The Galveston Daily News. (Galveston, Tex.), Vol. 37, No. 302, Ed. 1 Tuesday, March 11, 1879 Page: 2 of 4
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Tuesday. March 11,1879.
A Pennsylvania paper says: "A
Huntingdon canary bird sang until it
busted." That is nothing. Any num-
ber of opera troupes have done the same
thing.
The fatal effects of a long-continued
use of tobacco has been illustrated lately
in the case of a man at Broglie, France,
who died lately while smoking his pipe.
He was 100 years and 3 months old.
Under the head of " Persons and
Tilings," the New ITaven Register says
" Agnes Jcnks is wandering about New
Orleans in a lonesome sort of way, with
nothing to do, and John Sherman re-
mains indifferent."
An English gentleman recently re-
ceived by mail a packet of peas which
were taken from the folds of an Fgyp-
tian mummy, unrolled in the Britifih
museum, 3800 years old. He planted
them, and they have sprouted, with good
promise of growing vigorously.
Tite Zulu wmr has been the occasion
for starting an enterprise for establishing
a telegraph by way of Alexandria,
through Egypt, and on by land to Cape
Town and Pretoria in the Transvaal.
The English government lias been asked
for a subsidy in aid of the project.
Trre Patria, a leading paper in the
City of Mexico, prints an extract from
the report of the chief of the customs
guard at Matamoros, concerning the
seizure of smuggled goods from one of
the steam launches attached to the United
States gunboat Rio Bravo:
It is a double insult, that our laws should
bo thus infringed and trod upon by men
who have less reason to urge ignorance as
an excuse—men who are placed on the
American frontier to vigilantly protect
the interasts of their country, without set-
ting at defiance the laws of a neighboring
republic.
Since members of the legislature have
become acquainted with each other, and
measurably with the needs of different
sections, it seems that the spirit of sec-
tionalism and intolerance of measures
adapted to the protection of interests
peculiar to special localities and sections
T>f the state, does not to the same extent
exist and is not so obtrusive as during
the first days of the session. This rather
"unexpected result of prolonged daily
and intimate association of members is a
strong argument for longer and more
frequent sessions than the constitution
contemplates. When the time comes to
make final provision for frontier protec.
tion and the enforcement of the laws in
some of the more exposed counties, it is
to be hoped that we will not be required
to modify the foregoing conclusions.
CRIMINAL AND CIVIL COURTS.
The question of abolishing the crimi-
nal district court of Galveston and Har-
is counties has excited a somewhat
lively discussion of the comparative
economy of having a single district court
for both criminal and civil purposes in
these counties. The sum of the argu-
ments and of the facts adduced on both
sides of the question is to the conclusion
that it would be in the interest of general
cconomy and general efficiency iu the ad-
ministration of criminal justice to have a
set of courts exclusively devoted to the
trial of criminal cases, and as nearly as
possible in perpetual session. The ju-
dicial power of Texas is vested by the
state constitution in a supreme court, a
court of appeals, district courts, county
courts, commissioners courts, court* of
justices of the peace, and in such other
courts as may be established by law.
The legislature may establish criminal
district courts with such jurisdiction as
it may prescribe, but no such court
shall be established unless its district
includes a city of at least
thirty thousand inhabitants, and it is re-
quired that the city shall support the
court when established. It is further
provided by the state constitution that
the criminal district court of Galveston
and Harris counties shall continue,
with the district, jurisdiction and organ-
zation now existing by law, until other-
wise provided by law. Thus the framers
of the constitution in 1876 recognized,
in the instance of the criminal district
court of Galveston and Harris counties,
the demonstrated advantage of having a
separate judiciary for attending sole-
ly to criminal business. Subsequent
experience, as interpreted by intel-
ligent observers of the bar and of the
bench, has abundantly confirmed the
view taken by the constitutional con
vention in providing for the indefinite
continuance of the criminal district court
of Galveston and Harris counties. Why,
then, propose the summary extinction
of this court, and the summary transfer
of its business to the already over-crowded
docket of a civil district court? Would
it not be more reasonale to propose for
the whole state utterly distinct judiciaries
for the trial respectively of criminal and
civil cases? Experience, reason, com
mon sense, analogy, the nature of things,
all seem to concur in favor of the latter
proposition. It is subject of remark
that there are three reversals in appeals
from district courts of both civil and
criminal jurisdiction to one reversal in
appeals from the district court pre-
sided over by judge Cook, and
which is of criminal jurisdiction
alone. The admitted explanation of
the disparity, conceding judge Cook's
eminent ability, is that in his court there
are no clamor and pressure of civil liti-
gation to distract the judicial mind from
the principles of criminal jurisprudence
und the technicalities of criminal proce-
dure. It is a maxim of the philosophy
of progress in all departments of labor,
both mental and physical, that the
more the division the greater the
efficiency. In all civilized countries
specialization has been a manifest law of
progress in occupations and professions
where private interests suggest the best
methods of improvement in skill and
efficiency. Why not apply this sugges-
tion of common sense to the purpose of
improving the judicial system of the
state? The state constitution, as previ-
ously observed, has measurably ap-
proved the policy
criminal judiciary
for the indefinite
the criminal district court of Galves-
ton and Harris counties. Not only this.
The same instrument contains a perma"
nent provision in the direction of such
a policy. It establishes a separate court
to hear appeals in all criminal cases of
whatever grade. Why not carry the
policy to completion by establishing for
the whole state a separate set of crimin-
al courts? There can be no question
that with an inferior judiciary to try
criminal cases alone, and with a superior
judiciary to hear criminal appeals alone,
the dispatch of criminal business would
be vastly expedited and the judicial en-
forcement of the laws against all classes
of criminals would be rendered propor-
tionately more certain, more condign,
and more wholesome. Had a
choice to be made as to hav-
ing the present district courts
of the state wholly criminal or wholly
civil, the interest of society would clearly
suggest the elimination of the civil busi-
ness, rather than the criminal business
from these courts. Civil litigation does
not confront the law-maker as an abso-
lute necessity. But as long as society is
infested with criminal enemies to its
peace and to its rights of life, person and
property, it is absolutely necessary to
have some efficient organization of
criminal justice.
acting as ad jutant general, and holds that
the duties assigned to the office of adju-
tant general must necessarily be per-
formed by an officer appointed as adju-
tant general. _
CRIMINAL DISTRICT COURT.
Reasons
Why It Should
ished.
be Abol-
of a separate
in providing
continuance of
[To the News.]
Houston, March 3.—The legislature
now in session at Austin seems in earnest
in desiring to retrench public expenditures
and to lessen the burdens of taxation un-
der which the people are groaning. They
know that there is a popular clamor
throughout the state for retrenchment.
They know that a fourth—some say that
fully a third—of all the hoinsteads in the
state have been sold under the sheriff's
hammer for defaulted taxes, and that this
confiscation of the property of the citizens
is still going on. They know that this re-
sults not from any unwillingness of the
citizens to pay taxes and bear the share of
the burdens of good government, but from
the fact that the taxes are so high that a
large portion of the people can not pay
them without bringing their families to
distressx Times have been growing tighter
and tighter for a long time, money scarcer
and scarcer, and all values contracting,
but taxes have not contracted with the
diminishing volume of money and the
diminishing value of everything that the
industry produces. There can not be a
single member of the legislature, who un-
der circumstances like these does not feel
it to lie his duty to cut down and retrench
ith a muscular hand whenever he can do
> without impairing the efficiency of
government. Not to do so under the
circumstances would be a wicked wrong
to the constituency who elected him.
Look at us in this city of Houston, for
instance. See how we are absolutely
swamped under the burdens of govern-
ment. Our state tax is 50 cents on the
hundred dollars; our county tax is 68
cents on the hundred; our city tax is $2
on the hundred, making in all $3 18 on the
hundred which wo have to pay in taxes.
If we add to this $1 75 on the hundred for
insurance—which may justly be consid-
ered a tax, for no prurient man can do
without it—it will be soen that the exac-
tion upon us amounts to #4 93 on the hun-
dred of roal and personal estate, and this
in the face of the fact that much of this
property don't yield that much on the in-
vestment.
The people of the country around us are
quite as badly off. They feel their bur
dens as badly as we do ours in the city.
The clamor" of retrenchment—retrench-
ment that is absolutely necessary—comes
from every nook and corner of the state.
All eyes are turned to Austin; all hands
are uplifted toward Austin praying for re-
lief. Good law-makers can not fail to heed
the prayer. Let not these prayers be
changed into curses.
CRIMINAL. COURT.
I will point out one little matter where-
in there can be a saving of ten or twelve
thousand dollars a year secured to the state
at iarge, and nearly as much to the tax-
ridden people of this county, without in
any degree impairing efficiency. I refer
to the criminal court "of Harris
and Galveston counties. What on
earth is the necessity for this tribunal ?
If there in no necessity, is it not wrong to
tax the people to sustain it? Can not the
district and county courts of Harris and
Galveston easily perform all the duties
which this ;now performs? No one can
deny it. For instance, the judge of the
Galveston district has but one solitary
court to preside over—that of Galveston
county—and the law requires him to hold
five terms a year; and the district judge
of this district has but two counties—
Harris and Montgomery. I know not ex-
actly how it is with judge Stewart in Gal
veston, but certainly judge Masterson, of
the Harris and Montgomery district, is
idle from seven to nine months in the year.
Can any one possibly say, then, that this
criminal court is at all necessary for Harris
county ? All that the legislature would
require to do, in case it is lopped
off, is to pass an act that judge
Masterson shall hold four terms of court
a year instead of two as the law now re
quires, and the thing: is done. The propo-
sition, which has been urged by some, that
that his court would be loaded, down with
business and justice delayed, is absurd on
its face; because it is a fact that at leas'
three-fourths of the cases which now go to
the criminal court are misdemeanors, and
these, under the constitution would l>e
transferred to the county court, and tried
by jury of six men, while only the felony
cases, which now go the criminal court,
would be transferred to the district court.
That these would not load judge Master-
son's court at all can very readily be seen
by any one who will take the trouble to
examine the dockets of the criminal court.
At its last December term there was but
one single felony conviction, and at the
term just ended there were only three or
four. Three or four a term may l>e taken
as the average of the felony convictions
from the foundation of the court to the
present time. Can any one possibly say
that this is work enough to make this a
necessity?
I believe that Bexar has the heaviest
criminal docket of any county in the state,
and yet we have 110 complaint of overload-
ed courts from that county. The legisla-
ture once gave it a criminal court, but the
le found it an unnecessary and costly
jhing, and petitioned the legislature to do
away with it before the new constitution
stepped in and abolished all criminal
courts except this one of Harris and Gal-
veston.
Now for the saving to the state which
will be secured by the abrogation of this
court:
Salary of criminal judge £3,50®
rtaiarv of two clerks 2,00^
Sain: y of one attorney 1,00°
Salary of extra deputy sheriffs. 2,000
Rent and other expenditures incident to
holding separate courts 2,."0J
six men instead of twelve. But
it is asserted that because the district court
meets only twice a "year, the county would
be at an additional expense of keeping
prisoners in jail. Is this true? Let us tee.
The county court would meet the first
Monday in every month for the trial of
criminal business. Sow, if the criminal
business of less grade than felony was in
the county court, it would come up for
hearing seonor than it does in the criminal
court, which meets but every other month.
So, then, if speedy trials be the rule, the
advantages are in favor of the countv
court. As the commissioners court stated,
if it was deemed necessary for the trial of
the felony cases, the terms of the district
court might be increased. But now we
state, when was any felony case of impor-
tance tried in the criminal court under six
months from the time of commitment of
the accuser. The cost of the dis-
trict court to the county, not includ-
ing stationery etc..etc., for the year ending
1878 was #1742 72, and that of the crimi-
nal court $5410 08. Now, if the criminal
business be transferred to the district and
county courts respectively, is it not appa-
" '* ' saving of at least one-hair of
costs the county for petit
* vill ac-
rent that
$4800, what it
juries in the criminal court alone w;
crue to the county?
It is not true that the county is reim-
bursed in fines in running the criminal
court. The only fines paid the county
treasurer during the year 1878, arising
from the action of the court during said
year, were $<531 in May and $35 in August
—the item of $1538 5(5 on the treasurer's
books as fines and jury fees were paid to
him by the sheriff on February, 1878, before
term of the court was held in said year.
So, then, the only fines to offset expenses
of $5410 03 are $60$, and no more. Nor is
it true that the jail expenses for 1878 is less
than it was in 1877, but the reverse is true,
although his pay for feeding prisoners last
year was much less than it was for 1877.
The jail account for 1878 amounted to
$5932 28, while in 1877 it was $5780 03. In
1870 the sheriff was allowed 65c. a day
for each prisoner, now he gets only 30c. a
day.
It is true that the county taxes levied
for this year do not exceed 00c. on the
$100, but it does not follow that the taxes
derived from this levy are sufficient to pay
the current expenses of the county.
A county is not far from bankruptcy
when its scrip or warrants will not sell
for more than 00c. cash on the dollar.
Such is the condition of Harris county to-
day.
One thing that has always appeared evi-
dent to me—the more courts, tee more offi-
HOUSTON IT A PFENINGS.
Volksfest Celebration — Almost
Drowned.
Houston, March 10.—At. a meeting of
the volksfest committee, held yesterday
at Turner hall, it was decided that the
time of holding the volksfest this year
»hall be May ♦> and 7. The committee
to designate the place will report next
Sunday.
A drayman, driving too far into the
bayou this morning, was washed off and
would have drowned but for the master of
a small oyster boat near by, who fished
him out as he was going under the third
time.
A meeting was held by the Irish citizens
yesterday to arrange for a proper celebra-
tion of St. Patrick's day. The committees
on music, decoration, etc.. were appointed
and an adjournment had till to-morrow
evening for reports.
A negro, named Dock Hall, while at-
tempting to steal a coat from Wm. Ander-
son, was struck in the head by the latter
with some sharp instrument, inflicting a
severe cut. Anaerson was lined $5 and
costs for the assault, and Hall is awaiting
trial under charge or theft.
Mr. Alf. Levy, while going through an
old safe at his junk yard this evening,
found £200 in currency.
Arrangement has been made by which
the police are to receive cash for their sal-
ary, $45, and the deputy marshal $75.
Gen. Chanzy, the late governor-gene-
ral of Algeria, is to go to St. Petersburg
as French ambassador, to succeed Gcu.
Lc Flo, who was also once governor of
Algeria, where he befriended the present
czar many years ago, then grand duke
and traveling in that country. Geu. Lc
Flo retires on account of old a?e.
F. S. WINSTON.:Pres't.
For the Year Eliding Dec. 31* 1878.
Net assets, January 1st, 1H78 $8 2,355,078 27
RECEIPTS FOR 1878.
From Premiums. . .$13,092,719 83
From Interest and
Rents 4,7T>2,107 74 $17.S4\127 57
Total $100,200,805 84
DISBURSEMENTS FOR 1878.
For Death and En-
dowment Claims
(matured and dis-
counted) $0,603,713 2\
For Annuities 20,597 97
For Dividends 3,555,462 00
For Surrendered Pol-
icies and Additions 4,214,158 0
For CoutingeutQuar-
Spain boasts of 02 dukes, 806 mar-
quises, 632 counts, 92 viscounts and 98
barons, besides 44 ennobled foreigners.
Two dukes, 58 marquises, 30 counts. 6
viscounts and 2 barons have been created
by the present king. The university
students this year number 16,889, of
whom 6823 are studying medicine and
6409 law.
MARRIED :
LABI7ZAN—K1ELY. On Sunday, March 2
at St. Patrick's church, by Rev. Father <Jlynn,
A. 8. Labusan to Airs. V. E. Kiely. both of this
city. No cards.
cers, the greater the expenses and the
greater the debt. The cost of jurors to
this county during last year amounted to
the sum of $S417 96 (in district court,
$1742 72; criminal court, $5410 03, and in
county court, $1205 21)—a larger sum, we
venture the assertion, by nearly one-half
than it costs any other county in the state
of equal population with this, where the
criminal and civil business are transacted
by the district and county courts.
From the foregoing, we conclude the
savings to this county and state, by the
abolition of the criminal court, as follows :
Salary of judge $3,500
Salary of disi riot attorney son
Salary of clerk to the court 1.0 0
Reduction in jury fees 8,0. 0
Reduction of expenses incident to hold-
ing separate courts 1,000
Total 89,000
We understand that many of our law-
yers here have advised against the aboli-
tion of the court. In answer to this, all we
have to say is, that lawyers' ideas of eco-
nomy are not as rigid nor as strict as the
ideas of economy entertained by a large
majority of the tax-payers of this county.
NEW YORK LETTER.
Silver Stroas—The Crisis In the Coal
Trade—Conclusions about Cotton—
Money, Sterling, etc.
(Special Correspondence of the News.l
New York, March 5.—There is a firmer
tone to silver both here and abroad, which
leads to the inference that a large buyer
will soon >>e in the market. The quotation
abroad is up to 49%d, while here the
price is sharp 108}^.
The Missouri, Kansas and Texas earn-
ings for the fourth week of February came
in §53,189, against $51,864 in 1S78, or an
increase of $1325. The month's business
Tite house of representatives has
passed to engrossment the constitutional
amendment prescribing payment of the
poll tax as a prerequisite to voting, but
not by a two-thirds majority. Unless it
obtains that vote on final passage the
proposition fails. The enforcement of
such a law would yield, on the basis of
the vote at the last election and without
change in the poll tax, a revenue of over
$700,000 as against about 30 per cent, of
that sum heretofore realized. Why pay-
ment of other taxes might not, on grounds
of equity and financial expediency, be
also prescribed as a prerequisite to vot-
ing. does not appear, and did not appear
in the debates upon the question when
Mr. Pauli, of Fayette, proposed it at the
time the bill was on its second reading.
Tite legislature has been in session
since January 14, and is within a few
days of the close of its regular term of
sixty days. Only four more days at $5
per diem remains. It has. in that time,
to pass every measure that is required to
establish the finances of the state in
proper shape, to pass the most carefully
considered tax bills, to pass bills mak-
ing appropriations for the support of the
government, to pass bills providing for
debts, bonded or unbonded, to accrue
before the next legislature, and to meet
debts already due. It has also to pro
vide for retiring the bonded debt which
lx-ars onerous and extravagant interest.
The legislature now in session must do
all this, besides other things, in the next
five days, or work at $2 a day beyond
that time, if it does not adjourn, leaving
important matters pending, and thereby
Confessing that in not adopting at once
and implicitly the executive policy it.
has utterly failed iu the independent
course assumed at the beginning of the
session.
THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT
AND THE MILITIA.
The governor of Arkansas has vetoed
the bill to abolish the office of adjutant
general of the state, because he considers
it in conflict with the constitutional and
legal obligations of the state to the
United States government. The gover-
nor tells the general assembly that the
office was not of its creation, and can be
abolished by no authority short of that
which created it. The state law, he
says, providing for the appointment of
that officer was merely a reaffirmation
of a law of congress in accordance with
the clause of the United States consitu-
tion authorizing congress to " provide for
organizing, arming and disciplining the
militia, * * * reserving to the states
respectively the appointment of the of
ficers." In exercise of this power the
second congress proceeded, at its first
session, to pass an act entitled "an act
more effectually to provide for the na
tional defense by establishing a uniform
militia throughout the United States,
which act declares that " there shall be
an adjutant general appointed in each
state," and defines his duties. At the
second session of the seventh congieas
an act additional to that of 1792 was
passed, and approved by Thomas Jeffer-
son, then president, March 2, 1803. This
act, which is still in force, further de-
fines the duties of the adjutant generals
to be appointed by the states, and de-
clares that it shall be the duty of the
secretary of war. from time to time to
give such directions to the adjutant gen-
erals of the militia as shall in his opinion
be necessary, etc. The bill passed by
the Arkansas legislature provides that
the private secretary of the governor
" shall perform all the duties now per-
formed by the adjutant general," but
this the governor regards as an evasion
of the obligations of the state in the
matter. He says:
Under the decision of the supreme
court of the United States in Houston vs.
Moore, it would not appear that the legii
lature possesses the authority to devolve
the duties of the military office of adjutant
general upon any civil officer; the law of
the United States, which can not be
amended or in any manner affected by
subordinate legislation,providing distinctly
for the appointment of an adjutant gener-
al, as such. It is, however, unnecessary
at all to advert to federal authority in this
particular. The bill is contradictory in
its terms. The first section provides that
the private secretary shall perform all the
duties now performed by the adjutant
general. The second abolishes the office of
adjutant general. Supposing the bill to
have been one within the province of the
general assembly, to enact, then the office
either would or would not have been
abolished. If it were abolished, then the
private secretary could not be adjutant
general; since he could not hold and exer-
cise an office not in existence. But the
law of the United States makes it impera-
tive that there shall be an adjutant gen-
eral.
The governor regards the provision in
the state constitution, against two offices
being held by one person, as precluding
Uie governor's private secretary from
Total Si 1,000
The saving to the county would bo near-
ly as much.
There is another singular thing about
this criminal court. Under the constitu-
tion all other judges and all other court
clerks are elected" by the people, but the
criminal judge and the criminal clerks are
appointed. Another singular thing is that
all other district court judges get a salary
of $2500 a year, while the judge of this
excrescence "gets $3500 a year. Clerks of
all other courts receive only fees for their
services, while the clerks of the criminal
court get $1000 salary a year besides fees,
which, I am told, run up the emoluments
of the criminal clerk in this county to not
les3 than $4000 a year.
I know not how the people of Galveston
may feel about the obrogation of this
•court, but we in Harris are in dead earn-
est. Our county commissioners by a unani-
mous vote passed a resolution demanding
it, and a petition has gone forward signed
by 000 or 700 of the voters of the county
ying for it. If the people of Galveston
want the court, and are willing to pay for
it themselves, let them have it; but, for
heaven's sake, give the tax-ridden people
of Harris relief.
If we look at article iV, section 1, of the
constitution, it seems plain that the con-
vention did not intend that the criminal
court should continue on its present basis,
as a tax upon the entire people of the
state, beyond the meeting of the next
legislature ; but that it should then cease
to exist, or if the people of Galveston and
Houston wanted it, the legislature might
reestablish it for them, they bearing the
entire expense. Gov. Coke took this view
of it, and refused to appoint a judge or
district attorney. Gov. Hubbard took
another, and, as 1 think, a wrong view, and
made the appointments. The court then,
as it seems to me, is simply the illegal crea-
tion of Gov. Hubbard's act, and there are
many lawyers here who think so too.
n. a. t.
SPECIAL NOTICES.
Wllbor's Cod Liver Oil and Lime*
Persons who have been taking Cod Liver Oi1
will be pleaded to learn that Dr. Wllbor has
succeeded, from directions of several profes-
sional gentlemen, in combining the pure Oil
and Lime in such a manner thai it is ph-asant
to the taste, and its effects in Lung Complaints
are truly wonderful. Very many persons whose
cases were pronounced hopeless, and who had
taken the clear oil for a lo tg time without
marked effect, have been «ntirely cured bv
using this preparation. Be sure and xet the
genuine. Manufactured only by A. B. WILBOR,
Chemist, Boston. Sold by all dniggi&ts.
Notice to Consignee*.-The steamship
CITY OF AUSTIN, from New York, is now
discharging cargo at Williams's wharf.
Consignees will please 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
^ ft
ar-1--_r be adinsfp*! )w>fi
the goods leave the wharf.
are entirely at risk of consignee or owner,
claims for damages must oe adjusted before
mhlO ltE'Jtiu
J. N. SAWYER. Agent.
A Change that Is a Blessing.—There
is no more remarkable feature, in the pro-
gress of science, and no greater change in any
professional practice, than is illustrated by
the contrast of the medical system of to-day,
and thirty yt-ars ago. Then all medicines were
copious in quantity and nauseous to the taste.
To take them was a trial to adults and an over-
whelming horror to the young. Now most
doses are small, and concentrated, and free
from offensive flavor. Until recently, however,
one of the most valuable and efficient of rerue
dies was detestable to nearly all for wl o n it-
was prescribed. Cod Liver Oil, the ouly euro
for wasting decline of vital energy, and eeitain
means of renewing healthy tissue, disgusted
tl'os* to whom it suould have done roost good.
Scott's Emulsion of Cod Liver Oil with theHv
ponhosphites of Lime and Soda removes this
only objection. Its flavor is really pleasant. Its
nourishing powtjr marvelous, and there is no
THE CRIMINAL COURT.
majority of Houston Lawym Op-
pose Its Abolishment.
Houston, March 8.—The News reporter
called on most members of the Houston
bar for the purpose of ascertaining their
views regarding proposition to abolish the
criminal district court for Harris county,
and found them almost unanimous in their
opposition to the change, as are the county
officials and the more prominent citizens.
Major Looscan. county attorney, who
would, in the event of the criminal court
being discontinued, become successor to
the duties of the district attorney as well
as those incumbent on him as at present,
favors the change, for reasons assigned be-
low, which are furnished in answer to in-
quiries from the representative of the
News:
major liooscan^s views.
I am glad the News has taken this mat-
ter in hand. 1 have always thought, and
still think, that the criminal court of this
county could be abolished without the
least embarrassment to the administration
of justice, and as a matter of economy to
the tax-payers. Onr district court holds two
terms a year.each term oontinuing about six
woeks—two terms in Montgomery county,
each lasting about two weeks—thus leav-
ing about eight months in the year in
which the judce is unoccupied, in which
he could try all offenders of the grade of
felony; all other criminal business of
lesser grade, as a matter of course,
would be tried in the county
court, with a jury of only sir men,
instead of twelve as now in the crimi-
nal court. The criminal court now holds
five terms a year to try and dispose of all
criminal business in the county. It certain-
ly .would not take the district court half
that time to try all felony cases—since it is
a fact that three-fourths of the cases on the
criminal court docket are offenses of less
grade thah felony. The convictions for
felony will not, I am told, exceed an aver-
age of five at each term. It is a fact that
there was but one felony conviction at the
last December term. Now, it is well
known, that frequently in the district
court juries summoned for particular
weeks are half theif time idle, because the
ses set for trial for that week are con-
tinued or else the parties are not ready
to try. It therefore appears to
me that the felony cases in
this county could be tried by the juries
in the district court when not engaged in
the trial of civil cases. By this means
the juries now drawn in the district
court for £pe trial of civil cases could be
made to try felony cases at the same time.
Thus, instead of forty-eight jurymen each
week twenty-four men will answer, and
aS all criminal business of lesser grade
than felony would be tried in the county
court, presented by information, three-
fourths of the time now occupied by the
grand jury in finding bills of indictment
for offenses of such grade would be saved,
V m \ fill such eases wou^d be tried in
tho county court by a jury of
footed up $194,836 41, against $181,117 82
last year, or a gain of $18,738 59.
The Delaware and Hudson auction sale
of coal (the first by that company in nearly
three years), is variously construed on the
street. In the coal trade it is said to be
because the company is in need of cash,
and an auction is the quickest way to real-
ize it; while on the other hand, the sale is
said to be a weapon with which to force a
new combination. These parties contend
that coal can be tumbled on the market
until prices are down to a point that will
compel the staif-necked corporations to
•Id. and that it is the intention to force
coal ofE under the hammer regardless of
price. There is no question bu. that mat-
ters have reached the point of desperation,
and that a crisis is not far distant.
Advices from the south already allude
to the closing of business in several sec-
tions, the " season" being over, or vir-
tually so. This is a most unusual occur-
ence. and will account in a great measure
for the scarcity of southern bills of ex-
change.
The new Union Pacific directory is as
follows: Dillon, Dexter, Atkins, Gould,
Sage, Scott. Humphreys. Dorrs, Keene.
Commack, Baker, Ames, Sharp, Clark ana
Loveland. These naryes embrace a part of
the syndicate that took Gould's 100,000
shares, and also Gould himself, who con-
cluded not to step out. It will be remem-
bered Mr. Dillon informed the writer two
weeks ago that Gould would remain. Opin-
ions are divided as to the policy of his re-
maining in—but the majority of stockhold-
ers would no doubt prefer that he should
have retired. The stock sold at 73^ after
the election was known, or % per cent,
lo wer than in the morning.
Ten million 4 per cents were sent out to
the United States treasury agent at Lon-
don by the steamer on Saturday last.
New York, March 6.—There was a bet-
ter demand for Louisiana consols this
morning and quotations were %(&! Per
cent, higher. The sales included $45,000
at 51ji£(c£53. and $10,000 at 51^, seller 30
days.
Mr. Cisco reported the Houston Central
issues very firm, main line 104 bid, 105
asked; Waco division par; western divi-
sion and incomes, sgjos at 80, and that
price bid. For Houston Cent ral shares 25
was bid and refused. Mr. Cisco does not
look for a dividend on these this year, as has
been reported in other quarters.
A reorganization of the Cleveland and
Columbus and Indianapolis and St. Louis
roads has been agreed upon in the interest
of the Erie road, insuring a direct and in-
dependent connection by the Erie with St.
Louis.
The extensive and well-known banking
establishment in Lyons—the " Credit
Lyonnais"—is about establishing an
agency in this city, two of the directors
and the secretary being now here for that
purpose.
The German steamer to-day carried out
$175,000 in silver bars—the reduced pur-
chases by the United States rendering the
exuorts of our surplus silver necessary.
The advance of k;d. in London yesterday
in the face of a lower price for India bills,
was said to be due to a demand for silver
from the continent.
Money has been easy all day at 3@4 per
cent., but loaned at the close up to 5 per
cent.
Stocks left off without snap—a kind of
broker's market.
The clearing house exchanges of the
various cities, exclusive of stock specula-
tions, during February were about 22 per
cent, larger than in 1878, which is regard-
ed a very encouraging feature of the
times.
The ootton market has been a mvstery
to-day. It opened at three points advance
—lost it all—and then rallied and closed
6@7 points above last evening. It was
surmised that the advance was the work
of manipulation.
A Pretty Philanthropist.—The " Pris-
oner's Friend." of New York, is a very hand-
some and quite wealthy Western lady named
Linda Gilbert. She supplies the poor wretches
with books, papers, etc., and to those who are
penned in the deadly and horrible Tombs, she
britnrs Giles' Liniment Iodide Ammonia, which
she says is the only real treatment for their
neuralgia and rheumatism.
Sold by all druggistSend for pamphlet.
DR. GILES,
451 Sixth avenue, X. Y.
Triwl si?» 95 cent*.
AUCTION SALES.
AUCTION SALE.
X\TE WILL SELL THIS DAY, ltth inst.
tt at 10 o'clock, at our salesroom. Strand—
1 Second-hand PIANO.
lf> Second-ha nl SEWING MACHINES.
Assorted GROCERIES and sundry merchan-
dise.
Goods for auction received up to hour of
sale.
PARK, LYNCH & CO.,
mhl lit Auctioneers.
AUCTION SILK OF JEWELRY.
W8 WILL SELL ON TUESDAY, ,11th
INST.) at 11 o'clock, at our salesrooms,
Strand—
An Invoice of Solid Gold Jewelry
Con Osting of Studs, Sleeve-Buttons. Ear
Rings, Sets, etc., sold to close consignment
shipped bv manufacturer.
PARK, LYNCH A CO.,
marll It Auctioneers.
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS
statembnt op
THE
MUTUAL LIFE
Insurance Company,
OF NEW YORK.
an tee Account ...
For Commissions
(payment of cur-
rent extinguish-
ment of future)...
For Expenses aud
Taxes..
277,101 <r
532.106 63
817,093 57 $;6,ey.72t> 42
BAtJkxes. Jajtvxrt 1st, 1S?9.. $*4.l74.i.T?6 42
ASSETS. JANUARY 1ST, 1879.
Bonds secured by
Mortgage ou Real
Estate. .... $57,268,331 93
United States and
other Stocks 'cost
value) 17.333.175 18
Real Estate 6,319,051 73
Cash in Banks and
Trust Companies,
at. Interest . ... 3,l00.^i6 10
Balance due by
Agents. 53.001 42
Net Assets, January 1. 1H79. $84,1*4.3TO 42
Add
Interest Accrued. . $1,455,754 00
Deferred Premiums $15,817 15
Premiums in transit lJ'J.ari 58
Market Value of
Stocks in excess of
cost. 502,694 37 $?,953.538 10
Gross Assets, Jan. 1st. 1S79..
Liabilities, Jan. 1st, 1879
687 127.614 52
. 82,878,23* so
surpurs and Costingevt Guaran-
tee Fund.
$4,340,378 72
Number or Policies in force, .Jan. 1,1879. .91,828
Sum Insured thereby $290,774,315
NOTE.—If the New York Standard of four
and a half per cent. Interest be used, the Sur-
plus is $11,39.>,5.>3,:>0.
From the Surplus, a* appears in the Balance
Sheet, a Dividend will be apportioned to each
Policy which shall be in force at its anniversary
in 1879.
LEGAL NOTICES.
I No. 617.1
IN UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT,
Eastern District of Texas.
In the matter of Thos. K. Hawkins, of Galves-
ton. Texas, bankrupt.
In Bankiuptcy.
This is to give notice that on the 26th day of
February, A. D. !87t). a ]>etitior. was filed by said
bankrupt praying for a discharge from all his
debts, provable under the bankrupt act. and
that an order wa< made thereon by said court,
requiring the saim* to be heard on" the
17TH DAY OF MARCH, A. D. 1879,
at 10 o'clock a. m., at the city of Galveston.
Wherefore all creditors who have proved
their debts against the estate of said bank-
rupt. ami other persons In interest, are hereby
notified 10 appear at said time and place, and
show cause. If any they have, why the prayer
of said petition should not be grauted.
WM. J. PHILLIPS, U. S. Marshal.
By Ed. H. Callaway. Chief Deputy. m4 tu 2t
Trustee's Sale.
T>Y VIRTUE OF THAT CERTAIN DEED
1 > of trust executed and deliver, d by N. B.
lard to A. R. Campbell, trustee, on the 29th
day of November. 18rs, an.I recorded in Book
2t>, pages 625. 620, 627 und 628. of the land re-
Cords of Galveston county, to secure the pay-
ment of his pnfinissory note therein described
for $3w> 6v «tat«l November 29, 1.s78, and due
three months from dale, and at the request of
N. N. John. President of the Galveston and
Brazos Navigation Company, owner of said
note?, I will.
On tub 25th Day of March, 1«19,
between the hours of 11 a. m. and 2 p. m., in
front of the court house of Galveston county,
in Galveston county. State of Texas, sell at
public auction to the highest bidder for cash:
The undivided half of tno3e certain tracts of
Jan l in Galveston city. Galveston cojntv. State
< f Texas, hwown an I designated on tne map
of said city as lots numbered six, seven, eight.
nin« and ten trt. 7, H, i» and 10) in block five hun-
dred and seventy two (572). it being the suae
property conveyed in said trust deed.
.xdi Md A R CAMPBELL, Trustee.
EIGHTEEN
HERRING'S
By the unanimous action of the Boa»d of
Trustees another important step in advance
has been taken in the interest of all Policy-
holders and the public, by directing that the
premium rates on old and new Policies shall be
reduced fifteen per cent, from present tabular
rates for Whole Lite Annual Premium Poli-
cies. with a corresponding equitable reduction
cn the other forms.
The option is given to present members to
accept this reduction in cash or to pay full rates
on the old plan, and receive equitable addi-
tions of insurance, payable with the policy;
the reductions to be made on the anniversaries
of the policies. All dividends are allotted in
proportion to the actual contr.butions of each
class to the surplus of the Company.
New Yors, February 13, 1879.
IN THE RECENT GREAC
FIRES IN NEW YORK,
Jan. 14 an<l Jan. 17, 1879,
Preserved the nooks, Pnpers and
Set uriticv of tile follow ing parties*.
All tbf*« firms, and oilier*— former
oecnpants of the burned bonding*—
1»hve piii-4-tta*e€l new
P4TEIVT CHAMPION SA|r£« since
the tires occurred:
Howard, sangeu a co.. (s safes*
NAUJIBURG, KRAUS, LAl'ER & CO
edwin bates & co.
VAN VOLKENBIRGH & LEAVITT-
WALXINSHAW & YOIttT.
HENRY W. T. MALI & CO., (3 safes.)
FOKSTMANN k CO.. (2 safes.)
SCHNABF.L BROTHERS.
HENRY BAY LIS. (2 safes.)
JOHN" SLADE ic CO.
U. E. JiARkS.
Fend for tho
CHAMPS® W HLCORD !
HERRING & CO..
251 & 333 BROADWAY, S. V.
Centaur Liniments.
Suffer not-there is relief. The effects of the Centaur Liniments in subduing pata,
healing Sores and banishing Rheumatism, are little less than miracles ..." Tho must wonderful
external remedies ever produced.''—N. Y. Tribune . There is no kind of Sprain, Wt.und. Bum
or Scald ihev wiil not curs—no case of long standing Rheumatism. Neuralgia or Weak
Back they will not benefit. The White is for Family use and the Yellow for Animal
use. Do not lunger he deceived. Send for the Centaur Receipt-Book; it contains the tssti:n«-
i:ia!s of the most remarkable cures ever effected by any remedy. It will be sent you gratis. Ths
Centaur Liniments are sold everywhere, for 50 cents and one dollar per bottle.
THE CENTAUR COMPANY. 46 Bey St., N. Y.
Caatoria is the great Children's Medicine of this country. It is pleasant to take, harm-
less and effective; gives the mother rest and the child heilth; costs but 35 ccnts, and can be had
of any druggist. v
J
I VI WI1VIIB9 U VUG
WHOLESALE HARDWARE MERCHANTS, '
STRAND, GALVESTON, TEXAS, '
OfTer interior Merchants special advantages in the following lines of goods:
Iran, Steel, Castings, Nails, Saddlery, Tinware, Woodenware,
Mantels, Grates, Wapn ari Buggy Materials,
PAINTS, OILS, VARNISHES. BRUSHES. RUBBER BELTING,
AND THE LARGEST ASSORTMENT OF
TABLE tfc POCKET CUTLEH.T
Ever Exhibited in Texas. Sole Agents for
LYON'S PATENT HEEL STIFFENERS
iVt Manufacturer's Prices.
DAL
DIRECT MPORTEB OF
WINES, BHAKTDIES, GIKTS, Etc
Sole Agent at Galveston Tor ROSSKAJI GERSTT H* & CO.'S
well known
Monogram, Reserve, Orion C!ub and Saratoga
W HIS K- I E S .
Also for ALBERT MAYER'S. THANN (Alsace) BALLON
BITTERS, ANISSETTE, and ASSORTED CORQULS AND LIQUORS
KRUG'S CHAKFAGI^,
And LEMP'S ST. LOUIS LAUVAl BEER.
CP" ORDERS FOR DIRECT SHIPMENTS SOLICITED. dcfiJSa
TirGAlVETTcF
JOB PRINTING OFFICE
—IS BY FAR THE—
Largest Establishment of the kind in the Southern States,
akd oonswjue'm.y can do
WORK. CDF.IPER AND BETTER than any of Its Competitors.
AMEHICA AHEA9 ON
SPOOL, COTTON I
Byron Sherman, General tg't,
ST. LOUIS, mo.
AT AUCTION,
The Hayhurst Boarding House,
ON STRAND, between 20th and 21st streets.
We will sell on WEDNESDAY, March 12th, at
10 a. m.. the entire contents of the above place,
consisting of all kinds of
Furniture, Bedding:, etc.
complete sets, beds, bureaus, etc. ; bar and
bar room fixtures.
SVDNOR & DINKELAKER, Anct'nre.
AUCTION! AUCTION!
1AA DOZEN 42 inch towels, 50 boxes knlt-
Iv/U ting cotton, a large lot of notions, a hig
line of fine hosiery, umbrellas, soaps, linon
towels, etc.—new goods just received. Abo.
sundry Jots furniture, groceries, glassware,
tinware, etc. This day. March 11th, at 10 a. m.
By SYDNOR & DINKELAKER, Auct'nrs.
VZaiER'S
IMPROVED FRENCH PROCESS
FOR DISINCRUSTING
Steam Boilers.
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
KL TuT
TSjT
Important meetinj this evening- at
7.30 ,-hjrp.
Notice.
ALL PERSONS HAYING CLAIMS AGAINST
the estate of f be late A. BODEN. or against
the schooner Adolph Flake, are notified to pre-
sent the same to the undersigned as required
by law. H. HARW1TZ,
mil 11 3t 11 18 25 Guardian est. Matilda Boden.
FROM THE FRONTIER.
Arrest of Participants in the San
Elizario .Hassacre -■ Itlcxiean
Threats, Bte.
LTo the News.l
Ysleta, Texas, Feb. 27.—The state
troops under Sergts. Ludwick and Logan
have just arrested several of the murderers
of judge Howard, McBride. Atkinson,
Mortimer and Ellis, at San Elizario. Most
of the Mexicans implicated in the San Eli-
zario riot have fled into Mexico. A rescue
is looked for from across the river, accord-
ing to news brought from the other side of
the river. Menacing threats have been
sent from Guadalupe, San Ignacio and
Saragossa, to the effect that the San Eliza-
rio murderers and their friends on the
Mexican side ask no difference of Ameri-
cans on this side, and they vow that not a
man shall be punished for a participation
in the butchery at San Elizario a year
ago.
The Hon. Judge Allen Blacker is ex-
pected to arrive in a few days to open the
district court for this county. The judge
has been visiting Washington.
Mr. Fuhrmann, formerly tax assessor
for this county, committed suicide at Leon
Hale's, on his wav to Austin to attend as a
witness before the United States grand
jury.
Thirty U. S. recruits are to arrive at
this place in a few days for the company
stationed here under "command of Lieut.
Dav.
American citizens in this county are
nervously awaiting the action of the legis-
lature in regard to making an appropriar
tion for the increase and retention of the
state Iroops in this county. If the legisla-
ture fails iu this particular, people expect
a fearful crisis, and they have made up
their minds to leave in case no succor is
alTorded by the state. Tours,
Juevxs.
FUNERAL NOTICE.
Diet>—In this city on Monday, March 10,1879,
at 1.80 o'clock p. m., JESSE VINEYARD, agod
3-* years, of theiate firm oi Vineyard & Kin-
dred.
The friends and acquaintances of the family
are invited to attend nis funeral this (Tuesday)
afternoon at 4 o'clock from his late residence,
corner 28th and Broadway.
Galveston, March II, 1S79.
The members of Tucker Lodge No. 257, A. F.
and A. M. will meet at Masonic hall at 2.80
o'clock m. this day for the purpose of at.
tending the funeral services of cur deceased
brother. Jesse Vineyard.
Members of Harmony Lodge No. 6 and visit-
ing brethren are fraternally invited to attend.
JOHN C. HALL,
A. F. CYKOSKI, Worshipful Master.
U.S.Government Sale
Custom Hodse, GAivrgroir, Tsxas, I
CoLuatrroR's OrricE, March 10.1870. f
I WILL SELL AT PUBLIC AUCTION. TO
the highest bidder, for cash, at 12 u.t on
WEDNESDAY, March 26, 1879,
at the United J^ta'.es Public Store, Mechanic
street, near Twenty-first street. Galveston,
Texas, the following described merchandise,
seized and forfeited ror violation of the cus-
toms revenue laws, viz:
Lot 1— 860 CIGARS.
Lot 1— 4 gallons RUM.
Lot 3— 1 81LK SCARF.
Lot 3— 404 CIGARS.
Lot 4-1000 CIGARS.
Lot 5— 90 CIGARS.
Lot 5— 4 gallons RUM.
Lot 6— 197 CIGARS.
E. M. PEASE,
mhll tu3t Collector.
Positive Action Within Three Week
We treat all waters, whatever impurities
they hold in solution. Removes Scale. Pre-
vents Scale form.ng. Prevents corrosion and
"Pitting.'' Prevents "Foaming." Contains
no Acid, and guaranteed perfectly harmless.
Acts on all Waters, whatever their impurities.
Any waters can be employed—hard water, te i
water, or sulphurous water. Saves fuel, re-
pairs. and oil and tallow, and lessens the dan-
ger of explosions. Can be introduced through
feed pipe, safety pipe, or man-h -le. Put up in
packages of from 10 to 125 pounds. All in-
fringements dealt with according to law.
TB vr IJI ON IA M.
Crescent City Sujrar Refinery. »
New Orleans. Jan. 28, 1879. f
Mr. Hugh W. Montgomery. Atrent Messrs. John
D. Moora/t Co.. «G1, 268 and i63 Broadway,
New York, for Vigor s Improved French
Process for Disincrusting Boilers;
Dk±r Sir—I have tried the disincrustant you
are llie acent for thoroughly. We have been
using it, for several weeks. I did this as a per-
sonal fa\orto you. fori generally dislike mak-
ing experiments. I can only say that I am glad
I have given fbe disincrustant a trial, for it has
turned out by far the* best thing of its kind that
I hav© ever used. It comes up to all its claims
on its printed circular, and in future I shall
recommend Messrs. A. Thomson & Co. to use
it exclusively in their boilers, over an 1 in pref-
erence to any other process for disincrusting
steam boilers.
1 remain, very respectfully,
JAMES T. KING.
Engineer Crescent City Sugar Refinery.
We indorse the above.
A. THOMSON & CO.
\ A1 I-14'» K * »• t itlr, i f\
[THE BEST 171RFAIHSEWIMCMACHINBS]
ESI
HEW SIX CORD SOFT FINISH
ri
Received the Only "MEDAL OF
SUPERIORITY Awarded at the
Fair oftlie American Institute, New
York. 1878.
For sale to the Trade by
L. & H. BLUM.
L0TTEE.IES.
111 ONLY 15,000 TICKETS!!!
IS THE GRAND EXTRAORDINARY DRAW-
ing of tiie t
Havana Royal Lottery, $2,250,000, •
To be distributed in prizes.
GiPITiL PRIZE, $1,0QO,QBQ, ;
TO TAKE place
fitli. 1879.
Send for plans at once to
BOltNIO & BROTHER,
Oldest General Atrents. New Orleans. La.
Grand Extraordinary Drawing
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Royal Havana Lottery.
FOR APBiL 3.
Capital Prize. 61,000,000
(One Million.)
Second Prize 2C0.090
Third Prize 100,000
DISTRIBUTED IN PRIZES, ?2,500,000
Only 15,000 Ticket*.
Price of Tickets, Unite 1 States Currency-
Whole Tickets. $1G0; Half, £fl0: Quarter, $^0;
Eighth, $t0: Tenth, $10; Twentieth. 88:
Fortieth, $4 25.
Address. MANUEL ORRANTIA,
1(VS Common JStrte", Sew Orleans.
HOUSTON ADVESTISE'TS.
WM. 0. CLEVELAND,
Wholesale Grocer
AND
Ootton Factor
No. 37 Main Street, and 9,11, IS and lit
Franklin Street,
HOUSTON, - TEXAS.
Iiarge Stooli of
A SPLENOIS OPPORTUNITY
WIN A FORTUNE.
irsoenes
TOBACCOJ
CIGARS AND WHISKIES
AND
WOOD AND WILLOW-WARB
Bagging and Ties.
LIBERAL ADVANCES
•aiade on consignments of COTTON, which I
kandle exclusively oa commission, and give my
special attention.
Superior advantages in freight?: to and from
tias point make ittnecueaj e«t and >>est market
for all classes of merchandise, and enable us
to realize aa ^ood prices for cotioa, with less
•ijx'i.se and m less uiue, than any other market
mv:e«:aif.
SFliC 1A k— i now handle the largest stock
of Texan Sugar aud iYlobatcs in tho
State, and am in position to offer inducement*
such as no on-.* el>^ can ofTer. Send for sam-
ple# and prices. W. i>. KliAND.
A. C. CRAWFORD.
LYTLE CRAWFORD
ESTABLISHED 1S3S.
A. C. Crawford & Sons
IMPORTERS OF
CROCKERY,
China and Glassware
NO. 7 5 STRAND,
Galveston, Tax
Assorted Crates
ways on hand.
of Crockery Al-
Trustee^ Sale.
JN COMPLIANCE WITH A CERTAIN DEED
of trust exeeuted by Henry James to Thos. R.
Allen, trustee for A. Sachtleben, on the 9th o*
July, 1875, and the written substitution of my.
self for said Allen, I will
On the 22d Day of March, 1879,
before the courthouse door of Galveston conn"
ty, in the city of Galveston, between the legal
hours of sale. Bell at public outcry, to the
highest bidder for cash, the we3t half of the
west half of lot? G and 7, In block No. 32. The
jouth half of lots 1 and 2 in block No. 268. The
northwest quarter of the northwest block of
outlot No. 25. Lots No. 5, 6 and 7, in block No.
7, of Love & Groesbeck's survey, being 3 lots
in northwest half of outlot 13; all of said lots
according to the map and plans of the city of
Galveston. This sale to be made to satisfy a
certain note given of even date with said trust
deed by Henry James in favor of A. Sachtle-
ben for $3500 and the accrued interest thereon.
I will make to the purchaser such title as by
said deed I am authorized to make.
11 21 J. M. BURROUGHS. Sub-Trustee.
Leeds's Foundry, \
New Orleans, Feb. 3. 1?70 *
Mr. Huarh W, Montgomery. New Orleans. La.,
Agent tor Vigier's Improved French Process
for Disincrusting Steam Boilers:
Dear Sir—After having used the Vigier Pro-
cess for some months, and given it a fair and
fuli trial, we can state that it has produced the
Galveston Gas Works
32d and Mark it Straits.
^LL ORDERS OR COMPLAINTS, TO Re-
ceive prompt attention, should be left at the
Secretary's office, in the
Ostermaiia Building,
Corner of Strand and 22d Street,
Between the hours of 8 and 13 o'clock, a. m.
most satisfactory r»-suits on our boilers by re
movingincrustat'oni and effectually prevent-
ing the formation of the same.
We cordially leeommend it to those using
boilers. ARCHIBALD MITCH EL,
Supt. Leeds's Foundry.
HENRY RON t SON.
Chief Foreman.
LEEDS & CO.,
Proprietors Leeds's Foundry.
Discount to the trade,
[ugh W. Montgomery,
New Orleans. Sole Agent for
Send for Circulars to
63 Common street.
Southwest.
mhll lm
ARRIVED AND LANDING:
4000 Sacks Coffee.
Per "Alf."
TO ARRIVE:
3500 Sacks Coffee,
"P»r Eigtl."
IS STOKE:
2SD6 Sacks Coffee.
GOODS C ABE FULLY PACKED.
[Established 1540.}
E.S. Wocd&Son,
PO
IMPORTERS OF
.A-INTD
HARDWARE
strand,
GALVESTON, .... - TEXAS.
LeGierse & Co.,
SOLE AGENTS for Texas
FOR THE
CABINET CIGARS!
WE FURNISH A
HANDSOME CABINET
Convertible into a Writiug De«k,
TO EACH ONE THOUSAND CIGARS,
And guarantee the Cigars positively superior
to any sold in this state for the price.
Merchants and bar-keepers are invited to
send for show cards, which we forward free of
charge. jaSl '79 l*m
fel8 una
HI. KOPPERL.
PER AMOR
IN STORE:
5500 Bags Coffee
Focal© by
wm. GARLIC k * CO,
de'22unslm 165 and 167 Strand
3500 sks. Coffee
IN STORE.
5000 Sks. COFFEE.
Kauf&nan & Range.
lfc» bLIKG A!fD BIJfDrN'G—THE FACILITIES
XV of the News Bindery for executing Arm
class work of every description la unsurpassed
In the south. An examination pf prices will
prove this.
FRUIT SYRUPS.
"\\TE ARE MANUFACTURING Pure FRUIT
f ▼ S"VRUPS, of the following flavors:
Raspberry, Strawberry, Lemon, Vanilla,
Pineapple, Orange and Ginger.
Which we are selling by the gallon at prices
that defy competition.
G. SEELIGSON A CO.
N. B.—Per each New York steamer we are
receiving large shipments of Choicest Messina
jid Or
Lemons and ('ranges.
W
Just Received.
JHl'l'E GOLD BAND SHADES.
WHITE HOLLANDS. OF ALL WIDTHS.
20.000 ROLLS WALL PAPERS AND
BORDERS.
To be sold at Cents and 10 Cents per Roll,
and a Large Lot of CHROMOS, Framed, from
50 Cents to $15 Each.
MRS. M. E. PALLAIS.
PICTURE FRAMES and WINDOW COR-
NICES promptly made to order and •attrac-
tion guaranteed. Nos. 221 aud 223 Post Office
street, near the post office, Galveston. fev£3
Grand Monthly Drawing, 187S
At New New Orleans, Tuesday*
April 8.
LOUISIANA STATE" LOTTERY CO.
rpHIS INSTITUTION WAS REGULARLY
X incorporated by the Legislature of the State
for Educational and Charitable purposes ia
1868, with * capital of $1,000,000, to which it
has since added a reserve fund of $350,000. Its
Grand Single Number lh aiviiigs will take plaos
monthly. It never scales or postpones. Ijook
al the following distribution :
CAPITAL PK1ZE $.50,000.
100,000 TICKETS AT EACH; HALF
TICKETS, $1.
list or raizKs.
1 Capital Prize
1 do do
1 do do
2 PRIZES OF 2,500
5 do l.OOO
20 do SO©
100 do 100
900 do oO
500 do 20
1UU0 do IO
▲FrKOZIMjkTIOW PRIOta
9 Approxisaation Prizes of $'OJ...
9 do do 2o0 ..
9 do do 100...
task do's
Fire und ilurrlar Proof Sa.f'e.%
I_.. 1". ISff 0-STE3 Q
Gen'l Ajz't for Sfate of Texas.
52 Mais St.. Houston, Tkx.
The following n.uneJ prominent firms hare
idthe
$30,000
. 10,000
5,000
5,000
5,000
- 10.000
. 10,000
. 10.000
. 10 ooo
. 10,000
2,700
1,800
900
1657 Prizes, amounting to $110,4 00
Write for circulars or send orders to HI. A.
DAUPHIN, P. O. Box 692, N. O.. La.
All our Grand Extraordinary Drawings are
under the supervision and management of
ttenls. O. T. BEAlREtiAKD and
JURAL A. EARLY.
Capital Prize $100 000. Whole Tickets $10.
|y~ For further information, apply to
J. D. SAWYKlt, Galveston,
Next to News Office.
recently teste-
DIBBOLiB
GArSS
in severe fiie=, and will fully indorse theirfire-
proof oualities:
H. Scncrffiua, Treasuser Harris County.
J. W. Hunter, Bryan.
Tuyrnan Wornack, Marshall.
J. G. Homer, Bryan.
U. M. Net lett ,t Co.. OalvedloQ.
E. P. Turner, Houston.
B. £ A. Kine. Galveston.
J. S. Fowlkes " Co.. Bryan.
J. W. & J. R. Russell, J^fTerson.
J. F. Weedemver, Treasurer Ander<tNi
County.
Safes Sold on Ea*y lffont^lr Pay
Clients, as Low as Reliable Work
Can bcFornlshcd. Write for Prices.
FRENTRESS B&RBEQ FENCE WIRE.
A FOUR-PRONGED BARB. Cut from a solid
piece of metal and inserted between two No.
12 wires, makiag a CHEAP AND RELIABLE
FENCE. THE BEST IN THE WORLD.
Xj. T- 3MOYES,
de31d&W3m STATE AGENT, Houstoa, Tax.
C. B.
D. Wi
Josaua Miusa
LEE IRON WORKS
C.B.LEE&CO.,
Iron & Brass Founders
and
MACHINISTS.
manufacturers of
STEAM ENGINES,
SAWMILLS,
BOILERS,
Mill and Gin Gearing,
MhmAlag, Pnll«y«, Bra*, and Iroa
Pump., Etc.
Particular attention piTen to orders f.r Iron
fronts and Castings for Buildings.
All kind, or Job Work solicited.
S.tlafactlon Guaranteed.
Or.
SU,
R
Wiuie and Thirtr-secaad
(Near Railroad Depot,)
CALVESTON, TEXAS.
. HOE tfc OO'fi
CHISEL TOOTH SAWS
URNETT'S
GOGOAINE
A Compound of Cocoanat Oil,
For Promoting the Growth and Pro-
serving tho Beauty of the Hair.
It softens the hair when harsh and dry. It
soothes the irritated scalp. It affords the rich-
est lustre. It prevents the hair from falling off.
It promotes its healthy, vigorous growth. It
is not greasy nor sticky. It leaves no disagree-
able odor. It kills dandruff.
Baldness.
Philadelphia, May 28, 1877.
Gentlemen—Having used your Cocoaixe for
the past ten or twelve years. I take pleasure in
giving as my opinion ihat no preparation made
in this country will keep the hair so soft and
glossy, and at the same time allay all irritation
of the scalp. It will most effectually remove
dandruff and prevent the hair from falling out.
THOMAS ROBERTS.
Wholesale Grocer, 30 South Front st.
'•"J
- A
i
GIVE TTMEQUALED SATISFACTION IN ALL
PARTS OF THE COUNTRY. STaONU A>'1>
SLMFLE, CHEAPLY KKPT IN Clil.F.R. THEY
MAKE BETTER Ll'MISER WITH I EiS PHW-
ERTJ1AN AXY OTHER. ADDKKSS R. 1IOE
&. CO.. 504 GRAND ST.. N. Y. CITY. fcitf
Scald Head.
Ottawa, III., April 8, 1873.
Messrs. Joseph Burnett A Co.:
Gentlemrn—¥or over two years i have suf-
fered terribly with 44 scald-head " in its worst
form. a few weeks ago I tried a bottie of your
Cocoaixe. The first application gave me relief.
an<l now tlie disease is effectually cured. I
cheerfully recommend BnLsriT's C'ocoaine to
any one suffering with the above complaint.
Yours respectfully, N. C. STEVENS.
JaT —
Deputy Si-erifT.
Peny
Ms
STEEL PENS
Of sup^iior In^-hsh make: famous for dura-
bility a:..i elasticity; great variety of styled
suited to every kin.I or writing. For sale by
dralt-rs generally.
TWENTY-FIVE assorted samples for
trial, including the celebrated
"U" a™ " FALCON"
on receipt of Twenty-five
Pens by mail,
Ccnti.
COMMENCING
Monday lOtli lust.
THE undersigned will sell at private sale, at
residence, northeast corner Twenty-seventh
street and Av« nue fcL «ds entire lot of
Household Furniture, Etc.,
including Cnamber an-i Dfain? Room Suites.
Carpets, etc., etc. Call soon and secure good
bargains. O. S. WIN AN S.
Galveston, March 8th, 1S79. rnhS 4t*
OURTIS & GO,,
A A lAf Manufacturers.
hlk Wmill supplies.
^ ■ ■ ™ * Send for Price List.
811 and 813 N. 2d,
ST. LOUIS.
Ivison. ilakeman, Taylor £ Go.,
S iia Aosntk von tuc u. S.,
138 & 1 10 Grand St., New York._
Wanted.
Dealers in every town in texas
to sell the
ST. JOHN SEWING M ACHINE.
Great inducements given. Address
CRENSHAW A JACKSON,
del9 State Managers, Sherman, Texas.
OILS AND GLASS,
Tarnishes and Artists' Colors,
PURE PARIS GREEN,
THE BEST
Cotton Worm Destroyer.
roa sal* st
RICE & BALLARD,
•VO. 11 THKMONT 8T\,
6"S tat su tu l-'m (Jalxeston, Teial
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