The Galveston Daily News. (Galveston, Tex.), Vol. 34, No. 299, Ed. 1 Sunday, December 20, 1874 Page: 2 of 4
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New York Glossi p.
The Old Banner
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Kicliariisoii, Bclo Si Co., Proprietors.
Suniluy, December '20, 1S71*
CIRCULATION
MOKE THAN DOUBLE
THAT OF ANY
PAPER IN TEXAS.
Tin: constitution of Missouri does
not prohibit all from voting who cun
not now read nnd write, but while it
permits those who have been per-
mitted to voto without this qualifica-
tion, to continue to do so, yet after
January I, 1870, noDC will be allowed
to vote without this qualification who
have never voted before.
The Kansas City Herald'* financial
policy is inflation, or the issue of cur-
rency to supply the wants of the West
and the South, while the Gazette is op-
posed to inflation. The former says
the latter is always sitting on the shirt
tail of progress and yelling " whoa !"
The latter tuns over the leaves of his-
tory to demonstrate the danger of in-
flation, and says the inflation policy is
fully illustrated by the example of the
American revolution, when the Con-
tinental money was not worth one cent
on a thousand dollars.
United States Marshals throughout
the country, like sheriffs in Texas, ap-
pear to be required to do a great deal
of gratuitous work. Marshals receive
but 1200 a year as salary, and in
all government cases only their travel
ing expenses are paid, thus making
their compensation very meager and
unrcmuncrative. The Attorney Gen-
eral has prepared a bill which he has
forwarded to the House Judiciary Com-
mittee, providing for the restoration
of the mileage rates to these officers,
instead of actual traveling expenses.
In material prosperity Columbus, On.,
lias advanced more rapidly than any city
in the South. She now runs 39.000 co:-
ton anil 2500 wi>olen spindles. All the
capital employed is Southern. In addi-
tion she has large foundries and machine
chops.
Can any good reason be assigned
why manufacturing can not be carried
on as prosperously in many of our
towns in Texas, if conducted with
equal skill and equal energy and capi-
tal? If no such reason can be assigned,
then why should so many of our in-
land towns in the vicinity of excellent
water power, and surrounded with
plantations producing tens of thou-
sands of bales of the raw material, be
languishing for the want of profitable
industrial pursuits for their inhabi-
tants, while that very cotton is trans-
ported to a distance of many thousand
mites to give profitable employment to
people abroad, while our own people
can hardly make a subsistence by pro-
ducing the raw material for them?
Tiie water supply question is now
the all absorbing question at Denver.
The City Council is considering a
proposition for an artesian well, war-
ranted to be sunk in 90 days, and to
furnish a constant stream of water six
inches in diameter, for $40,000. So
confident are the parties making the
proposition that they can strike a
vein of water supplied by a mountain
lake, that they do not ask a dollar un
less they succeed. Galveston would
not hesitate long to accept such a pro
position, and yet Denver is far more
dependent on some artificial water
supply, for there the long protracted
drouths destroy all vegetation unless
kept alive by irrigation. Without it
that beautiful city would be an unin
habitable desert. While calling upon
all the citizens to attend a public
meeting on the subject, a Denver paper
says:
Let all be there, who are sensible of
the danger there is that our beautiful
city of Denver will become, next sum-
mer. a city of shriveled and dying shrubs
and trees, and of withering and parched
parks and gardens.
A London fog beats any dark days
we ever see in Galveston, though yes-
terday morning was cloudy and the
air surcharged with moisture. John
W. Forney, in a late letter from Lon-
don to the Philadelphia IWss, describes
a day when the fog was so dense at
noon that the people had to light the
gas and candles. The trees and houses
were blotted out, the cabs stopped
running, and business came to a pause.
Silence and gloom pervaded the Dritish
metropolis, even to a greater extent
than at midnight in fair weather.
Another visitation of the kind is de-
scribed as follows:
The great fog hung like a thick veil
for several days over London Many
cattle had to be killed from the difficulty
of breathing, which aff"cts everybody.
.Many persons perished by walking over
the docks into the Thames and falling
down steep places, and thousands lost
their way. The sun, whenever it is seen,
is exactly as we see it in an eclipse
through a smoked glass, ami at night
the moon hangs like a red balloon, while
the lamps resemble little spots of fire,
shedding no light, yet making darkness
visible. This phenomenon is caused by
millions of coal fires contributing a vast
quantity of pestiferous matter, which
mingles with vapors from the drainage,
and penetrates everywhere.
Cuba has a population of about one
million four hundred thousand, of
whom there arc six hundred thousand
slaves and free persons of color, while
the remainder are a mixture of almost
all nations, though the Spanish blood
predominates. There are about ten
thousand sugar plantations. The pro-
duct doo* not increase, and the crop
■was larger in 1808 than in the present
year. The London Grocer calls atten-
tion to this fact, and to the increase of
beet sugar in Europe, as evidence that
the latter is to supplant cane sugar in
a great measure in the markets of the
world. Since 1858 the production of
sugar has doubled in Europe, while it
has remained stationary in Cuba. For-
merly Europe was supplied with sugar
from the West Indies, but a great
change has taken place in this respect.
The exportation of sugar from Cuba to
Europe, which was 4.1.21 percent, of the
production of 1805, has /alien to 23.89
per cent, in 1874,'wliereastlie exportation
from Cuba to the United States, which
was but 59.7!) per cent., now reaches 77.11
per cent. For instance, in 1873 Europe
received from Cuba 235,587 tons, whilst
479,373 tons were sent from the same
source to the United States. Therefore
there is a growing tendency for the sugar
production of Cuba to go to the United
States, where the wants in this article of
consumption are enormouH, and it is ex
pected tliat this branch of export will
still fnrther increase.
The condition of the labor market
in Philadelphia may be judged of from
the following paragraph from the
l'reu, of that city, of a late date:
So far this week forty-one able-
bodied and mostly young men have
applied to the committing magistrate
at the Central Police Court to be sent
to the House of Correction. They
frankly state that they have been trav-
elling all over the country in search of
work, but can obtain none, and not de-
siring to become thieves, they make
the application for commitment. This
simple statement of facts carries its
own significant comment with it.
Could there be a more graphic picture
of the pressure of hard times !
The llallroad to Nanta ire.
Not Galveston alone, therefore, but
the whole population of Texas, are in-
terested in the achievement of General
Uragg's plan; and those citizens of
Galveston that do most to effect the
consummation of the proposed scheme
of public beneficence should be pre-
ferred by the people of Texas in estab
lishing trade relations with Galveston.
A prosperous tradesman or large prop
erty holder, too mean and penurious
to aid in a task like this, now engaging
the attention of Galveston and of the
State of Texas, is too mean to be trust-
worthy, and should be designated
by the press, at least to the extent that
the public should be familiarized with
the names of the generous benefactors
of Galveston, of Texas, and of the
South.—,Statesman.
We heartily indorse the sentiments
above expressed. We certainly shall
do all wc can tc familiarize the people
of Texas with the names of those
patriotic and public-spirited citizens of
Galveston, who give most liberally of
their means, and devote their time and
energies most effectually to carry out
this great enterprise, the Gulf, Colo-
rado and Santa Fe Hail road. Those
of our citizens who refuse to give their
aid and encouragement to a work so
vitally important and essential to the
prosperity of our city will be known,
not only at home, but all over the
State, and the people will know who
have come forward to their assistance
in this great effort to save the trade of
the State and build up her own sea-
ports, in despite of the high and dis-
criminating charges now turning that
trade to other markets. For years the
people have been protesting against
those ruinous charges, but their pro-
tests have been unheeded, bccausc
they have been powerless to correct
the evil. Their only effectual remedy
is a cheap railroad of their own, to their
chief seaport, intersecting the other
great railroads of the State, and offer-
ing their trains of passengers and
freight cheaper and quicker access to
our city than to any other equally de-
sirable market. The Gulf, Colorado
and Santa Fe- Road will accomplish
this end, for it will intersect at
least six of the leading roads of the
State, connecting them all with our
city by the shortest and most direct
line, making them more or Jess tribu-
tary to our city. Thi3 great trunk
road, as we have shown, will be built
at about half the expense of any other,
and will be able, therefore, to reduce
charges proportionately lower, and by
its competing power, will put an end
forever to the exorbitant charges of
which our people have been so long
complaining.
True, the voice of the croakers, as
usual, is heard on our streets from those
who want to find some excuse for
throwing the whole burden of this en-
terprise upon others, while they hold
back for the purpose of sharing equally,
and often more largely, in the benefits.
With them it is a close calculation of
dollars and cents. They reason thus:
If the road is built, I shall share equally
in its benefits, whether I contribute
my money or not, and as my subscrip
tion is not likely to decide the ques-
tion one way or the other, I will save
my money and take the chances. If it
should prove a failure, I will then be
able to laugh at those who have put
their money into it, and can say to
them, "I told you so.'' But we think
that the time has arrived when these
men, who have accumulated fortunes
by the favor and patronage of our citi
zens, can no longer be a dead weight
on our prosperity with impunity. We
agree with the Statesman that it is a
duty we owe to those public spirited
men who give their money and time in
aid of public enterprises to make their
names known to the full extent of our
circulation, so that the people may
know how to reward them with their
patronage. If wealthy merchants and
property owners refuse to aid the
people in a great public enterprise, be-
cause they are not compelled by law to
do so, they need not be surprised if
the people claim the same right to
withhold from them their patronage.
Tlie Boy Pomcroy.
In the New York Times of a late
date wc find the following relating to
the trial of the murderous juvenile,
Pomcroy, the publication of whose
deeds created quite a horror through-
out the country some time ago:
The conviction of the Pomcroy boy,
in lloston, was arrived ' at after
what seems to have been a very
careful trial. The evidence showed
that the boy, from childhood, had ex-
hibited unnatural and monstrous ten-
dencies of character. When nine or
ten years old he had maimed and tor-
tured his younger companions. There
was no apparent motive for these ac-
tions, nor for the murder of the Millen
boy, of which he was convicted, nor
that of the Curran girl, which
he confessed. If ever there was a
case of partial paralysis of the moral
faculties* it was here. But the boy
knew enough about morals to commit
his crimes in secrcsy and to enjoin si-
lence upon the victims of his cruelty,
lie provided himself beforehand with
means to accomplish his unaccounta-
ble purposes; he reasoned before and
after the commission of his bloody
deeds. Naturally, therefore, the
whole case turned on the ques-
tion of the boy's moral responsi-
bility. The evidence of eminent
physicians who have made the study
of insanity a specialty was brought
forward, and the argument of the
prosecuting attorney, based upon their
testimony, was that the prisoner was
of sound mind when the offenses
were committed. The verdict was
a mixed one—guilty of murder in the
first degree, with a recommendation
that the punishment be imprisonment
for life. This verdict seems to imply
that the jury believed that the absence
of any motive for the crimes com-
mitted and the youth of the "offender
ought to weigh something in mitiga-
tion of his sentence. The jury would
not recognize such a thing as *' uncon-
trollable impulse" in the commission
of a crime: he was found guilty of a
crime which has been defined by the
Legislature as "murder in the first
degree." The implied recommendation
to mercy will probably remit the death
penalty and send the boy to prison for
life.
Tin-; old adage, that an ounce of pre-
vention is worth a pound of cure,
more generally quoted than observed
in sanitary matters. At the late anni-
versary meeting of the New York
Academy of Medicine, a discourse was
delivered by Prof. D. B. St. John
Hoosa, M. D. He said, among other
things:
It is to the medical profession that the
general public must look for the main
part of the work of what is technically
cftlled sanitiry science, and that pro-
fession must be regarded as the final
arbiter in all strictly sanitary questions.
Vet the medical man of to-day has only
a limited control over these matters, and
iii some places he has no control at all.
We must not hastily ascribe this anoma-
lous state of things, in which those
whose mission it is to prevent and cure
disease are restricted to the latter func'
tion, entirely to the influence of those
not in the profession. Physicians them-
selves have been often forgetful of their
high calling, and have neglected their
plain duties. The loyalty of the great
mass of the people, high and low, and
especially the low, to the medical pro-
fession, is something to make us all pro-
foundly grateful, and at the same time
ever alert for the best interests of those
whom we serve.
Medical men are just asking to the
great importance of sanitary Bcience, and
we can not expect those not directly en-
gaged in the study of the laws of health
to be further advanced than the students.
[Spec-ial Correspondence of the News.]
New York, Dec. 10,1874.
This is a dull winter for lectures.
Partly because of the panic and partly
because of a change in popular taste the
lecture hall is deserted. Our English
friends have ceased to come, and are re
presented by Bradlaugh, Bonamy Price
and Dawson, good men in their way, but
not as entertaining aa the eloquent Tyn-
dall or the brilliant Procter. In the in-
terior there is the same disregard for the
lyceum, and I hear of few lecturers, ex-
cept Bayard Taylor, Professor- Tyler and
William Parsons, who have always been
appreciated, and are likely to l>e so.
This change is to be regretted, for lec-
tures are at once the most enjoyable and
instructive form of amusement that has
been devised, and have been the means
of bringing many eminent men from the
seclusion of their studies into public life.
Still the popular distaste is likely to rid
us of lecturers who bored their hearers,
and who, for obvious reasons, never lec-
tured more than once in the same place.
This reminds me that we may enter-
tain ourselves in some other way than
with the drama and the opera, for the
war goes on against both, and if Dr.
Talmage could have his way, all the
theaters would be closed, and the
actors would be set to eawing wood,
or some other useful employment.
The stage seems, however, to be too
strongly confirmed in public favor to
be injured by the attack of the Brook-
lyn divine, and if some theaters are not
paying it is attributable to dull trade,
rather than to his denunciations. Many
bad people go to the theater and are not
made better, but some of the most refined
and pure minded men and women attend
them without being demoralized or di-
verted at all from the paths of righteous-
ness. All seems to depend upon the
play one sees, and the general character
of the theater one attends.
There have been but two plays which
have had undoubted success this season ;
one is Mark Twain's " Gilded Age," the
other Boucicault's " Shaughraun." Both
are entirely unlike, still both attract
crowded houses, and are talked of in
every social assembly. The one hun-
dredth performance of Mark Twain's,
takes place soon, and is to be attended
with unusual display. The genial Mark
is to speak, and will undoubtedly say
something. He is apparently the most
fortunate man of the day, and if he lived
in New Y'ork his happiness would be
complete. I am afraid that Connecticut
will congeal his ardent temperament,
and impel him by force of example to en-
gage in what are popularly termed pro-
ductive industries such as making knives
oi smelting iron. Here I may add that
lately I picked up a copy of the Revue
den Deux Mondes of July, 1872, wherein
a Frenchman devotes a long article to
the American humorist. " Mark Twain,"
he says, "possesses in an eminent degree,
the qualities of mind to which his coun-
trymen apply the unstranslatable terms,
'jolly,' 'bluffy,' 'funny,' 'telling,' and
' queer.'" Not a bad estimate for a
Frenchman, who is evidently, not " post-
ed " in our vernacular.
Boucicault's play is, I find, more popu-
lar with Americans than even with the
Irish, in whose country the scene is laid.
Those among the latter who are best
qualified to judge, are greatly pleased
with it, and consider it does credit to the
" old land." Americans are fascinated
with the Irish airs, and like to be trans-
ported in spirit to scenes so romantic and
humorous as are portrayed by the drama-
tist. Mr. Boucicault's wealth must now
be immense, but this ardor for the stage
is such that he appears nightly in the
play of which I speak. He has written
over 400 plays, many of which have at-
tained world-wide popularity. The names
of the most successful and the number of
times each has been performed I find
given as follows:
" The Colleen Bawn," 3100 times; "Ar-
rah-na-Pogue," 2400; " London Assur-
ance," 2900; "Rip Van Winkle," 1400;
"Old Heads and Young Hearts," 1259;
" The Octoroon," 1800 ; " Formosa," 1100;
"Jessie Brown," 820; "The Corsican
Brothers," 2200; " Don Cie?ar de Bazan,"
1700; "Used Up," 1350; "The Willow
Copse," 1110; "The Streets of New
York," 2800; " Led Astray," 498. These
are the leading ones. Others have had
a run of from 100 to 1000 nights efceh.
The total number of all the perform-
ances must have been nearly 50,000.
Assuming that the receipts to each per-
formance average $500, the money paid
by the public to witness these works
would amount to $25,000,000. The profits
of " London Assurance," when first pro-
duced at Covert Garden Theater, as ap-
pears from the record of the manage-
ment, were $120,000 ; the profit of " The
Colleen Bawn" were $200,000 in one
year ; the profits of " Arrah-na-Pogue
$180,000. The gross receipts of " Led
Astray" last year at the Union Square
Theater amounted to $154,000, of which
$80,000 were profit. On these four pieces
the theaters cleared upward of $000,000.
Happy is the New York toy. Be his
income twenty cents or twenty dollars
weekly, he can supply himself liberally
with toys. Stores are now filled with an
endless variety, procured from Germany
or supplied by the ingenious artisans of
Connecticut. Boys are indifferent to
panics, and are evidently as lavish of
their money as if Mr. Spinner had set his
printing presses at work and was making
greenbacks by the ream. Accordingly,
the trade in toys and fancy goods is
brisk, and some establishments resemble
a grand fair. One large Broadway con-
cern has an organ playing all day, while
the air is burdened with perfume.
Another store is illuminated with a count-
less number of jets outside, while within
it is radiant with all that is attractive
from the looms of France or the potteries
of Staffordshire and Limoges. If this
rivalry in decoration goes on. it is possi-
ble that some store will announce dra-
matic entertainments, or a feast for the
young folks. The latter scheme, I think,
would tell best.
This might be termed the Season of
Books, judging from the grand display
which the publishers make. Among
the most entertaining of the new works
is " Lotos Leaves," which contains
sketches and poetry from the members
of the Lotos Club, which, under the
presidency of Mr. Whitelaw Reid, has
attained prosperity and social renown.
The book is admirably illustrated, and
printed in a superior manner.
Among the pleasant events in society
last week was Madame Le Vert's recep-
tion at Madame Mear's in Madison ave-
nue. Over three hundred ladies and
gentlemen assembled to greet the gifted
Southern authoress, many of whom had
enjoyed her hospitality at Mobile when
she was one of the leaders of society in
that city.
Among those present were Mrs. James
Sadlier, the Catholic authoress, and
daughters; Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Court-
ney, Kate Field, Mrs. Bainbridge Clark
and party, Mr. Horace Tibbetts and
party, from Fifth Avenue Hotel; Mad-
ame Mariscal, wife of the Mexican Min-
ister ; Mr. and Mrs Frank Leslie, Mrs.
Edward Pollard, widow of the Southern
historian; Mr. and Mrs. William Shat-
tuck and family, Fifth Avenue ; Mr. and
Mrs. Van Volkenburg and daughter.
Madame Le Vert read an interesting
episode in her early life, her accidental
meeting with Washington Irving, result-
ing in a life long friendship. Miss Clara
Fisher sang several operatic songs and
ballads, which elicited hearty applause.
Mrs. Forster, Mrs. Proudfoot, Mr. George
Hoey, Mrs. Ellett and Prof. Frobisher
contributed to the evening's enjoyment.
Among the current items of dramatic
and literary gossip are the following :
Mr. Daly has in preparation a most
elaborate revival of the spectacle, " Le
Roi Carotte," during the holiday
season. It was last produced in
1872 at the Grand Opera House,
and attracted universal attention.
We believe Mr. Daly intends to devote
very considerable attention to the musical
features of the fairy story, and with that
end has engaged Mr. Max Maretzek to
conduct the rehearsals. Matt Morgan
has been engaged to paint some of the
scenes.
The Murray Hill Dramatic Association
gave an entertainment at the Union
League Theatre, the other night, before
a crowded and fashionable audience.
" His First Victory" was the piece
selected for representation. It is not too
much to Bay of the ladies and gentlemen
of the company, that they acquitted
themselves in a manner that would have
done credit to some of our best profes-
sionals.
Anton Rubinstein is at present in Paris
for the purpose of arranging with M.
Ilalanzier for the production of his
new opera, "Nero," aw one of the first
novelties of the New Opera. His opera
"Die Maccabaer" will be produced at
Berlin in February, the rehearsals and
performance being under his personal
direction.
Kate Field, the accomplished author-
ess, is not a New Englander, as some-
times reported. Her father was Irish,
her mother Pennsylvanian.and Kate was
a born baby in St. Louis, Missouri, and
nowhere else. Beside her native place,
she has lived in New England, the South,
Italy, and Bhe was "ten days in Spain."
The poor old banner! Give it here, 1 say!
Though king and church are toppling to their
fall;
I saved it from the Roundhead*, any way.
When black Long Maraton made an end of all.
Why could not Rupert keep his squadrons
back?
Unbreathed, they might have broken Crom-
well's line,
But scattered far on flying Leslie's track !
ah, staunch and true it stood, that troop of
mine!
What boots it now, when 9very oak is down.
And even the great seal ring my father gave
Melted with all the rest to help the crown;
The old man willed it, speaking from his
crave.
Thank Bod that I have neither wife nor son
To perish in the ruin we have wrought.
Poor Katie ! waitina till the game is won !
Weil, here's her Ha;;, from its last, battle
brought!
Her deft hands broidered it. Blood-stained
and rent
!t hangs about the staff. Why, who could
guess
How gallantly to the gay breeze it bent
With gold and glitter, when, amid the press
Of shouting cavaliers, I flung it forth,
And Katie clapped her little hands to see
How bravely the battalions of the North
Around her banner maruhedto victory.
To victory 1 the Ouse runs swol'n and red,
Sullenly sweeping to the angry main.
With the best blood of bonnie Yorkshire fed,
For on her banks knights fell like Autumn
grain.
Well, life will scarce ba long, or axe a d
block,
Or starving 'mid the Frenchmen, which were
best?
0 comrades, slain in fiery battle shock,
1 would tny time were cumo to join your rest!
So, to the vaults. I'll leave my flag in trust.
To all our long liue, wrapt in dreamless sleep,
I shall not lie in ancestral dust.
Nor kin nor vassal live my rites to keep.
Aad better so! I'll place my treasure close
Beneath my father's blazoned coffin lid.
And then, anon, the rebels sack our house
They'll miss, perchance, a prize to grimly
hid.
There's just one diamond left that clasped
my plume;
Take it to my bright lady's feet, and tell,
I leave her banner in my father's tomb;
1 leave my heart to her; and so farewell.
Whether to die 'mid clashing bow and bill.
Or rot in prison, like some noisome thing.
Or make my last short shrift on Tower hill;
Who knows, who cares? Not I! God save the
king!
The Stage Husband.
Nyni Crinkle en a Well Known
Theatrical Character.
Everybody who has had any experience
behind the scenes knows the stage
mother. I tried to take her portrait
once, and, if you recollect, I called your
attention to the fact that if you had ever
taken dinner with a prima donna, or
stood on the coulisses with a ballet girl, or
accidentally entered the manager's office
on pay-day, or, in your inexperienced
youth, hung round the stage door at mid-
night, waiting for the angel of your soul
to come out in a faded calico dress, with
a satchel on her arm ; if you had ever
been to rehearsal, or heard a play read,
or got, by accident, as it were, into the
green-room, or been commissioned by a
meeting of our best citizens to get up a
laurel wreath or a diamond necklace,or a
farewell for the admirable Celestine who
had done bo much for society on her one
toe, or had been sent by the leading ladies
of Murray Hill to request Coralietosing at
a charity benefit, so that all those leading
ladies could appear in print as official
patrons of the poor—if, I said, you had
done any or all these things, then you
had—you must have seen an aged woman
in rusty black, a portly, grim, monthly-
nurse figure, locking at you out of the
depths of her experience with the calm
rectitude of years and the impregnable
security of materity.
That was the stage mother. You never
escaped her, provided you went through
any of the experiences I have mentioned.
You never saw her step out of the stage
door at midnight, overshadowing the joy
of your heart with the dusky wings of
her water-proof. You felt that she was
sitting grimly silent behind you in the
dressing-room, a petrifaction of humility,
but catching every word you uttered.
She passed between you and the " light
of the ballet " in the wings. She came
into the bos that you hired for Ernestine
on the off-night, and sat in the corner
patiently. She followed Madeline on
the sunny side of Broadway. She filled
the remaining seat in Evadne's coupe.
There she was always, knitting her
everlasting crochet and munching her
inconsumable sweet-flag root. She never
slept, never was indisposed, never stayed
away on account of the weather. She
was always somewhere, looking on
calmly and grimly out of her bombazine
and maternity.
So exactly alike were the stage moth-
ers in all circumstances, so uniform in
all their respectable rustiness and dumpy
guardianship, adhering so faithfully to
bombazine and sweet flag that you grew
to suspect after a while that something
in the life of a ballet girl or an actress
necessitated the providing of a property
mother, built according to the|traditional
style, when nature had not already pro-
vided her, or had for some inscrutable
reason dispensed with her. And you are
Tight. The stage mother is an all-per-
vading fact. Stage-fathers, you will ob-
serve, became extinct when Peter Rich-
ings died and Mr. Bateman went to
Europe.
But there is another character bred by
the theater with whom you must have
had some acquaintance. It is the stage
husband. And to know him it was not
necessary to go upon the stage at all. He
made himself conspicuous in front of the
curtain. Unlike the stage mother, he is
of various types. One is the property of
the profession ; the other is the property
of the actress.
An actress up to a certain point in her
career is influenced by the love of
dresses. After that she takes to dia-
monds and husbands. It is a purely
decorative instinct. Ordinarily the stage
husband is part of her personal outfit.
Celestine used to boast openly to Coralie
that she had two seal-skin jackets and
two husbands, and it was a proper sub-
ject of pride, for there was only one
other beauty in Mr. Carnther's troupe
who ever attained to this duality of pos-
session. Clytie, innocent soul, believed
that somehow husbands and tuberoses
and bracelets were the perquisites of
leading ladies, and were handed over the
footlights by polite ushers. She really
had a notion, that dear child, that the ex-
tra big bouquets were made to hide a
French count or an English captain of
the guards.
The most familiar type of the stage
husband is genearlly an ex-officer of the
guards. He wears a small coat and sports
a fierce moustache. He comes over with
Miss Montmorenci, collects her salary,
" buzzes" about the lobbies, stands at
the theater entrance in the afternoons,
posturizes at the doorway in the evening,
asks everybody to drink during the in-
termissions, keeps a business eye on the
posters, objects to Miss Howard's name
being in large type; is always
oppressed with the responsibility
of trunks. He is understood to
be an appendage of Miss Mont-
morenci. He bring!! her to the the-
ater in the evening and takes her away
at midnight. He arranges her little din-
ners to which the press people are in-
vited, and then he calls lier " my dear,"
and she addresses him as " Charles," and
there is a most satisfactory air of connu-
bial intimacy pervading the scene. The
most curious thing about this is that the
husbands of the Montmorencis always
disappear suddenly.
If the Montmorencis disappeared also,
there would be nothing strange about it,
for then we might easily understand that
the actress had retired with her ward-
robe and husband to private life. But
she never retires. I do not see how the
conclusion can be avoided—she sheds her
husbands. Where'the elegant append-
age goes to nobody ever knew. He
simply disappears. He leaves a flavor
of heaity contempt behind him in the
drinking saloons and among the burly,
double-fisted fellows who furnished him
coaches and blacked his boots. They
have a ridiculous theory characteristic of
simple-minded men that he hired his
costume to play the roll of husband,and
was paid a salary to stay in front of the
house.
There is another stage husband who
has been married by the star in a mo-
ment of despair. She has just discovered
that her agent has swindled her out of
half her profits, and that the manager is
not working her with the press. Two
courses are open to her. She can engage
another agent, or marry one.
It is always a woman's weakness to be-
lieve that sentiment insures honesty.
Men, on the contrary, always knew that
it imperils it. She raves for a whole
morning, tears several dried bouquets to
pieces, kicks her French poodle in the
ribs, abuses her dressmaker, and then
throws herself into the arms of Fitz
Foogie McFlam.
Dearest, will you love me and take
cara of my business *
By heavens ! exclaims Fitz Foogie, I
will protect you and your income with
every drop of blood in my body.
Will you be true to me ever, and think
of me when the house id counted ?
Will I? I will think of you from the
moment the doors are open till the books
are made up.
Ah ! but, darling, will you make others
think of me 1 Can I depend upon you
to look after the papers and the house-
bills—men are so fickle ! Will you cliLg
to me always and see that I am properly
billed?
Hear me! exclaims Fitz Fuogle. I swear
by all the gods that I have but one am-
bition, one desire, one burning passion,
and it is to be loved by you, and to have
charge of your business.
Enough, says Melpomene. You are
mine in the eye of Heaven till the end of
the season, provided you attend to your
duties. Registered silently in the box-
office or offered up in the wings, who
will dare to say that this vow is not re-
corded on high ? Only the ignoble soul
believes that it ascends no further than
the " paint bridge."
The bridegroom thus immolated on the
altar of Thespia sets to work immedi-
ately to prove his affection. He raises
Melpomene's price from $100 to $200.
Now that she has a stage husband, she
is entitled to two benefits. Now that she
is in possession of a partner, her name
begins to be paragraphed. He, at least,
knows something of the world, and he
works it accordingly. Melpomene could
not go to the clubs. She could not catch
the volatile reporters on the skip. She
could not applaud herself while she was
acting. She could not bully the manager
nor ask for more than fifty free admis-
missions a night. And she sleeps sound-
ly. Love, that conquers all things, is
overcoming the ticket-taker and the
usher.
So Coralie, waking up some morning
and seizing the newspaper, discovers that
Melpomene has been interviewed. " Ho,
ho 1" says Coralie, " she must have been
married yesterday."
Of course it never enters into Melpom-
ene's head that other husbands have a
quaint, not to say queer, way of treating
hers. They converse with him about his
wife as if they were walking on eggs.
They call her Mrs. Fitz Foogie and Miss
Melpomene irrespectively. They never
know how much he is married or for
how long; they put up with his praise
of the actress because that is business,
and they put up with him because he is
sure to disappear sooner or later.
To be, sure there are husbands of ac-
tresses who are not stage husbands.
Everybody must be familiar with the
little, crushed, respectable old man, who
is married by the great tragedienne and
who comes and buys a seat in the back
part of the house, and holdB a play-bill
up to his face for fear some of his friends
in the tbread-and-needle business will
mistake him for a stage husband. So,
too, most people are familiar with the
patient, amiable, and subservient hus-
band of the prima donna, who has no other
desire in life than to be known as her
husband, who gets chucked under the
chin in his own house by the roystering
baritone, and told to be a good boy and
keep quiet, and who looks after the bag-
gage and bouquets while the troupe is
away.
But these people do not belong to the
stage. The stage husband is a necessity
of the profession, like the stage mother.
I believe that the minor theaters now
and then furnish them to the actresses,
like their wardrobe, or as the Third
Avenue railroad is said to furnish wax
dolls—lifa size—to those ladies who de-
sire to get a seat in a Harlem car.
Charity.
Though Love its own recompense ever may be.
Still the brightest reward shall Charity see ;
For it gilds every virtue, and, waxing apace.
Draws heart unto heart in its gentle embrace.
Te souls cold and sordid, oh ! deign to bestow
Some faint touch of pity, ye surely must
know ;
Then list to the promptings your bosom
within.
And learn 'tis oft better to give than to win.
Though Fortune may scatter her gifts at your
feet,
Though your words be precise, and your lan-
guage discreet,
Forget not the lowly by troubles beset,
And pity the erring—for the end is not yet !
Te men so ungracious, unbending and stern,
Who the failings of others are quick to dis-
cern.
Remember that kindness will kindness beget,
And that hearts truly noble will forgive and
forget.
Unborne by the waters, to greet your once
more
The bread will return ere life's journey is
o'er;
And every kind word that ye utter shall live
To gladden some heart. Let us give and for-
give. _
An Interview with Santa Anna.
A correspondent of the San Francisco
Chronicle, who recently called on Santa
Anna, gives the following account of his
interview:
Since writing to you last I have suc-
ceeded, through the influence of General
Martinez, in obtaining an interview with
the old Mexican hero, Santa Anna. I
came to Mexico with the impression that
he was dead, and have been wondering
since how many Californians know that
he is still alive, and likely to be for ten
years to come. The old man lives very
quietly now, and receives little company.
The fact that he is almost universally
despised by his countrymen causes him
to shun them ; and it is much easier for
a foreigner to obtain access to his private
parlor than for a Mexican. He is living
at present in an old-fashioned Spanish
house on Vergara street, and although he
is Baid to be poor, he has about him not
only the comforts but many of the luxu-
ries of life. Five o'clock in the after-
noon was the hour appointed for our call,
and at that time Col. Moso, an intimate
friend of the General, received us in the
court and conducted us up a flight of
stone stairs into a long, comfortably-fur-
nished room fronting on the street. A
piano stood in one corner, and several
pieces of statuary, and a few pictures
here and there about the room, displayed
a quiet taste. At one end of the room
hung a magnificent and life-sized paint-
ing of a woman in full Spanish costume.
It was taken forty years igo, when the
subject was Santa Anna's bride. She
must have been very beautiful then, if
the picture is true, for there is a wonder-
ful charm in the dark, sad eyes.
We had been seated but a moment
when a side door opened aid Santa Anna
himself stepped into the room. Instead
of the gray old man that we had expected
to see, an upright, soldierly figure stood
before us, and we noticed that in spite
of his wooden leg he walked with ease
and without the assistance of .cane or
crutch. Santa Anna's eya is still black
as a coal, and his hair, although thin, has
not yet turned gray. There is a kindly
expression in his face that is strangely
at variance with the dark tales that blot
his history ; and as he received each one
of us with some pleasant remark and a
cordial clasp of his soft, woman's hand,
we could hardly realize that the man be-
fore us was the author of so many
bloody scenes.
" Be seated, gentlemen," he said, after
we had stood for a few moments; " I
have your chairs drawn closely together
here so that I cen hear you." He turned
and walked to a sofa beneath the picture
of his wife and sat down. It was in seat-
ing himself that the infirmities of his age
showed themselves more conspicuously.
The false limb troubled him then, and he
was obliged to extend it out very care-
fully before him. He threw his right
leg across it as if to conceal it, and sat
straight upright. During the whole hour
that we were with him he did not lean
back or change his position.
Santa Anna's mind is still clear. But
the drift of his conversation shows that
he lives almost altogether in the past.
He loves to talk of his own exploits, and
the accuracy with which he gives dates
and particulars of events which have
been in history for over half a century
is remarkable. He asked many questions
about the United States, and among
others the name of our President, which
he had forgotten. He alluded to the
time when he was the guest of General
Jackson in the White House, and laughed
as he recalled some little embarrassing
circumstances into which his inability to
speak English placed him.
In alluding to the establishment of the
republic, he said:
" I did not know what a republic was.
Iturbide had just concluded a treaty with
the Spaniards, and his friends in Mexico
had made him Emperor. I was a young
man of twenty-four then. I had a vol-
canic head—I cared for nothing, feared
nothing. With three hundred men un-
der my command I had acquired consid-
erable reputation along the Gulf in our
war with Spain, and now my followers
came around me and asked me to declare
a republic in place of the monarchy
which Iturbide had established. ' But
what is a republic V ' Vive la Repiib-
liea!' they shouted. 'Well, you fools,'
I thought,' if you will have a republic
we will go off in search of one.' And so
I led them against Iturbide. Poor Itur-
bide,' he said after a while, ' I had to
overcome motives of personal friendship
in making war on his government; and
how I cried when I heard of his unhappy
death at Tampico."
For three-quarters of an hour the
old man ran on from event to event
without an interruption, and by that
time it had become go dark in the
room that we could scarcely see his
face. Santa Anna is very forcible in
his talk, and although he is .now over
seventy-eight years old, his black, flash-
ing eyes show that the fires of earlier
years are not yet all spent. In speaking
he is very much annoyed by a bad-fitting
set of teeth, and the deafness which is
coming on him in later years would make
conversation a laborious task but for his
willingness to carry the principal share
of it. He took leave of us with many
kind wishes, and the customary Mexican
courtesy to always consider his house oui
home.
A Card.
Haviug btfen frequently asked if I had closed
*ny connection with the Galveston News, as
agent, arid taken charge of two interior
paper*, I beg leave to state that the party
using my name is another person, and his
proper name is D. E. Richardson, of Harrison
connty. DAVID RICHARDSON,
deltiDWtf ' Of Galveston News.
io^?LCH~Tn this city, Saturday, December
1» 1874, Anna Bessie, aged 3 years 10 months
and 29 days, only child of Dr. Samuel M. and
Bettie McDowell Welch.
The friends and acquaintances of the family
are invited to attend the funeral, This (Sun-
day) Afternoon, at 2 o'clock, from the resi-
dence of the paren's, Church street, between
Tremont and Twenty-Fourth streets.
Louisville (Ky.) and Jackson (Miss.) papers
are requested to copy.
KENDALL—At I is residence in Richmond,
lexas, on Tuesday, December 15, 1874, Judge
Charles Howard Kendall.
Judge Kendall was born in Loudon county,
Virginia, on the 14th of October, 1825. At the
age of thirty years, with his brother, W. E.
Kendall, be came to Texas and settled at
Richmond, Fort Bend county, where for
nearly twenty years he pursued the practice
of law, both with honor to himself and to his
profession. His course in life was that of
true manliness, for being too firm to yield and
too proud to stoop, his judgment was the
ruling of calm deliberation and an honesty of
purpose, tempered with even handed justice.
He was bold and frank, dared to do right and
scorned the wrong. Upon his brow shame
found no resting place, and every action gave
to all the full assurance of a man of whom a
community was proud, and whose death the
public mourns.
As a friend he was " good, trusty and true,"
his heart pulsated with kindness, and lrts
hand was extended by charity. The poor
found in him a willing helper, and the erring
a wise and true counselor.
But God, who is "too wise to errand too
good to be unkind," has seen fit to sever ties
that are stronger and dearer still. A home
that was made happy by the devotion of an
indulgent husband and father, is now the
abiding place of woe. A devotion of brothers
ever worthy of admiration, and which had
grown stonger and more beautiful with years,
is severed, another link is formed in the
chain of love which binds sorrowing hearts to
heaven.
During his illness, which was severe and
painful, he calmly and patiently awaited the
Master's call. Death was robbed of its terror,
and as he drew nearer the dark valley a halo
of celestial glory brightened his countenance,
and the pain of separation was only in telling
loved ones Good-bye." C.
Special Notices.
Hall oi' Protection Fire Company,
No. 8— Called Meeting, SUNDAY. Dec. 20, at 10
o'clo'k a m., sharp. Business of importance
to transact. By order of the Foreman.
de20 It* JOHN M. MAYER, Secretary.
IT. A. O. D.—The officers and members
of Texas Grove No. 1 and Live Oak Grove No.
2 are hereby requested to attend a joint meet-
ing, on THIS (Sunday) MORNING, at 9 o'clock
sharp, for the putp_.se of exemplification of
the works of the order, by Br< ther GEO. E.
EBELING, N. Grand Arch of the State of Lou-
isiana. FRANK KAUFMANN,
N. A. Texas Grove No. 1.
C. F. KAISER,
de20 It* N. A. Live Oak Grove No. 2.
Notice—There will be a meeting of Direc-
tors of the Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe Rail-
road Company, on MONDAY, at 12 o'clock M.,
at their office, on business of Importance.
A. C. CRAWFORD,
de20 It
Vice President.
Heptavopbs, or S.*. W/, ]*!.•.—Thj
members of ormisda Conclave No. 1 ara re-
quested to attend a regular meeting on MON-
DAY EVENING, DEC. 21st, at 7:30 o'clock.
The nomination of office s for the ensuing
term, and other business of importance, will
be transacted. J. N. CAMP, M. E. A.
T. O. Millis, Scribe. d 20 It*
Special Notice—The Officers and
members of the Screwmen's Benevolent As-
sociation are notified to attend the regular
quarterly meeting on Monday, December 28,
at 7 P. m. By order,
JOHNPENTONY, President.
John Cassar, Secretary. dec20 It*
December.
Schenck's Mandrake Pills
Will be found to possess those qualities ne-
cessary to the total eradication of all bilious
attacks, prompt to start the secretions of the
liver, and give a healthy tone to the entire
system. Indeed, it is no ordinary discovery
in medical science to have invented a remedy
for these stubborn complaints, which develop
all the results produced by a heretofore free
use of calomel, a mineral justly dreaded by
mankind, and acknowledged to be destruc-
tive in the extreme to the human system.
That the properties of certain vegetables com-
prise all the virtues of calomel, without its
injurious tendencies, is now an admitted
fact, rendered indisputable by scientific re-
searches ; and those who use the Mandrake
Pills will be fully satisfied that the best medi-
cines are those provided by nature in the
common herbs and roots of the fields.
These Pills open the bowels and correct all
bilious derangements without salivation or
any of the injurious effects of calomel or
other poisons. The secretion of bile is pro-
moted by these Pills, as will be seen by the
altered color of the stools, and disappearing
of the sallow complexion and cleansing of the
tongue.
Ample directions tor use accompany each
box of Pills.
Prepared only by J. H. Schenck & Son, at
their principal office, corner Sixth and Arch
streets, Philadelphia, and for sale by all drug-
gists and dealer*?. Price, 25 cents per box.
de2 '74 we fr&su lm
Aew Advertisements.
THE RAFFLE FOR THE FRAMED FINE
Steel Engraving, will take place MONDAY
NIGHT, the 21st inst., at 1. Holstein's.
de20 ltuna*
N
OTICE NOTICE
Our friends and customers will please bear
in mind that hereafter our store will be closed
on Sundays. For the accommodation of those
in the habit of buying on Sunday morning, we
will keep open until 10 o'clock (or later if ne-
cessary) on Saturday nights.
delU E&Dlt WILEY & SHERRARD.
T ANTED WANTED
—Imediately—
SIX GOOD COPYISTS,
Must write small, round, plain hand.
Address in own handwriting
de20 It " H," News Office.
F
OK RENT FOR RENT.
From the 1st of January, TWO OFFICES, in
the Gilbeau Building, at present occupied by
the Internal Revenue Collector.
COTTAGE HOUSE on Church
Also—A
street.
For sale—An excellent pair of MULES and
FLOAT. de20 It J. L. McKEEN.
Vineyard & kindred, real
Estate Agents, have FOR RENT one
new cottage, with seven rooms, water
pipes in the building, conducting water to
each room, in a pleasant neighborhood, on
Avenue O, one-half, bet. 19th and 20th streets.
Price, monthly in advance, $40. Also, three
cottages on Avenue I and 8th street, contain-
ing four rooms each, all new and in good
neighborhood, $20 per month each.
We purchase County, City and State Scrip,
sell Veteran Bonds, dealers in Land Cortifl-
cates, City and Country Property, all on the
best terms; Commission and Brokerage; sell
Stocks, Negotiate Loans, etc.
VINEYARD & KINDRED,
de2) It Real Estate Agents, 124 Strand.
AUCTION SALE WITHOUT RESERVE.
By park, lynch & co.—r. a.
Park, Auctioneer.—Will sell on TUES-
DAY, 22d instant, at 10 o'clock a. m., at their
aalesooms, Strand—
75 boxes and barrels Tumblers, Goblets and
other Glassware; 14 casks assorted Crock-
ery; 50 dozen assorted lamps; 3 dozen
Combination Lanterns; 28gross Table and
Teaspoons; 35 dozen assorted Tea Trays,
fine goods; 30 dozen Fine Feather Dusters;
Wlobe Bouquet Holders, Paper Weights,
Card Receivers. Curtain Pins, and other-
goods, all new and in order. Terms of
sale—cash on delivery of goods.
de20 It
FURNITURE, POTATOES, LIQUORS,TOYS,
BUTTER, COFFEE, ALE, Etc.
BY BLAKELY & PRINCE, Auc-
tioneers, 116 and 118 Strand—Will sell
on MONDAY, 2lst inst., at 10 o'clock a. m. :
10 Tierces Tennant's Ale, 20 packages Butter,
50 sacks Fieur, 5 half bar/ els Ground Cof
fee. Potatoes, Bedsteads, Bureaus, Wash-
stands, Tables, Chairs, 1 Counter, Mat-
tresses, 1 Armoire, Biackbarry Brandy,
Whisky, Cherry Brandy, Ginger brandy]
etc.
—also—
Lot Toys, Ladies' Hats, Clothing, Piece Goods,
Hosiery, Motions, etc.,
—and—
At private sale a f«w more Double Barrel
Guns, breach and muzzle loaders, Colt's
Revolvers. Opera Glasses, and 100 boxes
Sweet Oranges. de20
Monition—in the united
States District Court for the East-
ern District of Texas. Anders Peter Johnson
vs, Schooner Maggie Mc. No. 33 >. In Admi-
ralty.
In ob?dience to a warrant of seizure to me
directed, in the above entitled cause, I have
seized and taken into my possession the fol-
lowing described property, to wit: Schooner
Maggie Mc. For the causes set forth in the
libel now pending in the United States Dis-
rict Court for the Eastern District of Texa?,
at Galveston, i hereby give notice to all per-
sons claiming the said described schooner, or
knowing or having anything to say why the
same should not be condemned and forfeited,
and the proceeds thereof distributed accord-
ing to the prayer of the libel, that they be and
appear before the said court, to be held in and
for the Eastern District of Texas, at the
United States Courtrooms in the city of Gal-
veston, on the 4th DAY OF JANUARY.
1875, at 10 o'clock on the forenoon of that day'
if the same shall be a day of jurisdiction
otherwise oa the next day of jurisdiction
thereafter, then and there to interpose a
«laim for the same, and to make their allega-
tions in that behalf. L. D. EVANS
U. S. Marshal, Eastern Dist. of Texas
deSO 3t su sat sat *
New Advertisements.
gweet jersey cider,
FUltE APPLE VINEC1K,
—Direct from New Jersey—
To arrive per CITY OF WACO on TUESDAY,
and for sale by E. E. F.ICE & C .,
de20 It
125 Tremont st.
j andreth's garden seeds,
GROWTH OF 1874.
And a very fine assortment of
family groceries
For the holidays, for sale by
A. FLAKE & CO ,
de£0d W3m Nos. 48 and 50 Market ^ t.
j^ansom & co... . ransom & co
Tlie Best Cook Store In tlie World
Is nude by
T. H. RANSOM & CO., ALBANY, N. Y.,
and Berin* & McNeil have just received 1000.
Every Stove ie warranted by
BERING & McNEIL,
de20 It Cor. Tremont and Mechan.c sts.
JOS. labadie
Has a large and fine assortment of Guns,
Pistols, Powder, Shot, Caps, Flasks, Pouches,
Belts, quite an assortment of tricks I or all
kinds of Breech-loaders, Metallic Cartridges
of all kinds. Breech-loading Shells and Shot
Guns. Quite a large stock. Fine display of
pistols in our show window. no!5 una tf
qharter oak stoves
ARE FAMOUS FOB THEIR
Wonderfully Quick
And Uniform Baking.
For sale l)y STEELE, WOOD & CO ,
deSO It 68 and TO Tremont st.
20,000 pniLADELpniA
PRES$£» BRICKS
For sale by SAMUEL BOYER DAVIS,
de6 tun tf 73 East Strand.a
Galvestois gift jsntekpkise
ASSOCIATION.
Ofllce—No. 175 Center Street.
ALL TICKETS SOLD ENTITLED TO A
GIFT.
Drawn Numbers, S»ec. 19. 1S74.
DISTRIBUTION NUMBER 5 38.
25-30-10-0-52-04—2U-75t4 <5-01-18
DISTRIBUTION NUMBER 539.
71-32-14-15-73-55-08-74-33-45-77-04-28
TTistributious witnessed and attested by
William R. Johnson, Notary Public.
"' YD '
de8 lm»
BOYD & STONE,
Managers.
rpo arrive to arrive.
—in time for—
CHRISTMAS DINNERS !
One car lead
CHICKENS, TURKEYS & GEESE.
CALL EARLY !
For sale by
ALFRED C. GARSIA & CO.,
Commission Merchants,
de'M It 16 and 18 Strand.
rj^om.... dick. .. and.... harry
— Sell Groceries dear on credit.
CrEOK(»E SltUTII,
—at tub—
Galveston Cheap Grocery Store!
SELLS THEM CHEAF FOR CASH.
Good Groceries, Cheap Groceries,
Good Weight and Polite Attention.
"Test all tilings—hold fast to that which is
good." it*
R
EMOVAL REMOVAL
The Singer Manufacturing Company,
Proprietors and Manufacturers of the
WORLD RENOWNED
Singer Sewing Machines,
Dealers in
Silk, Twist, Thread, Needles, Oi Is, etc.
H&VE KEllOVED lO
No. 53 Market Street,
de20 2t* (Under Girardin House.)
j c. levy,
Dealer in
BOOTS AND SHOES,
Corner Market and Twenty second streets,
DEFIES COMPETITION
In his line of poods, and offers his fine
stock of Gentlemen's Custom-made
BOOTS AND GAITERS,
As well as Ladies' and Children's Shoes of all
descriptions, lower than ever. He also has
on band a fine assortment of Ladies' and
Gentlemen's Slippers, Children's Fancy Shoes
for Christmas, as well as direct imported
Gorman Felt Shoes.
de20 tmh5
A CARD.
To the Trade and Country Mer-
chants :
Having determined to clos9 my present
business, I now offer, for Cash or City Ac-
ceptance, one of the largest and best selected
stocks of FRESH GROCEKIES in Galveston,
at prices less than the same goods can be
bcfcght for in any market in the united
states. I am constrained to this course for
reasons not necessary to give. To close out
I am determined, and therefore offer my en-
tire stock, or parts of it, at less than cost.
To a single buyer I will give a great bargain.
J. L. McKEEN,
Wholesale Grocer,
de20 dlw&W2t 162. 101 and 166 Strand.
c
ALL AT THE
BAZAR JEWELItY HOUSE
m. W. SHAW & BRO.,
And select some handsome Presents, consist-
ing of Handkerchief Holders, Glove Fasten-
ers, Shirt and Sleeve Buttons, Necklaces
Crosses, Lockets, Gold Specs, Chain and Band
Bracelets, Coral Armlets and Necklaces, Gold
Keys, and a great many other articles too
numerous to mention. Call and examine our
stock before going elsewhere.
de6 tilldec7d&W 3dp
j \v. iiebert,
Dealer in
wall paper
—and—
window shades,
Looking' Glasses, Clxroiuos,
GILT, ROSEWOOD AND ORNAMENTAL
MOUDDINGS FOR PICTURE FRAMES.
WINDOW CORNICES, ETC.,
Made to Order.
No- 231 Postoffice St., Galveston^ Tex.
se27 su3m
5000 STOVES
FOR WANT OF ROOM.
Persons wanting their Residences, Offices,
bcliools Churches, etc., fltted up with neat,
cheap STOVES, now is their time to
Call and Examine our Stock and
Prices
before buying: elsewhere.
TIN ROOFING, GUTTERING, and every
description of JOB WORK done in our line in
a workmanlike manner and fully warranted.
.f .. . XT P..H. HENNESSY & BRO.,
At then- New Building, corner of Strand and
Joath Avenue,
Parties having Stores anil wanting
them POLISHED AND PUT UP ao as to look
like new, will please leave their orders at our
office, and they will have our prompt atten-
ded H P.II.H.&BRO.
jt0r sale for sale
AT FACTORY PRICES,
500 doz. Hon and Calf-skin COLLARS,
500 doz. Plow and Stage HAMES,
m"nl? d°Z' Pl°W aDd StaS» BRIDLES,
10,000 feet Cotton Back Band DUCKING,
1,000 doz. Best Cast-Steel HOES.
BROWN & LANG,
Hardware 1*1 e reliant*,
Nos. 165, 167,169 and 171 Strand. Nos. 166, 168
170 and 172 Mechanic street,
dec*) Galveston, Texas.
Grand New Year's Eve
December 31st, 1674—8 O'clock P. XVI.
CONSISTING OF DOBPS CiREAT .F VAH% AND WHICH W*RE NEVER BEFORE
FIRST PRIZE-^ajeEHOIJ.B^LE, mtwo^ boun^in full Morocco, illustrated by GUST AVE LORE, containing 238 flno
SECOND PBISE-Is ONE HUNEKED EOLLARS IN GOLD COIN.
THIRD i»RIi(!E—la the DORE GALLEftT, <
FOURTH PRIZE—Is MILTON'S PARADISE LOST, beautifully illustrated by DORE, the value of which is THIRTY-FIVE DOLLARS.
All are invited to examine these beautiful works. Ladies should not fail to see them, as they may never have such an opportunity again.
J One Hundred and Sixty Chances at $3 00 a Cliancc. List is now open and tickets for sale at the Parlor Book Store of
J. E. MASON.
11 O LI DAY ANNOUNCEMENT.
WHAT YOU CA.V «ET AT MASOX'S !
The finest lino of Russian Leather POCKET EOOKS, Dressed, Wax and Rul.her DOLLS, Rubber BALLS and TOYS. A fine line of WRITING
11 , ^ .Th S n™li pwfe and Handkerchief Boxes, and Portemonnaies for Ladies. Portfolios,
Music and Scrap Book*. Photograph Albums and Bibles. MECHANICAL TOYS and Books for the liitle ones.
LADIES' NECESSARIES AMD DRESSING CASES. Water Colors and Drawing Rooks, Games, Etc., Etc.
All the leading Bolts of Art, in fine bir.ding lnkgtands and Paper Weights, handsome designs. Sterescopes and Views, and Kaleidoscope.
TiF STTRF TO SFIT THF S ,A2r^S5LJFS ANU TB1IE ORNAMENTS.
VS?" There is nothing^ewYcde^he sun^f^ TiiE AGE-THE CREEPING DOLL.
French, English, Spanish and German spoken at this establishment.
New Advertisements.
=JUST AIUUYED.=
4000 Sacks COFFEE
Per British Brig "TARPEIAN."
This is a choice cargo, and will l>e sold at
reduced pi iccs from wharf.
Samples at my oflflee.
i»i.
]Vew AtlvertlsemesaSs.
..BRIMLY PLOW.
M. HIKSCH & CO.,
Agents i'or Factory,
, _ STRAND, filLVESTON.
dell tf una
2000 Sacks Coffee,
IN STORE,
For Sale by
nol3tfuna KAUFFMAN Ar Kl \CJE.
j^atest arrival.
3500 Sacks Coffee,
Front Rio de Janeiro,
EX GERMAN BRIG '-.LUDWIG."
Our friends in Rio write us: " These are the
finest Coffees that have left for your port this
season."
If Buyers will look at our Samples they will
be able to judge for themselves.
J. H. ELS WORTH & CO.,
se27 3m una Nos. 10, 12,14 and 16 Strand.
5000
HALL & SPEERS'
CELEBRATED
11a 01757" S.
k . s . w «> a s> .
oct8 3m una
insurance.
qrescent mutual
INSURANCE COM'ANY
OF NEW ORLEANS.
April 30, 1874. $652,649 22
Will insure property against loss or damage
jos. w. rice.
victor j. baulard
vv" MANN iUFiRiCK
IE.W1ST0WN -ASTSTIU
BERING & M NEIL
Galveston.
texas.
PAIKTTS.
OILS AND GLASS,
VARNISHES and ARTISTS'COLORS,
Wall I'aperaml Window Sliade*,
KICE & BAULAKD.
77 TREMONT STREET,
ja2GD-SH&Wly GALVESTON, TEXAS.
F
OR TRINITY RIVER
A No. 1 Steamboat
W. J. POITEVENT,
Adolph Poitevent, Master,
Will leave THURSDAY, Dec. 21th.
del9 3t* C. N. ELEY, Agent.
by
FIRE, MARINE
AND INLAND TRANSPORTATION
At Fair Rates.
losses promptly adjusted.
THOS. A. ADAMS, HENRY V. OGDEN,
President. Secretary.
B. D. CHENOWETH, Gen'l Agent for Texas.
Office, 1 62 Strand, Galveston. no4 d3m
H
OUSTON FLOUR BUSINESS.
IN STORE AND TO ARRIVE,
2500 barrels flour,
From the best mills in Kansas and Missouri,
anil offered to the trade VERY LOW.
M. 0. WELLBORN,
delfl Im Houston, Texas.
Pay! Pay! Pay!
ISoiiday floods.
j rpOYS TOYS 10YS
Great Opening of toys everywhere, but
remember the
Pay Your Taxen, or be Sold Out.
PAY ! or your hard-earned Home will be
wrenched from you and knocked down t j the
highest bidder.
What did that HOME cost vou ? How long
did it take to earn and SAVE the purchase
money ?
"It cost $10,G00. To meet it I have applied
all my savings for four years, .and yet ow-
$3300, secured by mortgage. What troubles
me is this: if I should suddenly die my house
would be sold under the mortgage and my .
family left without a Home!'''' \ such as. Mechanical Toys. Doll Buggies, Wa-
To own that property cost you— gons with iron anrl wooden axles, and a mul-
Interest on the purchase, 10 per cent $1000 j tttude of other valuable fancy articles, far too
Fire insurance, 1>j per cent... 150 ; numerous to enumerate, but which we will sell
Annual repairs—about 1 percent 100 \ at lower figures, than ever have been offered
GREAT DOLLAR STORE
where you can buy
Toys Cheaper
than any where else. All our toys will be
ready for inspection on THURSDAY. DEC 17.
We will receive by next steamer a most com-
plete assortment of Toys and
HOLIDAY GOOOS,
State, county and city taxes 2% per cent. S5D | at in this market.
Total §1500
But if yon aged 34—will pay percent.
you can secure 810,000 -which shall he exempt
from litigation, from taxes, from sheriffs, and
from uli otlicr terror*.
J. S. BYINGTON, Galveston,
Special Agent of the
ALA. GOLD LIFE INSURANCE CO.
de20
de!5
A. MARINAS,
Importer and Dealer in
CIGARS, ETC., ETC.
Manufacturer of HAVANA and DOMESTIC
CIGARS.
No. g9 Market st., bet. Tremont and 21th sts.
A fresh supply always on hand.
COMPETITION DEFIED.
qnly for THE
II O L I 1) A Y S .
Headquarters for Toys.
Headquarters for Ele^aut Work
Boxes.
Headquarters for Elegant Writing
Desks.
Headquarters for Elegant Toilet
Sets.
Headquarters for Musical Albums.
Headquarters for Rus-ia Leather
Albums.
Galveston Bazar
THE RIGHT PLACE TO BUY FURS,
GALYESTON BAZAIS.
Q1IRISTMAS IS COMING,
And families wishing cakes can get them
by calling on J. H. FORBES, who is prepared
to make and ornament Cakes to order. Icc-
cream made to order. Cake Ornaments,
Christmas Tree Ornaments, fine Confection-
aries and Fruits of all kinds always on hand.
Also,
OYSTER SALOON,
Where Ladies and Gentlemen can be served
with Oysters, Coffee, Chocolate, Tea and
home-made Pies of the best quality, and in
the best of style.
Please give me a call, opposite the Post-
office. JAS. H. FORBES.
de!3 tjanl
TOYS, TOYS,
A large assortment.
—Also —
FANCY GLASSWARE,
GILT AND DECORATED
C II I N A W ARE,
At Wholesale and Retail.
A. BALDINGER & SON,
no!5 Ow Corner 22d and Mechanic sts.
CL
osing out sale
—OF-
TIIE ONLY PLACE TO
DRESS GOODS,
BIT Y
Toys and Holiday Goods and Masks
—at—
LEWIS Ac STIEFEL
On liberal terms, Rosenberg Building, Mar-
ket street, upstairs. de21m
GALYESTOX bazar.
—WE HAVE REDUCED—
Our Keady-Made Dresses,
Formerly selling at....$17 50 to $12 50 I
20 00 to 14 50 j
22 00 to 16 50 |
25 OO to IS 00 !
27 50 to 19 50 ;
30 OO to 21 OO
35 00 to 23 OO
37 50 to 25 OO
Roots, Shoes and flats.
J7 J. BAUMANN,
BOOT AND SHOE MAKER,
131 MECHANIC STREET 131
Between Tremont and Twenty-second sts.,
Galvestou, Texas.
All orders attended to with promptness.
oc3 3m .
(JALYESTON
deSO
BAZAR.
Druggist,
R. F. GEORGE,
Wholesale
GALVESTON, TEXAS.
JUST RECEIVED—
50 reams SAND PAPER.
10 gross FRENCH BLACKING
1000 roams STRAW PAPER (all sizes.)
10 cerroons INDIGO.
10 barrels COTTON TWINE.
100 barrels ROSIN.
100 gross AMBER WINE BOTTLES.
10 gross COTTER S SUPERB COLOGNE.
FRIEND & CO.,
Fashionable Hatters,
G9 MARKET STREET,
Two Doors West of .Thompson's
Corner,
(JALVESTON, TEXAS.
oc22 3m
^ND STILL THE
RUSH CONTINUES
—at—
W GOLF'S
New Orleans Shoe Stove.
In addition to the large and well selected
stock of
1 Ladies*, (ieiits', Misses', Boys' and
Children's
! BOOTS AND SHOES
And still receiving others by every steamer,
! which we are enabled to offer far below man-
! nfactureis' prices. Call and be convinced
j before purchasing elsewhere.
BARGAINS IN GENTS' SLirPERS.
WOOLF'S
Supporters, Shoulder Braces, Suspensory! \|."l (HiljlHXS SHOE STORF.
Bandnces. Stocking for Varicose Veins, and j l ^
HOME INSURANCE
AND
BANKING COMPANY
61....STRAND....61
galveston, texas.
CAPITAL STOCK, $205,000 OO
RESERVE FUND, 23,827 61
BOARD OP IgRECTORS:
John H. Burnett, J. M. Walthew
Gkorgk F. Alford, R. R. Lawthkh,
Wm. Barnes, L. LeGierse,
M. W. Shaw. T. N. Waul,
C. H. Ruff, S. W. Sydnob,
S, Heidenheimer, A. Kory
This Company solicits the patronage of its
Stockholders, and the public generally, lu
both its
Insurance and Banking Departments.
JOHN H. BURNETT President
J. M. WALTHEW Vice-President
T. N. WAUL Attorney
W. B. SORLET Cashier and Secretary
feblDly
MERCHANTS'
Insurance "Company,
NO. 63 STRAND, GALVESTON.
(Organized, 18 66.)
FIRE, MARINE A\fi> KIVBJi.
CASH CAPITAL (FULL PAID) 9250,000.
JOHND. ROGERS, President.
LEON BLUM, Vice President.
BALLINGER, JACK & MOTT, Attorneye
HENRY SAMPSON Secretary.
DIRECTORS :
W. L. Moody of Moody & Jemlson.
H. Kempner of Marx & Kempuer.
W. A. Oliphint of Gary & Oliphiut.
M. Kopperl. .Pres't National Bank of Texap.
M. F. Mott of Ballinger, Jack & Mott.
John D. Rogers of John D. Rogers & Co.
Alfred Muckle Cotton Factor.
Leon Blum of Leon & H. Blum.
George Sealy of Ball, Hutchings & Co.
B. G. Duval of Grinnan & Duval.
T. W. Folts of Folts & Walshe
R. A. Brown of R. A. Brown A Co.
Henry Sampson Sec'y. Merchants' Ins. Co.
The Company insures against loss or dam-
age by fire on Buildings, Merchandise, Pro-
duce, Household Furniture, and other insul a
ble property in town and country, and is con-
ducted on strictly conservative principlf3s.
Risks are assumed only at adequate ratos of
premium, and losses promptly adjusted.
1an3-'74D-Wlv
J. M. ODIN MENARD.
JOHN N. STOWE
Menard & Stowe,
GENERAL INSURANCE AGENTS,
53 Strand,
Represent the following first-class companies,
combining strength and security:
Capital.
Commercial Union, of London,
(gold) $12,500,000 00
Queen. Liverpool and London,
(gold) 10,000,000 00
Imperial, London (gold) 8,000.0t0 00
Phoenix. Brooklyn 2,008,947 65
Mobile Underwriters, Mobile... 900,0i)0 0u
Manhattan, New York 493,009 19
Mississippi Valley, Memphis 399,060 00
Atlantic, Brooklyn 372.843 89
Ccntial City,-Selma. Ala 125,000 00
Total cap'l Fire Ins. comp'nies $34,798,860 13
Also, Manhattan Life Insurance Company,
of New York: Assets, $9,009,462 33, and has
a surplus of $1,666,626 95 over liabilities.
del3 DlmElw
gTAR MUTUAL
Fire Insurance Company
OFFICE:
173 TREMONT STREET 173
Calvcston, Texas.
Insures property for an/ term not exceeding
five years.
Dwellings and Isolated 1'roperiy
A SPECIALTY.
JAMES BERRY .. President
JOHN A. AMES Secretary
fel4 D&Wly
rpEXAS MUTUAL.
LIFE INSURANCE < O.,
HOME OFFICE:
74 Tremont Street 7 1
GALVESTON, TEXAS.
Guarantee to Policy Holders.$353,650 68
Surplus, May 31,1874 22,996 77
Directors:
J. P. Davie, Hardware Merchant, Galveston.
J. M. Brown, of Brown & Lang, and Presi-
dent of First National Bank, Galveston.
A. C. McKeen, Cotton Factor, Galveston.
Henry Sampson, Secretary Merchant's In
surance Company, Galveston.
George F. Alford, of Alford & Miller, Gal-
veston.
N. B. Yard, of Yard & Sullivan, Galveston.
Herman Mar'vitz, Grocery Merchant, Gal-
veston.
Ex-Governor F. R. Lubbock, Galveston.
C. E. Richards, of Richards & Hawkins,
Galveston.
S. G. Etheridge, of Etheridge & Co., Galves-
ton.
B R. Davia. of B. R. Davis & Bro.. Galveston.
John Wolston, of Wolston, Wells & Vidor,
Galveston.
Thomas Reed, Cashier First National Bank,
Galveston.
Officers:
J. P. DAVIE President.
GEO. F. ALFORD Vice President.
B. B. RICHARDSON Secretary.
S. M. WELCH, M. D., Cor suiting Physician
LIVE MEN WANTED AS SOLICITORS.
dec!3'74-Dly
FRANK FABJ,
General Agent.
Wants—liost—Found.
t^CHOOL WANTED.
A gentleman and his wife.
Cld and Experienced Teachers,
Want a good school, in a healthy location.
Besides the ordinary branches, they teach
Mathematics, Latin, Greek, Frcnch and Mu-
sic.
Refer to Cols. Hobby and Bclo, Galveston.
de2 lm*
Building Material.
JJANIELGOOS,
(Successor to Moeling & Co.,)
Dealer in All Kinds of ROUGH and DRESSI
L U MB JE It ,
Pickets, Laths, etc. BILLS SAWED TO OR-
DER at short notice and lowest rates.
W. F. STEWART is my duly authorized
agent in Galveston. DANIEL GOOS.
au 13*74 ly
UNCONDITIONALLY USEFUL—IN STORE j
—Fresh arrivals of Trusses, Abdominal
Bandnges, Stockings
Hard and Soft Rubber Goods of all kinds.
del9 R. F. GEORGE
207 JTIarket Street.
octG ly
207
Groceries—Provisions.
rpiRHOOD CHUTNEY, STILTON
Cheese, Oxford Sausage, Cambridge Sau-
sage, Anchovis Paste, Lyon Sausage, Munster
Cheese, French Prunes in jars and wooden
boxes, Mortattella, Pitted Cherries, Peeled
Pcaches, at MEYER & METZGER'S, ^
de 6 180 Market street.
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