The Galveston Daily News. (Galveston, Tex.), Vol. 40, No. 309, Ed. 1 Saturday, March 18, 1882 Page: 1 of 4
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Mclllienny Company,
HOUSTON, TEXAS,
COTTON FACTORS,
And "Wholesale Dealers in
Dry Goods, Boots and Shoes,
HATS AND NOTIONS
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Office of Publication : Nos. 113 and 115 Market Street, Galveston, Texas. Entered at the Postoffice at Galveston as Second-Class Matter.
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DLLHAM, LEWIS&Co,
HOUSTON,
2500 bbls. Whisky
IN STORE AN!) IN BONDED WARE
HOUSE.
ESTABLISHED 1842.
GALVESTON, TEXAS, SATURDAY, MARCH 18, 1882—PRICE 5 CENTS.
VOL. XL—NO. 309.
p.®' PHOTOGRAPHER,
15 9 and 161 Market St., Galveston.
A LARGE ASSORTMENT OF
Frames, Easels, Engravings and Other Novelties.
Copying «"<* Enlarging Picture* to any Size Desired.
&eubers New Yoke Cotton Exchange.
31 embers Galveston Cotton Exchange.
B. ROENSCH & CO.,
Brokers and Commission Merchants,
STRAND, ----- GALVESTON, TEXAS.
Orders for Cotton contracts promptly executed in Galveston, New York, New Orleans and Liver-
pool. and for Corn, Grain and Provisions in Chicago and St. Louis.
AMUSEMENTS.
THE MISSISSIPPI SlifFERERS.
A CONCERT
And Dramatic Entertainment
Will be Given Saturday Evening.
r*Iarcli 1 8, at Turner Hail,
for the benefit of the sufferers by the recent over-
flow of the Mississippi river. The strongest vocal
and histrionic talent of the city will take part in
the performance.
. „ PART L
1. Spring Quartette Hadyn
2. (a) '* Lustiges Voeglein " Abt
(b) "Tanz " Otto
Salamander.
L Soprano Solo Mrs. Spiers
I. Baritone Solo Mr. Bornefeld
5. Soprano Solo Mrs. Mansfield
f. (a) "Farewell to the Forest " Mendelssohn
(b) " Belfry Tower " Hatton
Mendelsohn Society.
PART IL
A German Stcdent's Joys and Sorrows.
Jacob, a rich miller Mr. H. Stressu
Hannchen. his daughter ..Miss Clara Jockussh
Branuheim, lieutenant of engineers . Mr. Ed. Dreier
Tollberg, overseer Mr. A. Bornefeld
Mauser, student Mr. Jul us Boehme
Margareth, housekeeper, miller's relative,
Mrs. Wietlng
Engineers Messrs. Fries and Schmidt
Tickets, - - - 50 Cents.
Help W ant eel.
A GIRL TO DO GENERAL HOI SK-
work. Apply at Mrs. L. WOLLSTEIN'S,
southwest corner Sixteenth and H.
W
ANTED —A first-class white barber; steady
work; $10 per week guaranteed. Addre-s
MAX H1RCH, Palestine, Tex.
WA > TED -AT WEST STRAND IKON WORKS
two or three Blacksrai li's helpers.
67 STRAND. Galveston, Texas.
WANTED — CANVASSERS — Male and
female, in every county, city acd town in the
State. Inducements liberal. For particular-; ad-
dress the home office of "The Texas Mutual Aid
and Charitable Association." No. 608 Main street,
Dalla-.
Situations VVanted.
WANTED—A situ ttion as Clerk, or any work.
Best references given. Address J. C. W., care
JEMISON, GROCE & CO., City.
Miscellaneous Wants.
WANTED-BOARD AND ROOM IN A PRI-
vate family by a single man. Address Box
0. this office.
W
ANTED
TO BUY A COTTAGE FOR REMOVAL.
Address Cash, care News office.
WANTED—BONES—Clean and dry. Address
BAUGH & SONS, successors to S. B. Allison,
COT Strand. Galveston. P. O. Box 127.
HORSEHAIR, mixed mane and tails, 12^c.;
cattle tails, mixed, O^e. Consign goods to me
anil secure cash payments. N. T. Arthur, Galv'n.
Dry Goods and Millinery.
Q RA LINEN DRILL DRESSES, FOR
jmi'jVj Boys from 2 to 6 years old. at SI 25, and
$1 50 a suit.
SONNENTHIEL & LION,
155 and 157 'Fremont st.
Notices, JEtc.
Wool growers AND DEALERS—
Attention is respectfully called to Hill, Slay-
den & Settle's celebrated Extract of Tobacco. Send
for price list.
T. H. ZANDERSON, Galveston, Texas,
Sole Agent.
1HE GREAT LEMONADE STAND
has opened for the reason at Mason's Corner,
and don't you forger, it.
Mrs. e. kradv,
GRADUATED!
MIDWIFE
and PROFESSIONAL NURSE
Speaks German and English.
Corner Avenue O and Bath Avenue.
Subscriptions taken for all the leading
secular and religious papers in the United
States or Europe. Address Geo. Dealey, near P. O.
PERSONS HAVING VETERAN, Do-
nation and Confederate land scrip may find a
purchaser by stating price to J. H. COLLETT,
Land Agent, Austin, Texas.
) ASSPORTS
Procured by
I. LOVENBERG. Notary Public.
Business Cards.
OMEOPATHH REMEDIES, (Speci-
fics and simples.) A full assortment.
DRUGS, CHEMICALS AND PERFUMERIES
at
C. w. PRESTON & CO.'S PHARMACY.
Sign of the illuminated mortar and electric light.
II
PFEIFEIt A HOLLA CHER, successors
to G. W. Nordholtz, show-case manufacturers,
Galveston, Texas. Superior workmanship guar-
anteed and at prices that defy competition. A trial
solicited. Catalogue and price-list furnished on
application.
WEST STRAND IRON WORKS.
Manufacturers of brilge bolts, car bolts,
wharf bolts, and bridge washers; also, dealer in
iron, iron pipe, steam and hand pump fittings,
brass goods, and syphons. Estimates promptly
furnished. JESSE AST ALL. Galveston, Texas.
BLESSING, the Photographer, 170 Tremont,
makes negatives instantaneously, therefore ex-
quisite portraits,the best expression. Frames cheap
OYSTERS, f Regular and fuil supply at
j lowest price.
FISH.
E. PYE, Agent.
Labadie's Wharf.
yLJIElNIElt, WHOLESALE DEALER
• in FRESH FISH and OYSTERS.
Central Wharf. Galveston.
B. MARS AN—WHOLESALE~DEALERIN
FRESH FISH AND OYSTERS,
solicits orders from the country.
House Furnishing Goods.
ICE CREAHI PLATES, NICKELED
spoons, door springs. Cheapest and best crock-
ery, glassware. LABADIE.
OTEEL CARVERS, Stag Handle, 75c pairi
£3 Tin Toilet Sets, £2 25; Bronze Chandeliers, $2:
Fine Engraved Goblets. 75c set; Granite Cups and
Saucers, 60c set; Granite Dinner Plates. 50c set;
Moss-Rose Chamber Sets, $5 set; Decorated Tea
Sets, 44 pieces, $6. MEYER & BEN EKE.
Henry c. schaefer, 171 Tremont
.street, between Market ana Postoffice streets,
invites his friends and the public to call on him
and see his fine selection of clocks, table cutlery,
carvers, forks and steels, silver-plated forks and
ipoons; also a full line gold and plated jewelry.
Stoves stoves—We are selling Cooking
Stoves at from $0 50 to $45. a good No. 7 Cook
Stove for $12. Also a full line of House-Furnishing
Goods. Tinware, etc., which we will sell cheap.
D. A. KEARNEY, opposite Tremont House.
HKAVFFMAN, CORNER ( ENTER AND
• Church, buys and sells second-hand and new
Furniture. Upholstering and repairing at low rate3.
OLD NEWSF VPKRS IN PACKAGES
of One Hundred, at 25 cents. Call at News
Counting Ro<>m.
B
i v vol ii wrapping-paper
at the News Counting room.
25c. per HUNDRED.
Personal.
Hark* kk k's aodicess is an*.
iously desired by his father. JaMES RICE,
a? Detroit, Mich., and JOHN kige, his brother at
Fort Davis, Texas.
They fear that something serious has happened
him.
C
1 LOSING OUT 75,000 CIGARS AT 10
_J per cent, below the market prices, Being de-
termined to reduce the same I offer the above in-
ducement for a short time only. A. W. SAMUELS
Wholsale and Retail Tob icconist, cor. Strand and
22d. Branch. Tremont st., under Opera-House!
Gents' Furnishing* Goods.
JUST RECEIVED, 100 doz Fine Bleached
Jean Drawers at 50c. a pair; 50 doz. White and
Colored Shirts at $ 1; 100 Bu-iness Suits at from $5
to 510. Hats and Cap? by the million, very cheap,
at J. GROSSMAYER'S, 171 Market street.
Fancy Goods—Notions.
CJST RECEIVED—Willow and otherBab7
Carriages, Mr. and Mrs. Garfield's Pictures.
Steel Engravings and Oil Paintings, Toys, Willow-
ware. All sizes of Looking-Glas- Plates refitted.
Picture Frames, Shades and Cornices made to oc*-
ler at I. C. LhVY'S, Market, between 21st and 22d.
OLD NEWSPAPERS IN PACKAGES
of One Hundred, at 25 cents. Call at News
Counting Room.
Hotels.
Raymond hoi :se,
P. J. LAWLESS Sc CO., Proprietors.
AUSTIN. TEXAS.
Z. Burns. Manager. H. C. Magritder. Chief Clerk.
Only hotel in the city having electric bells con-
necting rooms with office.
SOUTHERN HOTEL,
CROCKET PEERY, Proprietor,
Austin, Texas.
Sportsmen's Supplies.
|;isn ina t ack le am ?i i;£ition^
JF It will pay you to give us a call before purchas-
ng elsewhere, as we have the most complete stock
in our line in Texas.
w. j. HUGHES & CO.,
1^'S Strand.
Paper for shelves andhouse^
hold purposes, for sale cheap,
at the News Counting-room.
Oculist and Aurist. _
Q P. HALL, M. D.,
OCULIST AND AURIST,
No. 115V6 Market street, next door to News Office,
UALVESTON. TEXAS-
Keal Estate.
B^OR SALE—The cosy home of Judge John-
son, comprising almost three full lots and im-
provements, on Postoffice st, bet. 10th and 20th
G. A. MEYER.
Confederate and veteran land
Certificates b'ght at market prices, by Maddox
Bros. & Anderson. 509 Congress Av., Austin. Texas.
m4doox bros. a anderson, 509
jy-*- Congress Av., Austin, Texas, buy and sell
c attle and Sheep Ranches, Farms and Farming
Lands, and Austin city property; also, pay taxes,
redeem lands, procure Patents, and do a General
Land Agency busine s.
\VT J. McKIF, ATTORNEY AT LAW,
i ▼ •Corsicana, Texas. Special attention given to
commercial collections and to land litigations.
I have an abstract of titles for Navarro county.
Real estate, improved and unimproved, for sale.
Loans negotiated without expense to lenders.
(C. M. Campbell.
^HEPAKD Sc CAMPBELL,
kj Akind and General Agents. Have farm and
ranca lauds for sale in various portions of the
St<te
Brenham, Texas.
JOHN DURST,
LAND AGENT,
Tyler, Tex.
Lands bought and sold, taxes paid, lands sur-
veyed, titles examined, etc. Maps and catalogues
rurmshed on application. Correspondence solicited.
TleCORDOVA Sc SON,
. ^«xas Land. Tax and General Agency,
Austin, Texas. Established by P. DeCordova, 1848.
Land business, all branches, attended to.
Folts & donnan,
EXCHANGE DEALERS AND GEN'L AGENTS
. , Austin, Texas.
. Special attention given to the LAND BUSINESS
m all its branches. Straight and alternate Land
Certificates for sale. Collections solicited.
HOLT Sc WISE,
At}7rllL^ymr,,-a5d Laud Agent*,
ABILENE, TAYLOR COUNTY, TEXYS
Control ranches and farming lands in Taylor.
Jones Fisher, Haskell. Runnels and surrounding
counties. Buy and sell Sheep on commission,
VALUABLE Hotel Property in Austin for
». 1 u 8-Story rock building, 25 rooms; double
rock house, 4 rooms; all newly furnished; block
irom the Avenue, in cenrer of citv. ApDly to
LAWRENCE & EDWARD'S. Austin.
TJ1?1 * G LOTS OF SMALL AND LARGE
dimensions, east and west; some with cottages
thereon tor sale or lease. SAM MAAS
For Sale.
TIT AN Si A NIC Acid W atei--"Nature's Remedy—
, Drink and Live. Particulars given and water
shipped as orderd, McQueen & Myers, Bryan. Texas
rimiHT y-|.'i |,'| 1, iKX'S BliPOKT
-M.noL out of priat. 800 cop.es on hand at Sti
each, postage paid. Also S3. S3 and 34. at the same
Prlce- WILKINS & ADEY,
Bookseller*,
4G Main st., Hou ton.
terseV bills for sale-ALAMO.
l years old, to avoid inbreeding, $200; calf 10
months old, $150. Both recorded in A. I. C. C Ad-
dress I. C DUVAL, Bastrop, Texas.
WOOD, Wood—Price reduced 25 per cent
Sawed, split and delivered at Si 50 per load
l^eave orders with J.J. Lewis & Co, Strand, be-
tween 19th and 20th. '
NR,S£.?«Y SKA]LSS stenuii, PLATES,
-Ll Rubber Stamps, etc. FRED. At SMITH,
114 Tremont street.
w.v' 10 ejm oirage the raising
f Jn rhorotighbred Poultry in Texas, I offer a
few fine fowls low, and I will sell for ten days An-
dalusian. Black bpanish, White. Black. Brown and
DomininiiP T.pirlinrn . n. ei — — .it Stock V1
'ton
oaiusian, uiack Spanish, White. Black. Brown
Dominique Leghorn Eggs, at $1 50 per 13. Stock
John M. Claiborne, Madaleine Place, Galveston
FMUW h,T?RE AND Tu AKKIVE-
V s-, B?;en<iale and Portland Cement.
oO.OOO Firebricks, Plaster, Laths, Drain Pipe, Stone'
ware. Marble Dust, White Sar.d.Cedar Bavou Bricks
kinds of building materials.
H. HENCHMAN, Importer anil Dealer.
SAL.E-10.000 FLOWER POTS, 100(1 Feet
drain-pipe, 20,000 fire-brick, fire-clay, and all
Kinds or stoneware, cement-pips, Portland an, I
Kosendals ceni nt, lime, latn.s hair, plaster etc
« . W H. POLLARD & CO., Agents for
W right s Brick. Mechanic, bet. 25th and ^6th sts.
m i* i \ NOSAItK XHli
Best. Prices anil catalogues promptly sent to
ajl apphcants. P. Werlein, 135 Canal street, N. O.
BuggiesI and phaetonS-ASSORT-
ment of all styles for sale cheap. Warranted
as represented. LEVY BROS. & OWENS.
For Kent.
'lENT--THE SECOND FLOOli OF THE
Crosby Building, corner of Tremont and Ave-
nue A. Possession April 1. Apply to
j. C. STUART, Agent. Texas Exp. Office.
1^®R RENT Two-story House, nine rooms,
kitchen and servant's room, on 22d street, next
south of Broadway, just repaired and painted in
aina nn.l , »i — c '
—• ——■■ "j, ju.n i r^diifju
sido and out; now readv for occupancy to good
tenant. H. M. TRUE HE ART & CO.,
Real Estate Agents.
I? McKINNEY-FOR RENT, in postoffice
building, a good business room; the best stand
in the State for clothing, hats, boots and shoes.
Applv to A. GULLETT, McKinney, Texas
For rent—A RESIDENCE, ON CHURCH
street, between 14th and 15th. Ren;, $35
L. McKEEN.
!■< ff RENT—NICE, LARGE TWO-STOKY
JL House, on Postoffice street, bet. 11th and 12th
For terms apply to MRS. ASCHOFF. No. 652.
For rent—two-thirds second floor
and entire third floor of store occupied by Pa-
cinc Express Company. C. L BEISSNER. Jr.
Booms and Board.
FOR RENT—SEVERALFURNISHEDROOMS
forJt^nilemen- 69 Winnie Street, 1 o.wetn
yocn and 27th.
Two large rooms, WITH gas
and bath-room, with or without board Reier-
ences exchanged. 202 Church street.
To rent— Delightful unfurnished room
second story—south, east and north fronts-
corner building. Grate, gas, dressing-room, closet
gallery and other desirable conveniences. Well
located and pleasant surroundings. Address K
News Office.
For rent—Rooms, furnished and unfur-
nished, 272 East Broadway, between Nineteenth
and Twentieth.
Ij^LRNISHED ROOMS FOR RENT —
One or two south rooms to single gentlemen.
Apply corner Avenue O and ISth street.
mWO GENTLEMEN, OR A COUPLE,
-M. can obtain room and board in a private
family, in central location, by application to Box
014. References exchanged.
CJ.OOD HOARD AND LODGING MAY
n be obtained at 1IRS. GOM BERT'S, 114 East
Twentieth street, between Market and Mechanic
at the following rates; Board and lodging
$4 50 per week; board alone, S3 50- par dav
75 cents. J'
Ij^OR RENT-TWO LARGE, WELL-FUR-
nished Rooms, connecting, one fronting south
Apply No. 60 Avenue H, bet. 26th and 27th.
I|nurnished rooms to rent, WITH
or without board. 51 Winnie street, corner 24th
street.
Business Cliances.
Wanted—A PARTY WITit'soME~MEANS
to take an interest in the Mineral Wells at
Bryan. McQUEEN A MYERS, Bryan, Texas.
An experienced man, with some
means, in restaurant business. Good location.
Address Box G, News Office.
THE ADVERTISER, HAVING PUR-
chased a 2000-acre ranch, houses, pens, etc.,
with control of an excellent range and §3000 to in-
vest in cattle and sheep, wishes one or more per-
sons to interest themselves with him in stock-rais-
ing. Good references. Correspondence invited.
Address P. O. BOX 355,
Galveston.
WANTED—A lady or gentleman with small
T* cash capital, to take half interest and man-
agement of a genteel, light and sure business in
this city, paying from $3000 to $5000 yearly, and no
risks. An opportunity seldom offered. Call and
investigate, t rink & Co., 10 Postoffice st., near 25th.
rOR SALE —A DAILY AND WEEKLY
X Newspaper, in a thrifty interior city. A first-
class investment to an energetic man. Ill-health
of awner only reason for selling.
Address Box 603,
Galveston.
vor sale-A STOCK OF FURNITURE AND
A Coffins at a bargain A splendid opening for
any one wishinz to engaga in the furniture bu»i-
neS3. JOHN THREADGILL, Taylor. Texas.
a1v old newspapers AT $2 00
v-j V/U PER THOUSAND, at the
NEWS COUNTING ROOM.
Professional.
(JH VS I. SiYA NS,~
attorney-at-law and land agent,
ABILENE, TEXAS.
Noah F. Flood. John Bailev.
I^LOOD Sc BAILEY,
Attorneys-at-Law,
EL PASO. TEXAS.
J30INDEXTER A PADELFORD,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
CLEBURNE - - TEXAS.
Refer to Leon & H. Blum.
B. D. Tarlton. Geo. 1. Jordan-. tr. L>. Tarltov
rjlARLTON, JORDAN & TARLTON,
Land Lawyers, Real Estate Agents, Conveyancers,
and Abstractors of Titles as of Record at Austin.
HILLSBORO, TEXAS.
H
UME Sc SHEPARD.
LAW OFFICE,
56 Strand.
H.
W. PATTON,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Masonic Block,
CLEBURNE. TEXAS.
Collections promptly made.
OLD NEWSPAPERS IN PACKAGES
of One Hundred, at 25 cents. Call at News
Counting Room.
royal pgwoi
P0W0ES
Absolutely Purs.
This Powder never varies. A marvel of purity,
strength and wholesomeness. More economical
than the ordinary kinds. Sold onlv in cans.
ROYAL BAKING POWDER CO.. 106 Wall st.. N. Y.
Cbtfeliifstoitc
G v
Vennor has a prediction out for a storm to-
day and to-morrow in New York and the
Middle States.
It is stated that the Memphis and Little
Rock Railroad will be damaged full three-
quarters of a million o' dollars by the Missis-
sippi overflow.
Jonathan Holmes Cobb, the pioneer of the
mulberry culture in Massachusetts, in 1S26,
died in Boston, on the 11th instant, at the ad-
vanced age of 83.
NOTHING
In a man's outfit has to stand more wear and tear
than his Shirts. These should always be of good
material and well made. Let this remind you of
Keep's Celebrated Dress
SHIRTS.
6 FOR $9, MADE TO ORDER.
Ask for them. Sold only by
JO WENE.
THE SHIRT MAN,
Corner Market and Tremont sts.
INVITATIONS
Extended to all to call and Examine
our IMMENSE STOCK of
FASHIONABLE
CLOTHING.
Xew Goods,
New Patterns,
Elegant Garments
Made for Fine Trade at Rock-bottom
Prices for
MEN, BOYS and CHILDREN.
Complete Line of
FURNISHING GOODS
And
STYLISH IIATS.
Levy Wcis,
The Popular Clothiers.
NEW GOODS AT LOW F1GIRES.
DAILY RECEIVING:
An Elegant Line of
GENT.'S FURNISHING GOODS,
Silk, Balbriggan, Lisle Thread ana
India Gauze
TJ NDERWEAR,
Hemstitched and Plain Handkerchiefs in
lar*re varieties. Direct from factory, an
elegant line of SPRING and SUMMER
HATS. My line of GENT'S SHOES is
complete, and for quality and style can
nor be excelled in the citv. lOO Doz.
"jake wenk's leader,"
at 6 for $9, made to order, 0 for $9, and a
fit guaranteed. Country orders solicited.
Send for rules for self-measurement, at
JAKE WEN PC'S
No. 165 Market Street.
3 MARKET STREET SHIlii MAN.
Attention! Attention!
HAVING BOUGHT THE ENTIRE STOCK OF
MESSRS. HEIDENHEIMER BROS., WE OFFER
AT REDUCED PRICES IN BOND OR FREE:
100 Casks CLARET.
50 Casks FRENCH VINEGAR.
100 Casks FRENCH VINEGAR.
1000 Ca-es IMPORTED SARDINES.
~50 Cases IMPORTED SARDINES in TOMATOES.
100 Baskets OLIVE OIL.
100 Cases VERMOUTH.
50 8 Casks COGNAC.
100 Cases COGNAC.
1000 cases Cruses and Fils Freres CLARET.
500 Cases Cruses and Fils SAUTERNES.
Write for prices before purchasing elsewhere.
BUY YOUR
SiacKwell's Durham Tobaoco
AND CIGARETTES
From SARUENT,
63 Mechanic stieet.
Lost—on Friday, the itth instant, a
Pair of Gold Spectacle-. Finder will be re-
warded by leaving them at Mrs. J. GERNAUD'S,
62'i East Church st.
Sewing' Machines.
rPHE BEST OF ALL—
JL DOMESTIC,
HOUSEHOLD,
NEW HOME,
WHEELER & WILSON.
H. BLAGGE, Sole Agent, No. 131 P. O. St.
rilHE Latest Improved White Sewing Machine,
JL from $40 to $60; the Latent Improved Stewart
Singer at $30 cash, by C. EMES. Tailor. Ill P. O. st.
Poultry, Eggs, Etc.
LIOR SALE—PLYMOUTH ROCK and BROWN
L Leghorn Eggs for hatching. Price $2 a setting.
My stock is first-class, jas. a. HILL,
Now Waverley, Tex is.
miSOROUGHBRED POULTRY AND
A. EGGS for hatching, always on sale in season by
M P TIDD & CO., 22d and Postoffice streets.
j^ducat 1o nal.
IAN ANTONIO BUSINESS COLLEGE,
5 Odd Fellows Building, Houston street.
W. T. AMOSS, President.
ISLAND CITY BUSINESS COLLEGE,
Mason's Corner. Business office, 173 Market. P O.
box 51:2. Write ror catalogue. Joss& Benish. Propr's
Auction and Commission.
CRAFT Sc STACY, PROPRIETORS OF THE
Star Auction House, No. 510 Main street (old
Herald Building), Dallas, Texas, solicit consign-
ments of all kinds of merchandise and country
nroduce, and guarantee quick sales and satisfac-
tion in every respect.
Teas, Coiiee, G-rocenes, Etc.
LANT'S FLOUR-
WHITAKER'S HAMS,
BABBIT S SOAP, Etc.
JOHN KIRK,
168 Market, between 21st and 22d streets.
P
OLD NEWSPAPERS IN PACKAGES
of One Hundred, at 25 cents. Call at News
Counting Room.
CHIMES -±ND CASUALTIES.
Five Boys Killed.
St. Joseph. Mo., March 17.—Yesterday a party
of boys, aged from eight to seventeen years, all be-
longing to well-to-do families, to amuse themselves
dug a tunnel in a hillside on the outskirts of the
city. They worked in reliefs. Five were left by
their companions at 3 o'clock. When the others
returned at 5 o'clock the tunnel was found to have
caved in on the workers, and the whole five were
dead when extricated. The tunnel had been dug
ten fetit into the hill, was several feet wide, and
had no supports for the earth overhead.
Escaped Convict ISelieadcd by a Train.
Columbia, S. C., March 17.—Brooks Holcombe, a
colored convict, sentenced at the Laurens court to
the penitentiary for one year for burglary and lar-
ceny, escaped from Pringie's phosphate works, on
Ashley river, last Thursday, and this morning a
passenger train on the South Carolina Railroad
ran over him near Fort Motte, cutting his head off
and otherwise mutilating him. His shackles were
still on. When discovered by the engineer he was
lying, face down, between the rails, and is sup-
posed to have been already dead.
Gin Mill and Clturclt Burned.
New Haven, Conn., March 17.—Early this room-
ing Konoed's gin distillery, at Grapevine Point,
was totally burned. Lo*s, $35,000; insurance, $10.-
000 An hour later, while the engines were still
busy at Konoed's distillery. Calvary Baptist Church
was burned, causing a loss of aoout $75,000. In-
surance, $47,050. Both fires are supposed to be
the work of an incendiary.
Detective Wilde Held Without Bail.
New Orleans, March 17.—The testimony shows
that Albert Weeks, aged twelve years, when shot
dead yesterday by A. F. Wilde, was walking along
the sidewalk with his little sister. Wilde was ar-
raigned to-dav and remanded to prison without
benefit of bail"until Friday next, when his exami-
nation takes place.
An Illinois Forcer.
Watseka, 111., March 17.—J. W. Johnson, of Shel-
don, editor of the Gazette newspaper, a prominent
Republican politician fcand an applicant for the
Swedish consulship, is charged with having forged
commercial paper to the extent of several thou-
saaU dollars and has lett the cuunuy*
Tb^re is a rumor that Grant found his
Nemesis in "Hannibal and St. Joe." There
seems to be no doubt his donations are gone,
and that his presents are covered with his
wife's muniments.
The reported destruction of four towns and
the killing of thousands of persons in Costa
Rica by an earthquake, the other day, was
greatly exaggerated, though the destruction of
property and life was frightful.
Generals Hancock and Sherman concur in
the opinion that the army should be composed
of young meu, and General Hancock advises
the retirement of company officers at forty,
field officers at fifty, and general officers at
sixty five.
The Democrats of Iowa were silly enough
to ask the Republicans to redistrict the State,
so as to give them one district. The Republi-
cans asked them to mark out the district, and
when they did so, a neat calculation showed
that it could be carried for the Republicans by
at least 2000 majority.
Sarah E. Howe, who was presidentess of
the woman's swindling savings bauk in Boston,
was found guilty of frauds and embezzle-
ments and sentenced, on the 13th instant, to
three years in the house of correction. Justice
in New England seems fully as expeditious
when it gets aft?r the women, as when it
hobbles on the triil of masculine rogues.
The Czar of Russia is to lie congratulated.
He has " received convincing proof that the
nihilists are determined to abandon their policy
of assassination," and he is for the time par
tially relieved of the ghastly specter that fol-
lowed him by day and haunted him in his
dreams. For this evidence of loyalty and
love he wiil show mercy to those already
under sentence of death, and ease up on those
under charges.
Senator Morgan finds it expedient to deny
with emphasis that Alabama is a repudiating
State. She is both able and ready, he asserts,
to meet all her obligations, and is just as solid
i n all her financial matters as the State of
New York. Between the years 1S66 and 1874
the railroads were in power and plundered the
State of almost $7,000,000, but she has recov-
ered, is now prosperous, and often pays her in-
terest before it is due.
OVER THE STATE.
TRANSMITTED BV WIRE BV SPECIAL CORRESPONDENTS.
Scoville is reported as saying that he be-
lieves it would be best to hang Guiteau, to
produce a revulsion in public feeling in favor
of a revision of the laws to protect the insane.
He had, however, asked the president to send
him to prison for life to give him a chance to
develop into a raving maniac, when he could
be confined in an asylum. This request, he
thought, greatly angered the president. Mr.
Scoville is in great danger of being considered
himself a little off on the cranky side of mental
propriety.
The commercial statistics of France show a
healthy growth for January and February of
the present year. The increase of her exports
for three months, over the same months of
1881, amounted to 90,000,000 francs, or $13,000,-
000, and her imports to 08,000,000 francs, or
$19,600,000. The value of this showing is en-
hanced by the fact that the principal increase
in both exports and imports was in manufac-
tures—the imports of food showing a slight de-
crease. This speaks well for the holiday, vola-
tile, rollicking nation.
The Washington Post, of last Saturday, is
made the vehicle for opening a furious war
upon the dead president. A communication
is admitted to its columns bitterly attacking
and denouncing Mr. Garfield, and it is edi-
torially remarked that the communication was
written by a prominent ReDublican and dele-
gate to the Chicago convention. The writer
denounces Garfield as treacherous, hypocritical
and a profassional office-seeker. T.se name of
the author, it is assumed, will be given to the
friends of the late president, if d3sired.
TnE application of the suffering people of
Illinois for something to eat; has occasioned
the exhibit of startling statistics of a year's
drouth. The wheat crop of that State in 1SS0
was 56,000,000 bushels—the largest she ever
raised. She was terribly injured by the drouth
in 1S81, and the crop fell off to 3d,000,000—
34,000,000 bushels short—which was a clear
loss of $34,000,000. The corn crop suffered in
the same ratio, while an equal loss was sus-
tained in other grains and farm products, so
that the total loss to the State could not have
fallen much, if any, below $100,000,000.
The New York legislature has struck the
right lead on the liquor question. It is con-
sidering a bill making it misdemeanor to use
corn, rice, corn starch, potato starch, cocculus
indicus, or hops bleached with sulphuric acid,
in the manufacture of ale, beer, porter or other
malt liquor. It is opposed on the ground that
such articles have been used in brewing for
years without deleterious effect, but this theory
is disproved by the statictics of Ihe alarming
increase of diseases of the kidneys and co-
ordinate organs, which are attributed to this
cause. The bill should include whisky, and
make it hanging without benefit of clergy for
any distiller or dealer to put poisonous ingre
dients in the article.
The New York Hour mentions the arrival
in Philadelphia, last week, of a vessel named
the Sea King, fifty days from Havre, France,
with a cargo of 500 tons of mud in ballast.
" What a text for the free traders," remarks
the Hour. " The foreign steamship lines get
all the lucrative freight to and from this
country while our own ships are carrying
mud. This is nothing new. There is a wharf
in South Brooklyn, the soil of which is com-
posed of mud brought in ballast from foreign
countries. On this wharf will be found dirt
and mud from England, Germany, France,
Italy and Norway. Why does not a mass
convention from all parts of the country
assemble on this wharf, and give voice to the
lesson taught by this fact? The mud would
be far more eloquent than Professor Sumner's
lectures to show the absurdity of the trade-
killing tariff of the United States."
The bill amendatory to the postoffice appro-
priation bill, reported in the Seuate on Thurs-
day by the Ways and Means Committee,
makes a pretty liberal allowance for ocean
mail service. This amendatory bill is based
on the Lorillard fast mail steamship project,
and the two-fifths of the $3,500,000 that it
allots to Baltimore and the South Atlantic
and Gulf ports is of course intended as a tub to
the whale and a vote-catching device. How-
ever, one million legitimately and judiciously
expended in ocean steamship mail service for
Baltimore and the South Atlantic and Gulf
ports will help amazingly, and because three
or four Eastern cities get the bulk of the ap-
propriation, that is no good reason why these
Southern ports should pout in a corner and
refuse what is offered—half a loaf is better
than no bread, even though a rich neighbor
grows fat on a loaf and a half.
The new bankrupt bill is simple but com-
prehensive. It provides that any debtor may
be put into bankruptcy who owes more than
his assets and fails to pay his debts. A
failure to satisfy a final judgment in any court
for sixty days is an act of bankruptcy if the
party is insolvent, while all who fail to pay
for thirty days may ba thrown into the mill.
The complicated and cumbrous machinery of
the old law, which consumed the assets, what-
ever the amount, is mainly done away with,
and the proceeding is by a simple bill in eauity
in the United States District Court. The debtor
may go into bankruptcy voluntarily, or his
creditors may force him in when his "liabili-
ties exceed in amount the value of his property
liable to execution and the available debts due
him," and he is discharged when he has been
guilty of no fraud. It is said to be " a very
simple arrangement to accomplish all that was
done under the old law, without any nonsense
in it," and the belief is that it will be passed
as reported by the comm*r'm,
HOUSTON.
Cotton Market and Receipts — Other
Freight—Plank Road —The Races-
Horses Arriving:—Local Rail Connec-
tion— A ; Valuable Ditch — Justice's
Court.
ISpecial Telegram to The News.1
Houston, March 17.—The cotton market
closed strong, as revised. Sales, 268 bales.
Quotations: Low ordinary, 8J£c; ordinary,
9%c; good ordinary,■ 10%c; low middling,
11%; middling, 11KC5 good middling, 12>£c;
middling fair, 12%c.
Cotton Receipts—Per Galveston, Harrisburg
and San Antonio Railway, 98 bales—Hous-
ton, 73; Galveston, 21; New York, 4.
Per Houston and Texas Central Railway,
308 bales—Houston, 15S; Galveston. 151.
Per International and Great Northern Rail-
way, 138 bales—Houston, 49; Galveston, 89.
Also 22 cars through-freight from California
in one train—10 cars pig lead for New York, 5
cars wheat for Galveston, 1 car can goods for
Galvest >11, 5 cars wine for New Orleans, 2 cars
wheat for Houston, 1 car flour for Houston, 1
car flour for New Orleans.
Alderman Thomas has a lot of lumber on
the ground to continue the Liberty street
plank road.
The grand races will be.rin on Tuesday and
continue through the week. The track is in
splendid condition, and entries are being
rapidly m«?de. Stables of racing horses are
here from Brenham, Austin, Galveston, Little
Rock, Dallas, McK-nney, Denison, Navasota,
Victoria, Waco, Kftnsa.** City, St. Louis, Gid
dings, Liberty, Toledo, Colorado City and
Denver. This" morning four of Galveston's
horses arrived—two belonging to J. S.
Sherwood and two to Mr. Bartlett, the
horseman of Galveston. One of Sherwood's
is a pacer, the other three are trotters. Levy,
the livery man, of Galveston, will send up two
trotters to-morrow, for the trotting-races. The
great race-horse Incommode is expected to
arrive here this evening or to-morrow, and
will be on the track during race week. By
reas m of the recent reputation he has made
for himself, his presence will be au important
feature of the races.
The San Antonio road is building a track,
beginning just west of its freight depot, to a
point on the Bremond road, at or near the
city limits. It will be used as a transfer on
the nort h side of the grade.
A ditch is being dag, 3600 feet in length,
which wiil effectuall;; drain all land lying
along its route and "along tho Montgomery
road. The water from the ditch will flow into
ditches made by the city, thence into W hite
Oak bayou. Property lying contiguous to
these improvements will be greatly enhanced
in value. Mr. Berry is the engineer in charge
of the work.
In Justice May's court but one case was dis-
posed of: The State vs. Wm. Howard, be-
having badly toward a colored female in the
street car, for which a jury imposed a fine of
$1 and costs on him.
AUSTIN.
Personal—School Lauds Selling: Rapid-
ly—Temporary Quarters tor the Treas-
ury—National Aid to Education and
an Objection—The Capftol Contract-
Rangers Sick.
ISpecial Telegram to The News.l
Austin, March 17.—Captain Chas. Fowler
and party, on their return to Galveston from a
pleasure trip to San Antonio, over the western
branch of the Central and the International,
arrived here to-day and will stay over to-
night and to-morrow to see the capital. By
the connection of the western branch and the
International, just effected here, it is likely
considerable through travel to New Orleans
from San Antonio will pass this way.
From the active de nand for school lands in
the West it begins to. look as if they wiil all be
taken up, or at least all of any value, before
the governor's programme for leasing them
can be adopted. The sales reported daily to
the State treasurer and toe land offic» are
enormous. The prospect of opening the Texas
Pacific Reservation, west of the 100th meridian,
for location of railway certificates, is having
an influence to indue-* the companies to take
out certificates for recently completed sections
of their roads. The v»ubl*c domain deficiency
is consequently being daily enlarged, increas-
ing the number of persons inte e ted in pro-
curing the opening up of the reserva i n.s. It
is understood the governor does nod favor the
scheme.
It is proposed to tear down the walls of the
old capitol to the second story, and roof in one
story for the use of tU treasurer's and comp-
troller's department*, 'until the new State-
house is built.
The secretary of the board of education has
declined an invitation to meet the superin-
tendents of education of the several States at
Washington to urge the appropriation by
Congress in aid of public schools in the States
having no funds to pay expenses, and not ap
proving the policy of "the Federal government
assuming the duty of educating the children.
There is talk of the capitol contract falling
through.
Two of the State frontier companies in tho
West have suffered with sickness recently to
such au extent as to interfere with active op-
erations. The company in the Panhandle,
however, report active and effective work.
Two privates in the company at El Paso have
died of pneumonia.
SAN ANTONIO•
St. Patrick'* Day—Lecture—A Huns
Jury—The Exchange—Grain Import-
ed—The Laiubing Season—The Rail-
road Visitors—General Sherman.
ISpecial Telegram to the News.]
San Antonio, March 17.—The Ancient Or-
der of Hibernians are holding a grand St.
Patrick's-day celebration to-night.
Mrs. Belle Swisher lectured to a large audi
ence at Trinity Methodist Church to-night, on
Crime Viewed from a Scientific Standpoint.
Much interest was excited.
The case of Talley Burnet and G. Redus was
before the District Court to-day- a suit on a
foreign judgment on a will case, from Missis-
sippi. It was tried at the last term, and there
was a hung jury. The'same result is expected
to-morrow. The case is still before the court.
The board of directors of the Merchants'
Exchange have voted to grant to tae Texas
Cotton and Grain Exchange Company free
use of the lower floor in the Exchange build-
ing. In consideration of increased member-
ship of the exchange, tha upper story of the
building will in future be devoted to the ex-
change.
Up to date the Sumet and International
roads have imported into town2S92 carloads of
freight, a gain over last year of 100 per cent.
Parties coming in from the vicinity of Eagle
Pass say there is little or no loss of lambs"in
that district from the -recent cold weather.
Wool-growers are getting their supplies for
the shearing season, which makes wholesale
trade busy.
Weather fine and clear, with a light breeze
from the northeast.
President Peirce, of the Sunset Route, ar-
rived here to-night on his special car, used for
the first time, and which cost $25,000. He
was accompanied by C. P. Huntington, Hon.
R. S. Spofford, Mr. Pardie, Thoiuas Penu, J.
C. Stuobs, general freight agent; William
Maul, accountant of the Southern Pacific;
Thomas H. Peirce, Jr.; James Converse, and
C. C. Gibbs, of the Sunset Route. They go
west to-morrow to Devil's river, the end of the
Sunset track. Returning here in company
with General Sherman and party, Huntington
and party go hence to Houston, thence to New-
York. 3
General Sherman is expected to leave here
for Dallas and Eagle Pass on Tuesday next.
FORT WORTH.
Facts and Opinions Regarding Cattle—
The Drive —Prices and Prospests—
Change to Sheep.
ISpecial Telegram to The News.l
Fort Worth, March 17.—T. T. D. Andrews,
a large-j shipper of cattle, and who is in com-
munication with stockmen through the North-
west, reports that cattle, having thriven last
winter better than usual, are now in splendid
order. Large droves are being moved to the
Panhandle, where the greatest ranches are
now situated. The spring round-up of cattle
will commence in this region on the first of
next month. Driving from the South will
begin about the same time. The drive from
here will be delayed until the last of the
month,at which time a number of the southern
drovers will pass this city. Heavier transac-
tions have taken place Jacely in cattle than
usual, some amounting "to over half a million
dollars. As a great many young cattle will
be kept, the drives this season will be less than
usual. Cattle have advanced in price 20 per
cent., or $3 per head. The cause of this "in-
crease is the confidence of Northern capital-
ists in Southern securities, and that money in-
vested in cattle brings three times as great an
interest as it will in the North otherwise in-
vested.
Owners of small ranches have generally
sold their cattle, and are investing in sheep.
SULPHUR SPRINGS.
Colonel Crisp Acquitted — Political-
Local Option Canvass—Drowned.
ISpecial Telegram to The News.1
Sulphur Springs, March 17.—The case of
John T. Crisp went to the jury on the 14th
about 11 o'clock, and they returned a verdict
of not guilty in a short time. Thus ended a
trial that has caused much interest in the
county. The trial was fairly and honestly
conducted by both counsel for the prosecution
and the defense. Colonel Crisp and his friends
left for their respective homes in Missouri,
Arkansas and Texas.
There was quite a number of gentlemen in
our town during this term of court and the
progress of the Crisp trial, and we have con-
versed with many of them as to the choice of
thai* tWQ** for our next governor, aud we
find that the feeling is almost solid for Gover-
nor Roberts. Aspirants for county offices are
slow to announce themselves. When they do
start they will come thick and fast. The elec-
tion comes off on the first Tuesday in ApriL
But little interest is take:i in it.
Local option is the topic of conversation
now. The friends of local option are making
a thorough canvass of the county.
Farmers are at work asain.
Ben Davis, who lived in Delta county, was
drowned in the slough near South Sulphur, in
this county, one day last week, with his horse.
He is supposed to have been trying to cross
while the water was high. He was an excel-
lent young man.
DALLAS.
Death from Small-pox at Kleiberg—In-
vestisatius a Fire—Died Insane—St.
Patrick's Day—Mr. Hoxie and Party—
Habeas Corpus Trial—R. E. Cowart
Bailed.
ISpecial Telegram to The News.l
Dallas, March 17.—Information from Klei-
berg, near the city, on the Trunk railroad, is
to the effect that Mr.'. Pettit, whose husband
recently died of small-pox at that place, is
also dead, and her little daughter is beyond
hopes of recovery. There is some chance for
the recovery of the little boy. The authori-
ties sent down a coffin for Mrs. Pettit yester-
day.
The jury of inquest upon the burning of
Baum's store, on Elm street, Monday night,
returned the following verdict to-day: Wo,
the jurry of inquest summoned to inquire into
the origin of the fire that occurred on the
morning of the 14th of March, A. D. 1882, in
Dallas city, Dalias county, State of Texas, at
No. 513Elm street, said building being oc
cupied by F. Baum, dealer in dry goo<ls, cloth-
ing, notions, etc., do believe, to the best of our
knowledge and belief from all the circum-
stances and evidence produced, and a personal
i ist ec'ion of tho building after the burning,
that said building was sjt on fire by parties
unknown to the jury to cover some mercenary
motives.
News has been received here from Austin
that Mrs. Tom Sttwart, who was recently ad-
judged insane «nd taken to the asylum at
Austin, died yesterday. Grief over the death
of her father and other near relatives who
died about the same time was the cause of her
meutal disorder.
St. Patrick's day was observed here by
nearly all the Iri- hmen in the city taking hol-
iday and wearing the green.
This evening at 5 p. m. Mr. H. M. Hoxie
an i party arrived here from St. Louis en
route to El Paso. A. A. Talmage and party,
who arrived from Waco earlier in the even-
ing, accompanied Mr. Hoxio and party west-
ward.
In the habeas corpus trial of R. E. Cowart,
to-day, for the killing of Judge J. M. Thur-
mond, tho relator was admitted to bail in the
sum of $800 for his appearance at this term of
the District Court. It is supposed that the case
will be reached about the 1st of May. The
trial occupied the entire day, and the court-
room was crowded. There were six witnesses
examined; only two of them, however, that did
not testify at the coroner's inquest. One of these
was Mrs. Eliza Agnes Haas. She is a native
Texan, and was from near Hemphill, Sabine
county. She was an employe of the United
States government in California, Oregon and
Arizona, clerking for the commissary depart
mailt, in 1872, 1873 and 1S74. This lady testi-
fied that she went into the county court-room
looking for Mr. Gano, a land agent. She saw
the judge's seat vacant, but saw no one in the
room. Hearing voices in a room opening into
the court-room, she went to the door, and saw
three men in the room. One of them said he
was prepared now to publish the details of the
Price affair. Another voice said: " If you do,
you won't live to see the effect of the publicity."
These two voices were cursing and speaking
angrily and very loud. The third voice said
that if they were going to fight he would leave,
and left the room. She went out of the court
room and down the stairs, and when at the
court-house door she heard the pistol-shot.
Sam Scott testified that she could not have
been where she said she was at the time of the
altercation in tin room without his seeing her.
Another feature in the lady's testimony is in
reference to the time of her alleged visit to
the court-house. She said she lived more than
a mile and a half from the court-house, and
more than half a mile from the street railway;
that she looked at her clock just before leaving
home, and it was after 2 o'clock when she
came to Gano's office, and remained over half
an hour, and then wfcnt to the court-house.
All of the witnesses who 3aw the shooting testi-
fied that it occurred about 1:45. Mrs. Haas
testified that she kept her clock regulated by
the town clock. The attorneys for the de-
feuse claim that they will be able to show on
the trial that the lady was not in the court-
house at all.
CLEBURNE.
Bondsmen Settle—Hook and Ladder
Company Disband—Ambitious Vil-
lage—Not Proved.
ISpecial Telegram to The News.1
Cleburne, March 17.—The bondsmen of
N. H. Cook, late city treasurer, to-day settled
the school fund deficiency with City Attorney
Patton, and no suit will b3 brought.
The Cleburne Hook and Ladder Company
disbanded last night, and divided the surplus
funds equally among the members.
Cleburne would be glad to have the next
State convention, and our people promise the
delegates a good hall and good treatment.
A jury in the mayor's court this week
cleared two parties of the charge of playing
crackloo. This is the first case since the"law
was passed.
PALESTINE.
A Free Ride Dearly Paid For—Pay Day
on the International Railroad.
[Special Telegram to The News.1
Palestine, March 17.—J. M. Sanders, from
Orange, got a cheap ride on the International
from Houston by paying negro brakeman
Steaderman a dollar for a bunk in a freight
car. When he got to Palestine Steaderman
proposed to take him to a lodging place, and
led him into the International yard and, know-
ing he had money, smashed him over the head
with an iron bar and was robbing the half-
dead man when Special Policeman Cohn car . e
on the scene and hauled him to jail. Sanders
is seriously hurt.
The International pay car goes to Houston
to-night, and pays back between Houston and
Palestine to-morrow. It goes on Sunday from
here, paying along the line to Laredo.
WACO.
Arrested on Suspicion—Concert—Wav-
ing the Green Flag for St. Patrick.
ISpecial Telegram to The News.1
Waco, March 17.—Two men, known as Bill
Self and Jim Morris, were arrested by Sheriff
Hall to-day on suspicion of being the attempted
robbers of Allen last night. The pistol which
Allen took from the robbers had tho name of
Bill Self cut on the handle, and ho was the
man who was with Allen at the time of the as-
sault ar.d claimed to be robbe 1. Morris had
bought the pistol of Self, which throws suspi-
cion on him as the one who made tb" assault.
The concert to-night for t! e benefit of the
First Street Cemetery repairing fund was well
attended and a success.
Green flags were unfurled here in honor of
St. Patrick's day.
SEW ORLEANS.
DAILY HAPPENINGS IN THE CRES-
CENT CITY.
SAN SARA.
Warm Weather— Crops -Planting-
Court Matters.
[Special Teiegram to The News.l
San Saba, March 17.—The weather for the
past week has been warm. Vegetation is
growing rapidly. Wheat and oats are in ex-
cellent condition. A great many farmers have
planted corn.
There has been but one felon convicted dur-
ing this term of the District Court. Jesse Rat-
liff was sentenced for five years for horse-
stealing. A good many persons think his name
is Clawson.
Wm. Beebo, who was brought here from
Walker county, to be tried for murder com-
mitted seven years ago, is out under bond to
await the action of the grand jury of McCul-
lough county.
Sanders and Cottingham were arraigned for
the murder of W. B. Simpson last year, but
the district attorney dismissed the case for
want of evidence. This leaves but one prisoner
to be tried for murder—Perkins—indicted for
the murder of Mr. Watkins near here last sum
mer. This case will be con tinned, as court ad-
journs to-morrow.
The grand jury returned about fifty bills of
indictment.
BRENHAM.
Death of an Old Citizen—Ice Factories—
A Verdict.
[Special Telegram to The News.]
Brenham, March 17.—Captain F. W. Schuer-
enberg, aged fifty-one years, and one of our
most respected and enterprising German citi-
zens, died this forenoon, after twelve days ill-
ness. He had been a resident of this county
for thirty years. A few years ago he estab-
lished a manufactory of agricultural imple-
ments here, and had lately made arrangements
to enlarge the works. The news of his death
has cast a gloom over the city, and his loss is
mourned by all.
Two ice companies have ordered machinery
to be erected here, and we shall soon have lively
competition.
The grand jury adjourned to-day for ten
days, to enable several of their members and
a host of witnesses to plant their crop?. They
have worked hard thus far, and brought in
twenty-two indictments.
The* coroner's jury in the case of Oliver
Clemmons (colored), whose body was found in
Walker's lake a few days ago, rendered their
verdict to-day that the deceased came to his
death at the hands of some one to the jury un-
known.
B ELTON.
New Crevasses—A Discouraging Situa-
tion—A Source of Anxiety to the
City.
[Special Telegram to The News.1
New Orleans, March 17.—The full force of
the flood is now being felt in Louisiana. The
waters that escaped from the Mississippi into
the alluvial lands of Arkansas and Mississippi
are now rushing back into the main river
through the Arkansas, the Yazoo and the Red.
For a week the river has been steadily rising
below Vicksburg, although it has been falling
above. The Louisiana levees are now sub-
jected to a mighty and increasing strain, and
every day fresh breaks are reported. Not less
than five were announced to-day, all in the
sugar districts. The most serious of these, if it is
not checked, occurred on the sugar plantation
of Hon. Duncan F. Kenner, about sixty miles
above the city on the same bank of the river.
At 12 o'clock it was thirty feet wide Planters
in the neighborhood, appreciating the giavity
of the situation, immediately repaired to the
scenes with what labor they could command.
Mr. Kenner himself, who was in the city when
news of the crevasse was received, immediate
ly procured a tug, secured men and material
and left for his plantation. He expressed the
belief that the crevasse would be closed. Much
anxiety is felt for the result. If the levee can
not be re-established many of the finest planta-
tions in the State will be inundated, and noth-
ing will stop the flow of water until it reaches
Bonnet Carre crevasse, twenty-eight miles
above the city.
The next most important break occurred
just below New Orleans, on the Story planta
tion. This has been regarded as a weak point
for several days, and efforts have been made
to strengthen it; notwithstanding, the levee
gave way this morning, and at nightfall the
crevasse was 125 feet wide and 10 feet deep.
All hope of closing it has been abandoned.
The Story plantation is entirely under water,
aud much of the surrounding country is sub-
merged. Fortunately the water sweeps into
the Mississippi and Mexican Gulf Canal, and
thence onward to Lake Borgne, so the dam-
age to cultivated land will be confined almost
exclusively to the Story place.
At 12 o'clock still another break occurred on
the east bank of the river, four miles below the
Story place, on Fleito's plantation. Before
much damage was done a large force was as
sembled, and by night this last crevasse had
been closed. Two more breaks are reported
still further down the river, and about twenty
miles below tbe city. From these no accurate
information has yet been obtained.
The mayor of Kenner, ten miles above the
city, appeals this evening for aid to hold the
levees in front of that town. He says funds
and labor there are both exhausted, and unless
immediate assistance is furnished the levee
will go. If it does, tho water will sweep down
upon the city, and overflow the upper and
rear portions of the city. The creva-s:>s above
reported are the first that have occurred on tho
east side of the river below Vicksburg. Until
to-day the entire section from tho mouth of the
Yazoo river to the gulf, ou this side, has been
free from overflow. The levees in front of
the city are now regarded as secure, and
there is no danger of inundation unless there
is a break at Kenner, or somewhere between
that point and Orleans parish line.
News from the valleys of the Atchafalaya and
Ouachita is discouraging. The water rises
steadily, and a large area of country is already
overflowed. Much suffering exists, notwith-
standing the liberal provision of the govern-
ment, supplemented by generous donations
from cit:zens of New Orleans. Organized
efforts are now being made to procure funds
to relieve other wants of the unfortunates ex-
cept lack of food, they being bereft, in many
instances, of shelter and clothing.
Shot Himself—Railroad Notes—Person-
al, Etc.
[Special Telegram to The News.l
Belton, March 17.—Sand ford Abbott, who
resided on Cedar creek, a few miles north of
Belton, shot himself yesterday while alone in
the horse lot and died at once. It is supposed
to be suicide, though no cause is known for the
rash act. His father was killed a few weeks
ago by a load of lumber falling on him.
Three miles of the Missouri-Pacific track is
in the hands of contractors, and grading is to
begin at once.
ft is rumored on the streets that the Santa
Fe road contemplates building a switch to tne
business part of the city.
Messrs. Walter Gresham, B. M. Temple and
J. B. Hill, of the Santa Fe road, and Colonel
Belo, of The News, were in th9 city to-day.
Belton congratulates Lampasas on its Sara-
toga prospects.
WILLIAMS'S RANCH.
Crops and Cattle—JVIorals and Business
(Special Telegram to The News.)
Williams's Ranch, March 17.—Wheat in
this section is looking fine. We have had fine
rains of late. Corn is growing well.
Cattle are entering spring in nearly as good
condition as they were in the fall.
The town of Williams's Ranch is improving
in business.
John Barleycorn made an attack on the
town with a heavy charge on Saturday night,
two shots taking effect in the hotel building,
one ball lodging in a chair-frame inside the
h'>us?. Morality and rowdyism are contend-
ing for the mastery, with morality in the
ascendant, and with a little more aid from the
civil officers, the good people will bo able to
hold the fort
District Court is coming on and the people
are looking for reinforcements from teat
quarter.
WHARTON.
Track-Laying and Depot Bulldinc—
Regular Mail—Personal.
[Special Telegram to The News. 1
Wharton, March 17.—Track-laying west of
Mackay Station, on the New York, Texas and
Mexican Railway, will commence to-morrow,
and there wiil be laid on an average one mile
per day. A large force of carpenters are at
work on Mackay depot, and will have it com-
pleted in about two weeks.
The citizens of this place are highly pleased
with the fact of having a regular naau, a con-
venience which has loug been wanted.
Mrs. Colonel Harrison has just returned
home after an absence of several moatha
LITTLE ROCK..
A Severe
for
JiEW YORK.
REGULAR DAILY COMMEIICIAL DIS-
PATCH.
Russell Sage on New Railroads-Gould's
Denver Stock—Joined the Bulls—Ster-
ling Active—Stocks Excited—Cotton-
wool at Philadelphia, Etc.
[Special Telegram to The News.1
New York, March 17.—Russell Sara says
he is connected with a dozen new railway cor
porations which have wound up work for a
couple of years, and probably longer, the
contractors, meanwhile, having been settled
with. The present business of the country, he
says, justifies no more railways.
It is reported th it Gould has 40,000 shares of
Denver, and will get control.
One of the most eminent and wealth)'
financiers joined the bull pool in stocks to-day.
The break at the slaughter-house levee in
New Orleans is regarded as the culmination of
the troubles. 9
Sterling is more active and steady, with an
advancing tendency.
Stocks were excited, with a sharp advance,
and the bears were demoralized. Texas and
Pacific incomes jumped to 65; Rio Grandes,
82}^; stock, 3S to 40%; Houston and Texas
Central, 70.
Cotton was feverish. Some overloaded bulls
sold, and reports of receding rivers caused
some selling for short account, but the market
closed firm.
The Philadelphia Record reports wool this
week sluggish and unsatisfactory, but holders
are unwilling to move large lines at any mate-
rial concession.
WASHINGTON.
FORTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS — FIRST
REGULAR SESSION.
Senate.
Washington, March 17.—A bill was introduced
by Vlr. Call, for deepeng the entrance to the north-
west channel of the harbor of Key West, FIj.
Mr. Hoar, from the Committee on Privileges and
Elections, reported in fav< r of the payment out. of
the Senate contingent fund, of $3500 to ?•!. C. But-
1 y, and $9000 to Wm. Pitt Ke 1 »._'g, in reimburse-
ment of expenses necessarily incurred by them in
defense of rh^ir titles to seats. Placed on the cal-
endar of resolutions.
On the conclusion of the morning business th •
regular order, the tariff commission bill, was tem-
porarily laid aside by unanimous consent, to pro-
ceed with the postoffice appropoiati n biii, which
u as then taken up. The remaining committee
amendments were adopted.
Mr. Miller, of New York, moved an amendment,
reported yesterday from the Postoffice Committee,
providing for oceitn mail servica, but it wa ruled
out otk a point or order. Tne bill was reported to
the Senate and all ammendments of committee ot'
the whole concurred in except one, which substan-
tially restores the franking privilege, upon which
a separate vote was demanded by Mr. Pendleton.
The amendment was divided, and the first parr, al-
lowing the secretary of the Senate and the clerk
of the House to use "official envelopes, was agreed
to without a vote. The question recurring up n
the proposition to authorize Congressmen to send
through the mails, tree, any letter or package con-
taining only written or printed matter not, exceed-
ing two ounces in weight, upon a call of yeas and
nays the proposition was adopted by the following
vote;
Yeas—Aldrich, Allison, Anthony, Beck, Black,
Brown, Call. Camden, Cameron or Pennsylvania,
Davis of West Virginia, Dawes. Fair, Frye, Gor-
man, Groome, Hale, Hampton, Harris, Harrison,
Hoar. Jackson, Jonas, Keliogg, Lapharn. Logan,
McDill, Mahone, Miller of New York, Mitchell,
Morgan, Morrill, Pla t, Pugh, Sawyer. Sewall,
Vance. Van Wyck, Voorhees, Walker, Williams
and Windom—41.
Nays—Cockrell, Coke, Conger, Davis of Illinois,
Farley, Ferry, George, Hill of Colorado, McPher-
son, Maxev, Pendleton, Ransom, Saulsbury, Sher-
man and Slater—15.
Messrs. Plumb and Cameron, of Wisconsin, were
paired with Messrs. Johnson and Vest. Messrs.
Edmund«, Bayard, Hawley, and Jones, of Florida,
were among the absentees. The bill then passed.
The fortification appropriation bill was taken up
and passed.
General business then followed.
The tariff commission bill was taken up as the
regular order and Mr. Pendlrton opened the debate
upon it, followed by Messrs. Morrill and Beck.
Mr. Beck yielded for an executive session, after
which the Senate adjourned to Monday.
House of Representatives.
At the conclusion of the morning hour the
House, at 12:45 p. m.. went into committee of the
whole, Mr. Rich, of Mich gan, in the chair, on the
private calendar. The first bill on the calendar
was one authorizing the payment to Wm. M. Mav-
nader of $3726 in liquidation of a deficiency in his
accounts as paymaster, caused by a ro jbery com-
mitted by his clerk. Though the measure had been
considered and discussed upon two previous occ^
siotis. an interesting debate again sprang up and
continue! for about two hours, when Mr. Holman,
of Indiana, moved to strike out the enacting
clause. Agreed to.
The same action was taken upon a similar biil
for the reiief of Major G. W. Candee. The com-
mittee rose, and the speaker laid before the House
a communication from the secretary of war trans-
mitting. in response to a resolution offered by Mr.
King, of Louisiana, estimates of the number of
persons made destitute by the overflow of th •
Mississippi river and its tributaries and the time
for which the necessity of congressional aid will
continue. Rererred.
The communication estimates the number of
persons rendered destitute at 85,000. a^ follows:
Mis<ouri. 2200; Illinois, 2000; Kentucky, SO ': Ten
lies-ee, 5000; Mississippi, 30,000; Arkansas, 20,000;
Louisiana, 25,000; and states that 713.000 rations
have been distriouted. The communication further
states that the appropriation already made i^ suf-
ficient to purchase 800,000 rations of a substantial
kind, and estimates that the supply will be ex-
hausted in Arkansas, Mississippi and Louisiana
about the 21<'. No estinu^e can be ma ie or tne
time during which the necessity for congressional
aid will continue.
No further demands are expected from Illinois
and Kentucky, but from Missouri, Tennes-ee, Ar-
kansas and Mississippi the department has infor-
mation that the necessity for subsi.-t nee will con-
tinue for a period variously estimated at from
thirty to sixty dajrs. The department has no in-
formation from Louisiana, but it is thought tiiat
it may be piaced in the same category as Missis-
sippi.
Adjourned.
CURRENT EVENTS AT THE NATION-
AL CAPITAL.
Cyclone—A Candidate
Lynching.
[Special Telegram to The News.1
Little Rock, March 17.—Information of a
severe cyclone in Jefferson couuty was re-
ceived this evening. North of Pine Bluff it
was particularly destructive, blowing away
houses, fences and other property. A black-
smith shop, in which a man named Thomas
Phillips had taken refuge, was blown to atoms
and Phillips badly wounded. Several persons
were badly injured, but thus far no deaths are
announced. During the storm hail fell as
large as hens' eggs.
Simon Carpenter, who attempted to outrage
the person of an eleven-year old orphan girl
living with his family, and who fled to escape
lynching, has Leen captured an 1 taken back
to Dardanelle, the sceno of the intended crime,
and lo6ged in jail. It is believed he will yet
be lynched. Carpenter was captured in the
Cherokee Nation by Deputy United States
Marshal Cox, who will receive a reward of
$200.
LAKE CHARLES.
Fatal Pistol Accident—Saw-TOill Acci-
dent—Driftwood.
ISpecial Telegram to The News.l
Lake Charles, March 17.—Yesterday af-
ternoon a fatal aud distressing accident oc-
curred here at the residence of M. M. Wood.
One of his boys, named Francis, aged about
twelve year*, accidentally shot the latter's
brother David, aged about ten, in the head
with a large revolver, killing him instantly.
It is not known, how the accident happened.
The father, who is a widower and a very
worthy man, is almost insaue with grief.
Early this week, at Goos's saw-mill, near
town, a workman named Neil Avy, had one of
his legs so badly crushed by a falling log that
the limb had to be amputated.
The river is full of logs aud railroad cross-
ties.
ST. LOUIS.
Grain Higher—Supply Limited—Meat
Strong.
ISpecial Telegram to The News.l
St. Louis, March 17.—Our market is higher
again to-day. Local millers are active buy-
ers, but transactions were limited owing to
scant offerings. Shippers are also free bidders.
Meat and lard strong. Feed much in de-
mand.
Fires in Cuban Cane Fields.
Havana, March 17.—A fire has destroyed forty
cane fields of plantntions Linsa and Lerosa, in the
jurisdiction of Molena del Sur. Small fires con-
tinue in other sections, especially near Trinidad.
It is believed that tnese fires, with the prevailing
severe drouth, will cause a great reduction of tne
promised increase in crops.
A Boat and Wreckage.
London, March 17.—Portions of a boat have been
washed ashore on the coast of county Kerry,
bearing the name City of London; also some
wreckage, supposed to belong to tne Dark City of
Dunediu, which sailed from Pensacola October 20,
for Cardiff.
Failure at Augusta, Ga.
Auousta, March 17.—O. M. Stone & Co., cotton
merchants, cotton gin manufacturers and guano
dealers, made an assignment to-day for the benefit
of creditor*. Liabilities about $40,000; nominal
assets, $80,009. Am* n' the assets i-agin manu-
factory valued at $3(1,000. They have preferred
creditors to the amount of about $&j,u00,
four places. Tho breaks are very largo. At
Omega the break is supposed to be about 600
yard* wide, at Buckhorn fully 1000 yards Rose
Hill 700 yards, at Morencey plantation 1000 yards.
above the breaks a,-e in Madison parish and
«ithm a spaco of twelve mile-. The water will
flood the entire parish.
The ievee at UVcino. in Davis's bend, broke last
niglir. Ir. is situated in front of Montgomery's
store, and there is no doubt but the whole island
is under water by this time. The Cannon arrived
about 6 a. m., bringing several lamilies and a lot of
stock. In fact, every boat that lands here now
brings people or stock from different inundated
«ection«. It is impossible to exage -ate the suffer-
ing. There are thirty-three breaks above Green-
ville.
The steamer Anita, with government supplies,
arrived here at 6 this morning, and left this even-
ing lor Sunflower river, to relieve the wants, as far
a ; possible, of sufferer-". The water having en-
tirely submerged the floor of the first platform
built tor hauling freight from the elevator, an-
o: her one has been erected, but the water is en-
croaching up >n it. The elevator floor is about two
' efa'.L °VH water yet.
The Cannon leaves to-night with 1200 bales of
cotton and 1000 sacks of seed; 1000 bales of cotton
w-re taken trom the ooinprass.
News from Yaz'K, City to-day says tbe water is
higher than in 1867. At this point it is higher than
l«»r fifteen years.
Refugees from the Yazoo Lowlands.
New Orleans. March 17.—The Times-Democrat's
Yazoo City special says: The city is crowded
with refugees from the lowlands. Three b"»at-
brought here to-day, and others coming.
I he majority art- negroes, who are entirely desti-
• tite. I he pe »nle here are not prepared for such
an influx, but are doing all in their power to re-
lieve their wants. The court-yard and two
churches assigned for their use are now full The
citizens are contributing liberally for their main-
tenance. Between 400 and 500 mules and horses
have been brought here within the past twenty-
tour hours; also loo head of ea*tie. They all
come from the overflowed section. Very little at-
tention is paid to cattle, and thousands are left to
drown. Sheen and hogs are not thoug -t of. The
river is rising 12 inches in twenty-four hours.
Snaall-Pojc at South Bethlehem, Pa.
Philadelphia. March 17.—A semi-official state-
meut from S -uth Rethlehem, Pa., yesterday pro-
tested that reports of the prevalence of small-pox
there had groatlv ena.ig.-rate 1 the facts, but to-
day dispatches repcrt 150 cases in eighty-five
houses. Disinfectants are being used by wholesale.
All barber-shops are closed. Five puddling fur-
naces and the rolling mill have stopped for want of
men, not that so many of their men are sick, but
because many men living in infected houses are
quarantined.
Quarantine Is enforced by Bethlehem on the op-
posite side of Lehigh river. Citizens not already
quarantined in their houses are leaving town or
sending their families away. Nearly every
student in Lehigh University and Bish p Thorpe
female seminary has left. No mail matter is al-
lowed to leave infected districts. The health offi-
cers have b^en given police power. Two hospitals
have been equipped and are rapidly filling. The
di ease is now reported in Bethlehem, where fonr
cases appeared to-day.
The Strike Against Reduced Wages
at Lawrence, ITIass.
Lawrence. Mass.. March 17.—The strike of ring
spinners in the Pacific mills is increasing. To-day.
af er they had received their pay, thirty-five of
those employed in the lower Pacific mills left,
stopping eisrhty-two frames. They allege as cause
that the Pacific authorities ordered boarding-house
keepers not to board strikers from the upper mill.
Matters are at fever heat. A general strike in
other departments is feared. The entire cotton-
spinninc force for the central Pacific mill has
struck, stooping -WOO spindles. A meeting of strik-
ers held at the city hall was addressed bv Hector
McCoy, editor of the Catholic Herahi. Great ex-
citement prevails.
St. Patrick's Day.
New Yorx, March 17.—One hundred and ninety-
eight gentlemen attended the banquet of the
Fnendly Sons of St. Patrick at Deimonico's to-
nigh. Justice Davis presided, and the guest of the
evening, General Grant, sat on his right.
Washington. March 17.—St. Patrick's day was
observed here by a fine parade of all the Irish so-
cieties. A general observance of the day in a sim-
ilar manner is reported throughout the country.
An exception is reported from Brooklyn, where the
Irishmen voted to expend for benevolent objects
the money that such a display would cost.
A Swindling 3Iicliigan mayor.
Detroit, Mich , March 17.—More of the rascali-
ties of Adrien's decamping mayor, Thomas J.
Navin, are coming to light Two mortgages—one
for S4J0C and the other for S1000—on which the
agent for the mortgages attempted to collect the
interest this morning, were proved to have been
forged by Navin, who pretended to act as agent
for the mortgager, and thus succeedea in the
swindle.
Indian Crow Dog on Trial.
Deahwood, D. T., March 17.—Crow Dog was ar-
raigned m the United States Court to-day for the
murder of the Brule Sioux chief. Spotted Tail, in
August last. He entered the plea of not guilty,
and also that he was tried :or the same offense in
accordance with the laws of the Sioux Indians. The
entire day was consumed in procuring a jury.
Colliding to Argue a Criminal Case.
St. Louis, March 17. -Iio coe Conkling has been
engaged to make a presentation, before the United
5 a es Supreme Court, of the case of Charles F.
King, a notor ous murderer of this city. The mat-
ter will come up at the October term of court, and
involves the question whether the law under which
King was tried and convicted is not ex post facto.
No Extra Session in North Carolina.
Raleigh, N. C-, March 17.—The Council of State,
at its meeting this noon, by an even vote declined
to take action with reference to calling an extra
session of the legislature. As the governor can
make a call only on their advice the legislature
will not be convened.
The Week's Failures.
New York, March ! 17.—Failures for the week
throughout the country are reported by R. G. Dun
6 Co a- 138, as follows: Eastern States 17. West-
ern 38, Middle 29, Southern 35. Pacific 13. and New
York city 0. Failures in New York have little sig-
nificance.
Minister Morton on the Peruvian Af-
fair.
Washington, March 17.—Minister Morton, in re-
ply to the announcement that the House Commit-
tee on Foreign Affairs had the Shiplierd matter
under investigation, has communicated to the sec-
retary of state what he has to say on the subject,
and the latter to-Jay transmitted a communication
to the committee, in which iie says Morton's reply
is o the following effect: The minister states that
he has never at any time been associated with any
business transactions needing or expecting inter-
vention of the United States. In the ordinary
course of their business Messrs. Morton, Bliss &
Co. had entered into a contract simpiy for
the receipt of nitrates and guano sent to this
country and States thereof, rnd ti.at the transac-
tions were of the same class of business as has
been carried on by the firm for many years. All
preliminaries of the agreement itself were made
by Geo. Bliss during Morton's alisence and beiore
his departure for his present post. Bliss will be
happy, if desired by the committee, to furnish all
details of the transac ion.
Mr. Morton concluded by saying that it would be
possible to use, or attempt t > use, his offic al posi-
tion as minister to further the objects of the lute
contract, and that he has never contemplated any
ac ion wiih regard to the affairs o: Chili and Peru,
except to carry out in good faith such orders as
tins government may give him in the premises.
Internal Revenue Dill.
Washington, March 17. - A bill was reported to
the Hour-e, from the Ways and Means Comun.tee,
just before adjournment, and ordered printed and
recommitted, which is intended as a substitute for
Mr. Carlisle's bill amending the internal revenue
law.-.
The time during which spirits may remain in
bond is extended indefinitely. The internal reve-
nue commissioner is authorized to establish
bonded warehouses in any district at his discretion
as to number sec.ions 5 to 10 inclusive oi the (Jar-
lisle bill are embodied entire in the new bid.
The provision for a tax of Si 50 on foreign
brandy and distilled spirits, and 0:1 all cordials
and bitters containing spirits, is stricke.i out.
Additional Ration* to be Issued.
Washington, March IT. -The secretary of war
insttr icted the commissary general to issue 50,-
000 additional rations to General Mangum at Mem-
phis, for the relief of the destitute peo -ie in the
overflowed districts of Arkansas and 25,000 to Mr.
Hemingway, commissioner for th * Sen e of Mis-
sissippi, at Memphis. About 25,000 rations on!/
can be supplied for future u-e under the urig.nal
appropriation, but Congress is expected to make
e.n appropriation for the di tribuiiou of aduitional
supplies.
I?Sr. Black.
Washington, March 17.—Representative Black is
a little improved to-day.
DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE.
Levees Near New Orleans Reported
Broken.
New Orleans, March 17.—A break in the levee a
hundred feet wide and five feet deep is rep »i ted
this morning at Story's place, on the lett'bank,
eight mi.es below (Jaual street. The city surveyor
has also received a report that a breax had occ-
urred at Li* e Oak Grove plantation on the right
bank. The e reports are not regarded at the ci.y
hall as very reliable, especially tne exact loca i ai
of tne breaks.
Story's place is in St. Bernard parish; Live Oak
Grove in Plaquemine parish. No danger can re-
sult to the city from these crevasse .
A break is also reported at Fleta's Cor-nne plan-
tation. Sr. Bernard parish, on t ie left :.ank six
miles below the ciry. The creva--o >s forty i -et.
wide. The levee there is six feet high. The"break
will probably be closed by to-morrow.
A Times-Democrat Donaldson ville special say :
The crevasse occurred in front of Madame Juiien
Landry, caused from a crawfish hole, at 8 a. m.
By noon the break was thirty feet wide. A large
force are at work, and the break can be close !.
There >'s an old levee in front, with not more than
two feet of water on top of it.
The Picayune correspondent sends the following
from Liveoak Grove: "Crevasse occurred fr -m
crawfish hole at 8 o'c lock Thursday nigh . At 1
o'clock to-day but little work had oeeu uone on
the break, which is about forty feet wide. It is 10
be hoped ihe break will be stoppe i in a few days.
Sugar plantations subject to overflow by this cre-
vasse, besides Liveoak Grove, are Widow Bay lis,
Charle- Bay lis, Sarah Oak Grove—all, or nearly ad
tiie plantations on Bjyou Barrataria. in Jefferson
I ari^h. and all the rice places in Josui 's bend.
Tae water on the lower c- ast has be n a'.out on a
stand since March 8, except daily changes of three
or four incite-, caused by the tide. From infor-
mation received. we are < f the opinion that the
highest point has been reached, except in the dise
ot high southeas erly winds, which may g.ve us
more tide water."
Vicksburg River Report.
VicxsBvao, Mi.sS., March 17.—The river has
risen during tho pa-t tueniy-four hours one inch
ana a quaner. Tnis fail off iu the ri-e, compared
with yesterday, is accounted ror by breaks which
occurred during the n:ght and this morning in the
1 svees. Above Mil.iaeu's beud the ievee broicc in
FO REIGN INTELLIGENCE.
British Conservatives.
London, March 17.—The meeting of conserva-
tive members of Parliament at the Carlton club
t i-day to consider the cloture resolutions was
private. I' is understood that Sir Stafford North-
cote expressed a desire to oppo-e the cloture to
the utmost, his willingness to vote for Marriatt's
amendment to the proposed Parliamentary rules,
provided that no rules shall be satisfactory which
ill enable a bare majority to close debate and
desire to conclude decision before Easter. Those
present heartily coincided with his views. The
conservative leader incidentally laid stress on tho
necessity of dealing with the utmost caution with
matters relatiug to Ireland.
Bradlaugh ludorsed by His Constitu-
ents.
London, March 17.—A meeting of electors ol
Northampton lias approved Brad laugh's conduct
in the House of Commons, and passed resolutions
authorizing the executive of the Liberal aud Radi-
cal Union to sign a pe:ition to the House praying
that he be heard at the bar of the House in sup-
port of its claim of right to be represented in the
House by the speech and vote ot its duly elected
members.
A Hint lrom Bismarck.
London, March 17.—A dispatch from Berlin to
the Tunes says: There seems to be a decided de-
termination on the part of Germany and Austria
to reply with fac:s to the Panslavist tendencies of
Ru-sia. Such fact was the speedy recognition of
Servia's eleva ion to the rank of a kingdom, arid a
formal incorporation of Bosnia and Herzegovina
with Austria w. >uld be a second significant answer
to the Panslavists.
Persecution in Russia.
London, March 17.—Herr Rulef, of Memef,
Pru-sia. writes to the Jewish World, saying that
the decisions of the St. Petersburg commission on
the Jewish question is in favor of compelling the
Jews to quit the rural districts, etc. Although
ostensibly aimed at the prevention of persecution
it will have the immediate effect of depriving a
million o" people of their homes and rendering
their life unbearable.
Grccco aud Turkey.
Athens, March 17.—In tho Chamber of Deputies
to-day 31. T. Tricoupis, president of the council,
upon reading the programme of the new govern-
ment, said tha country must be prepared for the
coming changes in t :e Ea-t, aud that amicable re-
lations must be maintained with every country,
especially with Turkey.
£2onico.
London, March 17.—In the House of Commons
this evening the motion of Goust, conservative,
praying that the queen revoke or alter so much of
the charter of the British North Borneo Associa-
tion as gives implied sanction to slavery, was re-
jected by a vote of 123 to 62.
Germany and Austria Agreed.
London, March 17 —The Vienna correspondent of
the St. James Gazet'e savs the general understand-
ing between Germany and Austria to jointly resist
Russian attack on either power, has lately resulted
in an arrangement of details for immediate action,
if necessary.
Skobelcfl*.
Vienna. March 17.—'The Abendpost says a letter
from St. Petersburg, dated March 13, states that
General Skobeleff, repl3"ing to the czar's serious
reprimand in relation o his speech in Paris,
pleaded in excuse that he did not know what he
said.
The Captain-General of Cuba.
Madrid, March 17.—It is reported that General
Prendergast has resigned the captain-generalship
of Cuba, because ot dissensions between Liberals
and Conservatives on the island.
Austrian Diplomatic Bosh.
Vienna, March 17.—It. is authoritatively stated
that no diplomatic steps have hitherto been taken
in the direction of annexing Bosnia and Herzego-
vina,. At. a recent banquet at Cottar's, General
Jovansiries declared that the campaign iu Crevascie
was finished.
Boat Racc on the Thames.
London, March 17 - A boat race took place to-
day between Lewis Gib on an : Godwin. Hanlan's
piLt, from Putney to ^ Mart lake, for jb'200, and
Godwin c .me ou- victorious five lengths ahead of
his antagonist. Go Iwin's lime. 25.2j.
International Copyright.
J. ox don. March 17. The Daily News this morn-
ing says: The suspension of negotiations in regard
to a copyright treaty between England and Amer-
ic.i is entirely due to a lack ot" common action
among American publishers.
The Concordat iu Franco.
Par: -. March 17.—'The committee of twenty-two,
of i he Chamber of Deputies, appointed to ex ami no
>1. B -ysett's propo>ai for abolishing the concor-
dat. K w.th tiie exception of two of Its members,
opposed to the measure
The Home-Rale League.
Dublin. March 17.—The Irish Time- says a meet-
ing .wis convened in Dublin to-day tor the purpo-e
ci eor.side; iug a resolution for dissolving the home:
rule league.
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The As atic broods, such as the Brahmas
ar.d Cochins, if overfed with rich grain and
succulent 10 >ls. wi.l soon become too fat to be
serviceable as inye. -. Fowls n,ed to be well
led in cold w.m;1 er, but great care must ba
exercised with the breeding s:oek in particu-
lar; if they became too <at their eg^s are often
infertile Allow plenty of chopped green
vegetables, such as oai >ns, cabbages and tur-
nips.
Mr. Eergh's society with the long name has
10 tranches ai d 230 agencies in the State of
New Yi lk, and lasc year/ prosecuted 865 cases
iu the c. u:ts. In New York city and Brook-
lyn 1*275 an imals v. ere takcu from work and
sent to veterinary surgeons for treatment.
Three yeais ago the number was 3000, aud is
is claim d that the failing off proves that tha
; society has Leen i£Lctiv2 rucroiiy*
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