The Galveston Daily News. (Galveston, Tex.), Vol. 36, No. 220, Ed. 1 Wednesday, December 5, 1877 Page: 2 of 4
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Wednesday, December 5, 1877.
STATE PBESS.
The Houston Telegram opens an edi-
torial on "Houston and the Military
Railroad to the Rio Grande" with the
following paragraph;
The proposition for a military road
to the Rio Grande, with Houston for its
base, at first a dim suggestion, begins
to assume a definite form which de-
mands for it the earnest attention of
our citizens. The bare possibility of
such an achievement is arousing, and
the probability which we are now au-
thorized to contemplate, should kindle
enthusiasm.
The Telegram, says " as the case now
stands the contest is between San An-
tonio and Houston, with the chances
1 argely in favor of Houston."
The North Texan is telling " what
Paris (Tex.) must do," and some of the
things necessary to be done are the fol-
lowing:
We must have a cotton compress.
Its advantages have so often been dis-
cussed through the columns of this
paper, that they should by this time be
well understood. Then, the building
of a new and splendid hotel must be
encouraged. A town the size of Paris
can and should well sustain a hotel
with thirty thousand dollars invested.
We must put no shoddy work into our
buildings, nor must these buildings be
insignificant affairs, that will not at-
tract the favorable notice of visitors to
our city. A joint stock company
should be organized for this purpose.
It is too much to ask one man to do it
all. Then we must have a town hall;
a place in which to hold public enter-
tainments.
We would advise our Parisian friends
not to build their hotel too large. " A
big thing " looks very nice, but then
even Galveston knows how hard it is to
fill " grand " hotels with guests.
The voice of the Rockdale Messenger
is still for "wah!" and in an editorial
on the money question, says:
Still the bloated bondholder sits back
and revels in the fat of the land, while
the industries and industrial classes of
the country are strained to the very ut-
most to pay the interest on these bonds.
There is not money enough in the coun-
try to run the industries. Factories
and mills are standing idle; men are
out of employment, and inconsequence
of their inability to obtain employment
they are daily driven to the commission
of crimes, the accounts of which are
enough to make the blood of the most
stolid run cold.
The Greenville (Hunt county) hide-
indent reports that the Greeks of that
plat# met at the courthouse to public-
ly discuss the'question, " Is man capa-
ble of self-government," which was
decided in the negative. Mr. C. W.
Winbray, who had been selected by the
club for that purpose, then mounted
the rostrum and entertained the audi-
ence with an elaborate and quite
amusing criticism of the several
speeches. The speeches were all inter-
esting, reflecting credit on the gentle-
men who participated in the debate,
and were listened to with marked atten-
tion by the rudience, which included
quite a number of ladies.
On the subject of taxation the Waller
county Courier "says its say" as fol-
lows :
In one of the most populous counties
of Tennessee the last bed was taken
from one family, and the last fattening
hog from another to pay taxes, and if
our county continues in its present
course awhile longer the same thing
will happen here in Waller county,
Texas. Pause and ponder ye honor,
for how would you like to have it said
you did it.
In an editorial "About Cotton and
Cotton Markets" the McKinney In-
quirer has the following friendly words
for our "city by the sea " :
Of the cotton not taken by spinners'
agents we are glad to see the greatei
portion being shipped to Galveston
The leading business men of that city
are noted for their genuine integrity
and honesty—for their liberality and
" bread-in-the-bone" fairness in their
business transactions with the country.
It is only a question of time when near-
ly all the trade of Texas will flow to
Galveston. The leading grocers and
dry goods men are making successful
efforts in that direction, while as good
prices are being realized there for cot-
ton as can be obtained anywhere.
The Enquirer is quite right. There
is no scarcity of buyers in this market,
and prices will compare favorably with
any place in the South. The facilities
for handling and the supervision exer-
cised over cotton at this port are not
exoelled.
The Groesbeeck Sun has a word in
regard to the treatment of convicts:
Tlie jurorsjand courts of the country
do not send these creatures to the peni-
tentiary to be tortured by cold and
famine, and if they are thus treated, in-
stead of working a reformation in them,
as the law contemplates, it only hard
ens th in in their sin, and they are
eventually turned loose upon society
incarnate devils instead of reformed
convicts. If the State is not able to
run her penitentiary within its walls,
then she had better abolish it and adopt
some other mode of punishment.
The present very bad condition of
the mails of the State and the appa-
rently reckless manner in which the
transportation and delivery of mail mat.
ter is conducted, is still a cause of gen-
eral complaint from the pre«. The
Gainesville Gazette says:
The Galveston, Houston and Hender-
son Railroad management fail to make
proper connections at Houston with
the trains of other roads, and mail mat
ter lies over at the latter point from
twelve to twenty- four hours. The pro-
prietors of the Galveston News, in that
grand spirit of enterprise which charac
terizes their whole management of that
paper, have had built and placed upon
the road a special mail car of their own,
and deliver their papars at Houston in
time to be distributed in the mails and
express offices and on the different
trains. This is enterprise tbsft would
commend itself to the elder Bennett in
bis palmiest days.
The San Antonio Herald remarks:
The Muse of the "Villainous Rail
road Misconnection " is, according to
the Houston Telegram, a disagreement
between the officials of the Galveston,
Houston and Henderson Railroad and
Mr. Charles Morgan. It strikes us that
the quarrel of these corporations be-
comes rather disgraceful when the pub-
lic is to be placed at a serious iucon-
venience as a result. Can't any one
suggest a way to quiet their angry pas-
sions and induce an era of good feeling
between them, and a consequent regu-
larity in our mail connections? The
Galveston News with a spirit of enter-
prise that is increasing its popularity,
has gotten up a special mail car. It
will, therefore, no longer be troubled
by our unfortunate mail system, which
has for the past many months been an
"uncertain element" in Texas. Well,
the people will have the News and the
news will reach the people.
The Leon Cabinet says:
The route agents on the International
railroad are becoming perfect nuisances.
Frequently half our paper mail passes
by the Jewett postofflee and never gets
back in a day or two, and our letters
suffer the same fate. These men are
paid well for their services, and should
attend to their duties right, and not cret
drunk, go to sleep and neglect their
business.
The Cass county Sun says:
The Galveston News, ever alive to
enterprise, now runs a special mail car
from Galveston to Houston, hence its
readers will be seived from twelve to
twenty-four hours in advance of the
regular mails. As a newspaper the
News stands head in the South and
Southwest.
Reports of the Postofflee, Interior
and Judicial Depart-
ments, Etc.
EDITOBIAL BREVITIES.
—Colfax is an out and out Radical
—Osmam Pasha has been requested to
Czar render up his sword.
—The President is being raked over
the coals mower than ever because he
attends country fairs.
—Our exchanges mention Coke's
maiden effort. He made an effort to
be heard three miles off, and succeeded
—Mrs. Woodhull is in Paris. That
is nearer Seine than she has been
some time.
—When the Russians have invested
Constantinople the clone of the war may
be looked for.
—George A. Sheridan has at last been
recollected by Hayes, after a number of
gentle reminders.
—Conkling is not a caller at the
White House. The mere suggestion
makes his choler rise.
—Mrs. Hayes refuses to have Butler
in the White House, so pronounced are
her views on temperance.
—The 7000 Mexican soldiers on the
Rio Grande are to watch Escobedo, and
Gen. Ord will watch the 7000 Mexican
soldiers and Escobedo besides.
—Ben Butler denies that he wanted to
be Anna-mated, but she refused to be
Benny fited. This is old, but then so is
Ben.
—The statement that there is not
single plow in all Liberia is at the bot
torn of this colored enthusiasm to get
there to improve their condition.
—If Hayes wants to make everybody
love him, why don't he get Eli Perkins
out of the country on a foreign mis
sion?
—English spelling needs revision
There is a man from New Hampshire
in the United States Senate whose name
reads Wadleigh.
—Tbe humorous items in the Chicago
Times are called "doughnuts," possibly
because they do not know of any bet
ter name for them.
—There is a baby in New York that
only weighs 2J pounds after it has
taken nourishment. Its parents have
to use a telephone to find out when it
cries with the colic.
—A country exchange settles all
doubt as to what the Pope's disease is.
It says, "for a week back the news
from His Holiness has been very dis-
couraging." The doctors thought it
was dropsy.
—The editor of the Huntsville Item
is very grateful on being presented with
a two gallon jag of sirup (?), and also
announces that Ur. Pugh will lecture
on temperance. Such are the results
of local option.
PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE.
Being the Contributions of Key,
Scliurz, Devens and Other
W riters.
The Indian Policy Ablr Treated,
With Due Acknowledgment
Of Its Fa»lts».
An Enormous and Unseemly Batch
of Demands from the
District.
RAILROAD NEWS.
Fairfield (Freestone counfcv) Recorder:
Col. Jno. F. Huckabyand Capt. Heriot
were in Butler Saturday, Nov. 24th, in
the interest of the Fairfield and West-
ern Railroad. The Colonel thinks
Freestone will have a railroad sure this
time. The people around Butler seem
to be very much in favor of the road,
and will do what they can to have it
built. In Fairfield, we are glad to note
a large increase in the subscriptions to
the railroad enterprise. We learn that
the total amount is thirty-two thousand
dollars. A general railroad meet-
ing-is announced for December 1.
J. M. Wells, agent of the Texas and.
Pacific Railway at Fort Worth, makes
the following statement of freight for-
warded and received for the week end
ing November 23: Forwarded—Stock,
87 cars; cotton, 60; flour, 1; grain, 1;
hides, 4; cotton seed, 4; total, 157. Re-
ceived—Salt, 9 cars; oil, 1; general
merchandise, 8;-bacon, 2; ties, 8; lum-
ber, 43; wagons, 2; total, 0G.
Corsicana Index, Nov. 29: The peo-
ple of Fairfield seem determined to have
a railroad to their town. They had a
preliminary meeting on the 20th inst.
to get things under headway. The
road will run from Oakwood to Fair-
field, some 22 miles. Our people here
should be prepared to co-operate with
them and bring the road on 32 miles
further to this place.
Sitting Bull Supremely Defiant.
Winnefeg, Dec. 3.—A Battleford
special says the Blackfeet Indians are
alarmed at the attitude of Sitting Bull.
Fears entertained of trouble. Sitting
Bull says he would like to know when
the Almighty gave the Canadian gov-
ernment authority to keep Indians from
killing buffalo.
Sixty lodges of Sioux have joined
Sitting Bull since the commission met
him. He assumes an air of supreme
defiance.
[Conclusion of the President's Message, re-
ceived too late for the early morning edition
of 4th in consequence of derangement of the
telegraph.]
I inyite your special attention to the fol-
lowing^ recommendations of the Secretary
of War: First, that provision be made
for supplying to the army a more abun-
dant and better supply of reading matter;
second, that early action be taken by Con-
gress looking to a complete revision and a re-
plication of the army regulations: third,
hat section 125 of the revised statutes limiting
the number of officers of the retired list be
repealed; fourth, that claims arising under
the act of 4th of July, for supplies taken by
the armv during the war, be taken from the
offices of the quartermaster and commissary
generals and transferred to Sourliern claims
commission or some other tribunal having
better facilities for i heir prompt investigation
and decision than are possessed by these offi-
cers; flifill, that Congress sfeonld provide for
the families of deceased soldiers, as recom
mended by the Paymaster Oene ral of the
army.
navy department
The report of the Secretary of the Navy
shows that we have six squadrons row en
gaged in the protection of our foreign com-
merce and other duties pertaining to the
naval service. The condition and ope
rations of the department are also shown.
Th« total expenditures for the fiscal year
enUir g June 30, lb77, $16,077,974 54 There
are unpaid claims against the department
chargeable to the last year, which are pre-
sented to the consideration of Congress. By
the report of the Secretary, the estimates
for the fiscal year commencing July 1, 1878,
are $16,233,234 40, exclusive of the sum of
^ J,314,231 submitted for new buildings, repairs
and improvements at the several navy yards.
The appropriations for the present fiscal yeir
commencing July 1, 1877, are $13,592 932 90.
The amount drawn from the Treasur,
from the 1st of July to the 1st of Novem-
ber, 1877, is $5,343,037 40, of which there
is estimated to be yet available $1 029,528 40,
showing the amount of actual expenditure
during the first four months of the p-esenfc
fiscal year to have been $4,315,509.
postofpice department.
The report of the Postmaster Oenera' con
tains a full and clear statement of the ope-
rations and condition of the Post-
office Department. The ordinary revenues of
the department for the fiscal year ending 30th
June, 1877, including receipts from the money-
order business and from official stamps and
stamped envelopes, were $>27,531,585 2*i. Tha
additional sum of $7,013,000 was realized
from appropriations from the general treas-
ury for various purposes, making the receipts
from all sources $34 544,885 26. Total expen-
ditures during ihe fiscal year amount-
ed to $33,486 224 44, leaving excess of
total receipts over total expenditures
of $1,0"8,5(2 82. Excess of total expendi-
tures over ordinary receipts, $4,854,180 82.
Deducting from the total receipts the sum of
$6,326,185 received from international money
orders of the preceding fiscal year,
and deducting from the total expenditures
the sum $1,163,818 20, paid on liabilities in-
curred in previous fiscal years, .the expendi-
tures and receipts appertaining to the busi-
ness of last fiscal vear were a* follows:
Expenditures, $32,322,504 24; receipts, ordi-
nary, from money order business and from
official postage stamps, $547,468,323 42; excess
of expenditures, $485,418 82.
The ordinary revenues of the Postofflee De-
partment for the year ending June 30, 1879, are
estimated at an increase of 3 per cent, over
those of 1877, making $ 9,034,098 20, and the
expenditures for the same year are
estimated at $38 427,77', leaving an estimated
deficiency for year ending 1879, of $7,393,672.
The additional legislation recommended by
the Postmaster General for improvement
of the mail service and to protect the
postal revenues from abuses practiced
under existing laws, is respectfully com
mended to the careful consideration of Con
gress.
department of justice.
The report of the Attorney General con-
tains several suggestions as to the administra
tion of justice, to which I invite your atten
tion. The pressure of business in the Su-
preme Court and in certain circuits of the
United States is now such that serious delays,
to the great injury and even oppression of
suiters occur, and a remedy should be sought
for this condition of affairs. Whether it
will be found in the plan briefly sketched in
the report of increasing the number of judges
of the| circuit courts, and by means of this
addition to the judicial force of creating an
intermediate court of errors and appeals,
or whether some other mode can be de
vised for obviating t he difficulties which now
exist, leave to your mature consideration.
interior ibpartmekt.
The present condition of the Indian tribes
on the territory of the United States and our
relations with them are fully set forth in the
reports of the Secretary of the Interior and
ihe Commissioner of Indian Affairs After a
series of most deplorable conflicts, the sue
cessful termination of which, whi.e reflecting
credit upon the brave soldiers who accom-
plished it, can not lessen our regret at their
occurence. We are now at peace with all
the Indian tribes within our border. To pre-
serve that peace by a just and humane policy
will be the object of my earnest endeavors
Whatever may be said of the character and
savage propensities of the Indians and the dif
Acuities of introducing among them the habits
of civilized life, and the obstacles they have of
fered to the progress of settlement and enter
prise in certain parts of the country, the In
dians are entitled to our sympathy and to a
conscientious respect on our part for their
claims on our sense of justice. They were
the aboriginal occupants of the land we now
possess. They have been driven from place
to place. The purchase money paid to them
in some cases for what they called their own,
has still left them poor. In many ioBtances,
when they had settled on land assigned to
them bv compact and began again to support
themselves by their own labor, they were
rudely jostled off into the wilderness again
Many if not most of our IncJan wars have had
their origin in broken promises and acts of
injustice upon our part, and the advance of
the Indians in civilization has been slow.
The treatment they received did
not permit it to be faster and more
general. We can not expect them to improve
and to follow our guidance, unless we keep
faith with them respecting the rights they
possess, and, instead of depriving them of
their opportunities, lend tnem a helping
hand.
I cordially approve the policy regarding the
management of Indian affairs outlined in the
reports of the Secretary of the Interior and
the Commissioner of Indian Affairs. The
faithful performance of our promises is the
first condition of a good understanding with
the Indians. I can not too urgently recom-
mend to Congress that prompt and liberal
provision be made for the fulfillment of all
engagements entered into by the government
with Indian tribes. To withhold the means
necessary for the performance of a promise
is false economy, and is apt to prove disas-
trous in its consequences. Especial care is
recommended to provide, for Indians settled
on their reservations, cattle and agricul-
tural implements, to a^d them in the
efforts they make to support themselves
the establishment and maintenance of schools
to bring them under the control of civilized
influences. I see no reason why Indians who
can give satisfactory proof of having by their
own labor supported their families for a num-
b r of years, and who are willing to detach
themselves from their tribal relations, should
not be admitted to the benefit of Ihe Home
stead act and the privileges of citizenship,
and I recommend the passa? e pi a law to
that effect. It will be an act of justice as
well as a measure of encouragement.
Earnest efforts are being made to purify the
Indian office so that every dollar appropri-
ated by Congress shall go to the benefit of the
Indians. Those efforts will have my firm sup-
port. With an improved service and every
possible encouragement to the Indians to ele-
vate themselves in the scale of civilization we
may hope to accomplish at the same time a
good work for them and ourselves.
I invite the attention of Congress to the im-
portance of suggestions made by the Secre-
tary of the Interior concerning the depreda-
tions committed on the timber lands of the
United States and the necessity for tha pre-
servation of the forests. It is believed that
measures taken in pursuance of existing; law
to arrest these depredations will be entirely
successful, if Congress, by an appropriation
for that purpose, renders the continued en-
forcement possible. The experience of other
nations teaches us that a country can not be
stripped of its forests with impunity, and we
shall expose ourselves to the gravest conse-
quences unless the wasteful and imprudent
manner in which the forests of the United
States are destroyed be checked. I earnestly
recommend that the measures suggested by
the Secretary of the Interior for the suppres-
sion of depredations on the public timber
lands of the United States, for the selling of
timber from the public lands and
for the preservation of forests, be
embodied in a law; and, considering the ur-
gent necessity of enabling the people of cer-
tain States and Territories to purchase tim-
ber from the public lands in a legal manner,
which at present they can not do, I would
also call the attention of Congress to the
statements of the Secretary of the Interior
concerning the disposition that might be
made of thetlesert lands no- irrigable west of
the hundredth meridian. These lands are
practically unsalable under existing laws, and
the suggestion is worthy of consideration that
a system of leasehold tenure would make
them a source of profit to the United States,
while at the same time legalizing the business
of cattte-raising, which Is at present carried
on upon them.
Tne report of the Commissioner of Agricul-
ture contains the gratifying announcement of
the extraordinary success, which has reward-
ed the agricultural industry of the country
for the past year with the fair prices which
obtain for products of the soil, especially for
the surplus which our people have to export.
We may confidently turn to this as the most
important of all resources for the revival of
the depressed industries of the country. The
report shows our agricultural progress during
the year and contains a statement of work
done by this department for the advancement
of agricultural industry, upon which the
prosperity of our people so largely depends.
Matters of information are included of great
interest to all who seek by the experience of
others to improve their own method of culti-
vation. The efforts of the department to in-
crease the production of important articles of
consumption will, it is hoped, create ademand
for labor and advance the business of the
country and eventually result in saving some
of the many millions that are now annually
paid to foreign nations for sugar and other
atap'es, which habitual use has made neces-
sary in our domestic every-day life.
THE BOARD
on behalf of United States executive depart-
ments, at the International Exhibition of
1876, has concluded its labors. The final re-
port of the board was transmitted to Con-
gress by the President near the close of the
last session. As these papers are understood
to contain interesting and valuable informa-
tion, and will constitute the only report ema-
nating from the government on the subject
of the exhibition, I recommend that the re-
port be published for general information.
Congress is emp jwered by the constitution
with the authority of exclusive legislation
over the District of Columbia, in which the
seat of government of the nation is located.
The interests of the District, having no direct
representation in Congress, are entitled to
especial consideration and care at the hands
of the general government. The capitol of
the Unired States belongs to the natien, aiid
it is natural that the American people should
take pride in the freat of their national gov-
ernment and desire it to be an ornament
to the country. Much has been done
to render it healthful, convenient and
attractive, but much remains to be done,
which its permanent inhabitants are not able
and ought not to be expected to do. To im-
pose on them a large proportion of the cost
required for public improvements which are
in a srreat measure planned for the con-
venience of the government and the many
thousands of visitors from all parts of the
couutry. who temporarily reside at the capi-
tal of the nation, is evident injustice. Special
attention is asked by the Commissioners of
the District in their report, which is here-
with transmitted, to the importance of a per-
manent adjustment by Congress of the finan-
cial relations between the United States and
the District, involving the regular annual con-
tribution by the United States of its just pro-
portion of the expenses of the District govern-
ment and of the outlay for all needed public
improvements, and such measures of relief
from the burden of taxation now
resting upon the people of the District
as in the wisdom of Congress may be deemed
just. The report of the commissioners shows
that the affairs of the Dintrictare in a condi
tion as satisfactory as could be expected in
view of the heavy,burden of debt resting on it
and its limited means for necessary expenses.
The debt is as follows:
>ld funded debt $8,379,691 96
365 bonds guaranteed by the
United States 13,743,250 00
Total bonded debt $22,122,94t 96
To which should be added certain
outstand i ng clai m s, as expl ained
in the report of the commis-
sioners 1,187,204 42
Making total debt of the Dis-
trict $23,310,146 48
The commissioners also ask attention to the
importance of improvement of the Potomac
and the reclamation of the marshes bordering
on the City of Washington, and their
views upon this subject are concurred in
by the members of the board of health,
which report is also herewith transmitted.
Both the commercial and sanitary interests
of the District will be greatly promoted, I
doubt not, by this improvement. Your atten-
tion is invited to the suggestion of the com-
missioners and of the Board of Health for
organization of a board of charities, to have
the supervision and control of disbursement
of all money for charitable purposes from the
District Treasury. I desire also to ask your
especial attention to the need of adding to
the efficiency of the public schools of the Dis-
trict by supplemental aid from the National
Treasury. This is especially just, since so
large a number of those attending these
schools are children of the employes of the
government. I earnestly commend to your
care the interests of the people of the
District, who are so intimately asso-
ciated with the government, and to whom
establishments of the uapitol are largely due,
tnd I ask your attention to the request of the
Commissioners for legislation on behalf of
tbe interests intrusted to iheir care of the
reservation belonging to the government
within the city. Tbe recommendations by
the Commissioners of Public Buildings and
Orcunds are also commended to your favora-
ble consideration. Tne report of the joint
commissioners created by the act approved
August 2, 1876, entitled "An act providing for
the completion of the Washington Monument
is also herewith transmitted with accompany
ing documents.
ihe board of engineer officers detailed to
examine the monument, in compliance with
the seceni section of the act. have reported
that the foundation is insufficient. No au-
thoiity exists for making expenditure. I re-
commend that the commission be authorized
te expend such portion of ihe sum appro-
priated by the act as may be necessary
for the present unfinished condition of the
monument, begun so long ago, is a reproach to
the nation. It can not be doubted that the
patriotic sense of the country will warmly re
spond to such prompt provision as may be
made for its comp letion at an early day.
I urge upon the Congress the propriety and
necessity of legislation on the part of Con-
gress in aid of States for education of the
whole people in those branches of study which
are taught in the common schools of the
country. There is no longer a question that
the intelligent judgment of the country goes
still further—-regarding it as both constitu-
tional and expedient for the general govern-
ment to extend to technical and higher edu-
cation such aid as is deemed essential to the
general welfare and to our due prominence
among the enlightened nations of the world.
The ultimate settlement of all questions
of the future, whether of administration or
finance, depends upon the intelligence -of the
people. It is vain to hope for the success of
free government without the means of in-
suring the intelligence of those who are the
source of power. No less than one-seventh of
the entire voting population are uuable to
write and read.
It is encouraging to observe, in connection
with the growth of fraternal feeling in those
States in which slavery formerly existed, evi-
dence of increasing interest in universal edu-
cation. I shall be gl id to give my approval to
any appropriate measures which may be en-
acted by Congress for the purpose of supple-
menting with national aid the local system of
education in these States and all States: and,
having already invited your attention to the
needs of the District of Columbia with respect
to its public school system, I add that I believe
it desirable, for the great and lasting benefit
of the entire country, that this system should
be crowned with a university at the national
capital, and thereby realize the cherished
hopes of Washington on this subject.
I also commend the request of the regents
of the Smithsonian Institute, that an appro-
priation be made for the establishment and
conduct of a national museum, under their
supervision. The question of providing for
the preservation and grow th of the library of
Congress is also one of national importance
as the depository for records. This library
has ou'grown the provisions for its accommo
dation, and the erection, on such site as Con
gress may approve, of a fire proof library
building to enla'ge the usefulness of thisval
uable collection is recommended. The capi-
tal of the nation should be something more
than a mere political center. We should avail
ourselves of all the opportunities which Pro-
vidence has here placed at our command to
promote the general intelligence of the peo-
ple and increase the conditions most favor
able to the success and perpetuity of our in
stitutions. R, B. HAYES.
December 3, 1877.
STATE NEWS.
anderson county.
Palestine Advocate: Some capitalists have
been in town during the past week with a
view of investing here, and we understand
two or three have about determined There
are in Palestine, we are informed, fifty-eight
hotels and boarding-houses One week ago
last Monday night as Mr. James Campbell
was returning home from town he was robbed
near Pruitt's tanyard, six miles south of Pa-
lestine, by three men. The robbers took
from him $127, which Dr. Silliman had paid
him for some land. Re is not able to say
whether they were white or colored men who
did the robbing.
bexar county.
San Antonio Herald: To Mr. T. S. Harrison
belongs the honor of opening and successfully
working the first coal mine near this city.
Mr. Harrison first discovered the coal on his
place in the lower part of this county, about
eighteen miles from the city, while digging a
well. He immediately began sinking a shaft,
and finds the coal to be seven feet thick and
thus far has found no limit to the breadth of
the vein. Prof. Tate, the eminent British Ge-
ologist, has visited the mine and pronounces
the supply to be inexhaustible. It is found
thirty two feet from the surface and is of ex-
cellent quality, being of the kind known as
cannel coa', and very superior for heating
and gas making purposes. This coal is now
in use in this city and is sold from the teams
for about six dollars per ton.
bowie county.
A. G. Hoskins, clerk of tne county court,
gives notice that sealed proposals will be re-
ceived at the office of the county judge, in
Boston, until the 10th of December next, for
contracting to survey the common school
lands of Bowie county, into tracts of 160 acres,
by actually running off and marking the
lines, making a plat of the same, numbering
each parcel, and returning the field notes, re-
corded in a suitable book, to the county clerk
for preservation. The contractor will be re-
quired to enter into bond with approved se-
curity for the faithful performance of the
contract The Texarkana compress is now
ready to receive, store and ship all cotton
consigned to them .. Brick are selling at $8
per thousand at Texarkana.
cass county.
The mills at Kildare have an immense quan-
tity of lumber ou hand and but little demand
for it. Some of them are speaking of sus-
pending for a while—The continued rains
have greatly interfered with labor on farms
At a meeting of citizens held at Linden,
W. W. Williams and Howard F. O'Neal were
appointed a committee to confer with the
Grange committee, to ascertain what arrange-
ments can be made, or assistance they will
render, in erecting a school building and a
Grange hall, and what character of a build-
ingtheGrange would desire to construct....
Mr Sarratt, living on the Douglassville road,
made so many sweet potatoes this year that
he grew tired of digging, and invited his
neighbors to help themselves The local
option law is more stringently enforced in
Linden than in any place where this measure
has been adopted. Even a physician's certifi-
cate will not command the spirits.
clay county.
Henrietta Journal: Cotton still continues to
be brought in ;for ginning, where it is most-
ly sold. Farmers preferring to sell at home
to hauimg to the railroad—Immigrants to
Clay still continue to come in. Quite a num-
ber of Germans from Minnesota are now in
the Greiner neighborhood, looking at the Cal-
houn county school land, with a view of locat-
ing therein.
collin county.
McKinney Enquirer: Utt's gin, in the east-
ern part of this county, together with about
one hundred bales of cotton, was destroyed
by fire the other night. The bottom of a lan-
tern. hanging in the lint room, fell out, and
in a flash the house was enveloped in flames.
The loss falls heavily on Mr. Utt, and that
neighborhood J. H. Smith, of Sister
Grove, informs us that the cotton crop In bis
neighborhood has b' en injured fully one-
third by the excessive wet and windy weath-
er. He also says the young wheat is looking
remarkably weil In four years McK nney
has grown from a village of five hundred to a
city of four thousand people—and is growing
more solidly than any other town in the
State.
dallas county.
A wild and wooly war horse from Johnson
county entered a delectable place called the
"Lady Gay Dance House,"' in Dal'as. on Fri-
day night. Thinking he was a wolo, and it
was his night to howl, he flourished a pis'ol
around extensively and declared there were
not policemen enough in the State to arrest
him. Like many another misguided youth,
he found that he was mistaken, and after a
night in the calaboose was taxed $5 and c JSts
for carrying his "shooter." The Commer-
cial reports the cotton receipts as "very
good," bi*t fails to give the figures. The date
of the paper was last Saturday, and by noon
on Friday ve in Galveston knew that the re-
ceipts for the wetk ending that day were 1434
bales. ~ Wake up and get a statement from
the National Cotton Exchange representative
in your city.
freestone county.
Mr. Prager, of Wortham, came very near
being drowned while attempting to cross
Wolf creek a short time since. He lost his
horse and buggy, and it was with great diffi-
culty that he saved himself.
gratson county.
Sherman Register, Nov. 30: During the
three days past—Tuesday, Wednesday and
Thursday—fourteen hundred bales of cotton
were bought in Sherman. On Tuesday six
hundred bales were bought. This is a large
amount of cotton for three days, and repre-
sents about $63,COO. The roads are now in a
fine condition, and cotton is coining into the
city in large quantities. The firm of Ptitman
& Harrison weighed two hundred and eignty
bales in one day, ancLevery on© of our cotton
weighers flias been kept very busy State
Treasurer A. J. Dorn masticated his Thanks-
giving hash and trifled with his turkey in
Sherman The "envelope" system has
been adopted by the Methodist Church as the
mode of paying their pastor.
jack coowty.
Jacksboro Frontier Echo' Geo. B. Loving,
of Fort Worth, called on ua this morning. He
has been in the country for the last seven
weeks, during which he has gathered 4500
hejul of merchantable cattle and sent them to
Fort Worth for shipment to Hunter, Evans &
Co, of St. Louis. During tha season just
closing George has bought and shipped over
10,000 cattle to this one firm George I.ati-
mer killed a fcur-j ear-old deer which had
three well developed horns, the extra one
being about five inches long aid making its
appearance half an inch from the right antler
aud between the two—The ne-v Presbyterian
church at Jacksboro is approaching comple-
tion.
lamar county.
Paris North Texan: The hide trade of this
city is considerable, and buyer* are plentiful
The ntw engine-house is a neat, attract
ive tuilding Turkey rattling is going on al-
most every night, and keno is booming The
Masonic bodies of this city have secured the
room new occupied by Paris Exchange Bank,
and it will be fitted up in fin* style ...Cows
on the public square not only rob the coun-
t ymen's wagons, but destroy Urge quantities
of cotton—a worse nuisance than hogs would
be Fifty ba'e« of cotton were received
from near Halesboro, Red Bi/er county, the
o*:her day, and Bowie county has sent in a
number of bales Fish are plentiful in mar
ket, and never since the daj s of Davy Crockett
were 'possums fatter.
lee county.
Giddings correspondence Rcckda'e 3fe#sen
ger: Farmeis generally are done gathering
;heir cotton, and some few are done gathering
corn, which made from thirty to forty bush-
els per acre. We had a tremerdous rain last
Monday morning. More water iell in the same
amount of time, I think, than I ever saw. It
has damaged corn considerebly in the fields,
blowing it fiat on the ground, causing it to
sprout The ground is yet too wet to go into
the fields with a wagon. We are getting our
portion of immigrants in Le« county. It is
now a difficult matter to find land for rent.
Some of our farmers are sellng their farms
and improving others, and some are going to
other parts of the State. Stocfc is doing well
on the range. The grass is as green as in the
sprirg. Some of the cattle are looking rather
drawn from eating acorns.
limestone county.
Groesbeeck Rising Sun: A oroom factory
has been established in Mesa by Messrs.
Robertson & Co The Grangers at Thornton
have recently built a large andspacious ware-
house, into which they hav? moved their
stock—The Central Railroad Company are
making improvements on the platform and
warehouse at this place The new Metho-
dist Church at Mexia was dedicated on the
first Sunday in December. Bishop W. M.
Wightman preached the dedication sermon.
leon county.
Cabinet: We learn that a negro man named
Simon, living near Leona, was bitten by an
oppossum last week, fr<_m the effects of
which he died a few days afterwards Last
Sunday evening the wild pigeens made a raid
on the outskirts of Jewett, and all the old
men and boys who could find gun j were out
banging away at them. One man killed m«re
than he could carry.
milam county
San Gabriel correspondence Rockdale Mes
senger : It commenced raining hereon Sun
day evening and rainod until Monday morn
ing, and the wind changed fr«m the south to
the northwest, which resulted in a fearful
storm of wind and rain, blowing all the c Drn
flat to the ground, and has completely ruined
all the cotton that was in tbe felds. The far-
mers will have to go to pu'lins.their corn out
of the mud in the valley fieUs. Along the
Gabriel river it has washed tie corn up and
drifted it up in piles. The riv*r is still rising,
and it is thought by some of tie old settlers
that there will be an overflov. Large drifts
of timber are passing down tie river. There
were also some barrels passed down the cur
rent....Rockdale Messenger: The case of the
county commissioners who were indicted by
the last grand jury for failing to publish a
report of the financial conditpn of-the coun-
ty as required by law, came u{ for trial in the
District Court on Tuesday, butafter an argu-
ment on motion to quash the indictment, the
case was continued until the ntxf court.
M'lennan count*
Waco Examiner, Dec. 1: The trial of A. W.
Jones as an accomplice in the murder of Jas,
McCann was concluded last ni^ht. The argu
ment of the case commenced ii the afternoon
of Thursday. Messrs. Da\ is, Iyer and Her-
ring spoke on behalf of the tefendant, and
Mr. T. C. Smith and Major Tearre for the
State. The jury retired at ei^it o'clock last
night to consider their verdict. At half past
nine they returned a verdict of murder in the
first degree. The punishment s death. The
prisoner, who is a bright, intelligent looking
mulatto, had hoped for acquittd. * * *
At any rate, he looked smiling is the jury en-
tered, and rubbed his yellow lands like one
who hoped for the best; but wten the verdict
was announced his face and manner changed,
and as he went from the courtroom back to
the jail there was a scowl on hijface, and pos-
sibly two pictures in his mind-one, the mur-
dered man McCann; the other the gallows
It has now been about fourteen months
sine^ McCann was lured from his home and
murdered. Of the eight men originally ac
cused of the crime, five are freer* Dublin
Cleaver and Tom Vance are y»t in jail, and
their trials, which were set forlast week, and
necessarily deferred, will probibly take place
in a few days—The thermometer registered
24 degrees above zero at 7 o'dock Thursday
morning, and 18 degrees at the same hour
yesterday. The coldest day last year was the
25th of December. The merciry crept down
to 14 degrees on that day, and on tie 1st of
January, 1877, it stood for a short time at 18
degrees Two wagon loads oi pecans, from
Brown county, sold on the streets yesterday
at $2 per bushel. The nut crop of Brown and
other counties is reported shot of the aver-
age of other seasons and much short of what
was thought it would be.
red river countt.
Clarksville Banner: A lot of Indians were
picking cotton on the farm cf J. H. Burke,
known as the Jonesboro plact. One of the
women left her little child at the end of the
row, expecting to find it there wnen she should
return; but what must have been the disap
pointment of the poor mother when she
came back and found that her innocent little
babe had been devoured by the hogs. The
Iudians were so shocked by the sad and hor-
rible affair that they all left the place, and
Say they will never work upon the farm again.
— The carcass of a bear killed near Bags-
well was brought to Clarksville and sold for
12^6 cents per pound. It was the third ore
killed in the county during the year Mr.
Joe M. Smith, District Deputy Grand Patri
arch, assisted by J. L. Chenowith. M. A.
Bridges, W. D. Shea,W. A. Nunnelee and T. A.
Newman, of Philip Sydney Encampment, I.
O. O. F., of Bonham, have visited Clarksville
and reorganized R. E. Lee Encampment, c f
that place. The officers for the remainder of
the term were elected and installed.
to be resumed.... A brisk week for Wills Point
in the cotton trade.
WALLER COUNTY.
HeriTpstead Courier: We are told that the
white and colored laborers at Aita Vista eat
and sleep together. One of our town carpen-
ters went out to pet a job on the college, but
remonstrated against the c ass familiarities,
and was m<»t with the response that it was all
in a man's raising:. He did not want a job
any longer — The remains of the late Colonel
J. E. Klrby and other deceaoed members of
his family are being removed from the family
burying ground at Alta Vista to the cemetery
at Austin City. 7
WILLIAMSON COUNTY.
Round Rock Reflector: The farmers in the
Swedish settlement are reported to be ear-
nestly engaged in their plans for the lai>est
crop of any season. A great expanse of ntw
lard has been prepared for cotton, grain ana
other marketable products, and the stock in-
terest emulates many of them. This sturdy
classof our population maintain a reputation
of not only successful industry but commend-
able honesty, and may they become eaeh
year a greaier integral in the agricultural
promise and general prosperity of our land.
Round Rock has organized a club for the
purpose of fosterinsr and promoting athletic
exercises. The following c fficers have been
se'ected: James A. Forbes, President; C. C.
Bradford. Vice President; C. E. Diliey, Secre-
tary and Treasurer; S. Strashurger, Captain;
Jas. Baschlin, 1st Lieutenant; Wm. Little, 2d
Lieutenant; Phil Bruckmann, 3d Lieutenant.
The Governing Board embrace the names of
W Bloomburg, S. W. Hill, P. G. Peterg, A. B.
S bley and Henry Burkhardt, together with
the previously named officers.
young county.
The citizens of Belknap and vicinity desire
a good blacksmith to locate in tliat-town.
tarrant county.
Fort Worth Democrat: There seems to be a
probability that the streets of Fort Worth
will be macadamized and graveled without
burdening the city with the expense. The
public-spirited citizens recognizing and ap
preciating tbe amount of expense necessary
to improve a rapidly growing city, are doing
the work by private subscription A farmer
from Denton county came to town yesterday
with three bales of cotton, all of which were
unloaded at the cotton yard of J. A Leonard
corner of Fourth and Houston streets. As
Oiie of the bales was being classed a bag of
meal was found inside. The farmer professed
himself as being entirely ignorant of the fact
and said that the bag must have been pickec.
*p with a quantity of loose cotton before being
ginned and put into the press by accident
The receipts of cotton at Fort Worth for Tues
day, Wednesday and Thursday of last week
were 2034 bales. The receipts of wheat are
light, the supply falling short of the demand,
—Standard: We have been shown a dia
gram for a toll-bridge over the Clear Fork,
drawn by Major Peters, of Chattanooga, Ten-
nessee, the estimated cost of which will be
$2250. The span over the West Fork of the
Trinity, opposite this place, is not greater,
and a bridge can be put over this stream for
the same price, $2250. The diagram of a
bridge gives an elevation of 32 feet above low
water, with two sets of trestle bents, to be
boxed up solid, which can be filed with loose
rock or concreted. The bridge is self-sup-
porting, being constructed with straining
beams and rafters.
trinity county.
Pennington correspondence Crocket Patron.
Trinity county is very near out of debt. Scrip
against the general county fund is selling at
97J^ cents on the dollar. We learn, moreover,
that the commissioners court levied a tax of
only 20 cents on the hundred dollars for een
era! county purposes, against 5'3 cents last
year, which, ft is feared, will materially re
duce the rates of scrip hereafter—Capt. Ma-
gee paid our town a visit a few days ago. Somt
two weeks ago he was tried in Polk county on
a charge of murder and found not guilty. He
has been indicted in this county for murder of
Sheriff Holmes and suppose he will be tried
at the next term of the district court.
van zandt county.
Owing to the continued rains in the early
fa 1 many of our farmers, who were intending
to put in full crops of wheat, failed to do so.
We are glad to learn, however, that they are
taking advantage of the present fair weather
to prepare ground and that wheat-sowing is
Notices, Etc.
MR
„ G., II. 4ND 8. A. Hy., I
Houston, Tex., October 1, 1877. f
JACOB E. FISHER IS
hereby appointed Auditor of this Company,
to take effect this date, and will have mil
charge of all accounts of the Company. Ad-
dress at Houston. Texas until further notice.
oc2 3m T. W. PEIRCE. President.
MARRIED:
DOERR—SCHLIERMAN—At the Lutheran
Church in this city, Monday, Dec. 3, 18T7, by
the Rev. Mr. Rohm, Mr. rhilip Doerr to Miss
Louise Schlierman, both of Now Orleans.
Now Orleans papers please copy. *
DIED:
BALL—At 10 a. m., Tuesday, Mary, daii£hf^r
cf George and Sarah O. Ball.
Puntral will take place at their residence,
5 East Broadway, on Wednesday, at 4 p. m.
Friends of the family aro invited without fur-
her notice.
STEIL—Suddenly of ppasmg, on Monday
evening, Dec, 3, 1877, at 8 o'clock, Emil, son
of F. H. Steil and wife, aged one year and
nine months. _ *
FUNERAL NOTICE.
GALT.E—Members of the Italian Benevolsnt
Association will please take notice that the
funeral of their late brother, Captain Joseph
Galle, will takn place on Wednesday morning,
December 5, at 10 o'clock, from engine houte
of No. 6, Postofflee, between Tremont and
Twenty fourth streets. Friends and acquaint-
ances of the deceased are respectfully re-
quested to attend the funeral.
PETUR DEVOTI,
President Italian Benevolent Society.
Special Notices.
To tlie Consumptive—Let 'Ili .se
who languish under the fatal severity of our
climate ttirough any pulmonary complaint,
or even those who are in decided consumption,
by no means despair. There is a safe and
sure remedy at hand, and one easily tried
" WUbor's Compound Cod Liver Oil and Lime"
without possessing the very nauseating flavor
of the Oil as heretofore used, is endowed by
the phosphate of lime with a healing property
which renders the oil doubly efficacious Re-
markable testimonials of its efficacy shown to
these who defire to see them. A. B. Wilbor,
Chemist. Boston. .
Auction Sales.
Cotton at Auction,
WE. WILL SELL AT
PUBLIC AUCTION
For account of whom it may concern,
0(1 SATURDAY, Dec. 8,1877,
At the
TEXAS COTTON PRESS,
In Galveston, at 12 o'clock noon,
200 Bales
SOUND REPACKED COTTON
2') Bales
ASSORTED COITON PICKINGS,
And
Pickings I) nbaled to tlic Amount
or Abont 100 Bales.
The cotton will be sold in lots to suit pur-
chasers.
Terms Cask.
Samples of the baled cotton will be exhibit-
ed at the office of KAUFFMAN & RUNGE,
and the bales may be examined at the Texas
Press for three days prior to sale.
PARK, LYNCH & CO.,
dec2 td Auctioneers.
New Advertisements.
Steam for Liverpool
DXHECT.
rpHE KEGULAR
trading steamer
AUSTRALIAN,
J. PETER, Commanding,
expected to arrive about 15th Inst.
For further particulars apply to
dssStf WAITHEW tc CO.
Galveston Gas Works
32(1 .and Market Sts.
All orders or complaints,
to receive prompt attention, should be
left at the Secretary's office, in the
0STERMANN BUILDING,
Corner Strand and 22d Street,
between the hours of 8 and 12 o'clock A. ar.
Notice.
OFFICE OF G„ H. AND 8. A Rr. CO., 1
Houstos, October J, 1877. f
^he general offices of
THE
Galveston, Harrisborg and San An-
tonio Railway Company
will Ve located at
nOUSTON, TEXAS,
on and after this date, in VAN ALSTYNE
BUILDING, corner of Main and Congress sts.
oc2 3m JACOB E. FISHER. Secretary.
SPECIAL.
Until further notice, COKE will be sold at
the following rates:
50 barrels and over, at 50 cents per barrel.
1 barrel to 5) barrels, at. .60 cents per barrel.
Orders to be had at this office.
de2 3muna PETER H. ERHARD, Sec'y.
Shortly io Arrive,
4000 Sacks COFFEE
Per " Norddeutselie Scewarle."
Loading in Rio,
4000 Sacks COFFEE
IN STORE :
2500 Sacks COFFEE.
M. KOPPERL.
IJ* STORK.
2500 Bags COFFEE
TO AKK1VE FROM KIO,
4000 Bags COFFEF
J. H. ELSWORTH & CO.
no 16 tfuna
Arrived & Selling from Wliarf
At Reduced Prices
4000 Sks. Coffee.
Loading in Bio.
3500 Sks. Coffee
To Arrive shortly,
4000 Sacks Liverpool Salt.
500 Barrels German Yinegar.
nol4 unatf RAIPFHAN * BUNOB.
PKOCLAMATION—By the Gov-
ernor of the State of Texas. Whereas
certain changes have recently been made, in
a circular issued, to bidders for lease of
Texas State Penitentiary touching the amount
of bond to be tdven, escape of convicts, and
the responsibility of lessees for the same;
therefore I. R. B. Hubbard, Governor of the
State of Texas, with a view to give ample
time for these changes to become generally
known to those proposing to bid, both in ami
out of the State, do hereby direct that the
tim« for opening the bids for the lease be
soRtponed until 11 n'olook -v. m. on Saturday,
lie 15th day of December next, and that up to
that time all persons desiring to put in bida
shall have the right to do so, and said bids so
put in shall be considered and entertained on
the same footing ls though filed previous to
the day or time first fixed upon. In testimo
ny whereof I hereto sign my name and cause
the seal of State to be affixed, at the city of
Auatin, this the 20tli day of November^ A. I>.
1877. K. B. HUBBARD, Governor, liy the
Governor: j. G. Searcy, Secretary of State.
Professional Cards.
Albert N. Mills.
ATTORNEY AT L1W,
(Osterman Building)
STRAND,
Galveston, Texas*
GEO. 1'. KIN LAY.
OSOAK E. FINI.A.Y
Notary Public.
Geo. P. Finlay & Bro.
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
REMOVED TO
71 TREMONT GALVESTON, TEXAS
nol6 3m
ttobi v. davidson.
oeo. w. fulton, jr.
Davidson & Fulton,
ATTORNEYS
AND
COUNSELORS AT LAW,
Moody and Jemison Building,
GA1.YESTOW, - - - - - TEXAS.
Joseph
Franklin,
Real Estate
Attorney at Law and
Agent,
Office, Ballinger A Jack building, room No.
2, Galveston, Texas.
Sole owner of a perfect abstract of the land
titles of Galveston county. Abstracts fur
nisbed. Land titles investigated. ap21 9m
Walter Gresham,
Attorney & Counselor at Law
No. 122 Postofflee Street,
0022-77 ly GALVESTON, TEXAS.
Legal Advertisements.
Trustee's Sale.
\\thereas, ON THE 14TH day
▼ ▼ of August, A. I). 18T6, the ''GALVES-
TON MILLS COMPANY," composed of Oliver
P. Hurford, Alfred C. Garcia, H. M Hale,
Henry White, and Luther Becker, made, exe-
cuted and delivered to James M. Brown, their
certain promissory note for ten thousand dol-
lars, payable to James M Brown or his order,
beariug interest at the rate of twelve per cen-
tum per annum, payable quarter yearly from
date; and at the same time executea their
certain deed of truat, securing the payment
of said note on all their risht..
terest in and to nortueast quarter of blcck
five hundred and seventy-two, (5<2,) in the
city of (^'veaton, held by them under a con-
tract for lease or purchase with C. B. Adams
and N. B. Yard, rfated the 34th of January,
l«rr», being a l^ase for ten years from the first
of March, 1876, for a piece of land in said
northeast quarter of said block, measuring
one hundred and forty feet on Mechanic
street, by ninety feet in depth, with privilege
of purchase. Also, the thre -storv and a half
mill building, situated on said 140 by 90 feet
in said block, and all other improvements
thereon; also the machinery, all and singular,
in said building or on said lot, which are now
particularly described, as follows:
property in engine house.
One steam engine. 20x24 inch cylinder: one
fly wheel. 7500 pounds; one band wheel, 8 feet
in disinter, weight 4000 pounds; one heater
and condenser; one Knowlds cold water pump;
one steam doctor, or hot water supply pump;
three 1 :comotive boilers, 14 feet loDg, 48 inch
diameter; one steam gauge; three water
gauges: one steam dome; one mud dram; full
set of steam and water pipes for making all
necessary connections; one main belt 100 feet
long, 24 inches wide.
property in basehent story of hill.
One main drive pulley, 7 feet in diameter
and 26 inch face; one main shaft, -c6 feet long,
0 inch diameter, running through husk frame;
one husk frame; six 52 inch wheels to drive
burrs: six pinions on spicdles; six spindles
8 feet long; six inks for same; six sets lighter
ha s. tram pots, bridge trees, lighter bars and
screws complete to fit up six run of burs.
property on stone floor of hill.
Six run of 3y$ feet, French burrs complete
with bed stones and runners curbs, and silent
feed, as manufactured by Straub Mills Co,
one flour packing machine, one proof staff,
one red staff.
property on second floor.
Five stock hoppers, two wheat bins, one
bran chest, one flour chest, four bolting
chests, complete w ith reels, conveyors, cloths,
an igeaiings to operate same, one midd ing
purifier.
property on third floor.
One bran duster, one middling purifier, one
wheat separator, two wheat smutters, one
Barnard's aud Lee's brush scourer, one bolt
ing chest, one bran separator, fourteen sets
of elevators complete, with belts, cups and
pulleys, full supply of main shafting, pulleys,
counter shaftenings and bevel wheels to run
same.
viscellaneous property.
One Howe track scales, one flour scale dor
mant, one Fairbanks lever scale on wheels,
one smokestack.
The whole a* above specified completing
the " mills" as it now stands, all said property
in the city of Galveston, which said deed of
trust is of record in the office of the Clerk of the
County Court of Galveston county, in book21,
pages 472, 473, 474 and 475; and whereas on
the 15th day of May, A. D 1817, said James
M. Brown, for a valuable consideration, sold
trarsferred and assigned said note anc
deed of trust to G. B. Miller & Co., with all the
rights, powers and privileges held by said
James M. Brown, and which said transfer is
recorded in book 22, pages 462 and 463; and
whereas it is provided in said deed of trust,
that if the said note be not paid at maturity
to tne holder thereof upon demand being
made therefor, the trustee named therein
Thomas Reed, shall become immediately en
titled to the possession of said property,
and at the request of said James M. Brown or
of the holders of said note, he shall sell
said property, as hereinbefore described; and
whereas the said note matured on the 14th day
of August, A. D. 1877, and payment has been
many times demanded ani still remains un
paid, I, Thomas Heed, as said trustee, at the
request of the legal owners and holders of
said prom ssory note and deed of trust, and
by virtue of the power vested in me by said
deed of trust, will proceed to sell the above
described property at public auction, in front
of said premises, on Mechanic street, in the
city of Galveston, durin? the legal hours of
sale, to the highest and best bidder, for casbi
At or about 12 o'clock m., Saturday,
December the 15th, A. D. 1877,
to satisfy said note and interest due thereon,
and after sale thereof I will make such title to
said property as I am authorized to do by
said deed of trust, THOS. REEl).
de2td Trustee.
Maehinery.
Manchester locomotive
Works, Established in 1853.
Manufacture all kinds of !xx:omotives, and
have recently purchased of the Amoskeag
Manufacturing Company all the patterns,
patents, and the good will for the manufacture
of their celebrated Steam Fire Engints and
Fire Apparatus, and are now prepared to re-
ceive and execute orders promptly. Send for
descriptive circular. aRETAS BLOOD,
no23 12m Agent, Manchester, N. H.
Ballinger, Jack & Mott,
Attorneys & Counselors at Law
No. 122 Postofflee Street,
noH tf OAT.VESTON. TEXAS.
X. HOLLAND,
Attorney at Law and Land Agent,
BELLEVILLE,
Ju 6m AUSTIN CO., TEXAS.
Education a 1.
COMMERCIAL COLLEGE
And Institute of Penmanship, Telegraphy,
Surveying and Drafting.
COOK BUILDING, AU8TIN, TEXAS.
Conducted by a graduate of Eastman College
Poughkeepsie, New York.
Life Scholarship for Business Course $40
Telegraphy 25
Prof. Cheesman's
C/D
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CO
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OPEN EVERY DAY from 3 till 5.30 p. M.
For particulars, please ask for Circular at
Me-srs. Uoggan's Music Stork, or call at the
HALL, any day from 3 to 4 p. *.
Very respectfully,
selB 3m O. F. OHKESMAN.
Partners Iilp-Dissolution
Dissolution.
The firm of mendez & mo-
RALES,
CIGAR MANUFACTURERS,
i<* this day dissolved by mutual consent, Mr.
M. A. MORALES continuing the business at
the same place. He will also settle the liabili-
ties and collect all outstanding a'counts due
the old Arm. J. MENDEZ,
M. A. MORALES.
Galveston, Dec. 1,1877.
Ma. morales, manufac-
• TURER OF FINE CIGAR8, requests a
continuation of past favors from the friends
of the late Arm aDd the public in general at
the old stand, 323 Tremont st, near Market.
N. B.—Will clcse out a lot of Pipes and
Smoker's articles very cheap. ae4 lm
Dissolution.
GaL7ESTon, Texas, Dec. 1, 1877.
rphe firm, harlan, duf-
I FIELD & CO., Of the Bank Exchange
Saloon and Billiard Hall, is this day dissolved
by mutual consent.
HARJAN, DUFFIEI.D <6 CO.
Having purchased the interests of my late
copartners in the
SANK EXCHANGE
and assuming all Indebtedness of the old firm
I beg to inform friends, and the public
generally, that TWlU continue tha business
for my own a/*
Lp.cii Daily at 10.30 A. M.
Tl. large and well-ventilated Hall, recently
-piied, is furnished with twelve of the latest
„yle of Novelty tables, and the Bar and Cigar
Jtand are stocked'with the choicest brands of
Imported Liquors and Cigars.
No pains will be spared to make this one of
the most attractive establishments of its kinc
in the United States. SAM. D. HARLAN-
HEW MACHINE SHOP.
.'mi' 8TBAND IRON WORKS,
36 aud 27 Strand,
A RB NOW READY TO REPAIR
XV Steam Engines and other Machinery.
Having placed in shop New Machinery, we
can de good work at low prices, Housesmith-
Ing, iron doors and window shutters, etc.
Je21 6m J. A8TALL, Galveston. Tex.
FURST & BRADLEY.
AND
AVK
Plows and Cultivators
The only genuine avery
PLOWS in this market. All others not
liavlrg the firm name of B. F. AVEEY <fc SONS
and tteir trademark stamped in the baama
ABE NOT AVERY PLOWS
nnl8 3m
II. niRSCH & CO.
SHEAN & DISBROW,
Copper, Brass
And
Sheet Iron Workers,
Manufacturers of Improved
Steam Batteries and Clariflers
For Making Sugar, and Dealers in
STEAM, WATER AND GAS PIPES,
Brass Goods, Etc.
157 aud 159 East mechanic Street,
GALVESTON.
Special rates on large orders of Pipe
Brass Qoods. jy2» 5m
and
o b. lbs.
JOSH-J AUILLKK.
LEE IRON WORKS.
C. B. L.KE & CO
Iron 3 Brass Founders
AND
Trustee's Sale.
ON THE 12TH DAY OF DE-
cerober, 1877, at 12 K , on said day. I
shall offer for sale, and sell in front of the
Cotton Exchange, in the city of Galveston, at
public auction, to the highest bidder for caab,
the following described property in said city,
viz:
Lot No. 8, in block number seven hundred
and thirty-three (733); also all the right
and interest of John A. Caplen in and to lots
numbers two hundred and sixty nine (269) and
two hundred and seventy-six (i}7»i), in section
number two (2) of Trimble & Lindsay's sur-
vey, on Galveston Island, in the county of
Galveston; also a frame cottage situated on
lot number fourteen (14), in block number
seven hundred and thirty-four (734), In the
city ef Galveston, with the lease of the lot for
its unexpired time.
The sale is made by me as trustee in a trust
deed dated the 12th of April, 1877, recorded
May 3d, 1877, in Book 22, pages 365, 366 and
367, Galveston County Records (to which re-
ference is hereby made for particulars), to en-
force payment of a note for the sum of Five
Hundred and Fifty Dollars, of date April 12,
18:0, and due three months from that date;
wilh 12 per cent, interest from date—said
note being past due and unpaid—at the re
quest of the holder and fpayee of said note,
and such title will be made to the purchaser
as I am authorized to make by said trust
deed, subject to a prior mortgage on Lot 8,
Block 733, for $400, recorded in Book 12, pages
536, 537-»nd 138.
deel td
EDWARD T. AUSTl:
Trustee.
Trustees Sale.
VIST" HERE AS, ON THE 26th DAY
V T of July, A. D. 1876, JAS. T. HUFFMA8-
TER made, executed and delivered to me as
Trustee his certain Deed of Trust to secure
his certain promissory note of even date
therewith, due and payable to the order <jf A.
P. Luckett, President, which said note, so
made and executed is for the su» of Twenty-
two Hundred and Fifty Dollare, and is payable
by the terms thereof two years after date,
and bears interest at the rate of twelve per
cent, per annum fro*" date, interest payable
quarter yearly; e^id whereas it is provided by
tne terms of said deed of trust, which con-
veys to me as trustee for the security of said
note, tho northwest and northeast quarters
jf the northwest block of outlot No. Ill, and
the northwest and southwest quarters of the
northwest block of ouilot No. 162, in the city
of Galveston, that in the event the said
James T. Huff master shall fail to pay the
quarter yearly interest on his Baid note,
that his said note and the interest due there-
on shall thereby mature ; and whereas
the said James T. Huffmaster has failed and
made default in the payment of the interest
due on his said note for the quarter ending
October 26th, 1877, I Henry W. Rhodes, the
Trustee named in said Deed of Trust, which
is of record in the office of the Clerk of the
County Court of Galveston County, in Book 21,
pages 41!) and 420, at the request of the legal
holdflr of said note, hereby give public notice
that I will on
Thursday, hie 13th Day of Decem-
ber, 1877,
between the hours of 12 o'clock m. and
o'clock p. m., at the Court-house door, in the
city of Galveston, sell to the highest and best
bidder for cash, the following described prop-
erty, being the property conveyed to me by
said deed of trust, viz: The northwest and
northeast quarters of the northwest block
of outlot No. Ill, and the northwest and south-
west quarters of the northwest block of outlot
No. 162, in the city of GalvestoD, and that I
will convey to the purchaser such title as I am
authorized to make by the terms of said deed
of trust. HENKY W. RHODES,
no30 106 Trustee.
MACHINISTS.
manufacturers of
STEAM ENGINES,
SAW MILLS,
BOILERS,
N1LL AND GIN GLARING,
Shafting, Pulleys, Brass and Iron
Pumps, Etc., Etc.
Particular attention given to arders for Iron
Fronts and Castings for Buildings.
All kinds ot Job Work solicited.
Satisfaction guaranteed.
Corner Winnie and 33d Sts.,
(Near Railroad Depot),
GALVESTON, TEXA8.
CQRN-SHELLER,
Shucker and Sacker
COMBINED.
HAND AND STEAM POWER
Shellers and Feed-Cutters
Straub Corn-Mills, Ames Engines,
Ithaca Sulky Hay Rakes,
MEIELE PLOWS,
Eagle Gins, Colton Presses,
Little Giant Corn and
Cob Crushers.
£gr"Send for Circulars.
w. lj. CUSHING & MOORE,
Nos. 12} and 124 Strand,
Bel6'7712m GALVESTON
Building Materials.
SANBORN & WARNER,
Manufacturers' Agents for the State of Texas.
tflidden's Patent Sleel Barb Fence
Wire,
Galvanized or Japanned—Prices Reduced.
The only all-steel coil
ED WIRE BARB. Fully licensed, under
all tbe first patents, to be made or used.
ne3> 3m* HOUSTON, TKX A S.
LUMBER.
GRAND OPENING
Lotteries.
Havana Roya1 Lottery
Grand Extraor^nay Drawing
"Will Take Pla* Dec. 31, 1S7T.
Capital Pjize, $500,000!
ONL V 11000 TICKETS.
2346 Prizes .'#1.850 000 iu Money.
JnfermaWon frnlshed. Orders filled. Prizes
cashed. Spanil Gold and Havana Bank Bills
bought and sol
r. MASCH, 42 Decatur St,
no2S su&we New Orleans, La.
HOLIDAY GOODS
AT THE
Great Dollar Store
171 MARKET STREET.
LEWIS & ROTHSCHILD,
PROPRIETORS.
Call and gee tuts t«v
TRAIN OF STEAM CARS
IX ACTUAIi MOTION.
JOS. LABADIE IS SELLING A
better Solder than No. 1 for 14c.;
Coal Scutt'e 50c.; Shorel 10c.; Poker 10c.;
Coal Sifters, Kitchen Set, Buck Saws; Hand
Saws for $1; Hatchets for 50c.; Teakettles,
Iron and Galvanized Spiders, Round and
Sq .are Griddles, Soapstone do., Funnels and
Measures, Coffee Pots 15c., Bath Brick, Rot-
ten Stone, [Emory, Glue, Sand Paper, Pumice
Stone, Hand Si polio. Nails, Screws, Brads,
Hinges, Padlocks, Door-locks, Door-springs,
Files, Rasps, Rakps, Hoes, Spades, Scrub and
Paint Brushes, Paints, Oils, Turpentine, Var-
nishes, Neat Foot Oil, Oars, Blocks, Rope,
Canvas, Anchors, Chains, Neeilss, Little Dog
Collars and Locks, big ones too, Baskets, Car-
penters' Tools, Tacks, Stone Hammers, Fau-
oets, Levels, Clubs, Dumb-bells, Fine Guns,
Powder, Shot, Metallic Cartridges, all kinds of
Sporting Goods—CHEAP. de2 eod
SASH, DOORS, BLINDS
And MOULDINGS.
GOOD GOODS. - - - LOW PRICES.
GUSTORF & CO.,
CHICAGO,
Mills at 255, 257 tc 259 20tb St.
To Arrive and In Store:
5000 barrels
Rosendale Hydraulic Cement,
500 bbls. SAYLOR'S PORTLAND CEMENT
400 bbls. Extra No. 1 PLASTER PARIS,
2000 bbls. Austin and Alabama Finishing
LIME,
15,000 lbs. EXTRA. PLASTERING HAIR,
10,000 NO. 1 FIRE BRICKS,
200,000 LATHS,
40,000 PHILADELPHIA PRESS BRICKS.
Also, Finn CI,A*, FIRE TILES,
White Saqd, Marble Dust, Concrete Drain
Pipes, Chimnej s, Uaraeu Curbing? Crocks
Plaster Ornaments and Centers, Coarse and
Fine Salt.
GEO. H. HENCHMAN,
COR. 8TRAND AND BATH AVENUE.
de2 su we fr
For Sale—For Rent.
For Sale,
A 48-Inch Tyler Compress,
/^OMPLETE, as it now stands,
V-/ In working order, at the Southern Cot-
ton Press and Manufacturing Company's Fac-
tors' Press Yard. This compress is the same
as the compress at work at Waco.
ocl6 tf A. P. LUFKIN. Agent.
Land for Sale.
A tract of land located
on the Nueces river, twenty miles above
Corpus Chnavi, -.lied the Barranca Blanca.
fronting on the river ono half mUeg an°J
running back five miles, containing tj,ou.
sand six hundred and seventy-five acres, one
of the best locations on the river for a rancho,
having a fine view of the surrounding coun-
try, an abundance of water in the dryest sea-
sons. The same is now occupied by Mrs.
Janet Bryden, as a sheep rancho. Price mod-
erate. Terms easy. Apply to
DODDRIDGE & DAVIS,
oc7 eod3m Bankers, Corpus Christi
Banks and Bankers.
JAMES T THORNTON,
SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS.
A General Banking Business transacted
Collection) made and promptly remitted. Ex-
ohanje bought and sold. fel6 18m
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