The Galveston Daily News. (Galveston, Tex.), Vol. 40, No. 91, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 7, 1881 Page: 2 of 4
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Thursday, July 7, 1881.
AN OLD CHAPTER OF HISTORY RE-
PEATED.
Mencius informs us that Confucius appeared
at a crisis in the Nation's history. " The
world," he says, " had fallen into decay, and
right principles had disappeared. Perverse dis-
courses and oppressive deeds were waxing rife.
Ministers murdered their rulers, and sons their
fathers. Confucius was frightened by what he
saw, and undertook the work of reformation."
At that time corruption rioted in every de-
partment of the Government, official
venality ruled in high places, and
schemes for plundering the people
liad their ramifications ■among the nobility and
subordinates of the civil service. All virtue
had disappeared from the courts of the digni-
taries of the realm, and the bad example of
the rulers had made corruption and debauchery
a social fashion and national infection. Offi-
cial responsibility had ceased to restrain the
public robbers, and private virtue had become
.1 commodity of licentious commerce and do-
) v;j;:imous sensuality. In a word, the picture
which Mencius has given of the state of public
morals in the Chinese Empire at that period
lius a painful resemblance to the state of pub-
lic morals in our American Republic, here
In the bright glare of the civilization of
tho nineteenth century, and in this
1. story is repeating the follies, the peculations
nnd <h pravities of a highly cultured race that
1'cil into "decay" and "murdered its rulers"
ever two thousand years ago. Twelve hun-
<in'<1 years before Confucius was born an an-
<■' i it hero and king had proclaimed in China:
" The great God has conferred on the people a
i.ral sense, compliance with which would
s-, .ow their nature invariably right; to cause
them tranquilly to pursue the course which it
indicates is the task of the sovereign." Con-
fucius, we are told, knew the utterance well,
and he carried out the principle which it in-
culcated, insisting upon its application in
all the relations of society. He taught em-
phatically that a bad man was not fit to rule
in any sphere or capacity. As a father or
a magistrate, he might wield the instruments
of authority and punish the transgressors of
liis laws, but no forth-putting of force would
counteract the influence of his bad example.
On the other hand, it only needed virtue in the
higher position to secure it in the lower. Un-
der the sage's beneficent teaching the abuses
in the public administration, and in the pri-
vate affairs of society, soon began to disappear,
and in the end complete reformation crowned
his great undertaking, and so endeared
to the populace and their descendants his re-
formatory creeds and his personal virtues that
there are at this day very few among all the
millions of the Celestial Empire who do not
heartily repeat the lines:
"Confucius! Confucius! How great was Confucius!
Before him there was no Confucius,
Since him there has been no other.
Confucius: Confucius! How great was Confucius!"
There is work in America for a Confucius,
but, alas! no Confucius appears. Where
in all the States and among all the peo-
ple is there one grand man of genius and of
soul to cope, by example and precept, with the
fearful riddle of our political situation? Where
is the leader, great in intellect, great in heart,
great in conscience, majestic and commanding
in simplicity of virtue and wisdom, to marshal
us in this Egypt of political abominations and
conduct us through the wilderness of our per-
plexities and distractions? Poverty of leader-
ship is a calamity logically resulting from a
system of politics which has been a conspiracy
against moral greatness, against statesmanship
and against reform in public life.
must accrue to all industries from the general
outgrowth of their ventures.
THE NEW YORK SUN'S HOSTILITY TO
THE SOUTHWEST.
The development of the South and South-
west is apparently not relished in some quar-
ters of the Union. The transfer of wealth and
population from the East and North to the
South and Southwest is evidently viewed with
uneasiness. It sounds very well to speak and
write of the cofnmon progress of a common
country. There is more in the dissemination
of general pftsperity, however, than is
always contained jn rhetorical sentences.
The East for many a day has had the better of
the other sections of the Union. Capital and
labor have been in abundance there, and dom-
inant political power has been the consequence.
There is a prospect that this condition of
affairs may not always continue. Care is be-
ing taken that there shall be no outspoken
evidences of jealousy at the season of pros-
perity which the South and Southwest
are now enjoying, and which is likely
to continue in still greater ratio, but it is
not always the open enemy who is the most
dangerous. There is reason to regard the course
of the New York Sun for months past as
eminently hostile to the progress of the South-
west. It has not failed to use its influence to
the injury of certain important railroad
schemes in the completion of which the South-
west has a vast interest. It will be remem
bered how assiduously the Sun followed up
General Grant on his recent visit to
Mexico, seeking to destroy his influence
in that country by the circulation of stories of
American annexation and Mexican bank-
ruptcy. It was not likely a matter of personal
hostility to Grant that actuated the Sun in its
course in this particular. Grant was the agent
of Jay Gould in his late mission to Mexico, and
was there seeking concessions of consequence
necessary in the details of a great international
railway system. It was believed that to
some extent the policy of the Sun
was dictated in the interest of a hos-
tile railroad syndicate. Later developments
have exploded this tfceoiy. On the 26th
of last month an article appeared in the Sun on
the Mexican National Railway and Construe
tion Companies, which that paper in glaring
head-lines pronounced a bubble railway scheme
of brilliant but illusive promises, and a good
thing to let alone. This refers to the Palmer-
Sullivan scheme, in which Eastern capitalists
are largely concerned. It is not the pur
pose of The Nbws to go further than to
show the position of the Sun in relation to
American enterprise in Mexico. The Sun is
hostile to progress in that quarter. Inasmuch
as the Southwest will be directly benefited
thereby, this hostility affects our own section.
The interest which the Sun has in the protec-
tion of Eastern capital from investment in
wild-cat railroad securities must be taken at
its value. In strict keeping with this policy of
hostility to Mexican railroad development, but
more marked and more direct, is an article in
the Sun of the 2d instant, in which are set forth
a variety of reasons why emigrants avoid the
South. The article alluded to is of the most
malicious character. The habits of the people
of the South are held up to abhorrence, the
region declared a hotbed of pestilence, and
statistics are adroitly worked in to prove the
correctness of the Sun's theories. The News
will not make any specific refutation of the
unwarranted charges contained in the Sun's
article. If the ostensible motive of the New
York journal can be reached, something will
be accomplished That motive may be con-
densed into a sentence. The Sun dreads the
departure of political and material power
from the East to the Southwest. The Sun would
retard progress in this direction. Let the
great schemes now under way reach a con-
summation, followed by another decade of
peace and prosperity, and the Southwest can
bid defiance to the New York Sun and all of
its kidney. There is some comfort in this
fact.
SOLID AND WEALTH-PRODUCING IN-
VESTMENTS.
The London Standard of a recent date blows
its fog horn of danger, and warns the people
r.gainst investing in the railroads now projected
everywhere. It throws itself in fiont of the
progress of the age and seeks to check its
strides. It says:
If : ny man or woman has invested money in the
•"•mpanie-! now springing up around us like mush-
r >" is, unless the risk ot loss can be fairly faced to
i s lull extent, he or she has helped to create a
■ ' ' of r.1 lings full of mischief to the community
r. .■> ' -might with possibilities of ruin to others be-
M'l the reckless invest r. It is as certain as any-
l.! ■ i g in ;he commercial world can be, that a large
l ! ■ of these companies can only live for a lit-
tl • .viiile upon the original subscription, and will
v . her up as soon as these have been exhausted.
It may be that men and women in the old
world are investing their little surpluses in
railroad enterprises, and that the boom over
there is sustained by promiscuous small sub-
scriptions. It is not so on this side of the
water, nor is disaster apprehended or even
possible here as is foreboded there. In the
United States and Mexico the new railroads
are being built by the independent capital of
the country, and not by the necessities or
the speculative frenzy of the people. Capital
seeks that investment that promises the largest
percentage in perj>etuity; and taking the Gov
ernment securitias as the standard for interest-
bearing investment, the intelligent capitalist
esks his money but two questions: Can you
yield me more than 3% per cent, if I send you
out to develop the material resources of the
country? Can you return me 6 or 7 per cent,
if I put you in the carrying business?
The answer of the logical dollar calls the atten-
tion of its master to the rapid growth of the
country, the increase of population, the de-
mand for additional railway transportation,
the permanency and safety of investments in
steel rails, engines and coaches, the general
prosperity in all branches of industry, and as-
sures him of its ability to pay remunerative
dividends. But suppose the capitalist and his
dollar should both be mistaken, does it follow
that they have " created a state of things full
of mischief to the community, and fraught with
possibilities of ruin to others besides the reck-
less investors?" Is it possible to bring
"mischief to a community" in the
shape of industrial enterprises, projected,
paid for and sustained by imported capital?
Is it possible to check agriculture, impair com-
merce, impede manufactures, restrict enter-
prise, cripple resources, or ruin the prospects
of communities by giving them the advantages
©f railway facilities? There can be no loss or
even temporary hurt to the country from
" reckless investments " in enterprises that be-
come at once a part of the wealth and wealth-
producing power of th® country. It is not
like investing in pyramids, obelisks, burial-
cases, tombstones, towering cathedrals, gor-
geous palaces for royal drones,vast armaments
that drain and terrorize the nations. These
are not dividend-paying enterprises. They
are the graveyards of capital. Capital laid
down in railroads and other properties
and industries that are to develop the
resources of the country and give
employment to labor, is quickened in its mis-
sion for good, stimulates enterprise, enhances
public and private value, is itself rewarded for
its activity, and can lose none of its intrinsic
value from depression in trade or panic in the
money market. Fluctuations in stocks and
bonds may frequently catch the capitalists and
builders on the ragged edge, and they may
often be driven to tho wall, but their ill luck
or unwise ventured do not affect the actual
value of their "plant," or lesson to the ex-
tent of one cent the substantial wealth
of the country. Their "plant" is perma-
nent and productive, and the State
and the people are the beneficiaries.
The Standard's warning is encouragement so
far as this country is concerned. The amount
of stock' subscriptions from among populations
that are to be mostly benefited by the increased
facilities for travel and transportation is of
small moment compared to the enormous ex-
penditures for construction and equipment by
the capitalists and the great advantages that
DRY
THE SCHOOL BOARD AND THE
WEATHER SCHOOLS.
The Governor is reported in the special dis-
patch from Austin, published in The News of
Sunday last, as entering a disclaimer for him-
self and the Board of Education of any re-
sponsibility in connection with the summer
normal schools. This disclaimer was barely in
time. An impression prevails that up to the
time the press opened its batteries upon the
Board of Education and its secretary for im-
porting teachers to take charge of these
dry weather schools the Governor had
them down in his list of educational
institutions, together with his wet weather
schools, as proof of his success in
building up the educational interests of the
State. The News has no disposition to mis-
represent the Governor, but, on the contrary,
has, whenever occasion offered, yielded him
a hearty support in whatever was believed to
consist of sagacious endeavor in the public in-
terest. If this happens to be a different occa-
sion, it is not the fault of Thh News. Gov-
ernor Roberts had led or permitted the public
to believe that these dry weather schools were
under his control. The Governor is, in effect,
the Board of Education and is responsible for
its acts. It consists of himself, his Secretary of
State, and the Comptroller. This board, at
the instance of the Governor, appealed to the
Legislature, or its educational committees, for
authority to establish these schools. The
Peabody trustees had made a proposition to the
board that if the State would organize these
schools a considerable amount of money would
be given from the Peabody Fund for their
maintenance during the summer. This propo-
sition was embodied in an amendment to the
House Educational bill upon its passage
through the Senate, but the bill itself failed to
pass, or failed after passage to be enrolled.
And yet the schools are being organized by a
prominent State official—in fact, by the ex-
officio Superintendent of Education. This offi-
cial holds his place by appointment of the
Board of Education. He is sent, or is per-
mitted by the board to abandon his post,
to organize these schools at the most
important period of the scholastic year. On
or before the 1st of July the law requires the
board to apportion the available school fund
to the several counties, but on or before July
1 this year the board has not and could not
make this apportionment, because their secre-
tary, who compiles the data upon which it is
made, had, in their estimation, a more im-
portant duty to perform, and was granted a
leave of absence for that purpose. Evidently
the board concedes the preference in organ-
ization to the dry weather over the wet
weather schools, and evidently, if the plans
and purposes of their secretary in this organi-
zation had not 'net their approval, his excur-
sion would not have been permitted, and the
apportionment of the school fund would have
been made.
STATE PKESvS.
What the Interior Papers Say.
An exchange wants more attention given by
the public schools and others to reading aloud,
and extols the accomplishment of good read-
ing. It is, like many other good things, good
in its place; but, next to a good talker, a good
reader is the greatest bore. He will persist in
reading to others in season and out of season,
until they are sorry that he can read at all.
What people need to be taught, among other
matters, is Solomon's saying, that there is a
time for all things, and that even a good thing
may be spoiled by its excessive use or intro-
duction at improper times and places.
The Castroville Quill chronicles the death of
Peter Francois Pingenot, who was born at
Bretten, France, canton de Fontaine, depart-
ment de haut Rhin, on the 30th day of Septem-
ber, 1810, and served as a soldier in France for
a full term of five years. In 1S44 he came to
Texas with the Castro colony and settled in
Castroville, where he died.
Railroads, religion, and the enforcement of
the laws against vice and crime, are going
West along with the young men who wish to
grow up with the country and the star of em
pire. The Castroville Quill writes a story with
a moral for people who indulge in little games
like the heathen Chinee in contravention of
the law:
Last Wednesday an old, decrepit man walked
into town, coming from the west. He seemed
wearied with travel, and lii-. appearance was such
as to excite respect and sympathy. He stopped 10
rest, and displaying «c,n»e mont»y, he was very
Jtfn Jly treated at Wernetta's. Just about that time
Sheriff N iggli received tho following telegram from
Uvalde:
Arrest one James Neal. He is a tall, slim, sickly
old man, smooth shaved. T. S. Spencer, J. P.
The arrest was made, and when it was ascer-
tainwd that the offense in Uvalde was playing poker.
" 10-cent. ante," he said he was guilty and would
pay the tine. Tiie wires were used to rind out the
tine and costs, and the answer came "$45." The
old man paid it and went on his way rejoicing, but
before he left he gave us the names of those com-
posing the " 10-cent. ante " crowd, which, out of re-
spect to the new and struggling churches in that
town, we will r.ot publish. Several of the "shining
lights " are of the number. The old man thinks,
from the size of pile demanded of him, that he has
paid for the whole crowd. At any rate, the officers
got back their losses in costs, so he says.
The moral written by the Quill eit the end of
this o'ertrue tale is that " Uvalde is a poor
place to play poker."
Speaking of the Teachers' Convention at
Corsicana the Waco Telephone says:
Many of the ideas formed at this year's session
are practical and valuable and ought to receive
serious consideration at the hands of a future legis-
lature. The suggestions relative to State and
county superintendents, as well as salaries for
teachers, are especially sensible. The most im-
portant result of the gathering is the explicit
avowal of the teachers that Texas needs a better
system of public education.
The Virginia colored ureacher whose bobby
was that the earth stands still while the sun
goes round it, said he would rather believe his
own eyes than all the books said, and a num-
ber of editors take the same View of the comet.
They say that one in the evening and one in
the morning make two in spite of all that may
be said to the contrary by astronomers.
A correspondent of the Kinney county News
calls on the editor for information in regard
to the present signs in the sky, and the editor
frankly answers (and sets a good example to
others) by saying:
"We are sorry to say to our correspondent that we
can not give any information on that subject, as
we are not well enough posted in astronomy.
Another paper very pertinently says:
While so many scatter-brained imposters are
endeavoring to scare people into the belief that the
planets are going to wreck the world during this
year of grace, there Is solid comfort in the follow-
ing letter written by Professor Young, of Prince-
ton, N. J., to a Nebraska inquirer: " Dear Sir—It is
true that Saturn, Jupiter and Venus are near con-
junction and T. near its perihelion, but they have
no influence whatever of any sort en the earth.
The nonsense talked about the matter is worthy of
the dark ages. Two tom-cats fighting in the streets
of Pekin will disturb the world more than all im-
aginable planetary conjunctions."
The San Antonio Evening Light regards
Washington as a sort of headquarters for po-
litical and moral lunatics. It states a fact
which a good many others have noticed, as
follows:
Any one who has visited Washington City, and
become acquainted with its characteristics, will be
struck with the fact that it contains more des-
perate, crazy men and women than all the other
American towns put together. You can see them
pacing up and down the corridors of the Capitol
like chained bears, besieging committee rooms,
pressing themselves into the presence of
the President, and importuning every mem-
ber of Congress and head of department
to secure position, or to have some claim
passed or allowed. There are hundreds of men
and women swarming about the public places who
are positively desperate, disappointed, crazv mo-
nomaniacs—people who have exhausted years in
the pursuits of something connected wtfa the pub-
lic service; people whose only prospect is wreck
and misfortune; people who have spent their all,
lost their all, honor, fortune and virtue, in the
great whirlpool of the political center of the Na-
tion, and w ho become infatuated with their own
misery. How natural that these lunatics should
seek out the President to wreak their vengeance,
and it is only astonishing that the instances of at-
tempts on the life of the Chief Magistrate have not
been more numerous.
Any one who has ever held the power of ap-
pointing men to local offices has experinced
something of the desperate way in which as-
pirants urge their claims for appointments.
There is no monomania more common than
the thirst for office. The country is full of
men broken down in fortune and character,
who might have been prosperous and respect-
ed, but for the insane desire for office. The
legal profession furnishes a large number of
melancholy examples. Young men who might
win distinction and independence at the bar,
become smitten with the desire for official hon-
ors, neglect their clients to become chronic
agitators and stump speakers, and end as brok-
en-down politicans, with no more taste or
capacity for steady work than old gamblers
and inebriates.
Messrs. Reynolds & Coyner make their
essex" from the Athens Journal. They
have sold out the whole business to Messrs. G.
P. Miller & Co., of the Index and Observer, of
Corsicana, who will hereafter publish the
Journal. In a brief review of their course,
the retiring editors say they have endeavored
to promote the public good, state facts fairly,
and do justice to public men and measures.
This is true policy. "Let all the ends thou
aim'st at be thy God's, thy country's and
truth's; then, if thou fall'st, thou fall'st a
blessed martyr." It is a good thing to succeed,
but better to deserve success.
The San Antonio Express joins in the uni-
versal expression of regret and horror at the
attempt on the life of the President, and says:
The first duty is to punish the assassin. His mind
may be tinctured with insanity, but not sufficiently
so, from the evidence received, to free him from
amenity for his crime. He w as sane enough to
premeditate the act, and should be executed. And
after he is disposed of, let the American people
consider well whether freedom of speech or of the
press which permits the advocacy of murder or as-
sassination of rulers of governments is a blessing.
Wilkes Booth was quite as crazy as the man
who shot President Garfield.
The papers announce that " the fourth State
Holiness camp-meeting will be held at Bosque-
ville, near Waco, commencing the 4th of
August, and will include the first and second
Sabbaths." Let him that is holy be holy still;
nevertheless Revelations xv, 4, says the Lord
only is holy, and thus far the Texas fanatics
who have assumed the name have done little
to weaken the declaration.
Occasional correspondents of the papers and
new editors are like the old preacher who began
his sermons by saying: "We will make a few
remarks before we begin." Mr. C. M. Yates,
the new editor of the Pleasanton Monitor,
yields to the fashion so far as to say:
This custom gives to the qualified journalist an
opportunity of displaying his logic to the wise, and
his rhetoric to -the refined. But conscious that we
have neither the talent for profound reasoning, nor
the cultivation necessary to make ordinary ideas
ery acceptible, we must content ourself with a few
_ lain statements as to what we wish rather than
what we expect to perform.
And then he makes a few practical remarks,
showing a grarter desire to make a good and
useful paper than to air his own pedantry or
wit.
The Castroville Quill says: "Texas is quiet
on the Fourth of July question. Too busy
building railroads."
The San Antonio Express says the editor of
that paper could not lift his nose from the
editorial grindstone to participate in the cele-
bration of the glorious Fourth. A good many
others, like those who refused to attend the
marriage feast in the parable, begin to make all
manner of excuses for neglecting to celebrate our
national jubilee. Something like the Sunday law
is needed to cure this lack of patriotism, unless
such compromises as the Express man offers are
to be accepted. He says:
His patriotic soul was cheered during his hours
of toil by the music of the national anthem, and
other airs, played at the San Pedro Park and wafted
to his ears by the telephone.
If this manner of celebrating the Fourth of
July is to be tolerated, men will claim the
right to recline at home on luxurious couches,
on the Sabbath day, and listen to the organ
and sermon by telephone, and ladies may 'air
the latest fashions and finest new hats to empty
pews. Compulsory attendance at church and
celebrations of our national anniversary are
now in order.
The Goliad Guard remarks:
The libel suit against The Galveston News was
decided in the District Court in G ilveston last
week, in favor of The News. We are glad of it be-
cause we believe The News was right. The people
will not muzzle the press nor the courts interfere
with its freedom.
Just as Galveston is getting a little breath-
ing spell from the war waged on her for
sleeping on her natural advantages, the cam-
paign opens on her for wanting artificial aids,
and she is warned that she is about to tumble
the whole fabric of the government about her
ears, as Samson did the market-house on him-
self acd his tormentors. The Rockport Tran-
script repudiates the idea of the Two Laredos
that the State is to be split into half a dozen
pieces on the prohibition rock, though it
says:
Prohibition will not divide the State, but we can
inform The News what will. Just as sure as it
succeeds in its design to concentrate all the effort
of the State and National Government on the im-
provement of Galveston pass and harbor to the
exclusion of a ay other port, just so sure will divi-
sion rear its head, and will not be put down again
until it is an accomplished fact.
That is a fine old argument, though it never*
has any force. It has been trotted out almost
every year for forty years, on as many occa-
sions, only to bring ridicule upon those who
resort to it. Galveston neither asks nor de-
sires any measure of public improvement that
will not redound to the benefit of the whole
State. The Transcript is a little behind time
in the use of the old threat of secession. Even
that wall of fire that the San Antonio Herald
used to want built up between Western Texas
and the rest of the State is no longer talked of.
Texas, one and indivisible, is practically the
motto of the State.
THE BVSI1WS8 OUTLOOK.
Failures for the First Half of 1881.
[From Circular of R. G. Dun & Co.l
The following table shows the number of
failures in the United States and Canada for
the past three months and for the )iast hajf
year, together with the amount of liabilities:
States
and
Territories.
Second Quar-
ter in 1881.
Alabama
Arizona
Arkansas.
California
City San Francisco.
Colorado
Connecticut
Dakota
Delaware
District of Columbia
Florida.
Georgia
Idaho
Illinois
City of Chicago
Indiana
Iowa
Kansas
Kentucky
Louisiana
Maine
Maryland
Massachusetts
City of Boston
Michigan
Minnesota
Mississippi
Missouri
City of St. Louis...
Montana
Nebraska
Nevada
New Hampshire
New Jersey
New Mexico
New York
'itv of New York..
North Carolina
Ohio
City of Cincinnati..
Oregon
Pennsylvania
City Philadelphia..
Rhode Island.
South Carolina
Tennessee
Texas
Utah
Vermont
Virginia
Washington Ter
West Virginia
Wisconsin
Wyoming
Chester A. Arthur.
The following brief biography of the man who
is so near to the presidency, is taken from the At-
lanta Constitution:
As to the birthplace of Chester Allan Arthur,
there has been a dispute, which, during the late
campaign, attained considerable nip rtance. It is
generally conceded, however, that he was born in
Fairfiold, Franklin county, Vermont, October 5,
1830. His father, William Arthur, was a Protestant
Irishman. In America he became somewhat famous
in the ministry of the Baptist church.
"Young Arthur had good advantages in early life.
At the age of eighteen he graduated at Union col-
lege and began to teach school. He ceased teach-
ing and spent two years in the study of l.iw at
Bailston Springs. Again he taught school, until in
1851 he had $500 with which he went to New York
to practice law, entering the office of Erastus D.
Culver, and was soon admitted to a partnership.
In 1857 he went west, but soon returned to New
York, and resumed the practice of his profession.
His most notable case was the celebrated Lemmon
suit, associated with Sir. Evarts, in which the val-
idity of the fugitive slave law in Virginia was
destroyed.
His only service during the war, outside his pro-
fession, was for a brief period on the staff of Gen-
eral Hunt, in the Army o£ the Potomac, as in-
spector of New York troops in the field. Mr. Ar-
thur's career in politics does not present any evi-
dence of great ability in that department. He was
a member of the Saratoga convention that founded
tht Republican party in New York. He has
fielr ed conspicuously as a local politician
in New York City, and in 1871 he was
nominated by President Grant to be Col-
lector of the Port of New York. This valuable
position he held until July 12, 1878. when he was re
moved by President Hayes for alleged use of the
office for political purposes. He returned to the
practice of law as a member of the firm of Arthur,
Phelps, Knewal & Ransom, in New York city. At
Chicago Conkling secured the nomination for the
vice presidency as a rebuke to the Hayes adminis-
tration, and his career as the second official in the
republic is considered as having been entirely un-
der the supervision of his imperious friend. Re-
cently he ha-; been at Albany more than at New
York, and iias seemed more anxious to secure the
reelection of Conkling than to serve the people
who chose him for the high office he fills.
Total
The rumor comes from Washington that
Hartley Campbell has written an emotional
drama at tho request of Mrs. Kate Chaso
Sprague, with a view of her appearing as its
heroine.
Amount
Liabilities
$687,648
83.01
922,156
113,
764.000
Total for 1st 6
mos. of 1881.
Amount
of
Liabilities
$1,412,518
172,000
531.156
512,000
1,081,000
241,000
486,457
13,800
2,000
81:250
152,552
1,357,933
60,4
413,r
700,1
215.958:
218,953;
157,198'
200,200!
638, tb6 174
1,414,000 53
536,021' 114
50.150' 48
400.132, 110
85,600; 67
205,0001 25
1105
Dominion of Canada. 183 1,876,302 349 3,002,858
87,7001
40 000'
203:796!
226.7321
18,000
777,5621 820
2,482,86ll 201
98,746j 55
260.861, 98
148,182! 23
320,700
1,199,332
110,988
77,445
190,429
264,280
8,000
4.000
161,362
42.400
720,640
516,499,395
122
63
40
42
104
122
10
9
59
24
4'
2862
342,652
847,500
267,289
590,555
912,718
598,238
653,036
274.908
607,831
1,472,384
1,764.700
1,129,570
252.1396
1,529,900
462.6:13
1,005,037
' 185,000
113.000
254,796
1,297,?21
51.000
3,063,226
7,820,553
2*4,518
664.753
609,801
. 1,018,250
2,228,813
764.494
313.495
720.025
970,920
18,200
122.500
402,807
"113,750
1,013,915
540.877,150
The failures in the "United States for the firoS
half of 1881, according to the above, wei'e
as compared with 3497 for the first six montinf
of 1880, and 4058 in 1879. The liabilities for
first half of the present year are $40,000,000, as
against $32,000,000 for same period in 1880, and
$65,000,000 in 1879.
The foregoing statement indicates only a
moderate number of failures, and, taken in
conjunction with the very favorable reports
which are presented below from all the repre-
sentative trade centers, shows very accurately
the general condition of trade at this time.
That in extent the business of the country has
attained a magnitude never before reached, is
beyond all question; that its productive power
is greater than ever before, is equally evident:
the ability of the consumer to absorb and pay
promptly has increased; while the evidences
abound on every hand of a growth in wealth
and material resources equaled by no other
country in the world. There have been condi-
tions in the six months under re-
view which might, under ordinary cir-
cumstances, have retarded the progress of
the general prosperity. An excessively severe
winter seriously interfered with the business
of a vast area of territory in the West and
Northwest, which, followed by a cold and un-
seasonable spring, accompanied by large losses
from freshets, etc., aggravated the difficulties
of the previous months. In the Southern
States the trade of the early winter was ex-
ceeding y disappointing, owing to the unfavor-
able weather which prevailed. Large pur-
chases of merchandise had been made in an-
ticipation of an extended trade which did not
follow; the consequence being that very se
rious difficulties were encountered in numerous
localities South, extending over a wide area of
territory. Thus, throughout the West, the
Northwest, and over most of the South, the
difficulties which the merchants have had to
contend with during the six months have been
unusually great. Notwithstanding all this,
the figures above presented indicate a healthy
condition; failures have not been numerous,
and have been rarely important, and the losses
by bad debts which, under such adverse cir-
cumstances, might have been expected to be
large, have been comparatively small.
The failures for the past six months, not
withstanding the slight increase, indicate a
stability and strength in the position of the
great mass of the mercantile community that
is in happy consonance with the prosperous
condition at the country generally. The ten-
dency is. therefore, under such favorable cir-
cumstances, to extend the lines of credit very
rapidly. The facility with which weak and
unsound applicants obtain goods, and the
growing increase in the time and ease of the
terms of credit, are particularly noticeable.
These are the first signs of the possibility of a
revulsion, which some fear must come from
the extraordinary expansion which has oc-
curred everywhere in the last eighteen
months. The temptation is almost impossible
to resist to extend the volume of business when
failures seem so few and the general condition
so prosperous. To be conservative at such a
period is a most difficult policy to pursue, yet
it is just in such times as these that hidden dan-
gers lie in circumstances the most unsus-
pected. Prudence, would, therefore, point
to the avoidance of conditions without which
disaster is impossible; thus, for instance, the
expansion into unwise and injudicious credits;
the locking up in unavailable shape of active
capital necessary for business: the increase of
business and personal expenses; and, above all,
the growth of indebtedness. Signs abound at
every turn of the tendency to launch into ex-
penditures, which to prudent minds are the
sure precursors of the reaction that must come
sooner or later. But little danger can come to
those who maintain their obligations as a limit
which their active assets enable them easily to
discharge or to carry. To use a homely
phrase we shall be " fooling away our good
times " if the reaction, which is sure to come,
finds us owing largely, with capital and profits
dispersed almost- beyond recall To many also
the experience of the six months just closed
has demonstrated the possibility of doing an
enormous business with little or no profit;
hence the possibility of an unhealthy expansion
of trade without a corresponding accumulation
or sinking fund from profits to compensate for
the risks incurred thereby.
Elsewhere are presented short statements of
the condition of business in each prominent lo-
cality of the country. No one can rise from a
perusal of these without being thoroughly im-
bued with the prosperous condition of thing's at
present, and with the extent, variety and avail
ability ot the resources of the country. The
crops, generally, promise most favorably, and
the agricultural classes, having had two years
of extraordinary prosperity, are in a condition
much more satisfactory and independent than
ever before. Even should the demand for
breadstuffs be lessened, the variety of exports,
other than these, will be so large as to enrich
the country under almost any circumstance*.
The prospects for a continuance of prosperity
seem, therefore, to be unclouded. Except for
the vague feeling of insecurity, which neces-
sarily accompanies auch an extraordinary ex-
pansion as has been witnessed, there is no
reason apparent to threaten the continuance of
the healthy condition of trade which now exists.
Poor Farming.
Bellville (Texas) Times: We were startled
this week in reading the pounds of corn and
pork that have been imported into Texas this
year for home consumption. This fact speaks
forcibly of the unthrift and neglect of Texas
farmers in the matter of raising their own
food. With the richest soils iu the United
States, adapted to cereals and all small grains,
corn, grazing, as well as cotton and sugar, the
farmers must buy food for themselves and their
workstock. They devote time enough to cot-
ton and sugar; raise good crops of these staples;
sell them for cash, and cash in hand
spend it for something to eat, instead of rais-
ing their own food and accumulating the
money coming from their cotton and sugar.
In farming this is fundamentally a wrong
principle to cultivate land upon. Every farmer
in Texas can and should raise all he needs for
food. When once he understands this, he
finds he has plentv of time, besides attending
to his other crops, to do it; and, what
is more to his purpose and advantage,
soon finds himself independent and in an easy
way of living and with money in store. Corn
and grain raised in Texas and fed to hogs and
cattle, at least as much as will make a man's
own pork and beef and feed his work-stock
and family will, and does, pay those who do
it, better than selling corn at $1 per bushel
and cotton at 10 cents per pound. Cast your
eye among the thrifty and comfortable farm-
ers of our county, and inquire how it is, with
good fences, fat stock, clean crops, comforta-
ble buildings, out of debt, prompt pay, easy
farming, improved implements, contentment
and happy homes, they are better off than
others who have equally as productive land;
and the answer will be, the first know how to
farm and to make their farms, what nature
provided and skill and industry accomplishes,
homes of plenty and independence; the latter,
from want of tact or knowledge or industry,
live from hand to cotton and cotton to mouth
—hard up two-thirds of the year and nothing
the balance.
Poultry.
Eveiy acre of land that a farmer owns that
pays him nothing and is not increasiug in val-
ue is running him behind, because the taxes
must be paid. Eggs for hatching should not
be more than two weeks old. There is no way
of discovering the sex of an egg before hatch-
ing. The seed of the amber sorghum cane is
said to be valuable for hens. In testing eggs
the fresher the egg the smaller the air cham-
ber. This can be seen at the broad end of the
egg if it be held up against a strong light in a
dark room. Stale eggs have a mottled, grey-
ish look about them. A new-laid egg will
always give a telling of warmth if the tongue
bs pressed to the large end.
Jlpollinaris
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ANNUAL SALE, 9 MILLIONS.
Of Grocers, Druggists, Min. Wat. Dealers.
BEWARE OF IMITATIONS.
Senator Maxey and the Star Route
Frauds.
[From the Kew Orleans Democrat.]
When the first exposure of the Star Route
frauds was made several Republican papers, in
order to eover up and conceal the scandals that
brought discredit on their party, made wild
charges against a number or leading and influ-
ential Democrats, accusing them of being im-
plicated in these frauds. Such charges were
made against Congressman Money in Missis-
sippi, who happened to be in Mexico at the
time, but were promptly refuted by him upon
his return to this country.
We are sorry to see that some of the Texas
papers are attempting to throw some respon-
sibility for these frauds on Senator S. B.
Maxey, of that State, or, rather accusing him
of lack of diligence and foresight in his ca-
pacity as Senator and chairman of the Post-
office Committee, iu not watching the post-
office thieves well and preventing their rob-
bery of the treasury.
Such accusations are silly, worse.than silly—
criminal. We have read the articles on the
subject and find that they are based upon two
points; first, the fact that many of the star
mail frauds bad been committed m Texas and
on routes recommended by Maxey; secondly,
that Maxey was chairman of the Senate com-
mittee on postoffices and should, in that capaci-
ty, have protected the country from robbery.
The latter charge can be dismissed in a few
words, since it is founded on the extreme ig-
norance of those who make it. The Senate
committee on postoffices has nothing whatever
to do with the compensation paid contractors
for carrying the mail—it was here that all the
Star Route frauds came in—and its members
knew no more about this compensation than
any other Senator; That duty devolved on
the appropriations committee, and if any
one is accused of negligence it should be that
committee. But it is evident that it was im-
possible for anybody to discover these frauds
as long as Bradv remained in control of this
department of the postoffice. Indeed, a special
committee, appointed at the last session of
Congress to investigate the Star Routes, had
been unable, after long, patient and careful ex-
amination, to discover any fraud, and had so
reported. Senator Wallace, of Pennsylvania,
was chairman of this committee, but no one
has ever charged hi it* with negligence or dere-
Vction of duty because he failed to unearth the
frauds.
The other point made against Senator Maxey
is that he recommended many postal routes in
Texas; that these routes were ordered by
Brady and finally fell into the hands of mem-
bers of the Star Route ring, who gouged the
Government fearfully on thapi. If his recom-
mendations implicate Maxey in tho guilt of the
Star Route gang a large number of the most in-
fluential citizens of the Southwest are
equally guilty, for all the leading
Southern journals, politicians and mer-
chants, have been complaining about the in-
sufficient mail facilities allowed us, and praying
for an increase of them. The Southwest has
for years been unfairly treated by the Post-
office Department. This was so well known,
so universally admitted, that when Hayes
went into the White House a Southern man
was placed at the head of the Postoffice De-
iartment, because it was supposed he would
e better able to develop our mail service.
When Maxey was canvassing the State of
Texas for the senatorshlp he made this one of
the chief points in the canvass—the improve-
ment of postal facilities in the State. How
thoroughly in accord with him on this point
were the people of Texas is shown by the fact
that they elected a Legislature which sent him
to the Senate. That Senator Maxey kept his
promise to the Texans has never been disputed.
He labored zealously to increase, improve and
develop the postal service of liis State, and
he succeeded in making it better than
it ever had beeu before. And now, be-
cause some of these routes—the necessity
for which has not been denied—were
awarded by General Brady to members of his
ring, because extravagant and outrageous
prices were paid to transport the mails over
them—Senator Maxey, f jr signing the petition
recommending them, along with thousands of
other worthy citizens, is accused of being
somehow implicated. In other words, he is
accused of having recommended the improve-
ment of our mail service, and who is there
that will deny that it needed improvement?
Such are the main points in the warfare be-
ing made on the Senator from Texas by per-
sons who have interests of their own to bene-
fit by it; that, as chairman of the Postoffice
Committee, he did not know what was not in
his jurisdiction, and that he was unaware, like
all his fellow Senators, that Brady was swin-
dling the Government.
There is a universal and unanimous feeling
throughout the country in favor of punishing
the men guilty of the Star Route frauds; of
cutting out and eradicating these frauds when-
ever discovered; but nothing is to be gained
by loose and reckless charges such as these.
SUEEP AXI) jf*OOX.
Victoria Advocate: Mr. Henry Levy pur-
chased the spring clip of Mr. Lackey, of Go-
liad, lor 20,% cents this week, and also the
Terry clip for 23)^ cents. Wool in small
quantities still continues to come in, although
the season has about ended.
Fort Clark News: Ex-County Judge R.
Stewart came in last Wednesday. He has
been examining the country as far as Presidio
del Norte, and says it is certainly one of the
finest stock countries he has ever been over.
He has leased from the railroad eighteen miles
of a stream west of Pena, Colorado, for his
sheep.
Rancho Anacacho: This is one of the " big-
gest things'' in Kinney county—that is to say,
the Woodhull Bros. Composed as it is of three
enterprising young men, hailing from Long
Island. They have in course of construction,
and nearing completion, a wool and shearing
house, probably the largest private building
in the county, covering nearly 8000 feet. This
firm was established in 1875 on comparatively
a small scale, and at present it is one of the
largest sheep " lay-outs " in the State. They
control over 100,000 acres of laud, with 35,000
to 40,000 head of sheep, and also in Dimmitt
county some 40,000 acres and 15,000 to 20,000
sheep. They are continually importing fine
sheep from Ohio, New Yo'rk and Vermont,
and i'rom the interior of Mexico.
The contest between St. Jacobs Oil and
rheumatism was a walk-over for the former.
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and it will annually save many times its cost in
doctor bills. Price. !1~ rente, BO cents, and
91.00 per bottle. Directions accompany eacji bottle.
FOR SALE BY ALL DRUGGISTS.
SPECIAL NOTICES.
Notice to Consignee*. — The steamship
RIO GRANDE, Pennington, master, from New York,
is now discharging cargo at Williams's wharf.
Consignees will please pay freight and receive
their goods as landed, receipting for the same on
the wharf. All goods remaining on the wharf after
4 o'clock p. m. (.not receipted for) may, at option of
steamer's agent, be placed in warehouses or covered
with tarpaulins on the wharf, but they are entirely
at risk of consignee or owner. All claims for dam-
ages must be adjusted be foe the goods leave the
wharf. J. N. SAWYER. Agent.
fiulf, Colorado and Santa Fe Railway
—Secretary's Office, Galveaton, Texas, June 20,
1881.—To the Stockholders of the Gulf, Colorado
and Santa Fe Railway Company: Notice is hereby
given that a meeting of the Stockholders of this
Company will be held at the Company's office, in
the city of Galveston, at 1:2 m., on THURSDAY, the
1st day of September, 1881, to decide whether or
not the Capital Stock of this Company shall be in-
creased to Seven Millions of Dollars.
GEO. SEALY, Pres. G., C. & S. F. R'y Co.
F. P. Killeex, Secretary.
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Patroness, H. R. H. PRINCESS LOUISE. Founder
and President, The Right Rev. I. HELLMUTH, D.
D., D. C. L., LORP BISHOP OF HURON.
Fall Term opens Wednesday, September 21st.
HANDSOME and spacious buildings, beautifully
situated in a most healthy locality, about four
hours by rail from Niagara Falls, and on one of the
principal through routes between the East and West.
The GROUNDS comprise 140 acres. The aim of the
founder of this college is to provide the highest in-
tellectual and practically useful education. The
whole system is based upon the soundest Protest-
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formation of character. French is the language
spoken in the college. ITIustc a specialty.
Board, Laundry and Tuition Fees, including the
whole course of English, the Ancient and Modern
Languages, Calisthenics, Draw ing and Painting, use
ot Pimo^nd Library. Medical Attendance and Med-
icine. $300 per annum. A reduction of one-
half ^or the daughter-; of clergymen. For " circu-
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Lndy Principal Hellmuth Ladies' College, London,
Ontario, Canada.
AUCTION SALES.
Auction Sale.
WE WILl SELL THIS DAT, AT
10 o'clock a. m.. at our Sales-rooms, Strand—
An Invoice of LIGHT SUMMER CLOTHING,
consisting of Linen Coats, Pants, Vests and Dust-
ers: 100 dozen Hosiery, 30 pieces Prints; an invoice
of Notions and Fancy Goods. Also, 30 eases
Pickles, Assorted Groceries and Sundries.
PARK, LYNCH & CO.,
Auctioneers.
FOR SALE CHEAP.
OTJE SINGLE WAGON, Wi lli TOP, 1
large COPPER GENERATOR. 1 IKON GAS
WASHER, 2 COPPER BOTTLING CYLINDERS, 1
MATTHEWS BOTTLING TABLE, with svrup
pump and magnetic tier, complete, 1 MATTHEWS
PATENT PRESSURE GAUGE. The above offers
a good chance for investment iu a well-paying
bu-iness by any person desiring to enter into soda
aerated water or bottling business. For particulars
and conditions, apply to JULIUS SOCHA,
110 Market St.
PUBLIC S^JLE
OF
TO"wnsr lots
AT
PEARSALL,
ON TIIE LINE OF THE
international and great northern railroad,
On Wednesday, July 20, 1881.
PEARSALL IS SITUATED IN THE
center of Frio County, fifty-two miles west
from San Antonio, 100 miles from Laredo, seventy-
five miles from Eagle Pass, thirty miles frum
Pleasanton, and fifteen miles from Frio City.
The country surrounding: Pearsall is a his:h roll-
ing prairie, interspersed with mesquite. The soil is
a red sandy loam. Plenty of good water in weils
fifty reet deep. A dail3r stage for Laredo leaves
Pear-all every day. It is expected to become the
county site of Frio County.
Terms of $ale«
Amounts less than $100, cash; exceeding 8100,
one-third cash, balance in one and two vears, with
eight per cent, interest. Liens reserved to secure
payment of notes.
tale to commence at 11 a. m.
An excursion train will leave San Antonio at 7 a.
m., railroad time, on the day of sale, and return to
San Antonio same day.
Round trip tickets, good for that day and train
oniv, from ban Antonio to Pearsail and return, $3.
Barbecue and lunch on the ground free.
For further information apply to
i\ \Y. HUNTER,
Risjht of Way Asent. San Antonio. Texas.
public sale
OF
TOWN LOTS
AT
VALLEY ULLS,
On the Gulf, Colorado and Santa
Fe Railway,
ON THURSDAY, JCLI 14,1881.
The new town of Valley Mills is on the Fort
Worth branch of the Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe
Railway, in Bosque and McLennan counties, on the
North Bosque River, picturesquely locatt-d in the
beautiful Bosque Valley, al the foot of the Bosque
Hills, in a tine agricultural section, and will beat: 1m-
Eortant -hlppin? point for cotton and grain. With-
i a radius of five miles there are ei^ht gins. It is
estimated that 15,000 bales of cotton will he shipped
from this point
• Valley Mills is 2f>9 miles from Galveston, 41 miles
from Temple, 80 miles from Fort Worth, 25 miles
from Waco. 21 miles from Whitney, 12 mile? from
Clifton, 23 miles from Meridian, 12 miles from China
Springs. 10miles from Garrett's Tilills, 12 miles from
Norway Mills, 5 miles from Vaughn's, 12 miles from
Corvetl City, 25 miles from Gau-sville 2S miles from
Jonesborough, 40 miles from Hamilton.
TERMS OF SALE.
Amounts less than $100, ca«h- amounts exceed-
ing $100 and less than $200, half cash, balance in
on<> and two years; amounts exceeding $200, one-
third cash, balance in one and two years. Interest
on deferred payments at 8 per cent. Liens reserved
to secure notes.
Sale to Commence at 10:30 O'clock A. 51.
EXCURSION.
An excursion train will leave Belton on clay of
sale, July 14, 1881, at 7 o'clock a. m., and Temple
Junction at T:30 o'clock a. m. Returning, will leave
Valley Mills after the sale, arriving at Temple and
Belton same day.
Excursionists will have an opportunity of view-
ing the magnificent scenery along the Fort Worth
branch, which for beauty is unsurpassed in the
Soutti.
Hair Fare from all Stations, Good on
all Passenger Train*. Barbecue
on lite Grounds Free to All.
For maps and information apply to
.C.'C. ALLEN,
Sec'v Land Dep't. Galveston. Texas.
OSCAR G. MURRAY. Gen. Passenger Ageut.
SYDNER& DIN'KELAKt'R. Auctioneers.
COFFEE. _
COFFEE.
IN STORE:
4000 SACKS.
All Grades and Good Styles.
KAUFFXAN& RUNGE.
SAWS' Gurtis & Co.
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Manufacturers •! dMertpte ot Circular, mill, and Oross-Cut Saws; WtoUial. Swim in
Rabber and Leather Belting, 711m, Mandrel*. Cant Hoeke, Saw OoKiun, Upnets, and
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Circular Saw. ETEKT SAW WASiANTBH. WCareful attention t» repair work. A«en*s for
TANITE EMERY WHEELS GRm>wo
MACHIJfERT.
Oar Mew Illustrated Catnlosne mailed 1'ree oil application.
SANBORN & WAR 1ST EE,
Ttlaimfaetiirerg' Sole Asjents for the Mate or Texa» for
ET
'SfKfflT
STEEL B^B^FENCE^WIRE
Galvanized °»Jabakhed.
OOFF EE.
in store:
3000 SACKS.
ALSO, ONE OF THF. LARGEST AND MOST
COMFLETE STOCKS uF
GROCERIES
in tiie south.
MOORE, STKATTON & CO.,
W holesale G 1*0 cers,
liquor dealers,
AND
IMPORTERS.
. Moen manufacturing Co., Worcester, . and I. I.. felwooA
& Co., DeKalb, ill.> Sole JVVaiiutuctiirer* and Owner# oi all llie Patents sovern-
ing the manufacture oi Barb Fence Wire. Acknowledged by all to be the best Barb Wire
ever made. It. is evenly twisted, ail steel, genuinely galvanized, barbs uniformly five inches apart at
right angles with main wire. Hereafter our prices will favorably compare with any other stvle of Barb
Wire made under license, regardless of their inferiority. SANBORN Sl WARNER, Houston, Texas.
J. S. BBOWN & CO.,
Hardware Merchants,
galveston, texas,
ARE HEADQUARTERS FOR
EYE AIsTD HANDLED HOES
GRAIN CRADLES,
MACHINISTS' & CARPENTERS' IMPLEMENTS,
builders' aistd plantation supplies.
Floreston Cologne.
1 Sew and rasiiinnub!* Perfume, Fragrrani, Rtfrtshlag, Lasting.
Bold by dealers ia Drug* and Fancy Goods. HUeox * Co., X. I.
PARKER'S GINGER TONIC
, (Ringer, ttuchu, Mandrake,Stilliugia and many
of the best medicines known are combined in Par-!
ksr s Ginger Tonic, into a medicine of such varied*
'and effective powers, as to make it the greatest'
.Blood Purifer and Liver Requlator and the
► Best Health and Strength Restorer ever used.
' It cures Dyspepsia, Rheumatism, Neuralgia,'
.Sleeplessness, and all diseases of the Stomach,"
'Bowels, Lungs, Liver and Kidr.eys. 7
* Remember lm This Tonic never intoxicates, cures',
drunkenness, is th« Best Family Medicine ever]
made, and is entirely different from Bitters, Ginger-
Preparations, and other Tonics. None genuine with-"
signature of Hiscox & Co., Chemists, N. Y.
Parker's Hair Balsam
The b«ut, cleanest and
most economical hair
restorer and dressing
NOTICES.
island city
Protestant Orphan Home.
The annual ihbeting of the
members of this Association, for the elect i. n of
12 Trustees and 28 Managers, will be held at Eaton
Memorial Chapel, on THURSDAY, July 7, at 6
o'clock p. m. M. KOPPERL.
President, Board of Trustees.
Mrs. W. P. BALLINGER.
Governess, Board of Managers.
SEND 25 CENTS
For a copy of the
REVISED NEW TESTAMENT*
Mailed post-paid on receipt of price by
G. T. LATHROP,
112 Camp Street, New Orleans,
COMPANION TO
REVISED NEW TESTAMENT*
Price, 25 cents in Paper.
" 75 " In Cloth.
Mailed on receipt of price by
G. T. LATHROP, Bookseller,
New Orleans.
Southern Agency for
THE STYLOGRAPHIC PEN.
galveston,
SHIP CHANDLERY AND NATAL STORES.
Notice.
All orders or complaints, to
receive prompt attention, should be left at
the office of the Company, in the Brick Building, on
Market Street, Between 24th and. 25th
Streets,
Between the hours of 8 and 12 o'clock a. m.
ACQ. BtTTLARi Secretary.
J WILL PAlf
$300 PREMIUM
FOR the
FIRST BALE OF NEW COTTON,
Raised In Texas, if Shipped to me from
first hands.
WM. D. CLEVELAND,
Cotton Factor and Wholesale Grocer, Houston,Tex.
BUSINESS CHANGES.
Notice-
•f
-Law Partnership.
T
he i'ndsrsigned will. from
this dace, pracrice law under the firm'style of
hume & shepar0.
Office: 61 Strand, Galveston, Texas.
F. CHARLES HUME,
SETH SHEPARD.
July 1st, 1881. Late of Brenham.
Dissolution.
The firm of r. a. brown & co.
tnis day dissolved by limitation. Either mem-
ber of the firm is alone authorized to sign the firm
name for liquidation only.
R. A. BROWN,
E. S. FLINT.
A. H. 1TERSON.
Galveston, Texas, July 1,1881.
R. A. BROTVN will continue the General Cotton
Factorage and Commission business at 204 Strand,
for his own account, and hopes to merit the con-
tinued confidence of the patrons of the late firm, as
well as those of the old firm of SHACKELFORD,
BROWN & CO.
Galveston, July 1, 1881.
Galveston, July 1. 1881.
The cndersigneo have this
day formed a copartnership for the purpose
of doing a Cotton Factorage and Commission busi-
ness. Prompt attention will be given to all busi-
ness intrusted to us.
F. LAMMERS,
E. S. FLINT,
Late of R. A. Brown & Co.
f. LiSIMERS.
E. S. Flint,
Late of R. A. Brown & Co.
lammers flint,
cotton factors
AND
Commission Merchants,
Mtfllory Building, Strand,
GALVESTON.
HOTELS-SUMMER RESORTS
THE HYGEIA HOTEL,
old point comfort, va.
SITUATED 100 YARDS FROM FORT
Monroe. Open all the year. Equal to any ho-
tel in the United States as a summer resort. Send
for circular describin? hygenic advant^vges, etc.
HARRISON1 PHOEBUS, Proprietor.
westminster hotel.
American Plan.
Sixteeuth Street, East of L'uion Square,
New York.
RATES AS LOW AS ANY FIRST-CLASS HOTEL.
The central location of the
Westminster offers unusual inducements to
srrangrers visiting the city, being situated near all
the large retail stores, popular places of amuse-
ment, eta
The Westminster is perfect iu all its appoint-
ments, elegantly furnished, has marble stairways,
elevators, etc., and is practically fireproof. Should
you favor me with your patronage, it will be my
endeavor to make you as comfortable as is possi-
ble in ar.y hotel. Thaniciner my friends for past
favors, and hoping for a continuance of the same, 1
am, yours verv truly,
WM. G. SCHENC'K, Proprietor.
Late Merchants' Hotel.
~ cm vj vwa iu mcac lines ax w ay s uu iiauu*
SAILS, TENTS, TARPAULINS and AWNINGS
made to order. Orders solicited.
theo. k. thompson,
(Successor to David Wakelee.l
2QS Sc 210 Strand, kalveston, TEX.
lira) age, Storage, Forwarding and Her-
ring Safes.
R. P. SARGENT,
GENERAL Transfer and Forwarding Agent and
Warehouseman, Mechanic Street, between Tre.
inont and Twenty-fourth, Galveston. Texas,
having the best facilitiea, is prepared to tranfer or
store all kinds of light and heavy Merchandise,
Wool, Sugar. Etc.
Moving Safes, Boilers. Engines and all kinds of
heavy Machinery in and out of buildings a specialty.
Agents for the Sale of
Herring's Patent Champion Safes,
A Fine Assortment Coustantly oo Hand.
C. B. Lbs,
J
D. WEBER,
Joshua Miluk.
C. B. LEE & CO.,
k
AND
MACHINISTS.
MANUFACTURERS OT
i, M MILLS,
Boilers, Mill anfl Gin Gearing,
Shafting, Pulleys, Brass
and Iron Pumps,
Etc.
Particular attention given to Orders tartna
* ~ ' • _ " ~ ildii
of Job Worl
guaranteed.
Fronts and Castings for Buildings,
All Kinds of Job Work solicited. Satisfaction
Corner Winnie and Thirty-second Sts^
(Near Railroad Depot,)
GALVESTON, TEXAS,
NEW ORLEANS.
JOHN GAUCHE,
1tths
MORESQUE BUILDING,
And 110 Cliartre* Street,
NEW ORLEANS, LA.,
Hw the largest and best selection of
Crockery, Glassware,
WOODEN, TIN AND HARDWARE,
Of Any House in the South.
The prices are guaranteed as low, if not lower,
than aifv establishment north or south.
HOUSTON.
DU M. PEKL,
GENERAL PRACTITIONER,
HOUSTON", TEXAS.
BANKS AND BANKERS^
Adoue & LOBIT,
BANKERS.
DOMESTIC & FOREIGN EXCHANGE,
Cable Transfers.
Sight Drafts on Ensland, France,
Sweden, Norway, Etc.
HUGHES' SPRINGS,
NORTHEAST TEXAS,
27 Itllleit West of JeflTer»oii, on the East
Line and Red River Railroad.
THE COMPANY ANNOUNCE THAT THIS
Delightful Watering Place
— AND —
SUMMER RESORT,
Will be Opened June 1st,
FOR THE ACCOMMODATION OF
visitors, with many additions und improvements
over last season No musquitoes. All rail roiue.
No staging; daily mail and trains: telegraph.
Hotel and cuisine ffrst-class.
All railroads in the State will sell round-trip ex-
cursion tickets to the Springs.
Reference: Former guests. For further informa-
tion, address
PROPRIETOR HUGHES' SPRINGS,
Cass County, Texas.
EMZY TAYLOR,
v.
Q
S5
•< 1/Lll
Georgetown, Texas.
GEO. M. Clarence E. DILJUCT.
GEO. M. DILLEY & CO.,
Round Rock, Texas.
Prompt attention gnt©n to Collections and business
intrusted to our care.
W. W. LIPSCOMB,
I
Hotel Brunswick,
austin, texas.
HUNT & SMITH.. Proprietors.
Beg leave to say that they
have secured the three-story
COOK BUILDING,
Corner Pecan Street and Coneresa
Avenue.
The rooms are large, and location right fn center
of business. Everything in the house is
new, handsome and comfortable.
The Hotel ia a necessity for the capital long
fsii.
open january 15, 1881.
Ton SMITH. Manager.
jiuuiuii niiu Liiiuuiii
Luling, Texas.
Special attention paid to Collections. Correspond-
ence solicited.
Jos. BiLDStoar,
Eunis.
J. R. Baldrioo*,
Washington Co.
J. & 3. R. BALDRIDGE,
BANKERS,
And Dealers in Exchange,
ENNIS, TEXAS.
JESTER, PRENDERGAST&OO.
BANKERS,
CORSICANA, TEXAS.
Prompt Attention to Collection*.
Discount Corsicana Acceptance*.
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