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Thursday, September 20, 1883.
Tex chances to one, the boss has more brains
than the reformer.
The more people think of Croc',. s great vic-
tory, the less they think of it.
In the matter of base ball Dalias is the un-
doubted metropolis of all Texas.
^"oNDzk if as many trunks will return in
September as went out in June.'
Why can not the politicians adopt the pret-
ty plan of giving us ten liue platforms?
The blundering industry is in the enjoyment
of a marvelous boom in all quarters of Ohio.
The favorite salutation among Massachu-
setts Republicans at present is: y u Have you
declined yet?" jf
The Democratic' or^an-^tl-at""pretend to
treat Mahono as a ijtce must have an ethereal
iljlVl I1 f humor.
Did it evef strike the average American
citizen that Joseph Cook's initials stand for
Jabbering Crank?
The New York World never had much in-
fluence in the Democratic party, and it has
now less than ever.
Later developments indicate that Frauce
rubbed it iu pretty well to Johnny Bull in that
Tamatave business.
Wonder if Buchanan and Black are hobnob
bing beyond the divide on Burr's contribution
to ante-bellum history?
It is said that Monsignor Capel would be
deemed a masher if he were not a priest. He
is a magnificent ecclesiastical dude.
The government made the Northern Pacific
a present of $100,000,000 worth of land. No
wonder Villard could afford to picnic.
The Republicans of New Jersey met in con-
vention yesterday. The Republicans have not
elected a governor in that State in fifteen
years.
If Senator Blair's "bazoo" could be her-
metically sealed it would add materially to
the wisdom and diguity of the United States
Senate.
Chicago doctors anticipate cholera coming
next year. Hope springs eternal iu the human
breast. Still it will be well to clean up and
keep clean.
From the mariner in which Philadelphia is
boasting about Juror Randall, the conclusion
is hardly resistible that she never had a decent
juror before.
No matter how much Republicans may
squirm, the fact is apparent that Dorsey was
as great a thief three years ago as he is to-day.
And they knew it then.
The free and independent American citizen
of Arizona has broken out this time instead of
the Apache. It would take a wise jury to de-
termine which was worst.
Poor Union Pacific only earned 12 per cent,
on stock during the last fiscal term. Consider-
ing the amount of water, it is difficult to be-
lieve that 12 per cent, could float.
The English say that Mary Anderson has
no heart. She proved to their future monarch,
however, that the place where her heart ought
to be is not entirely occupied by space.
Readers of The News special dispatches
from the interior of Texas are occasionally re-
minded that the cotton gin is becoming as dan-
gerous as the didn't-know-it-was-loaded pistol.
The newspapers are chronicling the fact
that Old Red Cloud has had his hair cut. The
next thing you'll know somebody will be in-
forming us that Sitting Bull indulged in a
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A Boston engineer proposes to erect an
|eighteen-feet wheel at the inlet pier of Niagara
fiver, where the current is nine miles an hour.
He expects to obtain 500,000 horse-power. The
expenditure will be $250,000.
The Massachusetts Republicans are in session
and Ben Butler has both ears open and his
game-eye shut, awaiting developments. One
thing is certain, Republicans will not make
such rash promises as they did last year.
The postmaster-general is studying the sub-
ject of government control of the telegraph. It
is expected that the cabinet will deliberate
upon it. Ex-Postmasters-General Howe and
Creswell were in favor of government control.
When St. Paul and Minneapolis, St. Louis
and Chicago, and Foi^Worth and Dallas make
friends and settle do ■> to live like decent
neighbors, the whole i* ->rican people will
charter an excursion trai^ v witness the un-
wonted sight. \
General Sheiiman is so lively that he might
pass for a young man with a few wrinkles, but
when he says that he can remember the time
when he would not have given twenty-five
cents for the whole of San Francisco, he gives
himself away.
Justice Field's idea of " a liberal improve-
ment of the Mississippi river by a system of
levees, built in such a form that they would
last for ages, protecting tho country from
overflows, and also preventing the changes
now caused every year in the channel of the
river," is something like the Ohio. Virginia,
Pennsylvania and New Jersey Democratic
tariff plank, for revenue with protection to
give workingmen good wages and not to foster
inonojxily. Why not present every voter with
a gold-headed cane that <-osts nothing, heavy
enough to be death on burglars, but also as
light as a feather?
William Swtnton an experienced journal-
ist, is about to begin the publication of a
weekly, to be called Swinton's Story-Teller,
and consisting exclusively of choicest complete
tales—from four to six in each issue. He has
already enlisted the peus of many of the star
story-writers of the United States and Eng-
land. ..
The custom-house at Atlanta. Ga., collected
only $21 last year, but if it had been abolished
the Republican party would have been dises-
tablished $1068 worth, the amount of the ex-
penses. There are over thirty customs districts
in which the expenses exceed the collections.
In some cases an establishment may be justifi-
able to prevent smuggling.
It seems reasonable to expect that President
Arthur will realize that he is called upon, for
the honor of the government, to set his foofc
upon tne bold attempt of Senator Mahone to
bulldoze and tax the servants of the govern-
ment. If the administration does not come to
a decision on this subject, aud a satisfactory
one, it might as well write hypocrisy on all its
professions of civil service reform.
Jefferson Davis receives much advice to
let things alone, but the writers will not let
him alone. Mr. B. N. Harrison is going to
tell in the Century what he knows about the
retreat from Richmond and the capture, of
course. Personal experience appears to be a
valid excuse for writing on that subject. If
any more magazine writers meddle with it
without personal experience it would be a
charity to the public to send the scribes up in
the latest-fashioned flying machine.
The Rose Ambler murder investigation has
taken a curious turn. A wet parasol aud dry
skirts suggested that the deceased had been
sitting under partial cover, as in a carriage
under a robe. Her intended husband (Lewis!
has a carriage, but he said he did not drive
out that night. Stains like blood stains were
found on the carriage seat and lap robe. It is
remembered that Lewis's right hand appeared
to have been scratched, aud that he placed his
hands behind his head when first talkiug with
the coroner and state's attorney after the dis-
covery of the murder. A day or two later he
was sharply examined, and to a question re-
plied that he never had any scratches on his
hand. The robe aud carriage seat are being
microscopically examined.
The pope has determined to open the li-
braries and archives of the Vatican to scholars
for the purpose of '^investigation and research
with a view to throwing fuller light upon the
history of the papacy and demonstrating its
merits to the world, and he has written a letter
inviting attentiou to historical studies. He
feels assured that many popular delusions
about the history of the pontificate will be
cleared away. Historical writers, through
prejudice or ignorance, have misrepresented
facts. The pope's sagacious intellect, candor
and judicial temper have won for him the re-
spect of intelligent Protestants and others. It
will bo a startling thing to theological dis-
putants to see thti archives of Rome thrown
open for examination.
A new bicycle, imported from England, is
of uniform size, the rider sitting between the
wheels and balancing himself ou the axle. It
is propelled by the foot revolving on a crank,to
either side of which is affixed a pulley, con-
nected with hubs of the two wheels by steel
driving bands. The advantages claimed are
that the rider can not fall; that the roughest
roads can be riddeir over with comparative
ease and comfort, and that the machine can be
stopped at will without dismounting. It is
claimed that elderly gentlemen aud ladies can
ride this bicycle with ease; that in making long
distances 100 pounds of baggage can be carried
without inconvenience, and that very nearly
the same rate of speed can be attained as on an
ordinarv bicvcle. It is called the Otto.
Referring to Sheridan at the battle of
Winchester, in his address to the soldiers re-
union in Oneonta, the Rev. Dr. Fulton quoted
the general as saving, <# in untheological terms,
'we shall whip them.'" This was too much
for one of the old vets of the audience, and
rising in his chair and shaking his hand at the
reverend speaker, he shouted: " That isn't
what Sheridan said; what he said was, * We'll
lick h—1 out of'em!'" This brought down
the house. After the confusion had subsided,
Dr. Fulton smilingly added: " And he did it,
too." Sheridan has been suggested among the
stalwarts as a presidential candidate. His bio-
graphy would give them a fine chance to re-
vive bloody-shirt politics in an apparently
innocent, impromptu manner. It is hard to
tamo a wolf cub.
How many falsehoods and silly stories can
be laid to the account of an " it is said !" A
short time ago there was the story of an Amer-
ican plot in Chihuahua. Now the Minnesota
Pioneer Press has got hold of the following
mysterious item: " A grand army of occupa-
tion is said to be hatching on Texan soil,
ready to pounce upon the Mexican, should he
prove obstreperous." Who said it ? What
authority was there for saying it ? What
diabolical intention was there for saying it ?
Oh, nothing ! Oiilv " it is said." Thus fam-
ilies have been broken up, reputations stained,
fortunes ruined, hopes and good resolves de-
stroyed, nations embroiled, feuds engendered,
wars fomented and lives sacrificed. The
hatching in this case is the incubation of a
goose or artificial egg. The only grand army
on Texas soil is the army of cotton-pickers and
such like.
If the German holders of Georgia bonds
should be found to have an equitable claim
againts the Federal government, through its
hand in the reconstruction business, the cir-
cumstance would be of quite a special nature,
and would not appear to involve a breach of
article xi of the United States constitution,
which the Supreme Court must necessarily re-
spect, and which is quite plain. It reads as
follows:
The judicial power of the United States shall not
be construed to extend to any suit in law or equity
commenced or prosecuted against one of the United
St ates by citizens of another State, or by citizens or
subjects of any foreign State.
Judge Lochrane, for the bond-holders, is pro-
ceeding directly against, or by application to
the Federal government. It would be useless
for them to proceed against the State of
Georgia in the United States courts, as the ju-
diciary can not coerce a State. The sovereignty
of the American people is divided up a» to its
expression in governmental forms.
NECESSITIES OF A FREE PEOPLE.
No sort of sophistry is easier than that which
en ploys the tricks of false analogy. The pro-
position that the government furnish the peo-
ple a postal telegraph service without design-
ing to reap a direct benefit from it, and even
at the risk of an incidental excess of ex-
penses over receipts, is met with the argument
that the government might as well undertake
to do ail the ordinary chores of life, without
adequate compensation, for people who are too
lazy to do them tor themselves, and compel
more industrious people to pay the deficit. The
same general argument used to be urged
against a cheap and popular mail system for
carrying letters and newspapers in all parts of
the country alike for poor and rich and among
all populations, whether dense or widely scat-
tered. This is arguing from a false analogy.
It does not follow that because
the government should not go into hauling and
housework, washing and ironing, chopping
wood and preparing kindling for the accom-
modation of iazy citizens, it must be equally
foolish and ridiculous, and equally opposed to
sound public policy, for the government to
provide for the whole mass of citizens the best
and most thorough facilities for the rapid,
regular and infallible diffusion of intelligence.
The idea of such a provision has a true analo-
gy in the idea of a complete system of public
common school education for all the children
of the country. The great argument for such
a school system is that it is one of the necessi-
ties of a free people. The great argument
for an analogous postal system, designed
for the rapid, regular aud infallible diffusion
of intelligence among all citizens in all parts
of the country, is that it also is one of the
necessities of a free people. This is no new
view of the subject. It was familiar to the
earliest aspirations and exhortations of Ameri-
can statesmen, sages and patriots. President
Monroe, in a message to Congress, laid down
as a universally admitted proposition that
"an uninstrueted people can not be per-
manently a free people." George Washing-
ton, in his farewell address, committed this
charge, among others, to his countrymen:
" Promote, then, as an object of primary im-
portance, institutions for the general dif-
fusion of knowledge. In proportion as
the structure of a government gives force to
public opinion, it is essential that public opin-
ion should be enlightened." And, as president,
he promptly took occasion to sajr, in a speech
to Congress: "The importance of the post-
office and postroads, ou a plan sufficiently lib-
eral and comprehensive, as they respect the ex-
pedition; safety aud facility of communica-
tion, is increased by their instrumentality iu
diffusing a knowledge of the laws and proceed-
ings of the government, which, while it con-
tributes to the security of the people, serves
also to guard them against misrepresentation
and misconception." In a subsequent speech
to Congress hp submitted this special and sig-
nificant recommendation: *4But here I can
not forbear to recommend a repeal
of the tax on the transportation
of public prints. There is no resource so firm
for the government of the United Staffs as the
affections of the people, guided by an enlight-
ened policy; and to this primary good nothing
can conduce more thau a faithful representa-
tion of public proceedings, diffused without
restraint, throughout the United States." It
is clear that Washington was in favor of the
government providing, at whatever necessary
cost, the best and most thorough facilities for
the rapid, regular and infallible diffusion of
intelligence among all citizens in all parts of
the country, because he believed such a pro-
vision to be one of the necessities of a free
people.
A MIST CLEARED FROM' THE UNI-
VERSITY BOARD.
A perusal of the interview of a News cor-
respondent with Dr. Wooten, of Austin, the
well-informed and hopeful regent of the State
university, upon university matters, opens up
the affairs and prospects of the institution and
its branches to the public in a much more
favorable light than has hitherto been shed
upon them from the bare reports of the current
action of the board. It is clear, as the
reader will observe in the published interview
in this issue of The News, that the regents
have met and overcome serious obstacles, and
that they still have grave responsibilities call-
ing for close attention and prudent action.
It is clear that, should they estab-
lish a medical branch now, they have
not the means to give it decent
support, and it is probable that to establish it
now would require a sum of money not at the
disposition of the regents. These and other
facts developed in the interview, had they
been known in time, doubtless would have
prevented much harsh criticism of the regents
by the press; and had the press been permitted
to report the proceedings of the regency these
facts would certainly have beeu generally
known. Regent Wooten, on this subject of
the rights and attitude of the press, though
so clear headed and frank upon other topics, is
surely too reticent or wofully and effectually
confused. He charges a spirit of unfriendli-
ness upon the part of tbe press to the univer-
sity. No such spirit has ever been ex-
hibited by the press as a whole. There
has simply been a disposition to
criticise the course of tho regents
in their secret methods of action. Is it not ap-
parent from the financial statement, nnd ^gpm
the statement of the embarrassments of the re-
gents, given in this interview, that, had the
public through the press beeu thoroughly in-
formed of the actual status of the university
project, there would have been such a general
expression of opposition to its immediate or-
ganization that the regents would have indefi-
nitely postponed the opening? Is it not appa-
rent that long after the organization had been
determined upon, after professors had been se-
lected and employed, after buildings had been
nearly completed, and even after the formal
opening, the regents were groping in the dark
and utterly oblivious of the threatened finan-
cial outcome of the very first year of the uni-
versity's existence? It is evident now that but for
the unexpected ruling of the comptroller the
very day the university formally opened its
portals the regents would have incurred a con-
siderable debt at the first session. Incidentally,
some ten days before this opening, The News
correspondent at Austin in his dispatches as-
sumed that the interest accrued and to accrue
on university land notes was an available
fund*. The former comptroller had ruled to
the contrary, and in this ruling the regents had
acquiesced. But the suggestion of the corre-
spondent awakened inquiries, and the regents
were on the day of the opening informed by
competent authority that this interest was
available and at their disposition. It was a
new revelation to them, and the following two
or three sessions were largely occupied in mak-
ing appropriations out of this newly discovered
resource. This new and it is believed eminently
just ruling of the comptroller has met the ap-
proval of the governor and the press generally.
But would it have been evoked through the ac-
tion of the regents, and was it not iu a spirit
of justice and friendliness to the university
that the subject, so long abandoned by the re-
gents, was taken up by the governor, the
comptroller and the press and a decision ar-
rived at which, in a financial point of view,
relieves the university of serious embarrass-
ments at the very beginning? Throughout the
existence of the Board of University Regents
heretofore there has been a mist hanging over
their deliberations. This obscuration being
now happily removed, the people of the State
may enter into the spirit of the board's work
and give the regents the encouragement
and aid without which they must fail. But
they must allow the press and the people to
have a full knowledge of their proceedings.
BUTLER AND THE PRESIDENCY.
The refusal of Henry L. Pierce to become
the Republican candidate for governor of
Massachusetts is worth 5000 votes to Ben But-
ler on election daj'. Mr. Pierce is one of the
most eminent men in Massachusetts, is distin-
guished both as a lawyer and literary man,
and belongs to one of the oldest families in the
commonwealth. He has represented the Bos-
ton district in the national Congress, and has
also been ma3*or of the city. He is not
an intense partisan, but has always close-
ly allied himself with the Republicans.
It is a well-known fact that he has a hungry
ambition to be governor of Massachusetts, and
his declination to be a candidate is proof posi-
tive that the Republican condition in Massa-
chusetts is far from hopeful. General Charles
Devens, who served in Hayes's cabinet as at-
torney-general, has also refused the use of his
name to the convention, and ex-Governor Tal-
bot, the owner of many mills and the em
ployer of thousands of factory operatives, is
the only man left to contest the
title of the first citizen of the commonwealth
with the cock-eyed man of destiny. From
present appearances it looks very much as if
Butler will succeed himself as governor of
the old commonwealth, and then the question
whether he aspires to still greater honors
will be one of interest. There is hardly a
doubt that Butler has designs on the presi-
dency, and it is also equally certain that
nothing short of a political revolution
can take him to the White-house. His
presidential aspirations are not deemed very
serious at the present time, but he is a man of
indomitable energy, vast ability and iufinite
resource, and with the prestige of two elections
to the Massachusetts governorship, in spite of
his wavering and unsavory record, he would
become a formidable candidate before the
Democratic convention. He could doubtless
secure the entire delegation from New Eng-
land, and it is not at all certain that he is not
the first choice of the Pacific coast Democracy,
as well as of the Kelly-Tammany Democracy
in New York, at the present time. His hob-
bies are numerous, and he never fails
to spring them at the proper moment
aud when they uiay be expected to do the most
good. Nevertheless, without a radical change
of public sentiment in many States, and es-
pecially at the South, his nomination would be
political suicide for the Democracy, or entail
upon the party disaster more complete and
overwhelming than the Greeley fiasco. The
women of the South, if they were voters, would
assuredly defeat him. If the Northern Dem-
ocracy nominate him, they should discount
largely the hope of a solid Southern vote for
such a nominee.
DESERTION IN THE ARMY.
The arrest of a deserter from the United
States army on Canadian soil, a few weeks ago,
is liable to create some international complica-
tions, and also invite an investigation by Con-
gress as to the cause of desertion, which has
become alarmingly frequent of late. The case
in point is that of Frank Switzer, a Canadian
by birth, who enlisted in New York about a
year ago, and was soon after assigned to a
regiment in Montana. After a year's ser-
vice on the frontier, he deserted and
crossed the boundary line to Canada. He
was arrested on Canadian soil by a squad of
soldiers sent in pursuit, aud taken back to the
fort and confined iu the guard-house. He ap-
pealed to the Dominion government for pro-
tection. and it is understood that the Ottawa
officials have referred the matter to the im-
perial government for settlement. Switzer
claims that he joined the army with the iuten-
tion of being a soldier, but was made to under-
stand soon afterward that he was nothing
more than a common laborer, and that the
shovel and ax were to be his implements of
warfare instead of the carbine and sword.
This is doubtless the cause of so much desertion
from the ranks of the army. We have it from
official reports that out of an army of 25,000
maximum strength 3700 deserted last year.
This is serious enough to cause alarm in army
circles, and it is understood that tbe adjutant-
general will lay the matter before Congress at
the ensuing session. It is almost certain that
such radical desertion must spring from some
extraordinary cause. General disgust with
army life can not lead to such violent
abandonment of the service, un-
less there is some glaring wrong behind !
itw The American soldier is better paid and
better fed than his compeers in any other ser-
vice in the world, but he is not given a soldier's
duty to perform, and hence the discontent
with the service. It is a notorious fact that 1
the soldier at frontier |>osts is a mere day-
laborer. He is made to cultivate gardens, so
that the officers and their families can enjoy
vegetables; he must herd and milk cows so that
the "gentlemen by Hot of Congress" can have
fresh butter; he is made to cut aud save hay,
for which, ten chances to one, some contrac-
tor is paid by the government, but the said
contractor beiug a creditor of the officers
for sundry poker debts, the matter
is easily fixed up, but the private must pay for
the music. There are a hundred good and suffi-
cient reasons why a soldier should desert, but
not the least glaring is the intolerable insolence
of West Point dudes who are sent out as
officers. These epauleted striplings, who have
been learning to dance, walk straight and
sauce their superiors for four years at West
Point, are suddenly raised to the command of
men by virtue of their commissions. They
spend the night playing poker and drink-
ing with older officers, and, of course,
lose, and next day, with a big head and a
soured disposition, they attempt to redress
their own grievances by heaping misery on
those who are under them. If poker-playing
were abolished in the army, radical desertion
would cease. As things are now, the officer is
too busily engaged playing poker to attend to
the wants of his men, and the result is inces-
sant labor, reckless management, general dis-
gust and desertion. When a soldier enlists, he
expects ease and contentment in the intervals
when he is not engaged hunting Indians,
aud when he is made to work ten hours a day,
the same as a civilian laborer, he is not con-
tented unless he receives civilian pay. If 200
or 300 officers were unceremoniously bounced
from the service and made to earn their living
without government aid, the chances are ten
to one that complaints of desertion on a large
scale would cease. Turn the dudes and gam-
blers out is the best cure.
STATS PRSSS.
What the Interior Papers Say.
Profane papers poke fun at the clerical gen-
tleman who aired his rhetoric in The News as
a volunteer champion of the University Board.
Such sentences as the following are " too too"
for anything. They leave Hightone Brown
away out in the cold:
With happy participation in a felicity so ineffa-
ble. and with swelling pride for a union so grand
and honorable for all concerned, the people with
exultation hail the auspicious day; and. though the
coyish bark of courtship was fearfully tossed by
political winds ou angry billows, yet. with a glad-
some epithal&mium in honor of the honeymoon,
the people will now co-operate, heart and hand, in
committing the ship of wedded love to the am-
brosial raptures of halcyon seas and cloudless skies.
The Herald states that—
Horace P. Jones, the veteran interpreter, of Fort
Sill, was in Wichita Falls several days last week.
Mr. Jones has been associated with the Comanche
Indians since 1856 when they had a reservation
given them on the Brazos river by the State of
Texas. He was with them in 1859 when moved
to the Indian Territory. His visit recalled much of
the past to him, and he certainly has had a very
eventful and romantic life. He, with several other
white men, was adopted by the Comanche tribe a
few years ago, and he is regarded bj- the Indians
as their counselor and true friend. He is a man,
who. while embodying all that makes the frontiers-
man. has kept up with ail that is going on in the
world, and is a very agreeable companion. His
library at home embraces the work's of the best
writers on government and philosophy, and his
reading in general literature is extensive.
The town of Colorado, Mitchell county, may
sing,
" From a village in a vale
To a eity. strong and hale.
Ere three harvests tell their tale."
The Clipper notes the progress of the place
since 1SS1, when it was a village of tents:
The town continued to grow in tents until Sep-
tember of that year, when it became possible to
get lumber by rail. Then the erection of good
wooden buildings commenced in earnest, and from
that time until the present, over 100carpenters have
found steady employment. There are now in the
corporate limits of Colorado City between 1700 and
1800 buildings, and new ones going up at the rate of
twenty per week.
The Brenham Banner remarks:
Several important cases were tried in the Dis-
trict Court at Bryan. They were suits by colored
people against the Houston and Texas Central
Railroad company for the rufusal of the company
to allow colored persons to ride iu the rear coach
or ladies car. The verdict w as in favor of the rail-
road. Not long since a test case was made in the
United States Court at Austin and decided adverse-
ly to the colored people: they have met with the ;
same result in the State courts, and had now as
well make up their minds to accept such accommo-
dations as the railways will give them. The courts
have been effectually tried, and about the next
thing the colored persons who try to force them-
selves into ladies' cars find out. will be that the
railways will turn the tables on them by having
them arrested for disturbing the peace, etc.
The Burnet Once-a-Week says:
Several of the gentlemen who took part in the
meeting which was neld in the Grange hall, con-
demnatory of this fence-cutting, have informed us
they proposed to give an opening to the water for
the cattle belonging to their neighbors, when the
dry weather made it necessary. That they were in
favor of leaviner convenient passways through the
county and decidedly opposed to any one fencing
all of his land and then turning his stock outside.
Hempstead has another paper, the Waller
County Courier redivivous, Jos. H. Farr, edi-
tor. He gives his reason for revisiting the
glimpses of the moon as follows:
Some four years ago we retired from the editor-
ship of the Waller County Courier with a firm in-
tention of never again embarking in a newspaper
enterprise, being thoroughly disgusted with the
business; but at the solicitation of friends, and the
hope of gaining (filthy lucre) we have concluded
to resuscitate the old Waller County Courier. To
make it a success, we must have the confidence
and support of the people of Waller county, espe-
cially the mercantile class of Hempstead, for no
paper can live and not be supported by the people.
Heretofore the support of the press in Hemp-
stead and Waller county has not been calcu-
lated to make publishers purse-proud, but they
would seem to be doing setter now from the
large advertising patronage of the Courier. It
is a well got up paper.
The Cisco Telegraph is another new paper in
the county of Eastland, T. Walker, editor. It
promises to be Democratic in politics, neutral
in religion, and the liveliest "kid" on the
ranch in news. It does not apologize for in-
truding on the overcrowded ranks of journal-
ism, but pertly says:
Of our contemporaries we beg pardon if our ap-
pearance seems to be any intrusion; and by way of
parenthesis quietly remark that we deem it a part
and parcel of our province to make it as lively for
them as possible.
The Telegraph remarks:
The wide spread and powerful organization en-
gaged in cutting wire-fences in the northwestern
part of the State is creating a sensation every-
where. While the organization adopts unlawful
methods for the correction of real or imaginary
wrongs, it can not be denied that they have just
causes for complaint. The legislature of Texas
transcended its authority by enacting statutes that
gave the semblance of a technical right to parties
purchasing or owning large tracts of land to fence
them in. regardless of the right of way—an incor-
poreal hereditament that, by immemorial
custom, attaches to every tract of
land in the country. The anti-en tailment
policy in regard to the granting and devisiug of
lands has been so long recognized aud carried out
by all the States, that no court of final appeal in
the United States can definitely decide or decree in
favor of the enforcement of any attempted eva-
sion or open violation of it. If joint stock com-
panies having perpetual succession are organized
to pasture or cultivate any part of the domain of a
State, millionaires and speculators, foreign and
domestic, may evade the anti-entailment policy of
the country. A non-resident landed aristocracy
may thus defeat the settlement of the country, and
by the technical conversion of reality into person-
ality, practically entail the lands they own upon
their heirs in perpetuity.
The Gainesville Independent discusses the
Agricultural and Mechanical college, so called,
and refers to the almost universal failure of
such institutions to fulfill the objects of their
creation, aud some of the causes, as follows:
We speak from the book when we say that failure
in nearly every case may be traced to the attempt
to cover too much. There is a notable instauce in
our mind. The Agricultural College of Pennsyl-
vania, which secured a land grant of S500.000 and
numerous gifts, and bas for ten years annually
drawn from the State treasury $30,000, together
with the income of three large farms,
has been almost unanimously voted a
failure, and nothing but a corrupt legisla-
ture prevents its abandonment as an institu-
tion, to which the State gives a gratuity, in return
for which she receives nothing. Tbe difficulty in
this school, from the start, has been that instead of
being congenial to farmers and artisans as classes,
it has aped Yale and Harvard, and has maintained
an expensive corps of dude professors, who were
repugnant to the honest yeomanry of the country.
The whole object of the school seemed to be to
keep it up. in order to consume the endowment
fund, aud in all its history not fifty have graduated
there who ever intended to pursue agriculture or
the mechanic arts. With such a stupendous failure
before us, it is worth tl# while of those interested
iu our Agricultural and Mechanical college to en-
deavor to avoid running a school on stilts, for farm-
ers' and artisans' sons.
It is a difficult matter to teach old men new
things, and nothing is more difficult than to
teach old pedagogues the value and respect-
ability of mechanical and physical labor. At
the present rate it will require a hundred years
to make such institutions what they should be,
and what some of them already are in Europe.
Mr. Froude, the great English author, says:
Every boy born in the world should be put in the
way of maintaining himself in independence. No
education that does not make this its first aim
is worth anything at all. There are but three ways
of living, as some one has said—by working, by
begging or by stealing. Those who do not work,
disguise it in whatever pretty language we please,
are doing one of the otiier two. The practical
necessities must take precedence of the intellectu-
al. A tree must be rooted in the soil before it can
bear flowers and fruit. A man must learn to
stand upright on his own feet to respect himself,
to be independent of charity or accident. It is on
this basis only that any superstructure of intel-
lectual cultivation worth having can possibly be
built. ^
A medicine for drunkenness is red Peruvian
bark (Cinchona rubra.) A pound of it is pow-
dered and soaked in diluted alcohol. It is
then evaporated down to a half pint. The in-
ebriate is given a teaspoonful of the medicine
every three'hours, and his tongue occasionally
moistened between doses during the first aud
second days. The third day the dose is gen-
erally reduced to half a teaspoonful, then to a
quarter of a teaspoonful, and gradually les-
sened to fifteen, ten and five drops. This treat-
ment is continued from five to fifteen days, and
in a bad case to thirty days; the average is
about seven days. The result is said to be a
lasting dislike to liquor iu any form.
Remarkable for overcoming diseases caused Lr
impure water, decaying vegetation, etc., is Browfik
Iron Bittern* r
university matters.
THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE
GALVESTON BRANCH.
Opinion cf Regent Wooten in tho
Matter—A Financial Showing—Tho
Embarrassments Under which the
Regents have Labored — Future
Prospects^ Etc.
[Special Telegram to The News.l
Austin, September IP -A News reporter dom-
ing the matter of present interest, interviewed Dr.
T. I). Wooten, resident regent at the capital of the
State university on the subject mainly of the medi-
cal branch. Dr. Wooten has given more time and
labor to the university than all the other regents
together, and in a frank and outspoken way gives
his views in response to questions as follows:
Reporter—Has the Board of University Regents
ever formally considered and decided upon the
time of ♦>stablishing the medical branch of the
university?
Dr. Wooten—They have not. As soon as the re-
gents were organized and cam? to Investigate the
resources at their command for successfully inau-
gurating the various departments of the institu-
tion, it became evident that the crippled and un-
certain financial outlook of affairs required a par-
tial beginning in the work before us. There was
no intended discrimination between the law and
medical departments: but it was discovered that
the former could be provided for with much less
expense Und with better prospect of liberal patron-
age than the latter, an I there was a general de-
mand and sruarantee of success to the law school
not proffered nor vouchsafed to the medical
school. The difference in expense is
apparent to every intelligent inquirer,
ana this, with the patronage promised and now as-
sured. and the exceedingly precarious condition of
our finances, influenced us to establish the law
school, and to postpone, without serious discussion,
the inauguration or the medical college. Further-
more. the entire medical profession throughout
the State, so far as heard from, insisted upon the
establishment of only a first class medical school,
and. realizing the present impracticability of such
an institution, they indorsed aud advised a post-
ponement of any attempt to inaugurate a medical
college which must, of necessity, be meager in its
advantages and Unsatisfactory in Its results.
Reporter Have they formally or tacitly agreed
that the establishment of that branch depeuds
upon \\ hat Galveston shall provide in the way of
hospitals or buildings?
Wooten—What Galveston has offered or would be
likelv to offer has never, so far as I know, in any
manner intiuenced the action of tbe regency iu ref-
erence to the establishment of the medical school.
We have not for a moment consider-
ed that as entering at all iuto the
problem: for if the Medical college could or should
in our opinion be now inaugurated, we should con-
sider it our duty to establish it at once, irrespective
of any inducements or failure of inducements on
the part of Galveston. The location of the Medical
college has been fixed bv the people, and it is. I am
confident, the earnest desire and determination of
the Board of Regents to put the same in active
operation at rhe earliest practicable moment con-
sistent with its efficiency and success. As a mat-
ter of fact. Galveston has never either
directly or indirectly offered to the
university anv sort of inducement, in the
way of hospital or buildings, toward the
establishment of the Medical college. During the
campaign for the location of the medicaj branch it
was urged in Galveston's behalf that certain hospi-
tal facilities and college buildings would be given
to the State as an inducement to the location of the
school in that city. After the campaign had ended
nothing further has ever, to my knowledge, been
said on the subject, and the regents have never re-
ceived. formally or informally, any proposition to
provide either hospital or other facilities
from the city authorities, medical profes-
sion or the people of Galveston. This,
however, as I have said, has not in any
way intiuenced our action in the premises. I pre-
sume the city authorities aud physicians of Gal-
veston understand and acquiesce in our decision
that the successful inauguration of the Medical
college is not now feasible, and have, therefore,
not moved further in the matter.
Reporter—In case it shall be determined by com-
petent authority that the interest accrued and ac-
cruing upon universitv land sales is available
fund, will not the regents be able and willing to
proceed with the medical branch?
Dr. Wooton—Whatever may be the decision as
to the interest on university land sales, It would not
materialltalter our condition with reference to
the establishment of the Medical college for these
reasons:
1. The present annual income of the university
from all sources can not exceed $35,000. Under
date of September 15 the comptroller of the State
has made the following statement, which may be
taken as very nearly correct:
Funds on hand in cash SCI,315 SO
Funds on hand in bonds, subject to be
converted into cash 8,308 37
Interest on land notes, which properly
belong to available university fund. 80,950 94
Total available September 1. 1883....$15C,575 17
The permanent university fund on September 1,
1883, was as follows:
Five per cent, bonds $09,091 65
Six per cent, bonds 175,500 00
Seven percent, bonds 114.000 00
Total bonds $358,591 G5
Cash on hand September 1.
1883 $*253,823 52
Less amount interest ou land
notes due the available uni-
versity fund 86,950 94-166,872 58
Total permanent universitv fund, Sep-
tember 1, 1883 $525,464 23
The permanent fund now yields an annual in
crease to the available fund, as follows:
Interest on bonds $21,964 58
Interest on land notes, former years, say.. 7,000 00
Total $28,964 58
To which should be added interest to be derived
from the investment of the $166,872 58 cash on
hand.
It will be borne in mind that the amount, to be de-
rived from interest on land notes is not a fixed sum.
as the interest on these notes is being annually di-
minished by partial payment of the principal."
It will thus be seen that even allowing for the
highest rate of interest at which investments can
be made, $35,000 is probably the extreme limit at
which our annual income can be estimated, exclud-
ing the interest on land sales, which the comptrol-
ler fixes at $7000 annually. Of this amount $10,000
will next year go to the Agricultural and Mecba
nical college, under existing laws, leaving us barely
able to pay. and possibly behind, on the current ex-
penses for next year.
2. The annual expenditure for professors, even in
the present incomplete organization of the aca-
demic and law departments, is about $40,000, and
may approximate $50,000. In addition to this, we
are in pressing need of $150,000 to complete the
main building, now partially constructed, and at
least $25,000 more to build and equip chemical and
physical laboratories. Thus it will be seen that
every dollar that can be realized from all sources
now known, or that might be declared available
under existing laws is needed to carry out and
make efficient the work already begun.
3. To properly and successfully inaugurate a med-
ical college of the first class, would necessitate the
erection of suitable buildings and the purchase of
suitable apparatus with which to equip them,
which would cost in actual cash about $200,000. In
addition it would require the employment and pay
of at at least eight professors, who, at the rate we
are paying those in the law department, would
consume $28,000 per annum actual cash.
It is the earnest desire and the
constant effort of the regents to so
dispose of the 2,000,000 acres of land owned by the
university as to realize from them an income ade-
quate to establish every department of the institu-
tion upon a basis of assured success and of that
high order required by the law creatine It. In this
endeavor we are practically without authoritj*. ex-
cept by courtesy of the Land Board, and. as in
almost every step we have taken from the com-
mencement of our labors, we find ourselves ham-
pered by Incomplete legislation. If we succeed in
leasing these lands, at the rates fixed by law.it
will give us an income sufficient, in the the course
of time, to establish the medical and remaining
branches of the university.
Reporter—Do you consider further legislation ne-
cessary for the establishment of that or the branch
for colored youths?
Dr. Wooten—I know of no vital legislation neces
sary except that demanded lu order to meet the
wants heretofore indicated and. if possible, to assist
the limited resources of the institution. We need,
above all thiDgs. money, and legislation to that end
would solve all difficulties.
Reporter—What embarrassments have the re-
gents labored under in getting the university
started?
Dr. Wooten—To undertake to describe all the
difficulties that have confronted the regents since
our appointment would require more space than
you can spare. Our history has been a chapter of
embarrassments. In the first place we were called
to assume control of an institution which had pre-
viously existed only on paper, and about which
neither the public at large nor any of us had any
weil-defined ideas. Its resources had never been
estimated nor husbanded by any one authorized to
represent it; its objects were but vaguely shadowed
in the public mind, and its exact relation to our
educational system had never been fixed, and was
often ignorantly and sometimes intentionally mis-
represented and attacked. We found its available
finances seriously small, and for a long time past
depleted and diverted to alien projects, so that
what bfid once been considered a munificent en-
dowment was practically hardly sufficient to provide
a decent beginning for a university. The million
acres given us by the constitution of 1876 were not
available for sale or lease without additional legis-
lation; 1,700,000 acres had been taken from the
university by the same constitution; an honest debt
of $134,472 26, due the institution, had been classed
as of "doubtful validity;" the permanent fund,
though apparently considerable, furnished a very
meager available profit, which alone was at our
disposal, and certain branches of the university,
created by law and in themselves meritorious
enough, were yet thriving at the expense of the
parent institution, aud consuming the resources
that should rightfully have beeu reserved for the
proper inauguration of the universitjr proper. All
these embarrassments must be met and sur-
mounted, and their solution demanded an out-
lay of time and thought, and the assump-
tiou of a grave responsibility, such as few men en-
gaged in active private pursuits and living at dis-
tant aud different places could.with justice to them-
selves, undertake to Incur and discharge. Hence
as soon as the magnitude of the labor and the
severity of the duty became apparent, resignation
became the order of the day. and has continued
with such fatal repetition that the Board of Re
gents has in this manner beeu repeatedly changed
in its membership, and some times so diminished
as to scarcely command a quorum for the transac-
tion of business. It was necessary to importune
and memorialize the legislature to correct and re-
pair the defeats and wrongs referred to, and in this
undertaking we were seriously retarded by the
want of information prevalent among the
majority of the legislators in regard
to the condition, prospects and aims of the
institution committed to our care. Moreover, in
certain quarters, both through ignorance aud de-
sign. nu opposition was studiously exerted to preju-
dice the frieuds of the public free schools against
the university upon the utterly false and irrational
assumption that there was a necessary antagonism
between the two. when, in fact, the latter is but
the complement aud crowning glory of the former.
We at once adopted a plan for a building, not
larger than was required to accommodate the ne-
cessary departments, and of that plain and inex-
pensive character described by the law establish-
ing the institution. This we have been able, on ac-
count of limited means, to finish only iu part, and
the remainder should be completed at the
earliest practicable moment. We have suc-
ceeded in having the $134,472 26 of doubtful
validity " recognized and validated, and an addi-
tional million acres of land set apart to the uni-
versity. The latter has not been surveyed, and the
last legislature failed to authorize us to act with
sufficient power in the matter. Under the orders
of the Land Board, however, we have employed an
agent to inspect and classify the lands, aud hope
soon to have them on the market for lease. An In-
telligent review of these various difficulties with
which we have had to deal will give some notion
of the embarrassments that have surrounded us at
every step. Bur-.no one who has not oxperienced
their full force ahd discouraging influences can
form any adequate idea of the heavy load we have
had to carry from the very first. And here it may
bs said that the public press of the State, so
far from aiding and encouraging our labors, has,
almost without exception, endeavored with seem-
ing delight to array agi^inst us every obstacle that
a flippant and unthinking prejudice could desire
and elaborate. This we Have ascribed more to mis-
conception than to deliberate malice, and hope
soon to see our leading papers afford the young in-
stitution a generous and intelligent support.
Reporter—Has the constant change going on in
membership of the boar conduced to good re-
sults?
Dr. Wooten—Decidedly toot. I havo already
partly indicated the causf* which have conduced
to the repeated changes it* our membership and
the evils resulting therefrom must be evident to
any one. All the gentlemen heretofore appointed
regents have been thoroughly competent, but, as a
rule, no one of us at the time of appointment had
ever given the subject a moment's thought or pos-
. sesscd any definite information in regard to the
condition and necewitJtf* of the institution. Hence
every new member, however competent, realous
and patriotic, has had to familiarize himself with
what had already been done, and educate him-
self, as it were, into a knowledge and appreciation
of what ought to be done. The continual
resignations of members and the incoming of new
ones have thus destroyed, in a great degree, the
homogeiiiety of the board, and, in souie instances,
seriously retarded our work.
Reporter -Have you recollection of application
of thiPT"porter to be present at your regency meet-
ings at the beginning of yottr sessions, and the re
fusal of the b »ard aunounced to several reporters
by your secretary?
I)r. Wooten I have. The whole question of ad-
mitting newspaper reporters into our meetings was
simply this^ As before stated, the regents, indi-
vidually and ndlectively, came ipto control of tbe
university iWtbout any previous serioue attention
to the subject, ami without any definite informa-
tion or formulated ideas as to the policy and plans
to be adopted. Our first sessions were, therefore,
largely taken up with desultory and discursive do
bates, and devoted to au attempt to discover ex-
actly the resources at our command, and
the course to be pursued iu making them
available tor the purpose intrusted to our execution.
For very apparent reasons it was nor considered
proper nor advisable to have all these disconnected
discussions reported and commented m>on in the
papers. But the results of all our deliberations
nave been embodied in the minutes of the board,
which have always been open to the insj>ection of
reporters and the public generally. The exclusion
of reporters from our meetings was enforced, not
in the interest of concealing any act or important
deliberation of the board, but for the reasons stated
and for the purpose, as we believed, and still be-
lieve. of preventing partial and hostile newspaper
criticisms of proce dings which were necessa-
rily very informal and imperfect. bince
our organization was perfected and our
deliberations became somewhat regular and con-
secutive, we have never objected tb the presence of
any reporter, nor in any degree obstructed h»s full
acquaintance with our proceedings. The minutes,
resolutions aud acts of tiie regents have from the
first been matt-rs of record, open to the examina-
tion of any and all persons.
Reporter—Has not the board or the president of
it invited reporters to retire from its session?
Dr. Wooten They have for the reasons, at the
times, and under tho circumstances before stated.
Reporter—Individually, have you opposed access
to your meetings by reporters of reputable news-
papers?
Dr. Wooten—In common with other members of
the regency, I have acquiesced in the opinion that
at our first meetings the presence of reporters
wouid not conduce te the harmony and success of
our deliberations. Neither I nor "any other regent,
so far as I kno w, has aver opposed access to our
sessions by reporters from any motive of secrecy,
but from considerations of expediency and conve-
nience.
Reporter—Have you been able to perceive evi-
dences of a disposition to make capital politically
out of the supposed opposition to the university on
the part of rival institutions and of persons de-
ceived into the notion that there was a roufiict of
interests betweenpublie schools aud the univer-
sity? If so. give the evidences.
Dr. Wooten—I have. This, however. I do not con-
sider formidable nor well-grounded. Such oppo-
sition has originated, if it exists, mainly in a mis-
apprehension of facts and an ignorance of the uni-
versity's real aim and function. It has perhaps
been cultivated and eucouraged by a certain class
of demagogues and politicians; but I think neither
ignorance nor design can long delude the public
into the belief that the university is antagonistic
either to rival institutions or to public free schools.
Reporter—Do you see any reason why tbe Agri-
cultural and Mechanical college at Bryan and the
university should be at loggerheads?
-Dr. Wooten I do not. But I do see reasons why
tne Agricultural and Mechanical college is not
economically a profitable venture for the State, if
the university proves the success its present pros-
pects promise. It is practically demonstrable that
the State is expending money to keep up the Bryan
college to teach the same branches that can be, and
will be, more efficiently taught in the university at
Austin. In other words, the people are asked to
support two institutions to achieve the same end.
There is no necessary antagonism between the two
institutions, but there is a practical and economi-
cal inconsistency between the two.
Reporter—If "the Agricultural and Mechanical
college is made to strictly conform to the objects
of its establishment, the furnishing a practical
education and training in agriculture and me-
chanics, is it likely to lose students by the establish-
ment and success of the university? Give me your
views fully on this point.
Dr. Wooten—It will necessarily. The experience
of other States and the present condition of Texas
render it well-nigh certain that a strictly agricul-
tural and mechanical college will be but poorly
patronized. Sufficient progress and observation
in the various details necessary to make those two
departments successful have not yet been made in
Texas, and the fatal failures in other couutries of
institutions devoted to the exclusive teaching of
these branches seem to indicate but little prospect
for permanent success in a strictly agricultural and
mechanical college anywhere.
Reporter—What are'the present prospects the
university?
Dr. Wooten—Its prospects are more favorable
now than its best friends could have anticipated
twelve months ago. It has an available fuud
sufficient to meet the immediate exigencies of its
present organization, and the assurance of in-
creased resources adequate to provide, in a
reasonable time, for the full establishment of all
its departments on a sure and successful basis.
It has begun with a number of students greater than
any one of the great universities of America
ever had in its first session. Its facul-
ty is, In point of ability and experience,
second to that of no institution on the
continent. It will never burden the people with
taxation, and it appeals by its free tuition pecu-
liarly to the poorer and laboring classes. Its loca-
tion is singularly attractive and healthful, and its
territorial situation will soon seoure a large pat-
ronage from other States. The unfounded and ir-
rational prejudices which have been attempted to
be arrayed against it are fast being dis-
sipated by a fuller acquaintance with
its objects and a better appreciation of its
true plan and policy. Without dilating on its va-
rious inducements for suceess, it is safe to say that
unless hampered by ignorant and hostile interfer-
ence, the University of Texas must iu the nature
of things prove in a very short time all that its
most sanguine friends have planned and expected
it to become. As our distinguished chairman of
the faculty but the other day expressed it. it must
grow and develop like a tree; but the tree has been
planted—it has fertile soil, favorable surroundings,
nourishing influences. It will not attain its full
proportions iu a day, nor a month, nor a year; but
grow and develop it surely will if only the meddle-
some and the mischievous will not pluck at its
roots and pull at its branches to see if, perchance,
it is growing. _
When a member of the Georgia legislature
and " a gentleman, sah! " is verbally stepped
upon by a brother member and invited to meet
him outside after the adjournment, it means
business. The Hon. Mr. Brooks, the party of
the first part, replying to the Hon. Mr. Wright,
the party of the second part, struggling most
valiantly to maintain his grip on parliamentary
etiquette and at the same time properly resent
the affront put upon a gentleman of honah,"
rounds on his antagonist with the "counter-
check quarrelsome," and thus he speaks: " He
has seen fit to insult me on the floor of this
House. I have too much respect for the gen
tlemen around me aud too much respect for
you, Mr. Speaker, to do so here, but
will reserve the right of slapping the vaga-
bond's jaws outside of the hail." The narra-
tive adds that44 the speaker's hammer fell"—
there's where a speaker always shows what
there is in him—"and there was quite a sensa-
tion." At last accounts the members' friends
were trying to frame a " treaty of peace with
honor," and, as is usually the case, were "re-
ticent as to what was going on." They do these
things differently at Springfield, 111. There the
Hon. Mr. Herriugton caroms on the Hon. Mr.
Parish's nose, streaks the pale air with blood,
and subsequently apologizes to the House, the
speaker, and the victim of this little experiment
in phlebotomy. For real downright business
and no fooling about it the Illinois plan takes
the whole bakery. [Chicago Tribune.
THEcitv of Devil's Lake, D. T., known to the
postal authorities as Crealsburg, is not yet 100
days old, but already choice lots in it are sold
as high as $2000 apiece. It has seven large ho-
tels. two banks, two papers, and many shops
and factories. It is situated on Devil's lake,
and, owing to its many natural attractions, is
know as the Saratoga of Dakota. The oldest
inhabitants are already beginning to tell tall
stories of the infancy of the rapidly growing
town.
THE GREAT
for
CURES
Rheumatism, Neuralgia, Sciatica,
Lumbago, Backache, Headache, Toothache,
Sore Throat, Swellings, Sprnfnn, Braises,
liurni. Sonfdii, Front Bites.
AX!> ALL OTHER ROBILY FUSS AND AlHJES.
8old by Druggtatt «tul Doftl^rt everrwhere. Fifty Cants a bottle.
Diractijog in 11 Languages.
tiie charles a. vogeler co.
(Socsesicti w A. VutiEUiK ft CO.) Bultiiaore, 3Xd., C.S-*-
DIED.
SEIALLEY —Frank Shalley, who had resided at
Flatonia for nearly a year, died there on the litli
Instant. He was about 31 years old, and came either
from Pennsylvania or Ohio.
Further particulars may be obtained from either
Alfd. Routh or Benj. W. Bristow, of Flatonia
Texas.
Vapers throughout the State are requested to
copy. ^
CBOZIER—On Wednesday, September 19. at 10
o'clock p. in., Kosa Wilkinson, wife of John V.
Crozier, aged 33 years.
Funeral takes place from St. Patrick's church
this evening at 4 o'clock.
HARDIE—On the 19th instant. Chas. Leonard
Hardie, aged 07 years, a native of London, Eng-
lond.
New Orleans papers please copy.
SPECIAL N OTICSS.
The G-alveston Artillery
Company are ordered out for Target
Shooting at 4 o^clock THIS EVEN-
ING. By order of
E. L. CASTLETON, Lieutenant
^ E ARE NOW SUPPLYING STOCK AND
filling orders for MR. M. SCHRAM, of 111 and 113
Tremont street, from our stock of men's boys'
youths' and children's clothing, and commend him
to those who have heretofore purchased our goods
from the late C. E. BROUSSARD.
CARI1ART, WIIITFORD & CO.
New York, August 30, 1883.
Notice to Consignees—The steamship COL-
ORADO. Risk, master, from New York, is now
discharging cargo at Williams wharf.
Consignees will please pay freight and receive
their goods as landed, receipting for the same on
the wharf. All goods remaining on the wharf after
4 o'clock p. m. (not receipted for) may, at option of
steamer's agent, be placed in warehouses or covered
with tarpaulins on the wharf, but they are entirely
at risk of consignee or owner. All claims for dam-
ages must be adjusted be foe the goods leave the
wharf. J. N. SAW VKit, Atfeat.
dr. radway's
uMMiiiLifiii RESOLVENT!
The Grout Blood Purifier.
JFor tho Cure of Chronic Disease, Scro-
fula or Syphilitic, Hereditary
or Contagions,
WHETHER SEA TED IN THE
Langs Stomach. Skin, Bones, Flcsli or
Nerves.
CORRUPTING THE SOUDS AND VITIATING
THE 1-l.L IDS.
Chronic Rheumatism. Scrofula. Glandular Swell-
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Syphilitic Complaints, Bleeding of tiw Lungs. l>y$-
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Mercurial Diseases, Female Compl&inLs. Gout,
Dropsy. Salt Rheum*Bronchitis, Oonsmnprion.
LIVSH CGMriiAIitfTS, Etc.
Not only does the Sarsa\>ariilian IVsolveiM exccl
all remedial agents in the cure <«f Chronic S«;rotu
Ions. Constitutional and Skin Diseases,' but it is the
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K1DNF.Y mid BLADDER COMPLAINTS
Urinarv and Womb Diseases, Grawl. Diabetes,
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then are brirk dust d*p«)sitstor the water is*!;i •!»'.
clon«l3 , or mixed *ith Mibstuiures lit** the while of
an egg. or threads like while silk, or tb'-re is amor-
bid. dark, bilious apj>^aranee and white bom-dust
deposits, and whew there is a pricking, burning
sensation when passing water, and pain in the
small of the back and along the loins.
SOI/D jORUGGISTS.
One battle contains more of the active principles
of medicine than any other preparation. Taken in
Teaspoonful Dose<. while otners rejoin* five or six
times as much. One Uoliar Per Bottle>
RADWAY'S
The Great Liver anil Stomach
Remedy,
A VEGETABLE SIRSIIIUTK FOR CALOMEL.
Perfectly tasteless, elegantly coated with swe^t
gum. purge, regulate, purify, cleanse and
strengthen.
RADWAY'S PILLS for the cure of all disorders
of the Stomach, laver. Bowels, Kidneys. Bladder,
Nervous Diseases, Hcadache, Constipation, Cos-
tiveness. Indigestion. Dyspepsia, Biliousness, Fever,
Inflammation of the Bowels, Piles, and all de-
rangements of the Internal Viscera. Purely vege-
table, containing no mercury, minerals or delete-
rious drugs.
Observe the following symptoms resulting
from Diseases of the Digestive Organs: Constipa-
tion, Inward Piles, Fullness of the Blood in the
Head. Acidity of tlie Stomach, Nausea, Heartburn,
Disgust of Food. Fullness or Weight iu the Stomach.
Sour Eructations, sinking or Fluttering at tho
Heart, Choking or Suifocating Sensation when in a
lying posture. I>imne»s of Vision. Dots or Webs be-
fore the Sight, Kewr and Dull Pain in the Head.
Deficiency of Perspiration, Yellowness of the Skin
and Eyes. Pain in u.e Side, Chest. Limbs, aud Sud-
den Flushes of Heat. Burning in the Fleali.
A few doses of RADWAY'S PILLS will free the
system of all the above named disorders.
Price, 25 Cents Per Bex.
SOLD BY DRUGGISTS.
read "false and true."
Send a letter stamp to RADWAY 2k. CO.,
No. 32 Warren Street, New York.
Information worth thousands will be sent
to you.
TO THE PUBLIC.
There can be no better guarantee of the value of
Dr. Radwat's old established R. R. R. Remedies
than the base and worthless imitations of them, as
there are False Resolvents, Reliefs and Pills.^l»e
sure and ask for Bad way's, and see that the
name lla«lway is on what you buy.
In Store and to Arrive
20,000 Kegs NAILS.
lOO Tons Bar and Band IRON,
2,000 Dozen AXES,
2,000 Men's and Women's SADDLES,
2,000 DO/.<mi HA.MES,
150 Casks CHAINS,
2,OOU Dozen COLLARS.
Other Goods in proportion. Purchasers are cordially
invited to inspect our mammoth assortment before pur-
chasing elsewhere.
J. ©. BROWN & CO.,
GALVESTON. TEXAS.
P. J. WILLIS & BRO.,
Notion Stock Complete,
Comprising furnishing goods, hosiery, gloves,
rubber goods, oil clothing, laces,
embroideries and
Fancy Notions of all Descriptions.
irt r
RADWAY'S READ! RELIEF
The Cheapest and Best Medi-
cine for Family Use in
the World.
In from one to twenty minutes never fails to re-
lieve PAIN with one thorough application. No
matter how violent or excruciating the pain the
RHEUMATIC, Bed-ridden, Infirm, Crippled, Nerv-
ous, neuralgic, or prostrated with disease mav
suffer. HAD WAY'S ltliADl RELIEF
will afford instant ease.
Inflammation of the kidneys, inflammation of the
bladder, inflammation of the bowels, congestion of
the lungs, sore tliroat, difficult breathing, palpita-
tion of the heart, hysterics,croup, diphtheria, ca-
tarrh, influenza, headache, toothache, neuralgia,
rheumatism, chills, ajue chills, nervousness, sleep-
lessness, bruises, coughs, colds, sprains, pains in
the chest, back, or limbs, are instantly relieved.
Malaria in its Various Forms, Fever
and Ague-
There is not a remedial agent in the world that
will cure Fever and Ague, aud all other Malarious,
Bilious, Scarlet, Typhoid, Yellow and other fevers
(aided by Radwat's Pills) so auick as Radway's
Ready Rjclikf.
It will in a few moments, when tafcen according
to directions, cure cramps, spasms, sour stomach,
heartburn, sick headache, Summer Com-
plaints, diarrhea, dysentery, colic, wind in the
bowels, aud all internal pains.
Travelers should always carry- a bottle of Rad-
way's Ready Reief with them, a few drops in
water will prevent sickness or pains from chancre
of water. It is better than French brandy or bit-
ters as a stimulant.
THE TRUE RELIEF.
Radway's Ready Relief is the onlv remedial
agent in vogue that will instantly stop pain.
Fifty Cents per Bottle.
tve
auction sales.
Auction Sale
WILL SELL THIS DAY. at 10 a. m.; at our
salesrooms. Strand:
Silk Handkerchiefs, Lace Fichus, Borlacs. etc.;
Ladies* and Gents1 Underwear, Cardigan Jackets,
Men's Congress Gaiters, Bro^ans, Boots, etc.; La-
dies' Button and Lace Shoes, Infants" and Chil-
dren's Turn and Machine Shoes; aiso, 30 sacks
B. E. Peas, 9 do. Red Peas. 8 barrels Grits. Hams
Fish and Cheese, and other Groceries; also, Office
Table, fine M. T. Bedroom Set, Dressing: Case,
Lounge, Chairs, Safe, Mirrors and other furniture;
also, three force pumps for account of steamship.
L7NCH & PENLAND.
proposals.
"XTOTICE—Bids will be received up to THURS-
_LN DAY, the 20th of SEPTEMBER, 1S83. by the
Commissioners Court of Kaufman county, for the
construction of a stone tire proof jail, to be fur-
nished with a sufficient number of eagres. Bids
will be received separately for the construction of
the jail and for ilie cages and other necessary me-
tallic fixtures. Plans and specifications ran bo
found on file in the county judge's office, Kauf-
man, Texas, or with J. E. Flanders, Architect,
Main street, Dallas. Bidders are requested to fur-
nish samples of the material to be ua**d.
J. F. DILLARD.
County Judge of Kaufman County, Texas.
Sealed Proposals
TT'OR BUILDING TWO PUBLIC FREE SCHOOL
JJ buildings in the city of Calvert will be received
until tbe 1st day of October, 1J?S3, at which time all
bids will be opened and acted upon. One building
to contain eiglit rooms and one six rooms, both
double story, and frame buildings.
Plans and specifications can be seen at J. S. Mc-
Lendon's. or by calling upon the undersigned.
The rizht to reject any and all bids is reserved,
and bond will be required for the faithful perform-
ance of contract.
X>R. 2>. PARKER,
President School Trustees.
Geo. Burck, Seretary.
NOTICE TO C0NTS1CT0BS.
"V j'OTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT SEALED
_L>i proposals for the erection of a
jail for bell county
will be received by the County Clerk of said county
at his office in Beltou until 10 m.,
TUESDAY, September 25, A. 1). 1883.
Each bid must be accompanied with a certified
check, or bond with security, in the sum of three
thousand dollars ($3000,) to be approved by the
county clerk, conditioned that should such bid be
accepted, the bidder will, withiu five days alter
the acceptance of such bid, enter iuto a bond pay-
able to said county iu the sum of twenty thousand
dollars <Sa0,000; for the faithful compliance of said
contract.
Plans and specifications can be seen at the office
of the countv clerk, Beiton, Texas, and at the office
of J. N. Preston & Sou, architects, in Austiu,
Texas.
Bids must be addressed to the "County Judge,"
anil iudorsed "Proposals for Building Jail." The
court reserves the right t^ reject any au-i all bids.
By order of the Commissioners Court of Bell
county. Texas,
W. M. MINYAKD,
County Judge, Bell county.
For Liverpool.
1HE WEST INDIA AND PACIFIC
Steamship Company's Steamer
australian,
Captain S. S. Landrey.
Having a portion of her cargo engaged will have
quick dispatch. Apply
WALTHEW & SONS,
Agents.
excursion to san antonio
DURtNO
VOLK8FEST.
\ NNOUNCEMENT is mstle that an excursion
j*A train will run fromdalveston to San \ntonio,
without chance of earn, anil return to enable those
desiring to attend to visit the latter city during the
festivities at a reduced rat.', the tare being placed
at 88 for the round trip. Tickets can he procured
at J D. SAWYER'S, 111 Market street.
ballinger, mott & terry,
125 Postoffiee Street,
GALVESTON TEX.
nuiir0 VB,,r 0D '
CROP OF 1 S 8 3.
2000 Lbs, Assorted Tiiinip. 100 Llts.
Creole Onion Sftni.
Also, Cabbage. Lettuce. Beets. Radlsh.Caullflower,
Celery, Parsley, Spinach, assortment Snap Beans,
etc., all of which shouid be soon planted
For ttale b* A. FLAKE X CO.
Ylh St
DALLAS, T2X., Manufacturers' General State Ag-ents for Farm and Mill
Machinery and Asp-icultural Imslements. General State Agents
for Srswa Cotton Gin Companv.
ix stock—Hay Presses, the cheapest ancl best in the
United States; Bay State Engines; Brown's Celebrated
(-rins; also Cotton Bloom and Lumimis Gins, Chicago
Scales, Reynolds's 4 and 5 inch screw Cotton Presses,
Knowles a: Blake Steam Pumps, Pulleys, Belting, Brass
Fittings, Pipe, John Deere Plows, Cincinnati Barbed
Wire, Turnbull Wagons, "Pride of Texas" Corn Mills,
Bolting Cloth.
Will furnish plans and specifications for Flouring Mills, eto. Send for prices and terms if
we have no local agents in vour vicinit v. Our motto is small nrofit* and quick sales.
C. A. KEATING.
Dallas, Kesident Partner.
GEORtiK J. KEATING,
Kansas City, Special Partner.
c. keating,
WHOLESALE iGUOLTUML IMPLEMENTS
GINS AM) MILL MACHINERY.
State Agent for FITRST & BRADLEY M'F'G CO. Plows. Culti-
vators and Sulky Rakes. ERIE CITY IRON WORKS, Engines,
_ Boders and Saw MdL> J\ 1. CASE, Steam and Horse-Power
Threshing Machinery. OHIO STEEL BARB FENCE CO. FISH
^ BROTHERS Farm and Spring Wagons.
S GRAIN DRILL.
I Spring Wagons. RICHMOND CHAMPION
DALLAS. TEXAS.
R. V. TOMFKIISS,
COASTER COMMERCE AND LABIAS STREETS, DALLAS, TEXAS,
EXCLUSIVE STATE AGENT FOR
SKINNEH SPA3KLES3 ENGINES,
STEARNS'S STATIONARY EJiGINSS,
OTTO SILENT GAS ENGINES,
REMZNGTON TYPE WRITER,
IIKMEBMAM FRUIT DRYER,
COLUMBUS ALL-STEEL SCRAPER,
HUGHES'S SULKY PLOWS.
HAPGOOD'S PLOWS, and
SEBERXCK'S PERPETUAL HAY PRESSES.
I also handle Miller's Bugjries. Champion Hay Rickers and I.oaa«rs. Fairbanks's Scales. Victor Scales,
Wood Reapers. Minnesota Chief Threshers and Engines. Victor Cane Mills ancrCook's Evaporators.
EDUCATIONAL.
ALVESTON ACADEMY—This select school
VT for young ladies will ouen September 3 at the
school building:, between 14th and 15th streets, on
Postoffiee. For particulars, apply to principal.
Mas. O. B. BRIGGS.
INSULA INSTITUTE.
312 Avenue H, between 18th and 19th streets.
Opens September 3. Terms from J4 w ST per
month. For circular, address
MRS. E. A. HUFFMASTER, Principal.
GALVESTON FEMALE SEMINARY
NORMAL INSTITUTE
Will Reopen Kooday, September 105
AT THE
EATON CHAPEL SCHOOL ROOM.
Mas. W. E. Daxelly, Principal.
For particulars see Principal, at No. 320 Ave. 1.
^AINT MARY'S ACADEMY
AUSTIN, TEXAS,
conducted by
THE SISTERS OF THE HOLY CROSS.
Studies will be resumed in this institution
MONDAY. September 3, 1383.
For particulars address SISTER SUPERIOR.
*J09 Mulberry street, Austin. Texas.
Agriciiltural;Mechanical College
OF TEXAS,
College Station, Brazos Co., Tex.
THE EIGHTH ANNUAL SESSION WILL BE-
gin or. MONDAY, October 1. lS?3. The course
of instruction extends through three years, and is
specially adapted to the thorough practical train-
ing of young men in farming, horticulture, stock
raising, englnt?ering. chemistry, mechanics, archi-
tecture. etc., aud the sciences relating thereto.
Graduates for the last two years have without dif-
ficulty secured lucrative employment in these pur-
suits. Total expenses for nine months only $150.
For catalogues or special information, address
Prof. H. H. DINWIDDIE,
Chairman of the Faculty.
MRS. SYLVANUS REED'S Boarding and Day
School for young ladies and little girls. 6 & S E.
53d st..bet.5th & Madison aves., N. Y. {Central Park.)
Course in Col. Dept. thorough. Special students ad-
mitted Primary and Preparatory depts. French the
language of the school. Begins October 3,13S3.
RAKOYER ACADEMY. Mil
TAYLORSVILLE, P. O.
Colonel Hilary P- J"ones5 3M- A-
The 3^th Annual Session begins SEPTEMBER
20. Special provision for small boys. Send for
cat&losrue.
QPR1NG HILL COLLEGE.
o Nkax Mobile, Ala.
Founded in 1830. Empowered by th? Legislature
of Alabama to confer ail collegiate degrees. Lo-
cation beautiful and one of the healthiest in the
South. The health, comfort atul happiness of the
students the constant aim. A full corps of superior
and experienced teachers. Tho three courses. Pre-
paratory, Commercial aud Classical, tauehc in the
most thorough manner. Session opens October 1.
For further information, a.Liress the President,
Springhill College, Mobile, Ala.
Business and Telegraph College
Corner Fifth and Market Sts»9
ST. .710.
T is is one of the very largest and mo«t successful
schools of the kind in the United States. Send for
circular con tain ing references to graduates who
have been placed in positions.
DR. W. M. CARPENTER, President.
summer resorts
HIRAM HITCHCOCK,
Formerly St. Charles
Hotel, New Orleans.
A. B. DARLING,
Formerly Battle
House, P'lobile.
Fifth Avenue Hole!,
XVXadison Square, 2few York.
The largest, best appointed and most liberally
managed hotel in the city, with the most central
and delightful location.
HITCHCOCK, DARIilNG 3c CO.
wi\ in i in irm
AND
POWER COMPANY,
HOUSTON, TEXAS.
This company operates the United States system
Of Arc and Incandescent Electric Lights, which is
acknowledged to be the be?.t system in present use-
Being sulo grantees of Southern Texas, this com-
pany is prepared to negotiate for rights aud fran-
chises in the counties of Galveston, Travis. Wash-
ington. Walker, Robertson, Brazos. Madison, Mi-
lam, Jefferson. Orange, Colorado, Victoria, Beii,
Austin, Fort Bend, Bastrop, Burue;, Moutgoinerj-,
Grimes. Burles.ui. Guadalupe, Williamson, Nueces,
Call well, Lavaca. Fayette, and any other counties
south of the 31st parallel.
Parties wishing to inspect the system are request-
ed to call on 1 he undersigned and see the lights iu
operation at the Electric Light Station and through-
out the city.
For terms and other information apply to
E. RAPHAEL, President.
Houston. Texas.
NO VELTIES. NOVELTIES.
B. R. Davis Bro9>
58 &. 60 XttAR&BT STREET,
^Opposite Girardin Hotel.)
JUST RECEIVED
Our new Fall and Winter stock of
Carpeting, Furniture
and
HOUSE-FURNISHING GOODS.
Having rec.-ived ~oo \-, m aiAoeuX lots \v« have
made such sweeping reduction* as will place our
goods within the reach of ali.
Don't forget to giv* us a call. Our wholesale de-
partment, now '.'O'viplv-'e, oSti's to di ^ici's av oppor-
tunity to huve their orders fillad with uromi>iii3ss
and •iisp-iScli.
attentiou given to mail orders.
notices.
C. Aultmax, Pres. C H. Jackson, Sec. & Treas.
A. HraroRn. V. P. F.. .Y. Landor. Engintn-r.
\YBROUGHT IRON BRIDGE CO.. OF CANTON,
\\ OGQQ.
MANUFACTURERS of ALL KTNDSof WROUGHT
IRON and COMBINATION BRIDGES.
For plans, specifications and general information
address
HARRIS & LEVERSEDGE. Agents,
Dallas, Texas.
Drayage Drayage
ED. KETCHUM & CO.,
Draymen and Contractors,
Do all kinds of heavy and hcrht hauling Machin-
ery". Boilers and Safes our specialties.
ice* Co-ncrof 5*2d St. and Strand.
DOUGLASS GREEN,
16 A 18 Exchange Place, New York,
BP.OKIR IN
STOCKS. BONDS AHD FOREIGN EXCHA
Ordtn far loH»a Fnfrnre* promptly ]
f GILBERT H. GREEN k CO..S«rOr!nm|
r*»*s*itcm ' CHARLES GREEN S SUM k CO..S»tsbiJ
(O D. BALDWIN. Pr«* l4-.h N*l-1 £*bk,
CORRESPONDENCE_SOLICITEDj_
otice.
THE CALVESTONlGAS CO]
ALLOKDERS OK ro^IPLAI
receive prompt attention, should /
the office of the Company, in the Brick I
Market Street, Between 24tli P^J
Streets, V* tl
Between the hours of S and l^oVlock^fm.
Al'G. BPTTLA!)• Secretary.
Professor Maggioli,
Champion of the South.
FKOM THIS DATE,
lovers of the game of billiards
Will find Professor Maggioli in charge of the
Beach Hoiel Rooms
Exhibitions in scientific shots; instruction in
playing. The pleasure of players and visitors, I
trust, will increase the attraction at my Rooms.
J. HARVEY PIERCE, Proprietor.
•TISXAS
Continental Meat Co.
FORT WORTH and VICTORIA. TEXAS.
At F. HIG-CrS, President and G-eneral
Manager*
This Company is now delivering
Dressed Beef, Mutton and Veal
at our Refrigerator Rooms, TWENTY-SECOND
AND AVENUE A, and the public are invited to
inspect the same.
AYERS & CANNON,
gekesal agents.
NOTICE.
GULF, COLORADO AND SANTA FE R'Y. ^
Galveston, September 11, 18S3. \
Notice is hereby given that the annual meeting
of the stockholders of thii company will be held at
the office of the company, in the city of Galveston,
on
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1883,
at 12 o'clock noon. Transfer books will be closed *
from September 15 to October 15,1883 ; both dayg
inclusive.
F. P. KXX*XJ2ECT,
Secretary.
Cotton Factors
AND
INTERIOR SKIPPERS
Will pleass note that
WM. BOYD & BRO.,
Experisncsd Gotten Weighers,
will weigh all cotton intrusted to them
after September 1, 1833,
At 5 Cents Per Bale.
2. King, President. Harvey B. Gibrs, Sec'y*
J as. A. King, V. Pres't. A. H. Porter. Engineer.
King Iron Bricge
fflAWUfAlllUftUU win, 1,
t't.fJ VBIO.
Manufacturers of all kinds of WROUGHT IRON
and COMBINATION BRIDGES.
*3* Plans, specifications and estimates submitted
on application.
OLIVER & ALEXANDER,
General Southern Agents.
Office: Room No. 10, Fox's Building, Houston,
Texas.
Wo still pay the highest
market price for isame, or
gin for tlie seed, ^applying
Bagging and Ties
Galveston Oil OImp'y.
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The Galveston Daily News. (Galveston, Tex.), Vol. 42, No. 182, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 20, 1883, newspaper, September 20, 1883; Galveston, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth461584/m1/2/: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Abilene Library Consortium.