The Galveston Daily News. (Galveston, Tex.), Vol. 42, No. 122, Ed. 1 Sunday, July 22, 1883 Page: 2 of 4
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Bmgton is
""the weather.
Waite, traveling with Gen-
Kn's party in Montana, was thrown
^is horse and received painful though not
i serious injuries.
of the l>th tells of Chinese pre-
provinee of Canton, including
.new governor, looking to
pie war with France.
Jer supports Mr. Randall
The point of it, how-
fcisylvania gentleman will
[important Alabama inter-
lly paper, in the interest of
immigration, is to be estab-
J City. The Two Republics,
Inrican interests, is enlarged
rdaily henceforth.
Mi rs >11*8 defense of Dorsey, it is
*by the Chicago Herald, there has
Bbwing impression that he believes or
^es.for revenue only. That is a new
' saying he is a competent attorney.
bow appears from Washington reports that
5eral Crook went into a tight place when
We pursued the Apaches. He was virtually in
Fthe hands of his Apache scouts and got his
' command back in safety only by making
promises of peace and favorable treatment for
the rebellious Indians.
A MAX standing in front of a saloon counter
* exclaimed: "Show me an actor and I'll show
"a miserable, low-lived whelp." There was an
actor present, and he was big and athletic. He
stepped up to the fellow and said: " I'm the
actor!The fellow thought he saw a thump-
ing ahead, and, to avoid it, promptly replied:
" Well, I'm the miserable, low-lived whelp."
The actor believed him.
Mrs. Laxgtry is going to write a l>ock about
what she knows about American society.
American society has for some time written,
read and talked about what it does not know
about Mrs. Langtry. She has the advantage of
provoking curiosity in one way, satisfying it
at her leisure in another, and making money.
{She says with candor that she fouud she re-
quired money and not being able to make it
by art, she had to make an exhibition of her-
self.
On the trial of M. T. Polk, the defaulting
treasurer of Tennessee, his former clerk, James
C. Fleming, testified that when a special legis-
lative committee examined the treasury, Polk
deposited fictitious drafts on various State
depositories and covered up a deficit of $200,-
000, subsequently withdrawing these drafts and
giving his check for the amount. In Januaiy
last the shortage was $2(W,000. Legislative
committees on finance ought to be posted on
banking business.
Parsons's Texas Cavalry Brigade will
hold a two days reunion at Alvarado, begin-
ning August 1. Addresses will be delivered
by Hon. I. A. Patton, of Alvarado: Judge Joe
Abbott, of Hiilsboro; Captain W. G. Veal, of
Dallas; Major L. J. Farrar, of Groesbeeek:
General W. H. Parsons, of New York; Colonel
Giddings, of Brenham: Colonel Walton, of
Austin; General Cabell, of Dallas; Major J. H
Brown, of Dallas; Rev. J. C. Baird, of Brown-
wood, and others.
A Philadelphia bill printer relates this an-
ecdote of Sotliern: "A lady in his company
who played a very minor part gave herself a
very extraordinary amount of airs at rehear-
sal. Sothern came here and ordered a bill to
be printed with the lady's uame starred in
large type, 1 supported by the following ladies
and gentlemen,' and then followed the names
of the company, ending up with Sot hern's in
the smallest type of all. The bill was hung
up in the theater and the young lady's pride
came down several pegs."
Mass., oji July IT, Captain J. G.
Douglas, of the English bark Erne, from Ma-
nilla, thought he was doing an act of kindness
when he discharged Ah Chung, one of his
crew, at his own request. Ah Chung, who
was the ship's carpenter, wanted to become a
resident of the United States, and the captain
released him from his engagement. To-day
Captain Douglas was arrested by the United
Btates authorities for violating the act of 1^2.
The captain gave bail in $'2 >00. This is the
arrest in Massachusetts under the anti-
law.
Ox a recent application to reopen a contest
^ to priority of invention of the telephone
transmitter, the commissioner of patents ruled
that where a case has been decided, on testi-
mony already taken, it will not be reopened
for taking further testimony uuless it be made
to appeal* that such testimony, if introduced,
will conclusively fix the date of the completed
invention, and thereby determine the question
of priority. A motion for reopening a case, or
for a new trial, in the patent office is not to be
determined by the same rules which obtain in
courts of law.
It is easy for a party in power to indorse a
civil service reform that does not contemplate
the dismissal of that party's representatives
, from office. It is nofc so easy for a party that
is out of power to indorse a sl reform" that is
calculated to prevent that party from making
changes in office for the sake of appointing its
own representatives. The reason is that par-
ties, like individuals, are sellish and disposed
to look out for number one at all times and
under all circumstances. When independent
sentiment is so strong and vigilant that only
honesty and reform will pay any party,
then all parties will be improved in practical
administrative and legislative disposition.
ITjourned
vhich was re-
^porter, as unpro-
not certain^* known to
nls either fruit, vegetable or
The Sprague mansion estates in Providence,
R. I., were sold at auction July 17. The
prices obtained were low. Fanny Sprague's
house was bought by the Union company for
$2S,100, Mary Sprague's house by James C*
Hidden, for $28,000: green-house, lot and build-
ings, containing 25,3*59square feet, by the Union
company, for 3V» cents per foot; and another
lot, containing 30.415 square feet, by the Union
company, for o-i cents per foot.
The United States steamer Pinta, which
left the Norfolk navy-yard Saturday for New
York, proceeded as far as Hampton, when it
was found necessary to return for repairs to
her machinery. Her capacity was shown to
be six knots per hour.' This is the steamer
upon which $ 100,000 has been lately expended,
and which was referred to in ex-Congressman
Dezendorf s recent open letter to the presi-
dent. The American navy is a standing argu-
ment for peace at any price.
According to West Virginia legislation, the
trade dollar is a legal tender in that State.
The constitution gives to Congress the power
"to coin money" and "regulate the value
thereof," and declares that no State shall
" coin money, emit bills of credit or make any-
thing but gold and silver coin a tender in pay-
ment of debts." This was to do away with the
practice of making various kinds of property
a legal tender—to secure uniformity of money
in the States. In 1870 Congress, having pre-
viously made the trade dollar a legal teuder to
a limited extent, deprived it of this quality.
It declared that the coin should no longer be a
legal tender. Hence the legislation of West
Virginia in a contrary sense appeal's to conflict
with the regulation by Congress under the
Federal constitution. But as to the manner in
which one citizen of West Virginia could get
redress from another if the State courts did
not voluntarily recognize the superior authori-
ty of Congress, that might be as troublesome a
question in practice as some of those that have
arisen al»out State bonds.
Referring to the assertions of S. W. Dorsey,
as to what he knows about Garfield and the
Republican campaign, tho Chicago Times calls
for proof. Dorsey to lie believed must make
a clean breast of the matter—publish what
documents he has bearing on the matter, if he
has any:
If the executive groverinnentof this country is al-
ready degraded to an article of merchandise which
r>arly bosses and managers of an election machine
rit ay sell and deliver for gain, it is important that
rbe country should know the fact. If that which
e&.ls itself a jjovenmjent of the people is in reality
a government controlled and manipulated by huck-
stering traders in patronage and syndicates of mer-
cenary brokers tor £ain. it is rime to expel from
the land an establishment so infamous, and accent
anything, monarchy, empire, anything that can
give assurance of some character of honor and
respectability as an improvement. If our political
life is as desrra ed and the most conspicuous and
trusted of our public characters are as shameless
and infamous villains as they have been represent
ed to be by inferences drawn, in the absence of
certain knowledge, from some peculiar facts and
circumstances, it is due to the name of a civilized
nation which we assume, that the truth should be
made known. If Mr. Stephen W. Dorsey has any
letters or documents in his possession that will
shed any light on this subject, let him show that he
is not in all respects the abandoned rascal the
country supposes him to be. by executing his
threat to publish them.
A lady writes to the New York World com-
blaining that the press publishes too much
Ibout a professional beauty and her admirer,
he calls them an unworthy couple. The
prld replies that if there is a professional
uty before the public (there are, in fact.
Vod many) who is defying morality and
Vtaste by her conduct, virtue ought to re-
|hat the press acts like an argus-eyed
^nce, and nothing extenuates and sets
pthing in malice. Professional beauties,
Vthau professional prize-fighters and
&it^ial cracksmen, come under the eye of
newspaper simply because they are pro-
Honal, 4«.nd they very often squirm under it.
There is trouble brewing at Kansas City re-
garding the Sunday law, as outlined by the
•wning law passed by the last legislature,
n Sunday last all the saloons in the city were
dosed save two. and the proprietors were ar-
,ted Monday and bound over to await the
ion of the grand jury. At a meeting of the
ice commissioners an order was passed or-
the police not only to enforce the Down-
ing'law to-day, but the Missouri Sunday law as
well. This includes ail sorts and kinds of busi-
ness—barber-shops, drug stores, lemonade and
cigar stands, and pawnbrokers. The drug-
store men say if thoy can not sell goods the
same on Sunday as any other day, save liquors,
they will not open at all or till prescriptions.
Tho final test will be made to-day, and there is
much excitement among ail classes in conse-
quence, the larger portion of the community
'texXobt. in favor, for one reason or
of the strict enforcement of the law.
lAT the last weekly meeting in Chicago of
representatives of the freight departments
he east-bound lines the only business of any
Importance was the question of classification
of the tomato. Some of the members insisted
that it should be put in class 1, as a fruit, while
others believed it belonged in class 4, as a
vegetable. A lengthy discussion on these
propositions ensued, during which Webster's
Dictionary was consulted, to ascertain if it
might not belong to the animal kingdom, and
need a still higher rate; but here they were
met with the difference in the pronunciation
as given by the members, and Webster was
decided to be no authority on the subject.
The chairman decided to settle the trouble
by reference to pronunciation. If the
word was to be pronounced to-mah-to,
it was a fruit; if to-mat-to, a vegetable;
if to-mat-tus, an animal; if ter-mat-ter, it
was lumber; if tom-ma-toe® it was undoubt
edly package freight, and, no matter how
classed, it was liable to be underbilled. The
effort of the chairman only brought on irfcre
confusion, which was added to by suggestions
as to classification of the three colors, red, yel
low and green, and to grade them according to
size. This proposition seemed to have solved
the problem until the question as to whether
The real grievance of the telegraph opera-
tors is not a gallant one, says the New York
Truth, but, unfortunately, it is one of busi-
ness and even of necessity. *4 It is that young
girls, with but small responsibilities, are forc-
ing themselves into positions formerly occu-
pied by married meu, and consequently com-
pelling the latter to accept wages for an entire
family that suffices for the limited expendi-
ture of an uuburdeued girl. It is hard for the
married men that they should suffer by such
competition, and it is hard that the girls, who
find so few avenues of honest employment
open to them, should be driven from an occu-
pation which has cost much time to qualify
for." The company is expected to view the
matter only in the light of self-interest.
Doubtless tho operators have done so. It re-
mains to be seen whose judgment is right. But
it is due to the operators to say that they did
not propose to drive the girls out. They de-
manded simply equal pay for equal work,
without reference to sex. There may be a
slight amount of justification for the plea of
the telegraph management that men are
worth more than women as operators, because
they are available for a greater variety of ser-
vice Admit some discrimination to be just,
yet it ought not to amount to a very large per-
centage of wages. In the largo offices, where
there are so many employes, work must be
somewhat regular in character, it is pre-
sumed.
>ER.
leaves the inti-
Tossly immoral conduct
perinfcendent Gwyn, in any-
ific form, as near a point ot ad-
iion as they are likely to be. For more
immediate details of this unwholesome trans-
action readers of The News are referred to
proceedings of a meeting of the Board of
School Trustees published elsewhere. Colonel
Finlay's interpretation of the manner of pro-
cedure in arriving at facts in the case does not
agree with Judge Austin's conception of his
duties in the premises, and consequently
Judge Austin declines to proceed with the
investigation, if The News understands the
situation aright. The board last night, as far
as any official aetion is concerned, neither set-
tled nor decided anything. Assertions in their
complexion of the most serious nature have
been made against the character of
Superintendent Gwyn. Up to date they
are but bare assertions. It is intimated,
however, that these assertions or charges
are susceptible of being sustained by
proof, if the party making them is per-
mitted to present testimony and point
o the names of witnesses in his own way
and after his own fashion. At least the spirit
of judicial fairness is so lacking in the method
proposed that seemingly Judge Austin will not
agree to undertake an examination under the
restrictions imposed. As Colonel Finlay de-
clines to concede one iota in any direction
from the line he has pointed out, it is fair to
assume, as already remarked, that specific
charges of grossly immoral conduct against
Professor Gwyn are just now as near a point of
trial upon evidence as they are likely to
be. It is not the province of a newspaper
to adjudge a case of this character. The
act up to this time has not yet passed be-
yond the bounds of an attempt. A man is
always to be adjudged innocent until he is
proven guilty, and bare assertion, un-
substantiated by proof, can count for
nothing against him. If there be
those here who hold such evidence
against Superintendent Gwyn as may prove
him to be a man of grossly immoral character,
his relation to society as an educator of youth
would seemingly warrant its production. The
public can now take the case as it stands, and
judge between the accused and his accuser.
As far as the Board of School Trustees are
concerned, the case is apparently out of court,
as it were.
Wood's movements or something else seem-
ingly did not suit Straigne, who, according to
testimony, used some very opprobrious and in-
sulting epithets toward Wood. The latter,
seizing a pistol, deliberately shot down
his customer in his tracks. Accord-
ing to all accounts the shooting was
cool and deliberate. The general character of
the man thus shot down like a beef was that of
a quarrelsome and fussy person, but in him
there was really little harm or daugcr. The
question before the jury was, if Straigne did
abuse Wood, had the latter the right to take
life? The jury have answered in the negative,
and this will also be the judgment of every citi-
zen who desires the upholding of law and order.
There is little doubt that the plea of insanity
injured the prisoner's case, based, as it was,
upon alleged facts so frivolous as to make the
plea ridiculous. In rendering this verdict the
jury has struck a telling blow at crime in this
community, and they, as well as the criminal
district attorney, have done more, on this oc-
casion, to make the law respected by the crim-
inally inclined than all the moral homilies that
could be preached. Indeed, it is about time
here, as elsewhere in Texas, to cease handling
crime with kid gloves; let it receive a touch of
the iron hand.
STATE PRSSS.
What tho Interior Papers Say.
This has been a summer of storms, and now
people begin to fear epidemics. Storms' are
said to purify the air, and the Hubbard City
News appears to think epidemics may answer
the same purpose in the moral atmosphere.
After alluding to the prevalence of crime
everywhere, and of wickedness in public life,
that paper remarks :
It will take a purging: of cholera, yellow fever,
small-pox and the plague to free the country of
s moral corruption, if things get much worse.
The Baptist Herald is to be removed from
Houston to Austin.
The Hubbard City News has a new and beau-
tiful head, but the editor is the same sinner he
was before. He says:
Thk Galveston Daily News of the Sth instant
has a long editorial, entitled Labor and Honesty.
We thought Tjns News was too wide awake to re-
vive such dead issues. It should know that mf.
chinery took the place of labor years ago, and
crowded it to the wall so tightly that it was forced
to make an assignment to protective tariff, and the
assets failed to pay 20 cents on the dollar. Honesty
did very well until the government turned against
it and began to put premiums on rascality, when
it retired from the market in disgust, and will re-
FOOL WITH THE PEOPLE.
It might be supposed that in commercial
circles, with interests to which telegraph com
munication has become a vital necessity, feel
ing would naturally run against the striking
operators as the real or apparent authors of
the serious derangement in telegraph service
which has just been experienced. But thus far
no such feeling has been manifested. In Mil-
waukee tho Associated Press reports: " Public
sympathy is strongly with the operators." In
Louisville it reports: "There is much com-
plaint in business circles about the interruption
of trade, but it must be confessed that the
merchants generally side with the strikers."
These and similar advices and inklings may
doubtless be taken as denoting the tone and di-
rection of feeling among business people of the
country in general who are outside of the dis-
pute between the Western Union company
and the Brotherhood of Telegraphers. Why
should they sympathize with one party more
than with another? This is a question
which the Western Union and every other
corporation of like character, of like magnitude,
of like public importance, of like private 'pow-
er of wealth and organization would do well
to ponder. A generous disposition to " side
with the under dog in the fight"—on the theory
that the striking operators are individually
poor and weak iu comparison with the capital-
ists interested in the Western Union, and as a
body fearfully overmatched in a contest with
that financial giant—had much to do, it is pre-
sumed, with the first impulse of popular sym-
pathy in this case. But there is a deeper ex
planation thr^i this of a widely diffused senti-
meut of coldness or positive dislike for the
company and its financial backers, such as Mr.
Gould, a sentiment prepared to rejoice rather
than grieve at any crisis or catastrophe that
may weaken them in purse and break their
corporate power. For whatever reason, the
American people have come to feel jealous of
the towering growth of corporations and mo-
neyed consolidations in control of vast
railroad and telegraph properties. Their
jealousy is not of the properties. Their
quarrel is not with the material facilities of
railroad service and telegraph service. They
appreciate these properties, these facilities,
these services passing weiL They recognize,
too, the economic advantage of consolidated
capital for larger, better and cheaper services
alike in telegraph communication and railroad
transportation. There is but one conceivable
reason for the ill-disposition in question. It is
that the people in general believe that these
colossal consolidations, while working wonders
to the incidental benefit of the public, have
abused their powers and grasped at privileges
and monopolies to an extent menacing equally
to popular liberty and the common welfare.
These consolidations have been seen building
up with tireless assiduity pooling arrange
ments among themselves, as though resolved,
if possible, to be a law unto them
selves, an empire within themselves.
Hence the popular aversion and apprehension.
They are not to be blamed, as
money-making enterprises, for being wisely
selfish *n aim and calculation. But if they
have been merely selfish; if public spirit and
high and generous aspirations have not entered
into their policy; if they have sought at once to
aggrandize themselves out of the industry sub-
stance of the people and to lift themselves
above the people, then, in a country like
this, where the genius of democracy is bound
in the long run to be tho supreme and resist-
less law and the final adjuster of all ques-
tions, they have not been wisely selfish, but
foolishly selfish, and will prove fatally
selfish if they persist in inviting dis
aster by repelling the sympathy and
exciting the antipathy of the people.
If such has beeu their spirit and policy, then
they must change in spirit and policy or ulti
mately go under in some day of overwhelming
popular wrath. Their safety lies in pooling
with the people", making common cause with the
people, fortify ing themselves iu the grandest and
strongest of all fortresses—the moral fortress
of the confidence, sympathy, support and con-
servative affection of the people. The pre-
sumption and selfishness that would take a
contrary course would simply be strife against
nature and war with destiny. That way
madness lies.
PARTIAL ENFORCEMENT OF A DEAD
LAW.
The amount of social unpleasantness and
damage to the influence of the christian sects
that is being caused by Sunday laws, and their
spasmodic and partial enforcement, is pro-
bably incalculable. It is as clear as the sun
at noonday that Sunday laws in general are
but little regarded in the cities. It is also in
many cases tolerably plain that when attempts
are made to enforce such laws, such at-
tempts are not directed equally against
all classes of violators of the Sunday
law. The barbers and saloon-keepers
are usually singled out for prosecution,
as if it were especially wicked so shave and
shampoo and drink stimulants on Sunday,
whereas in fact if the law is to be enforced at
all, simply because it is on the statute book,
logic and justice demand that it shall be en-
forced all round. The popular sentiment un-
erringly pronounces the law in some things de-
ficient, hence the frequent manifestations of
rough and ready justice in certain cases of
grievous outrage. Quite similarly, popular
common sense has always pronounced the
average Sunday law unfitted for the wants of
a city population, and legislators may change
and renew enactments of that sort till dooms-
day, but there seems to be no prospect
that such legislation will ever meet
with respect or permanent obedience.
As this country has no established
official church, as all its governments are in
general terms based upon the idea that all men
fire free and equal in regard to religious prac-
tices, there seems to be no justice in going fur-
ther than to protect religious congregations
from noise and other disturbance. It seems
surprising that the courts have not pronounced
the Sunday laws in general to be unconstitu-
ional. However, public sentiment has evi-
lently done so, as much as in the case of the
Maine law where it has existed. Public opin-
ion even in a democratic country is not always
prepared to shape its conclusions in regard to
religious observances and express them with
logical clearness in the political arena and in
the laws, but public opinion on such matters
from time immemorial has claimed the right
to disregard sumptuary and Sabbata-
rian laws where they are locally un-
popular. Those who enforce such
laws but partially are in a similar
position with those who, in certain localities,
would not enforce them at all, while the logical
way would be either abandonment, repeal, or
strict enforcement everywhere. It is not sur-
prising that when saloon-keepers, for example,
are specially proceeded against under these
absurd laws, they should try to make the case
clear to the public by extending the application
of the law. At Jefferson City, Mo., the saloon-
eepers being forced to close made it their united
endeavor to close up every business house, bar-
ber's shop, livery stable, and even the printing
and publishing office of the daily paper. They
stopped the boot-blacks, and had a sheriffs of
ficer at the railway station to prevent the sale
of the St. Louis papers. Thus they carried out
the law to the letter. Thus people can soon
judge of its utility. The Galveston saloon-
keepers who have beeu indicted are under-
stood to feel sore enough about the mat-
ter to think of turniug themselves
into a committee for a thorough enforcement
of the law; at least they have been talking
over their grievance, and the German city pa-
per advises them how it thinks they can anni-
hilate the absurd Sunday law, viz: by enforc-
ing it in every direction for about two Sun-
lays. Then the American population will not
ondure the annoyance any longer, and there
will be an end of the prosecutions. Such is the
reasoning which follows experience to some
extent, but in many cases there has not been
perfect success in carrying the plan into effect,
for the persons who will apply the law against
a saloon-keeper will often allow other parties
to creep out. Juries may fail to convict
in cases of unpopular prosecution, when the
slightest informality or loophole gives them the
opportunity. There are doubtless conscientious,
good citizens who would never convict a bar-
ber for shaving a man on Sunday,
believing that it is a work of de-
cency. The same spirit of independent
citizenship may refuse to convict a beer-seller
for dispensing the beer, if it appears by evi-
dence that the purchaser had not drank too
much, but appeared to be buying what he
probably needed for refreshment. There is a
spirit in man which at times will do what is
said to be technically wrong in order to do
what is thought or felt to be substantially
right. At San Antonio, when a series of Sun-
day law prosecutions were begun some years
ago, there was a barber who was twice tried
for shaving a customer, but as the jury dis-
agreed he was let off. Then the Sunday law
collapsed. It will collapse in Galveston—the
only question being how much annoyance is to
be given the people and how many infidel objec-
tions to the intolerant spirit of sabbatarianism
aud sect, and incidentally to all the dogmas of
the christian faith, are to be revived and
talked over for the edification of youth before
the little farce is played out for this time.
The German Post, representing an extreme
agitation and indignation, even goes so far as
to suggest to the bakers, butchers, ice-dealers
and milkmen that they should show
their sympathy for the persecuted
saloon-men by firmly refusing to
supply^ the necessaries in which they deal,
for two or three Sundays, so as to give the
unco' guid class of the population a taste of the
bitter medicine prescribed for others. t The
idea is angular, but based in part upon a view
not without relevancy. The ice-vendor finds
that he can not purchase an accustomed bever-
age. He has a right, than, if he chooses, to
deal with society as a whole and say that for
that day he will not sell ioe. He may look
upon the present form of the Sunday law as
encroaching on his civil and religious liberty.
If he doe6 so, his sentiment redeems his action
from the appearance of undue selfishness,
would be preposterous to close the free resorts
about the beach. By a large majority, the
people of Galveston go out there and take a
glass of lemonade or beer and hear music, on
Sunday, without prejudice to their religion,
Those who consider it wrong are not obliged to
attend. The sentiment of the people is in favor
of toleration in such matters, and the Sunday
law is a dead letter for Galveston, as for all
the larger cities.
THE
VERDICT IN THE STRAIGNE
MURDER CASE.
It was the deliberate judgment of twelve
good and true men in the jury-box, yesterday,
that the man T. F. Wood, charged with the
killing of Henry Straigne in this city last year,
was guilty of murder in the second degree.
So believing, the penalty of twenty years in
the penitentiary was adjudged. The judgment
of the jury was based upon facts indicating
crime of no ordinary character. The defendant
in the case, who has been convicted, .was at-
tending to the duties of bar-keeper and saloon-
tnan near Union depot, in this city. Straigne,
it appears, entered the place and either
main out of business until times get better. The
News is behind the news this time.
The following, from the same paper, is a lit-
tle better, though not entirely orthodox:
The man who supports his family, pays his debts,
loves his wife and children and treats his neighbors
as he should has no time to devote to devilment.
He is, therefore, generally a pretty good kind of a
man.
Few people are aware of the immense sums
of money squandered in lotteries. The follow-
ing, from the Columbus Citizen, is perhaps a
fair index to the business all over the State:
For some years past the citizens of Columbus
have beeu sending money to Mr. A. Dauphin, of
the Louisiana State lottery. We heard a gentle-
man who had himself made some investments in
this line say he thought the amount thus sent from
our city exceeded $10,600. We have never heard
of as much as $ J50 being returned. And now comes
Postmaster-general Gresham and says the concern
is au unmitigated fraud, or words to that effect,
and directs that no registered letters or money
orders be delivered through the mails to that house.
But that won't stop the money being sent, all the
same, for all Americans, native and foreign, are
the 'cussedest " people on earth to do a thing
which is forbidden.
The San Antonio Times prints a communi-
cation with the remark:
Our principal reason for publishing the letter, for
it throws no light on the subject, is to show how
generally intelligent and well-meaning people will
jump at a conclusion and rush into print witn it.
United States customhouse officers some-
times overdo things. The Two Laredos says:
On Saturday morning Julian Castillo was brought
before United States Commissioner A. Winslow,
by Deputy Marshal Cecilio Charo, of Fort Ewell, at
which place he arrested the prisoner for smug-
gfing five bottles of mescal and a jennet, but as the
i H'oof only showed that the mescal and jennet were
ound some fifty miles from the river and there
was no proof that they were smuggled, he was dis
charged.
Castillo doubtless inherits some of the blood
of old Castile, and it may boil at this inter-
ference with his tipple and riding animal, but
if two wrongs make a right, he may console
himself with the reflection fcjiat it is only on a
par with the treatment of Americans in Mex-
ico.
The spirit of the railroad law is violated by
a Luling firm, who advertise as follows:
The undersigned, having a pasture near Luling,
will pasture stock at the following rates: One
month. $1: less than one month, §1 50.
The Dallas Times says:
The Fort Worth correspondent at Jefferson tele-
graphs Latin sentences to that paper. That paper,
strange to say. retains him.
If the newspapers should discharge every
correspondent who thinks it more important to
iir his own learning than give the news of the
day there would be many vacancies in the
business. "You," " he," and "they" begin
with small letters, but it is always big I.
Duelists may escape the law, but not the
pillory of the press. The San Antonio Times
says:
Knox and Shehan have arrived at the summit of
their ambition. Both have succeeded in getting
their pictures in the Week's Doiners, a paper not
quite as refined as the Police Gazette.
The Flatonia Argus is the creditor of The
News for the following:
That wide-awake and enterprising journal. The
Galveston News, will on the first of September
publish its fifth annual special edition. IB will
comprise eight pages, sixty-four columns, and will
eclipse any former edition of the kind. Those who
wish to realize the greatness of Texas and its
resources should not fail to secure a copy.
The Corsicana Observer learns
That Rev. D. M. Harris, D. D.. of Lincoln, 111.,
has been selected as one of the future editors of
the Cumberland Presbyterian.
The Brenham Banner says:
The first bale is becomiug numerous. It has been
received at La Grange and Schulenburg.
This is but the beginning of the fusilade.
For the next month the papers, telegrams and
letters will be busy in announcing first bales.
There seems to be a popular superstition that
they have some peculiar virtue over first ears
of corn, potatoes and pumpkins. Ordinary in-
tellects fail to perceive the difference.
The Examiner claims, no doubt corrective
that Waco is one of the healthiest cities in
Texas. The fact is that none of them are un-
healthy. The average of health and longevity
is as great in Texas as anywhere.
They grow ready-made ax handles in Sabine
county. The Reporter says:
We were shown by Professor A. Maryman, of
Milam, an ax that was dug out of the ground with
a mulberry root about one and one-half inch in
diameter growing through the eye, which, after
being cut off at the proper places, made a first rate
handle to the ax.
" Before and after," the picture of two sheep
in an advertisement in the Texas Wool-Grower,
might do duty as examples of the market for
sheep and wool last year and this. One of the
animals represented is large, fat, covered with
long wool, and standing erect, with elevated
head. The other is lean, standing with bent
legs and hanging head, and the wool adhering
to the skin in only a few scattered locks.
Old citizens of Southern Texas will remem-
ber something of the old murder case alluded
to in the following from the Rockdale Messen
ger. John White, a wealthy stock-raiser of
Chambers county, killed a man by the name of
Barrow, and after many efforts and the killing
of a guard by some of his friends, succeeded
in making his final escape, but is understood to
have died shortly afterward in Florida:
In the early part of last week a man calling him-
self White, from Liberty county, arrived in Rock-
dale and told that Mr. R. Rolaa, who Jives ten miles
south of Rockdale, about twenty-seven years ago
engaged to carry his (White's* fattier, who had
killed a man in liberty county, out of the country
for $."55,000, which was paid him by the family, and
that he then betrayed his rather and delivered him
over to the officers and disappeared with thai
money. That he (White) had at last discovered
Rolan's whereabouts, and had come to compel him
to make restitution or divide with him what pro-
perty he had. It transpired that he had been about
two weeks before and, by intimidation, made Mr.
Rolan give him $190. He went out into
the neighborhood of Mr. Rolan's resi-
dence and remained there several days, Mr. Ro»an
in the meantime leaving li^me to avoid him, for
fear of being killed. Tne citizens of Rockdale and
vicinity, hearing of the affair, and haviug known
Mr. Rolan to have been an honest, uprigut citizen
for the last twenty years, and desiring to afford
him protection if lie deserved it, sent for both par-
ties to come to town, so that each could tell his
side of the story, and. if possible, settle the matter.
They met here Saturday, and were heard at a meet-
ing of some twenty of the best citizens. Mr. Rolan
said it was true that he had delivered the man over
to the officers, but that he was compelled to go with
him under duress, aud that he never received a
cent from the White family. There were several
facts known to some of our old citizens, which se-
verely contradicted some parts of the young man
White's story, and, after a thorough investigation.
White was told that Mr. Rolan would receive pro-
tection from the citizens, and that he must cease
molesting him. This he very readily consented tov
and left on the first train. So a matter which has
caused a considerable sensation was brought to a
suaden and decided termination.
The Brenham Banner remarks:
Several prominent interior newspapers speak
the general sentiment when they aver that deep
water at Galveston is a thing much to be desired,
and which will prove of untold value to the State
at large. It is a matter in which the entire coun-
try, from Kansas to the Pacific, is interested. It
will give all this vast territory a shipping port, and
save several hundred miles of railway transporta
tion, thus reducing the cost of freight.
Washington county duelists do not always
escape unhurt. The Brenham Banner says a
party in search of gore appointed a meeting,
proposing to make Industry, in Austin county,
the Chalk Farm or Bladensburg; but one of
the principals and his second came to grief be-
fore arriving at the ground. The providential
interference came in this way:
When about four miles from town a collision
took place between the "buggy of the duelist and
second, and the wagon of a farmer. A smash-up
was the result; the buggy that was is no more; not
enough remains to make a fourth-class wheelbar-
row. As for the occupants, one had a leg broken
and the other sustained several internal injuries
and outside bruises. One of the parties could not
be brought to consciousness until a good sized dose
of snake medicine was pured into his nostrils.
Consequently the affair of honor did not
take place. Whether the belligerents will take
the warning as sensibly as Balaam took the
advice of his riding nag, and go no further
in the wicked business, does not appear.
The Henderson News rejoices in more inti-
mate and speedy communication with the
great outside world:
It is quite a luxury to get The Galvestox News
on the same day it is published. Henderson now
enjoys such a privilesn*.
Outsiders may suppose that the bell-rope or
some other coutriv;ince should keep up com-
munication l»etween all the cars of a railroad
tram and signify anv break in it, but it would
appear by the following, from the Rusk
County News, that such is not the case:
Cn hist Saturday night, when the train, which
was about three hours behind time, got about two
miles this side of Overtou. the passenger coach
broke loose and the remainder of th#» train went
about five miles before the conductor found out
that the accident ha I happened Of course they
had to go back after the missing coach.
The Brenham Banner remarks:
The penitentiary board has been husy consider-
ing bids and making modifications in contracts. It
is intimated that when the contracts are in full
operation that at least 1000 convicts will be em-
ployed at inside labor, and that the inside labor will
be at least self-sustaining. The result will be to
take inside thosa now at work on the railroads, and
as the farm contracts expire the number employed
on farms will be reduced.
How best to dispose of convicts without
cruelty to them or detriment to the public is
one of the leading problems of the day. That
terrible abuses have existed and stifi exist
seems certain. The premature deaths of hun-
dreds of prisoners have doubtless resulted from
ignorance and cruelty on the part of those hav-
ing them in charge. Dr. Gill, of the Southern
Illinois penitentiary, has gathered some in-
structive statistics on the subject. The death-
rate in the principal penitentiaries of the coun-
try is given in the semi-annual report lately
made by him. The variations in the different
institutions are a criterion to the conditions in
which the prisoners are kept:
Among New York prisoners, while at Sing Sing
the 3-early deaths from 1000 inmates number a
trifle less than seven: at Auburn it is given as
twelve, and at Clinton over twenty. The lowest
rate named is three, in Wisconsin, and the highest
seventy-seven, in Mississippi. The practice of
"letting '* convicts for work on mines and railroads
is declared to cause fearful death-rates in several
Southern States, and. on the other hand, the New
Hampshire figure is forty-eight. The rate in
Massachusetts is given as fifteen.in Maine the same,
in Vermont twenty-five, and in Connectidut fifteen.
The Panola Watchman having said:
Governor Roberts is not satisfied with being at
the head of the law department in the State uni-
versity; Be only wants to be president of that insti-
tution. The desires of this old ante-deluvian are
inordinate. T<*xas has already paid Roberts more
than she ever owed him, and common decency, it
seems to us. would suggest that he acknowledge
the fact, and take a back seat.
The Hamilton Herald enters its " protest
against such oncalled-for abuse of men whose
names have been an honor to Texas," and says:
Governor Rot>erts has his faults, as all men have,
some of which grew out of the condition of society
in which his character and personal habits were
formed, but in the history of his State, since the
political convulsion that gave it its independence,
no name will shin£ with brighter or more untar-
nished luster than his, if we judge him by his po-
litical acts. If. in the evening of his days, when
his intellectual powers have yielded to the weak-
ness of a body worn out with age and labor in the
interest of the State, aud he, unconscious of the
fact, as old men usually are. should desire a posi-
tion of responsibility for which his age and declin-
ing powers have unfitted him. is it just that he
should be rudely thrust aside without the observance
of those courtesies that prevail among all classes
of society in private life, and that his last days
should be imbittervd by the remembrance of such
examples of boorish ingratitude?
Notwithstanding the spelling reform, the
first word of two syllables, Webster's First
Spelling-book, is spelled the same old way—
baker—and Baker, of the Colorado Citizen,
whose other name is Ben., is the same wicked
wag he always was. He says:
A splendid edition of The Galveston* News will
be issued next September—the fifth annual. The
>. kws management know exactly how to do these
things, and we shall not offer them any advice
upon the subject. Beside the world of statistics of
value the edition will present, it is expected State
Press will write the biography of Uncle Dan'l.
from Esau to date.
State Press is wholly incapable. It can
not correct a tithe of the misapprehensions in
regard to the old man. For example, the
Christian Advocate, of Galveston, speaks of
"the day Daniel aud his three companions
asked that, instead of the king's meat and
wine, that they might have only pulse to eat
and water to drink." This was not said by our
Uncle D., who is represented by Siftings to
have been with Noah in the ark, or "thar
abouts," and to have been governed by the
sentiment which has been rendered into verse
as follows:
And to the Lord old Noah said:
" The water now tastes very bad,
Because there have been drowned therein
All beasts and mankind in their sin.
And therefore, Lord, I even think
1 should prefer some other drink."
in the management of the college, such as I
conceived the power given to the agent. I
think it relieves the faculty of a duty they
ought to assume and gives undue authority
to ail outsider and must gr^tly impair the
efficient operation of the college. I think it
multiplies officers and increases expenditures
to no good purpose.
0 The members of the board took issue with
Judge Thomas on this matter, and Judge
Pfeuffer, in ord»»r to show the exact position
Pmfessor Van Winkle stood iu the matter,
offered a resolution that the resignation of
Professor Van Winkle be spread 011 the min-
utes, so it could he soeu, and from that it could
be jtidged whether Professor Van Winkle had
been driven from the familty.
Judge Thomas refused to surrender or allow
the resignation to go on the minutes or be be-
fore the board, as it was given to him privately
and not to go before the board except on cer-
tain conditions.
Judge Pfeuffer said no member cf the board
had driven Professor Van Winkle from the
college, ami if he could not vindicate himself
on the records of the minutes of the meeting of
the board, he would do so through the columns
of The News, as be for one had not driven
Professor Van Winkle from the college.
The other members of the board dissented
from Judge Thomas on the subject of Professor
Van Winkle's resignation.
The chair of agriculture was not filled as the
board desire to get a thorough, capable, quali-
fied and efficient man for that chair, and such
a man selected for the presidency of the col
lege. So with the chair of mechanics. The
board has as yet received no applications for
this chair, but are looking for a thorough and
efficient man.
The faculty wilhno doubt meet to-morrow to
elect a chairman, and present indications poiut
to Professor Diuwiddie for that position
The board adjourned this afternoon, but will
necessarily meet again early in September.
The citizens of Bryan entertained the board
and faculty to-night, and the action of the
board at its present meeting seems to be ap-
proved generally.
PREFERRED FOR PRESIDENT.
Thorough Canvass of Public Senti-
ment.
New York, July 16.—The Times publishes
one of the most comprehensive forecasts of a
presidential campaign ever prepared. Early
in June the Times sent letters to over 400 points
in the thirty-eight States, asking answers to
the following questions:
First—Who is most frequently srpoeen of by Re-
publicans in your vicinity as their first choice for
presidential candidate in 16S4 ?
Second—What other names are mentioned?
Third—Who is most frequently mentioned by
Democrats as their first choice?
Fourth—What other names are mentioned, in
about what order as indicating their popularity?
Answers have beeu received from 344 of
these points. The replies show that forty-one
Republicans are mentioned. Mr. Blaiue is a
head and shoulders in front of the others.
Apart from his own State, he finds most favor
in the Middle aud Western States. President
Arthur is next in strength, and his friends are
pretty evenly distribute! throughout the coun-
try. It is clearly shown that a large part of.
or indeed the entire vote of the South, will be
cast in the national convention for Mr. Ar-
thur. Mr. Blaine and every other candidate
must face this solid fact. Third in the contest
is Mr. Edmunds. His strength is very evenly
distributed in the different States. These three
gentlemen received the voice of 224^ of the
334 places which express a preference—Blaine
103. Arthur 64. Edmunds 57>£. Robert T. Lin-
coln stands high among the new candidates—
only three, Grant. John Sherman and Logan,
coming between him and the leaders. The pos-
sibility of his selection is rarely left out of the
discussions. The following will show the rela-
tive strength of the various
REPUBLICAN- CANDIDATES.
Blaine 103 |0arrlson 12 Allison 2
Arthur.. ..04 W.T.Sherman 0 F. Miller... 2
Edmunds... 57f-h Gresham 4 Sheridan 1
Grant 19 Falrchild 4 Folger 1
J. Sherman. 1~
Logan 14 Corual]
Lincoln 12^
democratic aspirations.
The number of aspirants for the Democratic
nomination is forty, and their standing is as
COXaXiECrE*
Meeting of
the
a. actd m.
Proceedings of the
Board of Directors.
LTo The News.l
Bryan, Texas, July 19.—The board of di
rectors of the Agricultural and Mechanical
college met this afternoon in the office of
Judge Thomas. The entire board, composed
of J. D. Thomas, Judge Pfeuffer, Colonel
Scott, Mr. Wiggiu3 and Mr. Garrison were
present.
A communication was presented to the
board by Mr. Sbisi, steward of the college,
requesting that the board order a member of
the faculty to be present in the mess-hall dur-
ing meal hours in order that good decorum
may be preserved among the students. It was
ascertained that such an order had been in
force several terms ago, but the United States
officer filed a protest against such order and re-
fused to be present at meal hours. It was
suggested that hereafter the resolution re-
quiring a member of the faculty to be present
at the mess-hall during meal hours be adopted
and that it be strictly enforced.
The president of the board read a letter, ad-
iressed to the comptroller, in regard to the ap
propriation made by the last legislature, and
there was also read the comptroller's reply.
The board desired the construction of the
comptroller as to how the appropriation should
be expended. The comptroller says, iu his let-
ter: " I am also of the opinion that uo part of
the amount appropriated by the Eigeteenth
Legislature for the support and maintenance
of the Agricultural and Mechanical oelle^e can
be used for the purchase of stock and imple-
ments, building fences, etc." This view of the
comptroller as to the manner in which the ap-
propriation should be used certainly retards
and prevents any advancement in the agricul-
tural department. Colonel Pfeuffer dissented
from the opinion of the comptroller as to how
the £40,000 should be used in the maintenance.
The comptroller is also of the opinion that
the act of March 30, 1881, providing for the
maintenance and instruction of State students
at the expense of the State, having been re-
pealed, is still in force, and is of the opinion
the directors can make an appropriation for
the maintenance and instruction of ninety-
three State students. The following applica-
tions were made for the chair of agriculture:
Tho Simplest Method of Press Reform
[London Telegraph.}
In spite of the attack of ** A Woman" on
male dress, it is obvious that men. on the
whole, run little danger to health from the
caprices of the mode. Their rlothes ar* at all
times so fashioned that they can wear unknow n
any quantity of inner clothing, ami the gayest
dandy in evening dress may b* amply pro-
tected from sudden chills. This is not the oa>e
as regards ladies at balls, and heroin men show
more sense than women. The open coat, also,
may always l»e buttoned across the chest, aud
inner drawers may make up for thin trousers.
As to the latter garment, which some wotueu
envy and others attack, there is, if we may
say so, au absurd fuss made about its advocacv
and use. We believe it is an open secret that
dual" garments have long been worn by
ladies of all ages, from school girls up to
matrons, aud that, as they are not exhibited,
hey may be as long or as short, as light or as
warm, as tight or as loose, as the wearer wills
or the seasons demand. Men show their trou-
sers, women conceal them : that is all the dif-
ference. If a girl desires freedom she has only
to concentrate all the comfort and warmth ill
these invisible garments, and then with a
light, loose skirt she can walk as freely as any
man, and yet look as feminine as any fashion-
able lady. No public meetings, no <jstentatious
exhibitions are required for this reform. Any
woman may dispense to-morrow w ith heavy
skirts without even the knowledge of her lord.
Perhaps a solution so simple deprives the im-
provement of its attractiveness: there must be
a cause and a crusade with protagonists ar.d
martyrs — speeches, resolutions and leaders,
committees/ councils, exhibitions and appeals
—all to compass a change that any girl can
accomplish by half an hour's shopping and a
few minutes trouble and thought.
Convulsions of the Earth-
At Oxenhall, England, in 1179, the earth
suddenly rose to an eminence resembling a
mountain, remaining so many hours; it then
sank in as suddeully with a deafening and ter-
rific roar, leaving a deep chasm.
On Saturday evening. February 17, 1571,
Marclay hill, near Hereford, England, began
to move from the base; it continued in motion
until the subsequent Monday; carried along
with it trees, hedges and cattle; it overthrew a
church, demolished everything in its path, and
at last settled into a mount forty teet high,
leaving a chasm forty feet deep in its path. Iu
1586 a similar phenomenon happened in Dor-
setshire, England. A field of three acres, with
trees, fences and cattle, moved from Blai k-
nioor to Hearu and settled there.
A country seat at Norway sunk into an
abyss, 3U0 feet deep, in 170*3, and the spot was
instantly covered with water, drowning four-
teen persons and 250 head of cattle.
•21 No expression^
follows:
Tilden
.120
Randall....
.. S Hewitt 2
McDonald.
. T'JU
Flower
... 4 Hendricks .... 1
Bayard
• 31H
. 25
Hoadley ...
.. 4 Jewett 1
Hancock ..
Morrison...
.. S PaJmer 1
Butler
Eaton
... 2 English 1
Thurman.
•
Parker
... 2jNo expression 1
Cleveland.
. 11
;i°^
Shelton, of the Michigan Agricultural
college, also Professor Troop, a graduate of
the Michigan Agricultural college. Captain
John Wharton, of Sherman, was presented by
President Cole for the chair of agriculture.
Dr. C. P. B. Martin and Professor Banks,
members of the college at its organization,
also made application for the chair of agricul-
ture.
A resolution was passed by the directors
that J. S. Fow lk, fiscal agent of the college,
be authorized to draw from the comptroller
the sum of $20,000, for the support and main-
tenance of the college out of the funds appro-
priated for that purpose, by act of the legisla-
ture, approved April 23, 1SSS.
General C. Hardeman was elected general
manager of the college, and it is thought he
will fill the position to the satisfaction of the
board, and that he will be able to work in har-
mony with the president.
Professor Bringhurst was elected to take the
chair of physics. This relieves Professor Din-
widdie of a part of the duties of his chair and
gives him the chair of chemistry. This action
of the board is approved by every one ac-
quainted with this action.
The election of Professor Cole to the presi-
dency of the college, at the meeting or the
board in June, was reconsidered and the posi-
tion of president of the college was abolished
and tLe faculty are authorized to elect a chair-
man of their body, whose duties are of an
academical nature and refer in no way to the
financial or executiv3 matters of the col-
lege. Colonel Pfeuffer dispatched Professor
Wipprecht, of New Braunfels, to come imme-
diately, to be present at the meeting of the
faculty for the election of a chairman. Gen-
eral Hardeman was also notified by wire of his
election as general manager of the college.
Th4 loss of Professor Van Winkle to the
college, as profesror of mechanics, was freely
discussed, and each member expressed his
regrets at his removal, but it was stated that
Professor Van Winkle was responsible for the
action. It was brought out in the meeting
that, after the election of Colonel Scott as
general manager, he immediately gave notice
that he would resign the chair of mechanics. He
was waited upon by Colonel Scott and Mr.
Garrison, and was informed his department
would be in no way interfere 1 with, but he
manifested insubordination, and, although his
resignation was uot formally before the board,
being in the hands of one of the board, was
demanded, but refused, and not to be present-
ed unless certain conditions arise, which
conditions did not arise; nevertheless,
owing to the manner in which Pro-
fessor Van Winkle expressed himself, his
resignation was accepted while in the pocket
of J udge Thomas. The conditions of Professor
Van W inkle's resignation were: If the board
would give him the architectural work and
supervision of the new buildings, he would not
resign, but unless such was done, his resigna-
tion was before the board.
Mr. Garrison offered the following resolu-
tion: Whereas the president of the board holds
a conditional resignation of Professor Van
Winkle, and whereas the board declines to
accede to the condition, therefor be it resolved
that his resignation be accepted, to take effect
July 1, 1S83. Resolution adopted.
Director Thpmas asked that his reasons for
voting against Mr. Garrison's motion be spread
on the minutes; These reasons of Judge
Thomas are combined with reasons for voting
against the resolution for abolishing the presi-
dency of the college and electing an agent of
the board.
1. President Cole was elected June 26,
by a vote of 4 to 1. The board favoring the
resolution were challenged to point out a sin-
gle dereliction of the president in charge of
his duties, either while acting presideut or
since his election, and they failed to do so.
Judge Thomas says, I regard the action as an
indignity to President Cole, calculated to drive
him from the faculty as Professor Van Winkle
has been driven by the previous action of the
board in resolving to accept his resignation,
which was not presented to them and when
there was no dereliction charged against him..
2. I was opposed to the divisive authority
Samuel J. Tildeu leads his party even more
markedly than Blaine leads the Republican
feeling. Two-fifths of the points reporting
award him first choice, and his strength, again
like that of Blaine, would have been increased
if he had come out promptly and demanded
the nomination. It is not always the old tick-
et, as Hendricks seems to have fallen into dis
favor in some quarters. McDonald comes next
to Til den. Geographically, the Eastern, Mid-
dle and extreme Western States alone disfavor
him. He makes a very strong showing as sec-
ond choice. Bayard has apparently a hopeless
following, judging from the talk of his ad-
mirers. Butler comes next. Massachusetts
sustains him, and that is about all there is of
him. The sentiments of the Democracy in re-
gard to him exhibit every feeling, from the ut-
most contempt through respectful fear to al-
leged genuine admiration. It must be borne
in mind, however, in setting up Democratic
standards, that Hoadley,with an " if " attached
to him, looms up ready to smash all slates. If
he is elected governor of Ohio, he may lead all
in the race; but for the present he is a condi
tional candidate.
"Worth's Costumes and His Customers.
[Hartford Daily Times.]
Mrs. Emma King, an English dress reformer,
in a recent speech waxed indignant at Mr.
Worth, and uttered the wild wish that he
might be drowned in the Seine, and she
summed up the greater part of her sex as a
pack of incurable dress-maniacs. Whoa,
Emma! You do not know Mr. Worth. Dur-
ing a most charming conversation with him on
the subject of feminine dress, he gave
the information that he approves most
decidedly of dress reform. He advocates
the Persian costume for women, and would
like to invent a sensible dress for them
if they would wear it after it was made.
But they will not. He tried the plan once
andl it dismally failed. The convenient, pret-
ty and really graceful dress hangs a lone un
gathered rose on Mr. Worth's Parisian walls.
Do not blame him. He is not responsible for
the follies and tastes of the women whose de
mands he undertakes to supply. He does the
best he can with his customers, and he would
not have any if he attempted to wholly carry
out his ideas on dress, which are more sensi
ble than any we have heard from the lips of
any man or woman. He is only too delighted
when he finds a woman who wishes her dress
adapted to her style of face, form and occupa-
tion, and he can tell at a glance what its make
and color should be. He takes more inter
est in adapting one dress to a woman who
understands this secret of good dressing than
he does in dozens of the showy kind that are
ordered for inappropriate places. Althou^
where a costly and gorgeous dress is not out of
place, no one can rival Worth in producing
either bizarre, outre or tasteful effects. He is
the Shakespeare of dress. He can do every
thing with it, as Shakespeare could do with
language. And he knows a wealthy titled lady
of Paris whose taste and inspiration would be
his only rivals if she were obliged to use
them for her own pecuniary benefit,
He obtains many of his effects
from nature—more especially in the
matter of blending the shades, as seen in the
plumage of a bird, the petal of a flower or the
tints of sunset clouds. Nature never brings
striking contrasts closely together, although
she may appear to do so at the first sight of
her varied hues. Each one leads up to or re-
cedes from the other in gradually deepening
tints until the climax of oolor is reached; and
Worth, who is a keen observer, invariably uses
the hints he catchos in this way. It is a pity
that women, as a rule, will not support him to
a still greater extent than they do. and allow
him to use his iuventive genius in creating a
healthful, sensible but pretty dress for them
to wear. Ho would answer for 'its being a
graceful one. 1 f Mrs. King and other radical
dress reformers did but know it, Worth could
and would benefit women more than any man
on the face of the earth.
Toccoa City, Ga.—Dr. J. P. Newman says:
"Brown's Iron Bitters are very popular, aud their
use always results satisfactorily."
P. jr. WILLIS £ BRO,
WHOLESALE GROCERS
Importers.
rrs FOR THE CELEBRATED ' ,
Jersey Lily and Champion Navies.
J ^ ALL SIZES. ALSO, ■
IHyrtle
DR.WORTHINGTON'S
■HOIERA 1RAMP
[HOLERA
Band .
MOEJMURE
USED
I VSR 2B YEARS.
Tat best reaedv 'or Cholerm. Craaap*. DJ«rrh«r»,
USED
OVER 3S YEARS,
'•r Cholera. Cr
apm DfarrW*,
Ufienterj. SummerCumpUiut. •tker
' he iMawck and &9weir Istroauccd t
■ifatxon* of the iwnwch
1m?, by sar(nq g««i
Warren, Purreyor
Ue Army,
c. 3. A.. Reccc^28od«* by Qeu.
urreTor-Ge««r*l; flaa. EtnocJa Raiser. Solicitor
0. S. Tre«*arr* End •thert. Price, lieu. S»l« by Dri||i(ta
and Deaiara. "Only i«n*ine If ©ar name blown i« b»tt:«. Sole
VroprlMora, THE 6HAILES A. V00ELER COMPART.
Uj , t 9- A-
KEW ORLEANS
IT
Highest XSarkat Price Paid For
Cotton Seed
AT ALL RAILROAD STATIONS
Sacks and Twine
FURNISHED.
For further information address
G. C. STREET,
STATE AGENT,
HOUSTON, - TEXAS
AUCTION
PUBLIC
SALES.
SALE
TOWN LOTS
is the town of
{S-A
trial order of the above goods wii.l convince those
i'skl) them as to thelr superior quality.
who have not
Recognizing tlie value of demand, and desirous of
eeping abreast with, the requirements of trade, we an-
nounce ourselves prepared to fill all orders for SE\ EX-
PEXNY NAILS, which are, according to the best me-
chanical authority of this State, better adapted for
weatherboarding purposes than any other size manu-
factured.
J. S. BROWX & CO.,
GALVESTON, TEXAS.
PROPOSALS.
NOTICE TO ARGHITEC1S.
TN ACt'ORPANOE \rith a resolution of the Citr
Oouncii of the city of Op«n;rne. Texas, I hereby
pive notice to architects that y'aus and speciftca-
for a school building xriil be recerred at my
office, iu saiJ citv au«i Stafe. until the first day of
August. A. E>. said building to be of brick and
the cost not to exceed $15,000.
Thtr i ounetl reserves the right to reject any and
all piaiis.
W. X. HODGE,
Mayor of the City ot Cleburne.
EDUCATIONAL.
fl*s- CUTHBERT'S SEMINARY [°ArD?^?
lath Year o»«u» Sept- 10. addiea gnamisl. St- Lom,
VTORWOOD HIGH SCHOOL AND COLLEGE,
jJN Norwood. Nelson couay, V irgiuia.
R. H. Willis. Jr.,(Univ. of Va.) Supt.:|
John B. Preston, M. A., lUniv.of \ &.) -Princ'Is.
Torbet. a. M , \
Terms. $3X> to $280 per year. Apply for catalogue.
NOTICE TO GONTMCTORS.
MDS WILL BE RECEIVED FOR THE CON-
struction of an
IKON BRIDGE ACROSS THE BiCJ
BRAZOS RIVER,
hear Pitt's Ferry.
Plans and specifications can be seen until July
24. lt<SS. at the office of COLE BROS., Bryan, lex.,
ou which date all bids will be considered.
The i if h: j* referred by the Bridge Committee
to reject any and all bids.
WM. KOPTE. 1
>1 BONNEVILLE, |
M. D. COLE, L Bridge
G M BRYAN. Jr.. Committee.
MILTON PARKER, i
\v. A H ASKELL, j
WAVERLEY SEMINARV
f " 1537 1st St., N. W.. Washington. D. C. -*■
Boarding ami Day School for Youug Ladi-s. Full
corps of professors and teachers. Thorough in-
struction in mathematical, literary and ornamental
departments, and in the lanirua^s Clirudte
especially suited to Southern and Western puDiis.
Fall session opens Sept. •-?>. For catalogues apply
to Miss Lipscomb, Principal.
T
BUSINESS CHANGES.
STATE OF TEXAS, f
Corimr or Galvestox. f
.IIS TS TO CERTIFY THAT WE. THE UN
_ Jersi»?ned. have rbis day entered into a limited
fjartnership in pursuance of the provisions of title
xviii of the Revised Civil Statutes of the State of
Texas, and r.hat the name of the firm under which
said partnership is to b« couducted is KINO DA
VlDSON; that the general nature of the business to
be transacted is that of a wholesale liquor business,
to be conducted and carried on in the city and
county of Galvestou, Sta'e of Texas; that the
uames of the general partners of said firm are
William B. Kiujr and Wilbur S. Davidson, of said
county and State, and the special partner therein is
A. C. Baker, of same Stale and county; that the
capital contributed to the common stock of said
piirtcership by the said A. C. Baker is twenty
thousand dollars ($20,000) in casn; that the period
at which said partnership is to commence is July
first (1st), A. D. 1583; that it will terminate July 1st.
1886.
Witness our hands this, the -3d day of July, A. D.
1883.
WM. B. KINO.
general partner;
W. S. DATIDSON,
reaeral partne
. c. baker.
special partner
It is my order that the foregoing be published in
the Galveston News.
P. S. WREN. Clerk.
C. C. G Co., Texas.
NOTICES.
Is otice.
THE GALVESTON-IAS COMPANY.
All orders o« complaints, ro
receive orompt arteutijm, should ba left
rhe ofliets of the Company, in the Brick Budding, on
Market Streets Bettveeu 24tlft mnd 2atb
Streets,
Between the hours oc a and 13 o'clock a m.
AUG. Bl'TTLAR.Secretary.
No fewer thau six individuals, of various
nationalities—English, French and Italian—
have written to eu^age guides for attempting
the ascent of the Aiguille Blanche du Peuteret,
the peak on which Professor Balfour lost his
life last season.
OARBYS PROPHYLACTIC FLUID,
For the prevention and treatment of
DIPHTHERIA. SCARLET FEVER, SMALL-POX,
YELLOW FEVER, MALARIA, ETC.
The free use of the FLUID will do mor8 to arrest
and cure these diseases thau any known prepara-
tion.
Darbys Prophylactic Fluid,
a safeguard a.erainat all Pestilence, Infection, Con-
tagion and Epidemics.
Use as a Gargle for tho Throat, as a
Wash for tho Person and as a
Disinfectant for the House.
Neutralizes at once all noxious odors and
gases, destroys the germs of disease and septic
(putrescent) floating imperceptible in the air, or
such as have effected a lodgment in the tnroat or
on tne person. Removes all offensive odors.
A CERTAIN REMEDY AGAINST
ALL CONTAGIOUS DISEASES.
PERFECTL1T H.In.71 LESS VSBD
TJBMt-VML I* O/S JE X TJBRJV^AIjJJ \\
On Thursday, Aug. 2, 18S3.
ALVARADO is located in Johnson county, at
the junction of the GULF, COLORADO AND
SANTA FE RAILWAY and the MISSOURI PA-
CIFIC RAILWAY, on a high, rolling prairie, in
one of the most populous portious of the State;
black-waxy lands, producing large crous of cotton,
corn, wheat, oats aud other small grain.
As a commercial point, Alvarado offers fine in-
ducements to parties desiring to engage in busi-
ness, controlling a local trade for a radius of sev-
eral miles of the best agricultural portion of the
State, \n ith direct railroad connections oy two in-
dependent lines, of railroads to all points in Texas,
and the great markets of the country, North and
South.
From the present crop prospects for this year,
the estimated receipts at this point will be 15.000
bales of cotton, 150,000 bushels of corn, 00,000
bushels of oats. 40.0<30 bush-Is of wheat. With this
prospect for business, the town is now booming;
has tour brick buildings under construction, in-
cluding an opera-house, and four more under con-
tract.
MILL SITES—Within half a mile of the town
there are numerous suitable locations for dour, cot-
ton, cotton seed-oil and other mills and factories.
This section will furnish the supplies for large
mills and factories, with ample water and good
building stoue ou the ground, and fuel accessible.
The soil also furnishes the material for superior
brick.
HEALTH—Located on high, rolling land, with
perfect drainage, cool, delightful breezes continual-
ly blowing, making it one of the healthiest and
pleasantest portions of the State. Within a mile of
the town are the Alvarado Iron and Alum Springs.
These waters are producing wonderful cures, and at
no.distant day is destined to be a popular health re-
sort. The owners are contemplating the erection
of a fine hotel, which will contribute largely to the
retail trade of Alvarado. These waters are said to
cure sore eyes, skin diseases, iiver aud kidney dis
orders and dyspepsia, and to be a rejuvenator of
manhood.
REUNION—Those gallant soldiers, survivors of
the celebrated Parsons's brigade, hold their reunion
at Alvarado August 1 and 'i. Grand prepartions
are being made for their entertainment by the citi-
zens of Alvarado and vicinity.
DISTANCES—From Alvarado to Fort Worth. 27
miles; Dallas, 40; Waxahachie, 27; Waco, 00; Cle-
burne, 13; McGregor junction, 8' ; Temple junction.
112; Brenham, 304; Rosenberg junction, 204; Hous-
ton. 301; Ualveston, 330.
TERMS OF SALE—Amounts under $100, cash;
amounts exceeding $300 and under $200. one-half
cash, balance in one year; amounts exceediug$'-!00,
on^-third cash, balance in one and two years. 1 n-
terest on deferred payments at s per cent, per an-
num, wMh vendor's Jien reserved to secure notes.
SALE TO COMMENCE AT 11 O'CLOCK A. M.
Excursion Trains—An excursion traiu will
leave Fort Worth at S:15 a. m. and Cleburne at 10
a. m., returning after the sale. An excursion train
will leave Dallas at 8:15 a. in. and Midlothian at i>:30
a. m., returning after the sale.
Half Fare from all Station?,
which will be refunded to parties purchasing lots
to the amount of $100.
Parties from Galveston, Houston. Brenham, Wa-
co and other points south will take the regular
train on Wednesday, August 1, leaving Galveston
at 0 a. m.
Refreshments on the Grounds ^ree.
For maps and further information, address
c. C- AIiX.SK,
Secretary Land Department,
G.. C. and S. F. Ry.f Galveston.
O. G- KUREAY,
Gen. Pass, Agent.
S. W. SYBNOR, Auctioneer-
W A 1ST T ED,
ForSale anil to RenMo Iwiuigrautsand
Investors.
RANCHES & FARMS
Stocked and Unstocked.
Give full description of land and improvements,
crops for which suited, distance from markets,
railroads, churches and schools, map if possible,
and lowest price, and terms.
H M. TRUEHEART. Pres't. Galveston,
or J. M. JONES, Vice-president. 150 Nassau street.
New York; New York and Texas Land and Securi
ties Syndicate, Galveston. Texas.
Z. King, President.
J as. A. King, V. Pres't.
Harlky B. Giebs, Secy,
A. H. Porter, Engineer
King Iron Bridge
injiiiO
CI.E OHIO,
Manufacturers of all kinds of WROLrGHT IRON
and COMBINATION BRIDUi^.
4®- Plans, specifications and estimates submitted
on application.
OLIVER & ALEXANDER,
General Southern Agents.
Office: Room No. 10, Fox'9 Building, Houston,
Texas.
J. H. ZEXZ.XN & CO.,
Proprietors, Manufacturing Chemists,
PHILADELHIA.
PRICE. 50c. PER BOTTLE: PINT BOTTLE, $1.
DIED.
WILLIAMS—In Cincinnati, O., July 15,1SS3, Mrs.
Eddie Campbell Williams, daughter of Mrs. Ann
W. Campbell, and wife of W. H. Williams, formerly
of-Galveston, Texas. A devoted daughter, wife
and mother, who loved her Master for his love for
us. A life of perfect service rendered.
PROWSE—Lastnizht, at 7:20 o'clock, Wm. H.
Prowse, aged 55 years.
The funeral will take place at 10:30 o'clock this
morning, from his son's residence, on Church, be-
tween Fifteenth and Sixteenth streets.
Friends and acquaintances are respectfully in-
vited to attend.
WANTED—AN OWNER.
rj^HERE IS AT J. LEVY BEOS. STABLE?
ONE BAT HORSE,
fifteen hands one inch high; aeren yean olfl.
Owner can redeem him by paying charges.
J. LEVY BROS.
MATTING!
MATTING
PLAIN, CHECK ' AND FANCY,
Wholesale or Retail,
AT
new york prices.
Geo. B. Dobson & Co.,
Cor. Strand and 20th St.
Samples at WALSEB BROS.
ket street.
Mar-
BEATS THEM ALLL
Alabama Girl
TOBACCO.
The finest dbewin the State.
Manufactured "by
R. A. PATTERSON & CO.
JMCiller A English*
BOXiE AGENTS FOB TEXAS.
JOS. BROCKELMA^,
Dealer in
STOVES and manufacturer ot BROUGHT-IKON
RANGES.
IRON RAILINGS. CRESTINGS, BALCONIES,
VEBANDaS and all kinds of iron, TIN. cop-
per and sheet-iron work, plumbing.
gas and steam-fitting
promptly attended to.
llISCHANIOi bet. 20th and 21»t SM.
AND
II
Hot
SUMMER RESORTS
and Warm springs Hotel,
Madison County, N. C.
Largest and Most Delightful Resort in
the South.
ELECTRIC BELLS IN EVERY ROOM.
Excursion Tickets on Sale at all
Principal Points
For information address the Warm Springs Co..
H A. G CDGEK, Man*g*tr. Warm O., N. C.
Resident
Ori-a*»s.
_ jpnngs t
Physician—l>r. I. E. S'AULE, of New
HIRAM HITOHlXXJiC,
Formerly St. Charles
Hotel, New Orleans
A. B. DARLING,
Formerly Baule
House, Mobile.
Bf
For the Hig-her Education of Women,
Independence, Texas.
The 33th Annua] Session will open September ls6
and continue fortj- weeks. For catalogue, addresi
J. H. LUTHER.
THE EXERCISES OF
ALTA VISTA INSTITUTE
Wiil De resumed September 5.
For circular, address
Dfc. R. M. SWKARING£H«
or MrSw H 21. KIRBY,
Austin, Texas?,
RS. SYLVAN US REbiDS BOARDING AND
Day School for young fai!es arid little pirls. 6
and 8 East 53d street, between Sth and Madison ave*
nues. N. Y. (Central Park ) Course of study ih col-
legia te department thorough and complete. Special
students admitted to ail classes. Music and paint-
ing taught by eminent masters. Pupils required to
speak French. Modern and classical lang.i.ifgej
taught. Nineteenth year begins Cctober S, ISnI
BR. WARD'S SBMINAfiY,
NASHVILLE. TENN
Th« largest sch»>bl for girls in the South, and
most complete in its Scholastic. Musical, Art and
French advantages: in its Matrouage and Sanita-
tion; most admirable in its buildings and iocatiou;
in its actir«. progressive and aon-sectarian ioea<:
most able and experienced in its teaching force 328
pupils this year, 14 more tbanVassar had. ^ext year,
Sep:. 1. For new catalogue, add Dr. W. E. WaKD.
MEDICAL DEPARTMENT
OF THE
UNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA,
New Orleans-
This is the only institution of the kind in the
United States in which ail of the students are daily
taught medicine and surgery at the bedside of the
sick iu the wards of a great hospital. The Charity
hospital contains TOO beds and admits more thau
SIX THOUSAND patients annually.
F or circulars and catalogue, address
T. Cr. KICHARDSON, IKE- D.,Dcan.
In Store and to
100,000 BUND
GOTTOM TIES
Arrive
,E3
LIGHT>TLSG AND ARROW;
5000 ROLLS
baggi
FIJOUR
the State-
delivered at as
Turnley Bros.
We are State Agents forj
ing Celebrated Brands of T
MARTHA WASHU
9-inch 5s;
CH ALLEN GrFJ,
Bright 7-os. Twist;
Good Morning and Sandy Navies.
The best goods in the market at the
price. A trial order will convince you
of their merit.
G. SEELICSOISI 4L CO.
FOR THIRTY SJAYS
"We will give with the following assortment of
TO B jSl COO;
1-4 Box Big- Gun Navy,
1-4 Box Spear Head Navy,
1-2 Box Mary Anderson 9-in 47s,
Either one HOWE'S U. S. STANDARD SCALE
with Brass Scoop, or
ONE COMPLETE SET OF COPPER MEASURES,
Embracing all sizes.
These tobaccos Stand (unrivaled and are guaran-
teed to give satisfaction. We have but a limited
number of soalas. Purchasers will do well to tile
their orders at once.
G-TJS LEWY & CO.,
wholesale grocers,
Strand; - Galveston.
The J. M. Brunswick S Baike So.,
Manufacturers of
Fifth Avenue Hotel,
fiXadison Square, New York.
The largest, best appointed and most liberally
managed hotel in the city, with the most central
and delightful location.
HITCHCOCK. DARLING Sc CO.
BANKS AND BANKERS.
Lockwood & Kampmami,
BANKERS,
SAN ANTONIO, ... TEXAS.
Collections solicited on All Points in the Stata.
Commercial paper discounted. Bills ob Mexico.
TRADERS NATiOKALBAM,
SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS.
J. M. BROWN SOX, President.
J. S. THORNTON, Cashier.
Transacts a General Banking Business.
Rice, Badlard & Co.
paints, oils, glass,
wall paper and win-
dow shades.
Agents for the well known
averill chemical
ready hixed paints.
6JJLr«IT».V, TJK IJ».
BILLIARD & POOL TABLES
211 ISarket Street, St. Louis, Mo.
BRANCH OFFICES IN TEXAS:
HOUSTON—No. 377H PRESTON STREET.
DALLAS—407 MAIN STREET.
EET"Send for Illustrated Catalogues and Price'
Lists.
Wood TVTancelsj
INTERIOR HARD WOOD WORK
of every description.
Wainscoting, Doors, Facings, Stairways,I
Floors, Shelving, Show Cases, Count-
£rs, ABT FUftfilTUfit, Book Cases,
Hat Racks, Side Boards, &c.
FrcnCO'JR OWN OB ARCHITECT'S DRAWINGS.]
manufactured by
HEGAN BROTHERS,
Artists in Interior Dcccratwns, Wood Work, I
frssootntt, Wall Papem,
Sa!*srstm, 348 Faurth Ate., LOUISVILLE, KYJ
BEST IN TBS WO&LD!
-r want8d,
h4 address,
O. L. GEER. Manaaer,
pt| 917 Oli-re Street,
P4 ST. LOUIS, MO.
GalvestoH l'aiiit t'o.'s Li<|ni<i Paints.
The undersigned would call the attention ot the
publie to the fact that tker hare recently com-
menced HERE IN GALVESTON the manufacture
of LIQUID PAINTS, both white and colored, of ya-
rious tiats; aud they believe that they can furnish
a superior article at a price as low as it be
bought at the North, thus saving freight and time,
and in Quantities to auit purchasers. We respect-
fully ask the patronnsre of tlw public. J AS. W
RICE, V. J BAULAKD, GEO. W. OUTTEHSIDE,
C. C. BE MIS.
B
lancard's
Used for 25 years by the medical celebrities of En-
rope and America, in .Scrofula., ronatitiitionai
Weakoens. Poorness mf the Blooc, and all
a flection# where it is nec^skary to Act on the blood.
ho as to stimulate and regulate its periodical course
They are an excellent tonic lor lymphatic ant
debilitated constitutions. '
Priue cent* and SI. per bottle. I
t.Fougt-raJkCo...N. V.. Agnnts t or the L. Si
Sold by Drujjgiste generally.
GRIMAULT & CO S
MATICO CAPSULES
G. H. Edwards,
725 Main St.,
DALLAS, TEXAS,
Dealer in Choice ring, Mathushek. and other first-
class pianos, organs, orgauiuas, music-boxes, Ac,
Full stock of small instruments for wholesale trade.
Send for catalogues before you buy.
NEW DISCOVERY IN MEDICINE
IMPORTANT NOTICE.
SANTAL MIDY.
Are warranted to effect a rapid cure m the most se-
vere cases of private diseases. They do not fatisnae the
stomach as ail other Capsules with liquid Copaiba uo,
and will be found a safe and effective remedy.
SOLD ST ALL DRUGGIST^
will cure in 48 hours all derangements of the urinary
organs in either sex without inconvenience of any kln<£
GRDiAULT & COm 8* Kue Vivieune, faiia*
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