The Galveston Daily News. (Galveston, Tex.), Vol. 34, No. 267, Ed. 1 Thursday, November 18, 1875 Page: 2 of 4
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Thursday, November 18, 1875.
The Brownsville Sentinel learns tliata
charter has been procured by Felipe Mar
quez to construct and establish a horse
car railroad in the city of Matamoros.
Dukino the storms of the past and
present years the British National Life-
boat Institution contributed to tbe saviDg
of 1200 lives from various shipwrecks,
and thirty-three vessels from destruction.
It has now 250 lifeboat stations under its
management.
It is proposed to hold an exhibition at
Faris in 1877, to illustrate all the appli-
cations of electricity to the arts, to in-
dustry, and to domestic purposes. This
project, which originated with Count
Halltz d'Arros, has been received with
general favor by both scientific and in-
dustrial classes, and the necessary funds
have been already guaranteed. An or-
ganizing committee is to be formed, and
the provisional offices of the exhibition
have been established at 80 rue de la
Victoire.
Tiie Tanners' Convention at Harris-
burg, Pa., last week, discussed the tan
ning of upper leather, the use of bark
extracts, etc, and adopted a resolution
agreeing hereafter to buy hides only ac-
cording to the classification adopted by
the convention. This will do away with
the evil of cut hides. A committee was
appointed to extend an Invitation to tan
ners and dealers throughout the world to
meet in a world's convention of tanners
at Philadelphia, the second Tuesday of
J uly next.
Tns great telescope recently erected
in the Paris Observatory is to be com-
pletely overshadowed in size and power
by the instrument now in course of con
struction for the new observatory in
Vienna. This is the largest yet attempt-
ed, and is being made at Dublin. The
length will be thirty-two feet; the object-
glass will have an aperture of over
twenty-six inches, and the great base
casting, weighing eight tons, will form a
chamber twelve feet long, eight high,
and foar and a half wide. The tube will
be entirely of steel, and all the axes will
have their friction relieved by anti-fric-
tion apparatus. It is expected that the
instrument will be completed by the
autumn of 1878. It took six years to
build the Paris reflector, which cost about
$10,0°°. _
Gbn. Humphreys, Chief of the United
States Engineers, in his late annual re
port, discusses in an exhaustive manner
the subject of jetties in connection with
the improvement of the mouth of
tbe Mississippi river. In transmit-
ting this report on the 15th of April,
1874, Qen. Humphreys presented very
fully the objections to the jetty system
and supported the canal plan. Congress,
however, provided for a board, drawn
partly from civil life, to examine the
subject, and upon their report being fa-
vorable to the jetty plan it was adopted
and a contract made with Captain Eads
which is now being executed. General
Humphreys does not propose to arrest
the work which has been commenced
and thinks that it would be premature to
assume that it will fail, but he presents
the whole question, reiterating his for-
mer views very emphatically. He has
no faith in the jetty system applied to
the mouth of rivers.
At the meeting of the American Health
Association last week, a paper was read
on the subject of yellow fever in Pensa-
cola Bay, Fla., in 1875, by Dr. G. M
Sternburg, Surgeon, IT. S. A. Dr. Stern
burg is convalescing from yellow fever,
The paper gave a foil account of the
terrible ravages of the disease among
the troops stationed at Fort Barancas
Fla., and the neighborhood, during the
past year—the three theories of the
origin by the air, or by floating ashore of
infected articles from the ship Von
Moltke, which had cases on board, and
the most popular theory of its having
been in the place itself.
A paper was also read by Dr. J. J
Woodward on " Yellow Fever in Pensa
cola Bay, Fla.," which was prepared by
IlAtvey E. Brown, M. D., Assistant Sur
geon, U. S. A., Fort Barancas, Fla.
This paper showed that of those taken
sick at Fort Barancas, forty-eight per
cent, died, and of those taken sick at
Fort Pickens, within a mile of Fort Ba
rancas, forty-six per cent. died. The
author doubted the possibility of the dis
ease being carried in the air from the
ship. The author is unwilling to attri
bute the cause to any communication
of the soldiers with the ship, and leaves
the origin in doubt for future invest!
gation.
The demand for an improved diction
ary increases. People no longer under-
stand what they read; in fact, many
hardly know what they write, and the
old woman's idea of the Scotch preach
er's metaphysics—something he did not
understand himself—threatens to find its
way into Northern pulpits, if it has not
done so already. In speaking of the late
election, a leading journal says the re-
salts show that there was a good deal of
'■ heterophemizing " in the publication of
the first news. But it is not in regard to
the meaning of long new words alone
that people are puzzled. The Nation
says the Republican papers generally
stated that New York had gone Iiepubli
can; bat while they wrote " Republican
they clearly must have thought " Demo
cratlo," for it seems now that the Bige
low ticket has upward of 15,000.majority
This the Nation regards as a Democratic
victory in the State, as that party had
united against it the Canal Ring, the
remnants of the Tweed Ring, the Short
Hairs, the *' Gravel-Train " vote, and the
Anti-One Man-Power vote,and had raised
in administrative reform " a rather too
scholarly slogan for the masses to take
up. People begin to want to know what
they are voting for. The reformation of
political platforms will pregent pretty
heavy work for politicians during the
year. Party names have lost
significance. The leading
paper in St. Louis is called
the Republican, and the leading Repub-
lican paper is called the Democrat, and
what makes it worse is the fact that the
editor of the latter paper is involved in
the whisky frauds which are now being
ventilated in the courts.
coming
their ancient
Democratic
A Illsta-flylns Penitentiary Bird.
The burlesque obituary of the Arkan-
sas politician, who had no ideas of the
rights of property, but whose heart
thrilled with patriotic emotions, has been
beaten by Col. Joyce, the eminent Mis-
sourian, who has been gent to the peni-
tentiary for stupendous frauds upon the
government in evading the payment of
the whisky tax. Col. Joyce was too
magnanimous to deny the charge or ask
a new trial after he was convicted, but
threw himself upon the mercy of the
court and asked an immediate sentence.
He addressed the court in his own be-
half and let as many spread eagles tiy as
would answer for half a dozen centennial
speeches. He had very little respect for
the moral character of the witnesses on
whose testimony he was convicted, aad
went so far as to call them self-convicted
thieves, who had paraded their own in.
famy by acknowledging that they had
stolen whisky from the government. He
held them in contempt, not because they
were thieves, but because they were
petty thieves, who had been satisfied
with swindling the government out of a
dollar and a half a barrel on whisky.
He could not bear to dwell upon the
character of such insignificant knaves,
but remarked:
The pencil of Gustave Dore could not
do justice to these three wandering
Israelites, who seemed ever on the look-
out to steal small things, when big ones
were conveniently at hand. Fememan
and Fagan are identical characters, and
should be immortalized in living infamy.
I dismiss these peddlers of fraud and
jerjury, consigning them to the devour-
ng fires of a rotton conscience.
The colonel is one of your high-toned
sort of official plunderers, and believes in
the Dogberrian principle of allowing
rogues to pass, rather than have any
trouble with them. He proceeds :
I was indicted for failure to report in
writing certain alleged knowledge and
information of certain fraudulent trans-
actions of petrified per j urers. The jury
found me guilty on the counts, but as a
matter of fact the conclusion was as false
as the evidence. I agree that it had the
appearance to the jury of a failure of
duty. We know, however, that things
are not always what they seem.
This truth has passed into an axiom,
and the difference between the way things
look to a man up a tree and the same
man on the ground, is explained by an
ancient allegory. But the Colonel's
heart is in the right place, and his elo-
quence equal to the occasion. The next
bird he lets tiy thus soars and sings:
My heart is actuated by that noble im-
pulse that nerved Winkelreid when he
opened a breach for the liberty of his
country, or by that lofty courage that in-
spired Sir Walter Raleigh at the block.
Like Raleigh, I may have puffed smoke
through the window at the execution of
some official Essex, but I never yet
trampled upon the royal robes of the
Virgin Queen. I ask that magnanimity
at this bar of justice that would be
reasonably claimed by yourself under
like circumstances. A few short years
will sepulchre the living of to-day witln
the dead of yesterday, and the celestiaf
unlight of to-morrow will bring us all
to the bar of Omnipotence, when the
judge, jury, lawyer and client will meet
upon the level of eternity and part upon
the square of final judgment.
" On the square " is good, and shows a
good deal of appreciation of the innate
spirit of justice. But the next gush is
one of patriotic emotion and honors the
old fiag, with a tinge of melancholy for
the proverbial ingratitude of republics :
When I look back to the field of battle,
where I fought and bled for my country
in the hour of terrible trial, I wonder
whether patriotism was but a name, and
gratitude of nations a mockery and
shame, to lure the brave to destruction.
My simple sin is that of omission, and
for it I suffer the deepest humiliation,
while the glorious services and recollec-
tions of the past are buried in the grave
of forgetfulness.
Is this just'.' This epidemical era of
reform has risen like the rush of a
mighty flood, and sped onwards to the
gulf of punishment. The good and the
bad suffer alike. The stream is full of
driftwood and dead timber, while many
young oaks and tall sycamores on the
banks are loosened from their firm foun-
dation, and dashed into the river of de-
struction. But the rain falls lightly on
the mountains, the sun shines warmly on
the plains, and the flood even now is set-
tling into the former bed, where the
crystal waters shall again reflect the
green foliage. The oak and sycamore,
and the gentle breezes and birds of
spring shall make merry music in the
cathedral aisles of a generous nation.
The prison walls that hemmed in Gali-
leo, Columbus, Tasso and Napoleon did
not measure the minds of the men. It is
true their bodies suffered some torture,
but the proud spirit that rose in their
hearts leaped the bounds of clay, and
soared away into the illimitable regions
of science, poetry and war, making them
monarchB of the hour and masters of
eternity. Like a mountain crag, I shall
breast the pelting storm and lift my
head clear and bold to the coming sun-
shine of truth and redemption. I have
done.
At the close of his speech, Judge Kre
kel proceeded to sentence him, in sub-
stance saying he had no doubt as to his
guilt. After some remarks, brief, point-
ed and earnest, he] pronounced the sen-
tence to be imprisonment for three and
a half years in the Missouri Penitentiary,
and assessed a fine of $3000. It muBt
have been a pleasure to the court to have
an opportunity to sentence such an ac-
complished and dignified character. The
Judge was generous, too, in the sen-
tence. In pleading guilty the prisoner
only asked for the lightest punishment
the law allows, six months in jail and a
fine of a thousand dollars, but the judge
gave him three and a half years and
three thousand dollars fine. Several
other highly respectable gentlemen and
leading politicians of St. Louis are await-
ing trial on similar charges.
Political Notes.
The Philadelphia Press calis John
Morrissey " the fly in the ointment of the
Republican thanksgiving."
Ctel Schurz owns up to having written
speeches for members of Congress who
cohldn't write them for themselves.
The official announcatnent of the can-
vass of the legislative election in Colo-
rado has been made. The Legislature
stands 19 Democrats, 19 Republicans and
1 Independent.
Col. Bailie Peyton and Mr. H. G. Rid-
dle are the principal candidates for Con-
gress in the Fourteenth Tennessee Dis-
trict, which has hitherto proved so fatal
to Congressmen.
David Davis, of Illinois, who had a
strong ephemeral influence as a Liberal
Republican candidate for the Presidency
in 1872, again has his name mentioned
for consideration in 1876.
The Baltimore Gazette finds nineteen
Democratic electoral majority, and says :
" The resnlt of the elections of 1875 does
not affect the prospects of the two par-
ties now straggling for natloual suprem-
acy in the least. The Republicans have
portion of their own
At the meeting of the National
Health Asssociation, last week, an ad
dress was made on "The prevalence of
nervous diseases among school children,
with suggestions for their prevention,"
by Allen McLane Hamilton, M. D., of
New York. He said in substance:
In our investigation we inquire
First—What are the physiological de-
mands, and how far are they granted f
Second—What is the machinery,
and what are the methods of
study in vogue ? In regard to
the first topic I refer you to
the large numbers of sickly children
that crowd the public schools in onr
large cities. In regard to the question
of methods and machinery of construc-
tion I refer you to the reports of
the Inspector of the Health De
partment of New "i ork and those of
the Superintendent of Education of
the same city. We may expect, and
do find congestive and nervous diseases
very common in early life. The sta-
tistics of all large cities show that
death from such diseases is far more
common than at any other time of life.
Improper school hygiene may affect
the nervous system directly or indi-
rectly.
Dr. Hamilton then considered the
evils resulting from the improper ven-
tilation of school rooms, digestion im-
paired by confinement, from severe
and continued mental strain, and the
various conditions of physical disease
which followed. In conclusion he
said : "I am convinced that more
pleasant surroundings would do much
to engender an esthetic taste, and
make the forms of study much more
agreeable. Very little would do this—
a few pots of flowers; a bright picture
or two, and a departure from the dull
sameness of the tinting on the walls ;
more thorough use of object teaching,
and the kindergarten system. I think
that these modes of education should
be followed up to the ninth or tenth
year. A more general introduction of
concert singing would be sufficient to
make the contrast between the dismal
tenement house and the school-room
greatly in favor of the latter.
A well-informed financial writer in
Holland has recently published a state-
ment of the amounts of various issues
of American railroad shares and bonds
which have been sold in that country.
Among the items is $12,500,000 of Mis
souri, Kansas and Texas (Union Pacific
Southern Branch.)
only reclaimed
States."
Returns of the Kansas election so far
show that there are but seven districts
in which Democratic members are elect-
ed, and that eleven membeas who are
classed as Reformers would, most of
them, on strict party division, vote wi.h
the Republicans. There are eighty out-
and-out Republicans elected.
In Chautauqua county, New York,
both the tickets for the Democratic and
Republican candidates for the vacancy
in Congress caused by the death of Col.
Allen were printed without the words,
" to fill a vacancy," as required by law.
Augustus N. Lowry, of Jamestown, dis-
covered the omission, and quietly got
some tickets and privately circulated
them himself, with the omitted words
duly inserted, and now claims to be the
legally elected member.
The tendency of cities to control State
elections is strikingly shown in the re-
cent contests in New York, Pennsylvania
and Maryland. In each of these States
the principal city gave a majority in op-
position to the rest of the btate. Bige-
low's 13,000 majority in New York
comes out of the 28,000 Democratic ma
jority of New York city. Philadelphia
elected HarUanft, and outside of the city
of Baltimore the Republican candidate
for Governor of Maryland had a major-
ity of 2000. In matters of legislation,
however, the country towns rule the
cities.
Boss Shepherd's great spoech Joes not
call forth the praise it should from the
Administration organs. In fact, they
seem not to know he has made it. What
is the matter V Are John Morrissey, Zach,
Chandler and Boss Shepherd too strong
a dose to swallow all at once'; Bless you,
gentlemen, they are all in the family,
and you must speak well of the family
though the heavens fall.
Senator Booth, of California, was told
by a Cincinnati reporter the other day
that the papers called him a candidate
for the Presidency. " Who isn't ?" he
replied, and then added, laughingly:
" I know it is the birthright of every
American to be President. Every mother
expects her son to be President, and
nearly every boy in the country talks
that way ; but it Is an aspiration which
is generally knocked out of him by the
first hard contact with the world. Any
man with common sense ought to know
when he has no chance."
The Pittsburg Post casts the national
horoscope subjunctively as follows : " If
the moneyed power of East succeeds in
capturing the National Convention, and
nominating a candidate that wears New
York uniform, the West is likely to bolt
and make another nomination. This may
throw the election into the House, which
Grant will readily dispose of, with bayo-
nets if necessary, and the Senate will de
clare the Republic in danger and Grant
the President for ten years. This is
gravely discussed in certain quarters and
will be attempted."
Tbe Detroit News thus reproves him
" The President has no business to speak
of the views of any portion of the people
except in respectful terms ; and when he
descends to the level of the political black-
guard in speaking so coarsely of any po-
litical creed, he insults not only those
holding such opinions, but the whole
American people."
Nobody questions the existence and
power of the independent voter now,
He is dreaded and courted on all sides.
In discussing the political outlook, the
Independent puts him in his rightful
place when it says : " Both parties ought
to discover that tbe country contains
sufficient number of honest and inde
pendent citizens to defeat either, and
that they will vote with one or the other
according to their judgment as to candi-
dates and principjw). They do not want
offices, yet they do want good govern-
ment ; and they mean to have it by sus-
taining the party that in their view will
be most likely to give it."
This olive branch to the Ohio Demo-
crats is held out by the Buffalo Courier :
" It is too early yet to nominate the Dem-
ocratic standard-bearer of 1876. We
have no doubt, however, that the party
will seek to call its best and safest men
to the front. Whether Gov. Tilden or
some other Democratic leader shall be
that man, time will disclose. But this,
at least, seems certain, that the Democra-
cy of New York and Ohio will not be
separated by party jealousies, and that
the consciousness of a common cause,
the love of common victory, and the
danger of a common ruin will thorough-
ly unite them. * United we stand, di-
vided we fall.'"
The principal third-term organ in
Pennsylvania—the Pittsburg Gazette—is
also a devotee of soft money, and is try-
ing to make its two hobbies run evenly
together by saying that the President is
not hard money enough in his views " to
hurt."' This is the way it twists the
President's reference to the " suppress-
ed " rag baby : " It seems to ns just a
little steep that the speech of President
Grant, which was simply congratulatory
over the victories of the Republican
party, should be classed as a ' hard
money' speech. The President isn't
exactly insane on that question. He
has views and utters them as occasion
requires; but we happen to know that
he does not cling to that subject, irre-
spective of all others; nor even to the
iextent of refusing to listen to views
not in harmony with his own.
ceedB to the poor. It Ts a matter of grat-
ulation that the poor of Pennsylvania
are under no obligations to maike up for
the losses on McClure's lectures.
Privy Counselor Boutovsky has
been appointed president of the Russian
Commission to the Philadelphia Centen-
nial Exposition by order of the Emperor.
His companions are Counselors Kobeko,
Yermakow, Vychnegradsky, Bielsky, Po-
dobedow, Behr and Timiriazew.
... .The Viceroy of Egypt has more re-
gard for tbe cause of education than he
has personal vanity. The sum of $65.-
000 having been raiBed to erect a monu-
ment of himself, he used the money to
found a public school at Alexandria, thus
secuiing a monument more enduring than
brass.
... ,W. W. Curtis, of Ohio, for a num-
ber of years chief clerk of the General
Land Office, has tendered his resignation.
It was privately tendered some two
aths ago and declined by the Commis-
gibfeer, but Mr. Curtis now insists upon
its acceptance, in order to engage in other
business.
The Princess de Bauffremont. has
caused a flutter in French and Belgian
society. She was born a Beige, but be-
came French by her marriage. Unable
to get rid of her firrt husband in France,
she became a Saxon citizen, sued for and
obtained a divorce, and then married
Prince Bibisco.
... .In a recent letter on the subject of
funeral reform, John Bright writes: " If
your friends or any sensible people wish
to reform the funeral exhibitions and
funeral expenses, let them observe and
copy the practice of the section to which
1 belong—that of the Society of Friends.
Nothing can be more simple, and nothing
can be better. They would be wise, also,
that follow them in rejecting the fashion
of wearing mourning, which is always
costly, and, as worn by many women,
hideous."
....A letter from Mr. Perry, the
Secretary to Commodore Goodenougb,
of the British navy, gives some ad-
ditional particulars of the assassination
at Santa Cruz, in the South 8eaa.
It appears that the Commodore and sev-
eral members of the ship's crew were de-
coyed away from their boat, not having
taken the precaution to arm themselves.
They became distrustful and turned back;
Just as they were about to re-embark,
the natives let lly a number of arrows,
one of which Btruck the Commodore.
He died from the effects of the poison
with which the arrow was tipped.
...Light-horse Ilarry " Watterson
has reformed, and thus says : " The girl
of the period is at once the grossest and
most transparent of hypocrites. Slie has
the French coquetry without the French
delicacy ; she has the English coarseness
of manner without the English solidity
of mind ; she has all the flippant folliea
of a Latin belle without her endearing
blandishments and sympathetic impulse.
She flouts out on the street with her pin-
back and paper collar, ready for advent
ure and somewhat reckless of conse-
quences, having a strong inward convic-
tion that if the prospect prove less pleas-
ing or profitable than the early indica
tions promised she can take care of her-
self and withdraw in safety from an en
counter she inaugurated."
... .The announcement is made that
George Bancroft will write four more
volumes of American history. The phra-
seology of the announcement, however,
is rather obscure. The first volume,
which is coon to be issued, will compre
hend the period between the peace of
Paris, 1772, to the inauguration of Wash-
ington, 1780. The epochs with which
Mr. Bancroft will deal after the first vol
ume are: First, from the inauguration of
Washington to the consolidation of the
Union by the acquisition of Louisiana-
1789-1803 ; second, vindication of the
place of the United States among the
powers of the world—1803-1815 ; third
the States and the United States—1815
1837; fourth, the annexation of Texas
and California—1837-1849; fifth, seces
sion and Union, from 1849.
... .Bishop Bedell, of Ohio, received a
public welcome at Toledo recently, on
his return from his foreign trip. In his
remarks he said that during his travels
among the Oriental churches he had
learned many things which tended to re
move ills old prejudices against them
One of»-tbe very remarkable things he
discovered was that among many of the
Eastern churches were traces of the Epis-
copal worship ; a liturgy, and bishops who
traced their descent away back into the
days of the Apostles. But now the spirit
has died out of the church, the true life
of Christ passed away, and the worship
ers fallen into a very depressed spiritual
condition, and much degenerated in their
worship. What struck him most forci
bly waB that while other churches are
doing very much, and accomplishing
great good in the introduction of a new
religious spirit, the Episcopal Church is
doing nothing.
Sounding the Deep Sea.
Personal.
Mr. Horace White is expected
home from Europe in April.
.... A son of Sims Reeves iB shortly to
make his debut as a tenor.
... .Horace Greeley's daughters have
returned to New York from Europe.
... .Mrs. South worth has recovered her
eyesight, and is at work on her 179th
novel.
Miss Eliza A. Dupny, the Ken-
tucky novelist, has gone to Washington
to live.
....A South Carolina clergyman
named Towel wiped himself out by sui-
cide the other day.
... .John Mosely, of Southburg, Conn.,
celebrated the 100th anniversary of his
birth on October 23d.
... .The present condition of the Em-
press Cariotta, Maximillian's widow, is
said to be trully distressing.
... .Moody was a street car driver and
Sankey a whisky-ganger before entering
into the business of saving souls.
The Bishop of Treves was fined
$18,000 in one week, and, as he would
not pay, the German government sold
him out.
Herr Stuers has been placed in the
ministry of Holland. He is one of the
leading promoters of art, education and
reform in that country.
The reason that Senator Sharon
mortgaged $600,000 worth of property
recently is that he was paying off the
late Mr. Ralston's debts.
. .. .Cyrua W. Field, William Cullen
Bryant, Cttarles O'Conor, and the rich
Widow Hicks, have all given dinners to
Lord Houghton within a few days.
... .Marshal MacMahon has always a
deputy or two traveling with him. What
a mileage bill a genuine Congressman
could get up under similar advantages !
... .Rear Admiral de Cassembroot and
Dr. Jonckbloet, Commissioners from the
Netherlands to the Centennial Exhibi-
tion, arrived from Liverpool in the steam-
ship Russia.
Professor Proctor insists that the
world was not made in six days, and he
might as well tell us at once that the
Bible is to be accepted in a Pickwickian
sense merely.
Jennie Bennett, of San Francisco,
dresses in male attire and catches frogs
for a living. The police keep arreslin]
her, but the magistrates refuBe to loci
her up, aa every body knows who she is.
Mr. C. Juhlin Dannfelt, Commis-
sioner General for Sweden to the Centen-
nial Exhibition, arrived by the steamer
Illinois at Philadelphia, and will make
his residence there till the close of the
exhibition.
.... Aleck McClure is lecturing in
Pennsylvania, and gives the entire pro-
The New York Herald says that
since the close of the late war, the
coast survey has gradually adopted the
old system of availing itself of the
services of the officers of the United
States navy to carry on its hydro-
graphic work, especially that pertain
ing to deep sea or "off-shore" sound
ings. On the Pacific coast the steamer
Hassler, so well known in connection
with the very interesting and impor-
tant investigations of the late Prof.
Agassiz, is now engaged in hydro
graphic work, under the command of
Lieutenant Commander Taylor aided
by a corps of regular navy officers.
On this coast several steam and
number of sailing vessels are engaged
the year round pushing the coast sur
vey work at various points from the
northern boundary to the Mexican
frontier.
Tbe steamer Blake, Lieutenant Com
mander Sigsbee, leaves in a day or two
for the Gulf of Mexico. The Blake,
which is a good type of the first class
of the steamers in the coast survey, is
526 tons burden, schooner-rigged, and
is fitted with a compressed engine driv-
ing a screw. Her quarters for officers
and men are large, roomy and well
ventilated, specially adapted for the
service she is upon to perform, i. e.
deep sea sounding. This winter she
will run lines of deep sea soundings in
the gulf stream, and the fruits of her
labor are looked forward to by the sci
entific world with great interest. She
is fitted with a new and perfect work-
ing deep aea sounding apparatus;
designed by Lieutenant Comman-
der Sigsbee, which has proved
by actual and continued trial, to be
superior to either tfje Thompson (Eng-
lish) machine used on the British fri
gate Challenger, or that perfected by
Commander Belknap and so success
fully tried in his famous soundings of
the Pacific ocean from the western
coast across to Japan. By Sigsbee'i
machine the desired amount of friction
on the deep sea wire can be at once
applied. It is automatic almost in its
application, and when the shot reaches
bottom, by a new and ingenious con
trivance it detaches itself, and the wire
ceases to pay out, and the officer in
chargc knows at once when to pull up
again and bring to the surface the ap
paratus, which
indicates tub temperature of the
water
and the nature of the bottom. In ad
dition to these great improvements,
Lieutenant Commander Sigsbee can
by one cast of the wire, obtain the
temperature and specimens of water at
any number of desired depths
the same time. Soundings can be
taken, if necessary, to tbe depth
3000 fathoms, and in a period wonder-
fully less than that by any other known
machine. No vessel has been fitted
out with greater care than the Blake,
and it is confidently expected that
adopted charts will undergo great al-
teration, especially in the lines of deep
sea sounding, when the Blake con
eludes her work. Already, in her
last summer's operations, very import
ant corrections have been made in pre-
vious "off shore " work, showing by
the crude and unsatisfactory methods
in use in old times that nothing like
exactness could be obtained. The
headquarters of the ship for the com
ing winter will be in Tampa bay and
Pensacola, Florida, where she will oc-
casionally call for coal and provisions
when necessity requires. She will
sail for the scene of future operations
in a day or two, and will not return
here again until spring, preparatory to
her summer's campaign off the North
em and New England coast.
By the official statement forSeptem
ber, Philadelphia is shown to be the
second port in the Republic in the ex-
port trade. New York is first, San
Francisco third, Boston fourth, Balti
more fifth and New Orleans sixth. In
the import trade, New York is first,
San Francisco second, Boston third
Baltimore fourth, Philadelphia fifth
and New Orleans sixth. In Philadel-
phia, the export trade is largely in ex
cess.
State Press.
The Marshall Herald remark?, upon
the probable vote en the acceptance by
the people of the new constitution :
The almost universal complaints of
the press of the State can convey but
one meaning, and that is, that the peo-
ple are dissatisfied with many of the
most important features of the instru-
ment the convention is framing. It will
not do to charge that the ~ newspapers
have been subsidized. Who have
bought tfaem up? Who aierich enough
to make such a large purchase? and
what can be the motive? It is sheer
demagogism, that will deceive no one.
The men that utter it know it to be
untrue.
They have pandered to the Radical
and negro element of the State. Will
that be acceptable to an intelligent,
virtuous, patriotic white constituency?
Can the Harrison fcounty Democracy,
for instance, sustain a constitution
which consigns it and all its political
and material interest* to the control of
an ignorant rabble, led by such men
as have driven them for years to finan-
cial ruin? Will the people of the State
vote for such a constitution? Perhaps
the convention may think tbe extreme
parsimony designed to be introduced
into every branch of the public service
will be acceptable. They ought to give
the people credit for some little intelli-
gence. They may conclude that an
organic law which will forever exclude
poor men of ability, and place medi-
ocrity in the highest positions, with
all the temptations to venality which
this fatal policy Will carry with it, is
not desirable; that it is neither wise
nor democratic.
The Bellvilie Beacon remarks:
The labors which the convention
had to perform were by no means Her-
culean. They had scores of models
ready to their hands. Do the mem-
bers think their constituents are such
silly asses as not to see that they are
more intent on magnifying their own
importance than in framing a consti-
tution that should be plain and simple
in its language, terse in style, easy of
comprehension, free from ambiguity,
and incapable of double meaning ?
Such a constitution could have been
framed in thirty days, and the mem
bers would not have overworked them-
selves at that.
But instead of going to work like
men who meant business at the start,
they straightway went to skirmishing
all along the line, trying to fortify a
position to secure the United States
senatorsliip for some pet favorite, or
paving tho way smoothly to guberna
torial.honors, for some second or third-
rate man in' the background.
It was an evil day for . Texas when
this neit of incompetents met. In-
stead of producing order, they have
created chaos. The State is without a
Legislature, or very soon will be, by
the acts of these latter-day Solons.
It used to be an adage that there is
nothing like leather, but there are now
many bad imitations of the article,
and much bad leather which can
hardly be called an imitation. The
Rusk Obserter likes the old sort, and
says :
We wish somebody in Cherokee
county would manufacture some old-
time, old-fashioned leather—leather
that would be leather, such as we used
to have before the days of ateam, elec-
tricity, chemical process, etc. We can
remember when almost every farmer
had his little tanyard, his two or three
vats near a spring or branch, in which
he tanned leather for his own use and
sometimes for sale. It would take
from one to two years to tan a hide,
but when it was tanned it was leather;
it was not burnt up, or eat up with
poisonous chemicals. A pair of shoes
or boots made of it would last a year
or more. If the Grangers of Cherokee
county would start an old-fashioned
tannery boot and shoe shop in this
county, they would do themselves and
the county a service which would be
of incalculable benefit.
The Gate City News devotes two
whole pages to advertising Cooper,
Bailey & Co.'a Circus—a legular pic-
torial paper; but it finds room to say
Texas has been—we were about to
say cursed, but will say blessed—with
a class of men who, in politics, show a
strong disposition to play the dema-
gogue, ami demagoguery, though o<
much seen in public affairs, is some-
thing that is very distasteful to the
masses. If once the public gets the
idea that an individual wants to take
up that role and play it, strong preju-
dices are at once aroused, and much
time is necessarily required to disabase
their minds.
The News then names certain mem
bers of the convention and proceeds to
argue that they have attempted to
serve themselves instead of the State.
The Gonzales Index thinks the press
of the country has been too hasty in
its judgment on the Constitutional
Convention, and that many editors will
feel sad and dejected when the consti-
tution is adopted by the people of
Texas.
The Cleburne Chroniele, speaking of
the efforts to run Col. Lang, Master
of the State Grange, for Governor,
says:
Col. Lang has the same right of any
other citizen to aspire to the high po
sition of Governor of Texas; but then
he must seek his election as a citizen
not as a Granger. Let him first come
down from the high place he now occu
pies in the order. The Grange can not
maintain its non-political pretensions
and at the same time encourage their
highest officer, as such, in his aspira-
tions for political advancement. The
Grange organization has already bene
fited our people, and if properly con
ducted will continue to be advanta-
geous ; but if mingled with politics, its
usefulness is at an end. When it is
known that the great organization of
the farmers have determined to fill all
the politics 1 offices, demagogues will
be certain to creep in, and such politi-
cal squabbles will result as must drive
the good and true men away. We say
choose Grangers for office where desi-
rable, but not merely because they are
•rangers, and not while they are high
officers of the Order.
The Kaufman Telegraph manipulates
the wires thus:
Now, if Col. Lang is a Granger,
what matters that? He is a Democrat
in politics, and that is what Texas
claims to be. Would you have a man
drag his political views into all his
social, civil and religious circles, clothe
himself with Democratic ensigns, bear-
ing on his breast a plate, and upon his
shoulders a shoulder-strap, and the
names of all the old Democratic apos
ties engraven thereon, before allowing
him to enter the " holiest of the
holies?" Now, if Col. Lang, as
Democrat, is put on the Democratic
ticket, in the next gubernatorial cam
paign, we are unable to see what harm
would be done to the Grange as
social organization? This much we
say to his right to beeome a candidate
for the gubernatorial chair. But that
honorable gentleman, when he ex
pressed a doubt of his ability to dis-
charge the functions of the office of
Governor, expressed our sentiments.
They had a pretty exciting time of
it at the church in East Hartford
Conn., on last Sunday night. David
E. Curtis undertook to leave during
the services of prayer and praise, when
he was stopped by Ralph Risley. The
young man said it was necetsary that
he should leave, but Risley took him
by the collar to prevent him, where-
upon Curtis struck Risley in the face,
and then the excitement began. The
boys in the audience shouted all sorts
of impious things, and the pastor, Rev,
Mr. Morse, left the pulpit and joined
the crowd about the door. Finally,
Curtis was compelled to take a seat un
til Thomas Dowd, a justice of the
peace, had been sent for, the pastor
announcing that a trial would be held
then and there, although it was not
exactly the day on which to do such
things. The trial was finally put off,
however, until a secular day.
The etnologist, Prof. Bastian, who
has been exploring South America with
a view to discovering remains of Aztec
civilization, gives assurance of his suc-
cess in a letter to a friend in Berlin.
State News.
aransas county.
The steamer Austin took another cargo
of beeves from liockport, for Havana,
last week... .The grass is gotd for stock
on the prairies Rev. A F. Cox has
returned to Rockport... .The Transcript
says : " Last Sabbath evening the Bap-
tist Church, worshiping; at Rockport,
abolished a custom which had obtained
that body, of non-inter-church com-
munion between themselves and Baptists
belonging to other churches of like faith
and order. There were but two dissent-
ing voices to the proposition.
BELL county.
Tho chinch bugs have appeared in
some parts of this county, but have done
no harm. . . .Mr. Sam W. Wybants man-
ufactured 800 gallons of wine from the
English grape.
bexar cnunt'y.
Mr. S. Reininger committed suicide on
Friday at his residence in Alamo City, by
shooting himself through the head. The
cause of the rash act is not known, but it
is supposed to have been pecuniary em-
barrassment.
cherokee county.
In thiB country unimproved land3 of
exellent quality, capable of producing
from thirty-five to fiftv bushels of corn,
or one bale of cotton per acre, can be
bought at; from $2 50 to $5 per acre.
Improvedlands, of course, rate higher.
Milch cows can be bought at from $10
to $20, according to quality. Beef sells at
two-and a half to three cents per pound.
Corn iB nearly always plentiful, and usu-
ally ?ellB for from fifty cents to seventy-
five cents per bujhel. The land pro-
duces wheat.
cameron county.
At last accounts the Brownsville ferry
was blocked with a flood of merchandise
to be crossed to Matamoros... .A report
camo in on Sunday that six cattle thieves
were seen driviDg cattle across the rail-
road track in the direction of the river.
A scout went out, but could find no trail
of them. . . .In the United States Court,
the Grand Jury have found a number of
indictments for smuggling and violation
of the Internal Revenue law.
collin county.
The Grangers of Collin county are go-
ing to establish several stores ; the prin-
cipal store at McKinney.
cooke county.
There was a sheep |at the Gainesville
Fair, bo reported, only two and a half
years old that weighed 340 pounds.
gonzales count*.
The difficulty in which Columbus Car-
roll was killed and Mr. Jacob Carroll was
badly wounded grew out of a misunder-
standing about the right to pecan priv-
ileges, which Mr. Carroll had leased to
McCassidy, so the Index saya.
oratson county.
The receipts of the Missouri, Kansas
and Texas Railway at Denison, dating
October, from incoming freights, amount-
ed to $102,550; from shipments from
that point about $95,000.. .Twenty-thiee
bales of cotton arrived at Denison on
wagons Monday evening, from Montague
county. . . .Probably the finest car load of
cattle that ever left the Denison stock-
yards were shipped Sunday, by Messrs.
Massey & McMurtry, for St. Louis
There were fifteen head, their average
weight being fifteen hundred pounds
each....The City Council have ordered
the levying of a special tax of one-fifth
of one per cent, for fire protection pur-
poses . .. .Work commenced on the Epis
copal Church.
11ill county.
The late rains have been very favor
able for sowing and bringing up wheat
A large crop will be planted... .Heavy
frosts this week will make all the cotton
open now, and the rains have wet the
grounds so farmers can finish sowing
their small grain.
hunt county.
The Independent is reliably informed
that there are several farmers in this
county that will make as much as two
bales of cotton to the acre this year...
Horn's new gin built on the spot where
the old one was burned, ib running now
It is a great convenience and a mark of
prosperity tb Greenville. ..A great msny
Poland-China, Chester and Berkshire
hogs are being introduced in the county
A good many Durham cattle are being
imported also .Cotton is still bringing
a good price. Wheat will sell for one
dollar per bushel... .If anybody wants a
place, where water, timber, the richest of
land and at low prices, good society
good schools, market close at hand
health—in fact, everything that makes a
place attractive, and that is calculated to
please everyone, they should come to
Hunt county.
johnson county.
The Chroniele reports a cold norther
followed the rain, bringing frost suffi-
cient to bite flown tlie greater part of the
yet growing cotton plants. Sjme fields
we believe are still green and putting
forth blooms... .Someof the wheat sown
this fall h&s lain in the ground near six
weeks without sprouting. But now that
the rain has come the large wheat crop
of the county will proceed at once to the
" business " of growing Some of our
citizens have lost quite a number of fat
hogs by some disease heretofore un-
known to our country. Mr. Hudztiez lost
ten or twelve in one day. The disease is
pronounced hog cholera by some. .. .The
trade in cotton is still brisk and wagons
loaded with huge bales are departing
daily..
live oak county.
The Tribune noticed a fine lot of hogs
passing up the road last week. They
had been purchased for the Luling mar-
ket., and will doubtless be sold at fair
figures. The mast is generally good, and
hogs not very plentiful, owing to the
fact that but little attention has been
given to hog-raising. The fall rains
have been seasonable. The range
good. Beans, turnips and other garden
vegetables are in gre^t abundance.
nueces county.
The sale of horses seized by the gov-
ernment for violation of customs laws
took place in the custom-house yard, in
Corpus Christi, last Monday. There
were 22 head, and the lot brought on an
average $15 each... .The total value of
property in Precinct No. 1, Corpus
Christi, is assessed for the present year at
$1,267,747... .Nueces county jail "now
contains two Mexican prisoners charged
with horse-stealing... .Work at the
railroad shops is going steadily ahead
A number of cars have been completed
the engine is beiog put together, and by
the time the iron arrives everything
will be in readiness to commence track
laying... .The Comet loaded with wool
and left for Galveston on the 6th.
The city police represent that the peace
and quiet of Corpos Christi were never in
a more wholesome state than at present
....Hunters report, and bring in tro
phies to show, that wild game exists in
the greatest abundance. The geese
ducks, rabbits, squirrels, turkeys, etc.
are represented to be unusually fat, and
easy of approach. As a sporting ground
the Nuecss Valley is perhaps not ex
celled by any other locality in the South
... .Hides at Corpus are quoted: Mexi
can, 16@16£c. for 20 pounds and up
wards ; one-third less for all below
countryr15<al5Jc. for 20 pounds and up
wards, and one-third less for all below
Wool—Improved, according to quality
16@18c. ; fine, 17@20c On Thurtday
Mr. David Maltby departed this life, in
the eighty-fifth year of his age. He
Special \otlccs.
WIIl>or'» Cod Liver OH and Lime.
Persons who have boon taking Cod Liver
Oil wilJ be pleased to learn that Dr. Wilbor
haa suooeeded. from directions of several pro-
fessional gentlemen, in combining the pure oil
and lime in such a manner that it is pleasant
to the taste, and its effects In lung com-
plaints are truly wonderfu'. Very many per-
sons whose cases were pronounced hopeless,
and who had taken the clear oil for a long1
time without marked effect, bavo been en-
tirely cured by using this preparation. Be
sure to get the genuine. Manufactured by A.
B. Wilbor, chemist, BostoD. Sold by all
druggists. nol7 we fri su&W It
Kfew A(lv< r!«K< »?;cn!s.
"yOTICE NOTICE.
In Mr. WM. H. HAYS'S absence from the
city, I will attend to all his business, and can
be found at my office, No. 13, Moody & Jemi-
son's building, Strand street.
W. M. JERDONE.
Galveston, Nov. 17, 18,"5. no!8 2t
pRUSTEE SALE.
By virtue of a Deed of Trust executed by
R. S. Bryan on the 14th day of September,
1874, and recorded in the District Clerk's office
of Galveston county, in book 12, pages 765,
766 and 767, to secure the payment of his cer-
tain promissory note, therein described, I, A
Campbell, will sell, between the hours of
11 a. m. and 1 p. jt., on the
29th Day'of November, 1875,
in front of the Courthouse door in the city of
Ga'veston, Galveston county, Texas, for ca#h,
to the highest bidder, those tracts or parcels
of land on Galveston island, in Galveston
county, State of Texas, known and designated
on the map of said island as lots numbered
eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve, thirteen, four-
teen, fifteen, sixteen, seventeen, eighteen,
nineteen, twenty, twenty-one, twenty-two,
twenty-three, twenty-four, twenty-five, twen
ty-six, twenty-seven, twenty eight, twenty
nine, thirty and thirty-six, (8, 9, 10, 11, 12,13,
14, 13, 16, 17, 18, 19, tf), 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 2^
29,30 and 36.) in section three (3) of said island,
containing two hundred and sixty-seven and
one-tenth acres of land, (267 1-10) and all the
buildiogs and improvements on said land sit-
uated.
A. r. CAMPBELL, Trustee.
I will commence the sale on the Gulf side,
and sell the lots as they lie, in tiers of three,
continuing north until sufficient is realized tro
pay the note and expenses. nol8 lOt*
leaves a wife and two eoqb, Henry A.
and Wm. H. Maltby.
rusk county.
Corn 75 cents a bushel in Henderson
... .The town is improving. New addi
tions ai;e being made to the business
classes of citizans.
titus county.
The Grangers are pretty well organ
ized, aad the order is flourishing in this
county... .Business is good at Mount
Pleasant, Cotton comes in freely.
webb county.
Civilization is extending in the frontier
counties... .There has been a conviction
for murder in the first degree in the Dis
urict Court of Webb county.
"williamson county.
Mr. Morrow's gin, near Georgetown
destroyed... .Ky. Hunt shot and killed
William Piper in Williamson couniy last
week. Hunt is still at large.
m • • •<«■»—
MARRIED :
IIES3—RITCHIE—At Trinity Church, on
Wednesday, November I7tb, by the Rev. S.
M. Bird, Mr. J. E. Hess to Miss Fannie Ritchie,
both of Galveaton. No cards.
New Orleans papers please copy.
Special Notices.
Special Notice.—There will be a meeting
of the Workingmen's Benevolent Association
at Screwmen's Hall THIS (Thursday; EVEN
ING, at 8 o'ctock. Prompt attendance is re
quested. By oider of the President.
nol8 It* T. L. CROSS, Sec'y.
Notice—The Ninth and last Installment of
ten per cent) on tne capital stock of the Gulf,
Colorado and Santa Fo Railway Company is
called in, by order of the Board of Directors,
payable at the office of tho Secretary on the
first ot November, 1875.
M. KOPPERL, i
R. S. WILLIS, v Finance Committee.
N. N. JOHN, J
JJEA.TING STOVES
FOR COAL OK WOOD,
-t retail afc wholesale prices, at
STEELE, WOOD & CO'i.,
68 and 70Tremont street.
Amusements.
Tremont Opera House
Lul Night but One,
I>a«t Kight bat One,
Last Kigbt but One,
OF
Haverly's Minstrels,
rfaverly's Minstrels.
TO-NIGHT, Thursday, Nov. 18.
fgf An Entire Change of Programme.
DONT FAIL TO SEE THE IIAV-
E8LT MISSTRELS,
In a New Bill all tbe way through.
i
MONDAY, NOVEMBEK &!d ,
BUFFALO BILL and TEXAS JACK
MLLE. MORLACCHI, THE PEERLESS.
=IN STORE=
3000 Sacks Coffee.
TO ARRIVE PKK MARGARETHA,
4000 Sacks Coffee.
KAdFFIIAN *
ap33 una tf
1UNGB.
JUST ARRIVED.
4000 Sacks Coffee
PEft BRIG "ANDJIKA."
This is the first car^o of
NEW CROP.
And will be sold to the trade at low figures,
from Wharf.
Samples to be seen at my office.
' ITI. KOPPERL.
fN STORE-
2000 Sacks COFFEE
To arrive, per "EXCELLENZ SIBBERN,"
4000 Sacks SALT
J. II. KLSttORXH &. CO.
XSTOVESX
AT COST,
HEATING AND COOKING
IN EVEBY VARIETY.
miscellaneous.
■<11E TEXAS
Hat Manufacturing: Company,
L. n, WATERS, Proprietor,
129 TREMONT STREET 129
Galveston-, Texas.
Tremont Opera House
Monday Evening, November 29,1875.
FOR SIX NIGHTS AND SATURDAY
MATINEE.
The entirely new and complete
French Opera Bouffe Company,
Expressly fiDgaged in Paris for the Lyceum
Theatre, New York, Varieties Theatre, New
Orleans, and Tremont Opera House. Galves-
ton, Texas, including the following: Eminent
Artists, will make their first appearance in
Galveston :
M'LLE CORALIE GEOFFROY,
M'lle Marie Nardynn, M'lle Florance Dupare,
M'lle Julie Hosdez, M'lle Lucie Faye,
M'lles Cherzy, Nelcy, Cureau. Vandelet, Ro-
don, Julian, Deriberpre, Vandamme,
Nde, Lemarle, Ingetberg, Hart-
man, Soret and Gomer.
MONS. GABRIEL DE QUEROY,
Mons. Eugene Roger, Mons. Emile Duplan,
Mona. Charles Darcy, Mons. Bertr'd Ludoyic,
Mons. Alexis Castel, Mons. Adrien Valter,
MM. Benedick, Davalis, Leclerc, Cuerra,
Adorcy, Grazzini, Cattanio, Fraisse,
Ruffino, Kramer, Milano, Gerard,
ColardinL, Thuillart, etc ,
with a full Cnorn* and Orchestra, under the
direction of MM. Von Ghele and Rosenboom.
E. Schmidt and L. Benedtck, Stage Managers.
Mondiy Evening:, Nov. 29, 1875,
Lecocq's Latest and Greatest Triumph i
Opera Bouffe,
GIROPLE-G1ROFLA,
will be presented for the first time in Galves-
ton, with entirely new scenery, costumes,
properties and a gorgeous mis-en-scene.
To be replaced in rapid succession by the
following Operas: La Fille de Madame Angot,
Le Petit Faust, Madame L'Archiduc, La Jolie
Parfumeuse, La Princisse de Trebizonde, La
Timbale d'Argent, Le Canard a Trois Bees
and La Vie Parisienne.
These works will be presented with tho en-
tire strength of the company and the strictast
attention to stage settina:, costuming, scenic
effects and all the capacious resources of the
theater.
Further particulars will be duly announced
Price? for Season of Six Nights and Matinee
will be $10, or $3 a single night.
Seats for the season of six nights and mati
nee can be secured at Goggan A Bros.' Music
Store, beginning Wednesday, Nov. 17; Single
Tickets at the Box Office, Nov. 29.
Seats can be secured by telegraph or letter
at anv time. C. A. CH1ZZOLLA,
noW 2w Manager French Opera Bouffe Co.
AT LOW FIGURES.
Large A»»ortm*nt or
Saddlery, Wooden ware, Cotton and
Cornstalk Cutters,
Jno. Moore and Jno. Meere
Cast and Steel
NAILS, AXES AND CASTINGS,
FOR SALE BY
^^League & Lufkin
Auction Sales.
AUCTION SILK.
BY I'ARK, LYNCH & CO.—R. A.
PARK, Auctioneer.— Will sell THIS
DAY, 18th Inst., at 10 o'cTdck, it their sales-
rooms Strand-
One Walnut Armoire, Bed-room Furniture,
Stoves and other household articles.
Potatoes, Onions, Apples, Flour and other
groceries and sundries.
One lot assorted Shoes, Notions, an invoice
of Plated-Ware and other merchandise.
nol8 It
Wl
AUCTION SAUK OF WAT Kit
TANKS.
E will sell on THURSDAY, the
18th Instant, at 9:30 o'clock, at Ware-
house on Brick wharf, tor account of whom
it may concern,
THREE IRON WATER TANKS,
Saved from wreck of schooner Emily and
Emile. PAHK, LYNCH & CO.
nolti 3t
TWO COTTAGES AND CORNER
LOT AT AUCTION-On Saturday, Nov.
20, at 3 o'clock p m ., will be sold on the prem-
ises,Corner Lot 6, Block 92,Galveston city (52x
140 ft.), and tho two Cottages thereon. In
consequence of the owners departure for
Europe, we will sell said property at auction
to the highest bidder over $ JOOO,currency. It is
now renting for $30 per month. It is worth
83000. Ti le perfect. Ter®*, $1000cash;bal-
ance in one year, with 10 per cent, interest.
Sale on corner 3*2d and K
nolfl td II. M. TKU O.HKART & CO., Ag'ta.
\ew Publications.
STONEWALL JACKSON.
We understand that tho well-known publish-
ing house of JD. APPLETON & CO., New
Yerk, have uearly ready for publication the
LIFE OF STONKWALL JACKSON,
fully Illustrated by views and portraits, in
eluding the orations and scenes attending the
unveiling of Foley's Statue of Stonewall Jack-
son at Richmond. We advise all, especially
disabled soldiers and women out of work, to
write to the publishers at once and secure
an agency, a* the work is to be sold by sub-
scription. It will have a large sale.
[nol7 d^t&Wlt]
Treatise on book-keeping,
By A. W. morison.
This book, in a few words, makes clear the
fundamental principles of this science. It un-
veils the mysteries and simplifies "the ma-
chinery of book-keeping." It reveals an easy
plan and short metnoa by which to keep all
accounts. In a few days any bov of ordinary
capacity can master the work. No book-
keeper, merchant, farmer or mechanic should
be without it. For sale by E. H. CUSHING,
Houston, Texas, and booksellers generally.
Price only 75 cents. oc211m*
TEXAS ALMANAC
—AND—
REGISTER
FOR 1878.
Price with Map. SO cents; without, 25
cents. Sent postpaid.
MASON'S BOOK STORE,
no7 2m Galveston, Texas.
9tillinery..Dress Making
JMPORTANT TO LADIES.
MISS JOSEPHINE BENTINCK,
Formerlv with Mrs. S. Dixon,
dkess-uakek and b1illinkb,
at the old stand of Mrs. Dixon's, 5£25 Post-
office street, where she will be oleased to
meet her friends, and do work to satisfy all
who come, and at prices to suit the times.
Pinking done, and stamping from an entire-
ly new ttyl© of pattern. oc»6 lm*
Dry Goods, Notions, Etc.
POSITIVELY
NO MORE GOODS SOLD
—at THE—
Galveston Bazar,
no3 1 m
To the Front Once 31 ore!
Removed tram 173 Center St. to
No. 157 Market St.,
(Wiley & Sherrard'a Old Stand.)
THE ORIGINAL
DOLLAR STORE.
In addition to the usual assortment of
FANCY GOODS and NOTIONS
I am now offering fresh invoices of
Special inducements afforded to Country
Buyers. GUS LEWIS,
io7 Founder of the Dollar Store in Galveston.
A. ALLEN. L. ALLEN,
JOS. AIKEN.
A. ALLEN & €0.,
dzai.k&s is
Italian and
American
MARBLE,
Wholesale and Retail,
Galveaton, Texas.
Drawer 48 P. O.
EXCEPT
AT A SHALL PROFIT.
General Merchandise.
LAMPS AND OILS,
Lamp Trimming*, Portable Gas
Uoodr, Tin and Japanned
Ware, Eu,
OILS.
Septoline, Solar, Crystal, Insurau*e, Head
Light, Pratt's Astral and Radiant, Devoe's
Brilliant and Nonpareil.
Purolint*, liasoline, Benzine, Kaptba, and
the various products of Petroleum, wholesale
and retail, by
J. A. LABAKT1IE,
Manager Island Citj Lamp Jt Oil Co.,
174 and 176 Twenty-second street, between
Market and Postoffice.
Halls and Dwellings lighted for special oc-
casions at short notice. oc6 3m
'po
ARRIVE FROM NEW YORK—
500 bbls choice POTATOES.
20,000 No. 1 FIRE BRICKS.
5,000 bbls. best Hydraulic Rosendale CE-
MENT.
Jmt Received and in Store.
2,000 bbls. beet Hydraulic Rosendale CE-
MENT.
250 bbls. No. 1 PLASTER PARIS.
200 boxes American Lye Co.'s LTE.
50 cases of Sparkling CIDER CHAM-
PAGNE.
100 nests TUBS, eight in a nest.
25 nests TUBS, three in a nest.
CLOTHES-PINS, MEASURES, ETC.
50 bbls. pure CIDER VINEGAR.
100,000 LATHS.
300 bbls. best PORTLAND CEMENT.
10,000 sacks coarse LIVERPOOL SALT.
1,000 sacks fine LIVERPOOL SALT.
300,000 best quality NORTH RIVER BRICKS.
PLANTERER'S HAIR, FIRE CLAY, MAR-
BLE DUST, NORTHERN HAY, etc., which we
offer to the trade at the
Loweit lflarket Prices!
€. W. ADAMS 4c CO.,
&p25'75 ly Cor. Avenue C and 24th st.
G. B. MARSAN,
' DEALER IN
OYSTERS AND FISH.
Orders solicited from the country.
Central Wharf, s Balyistoj, Tex.
Postoffice Box 535. sel 3m«
TO ARRIVE
FROM BREMEN
Fx WESER, Capt. J. Poppe.
Ex ERNA, Capt. II. Schutte.
200 bbls Vinegar,
200 boxes Wine,
25 casks 1869 Cognac.
100 boxes Berlin Kummel,
100 casks Mineral Water,
50 boxes Raspberry Vinegar
50 bags Lentils,
Red Cabbage in Vinegar, Herrings, etc., 1000
nests Baskets, 150,000 Bricks,
For sale by
noTlm KAl'FMAN A: BUNGE
JERYEY, PETTIT & CO.,
WHOLESALE DEALERS IN
Kerosene or Coal Oil,
GASOLINE FOR GAS MACHINES,
Benzine, Naptha, Head-Light Oil,
PUROLINE FLUID,
CARBON OIL OR PETROPHENE,
And all the Illuminating and Lubricating
Petroleum Oils.
OFFICE, 25 STRAND,
Warehouse, Thirtieth St., bet. Mechanic st.
and Strand, GALVESTON. TEXAS.
P. O. Box M7. 1«8 '75 Bm
Building Materials.
J> C. TA.YLOR,
Manufacturer of Lime,
AUSTIN, TEXAS,
Will deliver Lime at a very reaaonable rate
at any station on the Houston and Texas Cen-
tral Railroad or International and Great
Northern Railroad or Galveston and San An-
tonio Railroad, except otherwise ordered.
He will ship none but the very best WH1TK
LIME. Satisfaction guaranteed or the mcney
returned. Address P. C. TAYLOR, Austin,
and for the coast country to 177 West Market
street, Galveston, where a sufficient supply
kept in stock. P• TAYLOR.
. aec25 lv
TOYS! TOYS!
Wholesale and Ketall.
The most complete and cheapest stock ever
brought to this market, consisting of
Wood, Tin & Mechanical Toys
Velocipedes, Wagons, Work Boxes, Writing
Desks*, Handkerchief, Glove and Perfume
Boxes, Fancy Cups and Saucers, and Toilet
Sets.
Call before you purchase elsewhere, at the
Toy Department <up stairs) of the
GALVESTON BAZAR
Oc24 2m
Alexander hill—
Formerly J. Davidson Hill & Co.
WELSH AND AMERICAN SLATES, SLABS,
etc., and agent for the Williamstown and
Franklin Slate Quarries. The slate from
these quarries are the best Amorican slates
which nave yet been sent to this market, and
bear a closer resemblance In color, strength
and quality to the Welsh slate, than any that
have heretofore appeared. Prices from 50
to $10 Dcr square, English count.
au7 6m 110 Carondelet st. New Orleans.
A. jos. kapp.
F.GROTE&CO.
TURNERS & DEALERS
IN
IVOR Y,
114 East Fourteenth St.,
Opposite Academy Muaic, NEW YORK,
Manufacturers of Ivory and Bone Faro and
Poker Checks, Roulette, Faro and Poker
Tables, Roulette Wheels, Boxes, Care Keep-
ers, Layouts, etc., e»,c. aul3 6m
LOUIS BUSINESS HOUSED
SEEKING TEXAS TRADE.
BAGS AND BAGGING.
HSc L. CHASE, Bags of all kinds for grain,
flour, Ac.. 8 and ION. Main St.
C OMMISSION MER CHANTS.
fiARTWRIGHT & CO., Commission Merchants
V Cotton,Hides, Wool, & Grain, 110S. Com'lSt.
F TIED It MAS 5 A CO., Commission, Cotton.
• Flour,Grain,Tobacco,Hides Ac. 12N.Mair.St
JW. HICKS tc CO., wholesale dealers in Fruit
• a * ~ "
• and Prodnce, 110 Walnut St.
MJ. CALHOUN & CO..Cotton Factors & Com'n
• Grain, Leather, Hides & Wool, 100Com-1 St.
SEFTER 9c CO., Cotton Factors and Cominis-
t
> sion Merchants. 200 N. M&in St.
BEALL At CO., Cotton Factors ami
Commission Merchants 18 s.Commercial St.
W.H-B
DRV GOODS.
SAM'L C. DAVIS & CO., Wholesale Dry Goods,
Washington Aveni'e and Fifth st
IRON.
CLIGO IRON STORE, 1007 N. 2<1 St. Iron, Steel,
O Horseshoes, Blacksmith Merchandise, Ac.,
LIVE STOCK COMMISSION.
BEASLEYBROS.,LiveStockCommission M«r-
chants, Nat'l Stock Yards, Kadt St. Louis, HI.
HUNTER, EVANS A CO., Live Stock Comm.s-
£ —
L sion Merchants, Xa?l Stock Yards, 111.
STATIONERS.
I" EYISION & BLYTHE, Stationers, Printers aid
U Blauk Book MT rs. Proprietors ol'the Cliau-
pion Violet Copying and Record Ink, 219 Olive St.
KANSAS CITY BUSINESS HOUSES
SEEKING TEXAS THADE.
A GRICULTURAL IMPLEMENTS.
TRUMBULL, REYNOLDS & ALLEN. SEED and
A'gl Implement house. 4iyand 421W alnut St.
MEDICAL AND SURGICAL INSTITUTE.
DEFORMATIES and Chronic Diseases treated.
Send for circular, Dr». Dickerson & Stark, 41ft Delaware St.
STOCK YARDS fr LU E STOCK COM'N.
THE KANSAS .STOCK VuiDS, the most com-
modious In the Mo.Valley, L.V. Morse, Supt,
I4 IliGlilHBRY, ALGER J^O.TKansas Stock Yds
■m. Kansas City.Mo. Nawinal Stock Yards, East
St. Louis, 111. Specialty made-of Blooded Cattle.
PIWERS, RIAL & CO., Live Stock Commis-
sion Merchants, Kansas Stock Yards. ^
(BO/Wk a month~to" energetic men aid
mUVFl/ women everywhere. Business hai-
or&ble. EXCELSIOR M'F'G CO., 151 Michigin
avenue, Chicago.
Prescriptions Free
for the speedy cure of special troubles con-
mon to the young and middle aged. Nervous,
mental and physical depression, loss of men-
ory and energy, pains in the back, self-diB-
trust, dizziness, dimness of sight, confusion
of ideas, and other disorders of the nervois
system consequent on various habits thit
lower the vitality of the system. Any drug-
gist has the ingredients. Address JE.
H. HiLTOK, Cincinnati* o.
dfc i *) A DAY at home. Agents ^rantei.
np JL Outfit and terms free. TRUE & CO.,
Augusta, Maine.
It contains 15 sheexs raver, 15 Envelopes,
Golden Pen, Pen Holder, Pencil, Patent Yard
Measure and a piece of Jewelry. Single pack-
age, with elegant prize, post-paid, 25 cents.
Circular free. BRIDE & CO., <b9 Broadwaj
New York.
A WEEK guaranteed to Male and
Female Agents, in their locality.
Terms and OUTFIT FREE. Ad-
dress P. O. VICKERY A CO., Augusta, Me.
$77
You Can .Make $5,000
In 90 Days in A 1 Stocks.
MY SYSTEM 18 SAFE, HONORABLE
AND SIMPLE.
Pampbelt. Sent Free to All.
W. H. WEEKS, Banker, ITS Broadway, Nev
York. Stocks bought and sold at the N. Y.
Stock Exchange.
$5 TO $20 PJ5R DAY
At home. Samples worth $1 free. STINSON
& CO.. Portland, Maine.
_ . Fascina-
Mesmerism and
^HB NEWS JOB OFFICE HAS
f Btilh «r Tin.
MIND READING, Peychomancy,
tion, Soul Charming, Mesme
Marriage Guide, showing now either sex may
fascinate and gain the love and affection of
any person they choose instantly. 400 pages.
By mail 50 cts. Hunt & Co., 139 S. 7th St., Phil.
" OKEFEPIOKEE. *
This " unknown land " of swamps, islands
and lakes, celebrated refuge of Seminole In-
dians, source of the Suwannee, famous "river
of song," will soon be explored by a several
months costly expedition, fitted up by the
Atlanta (Ga.) Constitution, with rich results to
science, romance, adventure. This chief im>
litical and family journal of the South, also
famous for its humor, should be in every fam-
ily in the Union. Dailv, six months, $5 80;
Mammoth Weekly. $1 10. Specimen copy sent
free. Address W. A. Hemphill & Co., Atlanta,
Georgia.
PiflcEsKEDUcED
OF THE
AVERILL PAINT.
It c"8ts less, and will outwear the best ot
any other. Send for new Price List and Sam-
ple Card to",
AVERILL rHFJIII'lL PAIST
rOBPANY,
RnrllngSlip. New York, or
132 East Ktver St., Cleveland, O.
THE MOST PERFECT MADE,
SPECIAL
IEMCN SUGAR. ETC.
cJoNE THIRD IS SAVED
in quantity by their perfect purity and
great strength; the only kinds made bv a
practical Chemist and Physician, with
scientific care to insure uniformity, health-
fulness, delicacy and freedom from all in-
jurious substances. They are far superior
to the common adulterated kinds. Obtain
the genuine. Observe our Trade Marks
as above, "Cream" Baking Powder, "Kand
and Cornucopia." Buy the Baking Pow-
der only in cans securely labelled. Many
have been deceived in loose or bulk Pow-
der sold as Dr. Price's.
Manufactured only by
STEELE & PRICE,
Chicago, St, Louis and Cincinnati,
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