The Galveston Daily News. (Galveston, Tex.), Vol. 38, No. 263, Ed. 1 Friday, January 23, 1880 Page: 2 of 4
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Friday, January 23, 1880.
.4 PKEITOIIESAL DEFAULTER.
AVe frequently read the expression,
"Nothing succeeds like success." If this
be admissible, we may also say that there is
nothing so monotonous as monotony. And
what is there more dreary than endless repe-
tition, unless it be. of course, the repetition
of something very ' agreeable, supposing
anything can be agreeable which is endles ly
repeated? Therefore any body that breaks
a dreary monotony should be encouraged by
a grateful public and sustained by the press.
There is a distressing sameness in the pub-
lished accounts of the behavior of criminals
tUsf 9|;erliung. The doomed man, in almost
every instance, expresses his certainty of
soon finding himself in a better country, in
a laud, tliat is fairer than this. He is going
straight to heaven. Now, when a
malefactor either says nothing at
all or expresses a well founded
doubt about his future residence, it
breaks the monotony, and everybody feels
the force of the saying that " variety is the
spice of life." If a condemned felon, in-
stead of the stereotyped assurauce that he is
bound for heaven, were to come out and ex-
press his firm belief that he was going to
SQ(me other place, it would be a refreshing
change to newspaper readers; but if he were
to go still further, and say that he deserved
to go to some other place, then, indeed,
would the monotony be broken. The like
distressing sameness has been noticed in the
defaulting chashier of the period. He is
not to be found when wanted. Having
acquired all the available funds of the in-
stitution, he lieartlesslyjabandons it and the
depositors at the very time when there is the
greatest demand for his services. Perhaps
the cashier would say that, as the
bank has no more funds to
pay out, his occupation is gone, and there
is, therefore, really no occasion for his re-
maining about the premises. At all events,
lie skedaddles, and it is only in exceptional
cases that he can, with the co-operation of
the Canadian authorities, be induced to re-
turn. When we read of a bank suspending
it is sure to be coupled with a lengthy per-
sonal notice regarding the sudden absence
of the disbursing officer. As already stated,
this monotonous repetition has become a
burden, and hence when Mr. Kohrer, de-
faulting cashier of a Louisville savings bank,
violates the rule, we take occasion to put in
a good word for him. It is, of course, out
of the question to sanction his appropriation
of upwards of $00,000 of the bauk's money,
but there are mitigating circumstances. Like
all cashiers, he enjoyed the confidence, the re-
spect.and even the admiration of everybody,
including his employers. In his mode of ac-
quiring the money, and his hesitancy about
communicating the fact to exen those most
directly interested, he followed the usual
routine. But he did not run away, like the
rest, to Canada. He waited, calmly and
complaceutly, until the directors aSfced to
examine his account, and then, taking a pen,
he wrote " $07,<100 deficit," and wished
them a pleasant good-by. He did not intend,
however, to defraud justice, for he made a
bee line for the nearest jail. Is not this a
cheering innovation upon the time-honored
custom? Mr. Rohrer is kmd enough to keep
on surprising the public. When arrested,
his devotion to truth becomes wonderfully
..conspicuous. He ea# steal $07,000, but he
can not tell a lie, for he said: " I should be,
and deserve to be, made an example of.A
defaulting cashier who can not tell alie, who
refuses to spend his acquired wealth in dis-
tant countries, and promptly gives the ex-
act deficit, is such an improvement on the
profession, so to speak, that he ought to be
let down gently, if for nothing else than to
encourage the rest.
THE FIRE TAX.
Mr. Edward Atkinson, in a recent lecture
before the Boston society of arts, assumed
that the fire tax upon the people of this
country is the the heaviest tax to which they
are subjected; that it is distributed with
greater equality than almost any other; *bat
it is more than equal to the cost of the
largest staudiug army in Europe, and that
it is as causeless and useless and unfit as
would DC tiifc existence of a standing army
of an equal cost in the United States. He
estimates that in this destructive fire busi-
ness the annual tax is not less than $30,000,-
000 for sustaining fire insurance companies,
and $25,000,000 for sustaining fire depart
nvnts, and that we pay altogether $120,
090,000 a year for carelessness, ignorance,
stupidity and fraud. He says that in
the last four years- the companies have
paid $1Ti ,000,000 as indemnity for losses.
These statements indicate that the insured
interests, to realize this $174,000,000 in the
last four years, have paid out four times
$120,!i00,000. While rates of insurance are
graded in accordance with the degree of
hazard in risks assumed, yet it is difficult
to understand how the insurance tax is dis-
tributed with any degree of equality what-
ever. That the cost of state supervision,
the incompetency of architects, builders,
supervisors and inspectors of buildings,
and many other incidents, increase the cost
of insurance unnecessarily, can not be
questioned; but it is worth while for the
companies to candidly answer if their sys
tem of conducting a business of this char-
acter by agents who are paid by commis-
sions upon premiums does not in fact in
crease the hazards in the aggregate, and
therefore the cost of insurance,
more than all other causes combined.
Moral hazard may oe fostered under this
system until it exceeds in importance, and
costs more to the insured in the aggregate1
than, the ordinary natural hazards which
only should be reckoned in the calculations
of a healthy insurance business. Almost
every fire demonstrates that the companies
are accustomed in every quarter to carry
risks largely over insured. The excessive
though natural enterprise of agents, depend
ing upon commissions for profit and liveli
hood, opens the door and invites this
danger, which the honest portion of the
community shares with the insurance com
panies. In towns and cities on the wane
the temptation to over insurance has often
been found by the companiqe to be irresist-
ible, and of course in such cases the fire-
bug is incessantly busy. The companies
collect from the honest insured to pay the
losses sustained through a morally unsound
and needlessly hazardous system of transact-
ing business.
IRREGULAR AND UNEQUAL ASSESS-
MENTS.
Taxes are not equal and uniform when
the law governing assessments offers induce-
ments to assessors in some counties to rigor-
ously assess the property at its full valuation,
and to assessors in other counties to permit
property-owners to make out their own assess-
ments Such is the system of assessments
in Texas that in the poor and sparsely
settled counties it is difficult, if not impos-
sible, for an assessor to earn the poorest
wages of a day-laborer the year through,
even by the most faithful discharge of duty;
while in an average county the assessor, by
insisting upon full valuations, may earn the
maximum remuneration the law has
established. But in the populous and
wealthy counties the maximum remunera-
tion is reached before half the property has
been assessed, and there is no earthly in-
ducement thereafter to the assessor to ob-
tain full valuation. The result is clearly
seen in the reduced aggregate values of the
taxable property in counties in which are sit-
uated the large cities, and the improved as-
sessments in the less wenllhy counties. The
policy of reducing the commissions of as-
sessors of the wealthy counties was opposed
by the representatives from such counties,
and urged by the representatives of the less
wealthy counties. It was a popular rneas
ure in the interest, it was claimed, of a
reduction of salaries, perquisites and ex-
penses, and it has been pointed to as one of
the successful financial measures of the ad-
ministration. If it be reform and economy
to take five cents from an assessor and
ninety-five cents from the state by the same
process, then the measure is unassailable.
When the assessor finds that his aggregate
valuation will yield him a commission of
$20( 0 he has no further interest in the ser-
vice. Every dollar assessed after that
point is reached is free from
any claim on his part for service to the
state. The apparent result is that the ag-
gregate valuation of property in the cities
and wealthy counties represented upon the
assessment rolls has been reduced by mil-
lions of dollars. According to official tax
statistics, the state has saved in assessors'
fees about $4000, and lost in taxes about
*7",000, in the assessments of about a dozen
cities. All the fine rhetoric about cutting
off the princely salaries of a few assessors
reads, iu the light of results, very much
like pure demagogism. After awhile the
rural property-holders may find out how
far iu this economical measure their
representatives went astray, and it may be
that the state will have a legislature of en-
tirely new material to select senator Maxey's
successor, and to be cajoled perhaps into other
measures that will promise results equally
brilliant as failures. At the time this meas-
ure was adopted the News condemned it,
and now already experience justifies the
prognostications then submitted. We sub-
mit to the public school teachers the problem,
how long will this saving of $40< 0 annually
at a cost of $73,000, together with an annual
income of $4 75 from the sale of public lands,
take to pay the public debt of $5,700,000?
The News has always advocated the policy
of regulating fees and perquisites in such a
manner as to allow, on the one hand, a just
and reasonable remuneration calculated
to secure competency, fidelity and efficiency
in eveiy office, and to prevent, on the other
hand, any office from becoming a bonanza
to be sought, contended for and bargained
for, in successive election campaigns, under
the paramount incentives of cupidity and
speculative adventure. There was, and is
still, plenty of room for reform in this
direction. Some positions are too
lucrative, and some are too poorly
paid, to command the kind of
incumbency which is wanted to do jus-
tice to the public service. It is evident that
justice has not been done in this respect in
regulating the pay of assessors. The assess-
ment system is measurably demoralized.
Irregular and unequal assessments involve
unequal taxation, loss to the state, favorit-
ism to some tax-payers and injustice to
others.
THE NITRATE AND OUANO FIELDS.
It is rumored that the government at
Washington is about to repeat its instruc-
tions to its representatives in the South
Pacific to keep a watchful eye upon any
arrangements that Chili may make in the
disposition of the nitrate fields and guano
beds over which there has been so much
seemingly unnecessary bloodshed. A dis-
patch states that the Chilians have destroyed
the ports, and all the material used for the
extraction of guano, at the Lobos islands;
that the landing of vessels has been stopped,
and the vessels wantonly compelled to seek
other ports. This, however, is only what
might be expected in the routine of South
American warfare. But information of a
somewhat alarming character has been re-
ceived to the effect that the two pro-
ducts almost invaluable to American agricul-
ture—nitrate and guano—are likely to be
farmed out as security to English and Ger-
man capitalists, frvm whom Chili has con-
tracted loans, Peru, which also farmed out
her deposits of these fertilizers, always re-
served a sufficient quantity for the United
States, and thus saved this country from the
exorbitant prices demanded by middle-men.
Gen. Prado is reported to have made our
government fully understand the intentions
of Chili in this matter, and hence the in-
structions to keep a watchful eye on Chili
in respect to her treaties with Peru or
her contracts with European capitalists.
That Chili would extend similar favors to
the United States is hardly to be expected,
for in recent years she has found in this
country a successful competitor in the
breadstuffs market of Peru. Peru being,
like the moon, without rain, shehas to depend
on other countries for wheat and some other
f egetable products. These Chili supplied
unfil California and Oregon suecessfully
competed with and almost drove her out of
the market. Now it may be that Chili cal-
culates on recovering her advantages by
placing the leading interests of Peru in the
hands of foreign capitalists who would pa
tronize the agricultural products of Chili
rather than the United States.
STATE PRESS.
What the Interior Papers Say.
The editor of the Castroville Quill is away
from home and probably will not like to be
considered the author of the remark in that
paper;
Coke's war on Bayard reminds one forcibly
of the little fice barking at the mastiff. Coke
is too short-coupled for any fight in that
neighborhood. The trouble with the little fice
invariably is, too much strength of body
wasted on the curl of the tail.
Such language applied to any one is hard-
ly fit for a respectable paper, and is particu-
larly out of place in speaking of a senator
in congress.
Texas is a large state and it requires a big
man to act as mouthpiece for all her people,
as would seem from the remark of the Vic-
toria Advocate:
The Texas congressman who recently told a
Washington reporter that the democracy of
this state favored greenbacks in preference to
hard money, ought to come home and asso-
ciate with the people for a while, in order that
he may be better prepared to express their
sentiments when next called on to do so.
Texas democracy is in favor of the old time
1>rinciples of the party. It has never yet swal-
owed the Ohio idee " of finances, and never
will. It may suit congressman Reagan, or it
may suit senator Coke to attach themselves to
the'inSation kite, but the large body of demo-
cratic voters of this state are not prepared to
take so flighty a trip.
The Cuero Star quotes the decision of the
court of appeals in the Rothschild case, that
because a juror was permitted to sit in the
case who acknowledged that he had formed
and expressed the opinion that accused was
guilty, and that unless there was evidence
contradictory of what he had heard of the
case, he would still hold to that belief; and
(the Star) says;
In other words a man to be a competent
juror qMSt listen to nothing, and never allow
himself to have an opinion respecting the guilt
or innocence of a criminal. Here was a juror,
who believed the prisoner guilty, but was in
favor of cjaaring the prisoner if his innocence
was pro4Rl.
The Brenham Sentinel is opposed to the
whipping-post as a punishment for crime.
The Georgetown Sun thinks it would be
unfortunate for ^u4ge H&ueock, as well as
the democratic party in this district, for him
to become a candidate for congress.
People are presumed to know the laws un-
der which they live, though the idea belongs
largely to the realm of legal fiction. The
Georgetown Sun calls the attention of those
interested to the fact that the Criminal Code
declares that drunkenness is a misdemeanor,
whether the party intoxicated is otherwise
disorderly or not. The Sun says the liw is
a good one and should be enforced, and also
calls attention to the fact that all persons are
principals who are guilty of acting together
in the commission of an offense. Any per-
son who advises or agrees to the commission
of an offense, and who is present when the
same is committed is a principal thereto,
whether he aids or not in the illegal act.
The Sun repeats the moral in the story of
poor Tray, and warns persons .who are in the
habit of associating with characters who are
liable at any time to commit an offense,
that they are in very great danger of being
indicted at any moment as principals to
some offense. Thoughtless young men
should " make a note."
The Kerrville Frontiersman whoops Hp
its brother on the maritime border:
The News is doing a noble work for Texas,
and every Texan's heart swells with pride as
he reads of the vast resources of his state as
set forth by the News. Success to it, for it is
truly one of the institutions of Texas.
The Denison Herald, in describing what
it thinks the objects and proper scope of
public schools, remarks " that the state
ought not to concern itself with education
further than to give to every child what is
known as a common school education,
which is abundantly sufficient for the ordi-
nary avocations of life." This idea is
slowiv working its way against the old
scholastic notion expressed by the old col-
lege professor who, in lecturing upon a
favorite subject, declared the charm of it
to be that "it could not possibly be prosti-
tuted to any practical or useful purpose."
Absurd as this may seem, the same idea has
been avowed by many real votaries to
abstract learning. As a popular magazine
says, ethical training is made to usurp the
place of practical studies, on the pretense
that the schools have .only mental training
to deal with, and the useful is beneath the
scope of their objects:
While the exceptional scholar may ignore
the practical and the beneficial, the mass of
mankind can not do so. They live in a world
of action and struggle, and'have minds to
guide them in their labors and conflicts.
These minds require cultivation, that they
may do their work better. Knowledge is,
therefore, for guidance, and education for the
more intelligent direction of the activities
and work of life.
The Fort Worth Democrat sounds the
alarm;
Dallas, Bastrop and San Antonio must look
to their slate. The Roberts-Lang moss-back
flag is proudly floating in the breeze.
The Cuero Star acknowledges, with
thanks, receipt of complimentary to the
Mardi Gras festivities at Galveston.
The Denison Herald is like some profess
ing christians, better on Sundays than other
days. The Herald reports religious exercises
as active in Denison—the episcopal church
social, for example:
Games, dancing, vocal and instrumental
music constituted tne evening's programme, all
of which were freely indulged in until a late
hour. During the evening a collection was
made to go to the church fund, and a neat sum
of money was realized therefrom.
Somewhat like some other social amuse-
ments, where "the pot" gets most of the
gains in the end. Dime socials are best,
where the ante is limited to that amount;
but, somehow, there is always a raise. The
charitable grinders of this country may not
go as slow as the proverbial mills of the
heathen gods, but they beat the new fiour-
maldng process in doing it fine. The man
who subscribed a dime for the benefit of the
heathen and a dollar to get it to them, paid
a high tribute to the rate of foreign ex-
change; but some leading domestic charities
lay on a tariff that is scarcely lower, con-
sidering the larger amounts involved. The
Philadelphia Tribune dissects the charity
reports of that city, and shows that out of
$09,150 72 contributed by benevolent citi-
zens, $21,049 64, or more than one-half,
went for expenses, rents, salaries of officers,
stationery, etc. The New York Mail thinks
the charitable societies of that city would
make uo better showing. The Mail alludes
to some of the modes of organized charities
which might be introduced into Texas with
profit to those who might practice them.
Some of these benevolent societies employ
regular solicitors, and pay them 40 or 50
per cent, on all sums collected. The Mail
says it is a common thing for women out of
employment to take up "collecting" for a
livelihood. That paper further remarks:
The high salaries paid to unnecessary offi-
cers, the want of thrift in making needed out-
lays, the delays and general inefficiency and
irresponsibility of a charity concern or mis-
sionary or tract board would ruin any busi-
ness not supplied by conscientious offerings
with a sinking fund from year to year. When
a religious newspaper, which fixes its prices at
$2 50 a year, san afford to give its agents $1
out of this for each subscriber secured, there
can be no hesitation in saying it is not pub-
lished on good business principles. Secular
papers find it more for their interest to take
the extra dollar off the price of subscription
and give it to their subscribers.
The Sau Antonio papers are exercised
over the late utterances of ex-governor Davis
and master Lang, of the state grange. % The
Express says:
An Austin correspondent of the Galveston
News is open to conviction on a charge of en-
deavoring to get up a boom for Lang for gov-
ernor. The political situation in this state has
changed considerably in the last two years.
Then the political hacks had their fight to
make in the state convention, but there seems
to be a very decided impression prevailing now
that the people will not submit to dictation un-
less the dictators show some regard to their de-
sires in matters pertaining to state govern-
ment. Two years ago the party went into
convention with a desperate fight on its bands
between two parties within itself, and the del-
egates fought the fight out to the bitter end re-
gardless of the interests of the people. But to
repeat the scenes and acts of the last state con-
vention in the next, would defeat the democ-
racy in this state, notwithstanding the im-
mense majority the party now has. The poli-
ticians evidently realize this, and there is less
haste in brmging out their candidates. They
know the democracy of the state will not be
bulldozed through a convention, as they
have been m the past, and the inde-
pendent thinking democrats, backed by
the other political elements of the
state outside that party, who would do anv-
thing to beat the present organization, would
make the fight extremely interesting. There
is a movement on foot to bring about such a
coalition we hare just indicated, whether there
is any reasonable necessity or excuse for it or
not. It is backed by el -Gov. Davis, the Gal-
veston News, the greenback leaders and kin-
dred spirits. But if the masses of the party
do their duty in the primary meetings and
county conventions, there will be no chance
for snch a movement to succeed. The fight
for supremacy of sound, practical, progressive
democratic ideas should oe made within the
party. If we fail in that, we can only punish
those who overthrew us in the party by defeat-
ing them ontside of it: and to do this would
be making a choice between two evils, at con-
siderable difficulty to distinguish which wis
the lesser. To defeat the nominee of the con-
vention would not result in any greater good
to the state by throwing the administration of
affairs into the hands of a mongrel party not
responsible to anybody as & party, but it
would relieve the democracy of the odium of
the mal-adniinistration that would follow the
election of illiberal, non-progressive democrats
or politicians who would manipulate atTairs in
their own interest and not in the interest of
the state.
The Express then quotes some of the re-
marks of ex-governor Davis and copies
paragraph from this paper, as it says, " to
show that the News is also desirous of re
lieving the state from the democratic blight
so feelingly mentioned by Gov. Davis.
Then the Express ventures to say:
Ex-governor Davie and the News are in
equal and liberal government, without favor
to classes or discrimination against any on
any pretext or prejudice. The colored people
are citizens equally with the whites; they do
and must enjoy all civil and political rights
equally with the whites; they are entitled to
respect according to their individual merits, as
other men, and democrats must and will in-
sure and enforce these rights. We want no
more secession. Old controversies are purelv
speculative. We want good government. Will
the republicans be wise enough to listen
to governor Davis) and will democrats
be wise enough to satisfy all the just demands
of republicans! When will the good people,
the producers and business men of Texas, come
down to business, understand one another bet-
ter and work together for the material and
moral welfare of the state, turning their united
strength in the direction of combating and de-
feating the machinations of professional poli-
ticians who make a trade of party an-
tagonisms?
The Columbus Plaindealer discusses Gran
and the third term problem and remarks:
Some people think that the election of Grant
for a third term, would not endanger our re-
publican institutions. We think it would, but j
whether it would or not can not make .any ,
material difference to us. As far as the south
is concerned, there is no material difference be-
tween imperialism and the Grantism of the \
past. If Grant is elected, he will owe his ele- j
vation to the rings that were born and thrived '
under his administration and with his sanction,
and the corruption, extravagance and oppres- i
sion of the party would follow as n t :rally as '
darkness follows the setting of the sun. \Y e i
are opposed to Grant in whatever political j
dress he may present himself.
The Pilot Point Post, speaking of senator
Coke's views on Bayard's financial policy,
says:
Like many other Texas democrats, our es-
teemed senator wouid like to know that Bay-
ard's financial hobby does not receive virtue
and activity from the financial warming pans
of Wail street, before they consent to let him
save the country to the democracy. In some
respects it would be better if it was lost.
Alluding to the troubles in Maine, the
San Antonio Herald says:
Will the men of the north see the danger and
correct it before it is too late for the safety of
the union, or will thev let anarchy £row until
despotism steps iu and prevents it! The south
has suffered all the woos of defeat and misrule.
Tt is now content with the position the north
has given it. It would like to see the union
reserved and the people of all parts living in
harmony. The troubles now springing up are
troubles that will most aiHict the north if they
spread, and every considerate and temperate-
minded man must deplore them, and hope for
a reaction in favor of constitutional methods.
Without this, the reckless spirit that is abroad
in the north will wreck our political fabric in
few years.
ATTORNEYS.
OALVESTOS.
Ballinger, Jack & Mott,
Attorneys! i and Counselors at Law,
No. 122 Pratofflce Street.
GALVESTON, TEXAS.
Walter Gresham,
No. 122 Pottofflce Street,
GALVESTON.TEX AS.
HOUSTON.
E. P. Turner,
ATTORNEY
And. Counselor at Law,
No. 62 main Street, HOUSTON, TEXAS.
Practices in State Courts at Houston, Supreme,
Appellate and Federal Courts at Galveston.
HILLSBORO.
J. G. McDONALD, W. H. McDONALD.
Late of Grimes Count j.
J. G. & W. H. McDONALD,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW
And Land Agents,
HILLSBOHO, IlILL COUNTY, TEXAS.
Have complete abstract of Land Titles.
CORPis CH111ST1. TEXAS.
John L. 1'rooin, Jr.,
ATTOENEY - AT - LAW,
General Collecting and Real Estate Agent.
CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS.
COMMISSION MERCHANTS.
caLveston.
AUCTION SALES.
Auction Sale.
SOFA, 14 Common Chairs, 36 Cane-seat do.,
10 dozen Clothes Lines. 250 dozen Fish Lines;
job lot Shoes, 56 pairs Child's Tips, 72 pairs Infants',
12 pairs Bntton Shoes, 36 pairs Ladies' Shoes, 10
cases Boots; 32 Quilts, 132 doien Valenciennes Lace;
large line Children's, Ladies' and Half-Hose; Table-
Cloths. Linens, Cotton Diaper, Canton Flannel, 100
pieces Sash Ribbon; Cutlery, Notions, etc., THIS
DAY, 23d, at 10 a. M., by
BYD^OR & DINKELAKER.
Also, the fine Horse andTOuggy formerly owned
by Arnold. Menard & Co., well known as one of the
best horses in this city. *
accord on this independent movement question
and if the greeubackers can be drawn Into the
affair we may confidently expect & pretty
lively campaign next year. It is safe to say
that the News is meeting with greater success
in getting its independent movement under
way than it had with the Grant boom. It has
secured the Davis wing of the republican
party, which is a very strong element.
The Herald is more frank aad fair in its
facts and inferences:
Ex-Gov. E. J. Davis recently expressed him-
self at Galveston, to a Kews reporter, as ad-
vising the republicans not to send any dele-
gates to the national convention at Chicago,
but to cease their party action in our state ana
join hands simply as citizens of Texas with
any party proposing fair and liberal legisla-
tion for tne benefit of Texas. Nothing could
be more fair than his language. He regards
national questions as being settled, and he re-
cognizes the honest purpose of the great mass
of the people who adhere to the democratic
party. Mr. Davis is unquestionably an honest
man. He apparently sees that the great ma-
jority of democrats have conceded aU that re-
publicans could properly demand. The Herald
sees no reason now why democrats should not
make a platform that would substantially sat-
isfy Mr. Davis and other fair and honorable
republicans, and by the action of the citizens
generally who are" in favor of reform and the
revival of immigration, through the organiza-
tion of the democratic party, nominate good,
live, progressive men who will make demo-
cracy in Texas synonymous with just,
R. R. Hawley & Co.
COMMISSION MERCHANTS
and dealers ix
MR, PROVISIONS AND GRAIN.
THE GENUINE
C. McLANE'S
UVER PILLS
ure not recommended as a remedy " for all the
ills that flesh is heir to." but in affections of
the Liver, and in all Bilious Complaints, Dys-
pepsia, and Sick Headache, or diseases of that
character, the? stand without a rival.
AGUE AND FEVER.
No better cathartic can be used preparatory
to, or after, taking qninine.
As a simplt purgative they are unequaled.
BEWARE OF IMITATIONS.
The genuine are never sugar-coated.
Each box has a red-wax seal on the lid with
the impression, " Dr. McLANE'S LIVER
PILLS.
Each wrapper bears the signatures of C.
McLane ana Fleming Bros.
ftS"Insist upon having the genuine Db. C.
MCLANE'S LIVER PILLS, prepared by
NEW YORK.
CHAS. HEIDENHEIMER,
BROKER & COMMISSION MERCHAN1
144 PEARL STREET,
new york.
NOW LANDING:
mn
chas. r. hohorst.
john r. barrett.
FLEMING BROS.,
Plttsbnrgh, Pa.,
the market being full of Imitations of the
name McLane, spelled differently but same
Tconunciation.
Dissolution.
The copartnership heretofore ex-
isting between the undersigned, under tne firm
name of
M. W. SHAW & BRO.,
has been dissolved by mutual consent, Frank D.
Shaw retiring from said firm, M. W. SHAW assum-
ing all the liabilities of said firm, and purchasing
the interest of Frank D. Bhaw in the business here-
tofore carried on by said firm, and all claims and
accounts due the late firm.
III. w. shaw,
frank d. shaw.
DEFERRING to the above notice of Dissolu-
jlll tion of copartnership heretofore existing be-
tween my brother Mr. M. W. Shaw and myself, I
take occasion to thank the patrons of the late firm
of M. W. Shaw & Bro. for the patronage extended
to the late firm, and bespeak for my late partner a
continuance of the same.
4 frank d. shaw*
Galveston, January 30,1880.
Trustee's Sale.
By virtue of trust deed, exe-
cuted by C. W. Hurley, and dated November
30,1874, L the undersigned, being the trustee named
in said trust deed, will sell for cash, to the highest
bidder, in front of the court-house door, in the city
and county of Galveston, on MONDAY, JANUARY
26, 1880. at 11 o'clock a. m., all those parts of lots
numbered six (6) and seven, (7) in block number five
hundred and sixty-three, (563) in the city of Galves-
ton, as known and described on the map of said
city, fronting (60) sixty feet more or less on Tre-
mont or 23d street, at the junction of Tremont and
Mechanic streets, and running back through said
lots 6 and 7 the distance of eighty-five feet; together
with all the buildings And improvements thereon
situate and belonging, the same being known as the
"Ufford Building.** Said sale will be made at the
written request of the holders of two of the notes
described ill said trust deed, to wit: One note for
$8750 00, and the other note for $2916 67-100. Both
of said notes are dated November 30, 1874, payable
ten years after date, and bearing interest at the
rate of ten per cent per annum from date, payable
annually, said notes executed by the said C. W.
Hurley to his own order and bv him indorsed in
blank. The said Hurlev has failed to pay the ac-
crued interest due on said notes, whereby, accord-
ing to the terms of said trust deed, the trustee is
empowered to sell upon the request of the holder
of any of said notes. All of which will more fully
appear from said trust deed, which is of record in
book 14. pages 256, 257 and 258, of the records of
Galveston county. I will make such title to the
purchaser and such disposition of the proceeds as I
an authorized to do by the terms and conditions of
said trust deed. M. F. MOTT Trustee.
ESTATE OF JOSEPH .HUM.
The undersigned having this
day been appointed assignee of the estate of
Joseph Armengol, late of Hearne, Texas, notice
is hereby given to all parties in interest to present
their acceptance and their claims under said assign-
ment within the time prescribed by law.
Galveston. January, 8, 1879.
H. 8EELIGSON, Assignee of Jos. Armengol.
C. F. Hohorst & Co.,
COMMISSION MERCHANTS,
Its PEARL ST., NEW YORK.
COTTON FACTORS.
GALVESTON,
Skinner & Stone,
COTTON FACTORS
AND
COMMISSION MERCHANTS
Strand, Galveston, Texas.
Liberal advances made on consign-
ments of Cotton, Wool, Hides and Grain. Or-
ders for Bagging and Ties filled at lowest rate*
H. Seeligson & Co.,
COTTON FACTORS
AND
COMMISSION MERCHANTS
GALVESTON.
Orders for future contracts solicited.
Wolston, Wells & Yidor,
COTTON FACTORS,
COMMISSION AND FORWARDING MERCHANTS,
73 STRAND, LEAGUE'S BUILD IN Gt
Galveston, Texas.
johk d. rogbrs. j. a. robertson
John D. Rogers & Co.,
cotton factors
▲io>
COMMISSION MERCHANTS,
(Insurance Building)
NO. 61 STRAND, GALVESTON, TEXAS.
chas. kellnkr. w. J. frederick.
J. Frederich & Kellner,
cotton factors
axp
COMMISSION MERCHANTS,
GALVESTON, TEXAS.
Office: Corner Mechanic and <£Jd streets.
Lee, McBride & Co.,
COTTON AND WOOL FACTORS
AJKO
General Commission Merchants,
214 strand,
GALVESTON.^
HOUSTON.
C. S. Longqope. S. A. McAshxk.
LONGCOPE Sc CO.,
COTTON FACTORS AND COMMISSION MER-
CHANTS.
No. 22 Main street, Houston, Texaa
Liberal advances made on cotton.
Cargill & Co.,
COTTON FACTORS.
ALSO
wool, hides and coum produce.
houston. texas.
PROCLAMATION.
Execitivk FRO C L AJI AT I O N—
Texas State Bonds offered for sale to citizens.
Austin, January 13, 1880—Notice is hereby given
that upon application to the comptroller or
treasurer, at Austin, Texas.state of Texas 30 years 5
per cent.interest-bearing gold coupon bonds of $1000
and $100 denominations, interest payable first of
New Yo
January and July of each year in ]
York, or at
the state treasury, at the option of the holder:
also 20 years 4 per cent, interest-bearing gold
coupon bonds of $10 and $5 denominations, interest
payable annually on July first at the state treasury,
can be purchased at par and accrued interest.
Parties purchasing or negotiating sums of $10,000
and upward at any one time will receive one-quarter
of one per cent, commission, the maximum
allowed by law. O. M. ROBERTS. Governor.
SANB0RW& WARNER, Houston, Tex.
MANUFACTURERS' SOLE AGENTS
for the state of texas, for
4ALVAMZED
Made from two No. 12 Steel Wires, guaranteed tensile strength of one galvanized Barb Wire, 1496
fvounds. It is the strongest and most effective Barb Wire made. Its sales are five times greater than
that of all other wires combined.
The improved 4-Folnted Barb Wire, as shown above. Galvanized or Painted, at IWannffcc
tnrers Prices. Send for Samples and Prices, now in effect, before placing your orders.
J. S. IM 4
BOOKS;
OCK OF STATIONERY;
IN
Catalogue
Orders Solicited
"WILLIAM
■TATE.
Price List sent on application.
EERY & CO.
1
ili,
Per DIANA.
IN STORE:
Id. KOPPEBL.
ARRIVED:
Per GRAF WEOE1,
1
IN STORE:
KAcrrnigf & RDKGE
MACHINERY—STOVES.
FOR SALE
At A Great Bargain,
THE. FOLLOWING DESCRIBED
i I
2 30-inch French BURR MILLS.
1 Iron Nonpareil FEED MILL.
1 Steam KILN DRYER.
1 BOLTING MACHINE.
1 Barrel PACKING MACHINE.
1 Set of Grain and Meal ELEVATORS.
1 Fower FANNING MILL.
1 WEIGHING BOX, and
1 GRAIN CONVEYOR.
An early applicant can secure the whole of the
above described property for the sum of
$400 CASH.
Apply to J. W. BYRNES.
Postoffiee Box 403. Office, News Building.
Galveston. December *20,1879.
Hardware Merchants,
STRAND, GALVESTON, TEXAS.
Offer Interior Merchants SPECIAL ADVANTAGES in the following Lines of Goods:
GLIDDEN AND IOWA GALVANIZED BARBED WIRE,
Milburn Wagons Carts and Buckboard Buggies,
Ml steel, castings, mils. saddlery. tinware, woodoware, mantels, crates,
Wagon and Buggy Materials, Paints. Oils, Tarnishes, Brushes, Rubber B«lting,
AND THE LARGEST ASSORTMENT OF
TABLE AND POCKET CUTLERY
EVER EXHIBITED IN TEXAS.
Sole Agent for LYOJTS PATENT HEEL STIFFENERS at Manufacturers' Prleea.
Hill's Hay Ricking Apparatus.
With two rakes can rake and rick 30 acres of hay
in one day, dispensing with all sulky or revolving
hay rakes, and takes the hay direct from the
swath of a mower on to the rick without handling
it with a pitchfork. RICKERS COMPLETE AND
COUNTY RIGHTS FOR SALE. For prices and
particulars address
j. t. berry,
Sole Proprietor for Texas, Paris. Twxas.
Farmer, Little & Co.,
THE OLD NEW TORS TYPE FOUSDERY.
established 1810.
Manufacturers of HARD METAL ACCURATE
TYPE.
\TEWSPAPER, BOOK AND JOB
i.^1 Printing offices fitted out promptly and satis-
factorily. Every article required by Printers at
lowest rates. Prices and estimates, and specimen
books furnished.
PRICE OF TYPE REDUCED.
Cor ner Gold Sc Beekman Sts. New York.
L
joshua hiluul
C. B. LEE & CO.,
IRON AND RRASS FOUNDERS
AND
MACHINISTS
MANUFACTURERS OF
STEAM ENGINES, x
SAW MILLS,
BOILERS,
MILL AND GIN GEARING,
Shafting, Pulleys, Brae* mad Iron
Pumps, Etc.
BJ""Particular attention given to orders for Iron
Fronts and Castings for Buildings.
#11 kinds of Job Work solicited. Sill—
faction Guaranteed.
CORNER WINNIE AND THIRTY-SECOND ST&.
(Near Railroad Depot).
Galveston, Texaa.
Notice.
J BEG TO INFORM MY CUSTOMERS
and the public of Texas that Mr. J. P. Dcvxxaoe
Is no longer in my employ.
J. GOTTSCHALK.
New Orleans. Jan. 19, 1880.
Notice.
Debts contracted by the
crew of the German ship
SAVANNAH, Tebelmann, Master,
will not be paid by the Captain, or
KAUFFMAN & RUNGE, Agents.
Notice.
The death of t. w. house will
not affect the operation of the business hereto-
fore carried on by him. Until probate of his will
the undersigned will continue the
Banking and. Other Business
under his appointment as temporary administrator.
T. W. HOUSE, Jr.
Notice.
The office of aitg. bvttlar,
Insurance Agent, is removed from the former
location on the Strand to the
BUILDING OF THE GALVESTON GAS COM
PANY,
on Market, between 24th and 25th streets.
Notice.
the
GALVESTON GAS COMP'Y
Has removed its office from
the former location on the Strand, to the
BRICK BUILDING OF THE COMPANY,
on Market street, between Twenty-fourth and
Twenty-flfth streets.
All orders or complaints, to receive prompt atten-
tion, should be left there between the hours of 8
and 12 o'clock a. m. AUG. BUTTLAR.
January 2, 1880. Secretary.
CLOSING OUT SALE.
Having made arrangements
to take an interest, March 1. in the Gathright-
Harbison Saddlery Company, of St. Louis, Mo., we
wish to close out our stock of
saddles, harness and saddlery hardware,
IN GALVESTON,
within sixty days. TERMS CASH, but the great
est bargains in all kinds of goods in our line con be
had by those who apply in time. Great bargains la
BUGGIES AND WAGONS.
All accounts due us must be paid promptly at
maturity, or they will be placed out for collection.
We thank our patrons for their liberal patronage
since we opened here, and beg a continuance of
their, favors to us bv sending their orders to the
Gathright-Harbison Saddlery Company, St. Louis,
Mo., wnich is designed to be the livest and most
reliable Saddle, Harness and Saddlery Hardware
House in the West. LYONS 6c BRO,
TO MERCHANTS WE OFFER THE LARGEST STOCK OF
BLAN
THE CHEAPEST
. 133 Straad, 6«1TMI.D.
TERRY & COOK y m rownsville.
33-
WANTED.
1000 Tie Makers
AND
250 TEAMS TO HE CROSS-TIES
On the texas and pacific
Railway, between Marshall and Edgewood.
Specifications of timber, post oak, whiteoak.
overcup wd pinoak. bize of ties inches, s
feet long. Monthly inspections and prompt cash
settlements made soon thereafter. For particulars
apply to
s. zuckermann, Contractor.
Mineola. Texas. Jan. 10. 1880.
GALYEST01C1TY CO.
-THE ANNUAL MEETING OF
STOCKHOLDERS
in this company will be holden
At Their Office,
in the city of Galveston,
On M0NDAT, January 20', 1880,
At 12 O'clock M.,
as required by the charter.
J. P. COLE, Agent.
Office, January 19,1880.
K. GL M
* - Jtf
PROCLAMATION!
Arrangements for His Reception.
HEADQUARTERS I. 0. M., Galveston, January 22, 1880.
Proclamation No. 3.
I. Information having been received at these Headquarters, announcing that the
Royal Squadron, having on board the idol of his subjects,
m
llLi 1111
T
I
AND SUITE,
will arrive off the bar, at entrance of the harbor of this the chosen capital of his dominions,
on the morning of
9.
this 19 to command the persons and organizations named to be at the times and places
designated, in full uniform, and with all the paraphernalia and insignia of their respective
official positions, to assist in according proper honor to the KING, on his arrival with!
the limits of this, his favorite city.
A STEAM LAUNCH,
with proper Reception Committee, will be dispatched to the outer bar, immediately that
the flagship of the Royal Squadron is signaled in the offing, and His Majesty and Suite
conveyed to the city, arriving at the wharf at sharp 3 P. u.
ESCORT OF HONOR.
II. The Military Companies of the City, in full uniform, will form on Strand at
2 o'clock p. m. #
III. The Fire Department, uniformed and accoutred, will also form on Strand, ia
the order to be designated hereafter.
The organizations designated above will form the Escort of Honor for the Royal
Cortege from the wharf to the Winter Palace.
DELIVERY NII
IV. The Mayor and Board of Aldermen will report themselves at the Winter
Palace—the Tremont Hotel—at 8 o'clock p. m., then and there to deliver the Keys of
the city to the KING.
LADIES' RECEPTION.
V. The Ladies of the Dominion are expected and desired to be in attendance at the
Winter Palace—the Tremont Hotel—at 3.30 P. M., en regie, to a'd by their presence In
the reception of His Majesty, and to receive the courtly devoirs of His Royal Highness
and members of his Suite.
)(
VI. The Collector of the Port, Postmaster, Judges of Courts, Presidents of Banks,
and all other Public Offices and Institutions, are directed to close at I P. u.
THE POLICE.
_ VII. The Chief of Police will see that the streets are free from all incumbrances,
and prepared for the passage of the Royal Pageant.
SHIPPING, ETC.
vnL Shipping Agents and Ship Masters are directed to see that their Vessel, are
properly prepared to show respect for the KING. They will display all their flags and
signals during the day, and those immediately on the line of the approach of the Launch
with His Majesty on board, will man their yards as the Royal Party passes.
FOREIGN CONSULS, Etc.
IX. Foreign Consuls will display the flags of the countries respectively represented
by them, and join in giving eclat to the occasion.
LONG LIVE THE EJK"G ! .
By Order of His High. Mightiness:
MOMUS.
Attest:
ISKAFEL,
Prima Minister.
K. O. M.
PROCLAMATION!
n
Ml
m
GALYEST0N, JANUARY 13, 1880.
WHEREAS, inasmuch as Tuxssat, th* Tenth Day of Fibruart, An so Dohini
1880, has been set apart for the grand entrv of His Mott August Majesty,
ill MOMUS IISIE
into HIS ROYAL CAPITAL, the City of Galveston, it is ORDERED and DECREED:
I. That all lines of transportation, by rail or water, cause to be promulgated, at once,
reduced tariffs of fares, to the end that all the Loyal Subjects of the KING may visit the
Royal Capital and do Him homage.
II. That in order to attest their loyalty upon this great occasion, all subject, residents
therein are commanded to bold themselves in readiness to do Honor to HIS MOST
GRACIOUS MAJESTY.
III. That in consideration of the day, the occasion and the known Loyalty .vinced by
His Subjects, the KING has decreed, by Royal Mandate, that all throughout the length
and breadth of His Realm be absolved from service or allegiance to any other power on
that day than that of HIS MOST GRACIOUS MAJESTY; and that all public buildings
and places of business within the gates of His Royal Capital be closed throughout the day.
Long Live the King!
Given under our hand and seal, at the Winter Palace of HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS, this
13th day of the flrst month, Anno Domini 1880, in the tenth year of His reign.
By the King Himself:
MOMUS.
AttMtl
ISRAFEL, Prime Minister.
TO BU MOST GRACIOl'S MAJESTY, KING MOMl'S:
Your liege subjects engaged in Railway transportation have, in obedience to the Royal
Edict, made ample arrangements to transport, with speed and safety, Your Loyal SubjeMs
from distant portions of the state to Galveston, Your Royal Capital; and furthermore, in
compliance with Your Royal desire, have reduced the tariff on their respective lines to
one! and one-fifth fare for the round trip,
thus affording Your Subjects an opportunity to pay proper respect to Your Majesty with
but little expense or inconvenience to themselves. Tickets will be sold from February 8th.
and will be good from that day to and including February 15th.
In this and all other matters YOUR ROYAL MAJESTY has been respected and
obeyed by 1 " j ,
Your Loyal Subjects : V
J. WALDO, G. P. A. Houston and Texas Central Railway.
ALLEN McCOY, G. P. A. International and Great Northern Railroad.
T. W. PEpCftJtjw G- T. A. G+1t„ Harrisburg and San Antonio Ity.
B. TT. THOMPSON, Jr., G. A. T^ias and Pacific Railway. j;'
W. H. MASTERS. G. P. A. Texas awl New Orleans Ririli»*d.
OSCAR G. MURSAT. G. P. A. Galr.. Houston and Henderson Railroad.
O. H. DORRANCE, Gen'l Supt, G..C. tc Santa Fe Railway.
U nmaiilullni to p. ©. box 848, oiitmmb.
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