The Galveston Daily News. (Galveston, Tex.), Vol. 46, No. 59, Ed. 1 Friday, June 24, 1887 Page: 8 of 8
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THE GALVESTON DAILY NEWS. FRIDAY. JL^E 24, 1881
Honiton and Texas Control Railway,
The Only All-steel Kail Line in the Stats.
Double dally trains each way. Through Buf-
fet Sleepers between (ialveston and St. Louis
on Trains 8 and 4, mid between Corsleaua
and St. Louis on Trains 1 and 2. via Dallas,
Denlson and Sedalio. .Sleeper between llous
ton and Austin. Through tickets to all
points. Quickest route to New Orleans and
1>olnts In tl>e Southeast. Choice of routes via
Jer.lson and St. Louis, or Houston and New
OileanR. Steamship tickets to or iioia any
point in Europe.
Going South. LOCAL Going North.
Leave. TIME CARD. Arrive.
No. i No.2. l In Effect) No. 1. No 3.
PAXLY. DAI LV. j May 22. j DAI I. V. DAILY.
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n. jOenison . 11.30 a.
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m'Garrett.. | 6.52 p.
m Corsle'na 0.00 p.
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m Waco ; 5.15 p.
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m Austin... 5.15 p.
ni Brenham. 1.00 p.
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H. C. ARCHER, Union Ticket Agt., Galveston
A. FAULKNER, Gen. Pass. Agent, Houston.
Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe
Miles of Steel Rails than any
-Northward-
Railway—More
line in the State.
Day
Exp re's
Is'o. 1.
7.00 am
11.25 am
8.30 pm
9 50 pm
I 8.30pm
11.25pm
Local Time |
Kansas Card, JnEffect
City Ex 'June 12, 1887.
No. 3. Stations. |
4.COpin IvGalvest'n ar
8 30pm IvBrenham.ai
12.15 am IvTemple.. .ar!
ar Dallas — ar|
5.15 am lvFt Worth.ar
8.00 am lvGaln'sv'lear
12.30pm Ivl'ureell ...ar
6.00 am arK City—lv
^-•Southward—%
Day Kansas.
Expre's City Ex.
No. 2. No. 4.
10.15 pm 11.45 am
5.22 pm 7 10 am
1.40 pm 3.35 am
8.30 am i6.30pm
6,00 am 7.45 pm
3 15pm
I 9 45 pm
Elegant Reclining Chair Caxs;on Trains 1 and
2; magnificent Pullman Buffet Sleeping
Cars on trains 3 and 4; entire train runs
through between Kansas City and Galveston.
Thiee trains daily to Houston. Lv. Galveston,
7 00 a m.. 8.40 a. iu., 4.00 p. m,; ar. Houston, 9.00
a. in., 10.40 a in 6.1*5 p. m. M. NAUMANN,
j. S. CARK, G P.A. Ticket Agent.
Tie Bram-Mc Railway Sjslei
(Int and Oreat Northern K. B. Division.)
ELEGANT PULLMAN SLEEPING OAKS DAILY
' BETWEEN
Galveston and St. Louis
Leaving Galvoaton at 2.30 p. m.; arrive St.
Louis 7 a. m.
For Berth, Tieketa or any Information ap
ply to
H. C. ARCHER,
TICKET AGENT.
ANNOUNCEMENTS.
TO THE CITIZENS OF GALVESTON":
In eompMence with the request of many cit-
izens we hereby announce ourselves as candi
dates for ti e olliees of public school trustees
at tlit election to be held July 20.1837.
R. V. DAVIDSON,
II. A 1,ANDES,
JXO. W. THOUNE.
I. LOVuNBERti.
nvs
FKIDA.Y, JUNE 24, 1887.
Ant one leaving the city or state for a
short or long»time can have The Galves-
tom Daily News sent, postage prepaid,
for 5-1 per month, anywhere in tuo united
Btates or Canada, and $1 30 per month to
Europe. The address will be changed as
often as requested.
TIE!ZEE3 CITY.
Synagogue Services.
There will be services for congregation
B'cai Israel this evening at 7 o'clock, at the
Presbyterian church, southwest corner
Nineteenth and Church. Rabbi Silverman
will lei tare on Truth Invincible. Services
to moriow at 10 a. m. All are invited.
The Galveston Hine.
The nine o£ the Uhrig's Cave Base-ball
club which plays the league game at Hous-
ton is composed as follows: Banedict,
catcher; Smith, pitcher: Philltpson, first
base; Meilon, second base; Hackay, taird
base; Boyd, center field; Costley, short
stop; Jloran, lelt field; Gunderman, right,
fieid; Duguy, substitute; Joe Costley, bick
stop,
The Cooking Club.
Unique invitations are out to a tea, to be
given by the Galveston Cooking club, on
the lawn at the residence of Mrs. Hagood,
at the intersection of avenue K and Thirty-
third street, at 8 o'clock, on the eveniu? of
Jure CO. The reception committee is com-
posed of the following ladies: Misses Bel-
linger, Clfgg, MriCullough, McLemore, Von
Harten, Skinner, Franklin, Sorley, Hutches,
Hagood, Mott and Williams.
The County Poor Farm.
Deeds to the 213 acres of land and build-
ings on Clear creek, purchased by the
County Commissioners' Court to be utilized
as a poor farm, were filed for record yes-
terday. Centlemen who are conversant
■with the property state that it is well situ-
ated for the purpose, being high, healthy,
and conveniently near the railway. A well
alleged to exercise curative properties in a
number of disorders is located on the
pre mites.
The Case Dismissed.
E. W. Cookson, master of the American
schooner Helen Montague, was arrested by
a deputy United States marshal Wednes-
day on the affidavit of Carl Gastafson, a
member of the vessel's crew, charging per-
jury, alleged to have been committed be-
fore Hon. C. B, Sabin, judge of the United
States District Court, on Monday last, in
the tafee of the sailors of the schooner. The
case was heard by United States Commis-
sioner Spann and the charge dismissed.
{ County Commissioners' Court,
The County Commissioners' Court met
shortly after noon yesterday. Present:
Hon. William T. Austin, county judge, pre-
siding, and Commissioners Beal, Boylan,
Butler and Shaw, and Sheriff Tiernan and
Deputy County Clerk J. W. Kelly.
A bill from Mr. Franklin was presented,
and on motion was laid over until the next
regular meeting.
The court then proceeded with the exam-
ination of the unrendered roll of real es-
tate as submitted by the state and county
tax assessor, and after a brief discussion of
several items adjourned until noon to-day.
Examination ol Teachers,
3 urix-g the last two dajs Superintendent
Crow, assisted by Misa Minnie Waters and
Miss laez Beebe, has been conducting the
annual examination of applicants for cer-
tificates to teach in the city schools for the
coming year. Twenty-three applicants
were present, and it was recommended that
certificates be issued as follows:
First class to Miss Vlrgie Sanford and
Misses Jobtz Lanier and Constance Pes-
sele.
Second class to Misses Bolla Mellviile
and Alice Johnson.
Third class to Misses Isabella Agijilo,
Anne L Boone, Cathieen Thompson, Uolea
Watcrhoose, Emuja Feist, Sallie Harris,
Jessie B. Lockhart and Arthur F. Harding.
Mrs. M. H.Poole and Miss Mamie 8ramen
bad iLeir certificates raised from second to
first clsss.
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THE MOSQUITO FLEET.
Galveston's Substitute For and Improvement
On :"the Prairie Schooner"—The
Small-Boat Trade.
"You have no wagon trade," was the re-
mark of a gentleman from the interior yes
terday, to a friend who was showing liim
through the city. "Why, in my town our
principal business is derived from that
source."
"Come with me," responded the resident
of the metropolis of the gulf, "and I'll show
you something that will eclipse a half a
hundred wagon trains."
The two then proceeded to the slips along
the wharves, and pointing to the large fleet
of small floups and schooners, the Galves-
tonian thus expressed himself:
"As the Roman matron, pointing to her
children, eaid, 'These are my jewels,' I can
tell you to cabt your eye over those boats
while 1 exclaim 'Them's our waggins.' Of
small boats entered in the custom house,
and those of too small tonnage to be record-
ed there, at least 200 are engaged in trading
at Galveston as wood craft, charcoal car-
riers, general traders and truck and water-
melon boats. The value of the cargoes
taken out and brought in by them will ag-
gregate thousands of dollars monthly, and
the number of persons employed in their
management is not inconsiderable.
"A large item alone is the supply of vege-
tables, a great portion of the early crop
coming from Bolivar peninsula,Shoal Point
and other places on the mainland, and being
shipped to interior points. Watermelons
alone are becoming a big item of export.
For the past twenty days from six to eight
carloads have been shipped daily, each car-
load ccmprising about 1200 melons. The
melons are all raised on Bolivar peninsula,
where large fields of them are planted
every spring. The crop is the first to ma
lure in the United States, and is shipped
by rail to various towns in Texas and to
Kansas City, New Orleans and other points
outside the state.
"Firewood, charcoal, brick, sand, shell and
farm products are brought by these crafts
in large quantities for the Trinity and
Brazos tivers, Cedar bayou, the San Ja
cinto, Double bayou, High island and the
eastern and western coast, keeping the
market always well supplied in this re-
spect, and in return furnishing the inhabi-
tants of a dozen counties with both the
luxuries and the necessaries of life. So you
tee lam right in calling these craft 'our
wageins.'"
' Yes," responded the rural rooster, "I
tavej."
FOUND FLOATING.
The Ecdy of a Weil-Known Man Discovered On
the Surlace o! the Bay.
The body of an unknown man was found
floating in the bay at the head of Bean's
wharf, at the foot of Twenty-ninth street,
eaily yesterday morning. He was appa-
rently about CO years of age, five feet eight
inches high, lull chin beard aud mustacho,
sandy and partly gray hair, weight about
1D0 pounds, dresEed in black twill sack caat
and pantaloons, with twill undershirt and
striped jumper, and pair of heavy soled tie
shoes. The body is supposed to have been
in the water twenty-four or thirty hours.
In the pantaloons pocket were a short
stemmed clay pipe and a black-handled,
two bladed pocket knife. Justice Spann
was notified and, impaneling a jary, held
an inquest, which developed the fact of the
body being found floating in the water in
the slip at Bean's wharf. A verdict of
"death fiom drowning" was rendered, and
as it was impossible to keep the body longer
lor identification a burial permit was given
and ite corpse interred by thecoanty un-
dertaker. While no one identified the
corpse, the general impression of those
who viewed the body was that the deceased
bad been a bay boatman. This theory was
collapsed later in the day, when a request
was made by Justice Spann to have the
body exhumed for identification, as it was
supposed to be that of Wm. Semelrogge,
for a number of years employed as dray-
man by C. F. Hildenbrand. The corpse was
accordingly disinterred and was identified
as Semelrogge by Geo. A. Ryder, Peter
Hcenis and John Friery of Fidelity Lodge
No. 6, Chosen Friends, of which organiza-
tion deceased was a member, and also by
Augusta Lopanbausen, a stepdaughter,
atd Henrietta Semelrogge, a daughter of
deceased. Semeiroggo had absented him-
self from heme since last Sunday, and how
be came in the bay is unknown. After idea
tification the cornse was reburied in the
tame grave.
Alleged Nocturnal Assault.
Residents on Fostoffice, between Four-
teenth and Fifteenth streets, report having
been aroused at an early hour
Thursday morning by piercicg screams,
uttered by a white servant girl oc
cupying sleeping apartments near the
rear end of the lot on which one of the
residences is located, and on hurrying to
the scene report having been informed that
she had discovered an unknown man in her
room, who attempted to put his hand over
her mouth and stifle her cries, but who was
frightened off. A News reporter, armed
with this statement, sought the gentleman
occupying the domicile where the al-
leged attempt at outrage is stated
to have occurred, and was informed
that the head of thB family
occupying the premises, knew nothing of
the matter, having been asleep at the time.
The question was then asked him if the girl
had made any report of the matter to nim
Eince its alleged, occurrence and the reply
was that she had not. He declined to make
any Etatement, saying that he knew noShiug
concerning the affair. Thj News reporter
then sought Chief of Police Jordan, aad
after reciting what appears above inquired
if any report had been made at police head-
quarters concerning the affair aud he re-
plied, "No, this is the first I have heard of
it." People in the vicinity are much
wrought up over the occurreacs.
A sumner Scrimmage.
Quite a ripple of excitement was created
yesterday on Mechanic street, between Tre
ment and Twenty fourth, by the inaugars-
tion of hostilities between aHjuston caudy
merchant and a Galveston broker.-
The broker at first essayed a retreat, bat tiiu
pursuit becoming warm he rallied aad re-
torted upi n liis assailant with a b >x. For
a short tlice the prospects lor aa ensan-
guined combat were lair, but finally both
withdrew their forces in comparatively
gocd orc!er, aud Mc-chacic street resumed
its utual sedate summer aspect.
GALVESTON CUSTOM-HOUSE.
Letter from the Supervising Architect—What
He Says Concert, ins the Long
Delay.
The following letter from the supervising
architect of the government, addressed to
Representative Crain, in reference to the
Galveston custom-house has been received
by Tub News, and is given to the public as
ihe latest expression from headquarters:
Treasury Department, Office of the 8u-
t ei vising Architect, VVastiiagton, June 1<S.—
Hon. W. H. Crain, 123 B street, S. IS ,
Washington—Sir: I have the honor to
acknowledge the receipt of your letter of
the 7th instant inclosing a newspaper clip-
ping from The Galveston Daily News iu
regard to the slow progress of work on the
government building iu that city. With
reference to the statement by Mr. Clayton
that the preparation of drawings, etc., for
government buildings has hitherto lava
riably been done in the office of the super
vititg architect at Washington, I have to
advise you that on account of the great
pressure of work in this office for the past
year or to, detail plans and specifl
cations for several buildings have been
made and are now being made under
?he direction of the superintendents in the
cities where said buildings are located.
This was the case on the ifovernment build-
ings at Richmond, Va., Keokuk, Iowa, and
is now being done at San Antor.io, Tex.
have further to state that the Galveston
tuilding is one requiring only first-clasB
talent and knowledge of construction, and
it was presumed that Mr. Clayton was fully
competent to assume all responsibility iu
regard to executing the details of the de
signs. As to his waiting for proper author-
ity from this office to accept the bids for
excavating and concreting, 1 have to state
that, as is usual in such cases forjother
buildings, Mr. Clayton was instructed to
adv ertise for proposals and to forward same
to this office when received, with his
recommendation. In his letter of June 1,
in which he forwards the bids, he states
that while all the bidders are responsible
and trustworthy parties, yet the bids were
informal in leeard to complying with all
the requirements of the advertisement and
specification, and he closes his letter by
stating "but in view of the fact that there
has been no competition in their proposals,
I do not see the propriety of my making
any recommendation of one or any of them.
1 shall await yotir instructions as to the
desirability of calling for new proposals
by having the advertisement reinserted in
The News, madiug the period of receiving
proposals a short one, or any other course
which you may wish to adopt." This letter
was received at the office on the 0th instant.
On the 7th a letter was written to Mr. Clay
ton, instructing him to get bids by circular
letter from all contractors in this class of
wcik in bis vicinity, and to request the
"parties who previously bid to submit other
proposals in accordance with the require-
ments of the advertisement and speciflca
tion, and to forward all bids to this office at
the earliest practicable moment. There
seems to be no delay; but the public gener
ally are impatient to see the Duilding pro-
gressing and forget or do not consider the
architectural part of the work to be done.
In justice to this office, Mr. Clayton should
txplain theEe matters fully and explicitly
to the people of Galveston, so that they may
know that everything is beiagdone that can
be done. Respectfully yours,
M. E. Bell, Supervising Architect.
FLOTSAM AND JETSAM.
Various Items ol Local Interest Found Afloat
Throughout the City.
There was nothing done in the County
Couit yesterday, and no orders were en-
tered.
Tbe Uhrig's Cave Base-ball team left for
Houston yesterday, and will play the post-
poned league game with the Crescents to-
day at the Fair grounds.
The Clerks' Benevolent association of
CJalvtston and the Clerks' Benevolent and
Social union of Houston are arranging for
a joint picnic at Dickinson on July 24.
The stucco work on the First Presbyterian
church, at the Intersection of Church and
Nineteenth streets, is almost finished, aad
bas brought out the architectural beauties
of the edifice greatly.
Cocnty Judge Austin and Architect Clay-
ton weie engaged yesterday in planning
i he necessary connections from the court-
houEe and jail with the recently connected
Twentieth ttreet sewer.
The schooner John L. Treat reached
Brick wharf yesterday. She sailed from
Perth Atnboy, N. J., and brought a cargo
of railroad iron. She will go from here to
Apalachicola for lumber.
A large amount of material has. been
accumulated at the intersection of Bath
avenue aud Broadway for the residence of
Mr. George Senlv, which when completed
will be one of the finest homes In the south.
Tbe police department is well repre
sented at the Interstate drill at Houston.
Day Clerk Hancock and Night Sergeant
Roberts are both there, and will see that
the dignity of the Galveston force is prop-
erly maintained.
The salt cedars at the east end, near the
foot of Winnie street, have caused quite an
accumulation of sand, aud the drives iu
that locality bring to mind the sandhills
which once protected in a manner the en-
tire south front of the city.
Some of the deciduous trees in the city
paik are exhibiting evidences of decay.
Tbe liveoaks, however, continue thrifty,
and those who enjoy their umbrageous
shade duriBg tbe heated term regret that
there are not more of them.
Several street hands have been at work
opening up gutters in several sections of
the city. The recent heavy rains demon
strated tbe fact that the drainage problem
in the "back o'town" district is about as
Jar from solution as it ever was.
The breakwaters constructed by the city a
few years ago along the eastern portion of
the gulf chore are rapidly disappearing.
Tbe rock is fast sinking in the sand, while
the timber portions of the work aie bsiug
utilized by thrifty residents as firewood.
CITY HALL NOTES.
The city clerk is now preparing the war-
rants for the payment ot the February
pay-roll.
AH the officers elected at the recent ses-
sion of the city council have qualified as
prescribed by law except Miles Crowley,
assistant engineer of the fire department.
The Western Union Telegraph company
has applied for permission to erect a line
of poles on Twentieth street to avenue N,
west on avenue N to Twenty-first street,
tcuth on Twenty-first stieet to avenue Q,
Bed west on avenue Q to the Beach hotel.
The application is made to the committee
on streets and allays under the new ordi-
nance.
Tax-collector McCormick's office has been
thiotged recently by property-owners
taking advantage of the 2 '4 per cent
rebate granted by the city council for
prompt payment, and during the past two
days his collections for 1887 t ix«3 amount-
ed to $16,000. He also says that dog-owners
who desire to pre vent the poisoning of their
canines had better step up and pay the tax.
Federal Court Cullings.
John G. Winter, special master in chan-
cery in the case of Nelson S. Easton and
James Rintoul, and the Farmers' Loan and
Trust company, trustees, against the Hous-
ton and Texas Central Railway company,
now pending in the United States Circuit
Court, has filed a report setting forth that
he had examined the quarterly report of the
trustees for the period ending February 1,
JSS7, found it to be correct, and recom-
mends that an order be entered approving
tbe fame. Exhibit A shows receipts of
$10,707 10; disbursements, $1S 75; balance
on Land, $10.6i>9 l!). Exhibits B shows: Re-
ctipis, ill2,li0 St>; disbursements, $110 25;
balance on hand, $111,0S3 14.
'i'tf intervention of Alfred Kemp against
tbe Houston sr.d Texas Central railway was
b'eo filed, claiming damages la the sumot
45t0 for injuries alleged to have been re-
ceived while engaged in coupling cars. Ia
jej orting on the intervention the special
mstter says the petitioner was a volunteer
m the work in which he received his inju-
ries, that no negligence on tbe part of the
company is disclosed, and that the peti-
tioner is not entitled to recover.
THE COUKTS.
District Court.
Judge Bxewaut, Presiding.
No, 13,154. S, Jacobs, Bernheim & Co. vs.
Chap. Tray lor, attachment. Jury verdict:
••W e, the jury, find for the plaintiff ia the
btiin of $153791, being for principal aad iu-
ieiest, from the maturity of the bills to
dete, June 23,18S7. Judgment in the ver
<jirt and foreclosure of the attachment lien,
No, 13,048. Freiberg, Klein & Co. vs,
Charles E. Tliavenat, attachment; judg-
ment for plaintiff in tbe sum of $4788.
No. 13,288. Jos. A. Peebles vs. Leon & H.
Blum, suit for damages; continued on atfi
davit of defendant.
No. IS,472. Lessie Thomas De Bruhl vs.
CburlesDeBruhl, suit for divorce; decree
i f divorce at defendant's costs, and the
<aie and control of their child, Minnie De
Biuhl, aged 2 years, adjudged to plaintiff.
Recorder's Court.
Judge Foniaine, Presiding,
Ed. Hill, drunk and disorderly; fined $750
or fifteen days.
Hefliu, failing and refusing to com-
ply with sanitary notice; continued until
J line 25.
Dave Payne and George Harris, disorder-
ly conduct; Payne fined $10 or twenty days,
Harris dismissed.
state cask.
Charles Alberti, theft of property of more
value than $20; continued until June 25.
HOTEL ARRIVALS.
At the Beach—Jas. E. Backer, Temple;
Robeit Barrey, Corsicana; Jos. H. Brown
aid family, Fort Worth; J. R. Merryfield,
Dallas; H. B. Barnhart and wife, Austin;
M.Devereux, St. Louis; Chas. R. Barton,
Chicago; Joe A. Barbisch, wife and child-
ren, Howard Long, Austin; Chas. Cobb,
Jr , Marshall, Tex.; M. S. Barker, Louis-
ville, Ky.; James F. Tucker, Florida; Mrs.
M. Loose an, Houston; Mrs. F. W. Bonner,
Miss J. Aycock, T. H. Bonner, F. W. Bon
Ler, Jr., ltusk; Mrs. F. S. Werner, Hous-
fen; Mrs. George Buckingham, Huntsville;
Mrs. J. A. Adams, Houston; J. C. Gregory,
Palestine; Frank M. Brown, Houston; D.
Mocre, J. H. Jenkins, Bastrop; J. T. Dow-
dell, Louisiana; Mrs. H. G. White, Mrs.
Mizzie Merritt, Miss Mary Lou White, Col-
eradoClty; Ueo. A. Brush, Austin; Rich-
ard H. Barker, Mew York; C. A. Harrison,
J. M. Pettigrew, St. Louis.
At the Washington: L.F.Clark, city; J.
I. Martin, P. Whitaker, Temple; E. L.
Parish. James G. Smither, R. S. Rathar,
Huntsville; E. J. Brown, J. D. Williams,
R. B. Bishop, N. B. Payne, Cleburne; J. L.
\Vilson and wife, Houston; W. F. Mays-
field, Fort Worth; E. Schramm, Texas; P.
Litzman. Cat Spring; D. R.Vaughn, Boli-
var: R. S. Tompkins, Denton; A. S. Lyons,
Dallas; J. H. Buckner, O. A. Coleman,
Keatihie, La.; H. K. Polk, San Augustine;
J.C. Gates, Temple; C. W. Cobb, Groes-
l eeck; S. H. Mercer and wife, Grovetown;
Miss Mary Scurlock, Corrigan; I. Lauter-
stein, Weimar; A. J. Blacky, city; Frank
Jcserand atd family, Grovetown; J. G.
Crane, Reading, Pa.; S. E. Barnes and
wife, Trinity; Mis. Hill, Richmond;
Colonel J. L. T. Hall, H. K. Price, Thorn-
ton; Wm, Kleberg, New Orleans.
At the Tremont—C.T. Campbell, Texana;
R. L. Baker, Houston; M. Darragh, San
Antoiiio; W. P. Frank, Hunter F. Burke,
Paris, Tex.; John Burns, Houston; A. M.
Campbell, Houma, La ; Mrs. R. B. Cooper.
Miss Fannie Cooper, Granbury, Tex.; John
Sampson, Belton; H. Donogh, St. Louis; F.
L. Lillian, Santa Fe; T. F.Johnson, Colo-
redo, Tex.; A. M. Woods, Texas; H.Jones,
New Orleans, La; Mr. J. M. Darragh, St.
Lcuis; F. A. Cosmore, New York.
At the Girardin—Bam Brown. Tyler; Jake
Davis, citv; Hon. Wells Thompson, Dr. R.
H. Harrison, Columbus; Jeff Davis, Missis-
sippi; Henry E. Wolcot, Laredo; W. L.
Glass. Franklin; O. C. Mead, W. P. Maxey,
New York; J. A. Reess, Palestine.
Concerning Garbage.
A case was before Recorder Fontaine
yesterday morning in which a citizen was
charged with violating the sanitary regula-
tions in refusing to provide a barrel in
which to place slops and garbage. He
stated that he had repeatedly furnished
banels, and that they had been stolon, and
alto alleged that the slops complained of
bad been cast out of his neighbor's yard,
and not from his residence. Recorder Fon-
taine, while expressing himself as thor-
oughly in iavor of the strict eutorcement of
the sanitary regulations, concluded to with-
hold action in the case until he had an op-
portunity of consulting Health Physician
Cooke. From a police official the state-
ment comes that the persons whose duty it
is to remove accumulated garbage from the
boxes and barrels provided for its recep-
tion are slow of movement, and that it is
jit i n-itied to remain for hours before being
caned off.
A Regular English Cutter.
The smaller craft whose white wings dot
the waters of Galveston bay generally con
fine their lig to the "cat," sloop and
schooner, with an occasional lugger which
strays from the Louisiana coast, but the
fleet in the near future will be swelled by
the addition of a boat of new rig. Mr. Wm.
J. Evans of this city has in the last stages
of completion a. typical English cutter of
the following dimensions: Length on keol,
IS feet; overhang, 2>j feet; length over all,
feet; bieadtb of beam, 7 feet; depth ot
hold, 5 feet The craft will draw about 24
lathes of water. Her rig will be two jibs
inboard, mainsail and jigger. She will be
used as a yacht, and an opportunity will
doubtless be afforded, when she is launched,
to test the vexed question as to the su-
premacy of center-board or keel boats ia
Texas w aters.
The Artesian Wall.
A visit yesterday afternoon to the ar-
tesian well now being sunk at the Electric
Light works disclosed the fact that the tub-
ing was still in a bed of sand at a depth of
450 feet from the surface. The pumping
apparatus was at work and a steady stream
of water had cleared the tubiug of the accu-
mulation ot sand ancl drift-wood which had
checked it, and a space some distance be-
low the bottom of the tubing had been
cleared. After more sand has been re-
moved an effort will be made to sink the
tubirg of the large size deeper, unless a
sufficient supply ot water is secured at the
yiretent depth, which is not considered as
very probable. Should the present tubing
prove immovable a smaller size will be put
down.
A New Craft Commenced.
Captain John Grothgar, who is interested
to a considerable extent in Galveston ship
propeity, yesterday commenced the con-
struction of a new vessel on the bay shore,
north of the Gulf, Colorado aad Santa Fe
machine shops, which will be the first sail-
ing craft of any size built in this place for
fifteen years. The vessel, which will be con-
stiucted upon a new plan, is to be tiO feet in
length, IS feet beam, and 0 feet depth of
hold, and will be engaged iu the general
coasting trade. The stern and stern posts,
as well as the knees, will be of liveoak, the
frame of cypress, and the planking of yel-
low pine, with fastenings of galvanized
ircn. She will be schooner rifjgea, with the
foremast Eet well aft, and will carry but
little head sail outboard. Sne will be about
CO Tons burden.
STRANGE EDIBLES.
Officers Elected.
Tbe following cfficers of Zachariah
Frankel Lodge No. 242, I. O. B. B., have
been elected: A. Frenkel, president; Jacob
Wenk, vice-president; I. Lovenberg, treas-
urer; M. P. Oesterman, secretary; J. Sil-
berman, warden; M. Mansberg, guardian.
Trustees for the District Endowment Fund—
A. Frenkel, M. Schrain and J, Sonnenthell,
A Ben Vivant Who Has Eateu a Queer Kettle
of Fish— He Likes Shark aui
Dotes oa Devilfish.
"Little you know of epicurean delights,"
Eaid a bon vivant to a News reporter yes-
terday, "if you have never tasted the flesh
of a Ehark, or reveled in devilfish stew."
"All fish," continued the speaker, "are
edible, tut some are by popular prejudl e
adjudged to be unfit for the table. Who
would eyer dream of eating a toadfish? Tne
appearance ofitlie creature, with its hideous
head and brown spotted sides, i3 Bufficieat
to take away any man's appetite; yet the
flesh is tender and palatable. When fried
it tastes very much like flounder. Sharks
are also excellent eating. They are plenti-
ful in these waters, and if people could be
made to believe that their flesh is whole-
some and agreeable to the palate an excel-
lent fish would be sold in the market at a
remarkably low price. Shark flesh is firm,
and in taste hardly distinguishable from
redfish. A delicious soup can be made
from the fins. The meat is best when
boiled or fried in oil. The devilfish, or
giant s%uid, sometimes seen on this coast,
is the same creature of which Victor Hugo
wrote in his novel, The Toilers of the Sea.
It is known to scientists as the octopus. I a
appearance it is a horrible monster with
a buge bead and body furnished with
snake like feeders, which sometimes grow
to be thirty feet in length, and are as pow-
erful in their grasp as the grip of a Sixth
ward politician on election 'boodlo.' "
"You do not mean to tell ine,"aueried
the reporter, "that the flesh of such a crea-
ture is edible?"
"It is simply delicious when properly
prepared. It should be cut into small
pieces and stewed with herbs. It becomes
then a jelly-like Eubstance of delicate flavor
that melts in the mouth. I regard tha flesh
of a devilfish as a delicacy. There is an
other species of devilfish which resembles
aj skate or rayfish. The laigest o£ thsm
weigh from 100 to 150 pounds. It is excel-
lent eating."
The reporter intimated that his informant
might possibly be filling him with stories
originally intended for the marines, which
the bon vivant bitterly resented aad the
two parted, the last words coming from the
latter, who continued to assert:
' Sharks is good eatin', and if you don't
believe rce go ar.d try for yourself. The
bay is full of 'em."
The reporter having seen the varied con-
tents of more than one shark's stomach,
was compelled to confess a prejudice and
thought the flesh, while too rich for re-
portorial blood, might be utilized on the
county poor farm during a reform adminis-
tration,
ELECTION OF SCB00L TRUSTEES,
Reed o! a Medical Expert iu the Board.
To the News.
A considerable number of patrons of the
public schools had hoped that Dr. West or
some other medical practitioner of tbe city
would have consented to stand for one of
the trusteeships at the ensuing election.
Indeed, a correspondent in the Sunday's
News stated that Dr. West was willing to
do eo; but nothing further has been heard
of tbe matter.
It is to be regretted that the several gen-
tlemen who made out the list ot candidates
announced in the News, aad secured the
signatures to the petition asking theoi to
tun, failed to provide for filling at least
one of the nine school trusteeships with a
practicing physician.
There are questions of grave importance
to the well-being of the schools in which the
intelligent and well posted physician, by
reason of course ot ntudies, habits of
thought and daily field of observation,
could render valuable and far better service
than could any layman in watching over
the various hygienic questions pertaining
to the schools, and affording valuable in-
formation in the councils of the school
board.
Such a physician, one Intimately ac-
quainted with the city and enjoying the
confidence of the people, could make him-
self invaluable on the board as chairman
of a committee charged with the super-
vision of such matters a3 the water supply,
the daily disinfection aud ventilation,
lighting, heating, etc., of the school rooms.
End the general hygienic management of
the school premises and scholars, together
with the all-important but difficult and
delicate matter of keeping the several
school authorities informed as to the exist-
ence of contagious and infectious diseases
in any quarter of the city, and promptly
devising means for preventing the intro-
duction and spread of disease ia the
ecboole.
Without meaning, by any means, to dis-
parage any ot the four very worthy gentle-
men announced in The News, nor yet to re
fleet upon ibe praiseworthy efforts that
brought them out", I wou'd venture to sub-
mit that valuable advantages to our schools
would be secured by putting Dr. West, or
any other suitable physician, oa the board
of school trustees; at any rate it is but
right and proper that our people should
have an opportunity of ejecting such a man
upon the board if they deem it best.
Tax-payisg Punt-ic School Patron.
Public Installation.
A public installation of the officers of
Tucker Lodge No. 20 aud San Felipe de
Austin Chapter No. 1, A. F. and A. M , will
take place at Masonic temple this evening.
7hc Bench.
Tbe crowd at tbe beach iast evening were
delighted with tbe Dixies, the baad aad the
fireworks. Everybody seemed pleased,There
has not been an attraction t<iit could com-
pare in tir.e merit with this opera company.
Eveiy one should go and hear it. This
evening there will be a theater at 8:30. Tho
seats will be arranged so that the play caa
be seen while seated, and everything will
be done that will tend toward making this
Beach Opera a success. One week only.
Milk Shake at Opera-house Drug Store.
Dicanu's Ehotos are pronounced the finest
made. Caomets only $3 00 per rtoaen.
Lightkikg Milk shaker at Opora bouse
Drug Store.
Milk Shake.
The only original, at J. H. Forbes.
Opera-house Drug Store is open all
night.
Last but not least, Schooi.fibld & Mc-
Clanahas's Milk Shake. The very best
tnade.
At Rma Sc. Zahn'«,
the leading Photographers, the best cabi-
nets are still $2 50 per dozen.
Schoolbxeld & McClanahan, graduates
in pharmacy. Opera house Drug St>ie.
Open all night.
Ice Cream Soda
The most refreshing drink in tho city, at
J. H Fobbes, 177 Market street.
Washington Hotel. Galveaton,
corner Tremont and Mechanic. Only two
blocks from Union depot. Best of table fare.
Rates, only $2 00 per day. Street cars pass
every five minutes for beach, or any other
part of city.
Om: of the greatest mysteries Is that sensible
people will allow themselves to bo talked iuto
buying Infeiior pianos and organs and paying
lilgh prices for tlieni. This can be avoided Dy
caiiing on or writing to
Irtos. Gogoan & Bro,, Galveston,
Or their t.ianeb houses at Houston, Sau Auio-
tdo, Austin or Waco.
R. C. Hodges, m7 D.
Practice limited to diseases of the eye,
ear, nose and throat. Office: Freybe build-
ing, Fostoffice and Tremont.
Facts Are Stubborn Thing;s.
We keep tlie genuine Muthushek pianos, the
prooiu t of a responsible company established
over twenty years.
Tnos. Goo',an & Bso , ««ivo3t3n.
The Musquito Pett.
Boatmen who arrived from Bolivar pa-
cinsula yesterday report that the musqai-
toes are as bad, if not worse, ia that section
than was ever known. They have made
tb^ir appearance ia countless thousands,
and have almost compelled a cessation of
the moving of the watermelon crop, as
well as driving cattle aad horses almost
crazy. Reports from Higolaud bayou, on
tlie west side of the bay, report the psst3 as
alniofet aa bad in that locality as on B )livar
poiEt. Ir» ibis city quite a number of tha
fietuBcuiexLave puiin an appe.irano©, and
tbeir appetites ure on a par with tttoae
r f the most accomplished knight of the
"growler" ever carrying a can.
Another Building Case.
A few months Eince the woodea structure
on the south side of Postofiice street, near
its intersection with Twentieth, occupied by
tbe Sunday Opera QlasE, newspaper, and
Singleton & Co., grocers, caught fire and
was considerably damaged before the flames
were extinguished. Since that time it has
been occupied in its damaged condition
ar cl no effort was made to repair It until
yesterctay. Then carpenters were put to
work, but a complaint being filed charging
Item with "violating the fire ordinance by
repairing the building used by the Opera
Glass, damaged by fire." Christian Wolfer,
D. E. Collmer and Henry Dubner, the work-
men. were arrested and will have a hearing
before Recorder Fontaine.
Do Not bo Aliirmed
at the raising of blood from tlio lungs. It ia
one of tlie very earliest symptoms of consump-
tion, aud only shows the healthy effort of the
system to throw off the scrofulous Impurities
of the blood which have resulted In ulceration
of tho lungs. Dr. Pierce's "Golden Medical
Discovery" Is a positive remody for consump-
tion at this stage. If taken talthfully It will
cleanse the blood, beal the ulcers In the lungs
and build up and renovate the whole system.
That mercy I to others show, that mercy
show to me. [Pope.
Scaly, Itchy Skin
And All Itching and Scaly Skin and
Scalp Diseases Cured by
Cuticura.
PSORIASIS,lEczema, Tetter, Ringworm, Li-
chen, Pruritus, Scald Head, Milk Crust,Dan-
druff, Earbers', Bakers', Grocers' aad Waslter-
posUlvely
cured by Outicuha, tlie Great skin (Jure, and
Cl'TlCtiHA Soap, an Exquisite Skin Ueautitler,
externally, andCuncuKA Resolvent, the New
Flood Purifier, internally, whsn physicians
and all other remedies fail.
PSORIASIS, OR SCALY SKIN.
I, John J. Case, D. D. 8., having practiced
dentistry in tills c runty for.')B years, and being
well known lo thousands lie'eabouts, wlttt a
view to help any who are alHlcted as I have
1 t-en for the past twelve ^eorj, testify that the
cu71cuka Remedies cured me of Psoriasis, or
Scaly 8km, in eight Uajs. after the doctors
with whom 1 had consulted gave me no help
oi' encouragement. JUHN' J. CASK, I) D.3.
Newton, N. J.
DISTRESSING ERUPIION
Your Cuticura Remedies performed a won-
derful cure last summer on one of our custom-
er s, an old gerrtlemau of 70 years of ago, who
tuffercd with a fearfully distressing eruption
on liis head and face, and who had tried all
rernedits and doctors to no purpose.
J. F. JMITH & OO.
Tf.xabkana, Ark.
DUSTPANFUL OF SCAXE9.
II. E. Carpenter, Henderson. N. Y., cured of
PecrlaelB or Leprosy, of twentv years' stand-
ing by Cuticuisa Remedies. Tho most won-
ceiful cure on record. A dustpaufut of soalea
fell irorn him dally. Physicians and friends
thought he must die.
ECZEMA RADICALLY CURED.
For the radical cure of an obstinate caso of
Ee ■/.> tna of long standing I give entire cr edit to
the Cuticura Remedies.
E. 13. RICHARDSON, New Haven, Conn.
Sold bT all druggists. Price: CUTrcURA, 50
cts; Resolvent, $1 00; Soap, 25 ets. rorrittt
Drug and Chemical Co., Boston.
Send for'' How to Cure Skin Diseases."
"rjX' A TTTIF1*the Complexion and Skin
IjJaii. LI bv using the Cuticura S jai\
"it feels good7~
Those worn out with Pain0, A?lioa
and Weaknesses find relief ia one
..^minute in the Cuticura Anti-Pain
Piaster. At druggists. 25 cents.
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