The Galveston Daily News. (Galveston, Tex.), Vol. 40, No. 41, Ed. 1 Tuesday, May 10, 1881 Page: 2 of 4
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low ebb in politics.
This country never experienced a lower ebb
in polities than it is having now. The occur-
rence of a <tead-lock in the Senate in a squabble
about offices may be taken as one of the logical
expressions of a dead pause in politics as to
ideas and gveat public issues. It has been said,
and in general it may be true, that the nation
is happy whose annals are dull. But it can
Lardiy be true that a people are to be envied
or congratulated whose politics are contempt-
ible and disgusting. It would be a great relief
to the mental nausea of the country if Repub-
lican and Democratic Senators, who have
wasted so much time in a weak and washy
flow of idle debate in a contest for party ad-
vantage, would give some satisfactory
reason for the existence of either
of the parties which they respectively repre-
sent. For more than a month the Republi-
can side of the Senato was laboring and sweat-
ing under an offlce-mongering bargain with
Mahone, and now, according to report, the
Democratic side of the Senate is seriously con-
sidering whether they shall take on the load of
au office-mongering bargain with Conkling.
The plea for the bargain with Mahone is a de-
Sire to break up the Solid South, and the plea
for entertaining any thought of a bargain with
Conkling is a desire to disorganize or cripple
the Republican party. But why have Repub-
lican Senators been anxious to use Mahone and
feis Readjuster followers in Virginia as a
wedge to split the SoM South? Tq make
taore room and to get a broader National
footing for the Republican party is
their answer. And why should
Democratic Senators ponder the expediency of
assisting Conkling in his quarrel with the Ad-
ministration about Executive appointments ?
Their only argument for the coalition, if it is
formed, will be its probable efficacy as a means
for dividing and demoralizing the Republican
party and correspondingly strengthening the
Democratic party. They are evidently afraid,
however, of the immoral aspect of the sug-
gested arrangement, and they will probably
conclude, as the wiser course from considera-
tions of party policy, to concur with the better
public sentiment of the country and sustain the
President in his fight with the great boss and
office-monger of New York. Meanwhile what
interest has the public at large in the con-
tinued cohesion of either party, or in
the success and ascendency of either ? It is the
remark of a Republican paper—the Philadel-
phia Evening Telegraph—that "the very
worst thing that could have happened to the
Republican party did happen to it when it had
performed so nobly and thoroughly the work
it was instructed to do, and was left without
further purpose." The Democratic party has
been liable to a similar remark ever since its lead-
ers commenced co-operating with the leaders of
the Republican party in evading living issues
t>f public policy and bringing politics to a low
Water-mark, where the contending parties are
found to differ materially on no practical ques-
tion but the possession of the machinery and
ppoils of power. There is nothing to
Satisfy the intelligence of the coun-
try that the Democratic party, as
now organized and led, has a nobler mission
than that of supplanting the Republican party
Ixi power, or that the Republican party, as
now organized and led, has a nobler mission
than tlifjt of keeping the Democratic party
put of power. Fortunately, such a state of
things can not last always. Voioes are in the
ftir presaging new political formations. The
tide must eventually turn, and we shall have
deep waiter in politics Gapable of floating
larger and more usefully-freighted craft than
rickety and slimy old smacks, smelling abomi-
Jiably of the stale fish and rotten oysters of
tWfice-mongering and promiscuous jobbery.
jthe bugbear of mexican annexa-
tion.
There appears to be something more than
mere accident in the manner in which certain
Influential journals throughout the country
are discussing the question of possible Mexican
annexation. The present visit of General
Orant to that country has been made the
Occasion in certain quarters for a deal of specu-
lation as to the eventual consequences of the
Investment of American capital in the develop-
ment of the sister republic. The New York
f3un has been accredited with personal vindic-
tiveness toward the ex-President in attaching
to his name schemes of annexation, in order to
defeat his plans of railroad construction in
Jttexioo, This accusation, however, the Sun
bas to kf n occasion to oontraciiet, averring that
to it?, estimate of contingencies personal feeling
toward Cksneral Grant has not been allowed
to weigh in the matter. It is quite possible,
MJSieed, that in all of this there are considera-
tions of greater magnitude than simply per-
eooal hostility toward an individual. There
Is evidently a sectional bias involved in
t£e subject. 8on»o time ago the New Orleans
SPicayuae printed an editorial, at this time both
indiscreet and illogical, in which it was made
to appear that the present railroad develop-
ment of Mexico, as a natural consequence,
*K-ouif\ finally terminate in annexation. That
the Picayune had anything deeper in view than
tho advancement of certain unique ideas, is not
conceived. The press of the East, however,
lias not been slow to revamp the article
it)f the Picayune, and the New York Commer-
cial Bulletin, in quoting therefrom, makes the
fccayune's knowledge of Mexican affairs the
basis of an argument as to the correctness of
its position. It is maintained that Mexican
subsidies to American railroad enterprise, in
the apgretfate, will amount to $100,000,000.
"Where this Mexican money is to come from is
"the problem, which gives the New York Bulle-
tin the opportunity of saying;
Bankruptcy or enormous taxation is inevitable if
the subsidies are to be met, and in either case, it is
morally certain we shall have a recurrence of pop-
ular discontent, which will need but little prompt-
ing to run inte revolution; in which case it is not
difficult to conceive things taking the course indi-
cated by our Hew Orleans contemporary. It is
difficult to avoid the conviction that the crisis is
Eoarer than people contemplate, and it will require
a high order of s-atesmanship to enable the coun-
try to meet it. The last war with Mexico, It will
be remembered, took the country by sur-
prise. There never was, in fact, any formal
declaration of hostilities. The country simply
drifted into it. Congress by a simple resolution de-
clared that " war existed by act or Mexico," and in
& few weeks thereafter General Taylor was on the
tanks of the Nueces. As to the main question—
the annexation of Mexico to the United States—
We suppose there are few thinking minds who will
Hot concede that ultimately it would be every way
Advantageous to that country; tut whether the
ananv new and distracting questions affecting our
own domestic peace, of which such an event would
inevitably be productive, would eventuate in like
benefits to our own country, is a matter upon
fchich, to say the least of it, there is wide differ-
ence Of opinion.
If the true Inwardness of this Mexican
annexation bugbear could be arrived at, it is
not unlikely that fear of southern preponder-
ance would be found at the bottom of the
matter. Personal hostility to the success of
General Grant's plans is but a trifle. The
East has always been jealous of the South,
politically and materially. Tho transfer of
capital and population to the Southwest, tho
Eqet has occasion to dread. The balance of
political poirer, as well as commercial and
material supremacy, the East most ardently
wishes to retain. The operations of Mr. Jay
Gould and those who are with him, within the
past year, have opened the eyes of the North
tuxcl East to the possibilities. Capital and
population are both setting strongly in the
direction of newer and more advantageous
fields of location, and the Southwest is reaping
the benefit of the movement. As yet it is but
in its inception. The development of
Mexico is essential in the general plan of
modern railroad builders in the South and
tVest. To break off the one is to retard the
other. Hence, apparently, comes the concerted
movement to arouse suspicion and distrust in
Mexico. Doubtless there are those lending
themselves to the astute scheme who are not at
all deep in the secret. The bugbear of annexa-
tion looks to be in the interest of the East, which
dreads a transfer of material and political
power. Two more decades, with no interrup-
tions to present progress in the Southwest, will
witness a remarkable change in the sectional
relations of the country. It is quite likely that
this has been duly considered, and in some
quarters, no doubt, the rapid material ad-
vancement of the Southwest is regarded with
suspicion and disfavor.
WHY THEY DO NOT HARMONIZE.
That very pleasant relations should exist be-
tween the American citizens of German de-
scent in this country and the Germans over in
the old country is very natural. The Gsrman-
Americans celebrate the same festivals, and
have pretty much the same ideas about social
life and enjoyments that they, or their fathers,
brought over with them from the old country.
The pleasant relations, however, that once ex-
isted have been gradually growing cooler, and
now there is almost an open rupture. The causes
are very susceptible of explanation. The
Germans in Germany entertain and express a
decided animosity to Americans of German
parentage. This feeline has become more ap-
parent ever since the German-Americans have
shown a hesitancy about contributing an un-
usual proportion of their means to the support
of institutions over in Germany.
When the Franco-Prussian war broke
out, the Germans all over the
United States took a deep interest in the
struggle, and they did not confine themselves
to talk, but contributed very large sums for
the relief of the German wounded. In this
connection it may be mentioned that the Ger-
mans over the water have been in the habit for
a long time of "passing the hat" among the
German-Americans for the purpose of raising
funds for charitable undertakings, and for
some undertakings that were not, and the re-
sponse has been very liberal. In subscribing
for the relief of the German wounded, the
Germans in this country, notwithstanding the
frequent calls on them, were extraor
dinarily liberal. However, when not
long afterward the great fire at
Chicago occurred, which disaster fell very
heavily on the German-American population
of that city, and the Germans in the old Father-
land were called on to return the compliment,
they utterly failed to respond. The Emperor
of Germany did contribute some small sum.
but it was so inconsiderable in comparison with
other contributions as to awaken a feeling of
pity. This rather shabby treatment did not
entirely discourage the German-Americans.
Some few years ago there was a great musical
celebration, a German-American Sajngerfest,
and the German singing associations were in-
vited to send over representatives. The invita-
tion was accepted. When the vessel contain-
ing the minstrels from the dear old country ar-
rived at New York they were received in the
most imposing manner. A delegation of Ger-
man-American vocalists went out to meet them
in vessels with flags flying. Salutes were
fired. There was an immense procession, and,
of course, speeches. The honored guests were
conducted to the best hotel, and the most aris-
tocratic New York singing societies, the Lieder-
kranz and the Arion, brought the bewildered
strangers serenades. Of course there were a
series of banquets, and champagne flowed as
freely as water. The newly-arrived vocalists,
however, did not sing back. They were piped
unto but they did not dance. This appeared a
little strange, but it was supposed that the real
cause for the reticence was the excellence and
freeness of the champagne, and the bewildered
condition of the strangers' minds at the stupen-
dousness of the reception. The German
vocalists from the old country went
West, and their march was a march
of triumph. The festiviities in Chicago
and other cities were of a still more stupen-
dous character. It finally leaked out that the
representatives of the German singing- asso-
ciations, notwithstanding they were provided
with the proper credentials, were not singers
at all, but were immigrants, who were thus
afforded an opportunity of getting free trans-
portation and board while en route, all of
which they got, and still" more. This rather
shabby trick was not resented, and the Ger-
man-Americans took part in the grand Turner
celebration at Frankfort-on-the-Main last
year, carrying off, much to the disgust
of the natives, an undue proportion
of the prizes. This year there
is to be a grand Turner convention and cele-
bration in this country, and the German
brethren from over the water were invited to
send a representative. The invitation has
been rather curtly declined, one of the reasons
being that the expense of one representative
would be about $400—altogether too heavy a
burden for the German Turners to totter
under. The true secret, however, is that the
German-American Turner can beat his Ger-
man brother over the water in the gymnastic
business. Besides, he is an American and a re-
publican, whereas the Turner over in Europe
is a very humble subject of his Imperial
Majesty Kaiser William. This explains the
rancid milk in the cocoanut.
taxation to create wealth.
Some Democratic papers in Texas advocate
schemes which formed no part of the Jeffer-
sonian creed. There seems to be a growing
idea that wealth is to be created by Govern-
ment rather than by the free labor and enter-
prise of the people and the use of private cap-
ital. Texas has already appropriated about
all the public means of the State, consisting of
lands, to schools, railroads and pensions, and
so glutted the market with land claims that
they are likely to be of but little value for some
time to come. Luckily for tax-payers who are
already sufficiently burdened, our present Con-
stitution puts a limit on taxes for speculative
purposes. Otherwise there would be danger
of bankrupting the State in manufacturing,
commercial and other enterprises that properly
belong to individuals or private corporations.
This enthusiasm for new schemes, where the
object of private gain is too often masked under
pleas for the public good, is not confined to
Texas. A California paper remarks, in allusion
to such things in that State:
The mama in legislation just now is to develop
the resources of the State at the public expense.
All sorts of schemes are started, found In time to
be a mere waste of public money and then aban-
doned. The men who have advocated these schemes
may have been honest in their purpose. They
wanted to do something to develop the resources of
the State. They wanted to help private enterprise
along. They saw, or thought tney saw. that if this
thing or that thing were done by the State private
enterprise would be incited to do the rest. If in-
dividuals got rich through public expenditures that,
was a mere incident of the proceedings, and not to
be deplored. But the practice of scattering the
State's money »to right and left has called into
political
life and
parasites,
prominence a lot of
which attach themselves to
these schemes in the natural pursuit of plunder.
There are certain recognized obligations devolving
upon the State and the counties in the State.
jpoi
These duties are divided between the State Govern-
ment and the county governments, as theory and
experience have seemed from time to time to dic-
tate. It is admitted the public must support
schools, hospitals, a police and fire department, a
system of road building and repairing, and some
other things which individuals can not do. But the
mania for developing the resources of the State
has led to the assumption of many other duties.
a multitude of commissioners and other officials
follow, all of whom, with attendants, are salaried
at a rate much higher than the average compensa-
tion for similar services in private business. The
inevitable result is high taxes. The benefits which
result from the inauguration of these schemes may
remain invisible, but the taxes are a tangible fact.
In most cases taxes are all the results that ever be-
come visible.
The fundamental fallacy in the policy thus
condemned is tho same that underlies the pol-
icy of a protective tariff, in the minds, at least,
of those who honestly advocate it. It is the
idea that both the aggregate and the individ-
ual average of wealth may be increased by
taxing the community to create or stimulate
certain industries. The thing is mathematically
impossible. Taxation for the purpose of boun-
ties to render profitable otherwise unprofitable
industries, manufacturing or mechanical, ne-
cessarily detracts from the aggregate as well
as the individual average wealth of a country,
though it may for a time greatly enrich a few.
old' world rulers alarmed.
It would be remarkable, indeed, if the un-
precedented rush of people from the Old
World to this new land of cheap homes and
free-and-easy government did not alarm the
rulers of the countries that are losing popula-
tion, labor and capital by the exodus. While
for long years there has been a steady drain
upon the dense populations of many of the
European monarchies, yet never in the his-
tory of emigration has there been such
an outflux as at present. Germany
appears to be the greatest loser by
the rush of emigration, reliable corre-
spondents representing the desire of the
people to get away from the land of their birth
as something akin to a fever. Ireland is send-
ing a heavier percentage of home-seekers
across the water, and England is contributing
her quota. There must be some ptofound and
pervading cause of this rapidly increasing move-
ment of expatriation. Of course Americans,
who are gainers by the influx, are not so much
interested in tho cause as the governments that
suffer by this process of depopulation. The
class of people who seek the undeveloped lands
of our country are in general the substantial
element who make good citizens, and that is
as far as the American mind usually cares to
investigate. But monarchs and ministers in
countries whence come these thousands would
do well to understand fully what is at the bot-
tom of this epidemic furor of expatriation
among their subjects. They will find at the
foundation
liberty is sweet)
that there is a potejfr
U-JLi
the
sweet! to the
hegira the fact that
human heart,
it charm in the fame of-
this country as the: land of liberty and of as-
sured rights of political and civil equality for
all, and as a land blessed with exemption from
devouring taxes to'make provision for impend-
ing war. So, If they would retain their sub-
jects, they must gjive them room at home for
aspirations an improvement of condition, and
relieve their minds iand their industries of bur-
dens which are intolerable. The degree of
alarm felt by the ( icrinan Government on the
subject is shown ] by the unusual stefcs which
have been taken to(place restrictions upon the
rush of
LOW~WAOES FOR LABOR.
Carroll D. Wright, of the Massachusetts
Bureau of Labor Statistics, gives some statis-
tics of wages in New England, as follows:
In the mills of Maine men are paid g? 50 a week,
and women get only $5 50, while the little children
receive from $2 25 to $5 40, in the woolen mills,
which pay the largest wages. One paper-mill in
Maine pays men 510 50 a week and women $5 50,
working seventy two hours a week. In New Hamp-
shire the wages are much lower than those paid in
Maine, and the operatives are required to Work
sixty-six hours in the week. In Rhode Island the
wages are a little higher, with sixtv-aix hours of
work during the week. In Connecticut operatives
work ninety hours a week—fifteen hours a day for
six days—and the wages are ?9 for men, $4 80 for
women, $5 10 for male children and 34 50 for
female children. The highest spinners' wages are
$6. In Massachusetts from sixty-three to sixty-six
hours of labor a week are exacted, and spinners
only get $1 08 a day; the highest class of labor in
the mills not exceeding $10 to $14.
The statistician remarks that " long hours
and poorly-paid labor tend to brutalize," and
he shows that one manufacturing town in
Massachusetts supports 400 bar-rooms. The
above-named prices, however, are munificent
in comparison with wages in the East Indies,
China and Japan. In the latter country, ac-
cording to late official reports, the wages of
an able-bodied farm hand are about $35 per
year, with board, and without board, $50.
Per day, with board, it will not average more
than 15 to 20 cents. Female labor is much
cheaper. To do work in a house or on a farm,
stout, healthy women are engaged at from $8
to $10 per year, with food, and without food
from $25 to $30, and bv the day at from 10 to
15 cents. The food is almost wholly vegetable—
rice, beans, and the like.
A letter to The News states that the
Southern Baptist Convention met at Colum-
bus, Miss., May 5, with about 300 delegates in
attendance, thirty-eight from Texas. The
Convention was organized by electing Rev.
P. H. Mell, D. D., of Georgia, President:
Rev. W. C. Crane, D. D., L. L. D., Texas;
Hon. J. L. M. Curry, L. L. D., Virginia;
Rev. E. t. Winkler, D. D., Alabama; Gen-
eral S. D. Lee, Mississippi, Vice-Presidents;
Rev. Lancing Burrows and C. E. W. Doll,
D. D., Kentucky, Secretaries. Committees
are now actively at work on all great benevo-
lent operations.
Fame is eternal, and a Frenchman knows
how to pile it up just a little better than any-
body else. Says the Boston Post:
One of the leading papers of Lyons, France,
gravelv announces that "Monsieur Mahony, a gen-
eral officer belonging to Readjusting, has taken pos-
session of the Congress of the United States," and
that " President Garfield has dispatched Monsieur
Ruddlebegger to force Monsieur Mahony away."
This, the reader should bear in mind, is from a
Fredch newspaper, not from the London Times.
STATE PRESS.
What the Interior Papers Say,
According to the Advance, Leon county
would seem to be suffering from one of the
worst evils incident to our system of elections,
or rather its abuse. That paper says:
Drunkenness, in anyone, is degrading, and merits
the just condemnation of every one. But when
officers of the law, holding responsible positions
over the people, indulge in the vice, then, indeed,
should every law-abiding citizen enter their protest
against it. Such men have no business in office,
for no one under the influence of whisky is at all
capable of attending to business.
A single case of drunkenness should be suf-
ficient to deprive an officer of his place. A
drunkard is an unfit custodian of the liberties
and lives of others.
The Tyler Courier remarks:
The Castroville Quill says that the Washington
correspondent of Tiie Galveston News is at the
head of the list as an Interesting writer. We agree
with the Quill, and so do many others.
The Sulphur Springs Gazette states that out
of about 120 co-operative (Grange) stores in
Texas, not one of them deals in intoxicating
liquors.
The Crockett Patron refers to the indigna-
tion caused by the tax on drummers, and says:
The efforts of the drummers to create a vindic-
tive sentiment against the State and its legislative
and executive departments are not only futile, but
puerile. We hear that several of them got hold
of a very ridiculous chromo of a frog, etc., and,
with a preamble and resolution, proposed to send
it to the author of the bill enacting the drummer
tax. These wise gentlemen were going around our
city, inquiring the name and residence of the au-
thor. We do not know whether or not they got
the information desired. We were a little sur-
prised that they were ignorant of this, as they
seemed to know everything else, better than any-
body. We reckon this was the only thing they did
not know. Would it not be better for them to be-
have themselves, drink less, curse less " cut a
dash " less, pay the tax and go to busness? There
are some noble exceptions to these strictures, and
drummers to whom they will not apply—nice, well-
behaved, law-abiding gentlemen; and no doubt
they are ashamed of such exhibitions as we have
faintly described, and who unqualifiedly condemn
them.
The Waco Examiner, in allusion to the fact
that many newspaper men can not spare time
to visit the Houston reunion, says:
On being invited to a feast one made excuse and
said. " I have bought a yoke of oxen and go to
prove them, and therefore I can not come," and
another. "I have bought a field," and Hal Gosling,
of the Castroville Quill, " I have married a wife,
and can not come." He won't go to the Press Asso-
ciation.
The worst of it is that the Houston hosts ob-
ject to proxies, and there is danger that a great
many good victuals will go to waste, and that
those who attend will be forced to drink more
than is good for them or leave a large surplus
of liquor.
The Tyler Courier remarks:
The Seventeenth Legislature is more fortunate
than the Sixteenth. The former will be convened
iu extra session early next year, and from what
the Governor intimates he will invite their atten-
tion to extravagant railroad charges. This is the
very subject that the Seventeenth Legislature
would like to avoid, but, then, the Governor some-
times points out unpleasant subjects for the man
who totes a free pass.
The Hempstead Review holds that Galves-
ton, and Galveston alone, is the proper place
for the medical department of the State
University.
The Burnet Bulletin has met up with another
genuine Texas veteran, a fellow-county man,
Mr. James Green, of Smith wick Mill:
He was born in South Carolina in the year 1S05,
and came to Texas the year 1834. His good wife,
who is still living but quite feeble, arrived in the
year 1820. He fought at San Jacinto. He recalls
many things that were said—Sam Houston's mar-
tial, glancing eye and sonorous voice: the terrible
war-cry, "Remember the Alamo!" Rusk's impas-
sioned appeal; the irregular, impetuous, over-
whelming charge; the route; the congratulations
of the soldiers to each other, and many other inci-
dents. To look at our chronicler one would asso-
ciate him onlv with the quiet life of a well-to-do
farmer, surn unded by a happy family, and famil-
iar only with the annals of his own immediate
neighborhood. Yet ho has barged sheep on the
Ohio and Mississippi, fought Indians, trapned, and
suffered from cold and hunger on the rivers and
plains of the far West, crossed the snowy ranges of
the Rocky Mountains into California, taken ship
and rounded Cape Horn, returning to the State of
his adoption.
The editor of the Daingerfield Banner says that
he attempted to have a little fun with some of the
items of the Mount Pleasant' News, but Mr. Reedy,
the editor of that paper, instead of taking it as a
joke, evidently got mad. Hereafter, he says, he
will try not to trouble him.
The Banner is not alone in its experience.
Many people have no more appreciation of a
joke than a deaf man of music. All their ner-
vous sensibilities are centered in their suscep-
tibility to offense. As one exchange remarks:
Many and great are the dangers of action with
huffy people, and you are sure to flounder in the
bog with them, while you are innocently thinking
you are walking on the solidest esplanade. The
dangers of jesting are, above all, great. It may be
laid down as an absolute rule, which has no excep-
tions anywhere, that no huffy person can bear a
joke good humoredly, or take it as it is meant.
Huffiness, which seems to be self-assertion in what
may be called the negative term, and which the
possessors thereof classify as a high spirit of sensi-
tiveness, according as they are passionate oi~sul-
len, is, in reality, the product of self-distrust.
The Henderson (Rusk County) Times ex-
presses a pretty common idea with a good deal
of vigor in the following:
The Texas Agricultural and Mechanical College
is a humbug, a fraud, a swindle and an outrage.
These terms are the strongest that we can think
of, but they fail to do justice to the subject.
The Times then gives a history of the organ-
zation and management of the institution, in-
cluding the following:
We now have as the aggregate appropriations,
for buildings, cabinets and other tomfoolery, the
enormous sum of $303,000. Here is the way they
have spent all this money: Main college building,
the mesa hail, president's house (and five pro-
fessors' residences, all of brick, costing the sum of
$160,000), farmer's residence aud other buildings.
But the funniest thing is the long list of utensils
belonging to the mess nail, and the agricultural im-
plements, consisting of silver knives, silver forks,
silver soupspoons, silver teaspoons, silver castors,
teapots and coffeepots. It would take $5000 to pay
the college out of debt at this time. It is nothing
but a grand hotel supported by the State, where a
few favored young men go to enjoy a goo# time.
All the hands that work on the farm are hired, and
the students walk out in the heat of the day with
their kid gloves on and view the farm as Moses did
the happy land—affar off. After they have com-
pleted the course there they know no more about
farming than the writer does about
the North . 'ole. The object of such
institutions fhould be to educate young
men who are seeking an education and who are
too poor to atte id the schools where they are com-
pelled to pay ft r their tuition. But after all the
appropriations by the State to this institution, it
costs the studei t over $100 an academic year- as
much as it does to attend the best schools in the
country not endowed by the State. One would
naturally think from the immense sums of money
expended for utensils, stock, fences, etc., that the
produce raised oi the college farm would be suffi-
cient to pay all expenses of the institution, but in-
stead of that the;' are continually calling on the
State for more appropriations. We know farmer*
in this county who could take the money that has
been appropriated to that school and raise produce
sufficient to supp >rt a half dozen colleges. Stu-
dents who attend .in agricultural college should be
required to labor at least four hours in each of the
twenty-four; the} should have an overseer skilled
In agriculture and horticulture; they should be
taught to analyze the soil and find the adaptation of
the various kinds of soil to the various kinds of
seeds. By that means the Texas Agricultural and
Mechanical College would be a blessing, but as it is
now managed it is a fraud, a swindle and a hum-
bug.
HATTERS BY MAIL.
GI KANE I) DAJX.Y Eli OX THE NEWS
EXCHANGE LIST.
Reduce the Postage,
LFYom the New York Herald.]
The revelations that are being made" in the
Star Route business in Washington go to show
that the Postoffice Department during the past
four or five years, at least, has been managed
in a reckless, corrupt way. Enormous sums
have been paid to favorite contractors for
carrying imaginary mailB over equally im-
aginary routes, and wo are told that a portion
of the moneys thus squandered has been used
in running the "machine" hi political cam-
paigns. It is difficult to estimate how much has
been unlawfully taken out of the Treasury in
this way, but the lowest estimates run the
figures into the millions. The new Admin-
istration has started out well in exi
this scandalous jobbery, and it can not fail to
ive point connected with the exposure is the in-
quiry which everyone will naturally make,
namely, how many other leaks of greater or
less magnitude are tharo in the same depart-
ment ? It is almost impossible to resist the con-
clusion. that the Star Route swindle is not the
only one in the postal service. This is for the
new Postmaster-General to discover. If he
shall succeed in putting an end to the jobbery
in the Postoffice the opportunity will be af-
j great reform within the poj
bilities of his administration, and if he can
accomplish tt he will win a great and deserved
reputation.
Comfortable Cars for Cattle.
[From the New York World.}
The " parlor cattle-car " on exhibition at the
cattle-yards at the foot of Sixtieth street was
inspected by many cattle shippers. It is the
invention of Isidor Kitsee, of Cincinnati. The
advantages he claims are that cattle are fed
and watered regularly with comparatively
little trouble, that they are kept clean during
a long trip, and that they are not bruised by
the journey. The car is somewhat larger than
the ordinary cattle-car, which usually accom-
modates from fourteen to seventeen head.
This accommodates twenty, and with ample
room. The stalls, of which there are a series
on each side, are arranged diagonally with
the length of the car. The partition boaris
are strong, but have such spring that
they will allow of a severe strain without
bruising the cattle. Each animal is chained
before a bucket made of galvanized iron. Into
this, by an automatic arrangement, food and
water are supplied. Over each stall is a bin
holding two bushels of grain. When a laver is
turned five quarts of grain are emptied from
each bin into the bucket. The water is carried
in a tank in the top of the car. At the desired
time seven quarts of water are turned into the
bucket by moving a lever. The floor slopes
from either side to the center of the oar, where
at intervals iron gratings are placed. The cat-
tle can lie down when they please, and the
partitions between them prevent their inter-
fering with each other. The ordinary loss in
the weight ot cattle on a three days' trip is
from 8 to 12 pe»- cent. Those brought here
in Mr. Kitsee's oar, which came from Cincin-
nati, were out three days and lost only per
cent. The car costs about $200 more than one
of the old style. It will lie on exhibition to-
day at the foot of West Thirty-first street.
Arrest of Henry Ward Beecher.
[From the New York JPost.l
Baltimore, May 4.—About two years ago
the Western Maryland Agricultural Society,
which holds its annual fairs at Cumberland,
Md., contracted with the Rev. Henry Ward
Beecher to deliver the annual address at its
October fair. The fact of the contract was
widely published, but for some cause Mr.
Beecher was not prosent. There was great
disappointment among the throng of visitors,
and the society was accused of having made
its announcement without authority—as a
"card to draw." A day or two ago it was
telegraphed from Washington that Mr. Beecher
was in that city, and his presence
there became known to the officers of
the society at Cumberland. Mr. Beecher
left Washington this morning for New York,
and when the train, in its passage through
Baltimore, stopped at the Union Depot, a dep-
uty sheriff stepped aboard and served a sum-
mons on Mr. Beecher to answer a suit against
him by the Agricultural Society for failure to
deliver the address, the summons being return-
able at Cumberland on the second Monday of
May. Mr. Beecher took the matter very good
humoredly, and said he would answer through
counsel. Some excitement was occasioned
among the passengers at the action of the offi-
cer, but amusement took its place when the
nature of the business was made known.
Tlie First Settlers of New York.
[From the New York World."]
The Rev. Charles W. Baird, of Rye, N. Y.,
read a paper on " The First Settlers of New
Amsterdam," before the members of the New
York Historical Society. He said that the
early history of the settlement of the colony,
and of the founders of the Empire State, was
somewhat obscure. The Walloons were people
of French extraction, and the Spanish In-
quisition in 1561 drove many of their families
into exile. England was made their sanctu-
ary, and Walloon churches were tounded in
many towns of the kingdom. They also set-
tled in the colonies of the Dutoh Republic,
principally in Leyden. Early in March, 1623,
the New Netheriand sailed from Amster-
dam with thirty families, bound for
the mouth of the Hudson River, and this
shipload of people effected the permanent
settlement of New Amsterdam. Nearly 100
years had elapsed since the Bay of New York
had been discovered by a voyager sailing under
the flag of France, and the colonists were soon
unexpectedly visited by a French ship which
had come to take possession of the country, but
a Dutch vessel with several guns caused the in-
truder to leave the bay. Of the names of the
signers to the Walloon petition there were but
few familiar to modern ears. The De Forrests
and the De la Montaynes were among the first.
As early as 1624 the name by which the North
River was known was the River de la Mon-
tayne, while the Dutch had known it as the
Mauritius River. For the first few years the
French was undobutedly the prevailing lan-
guage. The Rev. Dr. B. F. De Costa, after Dr.
Baird had concluded, said that while he com-
mended the labors of the speaker of the even-
ing in getting at the root of the early settle-
ment of New York, he knew that the names of
De Forrest and Montayne were applied to the
Hudson River 100 years before the Dutch came
to New York. The society then adjourned to
examine photographs of t'ie grants of land to
the early settlers of the colony, which had been
provided by the Rev. Dr. Baird.
Another Powerful Freight and Passen-
ger Steamer.
[From the New York World.1
The Egyptian Monarch, the new steamer of
the Monarch Line between this port and Lon-
don, which arrived a few days since, is loading
at the Erie Elevator, and will sail for London
next Thursday. She was built by John Mc-
Millan & Sons, at Dumbarton, Scotland, and
her engines and boilers were made by Mr.
David Rowan, of Glasgow, where sho was
finished and manned. Captain J. F. Constable
is in command. She is fitted with accommoda-
tions for 30 cabin and 1500 steerage passen-
gers. Her principal freight items will be cattle
and sheep and grain. To prevent the shifting of
the latter she is provided with patent bulkheads.
In the cattle department the vessels has all the
latest appliance for ventilation. Tne steamer's
length is 375 Seet, breadth of beam 43 feet and
depth 32 feet. She is built of .iron and steel
under the British Admiralty "survey, and is
registered at 2552 tons, but her carrying capac-
ity is 5000 tons. Her indicated horse-power is
3000, and she carries a high pressure of eighty-
four pounds. Of the four decks the three
lower ones are made'of iron covered with wood
and the upper one is planked with teak. In-
stead of the old style of starboard and port
lights in the fore-rigging, there are two light-
houses with strong reflectors at the port and
starboard fore rigging that cast very strong
fights. She carries four masts. Six life-boats
are attached to patent lowering davits. There
are six water-tight compartments up to the
main deck. This is the second of this class of
steamers recently built for Messsrs. Patton,
Vickers 8c Co., the other one being the Persian
Monarch. The Lydian Monarch, built for the
same line, was launched last Monday.
Poisoned With Cosmetics.
IFrom the New York Star. 1
Among the coses reported to the Board of
Health was that of Miss Frances J. Blanchard, a
young lady 24 years of age, who had died at No.
219 West Fifteenth street, while under the pro-
fessional care of Dr. J. W Wright, of No. 53
West Nineteenth street. The certificate filed in
the Bureau of Vital Statistics ascribes the cause
of death as due to the use of cosmetics, which
had poisoned her blood, resulting in pericar-
ditis. Miss Blanchard was a resident of Buf-
falo, and had only been in this city about three
weeks. About seven years ago she was in the
habit of resorting to the use of paints and cos-
metics for the purpose of beautifying the com-
plexion. The lead, which is a principal ingre-
dient, entered into her system and brought on
an attack of pericarditis. Three weeks ago,
accompanied by her mother, she came to this
city in search of medical attendance, and Dr.
Wright was secured. The poison, however,
had gained such headway, that nothing could
be done to check it, and on Monday she died,
after suffering the most excruciating agony.
Her remains were taken to Buffalo yesterday
for interment.
Unprecedented Itnsli of Germans to
America.
[From the Denver Tribune.1
St. Louis, May 3.—From a Missouri com-
mittee in Germany come some remarkable
facts concerning the oxodus from Germany
this winter. The writer says: " I paid a visit
to the immigration bureau or Government
office, and have gathered the following facts:
The authorities at Berlin are perfectly bewil-
dered at the extraordinary and unprecedented
exodus taking place this year, and which, to
all appearances, is only in its infancy. It bears
no comparison to the emigration of former
years, and threatens to assume most gigantic
proportions. The number of emigrants that
left the port of Hamburg during the first quar-
ter of the year 1880 was 7,607, which was con-
sidered extraordinary, but for the first quarter
of this year the figures have reached the unpre-
cedented number of 24,441. Every steamer of
the Hamburg-American line leaving port for
the next five months is contracted for and the
company have been obliged to put on a line of
extra steamships, which are to leave every
other Sunday, in addition to the regular weekly
steamers. The emigrant boarding-houses are
crowded. At the offices of emigrant agents
you will see whole regiments standing in line
for half a block, waiting their turn to exchange
their money and get tickets. I am told on tne
very highest authority that the German people
in the interior are well posted as to America
and the condition of that country, and that the
present great exodus is principally owing to
the news received here from friends, oountry-
men and relations in America, as to its renewed
prosperity. Whole counties are lieing depopu-
lated. The people are crazy to leave for the
promised land and are sacrificing their
property at ruinous rates for half or
even a third and fourth of the actual value. I
am told that these people are mostly of the
better laboring classes, with a fair sprinkling
of merchants and clerks, but have some means.
Most of them are well provided. Then? are
considerable Socialists and Jews among theui.
The bone and sinew of Germany is leaving. Of
course the government is doing everything
iible short of actual force to stem this flood.
otices are being served on emigration agents,
warning them under severe penalties and flues
not to sell tickets or ship or in any way en-
courage young men below oc between certain
years, who may not have paid for or served
their prescribed time in the army, but notwith-
standing this, large numbers of young men ob-
tain the necessary papers to leave the country,
and go out in every vessol."
Horsey Leaning on Bol> Ingersoll.
[Special Dispatch to the New York World.]
Washington, May 3.—Accompanied by
Bob Ingersoll as counsel, Dorsey called at the
Postoffice Department to-day, and pranced
into the Postmaster-General's office as though
intending to overawe Mr. James. It happened
that Mr. MacVeagh was then with Mr. James,
and, greetings having been exchanged, Inger-
soll began operations in the line mapped out in
Dorsey^ recent demand for an investigation.
While he was speaking Mr. MacVeaglT began
to smile and act as though he considered the
remarks addressed to him. Mr. James took
the hint, and gave his attention to other mat-
ters. Mr. MacVeagh then took Dorsoy and
Ingersoll in hand, amused himself with them
for a few minutes, and then shut them off with
the information that until the pending investi-
gation was over Dorsey could not get the spe-
oial attention he desired. Dorsey was much
crestfallen at the miscarriage of his overav
scheme, and he and his distinguished cou
crestfallen at the miscarriage of his overawing
scheme, and he and his distinguished counsel
left the Department without having had a
word, except of greeting, with the only man
they had callod to sea
[Apollinaris
"THE QUEEN OF TABLE WATERS."
British Medical Journal.
"Pure, Wholesome, Pleasant, and
Effervescent
Prof.T. L. Brunton, M.D.,F.R.S.,Lond., Eng.
ANNUAL SALE, 9 MILLIONS.
Of Grocers, Druggists, Afin. JVat. Dealers.
BEWARE OF IMITATIONS.
DIED.
McCAMLY—Suddenly, of congestion, in Mata-
forda, May 1, llazie Clare, youngest daughter of
'red. C. and Rosa F. McCamly, aged thirteen
months.
Farewell, Mazie, our bright, gay little darling,
farewell!
Blue eyes closed—their last long slumber;
Dimpled hands across the breast;
Sleep so soundly—never waking,
Little Mazie's gone to rest.
Brush the golden, silken ringlets
¥rom that calm and pure white brow,
et so lifelike; but it slumbers
With the care of angels now.
—[Grandma.
HAUSINGER—On May 8. 1881, at 7 a. m., Em-
ma Cora, aged eight months and ten days, daughter
of Henry A. and Ada C. Hausinger.
" Ere sin could harm or sorrow fade.
Death came with friendly care;
The opening bud to Heaven conveyed,
And bade it blossom there."
CASTLETON—On Sunday, 8th instant, at 2 a m.,
Thomas H. Castleton, a native of Essex county,
England, in the forty-fifth vear of his age, and was
interred in the Episcopal Cemetery Sunday even-
ing.
_ Mobile, Ala., papers please copy.
SPECIAL NOTICES.
Notice to Consignees.—The steamship
STATE OF TEXAS. Nickerson. master, from Sew
York, is now dischartring cargo at Williams's wharf.
Consignees will please par 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.
AUCTION SALES.
Anction Sale.
WK SELL THIS DAY, AT 10 O'CLOCK,
If at our sales-rooms:
ASSORTED GROCERIES AND SUNDRY LOTS OF
MERCHANDISE. PARK, LYNCH & CO.
new york, texas & mexican railway, 1
Ekqineer's Office. >-
Victoria, Texas, May 5, 1881. )
SEALED PROPOSALS WILL BE RE-
ceivsd at this office until
Wednesday, June, 15, 1881,
For the
Clearing, Grubbing and Grading the
Road-bed, and for Cross-ties,
Piling and Bridge
Timbers,
For the line of this road from Wharton to Victoria.
Plans and specifications will be on file at the Engi-
neer's office, in Victoria, and the Division Engi-
neer's office, in Richmond, Bids will be received
for a part or all the work. Envelopes must be in-
dorsed, "Proposals for grading," or " cross-ties,"
as the case may be. The company reserves the
right to reject any and all bids.
JT. H. DINKIXS,
Chief Engineer.
JAMES D. MOODY,
'I
MOODY & JEMISON BUILDING,
STRAND GALVESTON.
ATTORNEYS.
OA&TSSTOB.
Geo. Masox.
Robert v. Davidson.
MASON & DAVIDSON,
Attorneys and Counselors at Law,
OFFICE IN MOODY & JEMiSON'S BUILDING,
Corner of Strand and 22d streets,
GALVESTON, TEXAS.
Bailinger, Jack & Mott,
No. 125 Postoffice StrMt,
GALVE&BON. TEXAS.
HOUSTON.
E. P. Turner,
i
No. 62 main Street, Houston, Te.:as.
Practices in State Courts at Houston, Supreme,
Appellate and District Courts at Galveston.
BRYAN.
LUTHER W. CLARK,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
BRYAN, TEXAS.
Practices in the courts of Brazos and adjoining
counties, and in the higher courts of the State.
weatherfobd,
JAMES i«. RICHARDS—
ATTORNEY AT LAW. Weatherford. Texas,
will practice in Parker and adjoining counties, and
give prompt, personal attention to payment of
taxes aud collection of claims
Correspondence solicited.
TOBACCO MANUFACTURES.
HILL CITY
LVKCHBVB6, VA.,
HANCOCK & KINNIER,
proprietors.
Manufacturers ot all Grades
Chewing Tobacco.
Prioe List furnished on application.
GARSIA <k FREIBERG, Agts., Calv'n.
EDUCATIONAL.
Jesuit College ot'St. diaries
Grand-Ooteau, St. Landrv Pariah. La.
T OCATION MOST HEALTH If AND
JLJ pb-jtsant—an the Alexandria Branch ot the
Morgan Louisiana and Tfota* railroad, M! miles north
ot varroiUionv-Ule. Every facility for a tKaro-j<h
OommurciaJ, Classical and Moral training. Itegroes
conferred. Board, tuition and wanting, 8250. For
Circulars and information, apply to
KEY. JNO. MoimiXOT, a J, President
Land for Sale
A TRACT OF LAND CONTAINING
about Five Thousand Acres* located and
fronting on the Nueces river, about 20 miles from
Corpus Chnsti, one of the most desirable places for
a rancho; plenty of Stock Water in the dry est sea-
son. Price and terms moderate. Apply to
DODDRIDGE & DAVIS, Corpus Christi.
Also, One Thousand Acres, located in An-
derson county, 10^ miles north, 3a degrees west ot
Palestine. Two contemplated railroads will pass
through or near this tract, which to well timbered
and watered. Apply to
DODDRIDGB & DAVIS,
Or JOHN ff. WAT^1patoetiw»
PERRY DAVIS'
Pain-Killer
A SAFE AND SURE
REMEDY FOR
Rheumatism,
Neuralgia,
Cramps,
Ciiolera,
Diarrhoea,
Dysentery.
Sprains
AND
Bruises,
Burns
AND
Scalds,
Toothache
A]^D
Headache.
is the well-tried and
„ trusted friend of all
medicine which can
be freely used internally or externally,
without fear of harm and with certainty of
relief. Its price brings it within the range of all,
and It will annually save many times its cost in
doptor bills. Price, 25 eenU, SO cents, and
$1.00 per bottle. Directiont accompany each bottte.
FOR SALE BY ALL DRUGGISTS.
i
1
PAIN-KILLER
Who want a sure and s«/e ft
fVND
SMOOTHEST, STBDISEST. BEST
C BOLD ET£L JOBBERS
1878 - * 1879
Production Doubled, Again Doubled.
COFFEE.
IN STORE:
3000 SACKS.
AFLOAT PER BALEE.
3500 SACKS.
KAUFFMAN &RUNGB.
For Breakfast!
CH0C0LAT
MESSIER.
Sold. 33very"w\b.ere.
PARIS AND LONDON.
New York Dspot 286 Greenwich St.
SITUATED IN BRAZORIA COUNTY,
on the Brazos river, ten miles above its mouth;
contains
3500 ACRES LAJSTD,
Sugar-Mill and Machinery Complete,
Permanent buildings aud extensive improvements.
Will sell this valuable property for $3&,OOOca&h,
or equivalent in unimproved lands, or improved
town property anywhere in *he State. A bargain
rarely offered. Apply to
MOODY Oc JEMISON.
The Newcomb-Buchanan Co.,
LOUISVILLE, X Y
distillers of the celebrated
LI,lilt® IMS
Bonrbon and Rye Whiskies.
J. S. BROWN & CO.,
Hardware Merchants,
GALVESTON, TEXAS,
ARE HEADQUARTERS FOR
EYE AND HANDLED HOES
GRAIN CRADLES,
iiiULlllUj U1U1UU, Ulllllil
MACHINISTS' & CARPENTERS' IMPLEMENTS,
BUILDERS' AND PLANTATION SPPPT.TF.B.
SANBORN & WARNER,
Manufacturers' Sole Agenta for
The Celebrated Glidden's Patent Steel Barb Fence Wire, aud the
Brinkerhoff Patent Metallic Strip Fencing.
[Above Cut Rep. eseutins Strip.]
Made of a fine quality of Carbonized Steel, cold rolled and tempered in lead
TENSILE STRENGTH OVER, 2000 POUNDS
AN ADMIRABLE FENCING MATERIAL. HAS BEEN THOF.OIGHLT
ouro™ ri 8ffk0n to Jhe Purcha er and fast prninii,t- favor like our
f 11 * BARB W IRE. It has past experiment, and from actual use has proved to
tuliv meet evary claim made for it. For further reference send for our Circular deRcriotive of this pai^
(lcular style of fencing. SANBORN & WARNER, Houston. Texas.
A RARE CHANCE TO ENGAGE IN
the Stock Business.—I will sell or lease, for a
term of years, my stock and grain farm, situated
immediately on the Texas-Pacific R. S., two miles
from the town of Terrell, Kaufman county. Texas
and thirty miles east of Dallas, consisting of 4500
acres, under plank and wire fence, subdivided by
cross fences into Ave fields. The pastures are well
supplied with inexhaustible ponds and streams of
water, and abundant shade trees—the track being
crossed by creeks bordered with timber. The farm
consists of about 200 acres iu a high state of cultiva-
tion. and is especially adapted to the culture of
small grain. The orchard consists of a large
variety of the choicest fruit trees, grapes and ber-
ries. The farm and improvements are situated on
the west quarter of the tract. The buildings are
very substantial and complete in finish, and espe-
cially arranged for convenience. The dwelling is
two stories, with eight large rooms in addition to
store-room, dairy and bath-room, which is supplied
with water from a large reservoir in tlie top of the
house; a cistern of 500 barrels capacity, aud other
water facilities conveniently located. The granary
and stables are commodious and conveniently ar-
ranged. Especial attention has been given to the
arrangement and durability of cow-sheds, feed-
troughs, hav-racks, branding-pens and other con-
veniences for the care and raising of fine stock,
and I have no hesitation in saying that it is the
best appointed stock farm west of the Mississippi
River. I will also sell my stock of Cattle and
Horses, coasisting of about 1000 head of cattle, the
majority of which are one, two. three and four-
year-old steers, seven Short-horn bulls and a few
Short-horn heifers and cows. The remainder of
the cattle are young cows and calves, some of
which are superior milkers. Nearly all of my
young cattle are half and three-quarter bloods.
There are about forty head of mares and colts,
some very fine brood mares. I will lease all to-
gether, or the pastures separately from the farm
and dwelling. I ifrill also sell my farming imple-
ments aud work stock. I respectfully invite all
persons wishing to avail themselves of this oppor-
tunity to visit and inspect the premises. For
further particulars address J. S. GRINNAN,
Terrell, Kaufman County, Texas.
P. S.—A plot of the premises may be seen at the
office of the Live Stock Journal, Fort Worth, or
will be sent upon application to J. S. G.
MISCELLANEOUS.
eAlTHCTOI,
SHIP CHANDLERY AND NAVAL STORES.
AFI LL STOCK OF MANILLA, HEMP
and Rope, Blocks, Sheaves, Flags, Bunting and
Canvas, and all Goods in these lines always on hand.
SAILS, TENTS, TARPAULINS and AWNINGS
made to order. Orders solicited.
THEO. K. THOMPSON,
(Successor to David Wakelee,)
208 4:210 Strand, GALVESTON, TEX.
We solicit consignments ot Cotton, Wool. Hides,
etc. Will advance cost, or full value ot same by
special agreement.
MOODY A JEMISON.
j^ok sale- -
TWO STRAND LOTS. WITH BRICK WARE-
HOUSES THEREON,
covering 85x120 feet, northwest corner 19th street.
Also, a Large Dwelling House, etc., well built,
east corner of l(jth St. and M; and a few good lots
in the eastern and western portions of the city.
Apply to C. H. PIX,
Office of T. M. Joseph, Esq., corner of 23d and
Postoffice streets.
H0TXCE8.
Dissolution Notice
Notice is hereby given that
the undersigned, composing the lirm of NEL-
SON & OEIILERT, have dissolved partnership.
Mr. F. Oehlert has withdrawn from the business,
which will be continued by C. Nelson for his own
account. Amounts due to and by the firm will be
settled by Mr. Nelson. C. NELSON,
F. OEHLERT. Jit.
Notice to Millmen.
THE IilNE OF THE EAST TEXAS
Railway has been completed to the long-leaf
pine district of Hardin county. Millmen are invited
to investigate the advantages of locating on the line
of this road. For particulars address
. J. F. CROSBY, President,
Houston, Texas;
Or, A. H. ViEt.E, Beaumont, Texas.
NOTICE.
MR. W. C. KELLOGG. HAVING
left Galveston, ha< Appointed Mrs. Sidney
Smith sole agent of the Egyptian Crystal Pho-
tograph Art, she having acquired a thorough
and complete knowledge for making this beautiful
work. Citizens desirous of having anj- photographs
renewed can send their orders to Mrs. Sidney
Smith's residence, Avenue M, between 3Gth and 3Tth
strt-Qts.
Notice.
A 1,1., ORDERS OK COMPLAINTS, TO
receive prompt attention, should* be left at
the office of the Company, in the Brick Building, on
Market Streets Between 24tii and. 25th
Streets,
Between the hours of 8 and 12 o'clock a. m.
AUG. BITTLAIt, Secretary.
NOTICE Id
Having completed the first
section of twenty-live miles of the East Texas
Railway, sealed proposals will be received at this
office until
Tuesday Ulay 31, 1881,
for clearing, grubbing, grading and timber work
for the next seventy-five miles.
Proposals will be received for sections of five
miles, or for the whole work.
Plans and profiles can be seen at this office and
specifications had upon application.
Successful bidders will be required to give a bond
of indemnity against all claims on their work.
Work must be promptly commenced upon the
award and vigorously pushed.
Xhe right to reject any and all bids is reserved.
For information apply to
Judoe j. F. CRoSBT, President East Texas Rail-
way Company, Houston, Texas,
T. W. HOUSE, Banker, Houston, Texas,
or to the undersigned on the work,
R. H, COUSINS, Chief Engineer.
Beaumont, Texas, May 2, 1881.
1ST otice.
BV RESOLUTION OF TIIE BOARD
OF DIRECTORS OF THE
National Bank of Texas,
Passed this day, stockholders are requested to
meet at
10 A. M., TUESDAY, MAY 17,
to sanction Amendment to Article 8 of Associaton
with the view of increasing Membership of the
Board from FIVE to SEVEN.
ROBERT J. JOHN, Cashier.
Galveston, May 3, 1881.
Drayage, Storage, Forwarding and Her-
rinar Safes.
R. P. SARGENT,
GENERAL Transfer and Forwarding Agent and
Warehouseman, Mechanic Street, between Tre-
mont and Twenty-fourth, Galveston, Texas,
having the best facilities, is prepared to tranfer or
■jtore 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 on Hand.
PITS, IS, GLASS,
TARNISHES OF ALL KINDS,
WALL PAPER & WINDOW SHADES,
READY-MIXED PAINTS,
the very best insecticide,
RIOE & BAULARD,
TT TBEMOST STREKT, GALVESTOI.
DEALERS IN
lI1
COMMISSION MERCHANTS,
AND
til
I)
ill
FOR the sale OF
Provisions
Grain,
Rice, Butter, Cheese
and Merchandise
Generally.
GALVESTON, TEXAS.
j Lard, Flour,
Sugar, Meal,
a b.
JOfiOTTA !
LIE IRON WORKS
C. B. LEE & CO.,
&
AND
MACHINISTS.
HAKUFACTITEEBS OF
STEAM ENGINES, SAW MILLS,
Boilers, Mill and Gin Gearing,
Shafting. Pulleys, Brass
and iron Pumps,
Etc.
1^5"" Particular attention given to Order* tar (no
Fpocfci a»d Castings lor BulfdiaM,
411 Kin da ot Job Work solicited.
pMalead
Corner Winnie and Thlrty-secondS Ste.,
(Near Railroad Depot,)
GALYESTOlf, TBX16,
Satisfaction
hbw orleans.
vuuil
and Surrounding Country:
THE GALVESTON OIL CO.
Will Furnish COTTON SEED for
Planting, to be Returned
When the Coming Crop
is Ginned.
Remember, We will be
Prepared to Gin all tlie Cot-
ton You can Raise.
JOHN GAUCHE,
jtvsb
MOEESQUE BUILDING,
And 110 Chartrei Slrert,
NEW ORLEANS, LA.,
H«b (be longest and best sefeoOen of
Crockery, Glassware,
WOOBES, TIH AMD HARDWARE,
OC Any Borne In am louc
JSsBjrtcea are guaranteed aa Urn. if
ttete a»y north or south.
~ DtttTM. ~
JJ'ii M. PEJ&L,
1
LOTTERIES.
Tlie only Lottery of any State of the Union in-
dorsed by a vote of the people, and tinder a late de-
cision of the U. 8. Supreme Court at Washington,
f? °? y tegal Lottery note in the United States,
all other charters having been repealed or having no
existence.
A SPLENDID OPPORTUNITY TO WIN A FOR-
TUNE—GRAND DISTRIBUTION. Class " F."
At New Orleans, Tuesday, June 14, '81.
md monthly drawing.
Louisiana State Lottery Co.
This institution was regularly incorporated for
the terra of twenty-five years "by the Legislature
of the State, in 1868, for educational and charita-
ble purposes, with a capital of $1,000,000. to
which it has since added a reserve fund of 3420.000.
To this contract the inviolable faith of the State is
pledged, which pledge has been renewed by an
overwhelming popular vote, securing its franchise
in the new Constitution adopted December 2,
1879. Its Grand Single Number Distribution will
take place monthly, on the Second Tuesday. It
never Scales or Postpones. Look at the following
distri button:
GRAND PROMENADE CONCERT, during which
will take place the Extraordinary SemTAnnual
Drawing, under the personal >"uperviBion and man-
agement of Gen. G. T. BKAVREGARD,
ot Louisiana, and Gen. JUBAL A.
EARLY, of Virginia.
CAPITAL PRIZE, $100,000.
NOTICE.—Tickets are $10 only. HALVES, 85;
FIFTHS, $2; TENTHS, $1.
list or prizes:
1 Capital Prize of $100,000 $100,000
1 Grand Prize of 50,000 50.000
1 " " " 20,000 20,000
2 Large Prizes of 10,000 20.000
4 'v " " 5.000 20,000
20 Prizes of 1,000 20.000
50 " 500 25,000
100 " 300 30.000
200 " 200 40,000
600 " 100 60, Od)
10,000 " 10 100,000
approximation prizes:
100 Approximation Priaes of $200 20,000
100 " " 100 10,000
100 " « 75.... 7,500
11,279 Prizes, amounting to, $522,500
Gen. G. T, Beauregard,of La., I .
Gen. Jural A. Early, of Va., ( Commissioners.
Responsible corresponding agents wanted at all
points, to whom a liberal compensation will be paid.
For further information, write clearly, giving full
address. Send orders by Express or Registered
Letter or Money Order by mail, addressed only to
M. A. DAUPHIN, New Orleans. La.,
Regular Monthly Drawing, July 12, Class G.
Capital Prize. $30,000. Whole Tickets. $2: Halves, fl.
COMMISSION MERCHANTS.
CAL VRSTOH.
JOEL & B. F. WOLFE,
COTTON FACTORS,
GENERAL state agents FOR
DANIEL PRATT'S IMPROVED
REVOLTING HEAD COTTON GINS,
FEEDERS, CONDENSERS AND PRE8SES.
Allmum's Cotton Prett* Screw and Irons.
Complete, Price $100.
AGENTS FOR AMES'S CELEBRATED ENGINES.
Send for Circulars and Price List.
NO. 165 STRAND, GALVESTON.
R. B. HAWLEY & CO.,
COMMISSION MERCHANTS
AND DEALERS IN
Flour, Provisions & Grain.
jm>. d.
COTTON FACTORS
AND
Commission Merchants,
GALYKSTOa,
MclXPINE, BALDRIDGE & CO.,
Cotton Factors
AND
COMMISSION MERCHANTS,
214 Strand, (Mallory Building,) Galveston.
H. Seeligson & Co.,
COTTON FACTORS,
aud
Commission Merchants,
GALVESTON.
Orders for Future Contracts Solicited.
Cfaus. Kmmnm.
w. j. frhdbrich.
J. Frederick & Kellner,
COTTON FACTORS
Aire
COMMISSION MEBCHANTS,
GslTeston, Texaa.
Omci: Corner Mechanic aad Twenty-Second sts.
HBW TOBK.
cbas. V. hobobs*.
Job* R. Babsett.
C. F. HOHORST & CO.,
US Peal Street,
NEW YORK.
MEDICAL.
Startling Discovery!
A VICTIM OP TOCTHFCL 1>PRV>
dence, oausing Premature Decay, Nervous De-
bility, Lost Manhood, etcu. having tried in vain
every known remedy, has discovered a simple self-
cure. which he will send FREE to his fellow-suf-
ferers. Address J. H. REEVES,
43 Chatham street, N. Y.
A POSITIVE CURE
Without medicines,
Allan's Soluble Hedieated Bougies.
Patented October 16, 1876. Oae bo*
No. 1 will cure any case in four days or less.
No. 2 will cure the most obstinate oase, no i
ot how long standing.
No nauseous doses of cubebs, copaiba, or oHof
sandalwood, that are certain to produse dy*>®P"S
by destroying the coatings of the stomach.
Price. $1 50. Sold by all druggists, or ma"®11 00
ipt of price. . . _
For further particulars, send for circular.
P. O. Box 1=SS. J. C. ALLAN OO.
83 John Streat. W»w Yon.
try \nts Bu^s, Cockroaches, Beetles, Fleas
Si Does Blight and Insects on Plants, Moths in
F^irsT^fick or Scab on Sheep or Gloats, also on
°Thit' preparation has been applied with great suc-
cess against the Insects that attack Plants.
Sold in Packets, at 25 cents per Packet, or six
Packets for J1 «5.
The Powder is warranted free from all bad smell,
and will keep in any climate. It may be spread
* quite harmless to
HOUSTON, TEXAS.
EACH PACKET.
Manufactory : Gravel Lane, Houndsditch, City of
London, England.
The above discovery has gained for Prof. Her-
man a Silver Prize Medal at the Inter-Colonial Exhi-
bition of Victoria, Australia, of 1866, besides numer-
ous testimonials.
THOnPSOK, GEORGE 6c CO.,
Galveston, Wholesale Ajrents for Texas.
EjpSi .
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