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'Axtlucston Hcfos.
k. IL BGLO & CO., Proprietors
Friday, September 21, 1877,
Indication#.
For the Gnlf States: Stationary or high
pressure, winds mostly from the north; in tie
West Gulf States, warmer, clear or partly
cloudy weather, and in the East Gulc warmer,
partly cloudy, and rain area, followed by
cleaning weather. Cautionary signals con-
tinue at Key Wes*, Jacksonville, Savannah,
Charleston, Smithville, Wilmington, Cape
Hatteras. Cape Lookout, Kitty Hvwk, Norfolk,
Cape May and Tybee Island.
tObservaii^na taken at d.Ok p. m.. Sept. JJO
Galveston...
Corsicana...
Indianola..
Denison....
Mason
Ft. McKavitt
Ft. Stockton
Ft. Concho.
Ft. Griffin.
Cambridge].
Fort Sill
Pilot Point. . 30.OH1
San Mitonio 2^.86
Uvalde ....|29.86
Bra- ketsv'il' '^.^2
Eagle Pas?.
29.93
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Chau«£t- of oaromfter for last H hours—Gal-
ronton .05 fall. Corsicana .08 fall. Indianola
.05 fall.
Orange t temperature for last '44 r.oao
(jalvoHtr.il 3 rise. Comic ana 8 rise. Indian-
ola 3 risa.
THE (JITY.
Record.
Taken by the Signal officer yesterda>
for the twenty-four h jurs ending at 9.40
t» »how« mftx'TTnim temperature 78
degs.; minimum 65 degp.
An Offensive Mniiiauce.
The alley that drains the Tre aont
Hotel yard emits a most unp'easart
odor. The filthy substance that runs
through that alley passes into the gut
ter and on to the bay, so that all per
sons living on Twenty-fourth, between
Church street and the bay, get a smell.
New York tteainslilps.
The Rio Grande left this port yesler
dav for New York with a good cirgo.
The State of Texas, hence from NlW
York, arrived at the outer anchorag.
yesterday, but the tide being so low,
did not attempt to cross the bar. She
passed through the storm in safety.
Postal Change.
Postmaster Sabin notifies the News
that mails for the Northern States and
the interior of Texas will close at 11
o'clock a. m This, it is understood,
will last only until the railroad is re-
paired, when the old schedule will be
resumed.
< lean ted Streets.
The heavy rainfall and back water
from the bay when receding into the
Gulf carried away large quantities rf
rubbish that had accumulated in stree's
and alleys near the Gulf, thereby
cleansing them far better than scaven-
ger carts would have done in thrice
the same length of time.
Repairs.
About two squares of the Btow pave-
ment at the interseciion of Strand and
Tremont streets were washed up on
Monday. A gang of men were en-
gaged yesterday in making repair?.
The pavement washed up is a part of
the old pavement relaid to conform in
grade with the new pavement extended
from Tremont, and Twenty-fourth
street.
Condemnation Becomincndcd.
m The damages occasijned by the blow
of Monday to the German bark Fra-
mat have proved to be so serious as to
justify the Board of Surveyors in re
commending her condemnation. The
vessel now lies at Bean's Wharf, with
her sides badly broken by the hard licks
she received against the piling of the
wharf during the heavy tide that pre
vailed with the blow of Monday last.
Couoty Court.
This court convened at the usual hour
yesterday. Present—JudgeWilliarns and
the officers of the court." The minutes
were read and approved and the fol-
lowing business transacted:
Moure, Stratton & Co. vs. J. W
Strarge aid R. L Wood. Judgment
for for $329.
Adou & Lobitt vs. Jno. Hib ert.
Continued by consent.
A Dreyfus vs. Galveston county
Dismissed at defendant's cost.
The Wreck or the Waco.
Captiins J. B. Sabel and William
Scrimgeour, bar pilots, make the follow-
ing report to the News: The buoy
that was placed over the wreck of tl.e
Waco has drifted from its posi ion to
the southward about one mile. There
is only sixteen feet of water over the
wreck of the Waco, and as it lies di
rectly in the track of vessels coming in
and going out of Galveston harbor, it
behooves the proper parties to anchor a
buoy over the wreck with the least pos
Bible delay
»—■
The Tax Collector On a Itald.
Mr. Frank Dean, the Tsx Collector,
made a raid yesterday upon several par-
ties by a seizure of their goods for the
collection of their occupation taxes
The parties take the position under the
advice of counsel that the tax in ques-
tion is illegal, and that the statu'e dots
not confer upon the collector the power
to resort to a seizure and sale of prop
erty as a means of collecting occupa
tion taxes, and that a seizure and sale
of their property is a trespass for
which the collector will be held ac
countable in damages. If this position
be correct what an exposition have wo
here of legislative imbecility!
A a Accommodation.
The steamer Tamaulipas, engaged to
ply between the New York Wharf and
Virginia Point, failing to put in her ap-
pearance at the hour of noon yes erday
Mr Miller, Ticket Agent of the G., H.
and H. Railroad, requested Capt. She-
pard, of the revenue steamer, to afford
transportation for the mails aadpassen-
fers who were in waiting tor that point
'he request was no sooner made than
granted, and the gaila it little revenue
st amer took her piace at the wharf,
wh re the passengers were taken on
boaid en route for Virginia Point For
this ver> generous act of kindness Capt
Shep-trd has added another claim to the
high esteem of those with whom In is
brought in daily oontact, both officially
and socially Bif ,re reaching the Point
the 1 amaulipa0, which was coming, w^s
signalled and met the cutter, taking the
passengers and mail aboard, landed
them safely at the Point and returned
to the city. She will leave regularlv
hereafter as advertised.
The Bone* on the Bcacli,
It being rumored on the streets yes-
terday that a gang of negroes were
busily engaged in gathering the bones
washed upon the beach by the blow of
Monday iast, and which were supposed
to be the remains of the victims of the
Waco disaster, a News reporter visited
that section, and found tliat the report
was correct. The beach is full of bones,
bottles, tin cans, reeds, ashes, old shot s,
caal and a thousand other things too
numerous to mention, and in every p:le
of debris heaped together by the rest
less waters, is a crowd of negroes
gathering whatever they find that can
be turned to any account. Mr. Tolex,
who lives at the terminus of the Ave-
nue L, street railway, says that a half
dozen wagon loads of bones have been
gathered and carried away in sacki by
the negroes who have been busily
searching the beach ever since the tide
of last Monday subsided. The bones
thu3 gathered are so'd to the junk
dealers, who export them, to be used
for fertilizing purposi s Thejreporter
gathered a g<odly number of the bones
still left on the beach, which were ex
amined by Dr. Do well, and who pro-
nounced none of these brought in to
;,r?m ,ile human body, except one,
which was unmistakably a thign bone
from a very large rnan. It is reported
Ih A Picked up a skill
with a set of false teeth set in gold still
k Sl V ' that h<: was holding
his trophy for sale at the price of $10,
The man Who Saw Snakes.
Last week a worthy gentleman of
this city concluded that he would go on
a little cruise through the country. He
was not afraid of storms or any similar
visitation calculated to impair the fe-
licity of his physical structure, but he
needed rest and wanted to hear the
little birds sing and take in the fresh
breezes as they came bounding over the
plains, burdened with the odors of a
thousand-sweet smelling flowers. He
longed to grasp the flowing bowl full
of buttermilk, and to remind his stom-
ach of the halcyon days of his child-
hood, when nothing stronger ever
wended its way in that direction. He
had old friends in the country—warm-
hearted men with brawny hands, and
whole souled women, on whose faces
the sunniest of smiles survived every
cloud that rose up to overshadow them
with care and trouble, whom he wanted
to see. He wanted to see the babies
that had come to bless his dear friends,
and to learn their names, and give
them a kiss apiece, and promise them
that the next time he came he would
bring them a nice, big piece of candy,
and ever so many pretty toys, from the
big city by the sea. It happened that
on Monday last this worthy gentleman
started on his return home. The
clouds looked heavy in the horizon,
and the winds rattled away through
the trees and against ihe cars,
and reminded him of the fact
that things might be squally on the
gulf, but he kept on, and in due time
was brought face to face with the stu-
pendous reality that something awful
was about to happen. As he neared
Galveston rumor3 began flying as fast
as the wind, and the worthy gentleman
became greatly alarmed for the safety
of his constituency at home. At High
land Station he was told that Galveston
was all gone, and that not a vestige of
the place was left except the pilot-
house on the prow of the Tremont
Hotel, lie came nearer and this report
was confirmed, with the further assur-
ance that the "last ve»tige" was about
to go to pieces and thus surrender to
the wild waves the last landmark left
to designate the spot where Galveston
stood The worthy gentleman took a
drink from a bottle he had purchased
on the return trip, and then recalled all
the grudges he had been years in accu
mutating, and as he thought them over
he longed to reach the " last vestige,"
stand upon its summit and look down
upon the crash of matter and wreck of
fortunes he fancied were dancing about
upon the bosom of the surging tide,
lie wanted to see the mangled remains
of the millionaires of the Strand float-
ing at his feet, and being thus master
of the situation realize the truth of that
grand assertion that "the fittest must
survive." He took another drink and
then found himself a wayfarer at Vir-
ginia Point. lie summoned a boat to
the shoie and negotiated for a speedy
passage peross West bay—and here is
where he saw the sights that set his
teeth on edge. He was out.yesterday
telling his friends of the countless num-
ber of snakes he saw in the "angry
tide " as he was borne gently across the
waters of the bay. Ten thousand
snakes were swimming about, some
with green eyes and some with red, and
all with their tongues sticking out as if
they were in a hurry to bite somebody
It was a horrible mixture of all sorts
of snakes of ali sizes imaginable, and
after the snakes he said a full flood tide
of r its came floating by. He gathered
a stick and slayed snakes and rats until
he fouad himself exhausted. Every
time he would kill a snake or a rat a
thousand more would rise up to hiss
at hun and to lash their tails
against the bark that was bear-
ing him homeward. When the
worthy gentleman had finished his
story, a very sedate, intelligent man,
who had been "listening to him, but who
feared to suggest directly that he had
been drinking, asked what he had done
with the whisky he had left over? To
this interrogatory the worthy gentle-
man replied that he had given it to the
crew. The sedate gentleman laughed
a small laugh, and said that the whisky
had been tempered with Buffalo Bayou
water, and he knew where it was pur-
chased. He said that he stopped at the
same station once and took a drink
that affected him in a very similar man-
ner. That nearly everybody who drank
whisky sold at that station was liable
to crazy streaks, and would say almost
anything whether they knew it or not
tie then advised the worthy gentleman
to take thirty grains of bromide of po-
tassium in a tumbler full of chloral and
to go home and try and get a nap. He
thought that sleep would restore the
unfortunate man, who proceeded to act
upon the suggestion.
Proposed Billiard Tournament.
The New Orleans Times says, promi
nent billiard players of that city are en-
deavoiing to awaken interest in that
fascinating game by agitating the sub-
ject of tournaments at the three ball
iame. open to the South, to be held at
New Orleans during the winter. Such
an arrangement would bring players
from all parts of the country, and
would alf>>rd pleasure to all who have a
fancy for the game. The Times, adds:
Meanwhile an attempt is being made to get
on a match, or two, ir pos ible, between al-
veston and New Oilcans. Louis Abrams re-
turned last week from a brief visit to Gal-
veston, and reported that Moor* and Stone
talked as if they woild like to uaka a couple
•f games for money with Abrams and Mag-
gioli In re-ponse to that desire it is here
i-t»tedthat Mr. Abrams will play Mr Moure
two games, each 400 points up, French, for
$100 a side each game, the first game to be
played in Galveston, about October 1, on a
table of Mr. Moore's selee ion, and the second
in Sew Orleans two weeks thereafter, on a
table of Mr. lb^amg's choice. Maggioli can
be backer! to play Stone under crn. itionssim-
iiar to those offered by Abrams to Moore.
savnth»t ihe stake may be made for from
$100 to $450 a side, each game, at Stone's op-
tion There are three or four speculators in
Galveston who think their men would have
the best of it in such an arrangement, and
now t ha* here is the oppartunity for which
they have! ached, they will probably lose no
time in accepting the deflg. A couple of
matches, such as here sugres ed, would
awaken a good deal of billiardistic interest in
both cities, and billiardists in both places will
accordingly hope to see the projects brought
to successfal issue.
Galveston has never failed to hold
her own on occasions of the kind con-
templated, and it is probable that the
New Orleans billiardists will be afford
•clan oppc rtunity to get their money
back that ihey invested here last season.
In Great Distress.
Captain Silas Lawrence yesterday
brought to this city, Mr. Vansicker and
his wife, whom he found in the great-
est distress near Edward's Point. Mr.
Vansicker left Houston in a small boat,
in which he had placed his household
gods and goods, and was en route to
this city, where he intended perma
nently to locate. The storm struck hi?
frail craft and made quick work ef
leaving it a wreck. Mr. Vansicker and
his wife found themselves after the
wind and tide went down about three
miles distant from the bayou on the
prairie, and were three days without
tasting food. The unfortunate man
fainted from exhaustion when he was
placed on the wharf yesterday, and
being generally used up was sent to the
hospital for treatment. His wife went
home with Capt. Lawrence, but last
evening applied at the police station for
permission to go to her husband,which
was granted. Besides his goods and
clothing, Mr. Vansicker lost over $500
in money. His condition now is one
of absolute destitution.
Local Personal*.
Mr. L. O. Baker, Superintendent of
the Western Union Telegraph, is at the
Tremont.
Mr. R. S. Sloan, proprietor of the
Sloan House, Hempstead, is a guest of
the Tremont.
T. M. Stone, of Jasper, and T. B.
Caldwell, of Gray Rock, are at the
Washington.
The following gentlemen have been
elected visiting members of the Cotton
Exchange: Fri z Nesbet, Jacques For-
rer. Cnas. L. Gabici, J. Moller.
Visited the Cotton Exchange: L N.
Ulrich, Weimar; M. H. Nessler, New
Orleans; J P. Anderson, New Orleans:
Prof. C. G. Forshey, New Orleans;
C. A. Dittman, Alleyton.
The Schooner Robert Ruff.
The Mallory steamer State of Texas
arrived »t ihe outer bar yesterday af-
ternoon. Her officers report having
met the schooner Robert Ruff Wednes-
day evening, a'o'it 165 miles front
this city. The schooner was dismast-
ed, and consequently at the mercy of
the wind and waves. The captain of
the schooner made an effer of $800 to
be towed into Galveston, but Captain
Nicker icn thought it would be hazard
ous to undertake it, and said so. He
then asked the captain of the Ruff
what he intended doing, and was told
in renly that they would rig a "jury
mast" and come in with that. This
Captain Nickersan thinks may be done,
as good p ortions of both masts were
standing, and a larjje portion of the
bowsprit in place. The captain of the
Ruff 'lien asked for a barrel of "hard
t ick," as they had nothing to eat, the
galley having been washed overboard
Capt. Nickerson , informed him there
was no "hard tack" on board the
steamer, as they baked all their own
bread on board, but would give him a
barrel of flour and another of meat if
they wanted it. This was not wanted,
as they could Hot cook it on the
schooner. A3 the weather has ruoder
ated there is not much doubt the Ruff
wiii m ike port safely in a day or two.
Another Route.
The steamer Lizzie, Capt. Connor, of
the Direct Navigation Line, which
leaves at 10 a m. for Clinton daily, also
takes passengers for the interior.
The reporter, on inquiry at the office,
was informed that passengers who go
on the Lizzie can make connection at
Houston with trains going north that
evening. The Lizzie makes the trip
from Galveston to Clinton and back
to Galveston every twenty-four hours
The steamer Diana will in a few days
take her old place in this line.
Cattle at Large.
Com ilaints are made that cattle are
peimitted to run at large in the east
era end of the city to the detriment of
sidewalks and shrubbery, and contrary
to the ordinances made and provided.
The pniiee will comply with the duties
which they are paid to perform, and at
the same time merit the thanks of
those who endeavor to beautify their
possessions by planting shrubbery and
cultivating grass plots, by incontinently
gobbling up all and singular animals
found running around loose inside the
corporation.
Religious Services.
Souccos or Feast of Booth—This
holiday begins this eveaing at sundown.
Service at the Synagogue this evening
at 6 o'clock; Saturday morning at 10
o'clock.
False Alarm.
The alarm of fire sounded yesterday
at 12 o'clock was occasioned by the fire
telegraph line being cut by some me
chanics at work on the Strand. This
is the second alarm that has resulted
from the same cause.
TUB COURTS
Justice Johnson's Court.
State of Texas vs. F. Micholet, charged
with violation of the Sunday law; dismissed.
Recorder's Court.
Tom Banks, Andrew Harrison and John
Bradley, disorderly conduct ina publics reet;
fined S~ and costs each, or five days each in
j ail-
Mary Ann Green, intruding on the premises
of MattLarsen and using abusive language to
Miss Green; fined $2 and costs, or four days
in jail.
Sam Moeling, abusing and striking Alice
Runnels; continued to Sept. 21st.
G. Missga. selling decayed fish in the Cen-
tral Market; dismissed.
J. B. Brown, vagrancy; fined $2 50 and
costs, or four days in jail.
August Cramm, assaulting Felix Heide
man with a rock; fine! $2 50 and costs, or
five days In jail.
C. C Jackson, insulting and abusing Rudolf
Kruger; fined $1 and costs, or three days in
jail.
J. A. Mitchell and Ben Fisher, disorderly
conduct on the premises of Manuel Henault;
fined each |2 50, or five days in jail.
Manuel Henault and Joseph Spadey,
saulting and striking Ben Fisher; continued
to 5 p. M. Sept. 21st.
STATIC cases.
Gabe Brown, theft of clothing from Ghas.
Ingersol: continued to September 21.
Charlotte Leonard, theft of a gold pair of
spectacles from the premises of Mrs. E. Har
low; continued to September 21.
Knocked Down.
Yes, it was a fair and square knock
down, and the justice of the act is not
denied.
The female community are more par
ticluarly interested, and they give un
mistakable evidences of their apprecia
tion.
We allude to the fact that the great
female medicine known as English Fe-
male Bitters has been reduced to one
dollar per bottle, or three for $2 50.
Sold everywhere.
Go to Sawyer's, the lightning news
dealer, and buy the North American
Rtciew for September and October,
1877, containing articles written by the
following eminent men: E. W. Stough
ton, Dion Boucieault, Gen. G. B Mo
Clellan, Ralph Waldo Emerson, David
A Wells, Edward L. Burlingame, A
'Striker," Felix Adler, Thomas A
Scott. _
However trade may languish, or the
general interests of the country suffer.
Home Stomach Bitters appears ubiqui
tous, and we are glad to see that valua
ble elixir so properly appreciated.
On the 14th of August the ex parte
proceeding which had been theretofore
conducted before Justice Neill. at Aus-
tin, culminated in a warrant for my ar-
rest. Por reasons only known to As-
sistant Attorney General McCormick,
this warrant was not executed until the
1st day of September, about which
time it reached the Sheriff of Galveston
county In the meantime, and up to
the present, the communication to the
Governor, above referred to, had not
been acknowledged or answered. Under
the warrant I was taken before Justice
Neill at Austin, and investigation was
made for the purpose ot requiring me
to give bail for my appearance at Aus-
tin, to answer the charge of forgery.
This examination lasted several days,
the State being represented by Assist-
ant Attorney General McCormick, aided
by employed private counsel as prose
cutors. The result was that I was dis-
charged, and during the examination
no objection was made to any testimony
offered by the State, intended to show
any criminality of my conduct in any
manner whatever, connested with the
issue of land certificates. I offered no
witnesses in the trial, but submitted the
cause upon the evidence presented by
the State. Pending the trial my coun-
sel stated to the court that A M. Hobby
was there present, and in the hands
of the Sheriff, and was willing
and anxious for investigation to
be made as to any other criminal
charge of any character, growing
out of, or connected with, the so-called
land grab. For reasons known only to
Assistant Attorney General McCormick,
it was not deemed advisable to press his
inquiries further in the courts. After
this I had hoped that the action of the
court would satisfy the law officer of the
State, and that my criminality in the
premises having been disproven, and
any earnest disposition to test in the
courts any question of fraud or illegal-
ly in any form relating to my rights to
the certificates, or the procurement
therei f, having been previously, and at
an early day, in my letter to the Gover-
nor above quoted, fully illustrated, it
was but reasonable to expect that the
Assistant Attorney General, who claims
to have had throughout the sole control
and direction of ali matters in the
premises, would adopt the ready
means offered him of saving the State
any loss, on account of fraud or mal-
practice in obtaining the certificates,
and would not allow his zeal as a pub-
lic prosecutor to prevent in renewing
his argument before the public, when
tne only course left open to him to save
tie State from imaginary losses, was to
resort to civil proceedings to which he
had been invited by me.
I have said this much in order to sat-
isfy the public that I have met many ac-
cusers in the tribunal before which I
was arraigned, and that I have before
that tribunal acquitted myself against
all criminal accusation, and that it is
no fault of mine that I have not been
called upon to vindicate my civil rights
in the courts of the country to the land
certificates to which I have always as
serted my claim as just. But, on the
contrary," it is the fault of the Assistant
Attorney General, as the adviser of the
Governor, that the civil courts have not
been called upon to vindicate the truth
of his singular and unprecedented re
port against my rights to the land cer
tificates. I will say nothing here te
meet the abusive and irrelevant argu
ment of Assistant Attorney General
McCoinvck, but will leave him and his
speech to the public, that they may
judge from the facts herein stated
whether he has deported himself as the
representative of a great State, as be
came the law officer of the government,
in the management of a proceeding
wherein the State was a party against
one of its citizens.
I can not refrain from suggesting
that the public must feel that intemper
ate personal abuse of a citizen, by the
chief law officer of the State, when h«
is powerless to prevent it, and the de
liberate publication of that abuse in
the leading newspaper of the State, af
ter it had failed of respectful consider-
ation in the court where it was deliv
ered, is no compensation for his illus
trated ignorance of Paschal's Digest as
to criminal law, and his utter failure to
seek a protection of the rights of the
State, if any she had, as against me in
the civil courts; and whatever of repu-
tation for ability, courage or generosity
his course may entitle him to receive,
will doubtless be awarded by an appre-
ciative public. A. M. Hobby.
coil. HOBBY TO THE PUBLIC
Criticism of the Conduct or A Hslst
ant Attorney General McCormick
In tbe Late Trial at A us i In.
Galveston, Sept 20, 1877.
EtU. Newt— Your publication of the
speech of Assistant Attorney General
McCormick, delivered on the occasion
of the investigation before Justice
Neill at Austin, wherein A. M. Hobby
was before the country charged with
forgery, is my apology for asking the
publication of the inclosed matter.
Until after the trial at Austin
had desisted even from communi
eating to intimate friends fact
which were well known to me, cen
nected with the investigation had at
Austin, and I had so desisted be
cause I had reason to believe that the
entire subject would be examined into
by the courts of the country. But in
asmuch as the Assistant Attorney Gen
eral has seen proper, after such an ex
amination had been had, and in which
my course was entirely vindicated
against all criminal charges, to thrust
tie speech delivered by himself before
tbe public, which had failed to acconi-
plith its object in the court where it
was delivered, I feel that I am called
up in to submit for the information of
th; country the following facts:
Early in August last, pending the
ex parte proceedings, wherein inquiry
was being made before Justice Neill
concerning the supposed criminal man-
ner of the acquisition of certain land
certificates by A. M. Hobby, I visited
Austin when the investigation was be-
ing had. I interviewed the Governor,
Attorney General and Commissioner of
the Land Office. I remained there a day
or two and returned to Galveston. This
was on the 10th of August. On that
day I made the following communica-
tion to His Excellency Gov. Hubbard:
Galveston, Texas, Aug. 10, 187?.
To His Excellency R. B. Hubbard. Governor
of Texas, Austin:
Sir—The course pursued with reference to
the alternate land certificates, issued by the
Commissioner of the General Land Office to
John H. Gibson, contractor, for cleaning out
Bernard and Ganey, under date of July lb,
1877, has impaired the market value of said
certificates, of which, nearly all, are yet
within the control of the original parties, and
in order that the said certificates may be
disnosed of at their actual value, as genuine
and unquestioned, it Is therefore proposed to
your Excellency that the authorities of the
State of Texas thereunto authorized shall
forthwith institute such oivli proceedings in
the courts of the country as may ultimate in
the determination of the rights of the holder
of the said certificates to the same, and to
that end it is submitted that the venue or
jurisdiction will he recognized in the court
of any county where It may be most con-
ven.ent to litigate. The pledge is here made
thit the certificates shall not be disposed of
until after final determination by the courts,
aad that they will'be delivered up for de-
struction, or cancellation, whenever the
courts shall determine tnat they are illegally
held. In other words, it is desired te transfer
the controversy as to the validity of th-. se cer-
tificates from the newspapers and political
arena to the cou'ts of justice, wherein our
judgment tne controversy should have always
been. I have the honor to be verv respect-
fully your obedient servant, A. M. HOBBY,
ANOTUEK NARROW-GAUGE
MEKDKD.
A Line to Connect Galveston With
Eoustou suggested.
Galveston, Sept. 19,1877.
Eds. IVews—The enterprise of Hous-
ton is now constructing two narrow
gauge railroads centering there. I con-
tend that a narrow-gauge road from
this city to Houston will pay, when
such roads can be built so cheaply.
Why not the enterprise of Galves
ton organize under the General
Incorporation act, put their shoulders
and purses together as an investment,
if nothing else, and build such a road?
Call it " fhe Galveston Trunk Road,"
to be run to connect with the two
above named roads. No doubt a fa
vorable annual lease could be effected
with the Santa Fe Road to lay the con
templated track down between their
rails across their bay bridge; or, per
haps a better plan would be to lay
down a third rail, by contracting with
the Santa Fe Road to Mustang Station
and thence to Houston, branching off
at Mustang westward to Columbia,
connecting with the narrow gauge road
about being constructed from Colum-
bia to Wharton, and thereby center all
their traffics to this port. Cars loaded
at Belleville and La Grange, or at Ho-
mer and Nacogdoches, or Wharton can,
be run through without change. If
need be, place the depot at the extreme
east end, with free wharves for Mr.
Morgan's and all other vessels. It the
road proved a success, it could be
pushed from Bolivar to Beaumont,'with
ferry connection from East End to
Bolivar. Such a road to Houston, with
the cash in hand, can be constructed
and equipped for three or four thou-
sand dollars per mile. With two hun-
dred thousand dollars subscription ac-
tually paid in, one hundred cents on
the dollar, the company then could or
ganize and push it through. On such
a basis I would be willing to be one of
fifty individuals to go into the
Enterprise.
NOT ONE.
Do White Itlen Commit Depreda- I
tl->ns In the Guise ol Indians ?
Breniiam, Sept. 10, 1877.
Eds. Newi—la a recent issue of the
News you remark that you have been
taken to task by a correspondent for as-
serting that there are white men among
the Indians committing depredations
on our frontier, and in effect that much
of the stealing and murdering is done
by white men disguised as Indians. In
proof of such disguise and depredations
you refer to a recent census of the Che-
rokee and Choctaw Nations, showing
several thousand white men and mixed
bloods among them, and to the fact that
captive children taken from the whites
have been raised among the Indians.
Permit me space in your columns for a
brief discussion of the subject. The
public interest of the frontier is much
more gravely involved than is common-
ly supposed. The supposition that
there are white men disguised as In-
dians stealing and murdering on the
frontier, or disguising their trail so as
to have their crimes charged to- the
savages, is a popular error very wide-
spread and, it seems, deeply rooted.
The frontier of Texas has been apply-
ing for protection to every Congress
and to every Legislature which has met
since annexation, and I observe that
nothing has stood so much in the way
to prevent it being granted as this ab-
surd and baseless prejudice. The proof
I offer that this prejudice is without any
foundation whatever seems to me per-
fectly conclusive. Every season and al-
most every month for forty years, and
indeed for fifty years, the Indians have
raided on our frontier, and in most in-
stances have been pursued by soldiers
or citizens. In very numerous instances,
through all that time and on all parts
of the frontier, savages have been over-
taken and one or more killed or cap-
lured. The number so taken must alto-
gether amount to thousands. In no
instance has a white man been
found among the slain or among the
captives painted, or otherwise dis-
guised, as an Indian. Could it be that
the disguised white should always es-
cape where the real Indian was taken?
Again, the trails that have been fol
lowed: Wherever a trail showing In-
dian sign has been followed until the
marauders were overtaken, they have
proved to be Indians. If I am not right
it is perfectly easy to refute me by sim-
ply mentioning the instance where the
contrary occurred. I appeal to the
records of the War Depertment ot the
United States. The regular soldiers
have pursued the Indians very nu-
merous times, under all conditions;
they have overtaken them dozens of
times on all parts of the frontier. Those
expeditions are all regularly reported,
with minute circumstantiality. None
of these reports mention the killing or
capture of a white man disguised as an
Indian. I appeal to the reports of the
operations of State troops. Of all the
pursuits and battles with Indians by
the Texas Rangers for all time, all of
which I believe have been reported and
printed, not one mentions the taking,
dead or alive, of a white man disguised
as an Indian. There are no circum-
stances of Indian depredations but that
the Ringers have at one time or another
caught the perpetrators in the act, or so
quickly, as to leave no doubt of their
identity. Could it be that depredations
were commonly committed by dis-
guised white men, and yet that neither
regular nor ranger ever came up with
them? I appeal to the citizens on the
frontier who have assembled and pur-
sued Indians fresh on the trail from
robberies and murders innumerable.
They have overtaken the Indians hun
dreds and hundreds of times, killed
some of them and recovered more or
less of their property. Did any of them
ever find a white man disguised as
an Indian, dead or| alive? If so, will
such citizen please state where aad
when, and menticn others who were
present so that the fact can be verified?
I have inquired along the whole fron
tier among citizens of all ages and all
periods of residence without being able
to find one who had seen the so much
supposed white man pretending to be
an Indian. It is entirely certain that if
any such have been they have been ex
tremely rare, and only to be counted as
a freak of insanity.
As for the Choctaws and Cherokees
they are wholly beside the question. A
party of Cherokees were driven out of
Texas near forty years ago, since which
time no hostilities have occurred with
them. The Choctaws have never bjen
hostile. The fact is, the section of
country inhabited by those tribes has
long been settling up with Americans,
who count in a census of the people of
those Territories, but who are in no de-
gree disguised as Indians in their per
sonal appearance. It is as absurd to
reckon the Choctaws and Cherokees
among the tribes hostilizing Texas as to
count the Seneca Indians of New York,
or the Biloxis of Louisiana, in the
same category.
As for the few white boys who have
been carried away and raised in captivi
ty by our hostiles, it will be seen from
the foregoing that they count for noth-
ing appreciable in the frontier disturl
ances. What we do learn from such
of them as have returned is that there
are no white men among our hostile In
dians. There are many white robbers
and Mexican banditti depredating on
our frontier, but they do not pretend
to be Indians. There are not, and there
never have been, any men on our fron-
tier painted or disguised as Indians that
were not Indians. M. M. Kenney
to relieve the suffering man. With all
the aid nothing could be accomplished,
and at 11 30 o'clock p. m. he paid the
penalty of death for his fearful reck-
lessness. His name is Frank Haidur,
from Warren, O. His father, we learn,
has been for years a book-keeper for
Packard & Birnum, hardware mer-
chants, at that place.
PERSONAL.
They went fishing. She looked lan-
guidly at him and said: "I wish the
fish would bite at your hcok. If I was
a fish I would."
The saddest duty a woman ever had
to do is that of examining her husband's
pocKets, but from the way she performs
the duty one would suppose she glories
in it.
A large picture always gets looked at
in an art exhibition, though s ze may
be its only merit, and the litil'i gems
are passed over, though great in every-
thing but size.
An $1800 monument is to be erected
over the grave of John C. Heenan, the
" Benicia"Boy," in St. Agnes Cemetery,
Albany. The money comes from the
Heenan estate.
Circassian women are selling their
glorious hair in order to provide for the
wounded soldiers. Some of their
tresses, four feet two inches long, are
sold in London.
A young lady at Vassar needlessly
set foot upon the cast-off ulster of a
banana as she was tripping down the
great staircase, and reached the bottom
in such a heterogeneous condition, that
for a while she didn't know if she was
a V assar or a peel.
Thank heaven, summer is over!
exclaimed Mrs. Shabby Genteel, as she
unbarred the front shutters and started
the family to bustling around as though
they had just returned from Newport.
When Gen. Howard kills an Indian
he halts the entire command and holds
religious services over the remains of
the extinct red. He has not had occa-
sion to hold service for some weeks.—'
Indianapolis Herald.
A waiter at one of the Atlantic City
hotels (a Dane) converses with the
guests in five European languages; but
Unless1 he can carry a plate of soup
without immersing his thumbs two
inches in the liquid, his education is
far from complete.
Somehow a story has got out in North
Carolina that Gov. Zeb Vance is giving
$5 and a chromo to every boy named
after him, and he is accordingly being
pestered by exceedingly complimentary
letters from innumerable namesakes in
all parts of the State.
HOTEL AKRIVALS.
COMMERCIAL HOTEL.
Ktager Myer, Brenham, Texas; A Lewis,
Houston; a Bib?r»tien, Austin: W'm (Ja'la-
han, Caldwell county: L E Jay, Macon, Ga;
RH Grisette, Charleston; T Kniousky, J W
Peake, St Louis; M K Temple, Louisiana; P D
Chambers, Jackson, Mies; W A Brittano, San
Francisco; A Kucbn", St Louis.
TREMONT HOUSE.
G Manaha, Chicago: H Arondon, New Or-
leans; J C Buckner, Cincinnati; R S Slosn,
Hempstead; W G Gerson, Texas: LW Wright,
New York; F L Kimba'l, St Louis; A M Bar-
ney, T G Hunt, New Orleans: L C Baker, Ar-
kansas; M Branl and wife, New Orleans; J C
Baker, city; J B Anderson, New Orleans; J H
Lychoflf: John Treeoarter, New York; H B
Freeoarter, city; O G Murray. J H Mil'er, H
Settle, city: John T Moore, New York; LP
Jones and wife, New Orleans; W L Bourg,
Dallas; L P Cambetl, Bryan.
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bama; T M Stone, Jasper; M L Gamin, Car-
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Hawks. Texas; J R ichardson, R 8 Rickey,
Frink, New Orleans; M H Hollifield and
wife. Florida: wm amende and wife. Austin:
Mrs Burns and family, Brtnbam; F P Gallo-
way, New Orleans: H Hall, Houston; CAW
Miltback, Samuel F Sexton, New Orleans; T
Dorson, city.
The Center of Vitality.
The life of the ilesh and the brain, the
bones and the muscles, is the blood. It is the
center of vitality, the nutriment of the sys-
tem. Not only must it be pure, but rich, in
order to reta;n health. In the feeble and de-
vitalized, the life current is watery and its
circulation sluggish. The muscles of such
persons lack solidity, the nerves are weak
the visage haggard, and the eye lusterless. A
course of Hostetter's Stomach Bitters, how
ever, improves not only the health but the
appearance of the debilitated and nervous
Nutrition then becomes complete because di
gestion receives an impetus from this benig-
nant tonic, which fertilises the blood, brings
baok "the rose tint of health" to the wan
cheek, brightness to the eye, «nd gives power
of endurance to the muscle. Invalids, hasten
to use it!
The United States Army is being
rapidly put upon a war footing. Two
more soldiers have reported for duty,
and a man in the hospital with a sore
leg will be ready for business in less
than a fortnight.
SAN ANTONIO LOCAL NOTES.
Tuesday Nigiit, Sept. 18.
The Vreie Presse, with commendable
public spirit, rebukes your correspond
ent for ill-timed levity in the matter of
the County Court, and then goes on to
say that it would have been much better
if he had stated that the Freie Presse
was the only San Antonio paper that
has the courage *' to oppose the crazy and
illegal capers of a hair-brained fizzle of
a barrister, who uses the law as a means
to gratify whimsical personal animosi
ties, and to advance his private inter
est."
The Freie Presse also claims that it is
backed up in its course by the people,
and that at the next session of the
County Court an attempt will be made
to remove " this nuisance of a county
judge." It also calls on the county
treasurer not to pay the $100 a month
the county judge draws, to which he
has no right according to the ccnstitu
tion, and suggests an injunction to that
end.
The hall for the Saengerfest concert
will be erected in Wolfram's Garden
It will be 150 long by 60 feet wide,
Weather cold enough last night to
make blankets agreeable.
The Atlanta correspondent of the
Cincinnati Enquirer, under date of Sep-
tember 8, telegraphs the following:
Hon. Benjamin H. Hill has found his tongue
at last, and talks about the alleged movement
to run him for the presidency. He says he
thinks it is quite certain that one of the two
candidates in 1880 will hail from the South.
He thinks the Democrats will surely give one
of their place,1" to a Southern man, and hopes
the South will not permit so foolish a thing as
allowing the North, which need give only 47
votes to our next candidate, to dictate plat-
forms and candidates to the South, which will
certainly give him 138. Mr. Hill has no per-
sonal reasons for advocating this policy, and
always said that he considered a place in the
United States Senate the most honorable and
desirable office in the world. He does not
heBitate to say that he had rather be S n\tor
than to hold any other office, and as his lease
on the present seat is good for twelve ye*rs,
he need not be counted in with aspirants at
present. Gen. Toombs made a characteristic
remark the other day when asked about his
rac>) for the -enate: "I am afraid," said he,
" that I would not suit the latter-day constitu-
encies. I should not give my consent to as-
sist in the schemes of public plunder that
they appear to expect at the hands of their
representative'. During the ten years I was
in the Senate not one dollar of the public
money went into my State; I did not ask for
one dollar, and my constituents never asked
me to ask for or to accept one dollar for
them."
Senator Wallace, of Pennsylvania
expresses the opinion that the Demo-
crats will carry the State at the ap-
proaching election. He says that in
his judgment the organization of the
Senate by the Democrats would work
injury to the party by uniting the Re-
publicans against the South, and would
be the means of breaking down the
President at once. Ohio, he thinks,
will also be carried by the Democrats
in October.
A VIRGINIA CATASTROPHE.
A Balloon Exploded Tlir<>e Hun-
dred Feet In tbe ilr, Killing tbe
Aeronaut.
[From the Abington (Va) Standard, 13th inst ]
Glade Spring, in this county, was, on
Monday, thronged with sovereigns
from all parts of the surrounding coun
try to witness the ascension, as adver-
tised for that place on that day. Ac
cording to announcement, the traveling
show of Prof. H. Hoffman made its ap-
pearance, and at once prepared for ex
hibition. The performance was usu
ally accompanied by a balloon ascen-
sion. Their large iron furnace was put
to work, and the balloon hoisted over it
by means of two poles on either side,
forty feet high. The balloon was in-
flated by means of wood and kerosene
oil, with a small quantity of gasoline
added. When the balloon was
filled, as usual, Mr. Haidur, the aero-
naut, was informed, but he said:
'I waDt more gas this time." Two
pints more of oil was put in and, when
exhausted, the damper to the furnace
was shut down. Then he jumped to
his position, and like an arrow the
great air ship shot upward, carrying
its human freight dangling at i s end
It had ascended some three hundred
feet, and while the actor was perform-
ing on a horizontal bar, hanging by his
feet with his head down, waving a
handkerchief to the trembling, nervous
audience below, the patched and dilap
idated canvas split from bottom to top
with a report that was heard for miles
away. The effect was terrible. No
sooner had the gas escaped than the
balloon collapsed and came shooting
down as swiftly as it had darted up.
The aeronaut saw his situation, and
quick as lightning turned himself up
and regained hts hand hold, and com
rnenced a maneuver to dodge a tele-
graph wire and post toward which he
was falling. This he succeeded in do
ing, striking the ground with terrible
force, which bounced him up a somer
sault, to be caught and pressed down
by .the balloon. All this was the work
of a moment. The crowd was literally
paralyzed, women sickened and faint-
ing, and men unable in their horror to
move. The companions of the unfor
tunate man stood riveted to the ground,
and not until some citizens undertook
to move the canvas did they stir. The
man was found to be alive and per-
fectly conscious, but dreadfully bruised
and mangled. He went through it all
calm and cool, and described his feel-
ings, as descending he saw and felt
death staring him in the face. He was
taken to the hotel, where both Mr. and
Mrs. Thompson did all in their power
S.
l lotliin^. Etc.
JACOBS,
FASHIONABLE TAILOR,
Formerly 011 22d st., near Market, now at No.
157 Market, bet. 23d and Center sts ,
Has ju^t returned from New Orleans with an
assorted Fall and Winter Stock of stylish
Cassimeres, Cloths of all colors, Scotch Goods
and Cheviots. Prices as low as those charged
in any city in the United States. CaU and ex-
amine the new styles. sel6 lm*
MARKETS BY TELEGRAPH.
Financial.
oomkbtic.
New York. September 20—Evening—Money
active at per cent. Sterling Exchange
quiet at 483>$. Gold closed strong but dull at
Government bOLds srong; new oj
107J4* State bonds dull.
Closing—8tocta firm. New York Central
10'2)4'* fcriell; Lake Shore 64%; Illinois Cen
tral 70; Pittetrir- 82^; Chicago and North
western 35^; Chicago and Northwestern pre
ferred 62\£. rtock Island 102i£.
sub-treasury rttport.
The Sub-Treasury balances are:TGold
665,605; currency, $44,560,801, The Sub-Treas
urer paid out fl21,000 on account of interest
and $74,000 for bonds. ^Customs recejp—
$315,0 «0.
New Orleans, September 20.— Gold 103<&
103J4- Sight exchange on New York 34 pre
miuin. Sterling exchange, bank, 500.
Foreign Cotton Markets.
Liverpool, September 20— Spot steady
Sales 15,«KX) bale*; American 7050; to export
ers and Speculators 4000 bales. Imports 8100
bales, none of which was American.
Uplands are Quoted as follows: Ordinary
5%d; Good Ordinary 5 16-lfid; Low Mid
dling. 6 3-16d; Middling Uplands, 6 5-l«d; Mid
dling Orleans 6 7-16d.
Arrivals opened l-32d higher but closed dull.
Basis, Middling Uplands, Low Middling clause,
from any port:
September-October delivery 6?4d; October-
November delivery 6 9-32; November-Decem
ber delivery 6 5-lGd; December-January de
livery October-November shipment
6 9-32d; November - December shipment
6 9 32d; Decern ber-January shipment 6 5-16d
Havre, ^ptember 20.—Demand moderate
but pric s firm.
rre* Ordinaire (spot) «5f; Low .Middling
(afloat) 76f. per 50 killogrammes, or 110H
pounds.
Domestic Cotton|Harkets.
New York, September 20 —Spot epened
strong and held l-16c higher and closed firm
but at unchanged prices. Sales 125 bales to
■pinners and 918 baies to exporters; total
1043 bales. Texas quoted as follows:
Ordinary 10c: Good Ordinary Low
Middling 11 1 16c; Middling 11 7-16c; Good
Middling 11 10 16c.
Futures closed easy at advanced prices.
Sales 77,800 bales.
sentember 11.32; October 11.33: November
11 12: December 11.13; January 11 23: Febru-
ary 11 38: March 11.53; April 11.66; May 11.78;
June 11 90.
New Orleans September 20.—Market
strong at advance. Sales 5.0 bales.
tfood Uruinary 10^^: L Mjndung 10%c;
Middling HJ^c; Good Middling ll%c.
Providence Print Clotb Ittarket.
Providence, September 20.—In good de-
mand with improved inquiry; standard 64x64
print cloths 3^; sales for the week 5?,000
pieces.
Prod ace Markets.
domestic
New Orleans, September so.—Flour in
good demand aad a shade higher; superfine
$4 75; double extra *5 25: treble extra 85 50
©6 50; choice 16 75@7 37^. Corn quiet but
steady; white60c; yellow7iic. Oats—demand
moderate; St. Lonis 40c; Galena and Texas
42c. Cornmeal easier at $2 50. Hay quiet;
prime $14 00; choice timothy $16 50. Fork
quiet and weak. Lard in good demand and
higher; reflned tierce keg 10t&lC}£c.
Bulk meats—dry salt shoulders scarce and
Arm at 6^c. Bacon iu good demand and a
shade higher; shoulders 7&c; clear rib sides
8%c; clear sides 9J^@9*4c Hams firmer;
choice sugar-cured 12^^13"*, as in siz^
Whiaky dull; western rectified $1 0^1 11.
Coffee quiet; Rio, ordinary to prime cargoes,
17}^@21^c, gold. Sugar quiet but firm; job-
bing, common to good common 7©8c: fair to
fully fair 8@8>4c; prime to choice 834&8%c:
clarified 824@^c. Molasses—nothing doing!.
Rice firmer; ordinary to choice Louisiana 5H
@6?£c. Bran ateady at 75c
New York, September 20.—Flour a shade
stronger for shipping grades; other grades
unchanged; winter wheat brands dull, but
closing firmer for low grades; superfine west-
ern and State $5 00@5 65; southern flour
steady; common to fair extra $6 25<&6 75;
good to choice extra $7^-40(^8 75 Wheat 1(&
4c higher and somewhat unsettled: $1 30@
1 50 for ungraded winter red; $1 50@1 58 for
white western. Corn a shade firmer with a
moderate demand. Oats unchanged. Coffee
—Rio steady. Sugar quiet; 81£®8%g for fair
to good refining; refined dull; 10J4@1096c for
standard A. Molasses steady with a moderate
demand. Rice fairly active and 3teady. Tat-
low at 7%<?fc8^c. Turpentine steady; 35c
asked. Rosin unchanged. Pork opened firm-
er but closed heavy; new mess $13 40@13 50.
Lard opened excited and higher but closed
heavy; prime steam, $9 00 for new; $9 20 for
old Whisky lower at $112^. Freights de-
cidedly lower for grain; cotton to Liverpool,
by steam, sail, 7 32d;to Continent, steam,
wheat to Liverpool, by bteam, closing
at 8?£<&9c.
St. Louis, September20. —Flour firm but un-
changed; double extra fall $5 30®5 35;lre-
ble *xtra $5 45(^5 80. Wheat—No. 2 red
fall, $1 31 bid; No. 3 red|fa 11 $« 24. Corn-
No. 2mixed 46f£e. Rye firm at 55}£c. Barley
unchanged Whisky steady at $1 09. Lard
nominally unchanged; winter $9 asked; $8 75
bid; summer $8 75 asked: $8 62>£ bid. Bulk
meats inactive shoulders 5^c; clear rib sides
clear sides 7%c. Bacon easier.
shouloer8 6^c; clear rib uidefl S>6@J4c; clear
sides 8%@ft)Sc.
Live Stock Markets.
St. Louis, September 20.—Hogs steady and
unchanged- Cattle dull and nominal tor na-
tives; shippers and butchers 6teady and un-
changed with a fair business doing for home
trade and interior chipping points. Sheep
unchanged. _
Reliable help for weak and nervous suffer-
ers. Chronic, painful, and prostrating dis-
eases cured without medicine. Pulvermacli
er's Electric Belts the grand desideratuu .
Avoid imitations. Book and Journal, with
particulars, mailed free. Address Pulveu-
machkr Galvanic Co., Cincinnati, Ohio.
Posnainsky, ihe Tailor.
just eeceived a
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CASH CAPITAL, - -
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L1CVE, Secretary.
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Machinery.
LARGE
_ stock of the best fall goods and latest pat-
terns from New York, which I will make up
in the latest styles and lowest rates. My cus-
tomers and public generally are invited to call
and see for themselves. To conform to the
times have made a reduction on all orders.
«. POSNAINSKY. 176 Tremont street.
NEW MACHINE SHOP.
WEST RTBAND IRON VOSKI,
36 and ST Strand,
\ RE NOW READY TO REPAIR
J\_ Steam Engines and other Machinery.
Having placed in shop New Machinery, we
can de good work at low prices, Houaesmith-
ine, iron doors and window shutters, etc.
je21 Cm J. ASTALL, Galveston, Tex.
SHEAN & DISBROW,
Copper, Brass
A lid
Sheet Iron Workers,
Manufacturers of Improved
Steam Batteries and < I riliei>
For Making Sugar, and Dealers iu
STEAM, WATER AND WAS PIPES,
Brass Goods, Etc.
157 and 159 East Mechanic Street,
GALVF.STOM.
MILITARY CLOTHING.
(ESTABLISHED 1824.)
The oldest military clo-
thing house in the United States.
Long and favorably known to the Southern
trade.
JACOB REED'S SONS,
301, 303 and 305« *ouih Second St.,
Philadelphia.
Military Companies, Bands and Colleges
uniformed at the shortest notice. Satisfaction
guaranteed in cut, style and trimming. Prices
reasonable. Lithographs and directions for
measurement, with sample of goods, etc.,
furnished on application je29 8m eod
To the Ladies.
The undersigned wishes
to inform his lady customers and public
in general that he has received by late ar-
rivals a good assortment of
EMBROIDERIES
LACE BIBS,
I ace and Silk Handkerchiefs,
SILK TIES. C 3RSETS. KU' HINGS, KID
SLOVES, HOOP-SKIRTS.
Also.White and Colored FLANNELS, QUILTS
and a general assortment of Goods in his line,
which he will sell as low as any other house.
Please call and examine my stock at
No. 174 Twenty-second Street.
f l2 lm JOSEPH BLUM.
OF
General mLercnamftse.
F
3d,OllO
SACKS
LIVERPOOL SALT!
3500 BARRELS
ROSENDALE CEMENT
500 bbls. Portland Cement,
200 bbls. PLASTER,
Juot received and for sale by
se9 tf c. TV. ADAJ11S & CO.
To Arrive
THIS WEEK.
3 CAR LOADS BACON. CLEAR
AND < LEAR Kilt SIDES.
1 CARLOAD BACON SHOULDERS,
1 CAK LO*D CHOI'E C. HAMS.
1 OAR LOAD CINCINNATI AND
ST. LOUIS CHOKID S. C"
BREAKFAST RA.C0N,
5 CAR LOADS OF FLOUR, all
trades, In Sacks and Barrels.
2 CAR LOADS REFINED l.ARD,
in Tierces and Kegs, Schaeffer
Brands.
SOLE AGENTS
FOR
Galveston, Texas,
N. SCHAEFFER—CHOICE RE-
FINED LARD, SOAP. ETC.,
CHAS. HEZEL—FL.OUR MILL,
MISSOURI KEI.LE. "ST. ELMO"
AND " 4 XXXX " BRANDS.
V. STOCKE STAR MILL.
STOCKE'S BEST "STAR MILL"
BRANDS.
WOOD & CONOHAN'S STAR CAN-
DLES.
B4.CON SHOULDERS, STAR CANDLES,
NEW YORK AND ST. LOUIS REFINED
LARD; in Tierces, Barrels, Kegs, Firkins and
Half Barrels.
CHURCH'S SODA, in Kegs and Boxes.
CHOICE CIDER VINEGAR,
CHOICE CANVASED S. C. HAMS, Ham
ilton & Bartle Brand, Etc., Etc.
J. H. ELSWORTH & CO.,
Strand, Galveston.
sel lm
LEVY & WEIS,
115 ^larket St., News Building,
Beg leave to inform
their friends and the public generally
that thev nave opened their
NEW STOCK
CLOTHING,
Gent's Furnishing Goods,
HaTS, caps, trunks,
Valises, Rubber and Oil
Clothing,
and all the latest novelties in their line. Their
Stock is NEW and FRESET, and has been very
carefully elected especially for this market
aud trade. They propose to sell at prices tbat
can not fail to command a liberal patronage
from all classes N. B.—CHILDREN'S, BOYS'
aiid YOU iHS' CLOTHING made a specialty.
au2 3m
store and constantly
RECEIVING:
LIMBURGER CHEESE, EDAM CHEESE,
SAGO SAP OHEESK. NEW YORK CREAM
CHEESE, HO'.LAND HERRING. BOSTON
GIBBED HFRTiING, ANCHOVIES. 8AR-
DELLES, RUSSIAN SARDINES, RUSSIAN
CAVIAR, and an endless variety of FANCY
GROCERIES of all kinds, for sale by
G. SEELIGSON & CO.,
sel6 207. 309 and 211 Strand.
Special rates on large orders of Pipe and
Brass Goods. 2.n
josht AMILI.ft.il
LEE IRON WORKS.
C. B. LEG & CO.,
Iron t Brass Founders
AND
MACHINISTS .
MANUFACTURERS OF
STEAM ENGINES,
8AW MILLS,
BOILERS,
•HILL AND GIN GEARING,
.Shafting:, Pulleys, Brass and Iron
Pumps, Etc., Etc.
Particular attention given to orders for Iron
Fronts and Castings for Buildings.
All kinds ol Job Work solicited.
Satisfaction guaranteed.
Corner Winnie and 32d Sts.,
(Near Railroad Depot),
GALVE8TON. TEXAS.
SUGAR & SORGO MILLS
COOK. GVAFERATOBS,
EAOLE COTTON filSS,
HART'S AND OTHER IMPROVED
COTTON PRESSES!
Stranb Cora and Flouriagr Mills,
AMES PORTABLE ENGINES
Asbestos Boiler Coreriag,
Complete Cotton Cleaner,
and all kinds Farm and Factory Machinery
and Fittings, Belting, Brass Work, etc., etc.
Send in early orders and gat advantage of
present low rates of freight.
W. L. CUSHEVG A HKOORB,
Nos. 1U and 134 Strand,
12m «ALVgKTO!l
FAIRBANKS'
THE ONLY RECOGNIZED STANDARD NOW
IN USE BY THE GOVERNMENT.
FAIRBANKS A CO.,
53 Gamp St., New Orleans. La.
HT)27 fim
Banks and Bankers.
William H. Flippen,
BANKER. 1
(Successor to PARKER 4 FLIPPEN,)
Bryan, Texas.
A GENERAL BANKING BUS1
ness transacted. Collections made on all
accessible points, and promptly remitted at
current rate of exchange. Exchange bought
and sold. jei 6m
JAMES T. THORNTON,
SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS.
A General Banking Business transacted
Collections made and promptly remitted. Ex
Ohanaro hnnirb*: and 12"n
Special Notices.
Keep's Custom Shirts made to measure. |wh<?re
The very best, « for $9, delivered freo every-
Keep's Patent Partly made Dress Shirts. The
Very best, 6 for $7, delivered free everywhere
An elegant set of Gold plate collar and sleeve
Buttons given with eacn six of Keep's shirts.
Samples and full directions free to any address
Merchants supplied at a small commission on
cost.
Trade circulars mailed free on application
Keep Manufacturing Co.. 165 Mefoer it., N. Y.
• $300,00#.
H. S. WILL IS, President.
W. K. mcALHISF, Viee-PVM't.
Stores, Tinware, fitc.
AVG. ROEMEB,
GENERAL
COMMISSION MERCHANT,
Wholesale and Retail Dealer in
Stoves, 'liswaTe and Honee Fur
j)jailing Articles,
Manufacturer of Tinware and Sole Agant for
the famous Fuller, "Warren & Camp Stoves,
such as the
Spirit; of '76,
The Best Wood Cooking: Stove in the World,
Tlie Napoleon, tlte Southern Gen,
and all th© fine Heating Stoves of the above
and other firms "Will be pleased to sell at re-
duced prices to his kind patron* all they need
in the kitchen, house or tor the trade, at his
o'd stand,
je76m 218 MAKKKT STREET.
THE LADY GAY
: STOVE
TRIUMPHANT
in 1463 Towns an3 Tillages,
Iu 908 Counties,
In 74 Cities,
In 18 States,
Where they can be seen on saJe and in suceea
ful operation. For sale by
JACOB F. WEITZEL,
20tli Street, Siding's Brick Build
between Mechanic and Market sts.
se5 8m
Fairs.
ANNUAL EXPOSITION
Capital State Fair
ASSOCIATION,
Will be Held at the Fair Gronnds,
Near tbe City ofAiistln,
On Oct. 16, 17, 18, 19 and 20,
1877.
Grand Military Display
On the Fourth Day.
The First Brigade of
TEXAS STATE TROOPSf
Will be on th« Grounds and reviewed by His
Excellency tne Govornor.
The following racing- programme has oeen
adopted Running to oe governed by the
rules of the Jockey Club:
FIRST DAY—OCTOBER 16.
Racking, pacingfor trotting race for ponies
under 14 hands high- Purse $30.
Rnnning race for ponies; half-mile heats.
Purse $3
8addle-horse race; half-mile heats. Purse $30.
Running race: 3year olds; mile dash. Purt«
$150. Three or more to fill.
SECOND DAY—OCTOBER 17.
Trotting race; mile heals. Purse $75.
Running race, free to all to rule; 2 mile dash.
Purse $150. Three or more to fill
THIRD DAY—OCTOBER 18.
Trotting race for horse that never beat thrca
minutes; mile heats. Putso 9oo.
Running race, free f >r all to rule; mile heats.
Purse $200. Three or more to filL
FIFTH DAY—OCTOBER 20.
Running race for 2 year olds; mile dash
Purse $100. Three er more to fill.
Mule race, mile heats, hlowest mule wins.
Purse $25. Owners not allowed to ride their
own mule*.
For further particulars and programme, ad-
dress E.O. BAKTHOLOtlEW,
au5Sd&W toe 14 Secretary, Austin, Texas.
Medical.
J}R. M. PERL,
General Practitioner,
can be consulted at the Texas Hygienic Insti-
tute, corner Travis street and Texas avenue,
HOUSTON, TEXAS.
Special attention given to chronic diseases.
TURCO-RUSSLAN BATHS open at all hours
Single Bath, $1 50: 12 Baths. $12. ia20 d&Wtf
R RICORD'S ESSENCE OF
LIFE restores manhood and the vigor
of youtn to the most shattered constitution
in four weeks, from whatever cause arising.
Failure impossible. Beware of advertisers
who offer so-called free prescriptions that are
useless, and finally prove ruinously expensive.
Whatever has merit must cost a fair price.
Three dollars per case. Sent by express any
where. Sole Agent, DR. JOSEPH JACQUES,
7 University Place, N. Y. Druggists supplied.
jvlQ d&W 8m
A PHYSIOLOGICAL
Vigw of Marriage!
A confidential Treatise on Marriage and
the Physical Life of Woman, for the mar-
ried and those contemplating marri**e.K0
„ paces, iJluetrated. price 50*cts.
VATB MEDICAL ADVTSER on Yc
APEI-
on Youth and Manh«xxl,
their diseases, and tbe be.«»t means of eure, 224 paies, illus-
trated, price SOcts. A CLINICAL LECTURE on the
above, and Chronic Diseases, price 10 cts. ^All
books, ov*r 500 pages, mailed on receipt of 75 Cts, by
DR. BUTTS. Xo. 12 N. 8th St. St. Louis, Mo.
HAPPY RELIEF
To all suffering from chronic diseases of all
kinds. Confidential consultation invited per-
sonally or by mail. New method of treat-
ment. New and reliable remedies Book and
circulars sent free in sealed envelopes. Ad-
dress HOWARD ASSOCIATION, 419 North
Ninth street, Philadelphia, Pa., an institution
having a high reputation for honorable con-
dnet ar 1 r»mf<»H«ir»nnV»lo drill 19t»
The Duty of Woman.
To be attractive is a duty
which every lady owes to herself, to ber
domestic circle and to society Not only
should she endeavor to please in address
and in apparel, but, whenever possible, in
complexion and in feature as well. Facial
embellishment is to a lady as proper, and of-
tentimes as necessary as are the adornments
of her raiment, the artificial graces of her
conversation, of her demeanor, or other mer-
etricious attractions upon which depend so
much of her dominion and influence over
man. The woman who permits herself to be-
come unlovely, who resigns herself hopelessly
to the ravages of time and the spoliation of
her charms, visits upon her friends and ad-
mirers a sorrowful regret, that it becomes her
to avert to tbe latest day. Of this social duly
it may truthfully be saia that she can best ac-
quit herself by the use of GOURAU L>'S OLYM-
P^N CREaM. No other preparation ap-
proaches this in excellence, in harmlessce'*®
and purity, bold in Galveston at wholesale
by R. F. GEORGE: at retail by D. E. School-
field. In Houston by R. Cotter & Co.
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