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Mundafi May 10, 1874.
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* Galveston, Texas.
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period.
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INFLEXIBLE RULES.
No attention given to communications un-
accompanied b/ tho names of responsible
parties.
Nothing written on both sides of a sheet
paper can be accepted for publication.
No manuscript, not published, to be re
turned, or held indefinitely, subject to the
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inflexibly adhered to in the News Office.
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time paid to.
TO CITY SUBSCRIBERS.
Subscriber* living in any portion of [the
city, east of Thirty-fifth streot, will confcr a
favor by reporting promptly at our counting-
room any and every failure on the part of the
carriers to deliver the Daily News before 7
o'clock a. m.
Wefttivard the Star," Etc*
The Great West begins to feel her
strength, which is accompanied by
a good appetite—so far as Congres-
sional favors are concerned. Even
New York, the great regulator of
many matters in iinancc and legisla-
tion, begins to acknowledge the
power of the brood of young giants in
the shape of commercial cities which
have sprung up in the West. Congress
does not propose to appropriate over
1^25,000 for harbor improvements at
New York, though General Newton
asked for #000,000. and many memo-
rials were sent from the State second-
ing his request. The New York Post
prints an extract from a member of
Congress, who writes:
You say truly that more than $225,-
000 should have been given to Hell
Gate, but "westward the course of
empire takes its way." We are in the
hands of the young giant, and we
must do t he best possible. The com-
mittee treated us just as liberally as
any one else, in proportion; hence we
can not make specific complaint.
Seivers.
It will not do for a level city, with
its surface but a few feet above tide
water, to draw lessons in sewerage
from Paris and other cities full of hills.
In the great French capital, the stream
of water passing through the main
sewer is so swift that not a bit of any
thing is seen floating along. The sew-
ers are so large that they are traversed
to a great extent by railroads, and even
by boats. , They are kept free from
any large amount of sewage deposit by
means of peculiarly constructed
barges, each of which does the work
of a hundred men. The smaller ones
are kept clean by hand, G:J0 men being
employed for the purpose, whose ten-
ure of life, after they enter the sewers,
rarely exceeds fifteen years. All the
solid matter is utilized, and defrays the
expense of its removal.
Tiik "grand international march of
the nineteenth century," is the last
piece of tomfoolery of that artful
dodger of work called "Sergeant
Hates.'' His summer campaign is: On
the 10th instant to leave the United
States for Europe with two ex-soldiers
of Franco and Germany, and after
passing through London, proceed to
Calais. In London arrangements are
to be made with an ex-soldier of each
of the countries of Europe to join him
in the march. The sergeant and the
ex-soldiers, each bearing the standard
of his own country, are to march from
Calais to St. Petersburg, through all
the capitals of the Continent. Nego-
tiations are in progress to persuade an
Irish Home Ruler to carry the grceu
flag of Jfinn. A white silk banner,
with the motto " Peace on Earth," is
also to be carricd—if possible, by a
negro.
The party should be accompanied by
Santanta or Big Tree—Capt. Jack can
not go—in order to show how com-
pletely the Quaker policy has been
vindicated. Of course, Sergeant Bates
defrays all expenses out of his savings
as a private in the United States army.
Drad-li<'»<(« In a Paving King.
The District of Columbia investiga-
ti.ns, on Tuesday, developed the fact
that the editors and publishers of at
least three of the Washington city pa-
pers received stock in the District Pav-
ing Company without paying anything
for the same. After the"company had
been in existence some time, however,
original paying members became dis-
satisfied with the distribution of pro-
fits, an 1 concluded to dissolve the
company—one of the reasons operating
to this end being, as the president tes-
tified, that the paying members did not
care to carry so many dead-heads any
longer. This company is known as
the Metropolis Paving Company, and
was formed by consolidating several
companies, mainly for the purpose of
preventing competition and keeping up
prices. The paid up capital of "the
company was $40,000, and the profits
were such as to repay this and $80,000
besides, for profit. The company did
work to the amount of $795,000 for
the Board of Public Works, at a profit
of 17 J per cent.
An important dispatch in the News of
this morning contains interesting infor-
mation relative to the Texas and Pacific
Construction Company. We refer our
readers to tLo dispatch for particulars.
WONDKH-WORKER IW THE
MISSISSIPPI WILDERNESS.
In the desert of Mississippi through
which the New Orleans and Jackson
Railroad passes a fountain is springing;
in that wide waste there still is a tree,
and a bird, in the solitude singing,
speaks to a wondering world of Col.
Henry S. McGomb and a monumental
town of that ilk. The bird in this
ease is a gushing correspondent. He
dilates, through the columns of the
Louisville Courier-Journal, on the mar-
velous achievement s of McComb, who
"owns and controls all the railroads
from Jackson, Tenn., to New Orleans,"
and who is the gigantic genius, not
second even to Col. Tom Scott, of the
Mississippi Company, a corporation
of the Credit Mobilier description, au-
thorized to "build railroads, establish
manufactories of every kind, plant
colonics, locate fields, farms, gardens,
build cities, make all practicable
waste places glad." But so far, it ap-
pears, the only practicable waste place
which has been gladdened, under Mc-
Comb's inspiration, by this magnificent
plagiarism from John Law's original
Mississippi Company, is the site of Mc-
Comb City, about one hundred miles
above New Orleans on the railroad
The site, comprising four thousand
acres of choice land, was first pur-
chase! as the private property of Mc-
Comb. Then,' by dint of indefatiga-
ble energy, he managed to have $400,-
000 worth of improvements put upon
it without delay, at the expense of the
company, and to collect there a popu-
lation of about fifteen hundred—me
chanics, gardeners, tradesmen, doc-
tors, teachers, preachers—all in effect
his tenants at will, and all devoted by
force of xircumstances to his service.
These facts, however, are not men-
tioned, strange to say, by the fame
proclaiming correspondent. Nor
what is still more strange—has he in-
cluded in his hymnal testimony to the
glories of transcendent genius and en
tcrprise, the initial exploit of McComb,
which formed the pedestal, so to
speak, for this splendid monument,
McComb city, which, we are assurred,
rests upon the broad foundation of
the moral virtues."
Not to be either tedious or too nice
in phraseology, Colonel Henry S. Mc
Comb, fresh from the inmost mysteries
of the Oakes Ames Credit Mobilier
operations about Washington, sud
denly appeared in New Orleans about
four years ago. He immediately com-
bined with Gov. Warmoth, the Jack
Sheppard of Louisiana politics, in a
scheme for kidnapping the New Or-
leans and Jackson Railroad ; and, aid-
ed by complaisant venality in the State
Legislature and the City Council, they
did, under color of law, and in spite
of all possible resistance by General
Beauregard, then the chief officer of
the road, succeed in kidnapping it.
Having installed himself in place of
the former President, his first act was
to pay a homage to religion and elicit
the praise of the Young Men's Chris-
tian Association, by stopping cheap
excursion trains on Sunday for the
benefit of poor, overworked people,
anxious to get some fresh air outside
the scorching heats of the city.
Since then, it the singing bird re-
ferred to sings to us truly, Colonel
McComb has mainly concentrated his
work of illustrating the moral virtues
upon the city of his name. Indeed,
we are told that he "has his whole
heart in this enterprise. It is said to
be the pet project of his life. In its
prosperity he expects to perpetuate
his name. It is said of him that he
delights in vast exploits, magnificent
projects, and his mind must have
ample scope for display and exercise,
just as a leviathan must have a vast
ocean to gambol in, or the eagle the
empyrean for flight." And here we
must pause to admire a prccipitcus
anti-climax, which hardly any other
theme could have inspired. Listen:
"In McComb City and vicinity he will
find ample scope for the exercise of
his genius. The rapid advance in the
price of lots, on account of the great
number who will be attracted to the
spot, and the sale of lumber from his
vast pine forests, together with the
other enterprises, furnish a certain
margin of profit."
But the most wonderful part of the
wonderful story was reserved to the
last. It is briet and positive—thus:
"Col. McComb is now forty years of
age, andisthoroughlyself-made." Pro-
digious! There were simple-minded
people prepared to believe that he was
made at a hardware shop, or at a rail-
road foundry up in Delaware. This is
a ease of self-generation that beats
anything of the kind discussed in the
biological writings of Sflpncer, Huxley,
Darwin or any of the scientists. Is it
a key to the distinguished character-
istics of this phenomenal person's pi-
ety ? Self-worship was never uncom-
mon, but neither history nor fable re-
lates any other example in which one
could in the same act worship one's
self and one's creator.
"Amono the industries now most de-
manded in Houston," says the Telegraph
"is a sugar refinery upon an adequate
scale." Judging from various croppings
out of late litigious, official, and so on,
nothing should be iu higher request, in
Houston as well as elsewhere, than
first rate moral refinery
nections referred to.
in the con
More About Dog*.
Two boys have been attacked and
bitten since Thursday by dogs suspected
to be rabid. Chief Westerlage proposes
to open war against unlawful canines on
Monday next. Let him not liesitate.
The streets of Galveston are swarming
with dogs of high and low degree. They
snarl and they snap at the passers-by.
They have not confined their attacks to
their own kind, but they have already
raided upon bipeds, and in lelialf of the
two-legged animals this appeal is made.
Let the dogs be taught by extinguishing
arguments, if need be, that the two-
legged animals have rights which they
are bound to respi ct.
11 dropliobia.
t'ome one gave a boy a poodle deg on
Marktt street, near the Opera House, yes
tsrday morning, and shortly afterward,
while being fondled by the youngster,
the animal gave signs of madness by
a lapping and foaming at the mouth. The
dig was deposited on the sidewalk with
out ceremony, and the officer of the beat
notified of the fact in the case. Monday
next, the day on which indeseriminate
destruction of all unmuzzled dogs com-
mences, will be ushered in with many
hearty welcomes from anxious mothers—
and unconverted pedestrians. In this
connection, the following item will be
interesting :
A French physician. Dr. Btiisson. of Lyons,
claims that he has discoverrd a remedy for
hydrophobia. When a person has been bit-
ten by a mad dog, he should for seven suc-
cessive days take a Russian vapor; bath of
1&4 to 144 degrees Fahrenheit. This bath may
be quickly prepared by puttinir three or four
red-hot bricks Into a tub of water. OTer
which the patient must sit in a cane-bottomed
ar willow chair for fifteen or twenty minutes
After the disease has declared itself, one
vapor bath is sufficient, but the patient must
ce strictly confined to His room until the curd
is complete. Dr. Bui.son says that he has ap-
piiri this mMthod of ire ttnient to more than
eighty persons bitten by mad animals, and
that he nevdr lost a single case. He discov-
ered the remedy when taking a vapor bath
himself for the purpose cf killing himself'by
suffocation after he hail eauglit, the hydropho
patient. When tho
tiia from the saliva of
bath wa3 at about Ml
symptoms disappeared
never returned.
Fahrenheit all the
as if by magic and
Synopsis of Acts
PASSED BY TIIE
roiRTBENTH (.ECISLiTlTRE
OF TIIE
STATE OF TEXAS.
[continued.]"
An act to regulate the conduct of public
officers in certain cases. •
Section 1. No district attorney, sheriff
or deputy, constable, town or city mar-
shal, police officer, other officer, to re-
ceive anything from any person bb a con-
dition for liberation from, or in settle-
ment of any criminal charge.
Sec. 2. All officers collecting money
other than taxes for the use of the State,
shall report in writing to the District
Court, on the first day of each term,
amounts collected since the last term,
from whom, and by what process.
Sec. 3. All such officers shall report
to each regular term of the County Court,
all moneys so collected for use of county.
Sec. 4. All town or city officers col-
lecting for use of town or city, to report
in like manner on the first Monday in
the month to the Mayor and Board of
Aldermen.
Sec. 5. Any officer so releasing from
arrest, guilty of felony and punishable
by confinement in the penitentiary two
years; violating the other provisions of
this act punishable by fine not less than
$20, nor more than $200 ; district judges
to give this act in charge to grand juries.
Any one making false report, guiitv of
fals* Bwearing and punishable by con-
finement in the penitentiary not less than
two nor more than five years.
Approved May 1,1874.
An act to give State aid in the removal
of rafts and other obstructions from the
Guadalupe and San Antonio rivers.
Section 1. A board of three commis-
sioners to be appointed by the Governor,
one from Victoria, one from Refugio, one
from Calhoun counties, to contract for.
superintend and control the removal of
obstructions named in said rivers.
Sec. 2. Board, within three months
after passage, to contract for such re-
moval below town of Victoria.
Sec. 3. When obstructions are removed
and commissioners have inspected and
approved the work,and filed with the Com-
miseioner of the General Land Office cer
tificate showing the number of miles
cleared, and name of contractor, the
commissioner to issue to contractor eight
land certificates for 040 acres each per
mile, and at the same rate lor fractional
distance ; but no more than twelve miles
to be cleared, nor more than ninety-six
certificates to be issued ; the State not to
be liable for deficiency of public domain.
Sec. 4. Commissioners to bo paid
per day, but only ten days in all.
Sec. 5. Work to be completed within
two years from passage, contractors to
have no benefit for work done after that
period.
Approved May 1,1874.
An act to organize unorganized coun-
ties within the State ol' Texas.
Section 1. I'norganized or disorgan-
ized counties to be organized as follows
(but this act not to apply to the organiza-
tion of counties organized by special act
of this session):
Sec. 2. On petition of one hundred and
fifty jurors or voters of the county desiring
organization, to the county court of the
county to which it is attached, said court
at regular or call term, in twenty days
after filing petition, sha'l divide thepeti
tioning county into fivo justices' pre
cincts, and order an election at a saitable
place in each precinct within thirty days
for county officers ; shall appoint presid-
ing officer for each precinct to superin-
tend tho election and make returns to
the presiding justice within ten days.
Sec. 3. f;ve days after return, the
presiding justice to count the votes, issue
certificates of election, take all necessary
bonds and administer oaths of offiqe
Sec. 4. All officers of the couuty to
turn over to the newly elected officers, as
soon as qualified, all books, records
maps, etc., belonging to the newly organ
ized county ; and failing, to be liable to
fine not less than one hundred dollars
nor more than one thousand dollars, or
imprisoned not exceeding one year.
Approved May 1, 1874.
An act to authorize the several coun-
ties in this State to raise means to pay
their present indebtedness.
Section 1. The county court of any
county owing $500 or more, at date of
passage of act, may order all persons hold-
ing liquidated claims against the county
except bonds, to present the same to the
couuty court, at the time designated in
the order, not short of forty days nor
more than fifty days from date of order
and shall designate a second meeting for
such presentation, not more than thirty
days after the first; and a third meeting
for the same purpose within thirty days
after the second. At first meeting, court
to be open two days; at each of the
others, at least one day. Members of
court to receive for this service per diem
allowed by law, not b-yond five days
copy of order to be published thirty days
prior to first meeting, in one or more
newspapers in the county, and printed
copies posted at three public places in
each justice's precinct for same time. If
no newspaper, the printed notices shall
suffice.
Sec. 2. The meetings of the county
court shall be had within six months
from date of original order; and pro
visions of this act shall cover all in
debtedness up to date of order; and
all indebtedness described in first sec-
tion not presented to court, above re
quired, shall be postponed in payment
till payment of all presented. Unpre
sented claims to bear no inteiest.
Sec. 3. At the appointed times and
places all claims to be presented for ap
proval and registration ; to be approved
and registered by indorsing "approved;
and "registered this the day of
A. D. 187—," and the number according
to order of presentation ; which indorse
ment shall be attested by the signature
of the acting presiding justice. At the
time of approval, court shall cause to be
entered on the minutes number of claim
date of approval, amount, and to whom
payable. No claim to be paid under the
provisions of this act unless so presented
and indorsed ; nor shall county treasurer
pay any claim specified in first section
after order of court requiring prescnta
tion, nor treasurer, sheriff, or other col
lector receive iu payment of county tax
or other dues to the county. Officer vio
lating this provision to have no credit on
settlement for such claim ; may be fined
not less than amount of claim, nor more
than double, and shall be dismissed from
office.
Sf.c. 4. Such claims, after approval and
registration, shall bear interest at eight
per cent, per annum ; and county court
shall,on assessment for the year in which
order is made, or if that assessment bg
partly collected, on the assessment for
the next year, levy special tax on as-
sessed property and occupations taxed by
State, and on polls, for purpose of paying
principal and interest of such claims, the
ad volorem tax not more than one-fourth
of one per cent, for any year; income
and occupation tax not more than one
tenth of State tax thereon: poll tax not
more than fifty cents per poll. If taxes
for one year not sufficient, court may
continue to levy till paid. Court may
pay said claims by installments, not ex-
tending beyond four years from date of
first levy, unless they amount to so much
that the maximum tax will not be suffi
cient to pay them in four years. The tax
here authorized shall be paid in monoy
or may be paid in registered or approved
claims, if levy was made to pay the full
amount.
Sec. 5. Any balance of fund in county
treasury after paying all claims approved
and registered, may be paid, by order of
court on claims not presented; if none
such, then for general county purposes
Sec. 0. The mon?v collected under this
act to be applied only to the payment of
registered and approved claims, and
for no other -purpose, till they are fully
paid.
Sec. 7. Sheriff, county treasurer or other
collector to report every three months
amount collected, from whom, and in
what character of funds.
Sec. 8. County court may order in-
debtedness to be paid by installments,
aud prescribe the order and manner of
payment ; and county shall observe
such order and report to county court
every three months disbursements made
by him, to whom made and character of
funds paid.
Sec. i). Any officer authorized to col-
lect or disburse under this act, violating
provisions of sections 6, 7 or 8, liable to
fine not lets than $25, nor more than
$100, and shall be dismissed from office.
Sec, 10. If no quorun of court present
at meetings hereinbefore provided for,
any one or more may receive claims, and
at subsequent meeting a quorum may
proceed to act on them.
Approved May 1, 1874.
An act to attach the county of La Salle
to Xuecea land district.
Provides that the unorganized county
of La Salle, till organized, be attached to
Nueces land district.
A p| roved May 2, 1874.
An act concerning the forfeiture of
certain sheep and goats.
Section 1. No sheep or goats shall be
brought into this State for the purpose
of grazing or herding, unless owned by
— 5 ' 1 "T
some citizen or resident of the State or
citizen of some State of the United States,
and if so brought, shall be ftyfefyed to
the county in which they are so kept;
bat this act not to apply to persons
owning lands in the State, to prevent
them from herding thereon, nor be in
force in the county of El Paso.
Sec. 2. Any such sheep or goats now*
in the State shall be forfeited to the
county where kept, unless within six
months from approval of this act they be
sold to some citizen or resident as above.
Sec. 3. District attorney, on being in-
formed of any violation of this act, shall
proceed, by information in district court,
to determine forfeiture ; and shall have
one-fourth of forfeiture—remainder to
county, of which one-sixth to informant
named (with amount to be paid him) in
udgment.
Sec. 4. When district attorney files in-
formation, district clerk to issue writ
commanding the officer to take possession
of such animals, and hold until final de-
termination.
Sec. 5. If such animals are not kept
permanently in one county, but range
from one to another, they may be seized
in any county where found at institution
of proceedings.
Sec. 0. The State shall not be liable
for any costs.
Approved May 2,1874.
An act to amend an act to establish a
criminal court in and for the cities of
Waco and Marlin, and defining the pow-
ers thereof, passed at the present session
of the Legislature.
Section 5 amended to read : " Terms
held as follows : At Marlin, first Mon-
days in January, May and September—
may continue four weeks. At Waco,
first Mondays in March, July and No-
vember—may continue till business is
disposed of.
Approved May 2,1874.
An act for the protection of the wool
growing interest of the State.
Section 1. If any person drive or graze
on any public road, or land not his own
sheep affected with scab, he shall be
liable to fine, not less than twenty-five
cents nor more than one dollar per head
for every such sheep.
Sec. 2. On complaint, on oath, to jus-
tice, he shall issue warrant for apprehen-
sion of person charged, and commanding
the officer to seizo the flock charged to
contain such sheep, and securely keep
them from all other sheep; to be driven
or grazed subject to further order of jus-
tice.
Sec. 3. After arrest, justice to proceed
to trial as soon as convenient,and on con-
viction, after judgment for fine and costs,
if not paid, to make order for sale of so
many of the sheep seized, after ten days'
notice, as may be necessary to pay tho
judgment and all costs, and if there is
any surplus it shall be paid over to the
owner.
Sec. 4. One-half of all fines to be paid
to the informer; the other half into the
county treasury.
Sec. 5. All reasonable expenses for
safe-keeping the flock seized shall be
taxed by the justice in the bill of costs.
Approved May 2, 1874.
An act to validate the acts of certain
notaries public.
Provides that all acts of notaries pub
lie heretofore done in pursuance to law
shall be valid as if said notaries had
been duly commissioned by the Governor
and confirmed by the Senate.
Approved May 2,1874.
An act to regulate life and health in
surance companies, and all associations
partnerships, or individuals doing life
and health insurance business, incorpo-
rated within or without the State of
Texas.
Section 1. No person shall act as agent
or otherwise in the transaction of busi
ness mentioned in caption, without first
procuring certificate of authority from
Comptroller, and before obtaining cer
tificate, the Company, individual or agent
shall furnish comptroller with statement
under oath of president or secretary or
individual, showing : 1. Name and local
ity of company ; 2. Amount of capital
stock ; 3. Amount of capital stock paid
up; 4. Assets of the company, including,
first, amount of cash on hand or in hands
of agents ; second, real estate unincum-
bered ; third, bonds owned by the com-
pany, how secured, and rate of interest
thereon ; fourth, debts due the company
secured by mortgage ; fifth, debts other-
wise secured ; sixth, debts for premiums,
and seventh, all other moneys or securi
ti's; 5. The amount of liabilities due or
not due to banks or other creditors of the
company or association ; 6. Losses ad
justed and due ; 7. Losses adjusted and
not due; 8. Losses unadjusted ; 9. Losses
in suspense and waiting for proof; 10.
All other claims against the company
11. The act of incorporation thereof, by
laws, articles of association or partner-
ship agreements, to be filed with Comp
troller, together with resolution of com
pany, under its seal, signed by the presi
dent, secretary, or chief officer, author-
izing any duly appointed agent to ac
knowledge service of process, consenting
that service on such agent shall be valid
and waiving all claims of error by reason
thereof ; provided, that upon passage of
this act, suit may be commenced against
such company, in any county where loss
has occurred by service on any author-
ized agent or attorney of such company
and the process for service may run
into, and be executed, in any county
of the State where such agent or attor
ney may be.
Sec. 2. No insurance company shall
transact of insurance in this State, un
less possessed at Jeast $100,000 of
actual capital, invested in stocks or bonds
or mortgages or other satisfactory evi
dence of securities of market value, not
less than $100,000.
Sec. 3. No corporation formed under
law of this State concerning life insur
ance, shall take the name of any other
existing company, nor any name so
similar as to be likely to mislead.
Sec. 4. On the filing of the resolution
and statement required, Comptroller to
issue to company or agents applying cer
tificates thereof, with authority to trans
act insurance business.
Sec. 5. Company, association, etc., to
renew annually on 1st January, or within
sixty days after the statement herein be-
fore required; and Comptroller, being
satisfied that capital, securities, etc., re-
main secure, shall renew certificate.
Sec. 6. No company organized under
this act shall undertake any business or
risks, except as herein provided; and no
company organized and incorporated by
the laws of this or any other State
government, transacting life insurance
business, shall take any other kind of
risks except those connected with life
insurance, and granting, etc., of endow-
ments : nor shall the business of life in-
surance be conducted by any com pany
which here or elsewhere insures on any
other risks ; provided, no company now
doing business, complying with this act
shall be prevented from continuing.
Sec. 7. Whereas, the law of any other
State requires of life insurance com pa
nies chartered by this State, and having
agency there, any deposit for protection
of policy holders, all companies of such
State having agency here shall be re-
quired to make the same deposit with the
Treasurer of this State.
Sec. 8. No such company incorporated
or organized under law of any foreign
government shall transact business here
unless it first deposit and keep deposited
with the Treasurer of this State, for the
benefit of policy holders, bonds or secur
ities of the United States or State of
Texas amounting to one hundred thou
sand dollars; but if such company has
made such deposit in any other of the
United States, so as to secure equally all
policy holders citizens and residents of
the United States, no deposit shall be re-
quired here, but certificate of such de-
posit shall be filed with the Comptroller,
Sec. 9. Life insurance companies in
corporated out of this State, when loss
accrues and they refuse to pay, shall b
liable to pay the policy holder, in addition
to the loss, twelve per cent, on liability^
and all reasonable attorney's fees; and if
execution agaiDst such company be not
satisfied within thirty days after notice of
issuing, the certificate to such company
shall become void, and the company pro
hibited from transacting business until it
be satisfied.
Sec. 10. Any one violating the provi-
sions of this act shall be finable not less
than five hundred nor more than one
thousand dollars.
Approved May 2, 1874.
An act to create a lien in favor of pro-
prietors of livery or other public stables.
Proprietors of such stables shall have
special lien on all animals placed with
them for feed, etc., and on carriages, bug-
gies, etc., placed in their care, for amount
of charges against the same, to be en-
forced as in other cases ; and hotel and
boarding-house keepers to have same
lien on property or baggage deposited
with them.
An act to amend an act approved March
4,1871, entitled " Au act to amend an
act prescribing the times of holding the
district courts in the several judiciifl dis-
tricts in the State," approved August 10
1870.
Provides that the courts of the Thirty-
second District be holden as follows :
In Williamson County—First Mondays
in November, March and July, and may
continue four weeks.
In iiurnet County—First Mondays af-
ter the fourth Mondays in November,
— r_— 1
March and July, and may continue two
In Llano County—Third Mondays af-
ter the fourth Mondays in November,
March and July, and may continue one
In Brown County—Fifth Mondays af-
ter the fourth Mondays in November,
March and July, and may continue one
week.
In Lampasas County—Sixth Mondays
after the fourth Mondays in November
March and July, and may continue till
business is disposed of.
McCnlloch and Concho counties at-
tached, for judicial purposes, to San Saba
county.
Approved May 2,1874.
Bins the Bell Sortif'.
Some one has gone from this strange world of
No moMto gather its thorns with its flowers.
No more to linger where sunbeams must
Wherein all beauty death's fingers are laid ;
Weary with mingling life 8 bitter with sweet,
Weary with parting and never to meet.
Some one has gono to th# bri„ht golden
shore, , ..
Ring the bell softly, there a crapo on the
door.
Some one is resting from sorrow and sin
Happy where earth's conflicts enter not in.
Joyous as birds when the mornirg is bright,
When the sweet sunbeams hare brought us
the light.
Weary of sowing and never to reap,
Weary of labor and welcoming sleep.
Some one's departed to heaven s bright shore:
Ring the bell softly, there's crape on the
door.
Angels were anxiously longing to meet
One who walks with them in heaven s bright
stre»t;
Loved ones have whispered that some one is
blest, , , ^ ,
Free from earth's trials and taking some rest;
Yes, there is one more in angelic bliss,
One less to cherish, one less to kiss;
Oae more departed to heaven's bright shore,
Rin^the bell softly, there's crape on tho
door. _
The subscribers to the Opera House
scheme of Manager Green wall are re-
quested to meet at the Opera House on
to-morrow evening at five o'clock. It
may be of interest to know that the
tickets are all taken, and that Mr. Green-
wall is now in condition to successfully
place upon the boards such an array of
talent as will render the house a popular
and proper place of resorf.
The law class in the Iowa State Uni-
versity has eighty members.
1 • • •
DIED.
GUNDERMAN.-At 1 p. m., May 9,1874, Mrs.
A. C. B. Gunderman, aged 62 years, a native
of Hamburg, and a resident of this city for
the past thirty-five yeers.
The friends and acquaintances of the fami-
ly are respectfully invited to attend the fu-
neral from her late residence, on Marfcet
street, between Seventeenth and Eighteenth,
at 4 o'clock p. m.
The deceased was born in Hamburg, in the
present Empire of Prussia, in the year 1812,
and emigrated to this country with her be-
loved husband in the year 1832, in whose trials
and carea she participated with womanly for-
titude. Emigrating to Texas in 1839, from
St. Louis, by an overland route, she and her
husband and friends were attacked by In-
dians, in Lamar county, where they bravely
defended their lives and little worldly pos;
sessions without loss of life.
Her deportment and anxiety for the welfare
of her children, is well known to the commu
nity of this city; and her body is with regret
assigned to the grave from where there is no
return.
Thou'rt gone to the grave, but we will not
deplore thee,
Though sorrows and darkness e.icompass
the tomb;
The Savior has passed through the portals
before thee,
And the.lamp of His love is thy guide thro'
the gloom.
Thou'rt gone to the grave, we no longer bo
hold thee,
Nor thread the rough path of the world by
thy side;
But the wide arms of Mercy are spread to en-
fold thee,
And sinners may h jpe,since the Sinless has
died.
Thou'rt gono to the grave, but 'twere wrong
to deplore thee,
When God was thy ransom, thy guardian
and guide;
He gave thee, and took thee, and soon will
restore thee
Where death has no sting since the Savior
has died. A.
Galveston, May 10, 1874. Dlt
— _ - ; " ■;
New Advertisements.
CARD OF THANKS.
Ihe committee appointed by Hon. C. W.
HurUy, Mayor, to raise funds in aid of th*
sufferers by the overflow in Louisiana, have
the pleasure to report that they have remit-
ted to Hon. Louis A. Wiltz, Mayorof N#w Or-
leans, twenty-two hundred and fifty-six dol-
lars and ten cents ($2,256 10), being the pro-
ceeds of the two concerts recently given in
that behalf, and desire to return thanks for
so gratifying a result, to the ladies and gen-
tlemen who took part in the two agreeable
and creditable entertainments; to Wr. Henry
Greenwall, lessee, for the free use of the
Opera Honse; to Mr. Terhune, doorkeeper,
for gratuitous attendance both evenings; to
the members of the brass band and orchestra
of Professors Ohse and Peterson, who played
as volunteers; to Messrs. Goggan Bros, for
the free use of pianos for rehearsals and con-
certs; to the young ladies through whose ex-
ertions in the sale of tickets so handsome an
amount was realized; to the proprietors of
the Daily News and Daily Mercury for the
frae use of their columns and job printing;
to the Turn-Verein for the use of their hall
for rehearsals; and last, but not least, to the
chairman of the concert committee, to whose
attention and experience we are greatly in-
debted.
CHAS. FOWLER, Chm'n Com.
J. H. McCORMICK, Sec'y Com.
mylODlt
New Advertisements.
1500 Sacks Coffee,
EX " PKIMIS,"
For sale by
M. KOPPEBL.
New Advertisements.
CARD Of THARKS.
Notice to Consignees.—1The brig MIN.
NIE ABBIE, from Boston, will be discharging
to-morrow (Monday) at Lufkin's Wharf.
Consignees will please attend to their goods
as landed.
All goods remaining on the wharf after four
o'clock p. m., will be Btored at their expense
and risk.
All damages must be adjusted on the wharf,
my 10 2t H. T. RIVERS, Agent.
The Committee of Arrangements for the
" Hood's Texas Brigade Keunion," in their
own behalf and in behalf of their comrades,
return their sincere and heartfelt thanks to
the militarv of the city of Galveston, the
WASHINGTON GUARDScommanded by
Capt. Kelly, and the "LONE STAR RIFLES,''
commanded by Capt. Weekes, for the alacrity
and promptness with which thev responded
to our request to render soldierly honors to
the survivors of Hood's Texas Brigade.
Though the request was made to them at a
late hour, yet, like all true soldiers, they were
not found unprepared, and their fine, sol-
dierly bearing and martial appearance, and
the thoroughness of iheir equipment, gave
abundant evidence that whether called upon
for peaceful escort duty, or to repel invasion,
or attack a foe, they would be found, at all
times, ready and willing.
To Col. Thos. M. Jack. Gen. T. N. Waul, Col.
George Flournoy, and Capt. M. F. Mott, of
the Galveston Artillery, tho committee are
under many obligations for the delight and
pleasure their addresses gave, not only to
them but to their visiting comrades and to
the public who were fortunate enough to hear
them.
To the genial and over whole-souled pro-
prietors of tho •'. wo Brothers," Messrs. Bar-
ney and Pat. Tiernan, the committee, for
themselves and for the whole brigade, return
thanks for the courtesy and true:hearted po-
liteness shown them on their return from
the festivities at Turner Hall.
To the offiaer8 and members of the Har-
mony Club, of Galvesron, the committee, for
themselves and for thoir comrades, return
thanks for their kindness in granting the freo
use of their hall for headquarters and other
purposes.
To the kind and generous friends who so
kindly donated the "sinews of war,-' we are
under many obligation?, and assure them
that their generosity lias been well placcd,
aud the remembrance of them and their kind-
ness will hang upon our walls of memory like
apples of gold in frames of silver.
The public generally who so kindly greeted
us and ours in the Opera House wo thank.
LESLIE THOMPSON,
Co. L, First Texas.
WALTER M. ROBINSO>,
Co. L, First Texas.
J. P. KINDRED,
Co. F, Fourth Texas.
J. M. BURROUGHS,
Co. I, First Texas.
W. A. SIIELTON,
Co. L, First Texas.
Housekeepers, Attention !
BEDROOM SETS:
Walnut, at $75: Walnut, with Marble, from
$90 to $150; Walnut, cottage sets, from
$55 to $95; Imitation Walnut sots,
from $35 to $15 per set.
Wardrobe?, from$20to $50; Extension Tables,
Walnut, $1 75 per foot; Kitchen Tables,
$1 per foot; Tables, all kinds, from
$1 50 to $25; Safes, wire,
from $10 to $25.
Parlor Sets, Grecian style, Black Hair Cloth,
at $90. Sofas, all covers, from $35 to $45—
'our own make. Lounges, from $12 to
$30, of every description—our own
make. Spring Bottoms,$5 to $8;
Spring Beds made to order,
from $20 to $35.
Chairs, large assortment, from $12 to $60 per
dozen; Rocking Chairs, from $2 50 to $8,
all woods; Upholstery Work, of every
description, cheap and the best, to
order. Mattresses (good honest
ones) Moss, at $S to 9.
Mosquito Bars, Frames and Fixings of every
variety. Matting, Window Shades, Pic-
ture Cord, Furniture Hardware,
wholesale or retail. Corner and
Side Brackets, Etagares What-
nots. etc., etc., etc.
Call and examine our large stock of Furni-
ture before purchasing elsewhere.
We guarantee a saving of twenty live per ccnt.
J. McMORRIS & CO.,
Furniture Dealers and Upholsterers,
62 Market Street,
mylO It Three doors west of Tremont.
^TTENTION— ~
State and Couuty Tax Payers.
The taxes for 1873 are now past due, an 1
payable with interest. I will proceed to seize
and sell at public auction, PERSONAL PROP-
ERTY, MKRCHA>DISE, Etc., of those who
have not paid the r taxes, and do not settle at
once. I am compelled to carry out the law,
and orders of the Comptroller. Those inter-
ested will govern themselves accordingly.
J. M. O. MENARD,
Deputy Sheriff,
mylO Iw And Collector Galveston County.
w
J OODENWARE.
We have just received a full line of WOOD-
EN WARE, such as
Buckets, l'ails, Tubs, Field Cans, Etc.,
Which we offer at a small cost.
STEELE, WOOD & CO.,
may 10 It 68 Tremont street.
^"OTICE
NOTICE
PARTIES DESIRING
To off.r any property at our Sale, which takes
place on the 27th, will please send in memo-
randum of same by the 20th, in order that it
may appear in ihe printed circulars.
C. F. WHITE & CO.,
mylO'.d Auctioneers and Real Estate Agts.
T)
OST THOU
PROPOSE
TO GO TO A PICNIC?
If so, buy thy Covered Basket arid Com-
missar/ Stores—Biscuits, Deviled Ham, Lob-
sters, Sa'm >n, Peaches, Pears, etc., etc.,—at
tho "Galveston Ch* ap Grocery S o e," corner
20th and Marktt streets, this is the only
store in ths city which will supply thee with
STRAIGHT GOODS at BOTTOM FIGURES.
Govern thj self aecord.'ng'y. my 10 It*
RUCTION AUCTION
Of Household and Kitchen
Furniture.
BLAKELY, HARDING & CO.,
Auctioneers and Commission Merchants,
11(5 and 118 Strand,
Will sell at the dwelling house, corner Nine-
teenth and Winnie streets, opposite the
Sylvester Hall, on MONDAY, 11th iust.,
at 10 a. m. sharp, Bedroom Sets, Marble
Top Bureaus, Marble Top Washstands,
Marble Top Centre Tables, Wardrobes,
Cane Seat Chairs and Rockers, Carpets,
Mirrors, Oil Paintings, Chromos, Tables,
Diningroom and Kitohen Chairs, Cooking
Stoves, Heating Stoves, Table Cutlery,
Mattrasses, Etc.. Etc.
Particular attention given to furniture sales
at private residences. maylODlt
q action caction.
OFFICE GALVKSTON CITT CO., I
March 29, 1874. )
All persons are prohibited from hauling
earth or sand from any of the lota or land be-
longing to the Galveston City Company, un-
der penalty of the law.
mr29 3m J. P. COLE, Agent.
Professional Car«tK.
J^ALLINGER, JACK & MOTT,
attorneys and r4inn«r,IInri n<
Law,
No. 188 Postcttce Street,
norllDtf GALVESTON. TEXAS.
Robert u. street, attorney
AND COUNSELLOR AT LAW,
Osterman Building, cor. 22d St. and Strand,
Galveston, Texas. Practice in State and
Federal Courts at Galveston, and in tne Su
preme Court of the State. feb8D-Wlv
john d. rooirs. j. a. r0bkp.t80s.
JOHN D. ROGERS & CO.,
COTTON FACTORS
And general Commission Merchants,
(Insurance Building.)
No. 61 STRAND. GALVESTON. TEXAS.
Agents for GRAY'S COTTON PRESS.
ap!0174D&Wly
Races*—Races.
Q.ALVESTON JOCKEY CLUB,
Galveston, Texas.
Spring Meeting, 1S71.
COMMENCING THURSDAY, May 1J,
FIliS r DAY.
THURSDAY, May 11th, 1874.
First Race—One milo and a quarter,
all ages.
for'
first horse $150,
rjMIE EXERCISES OF
Prof. Cleveland's Dancing Academy
Will continue at CASINO HALL, as follows:
Young ladies, misses and masters from 5 to
7 P m ,Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays;
ladies' class from 9 to 11 Tuesday and Thurs-
day mornings; gents' class from 8 to 10 Tues-
day and Wednesday nights. Practicing as-
semblies Thursday nights, exclusively for
the pupils. maylO D2t
Gr
1 OOD READING BOOKS
-ADDED TO THE—
RUCTION SALE
On WEDNESDAY, 13th instant, at 10 A. M ,
we will
Sell tlie Buildings at thu Corner of
22d and Mechanic Streets,
FROM THE CORNER TO THE ALLEY,
Placc known as the Old French Bakery.
Terms, thirty days.
Private bids accepted before the sale.
S. HEIDENHEJMER,
B. SBISA & CO.
mylO D2t
PEOPLES'CIRCULATING LIBRARY
At Blagge's Sewing Machine Depot, 131 Post-
office street:
Cupid's Album; Two Plunges for a Pearl;
Last Days of a King; A House of Cards; Tales
from the German; Good-for-Nothing Dick;
Flirtations in Fashionable Life; Walter Ash-
wood; The Youth of Shakespeare; Bohemians
of London; The Ties of Kindred; Chapters
on|Wives; Chatsworth; In Duty Bound; Etc.
FRANCIS D. ALLAN, Librarian.
myloE&Mlt
Ju
ST RECEIVED..
/RECEIVED
A Fresh Supply of
PURE GROUND COFFEE,
PURE PARCHED COFFEE,
And a variety of Choice TEAS, sold cheap to
the trade. Also keeps constantly on hand
Yoyes' and Stratton's Dry Hop Yeast. Sold
by M. STHITVE,
Corner Bath Avenue and Church street.
Goods delivered free. myS 5tuna*
Auction sale,
liy 1. FEDDER & CO.
We will sell MONDAY, (11th instant,) at 10 a.
m., at our Salesroom, 207 Strand.
20 barrels imported Ale and Porter, 10 cases
line Henneaey Brandy, iio casKs assorted
Liquors, 5 barrels Carolina Riee, 10 bbls.
fine Family Hour, 2 bbls. Prunes, 20 cases
assorted can Fruits, 5 cases Lime Water,
3 chests Black and Green Tea.
Also—Butter, Hams, Breakfast Bacon,Cheese,
Pickles, Lard, Tobacco, Cigars, Notions,
Goods, Hardware, Glassware, Silver
Platedware, etc.,
melO It I. FEDDER, Auctioneer.
L
OOK! LOOK! LOOK!
Extraordinary Opportunity or Investment!
At the Auction Mart of C. F. White & Co.,
In addition to our Assignee' Sale of City
Property, without reserve, on the 27th inst.,
we will offer, at the same time and place,
some of the mest desirable and eligibly situ-
rted property in this city. Improved and un-
improved Lots, Blocks and quarter Bloeks.
Island Property and Country Lands. Don't
fail to attend and avail yourself of this splen-
did opportunity for investment in our rapidly
growing city. For particulars, see printed
circulars. C. F. WHITE & CO.,
Auctioneers,
myl0-17-24t27 And Real Estate Agents.
pOR RENT FOR RENT
To one or two SINGLE GENTLEMAN,
A desirable front room, facing south, in a pri-
vate family, in the southeastern part of the
city, furnished or unfurnished. Three blocks
south of East Broadway cars.
mylO It* Address P. O. BOX 959.
JpOR RENT FOR .RENT
A NICE COTTAGE,
New and complete in all its appointaoents,
with five rooms and servant's room. Situated
on line of Center street railway. Apply at
mylODSt 72 STRAND.
FOR SALE FOR SALE
CHEAP.
TWO FINE BILLIARD TABLES,
Of the latest and most approved style, will
be sold "Cheap for Cash, 1 as the owner
desires to close out that branch
of his business.
Address LOCK BOX 184,
mylO tf • Galveston, Texas.
F
OR
OF
SALE—ON ACCOUNT
SICKNESS,
A. Jollisaint's Bottlery and Beer Establish-
ment. Also, one Wagon and two Horses. For
terms, apply on Avenue I, bet. 25th and 26th
streets. mylO lw
ANTED WANTED
A GOOD TAILOR.
None but a thorough workman need apply.
HALFF, WTEIS & CO.,
Cor. Strand and Tremont streets.
mylO D3t
WE*
OFFER GOOD INVEST-
MENTS in outlots in the suburbs of
the city. Something new.
H. M. TRWEIIEART & CO.
mylO It Real Estate Agents.
ERCANTILE PRINTING-
Me:
A SPECIALTY
Of our business.
PIERCE & TERRY, Printers and Stationers
Cor. Strand and Center Sts., Galveston.
G1
ENTS' CLOTHES-
Ladles' Dark Dreseeft aud Mantles
DYED.
Orders from abroad promptly executed.
Second-hand Clothes bought and sold.
JULIUS HORN,
mylO It* Center bet. Church and Postoffice.
JUST
received—
2COO Bunches BANANAS,
Per Schooner St. George, from Tampico,
Mexico,
And for sale very cheap. Apply on board, or
to JOHN JULIA, 361 Market street,
my20 lw
Galveston, Texas.
JN^OTICE NOTICE
CONTINUED ILL HEALTH
Preventing me from attending to business^,
I.have sold and t ransferred
My Stock of Cigars and Tobacco
To W. GUNTER, ESQ.,
Who is prepared to keep up the name of the
old stn nd.
Thanking my friends for former favors, I re-
quest thf m to extend to my successor a con-
tinuation of the same.
Dr. SAMPLE is still presiding at the "Maison
Blanche," under my control and
management.
mylOlt J. M. COUGET.
J^"OTICE NOTICE
Office of Galveston )
REAL ESTATE AND LOAN CO., j
SEALED BIDS will be received by the Com-
pany from its Members,
For the First Loan for Homestead
Purposes, of $2500,
For the period of Six Year?, at eight per cent,
interest per annum. AU bids must be made
out in conformity with Section Eleven, of the
By-Laws, and will be received by the Secre-
tary up to 8 o'clock f. m., Thursday, May 14,
at which time the Directory will meet, open
bids, and award loan to the highest bidder,
payable June 6.
Bidders are requested to be present.
By order of the Finance Committee.
I. LOVENBERf),
mylO 4t Secretary.
\ SSIGNEES' NOTICE—IN THE
LjL District Court of the United States for
the Eastern District of Texas. In the matter
of J. Rosenfield & Son. In bankruptcy, at
Galveston, on the 9th day of May, 1874.
The undersigned hereby give notice of their
appointment as assignees of the estate of,).
Rosenfield & Son. of Columbus, in the county
of Colorado, State of Texas, within said Di
tru-t, who have been adiudg d bankrupts on
creditors, petit on by the D strict Court of
J II. ROBINSON,
BUTCHER,
Stalls 27 and 28 City market.
Office and Day Market, corner Strand and
Twentieth street.
SPECIAL ATTENTION PAID TO SUPPLY-
ING VESSELS WITH THE CHOICEST OF
MEATS. mr43muna
T. E. THOMPSON, Jeweler.
^yyM. 1IARRY HAYS,
ATTORNEY
AND COUNSELOR AT LAV»,
No. 129 Postoffice street, (Ballinger & Jack's
Building,) Galveston, Texas.
Will practice in the State and Federal courts.
Special attention paid to the collection busi-
ness. my6D&W3m
JOHN T. HARCOURT,
ATTORNEY AT IAW,
(Ballinger & Jack Building,)
aprll 3m
Galveston, Texas.
F.
CHARLES HUME,
Attorney and Solicitor.
felO ly BALLINGER & JACK'S BUILDING.
M.
C. McLEMORE,
Attorney at Law,
felO ly BALLINGER & JACK'S BUILDING.
Purse, $200;
second horse $50.
Second Race—Mile heats for three-year-
olds, Purse $300; first horse $325, second
horse $75.
SECOND DAI.
FRIDAY, May 35th, 1874.
First Race—One mile and one-eighth, for al
ages. Purse $200; first horse $150, second
horse $50.
Second Race—Two milo heats, for all ages.
Purse $400; first horse $300. second horse
$100.
THIRD DAV.
SATURDAY, May 16th, 1S74.
First Race—One mile and' one-eighth, for all
ages. Purse $300; first horse $180, second
horse $50.
Second Race—Mile heats, best three in five
for all ages. Furse $400; first horse $000,
second horse $100.
FOURTH DAY.
TCJESDA v, May 19th, 1874.
First Race—Three mile heats, for all ages.
Purse $1000 ; first horse $700, second
horse $200, third horse $100.
Second Race—Consolation Race—One mile
and a'qnarter, for horses that have run
and not won during the meeting. Purse
$200; first torse $100, second horse $70,
third horse $30.
Above Races to be conducted under the
rules of the Galveston Jockey Club, which
are adopted from those of the Louisiana^Jock-
ey Club. Three to enter, two to start.
Entrance fees ten per cent.—to accompany
nominations.
Entries for first day's races to close at 6 p.
m., May loth. Those for every other day, im-
mediately after termination of races of the
day preceding.
All communications to be addressed to
TIIEO. K. THOMPSON,
aprlnD&Wlm Secretary and Treasurer.
y ^ A. and L. THOMPSON, Ju., &
McKINSTIlY,
Attorneys at Law,
ROOM 2, BALLINGER & JACK BUILDING
nov26Dtf OaivcMtoii.
Polices.
NOTICE
jl^OTICE
TO CONTRACTORS.
THOS. M. JOSEPH, NORMAN O. EITTRF.LL. f
Joseph & kittrell, attojl-
NEYS-AT-LAW,
GALVESTON TEX A 3
Office—Corner Postoflice and 22d Street.
mayl9Dly
MAYOR S OFFICE.
Galveston, Texas, May 7
1874.
j. ▲. buceholts.
BUCKHOLTS
W. Q. TALIAFERRO.
& TALIAFERRO,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
GENERAL LAND AND CLAIM AGENTS,
Bryan, Brazos County, Texas.
mr28 3m Collections a Specialty.
J, S. McLendon. A. Pboctor. G. McLexdon.
S. McLENDON & CO.,
J.
Cor. Tremont and market streets.
naT30D-Sunly&W6m
JOS. w. RICE.
.. victor j. ba clap d.
sai-1 District.
mylOsunSc
W. E. WILMEltD NG,
GEO McCORMICK.
Assignors.
OILS AND GLASS,
VARNISHES and ARTISTS' COLORS,
Wall Paper and Window Shades,
RICE & BAULARD.
77 TBEJIOST STREET,
ja2«D-S(i&Wly GALVESTON, TEXAS.
Bankers and Dealers tn Exehaose,
CALVERT. TEXAS.
Prompt attention to collections. mr21 3m
F
R. L. FOARD. WELLS thompson. geo m cormic5
OARD, THOMPSON & McCOlt-
MICK,
Attorneys at Law,
Columbus, Texas.
Will practice in all the Courts of the State o
Texas. je29Dly
G''
WM. p. gaines, rodt. h. warc.
AI1XES & WARD,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
AUSTIN, TEXAS.
Will practice in the Supreme and Federal
Courts, and in the District Courts of Travis
and adjoining counties. Prompt attention
given to land business in all of its branches,
fell 3m
G
JQENIS NEIL,
MERCHANT TAILOR,
.MARKET STREET.
. 54
5 4
Degs leave to inform his friends and the nub
lie generally that he has opened the above
store, and is now prepared to execute all or-
ders intrusted to him.
Cloths and Cassimeres made up in Broadway
Style.
Just received, the latest Broadway style of
Silk Hats, Shirts, Drawers, Suspenders, and
FurnishiL g Goods generally.
Opposite the Girardiu House,
Market street Galveston. Texas.
Good Tailors wanted.
aprlU-sun-wedlm
DENIS NEIL.
N
OTICE NOTICE
TO TIIE PUBLIC,
CONSUMERS OF CHOICE FLOUR
IN PARTICULAR.
If you want a reliable family flour, ask your
grocer for that OLD RELIABLE FAMILY
FLOUR,
EUKEKA ii KEEN ONE.
Which is fully guaranteed to give entire sat-
isfaction.
It is no counterfeit nor imitation on any
other brand having a "Green One," but is
much superior in quality than any similar
brand on this market, and for sale at all
times AT PRICES THAT DEFY COMPETI-
TION, which, no doubt is tho cause of Mr. C.
C. KAUFFMAN'S shoes pinching him so se-
verely that he would prefer to play George
Washington on a small scale, b> only telling
the truth, rather than have fair competition
in trade.
H. T. LAWLER,
Flour, Grain and Provision Merchant,
Nos. 75 to 83 New Levee St.,
aprl!)4t*sun NEW ORLEANS, LA.
^RRIVED—
PER BARK SABINE.
A Lot of Celebrated Cook, Parlor ant
lleatiug: Stoves.
Also a variety of Enameled and Japanned
House Furnishing Goods, at
WM. BROWN'S,
Tremont street, opposite New Hotel.
jy6DIy
j;> ACAIIOUT DES ARABES.
A Favorite
BREAKFAST BEVERAGE FOR LADIES
and young persons, to whom it gives fresh-
uess and embonpoint.
It in especially desirable for nervous people,
or those afflicted with weak stomachs.
For sale by
E. E. RICE & CO.,
mj 5 It 125 Tremont street.
Galveston gift enterprise
ASSOCIATION.
Office—No. 175 Center Street.
ALL TICKETS SOLD ENTITLED TO A
GIFT.
Drawn Numbers, May 9, 1874.
DISTRIBUTION NUMBER 154.
7 X—18—39 1 -13 -.V.)—I —(_>•> i —.jT
DISTRIBUTION NUMBER 153.
25-28-57-G6-3-14-2G-70-49-59-35
Distributions witnessed and attested by
William R. Johnson, Notary Public.
BOYD & STONE,
my8 tf Managers.
l
ONE STAR BAND,
L. OHSE, Leader,
WM, PETERSEN, Bus. Manager.
EO. M. MAVERICK,
(Formerly of San Antonio, Texas.)
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Skdalia, Pettis County. Missouri,
Will practice in Pettis and adjoining Circuit
Courts. Also in the Supreme Court of Mis-
souri and the U. S. Courts at Jefferson City.
Commissioner of Deeds for Texas in Missouri.
mrl4 6m*
SEALED PROPOSALS will be received at
this office until SATURDAY, MAY ^3,1871, at
12 o'clock m., to
Fill Up, Grade, Pave and Curb
The sidewalks on the foilowlng streets and
avenues, where the same have not been filled
and paved by the property owners: Avenues
F, G, H, I and J, both aides from Eighteenth
street to Twenty-llfth street.
On both sides of Eighteenth, Nineteenth,
Twentieth, Twenty-first. Twenty-second,
Twenty-third. Twenty-fourth and Twenty-
fifth streets, between Avenues F and G.
Said sidewalks shall be filled up or raised
to the grade established by the City Engineer,
and eurbod with red heart cypress wood,
stone or brick, and a pavement six feet in
width laid in the centre of the same; the said
pavement to bo composed of either asphalt,
hard brick laid iu mortar and grouted, con-
crete made of Portland cement and other
proper materials, tiles or stone.
Proposal will be received for the whole
work, or any portion thereof, payment to bo
made in bonds of the city at par.
All work to be done according to the spcci*
flcations of the City Engineer, on file in the
Clerk's Office.
The city reserves the right to reject any
and all bids.
Envelopes to be indorsed 4"Proposals for
Improving Sidewalks.1"
C. W. HURLEY,
may8D15t Mayor.
^ OTICE NOTICE
TO CONTRACTORS.
n. p. garrett e. l. antony
AKRETT & ANTONY,
_ ATTORNEYS AT LAW AND LAND
AGENTS, Cameron, Milam County, Texas.
mr7 3m
G'
Galveston Cards.
j. D. b ram an. -w. t. porvianck. CHAS. MITCHELL
bramanj purvi4nce & co.,
COTTON FACTORS
and
COMMISSION MERCHANTS,
54 Strand, Ualvewtwii, Texas .. 54
my6t.je3D&W ly
M
f. hitchcock .., A. WAKEt.EE. .. J. O. HITCHCOCK.
jp hitchcock's sons,
SHIP CHANDLERS.
Canvas and Duck for Sails, Tents and Tar-
paulins, Naval Stores, Paints and Oils, Boats,
Oars and Spars, Manilla, Wire aud Hemp
Rope, all sizes; Blocks and Sheeves for Fer-
ries, Presses, etc., etc., t>7 and Strand,
Galveston. ap5'74 ly
j. j. lewis,
Itosse.
j. l. conoly, r n. swain,
Tchuacana. Late with
J. H. Littlpfield & Co.. Corsicana
J^ewis, CONOLY & SWAIN,
Cotton Factors ami Commission Mer-
chants,
Moody & Jemison's New Building,
GALVESTON, - TEXAS.
fe*b '7*16m
ii
W. C. Howard. d. T. Iglkhart,
late of late of Iglehart & Leonard,
Calvert. H. & T. C. Railroad.
OWAliD & IGLEHART,
COTTON FACTORS,
and
GENERAL COMMISSION MERCHANTS,
Strand. Galveston.
Over Wallis, Landes & Co., Nos. l(Hi, 108 and
feS '74 ttm 110 East Strand.
C. C. dibrell. w. c. d1ukkl1 .
john c. hodges, jr.
j^ibrells & hodges,
COTTON FACTORS & COMMISSION
MERCHANTS,
Corner Strand and Centre Streets
feb!2 '74 ly GALVESTON.
W. B. Norrie.
^"ORRIS &
COTTON
j. C. j oses.
.tones.
FACTORS,
Shipping & Commission Merchants
117 STRAND. GALVESTON, TEXAS.
Liberal cash advances on Cotton, Wool and
other Produce, in hand or for shipment.
janl4'74 ly
^DOUE
& lobit,
COMMISSION MERCHANTS,
Office Over First National Bauk,
aug!3Dly
GALVESTON, TEXAS.
J) levine & CO.,
General Commission Merchants,
Corner Twenty-Eighth and Market Streets.
Highest prices paid in cash for Iron, Cop-
per, Brass, and metals of all kindc; also Corn
and Oats Sacks, Horns and Bonos, aprl 3m*
The above band consists of
Twelve First-Class Musicians.
Aud is now ready to take engagements for
Parades, Bails, Picnics, Concerts, ctc., etc.,
which will be promptly attended to.
Office at Thos. Goggan & Bro,
WM. PETEKSEN,
apr2ti lm* Business Manager.
Notice.—haying effected
arrangements, I am now prepared to
furnish METALLIC CASES AND COFFINS,
of all kinds, together with pnaparing for fu-
nerals. Will attend to all burials, and guar-
antee the sealing of all cases.
Orders left with H. Stighorst, Messrs.
Crossman & Simpson, aratthe City Cemetery,
promptly attended to.
Bodies taken
order.
up and shipped according to
M. CAHILL. City Sexton.
aprS&ll&Eti
OTICE7. notice
I will continue the business of Manufac-
turers'' Agent, on my own account, and with
UNDIMINISHED CAPITAL,
under tho name of II. Hirech & Co., as here-
tofore. HKIIMAN HIRSCH.
Galveston, March 2?, 1874. apr!5lm
d
HAY
RECEIPTS
Printed on reaEonablo teinis.
j. c. borten r. l. foard d. f. frazell.
J C. BORDEN & CO.,
COMMISSION MERCHANTS
For the Sale of
LITE STOCK,
STOCK LANDING,
GALVESTON, TEXAS.
Our business will be confined strictly to sale
of Live Stock. No Stock bought under any
clrjumstances. Special reference made toR.
L. Foard & Co., Bankers, Columbus, Texas.
fel8 D3m
G'
US McKERNON,
DEALER IN
FAMILY GROCERIES,
Foreign aud Domestic Fruits,
Also received by every steamer,
NUTS, FIGS, Etc.
Fine Wines, Liquor*, Cigars and
Tobacco.
tSTrompt attention given to orders from
the Country.
Corner Church and Tremont Streets*
MAYOR'S OFFICE, )
Galveston, Texas, May 7, 1874. j"
SEALED PROPOSALS will be received at
this office until SATURDAY, May 23, 1874, at
12 o'clock M., to
Fill up to Grade, Pave, and Curb
The Sidewalks on the following streets
and avenues, (where the same have not been
filled up and paved by the property owners):
Strand, Mechanic and Postoflice streets,
each between Eighteenth and Twenty-fifth
strtets.
Also: On both sides of Market street, from
Eighteenth to Thirty-third street.
On both sides of Nineteenth, Twentieth,
Twenty-flrst, Twenty-second, Twenty-thii d,
and Twenty fourth streets, each betweeu
Strand and Postoffice streets.
And, also, on the west side of Eighteenth
street, and on the east side of Twenty-fifth
Street, each between Strand and Postoffico
reets.
Said sidewalks shall be filled up to the grade,
and paved with either of the following
named materials, viz:
Asphalt: hard bricks, laid in a bed of Port-
land cement and properly grouted; concrete,
made of Portland cement, mixed with other
proper materials; or with tile or stone, laid
in a bed of Portland cement. And the curb-
ing around the same shall be made of the
best hard briek, laid in Portland cement, aud
capped with a plank of heart pine, three
inches in thickness and twelve inches wide,
properly fastened to tho curbing with the
necessary iron bolts.
Proposals will bo received for the whole
work, or any portion thereof.
Payment to be made in the bonds of the
city, at par.
All work to be done according to the specifi-
cations of the City Engineer, on file in the
Clerk's 0®^'©-
The city reserves the right to reject aDy
and pII bids.
Proposals to be indorsed: "Proposals for
Improving Sidewalks."
C. W. HURLEY,
my8 lot Mayor.
■ 4 1
OTICE NOTICE.
MAYOR'S OFFICE, }
Galveston, Texas, May 7, 1871. \
The attention of the owners of property
fronting or abutting on the sidewalks on both
sides of Avenues F, G, H, I and J, from Eigh-
teenth street to Twenty-fifth street, aud on
both sides of Eighteenth, Nineteenth, Twen-
tieth, Twenty-first, Twenty-second, Twenty-
third,Twenty-fourth and Twenty-fifth streets,
each between Avenues F and J, is hereby
called to the provisions of ordinance (No. 7)
approved May 7, 1874, providing for filling,
curbing, grading and paving said sidewalks.
All property owners desiring to avail them-
selves of tho privilege of doing their own
work, within sixty days from the date of the
passage of said ordinance, can obtain full
specifications as to how tho details of said
work are to be executed and completed from
the City Clerk, in the Mayor's office.
C. W. HURLEY,
may8D15t Mayor.
OTICE...
..NOTICE
TO SIRVIVOKS OF
Terry's Texas Rangers.
There will be a meeting of the Survivors of
"Terry's Texas Rangers,"' in the City of
Houston, on
Wednesday, the 20t1i of Mrj , 1871,
Being the Second Day of the State Fair.
Members of the old Regiment are cordially
invited to be present ; and it is earnestly
hoped that ali will spare a day from the pur-
suits of business to make this the largest and
most pleasant Reunion since the war. Busi-
ness meeting at 9 o'clock, a. m.
Social reunion at 8 r. m., at points designa-
ted by local committee upon the day of meet-
ing. THOS. HARRISON, President.
Attest—JNO. M. CLAIBORNE, Secretaiy.
{^"Papers'throughout the State please copy.
myGtd
N
TOTICE NOTICE
api£5
GALVESTON, TEXAS.
74 ly
Mayor's Office, )
Galveston, Texas, April 22
Sealed proposals will be received at this
office until May 16,1874, at 12 o'clock m., ft r
raising the roof of the Second Ward Market
House, and building a cistern under the
same.
Bids to be indorsed "Proposals for Im-
provements to Second Ward Market House.*'
The city reserves the right to reject any and
all bids.
For further particulars inquire of the un-
dorsigued.
By order of the City Council.
C. JORDAN,
sxriiSld Chairman Market Committee.
N
TOTICE..
.NOTICJi
We have disposed ot mir interest in tb ■
firm of II. Hirsch & Co. to
MR, HERMAN HIRSCH,
who will hereafter conduct the business of
Manufacturers' Agent on his own behalf.
KOCKE, WILKENS & CO.
Galveston, Hareh 28, ISTi. aprl5 lm
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