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Friday, December 8, 1882.
A woodcut of Senator Coke, presented in a
political organ printed at Washington city,
suggests the idea of fewer woodcuts and
better.
Clayton McMichael, editor and proprie-
tor of the Philadelphia North American, is the
successor of Henry as marshal of the District
of Columbia.
Ay Eastern astronomer asked the prayers of
the clergy for fine weat her during the transit
of Venus. Of course, the astronomers, what-
ever their faith, (lid not neglect to keep their
in * ruments in good order. The weather can
not be the same ail the world over.
The Executive Committee of the Western
Union Telegraph company adopted some
pointed resolutions declaring that telegraphic
correspondence passing through its offices is
and must be kept secret under a rule which
the company has steadily maintained.
Governor Stephen's, of G* >rgia, is showing
a merciful disposition that is calling forth a
good deal of criticism in his State. Thus early
in his term he has pardoned twentry-five crimi-
nals, some of them under sentence of death
for murder. Two of these, who had been con-
victed of a horrible assassination, were re-
fused pardons by Governor Colquitt.
The government, ought to offer chromos to those
who read the whole of the president's message.
[Mobile Register.
►Si ill m ^st people would prefer to go without
the chromo on the terms suggested. Some ex-
change papers found room for the message by
excluding news and editorials, thus making
the papers dccidedly monochromatic for that
occasion.
The announcement of Democrats in the present
house that they will resist all efforts to revise the
tariff bv the present Congress, shows how hollow
nre their professions of anxiety to relieve the peo-
ple or some of the burdens of taxation. [Boston
Journal.
Will the Journal please inform us how many
Democrats have made such an announcement?
[Mobile Register.
And how is it that the Republicans have so
long fought to continue those burdens?
ing about the revolution of 1848. He was for
a short time connected with the provisional
government which followed, but was soon
marked for prosecution, and escaped to Eng-
land. where he remained till the downfall of
Napoleon III. Then lie returned to France
and was chosen a member of the National
Assembly. He kept clear of the commune.
His full name was .Tean Joseph Louis Blanc.
It is tted in Washington correspondence
that Dr. Bliss will ot accept the ? "500 award-
ed lum for doctoring the late President Gar-
field, but will bring suit for a larger sum, on
the ground that he suffered for a time from
blood poisoning after the termination of the
cose. He got his hand pois" d with, some of
the virulent matter from the wound. It was
understood that all the doctors filed a release
of their claims. If so, the fact may bar Dr.
Bliss out of further claim, as it was cei tainly
intended to do. But doubtless he can plead
that he received 110 consideration for such re-
lease.
The New Orleans Daily States considers that
the sugar-planters of Louisiana have been
duped, and that they will shortly be injured
by the protective policy of the Republican par-
ty, which, as regards sugar, is tending toward
free sugar for Eastern refinei*s. It says:
Any considerable reduction in the tariff on sugar,
unless that reduction be accompanied by a reduc-
♦ion of the tariff on the prohibitorily protected
thousand and one articles the sugar planters pur-
chase and use, will be a death-blow to the sugar
planting interests of the South. No such cor-
responding reduction is recommended or desired,
and heave thy president and Mr. Raum place the
administration and the Republican party in the at-
titude ot waging a war of extermination in the in-
n-rest of the sugar-refining link of the mighty ring
of monopolistic manufacturers.
It will indeed be very hard for the sugar-
planters if they have to pay high duties on all
manufactures they use while getting no pro-
tective sugar. They will then feel what the
cotton-planters have had to bear. A fellow
feeling may ultimately induce the people to
combine and destroy the partial and unjust
system that fosters monopolies. Sugar-plant-
ers have stood in with the monopolists thus
far.
Observing that railroad management is be-
coming more and more complicated, that ono
point of difference after another has arisen be-
tween the roads, and that, though mutual
agreements are reached, the process is passing
beyond the scope of amicable adjustment, the
St. Louis Globe-Democrat draws the inference
that state or congressional aid will be asked
before very long by the railroad men them-
selves for the protection of their property
against the effects of the ruinous competition
which ensues when pools and agreements are
broken. A state of affairs will be reached
where some decisive authority must be appeal-
ed to, and among the managers themselves
there is no such authority. The power of the
commissioners appointed by the roads has
nothing to sustain it against revolt. It seems
to be tolerably evident that separate State
authority is not sufficiently Extended for com-
prehensive regulation, therefore the inference
is that congressional regulation will be de-
manded, if the roads get ready to do as the
above mentioned journal supposes.
We would have wool, cotton, tobacco, hemp,
ores anil crops all alike " protected " to the extent
that a tariff for revenue system must be pro-
tective, and not have the whole country pay
tribute, as to-day, to one corner of it or to any
special class inhabiting it. [American Register.
Thus the somewhat indorsed Democratic
party organ at the capital assumes that a tariff
for revenue must be incidentally protective—
a decided misconception, which may be
honestly entertained by those who have not
investigated the subje t, and which is indus
triously disseminated by persons interested in
maintaining the protective system.
It is a not uncommon remark among politi-
cians and in political papers that "nothing can
be done at tnis brief session." If so, Congress
ought to adjourn at once. If, instead of parti-
sans going to Washington to spend two or
three months in caucusing and studying how
to do a very little and throw the responsibility
upon their opponents, parties were upon a
proper footing of responsibility to public opin-
ion, it might be expected that party leaders
would have their plans arranged, in which case
two months would suffice for as much legisla
tion as the country needs for a year.
Johann Most, the recently imprisoned edi-
tor of a nihilistic German paper for some time
printed in London, sailed for New York toward
the end of November. Most is a small potato,
and Justus Schwab writes his eulogy. Most
complains that when he was in a British prison
for expressing approval of the assassination of
the czar he was treated like a common crim-
inal, not allowed to drink and smoke and have
other luxuries. Most was a -common criminal
and deserved all the punishment he got, but
In striking contrast with red-headed party-
ism of all brands is the calm and judicial atti-
tude of a considerable portion not merely of
the metropolitan but of the country press,
doubtless reflecting the views of a majority of
voters, who will henceforth judge of parties
more by their work than by their names .and
professions. A copy of the Oneonta (N. Y.)
Herald and Democrat of a recent date reflects
this spirit. It remarks that the New York
Tribune enters into an elaborate calculation
to show that there " were CO,000 Republican
votes for Cleveland." That is to say, that 60,-
000 Republicans were led to vote against the
ticket because their own faction failed to
carry the State convention. Having devel-
oped this fact, the Tribune should now ap-
prise its readers that there are at least
sixty thousand Republicans more, who, should
the bolters of this year succeed in carrying the
next state convention, will undoubtedly repay
in kind the men who betrayed them. Suggest-
ing then that it is a serious question whether
the numerous body of Conservative Republi-
cans will be able to restore the peace between
the wrangling factions, it adds that a quarrel
between Democratic factions may enable the
Republicans to triumph notwithstanding di-
visions in their own ranks, or the Democrats
may be overwhelmed by bossism, and con-
cludes:
That with a fair administration of their trust and
with harmony in their couucils, their prospect
would be better than that of their opponents, it
would be vain to deny. Nor while they make good
use of their power will the average citizen be-
grudge them success.
Such a tone of comment is happily becoming
general or very frequent in States where the
passions of sectional antagonism have been
rampant. The men who are guided by reason
and justice, and inove'd by feelings ef concilia
fcion, now feel called upon to come to the front.
As the press is sustained in building upon a
real union of the people of all sections upon
this foundation, political discussion and the
activities of political parties, as means of pre-
senting programmes of action for the choice
and ratification of the people, can be made
really useful, but not otherwise.
monopolies advertising for com-
petition.
The North Side rolling mills of Chicago hare
closed down for want of work. The South Side
mills are still running, claiming to be able to
manufacture $5 cheaper per ton on account of
improved machinery. This fact is suggestive
of the influence of protection in rendering
managers indifferent to invention. Human
nature is so conservative that business is gen-
erally allowed to jog along in old ruts until
competition and the difficulty of getting good
prices stimulates efforts to discover and apply
new and economical processes. The protective
system keeps up prices for the manufacturers
and renders them content with methods more
or less wasteful. Such is the inevitable tendency
of the system as applied to such industries as
iron aud steel manufacture. In regard to sugar-
making from the ribbon-cane it is naturally
the same, but there is another aspect of the
sugar-making business which deserves to
be noted in connection with protection. By
way of illustrative comparison the fact may
be recalled that a few years ago the farmers
of the Northwestern States kept a considerable
number of sheep and exerted all their influence
in favor of levying a duty on raw wool. They
were successful, and the result has been to
give them certainly a better market for fine
sheep to ship to the Southwest, but not to in-
crease their receipts from wool, rather to en-
courage the competition which has sprung up
rapidly in the more newly peopled section.
Neither of these results was one which the
Northwestern farmers designed. It is not per-
ceived that they are better off for the prosecu-
tion of their agitation to success. The
sugar-makers of Louisiana doubtless reck-
on without the landlord in a matter
which is not- far distant. They have at present
the advautage of a degree of protection which
adds about three cents per pound to every
pound of refined sugar of the best grade sold at
retail, and taxes the American people for
each dollar that the sugar interest of this coun-
try receives. Do they hope to supply a larger
and still larger proportion of the demand if the
tariff is continued as at present i Perhaps they
have forgotten that the very stimulus equiva-
lent to a bounty on their industry is calcu-
lated to tempt the ingenuity which is now en-
gaged in experiments for the production of
sugar from sorghum and corn-stalks. It is
probable that t*he sugar-planters of
Louisiana will find this to be no
chimera, but a solid fact of portentous
weight in the eventual resolution of a matter
of public interest. It has been demonstrated
that under the encouragement given by the
tariff sugar can be profitably manufactured
from both the above mentioned plants, which
grow in the Northern States. The beet may
probably be added as a factor in the operation,
affecting the issue in a practical degree. Fig-
ures given in regard to sorghum and corn-stalks
show the possibility of obtaining an abundanee
of fine sugar from both sources. American
skill and ingenuity have already practically
solved the problem, and it may not be many
years before the production from these plants
will as effectually settle the price of sugar as
a repeal of the tariff law would settle it. The
case differs from that of iron in
the particular which may be most
vexatious to the Louisiana sugar
monopolists, but gratifying to the consumers,
the varied and illimitable sources of supply,
and presumably in the further particular that
less capital will be required for the manufac-
ture, while the sale of the finished article will
be practicable in any community in small as
well as large quantities, whereas in the iron
business one huge set of works succeeds an-
other in the business of converting the raw
material into finished products, and monopoly
is so far triumphant through tne ease with
which a moderate number of wealthy firms
combine. If, in the course of invention, some
cheaper way shall be found of extracting the
pure iron in small quantities from its raw
condition, the iron monopolies would doubtless
be broken up, as The News anticipates that
the cane sugar monopoly will be broken up in
the manner here outlined.
from the appraisement and sale of lands, the
two classes of business, it is argued, ought to
be separated. That is all true enough., and yet
it is conceivable .that system in the lar d office
might keep them apart.
the penitentiary and convict
labor problem.
The new ?ease of the Texas penitentiaries
will yield the State a rental of §20,000 per
annum, or $10,000 for each of the two prisons.
The lease that expires the first of January
proximo- yields about $65,000 per annum. It
is understood that the lessees have been able to
pay the State this large rental, at the same
time providing generously for the convicts,
and yet have realized large profits. If this be
so, the public will want to know who gets the
consideration for the reduction of the rental.
If it be the State, where does it come in? A
difference of $45,000 per annum in the price
paid for convict labor, when the demand for it
is yearly increasing, ought to be, other things
equal, in the way of an advanced instead of
reduced rental. Such would be expected if the
transaction were between individual contract-
ors. But the State is one of the parties to the
contract, and the State is usually an unfor-
tunate trader. Leaving out of question the
fact that this new lease, if approved by the
-legislature, is a virtual abandonment of the
policy of withdrawing the convicts from out-
side camps and plantations, it is still, on its
face, obnoxious, because it is a bad trade for
the State. No one will attach blame
to the contractors. They are not ex-
pected to represent the States interests, but
this much may be said for them, that
under the new contract they can better afford
to provide for the comfort and the safe-keep-
ing of the convicts, and to retain a larger
number of them in the prisons. The contract,
doubtless, has provisions in it looking to such
results, but the expiring contract also contains
stipulations of a like character. Not less than
$400,000 have been expended in the last seven
years to provide prison room and machinery
for convicts, with the avowed object of with-
drawing them from outside labor; and yet in
1876 there were within the walls as many as
there are now, or at least within 150 of that
number. It is evident that unless the legisla-
ture compels a different policy for the gov-
ernment. no administration is likely to enforce
any stipulation in the lease that conflicts with
the interests of the lessees involved in this
question of hiring the convicts outside the
walls. Lessees can always bring a timid peni-
tentiary board to its knees by threatening to
turn over the whole thing to the State. It may
safely be assumed, then, that all ideas of a
,change in the status of the labor is to be
abandoned, and the only question is whether
the new contract, with no such change in
prospect, is acceptable. That is as far as legis-
lative inquiry will proceed, for the influence
of the lessees aud of the State admistra-
tion will doubtless oppose any wide departure
from the present system. There may be bills
introduced by some of the colored members
which would require the State to resume con-
trol of prisons and convicts and to confine the
latter within the penitentiaries, and with cap-
tious containing denunciations of the system
and of the conflict between free and convict
labor. Indeed, the contractors could afford to
promote attempts of the kind from such quar-
ters. If the contract just made is rejected it
will be a surprise, but no one in that event will
expect the legislature to follow up the re-
jection of it with legislation of a character cal-
culated to solve the question of the best
methods of employing convict labor and of
managing state prisons. A wise, just, satis-
factory and final settlement of such questions
is doubtless one of the eventualities that must
await the day of a far higher grade of general
education and of a far wider range of enlighten-
ment in political economy, social scieuce and
the philosophy of criminal jurisprudence.
THE
WHARF
RAILROADS AND THE
COMPANY.
The railroad right of way question through
the city of Galveston threatens to come to an
unsatisfactory end in all directions through in-
ability to deal with it on the part of the City
Council. In the presence of importunities
from the railroad company seeking access over
a certain route to terminal facilities at the east
end, and of desultory protests on the part of
citizens whose property is affected thereby, the
chances are that the City Council will prove
unable to deal satisfactorily with the question.
The subject is one that the council may not be
competent to handle. In its present stage, nev-
ertheless, the question is before that body for
adjudication and it is a vitally important
one. It is not unreasonable to assume
that the Gould system and the Tex-
as Central railroad will very short-
ly desire terminal facilities at Gal-
veston, unhampered with expensive
restrictions. It is to be supposed, likewise,
that in a short time the Mexican railway sys-
tem will require facilities of the same kind, as
will also the Southern Pacific of California.
What are the people of Galveston to do about
it, supposing that this much railroad luck
should be in store for the city? If these or
other enterprises are to be denied right of way
through the city to the cheapest an l most com-
modious positions on the island for the trans-
action of terminal business, what prospect is
there of Galveston becoming a great railroad
terminus? The question which presents itself
is. shall all railroads entering tue city be re-
stricted to right of way from west to east of
the island on the lme of the bay shore, or shall
they be permitted to run through the city on
any avenue or street that each may select?
If a specific right of this character is
granted in the case of one railroad there is no
reason why another railroad should not de-
mand and expect similar privileges. Tne un-
derstanding to be come at is as to whether the
bay shore shall be made the general railroad
route. Ail will admit that A vould be a mis-
take to select a route upon ajy of the other
streets or avenues if this bay shore line is
available for general railroad purposes. The
avenue A and bay shore lme will never be a
residence portion of the city. Of course, if
this route can not be used for the complete
accommodation of the railway system termin-
ating here, then other avenues and streets will
be used without regard to private preferences.
Upon this point there must be no mistake
made. It appears, however, that the line of
the bay shore is amply sufficient for every
prospective railroad that will come here for
many years. There is nothing particularly in
the way of railway accommodations upon this
line but the fact of possession of a great
deal of the bay shore surface by the
Galveston Wharf company. This corporation
is apparently complacently indifferent to the
mercurial chairman of the Democratic State
Executive Committee:
If the paper "has no respect for Mr. Clairborne,
it shoulrt at least respect the position which he now
fills, which is an honorable one.
The Times itself should know how to dis-
criminate between a public position and the
man who fills it.
The Comanche Chief announces in fitting
terms the late double murder by a mob at Ha-
zell Dell in that county:
We do not hesitate to condemn such outrageous
conduct. No matter how vile a man may be, the
laws of our country provide that he shall have a
fair and impartial trial by jury. Mob violence
would make a living hell of any country on earth,
and every uprising of this character snould meet
with speedy punishment and be frowned down by
all law-abiding and law-loving citizens.
All sorts of people edit Texas papers, from
classical scholars and pedants to those of the
most " unpractical minds;" but there is a ten-
dency to similarity of style, which grows on
all after being long in the business. This is the
concise and epigrammatic, very few retaining
long the pedantic and exhaustive way f the
magazines in their treatment of the current
topics which constitute the chief subjects of
editorial labor. It was long ago considered as
settled in England that the best way to indu-
ence public sentiment, the minds of the ; :i eat
mass of readers, was through short articles or
paragraphs, presenting a leading idea at inter-
vals and in various shapes. Few people of the
present day would read with patience in the
daily press such essays as Addison and hi® con-
temporaries used to offer to the English public,
and which for a time were regarded as highly
interesting and instructive, but which at last
wearied their readers and were discontinued
for want of patronage. Austin Dobson, in a
preface to a collection of some of the best of
these old essays, says, in comparing those times
with the present:
With slower pen men used to write,
Of old, when "letters'' were "poiite;"
In Anna's or in George's days
They could afford to turn a phrase,
Or trim a straggling iiieine aright.
They knew not steam: electric light
Not yet had dazed their calmer sight;
They meted out both blame and praise
With slower pen.
More swiftly now the hours take flight;
What's read at morn is dead at night,;
Scant space have we at art's delays,
Whose breathless thought so briefly stays
jJSVe may not work—and would we might
With slower pen.
LETTER FROIvX WASHINGTON.
CONGRESS AND INTER-STATE TRA FFIC
A Republican organ claims that Democrats
are inclined to proceed from the extreme of
State sovereignty to the extreme of central-
ization, and it adds:
It has not been the habit or tendency of the Re-
publican party to follow the lead of its radical ul-
tra federalist element Those in authority have
wisely resisted the obtrusion of the doctrine of tL •
implied powers of government into new domains,
unless upon the clearest demonstration of its ne-
cessity. Hence they have been in no hurry
to try the experiment of regulating inter state
railroad commerce, even while conceding the la-
tent constitutional power to do so. But it would
not be out of keeping for the party which now, in
its hunger for power, really represents the idea of
centralization, to make the attempt. For several
years Mr. Reagan has had ready a-measure of this
sort, which he has lost no opportunity of urging
upon Congress. It would not, therefore, be won-
derful if such a bill should now receive the sup-
port of the dominant party.
As the Republican party is the dominant party
in the present Congress, Repu- acan members
might be expected to advocate some measure
for the regulation of inter-state commerce in
the line of the president's recent recommenda-
tion, but perhaps they will not. The organ
argues that the rules and principles necessary
to regulate transportation rates are being
gradually evolved by experience from a multi-
tude of interests aud their conflicts; that the
chances are ten to one that Congress will inter-
fere at the wrong places if it interferes at ar
Admitting the power to interfere, the journal
referred to says: " But the fact that such power
to interfere does exist in the government,
though held in wise abeyance, is of itself a far
more effectual and salutary restraint upon the
despotic abuse by railroad companies of their
privileges than any positive or definite exercise
of that power could be." The argument
is not very clear. There is in it a
marked desire to impress the reader with
the " wisdom " of inaction by the government
in regard to an important matter within the
scope of its powers. If the States have failed
separately because inter-state commerce tran-
scends their powers, that is no reason why it
must be perpetually heid that the general
agency of the United States must fail. There
does not appear to be much of a salutary char-
acter in restraint which ir, not exercised, but
declared to be better held in entire abeyance.
The needful restraint might begin if a com-
mission were appointed as a first careful step
in exercising with the most scrupulous care the
power lor the regulati of ict »r-state com-
merce by railroad, wfc « ii is admitted to exist
n government. Was uot the government of
the Union organized as much for the regula-
tion and beneficial promotion of commerce as
for the general defense? It is neither the part
of wise statesmanship to rush into hasty action
regarding details, nor on the other hand to
leave great powers of government wholly un-
exercised through timidity as to results. The
wisdom of the Republican party in its national
policy in regard to railroads has been too en-
rely the wisdom of the promoters of great
tiiroad schemes and subsidies and of their at-
torneys in Congress. The regulation of inter-
state traffic is assuredly a most serious matter,
and one that can not be profitably approached
without much thought, but it ought to be ap-
proached without pusillanimity.
more because he gave away poor man in Ger-
many who were deluded by him into posting" situation, and rests upon its possession of the
his i evolutionary placards,, which he sent from
his safe place in London, than because of his
opinions about czar-killing. Most was, in fact,
for killing other rulers, including presidents.
He is said to be an illiterate cobbler. Of course
he ^1 lecture.
The telegraph reports the death of Louis
Blanc, at Cannes, France. His father was in-
spector-general of Spanish finance under Jo-
seph Bonaparte. Louis Blanc was born at
Hadrid, in 1813. His mother was a Corsican.
The youth was educated for the diplomatic ser-
vice, but the father lost his fortune in the rev-
olution of 1832, and the son became a tutor and
off ward the editor of a journal, Le Bon Sens,
and then of another Democratic and Socialist
journal, La Revue du Progres. He wrote
treatises on the organization of labor and
works on history. He was an able and uncom-
promising advocate of Socialism, maintaining
that industry ought to be conducted, not for
individual profit, but for the benefit of the com-
munity, each person contributing to the com-
mon stock according to his capabilities, and
receiving from it according to his wants under
the supervision of the government. One of
his best known works is his History of Ten
Years, from 1830 to 1840. His History of the
French Revolution is another. He had, per-
haj. more part than any other writer in bring-
bay front with serene composure. The real
issues in this right of way question to Galves-
ton perhaps ought to be decided from this
standpoint. Suppose it should be settled that
the bay front shall alone be used by all rail-
roads penetrating the city, if this should not
be found legally impracticable, and then the
railroads and the Wharf company be left
to arrange terms in the best and most expedi-
tious manner possible. The question of cost
upon this route will doubtless form a consid-
eration, but that the railroads can force their
way from west to east of the island over the
bay front in possession of the Wharf company
is not to be doubted. Legal proceedings may
become necessary in this event, but Thk News
is disposed to believe that the Galveston Wharf
company would rather steer clear of the courts
upon any question involving absolute title to
the domain oh the bay front now in its posses-
sion. Protesting citizens in the case of the
Santa Fe right of way should turn their atten-
tion to this phase of the problem. So may also
the City Council. It would not perhaps be an
inauspicious incident were the Wharf company
and the railroads left alone to settle this light
of way question. Delays may be injurious to
the railroads in this connection, but they have
plenty of leverage which they can bring to
bear on the Wharf company if they choose to
i employ it.
THE PROPOSED SCHOOL LAND BT7-
REA U.
Commissioner Walsh, of the general laud
office of Texas, it is understood, will recom-
mend to the Eighteenth Legislature the sever-
ance of tho business of the school aud univer-
sity lands from that of the general land busi-
ness, and the creation of a bureau to have the
control of the lands belonging to special funds.
It is not likely that the legislature will con* :nt
to this proposition, for it will be troublesome,
if not impossible, to convince members that
just at tbe time the State has parted with aH
its own lands the business of the general land
office has increased to such an extent that an-
other Austin bureau is required. This would
suggest that the less money in the fiscal treas-
ury the greater the clerical force required; the
less lands in the land treasury the more work
for the land office. It has been urged that a
sohool land bureau proposed, in addition to the
work contemplated aud now devolving upon
the general land office, would also relieve the
State treasurer's office of half its clerical labor.
That part of the labor pertaining exclusively
to payments for school and university lands
was originally assigned to the treasurer's
office as a check in the system of land sales.
In all other payments into the State treasury
the comptroller's office is the medium of pay-
ment. The sales and the payments in the dis-
position of the school and university lands
may aud probably w ill continue many years,
and it is of the greatest importance that any
legislation changing the mode of transacting
so great a volume of business, should also pro-
vide ample safeguards and checks to prevent
abuses and peculation. This might be done in
a bureau capably and faithfully administered;
but if ever the bureau should be loosely or cor-
ruptly managed, while controlling the entire
land sales business without checks which now
exist in another department of government,
the losses aud peculations might continue for
years without detection. Doubtless tho land
commissioner grounds his proposition upon
the inference commonly conceded that the land
business of a general character ought not to l»e
embarrassed by the present association with it
of school and university land sales business.
Land locations and the incidents of surveys
and calculations, the preparation of maps, af>-
stracttt and patents, being entirely different
STATE PRESS.
What the Interior Papers Say-
Most so-called misfortunes are the result of
carelessness. The Brenham Banner, in the fol-
lowing, alludes to a very common cause of fires:
As the season for accidental fires is now in full
bloom, it is suggested that property-owners make
a careful examination of the chimneys and flues
on their premises. A great many fires are caused
by defective flues and stovepipes coming in too
close proximity to ftoo»*s, ceiling and roofs. A lit-
tle precaution in*this direction may save serious
loss.
It is hard at present to say what constitutes
an accident. A man was lately killed under
the following circumstances: He was traveling
on the cars. The train stopped on the bridge
while crossing the Ohio river. Supposing that
it had arrived at Iiouisville the man stepped
off and fell through a hole caused by the re-
moval of some of the planks from the bridge,
and was killed. Judge Hayne, of Phila-
delphia, decided that the man's death was the
result of his own carelessness and cancelled his
life insurance policy.
Is Tyler a provincial town or country village
having only moral aspirations? The Courier
of that handsome and erstwhile pretentious
town joins in the hue and cry against cities as
follows:
Whenever von read in a newspaper, or hear an
individual say that there ought not to be any pre-
judice in the country against the town, and that
the one is dependent upon the other, and that
therefore both ought to "drop" prejudicial feel-
ings and aid and strengthen each other, etc.,
that newspaper or that individual ought to be
closely watched, for there is no resort more de-
ceptive or more demagogical. It is a resort patent-
ed by managers of. .and backward servants for,
rings and combinations that live largely from the
just earnings of other people.
The Courier elaborates this idea in a two-
column leader, which is, on the whole, ram-
bling and incoherent, though telling some sig-
nificant truths about the rings which infest
county seats, towns, cities, capitols of States
and Washington city.
The Tyler Courier says:
Prisoners have escaped from our new jail three
times, making an average of twice a year.
These model ornamental edifices for prison-
ers do not seem to be the best. As Aphorisms
from the Quarters, J. A. Macon, in the Cen-
tury Bric-a-Brac, says:
When you make de jail too nice you better
strenkin de hog pen.
Pi isons have little terror for some classes in
Texas. Tne great reduction in hog stock is
one evidence of the fact.
According to the ballad, there was a pig that
lived in clover, and when it died it died all
over; but the Comanche Chief is not that kind
of creature. The papers have hardly finished
writing obituaries over its late attack of sus-
pended animation when it reappear, like the
fabled youhg phoeuix which is so - idly over-
worked by the press, in line new feathers
which it plumes for loftier aud more, protrac-
ted flights, though it emerges modestly from
the ashes, Mr. S. M. Vernon, the new editor,
simply sajTing:
We shall certainly do our best, and promise the
people of Comanche county a goo l local pa: -, r
worthy of their support, and it rests with them
whether or not the enterprise is encourage i and
sustained. Politically, tne Chief will be purely
Democratic, out »vill at all times treat its opponents
with courtesy and respect.
From the following it would appear that the
young phoenix is provided with the stomach
of an ostrich or is omniverous at least:
We will take wood, potatoes, eggs, butter, wheat,
corn, old shoes, cash and almost anytnin^ else on
snbscrition at this o'lice. We are determined to
place the Chief within reach of every citizen in
Comanche county.
Unsophisticated rural publishers continue to
dim defeated candidates for announcements
aud tickets. Keep it up. The defeated candi-
dates can stand it as long as the printers. Tbe
former feel no obligation to pay for dead
horses, and electioneering, like gambling debts,
are barred by common law, if not by statute.
Even successful candidates find it hard work
to pay such debts. The present tariff for cam-
paign expenses makes office, like the Indian's
gun, cost more than it comes to, or more than
comes by it. Candidates who come out of the
crr.ivass with a dollar in their pockets are as
rare as black swans, in Australia at least.
Thirsty voters who haunt liquor saloons and
candidates leave nothing for hungry printers.
Candidates should imitate the policy of tbe
Old Alcalde—pay as they go and keep cash
balances.
An exchange conies to baud rather late with
a homily on the duty of remembering tbe poor
on Thanksgiving day. It will be good for
Christmas. The Philadelphia Times tells how a
lady in that city made two men happy on
Thanksgiving day:
A middle aged, haggard and forlorn looking man
in threadbare clothes, giving but little protection
from the frosty wind, stood in the street A well-
dressed man and woman mounted the steps of the
nearest church. The lady stopped. *'0. George!
that poor man! As I'm alive he's deaf and dumb
and hungry. Only think of it, George, hungry on
Thanksgiving day." She ran across the pavt:nent,
and, placing half a dozen small coins m the beg-
gar's shivering hand, said: " There, my poor man,
is something for a Thanksgiving dinner." He nod-
ded thankfully. She went off smiling. Then the
poor man moved down Arch street, where lie was
met by a stout, red-nosed and fishy looking gentle-
man, who came out of an area-way. "How did
she pan?" "Two bits," replied the deaf and dumb
man, thankfully. " .Let's get a sody buttle full?"
"Good enough."
All beggars are not importers, but, unfortu-
nately both for the deserving poor and for the
charitable, many of those who know best how-
to appeal to sympathy are arrant knaves.
The Dallas Times consoles itself for the Jin-
abiiity to print on time tho prolix message of
the president by saying:
It is not read by one man in a thickly settled pre-
cinct, and the publication of it is a. clear waste of
physical force of the printers. Any editor in the
State who has sufficient ability to drive cows home
or edit a paper like the Houston Post, ought to be
able to run through a president's message, and
boiling it down, present its most prominent features
in a readable shape to its subscribers within the
space of a quarter of a column.
The San Antonio Times says with reference
to some pleasantry of The News toward the
The Holiday Recess—Republican Tac-
tics—The EText Speakership—Two-
Faced Representatives — "Winter
Gaieties.
[Special Correspondence of The Nevs.]
Washington, December 3, 1882.—Congress
will convene to-morrow, and by the time this
letter reaches The News that body will have
entered upon its labors, if there is such a thing
as congressional labor before the holidays.
There has never been much done by any Con-
gress until after Christmas. There is an ef-
fort being made to dispense with the usual
Christmas vacation of A .week or two and go
on with business, but it will fail, as it always
has done. It would suit the representatives
from Texas and other distant States to have
but a day or two recess, and then resume work,
but there are a majority of congressmen who
live near enough to the capital to reach their
homes and spend the holidays; hence their
wishes will prevail, and Congress will take the
usual holiday recess. Those who live at a dis-
tance and can not go home, will Lo compelled
to wait here almost in idleness, awaiting
the pleasure of those who are spending the
Christmas at home. It is predicted that tnis
session of Congress will be fraught with souu
interesting «nd startling developments.
The Republican majority have only
three months more of power, and it
is thought that they will use it in every way
possible to bring about a condition of uffairsso
as to embarrass and throw obstacles in the way
of the next Congress, in order to handicap the
incoming Democratic majority in whatever
legislation 'they may undertake, and the result
of this effort may be an extra session. The
Democrats hav j"vastly the advantage even in
this Congress in leadership. The Republicans
are almost without a head. They have no
Blaine, no Garfield, no Frye and no Conger now
in the House to lead them, and they are floun-
dering around with their present majority just
as the Democrats did several years ago. The
Democratic minority now in the House are in
fine condition, and are wall led. They have
Carlisle, Blackburn, Randall, Reagan and
other able leaders who overmatch the new and
untried leaders of the other side; hence
if the Republicans attempt any extraordinary
proceeding this session to hamper the next
Congress they will be fought at every step,
and, in all probability, oufmaneuvered and
defeated. In speaking of extraordinary pro-
ceeding, I will give my views as to what a
part of them may be. TThe Republicans know
they are gone; they know they can not har-
monize and uuite to elect a president in 1884;
they know that the two wings of their party
are too bitterly estranged to come together
for some years; hence those now in Congress
will try to save whatever they can from the
wreck, and will make a great effort this ses-
sion to startle the country by an unexpected
effort toward a reform which they have ig-
nored and laughed at while they were victo-
rious, and that is an Assumed virtue in civil
service reform.
Mr. Pendleton, of Ohio, thinking perhaps
the Democrats would never get into power,
prepared aud introduced a bill for civil service
reform. Now that the government is run by
Republican officials, and that party sees itself
going out of power, it will likely make an effort
to take this bill of Mr. Pendleton's, attach it to
one of the appropriation bills, and try to pass
it, which, if successful, would put the Demo-
crats in an awkward position. If the Demo-
crats oppose it the Republicans would charge
that the fierht heretofore made by the Demo-
crats was de.nagogisin. If the Democrats
should vote for it the Republicans would
chucide at their cunning, because it would give
Republican officials a life "tenure in office, and
prevent them from being turned out to give
their places to Democrats. If this measure
should be attached to some appropriation
bill it would likely cause that bill to
fail and bring about au extra session.
However, I have so much faith in the
ability and good sense of our leader now in the
House that I think the Republicans will be de-
feated in any cunning scheme they devise, and
that the appropriation bills will pass in their
usual naked form. There will be an extra ses
sion of the Senate when the Forty-seventh
Congress expires—4th oi March—which ends
the term of David Davis, now president pro
tempore of the Senate. When this Congress
expires there will be no speaker of the House
ami no president pro tempore of the Senate
and uo vice president; hence, in case of the
death of President Arthur, the country would
lie in a bad fix for a president, therefore Ar-
thur will call an extra session of the Senate to
elect a president pro tempore. There is but
oue thing that, can prevent an extra ses-
sion of the S mate, and it is the resignation
of David Davis on the 3d of March. His
term expires on the 4th March. If h.» should.
■ a view of that, resign on the 3d, the present
Seuate could reorganize the Senate and pre-
vent the special session. Senator Atlthony wiil
lie the next president of the Senate. If Davis
does not resign on the 3d, then immediately
after the 4th the Senate must mee*" again and
reorganise. It is possible that the House, too.
may be called in extra session; if so. then it
will .-organize and a new speaker and officers
will be elect.ed. It looks now as if John Car-
lisle, of Kentucky, will be the next speaker.
Air Randall is his most formidable opponent,
but it is thought that in case Randall sees that
Carlisle is in the majority he will not fight
hiin, but will graceiully yield; but ii
he should bitterly oppose him and de-
sire his defeat it is p- ssible that they might
ring in ex-senator Eaton, of Connecticut;
but as it now looks Carlisle will be the man.
John Carlisle never had but one fault in his
iife. and that is rue that the majority of Ken
t kians have or have had, and that is an oc-
casional little spree. He is one of the ablest
m m in America, and one of the cleverest. As
long as he has his accomplished and elegant
w;fe with him he was never known to torn h a
drop, and nearly ever since he has been in Con
gress she has been wit a him. Many a wife
might learn a wi«e lesson from this excellent
lady in the management of a husband. When
bhe has been abseut and returns and finis that
her talented husband has been on a racket she
straightens him up, and never alludes to it to
him—never upbraids or lectures him, but
treats him as nothing cut of the way ever oc-
curred. This is w. .r.-.- punishment than hitting
a fellow- with a rolling pin. Any one wb has
ever been on a spree knows how mean , fel-
low feels anyhow in getting ovtfr it. 1 Lave
been told that he fee is like he wanted some-
body to take a club and beat him to death. But
when any one who cares for him treats him
kindly and pretends that nothing wrong has
been done and never alludes to it, but tun ply
docs so m •'h to straighten him up aud --cfs
him like a gentleman, when he knows he has
not been one, I have heard that u Idiow feels
like a great, yellow, sh. cp-ki!!ing cur dog,
and that the morcr he svoa of himself the more
he admires a good dog.
1 asked a prominent Republican at the Wil-
liard hotel l*et evening what he thought of tne
Democratic victory. " Well," said he, "v*heu
there is a uickei in the pot, tho Democratic
party always holds four aces." I presume be
meant Jhat this was an eft' year, and that in
the year of the presidential race, when ttie pot
was a big one, we «ouid Lot hold an invincible
hand. I told him that the Democrats would
bold a big straight* flush in the presidential
ra?e, and would beat four aces next time, and
that the Republicans would bold a four Cush
or a bob tail, and have the same luck as the
Chinaman who graphically described his ex-
perience at poker, viz: " 1 dlaw thlee card
get fio acee, bot five dclla, nobody clom »
Next time I dlaw two cardee, get flo kingee,
bet ten dolla, nobody clom in Next time I
dlaw one cardee, get fio flushes, bet fifteen
dolla; everybody clom in, Chinaman busted."
The great victory iu New York, Pennsylva-
nia, Indiana and California results from the
bold, honest fight a few Democrats have made
in behalf of the people against the grasping
and cruel oppression of the rich, powerful
monopolies. That fight has been kept alive in
the Commerce Committee of tho House over
the Reagan inter-state commerce bill, and
although that committee has been so consti-
tuted as to prevent the able representative from
Texas in getting his great measure before the
House for passage, yet the people of the coun-
try have been aware of the splendid effort in
their behalf, and they have ren .ered their ver-
dict in these four great States, whether Con-
gress recognized thei** rights or not. They
have done it themselves, and the Forty-eighth
Congress will pass this bill sure. Then# will
be other relief measures passed by the next
Congress in the interests of the People and
country. Members of Congress who are aeut
hefe to represent the people aud who do not
do it, but turn their influence in favor of class
legislation, deceive themselves when they think
that the people do not find them out. They
may fool their constituents for a time, but not
long, for they are sure to be known. There is
such a thing as a member of Congress pursuing
one course in the committee-room and a differ-
ent one on the floor of the House or Senate.
On the floor of the House everything done goes
into a public record for distribution; in the
committee matters are nearly secret and the
proceedings are not made public. Hence, mem-
bers of a committee, on some technical point,
can obstruct tbe reporting of a measure; when
on the floor of the House or Seuate, where the
eye of the public was on them, they would not
dare do it. This recent election has retired
quite a number of these gentlemen, who did
not suppose that the people had any idea of
their actions here.
The capital will be very gay this winter, and
society will lie iu its glory. Already parties,
balls, receptions, dinners and germans are an-
nounced, and young and old alike will enter
into the pleasures and dissipations with a relish.
The season will be short, and society will
make the most of it. The Garfield fair in the
rotunda of the capitol has been the feature
here for some time, but they got it up on so
grand a scale, and at so much expense, they
will be lucky if they come out even. These fairs
give the managers a chance to get prominently
before the pubiic, and give the women an op-
portunity to show their fine clothes. 1 have
never known them to do much else. I remem-
ber a charity ball given here just before Hayes
n tiied. It was intended to help the poor and
needy. The president's wife, cabinet officers'
wives, French countesses. Japauese princesses,
and high-tone stylo generally were the man-
agers. The bouquets, ornaments, grand music
and other attractions cost so much that in-
stead of making anything for the poor, the
ball came out in debt. Some of the fashion-
able charity lady dispensers had on $50,000
worth of clothes "and jewels. It is reported
that some of the ladies wore $100 stockings.
Anyhow, the pooi* got nothing, except the
privilege of hearing about what a grand and
magnificent affair it was.
I was reading some time ago the complaints
of the eminent actress, Miss Genevieve Ward,
regarding the afflictions of a sleeping-car, and
on my trip here I witnessed some of them.
On reaching Cincinnati a big fat man, weigh-
ing somewhere near 300 pounds, took a berth
iu our sleeper. He went to bed first, of
course. I have noticed that all terrific snorers
get to sleep before anybody else, and begin
their work right from the shoulder to start on.
Our friend did this, and struck up a succession
of snorts like a steamboat trying to get off a
sand bar. The passengers gazed at one another
with a look of inquiry whether it was not best
to sit up ail night, as it was useless to try to
sleep in such a roar.
I was sitting beside a little Frenchman who
seemed bewildered and awe-stricken. Our fat
friend snorted, snored, sawed gourds, blowed
and puffed terrifically, and all of a sudden
stopped short, when * the little Frenchman
turned to me with a look of relief, and said:
Thank God; he is dead." He evidently
thought that aft6r such terrible efforts the fel-
low had died. I laughed till I cried nearly,,
We compromised by hiring the porter to keep
him awake until we all got to sleep. I indorse
Miss Genevieve Ward now, and am in favor of
making people like that fellow sit up ail night,
or go in some other car.
A very amusing and effective canvass for
Congress in the mountain district of Kentucky
occurred before the recent election, which so
thoroughly disgusted a prominent Republican
speaker that he quit the canvass after the first
speech he made and went home, saying that
they were the most infernal set of liars he had
ever met. Colonel Wooiford, called the moun-
tain eagle of Kentucky, was the Democratic
candidate for Congress. Wooiford was one of
the bravest and best soldiers in the Federal
army during the war. His regiment was one
of the best on that side aud devoted to old
Wooiford. General Frye, of Danville, Ky.,
was also in the Federal army and a staunch
Republican. The Republican committee pre-
vailed on Frye to go over in Woolford's dis-
trict and take the stump against him. Frye
went—they met, aud Frye was invited to speak
first. He did so and began to discuss the issues
of the day, and wound up his speech by recit-
ing what a generous, great and magnani-
mous government we had. He said: '4 Fellow-
citizens,as an illustration of what I say, take the
amnesty granted the rebels; instead of all of
them neing hung, they were pardoned amL
now hold seats in Congress and other offices,
etc." Old Woolford's turn came to speak, and
he said: "Fellow-citizens—General Frye tells
you o? the generosity of this government to
the rebels after the war. It's all bosh for
there was General Lee who could have carried
on the war ten years longer, but he did not
want to shed any more blood. What did they
do with him when he surrendered ? Why, fel-
low-citizens, they took him out between the
two armies and hung him—yes, hung him—till
he was dead." Frye looked up in amazement
and said: "Great God ! that's a lie."'
Wooiford turned to one of his old regiment
and said, ' John, didn't you see General Lee
huug?" John said he did, and that anybody
who denied his word would have to fight, and
he showed his-teeth aud a six-shooter and no-
body disputed his word. Then Wooiford went
on and said: "There was Jeff. Davis, who sur-
rendered like a gentleman; and what did they
do with him? They placed him in prison with
eighteen hundred pounds of iron on him and then
in a few months took him out ami hung him."
Frye could not stand this and remarked:
"That's a h—11 of a lie. Jeff. Davis lives in
Mississippi, aud ia alive and well now." Wool-
ford turned to auother of his old command in
the audience and said: "Bill, didn't you see
Jeff. Davis hung?" Bill said he did, and any
man who disputed his word would have to
tight. Frye got in his buggy and went home
and told his friends there was no use to try to
discuss anything over there with that gang, be-
cause they could outlie Aunanias and prove it,
too. Wooiford was elected by three thousand
majority.
There are quite a number of Texas Republi-
cans here who came last winter for an office,
and who spent the summer here. Several of
them, on meeting me, inquired very feelingly
if the yellow fever was over in Texas. They
perhaps wanted to convey the idea that they
would have returned to Texas but for the yel-
low fever. My own idea was that the reason
they did not return was because the walk was
too long and the walking bad.
IVXajor Penn at Home-
[To The News.]
Palestine. December 6, 18S2.—In a cosy
little cottage, just away from the din and busi-
ness turmoil of Palestine's principal street,
lives the well-known Texas evangelist, Major
Penn. Honeysuckle and ivy climb and cluster
along the porches and porticoes, roses and
flower-beds dot the small but pretty front
lawn, and the whole exterior strikes the pass-
ing stranger as tho abode of a well-to-do. self-
satisfied, happy and esthetic family. Every
one in Palestine knows the major—every one
likes him. Formerly he did a good deal of
preaching here, but in these latter days he
leaves that work to the regular clergy, and
when at home lives the quiet, pleasant life of a
comfortable country gentleman. Just down
the street from bis residence is the postoffice,
and on tbe corner, from time to time, gather
the politicians, the business men, the lis-
teners and the talkers, who, in the little
world here, settle to their own satisfac-
tion every question of importance that arises
in domestic, national or international matters.
To this coterie the major is always a welcome
addition, his knowledge of outside facts quite
bewildering the open-mouthed listeners, and
his apt deductions quoted for months after-
ward as irrefragable gospel truths. This
morning Mie major had a. surprise iu store for
his usual audiencw, for when he wandered
down to the postoffice, received ami assorted
his large mail, there was one package, sealed
and carefully packed, that ail declared must
contain a munificent contribution toward tbe
building of the major's famous nickel church.
"x he w rapper was opened, the seals broken, the
sti iugs untied, and a nice solid tin box dis-
closed, but the contents proved to be not
money, only a harmless little box of liver pills
sent . to aim by some ardent admirer,
but which pills, the major very ungrate-
fully remarked, he might use verv late
iu the afternoon of the day when Gabriel
sounds hi- t. impet. Then the conversation
drifted along, and finally the major touched
upon a subject which is evidently a cau^e of no
little irritation—christian-like irritation, no
doubt—occasionally to the reverend gentle-
man. " Yes," said he, " I have been strange-
ly" misrepresented. The papers all through
Texas have declared, and in the face of my ab-
solute denial have persisted in the declaration
that I had prayed for the death of some poor
fellow in the southwest that had disturbed my
meetings, and that. I had gloried iu his death.
Now, there is not a word of truth in this—not
a word. The Sittings—oh, yes, they went for
me savagely and unscrupulously. Since it
opened its attacks upon me it has 'been driven
out of many a family that formerly read
it, aud will be thrown out of many more.
Yes;atiirst it treated me fairly enough, but
now it will soon find out that its lying a out
me will cost it many subscribers. And there is
another one—well. I don't like to talk aboul,
the thing; but of ail the mean papers iu Texas
the Waco Examiner is the mean*>t—it can't
tell the truth. The Brenham Banner man pre-
tended he had not seen any denial of the story
in the columns of The News, aud kept on stir-
ring up the matter, and, for all 1 know, dees
so yet. Even The Galveston News, a paper
that 1 have done a great deal for—got it sub
scribers iu A.'al ama and that neighborhood
spoiieu for it publicly and favoiably—a ptver
wbich 1 admit has a large and deserved infiu
ence, and which Las uea«- great service to the
State—even that p*per Las joined in the attacks
made upon me. It doesn t, say much directly
but it gees for me covertly, bid you read tbe
I aragr at. b in it tbe other dav about 'Killing
gravels ? Now, that referred to me. Yes
cinity. Messrs. Coffin and O'Connor have
shipped over 300 bales from this port, and hun-
dreds of bales have gone to Victoria and Cuero
this year. Corn, potatoes, beans, and in fact
everything does equally as well, and' it only
requires a little energy to succeed in farming
in Southwest Texas. _ Clives.
Notes from Bladisonville-
LTo The News.l
Madisonville, December 1,1S82.—It is now
and has been for several days past raining al-
most constantly. The cotton-picking and near-
ly every kind of business is suspended for the
time being, except the saloon business, which
is in full blast—running under a full head of
steam. The only business which is being pur-
sued in our midst, which is worse than worth-
less to society, seems to prosper when all legiti-
mate business, which is calculated to build up
our common country, is suspended. How a
good citizen can conscientiously engage in a
business that he knows tends to make widows
and orphans of women and helpless children
has ever been beyond my ken. Not only does
the trai'ic make widows and orphans, but it
makes worse than beasts of man, who was
created in the image and after tbe likeness of
his Creator. There are iu our midst as
noble specimens of human nature as have lived
since our first parent, Adam, cast tbe first
shadow in Eden's bower, but then there are
alro those who it seems would " sell their birth-
right for a mess of pottage" (filthy lucre), and
the great trouhle is that much of the stuff
which is now being manufactured, sold ami
drank is not whisky. There is not one single
drop of pure whisky in a whole barrel of tbe
stuff. It is made of drugs, fishberries, capsi-
cum, tobacco, strychnine, and other poisonous
drugs, with enough soap added to cause it to
hold a bead; and yet man. the noblest work of
God, will drink it and declare it good, when
not even swine or any other dumb animal will
touch it. I believe that much of the article
now being manufactured is warranted to kill
at a thousand yards, and to cripple at two
miles.
The election is now over, and county officers
generally have executed their respective bonds
aud have been sworn in, and things begin to
move on as of yore. I sincerely believe that
the reduced vote cast for Governor Ireland
will prove a blessing to the Texas Democracy,
and is the very best thing which could have
happened; it will prompt them in the future to
see that the party is properly united and or-
ganized.
The health of our people is now fair, except
in a few localities where chills and fever have
heretofore and will ever prevail to a greater or
less extent.
As the Hon. John Hancock has boon elected
over Edmund J. Davis by a handsome ma-
jority, I suppose we will have to be content,
and remain silent over the defeat of Colonel
Finlay, but we do not promise to soon forget
Galveston and the Seventh Congressional dis-
trict. Observer.
FROM
Malaria.
If ta!:en occasionallv b/per-s XD°«e » *o Ma-
1-ria it will expel the Foi*oii and pro-
tect iliem from attack.
As evidence, see e.x ruct from W. n. Yates s let-
ter, where the Regu'.ao affordt-d protection from
the worst and mo-r deadly yp^ or Malaria, to
wit: Yeliow Fever.
"Sirs-: Ih ve stood thf» storm of ronr epidem-
ics of the Yello Fever. I had it the flm visita-
tion, but ciiinn • the ot; er hree I med 3 our medi-
cine. 1 was continually in h- rooms or the -lck
and dying, but I escaped. ? hav : had several to
a k rne h^w I escaped; I tol l them i' was *:li o.v-.
ing . > ti e virtue of our Si nmo .s Liver Regula-
tor. It he f'-ver wa> 10 br^ak oiT. again a> d I had
a bottle of y >ur Regulator I would reel as sa;'u as
if I w ;s 10(i0 nides away.
" Memphis, Ten. ., April 17, 18T9."
Having neutralized tbe r i on of Malaria in
such extreme ca-e---. it '-an be relied on «.s a »over-
< iVn Mpecific and antidote in milder form^.
See tut y-u get the u.ne In White
w rapper, with rea Z, prepared only by J. H. Zeilin
& Co.
IOOO Sbls. all Grades New Sugars and
Xtfolasses.
1000 Pckg-s Raisins, l-4j 1-2 and 1-1
Boxes, Ijayers and Z*ondons«
IOO Fckgs California Wtnes, Resslir-,
Hock, Angelica, Port, Sherry and
Claret—all jPure G-oods.
IOOO Boxes I*ire-Crachers.
No. X Assortment Pire-
Z50 Boxes
works.
350 Soxes
works.
Wo. 2 Assortment Firo—
! Full Xiices of Candies, Fijs, Knts,Bfc.,
1 Etc.—ail Suitable for the Holidays,
j Sole Agents for CKRCIIC CiiEWIjUG-
TOBACCO and LA BSX.X.3! CK2JOIiB
WH2Si£Y.
il in
ju, L:udJ!
cotton factors,
Wholesale Grocers and importers.
FOR SALE—CHEAP WRAPPING paper at
the News office.
Notes from Caldwell*
[To The News.j
Caldwell, December 6, 1SS2. — District
Court convened at this place last Monday
evening. Judge McFarland on the bench.
Among the lawyers from a distance are Judge
Spencer Ford, of Bryan, and llajor Bassett, of
Brenham. The criminal docket is very light
this term of court. Several important civil
cases will be disposed of during this and next
week.
Town improving very nicely. A large two-
story brick building is being built 011 the north-
east corner of tbe public square. Several nice
residences just completed.
Not a few people here* seem curious to find
out whether Hon. G. W. Jones will again be a
candidate for governor at the election two
years from now. It might be well enough for
the distinguished gentleman to let it crop out
on some occasion in the near future, in order
that anxious minds might be given a rest on
the subject.
The weather is clear, warm and pleasant.
But little sickness in and about town.
A drunken Bohemian was accidentally shot
near here night before last about 9 o'clock.
sj^rge^nt & steirer.
G R £ IU AHS FBOSUCE COMMISSION MERCHANTS,
Agents for the Southwest, and Mexico for
MOSXiSR BA5MANN & CO.'S Fire and Burglar Proof Vaults, Doers and
SiLF E
171 PTHAND ------ GALVBSTPn.
Disease Among- Sheep*
[To The News.]
Prairieyille, Texas. December 1, 1882.—
I want to inquire from among your many cor-
respondents for a remedy for my flock of sheep.
They are dying of diarrhea. Symptoms: first,
a drooping, lifeless appearance, showing great
weakness and dysentery, and at last they cease
to follow the herd, linger and die. On exam-
ination I find tho second stomach and intes-
tines filled with hundreds of small, white
worms, about as large and about as long as a
needle, with a grub-worm head. Also, a large
tape-worm in the intestines. We are losing
rapidly. If any of your readers should see
this, and will communicate through your col-
umns, it may be of advantage to the sheep men
generally.
The late frost and freeze made a smash of
what many thought a good prospect for a late
top crop of cotton. I will lose half a bale to
the acre on some of mine; therefore the crop
is lighter than we expected.
The lighting of cellars ami under-ground
passages by sidewalk glass or iron gratings has
never been satisfactory. It is usual to till in
the iron frame-work over cellars with pieces of
glass convexed slightly at the top and flat or
pointed below. An improvement on this plan
lias been invented and can be taken advantage
of without alteration in the iron frame-work.
The only change is in the shape of the pieces of
glass, w'hich are formed in long pendants flat
on one side and rounded on the other, and bent
at a slight angle in the direction in which it is
desired to throw the light. I11 this way light,
it is claimed, can be thrown horizontally into
dark subterranean passages with remarkable
illuminating power, said to be at least double
that of the ordinary glass balls.
That Terrible Diabetes*
Gadsden, Ala., March 5, 1881.—H. H. War-
ner & Cos: Sirs—I tried every medicine I could
hear of for Diabetes, but in vain. 'Your Safe
Diabetes Cure gave me perfect restoration of
health. J. T. Livingston.
IVS AHHIED.
ROBINSON—DORRAH—At the residence of
Major Thos. A. Gary, city, by Rev. >Ir. Spalding,
of the First Baptist church, Mr. C. W. Robinson, of
Cold Springs, Texas, and Miss Annie Belle Dorrah,
of Pittsboro. Miss., Thursday, 9 p. ni . December 7.
The firm of moore, stratton & co.
is this day dissolved by mutual consent.
w. w. moore.
w. h. stratton,
f. a. park.
james moore.
a. ix storey.
November 1, 1S82.
Referring to the above,theunder-
signed have this day formed a copartnership
under the firm name and style of
MENSING, STRATTON & CO.,
for the purpose of continuing the
wholesale grocery business
of the late firm of Moore, Stratton & Co , and the
Cotton Factorage and General Commission busi-
ness of G. H. Mensing <fc Bro.. the new firm assum-
ing the liabilities and receiving the assets of the
late firm of Moore, Stratton & Co.. and respect-
fully solicit; a continuance of tbe patronage be
stowed upon the late firms.
G. H. MENSING,
W E MENSING.
W H STRATTON,
James moore.
November 1,1832.
MESSING, STRATTON & CO.
successors to successors to
MOORE, STRATTON & CO. G. B. MENSING & BRO.
WHOLESALE
GROCERS
And Importers,
COTTON FACTORS
and
General Commission Merchants,
Corner Strand and 22d Streets.
prayeis * Now, that referred
am goir.g to California, and I start*
morrow (Thursday) night. I will preach
:n Stockton, Sacramento, San Francis-
co and Oakland, and will stav there about ail
winter. When I return I will have more time
to attend to these newspaper stories about me
>o. they don't annoy me, but no man likes to
be lied about, and persistently lied about bv
sensational newspapers who don't, want to' tell
the truth. But I don't care to talk about ttis M
And then the pleasant-faced major resumed
bis usual placid and contented appearance, pat
ted the beads of tbe boys aud girls that always
gather about him, chatted with church dea-
cons who always hurrv past that corner, save
when Major Penn is at home, shook bis finger
warning^ at good-lookiug Lawyer Williams
whom a theater-manager last week hud placed
in a front scat, thinking him Major Penu and
swinging his sturdy cane through the cool
morning air, turned away to his comfortable
home,
SSevelopinj the State*
LTo The News.l
St. Marys, Refugio cou&ty, Texas. Decem-
ber 4, 18S2.—Knowing that your excellent
paper is chiefly devoted to the improvement
and development of our great State, 1 send
you the following facts, which speak for them
selves. 1 hree years ago there was not a pound
of cotton raised in Refugio, Bee aud Live Oak
counties. Mr. J. M. Coffin induced a few
lariners in each of the above-named counties
to plaut small patches as au experiment, be
furnishing tbe seed. The result was so encour-
that the following year others engaged
in its culture, and this year 1 know of many
who have picked a bale to the acre in this vi-
/'. J. WILLIS <Sr BRO.,
COTTON FACTORS,
Importers and Wholesale Dealers in
Groceries, Dry Goods,
Boots, Shoes Hats Cats and Notions,
GALVESTON, TEXAS.
I11 Store Ready for Delivery:
BRANCH
3STEW" ORLEANS
Cotton Seed Ass'n.
HIGHEST MARKET PRICE PAID FOR
COTTON" SEED.
SACKS AND TWINE FLKMSHED.
Fcr turther information &d i©-s
ii. C. STREET, Agent,
HOUSTON, TEXAS.
NEW ORLEANS. August 26, ]8S~
MR. G. C. STREET 1= our only au:. orized Aaent
in Texas.
new orleans cotton seed ass'n.
Notice to Shippers
rpjIE STEAMSHIPS SCOWFELL, FOB LIVER-
pool, ami MF/NZALEH, for Bremen, bave arrived
and are reauy to receive cargo.
h. a. vaugiian & co.,
Agents.
20,000 Kegs NAILS,
150 Tous BAR & BUNDLE IRON,
3300 Dozen AXES,
2000 Doz. EYE & HANDLE HOES,
50.000 Lbs. STEEL PLOW SHARES,
2500 Dozen CLEVICES,
250 Casts CHAINS.
2000 Dozen COLLARS,
2000 Dozen HAMES,
3000 Dozen BACK BANDS.
1000 Dozen PLOW BRIDLES,
3000 PLOWS.
2000 PLOW STOCKS,
1500 MEN'S & WOMEN'S SADDLES.
J. S. BROWN & CO.,
hardware merchants,
Strand, Galveston, Texas.
BE19GEFORB & CO.
MANUFACTURERS OF
Steves and Tin-Ware
IMPORTERS AND WHOLESALE DEALERS IN
Hardware, Tin-Plate, Metals,
Tinners' Supplies,
Briniey Plows, Studebaker Wagons.
Nos. 11, 79, 81, 83 and 85 Tremont Street, aud Nos. <0, 116
aud )18 Mechanic Street,
GALVESTON.
NOTICES.
To AYlioin it May Concern.
The t;nt>erston"kd has been- appointed
administrator of the estate of Jose de Solarza-
no. deceased, All parties having claims against
said party will present their claims within the time
prescribed by law. a m. rruni,
Administrator.
Laredo, Webb county, Texas, December 4,1882.
N OTICE.
mr. c.tht wise
IS NO longek IN our employ.
gus. lev/y & co.
Galveston, December 5, 1882.
The annual meeting of the stock-
holders will be held at the office of the Com-
pany' AT 11 O'CLOCK A. M.,
On the 21st Day of Docember, 1882,
for the election o£ Directors for tho ensuing rear,
and transaction of other business which may be
laid before them. aug. buttlar. Sec y.
MISCELLANEOUS.
GALVESTON.
IOO CRATES
OF
ONION SETS.
A ND OUR WHOLE STOCK OF LANDRETH'S
_£a_ Garden Seeds in Original Papers Also, bulk
seed from other reliable houses is in store now,
and orders filled at cmee. We have a full stock of
Grass Seed. A. FLAKE & CO.
JOS. BROCKELMAN,
Dealer in
STOVES and mauufac'iir jr of "WROUGHT-IRON
liANOEs.
IRON RAILINGS. CRESTIXGS. BALCONIES,
VERANDaS and aJl kind* o: IRON. TIN, COP-
PER AND SHEET-IRON WORK. PLUMBING.
GAS and STEAM-FITTING
j-roniiotiy attended to.
mechanic) kei. iOth and 21*t st».
OF MUMS!
NOTICE
COTTON EXCHANGE BONDHOLDERS.
Notice is hereby given that all outstanding bonds
of the GALVESTON COTTON EXCHANGE are
caiied in for payment, and will be redeemed at the
office of Ball, Hutchings & Co., on TUESDAY,
JANUARY fl, 1883, and that said bonds will bear
no interest after that date. W. L. MOODY,
President Galveston Cotton Exchange.
Official: A. G. Mills, Secretary
DR. TRUEHEART
has returned to the city,
And Resumes the
Practice of his Profession.
OFFICE AND RESIDENCE—CI.arch Street, be-
tween 1 wenty-iirst and Twenty-second.
OFFICE PATIENTS received from 11 tol o'clock
Week Days. Sundays, from 1 to 2. also, from 7 to
8 p m. on Tuesday s. Thursdays ana Saturdays.
N otice.
IE ffilSTOTtGAS COM.
A LL ORDERS OK COMPLAINTS, TO
jcV receive r.rosnpt attention, snould be left at
the officer of the Company, in the Brick Building, on
Market Street, Between 24tk and £5tb
Streets,
Between the houra oi « and 12 o'olock a. m.
a v<». buttla k« Secretary.
TIMER
R. G. BUN & CO., Frop'rs.
robert SmiTH,
District Manager, Galveston, Texai
Reference booKs issued quarterly, compile i
from the mo t reliable information. Collecti on of
pa.«t dne c.aims a specialty For terms of^sub-
scription .pply at our offices ir. Galveston,
ton DaUa>-. San Antonio. For Weith • u
Wao
Hons-
Texas Go-Operative Association
P. of H,
CHARTERED JULY 5, 1878.
Capital Stock, $100,000.
Organized fur tlie purpose ot transact.
iita n General Piirtlimiiie, Factor*'
an«! Business.
Scecia.1 attention given 'o the fliiine ct orders
and ;o he s»Ie of Coitou. Gram, \\ ool, Hidr«, E.e.
CcrrespoiiUence, order= a..d consignments suhcicaJ.
Y O. buS 410. j.s. rogers,
Business Ma?.a^r. cor. S-■ mi and Twentieth.
SPECIAL NOTICES.
Fcr Sale at a Sacrifice.
ONE OF THE FINEST R1V£K BOTTOM COT-
tou plantations in tne State of Texas, situated
In Milam county, on Little River, and known as
Rfvervie^ Place. This place contains acres,of
which S0O acres are in cultivation, and 100 acres
mc:e will be ready, cleared for the plow, on Janu-
ary I. next Of the SOO.acres 00?) are now planted
ir. cotton and 200 in corn. The corn crop already
iiiace is fort} bushels to the acre, and tne cotton
tow being gathered will make frou; a bale to a
Lale and a quarter per acre. The place is provided
| with necessary bouses, etc., steam gin, gin bouse
a grist miil and two gin stands, with capacity of
sixteen bales of cotton per day. Also on the place
and can te sold with it. twenty mules and all neces-
sary tools, wagons, etc., and £ix voke of cxer. and
thr'ee horses. The laud is not subject to overflow,
and tbe place is oue of the most desirable in tho
State of Texas. This sale is made to ciose out an
estate, and if not gold at private sale will be closed
out to the highest bidder for cash under deed of
trus-t. on DECEMBER 30 next. Until tnat time to a
good and responsible purchaser a sale would toa
made at very low figures— a part cash and balance
on time. For further information, applv to G .1.
WILSON, on the place; E. M. SCARBKOUGH, at
Rockdale. Texas, or P. J. WILLIS & BRO., Gaives
ton. Texas This property iriil be sold under the
titea of trust, if -not previously sold at private &ale,
at tbe tewn of Rubkdale. Milam county, Texas, on
tbe 2Cth day of DECEMBER, I8S2.
THOSE DESIROUS OF OBTAINING THE
best assortment and purest
IN THE LINE OF
CANDIIiS, PRISE facsages,
sugjut toys, wood and
tin toys, rihswokss,
1wttts, figs, raisins
AND
General Holiday Goods,
SHOULD NOT FAIL TO PURCHASE OF
T. Ratto & Co.
Wholesale Grocers and Confectioners.
0 J OBBERS.
We are strictly first hands
for sugahs, sirxjps, hog
products, flour and grain.
Being* receivers of these articles only,
and devoting- our entire attention to
them, it gives us unusual facilities
through which we can make ship-
ments of sugars and sirups from
Galveston, 2£og products from
Cansas City, and flour and
grain from our Kansas 3-Iili and
Elevator.
These st;apies are offered in car lots
only, and will be delivered to any
point in the State at prices that court
competition-
Your telegraphic inquiries and cor-
respondence will have careful and im-
mediate attention*
R. B. Hawley & Co.,
strand; galveston.
Joshua Mjlj^ek.
D. " i BE it.
C. B. LEE
& CO.,
Heptasopiis, or s«"w• si.—The Officers and
Members of Armisda Conclave are respectfully
requested to meet at their } I all
THIS EVENING, at ^ o'clock sharp,
to attend the Funeral of our deceased Brother,
Ferdinand Hess.
t E. A.
FOR SALE.
T7MYE Galveston City Lots cn Avenue i. between
JJ nth and 12th streets, and several other good
lots in the eastern and western portions of the city.
'1 be northeast quarter of outlot No. 21, corner of
15th street and Avenue M. Also 2614 acres of land
in brazoria county, and 500 acres in Colorado
county. Apply to C. h. p1x,
.oince ol T. m. Joseph, cor. 22d and Postofhco,
M^chx:N~ISTS
manufacturers of"
STEiil EIGiSES, SAW HILLS,
Uoilers. Jlill and tiiii Ueariug. Shaft
ing:, ljulleys. Brass and Iron
Pumps, Etc.
Particular attention given to orders for Iron
Front*- and Catlings lor Buddings.
Ail kinus ot Job Work solicited. Satisfaction
guaranteed.
Corner Winnie snd Thirty-second Sts.,
(Near Railroad Depot-,*
GALVESTON, TEXAS.
Bank Fixtures for Sale.
"TTTILL SELL, TOGETHER OR separately.
v v the following bank fixtures in good order:
DIEBOLD a KENZ1E FIRE AND EURGLAH-
PROOF COMBINATION LOCK safe,
about 7<i inches high and 58 inches wide. Has
twenty piseon-beles. ampie spaces for books, and
burglar chest, heavy sreel center doors with
burglar-proof holts, besides outer fire and burglar*
proof doors.
Also forty-five feet of counter of oak afid
mahogany, surmounted by Iron railing with
spaces for cashier, teller, etc.
Above fixtures, pertajuing to an unoccupied
back, have come invo the possession of the na-
tional Bank of Jftflersen, Texas, of which. inun*e
t«r term*.
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