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TUB GALVESTON DAILY NEWS, THURSDAY, MARCH IS, 1890.
'jS'IicJliiilyltcws
A. H. BEU) & CO., PEBIfSHBHS.
THURSDAY, MARCH 13, 1890.
'Ul£ NEWS FAST TRAIN SERVICE.
Tlio special flalvtta-
(on News train, run-
ning over the Galves-'
ton, Houston ami llen-
ilcriion division of tho
tutor national and
Great Northern rail-
way, leaves Galveston
for Houston nt 4 a. in.
_ each (lay It makes
•lie following connections at Houston: Oal-
veston, llarrisliurie ami Sail Antonio rall-
wny, leaving Hoimton at 7.40 a. m., arriv-
ing at San Antonio nt 4. tO p. in, Texas and
New Orleans railway, leaving Houston at
0.05 a. m,, arriving at New Orleans at 7.45
l>. til. Houston l ast and West Texas rail-
way (llreiuond's), leaving Houston at 8.30 a,
in., arriving at Shrevcport at 10 p. in. San
Antonio and Aransas Pass railway, leaving
Houston at 7.45 a. m,, arriving at San An-
tonio at 0.45 p. m. Houston and Texas Cen-
tral railway, leaving Houston at O.'^O a. ill.,
arriving at DcnUon ut 10.15 p. m. Tho
prihio object of The News train is to placo
tho paper over a considerable portion of
Texas lioforo breakfast, and it does it.
Recognizing its tfreat convenience to the
traveling public, n passenger coach Is at-
tached for their accommodation, by which
means those desiring «iay spend tho ui£ht
In Galveston and vet mnke connection with
ail the early trains out of Houston.
THE NEWS'TRAVELING AGENTS.
Tho following are tho traveling represen-
tatives of Tuts Galveston News and The
Dallas News, who are authorized to soli-
cit and receipt for subscriptions and adver-
tisements for either of the publications:
B. P. Boyle, W. D. Carey, Joo Lee Jameson,
M. Ross, B. B. Throop, and J. E. Steedman.
E. Levan is authorized to canvass for sub-
scriptions and advertisements on tho lines
of tho Texas Mexican and tho Mexican
National railways,
A, II. Belo & Co., Publishers.
Galveston, Tex., March 3. 1890.
A SHIPOWNER'S STATEMENT.
The protectionists bavo frequently at-
tempted to ridicule tho opposition by sneer-
ing at college professors, whilo of course
they do not omit to sneer also at Mr. Cleve-
land becauso lie has not been a college pro-
fessor. Another gentleman who is net a
college professor, but one of tho oldest mer-
chants in tho country, mada an argument
lately which they will find difficult for their
cause. Mr. Forbes of Bostou was before
the congressional committee on merchant
murine und fisheries. Ho fotmerly had
many ships carrying tho flag of this his
native laud, and !io stiil lia3 some ships,
but in tho endeavor to carry on a general
foreign Jtrade competing with shipowners
of other nations ho has been compelled of
course either to buy his ships as cheaply as
they buy theirs or else to give' way in that
trade before thein; so as tho government
Will not allow his foreign built ships to
carry tho American ilag thev carry foreign
flags. Mr. Forbes said:
I enm up my position It tho respectful reouest
that you wi.lal'ow me anil other American
merchants tho protection of the stars and
stripes over such ships, wherever built, as we
think are necessary to carry on our foreign
trade tuccessfnlly. We don't ask for charity
In the way of subsidies, but simply for the pro-
tection of oar Ha* ia doing what by treaty or by
friendship you have long allowed every Eng-
lishman, Dutchman, Frenchman or Sandwich
islander to do.
Tho statement that subsidies are not
needed comes from a shipmaster, be it ob-
served. As for the rest it would look as if
congress preferred to banish the American
flag from the foreign trade. What it does
amounts to that. It does not altogether
prevent Americans from owning foreign
built ships. An American firm owned tlie
entire Chinese mercantile fleet for one year
during the Franco-Chinese war, and Ameri-
cans are part owners of tho Inman line of
British steamers, besides having many
other ships carrying other flags. Onething
the law does beyond denying this property
Its national protection, it prohibits such
vessels, as being foreign ; from clearing from
one American port to another, which dis-
ability will at times entail a distinct loss of
business and at all times saddle upon coast-
wise shippers somewhat higher freights
than would be charged if the carrying trade
were free. Suppose now that the govern-
ment hail built a railroad and
were offering the use of track free,
thus putting it on a par as to ube with the
salt waterway, would the government act
toward tho owners of cars as it does toward
the owners of vessels? If American built
cars can run in Mexico and Canada with
general advantage and Canadian built cars
in tho United States, why can not ships
wherever built be allowed to sail on the
waterways for the reduction of freights by
competition? If not it should be time to
Btop talking in favor of reducing railroad
freights, for the implication arises that
dear freights are a protective blessing. Mr.
Forbes said to Mr. Farquhar, when the lat-
ter asked if free ships were ull Mr. Forbes
Trail ted:
I only ask for the protection of the flag for
my property. I hive been driven out of the
China lri.de, for instance, by Iron and steel
coining in and driving out my wooden ships. I
find the only wav i can carry on my trade with
China to-day is by buying vessels abroad25 i>cr
cent cheaper than 1 can here. 1 can do It by
covering np my ships ander the British Has, but
I want them undei the American Hag, 1 em-
ploy a good inanv p3opie. i have lost not only
toy carrying but my tea trado. 1 have not liud
« car^o of tea except what 1 want to drink for
the last fifteen years. 1 would like to bring up
my boye— 1 am getting pretty well along now—
to carry on the trade.
The Philadelphia Evening Telegram
warms to the subject, and says in the courso
of a long article: "The American shipping
merchant is not permitted by the mon-
strously unjust navigation laws of his
country to bring up his own sons to his
trade in an honest, open manner. No
American can go into the foreign shipping
trade under his country's flag. He must
sneak in under a foreign flag. He
can not own the ship ho buys.
He can get no American registry
for her; he can get no protection
for lier in case of war. If he buy
her in England, that country can take her
without question from an American port,
from unde/the guns of an American fort,
or wherever it ilnds her. The American
can pay his money for her, but he can not
carry his country's flag on her, nor can ho
call her an American ship, nor call her even
liisown. And all this to 'protect' American
builders of ships who have no existence—
who as builders of ocean steamships are as I
extinct as the canoe of the Indian that j
crossed the lakes a thousand years ago. Two j
hundred millions a year aro paid by the j
oountry to protect this extinct, non-existent j
class, and paid to foreigners who |
loot our commerce, and for whose ;
benefit wo spend other millions i
yearly to buoy and light our ports. !
kfr. Forbes is right. American merchants i
want no subsidies to enable them to win
back American shipping. They want noth-
ing but the poor privilege of buying thoir
ships wliero their English, German, French,
Italian, Austrian, Spanish. Dutch, Danisli
and Swedish rivals buy theirs, in tho cheap-
est market. * * * The Americanship-
builders compel tho country to pay two
hundred millions a yoar to foreigners, not
that the country may have ships, but that
it may have none; and this tho besottedly
Ignorant Farquhar sort of statesman, or
subsidy jobber, calls statesmanship!"
SOCIALISM AND CAISARIBM.
It has boen said that one-half tho world
does not know how the other half lives.
It may with about equal reason bo said that
one-half the world does not know what the
other half reads, what the other half thinks,
and toward what political dispositions and
social arrangements tho other half is in-
clining uuder processes of education and
incitement peculiar to itself. Even tho
shrewdest politicians, v.hose special study
is to discern tho rise and estimate tho force
of every new wave or current of popular sen-
timent, arc often sadly at fault with respect
to a sort of covert, mystic or esoteric pro-
paganda going on around them in the work
of teachers, leaders and organisers who pro-
pose to supplant these politicians or to cap-
ture and utilize them. As to the real drift
of what is knowu as the labor movement in
this country soino of these politicians are
no doubt purposely blind or reticent. Some
of them no doubt see that the drift of this
movement and other movements of a cor-
relative and concurrent nature is toward
tho ultimate overthrow aliko of economic,
industrial, personal and civil liberty, but
they take comfort in arguing, with tho
epicurean complacency of a French mon-
arch on an historic occasion, that tho condi-
tions which have thus far served them no
acceptably will last their time, and after
that it will be for others to flounder in a
coming deluge. But there is nothing com-
fortable in this view for peopln who love
liberty and tho security in life, in person,
in property, In occupation and tho pursuit
of happiness which only liberty identified
with law can give. Such people must
look with dread ou the progress of any
movement which, in the name of mora'ly
regenerating society and of gathering by
legal compulsion all classes into the fold of
practical Christianity, would ultimately
reduce all to a common servitude under a
common master—a czar or a Civsar—wield-
ing the sword with one hand and holding tho
so-coiled scales of justico with the other. To
such a conclusion every socialistic agita-
tion in the liue of the labor movement or
any kindred movement undoubtedly points
when it declares war against economic, in-
dustrial and commercial liberty, and against
the natural laws of trade, of production and
remuneration. And, let it be frankly ob-
served and seriously pondered, there are
plenty of largo-hearted, sincere and wholo-
souled enthusiasts who believe in such p,
war ns in a sublime militant religion. It is
such impetuosity of faith inspired by ex-
altod but blinding imagination that im-
parts to the socialistic propaganda its por-
tentous moral feature and its most re-
doubtable aspect of danger. There is but
ono true way to meet the danger, and that
ia with counteracting agencies of popular
education with regard to the fundamental
principles of free government anil the
inestimable value of an all-round liberty
for the citizen under the guarantees of
such government. Otherwise tho propa-
ganda will go ou, the war will go ou, until
to maintain (he semblance of social order
the bewildered conservutiim of some future
crisis will bo disposed to seek refuge uuder
some such rule as that typified in the
German emperor, who proposes to merge all
socialistic problems into one vast problem
of socialistic so/vituile, backed by an iron"
heeled army to trample down protest or re-
volt against his measures of adjustment
and regulation. Willi the situation brought
to such n shape in this country and others
we should have a repetition, on a scalo of
unprecedented grandeur but with circum-
stantial variations, of the signal passage in
history when the tired world sought repose
in "the peace of Home" and In common
trust to the beneilcent despotism of an om-
nipotent Casar.
I TiSJRS OF A VVEmiT Y.
A bucket shop gambler, as he signs him-
self, writes to a New York paper wondering
why there is a difference In treating differ-
ent kinds of speculation. He has been a
bigger man than lie is. He has been on tho
exchange, but his pile of money is gone and
he ventures tiO at a time now in places that
are liable to be ra'ueil. He is correspond-
ingly misanthropical and becomes a con-
tributor to the philosophy of his school,
saying:
When a mail has speculated and made money
he rojoice3 with hie iriends, is greatly lioiiorecf.
and pats himself on lils back i'or being such a
very clever fellow. iVhen lie has speculated
and lost, he is left to mourn alone In disgrace
and moralize over his own egregious folly and
the wickedness of those who have "scooped"
him. Tho latter frame of mind is net enjoyable,
but it is soraet imoa conducive to the destruc-
tion of false ideas and to the play of sober rea-
son. Perhaps that is the compensatory adjust-
ment of things. At all events it is tho only
compensation 1 have yet discovered; and valu-
able as it may be from an ethical point of view,
it is a miserably poor return in a materialistic
sense for all the dollars I have gone through in
laying a foundation for it.
Why, of course; tho mourner can not be
helped by mourning with him. Joy seeks
joy quite naturally, but all that he taiks
about in the extract is of the selfish kind.
Tho winner is glad of the congratulations
ofliis friends, but first aud foremost of bis
winning aud its financial results. Pity is
charitable enough to let the other fellow
alone. That is tho best tho bystanders
can do. The exchanges serve a useful
public purpose: the bucket shops none
recognized by tho public. The ex-
changes aro not tolerated for their
tendency to bucket shop courses, but be-
cause of their other wore truly business
features. It is a good thing that the bucket
shop gambler can not get to operate
on the exchange with Ills ten dollars, and
probably a good thing that nobody will
lend him a hundred. His writing shows
that ho is philosopher enough to perceive
how misfortune brings fruit in wisdom.
Proceeding further along this line of
thought tho unfortunate who took the j
wrong track when ho was on the
exchange and so illustrated what
tho exchanges would come to if all wore
gamblers like himself, may reach tho con-
clusion that the public good is served by
necessity iu overy form. Failure to get
other poopie's money has made him a smart
thinker. Poverty makes authors, musi- j
cians, actors, mechanics and laborers work, j
whereas if they could got money by some j
short cut-nine-tenths of them would iead j
an idle and useless life.
Jackson county, Missouri, has deter \
mined upon a better system of public roads
and tho indications aro that the property j
owuers are willing to pay for them. At a j
mass meeting, principally of farmers, held i
at Independence last week It was deter-
mined to tako steps to vote 11,500,000 worth
of bonds for tho improvement of tho roads.
The proposition will bo submitted to the
voters of tho county as soon as practicable,
and if adopted, as is liiougbt probable, tho
work of constructing a system of rock
roads will be begun at ones, The soil of
Jackson county is similar to that of the
black lands of Texas, and though tho cost
of building good substantial roads is very
considerable, it is believed tho benefits will
more than pay tho coat.
The world's fair is to bo made as free as
possible from anj political bias or control.
The president will appoint an equal num-
ber of democrats and republicans as com-
missioners from the several states and the
directors and managers will bo selected
moro with regard to ihe sizo of their bank
account than tho political color of their
hair. Such is the Chicago idea, hut such
was also the idea of New York at tho be-
ginning. Governor Fifev is afraid to call a
special session of the Illinois legislature to
make provisions for the holding of the fair
lest the democrats should make political
capital out of it, and several politicians in
tho city by tho lake aro casting an anchor
to windward in the hope of policical advan-
tage from tho quadri-centennial celebra-
tion. It looks as if nothing can bo done in
this country without a mixture of politics.
When it is practically demonstrated that
a tax on raw materials stifles instead of
stimulating home manufacturing indus-
tries thero ought to bo but one opinion as
to the tariff on raw materials and that Is
that It should be abolished. Protection is
throttling American industries and impov-
erishing consumers and producers for the
gratification of a mero sentiment. Mr.
Alex Mitchell of McCullough county proves
conclusively by practical demonstration
that a tax on hides and skins aud wool docs
not benefit the American producer while
it cripples tho American manufacturer of
leathor and woolen goods by placing t'no
raw material btyond his reach for profit-
able manufacture.
Mn. FeATUEKSTONE of Arkansas, who oc-
cupies tli9 seat in congress to which Repre-
sentative Cato was elected, is not a republi-
can, according to his own political estimato
of himself, but it is dollars to douahnuta
that he will be found voting with tho repub-
licans upon every party question, even to the
extent of supporting the trusts and mo-
nopolies and the tariff taxes for their main
tenance, which his agricultural constitu-
ents are compelled to pay. Ho claims to
represent tho farming element, and his
courso in congress will show what basis
there is for such a claim.
A republican paper is generous enough
to note the fact that "tho democratic ex-
Governor English of Connecticut, who has
just died, onco refused to tako tho office of
governor when lie had reason to believe that
part if not ail of his apparent majority was
obtained by fraud." This was probably
not meant us a hint to the republicans who
have ti^ten seats in congress to which they
were not elected, but it answers a purpose
of showing what a good democrat might
have done under similar circumstances.
When thera is danger of a break in tho
Mississippi levee.1; and the flooding of tho
surrouniing country overy man is pressed
into service to uasist in averting impending
danger, and thus it happened that a St.
Louis newspaper correspondent sent to Ar-
kansas to write up the overflow was diverted
from the severe mental strain of journal-
istic labor to the recreative e terciseof shov-
eling dirt and rolling a wheelbarrow to
check a threatened crevasse.
Robert J. Hall, who was recently elected
president of thoMinnesotaFarmers'alliance,
is an active supporter of tariff reduction,
but until he became convinced by a study
of the question that the farmers wero being
robbed by tho protective system ho was a
stanch republican. Thocampaign of educa-
tion is marching on.
A'Kansas City paper says: "Thero is
very little of tho Indian gibberish in his
talk" in speaking of Chief Mayes of the
Cherokee nation. It would hardly bo ex-
pected that a graduate of one of the most
prominent universities of the country anil
the head of ono of tho wealthiest "nations"
would use much "gibberish" of any kind.
Capitalists representing $50,000,000 of
capital have offered a guarantee that tho
world's fair in Chicago shall be a success
on a grand scale. A a there are several
newspaper men represented in tho list of
capitalists the guarantee ought to bo con-
sidered perfectly satisfactory.
Congressman Kansuu of Missouri says
his motto for tho farmers is "less protec-
tion and more circulating medium," and ho
is making a diligent effort to secure tho
passage of a bill for the iss ue of J2";,000,000
of lractional currency.
The curious discovery has been mado
that every governor of Iowa since 1859 is
alive and hale and hearty, and the only
democrat among them is the present execu-
tive.
Wyoming and Idaho, two budding sisters,
will make their debut in Washington so-
ciety about Easter.
PERSONAL PARAGRAPHS.
Corporal Tanner is making money in
Washington. He employs a force of twelve
clerks, and his practice ia worth £'10,000 a year.
The emperor of Germany, if his pictures
do him justice, is no beauty. In fact any city
policeman would easily surpass him in personal
appearanco.
Queeu Victoria is very fond of potatoes
boiled with the skins on. She eats a great deal
of tapioca, and has been obliged to give u p tea
and coffee for cocoa.
Robert I.ouis Stevenson walks several
miles every day. take s long horseback rides,
interviews no end of people about Samoa, and
is, altogether, in unusual health.
When General Aleer goes out to the Pa-
cific cojsst this summer on liis tour of inspec-
tion Mrs. Logan, widow of General Logan, will
accompany him as the guest of Mrs. Alger.
Herbert Ward, the African explorer, who
is about to marry an American heiress, is
broad shouldered, bronze complexioueJ, and 27
years okl. He dresses picturesquely.
Mrs. Elizabeth Cady Stanton, one of
those enviable veterans who do not lag super-
fluous on the stage, lias sailed for Europe, to
live henceforth in London, near her daughter
and her clever son, Theodore Stanton.
James G. Blaine has aged very much this
winter. His domestic afflictions havo crushed
his proud heart, and done more to furrow his
cheeks and whiten his hair than years of polit-
ical disappointment. The highest political hon-
ors no longer pc.>ess the attraction that they
did when ha was surrounded by an unbroken
family circle
CAUGHT ON THE CURB.
"Yea, wo are kept pretty busy all tho
time," said a prominent real cstato dealer
yesterday. "Wo do moro business iu a day
now than wo did in a month six months
ago. The real estate movement has set in
in earnest, and I think it will be durablo
and lasting. Some of tho transactions havo
been for 'big money,' but tho property
bought has been invariably fully worth
every dollar that was paid for it. A mis-
take some pooplo make in estimating values
Is in estimating without a proper standard.
Every sensible person knows that for five
or six years past Galveston real estate
has beon ridiculously cheap. I don't know
why this was so for there was nothing to
warrant it. Still I know that it woi cheap
and that the peoplo here have become ac-
customed to measuring property valuations
by a very low standard. I know a piece of
property here that six months ago could
have been bought for 525,000. That would
havo been considered a good price for it
then. Tho other day it was sold for WO,000
and now everybody is willing to admit that
the purchasor got it at a bargain. Ho could
sell it to-day at a good advance, and I really
believe the purchaser would bo justified in
paying tho price offeied.
' Present prices may seem high if only
the present situation is taken into account.
If Galveston is never going to be anything
but what sho is to-day, of course there is
but one side to the question. But tnis is
not the case. Tho future must come into
tho problem, and it is this future that gives
me confidence and is giving all the cool-
headed business men confidence to put their
money in Galveston real estate.
"I confidently beliove that when this cent-
ury closes Galveston will have a population
of 200,000 or 250,000 souls. Deep water wili
make lior ono of tho chief exporting and
importing points on this continent. If we can
secure deep water hero we have at once an
export and import trado of no mean pro-
portions, for it has been Bhown that the
railway freights alone will bo reduced over
$170,000,000 annually by tho shorter haul to
this port. The £170,000,000 saving of course
represents an. immense t-ado. But I
should not say 'if we get deep wator,' for
we aro going to get it. Now with a city
having such a future beforo it no sensible
person can speak of present prices of real
estate being extremely high. I have heard
of no fancy prices oeing paid and I don't
believe any have been paid."
■* * *
"The city is getting to be entirely too
economical to suit my taste," said a Strand
merchant. "It may be a good thing to reg-
ulate the arrival and departure of vessels
by tho ebb and flow of the tides as laid
down iu the almanac, but when it comes to
regulating the electric lights by the alma-
nac I protost. Last night I had a taste of
this almanac business, and I have enough.
The book Mid the moon would be shining
after 12 o'clock, and the electric light rulos
and regulations said that tho lights and
moon should not shine together. The result
was that thero was neither moonlight nor
electric light, and tho belated citizen had to
stumble along, get into water holes, and
reach homo wet and disgusted.
"I was detained in my office until very
lato, and though I had only a few blocks to
CO to reach home, succeeded in getting my
feet very wet beforo I arrived there. Of
course no one isunreasonable enongli to ask
that the city be lighted on bright moonlit
uights, but there should be somo common
senso exceptions to tho rule requiring ail
lights to ba extinguished when a moonlit
night is due. whether it comes to time or
not. It is poor comfort to know
that the moon is above the clouds on a dark
stormy night, such a3 Inst night was, when
one is falling into gutte-s and wading into
water pools on tho sidewalk, which could
all be avoided if even the old gas lights at
the corners vera kept going. If the city,
taxes the people for lights the people should
be given lights whenever they need them,
and the almanac should hold no place on
the desks of the city solons."
Two Desperadoes Shot to Death.
Hunter's Springs, W. Va., March 12. — A
courier from Princeton brings news that
Bell Allen and Webster Irving, two negroes
charged with the murder of Constable
Belcher, were tsken from Mercer county
jail by a mob Saturday night and shot to
death. Both negroes wero notorious des-
peradoes aud had killed tiirt« men before
the Belcher murder. It is likely that Oscai
Falks, another negro murderer, who killed
a man over in Tazewell couuty, Va., in No-
vember, has shared tho fate of Allen and
Irving.
Oklahoma Democrats.
Oklahoma City, I. T., March 12.~The
democratic territorial convention, in ses-
sion yesterday afternoon iu this city, ail
journed sine die this evening at 7 o'clock.
It was a noisy convention, but with all
harmony a central committee was appoint-
ed anil appropriate resolutions adopted.
Two hundred aud fifty delegates were in at-
tendance aud democracy iu Oklahoma is iu
tho ascendency. _
Tyler.
Tyler, Tex., March 12.—The district
court is in session, disposing of the crim-
inal docket. The case of the State of Texas
vs. Keller and Weatherly, charged with tho
murder of Hon. Alex. Pope and assault
with intent to kill VV. P. Pope aud James
Turner at Marshall, has been moved to this
county by change of venue and set for trial
on tho 19th instant.
Admitted to Bail.
Paris, Tex., March 12 —To the surprise
of many at this point, J. B. Chamberlain,
O. J. Cook and Ed Bowler, imprisoned o:i
the charge of murdering Sheriff Cross and
his posse, were this day admitted to bonds
of jfcOOO by Judge Boarman. The bonds
have not yot been filed, but it is thought
that the prisoners havo sufficient iriends to
look after their interests.
In the Wrong Place:
Lariat Luke (entering cafe)—Houp-la!
I'm a roarer from the Rockies, I am, and
I'm loaded for b'ar to-night!
Barkeep—Better get out, then. This is
no bar for the "loaded." [Texas Sittings.
MARITIME.
ARRIVALS. DEPARTURES. ETC.
New York. March .'2.—Arrived: Steamships
Friesland, from Antwerp; Nevada, from Liver-
pool.
M ov (I.Ms, Marc h 12.— Arrived: Steamer An
elioria, from Now York, for Glasgow.
Havke, March 12.—Arrived: Steamer I.a
Champagne, from New York.
The Lizard, March 13.—Poesed: Steamers
Bohemia, from New York, for Hamburg: Aus-
tralia, from New Orleans, for Hamburg.
Scii.ny, March 12.—Passed: Steamer Kugla,
from New YorJf, for Hamburg.
Known had, March 12.—Passed . Steamer Win.
Cliffe, from New Orleans, for Liverpool.
Kouen, Mttrok 12.—Arrivo-1: Steamer Komu-
Jus, from New Orleans.
Genoa, Me.rch l'i—Arrived: fcteamer Kate,
from New Orleans.
h akwich, March 12.—Arrived: Steamer Colo-
nist, from Now Orleans.
LivFit!'< ou March 12.—Arrived: Steamship
Australian, from New Orleans.
Qoee.'-stown. March 12.— Arrived: Steamer
Concord, from New Orleans.
New Yokk. Maich 8. — Cleared: Steamship
Nueces, Rhik, for (jalveetou.
RIVERS ON THE RAMPAGE
WESTERN STREAMS VERY HIGH AND
STILL RISING.
Tho Ohio Continues to Kine at Cairo—White
and lilach Stivers Hoomiug—Traffic
Impeded—The Flood on tho
Migbiftgfpid—Notoa.
Sr. Louis, Mo., March 12.—The flood news
from^vnrious points along tho Mississippi
river and other streams this morning is
that the White aud Black rivers in Arkan-
sas are on the rampage. Both'aro out of
thoir bsriks anil overflowing the country on
each side for mile:. Heavy rains havo fallen
aud cOntinuo to fall along tlieso streams,
and a genoral inundation is looked for. The
Black is a tributary of the White, and the
White empties into tho Arkansas. Arise
of over 18 foet took placo in 24 hours, und at
last accounts the swell was proceeding at
the same rate. This great rise, added to
minor floods pouring out of all the small
tributaries bslow Fort Smith, will greatly
udd to tho volume of water in tho Missis-
sippi below the mouth of tho Arkansas and
increase the peril to the lower country. All
tho railroads inthe vicinity of Fort Smith
are suffering from serious washout? or lost
bridges, and trains aro abandoned tem-
porarily. At Arkansas City, on the Missis-
sippi, tho water from the Sappington Hook
crevasse has inundated the rear part of the
town and the lands iu tho back country Hre
being flooded. It is not thought, however,
that any great damage will result from this
break, as the bayous and interior streams
are capable of carrying tho water away rnu-
idly. All the available boats of the govern-
ment fleet have been put into levee service
acd are rendering all the aid possible. The
river front from Arkansas City down is be-
ing carefully watched and all low places
being filled up with sacks of saud aud earth
aud other means used to hold back the
waters. Tho report prevailed that the levee
at Alsatia, La., '.10 miles south of Lako
Providence, had broken, but this has not
been verified.
CAIRO.
thk ohio rising.
Cairo, 111., Mar, h 12.—A water spout nt
Uilin, 111., submerged the track of tho Illi-
nois Central railroad to a depth of about
five feet. No trains havo conie in on that
road sinco yesterday afternoon. The rain-
fall at Dongola was also very heavy. The
Ohio river continues to rise hero. The
gauge marks 18 0-10 feet, a rise of 3-10 since
yesterday. The weather is cloudy and
warm. The river is falling at Paducali.
and it is thought if there is no more rain
tho river will not go over 50 feet here.
AT OTHER POINTS.
shreveport.
Siireveport, La., March 12.—The rain
still continues and tho outlook for planters
is gloomy. The rise iu Hed river for the past
twenty-four hours is nearly a foot, which
will piac<> it over twenty feet above low
water mark.
MliS. SARAH ALTHcA TERRY.
Her Trial for Contempt Concluded—The
Jury Falls to Agree.
San Francisco. Cal., March 12.—The
trial of Mrs. Sarah Althen Terry on the
charge of contempt in resisting a United
StateB marshal in tho circuit court room in
188S, when that oilicer had beeu ordered to
remove her from the room for creating a
disturbance during the reading of tho de-
cision in tho Sharp c»Ee by JusticoIIeard of
the United States supremo court, was con-
cluded to-day. The jury, after remaining
out all uiiiht, announced a disagreement,
the vote standing eight for acquittal and
four fur conviction.
GRAHAM.
Preparing for a Term of the Federal Court
— State Itan^ers Present.
Graham, Tex., March 12.—United States
Marshal George Knight has leased tho Boll
house, a commodious hotel, and will occupy
it with his deputies, prisoners, and perhaps
tho jurors. Captain McMurray with a de-
tachment of stata troops came in this after-
noon, and at once reported to the United
States marshal for dv.ty. Judtre Pardee is
expected to arrive during the week, and it
is said Hon. Jack Evans wili also lie have.
If the parties charged vs ith the crimes com-
mitted in Young county are tried a special
venire of over 200 jurors will be drawn.
LABOR TROUBLES.
Tho Miners of tlio Great 1-orri© Iron Klines
Strike.
Minneapolis, Minn., Feb. 12.—The Jour-
nal's Ashland, Wis., special says: The
Great Lorrie iron mine, tho largest produc-
er in the world, is idle to-day. Its 1000 em-
ployes hav6 struck. The tramway men
struck yesterday for higher wages and this
morning the miners refused to send an
ounce of ore to any tramway men except
those on the strike. Both sides are deter-
mined, and the fight soeins destined to be a
long one. Most of the strikers are foreign-
ers.
Tho Hurley Sauk Robbery.
Minneapolis, Minn., March 12.—Iu tho
11 urley bank robbery caso at Ashland,
Wis., the state offered strong evidence
against Perrin to-day. Bushuell, Perrin's
partner in tho foundry deal, said Perrin
came to I him about eight d:ys after
the robbery and said he was afraid ho would
be suspected of tho robbery. _ For that
reason ho wanted to be abio to account for
his rather heavy expeiiditnresafter the rob-
bery by having it appear that he had gotten
£250 of a manufacturing company of which
he and Bushnoll were members. To that
endBushnell gave Perrin the company's
check for S250. Perrin had it cashed and
gave the money back to Bushuell at once.
It, was proven by the clerk of the Norwood
bank that the bank did not buy thef21)0
certificate of deposit with the Lake Shore
time check, as he swore, but with currency.
Republican National Leasrue.
New York, March 12.j—President Thurs-
ton of the Republican National league has
appointed the following sub-exscu tive com-
mittee to manage the affairs of tho league
for the coming year: James A. Blanchard,
chairman, New York; J. Henry Could,
Massachusetts; f). W. Patton, Illinois; J.
F. Hendricks, Pennsylvania; Horace M.
Deal, Ohio: E, L. Liudsey, Connecticut;
Charles E. Price, Missouri; E. H. Owen,
Michigan; T. E. Byrues. Minnesota: E. C.
Ilerwig, Louisiana. President Thurston
and Secretary Humphrey are ex-officio
members of the committee. The committee
will meet soon aud outline the work for tho i
year. ^
Officers Arrested for Bribery.
New York, March 12.—Deputy Sheriff j
David McOouigal and Warden James T. I
Keating of Luiilow street jail wero to-day i
iudicted by the grand jury on charges of !
bribery. They were placed under an est by j
Detective Sergeant Iieily in tho sheriff's
ofliee and taken to the district attorney's
ofiico aud then to the court of the general
sessions before Judge Fitzgerald, who
placed bail at $10,000 in each case.
This afternoon both Keating and Mc-
Conigle furnished the $10,000 bail each and
wero released from custody.
-ATE HOUSTON LOCALS.
I.lRlit tin a I'll Meeting—Another Coinpnny
Formed—Otllcers Elected.
Houston, Tex., Match 12.—To-night the
members of the Houston Light Guard had
their postponed regular meeting at
which the chief business was the
establishment of a junior company
to bo known as company B, tho captain of
which is elected by the Light Gua.'d, while
the others aro chosen by the members of
tho company. Every member of it is a
member of tho Light Guard. When the
election whs ordered it resulted in the unani-
mous choice of Sponcer Hutching for cap-
tain.
After the adjournment of the old com-
pany Captain Hutchins called a meeting of
company B, aud the election resulted as
follows: Chas. Pescay, first lieutenant; A.
II. Defreese, second lieutenant; E. C. Blake,
first serqeant; U, S. Fife, second cergeaut;
M. Burroughs, third sergeant; Bustin
Miller, fourth sergeant.
The election of the other ofTicers was post-
poned. Their first drill will be next Mon-
day, after which they will drill twicoa
week. Tho uniforms, accoutrements anil
arms of the old company will be used by tho
new, and tho colts propose to get them-
selves before the public as soon as they have
had a courso of train! ng under their tal-
ented young commandant.
SPORTING MATTER3-
horston notes.
Houston, Tex., March 12.— This afternoon
at 4 o'clock there was held a meeting of the
directors of tho Houston Base-ball club at
tho ofliee of Mr. Si Packard, at which Mr.
W. H. C'oyle tendered his resignation as
president and Mr. John Valentine as treas-
urer, and both wero accepted. They were
forced to this step on account of business
matters. Mr. Si Packard was chojen presi-
dent by acclamation, and M.\ Sam Alex-
ander treasurer also by acclamation. Tho
affairs of the club are in a vigorous state
of health, anil this year Houston goes into
the season under brighter auspices than
eve- before. The two men who now hold
tho responsible position arj extensively and
favorably known here, and aro great ad-
mirers of tho game.
a trial game.
Houston, Tex., March 12.—Manager Mc-
Closkeyof the Houston base-ball club has
arranged to givo his new team a trial at the
Base-ball park next Sunday afternoon by
pitting them against tho strongest ama-
teur and semi-professional team that can
be raised here. They havo been selected and
are: Erichson and Cronan, pitchers; Con-
nors, catcher: Quinu, first base; proctor,
second base: Flaherty, third base; liogers,
short stop; Loftus, i'orcarty and another
player in the outfield. This i3 a very strong
team, as ii will bo seen that half ot them
have been professionals.
The league team: France, Hoffman and
Weikart pitchers, each to pitch three in-
nings, Eiliff catcher, Krehmeyer first base,
Weal/, second base, O'Kourke third base,
Hutchinson shortstop, McCIoskev, Crogan
aud Proagsev in the Held. McCloskey's
team will endeavor to shut out their oppo-
nents.
France, ono of the star pitchers of the
team of 1800, is expected to arrive here ia
the morning from Akron.
The report that McCloskey had signed a
first baseman is not true.
On the S2d and 23d instant the Denver
club will play here.
THE TWO LEAGUES.
president spalding interviewed.
Chicago, 111., March 12.—President A. G.
Spalding of the Chicago League Base-ball
club was interviewed to-day in regard to the
conflict in dates in the leaguo and players'
schedules. "Now that the brotherhood has
unmasked its plad of action, what has the
National league decided upon iu regard to
dates of games?'' was asked Mr. Spalding.
"Oh, ti:o National league is not going to
make any alteration in its schedule on ac-
count of i,ho Players' league. Wo came
openly and issued our schedule first. The
brotherhood peoplo must tako the onus of
making conflicting dates."
"Do you think that if both c'nbs play in
one pluco on the same day there will be
enough patronage for both teams!'"
"No sir, I do not."
"But will not steps be taken to alter your
schedule?"
"None whatever. We will play and
pocket our losses, so to speak. The broth-
erhood teams will suffer more than we will,
however."
"How about dropping two clubs and re-
issuing a new eight-club schedule which
will,not abound with conflicting dates?"
"Of course it is, as has already been inti-
mated, the hope of most of tho league men
that, Indianapolis and Washington will drop
out. but that will not be forced upon these
clubs. If they should drop out our schedule
would not necessarily have to bo revised
with as few conflicting dates as possible."
ci'icago 4, brooklyn 3.
St. Augustine, Fla., March 12.—The fol-
lowing is tho score in to-day's game:
Chicngo 10 0 3 0 0 0 0 0—4
Brooklyn 0 t 0 1 0 0 0 0 0—3
Batteries—Coughlin anil Lauer; Terry,
Hughes, Reynolds and Stalling*. Bass
Hits—5 and 7.
BASE BALL IN ENGLAND.
a league organized.
New York, Maich 12,--[Special]— A letter
was received in this city yesterday which
seemed to indicate that base-ball will soon
be decidedly popular in England. The
preparations would hardly havo been car-
ried so far if there were much chance of the
game being a failure in Eugland. The let-
ter was written to Walter Spalding. He
says that a professional base-ball league has
been organized aud that eight teams have
been made up to contest for the champion-
ship.
Most of the players are members of former
foot-ball teams, and as ball players thev will
receive from ?10 to $15 a week, the same as
they received as foot-ball players. The league
at present embraces clubs in Manchester,
Preston, Birmingham, Derby, Wolverhamp-
ton, Stoke and two clubs in Liverpool. It is
probable that the league's circuit will b*
increased to twelve clubs.
Barr and Bartlett left this country for
England on Saturday, and six other young
Americnn players will start in a few days.
They will be distributed among the English
nines as instructors. The gome as now be-
ing played among Bchool boys and colleao
young men is said to closely resemble the
American game, and that it is to all intents
really base-ball.
THE TURF.
new orleans races.
New Orleans, La., March 12.—The New
Louisiana Jockey club winter meetin/j,
forty-ninth day. The weather was cloudy
and pleasant, the attendance good, and the
track fast.
First Race—Selling, eleven-sixteenths of
a mile. Colonel Cox won, Somerset second,
Revival third. Time—1.C9. The jockey on
Somerset did net make a move 011 tho horse
until near tho finish, aud then he came very
fast, but too late to win. The judges being
satisfied that the home was not ridden to
win ruled Jockey Emery cff.
Second liace—Selling, five furlongr Nose-
gay won, Schoolgirl second, Little Bess
third. Time—1.033-j.
Third Race—Selling, half mile. Bessie
Briggs won. Peanut second, Captain King
third. Time—O.493.5.
Purchaao of a Eailroad.
Boston, Mass., March 12.—Soon after!
o'clock this afternoon Messrs. Lee, Hig-
gicson 1fc Co. bought a majority of the
stock of the Chicago, Burlington and North-
ern railroad at ?40 a share, in tho interests
of the Chicago, Burlington aud yuincy
railroad.
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