The Galveston Daily News. (Galveston, Tex.), Vol. 40, No. 265, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 26, 1882 Page: 2 of 4
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A. H. BELO & CO., Publishers
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from {Galveston oil tho whole movement of
tho port, because it affects not only do-
mestic, but foreign exports. It brings Galves-
ton on a parity with Atlantic ports in the mat-
ter of European freights; for, if freights are
held too high here, there is the cheap rail route
to tho Atlantic seaboard, which establishes the
equilibrium. This condition is of essential
benefit in cheapening marine transportation
from the port, and in making Galveston com-
paratively one of the 4best cotton markets iu
the country. The fact of 10,559 bales of cotton
having gone North by rail from Galveston
during the season thus far may be but a baga-
telle in itself, but it shows that a condition ex-
ists which insures for Galveston tonnage low
transportation rates to domestic and foreign
ports, rendering this market an advantageous
one to all producers within the area of its
local jurisdiction.
Thursday, January 20. 1SS2.
THE NAVAL PROBLEM.
It is perhaps fortunate that the United States
has lagged behind in the general race among
maritime nations for superiority in the con-
trivance and equipment of heavily armored
ship-. The material and mechanical conditions
of civilized warfare are constantly changing
with the discover its and inventions of science,
and there is no problem connected with it more
fluctuating than tbo naval problem. Nor is
there any other which is so much beset with
difficulties and perplexities, and the greatest of
all its perplexities arises from tho improve-
ments which are made or suggested from
year to year In powerful artillery for use
at sea and in naval construction designed for
effectual resistance to such artillery. On the
one hand, genius has been mdefatigably
striving to devise an impenetrable vessel. On
the other hand, equal genius has been not less
intent on devising an irresistible projectile.
Of course, irresistibility of one body, and im-
penetrability of another boJy, in relation to
each other, can not exist at the same time.
The coexistonce is an impossible conception.
It is possible to conceive, however, that
in the straggle to make vessels too strong to
be destroyed by any known projectile, and to
make projectiles powerful enough to destroy
any vessel afloat, the increased thickness and
weight of armor for the iormer purpose may
reach a point fatal alike to buoyancy and
mobility. If a war ship, to be adequately
protected with iron casing, has to baso heavily
armored that she can barely float, she must
be practically worthless for aggressive pur-
poses, without any certainty of being finally
efficient even us a stationary battsry. The
more she is weighed down with armor the
le^s capable she is of carrying guns of the
greatest power for either defense or attack,
and from the same cause the less, also, must
be her speed and her agility. Such reflec-
tions as tlie-e have tarne.i intelligent opinion
in England very favorably toward
the plan of seeking the highest naval
efficiency in a class of swift and
powerful vessels, carrying few guns, but guns
of the largest caliber and longest range. Ta;
idea is ^happily illustrated in a poetical solilo-
quy, published in a late numbar of the London
Punch, and intended to popularize the weII-
known opinion of Sir William Armstrong
that light and swift ships, only partially ar-
mored, and provided wiia a few heavy guns,
would be far superior to iron clads. This
striking and significant composition is here
reproduced from .i.e Inc - York Herald, which
received it by cable from its London corre-
spondent:
ID was a gallant captain, and he sailed upon the
sea.
Quoth he: T!.e lumb'ring iron-clads can ne'er get
hold of me;
I steam much faster than them all, so in the times
of war
I'll pimply pour a broadside in raid then fly off
I carry heavy metal, too, the newest t' :;e
The piaythi-.gs thui a.re rated a~ a simple ii
tons;
They'll go through every armor plate like paper,
such r,heir power.
And having fired will staam away at sixteen knots
an hour.
And should the enemy hit me, it's easy to divine,
With entries and with boilers placed below my
water line.
They'll hardly touch a vital part constructed as I
am,
"While J am free to charge at them and use my
deadly ram.
I'm light uu-l I'm unarmored, save just where my
g-.Hi; are placed;
For Iiko a Jaay I am well protected at the waist;
Before me shall each iron-clad in fight give up the
t ghost.
And England's wooden walls again shall be the
standing toast !
There is perhaps a felicitous coincidence in
the dissemination of this kind of naval doc-
trine at the moment when Congress is called
to consider the naval problem with reference
to the comparative merits of the old iron-clad
plan and the plau advocated by Sir William
Armstrong, and others who believe more in
the virtue of great guns fleetly borne than in
the virtue of strongly protected but slow and
clumsy ships. American statesmanship can
not afford to be indifferent to the naval prob-
lem. Our whole sea-coast, with all its
maritime cities, would bo fatally ex-
posed in case of war with such a
power as Spain, or even Chili, to say
nothing of England or France. Nor need
there be any fear that appropriations and
works to the purpose of furnishing the coun-
try with a groat and invincible navy would
involve, immediately or remotely, danger to
our popular liberties. England's gigantic naval
power was never an instrument of despotism.
Macaulay accounted it singularly creditable to
Cromwell that, at the height of his absolute
rule, he was not tempted, though a great soldier,
to seek glory and aggrandizement in military
enterprise, but " took a peculiar pleasure in
encouraging that noble service which, of all tho
instruments employed by an English govern-
ment, is tho most impotent for mischief and
the most powerful for good."
RAIL AND MARINE FREIGHT RATES
FROM GALVESTON.
The amount of cotton shipped north by rail
.irom Galveston thus far this season amounts
to 10,559 baits, against &S5 bales for same pe-
riod last year. There is something in this
movement that has moro significance than ap-
pears upon the surface. In volume it is com-
paratively trilling, to bo sure, but considered
in relation to the total movement of the port,
it contains matter of certainly 110 minor value.
"Why cotton should go North by rail from Gal-
veston at all appears somewhat strange. There
are always marine freights offering here that
would apparently prevent this movement.
Take this view ot the case: Transportation
lines interested in as much business as
possible will not intelligently prevent the
natural movement of produce toward
a legitimate business center. . Lines of
railroad leading into Galveston will protect
the natural local traffic of their roads by a
non discriminating policy. If the cotton busi-
ness of the International and Great Northern
Railroad, for example, were strenuously di-
verted to &t. Louis or other distant points by
a system of discriminating rates against its
natural outlet, it would fail to advantage the
consolidated railroad system. Say that the
transportation of cotton from Palestine to
Galveston c sts $3 60 per bale, as an instance.
To diver * this cotton by an extremely low
rate ot freight to a distant market, would add
but little to the general aggregate of earnings,
and would destroy local freight business.
In tho case of Galveston, it appears,
the railroads generally are guided by
a spirit of conservative wisdom in pro-
tecting local traffic—first, to the port
from 1 itural sources of trade, and then out of
Galveston again by offering the inducement of
a low rate of freight for cotton to the North
ar d East. Under this low rate of freight, it
appear*, the movement north from the port
by rail has increased in the ratio above indi-
cated. Here is where this double condition
benefits tho port in a material way. The local
f i eight tariff is held by transportation lines at
evenly balanced rates, and the aggregate in-
ures in railroad receipts upon the basis of c
paying business. Everything is earned in the
ordinary local movement toward tho port. To
induce further business, however, the railroads
engage in competition with tho shipping inter-
ests, and give rates north from Galveston
that place them on a parity with steamship
cr sail freights. This movement backward
costs little or nothing to the railroad lines, be-
cause empty cars have to be returned to their
destinations. All cotton induced North by
rail from Galveston may be esteemed in the
light of almost clear profit. This competition
Las the effect of securing low marine freights
WAR CLOUDS IN EUROPE.
The expressed determination of the Austro-
Hungarian government to prevent the expres-
sion of opinion and the eiving of information
through the press in regard to its operations in
the provinces which it holds nominally for
Turkey, but as generally believed with the
view of keeping them for itself, is sufficient
caution to the general reader that what is per-
mitted to como from Vienna in the way of
alleged news regarding the political situation
is to be manufactured to suit the occasion.
A sum of 6,700,000 florins was asked
by that government recently as an
extraordinary credit to meet its require-
ments for military purposes in the Balkans
Every European government knows
of methods for privately appropriating a good
deal more than is asked for. The asking for
any grant is some evidence of trouble in the
district, beyond what the government has
been willing to admit. The ministerial coun-
cil of the Emperor Francis Joseph under his
presidency has often discussed the critical state
of affairs, and as there have been indications
since the meeting of heads of royal families at
Vienna and since the Dantzig interview, that
the three great eastarn powers would not fall
out. and that Italy would be in accord with
the general policy of Germany, it has been
assumed that no great importance could prop-
erly be attached to reports of Russian in-
trigues against Austria, and further that
Austria would not only maintain what she
has for some time held as a temporary guard-
ian, but that she would push her forces in the
direction of Turkey. The annexation of the
whole of the Balkan provinces to Austria has
been strongly hinted at. This would doubtless
be more than Russia would concede, if at all
in her power to resist; the strongest imme
diate resistance might, however, be expected
from the people of those provinces themselves.
It is not, of course, reasonable to suppose that
the exchango of courtesies between a czar
threatened b}" nihilists and an emperor who is
his deal' relative meant a reversal of the tradi-
tional policy of Russia. It is more reasonable
to suppose that Russia was quite willing to
defer to the majestic influence of the German
empire in regard to the greater interest affect-
ing that empire for its own welfare, and that
still there is only a bare tolerance in Russia
for the Austrian occupation of the Southern
provinces, though Austria be never so much
Germany's close ally. Russia may wait calm-
ly enough for the time when Germany can
claim to reap the harvest of her own greater
unity, which might not be delayed, and as-
suredly could not be hindered, by an extension
of the empire ot" agglomerated fractions to tho
south of her. Russian partisans can still
the insurrectionists in the Balkans, and the
Russian government will doubtless wink at
their doings and hope fco derive all the advan-
tage at a future day of present small contests
that serve to maka a rival hated. It is, how-
ever, at the same time to be con-
sidered that Hungary is not well dis-
posed toward adventures for bringing more
heterogeneous elements within the com-
p * .s of the Anstro-Hungarian government's'
authority. On the w hole, while tho present
smoldering contest in the subjected provinces
furnishes a ready text for writers who sniff
the scent of battle from afar, the last men-
tioned conservative or jealous national ele-
ment may operate as a considerable check.
The German approach toward Holland is
noted just at the same time as being signifi-
cant of a probable understanding among a
sufficient number of great powers for some
scheme of mutual aggrandizement at the ex-
pense of the weaker ones. Just as likely it is
significant rather of remote ultimate tenden-
cies than of present and immediate de-
signs ; that neither that nor the Balkan troubles
will Le either the causo or the occasion of a
war, but that the moves of the powers on the
political chess-board are significant of the
more decisive movo3 that will be made when
tha great demon of war shall be unchained
for entirely different reasons. Germany can
choose war when sh<* will; she has only one
great enemy—namelv. France. The latter
does not appear to fce nearly ready cr able to
reopen the ball if that should be her wish. If
Germany were satisfied that France would
again wage war for Alsace and Lorraine, Ger-
many would, perhaps, begin it at her own
time. Germauy further says, in effect, to
Holland, and to England, as the friend of
Holland, that Holland would suffer in a great
war unless Holland sought German protec-
tion, and thus Germany can strengthen her
own position,comparatively and gradually,and
keep England warned from a too close alliance
with Franco; but still keep tho great
trump card of war as a last remedy for inter-
nal discontent; whilj at the same time Austria,
in a subordinate way, is permitted to trample
on little ex-Turkish provinces. That is merely
a sop to an ally, a well-earned permit for
which ally is her readiness to flank Russia,
to conciliate Italy, to add to the strength
of imperial autocracy. The nations of the
east of Europe are thus considered less in fact
than the governments of those nations, but
their motto for all is still the old ono, "the State,
it is myself," it is the ruler, not the people. Of
course if it were otherwise, if representative
government prevailed, it would be deemed im-
possible that a war could be undertaken to head
off domestic discontent, but whatever may be
the transient signs to the contrary, that ap-
pears after all to be the only thing for which
modern sovereigns really venture to provoke
war.
STATE PRESS.
What the Interior Papers Say,
The papers continue to complain of the treat-
ment of the small-pox patients at Austin, aud
the great mortality among those exposed to
the weather in canvas tents. The affair has a
bad appearance.
The Crockett Patron says of The Galves-
ton News :
This wonderful paper for years has taken the
lead of journalism iu the State, and we do not hesi-
tate to say has betrn one of the most important and
efficient agents in giving character and importance
to the State at home and abroad. It has many
rivals and imitators (truly valuable), but The News
still leads the van as a successful purveyor and dis-
tributor of the occurrences and incidents of the
times.
IMPRISONMENT FOR DEBT.
Governor Cornell, in his recent message to
the New York Legislature, adverted to a
shameful practice in that State, in contraven-
tion c f statute, he believes, that seems to have
escaped the metropolitan press. The merchants
of New York, it seems, have been in the habit
of using the capias to compel tardy country
customers to meet their obligations, and very
often when these debtors are jerked up un-
awares and unprepared for a settlement, they
are sent to jail and kept there at the expense
of the creditor till he begins to feel the ex-
penditure more keenly thau the desire for re
venge. Governor Cornell contends that this is
without warrant of law, but, at any rate, it is
system that probably puts money in the
pockets of lawyers or shysters, and petty
officials who find their interest in connivance
and silence. It is a sharp commentar3r on those
papers in the North which are continually
howling and groaning over the alleged wrongs
of the negroes in some of the Southern States,
in having their effects liable to seizure for
rent, or in b^ing required to pay a poll-tax as a
prerequisite of voting. The barbarism spoken
of by Governor Cornell is practiced in no
Southern city. There is no reason to suspect
that he exaggerates the situation in the fol-
lowing language used in the message;
Flagrant outrages against personal liberty by im-
pris riment for debt are of trequent occurrence in
the city of New York. Hundreds of persons are
aneuaily arrested and lodged in the county jail,
and there detained until bail can be secured,
which is generally difficult and often impossible
for the unfortunate victims to obtain. Imprison-
ment for claims insignificant in amount are of no
unco, .moii occurrence, and fitly to seventy-five
prisoners are often held in detention under civil
process at a time. Instances are by no means rare
where individuals have thus been restrained of
their liberty for several years before procuring
release. Imprisonment for debt was formally
abolished by the statutes of tliL State many years
ago, end it lias long been the pride of our civiliza-
tion that no person should be deprived of personal
freedom except on a penalty for crime or misde-
meanor. To tiie contrary, however, tins theory is
not m ;de good in practice. The truth is known
that citizens are far from secure, and as this con-
dition of tilings affects more seriously the poor and
friendless, all the more necessity exists for the
correction of present abuses. Every considera-
tion of humanity demands that these wrongs shall
be promptly corrected by careful amendments of
tho laws now in force.
A Chicago paper wants a white man hanged
for killing a negro in that city. He has been
twice convicted, and the Supreme Court has
just sent the case back for the second time for
a third trial. The Tribune seizes the circum-
stance to remark:
If he should b? convicted again, be might get a
fourth trial on the ground that it is no crime to kill
a " nigger " in Cook county. Th -re is no reason to
believe that be will see the inside of a penitentiary
as long as his money holds out, and his friend; c. n-
tinue to subscribe purses for his defense. As a di»-
tinguished lawyer said, publicly, m-i long ago:
" When was a rich man, or a man of good social
position, convicted of crime in Cook county?'" The
Bloomington mob was nor so far out of the v
when it cried, " the law is a farce!" The crimi
law is almost a farce in Illinois. It is intended
solely for the benefit or men who have not the
money with which to hire successful criminal law-
yors. and weary ou; the pat enceof the prosecutors
and the people with endless quibbles, tricks and
frauds upon justice.
The number of people driven from their
homes by the flood at Nashville is estimated
above *
Those imitations are among the best compli
ments paid to The News, though some of
them do seem a little like burlesques. Surely
The News has not monopolized the only way
to make up a good pap?r. A little originality
would be a great help to some of its would-be
rivals.
Civil engineering involves as many intricate
problems as the law. The Beaumont Enter-
prise describes some of those developed in
bridging the Sabine and Neches rivers:
Th© currents of the Neche3 River effect an abra-
sion in the bottom of that stream to such an extent
that it has been made necessary to iuease the piling
in the center pier which supports the Texas and
New Orleans draw-bridge. The heavy iron caisson
has been lowered thirty-six feet; but in order to
accomplish this stupendous work many
stumps, piles and drift-logs have had to
be removed from under the caisson. This
is done by means of large hooks made of rail-
road bars, which are put under the loss by an ex-
perienced submarine diver. The work is also facili-
tated by a steam engine, with hose running: across
to wash the sand and mud from around the loss.
The power employed is powerful hydraulic jacks,
which some rimes snap off the strong: hooks like
pipe-stems. When this is the case the auger is
brought into requisition, and the logs are bored off
by means of long-shanked augers. The hook i3
then replaced and the logs broken. There is much
yet to do.
Timber deposits of this kind are abundant in
Louisiana and Texas, and are probably the
material from which future generations will
obtain coal.
The Inter-State describes the profound dark-
ness of the nights at Texarkana by saying:
A black cat across the street looks like a goose
egg in a coal bin these dark nights. Several enter-
prising gentlemen are bottling up some of these
dark nights to be used as stove polish.
The Two Round Rocks reports a serious
visitation of drummers and tramps in Wil-
liamson county.
The Paris North Texan says:
This will be a lively political year in Texas.
Every officer in the State government, from con-
stable to governor, including judges of all the
superior courts except district judges, are to be
elected.
Calls on modest politicians to become can-
didates will soon be iu order. That numerous
class must remember that though many are
called, few in comparison will be chosen.
More money will be spent in electioneering
than the offices are worth.
The Brownsville Cosmopolitan reports Judge
Powers as still ill, and says "his disease is
pluro-pneumom'a."
The noble red man knows how to beat pro-
hibition as well 'as his white brother. The
Denison Democrat learns from "the beautiful
Indian Tefritory " that:
For some time there has been a nan at Chiliia
Switch who has managed by some way to keep a
lot of fodder oh hand to sell, and has been in the
habit of selling it by the bundle and in each bundle
he sold there was concealed a bottle of the pro-
scribed and prohibited bust-head. He rati ijuite a
successful and live;j' trade for some time, but
those ubiquitous and meddlesome fellows, the
United States marshals, at iast smelt a mouse, and
-1 r,. r dropped on the whisky-fodder seller, and
broke up his litcie game. The man mads his es-
eupe. but the trade was ruined and he had to go
into bankruptcy.
The Linden Journal must bo in bad credit.
It says " it requires money to run a news-
paper." This comes of tho pay-as-you-go pol-
icy.
The Hamilton Herald says it is reported that
Judge Jere Black is ambitious to become a
candidate for presidential honors. It does
lcok that way.
The San Antonio Times has a column leader
on that ubiquitous character, tha professional
juror. The Times must have been suppressing
its wratli for some time to cause it to break out
as follows:
The professional jurcr is a greater curse to the
country than all tho hordes of tramps and vaga-
bonds, whose migratory habits causo them to go
from East to West in search of their unworthy
bread, gained without the aid of honest toll. Aye,
they are a greater cursi to the country than one-
half of the thieves and robbers upon wn^ss onuses
they j-it in judgment. "Who is the professional
juror? We define him as one of the most miser-
able specimens of the genus homo, who is too lazy
to work; an insignificant loafer, and hence he lianas
around the court-house, takes his stand at the
foot of the stairs or upon some public corner, be-
cause l:e knows that th# deputy sheriff will pass
that way. or who. seeing the oificer approach some
business man whe is almo-t sure to excuse him-
self, wdi step up end say, "Take me in his place,''
and thus, in a thousand~ways, he will force his un-
worthy perso ! into the jury-box, where they pass
upon the liberties of criminals, who oftentimes are
far better than they. We have good laws regu-
lating and providing the manner of selecting
jurors, but in vain may laws be passed looking to
the improvement of this system. Unless thej- are
proper! r executed thoy will subserve no purpose,
and to-day the laws upon our statute books in
many parts of the State are practically a dead
hitter, and may as well be abrogated. It occurs in
the trial of almost every criminal cause that the
regular drawn juries are exhausted before a jury
is made up; and especially is this so when the
case to be tried is an important one—and now
comes the golden moment for Mr. Professional.
He is always near at hand waiting for such emer-
gencies. il^ is at his post; the judee orders the
sheriff to get a certain number of jurors, and to
get them speedily. The deputy is sent out. lie
finds it more convenient to take the professional
than to go a little way from the court-house in or-
der to get good men; and right here the district
judges are often at fault in not instructing the
sheriff as to the kind of men to get, and to take no
man found in and around the court, and further to
select no man who is known to have served on a
jury for as much as one week for the preceding
six months.
The Hillsboro Mirror asks:
Did Comptroller Harden take in all the counter-
feit money now in the hands of the state treasurer,
F. R. Lubbock?
Quien sabe? In ordinary private business a
cashier is supposed to be responsible for the
kind of money he receives. The treasurer of
a State ought to be a judge of money.
The Falls county Index says:
There is, perhaps, not a family in the State in
which The Galveston News is not a household
word. As a news and family paper it has scarcely
a peer.
Oh, for a hog-killing spell of weather!"
exclaims the Terrell Times.
Sad, sad! the spirit of suicide is abroad in
the land," says tho sympathetic Independent
Banner.
The Atlanta (Cass county) Express turns
moral philosopher, and tells the people of that
town to patronize home institutions, both mer-
cantile and mechanical, treat straugers hos-
pitably, send their children to Professor
Loonej^'s school, attend church regularly,
keep out of bad company, do not drink intoxi-
cating beverages. get their job printing done at
the Express office, advertise in the Express,
pay for it, let the outside world know what
you are doing, and ends by saj'ing: "A collec-
tion will now be taken up for missionary pur-
poses."
With reference to the threatened independent
movement in Texas politics, the Greenville
(Hunt county) Herald says, after mentioning
the statement that a third term of Governor
Roberts is necessary to defeat it:
We are not yet prepared to admit that the suc-
cess of the Democratic party in Texas is dependent
upon the leadership of any one man, and in fact
we have grave doubt as to Governor Roberts's
ability to hold the party in line against the pro-
posed independent movement. There are not 1
few Democrats who entertain the opinion that his
nomination by the Democracy this year would
Strenghten the opposition.
The remark in this column that the Weather-
ford Commercial and tho Herald of the same
place have hyphenated, pooled their issues and
become twin cherries, reappears in that paper
with " cherubs" instead of cherries, but that
paper corrects the statement that it is the
" organ " of the Farmers' Alliance. That paper
asserts its entire independence.
Says the Henrietta (Clay county) Shield:
It the regular Democrats will only get scared
into bringing out the best material lor office, and
put some of the old mossbacks on the retired list,
we will say Wash. Jones has served his State to a
purpose.
From the attempts of the British cabinet to
control the press some hundred years ago,
mentioned in these columns the other day, it
now seems that the press is exercising more
than its due share of influence over tho minis-
ters. St. James's Gazette says:
Ministerial personages seek in the press for what
they should find in their own minds—scanning the
news-sheets just as they would tap a barometer, in
order to draw from these experts what ought to
speak to them from their own senses. Hostile arti-
cles in one or two powerful journals will sometimes
disturb a cabinet almost as much as if it had caught
whispers from the sky, causing the members there-
of to falter and aiter where before they were quite
clear and very determined. On the other hand,
the same men are really cheered by favorable or
enthusiastic comment.
Nat. Q., of the Georgetown Record, is
square man, and knows how to keep an even
balance. He writes:
We have been abused for riding with Governor
Davis. We took dinner the next day with Gov-
ernor Roberts Henderson will always be found
in good, honest company, and with the leading
men of the day.
Nat. is not too proud to be seen with gov-
ernors and ex-governors.
Mr. C. E. Mitchell, of Arizona, has taken a
position on the Beaumont Enterprise.
In quoting some other papers which have
expressed a desire that Hon. John Hancock
should become a candidate for governor, the
Orange Tribune remarks:
Texas has been blindly ungrateful to Hancock,
and we doubt if he would now acyept any .position
at her bunds. The people have wanted the ser-
vice ; of General Hancock all along, but hot-
headed, envious politicians and demagogues have
connived to defeat him.
The Southeast Texan says:
The partial enforcement of the local option law
in Jasper county has resulted in more bcne£c to
the county among its own people and redounded
more to its credit abroad than all other influences
combined,
The Houston Age says: "The Paris North
Tex^a wants to know if any place ever suf-
fered like Paris from mud." Say yes, Uncle
Dauiek, and stand up for your own city.
Some Texas papers adhere to the old plan
of denouncing people from whose opinions
they dissent, instead of opposing them with
fact and argument. Such a course convinces
no one, and is only useful, in time3 of high ex-
citement, to maintain party lines and drive
men into measures without regard to their real
merits. Whenever Sittings says an3rthing
about Bourbonism it is charged with being a
radical Republican. The editor w*as a faith-
ful Confederate soldier and bad his lock3
clipped by a federal bullet.
The Longview New Era rather improves on
the poet's lines about leaving footsteps on the
sands of time:
The aspiring mind sometimes manufactures a
man who. if the size of his feet were only propor-
tional to that of his intellect, would leave behind
him tracks in the sands of time as big as those
made by a giant traveling upon a pair of snow-
rackets.
The Denton Monitor would arrest the pro-
gress of Indian civilization. It savs:
The kind of a man needed at the head of the In-
terior Department is one that will drop from the
list of Indian supplies such articles as plug hats,
silver tooth-picks, coal-scuttles and perfumery.
The Sabine Valley Record, formerly publish-
ed at Hemphill by Rev. W. M. Reese, has been
removed to San Augustine.
The Protective Power of Vaccination.
[To the News.l
Chappell Hill., Texas, Jauuary 23, 1882.—
As small-pox is now declared epidemic by the
National Board of Health, tho following ad-
monition may not be improper:
Since the introduction of vaccination eighty-
four years ago by the immortal Jenner count-
less thousands of the human family have had
just cause for congratulation in the protection
thus afforded against this loathsome disease,
small-pox.
Notwithstanding a few medical celebrities
have questioned the protective power of this
operation, yet a large majority of the profes-
sion regard Jenner's discovery as oae of the
grandest results of scientific medical research,
and one that has conferred such immense,
palpable and time-lasting benefits 011 mankind
that coming generations alone can number its
ben-flciaries.Unfortunately the operation seems
so simple that we find even the inexperienced
members of the family circle practicing it. In
this practice is readily foun d one explanation
why small-pox fiuds so many unprotected sub-
ject?, and it is to this class of inexperienced
vaccinators that I would especially commen 1
this article. How few unpropfessionals do we
find who can determine even the most practi-
cal point connected with vaccination, viz.: an
ability to discriminate between a veritable and
complete vaccination aud one that is incom-
plete or spurious i The veesicle often pursues
an irregular course, leaving a sore or scar
havingfno specified character, and leaving the
individual unprotected.
In view, then, of the importance ofhaving a
true and perfect vaccination to those who are
supposed to be protected, the responsibility of
performing vaccination should never, unless
in great emergencies, be entrusted to those un-
familiar with practical vaccinia. It were fat-
better that, a parson had never been vaccinated
at all, with a knowledge of the fact, than that
he should labor under a delusion of false se
curity, which might lead to exposures that
might have been, and perhaps would have
been, avoided. Not unfrequently per sons who
have been vaccinated are never examined af-
terwards unless it be by a friend or parent,
who assume the responsibility of measuring,
the success of the operation. Such practice
will necessarily leave a host of persons unpro-
tected or only partially so, and make them an
easy prey to the first epidemic that comes
along.
Prominent among the cattsss enumerated^
why failures to protect are more frequent than
they should be grows out of an insufficient
number of vesicles. Caieful observation, ex-
tending through periods of years of arduous
labor iu small-pox hospitals, have demonstrated
beyond tke possibility of doubt, that the de-
gree of protection afforded by vaccination is
in direct proportion to the number of true vac-
cine vesicles secured. Will cite a few authori-
ties on this subject: We will take first an analysis
by Simon of nearly 0000 c^ses of small-pox
contracted after vaccination, with reference to
the proportion of aeatLs to the number of cica-
trices. The ratio of deaths among those w ho
stated they had been vaccinated, but who pre-
sented 110 vaccine cicatrix, was per cent.;
among those who had one cicatrix, 7-J percent.;
among those who had two ei - -trio s, 1% per
c-nt.: and among those who had four or 111 >re,
% per cent. Other observations of great va u?,
ou account of the ta go scale on which they
were made, are those made ior twenty-one
years in Bohemia on four millions of people,
it was found that the death-rate c:mong vacci-
nated persons v, ho happened to coo tract, small-
pox, was 5 1-10 per cent., while the death-rate
among the non-vaccinated persons was 4 5
per cent.
Again: The observations which outweigh all
others in value, on account of the extreme ac-
curacy and precision wi h which they were
made, are those which Mr. Marson lias col-
lected by thirty years labor in one of the Eu-
ropean nospitals for small-pox. In this hospi-
ral above lo,000 cases or small-pox came under
his personal care and observation, and ail
particulars concerning iheui carefully record-
ed. His record shows that while the uuvacci-
nated died at the rate of 35 per c nt. the
vaccinated died at the rate of only per
cent. But the observations of Mr. Marson did
far moro thau establish in a general way the
modifying power of small-pox. They possessed
a merit peculiarly their own, in this, tnat they
showed conclusively the degree of modifying
power to be in exact ratio to the excellence
and completeness of tho vaccination as shown
by the cicatrices. In other wo; ds, that it is
directly as the amount of vaccine marking
and the character of the marks. Among the
unvaccinated his death-rate was So per cent.;
among those who stated they had been vacci-
nated, but who show d 110 cicatrix. 23.57 j>er
cent.; among those having one vaccine cicatrix,
".73 per cent.; among those having t.vo
vaccine cicatrices, 4.70 per cent.; among those
having three vaccine cicatrices, 1.95 per cent.;
among those having four or more cicatrices,
0.55 per cent.; so that the average of vacci-
nated persons, if they should ever contract
small-pox, have about one sixth the chance of
having it fatally which is run by the unvacci-
nated. Some, in fact, from bad vaccination
incur about one-third of that risk, while those
who are thoroughly vaccinated incur less
than one-seventieth part of it.
In regard, thei efore, to thee xpectation of
any case of small-pox resulting badly, the
question is not merely whether the patient has
been vaccinated or not, but aiso how he has
been vaccinated. Again, in reviewing the
recorded observations of Drs. Buchanan and
Edward Cator Seaton during the epidemic of
mall-pox in Londou, in 1803, on upward of
50,000" children in various national and paro-
chial cho ds, work-houses, etc., showed from
another point of view the necessity of having
regard to the quality ami amount of vaccina-
tion in estimating the protective value secured.
Some of the children examined had never been
vaccinated at all, while a large majority had
Ler.n vaccinated in various manners and de-
grees. Of every 1000 children without any
mark of vaccination no less than 300 had sc.irs
of small-pox, while of every 1000 children who
had evidence of vaccination only 1.78 had any
such trace-. On taking the extremes it ap-
peared that of children having four or more
perfect vaccine marks only 0.02 per 1000 had
any trace of small pox, while of those who bad
a single bad mark of vaccination 19 per 10'JO
were scarred by small-pox. As against small-
pox. therefore, of such extent as to 1 ave any
traces, the best vaccination had been upwards
of thirty times as protective as the worst.
From the same authority the following most
striking illustration is taken, showing the pro-
tective power of vaccination. The observation
was made at a ragged industrial school at
Hull—a really ragged school, in which the
children were of the very lowest class. Of 170
children in the school, SS had 110 mark of vac-
cination, and 30 of these hed marks of small-
pox, most of them being greatly disfigured by
it. Of 137 having marks of vaccinat:on, on;y
one had marks of small-pox, ar.d these were
very slight. Before detecting them, says the
observer, I had already called the master's at-
tention to the unsatisfactory character of the
boys' vaccine marks.
inquiries made under direction of the Eng-
lish government, extending from 1860 to 18ti4,
by Drs. Stevens, Buchanan, Sander 011 and
Edward Cator Seaton, into the state of vac-
cination throughout England, during which
observations the arms of hearly half a million
of vaccinated children were examod, it w as
found, on taking the c> untry throughout, that
not more than one child in eight w..s so vac-
cinated as to secure the highest degree of pro-
tection that vaccination is capable of afford-
ing; and not mere than one in three, on the
most indulgent estimate, could be considered
as well protected: while in more than one in
four the vaccination had been of a very in-
ferior kind indeed, resulting in marks or an
imperfect character, or only one or two marks
of merely possible character.
But I must pass on, asking the kind indu!
gence of the editor a little longer, while I call
attention to one or two other points of interest
before closing. One is in regard to the de-
terioration of lymph. This question was
raised in the very earliest days of vaccination,
and we still find a few adherents even at the
present day. Sixteen years after Jenner in-
augurated vaccination he secured as perfect
vesicles in every respect, in size, shape, color,
state of lymph, period of appearance and
disappearance of areola, its tint and com-
pact texture of scab, as he did in the lirst
year of vaccination, and to the best
of his knowledge tbo matter from which they
were derived was taken from a cow sixteen
years before. Numerous trustworthy ob-
servers, who had watched the vaccine disease
irom the introduction of the vaccination, on
comparing what they had then seen with the
effects produced from the earliest stocks of
lymph, after a lapse of thirty or forty years,
were unable to detect the slightest difference,
either in the character or course of the vesi-
cles.
Another subject for consideration is in
reference to the protective power of vaccina-
tion, or its permanency in the individual.
The question is still a controverted one. Some
whose experience and observation entitle
their opinion to great consideration, hold that
twice during a lifetime is sufficient, once dur-
childhood and once after adult age. But by
far the largest number of our profession con-
tend the operation should be repeated at inter-
vals of five years. Niemever, of the German
school, and Flint and others of our own coun-
try, hold that the period of protection is much
shorter than some would have us believe. As
matters stand, prudence would dictate vac-
vination whenever small-pox is prevailing as
an epidemic. By so doing you extinguish any
renewed susceptibility that might exist.
As to the transmission of other diseases, a
number of our best authorities claim there is
no danger, provided always that we vaccinate
from pure unmixed lymph, free from the
slightest stain of blood. However, we have 110
right to run a merely possible risk that can
be avoided, and should therefore se e d our
lymph from the healthiest children, from per-
fect versicLs and at the proper ».od oi .h.ir
course. Most of the complications resulting
from vaccination arise from too indiscriminate
vaccination—vaccinating all who apply without
regard to their constitutional condition at the
time. We see this principle well exemplified in
individuals, who at times will have erysipelas
from a simple pin scratch, or who will have
troublesome sores from the simplest abrasion.
Were we to vaccinate under such circum-
stances troublesome complications would be our
reward. Many living wituesses can now
testify to the terrible effects of vaccination
during the late war. The commission ap-
pointed subsequent to the late war to investi-
gffte this subject, claimed it grew out of the
bad, impoverished condition of the blood, from
bad nourishment and exposure.
In conclusion, I would say if by writing this
article I should be the humble instrument by
which some darling, prattling infant, the
cherished idol of some fond mother's heart,
should be fortified against this ioa'hsome dis-
ease, I would be well compensated.
Parents, examine the arms of your children
and see that they are well protected.
G. L. Williams, M. D.
Letter from Houston County.
LTo the News.l
Crockett. January 23.—This is one of the
wealthiest aud best watered counties of East-
ern Texas. The Trinity and Neches rivers
both traverse the counties, furnishing many
miles of rich bottom 3oil, which in ordinary
crop years produces per acre from one to one
and a-half bale of cotton, and from fifty to
sixty bushels of corn. Between the two rivers
How quite a number of creeks and bayous,
which furnish farm lands excelled in fertility
only bj* the soil along the rivers. Tho up
lands are generally a grade between what is
commonly huiwn as the sandy and the loam
soil, yielding usually from twentv-flve to
thirty bushels of corn to the acre, and cotton
in proportion. Som* of the small grains have
be«rn successfully cultivated in different parts
of the county. It is very gratifying to the
stranger to notice the close attention paid by
people to the cultivation of the fruits and the
raiding of tine stock—two of the most im-
portant handmaidens of agriculture. Jersey
and other blooded stock have been pretty
freely imported. Some of the oldest fruit-
growers in the county agree that the soil can
not be surpassed for the peach. The apple and
pear crop is also very heavy, while the grape
grows iu almost tropical profusion.
While the lowlands of the coun y are equal
in productiveness to the prairie soil of the
West, the citizens have shown a spirit of re-
markable enterprise in putting the prices
within the reach of those who desire to
settle among them. The best improved
laud ranges from $3 to $5 per acre; the un-
improved, from one to three dollars. As a
natural consequence there has been for the
past ten or twelve years a steady flow of emi-
gration from most of the younger Si a fes to this
county. Among the settleiy from other States
wiil bo found many Georgians, Alabamians,
South and North Carolinians and Tenuesseeans;
also a good number from -other States. The
population of the county now numbers about
twenty thousand. The principal towns of the
county are located on the International and
Great Northern Railroad, which runs through
the entire length of the county in a north-
westerly direction. Crockett, the count_v-s?at,
is near the center of the county, surrounded
by a rich country. The town itself has a high,
healthy location. It is one cf the old estab-
lished towns of the State, but unlike many of
them, it has made rapid progress since the war.
A good number of brick buildings havs been
erected in tie la>t few years. Her little sister
town, Grapeland, is located in the north:rn
part of the county, draw ing its trade from
river-bottom farms on both sides. Its business
men are thrifty. In the southern part of tho
county is that elegant little town, Lovelady.
Her people are full of business enterprise.
Her residences aud storehouses, for taste and
neatness, would do honor to a much larger
town. This town derives her chief cotton sup-
port from an extensive tract of prairie, which
is said to equal the soil of the West. All of
these points make large cotton shipments every
fall.
Letter From Alexander.
LTo The News.]
Alexander, Erath County, January 22,
18S.2.—Since my last communication we have
been visited v. ith a freeze and heavy rain,
though now the weather is ail that the most
fastidious could ask. Stockmen are jubilant
over the condition of stock, and are buying
freely. Ten thousand dollars was* received
here this week to pay for yearlings. Joseph
Nalle, of Waco, ha«; a lumber yard here, and
is commencing a fine business already. The
lumber business aione will double the receipts
of the railroad at this point, beside inducing a
large trade that has formerly gone to Dublin.
The laud agents of the comity are doing a
large business, and are daily answering letters
of inquiry from all parts. Mr. L. H. Bruhl,
one of our enterprising merchants, showed us
letters from Germany asking for information
about the country, and says be can induco a
ood class of imuiigrat.011 to this section—men
of capital and standing, who are grown tired
the restraint of the government. This
unty is going to make an organized effort
> secure immigration. The empire will
contain in every issue a full and complete pic-
ture of the county aud its resources, carefully
compiled by the nest citizens of the different
localities.
Patrons of the paper are subscribing to send
off to friends in oth-jr States. The Empire is
now own.'(i by a stock company, and n > pains
or expanse will be spared that w ill he:p the
paper < r the. county. Every town in the
county evinces the enterprise of its inhabit-
ants by measures put on foot to develop them
and the county at large.
ittepuen\ill* is preparing to put in an
artesian wel. It already has a good school,
under the control of com etent teachers, puphs
numbering 150 The board of t. uste s of our
propo3id academy are working earnestly for
its success. They have received a proposition
fr^ui ;ho principal of a now flourish ng insti-
tute to accept tae same position in oar embryo
academy, aud to contribute apparatus—value
of $500—to the furnishing of the academy.
Th s county is on a " boom," aud is deter-
mined t) be the most desirable county in the
istate, if not already so. This is a white man's
county, which accounts for th3 rapid growth
of its prosperity. Your correspondent will
be glad to answer any inquiry which may be
addressed to him, and wuuld suggest to auy
one desiring detailed information 10 send for
a copy of cue Empire, in addition to the list
of daily subscribers sent yesterday, I to-dav
send twentv-fivo subscribers to the Weekly,
and expect to increase it to fifty. There will
be more copies of The News received at this
office than of any other paper. Occasional.
Letter from Trinity.
[To the News.]
Trinity, January 23.—The recent neavy
rainfall has been very damaging to the work
already done on the Texas and Sabine Rail-
road. In a great many places grading is al-
most impossible, the rains washing the soil
away almost as fast as it is thrown up. As
soon as the weather permits, work on this line
will be pushed rapidly. Trinity, being the
western terminus of this road, is already be
ginning to show signs of improvement. New
build:jigs are being erected every few days,
aud the town has quite a business-like appear-
ance. The merch.ii. ts < omplain but iittie hei e
of dullness. The town has a fine countr\r back-
ing it. and when the new railroad enterprise is
carried forward to successful completion,
Irinity will become an important point in the
lumber trade. It w ill be a distributing point
for a good part of Southern Texas, the Texas
ar.d Sabine proposing to run from here in an
easterly direction, through a fine timbered re
giou, to the mouth of the Angelina.
The citizens here, both permanent and tem
porary, are a "reading people. They are sub
stautial supponers of the press, and sustain
w-th a liberal hand all literary enterprises.
Tho school facilities of the place are good; the
hotel or boarding faciliti s unsurpassed.
Brown's Iron Bitters permanently restore
weak nerves, exhausted vitality, etc.
Letter from Willi**.
LTo the News. 1
Willis, January 23.—On Saturday there
were some sales of cotton made. The crop in
this section was yery fine last year. The corn
crop, though, was not as good as usual, the
drouth having affected it very seriously. The
farmers generally in the county seem to be in
fine spirit. The principal soil of the county is
prairie. Willis, however, is very beautifully
located. Her streets are sandy, aud are passa-
ble a few hours after the heaviest rain. The
school here is one of the features of the plac?.
It is conducted after normal school methods,
being under the superitnience of a graduate
from the Huntville scho L It receives a very
libei al patronage from tho town aud surround-
ing country. The town is rendered important
as a transfer point. The passengers on the In-
ternational and Great Northern Railroad,
bound for Montgomery, the county—eat,
usually stop here and take private overland
conveyance. The two points are distant about
ten or twelve miles.
A timely use of Hop Bitters wiil keep a
whole family in robust health a year with but
little cost.
A New Jersey couple who had been mar-
ried forty-nine years recently got a divorce
and so spoiled a first-class goiden weddinj
item.
Before going abroad just scudy the climate
and the season, and your system as well; such
foiethought will pay if you are subject to
rheumatism. If you are inclined to traverse
the damp and marshy districts, don't do it un-
less you are well supplied with St. Jacobs Oil,
which is far more efficacious iu curing rheu-
matism than all the tours that may be under-
taken. In proof of this we will give the words
of our well-known railroad man, and member
of the city council from the Sixth ward, Mr.
D. J. Dalton, of Cincinnati. Meeting that
gentleman on 'Change yesterday, and speaking
011 this subject, he said:
" You remember wheu my shoulder and arm
were so bad with the rheumatism, last summer,
and for the spring and winter preceding?
Well, 1 had tried several remedies and derived
110 benefit from their use. 1 thought I would
try a change of climate, and did so, going to
Point Burnside, on the Cincinnati Southern
Railroad. The beauty of the scenery and the
foolish hope of relief used to tempt me to take
early morning strolls. Tho entire valley at
that time of da}' (just before sunrise) is cov-
ered with mist arising from the Cumberland
River. That mist settled my rheumatism. I
was not there two weeks until I was three
times as bad as when I started. I came home,
and gave up the study cf climatology. Time
and again I remarked the wonderful cures per-
formed by St. Jacobs Oil. I tried it. Five
bottles of St. Jacobs Oil effected a complete
cure, and I am proud to say to you, or to any
one else, that the Great Germauy Remedy will
alwuys meet wita my he-rty * indorsement."
tcinciuuati Enquirer.
Two Bad Bills.
LSan Francisco Post.l
11 $14 50 for a little lunch for two! " ex-
claimed a prosperous looking customer to the
proprietor of a Kearny street restaurant the
other day; " why, what the deril do you take
me for?"
" I know it's a little steep," said the steak-
stretcher; " but you're the only soul that's
been in to-day, and my rent falls due to-mor-
row."
44 I'm blamed if I don't really admire a man
with a nerve like yours, and so I'll pay the
swindle," and witb an amused smile the blooded
stranger tossed the hash-pirate a $50 note,
flipped a dollar out of the change to the
waiter, and walked out.
44 What a pity we can only have one chance
at a man like that," murmured the dyspepsia
dispenser, regretfully; but when, tha next day,
the rent collector threw out the note as a
counterfeit, his despair was such that it was
all four waiters and tho cook could do to pre-
vent his swallowing a bottle < f his own alleged
wine, and thus putting an end to himself.
If you are sick, nervous, dyspeptic, etc.,
Brown's Iron Bitters will cure you.
In a recent 44 conversation" on personal
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seif strongly in favor of tho blonde type as
being nearer to the divine likeness, but is a
trifle severe upon the brunettes, though he
claims to speak with no disrespect. He kindly
admits that some dark people have inherited,
or have cultivated, admirable qualities, which
contradict then* outward appearance; but he
affirms that darkn< ss is the outcome of sin,
near or remote, and dark eyes are synony-
mous with a vicious disposition. He recom-
mends a fruit diet to such persons as wish to
attain some measure of the blonde purity, in
both mind and complexion. Now, if any
other man talked like that, he'd be accused of
being mashed on Victoria Loftus's troupe.
Brown's Iron Bitters are a true friend to
the weak and convalescent.
In a sportive hamor, a boy at Ware dropped
a live coal down his schoolmate's back, and the
injured youth's father thinks the humorist's
father ought to pay $1000 damages. Some
folks can't take a joke.
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sician. when the use of Allen's Lung Balsam en-
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Wa. C. Dkjges Merchant, of Bowling Green, Va.,
writes. April 4, lb£l, that he wants us to know that
the Lung Balsam has Cured his Mother op Con-
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incurable. He says, others knowing her case hav«
taken the Balsam and been cured; he think3 all so
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Dr. Meredith, Dentist, of Cincinnati, was
thought to lie in the last Stages of Consumption,
and was induced i»y his friends to try Alien's Lung
Balsam after thu formula was shown him. We
have his letter that i: at once cured his cough, and
tbar he was able to resume his practice.
Wm. A. Graham & Co., Wholesale Druggists,
Zanesville, Ohio, writes us of the cure of Maihias
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Belief.
Call for Allen's Lung Balsam, and shun the use
of all remedies without merit aud an established
reputation. As an mxpcctoraut it has no
Equal.
SOLD BY ALL MEDICINE DEALERS,
For sale by THOMPSON & CO.
GALVESTON. Texas.
SPECIAL NOTICES.
Notice to ConsSsrjsees. — The steamship
RIO GRANDE, Burrows, master, from New York,
is now discharging cargo at Williams's wharf.
Consignees will please pay freight, and receive
their goods as landed, receipting for the same on
the wharf. All g«»ods remaiuing on the wharf after
4 o'clock p. m. (uot receipted for) may. at option of
steamer's* agent, be placed in warehouses or covered
w ith tarpaulins on the wharf, but they are entirely
at risk of consignee or owner. Ail claims for dam-
ages must be adjusted be foe ths goods leave the
wharf. J. N. SAWYER. Azent.
New York, Texas and Mexican itail-
lvay Company.—Notice is hereby given that*
a special maeting of the stockholders of this cor-
poration has been called by the directors, and will
be held at the office of the company in the town of
Victoria, county of Victoria, and State of Texas, on
FRIDAY, THE 24TH DAY OF MARCH A. D., 1S82,
at 12 o'cloct noon, for the purpose of adopting re-
solutions authorizing the borrowing of a sum not
to exceed eight millions of dollars, to be applied
to constructing, completing and improving the
railway of said company: the issue of bonds of the
company therefor, aud the execution of a mortgage,
upon the corporate property and franchises of the
company to secure the payment of said bonds.
By order of the Board of Directors.
By special powers.
G. S. HOPKINS.
Secretary.
Victoria, Texas, January 19, 1882.
C. W. TRUEHEART,
S!)8SEON180 PITSICliN
1C5 CHURCH STREET.
Will continue the practice of his profession as
heretofore.
Office Patients received from 11 to 1 oclock
daily.
Also from 7 to 8 p. m. on Tuesdays, Thursdays
and Saturdays.
WOMAN.
HOPE FOR SUFFERING WOMAN!
SOMETHING NEW UNDER THE SUN.
By reason of her peculiar relations and her pecu-
liar ailments, woman has been compelled to suffer
not only her own ills, but those arising from the
want of knowdedge or of consideration on the part
of those with whom she stands connected in the
social organization. The frequent and distressing
irregularities peculiar to her sex have thus been
aggravated to a degree which no language can ex-
press. In the mansions of the rich and the hovel
of the poor alike, woman has been the patient vic-
tim of ills unknown to man, and which none but
she could endure, and without a remedy. But now
the hour of her redemption has come. She need
not suffer longer, when she can find relief in Dr. J.
Brad"eld\s Female Regulator, " Woman's Best
Friend." Prepared by Dr. J. Bradfield, Atlanta,
Ga. Price: trial size. 75c; large size, $1 50. For
sale by ail druggists.
AT WHOLESALE BY
, GEORGE & CD,
NEW PUBLICATIONS.
St. Nicholas is really a wonderful magazine
for the young, far surpassing in respect of art,
at any rate, anything we can produce in Eng-
land. [London Figaro.
February St. Nicholas now ready, and sold
everywhere. Price, 25 cents; $3 per year.
Subscriptions may begin at any t:me.
The Century Co., New York.
STA TIONAR Vfr* PORTABLE— ALL SIZES.
BLYMYER MANUFACTURING GO.
CINCINNATI, O.
Manufacturers of Steam Engines ami Boilers, Circular
Saw Mills, Sugar Machinery, etc.
pro
MliM
i
Neuralgia, Sciatica, Lumbago,
Backache, Soreness of the Chest, Gout,
Quinsy, Sore Throat, Swellings and
Sprains, Burns and Scalds.
General Bodily Ruins,
Tooth, Ear and Headache, Frosted Feet
and Ears, and all other Pains
and Aches.
No Preparation on earth equals St. Jacobs Oil as
H s<ifet aure, sitnp!e and cheap External Remedy.
A trial entails but the comparatively trifling outlay
of SO Cents, and every one sutiering with pain
can have cheap and positive proof of its claims.
Directions in Eleven Languages.
SOLD BY ALL DRUGGISTS AND DEALERS IS
MEDICINE.
A.VOCffiUSR & CO.,
b ait '<more, Md.t U. S. JL
AUCTION SALES.
Auction Sale
WI! WILL S5iE,I. THIS HA V, at 10
it a. in., at our salesroom, S rand:
17 Boxes TOBACCO. 20 Bols POTATOES,
15 FISH, 2 Boxes BACON.
108 Case - tacks, i CraP* hrockfinv,
retail, ami a vari tv of CAN GOODS ami MISCEL-
LANEOUS GOODS. Closing lots of DAMAGED
GROCERIES, CLOCKS, CLOTHING and CUT-
LERY.
PARK, LYNCH & CO., Auctioneers.
ASSIGNEE'S SJiLE
of
SHIP C HANDLE ItY
WE WILL MiLL ON THi RSMY,
H January *Aj, at Nos. 207 and 209 Strand. I y or-
der of A. J. Walker, Assignee, the stock of SHIP
CHANDLERY, comprising
ROPE, ANCHORS, CHAINS, OIKl.TI,
BLOCKS, SHEAVES X TACKLE,
OAKS. PAINTS AM* OILS,
Oflice Fnrniture, Desks, Safe, Scales, Etc
Sales to begin at 10 a. m.
S. W. SYDNOR •£ CO., Auctioneers.
MoralOf LOTS
IN THE
Town of Nortli Uvalde
Uvalde County, Texas, to be sold at
S A jNT ANTONIO,
SATURDAY, Jan. 28, '82.
VOliTU IVAMIK IS A STATION
^ situated on the li: e cf the western extension
of the Sunset Railroad, ninety-one miles we-t of
San Antonio and sixty-five miles east of Eagle
Pass, and about \\4 mile from :h-.* court-house
and present- county seat of the county. Tt is sur-
•o:.tided by large sheep andcatt;e ranches, end
from its central position as a business point, it
must soon become one of the most important
towas between San Ant nio and the Rio Grande
The source of the Leona River, -ituated im our
land, a beautiful, large ami ever-lasting spring.
only a few hundred yards from the town site, and
lots can easily be supplied with pure and .'re h
water the year round, wdtico is an important mat-
ter in regard to health and comfort in Western
Texas.
For terms of sale und maps aoplv to
D & A. OPPKNHEIMER,
MISS MARTHA KNOX, or
DEVINi & COWIE
San Antonio. Texas.
Drs. S. & D. Daviesou,
1707 Olive Street, St. Loni.s, Mo.
Important Notice!
DK. DAVID DAVIESON, Iff. D., N. Y.,
and Giesen, M. R. C. S., London, etc.. Lecturer
of Anatomv and Physiology at the MISSOURI
STATE MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, St. Louis, begs
to announce his arrival in New Orleans, where he
may be consulted daily at nis rooms. No. 7 RAM-
PART Street, between Canal aud Customhouse
streets. Office hours: From 10 a. in. until 3 p. m.,
aud from tt to 8 p. m. Dr. Davieson refers with
pride to his successful treatment in New Orleans
during the last Six Seasons.
SPEGiJLTY-nGDS DISEASES
and their varied complications, including the errors
and diseases arising from YOUTHFUL FOLLIES,
etc.
TREATMENT BY CORRESPONDENCE.—Dr.
Davieson has been remarkably successful in his
treatment by correspondence, but in all ca-es one
Bersonal interview should be had if possible. Dr.
ariesou's valuable mediaat Treatise on the above
diseases may be had free on application to the
author. Dr. Davieson maybe consulted at No. 7
Rampart street, between Canal and Customhouse
streets, New Orleans, up to the 80th of April, after
which his address will be No 1707 Olive street,
St. Louis, M"., where he has b*±eu permanently lo-
cated for many years.
W. A. FITCH, PROPRIETOR.
This Hotel is stuated in one of the most romantic sections of the Lone Star State, and at a poln
recognized as one of the greatest resorts for health and pleasure-seekers from all parts of the United
States. The rooms all open on balconies, fronting on the south, and are furnished as e!egantlv as any
hotel in the South. Mineral Spring near town. The Table Is Supplied with the Best the
Country Affords. Four-horse Stages to Boerne leave all the principal hotels in San Antonio every
day. Choice rooms reserved for Commercial Travelers. Good Livery and Feed Stables in connection
with this Hotel.
SM'UfKy Ourtis 8c Oo.
13/13 W ss SB 811 to 819 North Second Street, St. Louis, Mo.
Manufacturers of every dcscriptten of Circular* JZiil, and Cresa*Cnt Saws; Wholesale Dealers in
Kulibcr and Leather Belting, File*. Mandrels, Caat lieoks, Saw unmiers, Upsets, and
all Saw aud Plaiting I>IItl Supplies f Seie Hesufactuirrs ot Lockwood7** Patent Plotted
Circular Saw. EVERY .SAW WARRANTED. iBTCarefnl attention to repair work. Amenta for
TANITE EMERY WHEELS -
Our New Illusti-a'o:!
MACHINERY.
free on application.
J. S. BROWN" & CO.,
HAEDVAKE MEECHANT8,
G A L.VEST03ST,
Are Headyarters in Texas Tor tlie CVIebiv.'crt Slusser Scraper.
P. J. WILLIS & BRO.,
COTTON FACTORS,
Importers and Wholesale Dealers in
G-roceries, JDry Goods,
Boots, Shoes, Hats, Gaps and Notions,
GALVESTON, TEXAS.
GROCERIES—LIGUORS.
GALVESTON.
IMPORTED LIQUORS.
nose but genuine.
BLACKBERRY BRANDY,
APPLE BRANDY,
PEACH BRANDY,
CHERRY BRANDY.
PEACH AND HONEY.
CATAWBA, DRY & SWEET,
RHINE WINES,
ANGELICA WINES,
PORTS & SHERRIES.
Le GIERSE & Co.
•SHvma fiaxaojKi
Canned Goods ! Canned Goods !
1500 Cases Tomatoes, Green Corn, Peas and Beans,
1500 Css?s Canned Peaches, Piums, Pineapples
and Damsons.
5C0 Cases Asparagus, Okra and Tomatoes and
Soccotash.
500 Cases Apples, Cherries, Pie Fruit and Grapes.
500 Cases Strawberries, Raspberries, Whortle-
berries an I Gooseberries.
COO ca^es Shrimp, Clams, Lobster, Salmon and
Crabs.
300 Cases Fish Chowder, Caviare, Hamburg Eels
and Cocliish Balls.
250 Cases Brawn Corned Beef and Ham Sau-age.
For Sale at Lowest Possible Prices, by
G. SEELIGSON & CO.
We nave tor twelve months be»*u prescribing
Swift's S. Specific" for the diseases tor which it
is recommended, and hare rot had a failure in a
single ea.->c. Physicians will sooner or later be
compelled to ac know ledge it as a sine qua non.
N. L. Galloway, M. D., ( of Monroe,
J. T. Robinson, M. D.. * Ga.
One of our workmen was cured of a case of five
years' sianding with your 4i Swift's S. Specific."
Wm. R. &. T. W Hoope.% Atlanta. Ga.
THE SWIFT SPECIFIC COMPANY, Proprietors,
Atlanta, (5a. Caa for copy of **'Young Men's Friend,"
Sold by
TIK JMPSON, GEORGE & CO.,Galveston and Dallas.
The Great Specific for Nenralgia and Headache.
Read wliat Gcu. fi. T. t'A'ige) Anderson
says.
Messrs. Hutchison & Bro.—Gentlemen: I have
been a great sufferer from neuralgia—tho attacks
las'.ing tor days. 1 had tried every known remedy
without being relieved. In my last attack I tried
your." Neuralgine," and in a short time was per-
fectly cured. It is a consolation to know thai I have
at last a remedy that controls this painful disease,
and I can cheerfully recommend ii to all who suffer
as I do. G. T. Anderson, Chief of Police.
Atlanta, April 18, 1879.
THOMPSON. GKORGE& CO., Wholesale Agents.
Retailed by all druggists.
TO OUR PATRONS.
We regret to inform you that we lost tho greater
portion of our stock by the disastrous fire of the
13th instant, in consequence of which we shall be
un tble for a few days to fill assorted orders, but
we shall at once replenish with fresh goods of every
description, when the wants of our friends can be
fully met. For the immediate present we cau fur-
nish whiskies and other liquors and tobaccos, a
supply of which we succeeded in saving. A little
patience on the part of our patrons v» ill enable us
very soon to fill their orders complete. Thanking
you for liberal pat.-ona^e inthepnsr. we pi nL-e our
brst endeavors in promptly anu carefully attending
to your wants in the furure. Our location for the
present will be at 119 Strand, where we shall at al!
times be gratified to see our friends. Very truly
yours,
C. Ifl. PEA!i»i: Jk CO.
j 1.
rr
T. RATIO & 00
WHOLESALE GROCERS
AND
CONFECTIONERS.
WE ARE IN RECEIPT OF DIRECT
SHIPMENT OF
500 bxs elioice Messina Oranges,
300 bxs choice Messina Lemons,
10,000 Fresh Cocoanuts,
Which we are offering to trade at
LOW FIGURES.
Orders from interior will hare prompt
atteution.
THE TEXAS
NiMLGIISalt Company
-WW an omnia cirrvnTir
Have on hand an ample supply of
LOUISIANA
AND
LIVE RPOOL
SALT,
Which is offered at the following prices in carload
lots:
LOUISIANA, coarse, per sack $ 90
LOUISIANA, fine 1 25
LIVERPOOL, coarse 1 00
LIVERPOOL, fine 1 35
Especial attention is called to our
LOUISIANA SALT,
which, owing to its purity and strength, is being
recognized as superior to any other. In those por-
tions of Texas and Louisana where it has been ex-
tensively used the past year it has superseded Liv-
erpool Salt entirely.
FULL WEIGHT GUARANTEED.
Galveston, Texas, November 12, 1881.
HOUSTON.
^INE HUNDRED FEET SIX-INCH
drive well-pipe, 390 feet eight-inch and 100 feet ten-
inch drive well-pipe, one twenty horse-power boil-
er, one eighteen horse-power engine, suitable for
artesian well purposes. Pipe new; engine and
boiler as good as new. nlquire of. or addr<> ss,
E. F. DISEROW,
1127 Tremont Street, Galveston.
1GSI0MS (IF APPEALS
Convenes at 10 o'clock a. in., on
Monday of Each "Week,
at their court-rocm on third floor Ballinger Sc
Jack's building.
KICKER k LEE,
railroad contractors,
Corner 22d and Strand,
GALVESTON, TEXAS.
J.
F. xMAGALE,
DIRECT IMPORTER OF
BRANDIES AND WINES,
And Wholesale Dealer in
Fine ISourbon, Rye and Rectified Whis-
kies, ail grades,
MAG ALE'S BUILDING, bo and 05 STRAND,
GALVESTON - - - - TEXAS.
All cash orders promptly filled same as if par-
ties were here in person.
Startling Discovery!
t VICTIM! OFVOi rSft' C L IjIIPRU.
iV dence, causing Premature Decay, Nervous De-
bility, Lost Manhood, etc.. having Tied in vain
every known remedy, has discovered a simple self-
cure! which he will send FREE to his fellow-suf-
ferers. Address J. II. Ki-i.YES.
43 Chatham street. N Y.
JNO. A. AUGUSTINE & CO.,
Manufacturer* ofRAILROAD OILS,
COURTNEY'S " EIREK4" COuLlM CoMM.M),
RICHMOND, VA.
This Compound wo uarantee to cool any hot
box, either while the train is fixed or iu motion,
thereby saving time, and consequently money.
0
PI TT 12 Bv • M- WOLLEY, Atlanta.
A A Reliable evidence given, and
reference to cured patients and
HABIT .physicians.
5S< nd for my book on The Habit
CURE, (and iis Cure. Free.
FALL TRADE.
Country Merchants on
their way to replenish their
Fall Stock are respectfully
invited to pay me a visit. I
believe I have now the best
appointed, most complete
and systematic establish-
ment in the South for my
line of business, and that
alone is worth seeing. Be-
sides, no other house or
market can offer better in-
ducements or more facili-
ties to do their
GROCERY AND COTTON
Business than I can, and
this fact will be more fully
realized by a personal visit.
But whether you conclude
to do business with me or
not, I shall be glad to see
you, and will extend you
the same courtesies.
\YM. D. CLEVELAND,
Cotton Factor and Wholesale Grocer,
HOUSTON, TEXAS.
, CHICAGO SCALE CO,
MITCHELL & SCRUGGS, Gen'l Agents,
Dallas. Two ton Wagon-scales ^40,
three ton $50, four ton ?(50, 7001b. Cotton beam aud
frame $45. All scales warranted. Send 1 or price luc
EECKELA ERS'
FINE TOILET SOAPS.
Distmmished
Chemieta nn-i
Doctors on
Medical Che-
mistry have
pronounced
these soaps
unequalled
for purity and
recommend,
them to ladles
and mothers
for chikiron's
toilet. The use
of glycerine,
po health-pre-
serving to the Btin, TTith a proper proportion of oil of
sweet almonds" and spermaceti, have produced a eoap
of marvelous perfection. Pric- are about the same as
soaps of American manufacture.
Sole Agents for the U. S . £. Foapera & Co., 30
North William 6treet, N. Y. Sold by druggists and
fancy goods dealers everywhere.
BUNCffEUPftGaUSEHVATION ft
SAVON
ATI OH UNIQUE
CKE LASERS
tAVON NIE It-ftttF U ME U ft
Bruxelles.
OPIUM
TISorpliine HahitCnred In 10
to 20 days. >0 pay till Cared.
Dit. J. sstjcfuens. Lebanon. Ohio.
COFFEE.
COFFEE.
Arrived and DiacbargfnSt the Bark
HEINRICH ISJORN, with
Orders will be filled at
LOW PRICES
From Lauding.
rimi
Our Second Cargo per Stray having
Rio, w«
ottering the
just arrived Irom
are now
Best Assortment on the Market.
5000 SACKS
MX© COFFEE
AND
1500 HALF MATS
CHOICE
CORDOVA COFFEE.
KAl FFMAN & RUNGE.
NOTICES.
Notice.
Ill GOODS.
Genuine World-Famous PIPER
HIEDSIECK and PIPER
SEC CHAMPAGNES.
Pure ANGELICA CLARET.
1'ORT, SHERRY, HOCK and
WHITE WINES.
MUSCAT BRANDY, CIDER,
AND A FULL STOCK OF
STAPLE AND FANCY GROCERIES
Suitably for the Chr!stmas and
1 Holiday Trade.
GEO, L. POUTER,
COTTON FASTOR AND WHOLESALE GROCER,
HOtJiSTOX, TEXAS.
All orders or complaints, to
receive prompt attention, should be left at
the office of the Company, in the Brick Building, oa
Market Streets Between 24th and 25th
Streets,
Between the hours of S and 12 o'clock a. m.
AUG. BI'TTLAR* Secretary.
JPV
Li
R. G. DUN & CO., Frop'rs.
ROBERT SMITH,
District Manager, Galveston, Texas.
Reference books issued quarterly, compiled
from the most reliable information. Collection of
past due claims a specialty. For terms of sub-
scription apply at our offices in Galveston, Hous-
ton. Dallas and San Antonio.
NOTICE
To Holder* of Bond* Issned 'by tho
County of Galveston, iu the State ot
Texas, in aid of th© Gulf, Colorado
and Santa Fe Railway Company.
IN PURSUANCE OF THE RIGHT RE-
served by the County of Galvest- n in the above
mentioned bonds to redeem the same at expiration
of any year after the fifth year from the date of
issuance thereof, the holders of any of said
the
bonds, numbered from 1 to 350 inclusive, are hereby
notified to present the same for payment on the
following dates, to wit:
Bonds numbered from 1 to 200. inclusive, will be
tre-entcd for payment on the lat day of July, A.D.
1SS2.
Bonds numbered from 201 to 250. inclusive, will
be presented for payment on the lst;day of Octo-
ber, A. D. 1&82.
Bonds numbered from 251 to 300, inclusive, will
be presented for payment on the 15th day of Octo-
ber, A. D. 1882.
Bonds numbered from 301 to 350. inclusive, will
be presented for payment on the 15th day of De-
cember. A. D. 1882.
And notice is given that interest will cease to
accrue 011 any of said bonds bearing the above
mentioned numbers on and after toe respective
dates fixed for their payment.
By order of the County Commissioners' Court of
Galveston County, State of Texas.
WM. T. AUSTIN,
County Judge of Galveston County.
r
VOTICE TO ARCHITECTS—The Build-
^ 1 ing Committee of the Boar! of Rt-jrerts of the
State University of Texas hereby invites architects
to submit competitive designs "for the proposed
main building of the University to be built in Aus-
tin. Texas. Such designs will be received on or
before 12 o'clock, noon, Friday, March 1:3th, 1SSJ,
and must be addressed or delivered to Dr. T. D.
Wooten, at Austin, Texas. All designs must be
drawn to a uniform scale of ^ inch, and shall in-
clude plans of each floor, from and side elevations
and sections, a specification of materials and
work, and an estimate of the cost of execution of
the design, must be furnished. The cost of the
proposed building is limited to $150,000. and any
design whose co-t exceeds that amount w ill be
rejected: the estimates to be verified by a compe-
tent contractor. The proposed building to be built
of brick or srone: to be a basement and three
stories in height, and covered with mansard roof.
There hall be at least 22 rooms, each 30 feet bv
30 feet, and 7 rooms each 30 feet by 60 feet, and
one hall or chapel about 70 by 90 feet. Sufficient
halls, porticoes vestibule, cloak-rooms, stairs, etc.,
to be provided, and proper attention given to light-
ing. heating, ventilation and acoustics. For the three
designs which best fill the above requirements tha
committee «i:l v>av for X". 1, $300: tor No. 2, $*w0:
f r No. 3. $50. If the author of either is emplovfed
to cxecrte his design, then the premiums shall pasi
to the next best designs. The right is reserved to
reject any or all designs. For further informa-
tion address i)r T. I). ^ OOTEN,
P. O. Box 20e. Austin. Texas.
To Our Patrons
AND THE PUBLIC :
AVe beg to announce that we
have saved a large portion of
our stock from tlie recent lire,
and are receiving heavy Ship-
ments by every steamer. We are
consequently prepared to till all
orders promptly. There vrill be'
no interruption to our business.
Orders are solicited.
M1CLEB a EII8LISH
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