The Galveston Daily News. (Galveston, Tex.), Vol. 46, No. 305, Ed. 1 Saturday, February 25, 1888 Page: 4 of 10

                                
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tin. The object is a most worthy one, and
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and encouragement which bis charitable
mission deserves. Th9 Confederate horns
r eeds t 'd b» dly, and no one should hesitate
to assist in placing it on a firm flaanoial
basis. •
THE COTTON INDUSTRY SUFFERING
WITH THE REST.
The Tfxii.'e llecord asserts that "cotton
mills do not prosper because of free cot-
ton," and upon the basis of this statement
ardfait which it is intended to embody
the aigt ment is made that free raw mate-
rials, in the tariff sense, would not bring
greater prosperity to other Industries than
to the cotton industry. The manufacturers
may be able to establish several points of
distinction between the facts as to cotton
and to some other manufactures, such, for
(sample, as the availability of a uniform
stable in the one case and the need for mix-
ing in ano.her, as in many man-
ufactures of wool, Prosperity is
jelative, and though the cotton
manufacturing indastry is probably not
very iroep rous, yet if it is doing better
than some others, the argument of the Tex-
tile Record must be discounted somewhat
on this score. But from numerous report",
including those of American consuls
abroad, it has appeared that there is better
ability on the part of cotton manufacturers
to export their product than on the part of
some other manufacturers. Looking at the
subject comprehensively, the ra y material
of a manufacture and the other expenses,
such as the plant,wages and transportation
to market, must be considered together. If
the raw material Is less than the average
proportion in cost of production, than tha
question of free raw material is
less in the determination of the re
suit. So here again is a ground
for possible variant results. In one inda i-
tiy the question of transportation or that o£
machinery may be a more decided handi-
cap than in another. In another industry
the question of access to material may take
rank before that of cost of maohinery by
the greater proportion of general cos'.s
found to be involved in the ono particular
form. These principles apply evan to non-
protected industries, and protection adds to
costs, but irregularly. There 13, however,
a more fundamental vice in the Textile Rec-
ord's argument. As the whole body must
suffer when the circulation is arrested at any
point, so if It is true that one half or more
of the industries are suffering by restric-
ticn the channels of trade certainly cau
not te Id a proper state to carry on the
circulation for the other industries.
Cotton goods can not so well be directly ex-
ported where other things are not exported
and without imports upon a sufficiently
liberal scale to maintain general com-
merce. In fact American cottons have to
go to England for export to Asia bacauae
the lines of trade are forced that way by the
policy that leaves comparatively little
American exporting except of the necas-
sarles which Europeans do not produce
for themselves. The cotton manufacturers
and export trade can not be expected to be
very prosperous without such conditions as
will admit of general prosperity. The Tex-
tile Record might do better than to pro-
pose an argument which is obviously inca-
pable of proving what it purports to prove.
It is no better than saying that
It will not pay to carry flour several
thousand miles for a dollar a ponnd, and to
attempt to prove this propositioe by in-
stancing a man in Patagonia who would
pay a dollar for a ponnd of flour. He can
not get it, because there is no general
trade. That is the illustration of the prin-
ciple under which any one manufacturing
industry, which might appear to have a a
advantage over the rest as to materials, is
stilled by lack of similar conditions for the
others to constitute a volume and general
currents of exchanges—with all resultant
system and correspondences and econo
mies.
THE REACTION AGAINST SPECULA-
TIVE METHODS.
The New York Commercial Advertiser,
generally a very sound and practical
authority on commercial and financial mat-
ters, gets somewhat cut of its depth in at-
tempting to explain away the dullness in
Wall street, due to decreauad speculation.
After reviewing the situation, now so fa
miliar to the public, it proceeds:
Bnt why does "the public" stand aloof from
the market? It Is true that outsiders were en
trapped, misled and mulcted by the discredit-
able operations ol last year; and 11 the stojR
maiket were the only dull spot this would,
peihaps, offer adequate explanation. But tun
gtagntition Is not confined to stocks, tha
cioduce brokers are In as evil case as their
Wall street friends. Cotton, <• ffee, and even
real estate, are almost extinct as canters of
speculative interest. Nor is the United states
tie only country In which stagnation pre
veils. Busineeson the British exchanges has
fallen to a rnin'mum; and Paris and lliriln
have done scarcely anything outside of the
bond m arket. Mrney In London Is lent on
call at of 1 per cent, llere It commands lie
tie more than 2 per cent This Is a fair barom-
eter of finar clat activity, for where new enter-
prises are either In progress or In contempla
tlon, money must be obtained, and the rate of
lnteiest promptly rises.
In tie above extract the Advertiser
makes a mistake in attempting to conflue
the effect of a loss of public confidence to
its operation on the stock exchange. It is
true that the depression has been more
marked in this quarter, where the"dicredlt-
able operations of last year" originated,
bnt there is absolutely no reason why this
should be the case. The methods and
practices of the prodace exchange, the
coffee, cotton and real estate exchanges are
not so unlike those of the stock exchange
as to render them exempt from any of the
efiecis following an exposure of the methods
of dishonest speculators. It is speculation
and speculative methods that have been ex-
posed by .the late revelations, and not
merely a few members of tha stock ex
change, as the Advertiser seems to infer.
The public is aware that there is as m ich
latitude given the dishonest cotton,
ccffee, produce or real estate specu-
lator for the commission of frauds
as the stock speculator has enjoyed, and
the public believes now that the only thing
that has prevented these frauds has baen
the absence of opportunity and favorable
conditions for their perpetration. It Is not
the stock exchange that has received a set
back, but speculations of all kinds which
have no more tangible foundation than ar-
bitrary quotations, elevated or depressed at
tlie will of the men behind the scane. But
peihapsthe most serious error the Adver-
tiser falls Into is in making a comparison
between speculative depression in tha
United States and the stagnation which pre-
vails on tbe British exchanges and the con-
tinental bourses. It is stranga that so wall
informed a paper should be misled by what
a momer.t'a reflection will convince even
the most thonabtleBs la merely a coinci-
dence. There can be no tiaceabls connec-
tion between the causes operating in this
conntry snd those influencing the European
atukete. and indeed the AtlverLlser does
not positively assert that there is,contenting
itself with pointing out existing fact3 and
conditions and leaving It to the reader's
Imagination to complete what it has assert-
ed only by inference. It is trne that
tfce European exchanges are depressed,
ard it wcnld be miraculous if, under the
unsettled political condition of that part of
tfce wor^d.they were otherwise. SpScnlatlon
thrives on doubt and uncertainty, it is true,
but it is the doubt and uncertainty of its
own creation, and not that which is caused
by tfce political leaders of Europe. This
tlrd of uncertainty li that which is at work
in Ergland, France, Germany and Russia,
in fact all over Europe at present, and it,
and it alone, is causing this stagnation
which the Advertiser would make its read-
ers believe is simply a reflaotion of the phe-
nomenal dullness in America, Cheap money
In London and cheap money on this side cut
to figure in the question whatever, being
simply the natural result of the withdrawal
of money from certain questionable chan-
nels and a desire to invest it in others less
prodigal in promises, bnt far more reliable
and safe. _______
MALARIA AND PUBLIC MORALS.
The Minnesota Pioneer-Press has some-
thing to eay regarding the storms and bliz-
zards of the northwest. It claims that
blizzard literatuie is exaggerated, perhaps
not as to the facts but as to the peculiarity
of the visitations In the northwest. It as-
serts that the blizzard is only what is expe-
rienced in the east, with fatalities in the
west greater only by as much a3 the acces-
sories of comfort are inferior in a new
country to ti-ose of an older, and as the dis-
tances are wider in thinly peopled districts
from one place of shelter to another. This-
may be exact as a comparison with certain
portions of the east. IS so the fact of rela-
tive Imn.unity in the older settled countries
is accounted for. It is still something
for tfce eastern man to consider
well before fce migrates to Dakota. Soma-
tbirg is teid in the same paper about south-
ern malaria. It may mean Kansas malaria,
cr Yszoo river malaria, or Florida malaria,
bnt it is probp,bly not unaware that malaria
does not necessarily exist whenever and
wfcerever there is no snow upon the ground.
Sometbirg more deScite and correct than
the expression "southern malaria" should
occur to a writer who is complaining of sec-
tlcnai prejudice. The facts that Michigan
ague was proverbial in the settlement of
that state, and that the same ailment wa3
common in Illinois at the same stage of ad-
vancement, should prepare the northern
Ameiican mind to discard the idea that a
scnthern latitude is especially connected
with tbe origin of zymotic diseases.
It is no such thing. But in northern
as well as In southern lands wherever there
Is damp decaying vegetable matter in large
quantity suoh disorders are generated. The
hot son prevents malaria, where moisture
is not excessive, by quickly drying np the
dangerous matters which in higher lati-
tudes would constitute a persistent danger.
Tfce feature in the Minnesota paper's arti-
cle which has attracted attention ia the
proposal to publish ail the facts abont the
blizzard. As an appreciation of the wrong
and peril of obscurantism this is a good
sign. In these days men do not hide their
talents under a bushel, but they are strongly
addicted to hiding the faults and misfor-
tunes which come- under tha regulating
band of any local officialism, impotent to
prevent the facts, but ingenious and
gifted to avert a warning experience from
becoming public property for useful edi-
tion. Thus in the absence of explicit in-
formation there are vague rumors and ter-
rible apprehensions wherever any such
trouble has occurred as may appear detri-
mental to local reputations. Experience of
the ill effects of such partial suppression as
lies within the power of public bodies and
local communities is at length teaching its
proper lesson in an effective manner. O o-
scurantism musi go, if not from love of
light nevertheless through fear of stumbliag
in the dark and through fear of recalviag
cuts in the dark, even from friends.
The Houston Post continues to pour it on
to tbe Fort Worth Gazette touching the e?-
forts of the latter paper to belittle the nay-
igabie qualities ot Buffalo bayou. Com
mentingon an editorial squib in the Ga-
zette of recent date the Post says:
The above is a very puny effort at deprecla
ting the importance of Buffalo bayou to the
commerce of the state. In a former article la
reply to the Gazette the Post gave facts and
figures showing that for the past, nine tears
tlie Houston Direct Navigation company alone
had carried over 100,000,000 pounds of freight
annually, In addition to many thousand bales
of cctton. Tills is the record of the>tivigi
Hon cempany and does not tell of all the traf
lie on this waterway. It is enough, however,
to inform the Guzutte that there Is agraat
deal more business done on the bayou than
could be p erformed by an "old blue bar^e"
and "John Lang's two oyster boats." Bat the
esteemed Gazette has a way of turning Its
back on facts when it suits its purpose to tlo
so, and this Is an instance when a fraak recog
nltion of the value of the bayou would not
promote Its plans. There Is a suspicion in the
mind of tho Gazette that Houston stinda lu
the way ot Fort Worth's success In obtaining
the refrigerator, for which it Is an enthu-
siastic bidder, and knowing that the bayou
tad much to do with the selection of this city
as a location for that plant by the cattlemen,
nothing Is more natural than that Fort Worth
should at this time seek to belltt e Houston
and its faollit'es for water transpoitation.
Tbe refrigerator scheme of the Fort, as
the Fast Intimates, may have something to
do with the animus displayed by the Fort's
newspaper, bnt there are apparently more
fish in the pan than the refrigerator schema
to account for the animus of the Gazette.
The Post must have heard of the Padra
island $10,000,COO deep water Improvement
scheme that is just now agitating tha minds
of certain thrifty citizaas of Fort Worth.
The completion of this Padre Island scheme
is some distance off, to be sure, but mean-
time there are lands to be sold and Invest-
ments to be made. Does the Post catch on?
Buffalo bayou navigation does not lead to
Padre island, but It leads to the gulf of
Mexico via Galveston bay, and hanca these
tears. Nothing good is lUely to coma oat
of N6zareth while those conditions exist.
Tbe Gazette a few weeks back disported it-
self In Galveston waters, but more recently
it has taken to bathing off Padre Island.
What's np? 
Blaine Is a long way off from Washing-
ton, yet he still gets credit for much that
takes place there. The New York Evening
Post thinks that It was his Influence that
deieatedthe extradition treaty with Great
Britain, and that it wiil be likely to defeat
the fisheries treaty.
Asothkb contest over a seat in congress
is to take place. Mr. Breen, the democratic
and labor candidate for congressman in
Michigan during the recent election, says
that he will contest the election of Sey-
mour, tfce republican, on the ground of
fraud and the interference of minim? and
lumber companies. Ha says that the
KEigbts of Labor demand that he shali
make the contest.
O.ve ot the peculiar features of prohibition
is its effect upon insurance matters. Several
fire Insurance companies operating In Michi-
gan are preparing to cancel their policies
on breweries and saloons in that state when
prohibition goes into effect, on the ground
that whenever a building becomes vacant
or can not be used legitimately in a busi-
ness it ceases to be a good risk.
The senate of the United States and tha
senate of New Y"ork are each engaged in
investigating the "trusts."
Ti4EBE appears to be something quite out
of the ordinary run in the matter of the
public building begun on Alamo piaz a, San
Antonio. The petitioners are eye wit-
nesses to facts, and if the building does not
front right Thie News would urge that the
proper authorities at Washington should at
once look into the ma'tter, Instead of allow-
ing a misplaced structure to be inflicted
upon the public. The names appended to
the petition are sufficient earnest that the
complaint Is just and necessary.
6t. Louis will see an honest vote and a
fair count. The next president will be
nominated In St. Louis. He is well liked
there, too. • 
The Dallas gentleman who is "working
for Mr. Blaine" lias probably nothsard that
Mr. Blaine has declined to be a candidate.
Neither has anybody else heard that.
Tascott can not be in two pla:es at one
time, but be can move rapidly, or people
can see many faces like his. There is one
man in Louisville who wishes he had
looked sharp after tho game on which there
is a big reward.
Numerous newspaper men are mad at
the trusts—professionally mad. They must
have been refused trust somewhere.
Monthly payments to United States sol-
diers have been introduced instead of pay-
ments once in two months. The Leaven-
worth Times Bpeaks well of the results as
show n in diminished intoxication.
It is now admitted that the report abont
Tascott being In western Illinois, driving in
a buggy, was false. Such things are made
to look exceedingly lifelike.
The "infant" industries of forty years
ago suspiciously claim to be infants still.
Depew's presidential boom would really
remain an Infant even could it be pre-
served for forty years to come.
THE STATE PRESS.
What the Papers Throughout Texai Are
Talking About.
Alluding to the efforts of certain places
to secure military posts, "that profits may
ensue." the Fort Worth Gazette says:
It should be borne In mind, and congress-
men and senators should never forget, that
ail these shoulder straps, military trap
pirgp, and all the pomp and circumstance
tf glorious war have to be paid for by the
sweat cf tbe laboring and producing
trasses, and this too when these sama toll-
ers have to shonlder their muskets and take
tfce field when there is any fighting to ba
done. In time of peace every state i3 en-
tirely competent to take care of its own af-
faire, and the people should not be taxed to
support an idle army. Let but one gan be
filed upon any part of this country by a for-
eign enemy, and with our system of rail-
roads and the chivalric spirit of our people,
5,000,(00 men could be mobilized In thirty
days withe ut half exhausting the supply.
Tbe great mass of the people can not
profit by government expenditures and
should discountenance every scheme found-
ed purely on the idea of public patronage.
Taxing the many for the benefit of the few
is not conferring the greates; good on the
greatest number.
Yo hcave-yo. The Wharton Independent
cries:
Hold, steady. Now one pull, a strong
pull and a pull altogether for the Galveston
and Wharton Air line road.
The Waco Day says:
Sul Roes is not hide-bound. John C.
Townes, justappolnted jndgeof the Austin-
Georgetown district, was a prohibitionist
lest year, and took an active part in the
campaign.
Governor Ross is a eood democrat. Dam
ocrats do not regard prohibition as the test
of a man's qualifications for office, though
it may some times be Incidentally oou
nected with legislative and judicial qabj-
tione. The test will probably ba applied,
as a side Issue, to candidates for tbe legis-
lature in some cases, bnt no one Is afraid
to tiust Judge Townes for an impartall
decision, should any question connected
with the subject come before him. When
the fight between democrats and whlgs was
hottest in Mississippi both parties united
on Judge Staikle, a whig, for chief justice
The Day Eays:
Tho people of Texas have declared against
prohibition. The declaration was not made
by the democrats or the republicans, as
such, but by the whole people in their sov-
ereign capacity. It is the part of patriot
ism and wisdom to accept the result and
not attempt to reopen the question.
Tbe Hlllsboro Re Hector reflects fairly
and fully the local affairs of Its town and
county and makes itself heard when It
speaks of things elsewhere.
Has Sprlngtown a boom? The Pilot says:
We bave noticed several strangers on onr
streets for the past week or two, but their
business we did not learn.
Look a little out. TheWinsboro Messen-
ger says:
Look out everybody. Look out for the
ice factory. Look out for the broom fac-
tory. Look out for the M., P. and N. W.
Look out for the canning factory. Look out
for nn advance In the price of real estate.
Look out for the cotton compress before
another season. Look out for a large wagon
factory in the near future, Look out for
more new business houses this spring and
summer. Look out for a number of new
residences in our city pretty soon. Look
out for a fine brick college to maet thef?row
ing demands of the Wlnsboro High scaool.
Look out for yourself.
The last is the be3t lookout after ail. If
you don't lookout for No. 1 It Is useless to
expect others to look out for you.
The Wharton Independent says:
The Galveston News favors a plan of
concentrating all appropriation on one har-
bor. We suppose they mean the Galveston
shallow water bay, of course.
That depends on what the United States
engineers and congress may Bay; but Gal-
veston has no fear on that score.
The Independent shouts, as far as big
letters can:
Onward and npward. Wharton takes her
place In the ranks of progress. The court-
house and the opera house and a new jail
are to ornament our city. The plans and
specifications passed upon and accepted for
tlem all.
The Trinity County Index chronicles the
death of Hon. G. W. Granbury, who died
February 13:
lu tie death ol Mr. Granbury th8 com-
unnity and county generally loses one of
its best aid most honored citizens. The
bar its brightest legal light and his family
a devoted and loving husband and father.
Mr. Gr an bury was public spirited and repre-
sented Trinity county in the Seventeenth
legislature with honor tohlmself and credit
to his constituents, and in his practice he
was ever on the side of the weak, and by
lo 13 honesty of purpose and manly charac-
ter he enjoyed the full confidence of all
who Inew him. In tbe county affairs he
was the man to whom the greater portion of
tbe people looked to for advice and counsel.
Appropriate resolutions were adopted by
tfce bar and ordered to be spread on the
minutes of the district court in commemo-
ration of the ability and virtues of the de-
ceased.
Tbe newspapers appear to take peculiar
interest in the Immigration fever. For ex-
an pie, the Denlson News says:
The persons who have been intrusted
with tbe management of tbe immigration
boom sbonld be actively engaged In adver
tlEir g the county aDd Its advantages. Tttey
bave ample room In which to work, but
biding tbe llgfct beneath a bushal or falling
to trim and fill the lamp will not accom-
plish tbe desired end.
The Laredo Times prints a letter from
Congressman Crain to Dr. J. V. Spohn of
EncinaJ, in which Mr. Craia says:
I desire to see every industry y lei I the
maximum return, and at tho same time the
intei eat of him who must naeds be tbe cus-
tomer and consumer must also be consult-
ed. 1 am hence opposed to any reduction
in the wool tariff tnat Is not acoompanled
by a commensurate reduction In tha duty
on goods manufactured from wool. I think
it 1b demonstrated that In snc'n a stato of
case tfce interests ot the wool grower could
not suffer.
Tbe Corsicana Courier says w\lt a bit:
Mills la worrying the late prohibition
press. For their very lives they don't
know what his views are on the senator-
tbip. Coke Is in the anxious seat and his
filends are on the ragged edge- It Is a lit-
tle too early, gentlemen. Walt a bit; you'll
tear the slogan before long.
The Big Springs Pantagraph says:
lhefe Is a specimen of what is said to be
a fine quality of cannel-coal in this office,
tafcen from a four-inch outcropping by
Robert Breseie in tbe vicinity of Big
Springs. It burns readily when placsd oa
coals, and makes a flame and leaves a coal
and white aebes like dry pine burns. It
creates a daik, heavy smoke, and cast3 a
stringy soot.
The Houston Herald says:
The bug under the immigration chip has
been found. The bottom has dropped out
of tho immigration movement at Waoo.
What does the Herald mean?
The Corsicana Courier says:
Pope CranfiU has lost his grip. Tiie
swashbucklers of the late prohibition press
were broken reeds on which their friends
depended. The courage o£ these men
oczed ont at their fingers' ends when fairly
confronted.
The San Antonio Express of Monday was
a bocmer—sixteen pages of six columns
each, small type and big pictures, all de-
voted to "San Antonio Viewed and Ra-
vlewed as a Business Point—Grand Racord
of Progress—Comprehensive Showing ot
Its Climate, Soil and Productions—A Cita-
tion of Acknowledged Authorities Which
Verify Our Claim of Possessing Ramark
able Natural Advantages —Facts and
Figures oE 1887 and Comparisons Silk-
ing Advancements All Along the Hi?."
There Is life in the old city yet, even it
its manifestation Is confined to the enter-
prise of the Express. Thts exhaustive Illus-
tration of the city and Its connections can
not fall to be read with interest by all who
see it. Tbe Express divides Its subjects aa
follows, and gives each a separata boom:
8. A remarkably fertile soil. 4. Coal. Ia-
exbsnstible beds of lignite near tae city,
ssd bltominocs along the liaes of tbe south-
ern railways. 5. Wood. Liberal supplies
for fuel, fencing, lumber, etc.. near tha city
end along all the lines ot railways canter-
irgheie. 6 Excellent buiidiag stone iuex-
ttnsive quarries within the clw limits, liava
kilns, cement factory, etc. 7. Bricir, Ufa
hed potters' clay. 8. Geographical position,
whicc made it the natural and accepted
trade center of a vast territory nearly 209
tears ago. 9 An established trade witu
Mexico and a large tributary territory lu
Ttxp.s- Ard tinder this head we note that
San Antonio is: The largest wool market
from first bands in America. The com-
mon center of the great live
steck interests ot southwestern Texas.
Ihe largest horso and muie market la
America. The largest bide market In Texas.
Tfce laigest pecan niaiket in America. A
growing cotton market. A very good mar-
ket for produce. Tha best lumber market
in Texas. And has ample banking lactit-
lies. 10. Unrivaled railway facilities. 11
Historic attractions, unexcelled by any
rival point in x\merlca, 12. Modern at-
tractions, equal to those of any city of its
size and commercial importance. 13. Ra-
liglcus and educational advantages sups-
ilorlo those of moat American cities of
its size. 14. Proximity to the mountains,
tbe coast, mineral springs and manvhealta
and pleasure resorts in Texas and Mexloo.
HILL AND CLEVELAND.
The Secret of the Opposition to thi Presi-
dent a SrqUfl to a Qaestlonable Ap-
pointment—No Levity.
SPORTS AND SPORTSMEN.
Kilrain tips the beam at 210 pounds.
Evan Lewis is practicing catch-as-catoh-
can wrestling.
On Thursday the Central base ball league
will liold a meeting at Allentown, Pa.
Jack Fogariy claims to be a middle-
weight champion, and yat he kicks the beam
at 190.
KANSia City has signed Catcher Biordy,
formerly ol the Detrolts, and Pitcher Fagan of
the Metropolitans.
Two heavy weights, Hub Glennon of
Catsklll and Bill Gabig of Pittsburg have
signed articles for a light for a purse of J.v.0
end gato receipts'within ten days, near Al-
bany.
Alf. Greenfield, the ex cbamplon E ig-
llsh heavy weight, recently, by a fall, broke
his left arm. The arm had been broken twice
pievionsly, and doctors say It will never be
strong again.
' The regular spring meeting ot the league
will be held at the Fifth Avenue hotel on
Match 2, instead of March B, as previously an
nounced. The schedule ol the season of 1358
will then be adopted.
Jameb Quiglky of New York has accept-
ed tfce challenge Issued by Dennis Gallagher
of Buffalo to wrestle for the police champion-
ship of America. The contest will take place,
in Buffalo on Wednesday.
A forfeit of $250 has been posted by
Hng}t McManus, the Kansas City prize lighter,
for a battle with Dan Daly, the champion mi t-
dle weight of Missouri, to a finish, with small
gloves, for }BC0 or $10.0 a side.
The catcb-as catch-can wrestling match
between Joe Acton and Edwin Bibby, at Fail
Itlver, Mass , Is set for March 11. It Is for $230
a side (open to ?5ri>), and $100 a siile Is now up.
Arthur Chambers is bucking Acton.
Milligan, who purchased bis release
from Von der Ahe for $600, says: "I don't have
to play ball, and I shall not this year unless I
get well paid lor It. 1 have just completed
four houses and have contracted to build two
more."
An exciting main was fought by gaaje
cocks of Long Island and Brooklyn, at Ja
n;atca, L. I., recently. The conditions wero
the best live of nlno battles, with $20 on each
contest and $200 on the m«ln. The main was
won by tie Brooklyn birds. '
Professor John E. Clark of Philadel-
phia, who has been locate! Hi Minneapolis for
some time, has decided to make his head-
quarters In St, Paul, and has opened a boxing
school. Claris Is considered one of tha vary
clcvercst sparrers in the country.
A crow shooting sweepstakes will be
coi tested on Erb's grounds, on tholllojm-
lielrt toad, In Newark, and JCO crows, captured
on the ice-bound Delaware liver, are croaking
for Ilbetty In the coops of the Essex Gun club.
Mostof the noted wing shots of tho city will
peitlcip&te in the shoot.
New York, February 24.— [Special] —l'bo
newest small outcome of the antagonism—
admitting that It exists—between President
Cleveland and Governor Hill is an explana-
tion of the appointment cf Morris Oinkel-
splel to a place lu the custom bousa. Diu-
kelspitl is a professional gambler, well
enough known among those who keep ths>
run cf personalities In that line. Ha has ot
late years been connected with pool selling
at race courses during tbe season on that
sport, while his winters have baen devoted
lo tfce city gambling hells. His 1-"! mi-
plojment was as a clerk for Kelly it Bilsa
In their Twenty-eighth street pool and g»n-
biitg establishment. Ha once bad ateriXL
in the New York state assembly, but an at-
tempt to get a re election was defeated by
ergegement In the gsimbllng bnsiuess.
Several months ogo Peter H Jobas. a
paymaster In the auditor's division of the
custom-house, misapplied a fnud intrusted
to him, and was degraded to a clerkship by-
way of discipline. Morris Dinkelsplel
promptly came forward as a candidate for
the vacated place. His friends thouzht it
a joke, but he was In earnest. Suddenly
and mysteriously he got somo Influential
backing fiom several men luTimcnany
tall, and It is undeniable that ttiese satna
nen are stron? partisans of Governor Htll
as against Cleveland for the forthcoming
presidential nomination. Tbey ladorsed
Dlrkelsplel to Collector Magon?, who
thereupon unsuspectingly appointed tha
gambler io an effleo where fce handled large
amounts of money and liad a salary ot
42f,f:0 a 3ear.
Tfcia action was follc-wad quickly by com-
motion, for Dlikelspiel was notorious
through tbe sporting and shady pa;ts o£
town, and bis appointment wa3 severely
criticised by some of the nawspapers. He
held tohls priza less than a month, and then
lesigned without having touched a dollar
of government money except his own sal-
aiy. Your correspondent learus, on an-
tfcoiity excellent In Itself, and which Col-
lector Magone assents to, that Dinkalaplel'a
action waa compelled by a latter trom the
treasury department. It la almost certain
ibat Pi evident Cleveland issued tbe man-
date. Nownomcstba curious theory that
tfce several Tammany men who fooled Ma-
gone Into appointing Dinkelsplel did so for
tfce expiess purpose oE malting a little
scardal for tie Cleveland administration*
8ur-b is tbe story told to day at the Man-
hattan club, and accepted as a fact. "Dln-
kelspiel was a joke on Cleveland," was one
way of expressng It. but it Is not accepted
entirely with jollity by Cleveland'dfrlaads.
COTION SEBD OIL TED3T
Made Nu Effort to Conceal Its Heal Status—0b»
jeoted to Investigatioa.
Nhw York, February 24.—The senate la-
vesiigatirg committee took up the cotton
seed oil trust to day. This trust nude no
effort to conceal Its real status. Before the
(xauination of witnesses was begun L*w-
jer Elihtt Root, on behalf of tha trast, ob-
ject* d to tfce Investigation on theso grounds:
"Ibe trust has only to do wltn cotton seed
oil. No cotton seed Is grown or oil pro-
duced in this state. The corporation was
rot ioiired in this state, but in Arkansas;
only tliiee of nine trustee's Hva in this
state; no combination or agreement has
teen made in this state; cotton se?d oil is
not an article or general consumption, and
it is not wiibin;t!.e scope of the coiaamtee.fc>
investigate the dust; tho committee has n»
inoie lo do wlthtbe tiusttlian it wouldhave
with a Connecticut woolen mill or western
laiiroad."
The committee overruled the objections
and called John Scott, one ot tbe trustees,
to tie witness s,tand. He said: "Thareara
seveLty or eigbty companies In the trust.
Last year's crop was TOO,000 tons, of whloir
the company controlled 5?>0,000 tons; 27'i
per cent ot ihe oil was exported, tbe bal-
ance wauued tor soap, safety lamps for
miners utd lubricants, several firms make
monthly reports, which are investigated by
employes ot the trust."
Witness, with some reluctance, said this
was an agreement between Amour & Co.
and the Cotton Sited Gil trust, which stlou-
jated the plico at which tbe former could
j.uichase cotton seed oil. He could not re-
member tie provisions of the arrangement.
Heislated,however,what he knew regarding
his own side, but appeared delicate about
sajing anything regarding the affairs of
Armour & Co. in connection with tha trust.
L. A. Newcomb, a snbpoeaa server for
tho committee, testified that ho had en-
deavored to serve eubvoenaa on John H,
Koi kef slier, William Rocksfeller and J. I>.
Archibald, of the Standard Oil company,
wlthcnt-f uocess. o ,
The capital stock of the trust la fixed at
f41 7(0, «0 nominally.
A dividend of ± ner cent b*« baen de-
clared. As tbe stock sold for 35 per senS
the dividend wus actually about l:i par cent.
Tte combined stock oi the comp tales en-
tering tne comblno wes less tbaa naif of tbe
stock of tie tiust. Witness thought that,
since the formation ot the trust in ISS."> the
price oi cottonseed had risen. Attbattltne
tee mills wore on tho verge of bankruptcy
and seme cf them had shut do.7n.
EEHUSBD TO MAKE THE 03DE8.
Application for Order to Heaiove Ban E Hop«
kins Irom Jail Befused by the Judge.
Cikcineati, O , February 24 —Caotaia J.
M. Wise ard Mr. Chris Klnslnger having
made application to Judge Sage, United
States court, for order to retnoye Boaj. E.
Hopkins from county jail to his homo, to
allow bim to ale surrounded by his family,
and promising to pay the cost ofsuctt
watchmcn as would be required to Keep
him safely, his honor directed Dr. Dowllng,
government surgeon here, to report to hlo*
upon Kr, Hopkins' condition. The court:
to day announced that the surgeon's report
indicated no immediate occasion ror appre-
hension of ceath In Mr. Hopkins' case, and
remarking tbat It wes the duty of the court
to execute tbe law and to protect the gen-
eral public rather tban to consider the com-
fort of Individuals, and refused to make the
order.
Wharton.
Wharton, Tex ,February 21.—The Whar-
ton Opera bouse company Is negotlatlag for
the purchase of a convenient lot on il Ua
street upon which to build the now opera-
house, which will be commenced 1a a few
days, and will be a splendid house when
completed. The necessary fuad iia3 baea
raised to build a house worthy of the grow-
ing importance of our little city. Taa pao-
ple of Wharton expect to S68 it equal ia
population to Victoria in a year or two 1C
nothing occurs to retard Its rapid growth.
Quite a number of white imsnigrauts are
settling in the surrounding country, and for
tbe first time> since the war one cau saaon
eve-rvslde fields tlllc-d by white laborers,
and tte old delusion that white people could
not work the soil on old Caney has baeii
thoroughly exploded.
Everjlhir g Indicates that tho predictions
made tbrougn The News columns coucern-
irg this conntry several years ago are now
being fulfilled, and before another fivei
yearu go by tfcis will be tha richest and
meet nrcsperous portion of tie state,
A Valuable Animal Sold.
Detroit, Mich., February 21—United
States Senator Stockbridge of Michigan to-
day sold biB noted stallion, Bellboy, ta
Franifo-t, Ky,. parties, for $35 009. Last
jear Senator Stockorldge purchased hlra
from Heiator S auford of California for
{BOCO. To-day's price Is the hlgh03t evai
paid btfoie for a tbree-yoar old.