The Galveston Daily News. (Galveston, Tex.), Vol. 35, No. 143, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 24, 1875 Page: 2 of 4
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Galveston, October 1, 1874.
Thursday, June 187-i.
Mr. Lit.ientiial, of Palatka, Fla.,
shipped eighteen bales of vanilla t ia
Northern house last week.
Near tbe Union Market Station, in
Watcrtown, Mass., is a cow which is
claimed to be the largest in the world.
It is four years old, and weighs 2875
pounds.
Cmo voo had a slight earthquake on
the 18th; but is as wicked as ever.
The big lire failed to bring her to re-
pentance, and it is hard to imagine
what remedy will ever be found for
the wicked ways of her people.
It is charged that Davis, the Lieu-
tenant Governor of Missouri, pardoned
a murderer for money, and the matter
is to be judicially investigated. The
statement is that he was paid $1250 to
pardon one Thomas Barrentine, who
had been convicted of murdering Mrs.
Ann Thomas in August last, under
circumstances of peculiar atrocity.
The City of Brotherly Love begins
to be afraid that sufficient provision
will not be made for the crowd expec-
ted next summer. According to a recent
enumeration there arc only seven thou-
sand drinking saloons in the city, and
it keeps the gin-slingcrs and beer-jcrk-
ers busy early and late to serve the
local population.
Th at form of insanity which induces
people to pay ten times as much for
live stock as can ever be realized from
the investment, is still prevalent. At
a sale of thoroughbred horses and
cattle at Toronto, Canada, a calf, seven
months old. "Airdrie Duchess,"
brought $18,000, and a bull calf, two
months old, "Fifth Duke of Ilill-
liurst," was bought for $8300. The
sale realized $80,000.
Besides the cables between Europe
and the United'States, which are now
five in number, of an aggregate length
of 0020 miles, there have been twenty-
nine laid between other countries since
1807 of a total length of about 28,001
miles. This gives a grand total of
nearly 38,000 miles. The lines whose
completion is now announced are un-
der the management of the Anglo-
American Telegraph Company.
The St. Paul Pioneer-Press defines a
"holocaust" as "something used to
make an article on the burning of a
horse-barn read sort o' high-toned."
Tf people do not discontinue the habit
of asking newspapers to explain, it
will become necessary for every paper
to print a glossary of its own. An
enterprising young man who can not
get more out of a word than Webster
or Worcester, is not lit for a journalist
nowadays.
Since the success attending the
transfusion of blood in the case of
General Blair, the operation has be-
come popular in St. Louis. Mr. Ed-
mund I'inero, a leading lawyer there,
wa3 completely helpless with rheu-
matic gout three weeks ago. Trans-
fusion was tried upon him recently,
his partner, a stout, healthy gentle-
man, supplying the life current to the
amount of two ounces. lie improved
rapidly after the operation, and is now
able to sit up.
Liohtninc-kod men must take back
scats in the presence of wooden pave-
ment rings. For persistent effort and
obduracy of epidermis an ancient don-
key with his head set for a peck of
oats is no matcli for a patent pavement
man. The fable that the goose which
has been once cut open for golden eggs
will lay no more needs revision. A
city that has been done to bankruptcy
by a wooden pavement ring is expected
to reeoporatc by the time the wood rots
and come to time with the vitality of
eels that have become used to being
skinned. Chicago was thoroughly put
through the wooden paving process a
few years ago, but the streets are now in
a wretched condition, and the Tribune is
again urging that they shall be repaved
with wood, going so far even a3 to
claim that it is preferable, all things
considered, to putting down pavements
of genuine alphalt imported from Swit-
zerland. A. St. Louis paper is mean
enough to insinuate that the Chicago
Trilrune is interested in a wooden pave-
ment ring. .
Terminal Facilities.
St. Louis begins to find that she
must quicken her pace in order to
keep up with the competition of other
commercial cities. The papers pub-
lish a letter addressed to the Mayor by
Mr. Thomas Allen, in regard to the
illiberality and unjust discrimination
which the City Council makes in not
permitting the Iron Mountain and
Southern Railway Company to h#c
an inclined plane at that city. Mr.
Allen says:
The cost of transfer and hauling is
about double what it would bo were
the company permitted to have and
use an inclined plane to place cars upon
barges and tow them to different parts
of the harbor, and to receive car loads
ot freight from the east side of the
river and place them upon its own
track without unloading. The Atlan-'
tic and Pacific Railroad charge $2 per
car for the use of its incline plane,
and $3 per car for switching. These
charges added to bridge or ferry tolls,
make the cost of transferring car loads
in that way from $8 to $10 per car,
whereas by the operation of an incline
by the company itself, and the pro-
curing of round lots from the elevators,
the cost would be reduced to $4 or $5
per car load. The effect of these
heavy charges upon our commerce is
perceptible. Cairo, Louisville and
Cincinnati have been gradually in-
creasing their trade, while our Green
line business with the Southern and
Western States has fallen off.
The tendency is to take still more of
the trade away from this city, which,
by our system of roads, we had labored
to bring here. The route eastward,
via Cairo, for the business of Arkansas
and Texas, is regarded as preferable to
that by St. Louis, because shorter and
less mountainous, and an effort is
making to take a larger share of the
passenger and freight traffic that way.
Inclined planes have been built in
Cairo and on the Kentucky and Mis-
souri shores, and two powerful transfer
steamers will be employed in transfer-
ring cars there.
The disposition to tax and hamper
our trade, instead of offering increased
facilities, has been calculated to coun-
teract and discourage the efforts of
those who, like myself, having large
interests here, have labored to build up
this city. We had hoped to bring
thousands of cattle here and next
winter, some six to ten millions of dol-
lars in value of cotton to be sold here,
and the proceeds invested in our goods,
provisions and products. But those
who tax it the least, who impose on it
the least burdens, and offer the great-
est facilities, will get it, and by virtue
of the natural laws which govern
trade. I deem it the greatest mis-
fortune of our city and State that those
who govern are so blind to the inter-
ests and effects of commerce. The
fatal results I so greatly fear and de-
precate might be, in part, avoided by
permitting all the railways to connect
with cach other, and to have free ac-
cess to all parts of our harbor.
Expedition and economy are now
the two great points in trade. Phila-
delphia has succeeded pretty well in
the introduction of the modern im-
provements, so far as the grain trade
is concerned. A late letter describes
some of the facilities now in use at
that city:
The two great elevating warehouses
are the Philadelphia Grain Warehous-
ing and Drying Company, at the foot,
of Washington street, on the Dela-
ware. This is owned bythe Pennsyl-
vania Railroad Company, and their
cars run from Chicago directly to the
building. Large ocean steam vessels
can come directly alongside and be
loaded. The working capacity of this
elevator is such that they can unload
120 cars per day of ten hours. That
number of cars contain 50,000 bushels
of grain. They can load on board
ship in ten hours 90,000 to 100,000
bushels.
The International Navigation Com-
pany have recently erected a large ele-
vator, with twelve legs to it, from
which twelve vessels can be loaded at
3 time. This is at Girard Point,
down at the mouth of the Schuylkill,
opposite League Island. The maxi-
mnm capacity at present is 1,000,000
bushels, but they propose some day to
increase it to 4,000,000 bushels. Ow-
ing to the present system of giving a
separate bin to each lot of grain, the
working capacity of the elevator runs
from 000,000 to 700,000. But they
have a way of adjusting the machinery
so that the same hopper that carries
the grain out of the car can throw it
into the spout leading into the vessel
which they desire to load. This avoids
the double conveyance to and from
the bins. The company have one hun-
dred and five and one-half acres- of
ground and fourteen hundred and
fifty-three feet of deep water front.
The charges for handling it are as fol-
lows:
Receiving, weighing and storing, first 15
days from cars, per bushel l)£c
Receiving, weighing and storing, first 15
days, from vessel ... 2c
Every succeeding 10 days %c
Storage by the month, after first 15 days. .J£c.
Screening and blowing on receipt, if do-
si red h( o
Screening and blowing on delivery, if de-
sired J<fc
Weighing and transferring in store lj^'c
Weighing and ^transferring in store, if
screened l}£c
Weighing and spouting on board vessels .ytc
Weighing and delivering to bags with spe-
cific measure to each bag lc
Welching and delivering to carts
Weighing and transferring from carts to
yessels (direct) l%c
The Alumni of Cornell University
have just held their annual election of
trustees and transacted other business.
The financial report showed last year's
total appropriations to have been
$107, 000, and the disbursements for
ten months $85,000. The total funds
and property of the University amount
to $2,203,000, besides 510,000 acres of
land. This institution embraces the
great model Agricultural and Mechani-
cal College of the nation; but although
the scientific and literary departments
of the university are spoken of in
terms of the highest praise, no men-
tion is made in the newspaper reports
of the manual labor departments. The
orators were earnest in impressing the
importance of the ancient classics,
and rung the changes on "higher
branches," "higher orders of study,
and "higher standards," but said
nothing of skilled labor and educated
agriculture.
What is to be thought of the man
who puts temptation in the way of a
weak brother 2 For several months
registered letters have mysteriously
disappeared on the mail route to and
from Mauch Chunk, Pa., and the in
ference was that some one was doing a
profitable business in obtaining remit-
tances meant for others, so an en
vious detective dropped a decoy let-
ter, and Sylvester Weston, a mail-car-
rier^ was unluckily caught with the de-
coy letter upon him, and now lan-
guishes in prison. If such things are
to be practiced, enterprising people
should seek somi other field for their
operations, and let letters alone. A
man who would put a decoy letter on
an unsuspecting young man should be
avoided.
A Topic Tor the Ceuteuulal Com-
memoration.
(Prom the Now York Times 1
There arc themes which, unless the
virtue of a nation decays, are never
worn out. Heroes who have shaped
the destiny of a people will perpetu-
ally attract the popular reverence and
admiration. In a nation's history
they are like the luminous bodies
above, whose glow is never extin-
guished. It is a bad sign when the
spirit of detraction begins to carp at the
fame of men who have been en-
shrined in the popular heart for the
services they have rendered in perilous
and critical times, when the founda-
tions of the civil fabric were laid.
Nothing can be more instructive at
this epoch than to revert, in books and
orations, and private discourse, to the
pure gold of Washington's character.
That his mind was not especially fer-
tile in thoughts and suggestions, as
compared with Hamilton and other
contemporaries; that he was not spec-
ulative like Jefferson, or a man of wide
reading like John Adams, or of scien-
tific genius like Franklin; that he was
often slow4n arriving at a conclusion,
and, as a soldier, did not possess that
mental celerity, that rapid divination,
which belonged to Napoleon and some
other famous commanders—all this
may be freely conceded. On the other
hand, there was not one of the civil-
ians who were intimately associated
with him, who did not, in their hearts,
consider his judgment superior to their
own. In that high power of perceiv-
ing the truth, when the data requisite
for a determination are present, he was
foremost. Hence, as a guide and
ruler of mankind, he towers far above
the multitude of intellectual men who,
with all their ideas and arguments,
are less capable of deciding momenotus
questions correctly. In a word, he
was a pre-eminently wise man.
We but repeat a common remark
when we represent the peculiar merit
of Washington to rest in that harmo-
nious combination of qualities where
nothing is in excess, nothing eccentric.
In the proportion and symmetry of his
powers his distinguishing excellence
lies. If now we single out the traits
which most deserve admiration, we
must place at the head of the list his
habit of self-government. This is a
homely virtue. There is nothing in
it that glitters before the eye. Yet
in that calm, perfect command of
himself — remember that he was na-
turally a high-spirited man, with
a temper capable, on rare occasions,
of being provoked to fury — in that
complete mastery over his own
passions, there is something worthy of
the highest honor. Timothy Picker-
ing records an instance in |which he
found Washington so profoundly agi-
tated with indignation and grief that
he did not venture to approach him.
It was when the'American General had
just learned that his French allies at
Newport had resolved to sail to the
Chesapeake, and had thus broken up
the plans and |calculations which he
had been maturing for months. Yet,
after an hour, Pickering found his
chief as tranquil as a summer's day.
The tempest was over, and Washington
conversed upon the great disappoint-
ment with absolute composure. He
proceeded to form another plan, which
resulted in the capture of Cornwallis
at Yorkrown. Such instances of men-
tal commotion were exceedingly up-
frequent. They show what forces were
shut up in his breast, and held under
control, like the winds of yEolus. The
self-government of Washington, under
all tbe various embarrassments and
provocations of the long struggle for
independence, is sufficient of itself to
place him in the front rank of heroic
men.
The lofty disinterestedness of Wash-
ington's patriotism will be a valuable
example to the end of time, lie was
not an orator. Yet the elder John
Adams, in his diary, writes of the
"sound and judicious" Mr. Lynch,
one of the Delegates from Virginia to
the first Continental Congress:
" He told us that Col. Washington
made the most eloquent speech at the
Virginia Convention that was ever
made. Says he: 'I will raise 1000
men, subsist them at my own expense,
and march to the relief of Boston.' "
One of the signal illustrations ot
Washington's nobleness is found in the
hearty satisfaction which he took in
the military success of Gates, at the
very time when there was an effort to
set up this General as a rival of the
Commander-in-Chief, by whom the
latter was to be supplanted. The
magnanimous spirit of Washington
rose above all personal considerations.
This temper of patriotic self-sacrifice
he carried into civil life. No man can
point to a single spot upon His career,
a single occurrence in which he al-
lowed personal ambiti6n, envy, resent-
ment, or vanity, to interfere with the
dictates ot an exalted patriotism.
But we have no design to indite
another eulogy on Washington. We
wish simply to remind the public that
here is a profitable theme for our
writers and orators, and one which it
is a mistake to suppose will ever be-
come trite or wearisome. The occur
rence of, the Centennial recalls atten-
tion to the labors of the revolutionary
civilians and soldiers. The highest
rank, according to Lord Bacon's fa
miliar classification, belongs to the
founders of nations. Among these, in
the case of our own country, Washing
ton's name will forever lead the roll.
While the people of Massachusetts
are glorying in their pedigrees and the
fame of their ancestors who threw the
tea overboard in Boston harbor and
fought the battle of Bunker Hill, an
envious Philadelphia journal prints the
following extract from a letter written
home by Mr. Henry Hulton, crown
commissioner of customs for the port
of Boston, June 18, 1775:
In this army (the British) are many
of noble family, many very respectable,
virtuous and amiable characters; and
it grieves one that gentlemen, brave
British soldiers, should fall by the
hands of such despicable wretches as
compose the banditti of the country,
among whom is not one that has the
least pretension to be calledgentle-
man. They arc a most rude, depraved
degenerate race, and it is a mortifica
tion to us that they speak English, and
can trace themselves from that stock.
Mutatis mutandis, this sounds as
though it were an extract from a con-
fidential report of Grant's political
military commissioner, sent to Louisi-
ana in 1874.
It would seem that the recent earth-
quake tremors were felt in a number
of places in this country. Reports
from Urbana, Sidney and other towns
in Southwestern Ohio state that about
11 o'clock, June 18th, there was quite
a severe shock of earthquake felt
throughout that region. In Sidney a
large number of houses were shaken
very perceptibly, and their walls
cracked. The inhabitants ran out.of
the houses into the streets. The
shelving in a drug store was thrown to
the floor, ami a large steamboat was
moved nearly a foot out of its original
position. At Indianapolis a slight
shock was felt about the same time
an<l also at Anderson, Jeffersonville,
Vincennes, Lafayette, and other In
I diana towns.
State Press.
The Palestine Advocate says: " The
city of Houston is enforcing the va-
grant law rigidly. Every city should
do the same. There is no room in
Texas for idlers." The idlers differ
with the Advocate. According to the
same paper "there is one place in
Eastern Texas that don't want a peni-
tentiary and that is Palestine. Our
mechanics don't want to be starved
out as they have been in Iluntsvilleby
competition they could not stand up
under. No free mechanic can work at
convict prices and live."
The Cleburne Chronicle says:
We are astonished at the silence of
Mr. Veale, chairman of the Democratic
Executive Committee for this district.
As yet we have no call for a district con-
vention. The election is drawing near,
and if a convention is to be held the
time and place should be known.
The San Antonio Herald reports that
Ike Bell, the colored burglar, who was
quite indignant at being confined so
long in the county jail without a trial,
has at last been gratified, much to his
disgust, however, as the jury gave
him seven years for burglary; and
says:
If a man wants to open a business
house in San Antonio, the old way of
taking out a license, putting up a sign
and advertising liberally, is cheaper in
the end, even if the proprietor goes into
bankruptcy, than to go at it with a crow-
bar and a dark lantern, as the firm of
Johnson & Bell did. Seven years is al-
most as long as anybody cares to be a
silent partner in the firm of Ward, Dewey
& Co., judging by the puff given that
firm in a recent number of the OalveBton
News.
The editor of the Lockhart News evi-
dently believes in the fine old maxitn
that enough is as good as a feast. He
thus offers to give way to any of the
numerous parties who know how to
run a paper:
Any one who is desirous of accumula-
ting a fortune in a short time should
come to Lockhart and publish a news-
paper. We " know how 'tis ourself,"
and, having secured a competency, wish
to retire from the business. In fact, we
are so anxious to make a trade that we'll
give some enterprising, worthy young
man about $50 and all our interest in
lottery tickets, town lots and county scrip
to take the Echo off our hands.
Referring to the advertisement for a
location -for fhe new penitentiary in
Western Texas, the San Marcos Free
Press says:
We must say we hope no land will be
oflered for that purpose here, either
above or opposite this place. To locate
snch a thing at or near the head of the
river would in our judgment be profana-
tion of the works of God not to be
thought of for a moment, and to have its
drainings passing our town at a'.l should
be not tolerated. We say, let it go below
town, or go hence.
The East Texas Leader is in favor of
impersonal journalism, which is the
correct view of the matter. The Leader
refers to the writer of an article in an-
other paper, with whom it says its
self-respect will not permit it to dis-
cuss any subject, "not that we fear
that he may lie in wait for us at a late
hour at night and threaten to kill us,
as lie did once before, but bccause we
do not believe he is capable of fairly
and honestly discussing this or any
other subject."
Dr. Young, the famous Temperance
lecturer, failed to keep his appoint-
ment at Corpus Christi, yet the Gazette
represents the bibulous young man as
tapering off there:
None know him but to love him,
None hear him but to praise,
As he swings around the bar-rooms
These hot and sultry days ;
And then, as night approaches,
And the moon peeps out so clear,
He closes down on whisky
And goes for lager beer.
Ei-Cot. Throckmorton on the
Constitution.
The Gainesville Gazette prints a let-
ter from Gov. Throckmorton to Hon.
W. T. G. Weaver, in which the former
gentleman gives some views in regard
to the alterations needed in the con-
stitution. He thinks that judicial dis-
tricts should be reduced so as to allot
to each judge from thirty-two to
thirty-six weeks. The jurisdiction of
the chief justices should extend to in-
clude aggravated assaults and the sums
of $500 in civil cases. Their jurors
should be restricted to six men. Sal-
aries of Governor and Supreme Court
Judges reduced to $4000 [per annum,
other State officers and judges in pro-
portion, Legislature to five dollars per
day. Mileage should only cover ac-
tual traveling expense and no more.
Most of the letter is devoted to mat-
ters connected with the subject of
schools. The Ex-Governor proposes—
to utilize the school lands already set
apart and severedj from the public
domain, by a sale on long time, a
part paid down at time of sale, then
annual payments of principal and in-
terest, retaining lien on land; that the
four leagues belonging to each county
should be placed under control of the
respective county authorities, to be
sold in alternate quarter sections from
time to time, as the same becomes
marketable. The proceeds thus re-
ceived to be invested in United States
interest-bearing bonds and the interest
thus arising alone to be used for main-
tenance of schools.
No tax," unless a very moderate one,
should be allowed for school purposes.
If the $200,000 school fund already
provided and forty million acres of
land will not maintain the system we
are a poor set of statesmen.
Get back pretty near to the old sys-
tem before the war. First provide for
the indigent; second, diffuse any sur-
plus over the indigent fund to those
who may desire, or among the mass
of scholars.
The Legislature should meet bien-
nially; terms of office should be re-
■duced—State offices to two years—At-
torney General and all officers elective,
save the Secretary of State, who should
be appointed by the Governor and
confirmed by the Senate; county offi-
cers to terms of two years.
Eacii ship of the English Arctic ex-
pedition was supplied with pigeons
similar to those used in the Franco-
Prussian war. Part of these birds are
to convey messages from the sledge
parties to the Alert; the other to com-
municate with the Discovery.
State News.
Joitn A. Cooper, late Back Tax Col-
lector at Nashville, has been fined fifty
dollars and sent to prison for ten days,
for contempt of court in failing to de-
liver the revenue books to the County
Court Clerk.
A Leavenworth lightning-rod agent
proposed to Susan B. Anthony last Fri-
day night, and although she told him she
was not on the marry, it tickled her so
that she hung over the garden gate yith
him till half past eleven. This ia de-
cidedly personal.
aransas county.
The steamer I. C. Harris took a cargo of
beeves from Rockport last Thursday. . . .
United States currency ia taken in Rock-
port at 100 for specie The young
knights are practicing for the tourna-
ment which is to come off next Monday.
A lot of Spanish saddle horses have
been on exhibition at the stock yards in
this city for several days. They are of
fair size and good order. The owner has
been offering them at $25 per head for
the lot. His best sell for $30 and $35
per head. . . .Some months since a grocer
of Rockport sold an individual a bushel
of sweet potatoes for seed. The potatoes
were bedded out, and after planting a
good crop of slips therefrom, the entsr-
prising agriculturist exhumed the origi-
nal stock, removed all the young sprouts,
etc., and took the old potatoes back and
sold them at a profit of fifteen cents to
the party from whom he had purchased
them. This shows what an enterprising
farmer may do in Texas.
caldwell county.
Lockhart justices hold the scales even
between the races. Last Saturday a
white man and a Civil Righter were ar-
rested for having locked horns, bit and
chawed up each other, and when they
were arraignad Justice Rogan decided
that neither was at fault, they having
had a square, fair fight, and both were
discharged... .A protracted meeting com-
menced at the Christian Church last
Wednesday night. The examination
and exhibition of the Lockhart Inde-
pendent School gave great satisfaction.
dallas county.
The Texas and Pacific Railroad are do-
ing a heavy business in cattle. They
have averaged over seventy car loads per
week for some weeks.. Most of them
came off the International and Great
Northern road. Seventeen cars were
shipped from Eagle Ford one day this
week.
de witt county.
Lands in this county are rising in value
rapidly. Some of the Tinsly league, on
the Colette, was sold for three dollars per
acre. This is very good upland. Land
in Lavaca county sells as high as ten
dollars, we are told. Now is the time to
invest in lands in this county. It will
steadily rise in value... .A dead horse,
with bridle and saddle on, was found on
the road from Yorktown to Goliad this
week. Tbe horse was killed, several
balls having passed through its body.
No trace of the owner has been discov-
ered as yet....The chairman of the
Democratic Executive Committee of De
Witt county appoints the courthouse at
Clinton as the place, and Monday, June
21, 1875, as the time for a meeting of
the Democrats of DeWitt county to se-
lect and appoint delegates to the conven-
tion of the Twenty-fourth Senatorial Dis-
trict, to be held at Victoria on the first
day of July, to nominate candidates for
the Democratic party to the constitu-
tional convention. On the same occasion
a chairman of the Democratic Executive
Committee for the ensuing year will be
appointed for De Witt county.
goliad county.
In the District Court last week a white
man was tried for the murder of a ne-
gro. A daughter of the accused swore
that the negro had proposed to marry
her, and said he intended to kill her
father in order to prevent his opposition
to the marriage. She reported the facts
to her father, who armed himself and
went in quest of the negro, and finding
him, shot him dead in his tracks. The
defendant was acquitted.
gonzales county.
The Index says that the fruit and mast
crops bid fair to be very heavy in Gon
zales county the present year. The
Gonzales county Democracy, in tlieir re-
cent convention, "recommended Col. W.
D. S. Cook, of the Lndex, as a candidate
for the constitutional convention.
'guadalupe county.
Judge John Ireland positively declines
to be a candidate for the convention....
Seguin's property is assessed at $314,000 ;
town tax, fifty cents on the one hundred
dollars, which will give an income of a
little over. $1500... .The secretary of the
City Council reports the population at
1275—an increase of 415 in five years,
gained chiefly during the last twelve
months.
hays county.
Mr. Woolfolk is at work on his wheel,
designed to irrigate his grounds on the
river.. .There were services at the Chris
tian, Methodist and Presbyterian churches
on last Sabbath at San Marcos... .Elder
Smith, a noted Christian minister, of Can-
ton, Missouri, is in town. .. .Esquire Me
Bride recently sold thirty acres of land
adjoining this town for $100 per acre.
The purchasers were Messrs. Todd and
Breeding. It is a choice piece of land,
but with no improvement except that it is
fenced.
montague county.
The primary election of the Democratic
party of the counties of Montague and
Clay, resulted in the election of John H.
Stephens as a candidate for tbe constitu-
tional convention, by a majority of 180
votes over J. G. Quigley, who received 14
more votes than Prof. G. A. M. Starkes.
. ... W. A. Morris was elected as candi
date for Representative to the next
Legislature, by a majority of 130 over
II. N. Richards, who received 30 votes
more than J. S. Love.
nueces county.
. Juan Villegas died of small-pox Thurs-
day. .. .C. F. Jackson, the colored barber
who was charged some time since with
attempting to commit a rape upon the
person of a little colored girl, was tried
this week and sentenced to the peniten
tiary for seven years. . . .Major R. Hollub
has been appointed city engineer and
purveyor of Corpus Christi .Mr. P
Doddrige and lady will leave on the
steamship for Philadelphia. . . .The City
Council, at their last meeting, appointed
Mr. S. Shoemaker engineer of Pioneer
Fire Company No. 1, at a salary of $900
per annum. .. .Northington, the member
of McNelly's company who shot one of
hisjeomrades in.tlie store of D. Hirsch
some time ago, and who gave bond for
his appearance at the present term of
the District Court, has failed to put in an
appearance, and his bond has been de
clared by the court forfeited. Capt. Mc
Nelly, D. Hirsch and Martin S. Culver
were his bondsmen.
parker county/
Wheat has been sold here in the last
week for fifty cents per bushel. Flour
$2 50 per hundred.
wise county.
On Tuesday night last Mr. C. W
Wood, of the firm of Cates k. Wood, De
catur, W iee county, was shot and killed
while asleep in his bed, by a man named
Crockett. Crockett had been confined in
the jail by Cates, the partner of Mr.
Wood, who was sheriff of the county,
fnd during his incarceration swore to
ill Cates if he ever got out, and during
the hour of midnight he, with stealthy
steps, approached the house of his vie
tim, who, as he supposed, was in his bed
Carefully he raised a window, and by the
din light he discovered what he supposed
was Cates. He leveled his deadly
pistol and fired, the ball taking mortal
effect, and in the darkness escaped. He
did not wait to see if the man he shot
was his enemy, but fled. His wife, on
being questioned, gave the information
as regards his desire to kill Cates. Mr.
Wood was a highly respected citizen, and
his loss is deeply felt in the community
The First Locomotive on the Old
I* arris burg Itallroail.
Bryan, Texas, June .22,1875.
Eds. News—Col. Forshey, in describing
the Ilarrisburer Railroad San Jancinto
celebration of twenty-three years ago, is
in error as to the name of the locomotive.
The locomotive used on that occasion
was the " Gen. Sherman," and not until
years after was there a locomotive named
" San Jacinto " in the State, and that was
imported by the Galveston, Houston and
Henderson Railroad. So much for nam
ing in honor, etc. For whom the actual
macliine was named is apparent, and it
was honored, though it would have been
equally so had it borne the name of San
Jacinto or of Sam Houston.
P. W. B. Ellis.
City Finance*.
Galveston, June 23,1875.
Eds. News—I take the liberty to lay>
through you, before the people of this
city a plain statement of the operation of
the scheme contrived by the City Coun
cil to coax money out of the delinquen t
taxpayers.
A and B were assessed $100 each city
taxes for 1874. A paid his tax on the 1st
of July, 1874, obtaining a rebate of two
per cent., and settled with the Collector
by paying $98 in currency.
B held on, and comes forward to settle
his indebtedness to the city on the 1st of
July, 1875—just one year after A made
his settlement. He is charged eight
months interest at one per cent, for his
delinquency, raising the amount due by
him to $108. Now, availing himself of
the premium liberally granted by the
City Council to delinquents, he buys $54
worth of city scrip, which, at sixty-five
cents to tho dollar, costs him $35 10, adds
to it $54 in currency, making the total
amount to be disbursed by him of $89 10,
which allows him a rebate of over ten
per cent., having, besides, preserved the
use of his money for one year. Thus B,
the delinquent, has the advantage of
$8 90 over A, the early payer.
It there is any fairness or common
sense in this mode of financiering, where
does either common sense or fairness
come in 1 Will not A hold on next time,
and avail himself of the liberal discount
extended to his friend B"? What be-
comes of the compulsory provisions of
the City Charter against delinquent tax-
payers '! What becomes of the sworn
oath taken by the members of the City
Council to administer the affairs of this
city in accordance with the provisions of
the charter?
Supposing that the Wharf Company,
and the City Company, and other corpo-
rations, are among the delinquent tax-
payers, will not the premium for their
delinquency reach the thousand dollars ?
Civis.
The Question of Transportation.
Eds. News—An editorial which ap-
peared in your columns of the 22d inst.
under the head of the " One Thing Need-
ful," has attracted my attention, from
the fact that it again calls the attention
of the business interest of Galveston to
the importance of fostering the traffic of
the State toward this point.
It is indeed a palpable fact, that among
the increased inducements that must be
manifested toward interior merchan's,
the question of transportation is a sub-
ject that demands the utmost attention.
How to procure comfeting transportation
to and from this point, however, is a ques-
tion which admits of satisfactory disposi-
tion. Our Cotton Exchange and Chamber
of Commerce, in conjunction with the
business men of Galveston, could easily
be called together, and by a proper repre-
sentation procure from the railroads cen-
tering toward this point, rates of trans-
portation which could compete with op-
posing lines which seek to draw from
Galveston the trade of Texas.
Well-timed and practicable proceed
ings on the part of our merchants to se
cure this communitv interest can not but
have the desired effect. Make our facili-
ties equal to every demand and the in
terest of Texas identical with those of
Galveston. Observer.
Special Notices.
Postponed—The Picnic of St. John's Sun-
day School to Dickinson is POSTPONED un-
til further notice. ~ All tickets sold will be re-
deemed by those who sold them. je24 It
Wc licreby announce tlie name of
JUDGE JAMES JACKSON, of Chambors
county, as an independent candidate for the
Constitutional Convention from the First
Senatorial District, composed of the counties
of Chambers, Liberty, Polk, Hardin, Tyler,
Jefferson, Orange, Newton and Jasper,
jeS2 D&W lm* MANY VOTERS.
Island City Savings Bank, }
Galveston, June 14, lb "5. j"
Notice.—By consent of more than a ma-
jority of the Stockholders, the Board of Direc-
tors have this day ordered that the books
for subscription to the Capital Stock of this
Btmk shall be closed on and after JUNE 30,
1875.
J. G. MICHAILOFFSKY.
jel5 td Cashier.
Notice.--The fourth installment (fifteen
per cent.) on the capital stock of the Gulf,
Colorado and Santa Fe Railway Company is
called in, by order of the Board of Directors,
payable at the office of the Secretary.
M. EOPPERL, 1
R. S. WILLIS, V Finance Committee.
N. N. JOHN, (
New Advertisements.
c.
New Advertisements.
^RRIVEI) AND DISCHARGING-
4000 Sacks Coffee
tX " LEOPOLDlNE."
FOR SALK BY
KAXTFFMAN & K4TNGE.
ap23 una tf
Notice to Consignees.—The steamship
CITY OF AUSTIN, Kldridge, Master, from
New York, is nww discharging cargo at Wil-
liams's Wharf.
Consignees will please receive their goods
as landed, receipting for the same on the
wharf.
All goods remaining on the whaif after 4
o'clock p. m. (not receipted for) will be
stored at expense and risk of consignees.
All claims for damage must be adjusted
before the goods leave the wharf.
J. N. SAWYER, Agent.
je23 3t 64 Strand.
W. HURLEY & CO.,
LSHIPPIN Ci£
—and -
COMMISSION MERCHANTS,
Agents of the Black Star Lino Liverpool and
Texas Steamships, aro prepared to rcceivi
and forward consignments of all kinds by the
Steamers
SAN MARCOS,
ARIEL,
SAN JACINTO,
MURIEL,
SAN ANTONIO,
1TIIUR1EL, and
ABDIEL,
plying regularly betwoen Galveston and
Liverpool, and will make
LIBERAL ADVANCES ON GltAIN
shipped through us to our friends in Europo
t'. \V. IltlKLEV & CO.,
jo31Dlw&Wlt 117 Strand.
jpiKENIX COTTON GIN—
Unsurpassed for doing satisfactory work.
Send for circular.
STEELE, WOOD & CO.,
68 and TO Tremont street.
o
A.TS WANTED
For One Year's Supply for Fifty
JHnles,
Delivered at HOUSTON DEPOT. Addross,
HOUSTON STREET RAILWAY CO.,
je24 D&Wlt* Houston, Texas.
Amusements.
pi HUAT inducements
JT
to attend the
FIREMEN'S UNION PICNIC.
The following roads will sell excursien
tickets to Galveston to persons desirous of
visiting the Firemen's Union Picnic, given
by PROTECTION NO. 8 and LEE NO. o, viz :
Houston and Texas Central Railway.
International and Groat Northern Railroad.
Galveston, Houston and Henderson Rail-
road.
Galveston, Ilarrisburg and San Antonio
Railroad.
TICKETS GOOD FROM JUNE ;30 TO JULY 8.
The Cosmopolitan, Grand Southern and
IN STORE,
2000 Sacks COFFEE
(Rx Maid of Glanworn, from Bio Je Janeiro,)
FOR SALK BT
una J. II. ELSWORTH & CO.
WRAPPING PAPER,
CHEAPEST IN THE CITY,
--ap21 tf una
AT 44 NEWS " OFFICE.
Notices.
J^OTICE. NOTICE
GULF LOAN AND HOMESTEAD CO., I
Galveston, June, 1875. f
Applications from Shareholders will be re-
ceived for
FIVE AWARDS,
(the 38th, 39th, 40tb, 41st and 42d,) of not to
cxceed s 3 OOO each, for terms not exceeding
six years,- at the rate of eight per cent, per an-
num, in accordance with the Charter and By-
Laws. Awards to be made by the Finance
Committee, at tbfe Company's office, on
THURSDAY, June 24th, at 6 o'clock p. M.,
when applicants are requested to be present.
Applications from owners of shares fully
paid up will be received until 4 o'clock p. m.
of the dav of drawiner.
J. G.~ MICHAILOFFSKY,
je20 4t Secretary and Treasurer.
D
11. CHARLES GANAIIL
^"OTICE NOTICE
Is hereby given to all whom it may concern,
that certificate No. 192, dated June 17, 18C7,
for three hundred shares of the capital stock
of the Southern Cotton Press and Manufac-
turing Company, standing in my name, has
been lost, and an application has been made
to the company for a new certificate in lieu
of the same. A. P. LUFKIN.
Galveston, May 29, 1875.
Office S. C. P. and Manf. Co., I
GalvCston, May 29, 1875. f
Attention is called to'above notice, as an
application has been made for a new certifi-
cate. Any person interested is notified to file
objections, if anj% to such issne, or a new cer-
tificate will be issued in thirty days from date
of this notice. C. G. WELLS,
my30 lm Sec'y S. C. P. and M. Co.
Cltv Advertisements.
S
ALE OF IMPOUNDED ANIMALS,
OFFICE OF CHIEF OF POLICE, »
Galveston, Texas, June 24, 1875. f
In conformity with Article 7, Revised Code
of Ordinances of the city of Galveston. I will
sell at public auction, at the Public Pound,
corner-Winnie and 30th streets, on SATUR-
DAY, the 26th day of June, 1875, for cash,*to the
highest bidder, in United States currency, (if
not claimed before) the following described
property, to wit:
One (1) Dun Horee, no brand; one (1) Black
Horse, branded E S ; one (1) Speckled Cow,
branded P ; one (1) Red Cow, branded P & M
C ; one (1) Bay Hor«e, no brand.
The above described property can be seen at
any time previous to the sale at the Public
Pound, corner Winnio and 30th streets. Sale
to take place between the hours of 10 o'clock
a. m. and 4 o'clock p. m.
JOHN H. WESTERLAGE,
je24 2t Chief of Police,
LECTION NOTICE—
Galveston, Texas, June 1, 1875.
In accordance with a resolution adopted by
the City Council, May 27, 1875: Notice is
hereby given that an Election will be held on
WEDNESDAY, July 7, 1875, for thepurt>ose of
electing an Alderman for Fourth Ward, to fill
the unexpired term occasioned by the resig
nation ot F. C. Mosebach.
The polls or places of voting will be opened,,
and kept open, from 8 o'clock a. m. until 6
o'clock p. m„ at the following designated
places, and under the following named pre
siding officers :
In the First Ward—At the old First Ward
Market, corner of Sixteenth and Winnie
streets. Presiding Officer—George W. Grover
In the Second Ward—At the State District
Courthouse. Presiding Officer—N. B. Yard.
In the Third Ward—At Kimlay's Market-
house. Presiding Officer—W. II. Nichols.
In the Fourth Ward—At George Plitt's
Markethouse. Presiding Officer—Fitzliugh
Ward.
jel td R. L. FULTON, Mayor.
N
OTICE NOTICE.
CITl REGISTRATION.
Galveston, Texas, June 1,1S75.
The City Council having oidered an election
to be held to fill the vacancy caused by the
resignation of Alderman Mosebach, Feurth
Ward, in accordance with the provisions of
"An ordinance to provide for fche registra-
tion of voters in the city of Galveston,'
Bassed by the City Council, and approved
ecember 10, 1874, the Presiding Officers and
Judges of Election will meet at the following
places :
First Ward—At the Old First Ward Mar-
ket, corner Sixteenth and Winnie streets.
Second Ward—At the State District Court
house, corner of Twentieth street and ;Ave
nue H.
Third Ward—At Kimley's Markethouse,
corner of Twenty-seventh street and Avenue
K.
Fourth Ward—At George Plitt's Market-
house, corner of Thirty-second street and
Avenue K—
On MONDAY, JUNE 21,1875. for the purpose
of registering persons of said wards entitled
to registration.
t The books of registration will be opon for
five days, commencing on Monday, June 21,
and close Friday, June 25, from 8 o'clock a,
»r. to G o'clock p. m. each day, with an inter-
mission of. one hour, from 12 o'clock m. to 1
o'clock p. m.
GEO. W. GROVER,
Presiding Officer 1st Ward.
N. B. YARD,
Presiding Officer 2d Ward.
W. H. NICHOLS,
Presiding Officer 3d Ward.
FITZHUGH WARD,
jel tje25 Presiding Officer 4th Ward.
Legal Advertisement*.
TRUSTEE'S SALE—By virtue of
the power vested in me by a certain
trust deed dated the 16th day of February, A.
D. 1873, and recorded in the records of Gal
veston county, in Book No. 10, pages 65 and
66, executed to secure the payment of her cer-
tain promissory note of even date with said
deed of trust, and therein mentioned as exe-
cuted to secure the payment of the sum of
ninety-three dollars and fifty-eight cents,
($93 53.) being for lumber used in the con-
struction of the house and improvements
therein mentioned, due and payable on the
16th day of February, A. D. 1874, and still due
and unpaid, at the request of the legal holder
of said note, I will sell at the Courthouse
door of Galveston county, Texas, on
SATURDAY, THE THIRD DAY OF JULY,
A. D. 1875,
between the hours of 10 o'clock A. M., and 3
o'clock p. m., to the highest bidder, for cash
the following described property, to wit: The
houses and improvement* situated on lot
number fourteen (14) in block number one
hundred and thirty-seven, (137,) in the city of
of Galveston, State of Texas.
je20 td E. S. FLETCHER, Trustee.
Has removed his residence to Avenue OX*
between Eighteenth and Nineteenth streets,
whore he can bo found at all hours, except
betwoen 9 a. m. and 3 p. m , when he will hold
consultations at his office, under the Girar-
din House, back of Gilbert's Drug Store.
je21 lm
^ DMINISTR ATOIl'S NOTICE.—
Having been appointed Administrator
of the estate of Chas. Eika, deceased, all per-
sons having claims against said estate are
hereby notified to present the same for allow-
anoo within twelve months from the SEVEN-
TEENTH DAY OF JUNE, 1875, or they will be
postponed until tho claims presented within
that time are paid.
H. SEELIGSON,
je24 lm Adm'r Estate Chas. Eika, deceased.
Notice is hereby given to
the owners of the following named land
certificates, viz.: •
Bounty warrant No. 819, 960 acres, issued to
A. G. Sharpless;
Headright certificate No. 1322, issued to
Thomas Caraway, 320 acres; and
One-third of a league headright certificate
No. 261, issued to Alexander Phillips;
that we have located the same in Fort Bend
county, and that unless our fees are paid for
locating same, without delay, suit by publica-
tion will be instituted in Fort Bona county
forthwith, and the land sold to defray ex-
penses for locating, etc.
MITCHELL & CALDER,
jel9 lw* Attorneys and Land Agents
rjMlAVIS COUNTY BONDS.
The undersigned will receive proposals for
the purchase of ten per cent. Travis County
Bonds, interest payable, semi-annually, tho
first of January and first of July of each year
The principal in twenty years from July 1,
1875, but redeemable at the pleasure of the
county at any time after five years; which
bonds are to be issued under the authority of
chapter ninety-one of the Special Laws of the
Fourteenth Legislature, If the proposals are
not satisfactory, they will not be accepted.
The assessed value of the taxable property of
the county is eight miliiuns, and tho county
is free from debt. This June 3, 1875.
JAMES W. SMITH,
Presiding Justice County Court,
jell lm* Travis County,
The Galveston, Houston and Henderson
Railroad presents every person buying excur-
sion tickets with
A Free Ticket to Picnic Grounds.
All firemen should attend.
See largo posters.
M. J. ENRIGIIT,
je23 tf Sec. Committee of Arrangements.
B
IDS foll ICE CREAM STANDS,
SHOOTING GALLERY, TEN PIN ALLEY,
and other stands, in Wurzlow's Garden, dur-
ing Picnic of Lee No. 5 and Protection No. 8,
on 3d and 4th July, will be received until 26th
inst. at Botto's Ice Cream Saloon, Tremont
street, near Market, by
jel5 3t je23 3t J. M. MAYER.
SOMETHING MEW.
THE SULTAN'S DIVAN,
On Market Street,
Between Twenty-sixth and Twenty-Seventh.
S. KERUFIM, - - - PROPRIETOR
JAS. DONLON, - - - MANAGER
The best VARIETY talent will be engaged.
ADMISSION FREE.
The bar will be supplied with the choicest
Wines, Liquors and Cigars. There will also
be polite waiter girls in attendance.
Grand Ball Every Saturday Night,
Admission Fifty Cents.
fmy27 lm*]
Miseellancons. ___
THE MOST PERFECT MADE.
LEMON SUGAR. ETC.
<g)NE THIRD IS SAVE D o
in quantity by their perfect purity and
great strength; the only kinds made by a
practical Chemist and Physician, with
scientific care to insure uniformity, health-
fulness, delicacy and freedom from all in-
jurious substances. They are far superior
to the common adulterated kinds. Obtain
the genuine. Observe our Trade Marks
as above, "Cream" Baking Powder, "Hand
and Cornucopia." Buy the Baking Pow-
der only in cans securely labelled. Many
have been deceived in loose or bulk Pow-
der sold a3 Dr. Price's.
Manufactured only by
STEELE & FKICE,
Chicago, St. Louis and Cincinnati.
a. allen. l. allen.
jos. aiken.
A. ALLEN & CO.,
dealers in"
Italian and
American
MARBLE,
Wholesale and Retailr
Galveston, Texas.
Drawer 48 P. O.
JNTERNATIONAL RAILROAD
LAND CERTIFICATES
FOR SALE AT REDUCED PRICES.
Also, ALTERNATE CERTIFICATES CHEAP.
FORSTEIt, LUDLOW & CO.
je3 th sa tu lm AUSTIN, TEXAS.
ADIES, PLEASE TAKE NOTICE!
Madame Paul Knoll having gone to Paris
to renew our stock, I will sell at a liberal dis-
count, for cash, our Fancy Goods and articles
of Millinery.
je20 lw
J. L. PAUL KNOLL.
PROVIDE FOR T1LOSE DEPENDENT
UPON YOU.
BY INSURING IN THE
Mobile Life Ins. Co.
Apply to the nearest local agent, or write to
R. B. PARROTT, General Agent, Waco.
PHIL. STOCKTON, General Ag't, Galveston
C. A. GARRETT, Special Agent, Calvert.
Importers
of
Hammocks
je8 tu th sa lm
I Plain and Colored
i By the bale, dozen, or
at retail. Single Ham
J mocks, $3 each, sent
I on receipt of money.
For wholesale prices
address
JG.W. SIMMONS & SON,
"Oak Hall,"
Boston, Mass.
Bathing Suits, Mili-
tary Good and Regalia
Insurance.
MERCHANTS'
Insurance Company,
NO. 63 STRAND, GALVESTON.
(Organized, 1S6G.)
FIRE. MARINE AXD RIVER.
CASH CAPITAL (FULL PAID) 9250,000.
JOHN D. ROGERS, President;
LEON BLyM, Vice President;
BALLINGER, JACK «& MOTT,*Attorney®;
HENRY SAMPSON Secretary.
DIRECTORS :
Jg^n D. Rookrs of John D. Rogers & Cc.
Leon Blum of Leon & H. Rlurr.
Gkorgk Scaly of Ball, Hutchings & C<.
W. A. Oltpejint of Gary & Oliphin'.
M. F. Mott of Ballinger, Jack & Mott.
H. Ekkpnkr of Marx & Kempner.
M. Koppkrl. .Pres't National Bank of Texa».
R. A. Brown of R. A. Brown & Co.
T. W. polt8 of Folts & Walshe.
B. G. Duval of Grinnan & Duval.
Hknry Sampson Sec'y. Merchants1 Ins. Co.
E. S. Jemison of Moody & Jemison.
F. Halkf of Halflf, Weiss & Co.
The Company insures against loss or dam-
age by fire on Buildings, Merchandise, Pro-
duce, Household Furniture, and other insura-
ble property in town and country, and is con-
ducted on strictly conservative principles.
Risks are assumed only at adequate rates of
premium, and losses promptly adj isted.
Jan:i-'75-d&Wlv
Morphine Habit
AND
Intemperance
Speedily cured by DR. BECK'S only known
and sure Remedy. NO CHAKOE for
treatment until cured. Call on or address
DR. J. C. BECK. 112 Joh n St., Cincinnati, O
ADVERTISER'S GAZETTE.
A Journal or Information for Ad-
vertisers. Edition 1)600 copies. Pub-
lished Weekly. Terms, $2 per an-
num, In advancc.
FIVE SPECIMEN COPIES (DIFFERENT
DATES) TO ONE ADDRESS FOR 35 CTS.
Office No. 41 Park Mow.N. Y.
GEO. P. HOWELL & Co.,
je 4D&Wlw Editors and Publishers.
N. F. BURNHAM'S
'rmmNE
WATER WHEEL
AVas selected four
years ago, and put to
work in tho Patent
Office. Washington, D.
C., and has proved to
ibo the best. 19 sizes
made. Prices lower
han any other first-class
wheel. Pampelet free,
N. F. BURNHAM,
York, Pa.
rpEXAS MUTUAL,
LIFE INSURANCE CO.,
HOWE OFFICE:
T4 Tremont Street 74
GALVESTON, TEXAS.
Guarantee to Policy Holders. $353,<ioO 68
Surplus, May 31, 1874 22,996 71
Directors:
J. P. Davie, Hardware Merchant, Galveston.
J. M. Bro^n, of Brown & Lang, and Presi-
dent of First National Bank, Galveston.
A. C. McKeen, Cotton Factor, Galveston.
Henry Sampson, Secretary Merchant's in
surance Company, Gaivestou.
George F. Alford, of Aiford & Miller, Gal-
veston.
N. B. Yard, ot Yard & Sullivan, Galveston.
Herman Marwit^, Grocery Merchant, Gal-
veston.
Ex-Governor F. R. Lubbock, Galveston.
C. E. Richards, of Richards & Hawkins,
Galveston.
S. G. Etheridge, of Etheridge & Co., Galves-
ton.
B. R. Davis, of B. R. Davis & Bro., Galveston.
John Wolston, of Wolston, Well*; & Vidor,
Galveston.
Thomas Reed, Cashier First National Bank
Galveston.
e Best in the World.
Gives Universal Satisfac-
wion. Wonderful Erno-
omy. 40 lbs. more Bread
to a barrel of Flour. Every
body Pralnealt. Whiter.
Lighter. Sweeter, Richer.
Saves in life. Eggs, etc.
Sells everywhere like Hoi
Cakes. Send for Circular to
GEORGE F. GANTE & CO.,
176 Duane at.. New York.
Officers*
/. P. DAVIE ...President.
GEO. F. ALFORD Vice President.
B. B. RICHARDSON Secretary.
S. M. WELCH, M. D., Corsulting Physician.
LIVE MEN WANTED AS SOLICITORS.
FRANK FABJ,
decl3'74-Dly General Agent.
Hp HE FACILITIES
OF THE NEWS JOB cFFICE
for tLfe execution of Poster Work are unsur-
passed in the United Stafcss.
General Merchandise.
THE
Great Dollar Store
IS AGAIN IN FRONT
And sells according to times. ALL WHITE
GOODS regardless of cost, such as Swiss,
from twenty to fifty cents a yard.
Hosiery from the finest to the cheapest.
A full line of Gents' Furnishing Goods.
Babies' Buggies cheaper than any house in
the State. apl8 tf
Silver Bridal Gifts
AT
M. W. SHAW & BltO'S.
RICH BRIDAL GIFTS.
TESTIMONIAL PIECES,
FAMILY SILVER,
FORKS AND SPOONS,
SERVICES FOR TEA,
DINNER, LUNCH, ETC.,
OF STERLING PURITY ONLY.
de7 d&W lv
JEltYEY, PETTIT & CO.,
WHOLESALE DEALERS IN
Kerosene or Coal Oil,
GASOLINE FOIt GAS MACHINES,
lJpuzinc, Naptlia, Head-Light Oil,
PUKOLINE FLUID,
CARBON OIL OB PETltOPUENE,
And all the Illuminating and Lubricating
Petroleum Oils.
OFFICE, 25 STRAND,
Warehouse, Thirtieth St.. bet. Mechanic st.
and Strand, GALVESTON, TEXAS.
P. O. Box 997. je3 lm
SHWARTS & BURUOWER,
IMPORTERS
And Wholesale and Retail Dealers in
Crockery and Ghina,
Glass ancl Japan Ware,
ENCIISH, GERMAN A NO
FKENCil FANCY GOODS,
85 Tremont 85
And 72, 74, 7ti Mechanic Street,
GALVESTON.
Hotel,
Restaurant
—and—
Housekeepers
Are specially invited to examine our attract-
ive and ever great stock of tho above goods,
which has been imported expressly for THE
RETAIL TRADE OF THIS CITY.
Goods sold at retail will be delivered free
of charge in any part of the city. ocl4 ly
R. F. GEORGE
J
Texas Drns» and Medicine Warehouse,
Tremont Street.
JUST RECEIVED
25 cases Hosford's BEEAD PREPARATION.
SO casks Coleman's English MUSTARD.
30 barrels ALCOHOL.
10 barrels CASTOR OIL.
Black Walnut SHOW CASES.
Full Plate SHOW CASES.
Half Plate SHOW CASES.
1000 reams STRAW PAPER.
1000 reams MANILA PAPER.
50,000 PAPER BAGS.
100 gross M1LLEVILLE FRUIT JARS.
50^caaes Spear's FRUIT PRESERVING SO-
" LUTION.
50 cases EMPIRE WATER.
50eases CONGRESS WATER.
50 cases IIATHORN WATER. my2S
Kansas CityAdvert'm'ts.
Kansas stock yards—
Located at KANSAS CITY, MO.
These yards have accommodations for the
prompt loading, unloading, feeding and water
ing of all kinds of stock. Parties shipping
here will always find good salesmen and
buyers, and the best market west of Now
York. They cover thirty-five acres, and the
capacity is 8000 cattle. 8000hogs and 100 horses
per day. CHARLES E. KENT, Sup't.
E. E. Richardson,
de30 6m Asst. Treasurer and Asst. Sec'y
J^EWAR & SON,
DIAMOND MIL.L.S,
KANSAS CIT7, MO..
Manufacturers of the best brands of FAMj
ILY FLOUR. With the tlnest quality of
wheat, complete machinery, long experience
In the business, and unsurpassed shipping fa*
cilities, we respectfully solicit a portion of
the TEXAS TRADE, feeling confident of oui
ability to render satisfaction All orders
promptly filled. JylO ly
Agents for Johu S. Duuhnni'ii Cele-
brated Yeast Powder.
rpAYLOR BROS.,
1319 MAIN STREET,
Manufacturers of Every Variety of
CBACKEKS,
KANSAS CITY, MO. J®30 ly
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