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THE GALVESTON DAILY NEWS. TUESDAY. JUNE
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DEBATE IX CONURBSfl ON TUESDAY,
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CcBgPMaman Ochiltree I'roMen Sword* with
lUeMrn. Keltey nod Wlllln, Carrying Ilia
Point ltefore the House In Refer-
ence to the Item for Gal-
veston il«rlH>r.
[From Congressional Record of June 11,1SH1],
The House resolved itself into committee of
the whole houfJ on the state of the Union,
Mr. Wellborn in the chair.
The CIairman—The House is now in com-
n ittee < t the vhole bouse on the state of the
llnkn for tiio further consideration of the
bill (P. K. TO!-') making appropriation ior the
courtiuction, repair and preservation of cer-
tain public works on rivers and harbors, and
fcr other purposes.
1 he clerk will report the pending amend-
ment.
The clerk read as follows:
Strike out lines 140 and 141, namely: "Im-
proving harbor at Galveston, Tex.; continu-
ing improvement, $350,000."
Mr. Willis—Mr. Chairman, I do not think
that the rending amendment is thoroughly
understood by the committee. Thegentleman
from Texas (Mr. Ochiltree), when the commit-
tee rose at its last night's session, had offered
an amendment striking out of this bill the
amount fixed by the committee—$350,000—for
continuing (he work of the harbor at Galves-
ton, and eceompnnied the amendment with
the statement that it met the approval of th<?
committee on rivers and harbors. I think it
but. rroper, therefore, in a word or two to
state the facte in regard to the action of the
committee upon this subject.
W hen the committee had heard a delegation
frcm Galveston on the subject, and also the
n end ers from the State of Texas, it was found
Ihnt all agreed that the pending method of iru-
(rovements at that harbor should be con-
tinued, which was under the supervision of
Colonel Mansfield, of the engineer corps. It
was well known, however, at that time, not
Officially, but well understood, that a proposi
tion was pending on the part of Captain Eads
to give dtep water at Galvestdh for $7,000,000
or j'7,5(X),000, and a bill to that effect had been
introduced, 1 believe, in both branches of Con-
gress.jerttiinly in the Senate.
Captain IOaifs being in Europe at the time,
the lepresentatives from the State of Texas
and the delegation from Galveston concluded
not to pref-s the proposition of Captain Eids,
as be could not be here in person to explain
the method contemplated. Under these cir-
cvn t-tunces, and with the consent of both par-
ties, this appropriation of $350,000 for con-
tinuing lbt work was placed in the rive- and
bailor bill. After the bill was reported to
the House and out of the control of the com-
mittee, Captain Eads returned from Europe
and w as heard ltefore rhe bouse and senate
committees, and at that time this Request was
mo<!« on lhe j art of the Texas delegation that
tl is amount should be stricken out of the biU
with the explanation that the bill known as
the Eads bill would be pressed for considera-
tion.
1 lepeat, that the committee on rivers and
harbors at the time this request was made
were not in control of the bill, which was iu
committee of the whole house on the state of
the Union. It was not in their power, there-
fore, to anient to the proposition. They do
not assent to it now. They think it would be
bettir for Golveston that this appropriation
should remain as it is, even if it should be af-
ter wnrd determined to adopt the plan of Cap-
tain Eads. Eut it is proper in view of the
Hf ti mentB made by the gentleman from
'Jixas that I should give these facts in ex-
planation of the action of the committee.
Mr Iiuni;—Will.the gentleman allow me to
etk him a question ?
Mr. Willis—Certainly.
Mr. Dunn—Is the Eads plan to be pressed as
en amendment to this bill, or is it to coma up
es a separate measure on its own merits !
Mr. Willis—That I do not know. Certainly
not with the consent of the committee, for the
ton niittee never have acted upon or accepted
Earis's plan.
Mr. Dunn—Will the gentleman in charge of
the bill get an answer from the representative
from Texas who is pressing this amendment,
»o that the House may be advised exactly as to
what it is proposed to do in connection with
thiB work ?
Mr. Willis—The gentleman from Texat, who
oflered the amendment, can answer that ques-
tion, as to whether it is proposed to offer an
amendment on the bill adopting the Eads olao,
or w hether it is contemplated to press a sepa-
rate bill for that purpose. My impression is
that the intention is to endeavor to pass a sep-
arate bill, but of course the gentleman can
answer that, question better than I.
1 repeat, Mr. Chairman, I make this state-
t because I thought it proper, in view of
the fact that this committee should be fn-
foi med as t<5 the position taken by the com-
mute on rivers and harbors in reporting this
appropriation.
IIr. Ochiltree—Mr. Chairman, I apprehend
that there will be no very serious objection in-
terposed by this committee to the proposition
I have made as the immediate representative
of the citj of Galveston, which is proposed to
be benefited by this item of the bill. Upon
mature deliberation the delegation from the
State of Texas, after having been requested
bj the legislature of that State; and also on
my own part as the representative of the in-
terested district; and having been requested
I y nine tenths, 1 might say ninety-nine one-
bundredths, of the people of Galveston, I have
oflered the amendment to strike out this item
as proposed in the river and harbor bill. The
statement of the chairman of the committee
on rivers and harbors in regard to thu action
cf the committee is correct. The Eads propo-
sition. 1 concede, has no standing in the mo-
tic n that is made now to strike out this item
of $250,000.
1 believe, sir, that the plan adopted by the
government engineers is radically a defective
plan. One and one-half million dollars has
been already expended in an attempt to in-
ert ate the denth of water upon the outer bar
of Galveston.
Mr. Dunn—May I ask the gentleman from
Texas to answer this question: Is it proposed
to i rets the Eads plan as an amendment to
this bill, or is it desired on the part of the
Texas delegation, or the gentleman himself,
to prtsent this as a separate and independent
proposition?
Mr. Ochiltree—My proposition now is abso-
lute and positive, and that is to strike out the
item appropriating $250,000 for Galveston har-
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lor. W e leave the Eads proposition to take
care of itself hereafter. We ask for no appro-
priate whatever from this House in the river
and barljor bill for Galveston.
Mr. Dunn—I am willing the item should go
out if the delegation from the State of Texas
shall desire it-
Mr. Ochiltree—We desire no appropriation
wl ativer at present in the river and harbor
bill for Galveston.
Mr. Dum;—It is then simply a proposition
to strike out.
Mr. Drown, of Pennsylvan—And insert.
Mr. Dunn—No; to strike out and insert
nothing.
Mr. Ochiltree—If it be the pleasure of the
Bouse or of the senate committee on com-
neieeto incorporate the Eads proposition,
that of course is with the Senate. To day the
proposition 1 make, representing my district,
representing the ] ' "
junction with my
representing the people of Galveston, in con-
junction with my colleagues on the floor, who
have unanimously agreed to this proposition.
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I epieseiiting the whole State of Texas, and I
might say the vast country tributary to Gal-
veston, west of the Mississippi river, is our re-
quest that this item i>e stricken from the bill.
Mr. Kellt-y—Mr. Chairman, I feel I am
meddling in alfairs that are not my own when
I say 1 should like to hear from the people
west of Galveston as to whether they are
ready to have the improvement of that har-
l or stricken from the river and harbor bill,
•p hi lever w j 11 look at the map of our country
will see that Galveston is.the port of entry for
the vast region that is almost, inaccessible to
foreign commerce by the Atlantic ports. The
I eoplc of Denver, Col. (I hope my blooming
fric lid from Colorado is here, that now her in-
tei ests are touched), have a chance for the ad-
ventures of ocean trade from the nearness of
the harbor of Galveston.
Vi i- assume that the interests of Colorado
can have no foreign commerce. We look at
the long lines of road whi-h are to carry their
pKooetions or their importations up to the
tioithern lines of railroad, and thence to Balti-
more, or Philadelphia, or New York, or one of
the New England ports, and we see that
tl emends of miles of land carriage intervene.
But when we contemplate the enlarged map of
our country and look at the gulf seaports and
our eye rests on Galveston, we see that a
thousand miles brings Denver and Pueblo to
deep-sea soundings, and to a port in which al-
ready a large foreign commereo has concen-
trated.
Except as a citizen of the whole country,
trying to look at the interests of all the court
try, I should not meddle in the question of
the improvement, or failure to improve,
the harbor of Galveston, but haviug
traveled and rested and spent summer after
summer in the territories that are to be acces-
sil le to foreign commerce only through the
piilf ports, I am prepared to protest airainat
any action Which shall delay the deepening and
1 be improvement of Galveston harbor for all
that Rocky Mountain region to which I have
referred.
Mr. Belford—Mr. Chairman, I regret I w is
not present when my distinguished friend from
Pennsylvania commenced his remarks. Colo-
rado may have no foreign commerce, but sh)
has got a vast internal commerce and is build-
ing a railroad from the city of Denver to the
ciiy of the Montezumas. That is what we
liave accomplished, and we further propose to
constiuct that railroad to the City of Mexico,
across the Isthmus of Panama to the South
and Central American states, to the Argeutine
Republic, and to the city of Rio Janeiro. That
is what we propose to do.
Mr. Kelley—Are there any American sea-
ports in the South Hnd Central American
states! What I am talking about is securing
a seaport for the State of Colorado.
Mr. Belford—I am coming to that. I agroe
with you on Ibat point.
Mr. Kelley—Is not your old friend Johu
Evans now building a railroad connecting
Denver and Pueblo with the Atlantic ocean at
Galvestonf
Mr. Belford—He is building a railroad, as
you know, from Denver to New Orleans.
Mr. Kelley—With a branch to Galveston!
Mr. Belford—With a branch to the harbor
at Galveston. Therefore I stand with you in
opposition to any legislation that will irnoair
in the slightest degree either the water advan-
tages at Galveston or New OrleaLs.
Hut while we are willing in the State of
Colorado to give every advantage we can in
the way of private capital, we can not get a
dollar out of this House to aid us in reclaim-
ing the public land in my State. I have stool
here persistently and consistently and voted
for the interests of Nc v York to protect her
salt; I have voted to p;- itect the whole inter-
est of lhe nation; but ihen I come here an i
ask tor the poor sum of $200,000 to save the
surplus water of my Stu.e, to make it in the
future bloom like a rose, some distinguished
gentleman raises the point of order, and Col-
orado, that furnished to this nation $20,000,-
000 of silver a year and $5,000,000 gold a yeir,
can not acquire from this Congress even that
small sum. I will follow the example of
Christ, smite me on the one ch ek and 1 will
iurn the other that you may smite me on that
also.
Mr. Ochiltree—It is the broader view of this
question advocated by the distinguished gen
tleman from Pennsylvania (Mr. Kelley) that
has actuated me in the proposition i have
made to-day. If I was impelled solely by in
terested or local motives, I should be in favor
of the distribution of this $350,000 in the city
of Galveston, which would naturally come
there under the appropriation. But there is
no question whatever in the minds of thi peo
pie of that section that any further outlay in
accordance with the plans at present operated
by the government would be a useless expendi ■
ture of money, aud an extravagance utterly
uncalled for.
For the last ten years, the government engi
neers have been continually promising that
they would increase the depth of water upon
that bar. It is true, as my honorable friend
from Pennsylvania has said, that Galveston is
the most important of all the ports on the
Mexican gulf, the only harbor of refuge, in
deed, from the mouth of the Mississippi river-
down into Mexico, or as far as Campeachy. It
is true that outside of our bar ships are arriv-
ing from eyery port in the world—from the
Baltic, from the Black sea, from Christian-
sand, from Bremen, even from Calcutta, from
Liverpool and Glasgow. Galveston is the
second cotton port in the world. She is the
outlet of all that vast country west of the Mis
sissippi river as far as California, up almost
to the British possessions, and does almost
the entire trade of the States of Northern
Mexico.
It is for this very reason that we stand here
to-day and move that this small sum of $250,-
0t0, that is recommended by the committee on
rivers and harbors, be stricken out. It is the
belief of those interested that a proposition
has been made, which is now before the Home
in another shape, by which we can obtain
water ade
sities of
water adequate to the vast commercial neces-
sities of that port, in accordance with thi)
plans of an engineer, one of the most eminent
in the history of the world, one who ranks
even with the great De Lesseps in his accom-
plishments. For ten long weary years we
have been lured on by the glittering
generalities and fervid gleams of hops
contained in the reports of engineers
of the United States army; the same who
laughed to soorn the proposition made by the
great Eads, w hen he claimed thnt he could
secure deep water at the mouth of the Missis
sippi river. We have been fed upon a tropical
fertility of promises and a Saharic aridity of
performance. Is those whole ten years, year
after year, according to the official reports of
these engineers, they have been claiming that
they would give us enough water for the needs
of commerce at that port, but the bar still
rises in protest against their ability to fulfil
that promise.
In 1872 there were eleven feet of water on
the bar of Galveston. In 1830, when the pre-
sent distinguished officer in charge, Colonel
Mansfield, took control, there were twelve
and three-fourths feet. Since that time, not-
withstanding the promised performance in
every report he has u^ule to the board of engi-
neers that he would increase the depth two
f$et, and indeed that he had done so, there is
only an appreciable depth of three inches ob-
tained.
1 do hope the House will allow us—those of
us who are personally interested, those of us
**bo have practical information, and see day
after day the results attained and attainable—
w ill ailow us to decide for ourselves whether
or not we will take this money. I declare in
my place here that I believe conscientiously
this appropriation of $250,000 will be a waste-
ful and extravagant expenditure of the public
money.
I assert, and I can produce the data from
the official reports of the engineer depait
merit, that in 1872, when Major Howell com
nienced work on the harbor, under the gabi-
onade plan, the extreme depth of water on
the outer bar was twelve feet. [See Appen-
dix i 1
Under the plan proposed only eighteen f^bt
of water was obtainable. [Appendix i.]
The great storm of 1875 increased this depth
(by scouring) about nine-tenths of a foot, which
depth was maintained and brought to twelve
and three-fourths feet, in 1880, at which time
Major Mansfield was given charge of the work
under bis "improved plan." [See appendix
vli.]
'J here was no actual increase in the depth up
to and including the winter of 1881-83. [See
appendix viii.]
in tbe summer of 1882 the bar shoaled one
and one-fourth feet, leaving a depth of only
eleven and one-half feet in June, 1883. [Ap-
pendix viii.]
The report to the chief of engineers claimed
an increase of one to two feet. The survey of
July, 188ft, claimed a deepening of one and
one-half feet, at which time there was a thir-
teen foot channel, or an increaso of only three
inches since th* accession of the present officer
of engineers in 1880. [Appendix ix.]
This officer repeatedly claimed that eighteen
feet of water would result from the completion
of tbe south jetty alone. [Appendix vi, viii,
ix, xi.]
'I he south jetty being completed and failing
to give the increase, be was forced to the con-
clusion that " one jetty without the other was
like a fiddle without a bow." This south jetty
is even now in a precarious position, since it is
admitted that it is threatened by a wash or
excavation along its south face of from four
to eight feet.
All o! these facts goto prove my original
proposition that the plan of the government
engineers if adhered to (and there is no reason
to doubt that it will be under your proposed
appropriation) will result in no adequate re
lief to the growing commerce of this great
port. It will simply resolve itself into an an-
nual frittering away of the public moneys
without the most remote expectation of bene-
fiting the public good. I beg the House to
understand that my remarks are addressed en-
tirely to the plansof the government engineers
as applied to Galveston harbor. I mean no
reflection upon the honor, the zeal, or the
ability of those officials who are improving
navigation in other places; on the contrary, I
sincerely believe that the works at Aransas
pass, Pass Cavallo and at Brazos Santiago
have resulted in marked success and should be
continued, but the conditions surroiindiug
these places are entirely dissimilar and dis-
tinct from these at Galveston. In a word, ha
latter demands the application of methods
that reach the highest art of thi science of en-
gineering, which, unfortunately for us, seem
unobtainable under the present system of
river and harbor improvements.
[Appendix matter from i to xil has already
appeared in Tub News, anil is consequently
omitted here, being the same as that prepared
by Colonel W. L. lloody, and printed soul"
tine ngo.]
Mr. Kelley—I differ with beooming modestv
ftoni my distinguished friend from Texas. Y"t,
I must say that I have more faith in the jild*
lient of the engineers who have hid
th s matter in charge for twelve yeirs
and have made a very appreciable im
provement upon the harbor and the
approaches to Galveston than I have
in the instincts, marvelous as they are. of mv
friend from that vicinity. He says leave them
to themselves. Well, I tried to illustrate the
fact that Galveston harbor was for the con
venience of a much larger territory than G*l-
veston city and county. It is really destined
to become one of the great commercial ports of
tbe United States. It will have cotton an i sugar
and tobacco aud all the tropical and semi-
tropical products of our country to carry.
And I believe those tons of silver and gold of
which we hear twice a day from the eloiuo it
gentlemen from Colorado, and all the ot.hir
mineral resources, not only of the Indian Ter-
ritory, of Texas, of Colorado, of Utah, but of
all these extreme Southern and Southwestern
sections of our country.
1 am content to see progress, though it be at
tbe slow rate that Congressional appropriation
confines it to. Tbe gentleman's scheme might
be accomplished for $8,000,000. It might, if it
were undertaken, take $15,000,000. Aul lam
not sure if we were to abandon the work that
has been already done and accept his scheme
that Congress would do 1 letter in lhe wav of
appropriations for it than it has done for the
scheme of the engineers. It might give $800,-
COOone year, $200,000 another. $400,1'00 an-
other, as it did in the river and harbor bill
w bich it was supposed it would revolutionize
tbe country. And, therefore, tbe fifteen or the
eight millions might require a longer p»riod to
improve the harbor than it is likely to take
under the present system of appropriating a
fe w hundred thousand dollars a year
Therefore I say as a citizen of the country,
looking forward as I have done since I first
made ibe aiijuaintance of the topography of
this portion of the country, iu 18(1!). to the
maivedous development that is to take place
there, and beholding Galveston as a great sea-
port of all that marvelously endowed country,
I beg this committee of the whole not to strike
from the list of those places for which appro-
priations are mnde by this bill the name of
this great harbor, and leave it to neglect for
the future until some patent scheme can be
applied to it.
I beg pardon for meddling with a matter in
which I may Beem to have no ipterest, but I
remind gentlemen that every American should
II interested in every acre of this country and
in all its people.
Mr. Wolford—I want to say just a word or
two upon this subject. Like the distinguished
gentleman from Pennsylvania (Mr. Kelley) I
feel a deep interest in all these mit
ters. This money which the gentlemiu from
Texas (Mr. Ochiltree) wants to give back,
which nil the Texas delegation and all the peo
pie really interested in it want to give back,
in order that they may try what they conceive
to be a better plan, I am willing shall be taken
back. 1 would take the money and appropri-
ate it for the improvement of a river which
bas been neglected in this appropriation hill, i
river which needs the appropriation; I ref-r
to the Cumberland river, thfl improvement of
which will result so greatly to the aivajirg'
of the people of Tennessee and of Kentucky.
Gentlemen talk about the vast advantages of
the harbor of Galveston. Many dollars hav
been spent there; I am no! going to enum ir
ate how many—indeed, I do not kn w. B r
the Cumberland river has been comparatively
neglected. Almost a world of itself is right
upon the borders of the Cumberland river.
Mr. Willis—We will get to the Cumbrland
river later on in the day.
Mr. Wolford—Bnt I want to talk a minute
or two on this proposition; and when we come
to the Cumberland river I want to move an
amendment. I say there is almost a world on
the Cumberland river, with its ores of every
kind, coal, iron, and everything of that sort,
together with a vast quantity of timber, which
with pioper means could be sent out and be of
great advantage to the people of our country.
It is a strange thing when gentlemen come
here and say: " We want to give ba k to you
what you propose to appropriate for us," and
yet other gentlemen get up hero and say they
will force them to take it, contrary to their
desire, contrary to the wishes of the delega-
tion from Texas, contrary to the will of thow
who know all about it. Gentlemen say here
that they will take this money from that por-
tion of the country which wants it, which
needs it, which earnestly desires it, and give it
to another portion of the countrv that does not
want it.
I tell you that more improvement can be
made upon the Cumberland river than any
other place in the United States of America
for tbe good of the people of Tennessee ami of
Kentucky, and in fact of the whole country.
Now, I ask gentlemen to just take back this
money, which Texas does not wan', and when
we come to the Cumberland river give us some
of it there; just a little will do for us.
Mr. Willis—In view of the fact that there is
sue h a limited time for the consideration of
this bill, I hope that we will have a vote as
soon as possible.
Mr. White, of Kentucky—This proposition
of the gentleman from Texas (Mr. Ochiltree)
raises the question whether Congress can rely
on the report of the chief of engineers, or
whether the committee on rivers and harbors
is justified in availing itself of all sources of
information to bring in a bill here with the
assurance that it can be carried through be-
cause its friends stand by it.
WTe have the testimony of the war depart-
ment that the enormous sum of $1,369,759 23
has been expended by the government on the
harbor of Galveston. When the bill of the
second session of the Forty-seventh Congress
failed to pass because the president vetoed the
river and harbor bill of the first session of the
Forty seventh Congress it was discovered that
the work at Galveston would be seriously in-
jured by a delay in making appropriations for
it. Tbe engineers had prepared their plans
and had got everything ready to make rapid
progress with the work. When that veto
came it struck the State of Texas, and the city
of Galveston especially, like a clap of thunder
from a clear sky.
It then became necessary for something to
be done. I call attention to page 1002 of vol-
ume 2, of the report of the chief of engineers,
made to this Congress, where will be found the
letter of the rnayeir of Galvestou, Tex., call-
ing upon Colonel Mansfield, the chief engineer
at that place, to give all the facts bearing
upon this important work. In reply to that
letter of the mayor. Colonel Mansfield writes
a long letter. I will not take the time of the
ccmmittee to read it all, but will read an ex-
tract from it: " If we rely upon the general
government, it will probably be two years ba-
fi re work can be resumed. In this time our
plat, which is expensive and is now in really
good order aud exactly adapted to the service,
w ill so far deteriorate as to become almost, if
not quite, unserviceable. The expense of this
renew al will then have to be borne by the first
appropriation, and will so far diminish the
amount of good derived from it."
He says furthermore: "In the interest of
simple economy the work should nut be al-
lowed to stop."
And in another place he says: "It will be
sufficient for me to say, in answer to a further
inquiry, that $100,000 will keep the work on
through the summer, anel will effect the entire
completion of the south jetty."
That interesting letter had its effect upon
the legislature of Texas. On page 10117 of this
report will be found a copy of an act by tile
legislature of the State of Texas authorizing
the city of Galveston to issue bonds to the
amount of $100,000 bearing interest at the rate
of 5 per cent., to keep up tho work which had
1 e en stopped by the veto of the president, on
the idea that the river anel harbor bill was a
network of jobbery; tnat the representations
of the American people had no higher interest,
no higher object, no higher patriotism thau to
secure their re-election by means of making
appropriations for local interests.
I should have said in further explanation
ibat the whole work was stopped by the fail
ure of this second bill of the Forty-seventh
Congress to become a low, became the presi-
dent in a message to Cong-ess had stater! tf '
on account of the large amount appropriated
in the bill of the year before there were still
considerable Bums at the disposal of the war
department.
Thus we see by this letter that the work at
Galveston, iex., had to stop, and not only
that but when tbe people of Galveston were
to be taxed to preserve tho works, it was dis-
covered thut the large outlay previously made
by Congress was wasted. And now the gen
tleman from Texas comes hero an 1 tells us
that wo liuve expended on this work $1,3 III.
UKI, and yet that the water on tile b tr is g >t>-
ting li8.s every year. Now, the qiiostioo
aroes, who is correct—the gentlemni from
Galveston or the committee of this House,
which relies on tin' chief of onjiueers I
I lien the hammer lell.J
The question being taken on the amendment
of Mr. Ochiltree, it was agreed to.
TKXA8 NEWfc ITEMS.
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made by Messrs. Palmer «Sc Moore for the
foundation of tho new Methodist church.
Messrs. Wilburn & McGowan have the con
tract for the wood work Friday night a
negro who had been at work for Mr. Ira
l'rew itt, near Elkhart, whose name was Fane,
attempted an outrage on Mr. Prewitt's grown
daughter. The scoundrel had to pass through
Mr. Prewitt's room to enter that in which
tbe young lady was sleeping, and a pet deer
that was in tho house jumped on the bed where
Miss l'rewitt was sleeping. This woke her up,
and she gave the alarm. The negro, iu re-
treating, passed through £he house, when he
was seen and recognized by Mr. Prewltt. Some
tin e during the next day he was arrested, aud
Mr Steve Parker, deputy shoriff, was sent for
to carry him to Palestine. Befo-e Mr. Parker
e oulel ge t out of town with him, a mob of
mafked men came up, took tha prisoner and
hanged him to a tree near the new church.
BOSQtJK.
Sentinel: Clifton i3 to have a picnic Satur-
day, the 21st, on the river just above the rail-
load bridge Clifton is to have a grand
jubilee on the 4th of July.
dk witt.
Cuero Bulletin: 1 rish potatoes sold iu bulk
last week as low as 20 cents per bushel... .Car-
renters are idle and but little improvement is
being made in the city a present.
KLLIS.
The Baptist State convention will meet in
Waxahai'hie in October. Over 300 delegates
are expected to be in attendance, besides visi-
tors.
LAHAR.
Paris Tribune: A heavy rain, wind aud
some hail visited this section about 11 o'clock
li st Sunday night, doing considerable damage
to the crops. Wheat, oats and corn suffered
Iri m the wind, while the fruit was damaged
in places by the bail — Corn and cotton are
late but generally looking well. Thi wheat
acreage is larger this year than usual, and the
} ield is pretty good where the land was well
drained.
M'LEfWAN.
A McGregor letter to Thb News says: We
really have good reason to believe that th i
country immediately around McGregor is the
most favored of any in the State.
newton.
Sabine river is now slowly falling. Its over-
flow has done immense damage to farming in-
terests, drowned hundreds of cattle, hogs,
sheep, etc., and impoverished many families,
whose lowland homes are now completely sub-
merged.
ORANGE.
Tribune of June 14: The loss of stock by the
overflow is not so heavy as was first supposed.
'I he liver commenced falling Sunday, and
since then has been slowly but steadily going
i ow n. It will be two weeks yet before it again
gets within its banks. It is Impossible at this
time to estimate the damage which has re-
sulted in the loss of time by the mills, the sus-
pension of business generally, the drowning of
stock, overflow of crops, etc., but figures will
count up sharply. Our lumbermen managed
by extraordinary precautions to securely hold
all of their timber. Some of our mills will
start up Monday Orange begins to look like
terself once more Sun iay was a great day
f< r Jducks and the lovers generally of water;
and from early morn to a late evening hour,
the stieets of the city were well decked
with swiftly gliding skiffs and canoes.... Jol u
Hairls, colored, was drowned Saturday morn-
ing last in the river immediately opposite
Mrs. Haunab's boarding-house. He was on his
way to Bancroft & Sons' mill.
polk.
Moscow Pinery, June 12: Moscow is improv-
ing— Farmers are replanting their crops
Nearly all the mills are running again.
SHACKELFOftD.
Albany News: Work on the court-house,
under lhe supervision of Mr. J. T. Camp, is
progressing rapidly, and he tells us that if the
plasterers keep up with their work the house
will be finished by the 15th of August. It will
be, when finished, one of the most complete
and best-built public buildings in the State.
.... Tbe following is the number of buildings
in Albany, and the number that have beeu
?ut up since the first of January of this year:
here t.l'e 225 dwellings, 70 business bouses,
large and small, 4 churches, 1 school-house,
and 7 carpenter and blacksmith shops. Since
the first of last January there have been built
about ninety-five houses, -live of which are
large stone business bouses, and some fifteen
frame business houses, the balance are dwell-
ings, some of them large and commodious.
Within a short time several more large stone
business bouses will be commenced, and innu-
merable dwellings, some of them very tine
ones.... The colored folks are putting up a very
nice frame church in the flat just west of town.
UI'SHUR.
Gilmer Mirror: The oat crop in Upshur
county this year is excellent. Our farmers
say that the corn crop has been greatly Injured
by the heavy rains and incessantly wet
weather, but that the prospects tor a fair crop
are brightening every day now and the crop
will be good if no other disaster happens to it.
victoria.
Cuero Bulletin: There are to be two days
racing in Victoria—June 24 aud 25....The
New >ork, Texas and Mexican sent out from
"Victoria last Saturday a train of nearly seven
ty cars, loaded with freight and cattle; and on
the following day another train of twenty-two
cars, loaded with large beet cattle, left tbe
stock pens at Victoria for Chicago. At the
machine shops of this road Master Mechanic
Conly has juBt finished putting up, and has
now in operation, a fine lot of new ma-
chinery.
WASHINGTON.
Brenham Banner: Farmers are now wanting
rain. Cotton that is clean is doing well, while
that in the grass is suffering.
EDVCATIOI7AX<.
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100 •• 100 10,000
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