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Thursday, March 25, 1873.
Puebi<o, Col., is one of the livest,
most progressive towns in the West.
In the last year it has built a long,
large irrigating ditch; built the Holly
water works, straightened the Arkan-
sas river for two miles, and erected
many fine buildings at outlays of more
than 12,000,000. And now the people
begin to grumble about their taxes.
There is a bill now in the Tennessee
Legislature providing that the school
taxes paid by the white and colored
children shall be applied separately to
the children of the respective races.
This bill, it passed, will, it is said,
close the colored schools of the State,
as the colored people are not able to
pay taxes enough to support their
schools two weeks.
Unbelief is extending among the
doubting denizens of the Northwest.
One of the papers says that the Bible
statement that "The wind blowetb
where it listeth and ye hear the sound
thereof; but do not know whence it
Cometh, nor whither it goeth," does
not apply to Nebraska, for the Nebras-
kians know that it often comes from
the North Pole and goes right through
a person without stopping.
Fifteen hundred coal miners at
Brazil, Indiana, who have been on a
strike for several months, resumed
work last week on ths basis offered by
the operators. This is the average re-
sult of strikes. The laborers have
long holiday and create a good deal of
trouble, spend all their money, and
bring their families to want, and sel-
dom obtain an advance of wages
scarcely ever enough to compensate
them for lost time and other incidental
injuries.
The editor of the Utica Ilerald, who
has had an excellent opportunity to
observo the different members of Con-
gress, expresses the belief that the
Speakership of the next House of Rep
resentatives lies between Messrs. Ran
dall and Wood; that Mr. Kerr, of In
diana, will become chairman of the
Committee on Ways and Means, and
Mr. Cox of the Committee on Foreign
Affairs, while the chairmanship of the
Committee on Appropriations will lie
between Swanu of Maryland, Han-
cock of Texas, and Lamar of Missis-
sippi.
Fending it impossible to protect the
frontier from Indian invasion our gov
ernmcnt is now trying to protect the
savages from the intrusion of the
whites. The Secretary of War has ad
dressed a letter to General Sherman in
which he says all expeditions into the
Black Hills country must be prevented
Those persAis at present within that
territory without authority must be ex
pcllcd. General Sheridan some time
since issued one of his exterminating
cdicts against such white persons as
might dare to penetrate this mysterious
and sacred region; but a number of
adventurers have gone there, never
theless, while many others are pre
paring to go.
Cremation is still occasionally prac
ticcd, though the newspapers have
ceased to make it a hobby. A few
days since an old negro woman near
Covington, Ky., having a bed-ridden
child, of whose care she was tired, de-
cided to burn it to death. She accord
ingly seated it in a chair, and, tying it
(with a rope, began carefully saturating
it with turpentine, a bottle of which
she had procured. The child in its
struggles knocked the bottle from the
hand of its mother and broke it, satu-
rating the mother's clothing with the
inflammable fluid. In the struggle
the mother's clothing took fire from
the lireplace, and she abandoned her
terrible crime to save her own life
Running out she threw herself into a
creek near by, and extinguished the
flames, but not until she was fatally
burned. When in the agonies of death
from her burning the mother revealed
the facts.
Beef and Beef Supply.
The New York Commercial Bulletin
is prosecuting its investigations of the
question of the future supply of beef
for the old States of the Unkra. Hav-
ing recently sketched the progress of
the beef-packing interests of Kansas
City, the Bulletin proceeds to notice
the aspects of the beef trade at other
centers, and especially at Chicago,
hitherto the headquarters of the busi-
ness.
There has been a strong diversion to
St. Louis since the opening of the
bridge over the Mississippi at that
point and the tapping of the Texas
cattle-raising districts by means of the
roads running out of St. Louis in that
direction and through the immense
grazing tracts of Kansas, which places
St. Louis more nearly in the line with
Eastern markets and in the center of
the cattle-raising regions of the coun
try.
The cattle trade of Chicago may be
said to have commenced in 1832. It
gradually grew as railway facilities ex-
tended, until in 1865 it had reached
such dimensions as to require the build-
ing of the Union Stock Yards at that
point—400,000 head of cattle being
received in that year. From this
point ft has increased, until in 1874
the number received was 800,000 head.
The Bulletin says:
When it is contemplated to furnish
England with fresh as well as Bait beef
from our present sources of supply, it
becomes a question of no small import-
ance to ascertain how long our present
rate of production, confined to the pre-
sent stock-raising region, will suffice to
meet this enhanced demand, even at
steadily increasing rates which seem to
be possible for some time to come. The
only immediate relief that can be had is
that now being sought weBt of the Mis-
sissippi valley, from which immense
plains stretch to the base of, or rather by
gradual slopes to, the top of the Rocky
Mountains. Here is an immense tract of
land peculiarly adapted to grazing,
where cattle can live and fatten the year
round upon the rich native grasses, with-
out other food or shelter, and where the
only expense of raising is that of one
herder, a dog and a horse to a thousand
head of cattle. The extent of this vast
area is nearly one thousand miles square.
One of the first results of this gradual
revolution is the steady decline in beef-
packing at Eastern points for the past
few years, while Kansas City has grown
up in the same time with this Western
movement and the completion of the Pa-
cific roads. It is not true, however, that
Chicago has lost Its trade in cattle in any
marked proportion as yet, for the very
obvious reason that cattle shipped to
market from the West and Northwest
still come through there, while those
which are packed can be shipped much
cheaper in that shape, so that the packing
interests follow the source of supply
westward.
But it is apparent from what has been
seen that Chicago must lose in the end
even this carrying traffic, so far as the
Texas regions are concerned, as well as
the great bulk of the cattle trade that
now centers along the Kansas railroads :
St. Louis being a more natural outlet and
in a more direct line with the markets
of the seaboard, which draw their sup-
plies largely from this source. It has
already been shown since the opening of
the bridge across the Mississippi at St.
Louis that there has been a marked di-
version from Chicago, or to put it in a
more incontrovertible shape, there has
been a marked increase at St. Louis,
which is equivalent to a diversion from
Chicago.
The following figures, taken from the
Chicago Board of Trade reports, show
the annual rate of decrease in Chicago of
beef packing since the receipt of any
notable number of " Texans : "
Seasons. Head.iSeasons. Head.
18sb-b7 25,996 1871-72 17.0s0
1867-6S 35,343| 1872-73 16,755
18h8-b9 26.9501187:3-74 15.coo
1869-7 0 ll,!tti3jl874-75 14,000
1870-7 1 21,254)
The Kansas City Live Stock Reporter
says: "We are warranted by late and
direct information from Texas in pre-
dicting that the drive from that State
will at least equal, if it does not exceed,
the drive of 1874. Advices to one firm
alone, that of Powers, Rial & Co.,
tell of over 80,000 head destined to this
market."
After enumerating several of the pro-
minent drovers who are preparing to
move herds, they conclude as follows:
The above list gives a grand total of
92,000 cattle destined for this market,
and these are but a few from the vast
horda that will noon bo found on the trail
leading to Kansas City, and heavy cattle
men are yet to be heard from.
fW years we have listened to the sad
voice of the Texas cattle drover, as he
mournfully declared: "These are the
last of our cattle," and still the end is
not yet, but the vast breeding grounds
of that State continue to pour forth herds
to feed a world.
The prospects for an active market
and high prices during the coming sea-
son are unusually good. Several causes
have reduced the supply of cattle in Kan-
sas, Nebraska, Missouri, Iowa and Illi-
nois much "below the needs of those
States. They must have cattle and will
seek them in the best market; therefore
we feel justified in predicting not only
that the drive will be heavy, but that
those who bring their ' long horns ' here
will be able to go back with light
hearts and heavy purses."
Texas Ballroads.
The Progressive World, a monthly
journal devoted to railways, miniDg,
manufactures, etc., lately established
at St. Louis, R. O. Thompson, editor,
gives a good deal of attention to Texas
railroads and other matters of interest
in this State. It describes our various
lines of railroads, built and in pro-
gress, their condition, the country
through which they pass, the induce-
ments to immigrants, etc., etc. The
articles have evidently been prepared
with care, by persons acquainted with
the subject, and embrace a good deal
of useful information, as the following
extracts will show:
It is a well and justly conceded fact
that the International and Great North
ern Railroad is one of the best built and
best managed roads in Texas. Its equip-
ment is unexceled. This is the great
through passenger
gulf and the lakes.
Rents in New York.
some OF the cheat HEAL estate MEN
of tfle <yty.
[Correspondence of the Cincinnati Gaeette. 1
amount of hbkts.
This island of Manhattan (otherwise
called New York) contains 60,000
dwellings, besides stores and ware-
houses, the latter numbering 10,000.
One-third of the dwellings referred to
are tenement houses, each of which is
meant to hold from six to thirty fami-
lies. In such narrow quarters a popu-
lation of 500,000 is contained. Of the
better part of our inhabitants, a large
rents hare advanced immensely. For
the mere privilege of keeping a stand
on the sidewalk in front of a store $u0
a month is paid. ,
Commodore Yanderbilt paid a round
million for St. John's Park, on which
to build his freight depot, covering
four acres. The Union Passenger De-
pot, at Forty-second street, cost two
millions, and is used by three impor-
tant roads. About 00,000 travelers
pass through it daily.
VJUARTEK-OAY AT TRINITY.
" St. Landlord" is the patron saint
of this corporation. The office is di-
rectly in the rear of St. Paul's Church,
and has been during the week, the
portion live three families in a house, gcelle 0f great activity. Its rent roll
:;i "rnnrnv" • j . . •» .
Pennsylvania has repealed her Lo-
cal Option Law in regard to the retail
trade in liquor, where the question of
license was decided by the people of
the district where it was proposed to
open bar-rooms. The new bill pro-
vides that licenses may be granted by
the Court of Quarter Sessions, when
not otherwise provided for by special
law, for one year. The act classifies
hotels, inns and taverns as follows
When the yearly sales exceed $10,000
per annum, $700 license shall be paid
When over $8000, then $400 license,
When over $0000, then $200 license,
and when over $4000, then $100 license,
while the fifth class, when sales are
under $4000, shall pay $50 license
The acs inflicts punishment for selling
without license, the highest being
$1000, and the lowest $260, and im
prisonment not exceeding one year,
The act authorizes husbands, wives,
parents, children and guardians to
give notice to the house not to sell to
their relatives who may be of dissipa-
ted habits, and requires bonds of
$2000 to be signed before the licenses
issue, prohibits sales on Sundays and
to minors, and provides that no licenses
heretofore granted shall be invalidated,
and that nothing in this act shall
authorize the manufacture or sale of
liquors in cities, counties, boroughs or
townships having special prohibitory
laws.
The Chicago Inter-Ocean is answer
ing correspondents by telling what it
knows about Texas, and tells some
things it does not know. It says
" there are no homestead laws in that
State," which is about as gTeat a false
hood as that adept in the business
could tell. There have been home
stead and exemption laws in Texas
from the first organization of the gov
ernment. Grants of lands were made
to settlers for years before the war and
pre-emptions are still offered, while
homesteads and household furniture
and implements of industry are ex-
empt from execution. But a corre
spondent of the Inter-Ocean is made to
ask what would be "the fate that
would attend one of the ' old boys in
blue' should he move to Northern
Central Texas and locate there, pro-
vided he was civil and yet wished to
vote the Republican ticket? "
The answer of that paper is "he
would be socially ostracised, and if his
true sentiments were knowr, he would,
in many portions of the State, be in-
vited to leave." This is drawing it
mild. Why not say that he would be
hung, drawn and quartered. Some
thousands of Union soldiers have set-
tled in Texas since the war and become
good and useful citizens, and no one
thinks of proscribing them.
This
route between the
By this line Pull
man palace sleeping cars are run between
St. Louis and Houston without change.
All passenger trains are fully equipped
with the Westinghouse air brake and
Miller's patent safety platforms and coup-
lers.
The Galveston and Houston road is
the only rail line between the two largest
cities in Texas, and is the channel by
which nearly all the products of the
State seek the seaboard for shipment,
where importations are received for, and
distributed in the interior. It connects
at Harrisburg with the " Sunset Route,"
the Galveston, Harrisburg and San An-
tonio Railroad, the only rail route to
Western and Southwestern Texas,
portion of the State now being rapidly
developed and attracting a large
share of the attention of those
seeking homes in the " Lone Star State,"
and also of capitalists desirous of mak
ing permanent and profitable invest-
ments. It has a connection also at Hous
ton with the Texas Central, a road run-
ning through the center of the State
nearly North and South, with its branches
leading to Austin, the State capital, and
Waco, a flourishing town on the Brazos.
This road has for its northern connection
the Missouri, Kansas and Texas and the
International and Great Northern ; also
connects with the road at Houston, form-
ing an additional connection with St.
Louis and the North by the Iron Moun
tain railroad.
The Galveston, Harrisburg and San
Antonio Railroad traverses the most fer
tile portion of the State of Texas, its
lands being known as the most productive
in America, being free from the chilling
blasts of the North, and fanned by the
gentle breezes from the Gulf of Mexico.
To the emigrant seeking a home no
other part of the United States offers so
many varied and natural advantages. It
is the most productive and fertile farm
ing district, and the most desirable coun
try for stock raising to be found in the
State. All the products of the North and
South grow in abundant profusion, the
expenditure of time and labor being one-
half of that required in the older States.
San Antonio is the oldest, healthiest and
most beautiful, city on the continent, be-
ing to this country what Nice is to Eu-
rope ; the place of resort for all failing in
health. Consumption, asthma and rheu-
matism never originate, and if not too far
advanced, a residence will cure these
maladies. In a population of 20,000, the
death rate last year was only 12 in 1000,
smaller than in any other city in the
world.
The Galveston, Harrisburg and San
Antonio Railway is now completed and
in running order to within forty-five
miles of San Antonio, which distance is
graded, and the road is being rapidly
pushed forward to completion, and now
forms the most desirable route, being
many miles the shortest, and many hours
in advance of any other line. It is now
opening to the farmer and the stockraiser
the most beautiful and magnificent coun-
try in the world, and the many natural
advantages and inducements offered to
those seeking a home are not equaled by
any State in the Union. The Galveston,
Harrisburg and San Antonio Railway
runs through the most fertile portion of
this El Dorado, and offers to the emi-
grant and stockraiser the only rail line
by which it can be reached.
The road was purchased by Mr. Thos.
W. Peirce, of Boston, in the month of
September, 1868. He is President and
owner of the road. The laws of Texas
require railroads to perfect organizations
with President, Vice President, and Di-
rectors. Were it not for this, Mr. Peirce,
being the entire owner of the road,
would require no annual meeting, report
or election of directors. As it is, there is
only a formality in all this yearly work.
Mr. Peirce has surrounded himself
with some of the best business talent in
the country. Col. H. B. Andrews, his
Vice President and general manager, is a
man of remarkable managing ability and
legal knowledge. The manager, vice
president and attorney of the road is not
often found combined in the same in-
dividual. Col. Andrews resides in Gal-
veston, as well as Hardy Eddins, the
Superintendent. Charles Babbridge, of
Boston, is Secretary and Treasurer
James Converse, the Chief Engineer ; the
general offices are at Galveston. J. E.
Fisher is Assistant Secretary and Treas
urer, and 0. G. Murray, Assistant and
General Freight and Ticket Agent, both
of Galveston.
The road is 156 miles in length from
Buffalo Bayou, one mile east of Harris-
burg. to Luling, near the San Marcos
river. The road ha3 12.V miles of siding,
and is tied with 2640 ties to the mile,
which are of post oak and mountain red
cedar
There was shipped over the road in
1874 about 80,000 bales of cotton, 150,000
head of stock and 12,000,000 feet of lum-
ber, with other business from local
points.
Harrisburg is situated upon Buffalo
bayou, which is navigable for vessels
from the Gulf. The town has a popula-
tion of some 600 inhabitants. Here the
Galveston, Harrisburg and San Antonio
and the Galveston, Houston and Hender
son railroads cross one another at right
angles.
The World has not yet written up
the other railroads of Texas, of which
the Central and its connections is the
principal.
(where
shape)
number
this being considered a rather "roomy
accommodation. The number of those
who enjoy sole occupancy of a house
can not be more than 15,000. The
Fifth avenue contains less than 700
families. The best- of streets and
squares below Fifty-fourth street
population is in solid
show an equally limited
of "self-contained" houses.
The value of rented property on
Manhattan Island is $1,000,000,000,
which brings, on an average, 10 per
cent. This gives the amount of an-
nual rent $100,000,000. Wall street
rents are about 20 per cent, on the val-
uation. Trinity building, which is
40x160 feet, rents for $100,000. It
cost $250,000 in 1850, and would now
bring thrice that sum. For nearly
two miles above Wall street Broadway
property brings 20 per cent, on cost,
and the rental of this street alone, is
not less than $500 per running foot,
which, in two miles, makes about $15,-
000,000. Just think of this in con-
nection with the fact that the best
part of this street was once a negro
quarter. Stewart's wholesale ware
house now occupies the site of a former
colored "burying ground," and hu-
man remains were discovered when the
foundation was laid. I found among
the old conveyances in our records a
deed of a lot on " the Broadway " to
Simon, a negro, for 100 paces front. If
a lot were to be measured thus at pre-
sent what long steps men would take!
A three foot pace in the street is now
worth $10,000.
some eentaxs.
The new Drexel building, corner of
Wall and Broad streets, probably
yields a better rent than any similar
property on the continent. The own-
ers are not willing to let their rent-roll
be seen, but it is estimated at $110,000.
They paid for the plat at the rate of
$14,000,000 per acre—a price which
has never been equaled in America.
Next in this vicinity is the property
of Edward Mathews. He is a man of
sixty-five, and has been of late years
accumulating a grand estate chiefly in
the moneyed neighborhood. His
rents in Broad street, near the Stock
Exchange, are estimated at $60,000 a
year. It is a peculiar feature in Mr,
Mathews's view that he advocated the
levy of all taxes on real estate, and
total exemption of personal property.
This shows breadth of view. He holds
that taxing mortgages prevents loans,
and thus impedes the increase of
the city; and hence he concludes that
it is best for the common weal to place
the entire civic burden on the land.
Near Trinity building, on the opposite
side of Broadway, stands the Equitable
Insurance building, which has recently
been enlarged to double the former
size. It contains more law offices than
any other building in America, and its
rental is not less than $100,000. The
structure cost $1,500,000, and is a good
investment. More than 2000 persons
are carried daily up and down the ele-
vator. Gilsey's building, corner Broad
way and Cortlandt streets, is worth
! ;50,000 a year. This is one-fifth part
of the estate left by Peter Gilsey, a
Danish emigrant, who landed here pen-
niless about forty years ago. He laid
the foundation of his fortune in a cigar
shop, and invested the profits in real
estate until he became worth one mil
lion five hundred thousand dollars.
A Tennessee farmer, who has emi-
grated to Texas, has tried Mexicans as
laborers. In a letter to a Tennessee
journal he says that the new hands,
while slower than negroes, do their
work much more efficiently; that they
are steady and industrious, and that
the cotton raised and picked by them
commands a higher price in the mar-
ket than that grown by negroes.
An Iowa farmer last week went to
store three miles from his home for
medicine for his sick wife, fell in with
boon companions, drank too much
and started for home in a snow storm
His wife recovered in time to attend
his funeral.
Boston capitalists propose to erect
double track railroad bridge over the
Hudson River at Poughkeepsie to cost
$4,400,000. It is estimated that one
cent per ton toll will pay 10 per cent,
on the investment.
What would Armand Cardinal-Duke
of Richelieu have said, think you, and
—still more awful thought!—what
would he have done to the bold and
scandalous prophet who should have
ventured to tell him, say in the year of
grace 1640, that within two centuries
and a half after his death the line of
Richelieu would be saved from ex
tinction by the marriage, in the sight
of all Paris and before his own stately
tomb, of its sole heir with a young
lady of Hebrew blood, the heiress of
family of German money-changers?
Yet this has come to pass. On the
28th of February Marie-Odet-Armand
Marquis Chapelle de Jumilhac, only
child of the widowed Marchioness of
Jumilhac, and heir of Armand Duke of
Richelieu and Frousac, a young noble
bleman of twenty-eight years of age,
was married at the Church of the Sor
bonne by Monseigneur Maret, assisted
by the whole chapter of Notre Dame
de Paris, to Miss Heine. The Parisian
papers are full of the lace, flowers and
diamonds of the wedding, which
described as the most brilliant which
has been seen in Paris for years. The
Bastile was luckily pulled down near
century ago; and th6 wittiest and
keenest of modern satirists who im
mortalized the name which the bride
that day surrendered, has been dead
for many a year. Else where would
the married couple have passed their
honeymoon, and what would not have
been written concerning the social sig
nificance of the marriage!—New York
World.
includes 1000 tenants. This is four
times the congregation of any one of
its churches. The corporation admit
that $125,000 is the quarterly collec-
tion (above all 'taxes), but it is sup-
posed to be much larger. Trinity
estate is in size nearly one hundred
acres, in the best part of the city.
The Astor estate, though only forty
acres in extent, lias a rent of double
the amount above mentioned, and
hence it is believed that a large part
of Trinity's real income is divided
among the ring which controls it.
This is one reason why Trinity seeks
no addition to her communion. Church
members would bring votes, and these
might elect a new vestry.
other states.
The Rhinelanders will collect f 20, ■
000 this quarter day, even if all be not
paid. Peter Goelet's agent will bring
in an almost equal amount. The Lo
rillard estate is estimated at $30,000
per quarter, while the great Jew land-
holder, Hendricks, will get $15,000.
Peter Cooper's landed property in this
city is not much less, while the Stuy-
vesants are in the same happy list.
Secretary of State, Hamilton Fish, is a
member of the last mentioned family,
has a large income from landed prop-
erty. A. T. Stewart has a heavy rent
roll, for in addition to his two grand
warehouses and the- Metropolitan Ho-
tel, he owns a theater and a large num
ber of valuable buildings, including a
church.
a nice rroi'ep.ty.
The Astor estate contains about 700
houses, which cover forty acres in very
desirable localities. The Astor House
alone is worth $1,800,000. A very
large part of the property lies on the
Fourtli and Fifth avenues, also Madi
son avenue, where entire squares of
elegant houses acknowledge his name.
This land "was bought by the original
Astor at prices ranging from $500 to
$1000 per acre, and each acre is now
worth nearly $1,000,000. All of these
"00 tenants have been visited during
this week. Astor's collectors are men
of brief language. All that needs to
be done is to utter the cabalistic words
check for the rent," and delays are
taken with ill grace. The reply is,
"We can not be running twice—too
much to do." Indeed, if people want
to hold Astor's property they must be
ready with the money. The rent roll
is said to fill thirty pages of writing
paper. Even the indorsement of the
checks is no small task. Old William
B. was wont to do this until extreme
age enfeebled his hand. How many
thousand checks has he indorsed with
his potential name! The Astor land
office has received in this manner dur-
ing the past week nearly $400,000,
and all is not yet collected. This
money is deposited in the Bank of
New York, the Chemical Bank, and
other old-fashioned institutions, and
will soon be reinvested in good secu
rities.
the spring battle.
State Press.
The Houston Telegraph has some re-
marks on the dangerous practice of
disturbing the soil of cities, super-
saturated as it always is with unwhole-
some matter during hot weather.
It is a settled fact that the digging
up and turning over the soil during,
the hot months in this latitude is pro-
ductive of disease. The most terrible
epidemic that ever visited New Orleans
was occasioned by digging up the
streets to repair the gas pipes during
summer months. Houston was once
twice almost plague-ridden, so
the M. D.'s said, by disturbing the
earth in summer time. It is an es-
tablished fact, we believe, that plow-
ing in close proximity to farm houses
during the hot months produces
chills and fevers, and sometimes ma-
gnant fevers ; and so we desire to
ly that the subject of paving the
streets is one which involves some diffi-
culty, if it is to be immediately done.
There must be more or less digging and
grading before the paving can com-
mence, and how it is to be done, and
when, are considerations for our coun-
cil and citizens. So necessary to the
health of the city was this matter con-
sidered, that there used to be an or-
dinance, and may be one now, pro-
hibiting the digging up of the earth in
the corporate limits of the city to make
improvements during the summer
the work of foreigners.
Directly above Gilsey's building is
the Astor House, which is now under a
thorough alteration in order to increase
its rental. This building was erected
in 1835, and was then rented for $25,-
000, of which one-third was divided
from eight stores on the first floor.
These stores alone have of late rented
for $4000 apiece, and the entire build-
ing is worth $75,000 a year. The im
provements will add $20,000 to the
rental. I may observe as a' peculiar
fact that New York owes much of its
best architecture to foreign hands. Of
Gilsey, the Dane, I have spoken, but I
may refer to the grand hotel which he
built in upper Broadway as a part
of his work. The German Astor
is remembered by the house of that
name. The Scotchman Bennett built
the best printing house of his day,
The New York Zeitung has also built
a printing house worth $500,000. The
Irishman Stewart has built two im
mense warehouses, one wholesale and
the other retail, to which he li'&s added
his Fifth avenue palace. This is the
finest residence in America, and cost
$1,000,000. It is a nice home for a
childless couple. I may add that John
Jackson, the plasterer, who bore a
part in much of this improvement, is
still alive. He plastered the Astor
House forty years ago, under the per-
sonal inspection of old John Jacob,
and he finished his business career by
plastering Stewart's palace, for which
his bill was $20,000.
an astor house glimpse.
From the porch of this structure
one has a view of the grand advance
in street architecture. Directly in front
is the new postoffice, which costs
$10,000,000, and will be finished by
midsummer. Close by is the Herald
building, which is valued at $1,500,000.
Within 200 feet is the new printing-
house for the Evening Post, which will
be ready for occupancy by May. Just
behind is the new telegraph building,
whose cost is more than $1,000,000,
and up Printing-house Square a dis
tance of 600 feet is the Tribune build-
ing, whose cost is est-mated at
$500,000. This is now sufficiently ad
vanced to invite the view of tenants
against next moving day. It is a cu-
rious fact that while the senior Ben
nett marked his retirement from active
life by the Ilerald building, his son
celebrated succession to the estate by
erecting another grand structure, "the
Bennett Building," so that the name
has a double memorial.
other heavy rents.
The first-class hotels, such as the Me-
tropolitan, the St. Nicholas, the Fifth
Avenue, and some others that can be
mentioned, rent for sums ranging from
$75,000 to $100,000. The last men-
tioned was built by Amos Reno, once
a leading dry goods jobber, who now,
at the age of seventy-five, is a heavy
capitalist. Dry goods cotrol the Me
tropolitan also, that being the property
of Stewart. How the hotels pay their
rents at this time of appalling dull-
ness is a mystery, and it is highly pro-
bable that in many instances an exten-
sion has been granted. Indeed, this
has been the hardest quarter-day
known in this city in thirty years.
There are more buildings "to let" in
Broadway than ever before, but they
will all be taken before spring. There
are so many adventurers rushing in
that every available spot will be occu-
pied. Stewart, though an opulent
land-owner, is compelled, most un-
willingly, to pay rent. His up-town
dry goods palace is built on ground be
longing to the Sailors' Snug Harbor,
which can not be sold. Hence he has
built on leased proporty, the ground
rent being $40,000. As the warehouse
cost nearly a million, his rent and
taxes are not less than $115,000. The
cost of land and buildings, as exhib-
ited in railroad depots, is an important
item in real estate records.
what improves property.
As soon as you make any place a
great thoroughfare rents advance. It
is estimated that during twenty-four
hours 17,000 vehicles pass the Astor
House. No wonder the street is
choked. Ab»ut 100,000 persons pass
this building on the sidewalk during
the same time. This explains the im-
mense increase in rent. The same re-
mark applies to other spots. Here,
for instance, is Vesey street, which
connects the Astor House corner with
the Hudson river. I can well remem-
ber when it was remarkable for its
quiet aspect. Since then it has become
a crowded thoroughfare, and hence
After the landlord has collected his
rents, the quarterly excitement abates
and the painful thought recurs, " I
must wait three months before I shall
get any more." But the quarter-day
of which I have spoken ha3 opened
conflict between landlords and tenants
in regard to rent. The latter demand
a reduction corresponding with the
times. This will in some cases be con
ceded, while in others it will be de
nied. Rents in high-priccd places
must decline heavily. The fact that
hundred millions of rent is annually
paid on this little island is astonishing,
and this immense tax should be re
duced.
how astor manages.
Astor examines his rent roll every
season. Each house is examined
detail, and he carefully fixes his rent
at as large a figure as he thinks can be
obtained. If this be not offered the
house stands vacant, for no second
price is allowed. If the tenant demand
repairs he is referred to the carpenter,
who reports the amount necessary to
be laid out, and this is the ultimatum,
As in so large an estate a number of
houses must be always vacant, one
man is detained to look after them; he
keeps them in order ready for occupa-
tion. Saw him to-day scouring the door
plate of Williams's former residence in
Astor Place, which is to let. The old
man lived there thirty-seven years, but
last spring he moved up to the Fifth
avenue, so as to be near his son, John
Jacob. The old mansion is of unusual
size, being fifty feet front. The rent
demanded is $9000, and at this rate it
will stand empty. The prospect of
reduced rents is shown by the fact that
Edward Mathews, of whom I have
spoken, offers offices in thirty different
buildings. This is a large vacancy for
one estate, and there are other signs
of a similar character.
Knickerbocker .
the people, and after ascertaining their
probable preference to Teport. The com-
mittee having submitted a full ticket,
motion to adopt was carried with but few
dissenting voices, and the following
ticket was announced as being the-cboice
of the meeting : For Mayor, Major J. A.
Estes; for Marshal, Hugh L. W'itcher :
for Aldermen, W. R Ayres, J.E, Hough-
ton, Joe King, J. 11. Tracy, F. A. Hill.
Our city registration cloned last Wednes-
day evening. There were only 258 voters
registered, against 446 one year ago. This
shows great apathy on the part of our
citizens.
parker county.
Ex-Sheriff J. W. Hedrick is under ar-
rest, charged by Sam C. Taylor—now in
jail—with forgery of county scrip and
manipulating the tax book, while an offi-
cer, in his favor, to the amount of $1500
at one time. He was placed by Esquire
Leach under a $10,000 bond for appear-
ance at preliminary examination before
him last Thursday morning. On seven
additional charges for forgery, and one
for burning the courthouse last March,
he was arreBted again Tuesday night,
and is now under bond aggregating $23,-
000 to appear at a preliminary examina-
tion next Friday... .Seveeal horses were
stolen from parties below Littlefield Bend
of the Brazos Tuesday night of last week.
They were the best horses in the county.
travis county.
Eleven car-loads of horses arrived Sun-
day from Missouri and Illinois. They
are for the United States cavalry in
Texas... .The United States Government
is advertising for the delivery at Austin,
~ r ru„ ,t,i, i Ringgold Barracks, San Antonio, Forts
months, dating froyi the loth day of B,ig Brown, Clark, Concho, Davis,1Dun
May; and, because a discussion of this | ^ ariffiHj Mcintosh, McKavett.Quit
^RRIVED and now DISCHARGING
Fit on RIO HE JANEIRO.
Per German brig B. n. Steenben,
4000 Sacks Coffee,
Of -which we offer at reduced prices from
wharf 2000 Sacks still unsold.
course,
subject now will do no harm, we
broach it, that it may be well con-
sidered by the council and citizens,
and the best means adopted to prevent
originating disease, while at the earliest
possible period we may get up out of
the mud.
The Gonzales Inquirer does not find
all barren in surveying the wide field
of labor gone over by the late Legisla-
ture. That paper says :
Notwithstanding the asseverations
of the San Antonio Ilerald, we are of
the opinion that the Fourteenth Legis-
lature has accomplished much that
will redound to the good of the State.
The State Gazette criticises the va-
garies of Mr. Stephens, of Georgia,
saying:
Take him all in all, the great Geor-
gia statesman thinks Grant lias done
nothing extraordinarily wrong, and
that there is no serious reason why he
should not be rewarded with a third
term.
The Gazette criticises this
and adds:
How on earth Mr. Stephens finds
himself capable of defending Grant's
course in Louisiana, is a still greater
mystery.
The Houston Age counts the cost
and profit of a constitutional conven-
tion, arguing that as much can be
saved by reducing salaries of public
officers as the convention will cost
It proposes to reduce the salaries of
judges five hundred dollars a year,
The Age ends by saying:
Let the people call this convention,
along with other, weighty and im-
perative reasons, for the purpose
of reproving the members of^ the
Fourteenth Legislature for their pre-
sumptuous refusal to do as they were
commanled. The country has |been
run long enough by the office-holders,
and we think it is time for the people
—the only sovereign in the land—to
sway the sceptre. Let us in Texas
nip in the bud this first move towards
the overriding of our will by the
creatures of our bounty. The journals
of the Legislature show who defeated
the Constitutional Convention in 1874,
and who threw obstacles in its way in
1875. Let their names be blazoned
throughout the State that the people
may know in whom they may confide.
Let us vote for the convention.
The Brenham Banner favors small
farms, well tilled, and says that the
Germans, who are all becoming wealthy,
have small farms. Trying to run farms
of 500 to 1000 acres with unreliable
labor will bankrupt the most indus-
trious farmer in the world.
man, Richardson and Stockton, in this
State, and Fort Sill, of flour, fresh beef,
beans, corn meal and vinegar. Bids will
be received until the 24th of April A
considerable quantity of country bacon
was brought in on Monday ; also some
lard....Four wagon loads of buffalo
meet from Tom Green county, weighing
14,000 pounds, was purchased by Capt.
Roberts... .The case of T. W. Parr for
assault upon M. D. Miller was up before
Justice Smith on Monday. Mr. Parr was
put under a peace bond, and the case
sent to the District Court.
young county.
The Indians killed a cattle herder on
the 13th, by the name of Harmond, near
Graham city, in Young counnty Be-
tween Belknap and Jacksboro, and in the
vicinity of Graham, there is considera-
ble excitement on account of the Indians
having killed a young man by the same
of Harmon, a new comer, and also steal-
ing some seventy-five or a hundred head
of horses. The Indians are very bad at
this time, and it is apprehended they will
be more troublesome than ever, thoagh
great preparation is being made by United
States troops to meet and chastise them.
• I —
DIED:
BOYCE—In Waller county, on the 1st inst.
Mrs. Mary S. Miller Boyce, wife of Wm. W
Boyce and daughter of John Lawson Miller.
New Orleans papers please copy.
Special Notices.
Gulf Loan and Homestead Com-
pany. — GALYi ston, March 24, 1875. — The
annual meeting of the stockholders of this
compaDy will be held on
Thursday, April 1,
at 7 o'clock p. M., at the ISLAND CITY
SAVINGS BANK, for the purpose of electing
nine Directors to serve for the ensuing year.
The proposition to subscribe for stock in
the Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe Railroad
will at the same time be submitted.
J. G. MICHAILOFFSKY,
mh25 td Secretary.
The Titusville (Pa.) Courier tells a
story of a long chase and a plucky fox
hound: Capt. Mackey, who resides a
short distance below the city on Monday
morning last found a hound lying in
one of his fields on the snow. Upon
examination, he found a dead fox by
his side. The hound's feet were in a
bleeding condition, caused, evidently,
by the frozen crust on the snow and
the result of a very long chase. The
dog was unable to move, and Mr.
Mackey picked him up and carried him
to his house, where he was cared for.
On Saturday a gentlaman residing
near Hartstown, forty miles from
Mackey's residence, called and claimed
the dog. He stated that the hound
was started on the Friday before, and
that he had followed on the trail and
found him, as above stated. Taking
into consideration the manner in which
a fox runs—continually circling—the
gentleman states that, in his opinion,
the dog ran at least two hundred
miles.
Talking of the tight skirts which
are now the fashion, a lady who was
born in tho last century said the other
day: "You call those tight skirts!
You should have seen Tallien, then,
when she walked in the Tuileries with
a dress of an almost transparent tex-
ture, worn over a pair of silk tights.
You have not come to that! " "No,'|
answered another lady, "and I hope
we never shall." And yet who does
not remember an incident during the
Second Empire, when the celebrated
Countess of C apppeared at a
fancy ball attired in a costume which
seemed composed merely of the Order
of the Garter, placed in its proper
position, fastened by a diamond neart.
Seeing this, another great lady, who
had her own reasons for not loving the
Countess, approached the latter and
said: "I did not know, Countess, that
your heart was placed so low."—Paris
Letter.
Tiie happiest imitation we remem-
ber of Falstaff's famous reckoning at
the Boar's Head, is the bill which a
Broadway hotel keeper has presented
to the corporation of the city of Hew
York for the refreshment of some
members of the committee of Alder-
men that "received" King Kalakaua.
The amount of the bill is $68 85,
which includes one charge of $6 05 for
" sundry dinners." The balance is for
" Piper Heidseick " at three dollars a
bottle; cigars at fifty cents each, and
"sundry drinks." The auditing offi-
cers exclaim with Prince Hal: "Oh,
monstrous! But one halfpennyworth
of bread to this intolerable deal of
sack," and cruelly decline to pay the
bill. The appetite of the civic func-
tionary of the period is certainly open
to criticism, but things must have come
to a sad pass in New York if an Alder-
man may not gratify.his aristocratic
tastes at the cost of the public. For
what other end is he an Alderman?—
Philadelphia, Times.
State News.
bowie county.
A mad dog was killed in Texarkana
the first of the week... .Dick Tiller, the
young man who was killed by Brown
was a son of Mrs. Hull, a widow lady
who resides eight miles east of Boston
in this county.
fayette county.
Some improvements going on in La-
Grange. .. .Farmers are busy and crop
prospects good.
grayson county.
Detective Pat Connell has arrived at
Sherman with Matt Morris, the lagt of
the gang concerned in the robbery of
Messenger Brady, of the Southern Ex
press Company in Memphis, on the 1st
of February. Connell states that he
found Morris in the mountains at the
head of Red River, about a hundred
miles west of Sherman, in company with
a woman and two roughs, and that he
was only enabled to bring Morris off by
putting a pistol to his head and tfireaten
ing to kill him if any resistance was of
fered. The woman bad about a thou-
sand dollars of the stolen money but re-
fused to give it up. It is a notable fact
that in all the ;robberies committed on
this company in every instance the rob-
bers have been captured. Morris will be
taken to Memphis to stand trial with his
three accomplices now in jail.
goliad county.
Goliad county has an excellent article
of domestic bacon, which she is selling
at 9c. per pound. A large lot of bacon
was shipped from Cuero to Florida re-
cently.
gonzales county.
Farming operations are going on brisk-
ly. A majority of our farmers have
finished planting, and in some portions
of the county corn is up and growing
rapidly. A much larger acreage has
been planted this year than heretofore.
. .. .The fruit crop gives promise of being
unusually large the present season..
The school at Moulton, under charge of
Prof. M. II. Allis, who is justly regarded
as one among the best teachers in the
State, now numbers one hundred pupils
and will soon have one hundred and
fifty.. . .A drove of beef cattle,number-
ing some nine hundred head, crossed the
river at Gonzales Saturday, en route for
Kansas. They were from the Western
counties The Harrisburg and San
Antonio road is now graded fifteen miles
west of Luling. It will be completed to
Seguin by the first of August, and to the
east bank of the Guadalupe river, some
three or four miles west of Seguin, by
the first of September.
hays county.
Both our District and County Courts
are in session... .The measles is prevail-
ing, but in a mild form .There have
been some light frosts lately, doing, how-
ever, no serious damage. All sorts of
weather has prevailed. . . .The " biggest
thing " done by the Legislature for this
county was the passage of an act grant
ing eight sections to the mile for the con
struction of a turnpike road across the
San Marcos bottom, etc. Nothing was
ever more needed. The advantage to
our town and county will be very great,
... .The air of the mountains is heavy
with the perfume of the blassoms of the
mountain laurel, algerita (we don't find
this word in our Spanish dictionary and
hence " guess " as to the orthography),
etc. It is at once odoriferous and re
freshing. Our mountain homes are very
temples of the goddess of health.... And
now the Peirce road is said to be a stand-
still—cause, impecuniosity.
johnson county.
The great bulk of the corn crop has
been planted, and if the remainder of
the season proves as favorable as the
present, we may expect to see the largest
corn crop ever raised in Texas. .. .Vege-
tation of every kind is behind time. The
spring has been unusually cold and back-
ward....The peach trees are in bloom,
and give promise of an abundance of
fruit. .. .There is considerable sickness
reported throughout the country, mostly
due to bad colds Our Sheriff is
making the prisoners who have the
honor of boarding at the new jail earn
their bread by the sweat of their brow....
There has been an unusually large sup-
ply of " drummers " in Cleburne during
the past week.... A part of the new
Board of Directors of the Johnson
County Agricultural Society met on last
Saturday. They found so much impor-
tant business to be transacted that they
adjourned until the second Mi nday in
April.
milam county.
At the last called meeting of the citi-
zens of liockdale a committee was se-
lected for the purpose of consulting with
Stockholders' meeting. — Isteesi!
tional and great northers R. R. co., SeC
retary's Office, Houston, Texas, March 16,
1875.—Notice is hereby given that a special
meeting of the
STOCKHOLDERS OF THIS COMPANY
will be held at the office of the Company in
Houston, Texas, oa Monday,
the 29th day of MARCH, A. D., 1875, at 10
o'clock, in the Forenoon, for the purpose of
accepting or rejecting
AN ACT OF THE LEGISLATURE OF THE
STATE OF TEXAS,
for the RELIEF ®F SAID COMPANY, ap
proved March 10, A. D., 1875.
The Polls will open at TEN O'CLOCK
the FORENOON, and close at TWELVE
O'CLOCK, NOON, of said day.
IRA H. EVANS,
mh20 td Secretary.
Advertisements.
IN STORE:
500 SACKS COFFEE
Ex Brig HEN R1ETTE.
ITI. KOPPEHL.
For Sale—For ffcent.
FOR SALE.
—ON—
Reasonable Terms,
LARGE NUMBER
—of—
do sirab lo
BUILDING LOTS,
LOCATED IMMEDIATELY
T II E LIN
UPON
E
-OF-
STREET RAILWAYS,
For Full Particulars Apply to
mhlOtf
O. ITI. TODD,
Office People'* Itailroad Co.
j&5 una tf
RANGER & CO.
Arrived and Landing-,
From Itio de Janeiro,
Per British brig " Maid of Glanwern,''
3700 Sacks Coffee,
For Sale by
A GOOD CHANGE
For Hotel Keepers.
Tlio Central llotfcl For Ilent.
de26 3m una
J. H. ELSWORTII Ac CO.
Auction (Sales.
AUCTION SALE.
By park, lynch & co.—r. a.
Park, Auctioneer.—Will sell THIS DAY,
25th instant, at 10 o'clock a. m., at their sales-
rooms, Strand—
GOSHEN BUTTER in firkins and small pack-
ages, SUGAR, MACKEREL, CIGARS, BOX
LIQUORS, FURNITURE, and other arti-
cles that may come in beforo hour of sale.
Also—75 dozen assorted SHOES, and other
merchandise. mh25 It
FURNITURE, PORTER, GRCERIES AND
GENERAL MERCHANDISE.
Y E. A. BLAKELY & CO., 116
and 118 Strand-Will sell THIS DAY,
25th inst., at 10 o'clock a. m.:
B'
The contents of a cottage house on Bath
Avenue, removed to our store for convenience
of sale, consisting of Bedsteads, Marble-top
Bureau, Washstands, Chairs, Tables, Mat-
tresses, Lounge, Sewing Machines, Stoves, etc.
—also—
10 cases McEwen's Porter, 6 bbls. Ginger Ale,
Tubs, Buckets, 20 kits Mackerel, Butter, Oil,
10 sacks Bran (slightly damaged.) Teas,
Pocket Cutlery, Hosiery, Ladies' Undergar-
ments, Notions, etc. mh25 It
Thi3 favorite and centrally located Hotel,
corner of Twenty-fourth and Market streets,
is now undergoing substantial repairs, and
will be rented for a term of years to a relia-
ble tenant on reasonable terms. When fin-
ished the Hotel will have three entrances ;
two on Twenty-fourth street and one on Mar-
ket. This is a rare chance for an enterprising
man to make money. The Hotel is well situ-
ated for transient or permanent lodgers, being
acknowledged as one of the best hotel stands
in Galveston. The Central Hotel was fiist
opened by Mrs. S. B. White, in the Fall of
1870, who, in'three years, cleared out of it
$30,000. It contains Thirty-nine Bed Rooms,
besides other apartments for transient per-
sons. Possession may be had on the 15th
inst., or sooner if required. Apply to
J. L. DARRAGII,
mh5tf No. 13 East Strand.
>OU SALE
..for SALE.
Ail Upright
FLUE BOILER,
Large enough for a Twelve-Horse Power En-
It will be sold cheap, and may be seen
gine.
C. B. Lee
fe21 D&wtf
at
& Co.'s Foundery.
JpOR SALE FOR SALE.
GREAT BARGAIN.
POINT TRACT OF LAXZ>,
ON THE GATJDALUPE RIVER close to
THE TOWN OF NEW braunfels,
COMAL COUNTY.
102 Acres Under Fence.
Banks and Hankers.
DUNCAN, SHERMAN & CO..
BANKERS,
Nos. 9 and 11 NASSAU STREET,
NEW YORK,
Issue CIRCULAR NOTES and LETTERS OF
CREDIT for TRAVELERS IN EUROPE AND
THE EAST, available in all the principal
cities; also for use in the United States. West
Indies, etc. TELEGRAPHIC TRANSFERS to
LONDON, PARIS, CALIFORNIA, HAVANA,
MEXICO, CHINA, JAPAN, etc.
Accounts of Banks, Bankers and others re-
ceived. ja9 sat tu thu ly
Notice to Consignees.—^The steamship
GEORGE W. CLYDE, Pennington, Master,
from New York, ie n»w discharging cargo at
Williams's Wharf.
Consignees will please receive their goods
as landed, .receipting for the game on the
wharf.
All goods remaining on the wharf 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.
mh25 3t 54 Strand.
Notice to Consignees.—Schooner AB-
BIE CORSON is now discharging careo at
Kuhn's Wharf.
Consignees will please attend to receipt of
their freight as landed.
mh25 2t J. H. CORSON, Master.
Trinity Churc!i«The attention of pew-
holders is requested, who wish to retain their
pews, to return their applications in time.
The vacant pews will be rented at the Church
on SATURDAY, the 27th of March, 1875, at 4
o'clock p. m. J. FREDERICH,
mh21 su th sa Treasurer.
Lee No. 5.—Regular Monthly Meeting
TO-NIGHT. March 25th, at 7:30.
mh25 It CHAS. G. CLIFFORD, Sec'y.
New Advertisements.
j^"otice notice.
Office G., H. & H. Railroad, )
March 23, 1875. }
On and aft or this date
NO FREE PASSES
will be issued by this Company.
mh25 lw
GEO. B. NICHOLS,
Superintendent.
II
ARDWARE HARDWARE
In great variety, at the lowest market rates.
mh25 It
STEELE, WOOD CO.,
68 and 70 Tremont street.
IN STOKE.
corn meal, hominy, grits,
and cracked corn,
OATS, CORN, BRAN AND SHORTS,
RYE, BARLEY AND COW PEAS,
—for sale low by—
CHAS. NICHOLS, 4 and 6 STRAND.
IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF
the United States for the Eastern District
of Texas.—In the matter of Battle, Fincklin
& Co., bankrupts.
The undersigned hereby gives notice of his
appointment as assignee of the estate of the
above named bankrupts, who were, on the
23d day of February, 1875, adjudged bankrupts,
on their oyn petition, by the United States
District Court for said District.
R. J. JOHN.
Galveston, March 23, 1875. mh25 fri 3t
PROPOSALS
for
ING.
city print-
city Clerk's Office, )
Galveston, March 19, 1875. J
lion. P. H. Houie^y, Chairman Printing
Committee:
Sir—I have the konor to inform you that
the following resolution was adopted by the
City Council, March 18, 1875 :
"Resolved, That the Committee on Printing
be, and they are hereby authorized to adver-
tise for bids to contract for doing the city
printing for one year from April 1, 1875, the
bids to be in on the last day of March, at 12
o'clock m., and to be opened and awarded by
th e Council at the first regular meeting in
April, 1875." * ♦ # ♦ * ♦ *
Very respectfully, sir,
Your obedient servant,
;C. C. ALLEN,
City Clerk.
In accordance with above resolution, we
the Printing Committee solicit bids. Said
bids will be indorsed *4Bids for Printing,"
and sent to the Chairman within the time
specified. P. H. HENNESSY,
mh21 Dtmh31 Chairman.
W an*s—Lost—Found.
J^Q3T LOST
A SOLITAIRE DIAMOND,
Suitable for ring or pin. A liberal reward
will be paid to the finder upon returning the
same to THOS. K. HAWKINS,
mh-Jl 3t* 5B East Strand.
The news'facilities
FOR JOB PRINTIN8
Ar« not surpaasedin the South or West.
^yACO NATIONAL BANK.
(Successor to Fort & Jackson,)
WACO, TEXAS.
Authorized capital $150,000
Paid up capital 100,000
WILLIAM A. FORT President
GEORGE W. JACKSON Cashier
directors:
Wm. A. Fort. W. B. Trice; E. A. Sturgis
T. P. Abeel, R. W. Lusk.
correspondents!
Winslow, Lanier & Co., N. Y.; First Na^
tional Bank, Cincinnati; Bartholow, Lewis &
Co., St. Louis; Louisiana National Bank, New
Orleans; Texas Banking and Insurance Co.,
Galveston.
Waco, Texas, Dec. 1, 1874. de2D&W ly
f. w. flato, jr. alf. tellar.
FLATO & PELL.IK,
Bankers and Dealers ia Exchange,
FLATONIA, TEXAS.
Collections made at all points on the Gal-
veston, Harrisburg and San Antonio Railroad.
mr5 ly*
H. SEEL.IGSON & CO.,
BANKERS
And Exchange Dealers,
Cor* Strand and 22d Sts.
GALVESTON.
DEPOSITS RECEIVED. COIN BOUGHT
AND SOLD.
Collections Made on All Accessible Points.
We will give particular attention to the
Purchase and Sale of BONDS, STOCKS, and
Securities of all kinds. ap26 12m
Isaac Jalonick & Co.,
BANKERS AND COMMISSION MERCHANTS,
Rockdale, Tesas.
Exchange for sale on Galyeston, New YorK
and New Orleans, and all points in Europe.
fe22'75 Dly
rp R. BEARD,
BANKER
—AND—
DEALER IN EXCHANGE.
Special attention given to collections.
RICHMOND, TEXAS*
de6 tf
r. l. poard. d. f. frazell. j. c. borden.
L. FOARD & CO.,
(Successors to Frazell & Autrey.)
BANKERS,
R.
Wood and
Apply to
de6 D&W tf
Water In Abundance.
JD. KICUARDSON,
Galveston*
For sale-some copies of abstract
of Titled and Patented Lands, compiled
from the records of the General Land Office;
published under authority of a joint resolu-
tion of the Eighth Legislature of Texas.
—also—
Some copies of the Proceedings of the
Grand Masonic Lodge of Texas, from its or-
ganization at Houston, A. D. 1&s7. to the
close of the Communication at Palestine,
January, A. D. 1857, by A. s. Ruthven, Grand
Secretary and Past Grand Master. In two
volumes. Apply at the News office, Galves-
ton. no26
J7 OR RENT FOR Rj.
THE STORE
Formerly occupied by the TEXAS EXPRESS
COMPANY, on corner of Tremont and Me-
chanic streets.
For terms inquire at office of
C. W. Hi'RLEY A: CO.,
mhlG 2w 117 STRAND.
Building Materials.
Shingles.
8-
b
500,000 POTTER & WARD'S BEST, in yard.
For sale by
mh5 tf
J. C. LEAGUE,
107 and 109 Tremont street.
jqaniel goos,
(Successor to Moeling & Co.,)3
Dealer in All Kinds of ROUGH and DRESSED
LUMBER,
Pickets, Laths, etc. BILLS SAWED TO OR-
DER at short notice and lowest rates.
W. F. STEWART is my duly authorized
agent in Galveston. DANIEL GOOS.
au 13'74 ly
C. TAYLOR,
M aimfacturer
of Lime,
AUSTIN, TEXAS,
Will deliver Lime at a very reasonable rato
at any station on the Houston and Texas Cen-
tral Railroad or International and Great
Northern Railroad or Galveston and San An-
tonio Railroad, except otherwise ordered.
He will ship none but the very best WHITE
LIME. Satisfaction guaranteed or the money
returned. Address P. C. TAYLOR, Austin,
«tnd for the eo.ast rniin+rjr fn 1T7 W^sf, Market
street, Galveston, where a sufficient supply is
kept in stock. P. C. TAYLOR.
dec25 ly
AND DEALERS IN EXCHANGE,
Columbus Texas,
Collections made at all points on
Galveston, Harrisburg and San Antonio Rail-
road. se6 9m
Book and Job Printing.
CARD.
Galveston, Aogcst 30th, 1873.
To tlie Merchants of Galveston:
We most respectfully call your attention to
the fact that we hare this day connected
ourselves with
The Job Office of the Galveston Notts,
and from this date we are prepared to do all
kinds of
JOB PRINTING, RULING
—and the—
Manufacture of Blank Books.
This office is the most extensive and the
Only Complete Mercantile Job Ofllcu
IN THE STATE;
where we can get you up al1 kinds of
Mercantile Blanks and Books,
FROM
BUSINESS CARD UP TO A LARGE POSTER.
We Invite you to examine our Specimens of
work, and obligate ourselves to suit you if
prices.
A share of your patronage is most respect-
*iliy solicited. ROBINSON & CO
&ug30 Dtf 75 Strand.
rJ,HE GALVESTON NEWS
JOB OFFICE
18 FULLY PREPARED TO DO
All Kinds of Job Prlutlng.
ALL THE LATEST STYLES OF TYPE
Will always be found, and every effort made
TO 6IVE ENTIRE SATISFACTION,
Both in regard to style ol work, prices,Iotc.
Legal Advertisements.
^pRUSTEE'S SALE.
At the request of the holder of a cortain
promissory note for the sum of five hundred
dollars, dated December 29, 1874, due March
10, 1875, bearing interest from date till paid, at
the rato of ten per cent, per anni^n, said note
being due and unpaid, and to secure the pay-
ment of which note, as well as the payment of
three other certain notes, which, by especial
agreement, were all to fall due upon the non-
payment at maturity of any one, a Deed of
Trust was executed and recorded in Galves-
ton county, in Record Book 14, on pages 341)
and 350, conveying to the undersigned as
Trustee the property hereinafter named, all
of which will more fully appear by reference
to said Deed of Trust; I, the said-Trustee,
will sell at public auction, at the door of the
Courthouse of Galveston county, on
Tuesday, tlie 30tli day or Ularelt,
A, D. 1875,
between the hours of 10 A. M. and 12 noon,
the stock of liquors, cigars, furniture, fixtures
and apparatus now in and belonging to tho
bar-room known as the " R. E. Leo Exchange
Saloon," 118 North Market street, near Tre-
mont, in the city ef Galveston, Texas.
I will deliver the goods, and make such con-
veyance to the purchaser of said property as
by said Deed of Trust authorized.
C. GIRARDIN, Trustee.
Galveston, March 22, 1875. mli24 lw"
^DMINISTRATOITS NOTICE.—
Estate of Chas. L. Bolton, deceased.
Administration pending in Galveston County.
All claims for money against tho Estate of
C. L. Bolton, deceased, must be presented to
, at the oflice of Waiter Gresham, within
ONE YEAR FROM TIIE FIRST OF JANU-
ARY, A. D. 1875,
for allowance, or payment of the same will io
postponed until the claims presented within
that time are paid.
Witness our hands this 9th day of March,
A. D. 18«5. H- L.LEWIS,
J. T. BOLTON,
mhlO lm Administrators.
ADMINISTRATOR'S SALE.— OX
the SIXTH DAY OF APRIL, 1875, b«-
ingthe first Tuesday in said month, at 12 a.,
we shall offer for saJe. and sell before the
Courthouse door in Galveston, on a credit of
twelve months, LOT NUilBK.R THREE, IN
BLOCK NUMBER FIVE HUNDRED A>D
FIFTY, IN THE CITY OF GALVESTON, to-
gether with the improvements therooa;
purchaser to give his note for purchase
money, and give personal security to satis-
faction of the administrators, and exccuto a
mortgage on the property.
The sale is made by order of the District
Court of Galveston County, made at the Feb-
ruary term of said court, 1875. to close the
estate cf Charles Schnackenbeck, deceased.
AUG. BI TTLAR,
C. F. TRUBE,
mhll thu3t Administrators.
SHI
of
SALE—THE STATE
HERIFF'S
_ Texas, County of Galveston. Henry
Rosenberg vs. the Galveston Hotel Company.
By virtue of an order of sale to me directed
in the above entitled cause from the Clerk of
the District Court, in and for the county
aforesaid, dated the 22d day of February,
1875, and numbered 7505, I have levied upon
and will proceed to sell for cash, without ap-
praisement on the MXTH DAY IN APRIL,
1875, at public vendue, in front of the Court-
house door, in the county of Galveston, be-
tween the hours of 10a. m. and 4 P. M.,the
following described property, to wit: Lots
Nos. eight (8,) nine (9,) ten (10,) eleven (II,)
twelve (12,) thirteen (13.) and fourteen U4.) in
block No. four hundred and forty-three (14--!,)*
and tae improvements thereon, in tne city
and county of Galveston, State of Texas.
JOE ATKINS, Sheriff G. C.
By W. F. SEIFFERT, Deuuty Sheriff.
Galveston, March 11, 1875. mli lGtd
HPHE NEWS JOB OFFICE HAS
X THE jlatkst STYLSS or TYPS.
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