The Galveston Daily News. (Galveston, Tex.), Vol. 40, No. 63, Ed. 1 Saturday, June 4, 1881 Page: 2 of 4
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Saturday, June 4, 1881.
CHANGE OF ADMINISTRATION.
A very common as well as very stupid ob-
jection to fixity of civil service tenure is that
it would aid powerfully to perpetuate the
same administration and prevent the severe
and exhaustive inquests into corrupt or ques-
tionable practices which usually attend a
change of administration, when the party in
power is dispossessed by the party in opposi-
tion. Fixity of civil service tenure is
exactly calculated not only to minimize official
corruption, but to facilitate chanpe of admin-
istration and change of party rnle upon living
and healthy issues of public policy. This has
been illustrated in the working of the present
civil service system of England. In the
United States, the doctrine of rotation in
office, looking to the periodical distribution of
spoils among faithful partisans, has spread
a moral distemper among all parties. It has
converted the party in power into a vast for-
tified encampment of spoilsmen, and political
contests into battles for public plunder. In
such circumstances the party in power has all
the advantages of possession, and has
every incentive of fear and of greed
to use them to the utmost. How un-
scrupulously and successfully they have
been used experience abundantly testifies.
For over twenty years one party or one organi-
!ation of politicians has had control of the
STational Government, and for ten years of
that period it has maintained the control
mainly through the corrupt leverage of
the spoils system. One Republican Presi-
dent has succeeded another. Official changes
more or less have been made to re-
ward the favorites of the new incumbent,
but no change of administration in the interest
of thorough-going investigation to the end of
thorough-going reform has been effected.
President Hayes began his Administration
with plenty of cant about the abuses that had
crept into the Admin^tration of his predeces-
sor, but events have shown that his own Ad-
ministration was rank with impure prac-
tices under its Pharisaical parade of superior
virtue. We are just having glimpses of a
system of frauds in the Treasury Department,
in connection with the contingent fund, similar
to that which was carried on by the famous
Tweed ring in New York. Taken with recent
developments of the Star Route scandal,
this discovery suggests a very reason-
able suspicion that corruption in some
form or other permeates all departments of
ttie Government. There is reason for believ-
ing that every department is infested with a
hungry and powerful ring, with influence in
Congress, with influence at the White House,
with influence with the principal leaders of
the party in power, and bent upon enriching
itself at the public expense. What assurance
can we have that such men as Postmaster
General James and Attorney-General Mac-
Yeagh will be permitted by the present Re-
publican Administration to go on until they
have probed to the bottom the interior rotten-
ness of the Republican regime? Judging from
the past, there is more probability, rather,
that measures will be taken to si-
lence, to paralyze, or to extrude them.
The kind and extent of reform which
the public interests demand is only to be as-
sured by a complete change of administration
involved in a complete change of party rule.
It is simply preposterous to expect that a party
guilty of chronic abuse of power will be in-
duced by success and impunity to reform its
own darling vices with a heroic and unsparing
hand.
THE TEXAS WESTERN.
The election of Col. Fred. Grant to the Presi-
dency of the Texas Western Railway indicates
a connection with Mexican roads at the Rio
Grande, thus making a continuous line from
Houston to the City of Mexieo. So far, so
good, and the general weal of Texas will be
promoted; but the election of J. Victor New-
comb as one of the directors implies no good
to Texas ports. J. Victor Newcomb is mon-
arch of the Louisville and Nashville system,
and his lines reach New Orleans via Mont-
gomery and Mobile, and if the surmises that
the Morgan combination has been broken into
by the grasping kings of the rail be true, the
Grant presidency has the further significance
of an alliance with the Texas and New
Orleans road. This looks like giving
Galveston the go-by, and carrying Texas
to New Orleans for a market.
The News is at all times ready and willing to
give earnest and cordial support to enter-
prises, of whatever description, that tend to
develop the resources of the Commonwealth
and bring prosperity to the whole people, but
as it shouM be the pride of every Texan to
build up at least one seaport on the 600 miles
of Texas Gulf coast, so it is the duty of The
News to give its best efforts to Galveston as a
great terminal point for railroad traffic, in
preference to ports in other States. Texas
is an empire in territory, resources, production,
population and wealth, and she can not afford
to neglect building up and sustaining
a great seaport city of her own, to which she
is urged alike by sentiments of pride and con-
siderations of policy. The News is not for-
getful of the fact that deep water is a con-
trolling desideratum, but it is also mindful of
the additional fact that a shallow channel
below New Orleans has been deepened to
twenty-four feet, and that what has been
done for that harbor may be done for this.
Galveston must and will have deep water,
and all Texas is interested in securing it as
quickly as money and labor can achieve it.
Now, it is not the purpose of this article to
underrate Mr. Conkling's shrewdness as a
politician, or his wonderful ability to cope
with adversaries in chicane or debate: but, in
all candor and unprejudiced earnestness, to
question his greatness as a statesman and deny
his patriotism as a leader. THE News is not
aware that he has ever proposed a great
measure for the good of the whole country,
that he has ever been the controlling agency
in the passage of any such measure, or that he
is the author of any speech that should or
can survive the passions in which it was born,
or the public career of the machine political.
In this view of the character and services of
the fallen autocrat, the New York Times, that
most independent and honest of great Republi-
can newspapers, fully concurs, and in the
course of an admirable article on the subject
takes occasion to say: " Since the Senators
of the Empire State invited the judgment of
the American people by resigning their seats,
many have been - inquiring into the alleged
greatness of Mr. Conkling as a public man,
and asking of what it consists and how it has
been exhibited. Those who attempt to recall
where and when he has displayed the qualities
of statesmanship have difficulty in finding a
single occasion. The purposes of statesman-
ship are the advancement of the country and
the achievement of ends in which the Nation is
concerned. Men are but agents, and their
legitimate ambition can best be satisfied by
their success as agents. Parties are but means,
and are useful only when they are subservient
to the National purposes that are to be accom.
plished." It is not denied that Mr. Conkling
possesses parts and powers of no ordinary
character, and it may be that the people will
yet find use for his aggressive spirit and hfs
fertile resources. His career as a true states-
man and as a useful public man has yet to
begin.
THE RAILROADS AND THE FARMERS.
Mr. Edward Atkinson is a man who deals
largely with figures. Through his figures he
hits upon facts not unfrequently. He has late-
ly been engaged, in his peculiar way as a
statistician, upon the task of proving the truth
of the proposition, that instead of being the
enemies of the farmers, the railroads are
the greatest and most helpful friends
the farmers have. In a recent contribution to
the Journal of the American Agricultural
Association, Mr. Atkinson shows that in 18(35
there were 34.(XX) miles of railway in the United
States. In 1881 there are 94,000 miles. In 1805
the United States produced of corn, wheat,
rye, oats, barley, and buckwheat 1,127,499,187
bushels. In 1S80 the crop was 2,448,079,181
bushels, an increase of 1,320,579,994 bushels. The
purpose of the above recapitulation is to show
that while producers generally have profited
by the extension of railroad construction, the
farmers have reaped the greatest amount of
benefit. This applies particularly to West-
ern farmers. It is claimed, and with an
undoubted show of good reason, that
but for the extension of rail-
road facilities and reduced rates
of freight, the splendid crops of the past ten
years would not have been possible. They
could not have been moved, and they could
not have been placed on the seaboard at prices
which would have permitted their exporta-
tion. The New York Sun, treating this sub-
ject, argues that the decrease in the rates
of freight has been brought about by the oper-
ation of the natural laws of trade. "It has
not been effected by legislation," says the Sun,
" nor has it been the result of the threats of
grangers. In the first place, the substitution
of steel rails for iron rails has made a vastly
greater business possible, and it can be done
at a much smaller cost proportionately.
More freight can be carried with much
less damage to the roads. Next, the
consolidation of lines which has been
going on during the period of the reduction
has lowered the cost of running the
roads. Competition between rival lines has
also contributed its part, and competition with
the waterways of the country, working con-
stantly, and each year more effectively, has
helped likewise." As a broad proposition, the
great benefit conferred by railroads will not
for an instant be questioned. Railroads, in
a measure, are the vitalizing blood of the
country. Without them the State of Texas to-
day would comparatively be an unpopulated
territory. A bale of cotton is now transferred
from Texas to New York for less than it cost
by ox wagon under the old regime for the
distance of 100 miles. The economy reached
thereby, in any manner it may be
taken, is in favor of the producer.
There is nothing paid the railroads unless
for service rendered. Admitting all of this,
however, does not overcome the fact that these
vast corporations, left without checks and
legislative correctives, may be operated to the
detriment of localities and the general
producer. The action of a few presidents
of the great trunk lines, on a recent occasion,
in a combination on grain tariffs, cost the pro-
ducers of the West something like $160,000,000.
This squeeze might have been doubled for that
matter. It is in this direction that the inter-
ests of the public must come to be guarded
against the consolidated powers of the
great transportation companies. While not
losing sight of the immense benefits conferred
by railroads, the problem of their con-
trol loses none of its importance. Competition
and continued improvements in railroad
construction may eventually accomplish
all that is necessary in the direction of
cheap transportation; but local discriminations
and unlimited power in the regulation of
freight rates, nevertheless, are questions that
must sooner or later force into play the influ-
ence of remedial legislation. The political phase
of the railroad problem becomes more serious
as the system itself becomes more complicated.
studies in the presence of the bright eyes and pout-
ing lip* of a bevy of pretty girls.
The Breckinridge (Stephens County) " Tex-
ian " throws down the gauntlet And must run
the gauntlet for saying:
The recent Press Convention amounted to nothing
mora than the usual free ride and drunk.
The "Texian " will get its i scratched oat.
The Canton (Van Zandt County) Chronicle
says the temperance people of TeXi* are form-
ing prohibition associations with the view to
have the Legislature submit a prohibition
amendment to the Constitution, and adds:
We have some doubts as to the advisability of
such a move. We fear it will form a new party
and defeat the measure, while it the friends of pro-
hibition will stand Ann and claim in making nomi-
nations that the c&ndidato nominated shall favor
submitting the proposed amendment, etc.
Tho Denison Banner of Truth says:
The venture made by us last September, that of
publishing a temperance paper with Republican
principles has proved a success.
The Fort Griffin Eoho evidently selected its
name to suit its character, its bashfulness
rather inclining it to play second fiddle than
toot its own horn. It says:
We are altogether too modest, retiring and lacking
In that quality called cheek to be a successful
publisher. We do not toot our own horn sufficiently.
The Echo, however, gets the better of its
bashfulness far enough to repeat what some
others say of it. One writer says truly: " It
commends the honorable and virtuous minis-
ters' condemnation to the incorrigible, and, in a
word, manfully advocates the right."
Speaking of the Star Route swindle, the
Rusk County News says:
Let it be proclaimed to Reagan's credit that he
boldly denounced the whole thins in the House.
Strike whom it may. let the whole tiling be fairly
investigated. Most too many of our public men are
becoming suddenly rich.
The Rusk County News prints the obituary
of Colonel Jiles S. Boggess, Sr., who was born
in Grten county, Tenn., on the 24th of April,
1797, and died a short time since, in the eighty-
fourth year of his age, at the residence of his
son-in-law, James W. Parr, near Henderson.
At the age of fifteen he enlisted in the war of
1813, under Jackson, and took part in the bat"
tie of New Orleans. Soon after, and while
only eighteen years old, he took part in the
famous battle of the Horseshoe. He came
to Texas in 1S47. In 1864, he raised a com-
pany of old men volunteers and went in com-
mand of the company to Mansfield, La., but
arrived there after the fight'
The Corpus Christi Ledger is somewhat fas-
tidious in regard to natural music. It says:
Some enterprising Mexican nightly furnishes
music by a heppy band of diminutive burros. A
little burro is pretty to look at, but the voice of a
grown one is abominable.
He-ow is that? No animal has a greater ear
for music.
The San Antonio Express makes a patriotic
appeal for the celebration of the Fourth of
July, but adds, in brackets:
LWe always write a notice similar to the above
about this time of the year, through force of habit,
not with the expectation that anything will be
done.]
The Express does not want prohibition in-
cluded in the objects of an extra session of
the Legislature. It says:
If the so-called temperance people will show the
faith that is in them by refraining from tbe use of
liquor, they will do more toward advancing the
temperance cause than can be accomplished by an
attempt to control men's appetites by legislation.
Experience has fully demonstrated the fact that
"prohibition" does not prohibit: that persuasion
has a greater influence in such matters than legis-
lation. Therefore, let the Governor and Legisla-
ture alone, and go to work on the people. You can
find ten meu who can be coaxed to where you can
find one who can be driven.
The Express says of the proposition for Gal-
veston to send an agent through the Western
and Northwestern States to work up an influ-
ence in favor of Galveston harbor:
Major Plumly is mentioned in connection with
the agency. and seems to be regarded as the very
man for the ptaoe. We are not personally ac-
quainted with his qualifications. An interview
with him. nublished in The News, however, rather
suggests the Mulberry Sellers order of talent, and
unmistakably shows that he has no lack of confi-
dence in his own abilities. As matters now gener
ally go by favoritism* or personal lntere-t in con-
nection with National legislation, rather than de-
pending on right and justice, we are anxious that
the Galveston scheme should succeed, as we would
then have both right and personal influence or
favoritism In our favor.
The Goliard Guard remarks:
The name of Senator Marion Martin, of Navarro
county, is mentioned in connection with the race
for Governor at the next election. He is a good
and true man.
The Brenham Banner says:
If prohibition is adopted, picnics and fishing par-
ties will have to be abandoned: snakes are very
bad, and in case of a snake-bite there would be no
" snake medicine " to be had.
MATTERS BY MAIL.
0ZEA yjCD DAILY J-ROM TBE NEWS
EXCHANGE LIST.
CONKLING.
For a long time the New York Senator has
filled the public eye, and his notoriety has,
perhaps, gone to the utmost ends of the En-
glish tongue; but has he achieved the enduring
toe of the statesman or gained a permanent
lodgment in the hearts of his countrymen?
All will admit his power and brilliancy as a
debater, and his genius as a manipulator of
measures and men; and none will deny that,
as the inspiration of machine politics, he has
toyed with chances and hobnobbed with suc-
cess. But has he fame as a statesman, or re-
nown for usefulness as a public man? These
are questions that are pertinent just now,
and may be asked and answered by
the people he has served, snubbed and
fondled. Has he simply played the part of the
managing politician and the adroit gamester
for personal aggrandizement, or has he given
his heart to his country and his cultivated in-
tellect to its weal? How will his biographer
and the honest historian of the times handle
these questions? Where will either go to find
evidences of Mr. Conkling's greatness as a
statesman, or enduring monuments of his
patriotism? Will they go to the legislation of
the country? They will find no measure for
the general good bearing the impress of his
paternity. Will they go to the Congressional
Record for his speeches in proof of potent
efforts of intellect fired with patriotism?
They will find faded flowers of
rhetoric and stale turnings of partisan hate.
Dare they turn to his private character for
sacred memories and exalted manhood?
Unless he has been terribly belied by report,
charity, and perhaps decency, will plead with
them to desist. And, finally, will they call
upon his party In New York to give testi-
mony to his great and estimable qualities as
a citizen, a senator, a political leader ? His
resignation because he could not control the
party patronage of his State, and the terrible
humiliation he has received at Albany
this week, will stare them in
the face and end the search.
STATE PRESS.
What the Interior Papers Say.
The Comanche Chief threatens to press the
constable into its service unless delinquent sub-
scribers pay. Creditors are crowding the Chief,
and it proposes to pass the business on to its
patrons.
The Chief also lifts its little tomahawk against
Galveston on the original charge of want of
public spirit and resting on natural advantages.
It is painful to contemplate the amount of
trouble this subject is to papers printed in flour-
ishing cities like Comanche:
Galveston's mossbaekism, lack of public spirit,
ete., is proverbial, and it i« to be regretted that the
people of the rest of the State take a greater fuel-
ing of shame at this deplorable fact than theGal-
vestonians themselves. We all wi.»h to see Galves-
ton a great metropolis. So do the Galvestonians,
but they are not willing to put up the entrance fee
so freely given by other cities to be entitled to en-
ter the arena of great commercial centers.
The tears shed by the interior papers over
the shortcomings of Galveston would seem
sufficient to give deep water over the bar.
Eureka! A writer in the Waco Examiner
takes the wind out of the sails of all other in-
ventors of deep water and inland seaports, and
gives it to Waco. He writes:
As the great enterprise of making Waco a sea-
port city is about ro be inaugurated by digging out
the Brazos, I think that a suggestion as to furnish-
ing tiie water would not he out of place, for which
Houston and Galveston have demonstrated that it
takes but little water to make great seaports, still a
little is necessary; and the fact that the Brazos is
much in the habit of going dry about once a year
for two or three hundred miles above this port, re-
quires a strong supply of water from some other
direction. This, Mr. Editor, can be easily ob-
tained by digging the channel of the Brazos below
the level of tfie Mississippi River, and building 400
or 500 siphons—I think 400 would do—200 feet in
diameter, which, by a close calculation, I am in-
duced to believe, will give a steady channel of
twenty-four feet and eleven and three-fourths
inches. The only objection that can possibly be
urged against the siphon plan is that the necessity
of having the Brazos end lower than the Missi-sippi
end will make the Brazos channel so deep that in-
stead of landing the commerce of the world at our
doors it will land it about 500 feet below them in
the bounds of this great State: but this can
be easily remedied by using steam derricks, some-
thing on the Eads plan of lifting ships on to his
Isthmus railroad, f.ni raise each vessel lip to a
level of East Waco, where docks can be arranged
for them to land and unload. This would make
our city the great dry-dock of the world. It is a
well-known fact that fish diet is th« great biain-
producing food, and X believe that tile whole ex-
pense of this enterprise can be defrayed by rigging
fish-nets at the mouths of the siphons and catching
the buffalo and hull-head catfish that would come
through, and selling them to the State and Con-
gressional office-holders of Texas, to supply the
great waste that these giant intellects are enduring
in serving the public.
The Lavaca Herald and Planter opposes the
mixing of male and female students in the
State University, and says:
The effect, if nothing worse happens, must be
either to make men effeminate or women mascu-
line, and it is utterlv opposed, too, to the prejudices
and traditions of Southern society. The men of
the South have always been distinguished for
eoura e, fortitude, virility, and the women for
modesty, delicacy and refinement. Our men have
been manly, our women eminently womanly. How
long will this continue to be so if they are herded
together for purposes of education, subjected to
the same discipline and the same associa-
tions? That the conventual is the best system for the
education of girls in masses which human wisdom
has devised, we do not doubt—we speak, of course,
of the system, and not of the particular religious
views which may be inculcated. The English who
can afford it, educate their girls at home, under the
direct supervision of their mothers. This, of course,
is the best, but next to this we verily believe that
the best interests of society will be preserved by
the universal adoption of a sy-tem approaching
the conventual in its discipline, its purity and its
entire avoidance of every approach to publicity.
On this question the San Antonio Times re-
marks:!
The mixing of the sexes in colleges Is becom ing
a matter of questionable propriety for the best
success of institutions. Ten years ago Cornell
University had over 600 students; now it has less
than -lOO. An inquiry as to the cause of this lack
of attendance, not at all creditable to the high
character of the Institution, places the result to the
credit of co-education. Formerly, when the Uni-
versity was in a most prosperoris condition, only
males were admitted; now both sexes are entitled
to precisely the same privileges. It U believed
that a young and susceptible collegian finds it a I
very difficult matter to properly attend to hi* |
POLITICAL POINTS.
Editorial Expression! from Leading
Papers.
[New York Tribune.']
Either Conkling is keeping up an aggressive
appearance to cover a retreat or he is negotiat-
ing for the Democratic vote. We may expect
a new development at Albany in a day or two
which will take Conkling out of the fight or place
him in the attitude of an open ally of the
Democrats.
[Chicago Inter Ocean.]
The Government dfficials, so the Washington
dispatches say, are moving slowly but surely
in the Star Route prosecutions, and have the
evidence nearly completed to present to the
Grand Jury. It is expected that the docu-
mentary evidence will be submitted this week,
and then the examination of witnesses will be-
gin. Both Dorsev and Brady have retained
counsel and have their bondsmen ready, ex-
pecting to be indicted at once. Several other
members of the ring will also be indicted.
[Chicago Inter Ocean.]
The half-breeds are just now a little anxious
about Secretary Windom. Boss Robertson
may nominate his "blowers and strikers," but
the Secretary of the Treasury will say yes or
no as it seems best. Robertson, after all, may
turn out to be "bricks without straw." The
prospective new Collector, with his 1000 pos-
sible offices, is more of a power now than he
will be when installed, and the sober Secretary
of the Treasury, who is a true and tried B.e-
publican, sits in judgment over his official acts.
LPhiladelphia Times.]
The relative patriotism of Roscoe Conkling
and James G. Blaine is under discussion by
some of the Republican organs in New York
State. Neither of these men did any fighting
in the war, and the great point to be settled is
whether Conkling had patriotism enough to
send a substitute. It is well known that Blaine
did meet all the requirements of patriotism in
this respect, and perhaps Conkling did, but it
has not been ascertained so far, and until it is
the real merits of the controversy between
Conkling and the Administration can not be
determined.
[Providence (R. I.) Press.]
We never believed that any good would re-
sult from the coalitition of the Republican
Senators and General Mahone, and we are
equally certain that if the Republicans of Vir-
ginia preserve their organization, the party
will be stronger and the process of regenera-
tion in the South will go on more rapidly.
The Democrats and Readjusters of Virginia
can not be reunited, and no one can tell what
the influence of a strong third party, holding
the balance of power between them, may be.
Especially do we hop® that the Administration
will not interfere in the political contest in
Virginia this year.
[Chicago Times.]
President Garfield has gracefully accepted
the situation presented by the Senate's rejection
of "Billee" Chandler for Solicitor-General.
The office has been conferred upon ex-Governor
Davis, of Texas—a relic of the reconstruction
era in the Lone Star State, whose appointment,
by the wav, will probably betes distasteful to
the Confederate brigadiers as that of
Chandler was. Is has been under-
stood that Chandler is to be "taken care
of " in some other office, but a place for him
does not seem to have been found yet. He is a
special pet of Mr. Blaine, it is said, and per-
haps the latter may pick out a good position
for him in the diplomatic service. The Sand-
wich Islands, where Hayes's friend General
Comly has been recovering his health for four
years at $7500 a year, might suit Chandler.
The only objection to sending him there is
that tho islands are too near the United States.
Samoa or Siam would be preferable.
UVcto York Herald.]
Unless the breach that is thus opened in the
Republican party is speedily closed up, the
case Is as clear a one as was ever seen in our
politics for the Democrats to advance to a
dominant position in the country through
easy capture of this State. They have
'Will Conkling Join the Dtmoerttal
[Hartford Dispatch to the Botton Herald,]
"Will Mr. Conkling bo re-elected, Mr.
Eaton?"
" That I can not, say from this distance; but
I am convinced, although he never told me so,
that he does not desire a re-election—at least
he did not when he resigned his seat in the
Senate. He despised Hayes as much as he
does Garfield, and, for the four years Mr.
Hayes was in the White House, Mr. Conkling
never exchanged a word with him, and had
none of the influence or power that by right
belonged to tbe representative of such a pow-
erful State as New York. Do you suppose ha
wants four years more of the same sort of
thing under Garfield? I don't believo it. The
only thing that might cause him to desire a re-
election would be that ho might go back and
fight the Administration."
" What course do you think the Democrats
in the New York Legislature should pur-
sue?"
" Support only their ojvn candidates, for
straight action would best help them to secure
the n.-xt Legislature. But, if it came to an
absolute question, and thore was no chance for
the Democrats, I would advise them by all
means to help elect Conkling. rather than one
of those half-breeds."
"You have a high opinion of Mr. Conkling?"
"I have. In mv judgment be is a greatman
—a man of wonderful abilities. Some of the
papers say you can not look back to any great
measure lie was the father of. Perhajis not; I
do not now recollect. But I know he was
strongly in favor of the Tariff Commission for
one thing, only it so happened that it did not
come to him to offer the bill on that subject
that I did."
" Supposing Mr. Conk'ing was returned to
tho Senate; what then?"
"He would be an independant man, and not
tbe tool of the Administration. If not return-
ed, as a matter of course his friends will feel
that they have not been treated fairly, and
that will help the Democrats in either event.
The great issue that I now see looming up,
upon which tbe parties can proper! v divide, is
monopoly. The true Democracv will be found
opposed to corporate power, ami in their ranks
I think Conkling will be enrolled."
After leaving Mr. Eaton y»ur correspondent
beard a very strange thing. He was talking
with an intimate personal and political friend
of tho ex-Senator about what the latter had
said about tho probability that Mr. Conkling
would yet be found in the ranks of the new
Democracy that was to spring up to fight all
monopoly.
" Did Mr. Eaton say anything about how
Mr. Conkling felt with reference to that Elec-
toral Commission that counted Mr. Tilden out
of the presidential chair"' asked the friend.
"Not a word?"
"Then I'll tell you, and I know what I'm
talking about. Senator Conkling came within
an ace of joining hands with Senator Eaton,
the only Senator who opposed the Electoral
Commission bill, in flghtingthat measure. Had
Mr. Conkling done so the measure wouid have
been killed, and Mr. Tilden would have at-
tained the Presidency."
"Well?"
"I know that Mr. Eston believes to this day
that in that event Mr. Conkling would have
been the 1880 nominee of the Democrats for
President."
The President's Check.
[Washington Special to Philadelphia Tim et.)
A tumor of a serious nature has been flying
about for the last twelve hours. This is to the
effect that President Garfield is personally con-
cerned in a little financial operation while a
visiting statesman in Louisiana that will not
bear the closest investigation. The statement
is that Garfield was approached while a mem-
ber of tbe House on the strength of his reputa-
tion in the Credit Mobilier and paving-ring
matter, and requested to act as counsel in get-
ting certain goods out of bond. The man who
approached him was the agent of heavy im-
porters who were caught in a snap. There was
a large amount of money involved. The fee
offered for the influence was $25,000. Half
of this was tendered by the agent for
Garfield's assistance. The latter replied
that he had not the influence to get the seized
goods liberated. Anticipating this, a plan was
then unfolded to him whereby he could com-
mand this influence. This was to permit him-
self to be appointed as one of the visiting
statesmen then made up for the South, and as
such he would acquire an artificial influence.
No sooner said than it was done. The goods
were released, and Congressman Garfield came
North with a draft hi hia favor, indorsed by
himself, for $12,500. This draft subsequently-
fell into the hands of a man named Boyington,
now a reputed member of the " chum " Cabi-
net. This gentleman is now in this city, and
is more familiarly known as Poker " Boying-
ton. The others to whom the matter is said to
be known are Ex-Senator Pomeroy, of Kansas,
and a St. Louis man here, who stated to-day
to your correspondent that he hail personally
seen the said draft. It is whispered there is
another of the visiting statesmen involved in
the same transaction. The substance of this
gossip is given for what it is worth.
not had, since the days of the great cataclysm
in which their party was overwhelmed,
so promising a chance as opens before them
now. Perhaps it would be altogether a good
thing for the country if the quarreling Repub-
licans should keep on as they have started and
quarrel to the end. We can get on without a
party which has no higher conception of its
obligation to the people than this one exhibits
now. Division between the Republican fac-
tions in this State, which gives the State to the
Democrats and so opens the way to their gain-
ing the Presidency in 1884, will not by any
means be an unmixed evil to the Nation.
1 Cincinnati Gazette.]
The scheme is to elect Mr. Conkling and Mr.
Tilden, or a Democrat that Mr. Tilden will
name, to the Senate. That would place Mr.
Conkling in the Senate as an Independent. He
would be outside of the Republican party.
The plan, furthennore, is to have Mr. Conk-
ling assume the leadership of an anti-monopoly
party. The uniform of such a party he is not,
it is true, entitled to wear. He has
never been anything else than tbe rep-
resentative of corporations. As a law-
yer, he hss been tbe lawyer of corporations,
and. moreover, he has been employed by cor-
porations not as a lawyer, for it is well known
at the bar that he is not a man of marked
legal ability, but as a politician. As a Sen-
ator, he has for years fought the steamboat in-
terests of the country in the interest of patent
monopolies. This is" well known to every man
who has an investment in a vessel that turns a
wheel. He would cut a ridiculous figure,
therefore, masquerading as the leader and
probably the presidential candidate of an
anti-monopoly party.
Kid gloves will not be popular this summer.
Silk, lisle thread gloves or laco mits are much
more in favor and more serviceable for the
warm weather. Wraps which veil the figure,
but add no perceptible warmth, will be much
A Battle ot Giants.
[From 'tl^.fihicago Tribute.]
A serious misunderstanding has lately arisen
between Vandarbilt's New York Central and
Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railroads
and the,Wabash, ,^t. Louis and Pacific, which
is likely to result iff- a desperate war between
the contending parties. For some years past
the bulk of the Wabash business was given to
the Lake Shore at Toledo, and in return the
Lake Shore turned over much'of its Western
business to the Wabash at that ptu'nt. It isnow
understood that an agreement exists between
the two parties for the interchange of this
business. A short time ago. however, the Wa •
bash is said to have entered into an agreement
with the Great Western by which it sends all its
business via the Butler "road arid the Great
Western to Buffalo. By this agreement the
Wabash secures the right to run its own trains
over the Great Western, and thus virtually
makes Buffalo its eastern outlet. Vanderbilt,
in order to guard against this diversion of busi-
ness from the Lake Shore by the Wabash, se-
cured control of the Lake Erie and Western to
have a line in connection with the Lake Shore
to the west running parallel' with the Wabash,
which would enable him to strike back if the
Wabash attempted to carry out its contract
with the Great Western. During the last four
weeks, it is claimed by tbe New York Central
people, that the Wabash has secretly diverted
much of its bu-iness via the Great Western.
For this reason Vanderbilt has com-
menced to retaliate by transferring
all the Western patronage of the New
York Central and Lake Shore roads
to the Lake Erie and Western, by which the
latter, in connection with the Chicago and Al-
ton, will hereafter be the southwestern outlet
of the Lake Shore. A fast freight line, which
is to conduct the freight business over these
roads—known as the Midland Fast Freight
Line—was formed some time ago. The
WabRsh, unmoved by this attack, now gets
back at Vanderbilt bv announcing that six
months from May 1 it will withdraw the
Wabash system from the " Red Line," which
runs over the Lake Shore and New York Cen-
tral. and from tbe Canada Southern Line,
which runs over the Canada Southern and the
New York Central. After that time only the
Union Line, which is the regular Wabash
Fast-Freight Line, will operate over the Wa-
bash system. Thus the breach between the
Vanderbilt system and the Wabash system is
continually widening, and. unless more peace-
able counsels soon prevail, there will be a ter-
rible conflict between these two powerful sys-
tems, which may result in a general war, not
only between all the Eastern lines, but also be-
tween the Southwestern lines. For the Chicago
and Alton this fight will be a big thing, as it
thereby secures all the Southwestern business
from the New York Central and Lake Shore
roads, which help immensely in increasing its
traffic and earnings.
"Don't Hurt Affsie."
(.From the San. Francisco Call. 1
An exceedingly ludicrous incident, not to be
found in the accepted Shakespearian text of
Richard III.," took place last evening at the
Bush Street Theater during the performance
of the above tragedy. The play had reached the
conclusion of the second act without interrup-
tion, but during the following act, and just at a
climax, the even tenor of the performance was
for the time being seriously disturbed. Mrs.
Hayden, wife of the manager of the Keene
troupe, sat in the left-hand stage-box, with the
tragedian's son, a little boy of some nine years
of age, who was leaning against the rail looking
about the audience, and giving an occasional
glance at the people on the stage. GJoster
(Keene) was disclosing the cooling of his former
passion to Lady Aune, a character assumed by
Miss Agnes Keene, daughter of the tragedian,
and in following out tho business of the char-
acter, rudely seizes Lady Anne by the arm and
violently pulls her across the stage. Attracted
by the loud tone of voice in which his father
was declaiming, young Keene bestrodo the
rail, and. seeing his sister handled in that man-
ner-, cried out, " O, papa, don't hurt Aggie!''
The house was convulsed in laughter, and
fathpr and daughter in vain attempted to
smother a laugh, and as the young disturber
had been squelched in tho bottom of the box,
he received a round of applause that might
have been envied by a more pretentious come-
dian.
31. Gambf.tta is engaged to marry, it is re-
ported, the daughter of M. Durand, an im-
mensely wealthy South American planter, of
French"origin. Tlie son of a poor provincial
couple, M. Durand started out as a boy to seek
his fortune in Ameiica. He went into the
coffee and cocoa trades, and is to-day oue of
the richest men in the Spanish tropics. Several
years ago he returned to France, where the
eldest of his three daughters married Count
Flateu, a Swedllsh nobleman, and the second
the Marquis de V.scombreras. It is the young-
est of these thr/e sisters who is to be the future
Mine. Gambetw.
German soldiers ere said to have been made
completely haul by the lack of ventilation in
their headgear.
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^SPECIAL JjfOTICES.
Notice.—The 'Stockholders! of the GULF CITY
COTTON PRESS AND MANUFACTURING COM-
PANY are hereby notified that the Annual Meeting
for the purpose of electing Six Directors, to serve
for the ensuing year, will be held at the office of
the Company on
MONDAY, THE Wn INSTANT,
between the hours of 10 a. m. and 12 m.
T. J. GROCE, Secretary.
Special Notice.—The annual meeting of the
Stockholders of the
GALVESTON BANK AND TRUST COMPANY,
for the
ELECTION OF DIRECTIONS,
to serve for the ensuing year, will be held at their
Banking House
ON MONDAY, JUNE ». 1881, AT 11 A. M.
II. ROSENBERG. President.
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AUCTION^ SALES.
AUCTION SALE.
J"E Will SELL THIS DAY, AT
10 o'clock, at our sales-room—
ASSORTED GROCERIES and Sundry Lots of
MERCHANDISE.
PARK. LYNCH &. CO.
Auction Sale,
ESPECIALLY FOR LADIES.
SATl'HBAY, 4TII, AT 10 O'CLOCK,
lit. 171 Miirket Street,
500 YARDS ASSORTED SILKS, good order and
spotted: fine Swiss Organdie, Bishop Lawn, Silk
Alpacas, 15 pieres Tainis Olonti, Silk Parasols, fine
Hosiery. Satin Corsets, real Hair Switches, Ribbons,
Silk Handkerchiefs, Linen Dresses, Silk Tape, real
Tonschon and Imitation Laces. Silk Fringes—all
real fine goods; Vases, Ornameii'js, Toilet Set,
Flower Pots. Ico Pitchers. Etc. These goods will
be displayed on separate tables, and we ask their
inspection feefore the day of sale. We are still
selling privately, and will positively close this
montb.
SYDNOR & DINKELAKER.
SALE OF STANDS,
at 1 p. hi., at the garden,
On Monday, June 6, 1881.
The privilege of the follow-
iiig stan is will be sold for the SCREWMEN'S
PICNIC, at Schmidt's G.irden, June 11th and 12th:
9 Beer Siands, 2 Bar-room?, 2 Coffee and Cake
Stands, 1 Restaurant. 2 Lemonade »')d Soda Stands,
1 Peanut Stand, 2 Ice Cream Stands, 1 Candy Stand.
1 Fruit Stand, 1 Cigar Srar.d, 1 Ten pin Alley, 1
Shooting Gallery privilege, Aunt Sally.
Trustee's Sale.
B
y virtue of the authority
vested in me bv i he terms of a deed of trust
executed by J. M. Heislcell, on the ssOth day of July,
1872, recorded in Book 7, pages 138 and 439, Galves-
ton County Records of Deeds, to secure a uote of
even date therewith executed by said J. M. Heis-
keil, for the sum of fifteen hundred dollars ($1300),
with interest at 12 per cent, per annum from dare,
payable to the order of the Texas Mutual Life In-
surance Company, I shall sell at the request of tbe
holder of said note, to satisfy the sain note with
interest from January 23, 1880, the following-de-
scribed real estate conveyed to me as Trustee by
said riedd of trust, for cash, to the highest bidder,
at public auction, at the door of the Court-house of
Galveston county, on
SATURDAY, JULY* 2, 1881, AT 12 M.
The said property conveyed to me as Trustee as
aforesaid is described as lots Nos. 10. 11, 12 and 13,
in the southwest quarter of outlot number forty-
three (43), in the City of Galveston, and at such
sale I shall convey to the purchaser all the right,
title and estate to said property vested in me as
Trustee under said deed of trust. The said J. M.
Heiskell, on the Oth of November, 1S77, and on
January 30. 1880, acknowledged in writing that the
note aforesaid constitutes a valid indebtedness,
and promised in writing to pay the same.
May 28, 1881. JAMES SORLEY, Trustee.
Substitute Trustee's Sale.
By virtue of the authority
vested in me, duly appointed Trustee, to act
as substitute for and in the place and stead of John
P. Davie, now absent from the St^fe of TVxas. I,
being so appointed by the holder of the promissory
note, hereinafter described arcordinsc to the terms
of the deed of trust hereinafter mentioned, I shall
sell, at the Court-house door of Galveston county,
to the highest bidder for cash, at 12 o'clock m., on
Saturday, the 11th Day of June, 1SS1,
the following described Real Estate: Thirty (30)
feet from the south ends of lots numbered one (1)
and two (2). in block numbered five hundred and
sixty-two (502), together with all the improvements
thereon, situated in the city of Galveston, on Tre-
mont street, between Market and Mechanic streets.
Said sale will be made by me at the request of the
holder of a promissory note, due and unpaid, and
to satisfy the same, wiih interest thereon, which
said note was executed by Nahor B. Yard, on No-
vember 20, 1875. for the sum of forty-two hundred
dollars ($4200). payable to the order of the Texas
Mutual Life Insurance Company, with interest at
12 per oeut. per annum, and due twelve months
after date, which said note the said Nahor B.
Yard, on the 29th of October, 1880, acknowledged
in writing to bo just and due, with all interest un-
paid thereon, and in writing promised to pay the
same. Said note is cred ted by $504 interest paid
November 29. 1870, and by $100 interest paid De-
cember 29,1877. The said note is secured by the deed
of trust, under which the sale will be made, which
convey* the above described real estate to John P
Davie. Trustee, with power of substitution in the
holder of the said note, and wa1? executed by Nahor
B. Yard, on November 29, 1875, and recorded in
Galveston County Records, Book 39, pages 355 and
350. At said sale I shall convey to tne purchaser
ail the right, title and e-tate vested in John P.
Davie, Trusteo. and in m^ hi-, successor.
JOHN C. WALKER. Substitute Trustee.
This Mar 28. 1881.
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Alili VESSELS AND THEIR OWN-
er« landing goods on the AVIiarvas thereby
contract to pay, and are responsible for the wharf-
age on the same, according to the following rates,
to be collected from the vessels or their agents:
$ cis.
Anchors and Chains, per 100 tt 6
Barrels, wet 6
Barrels, dry 5
Barrels, empty, wet 3
Barrels, empty, dry 2
B.-irrel Staves, per M 30
Bacon, per cast 25
Bacon, per case 15
Bags or Sacks in bales, per cubic foot 1
Eagging. per cubic foot 1
Bagging, per 100 yard roll, each 6
Bagging, per 50 yard roll, each 3
Baskets, per nest 2
Ballast, per ton 25
Bales, over 5 etibic feet, per foot 1
Bedsteads, each 30
Bedsteads, common, each 5
Bedsteads, boxed, per cubic foot 1
Bellows, per cubic foot 1
Bananas and Plantains, per bunch 2
Breakfast Bacon, per box 5
Boxes, liquors, cheese, soap, candles, etc
Boxes, extracts, coffee, ink, bluing, etc
rv.ozen
idles, pe. .
Broom com. per bale.
Brooms, pei'dozen
Bn'om Handles, per M.
Broom corn, per oale
Brick, fire, per M....
Brick, common, per M
Bran, per sack
Bran, per ton of 2000 lb
Blinds, Doors and Sash, per cubic foot
Boilers, steam, per 100 ft 5
Bones and Horns, per ton 50
Bone-dust, per ton 50
Bone-black or Bone meai, per sack of 100 lb 3
Bolts and Spikes, Rivets, Nuts *nd Washers, per
keg 5
Buckets, per doz 5
Buckets, well, per doz 8
Butter, per kes: 3
Butter, per firkin 4
Building stone, rough, per ton 50
Buggies, each 50
Buggies, boxed, per cubic foot 1
Carboys, each, full 10
Carboys, empty 5
Casks, wine .' 20
Casks, hardware, per 100 Hi 5
Casks, merchandise, per cubio foot 1
Carriages, each T5
Carriages, boxed, per cubic foot 1
Carts, each 25
Castings, hollow or solid, per 100 lb 5
Cattle, grown, each 30
Cattle, two-year-olds, each 20
Cattle, yearlings, each 10
Cattle, calves, each 10
Champagne, in baskets 5
Chairs, per bundle (8 eacli) 5
Charcoal per ^ack 3
Cotton, per bale, landed 10
Cotton, per bale, shipped 10
Cotton, per sack 10
Coal, dumped in carts, per ton SO
Coal, dumped on wharf, per ton 50
Coal in Casks 25
Coaches, Stage, each 100
Corn persack 3
Corn, in Shuck, per bbl 3
Cotton Seed, per ton of 2003 lb 25
Cotton Gins, per cubic foot 1
Cotton Planters, each 10
Corti Planters, each 10
Com Shellers 6
Corn Mills, per cubic foot 1
Coffee, per sactr 4
Codfish, per drum 15
Cordage, per 100 ft 5
Cotton Ties, per 100®. (inwardj 2W
Cotton Ties, per 100 lb. (outward) 5
Copper, per 100 lb 5
Copper, pig, per 100 Ib 5
Canned Beef, per case 2
Coal Oil, per case 2
Cocoanuta, per 100 25
Collars, Horse, per doz 5
Crates. Crockery or Merchandise, per cubic foot 1
Cultivators, each 30
Drays, each 23
Doors, each 3
Demijohns, full 2
Demijohns, empty 1
Dry goods, in case, per 100 ft 5
Filters, boxed or otherwise, per cubic foot 1
Flour, per sack 3
Flour, per half sack 2
Fustic and other Dye-Woods, per ton 50
Fertilizer or Guano, per ton 50
Furniture, boxed, per cubic foot... 1
Groceries, dry, boxed, per 100 ft 5
Grain, in bulk or sacked, for export, per bushel Vi
Grind and Millstones, per 100 lb 5
Gunny Bags, in bales, per cubic foot 1
Hardware, per 100 lb 5
Hames, per doz 4
Hams, per cask 25
Hay, per bale 10
Hay. per half-bale 5
Hogsheads, empty 5
Hogshead Slaves, per M 50
Hay Cutters 6
Half Barrels, wet 3
H If Barrels, dry 2
Half Bum-Is. empty 1
Herring, per box 1
Hoop Poles, Dcrll 25
Horses and Mules, each 50
Hogs 5
Horseshoes, per keg. 5
Household Goods, per 100 lb 5
Hides, loose, each 1
Hides, in bales, per 1001b..., 5
Hides, greea, in bundles of two each 3
Ice in hogheads 25
Ice, as per invoice, less 30 per cent, for waste,
per ton 50
Iron, boiler, plate, bar, hoop, wrought, sheet
and Galvanized, per 100 lb 5
Iron Pipe. Gas and water, per 100 lb 5
Iron Shutters and Wrought Fittings, per 100 lb.. 5
Iron, junk and scrap, per ton 50
Iron, pig, per ton....... 50
Sates, per If" "
Juiik, in bale.'; (except iron)..
lro» 1
"olanks of all kinds neatly
JLf printed and bound at the News establishment
>afes, per 100 lb iu
; . ■ ; 10
Kegs, merchandise 2
Kegs, empty 1
Kits Fish S
Laths, per M 10
Lemuns, per box 4
Lead, per 100 lb 5
Lumber, per M 30
Leather, per 100 lb 5
Malt, per sack 5
Marble, per 100 ib., dressed 5
Marble, per ton of 2000 lb., rough 50
Marble dust, per bbl 5
Machineiy, per 100 B> £
Mineral Ores, per ton 50
Mowing Machines, each 50
Moss, per bale 5
Matting, per roll 5
Nails, per keg 3
Na ls, per half keg 2
Oakum, per bale 5
Oats, per sack 4
Oil Calce, per sack 3
Oranges, per box 4
Ordnance Stores, per 100 ft 5
Oysters, per bbl 5
Paint, per 100 lb 5
Pails, per doz. 5
Pails, flour, per nest 3
Paper, printing, per bundle 3
Paper, wrapping, per ream 1
Pecans, per sack 3
Pianos, boxed, per cubic foot 1
Pine-apples, per.100 25
Plows, each 5
Plows, Sulky 25
Plow Material, k. d., per 100 lb 5
Potash, per 1001b 4
Post, Fencing, each 1
Powder, kegs 4
Powder, half kegs 2
Powder, auarter kegs 1
Railroad Material for construction and opera-
tion:
Railroad Iron and Steel Rails ) Per Ton 1
R. R. Fish Bars. Plates and Chairs V of V 30
R. R. Frogs, Spikes. Bolts and Nuts) 2240 ft. )
R. R. Iron Bridges, Locomotives... I PerTon of I . m
R. R. Trucks, Wheels, Ax es, etc.. ( 2240 ft., f
R. R. Passenger Cars, each 15 CO
R. R. Passenger Cars. Narrow Gauge 10 00
Railrond Plat orm Cars 8 00
R. R. Platform Cars, Narrow Gauge 5 00
R. R. Lumber, per M. feet 30
R. R. Ties, eight feet long, each 2
Raisins, per box 3
Raisins, per half box 2
Raisins, per quarter box 1
Rag , per bale 10
Refriser.-vtors, per cubic foot 1
Rubber Belting, per 100 ft 5
Roofing Slat?, per ton 40
Rope, per 100 ft 5
Salt, per sack 3
Sand or Soil, per dray load 5
Sewing Machines, each 10
Sewing K. D.. per 100 ft 5
Sieves, per package, 2 dozen 4
Sawdust. p<»r dray load... 10
Sliot, per 100 1b 5
Bhiiigfes. per M 10
Sheep, each 5
Shook=. box, per carload 5 00
Shooks, box. less than carload, per 100 1b 3
Shell, per dray load 5 bbls 5
Soda, in casks and drums, per 100 ft 2
Shovels and Spades, per dozen 6
Spices, per sack 5
Stoves, per cubic foot 1
Sugar, per hogshead 25
Sugar, per bbl 5
Suit
&r. pe
nr, Ha
avana, in boxes 15
Smoke-stacks, perlOO ft
Stoves and Trimmings, per 100 ft
Sulkies 25
Tierce Beef 10
Tierces Lard 10
Tierce- Rice 10
Tierces Hams 10
Tierces Tallow, etc 10
Tierces with bbls. inside 10
Tierces, empty 4
Timber, Walnut, etc.,per ton 25
Tin Plate, per 1001b 5
Tin pig. per 100 lb 5
Tobacco, chewing, per 1001b 5
Tobacco, smoking, per cubic foot 1
Tiles, per M 50
Trunks, filled with merchandise or nests 6
Tubs, per nest 5
Trucks, Railroad, per 1001b 5
Wagons, each
Wagons, Spring or Cane
Wagon Material, K. D., per 100 ft
Washing Machines, each
Washboards, per doz
Watermelons, each
Water Coolers
Wire, per 100 lb
Wheelbarrows
Wheels and Axles, railroad, per 100 lb
Wheels and Axles, log carrier
Wood, per cord
Wool, per sack
Le
White Lead, per 100 1b 5
Zinc, in rolls per 1U0 lb 5
Goods not ill above list will be charged in pro-
portion, say: Less than forty pounds to the cubic
foot will lie classed as measurement and charged 1
cent per foot; forty pounds and over to the cubic
foot will be classed as weight, and charged 5 cents
per 100 pounds.
All goods and articles of every kind, landed or
received upon any of the wharves, are thereafter
at the risk of the owners, and not of the Company,
and must be removed the same day, or. at far-
thest, the next day. After which time, any of
said goods and articles remaining on the wjiarves,
the owners and consignees thereof will be respon-
sible for, and will be charged an additional wharf-
age of one-third the rates specified in the preced-
ing schedule for every day they so remain, and
may be removed by the Wharf Company without
further notice (at the risk and expense of the
goods and the owners and consignees thereof) to
any part of its premises, continuing the charge for
additional wharfage each day they remain on said
premises. Or the Wharf Company may have the
same removed and stored elsewhere than on its
Own premises without further notice (at the risk
and expense of the goods and the on ners and con-
signees thereof^, and the same will be held until
alT charges are paid.
The Company hereby gives notice that It will not
be liable for losses if caused by excessive and un-
usual weights, or bypiling up heavy articles, such
as salt, more than lour sacks high, an9 railroad
iron more than three tiers high, 011 the wharves.
Or by landing articles of extraordiuary weight,
such as locomotives, without special permission (in
writing) from the Company's agent: but that it
will hold all persons liable for such damages as
may be occasioned by overloading the wharves,
without special permission.
The Company also gives notice that it does not
undertake storage, and will not be responsible for
losses or damage, from any cause, to goods or ar-
ticles landed or received on its wharves.
All vessels of fifty tons and over not engaged in
receiving or discharging cargo, or seized by legal
process, and ljing at the wharf after such seizure,
will be charged wharfage at the rate of five cents
per regis- eied ton for each day. Vessels of less
than fifty tons will be charged wharfage at the rate
of $2 per day.
THOS. C. SHEARER, Secretary.
SOMERYILLE & DAVIS,
STRAND, GALVESTON, TEXAS.
mac»com ties.
The Merchants of Texas will please take notice that we now have
in Store and to Arrive the Largest Stock of Bagging and Ties ever
brought to the State, viz.:
2,500 - - Rolls Double Anchor Bagging
5,000 - Half Bolls Double Anchor Bagging
5,000 - - - - Rolls Texas Mills Bagging
All of our Bagging isjmade of tfca BEST QUALITY SELECTED JUTE BUTTS, and is warranted
FRLE 'F**VCTl'0 ^ave so^ these brands of Bagging for many years, and they h&T9
We are Now Receiving from Liverpool
15,000 Bundles Arrow Ties, ex bark Weymouth,
14,000 Bundles Arrow Ties, ex bark Nore,
18.000 Bundles Arrow Ties, ex bark Herbert C. Hall,
16,000 Bundles Arrow Ties, ex bark Roma.
In addition to which we have in Liverpool awaiting transportation
100,000 BUNDLES ARROW TIES.
These Ties are all guaranteed to be the GENUINE NO. 2 ARROWS, manufactured bv the " JfoComb
Arrow Tie Company." In these Ties the public can rely on getting the BEST QUALITY OF ESQLI8H
IRON.
Parties wishing to purchase will find it to their interest to give us a call before buying elsewhere, aS
we are prepared to meet competition and accept very low prices.
SOMERYILLE & DAVIS.
J. S. BROWN & CO.,
Hardware Merchants,
GALVESTON, TEXAS,
ARE HEADQUARTERS FOB
EYE ANT) HANDLED HOES
GEAIX CRADLES,
SCYTHES, SHEATHS, GRASS, GRAIN AND BUSH HOOKS,
MACHINISTS' & CARPENTERS' IMPLEMENTS,
BUILDERS' AISTD PLANTATION 8UPPLIES.
SANBORN & W ARNER,
manufacturers' Sole Agents lor
The Celebrated Glidden's Patent Steel Barb Fence Wire, and the
Brinkerhoff Patent Metallic Strip Fencing.
[Above Cut R^presentiupr Strip.l
Made of a fine qualitv of Carbonized Steel, cold roiled and tempered in lead.
TENSILE STRENGTH OVER 2000 ROUNDS
An admirable fencing material, has keen thoroughly
tested. A-way? affording entire cat isfaction to the purclin er and is fast gaining favor like our
Oi.IDDEN GALVANIZED BARB WIRE. It has past experiment, aad from actual u«e has proved to
fu'ilv meet evsrv claim mr.de for it. Fur further re erence send for our Circular descriptive or this par-
ticular style of fencing. SANBORN & WARNER, Houston, Texas.
MISCELLANEOUS.
galveston.
JSTotice.
m CHANDLERY AID NAVAL STORES.
A FULL STOCK OF MANILLA, HEMP
and Rope, Blocks, Sheaves, Flags, Bunting and
Canvas, and all Goods in these lines always on hand.
SAILS, TENTS, TARPAULINS and AWNINGS
made to order. Orders solicited.
THEO. K. THOMPSON,
(Successor to David Wakelee,)
208 & 210 Sirand, GALVESTON, TEX,
brayage, Storage, Forwarding and Her-
ring Safes.
K. P. SARGENT,
GENERAL Transfer and Forwarding Agent and
Warehouseman, Mechanic Street, between Tre- '
mont and Twenty-fourth, Galveston. Texas,
having the best facilities, is prepared to tranfer or
store all kinds of light and heavy Merchandise,
Wool, Sugar, Etc.
Moving Safes, Boilers, Engines and all kinds of
heavy Machinery iu and out of buildings a specialty.
I
fllHB FIRM OF G. B. MILLER & CO.
A is this dissolved by limitation, and either parti
ner will sign the firm name in liquidation. ""—
business will be succeeded to by the firm of A'
& CANNON. G. B. MILLER,
D. THE. AYER9.
"DEFERRING TO THE ABOVE THE
JLl undersigned give notice that they have formeq
a partner-hip under the firm name of AYEBS
CANNON, for the continuation of the business here-
tofore conducted by G. B. MILLER & CO.
D. THE. AYERS,
FENELON CANNON.
Agents for the Sale of
Herring's Patent €bampion Safes,
A Fine Assortment Coustantly on Hand.
PITS, OILS, GLASS,
TARNISHES OF ALL KINDS,
WALL PAPER & WINDOW SHADES
/
READY-MIXED PAINTS,
THE VERY BEST INSECTICIDE,
RICE & BAULAED,
TT TREIKONT STREET, GALVESTON.
(Successors to G. B. Miller & Co.)
Produce Commission Merchants,
232 AND 334 STRAND, GALVESTON.
G. B. MILLER.
T. WM. ENGLISH.
d. the. ayers*
[Special.]
C. B. Li be,
.11
D. Weber.
JOSHUA iwLi.fc.it.
IRON WORKS
C. B. LEE & CO.,
k
AND
MACHINISTS.
MANUFACTURERS OF
STEAM ENGINES, SAW MILLS,
Boilers, Mill and Gin Gearing,
Shafting, Pulleys, Brass
and Iron Pumps,
Etc.
fcp" Particular attention eiren to Order* for «roD
Fronts and Castings for Buildings,
All Kinds ot Job Work solicited. Satisfaction
guaranteed.
Corner Winnie and Thirty-second Sts.,
(Near Railroad Depot,)
GALVESTON, TEXAS,
NEW ORLEANS.
JOHN GAUCHE,
AT THE
MORESQUE BUILDING,
Ant 110 Chartrea Street,
NEW ORLEANS, LA.,
Has the largest and best selection of
Crockery, Glassware,
WOODEN, TIN AND HARDWARE,
Of Any House In the loath.
The prices are guaranteed aa low, if not loirer,
tha'n nor establishment north or south.
HOUSTON.
Dll. M. PERL,
l
HOUSTON, TEXAS.
FOR EENT.
MY
MILLER & ENGLISH,
IMPORTERS AND
wholesale grocers,
DEALERS IN
Liquors and Tobaccos,
And Proprietors of the
Galveston Flouring Mills.
114,116, 118 and 120 STRAND.
A RARE CHANCE TO ENGAGE IN
the Stock Bu^inebs.—I will sell or lease, for a
term of years, my ^tock and grain farm, situated
immediately on the Texas-Paciflc R. R., two miles
from the town of Terrell, Kaufman county, Texas,
and thirty miles east of Dallas, consisting of 4500
acres, under plank and wire fence, subdivided by
cross fences into Are fields. The pastures are well
supplied with inexhaustible ponds and streams of
water, and abundant shade trees—the track being
crossed by creeks bordered with timber. The farm
consists of about 200 acres in ahigh state of cultiva-
tion. and is especially adapted to the culture of
small grain. The orchard consists of a large
variety of the choicest fruit trees, grapes and ber-
ries. The farm and improvements are situated on
the west quarter of the tract. The qmklings are
very substantial and complete in finish, and espe-
cially arvauged for convenience. The dwelling ia
two stories, with eight large rooms in addition to
store-room, dairy and bath-room, which is supplied
with water from a laree reservoir in the top of trie
house: a cistern of 500 barrels capacity, and other
water facilities conveniently located. The granary
and stables are commodious and conveniently ar-
ranged. Especial attention has been given to tho
arrangement and durabiiity of cow-sheds, feed-
troughs, har-racks, branding-pens and other con-
veniences for the care and raising of fine stock,
and I have no hesitation in saying that it is the
best appointed stock farm west of the Mississippi
River. I will also sell my stock of Cattle and
Hor.-?es, consisting of about 1000 head of cattle, the
najority of which are one, two, three and four-
ear-old steers, seven Short-horn bulls and a few
tour-
majority of which are one, two,
year-old steers, seven Short-hom
Short-horn heifers and cows. The remainder of
the cattle are young cows and calves, some of
which are superior milkers. Nearly all of my
young cattle are half and three-quarter bloods.
There are about forty head of mares and colts,
some very fine brood mares. I will lease all to-
gether, or the pastures separately from the farm
and dwelling. I will also sell my farming imple-
ments and work stock. I respectfully invite all
persons wishing to avail themselves of this oppor-
tunity to visit and inspect the premises. For
further particulars address J. S. GRIN NAN,
Terrell, Kaufman County, Texas.
P. S.—A plot of the premises may be seen at the
office of the Live Stock Journal, Fort 'Worth, or
will be sent upon application to
6"
.
NOTICES.
WITHIN THE REACH OF ALL—ONE
Dollar for six months. Delay not. Keep
posted as to the markets. Full and accurate re*
ports in each issue of the Weekly News.
Notice.
IN THE
BSUEGGERHOFF BUILDING,
SITUATED ON
Congress Avenue, Austin, Texas.
utoreboom 46 feet front 160
Ikj feet deep 011 the corner. Best Storeroom in
Texas, and suitable for WHOLESALE DRY GOODS.
jNo better opening in the state for such business.
Terms moderate, and long lease to a good live busi-
ness tenan:.
WM. BRUEGGERHOFF, Prop'r.
Notice.
He becomes a
lynchbirg, VA„
HANCOCK & KINNIER,
proprietors.
Manufacturers of all Grades
Chewing Tobacco.
Price List furnished on application.
GARSIA & FREIBERG, Asta., Galv'n.
I
All orders or complaints, to
receive nrompt attention, should be left at
the office of the Company, in the Brick Building, on
market Street, Between 24th aad 25tin
Streets,
Between the hours of 8 and 12 o'clock a. m.
aug. Bi'ttlar, Secretary.
WE HAVE THIS DAY SOLD OTJIjt
stock and business to Messrs. v\ ILLIAM
TERKY £ CO., who will continue the same in con-
nection with their own. We desire to express our
thanks for the continued patronage received, and
solicit the same for our successors. All parties
with whom we have accounts are respectfully re-
quested to settle same. All accounts we owe will
be paid upon P-^^fETZilACHER & CO.
Galveston, May 21, 1881.
-% I
: «-i
*
eferring to
aire pleasure m staling th
(JRUETZMACHER has associated nimseif with us.
Referring to the above wo-
tice, we tal:e_£leasure in staling
: that Mk. PAUL
in our business, and will
. partner
have charge of the city trade. Mb. emit. NEU-
MANN becomes a partner iu our house from this
date. The firm name remains unchanged.
Encouraged by the substantial recognition that
lias followed pur efforts to meet the wants of the
trade, we shall, early this fall, open the most com-
prehensive line of Stationery ever offered in Texas
to Texas merchants, who will find it to their inter-
est to examine our stock, as we are prepared to
meet competition and will accept verv low price*.
Respectfully, wit.t.tam TERRY <& CO.
Galveston, May 25, 1881.
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