The Age. (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 5, No. 275, Ed. 1 Friday, May 19, 1876 Page: 1 of 4
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HOUSTON, TEXAS. TUESDAY EVENING. MAY 16,1876,
VOL V No. 275.
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Lynch Law.
Big Bonanza.
Judge McCrimmon, the editor of
dlately pass in its checks :
One night last week an unknown
May of each year was characterized
green
country editor.
And now, as the
the Legislature appears to be getting ;
A Mad Hoi
r
allowed
demands
be possessed of
He was first
and malicious devils.
had
Directory
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A Singular Freak of Nature.—
mine, paying a
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Galveston
It says : .
The Dallas Commercial makes this
favorable report of the wheat pros-
pects of Northern Texas :
some gentleman at Austin, or else-
where, rise and explain ?
The Waco Reporter very truly and
properly remarks:
——
Wheat.
THE DALLAS COMMERCIAL ONCE i
MORE. 1
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or twenty-five men
threatened when he complained to
the grand jury.
Still it would be better to proceed
according to law. Coryell has as
good a set of officers as any county
in Texas, and they are all determined !
to the dignified promptings of every i and vote, not in i
■ soldierly heart. 1 for the welfare of the whole country.
tion of Governor Coke, for amend-
ments of the constitution, nor will
they propose a ay serious modifica-
The time has come
have reason to suspect that the laws
are being violated, are
them befote, save
day
Fair
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wonderful in this save to a
meet the pressing
the now constitution.
misconception on the' part of both
officers. There is to be a world of
trouble is these matters, if the judi-
ciary article is not amended.
Railroads.—9 he Austin Statesman
maps out a few railway lines thus :
Georgetown will build a tap road
to the International just,below,Round
Rock, thence it is fourteen miles to
Manor.. The Central road will prob
ably build a branch to connect with
Georgetown near Round Rock, and
thus Georgetown will have a direct
route to Houston. Of course, this
Georgetown branch of the Central
will be extended to Lampassas and
Brownwood. Would it not be wise
for Austin to save these roads all this
trouble by building a narrow gauge
from this city to Lampassas? Noth-
ing else can save Austin the trade of
of the northern and northwestern
counties.
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The Hempstead Meseenger records
this strange circumstance :
Last Tuesday a horse belonging to
Mr. Booth, Senior, went mad, from
some unknown cause, and seemed to
seven destructive
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thinking. Let the people of Galves
ton cease levying their prestamos
upon the commerce of Texas and
put some of its own cash into the
work before it comes before the peo-
ple asking aims.
I
f, slight
of radical corruption in these . two
concluding verses :
For art and labor met in truce,
For beauty made the bride of use,
We thank Thee, while withal we crave
T he austere virtues, strong to save ;
The honor, proof to place or gold ;
The manhood, never bought or sold!
Oh! make Thou us, through centuries
long,
In peace secure, in justice strong ;
Around our gift of ireedom draw
The safeguards of thy righteous law,
And, cast in some diviner mould.
Let the new cycle shame the old ! -
Fair :
To attempt to speak of matters
appertaining to this annual reunion
of the people of the State in any-
thing like detail would be like
serving our readers with a rehash of
last year’s almanac. If the Fair did
nothing else than to bring together
a large number of our people from
best acknowledgments in nine-tenths
of those who attended, aii ■
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General Hardware,
C U 'J L ER Y, G UNS,
seen by two boys,-so ns of Mr. Booth
and Mr. McDade, who were passing
along the road just beyond Dr. Cun-
ningham’s school house when they
saw the horse coming toward them,
with a bloody foam flowing from his
mouth and nostrils. Little McDade,
who was riding, told young Booth to
mount behind him, which the latter
had scarcely done when the horse
reached them. McDade wheeled his
horse and whipped back to town,
been stolen, and some of the honest, by the
hard working citizens lost cattle and ’ ■ •
hogs, and the life of one of them was
generous and noble rivalry among
men of different callings. It enables
those who have never traveled much
an opportunity of seeing the healthy
strides that are being made in labor-
saving machinery, and the wonder-
ful improvements annually going on
in those useful arts that tend to the
advancement of mankind, and to the
amelioration of every condition of
life.
We encountered a few individuals
who were not unwilling to decry the
Fair. We think they Were hard to
please and unnecssarily captious. In
most of the departments the exhibi-
tion were of a character to command
respect, and in many of them to call
forth justly deserved admiration.
The Houstonians exerted themselves
to give the people of the State an
opportunity to indulge in one week
of rational enjoyment, and we think
they deserve the thanks of their
guests. At any rate they have the
Mexican Cartel-----
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The San Antonio Herald
of the drill. None of the
Belo. They were the guests of the
Galveston Artillery. Maj. Jerdone
tion of the new instrument. The
most important matters’ required
under the new constitution have not
been touched, and there is no proba-
bility of their being able to frame a
perfect system of statutory law in the
limited time allowed them. The con-
sequence is an extra session of the
Legislature will be convoked, and
the people forced to endure its hard
ships and expanse.
A TERBIBLE TRAGEDTQVHsuE
Means.—Marks Mittenthni, y . the
mercantile business igpatias, adgr
7 * ‘clock Thun
ed about one-halfabottleofstrych-
nine, proceeded to his sister’s dwel-
ling and commenced to write a letter
to his father, and had proceeded as
far as, “Dear Father, I am about to
die—” when he fell in a spasm. Sev-
eral physicians, among them Doctors
Locke, Childress and Cornelius, were
hastily called in, and the promptest
efforts made to relieve him, but in
vain, as he died about 10 o’clock.
No reason is known that could have
prompted him to self destruction.
to enforce the law. Parties who
ETC., ETC., ETC.,
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HOUSTON, TEXAS,
feb 28 Im
cavated, until a certain sum of money
„ is realized by Mr. Harrison. The
all । arrangement appears to be mutually
its members, except the arms. i satisfactory to the parties. This
Where the right arm should be, at its mine, it will be recollected by our
junction with the shoulder, is a finger readers, lies in Atascosa county, some
corresponding in size and formation ' thirty miles from San Antonio.—San
to little finger, nail and all complete. Antonio Herald.
And on the left shoulder, there is a--e—-e—-m--------
BALL ROA D, MILL SUPPLIES
sea wall subsidy request. Gatesville Sun, lynch law will imme-
The Seventh of May.
The State Gazette says:
The seventh of may is a memora-
ble day in the annals of tornadoes
and cyclones in the southwest. It
was on the seventh of May, 1840,
that a tornado passed over Natches,
Mississippi, destroying about five
hundred lives and leaving a fearful
wreck of the city. And on the suc-
ceeding seventh of May portions of
the Mississippi Valley were visited
with destructive storms. On the
seventh of May, 1859, a destructive
cyclone swept over the Mexican
Gulf; Galveston was inundated and
much shipping destroyed. And now
on this seventh'of Maj’- a destructive
tornado has swept across Illinois,
Kansas and other Western States.
We have been a rather close ob-
server of the climatic peculiarities of
Texas for sixteen years and have
frequently remarked upon the singu-
lar fact, to us, that the seventh of
Galveston is after a « Big Bonan- C
za ” in the shape of sixty sections of .party of twenty
land for every $10,000 of bonds that
perfectly indifferent to blows given
him over the head by Booth, who
carried a tin bucket. The chase con-
tinued down 12th street, where the
pursued ran among several horses
hitched before Manning’s Saloon.
The furious animal began an indis-
criminate attack upon the other
horses. throwing several and
biting nearly all of them. After
being knocked down several
times, and having about twenty
shots fired at him, he yielded up the
ghost. The carcass was buried, to
prevent its being eaten by dogs, and
thus spreading the mania. The
horses bitten should be closely con-
fined for a week or so, to discover
whether or not the disease was com-
municated to them.
Best Lunch, Finest Imported wil
the Best Western Beer and the PurestX
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ber of evolutions for all the compet-
ing companies. The other questions
propounded by the Commercial arc
puerile, and not worthy of notice.
The Light Guards, at least, are deter-
mined that the entente cordiale between
the companies shall not be destroyed men must go into politics or surren-
by officious querulousness, and those der rights as freemen. The time has
unmanly suspicions, worthy only of: come to break up the “machine” and
of a Paul Pry reporter, are f
For a time there was a general feel-
ing of gloom throughout the State,
occasioned by the damaging reports
of rust in the wheat. In many quar-
ters it was said that the farmers
the following :
There isattdyna
i nis u 11 d erst an d n g
of the County iQourtje
and a Justice of the
Empire thinks thecaui
were ploughing up the wheat, and--
it was thought that there would be
very near a total failure. It is with
no little satisfaction that we hail
the flattering reports now coming in.
It is true there is some rust in many
localities, but jt is only upon the A
blade, and will not damage the’whea 7
-nthegestEromeaveEontiuteraf
suranees that we shy 11 have a good--q
yield, and the gloomy feeling that-
existed some weeks ago has been en-
tirely dispelled.
Du Pre, of the Statesman, must be
absent, as that paper, in its issue of
the 10th is both personal and ob-
scene.
is made of cloth, drawn over canes,
and very high, giving the vehicle a
three story kind of appearance.
The wagons are loaded with beans
from the interior of Mexico, which is
not right exactly, as we don’t see
how the Mexicans are going to carry
on'the revolution if the beans are all
brought over into Texas for safety.
it is possible for it some day to be
swept off into the gulf, it asks of
those same people that they give lib-
j I erally, of their substance to construct
jan. improvement to which they them-
selves refuse to con tri bute anv se-
i al pecuniary assistance. The de-
mans is decidedly "cheeky," and we
imagine the Legislature will be slow
in falling into their peculiar vein of
Whittier’s Centennial hymn, sung
at the opening of the Exposition,
refers _ to the late discoveries
The Commercial propounds to us the Bellville Beacon, says of the
an even dozen questions, the number
Triumph of the Light Guards.
Maj. Downs writing from Houston
to his paper, the Waco Examiner,
says of the military contest and the
final award :
With all this, however, the special
objects of interest to-day were the
races and the military. The several
companies, including the Lamar
Rifles, from Dallas, Travis Rifles,
from Austin, Artillery Company and
Lone Star Rifles from Galveston, and
two companies from Houston, all ac-
quitted themselves remarkably well,
eliciting frequent bursts of ap-
plause, while one after another they
successively went through the drill
and manual of arms. The prize, a
beautiful banner and ten dollars in
cash, was awarded to the Houston
Light Guards, amid a general and
enthusiastic round of cheers and ap
plause.
at the
m6rni ng a n u mbe r of Mexi
-osewom--ts from Parras, Mexico, at-
usual ■ tractedattention on Commerce street
; bj' their outlandish appearance. They
j are generally drawn by seven mules,
of I four of them abreast in the lead, and
Legislators I are provided with two wheels, which
dare not sanction the recommenda- ; are very large, however. The cover
The Waco Reporter expresses
thus strongly its opinion concern-
ing’ the impropriety of Governor
remaining in the Executive Chair
after his election to the Senate:
The Reporter cannot assume to
speak authoritatively of what Gov.
Coke will do. It admires both him
and Lieut. Gov. Huvbard, and while
its admiration for the latter is r.ot
so blind that it feels called upon to
hope for Governor Coke’s immediate
resignation, yet we cannot believe
that a strict sense of justice towards
Richard Hubbard will warrant or
allow Senator Coke to continue to
exercise the functions of the guber-
natorial office until March, 1877, or
even until the present se sion of the
legislature adjourns. Those who
ascribe such a desire to the Governor
do him injustice, and seek to create
issues and passions that should have
no place in Texas politics. Coke the
Senator and Hubbard the Governor
will fill the measure of public desire
and expectation.
Tom Harrison’s Coal Mine.— W e
learn that Mr. Harrison has leased
> . fold of the integuments, making a A new horse disease has made its
foreign । give the people a chance to nominate duplicate of the skin. The child and appearance in north-eastern Texas
c ........ ’ n -n " ‘ interest of party, but mother are both in fine health.—S.A. which baffles the skill of horse doc’
. . Herald. tors to diagnose or to cure.
creek, about fifteen miles above town,
entered it, and notified the inmates
that they must leave the place in ten
days on pain of death. Some of the
party then entered the kitchen and
took 2 negro boys and a negro man
and left with them. The negroes
have not been heard from since, and
their fate is uncertain, although it is
probable that no bodily harm was
done them.
The parties threatened have for
some time been accused of stealing
cattle, hogs and cotton, and it is al-
leged that they kept the negroes to
aid them in the work. One thing is
certain, and that is that cotton had
recurrence of extraordinarily
high temperature. Not having met
any one who had especially noticed
this featute, and as the facts em-
braced in the above excerpt ante
date any of our own experiences,
they commend themselves to us
with gratify.ng force. Such un-
• varying coincidences of abrupt
: changes of temperature on that day
„g. is certainly remarkable, and must
„ - , conldentY have some origin more certain than
recommended to call on A. L. Jarna- ■ chance in the development of its re-
gin, county attorney, whose dutyit suits. The wonder .is that such
istto see.to enforcement ot the unerring periodicity had not long
’ ___________________ ago attracted general attention, but,
The subjoined extract is from the so far as we know, no scientist even
State Gazette. .While it is true that' has recorded any observation of tins
• 1l d I ct C L O 1 «
E8TAB‘D IN 1871.
The State Fair.
The bottle of poison, half emptied,
was found in his pocket.—Dallas
Herald.
The Judiciary.—The Waco Ex-
aminer points to breakers ahead in
, while the raging animal pursued, bit-
possibly Colonel ing the horse rdden bythe boys,and
by law
The sagacious editor of the -4
Huntsville Item atttended the late
State Fair and was much pleased.
He reports as follows upon the mili-
tary competitive drill wherein the
Light Gaurds bore off the prize :
There was some excellent drill
duty gone through by several compa-
nies, a Houston Company winning
the prize, not only by decision of the
judges, but the verdict of the vast
audience. Each of the contesting
companies made one error, save 'the
winning one, which was perfect,
from a to z. The contestans all
agreed too, with the judges, ajd we
feel satisfied there was no favoritism
shown. •
Pledges for the Senatorship.
The Rusk Observer makes this
remark :
We have seen it stated that the
friends of Gov. Coke in the Legisla-
ture exacted a pledge of him before
his election to the Senate, that he
would, in the event of his election,
continue to serve as Governor until
his term as Senator should begin.
We cannot believe that sensible men
would make such asses of themselves.
We would very much like to know
if indeed this folly was devised by
the friends of Gov. Coke. Will
A bill has passed the Senate on
third reading fixing a penalty of not
more than $100 for the use of insult-
ing and abusive words or gestures,
so as to provoke a combat or assault!
If the bill had stipulated not led
than $100 it would have been bet
but as it is the statute would g8
valuable one. 28
his coal mine to Messrs. Crosby &
Copland. These gentlemen, the firs'
ll-uulal anuan vt IAlnE.— an Englishman, the other a Scotch-
The estimable wife of one of our man, have taken the i ' .
most valued citizens in this county, royalty on each bushel of coal
near Post Oak Island, gave birth a
few weeks since, as we learn, to a
fine healthy boy baby, perfect in
its members, except the
A newspaper correspond "75
Fayette county record havi “s
time by the forelock and no “8
Mr. Seth Shepard for Congre
Hancock’s district the Brenhan.
nor takes occasion to make th-
lowing comments: .
We cordially endorse the noma-
tion, and fully concur with the wrier
that Mr. Shepard is a man of unques-
tioned ability, and that he has never
yet been known to swerve one
solitary inch from Democratic prin-
ci pies it is much more that county
pride and -a general recognition of
Mr. Shepard’s abilities that prompts
us to respond to the nomination of
“Citizen.” We have known him
well for years, and have ever found
him standing up for the right against
radical oppression and misrule. He
is a native Texan, and has the fullest
sympathy with the people of T
and their interests. He is cap
and honest, and would make a'M
efficient member. What more cd
we to ask ?
ever met
along rather slowly with its work I
we hardly tffiS odings of
the Gazette altog 11 founded : this forien item •
--rasnogen-- '
cession for nearly one-third theiti
being the only remarkable thing
about them, all of them being frivol-
ous and the most of them wholly
irrelevant to the question of the jus-
tice of the late military award to the
Houston Light Guards. Its anathema
against Houston is confined to the
narrow base of a single count, which
we will answer just here. It teas
the practice, as you allege, to give
street car tickets in change, but the
President of the Company, Mr. T.
W. House, informs us that you or
anybody else could have had them
cashed by presentation at the com-
pany’s office, and so we supposed, as
every sensible man would, before we
made the inquiry. It facilitated bus-
iness to make change that way and
was doubtless quite as much advan .
tage to visitors as to the
Company. Furthermore, Dallas
street car tickets were taken in Hous-
ton for merchandise, and the mer-
chants of Dallas would hardly now
refuse comity by taking Houston
tickets. Galveston and Houston
tickets are mutually current in both
these cities, and there is nothing
,—pher
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had come to see the Fair as a private
spectator, and was only known to
the Directory by reputation as an
accomplished soldier and gentleman.
The committee chose these three
gentlemen as the judges. And this,
is the whole history of the
“change” which arouses the suspicion
of the Commercial. How barren of
base for cavil! But another suspi-
cion of that paper is conveyed in the
following : “Will the Age deny that
the programme of drill bad been in
the hands of the Light Guards previ-
ously ?” We do deny it. Indeed it
was impossible for them to have had
it, as it was only made out while the
Light Guards were at dinner on the
day of the drill. No one of the
competing companies knew it be-
fore the others. In reply to
• another question we will say
that Major Jerdone, one of the
Judges, was chosen with especial ref-
erence to his brightness in the latest
tactics upon company drill, be being
a late graduate of a military insti-
tute. And, as a whole, the Judges
were, and are, esteemed by the best
informed persons thoroughly compe-
tent to make the award. We deem:
the committee capable to determine
which was superior, although the
problem involved twenty men
for the Light* Guards and a
greater number for the La-
* mar Rifles, and an unequal num-
surrounded a house on Cowhouse
Lamar Rifles have not pro-
tested against the championship
of the Commercial, we reply
to its query, to-wit: “Were not the
judges changed after the arrival of the
companies ?” Gen. Ord was to have
been the judge. On the 3rd of May
the followidg telegram was received
from him :
“Regret that official business pre-
vents my presence as proposed.
ORD."
On the evening ofthe drill a letter
was received from him, couched in
the most courteous language, regret-
ting his inability to attend. The
Managers of the Fair selected a com-
mittee then to take charge of the
entire military programme as Gen.
Ord’s absence necessitated the selec-
tion of new judges. The committee
was as follows: Col, A. H. Belo,
. Galveston ; Capt. Mott, Galveston;
R. P. Tompkins, Dallas; Major
Charles S. West, Austin; General
Ross, Waco; Col. W. B. Botts,Hous-
ton ; Capt. F. A: Rice, Houston.
This committee decided that no one
of the Judges to be selected should
be from any city that sent a compe-
ting military company. Gen. Steph-
en D. Lee and Lieutenant Quinn ar-
rived at 11 o’clock, a. m., on the
different, parts of the State,
where the various callings and
professions can meet and . inter-
change ideas, it would be a
good thing. But it does much
more. It stimulates industry and
enterprise. It is a stimulating cause
of improvement in agriculture, man-
ufactures and art. It promotes
Liquors constantly at the bar. ma
wmsawcasuaaz=*M-a2aaawunna--.azax
The Successor of John HGamen
S. L. GOHLMAN. | H. J. HARBY.
rates of compensation, and scarce-
ly anything has been done to
---- . When the newspapers all over
The Austin Statesman takes rather j Texas speak out in bold and pointed
an unfavorable position upon the I terms, like the following from the
Accepts the Situation.—The
Lockhart News gracefully yields to
the voice of the Legislature in the
following suggestive way :
The Legislature, however, has seen
proper to make these changes, and
we shall not attempt to censure or
condemn, but accept the situation
and make the most of it. We believe
that this move on the political chess-
board will effectually dispose of both
Coke and Hubbard for all time to
come, and when the Democracy or-
ganizes for the next campaign these
office loving demagogues will find a
peaceful grave near the head waters
of that classic strsam—Salt River.
The Burnet Bulletin sends forth
the following cheering report from
that fine section :*
No rain, no fights, no drunks, no
shooting, no runaways, no accidents,
no elopements, no marriages, no
stamps—no nothin’ this week in
Burnet, except grasshoppers and
fleas. -
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may be issued to build a breakwater.
As this enormous concession may in
time gobble up the entire public do-
main, except that reserved for Tom
Scott, the East, West, North and
South of Texas (except Galveston),
may give up all hope of internal im-
provements. When the bill is passed
for Galveston, Indianola, Lavacea, (
Matagorda, Saluria, Velasco and all
the demolished coast country should
be tacked on to it.
We are desirous that Galveston
island should receive protection, but
the large demand it now makes ap-
pears to be unreasonable. The State
should do something .toward guard-
ing our gulf coast towns from those
disasters to which it has been proven
they arc imminently liable in case of
storms, but those towns should in
the same spirit deal justly by the pel-
pie of Texas and not prey upon them
through their extortionate monopo-
lies. Galveston maintains a huge
wharf monopoly which has sucked
and battened upon the blood of the
whole State, until an unfriendly feel-
ing has been aroused against it. The
charges that it levies upon all articles ,
going out or coming into Texas,
materially lessens the net earnings
of every individual tributary to the
port of Galveston.
That city has grown rich and
haughty, and now that it finds that '
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