The Age. (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 5, No. 272, Ed. 1 Friday, May 12, 1876 Page: 3 of 4
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OUR FUTURE.
WACO’S FIREMEN.
Third Anniversary.
MAY 12, 1876.
FRIDAY,
be termed a
pot and is what may
A strong
BURKE, RICH & CO.,
81 Mai
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3 00 0 SUITS
late in starting and consquently
very
reach the Fair Grounds
—OF—
we did not
MEN’S, YOUTHS’ & BOYS’
thing.”
Pro Bono Publico.
DEFY COMPETITION.
entirely free from all al-.
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byteri an.
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to be one of the finest sa-
promises
The Sold will be
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loons in Houston.
formally opened on Saturday.
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New York City.
Miller, Billups & Co
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Chronicle.
Manufacturers of the Celebrated
JOHNBILLUPSCOTTONGINS
of the above firm,
Made Gins
hi.
for a number of
THIS GIN
Woodward’s Silver Plate at all.
aprl 1m
And Special Attention
in its active manage-
participating
ment are confined to
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Shops at Nechesville,
dated Washington, D.
nance,
ON THE I. i G. N. R. R.,
TEXAS.
ANDERSON COUNTY,
may4Iw
Main street.
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tures.
tonic,
druggists.
Conlf's
adulterated goods are sold.
A. T. Stewart Never Did
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choholic substances.
In addition to these articles enu
merated as being manufactured by
Mr. Arto, he is the sole agent for
Galveston and Harris counties of
Dr. Bates National Tonic Beer. This
Ord-
■ C.,
e
Corn & Wheat Mills Made to
Order,
choice groceries, to call and examine, the |
stock of
his
McNICHOLAS, X The Hatter,
mark.
With Sensebe & Co., the tailors, 95
1
John Arto’s Soda Water Manufac-
tory.
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no nationality.
TO BE EIGHTEEN FEET OF WATER FOOT OF MAIN
STREET ,
GIVEN TO REPAIRING.
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Our Prices Are Morale
MR. JOHN BILLUPS,
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Mound Prairie,
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—We say that there is no
Houston in the grocery 1
a person can go and fill an orde
except at the store oi
M. MELLINGER & Bl
ment is situated near (be Union De-
John Billups Cotton Gm.
We call especial attention to the
advertisement of Miller, Billups &
Co., in this number of the Age.
This firm will do all they say they
will do, and if you want a good gin,
mill, etc., write to them at once.
Everybody, nearly, knows John Bil-
lups, and his name alone is a guaran-
tee that the work of the firm is just
what is claimed for it.
i Buffalo Bayou,Brazos, Houston, San
Jacinto and Sabino Canals.
« soothing syrup ” will have the ef-
fect of steadying their nerves for
their " Challenge drill of from $1000
to $3000” and also to inspire them
to act like men, and not like “school-
boys,” as they have since their return
home.
"A little learning is a dangerous
i
till late in the day where champagne
punch was offered and accepted with
evident relish again
A. C. Kavell, Saddler, Preston St.,
,""8
8" besshgztmotacsins 1oW prees
Kayel stil conducts, thebusine ■
and will be pleased to see his old eustome
GINGER ALE.
Not only does Mr. Arto manufac-
ture soda and mineral waters, but the
genuine Belfast Ginger Ale also
enters into the best of bis manufac-
The Faubion Cotton Feeder
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is also manufactured by this firm, and nf \
for the same will also be received and 1
promptly. may’
THE WEEKLY AGE.
ladies (God bless them) what shall we
say of them? They all seemed to
forbid, anything like moodiness or de-
spondency on the part cf their guests,
but by the virtue of magic power
of their beautyrand loveliness, flg
ali hcarts with joy uud‘ ladness, I
There was a witchery in,the mueN
that made the idost unwilling feetg,
tread the mazesrofithe danee, and
there was an irresistible attraction in 1
the eyes of the beautiful women that
made the hearts of gallant men
beat and keep time to their feet as
they paid homage to Terpsichore.
Too much can not be said of the
beauty and style of the Waco ladies
who lent such a charm to the Ball.
The Houston delegation would like
to preserve the names of all of them
but as memory is so very treacher-
ous that even at this early hour we
can only recall the following few,
who seemed to be the centre of at-
traction for the louston men :
Miss-Florence Gerrald, Miss Katie
Kingsbury, Miss Mollie Hill, Miss
Ella Downs, Miss Dona Downs, Miss
Lulu Morgan, Miss Minnie Brown,
Miss Lulu Barnard, Miss Ella Bar-
nard, Miss Anna Wilkinson and the
Misses Gates.
At 8 a. m. Wednesday we were
escorted to the depot, and, with the
other delegations, started homeward.
The firemen of Calvert, Bryan and
Hempstead met us with punch and
cigars at their respective depots. At
our own depot Chief Engineer John
H. B. House gave the Galveston
boys a fresh start on their way
homeward with a champagne punch.
We arrived at 8 o’clock last night
and repaired 1o our beds to dream
of Waco, her gallant firemen and
‘ lovely ladies. 'May she and they
1 iive long to enjoy many more such
. days as the 9th of May, 1876.
—The best, finest and cheapest gr
of any variety to be found anywh y
‘Dexas at
M. MELLINGER & BRO
tf Grocers. 81 Main Stre
A Card-
---o---
To all who are suffering from the errors
and in discretions of youth, nervous weak-
ness, early decay, loss of manhood, &c.,
will send a receipt that will cure you. FREE
OF CHARGE. This great remedy was dis-
covered by a missionary in South America.
Send a sell-addressed envelope to the Riv,
Joseph T. Inman, Station D., Bible House
OLOTHING AT PRICES WHICH
“ The Champions.”
Houston, May 10th, 1876.
Editor Age :
I am reliably informed that a
, movement is on foot among our citi-
: zens to raise a subscription, from the
charitably disposed public, of not
more than 10 cents from each person,
Mr. Trac
concealec
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k ■ -v
has been extensively introduced in most
of the eotton growing'counties of the State,
and its well known reputation obviates the
necessity of saying more than this : They
are made under the immediate supervicion of
Mr. John Billups.
Dec. 17, 1874, and stating that the
two guns- referred to were not then
on hand at any of the arsenals of the
United States., The last known of
these guns is that they were in use
in Daly’s Battery, in Confederate
service. It is rather a pity these
relics of the only military history of
our State should be altogether lost.
Those Guns.
Apropos of the late military dis
play at the fair it may be inquired
what become of the movement
in the City Council in 1874 to recov-
er the two pieces of ordnance in pos
session of this city at the outbreak of
the war, which belonged to the State
before annexation, and which are
supposed to have been captured by
the government at the close of the
war? Mr. Fred. Stanley, who was
one of the committee to correspond
Sabine Canal enterprise.
The following information was ob-
tained :
Mr. A. L. Munson, assisted by two
other engineers has been, for a week
past, out on the line locating and
making the preliminary surveys of
the Canal that is to unite the waters
of Buffalo Bayou and those ot its big
neighbor, the Brazos. Mr. Munson’s
last report was from a point fitteen
miles west of the city, indications of
the route proving more favorable
than was imagined at the. outset, the
fall being found greater than at first
supposed.
The canal is to be thirty-one miles
long, thirty-five feet wide, six feet
deep, and none of it will be construc-
ted above ground ; it will leave the
Brazos at Crump’s Ferry, where a
dam twenty feet in height will be
thrownacross the river, and empty
into Buffalo Bayou a little above, or
rather west of Glenwood Cemetery.
Then the dam at Crump’s Ferry will
serve as a lock to render the Brazos
way and brought back. In the mean-
time the St. Louis man had Vamosed,
the District Attorney failed to find
his whereabouts, and Dick s case
was nolle prossed. He is well known
by the police to be one of the most
accomplished villains and thieves in
the city. If he could be sent up to
join the Vinegar Hill gang already
in the penitentiary it would be a
happy riddance.
We find the German, the Jew, the
American, and, in fact, the most pro-
gressive representatives of every
nationality among us, vieing with
one another in the effort to make
this a truly grand and unparallelled
success.
There are in Houston a good 1
Sold. ,
This is the name of a new saloon
being fitted up by that most popular
of all Houston’s saloon keepers,
Charles Kinsbach. The Sold is in
the site of the late Gambrinus. It
guy’s bend.
To render the water received from
the above canals more available it is
proposed to construct at Guy’s Bend,
two and a half miles below the city, a
lock, for which the survey was made
in 1867 by engineers Griffin, Will
Powers and Capt. Wood, who found
in the Bayou at that point a subsoil
almost equal to sandstone. The lock
would furnish harborage for vessels
where they might lie secure from
the northers, and'by it and other
means, as intimated above, the depth
'of water in the Bayou within the city
limits would be increased to eighteen
feet, and at a cost of about $150,000.
These projects will all probably,
be completed in less than three years
from to-day, when the New Orleans
and Narrow Gauge Roads will also
be no longer matters of “mere specu-
lation.”
Hence, reader, if you own a foot
of dirt in this city the best plan is to
hold on to it, for in a few years it
will be valuable. When all these
enterprises are completed, as they
will be, Houston will soon rise to be
a city of 75,000 inhabitants.
If capitalists can’t see it, as Mr.
Charles Morgan certainly does, they
are not overly sharp,, to say the least
of it.
Mrs. Colby .
poured forth a stream of fervid
eloquence last night to a fair audi-
ence, composed of (intelligent and
respectable citizens.
An Englishman on His Travel.
Last evening Hon. James W bite
of Brighton, England, member of the
British Parliament, was registered
at the Hutchins House, and passed
down to Galveston. Mr. White is
accompanied by his wife and daught-
er, and is looking at Texas with
which he expresses himself highly
delighted.
The Social Evil. ,
The authorities seem suddenly to
have remembered the bagnio ordi-
nance passed nearly a year ago, but
which has hitherto been a dead letter.
Under the ordinance, ’ twenty-nine
scarlet women and prostitutes, includ-
ing inmates and keepers of houses of
illfame, have been arrested and held
to answer the charge of its infrac-
tion. The Recorder’s Court, this
morning, was full of these degraded
wretches and miserable outcasts.
Euston’s Business College
Penmanship, Book-keeping, and a th
ough Commercial Education taught at t
Institute. Open Day and Night. N
Vacation.
Wedding and Visiting Cards, all styles >
also Marriage Certificates, Resolutions,
Rolls. Presentation Titles in Albums an
Gift Books, Charters for Companies, and
every description of Plain or Ornamental
Writing executed in a style meriting uni-
versal satisfaction, at Euston’s Business
College, in Van Alstyne’s Building,
Main street, Houston.
—The flour sold by M. 5 ellinger & Bro.
81 Main street, is guaranteed to be of the,
best brands.
Allow a clerk in his employ to
recommend his goods. That’s me.
If people can’t themselves see the
economy and advantage of having
their old hats, cither silk or felt,
made as good as new, and fashion-
able, then all my eloquence would
be‘ wasted trying to make them see
it. It’s worth trying.
I also repair umbrellas and para-
sols.
It is the desire'of the management General S. V. Bennet, Chief of
Suspicious Character.
A man calling himself James
O’Leary was arrested by the police-
last night on a charge of being asus
picous character. O’Leary explained
that he belonged to a brickyard some-
where and was given his liberty.
The Next Volks Fest
Will be the grandest affair of
any character ever gotten up in
Houston. In the procession will ap-
pear decorated wagons representing
all the leading events in American
history, dating from the landing of
Columbus. The.entire staff of Wash-
ington will form a part of the pro-
gramme, and the German officers
who figured in the armies of the
patriots of ’76 will be represented.
Fireworks of the most unique char-
p > the Hutchins House, oiler
chants.
This canal is a branch of the Ship
Channel project, because by it, in
conjunction with other enterprises
hereafter to be mentioned, the depth
of water in Buffalo Bayou, even in its
passage through the city, is to be
eighteen feet, sufficient to float the
steamship Clinton, of course. Nor is
this any far fetched, visionary asser-
tion, but the result of the closest
matter-of-fact scientific figures and
reasoning.
The advantages expected to be gain-
ed by this canal are irrigation,naviga-
tion and power of scouring out the bay-
ou and keeping it so,besides furnishing
agreater depth of water. As to .the
hydraulic power proposed by Judge
Morris, to be seouzed lor manu,uo
turing purposes, it is to be supphed
by —S
THE HOUSTON, SAN JACINTO AND SABINE
CANAL,
for which a charter was obtained in
—in Teas we defy any house in Texas
as to quality, price, purity and flavor.
M. MELLINGER & BRO.,
tf 81 Main street. !
_--------- I
—Strangers visiting Houston andaur.
State Fair would do well, if in neeted
1871, the charter for the B. B. & B.
enterprise having been received two
years later, in 1873.
By this project it is intended to
empty the waters of San Jacinto
river into Buffalo bayou at its con-
fluence with its tributary, Whiteoak
bayou, opposite, foot of Main street,
with a fall of forty feet, furnishing a
hydraulic force equal to 1800 horse
power—a perpetual, cheap and su
perior motor—capable of driving a
prodigious amount of machinery for
flour mills, cotton factories and other
manufactories. But the main object
is also adjunctive to the Ship Chan-
nel by furnishing a greater depth of
water, while the prairies through
which the canal passes would be
turned into profitable rice fields.
The distance which the San Jacinto
water would have to be brought is
twenty-two miles, and the cost of
construction $7500 per mile, or $165,-
000 for the whole distance; whilst
the canal to the Brazos will hardly
cost beyond $279,000, or $9000 per
mile, say half a million for the com-
pletion of both enterprises, which
will run up the property assessments
of Houston from eight to twenty-five
millions.
"ch crime the
address ourselves. One great defect
in the manufacture or soda and min-
eral waters is the contaminaticn pro-
duced by contact with metalic sub
stances in the manufacture. In the
John Matthews apparatus this defect
is completely removed, and the wa-
ters turned' out therefrom are noted
for their perfect purity and delicious
taste.
rant. We may instance among these
Arto’s Houston Suda and Mineral
Water Manufactory. This establish- ।
to endeavor to avoid calling upon
cstizens for assistance in carrying
out their programme. The sale of
stands, especially considering the sea-
son should realize handsome prices.
Should all other efforts, however,
prove inadequate, we hazard nothing
in predicting that our citizens will
assist in givng splendor to the enter-
tainment.
many big enterprises, about which
most of our people even are igno-
acter will be introduced, and along
with these will be an illustration of
Germania and America shaking
hands in tableau style.
One striking peculiarity of the
next Volksfest will be that those
TO SUIT THE TIMES.
five-cent flag,” and “ a bottle of •
soothing syrup,” the same to be pre-
sented to the Lamar Rifles, of Dal
las, as the “ Champion----Kickers”
of the State. It is to be hoped the
ner was now in order, and a finer
one was never set before hungry
men, and' the reader may rest assured
that Houston did her part nobly.
Races and other amusements fol-
lowed, after which all returned to
town in time lor supper and
THE BALL.
Dancing commenced about 9
o’clock and was kept up till about 3
a. m., in the large dining room of the
McClelland House. To say that the
ball was a success does not half ex_
press the idea—in fact, it is impossi-
ble for us to say or write one-half of
what we feel or think. I he Waco
firemen were indefatigable in theii
efforts to please and to make every,
body enjoy themselves, and most
admrably they succeeded. The
We Were Exposed
Last week to a pitiless storm
that wet our feet and stockings and,
indeed, our person all over. In fact,
we took a cracking cold, which
brought sore throat and severe symp
toms of fever. The good wife as-
serted her authority, plunged our
feet into hot water, wrapped us in
hot blankets, and sent our faithful
son for a bottle of Ayer’s Cherry
Pectoral. It is a splendid medicine,
pleasant to take and did the job.
We slept soundly through the night
and awoke well the next morning.
We know we owe our quick recovery
to the Pectoral, and shall not hesi-
tate to recommend it to all who need
such a medicine.—Tehuacana Pres-
-- the proceeds of which will be de-
Hearing that an engineering party voted to purchasing three articles,
were surveying the line of the But to-wit: “A little tin sword, “a
falo Buyouand Brazos Canal, an Age
reporter this morning called on J udge
J. R. Morris, whose prolific and
teeming brain gave birth to that as
well as the Houston, San Jacinto and
and required to give bond of
$250 or leave town in twenty-four
hours. The prisoner seemed highly
incensed at this action, and told
His honor flatly that he had as live
leave Houston as not, since there was
nothing to keep him here.
His Honor gave him a blank bond
which Dick took out with him for
signatures. Dick is apparently 28
years of age, somewhat slender
and of the ordinary height, a flat nose
a little turned up, and may be
easily recognized by his large and
beautiful set of front teeth, which
gleam with ivory whiteness. His
complexion is as black as the ace of
spades, and has the low, contracted
forehead so much remarked in crimi-
nals, and wears the short, crisp hair
of the negro. He sometimes appears
in male and sometimes in female
attire, according’as the theft or rob-
bery to be performed requires. Dick
has been guilty of a number of noto-
rious robberies for the last five years,
On one occasion, with his assistants,
he knocked down and robbed a man
while walking on Court House
_ Indian Physic is an apetizer, but
not an intoxicator.
Woodward’s Wonderful Polish for
cleaning metais at all druggists.
aprl 1m
The Wines and Liquors
Sold by Mellinger & Bro., 81
Main street, are the finest in this
market, and positively no impure or
really big thing on ice.
Square, and on another, undertook to
go through a stranger on the banks
of the bayou. His victim, however,
unexpectedly drew a six shooter,
fired, and came near ending the life
of the villain.
His last chief exploit was the rob-
bery of a stranger from St. Louis of a
considerable amount of money, hav-
decoyed him to a lonely and unfre-
quented place north of the bayou.
For this he was arrested, put in jail,
and indicted, but escaped in compa,
with the War Department, has in his ny with several other prisoners, and
remained abroad for sometime. He
was finally recaptured- by Sheriff
Ashe about eighteen months ago, o
the line of the International Rail-
“A
Contracts may be made with our- *■
traveling or local agents.
possession a letter from Brigadier
Dick Rogers.
This notorious scoundrel is loom-
ing up again in the criminal re-
cords of _ our ci ty. Yesterday a war-
1 by Justice- Bjai
Our reporter left with the Hous-
ton delegation to visit Waco but as
nothing occurred up to the time of our
going to press of sufficient importance
he did not telegraph us anything. As
to the celebration itself the most ar-
dent Wacoites could not wish for a
grander success. The day broke
bright and clear, but as the Houston
and Galveston delegations did not
arrive till half past nine o clock, and
as they then had to take champagne
and breakfast, the procession was
Franklin’s Statue
In Printing House Square, New
York, is one of the most demure
looking objects in the world, yet for
all that it was recently caught cast-
ing admiring glances at a pretty girl,
for which it wasn’t really so very
much to blame, as she not only
had a most charming face, but was
most tastily and bewitchingly ar-
rayed in beeoming garments made
after the celebrated “ Domestic Paper
Fashions.”
navigable for twenty miles above,
and as there will be plenty water
This ale, while it is a gentle ; throughout the canal it follows that
" 1 r f -1 "1 vessels drawing much depth—may,
can and will ply between this city and
a point twenty miles above Crump’s
Ferry, beating the railroads all to
smash, and absolutely emptying the
products of the unsurpassed fertile
region of the Middle Brazos into the
laps and warehouses of Houston mer-
force is constantly employed in the
manufacture of the various health-
giving beverages turned out, while
wagons are employed from morning
till night delivering them in all parts
of the city and to the depots for
shipment to the interior. Mr.-Arto
uses in his estabiishmentt he John Ma-
thews apparatus. To those acquainted
with this apparatus it isatin necessary to
De""Ship Channel dredge is at
present at work at the foot of Main
street deepening the channel of the
Bayou, which hrd become choked UI
with sand after the last freshet.
engineers surveying the B. B. & B.
CANAL.
two men Baldwin & Montgomery
were charged. This morning Dick
was arraigned before Recorder Freid-
heim on a charge of vagrancy
Speeches were the next thing in
order.
Waco, through Mayor Byrd and '
Gen. Harrison, extended a. cordial
welcome and the hospitalities of the
city to the visitors, responses were
made for the various delegations by
Col. Labatt, of Galveston, Messrs.
Anderson and Small of Houston,
Dale of Bryan, Griffin of Hemp-
stead, and Watts of Calvert. Din-
beverage, composed of roots and
herbs, is a strictly temperance drink,
while it is, at the same time, exhill-
rating and soothing to the nerves.
Any one who will try the use of this
Tome Beer for awhile, will find the
passion for strong drink utterly re-
moved.
. Tne Prettiest Thing
And chief attraction in Houston last
night was the grand soda water fountain
at the store of D. Rosenfield. This splen-
did piece of Italian marble bedecked with
silver plated work reaches nearly to the
ceiling, and capping the beautiful column
are four jets of light which invests the
whole with a beauty that has never been
excelled by anything in this line. The
elegance of this fountain may be imaginedlese
when its cost is suited to hay®
M. MELLINGER & BRO..
81 Main street.
—Also—we say that at our ■
guarantee all goods, as represent ■
" strictly choice,” and of the best j
and cheapest in this market—qual %
sidered.
M. MELLINGER & BL
tf - The Gro
A Preparation
So widely and favorably known
as Hall’s Vegetable Sicilian Hair
Renewer, needs few words of praise
from us. This compound has won
its way to the highest favor in the
public mina; and multitudes, who
have vainly used other remedies for
the restoration of their hair, have,
on trying the Sicilian Reviewer, been
made glad by the speedy restoration
of their gray hair to its natural color,
and the thin locks thickened up, as
in the days of early youth. It also
prevents the hair falling out, makes
I it soft and glossy, and is, altogether,
| the best preparation for its intended
I purpose before the public.—Pittsburg
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