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JUJiJaiJU II
a. h. belo & co., Publishers.
Tuesday. November 1_3, 1SS3.
mahone feels like an exasperated kick.
Robinson can prepare for LL. D.-dom.
Thk great heart of Texas is not for the old
ticket. ^
A John Kjllly funeral would be a first-class
Democratic jubilee.
The Butler obituaries have been generally
mild, pleasant and thankful.
Bob Toombs has become a Baptist. Just
imagine old Bob taking water.
One satisfaction remains. Keifer can not be
speaker for at least two years.
Tariff reform or bloody shirt is the issue to
be met at the next national contest.
The anuual Fitz John Porter boom is pro-
ceeding to make its bow to the public.
The Fort Worth Gazette sports more jour-
nalistic starch than any paper in Texas.
Tilden* and Randall are in the same boat—
one from policy, the other from principle.
The Democratic poultry show looms up tol-
erably fair this season, notwithstanding a few
accidents.
No wonder Jones denied his name. Shame-
less indeed would be the man who could stand
that racket.
If all else fails, Ben Butler might become a
pension agent. There is lots of fraud and
crookedness left.
The organ ought to bo very near and dear
to the executive heart—it helped to put him
there, as it were.
Irving should play a magnificent shylock.
The prices of admission charged fit him emi-
nently for the position.
"When Johu Swinton called the editor of the
Inter Ocean a fool, he should have prefixed
the noun with a popular adjective.
Marshal, Serrano has been announced as
the new Spanish embassador to France. Di-
plomatists are stated to be surprised.
George B. Hudson, a 'forty-niner, of San
Francisco, died of heart disease a few days
ago. He was a native of New York.
The American people are becoming gradu-
ally enlightened on Mormonism. When the
whole will be revealed look out for shocks.
Bkn Butler is opposed to promiscuous di-
vorces. In spite of his miscellaneous cussed-
Hess there are many admirable points in old
Ben. ^
The Republicans are now becoming unduly
elated. It was not for Democrats alone that
an inspired penman wrote, Pride goeth before
a fall. |
The South only suffers during a bloody-
shirt compaign. The North may lose the
offices, but it will not have to defend its repu-
tation.
When Jack Finerty and Richelieu Robinson
grab the British lion's tail iu the ensuing Con-
gress, look out for some tail kicking and classic
American swearing.
David Henderson has become managing
editor of the Chicago Daily News. In tLe
same capacity on the Herald he was a success
and won journalistic spurs.
By all means start Butler for Congress in the
district to be vacated by Robinson. We want-
some glimmering distraction from the mono-
tony of politics at Washington.
The fond Father Churchill, of St. Louis, and
William H. English, of Indianapolis, should go
into partnership. They aro the boss stingy
men of this great and glorious republic.
Secretary Whatsiiishuysen's State went
Democratic by a handsome majority, yet still
the respectable and venerable fossil is the
premier of a stalwart administration. This is
a great country.
The Pall Mall Gazette proposes a ro}*al com-
mission to inquire into the sanitary condition
of the laboring population of England. This
is a response from one quarter to the Marquis
of Salisbury's plunge into socialism.
A new journalistic deal has developed itself
in jfl&as. When a cheap reporter gets on the
ragjpi edge he taffies the alleged boss and
picks his teeth for the ensuing week. Inven-
tion is very closely related to necessity.
The cable states that the French have not
enough troops in Tonquin to take action. As
the Chinese occupy Bac-niuh, an important
position, and seem content to wait, there will
probably be no fighting for a couple of months.
VILLard's contemplation of himself must
not be pleasant. He found no difficulty in bor-
rowing moii-'V" enough to build the Northern
Pacific, yet is unable to maintain his grip when
the chief rustling is done. Ah, Gould, you are
the Nemesis of the capitalistic budling.
i The New Orl< ans States says that Randall
can count on only one vote out of the Louisiana
congressional delegation. The only solid .dele-
gation he has will be that of his own State of
Pennsylvania. The speakership of the next
House is not at ail likely to fail to the share of
Mr. Randall. ^ ^
Miss Florence Gerald, a talented young
Texas girl, is starring it through the State in a
drama of her own composition. She is* meeting
hearty receptions everywhere and giving gen-
eral satifaction. Miss Gerald is a daughter of
the county judge of McLennan count}*, and
feas long been known as a young lady of rare
ability. She will be in Galveston before the
Season expires.
TbE World confesses " the real facts'' when
ft says: "One year ago the Democratic party
and the Half-breed Republicans together de-
feated the Stalwart Republicans by a plurality
of 192,000 votes in the State of New York.*'
Certain papers called it a Democratic party
victory a year ago. The News called it a pop-
ular victory. The real facts usually assert
themselves in the long run.
Give the tramps a bit of a chance. Poor
Human Nature, in yesterday's News, acted a
humane and manly part in standing by the
fraternity. No one is disposed to question the
vigilance or efficiency of the police of this city,
but there are some quite prominent law-break-
el's iu Galveston who might divide with the
tramp a share of police attention. The tramp
doubtless requires looking after, but he should
not absorb the entire energy of the force.
A young mau writes to The News, asking
what he shall do to become a practical machin-
ist. He wishe3|j>to find a school in which he
can learn. If there are any schools in America
in which turning and fitting are taught, it is
safe to say those branches of industry are no-
where so practically taught as in a machine-
shop. Let the aspirant seek employment in
such a shop, where he will be sure to learn
practically, and where he can doubtless get
remunerated for his services.
The Philadelphia Telegraph, a Republican
and protectionist paper, argues that the elec-
tion of Mr. Randall would be what the Repub-
licans would not like, for they hope to win on
any tariff contest. They are sure of it. So
sure that they benevolently advise the Demo-
crats to take Randall and so avoid it. This
thing of taking up a Republican policy for the
Democracy in order to avoid being beaten is
too much like eating a mouthful of mud in
order to escape the threat of having to swal-
low a handful of dirt.
It would not take much jto convince some
New York Democrats that recent misfortunes
were concealed blessings. Disappointed office-
seekers are not the hopeful ones, but the World
reasons that the late election will add to Presi-
dent Arthur's chances of receiving a presideu-
tial nomination, and at this Democrats are
called upon to rejoice. Well, perhaps they
will, because worse men than Mr. Arthur
might be elected; but would not the Democrats
really prefer to wrestle with some candidate
less assured of the whole power of the Federal
patronage to aid in his election ?
It is estimated by an ingenious protectionist
organ that substantially all the Republicans
and one-third of the Democrats are protection-
ists. How wrong, therefore, for the anti-pro-
tection Democrats to take an anti-protection
speaker. That is not majority rule, says the
organ. The News would say, in reply, that
if the protectionists are the majority, and if
they are honest enough to unite as a party—
to be content with having one party, without
taking charge of both; to be satisfied with rid-
ing their own steed, without seeking to carry
their hydra development into leg perform ances
by throwing a leg across the back of the Demo-
cratic charger and seeking to force the free-
trade Democratic party to go afoot—they, the
protectionists as a majority, are entitled to
el^ct their speaker by their united votes. Y#»s,
the}' are either too suspiciously politic fr>r sym-
pathy . or they are nobody's fools but their
own if they do not elect their speaker. Let
them be a party, if they claim to be one. Let
them stand together as protectionists, take
control aud make the issue, or Quit complain-
ing. They are welcome to their victory, if
they dare to show t heir colors and take it like
men, not like sneaks.
The American army amounts to nothing
more than a frontier police force, therefore
the New York Tribune's rejoicing that "the
strength of Republican institutions is fairly
shown in the unconcerned manner with which
the public regard the transfer of the command
of the army,*' is far-fetched. The strength of
American institutions lies in the fact that the
people can govern themselves without an army.
The Philadelphia Record, which is usually
level-headed, says of the defeat of Ben Butler
in Massachusetts, that it will operate as a dis-
infectant upon the politics of the country. He
always set what he conceived might be done
before what he knew should be done, cham-
pioning every popular error out of whicfi he
deemed he might derive political advantage.
There are enough insincere and blatant fools
in the Democratic party who, if Butler had
carried Massachusetts a second time, would
have been ready to fling up their caps for him
as a presidential candidate.
Florida hotel-keepers are figuring on a hun-
dred thousand Northern appetites this winter.
Texas hotel-keepers have only to see that
their accommodations are first-class and duly
made known in order to be able to figure upon
all the guests they can feed and lodge. The
fruition of their plans may not come in a sin-
gle year, but nature has done its part, and
where enterprise has prepared the necessary
comfort, the Results of entertaining a few visi-
tors and making attractions known will soon
be apparent. The visitors are certainly com-
ing. Galveston is fully prepared for the rush.
The war of the pulpit upon the stage is a
very old one, but it has resulted in no victories
for the former since the reformation closed the
English theater and made the actors vaga-
bonds. The triumph has really been with the
stage, for it has grown in popularity with a
steadiness which should fill moralists with de-
spair if they really believed it to be as perni-
cious and demoralizing as its opponents so fre-
quently declared it to be. lihe Rev. Dr. Cuyler
has been taking his tilt against the stage. Will
he please say whether he is prepared to abolish
printing because there are some books that are
not nice?
Mahone is not the right man to raise the
bloody shirt aloft as a political battle-flag.
He and his coterie, who have since led the
Readjuster movement, represented, as Demo-
cratic leaders, the element that was most per-
sistent in keeping race issues and race an-
tagonisms prominent in Virginia politics. As
the St. Louis Post-Dispatch says in an able
article:
The first acts of violence committed in the cam-
paign were against negroes who dared to come out
for straight Republican or Democratic candidates.
The most provoking taunts, the loudest bravado, the
fiercest threats poured in torrents from the Mahone
side. In his own town the only disturbance at the
polls was created by Mahon« himself, and the only
person who arew a pistol at the polls was his son.
3Ialione?s sou was fined $15 for drawing a pistol.
It is again reported in New York, as will
be seen this morning from The News special
from that point, that the St. Louis and Sau
Francisco railroad is about to be put under
construction to Paris, Texas, there to connect
with the Houston and Texas Central railroad
and the Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe, when
the latter extends its line from Dallas to Paris.
This information is of considerable importance
to the people of a large section of Texas. When
deep water is obtained at Galveston, the Indian
Territory will be crossed at different points by
railroads from the west seeking an outlet on
the gulf. The opening of the territory, among
other things, is a foregone conclusion in such
a contingency as that of securing deep water
here.
Lord Salisbury, for the British Conserva-
tives, makes a bid for popularity by a review
article describing the pauperism and squalor
in which many laboring people of London are
living, and proposing that the State shall come
to their relief, making direct appropriations
for the erection of workingmen's dwellings in
the suburbs. The Liberals do not like this new
departure toward socialism and paternalism, but
seem convinced that they will have to follow
in the course marked out. What is sauce for
Ireland should be sauce for England, if the
conditions are the same. Salisbury, of course,
wants to save the horrible entailed land system
and aristocracy of Great Britain, and will dip
into socialism to some extent rattier than wel-
come natural reforms which would sweep away
the mighty class privileges for which he speaks.
Danville, Ya., where the riots recently
took place, is a thriving tobacco depot in the
south-middle part pf the State, near the North
Carolina line. The address of its merchants
and manufacturers, recently published, shows
its affairs, under the rule of an insolent negro
mob, to be in a terrible condition. The Pitts-
burgh Post savs that any such outrages and
robberies in a Western to wn would be followed
by the speedy application of lynch law. There
is a negro majority in the town; they hold all
the offices, but pay hardly any taxes, while the
great bulk is collected from whites to be squan-
dered by the blacks. White women are sub-
jected to insult when they appear on the
strei-ts, aud the public buildings, markets and
reet-ways become the lounging places of hun-
dreds of idle negroes from the >urrounding
country. Stealiug is unchecked, and the busi-
ness of the town largely aiTeeted.
DEMOCRACY, CONSERVATISM AND
REFORM.
Si I can not tell you how profoundly I wish
that I had position and influence which would
enable me to impress these great doctrines on
the American people." Such is the sentiment
with which Hon. Johu K. Reagan concludes
a letter to General John M. Claiborne, chair-
man of the state Democratic committee of
Texas, in reply to a letter of inquiry received
from the latter. There can be no question,
from the language and tenor of this deliberate,
yet bold and incisive, deliverance of Mr.
Reagan, that he is as earnest as he is
outspoken. The fact is noteworthy, for it
is a fact of no slight significance, that
Chairman Claiborne commends the letter
of Mr. Reagan to The News for publication
with the former's indorsement and the in-
dorsement of "alltrue Democrats" with whom
he has talked. The words of Chairman Clai-
borne are: " I herewith hand you his reply,
with my indorsement and that of all true De
mocrats with whom I have talked. I would
like to see it published, so that those who run
may read the truths contained therein." On
the whole it would seeiu fair to assume, until
the contrary is shown, that the congressman
and the chairman in this case voice the general
sentiment of the Texas Democracy. This im-
plies that, in the opinion of the great body of
Texas Democrats," it is essential," as Mr. Reagan
affirms, 4' to the interests of the Democracy*, to
the welfare of the people, and to the perpetuity
of our republican form of government, that our
party should reprobate and treat with scorn
the idea that elections are to be controlled by
money and the public policy shaped in the in-
terest of money." It also implies that, in the
opinion of these Democratic citizens of Texas,
" the use of money in popular elections de-
bauches and degrades the people, makes them
forget principles, duty and nonor, and utterly
unfits them for self-government." It further
implies that, in the opinion of these citizens, if
the Democracy shall pursue, as it now does in
some parts of the Union, a timid, time-serving,
half-hearted policy, making its principles half
Republican and half Democratic, and shall be
divided between the support of class interests on
the one side and the support of the rights of
the people as against such interests on the
other, " then nothing but defeat, humiliation
and dishonor awaits it, and it had as well re-
gard its mission iu American politics as
ended." Such are the negative features of
what, for convenience and brevity, may be
described as the Reagan Texas Democracy
platform. They refer to unworthy, consider-
ations and vicious practices which must be ex-
pelled from the organization and manage-
ment of the party before it can take on the
moral equipment which can give it enduring
victory aud permanent control of the Federal
government. The positive features of
the platform, features proposing not
reformation of the party, but re-
formatory and constructive measures of
legislation, are substantially such as Mr.
Reagan has indicated in previous utterances.
He adds, however, a proposition to place the
jurisdiction of the Federal courts back to
where it was fixed by the act of Congress of
September 24, ITS'.), "to establish judicial
courts of the United States." This, of course,
squints at a reassertion of state rights against
encroachments of central power through the
Federal judiciary. But the squint is hardly
broader than several which have been given
in the same direction by late deci-
sions of the United States Supreme
Court. Taken altogether, the platform may
be summed up as the old .Jeffersonian doctrine
of equal rights to ail, exclusive privileges to
none, extended in statement with specific ap-
plications to questions of the Lour, subjects of
existing abuse and current problems of reform.
It is not to be questioned that the best thought
of the country is in line with the de-
mand of this platform for the complete
liberation of commerce and industry,
for the abolition of legislative contrivances
for building up class and special interests at
the expense of the general substance, and for
the vindication of the rights of all, the protec-
tion of the interests and the promotion of the
prosperity of all, under a just government and
equal laws. But the best thought of the
country, while prepared to go hereafter with
the Democracy, as defined or represented by
such Democrats as Reagan, Mills, Han-
cock, Coke, and Maxey, of Texas,
in all needful reforms of a specific
and practical character, has no use for
clap-trap generalities about railroad monopo-
lists, bank monopolists, corporate monopolists.
Those who are sincerely bent on correcting
the injustice aud mischief of class legislation
can not consistently commence the work by
preaching a crusade against any class. In fact
to inflame certain classes with a blind and in-
discriminate hostility to other classes, is
exactly the way not to cure tne distemper of
class favoritism and class domination, but
to perpetuate it in new and perhaps more
oppressive and daugerous forms. There can
be, and there has been, strictly speaking, no
constitutional monopoly in this country but
the government of the republic. If there are
corporations with monopoly attributes, they
are in these attributes simply extensions in
particular concrete forms of the abstract and
general monopoly power of the government.
Wherever this power has been abused by un-
just and pernicious legislation, unquestionably
a determined spirit of reform as to
the abuse is in order. But such
a reform, if justly and intelligently
conceived, will not make war upon
private interests and investments legiti-
mately connected with quasi-public corpor-
ations created for important public purposes,
for while such corportions remain in that
mixed private and public character the security
and reasonable prosperity of those private in-
terests and investments must be an indispens-
able condition of their public utility—that is to
say, of their efficiency for the public purposes
for which they were created. For the
rest, there are signs abroad, and
they are daily multiplying, that a
general reformatory sentiment in the country
at large is ready to enlist with the Democracy
in a grand and resistless movement against the
corruptions of Republican rule and the wrongs
and evils of Republican policy. But this senti-
ment can only be enlisted with the clear un -
derstanding and the infallible assurance that
the movement will not mean reaction toward
impossible conditions in the past, but a with-
drawal from courses which are false and per-
nicious, and a change of method and policy in
the line alike of amelioration and progress, and
in the interest alike of true reform and wise
conservatism.
REPUBLICANISM AND DIVINE RIGHT.
Monsignor Capel has been trving to reconcile
republicanism and divine right, but the two
systems refuse to mix at his bidding. " Every
nation," he savs, " has a right to determine its
own form of government: but whether it be
that of a monarchy, an oligarchy, or a repub-
lic, once it is established, then must man obey
for conscience sake, inasmuch as the authority
is of God." This is assertion, not argument.
The government that is established reflects
the authority of those who established it. It
is not a republican or democratic doctrine
that people must obey a monarchy or an oli-
garchy under all circumstances. If it were,
there would be little chance of establishing
republics. It is only necessary to look at
France to see the converse of this proposition.
The royalists are waiting and watching for a
chance to overthrow the republic. If they
succeed, their monarchy will then claim to be
of divine right. But it will be noth-
ing more than a human institution.
That is all that a republic is. If
any form of government were of superhuman
origin and authority it might be deemed that
such would not be the monarchical form,
since the Bible tells how the children of Israel
were allowed to follow their perverse inclina-
tion and have a king, in order that they
might be punished. Nevertheless modern
kings, unable to justify their monopoly in
government by an appeal to reason, claim di-
vine right; but, unable to inform their sub-
jects how they obtained it, they acquiesce in a
style of pleading which accords the same
sanction to all forms of civil authority. De
Chambord was an eccentricity in the modern
world because he claimed divine right in the
more particular sense for his own line, and
not because some sort of government is neces-
sary for public security. But as some sort of
government is necessary, men will invariably
establish it. Hence it is no more relevant to
allege divine right in government than divine
right in dentistry or in the hotel business. The
best government is the cheapest, and that is the
best which attempts nothing that the
people can do better for their own welfare in
their individual capacity and in private asso-
ciations. The day has long passed when the
idea of divine right in kings could be main-
tained with such hollow pretense of argument
as was employed by clerical opponents of the
American revolution. One of them, attempt-
ing to controvert the argument of that great
work of Paine's, the Rights of Man, said,
pertly: "The people have the right to govern
themselves, we are told. Now, who gave
them that right ?" If Mgr. Capel had lived in
those days he would probably have been
talking in a similar strain, and then his
hearers would have heard less of the divine
right of a republic coupled with the divine
right of the opposite system, which employs
bayonets to prevent the people from estab-
lishing a republic. The ideas of one century
are sometimes unthinkable in another. If any
word-chopper were now to ask who gave the
people the right to govern themselves, he
would be laughed at. If several millions
have not certain inherent rights, how can
one family have not only those rights
of self-government but a vast overshadowing
right over the other people? Monarchs may
have quite a strong faith in the divine right,
but they are never without soldiers to guard
against defects in their logic, or rather against
the consequences of such defects. Republics
have no need of soldiers as a force to maintain
the government, nor have they any need of
the doctrine of divine right. The assertion of
the doctrine has always been a method and an
excuse for the exercise of power and the extor-
tion of taxes for some purpose foreign to the
common aud equal protection of *the people.
If there were a system of government by di-
vine right it should be established everywhere,
and it might be expected to prove itself so much
superior to other systems that it would do away
with standing armies. If Mgr. Capel would
preach that the republic is such a system, then
let him combat monarchy, and not contend
that two opposites are both divinely right. Mgr.
Capel is out of his element when he leaves the
task of converting fashionable people from rit-
ualism to Catholicism and tries to expound po-
litical philosophy.
LOOKING AFTER CUSTOMS DUTIES.
Some of the beauties of American protection
are illustrated by the handiness which the
system develops in providing soft places for
the faithful. There is an army of muscular
idlers now engaged in the United States in
looking after the collection of customs duties.
Some have their uses in a regular way, others
in an irregular manner, while many are purely
ornamental, or serve only as living images of
the ill-advised workings of an impolitic system.
They are useful as a whole only as strikers
when an election is up. Free trade would
knock the underpinning from a good deal of
this. Treasury deadheads have become a gen-
eral charge upon the nation. An influential com-
mercial paper of New York presents some cus-
toms collection statistics that speak volumes in
their repetition. From the statistics pre-
sented, it appears there is a custom-house on
duty somewhere in New Jersey which yielded
but 72 cents of revenue in a year. Another, in
Maine, cost $3000 per annum, and yielded
$429; another cost nearly $5000, and yielded
$500. One in the State of New York (Dun-
kirk) cost the government $2192, and brought
to it just $20 70. Beaufort, N. C., cost the
government last year $2194, and yielded the
enormous revenue of $13 S4: and to collect
that required the herculean efforts of seven
officials. The expenses of the custom-house at
Saco, Me, were $607; revenue, $16 10. At
Saluria, Texas, it needed the combined
exertions of eleven men to collect
a little less than $12,000, and their
salaries were considerably in excess of
the income. Again, the expenses of the
Teche (La.) district amounted to $7041, and
the revenue collected $235 86. The revenue
received at St Augustine, Fla., amounted to
5559 75, and it took six stalwart office-holders
to collect it, at a cost of $1765; and so on to
the end of the chapter. The hope is expressed
by the New York Bulletin that the secretary
of the treasury will urge the suppression of the
numerous small and superfluous custom-houses
all along the coast, which appeared to be main-
tained, not so much for the collection of
revenue as to provide sinecures for second or
third-class journeymen politicians. ^ 'If the
congressional districts," remarks the Bulletin,
Ui*iua6 have so ueauLeads quartered ou
the treasury, so he it; but better to transfer
them to the almshouse at once, and thus relieve
the commerce of^he'eountry from the reproach
of maintaining them."
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THE SITUATION IN IOWA.
A correspondent seni3 the following to The
News:
Lampasas. Texas, November 9. 1883.—You have
twice asserted in your editorial columns that the
Republican majority in Iowa is only 2000. You
ought to be better posted. It is 20,000. Will you
have the honesty and manliness to make the cor-
rection publicly? We shall see. James T. Jones.
The News made the assertion that the
majority of the Republican gubernatorial can-
didate in Iowa was only 2000, and.it was correct
in every particular. Mr. Jones is evidently a
Republican, or otherwise the warmth of his
language can not be understood. It is natural
that a Republican in Texas should not have a
good grip on his temper. Biennial political
kickings are not calculated to make a fellow
feel sweet, and a tumble of from 50,000 to
2000 in the Republican stronghold of the
Union is rather inclined to make the average
Republican decidedly sour. The News will
not disregard the communication of Mr.
Jones, iu the hope that a full understanding of
the situation will lessen his animal spirits, and
somewhat curtail the redundancy of his asser-
tion. Instead of the Republicans having a
majority of 20,000, the opposition had a full
majority of 9319 on the legislative ticket,
taken as a whole. The following is the vote
cast for members of the lower House:
Total vote cast for Republican candidates. ..194,699
Total vote cast for opposition candidates .. .203,918
This gives an opposition majority
of 9319 in the State. The only
reason the opposition is not in a majority is
because the different elements failed to fuse all
over the State, and thereby threw away their
chance of success. Sherman was elected gov-
ernor over Kenne by a plurality of about
25,000, and a majority of 2000 over all. Gar-
field carried the State in 1880 by a clear ma-
jority of 44,000. This will show Mr. Jones how
the Republican majority in Iowa has dwindled.
While it can not be asserted that the Demo-
crats have a majority of votes, still the facts
are clear that all the elements opposed to Re-
publicanism in the State polled a full majority
of nearly 10.000 on the direct legislative ticket.
This will make tough smoking for the average
Republican.
STATE PRESS.
What the Interior Papers Say.
The Palestine Advocate publishes a good
write-up of Anderson county, its resources,
towns and business. A population of 6000 is
claimed for Palestine:
The other towns in the county are, Neches, popu-
lation about 200; Elkhart, 200: Douglas, 2."}; Kicka-
poo, 50; Ioni, 25; Tennessee Colony, 200.
The Bryan Pilot prints a bulletin of the
Agricultural and Mechanical college of Texas,
by the chairman of the Faculty, H. H. Din-
widdie, professor of chemistry. He says:
The directors and faculty have continually given
increasing prominency and value to the technical
features of the course, while subordinating the
literary, till the college now honestly claims to be
what its name implies. Practical training in the
arts and sciences is now pressing to the front in
all educational schemes, and the authorities of this
college fully recognize the fact that to them Texas
will look for that kind of education that must
ever be one of the chief factors in the progress and
fortune of a State.
Mr. P. H. Terry no longer sits on the three-
legged stool of the Rockport Transcript.
Hereafter, Mr. Norton Bailey will assist in the
editorial department.
The Nacogdoches News steps out in front
and says:
There is a movement on foot to nationalize
the prohibition question. Do this, and we are for
prohibition—straight, unscratched.
Now let the Houston Age say as much.
San Antonio waterworks seem to be used as
sewers as well as for water supply, with what
effects appears from the following in the Times:
The physician who attended Miss Nanie Cosby,
who died in the First ward, southwest of the Inter-
national depot, of tvphoid-malaria, savs deceased
had been using ditch water, and was also exposed
to the foul effluvia arising from refuse, filth and
garbage deposited in that part of the city.
San Antonio seems to have forgotten the
money it cost her people for a railroad which
was never built to Indianola. and the papers
are now urging a repetition of the experiment
in favor of a road to Rockport. Sau Antonio
should be satisfied with the air-line road to the
seaport of Houston, with the branch to salt
water at Galveston.
The Journal says the result of last week's
municipal election shows evidently that the
whisky element has a bill of sale of Corsicana.
The papers complain of the numbers, vio-
lence and depredations of tramps in most inte-
rior towns.
The Gilmer Mirror makes a discovery of
which others may take advantage, as it is not
patented:
We have'discovered that the man who is forever
makine excuses aud promising to pay for hfs paper
the next time he comes to town is the very snide
who never does pay, nor never intended to pay, and
who.lied when he made his promises.
The newspapers of many interior towns bear
evidence that merchants and others are begin-
ning to realize the importance of advertising.
There has been a marked increase iu the habit.
The Montague Northwest says:
Deep water at Galveston would not only benefit
the city, but would add very much to the growth
and prosperity of the State at large.
The Temple Times now feels like the poor
man at the country frolic:
Several weeks ago the Tribune called attention
to the ignoring: of Temple by the daily press of
Texas. The Galveston* News and the £"ort Worth
Gazette has each a large circulation here, but the
city's prosperity and growth are seldom alluded to
in the columns of these papers.
Blow your own horn, young one, and The
News will echo the strain. "What are you
there for, if not to represent the merits of your
town?
The Fort Worth Trade Review remarks: •
Every morning the day after it is printed that
cyclopedia of the Sonth, The Galveston News.
comes to us teeming with intelligence as fresh as
our local papers. Indeed it is so conducted as to
take the place of many daily papers in the hearts
of those who wish to keep posted as to what is go-
ing on around them, to say nothing of its superior
telegraph facilities.
The Times makes this little mention of a du-
bious honor:
Temple has now attained to the distinction for
which Fort Worth sighed in vain—she has had a
slugging match.
This will make El Paso envious.
The Gilmer Mirror does not flatter in the pic-
ture it prints of Henry Irving the actor.
Being pretty is not Henry's strongest point.
He does better than he looks.
The Gatesville Sun submits a case like that
laid before the lawyer's wife by the old sailor:
We would like to ask The Galveson News a
question. If we publish a li tter from a correspon-
dent, complaining of the annoyances of crying ba-
bies and loud-talking hoodlums at theatrical enter-
tainments. and we make a comment defending the
babies and their mothers (which we did), and our
neighbor, the Advance, comments upon our corre-
spondent's letter, in a similar vein (which it aid), is
that any evidence that tne two papers are engaged
in a controversy upon the"subjeet? How can there
be a controversy when both papers take exactly
the same position?
The Sun forgets that the correspondent, the
babies, their mothers and the loud-talking
hoodlums may be parties to the controversy.
As between the Sun and Advance there seems
to be only peace amid this general complica-
tion.
The Sherman Democrat is no better than one
of the wicked. It perpetrates the following:
For horse-stealing in Coleman county, Rev. An-
drew Nail will, for the next five years, have to do
his preaching and praying inside the penitentiary
wall. The congregation will please rise and sing:
Am I a traitor to the cross,
A lover of roast lamb.
And shall I fear to steal a horse
Or blush to ride the same?
The San Marcos Free Press tells of a clock
which is a fellow to the famous one of Colonel
Mulberry Sellers:
Billy Reed gives a rather marvelous story of a
clock at Major Standifer's. It is thirty years old,
and had been silent for eight years, until a few
days siuce it suddenly wakened up and struck 180
without stopping. ^
TheMexia Ledger, in its fashion report, says:
Mother Hubbard breeches are all the rage in
Mexia. The Ledger has a typo who wears them.
Of distinguished travelers the Ledger says:
Major-general George S. McAfee, the arctic ex-
plorer and tj*pographieal artist, spent a week in the
Ledger office this week. He is on his way to Kanit-
scliatka and the Fiji islands..
Carrying a pistol ana killing another with a
horn are taxed [alike to Mexia colored men.
The Ledger says:
Thomas Thomas, colored, who was tried at
Groesbeeck this week for t%e killing of Elijah
Caavis with a horn a year or two ago. pleaded guilty,
and was fined
People who detest brass bands have all
along'regarded the horn as a homicidal instru-
ment, and will be disgusted with the announce-
ment that it costs only $25 to kill a man with
one. Whether under the influence of this de-
cision or not does not appear, but the Leader
says:
The musical talent of Mexia has lately awaked
from its dormant state and burst forth in the
shape of a full-fledged and first-class brass band.
In view of the approach of Thanksgiving
Day the Navasota Tablet says to its patrons:
"Coop your turkeys." Don't do it. They
will be less accessible to the editor in the tree-
tops. •
The pro tern, of the Ledger claims to be an
old friend of the editor of the Age, but is a
little too familiar in his way of saying so:
I knew Uncle Dan in 1S<20 when he was a member
of the Arkansas legislature. He was a distinguish-
ed leader in that body; I remember well his opoosi-
tion to the purchase of Louisiana in 1S0:3, and to
Clay's Missouri Compromise bill. His speeches
made in that legislature in opposition to a high
tariff ami the sub-treasury bill, printed in the Con-
gressional Giobe, monument his statesmanship.
One of these days Uncle D. will lose his pa-
tience.
The Burnet Bulletin consoles defeated candi-
dates by saying:
Another consolation in being defeated for office
is, you don't have to give bond for remaining in
private life.
Sometimes it is easier to be elected to an
oiTi^e than to make a good of^ciai bond.
Ih* iencemen, not satisfied with shutting
small farmers and stockmen in or out, are now
beginning to take in towns. The Tilden Ledger
mentions a movement to run a fence from L
S. Malone's pasture, west of town one mile, to
a point on Mr. Byrne's pasture fence, east of
town, which will nearly incircle the town, and
says:
The gaps on the opposite side of the river will at
once be closed up. and when that is done will seal
the fate of the town. We know of no cause ex-
i -ting to justify such measures, and hope the citi-
zens owniug "property here will give it due con-
sideration and see if they can not protect their in-
terests in some way rather than fence up the town.
The Ledger looks upon land monopoly as the
greatest evil to Western Texas:
One great mistake is in permittiug vast amounts
of territory to fall into the hands of one or two
who fence* not only what they purchase but various
other small tracts"which are owned by the State or
small stockmen.
The Ledger says:
If the legislature would pass a law to force any
and all pasture men, company or companies to
turnout of their inclosure all lands they do not
own or control, and prohibit the fencing of any
public road to or from one court-house to another,
the fence troubles would end. We have heard sev-
eral remark that there will be some fence-cutting
indulged in here if the town is inclosed. We hope,
however, this may not be the resuit.
44 Rough on rats" is also rough on other an-
imals. Tha Navasota Tablet says:
Dr. g. B. Beaumont has been trying to exterminate
rats around his place and has been in the habit of
placing in his stable a poison called "rou_'h on rats."
The poison was mixed with meal brand and ar-
senic and placed under the horse trough. On go-
ing to his stable Tuesday moruing he found to his
great astonishment, bis favorite saddle animal
dead, and upon examination discovered that the
horse had been killed from eating the ''rough on
rats."
The Tyler Democrat and Reporter is one of
the largest weeklies of the State, nine columns
to the page, yet its advertising custom has so
increased as to make a 24-column supplement
necessary. The D. and R. is an enterprising
as well as a sensible and substantial paper.
" I pity an unlearned gentleman on a rainy
day," said an old English author. An editor
with a table full of Texas exchanges is never
happier than on a rainy day, wh<*li he is free
from interruptions. He is not only relieved of
the sense of solitude, but feels that he is in
good company and surrounded by his best
friends.
TEXAS PRESBYTERIANS.
THia*sr-TaiRr> ANNUAL SES-
sion or THE TEXAS PHES"
EYTSaiAN SVITOD.
Austin College—Homo Missions—Bel"
ton the Next Place of IVIeeting—
Profitable Session — Synod Senti-
ments, 2tc.
[Special Correspondence of The News.l
Victoria. November 11.—The thirty-third annual
session of the Texas Presbyterian synod met in the
Presbyterian church in this city on the 7th insL
The session was opened by a sermon from the mod-
erator. Rev. S. M. Luckett: text. Luke xxiv. 49.
The stated clerk. Rev, R. F. Bunting, being ab-
sent. elder James Sorley, of Galveston, was re-
quested to call the roll. The following gentlemen
were found present:
Presbytery of the Brazos—Ministers J. W. Miller,
D. D.; E. D. Judkin, D. D.; D. M, McGregor, H.
C. Smith, M. McFeaters. Churches—James Sorley,
Galveston: James Sloan. Washington.
Central Presbytery—Ministers, S. A. King, D. D.;
H. Moseley, C. H. Dobbs, L. Tennev. C. W. Peyton,
M. C. Hutton, J. H. Zineley, J. Ml Cochran, Thos.
McHutcheon. A. S. Dark. Churches—Hugn Wilson,
by R. H. Flanniken, Unity; W. E.Young, Cam-
eron; W. D. Paden.
Presbytery of Dallas—Ministers, Johu S. Moore,
D. D.: E. P."Palmer, D. D.; R. S. Burwell, C. 8. M.
Se*>. Churches—James P. Senny, of McKinnev.
Presbytery of Eastern Texas—Ministers, S. M.
Luckett. S. F. Tenney, W. R. McLel:and, W. K.
Marshall. D. D.
Paris Presbytery—Ministers. W. N. Dickey, West-
ern Texas Presbytery: J. R. Jacob. Joseph us John-
son. J. M Connelly. W. E. Caldwell. J N. McCain.
P. H. Housley. W. M. Kilpatrick. Churches—Rector
chapel.by J E. Wiseman; Luiing. W. F. Shanklin;
Victoria, T. R. Cook; Cuero, Miles S. Benuett;
Waelder. S. W. McMillan; Thomaston, J. D. Ander-
son; Gonzales, T. S. Walker.
The next business in order being the election of
moderator, Rev. J. S. Moore. D. D., of the Dallas
presbytery, was elected moderator, and Rev. D.
McGregor, of the Brazos presbytery, was elected
temporary stated clerk: Elder James Sorley, of
the Brazos presbytery, was chosen as temporary
clerk; and Rev. S. A. King. D. D., of the Central
Dresbytery, was selected as readinsr clerk.
The synod then adjourned till 9 o'clock Thursday
morning.
As per adjournment on Wednesday, the synod met
promptly at 9 o'clock Thursday morning, and, after
devotional exercises, was called to order by the
moderator. The roll being called, a quorum was
found present.after which the minutes of preceding
day's proceedings were read and approved.
Upon call,reasons for absence from the last meet-
ing of the synod were offered by various brethren.all
of which were sustained. The minutes of the last
session of the synod were read and approved, after
correcting error in amount received for the Austin
collese to $22&>. The moderator then announced
standing committees:
Various matters from the different presbyteries
were then referred to proper committee*.
Rev. D. A. McRae. of the North Carolina synod,
was invited to sit as a correspond in g member.
Narratives were received from the Brazos, East-
ern. Central, Western, Dallas and Paris presby-
teries: received and referred: Resolutions were
then called for and also referred.
Committees to report on legal relations between
board of trustees of the Austin college aud synod,
was continued to next meeting of the syuod.
The moderator here announced committee on
devotional exercises.
Rev. E. P Palmer, D. D., presented his report as
president and financial agent of Austin college,
which was referred to committee on Austin col-
lege.
Dr. A. P. Smith, through Dr. E. P. Palmer, gave
reason for absence from the present session, which
was sustained.
The followinsr resolution was adopted:
Resolved, that the time, place and manner for
hearing committees of the synod be referred to the
committee on devotional exercises and to the mod-
erator.
The selection of next place of meeting being in
order, Beiton. Sulpher Springs and Crockett were
placed before the svnod. Beiton receiving the
largest number of votes, was declared to be the
next place of meeting.
Recess was then taken till 3 p. m.
The evening session being called to order. Dr.
Marshall submitted a report of the directors of the
Southwestern University, Clarksville. Tenn., with
an accompanying letter from the board of direc-
tors of the Southwestern University, which was, on
motion, approved, and the dilligeuce of the direc-
tors commended, and that the communication of
the directors be considered satisfactory.
On motion, Rev. Dr. Marshall was re-elected a
director of the Southwestern Presbyterian Univer-
sity for the next two years.
On motion, the standing rule was suspended, and
Wednesday, October 29, 1SS4, was fixed as the day
for the next meeting of the synod.
The committee on devotional exercises reported,
in part, which was adopted.
Rev. S. F. Tenney offered resolutions on the sub-
ject of co-operation with the Texas Synod North,
in church work iu Texas.
Just at this juncture of the proceedings Rev.
John A. McBaiu, of the West Texas Presbytery,
appeared, was enrolled, and stated his reasons for
tardiness, which were sustained.
On motion the entire subject matter was referred
to a special committee of five, to report as early as
possible. Appointment of the committee was de-
ferred.
A lengthy memorial was presented by Rev. R. S.
Burwell on Rev. H. McDonald. The late Rev H.
McDonald was born on the eastern shore of Marv
land, August 10, 181G. His father, Win. McDonald,
died when he was about eight years of aee, leaving
a wife and three sons. He was licensed to preach
the gospel, by the Presbvtery of MississipDi,
at Pine Ridge, on September 21, 1839. The
memorial contains many interesting facts concern-
ins the ups and downs of this noble man of God,
and his usefulness was brought to a sudden end
while he was engaged in preparing a sermon on
the resurrection. It is said that he dropped his pen
in the middle of a sentence, to resume it no more.
He was a deep thinner, eloquent writer, and excel-
led in historical sketches. Writing to Rev. Daniel
McNair, from the place and room which proved to
be the last study he ever occupied, he said: 441
employ my day in close and constant study. I
brought with me my Hebrew Bible, Greek Testa-
ment, Septuagint, Greek and Hebrew lexicons and
Greek Concordance. 1 am sufficiently familiar
with the Greek Testament to read easily, with very
little reference to the lexicon, though I lind it
profitable to refer to the lexicon iu order to
find the philology of some particular word.
It is more laborious to read the Hebrew Bible and
requires more laborious reference to the lexicon.
But these studies in the original are exceediuglv
proritable and the source of intense pleasure, and
the most exquisite happiness, I can with truth af-
firm. Thy u ord is the rejoicingor my heart, iu the
house of my pilgrimage: sweater to inv taste than
honey; more precious than thousands of'gold and
silver. He died in Mississippi at his son-in-law's,
Mr. Jas. Jenkins. 31 arch. without a strnggle,
or even seeming pain, iu the arms of his only child.
The memorial was ordered by a rising vote to be
spread in full upon the minutes.
Committee on records of the Western presbytery
of Texas reported and recommend approval as far
as written.
Various reports upon minor matters were heard,
after which the synod adjourned till 9 a. m. Friday.
Friday morning, pursuant to adjournment, the
synod met, and the usual devotional exercises were
engagad in.
After the roll-call the minutes of previous meet-
ing were read, corrected and approved. On motion
ir. was added that a memorial page be assigned on
the record book in memory of the late Rev. H.
McDonald.
A motion prevailed to reconsider the action had
yesterday fixing the time of next meeting of
synod, and the time was changed to Thursday,
October 30, 1.S84, at 11 a. m.
The committee on records, of Paris Presbytery,
reported with au exception, which, after discus-
sion. was stricken out, aud the report adopted ap-
proving the minutes.
The order of the day was taken up, and a report
on the subject of tho education of candidates for
the ministry was made by Rev. E. P. Palmer, D. D.
A recess was theu taken till 2:30 p. m.
The evening session was devoted mainly to a con-
tinuation of the same discussion upon ministerial
education. Dr. Palmer's report on the subject
was approved. •
A committee on the minutes of the General As-
sembly was reported, and report adopted.
A letter from Rev. Dr. K. F. Buuting, stated
clerk, expressive of regret for absence, was read,
and reasons sustained.
Rev. W. N. Scott, of Galveston, also made a writ-
ten excuse for non-attendance, which was sus-
tained.
Committee on Austin College (named after Ste-
phen F. Austin, and is located at Sherman) made a
report which elicited free discussion.
Recess was takeu till 7:15 p.m. The report on
home missions was taken up ana warmly discussed.
Rev. C. H. D -bbs, Waco, read an interesting report
on the evangelistic work. In his remarks he spoke
of the great good to be accomplished bj* judicious
management. Lis particular work is to organize
churches and collect money to advance the cause
in the State. He said that the Paris presbytery
employed one evangelist for his entire time, whose
labors had been greatly blessed. He said that, if
the church is to retain life, this part of our work
must be looked after with the utmost diligence.
Persons coming to the State and finding no Presby-
terian church, fall in with other denominations.
He urged the necessity of the brethren holding
prayer-meetings in order to keep together, where
there were no church organizations to which they
could attach themselves. He wanted all Presbyte-
rians who lived in towns where the Presbyterians
had no church organization to frankly go to the Bap-
tist and Methodist brethren and tell them they would
cheerfully co-operate with them in every good word
and work, yet at the same time they wanted it to
be known that they were Presbyterians. Dr. Moore,
Rev. Dr. Junkin, of Houston, Rev. Mr. Cochran and
others made stirring speeches on the subject of
home missions. During the eveniug session some
of the speakers alluded to the great work being
accomplished in Texas by the Baptist und Metho-
dist denominations, aud urged the Presbyterians to
be up and bestir themselves everywhere. The
audience contributed $100 for the home missionary
cause.
Saturday morning the synod met at the usual
hour, aud the usual preliminary exercises having
been gone through with, the Rev. W. B. Rankin. Jt
rhe srnnd of Texas (North\ being present, was in-
vited to sit as a corresponding member.
Various committee reports were heard and
adopted. The committee appointed to consider
the resolution offered by Rev. S. F. T*nney upon
the subject of co-operaiion of this synod with the
Syuod of Texas (North), reported as follows:
1. Your committee to whom were referred the
p*per of Rev. 8. F Tenney would respectfully
report that we can not rt»commeod the appoint-
ment of a oommitiee to confer with the home mis-
sion committee of the Synod of Texas (Northern),
concerning tne various mitt^rs suggested in the
pai>er. for the reason that such a courae would be
unusual, and w© think improper, for the fact that
their committee has beeu appointed for no such
purpose, and would be clothed with no authority in
the premises.
2. We can not recommend the reference to any
committee, however regularly appointei. of any
proposal looking to the joint control of Austin
college, for the reason that the whole administra-
tion of the affairs of Austin college has been en-
trusted to a board of trustees and they have not
suggested their desire or need of assistance in the
mauner indicated, in building up the institution
that has been placed solely in their charge, and we
do nut thiiHc the svnod should seek to relieve them of
any portion of their burden and responsibility uutil
they request it at our bauds.
3. As to the matter of home missions, we
cau not recommend the appointment of a
synodical committee to comer with a com-
mittee of the other synoo. for the reason
that a committee of our assembly, in a recent
conference with a committee of the other assem-
bly has agreed to a concurrent resolution concern-
ing the adjustment of the home mission work, and
this will be reported to and acted on by our highest
court some months before any action could be
taken by the synod.
4. As to the remaining items of the paper we
unanimously recommend that this synod appoint a
committee of three ministers and two ruling eltlers
who shall confer with a similar committee of the
other syuod. should sUch be appointed, as to co-
operation in the work of giving the Gospel to the
colored peoole in Texas, and as to the establishment
of an institution of learning, under j int control,
for the education of the colored people within the
bounds of the two synods, paving regard especially
to the training of christian teachers and preachers.
The balance of the morning was spent in adopt-
ing and referring minor committee reports. One
of the reports adopted was to the effect that the
•JJth instant be sec apart as a special day for
thanksgiving and praver.
The committee on Austin college made a report,
which elicited quite a discussion. The report says:
The synod is gratified to learn that the scholastic
affairs of the college have been so encouraging
during the past year. Ir Is a matter of great re-
gret *hat rlie effort begun at our last meeting, at
Weatherford, and so earnestly commended to the
churches, has not been entirely successful in re-
moving the debt, and that the yearly income from
all sources is nor enough to meet the current ex-
penses. The synod is impressed with the necessity
of having in our bounds a college of the very high-
est grade, <n order that the proper christian edu-
cation or our sons. and especial lv to*the supply of
ministers for our large aud increasingly important
territory, and we reiterate what has so*often been
expressed—we must sustain our college; we can
not afford to let it pass out out of our hands. We
therefore most earnestly recommend the trustees
to use all proner efforts not only to be relieved, as
soon as possible, of the debt, but also to secure
such pecuniary aid as will enable them to secure
the very best professors and put the college on a
firm and permanent basis. Believing that for the
coming three years they can secure sufficient funds
to meet all current expenses and relieve the col-
lege of debt, the problem will be solved. We recom-
mend the trustees to adopt some plan by which
subscriptions for small amounts, to«be paid an-
nually for three years, will be obtained in all the
churches. The report further suggests that the
synod appoint, a*committee to prepare an address
to the churches giving them the facts concerning
the plans, etc., necessary for the successful accom-
plishment of the work The committee recom-
mended the appointment of the following persons
to fill claps second in the Board of Trustees, the
term of which expires at this nieetmg of the syuod:
Rev. E. D Junkin, General John S. Besser, C. N.
Roberts, Esq., Rev. D. 3IcGregor and Rev. W. N.
Scott.
At the evening session the report of the committee
on Austin college was taken up, discussed and
adopted, and the following appointed the commit-
ter to prepare an address: Rev. S. M. Luckett, Rev.
A. S. Doak and Elder T R. Cocke.
The committee report on publication, after sev-
eral addresses, was adopted.
Rev. W. B. Rankin, general agent of the Ameri-
can Bible society, addressed the synod on behalf of
that society, when, on motion, a committee, con-
sisting of i.'evs. L. Tenney, H. C. Smith aud Elder
W. T. Shanklin, was appoiuted to prepare a suitable
paoer on the subject.
The moderator announced the following confer-
ence committee on education and evangelization of
colored people in Texas: Revs. S. F. Tenney. S. M.
Luckett, E. D. Junkin, Elders H. E. Henning and
James Collins.
The committee in reference to the agent of the
American Bible society made the following report,
which was adopted:
The synod has heard with pleasure the state-
ments of Rev. W. B. Rankin. D. D , bible superin-
tendent, concerning the work of the American
Bible society in Texas, and concerning the general
work of the society. Regarding the distribution of
the Scriptures as one of the most important and
effective meaus of building up the kingdom of
Christ in the world, we cordially and earnestly
commend the society to the praj-ers aud benefac-
tions of our churches.
a vote of thanks was passed expressive of appre-
ciation of the hospitality displayed on the part of
the citizens of Victoria to the synod.
The Rev. M. C. Ilutton, of Cameron, preached an
interesting sermon Saturday night, after which the
synod resumed its business.
After the discussion of various matters, the synod
adjourned to meet at Beiton, Thursdav, October
30. 18S4. at 11 a. m.
The following hymn was sung by the synod and
audience, after which the synod was adjourned
with prayer and the benediction by the moderator:
Blest be the tie that binds
Our christian hearts in love:
The fellowship of kindred minds
Is like to that above.
When we asunder part.
It gives us inwanl pain;
But we sbali still be joined in hear*
And hope to meet again
SYNOD SENTIMENTS.
" The type of piety that is to be shaped in the
future in this State will depend much upon what
we shall do, as a denomination, in the premises.
The Germans are fast settling up the country,
bringing their infidel ideas and doctrines, which
we must refute, and we must meet them with the
gospel." Such was the language used by a brother
in a speech Friday night.
Rev. Mr. Cochran, former pastor of the Victoria
church, made a soul stirring speech Friday night.
He wanted the children properly trained, taught
and cared for. The little ones would have to take
the places of the older ones, and they should be
prepared for the work. He touchinglvsaid: These,
when you are sle-ping in the tomb, will plant
sweet flowers on your grave.
Sowing the seed with an aching heart.
Sowing the seed while the tear-drops start;
Sowing in hope till the reapers come
Gladly to gather the harvest home.
Oh, what shall the harvest be?
Oh, what shall the harvest be?
The above song was sung by the choir when a
collection was being lifted for the missionary cause.
Rev. D. A. McRae is pastor of the St. Augustine
church. This is the oldest Presbyterian church in
the State. It was organized in 1S38.
It is the custom of this synod to elect each year a
new moderator and clerk. The stated clerk, how-
ever. holds his office indefinitely.
The Rev. J. W. Miller, D. D., now of Washington
couuty, is the oldest member of the Brazos presby-
tery, and of the synod of Texas, having labored in
Texas as missionary prior to the annexation of
Texas: that is, in the republic of Texas.
The present institution of learning, Austin col-
lege, now located at Sherman, was chartered in
1S-19 and was then located at Huntsville. The epi-
demics of 1867 finished what the war begun, and
made it necessary to change its location, which
was done in 1870. Mr. Bartlett. photographer,
took a photograph of the syuod Saturday noon.
The synod assembled on the outside of the church
and had their pictures taken standing.
Rev. John S. Moore, D. D., moderator of the
synod, belonged to Hood's brigade in the army of
North Virgina; was wounded in the battle of Seven
Pines; was at ChancellorsvilJe when Stonewall
Jackson was killed; was also at the battle of
Gettysburg, where he was wounded, and remained
on the battle field six weeks.
The synod of Texas consists of six presbyteries:
Brazos, Central Texas, Dallas, Eastern Texas, Paris
and Western Texas.
The presbytery of Brazos is the oldst of these six,
at one time covering the entire State, and out of it
all the others have sprung.
The Houston Presbyterian church is next to the
oldest Presbyterian church in the State.
The absence of Rev. R. F. Bunting. D. D., stated
clerk for many years of this synod, was greatly
regretted. Dr. Buuting has been a Texan over
thirty years, and is well known as the efficient and
faithful chaplin of the Terry Rangers during the
entire late uupleasantness.
Dr. Moore, moderator of the synod, was origi-
nally from West Alabama. He has been a resident
of Texas fourteen years.
This synod has churches as far west as Colorado
City aud Laredo. There are six presbyteries in this
synod and 190 churches, aud the membership is
estimated to be between «000and 8000.
Rev. L. Tenney. editor of the Texas Presbyterian,
is another old landmark of the synod of Texas.
Mr. James Sorley, of Galveston, is known as one
of the most energetic members of the Presbyterian
church. As clerk of the svnod he is first class,
alwaj-s on the alert, and never fails to make the
brethern hand in their reports. He gave your re-
porter valuable assistance during the session of the
synod, for which he has our thanks.
All of the churches in the city were occupied dur
ing the Sabbath by the visiting Presbyterian min-
isters.
A missionary mass meeting was held at the Pres-
byterian church at 3 p. m. to-day, and speeches
were made by a number of prominent ministers.
The ministers all leave for their respective homes
on the early trains to-morrow morning. v. c. h.
Letter from G-rapeland*
TTo The News.]
Grapelaxd, November 10,1S83.—Grapeland
is situated in Houston county, twelve miles
north of Crockett and twenty-one miles south
of Palestine, on the dividing ridge between the
Trinity and Neches rivei-s. The land here is
sandy, commonly known as the sand flats, very
productive, and very cheap. The usual crops
are corn, cotton, potatoes, vegetables of all
descriptions, peaches, plums, apples, pears—all
of which do well and grow to perfection. A
great deal of ribbon-cane is now being raised
in this vicinity, which produces well, and aids
the honest granger considerably toward settling
up at the end of the year. There are four
general dry goods stores here, one grocery and
saloon, one saloon, one barber-shop—whenever
the barber is at home—one family grocery and
drug-store, one doctor and about a dozen loaf-
ers. There is a good free school, taught by
Miss Mollie Moore, of Crockett. There is only
one church building, which is used by all de-
nominations, and we have preaching of some
kind every Sunday; also a good, nourishing
and well attended Sunday-school. A better
community can not be found in the State, and
emigrants seeking homes would do well to call
on us, as there is plenty of room here, and
lands as cheap as dirt.
The people here are tariff for revenue only,
and sustain Judge Reagan and Colonel Maxey
in the noble aud manly stand they are taking
in the support of these principles. Judge
Pceagan is held in high esteem by his consti-
tuents here, aud when the time conies they will
take a great dilight in revoting him again into
Congress. Knowing his true and sterling
worth, we always feel safe when he is in his
seat at Washington. Oakhorn.
The Zona Libra.
lTo The News.l
Laredo, November 10, 1SS3. — The Zona
Libra (free zone) extends from the mouth of
the Rio Grande and takes in the entire frontier
of Tamaulipas to Nuevo Laredo. It was estab-
lished about 1850, the policy of the Mexican
government being to build up important towns
on this frontier, bus more especially to quiet
and satisfy the demands of the State of Tamau-
lipas.
Matamoros, opposite Brownsville, under the
general effects of free trade, immediately es-
tablished a trade that continued to grow until
the advent of railroads at Laredo, Texas, made
the free-trade city of New Laredo the most im-
portant point in the republic.
It is now the depot for all European goods,
and houses from many interior cities have
branches in New Laredo, where thev hold
large quantities of merchandise in stock until
sales are mftde to the interior trade.
American coods cannot be sold as cheaply as
in Laredo. Texas, because of inspection and
municipal dues collected in New Laredo. The
natural conclusion is that these two towns are
free-trade, one for European and the other
for American goods, and that Ameri-
can ^ goods would be on the same
footing as the European; but as the American
market can not compete with Europe, the re-
sult is practically to drive out American
foods from Mexico. Wereas, if the free zone
id not exist the American goods would soon
take the place of its rivals, bemuse the Ameri-
can market would establish depots of -supply
on the Rio Grande where goods could be Yield
without the payment of duties until sold to
the Mexican cotisumer; and European goods
could not pay duties in advance or hold in
bond, and compete in prices with American
goods. Unless the writer is at fault in the
above statement, it is apparent that the
L"nited States is not one of the most favored
nations in its treaty with Mexico.
_ Frontier.
DEMOCRATIC P&IITCIPLiISS.
Hon. John Heagan to the Chair-
man of tho State Democratic Com-
mittee.
[To The News.l
Galveston". November 12, 1SS3.—Some days
since, believing that Hon. John H. Reagau
was the personification of the two principles
of the great party of principles and of a na-
tional character, I indited him an epiftle with
several queries, and I herewith hand you his
reply, with my indorsemeut, aud that of all
true Democrats with whom I have talked. I
would like to see it published so that those who
run may read the truths contained therein.
John M. Claiborne.
PAT.ESTrxE. Tex.. November 11. 18^3 —Gen. Jno.
M. Claiborne. Chairman State Democratic Com-
mittee. Galveston, Texas—D#ar Sir: Your inter-
esting letter of October tJ-ith. was duly received. A
pressure of other engagements has prevented an
earlier answer. The tariff is one of a class of irreafc
questions before the American p»?op!e. Our battle-
cry should be "equal rights to all. exclusive privi-
leges to none, the regulation of corporate and class
Interests so as to protect the people against oppres-
sion and wron^, a tariff for revenue as contradis-
tinguished from a tariff for protection, the regula-
tion of railway corporations by the State and Fed-
eral authorities, within their respective jurisd e-
tions. the abolition of the National banks a-; l auks
of issue, and the substitution of United States
treasury notes for the notes of the banks, free
ships for free commerce, aird a general hostilitv
to all clas3 and special interests." To this I would
add that the present jurisdiction of the Federal
courts should be so restricted as to place it back to
where it was fixed by the act of Congress of Sep-
tember 24th, 17S9. "to e-tablish judicial courts of
the United States." If the Demxiracv of the
States and the Union could be induced to adopt and
maintain these doctrines in their State and Narion-
al platforms and in the selection and election of
candidates to office with unwavering and unfalter-
ing devotion in defeat as well as victory, we should
undoubtedly succeed in preservinff the Constitution
of the United States, an i in sustaining our consti-
tutional form of free popular self-
government, to Mess our own peo-
ple and to cheer and encourage the balance
of the civilized world in the struggle for liberty
and happiness. And I do not doubt that such
principles adopted and fruitfully adhered to would
lead the Democracv to enduring victorv and to the
permanent control of the Federal government
while, on the other hand, if the Democracy shall
continue to pursue, as it now does in some parts of
the Union, a timid, time-serving and half hearted
policy; if it shall make its principles half Republi-
can and half Democratic: if it shall be divided be-
tween the support of a high protective tariff, rail-
road monopolies, national banks aud other class
interests on the one side, and the support of the
rights of the people as against these on the other,
then nothing but defeat, humiliation and dishonor
await it, and it had as well regard its mission in
American politics as ended.
It is esseutial, too, to the interests of Democracy,
to the welfare of the people and to the perpetuity
of our republican form of government, that our
party should reprobate and treat with scorn the
idea that elections are to be controlled by monev
and the public policy shaped in the interest o~f
money. The use of money in popular elections
debauches and degrades the people, makes them
forge, principle, duty and houor, and utterly un-
fits them for self government.
I can not tell you how profoundly I wish that I
had position aud influence which wo'uld enab.e me
to impress these great doctrines on the American
people. Very truly and respectfullv,
jos.n H. Reagan.
Still "Waiting- for Henry Clay
On the streets recently, says tho Cincinnati
Commercial Gazette, one might have seen au
aged gentleman whose hair flowed in white
waves over his shoulders, while his beard was
bushy and long, and his wide-brimuied soft
felt hat and strange garb told that
he was a stranger. He was Judge N.
Banning Norton, from Dallas, Texas, ami
years ago he was a violent \V hig. IV hen Hen rv
Clay made his first great race for the presi-
dency Judge Norton solemnly vowed that he
would never cut his hair until he saw his lead-
er in the White-house. But Henry Clay never
reached the White-house, and consequently for
all those }*ears since 1843 the judge's hair has
been growing and growing, a'ud will still con-
tinue to grow until the hand of death cuts it
short.
An enricher of tihe blood and puriilt r or the svs-
tem; cures lassitude and lack o*f energy; such is
Brown's Iron Bitters.
One hundred thousand Scotchmen catch her-
rings.
n. ii. n.
The Cheapest and llest Medi-
cine for Family t'se in
the World.
Coughs, Colds. Sore Throat, Inflam-
mations Cured and Prevented
By Eadway's Iteady Keller.
Rheumatism. Xtf eui'algia, Headache,
Toothache, Asthma, Difficult
Breathing1 Helievod in a
Few Islinutes by
BADWAY S HEADY RELIEF.
m ^ L n x ^
la Its Various Forms.
FEVER AND AGUE.
ial ag<
will cure Fever anil Ague, aud all other Malarious,
~ ~ "loid. Yell.
ills) so auick as Rauway's
Bilious, Scarlet, Typhoid, Yellow and other fevers
(aided by Radway's Vu
Ready Relief.
Looseness. Diarrhoea, or painful discharges from
the bowels are stopped in lifte>eu or tweuty minutes
by taking Had way's lteady Relief. No congestion
or inflammation, no weakness or lassitude will fol-
low the use of R. R. Relief.
aches and pains.
For headache, whether sick or nervous, tooth
ache, neuralgia, nervousness and sleeplessness
rheumatism, lumbago, pains and weakness in the
back, spine or kidneys, pains arouml the liver,
pleurisy, swelling of the joints, pains in the bowels,
neartburn and pains of ail kinds. Railway's R«ady
Relief will afford immediate ease, and its continued
use for a few days effects a permanent cure. Price,
50 ceuta.
Z)H. 3ADWAY'S
uaiiom nillLLlAi!
The Great Blood Puriiier.
For tho Cure of Chronic Disease, Scro-
fula or Syphilitic, Hereditary
or Coatag-ious,
Chronic Rheumatism, fccrofula. Glandular Swell
ing. Hacking Dry Coujh, Cancerous Ailections,
Syphilitic Comnlaints, Bleeding of the Lungs, Dys-.
pepsia, Water Brash, White Swelling. Tumors. Hip
Diseases, Mercurial Di.-oascs, Female Complaints,
Gout, Dropsy, Bronchitis, Consumption. For the
cure of
SKirJ DISEASES
ERUPTIONS ON THE FACE AS D BODY* -Pi M-
PLES, BLOTCHES, SALT RHEUM. OLD SORES,
ULCERS, Dr. Ra<lira)'s Sar«apa.riliiaii
ISesol vent excels ail remedial agents. It purifies
the blood, restoring health and vigor; clear skin
and beautiful complexions secured to all.
Liver Complaints, Etc.
Not only does the Sarsaparillian Resolvent excel
all remedial agents iu the cure of Chrouic Scrofu-
lous. Constitutional and Skin Diseases, but it is the
ouly positive cure for
KIDNEY and BLADDER COMPLAINTS
Urinary and Womb Diseases, Gravel. Diabetes,
Dropsy, Stoppage of Water. Incontinence of Urine,
Bright's Disease, Albuminuria,and in all cases where
there are brick-dust deposits, or the water is thick,
cloudy, or mixed with substances like the white of
an egg. or threads like white silk, or there is amor-
bid, dark, bilious appearance and white bone-dust:
deposits, and where there is a pricking, burning
sensation when passing water, and pain in the
small of the back and along the loins.
SOLD BY DRUGGISTS. Price, $100 per bottle.
r ^
GERMlNREMEOt
FOR F»AI]\r.
CURES
Rheumatism, Neuralgia, Sciatica,
Lumbago, Backache. Headache. Toothache.
Sore Tkr»at. SwHllnyt, Sprain*, Bruliei,
12urati. Srultit. Frost Bite*.
axd all oth1s bodily fals* a5» al hi8.
Sold bj i>rcg{i»*.a tad ertrrwkert. Flflj C«BU % boitto.
r> rwrf.Mi in 11 L*»s-**•«.
THE CY1ARLE9 A. TOGFLER CO.
fSscMMt.ia. TdorjtaaCO.) Butlatn, li, t.S*4*
T-y
roARRiv:
AND NOW DUE:
300 barrels Clioiee New
Crop Loixisiana MOLASSES.
Send, orders for prompt ship-
ment.
MENS1NG, STRATTON&CO.
Agreeably to tlie exigencies ot tlie times, and specially
regarding the requests of the Manufacturers, we havo
concluded to reduce the prices of MILBURN WAGON
COMPANY'S SPRIXG- WORK to the minimum figure for
the next Thirty Days, with a view of enabling such of
our* friends as wish to avail themselves of the opportu-
nity to supply a Luxurious Conveyance at a rate of cost
which can but induce comfort and pleasure.
J. S. BROWN & CO.,
STT?AjSTD. OALVESTOINT, TEXAS.
Jersey lily, i 5 oz.. 3x12.
JERSEY EIEY, 7 1-2 OZ., CLUB.
JERSEY EIEY, 8 s.
LIBERTY BELL, 15 oz., 3sl2.
LIBERTY BELL, 7 1-2 OZ., CLUB.
CHAMPION. 15 oz.. CLUB.
CHAMPION, 7 1-2 oz., CLUB,
CHAMPION. 7 1-2 oz., BARS.
CHAMPION. CARAMELS.
TO AVOID SELA7 SENS IN YOtm ORDERS AT ONCE.
P. WIS-lGilS ^ BRO.,
1sole agents.
C. A. KEATING.
Dallas, Resident Partner.
GEORGE J. KEATING,
Kansas City, Special Partner.
C. .A-. KEATING,
WHOLESALE ASRiGULIURHL IMPLEMENTS
GINS AND MILL MACHINERY.
State Aeent for FCRST & BRADLEY M'F'O CO. PTowg. Culti-
vators and Sulky Rakes. ERIE city IRON WORKS, Engines,
Boilers and Saw Mills J L CASE, Steam and Horse-Fower
Threshing Machinery. OHIO STEEL BARB FENCE CO. FISH
BROTHERS i arm and Spring Wagons. RICHMOND CHAMPION
p- grain drill.
DALLAS. TEXAS.
R, V. TOMPKINS,
COSNS3 CCHI3EE3RCE AND LASAB STREETS, DALLAS, TEXAS,
exclusive state agent for
SKUCITEE. SPAEHLESS ENGINES,
SIEAKKS'S STATIONARY ENGINE3,
OTTO SILENT GAS ENGINES,
REMINGTON TYPE WHITER.
ZIMiaESSaAN FRUIT DRYER,
COLUMBUS ALL-3TEEL SCRAPES,
HUGHES'S SULRY PLOWS,
HAPGOOD'S PLOWS, and
DEDERICR'S PERPETUAL HAY PRESSES.
I also handle Miller's Bngrsies. Champion Hay Riokers anil Loaders, Fairbanks's Scales, Victor 3cale3,
V'"oii.i r'i:-■f Thr'-sn ant gill,--. Can- 'lilis an I ■".i.'k" F.'aivr.ttors.
.11,
RADWAY'S REGELATING PILLS.
The Great Liver and Stomach
Remedy,
Perfect purgative, soothing aperient, act without
pain, always reliable and natural in their opera-
tions.
A VEGETABLE SEBSlIlliTE
CALOMEL.
Perfectly tasteless, elegantly coated witli sweet
gum, purge, regulate, purify, cleanse and
btrerigtnen.
RADWAY'S PILLS for the cm-e of all disorders
of the Stomach, Liver, Bowels, Kidneys, Biadder,
Pain in the Buck, Loss of App:-t:te. l^augour.
Nervous Diseases, Headache, Constipation. Cos-
tiveness, Indigestion, Dyspepsia. Biliousness, Fever.
Lifiammation of the Bowels. Piles, and all de-
rangements of the biternal Viscera. Purely vege-
table, containing no mercury, minerals or delete-
rious drugs.
A few doses of RADWAY'S PILLS will tree the
system of all the above named disorders.
Price, 25 Cents Per Box>
SOLD BY DRUGGISTS
READ '' FALSE AND TRUE."
Send a letter stamp to RADWAY & CO*,
3Mo- 32 Warren Street, 2>Tew York-
Information worth thousands will be sent
to you.
TO THE PUBLIC.
Be sure and ask for Radway's, and see that
the name of Kadway is on what you buy.
SPECIAL NOTICES.
Notice to Consignees—The steamship
GUADALUPE, Nickerson. master, from New York,
is now discharging cargo at Williams wharf.
Consignees will please pay freight and receive
their goods as landed, receipting for the same on
the wharf. All goods remaining on the wharf after
4 o'clock p. m. (not receipted for) may, at option of
steamer's agent, be placed in warehouses or cover
ed with tarpaulins on the wharf, but tiiey are en
tirely at risk of consignee or owner. All claims for
damages must be adjusted before the goods leave
" ' VYER,
the wharf.
J. N. SAW!
, A^eat.
MARRIED^
GRA.Y—WILLIAMS. In Caldwell, on Thursday,
November I, 1883, by Rev. Mr. Calloway, Dr. J. W.
Gray, formerly of Vicksburg. Miss., to Miss Jennie
E Williams, daughter of Capt. G. J. Williams, late
of Memphis. Tenn , but now of Caldwell, Texas.
No cards. Memphis <Tenn.) Vicksburg and Jack-
son (Miss.) papers pleas* offpy.
Lynch & PenlancL's Advertism's
Auction Sale.
TO-DAY at 10 a. m.t at our salesroom. Strand-
Groceries, Hams. Flour. Canned Goods, To-
bacco. Furuiture. Stoves and Sundries. Also, Ho-
siery. Linen and Cotton Handkerchiefs.Tollet Soaps,
Cardigan Jackets. Blankets, Linen-bosom Shirts, CI
dozen line Fur Hats, Calf Boots. Brogans, Boys' •.
Balmorals. Ladies' and Children's Shoes, and other
merchandise.
LYNCH & PENLAND.
[From N. O. Times-Democrat, November 10, 1SS3J
I
NOTICES.
WROUGHT IRON BfilllSE CO.,
Of CANTON, OHIO.
Harris & Lerersedge,
AGENTS,
DALLAS - - - TEXAS.
DOUGLASS GKEEX & CO.,
35 Wall street, New "2"ork,
EROSEftS IX
Stocks, Bonds anil Foreign Fxchaure.
Orders for Cottou Futures promptly executed.
References: GILBERT H. GREEN & CO., New
Orleans; CHARLES GREEN'S SON & CO, Savan-
nah. Ga.: O. I). BALDWIN, Pres. 4th Nat..bank.
CORRESPONDENCE SOLICITED.
LLuAii
key/ orleans, la.
It will be pleasant news to the many friends and
patrons of the well-known firm of H. Dudley CoieJ
man & Bro. to learn that an extension having: been
granted by the creditors, approved by the court, it
will now reopen its extensive business. There
probably has never been a house which, during its
emDarrassment, has received more general support
and kindly feeling than this. Young, energetic and
progressive to a marked degree, Messrs. Coleman
& Bro. have always had the fullest confidence of
the community, aud now that they are in a posi-
tion to entirely recover from their difficulties, it
goes without saying that they will receive the
heartiest support on all hands. Every house and
manufactory for which they were agents have re-
tained them, a mark of fullest confidence, and
their patrons are coming forward wiliingly to re-
new engagements.
TO OUR
New Orleans, La., November 10,1883.
Our application for an extension having been
granted by our creditors, and the proceedings hav-
ing been approved by the court, we beg to announce
to our friends and customers that our business will
now
CONTINUE AS HERETOFORE,
and that we are prepared to fill all orders for ma-
chinery with promptness, and at the very lowest
competitive prices.
We have retained every agency we had before
our suspension, and can promptly fill all orders for
STEAM ENGINES, BOILERS, PRESSES, PUxMPS,
etc. Our foundry has been equipped with the latest
improved Lathes, Planers and Tools, and we soiicit
a continuance of the patronage so liberally ex-
tended us in the past. Respectfully,
E3. Dudley Go!eman § Era.
NEW CKOP
Rio Coffees
Louisiana Sugars,
Louisiana Molasses.
We have one of the Largest stocks of "COFFEES,
SUGARS and MOLASSES in the State, and are pre-
pared to fill orders at the lowest market figures.
We shall be glad to quote prices to our friends,
and to send samples when desired.
Biiilo? lElrcgiisli,
Grocers, Galveston.
N otice.
II GAlYESTOirJAS COMPANY.
All orders or co?iplaints, to
receive prompt attend >n. should be left as
the office <j( tue Compauy, in the Brick Building, on
market Street* ESeiiveen 24th end 25th
Streets,
Between the hours of a and 12 o'clock a. m.
ALG. If ITTLAft. Secretary
Continental Meat Co.
FORT WORTH asd VICTORIA. TEXAS.
A. F> HIuG-3, President and G-eneral
Ztfanag-er*
This Company is now delivering
Dressed Beef, Mutton and Veal
at our Refrigerator Rooms, TWENTY-SECOND
AND AVENUE A, and the public are invited to
inspect the same.
AYEKS & CANNON,
GENERAL AGENTS.
Jno. M. Claiborne,
Notary Public.
P. S. Wren,
Clerk County Court.
GOLD MEDAL, PARIS, 1878.
BAKER'S
*Warranted absolutely pure
Cocoa, from which the excess of
Oil has been removed. It has three
times the strength of Cocoa mixed
with Starch, Arrowroot or Sugar,
and is therefore far more economi-
cal. It is delicious, nourishing,
strengthening, easily digested, and
admirably adapted for invalids as
well as for per so us in health.
Sold by Grocers everywhere,
W. BAKER & CO,, Dorchester, Mass.
i'
BALLINGER, M0TT & TERRY,
1C
125 Posto~ffi.ee Street,
GALVESTON TEX.
Drayage - - Drayage
ED. KETCHUM & CO.,
Draymen and Contractors,
Dc all kiude of heavy and light hauling. Machin-
ery, Boilers and Safes our specialties.
Office, Corner of 22d St. and Strand*
OPIUM
HABIT
CURED
without pain or detention*
from business.
Cure Guaranteed.
.^communications strictly coallden-
dress °r I>amP^etfi an(* certificates, ad-
Box IC2.
r,A* B®il>FORD, L. P.,
Druggist and Pharmacist,
Columbus Ga.
| OFFICE, I
1 GU1BS1EI WREN, I
REAL ESTATE & GENERAL AGENTS,
Own a complete Abstract of Titles to Galveston
City and County Property, lexas Lands a special-
ty. Buv and sell Bonds and Stocks; loan and bor-
row money on gilt-ed »e collaterals. Office: Mechan-
ic St.. opp. the new Ne*-s build in er, bet. 31st and J&.'d
sts. Telephone and Notary Public in the office. Re-
fer to the Governor of the State and heads of depart-
ments, the judges of the courts and any M
citizen of Oalvestvc. We will assume |j
2SS the management of property seSbmSSS
for residents and non-residents for a |
low, fair consideration.
We still pay tlie tdgliest
market price for same, or
gin. for tlie seed, supplying1
Bagging and Ties free.
Galveston Oil Comp'y.
Z. King. President. H.a.klky B. Gibbs, Secy.
J as. A. Kino, V. Pres't. A. H. Porter, Engineer.
King Iron Bridge
AND
itt
ill \J Villi Ij
a.E out o.
Manufacturers of all kinds of WROlTOHf. IROX
and COMBINATION BRIDGES. •
83T Plans, specifications and estimatis submitted
on application.
OlilVEn & AL2XANDEH,
General Southern Agents.
Office: Room No. 10, Fox's Building, Houston,
Texas.
BANKS AHI)_BAKKEBS.
JOHN G. JAMEST
BANKER,
Wichita Falls, Wichita Co., Tex.
Accounts, correspondence and collections soli-
cited. Letters concerning investments ia the Pan*
handle carefully frad promptly answered.
SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS.
J. M. BROWNSON, President.
J. S. THORNTON. Cashier.
Transacts a General Banking Itnsiness
RUST PROOF
Seed OatsandGrain
We are at all times prepared to supply the trade at
the very lowest prices.
Send in your orders.
H. SEELTGSON & CO.
McCAUSLAND &. EXALL. real estate agent*, 54
street, opposite court-house, Lampasas, Tex.
Special and prompt attention given to collections.
Correspondence solicited.
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The Galveston Daily News. (Galveston, Tex.), Vol. 42, No. 236, Ed. 1 Tuesday, November 13, 1883, newspaper, November 13, 1883; Galveston, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth464527/m1/2/: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Abilene Library Consortium.