The Galveston Daily News. (Galveston, Tex.), Vol. 42, No. 315, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 31, 1884 Page: 2 of 4
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Thursday, January •»*.
The last laugh has not been reached yet.
Stock goes down when it goes to water.
Intemperance rarely keeps a promise or
fulfills a pled go.
The wolf in sheep's attire is becoming alto-
gether too frequent.
The State must be the fence-cutter where
fence-cutting is needful as an act of justice to
the people.
Chilian credit is not good, a financial crisis
being imminent in that country. Peru has no
prospect of securing: the desired loan in Chili.
It will be news to many to learn that, ac-
ooTding to customs statistics, $1,000,000 worth
of eggs were imported into the United States
during 1883.
It 1b positively asserted that Sullivan has
b«en downed. A party by the nam .' of Draw
Poker did the business for hira. Boston's pride
is out to the tune of $800).
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President Arthur sends lbs little daughter
to school. Some people, however, think he
should employ a governess. Suggestions are
very plentiful in the world.
Senator Pendleton, recently defeated by
Mr. Payne, spent twenty-seven years in pub i •
life. This should satisfy him—if he really
needs rest before dissolution.
Messrs. Mackey and Bennett have coa"
tracted with the celebrated English electrician,
Dr. Muirhead, who will apply his duplex sys-
tem to their Atlantic cables.
Mr. Parnell declines to speak at Cork until
the eve of the coming parliamentarjr election
The agitator should be careful. The people of
Clod's own town are very eccentric.
It is useless to say that Koifer is himself
again. He never was anything else; but it is
inspected that for a while past ho would hav e
given his boots to be some other person.
A gentleman wrote to his adopted daughter
that she was to have $40,000 of his money, will
or no will, and told her to keep that letter. She
kept it, and a court decided that it is a will.
Mistakbs eocur in the best regulated fami-
lies. But a household that has an}- get-up to it
will v«ry soon rectify those little occurrences
which every now and then make their appear-
ance.
The legislative council of India has passed
the Ilbeft bill, as amended, so that every Euro-
pean prisoner will have the option of a trial
before a native or a European judge or magis-
trate.
A youth named John Halpin, an ex-bell
boy of a Chicago hotel, has fallen heir to
$550,000, left him by a rich nncle. A duck
never took to the water more quickly than
society will to this gentle youth.
Fully 3,600,000 tons of ice have been har-
vested on the Hudson thi3 winter, said to be
the largest crop ever taken. The cost of hous-
ing it will range from 13 to 18 cents. This is
cheerftil news for summer's thirsty citizens.
At Columbus, O., a society belle employs a
small boy to carry her satchel when on a
shopping tour. This is necessitated by the
young lady having to look out for the lugging
along of a nine-pound poodle. We still pro-
gress.
One hundred and fifty years since old Lo
raised hair around Long Island and Connecti-
cut But the slayer of to-day is much more to
be feared, with the finest force in the world
conveniently at hand, than the red-handed
savage of former times.
Fred Douglas married a white woman,
frhich was a step toward what is believed to
be social equality—at least by the negro race.
But now, strange to say, Fred, for this con-
spicuous illustration, is catching thunder from
the blacks on every side.
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Thi Boston Herald says it >l can not learn
that President Arthur is doing anything to
push his fortune a3 a presidential candidate."
The Herald is in the dark. Mike Cregan, Bar-
fcey Biglin, Johnny O'Brien and the rest of the
boys are hard at work in New York booming
hiih. j..,.,
What can be the reason why protectionism
Is called by some writers the American doc-
trine? It was the general doctrine of the worst
despotisms before^ this republic was founded,
the protectionists must be thinking of the
eagle as a bird of prey. A hawk would suit
thtfm. m
A Pennsylvania woman observed an eagle
Kttack one of her turkeys, when she repaired
to the rescue, and was herself attacked. By
(be aid of a fence-rail, vigorously laid on, Mrs.
Williams—for that is the lady's name—doubled
lip the monarch of birds in an incredibly short
ipaee of time.
The authorities of the City of Mexico recom-
nend that the citizens decorate . their houses
for the celebration of the opening of railway
communication with the United States, in
llay, and they remit the usual fee charged for
that purpose. The indications point to an
tnUiUdiastlc celebration.
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A Chinaman of Milwaukee has become a
Christian and wants a little substantial aid
vith which to emigrate to his native land and
become a worker in the missionary business.
His name is Wah Sin Lee. Mr. Lee had better
unit the middle portion of his namo when he
'orsakes the tub for the pulpit.
"River navigation and improvement in
Georgia," says the Macon Telegraph and Mes-
tenger, " would be better thought of in Wash-
ington if they were more highly honored in
Itate councils at home." And this, perhaps,
rill apply to other sections of the country as
rell as to the State of Georgia.
INJUIiWG PUBLIC BY WJtTftlSG PHI-
VA Til 1NTKPRXTS.
Rich in saving common ser.se was the an-
swer of Mr. VV ui. II. Vunderbill to the ques-
tion, " Do you anticipate any important legis-
lation at Albany or Washiugton bearing Upon
tho railroads?" " I can ouly say," answered
Mr. Vanderbilt, "the public are not going to
expect transportation for nothing, but at fair,
reasonable prices. There is no reason why a
man who has been in re.ilroads should not get
good returns for his investments, as much so as
by ownership of an apple-stand. We all have
to live, and the man who owns railroad bonds,
merchandise, or anything else, depends upon
his sales and the profits he derives from them.
I, therefore, have no fears that any legislation
that may be attempted will work to the
injury of the roads." Let this present-
ment of tho matter be looked at
frankly and squarely, without bias or preju-
dice derived from the fume and froth of cheap
demagogism which rants about great railroad
corporations and millionaire investors in rail-
road property, as being naturally and ne-
cessarily monsters of rapacity delighting to
oppress the poor and intent to fleece the public,
and it will be understood that the wealthiest
railroad merchant is no more from the nature
and necessity of the case an oppressor of the
poor and a public enemy than the humblest
merchant who runs an apple stand. The spirit
of gain ma}- be alive and eager in both, and in
legitimate pursuit of gain each may be useful
to the public in proportion to the inherent
elements of usefulness in the institution which
he lapresents, be it the smallest apple stand or
the greatest truuk railroad. It is because the
inherent elements of usefulness in railroads are
so vast that the public are so pro-
foundly concerned about their ownership
and management. But this concern, to be
salutary in its influence upon public policy,
must be enlightened, rational, and above all
wisely conservative of private interests co-
inciding with public interests in railroads, and
the security and proper, cheerful and hopeful
activity of which are conducive and requisite
to thf greatest amount of public benefit from
railroad traffic. Mr. Vanderbilt discretely
presumes that this view will prevail iu any
legislation that may be impending at Albany
or Washington touching railroad corporations,
as far as they are vested with public
functions for the common good. In-
telligent and faithful legislators, though
they may fully recognize the needs of
some government supervision of the railroad
system as a whole, will certainly not adopt
measures that would injure public interests by
injuring the private interests which must be
relied upon to obtain the largest development
and the utmost service from the system as a
stupendous and mighty instrument of public
usefulness. Railroadmen, strictly as such, and
railroad investors, strictly as such, are as
ma< h interested as the public at large in hav-°
ing the system brought under some general
anil regulative control that will introduce
stability and order in tho railroad world. The
kind of lawless independence and the state of
s ini-war are, mitigated by occasional
and precarious truccs which have long
prevailed there—the situation alternating
between ruthless competitions, destructive of
the weak, and pooling and confederating ar-
rangements under some devouring protec-
torate—have been bad for healthy and legiti-
mate railroad enterprise; bad for the average
citizen interested in railroad traffic; bad for
tho average investor in railroad stocks; bad
for the average holder of railroad securities.
In short, the great central idea of the railroad
problem is that the safety and welfare of both
the private and th public interests in railroads
can only be assured upon a basis of justice,
peace, law and order. It is vain to try to
think of any other sufficient and stable basis.
Tho re 5 s and can be no other.
SUZRMAS'S SPEECH IN THE SENATE.
The tirade of Mr. John Sherman in the Sen-
ate of the United States, upon the occasion of
considering his resolution of inquiry into
alleged outrages in Virginia and Mississippi,
was just what might have been expected from
an unscrupulous politician like Mr. Sherman,
lie represents the old bloody-shirt wing of the
Republican party, and its hatred for the South.
He is an exponent of the pendency toward cen-
tralization which loomed up in the Republican
party in the days of reconstruction, and which
was based on sectional hatred and a lingering
fear of the subjugated States of the
South, together with the lust for power.
That Mr. Sherman has not got over the
consolidation proclivities that once so promi-
nently marked the course of the extreme fac-
tion ot the Republican party, and found ex-
ponents in the Zack Chandlers, the Thad
Stevenses, the Ben Wades, the Conklings and
other leaders of the party in the past, is ap-
1 ;arent from the drift of his remarks on his
Danville and Copiah resolution. The Ohio
senator can not divest himself of the oid itch-
ing of the Republican party for federal inter-
ference in the domestic affairs of free States
upon pretexts either trivial in their
nature or based on absolute fiction.
His position, as stated by himself, is that, if
the Danville riot was a mere chance outbreak,
it was a question properly within the domain
of the local authorities; but, if it was a device
of the Democratic party to deter the other
party from voting, then it was a crime against
the national government, which had a right to
inquire into and punish the guilty. Bu4 the
.- rand idea on which the federal union of l'ree
'oi:ates is founded, as expressed in the constitu-
tion, does not warrant the conclusion that, as
intimated by the Ohio senator, the federal
authority has a right to enter on the scene till
state authority has utterly failed to cope with
the emergency. Even had the Danville riot
been due to a conspiracy of the Democrats
and white people of Virginia, aS Mr. Sher-
man evidently wants to believe—of which
there is no proof—it has not been
demonstrated that the state government of
Virginia has been inadequate to deal
with it. Until that is shown, and an appeal by
the proper state authority has be-rn made for
the intervention of the federal authority, the
position of Mr. Sherman in the matter is sim-
ply that of an intermeddler, whose purpose is
atill more fully shown in his speech than in his
resolution-—that of the cunning partisan,
rather than that of the honest statesman.
Some unwarranted attacks by public prints
have recently been made on the management
and prospects of the Gulf, Colorado and Santa
Fe railroad. With what object is not made
clear—possibly in a spirit of sensational tattle,
or perhaps of malice. At the first appearance
of these detrimental reports—based on what
was termed street rumor—the president of the
Santa Fe road made public through The News
a flat contradiction of their tenor and import.
The same matter, with additions and embel-
lishments, was revived yesterday in the col-
umns of a neighboring paper, to the effect that
general dissensions pervaded the management
of the road; that there were conflicting a#d
hostile factions therein; that Galveston had
lost its grip upon the Santa Fe, and that
Gould was about to absorb the property. This
is about the substance of the latest attack.
The News is authorized to say by parties
prominent iu the management of the road,
and The News says it with an abidgig
faith in the correctness of their statements,
that there is not one word of truth in the
deductions of these ill-advised if not malicious
publications. The Gijlf, Colorado and Santa
Fe railroad is in better shape at the present
time than ever before in its existence, its man-
agement clear and decided upon its value as a
Galveston enterprise, perfect harmony and ac-
cord existing in its counsels, and Mr. Jay
Gould is about as near coming into control of
the road as ho has ever been. In fact there is
nothing to warrant the assumption that Mr.
Gould desires to control it. Yesterday's publi-
cation in a neighboring journal is another sub-
stantial tribute to the recklessness of assertion
which has become a marked feature of its
management.
The annual statement of Wells, Fargo &
Co., of San Fraucisco, of precious metals pro-
duced in the States and Territories west of the
Missouri river (including British Columbia,
and receipts by express from the west coast of
Mexico) during 1883, shows aggregate products
as follows: Gold, $29,236,492; silver, $47,229,-
649; copper, $5,683,921; Had, $8,163,550. Total
gross result, $90,313,612. California shows a
decrease in gold of $1,629,028, and an increase
of silver of $VKi9,844. Nevada shows a falling
off of $1,091,755. The Comstock shows an in-
crease of $392,463; but there is a decrease in
the product of Eureka district of $1,419,124.
With the exception of Montana and Idaho,
there is a decrease in the product of the other
States and Territories. The exports of silver
during the present year to Japan, China,India,
the Straits, etc., have been a3 follows: From
Southampton, $33,660,237; from Marseilles,
$851,840; from San Francisco, $4,498,546. Total
$38,610,623, as against $43,266,000 in 1882.
The English stand no fooling when the law
is broken. Bartholomew Binns, who sends
people to the other world frequently, in his
capacity as hangman, got drunk recently and
attempted to ride free on a railroad. This little
business just cost him twenty shillings and
costs. If Binns can't keep sober he may lose
his job, and then—well, he can join Sergeant
Mason in the museum racket, or perhaps old
man Barnum might offer him the substantial
shelter of a menagerie cage
A TARIFF BY MEASUREMENT.
It is vaguely reported that Mr. Morrison's
plan of tariff reform is a general reduction of
duties by about fifteen per cent., together with
certain additions to the free list. It is perhaps
to be inferred that the principle on which such
additions will be made or proposed will be to
place on that list a number of articles on which
very little revenue is collected. Such a tariff
reform would do some good, and should
command gener^ approval among those
who object to the present high tariff.
It may be far from scientific, but as
the subject has received no fair treatment
from legislators since the war tariff was im-
posed, an installment of reform will be re-
ceived with thank| by a majority of those
citizens who want reform—a fuller one if they
could obtain it. The present tariff is a mass
of jobbery imposed at the instigation of
special interests. As there is no equality
about it, such a tariff as a starting point for a
horizontal reduction can not tend to
lead to strict justice. Exceptions may be
made and special evils may be attacked by
separate provisions. Thus Congress may get
nearer to a generally just system. There is
really no satisfactory excuse for a timid treat-
ment of the tariff question, for the treasury
overflow will not easily be stopped. The peo-
ple want relief from taxation, and the party that
ventures to antagonize monopoly might as well,
even from the politician's point of view, do it
thoroughly, because the monopolists will op-
pose that party, and it must expect and feel
itself honored by their opposition, if it be
sincere. What if. wants, then, is to do such
conspicuous service for the people that they
will rally to its aid. This is what it should
want, if its leaders exercise sound judgment.
A mere horizontal reduction would be a supine
treatment, whether or not a timid one. It is
supineness to assume that, because possibly a
given reduction would bring a majority of
articles down somewhere near the greatest
revenue-producing point, therefore the inquiry
as to which is the lowest duty that will pro-
duce the greatest revenue does not need to be
specifically studied as to different articles.
To come near home for an illustration.
The duty on wool being so much
lower than the duty on many
other articles, if the process of reform
were to be adopted, of leveling duties to ,an
average but not very low rate, many duties
might be greatly lowered and doubtless the
revenue therefrom increased, while wool would
still remain where it is. In the last' campaign
Judge Hancock remarked that in his view wool
is now about at a revenue tariff rate. Senator
Coke at the last session went further, and in
answer to a Republican senator's challenge,
made the retort that if the duties on woolen
cloth were reduced by as much he would be
content that the duty should come off raw
wool. The News would be inclined to argue
in such a case that if the duty were reduced on
raw wool the duty on woolen cloth should come
still lower. How low it ought to come would
be conclusively settled if it could be ascertained
what lower rate of duty would produce the
most revenue. For under a low tariff the
amount of revenue is the sign of trade being
unimpeded. The more the subject oi raw
5 aterials and manufactured goods is considered
the more clear it appears that even in tariff
reforms the manufacturers are seeking to con-
sult their special interests. W hen wool grow-
ers are compared with woolen manufacturers
we see no reason to take off protection from the
one to save the protective effect altogether to the
other; although, when the wool-grower is com-
pared with the wheat or cotton-grower, there
is no argument that will justify protection to
the former when the latter can not have it.
Therefore, if it be deemed necessary to tax
such commodities as wool and iron, when im-
ported, it should be for revenue only: and this
in a careful view should be, not by an average,
with a multiplicity of things having no com-
mon origin as to place or conditions of produc-
tion and use; but when the question of classify-
ing necessaries and luxuries for proper distinc-
tion is settled, then, whether on all or only on
some forms of wool, as may be least oppressive
to the general body of consumers, but without
purpose of protection, there should be an im-
port duty laid. If truly for revenue only, such
import duty would most properly be reduced
to the lowest point at which it would
be most highly productive of revenue. So
long as a further reduction of duty can be
made without reducing revenue, there is no ex-
cuse for the present rate, and necessarily, for
revenue purposes, the most productive rate on
one article is not by any means the most pro-
ductive rate on another. Something better
than a lumping of exotics and domestic pro-
ducts, luxuries and necessaries, is wanted in
tariff reform, a3 much as a tape measure is
wanted in a tailor's shop, with judgment in
using the tape, that tall men and short ones,
stout men and lean ones, may not be thrust in-
to the same sized suits of clothes. The country
wants an approximate tariff fit by measure-
ment.
of Texarkana on the Texas and St. flouis road,
was forced to decline to longer coutinuelto feed the
section men, on account of possessing no funds
with which to purchase supplies. His boarders
numbered twelve, none of whom had received their
wasrfs for the pa >i three months worki, and hence
their utter inability to assist the hoafrding-liouse
keeper, who iu turn can not pav his bills for sup-
plies until the road pays off its indebted nest*. The
men were up town yesterday consulting a lawyer
as to what course to pursue. They have worked
faithfully and waited patiently until they are
turned out without a place to sleep*)r a cent to
satisfy the cravings of hunger. Ttfe men looked
sorely distressed and, no doubt, fea still more so.
The management of the Texas andist. Louis road
should be prompt to allay this wsLit by making
some kind of arrangements. \
The (Galveston) Texas Christian ^Advocate is
now in the thirty-first 3'ear of its age, and was
never neater or fresher than at present, in
either its editorial or typographical depart-
ment. It fe one of the best printed papers in
the State, and the ability of its
partment is obvious from the nai
torial staff: I. G. John, D. D.,
ciate editors, R. S. Finley, H. S.
Hawkins, E. S. Smith, F. A. Mocd.
STATE PRESS.
What the Interior Papers Say.
The Corsicana Courier now comes out
daily.
Speaking of the fence troubles, the Brenham
Banner of Tuesday says:
At this particular time it is extremely difficult to
say what will be done or what can be done to stop
the mischief. Mutual»concession is seemingly the
pressing need of the hour. Extreme measures are
unpopular.
The Banner also says:
It is said that some of the members of the legis-
lature are much more intent on making a political
slate for the next state convention than on the
legislation that is so urgently demanded. The
Mesquite Mesquiter is probably very near ri^ht in
saying that if more attention was paid in building
school-houses and having good schools taught in
them by competent and well-paid teachers, f»ne
jails and court-houses would not be in such great
demand.
The Clarksville Standard, edited by Colonel
Charles De Morse, a member of the land-fraud
commission, says:
We copy this week an article from Gainesville
to Tkk Galvlston News adverse to the usefulness
of the land-fraud board. The writer having been
engaged in colossal speculations, and the board
having uncovered them, ne could not appreciate
kindly thf.' usefulness of the board. Tne hoard
having reported, the people of the State will be
quite able to determine whether their labors have
been useful or otherwise. As to the land having
bren purchased by the speculators, at its full value,
the fact is it is now worth 400 per cent more than it
sold for improperly, and iu some cases fraudulent-
ly, and tliis difference increases the school fund
that much. It is not a new discovery that the
galled jade winces.
The Two Laredos says:
There were in Nuevo Laredo, last Thursday,
about twenty-five Kickapoo Indians, dressed in the
customary Indian style, n^ius the war-paint.
Their visit was probably prompted by the auxiety
to see the fiesta, drink fire-water a heap and do a lii-
tle trading.
The oldest inhabitant and veteran of two
wars has been iu Burnet. The Once-a-Week
speaks of him as follows:
Mr. G. B. Laclcey, father of Captain Nat. Lackey,
was in town visiting the captain this week. Mr.
Lackey served in the Black Hawk and Mexican
wars. He has been a consistent member of the
Baptist church for seventy-eight years Is now in his
one hundredth and third year. He has ereat-great
grandchildren living. One of his daughters, Mrs
Elizabeth Cockrum, who lives in Missouri, is here
on a visit to her brother, and was at the captain's
when the old gentleman arrived. The old veteran
lives at Johnson city, in Blanco county. He is hale
and hearty.
The Anson (Jones county) Texas Western
says:
The idea of passing a herd law is preposterous.
To pass such a law would be to legislate in favor of
the large lauded and cattle interest, giving to them
a sword with which to cut down the meeker of their
brotherhood, and thus the men with small stocks
would have their property confiscated.
The Pearsall News urges the establishment
of a public library in that town. Every vil-
lage should have such an institution.
The following is from the Terrell Times:
There is such a degree of fraud and rascality
pervading official management that every enter-
prise which wins the favor of a legal body is not
only scrutinized but closely investigated. The lo-
cation of the Brancii Lunatic asylum at Terrell has
fallen under suspicion, and an investigating com-
mittee will look into its management. So far as
our people know there is no crookedness about this
institution, and an investigation is courted rather
than avoided.
State Press has not seen "fraud and ras-
cality" or " crookedness " imputed to the man-
agement of the asylum building named. In-
efficiency and procrastination, however, have
been more than hinted. "How not to do it"
has been the apparent policy of those who have
been charged with the work.
The thieves had things their own way in
Brenham Sunday night. The Banner gives a
list of their operations, including the follow-
ing:
Sam Alexander's residence was burglarized and
an overcoat, sleeve-buttons and $15 in money
stolen. Jo Fischi's residence was entered, and some
clothiug was carried off; the cuff-buitons and studs
were taken from his shirt. Mr. Choske's residence
was visited; the window was prized open and some
children's clothing stolen. Mr. lirumgartner's resi-
dence was entered; we did not learn what was
stolen. B. Lehman's store was entered: his wife was
awakened by hearing a man try to open the
window. She aroused her husbaud, but by this
time the would-be burglar had fled. Ed. Hender-
son. the bill poster, was called on at his residence,
the wiudow was raised and propped up, when his
wife was aroused. They got away with a small
amount of plunder. John Wilke was called on at
his residence. He got out of bed, got his pistol and
fired two shots at the retreating burglar; then ran
out in his yard and fired three more, when the
police came. After the shooting Mr. Wilke heard
several whistles in different directions, which was
probably a signal among the robbers. He did not
lose anything. The safe in Joe Schmidt's stoie
was blown open, and $140 in cash and three watches
carried off.
Only one arrest had been made. All the
robberies are imputed to vagrant negroes.
That corporations have no souls is an old
truth, but they sometimes lack sense as well as
feeling. Why they should keep poor laboring
men at work for months without the means of
paying for the labor seems as senseless as
unfeeling, as the employer is bound to suffer
in the end as well as the poor laborer. The
Texarkana News reports a case in point:
Thefboardiug-house boss of the first section west
COMMERCE AMD FINANCE.
and the peer of any in the great Southwest. If
you want to' take a paper that has opinion and
the nerve to give them as well as a journal
that gives all the news, hoth state and national,
take The Galveston News.
COKH2HCIALBISPATCHES
r&osx leading centers.
ditorial de-
is of its edi-
iitor; asso-
rall, S. J.
Mr. Hewitt is more of a protectionist than
of a tariff reformer, which is nf>t surprising
when his personal business interests are con-
sidered. He is reported as eating not for a
tariff reduction to reduce burdens, but putting
first in line of what he deems congressional
duty—the reduction of income. It seems pitia-
ble that any man professing to understand the
public responsibility of Congress to legislate
for tho relief of the people should take snch a
position. "As I look at it I think a 20 per
cent, reduction would really not reduce the
present revenue more than 5 per cent." is Mr.
Hewitt's latest reported statement. Doubtless
he will try to lead off for free raw materials
for his own especial business, and free sugar
for reduction of revenue. Hewitt places him-
self in a distinctly protective attitude. In his
hands alleged revenue reform and a partial
tariff reduction are to become conservators of
the particular sort of protection that Mr.
Hewitt's trade or Mr. Hewitt's subdivision of
that trade demands.
The attempt to reform the morals of the
whole country by excluding certain things
from the mails has gone quite as far as is prac-
ticable, so the Springfield (Mass.) Republican
thinks, in refusing the use of the mails for
the transmission of lottery tickets. When it
is extended, as is now proposed in a bill before
Congress, to the point of examining newspa-
pers, before their transmission, to see that they
advertise no medical preparations, the formula
for which has not been deposited with the pat-
ent office, it is carried to an absurdity. Neither
is it feasible through the postoffiee department
to establish a general guardianship over the
dear people so they shall not be humbugged.
There are a few precious privileges which must
be jealously maintained, for the simple rea
son that it is not practicable to interfere with
them without doing vastly more harm than
good.
The long deadlock in the administration of
the estate of James Lick, a benevolent Cali-
fornia millionaire, has at last been broken,
and there are signs that the trustees will begin
to carry out the provisions of the will. At a
late meeting of the trustees it was decided to
pay several large legacies to benevolent insti-
tutions, and a proposition to lend $150,000 to
the society of California Pioneers, one of the
legatees under the Lick will, was favorably
reported upon by a subcommittee. The ex-
perience of Mr. Lick, who had some differences
with his trustees, and the past history of this
trust, which has been dragging for many
years, should be a warning to benevolent per-
sons to do with their own hands what they in-
tend to do, as far as possible, and if they have
anything to leave to institutions after they
die, to leave it so that it will be paid at once.
One of the shortest communications The
News has received on the vagrant-cattle ques-
tion contains one of the most specific, common-
sense ideas. It is that cattle running on free
grass should be specially taxed at so much a
head. It is evident that all plans for forcing
stockmen to lease lands in proportion to their
stock amount indirectly to such a tax on the
stock. If it be calculated that a cow needs ten
acres and the rent is 4 cents an acre and the
herdsman is required to pay this into the treas-
ury, it is 40 cents tax on the animal for the
privilege of free grass, only it is not directly so
stated. Under a direct tax system the owners
of the cattle would not fail to weigh the advan-
tage of buying or leasing and inclosing land in
order to be free from the tax and then make
the best use of their land, and improve their
stock.
A correspondent telegraphs from Panama,
January 16, that Mr. Hale's report that coaling
stations are to be established in the vicinity of
the isthmus has created surprise there, in face
of the non-existence of any treaty authorizing
their establishment on Colombian soil other-
wise than in conformity with the common
practice of all nations of maintaining stores of
coal at neutral stations, which, however, are
unavailable in time of war. It is also stated
that the Colombian government denies having
effected any arrangement with the canal com-
pany respecting its claim to one-half of the
profits derived from the sale of the Panama
railroad, but informs the public that all docu-
ments connected with the claim will be laid be-
fore the Congress of that republic in February
next.
Senator Brown made a curious discovery
concerning polygamy, which he said should
not be punished in the territories for the rea-
son that worse practices were alleged to be in
vogue in New England. The practice of po-
lygamy in New England is forbidden by law.
Perhaps that is the only difference in the whole
business. The senator should have remem-
bered that there is a barrel of statutes against
immoral practices down east3 but their en-
forcement is quite another matter. To legalize
the practice of polygamy is to start up a new
form of slave degradation.
A plot to murder policemen is alleged to
have been discovered in Vienna. Detective
Bloech, who arrested the murderers of Com-
missary Klubeck, has himself been murdered.
As the police were about to arrest tlje mur-
derer quite a lively combat ensued. The mur
derer fired at his assailants four shots from a
revolver and threw about handfuls of dyna-
mite cartridges, wounding several lookers-on.
He was secured. The Austrian government
will introduce a bill to place Vienna under the
minor state of siege.
To sympathizers with the fence-cutter he is
a hero. The amiable theorists should study the
subject inductively. Make a list of fences cut,
note what is the title to the laud, the size of
the inclosed pasture and all other particulars,
then take a retrospective view of the fence
cutters' work. If there are any heroes and
patriots in the land, they must be ashamed of
the company they get into.
Hollow ay, of pill fame, once sent Dickens
a check for $5000, the same to be at tho
author's disposal on condition that a single
line of reference of a complimentary nature
concerning Hollowav's pills and ointment
should appear in the book then being pub-
lished in monthly numbers by the great author.
Dickens sent back the check to Holloway
without any comment. Both were looking out
for No. 1.
Children learn when their parents and
guardians are not thinking. Mrs. Dunlap, of
Waverly, N. Y., thoughtlessly remarked to her
three-year-old daughter that if "the baby
didn't stop crying they would have to sew his
mouth up." Going out for a moment last Thurs-
day, the little girl put the idea into execution,
using a darning needle and a piece of yarn.
Salomon, president of the Republic of
Hayti, is said to be a massive, broad-shouldered
giant, six feet six inches high, with the physical
proportions of a gladiator, and a profile dark
as " Night's Plutonian shore." Boston's strong
boy should take a trip to Hayti and introduce
the Queensbury rules in that beautiful cli-
mate.
The Texas Post (German) says: "It is a
great misfortune for the governor that his
organ (which is intrusted with the dissemina-
tion of the story of a Huntington-news com-
bination) has ventured upon the slippery path
of fabricating interviews." This refers to an
alleged interview with Hon John Hancock.
At Lincoln (111.) the grand jury found a true
bill of indictment against A. O. Carpenter,
charging him with the murder of the girl Zora
Burns. Carpenter was out on $10,000 bail, but
the court declared that the offense was not
bailable, and remanded him to the custody of
he sheriff, who committed him to jail.
Carter Harrison, in opening a new high
school in Chicago, Wednesday, cautioned the
scholars against reading the newspapers, as
disseminators of much immorality. He had
probably seen some of his conversation re-
ported. Yet even the Chicago papers use
dashes in certain places.
A doctor testifies in a murder trial that he
has not regarded one of tho accused as sane for
years, and he know him intimately. Why are
then people so indifferent about allowing
insane people to be at large?
Superintendent Perry, of the capltol at
Albany, estimates the cost of completing it at
$1,269,000 for the inside work, and $3,015,000
for the exterior. It will cost $1,250,000 to com-
plete the tower alone.
• archer.
Wichita Herald: Dr. C. B. Hutto, of Archer
county, called in at tho Herald office Monday.
He says the iron bridge over the Little Wichita
river is now beiDg constructed, and will be
completed soon. The bridge work, which is
iron, was bought in Ohio, and is now on its
way here. The bridge will be in every way
first-class.
bell.
Temple Times: We learn from several of our
friends from the country that the oat crop
killed by the late cold spell has about all been
replanted.... A large ji umber of residence
buildings are being btiilc in various portions ot
town. Some are quite handsome The offi-
cial census report for the ^ear 18S3, ending
January 20, shows a population of 3104 in Bel-
ton.
burnet.
Once-a-Week: Much of the timber in differ-
ent carts of the county was broken down by
ieo during the late freeze The late freeze
killed out a great deal of the oats Wednes-
day the houso of A. I. Haber, who had as-
signed for the benefit of his creditors, was
closed by the sheriff under an attachment got-
ten out by Blum & Co., of Galveston. We are
informed, however, the closing of the doors
will only be temporary.
BURLESON.
Caldwell Register: Reports from all portions
of the county are to the effect that farmers
are iu excellent spirits and have begun work
with a vim again this spring A Mexican
lion was seen recently not far from Yegua, in
this county.
callahan.
Baird ^ Clarendon: The building boom has
been seriously impeded by the severity of the
weather Billy Baird, formerly conductor on
the Texas and Pacific line, who for a long time
lived here, was killed recently in Mexico. He
was employed on the Mexican National road,
and while at work at one of the cars was run
over and killed Baird is fast recovering
from the terrible conflagration Mrs. Belle
Routt, a widowed sister of the Price Brothers,
and living near the Hubbard Timbers, north-
west of Baird, died last Saturday morning,
and was buried in the Baird cemetery on Sun-
day afternoon. Grief over the recent death of
her brother Joe, is supposed to be the cause of
her death... .Twenty-five German carp were
frozen stark and stiff in a pond at Baird dur-
ing the late cold snap, but revived as soon as
thawed out. without any apparent injury.
^ duval.
Two Laredos: News reaches us that the citi-
zens of San Diego, assisted by some of the
wealthy rancheros of the surrounding country,
have taken initiatory steps to erect a $25,000
college in San Diego. It is reported that two-
thirds of the required sum lias already been
subscribed, and that the soliciting committee
expect to have the full amount in a few days.
eastland.
Cisco will hold an election on the 11th of
February to determine whether or not it shall
be incorporated.
HOPKINS.
Sulphur Springs Gazette: Farmers along the
line from here to Dallas report almost their en-
tire oat crop as killed out, and wheat consid-
erably damaged....Sulphur Springs is getting
a large cotton trade from Franklin county. It
is brought here by sober, sturdy farmers who,
after selling their cotton, buy what they need
and go quietlyhome.
JONES.
Texas Western: Parties Who failed to get
school lands in this county at the January
setting of the land board, have been rolling in
this week and making applications in a new.
mitchell.
Colorado Clipper: A man by the name of W.
J. Turk was murdered at Beal's ranch on Sun-
day night last. The body was brought to this
city and a jury of inquest impanneied to exam-
ine into the cause of the death. After a two
days examination the verdict was that the de-
ceased came to his death from the hands of
some unknown party. According to the testi-
mony or Drs. McHenry and West the killing
was done with an ax or some sharp-edged in-
strument. A long gash in the right aud left
temples, several inches deep and penetrating
the brain, were the oniy wounds found on the
body of Mr. Turk, who was a good citizen.
navarro.
Corsicana Courier: There have been six con-
victions, six acquitals and three hung juries
at the present term of the District Court A
colored woman at the Commercial was arrested
Tuesday on a warrant found by the grand jury
charging her with bigamy....A mue of fence
around Hon. Bryan T. Barry's pasture was cut
one night last week. A note was left posted
warning all parties owning barbed-wire fences
to put blinds on them, or they would go like-
wise.
PRESIDIO.
Fort Davis Rocket: We are called upon to
chronicle another mysterious disappearance
this week, that of Domingo Garabajal, a Mex-
ican, and father-in-law of Sergeant Elzy, of
Troop C, Tenth cavalry. It appears he was
engaged to accompany Messrs. Ostenson and
Ericson on a peddling trip to the Pinery. After
reaching their destination the Mexican left the
camp to hunt for wood, and from that time to
this no trace of him can be found. Neither
Ostenson nor Ericson can account for the miss-
ing man, and it is generally believed he either
went so far as to lose his* way or was foully
dealt with by the band of Mexican cut-throats
who infest that neighborhood. It will be re-
membered Mr. O. H. Powe was shot to pieces
in the same neighborhood. The missing man's
friends are scouring the country for him
Since the lynching of Polomo's murderers the
Pelado Mexicans in this vicinity have been in
a state of excitement. During the past thirty
days quite a number of them packed up their
earthiy traps and made tracks for the land of
" God and liberty." It is to be hoped the move
will continue until the county is rid of these
scullions of humanity.
SHACKELFORD.
Albany's new court-house is nearing comple-
tion.
WICHITA.
Wichita Falls Herald: Tuesday morning
Mrs. Judge Howard was seriously shot by the
accidental discharge of a 44-calibre six-shooter.
It occurred about as follows: Mr. Howard
Slaced the pistol under the bed-clothing at the
ead of the bed, forgetting to remove it.
Tuesday morning while Mrs. Howard was
making up the bed, and while in a stooping at-
titude and pulling the clothing off the bed, the
pistol was thrown against the bedstead, the
hammer striking, and was discharged, the ball
striking the chin, then the shoulder immedi-
ately above the collar-bone, ranging down-
ward and backward, producing an ugly wound.
The ball passed out through the roof of the
house. Dr. Moore was immediately called,
who dressed the wounds, aud pronounced them
not necessarily dangerous unless complication?
set in. At the present writing she is suffering
excruciating pains.
YOUNG.
Graham Leader: We know of a farmer in
Touk valley who, after reserving enough for
his own family, has $1000 worth gof farm pro-
ducts to sell. He did all the work himself, his
family only assisting in picking out three bales
of cotton.
The G-alveston News.
[Caldwell (Burleson county) Register.]
The News is ably edited in all its depart-
ments, and shows up alike the good and the
bad qualities of our public men. Some papers
think it lends to them a decided air of im-
portance to say ugly things about The News,
but if their readers can stand it The News
can.
[Mineral Wells Echo.]
The Dallas Mercury, in referring to The
Galveston News, says: "We have always
considered The News tho best paperjmblished
west of the Mississippi river." When our
friend, the Mercury, gets a better paper pub-
lished east of the Mississippi river, we would
like to get the use of it for a few days.
(Whitney Messenger.]
The Galveston News continues to be the
paper of Texas and the Southwest. No item
of news ever escapes its valuable columns. It
is true The News gets lots of free advertising
by the daily press, but all first-class journals,
large and small, are subject to criticism. We
do not justify its fight with Governor Ireland.
[Atlanta (.Cass county) Citizen's Journal.]
All persons desiring to renew their subscrip-
tion to The Galveston News can do so with-
out further trouble or expense by calling at the
Journal office and leaving the amount—$1 50.
Also new subscriptions received at same rate.
The News is a live, progressive paper, and
with your own local paper, the Journal, gives
you the best opportunity to know what is going
on in the world.
iHenderson Times 1
The Galveston News is a paper of sound
convictions, and as the great educator of the
people it is aggressive but tolerant. It is a
true exponent of free trade, opposed to a divi-
sion of tho State, and is recognized authority
on all questions pertaining to the welfare of
the whole people. It criticises men aud meas-
ures regardless of position or creed, and never
takes refuge behind envy or malice. It pur-
sues tho even tenor of an upright way that
will always command respect and esteem
among the thinking people. Texas could not
dispense with this journal without serious loss
to all her resources and institutions.
[La Grange Journal.]
The Galveston News is ever a welcome
visitor to the sanctum of the JournaL It is
without doubt the best newspaper published in
the Southwest. No news of interest to the
reader, either foreign or domestic, is omitted
from its columns. It is to Texas what the
London Times is to England. It would be dif-
ficult to correctly estimate the benefits it has
conferred upon the State by its publication of
statistics showing the immense advantages it
possesses, and iu many other ways aiding to
build up and increase its prosperity. It has
labored assiduously to accomplish these ends,
and deserves credit for its success in that di-
rection. While the Journal does not coincide
with it in many of its positions in regard to
public men and measures, yet on the whole it
sees little to condemu.
[Athens Narrow-Guage.]
From a number of our exchanges—and es-
pecially the would-be leading dailies—we notice
an onslaught on that best of papers, The Gal-
veston Newts. We are free to say that the
criticisms and slurs are uncalled for, and in so
stating we want it understood that we make
the statement from an honest, impartial view.
Those who have noticed the " State Press " col-
umn know that the Narrow-Gauge has not
been even favorably 'mentioned by The News
in many instances, but this does not blind us to
the fact that The News is a great, powerful
and consistent journal, that does as it should
do, wield a power in this-nation. It is true that
The News gives honest opinions regarding offi-
cers, {parties and sections, and it is right that it
should—the people demand it. And it is also
true that the friends ot individuals and sections
will condemn an unfavorable mention, even if
it be more than true, but the masses will stick
to such pa pew, regardless of the rabble, though
the rabble might be fence-cutters, a stock con-
vention, or state legislature. The second-class
dailies would, as a natural consequence, at-
tempt to take advantage of the situation to
constitute themselves the leaders, and are
doing so, but every understanding individual
knows—and if not prejudiced, will so say—that
Ths Galvesron News is the paper of Texas
Appropriation of Property Without
Consent*
ITo The News.3
Brazoria, January 2% 1884.—It seems as if
the present legislature will make an ignomi-
nious failure to remedy the great wrongs that
have been committed by the wholesale cutting
of fences and destruction of property in Texas.
The public hailed with delight the assembling
of the legislature, and eagerly anticipated
speedy relief. The complete slaughter of the
Terrell bill, which, while it had many objec-
tionable features, was the only one offered that
was at ail satisfactory for the adjustment of
the rights of both land-owner and fence-cut-
ters, yet, because the author of the bill hap-
pened not to be in sympathy with the adminis-
tration and not under its blind control, public
interest seemed to be forgotten;
tho legislature becomes a political
convention^ aspersions, ridicule and contempt
are hurled at the bill and its author with as
much vehemence and determination as though
ho belonged to tho opposite party, aud thac,
too, in the very face of the lact that the op-
ponents of the bill have offered nothing better
to take its place. It seems as if fence-cutting
will be cohdoned rather than condemned.
Numerous bills are presented, trampling upon
the rights of property-holders, and encour-
a£ing, instead of providing means for the sup-
pression of crime and the unlawful appropria-
tion of one man's property to the use of
another without his consent and without re-
muneration. By what rule of law, human or
divine, is one man entitled to the use of another
man's property ? Why should the owner of
stock be permitted to graze them upon land
not his own, and upon which he does not pay
one cent of taxes. Yet the legislature seems
determined to sanction and legalize it. It is
right and proper that persons who fence iu
large tracts of land should be made to furnish
roads and gates for the convenience of the pub-
lic, and provision should be made for punish-
ing those who fence in public lands and lands
they do ijpt own; and, at the same time, every
person should be compelled to keep his pro-
erty, whether live stock or anything else, on
is own soil. The fencing in of stock is the
only true settlement of the question. It will
have to be done sooner or later,
and stockmen with one cow or
a thousand had iust as well realize this fact.
There is no other country where the people
are prosperous, as a mass, where stock is per-
mitted to run at large and depredate on pro-
perty not owned by the owner of the stock. It
is demoralizing in its influence, and in truth is
detrimental to the interests of the small farmer
and small stock-raiser. This count}-, and no
doubt many other coast counties where there
has been a free range, Jha3 certainly not pro-
fited by it; the only one reaping any benefit
from free grass is the large stock-owner. It is
not exaggeration to state that at least one-
fourth of the corn crop is destroyed from year
to year by stock, and there is not a farmer with
the benefit of all this free range who raises
meat enough to supply him half the year.
l"t requires all they make to keep up their
fences. Their little crops, their horses, cows
and wagons are mortgaged year in and year
out to the merchants for supplies—bread and
bacon—principally. I venture the assertion
that three-fourths" of the farms owned by white
and black in this county would remain uncul-
tivated if advances could not be obtained from
the merchant.
Pass a law requiring every one to fence in
their stock and a different state of affairs will
come about; farmers will raise their own ba-
con, and. instead of miserable, scrawny little
Spanish mules and ponies to pull a plow, they
will have good, well-fed strong ani
mals. Stock of every kind will improve,
the system of farming will change; it will edu-
cate the laboring classes to habits of industry
and economy, and take from the roving, thrift-
less class the inducement to cut fences and de-
stroy property. It is certainly wiser and
cheaper to fence in stock than it is to fence the
farm. Horses, hogs and cattle that are raised
on the range are not near so valuable per head
as those raised in an inclosure and properly
fed and sheltered. I heard a farmer of this
county say that the best crop of cotton he ever
made was made with teams that he fed through
the season on mast and pepper-grass. From
the looks of some of the mules
and horses with which plowing is done
one would suppose they had short
rations of mast ana pepper grass; in many in-
stances teams are plowed half the day and
turned on free grass the other half. Such is our
system of farming in a country where we
have a free range. Suppose the small stock-
-man who only owns from 50 to 150 head of
stock is compelled to sell them because he can
not buy laud to pasture them. I contend that
he will be better off if forced to put the pro-
ceeds of his small stock into a home for his
femily, which would be the natural result. It
is amusing to hear the cowboy, who never did
a day's work in his life, in tilling the soil,
standing upon the street corners and in the
rum-shops discussing the demoralization of
labor. I don't mean all cowboys. Yankee.
The Business Situation in Texas*
[To the News.]
Tyler, Texas, January 28, 1S84.—Having
traveled the entire length of the Galveston,
Harrisburg and San Antonio railroad, Gulf,
Colorado and Santa Fe, Central and Interna-
tional aud Great Northern railroads, and
stopped in all the principal cities and towns
along the route, have had a very fair chance to
interview a great many of the leading mer-
chants and bankers, both in North and South
Texas, and find them all of the same opinion,
that during their time of business in this State
have they ever seen business so depressed and
money so scarce; not that there is any less
money in the country, for this is a point hard
to confirm, but that every merchant, with rare
exceptions, is heavily overstocked, is a fact
that none can deny; and no one feels this depres-
sion and realizes these facts more than the
representatives of the jobbing houses, both
in Galveston and in the North or West.
There is no room for complaint should a man
sell more or less goods, nor his fault, for few
merchants are buying within half of what
they bought last season or a year since. There is
just simply nothing doing in the retail line; so,
as a matter of course, the jobbers are suffering
in proportion. I find merchants and represen-
tatives in one portion of the State of the
opinion that business is better in the other. To
our friends in South Texas I will say business
is just as dull in North Texas as in the South,
and the traveling men are doing quite as well as
those up here. I am told by responsible parties
the same state of affairs exists in the older
States, and what better proof do we want
that we are now going through a
financial depression than the large number of
failures that have occurred both in the North
and South? Another fact: the bauks, I am
told, are not lending out 25 per cent, of their
deposits this year, while last they were very
liberal—up to^65 percent., and even 75 per cent.
Again, a great many are of the opinion the
past short crop is to be credited with this state
of affairs. Nothing of the sort, for we have
made better crops, as a general thing, than
two years since, and yet this depression. Why
does this state of affairs exist in the older
States, where the crops are all splendid?
Some of the failures are surprising, and their
liabilities more so, and the number of years
they have been behind still more
so, and the assets so small it is
a wonder so many had gone so long
without their liabilities being exposed. I
doubt if any reader of The News can call to
mind any time in his memory so many honest
failures as have ocoured during the past few
months. Honest men that have gone to the
wall by just simply overtrading, buying too
many and selling too many g-xxis on time is
simply the root of all this trouble, and now
that capitalists, wholesale merchants and
bankers are refusing to carry them any
longer they are compelled to give away,
wiser if not wealthier. To that class of mer-
chants who have been more cautious in trad-
ing there is a great future, and they already
feel the gain of their unfortunate neighbors
by having a chance at a larger selection of
good farmers to do their business with.
Tourist.
The First Man Silled in Hood's
Brig-ado.
LTo The News.I
"Sweet Water, Texas, January 28, 1884.—
Knowing that The News has a larger circula-
tion than any paper in the State, that it is read
and perused by the many thousands who are
more or less interested in all of our history,
induces me to write this article to correct a
mistake published at Houston, Texas, and
copied by many of the papers throughout the
State, about the death of Captain Dennie. The
article referred to says that "Captain Dennie
was the first man killed in Hood's Texas brigade
by the oneny." This is a mistake, and, as
trivial as it may be, I want it corrected. Wat-
son, a young man from Leon countv, Texas,
Company C, Fifth Texas regiment Hood's
Texas brigade, was the first man killed—and
not Captain Dennie. Watson was killed at
Yorktown, and Captain Dennie was killed on
the retreat from Yorktown, Va., and on the
morning of the day Hood's brigade fought
General Franklin's corps at Elthan's Landiug;
or, as some of our boys have it, at West Point,
on the Pamunky river. If my memory serves
me right, Watson was killed about two weeks
or more before Captain Dennie.
John C-. Cox,
Sergeant Company C, Fifth regiment Hood's
Texas brigade-
A Word in Justification.
ITo the News].
Waelder, Texas, January 28, 1884.—As the
wire-cutters have been the cause of so much
comment of late, we would like to say a word
in our justification. We think that we could
solve the fence troubles if allowed a voice
through the press and in the legislature. This
is why we cut fences in this country : We have
been imposed upon by men who have made
their jack stealing and swindling and then un-
dertook to fence us off from all conveniences;
that we did not put up with as well as they ex-
pected, and we resorted to our clippers and
opened up the old roads. We have known of
our so-called law-abiding pasturemen to get
their neighbors' stock in their pastures and
come out all right, when if it had been some
poor boy he would have been peniteutiaried.
That is the difference between our pasturemen
and thieves. We cut wire to prevent such as
that, and whenever worse deeds than wire
cutting are committed that is the work of law-
abiding people. We believe in giving the poor
people a chance, and the rich ones will take a
The Alphabet.
chance.
" See here, you boy, did I not pay yon twen-
ty-five cents to shovel the snow off my pave-
ment?" "Yes 'm." "Well, what didyou
mean by taking the money and then going off
without doing it" " The snow ia all ofit, isn't
nut
it f" " Yee, but it melted off." •• That's all
right. I knew it would melt after a while if
left alone. I'm a street contractor, 1 am."
[Philadelphia Call.
[Special to Tiik News.]
New ITork Daily Report.
New York, January 30.—Cotton is stupid and
operations are confined to the floor traders.
The best makes of blead^jd muslins are retailing
at Gc per yard.
Special Liverpool cables report short titne as im-
minent.
Sterling firm, but not active. Extra Galveston
bills sold at $4 83; ordinary, $4 84'£.
Bar silver steady at $1 11 3-1C per ounce.
Stocks strong, with a fair amount of general buy-
ing. It is reported that a wealthy syndicate is
taking the best stocks out of the market. The sales
include $2000 Houston and Texas Central firsts at
Si 08J4, 100 shares at 45c; $1000 Galveston,
Harrisburg and San Antonio firsts at $1 10: SS000
International and Great Northern seconds at 82*£c;
$40,000 Texas Pacific land grant incomes at 43t£c;
$1(T,000 Texas Pacific Bio Grande division at 74>2C,
10,000 shares at 19^-30^c.
Paris is withdrawing gold from London on ac-
count of the proposed new French loan.
Coffee firm at lsi^c.
Wool steady, with a moderate business.
A dispatch from Washington says one of the
most persistent opponents of the treaty with Mex-
ico is Louisiana, whose senator is a sugar planter,
ana hence personally interested.
Chicago Daily Report.
[Special to The News.]
Chicago, January 30.—Wheat and com closed to-
night at tbe highest poiut, 9S"^ and 5S}£. of May,
and pork within 2 cents of the highest, at $10 42t$,
selling early at $10 52}$. Interest to-day centered
mainly in provisions, which opened 30 cents higher
for pork, and 7J-&C for iard, than yesterday. The
strength in provisions alone kept grain from going
lower until late, when the cold weather, moving
southward, stiffened wheat. The markets for grain
lately have been entirely in scalpers' hand*, who
operate with great boldness, feeling assurea thai,
in the present condition of nrices, it can't get from
under them, while their own manipulations have
greatly to do with making prices. Latest curb-
stone trading: Wheat—May, Corn—
The cattle market was strong, and prices were
advanced 10 cents in all grade-*. Export $0 50 to
$7 00; good to choice shipping, $5 80 to $6 46: com-
mon to medium, $5 00 to $5 65.
Kansas City Daily Report.
[Special to The News.1
Kan-sab City, January 80.—The receipts of cattle
were over 2200 head. Market active and a shade
stronger on choice lots. Good to choice, $5 G5gfc
6 30. Sheep fairly active and 5<&10c higher for fat
muttons: 95 to 125-lb. muttons. $4 00®4 80.
Wheat was dull, with the near-by deliveries a
shade lower. No. 2 red cash wheat was offered at
82c; No. 3 cash |was offered at 72^o—He lower
Corn was a shade higher, with active trading, espe
cialiy on February delivery; No. 2 cash sold freely
from 40(&40^c. Oats very wquiat at 2S^c bid for
Nc. 2 cash.
There is a stronerer feeling on choice and family
grades of Hour, although prices have not been ad-
vanced.
Bacon unchanged, with a free movement at 9c
for long; 9>«»c for short clear. Lard. S4£c.
With warm, settled, pleasant weather, produce is
moving more freely. Prices, however, remain
practically unchanged.
St. ZLionis Daily Report*
[Special to The News ]
St. Louis, January 30.—Speculation was very
sluggish. Wheat opened higher, selling off for
May to $1 06^, but recovering on the afternoon
calls, closing at $1 OTJ^flU 0734, upon the cold wave
reported as setting in from the north, which it is
said will damage the crop now growing, consider-
ing the present thaw.
Corn ranged, for May, between 50^c and 5134c,
closing at the latter figure.
A private estimate of to-morrow's postings of the
visible supply estimates it to show that wheat has
decreased about 1,000,000 and oorn increased 2,000,-
000 bushels since the last report,
The weather is warm and spring-like, and it is
thawing. The ground is bare of snow throughout
the wheat districts.
Mother Swan's Worm Sirup, tasteless, effective.
DIZ3D.
GONZALEZ—Died, January 30, in the eleventh
year of bis age, James McCoy Gonzalez, son of Dr.
J. B.and Mrs. Mary S. Gonzalez.
Burial service from the Baptist church at 3 p. m
to-day.
RADWAY'S EMLIEF
The Cheapest and Best Medi-
cine for Family Use in
the World.
Coughs, Colds, Sore Throat, Inflam-
mations Cured and Prevented
By Radway's Ready Relief.
Rheumatism, Neuralgia, Zeadache,
Toothache, Asthsna, Cifficuit
Breathing Relieved in a
Few Minutes by
RADWAY'S READY REL IEF
M ALA RIA
In Its Various Forma.
TEVER AND AGUE.
There Is not a remedial agent in the world that
will cure Fever and Ague, and all other Malarious,
Bilious, Scarlet, Typhoid! Yellow and other fevers
(aided by Radway's Pills) so Quick as Radway's
Heady Relief.
Looseness. Diarrhoea, or painful discharges from
the bowels are stopped in fifteen or twenty minutes
by taking Radway s Ready Relief. No congestion
or inflammation, no weakness or lassitude will fol-
low the use of R. R. Relief.
ACHES AND PAINS.
For headache, whether sick or nervous, tooth-
ache, neuralgia, nervousness and sleeplessness,
rheumatism, lumbago, pains and weakness in the
back, spine or kidneys, pains around the liver,
Eleurisy, swelling: of the joints, pains in the bowels,
eartburn and pains of all kinds. Radway's Ready
Relief will afford immediate ease, and its continued
use for a few days effects a permanent cure. Price,
50 cents.
DR. RADWAY'S
UfllillliLiLlill1
The Great Blootl Purifier.
For the Cure of Chronic Siseas., Scro-
fula or Syphilitic, Hereditary
or Contagious,
Chronic Rheumatism, Scrofula. Glandular Swell
ing. Hacking Dry Cough, Cancerous Affections,
Syphilitic Complaints, Bleeding of the Lu»igs, Dys-
Jepsia, Water Brash, White Swelling. Tumors, Kip
)iseases, Mercurial Diseases, Female Complaints,
Gout, Dropsy, Bronchitis, Consumption. For the
cure of
SKIN DISEASES
ERUPTIONS ON THE FACE AND BODY, PlM-
l'LES. BLOTCHES, SALT RHEUM, OLD SORES,
ULCERS, Dr. KRdway's >ur*uparii ilau
i&e»olveiit excels ail remedial agefkts. It purifies
the blood, restoring health and vigor; clear skiu
and beautiful conmlexions secured to all.
Liver Complaints, Etc.
Not only does the Sarsaparillian Resolvent excel
all remedial aarents in the cure of Chronic Scrofu-
lous. Constitutional and Skin Diseases, but it is the
only positive cure for
KIDNEY and BLADDER COMPLAINTS
Urinary and Womb Diseases, Gravel. Diabetes,
Dropsy, Stoppage of Water. Incontinence of Urine,
Bright'* DiM'u^e. Albuminuria.and in all cases where
there are brick-dust deposits, or the water is thick,
cloudy, or mixed with substances like the white of
an egg, or threads like white silk, or there is a mor-
bid, dark, bilious appearance and white bone-dust
deposits, and where there Is a pricking, burning
sensation when passing water, and pain in the
small of the back and along the loins.
SOLD BY DRUGGISTS. Price, Si 00 per bottle.
RlDin MGMTII PILLS.
The Great Liver and Stomach
Remedy,
Perfect purgative, soothinc apsrient. act without
pain, always reliable aud natural in their opera-
tions.
k VEGETABLE SIMM FOR CALOMEL.
Perfectly tasteless, elegantly coated with sweet
gum. purge, regulate, purify, cleanse and
strengthen.
RADWAY'S PILLS for the cure of aU disorders
of the Stomach, Liver, Bowels, Kidneys. Bladder,
Pain in tbe Back, Loss of Appetite, Langour,
Nervous Diseases, Headache, Constipation, Cm-
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Inflammation of the Bowels, Piles, and ail de-
rangements of the Internal Viscera. Purely vege-
table, coataining no mercury, minerals or delete-
rious drugs.
A few doses of RADWAY'S PILLS will free the
system of all the above named disorders.
Price, 25 Cents Per Box.
SOLD BY DRUGGISTS
READ ''FALSE AND TRUE."
Send a letter stamp to RADWAT & CO.,
No. 32 Warren Street, New York*
Information worth thousands will be sent
to you.
TO THE PUBLIC.
Be sure and ask for Radway's, and see that
the name of IE art way is on what you buy.
S OI L.
We are receiving over Santa Fe road, from the
mainland, a tine quality of
Dark, Rich Soil,
Which we will
Sell by the Wagon or by the Gar
Or In any way to suit. We will deliver it at $125 to
$1 50 a Double Wagonload, according to distance.
Now is the opportunity to improve your yards and
gardens.
McRAE, ANGELL & CO.,
Coal and Wood D.alwr., avenue A andJSd St.
WITHIN THE REACH OF ALL—SEVENTY-
fi*e cents for six months. Delay not. Keep
posted .s to the market.. Full and accurate report.
at each issue of the Weekly Men.
DALLAS, TEX., Manufacturers' General State Anit. for Farm i
Machinery and Agricultural Implements. General State Agents
for Brown Cotton Gin Companv.
IN STOCK—Hay Presses, the cheapest and best in tbe United StatM- Bar Stats Erwine.-
Celebrated (irns: also. Cotton Bloom mid Lummui Gius. Chicago Scale, Reynolds's t andsln-h
Cotton Presses. KnowlesA Blake Steam Pumps. Pulle^. BeltrnV PtoSI
Cincinnati Barbed Wire. Tumbwl! Wagons, " Pride of Texas " &rn Tils BoWn| A*h ^
no S Si^gur3^^^ "a —• « "
K, V. TOMPKINS,
CORNER COXHZVXERCE AND LAMAR STREETS, DAX*IaAS, TEXAS,
EXCLUSIVE STATE AGENT FOR
SXXTfXrXJR SFABXLESS ENGINES,
STEARNS'S STATIONARY ENGINES,
OTTO SILENT GAS ENGINES,
RETCZNGTON TVPE WRITER,
COLUI«BTTS ALL-STEEL SCRAFER, FRCIT SXTSS,
HUGHES'S SULKY FLOWS,
EAF&OOS'S PLOWS, aid
SEDERICE'S FERFETTTAL HAV PRESSES.
1 also handle Jiiiier's Buggies C hampion Hay Kickers and Loaders, Fairbanks's Scales Victor Scal«.
" ood Reapers. Minnesota Chief Threshers and E:i»ines, Victor Cane lliiis aa«l Cook's fevaporators.
c
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DALLAS, TEXAS.
Will Succeed February 1, 183*1.
win succeea x eoruary a, laii. ^
C. A. KEATING, 1
ANS CQJJTTTJTTT! TO T»TTT>rjT*e'S!Tir'n ' 1
AND CONTINUE TO REPRESENT
FISH BROS. & CO. Wagons (under new management;.
FUKST & BRADLEY i'lows. (,'uitiraiors and sulky Rakes.
L1U1, CITY IRON WORKS Engines, Boilers and Saw-Mills.
J. I. CASE X. M. CO. Threshers, Engines aud Saw-Mills.
CHAMi'ION One-IIorse Cotton Planters.
And Wholesale Buggies.
J. S. BROWN dt CO.,
GALVESTON, TEXAS.
Headquarters for
I R. ^1.
SPECIAL NOTICES. _
STotice—To my friends: I have sold to Messrs,
McRAE, ANGELL & CO. my entire interest in
the coal business, and request for them the pa-
tronage so liberally given to me. I take this op-
portunity of thanking you for the same.
DAVE FAHEY.
AUCTION SALES.
—r-"
Auction Sale.
To-day, at 10 a. m.. at oxjr salesroom,
Strand:
5 cases Bacon. 100 barrels Potatoes, 30 boxes
Lemons, 30 barrels OnioDS, Candy. Crackers, Sar-
dines, Tobacco and Canned GoodsT
Also Furniture, Tinware, Stock of Notions, Hats,
Boots, Shoes and sundry merchandise.
LYNCH Bt PENLAND.
FOR SALE.
One of the Most Valuable Tracts of
Timbered Land
in the State.
Situated on Trinity River, where the East and
West Teras railroad crosses
The railroad runs right through it, contains 19C2
acres, and is a part of the Simpson survev.
Address F. P. IlILL,
Old Waverley, Texas.
LA_ND.
J. S. DAUGHERTY,
DALLAS, TEXAS.
BUYS AND SELLS
Farming, Orazins and Pine Lands,
AND SELECTS
MILL SITES FOR SAW MILLS.
He makes investments for capitalists and others in
in anj- kind of Texas Land desired. He will also
invest Texas ani Pacific Railway Company
LAND GRANT BONDS
in lands of that company. He owns and represents
several choice locations for #
LARGE STOCK RANCHES
in the southwest part of the State: also some good
FARMING- LANDS
in Dallas and adjoining counties. Having personal-
ly inspected lands in almost every portion of Texas,
he is familiar with the quality of soil, value, etc.,
in the different localities, and his facilities are un-
surpassed for assisting purchasers to
GOOD BARGAINS.
HTMap of Texas and count? maps of Eastland,
Callahan, Taylor.Stephens aud Jones will be sent by
him to any address on receipt of 10 cents in postage.
Address:
J. S. DAUGHERTY,
LOCK BOX 243, DALLAS, TEXAS.
AND TINNERS' STOCK
or all iciasrr>s
job sals bt
EXCELSIOR MF'G CO.
ST. LOUIS, MO.
P. A. KEARNEY Sole Agent,Galveston
60RNI0& BROTHER
FINE CIGARS.
Sent by Box to any address, C. O. D.,
Orders for
La. Lottery Tickets.
Address to M. BORNXO, JR., indi-
vidually
SEW OHLEAX'S, LA.
SOUTHERN MACHINERY DEPOTS.
ENGINES. BOILERS, SAWMILLS, GRIST-
MILLS. SHAFTING, PULLEYS nod
GENERAL MACHINERY.
TRAM-ROAD LOCOMOTIVES a upecialtv.
Address TALBOTT Sc SONS,
Houston or Waco.
\^orks at Richmond, Va.
Articles on all the leading Topfcs
of the day are to be found it the columns oi
Th* Wshlt Nkws.
PROPOSALS^
Street Paving.
NOTICES.
W. G. Veal.
Z. Kino, President.
Jas. A. Kino, V. Pres't
Haslet b Gibbs, Sec'y.
a. H. Porter, Engineer.
King Iron Bridge
AND
O^ CONSIGNMENT.
BALLINGER, M0TT & TERRY,
4
FARMERS 0:NT THE GULF COAST
In order to meet the wishes of parties atIio do not
want to sell
COTTON- IIST THE SEED.
W e are now building another ginhouse, and next
season shall he prepared to gin
OOOO Hales Cotton,
whicn we expect to receive, having ginned nearly
that number this season.
COTTON GINNED FOR THE SEED-
BAGGING AND TIES FUltNlSJdED FREE.
flAlVBSTOH OIL COMPAHY. J. F. JAQUES, Secretary
Having made large contracts
FOR
All Grades of tobacco,
Early last year, piaces ns in position to fill
All Orders for same at LOW PRICES,
To wlxich we call the special attention of our patrons.
Is. J. WILLIS «£ BRO„
WHOLESALE GROCERS, ETO.
THE PHCENIX IRON CO.,
410 Walnut Street, PHILADELPHIA,
Manufacturers of Wrought Iron
Beams, Deck Beams, Channels, Anale and Tee Bars,
-WROUGHT IRON ROOF TRUSSE3, GIRDERS AND JOISTS.
Ana all kinds of Iron Framina: used in the construction or Fire Proof Buildings, Patent Wrougnt Iron
_ _ Columns and built up shapes for Iron Bridges.
MILLIKEN &! SMITH Solejfew York Agents. 95 Liberty St,.N". Y.
by the 15th OF MAY and to be com plated by the
15th OF OCTOBER. 1884. Separate proposals are
invited for each of the above streets, and for the
whole of the work, bidder to specify the street or
streets bid ou. The City" Council reserves the right
to reject any or all bfd£. and to let all or any part
of the above work. Plans and specifications to be
seen at this efiice.
y*. M. JOHXSOlf. Oity Engineer.
Dallas, Texas, January 18, 1884.
C. H. Cooper.
N otice.
TBE GJOTOTt}AS
All orders or cotipl4ints.to
receive prompt attention, should be left a&
the office of the Company, in the Bricit Building, on
Market Streets Between 24th and 25th
Streets,
Bsiween the hours of it and li o'clock a. m.
AUG. BITTLAU, Secretary,
L)
CM*M F*jrx.#.vj»9 OH! o.
Manufacturers of all kinds of WROUGHT IR.02I
and COMBINATION BRIDGES.
iST Plans, specifications and estimates submitted
on application.
OLIVER &. ALEXANDER,
General Southern Agents.
Office: Room No. 10, Fox'f Building, Houston,
Texas.
3000 BAR&BLS
SEED POTATOES.
TCarly Rose, Goodrich and Peerless. This lot of
potatoes must be sold to close. AJso, iOQ bblf o!
SELECTED SEED POTATOES, from Landreth'f
nurserv.
K. SEELIGSON & CO., OmlTestom«
i
1
NOTICE TO PLASTERERS
Bids will be received by the sia&oxic
Building Committee, for the stuccoing of the
Masonic Tomple, according to plans and specifica-
tions in the office of N. J. Cla.vtoa, architect. Bid*
must be handed in bj Tuesday. February 5th, a?
she office of the undersigned. The committee re
serve the right to reject aoyand all bids.
I. LOVENBERG, Secretary,
Masonic Building Committee.
<
SEALED PROPOSALS WILL BE RECEIVED
at the office of the City Engineer until 8 o'clock
p. m. on the 4th DAY OF ilARCH next for pavluj?
the following streets in this city with Bois d*Arc
Blocks, upon a gravel foundation, according to &a
ordinance approved December 5, 1883, and to plans
and SDecifications on file in this office, to wit: Main
Street—From the west side of Jefferson to the ea^t
aide of Sycamore street. Elm street—From tbe
west side of Sycamore street to the east corporation
line. Jefferson. Market and Sycamore streets—
From Main street to the Texas and Pacific railroad.
Lamar street—From Wood to Elm street. Phydiaa
street—From Main to Elm street Murphy street—
From Commerce to Elm street. Austin street—
From Wood street to the Texas and Pacific railroad.
College street—From Elm street to the Texas and
Pacific railroad. In all about 12,000 linear feet.
Each proposal must be aocompanied by a bond,
with approved security, in the amount of $1900,
that if the contract isa warded the bidder will enter
into contract by the 23d OF APRIL next. Bond and
security will also be required for a faithful per-
THE RECENT MARKED TENDENCY OF THB
popular taste for pin results as much from the
fact that it is susceptible of being an admirable
adjunct of mixed or fancy beverages, as that it is
an almost infallible specific for all kidney affec-
tions the increase of which is as remarkable as it
is alarming.
WOLFE'S SCHIEDAM AROMATIC SCHNAPPS
is the best form in which to take it, as it is diuretic,
tonic, a palatable stimulant and an agreeable ex-
hilarant.
Persons 9hould look for the W. A. S. label.
"TTEAL, COOPER & CO., LAND DEALERS, DAL-
V LAS, Texas, buy and sell lands in Texas, Mex-
ico, New Mexico and Arizona. Render and pay
taxes on lasd in Texas. Time to render for taxes.
1st of January to 1st of June; time to pay, 1st ot
October to ls*t of March; sales for taxes, usually 1st
Tuesday in May. If you desire to buy cheap gra*-
ingland. a productive far:*, or to invest in Dallas
city property, the Cbi^go of Texas, address or
call on VEAL, COOPER &. CO, 612 Elm street. Dal-
las, Texas.
125 Postoffiee Street,
GALVESTON TEX.
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