The Galveston Daily News. (Galveston, Tex.), Vol. 33, No. 275, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 23, 1876 Page: 2 of 4

                                
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Galveston, October 1, 1875.
Thursday, March 23. 1S7G.
UTATE PHESS.
The Gonzales Iii'jiiirer-Inde,r, in look-
ing over the report of the Comptroller
of the State, was led to examine xliat
portion of it embraced under the head
of occupation taxes, and the amount
paid by each county for the year 1875.
As a matter of comparison it presents
the returns from a few counties, which
present this rather anomalous state of
affairs. For instance:
COCXTY.
Galveston. .
Dallas
Bexar 
Grayson 
Fayette 
Colorado  
Harris  
Harrison. ....
McLennan
Travis  
Lamar  
Marion  
Gonzales 
In 1874. In 1875.
s-m.1ks
.. 18,177 5.KH0
11.711# 12.967
12.8*4 10.131
8.524 9,727
.. 7,0M tt.142
.. IT.IHTI 10.720
.. 4.1*1 0,910
10,179 8,KHS
10,1H5 14.8H5
5,«82 4.912
M,4.M 4,570
. 4.H09 15,711
The Inquirer-Index remarks:
As will be seen, we have selected those
counties wherein an' situated the largest
towns and cities. These figures show that in
some counties the amounts returned have in-
creased. and decreased in others; and if they
aro to be taken as a criteron to judge of the
pros|H*rity of the towns and cities situated in
them, then must we conclude that all the
boasted increase in growth and population
held out by the newspapers of certain localities
are toyb iieMoa tad a —are. Galveston
increases her amount by nearly $5000; Bexar
decreases slightly: Grayson likewise: Travis
increased over $4000: Marion decreased nearly
one-half. But we will let our readers draw
their own comparison. What we wish more
particularly to call attention to, is the marked
difference in the returns of Dallas and Harris
counties. The former drops from $13,177 47 in
1*71, to 70 in ls7.'». Harris falls from
917,106 19 la 1*71, to $10,7905 in IKS.
According to these figures there has
been a terrible falling off in business in both
Ifctllas and Houston during the past year, else
the persons intrusted with the collection of
these taxes in those cities have failed to per-
form their duties promptly, or, baring done
so. have failed to pay over or account for
them. The papers of those cities, especially
Dallas, are ever boasting of the rapid growth
of business and improvement going on in their
respective cities. Vet old Gonzales pays into
the treasury of the State very nearly as much
as does Dallas, and about half as much as does
Harris, both having cities claiming from 25,000
to .'10,000 souls, while this county claims only
about one-half that number for its entire popu-
lation. It would therefore be interesting to
have some one rise up and explain why it is
there has been such a terrible falling off in
amount of these taxes in Dallas and Harris
counties, especially the former.
The Guailalupe Time* boasts that "Se-
£Uin at present furnishes a Supreme
.Judge, a District .Judge, District Attor-
ney, Superintendent of Deaf and Dumb
Asylum, and under the new eonstitu
lion will furnish a United States Sena
tor, a Representative, Appellate Judge,
and Superintendent of Deaf and Dumb
Asylum." Still, the lime* is not satis-
tied anil happy as one would naturally
suppose, but lieads a jeremiad with the
words, "The Wail of the Outcast,"
and thus anathematizes some other jour-
nal, person or thing, not named in the
article:
Poor, miserable, frenzied. You would not
sup|»ort Ireland for the Senate. Ireland does
not want yeur support. He seeks only
the support of those who recognize the
t.K t that there are other sjmts in this bfoad
State than where he lives. He seeks only the
support of those who can labor for a whole
fteople. He does not ask the support of those
who can strew the path of Sheridan, who
boasted of the number of women and children
he had made homeless, and of Belknap, the
se|f-<*onvicted bird, with flowers, and who cx-
Jtended ten thousand dollars to get this same
lelknap to erect a depot in their midst.
Your support.. What support have you to
give any one? Your pretended support would
ruin any man. You are hunting some one to
sympathise with you. You anil the Victoria
Aurora'? are likely to elect a Senator. You
jump clear across a territory large enough to
make a grand State, to find one man at the
other extremity to join you.
Western Texns is a unit for Ireland. Your
opposition does not prove this proposition
untrue. The Victoria Advocate wishes Mr.
Htockdale for the Senate.
Why did you not form that combination at
Goliad? You now find it necessary to form
combinations against the free voice of the peo-
ple. We will combine. We, the editor or the
Ifrrald ami the editor of the Advocate. Well,
when this combination takes place let the peo-
ple be silent.
This is the beginning, body and end
of the mysterious article. Where be
the soothsayers? and what is the matter
with Hannah, any way?
The Dallas Commercial has had its
feelings hurt by the remark of tlieCorsi-
eana Index, that the assertion that the
Dallas Mardi Gras celebration was much
finer and more numerously attended
than the Galveston festival, should
l>e taken cum tjrano talis. The Com-
mercinl wants to know whether this
is a reflection on the energy and enter-
prise, or the intelligence of Galveston.
Neither, perhaps; it seemsjrather to affect
the reliability of Dallas papers.
The Waco Examiner is like the old
Benedict, and, does not want any help in
the matter of running Governor Coke for
the Senate, and is particularly jealous
lest some other paper should claim to l>c
the executive organ. Having given the
Houston Telegraph a lick back for its
volunteer aid in the matter, it now
hands the Austin Statesman another,
thus:
The Austin Stat'*man is warmly supporting
Coke for the Senate. Perhaps it wants to be
on the winning side once, just to see how it
feels, and i»erhaps it would like for some one
to call it "a organ." just to hear how it
sounds. Well, in* its motive what it may. the
SfatMnari has found the right track, if it will
only keep it. It was one of the ablest, bitter
est and most eonsistent of <Jov. Coke's appo-
nents. and it is no small triumph for him to
have forced the Statesman into a recognition of
his merits as a man, an officer, and a patriot.
" Forced " is a good word.
The Frontiersman always has a word
of encouragement for the enterprising
citizcn. It says:
It always gratifies us to note evidences of
prosperity among our people, and especially
i" this the case when manifest in those still on
the sunny side of life, hale and hearty. We
are le.J "to these remarks by observing the
many hours of leisure some of our fellow-citi-
zens are able to indulge in ami the large pro-
portion of work days they can devote to the
noble scienee of throwing horse shoes at a
pe* firmly driven in the ground. The fact evi-
dences an amount of pecuniary accumulation
and of ample incomes not often experienced
in a new country. It proves how quickly and
readily men are abb- to live independent of
labor in this highly favored region. We call
the careful attention of intending immigrants,
••socially that large class seeking a location
where bread and brandy are won without
great and continuous effort, to this felicitious
state of affairs, and warmly eomrratnlate the
skillful tpioit players on the exceedingly happy
situation.
The Sherman I'atrial is complimen-
tary as well as patriotic. It s;iys: '• The
NfcWS is one of the best papers in the
Southwest, and has deservedly a larse
circulation which its enterprise has
earned for it in Texas."
The Cucro Star devotes a chapter to
"The Carnival of Crime: What is the
Proper Remedy?" and says:
It is clearly evident that our laws, as at
present executed, fail, most signally, of secur-
ing to the people that protection so much de-
sired. Instead of abating crime, and protect-
ing the citizen in life and property, crime is on
the increase, and life ana property each day
become less secure. Certainly, something
should l>e done. In our opinion, we must
cither have an efficient police system in the
disturbed districts of the State, or we must re-
sort to the court of his Honor. Judge Lynch—
the latter a most dangerous, though sometimes
effective, means of reaching the ends of justice.
We know that since the experiences under
the i la vis rer/irne, our people distrust a State
police. Still, we think this no argument. Be-
cause Iiavis, upon mere partisan grounds, or-
ganized from the worst elements of the State, a
force for partisan ends, and used said force
mainly as an instrument of persecution against
the best an ft most law-abiding citizens of the
country, it is no argument against the organi-
zation of a police force, from the best class of
our citizens, with well defined duties, to act as
permanent jtOAM* in the execution of law and
the mandates of the courts, in the suppression
of crime, in the ferreting out, arrest ami
bringing to justice the law-breakers and
criminals who now infest the country. We
say the failure of Davis, and his abuse of the
system, does not, or should not, militate
against the organization of such a force as we
hinted at above.
A writer in the Sherman Regutter
tells "what kind of a man" it wants for
Mayor of that city, which is a new place
and ought not to expect too much.
The following, however, arc put down
as the qualities desired: "A man re-
spected by all at home, and also abroad;
a man of influence, morally and finan-
cially; a man of good financial ability
who can advise how to succeed without
money; a man who can keep up the city
govcrnment with city 'orders,' for which
the treasurer has not. a single cent to
pay; a man who will be on the streets
and observe attentively where they
ought to be fixed, and where at least
some repair is absolutely necessary, who
will stand by and sec that the work done
on streets and wherever needed; a man
who will be out 'in the dark as well as
in the light,' to sec whether the city
marshal and policemen are on guard and
perform their duties faithfully, who
will see that all our city ordinances are
enforced and carried out, and no par-
tiality shown to anybody; a man who
will be on our sidewalks and see that
they are kept in good repair and not ob-
structed; a man who sacrifices his popu-
larity for the good order and benefit of
the city, and who cares for nobody by
caring for all, and a man who docs not
think that the robe of a Roman Senator
makes the Mayor." This looks like
asking a little too much lor a new town
in Texas.
The En at Texas Democrat, published
ut Moscow, Polk county, makes the
complaint which follows:
One of our merchants has just received the
account sales of two bales of cotton sold in
Galveston. recently, for the nice little sum of
twenty-eight dollars and some cents. The two
hales weighed here something over one thou-
sand pounds, ami cost him. in the way of col-
lecting accounts, ten cents per pound. An-
other. closer home, lias just received the state-
ment showing sales of two bales, one for *k\
and the other for J'%c. lie hopes there are
not many "ends adrift." nor many pickings,
or they will bring him in debt. Such sales as
these are liable to close one out who has little
capital, and we think, although always contra-
ry to our factors'* advice, one would be iusti-
fiable to "hold."
The Henderson Times is greatly dis-
turbed at reading a paragraph in the
News, in which it was said, in relation
to the choice of I". S. Senator:
Texas needs the man who can render her the
most effectual service at present—the man
who can command the largest influence in
Congress in securing the success of measures
for the present and future of the State—who
has the largest circle of influential friends,
and whose antecedents are not liable to be
used against his section by the fanatical and
scheming politicians of other portions of the
Union, and who can render most efficient aid
in promoting measures for the extension of
her commerce and the defense of her harbor,
as well as for the benefit of the State at large,
the pacification of the frontier, the develop-
ment of interior resources, the lessening of the
burdens of government, and the restoration
of an era of peace and prosperity throughout
the nation.
The Time.i takes issue with all this,
and wants an cx-Cor federate for the
place, but magnanimously says it will
"act on the adage 'let bygones be by-
gones,' unless driven to a defense of
what we believe to be the right by just
such mischievous articles as the one
above." Keep cool, brother, and
"stand for the right" without being
driven. (Sound and fury signify but
little at a time like the present, though
there may be times when the velie
mence of the 'limes will pass for some
thing.
The Houston Aye deprecates the bad
temper shown by the Bryan Appeal in
regard to the choice of United States
Senator The Aye had, as it says,
" simply announced a painful convic-
tion which beset us that a portion of
the4 Texas press was about being led
away from the strict line of Demo-
cratic faith which always puts mea
sures before men," and it complains
that this caused the Ajtpeul to take of-
fense and retort in an ill-natured way.
The Age explains and apologizes by
saj ing;
Coke is a good Democrat, we know. In fact
we may say he is so superlatively excellent a
Democrat that his zeal sometimes drives him
athwart the delicate line of persona! and ofti
cial dignity from which no gentleman should
depart.. We were a delegate to the late Dem-
ocratic State Convention at Galveston, and are
cognizant of the fact that this element in
Coke's character caused him to offend that
body by forcing himself into too great promi-
nence there. He was not a delegate, and had
he possessed that nice sense of propriety
which we Southern Democrats especially so
much admire in our officials, he would nave
remained away, or at least not allowed himself
to become so excessively conspicuous. This
indecency was condoned on account of his hav-
ing made an efficient officer, but the feeling
was that he did not respect himself properly
nor the convention by his unseemly conspicu-
ousness. Coke has a strong individuality and
can impress certain Boswells of the press with
such a sense of his majesty that
they are blinded to his faults, or trans
mute them into virtues. but a free
Democratic press will discuss his errors as
well as his virtues. He is a man and will pass
away, but justice is eternal, and in obedient*
to its behests we rejK*at that the west is enti-
tled to name the Senator, and we believe that
John Ireland is its choice for that position.
We advise the Apjteal to beware of Boswellism.
Having thus answered the Apjwd "according
to its folly,'' we reply to its billingsgate by
saying that our education ami instincts forbid
us to "throw diii," especially with those
whose linen during childhood was evidently
not of the texture and cleanliness which is
promotive of refinement, or which argues the
iK'St social position and the greatest moral en-
lightenment. We do not desire to be severe,
and therefore we hope the Apj*af will be a lit-
tle more cautious, else we may be forced to
tell why it is that Coke, as Governor, has had
occasion to place the editor of that paper un-
der certain peculiar obligations to himself,
whom none other save a Governor could do.
The following is the paragraph in the
Ay which excited the ire of the Appeal:
There is an unfortunate disposition shown
by certain newspapers in the interior, who ad-
vocMe Mr. Coke's claims for the United States
Senate to deal in long-winded rigmarole.
They spin out their loose threads of panegyric
in every issue, until we wonder at the capacitv.
and ask. will it stretch out to the * crack of
doom: We imagine that even Mr. Coke
would get tired of it. Now. we protest against
this thing in foto. We enjoy music, but we
can not, like Blind Tom, eliminate sweet con-
cord from an Infernal charivari. There is
neither pith nor point to the monotonous repe-
tition or their barren formula, viz: ' Coke**
our man. Coke's our man. Coke's our man.
We don't know whether he'll run t h, but
Coke's our man," ctc.. etc.. etc., a>l infinitum.
This sort of trombone din may do for the
Feejee Islanders, but, for pity's sake, gentle-
men of the Texas press, spare our enlightened.
Caucasian feelings. It will kill us, if it don't
Coke. We would not have any one to admire
vm so lengthily and so loudly as this for any
earthly consideration.
Nevertheless, the Jefferson Leader is
for Coke still, and keeps harping,
whether the Aye likes it or not. The
Leal r, which is independent in all
t lings, siys:
We do not know that the of the State
pr fer Coke, or that he has earned the office,
hut we are unequivocally for his election
against any and all candidates. We opposed
him for Governor, and. to be consistent, must
favor him for any pla e that will ^ct him out
of the gul»ernatori*I chair. We feel quite sure
that either Mr. Hancock, Governor Htockdale,
Mr. Mills, and many other gentlemen in Texas
would make a much abler and better Senator
than Coke, but nevertheless, we are for Coke.
In the Senate, if he can do the State no good,
he will not be able to do it any harm: and by
his selection for that position. Texas will secure
for her Governor an able, intelligent and dig-
nified gentleman. We agree with the States-
man. that "there is no well founded objection
to Hubbard's successorship to Coke. His abil-
ity and personal worth are unquestioned, and
especially must this be conceded when it is
shown that even Governor Coke, making
speeches as he did. and lauded as he was every-
where, was not approved by the ballot-box
more eloquently or earnestly than Dick Hub-
bard."
l|We repeat, we are for Coke for United States
Senator, and we believe with the Stat' tinan
that his •• emphatic indorsement by the peo-
ple is significant rather of their wish that he
should go to the Senate than that he should
remain Governor. In fact. Coke's election to
the Senate was the foregoing conclusion of the
people when they supported him with such
extraordinary unanimity in recent elec-
tions.
This is a fair sample of the arguments
in this direction. The old casuists
could not hold a candle to our modern
logicians.
The Waco Reporter says:
The mental anxiety of the Bryan Appeal on
the Senatorial question must be tearful.
Three weeks a^o it opposed Cok«r as the next
Senator. The week after it concluded that
after all he was probably the best man for the
position: and now it is in doubt again—wrest-
ling with the question as it were. It thinks
that as Coke was mainly instrumental in the
adoption of the new constitution, he should
stand at tho helm until the ship of state is
safely piloted over the troubled waters.
STATE NEWS.
BANDERA COUNTY.
lion. J. A. Ware, Judge of the
Twenty-Fourth Judicial District, in his
retirement from the bench, has been
complimented by tjie bar at a meeting
in Bandera, with resolutions commend-
ing him as an able and faithful officer.
BELL COUNTY.
Belton is improving rapidly, two
story stone houses seem to be the order
.. . .The Catholic church will soon be
completed and ready for service, and
will be dedicated on the tirst Sunday in
April .. .Dr. 11. I. Boyd, who lives on
Cedar creek, in this county, had some
samples of wool in tdWn last week. It
was soft, smooth and fine; one sample
was nine inches long and the other cle
ven. They were from the Leicester
shire and Lincolnshire sheep. The doctor
has had these sheep for some time and
says they are the healthiest and hardiest
he has yet seen... .Mr. II. J. Chamber
lain has received the appointment of
postmaster at Belton.
BEXAR COUNTY.
San Antonio is the geographical
topographical, commercial, social, po-
litical and ecclesiastical capital of West
Texas, or all Texas lying between the
Colorado and the Rio Grande rivers—a
section of country larger than any
other State of the Union. The city is
about l.")0 years old. Under Mexican
rule it once numbered 30,000 people;
but, dwindling down under American
rule, it numbered only 8900 in 18.)0.
Since that time it has gradually increas-
ed in size; and such has been its growth
since the war, that we now have
nearly 20,000 permanent inhabitants.
Roman Catholicism has been identified
with this city from its beginning. In-
deed, its historic origin was a Roman
Catholic mission, established here for
the conversion of the Indians. It is a
see, has a bishop, a cathedral, a male
college, a female convent, a hospital,
and any number of institutions peculiar
to Rome. Protestant religion here goes
back only to 1840. In June, 1846, Rev.
John McCullougli organized the first
Protestant church in this city. The
Methodists, Baptists and Episcopalians
also have church organizations here....
The San Antonio Herald says Mr. Jas.
II. Taylor, of San Felipe, :tn old Texan,
who has for a loug time been an invalid
at Schmitt's Hotel, is in a dying condi
tion. His disease is consumption.... A
Mexican boy about 13 years of age was
killed west of the San Pedro Sunday
evening. lie was flying a kite, when
the fierce west wind commenced to
blow, and took refuge on the east side
of a jural. Shortly after he had seated
himself the walls were blown down
upon him, killing him instantly.
COOKE COUNTY.
The cold has cooked the peaches; but
it is hoped that the grain crops arc not
materially damaged.
EL PASO COUNTY.
At Fort Davis, on the 6th inst., about
eight o'clock in the morning, the wind
commenced to blow, increasing in vio-
lence until about 11 o'clock, when all
its powers appeared to be concentrated
on the post, in a hurricane and whirl
wind uncqualed by anything of the
kind known here before. Men were
thrown down, the corral walls blown
over, sound oak trees, seven and eight
inches in diameter, twisted olf like
straws, ceilings brought down in offi-
cers' quarters, and finally the tin on the
roof of the new hospital gave way,
leaving about one-third of the roof
open, and soon the same effect was pro
duccd on the roof of the quartermaster
store-house. Shingles were Hying in
every direction, and the windows in the
barracks blown in.
FRIO COUNTY.
Most all of Frio county is first-class
grazing land, either for horses, cattle or
sheep, and there are a few parts of this
State of the same area that have as
much irrigable land, most of which lies
along the banks of the second of the
rivers above mentioned intersecting the
county, and within five miles of the
center of the county, and eighteen miles
from Frio City, the residents have loca-
ted a town which has been called
" Leona." on the river of the same
name. The lands on both sides of the
Leona, for the whole distance through
this county are bordered with a luxu
riant growth of live oak, pecan, elm,
ash, liackberry and other timbers, with
myriads of grape vines. Every few
hundred yards along and near the
margin of the river are lovely building
and farm sites. The dry season of this
section being the only hindrance to
agriculture, the superabundance of
water and easy irrigation the Leona
affords, make it a question of time
alone when the whole of this valley
will return a rich reward in its fruits
and cereals for the industry of the
farmer. Already there are several hun
dred acres of land under successful cul
tivation, and irrigating ditches have
been made and used, besides a company
has recently been chartered which pro-
poses to irrigate many thousand acres
GILLESPIE COUNTY.
The Frontier Telegraph Lin* was
completed to Fredericksburg on the
14th iust. The people made the occa-
sion one of rejoicing... .Dr. F. Hart-
mann, of Fredericksburg, took a ride a
few days ago with his wife out on the
Perdinales river. The horse he was
driving became frightened at something
and ran away, breaking the buggy to
pieces and throwing him and his wife
out, but only bruising them slightly.
The horse had killed a former owner.
GRAYSON COUNTY.
Capt. Joe. Bledsoe, of Sherman, has
an orchard of 3300 apple trees, a large
number of pears, plums and peach
trees, besides a large young vineyard.
.... A most singular and fatal accident
occurred at the Kansas C'ity House,
Dcnison, on Saturday. A young man,
named John Copple, about 20 years of
age, who was employed at the hotel,
started down the stairs with two pitch-
ers in his hands, by some means missed
his footing near the top of the steps,
and fell headlong to the bottom, strik-
ing upon the pitchers, which were
broken into fragments. One of the
sharp corners of a fragment entered his
neck, completely severing the jugular
vein. He bled to death in about five
minutes. «
HUNT COUNTY.
E. C. Viek was tried in Hunt county
last week, charged with the murder of
I5en Merrill in 1803, thirteen years ago.
The verdict of the jury was man-
slaughter, and the punishment five years
in the penitentiary.
HOPKINS COUNT*.
The present cold weather is said to lie
advantageous to the wheat crop, which
is very promising... .Mr. Lankford, for
the firm of LeGierse & Co., Galveston,
spent a few days in our city the past
week.. . The weather has been cold the
past week, with ice and heavy frosts,
and garden seeds are in demand again.
  Gen. T. L. Green, an old citizen of
this city, died, and was buried with the
honors of Masonry on the 15th.
MASON COUNTY.
Emigrants have been pouring into
Mason' county for several months, and
they arc principally of the farming
class. Numerous farms have been open-
ed up recently; and it is now almost im-
possible to find a tract of a half dozen
acres within a radius of several miles
that has not been opened up for cultiva-
tion. . . .John Light has purchased a half
interest in the fine Durham bulls re-
cently imported to this country by Ben.
F. Gooch. Mr. Light* has started a
ranclio on James river, about fifteen
miles from town, and will devote his
attention to raising first-class stock.
Messrs. W. P. Lockhart and Wilson
Hey have also formed a partnership for
the purpose of raising fine Durham cat-
tle... . .The crops are looking well....
That Mason county is rich in mineral
resources can not be doubted, but as yet
her mines have been but little developed.
MATERICK COUNTY.
We are informed that Capt. William
Stone, of Eagle Pass, found a slip of
paper, a few days ago, on a gravestone,
informing him that three other men,
besides himself, who had fired upon
the writer, recently, in Eagle Pass,
would rest in their graves in less than
a year. The three other men referred
to, in addition to Capt. Stone, are sup-
posed to be two young brothers named
Donovan, whose father was killed by
unknown parties some time since, and
man by the name of Andrew Porter.
M'LENNAN COUNTY.
The Examiner learns that Mr. Henry
White, who owns a large cattle rancho
on Elm Creek, has sold all his cattle to
Mr. Day, of the firm of Day Bros, and
Driscoll. These gentlemen have about
thirty thousand head of cattle on the
ranges in Central Texas, several thou-
sand of which will be delivered the
coming season to Millett, May berry &
Co., to- fill an Indian contract. The
remainder of their stock will be driven
to the Pan Handle country, where they
intend establishing an immense cattle
rancho .. .Waco is somewhat dull at
present, but the Reporter's reporter
makes the most of matters. The
following are among his items:
There is not a single dance-house or
"keno-room" in Waco... .Several va-
grants are still in the lock-up boarding
out their fines... .In a few days more
the tide of city pedestrianism will set
up Third street. Cause, the location of
the postoffice... .It is hardly probable,
from present appearances, that the new
court-house will be built this year....
The small boy's heart grows sad when
he reflects that no more circuses will
visit Waco until next fall. .. .Theyoun;
gentleman who was hunting up his lin
en clothes a few days ago has concluded
that he doesn't need them just yet.
NUECES COUNTY.
The Gazette reports that Messrs. Dod-
dridge & Davis received $15,000 in old
Mexican dollars by last trip of the Mary
from New Orleans The Gazette has
the following particulars of the killing
of a white boy, about fifteen years of
age, by a negro boy about the same age:
The white boy is named Henry Thomas,
son of Isham Thomas, head stock man
for Capt. M. Kennedy. The killing oc-
curred at the CoO Rancho, occupied by
D. P. Flint, under the following cir-
cumstances: The negro and a son of
Mr. Flint's were engaged skinning a
calf when young Thomas rode up.
With the remark, "Now I'll go for
you," the negro started towards
Thomas with a knife, seeing which
Thomas drew a pocket-knife, which
was taken from him by the negro. The
latter then remarked, "D—n you, I'll
fix you now, " and picked up his pistol,
which was on the gallery, and fired, the
ball entering the forehead of Thomas
who fell dead from his horse.
TITUS COUNTY.
The Mount Pleasant Patron com
plains of serious damage to the wheat
in Titus county by insects.
WASHINGTON COUNTY.
The land owners of the vicinity met
in council in the town of Chappell Ilill,
Saturday, March 18. Quite a number
of planters, prominent among whom
■were such men as Rev. II. Garrett, T.
N. Cliadwick, John S. Smith, J. W.
Iiouett, M. M. Felder, Capt. Thomas
Smith, M. Nortliington and others,who
organized themselves into a permanent
society, with Rev. H. Garrett as Presi-
dent, T. N. Cliadwick as Vice Presi
dent, W. II. Billingslae as Secretary
and Capt. Thomas Smith as Treasurer.
An executive committee of seven was
appointed and requested to open cor
respondence with responsible parties in
Alabama, Georgia and other States, and
learn where they could secure on terms
suited to our wants the character of la-
bor needed, and also to report at the
next meeting some practicable way of
announcing to those people the merits
of tlie country, and the great and lib-
eral inducements held out to emigrants
by our planters Extract from a let-
ter received yesterday from Long Point:
Fine spring weather, and we ciod-liop-
pers pretty well up with our work.
Corn generally up and coming up. Lit
tie or no cotton planted, farmers fear-
ing a cold snap yet. A much larger
breadth of corn planted than usual.
Bread and meat are pretty heavy on the
brain ot those who have to buy, and
there is a good many in that predica
ment, particularly among the colored
broders.
WOOD COUNTY.
A grand ball will be given at Giles'
Hall, Quitman, on the evening of the
23d... .Two bales of Wood county cot
ton, sold at Mineola on Friday, brought
13ic. a pound. They were extra fine.
. .. .Cotton is quoted in this market as
follows: Ordinary, 7 to 7^c.; good ordi
nary, 9 to 9jc-; low -middling, 10 to
lOJc.; middling 11 to lljc. .. .The plans
are being prepared for a three-story
hotel, 54x75, to be erected on the cor-
ner of Pacific and Commerce streets,
Mineola... .Mineola is the junction of
the Texas and Pacific and International
Roads. This season from 15,000 to 20,000
bales of cotton will have been shipped
from here, and now about eighty per
cent, is in. The native population of
this section are very matter-of-fact pco
pie, as will be seen by the following in
cidcnt: A couple wishing to have " two
hearts beat as one," secured the services
of the clergyman, alias postmaster, who
stood on a stump to perform his part of
the ceremony, while the bridal party-
occupied their wagon.... There was a
very heavy hail storm at Quitman on
last Saturday. Some of the hailstones
were large, and the News learns that a
gentleman near town, who was out
plowing, had his horse killed by the
hail.   
SOTTTHI£RN NEWS.
Ex-Governor Letcher, of Virginia
continues to improve, and hopes soon
to return to his legislative duties.
Among prominent Southerners re
ccntly deceased are Judge I. L. Harris,
of Georgia; Dr. David C. Means, of
South Carolina, and Judge Q. K. Un-
derwood, of Arkansas.
John Bragden, ail octogenarian of
Marion county, S. C., is the father of
twenty-three children, the youngest
being 11 years old—seven sons and six
teen daughters.
Two men named Smith and Strather.
arrested last fall in North Carolina,
through the vigilance of Capt. II. C.
Alley, have been convicted of train-
wrecking on the Air-Line Railroad,
causing the death of an engineer.
Brinkley, the wife murderer of Cowe
ta county, Ga., has secured a new trial
upon the ground of newly discovered
evidence. The case has been the sicken
ing sensation of the county for a year
or more.
The State appropriation for public
schools in South Carolina for the coming
year is $250,000. It is apportioned to
the counties on the basis of the school
attendance. The total attendance dur
ing the past year was 110,416.
Following tlie recent decision of the
United Slates Supreme Court, Judge
Jackson, of West Virginia, has decided
that the act imposing a license tax on
hawkers and peddlers is unconstitu
ticmal, in so far as it discriminates
against articles manufactured in another
boasts that though
State and brought to West Virginia for
sale by the manufacturer.
A singular and fatal accident took
place on the 9th ult., near King's Moun-
tain, N. C. Samuel Harman, a carpen-
ter, was standing on a scaffold repairing
a dwelling, when the scaffold fell, ana
a chisel which he had in his hand dur-
ing the fall, cut his windpipe and jugu-
lar vein, killing him instantly.
Columbus, Ga.
destroyed by Sherman's bummers in
1865, she has recovered and now runs
35,000 spindles and 1000 looms, and
many iron and other establishments
All these have been rebuilt since 1866,
with Southern capital. Columbus
proudly claims she is entitled to the po-
sition of the Lowell of the South. A
splendid bagging factory is being about
opened.
The keeper of a county workhouse
near Raleigh, N. C., and another man
are reported to have done what will
challenge comparison with the meanest
thing on record. A negro prisoner,
while working in a field, dug up, as he
said, a box of gold containing $500. He
hid it away again, and had not the
sense to keep his good luck a secret,
nor to hide the treasure securely from
thieves. The keeper and another man
beat him severely to make him tell
where he had hid" it, and gave him so
severe a mauling that it was thought lie
would die, and he was ordered from the
workhouse. Meantime some one lifted
his gold. Sueli was his statement be-
fore a magistrate.
The following sentiments are from a
letter written to a South Carolina gen-
tleman by one of the Boston Commit-
tee, recently visiting that State and
Virginia: "I have become fully con-
vinced that all we did and said, and all
that was done and said to us, meet the
hearty and joyful approval of the
greater and worthier portion of our
community. They all assent to the
view that we should mutually respect
the motives which impelled our respec-
tive action in the late contest. I find
in many of the late patriotic speeches
at tlie South great emphasis laid upon
the point of the motives which impelled
Southern action. I, for one, could
never proffer the hand of friendship
to a Southern man, or to any man who
I did not believe had been prompted to
his past acts by a conscientious belief
that he teas right; and yet I do not at
all assent to the position that he was
right, nor do I ask him to grant such an
assent to me, when I propose to forget
the wist."
An Alabama paper thus elucidates
the profitableness of grape culture in
Southern climes: "Vines, six years
transplanted, have this year yielded an
average of three bushels to each vine,
and we shall be disappointed if they do
not double every year for many years
in the future. We are creditably in
formed that a vine is growing near Mo-
bile which has produced 250 bushels of
grapes in a year, and we know that
vines ten years old have given and will
give 30 bushels per' vine. - A bushel of
grapes will give from three to three and
a half gallons of juice, according to
ripeness. By a simple calculation,
based upon the above facts, it can easily
be seen that grape culture is exceedingly
profitable. Six-year-old vines will make
ten gallons of wine. Thirty-six vines
to the acre would give 360 gallons of
wines, worth at present prices $720.
According to the statements given
above, a ten-year-old vineyard will yield
1080 bushels, or 3600 gallons of wine
per acre, worth $7200 in the market."
BRAZORIA COINTY OFFICIALS.
Tlie Otlicr Side ol'tlie Question.
Brazoria, Texas, March 17, 1876.
Eds. News—In your issue of the 12tli
instant, your special correspondent, from
this county says that "one of the jus-
tices, who, though a Republican, has
the confidence and respect of all respect-
able people, openly and above board
says that in forming grand juries, hoais
entitled to and has used his privilege Of
of selecting four (4) members of said
jury, always choosing the best citizens,
yet invariably, upon some trifling pre-
text, tl.ey were not called, and their
places filled with persons in sympathy
with suspected officials." This asser-
tion is without foundation in fact. I
have uniformly summoned the per-
sons who have. been selected
as grand jurors, and • there
has been no grand jury impan-
neled in this county from the May terra,
1874, to the January term, 1876, inclu-
sive, of the District Court of this coun-
ty, upon which there lias not been a
fair proportion of the substantial citi-
zens of the county, the above time
embracing the period of my connection
with the sheriff's office. The charge is
also made that " grand and petit juries
are packed in the interest of dishonest
officials and lawless blacks."
I attach the certificate of Gen. Joseph
Bates, Captains S. L. S. Ballowe, J. S.
Speed, Wm. McMaster, the foremen of
the grand juries for the several terms
of the District Court of tliis county
from May term, 1874, to January term,
1876, inclusive. Besides, the lollowing
prominent white gentlemen were mem-
bers of the grand juries during that
time, to wit:
W. J. Bryan. ('. R. Cox, Geo. O. Jarvis, J. W.
Sweney, Jas. L. Bates, W. R. Williams, W. E.
Crews, W. R. Shurford, Wm. R. Booth, J..W.
Dance, R. S. St-anger, David Dance, Henry
Maner. Francis Straueh. Rice Wetls, A. C.
Jeun, A. B. Krouse, J. L. Rogers, J. E. Sauter,
Andrew Bunker, A. J. Burke, Jr., W. D. Hos-
kins, Geo. Melgard, Cornelius Davis, Henry
Ludeeke, 51. L. Weems, Harrison Taakerley,
B. F. Minis, M. A. Bryan, Wm. Masterson, Ed-
ward Kenedy, Henry Grobe, Geo. P. Muuson,
J. Glassell Smith, A. W. Willis, O. H. Perry,
Thos. H. Enisworth, Jacob Seibel, Jr., Jas.
Uzzle, Benj. Hughes.
No charge has ever been made by the
above-named gentlemen that the grand
juries upon which they sat were
'' packed."
Mr. Walter Gresham, of Galveston,
was the District Attorney during my
term of service; he made no charge at
any time, or complaint that 1 packed
petit juries in aid of " dishonest officials
and lawless blacks." If any packing
had been done the above gentlemen
would certainly have known it, and
knowing it, they would have com-
plained. The records of this county
will show an average number of convic-
tions had with any county in the State.
The absence of any popular move-
ment here arising to assert the vindica-
tion of the law, (as in some other parts
of Texas,) goes far to refute the charge
made against me in your paper.
If the name of the "respectable Jus
tice " was given, who "so openly and
above board," makes the assertion above
quoted, I could give from the records of
the county the name and character of
the selections made by him for grand
jurors, and how many of his selection I
have failed to summon, and how many
failed to serve.
The "respectable" Justice, whoever
he may be, had better look to his own
acts, and be sure that an investigation
would not withdraw from him the -'con-
fidence and respect " which it is alleged
he possesses of the good people of this
county.
Mr. Thos. Ilickey, a worthy and es-
teemed Democratic citizen of the
county, has been J. B. Cope's special
deputy for the collection of all taxes,
both State and county, for the years
1874 and 1875, and his accounts are all
right.
I have been his general deputy for
the same length of time, have attended
to all other business; hence but little
public money has passed through my
hands. I attach certificates to the
County Treasurer showing my standing
to. date.
In your issue of tbe-14th instant, it is
charged that "the people have paid an-
nually four or five thousand dollars for
roads and bridges. There is nothing to
show for this large outlay of money,
either of good roads or bridges, at all
equal to what should be expected."
It is strange how little some people
know how'wild they talk, and upon how
little truth they base their assertions.
The fact is (as attached certificate will
show), that instead of $5000 being col-
lected for the year 1874, there was
$617 45, and for 1875. the amount col-
lected was $336 08. The difference be-
tween my statement and your infor-
mant, is the small sum of $4382 55 for
1874, and a difference of $4663 92 for
the year 1873.
Besides each Justice controls the road
and bridge tax of his own precinct.
The people should know of "Respec-
table Justice," their faithful sentinel
and custodian, if his precinct is in bet-
ter condition than the balance of the
county, regarding roads and bridges.
I am ready to throw daylight upon all
my official acts—I invite investigation.
But I do object to being heralded over
the State after the manner of your cor-
respondent's. I was raised in Brazoria
county; am a native of Texas. My
grandfather was the first man that
turned the soiL in this county; built
the first camp in this county. Three
generations of my kindred have lived
and died here. My interest is here.
The welfare of the whole people ad-
vances my prosperity. I ask a place in
your paper for this, my reply. It is
but simple justice to me, that the
charges so wantonly made may be de-
nied. as widely as they have been scat-
tered, and through the same medium
which gave them circulation. Yours,
respectfully, etc.,
Tnos. T. Copes,
Deputy Sheriff Brazoria County.
Brazoria, March 15, 1876.
This is to certify that Mr. T. T.
Copes, Deputy Sheriff of Brazoria
county, has always been prompt in his
settlements with me for all jury fees
and fines collected by him as such de-
puty up to date, and now owes the
county nothing within my knowledge.
N. Eisen,
County Treasurer, Brazoria Co.
Brazoria, March 15, 1876.
This is to certify that I have turned
over road and bridge funds to the
Treasurer of Brazoria county for the
year 1874, $617 45; for the year 1875,
$336 08. Titos. Hickey,
Deputy Sheriff and Collector, Brazoria
County.
Brazoria, Texas, March 15, 1876.
We, the undersigned, foremen of the
grand juries of Brazoria county, im-
panneled for the May term, 1874, to
January term, 1876, inclusive, of the
District Court of Brazoria etmnty, do
hereby certify, that if any of the jurors,
at either of said terms of said court,
were packed by the sheriff, the same
did not come to our knowledge; and
that the grand jurors impanntled din-
ing that time had a fair proportion of
substantial white citizens of the county
upon their pannels.
W. McMasters,
S. L. S. Ballowe,
Jno. S. Speed.
For the May term, 1874, I sign the
above certificate, according to your re
quest. J. Bates.
I do not remember a case where the
evidence would have supported a con
viction in which the grand juries above
referred to failed to find an indictment;
and I think the records of the court
will show convictions in at least three-
lourths of the cases tried during the
time above referred to.
Walter Gresiiam,
District Attorney, Eighteenth Judicial
District.
BRAZORIA COI NTY.
Movement to Prevent Oflieers Elect
from (ilrlug Bonds Storm
Cold, Etc.
Brazoria, March 20, 1876.
Eds. News—A mass meeting of the
people will be held here on the first of
April to take steps to defeat tlie Radi-
cals elect in giv.ng bonds. It is report
ed that they have requested several
negroes to go on their bond, but they
have all refused. It is said the Radical
County Treasurer elect will not make
any effort to give bond, whereupon the
present incumbent, Mr. N. Eisen, an
honest and intelligent gentleman, will
continue to discharge the duties of that
office.
A large wild cat, measuring eleven
feet, fell before the unerring rifle of
Master Ben Krouse, in the Bernard bot
torn, last week. This is the largest
ever known to have been killed here.
Weather verycold and raining. We
had a severe storm last night.
vindex.
Resolutions
Of the Richmond Bar and Officers of the
Court, in Token of Appreciation of
Judge Lindsay.
On the 15th day of March, A. D., 1876, a
meeting of the members of the Bar, and offi-
cers of the Court, was held to express their
regrets at the retirement of Hon. L. LINDSAY
as the Presiding Judge of the Twenty-first
Judicial District; and the meeting having been
called to order hy Col. B. F. Atkins, on motion
Judge R. J. Calder was called to preside over
the meeting, and on motion H. L. Somerville
appointed to act as secretary, and the meeting
having been failed to order, the following
membei's of the bar were appointed to draft
suitable resolutions, viz: B. F. Atkins. J. M.
Weston and P. e. Pearson. Thereupon the
meeting adjourned until to-morrow evening at
5 o'clock.
Tuesday, March 16, 1876.
The meeting of the members of the bar,
which adjourned yesterday until 5 o'clock to-
day, was resumed, with Judge R. J. Calder in
the chair, and the committee appointed to
draft resolutions, etc., presented the follow-
ing;
Richmond, Texas, March 16, 1876.
The committee appointed by the meeting of
the Richmond bar and officers of the court, to
draft resolutions in token of their apprecia-
tion of Judge Lindsay, beg leave to report the
following:
That whereas our presiding Judge. Living-
ston Lindsay, is about retiring from office af-
ter a long term of nearly six years service
upon'the bench: therefore, be it resolved:
1. That in our intercourse with him, we have
ever found him a high-toned gentleman and
efficient officer, and a good, kind and humane
judge.
2. Semlrtd, That we highly appreciate the
manner in which he fulfilled the various duties
devolving upon him during his term of office
among us.
3. Xelsorert. That we part with him with re-
gret: and in leaving us, he carries with him
our kindest wishes for his future welfare and
prosperity.
4. Jlesolred. That we recommend him to the
public wherever he may deem proper to re-
side. as an honorable, high-toned gentleman,
an able lawyer and a faithful officer.
5. Re<olrfrl, That these resolutions be spread
upon the minutes of the Court and published
in the Four Counties and Galveston News.
(Signed): Atkins, Pearson, Weston. Davidson
and -Williams,
The resolutions were adopted, and, upon
motion, W. Q. Davidson was appointed to pre-
sent these resolutions to the Court and request
that they be placed upon the minutes.
A true copy from the minutes of the Dis-
trict Court of Fort Bend county.
mh 'Si It J. C. SMITH, Clerk D. C., F. B. C.
Tlie Only Way to Couquer Dyspep-
sia.
It is perfectly preposterous to introduce pep-
sin and other artificial solvents into the
stomach in the expectation that they will as-
sist digestion by acting on the food itself.
They will rot. Nor is it possible thus to over-
come dyspepsia. The only way to conquer
that disorder, and prevent the numerous
diseases and disabilities which it assuredly
provokes, is to renew the activity of gastric
action by strengthening the stomach. Hos-
tetter's btomach Bitters eradicates the most
inveterate forms of indigestion by restoring
vitality to the alimentary organs and those
which are tributary to them. The liver, the
bowels, the kidneys and the nerves, no less
than the stomach, experience the invigora-
tive effect® of that stardard tonic, which pos-
sesses alterative properties that greatly en-
hance its beneficial iunuenne. and give a per-
mance to ite effects which they would not
otherwise possess. mhl8 sat tustli&W It
Spccial Notices.
Notice to Consignees—^The steamship
STATE OF TEXAS, Bolder, master, from
New York, is now discharging cargo at Wil
liams's Wharf.
Consignees will please 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) will be stored
at expense and risk of consignees.
All claims for damage must be adjusted be-
fore the goods leave the wharf.
J. N. SAWYER, Agent,
mh21 St 54 Strand.
Galveston, Houston and Hender-
son Railroad, of 1871Galveston,
March 14, 1876.—At the request of a majority
of Stockholders, the Directors of the Galves-
ton, Houston and Henderson Railroad Com-
pany hereby call a Special Meeting of the
Stockholders of said Compaq*, at the Com-
pany's office, in Galveston, THURSDAY,
March 30. 1870. at 12 o'clock m., for the pur-
pose of establishing Dye-Laws and electing
Directors to serve for the unexpired i*>rtion of
the present financial year.
By order of the Board of Directors.
JACOB E. FISHER,
mhl5 td Secretary.
Special IVoticex.
First National Hank ol' Galves-
ton.—A dividend of 8 per cent, on the Capi-
tal Stock of this Bank will be paid to the
shareholders, on and after April 1 next.
By order of the Board of Directors.
THOS. REED,
mh22 tillApl Cashier.
it. HI. C. A.
FREE READING ROOMS,
No. 177 Market street.
this
is
MEETINGS:
Regular weekly, FRIDAY, at p. m.
(Religious and Literary entertainments.)
Regular Devotional, SUNDAY, at 4 p. m.
(Bible Reading, Promise and Praise.)
Noon-Day Prayer from 12 to 12:30 o'clock.
FREE TO ALL.
Rooms open from 8 a. m. to 10 p. m. jal 3m
- your home.
ASSESSMENT NOTICE.
In order to complete the rolls within the
time prescribed by law, the Assessment of
State and County Taxes will be closed
On tlie First Day of April, 1S7C.
All persons are requested to make imme-
diate returns of their taxable property.
R. D. JOHNSON,
Presiding Justice Galveston County,
mhl lm una
Auction Sales.
AUCTION SALE.
PARK, LYNCH & CO.—R A.
PARK. Auctioneer. Will sell THIS DAY.
23d inst., at 10 o'clock, at their salesrooms,
Strand—
Potatoes and a general assortment of Gro-
ceries and sundries, 1 Walnut Standing Desk.
AT 11V4 O'CLOCK, SHARP,
For account of insurance, slightly damaged:
65 pieces Dress Linens, 20 pieces Chambreys.
20 pieces Blue Duck, 10 pieces White Duck*30
pieces Bleached Domestics, 12 Ladies' Suits.
Also, fresh from factory, an invoice of Men's
and Youths' Black Wool and Felt and Panama
Hats.
FURNITURE. GLA.SSWARE ANI) ASSORT
ED MERCHANDISE AT AUCTION.
BY E. A. BLAKELY, Auction-
eer. 116 and 118 Strand. Will sell THURS
DAY. March 23, at 10 o'clock x. u., at. 116
and 118 Strand—
A fine assortment of furniture, such as Bed-
steads, Bureaus, Wash-stands, Tables, Chairs.
Mattresses, et?.
also
A large invoice of Glassware, consisting of
Goblets. Tumblers. Pitchers, Lamps and all
Nos. of Lamp Chimneys.
Potatoes, Cheese, Codfish and assorted mer
chandi^e.
Goods for Auction received up to the hour of
sale. mh23
Xcw Advertisements.
jpOR SALE FOR SALE.
LOT No. 5, IN BLOCK <>25,
One-tliird cash, balance one to ten 3-ears. In
terest 8 per cent. This is a very desirable
property, lying on the Strand, at the foot of
Bath Avenue. Doubtless the business center
at an early period. Apply to
mh23 lw
E. T. AUSTIN.
F
OR RENT.
.. .FOR RENT
My BRICK STORE, on the Strand, formerly
occupied by BROWN & LANG. Possession
given April 1st. Apply to
mh23 lm una JOHN W. LANG.
IV8SOLUTION OF CO-PAKT
1 / NEItSHIP.
The firm of REID & BENNETT has been
dissolved. DAVID J. REID is alone author
ized to represent said firm in liquidation or
otherwise. DAVID J. REID.
mh23 ltd W3t
M
ILBURN WAGONS.
We receive orders for shipment, either from
our warehouse or
DIRECT FICOItl THE FACTORY.
STEELE. WOOD & CO..
68 and 70 Tromont street.
IS STORE,
2000 Sacks COFFEE.
TO ARRIVE,
3500 Sacks COFFEE.
KA1JI FMAN & KUXGE.
mhl6 tf una
ARRIVED
AND
Discliargin.^,
3500 Sacks'COFFEE
PER " MABIE,"
Which will be sold at reduced prices from
Wharf.
Samples at my Olllco.
in. KOPI'ERL.
mh!5 tf una
J. H. Elsworth & Co.
Merchants and Importers of
RIO COFFEE
8, 10 and 12 Strand.
mhlltf una
mf.
TO RENT.
Cottage on Broadway, next corner Ninth
Street. Six rooms, stable, etc.
JOS. AIKEN,
mh22 tf una
Central Wharf.
I OST LOST.
This is to certify that I am the owner of
a certificate for five shares of the capital stock
of the First National Bank of Galveston. Texas,
dated April 3(1, 1W>. and numbered 41—issaed
by said Bank through its proper officers—
Hameof JOSETH -'ANSTADT," meaning the
undersigned, that said certificate of stock is
lost ; that I have applied for another certificate
in lieu of the ore lost, and I hereby call on all
persons to show cause why a new certificate
shall not be issued in lieu of that lost.
marlfi th&suRw JOSEPH ANSTAETT.
M
USIC..
.. MUSIC.
The LONE STAR BAND office is at Thomas
Goggan & Bro.'s Music Store, where all orders
for Music, Brass and String, furnished for
Parades. Balls. Parties, Concerts, Picnics, etc.,
will receive prompt attention.
AUG. PRAGER,
Business Manager and Treasurer.
Prof. Max Fehrmaun and Charles Voight,
Leaders. mho ."hn*
Medical.
J ) R M. PERL,
General Practitioner,
Can be consulted at the T^xas Hygienic Insti-
tute, corner Travis street and Texas Avenue
HOUSTON, TEXAS.
Special attention given to chronic diseases.
TURCO-RUSSIAN BATHS open at all hours.
Single Bath, $1 50; 12 Baths, $12. ja20 d&Wtf
Entertainments.
Tremont Opera House.
ENGAGEMENT FOR A SHORT SEASON
ONLY OF THE GREAT CLASSIC ACTRESS
HELEN D'ESTll,
Supported by the Sterling Actor,
mi. ,7. (i. STI TTZ.
And a full and efficient Dramatic Company,
together with
Prof. Saunders's Brass Hand and
Operatic Orchestra.
IHonday Evening, March 27tli,
Sheridan Knowles's Great Play of the
HUNCHBA C K,
SATI RD.1V, APRIL 1st,
GRAND MATINEE.
Box Sheet open Friday Morning march 21th.
inhS* tf
A LECTURE,
With most convincing
PUBLIC TESTS,
Given to persons selected by the audience,
proving the ti aths of
SPIRITUALISM,
Will be delivered THIS and TO-M<>RROW
EVENINGS, at
KYLANl) CHAPEL,
Bj* E. V. WILSON, the great Lecturer
and Medium, of Illinois.
A ILfUSSIOX 25c.
Doors open at 7 o'clock. ml)23 2t*
ARTILLERY HALL.
SAM HOUSTON
HIS TIMES,
•  
Gen. Geo. A. Sheridan
of Louisiana, will, by request, repeat his able
and eloquent lecture on the
UEUO OF SAN JACINTO,
Oil TliursdayEvcnius, 23d lust.,
commercing at 8 o'clock, under the auspices
of the GALVESTON ARTILLERY COMPANY.
Tickets, adsti ittins: a <>eiitlemaii
and Lad)', $1.
Can be procured at Robinson & Co. s. Gog-
gan & Bros.' and J. E. Mason's.
Tickets for childron, 25 cents—to 1h* had at
the door. The tickets issued for February 21st
will lie used for this lecture. mh21 -'It
Legal Advertisements.
MONITION- In tlie United States
District Court for the Eastern District
of Texas.
Adolph Drowet vs. Sloop Nonpariel et al.
No. 876. In Admiralty.
Tn obedience to a warrant of seizure to me
diiveted. in the above entitled cause. I have
seized and taken into my possession the fol-
lowing described property, to wit: Sloop Non-
paricl. her tackle, apparel and furniture,
for the causes set forth in the libel now
pending in the United States District Court for
tli!' Eastern District of Texas, at Galveston. I
hereby give notiee to all persons claiming the
said described sloop Nonparivl. or know-
ing or having anything to say why the same
should not In' condemned and forfeited, and
the proceeds thereof distributed according to
the prayer of the libel, that thev be and
appear before the said Court, to be held
in and for the Eastern District of Texas, at the
United States Court-Rooms in the City of Gal-
veston. on the 24th day of March. 1H7«. at 10
o'rtoek. on the forenoon of that, day, if the
same shall be a day of jurisdiction, otherwise
on the next day of jurisdiction thereafter,
then there to interpose a claim for the same,
aud to make their allegations in that behalf.
L. D. EVANS.
U. S. Marshal, Eastern District of Texas.
mh9 thu at
TEXAS STATE FAIR
SPEED PBEMIDIS.
PROGRAMME:
Tuesday, May 2,1876.
1st Money. 2d Money.
Three-fourths mile dash, native two
year okls. (running.) $25 entrance
p. p., to be added to purse $100 $25
One mile dash, (trotting.) for natives. 50 25
One and one-eighth nule dash, free
for all, (running,)  125 50
Wednesday. May -i.
Mile dash, (pacing,) free for all  75 25
Two mile heats, (running.) free for all 225 75
thursday, May 4.
Mile heats, (trotting.) free for all 125 50
One and one-half mile dash, tin li-
ning, ) free for all  iso 50
One mile dash, (running,) for mules 25
Friday. May 5.
One mile dash, for ponies under 11
hands  50 25
Mile heats, for 3 year old. (running,) 175 50
Saturday, May 0.
Mile heats, consolation purse for
beaten horses, (running.)   150
Single dash, three miles, free for all . 250 50
Entrance 10 per cent, on first money.
Quarter-stretch badges $10. Including en-
trance to Fair Grounds and Grand Stand for
meeting.
Louisiana Jockey Club rules and weights, ex-
cept catch weights for mule and pony races.
Two or more to make a race for purse, and a
walk over entitles to only half of first money.
Judges empowered to withhold purse for collu-
sion or fraudulent conduct or entries.
Horse distancing field gets flrSt and second
money.
For best heat made during meeting, (time
and distance relatively considered,) the Stew-
ards will award a special premium of $100 at
conculsion.
Entries for each race will close by 5 o'clock
p. m., the evening previous to the race.
D. P. SHEPHERD.
State Fair Director, in charge.
GUSTAVE COOK,
Chairman Board of Ste.vards.
For information address at Houston, Texas.
D. G. HESSE.
mhl<i d6t W3t Secretary Board of Stewards.
Oils, Faints, Cilass, Ete.
LAMPS AND OILS,
Lamp Trimming:**, Portable <;«*
Goods, Tin and JTapaniicd
Ware, Etc.
Septoline, Solar, Crystal, Insurance. Head
Li^ht, Pratt's Astral and Radiant, Devoe's
Brilliant and Nonpareil.
Puroline, Gasoline, Benzine, Naptha, and
the various products of Petroleum, wholesale
and retail, by
J. A. LABAIiTHE,
Manager Island City Lamp & Oil Co.,
174 and 176 Twenty-second street, between
Market anil Postoffice.
Halls and dwellings lighted for special occa
sions at short notice. o<r6 75 6m
Are You Going to Paint?
THE AVER ILL
CHEMICAL PAINT
IS THE
BEST IX THE WORLD.
MIXED. READY FOR USE.
Tbe Purest Wlilte and one hundred
beautiful Tints and Colors*.
THE CHEAPEST,
THE MOST DURABLE,
THE HANDSOMEST.
Thousands ol' Testimonials bear
evidence of Its great superiority.
Send for SAMPLE CARD (furnished free) to
the General Agents.
SEELEl' & STEVEXS.
3-2 Burling Slip, New York Clly.
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Cotton Presses.
SOUTHERN
COTTON PRESS
COMPANY'S PRESSES.
COMPRESSING CHARGES.
IN CURRENCY.
coastwise.
At % and under y± 50c. per bale.
At Vx and under  60c. per bale.
At % and under lc 70c. per bale
At lc. and under  75c. per bale
At 1V6 and under V/\ 80c. per bale.
At 1>| and over 85c. per bale.
to great britain—payabjc in golo.
At ^d. and under 7-Hki.... 55c. per bale
At 7-16d. and under ^d.... 65c. per bale.
At Wl. and under 9-16d,.«. 75c. per bale.
At 9-ltkl. and under 80c. per bale.
At $gd. and under 11-lfid..., 85c. per bale.
At 11-lod. and under *>id.... 90c. per bale.
At ^d. and under Id.... 95c. per bale.
At Id. and under .... 1 00 per bale.
And every 1-16 cbove Id. advance of 5c.
per bale.
TO HAVRE AND ALI. CONTINENTAL PORTS—PAY-
ABLE IN GOLft.
At and under % 55c. per bale
At % and under lc 65c. per bale.
At lc. and under  75c. per bale.
At lJ-£ and under ^  80c. per bale.
At lj4 and under 1^6 85c. per bale.
At and under 1  90c. per bale
At 1V4 and under l<fc{ 95c. p*r bale.
At IK to i!  1 00 per bale.
And every *£ of a cent over tvo cents an ad
vance of 5c. per bale.
[Officii 1.1
A. P. MJFKTN,
oc3l 6m Saperiuteade&t.
4 DMINISTRATOR'S SALE. —
J V By virtue of an order of the District
Court of the county of Galveston, made in
open court, on the first day of March, 1876. I
will proceed to sell at public sale, before the
court-house door of the county of Galveston,
on a credit of six months, on the FIRST
TUESDAY IX APRIL, 187K. within the legal
hours of sale, the following described tracts
of land belonging to the estate of T. J. Cham-
bers. deceased, to wit: Tlie unsold portion of
an eight league grant in the name of T. J.
Chambers, lying in the counties of Navarro
and Ellis, consisting of about 3535 acres; and
the unsold portion of the Manuel Bangs grant
in the county of Bastrop, consisting of about
4266 acres. These lauds are ordered to
be sold to pay the debts of said estate.
The purchaser or purchasers will be re-
quired to execute note or notes, with ap-
proved personal security, and a mortgage on
the lands sold, to secure the payment of the
purchase money. A plot and description of
said lands will he exhibited on the day of eale,
for the benefit and information of those wish-
ing to purchase.
Witness my hand this the 0th day of March,
1876. J. D. OLTORF,
Administrator <h fton is von of the Estate of T.
■J. Chambers, deceased. mhlO t ap4
rTRUSTEES SALE.—By Virtue
I of that certain Deed of Trust executed
and delivered to me as trustee, to secure the
payment of the promissory note therein de-
scribed, dated May 1, 1H75, and recorded in
Montgomery county. State of Texas, in book
B, pages 50, 51 and 52, I, Joseph West, will sell
in front of the court-house door of Galveston
county, to the highest bidder for cash, be-
tween the hours of 11 a. m. and 2 p. m.,
On tiie 2ttii Day of March, 1876,
eight hundred and twelve aud two-elevenths
acres of land, situated in Montgomery county,
State of Texas, less two hundred acres which
is reserved out of said land as a homestead.
The said 812 2-11 acres is situated one and two
miles northwest of Willis, in said county, be-
ginning: at the N. W. corner of the east quar-
ter of Wm. Wier's league, from which stands a
post oak 12 inches in diameter, marked C,
beai*s N.75 c. E. 22-10 verasdistant, and a hicko-
rv 10 inches diameter, marked C, bears S. 84®
W. 6 varas distant : thence S. 15 deg. W.. with
said quarter league line through prairie land
2187 varas, to Neal Martin's league line, a stake
in prairie: thence S. 75 deg., E. with the Weir
and Martin league line 251-i varas lo the S. W.
corner of James Elkin's 610 A survey, a pine
marked E bears X. 85 deg., E. 16 varas distant,
a hickory marked X bears N. 10 deg.. E. 11 va-
ras distant, 2^52 varas about, to the S. W. cor-
ner of land sold to .1. Thoinason, A. Golding
and C. Nobles, a stake from which a gum 12
inches in diameter, marked X C. bears N. 60
deg.. NV. 2 2-10 varas distant, and a white oaK
20 inches in diameter, marked C X, bears N. 3
deg. E 7 varas distant: thence N. 15°. with the
Thompson, Golding and Noble line, 2059 to the
N. W. corner of said survey, on the N. bounda-
ry line of the Gale and Re»»l survey, within the
Long quarter league, a stake from which an
ash 1 inches in diameter, marked I). C., bears
N. 58 deg.. W. 2 6-10 varas distant, and a pine
4 inches diameter marked D. C., bears 3. 84
deg.. E. 1 8-30 varas distant: and thence N. 75
deg. Wwith the line of ihe(land 156 varas
to a post oak. 10 inches diameter for corner
marked T. P. C.: thence 15 deg. W.. 224 varas,
a postoak, 6 inches diameter marked CM bears
S. 78 deg. W., 5 i-10 varas distant, and another
8 inches diameter marked C., bears N. 5 deg.
W., 5 varas distant; thence N. 75 dog.
W., 210 varas set post, from which a postoak
12, inches diameter, marked C., bears N. 78
deg. W. 7 6-10 varas distant: thence N. 75 deg.
W.. about 1900 varas to corner in prairie
field: thence N. 15 deg. E., 1250 varas
to N. boundry line of the Weir league
and I. Lindey's league line; thence N. 75
deg. W. with the line of said leagues, 451
varas to Uie beginning.
mhlti lot JOS. WEST, Trustee.
City Advertisements.
r'xniD: nrLm :
S.ioo Etr.WAKIl.
MAYOR S OFFICE, (
Galveston, March 16, 1876. (
A Reward of 8500
Will be paid for the detection and conviction
of any person or persons setting fire to any
building within the city limits. Said reward to
cover a period of nine months from date of
publication—expiring December 16, 1876.
mar 17 lOt R. L. FULTON, Mayor.
Delinquent Tax-Payers
FOK 1875.
Last Notice Previous to Suit.
The roll of
UNPAID TAXES,
rendered and unrendered. is now prepared,
and will be handed to the City Attorney, on
or before the 1st or April, for suit.
Pay up before the 1st of April, and
SAVE COSTS.
nihl7 lot
F. R. LUBBOCK,
City Tax Collector.
<)
RDINANCE NO. 14.
Aii Ordinance, amending Section 5, Ar-
ticle 1, chapter xxxviii, Revised Ordinan-
ces, concerning the obstruetion.of Streets,
Alleys and Sidewalks, with building ma-
terials. etc.
Be it ordaiued by the City Council of the
city of Galveston:
Section 1. That section 5, article 1, chapter
38, Revised Ordinances of the city of Galveston
bo and the same is hereby amended so as to
read as follows:
Sec. 5. [Art. 343.] It shall not be lawful for
any person, in building or repairing any house,
store or fence, to lay or place bricks, boards or
timber, or other materials for building, in the
streets more than thirty days before com-
mencing to build, in such a manner as to oc-
cupy more than one-third part of any street
and alley, provided that the entire sidewalk ad-
joining any lot upon which a house is in course
of erection or repaired, may be thus occupied
during the time such house is actually in pro-
gress of building or l>eing repaired, and such
sidewalk may be enclosed during such time,
but no longer. Any person or persons offend-
ing against the provisions of this ordinance
shall be subject to a fine of five dollars for
every day such offense is continued.
Sec. 2. That this ordinance take effect and
be in force from and after its passage and due
publication.
Approved: R. L. FULTON, Mayor.
Attest :
E. O C. MacINERNEY. City Clerk. mh9 lOt
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Iron Foumleries.
"EST STRAND IRON WORKS.
Manufacturer of Bridge Bolts; Railroad Frogs
out of railroad iron bars, (samples to be seen
on Wharf Railroad), and every description of
Smith Work for Railroads, iron Doors and
Shutters, Sky-lights, Boiler Iron. Casings for
Bank Vaults, and House Smithing in general.
Threads cut on pipe and fitted to order.
For estimates, address J. ASTALL,
ap9 ly Galveston.
c. b lee.
d. webek.
joshua miller.
LEE IRON WORKS.
C. B. LEE & CO.,
Iron & Brass Founders
AND
MACEtlNISTS,
Manufacturers of
Steam Engines, Saw Mills, Boilers,
3Iill mid Gin Gearing,
Sliaitlns, Pulleys, Brass and Iron
Pumps, Etc., Etc.
Particular attention given to orders for Iron
Fronts and Castings for buildings.
All Kinds of Job Work Solicited.
SATISFACTION GUARANTEED.
Cor. Winnie and 32d sts., near Railroad Depot,
jal tf GALVESTON TEXAS.