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ESTABLISHED—1842.
GALVESTON, FRIDAY, JUNE 25, IS75. PRICK FIVE CENTS.
VOL. XXXV.—No. 144.
Pemon* Leaving tlio City
For tlie summer can have the " Daily
News " sent to them for $1 per month,
postage prepaid. The address may he
changed as often as desirable.
AVeatlier Pr0K0»"'lc«<
During to-day in the Gulf and South
Atlantic States we are promised station-
ary pressure and temperature, southwest
to southeast winds, clear and partially
cloudy weather.
yesterday'* Commercial Summary.
Gai.vkston Market. — Cotton quiet
and unchanged ; sales 84 bales ; receipts
643; stock 11,072. Bacon easier; should-
ers ic. lower. Lard dull. Coffee steady.
Hides dull. Wool active at unchanged
prices. Poultry and eggs in large sup-
ply and almost nominal.
Other Cotton Markets.—New York
ic. higher for spot cotton under a main-
tained export demand. Other home mar-
kets unchanged. Futures in New York
:i-32@tc. higher, closing firm with sales
30,800. Liverpool steadier at unchanged
prices for both spots and arrivals. Up
lands 7 7-10d.; Orleans 7|d.; sales 12,-
000 ; American 0900 ; to exporters and
speculators 2000. Havre firmer, but not
quotably higher—spots and atioats each
l)af. Gold in New York 117J. Sterling
unchanged. Week's specie increase in
Bank of England £1,307,000, including
£2 4,000 to-day. Proportion of ,reserve
to liabilities 43J per cent, against 461
last week. Bank rate and street rate of
discount each 3 J per cent.—unchanged.
Week'b specie increase in Bank of France
9,325,000f. Cotton receipts at all ports
for six days, 2300 less than last week,
and 2700 less than last year correspond-
ingly. Season's deficit compared with
last season 278,739. To-day's ex-
ports 1253 to Great Britain, to wit: 770
from New York and 485 from Philadel-
phia.
I'OUT CHARGES AND PORT OB-
STRUCTIONS.
There is no institution, devised for
the advancement of some public good,
that may not be perverted to the pub-
lic detriment. Port charges represent,
in theory, substantial facilities to com-
merce. They often operate, in fact,
as positive obstructions to commerce.
The New York Shipping List points to
New Orleans as one example of such
perversion, and the New Orleans Pica-
yune points to Galveston as another.
''One of the principal reasons," says
the Shipping List, " why the maritime
commerce of New Orleans does not
make the progress it formerly made,
and does not keep pace with the At-
lantic ports, is unquestionably the ex-
orbitant charges upon ships frequent-
ing that port." The case of Messrs.
Alexandre & Sons, of th" New York
and Mexican Steamship Line, is then
cited. They were requested to lower
their freight and passenger traffic.
They met the petition with the state-
ment that tbe port charges at New Or-
leans were so onerous as to necessitate
the high rates complained of, and in
proof they submitted the schedule of
charges of one of their ships, the
Murida, as follows:
Wharf and levee dues $233 80
Harbor Master 44 70
Port Warden 5 00
port, if they still cherish any lingering
doubts. The spectacle of Mr. Charles
Morgan cutting a channel to Houston
rather than fall into the clutches of the
Galveston lessees, presents us with as
eloquent a commentary as though the
voices of millions joined in remon-
strance."
In New Orleans the right of the city
to dispose of its wharves iti the way
proposed will probably be submitted
to an exhaustive judicial test, under
an injunction from the Superior Dis-
trict Court which was served, some
days ago, on the Mayor and Adminis-
trators. Perhaps a like method will
have to be adopted at last to recover,
in behalf of commerce, public control
of the Galveston wharves. At all events,
this port must be unloaded of needless
incumbrances, and trimmed and equip-
pied in every way that can conduce to
cheap transportation and improved
commercial facilities. The Wharf
Company, if wise and forecasting, wilt
voluntarily abate its pretensions and
make the best terms it can with this
imperative requirement.
Total $283 56
This was the cost of the mere privi-
lege of landing at a New Orleans
wharf, and remaining, at the utmost,
seventy-four hours.
The Shipping Lint next refers to the
present management of the port affairs
of New York, as exhibiting the bene-
ficial results to be expected from a
timely abandonment of practices
which, in the name of exacting pay
for port accommodations, amount to
virtual piracy upon commerce. It
says:
That extreme port charges are foes of
c >mmerce was amply illustrated at this
port previous to the overthrow of the
(] larautine, lighterage and harbor master
extortions practiced for a long series of
years prior to the downfall of the " ring"
rule ia this city a few years ago. So
numerous and burdensome were these
extortions, that owners and masters of
vessels chartering for ports north of
llaUeras frequently stipulated for the ex-
ception of New York, in the option of
ports for discharge ; and in some cases,
cargoes from Cuba, destined to New
York, were ordered to Boston and other
New England ports, and were trans-
shipped thence through the Sound, in
order to thwart the designs of the extor-
tionists. But ever since the elevation of
(ieneral Dix to the Governorship, things
have been very different at this port, and
the diversion of trade to neighboring
ports on the account of extreme port
charges, has ceased. In fact, it is now
pretty generally conceded that, in con-
sideration of the comparatively easy in-
gress and egress, the relatively quick
dispatch givea to ships in the leading
branches of trade, and the greater cer-
tainty of i btaining business, New York
now compares favorably with any of its
neighbors.
In New Orleans the wfiarf question
is in controversy between the opponents
and the advocates of a lease of the
wharves to private persons. The op-
ponents of the measure contend that
the city administration ought to re
tain control of the wharves as a trust
held in the interest of the commercial
public. They argue that it can not
properly turn over such a trust to pri-
vate management which has no other
object in view than private profit. In
like manner the News has always ob-
jected to the arrangement by which
tlie municipal authorities of Galveston
allowed the most important public
franchise of the port to become the
monopoly of a private corporation
The New Orleans Picftyune commends
the consequcnces of this unfortunate
transaction to the attention of the
New Orleans Board of Admin-
istrators, all of whom except
Major Burke have approved the
policy of surrendering the wharves
to private control. "They have only
to contemplate," says the Picayune,
"the results of the wharf lease in our
neighboring city of Galvesion, and to
hearken to the warnings which have
come from that monopoly - stricken
TIIE PROPOSED NEW CITY
CHARTER.
Inasmuch as the City Council has
under consideration the acceptance of
a general law passed by the last Legis-
lature for the incorporation of cities, a
synopsis of a few of the leading fea-
tures of the law may be of some mo-
ment.
The law contains ten chapters, of
158 sections, and coyers forty-two
pages of the General Laws. It might
have been passed for the purpose of
facilitating certain changes in the char-
ter of Dallas, or some other city, an
object which the multiplicity of its
provisions would be likely to hide
until too late to be discussed. It is a
document under which a city council
may readily take snap judgment
against the Mayor and the people. It
was passed, as reported in the News'
specials from Austin at the time, under
suspension of the rules and without
being read by the Secretary of the
Senate or House of Representatives,
and may now become a law unto this
city with equal precipitation.
Chapter 2. Provides that the City
Council may by a two-thirds vote in-
corporate the city under its provisions,
and this without previous notice, sub-
mission to the people, or any of the
ordinary checks to hasty legislation
upon important matters. The first
Tuesday of April next, after its adop-
tion, there shall be an election
of Mayor, Aldermen, (two from
each ward,) Treasurer, Assessor
and Collector, Secretary, City Attor-
ney, Marshal and City Engineer by
the people, other officers to be ap-
pointed by the Council. The Mayor
holds office for one year, Aldermen
during two years.
Chapter 3. Empowers the Council
to pass a law over the Mayor's veto by
majority vote, also to create the
office of Recorder, and provides that
offenders on trial before Mayor and
Recorder may demand trial by jury.
Chapter 4th. Along with very
large powers conferred in other re-
spects, limits the aggregate of bonded
debt to be created by the Council to
six per cent, of the taxable value of
property in the city. Under this pro-
vision the debt, adjusted to the pres-
ent valuation of property, could hardly
exceed $1,000,000; but as the city grew
in population and wealth the debt
could be increased, on a sliding scale,
proportionately. This is the only
rational method of limiting the use of
city credit, and the provision would,
doubtless, have a satisfactory effect, if
other things were favorable.
Chapter 5. Empowers the Council
to impose an ad valroem tax of one per
cent., and by a vote of two-thirds of
the Council an additional ad valroem,
tax of one per cent, and a poll-tax of
one dollar, and license tax also on
trades and professions; also a special
tax for the improvement of streets,
arenues and alleys.
Chapter 6. Provides for the collec-
tion of taxes and sale of property for
taxes.
Chapter 7. Devoted to the Fire De-
partment.
Chapter 8. Sanitary regulations.
Chapter 9. Gives full power to grade,
pave and repair streets and avenues.
One section provides that the City
Council shall be invested with full
power and authority to grade, level,
repair, etc., whenever by a vote of
two-thirds of the Aldermen present
they may deem such improvement for
the public interest; provided the City
Council pay one-third and the owners
of the property two-thirds thereof, ex
cept at the intersections of streets
from lot to lot across the streets either
way the city alone shall pay.
Section 10. Miscellaneous provis-
ions, among them one empowering the
Council to remove by trial all or any
of the officers elected by the people,
and by simple resolution to remove
officers elected by the Council.
The charter would place the city
under the arbitrary control of the
Council, and within itself contains no
checks upon hasty legislation. Under
this law a Council may this afternoon
incorporate the city, to-night oust the
Mayor if he should stand in their way,
or do any other act of vital importance
to the city, without regarding the veto
of the Mayor, or according the neces-
sary consideration of the measure.
An old lady, hysterically afflicted,
had an impression that she had swal-
lowed a mouse. She sent for her
family doctor, and he was angry when
lie heard her make that silly statement
about the mouse in her stomach. "Oh,
doctor," she exclaimed, " I will swal-
low anything you will advise me to
take." "Well, then, swallow a cat!"
shouted the indignant doctor.
CIVIL LIBERTY AND CIVIL STA-
BILITY.
Judge Cook, in his fine speech be-
fore the Houston Democratic Conven-
tion for nominating delegates to the
Constitutional Convention, asked :
"Shall the people of this State be re-
strained from the choice of their agents
in this most important matter ? Shall
they be restricted in shaping their or-
ganic law through the agency of those
who hold their confidence ?" Perhaps
a few other interrogatories may serve
to lighten up somewhat the fearful pro-
fundity of the foregoing. Are there
no restrictions upon the choice of dele-
gates to the Constitutional Convention?
Is it lawful to choose a woman, a minor,
a foreigner, a convicted felon, as an
agent in shaping the organic law ? If
it is not lawful to do this, if there are
restrictions upon the choice of dele-
gates, then what makes it unlawful,
and what prescribes those restrictions
but the existing constitution ? And if
this instrument is to have restraining
force at all with regard to the eligibil-
ity of delegates, must not that force
operate inclusively of all the specified
conditions of eligibility, not excepting
the one forbidding cumulation of
offices 2
But Judge Cook proceeded: "Shall
any man say this is an office in any
acception of the term ? No, sir. It
is the exercise of an inalienable right."
Well, a public trust committed to a
high deputed functionary has been
commonly regarded as an office, and
if, as in this case, pay is provided for
it by legislative act, it is certainly in
some degree an office of emolument.
It is precisely such offices that the
constitution says shall not be cumu-
lated. But Judge Cook insists that it
is not an office, but "the exercise of
an inalienable right." If that is so,
then by all means let him vindicate
the right by going into the convention
and wreaking his will as an integrant
of tk« sovereign power upon the new
organic law. He needs no election
under the form's laid down by law and
announced in the executive proclama-
tion. An inalienable right that is un-
conditioned by anything outside of it-
self, can, of course, override all such
trivial preliminaries. Self-defined, it
can not afford to acknowledge any ex-
terior limitations.
The trouble with Judge Cook,
though he speaks of "the people of
this State," seems to be that he forgets
that there is a State. Now a State is
something that stands. It is not sup-
posed to topple over or evaporate every
time the organic law is overhauled or
tampered with. It is a civil structure
and an organic continuity. It can not
stand without being defined, and it can
not be defined without taking the
mould of law itself and impressing
law upon its included society. While
the State exists, therefore, this law
must continue to control its citizens,
without interruption even during the
process of changing its constitutional
framework. The other theory—the
one into which Judge Cook's trascen-
dentalism seems to land him—would
leave the State without standing and
resolve society into its original ele-
ments. Is that the way to assert the
cause of civil liberty and civil stability
in amending the organic law ?
Regarding the .explanation, given
in a letter from a competent source,
of the Central Railroad charge for
grain from Dallas to Galveston, it
would' hardly seem that, if the Mis-
souri, Kansas and Texas Railroad con-
tinued to reduce through rates from
Dallas to St. Louis, an increase of
rates between Dallas and Denison
would tempt down shipments from
Dallas to Galveston, unless through
rates from Dallas down were reduced
sufficiently to negative the influence of
the reduction of through rates from
Dallas up. Perhaps the Central may
intend to so increase rates between
Dallas' and Denison as to compel the
Missouri, Kansas and Texas to ad-
vance rates. The correspondent, how-
ever, presumes that there are no buy-
era here, and the danger to the Central
would be, if rates were advanced too
high, shipments would be stopped as
effectually as they would be if there
were no buyers here to take them.
James Higii, of Southern Illinois,
has a stock of pet snakes which in-
cludes one rattle-snake, a bull-snake,
a copperhead, a cotton-mouth mocas-
sin, a rattlesnake's pilot, a thunder
snake and some two or three other
varieties. Jim is attentive to his pets
and can be seen daily with one or two
about his neck, a few in his hat, and
the rest in his bosom going to the
river to water them. He takes one at
a time and holds it by the tail while it
drinks, and then returns it to either
his bosom or hat. This is doubtless
fine for the snakes, but how is it for
High ? _
Tiiere is nothing like knowing
what ha3 become of ancient things.
We are just informed by a diligent in-
vestigator that the ark is now in a
good state of preservation, but lying
under an eternal mantle of snow, hun-
dreds of feet deep, at an altitude of
17,500 feet above the level of the sea.
As snow always covers the top of Ara-
rat. it is impossible for any of Noah's
descendants to go up and find the ark.
Furthermore, the ark was smaller than
the Great Eastern, had three decks,
and was divided into numerous com-
partments, for the safety and order of
its occupants.
A writer in the Californian de-
livered a Sunday School address, from
which the following is an extract:
" You boys ought to be kind to your
litle sisters. I once knew a bad boy
who struck his little sister a blow over
the eye. Although she didn't fade
and die in the early summer time,
when the June roses were blowing,
with the sweet words of forgivenesi
on her pallid lips, she rose up and hit
him over the head with a rolling-pin,
so that he couldn't go to Sunday
School for more than a month, on ac-
count of not being able to put his hat
on."
The City Jail.
Inspected by a News Reporter.
cost op feeding prisoners—now to
build a new jail witiiout extra
expense to tax payers.
News reporters have at regular inter-
vals inspected the Galveston County
Jail, and their reports given publicity in
these columns. The verdict usually is
that this institution is conducted in an
unexceptional manner. Yesterday
another visit was made.
Mr. Win. Corbett, the polite and atten-
tive jailer, conducted the reporter
through and around this ancient sweat-
box. There were forty-five specimens of
humanity in limbo, white and black men,
and black and white women. They
were lounging about the corridors and
steps, having been turned out of their
cells. The floors were clean, and the
walls were white with newly-applied
whitewash; the cells appeared tidy.
There was a slightly perceptible odor,
inevitable from the close confinement of
so many persons in eo small a space.
in the jail yard
the city has its calaboose, a small wooden
buildiDg. The city prisoners were out at
work. They are fed from the same
kitchen in which the food is prepared for
the inmates of the jail. This adjoins
the city's calaboose, and is conducted by
the sheriff. It is his institution.
sanitary regulations
are good, not a single prisoner sick. Dis-
infectants are freely used. In fact, Dr.
Dowell visits the prison almost every
morning in the capacity of county physi-
cian, and is no douty disposed to keep a
sharp eye out to detect any violation of
sanitary rule.
Jailor Corbett's
bill of fare
was requested. He stated that beef and
meal soup, baker's bread, potatoes, aud
sometimes onions and occasionally cab-
bages, cocstituted the bill of fare. Did
not mention coffee. The prisoners in jail
are fed twice a day, and the city prison-
ers who are sent out to work are fed three
times a day.
The fare is not objectionable as to qual-
ity or quantity. Other objections will be
found stated in another part of this
report.
the old jail
itself requires no description. Nearly
everybody has a sufficiently contemptible
idea of it. It belongs to the past. All
that can be said of it is that there is none
worse in the State. Its walls are thin
and soft; a newsboy would scratch
through them in an hour. It is too small
in every way, too narrow, too short, too
low. It is antiquated. It would not be
far from the mark to say that it has since
its first construction held as many people
as now inhabit this city. Tire grand j ury
has condemned it. To keep safe the
prisoners in it, entails upon the county
an extra expense of about $4000 per an-
num for guards. It is impossible to re-
construct or improve it. A new one is
demanded, both for the sake of humanity
and upon the plea of economy. A new
one can be built
without taxation or issuing bonds.
The money to be used in its construc
tion is not, however, to be dug up out of
the ground where Lafitte and his free-
booters buried it, but must come from
the county treasury; in fact money
which, instead of being used for such
legitimate purpose, is now checked out
to swell the income of an official whose
annual gains from county and State can
not fall far short of the salary of Chief
Justice Waite. Whether his personal
sacrifices equals Grant's or not, their
gains would each appear equally large in
proportion to services rendered. For
feeding and furnishing with water
(lodgiijg being kindly furnished by the
county) on an average fifty prisoners per
day, a county official gets a dollar a head
or
fifty dollars a day,
which will foot up $18,250 per annum.
The jailer says that there are from forty-
five to seventy-five prisoners in jail every
day, and that fifty is about the average.
A dollar a day is too much. Board at
thirty dollars a month, where the land-
lord has no rent to pay and the county
guarantees his bills, and the fare is so
cheap and simple, is simply extortionate.
However, the landlord is not to blame
The responsibility for the extravagance,
is upon the shoulders of those who con-
tract with him at such figures. How
much ought this subsistence of prisoners
to cost? A mode of ascertaining is to
calculate the cash cost of the provisions ;
but the potatoes, the onions and cabbages
are served so irregularly.it is difficult to
estimate their cost. One way of approxi-
mating their cost has been attempted by
the News reporter. At several boarding-
houses in this city he finds mechanics,
hackmen and laborers are boarded at
five dollars per week, or seventy-one
cents a day. At one the bill of fare was
beef and pork, or mutton, sometimes fish,
four kinds of vegetables, and coffee, for
dinner, and beef, hash and coffee at other
meals, at five dollars a week. This bill
of fare will cost a hundred per cent,
more—when we add rent and risk of
dead beats—than the jail fare. None of
these houses feed over twenty-five or
thirty persons. The cost of the jail fare
would then, perhaps, according to this
computation, amount to say thirty-six
cents a head per day, including the land-
lord's legitimate profit.
We then have for cost and landlord's
profit $16 00
.Add fdr personal popularity of official,
say 9 00
And yoa have daily expense of $35 00
This would for the year cost the city
less than it now does to subsist the pris-
oners $9123, which, if expended in build-
ing a jail, would only require a couple of
years to furnish one adequate in all re-
spects. The proper way to subsist the
prisoners, however, would seem to be by
contract, through advertisement, for the
lowest and best bid, in which case the
last item in the above computation would
be eliminated, and the cost to the county
of an average of fifty prisonars per day
would be $16, and for the year $5840,
which, deducted from the present cost of
$18,250, would leave annual saving of
$12,410, enough of itself to build a much
better jail than the present one.
But then prisoners idling their time
away in jails can not be supposed to
have the healthy appetites of mechanics,
laborers and other free people who board
at the English Kitchen on Market street.
Prison fare all the world over falls far
below that of the free, active, hungry out
sider in cost if not in quality and quantity.
For instance, Florida feeds her convicts
full United States army rations at a cost
per head of twenty-two cents per day.
Minnesota's convicts cost twelve and
three-quarter cents per day, and the bill
of fare is more generous in some par-
ticulars than our Market street board-
ing-houses. [See late Penitentiary re-
port for particulars.] The cost in
Minnesota of provisions is lesB than it is
here. Let it be assumed that provisions
here cost twenty-five per cent, more, and
the Minnesota ration in Galveston would
cost about seventeen and a half cents,
and our fifty gentlemen and ladies placed
where the dogs wont bite them would
cost us per day $8 64, and per annum
would cost $3,183 60, to which add for
servants to clean the jail $600, and ex
tras $1500, and there is the liberal allow-
ance of $5,283 60, against $18,250.
These are figures for tax-payers, and
those officials who have oversight of
county finances to ponder over.
Reverdy Johnson has just closed
i sixtieth year of active legal practice.
his
FROM AUSTIN.
Tlio Weather—Crops—A New
Steamer—Sale of Bonds.
[Spccial to the Galveston News.}
Austin, J une 24,1875.
Th.re was a good shower to-day and
crop prospects are improved and flatter-
ing.
Messrs. Odom & Rutherford are build-
ing a double-deck excursion steamer, ca-
pable of carrying two hundred passen-
gers. The engine is twelve horse power,
and was made in Galveston. The boat
is seventeen by eighty feet, and will
draw one foot of water loaded. It will
be finished in one week.
Ten thousand new courthouse and jail
bonds have been sold at ninety c nta.
FROM BRENHAM.
Republican Nominees to the
Constitutional Convention.
\Special t» the Galveston iVews.]
Brenham, June 24,1875.
The Republican Senatorial Convention
held here to-day nominated T. J. Lock-
ett, of Washington county, G. Pauli
German, of Lee county, and J udge Scott,
of Burleson county, delegates to the con-
stitutional convention.
Charles T. Booth, of Waller county,
was nominated for District Attorney o*
the Twenty-ninth Judicial District.
FROM CALYERT.
Court Matters—Crops, Etc.
I" Special to the Galveston News, j
Calvert, June 24,1875.
The Criminal and District Courts are
still both in session, and have their hands
full. Dp to the present time Judge Bat-
tle, of the Criminal Court, has tried thir-
teen cases, out of which there have been
eleven convictions.
C. Anschicks, District Clerk of this
county for the past five years, was con-
victed this morning on tfee charge of rape,
and sentenced to the Penitentiary for
twenty years.
Judge Battle is making it hot for law-
breakers.
Crop prospects are splendid, and the
farmers all have smiling faces.
Business at present is dull, bat all look
forward for lively times and plenty of
money the coming season.
FROM CROCKETT.
Arrested on the Charge of For-
gery.
{Special to the Galveston News.]
Crockett,.June 24,1875.
J. Texas Smith, a member of the Re-
publican Executive Committee for the
Third Senatorial District, was arrested
here the day before yesterday, by C. M.
Parker, Deputy United States Marshal,
to answer an indictment for forgery pre-
ferred by the Federal Court, now in ses-
sion at Austin. Some two or three weeks
since he passed a draft drawn in his fa-
vor on the First National Bank at Gal-
veston, for $120, which was signed Thos.
F. Purnell, United States Marshal, to
J. J. Woodson & Co., bankers, of this
place. The draft was sent to Messrs.
Burnett & Owens of your city, and they
presented the same at the bank for ac-
ceptance, which was refused on account
of the belief that the signature was not
genuine. The draft was returned to J.
J. Woodson & Co., who sent it to Tyler
and submitted it to Mr. Purnell, who de-
clared it a base forgery, hence the indict-
ment.
FROM DALLAS.
Business Prospects—Crops.
[,Special to the Galveston-News.~\
Dallas, June 24,1875.
The business of our city is growing.
Wheat is on the market, and prices
ranging from eighty-five cents to one
dollar. We have the heaviest crop ever
known in North Texas.
Corn is in fine condition. Cotton back-
ward and not promising.
A good rain in the next ten days will
bring smiles on thousands of faces in
this portion of tlie State.
WASHINGTON.
Washington College Commence-
ment Exercises.
Washington, J une 24.—At the George
town College the following degrees were
conferred, at the hands of the Right Rev.
Archbishop Bailey, D. D.:
Rev. Johnl McKlosky, President of St.
Mary's College, Emmettsburg, Md., L.L.
D.; Hon. Wm. M. Merrick, M. D.; Geo.
W. Paschal, M. A. ; Algernon S. Oarnett,
M. D , Arkansas ; Frank J. M. Daily, B.
A., Pennsylvania ; Edward D. Cornelly,
Doctor of Philosophy, Pennsylvania ; W.
Allen, Virginia, W. H. Clark, District of
Columbia, Walter A. Donaldson, M. D.
William Allen then delivered the vale-
dictory in such eloquence as to elicit
frequent applause. The distribution of
prizes then took place in the senior class
and the class of natural philosophy. The
gold medal was awarded to J. Percy
Keating of Pennsylvania as a premium ;
J. Caldwell Robertson, South Carolina,
distinguished mention ; L. R. Thayan,
excellence in English essay, a premium.
Mechanics' gold medal, J. Percy Keating,
Pennsylvania ; premium to J. Caldwell
in rhetoric; John Carroll Paine, Vir-
ginia, premium ; premium to 3. G. Agar
of Louisiana; distinguished mention to
J. Carroll Paine, Virginia; premium to
E. R. Bell, Maryland.
Sanitary Matters.
The mails for the Navy Department
from the South Atlantic stations have
not yet arrived, though hourly expected ;
therefore the department has no official
advices of the existence of yellow fever
in United States vessels in those waters
Private dispatches here to-day by an offi
cer from a brother officer at Rio, dated
May [23, report that the yellow fever
was raging at that place, and the num
ber of deaths daily was from ten to fif-
teen. During the first half of the month
192 deaths were reported. On the United
States steamship Lancaster several cases
are reported. There had been much
sickness on board that vessel. On the
Brooklyn several cases were reported,
and two sailors died in April. She ar
rived av Rio May 20, and was reported
by the surgeon ss being in good sanitary
condition. There were a few rases on
the Monongahela, but no deaths.
Sioux Commission.
Washington, June 25.—Bishop Ames
is a member of the Sioux Indian Commis-
sion.
Yellow Fever at Rio.
The following is official:
F. A. Roe, commanding the Lancaster,
reports the arrival of that vessel at Bahia,
Brazil, 9th May, from Rio, 22d April, en
route home ; ye'low fever broke out 20th
April, Lieutenant Bolles being the first
attacked ; on the 28th the Master. J. B.
Burdock, Medical Inspector E. R. Dinby,
and the Fleet Surgeon were reported
down ; Bolles died 2d May ; Dinby on the
3d; on the same day B. F. Fassig, assist-
ant surgeon, was attacked and removed
to the hospital and died on the 10th. No
other cases appeared on the Lancaster,
and it appeared she was free from the
disease. A later dispatch from Captain
Roe, May 18, says, since Dr. Fassig was
attacked no other cases have appeared,
and there are no symptoms at present.
He expected to leave for the United
States May 20.
A private letter from Rio reported ten
cases and two deaths on the Brooklyn,
and one death on the Monongahela, that
of S. M. Coleman, secretary to Admiral
LeRoy.
Called In.
Washington, J une 24.—The Secretary
of the Treasury has called in five mil-
lions of the fourth series of bonds of May
1, 1862, upon which interest ceases the
24th day of September.
Indian Affairs.
The Indian Bureau does not credit the
report that all the Sioux are on the war
path. They believe that neither Spotted
Tail or Red Cloud's men are engaged in
any warlike demonstrations.
Public Buildings.
The work on the public buildings at
Chicago have been stopped on account of
the unfavorable report of the committee
regarding the foundation and material.
Personal.
Washington, June 24.—The Post-
master General returns to morrow.
The Attorney General and Secretary of
the Treasury have returned.
CASUALTIES.
Further Particulars or tlie Late
Earthquake.
New York, June 24—The steamship
at this port from Maracaibo brought fur-
ther particulars concerning the recent
terrible earthquake which destroyed the
town of Cucuta, in New Grenada. From
persons who had reached Maracaibo from
Cucuta shortly before the steamer sailed,
it was learnid that the disaster was much
greater than at first supposed.
Cucuta, and surrounding villages with-
in a radius of twenty miles, were com-
pletely destroyed by the severity of the
shock. Many losses of life and property
was also occasioned by rain and by bands
of robbers, who organized immediately
after the shock had passed away, for the
purpose of plundering houses prostrated.
Th>j custom-house and coffee warehouses
in Los Cochas were the first attacked
by a band of these marauders, but were
driven off before any serious damage
had been done by them, and forces have
now been organized in the neighboring
cities and towns and sent to the scene of
the disaster, for the purpose of protect-
ing the lives and property of those who
had escaped the effects of the shock.
Fire Record.
Quebec, June 24.—The College of St.
Theresa Village, together with fifteen
other houses, was destroyed by fire this
morning. Loss not ascertained.
Providence, R. I., Juno 24.—A. large
woolen mill and building contiguous at
Mystic bridge burned.
Run Over and Killed.
Chattanooga, June 24.—A carpenter,
named P. C. Drew, from Lynchburg, was
run over and fatally injured by the
switch engine while walking on the
track.
CRIMINALITIES.
Murder and Suicide.
New York, June 24.—An unknown
man, about 40 years of age, brown hair,
having three fingers missing from his
right hand, hired a boat at the Battery,
and accompanied by a woman, who gave
her name as Sophie Schedler, aged 24
years, rowed to the middle of the river,
ostensibly for the purpose of visiting
some islands. When more than half
way across, the man took out a revolver
and fired three times at the woman, the
balls entering her leg, abdomen and arm.
He then shot himself in the breast, and
died immediately.
Tlie Case of Tweed.
New York,J June 24.—Judge Dona-
hue issued an order returnable Monday,
for the reduction of Tweed's three mil-
lion bond. The counsel claim that the
bail is excessive and unconstitutional.
Judge Neilson charged the jury with a
long review of the evidence, and the
jury retired.
GENERAL NEWS.
Indian Affairs.
Omaha, J une 24.—Prominent frontiers-
men and army officers express the opin-
ion that there will be great trouble with
the Sioux, Cheyennes and Arapahoes
this summer and fall. At least five large
war parties have left the reservations
during the last two weeks. The cavalry
in this department are unable to keep
them on the reservation. Through a
limited number, it will be impossible for
the Boldiers to guard the Black Hills
and attend to the Indians.
Alleged Poisoning.
New York, June 24.—In the case of
the alleged poisoning of Mrs. Fallon in
Jersey City, June 10, by John Moran,
the coroner's jury to-day returned a ver-
dict of death by taking Paris green ad-
ministered by an unknown person, and
censured city physician Petrie for neg-
lect of proper attention on the deceased.
Moran was discharged from the coroner's
custody, but was rearrested on a bench
warrant to await the action of the grand
jury.
Editorial Excursionists.
Cumberland, Md., June 24.—The
Pennsylvania Editorial Excursion party
arrived from Bedford to-day, and were
welcomed by the City Council and citi-
zens generally. After dining at the
Queen City Hotel, they left for Frostburg
and Bedford. There were about 200 in
the party.
Personal.
Philadelphia, June 24.—Rear Ad-
miral John J. E. Camp, aged 64 years, is
dead.
Specie Shipments.
New York, June 24.—Specie ship-
ments to-day amounted to $300,000.
FOREIGN.
England.
London, June 24.—It is reported that
the Marquis of Lome and his wife, the
Princess Louise, intend making a tour of
the United States.
London, June 24.—Lady Franklin is
hopelessly ill. She bade farewell yester
day to the commander of the Pandora,
which went in search of relics of the
Franklin expedition, and on other ex
ploring voyages.
London, June 24.—The revivalists
have closed their meeting in Liverpool.
The expense incurred exceeded eight
thousand dollars.
London, June 24.—The Carlist com-
mittee here announce that they have re
ceived information of a victory by their
forces over the Alfonsists at Castle Nile.
Nine are said to have been captured.
Germany.
Berlin, J une 24 —The case of Count
von Arnim has bt en decided by the Kam-
merighet. He was convicted of abstract
ing, with intent, State {papers of the
character of public deeds, entrusted to
him, and sentenced to nine months im-
prisonment, including the month that has
already expired. The Count declares
that there was no ground for the charge
of embezzlement against the public or-
der.
France.
Paris, June 24.—The river Garonne
continues to rise. Several persons were
drowned by the inundation of the adja-
cent country.
memorandums on Agricultural
Subjects.
by dr. ashbel smith.
I propose to submit to you for the
News a few memorandums, if they are
worth printing, on agricultural subjects.
And first of what will be considered
minor matters.
bad garden seeds.
The complaint has been general—uni-
versal, so far as I know—among my
neighbors that the seeds bought of the
dealers in garden seeds would not germi-
nate, or, at most, a very insignificant pro-
portion of each paper. I have bought
seeds of four different dealers, in Hous-
ton and Galveston. Except a few binds
bought of a wholesale dealer, it would
be a large estimate to suppose that one
in fifty, or one in a hundred of the seeds
germinated. I tried seeds grown, or pur-
porting to have been grown,in the West-
ern SLates; they proved no better than
others. We in* the country suspect, as
the only explanation that occurs to us,
that a few fresh seeds have been mixed
with old shopkeepers. It seems prob-
able, unless this matter mend, that, we
shall be compelled to grow our own
seed.
home grown potatoes for seed.
Tbis suggests to me to state that I
have never seen in any part of the world
better potatoes than are now being dug
at the Orphan Home, grown from pota-
toes raised at the Home last year. They
are of large and uniform size ; healthy,
free from all disease; cook dry and
mealy, and of excellent flavor. Ten of
them, selected, weighed upward of seven
pounds. As stated, the seed from which
these came were potatoes grown at the
Home last year. Col. James Morgan used
to grow several succcssive crops of Irish
potatoes of superior quality from home-
grown seed on his place near Washing-
ton. The common opinion that seeds
generally required to be changed occa-
sionally, is very probably a correct one.
It is something gained if potatoes of our
own home growth will serve for two or
three only for seed, so as to save the ne-
cessity of buvhig Northern potatoes for
seed every year. The amount of money
paid in Houston this year for Irish pota-
toes for seed, as I am informed by the
merchants of that city, exceeds many
times what one would suspect. It
amounts to thousands of dollars.
The subject of seeds generally is one
of much importance to us and much neg-
lected by us. For nearly all the smaller
garden seeds, the cost of the little pa-
pers of them is so small, that it is one of
the very few cases where it is better
economy to buy them, when good, than
to grow them for individual use. But
there is scarcely a seed that occurs to me
now which we can not grow here with
care In selection and saving, fully equal
in all respects to any that can be im-
ported. It is often said, for example,
that beet -seed or good quality can not
be grown here. I have grown on the
bay, in years goijf by, as good lively
beet seed, as proved by planting them,
as I have ever seen. I know, in regard
to the important crop of cotton, that
using the care in selection for seed that
is used by cotton-seed sellers in
the older States, we can develop
in Texas a better cotton than
can be grown from seed from Georgia or
elsewhere. Some plants have a tendency
to adapt the period of their growth to
the length of the senson during which
they can grow and fit themselves in other
respects to the climate. For instance,
Northern Indian corn, in this climate,
gradually increases its period for matur-
ing, and also the size of its stalk. Earlier
maturing and smaller stalks may make
it advisable to occasionally renew seed
corn from colder latitudes. With a few
such exceptions, we are wholly independ-
ent of seeds grown elsewhere, if we
choose to grow them at home.
seedlings—peach trees.
For years Southern agricultural jour-
nals have cautioned our people against
untrustworthy peddlers of worthless fruit
trees. The caution has, doubtless, been
needed. But this caution is far from
covering all the causes (or even the prin-
cipal one) of dissatisfaction with import-
ed fruit treeB. Home grown seedlings
are much better in almost every, if not
in every respect, than any imported treesJ
whether budded or grafted, or not.
proceed to the specification of facts. By
seedlings I mean now seedlings grown
from the fruit of choice seedling trees.
It is a common error to suppose that in
the case of peach trees, like does not pro
duce its like. In the grafted or budded
tree, this is true. Fruit from the grafted
tree, when it germinates at all, produces
a seedling whose fruit appears as if
caused by the veriest haphazard imagin-
able—perhaps the fruit of the original
stock or some worthless hybrid be-
tween it and the grafted fruit. That
the fruit of the seedling repro-
duces the fruit of the parent tree
in almost every case, I know from abun-
dant personal observation. Thirty-six or
thirty-eight years ago, Mrs. McKerley
had a famous peach orchard on Spring
Creek, in Harris county—the large,
juicy, red meat, sound Indian peach. I
brought home a quantity of the peach
stones; the fruit from these seedlings
was uniformly the Indian peach, liko that
of the parent trees. On this place, where
there are orchards some of whose trees
are over thirty-five years old, I have had
numerous opportunities to verifyithe fact
of like producing like. The seedling
peach tree as compared with the imported
tree, is hardier, a more abundant bearer,
misses bearing much less frequently, and
by long odds a much longer lived tree,
much less liable to disease. I have trees
over thirty years old, that don't fail of
a crop one year in ten. In regard to
quality of fruit, grafted fruit ought
scarcely to be superior to that from seed-
lings. Yet this is far from being uni-
formly the fact, and need never be so
where care is used in selecting trees
from whose fruit seedlings are grown.
The best peachers I have ever eaten
were from native trees in Mississippi,
a few miles to the east or in
rear of Rodney. A better peach from
native seedlings can be got in the be-lt
of country including Limestone and Na
varro, and probably in other districts of
our State, than can be shown from any
imported trees. The most magnificent
peach for canning and preserving which
I ever saw—for size, soundness and qual-
ity—I met with at the house of Colonel
Prendergast, some three years ago, in
Robertson county. He informed me that
it is native to that district, by which I
mean grown on seedlings raised there,
My own trees, seedlings of my own grow-
ing, have furnished me for more than
thirty years with peaches which would
be esteemed excellent in any market in
the world. To succeed in this matter, as
in anything else, selection and subse
quent care are necessary.
When we consider the long time the
ripe apple may be kept before decaying
it may be placed first among fruits,
am not familiar with the apple tree.
But a statement was made to me a while
since which may be of such practical
suggestion that I give it for what it is
worth. It was made to me by a farmer,
born in Pennsylvania, who lived many
years in Iowa, and lately removed to
Texas. He said that when he went to
Iowa, at its first settlement, it was not con-
sidered an "apple country." Many young
apple trees were imported then from
the older States and planted, but they
proved uniformly failures. Subsequently
they got into the way of growing seed-
ling apple trees, and the part of Iowa
where he lived became a great apple
country. If such is fact, and surely I
have no reason to doubt my informant,
it may embody an important suggestion.
Evergreen, Harris county, June 4,1875.
Personal.
Correspondent " Laurel," writing from
Fairbury, Nebraska, under date of June
15th, speaking of tlie arrest of two men
for horse stealing, says : Otto Demart,
the eldest of the two i& a stout built,
dark complexioned man, and claims to
be an old Texan ranger.
Admiral James Alden, United States
Navy, commandant of the Washington
Navy Yard, is staying at the United
States Hotel, Saratoga. Admiral Alden
shelled the streets of Galveston during
the war, and in turn received a shot be-
tween wind Bnd water, which made him
haul off for repairs.
The body of John Blackford, an Ameri-
can, has recently been found in a large
ice block in the neighborhood of Mont
Blanc, after several days of thaw. The
unfortunate tourist tried three years ago
to ascend Mont Blanc wilhout a guide,
and was never heard of. His features
and clothes are said to be perfectly pre-
served.
Ex-Gov. English and son, of New
Haven, who recently made a visit to
Texas, sailed on Wednesday last for a
trip of several months in Europe. Ex-
Gov. English has presented the library of
Yale College with $1000, to be used for
the purchase of a complete collection of
the parliamentary papers of Great Brit-
ain, from 1865 to 1873. There are 742
volumes in the collection, bound in half
parchment, and nearly all of folio size.
A unique and serviceable covering
for floors, and known as " wooden car-
peting," is being introduced. It is
composed of slats of ash and walnut
glued or cemented upon a cloth back-
ing. These slats or strips of wood,
being of different colors, are arranged
to produce all the effects of tesselated
floors, mosaic work, etc., and as they
are about a quarter of an inch thick
will, it is believed, wear many years.
They are finished in oil, and are made
to fit so tightly that the joints are as
perfect as those of inlaid work. The
surface of the material can therefore
be scrubbed, washed, and oiled when
necessary, precisely like o'her floors
made of ornamental woods, which
floors they resemble in all respects
when laid. A valuable advantage
posaessed by this kind of carpeting is
that the canvas deadens the sound
usually produced by walking on other
floors.
In Madison, Wisconsin, dwells a
young man who Is a model of pride,
humility and independence. He pre-
fers to get his education through the
agency of his own industry rather than
accept the al<3 proffered him Dy his
father. Why or wherefore does not
appear, but such is the case. In order
to carry out his laudable principles he
does the washing, on Monday, for his
mother, she paying him the same as
she would the washer-woman, and he
finds the proceeds sufficient to pay for
his schooling every week. Washing,
rinsing one's way into Virgil and Eu-
clid is a process sufficiently novel to
merit the admiration of the world at
large. We infer that he will iron his
way into Greek, ruffle himself over the
difficulties of Homer, and clear-starch
himself into Hebrew.
Cheap Advertisement Column.
NOTICE.
Important Difference.
Levi S. Stockwell, Treasurer of that
wealthy corporation—the Howe Sewing
Machine Company—has been drawn out
by a letter from one of his agents to
make a statement.
He claims a gross misrepresentation of
his Company's sales for the year 1874,
by a flourishing competitor making a cor-
rection of 108,136 for the 35,000 ma-
chines represented as sold. The number
of men employed, and other things con-
sidered, this astonishing record of sales
is unparalleled. Nor can we be sur-
prised at this most emphatic exhibition
of popular favor, for who can doubt the
superiority of a machine that was the in
vention and has received the lifetime at-
tention of the " greatest mechanical
genius of the age," Elias Howe, origi-
nal sewing machine inventor ? Their
representative here is Hamilton Blagge
Postoffice street.
ADVERTISEMENTS UNDER THE HEAD
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etc., not more than three lines, seven words to a
Une, one inscrtitm, BO cents; each subsequent
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FOR SALE-FOB RENT.
JIOR SALE—Or exchange for smaller pro-
perty, an East Strand corner lot, with
two-story house aud cottage. Apply to
H M. TRUEHEART & CO.,
je25 It Real Estate Agents.
IX)R SALE CHEAP—A Fruit and Soda Water
Stand on a prominent corner, doing a good
business. Address P. O. Box H86. jelb 8t
MARKETS.
Domestic.
New York, June 24—Noon—Flour is quiet
and steady. Wheat is dull and declining.
Corn dull and heavy, 80@85c. Lard is firm
Pork firm, $19 85@*20. Freights firm.
Gold opened at 117)£.
New York,.)une 24.— Flour steady; common
to fair oxtra $5 90@5 85; good to choice $5 90
©8 25. Wheat heavy and lc lower; moderate
business; $1 28@1 34 winter red Western
$1 35@l 37 for amber. Corn fully lc lower
and little more doiug; 80@81Xc for steam
Western mixed; 82(&8uc sail do; S4c fancy
yollow; 85c white; S0@8l for steam and sail
Wee tern mixed in store. Coffee, Rio steady;
cargoes quiet at lti©;18?£c gold; job lots 16@
@19^ gold. Sugar quiet; 7j£ fair to good
refining; 8%c prime;9^c centrifugal. Molas-
ses, .grocery grades dull, 45@55c for Porto
Rico;70@75c for New Orleans. Rice steady
and in fair demand; common to choice
6%, Tallow firm: 8jgc. Rosin. $1 70<&1 75,
strained. Turpentine 31^. Pork firm; §19 93
f^20 00. Lard 13>£c for prime steam. Whisky
1 19J£. Freights irregular and unsettled.
New OBLIAKL June 2s—Flour dull and
lower; superfine $4 50; X $4 75; XX $5; XXX
$5 25@6; choice family $6 25. Oats supply
good; 68@70c. Bran 95. Hay dull ; prime $25;
choice $26@27 00. Lard dull; tierce 14}£c.
Coffee is quiet; quoted fair to prime at 17>£@
18^c, cold, cargoes. Pork held higher, $20 00
@20 50, as in weight. Bacon, stock small, 9)4
13^c. Dry-salt meats dull, 8>£, 1%, 1J£, 12>£c.
Hams, fair demand, I3@13&c, Whisky quiet,
$1 19@1 22. Corn meal dull, $4 10 Sugar-
none coming in; jobbing 8c; low fair to rully
fair 8©9c; prime 9^@9>£c. Molasses—none
coming in, and nothing doing; 40@50c.
Foreign.
Paris, June 24—Noon.—Rentes, 64f. 25c.
Public Resort!*.
BANK EXCHANGE,
Nos. 112 aud 114 Market Street,
(Opposite News office.)
This magnificent and costly fitted up BAR
and BILLIARD HALL is now opened to the
publio. The large and well ventilated Billiard
Hall is furnished with twelve of the latest
style of Novelty tables, and the Bar and Cigar
Stand are stocked with the choicest brands of
imported liquors and cigars.
The proprietors have spared neither labor
nor expense to make the
BANK EXCHANGE
one of the most beautiful and attractive
establishments of the kind in the United
States, and will be pleased at all times to
welcome their friends and the public In gen-
eral. HARLAN, DUFFISU) & CO.
mh20 6m
T^OR SALE—A Concoxd Buggy and double
- set harness.
je24 Iw j. L. McKEEN.
IIOR SALE—Pair of Ponies and Phaeton,
suitable for a lady's use. Inquire of
PHILIP C. TUCKER, cor. 35th st. and Ave. P.
jU/B SALE —FIVE THOUSAND CYPRESS
FENCE POSTS,
At Lumber yfard corner Broadway and 23th
ktreet. Price, 15 to 40 cents. Also, a large
ot of Cypress PICKE ITS. my30 lm*
For sale on easy terms—^ew cot
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on Victoria avenue, bet. 18th and 19th.
Eight rooms, and outhouses; carpets fitted.
For sale to tenant. Apply to
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je24 Iw* Postoffice st., near Tremont.
IX}R RENT—A cottage with four rooms
and kitchen.
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Fine stable attached. Cool, airy location;
convenient to beach. Apply to
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FOR RENT—A Cottage House on Avenue
L, between 21st and 22d streets, by J. M.
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LOST—On the Beach, opposite Broadway,
on Tuesday night, a
LADY'S BREASTPIV.
The finder will be rewarded by leaving samo
at this office.
MELONS ON ICE can be had any time dur-
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Consignments of fruit solicited. Half-bushel
peach baskets furnished to those who con-
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Tlie Best, Purest and Health-
iest Beer in Market.
IT HAS NO EQUAL.
Recommended by the highest medical author-
ities in the country.
SOLD BY ALL. LEADING GROCERS.
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gLESSING & BRO.,
PIIOTOGRAPIlEliS,
174 Tremont Street, (Cp Stairs.)
PORTRAITS of all SIZES Mid STYLES.
Best work>t moderate prices. Eefer to our
reputation as a guarantee.
FRAMES, ALBUMS, STEREOSCOPIC
VIEWS and PHOTOGRAPHIC GOODS.
Same entrance as WilsontSewing Machines.
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Educational.
rj\EXAS MILITARY INSTITUTE.
AUSTIN, TEXAS.
Academic Staff*. #
COL. JOHN G. JAMKS— Superintendent and
Professor of Mathematics, llistory and Liter-
ature .
COL. F. W. JAMES—Commandant of Ca-
dets, and Professor of Military Tactics and
Engineering.
MAJOR II. H. D1NWIDDIE—Professor of
Chemistry, Physics and Drawing.
MAJOR R. L. BROCKENBROUGH—Profes-
sor of Ancient Languages.
MAJOR W. L. WHITAKER—Professor of
Modern Languages.
J. B. SHEPHERD, M. D.—Post Surgeon.
E. T. DeNORMANDIE—Post Adjutant.
The Eighth AnnualJSession commences
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 6,1875, and continues
forty weeks. A limited number of scholar-
ships will be sold for unimproved lands, well
located. Cataloeues sent on application.
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Herman - American Ladies' College,
AUSTIN, TEXAS.
The aim of this Institute is to afford young
ladies a course of instruction which is in full
harmony with all the requirements of modern
education. The pupils are carefully taught
the English, German, French, Spanish and
Latin languages, as well as all the elementary
and higher brenches by seven experienced
teachers. For further information appply to
the Principals.
NATALIE VON SCHENCK & ALICE NOHL.
References.
GALVESTON.
Leon & H. Blufti,
Ph. Vogel,
E. S. Fletcher,
llenry Schulte,
H. C. L. At-choff,
Ball, Hutchings & Co.
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AUSTIN.
Raymond & Whitis,
Dr. M. A. Taylor,
Sam. Friedberger,
Moureau & Koerber,
Er. D. R. Wallace,
Dr. W. Dohmen.
Depot for fancy styles—
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