The Galveston Daily News. (Galveston, Tex.), Vol. 39, No. 309, Ed. 1 Friday, March 18, 1881 Page: 2 of 4
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store of C. F. Stephens. 513 Main street.
they declared that Cuba and Porto Rico must
always remain a connecting link between the
Castilian race in the two countries. There
never was a people so deeply tinder the influ-
ence of images of departed glory, ami so hope-
ful of developments that will mold
these images into restored reality,
as the Spaniards of tbe Peninsula.
It would be interesting to know how bonds of
fraternity can exist^between Spain and the
Spanish Republics in America, each of which
has had the fiercest struggle against Spanish
tyranny, under whose insatiable avarice the
substance and protlts of the natives were
transferred to Spain, starving, like Midas,
amidst her prodigious acquisions of gold. Be-
yond an inherent hatred for the so-called
mother country, the chanting of thai pastors
and scattered ruins, there is nothing in Mex-
ico to indicate that it ever belonged to Spain.
In the declaration that Cuba and Porto Rico
must always remain a connecting link between
the Republics referred to and Spain, however,
an indirect issue is taken with the Monroe
doctrine, an issue which was suggested by
Alphonso XII in nis late speech from the
throne, when lie reviewed the glories of the
past and advocated a line of policy looking to
their restoration. To this end Spain was fore-
most in contributing to the DeLesseps project.
Of course, so far as this country is concerned,
Spanish opposition to. its influence over the rest
of this continent, now spreading with the con-
struction of telegraph lines and railroads, can
amount to little, ami the only importance
really attaching to it is in the possibility of
the Spanish imagination carrying the Dons to
a point of arrogance and aggression which
might render it necessary for the United States
to relieve them of both Cuba and Porto Rico.
based. As all students under the proposed cufrle-
ulum will be required to study the science of agri-
—i*—- —J jjg re.
■Hea-
. . .tablv arise in *he
college a speeicg of caste fatal to that liomogeuity
of feeling which should bind all its tnembhrs into a
close fettnwsiiip, and which, in my judgment, will
soon destroy the efficiency and. influence of the
technical departments, however lavishly money
may be spent in their equipment. Second, on the
ground of utility, the couises, if taught »t all,
ought to he made of some value tothe student and
to the Slate. The student of agirculuire should be
made as familiar as possible, not. with boobs only,
but with the actual soils, manures, crops, and im-
plements themselves, and should see and partici-
pate in. as far as practicable, the best methods of
culture and preparatoui. And the student of me-
chanics should see, handle, and use the. tools and
machinery which are necessasy for the applica-
tions of the principles of mechanism and construc-
tion studied m the text.
The following extract is from a lecture by
Prof. Wrightson, President of the Wilts and
Hants Agricultural College, taken from the
North British Agriculturist:
With playing at learning farming I would
have nothing to do. Let us see the
hands hardened and the Angers thickened
with work: the farmer inured to labor;
the eye quickened to see what is wrong, and the
hand able to set it right. The effect of actual work
upon the memory, is astonishing. Tell a young
man that one pound of sulphate of copper pickles
a sack of wheat, and he straightway forgets
whether one pound pickles a sack or a quarter.
Let him wheel the sack up to the spot, empty it on
the floor, see the stuff applied, and help to shovel
up the wheat, and he never forgets. To appuiut
pure theorists to teach agriculture to the sons of
farmers is little less than poking fun at them An
agricultural college without a farm is like a sailor
without a ship.
STATE PRESS.
Say.
A RIVAL TO LIVERPOOL.
The arrival recently of a cargo of cotton at
Garston, England, consisting of 19it> bales,
from New Orleans, was of sufficient importance
to warrant a special mention in the financial
article of the London Times of the 16th instant.
Garston is a township in Lancaster county, on
the River Mersey, five and oue-half miles south-
east of Liverpool, and has a population of be-
tween oOOO and 4000, principally employed in
extensive salt works at that point. The im-
portance of the arrival alluded to, according to
the estimate of the Times, is in the fact that
Grarston's port charges are merely nominal,
and that Manchester spinners will save up-
ward of 10 shillings per ton as compared
with port charge at Liverpool. The dock
privileges and wharf facilities at Livererpool
are unsurpassed in point of accommodations
anywhere ill the world, but they are very ex-
pensive to shipping. If one load of cotton from
the United States can be economically landed
at Garston, as against Liverpool, then there is
no good reason apparent why any additional
number of loads may not follow suit. To be
sure, the wharfage facilities of the place would
have to be increased to meet the growing de-
mands of the trade, but not upon a scale that
would bring up port charges to the Liverpool
mark. The tendency of the times is toward
cheapening costs at terminal points, a fact
which should not be lost sight of by aspiring
maritime places in all parts of the
world. It will doubtless be a long
while before Garston on tbe Mersey makes
a large diversion from the shipping trade of
Liverpool, but a difference in favor of the
former 'place of 10 shillings per ton may, in
course of time, seriously affect the traffic in-
volved in direct'cotton receipts; Spinners and
buyers in America, it seems, should be able to
advantageously ship through the port of Gal-
veston, with the wharfage tariff difference in
its favor, above quoted. The incident, as re-
called in the financial article in the Times, is
chiefly valuable here as showing the wisdom of
a general policy of cheap terminal facilities.
Friday, March 18, 1881.
ORGANIZED IRRESPONSIBILITY.
If political experts had gone to work with
the express purpose of organizing irresponsi-
bility in government, they could hardly have
produced a finer masterpiece than may be
found in the charter of almost any of our cities
or in the constitution of almost any of our
States. Gov. Roberts, like some of his prede-
cessors, has protested against being blamed for
executive debility, as regards the enforcement
of the laws and the administration of justice,
in cases where he had no power ovef sheriffs,
prosecuting attorneys or judges. The protest
is perfectly valid in fact and in logic.
For the most part tbe Governor of Texas
is an executive chief without executive
subordinates. The Constitution which sets
him up in this futile and farcical primacy re-
quires him nevertheless to see that the laws are
faithfully executed. The head of every depart-
ment at Austin is independent of the Governor.
The Comptroller may defy him. The Treasurer
may defy him. The Attorney-General may
defy him. The Commissioner of the Land
Office may defy him. Every sheriff, every
county attorney, every tax-collector, every
constable, every local policeman in the State
may defy him. In the face of all this, it is
common to speak of this whole list of officials
as executive subordinates. It is a form of
speech without warrant in realities of organiza-
tion. The Governor, in taking his oath of office
under the Constitution, swears to see that the
laws are faithfully executed, without responsible
agencies whom he can control to the purpose
of making good his oath in this particular. A
like illustration of organized irresponsibility
has been seen on a smaller scale in the munici-
pal government of Galveston. There is some
thing melancholy, as well as discouraging, in
the allusions which have just been made to
executive responsibility in speeches to the
Council s,by the outgoing and' the in
coming Mayor. Mayor Leonard calls
attention to " the very limited powers
and almost unlimited responsibility im
posed upon the Mayor," and he proceeds
to correct what he believes to be a gen
eral belief that the Mayor has absolute con
trol of all the departments. " There is no case,'
he says, "in which the Mayor s judgment is not
subject to reversal by a two-thirds vote of
your honorable body. He may nominate for
office, but you can refuse to confirm. Never-
theless, the Mayor is held almost wholly re
sponsibible by public opinion for the manage-
ment of our municipal affairs." He might
have added that the Council may not only re-
ject the nominations of the Mayor, but may
make appointments of their own and fill execu-
tive offices nominally subordinate to the Mayor,
while really without responsibility to any exec
utive chief. The incoming Mayor by implication
deprecates a refusal of the Council to allow
him a voice in the selection of subordinates.
" I know," says Mayor Fisher, " of no other
government in a free country where an execu-
tive is held responsible for the action of his
subordinates when he has no voice in their
selection, and I hope you are all too fair-
minded and honorable to withhold front me a
fair share in naming those who may make or
mar the success of my administration." Is
there not a misuse of terms here? Could an
administration be properly called, for ex-
ample, the Fisher administration, when
Mayor Fisher was divested alike of power to
appoint and to remove the various officers
required for the practical details of the ad-
ministration ? It is certain that a mayor must
be divested of responsibility in proportion as
he is divested of such power. It is certain that
irresponsibility is organized, confusion pro-
moted, corruption encouraged, in proportion
as executive control is diffused and frittered
away among a number of coequal adminis-
trative superiors. There is an exact and
mathematical equivalence between the respon-
sibility of a single executive chief, let him be
mayor, governor or president, and the power
given bim. All experience shows that execu-
tive efficiency is promoted by concentrating
responsible authority in one executive chief,
who can be summarily called to account for
delinquencies or abuses by the people or their
representatives. Bat jealousy of executive
authority, dating back to the old quarrel of
the American colonies with George III, has
more or less vitiated tbe whole organic law of
this country. Hence it was that the United
States Senate was clothed with authority
which has enabled an irresponsible caucus of
Senators, in many instances, to dictate arbi
trarily executive appointments and executive
tenures. Where appointments and tenures
are thus controlled, an executive chief
can wash his hands of responsibility for
the misdoings of subordinates, and there
is no way to fasten responsibility for corrective
purposes upon a body of Councilmen or of
Senators. Responsibility vanishes into air,
and it is only wonderful that all our adminis-
trations have not been more rife with ineffi
ciency, negligence and corrupt practice. The
fact is to b<} credited, no doubt, to the force of
public opinion and the vigilance of the press,
which have gone far to offset one of the per-
vading vices of our political system.
A STRONG COMBINATION.
It has been well said that nothing that is done
in a hurry can be well done. Literary produc-
tions, including spring poetry, now just begin-
ning to bud, which are dashed off in a moment
of imaginary inspiration, are apt to be defect-
ive in grammar, punctuation and all the rudi-
ments of literary merit. At present we receive
our news by lightning. It is flashed to us al-
most simultaneously with the event itself.
Formerly it would have taken months to satisfy
the American public of the assassination of the
late Czar, but now, here in distant America,
thanks to electricity and the press, we know
really .more than the Russian police do
about the affair, and within a few
hours after the explosion of the bombs.
But while it is highly satisfactory to be
promptly informed, the information is not
always as reliable and full of minute details as
it would have been under the old system of
writing letters and forwarding them by the
next sailing vessel. As it costs much money to
cable dispatches they are not quite as full as
they might be, and, singularly enough, on the
most absorbing topics the cable is provoidngly
stingy. This is very observable, just now, in
obtaining information regarding the death of
the lata Czar. Yesterday the public was in-
formed, as the latest item from the scene of the
explosion, that the mine which a Nihilist had
provided for the Czar, in case he survived the
bombs, had been unearthed, and that " the
qiouth of the mine was in the shop-keeper's
dwelling-room, concealed under an Ottoman."
This is the most important item of political
news that has been transmitted for many a
day, for it goes to show that the Turkish Gov-
ernment is backing up the Nihilists in their in-
cendiary efforts to destroy the Czar. Now
here is a chance for the Atlantic cable to let
itself out and furnish full particulars, but it
does nothing of the kind. What the American
people like is something more about that Otto-
man, under whom the mouth of the mine was
concealed. What was his name? What sort
of a looking Moslem was he? How did he get
to St. Petersburg, and how long had he had the
mouth of that mine concealed on his person?
The very idea of finding a mine concealed
under an Ottoman in St. Petersburg
is enough to arouse the curiosity of the late
Czar himself. It is not so singular that a Turk
should assist in getting up a funeral for the
Russian Czar after all, but that no mention
is made of the arrest of the Ottoman, and what
he said on examination, whether he confessed
that there were other Ottomen in tbe con-
spiracy, when he is going to be hung—all the
details are cruelly kept from the American-
reading public. But we mistake; the telegraph
company does have something more to say
about an Ottoman, but not about another
Turk. We copy literally:
St. Petersburg, March 16.—The New Czarowitz,
Nicholas, has been appointed Ottoman of all the
Cossacks.
Now, as regards the first Ottoman, at first
glance it seemed possible that the Ottoman re-
ferred to, under whom the mouth of
the mine was concealed, was "a stuffed
seat without a back," but the reference
to the second Ottoman knocksjthe stuffing out
of the stuffed-seat theory. The new Czaro-
vitch, Nicholas, can not possibly lie a stuffed
seat without any back. He may not have
much backbone to deal with the difficulties of
the situation, but he certainly must have a
back; although.why the new Czar should have
a " stuffed seat," unless to ward off or deaden
the force of Nihilistic attacks, it is hard to
imagine. The new Czarovitch may have lieen
appointed Hetman of all the Cossacks, but the.
operator, who is on the spot and ought to know,
insists that be is an Ottoman, and, as the intelli-
gent compositor agrees with him, it is hardly
worth while making an issue. When the tele-
graph operator and the compositor combine
their forces, like some of the recent railroad
consolidations, they are almost invincible.
IVhat the Interior Papers
The Jefferson Democrat says:
The Legislature, well knew that the only work that
should have, been done, so far as the general good
was concerned, was yet undone, and that this would
necessitate the calling of au exiril session. The
difference of $3 per day had much to do in the
matter. But the Governor ajraiu comes to the
front in the interest of the people, and proves him
self " wiser than they all in solemn wisdom joined."
The San Antonio Express states that in pass-
ing sentence on two Polanders who voted in
that city in November, without having natu-
ralization papers. Judge Turner took occasion
to say, in substance, that
The ballot-box is the great bulwark of a republi-
can form of government; that unless it is preserved
pure and undeflled, no representative government
can he long sustained; that, in his opinion, the
greatest danger that threatens our Nation is a
prostitution of the elective franchise; that if all that
lias been written is true, illegal voting has become
most prevalent throughout the Union during the
past few years, and that it is high time a stop was
being put to it, and that he esteemed it his duty to
do all in his power to such au end; I hat he would
look upon and deal most sternly with any willful
and flagrant violation of the election laws, but in
the ca-es at bar it appeared from the evidence that
the defendants had been overreached by other par-
ties and persuaded to cast illegal votes, and that on
this account, as well as of their ignorance of our
laws—being foreigners—he assessed the extremely
low penalties named. That he hoped no oue would
he misled by his action, nor suppose that he valued
the right of a citizen to vote so lightly as these
judgments would seem to indicate.
In the original story. " Wh*> struck Billy Pat-
terson? "the inquirer was represented as in a
most belligerent state; but, when a tremendotis
and burly fellow avowed the act, the questioner
subsided and remarked," You did it like a gen
tleman," and there the matter ended. The
Rusk County News finds consolation for the
defeat of the Democrats in the contest for the
Presidency, in the fact that the country now
has a President who was elected in the manner
in which the Constitution provides—having
received a majority of the electoral votes cast,
though he lacked a deal of gettiug tbe popular
vote.
The Telephone calls Waco "the real geo-
graphical center of the State"—the hub, so to
speak.
The Brenham Banner says of the attempt to
establish total prohibition by the Constitution:
The bell-punch demonstrates the fact that public
opinion is superior to the law. Public opinion con-
demned the bell-punch at the start.
The Banner predicts a similar fate in the
attempt at prohibition in Texas.
The Wills Point Local says:
The railroad magnates are protesting at Austin
against what they call legislative interference with
their railroad property. Jay Gould himself has not
thought it beneath his dignity to visit Austin to
supervise the Legislature. Ex-Gov. Hubbard, as
the paid advocate of the railroads, made the mpst
eloquent speech of his life in behalf of his clien
before the committee who had the matter in charge.
The battle is now fairly joined and the people will
watch with increasing interest the progress of the
fight.
The San Antonio Evening Light says
The San Antonio spree of the Seventeenth Legis-
lature must go into history along with the sudden
fate of the bill to regulate railroads.
Mrs. Grundy has the floor and the Legisla-
ture listens.
The Rusk County News says the prohibition
of the manufacture and sale of whisky in the
State of Kansas is now a fixed fact, and asks
if such a thing can be done in Kansas, why not
in Texas?
The same paper notes the scheme to bring
water to New York city from Lake George,
which is about 250 miles distant, through an
open aqueduct and a series of pipes, and
says " wonders will never cease as long
as tbe world stands." The only won-
der about the proposed work is its length,
though even this was exceeded by the aque-
ducts of ancient Peru, through which water was
brought, as the books tell us, '' several hundred
miles" from mountain reservoirs, both for
culinary use and irrigation. These aqueducts
were carried along steep mountain sides, and
in some instances, through tunnels in the solid
rock, and over great chasms between mount
ains, on walls of solid masonry. That which
crossed the Valley of Coiiflesuyu was between
400 and 500 miles in length. Ancient Egypt
had similar works. The present (Croton) aque-
duct of New York is upward of forty miles
long and cost upward of 810,000,000. Ancient
Rome had aqueducts of similar length. Mar-
seilles is supplied with water from a distance
of sixty miles.
LETTER FROM WASHINGTON.
Vennor's Weather—Texas Applicants—
How the Offiee-Seeker Lives and Suf-
fers— A Little Pastime at Poker—
Theaters — A Reinlnisceuce of J.
Wilkes Booth.
ISpecial Correspondence of the News.}
Washington-, March 13.—Vennor, the great
weather prophet, hits struck it again. He said
the night of the 3d of March would bring snow.
It did, and came near seriously interfering
with the display on inauguration day. He
also said that the Oth would bring bad weather
here, which it did, and now, as predicted, the
weather is miserably bad to-night, and how
long it will continue Vennor can only tell.
There are but few persons out to-night, and
the hotel corridors are crowded with office-
seekers and their friends, discussing the chances
and prospects for appointment. I have just
left the Ebbitt House, where many of the
Texas applicants or supplicants w-ere. One
of the large parlors is only separated
from the office rotunda by large glasses, and
in the parlor a string band w as discoursing
sweet music, which at least could furnish some
consolation and pleasure to the applicants out-
side. Many of the lady guests of this hotel re-
sort to this parlor to listen to the music and
look through the glass doors at the men in
the office. Some of the Texas Republicans
here are high-to'ned enough to stop at the Ebbitt
—others put up at cheap, out-of-the-w ay board-
ing houses, and some, the Lord only knows
where they do sleep and eat.
An office-seeker is a very unhappy creature
The suspense and torture he bears in waiting
for the result causes untold misery. One
moment he is full of hope, and the next de-
spondent and wretched. There are a great
many darky politicians here, mostly from
Georgia, Louisiana. Mississippi, Alabama, Ar-
kansas, North Carolina and South Carolina—-
nil clamoring for crumbs. None of the ebony-
hued Republicans from Texas are here—they
are represented by their white political breth-
ren. Anyhow, it is not likely that a Texas
colored brother will get any Federal office in
the State of any note. They are the hewers of
wood and drawers of water for their white Re-
publican friends in Texas. I have a darky in
Tyler whom I have been urging here for an
olfies. Ho always votes the Republican ticket,
but I can not get aity of his Republican friends
here to assist me. I told them that I thought
he deserved something for his patriotism, and
if they could not give him au office he would
bo satisfied with a mule and forfy acres of land.
I further told them, as an evidence of his plain
Republican habits, that he had worn out all
my good clotljes and drank ull my good whisky
for the last six years, and even then killed my
vote at every election. I am afraid they do
not. recognize his patriotism, and I will with
draw his qualifications for office.
■Applicants here for office are at times severe
on other applicants for the same office. In
many instances where one is prominently men-
fnr 11 vtrvuitvirvn fliiLrHO.tel' is visTOrOllslv
States officers in this section of the country, is
very popular on both sides of the Rio Bravo.
The people of the Rio Grande are unani-
mously in favor of Gov. Davis for the Mexican
linistership. His acknowledged honesty, popu-
larity among the Mexicans and familiarity
with'the Spanish language eminently qualify
him for the position.
A good stand of corn and cotton is reported
ii) Hidalgo, Ktar and Cameron counties, and
the prospect for an abundant peach crop was
never more flattering.
Large quantities of horses are being imported
at this point for Northern markets. At last
the Mexican cow pony and Texas broom-tail
seeiu in demand in "furi-in" lands. '
.The Sifter, down hero, is moje popular than
the Old Alcalde, or even brother Garfeldt. His
humorosities have been translated into
Spanish for tho Mexican press; and
even the stolid Greaser grins. For
latest intelligence concerning scab among
sheep, or the ordering of some seccmd lieuten-
ant to a frontier post, we resort to tbe San
Antonio Express. For ill-natured paragraphs
about the circulation of the News, disasters on
the Central Railroad, and an exhaustive com-
pilation of legislative cheap chin-music, com-
mciid us to the Houston Post. But when, pro
facto, we want to find what is going oil in the
busy world about us we full back on the Gal-
veston News. Texas has many journals, a
few periodicals—but one newspaper; and, gen-
tler reader, you can find it everywhere.
Rattler.
THE TRIP
OYEli THE
no AI>S.
SO VTH WEST
projects, are yet to be obtained. Gen.
Butler, who is now on a yachting cruise in his
yacht Young America, is said to be one of a
committee of the projectors novr on its way to
Mexico to confer with the Mexican authorities
in regard to these matters, and it is also stated
that Gen. Grant is interested in the matter.
The other project, the Sinaloa and Duraiigo
line, proposes to make Altata, on the Gulf of
California, the "viport of Culiacan, the capital
of the State of Sinaloa, its terminus. It is to
run in an easterly and northeasterly direction
about -0f> miies^ to Durango. where it will
connect with the Mexican Central. The com-
pany is said to have obtained, through Mr.
Robert R. Symons, concessions in exemptions
from taxation and import duties on material
used in constructing the read, and grants of
money and lands similar to those now enjoyed
by the Mexican Central and Sonora roads. It
also possesses valuable dock privileges at
Altata. Ti^ condition on which they are
given is that the company shall build a third-
rate light-house on the harbor coast. The
main portion of the road is to be through a
level farming country, with many villages,
and nowhere along the line, even across the
mountains, are there many engineering diffi-
culties. Only one tunnel, it is said, will have
to lie built. The company has a right to build
a standard or a narrow-gauge. It is said that
the work of surveying and building will be
pushed.
The traveling expenses of the 100.000 drum-
mers employed by the merchants of the United
States are $1*20,000,000 a year, . .
salaries.
tinned for
assailed. ,. _
to a Southern Republican, "I am afraid the
other fellow will get the office you are after
when he exclaimed in tones of patriotic grief
and indignation, "My God! they ought not to
appoint that hog-thief to an office. I shall
see Garfield to-morrow and tell him of the in-
dictments pending in my district against that
if <
Mr. Could and Hi* Party itcturn Much
«. ratified With What They Have
Seen.
I.From the New York World.]
Mr. Jay Gould and the gentlemen who ac-
companied him on a tour of inspection of the
railroads of the Southwestern system reached
this city on Friday evening, after having been
absent two weeks. The party consisted of Mr.
Gould, President Samuel Sloan, of the Dela-
ware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad;
Gen. T. T. Eekert, First Vice-President of the
Western Union Telegraph Company; Mr. H.
G. Marquand, Mr. A. L. Hopkins and ex-judge
Samuel Shethar. Thev stnrted from St. Louis
and went over the Missouri-Pacific, the Mis-
souri, Kansas and Texas, and the Texas-Pacific
railroads, and returned by the International
and Great Northern and the St. Louis and Iron
Mountain railroads. All the branches of these
roads were also inspected. The party went
as far as San Antonio on the Texas
and Pacific, and to Laredo on the In-
| ternational and Great Northern. Mr. Sloan
said they had been much gratified at
the condition of the roads and the prospects of
future business. As to the management, he
said he had found everywhere a disposition to-
ward tho harmonizing of interests and the
development of the country, which was certain
to produce good results. He was also much
pleased at the general condition and appear-
T the counti^-and tbe prospects for the
To-night I heard an individual ^y | crops Thp trip was very instructive and
strengthened the plans already formed. No
new plans were suggested by what they saw
during the trip. It was pretty certain that the
citizens of Galveston would be asked to co-
operate with the railroads running into the
city in order to establish a line of steamships
between Galveston and Vera Cm:'.. Mr. Sloan
said that tie qfiestion of consolidating the five
roads visited into one or two systems lay with
the shareholders. Gen. Eckert's especial object
in the trip was to prepare to extend and popu-
larize the telegraph in that part of the country.
Mr. Gould said: "The work oil the Missouri
Kansas anil Texas and the Texas and Pacific
roads is being pushed as rapidly as possible,
and it is thoroughly good work. There is no
reason to douliL that the gap from Denison, on
the Missouri, Kansas and Texas road, to La-
redo, Mexico, will be completed this summer,
and the connection between the Texas and
Pacific and the Mexican Central at El Paso
will be made by January next. Work is also
vigorously under way on the extension from
Sm eveport to New Orleans, which will open
to the latter city the trade of a rich country.
The Missouri-Pacific system will work in ac-
cord with the Mexican system. I share Gen.
Grant's faith in the success of the American
md Mexican railway connections, and feel
sure that there will be a very rapid develop-
ment of the wealth of Mexico by the fresh
Northern blood, muscle and capital that will
attend and follow the improvement now under
way. There may be some drawbacks at the
start, but these will be overcome."
Mr. Gould said it was true, as reported, that
he had subscribed .J 100,000 toward the estab-
lishment of a daily line of steamers between
Galveston and Vera Cruz, to be employed in
connection with his railway system. " If the
citizens of Galveston accept my proposition,''
he said, "and add another * 100,000, the line
will be established, and it will greatly enlarge
the trade of both Galvesfon and Vera Cruz."
As to the St. Louis, New Orleans and Foreign
Dispatch Company, or barge line, in which he
has also become interested, he said : "Th'
prospects of the company doing ail immens
carrying business are very encouraging. It
has now a large number of barges and many
more have been ordered. Six barges com
pose a fleet, to be propelled by
large tow-boat capable of transpcrtin
00 carloads of grain. The line is
ready of great advantage to St. Louis, and it
promises in time to make that city not onlythe
grain mart of the Mississippi Valley, buta rival
of Baltimore and New \ ork. By means of
barge transportation there is a very important
saving in the shipments to Liverpool." Mr
Gould also confirmed the
Sail Jacinto.
[Supposed to have been written on the battle-field
at an anniversary celebration.']
The viewless spirits of the mighty dead,
Whose ashes lie in quiet at our feet.
Where grateful hearts in annual tribute meet,
To view tiie spot whereon our heroes bled—
The field from which the vanquished foeman tied—
Are here to-day, and hover all unseen
Above our heads on this wide prairie green,
As here we deck with flowers their lowly bed.
O. San Jacinto, roll forever near—
Immortal names are linked for aye with thine:
We stand above their tombs without a tear,
Around whose brows green bays unfading twine.
While Houston. Ru*k, and Sherman and Lamar
Shine, lustrous planets, from yon realms afar.
ii.
Huntsville, Texas, April 8,1880.
CURRENT POLITICAL GOSSIP.
SPAIN AND SPANISH AMERICA.
At a recent banquet in Madrid, given by the
Venezuelan Minister and attended by Spanish
statesmen and eminent men of all parties,
Senores Castelar and Canovas delivered elo-
quent speeches in behalf of the idea of frater-
nity aud closer relations between the Spanish-
speaking populations of the Western world
and the mother country. Among other thing*,
AGRICULTURAL AND MECHANICAL
" COLLEGES.
While the press and Legislature of Texas
seem to have acquiosced in the plan adopted
by most other States of having an agricultu-
ral and mechanical college, minus any political
instruction in agriculture or the mechanic
arts, Mississippi appears to have a sure enough
agricultural college. The Vicksburg Herald
says:
From Major A. M. Paxtoii, one of the trustees of
the above institution, and who has just returned
from the college, we learn some interesting facts
concerning it. There are at present in the college
1 students, and many applicants hare been re-
itly refused for the want of room. All the
branches usually taught in colleges are taught
there, and in addition mechanics and agriculture
are taught both in theory and practice. The boys
are taught to do everything that is required on a
farm. They ditch, plow, hoe, carpenter, cut wood,
remove stumps, clear land, plant seeds, attend
stock, butcher, milk cows, and till tlie soil. They
are taught botany and chemistry, and their practi-
cal uses. The cost of attendance is light. The
board is about #8 per month, arid the uniform costs
only $10. The military feature is enforced, but it
is not allowed to interfere with the studies or the
recreations of the pupils. The most improved im-
proved implements are used, and the students are
made familiar with their advantages.
In his last annual report, the President of
the Faculty of the Mechanical and Agricul-
tural College of Texas, says of the practical 1
course of instruction to be pursued in tha agri-
cultural and mechanical departments—and the
State Board and Legislature seem to have
acquiesced in the idea:
The nature and extent of the labor to be per-
foimed must be left necessarily, under some gen-
eral restrictions imposed by the board, to the dis-
cretion and experience of the professors of agri-
culture and mechanics. The flela and the shop duties
will not come every day, but will take their regular
place in the round of practical work, which includes
also laboratory practice in physics and chemistry,
field work in surveying and leveling, draughting
and designing, military drills, animal and vegetable
physiology and anatomy, and veterinary clinics.
They win not be intended to give mechanic-
al skill in field operations to the student,
but to make him an intelligent applyer of the
laws and principles of nature, on the knowledge of
which scientific agriculture and horticulture are
The Springfield Republican does not appear
to have a very exalted opinion of the qualifica-
tions of Mr. Morton, the new Minister to
France, but thinks he will be quite as efficient
as Gov. Noyes. "Mr. Morton," says the Re-
publican, " speaks no language but his own,
and Noyes is said to be nearly as ignorant. In
Noyes's case, he had helped count Florida in.
In Morton's case he has contributed the fund
with which Indiana was carried. The country
pays for these services §17,500 a year.!'
The matrimonial experiences of Secretary
of tlie Navy Hunt are beginning to attract at-
tention, and many references are made to
the marital ventures of the honorable gentle-
man that are anything but complimentary.
The Philadelphia Chronicle, on this subject,
has the following paragraph: "It is believed
that when Gen. Garfield invited Mr. Hunt to a
seat in the Cabinet, and the other chosen ones
consented to serve with him, they were not
aware of his experienced and versatile matri-
monial career. His appointment was a very
great but not an irreparable blunder. The
President can invite him to resign; or, the
other Cabinet officers, having wives honestly
come by, might refuse to serve with him, in
which case he would be forced out, for he is
not of sufficient importance to stand against
the six. How can the Administration take
any measures against the Mormons with Mr.
Hunt in the. Cabinet ?"
Speaking of the appointment of Hon. Wayne
McVeagh to the Attorney-Generalship, the
Philadelphia correspondent of the New York
Times says: " Whatever may be said to the
contrary, it is the fact that his appointment
has sent a wave of comment, criticism and
complaint throughout the Republican organi-
zation from one end of the State to the other.
It is not merely that 'machine' politicians do
not like him; there are many Republicans who
remember with deep resentment—even if this-
tle entirely unreasonable—the alleged intrigue
by which the Packard government of Louisi-
ana was overthrown by the McVeagh commis-
sion, in 1877, and this, added to the general in-
dependence of his political action, causes fre-
quent assertion that the Attorney-General is
more Democratic than Republican."
The cynical Conkling is represented as still
harping on the Ohio string, saying to a friend
concerning the inauguration: " The President
was escorted to the Capitol by an Ohio com-
pany. The officer in command of the whole
column was an Ohio General. The officer
chiefly prominent in the inauguration prepara-
tions was an Ohio Adjutant General. He was
seated by an Ohio President, and was escorted
to and into the Senate by an Ohio Se»*itor.
He was sworn in by a Chief Justice from Ohio,
and returned to the White House, as he came
out of it. in charge of Ohio officers. Two of
his Cabinet are chiefly from Ohio, and so known
to all Ohio men. The next day Chief Justice
Cajtter, of the District Supreme Court, also a
noted citizen of Ohio, was called upon to swear
in this Cabinet of the new Ohio man."
Exercise necessary to health: " Doctor," said
one of our best young men in society, " there
is something the matter with my brain; I know
there is. What shall I do about it ?" And the
doctor calmly but firmly said he gttessed it
needed a little exercise about as much as any-
thing else, and now the best young
around saying the doctor is a fool,
ton Hawkeye.
5 F -
fellow for hog-stealing.""Borne of them indulge
in these mild insinuations against applicants
for the same office. Your correspondent looks
ou in amusement, and, with other newspaper
representatives here, enjoys the scene.
Many of the visiting statesmen who sing in
the choir at home take a little hand in ten-cent
ante and a dollar limit here. The Kentucky
visiting Republicans take the cake in the per
suasive pastime of poker. They file their ap
plications for office, get their influence to work
and then hie themselves to some sequestered
spot to engage in their beloved poker. As I
iassed a loom in a well-known hotel last night
heard this remark: " What, a full !—it's
good ; take the pot, old man. I thought you
had u bob-tail." I recognized the meaning,
having once heard the expression in Texas. As
I went through the hall I met a Territorial
Governor, and, judging from the licks he was
making for the same room, I concluded he, too,
wanted a front seat and a stack of whites.
In spite of the Lenten season, the gaveties
are not altogether diminished here. All the
theaters ai-e in full blast, and always well filled,
if not crowded. 1 dropped into Ford's Theater
at the matinee, this afternoon, and saw Gene
vieve Ward in the play of "Forget Me Not.
She is a very impressive and brilliant actress-
but ugly. Lawrence Barrett has held the
boards all this week at tbe National, in the
plays of "Richelieu," "Julius Ctesar,"
"The Merchant of Venice," and other
plays. I have seen Barrett so often that I
did not care to go and see him again. John
McCullough is the greatest tragedian now on
tha American stage. I see from the
News that he is in Texas. Edwin Booth
I have not seen for ten years, but he is un
doubtedly the most polished and grandest
tragedian on earth. I remember his brother,
Wilkes Booth, very well. In 1864 I escaped
from a Federal military prison, and slipped by
my old home, near (Louisville, Ky. I had
been with Gen. John H. Morgan on
brated raid through Kentucky, Indiana and
Ohio, and w-hen we" were captured I remained
in prison some time (a mere youth of four-
teen) awaiting a wounded leg to heal, and when
a good opportunity presented, my age helped
me, and I got out of prison and went to Louis-
ville, where I procured good clothes and
money. That night I met several of the boys who
had escaped, and we talked over matters to
form some plan to get South. We concluded
to go .to the theater, and w e went. We agreed
if any detective recognized us, before he could
get a guard we would make our way to
Shockewz's livery stable, get the old man to
let us have horses, and then ride for the Spen-
cer and Nelson county hills. The
theater was on Fourth and Jefferson
the old Odd Fellows' Hall. It was
crowded with Federal officers and soldiers. As
we went in I noticed the old doorkeeper,
Simons, look at me rather earnestly, for I had
known him since I was a child; but he could
not locate me, so we staid through the per-
formance. The play was " Charles De Moore;
or, the Robbers of Bohemia," with J. Wilkes
Booth in the leading role as chief of the rob-
bers. After it was over we went across to the
old United States Hotel bar, where my com
panions took a drink, and after that we scat-
tered out to meet next day. Next morning I
was on my way to meet the boys, and stopped
on the corner of Fourth and Jefferson; this was
just before rehearsal, and at the time a regi
ment of Federal cavalry was passing on their
way to the Nashville pike, to go to Tennessee.
Booth, old Simons, Benson and one or two
theater people were standing in front of the
theater watching the regiment pass. I saw
they were talking in a merry way and moved
up, just for the fun of the thing, to hear what
Simons and Benson and the others had to
say. I knew old Simons and Benson
sympathized with the South, but did
not know how the others felt. I got
close to them and pretended to be
watching the troops. Booth was laughing and
talking to his, companions, so I listened. I
heard him say to his companions. " They feel
gay and jolly now, but they will catch h—11
w hen they meet the gray jackets, headed by
Morgan and Forest." I "moved a little closer,
still pretending to watch the passing cavalry
and intending to have a little fun to see if old
Simons would know me. Booth and his com
panions laughed and talked about "h—11 to
play when those fellows met the rebels, that
they would have to fight instead of fancy
parades," etc. I watched the regimet pass, and.
thinking these actors were merely having their
fun in making the remarks they did, I quietly
passed on to" Market street, where I met the
boys, who had in the meantime picked up a so-
sailed Arkansas Colonel, w ho said he had es-
caped. We soon discovered that he had been
onli
got
report that he had
purchased an interest in the ^ ulcan Steel and
Iron Works at Carondelet. and said thev had
an important future before them in
the steel rails for the roads of the
ern system. As to the trip in general, he said
it had been fruitful in surprises, and the high
opinion of the Southwest with which he had
started had been more than confirmed. The
tide of emigration, he says, has already- set in
that direction, and the coming season will wit
ness a much larger influx, hot only into Texas,
but Arkansas and Missouri.
SAWS* Curtis & Co.
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aR Saw and PlanJa* Mill Supplies; Soie Manufacturer* at !,ocLwooii'« Patent Slotted
Circular Saw. ETEIY«SAW WARRANTBO. iSf-OarefuI attention to repair work. A.|«nte for
Md GRINDING
MACHINERY.
Our Pfew Illustrated Catalogue mailed IVee on Application.
TANITE EMERY WHEELS
SANBOEN & WAENEE,
Manufacturer's Sole Agents for the State of Texas for
Galvanized
AUCTION SALES.
Anfction.
WE WILL SELL THIS DAlf, AT IO
o'clock a. a.
LEMONADE and ALE GLASSES, LA MI'S. BAR
TUMBLERS, MIRRORS. GOBLETS. WINKS. LUSH-
ES. FRENCH CHINA PLATES, and CUPS and
SAUCERS, etc. Cotton Drawers, Shirts. Hose and
Half Hose. Linens. Organdies. Swiss, Bishop Liwns,
Cheviots. Twee;1, Summer Clothing, Notions, Laces,
Embroderies, Albums. Baskets, etc.
SYliNOR St D1NKELAKEH.
AUCTION SALE OF COTTON
whom i
100 Bales Cotton,
MORE OR LESS,
from wreck ol British ship Adriana.
Terms—Cash.
PARK, LYNCH Sc CO.,
Auctioneers.
WILL SKLL THIS DAI, AT 12
clock, from KLuhu's Wharf, for account of
whom it may concern*
Wa-iibum <£ aloe it Manufacturing CO.. Worcester, Mass., and 1. L. Liwood Co.. ivKaio. 111. Sola
Maut'acturera and owners of all the patents governing the manufacture of Barb Fence V> fre. Acknowl-
edged by ail to be the best Barb Wire ever made. It is Ar^nly twisted: all steel: genuinely galvanized;
b*rb» uniformly live inches apart. Hereafter our prices will favorably compare with any orher style
u -*» wii-4, i r^cardiess of iheir inferiority. SANBORN & w aRXER. Houston, Tex.
i K I' N LEY PLOWa
Best arid Cheapest in Use.
w
Administrator's Sale.
STOCK OF GROCERIES, FIXTURES, ETC.. EF-
FECTS OF WM. C. KORTEGAS, DECEASED.
E Ol'Il U THE ABOVE AT Pri-
vate sale at our office until
TUESDAY, 32d, at 10:30 A. M.,
at which time (if not sold private!3--—due notice of
same) we shall sell on the premises, corner 9th and
Winnie, at auction the above described effects.
Inventory at our office. The store can be rented,
and a llrst-elass stand for a live, energetic man.
SYDNOR & DINKELAKER.
WANTED-PLANS AND SPECIFICATIONS
for a good substantial
Jail and Jailer's Residence
combined,fto be located at LaC»range. Fayette Coun-
ty. Texas, of sufficient capacity to accommodate
thirty prisoners, and not to cost over
The committee will only pay for the plan
adopted by them.
All plans to be submitted before the 20th DAY
OF APRIL, 1881. The probable cost of each plan
submitted, to be stated by the party submitting the
plan. For further information, address,
R. T. BRADSHAW,
Secretary Jail Committee.
LaGrange. March 16, 1881. •
4 WONDERFUL ( IRE OF DIPH
IV THERIA.—Three of my children had Diphtheria
Snited to Erery Kind of Soil and Work. Send for Prices.
BRIDGEFORI) & CO., ' Galveston,
SOLE AGENTS.
1
WILL FIND IT ADVANTAGEOUS TO CALL ON
J. S. BROWN & CO.
WHEN IN NEED OF
HARDWARE, T1 X W A R U,
SADDLERY, SiDDIiRY HARDWARE, WAGON AM DIM MATERIAL,
IROX, STEEL, N AI LS, CASTINGS,
FARM WAG-ONS, ETC.
HEIR STOCK IS mm IS TAHITI OR PRICE.
LOTTERIES.
Skin dry, lips parched, could
With a feather I applied GILES'S
in its worst form.
not swallow.
LINIMENT IODIDE AMMOMIA to the tonsils, rub-
bed it over their throats and chests. Great chunks
of stuff caine from the throats, the skin became
moist, fever left them and under the Almighty care
I attribute their cure to Dr. Giles's Liniment. Jane
Kelly, corner TonneUi Avenue und Bleecker street,
Jersey City Heights, N. J. GILES'S PILLS cure
Painful Menstruation. Sold by all druggists. Send
tor pamphlet. Dr. GILES, 120 West Broadway,
N. Y. Trial size 25 cents.
NOTICES.
]ST otice.
All Orders or Complaints, to receive prompt at-
tension, should be leit at tie Office of the Com-
pany, in tbe Brick Building on
market Street, llrtween 24th and 25th
Streets.
Between the Hours of S and 12 o'clock a. m.
A.17G. BT'TTS.AR. Secretary.
NOTICE.
Ol'EMXa VP MEXICO.
Tlie Various Schemes 1'or Developin
the Commerce of our Sister Republic.
[New York Times, March S.]
Mexico awakens to a de.sirts for commercial
and industrial activity and growth to find her-
self without lines of communication, without
capital, and without any organization of her
labor forces. The Keptiblic has no large navi-
gable rivers which, as uatural*highways, do-so
much to promote the development of new
countries. Its territory is compact, and
rising from either coast to the plateaus
of the Cordilleras, enjoys every variety of
climate, soil and production. Its "har-
bor facilities are ample, but they are not
connected with the regions of the interior in
which there are so many elements of natural
wealth. Railroads are the necessary instru-
mentality of her industrial and commercial
growth. Without them she is nothing, and
she has not the means of building them. She
has shown evidence of appreciating her needs
in the liberal charters which she has lately
granted, especially to capitalists of this coun-
try. Since the re-establishment of the Repub-
lic, in 1867, 101 acts have been passed by its
Congress ,or initiated by the President under
general legislative sanction, for the encourage-
ment of railroad construction. The various
charters, agreements and contracts represent
14,530 miles of road, for which subsidies amount-
ing to over $171,000,000 were granted. Many
of the contracts and concessions were made to
the governors of States for local lines of com-
munication. Soma charters have expired by
linntation; some have been forfeited for one
cause or another, and others will doubtless
Island City Ice Co.
STOCK READY FOR DELIVERY.
Subscribers to the stock of
the Island City Ice Company are hereby noti-
fied that the same is ready for delivery at the Texas
Banking and Insurance Company, corner Tremont
and Strand streets, and they are respectfully re-
quested to present their installment receipts, pay
the last installment due thereon, receive and re-
ceipt for the stock standing- in their names.
WM. H. SINCLAIR, President.
NOTICE
ON APRIL 12, 1881,
Grand Extra Drawing
Havana Lottery
CAPITAL PRIZE, 81,000,000;
Second Prize, §200,000; Tliird Prize,
$1£0,000. No Prize Lrsa Thau
$1000. Only 15,OOO Tickets.
Price of Tickets—Whole, $150; Half. $TS;
Twentieth, SS: One-tenth, 815; One-fortieth. $5.
Tickets sent by express C. O. D.. if desired.
Shares for a Pool of 10—Whole Tickets, §5
for each share; one-half share, S2 50.
Barties or Clubs buying S50 or more, 15 per |
cent discount.
Claws 1081 Draws on April 28.
Address MANUEL, OR It WT1A,
168 Common St., New Orleans, La, |
COMMISSION MERCHANTS.
6ALVESTO*.
ii. B. HAWLEI & CO.,
Commission Merchants
and dealers lb
\
FLOUB, PROVISIONS AND -"ysa
J so. D. Rooeks.
1).
COTTON
J. A ROBBBTSOK.
k CO.,
FACTORS
AND
Commission Merchants,
GA LVESTON.
McALPINE, BALDRIDGE & CO.,
COTTON FACTORS
Cbas. Ksujcbb.
TO
and Surrounding Country.
THE GALYEST0N OIL CO.
Having been informed that the want of ginning
facilities prevents the planting of cotton in the
country surrounding Galveston, has decided to add
gins to present macnii
amplv prepared to gi:
buy the cotton in th»
gins to present machinery
pared to
and next season will be
in cotton for the seed, or to
e seed, as may best suit the
grower.
A. M. YOUKQ. Secretary.
ATTORNEYS.
GALTESTO.l.
Balimger, Jack & Mott,
i . . „ ., ,, , , ., . . lapse, but there are several very substantial
only a private South, and had deserted, and was | schemes on foot to which §00,000,000 in subsi-
no friend of ours. VVe got the "Colonel" | dies have been vn'oniised.
drunk, left him, and shipped down to Portland, I The most important of the Mexican railroad
the Liberty No. 3 that evening for 1 - - - - - -
and took _
Memphis. The boat was crowded with Federal
officers and soldiers. The first clerk on the boat
recognized me at once. He had been once em-
ployed in the office of my father at Frankfort.
Ky. He was a Union man, and I thought we
were gone up, but he called me in his office,
told me that lie knew I belonged to Morgan's
command, but as my family had always be-
friended him, he would say nothing about
me, and that as far as he was concerned he
would not inform on us. When we left the
boat at Memphis he said to me, " If you get
through the lines give my regards to the old
gentleman." I thanked him and>e left. The
next I heard of Booth was when we
were being paroled at Meridian, Miss., a year
afterward, when the officer paroling us told i»
that President Lincoln hud been assassinated
by J. Wilkes Booth, the actor, and our soldiets
all deplored it, especially the Kentuckians, be-
cause we knew that Mr. Lincoln was a kini
man and would give us good terms, and assure
us peace and freedom when we returned home.
Mr. Lincoln had three brothers-in-law in the
Kentucky Brigade South, jyid all were killed
One of them, Gen. Hard-^ Ilelm, commanded
the brigade, and was killed at Chickamauga.
So, with part of his own family lighting and
dying for the Confederacy, we know that he
could not be unkind to their comrades, and his
assassination was much deplored and regretted
hv the true Confederate soldier, and all good
T ' ' * North.
t.etti
t»m Browiistilu
[Burnng-
W •rkingmen.
Before you begin your heavy spring work
after a winter of relaxation, your system needs
cleansing and strengthening to prevent an at--
tack of Ague, Bilious or Spring Fever, or some
other Spring sickness that will unfit you for a
season's work. You will save time, much sick-
ness and great expense if you will use one bot-
tle of Hop Bitters in your family this month.
Don't wait. [Burlington Hawkeyo.
the Neics.]
jlarck 11, 1881.—The cry is
'Westward, ho! for Mexico," and daily men
and material are seen drifting toward Uncle
Sam's " new bonanza "—the grizzly Greasers'
native heath. Several expeditions were fitted
out last week for the land of " God and Liber-
ty," and yesterday 234 tons of English railroad
iron arrived in this city for the Matamoros and
Monterey road, and is being crossed over the
river in chalans constructed especially for that
purpose. Inside of a month thirty miles of
track will be laid, and two stations established
beyond Matamoros. The shrill whistle of the
locomotive will wake «p the apathetic resters
and moss-grown bergers of the sleepy, slow
going Mexican metropolis. Verily, tlie aver-
age Aztec will have to "look out for the
engine when the bell rings," or bo forever laid
out.
An order has just been issued by the War
Department prohibiting the sale of intoxicating
liquors within the limits of Fort Brown. The
post-trader's indignation knows no bounds, and
among the Nation's warriors there is wailing
and gnashing of teeth.
Small-pox on both sides of the river is de-
cidedly on the wane. The yellow flags, which
a few days .since fluttered over a hundred
stricken homes, have grown refreshingly sel-
dom.
The garrison quarantine against the city will
be raised this week, and the face of the Browns-
ville merchant will be wreathed in smiles. In
' piping times of peace" of what use is the
brave boy in blue, save as a disbursing agent i
During the last few months the receipts of
goods in bond at the Brownsville Custom-house
have been larger than at any previous period
since its establishment.
Under the efficient administration of the
present incumbent fhis has grown, in point of
importance, to be the second port in the State.
Col. Hay lies, unlike the majority of United
enterprises, and those of which most has been
heard, are the Mexican Central, that of the
Mexican Construction Company, the Sonora,
the Mexican Southern and the Tehuantepec In-
terocean railroad. The first of these is in the
hands of Boston capitalists concerned in the
Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe system of com-
munication, which will bring it* into connec-
tion with the diverging lines eastward from
Kansas City. The mam line of the Mexican
Central is more than 1000 miles in length,
connecting the capital of Mexico with
El Paso on the northern border.
There it will not only have the eastern
outlet ulrcady mentioned into our great
railroad system, but will be brought into im-
mediate connection with that of the Pacific
coast. It has a large subsidy, secured by a
pledge of customs, revenue and liberal privi-
leges, and work upon it is already going on
with great energy. Its two branches diverg-
ing from the main stem near Leon will traverse
the country north of the capital to either coast.
The Sonora line is being constructed in the
same interest, and will traverse a rich territory
from the Gulf of California to Arizona. Both
the Central and the Sonora are organized
under Massachusetts law.
The Mexican Construction Company is oper-
ating under the Sullivan and Palmer gi ant.
It has a line from the City of Mexico to the
Pacific at Manzanilla, further to the south
than that of the Central Company, and one
from the same city to the Rio Grande at
Laredo, where it will connect through Texas
with our Southern system. The two lines in-
clude over 1200 miles of length, and are lii>
erally subsidized. The Mexican Southern has
been seeking a charter from New York. It is
intended to cross the county from Anton
Lizardo on the Gulf of Huatalco on the Pacific,
with connections to Vera Cruz and Mexico on
the one side and Tehuantepec on the other. Its
line is over 500 miles, and has a subsidy of
8S800 per kilometer.
The Tehuantepec Interocean Kailroad is
under construction, and its main object is to
form a connecting link for the commerce of
the two oceans. These schemes are active and
promising, and will of themselves give Mexico
a system of communication which will stimu-
late development and set in motion the forces
that are to regenerate that country. In a few
years results may tie looked for, and it will be
surprising if Mexico does not enter upon a
career of commercial and industrial growth in
sharp contrast with lier past lethargy.
I.\ a Western paper we observe: Mr. Geo. F.
Helderle, of Peru, lnd., says that he had suf-
fered very much with Rheumatism, and used
many remedies without benefit. St. Jacobs
Oil gave him the relief sought.
More Mexican Railway Schemes.
Two more Mexican railroad projects have
recently obtained charters in Boston. These are
the Sinaloa and Durango Railroad Company
and the Texas Topolovampo and Pacific Rail-
road and Telegraph Company. The latter
comprehends a main line, 550 miles in length,
from Eagle Pass, on the Rio Grande, to Topo-
lovampo bay, ISO miles above Mazatlan, on the
Pacific coast. The line has been surveyed by
A. R. Owen, and is exceptionally favorable.
Of the capacity of Topolovampo bay. It is said
that it is larger than the harbors of New York,
Brookl
fords al
wt o
are
railway
No. 12S Postoffice Straat,
GALVESTON, TUT AS
BOIiHTON.
M. t
AITiMIY
Turner,
So. 62 HSainBfJreet, Beaston, 'CexHs.
rmctibes iu State CMirta at Houatofe 0upr<ne,
BKTAD.
LUTHER W. CLARK,
ATTORSEY-AT-tAW,
BRYAN TEXAS.
Practices in the courts of Braaos and adjoining
counties, and in the higher courts of tha State.
WEATGBFORO.
JA9IK8 91. RICHARDS—
ATTORNEY AT LAW. Weatherford, Tex.,
Will practice in Parker and adjoining counties, and
give prompt, personal attention to payment of
taxes and collection of claims.
Correspondence solicited.
TOBACCO MANUFACTURES.
ilill 1 Ui/1
bYNCHBlttG, VA.,
HANCOCK & KINNIER,
proprietors.
Manufacturers of all Grades
Chewing Tobacco.
Price List furnished on application.
GARSIA Sc FREIBERG, Agt<., Galv'n.
WHY DON'T YOU CHEW
Jackson's Best?
EVERYBODY ELSE CHEWS. IT.
LeGIERSE & CO.,
Sole Agents at Galveston.
COFFEE.
IN STORE:
3000 SACKS.
AFLOAT PER BALKE.
3500 SACKS.
KAUSTMAN & RUNGE.
W. SCOTT WEST,
AECHITECT,
132 BROADWAY, NEW YORK.
18 PREPARED TO FURNISH Designs,
Plans and Specifications for buildings of every
description. Orders from all parts of United States
promptly attended to with moderate charges.
TAKE NOTICE I
This is the only Lottery ever voted on by the people
of a State, and under a late decision of the U. 3.
Supreme Court at Washington, is the only Legal
Lottery now in the United Statu, all other charter*
having been repealed or having no existence.
A SPLENDID OPPORTUNITY TO WIN A FOB-
TUNK -GRAND DISTRIBUTION. Class " D."
At New Orleans. Taesday, April 12. '81.
13!ST MONTHLY DRAWING.
Louisiana State Lottery Co.
This institution was regularly incorporated by
the Legislature of the State for educational and
charitable purfltaes in 1886, for the term of twenty-
fiTe years, to wHch contract the inviolable faith of
the State is pledged, which pledge has been renewed
by an overwhelming popular rote, securing its
franchise in the new Constitution adopted Dec. 2. A.
D. 1879, with a capital of 81,000,000, to which tt has
since added a reserve fund of $850,000. Its Grand
Single Number Distribution will take place monthly,
on the Second Tuesday, it never Scales o* Post-
pones. Look at the following distribution:
CAPITAL PRIZE. $30,000.
100.000 Tickets at $8 each. Half Tickets, $1.
LIST OF PXIZES.
1 Capital Prise of $30,000
1 10.000
1 *. 5.000
Sftixesof ;....$1,500 5.000
5 1,000 5,000
80 500 10,000
190 100..., 10,000
200 50 10,000 I CHAS. F. Hohobot.
500 IB 10,000
1000 10 10,000
AFFaOXIIMTION PSXZBS.
2 Approximation PzLkh at ..$300 2,700
9 .. 900 1,800
9 ■■ -- .. 100 900
1867 Prizes, amountimit to $110,400
Responsible corresponding agents wanted at all
points, to whom a liberal compensation will be paid.
For further information write clearly, giving full
address. Send orders by express or Registered Let-
ter or Money Order by mail, addressed only to
S. A. DAUPHIN, New Orleans, La.
Or to J. D. SAWYER, one door west ol
News Office, Galveston.
N. B.—All correspondence should be with M. A.
Dauphin as above. In all cases the tickets them-
selves are sent, and never circulars offering certifi-
cates or anything else instead. Any ono proposing
to offer anything else by circular or otherwise, on
his own belialf or that ot the Company, is a swindler.
All our Grand Extraordinary Drawings are under
the supervision and management of Gens. G. T.
Beauregard and Jubal A. Early. Capital Prize,
$100,000. Whole Tickets. $10.
AND
Commisssion Merchants.
214 Strand, (Mailory Building,) QaXreatM
H. Seeligson & Co.,
COTTON FACTORS,
and
Commission Merchants,
GALVESTON.
Orders for Future Contracts Solicited.
w. j. Frederick.
J. Frederick & Kellner,
COTTON FACTORS
and
COMMISSION MERCHANTS,
Galveston, Texas.
Owics: Corner Mechanic and Twenty-Second sts.
NEW; YORK..
John R. Barrett.
C. F. HOHORST & CO.,
IIISSII
135 Peal Street,
NEW YORK.
MISCELLANEOUS.
GALVESTOn.
mum Mil LMTEM
POSTPONED TO APRIL 7,1881,
FOR A FULL DRAWING.
The drawing
i
nterested com-
$250,000
W ILL TAKE
place at LOUISVILLE, KY., under authority of
a Special Act of the Kentucky Legislature, and will
be under the absolute control of disinteres
missioners appointed by the act.
LIST OF PHIZES.
The Wtllard Hotel with all)
Its furniture and fixtures (
One Residence on Green Street 515.000
One Residence on Green Street 15,000
Two Cash Prizes, each $5000. 10,000
Two Cash Prizes, each $8000
Five Cash Prizes, each $1000 5,000
Five Cash Prizes, each $500 2,500
5.000
5!000
10,000
1,000
500
100
14,400
350
5.000
12,000
6,000
4,000
5,000
Fifty Cash Prizes, each $100.. - - -
One hundred Cash Prizes, each $50 - .
Five hundred Cash Prizes, each $S0
One Set of Bar Furniture •
One Fine Piano
One Handsome Silver Tea Sst
400 Boxes Old Bourbon Whiaky, $36.-.
10 Baskets Champagne, $35
Five hundred C«sh Prizes, each $10
400 Boxes Fine Wines. $30■ — ■■■■ ■ ■■■. -
900 Boxes Robertson Countv Whisky, $30 —
400 Boxes Havana Cigars, $10
Five hundred Cash Prizes, each $10
Amounting to $369,850.
WHOLE TICKETS, $8; HALVES, $4; QUARTERS, $2.
Remittances may be made by Bank Check, Ex-
press, Postal Money Order or Registered Mail.
Responsible Agents wanted at all points. For
Circulars, giving full information, and for Tickets,
address \V. c. I). w HIPS,
Wlllard Hotel, Louisville, Ky.
CHALLENGES! COMPARISON — THE
NEWS BINDERY challenges comparison of
work, both for quality of material and
finish with any done elsewhere.
im arisen
elegance
SEP mmx AP MM STORES.
A Full Stock of MANILLA. HEMP & WIRE ROPE,
Blocks, Shaavee, Flags, Bunting acd Canvas, and
all Goods In these lines always on hand. SATL^
TEWC8, TARPAULINS and AWKXKG8 mad* ta
osdar. Orders solicited.
THEO. K. THOMPSON,
(Successor to David Wakelee.)
208 * S10 Strand, GALVESTON, TEX.
R. P. SARGENT,
AGENT FOR
Herring's Patent Champion Fire and
Burglar-Proof Safes.
63 MECHANIC STREET.
Dear Sir—We take pleasure in expressing* our en-
tire satisfaction with our large JsEW HERRING
SAFE, weighing nearly thiee tons, recently pur
chased, and can testify to the skill and diSDatci
displayed by you in hauling and placing same In
our office on second floor of Mallory Building, on
Stand, in this city. Yours truly,
JOHN D. ROGERS & CO. *
BANKS AJTD BAVKE&8.
Jos. Bai.dridor.
Ennis.
J. R. BXLDRIDOB,
Washington Co.
J. & J. R. BALDRIDGE,
BANKERS,
And Dealers in Exchange,
O.K. LCT,
TV
D. Weber,
JoaaoA
LIS IRON fil?
C. B. LEE & CO.,
AND
ENNIS,
m
TEXAS.
Jas. Gajuttt. Jos. Huct.
GARRITTY & HUEY,
BANKERS,
CORSIC AN A, TEXAS.
Will give prompt attention to collection*,
discount Corsicana acceptances.
Bennett, Thornton & Lockwood,
BANKERS,
SAN ANTONIO, - TEXAS
Collections solicit!ted on All Points la (ha State,
Commercial paper dlsoonntadL Bills qp Mexico.
PHCENIX
tj i/tiiiuu AilU OllliLl illVil
WORKS.
SHEAN,
Manufacturer of Improved STEAM TRAINS, BAT-
TERIES and CLARIFIERS for making sugar, and
all descriptions of Copper and Sheet Iron Work.
Dealer in Lift and Force PUMPS of all description:
Iron Pipe, Fittings, Valves, and all descriptions of
Brass Goods; PLUMBING and GAS FITTING;
Steamboat, Steamship, Engineers' and Plantation
Supplies. Agent lor the oelebrated KNOWLES
STEAM FUMPSand MACK'S PATENT INJECTORS.
AS crises sold at mannfactarers' prices. All orders
promptly ailed. 15T. ISO and 181 Mechanic
6ALTUTM,
MACHINISTS.
MANUFACTURERS OF
STEAM ENGINES, SIff MILLS,
Boilers, Mill and Gin Gearing,
Shafting. Pulleys, Brass
and Iron Pumps,
Etc.
_ W Particular attaatton given to Order* for Iron
Fronts and Castings for Buildings,
All Kinds of Job Work solicited. Satisfaction
guaranteed.
Corner Winnie and Thirty-second Sta.,
(Near Railroad Depot,)
GALVUirON, TEXAS,
HKW OBLBARS.
JOHN GAUCHE,
AT THE
MORESQUE BUILDING,
And 110 CMsurtres Street,
NEW ORLEANS, LA.,
Has tbe largest and best selection of
Crockery, Glassware,
WOODEN, TIN AMD HA.SDWi.BE,
OTAar House In Ifca South.
Tks pnees are goacanteaA aa 1am. if not lasrar.
th«m acy eetatoiaabmao* north or south.
HOGSXOB.
i>R M. PERL, "
GENERAL FUtlHIMB,
HOUSTON, TEXAS.
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