May IS.—The City Council met
this afternoon to let the contract for macadamizing
Houston and Main streets, but the usual indecision
and delay characterized their action. All bids were
declared off. A committee of three couucilmeu
and tho engineer were empowered to let the con-
tract, as an experiment subject to the council, for
the improvement of streets in front of one or two
blocks.
C. W. Glattey lost $2000 by failing to make a
good bond for macadamizing. H>s contract was;
returned to him after he gave a written agreement;
not to sue the city.
Coloatl Robert Graham, here to-day, reports
having: sold 30,000 acres of land in Jack and Ciay
counties to the Red River Stock company for $3 50
per acre; that this city (Graham) ia fast building
up; that Gainesville is considering the building of
a railway via Graham to Abilene: and that his re-
gion has the best prospects for crops ever there.
Colonel C. W. Styles, ex-editor of the Eyening
Democrat, will join the Press excursion party here
to-niglit en route to Montery. Mex.
The civil docket of the County Court begins next
Monday with 162 cases.
Tne Decherverien hall was crowded to hardly
standing room to-night to witness the closing exer-
cise of the public schools. The children, in bright
array, acquitted themselves greatly to the credit
of themselves and preceptors by song, declama-
tion, dialogue and recitations. They were greatly
applauded.
The Ragland & Wise rock case consuming so
much time, court was held to-night.
AUSTIN.
Fish Matters-—Charters Granted—
Pardoned—Trouble with Cow-boys
Feared — Indian Raids — - Capitol
Building Kotos—-Penitentiary Af-
fairs.
[Special Telegram to The News.1
Austin, May 18.—The comptroller to-day de-
posited $100,000 to the general revenue.
Treasurer Lubbock has returned much improved
in health from his recent visit to the coast.
Insurance adjusters are busy investigating their
losses at the recent fires. They will probably be
called upon to replace the Hancock building.
Fish Commissioner Lubbock has a letter from
the United States commissioner asking a waver of
the State law prohibiting seining in Texas streams
for an agent to collect specimens of Texas fish for
the National Museum. No one has authority to
suspend the laws of Texas, but if the agent should
be convicted the governor would very likely par-
don him out of jail.
The United States commissioner, in response to
an application of Mr. Lubbock for a supply of
gold fish, promises a few hundred now if Mr. Lub
bock will send a man to take care of them in tran-
sit, or will deliver them next fall when he sends a
lot of shad to be planted in Texas rivers.
By charter amendment the capital stock of the
Fort Worth Investment company was increased to
$100,000.
The Abita Land and Live Stock company, of
Houston, and the Navarro County Artificial Lake
and Park association were chartered to-day.
The Governor pardoned J. D. Woodward out of
the penitentiary, the pardon to take offect one day
before the expiration of his sentence. The District
Attorney and a large number of citizens asked this
in order to restore the citizenship of Woodward.
The Penitentiary Board will visit Huntsville early
next week. There are twenty-seven applicants for
State railroad engineer.
Lieutenant Hoffar. of the State troons, reports
from the Panhandle that the cowboys in Oldham
county have abandoned their strike and gone to
work at their old wages. He reports trouble is ap
prehended at the Igeneral round-ups in Greer, Wil
barger and Hardeman counties, and stock-owners
request the presence of rangers to iteap down dis-
turbances. Rangers will be furnished.
Captain Gillespie, of the State troops reports
from Fort Davis that Indians are reported to be
raiding the Carrizo mountains, and he has sent
rangers to that vicinity. It is believed numerous
small parties of silver and coal-mine hunters are in
the mountains in Presido and El Taso counties,
who would be in danger if the report was true.
T. W. Foltz was appointea a member of the
Lunatic asylum board in place of Dr. Swearingen.
who resigned.
The governor is non-committal as to his impres-
sions of the Burnet granite and marble. It ap-
pears the owners of granite quarries up there offer
to furnish any quantity required at the cost of
quarrying, and the narrow-gauge railway offers'to
put down transportation to a nominal price. They
want the granite advertised. Unless it can be put
in the walls as cheaply as the limestone around
here it can not be adoDted without action of the
legislature, for the contractors would not agree to
pay a sum they think half a million dollars more
than is required by their obligation.
Some days ago the suggestion was volunteered
in these dispatches that somehow penitentiary
matters were never transacted in a straight forward
manner. It had immediate reference to the at-
tempt of penitentiary officials to rush through a
secret contract for hiring inside convicts, in the
meantime suspending .the advertisement inviting
bids for such contracts which was then being pre
pared. Inasmuch as the Penitentiary Board, imme-
diately upon reading the proposal for the private
contract, ordered the suspended advertisement to
be published and left the proposals severely alon»,
it is but just to them to say that they, being
under the new law sole managers of the whole
business, have conducted it in an open and straight-
forward manner. They are only responsible for
the indirection in their agents when permitted or
adopted by the board. The retention of agents
schooled in the methods and practices of the past
management is thought to he hazardous to the
changed order of business, and will likely involve
the board in Adless trouble until those agents have
been as thoroughly reconstructed as the legislature
intended the prison system should be.
The Higher Courts.
Austin, May 18.—The Supreme Court affirmed
Williams vs. Rogan et al., from San Saba county:
Pendergast vs. Beal, from Navarro county; New-
man vs. Dodson et al., from Washington county.
Reversed and rendered for appellant: Williams
vs. San Saba county, from San Saba oounty.
The following motions were overruled: To dis-
miss fappeal, Hillebrand vs. McMahan, from ;
to strike out statement of facts. Crescent Insurance
company ivs. Griffin & Shoot, from Hill county.
Certiorari granted in Houston and Texas Central
railway vs. Watson & Bro., from Limestone
county.
Referred back to counsel for argument: Lorance
vs. Marchbanks, from Johnson county.
Submitted on briefs for both parties: Loeb vs. L.
& H. Blum, from Navarro county; Springfield In-
surance company vs. McKinnon & Hall, from Hill
county; Scarbrough vs. Burkett & Murphy, from
Milam county.
On briefs and oral argument for both parties:
Frankland vs. Cassiday, from McLennan county.
On brief of both parties and written argument of
appellant: Hillebrand vs. Mahan, from McLennan
county.
SAN ANTONIO.
TEXAS PRESS ASSOCIATION.
Election of Officers—Banqnot and Ex-
cursion, Etc.
[Special Telegram to The News 1
Dallas, May 18.—An invitation from Galveston,
through The News, to entertain the editors at their
next annual meeting, was the first thing considered
this morning by the Press association. It was re-
ceived with thanks. There were privately ex-
pressed regrets that it was too late.
Old Joe Kirgan's application for alms was cir-
culated and $12 20 collected.
Seventy five dollars was voted Secretary Abey
for his services.
A resolution by Mr. Smythe, of Weatherford.
that the association use every endeavor to secure
the passage of a bill compelling advertising of legal
sales, and oppose the election of candidates for the
legislature who wiil not pledge tliemselve to such a
law, was discussed by Messrs. Fields. Smythe,
Booth. Rigdell and others. It was referred to a
committee of five to report at the next annua!
meeting. The pledge feature was first stricken out.
however.
A resolution of Mr. Henderson, that all papers in
Texas exchange with each other, was tabled.
Memorial exercises on the death of J. W. Fish-
burn next occupied the association and consisted of
resolutions and eulogies by J. F. Elliott and N. Q.
Hendereon.
A resolution by Mr. Booth.tliatabill providing ad-
vertisement of legal sales be prepared for submis-
sion to the next legislature by Uie committee in
charge of Mr. Smythe's resolution was adopted.
The question of amending the constitution, de-
fining eligibility, was yesterday voted down, and
to-day revived by Mr. Gilbert. He desired to exclude
from membership those who rent out their papers,
and to provide that only those coming within the
scope of the words publishers and proprietors be
deemed eligible. The whole matter was again
tabled.
New members were then elected; W. G. Veal and
J. W. Bains, honorary members; active members,
T. B. Johnson, of the San Antonio Light: J. W.
Fleming, of the Age of Progress; Miss Maggie
Rust, of the Dallas Mercury.
On motion of Mr. Gosling the election of Mr.
Veal was reconsidered. Mr. Gosling objected to
opening the door to the election of persons who
never had connection with tho press. He be-
lieved even now that there had been too much
laxity in admitting active members. The
time may come when the association
will have cause to regret its easy
action. The identity of the association will
be lost in a possible mob of proprietors, publishers,
renters, personal freinds. admirers, good fellows
generally and proprietors of half a day's or a
month's life for specific and coveted purposes, per-
chance for a pass 011 some excursion. Mr. Gosling's
remarks were prefaced with a disclaimer of any
feeling against any person whatever, espeeially
expressiug no objection to Captain Veal. The views
of Mr. Gosling ma le an impression aud Captain
Veal and Joe Kirgan were undone as honorary
members.
The report of the committee on Mitchell's anti-
dead-head resolution, submitted yesserday, wa* ad-
verse. They concurred in the sentiment, but under
existing circumstances thought the resolution un-
necessary.
The literary exercises occupied the rest of the
morning session. Miss Painter, of San Antonio,
read an eleven stanza poem, mingling fancy with
good advice. For a lady of her youth the effort
was qnite acceptable.. Professor Cirardeau, editor
of the Houston Post, read an interesting and
structive study of the growth of civilization
and civilizing powers, tracing along the
course of progress the development
of the newspaper aud illustrating its great
power. He reviewed the history of journalism in
Europe and America, and analyzed its censorious
and news-gathering power. In citing illustrations
of the phenomenal success of Southern newspa-
pers, he doubtlessly inadvertently omitted men
tion of The Galveston News, along with the At-
lanta Constitution, ete. In proportion to popula
tion* he read figures to show that the United States
had one paper to every 7000 people: Switzerland
came next with one to "every 8300 people. The ad
dress was quite lengthy,.and impressed by its la-
borious research rather than by its originality.
. The association promptly rebuked the ignorance
displayed by several newspapers that complained
because their editors were not allowed to carry
their wives on the excursion.
W. M. Yandell was elected president over W. A.
Fields by a vote of 48 to 33, and Messrs. Fields,
Elliott and Booth vice-presidents of the associa-
tion. M. W. Gifford was elected treasurer and Wm.
A. Abey. secretary, over 3Iessrs. Mitchell and Gil-
bert.
Thanks were voted retiring President Gosling.
Mr. Davis, of the Mount Vernon Herald, moved
to suspend a member, because he was led out of
the hall from the presence of ladies in a helpless
condition. Motion withdrawn.
Mr. Fields apologized for his weak brother.
Mr. Gosling was chosen orator. Miss Painter poet-
ess, and Mr. Elliott essayist for next year.
The press was entertained at a banquet tonight.
They leave for Monterey to-night on a special train
of one coach and two sieepers. They pay for their
berths before being admitted to the train, aud
furnish their own meals..
union chapel, was disapproved by the synod and a
resolution adopted instructing clergymen belong-
ing to the syuo<>uot to participate in such services
in future.
SOM3 PRACTICAL SUGGES-
TIONS.
Characteristic Letter from Mr. Alex.
VXitchell, of XftcCulloch County.
[To The News.] •
McCulloch County, May, 1SS3.—I send
my congratulations of respect to the press of
Texas for the bold stand they lately assumed
against the further traffic in the labor of the
victims of crime. It speaks well for the pre-
sent aud has a good boding for the future
when we see a united press ranging them-
selves on the side of humanity. But the la-
bor is only begun. While the law deprives
men of their liberty, I can not see where we
have a right to their earnings beyond the cost
of their management and maintenance, and I
waut no assistance from any one to pay my
taxes, and the more especially if it is the earn-
ings of a convict. If he has a fond and af-
flicted mother, or a loving wife and bairus,
it will gladden his heart and theirs
too and make his labor light when
his earnings go to their supj>ort. Aud
if there is a time when a man wants a stout
heart and a fast friend to sustain his good in-
tentions, it is on leaviugotf his convict clothes;
and with his pockets filled with money that he
has honestly earned, he has no better friend.
And to Senator Terrell and his worthy asso-
ciates the people look for the raising of the
superstructure of which they have now laid
the fouudatiou, aud for its being honestly and
efficiently done it would be well that the sena-
tor or some one of his associates be placed in
the executive chair.
For convicts who are better qualified for out-
door labor than anything else, and who desire
it. I can see hundreds of jol>s over the State on
which they could he profitably employed. The
mission of humanity is to elevate theiu, not to
drive them to perdition. If they are paid by
the job or the day at a full compensation, they
come in no unfair competition with auy one; it
is giving away their labor for a song that causes
any injustice." I will give an instance of the
work tflby could perform, and I will select
the buildiug of a water power ou the Colorado
river above Austin, immediately above the
mouth of Bull creek for furnishing a supply of
water and light for the eapitol and the city.
1 would build a dam of oue solid concrete
block, give it a width of sixty feet at the base,
twelve at the top. and twelve feet high and
about four hundred feet long, at a cost of
perhaps $16,000, more or less, and excepting
the board of the men, the cost of the plant, a
mere trifle, the balauce, may be two-thirds,
would be labor. On this tne corporation of
Austin could get five or ten years time at
reasonable rate of interest. It might be said,
where lies the difference in giving bonds now
and in five or ten years time - During con-
struction a ten per cent, bond would in all
probability sell at a discount, while, after the
work was established on a solid
basis, a five per cent, bond might
command a premium. This is how convict labor
can be utilized for a direct benefit to them,
and au indirect benefit to the corporation em-
ploying them, and, where employed iu making
water-powers, an indirect benefit to the State.
Let me say a word to the Austin folks. A
concrete dam has many advantages, especially
with you. Yofc can make it as solid as the ad-
jacent hills, and you will never ba liable for
damages to bridges by a break. You have the
stone aud sand and gravel on either side. You
have the hydraulic limestone and tho river-
bottom clay, and the«fuel on the spot to con-
vert them into cement. If your clay is not
just right, it can be made so. Here is the
composition of the cement that was used in the
breakwater at Dover, in England, and iu the
proportion of one to nine of coarse gravel aud
cobble-stone, and it has stood the test:
Lime 40.so
Alumina 11.30
Silica 18.00
Iron 17.90
Magnesia 70
Water 1.70
Court Matters—S tore Robbed—Picnics
—Death—Scarcity of Labor—County
Revenues—Mysteriously Missing—
Wool Market.
TSpecial Telegram to The News.l
San Antonio, May 18.—John Delsite, charged
with kiduappinir and seduction, was released from
jail on giving bond in the sum of $1000.
Thirteen cases occupied the Recorder's Court
this morning. Nine penitents were fined $5 each,
three dismissed, and the case of oue continued.
The grand jurors chosen for the June term are:
T. C. Frost, Sam J. Barker, S. Halff. Wm. Votaw,
E. Villamain, Wm. Kohler, M. Muench, Thos.
Deweese, John Wiekland. Geo. H. Judson, Leonardo
Garza, Geo. Schroeder, E. J. Quirk, Jas. Glass, J.
M. Trainer, td. Notula.
The superintendent of the Military Cemetery is
putting the graves in fine order for Decoration
Day—May 30—when the graves of the dead are to
be decorated.
In the District Court to-day judgment was given
for the plaintiff in the case of Underwood vs. the
International and Great Northern railway for $100
and costs. -
Commissioner Paschal has finished taking evi-
dence in the great cotton case of Halff vs. the
United State3 government, in which millions of
dollars are claimed for the destruction of cotton
during the war. The depositions are to be sent to
the French-American commission in Washington
in order that the matter may be considered by
them.
The establishment of L. Potitzer was robbed
this morning of S105 by the porter. The culprit is
sixty years of age, ana answers to the name of
Hombre Viego. He has skipped.
Picnics are the order of the day. Three were in
full blast to-day at San Pedro springs; four are
booked for to-morrow, and five for Sunday at the
Missions.
Juan Antonio Cadena, aged sixty years, died
yesterday at Villa de Carmen, his ranch on the
Medina river. A cortege of mourners attended
from the city. The deceased was closely related
to many of the best Spanish Mexican* families
here.
The building boom has exhausted the supplies of
mechanics. Carpenters command from S3 to $4
Der day; plasters, from $3 50 to $4 50; brick layers,
from ^4 to S4 25. stone masons, from $3 50 to $4.
The two last named are in demand.
The county commissioners passed upon the fol-
lowing reports this morning: Sheriff McCall col-
lected during tho month of April from out counties
for feeding and care of prisoners $303; from fines
and penalties during April, $257 60.
Jose Cassiano, county collector, collected for
taxes, during the last quarter, ending March 21,
18S3, $2,046 50; for the quarter endiug December
31,1&&, $1,414 15.
Fred Bader, constable. Precinct No. 1, collected
from ttnfs and penalties in Justice Shields's court,
during April, $64; from Anton Adams's court,
$173.
^ Justice Avent, Precinct No. 5, collected $100 in
fines during the month of April.
The present epidemic of children's contagious dis-
eases is charged to the careless practice of parents
and guardians in allowing children, scarcely re-
covered from measles and whooping-cough, to in-
termingle with children at schools and adults at
groceries.
The friends of Louis Schiehagan are anxious.
He left his domicile several days ago, and has not
been heard of since. He was not in a normal state
of mind when last seen, and it is f«ared he has
taken his life. He met with a heavy business re-
verse some time ago, since which*he has been
WEATHERFORD.
Visit ol Asylum Location Committee.
'Special Telegram to The News.l
Weatherford, May 18.—'The Asylum Loca-
tion Committee reached Weatherford yes-
torday evening and are being shown loca-
tions that are thought suitable for the proposed
Asylum, by a committee of prominent citizens.
No donations will be offered by our citizens. They
rely entirely upon the advantages nature has given,
this place in the way of excellent water, fuel and
building material in abundance, good productive
land accessible by reason of being on the Texas and
Pacific railroad, and above all one of the healthiest
spots in Texas, as the rate of mortality will show.
The committee leaves this evening for Mineral
Wells, in Palo Pinto county, the waters of which,
are said to be a sure cure for insanity.
This county was generously watered this morn-
ing by a heavy rain that appears to have been gen-
eral.
Dr. Leo Rosser. of Virginia, has been assisting
Rev. John A. Murphy at the Methodist protracted
meeting this week.
TERRELL.
to Secure the
Asylum.
[Special Telegram to The News.]
Terrell, May 18.—Information having reached
here that the asylum committee had expressed a
preference for Fort Worth on account of cheap
lands, the committee of ci *'zens here informed the
asylum committee that the best agricultural lands
here would be priced as low as the open or grazing
lands near the Fort. Modi interest is ^manifest- I
by our people, and no effort will be spared to secure
the location here.
GREENVILLE.
A Residence Burned.
[Special Telegram to The News.]
Greenville, May 18.—This morning about 2
o'clock the residence owned by Dr. Marshall, of
Chicago, was burned. Loss. $1100; insurance.
§800. Our city is rapidly improving, and many
persons are seeking investments.
Proposition
Branch
greatly depressed iu spirits.
The wool market is nominal, buy-
disposition to take all fine twelve months and
spring clips offering, but not anxious to handle
other grades. Receipts, 900 bags: sales, 435 bags at
prices ranging from 16c to 20; 157 bags of spring
and twelve months grade brought from 22e to 26c.
rn'GRsacH.
General Improvement Notes.
[Special Telegram to The News.]
McGregor, May 18.—The subject of incorpora
tion bubbles to the surface occasioaally, and some
are anxious for immediate action, but it is not
likely that anything definite will be done in this
direction before fall. A little more life has de-
veloped in real estate circles, and it is strongly
hiuted that there is something in the wind.
The new arrangement by which we have four
trains a day 011 the Santa Fe. instead of two, is ap-
preciated by th? traveling public, and makes af
fairs more lively about the depots. Tho new
trains, it seems, run to and from Lampasas.
The weather is somewhat variable, but iu the
main pleasant, meeting the requirements of the
farming element and cheerfulness aud patient
expectation characterize our population, both rural
and city. , . _ . t .
The boom of the blast is hourly heard, which
augurs well for the water supply during the heated
term. Au artesian well for public use is talked of,
ani#should by all means be sunk. Machinery for
& flouring mill has arrived.
KILGOZIE.
Weather and Crops—Improvements.
[Special Telegram to The News.]
Kilgore, May 18.—Notwithstanding the exceed-
ingly dry and warm weather of several weeks du-
ration, the crops in this vicinity are leoking splen-
did, and prospects yrill compare favorably with
those of last season, though crops are needing rain
very much.
The Masonic Fraternity of Danville Lodge are en-
deavoring to rebuild their temple at Kilgore that
was destroyed by tire in March. The membership
is small and of limited means, nevertheless they
propese to erect an edifice that will be a credit to
our town. The lower story will be used as a
church.
PRESBYTERIAN ASSEMBLY.
Another Day's Proceedings—Reports,
Etc.
New York. May 18.—In Saratoga the Presbyte-
rian General Assembly religious services were led
by Rev. Dr. Nevin, of Philadelphia. The modera-
tor announced standing committees. Synod reports
were then called and filed with the stated clerk.
Presbyters were called for memorials, com-
plaints, overtures, etc., and papers, which were
also filed.
The reports of boards of foreign missions, home
missions, education, church erection, relief, of
freedmen, systematic benificence, Presbyterian
publication, and house and theological seminaries,
were *.hen received and filed.
Rev. Dr. Herrick Johnston, chairman of the
special committee on education, read the annual
report of this committee, initiated in the General
Assembly of 1877, and since continued. The ohject
is to devise ways and means to better endow col-
leges and theological seminaries.
The report says the field for necessary work is
west of Ohio. If the present indications of popu
lation growth are correct toe year l'JOO will see
30,000,000 of people west of the Mississippi. America
has too n any colleges poorly endowed.. She needs
fewer and better. Christianity must not be dumb
and allow colleges and preparatory schools to be-
come wholly secularized and give o*ily godless
teachings.
The report closed with a reiomm ?naation of
a system of college supervision confined to a new
and distinct board, to have its headquarters in
Chicago, with the permanent secretary.
The report was accepted and made the second
special order for Saturday morning.
The Committee on MinisteriaJ,Relief submitted a
report, which was read, containing overtures for
founding a special retiring or pension fund, for the
purpose of aiding such as are ineligible to relief
from existing funds er are disabled from ministe
rial work by age or ill health. Tho report advised
against the proposed scheme for a ministerial re
lief insurance; claims should be put on the basis
of merit and right, not charity. The committee re
commended the whole subject be referred to tho
board of relief.
Judge Alfred hand made a ministry report fav-
orable to the plans suggested by overture s. After
debate the whole subject was referred to a special
committee of nine to report to the General
assembly.
At the afternoon session the first order of busi-
ness was the reception of delegates of the South-
ern General Assembly, and Dr. L. J. Evans, chair-
man of the committee, appeared ou the platform
with Rev. Drs. William Brown, of Fredericksburg.
Thomas A. Hoyt, of Nashville, aud Patrick Joyce,
of Louisville. They were presented to the moder-
ator and welcomed by him and introduced to the
General Assembly. A message of peace and fra-
ternal good-will was read by Dr. Brown 111 an ad-
dress frequently applauded. It breathed sentiments
of reconciliation and a desire for christian fellow-
ship. Organic reunion he deemed impracticable,
for the reason that convenience opposed it, and it
can be done only by the acknowledgment of error
in the beginning of the disruption.
His colleague. Dr. Hoyt. wrote briefly and elo-
quently, conveying the opinion ef that element of
the Southern church that, desires reconciliation and
the reunion of the two branches of the Presbyter-
ian church.
Judge Joyce, lay delegate, briefly spoke, coincid
ing in the views of Dr. Hoyt, because he Iwlieved
the great majority of members of both churches
were favorable to only one Presbyterian church in
th- United States.
Tho moderator made a fitting reply.
At the evening session the question of Sunday
school was discussed by R*v. Drs. Hedrick, John
son of Chicago, !Howard Crosby of New York, and
J. A. Worden of Philadelphia.
Reformed Presbyterian Synod.
Philadelphia, May 18.—The general synod of the
Reformed Presbyterian Church of North America*
resumed its session to day.
Rev. Theodore W. Weils, delegate from ths gen-
eral synod of the Reformed church in America, ad-
dressed the convention and expressed the hope
that the general synod of the Reformed Presby-
terian church and general synod oE the Reformed
church in America might be continued to the mu-
tual benefit of both.
The moderator (Rev, James T. Norton) replied
to the address, stating that a close relation had
been established between thw two churches, as
many of the vital points at issue were identical to
both.
Revs. A. Giffard Wylie, of Cincinnati, and Wil-
liam McElhenny, of New York, were appointed,
delegates to the general council ol Presbyterians!
at Belfast, Ireland, one year from July next, anct
the Revs. William Wylie of New York, and Alex-
ander Kerr, of this city, as alternates.
The Lutheran Ministry.
Norristown, Pa.. 3Iay 18.—At to-day 's session off
the Lutheran ministry regular committees were
announced and secretaries made reports. The ac-
tion of the minister of the first conference in.
preaching at aad assisting at the dedication ef a
100.00
The breakwaters that form the hnrl>ors of
the Suez canal are of concrete, and it ims taken
its stand wherever strength and durability are
required. Aud while my hand is in let me say
a few words to the Galveston folks. AY ill they
ever wake up? It don't require the whole city;
five men of bruins are all that are wanted to
form a joint stock company to build a double-
track railroad from the end of the present ter-
minus to deep water. This will give them the
right of eminent domain and will not cost
over $500,000 a mile for a concrete road-bed.
Then put on the dredges and build wharves,
warehouses and docks backward to the city
and have a thorough railway system of load-
ing and unloadiug. Cartage and porterage
and other like things are fast swamping the
prestige of the conservative city of Liverpool.
Let them start with a capital of $10,000,000,
$30,000,000 would be more like the thing. On
ng their bonds on the market they could
say: We ship a million of bales of cotton; it
costs $1 per bale for lighterage and other
excuses from the railway stations to a ship
anchored in deep water and $1 06 extra per
bale to Liverpool on account of delay, loading
and unloading. Steamships could make
three trips in the place of
two. We propose to charge in the
meantime $1 per bale, thus saving $1 66 to
the producer. This will will give us a million
of dollars which will pay the interest at ten
per cent, on ten millions of dollars, and the
cotton does not represent one fourth of the
business. This is surely a good showing to lay-
before a capitalist. If you can not get the
material in Texas to build a harbor, you can
do as De Lesseps did in Egypt—order it from
Liverpool. You have as much wharfage now
as Glasgow had fifty years ago when it was
seventeen miles from deep water. She is now
the second commercial city, I think, in Brit-
ain, and what has made her but her surround-
ing mineral wealth, which would go into
the waist-coat pocket of the mineral wealth
of Texas. Your climate and geographical
position is destined to make Galveston bay, if
not the greatest building, the greatest repair-
ing ship-yard ou the continent of America.
Fifty years will see the bayou lined with docks
and~stiip-yards, and Galveston may then be a
suburb of Houston. Look at Liverpool now
with a bonded debt on her docks and harbors
of $00,000,000 over and above the capital aud
the yearly sinking fund, which is yearly ex-
pended. "What was she before the era of free
trade/ Not much. How long will it be before
the prospective trade of Galveston will rival
it?—not long after we get absolute free trade;
and that is coming, not from politicians, but
by some natural force of circumstances.
"The signs of the times tell that the future
historian of the advent of free trade in
America will write in a similar strain to
Endymion, who says something like this:
"About this time (in the '40's > a communica-
tion was received at the home office saying tha t
a blight had come over the potato crop in Ire-
laud which revolutionized the trade relations
and commerce of the world." The American
historian may write something like this:
About this tmie (in the 80s), in the midst of
profound peace, an abundant harvest and com-
mercial prosperity, a dispatch was received
in Wall street saying that an unprecedented
crop had been garnered iu the Black sea, in
Egypt and in India, which created a panic and
paralyzed the land. St irvation in face of
overflowing granaries stared the multitude in
the face: public opinion was a chaos, no man
knowing what was comiug. On this volcano
three men sat down to a game at poker, and
the pot was public # opinion; they were the
Prince of Republicanism, the Duke of Democ-
racy, and Sir Jay Gracchus. When it caine to
Sir "Jay to play he said: '* I see you: and go it
better by the abolition of the custom-house—
abolition of the pensions—abolition of the
Senate. Raise a revenue by a stamp-tax on
transactions in real estate, on stock and pro-
duce exchanges aud on bank transactions, and
by a tax on incomes of $1000 aud over, grad-
ing higher as they go upward—the miubters
of state to hold office only so long as they com-
mand the confidence of the representatives of
the people. Sir Jay^ok the pot. Thus was
free trade and responsible government estab-
lished in America. Lord Roscoe was charged
with the formation of an administration.
Confidence, peace and prosperity reigned su-
preme, and the Hag of the L uion covered the
seas. That's something like it.
Alex. Mitchell.
Description of a Suspicious Character
Arrested.
[To The News.l
Hallettsyille, Lavaca County, Texas,
May 16, 18S:5.—I have just •Arrested a young
man who gives his name as George Johnson.
He is about eighteen years old, black hair, fair
complexion, wore a light-colored hat, leather
belt around it, tolerably old boots—one a little
run down at heel, rides a gray horse branded
H on left shoulder, fresh burnt, also branded
T—o connected on the left thigh, paint spot on
the left side of back or near the wethers; also
a dun pony with black stripe down bis back,
some gray hairs mixed through the hair, right
ear a little gotched, branded 04b ou the
left thigh and hip. His bill of
sale bears data Goliad, iiay 35, 1SS3,
aud Victoria May 13,188S, and he said he got
t he dun horse in Goliad county on the 15th day
of May, 1883, andfwent from there to Texana,
or ten ratles below Texana. and then he canie
to Hallettgville. He got to Haliettsville on the
16th, early in the lnoning. He rides a saddle
half worn; the chorus was made at Fort
Worth and the name of Joe Bogan is cut in the
chorus, and in the girth-holder is cut W .Jtl. L.
Has a Colt's pistol; says he lives in Lvalue
county. The bills of sale are written in pencil
and they are not given to George Johnson; they
are given to J. B. Johnson, if he is wanted
anywhere come and get him and horses,
A. J. Smothers, Sheriff Lavaca County.
A gentleman who had attended court daily
during the delivery of Colonel Bliss's speech
to the Star-route jury, observed:
44 Mr. Bliss is a very clever man and yet,
after listening to his effort, I am satisfied he
lacks something. Can you imagine what it
is?"
I really can not," said the individual ad-
dressed, " unless it is a bellows-mender."
THE RAM MANA8SA8.
How the First of the Kind Ever Used
in Naval Warfare Was Boilt.
[New York World ]
The history of the ram Manassas and of her
projector and commander should be placed
upon record before it is too late to get the
truth. John A. Stevenson, a wealthy retired
sea captain, was living in New Orleans at the
breaking out of the civil war, and the Manassas
was wholly his conception and invention, and
it was put afloat entirely at his cost and ex-
pense. Before the battle of Bull Run he pur-
chased the Enoch Train, which had been con-
structed in Boston and used as a towboat ou
the Mississippi river. She was a double
propeller, with two engines aad power-
ful machinery, ISO feet long, 22 feet
beam. S feet hold and about tons
burden. He took off her houses, cut
her to her plank-shears and then first put on
au arched deck of heavy timber, completely
covering her from stem to stern in the shape
of a turtle's back, finally plating the whole
with twd thicknesses of railroad iron, bent and
fitted so as to form a smoth surface over the
whole outside to the water's edge. Two short
smoke-stacks alone protruded above the even
surface of the whole outside. The prow was
constructed with heavy iron projecting in
front about •"> feet. feet under water. She
was steered by a wheel entirely covered under
the deck. In case she should be boarded by the
enemy it was so arranged that hot water could
be thrown in streams upon the boarding
party. The construction of such a novelty at
New Orleans attracted publ'c attention. It
was visited by many hundreds of people, was
called the Nondescript, and was very generally
ridiculed by the public. But Stevenson was
stroug minded, had faith, had money, and
was encouraged by his friend. Captain Charles
William Austin, now a resident of Savannah,
Ga., who superintended 111 her construction.
It is from him that all the facts herein men-
tioned were obtained. When completed, which
was soon after the battle of Bull Run, the next
thing was to obtain a crew. Federal guu-
borts. heavily armed, were lying at the mouth
of the Mississippi, and it was these which it
was intended she should attack. Commodore
Hollins. the Confederate naval commander at
New Orleans refused to detail men for service
in her. but gave consent to Captain Austin to ob-
tain volunteers, if he could, from out the navy.
Nineteen were obtained. With these the Man-
as as proceeded to Fort Jackson, twen-
ty-two miles above the blockading
squadron. Commander Hollins allowed
Stevenson and Austin the use of the
dispatch boat I.vey with which to recon-
noiter the enemy in the afternoon, preparatory
for a night attack. Thev approached to a
point just ouS of range. There lay the steam
sloop Richmond next to the east bank
of the liver, with twenty-two guns;
then the sloop-of-war Vincennes,
with fourteen guns; next the
sloop-of-war Preble, with fourteen guns,
aud next the steam sloop-of-war Waterwitch,
with six guns. They all lay abreast across tho
Mississippi, at the head of the passes, headed
up stream, with their springs out, guns shotted
and all ready far action at a moment's notice.
These four Federal boats, with tifty-six guns
and well manned, was a mighty power for
the single Nondescript, with nineteen heroes
and 110 gun, to attack. Some of the Con-
federate naval officers had said that the
Nondescript would be blown out of water.
Leaving Fort Jackson at about S o'clock
on the morning of October 12, 18SS,
with Captain Austin, her commander, as the
only man ou deck aud each of his men at his
proper place below, the rani proceeded to and
arrived at the scene of action about 3 o'clock
in the morning. The Richmond had been se-
lected by Captain Austin in the afternoon as
the Federal boat first to be attacked. Nearing
the Richmond the Nondescript was got under
the utmost headway, aud not until she was too
near the Richmond, and until it was too late
to withdraw without discomfiture, perhaps dis-
aster, was it discovered that a schooner was
lying alongside the Richmond on the side
of the attack. The ram proceeded, all
steam on. and striking the schooner first
cut her in two and ran the iron prow of
the Nondescript clear into the Richmond.
The ram then hauled off. The schooner
sank. The Richmond discharged her broad-
side of guns at the ram, but without effect.
The Richmond found herself disabled and
leaking and withdrew, giving signals of danger
to the othe*" boats, and the blockading squad-
ron all disappeared down the passes. The blow
which the ram struck the schooner and
the Richmond produced such a concussion
11 pou the ram as to disable oue of her engines
and render her uutit to attempt further ag-
gressions. but it aid not destroy Captain
Austin's footing on the deck. The raui was
not aided or followed by any fire rafts, or any
steamers or propeller astern of her, nor
were any shells thrown or guns fired
at the Federal fleet, as some Federal ac-
counts have described. The ram was
taken back to New Orleans and repaired, was
adopted by the Confederate antuoritities, and
Mr. Stevenson was fully compensated for her.
Tha Nondescript was named the Manassas by
Stev eusou soon after the battle of Bull Run.
After her victory, the Confederacy having
been thus taught by Mr. Stevenson how to
build effective war vessels, then, and not until
then, began changing the Merrimac into an
iron-clad rani at Norfolk, Va.
Mr. Stevenson, in building the Manassas,
builded greater than he knew, for in a practi-
cal way he gave to the public new ideas as to
carr3*ing 011 naval warfare, which have been
since adopted and developed in different forms
in all the navies of the globe.
Live Stock.
Fort Worth Live Stock Journal, May 12:
The stock shipments of this season up to date
over the Fort Worth iuid Denver road,
pmounts to S62 cars, bearing 24,230 head of
ihip-
? the
meuts continue. Of the shipments made 1
past week 26 cars, containing 722 horses, were
from San Antonio: 2 cars, of 52 head of horses,
were from San Marcos; S cars, with 39S head
of cattle, were shipped at Corinth, Miss.; 3
cars, with 122 head of cattle, from Memphis,
Tenn.; 75 cars with 2S30 head of cattle were
from Milletfs; 2 cars with 48 horses, from
Houston; 46 cars with 1540 head of cattle and
4S horses, from Taylor, and 285 cars bearing
S900 head of cattle and 275 horses were from
Millheim. During the past week 447 cars of
stock carrying lo,S86 head of cattle and 1093
horses have passed through this city, all ex-
cept eight cars containing head of cattle,
consigned to G reathouse & Co., Decatur, were
being shipped to Wichita Falls. Of the
stock going to Wichita Falls two cars of 4$
horses were consigned to E. II. Crane, one car
of 22 horses to P. Impose, one car of 23 horses
to James Morris, two carloads of 48 horses to
W. Malone, live cars containing 12i horses to
H. Fitzgerald, fifteen cars with 407 horses to
Ferneiliger <$: Bowen, two cars of 53 horses to
McKee & Co., three cars with 122 head ot
cattle to D. S. Combs, fifty-seven cars with
54 head cattle to Stone, Wikon & Hall, eight-
een cars with 576 head cattle to J. P. Adding-
ton, two cars with 48 horse to A. H. Palm-
forty-four cars with 1540 head
of cattle, and two cars of 48 horses to Wm.
Sheidly, ninety-three cars with 27S3 head of
cattle, and three cars witn 72 horses to A. H.
Pierce; ninety-two ears of 2SS4 head of cattle,
aud three cars of 69 horses to Texas Land and
."attle company; eighty-eight cars with
1239 head of cattle and six
cars with 134 horses to C. R. Rum-
rill. Captain R. E. Stafford, of Columbus, is
again in the city looking after his interests and
to sell 50,000 head of cattle now on his ranges
in Colorado, Wharton, Matagorda and Austin
t Dunties He thinks he has sold 13,000 head on
his range in Fort Bend county to a St. Louis
firm. Captain Stafford owns about 75,000
head of cattle, all of which he desires to sell,
excepting 15,000 head, which he will pasture in
the section where he now lives.
Colorado (Mitchell county) Clipper: Mr.
Tom Stephens purchased, the past week, of
Dan Kyle, his ranch and cattle for the consid-
eration of $140,000.
San Antonio papers quote:
Quotations refer to the average run of stock.
Cows, per head $t^ 00^30 00
Milch cows, per head 30 00(^45 00
Yearling steers and heifers 12 00(£t.l4 00
Two-year-old steers and lieifers. per hd lt» GO^IS 00
Three-year-old steers and hfrs, perhd. 25 00^28 00
Four-year-old oxen 32 09(&i5 00
Horses, unbrk'n, li hands and upward. 20 00^25 00
Broken horses, 14 hanusand upward.. 30 00(^40 00
Mules. 13 to 14 hands 30 00(&50 00
First-class mares, bv carload 15 fH><&25 00
Goats 1 252 00
Hogs, good, per hundred 4 50<3^ 5 09
Hogs, fat, per hundred 5 00(& 6 50
Albany. Shackelford county, had shipped to
ie close of last week 4500 horses and 30,376
ittle.
Surgeon Jos. 11. Smith, of the United States
army, in his Observations on Texas Cattle,
says: The average weight of animals between
one and two yeai-s of age was 293 pounds.
During the next year tho gain was thirty
pounds, making the average weight323 pounds,
between two aud three; thirty-six pounds wero
gained in the next year, and tne average
weight between three and four years of age
was359 pounds. Between four and five the aver-
age reached 423. being an increase of sixty-four.
Between five and six the average weight was
417 pounds; between six and seven, 446 pounds;
between seven and eight, 435 pounds; between
eight and niue, 465 pounds; between nine and
ten, 561 pounds; between ten and eleven, ^59
pounds; between eleven and twelve, 450
pounds; and between thirteen and fourteen,
400 pounds. Thus the weight seems to
have reached a maximum between nine
and ten years of age, and thence sen-
sibly diminished as years advanced.
The observations thus far made show scarcely
an appearance that might be termed patho-
logical among the cattle killed for beef. Fur-
ther, every observer pronounces the appear-
ance of any case of sickness among the cattle
to be in the highest degree exceptional. Not a
single case has been found ia Texas, during
the year, where an animal apparently healthy
has communicated disease to other cattle, and
it certainly seems an error to suppose that any
danger is incurred by the transportation to
Northern markets of Texas cattle.
Paris, for 2,226,000 inhabitants, has twenty-
three theaters, «ix music halls and three cir-
cuses; Vienua. for 1.204,0C0 inhabitants, has
seven theaters, one circus and six music nails;
Berlin, with 1,300,000 inhabitants, has thirteen
theaters, one circus and live music halls.
Ponchokoo, a trained acrobatic monkey be-
longing to Philadelphia performers at th«
Grand Central theatre, escaped from the
boarding house of the actors, ran over build-
ings, climbed spires, and altogether headed a
very exciting chase, before allowing itself to
be captured. As an advertisement, this is
original and interesting. The only point is to
have the monkey well trained. If he refused
to run and insisted upon coming up to his
owner and nestling in his arms, it would turn
the affair into a guy.
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