The Galveston Daily News. (Galveston, Tex.), Vol. 35, No. 191, Ed. 1 Wednesday, November 1, 1876 Page: 2 of 4
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Wednesday, November 1, 1870.
Sound** in a Fog.
New York had a regular London fog
on Tuesday. On tlie North river and
Hudson navigation was greatly re-
tarded ; steamers could not'run by sight,
and went slow by faith and the com-
pass, and made their slips with diffi-
culty and danger to themselves and
•thcrs. Fog bells tolled continually
and everything moved slowly and cau
tiously. Sail vessels did not venture to
move at all. The Sound steam-
ers moved by the sounds of the
bells, and those from the Atlantic lay
off waiting for clear weather. Fogs
seldom interfere with navigation on
the coast of Texas, but are such an im-
pediment in various parts of the world
that many devices arc tried to lessen
the evil. The steam siren at the Cen-
tennial Exhibition has been regarded
as a great improvement, but sounds as
well as sights are vague and deceitful
in a fog. The system of American fog
signals was the result of elaborate ex-
periments by Professor llenry, of
Washington, but is not per-
fect. During the present year his
investigations have developed ths
fact that sound is not rellected as light
is by a mirror of appropriate shape, in
straight beams to indefinite distances,
but begins to spread in all directions as
it travels, and therefore the system of
placing mirrors behind for fog signals
is of little use. The sound at a distance
of four miles is entirely scattered, and
appears to be echoed from all around
the horizon. Prof. Henry at first at-
tributed those echoes to reflections from
the crests of ocean waves, but he now
thinks that by an application of the
principles of the divergence and of the
refraction of sound the phenomenon
may be explained as reflection from the
perfectly smooth surface of the ocean.
"The poor negro " is still the burden
of Republican song and sympathy.
Not so much as a thought is ever be-
stowed on the poor whites. As the de-
feat of Hayes and Wheeler becomes
more palpable the more lugubrious be-
comes the appeals on behalf of the
poor negro, as the following from the
National Republican will prove:
It would have been better for the
Southern negro had he been allowed to
remain in bondage than that lie should
have been manumitted and afterwards
remanded to his old owners. Is it pos-
sible that the people of the North will
consent to the direful conspiracy
against human rights which would be
consummated by Democratic success?
Alas! for the poor negro. He has had
but a brief enjoyment of the blessings
of freedom. May lie never have cause
to regret the day when he was given his
liberty, and told that he should thence-
forth enjoy the fruits of his labor. The
present time is fraught with great mo-
ment to him.
" Who that 'midst the desert's heat
Sees th«* water fade away
Wodd not rather die than meet
Streams again as false as they "
A veuy useful addition has just been
made to ordinary coast warnings by the
British Admiralty. It consists in firing
an explosive charge of half a pound of
gun cotton at intervals of fifteen min-
utes during fogs. When there is little
wind, as is usual in fogs, the sound is
heard three miles off.
tiie 'Longshoremen of New Orleans
attempted to prevent foreign vessels in
port from utilizing the services of their
Bailors in loading their ships. They
succeeded in stopping work on two
vessels for a time, but were finally ar-
rested by the police and nineteen of
them locked up.
A coKUEsroNDENT writing from Jack
eon county, under date of October 2d,
says the grasshoppers made their ap-
pearance the Sunday previous in myr
iads. He represents cotton coming into
the markets freely, and general business
as good. cather cool and health ex-
cellent.
Under the laws of Texas the cutting
of pecan timber on the lands of
another, without the written authority
of the owner, is a penal offense, with
fine not less than $25 nor more than
$50 for each offense.
IIoN. Matt. Cabtekteb, of Wiscon-
sin, has canceled all announcements to
speak in behalf of Hayes and Wheeler
and retired from the contest. Wiscon-
sin may yet cast her vote for Tilden and
reform.
Alfred Siiaw has been appointed
Judge of the Superior Criminal Court,
of New Orleans, in place of Judge
Steele, who tendered his resignation
last week.
Natter Bartlett, formerly editor
of oue of the Atlanta papers, and for
several years connected with the New
Orleans press, died a few days ago.
STATE PKESS.
The Palestine Advocate .joins in the
general condemnation of the press of
the late intemperate speeches of Gov.
Coke, and remarks:
Gov. Coke has been led, partly by his
friends but mostly by his own inordi-
nate vanity, to believe that his name is
as great in Texas as that of John C.
Calhoun's was in South Carolina dur-
ing the life-time of that immortal
statesman; but being in reality very un-
like him that we have just named in all
the mental and manly attributes that go
to make up a truly great man and leader
of the people, he can not bear the idea
of having his official acts criticised by
the press, unless it be to eulogize and
praise him, whether he be right or
wrong. Governor Coke is the most
thorough-paced demagogue that has
appeared in the politics of Texas for
many years, and it angers his very soul
to have his short-comings shown up to
the "dear people" whom he loves so
fondly, as he would have them believe,
and whom he has so often bamboozled
and deceived.
The San Antonio Ilcrald complains
that the News "transferred to its own
columns from the Ilcrald the report of
Gen. Ord to the Secretary of War, with-
out giving the Ilerald any credit what-
ever. " The Ilerald will perhaps find on
inquiry at military headquarters, that
the News has equal facilities with the
Ilerald for obtaining such orders and
documents as are proper for publica-
tion. At all events, no such document
as that paper alludes to was copied
from its columns. The Ilerald further
complains that the description of west-
ern counties, written by Mr. Easterling
and published both in that paper and in
pamphlet form, have some times been
copied into the News without credit to
the Ilerald. The News is wholly innocent
of any intent to bring the Ilerald in
either of these matters, and asks the
editor of that paper to take a look at
the undignified epithets it has used in
making the complaint, and say whether
in omitting to reply to them in kind
this paper has not exercised a regard
for "the journalistic code of ethics'
quite equal to its own. If there is any
paper in Texas that the News has
treated with more uniform courtesy and
forbearance than the Ilerald, this paper
is ignorant of the fact, and this exhibi
tion of peevishness in that journal will
not provoke a departure from such a
course.
NEW V'OKK.
Tlie Possibilities and Proupcct* of
the Cauva»«.
[From the Boston Advertiser.]
New York, Oct. 19, 1876.
There is not a particle of doubt but
that this ,£tate can be carried for the
Republicans with a good round major-
ity if the canvass is conducted as it
ought to be. I wish I could add that
there is an entire certainty of such a
conduct. From all parts of the State
come complaints that the Republican
canvass is lukewarm and without thor-
ough system. There are speakers
enough and surface demonstrations of
other kinds in plenty, but the doubtful
voters are not attended to, the polling
lists are not examined, and the real
strength of the party is not known at all.
This is a most unfortunate state of af-
fairs, when the opposition is led by
such a skillful organizer as Governor
Tilden. The only way to defeat
him is to meet him on his own ground
and to fight him with his own weapons.
This could be done, and done success-
fully, but it is not being done now.
The State is to-day soundly Republi-
can, but it can not be held to its posi-
tion without thorough work. Gov.
Tilden knows the position of every hes-
itating voter, and he will put in that
man's hands his most seductive docu-
ments and his most plausible pleas.
Every one of these documents and
pleas can be refuted completely, if the
Republicans will take the trouble to do
it, but they have not yet shown any
signs of such action. There is in all
parts of the Stete a widespread suspi-
cion of Tildcn's honesty and sincerity,
and this suspicion could be strength-
ened into actual opposition if tlie right
means were used. There are indica-
tions that steps will be taken to remedy
this negligence soon, and it is not yet
too late to do it successfully, if there is
vigor and intelligence put into the
work, but the delay is dangerous in a
contest which everybody concedes will
be close.
This lack of thorough canvass is one
blunder of the Republicans. Another
one is the selection of issues. There is
a universal argument that the result in
this State depends upon the independ-
ent vote. This vote is made up of the
thinking men of the State, of the per-
sons who are little swayed by partisan-
ship, and who wish to vote for the can-
didate and the party which give the best
promise of a sound financial and gene-
ral administration. The way to reach
this class is to talk to them, as the Ad-
vertiser has already advised, on the is-
sues presented in Governor Hayes's let-
ter. That letter won ninety-nine out of
every one hundred of them to the Re-
publican side, and they can all be held
there if the same issues are continually
held up to them as the policy of the
party. Tilden has been sharp enough
to see this, and has encouraged the Re-
publicans in their mistake of allowing
the currency and civil service reform
questions to be subordinated to
those more strictly partisan. He
knows well enough that on both of
the former issues he has no hope
in this State, but if the Republicans
continue to put them in the background
they simply force the Democratic claim
of reform into the foreground. The Re-
publicans are beginning to see this,
however. The key-note of their canvass
will be struck by such men as Carl
Scliurz, William M. Evarts and George
William Curtis, and there are no ora-
tors in the country who will command
more respect from the independent
voters. They will all speak on the basis
of Gov. Hayes's letter, and the effect
will be for the best. There are no
speakers on the Democratic side who
can compete with them. If the Repub
licans will only supplement their speech-
es with a searching canvass of every
ward and township in the State, there
will be no doubt of the success of Hayes
and Morgan. The " scare " of the past
week will do them good, and may have
the same excellent cffoct as the similar
one had in Ohio in October.
Fresh evidence comes to hand of the
quiet, thorough work which Tilden is
doing. One by one his enemies arc
dropping into the ranks of his support-
ers, persuaded by influences which no
one can discern. The latest and most
important conversion is that of ex-
Speaker Jcremiah McGuire. All through
the celebrated "canal crusade" this
man was the most bitter of Tilden's
enemies. As speaker of the assembly
he denounced every movement in the
attack on the canal ring as the attempt
of Tilden to make presidential capital,
and went about the lobbies of the capi-
tol calling the little governor a profane
old fraud, without a particle of honesty
or sincerity in his nature. He abused
him steadily till the St. Louis conven-
tion met, and joined the greenback
party that he might the more effectual-
ly fight him. Only so short a time ago
as March 24, 1875, he published a letter
containing this striking prophecy of
Tilden's plans in instituting his canal
crusade:
"It is a move upon the chess-board
for the presidency. Canal rings are
only the pawns in the game—the dust
to throw in the .eyes of the people.
Every man suspected of not favoring
the presidential aspirations of the great
reformer is to be stricken down, if pos-
sible. As I am, fortunately or unfor-
tunately, one of the suspected persons,
hence the falsehood, misrepresentation
and perversion of my action as Speaker.
Canal frauds have been investigated by
committees of the Legislature more or
less for the past twenty years, with no
practical good or result. Volumes
upon volumes of testimony are already
in the library of the State, and the Gov-
ernor's message is only a rehash of
what is contained in those volumes.
The reason investigations have failed is,
that they have been conducted with the
view of attaining some political advan-
tage. The one demanded by the message
is for a like purpose, and in all probabil-
ity will meet with a similar fate. There
will be an attempt to blacken a few
men's reputations; rivals for political
preferment will be denounced and at-
tempted to be shelved. The mover will
arrogate and claim integrity, hon-
esty and fearlessness, and demand
for his services a nomination and elec-
tion, and ' canal rings' and ' canal
frauds' will then rest in repose—to be
again resurrected by some future aspi-
rant, and the credulity of the people
again played upon to elevate some one
to place and power whose only attribute
is artful demagogism." This predic-
tion has been fulfilled to the letter.
That the "canal ring" and "canal
frauds" do "rest in repose" is most
forcibly illustrated by the conversion of
Mr. Maguire. Absolutely nothing has
been accomplished by the crusade, and
now the uharmed members of the ring,
having served to lift up the crusader
into the gaze of the country as a "re-
former," are promised immunity, and
are returning to the fold. There never
was a more transparent humbug than
this whole business; yet, on the strength
of it, the perpetrator aspires to be
President.
Another proof of Tilden's successful
•fforts to strengthen himself is found
in the sudden reunion of John Kelly
and John Morrissey in this city. Mor-
rissey himself confesses that he has
been acting as Tilden's agent in the va-
rious attempts at compromise. He was
induced by the "reform governor "to
undertake the'betrayal of anti-Tamma-
ny. He protested, long enough to
make a show of sincerity, to Kelly's
terms of compromise, and finally ac
ccpted; but when he started back with
the expectation that anti-Tammany
would follow him into the old fold to
settle down there once more under Kel-
ly's wing, anti-Tammany objected, and
let Morrissey walk back alone. But
while the leaders may not follow him,
a great mass of the voters will, and the
" reform" party will once more march
to battle under the united lead of Kelly
and Morrissey. It will be a noble spec-
tacle. Tilden has made them abandon
their choice for mayor—Augustus
Schell—and accept Congressman Ely,
Jr., but they have undoubtedly
received satisfactory remuneration
for the surrender. Mr. Ely is a strong
and popular man, and will make a for-
midable candidate. Honest men of all
parties would vote for him if they
could find that he had not been forced,
in order to secure the position, to make
promises that would completely tie his
hands after election. There is some
talk of a union between the different
organizations which are supporting
Controller Green for mayor and the
anti-Tammany forces led by James
O'Brien. The proposition of this
strange combination is to make up a
ticket with Green for mayor, O'Brien
for sheriff, and ex-Collector Murphy
for county clerk. An independent
ticket with Green at its head and other
good men below him, would give Tam-
many a hard pull, but even Green with
all his popularity could not float a
ticket with O'Brien and Murphy on it.
O'Brien is utterly unprincipled, and
Murphy has a national reputation as
anything but a civil service reformer.
He is in very reduced circumstances
now; and seeks the office as a means for
bettering his financial condition. The
citizens of New York have had ex-
perience enough with that class of offi-
cials.
THE JAMESSES.
All Interview with the Mother of
the Missouri Outlaws.
The Kansas City Times of Tuesday
reports the departure for Texas of Mrs.
Dr. Samuels, of Clay county, Missouri,
mother of the notorious James boys.
A - Times representative met Mrs.
Samuels upon the Fort Scott train just
before it started out. She was just tak-
ing a farewell of a number of her old
friends and acquaintances who had ac-
companied her to the train.
She did not know where she was go-
ing, but if there were those who desired
know where she was gone she wished
it known that a letter addressed Mrs. Z.
Samuels, Sherman, Texas, would find
her. As for ber sons, Frank and Jesse,
she had nothing to say further than
they were at lgast a thousand miles
from Kansas City, and were hard at
work, making an honest living.
The old lady appeared rather de-
jected, and shed a few tears as she ex-
hibited the stump of her arm blown off
by the detectives in one of their raids.
She said: " I hope I shall at last find
peace and rest in the new home I hope
to find. I am very old now, and not
the woman I was thirteen years ago,
when trouble came upon me and mine
with the war. My husband was hung
by the Federals, and Jesse, then only a
boy fifteen years old, was whipped by
the same gang until speechless because
he could not tell where his brother
Frank was. As for my family, here is
all there is of it. Dr. Samuels is old
and helpless. My little boy is unable
to make a living yet. He is the next to
the boy killed by the detectives at the
same time they threw in that hand
grenade. Then there is my daugh-
ter. She was brought home from
school to do the sewing for the
family when I lost my arm. Besides
these three helpless members of my
family I have an old darky who has
lived with us on the farm over there in
Clay county for thirty years. She will
never leave us; she is too old to do for
herself, and will not take her freedom.
Then I have an old paralyzed negro be
longing to the family. I must keep him
as long as he lives. And then a littie
negro child adopted by me and old
Aunty, make up my family. There,
you see, is eight of us all helpless and
all harmless, and why we must be
hunted out of the home we have lived
in for thirty years, I can not under-
stand."
She said she would no doubt find
more peace in Texas, but she hated to
leave her home in Western Missouri;
but she supposed it was all for the best.
This notable woman was borne off
southward, smiling through a flood of
tears, as she bid her relatives and neigh
bors good bye.
RAILROAD NEWS.
The grade of the International road is
nearly complete from Duval through to
the Stringer place, two and a half miles
from the city, and the track will be
laid and trains running the last of next
week.
The track trestle and bridges on the
Texas and Pacific road between Mar-
shall and Texarkana are being repaired
and put into good condition.
Sherman Patriot: All the passenger
trains leading into Texas are taxed to
the utmost capacity, and can scarcely
furnish standing room to the crowds
which are streaming into the empire of
the South. One train recently put on
five sleeping coaches, which were insuf-
ficient, however, to furnish the desired
number of berths.
Bobblly-Boo and Wollypotump.
[From the November Nursery.]
fiobbiiy-Boo, the King so free,
He used to drink the Mango tea;
Mango tea and coffee too—
He drank them both till his nose was blue.
Wollypotump, the Queen so high.
She used to eat the Gumbo pie;
Gumbo pie and Gumbo cake-
She ate them both till her teeth did break.
Bobbily-Boo and Wollypotump,
Each called the other a greedy trump;
And when these terrible words were said,
They sat and cried till they both were dead
" I am not so much a maiden as
widow; ergo I am not so spoony as
yore. I know what I want, and '
get my work in, so help me, Bob.
Butter.
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STATE NEWS.
anderson county.
Palestine Advocate: The merchants
complain of an unusually dull season
for trade. It is thought by many that
not more than one-fifth of the cotton
raised in this county has been brought
to market or even ginned... .Dr. Bow-
drie has been made superintendent of
the co-operative fruit farm at Pales-
tine. .. .The advance brigade of a colo-
ny of immigrants for Anderson county
came from" Quincy, 111., by cars on
Wednesday evening. They were about
sixty in number, and the remainder,
seventy or eighty more, were expected
Thursday.
burnet county.
The notorious John Wesley Hardin is
said to have been arrested, in Burnet
county a few days ago.
bastrop county.
Thursday night a fire broke out in
Wm. Miller's barber shop, in the town
of Bastrop, consuming tlie shop, Mr.
M. Andrews's saloon and a restaurant,
and damaged Col. J. C. Higgins's store-
house about $200. Col. Higgins's store
having a cement roof, prevented the
whole of the business block from being
consumed.
brown county.
The pecan crop in this county, this
year, is the heaviest ever known.
The grasshoppers are still here. The
whole country is covered with these de-
structive pests.
clay county.
Northwest: Pecan picnics are all the
rage now. The young folks go by
wagon loads to gather pecans, eat nick-
nacks and have a good time generally.
We learn that in many parts of the
county pecan trees are being cut down
and destroyed, some of them for one
purpose, seme for another. We can do
no less tha.ii warn tlie public generally
that to cut or destroy pecan timber is
an unlawful act, and subjects the of-
fender to a large fine. Were there no
law governing the case the wanton de-
struction of pecan timber is a shame,
and ought not to be indulged in.
caldwell county.
News Echo: The convicts in our jail
are to be hired out The population
of the county is steadily increasing, new
farms are being opened, new residences
ing up, and we are slowly but surely
marching on to wealth and prosperity
. ,.As cold weather approaches our
prairies abound with ducks, plover,
etc., and Nimrods are having fine sport
. .A number of our citizens are pre-
paring articles for exhibition at the
Austin Fair which commences on the
10th prox... .The mills are still crowd
ed with cotton and wheat, and have to
run day and night in order to accommo
datejthe people Since the recent
fine rains the grass on the prairies is
splendid, and will furnish excellent
feed for stock during the winter.
dewitt county.
Cuero is reviving with the resump-
tion of railroad transportation... .The
Gonzales Examiner learns that the sales
of H. Runge & Co., Cuero, Texas, on
Saturday amounted to over three thou-
sand dollars. The firms of L. C. Fudge
& Co.,-Baker & Woodworth, H. J. Huck
& Co., W. Hausmann, R. Fromme, J.
E. Mitchell and Otto Starker are doing
a heavy business in their respective
lines.
gregg county.
The North Texas Annual Conference
of the M. E. Church South will meet
at Longview on the 15th of next month.
Bishop D. S. Doggett, of Virginia, is to
preside.
grayson county.
Sherman Patriot: Choice wheat is
selling in Sherman this week for 95c. to
$1 05 per bushel Many of the farm-
ers are putting in their crops of wheat
since the departure of the grasshoppers.
gonzales county.
Enquirer: On Wednesday morning
the case of the State vs. W. L. Grissom,
charged with the murder of Zach
Wheat in November last, was called
for trial. Half the day was consumed
in impaneling a jury and getting the
witnesses into court, there being some
thirty or forty of the latter. The trial
lasted until half past 10 o'clock Thurs-
day night, when the case was submitted
to the jury who, after an absence of an
hour, returned a verdict of not guilty.
... .Saturday a one-armed individual
named Srnytlie was arrested by Deputy
Sheriff J. II. Lewis, on a capias from
Waco charging him with embezzle
ment A squad of Captain McCoy's
company, numbering about twenty
men, has been on duty in Gonzales
in the way of guarding prisoners
and otherwise assisting the sheriff...
Friday night, the 20th instant, an old
man by the name of Jackson, who was
highly esteemed by his neighbors, was
killed on the Sandy Fork of Peach
Creek, in the northern portion of this
county, by some unknown parties
Grasshoppers are still abundant. Last
Sunday immense clouds of them were
wafted seuth by the stiff norther blow
ing at the time, and it was hoped that
they were taking their final departure
but not so. Millions are left in the
country, and, as they have deposited
their eggs, farmers are seriously alarmed
about the prospects for next year's
crops... .Large droves of hogs and
sheep passed through town this week
from the western portion of the county
en route for the Northern markets.
hays county.
The stock of Hays county in the de-
partments of horses, cattle, hogs, poul-
try, etc., waa represented at the San An
tonio Fair by A. J. Smith, R. Malone,
Mr. Porter, L. M. Gatlin, and perhaps
others... .Purdy Mathews has sold his
farm of 200 acres in Stringtown to Maj.
Hutchison for $20 per acre.
henderson county.
Several large sample stalks of ribbon
cane have been handed to the editor of
the Times. The largest was raised by
Mr. Randolph Richardson, which meas-
ured seven feet and ten inches of ma-
tured stalk... .It is estimated that at
least 40,000 gallons of sorghum syrup
have been made in Rusk county this
year, and that there will be five or six
thousand gallons made from the ribbon
cane... .Sweet potatoes selling at thirty-
five cents per bushel in the patch.
hamilton county.
Pecans are abundant in Hamilton
county, and are selling at $1 50 per
bushel.
hunt county.
Cotton comes in briskly and the mar-
ket is active. Prices range from 7 to 8i
cents per pound Cottoa pickers are
in demand in this county. Some of
our farmers have been giving one-half
the crop to have it gathered Rev.
S. J. Anderson, of Sulphur Springs,
has accepted a call to fill the pulpit of
the Baptist church at Greenville
The Independent is now what its name
implies Mr. W. J. Davenport pre-
sented the editor with a sweet potato
weighing eight pounds a lew days ago,
and smaller favors are thankfully re
ceived. The sweet potato crop of this
county is probably the largest ever
raised.
johnson county.
Cotton cut short by the grasshoppers,
but more left than the farmers can
gather. Corn superabundant—selling
at 15 cents a bushel.
leon county.
Jewctt has now two blacksmith shops,
two saddle shops, three boot and shoe
shops, eight dry goods and grocery
stores, two saloons and four hotels.
lamar county.
The Master of the Texas State
Grange, Hon. W. W. Lang, will address
the people of Lamar at the court-house
in Paris on the 3d of next month....
The weather is beautiful and spring
like. No better time could have been
selected for the holding of the fair.
lampasas county.
Dispatch: The pecan crop is very
heavy this year, and the trade is assum
ing vast proportions as compared with
other articles of export. Hundreds of
bushels are brought to our town and
sent off to foreign markets. The
price paid by our merchants is frem
$1 25 to $1 75 per bushel. Numbers
of families are camped in the woods for
the purpose of gathering the crop,
which is now thoroughly matured and
rapidly falling from the trees.
liberty county.
This county, one of the first in Texas
settled by people from the United
States, and long a leading one, since
the suspension of- tlie railroad through
it within the past few years, and the
opening of other great thoroughfares,
seems to have been ignored by immi-
grants ; but with the reopening of the
road and the prospect of its extension
to New Orleans, people are hopeful of a
return to the old life, or rather a re-
newal and increase of prosperity to an
extent hitherto unknown. The descrip-
tion of the county written for the Texas
Almanac, by the lamented A. B. Trow-
ell, some eight years ago, still holds
good to an extent that shows much less
progress than was then anticipated: It
is situated on both sides of the Trinity
river, the south line being about six
miles distant from Turtle Bay. The
town of Liberty, situated at tide-water,
on the Trinity river, about 20 miles by
land from Galveston Bay, is the ship-
ping point for the country adja-
cent, including the counties of
Polk and Trinity, and the larger
portion of Angelina, Houston and
Tyler. Liberty had, and is about again
to have, railroad communication with
the towns of Orange and Beaumont on
the east, and the cities of Houston and
Galveston on the west, via the Texas
and New Orleans and Galveston Rail-
road, and has steamboat communica-
tion with the city of Galveston, via the
Trinity river and Galveston bay; dis-
tance, 100 miles. There is about an
equal quantity of prairie and timbered
land in the county, the upper or north-
ern part being heavily timbered with
pine, oak, hickory, ash, magnolia, wild
peach, sassafras, walnut, elm, lynn,
and the usual variety of forest growth.
There are extensive cypress-brakes bor-
dering on the Trinity, and fine pineries
within a few miles of the town of Lib-
erty. The lower Trinity is skirted, for
a distance of six miles on either side, by
dense forests, suited for lumber and
fuel, and the "wood business" for Gal-
veston market is carried on extensively,
and is increasing in importance daily.
The prairie lands of the lower part of
the county are "thin," but yield abund-
ant crops when "cow-penned," (the
usual method of manuring). Tarking-
ton's prairie, a populous neighborhood
in the northern part of the county,
west of the river, is a prairie, between
the Trinity and San Jacinto rivers,
about 100 square miles in extent. The
pasturage for cattle is excellent, and th«
woods are as fine a "hog-range" as can
be found anywhere. The soil, which is
light and sandy, produces corn, cotton,
Chinese sugar-cane, potatoes, (Irish and
sweet,) and the usual garden vegetables
in abundance. The lands of the county,
relied upon for agricultural purposes,
for the most part border upon the Tri-
nity, and may be classed as follows:
First—Low lands, or river bottom pro-
per, as rich and productive as land can
be, suited to tlie growth of sugar, cot-
ton, corn, rice, etc.; subject, however,
to overflow, upon an average, about one
year in seven. Second—Second bot-
tom, being "inside prairies," bordering
on the bottom proper, from a half mile
to two miles in width, equally as pro-
ductive as the river bottom proper,
suited to the same crops, and not sub-
ject to overflow. Third—The "up-
lands," which are for the most part of
a sandy soil, with clay foundation, are
easily cultivated. In the river bottoms
a good hand can cultivate ten acres in
cotton and six acres in corn, which is
about the usual proportion of each
planted. It is reasonable to calculate
upon a yield of 800 pounds ginned
cotton and 40 bushels of corn to each
acre of bottom laud which is properly
cultivated. Crops in this county never
fail from drouth, and cotton is rarely
injured by the worm. River lands can
be bought from $5 to $10 per acre, and
uplands at from $1 to $3 per acre.
llano county.
A portion of Major Jones's frontier
battalion is now stationed near town,
and it is hoped that by his co-operation
with the civil authorities desperadoes
and bad characters generally will real
ize something of what is termed "the
majesty of the law." Llano now has
.five practicing attorneys Mr. D. C.
Griffin, formerly of Bell county, has
been appointed deputy sheriff by Mr,
Bozarth..... A fine rain on Saturday
and Saturday night The Sunday
School was well attended on last Sun-
day, showing that a lively interest is
being taken in it Some ore has been
brought in from Tinem's mine, on the
Ililey mountain, that surpasses any-
thing yet discovered in Llano county.
It was discovered at a depth of about
fifty feet. This mine is worked with
great energy. When Mr. Tinem ob-
tained the lease on the lead, he secured
two sets of hands and a good supply of
giant powder, and commenced opera-
tions that have not ceased for an hour,
except on Sunday, since he started in.
When one set quits at sundown, anoth-
er starts in, and all through the dark
hours of the night the sounds of the
picks are heard, with every now and
then a blast that seems sufficient to raise
the dead from their slumbers. Every
excavation that has yet been made
by scientific parties to any depth
has resulted in finding valuable
ore, and in paying quantities
H. S. P. Ashby, who recently visited
the McCrea Cave, in Llano county,
writes: At the entrance the cave is
12 feet high and 15 feet wide. Many
rocks jet out upon either side. One
hundred yards under ground we en-
tered a spacious room 100 feet high,
150 feet long and 40 or 50 feet wide.
This was most beautiful. From the
dome hung thousands of lime forma-
tions resembling icicles. Near the
center, on a large pedestal, is what some
call a Satan, or bronze figure. We pass
on through varied scenery until we
come to an upper room. We ascended
a rugged, slippery stairway, some 30
feet high, to this room, which is smaller
than any of the others, it being only
about 20 feet long, 8 high and 7 wide.
We went about a mile under ground,
and crossed several pools of water,
some of them very deep. Mr. Farmer,
one of the party, went down to see how
deep one of these pools was, but acci-
dentally went down head first, and
didn't stay long enough to learn the
exact depth, but, after blowing the
water out of his nasal apparatus, said
it was colder than spring water. One
mile in the air was very heavy, and the
water rises to the top of the cave, so
we could go no further.
medina county.
Stock Journal and Farmer: Castro-
ville is a Dutch town, on a level plat in
a bend of the Medina river, and has a
population of about 1500 inhabitants.
Castroville is surrounded by a fertile
region of lands which is dotted by a
great many farms. The city has a fine
brewery, which furnishes all the lager
for its inhabitants; the consumption ef
which will aggregate in a year a little
less than that consumed in the city of
Boston. There are several good stores
in the town, a good drug store and a
full supply of bar-rooms, barber shops,
hotels, etc. Altogether, Castroville is
a much better place than we expected
to find it from the rumors we had
heard anterior to visiting it.
m'lennan county.
The brick residence of Capt. N. T.
Sneed, situated on the high hill a mile
south of Waco, has been burned. The
furniture was mostly saved. The loss
is estimated at $1500. The property
was not insured.
nueces county.
Corpus Christi Times: Capt. S. M.
Culver and Mr. Jos. Wright, of the
Motts, have conjointly purchased the
brands of cattle heretofore belonging
to Tol. McNeill, of Largarto, the two
Pierces, of the same place, and Frank
Byler, of Nueces, the latter selling pas-
ture and everything thereunto apper-
taining. This stock will be chiefly un-
der the management of Mr. Jos. Wright.
The entire purchase amounts to be-
tween forty and fifty thousand dollars.
.... Gazette: A drove of three hundred
head of hogs has been collected by Mr.
Nicholas Dunn, in this vicinity, to be
driven to the east side of the Nueces
and fattened upon mast on the Aransas
creek. Tlie yield is reported as being
immense, surpassing anything of the
kind known for years. The ground is
already covered by the falling mast,
and but few hogs have been turned in
to fatten... .A little son of Mr. L. C.
Richardson, while at the store of Mr.
E. M. Miller, Banquete, was attacked
by a pet deer. A severe wound was in-
flicted by the horns of the animal in
the boy's thigh, and several other inju-
ries sustained. The little fellow in at-
tempting to ward off the blows of the
infuriated creature, struck the point of
the horn with one of his hands, almost
tearing off the thumb. Mr. Miller used
every effort to stop the deer, but with-
out avail, until he killed it. The boy,
though not dangerously wounded, will
nevertheless suffer a long time from the
wounds received.
navarro county.
Index: Most of the grasshoppers have
left, but those which have remained
are busy depositing their eggs The
acreage to be planted in wheat in Na-
varro county this fall will be largely in
excess of that of last season.... At the
late meeting of the Brazos Synod, Cum-
berland Presbyterian Church, in the
city of Corsicana, the Board of Trus-
tees of Trinity University made a flat-
tering report of its success and pros-
pects. This institution has a grand fu-
ture before it. The patronage it now
enjoys exceeds perhaps that of any sim-
ilar institution in the State. The re-
port on membership represents 3027
members within the bounds of the
synod. Fifty-three ordained ministers,
fifteen licentiates and seventeen candi-
dates. There is church property with-
in the bounds of the synod worth $30,-
000... .The Hon. William Hartzell, Re-
presentative from the Eighteenth Illi-
nois District in Congress, is a native of
Navarro county.
panola county.
Panola county has a bale of cotton at
the Centennial competing for the grand
gold medal, to be awarded to the best bale
of cotton in the world. It was raised
by Mr. II. G. Hooker, and prepared for
the press by his niece, Miss Joanna
Williams. It received the $500 premium
at the Marshall Fair last year, and was
afterward sold by Mr. Hooker for fif-
teen cents per pound. It received first
prizes at Jefferson, the Louisiana State
Fair, and the Texas State Fair at Hous-
ton, having been awarded already
$1050 in premiums.
robertson county.
Calvert Texan: The weather is very
fine... .Business continues brisk....
Cotton shipped from Hearne to Oct.
27... .The Lightning Mills seem to be
doing a flourishing business At the
close of the present month the cotton
crop of our Brazos bottom farmers will
be almost entirely gathered.
smith county.
Tyler Reporter : The weather dur-
ing the past week has been excellent
for cotton picking The repairs on
the courthouse are nearing completion,
and when finished, it will be a most
elegant building The East Texas
University building still goes up, and
a most magnificent building it will be
too.
tarrant county.
Standard: Houses are so scarce here,
and immigration so rapid, that a large
number of families are using tents and
camping out on the prairies and in the
suburbs... .A drove of sixty or seventy
turkeys were sold in Fort Worth at $C
per dozen.
travis county.
Gazette: There are about two liun
dred thousand dollars in treasury war
rants now outstanding Col. Mun.
Swisher and Capt. Cunningham dis-
covered a vein of valuable canal coal
on the Colorado river, within ten miles
of Austin— .Sheriff Corwin has in
custody two men by the name of Gib-
son and Riley, charged with the mur-i
der of Gabriel Smith, colored, a few
days since, eight miles west of Austin.
The "following young men are to be
solemnly set apart to the gospel minis-
try at the Presbytery of Austin, viz:
Rev. J. Anderson, from the Auburn
Theological Seminary; Rev. C. F. Goss,
from the Auburn Theological Semi-
nary; Rev. D. R. Crocket, from the
Danville Theological Seminary; Rev.
W. B. Riggs, from the Auburn Theo-
logical Seminary; Rev. O. M. Schultz,
from the Danville Theological Semi-
nary.
williamson county.
At Round Rock, pecans sell readily
at from $2 25 to $3 75 per bushel
A broom factory is to be started here in
a few weeks. The macliiuery and ma-
terial is now en route.
wise county.
Corn is selling at from 20 to 25 cents
and potatoes from 40 to 50 cents a
bushel in Wise county.
DIED:
ORITZMACHER--October SOth, 187G, at 1
o'clock, p. M., Willie, only child of Paul and
Auguste Gritzmaclier, aged three months and
nineteen days.
Auction Sales.
Special Notices.
Attention, Sixth Ward! Tti.-n- will
be a meeting at the Market-House, corner of
33d and Avenue I, THIS EVENING at TJ4
o'clock. A punctual and full attendance of
all voters of the ward is earnestly requested.
Prominent Democratic speakers will be pres-
ent. The school question will also be dis-
cussed. Como now, or " forever after hold
your peace." JOHN S. MOORE,
President 6th Ward Democratic Club,
nol d&E lm
I. O. O. F.—Galveston Lodge No.
3.—Special Notice.—Members of Galves-
ton Lodge No. 3, and brethren of Sister
Lodges in this city, are especially requested
to attend at the regular meeting on THIS
(Wednesday) EVENING, at 7U o'clock.
H. PRINCE, N. G. C. riANSON, Sec'y.
Mechanic Fire Company No. 6.—
Regular monthly meeting THIS (Wednesday)
EVENING, Nov. 1st, at 7.30, sharp. Business
of importance. JOSEPH PUPPY, Sec'y.
Notice to Consignees.—1The steamship
CITY OF SAN ANTONIO, Pennington, mas-
ter, 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) will be stored
at expense and risk of consignees.
All claims for damage must be adjusted be-
fore the goods leave the wharf.
J. N. SAWYER, Agent,
oc31 8t 54 Strand.
B
Auction Sales.
AUCTION SALE.
Y E. A. BLAKELY, Auctioneer,
116 and 118 Strand—Will sell THIS DAY, at
10 o'clock A. M.—
Several Small Remnants of Invoice
to Close Consignments.
AT PRIVATE SALE.
Furniture of all kinds, such as
Bedsteads, Tables, Chairs, Kitchen
Safes, Wasli stands, Carpets, etc.,
payable by installments.
We will pay the highest market price in
cash for 10,000 lbs. Black Moss. nol It
AUCTION SALE
Of Valuable Household Furniture.
I will sell on THURSDAY, at 10 a. m., Nov. 2,
at the two-story house on Broadway, between
19th and 30th streets, the contents of this resi-
dence, consisting of Parlor, Dining-room and
Bed-room Furniture; Cooking Stoves and
Kitchen Utensils. Also a lot of Woolen Cur-
tain Goods, embroidered with various colors of
silk, two yards wide. One Kitchen, to be re-
moved. Ladies especially invited. See the
Red Flag. N. LIDSTONE,
oc31 3t* Auctioneer.
AUCTION SALE OF UNREDEEMED
PLEDGES.
"YyE WILL SELL Tins DAY,
Wednesday, Nov. 1st,
at 10 o'clock, at our salesroom, Strand:
All Unredeemed Pledges of L.
KanJTinau's Loan Office,
consisting of DIAMONDS, WATCHES, JEW-
ELRY, a fine assortment of SILVER WARE,
etc., all to be sold to tlie highest bidder. A
list of the pledges can be seen at our office.
oc29td I'AKK, LYNCH & CO.
AUCTION SALE OF WRECK.
\\J E WILL SELL ON SATUR.
T ▼ urday, November 4th. at 11 o'clock, at
our sales rooms. Strand. THE WRECK OF
STEAMBOAT MATAMORAS No. 2. with her
machinery, engines and all that is in her. She
is about one mile south of Morgan's Point in
about three feet of water.
PARK, LYNCII & CO.,
oc26 td Auctioneers.
VALUABLE
REAL ESTATE!
NOTICE OP SALE AT AUCTION.
On the 15th November, 1S7G, I
will sell at Auction, in front of the
premises, No. 222 Strand.Galveston,
Texas, my Three-story Brick Slate-
roof Building and Lot Ten (10),
Block Six Hundred and Eighty
(CS0), for cash, to the highest bid-
der.
F. «UILBEAU,
Of San Antonio.
October '21, 1S7V. oca td
New Advertisements.
jpOR SALE.........FOR SALE
DESIRABLE PROPERTY
In a thriving country place in Fayette county,
kept as hotel, consisting of Two Town Lots, (}£
acre.) good Dwelling House, Out-houses.
Stable, good well and garden.
Apply for terms to
KAUFFMAN & RUNGE,
nol we fri su & Wit Galveston.
Ail Especially Favorable Op-
portunity
Is offered to a gentleman, thoroughly ac-
quainted with the education .1 and literary in-
terests of Galveston and vicinity, in the intro-
duction of KIDDLE and SCHEM S Cyclo-
paedia of Education t<5 the better class
of book-buyers. Address E STEIGER, Pub-
lisher, 22 and 24 Frankfort street, New
York. nol at ^
Democracy to the Front
DEMOCRATIC ORATORS
There will be a mass meeting of the Democ-
racy at ARTILLERY HALL, on
Saturday, Nov. 4, at 7.30 P. M.
Those distinguishrd orators, the Hons.
1). C.U1DDINGS,
* 11. Y. COOK,
SETJi SHEPAliD,
will address the meeting. The ladies are
especially requested to attond.
F. CHARLES HUME,
nol 4t Chairman Co. Dem. Ex. Com.
D
ISSOLUTION.
The cc-partnershship of f. Hitchcock's Sons
is this day disolved by mutual consent, A.
Wakelee withdrawing from the same. F.
Hitchcock assumes all liabilities, and will col-
lect all debts due the firm. The firm name
will remain unchanged.
F. HITCHCOCK'S SONS.
F. HITCHCOCK,
A. WAKELEE.
In retiring as above I would extend my
thanks to my friends for their past patronage
and respectfully solicit a continuance of th«
same. A. WAKELEE.
Galveston, Nov. 1, 1876. nol lm
mrs. s. m. schaffter.
mrs. m. e. dowse.
SCHAFFTER DOWSE,
milliners and dress-
makers,
217 POSTOFFICE STREET 217
Galveston, Texas.
All orders from the interior will be promptly
and carefully attended to. se24 su we fr 3m
m STORE,
1500 Sacks COFFEE
EX-ADONIS.
TO ARRIVE,
3500 Sacks COFFEE
PER TAIIRE.
4000 Sacks COFFEE
PER ATLANTIC.
M. KOPPERL.
ARBLIVED
And now Discharging ex Margaretha,
3500 Sacks COFFEE
TO ARRIVE.
*er Erna, from Bremen:
50# Bollinan's Vinegar,
400 lrols. Deetjen's Bottled Beer,
10 casks Sherry Wine,
lift casks Anollinaris Wasser,
1500 Demijohns.
50,000 German Brick,
KAUFFMAN & RUNGE.
se22 tf una
Galveston Gas Works.
32d and Market Streets.
All orders or complaints to receive prompt
attention should be left at the Secretary's of-
fice, in the
Osterinann Building,
corner Strand and 22d street, between the
hours of 8 and 12 o'clock a. m.
, ap9 '76 una ly
Hotels—Restaurants.
GIRARDIN HOOSE
market St., corner Twenty-fourth,
GALVESTON, TEXAS.
Romanet & Girardin,
Proprietors.
First-Class Accommodations,
SEASONABLE PRICES.
Suitable (ample rooms for commercial tra-
velers. noli 12m
City Advertisements.
STATE AND COUNTY
TAX NOTICE.
AH persons and firms owing State and
County Taxes for the year 1876, or for former
years, are hereby notified to come forward
and pay the same without delay, thereby save
the costs of seizure and sale of property as
the law directs.
Persons delinquent in payment of State and
County Occupation Taxes, on the 6th day of
November next, will be presented to the Grand
Jury for indictment. The undersigned is far
from wishing to injure any one, but is deter-
mined to discharge his duty to the best of his
ability. Office corner 23d and Postoffice
Galveston, Oct. 27, 1876. F. R. DEAN,
oc28 2w State and Co. Tax Cullector.
REDEMPTION OF
CITY INDEBTEDNESS.
offfice citv trkastrcuih, i
Galveston, Texas, Oct. 11, lBiti. I
Tn accordance with an Ordinance, No. 32,
providing for the funding and consolidating
the Indebtedness of the City of Galveston, I
am prepared to receive and receipt for all
valid claims against the city, for conversion,
after examination and approval by the City
Auditor and Committee on Finance, into
"Galveston Thirty-years Limited Debt Bonds,'
bearing eight per cent, interest.
ocl2 tf N. WEEKES, City Treasurer.
Insurance.
MERCHANTS'
Insurance Company,
No. 63 Strand, galveston,
(Organized, 1866.)
FIRE, MARINE AND RIVER.
CASH CAPITAL (FULL PAID) $260,000.
LEON BLUM, President;
GEORGE SEALY, Vice President;
BALLINGER, JACK & MOTT, Attorneys;
C. M. GUINARD, Secretary.
DIRECTORS:
John D. Rogers of John d. Rogers & Co.
Lkon Blum of Leon & H. Blum
Georqe Sealy of Ball, Hutchings & Co.
M. F. Mott of Ballineer, Jack & Mott.
H. Kempner of Marx & Kempner
M. Kopperl Pres't National Bank of Texas.
T. W. Folts of Folts & Walshe.
B. G. Duval of Grinnan & Duval.
Henry Sampson Commission Merchant.
F. Halff of Halflf, Weis & Co
A. W. Spaigiit Attorney at Law.
W. K. McAlpine of McAlpine & Baldridge.
C. H. Lee of Lee, McBride & Co.
The Company insures against loss or dam-
age by fire on Buildings. Merchandise, Pro-
duce, Household Furniture, and other insura-
ble property in town and country, and is con-
ducted on strictly conservative principles.
Risks are assumed only at adequate rates of
premium, and losses promptly adjusted.
Ja3 *76 dAWly
Boots and Shoes.
BOOTS
AND
SHOES
at
BOTTOM PRICES
AT LAST,
II
I
NEW ORLEANS
Shoe Store and Factory
219..market street..21.
GALVESTOIf.
Men's Sewed Congress Gaiters
from §2 per pair.
Men's Cable Congress Gaiters
from S2 per pair.
Ladies' Serge Congress from
§1 25 per pair.
Ladies' Serge Polish from
$1 25 per pair.
Misses' School Shoes from $1
per pair.
Children's Shoes from 75c.
per pair.
Infants' Lace Shoes from 50c.
per pair.
We are enabled to sell at above prices in
consequence of always buying for CASH.
No six months credit bills bought by us. In
addition to which we have a resident buyer
always at New York, who embraces every
opportunity to purchase
BOOTS AND SHOES
low-down figures.
i In addition to above, we manufacture from
40 to 50 pairs per day of Hand-Sewed, French
Screwed and Hand-Pegged BOOTS AND
SHOES, for Ladies, Gents, Misses, Boys and
Children, made up in every style, from a
Wh'te Satin Slipper to a Gent's Calf Boot, or
Heavy Pegged Brogan.
Try our Gents' Calfskin French Screwed
CONGRESS GAITERS,
Double or Single Sole, Plain Toe or Box Toe,
at }*4, (Four Dollars per pair,) guaranteed to
be better made, better material and better
shape than any Northern made Congress sold
at a higher figure.
Our Custom Department is now complete,
and we use better material, have better work-
men, and charge less than any house in Gal-
veston.
Call and see for yourself.
No trouble to show our Goods.
One Pricc and No Deviation.
at
M. WOOLP'S
NEW ORLEANS SHOE STORE AND
FACTORY,
219 JIIKKKT STREET 219
GALVESTON.
l'?J" Shoemakers wanted. my28 6m
Philadelphia Shoe Store
Says it is a humbug to bo paying enormous
prices for Boots and Shoes when they can
be bought at the following reduced
figures:
GENTS' NEW ORLEANS CUSTOM-MADE
MORROCCO WRINKLED CABLE-SCREW
BOX-TOED GAITERS at 50 up to $3 75.
GENTS' NEW ORLEANS CALF CABLE-
SCREW BOX-TOED GAITERS at 50 up
to $3 75.
LADIES' 18-THREAD FOXED BUTTON
BOOTS at $2 00.
ladies'16-thread foxed lace shoes
at $1 50.
GENTS' CABLE-SCREW BUCKLED BOX-
TOED LOW QUARTERS at U0.
LADIES' FRENCH KID BUTTON BOOTS, $3.
LADIES' FRENCH KID SIDE-LACED SHOES
J J 00.
Goods Recciyed by Every New Or-
leans and Philadelphia Steamer.
s. goldstein,
206 Market Street 206
Country orders promptly attended to. je2 5m
General Merchandise.
Toys! Toys! Toys!
AND FANCY
HOLIDAY GOODS,
WHOLESALE AND RETAIL,
AT THE
GREAT DOLLAR STORE.
(In Rosenberg's Brick Building,)
169 market street 169
LEWIS & ROTHSCHILD,
Country orders carefully filled. oc29tf
A
SPLENDID STOCK OF
Brass, Wood and Metal Faucets, Rat and
Mouse Traps, Pocket Cutlery, Table Knives
and Forks, Red and White Chalk, Glue, Blu-
ing, Little Glue Pots, Sal Soda, Tacks. Ham-
mers and Hatchets for only 50c.; good Saw for
a dollar. Clocks. Clothes-pins, Lines and Hooks,
Hinges, Nails for 5c. a pound. Axes, Tubs,
Wash, Bread and Ironing Boards; Scrub,
Whitewash and Paint BruRhes. All kinds of
Paint; Boiled Oiled for 75c. per gallon. Tea
and Coffee Pots, Lanterns, Mattre;ss Twine and
Needles, Canvas, Rope, Oakum Rings, Mast
Hoops, Sail Twine Tallow Beeswax, Blocks,
Thimbles, Varnish 25c. per bottle Hasps, Sta-
ples and Padlocks, Waiters, Bells, Window
Glass, Putty, Hemp Dusters, Lamps, Chmi-
nevs and Wicks, Razors and Brushes, Solder,
Tin Sheet Iron. Zinc, Stoves, Tinware. Have
large assortment in nine different lines of
goods. For sale low by
apl5 9m JOS. LABADIE.
To Arrive from Liverpool
14,000 Sacks Salt, by Bark Herbert
6,000 Sacks Salt, by Bark Brazos,
5,000 Sacks Salt, by Bark Sabine.
These cargoes are all due in Galveston be-
tween this time and tenth October, and are
offered to the trade, together with the large
stock we hold in store, at lowest market
prices. _
C. W. ADAMS & CO.
CONFECTIONAKY—FRUITS—
FIREWORKS.
10,000 lbs. mixed and fancy Candies; 5000 lbs.
Lozenges, all kinds; 3000 lbs. Burnt Almonds
and Sugar Almonds; 4000 lbs. Chocolate
Creams and Bon-Bons; 200 boxes Stick Candy;
200 gross Prize Boxes, all kinds; 1000 boxes
Fire-crackers; 3000 dozen assorted Rockets,
Wheels, etc.; 200 bbls. and boxes Oranges, Ap-
ples and Lemons. In all above we defy com-
petition, both in price and quality.
G. SEELIGSON & CO., 162,and 106 Strand.
Legal Advertisements.
rpRUSTEK'S SALE.—By virtue
i of the powers vested in me. the under-
signed Trustee, by a deed of trust executed
by Skinner, Gifford & Co., June 5th, 187t», re-
corded in Jasper county, Texas, Book K,
pages 139 and 110, made to secure the payment
of certain promissory notes, of which oue re-
mains unpaid, as follows:
One promissory note for the sum of Sixteen
Hundred and Seventy Two Dollars, dated
March 6, 1876, and due six months after date,
bearing interest at 8 per cent, per annum
from date, until paid; signed Skinner, Gifford
& Co., payable to the order of W. L. Cushing
& Moore.
Said note and interest being due and un-
paid. At the request of the holders of said
note and deed of trust I will.
On Saturday, November 4th inst.,
sell at public auction, in front of the Court-
liouse door of Galveston county. Texas, to
the highest bidder for cash, the following de-
scribed property, conveyed in said deed of
trust:
One 20-Horse Power Watertown Steam En-
gine and Boiler, with all fixtures.
TT°nPu?te?ma^ Iron Frame Saw Mill, with
Head-blocks, Carriage and Fixtures com-
plete.
One 5f. 6i. Circular Saw.
Seventy feet of 12 inch 4 ply Beltine to-
gether with a lot of piping and fittings.
Said machinery now being at Weiss Bluff
Jasper county.
I will make to the purchaser of said proper-
ty or machinery such tide as I am authorized
by said trust deed to make
J. P. KINDRED, Trustee.
Galveston, October 31, 1876. oc31 5t
TRUSTEE'S SALE.—By virtue
JL of the powers vested in me, the under-
signed Trustee, by a Deed of Trust executed
by Skinner, Gifford & Co., March 11th, 1876,
recorded in Orange county, Texas, in Book A,
pages 285, 286 and 287, made to secure the
payment of certain promissory notes, of
which one remains unpaid, as follows:
Note of Skinner, Gifford A: Co., dated Gal-
veston, Texas, March 11th, 1876, and due 4
months after date, for the sum of sixteen
hundred and fifteen and 00-100 dollars, pay-
able to W. L. Cushing & Moore or order, and
bearing interest at 8 per cent per annum from
date until paid.
Said note being due and unpaid, at tho re-
quest of the holders of said note and Deed of
Trust.I will, on
Saturday, November 4th, Inst.,
•ell at public auction, in front of the court-
house door of Galveston county, Texas, be-
tween the legal hours of 11 a. m. and 12 m,, to
tho highest bidder for cash, the following de-
scribed machinery conveyed in said Deed of
Trust:
One 30-horse power Ames Engine and Boiler,
with all fixtures complete;
One Iron Frame Saw Mill, with head blocks,
carriage, saw and all parts complete;
70 feet 12-inch 4-ply Belting;
60 feet 1J4 inch Iron Piping;
said machinery being now at Orange, Orange
county, Texas.
I will make to the purchaser of said ma-
cliineiy such title as I am authorized by said
Trust Deed to make.
J. P. KINDRED, Trustee.
Galveston, Oct. 31, 1876. oc31 5t
Trustees sale.—By virtue
of the powers vested in me, the under-
signed Trustee, by a deed of trust executed by
R. G. KIRKPATRICK, August 27th, 1873, re-
corded in Galveston County Records, in
Book 10, on pages 441 to 443, made to secure
the payment or three promissory notes drawn
by said Kirkpatrick, dated August 27, 1873,
each note for the sum of three hundred and
forty-one dollars and sixty-six and two-thirds
cents, due respectively in one, two and three
years after their date, with interest at the
rate of twelve per cent, per annum from date
till paid, payable semi-annually; interest on
the three notes having been paid to March 25,
1875, and there being a credit on the first note,
March 25, 1875, of one hundred and seven dol-
lars and forty-nine cents, the remainder of
the principal of said notes, and the interest
thereon, being due and unpaid ; and at the re-
quest of the holder of said notes and deed of
trust, I will,
On Tuesday, the 7th day of Novem-
ber, A. D., 1S76,
sell, at public auction, in front of the Court-
house door of Galveston county, Texas, to the
highest bidder, for cash, the following de-
scribed property, conveyed in said trust deed,
viz:
Lots numbers six and seven in the north-
east block of outlot number forty-five, and
the buildings and improvements thereon, in
the city of Galveston, Texas.
I will make to the purchaser of said prop-
erty such title as I am authorized by said
trust deed to make, to which reference is
hereby made.
J. M. BURROUGHS, Trustee.
Galveston, Oct. 27, 1876. oc28 td
Lotteries.
HAVANA
ROYAL LOTTERY!
Number of Tickets Reduced to 25,000*
dates of drawing.
October 2d, 1876.
October 16th, 1876.
November 2d, 1876.
November 15th, 1876.
December 1st, 1876.
January 2d, 1877.
January 15th, 1877.
February 1st, 1877.
February 15th, 1877.
March 1st. 1877.
March 15th, 1877.
April 2d, 1877.
May 1st, 1877.
May 15th, 1877.
June 1st, 1877.
June 15th, 1877.
$<50,000 Distributed in Prizes!!!
as follows:
One of $200,000
One of 100,000
One of 50,000
One or 25.000
One of 10,000
Two or$.1,000 io.ooo
'• •■Irty ol 1,000 30,000
642 orsiftoo.. 321,000
Six A]i]>roiImalioii r»... 4,000
Prices of Tickets inU. S. Currency:
Wliole $40, Halves $20, Quarter*
$10, Tenths $4, Twentieths, $2.
fr'" Remember the Capital Prize is
9^00,000!!!
Send your orders to
BORNIO 6c BRO.,
Importers of Havana Cigars,
selO 3m 77 Gravier St., New Orleans.
LAST
CHANCE.
Buy
YOUR
Tickets
KTOW!!
DRAWING PO§ITIVELY
Thursday, November 30tli,
OR MONEY REFtNDED.
A FORTUNE FOR ONLY $12 !
The Kentucky CasJi Distribution Co.
authorized by a special act of the Kentucky
Legislature, for the benefit of the PUBLIC
SCHOOLS OF FRANKFORT, will have the
first of their series of Grand Drawings at
MAJOR HALL, in the CITY OF FRANKFORT
KY., Thursday, Nov. 30, 1876, on which oc-
casion they will distribute to the ticket-hold-
ers the immense sum of
$ 6 0 0,0 0 0!
TIIOS. P. PORTER, Ex-Gov. Ky., Gen'l Maa'r.
LIST OF GIFTS:
One Grand Cash Gift
One Grand Cash Gift
One Grand Cash Gift
One Grand Cash Gift
One Grand Cash Gift...
One Grand Cash Gift
50 Cash Gifts of $1000 each...
100 Cash Gifts of 500 each.
100 Cash Gifts of
100 Cash Gifts of
200 Cash Gifts of
600 Cash Gifts of
),000 Cash Gifts of 12 each....
Total, 11,156 Gifts, all cash..
10,(
400 each .
300 each...
200 each...
100 each.
$100,000
50,000
25,000
20,000
10,000
5,000
50,000
50,000
40,000
to,ooo
o,ooo
60,000
. 120,000
. 600,000
PRIC^ OF TICKETS:
Whole tickets. $12; Halves, $6: Quarters, $3;
9 Tickets, $100; 27^ Tickets, $300 ; 46« Tick-
ets, $500 ; 95% Tickets, $1000. 100,000 Tickets
at $12 each.
The Hon. E. H. Taylor, Mayor of Frankfort,
the entire board of City Councilmen,Hon. Alvin
Duvall, late Chief Justice of Kentucky, and
other distinguished citizens, together with
such other disinterested persons as the ticket
holders present may designate, will superin-
tend the drawing.
The payment of gifts to owners of prize tick-
ets is assured. A bond, with heavy penalty
and approved security, has been executed to
the Commonwealth of Kentucky, which is now
on record in Clerk's Office of County Court, at
Frankfort, subject to inspection of any one.
This is a new feature, and will absolutely se-
cure the payment of gifts.
Remittances can be made by Express, Draft,
Postoffice Money Order or Registered Letter,
made payable to Kentackv Cask Dis-
tribution Company.
All communications, orders for Tickets, and
applications for Agencies should be addressed
to
HON. THOS. P. PORTER,
General Manager, Frankfort, Ky.
Medical.
D
R. M. PERL,
General Practitioner,
Can be consulted at the Texas Hygienic Ingtt
tate, corner Travis street and Texas Avenue
HOUSTON, TEXAS.
Special attention given to chronic diseases.
TURCO-RU88IAN BATHS open at all hoars.
■Ingle Bath, Si 60:12 Baths. *12/ Ja20d4Wtf
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