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GALVESTON
TRIBUNE :
TUESDAY,
JANUARY 5,
1897.
ABOUT TAXES.
HENRY CLEWS’ VIEWS
55 cents
FOREIGN BILLS OF EXCHANGE.
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FOR TOMORROW’S BREAKFAST.
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AMUSEMENTS.
ROOMS AND BOARD.
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all.
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SOME ELECTION FIGURES.
to
PROFESSIONAL.
M. F. Mott.
W. T. Armstrong.
MRS. ADAMS.
1413 37th.
THE LEAVEN WORKING.
best electric appliances.
by
be-
TWO VIEWS.
so
THE WEATHER.
Why
said
2214 Postoffice st.
MARRIAGE LICENSES.
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DIED.
Phone 703.
It must necessarily require a few days
for the country to recoyer from the holi-
day spree, but it is gradually getting back
to bard licks.
Lecturer Bryan will play only one-night
stands when he resumes his farewell tour.
$6.00
. .50
George Stanley and Miss Emma May.
Leon Cleary and Miss Mary Louise Gal-
lagher.
The barbers of Kansas are said to be a
unit against the re-election of Senator
Peffer, and if he g-ets into the senate again
it will be by a close shave.
Judge Holman of Indiana who, after two
years’ retirement, . will make his reap-
pearance in the next congress, announces
that his “I object” will be on deck as soon
as he gets the floor again.
Potato Salad.
Tea.
holden at
", in f -
A half dozen disasters, the loss of mil-
lions of money and distress to thousands
followed the mismanagement of the Na-
tional bank of Illinois which the suicide of
Vice President Hammond can not atone.
__________help wanted.
WANTED—A good reliable white girl,
stay on premises; must know j
cook. MRS. W. F. REITMEYER,
MACO STEWART,
LAW AND ABSTRACT OFFICE.
2123 Strand.
stay on premises; must know how' to
„ ^- ,2810P.
MOTT & ARMSTRONG,
Attorneys at Law,
Is All a Three-Line Advertisement Will Cost You for Three Times in the
TRIBUNE’S CLASSIFIED COLUMNS.
Six Words to a Line. Write Your Advertisement on This Blank.
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UNDERTAKERS.
WM. REIN. ~
UNDERTAKER,
Complete stock of BURIAL CASKETS
and COFFINS, with
THE GULF SHORE STABLE,
2310 Postoffice. Phone 149.
Local forecast for Galveston and vicin-
ity for the 36 hours ending 8 p. m., Jan. 6:
Tonight and Wednesday fair; slight
changes in temperature; fresh northerly
winds.
___ SPEC! ALISTS. _
DR. T. McGORK, Specialist in the treat-
ment of RECTAL and GENITO-URI-
NARY (private) DISEASES, has removed
his office to the corner of 19th and Mar-
ket streets. Hours, 10 to 1 and 5 to 7.
Consultation free.
W. J. Bryan, the lecturer, telegraphs his
manager that he will positively be in
Houston on the 20th. Some of his very
ardent admirers think Mr. Bryan will be
superlatively there.
The rumor that Gen. Weyler is to be re-
called from Cuba by the Spanish govern-
ment has been set afloat so often that no
one will pay much attention to it until
the confirmation goes with it. News from
Cuba, no matter by what route it comes,
must always be taken with a good deal of
allowance.
The country will get r n a tear-if, tare-if-
tariff—but probably the least said on the
subject the better.
Single Notable New York J
Suspension.
The proposed, issue of bonds by the city
for the purpose of funding the floating in-
debtedness, and for other purposes was
discussed at the last meeting of the Social
science league, fund in the course of the
discussion it was suggested that if cer-
tain large property owners paid their just
part of taxes, there would be no occasion
for a bond issue.
That there are in nearly all communities
large property interests that escape the
payment of their just and proper share of
municipal taxes, is generally charged and
believed, and the complaint is entitled to
consideration.
The small property owner, the man with
only a homestead, perhaps, tenders his
property for approximately what it is
worth, and pays the tax assessed against
it promptly. He does not feel like taking
any chances of losing his mite, or of in-
curring the penalties of delay Tn making
payment. The big property owner, on the
other hand, may delay from year to year,
until his taxes, with the added interest and
penalties, amount to 'almost as much if
not more than the property will bring un-
der the hammer, after the city has gone to
the expense of prosecuting a suit and has
incurred other expense in the effort to
enforce the collection of its claim.
There is a case on record, wherein a
piece of property, finally sold for taxes, aft-
er a futile attempt at compromise by a
remission of one-half the amount, was
found never to have paid any taxes, and
there is now near by a piece of property
on which it is said no tax has been paid
for a number of years, though regularly
assessed.
Every piece of taxable property should
be made to pay its due and proper share
of the taxes promptly and regularly, or
the privilege extended to one tax payer
should be extended to
would not be any deficits or any reason-
able ground for complaint.
Official City Newspaper.
Member of the Associated Press.
Tribune Building, corner Twenty-first and
Market streets.
Mississippi's new state capitol is modeled
somewhat after the Texas state building
and looks mighty well on paper. Missis-
sippi has long needed a new state house
and now seems in a fair way to get one.
___MEAT MARKET.
WHY NOT Buy the best where it can be
had for the same money that inferior
goods cost? Everybody feels that they
want the best; why not then go to the Galv.
Meat Co. and beconvinced that they keep
the best meats in city. GALV. MEAT CO.
ATTORNEYS AND COUNSELORS-AT-
LAW.
Galveston, Tex.
Galveston Business Directory.
Published for the Benefit of Stangers and
the Public Generally—It Includes Vari-
ous Trades, Professions and Pursuits,
and Will Prove of Interest to All Who
Intend Transacting Business in Gal-
veston.
Published every weekday afternoon and
every Sunday morning. Weekly pub-
lished every Friday.
V. C. Hart is traveling representative of
The Tribune and is authorized to give re-
ceipts for subscriptions and advertise-
ments .
Corbett and Fitzsimmons have signed ar-
ticles for another gabfest.
in the
notice
adminis-
eir objec-
on or be-
The Houston Post thinks ‘‘the record
just made of more than 874 miles in six
days’ riding on a bicycle shows the pos-
sibilities of that kind of traveling when
thoroughly good roads are the rule rather
than the exception in this country.” Does
it not also occur to the thinking person
that when good roads are the rule, rather
than the exception, there may be uses for
the steeds of such speed and endurance
which will make them as popular in the
rural districts as they are now in the
towns and cities?
A syndicate of young women has been
organized to supply sermons and lectures
to preachers and public speakers. It
should have a companion syndicate capa-
ble of supplying audiences.
FEMININE NOTES.
The duchess of Marlborough’s recent fes-
tivities at Blenheim castle cost $100,000.
, Although the daughter of George W.
Cable has recently married, she still keeps
up her work of illustrating her father’s
writings.
Lady Beatrice Butler, one of the famous
beauties of England, has taken to bicyc-
ling, and bids fair to become a proficient
wheel wom an.
Frau Wette of Cologne, the distinguished
librettist of “Hansel and Gretel,” has
completed a new fairy opera, writing the
c^n^ston. Tex., Jan. 5.—An area of low
pressure is central over the lower lakes.
An area of high pressure is moving in over
the western portion of the country. The
weather is generally clear except over the
central and upper Mississippi valleys,
where it is partly cloudy to cloudy, with
snow at St. Paul’ano. Davenport. Light
showers have fallen over the northeastern
portion of the country.
The Galveston Tribune publishes a com-
plete report of the cotton market in each
issue, which reaches all important points
within 250 miles of Galveston the follow-
ing morning in ample time for operations
in the early markets.
Reports received at Galveston on Jan. 5.
Observations taken at all stations at 8 a.
m., 75th meridian time:
Temperature—Abilene 28, Amarillo 18,
Atlanta 30, Bismarck 8 below zero, Cairo
24, Corpus Christi 40, Davenport 10, Denver
i. El Paso 18, Galveston 44, Huron 4 below
zero, Jacksonville 42, Kansas City 10, Lan-
der 2, Little Rock 28, Memphis 32, Miles
City zero, Montgomery 32, Nashville 30,
New Orleans 38, North Platte 8, Oklahoma
22, Omaha 4, Palestine 30, St. Louis 14, St.
Paul 6, San Antonio 32, Vicksburg 34.
Precipitation in last 24 hours—Bismarck
trace, Cairo trace, Davenport .06, Huron
.28, Jacksonville .04, Kansas City, .06, Miles
City .01, Nashville trace, Omaha .01, St.
Louis .01, St. Paul .66.
CANNON—On Tuesday, Jan. 5, 1897, at
Galveston, Tex., Mrs. Susan M. Cannon,
widow of the late Leander Cannon, aged
70 years.
Funeral from the residence of her daugh-
ter, Mrs. L. L. Donnelly, No. 2509 avenue
I, at 3 o’clock p. m., Jan. 6.
Puck.
He— Mrs. Brown is a remarkably candid
woman.
She—Why do you think so?
He—She admits that her baby is not. as
pretty as ours.
She—I call that insincerity. A woman
w’ho could bring herself to say a thing
like that is not to be trusted.
LAST PERFORMANCE TO-NIGHT.
Personal Direction of Henry Greenwall.
EVANGELINE.
Same Excellent Company, Same Excellent
Scenery, Same Beautiful Costumes.
TWO NIGHTS ONLY, Thursday and Friday,
January 7 and 8,
HURRAH COMEDY,
A Booming Town.
SEE A FUNNY PLAY.
SEE THE ELEGANT SCENERY.
SEE THE BEAUTIFUL COSTUMES.
SEE THE FUNNY COMEDIANS.
SEE THE PRETTY SOUBRETTES.
SEE THE DANCING NOVELTIES.
office
3ord’s
SUNDAY TRIBUNE.
Each purchaser of The Sunday Tribune
will receive a copy of the Saturday even-
ing edition.
Nothing from the Saturday evening edi-
tion is repeated in the Sunday edition.
Hence Sunday purchasers, who are not
regulars readers, would miss much inter-
esting news. For their benefit the Satur-
day evening edition is inserted.
Regular readers receive both papers and
so do fiot need to have Saturday evening’s
news repeated.
__FOR SALE.
FOR SALE-’™™'
A. GOOD LARGE WORK HORSE;
CHEAP. Apply to 614 15th street.
FOR SALE—Large quantity of old bricks.
Apply at
OFFICE OF TAYLOR PRESS.
FOR SALE CHEAP—Fine bay horse; 5
years old. Apply
SASH, BOORS AND BLINDS
(Cypress and Pine, Regular or Special.)
PAINTS. OILS, COLORS & VARNISHES.
MANTELS, GRATES AND TILE.
BUILDERS' HARDWARE,
FLY SCREENS.
Prices—Rock Bottom.
Wm. Schadt. 28th & Mechanic Sts.
_____GALVESTON, TEXAS.
___DENTS STS.
DR. PERKINS, THE DENTIST^ ~
Has returned and has opened his offL
on Postoffice street, over Mrs. Rex Bord’
Millinery Store.
_~
JOSEPH H. WILSON has removed his
LAW OFFICE to cor. Market & Center—
Prendergast’s Corner; entrance on Center.
LUMBER-
ROUGH AND DRESSED LUMBER,
LATH AND SHINGLES.
• Prompt Delivery
AT LOWEST PRICES.
DARLINGTON-MILLER LUMBER CO..
Phone 579. 36th and Mechanic.
The length of life may be increased by
lessening its dangers. The majority of
people die from lung troubles. These may
be averted by promptly using One Minute
Cough Cure. J. J. SCHOTT.
For Choice Timothy, Johnson Grass, Al-
falfa and Upland Prairie Hays, call on us.
HANNA & LEONARD.
GALVESTONTRIBUNE i
There is some division of sentiment as
between a fine court house and a better
system of public roads, but the fine court
house element is just strong enough to
emphasize the majority for good roads.
Oyster Roasts.
Woollam’s Lake. Phone 349. Chas.Woollam.
Real Estate.
Cheek, J. R., 514 Tremont st. (see adv.)
Montgomery & Co., 506 Tremont. Phone 68.
Restaurants.
Bon Ton, 2208 Market st. Phone 421.
Four Seasons Rest’nt, 318-20-22 Center st.
Kruger’s Restaurant, 2313 Market st.
Sewing Machines.
Dulitz, E„ Furniture, 21st and Postoffice.
Specialists.
Baldinger, Dr., 406 21st. Eye, Ear, Throat.
Sporting Goods.
Irwin Hardware Co., 314-16-18 Tremont st.
Stewart, W. F., 305 Tremont st.
Stoyes and Tinware.
Wisrodt Bros., 2314-16 Market st.
There is no doubt that Maceo’s death
has had a dispiriting effect upon the Cu-
ban insurgents. They may recover from
it, for the cause of “Cuba fibre” has
shown wonderful vitality, but it is not
Virile now as it was a few weeks ago.
REAL ESTATE.
buyYieal^sYate^Yt^pays
A four room cottage, and full lot of
ground on Winnie, bet. 16th and 17th sts.,
can be bought at a low figure.
A full lot and two story house of seven
rooms, East avenue H, for $3500.
A nice five room cottage and full lot
and m a good neighborhood, for $3000.
Lot and two story house on ave. MW
bet. 16th and 17th; this is a very desirable
piece of property and can be had for $2500.
Lot and two story house an ave. N, bet.
20th and 21st streets, $3000.
The southwest corner of 41st and Church
streets, lot and six room cottage, $2500.
Vacant lots in all parts of the city.
LOOK FOR THE BLUE SIGN.
_________J- R- CHEEK, 514 Tremont st.
BEGIN THE NEW YEAR by providing
yourself with a home, which you can get
trom me, on easy terms, a small cash pay-
ment down, and balance in monthly in-
stallments. Have one or two places that
you can get on a cash payment of $50.
How would a nice, new raised cottage of
tour rooms, convenient to car line, for
$1000 suit? Or a large, five roomed cottage,
with a lot and half of very high ground,
for $1800? No trouble/to show these or any
other places that I have for sale.
FOR RENT—Two story houses, cottages,
halls, offices and stores.
MONEY TO LOAN ON GALVESTON
CITY PROPERTY. J. A LABARTHE.
LIST YOUR ROOMS AND HOUSES with
me. I can rent them. Have you houses
or lots for sale? Can sell them. If you
want to buy or sell a grocery store or any
other business, come to me. If you Want
a partner, I can help you. If you want
money, come to me. If you have money
to loan, I can pay 10 per cent, on best se-
curity. R. G. SYDOW,
209 Tremont street, Pacific Express Co.
___._„_JLOS1\_,_______
LOST—1 B. Green cards, headed T. F.
Johnson. Reward. Return
___Box O, Tribune office.
DOST—One small bale of leather for boolU
binding; liberal reward if returned to
_____F. J. FINCK & CO.
LOST—A BAY SADDLE.-
Evening of 24th. Reward.
C. A. BODDEKER, P. J. Willis & Bro.
LOST—Tremont, bet. Church and Winnie,
gold locket; diamond on one side, “A. S.”
on other; picture and lock of hair inside.
Reward at DEAN’S BARBER SHOP, 22d.
LOST—Ladies’ Gold Watch.
Reward if returned to
FRED ALLEN & CO., Jewelers.
Land suits litigated and land titles ex-
amined in all parts of the state of Texas.
John Charles Harris. Edward F. Harris.
HARRIS & HARRIS.
____MISCELLANEOUS WANTS. '
THE PEERLESS LAUNDRY
Want Another Delivery Horse.
2024 Mechanic street.
HAVE SOME MONEY TO INVEST
IN AN ESTABLISHED BUSINESS.
__A. B C., Tribune.
THREE FURNISHED ROOMS for light
housekeeping. Address
Box W, this office.
PARTY Breaking up housekeeping will
sell cheap gentle driving horse, not
afraid of anything, cart and harness; or
will trade for land. Box X.
WANTED TO BORROW $200= ’
Security, improved real estate in city.
_____ Address MX, Tribune.
WHEN MARY SINGS.
When Mary sings it seems a faint,
Fond echo of some fair bird's plaint,
Some song of love and past delight
From twilight grove or azure height
Comes dreamily in drifting flight
To mej and brings, on drowsy wings,
Spring's luring, lulling murmurings,
Despite the wind-worn winter’s night,
When Mary sings.
When Mary^jngs, tonight, her quaint
Child music, croons, in sweet restraint,
Soft slumber tones, whose tones unite
The mother’s runes, with ditties, light
As infant’s fancies can incite,
Before the blaze .she sways and swings
tier cradled dolls,' and round her clings
The glory of a sacred rite,
When Mary sings.
—Chicago Record.
Congress has resumed busines at the old
stand, and the hope is entertained that it
will be found to have turned over a new
leaf with the new year.
___2303 Strand, Galveston.
H. C. COOKE & CO., ARCHITECTS—
Plans, Specifications and Estimates.
Alvey building.
Platte County (Neb.) Times.
We are indebted to J. S. Freeman of
this city for a copy of The Galveston Trib-
une of Dec. 23, containing many interest-
in facts about Galveston and her un-
rivalled deep water harbor, also an inter-
esting description of the freight steam-
ship Algoa, which left that city a few
weeks ago with the largest cargo that
ever left an American port in an ordinary
freighter. The problem of direct and
quick transit to tide water concerns di-
rectly the producers of the great west, and
its early solution means better prices and
quicker returns. The great trans-Missis-
sippi country needs an open gateway to
the foreign markets of the world, without
paying tribute to the ' intermediate
Caesars, and a competitive railway route,
or an interstate commerce law with pro-
visions that can be enforced, will make
Galveston, with her magnificent natural
facilities, the most advantageous market
that can be reached. The sooner western
people awaken to the vast importance of
this project and the direct interests in-
volved, the quicker will the great problem
of permanent prosperity for the farmers
of the west be, in a great measure, solved.
Hon. Josiah Patterson, member of con-
gress from the Memphis (Tenn.) district,
replying to a toast at a banquet in Balti-
more recently, gave some interesting sta-
tistical facts in relation to the vote in the
cotton states at the last election.
According to the analysis of Mr. Patter-
son Cleveland carried the 11 cotton pro-
ducing states by majorities aggregating
695.618, while the total vote for Harrison
was 330/790, and the total vote for "Weaver
■was 362,293. In 1896 Bryan’s majorities ag-
gregated in these states, including the en-
tire Populist vote, only 631,497. or 64,121
less than the Democrats gave Cleveland in
1892. On the other hand, McKinley re-
ceived in 1896 798,225 votes, showing an in-
crease of. Republican votes amounting to
467,435, which are 105,000 votes in excess of
the entire Populist vote cast in 1892—to
say nothing of 24,324 votes which were cast
for Palmer. This demonstrates that in
these states McKinley’ drew more votes
from the Democratic party than Bryan
drew’ from the Populist.
Of the states classed politically as .south-
ern and heretofore constituting a part of
the “solid south,” Delaware, Maryland,
Kentucky and West Virginia gave their
electoral votes to the Republican ticket
for the first time in 30 years. In the east-
ern states usually Democratic, New York,
New Jersey and Connecticut, the Repub-
lican majority was simply overwhelming,
though New Jersey had not before gone
Republican since the war, except in 1872,
when the Democratic party departed from
the straight path in the nomination of a
ticket, just as it did in 1896.
In the west the only state heretofore re-
garded as Democratic under any other
than extraordinary circumstances, Indi-
ana, gave its electoral vote to the Repub-
lican ticket by a large majority, and
where was the gain? Simply in the silver
mining states, with an “infant industry”
to be protected and fostered by national
legislation giving the product of the mines
a fictitious value which should make rich-
er the silver barons and their mining
camp followers and dependants.
Ana yet there are Popocrats in the
south, with no silver mines or silver min-
ing interests, who talk of repeating the
experiment in 1900!
To cure all old sores, to heal an indolent
ulcer, or to speedily cure piles, you need
simply apply DeWitt’s Witch Hazel Salve
according to directions. Its magic like
action will surprise you. J. J. SCHOTT.
A Havana cable says it is possible that
Maximo Gomez and other influential Cu-
ban leaders will surrender to the Spanish
authorities. Such a thing may be possi-
ble without being .probable, and the fact
that the information comes from Havana
renders it altogether improbable.
____ SPECIAL NOTICES.
HAVE YOUR PHOTOS~TAKEN^r7^
jsonable prices, at NASCHKE’S STUDIO,
15th and Church st. Cabinet, $2.50 per doz.
TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN:
Notice is hereby given that application
will be made to the Twenty-fifth legisla-
aure at its regular session for authority
to authorize the Galveston, La Porte and
Houston Railway company to acquire by
purchase, lease or otherwise, the rights,
property and franchises of the Galveston
and Western Railway company, and to
authorize that' company to sell, lease or
otherwise transfer its rights, property and
franchises to the Galveston, La Porte and
Houston Railway company,
Galveston, La Porte and Houston Rail-
way Company, by T. W. Ford, first vice
president.
Galveston and Western Railway Com-
pany, by D. B. Henderson.
HOME MADE COFFEE, purest and best
in city. FIVEL’S RESTAURANT, 22d,
bet. Market and P. O. Open day and night.
THE REGULAR MEETING
of the
GALVESTON YACHT CLUB
will be held at 2109 Strand,
TUESDAY EVENING, JANUARY 5, 1897,
at 8 o’clock.
CHARLES KELLNER,
Commodore.
A. Y. DAVISON, Purser.
M. KAHN—Second Hand Furniture
bought and sold. Packing, moving and
shipping a specialty. 21st and Postoffiice.
DIVIDEND NOTICE—
A semi-annual dividend of four per cent
on the capital stock of the
SAVINGS AND LOAN COMPANY
has been declared, payable on and after
Jan. 6, 1897.
By order of the board of directors.
WM. SELKIRK, Secretary.
Office, 2204 Avenue C.
GUS C. OPPERMANN—New and second
hand furniture and stoves, etc., bought
and sold. Cor. 20th and Postoffice streets.
NOTICE OF FINAL ACCOUNT—No
2419—The state of Texas. To the sheriff
or any constable of Galveston county—
Greeting: Geo. Sealy, executor of the es-
tate of John Fabriguze, deceased
having filed in our county court his
final account of the condition of the es-
tate, of.said deceased, together with an
application to be discharged as said exec-
utor,
You are hereby commanded that bv
publication of this writ for twenty davs
in a newspaper regularly published =-
county of Galveston, you give due
to all persons interested in the aC
tration of said estate, to file their
tions thereto, if any they have
fore the January term of said” countv
court, commencing and to be holden qt
the court house of said county in the
city of Galveston, on the 3rd Monday in
January, A. D., 1897, when said account
and application will be considered bv said
court.
Witness, Geo. H. Law, Jr., clerk of the
county court of Galveston county
Given under my hand and seal’ of said
court, at my office in th city of Galves-
ton this 28th day of December, A. D 1896
(SEAL) GEO. H. LAW. JR
Clerk County Court, Galveston Countv
By G. F. BURGESS, Deputy Clerk
A true copy I certify.
__________Constable Galveston0County.
“^yFrcJAFpiJBLICATfdNSr^
SCHOOL TAX NOTICE^
All persons, partnerships or corporations
owning or controlling any real or per-
sonal property within the limits of the
flty °X„9a,yeston on the day of Octo-
ber, 1896, liable to taxation, are hereby
notified to call at this office within two
months after the first publication of this
notice and render for assessment a full
and complete list of such property so
owned or controlled by him, her or them
on the first day of October. 1896. The time
limited in rendition of aforesaid property
will expire on the first day of March, 1897
when the rendered roil will be closed
This is the only notice that will be given
tax payers. R. C. JENNETT
City Tax Collector.
GALVESTON PUBLISHING CO.,
W. F. Ladd, President.
Chas. Fowler, Vice President.
George Sealy, Treasurer.
Fred Chase, Seo’y and Business Mgr.
Clarence Ousley, Editor.
Eastern business office, “The Tribune”
building. New York city; western busi-
ness office, “The Rookery,” Chicago; The
S. C. Beckwith Special Agency, Sole
Agents for Foreign Advertising.
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Entered at the Galveston post office as
mail matter of the second class.
At orneys.
Austin, Hebert, 2308 Mechanic st.
Bicycles.
Railton & Mabry. The Emporium.
Cigars, Tobaccos, Etc.
Oldenburg, Wm., 315 Center st.
Tietze, G., Center and Market sts.
Coal Dealers.
Goldthwaite, J. G., s. w. cor. 21st & Market.
Flood & McRae, n. e. cor. 21st & Mechanic.
Fowler & McVitie, Cotton Exchange.
Sieling, Jr., E. H., Mechanic, op. News.
Custom House Brokers.
Tuller & Foth, 312 Center st. Phone 296.
Dentists.
Simpson, J. W., 406 21st st.
Gasoline Stoves, Scales, Etc.
Hickman, Repairer, ’715 Tremont st.
Grain and Hay.
Jockusch, Davison & Co., 2021-2023 Strand,
bet. 20th and 21st. Phone 377.
Wafers. Cheese.
Velvet Cream..
Coffee.
The Tribune.
Henry Clews’ Letter.
The last week of the year closes with a
steady and confident feeling in Wall
street. The chief events of the week have
been the western bank failures and the
more hopeful aspect of the Cuban situa-
tion. In well informed quarters the bank
troubles are not regarded as warranting
unsettling inferences as to the condition of
the western banks at large. Certain Min-
nesota banks have been known for some
time to be under serious commitments to
the lumber trade, and failures among
those institutions have been expected; but
the suspensions are believed to have now
run their course. With probably a few
exceptions the western banks are now re-
garded as in a reasonably sound condi-
tion. As the recent failures were due en-
tirely to exceptional local causes, Wall
street sees nothing in them to warrant un-
easiness.
In striking contrast to these occurrences
out west, is the unusual scarcity of in-
solvencies at this center. At this period of
the year a crop of failures, arising out of
annual settlements, is expected as a mat-
ter of course. Within the last two weeks,
however, notwithstanding the severe ex-
perience of 1896 in all branches of busi-
ness, not a single notablo suspension has
hacppened. This speak much for the
soundness of business conditions attheme-
tropolis, and casts forward a hopeful pros-
pect for 1897. This, with other evidences of
a sound basis of credit in every depart-
ment of operations, has much to do with
the hopeful feeling in Wall street, and
the growing expectation of higher prices
for securities with the opening of the new
year.
The Cuban situation, to all appearance,
seems to be entering on a more hopeful
phase. Although many reports have been
circulated, more or less definite; the pre-
cise nature of the relations between the
state department and Spain do not appear
to have yet been explained. Sufficient,
however, has been directly or indirectly
admitted by Secretary Olney to leave no
doubt that negotiations are pending for
bringing the Spanish government and the
Cuban leaders into pacific conference,
through the medium of the United States;
which is a very hopeful sign of an early
settlement of the troubles between Spain
and her colony. The death of Maceo is
likely to make peace easier of achieve-
ment than it would have been had he
still remained in chief control of the in-
surrection. Gen. Gomez is understood to
have favored an effort at pacification some
months ago, but he was overborne by the
more belligerent spirit of Maceo; now,
therefore, that Gomez is in control, he may
be supposed to have a free hand in nego-
tiations for a settlement. At the same
time, both Spain and the Cubans must be
heartily tired of their sacrifices, and the
chances of being defeated are perhaps
equal on each side; so that, under the
guidance of a government, which both
have reason to regard as friendly and dis-
interested, there would seem to be rea-
sonable ground for hoping that the quarrel
may be Settled at no distant day. Already
the very grave Venezuelan dispute has
been disposed of; and if the chances' of
our embroilment in the Cuba quarrel
should be obviated by a peaceful adjust-
ment, there would be no longer and foreign
entanglements to beset the path to pros-
perity in this country.
In this respect the business of 1897 opens
with much more encouraging auspices
than existed a year ago. In other ways,
also, the prospect has greatly improved.
The silver ghost no longer haunts us. The
earnestness with which the house of rep-
resentatives is taking up the currency and
banking questions affords reason for hop-
ing that in those much deranged branches
of our finance some ameliorations may be
effected; and the more so because the busi-
ness interests will bring a very strong
pressure to bear upon congress for bring-
ing about currency reforms.
It is also to be kept in mind that the
now strengthened position of the treasury
gold reserve is calculated to have an en-
couraging effect upon public confidence.
The large importations of gold during the
recent months have enabled the govern-
ment to raise the reserve $37,000,000 above . _
the $100,000,000 mark, and the local banks words in addition to composing the music.
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More Than Enough to Settle the
Adverse Balance Which Gen-
erally Accumulates.
_ EDUCATIONAL.
LADIES AND G^ENTLEMEN~wanting~to
LEARN SPANISH in short time address
_______________ L, Tribune office.
ELECTRIC BELTS.
ELECTRIC BELTS—Whatever
trouble electricity will cure------
if everything else has failed,
ine electric belt worn a few
every week produces best results.
Do people buy Hood’s Sarsaparilla in
preference to any other,— in fact almost
to the exclusion of all others?
Because
They know from actual use that Hood’s
is the best, i. e., it cures when others fail.
Hood’s Sarsaparilla is still made under
the personal supervision of the educated
pharmacists who originated it.
The question of best is just as positively
decided in favor of Hood’s as the question
of comparative sales.
Another thing: Every advertisement
of Hood’s Sarsaparilla is true, is honest.
Hood’s
Sarsaparilla
Is the One True Blood Purifier. All druggists. $1.
Prepared only by C. I. Hood & Co., Lowell, Mass,
wjr ,, are the oply pills to take
ilOOd S r’iilS with Hood’s Sarsaparilla.
IT WOULD BE BETTER to order that
coal right away and have it delivered
promptly. Just as soon as a nasty spell
comes on you will want us to send you a
ton at once and we may be, and likely will
be chocked with orders, each of which is
to be delivered first. Clean coal, good coal.
J. W. HERTFORD, 22d and Ave. A.
THE FINEST LUNCH for the money
Come.and convince'yourself. Bill of fare
changed daily
Katy Exchange 312 Tremont st
JOHN B. ROEMER, Mgr.
THE FINEST BLACK LOAM FROM
the mainland, at $1 a wagonload or cubic
yard. H. H. SETTLE,
______________34th and L, Galveston.
THREE COMPLETE NEW MACHINES
for PRESERVING YOUR COLLARS
AND CUFFS.
Positively does not break them. SHAPE
JUST LIKE NEW.
MODEL LAUNDRY,
FANCIES OF FASHION.
Crepons are; out. None are seen in
fashionable places. But there are fabrics
in which crepe effects are combined with
satin stripes or figfires, that yet are dig-
nified with high prices.
Basques distinguish some new tailor-
made gowns. Single-breasted they are,
in many instances, cut off exactly round,
with the belt. Thus there is no hope th^-t
plackets sureJx.will be concealed by win-
ter dress waist’ trillings.
A Paris frock of black and white striped
satin has -a narrdwish skirt, a bodice of
white satin, with, fine jet passementerie,
and curious puffs of the srriped material
upon the sleeves. The collar band is of
cherry silk, the frill of white silk muslin.
The newest dress fabrics for general
use. broadly speaking, are in basket ef-
fect. Those for which a good price is
asked are stoutly, but coarsely woven,
and I think they will wear well. Some are
in solid colors, but many of the more im-
pressive, at the better shops, are in quar-
ter-inch checks; black, with a color,
brown, blue, or green. I saw some yes-
terday at $1 a yard that were smart.
Many of these checkings sell at $2.50.
FOR RENT—Six room cottage, high
grounds, cistern,. artesian water; bath,
stable, shed. 2211 O, near 23d. Inquire s. e.
cor. 19th and P. O. MRS. J. M. FORSHEY.
FOR RENT—Nice 5-room raised cottage
with bath. Avenue L. bet. 27th and 28th.
A. J. HENCK, 2224 Mechanic street.
THE TRIBUNE
HAS THE
LARGEST CITY CIRCULATION
OF ANY NEWSPAPER
IN TEXAS.
Circulation books and press room
Ways open to advertisers.
are holding fully their average stocks of
go-id. The amount of foreign bills of ex-
change held in this city will probably more
than suffice to settle the adverse foreign
balance which generally accumulates dur-
ing the first three or four months of the
year; so that there is little prospect of the.
treasury being drawn upon for gold for
exportation. Virtually, therefore, it may
be considered that the treasury gold re-
serve is likely to’ be kept above the legal
limit throughout 1897. In the meantime,
thre is a favorable chance for arrange-
ments being accomplished, either by con-
gress or through an understanding
tween the government ajid the banks, by
which the treasury will in future be
shielded against foreign drains upon its
reserve of gold. These facts, showing such
an unusual measure of exemption from
dependence upon foreign finance are of
the utmost consequence to the recovery
of business during the year upon which we
have now entered. It has taken us three
full years to realize this independence; but
now, that it has come, we may indulge
some pride over the achievement. A year
ago we were alarmed at our exposure to
the tender mercies of European financiers,
and they were treating us with thinly dis-
guised distrust and prophesying all man-
ner of evil fate against us; now, for the
first time in the history of our foreign re-
lations, we are lending these same finan-
ciers some 35 millions of our surplus funds,
much to the convenience and relief of the
borrowers. And yet this position is little
understood or appreciated by our men of
business, and many stand on the threshold
of 1897 timidly wondering how we are to
come out of it.
There is another achievement of the
year which should afford us no little satis-
faction. We have been clearing the deck
of our corporate insolvencies. During the
year six large and many smaller bank-
rupt companies (chiefly railroads) have
been reorganized, attended with the issue
of $941,000,000 of securities, to replace the
old issues, which have long been in a state
of suspense. These securities have been
listed on the stock exchange and consti-
tute about 10 per cent of the entire amount
of stocks and bonds now so represented on
tjie exchange. The effect of these opera-
tions has been to place nearly $100,000,000
of representatives of capital at freer use
by the investing public and so far to in-
crease the transactions in Wall street.
These issues will be some time in finding
a final adjustment of their resting place,
and during the process are likely to be
subjects of active speculation.
The foregoing are some among many
factors which are calculated to foster a
hopeful feeling at the opening of the new
year. There are others of an opposite
character; but the encouraging features
preponderate largely over the discourag-
ing; and, apart from unforeseen adverse
events, I do not hesitate to forecast that
a year hence this estimate will be con-
firmed by the outcome.
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I___ROOMS AND BOARD.
SOUTH*TjrONt'^OOMS=FtoHM^d”fOT
housekeeping; also single rooms for gen-
tlemen. 2028 Church, next n. e. cor. Center.
NICELY FURNISHEDROOMS
FOR RENT.
___ 1609 Church street.
PLEASANT SOUTH ROOMS, with or
without board; day boarders solicited.
____________ 2220 Winnie.
BOARD AND ROOMS-First class in
every respect; centrally located; table
board on moderate terms. 2128 Winnie.
Beach and Garten Verein cars pass.
FURNISHED ROOMS, with or without
board; table boarders wanted at 2016
Winnie, opposite park.
The cashier of a Baltimore bank who
was short in his accounts has committed
suicide. This sort of thing might not
have happened if the Popocrats and Popu-
lists had been successful in the recent na-
tional election.
mm
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The late Mrs. Scott-Siddons was con-
sidered by some people the most beautiful
professional woman seen on the stage or
rostrum for a quarter of a century.
The much traveled duchess of Cleve-
land, mother of Lord Rosebery, is an-
ticipating a voyage to South Africa in the
near future. No other duchess living has
explored the world so thoroughly.
The new lady mayoress of London is a
Jewess, with a great mass of snowy white
hair, and when lighted up with diamonds
and crowned with a glittering tiara is an
impressive figure.
CRUSADE OF COURTESY.
A “crusade of courtesy” is about to be
started in Chicago. William W. Clay of
that city has issued the following circu-
lar: “The co-operation of the men of Chi-
cago is earnestly solicited in a crusade of
courtesy. The tendency of men any boys
to retain seats in public conveyances,
while women and girls are compelled to
stand, is growing to such an extent that
even the presence of elderly and feeble
women is gradually being ignored. It is
believed that the attention of the average
man reed only be called to this state
of affairs to impel his aid in eradicating
this growing ai),d humiliating evil. It is
also believed “that due courtesy shown to
women in this respect, regardless of age
or personality, will be elevating in its ef-
fect upon men in broader channels than
in mere street car conduct.”
r
Not a
the
cure you. Even
ailed. A genu-
times
------- ----------Ad-
dress, Albert Jacob, 1012 21st st. Agent for
The Chicago city council has outlawed
the theater hat. What’s the matter with
the church hat.?
Phone 79.
DYE TO LIVE AND LIVE TO DYE—
Dyeing, Cleaning, Scouring, Repairing of
Gents’ Clothing- Carpets and Rugs taken
up, relaid and cleaned without beating by
a New STEAM PROCESS. Send postal.
R. G. JAMES, 419 Center st.
Grocers.
Gengler, Peter, 2005-7 Market st.
Rakel, A., 2018-20 Market st. Phone 38.
Schneider Bros., 309-11 Tremont st.
Tartt, B. G., 702 Tremont st. Phone 422.
Wegner, John, 1921 Market st. Phone 143.
Haberdashers and Hatters.
Beekman & Co., Ben, 2103 Market st.
Hardware and Cutlery.
Bryan & Co , G. M.. 2211 Postoffice st.
Irwin Hardware Co., 314-16-18 Tremont st.
Harness and Sadd/ery.
Schneider, H. J., 606 Tremont st.
Laundries.
Fresh Water Laundry, 2722 Mkt. Phone 81.
Meat Markets.
Drew & Co., Wm., 620 Tremont. Phone 43.
Model Market, 20th and Market. Phone 388.
News Dealers an I Stationers.
Mason, J. E., 2101 Market st. Phone 448.
Ohlendorf, F., 2019 Market st.
Pettit, J. R., 2125 Market st.
Pawnbrokers.
Migel’s Loan office, cor. 24th and Market.
Photographers.
Naschke’s Residence-Studio, 15th&Church.
the Grand no! 468.
Curtain rises Night 8 15 sharp.
FOR RENT.
FOR RENT—High Raised Cottage, four
rooms, hall, stable, etc. Southwest cor-
ner 8th and Church. Rent reasonable to
good tenant. Apply to
J. B. ROEMER, 310 Tremont st.
- FOR RENT—
A four room cottage, 15th and M%. Ap-
- ply within. Only white.
A FIVE ROOM COTTAGE, with front
^and back galleries; next to corner of
37th and M. Inquire at corner.
FOR RENT—A 2.story house, 7 rooms, on
Postoffice street, between 14th and 15th.
W. J. BURK, 2015 Market street.
FOR RENT- ’
FIVE ROOM. FIRST CLASS. HIGH
RAISED COTTAGE, WITH BATH. 1624
avenue N^.
Inquire n'esrt
December 22, 1896.
NwlCwill Te reSd^lS^f^ff
Commissioners of Public Works of the
city of Galveston, until 11 o’clock a m
Jan. 16, 1897, for fifteen hundred (1500'>
cubic yards of good, clean shell, ail of
said material to be of good quality and tA
be delivered on board the cars in Galves
ton, under the direction of the citv en
gineer. A certified check for $100 must ac-
company each bid, as a guarantee that the
parties to whom the contract is awarded
will enter into a contract for same
Contractors will be required, within five
days from the acceptance of bid, to enter
into a bond in the sum of one thousand
dollars, conditioned for the faithful deliv-
ery of the material contracted for
Payment for said material will be made
by regular monthly appropriation, and
the material delivered in each month will
be paid for as and when the claims and ac-
counts for such month are audited and
appropriations passed therefor.
Samples of said material must accom-
pany each bid.
Address communications to
G. BOWDEN SETTLE, Secretary.
Fruit.
Cracked Wheat. Sugar and Cream.
Panned Chops.
Baked Potatoes.
Buttered Toast. Coffee.
LUNCH.
Kippered Herring.
Waffles.
DINNER.
Bean Soup.
Venison Pasty.
Mashed Potatoes. Creamed Cauliflower.
Egg Salad.
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