The Galveston Daily News. (Galveston, Tex.), Vol. 40, No. 263, Ed. 1 Tuesday, January 24, 1882 Page: 2 of 4
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THE DENVER AND RIO GRANDE AND
MEXICAN CENTRAL.
It has been understood for some time past
that the depressed condition in the value of
Denver and Rio Grande Railroad stock was
due to the manipulations of Mr. Gould and
the party of capitalists who generally operate
with liim. The latest phase of this latest stock-
jobbing transaction develops the admitted con-
dition that Mr. Gould has carried his point,
and that the Mexican business of the Denver
and Rio Grande Railroad and its connections
will in great part be controlled by the manage-
ment of what is known as Gould's Southwest-
ern system. The New York Indicator of recent
date gives some points on the subject. " There
is but little doubt," remarks the Indicator,
"that the late flurry in Denver and Rio
Grande stock was brought about by Mr. Gould
for the purpose of securing control of the road.
Air. Gould set out with much histe, but less
than his usual prudence, to project a railroad
from the Rio Grande river, at Laredo, to the
City of Mexico, a distance of some 700 miles,
the estimated cost of which is over $20,000,000.
General Palmer had already under way the
Mexican Central road, from El Paso to the
City of Mexico, for the construction of which,
it is understood, the funds are provided.
This road is being built in the interest
of the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad
Company. If Mr. Gould could secure control
of the Denver and Rio Graude interest he
could afford to suspend operations on the La
redo route and connect the Mexican road, now
being built by General Palmer and associates,
with the Texas Pacific at El Paso. With this
road proceeding so rapidly toward the Mexi-
can capital, railway men and capitalists are
not inclined to venture their momy in a sec-
ond road leading from the Rio Grande to the
City of Mexico until, at least, the first experi-
ment is successfully demonstrated. Mr. Gould,
out of the large capital with which he is cred-
ited, might construct this new road, perhaps,
but this would be a wide departure from his
usual method of dealing with railway property."
The devious ways of railroad stock jobbers
are set forth at length by the Indicator, in the
citation of special instances of means having
been adopted to depress Denver and Rio
Grande stock not at all creditable in men pos-
sessed of honorable instincts. Such is not un-
common, however, as modern stock jobbing
operations are conducted. The point made by
tho possession of influence in the Denver and
Rio Grande Railroad, as outlined by the Indi-
cator, is to force the business of the Mexicau
Central to an outlet at El Paso, there to
connect with the Texas and Pacific. The
Denver and Rio Grande and the Mexican Cen-
tral are understood to be controlled in com-
mon. Whether this will do away with the
necessity for building the Gould projected
line from Laredo to the City of Mexico, is not
yet apparent. It is observed, however, that
the formation of the construction company
designed for that purpose is not being pressed
with any extraordinary amount of vigor. The
arrangement is against the gulf cities, as far
as Mexican trade is concerned.
PARTISANSHIP AND CRIME.
A nui'.iuiir i-i able journalists appear to have
been :>aoek ' omewhat out of their mental
equi;x>i -3 \>y Mr. Scoville's denunciation of
tlij stalwart lead -rs for their part in generat-
ing u:i.l shaping the influences which led to the
a- assination of President Garfield. They
combat t'ae charge of moral and intellectual
instig; . . on as though it affirmed a corresponding
di_:i:ut. n of criminal complicity in law. 4,If
Ivir. ti-.oviil ih ory o£ the assassination were
to l ass c nrent," says the -New York Herald,
"is v*(,u; establish a rule that henceforth no
man shall l:ave the right to as.ume an attitude
oZ oppu.-i* ion in politics lest he may be held re-
spoi s 1>I • for the act of some arch fiend whose
opposition takes the form of murder." The
Philadelphia Telegraph, looking at another
aspect of the matter. observes: "If
Guiteau could l>e spared from the
halter, or his erimo even bo admitted to soma
d:^rey o: justification on the ground that cer-
tain prominent men had had a difference with
t e president with respect to a matter of pub-
lic policy or a detail of public business, the
life Ol n > public man wou'd be safe, and license
v. oulu b> given to all the cranks of the coun-
try to work thf.ir wills with everybody from
the pre si lent down to the tide-waiter." It
should 1x3 remembered that Mr. Scoville
asserted only the moral and intellectual re-
sponsibility of the stalwart leaders, and that
he obviously intended the assertion to havo
weight only in connection with his theory of
Guiteau's insanity. His language was:
I say that such men as Grant and Coklingand
Arthur are morally and intellectually responsible
for this crime. Mr. Conkling shall not escape,
shall not shirk the responsibility of the state of
things that led to this act, and lie shall not escape
the condemnation of the American people, if I can
help it, for his share in this disgraceful scramble
for office that led to a conflict with the chosen
ruler of this great nation, and led this poor in-
sane man to compass—what they would have
hailed with satisfaction, as wouid, probably, hun-
dreds or other politicians, if it could have oc-
curred other than through assassination—the re-
ni v/r-J of Garfield, who stood in the way of their
unrighteous and disgraceful struggle for ottice.
Neither shall Grant escape that condemnation
to which lie is so justly subjected, when, coming
from Mexico, and coming with undue haste to
throw his own name into rhis petty quarrel about
a small office in the Republican party, and sought
to foment differences that had sprung up. I am
not going to ;ee the misdeeds of these m -n, high
In power, visited upon the head of this poor insane
man if I can help it. This clamor for his blood is
not for the purpose of avenging Garfield or of sat-
isfying justice, but their theory is this: If it can
be shown that tiiis was the act of a ?ar.e man,
then these politicians in high places will
say: "Of course we are not responsible
for the act of a sane man. %> be sure,
w e had some difference, b it then it could
never have led a sane man to such an act; " but. on
the contrarj*, gentlemen of the jury, what is t ie
effect of your verdict it* 3 0U acquit him a* an iu-
Fane man? Why people will miv, "some one is at
fault;" they will say, "we will fix the blame
upon the heads and hearts of those men who waged
the war up ,n our poor dead pre blent until it
drove this pour insane man, from reading daily in
the papers what Grant *-ays, what Conkling says,
i.nd from constantly thinking upou it, to hi-; insane
act of killing the president; and the.-c are men in
high places, the real culpable ones, who will go
eown to posterity with the btigma up 11 their
names, and the detestation of their countrymen
fastened upon their memories.
It is to be presumed that Guiteau will be
convicted of murder and sentenced to be
hanged. It is generally agreed that, however
distempered intellectually and morally bo may
have been when he conceived and committed
the assassination, he was sane enough to be
guilty in law and justly to incur its penalty.
Brill this can not excuse the partisan leaders
whose virulence and eloquence assisted, as
they obviously did assist, to nerve him up to
the perpetration of the crime. And hero Mr.
Scoville''s plea is at fault. There is certainly
not less wickedness in disseminating a partisan
spirit that can impel a legally sane person to
capital crime than in disseminating such as
can only have that effect with a legally
insane person. But there is a true theory
of community of guilt and responsibility with
r >fere nee to the misdeeds of partisans, which
g.'cs fur beyond the scope of Mr. Scoviile's
pita. This theory spares half-breeds no
more than stalwarts. It spares leaders and
partisans of no party and no faction, who go
upon the doctrine that the supremacy of the
party or faction is a necessity so vital, an end
so supreme, as to justify the employment of
any means, however immoral in itself, which
may prove successful. It is needless to say how
much falsehood and fraud, how much lawless-
ness and violence, this doctrine lias in-
cited and justified; how much profligacy,
venality, corruption, public plunder, it
has suggested, tolerated and condoned.
All this is in history. The New York
World, condemning Mr. Scoviile's denuncia-
tion of the stalwart leaders, remarks: No
doubt politicians ought to be ashamed of them-
selves for making so much ado about nothing
—or rather people ought to be ashamed of
themselves for permitting politicians to make
eo much ado about nothing, but everybody
kMOWS this loose and lying exaggeration is the
custom of politicians, and if a man allows him-
self to become excited about it, it is at his own
peril, if he is a responsible being." Such argu-
ments do not meud tne matter the least bit.
Sanity and insanity are relative terms in poli-
f tics, as well as everywhere else in the sphere
of human thought and feeling. Loose and
lying exaggeration," as a custom of politicians,
is intended to produce in some minds an un-
healthy excitement, and it does produce in
some minds some measure of such excitement,
or it would be abandoned as a worthless ex-
pedient.
WHERE INJURIOUS SPECULATION BE-
GINS.
The strength of the tendency in mankind to
indulge in gambling indirectly, when forbid
to engage in it directly, and in this latter
case to add insincerity to greed and cunning,
may be illustrated by reference to the enor-
mous aggregate of contracts for the future de-
livery of goods. Just now a fact is reported
which furnishes a convenient text for moral-
ists desiring to pursue this subject. There
were sold on the Cotton Exchange in New
York during last year more than thirty
million bales of cotton. It i<* agreed
by some severe moralists that these
figures show four-fifths of the busi-
ness of dealing in futures to be gambling.
It is possible that moralists have to some ex-
tent weakened their case, both in regard to
grain speculation and cotton speculation, by
ignoring or utterly forgetting that the same
bale or bushel may be sold several times, and
sold legitimately in tho same season, just as
on" coin, passing from hand to hand, may an-
nually transfer so much property that a tax
upon it at its nominal sum would seem like a
mountain of debt compared with the circu-
lating medium, without being enormous when
laid on it as it actually exists at its assessed value.
Discrimination is needed in classing the opera-
tions conducted on cotton and other exchanges.
The bucket shops, as they are called, are
purely gambling establishments, dealing in
nothing but the ris-d and fall of prices, that are
almost-, if not literally, bettings. That kind of
business is not done on the exchanges. On the
st a*k exchange-; the shares that are bought and
sold, however oflen, are real shares. The Chi-
cago Times makes the point that the country
merchant wi o buys for his note a stock of dry
goods, hoping to sell them in time to pay his
note, is as much a speculator as the legitimate
operator 011 a regular exchange. He buys
what he does not want for himself. He sells
what he has not got, exsept by tho credit ex-
tended to him, but 110 jury is called upon to
indict him. So far as warehouse receipts are
bought and sold, it may be said that the goods
change hands. There is no greater fiction, and
not less, but more convenience about the
method than in the use of tank checks. The
c< nstant watchfulness of a body of specu-
lators has a tendency to make prices
steady and continuous at seasons when
there would be no demand without
a certain speculative element in trade.
So the dealing in futures is perhaps, to some
extent, compatible with a healthy condition of
trade and beneficial to producers by equaliz-
ing demand at dull seasons in the same way—
provided it be well assured that the dealing is
by those who have the means to buy what they
contract to deliver; that is, a moderate amount
of operations in futures by large dealers in
their particular lines of business, and with
capital to cover their ventures without invit-
ing disaster, is as much a part of legitimate
trade as the extension of credit on a calcula-
tion of the demands of a given market.
The same things are equally disastrous
if undertaken by persons, outside their
regular business, to an extent beyond
their surplus capital and without close
experience. In the shipment of goods
abroad enterprise may be called legitimate
speculation or mad folly, according to purely
individual distinctions. A regular merchant
or manufacturer, sending hats or saddles or
shoes to a remote place, will know what he is
doing; he inajr lose in one case, but he will
gain in the long run in most cases. The oppo-
site condition was illustrated by the action of
the Englishman who had a few hundred pounds:
and on going to Canada, a country he had never
failed, expended all his money in prayer-books
and hob-nailed shoes such a3 laborers wear on
English turnpike roads. He went into specu-
lation too deeply, as the shoes would have
gone too deep into the mud or snow of a Cana-
dian road, according to the season. The peo-
ple's piety was not sufficiently aroused at sight
of the prayer-book to overcome their mirth on
looking at the hob-nails. Therefore the poor
speculator lost considerably over fifty per
cent of his venture. The people who, without
knowledge, large capital, or place on the ex-
changes, aspire to gamble in margins and fu
tures, can not reasonably expect any bet-
ter fate. As to the great gamblers, the evil
they do may not be wholly remediable, but it
will at least be less felt if smaller men will
stand off and see the squeezing done when
squeezing time comes, and keep out of it them
selves. The men who do t'ae most mischief in
deluding credulous people into speculation in
bucket-shops have 110 standing on the ex-
changes. The people who are producing cot-
ton or aught else should study to avoid inter-
est. It appears reasonable to suppose that
they can not in the long run make enough by
speculation to pay interest and charges. Nor
cau any producer give his whole mind to his
work when he is engaged in coquetting with
Dame Fortune; in such a case Dame Industry
will be sure to find it out and go back on
him.
whereby the transfer of freight and passen-
gers across the river at St. Louis was made a
joint interest, the gross earnings of the entire
combination to constitute a pool of all the
revenues derived from these sources, and to
be equally divided. This last agreement also
stipulated a schedule of rates to be charged by
each company for the service rendered. The
suit was brought to declare these contracts
void, as being against public policy and de-
structive of the benefits to be derived by the
people through competition. The information
covered every conceivable point in the
case, and prayed to have all the
companies interested made parties de-
fendant, and for a perpetual injunc-
tion restraining them from executing
the several contracts and agreements
for pooling their business and revenues.
The defendants filed a demurrer, alleging want
of equity. The argument was delivered some
time ago, but Judge Zane has just now made
an elaborate decision, overruling the demurrer
and granting a writ of injunction in response
to prayer of the complainants. The opinion
occupies more than 100 pages of legal cap and
fully defines the rights and duties of common
carriers. Though tried under a special statute
in Illinois, Judge Zane traveled outside of the
statutory law to find a foundation for the im-
portant opinion he has given, and his posi-
tions, if well taken, indicate a common law
applicable to common carriers generally and
in all jurisdictions. The judge goes down to
the very root of the matter, and shows that
the people have rights which corporations are
bound to respect. In discussing tho question
of remedies for the pooling system, he says:
The most suitable remedy to vindicate the rights
of the public ought to be adopted in this case.
Like all ether branches of the law, thai relating to
remedies is designed to benefit society. To that
end it lias provided various methods by which
wrongs may be redressed and injuries prevented.
These methods have been classified, and certain of
thorn must be pursued in courts of law and other
courts of equity. Courts of law are bound by
rigid rules; those governing in equity are more pli-
able, so that their decrees may be varied, and
oftener better adjusted to the manifold and diver-
sified exigencies of human affairs. The law fur-
nishes the writ of quo warranto by which the
charters of the defendants might be forfeited or
fines imposed. But the people do not want their
rights destroyed nor their usefulness impaired.
They demand the full benefit of them. The
position of the complainant is that these corpora-
tions are public agencies as well as private;
that their purposes are double; that it is their
duty to furnish the public cheap, safe, prompt and
convenient ways of transportation, and to give the
stockholders thereof reasonable compensation for
the labor and capital employed. It is not to the
interest at the man whose valuable teams plow his
lands and make them productive and valuable,
that are sources of profit and pleasure, to have
them destroyed or their usefulness impaired; his
interest is that he may receive the full benefit of
their use. The public desire that the unlawful con-
tracts by which the defendants are so hitched and
mauaged as to be used in the interests of private
parties, to the injury of the public, shall be can-
celed, that the defendants may be at liberty to
answer and respond to the wants of the people,
subject to the motives furnished by competition,
which spurs indolence, restrains imprudence, and
leads toil, trade and commerce on the ways of jus-
tice and liberty up the hills of progress.
The opinion abounds in similar bold declara-
tions of law and public policy, but they are too
numerous and too lengthy for present citation.
As a whole, it is a powerful argument in favor
of the rights of the great commercial and in-
dustrial body of the people i^ their struggle to
prevent the transportation systems of the
country, which is of such incalculable value as
a cherished and liberally paid hired servant,
from becoming an absolute and remorseless
master. It is, doubtless, too, significant of
progress toward a final solution of the trans-
portation problem, which shall be substantially
just, generally satisfactory, and injurious to no
legitimate interest concerned.
STATE PRESS.
AN ANTI-POOLING DECISION.
An important decision has just been rendered
by Judge Zaue, in the Circuit Court of Sang i-
mond county, Illinois, materially affecting the
pooling system among the railroad companies.
The suit in this instance was brought August
23, 1881, by Palmer, Robinson & Shute, of
Springfield, on behalf of the attorney-general,
and in the name of the people of the State of
Illinois, against the Chicago and Alton Ilai!
road Company, the Wiggins Ferry Company,
the Madison County Ferry Company and the
St. Louis Bridge Company and Tunnel Rail
road. The object of the suit is to break up the
pooling arrangements between the Chicago
and Alton Railroad Company and the other
companies named, under which the St. Louis
Bridge Company ari l Tunnel Railroad com-
panies transport all the passengers and freight
of the Chicago and Alton across the Missis
sippi at St. Louis. The bill of information in
equity is voluminous, and details a full his-
tory of all agreements between these com-
panies, commencing as far back as tS&i, when
a perpetual contract was made between the
Chicago and Alton Railroad Company and
the \Y iggins Ferry Company, which was sup-
plemented in 1866, and male mere binding in
1867. And still other agreements were e::
tered into all aleug the years to March,
18S0, when they wore all followed by
a contract between the ferry companies
and the bridge and tunnel companie
tion of our country will be elevated to a higher
plane, and its general prosperity advanced.
Some other people think that women are as
liable to be dragged down aa men elevated, by-
subjecting the former to the demoralizing in-
fluences of political campaigns. In the mean
time mothers, wives and sisters may use all
their present powers in making better men,
and thus purifying our public institutions
without jeopardy to the delicacy of their own
characters.
The Alvarado (Johnson county) Bulletin
says:
If woman suffrage grows into a law. and the
negro women of the South maintain their ascend-
ency over the many regular and brevet husbands,
the Slahonizing of Texas and other State * will be-
come a comparatively easy task, much easier
than by a formulated coalition caucus.
What the Interior Papers Say.
"Galveston Burnt Up" is the caption, in the
Burnet Bulletin, of a notice of the late fire in
this city. The space burnt over was about 1*20
by 200 feet. Galveston occupies a league of
land.
The Montgomery Journal mentions a num-
ber of Galveston firms as the "principal los-
ers " by the late fire. The insurance companies
were the principal losers.
The News is indebted to the Groesbeeck
New Era for the following:
The Galveston News is still ahead in its enter-
prise and public spirit. As a news gatherer it has
:'ew equals and no superior in the South, and those
desiring to keep posted in the current history of
Texas can not afford to be without it.
The Bellville Times warns immigrants against
exaggerated ideas of wages in Texas, saying:.
They can, if they will, live and accumulate by
economy and work an abundant competency, as
in other States, and even more easily than in other
States, but that they can command in the rural
districts, or outside of special businesses and
special occasions, more than ordinary wages, far
less than $2 —much less $4 per day—should
not be sent broadcast North, East, West or South.
Laborers who make $200 or $250 per year are for-
tunate in this State, and where one "makes more
most make iess.
The Delta County Banner gets off its New
Year's greeting a couple of weeks late, but
makes up for delay in quantity. It gets off a
great deal of good advice, and wants virtue to
be well rewarded, saying among other things:
May our county officials remain unshaken in the
cause of justice, untiring in the detection and pros-
ecution of crime, and may their pockets be stock-
ed with the best raward for labor and vigilance-
hard dollars.
The Corsicana Messenger is as modest in as-
serting its own merits as generous in stating
those of other papers, as thus:
This paper requests a candid and prayerful con-
sideration of its claims to patronage. It never ex-
pects to defy criticism or put on offensive airs.
"3ive it a fair trial. The census edition of The
Galveston News gave us great satisfaction. New
the public have the facts and figures about that
beautiful and wealthy city by the restless gulf. No
marvel Galveston, and as far that matter all Texas,
is proud of that newspaper.
The Mexia Ledger asks:
Will some person give any solid or valid reason
for the failure of some writers to use capitals in
the words Democratic and Republican, when they
apply to the two parties known by that name?
There are a good many things in the use of
capitals and punctuation points that are rather
matters of habit than solid and valid reason.
When any one can say why the word state
should be written with a capital S, while
nation, county and city begin with small let-
ters, it will be time to ask the Dogberries to
give reasons for many other things which ren-
der the exceptions as common as the rules in
grammar.
The Mexia Ledger says 4;the election of
Governor R. is a standing menace to all wire-
worklng, pap-hunting nimblejacks who want
to make a living out of the people w ithout
honestly earning it."
Intolerance at the present day is happily
confined to words, though there are not want-
ing evidences that people still live who would
enforce their religious dogmas by something
stronger than words. The Mexia Ledger, al-
luding to the too common way of treating
people of different religious opinions by those
holding contrary views, remarks:
We p; ote^t against the narrow, contracted views
of me.i who have no sort of ;respect for persons
not of their clique or opinions, an 1 who are ready
to hound a man, if pet chance hedar-s speak one
word against the orthodox notions of people
around him. No matter what a man's opinion
may be upon the subject of religion and the meas-
ures it festers, if they are to any considerable ex-
tent at variance with the leaders of the various
creeds which claim orthodoxy, that man is sneered
at and contemned, and he is held up to scorn as an
infidel, atheist, or of some other type not deemed
by them as moral or good citizens. Whore is the
boasted religious freedom of this country, when
such a state of affairs is continued from day to
day ? Echo answers where ?
The Navasota Tablet says:
Nearly ail the counties are publishing official
financial exhibits. It has been some time since our
commissioners have vouchsafed information of this
kind to the tax-payers of the county.
The commissioners would do well to look to
the requirements of the law on this subject if
they have not already complied with them.
It is told that when Lorenzo Dow, the
preacher, carried a rock into the pulpit, which
he said he was about to thro w at a man guilty
of a particular offense, half the congregation
dodged. The Texarkana Interstate threatens
to aim a missile at some parties in that wicked
city, which may serve as a warning to others:
We have often wondered why the devil was
allowed to wield so great an influence over man
and woman. Is it possible that those who are con-
nected with this little notoriety, that they can not
y-^t see that their onward course will bring them
to destruction, their children to starvation, and
themselves to degradation? Repent, and ye may
yet be saved.
The Brenliam Banner is democratic all the
way down, yet independent enough to say:
Party managers may say what they please, but
the masses of the people are rapidly losing faith
in them, especially tne machine politicians and
manipulators of conventions, both State and coun-
ty. The sooner the machine politicians, both
Democratic an i Republican, find this out the bet
ter it wlil be for all concerned.
A number of Texas papers complain of the
tardy arrival of The News. The fault, dear
brethren, is not in ourselves^ but in the mails,
as an ancient Roman mighC say. Other papers
are quite as long in reaching The News, and
the privation is mutual.
The Waco Examiner remarks:
The ho.test light going on for postoffices is for
tim e in Kentucky—Louisville, Newport aud Cov
ingt .n. The chh-f applicants are ladies—Mesdame.-.
Thompson, Farrell and Ross. All Washington is
interested in the fight, and the ladies say it will be
kept up if it takes all winter.
Texas papers should not be at a loss for
subjects for discussion. The Paris (Lamar
county) Tribune says:
The great questions of woman suffrage, our pub
lie schools, tne abolition of the liauor traffic, and
the adju-tment of the relations between capital
and labor deserve the careful attention and thought
of every true sen of Texas.
The Tribune puts female suffrage first, and
jjrofesses to see strong indications that it will
soon become "a strict party issue." For it-
self, that paper says:
When women at e allowed to take part in our po-
litical affairs, w? may look for a better sta* e of
things. The whisky rings will be broken to pieces,
and the body and soul destroyinj liquor trafiic will
be banished lroin the land; office-holding drunk-
ards and political deadbeats will have to step down
and out: the refining influence and purer morals of
woman will be felt ia our laws, and public morals,
. and la all respecis the moral and political cundi-
point I feel it a duty to raise my voice, feeble
though it be, against such demagogue tyrants
as Grant, Conkling and Arthur.
C. W. James.
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NOTES FROM ST. LOUIS.
ICorrespondence of The News.1
St. Louis, January 20, 1883. —The question
that most disturbs the minds aud pockets of
those in that immediate neighborhood is the
removal of the custom-house fence on Olive
street. As to the expediency of having it
done there is no questiou, but who did it is tho
poser. Just before it was done a Mr. Taylor
viewed those interested with a written agree-
ment for them to sign, agreeing to pay him so
much to have the work done within a stated
time. All readily agreed to it and put their
names to the paper. The fence was soon takf n
down, and Mr. Taylor proceeded to collect the
several ambutits, which were promptly re-
fuged; the secret having leaked out that he,
Mr. Taylor, had nothing to do with the re-
moval of tho fence, but taking advantage of
information he had that the government
would do so at that time, proceeded to carry
out a little scheme whereby he might realize a
handsome little sum. The result is that the
matter is now before a^justice, that he, after
proper investigation, shall say whether Mr.
Taylor is entitled to the money claimed.
A new and enlarged Union depot and an in-
crease of facilities for handling freight are
the important subjects that are now before
the merchants and railroad men. A move
was made during his late visit to bring the
matter before Mr. Gould, and if possible enlist
his help in the matter. It seems, however,
that it was not done, or if so, his managers and
lej^al advisers know nothing of it. It is cer-
tainly of untold importance to St. Louis and
all shippers this way, as the recent freight
blockade in East St. Louis is traceable to this
one lack only. Our Union depot is a disgrace
and eye-sore to a small village, much less a
city of the importance and magnitude that St.
Louis is.
Judge Vallareal, of Monterey, Mexico, who
has been making a tour of the United States
for the past month, reached the city last even-
ing, and is stopping at the Southern. He ex-
presses himself well pleased with our country.
The members of the Young Men's Christian
Association held their sixth anniversary, at
their hall, corner Eleventh and Locust, yester-
day, and had a most pleasant time. The at-
tendance was quite large, and the exorcises
beautiful and impressive. Several of our
moat distinguished divines were present and
took part in the ceremonies.
One of the saddest events that has taken
place in our midst in a long time was the death,
by his own hand, yesterday, of Mr. Thomas
Ring. For the past six or seven years he has
held an important position in the large estab-
lishment of William Barr & Co., and proved
himself not only an efficient clerk but also
posfeossed of sterling integrity and true worth.
Only a short time ago he was granted a leave
of absence that he might have some rest and
recruit his failing health. His wife and chil-
dren noticed that he was given to fits of mel-
ancholy, but gave it no serious thought. Yes-
terday, after eating a hearty dinner, he went
to an upper room to take a nap, as was his
custom. Soon after reaching the room, a pis-
tol shot was heard by those below, and rush-
in up stairs they found the poor fellow leaning
against the bed, and the blood pouring from a
wound in his temple, the fatal weapon still
tightly grasped iu his right hand. The rash
act can be traced to no justifiable cause. He
leaves a wife and six children.
One of the latest rumors on the streets holds
out the idea that Mr. Gould is not so engrossed
with large business as to lose sight of small
fish. It is intimated that he is looking to the
titles and value of stock of one of our street
railroad lines. It is very evident that the
present system is shamefully defective, and
any one who will take hold of it aud improve
it would be a benefactor.
Tho grain market has ruled strong the past
few days and still tends upward. Receipts are
comparatively light and the quality poor.
Foreign orders are plentiful. Some of our
largest mills have closed on account of not be-
ing able to get the right grade of wheat.
There is also muoh complaint about white
mixed corn, while No. 2 mixed is running
well.
Cotton receipts are very light. The weather
damp and threatening, while our streets are
almost impassable. The general health of the
people is good. The small-pox is passing
away. Morally we are doing pretty well.
Hawkeye.
Lost vitality, weakness, nervous disorders,
etc., cured by Brown's Iron Bitters.
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LTo The Newa.l
Center Point, Kerr county, Texas, Jan-
19, 1S82.—As our State is now being threat-
ened with a fearful scourge of that direful
disease, confluent small-pox, please allow a few-
paragraphs in The News, which penstrates all
parts of the State, about that fell contagion.
There are only two remedies by which its rav-
ages can be checked where there are human
subjects—quarantine and vaccination.
All practicing physicians who are not fur-
nished with fresh vaccine lymph should imme-
diately procure it from the lymph-prcducing
farms" at the North, and then fully supply
themselves with the same material from thy
arm of a healthy child, and vaccinate and re-
vaccinate all persons in the limit of their prac-
tice. Fresh vaccination is an effectual pre-
ventive of the most malignant confluent
small-pox.
Fifty years ago the writer was quarantined
with a case of that awful malady of the mortal
type like that at Austin now, as described by
Dr. Denton, and we now give a few brief items
in regard to it for the benefit of those who
may be in danger of contracting said disease.
The unfortunate man traveled in stage frcm
LouisVille, Kentucky, to Nashville, Tennessee,
and then in private conveyance thirty miles
into Williamson county, after having met the
contagion at Louisville, and on the fifteenth
day after contact with the disease he began to
suffer pain in his head and all his limbs, which
on the third day became excruciating, but
he went out into the community until the
fourth day, when he went to bed, and on the
fifth night the pustules appeared on the
surface as measle pimples, but soon took on
the appearance of whelks in the form of a
waffle, with slight depressions between them,
until the entire epidermis, from the crown to
the sole, was a reaolent mass of inflamed
putrefaction. On tho evening of the four-
teenth day after the rising of the pustules
their centers began to siuk and blacken, a cer
tain presage of approaching mortality, and
on the evening of the fifteenth day his living
spirit deserted its ruined mansion. Now, we
wish the traveling public to note that this case
did not develop on the surface until twenty
days after contact with the contagion; and in
these days of railroad travel a man may go
thousands of miles and then propagate the in-
fection—it must be infectious, too.
As to the virtue of vaccination, we attest
the following facts: There were eleven per-
sons, three whites and eight blacks, and the
writer, then a boy of ten years, and two young
white men were confined as nurses of the sick
man, and the eight netroes domiciled in a
room within ten steps of the house where the
patient died, and the negroes helped the white
men to encoffin the dead body, and carried the
corpse to its lone grave home in the silent
woods, where it now sleepetn under the tall
poplar's shade; and, besides, the negroes
washed the dead man's clothes aud used them,
and not one of them took the disease. But
the two young white men took varioloid 011
the 18th day, the pustuL-s being fully devel-
oped, but it did not pit them, and they were
not more than four or five days in bed.
Now, we ask the doctors to notice our own
case, a sinewey, nervous boy of ten years of
age. The two young men just mentioned were
of full habit of life, but we wereot' thin visage.
We slept with the patient the night thi disease
developed aud nursed him till he was dead.
Being a pet the sick man scarcely let us leave
his bedside,day or night, tiil reason failed him.
We accidentally made an incision in our fore-
finger, and in dressing the sufferer's eyes we
got some of the matter from a pustule 011 the
eyelid in the cut linger, which inoculated us.
But now, mark welt that though that iuoccu-
lated finger sloughed off much of its flesh, we
only had a little lever one or two days, but
never went to bed one hour, but wajted 011 the
two sick young men day and night, for we
were alone. Besides, we had but two pustuVs
one in the palm and the other under the arm
of the inocculated fluger, and the one in which
we had been vaccinated. Mine was a marked
case of the virtue of vaccination, and let all
the doctors note it. I had bedded all night
with the patient the night he broke out, waited
on him fifteen days and nights, and was never
vaccinated till live days after that terrible
night in which the disease developed on the
surface, and several days after vaccination
was inocculated in the finger, yet the vaccina-
tion took well aud subdued the infection, con-
Tlie Late Judge Noleu.
ITo the News.l
Navasota, January 21, 1882.—The death of
Mr. James Nolen, Sr., has been telegraphed to
.you. From the fact that he presided on a case
in Lynch's court many years ago, and pro-
nounced sentence on a vile criminal, he has
ever since been known as Judge Nolen. His
history is closely identified with this county
and town and the Central Railroad. He owned
a tract of land here at* an early day, and in
1858-9, when the Central Road came, he gave
about eighty acres to the company, and the
main business portion of Navasota is on that
land. He grew cotton here where the depot,
the stores, dwellings and churches now stand.
He was born near Winnsborough, South Caro-
lina, in January, 1S08; moved to Alabama,
where he spent some yars, and came to Texas
in 1850. His wife died several years ago,
leaving him with an only child, a married
daughter.
Judge Nolen was known extensively and
was a good citizen. He always expr ssed a
wish to die suddenly, and last Friday, the 20th
instarit, he fell dead at the table while eating
dinner. He was one of the old landmarks,
and his memory will live long connected with
the records aud history of Navasota. C.
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"How many times,-»cap tain." said Miss Gush
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shipwrecked?" "Three," said the captain, as
he knocked his,egg with a spoon. "And you
were never drowned f1 went 011 Miss Gush, who
was deeply interested. "Never complet?ly,"
replied tfie captain, while everybody laughed,
and Miss Gush made liaste to seek the seclusion
her state-roorn gtanted.
Paralytic, nervous, tremulous old ladies
are made perfectly quiet and sprightly by
using Hop Bitter s daily.
Laura S.—" How do you fix castor oil so
that you do not taste it* I am told there is
some way to do this." This is the way we fix
it so that we do not taste it: We mix" it with
some sugar and the white of an egg, in a
glass, and bribe the office boy to drink it.
That is the most successful way we have dis-
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Impaired organic functions restored -and
nervous debility cured by Brown's Iron Bitters.
A Newark church member, who says on
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other day for an hour on Broad street waiting
for a circus to come. His neighbors say that
he did not complain of being weary on that
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S\n exceedingly bad attack of rheumatism
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He had the disease in his right arm and shoul-
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being atrV cted a few hours. His pain was so
gr at that he could not rest in comiort or at-
tend to business with any degree of satisfac-
tion, After enduring this sort of thing for
some time, he purchased a bottle of the Gre.it
German Remedy and began to apply it. He
did not mince matters at ail, but just used the
O.l for all it was worth.. After pursuing this
mode of treatment for three daj s the pain was
banished and his father was in a perfectly
healthj' condition. lia has never since felt any
rheumatic pain and trusts he never will.
Maybe you can ba: over the pyramids with
a tallow candle, but you can't cnnvinca a
woman that the railroad men are not brutal
because they won't keep a train waiting for
her to kiss her friend* and say " good bye "
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Jerbviah Wright, o! Marion County, West Va.,
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sician, when the use of Allen's Lung Balsam en-
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Wm. C. Dioges Merokanf, of Rowling Green, Va.,
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the Lung Balsam has Cured his 31 other of Con-
sumption, after the pbjsician has given her up as
incurable. He ."ays, otters knowing her case have
taken the Bal- am and been cured; he thinks all so
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Dr. Meredith, Deucist, of Cincinnati, was
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Wm. A. Graham & Co., Wholesale Druggists,
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tagion and inocculatiou. Now, as to the
negroes they were all vaccinated on the fifth
day, alter the disease was developed on the
sick man, so also were the two young white
men, who had varioloid. Tho attending phy-
sician had varioloid, but the disease did not
spread any further.
Now, a word as to the preparatory regimen.
We were allowed 110 ilesh; indeed, we were
restricted to cold water, crackers, ricej
molasses, and vinegar and water mingled, for
five weeks, and a uoze of salts each alternate
morning tor two weeks. Note, you can reach
twenty days after contact before the disease
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surest remedy. H. A. Graves.
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LTo the News.l
Dallas, Texas, January 20, 1882.—I have
read your issue of the 19'.b, and am gratified
with the bold arraignment of tho stalwart trio,
by Scoville, and your sensible comments
thereon. I am recently from the North, and
know that Scoville voices the sentiment of a
large majority of people there. Not long ago
I was in conversation with a staunch Republi-
can, once a personal friend of Grant and Sher-
man, who is outspoken m his denunciation of
stalwart jioliticiar.s and editors, for the great
crime for which Guiteau is on trial. Indeed,
it is only a minority, and a very small one, of
any party, but that wiil respond a hearty
4' amen " to Scoviile's denunc:a'.ions. I am not
a politician, nor have I ever had anything to
do with politics, but from my humble stand-
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San Antonio and sixty-five miles east of Eagrle
Pass, and about 1J4 mile from the court-house
and prevent county seat of the county. It is sur-
rounded by large sheep and cattle ranches, and
from its central position as a business point, it
must soon become one of the most imbortant
towns between San Antonio and the Rio Grande.
The source of the Leona River, situated on our
laud, a beautiful, large and ever-lasting spring, is
only a few hundred yards from the town site, and
lots can easily be supplied with pure and fre-h
water the year round, which is an important mat-
ter in regard to health and comfort in Western
Texas.
For terms of sale and maps apply to
D. & A. OPPENHEIMER,
MISS MARTHA KNOX, or
DEVINE & COW IE.
San Antonio. Texas.
THE COMMISSIONERS OF APPEALS
Convenes at 10. o'clock a. m., on
Monday of Earli Week,
at their court-rocm on third floor Ballinger &
Jack's building.
Drs. S. & D. Davieson,
1707 Olive Street, St. Louis, Mo.
Important Notice!
DR. DAVID DAVIESON, .11. D., N. Y\,
and Giesen, M. R. C. S., London, etc.. Lecturer
of Anatomy ami Physiology at the MISSOURI
STATE MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, St. L uis, begs
to announce his arrival in New Orleans, where lie
may be con-ulted daily at his rooms. No. 7 RAM-
PART Street, between Canal and Customhouse
streets. Office hours: From 10 a. m. until 3 p m.,
aud from (i to 8 p. ni. Dr. Davieson refers with
pride to his successful treatment in New Orleans
during the last Six Seasons.
SPECULTMiEltfOyS DISEASES
and their varied complications, including the errors
and diseases arising from YOUTHFUL FOLLIES.
etc.
TREATMENT BY CORRESPONDENCE.—Dr.
Davie-on has been remarkably successful in his
treatment by correspondence, but in all cases one
Sersonal interview should be had if possible. Dr.
avieson's valuable mediaal Treatise on the above
diseases may te had free on application to the
author. Dr. Davieson may be consulted at No. 7
Rampart street, between Canal and Customhouse
streets, New Or .cans, up to the 30th of April, after
which his addiess will be No 1707 Olive street,
St. Louis. Mo., where he has been permanently lo-
cated for mauj* years.
GROCERIES—LI 8,U QRS.
GALVESTON.
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J.
K. MAGALE,
DIRECT IMPORTER OF
BRANDIES AND WINES,
And Wholesale Dealer in
Fine If ourfcoii, Rye and Rectified Whis-
kics, of all grades,
MAGALE -5 BUILDING, K) and Go STRAND,
GALVKSTO\ .... TEXAS.
All cash orders promptly filled same as it par-
ties were here in person.
Banned fiaods! Canned Goods!
1500 Cases Tomato^?, Oreen Corn, Peas and Beans,
1500 C.'s^s Canned Peaches, Piuin?, Pineapples
and Damsons.
500 Cases Asparagus, Okra and Tomatoes aud
Soccotash.
300 Cases Apples, Cherries, Pie Fruit and Grapes.
500 Cases Strawberries, Raspberries, Whortle-
berries and Gooseberries.
000 cases Shrimp, Clams, Lobster, Salmon and
Crabs.
300 Cases Fish Chowder, Caviare, Hamburg Eels
and CodfUsh Bails.
850 Cases Brawn Corned Beef and Ham Sausage.
For Sale at Lowest Possible Prices, by
G. SEELIGrSON & CO.
IMPORTED LIQUORS.
XOXE BUT GENUINE.
BLACKBERRY BRANDY,
APPLE BRANDY,
PEACH BRANDY,
CHERRY BRANDY.
PEACH AND HONEY.
CATAWBA, DRY & SWEET,
RHINE WINES,
ANGELICA. WINES,
PORTS SL SHERRIES.
Le GIERSE & Co.
•SHY9I3 aaXHOctKI .
T. RATTO & CO
WHOLESALE GROCERS
AND
CONFECTIONERS.
WE ARE IN RECEIPT OF DIRECT
SHIPMENT OF
500 bxs choice Messina Oranges,
300 bxs choice Messina Lemons,
10,000 Fresh Cocoanuts,
Which we are offering to trade at
LOW FIGURES.
Orders from interior Trill haTe prompt
attention.
THE TEXAS
Salt Company
Have on hand an ample supply of
LOUISIANA
AND
LIVERPOOL
SA LT,
Which is offered at the following prices in carload
lots:
LOUISIANA, coarse, per sack § 20
LOUISIANA, fine 1 25
LIVERPOOL, coarse l 00
LIVERPOOL, flna .. 1 35
Especial attention is called to our
LOUISIANA SALT,
which, owing to its purity and strength, is being
recognized as superior to any other. In those por-
tions of Texas and Louisana where it has been ex-
tensively used the past year it has superseded Liv-
erpool Salt entirely.
FULm WEIGHT GUARANTEED.
Galveston, Texas. November 12, 1881.
HOUSTON.
BOERNE HOTE
W. A. FITCH, PROPRIETOR.
This Hotel is situated in one of the most romantic sections of the Lone Star State, and at a point
recognized as one of the greatest resorts for health and pleasure-seekers from all parts of the United
States. -The rooms all open on balconies, fronting the south, and are furnished as elegantly as any
hotel in the South. Mineral spring near town.
II TABLE IS SUPPLIED Iffl THE BEST THE COUNTRY AFFORDS.
Four-horse stages to Boerne leave all the principal hotels in San Antonio every day. Choice rooms
reserved for commercial travelers. Good Livery and Feed Stables in connection with Hotel.
J. S. BROWN & CO.,
HARDWARE MERCHANTS.
GALVESTON,
Are Headqarters in Texas for the Celebrated Slnsser Scraper.
P. J. WILLIS & BRO.,'
COTTON FACTORS,
Importers and Wholesale Dealers in
G-roceries, Dry G-oods,
Boots, Shoes, Hats, Caps and Notions,
GALVESTON, TEXAS.
'f Curtis & Co.
9 811 to 819 North Second Street, St. Louis, Mo.
Manufacturers of every description ©; Circular, 35iil, and Cross*Cut Saws; Wholesale Dealers in
ltubber and Leather Belting, Files. 31audrcls. (,'unt Hooka, Saw OumuierH, Upsets, and
all .Saw and Planing Ulill Supplies; Solo ^ian&acturers ot Lockwood-s Patent Slotted
Circular Saw. EVERY SAW WARRANTED. ireful attention to repair work. Agents for
TANITE EMERY WHEELS MACHINERY.
Our New Illustrated
on application.
MARDI-GRAS
PROCLAIM
NOTICES^
Notice.
THE HITBWUIS MOT.
All. orders or complaints, to
receive prompt attention, should be left at
* tho office of the Company, in the Brick Building, on
; market Street# Between 24tli and 25tU
i Streets,
Between the hours of 8 and 12 o'clock a. m.
aug. bl'ttlar. Secretary.
1882.
Being well pleased with the progress of affairs,
civil, military and religious, within the boundaries
of the Realm during the past year,
83- FALL TRADE.
Country Merchants on
their way to replenish their
Kali Stock are respectfully
invited to pay me a visit. I
believe I have now the bestl
appointed, most complete
and systematic establish-
ment in the South for my
line of business, and that
alone is worth seeing. Be-
sides, no other house or
market can offer better in-
ducements or more facili-
ties to do their
GROCERY AND COTTON
Business than I can, and
this fact will be more fully
realized by a personal visit.
But whether you conclude
to do business with me or
not, I shall be glad to see
you, and will extend you
the same courtesies.
WM. D. CLEVELAND,
Cotton Factor and Wholesale Grocer,
HOUSTON, TEXAS.
NEW GOODS.
Genuine World-Famous PIPER
HIEDSIECK aud PIPER
SEC CHAMPAGNES.
Pure ANGELICA CLARET.
PORT, SHERRY, HOCK aud
WHITE WINES.
MUSCAT BRANDY, CIDER,
AND A FULL STOCK OF
"n niici mil
Suitable for tiie Christmas and
Holiday Trade.
GEO. L. PORTER,
COITON FACTOR AND WHOLESALE GROCER,
HOUSTON, TEXAS.
COFFEE.
COFFEE.
Arrived and Diecharming, the Bark
HLIMUCU ISJOKN, with
HPD
Lib,
Orders will be tilled at
LOW PRICES
From Landing.
Our Second Cargo per Stray Iiavins:
Just arrived trom Kiu, we are now
ottering the
Best Assortment ou the Market.
5000 SACKS
AND
1500 HALF MATS
CHOICE
CORDOVA COFFEE.
KAUFFMAN & RENGE.
JN0. A. AUGUSTINE A: CO.,
manufacturers of RAILROAD OILS,
'S " ELHEKA" COOLING COMPOUND,
RICHMOND, VA.
This Compound we euarautce to cool acy hot
box, either while the train is fixed or in motion,
thereby saving lime, and consequently monev.
His Most Gracious Majesty
MOMUS,
King or tne Realm, patron of all kinds of art and
industry, will make his annual visit to his "Western
Capital, the
(jood City of Galveston
tjy
Where in gorgeous array and accompanied by his
Royal Retinue and the Court of Momus he will
parade the streets and dispense his Choicest Bless-
ings among his Loyal People. And to the end
that all subjects from Neighboring Cities and
of Neighboring Provinces may visit the
CARNIVAL OF 1882
All Lines of Transportation throughout the Realm,
and of ;any kind whatever, are hereby commanded
that they issue
REDUCED RATES Of FIRE.
Giving ample time to enable Merchants, and pa-
trons of Merchants, who may visit the City, to
transact all business and do proper homage to the
King.
And it is Commanded that all Gentlemen, and
all Capitalists, Bankers, Money-Lenders. Overseers,
Servitors. Trades-people, Solicitors, Artisans, and
Laborers of all kinds whatever, shall rest from
their labors during the visit of His Most Puissant
Majesty.
And all People are charged that they forget
their passions and unite in doing honor to their
King.
BY COMMAND OF
M03IXJS.
Israfel,
PRIME MINISTER.
TO OUR PATROLS.
We regret to inform you that we lost the greater
portion of our stock by the disastrous fire of the
13th instant, in consequence of which we shall be
unable for a few days to fill assorted orders, but
we shall at once replenish with fresh goods of every
description, when the wants of our friends can be
fully met. For the immediate present we can fur-
nish whiskies aud other liquors and tobaccos, a
supply of which we succeeded in saving. A little
patience on the part of our patrons will enable us
very soon to fill their orders complete. Tii taking
you for liberal patronage in the past, we pledge our
b'-st endeavors in promptly and carefullv attending
to your wants in thd future. Our location for the
present will be at 119 Strand, where we shall at Ml
times be gratified to see our trien is. Very truly
yours,
C. HI. PEARRE & CO.
Startling Discovery!
A VICTIM OF YOUTHFUL 191PKU.
dence, causing Premature Decay, Nervous De-
bility, Lost Manhood, etc.. having tried in vain
every known remedy, has discovered a simple self-
cure, which he will send FREE to his fellow-suf-
ferers. Address J- H. REEVES,
48 Chatham street. N Y.
0
piTT]\f By B. M. WOLLEY, Atlanta.
A A U -i.il . jy. Reliable evidence giveu, and
'reference to cured patients and
HABIT 'physicians.
Send for my book on The Habit
CURE, [and its Cure. Free.
11. G. DUN b CO., Prop'rs.
robert smith,
District Manager, Galveston, Texas.
Reference books issued quarterly, compiled
from the mo-t reliable information. "Collection of
past due claims a specialty. For terms of sub-
scription apply at our offices in Galveston, Hous-
ton. Dallas and San Antonio.
STOCKHOLDERS MO DIRECTORS
ANNUAL MEETING,
GALVESTON, HOUSTON & HENDERSON R. R , )
SECRETARY'S OFFICE. ^
Galveston, Texas, December 16, 1861. )
jg¥ ORDER OF THE BOARD OF
Directors, an annual meeting of the Stockholders,
and also of the Directors, of
The Galveston. Houston and Henderson
Railroad Company of 18 <1
will be held at the Company's office, in Galveston
on
TUESDAY, THE 24TH DAY OF JANUARY, 1SS2,
at 12 O'Clock Noon,
for the transaction of the business of said Com-
pany. CHAS. G. CLIFFORD. Secretary.
To Our Patrons
ANI) THE PUBLIC:
We beg to auuoiiiice that we
have saved a large portion oi'
our stock from tiie recent fire,
and are receiving heavy ship-
ments by every steamer. We are
consequently prepared to fill all
orders promptly. There will he
no interruption to our business.
Orders are solicited.
MILLER & ENGLISH
BUSINESS CHANGES. _
)!i (If PARTNERSHIP.
rpiie firm of forster & co. has
been dissolved by limitation on January 1, 1SS3.
FRANCIS B. FORSTER,
C. F. HOEORST.
The undersigned have this day formed a copart-
nership for the purpose of transacting a general
Banking, Exchange, Commisssion and Brokerago
business, under the firm name and style of *' Gor-
man American Bank of Forster & Hannig." The
new firm solicits the patronage of the public.
FRANCIS B. FORSTER,
J. W. HANNIG.
Austin, Texas. Jannary 18, 1852.
CAU1> TO MERCHANTS.
I IIAVE THIS DAY RESIGNED 1*1 Y
position i'i the . ust: ot S. Jacobs, Bernheim &
Co of Galveston, and taken a pos t on in :he old
house of NVr'.ISENFELD & CO.. 49<J Broadway,
New York. Manufacturers of Clothing. Thanking
m v friends fi»r !-a»t patronage. I would ask a con-
tinuance cf the same for my new house. 1 will
call upon you with a full line of samples. Hold
your orders ur.Jil I come. J. D. HARBY.
January 1. 1SS2.
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VOTlrE TO ARCHITECTS—The Bui: i-
-iA inc Committee of tho Boarl of Regents of the
State University of Texas hereby "invites architects
to submit competitive designs for t e proposed
main building of the University to be built in Aus-
tin. Texas. Such designs will be received on or
before 12 o'clock, noon, Friday, March lOtii, 1H8-,
and must be addressed or delivered to Dr. T. D.
Wooten, at Austin, Texas. All designs must Jks
drawn to a uniform scale of ^3 inch, and shall n-
clude plans of each floor, front and side elevations•
and sections, a specification of materials and
work, and an estimate of the cost of Execution of
the design, must be furnished. The cost of the
proposed building is limited to $130,000. and any
design whose co-t exceeds that amount will be
rejected: the estimates to be verified by a comp •
tent contractor. Tne proposed buLding to be built
of brick or hi one; to be a basement and three
stories in height, aud covered with nxansard roof.
There ■ hall be at least 22 rooms, each 30 feet bv
30 feet, and 7 rooms each 30 ieec by GO feet, and
one hall or chapel r.bou: 70 by 90 f.^et. Sufficient
halls, porticoes vestibule, cl ak-rooms. stairs, etc.,
to be provided, and proper attention civen to light-
ing, hearing, ventilation and acousiics. For the three
designs which best fill the above requirements the
committee will pay for No. 1, 5300: for No. 2. $150;
f or No. 3. $50. If the author of either is emplovod
to execute his design, then the premiums shall Das:?
to the next best designs. The right is re-erveu to
reject any or all designs. For farther informa-
tion address Dr T. D. WOOTEN,
P. O. Box 202, Austin, Texas.
We I.U.. - 'ill.' InviV- iUi l.U! Ull: i-.l mug
" Swift's S. Specific f<>r the d:slor vuk-h A
is recommended, and have not had a failure in u
single ca-e. Physicians will sooner or later be
compelled to acknowledge it as a sine qua nou.
N. I., i' allow ay. M. l>.. *.of Monroe,
J. T. Robisso>, m. D., \ i-a.
One of our workmen was cured of a ease of five
years' standing with your " Swift's S. i\t eciflc."1
Wm. R. & T. W Hoopsg. Atumta. Ga.
THE SWIFf SPECIFIC COMPANY. Piv.rietors.
Atlanta, Ga. Call for copy of "Young Men's Friend,'1
Sold by
THOMPSON. GEORGES CO.,Galveston and Dallas.
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