The Galveston Daily News. (Galveston, Tex.), Vol. 43, No. 138, Ed. 1 Monday, September 8, 1884 Page: 5 of 8
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THE GALVESTON DAILY NEWS, MONDAY. SEPTEMBER 8, 1884
Classified Advertisements.
bTATK press.
HBMPW ANTBD-.M ALB.
WANTED—A HEBREW^ DRY-QOODS^OISERK
with experience in negro trade. Afce, refer
ence and salary required, by letter to
A. WEINBERG & CO., Hearne, Tex.
TXT ANTED-A YOUNG MAN, ABOUT 18, AS
VV cltrk. MuRt nave good reference. Address
Box O, News office, giving reference and salary
< expected.
| tt7 ANTED—A YOUNG MAN TO WORK in A
VV dairy and to deliver milk. Must be a good
milker. Apply fo CHAS. WOOLLAND, 41st and Q.
AN HONKBT, INDUMTKlOUH, SOBER MAN,
good milker and to deliver milk. Apply, witli
reference, at 210 22d street, or 85th and P.
"YT7 ANTED—A good plumber or fitter can find
VV employment by applying io W. W. OTTER,
64 Commerce street, Houston.
WANTED—STONE MA80N8
Ban Sabajall.
TO WO Kit Otf
in Jail. For information applp to
JOHN WoKENNA, San Saba/TBx.
WANTED—A FARMEK, WITH TWKSTf 'OH
thirty. gbod milch cows. Liberal aWango-
mects. Address J. ,T. LEWIS & co. .jjjjj
CVOMMKKOlAiU TOUKltlTU—THE ipjACH
/ HOTEL management are pleased to announce
that tKey have secured commodious sample ^boms
for the use of their patrons. The same are located
over the wholesale liquor house of King & Fordtran,
on the corner of Tremont street and Strand, two
blocks from the Union Depot, and one bloc to. from
the beach line of cars, and in the heart of the
city. Give vour c) leeks to the transfer agent or to
Professor August Smith, who will meet you at
the train.
help wanted-febiale.
ANTED—A GOOD NURSE, GERMAN PRE
ferred. Apply, MRS. A. BORNEFELD,
Corner Bath avenue and Broadwav.
W ANTED—German girl to wash, iron and do
general housework, st Mrs. GUTHRIE'S,
south side Postofllce, between 12th and 13th.
"TTtTANTED—A GOOD COOK APPLY TO MRS.
VV J. O. AYMES, southwest corner Avenue P
and Tremont.
W
ANTED—A COOK— WHITE PREFERRED.
Apply oil Winnie street,
Between 11th and 12th.
situations wanted.
SITUATION WANTED—BY EXPERIENCED
Walter. Restaurant, Hotel or otherwise. Ail-
drera Bo* T, N«ws ofllee.
"W
ANTED-BY A FIRST-CLASS DRUGGIST,
a situation; the very best references. Address
BOX G, News Office.
miscellaneous wants.
WANTED^A pleasant furnished room, south
front, bv gentleman, wife and child, with or
without board. Address Box T, this office,
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WJ AN i ED—Empty bottles. Highest eaah price
VV paid for. O. LOUBAT, 368 Market, oetweeu
17th and 18th. P. O. Box 25.
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agents wanted.
WANTED—Ladies or gentlemen in city or coun-
try, to take nice, light and pleasant work at
their own homes; 12 to $5 a day easily and quietly
ntade; work sent bymall; no canvassing; nostatnp
for reply. Please add. Reliable Mfg. Co., Philo., Pa.
lost.
LOKT-A GOLD BRACELET. THE FINDER
will be suitably rewarded by returning to M.Ci.
ItANNEY, at Taylor Press office.
EOST-CERTIFICATE OF DEPOSIT OF ISLAND
City Savings Bank in my favor for two hundred
and fifty dollars (I2S0 00). All parties are cautioned
against negotiating same, payment having been
stopped. E. M. FLAKE
education aim
PIANO, Violin, Vocalization taught at Galveston,
from first beginning to artistic perfection; thor-
ough, progressive m< thod; highest pers'landprof'I
refs. PROF. E. WIEIILE, care of Goggan&Bro
rooiss and board.
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FOR RENT—THREE VERY FINE FURNISHED
rooms, for gentlemen only, southeast corner
Church and Tremont.
Furnished rooms a>m board at rea-
sonable prices, at No. 83 West Church, between
Twenty-sixth ajid Twenty-seventh
NEATLY FURNISHED ROOMS, $8 per monW;
also two large furnished rooms en sui'e, with
grates. Terms reasonable. S. W. cor. 22d & Bd'y
GA OOD BOARD—No objection to families, with
T or without children. Mrs. REICHIE, Avenue
K, between 21st and 22d streets, south side.
FOR RENT—ELEGANTLY FURNISHED NEW
south rooms, en suite or single, with bath-
rooms, i.309 Postofllce street, fourth door east of
Nineteenth.
HANDSOMELY FURNISHED ROOMS -SINGLE
or en suite. No. 67 Church street, opposite
Tremont Hotel.
FOR RENT—TWO LARGE UNFURNISHED
rooms. Apply at 355 Church street, between
Seventeenth and Eighteenth streets.
BOARD excellent; south rooms nicely furnished
breezy light; moderate rates: bath gas: day
boarders taken. Centre St. House cor. 21st Church.
R'
OOMS WITH BOARD—
At 130 Church street,
Between Twenty-second and Tremont.
Board and lodging can be had at
Mrs. Thompson's, on Postofllce street, third
door east of 19th.
TPOR KENT—Three unfurnished rooms. Second
-J house from cor. 19th & Church sts. For gentle-
man & wife, or with one child. Terms mod. Ref. req.
TTVIVE pleasant and neatly furnished rooms for
X1 rent, with or without board. Inquire at two-
story house, 16th and avenue A.
QOUTH ROOMS, EN SUITE Oit SINGLE, WITH
kJ board, at 163 avenue H, between 21st and Sid.
Transient and day boarders accommodated.
fish, oysters, etc.
> ALVESTON FI8H AND OYSTER COMPANY,
U Postofllce Box GO,
MUSGROVE & GASTON.
JOHN H. tANG, WHOLESALE AND RETAIL
DEALER in FISH AND OYSTERS. Also
finest oyBter saloon in the city.
Country Orders Solicited.
30 Travis .Street, - Houston.
I BEG TO INFORM MY FRIENDS AND THE
public generally that I always have choice fish,
redsnappere and oysters in season. Rock-bottom
Erices. Country orders receive special care. J.
i. BELBAZIC, 2Cth street, between Postofllce and
Market; branch corner 18th and H.
GB. MARSAN & CO.,
. Wholesale Dealers in FISH and OYSTERS.
Orders solicited from the country.
cit-y business cards.
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SAVE ONE-THIRD TO ONE-HALF OF YOUR
gas bills by getting a governor from the Texas
Gas Saving Company. Call for pamphlet and
reference, Pix Buiding, 22d and Postofllce.
BUBBER STAMPS. SEALS AND STENUILB—
Alphabets and Brands for marking cotton.
FREl). A. SMITH. 114 Tremont Street.
Have your vaults and cesspools
cleaned by our Odorless Machinery, U. S. Sani-
tary Excavating Co., J. P. Lalor & Co.
profession'!. & real estate
Law and land office of Joseph
Franklin, Ballinger Block, Galveston, Texas,
has complete abstracts of Galveston county. Spe-
cial attention to investigation of land titles.
TAR1ETON, JORDAN «TAKLETON, LAND
Lawyers and Real Estate Agents, Hlllsboro,
Tesap, have a complete abstract of all surveys in
Eill county. Special attention given to buying
and selling lands. Perfecting titles, etc.
j m. pearson;
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
McKinnhy; Texas.
Particular attention given to collections and real
estate.
groceries, etc.
AtPlrt^OF THE " BEST;
Teas, the finest, grown,
ideal Tea Store, 215 Market st.
R
TTE AD QUARTERS
-*~J~ For
TEA AND COFFEE.
The Alexandre Tea Store
Dealey & Son, Propr's.
20? Market Street, Tele-
phone No. 1.
pluxvjeeiis. gasfittsrs, etc.
i d. harrar & mathews,
F.
PLUMPERS, GAS AND STEAM FITTER3,
Postofllce street, bet. 22d and 23d.
Telephone connection.
dressmaking.
M
RS. E. MOORE,
FASHIONABLE DRESSMAKER.
No. 67 Church street. oiJDosito Tremont hotel.
HE AX, ESTATE
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FOR8*LE-LOT8ia AND 14, ON N. E. COR
ner of K and 7th st., with the story and a-half
grocery and two small houses thereon; all for $1200
cash. r JAMES S. MONTGOMEY,
i*. Real Estate Agent.
ty, to lease for term of years.
II. M. TRUEHEART & CO.,
Galveston, Tex,
FOR SALE—Cottage on lot 12 block 132, Church;
bet. 12th and 18th Sts., 82750; lot 2, nouth sido
Church, near 14th St., raised high and fine orange
grove, $2000; ground on P.O. St., near round-house,
43d 8t., cheap; improved and vacant lots 1h all parts
of city on accomodating terms. G. A. MEYER.
"POR SALEiii'
Handsome four-room cottage, south side Winnie,
bet. 29th and 30th, with 50 ft. lot; also several nice
cottages and two story houses for rent.
H. M. TRUEHEART & CO.
U1LDING LOTS OF SMALL AND LARGE
dimensions, eaBt and west, some with cottaares
thereon, for sale or lease. SAM MAAS, N. & 21st.
professional—law.
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DIVORCES—A Goodrich, Att'y-at.law, 134 Dear-
born 6t, Chicago. Advice free: 18 yrs. experi-
ence. Business quietly and legally transacted.
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real estate agents.
IHOMSON & DONNAN—
R. M. Thomson. John K. Donnan.
GENERAL LAND AND CLAIM AGENTS.
Buy and sell lands and land scrip.
Taxes paid for non-resident*.
Prompt personal attention given to all business
intrusted to them. Correspondence solicited.
808 Congress Avenue,
Postofllce box 370. Austin, Tex.
T-XA 8 8TATE AGEN CY—Land or money claims
against State or individuals; tax payments on
lands anywhere in State. Purchase, sale or lease
of lands. Examination and adjustment titles, etc.,
attended to by C. R JOHNS & BONS, Austin, Tex.
McGEHEE & DENMAN, Lampasas, Texas.
Land and Live Stock Dealers. For sale, lands
in tracts of 160 to !78,000 acres.
rTTHE SOUTHWEST LAND CO.-Incorp. under
X laws State of Texas. Capital, $200,000. Principal
office, Dallas, Tx.; W.H. Gaston, pres.; W. H. Kerns,
vice-pres.; N. W. Hunter, sec. & gen. man.; W. H,
Thomas, treas.; W. G. Veal. gen. trav.ag't. Buy,sell,
lease or rent lands, ranches, mines, live stock; loan
money on lands, land securities & live stock; do a
gen'l ag'cy business In Tex., New Mex. &Mex. Add.
N.W. Hunter, sec. & gen. man.,707Mainst., Dallas.
JW. LAWRENCE & SON, AUSTIN, Dealers la
. Land & Land Scrip, buy & sell on com'n, pay
taxes & redeem land sold for taxes. Forsale 200,000
acres timb'd land E.Tex.,tracts grating landgW.Tex.
for sax.b.
REENER GUN-FOR SALE,' A TEN-POUND
J ten-bore Greener Hammerless Gun, as good as
new J250'grade; will sell for 8l2!>. Address,
P. O. BOX 165, Galveston.
I OR SALE—ONE NEW AND ONE NEARLY
1 new Piano at special inducements.
LYNCH & PENLAND.
BASUME SALOON — CORNER TVVENTY-
seventh and Market streets—for sale. Bar and
fittings. Immediate possession.
BOARDING HOUSE, Furniture etc long estab-
lished centrally located best house in city do-
ing excellent business P. O. B. 54!) Galv'n
0-HNE COLLECTION OF GALVESl'ON VIEWS,
at 75 cents a dozen, at
J. E. MASON'S BOOK STORE.
I'OR SALE—At a discount of 50 per cent., $175
worth of new Band Music, Just the selections
for interior bands.
GALVESTON CITY R. R. CO.
IN
Bargains
ping bags strap
TRUNK FACTORY, 70 Tremont street.
TEUNKS, SATCHELS, BHOP-
B, etc., at
w
in exchange. For further particulars apply at Peo-
ple's Woodyard, corner Market and 32a streets.
ood—4-foot wood in carload lots on track at
$2 75 per cord; cows, heifers and calves taken
Building materials for sale-Portiand
Cement, English and German Rosendale Ce-
ment, Lime, Laths, Plaster, Hair, Fire Brick, etc.
Full supply in store, with continued fresh arrivals,
ex-brig Charlotte, bk. Chas. Pratt, bk. Ibis, brig
Florence. All standard goods. W. H. Pollard & Co.
HARDWARE AT PKICE8 THAT DEFY COM
petion, Disston 20-inch hand-saw, $1 50; No.
a hatchet, 40c. J. P. LALOR & CO.
Market, between 24th and 25th.
WALL PAPER,
WALL PAPER,
WALLPAPER.
Buy your Wall Paper of
D. W. DUCIE,
118 Postofllce street, between 22d and 23d,
LL KINDS OF TILE,
MARBLE, GRANITE
AND
BUILDING "STONE WORK
DONE AT A. ALLEN & CO.'B,
"ITOR SALE—50,000 FEET IRON L'IPE, 5000
Jj pounds Iron Fittings, 6000 pounds lead pipe at
cost. Large stock or Brass Goods, Steam and
Hand-Pump Rubber Hose, Packing, and a com-
plete stock of Gas Fitters' and Plumbers' Supplies.
JESSE ASTALL. 67 Strand. Galveston, Tex.
for rent.
For rent—two-story house, on n, be
tween 18th and 10th streets, $25; two-story
house, on Strand, between 16th and 17thstreets, $15;
two-story house, on L, between 19th and 20th
streets, S35; three cottages on OU> and 18th street,
$15 and #18; cottages on K, between 22d arid 23d
streets,;$25; cottage on 15th and Strand streets,
"25; cottage on M, between 8th and Oth streets,
10; cottage on Mechanic, between Oth and 10th
streets, $15; cottage on L, between 31st and 32d
' ■ i, $18. ~ '
streets.
g. a. meyer
TPOR RENT—AN ELEGANT COTTAGE ON
X1 avenue H, bet. Oth and 10th sts.; 8 rooms (two
with grates): good stable and chicken house; yard
well improved, with shrubbery and fruit trees; $30.
JAMES S. MONTGOMERY, Real Estate Agent.
S^OR RENT-A TWO-STORY HOUSE, WITH
Cottage attached, on Tremont, between Church
and Winnie, suitable for a boarding-house or a
large family. Possession given Immediately. Ap-
ply to Mrs. J. L. FROSH,
Tremont and Broadway.
FOR RENT-PART OF A HOUSE, SUITABLE
for a s'nall family. Apply on Postofflce street,
between 15th and 16ih, No. 485 over the door.
Cottage for rent.
Apply at 608 Broadway, between Twelfth
and Thirteenth.
ttor rent—A comfortable home-like cottage, 5
X1 rooms, kitchen and pantries, on s. s. av. O, bet.
18th & 10th. Apply V. J. biron's, 54 Center st.
"Ij-OR BENT-TWO STORY HOUSE, CORNER
J1 Avenue H and Nineteenth streets. • Apply to
J. W. McCULLOUGH, Strand.
FOR BENT—The two-story dwelling next to cor-
ner P( atofftce and 19th, north side. Apply
W. J. FBEDEKICH. at H. Rosenberg's bank.
to
jj'or rent—
A LARGE HALL, WITH ANTE-ROOMS,
in second story of the new Masonic Temple.
I. LOVENBERG.
EH'K BENT—a nice residence, on Church, bet.
24th and 25th. Also one nice cottage on E and
11th. CHAS. H. LEONARD.
banks and rankers.
Wm. Cameron, E. Rotan, L. B. Buck,
President. V. President. Cashier.
THE CITIZENS NATIONAL BANK,
WACO, TEX.
Authorized Capital $500,000
Special attention given to collections.
interior business cards
Piper & dietzC
CONTRACTORS AND BUILDERS.
Plans and specifications furnished on application.
Headquarters, Ilallettsville, Lavaca county, Tex.
ARRY LAN DA,
Commission and Forwardino,
WHOLESALE FLOUR, GRAIN, MEAL, SALT
AND PRODUCE.
Correspondence solicited
BURNET. TEX.
plants, seeds, etc.
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j andreth's new seeds,
crop for 1885,
for SALE now by
a. flake & co.
financial.
Loans of money upon productive
land negotiated: also, Vendors' liens bought.
Correspondents wanted. Send for circular.
FRANCIS SMITH & CO., Vicksburg, Miss.
sewing- machines.
IT DOWNS THEM ALL-The Davis will last
longer and is guaranteed to do a greater range
of work than any other sewing machine now in the
market. Easy terms. L. N. Cowart. 215 P. O. st.
bouse furnishing- goods.
XpUPION and all grades of Oil, Crockery and
Jjj House-keeping Goods at
J. P. LALOR & CO.'S, Market, bet. 24th and 25th.
What the Interior Papers Bay.
In speaking of the reasons of the Fort Worth
Gazette and Houston Post for taking in sail,
the Brazos Pilot says*
The large papers are not the only ont>s tliat fail
to pay a respectable profit. Counting only the
money Invested, most printing offices are losing
concerns- and counting both the money and the
care and labor required, almost all of them are.
There is a strange fascination about the
newspaper business that causes men to adhere
to it in spite of ill success. Men coula be named
who are neither printers, competent editors
nor good business men, who in spite of half a
dozen failures return to the business whenever
Ihey can fled or force an opening. Poverty
and bankruptcy have no terrors for them.
But sometimes a publisher can not rid himself
of a printing offlce if he \tould. Mr. A. W,
Riley, of the Wills Point Local-Chronicle, who
some time since leased the establishment, now
says:
Owing to a chain of circumstances over which I
had no control, the Local-Chronicle has agai:i
passed into my hands.
This reminds one of the effort of the man
who won the elephant in a raffle, to get rid of
the beast.
"Your name in print" is the captivating
caption of the personals in the Sherman Demo-
crat. It is well calculated to take the eye of
the average American.
The Bryan Pilot calls the previous question
on young politicians who are "too previous,"
as Texanssay:
A "committee on upstarts" should be first ap-
pointed by our political conventions. They should
carry brass-headed canes, they should.
The Pilot is satisfied with good common
sense. It says of Congressman Stewart:
Colonel Stewart has a plain, honest, sensible way
of paying and doing things that the people admire,
and upon which they may safely rely.
The Bryan Pilot properly rejects the dogma
that the morals of a man have little or no bear-
ing on his conduct as a public official, and says
A person should always vote for a candidate of
good moral character, and for no other. This
should be done in spite of party allegiance or any
other consideration.
"Is he capable; is he honest," are the first
requisites for a public officer, according to
Thomas Jefferson, the father of American
Democracy. The Pilot, however, thinks peo-
ple are not always quick to see the best quali-
ties in others. It says:
Sometimes an industrious, honest fellow is so
quiet and exclusive in his manner and nature that
only a few people notice of know him, or ever
give him fair credits. The best man we ever knew
was one of this kJnd.
The papers generally compliment their dele-
gates to the State convention. The Pilot says:
The Brazos delegates were heard from In one
way or another. A report is current that one of
them painted Houston red.
With its next, issue the Seguin Times enters
upon its fifteenth volume.
The Times says:
The Texas speech crop will not be so large as in
some of the doubtful States.
The El Paso Herald says: " Every man has
an opinion until surrounded by a crowd who
entertain an opposite opinion." Also:
The press, tlie pulpit, the school, the church, the
home, the various trades and political government
constitute the great lines of human progress. All
else is recreation or folly.
This leaves out moral horse trots, base ball,
church festivals and the like. Yet the La-
vaca Herald says: " Wish a circus would
stnke this town."
In its Matamoros locals the Brownsville
Cosmopolitan tells of a family quarrel over
some big dogs which a Spaniard keeps tied up
in the yard, to his spouse's great disgust. The
matter having been taken before an alcalde,
he threatened to write to the president and
have the Spaniard expelled the country uuder
article 33 of the constitution, as a pernicious
foreigner. The dogs are probably nativ
The Texarkana News is an impersonal paper
in every way. It says:
We have made an earnest fight for the Demo-
cratic ticket, as was our duty and right, but during
the entire campaign have not made an unkind per-
sonal allusion to any candidate. In politics we
have no personality, and, whether our course has
made friends or enemies, is, so far as the discharge
of our duty is concerned, a matter of indifference.
Principles should be paramont in politics;
but good men should be chosen to carry them
out. " Principles and men " is a good motto.
The Texas Cow-Boy says of the scapegoat
of the printing office—the technical " devil: "
" To him are charged all blunders and ir-
regularities incident to the sanctum," and then
saddles its own imp with the following:
A gentlemen hied himself unto the editorial
sanctum and explained that he had come intD pos-
session of an exceedingly rare compound, by the
use of which all ladies could liaye lily-white hands,
and beside all this—the redeeming part of all—it
left unliaimed the skin. The devil made the mis-
take of saying'instead of "the skin being left un-
harmed," " the shin being left unharmed."
Such mistakes are of daily occurrence.
Most fortunes in new countries como from
the appreciation in the value of lands; yet in-
vestors often fail to realize them, and "land
pcor " is an expression that is about as apt as
any othtr description of property. All old
Texans can call to mind cases of men who
have lived all their days in actual poverty in
order to wait for their lands to make them in-
dependent, and died without the realization
of their hopes. The Texas Cow-Boy makes
some remarks on this subject, which is now
receiving a fresh exemplification in many
parts of the State, includingthe following:
If one will take the pains to investigate this mat-
ter within the range of his own neighborhood ob-
servation, he will be astonished at the total of
available capital lying unproductive. Did you
ever stop to calculate how much land which could
unquestionably be employed to advantage, is al-
lowed to lie continuously idle, contributing noth-
ing to the income of the farm? If you have never
done so, to make such a calculation will be a reve-
lation indeed. This is, to say tne least, an un-
businesslike way of conducting business, and will
account for the lack of profit which many men
find in farming. What whould be thought of the
business methods of the merchant who would tie
up 20 per cent, of his goods and pile them up in
one corner, making no attempt to sell them? or of
the manufacturer who, with a good market for all
he could make, would compel one-fifth of his ma-
chines to lie idle? or of the capifalist who kept a
large proportion of his funds buried in some secret
place?
The San Antonio Express remarks on the
death of Captain Michael Quin:
He was a plain, practical and useful citizen of
Galveston, and a man of push and energy. He
lias been identified with the interests of the Gulf
city for more than twenty-five years, and had a
strong hold upon the respect and admiration of
those yv ho for so long a period were associates
with him in a social or business point of view. As
a useful man in business circles, Galveston had
few men who were Captain Quin's superior. He
served one term in the legisture.
The Mexia Ledger remarks:
Profanity is not wit, though many a shallow-
headed person don't know the difference,
That charitable excuse is needed every day
by some of the papers. Some of them seem to
think profanity and vulgarity the chief in-
gredients of wit The stage and the circus
have reformed in this respect and the press
should do so.
The Ledger remarks:
The Corsicana Observer sefms to have a diffi-
culty in satisfactorily explaining to certain people
of its town why it charges for long obituaries an.i
tributes of respect. Any reasonable person can see
why, and there's not much use wasting words on
the unreasonable. When a newspaper appropri-
ately announces a death and makes a suitable
comment, its duty to its readers is done, and no
reasonable man can expect it to do more at its
own expense.
Most of the long obituaries contributed to
the papers are written for the fame of the
authors rather than that of the deceased.
Whenever one of them refers to the intimate
relations of the writer and the deceased, it
should go to the waste basket.
The Blanco Star-Vindicator proposes to
stand up to the rack, fodder or no fodder:
For the bi neflt of those few who would no doubt
be glad to know otherwise, we will state that the
Star-Vindicator came to Blanco to stay and will be
found here till the last day—county seat or no
county seat. It was hereffirst and wiU be last to
leave, all reports to the contrary notAdtbstarullmg.
Brooklyn is called the city of churches and
Houston should be called the city of bridge*
The Age says:
It Is doubt ful If there Is another navigable stream
In the United States go well bridged, within the
limits of any one city, as Buffalo bayou within the
limits of the eiiy Houston. The International
and Great Northern railroad, the Gulf, Colorado
and Santa Fe, and the Galveston, Houston and
Henderson railroads, all three have splendid iron
draw bridges. The city has an iron bridge at the
Ban Jacinto street crossing, another at the Milam
street crossing, another at the Preston street cross-
ing, and an excellent trestle bridge at the Frank.in
street crossing,
Galveston can boast of the length, if not the
number of her bridges. She has two over an
arm of the bay, each two and a half miles in
length.
Ihe following is from the Cisco Round Up:
Galveston has again been called on to mourn the
death of one of its oldest and most honored citi '.ens,
Mr.,John Sealy. Hit Hie had been devoted to doing
good, and his death is a public bereavement. Mr.
bealy s private character was as pure and noble as
his public charities and enterprises were benefi-
cent and useful. The names of Ball and Sealy will
ever be revered and their characters remembered
as noble examples of human excellence.
The Cisco Round-Up follows the fashion in
reporting what might have been serious ac-
cidents:
Ed. Joplin fell in a well he was digging an!
fklnned hts elbow. The well is thirty five feecdeep
and it is fortunate he was at the bottom of it when
he fell, or he might nave been serlou-ly hurt.
The Fort Worth Gazette has not only cur-
tailed) its dimensions but changed color. It
is now printed on delicately tinted paper, sug-
gestive of green and yellow melancholy, and
seems to see something in other papers to sug-
gest the comfort misery finds in companion-
ship. It says.
* ^5^ on^' reH* dead issue in Texas politics is the
herd law. The News and the Chronicle look lovely
in mov rning dress.
Where is the point? Other papers think the
Gazette has had a monopoly of the mourning
business, being, as an old Texan used to say of
himself when on a high lonesome, " a whole
funeral" of itself. Other free-grass organs
say they have been sat down on, but the Ga-
zette, as General Houston said of a leading
stump orator, still bellows like a little bob tail
prairie bull. It is a good thing to be jolly un-
der difficulties.
The Clifton Sentinel gives the countersign:
Once again we desire to give our friends and cor-
respondents our grateful thanks for generous and
able assistance to the Sentinel. But we must again
sav that under no conditions will the columns of
this paper be given to a personal or political pur-
pose, unless the space is paid for In accordance
with regular rates, unless it appears as editorial
matter.
Reference has heretofore been made in this
column of the great mortality in the City of
Mexico. The El Faso (Texas) Times quotes
from Mr. C. H. M. Blake, civil and sanitary
engineer in Mexico, a startling comparison
between the sanitary condition of the City of
Mexico and large cities in the United States.
Mr. Blake deduces from the bills of mortality
that the average duration of life in Brooklyn
is 52.C years; New York, 45.5 years; San Fran-
cisco, 50 years; Boston, 45.5 years; Mexico
City, 20 years. The reports of deaths in tha
City of Mexico far outnumber the births, and
the population is only kept up by immigration.
Other Mexican cities make scarcely a better
showing, and the population of the country
seems to increase slowly, if at all; though the
annual increase has been estimated at 140,000
No complete census has ever been taken.
The Texas Cow-Boy raises the standard of
revolt. It dissents from the statement of the
W ichita Herald that the free-rrass men will
support the Democratic nominees, and fight
for their rights in the party lines, and says:
We would like to know what rights the free-
grass men expect to get by fightlug in the party
lines? If a political machine has a ghost of an
idea concerning the rights of individuals, or even
cares a continental about the rights of anybody,
we would like to place the instance on record. It
is gene» ally understood that the machine is made
up of manipulators of the political wires, and who
have no soul, nor anything else to which an honest
man might lay claim.
This is mere rant. The friends of free grass
are too few to form a party by themselves,
though enough to make their influence felt so
far as they have reason and justice on their
side. Let them go before the legislature with
facts and arguments, and not threaten to
break up the Democratic party and divide the
State. They can do neither, and idle threats
only injure their cause. Temple Houston, in
the convention, indicated the proper course
for them to pursue. They should strengthan
themselves with the Democratic party instead
of trying to injure and offend it.
The Laredo Times sees the good times com-
ing, though it can not precisely fix the date.
It ends a long article as follows:
Centuries have been consumed by acts of the
drama, and it may be many years hence ere we
can beat our swords into pruning-hooks and our
cannon into plowshares, but as certain as tne solar
genius of the sun dial infallibly marks the silent
flight of the hours, it will come—the universal re-
public of earth—the brotherhood of mankind—will
come!
Let it come. In the language of the reli-
gious poet:
Fly swift around, ye wheels of time,
And bring the welcome day.
The Caldwell (Burleson county) Register
gives its experience and views on the cash and
credit systems:
When we began the publication of the Register,
nearly two years ago, we began on the pay as you
go basis, and never during the eighteen months
that we adhered strictly to that plan did we know
** hat it was to want for a present dollar; but about
three months ago we were silly enough to begin
allowing our work to go out on credit. Immediate-
ly our custom increased, and we were compelled to
hire ntore help in the offlce. There is notnirig like
the credit system to draw custom. Well, we
thought it very nice, and on the first of the month
we took the sidewalk armed with $227 in bills on
food (?)men, who coolly informed us that they
iad no money, " we will hand it to you in a few
days, call again," etc., and we collected only about
825. The same has been the case on every month
ever since.
The Register gives notice that it has returned
to the cash system, and will neither give nor
ask credit.
There is said to be honor among the pro-
fessed followeis of winged Mercury, the light-
fingered gcd of the Greeks; gambling obliga-
tions are called debts of honor; but wheu a
legal luminary on the upper Rio Grande
undertakes to steer his way through a
bunco game he does not always consider
even his bond obligatory. The El Paso Times
tells of a little game between gamblers and a
lawyer, as follows:
The gentleman who fell into the hands of the
bunco n en at Paso del Norte, last Friday morning,
end lost his money ($95), his watch, chain, an 1
some valuable jewelry, had his jewelry and watch
returned to him by the Mexican consul. This
case is embellished with an unusual amount of
history. In the first place the victim was a man of
mature years, a lawyer by pi ofession, and of ex-
tensive travel. The bunco men not only secured
the presence of this man at the place they desired,
but got him to enter into a written agreement that
the desire to gamble was mutual and the result
should be satisfactory. Aiter this willing victim
had been fleeced he went to the Mexican
consul, Major Fechet, and mad<3 com-
plaint. The consul weut to the mayor of
'aso del Norte, and had one of the bunco
men, named Holland, arrested and compelled
Holland to deliver into his honor's hands the
property in dispute A trial was had, but no
definite result followed. The mayor retained
possession of the stuff. On Saturday, Holland,
the bunco man, came to El Paso to siiend some of
his ill-gotten wealth in a buggy ride. Mr. , the
victim, saw him as he drove by the Ceutral hotel
and followed until the buggy rider went into the
store of Julian & Johnson, when the pursuer pre-
sented a pistol and demanded "hands up!" A de-
mand which was complied with without hesita-
tion. The demand to deliver up the goods could
not be complied with as they were on the
other side. An offic r relieved Mr. of his
prisoner, and for a time Mr. Holland graced the
nside of the county jail, but was subsequently re-
leased on bnnrt. Mr Escobal, the Mexican consul
at El Paso, took the matter iu hand aud recovered
tLe watch, chain and jewelry, which he return *d
to the anxious owner. As a result of this commo-
tion, the mayor of Paso del Norte has Issued an
order expelling the bunco men from the city as
pernicious foreigners.
The San Antonio Light, in speaking of the
fortieth anniversary of the foundation of the
town of Caetroville by Henry Castro, a banker
of the city of Paris, who emigrated to Texas
at that early day, says:
It \v88 no small thing then, when Texas had just
been invaded by the Mexican Generals Woll and
\ anquez, when the country was full of Indians and
the San Pedro creek our frontier. Among the first
settlers that accompanied him in hi-t enterprise
w ere our merchant. Mr. Louis Huth, Dr. (J. Cup-
phj», of this city, who was doctor for the colony,
and Theodore Gen til, who was engineer for the
same. It was an undertaking that was only car-
ried out at a great expense of capital, energy and
nerceverence, but washy its continuation of g'-eat
benefit to Texas. He also afterwards imported
from Europe, in twenty-seven ships.over.rj000 Immi-
grants, with sc f '.f which he settled the towns of
Quihi, Vandei v ^ ui.d d'Hanis; that every ship
l ad a cargo of ttods that paid duties to our treas
uiy, which in those days was not as well replete
w ith gold as it is to-day. Henry Castro's enterprise
resulted in great benefit to the State and to his peo-
ple, tut in great j ecuuiury lo?se* ti him.
Hetiry - rative o? France, was born
in 1780. In 1&U» he was one of the guard
of honor who accompanied Napoleon to Spain.
As an officer of the National Guard he fought
at Clichy in 1814. After the fall of Napoleon,
Castro emigrated to New York and was natur-
alized, but he returned to Paris in 1838 and
became a member of the banking house of
Lafitte & Co. Tr» 19-12 he was appointed con-
sul-general oi the itepublic of Texas, in
France. He soon after took large contracts
for the settk ment of Europeans in Western
Texas and introduced 485 families and 457
single men up to the time of the annexation of
Texas to the United States, the first settlement
being made on the Medina, the site of Castro-
ville, in September, 1844. He published dur-
ing the period named many pamphlets and
maps conveying information in regard to
Texas, which contributed to immigration
from the Rhine country. He died at Mon-
terey, Mex.
A Bit of Moral Philosophy.
[From Puck.]
I'd give anything to be rich;
I'm tired of sitting here.
At the bottom of the ditch.
For good luck to appear;
I see the world pass by,
Speeding along the road,
With horses stepping high.
While I sit here like a toad.
If I should take a jump.
Perhaps I'd land on gold;
Or would I get a bump
And a shove for being bold
And hopping on the road
Among the gay and rich?
For all would say: "A toad
Should never leave his ditch."
I've half a mind to try,
And among the bulls and bears
Buy, or appear to buy,
A pile of stocks and shares.
I can bluff as well as any,
And tell as big a lie,
Make a dollar from a penny,
And public good defy.
I can cheat poor honest men,
And leave them in the lurch,
Pocket my millions, then
Give a bonus to the cburch.
The world will clap its hands,
And none will dare to say
That other's gold and lands
I've filched and hid away.
Shall I do it? Stop a minute—
An honest toad atn I;
There may be " millions in it,"
But will it pay to try?
I should like to be rich,
Hut I bear the world ni malice;
And I'd rather have my honestditch
Than a gorgeous robber-palace.
B. s. c.
Oyster..
Oysters in England are not sold by the dozen,
but by the score, half a score being the usual
order.
The best oysters on the Continent are those
known as the Ostends. They are very expen-
sive, the usual rate being 80 cents a dozen. The
French Armoricaines, from the coast of Nor-
mundy, are inferior in quality and cheaper.
The mediterranean and Adriatic oysters are
the poorest of all—flabby and tasteless fruit of
a tideless sea.
New York Evening Post, August 28: At
the oyster market on the North river it was
said this morning that the supply of oysters
will be much larger this season than for sev-
eral years past. The oysters are also much
finer, and it is probable that prices will rule
slightly lower than last year. The oysters
taken from Stat en Island bay are known as
sounds, and for five or six years they have been
of poor quality. Those taken this year are
large and plump, and there will be a much
larger yield from these waters than for many
years past. East rivers, as all oysters coming
from points in Long Island Sound are called,
are also reported to be in good condition, but
the choicest specimens of the oyster family are
brought from Rockaway and Oyster boy, and
are served up in the restaurants as Saddle
Kocks. It is probable that the quantity of
oysters shipped to England will be much larger
this season than ever before.
Last week a reporter of the New York Ex-
press interviewed Mr. James W. Boyle, a
wholesale dealer in oysters.
" How is the consumption of oysters in this
city, and what is the demand made by out-
siders?"
" About 20,000 bushels per day equal the de-
mand here in the season, while the Western-
that is this side of Chicago—trade takes about
15,000 bushels daily.
" Since 1805, when this business first began
at Coenties slip, it has been steadily and rap-
idly increasing. For a number of years the
demand was small, so small that the oysters
were caught and brought to market in a skiff;
then sloops were employed, and now steam-
boats are a necessary adjunct to the business.
Why, sir, the amount of capital invested by
dealers in this city alone i3 over $30,000,000.
There are employed directly in the wholesale
business 16,000 persons. There are 3000 oyster
houses in this city employing 10,000 persons.
The city of New York invests $60,000,000 in
procuring and eating oysters and employs
26,COO people to get and serve them upl"
" When do you ship to Europe!"
" October I begin that branch of the trade.
At the start we had a hard struggle to get a
foothold, especially in England, and we had
to send out men to carry around oysters in
hand-baskets in London, Liverpool and Man-
chester. "W e then had ten barrels per week.
We now ship 4000 barrels a week.
Baltimore Sun, September 1; Many are of
opinion that oysters will be high until Novem-
ber, by reason of the fact that the supply,
Iiavicg to be furnished entirely by tongmen,
w ill necessarily lie limited. The season opened
last year in September, with prices ruling
from 45 to 55 cents per bushel. This year, ic
is thought, oysters will start at from 65 to 75
cents per bus-hel. It is understood that many
packers in Baltimore, Crisfield, Cambridge,
Oxtord and other points will begin operations
to morrow if they can get oysters. Opinion
amorg packers with reference to the new law
is conservative. They think that the future of
their business demands that the oyster beds
shall havo rest in order to recuperate. The
act provides tor this. They are willing to risk
the chances of higher prices and diminished
business for the first two months of the season,
so tLat they may have better oysters for the
balance of the season aud some guarantee of
continued supplies in the future. It is thought
that oysters will not be handled by packers in
considerable quantities until November, and
that the supply wijl be consumed by hotels,
restaurants and private families. In otlier
words, the bulk of oysters received here for the
next two months will be handled by local
dealers.
Mrs. Eunice Williams waited a long time
for her monument, but it came at last. The
inscription on the block of granite, dedicated
at Green river., Mass., reads: "The cruel and
bloodthirsty savage who took her, slew her
with his hatchet at one stroke The Rev. John
Durkre's Salad Dressing—A ready-made,
rich and delicious dressing for salads of meat,
fish or vegetables. Cheaper and infinitely bet-
ter than home-made. Unrivaled as a sauce.
Pike's Toothache Drops euro in 1 minute.
Gei man Corn Remover kills Corns & Bunions.
COMMERCIAL, TOPICS.
Sugar.
[New Orleans Price Current.]
Owing to the long continued spell of dry
weather which prevailed during last fall, and
the c< nsequent damage to the cane, the season
opened with estimates of a short crop. The
acreage planted warranted, under ordinary
circumstances, a yield of :tt)0,000 hogsheads ac-
cording to the agricultural bureau, which es-
timated the loss from drouth at 113 per cent.
C onsequently the estimetes at the opening were
placed at -OOjfOO hogsheads; as the season pro •
gressed their estimates were reduced until
180CC0 begsheads was generally accepted.
Under such circumstances, and influenced
by a good demand, prices were well main-
tain 3d during the month ot October, No-
vember and December. But early in January
the tariff agitation in Cougress unsettled the
market and created a feeling of uncertainty
which weakened prices. Then, again, the
large world's visible supply and consequent
cheapnefs of foreign sugars, which directed
buyers from the Louisiana market, caused a
further shrinkage in values, which our dealers
here were ati}rst unwilling to accept, prefer-
rirg to hold for an advance than to sacrifice
their stock. Their supplies rapidly accumu-
lated, and the situation was further compli-
cated by the discovery that the actual yield
was far in excess of estimates. The unset-
tling of the money market and consequent
stagnation in all lines of trade found our mer-
chants with heavy stocks, and cut off from
the usual summer rise in values. Prices of
course steadily declined, until unprecedented-
ly low figures were reached, and without any
marked inquiry being induced, buyers seemed
disinclined to take hold on any terms. The
gradual improvement in monetary circles,
which somewhat losened the long-clogged
wheels of general trade, brought on a better
condition of affairs. A fair demand sprang
up and prices advanced somewhat, but the
large supply on hand, and unusually heavy re-
ceipts of sugar held on plantations for better
prices, soon checked all prospects of firm
rates, and, although the demand continued
fair easy figures, the slightest advance
asked at once checked all movement. The past
season has consequently been unusually un-
fortunate to all interested in sugar, and
several failures occurred in a line of business
in which for many years s«ch accidents have
been of rare occurrence. The failures were
very few considering the vast shrinkage in
values, and the sugar fraternity can flatter
themselves in having weathered the storm
exceptionally well. The growing cane pro-
mises well and should no serious setback be
experienced, a fair average crop may be
counted on. The spring floods destroyed con-
siderable cane, but the increased acreage will
offset all losses from this cause. The business
of the past year have doubtlessly taught plant-
ers the necessity of lessening the cost of pro-
duction to enable them to realize even a fair
profit from sugar-raising in the future. Much
has been done in this direction during the past
few years, and practical experiments have
demonstrated the possibility of still more sat-
isfactory results.
Wool.
[New York Commercial Bulletin.]
The general line of business in domestic
grades of stock has been somewhat irregular,
but on the whole does not differ to auy mate-
rial extent from the general form for some
time prevailing. Just at this time of the week
the market rather lacks a full general test,
but enough interest is shown among buyers
either through letter or by mail to indicate
favorable prospects for pretty much all de-
sirable clothing wools. Nearly every mill has
some little stock on hand, but few, if any, a
full supply, and the least expansion in the con-
sumption must at once reflect itself upon the
market tor material. Fii-st-hand accumula-
tions also are under strong ownership at a rea-
sonable cost, and this is likely to lead to a de-
termined carrying, especially as tb o position
at other seaboard markets and at primary
points is supporting. One feature much in fa-
vor of fine clothing wools is the absence of
competition from foreign stock ana the proba-
bility that no attempt at immediate importa-
tion will be made.
The Product of Wool.
[Memphis Avalanche.]
The product of wool in the United States ia
1888 was 320,000,000 pounds, valued at $100,-
000,000, and 12.000,W0 sheep, worth $50,000,-
000, were slaughtered for food. Estimating
that two men are employed a considerable
portion of the year in taking care of each
flock, there would be 2,040,000 so employed
every year. No other single industry requires
or employs an equal number, and these must
be able-bodied men, for old men, women and
children can not produce the required food
and care for the flocks.
Coffee and Sugar.
The New York Commercial Bulletin gives
the following as the status of the coffee and
sugar market at that point: For ltios and San-
tos coffee the situation offers little that is new
or intetesting. There has been a trifle more
business, but apparently only to the extent of
a few necessary purchases to fill out jobbers'
assortments, and as a rule buyers are more or
less indifferent. The offering in the meantime
has been made as carefully as circumstances
will admit, and holders are successful in pre-
venting any direct pressure upon the market;
but there is a lack of spirit, and current quota-
tions are all that can be depended upon. Sales
of 50 bags Rio, ex Finance, aud 3809 do. ex
Romance. Contracts were fairly active and
the market stronger, with some recovery oil
Erice. It is noticeable, however, that the
usiness was confined largely to October aud
November, and the supposition is that shorts
are commencing to fear that they may be sub-
jected to a repetition of the September
squeeze.
The general conditions of the market for
raw sugar.? remain just about as previously
noted. Now and then a buyer appears, but
there is no free, open demand, aud busiuess is
more or lets unsatisfactory. In the way of
general run of stock, the amount available is
ample; but a close selection could not readily
be made. Especially is that the caso on inus-
covadoes, and a cargo right up to grading
would no doubt command full quotations.
Holders in most cases are willing to negotiate,
but not anxious enough to urge matters. Sales
of 800 hogsheads Trinidad at -l%a Refined
had rather a stupid market, and still gave
evidence of a tame sort of undertone. On au
asking basis rates were without much change
up to the close, but would have to be shaded
to place any larger quantity of goods
Drnth of T. I'. McDavttt.
[New Orleans Picayune, 7th instant.]
Mr. T. P. McDavitt, a well-known citizen of
New Orleans, died August 31, near Pine Bluff,
Ark., after an illness of eight mouths. The
deceased was a native of Glasgow, Scotland,
but had resided for twenty-five years in this
city. He was engaged in the autioneer busi-
ness, first on Poydras street and then on St.
Charles, dealing principally in books. Oc-
casionally he made excursions into Arkansas,
Texas and the rural districts of Louisiana in
the prosecution of his vocation. Some six
years ego he went to Texas, and thence to
Arkansas. He was among the original mem-
bers of the St. Andrew society, and a leading
spirit in that association. Mrs. McDavitt
was with her husband at the time of his death,
and accompanied his remains to this city. Ia
accordance with his request he will be iuterren
to-day by the side of his friend. Dr. Turner, ia
Greenwood cemetery. Mr. McDavitt leaves
beside a widow three children, one son and
two daughters, both of whom married in this
city, one becoming Mrs. Hugh McCloskey, and
the other Mrs. L. M. du Quesnay, Jr.
The Hope of the \ntion.
Children, slow in development, puny, scrawny
and delicate use 41 Wells's Health Renewer."
Three months ago Abraham Cuddeback, of
Damascus, Pa., was stricken with paralysis
and was rendered entirely helpless in conse-
quence. Later a terrific thunder storm pre-
vailed in the vicinity of his house and the
lightning struck near by. The electric fluid
came in at the open window, striking him and
throwing him violently from his chair. When
his wife restored him to consciousness she was
delighted to discover that he had regained the
use of his limbs and could talk and walk as
naturally as ever.
Mb. John Keagan, 457 Sixth avonue, New
York city, states that for three ye*rs he was
troubled with rheumatism, which kept him
from business, aud he gave up all hope of re-
covery. But by the advice of his physician,
he began using St. Jacobs Oil, the wonderful
remedy, and was completely cured.
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