The Galveston Daily News. (Galveston, Tex.), Vol. 42, No. 158, Ed. 1 Monday, August 27, 1883 Page: 2 of 4
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Monday, August 27. 1883.
The Postal Telegraph company is going
to do great things; but first there is some
stock to be sold.
Perhaps tlie Californians are not very
sorry do'.v that the anti-Chinese lav/ does
not amount to much.
It has not been stated what position the
eminent statesman William Mahone will
occupy in Blaine's new book.
The New York World is not making
much progress in organizing, equipping
and rejuvenating the Democratic party ac-
cording to the Pulitzer plan.
TnE Boston Post ha3 observed that when
a New Englauder has a barrel of Cider in the
cellar, it's surprising how many times a day
he thinks there's a cyclone coming.
A variety show drew more people in
Saratoga than did an operatic concert, and
there was no appreciable difference in the
clothes or manners of the two audiences.
The Philadelphia Times sighs because
there are not more farmers and less lawyers
in the Pennsylvania legislature. Wonder
what the Times would give us for our
Colonel Rutabaga Johnson?
The latest Democratic deal in Ohio means
Bookwalter for senator and Henry B. Payne
for president. When the proper time ar-
rives, the veteran of the red bandanna will
doubtless have something to say.
This is a great country. The New York
World compares the incomes of American
railroad kings with the salaries and rents of
European monarch?, to show that the
American kings are the biggest men.
Eably Granger, a veteran of the battle
of Waterloo, died a few days ago in Long
Island. The Waterloo veteran will soon bo
as scarce as the colored body-servant of
George Washington and Thomas Jefferson.
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Congressman Finnerty says he does not
propose to spread out his coat-tails for the
popo to step upon. Is Mr. Finnerty sure
that the pope has ever looked clown to see
whether Mr. Finnerty wears a coat with
tails ?
A. W. Toukoee, the author of all the Re-
publican partisan novels of recent times,
beginning with A Fool's Errand, says:
" The Republican party is as dead as if the
pyramid of Cheops had been built over its
ashes."
Somebody in cold New England observed
that Jere Black and Ben Butler had many
points of resemblance. Doubtless, but the
resemblance is no closer than that, of a
low comedian to a stately and scholarly ex-
pounder of the legitimate drama.
It is a remarkable fact that Hon. VTm.
II. English, of Indiana, is given no place in
any of tlie presidential combinations. Is
Mr. English's patriotism less, his Democra-
cy weaker, or did he fail to tap his bar'l as
freely as expected when last, tried?
The new Byron letter.-' just published in
England, showing the relations of Lady
Byron to Lord Byron and his sister, Mrs.
Leigh, disprove, in their tenor, the scandal
printed by Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe, al-
though there are hints at much family strife.
The Democrats of New Jersey think of
resurrecting old Joel Parker and running
him for governor next fall. It was supposed
for some time past that the "grand old war
governor" was a political reminiscence, but
then the Jerseymen may favor the revival
of dead issues.
The Pennsylvania legislature is holdins
an extra session and many sensible citizens
of the State are seriously thinking of em-
igrating in consequence. The Harrisburg
assembly is charged with everything ex-
cept poker playing. Texas is still the great-
est State iu the Union.
Ben Butler wants to succeed himself
as.governor of Massachusetts. It is said
that he will take that tanned negro skin,
brought to notice during the Tewksbury
alms-house investigation, around with him
on the stump, as an evidence of Massachu-
setts progress in the tine arts.
A conference of priests, called by Arch-
aisliop Elder, met in Cincinnati to consider
the subject of devising means to pajr the
debts of the late Archbishop Purcell and his
brother. About 120 priests were present.
It was decided to take no action until the
courts have decided questions now pend-
ing as to the liability of the church property
for the debt.
When the French capture Hue and set up
a new king over Annam—an emperor rath-
er—they will have to furnish the people
with a supply of loyalty by shooting it into
them. The general opinion is that this ac-
tion will call the Chinese out. The nations
of Europe appear to be somewhat appre-
hensive that China may discover her own
power and become aggressive.
The women shirtmakers of New York
held a meeting lately and threatened to pub-
lish the names of firms that pay but 48
cents a dozen for making shirts. They ask
for at least 10 per cent, increase of their
pay. Are there not more remunerative
and equally honorable occupations, and does
pride prevent women from entering upon
them ? If so, where is the strength of
mind of the voluntary victims ?
The following occurs in a recently pub-
lished biography: Chatting with one of her
neighbors, not long since, she related her
experience when converted many jrears ago
as follows: "I used to be very gay, and
fond of the world and all its fashions, till
the Lord showed my folly. I liked silks
and ribbons and laces anil feathers, but I
found they were dragging me down to
hell—so I save them all to mv sister !"
General Patrick a. Collins and John
Boyle O'Reilly, of Boston, are preparing a
pamphlet for publication in which they de-
nounce O'Donovan Rossa and his dynamite
followers, in behalf of the Irish National
League. If these gentlemen understood
Rossa properly, they would let him alone.
Notoriety is the main spring of his exist-
ence and the fuel that creates steam for his
vaporing. He is now quite harmless, and
if left alone for a little while he will sink
into that obscurity he is so eminently fitted
to adorn.
Thk philosophers of India once possessed
a book so large that it required a thousand
camels to carry it. A king desired to have
it abridged, and certain scholars reduced it
so that it could be carried by a hundred
camels. Other kings came, who demanded
that it should be diminished still more, un-
til at length the volume was reduced to four
maxims. The first of these maxims bade
kings to be just; the second prescribed
obedience to the people; the third recom-
mended mankind not to eat except when
they are hungry; the fourth advised women
to be modest.
A carriage drove furiously down the
Cunard dock in New York, and a red-head-
ed man bounced out. " Is this the Cunard-
er?" he asked breathlessly. " Yes, sir," re-
plied a customs official. Down cam'e the
red-headed man's trunk off the driver's
perch, and together they carried it, with
his valise aboard the steamer. " When
does she sail?" demanded the red-headed
man of a passenger pacinsr the deck. " In a
few days," returned the passenger, courte-
ously. "She has just come in." "Great
Scott!" roared the red-headed man, "isn't
this the outgoing boat?" It was explained
to liim that he had made a mistake in the
day, and the courteous stranger invited the
red-headed man into his stateroom to par-
take of some refreshment. Halt an hour
later the red-headed man bade hU friend
adieu with many wishes for their better
acquaintance. Five hours later in New
York the red-headed man and courteous
stranger sat gloating over the valise full of
laces, watches, gloves, and the like which the
former had brought from the ship, and which
the customs officials had never thought of
examining, as he had not come in ou the
steamer.
Ex-Senator Conkling is almost as much
soured with his party as is Dorsey, there-
fore it is not surprising that rumor should
charge him with instigating the ex-senator
from Arkansas to make the late serious
charges against Republican leaders. Rumor
says further that Conkling will follow suit
one of these days, breaking ou*. in "the
greatest effort of his life," and telling what
he knows about the campaign of 1880 and
Garfield's administration. It is claimed that
he will do this for the purpose of defeating
the Republican party next year.
A special to the Baltimore American,
from Philadelphia, announces that " George
W. Bromley, a soldier of the Mexican war
and who, it is claimed, killed the Seminole
chief Osceola, in the Florida Indian war, "
died last Thursday at his home in Pennsyl-
vania. The Charleston News and Courier
comments as follows: " The only trouble
about this little romance is the fact that
Osceola, the Seminole chief, was not killed
by any one, but died in captivity while con-
fined at. Fort Moultrie on Sullivan's Island.
His grave, surmounted by an iron railing
and marked by a plain marble slab, may
now be seeu under the northern wall of the
Fort.
Of Mr. George William Ballou, the head
of the New York and Boston banking-house
which failed a few days ago, this story is
told: He was formerly cashier of the First
National Bank of Greenfield, Mass. While
living there he became indebted to the
Third National of Springfield for faOO,
through the indorsemeut of another man's
note. He was unable to pay, and the bank
sued him, but the case was thrown out of
court on account of some informality. The
bank supposed that the money was lost
until several years later, after the debt had
been outlawed, when Mr. Ballou, who had
prospered, called one day and paid the
amount with interest.
Mr. Gould gave Mr. McLean a civil
answer to an impertinent question when
he replied that he had no bargain with Gar-
field or anybody else for Justice Matthews's
appointment to the Supreme bench. If he
had had anything in the nature of an under-
standing, he would have been no worse than
the politicians. Could Mr. McLean state
whether he himself ever had any bargain
with executive officers for the appointment
of any of his friends? The more astute
political workers and speculators are not
presumed to make direct bargains. In
coming to an understanding as to whether
a party is deserving of the monetary sup-
port of a great capitalist, it would be suffi-
cient for the latter to assure himself that
the policy of the party would favor appoint-
ments, to certain places, of persons holding
certain views.
What is the caus. ui tne dusmnss trouble
in the Eastern States? The Bostoa Adver-
tiser is certain that it is because manufac-
turers are not making money enough to pay
their debts, which will make anybody fail
in time. The New York Public is certain
that the inflation in the last four and a half
years of the currency in the hands of the
people by $352,370,107 of gold, silver and
certificates, joined to an inflation of $32,-
297,021 in the banks of like character, has
done the work by stimulating speculation,
which was succeeded by a collapse. The
New York Times is, in general, of the be-
lief that protection and silver coinage are
doing the work, and the New York Herald
and the Evening Post say emphatically that
the protective tariff is the cause, while a
very large proportion of councilors turn to
overproduction and railroad building as a
sufficient cause. On the other hand, the
Financial Chronicle is cheerily whistling
that it is " not much of a shower after all.',
As to overproduction in manufacturing
it is only another name for want of mar-
ket. The tariff is the great interpreter of
international trade, and until it is radically
reformed this so-called overproduction will
cont inue, while in fact there are ougli
markets abroad, but they are practically in-
accessible to the American manufacturer
under present conditions.
Among the signs of the times is the grow-
ing feeling among some of the manufactur-
ers in New England that if protection is
capable of building up struggling industries
there is a point at which the continuance of
heavy customs duties becomes a positive in-
jury. They have begun to discern that a
high protective tariff, through the profits
which it gives to manufacturers while their
numbers are comparatively few, invites
others to embark in the same business, and by
competition and the relative overproduction
which is a consequence, defeats its own
ends. To meet the consequent reduction in
prices the only recourse is to rcduce the rate
of wages or to close the mills until the sur-
plus stock is worked off. Hence, as the
Baltimore Sun explains, arise strikes of the
operatives who resist the lowering of wages,
or else " lock-outs " on the part of the mill-
owners. These crises are coming every
year to be more frequent, and while the
mill-owners lose the interest on the capital
embarked iu the business, and the operatives
the wages they would otherwise spend in
support of their families, the general trade
of the country suffers to the extent of the
diminution in the number of customers.
The misfortune arises from the fact that
almost the only market open to the manu-
facturers is the home market, and when
that is glutted there is no other outlet ex-
cept an extremely limited one tHrough
which they can dispose of their goods.
INVENTION STIMULATED BY FREE
TRADE.
It is a characteristic of protectionist advo-
cates to seize upon any facts indicating
prosperity in a country and attribute that
prosperity to restrictions on commerce, and
to take up any embarrassment of industry
and attribute it to free trade. Such a course
is not argument, and those who deliberately
resort to it, when they are not ignorant of
what really constitutes argument, thereby
publish the confession that they are not sup-
plied with real matter of argument to sup-
jjort their theory, or that they believe
sophistry and round assertion will take bet-
ter than argument with the people. Mr.
Porter, the tariff colporteur, finds the Ger-
mans to be industrious and careful, and he
may be quite right in saying that they can
give the English brisk competition in iron
manufacturing. The English discovered
that fact several years ago. But it was not
the German protective tariff that created
the-German ability to compete with Eng-
land in some lines of industry. It was not
the protective tariff that formed the patient,
steady, industrious and saving characteristics
of German society. These qualities are race
divisional characteristics, and existed long
before Prince Bismarck had elaborated a
policy. It has not been a misfortune for
the world that the German and Belgian
manufacturers have pressed the English.
There was a time, a few years ago, when
the English steel manufacturers were al-
most in despair at the foreign competition
to which they were exposed, chiefly on ac-
count of the higher wages paid to English
workmen than to their continental rivals.
The result, however, was the invention in
England of a process by which iron could
be converted into steel at an enormous sav-
ing compared with the best previous method,
and now this country, and indeed the world,
has the benefit of that invention. Perfect
and absolute protectionism, if such a sys-
tem were possible, would insure to all
manufacturers a profit without the {neces
sity of improving their processes. / Hence
it would take away the great practical in-
centive to invention—the necessity of meet-
ing competition. Wherever there is profit
in an easy and secure monopoly there is slug-
gishness in intellect and enterprise. Where
stern necessity bids men think and act so
as to win success in the face of any compe-
tition, arts and practical branches of science
revive, and the distinctive abilities of each
nation are called into beneficent play. Can
any one doubt that this country, the land
of labor-savin? inventions above all others,
will develop further improvements in manu-
factures, when the manufacturers are ex-
posed to competition with England, as
Englishmen devised labor-saving plans,
when exposed to the growing and aggressive
industries Of Germany? Among all the
benefits of liberal trade and competition
there is, perhaps, none greater than that of
the stimulating effect of inventions. It
tends to change conditions; so that old pro-
tectionist arguments are stranded as high
and dry as Noah's ark. Protectionism,
aiming at making classes comfortable by act
of Congress, is the direct enemy of advanc-
ing intelligence applied in industry to save
time and avoid waste. But classes can be
made comfortable by act of Congress only
as a few individuals could, by the gracious
consent of many, be allowed to feast on
cream taken from the milkpans of their
neighbors.
FOX-HUNTING IN RHODE ISLAND.
The farmers in the vicinity of Newport,
R. I., have declared war against the dudes,
who habitually destroy their crops and tear
down their fences in a cheap attempt to
imitate the British gentry at hunting the
fox. For some time back this has been a
favorite pastime with the New York snobs
who could muster money enough to buy a
horse and pay for transporting him to
Rhode Island. That State was doubtless
selected because it contains Newport, the
chief summer resort of the snobocracy
of the United States. Rhode Island, as is
generally known, is not as large a tract
of land as Texas, and consequently there is
not so much of it lying around idle. In
fact, nearly every foot of Rhode Island not
occupied by rocks and houses is under cul-
tivation, and the fox-hunters must, for ne-
cessity, trespass on some person's land in
carrying on their sport. Crops have been
destroyed, fences torn down, and domestic
animals stampeded and run down for
the sport of the thing. The farmers pro-
tested, but always in vain. At last patience
ceased to be a virtue, and the sturdy yeo-
men resolved that they would get
even with the gentry who rode
roughshod over their crops, with nothing
but their pocketbooks for a passport. In
pursuance of their plan, the farmers secured
a liberal supply of barbed wire and quietly
stretched it in coils around the meadow
lands, gardens and corn-fields. They also
collected all the hogs in the neighborhood,
and when the next hunting day arrived they
scattered them around where they were
liable to do the most good. The hunting
party came along with the usual
eclat. There were dudes and dudines
from all parts of the United States,
lords and ladies from England,
counts and countesses from Germany, and
barons and baronesses from Austria.
It was a gay party, and ex-
tremely tony. The huntsmen turned
a tame fox loose, and wTith his
usual good sense he (the fox, not the man)
made a break for the nearest farm-house.
The hounds and the hunters followed after
in full tally ho. Soon they were in a
meadow, and a New York dude, who was
in advance, was suddenly sent sprawling
along the ground with his horse in close
companionship. A German count, an
Austrian baron and an English lord, with
their steeds, followed suit, A Bos-
ton dudine was the next victim,
but her horse escaped while
she was disentangling herself from a
coil of barbed wire. It did not take long to
set the whole party in confusion. The hogs
performed their work nobly, some of them
succeeding in tripping up galloping horses,
while others diverted the attention of the
hounds from Mr. Reynard. The hunt was
declared a failure, and the farmers were
voted a pack of barbarians with singular
unanimity. Sad and crestfallen the hunters
returned to town. Their clothes were in
shreds and many of them exhibited visible
signs of having had a plucky combat
with the barbed wire. But they
have not been hunting since,
and the farmers are duly congratulating
themselves on their victory and making pre-
parations for future campaigns in case the
dudes should pluck up courage to make
another raid. People generally have no idea
what the Rhode Island farmers have suf-
fered at the hands of these marauders. If
other ruffians, unsupported by fat purses,
had ridden roughshod through the island, as
these so-called sportsmen have, they would
have been jailed long ago. But the farm-
ers had no redress, unless what they
could make for themselves. They
have no money to fight those
who have nothing else, and if they had, a
thousand dollars would make slow headway
against a million. There is no law in the
State to shield the farmer, and until the
legislature takes the matter in hand the
farmers must depend upon themselves.
They have probably adopted the right
course, and by utilizing their hogs and
barbed wire judiciously the snobocracy will
give them a wide berth in future.
THE REPUBLICAN PARTY AND PRO-
HIBITION.
Iowa, for a long time the premium Re-
publican State of the Union, is classed as
doubtful during the present campaign, and
well informed politicians are inclined to
think that the State will give an anti-Re-
publican majority. A special correspondent
of the Republican Chicago Tribune has
been making a trip through the State, and
he bears witness to the demoralized and dis-
couraged condition of the Republicans, and
while asserting that the State ticket will be
elected, he admits that his party has no
chance of electing a majority of
the legislature. This fact becomes
serious when it is remembered
that the next legislature elects a successor
to Senator Allison, and that a change of one
in the politicial complexion of the Senate at
the present time would seriously affect, if
not destroy, Republican supremacy in that
body. The Democrats, Greenbackers and
recalcitrant Republicans, wrho are opposed
to a prohibitory amendment to the constitu-
tion, have pooled their issues and united
on legislative candidates, and from pre-
sent appearances they will sweep the
State. As there are four Democrats
in the Iowa delegation to the
Forty-eighth Congress, it looks very much
as if the backbone of Republican suprem-
acy was broken in that ancient stronghold.
This result has been brought about by the
adoption of prohibition as one of the
tenets of the party against the protest of
nearly two-thirds of the people of the State.
The extent to which the Republican party
of Iowa is weighted down with the doctrine
of prohibition can be seen in the fact that
some of its old-time leaders have taken the
stump for the opposition, and that some
counties that were formerly solidly Repub-
lican are now nearly as solidly Democratic.
Of course, this change has not been wrought
by any new-found confidence in the wisdom
and patriotism of the Democracy, but sim-
ply comes as a protest against the spirit and
policy of the fanatics of the domi-
nant party. True, the Democrats are
less inclined than their opponents
to interfere with personal liberty, and
puritanism of any chaiacter can find no en-
couragement in the party. But this is ow-
ing, doubtless, to the heterogeneous mass
representing all kinds of isms that gave their
adherence to the Republican party at its or-
ganization, and each element of which lias
never since ceased laboring to connect'the
body of the party to their pecu-
liar views. The course of events
has proved that no large, substantial
and representative portion of the people
favor prohibition, and the ensuing election
in Iowa will doubtless prove to the Repub-
lican managers of that State that they were
far from being acquainted with the true
feelings ot the people. Prohibition is dead
in Kansas, and it was followed to the grave
by the mangled and bleeding Republican
party. From present appearances, the same
lesson will be taught and the same result be
achieved in Iowa.
FRANK JAMES.
For the next few days the country will be
largely absorbed in the trial now in progress
at Gallatin. The outbreak of the "saffron
scourge " at Pensacola, or, rather, the navy-
yard, perhaps is even of secondary im-
portance. Arthur's capture by the cow-
boys—those reckless and courageous no-
mads of the wild West—would not much
eclipse the popular interest taken in the
testimony which has again opened up in
the public eye rather a thrilling American
romance than a pure American record
of crime, pillage and highwaymanism
which form the basis of the story.
To get at the bottom of it, according to
the best authenticated testimony and state-
ments before and since the Gallatin arraign-
ment of the brother of Jes'se James, the for-
mer has, in years gone by, been engaged in
crimes far surpassing the career of Sam
Bass in our own State. But in most of the
deviltries in which the James gang fipved
Jesse was evidently the leading spirit, while
Frank, possessing scarcely less of the dash
and courage of the ordinary highwayman
which so easily captures the popular
imagination, usually played an inferior
part in the daring crimes com-
mitted by these now celebrated bandits.
This is, in some measure, illustrated by the
story of the Gallatin train robbery, narrated
by Liddell in his testimony in the case Sat-
urday evening. Concocted at Hite's place,
often the headquarters and rendezvous of
the bandits, it is easy to see that Jesse
James wras not the least conspicuous actor
in the plot to capture the express which, ac-
cording to Liddell, ended in murder as well
as robbery. If Liddell tells the truth, ac-
cording to their own admission, directly
after the robbery, both Jesse and Frank
each killed his man on that occasion,
and Frank for no other reason than
because his victim "came and
peeped iu," when he was shot. LiddelFs
testimony, though, like informer Carey's,
tainted with his own criminal career and
weakened by his penitentiary record,will be a
heavy, perhaps effective, deal against Frank
James when the jury come to make up their
verdict. But the prisoner has in his favor
that maudlin nnd measurably popular
sentiment which loses sight of crime in the
tinsel glare of romance, and sinks the odium
of the thief and the murderer in the halo of
daring and recklessness with which this sen-
timent in this country surrounds such char-
acters as Sam Bass and the Jameses. Be-
sides, there is no people more willing to
forget and forgive than our own, and should
this sentiment havj the weight in the
jury-box at Gallatin it generally exerts else-
where, we need not be surprised at the ac-
quittal of Frank James, or a light sentence,
notwithstanding the heinous crimes laid to
his charge.
Tli» worst enemies of the "current reformation"
are the indiscretions of some of its advocates.
Last week The News mentioned the fact
that out of thirteen criminal prosecutions in
Lavaca county, verdicts of not guilty had been
returned in ten, with the remark that a lawyer
who should lose ten out of thirteen cases in
private practice would be likely to lose most
of his practice also. The Herald explains by
saying that during the first week of court cases
in which the State's evidence is defective are
pushed to the front, and acquittals are a neces-
sary consequeuce. In fourteen cases afterward
tried in the same court the Herald reports
seven convictions, three acquittals, and four
not prosecuted. Among the convictions two
were for murder, one with the death penalty
and the other confinement for life. D. W.
Merritt, manslaughter, acquitted. The Her-
ald says:
Our jurors have conTlct'd felons Irrespective ot
position. reparole?,5 of friendship or family influ-
ence. wherever the evidence justified the convic-
tion. We have had no farcical proceedings and we
have had no bloodr assize*.—and instead of casting
a slur upon (the site's attorney) Mr. Ponton, the
Herald desires to express its warm commendation
of his course in the past and its appreciation of his
industry, tact, skill, talent and zeal iu the prosecu-
tion of offenders.
STATE PBESS.
What the Interior Papsrs Say,
Papers that are speculating on the cause of
so many suicides in Sau Autonio, should con-
sider the trimmings in the Police Courts. The
El Paso Times reports a suicide in that city
from this cause:
A Chinaman was found with his throat cut from
ear to ear. in a wash-room back of the city jail.
Too much melancholy or Chinese philosophy.
Yes, John's was a sad death Monday evening he
was heard to murmur: " NoTcatchee washee: no
catcliee money. Belly sad Melican man no likee
me; me smok^e opium; me catchee calabaloose
heapeetime: Melican man catchee $7 aud costs."'
These sad reflections led to his death. As the lig;ht
of the glorious dawn awakened ail life, John's
spirit had fled.
The colored population ape the vices of the
whites. The Brenhain Banner says:
A large number of divorce suits have been fiied
in the District Court. A large majority of the
applicants are of the colored persuasion.
Pistol-carrying parsons are getting to be
numerous. The Waco Examiner says Rev.
Isaao Taylor, the belligerent parson, was fined
at Moody last Saturday for carrying a pistol.
The Austin Statesman reports nine persons
poisoned by eating canned beef in that city on
Friday. None of them had died. These cases
are becoming alarming. Lead on the cans is
the cause.
The Brenham Banner reports another of the
usual casualties of the season. Eugene Wal-
lace, of Gay Hill, lost his hand in his cotton
gin on Thursday. It would be safe to predict
fifty such mishaps before Christmas.
The Banuer says:
It is reported at Austin that United States Attor-
ney Jack F.vans has been assured ot the appoint-
ment 'in Judge Morrill's place. It is certain that if
the people of the district had anything to say in
regard to the appointment, Evans would not be
the man.
The Meridian Blade tries the credulity of its
readers with the following:
a local statesman of Marion, Kan., offered $5 for
a bed-quilt produced in silence, rather than stitched
in ,cossip, after the usual fashion of sewing socie-
ties. Twenty-three women performed the work in
two hours, without speaking a word.
Another paper says:
A citizen of Gardiner, Me., lately deceased, left
$20U0 as a fund for the Methodist church, provided
that society forego the sweets of any more socia-
bles, otherwise the money will be used as a fund to
make more comfortable the inmates of the poor-
house.
It is now stated that the gift has been ac-
cepted with the terms annexed. It may possi-
bly be taken under the legal rule that condi-
tions contrary to public morality and univer-
sal usage are void.
The Warlin Ball says:
Apropos of Marlin's prospects, since the dis-
covery of the mineral springs, of becomiug a first-
class health and pleasure resort, Captain King, pro-
prietor of the Arizona house, in order to keep pace
with the town, has outlined his plans for the
Arizona house of the future. This mammoth hotel
is to be erected on the present site, with a frontage
of 3000 feat. running back three miles. No servants
are to be employeu. but visitors are to be served by
a newly patented automatic machine put up in
every bedroom, which will do all shaving, sham-
pooing, bringing drinks, etc.
The El Paso Times says Dave Crockett
would have made an excellent journalist, for
his motto was: "Be sure you are right; then
go ahead." A good many papers put go
ahead first.
The Calvert Courier knows what constitutes
a live newspaper, and says:
The Nkws is certainly in the lead o. a.* papers in
our State, and the enterprise and capital of its pro-
prietors are always used to advance its position in
the rank of first-class journalism.
The Courier reports a disgraceful and alarm-
ing state of affairs among the uetrroes of Cal-
vert:
Henry Taylor, an ex-constable, got into a diffi-
culty with some fellow of his own color, and when
Officer Lovett approached him to make an arrest
he boldly defied his authority. Marshal Holt was
called to the scene, and even his authority was so
far questioned and resisted that Taylor was en-
abled to gee away for the time being. The result
was effected, we are told, by the crowd of freedmea
who were proclaiming fiercely that the olt'ender
should not be taken.
The Courier fears that such things will lead
to serious trouble. Ou Sunday night the col-
ored deputy sheriff shot another colored man
named Clark Jefferson. Jefferson was resist-
ing arrest when the wound was inflicted.
The Enterprise tells how a confiding mer-
chant's clerk at Beaumont was taken in:
a man rushed into Bluestine's store and handed
the clerk, Mr. Bock, an envelope, saving it con-
tained $100, and to save it until he called for it.
Later in the day he returned and purchased goods
to the amount of $10, and, turning to the clerk,
said: " The envelope I gave you contains S10U;
keep it until to-morrow, when 1 will purchase more
goods and pay for all together." To-morrow came,
but the man failed to put in his appearance, when
the clerk, thinking something wrong,opened the en-
velope and discovered that it contained nothing
but old paper. Nothing has been seen of the $100
man or goods since.
Quoting a remark of The News—that the
political orator, Henry Clay Dean, changes his
linen now as often as once a month, which is a
vast improvement on former practices—the
Diogenes of the Houston Age remarks;
He certainly is not a dude, and is not suspected
of wasting much time ou his toilet. But you should
hear him speak. He is an oratorial avalanche, and
when he takes the stump Radicals scamper off like
frightened rats.
This styie of orator occasionally makes a de-
cided hit. General W. R. (Bill) Scurry used
to tell an anecdote of himself, which is to the
point. During the Pierce presidential cam-
paign Scurry stumped Eastern Texas; and on
one occasion, travel-soiled and looking like a
tramp, he got over into Louisiana and at-
tended a meeting where Pierre Soule and other
big guns addressed the people. After they had
concluded Scurry was called up and astonished
aud electrified the crowd by his eloquence and
force. One enthusiastic listener burst ou,t with
"Hurrah for Texas! * Go it, my dirty shirt!"
The Wills Point Local-Chronicle says of a
somewhat notorious religious agitator who
seems to have no regular field of labor, but
travels the country all over, like Rosin the
Bow, and abuses those who do not agree with
him or do him the honor to which he consid-
ers himself entitled:
Sunday evening Dr. Caskey, of the Christian
church, delivered his valedictory, as he called it, at
the Presbyterian church. We think his utterances
and vituperations were very unfortunate for him
aud the cause he advocates. It is true he may not
have had the audiences he desired, or that he was
entitled to have, still we think he was not justified
in heaping up abuse on the people of Wills Point.
The apostolic injunction is. " do good for evil."
We are confident the people will not hold the mem-
bers of his church responsible for his remarks on
that occasion, as every one with whom we have
talked condemns his course in the matter. Our
opinion is, if people do dot want to hear a niau
tu each, they have a perfect right not to do so.
HOT SPRINGS.
Leaves from the Note-Book of a Cor-
respondent at tho Arkansas Sanita-
rium.
[Special Correspondence of The News.]
Hot Springs, Ark., August 20.—Hon. H.
Casey Young, member of Congress from the
Memphis district, is spending a few weeks
here. Colonel Young has already had three terms
experience in Congress, and some of his friends
have urged him to become a candidate for the
speakership. Mr. Young, however, persist-
ently refuses to enter the race. It would cer-
tainly seem unnatural for him to begin a
scramble for the prize when it is remembered
that Tennessee has a candidate for the clerk-
ship of the House of Representatives in the
person of the Hon. Mr. Atkins, a retiring con-
gressman. If Colonel Young cares about it,
he will no doubt be elected to the Forty-ninth
Congress, aud by that time he will
quite surely be in a proper trim to
capture Senator Howell Jackson's seat. Colo-
nel Young has not yet expressed his
choice for the speakership, which leads one to
believe that he is lying iow in anticipation of
a deadlock, in which instance he might de-
velop into a very promising brunette. Mr.
Atkins would be willingly sacrificed to secure
Colonel Young's elevation. But there is an-
other phase of the question. Can a Southern
man prove available!
lkc.isi.ati vk leniency toward kailp.oads.
Mr. Iverson A. Jones, of this State, who is a
political economist of no mean ability, thinks
the Arkansas legislature ma 19 a grievous mis-
take in refusing to regulate railway tariff.
Mr. Jones is no particular friend to Gould,
aud he is iu no wise restrained from speaking
freely, presenting an array of facts and figures
that "afford " mighty interesting readin'." Mr.
•Tones informs us that the St. Louis, Iron
Mountain and Southern railway, under its
charter, is exempt from taxation until it has
earned 10 per cent, on its cost. Mr. Gould's
plea is that it has not yet earned 10 per cent.,
and here is where the argument comes in. Mr.
Jones cites the Union Pacific road, whose gross
receipts last year per mile were $o40O. and
~ per cent, dividends were paid on stock
and 5 per cent, of net receipts, under the
Thurmau act. to the government. He men-
tions also that the gross receipts last year of
the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul road
were $4502 per mile, and there was paid 7 per
cent, dividends on both its common and pre-
ferred stock. " Now," said Mr. Jones, " every-
body except the railroad members of the late
legislature knows that it took more money per
mile to build and equip these two great roads
than it did to build and equip the Iron Moun-
tain road. The sum of the gross receipts per
mile of these two roads is only $9902. and yet
from this sum the total expenses of two miles
of roads were paid, and then there was enough
money left to pay 14 per cent, divi-
dends on these same two miles of
road. Now, let me set down $10,091,
the gross receipts per mile of the
Iron Mountain road, and ask this question loud
enough to be heard ou Wall street: If $9902,
the gross receipts of two roads per mile, paid
all operating expenses and then paid 14 per
cent, dividends, 7 pet* cent, on each mile, why
can not the Iron Mountain pay a dividend of
10 per cent, on $10,091, the gross receipts of
only one mile of road i In this discussion, in
order to be eminently fair, I have argued from
the premise that it cost as much to operate a
mile of the Iron Mountain as it did to operate
a mile of any other road. But such is certainly
not the fact. All these roads are heavily
taxed, and every one charged this large item
to the operating expenses. The Illinois Cen-
tral road paid 7 "per cent, of its gross
receipts in Illinois to the State treas-
urer for taxes, aud then paid 7 per
cent, dividend on every share of its
stock, and it did this after spending $1,271,451
from its last year's earnings for permanent
improvements, and yet this road, after this
large tax and this large sum for improve-
ments. both of which sums were charged to
operating expenses, operated its road tor 6299S
per mile. The amount of tax alone in Illinois
was $427 per mile. If the Iron Mountain and
Arkansas had beeu taxed like the Illinois Cen-
tral in Illinois, it would have had to pay in
taxes the sum of $53S,000, which is 7 per cent,
of its annual earnings for the year under re-
view. Aeain, the passenger fare is only 3
cents a mile in Missouri, but 5 cents a mile in
Arkansas, and its maximum freight charges
have been limited by law in Missouri since
1879; but they charge what they please
in our State. The States all around
us now have commissioners to
regulate freight charges and their legisla-
tures long ago reduced passenger fare to
three cents a mile. How can we hope to par-
allel the splendid prosperity of Texas, our
nearest and finest sister State, when our citi-
zens have to pay a passenger fare of 00'i£ per
cent above what her citizens pay ? The legis-
latures of Texas, Tennessee and Missouri have
made it possible for the poor to have a few
days of delightful travel every year. But this
blessed privilege is denied them in Arkansas."
TAXATION OF BATH-HOUSES.
The owners of bath-house property here
have agreed to go into the courts and fight for
their present immunity from taxation. The
bath-houses are all located on
government property, but the county
authorities contend that they should
be taxed as personal property. Over
$200,000 is invested in bath-house property in
the city, and many people are riled because the
public treasury has been deprived of the ac-
1 ruing revenue thereon. The Arlington hotel,
the largest caravansary here, is also located on
government property, and has enjoyed ex-
emption- from taxation. Bath-house pro-
perty is considered very staple, and a large
amount of capital is now being expended by
prominent parties in erecting three additional
establishments. To escape taxation is a con-
siderable item, aud no effort will be left undone
to sustain such a privilege.
personal, etc.
Hon. Archibald Wright, for thirty years
judge of the Supreme Court of Tennessee, is a
recent arrival here.
Mr. Frank Stearnes, a brother of ex-Gov
ernor Stearnes, of Florida, has leased from the
government a site ou the Hot Springs reserva-
tion, where he will erect immediately a fine
bathing establishment.
A brilliant hop was given this week by the
Misses Fellows, nieces of Hon. John R. Fel-
lows, of New York, in honor of Lieutenant W.
P. Stone, United States army, stationed at
Baltimore, who is a graduate of West Point
from Arkansas.
Hon. H. C. Drew, judge of the Second Judi
cial District of Louisiana, is visiting the
springs.
Major J. B. Stone and family, of Dallas, are
late arrivals.
Dink Davis, of Philadelphia, the wealthiest
gambler in the country, was arrested here this
week on a charge of "defrauding a St. Louis
man out of a cool $3000. Davis is the most
successful faro-player and accomplished sup
port in the United States. Imagine, then, the
indignation of his numerous friends at his ar-
rest and imprisonment iu the very common
quarters afforded here. Davis had been so-
journing at this place several weeks for his
health.
The coolness of the weather here is remark
able. The temperature averages 70°.
No health with inactive liver and urinary organs
without Hop Bitters. Doubt not. Try it.
The work an unknown good man has done
is like a vein of water flowing hidden under-
ground, secretly making the grass green.
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Travelers should always carry a bottle of Rail-
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DIED.
DRAWE—On August ~6, at 7 o'clock p. m.,
A. L. Drawe, aged tiy years. Will be buried from
his residence, corner Thirty-first street and Broad-
way, Monday evening, at 5 o'clock.
SPECIAL NOTICES.
Notice to Consignees—'The steamship SAN
MARCOS, Hines, master, from New York, is now
iseharging cargo at Williams wharf.
Consignees will pteas^ pay freight and receive
their goods as landed, receipting for the same on
tlie wharf. All goods remaining on the wharf after
4 o'clock p. m. (not receipted for) may. at option of
steamers agent, be placed in warehouses or covered
with tarpaulins on the wharf, but rhey are eutirely
at risk of consignee or owner. All claims for dam-
ages must be adjusted be too the goods leave the
wharf. J. N. SAWYER. Agent.
Special Notice-—The GALVESTON STEAM
LAUNDRY REOPENS for business MONDAY,
the SJSth.
—- — — ■ —— - ~^ ^ v_ 7
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J. 324 Avenue rt. between ISth and 13th street".
oalTevton. r«-xas. op«ns September T.-rius from
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mks. e. a. hufi- master,
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1 AlA'EbTON ACAUEiiY - ih.s Vet school
I for young ladies will open September $ at tba
j school build ins, between I4tu ana 15th street*, on
| 1'atofRw. For particulars, apply to prinoioal
j Mhs.'O. b BRIGGS.
! / 1 ALVESTON FEMALE INSTITUTE,
1V.T Cor. Ave. H and 19th street.
Reopen? September 2. Term* from $5 to $7.
M;ss E. II. NORTON,
Principal.
Misa G. Jf.v.son. Assistant.
Rice, Baulard & Co.
paints, oils, glass,
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dow shades.
Agents for the well known
AVERILLi CHEMICAL
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The undersigned would call the attention of the
public to the fact that they have recently com-
menced HERE IN GALVESTON the manufacture
of LIQUID PAINTS, both white a d colored, of va-
rious tints; and tli^y believe that they can furnish
a superior article at a price so low as it can bo
bought at the North, thus saving freight and time,
and in quantities to suit purchasers. We respect-
fully ask the patronage of the public. JAS. W.
RICE, V. J. BAULARD, GEO. W. OUTTEilSlDE,
C. C. BEMIS.
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"ITAU.iNOKit jtmott,-
GALVESTON FEMALE
AND
normal institute
Will Reopen Flonday, September 1CS
at the
EATON CHAPEL SCHOOL ROOM.
Mrs. W. E. dajfklly, Principal.
For particulars see Principal, at No. Ave. 1.
J^OR BOYS, AVENUE K AND CENTER ST.,
will begin its Eleventh Annual Session on
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1883.
ULI
125 Poitoflic Street,
(tALV est< >n. texas.
NOTICES.
For the Higher Education of Women,
Independence, Texas*
The SSth Annual Session will open September 1st
aad ccatinua forty weeus. For catalogue, address
J. H LUTHEfr.
THE EXERCISES OF
ALT A VIST A INSTITUTE
W ill be resumed September 5.
For circular, adurcss
Dr >; M. swearingen.
or Alas. H. M. KIP BY,
Austin. Texas.
s otice.
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.tiarkei Sheet, Uefwccn £4tb and iotb
Streets,
l>e; ween the hours «»f s mid 12 o'clock a. tn.
At i;. B(lTTLAft«Secretary.
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King iron' Bridge
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st. mary's university,
GALVESTON, TEXAS,
Reopens MONDAY. Sept. 3 To our faculty, wbich
now numbers fourteen experienced professors, we
Lave added Messrs. W. T. Duffy, Ph. D., formerly
of Woodstock Colleee. Maryland, and P. F. Me-
Sweeney, Pa. D.. wtio occupied the Chair of Mathe-
matics at the University of Notre Dame, ind., lasti
session. For last annual catalogue, write to
Rev. A. M. TRUCIlARD. President.
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Apartments, appliances and methods unsurpassed.
The students actiudly buy and sell merchandise;
ship, consign, insure, discount, draw ohecks. drafts^
noies, etc. They bav« the actual experience of the
real merohant and banker.
For particulars or circular address
R. H. HILli, Principal. Waco, Texas.
24TH SESSION. 1SS3.
Young Ladies Boarding and Day School
MISS M. B. BROWNE, Directress.
284 McKinner street - HOUSTON, TEXAS.
ANNOUNCEMENT—The 24th scholastic year ofi
the at-ore institute will commence September 3,
1 No pains will be spared to foerit a continuance
of that kind and valued patronage hitherto so
liberally bestowed. For terms, whie 11 are moderate*
please address MISS 51. B. BROWNE. k
PI liLiC WEIiaiEUS NOTICE
To the Producers and Shippers of Cot-
ton Sold iu the Galveston Market.
rpHE UNDERSIGNED PL BLIC WEIGHERS OF
1. Galveston, replying to a proposition of Wm.
Boyd ^ Bro., to weigh cotton as private weighers,
at 5 ceuts per bale, respectfully say that they aud
1'ieir deputies are prepared to weigh all cotton
shipped to this market for the amount provided by
law for their compensation, viz. : 10 cents per bale;
and further, that cotton can not be faithfully and
efficiently weighed at living rates for less than 10
i-eots p*r bale. Messrs Boyd and others having
announced that it was their purpose to destroy the
business of cotton weighing, as done by the public
weighers appointed by the governor, meaning our-
selves, we tate occasion to say that we have em-
ployed as deputies the best qualified and most ex-
perienced weighers iu Galveston (to meet the ex-
pressed views of a majority of the factors), and
while it is our desire and purpose to conciliate,
rather than to drive people into employing us, yet,
recognizing the fact that we are sworn btate offi-
cers. and as such have a duty to perform to the
public, and thinking, perhaps, that the provisions
of the law have not been fully presented in their
publications or circulars by Messrs Boyd aad oth-
ers, and that good people mar be misled thereby to
their prejudice, we call attention to the fact that
the law imposes a fine of $5 per bale for every bale
of cotton weighed by any parson other than a pub-
lic weigher: and further, that there shall be recov-
ered against the factor, or other persen other than
the owner of the cotton, so employing such per-
son not a public weijher, the sum of 45 for each
bale of cotton so weighed, as damages, for the sole
use of the public weighers.
Now we have no desire to have fines imposed on
any one, aud no desire to fcring suits.'against parties
employing others than ourselves, and to avoid thi6,
if possible, we hereby give notice that we shall
prosecute all parties weighing cotton in Galveston,
Texas, without the written consent of the owner
thereof, and further, that we shall held all other
parties, uot tlie owners of such cotton, liable
to us for the statutory penalty of five dollars or
over per bale for all cottou so weighed under their
direction by parties other thaa ourselves or our
deputies. . A , „
We were recommended for appointment by all
the loading factors iu Galveston, We have given
bond in the sum of ten thousand dollars each, and
qualified according to law as officers of the State
of Texas, and we Intend to see that the law regu-
latiug cotton weighing shall be honestly carried
out in the city of Galveston.
JOE A. OWBNS, f
1HEO. k. THOMPSON, | Public Weighers
CHAS. Tt MqMAHAN, ■{ for the
G. N. LAUVE, | City of Galveston.
SAMUEL SAMPSON, I
August 22, 1883.
s
AlNT MARY S ACADEMY
AUSTIN, TEXAS,
conducted by
THE SISTERS OF THE HOLY CROSS.
Studies will De resumed in this institution
MONDAY, September 3, 1SS2.
For particulars address SISTER SUPERIOR,
209 Mulberry street, Austin. Texas.
A Home School for Boys*
SITUATED AT GLENDALE, M0„
Oa the Xissouri-Pacilic Railroad.
Eleven miles from St. Louis. location healthy.
Grounds iarge aad attractive. Mental, moral and
physical welfare of the boys has the most careful
attention. Corps of instructors competent.
THE NEXT TERM OPENS SEPTEMBER 12,
13*3. ^ .. 4
For terms and particulars address the principall
E. a. HA1GHT, a. M.vfcirkwood. Mo.
We still pay tlio highest
market price for same, or
gin for tlie seed, supplying
Bagging and Tics free.
Galveston OilComp'y.
ARE OF THE GREATEST TRANSPARENT
power to strengthen and improve the sight.
Hawkes' book on the use and abuse of spectacles,
containing prices, etc., sent to any address. No
peddlers employed. A. K. HAWKES, Austin. Tex.
J.M. WILLIS, M. D.,
RESIDENT FHITSICIAar.
Am prepared to treat all skin and
chronic diseases, including
CANCBjRS, RHEUMATISM, SORE EYES, Etc.
Special attention given to alEdiseases common to
females.
Patients treated here will have the benefit of the
very best of mineral waters.
Wootan Wells, Texas, August 25,18S3.
SUMMER RESORTS
BOERNE HOTEL,
EC2SKE, TEXAS,
JAMES T. Cl-AUK. Lessee and Manager.
(Formerly of Brooklyn, New York.)
This hotel is situated in one of tho most healthful
locations in this country. The rooms are large and
well ventilated, opening on balconies fronting
south, in suites of two and three eouueeting rooms,
or singly. A few rooms iu upper balconies now*
vacant. Every attention paid to comfort of guests.
HIRAM HITCHCOCK, A. 13. DARLING,
Formerly St. Charles Formerly Battle
Hotel, New Orleans. House, Mooile.
Fifth Avenue Hotel,
Sfladison Square, New York-
The iargest, best appointed and most liberally
managed hotel in the city, with the most central
and delightful location.
2IITCI2COCS, DARLING- & CO.
Sour Lake Hotel.
SPECIAL NOTICE.
o?
X AND AFTER SEPTEMBER 13 SOUR LAKE
Hotel will close for the summer, BUT CONTINUE
OPEN FOR THE WINTER AT REDUCED RATES.
For circulars and information apply to Manager
of Sour Lake Hot«l.
BANKS AND BANKERS.
IKADKPtS NATIONAL BANK
SAN- ANTONIO, TEXAS.
J. M. BROWXSON", President.
J. S. THORNTON, Cashier.
Transacts a Ueneral Banking Business,
EDUCATIONAL.
VIRGINIA FEMALE INSTITUTE
STAUNTON, VA.
Wrs.G-en. G. S. B. STUART, Principal
The next session of Nine Months OPEN SEP-
TEMBER 13th. with a full i-orpa or superior teach-
ers. Terms reasonable. Apply early. Catalo">"«s
sent upon application to the Principal.
GEORGETOWNtOLLEGE, 1). C.
Founded in 1789. Rev. James A. Doonan. S. J.,
President. Academic and Scientific School* open
on Thursday, September 13, 1SS3. Board, tuition,
eUi.. $*>0 per annum, i'or particulars address
PRESIDENT GEORGETOWN COLLEGE, D. C.
The School of Medicine opens on Monday, Sep-
tember 4. 1883. Terms for the full course of lec-
tures, $100. Address J. W. H. LOVEJOY, M. D.,
Dean, 900 12th St., N. W.. Washington, D. C.
The School of Law opens on Thursday. October
4, 1SS8. Course of studies extended and rearranged.
Faculty: Hon. R. T. Merrick, Hon. Jere. M. \V ilson,
Judge W. a. Richardson (u. S. Court of Claims),
Martin F. Morris, LL.D , aud J. J. Darlington, Esq.
C. W. Hoffman,LL.D.. Dean. Terms, $80 per annum.
Add. sam'L M. YEATMAN, Esq., Sec y, 1425 N. Y.
Avenue. N. W.. Washington, D. C.
AgriculturaUMeshanical College
OF TEXAS,
College Station, Brazos Co., Tex.
T;
HE EIGHTH ANNUAL SESSION WILL BE-
gin on MONDAY, October 1. 1883. The course
of instruction extond? through three years, and is
specially adapted to th$ thorough practical train-
ing of young men in farming, horticulture, stock
raising, engineering ohemlstry, mechanics, archi-
tecture. etc., and tne sciences relating thereto.
Graduates for the last two years hare without dif-
ficulty secured lucrative employment in these pur-
suits. Total expenses for nine months only $150.
For cataloguos or special information, address
Prof. fl. U. DINWIDDIE,
Chairman of the Faculty.
s:
hekandoah academy
J winchester, va.
(.Nineteenth year.) Prepares for university,
naav . \ r* VlllO:.nOQO
army, navy or business.
C. L. C. MINOR. A., (Univ. Va.1 LL.D.
Hampden sTDney college,
prince Edward co., va.
The 103th Session will begtt on Thursday, Sept. 6,
18&3. For catalogue apply to the
REV. RICHARD MclLWAlNE. D. D.,
President.
MRS. SYLVANUS REED'S Boarding and Day
School for young ladles and little girls, tf & S E.
53d St.,bet.5th S: Madisoa aves., N. Y. (Central Park.)
Course in Col. Dept. thorough. Special students ad-
mitted. Primary and Preparatory deptg. French the
language of the school. Begins October 3.1883.
Southern Home School for Girls.
197&199N.Charles St.,Baltimore,Md
Mrs. w. 31. Cart, Siisa Car*.
EstaDlisheJ 1343. French the language of the school.
Baylor University,
Independence* Texas-
Chartered 1945. Number of Students (males
only), 120.
Tlie next session will open September 1st and
continue forty weeks. For Catalogue address
WM. CAREY CRANE, President.
A
Business and Telegraph College
Corner Fifth and Market Sts-,
st. JsOliS, jo,
This is ons of the Tery largest and most successful
schools of the kind iu the Lnited States. Send for
circular containing references to graduates who
have been placed in positions.
DR. W. M. CARPENTER. President.
HOLLINS INSTITUTE,
BOTETOURT SPRINGS,
VIRGINIA.
The fortieth sessron opened with full number*J
from fourteen different States aad closed on th®
20th of June with a brilliant commencement.
The improvements announced one year ago havel
been almost completed, and will, in a few weeksj
receive the finishing touches.
The forty-first session will open on the 19th ofl
September, with facilities more ample and con
plete than the school has commanded during i:i
continuous history of forty successAil years.
Extensive literary courses are provided, coverid
English Language, English Literature, Hi3toi]
Latin. German French. Mathematics, Natun
Science, Ethics. Tha departments of Music aj
Art are fully equipped and conducted under
best Standards. The work in these departrael
receives the highest encomiums from the
judges. %
The school is run with twenty (20) officers!
teachers. Girls and young ladies are receive*
a single session or for the full psriod of schoall
including vacations, qjflia locality enjoys th|
vantages of a mild mountain climate, va
medicinal waters and the most pictv
scenery.
This school wholly disapproves and disc
agency system for securing pupils. Thf
too often places girls and boys in sc
under influences of a very different type
preferred by their parents.
Postofflce, BOTETOURT SPRINGS, '
Depot. CLOUENDALE, Shenand
Railroad.
Apply to CHAS. L< C
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