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$9 00; three months, $12 00.
Liberal discounts made on advertisements
occupying more space or inserted for a longer
period.
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Fit HE OF POSTAGE
To All Parts ot the United State*.
relative cost and value
of advertising.
Though there is probably not a mer-
chant in any city, or, indeed, any in-
dividual engaged in any branch of
business that looks to the public for a
support, who is not more or less inter-
ested in advertising, yet it is surpris-
ing that there are so few who either
appreciate or understand its actual
value to themselves or its cost to the
publisher. After laboring many years
to convince people that this value and
cost depend entirely on circulation, or
the number of readers to be reached,
we are still constantly met with the in-
quiry why the News should charge
more than any other paper. We have
occasionally endeavored to make this
matter plain, and to demonstrate that
though our prices are generally higher
than those of papers of smaller circu-
lation, yet that the cost to us and the
value to the advertiser is even greater
in proportion. A merchant always ex-
pects to pay more for a thousand cir-
culars or hand-bills than for a hundred,
because he knows it takes more paper
and more work. And yet when he
wants the same matter inserted as an
advertisement he often expresses sur-
prise that he should be charged more
in a paper that carries it to ten thous-
and readers than in one that carries it
to only one thousand, or perhaps only
two or three hundred. And yet a mo-
ment's reflection will convince him
that there is just the same reason why
he should be charged more for a paper
of larger circulation as there is why he
should be charged more for a greater
number of circulars or hand-bills, that
is, because it takes more paper and
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At the expiration of tlie time paid
far.
Look at the printed label on your paper.
The date thereon shows when the subscrip-
tion expires. Forward the money in ample
lme for renewal If you desire unbroken filer,
as we can not always furnish back numbers.
Keuit bt Draft, Post OrncE Monet Obdeb
or Registered Letter.
Address RICHARDSON, BELO & CO.,
Qalveston, Texas.
TRAVELING AGENTS.
Mr. D. RICHARDSON, Mr. J. E. THORN-
TON and Mr. E. LEVAN are from this date
the only authorized Traveling Agents of the
News office In the State.
RICHARDSON, BELO & CO.
Galveston, October 1,1874.
Saturday, April 3, 1875.
It is probable a very stringent liquor
tax law, affixing heavy penalties to the
sale of liquors to minors or habitual
drunkards will pass the Michigan
Legislature, instead of the measures of
entire prohibition heretofore before
that body.
The English papers state that among
the cannon seized by Col. Sir L. Pelly
on the occasion of the recent arrest of
the Quicowar of Baroda, India, were
two made entirely of gold and two of
silver. The former are said to have
cost £30,000. They were covered with
red silk cloth, and were in charge of a
special corps.
The iHumination of cities is now
greatly aided by people who wish to
advertise their business. In Paris it is
said that an advertising company lias
offered to take care of all the trees on
the boulevards—pruning them, water-
ing them, and protecting them from
all injury—provided the municipality
will allow colored Venetian lanterns to
be suspended from the branches, and
the trunks to be surrounded with
framed advertisements. Already the
directors of the places of public amuse-
ment vie with each*other ia brilliant
displays of many colored lights and
attractive devices to gain notoriety.
Arthur Helps, in his book on "So-
cial Pressure," says : "A great dan-
ger lurks in the love «of publicity,
which comes to be a besetting sin,
sometimes even of the greatest minds."
He goes on to detail the evils of this
overweening desire for notoriety; but
has to admit that there is some inci-
dental advantage in publicity. He
says: "When all people know what
they may say or do is likely to be
made public, they will dress up their
sayings or their doings to meet this ap
palling publicity." If the Plymouth
crowd had only believed the text that
secret things would be preached from
the house tops, what a world of trou-
ble would have been avoided.
A Washington dispatch says that
the Treasurer of the United States will
soon issue a circular amending the
regulation governing the redemption
of United States currency, so that in
cases of mutilation, deduction will be
made in proportion to the part missing,
If a tenth of the note or more is
missing, deductions will be made in
proportion to the number of decimal
parts missing. But no note of which
1ms than one-half of the original is
presented will be redermed without
evidence that the missing portion is
totally destroyed. The same rule will
be applied to mutilated fractional cur-
rency, with the substitution of one-
fifth for one-tenth. The amended
regulations will take effect on the 1st
of May next.
"Are church bells a nuisance?" is a
a question that is agitating several
Northern cities that are short of other
sensations. Nervous people should
dwell amid the quiet of the country,
and not vex the papers with com-
plaints of the noises of the city, and
worry themselves with vain attempts
to suppress them. One of Selkirk's
complaints while lie was monarch of
Crusoe's island, was that the sound of
the church-going bell was never heard,
and it may be that some of our grum-
blers would not be satisfied with even
the expressive silence with which Dr.
Young and the Quakers muse
their praise until the spirit moves
them to audible demonstrations.
Nevertheless, the " interation of the
bells," when loud and near, is not very
quieting to the nerves of invalids. In
London "the car rattling on the stony
streets " is also held to be a nuisance by
many, and it has been proposed that
the owners of all vehicles which ply in
the public streets shall be compelled to
have the wheels of their vehicles bound
with India rubber tires. The fabrica-
tors of India rubber say that they can
mike tires which will outlast iron.
Rubber tires are said to be doing effec-
tive service in Berlin, and the experi-
ment of this change seems to be in
serious progress. It ia claimed that
the saving in pavements will be im-
mense.
more labor, which constitute the chief
cost in both cases alike, for in both
cases it takes just ten times as much
paper and ten times as much labor in
press work and mailing to print and
distribute ten thousand newspapers or
ten thousand circulars as to print and
distribute one thousand. The only
item of cost in either case which re-
mains the same without regard to the
number of papers or circulars is the
composition, and this is the smallest
of all in all large issues. It follows,
therefore, that if a newspaper does
not increase its charge for advertising
in some proportion to its increase of
circulation, it must necessarily lose
money by such increased circulation,
and the smaller its circulation the
more is the clear profit of the adver-
tisement.
But while all newspapers are com
pelled to increase their advertis-
ing rates in some proportion to in-
creased circulation, yet they are al-
ways able, and find it to their interest
to make their rates much less than in
the full proportion to circulation. That
is, if the circulation is double, they do
not charge double the rates, but only
a small advance of perhaps ten, fifteen
or twenty per cent. This they can do,
for the same reason that every branch
of business carried on upon a large scale
can be conducted on a smaller profit,
for its expenses do not increased/art
pasu with its increased volume of busi-
ness, but in a much smaller ratio. The
wholesale houses of Galveston, whose
annual sales extend to three or four
millions, can and do reduce their prices
in a near ratio to their increased sales,
so that the greater the latter the more
they can afford to reduce the former.
And this is precisely the case with
newspaper charges for advertising
the greater the circulation the more
favorable the price of advertising can
be, and always is, made to the adver-
tiser. That is, though the price is
higher1, it is never increased more than
one-half, or perhaps one-fourth the
ratio of increased circulation, while
some increase is absolutely necessary to
cover the increased expense and save
the publisher from loss.
The next inquiry is, how the value
of advertising is effected by increased
circulation. And here »e state it as a
general rule, to which there is rarely
any exception, that the value to the
advertiser is just in proportion to the
increased circulation. The reason is
obvious, for as the sole object is to
make the subject matter of the adver
tisement known, the more extensively
it is made known, just in that ratio is
the object attained. If there is a cer
tain value in an advertisement because
it is read by one thousand persons, it
follows, as a general rule, that it must
have twice that value when read by
two thousand persons, and in the same
ratio when read by a greater number,
In this respect there is a difference be
tween the increased cost to the pub-
lisher and the increased value to the
advertiser; for, while this value in-
creases pari passu with circulation, the
cost increases barely half, or less than
half, that ratio, as stated above. And
hence it is universally the case, proba
bly without exception, that the cheap
est advertising, in proportion to value,
is always had in papers of the largest
circulation, simply because the charge
is never increased equally with the
circulation.
It is worthy of note that we often
find laws enacted requiring public offi
cials to have their advertising done
either in a party organ, without any
regard to cost or to circulation, or in
the paper whose charge is least, and
also without regard to circulation. We
think we have demonstrated that all
such advertising confers the least value
for its cost, and it is therefore a waste
ful expenditure of the people's money,
whether to support a party organ
or to patronize some paper of limited
circulation under the mistaken idea
of economy. Other laws are often
enacted giving officials the privilege
of selecting their own papers, and in
this ease the paper selected is usually
expected to reciprocate the favor in
some way, and when the advertise
ment is intended solely for the benefit
of private parties their interests are
thus often sacrificed by the selection
of papers of very limited circulation.
So, also, we often find companies and
corporations Selecting papers of the
most limited circulation simply for
the ostensible reason that their charges
are the lowest, while, as we have
shown, the net value of their advertis-
ing is always made less in proportion.
Their only inquiry is for the lowest
rate of advertising, without regard to
circulation or anything else, and hence
we often see an advertisement for the
sale of valuable property of delinquent
tax-payers in papers rarely ever seen
by them, and yet they are required to
pay for such advertising. And this
reminds us of a law, which we believe
is still in force, requiring sheriffs to
sell valuable property after advertis-
ing the sale only by written notices
posted in only three places in the
county, and which notices are only
seen by the few who are always on the
lookout for such sales, because they
expect but few besides themselves to
be present to compete with them for
the property, and hence they often
get at almost their own prices, to the
serious injury of the owners. In this
way a vast amount of property belong-
ing to widows and helpless families is
doubtless sacrificed every year, for the
, want of proper advertising.
Synopsis of the Opinions
of thk
SUPREME COURT OF TEXAS.
Delivered at Galreaton Term, 1875.
REPORTED BY SAYLES & BASSETT.
W. .S: E. P. Cligg vs. The State. Appeal
from Galveston. March 30, 1875.
suits AGAINST DELINQUENT TAX-PAY-
ERS—TAXES ON REAL ESTATE, HOW
ENFORCED—LEVY AND ASSESSMENT OF
TAXES-REPEALS BY IMPLICATION-
OFFICER DE FACTO.
Suit by the State, in the nature of an
action of debt, to recover of the appellants
an amount claimed to be due by them for
ad valorem, income, capitation and other
taxes, upon real and personal property
for the years 1870 and 1871.
The defendants demurred generally,
and for special causes of exception to the
petition, insisted : 1. That the State had,
prior to the bringing of the suits, by its
act of June 3,1873, regulating taxation, re-
pealed the law under which these taxes
were claimed, and, thereby, abandoned
any claim thereto; 3. That the assess-
ment of the tax for 1870 was not made
by any officer known to the law (the as-
sessment waa made by a military ap-
pointee prior to the turning over of the
State government by the military to the
civil authorities, in April, 1870). 3. That
the suit did not purport to be brought on
• delinquent list" returned to the
Comptroller by the collector of taxes for
Galveston county, as required by law.
The defendants also pleaded the general
denial. The demurrers were overruled,
and on the trial the plaintiff had judg-
ment, from which the defendants appeal.
Held :
1. The repeal by the act of June 3,
1873, regulating taxation, of the law levy-
ing the tax sued for and authorizing the
assessment and collection thereof, did not
deprive the State of the right to demand
and collect the tax already assessed in
conformity to such prior law. [Potter's
Dwarris on Statutes 155, 225 ; Sedg-
wick on Construction, 113 ] This recog-
nized principle is strengthened in the
present instance by considering the terms
of the supplemental act passed by the
Legislature on the same day with the
law regulating taxation.
2. While it may be admitted as true
that, for certain purposes, the existing
constitution took effect from its adop
tion by the vote of the people, on the
3d day of December, 1869, yet it is too
late to question the proposition that the
de facto ministerial and executive officers,
exercising authority under and deriving
color of authority from the pre-existing
provisional government, were not super-
seded until the organization -of the
State government under the Constitu
tion. It could certainly not have been
the intention of the framers of the Con-
stitution to leave the State without offi-
cers, and the people in anarchy, for an in-
definite time, until the new government
could be organized, and those by whom
its various functions were to be perform
ed should be selected and should enter
upon the discharge of their duties."
3. It was held in the Houston and
Texas Central Railway Company vs. The
State, 39 Tex., 148, that the requirements
of the statute regulating the manner in
which lists of delinquent tax-payers shall
be made out and reported to the Comp-
troller are merely directory. The pres
ent court see no sufficent reason for dis-
senting from this ruling of their prede
cessors. Accordingly it is held that the
essential facts upon which the suit is
founded, to-wit: the levy and assessment
of the tax, the failure to pay it within
the time prescribed by law, and that suit
is brought by authority fiom the Comp-
troller, may be proved otherwise than by
the statutory report of delinquency, etc.,
by any appropriate and satisfactory evi-
dence. But,
4. It is manifest from a consideration of
the several provisions of the Constitution
upon the subject of taxation [Constitu
tion, Art. 12, Sections 19, 20, 21, 22,] that
taxes on landed property were intended
to be a specific charge upon the land up
on which they are assessed, and that such
property can not be sold for their pay-
ment except by a proceeding in accord-
ance with provisions to be made by the
Legislature for their condemnation and
sale for the taxes due thereon. To en-
force the payment of taxes due on land
by its sale under execution on a judg-
ment in personam, as is here sought, in-
stead of by a proceeding in rem,, sub-
jecting it to condemnation and sale, would
be a plain violation of the provisions of
the Constitution.
5. Both a levy and an assessment are
necessary to constitute a valid tax, for
the payment of which the property-
holder is liable. The levy of a property
tax is strictly a legislative act; its
assessment is, to a great extent, at least in
this State, judicial. By its levy, the
Legislature requires a specific sum,
deemed necessary for the demands of
the government, to be apportioned pro
rata, by assessment upon all the prop-
erty chargeable with it; or, as is usual
with us, and less complex, the levy is
made by a charge of a definite per centum
upon the value of the property liable ;
and then the amount to be paid by the
citizen is ascertained by the assessment
of the given percentage on the property
subject to it, by the proper officer, at the
time and in the manner provided there-
for. No suit could be brought for the
recovery of the tax until the amount due
had thus been fixed by an assessment,
and the court below erred in admitting
parol proof of the value of thelappeilants'
property during the years for which the
taxes lued for are claimed.
6. Nor does the mere assessment of the
tax authorize a suit for its collection.
The taxpayer must first be shown to be
in default by a failure to pay his taxes
within the time prescribed by the law
making the levy and regulating its col-
lection ; and suit can only be resorted to
at the time, in the manner and for the
purposes authorized by the law. The
duty and responsibility of collecting un-
paid taxes does not primarily devolve
upon the collector. If they are not vol-
untarily paid within the time allowed,
it is his duty to report the parties in de-
fault to the Comptroller as delinquents.
This report fixes the default, and author-
izes the Comptroller to have suit brought
in the name of the State against such de-
linquents.
Reversed and remandtd.
Opinion by Moore, J.
F. L. Handle vs. The State. Appeal from
Galveston. March 26, 1875.
LOTTERY DEFINED. GIFT ENTERPRISE
INVOLVING ELEMENT^OF CHANCE IS
A LOTTERY.
The appellant was indicted and con-
victed of the offense of having established
a " lottery under the name and denom-
ination of The Galveston Gift Enter-
prise Association," for the purpose of
disposing of corporeal property and
money." The sufficiency of the indict-
ment has heretofore been affirmed by this
cour". [The State vs. Randle, MSS. Aus-
tin Term, 1874 ]
It is insisted for the appellant: 1. That
the scheme in question was not a lottery,
but was within the definition of a gift
enterprise as fixed by the Legislature in
the law of June 3,1873, regulating tax-
ation, which, after imposing a license tax
upon the occupation of carrying on a
gift enterprise, proceeds to declare that
" every person, firm or corporation who
shall sell anything, with a promise,
either expressed or implied, to give any
thing in consideration of such sale and
purchase, shall be regarded as the pro-
prietor of a gift enterprise," and that
having paid the State, county and city
tax as required, he was engaged in a law-
ful occupation. 2. It was further insist-
ed for the appellant, that his scheme was
not a lottery, because there were no
blanks, but that every holder of a ticket
must draw a prize. The proof was that
the prizes drawn by the less successful
investors were postal cards, car tickets
and other trifles.
The court hold: 1. That a lottery,
such as is prohibited and made penal by
the Criminal Code (Art. 404, P. V>., 2039),
is " a scheme for the distribution of
prizes by chance." [Bouv. Diet.] That
it is immaterial for what object the
scheme is gotten up, upon what plan the
chance distribution takes place, what is
the character of the property disposed of,
or whether the less successful ticket-
holders get something or nothing, if the
scheme involves the distribution of
prizes by chance, it comes within the
purview of the penal law.
2. Whatever may be the meaning of
the language iised by the Legislature in
defining a gift enterprise, it is quite clear
that they could not evade the constitu-
tional inhibition against the authorizing
of any lottery (Const., art. 12, sec. 36,)
by licensing it under a different name or
definition.
The opinion is elaborate and exhaus-
tive. It is believed that it will prove
profitable reading to the proprietors of
the various gift enterprises, whose
schemes have for some months been so
industriously pressed upon public atten-
tion.
Judgment affirmed.
Opinion by Devine, J.
Sio. E. Clements vs. E. E. Crawfobd. Ap-
peal from Galveston. Maroh 31,1875
MARRIAGE ORDINANCE, CONSTRUCTION
OF. OATH OF JURORS IN CIVIL
CASES.
Appellant, Clements, executed a deed
of trust to Crawford on some lots on
which he had a house, and in which he
was living and cohabitating with a negro
woman. On the sale of the property
under the deed of trust Crawford be-
came the purchaser, and Clements and
the negro woman refusing to deliver up
possession, he brought suit of trespass to
try title, in which suit the negro woman
plead her marital rights and claimed the
property as her homestead. The plaintiff
recovered judgment for the land, and
Clements and the negro woman, his pur-
ported wife, appeal.
The errors assigned are sufficiently
noticed in the rulings of the court. The
court say :
1. Section 27, Article XII, of the Con-
stitution, to the effect that all persons,
who at any time heretofore have lived to-
gether as husband and wife, and both of
whom, by the law of bondage wf re pre-
cluded from the rights of matrimony,
and continued to live together until the
death of one of the parties, or who are
now living together in such relation,
shall be considered to have been legally
married, etc., refers only to persons who
were precluded, not from marrying each
other merely, but from marrying any
one else. Its object was to legitimatize
the offspring of those whom bondage had
disabled from matrimony.
2. A free white man, precluded by no
law from marriage, who was living with
a woman, either white or black, in viola-
tion of law, at the time of the adoption
of the Constitution, was not thereby
made a married man. The case of Ho-
ney vs. Clark, 37 T. 708, in so far as it
is not in harmony with this interpreta-
tion, is overruled.
3. The record recites that the jury
were "duly impanneled and sworn to
well and truly try the issues joined be-
tween the parties." This is a substan-
tial compliance with the statute, and is a
copy of the form laid down in SayleB'
Practice, which is in general use through-
out the State. It amounts to a statement
that the jury were duly sworn to try the
case ; but even were the form of the en-
try objectionable, in civil cases, it is too
late, after verdict and judgment, to ob-
ject to the form of the oath. [Lindley
vs. Kendeil,4 Black, 189. Applegate vs.
Byles, 10 Ind. 435.]
J udgment affirmed.
R. S. Gould, Justice.
R. E. Sacs-dicks vs. Jitlids Wagener. Appeal
from Guadalupe. March 31, 1875.
THE COUNTY COURT HAS AUTHORITY TO
REMOVE THE COUNTY TREASURER.
The question in this case is, can the
County Treasurer be removed from hiB
office by the County Court under
and by virtue of the law of 1846, which
authorizes the County Court to remove
him for certain causes. [P. D., 1104.]
The first section of the act which pro-
vided for his appointment was super-
seded by the act of 1850, which provides
for his election. [P. D.,1107.]
The office of County Treasurer is not
provided for by the Constitution, but was
first created by an act of the Congress,
and has continued by the acts of the
Legislature up to the present time, and
is now an elective office under the act of
June, 1870.
The court say:
1. There being no express repeal of
the authority conferred on the County
Court of removing the County Treasurer
under the law of 1846, the authority of
removal still exists in them.
2. The law of 1846 as to the mode of
removing the County Treasurer being in
force at and before the adoption of our
present Constitution, remains in force as
the mode, otherwise than by indictment
which the Legislature ia authorized to
prescribe.
3. The Constitution provides a perrna
nent mode for the removal of all county
and district officers by impeachment,
" when their removals are not otherwise
provided for; but it was not designed to
make indictment the exclusive mode for
removal." [P. D„ 1131.]
0. M. Roberts, Chief Justice.
Martin H. IIoyston vs. W. H. Griffin. Ap
peal from Galveston. March 28, 1875.
POWER OF APPOINTMENT ORDINARILY
CARRIES WITH IT THE POWER OF RE
MOVAL. AN APPOINTMENT TO FILL A
VACANCY 13 FOR ITS UNEXPIRED
TERM.
In July, 1870, there was organized for
the counties of Galveston and Harris a
Criminal District Court. It was provided
that the Governor should appoint a clerk
for each county; the act organizing
the court did not specify for what length
of time the clerk of said court should
hold office, but provided that he could be
removed by the jndge of said court at
any time for misconduct, misfeasance or
malfeasance. [P. D. 6143.]
In August, 1870, one Douglas was ap-
pointed clerk. In latter part of 1871 he
died,and appellee was appointed January,
1872. In September, 1874, a new Execu
tive having been elected, he appointed
Royston to the office, claiming that Griffin
had been appointed to fill an unexpired
term, and that the office was now vacant
by lapse of time.
The court say:
1. When the duration of an office is
not fixed by law, and no provision is
made for the removal of an incumbent,
the power of appointment necessarily
carries with it the incidental power of
removal ; but the law under which he is
appointed provides a mode for his re-
moval (P. D. 6143) and he can not be re
moved in any other way, except by an ad-
dress of two-thirds of the Legislature, as
in cases of other civil officers, (Constitu
tion, Art. 5, Sec. 24, and Art. 12, Sec. 41,)
or on trial by indictment or otherwise,
as may be provided for by the Legisla
ture, under the authority conferred by
Art. 8, Sec. 6, of the Constitution.
2. If the term of this office was for
fixed and definite time, and was to be
filled at regular and periodical intervals
from a definitely stated time, an appoint-
ment to fill a vacancy occurring during
such term would be for its unexpired
portion. But this office, having no pre
scribed term affixed to it, its tenure must
be limited by article 12 section 58 of the
Constitution, which provides that the
duration of all offices not fixed by the
Constitution shall never exceed four
years.
It is the opinion of a majority of the
court that it was the intention of the
Legislature that said office should be
filled by appointment by the Governor,
at intervals of four years from the date
of the appointment of the first incum
bent.
Judgment reversed and reformed.
Moore, Justice.
State Press.
The Dallas Herald is urging the peo-
ple of Galveston to subscribe liberally
to the Santa Fe Railroad. The Herald
says:
The lethargy of the capitalists is
perfectly inexplicable, and if indulged
in much longer will end in a forfeiture
of the charter of the road and the
country tapped by some city of more
enterprise and nerve. We feel in
Northern Texas a great pride in Gal-
veston, and want to see her put forth
the strength she has and control the
business which is hers by right, and it
is to be hoped that she will not wait
like a terrapin any longer before mov-
ing, for Mr. Morgan is in dead earnest
about putting his coal of fire on the
back of Galveston, and she has the
wharf monopoly and her own supine-
ness alone to thank for being between
the upper and lower millstone.
The Gatesville Sun illuminates the
convention question by saying:
There is no sense in any longer sub-
mitting to the cumbersome constitu-
tion devised by Radical hands and fas-
tened on to us by Federal bayonets.
Send delegates to the convention who
are good, honest, sensible and well in-
formed men, men who understand the
wants of the people. Don't send pro-
fessional politicians. They will work
for themselves and not for you. Send
men whose interests are identical with
yours. Send men who are in favor of
old fashioned honesty and economy.
Tell them you want lower salaries.
Let offices be sought for the honor as
well as for money. Tell them to re-
duce the pay of the Legislature to $5
per day. Tell them to limit the rate
of State and county taxation.
Tell them to give every town and
neighborhood the constitutional right
to prohibit the sale of intoxicating
liquors by a majority of votes.
Ask for biennial sessions of the Le-
gislature. Attend the primary meet-
ings of your precinct. Do net let a
few put a man in nomination that
don't suit yffh'and thus compel you to
vote for him or stay home. The pri-
mary meetings are to a party what the
foundation is to a house. Lay your
foundation right and there will be sta-
bility to the building. Let us have
low taxes in the next constitution of
this State. And above all, don't stay
at home during the canvas and elec-
tion and then grumble because you
have high taxes to pay.
Speaking of the new penitentiary
for Western Texas, the Herald says:
San Antonio possesses the wealth to
obtain the selection of the site. Our
citizens are usually sensitively alive to
every enterprise conducive to their in-
terests—we know of none of a local
character so overwhelmly important to
those interests as this location of the
western penitentiary would prove to
San Antonio and its people. Are we
from supineness to permit such an im
mense good for all time to pass from
us? Will we permit this inauguration
of manufactures, not only of cotton,
but of wool and hides, to be carried
from our own door, when we have only
to hold out our hand to pluck the
fruit?
The Bastrop Advertiser says that
the Democracy will be almost a unit
for the convention, while the Rads will
go against it. Let it not be defeated
Mr. Stefan Poles, who, in spite of
the plurality of his name, is only a sin
gular Pole, has had a difficulty with
Mr. John Winter Jones, who, after an
almost life-long service in a subordi-
nate position, since 1866 has been
principal librarian of the British
Museum. Poles, after pursuing knowl-
edge under difficulties for a long
period in that institution, has been
brought to the conclusion, which he has
published in a pamplet, that Jones is
inconsiderate, churlish, wasteful, and
one who promotes his friends and rela-
tives, to the exclusion of their betters.
Now this last has come to be a dis-
tinguishing characteristic of the most
prominent official in this country, and
it can be overlooked, perhaps, in
mere librarian in London. That
librarian should be inconsiderate to
some degree and churlish to an intol-
erable degree, is by no means unusual
in any country where librarians obtain.
A gentleman who has also the added
misfortune in official eyes to be
scholar need but apply for a book to
almost any one of the individuals who
loll at small salaries upon library rails to
be at once convinced that in comparison
with the official he is but a worm, by
extreme courtesy, perhaps, a book
worm, but nevertheless one of the
most insignificant of created things.
Doubtless a long series of such snub-
bings has brought Mr. Poles at last to
revenge himself upon Jones by publish-
ing a pamphlet. But Poles's pamphlet,
apart from the biography of Jones,
reveals some curious things concerning
the expenditures of the Museum which
are almost as remarkable in their way
as the contingent expenses of our own
Congress. Thus the annual expense
for brooms, brushes and pails is £150
for beating the Museum carpets, £149
for merely washing dusters and towels,
£200; for four housemaids, from 21 to
25 shillings each per week; for four-
and-twenty window-cleaners, £1500
year; and for one foreman to see that
the windows are cleaned, £100 a year.
Mr. Poles contents himself with giving
the facts; but he might draw the in
ference that salarywise, if not other-
wise, it is better to be a window-cleaner
in the British Museum than to be
country curate almost anywhere in
England.—New York World.
One of the civil rights of the col
ored man, the infringement of which
has never been complained of at the
South, is and always has been seriously
infringed at the North. That is the
right to work, not only in manufac
tories and mechanic shops, but in other
fields of labor, requiring no special
skill or training. In Pennsylvania and
Ohio negroes dare not work in mines
or on railroads. They are beaten and
murdered when they undertake to do
so with or in the vicinity of gangs of
white laborers, though the colored
men are anxious to work, and their
families are suffering from want,
Speaking of a late case in Perry
county, Ohio, where twenty-five
negroes employed in a coal
mine were beaten and driven off
and the buildings burnt, the New
York Journal of Commerce very truly
says that if twenty-five negroes had
been violently expelledjrom a theater,
or hotel, or drinkiug place, in Charles
ton or New Orleans, and not only that,
but had been driven from the town by
force of arms, we imagine that a howl
would have gone up from the Admin-
istration organs at Washington and
elsewhere, and the President would
have been called upon to use the army
and navy in enforcing the laws and pre
serving the peace. But when a far
worse instance of the forcible depriva
tion of civil rights occurs in Ohio, it
makes no stir among these sensi
tive newspapers.
The United States Government has
consented to place at the disposal of
the Arctic expedition the depots of
provisions and other stores which
were established at certain points for
the service of the Polaris. It was
stated some time since that permission
to take over these depots was to be re
quested by the government, and the
ready acquiescence of the United States
in this respect may prove of great ad
vantage to the expedition.
" Can insects be drowned ?" is the
anxious inquiry of a journal that affects
a vein of scientific investigation, and
assumes the negative. If the editor is
willing to take the risk it is his own ;
but few life insurance companies would
agree to take the chances of his sub-
mersion for five minutes.
Tiie cobblers' children usually wear
poor shoes, and the tailor never puts
on a coat that fits. A very odd in
stance of a man preaching the faith
all his life and himself at last be
coming a castaway, is afforded by the
recent death of Lord St. Leonards, ex
Lord Chancellor of England. He was
one of the finest lawyers that ever sat
on the woolsack, and his "peculiar
wanity was wills." Every man, he
held, should make a will, and know
how to make one ; and to show every
man how to draw up a perfect will and
the advantages derived from such an
act, he wrote a most elaborate and val
uable book on wills. Then he prepared
his own will, a very masterpiece of wills,
air-tight, nickel-plated, brass-mounted
iron-bound and copper-fastened, a will
without a flaw, a will that could not
be broken, and from which disappoint-
ed heirs and speculating lawyers would
recoil in dismay. He kept this will in
a sort of sacred ark, and when his fam
ily needed intellectual stimulus he
would take out this will and read it to
them. On the 29th of January Baron
St. Leonards died. They laid him
with his fathers, and after a decent in
tervel of mourning opened the casket
to put that will into practical use,
The moral is contained in an advertise
ment in the London Times offering
"five hundred pounds reward for the
discovery and recovery of the will of
the late Baron St. Leonards, which
was written on five sheets of loose pa-
per and has been mislaid."—St. Louis
Globe. _
Her Britannic Majesty's new subjects
in the Fiji Islands have already begun
to enjoy the fruits of civilization. Late
advices, by way of London, state that
" the measles have broken out among
the natives, and many deaths have re
suited therefrom." We quote the dis
patch as printed, though we regret
that it does not tell just how many
measles have broken out. That an
epidemic of some kind would make its
appearance very soon might have been
taken for granted, for that seems to be
always one of the first results of trying
to civilize the heathen, and we see no
reason who the Fijians should not look
forward to as easy and rapid progress
toward extinction as the Hawaiians
have made the coming of the mission
aries. When it comes to putting the
King of Fiji into trowsers, the days of
his people are numbered.—Philadelphia
Times.
State News.
BEXAR COUNTY.
The Herald mentions the arrival at
San Antonio of a number of prominent
stock men of the West. They were
preparing to drive to Kansas this spring,
bat the Herald says it ssems there are
" corners in stock, whether it ia railroad
stock or " long-horns," for it seems im-
possible for a herd to pass here. Five
aerus have been sold here for good
prices within the last week. From con-
versation with some of these gentlemen
we understand that only about one-fourth
of these cattle were beeves, which is evi-
dence that the demand is great, and that
cattle are getting scarce in this part of
the country.
COOKE COUNTY.
The ladies of Sulphur Springs are
now preparing to have a supper and ba-
zaar, the proceeds of which will be ap-
plied to the erection of a house of wor-
ship for the Baptists of this place.
CORYELI.E COUNTY.
A long drove of cattle, mostly cows, has
this week been driven through this coun-
ty going W est to the great grazing plains.
... .Animals bitten by a mad dog some
weeks ago are still going mad....One
enterprising farmer, not a granger, start-
ed in with three horses to make a crop.
That was six weeks ago, and now he has
nothing left but a currycomb.
DALLAS COUNTY.
The Odd Fellows of the State are re-
spectfully invited to a celebration at Dal-
las, on the 26th of April, in commemora-
tion of the anniversary of the organiza-
tion of the order in this country. The
city is crowded with wagons removing
freight westward. .. .Cotton is very
scarce. .. .The storm of Sunday evening
was unusually pevere in the Piano neigh-
borhood. The rain was very heavy, ac-
companied by a strong wind and large
hail-stones. A family residence near
Piano was almost washed away, fences
destroyed and the smoke-house entirely
raised from the ground.
DE WITT COUNTY.
The auspices for the first fair in De-
Witt county look very flattering, and we
venture to say that but very few people
in the county will be so obtuse as not to
feel an interest in this laudable enter
prise... .The Star says there is a feeling
of insecurity in DeWitt county, and that
the Governor has been petitioned to keep
Capt. McNaily there with ten men if it
is within his power.
FANNIN COUNTY.
A son of Dr. Cole, of Fannin county,
was accidently shot in a field, recently,
by his brother, .who was hunting .
GRAYSON COUNTY.
Sheriff Vaden left Sherman Monday in
charge of thirteen prisoners for Hunts-
ville.
JASPER COUNTY.
Jasper boasts of the most flourishing
Grange in Texas.
LAMAR COUNTY.
United Statfs Senator, Gen. S. B.
Maxey, arrived at his home March 29th,
direct from the national capital.
LAMPASAS COUNTY.
The Gatesville Sun says: A gentle-
man just in from Lampasas reports that
the Indians made a raid into that county
near McNally'a Bend, and after chasing
the citizens, drove off a herd of horses.
Some of the same party killed two men
in San Saba county.
LIVE OAK COUNTY.
Within the last week seven thousand
beeves have been sold in this and Mc-
Mullen counties, and duly recorded in
the office of the District Clerk .Mr.
W. P. Dewees has purchased the entire
horse stock belonging to R. Tullous.
M'CULLOCir COUNTY.
A few days since Mr. Durham and his
son-in-law, Cusick, went out early in the
morning to look after their horses, and
being unarmed they had scarcely gone
one hundred yards when they were at
tacked by a party of Indians or MexicanB,
who brutally murdered both men, pierc-
ing each seventeen times with their
lances. ...A letter from New Mexico
states that the Fort Stanton Indians arj
on the warpath, and unless assistance is
received, the whole frontier will be at
their mercy.
NUECES COUNTY.
Corn is looking finely. Much more has
been planted this season than for many
years. .. .Capt. S. T. Foster proposes to
organize immediately a company of in
fantry in Corpus Christi, under State
authority, for the protection of the citi-
zens against Mexican raiders... .M. L,
Culver publishes a notice in the Times
that " the people need not be alarmed
when they see a party of fifty Mexicans
coming into town on Tuesday. They are
the hands of Felipe Luna, who has just
delivered to Messrs. L. B. Allen and Jas
R. Scott 4000 head of cattle, and they
come here to fit up for the trip home. I
publish this to prevent any excitement in
town."... A government train was loaded
with lumber and shingles on Wednesday
last for Ringgold Barracks .On Thurs
day last John Merriman and his uncle
John Fusselman, started for Wisconsin
with a drove of horses.
ROBERTSON COUNTY.
Robertson county has 197 indictments
on the criminal docket. .. .C. Anschicks
County Clerk of Robertson county, has
been sentenced to two years in the Peni
tentiary for fraudulently issuing county
scrip.
TRAVIS COUNTY.
The prospect of an early commence
ment on the International Railroad to
Austin has given fresh life to trade...
Messrs. J. A. Sink, Ii. A. Murphy and
Matthew Mulverhill left Austin Wednes
day night for Peru, South America. Mr,
Murphy has been engineer on the West
ern Branch of the Houston and Texas
Central Railroad for the past five years,
and Mr. Mulverhill has also been em
ployed for the past two years on the
WeBtern Division of the Houston and
Texas Central Railroad.
An Honest Policeman.
Yesterday a ship captain called at
the postoffice, and having purchased
some stamps, departed, leaving his
pocket-book behind bim on the ledge
of the window. This was afterwards
found by the policeman whose beat is
the postoffice—O. Faulhaber, No.
131—and it was discovered to contain
) 1403, in cash, and a check for fifty dol-
lars, payable to bearer. Faulhaber
turned the pocket-book over to the
postmaster. The shipmaster returning
after a short time received it, and gave
the policeman $5 reward. Such a man
as he is, in these degenerate times,
shoul I be at once promoted, and we
trust he will be.—Picayune, 31»( ult.
And what should be done with that
ship captain who rewarded such an act
with a five dollar bill? He ought to
be promoted too—to the forecastle.
Story-tellers are never tired of rej
lating the wonderful doings of Louis
II of Bavaria, the young King who pa-
tronizes Wagner and enjoys Liszt, who
won't marry, either because he does
not wish to or because he is in love
with the lovely soprano, Fraulein
Mallinger, and who behaves him-
self, if we may believe half we
hear, in a manner most peculiar for
a German prince. A fresh installment
of his vagaries is given by E. Reclus
in The Galaxy for April. Some of these
seem almost to betoken unsoundness
of mind. For example, the King is
very fond of riding and of horses, yet
he has been known, after a long run,
to approach a panting and gasping
horse, and, without a word of expla-
nation or regret, to discharge his re-
volver in his ear. Bavaria found her-
self involved in the Austro-Prussian
war of 1866. Nuremburg was taken,
the Bavarians were defeated, and thou-
sands slain in an important battle. The
very crown of Louis II was at stake.
Yet the Minister of State, who came to
announce these things to the King,
found him wandering in a shady grove
practicing a duet from Wagner with
the Prince of Thurn and Taxis, his
aid-de-camp. If not a madman, Louis
II is certainly a most extravagailt ideal-
ist, content to draw his revenues and
dawdle away long days, sans souci,
while his Ministers govern the king-
dom.
The Emperor of Russia has presented
Patti with $10,000 worth of furs.
■ —
DIED:
STEEL—At Fayetteville, Texas, on Wed-
nesday, March 31, Dr. James S. Steel, aged
thirty years.
The citizens of Augusta, Georgia,
have contributed six thousand dollars
to the sufferers from the tornado which
has desolated several counties of the
iktte from the Chattahooche to the
vannah river.
The executive committee of the Mis-
souri State Grange has contracted for
five hundred reapers and mowers, to
be delivered in season for the next har-
vest.
"Popular Science" contains an
article by Dr. j. R. Black on Apoplexy,
Some reader, willing to prolong his
life at the expense of his stomach,.may
find instruction in the following ex
tract:
A middle-aged physician said one day
to the writer: " As I was walking down
the street after dinner, I felt a shock in
the back of my head, as if some one had
struck me. l have not felt well since,
I fear I shall die, just as all my ancestors
have, of paralysis. What shall I do ?"
The answer was : " Diminish the ten-
sion on the blood-vessels, and there need
be no fear of tearing them in a weak
place." Now, this expresses in plain
terms the exact cause of apoplexy iu the
great majority of instances; and it is
one, too, which every one has it in his
power to prevent. A blood-vessel of the
brain, from causes which will presently
be mentioned, has lost some of its elastic
strength, food is abundant, digestion is
good, blood is made in abundance, but
little is worked off by exercise ; the ten-
sion on every artery and vein is at a
maximum rate ; the even, circuitous flow
is temporarily impeded at some point,
throwing a dangerous pressure on an-
other ; the vessel which has lost its
elastic strength gives way, blood is
poured out, a clot is formed which, by its
pressure on the brain, produces complete
unconsciousness. This is the apoplectic
stroke.
The editor of the Leavenworth (Kan-
sas) Times is worthy of death by his
own confession. He says:
Time and again have we warned ex-
change fiends to keep out of our sanctum,
and admonished them especially to let
our exchanges alone. But there is one
who would take no hint, however broad.
He came into our office yesterday after-
noon with a bland smile upon his counte-
nance, and with a *' how d'ye do," sat
down on a large needle which had been
carelessly left in that chair by some em-
ploye. The agonized expression of his
countenance as he rose slowly up, and
the wild look that came into his eyes as
the senior editor led him gently out by
outward flap of his left ear were enough
to bring tears to the eyes of a railroad
man.
And yet the Times man is unlike John
Randolph in his last sickness, and does
not see the word "Remorse" staring
him in the face, like handwriting on
the wall. _
Storey, of the Chicago Times, got
ten days for contempt of court. Here
is what his paper puts forth as a sort
of a precedent, as it were:
St Matthew may never have published
a daily newspaper ; probably never read
the Chicago Times ; but he evidently en-
tertained a very commendable regard for
the judiciary, because he remarks, in
chapter five, twenty-fifth verse : " Agree
with thine adversary quickly, while thou
art in the way with him ; lest at any
time the adversary deliver thee to the
judge, and the judge deliver thee to the
officer, and thou be cast into prison."
Sharp people up in Chicago, and
philosophical withal. We shall hear
from Storey to some effect after he has
honorably served out his term.
Special Netlces.
Galveston Artillery, At-
tention 1—Members are notified
to attend Company Drill THIS
(Saturday) EVENING, at 7:30
o'clock, at the Armory.
By order of the CaptP.'n
ap3D&E It O. STEELE, O. S,
There will be a meeting: of the
Caledonia Benevolent Association THTS
EVENING at eight o'clock sharp.
ap3 It E. D. GARRATT, Secretary.
Island City Savings Bank, Gal vea
ton, April 1, 1875.—The annual meeting of
stockholders of the Island City Savings Bank
will be held at the bank on MONDAY, 5th
instant, at seven o'clock, p. m. Election of
nine directors, subscription to Gulf, Colorado
and Santa Fe Railroad, and other business,
will come before this meeting.
A full and punctual attendance ia request-
ed. J. G. MICHAILOFFSKY,
aPl td Cashier.
Gulf Loan and Homestead. Com
pany. — Galvbston, March 24, 1875. — The
annual meetiDg of the stockholders of this
company will be held on
Tuesday, April 6, 18T5,
at 7 o'clock p. m., at the Hall of the Galves-
ton Artillery Company, on Market street, op-
posite the Girardin House, over John Collins'
store, for the purpose of electing Nine Di-
rectors to serve for the ensuing year.
The proposition to subscribe for stock in
the Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe Railroad
will at the same time be submitted.
J. G. MICHAILOFFSKY,
mh25 td Secretary.
Stockholders' meeting*—Interna
tional and Great Northern Railroad Com-
pany, Secretary's Office, Houston, Texas,
March 25, 1875.—Notice is hereby given that
the regular Annual Meeting of the Stock
holders of this Company will be held at the
office of the Company, in Houston, Texas, on
MONDAY, the 5th day of April, A. D. 1875, at
10 o'clock a. m IRA H. EVANS,
mh27 td Secretary.
Notice to Consignees*.—The Schooner
THOS. P. BALL. Ryder, Master, from New
York, is now discharging cargo at Lufkin'i
Wharf. All goods remaining on the wharf
after 4 p. m. (not receipted for) will be stored
at the expense and risk of consignees.
All claims for damage must be adjusted be
fore the goods leave the wharf.
C. W. ADAMS & CO., Agents,
ap3 2t Cor. 24th and Mechanic streets.
New Advertisements.
=1N STORE=
1500 SACKS COFFEE
Ex Brig HENRIETTE.
in. koppekl.
IN STORE,
2000 Sacks COFFEE
FOB SALE BY
J. II. ELS WORTH & CO.
^RRIVED and now DISCHARGING
FBOM RIO DE JANEIRO.
Per German brig B. H. Steenken,
4000 Sacks Coffee,
Of which we offer at reduced prices from
wharf 2000 Sacks still unsold.
ja5 una tf
RANGER & CO.
Notice to Consignees.—The steamship
CLYDE, Kennedy, Master, from New York, is
n®w discharging cargo at Williams's Wharf.
Consignees will please receive their goods
as landed, receipting for the same on the
wharf.
All goods remaining on the wharf after 4
o'clock p. m. (not receipted for) will be
stored at expense and risk of consignees.
All claims .for damage must be adjusted
before the goods leave the wharf.
J. N. SAWYER, Agent.
apl 3t 54 Strand.
Wllbor's Cod Liver Oil and Lime.
Persons who have been taking cod liver oil
will be pleased to learn that Dr. Wilbor has
succeeded, from directions of several profes-
sional gentlemen, in combining the pure oil
and lime in such a manner that it is pleasant
to the taste, and its effects in lung complaints
are truly wonderful. Very many persons
whose cases were pronounced hopeless, and
who had taken the clear oil for a lone: time
without marked effect, have been entirely
cured by using this preparation. Be sure and
cet the genuine. Manufactured only by A. B.
WILBOR, Chemist, Boston. Sold by all drug-
gists. mh3 sat-tu-th 6w
New Advertisements.
QOTTON FACTORS,
when hiving hardware
For their country friends, are respectfully
invited to leave their orders with us. We
promise prompt and careful attention.
STEELE, WOOD CO.,
68 and 70 Tremont street.
jyjeal, hominy and grits.
500 bbls. Fresh Cornmeal,
100 bbls. Hominy and Grits.
"EVERY BARBEL GUARANTEED."
For sale low te the trade by
CHAS. NICHOLS.
ap3 It Nos. 4 and 6 Strand.
w
ANTED WANTED
Young ITIen to Learn and Engage
in Telegraph Operating.
Permanent and good paying positions guar-
anted. Evening class now open. Address
for particulars,
METROPOLITAN TELEGRAPH CO.,
ap-3 3m* 17 Commercial Place, New Orleans.
JOS. w. RICE...- VICTOR J. baulard
OILS AND GLASS,
VARNISHES and ARTISTS' COLORS,
Wall Paper and Window Sbades,
RICE & BAULARD.
77 TREMONT STREET,
Ja26 '73-sat-soo-tu 12m GALVESTON, TEXAS.
Auction Sales.
APPLES, BUTTER, GROCERIES, ETC.,
By park, lynch & co.—r. a.
Park, Auctioneer.—Will sell THIS DAY,
3d.instant, at 10 o'clock A. m., at their sales-
rooms, Strand—
20 barrels Apples, 10 firking Goshen Butter,
10 cases Imported Stout, 5 tierces Hams, and
other groceries and sundries.
Also—1 Walnut Bedstead, Bureau and
Washstand, 1 Sofa, and other furniture.
Also—10 pieces Curtain Goods, Clothing,
and an invoice of Ladies1 Undergarments.
ap3 It
Insurance.
Sun Mutual Ins. Co.
No. 37 Wall Street, N. Y.
INCORPORATED, MAY 22, 1841.
Oldest Marine Ins. Co. in tlie Stale
of New Tork.
AMOUNT OF LOSSES PAID SINCE THE
ORGANIZATION OF THE COMPANY,
Over Twenty-seven Millions of Dollarg
Capital Stock paid !n...$<M)0,000 OO
Surplus Dec. 31, 1874... 284,326 19
ASSETS.
$784,326 19
RUCTION AUCTION.
I will sell THIS DAY, at 10 A. K., at 209
Strand, Windmeyer's store—
Furniture of Every Description,
CROCKERY. PAINTINGS, LAMPS, CLOCKS,
ALSO,
HORSE AND DRAY, FLOUR, AND OTHER
GROCERIES.
Goods received to hour of sale.
ap3 It N. UDSTONE, Auctioneer.
United States Bonds $578,047 50
Cash on Deposit 48,702 30
$626,749 80
157,576 39
Premium Notes not matured and
other assets
Total Assets 31st December, 1874..$784,326 19
Insures against MARNIE AND INLAND
NAVIGATION RISKS. Also, against FIRE
RISKS on property in the City of New York
and immediate vicinity.
This company combines the stock and mu
tual system, parties having the option of par-
ticipating in the profits, or insuring on the
stock plan at reduced rates.
Losses on Marine Risks made payable at the
banking] house of Messrs. KLEINWORT,
COHEN & CO., London, when desired.
JOHN P. PAULISON, President.
ISAAC H. WALKER, Vice President.
JOHN P. NICHOLS, Sec"y. fe27 6m sat tu
For Sale—For Rent.
JPOR SALE FOR SALE
Fine opportunity for a good steady rnaT to
mate money, in a Corner Grocery. i offer
for sale the entire stock of
Groceries and Fixtures
contained in the building, corner Thirty-sec-
ond and Broadway, southeast corner—ouc of
the best stands in the city which can be rout-
ed. Longtime can be obtained by purchasers,
with approved security. If not sold by thr»
9th of April, the above stock will be sold at
auction for cash.
Apply to Block, Massie & Co.
ap2 2t J. C. CAMPBELL, Assignee.
A
CHANCE FOR PROFITABLE
INVESTMENT.
A oorner stand, in one of the most fre-
quented trading parts of the city, with up-
stairs rooms, adapted to a variety of pursuits,
together with fixtures and a salable stock ot
liquors, all disposable at very fair terms. A
row of additional Buildings connecting with
above. Address P. O. Box No. 518. apl lm«
^OR SALE CHEAP.
The well known staunch schooner
ST. GEORGE,
with all appurtenanccs, new anchors, chains,
galley stove, bedding, etc.
Berth, New Wharf.Terms cash.
H. GRESSER.
mh25 9t C ffice City Railroad Co.
For sale—some copies of abstract
of Titled and Patented Lands, compiled
from the records of the General Land Office;
published under authority of a joint resolu-
tion of the Eighth Legislature of Texas.
—also—
Some copfes of the Proceedings of the
Grand Masonic Lodge of Texas, from its or-
ganization at Houston, A. D. 1837. to the
close of the Communication at Palestine,
January, A. D. 1857, by A. S. Ruthven, Grand
Secretary and Past Grand Master. In two
volumes. Apply at the News office, Galves-
ton. no26 D&Wtf
MARINE AND FIRE
INSURANCE.
INSURANCE COMPANY
-OF—
NORTH AMERICA.
Home Office—Philadelphia.
(ORGANIZED, A. D. 1794.)
THE OLDEST STOCK INSURANCE
COMPANY IN THE UNI-
TED STATES.
Cash Assets, January 1, 1875,
$4,686,812 9 6.
Property Insured Against 1.010s or
Damage by Fire at Ader
quate Rates.
MARINE CERTIFICATES, PAYABLE AT
THE COUNTING HOUSE OF MESSRS.
BROWN, SHIPLEY & CO., IN
LONDON, ISSUED BY
R. J. HUGHES, Agent,
fc28'75tf Galveston, Texas.
LIVE MEN WANTED AS SOLICITORS.
decl3'74-Dly
FRANK FAB J,
General Asrent.
JpOR SALE..
GREAT
FOR SALE.
BARGAIN.
'pexas mutual
LIFE INSURANCE
HO.TIE OFFICE:
T4 Tremont Street 74
GALVESTON, TEXAS.
CO.,
Guarantee to Policy Holders. $353,650 68
Surplus, May 31, 1874 22,996 7?
Directors s
J. P. Davie, Hardware Merchant, Galveston.
J. M. Brown, of Brown & Lane, and Presi-
dent of First National Bank, Galveston.
A. C. McKeen, Cotton Factor, Galveston.
Henry Sampson, Secretary Merchant's In
surance Company, Gaiveston.
George F. Alford, of Alford & Miller, Gal-
veston.
N. B. Yard, of Yard & Sullivan, Galveston.
Herman Marwitz, Grocery Merchant, Gal-
veston.
Ex-Governor F. R. Lubbock, Galveston.
C. E. Richards, of Richards & Hawkins,
Galveston.
S. G. Etheridge, of Etheridge & Co., Galves-
ton.
B R. Davis, of B. R. Davis&Bro.. Galvftston.
John Wolston, of Wolston, Weils & Yidor,
Galveston.
Thomas Reed, Cashier First National Bank
Galveston.
Officers:
9. P. DAYIE President.
GEO. F. ALFORD Vice President.
B. B. RICHARDSON Secretary.
S. M. WELCH, M. D., Copsulting Physician
MERCHANTS'
Insurance Company,
No. 63 STRAND, GALVESTON.
(Organized, 18 66.)
FIRE, MARINE AM) RIVER.
CASH CAPITAL (FULL PAID) f2o0,000.
JOHN D. ROGERS, President.
LEON BLUM, Vice President.
BALLINGER, JACK & MOTT, Attorneys
HENRY SAMPSON Secretary.
DIRECTORS:
W. L. Moody of Moody & Jemison.
H. Kkmpnkr of Marx & Eempner.
W. A. Oliphint of Gal*y & Olipnint.
M. koppkrl.-Pres't National Bank of Texap.
M. F. Mott of Ballinger, Jack & Mott.
John D. Rogers of John D. Rogers & Co.
Alfred Muckle Cotton Factor.
Leon Blum of Leon & H. Blum.
George Sealy of Ball, Hutchings & Co.
B. G. Duval. of Grinnan & Duval.
T. W. Folts of Folts & Walshe
R. A. Brown of R. A. Brown & Co.
Henry Sampson Sec'y. Merchants' Ins. Co.
The Company insures against loss or dam-
age byflre on Buildings, Merchandise, Pro-
duce, Household Furniture, and other insura
ble property fe town and country, and is con-
ducted on strictly conservative principles.
Risks are assumed only at adequate rates of
premium, and losses promptly adjusted.
1 an8-'75D-W1 v*
POINT TRACT OF LAND,
ON THE GAUDALUPE RIVER CLOSE TO
THE TOWN OF NEW BRAUNFELS,
COMAL COUNTY.
102 Acres Under Fence.
Wood and
Apply to
de6 D&W tf
Water In Abundance.
D.
RICHARDSON.
Galveston.
F
OR SALE FOR SALE.
An Upright
FLUE BOILER,
Large enough for a Twelve-Horse Power En-
gine. It will be sold cheap, and may be seen
AT
No Fiction.
" Jennie, what shall I do? How shall I sup-
port myself and these little ones?
True, we have this cottage; l»ut that is not
bread nor n*eat, nor clothing, nor fuel.
The Doct<* wasa kind, tender-hearted man,
and not a close collector.
His sickness has consumed our ready
money: and I find to live on,
ONLY ACCOUNTS.
Many are on poor people; the times are
hard; not one in ten will be paid. Oh ! how
dark the future looks !"
There is a rap on the half-open door, and
the sister steps into the parlor where sits the
watcher with the coffin. Said he : 44 Miss
Jennie I heard your sister's grief and dismay.
Don't she know the Doctor's life was in-
sured?" No, indeed. Go tell her he had
$8000 in the
ALA. GOLD LIFE INS. CO.,
and that it is in force and all right. The
Doctor paid his second premium only a little
before ne was taken sick. The good news
was quickly told Mrs. F . In the fullness
of her heart she could only throw up her
hands, and, exclaiming, " Thank God,"
fainted.
THE ALA. GOLD LIFE INS. CO.
remitted to her four hnndred twenty dollar
gold pieces. The two premiums paid amount-
ed to $588. Net proBt. $7417, or 1800 per cent
J. 8. BYINGTOIV, Special Aueut,
fe21 tf 114 Tremont street, Galveston.
C. B. Lee
fe21 D&Wtt
& Co.'s Foundery.
FOR SALE.
—ON—
Reasonable Terms,
large number
—OF—
do sira"b le
BUILDING LOTS,
L0CA1ED IMMEDIATELY UPON
THE LINE
-OF—
STREET RAILWAYS.
For Full Particulars Apply to
mhl6 tf
C. M. TODD,
Office People's Kailroad Co.
A GOOD CHANCE
For Hotel Keepers.
The Central Hotel For Rent.
This favorite and centrally located Hotel,
corner of Twenty-fourth and Market streets,
is now undergoing substantial repairs, and
will be rented for a term of years to a relia-
ble tenant on reasonable terms. When lin-
ished the Hotel will have three entrances ;
two on Twenty-fourth street and one on Mar-
ket. This is a rare chance for an enterprising
man to make money. The Hotel is well situ-
ated for transient or permanent lodgers, being
acknowledged as one of the best hotel stands
in Galveston. The Central Hotel was fiist
opened by Mrs. S. B. White, in the Fall of
1870, who, in three years, cleared out of it
$30,000. It contains Thirty-nine Bed Rooms,
besides other apartments for transient per-
sons. Possession may, ke had on the 15th
inst., or sooner if required. Apply to
j. l. DARRAGH,
mh5tf No. 13 East Strand.
Legal Advertisements.
TRUSTEE'S SALE—AT THE RE-
quest of the bolder of t% ccilain promis-
sory note for the sum of six hundred and
twenty-two 20-100 dollars, bearing date Gal-
veston, September 28, 1874, due six months
after date, bearing interest from date until
paid at the rate of ten per cent, per annum,
said note being now due and unpaid, and ro
secure the payment of which note a Deed of
Trust was executed and recorded in Book 12,
on pages 798, 799 and 800 of the records of
deeds, etc., of Galveston county, conveying
to the undersigned as trustee, the property
hereinafter described, all of which will more
fully appear by reference to said Deed of
Trust, 1, the said trustee, will sell for cash,
to the highest bidder, at public auction, in
front of the court-house door of the county
of Galveston, on
SATURDAY, THE 10TH DAY OF APRIL,
A. D. 1875,
between the hours of 10 a. m. and 12 noon, all
and singular, the cattle pens, office, and all
other buildings and improvements whatever
adjacent to said pens and office belonging to
one L. B. Collins, situate and being in the
county and city of Galveston, State of Texas,
all popularly known as 44 Collins's Stock Pen
and Yard," the same being the second pen on
the line of the Galveston, Houston and Hen-
derson Railroad, on the left hand of said
railroad going west, and about one-quar-
ter of a mile, more or less, west of the depot
of said railroad company.
And to the purchaser thereof will make
such conveyance as I am authorized by said
Deed of Trust *o make.
mh31 lOt JAMES W. NORRIS, Trustee.
DMINISTRATOR'S NOTICE.—
Estate of Chas. L. Bolton, deceased.
Administration pending in Galveston County.
All claims for money against the Estate of
C. L. Bolton, deceased, mutt be presented to
us, at the office of Walter Gresham, within
ONE YEAR FROM THE FIRST OF JANU-
ARY, A. D. 1875,
for allowance, or payment of the same will be
postponed until the claims presented within
that time are paid.
Witness our hands this 9th da-
A. D. 1875.
mhlO lm
of March,
H. L. LfcWIS,
J. T. BOLTON,
Administrators.
SHERIFF'S SALE—THE STATE
of Texas, County of Galveston. Henry
Rosenberg vs. the Galveston Hotel Company.
By virtue of an order of sale to me directed
in the above entitled cause from the Clerk of
the District Court, in and for the county
aforesaid, dated the 22d day of February,
1875, and numbered 7505, I have levied upon
and will proceed to sell for cash, without ap-
praisement on the SIXTH DAY IN APRIL,
1875, at public vendue, in front of the Court-
house door, in the county of Galveston, be-
tween the hours of 10 a. m. and 4 p. m., the
following described property, to wit: Lots
Nos. eight (8,) nine (9,) ten (10,) eleven (ll.>
twelve (12,) thirteen.03.) *n(l fourteen (14.) in
block No. fonr hundred and forty-three (443.)
and the improvements thereon, in the city
and county of Galveston. State of Texas.
JOE ATKINS, Sheriff G. C.
By W. F. SEIFFERT, Deuuty SherifT.
Galveston, March 11, 1875. mh lfitd
Notices. _
NOTICE
To City Tax-Payers
Having qualified as City Assessor, I hereby
give notice to all persons owning
REAL AND PERSONAL PROP-
ERTY,
Within thecity limits, that on the FIRST
DAY OF APRIL, 1875,1 will be prepared to re-
ceive Assessments for the year 1875. at the
Mayor's office, between the hours of 9 a. m.
and 3 p. m. This assessment must be rendered
before the 1st day of June, current year.
JOHN N. STOWE,
mh38 M&EGt Assessor for city of Galveston
The news'facilities
FOR JOB PRINTING
▲ro not surpassed (n the South or West.
^SSESSMENT NOTICE.
The Justices ot the Peace in and for
GALVESTON COUIVXV
are now prepared to take the asseaament of
property for State and county taxes for 1S75,
in their respective precincts.
The law requires th'J assessment to be coon-
pleted and closed on or before Ohe FIRST DAY
OF MAY in each year. ^ ^ JOHNSO\j>
Presiding Justice Galveston County.
February 6,1S75. te7 t it
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