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CJiediiilta
a. h. belo & co., Publishers.
CIRCULATION EQUAL
to that of all
THE OTHER DAILY PRESS
of the state combined.
Branch Offices of the News.
• yoiut—News and Advertising Agency, f. a.
Av bot, Room 75. United Bank Building, corner
W all street and Broadway.
houston—Reportorial and Business Office, at
268 Preston street, opposite the Postoffice.
„ san Antonio—Reportorial and Business Office
88 Soledad street.
Auwnt—Reportorial and Business Office. in Jas.
Martin & Son s shoe store. Congress avenue.
dallas—Reportorial and Business Office, at drug
Btore of M. H. Hickox, 606 Main street.
Fort Worth—Reportoricd and business Office,
Smith's News Stand, corner of Fourth and Hous-
ton streets, two doors from Postoffice.
waco—Reportorial and Business Office, oppo-
'9 Pacific hotel, up-stairs.
V. C. Hart is one of the dulyauthorized travel-
tng agents for The Nets, will receipt for sub-
scriptions and contract for advertising.
Friday, March 16. 1883.
The story of an attempt at assassinating Mr.
^ Blaine keeps that gentleman well in line as an
Elisha. ______
Kansas City has a church society which
teaches poor girls to sew—a novel and com-
mendable charity.
" REQurescAT Wiggins," says the New York
Mail and Express. That is the kind of a self-
satisfied cat Wiggins claims to be.
Egan declines to say how he crossed the
Atlantic. Perhaps in a Fenian cruiser. Has
anybody been watching that ram on the Jer*
sey flats?
Robert Toombs's eulogy of a. H. Stephens
shows eloquence and pathos, which will some
day win many a tear for old Toombs, the sup-
posed dint-heart.
Wiggins claims a triumph; Galveston is
willing. Never saw a finer day than Sunday.
Much obliged to Professor Wiggins for letting
the gulf-coast off so easy.
Ex-Governor Sprague's new wife is thirty
years (#1, and is said to be a charming and
scholarly woman. It will not damage Mr.
Sprague's political prospects that he has se-
cured somebody to keep house for him.
itis too painful for tea-drinkers to read the
list of trash that has been introduced as tea.
Adulterated tea is now to be excluded from
American ports. Certainly if any adultera-
tion is necessary it can be done in the domestic
trade.
Wm. Batchelor, aged ninety-six, was con-
firmed by the Episcopal bishop of New York.
The fact is the more remarkable bacause he
had long been a confirmed bachelor. Perhaps
«£he man intends to take a wife. Some boys
are slow in maturing.
Tite French are blockading the coast of
Madagascar. Their naval forces have orders
to occupy several ports, but not to penetrate
Into the interior, probably from that sort of
charitable feeling that begins at home and
does not stray far enough to get lost.
An Ingeniously conceived little book, pub-
lished by Lee & Shepard, of Boston, is entitled
the Battle of Moy; or, How Ireland Gained
her Independence, 1892-1894. It ends with a
proclamation signed by the president of the
Irish republic, but, alas, his name is given as
Carey 1
" On-the-Wing " is the title of a series of
sketches of American travel, by Mrs. M. E.
Blake, who went across the continent last year.
She particularly describes scenes from Colorado
to California. The work is quite interesting,
and issued in pretty style by Lee & Shepard,
of Boston.
Utah is a recruiting headquarters and train-
ing-camp for the Mormons, who are constantly
sending batches of their settlers into Idaho and
other adjoining territories. The heads of the
church have also been making preparations for
moving into Northern Mexico whenever Utah
becomes too hot for them.
A Canadian legislators bill against Chinese
Immigration is to be similar in principle to one
passed by the New South Wales legislature in
1881 and now in force. It places a head tax of $50
on Chinese immigrants, and vessels are alljwed
to bring only one such passenger to each 100
tons capacity of the vessels.
Dr. Dix has originated an expressive phrase.
He calls the alleged. New England style of easy
marriage and easy divorce consecutive po-
lygamy." It is far from being confined to
New England, and it differs from simultaneous
polygamy in respect to the equality of the
Bexes. Sauciness by the gander is not so safe.
The charges against Louise Michel in the
warrant for her arrest are that she committed
pillage at the head of an armed band, made
violent assaults on the police, uttered seditious
cries and incited to the overthrow of the gov-
ernment. She would be liable on conviction to
from five to twenty years imprisonment at
hard labor. . . .
Senator Terrell, who is not the least
sagacious man in Texas, has perhaps seen that
tide of public opinion which is rising on the
subject of the penitentiary lease. It is one of
greatest questions in the State's affairs, and
tnfc senator doubtless makes no error in judg-
ing thSt the lease will be a millstone around
the necks of the politicians who sanction it.
It may be that England and the United States
will stand by and see France take possession of
the island of Madagascar, and get a monopoly of
a trade which is now mostly in British and Ameri-
can hands, and it may be that they will not. We
shall see. [New York Mail and Express.
England will be able to " stand by," by
deputies at least, but the United States will
simply stand at this distance for want of naval
facilities for standing any nearer, if for no
other reason.
Two bills were presented to the Health
Committee of Wheeling, W. Va.; one of 50
cents for tobacco and cigars for a small-pox
patient, another of 15 cents for candy for a
sick baby. The committee had a heated dis-
cussion, lasting over two hours, upon these
Items, and finally appropriated the ainormt for
the candy, but decided that small-pox patients
could not indulge in such luxuries at the public
expense.
Mr. Patrick Egan, having reached New
York, has made a statement which appears to
place himself and the Land League in a favor-
able light, so far as any general remarks of
an individual can indicate his own side. Ac-
cording to his announcement of his business in
America, he will be engaged in private com-
mercial matters for some months. During
this time events in Ireland may clear the social
and political sky. Probably Mr. Egan is quite
astute.
The San Francisco Merchant, in reviewing
the Mexican treaty, notices the exclusion from
the schedule of merchandise to go free into
Mexico of all lines of prepared foods, except
sausage, and says:
In our experts to the Hawaiian kingdom, and
also co Panama, which is comparatively a free port,
foods, canned or otherwise, and builafng materials
figure largely. The Mexicans will neither take our
fish, our flesh nor our fruit. Grant has t aken care
of the interests of the stockholders in the Mexican
railroads, but not of the stomachs of American
eniDloyes on those roads.
The New York Truth thinks that a reduction
of fares on the elevated roads from ten cents to
five would be an excessive one, and not practi-
cable in the present condition of the company.
It proposes that the earnings of the roads
should be ascertained and profits on the real
capital limited to 10 per cent., the overplus
being collected for the city treasury; that a
,bill for this purpose would be constitutional,
Itnu would iiiduee the company to make the
fares perhaps eight, seven or six cents, as the
prosperity of the roails permitted.
r
president Authub a few days since invited
Madame Patti, the prima donna, to visit, the
White House. ^The invitation was declined,
end forthwith all society sought for a reason,
finally deciding that it was because Sign or Ni-
coliui, Madame Patti's husband, was not in-
cluded in the invitation. The president was
severely criticised for such a seeming breach
of courtesy, and all without cause, for it is now
known that the signor was included in the in-
vitation. It is well known that the president
prides himself no little upon his superior
savoir-faire, and he has felt very keenly the
censure of the social world upon the alleged
lapsns. ^_
The Memphis Avalanche argues that the
railways can ifell afford to pay a heavy rate
'Af taxation to build good wagon roads. All the
roaSs in Bourbon county, Ky., are macadam-
izetrand every mile of railway in that coun-
ty is thereby doubled in value. The farmers
can stand heavy taxation to build good wagou
roads because turnpikes will double the value
Of their lands. The merchants can stand heavy
taxation for the same purpose, because good
roads increase the number and enhance the
financial ability of their customers. These
three great interests are already taxed more
heavily by bad roads than they will be t iled
pa/for constructing good roads. Therea-
s given are all good, yet they have found
no lodgment in the brain of the average legis-
lator of Texas, who has perhaps never read them.
If the laboring people who do not own property
are such poor trash that they may be unceremo-
niously enslaved to work several days in the
year on the public places where roads ought to
be, that is no reason why roads should not be
made at the expense of those really able to pay
for making them. It may be fun to petty
tyrants in the rural districts to make the labor-
ers dance attendance with hoes and shovels,
but the plan does not make substantial roads.
It will be seen in the telegraphic columns of
The News that the famous Mercer colony
case, of this State, in litigation for a number
of years, has been finally settled in the Supreme
Court of the United States. The result is as
was anticipated from the recent decision of the
Louisiana case. From the decision it appears
that the Supreme Court, while not denying
the fact of a contract between the Texas Re-
public and the projector of the Mercer colony,
holds that the contract was forfeited, and
that it was annulled and canceled by a court
decision in 184S. This removes the cloud from
the titles to about 3000 square miles of land in
Northern Texas.
Those partisans who say any compromise
will be acceptable to beat the opposite party
are necessarily driven to adopt ambiguous
platforms and negative propositions. When
they see that a reformer is also a partisan they
are tempted to count upon holding him by his
partisan feeling, while ignoring or crucifying
the specific reform in advocating which he is
engaged. This plan may work where a party
represents several issues which the opposite
party resists, and where the negative work of
the party is still considerable; but when issues
come to be narrowed down severely, it will
fail sooner or later. The Courier-Journal, hav-
ing long maintained that the tariff is the only
practical issue of importance in national poli-
tics,. now warns Democratic politicians that
courageous action in favor of a tariff for
revenue only is, in that journal's opinion, the
Democratic party's last chance of success.
Happily the chance is a magnificent one. It
will amount to a certainty if statesmen are
forthcoming to handle it.
An authority on table etiquette says that
plates should never be turned'upside down,
and at meals where warm viands are served
the plates should also be warm, and should be
placed in a pile in front of the carver, with the
dish to be served directly behind them. For
tea the plates for each person should be set
with the napkin neatly folded upon each.
Never put a napkin in a goblet, and the more
simply the napkin is folded the better will be
the general effect. The knife should always
be placed at the right side of the plate, and
the fork at the left, both with their handles at
the edge of the table. The proper mode of
cutting bread for dinner is in pieces three
inches long, two inches wide and an inch
thick. It is better, in order to avoid unneces
sary attendance, to place the bread within the
folds of the napkin or upon it. It is better to
place teaspoons in the saucers and let them
accompany the tea or coffee, than to place them
in a receiver and send them around. The gov-
erning ide should be to serve a meal with as
little confusion as possible.
The governor of Pennsylvania mentioned
the subject of public advertising in a recent
message, and recommended a saving in one
respect by dispensing with some of the rigma
role, and an improvement in publicity by hav-
ing publications made in the papei-s of larg-
est circulation. The matter has received no
particular attention'except in the pi **s, and it
is noted that while a leading journal—the
Philadelphia Record—commends the gov-
ernor's suggestions in this respect as really
very important, it undoubtedly does so sim-
ply in the public interest. Matter* of great
interest—like the letting of contracts, propc
sals for supplies, sales of property, notices of
sequestration, petitions for divorce, etc.—whittfh.
are required by law to bo advertised, are fre-
quently hidden away in obscure newspapers of
small circulation to the defeat of the intent of
the statute and often to the detriment of the
public and the denial of justice. This matter
requires remedy at the hands of the legislature
and of Congress. The leading press of the
cities has passed that point where legal adver-
tising at fair rates would lie muchaof a con-
sideration. It is very shallow talk to say that
the papers of largest circulation advocate the
reform for the business it would
bring them. The Record states this part
of the case in a manner that will be convincing
to every one conversant with the newspaper
business, and perhaps satisfactory to most
persons who can understand a reasonable state-
ment. The white paper costs a large per-
centage of the subscription price of the prin-
cipal newspapers, and their policy is not to
exclude reading matter for advertisements;
henca they do not desire an excessive amount
of advertising, causing enlargement or the
addition of supplements at further cost for
paper, without increase of the subscription
rate. The Record states its relation to the
matter as follows:
The Record is not influenced In its recommenda-
tions upon this subject by any desire to secure
legal advertising for itself. It is perfectly satisfied
with its advertising patronage, and we believe as a
rule its advertisers are satisfied with the Record.
The circulation of the Record has grown to such
au exteut that an advertising patron aga which
makes neees^arv the issue of a double Iheet is
hardly to be desired. It involves the use of nearly
four tons of extra pajjer for every day the double
sheet ic printed, in recommending the publica-
tion of legal advertising in newspapers of the
largest circulation we are recommending an ob
vious reform. An advertisement inserted in the
Record and the Public Ledger in this city, would
ne more widely circulated iu one day than if it had
been inserted in all the other daily papers printed
in Philadelphia for a week. Why should so obvious
an advantage be thrown away in the publication
of matters essential to public information?
CONVICT LABOR FOR PUNISHMENT
AND PROFIT.
The convict leasing system is as simple in
theory as it is savage in detail. It assumes
that the best disposition of convicts is that
which will enable the State to make the most
profit out of the crimes of her citizens for her-
self and her partners in a joint speculation. It
assumes that the prisoner should be worked at
every hazard for all he is worth to such a
speculation, and denies his capability for any
other than a life of crime. Then, by a ruthless
association of criminals of all grades and all
ages with a sole view to the largest profit, it
degrades labor by making it a mark of de^tada-
tion and a condition for the final and complete
development of a crime class, confirmed in
propensities and aptitudes for perpetual
war upon society. It is a system in
which the blind calculation of moment-
ary greed, coupled with a morbid
distaste for the study of penal science, stifles
reason, conscience, hope and faith, and takes
no account whatever of the terrible cost which
it entails upon the commonwealth by harden-
ing instead of softening criminal charactei,
stigmatizing instead of dignifying labor, stim-
ulating and diffusing instead of suppressing
the contagion of depravity. The policy of ex-
pressly prescribing labor along with imprison-
ment as part of the punishment to be suffered
by an individual convicted of felony, is now
condemned by the best authorities in penology.
Mr. Richard Vaux, of Philadelphia, who has
made crime-cause and convict punishment a
special subject of investigation and discus-
sion for many years, finds the common
formula of sentencing a convicted
felon to "imprisonment with hard labor"
essentially objectionable, because it makes
"the penalty of labor and the penalty of im-
prisonment equally part of the sentence for
crime," and because "if one is a degradation,
so ecpially is the other." It would certainly
seem to be the theory of a law which prescribes
labor and imprisonment as conjoined penalties
for crime, that whatever of degradation at-
taches to one brings the other to its level. And
this doubtless goes far to explain the bitter
repugnance i'elt by the mass of honest artisans
in every community to the neighborhood or
competition of convict laborers. In such cases
the jealousy of self-interest in a pecuniary
sense may well bo exasperated by wounded
pride of class. "It is certainly unwise,"
Mr. Vaux remarks, "in any State thus
to stamp on manual toil this mark of
a penalty for off ?nses against her laws. If the
prosperity and wealth of a State are dependent
on the industries of her citizens, is it not preju-
dicial to the industrial classes, the mechanic
and the workman, to be told by public laws
that their vocation is inflicted as a punishment
for the acts of criminals.' Is it to be expected
that the young, who are trained in public
schools, where nothing is taught inducing to
acquirement of trade knowledge, or those who
graduate in the high schools, where the course
of study neither encourages nor stimulates the
desire for instruction fitting its possessor for
mechanical vocations, will ever be free from
the depressing influence of this impolitic enact-
ment in the statutes of the State?" There is
but one answer to these questions, and the
answer is profoundly melancholy and
portentous, and its somber significance
is deepened where the idea of punishment,
with any regard lor its justice and virtue as
such, is merged in the idea of a profit-making
investment for the State and her contract part-
ners. By this method, in the judgment of Mr.
Vaux, the convict, not treated as his crime and
his character require during his term of sen-
tence, is traiialoi'jued "into a convict machine.
forced for a profit to the State, and a profit to
his purchaser,, to toil, to labor, not as a pun-
ishment, but for money-profit, money-greed of
his two owners, the State that sells his labor,
and the person who buys it—both for money."
And these additional remarks by the same
writer can not be too thoughtfully pondered:
Is not this a degradation, not only of the man,
but of labor as the creator of the wealth and pros
perity of the State? A prisoner who is inquired to
learn a handicraft during hi3 imprisonment, as
part of his daily duty—to learn it for his own ben-
efit, to qualify him to gain au honest livins when
he leaves the orison, is subjected to a punishment,
but his labor is not a degradation. This labor is
not made punishment, absolute and exclusive; tt is
instruction, teaching, training, elevating. It takes
from the man no part of his position as a laborer.
Going out of the incarceration to which he was
subjected, he has gained in hi« own respect for
himself, and has been taught that labor Is the true
foundation for reform, the attribute of manhood,
relying on himself for his own support. He be-
comes a factor in the production of the prosperity
of his State, or the population into which he may
go td start life anew. It may yet be that con-
vict labor will be so reformed and improved
that it will at least not tend to degrade, while it is
not made by law the exclusive element in convict
punishment.
Meanwhile it may be pertinent to suggest,
if the system in question is to be
indefinitely continued, the justice of re-
lieving manual toil from the invidious
discrimination which stamps It with a
singular stigma as a penalty for crime, by
putting all professions and occupations on an
equal footing with respect to the money-mak-
ing industry of convict slaves. It is well
known that some convicts are expert account-
ants, and that some are well qualified for a
variety of clerical service. Some have rare
gifts for the more recondite arts of
the working politician. Some have an
aptitude for the law; some for college profes-
sorships; others for journalism; and still others
may have a turn for divinity and a large talent
for pulpit oratory. If the great tiling is to
make money out of convict servitude, why not
utilize to the utmost all these capabilities-in
the assignment and distribution, under con-
tract or sub-contract, of convict slaves? Why
limit the development of the money-making
resources of the system to the manual depart-
ment of industry? It loaks like an egregious
mistake in economy when judged by the fun-
damental principle of the system.
RAILROAD REGULATION BY COMMIS-
SION.
Mr. E. w. Cole, a prominent railroad man,
and the Atlanta Constitution have been having
a little controversy on the railroad commission
question. Mr. Cole's address at Nashville on
railroads in Tennessee and their regulation
started it. As the Georgia commission was
referred to by the Constitution as a satisfactory
arrangement, Mr. Cole states that he did not
desire to discuss Georgia matters but Tennessee
matters. The constitutions of the respective
States are different, and he can anticipate no
good from a railroad commission in Tennessee
where the charters contain a clause permitting
the railroads to farm out their rights, subject
to the limit for rates. This, he thinks, creates
vested rights in third parties under contacts.
But Mr. Cole does not admit that the
Georgia commission is as satisfactory in
its workings as the newspaper alleges. He re-
fers to the fact that the oldest railroad com-
pany in Georgia had lately to ask for an in-
junction against the workings of the com-
mission, and has appealed to the Supreme
Court of the United States. He claims that
so far as he knows capitalists who have built
railroads in Georgia since the commission was
established were unfamiliar with the condi-
tions established, and did not pay much atten-
tion to the commission law before they in-
vested.* The newspaper, in reviewing Mr.
Cole's letter, repeats that the Georgia com-
mission, possessing inherent and summary
powers in the matter of adjusting and regula-
ting rates, has neither injured the railroads
nor driven off capital; that in the whole history
of Georgia there has been no such era of rail-
road development as had set in since the organ-
ization of the commission. The Constitution
adds:
The people of Tennessee have long suffered and
are now suffering from the loose railroad manage-
ment that the laws of that State invite. They are
suffering from a thousand and one impositions
and discriminations that can not be adequately
«ealt with in a court of law, and they ought to
know that all these evils can be promptly remedied
Wy the creation of a railroad commission armed
with the proper discretion. They ought to know,
moreover, that such a remedy "may be applied
without detriment to ttfe rights and interests of
the railroads.
It readily accounts as follows for the fact
that the oldest railroad company in Georgia
resists the ruling of tfa^| commission:
It may be said that every road in the State would
resist tlie commission if resistance could be made
successful. The managers of the roads, or the
most of them, regard the Whole business as tyran-
nical and unjust, and few of them have progressed
to the point of acknowledging tnat the State has
any right to regulate rates so as to prevent unjust
discrimination. Nor is their attitude at all pecu-
liar. They have been so long used to exercising
their great powers recklessly, that they have come
to believe that the corporations are more impor-
tant than the State itself.
This may be a blunt and not altogether fair
way of stating the case. The railroad man-
agers properly have their side to maintain.
Their companies are more important to them
than the State in other respects, just as it is
more important for a steamboat captain to
navigate his boat safely and secure a free land-
ing place where he can, than for him to look
after the general regulation of commerce. If
railroad managers are represented as too
utterly selfish, the representation comes from
the political side Of the case. It takes no ac-
count of the wreck of material interests if in-
telligent self-interest were to be relaxed for
any period, however short, in the face of polit-
ical and theoretical agitation. The contro-
versy is instructive as a verbal expression of a
part of the great contest in the process
of industrial evolution, which includes
all the striving of collective and social forces
and the resistance of individual interests seek-
ing freedom of development and profitable
traffic. Only through this contest can the
whole subject of railroad control and public
justice, together with the profit to those im-
mediately engaged in building and managing
railroads, be finally settled in a fair way. The
survival of the fittest must result from a
conflict of intelligence. The destruction of the
railroads by progressive deterioration would
follow the unqualified surrender of the rail-
road owners and managers to political experi-
ments, perhaps even more certainly than the
absorption of public wealth by the companies
would follow the general consent to leave the
roads wholly unwatched and untouched, to in-
terpret their* charters as they please.
LOUISE MICHEL.
Strange to say, the leader of the Paris mob
forces, at this time, is a woman—fcouise Michel
—something on the style of Jeanne d'Arc, but
owing her influence over the excitible French
masses not so much to any claim of superna-
tural inspiration as to being the very embodi-
ment of the modern communistic idea. Her
pv>wer over the lower classes of the Parisian
populace may be guessed from the fact that at
the socialist demonstration toward the close of
last week, she, waving aloft a black flag, led a
column of rioters on the left bank of the Seine,
.rvnd it was under her guidance that the mob
began a series of outrages—smashing widows,
breaking into shops and overturning carnages
—that was only terminated by the charge of a
force of cavalry with drawn sabers. Again,
when the socialist mob had assembled in front
of the Palais Bourbon, with cavalry sabers
Hashing in her face, this determined and
notorious woman climbed a bill poster's
ladder and harangued the crowd in a way that
reminded one of scenes in the days of Robes
pierre and Marat. The spell with which Louise
held the mob was broken only by a body of the
Garde Republicaine, on horseback, who, with
drawn swords, swept down upon the malcon-
tents like a tempest, and Touted the many
thousands who had assembled in front of the
palace of the Elvsee. There is no telling what
one determined individual like Louise Michel
can effect with a fickle and excitable populace
like th^t of the French capital Almost as
dangerous a foe to the present French govern
ment as Prince Napoleon or ttye Count de
Chambord, the Michel may, in the early future,
make trouble for President Grevy and his
premier, M. Ferry. Indeed, such characters
as Louise Michel—generally thrown to the sur-
face in times of disorder, tumult and revolu
tion—while acting as controlling spirits in the
situation that first brings them to notoriety,
are also commonly exponents of the causes
that produce civil strife and popular upheaval.
One of the grievances of which Louise's ad-
herents complain is want of employment for
large numbers of the French laboring people
—a state (^things not confined to France. It
is the fact of Louise Michel leading the
socialist, agrarian or communist forces of
French society that gives her the remark
able influence with the laboring rtiasses of
Paris, so signally displayed in the Parisian
riot, or rather attempt at rioting last week.
Paris is, to-day, a hot-bed of impracticable so
cialism but possible communism, and these
political forces, directed by a fanatic like
Louise Michel, may yet be combined into
a powerful tide, that may sweep away the
third republic, as they did the first and second,
and on which Jerome Napoleon and the Count
de Chambord hope to drift into possession of
the French throne. ' While at present taking
the part of socialism, and all which that name
implies, Louise is really playing into the hands
of the monarchists and imperialists, who, from
the riot" beaded by her against the Grevy
government, have everything to gain and
uothirn? uj iose.
RAILROAD EARNINGS AND COTTON
MOVEMENT.
The New York Financial Chronicle of the
10th instant gives its usual monthly statement
of railroad earnings and cotton movement.
The figures of th e Chronicle deal with the re-
cord for February last, the exhibit being re-
garded as highly satisfactory, considering the
adverse influences that were at work a part of
the month. " Despite the interruption of
traffic by snow in the Northwest, and by floods
in certain districts of the West and South,"
says the Chronicle, " in spite also of the re-
pressing influence on general business in con-
sequence of measures pending in Con-
ss affecting many different inter-
ests, the record of the roads for
the month gives an aggregate some-
what greater than in the corresponding month
of 1SS2. This result is directly attributable to
the large crop of cereals raised last season in
the West and Southwest, and of cotton in the
South, which continued during February to
come forward in large quantities." The
earnings of the Texas roads and
their direct connections for February, as
given In the Chronicle's tabulated state-
ment, are as follows: Gulf, Colorado and
Santa Fe (three weeks only of February in
each year), $104,504, against $65,941 same
month last year; Missouri Pacific, $620,9S8,
against $469,043; Central branch, $106,647,
against $64,433; International and Great
Northern, $293,546, against $210,784; Missouri
Kansas and Texas, $4S4,424. against $394,672;
St. Louis, Iron Mountain and Southern, $522,-
781, against $501,128; Texas and Pacific, $416,-
040, against $373,o85—making a clear increase
in earnings for the month for the six roads
enumerated of $564,395. "As in previous
months," comments the Chronicle, " the South-
western roads must be assigned first place in
point of improvement on last year, though the
increase is certainly not as heavy as in Janu-
ary. In the last week of the month both the
Missouri, Kansas and Texas and the St. Louis,
Iron Mountain and Southern recorded a de-
crease, but this was because of a
break in the connection with the Wabash
at the northern end of the line
in the former case, and because of high
water in the vicinity of Cairo in the latter
case. The roads in Texas which connect with
these continue to make very large gains, as do
all the other Texas roads and indeed all roads
through the South. The Texas and Pacific has
an increase of $137,500, against 210,000 in Janu-
ary, and the International and Great Northern
a gain of $83,000, against $107,000." The cotton
movement undoubtedly played a prominent
part in swelling the earnings of the lines speci-
fied. To indicate its relative importance on
traffic returns The News appends below the
Chronicle's table of receipts of cotton at the
leading outports in February, 1882 and 1883:
1883. [ 1882. iDifference.
Galveston
Indianola, etc..
New Orleans
Mobil©
Florida
Savannah
Brunswick, etc..
Charleston
Port Royal, etc.
Wilmington.
Morehead City, c
Norfolk
West Point, etc.
..bales! 67,(128
I 707
103.229
29,034
2,664
66,586
200
50,813
7,510
12.899
3,290
S0.997
39.69* Inc.. 43,734
<155 Inc.. 312
81.400 Inc.. 111.829
15/588 Inc.. 13,346
4,195 Dec.. 1,531
36.272 Inc.. 30,314
140 Inc.. 60
21,607 Inc.. 26,206
2,620 Inc.. 4.890
8,135 Inc.. 4,764
2,385 Inc.. 905
46.409 Tnc.. 34.583
25.514! II.608:Inc.. 13,846
--
Total 541.131 i257,868;inc..283,263
The above table shows Galveston second in
rank of all Southern ports in point of increase
in cotton receipts, New Orleans leading the
list. The material situation continues satis-
factory.
state press.
power." Then he details at length the plan he
expects to pursue.
The San Saba News tries to impress upon
flockmasters the necessity for something more
than the withered grass left on the prairies for
the feed of sheep during the winter. The idea
that it is unnecessary to make such preparation
is beginning to be abandoned.
The papers are again printing long hsls of
property to be sold for taxes. People who
have plenty of money do not realize the diffi-
culty farmers have found in raising means to
pay their taxes for some years past. If a ma-
jority of the small farmers and property-own-
ers could be heard they would put an end to
the policy of hoarding money in tht State
treasury and paying forty per cent, premium
for State bonds not due, while homesteads are
being sold for taxes, and reduce the rate of
taxation. Farmers make money slowly at the
best, and most of them are struggling against
debts heretofore contracted. Thousands are
now mortgaging the crops just being planted,
in order to obtain the means of living.
The Clarksville Times of March9th says:
The editor was in the country Saturday and saw
numbers of cotton pickers in the field. Things ap-
peared as if it were November.
Interior papers generally report fine pros-
pects for fruit. •
The Xaate Bishop Qninlan*
[New Orleans Times-Democrat !
Bishop Quinlan was born in Cloyne, county
Cork, Ireland, on October 19. 1826, and was.
consequently, somewhat over fifty-six years of
age. His life has been an eventful one, and
his career brilliant and honorable. Leaving
his native land a mere boy, full of geniality
and intelligence, he came to America to seel
that knowledge and opportunity which would
enable him to satisfy his desires to become an
ecclesiastic.
Entering that venerable and celebrated
Catholic institution, Mount St. Mary's, Em-
mittsburg, Md., he rapidly rose, by his amia-
ble disposition, fine qualities and brilliant
talents, to an enviable position, in the regard
both of his superiors and his fellow-students.
Upon the completion of his course he was or-
dained priest, oy his grace the Most Reverend
J. B. Purcell, archbishop of Cincinnati. The
latter prelate was so struck with the high or-
der of the young priest's talents that he ap-
pointed him,"shortly afterward, to the profes-
sorship of dogmatic theology, at Mount St.
Mary^s college of the West, Cincinnati.
He was not to remain in this honorable posi-
tion long, however, as bis ability and intelli-
gence were too evident to his patron, Archbishop
Purcell and coadjutors, and, unknown to tfie
modest voung theologian, his name was sent to
His Holiness, Pope Pius IX, as a most "suita-
ble and deserving candidate for promotion to
higher ecclesiastical dignities. As a consequent
result the Catholic Pontiff honored Dr. Quin-
lan with the appointment of Bishop of Mobile,
and at the comparatively early age of 33 years,
he was consecrated on December 4, 1859, as
the second incumbent of that see.
For the past twenty-four years Bishop Quin-
lan has filled this high and honorable position
with marked ability and in such a manner as
to win not only the love and regard of his own
followers, but the esteem and good-will of the
adherents of other faiths. He was a kind,
gentle, amiable man, a profound scholar and
theologian, a persuasive and eloquent pulpit
orator and an ardent and conscientious pre-
late. Requiescat in pace.
The bell used at Wellesley college, Mass., is
from an ancient Buddhist temple in Japan,
and was given to the college by Mr. J. L.
Graves, of Boston.
What the Interior Papers Say*
The San Antonio Express says of the criti-
cism of the Gatesville Advance on the reli-
gious paper without any religion in it, estab-
lished by ex-Minister Shaw, of Waco:
Take him up gently, brother Advance. It won't
be long before his paper will go the way his reli-
gion went.
Agnosticism is not the best foundation for a
new sect. Fanatics who are most assured of
things they know nothing of have a better
chance to succeed than those who believe noth-
ing but what they understand and understand
as little as they believe. A new religion needs
enthusiasm to give it a start.
The sly old wag of the Houston Age drily
remarks:
In eulogizing the ball given at Fort Worth in
honor of the cattlemen, the Gazette displays won-
derful versatility in the use of interjections. Here
is one of the least laconic and one of the most ex-
pressive: "The gallantry of cattlemen! Did
they learn beneath the stars on the plains such
courtly manners?" Or for loftiness of fancy this:
" That the converging of charming girls at the
Fort made a grand column of beauty that lifted its
head into heaven and bewitched the angels.1'
When it comes to style in describing festive
events, Richard Swiveller has to take the seat
before a local reporter of Northern Texas, with
a cargo of champagne aboard.
The San Antonio papers report another
batch of visiting statesmen from Austin in the
Alamo City, and the honors shown them by
leading citizens.
The Times calls the new tariff a fraud, and
says:
It is a mere dodge, an evasion of the true question
of tariff reform, and is not responsive to the de-
mands of the great body of the people, and to
assume that they will quietly submit to sueh a
fraud upon their rights would be an insult to the
intelligence of the great body of consumers.
Negative are next to positive virtues. The
Gilmer Mirror balances accounts, thus:
The legislature, while it has* done but little good
for the people of Texas this session, has certainly
done but little harm.
Sometimes it is better to let things alone
than to alter them. There is too much cause
to think that legislation is only a series of ex-
pedients, and that frequent changes in the
laws are mainly useful for what Mr. Jefferson
said of frequent elections — as safeguards
against revolution.
The Mirror prints an obituary that deserves
praise for its candor. Mr. John G. Johnson
died from intoxication, and the fact is stated
in the notice of his death, along with good
words for his better qualities, and the Mirror
closes by saying:
Let the sod of the valley rest gently upon his
breast, and let all young men take warning from
his course.
This might be said every day of some poor
fellow who dies from the same cause.
The Mount Calm Enterprise is a new news-
paper enterprise, and looks calmly down from
its perch in the hill country of Hill county,
with that veteran journalist, Chas. H. Hanson,
as publisher. In the adage, " Charley on the
spot," is supposed to represent the right man
in the right place, but this old Charley is the
right man who has dropped on wrong places
without number. He has the migratory in-
stinct so strong that he can not rest, and flits'
from flower to flower like a butterfly. He has
the best wishes of The News wherever he may
light. He knows how to appreciate the labors
of the journalist, and says:
The News is deeidedlv the best and most reliable
newspaper published in Texas, snd has but few
equals and no superiors in any country. The News,
however, is sufficiently well known throughout the
State, and too highly appreciated, to need any
eulogy at our hands. It is in every sense a news-.
paper.-and no household or business house can be
considered properly furnished without it.
The Age modestly says:
As a great storm-center, Housion has never as-
pired to be a rival of Galveston.
Nevertheless the winds and the waters, like
the editors at the other end of the ship chan-
nel, get higher than at Galveston. •
Mr. John Tolar, late an attache of the Colo-
rado Clipper office, has bought an interest in
the Big Springs Pantagraph.
The Goliad Guard says:
The San Antonio Express publishes " a tale of
two cities." in which it puts San Antonio away
ahead of Galveston in material progress.
The Express managed to do all this without
a comparison of the number of inhabitants or
the value of property assessed in the two cities.
Rhetoric beats Itatistics in such cases.
When the young Texans of the present day
become the oldest inhabitants and tell the ris-
ing generation of the future that cotton of last
year's growui continued to be gathered in
March, 1883, nobody will believe them, though
the papers now state the fact without being
questione'd.
The Goliad Guard has finished its fifteenth
volume and enters on another year as full of
life and hope as becomes its sweet, sixteenth
year. It professes to have pursued the even
tenor of its way uninfluenced by censure or
flattery. The Guard is a good paper—like
many others, better than its patronage, though
it says the success of the paper has been rea-
sonably satisfactory.
Of the tariff the Tyler Courier remarks:
The new law Is not what the people had a right
to, and did demand; but it is a step in the right di-
rection. The Forty-eighth Congress is next in or-
der, and we sh ill look to it for some radical re-
form in our tariff and revenue laws, such as will
enable the masses to breathe freer and easier.
The Courier is " disgusted " with subscribers
who promise to pay and then forget all about
it, and threatens to bring them to terms.
Would it have subscribers " so mean as not to
promise?" Such assurances always create
pleasant hopes and sustain the publisher amid
severe trials. Few of the hopes which buoy up
mankind are ever realized; yet all Cheer him
for a season.
Mr. L T. Briggs, after two years service as
editor find publisher of the San Saba News,
anuounces that he " steps down and out, giv-
ing place to another gentleman of whose abil-
ity and experience as a journalist satisfactory
evidence can be readily produced by testimo-
nials of undoubted character," in the person of
Mr. E. J. Cady. The new editor says the pa-
per hereafter "is to be directed on what may
well be called its hazardous course by an essen-
tially different, though partially similar,
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RHEUMATISM,
Neuralgia,
Sciatica, Lumbago,
_ backache,
headache, toothache,
sore throat,
QUINSY, SWELLINGS,
sprains,
Soreness, Cuts, Bruise*,
FROSTBITES,
KI RNS, SCALDS,
And all other bodily aches
and pains.
fifty cents a bottle.
Sola by all Druggists and
Dealers. Directions in 11
languages.
The Claries a. Vogeler Co.
(sum«uort to a. vogkler & co.)
Baltimore, Md., U.S. A.
IN MEKORXAU.
At the opening of the District Court of Nueces
county, at Corpus Christi, on the 12th instant, after
the disposal of routine business, on the sugges-
tion of F. E. Macmanus, Esq., of the death of the
Honorable Edmund J. Davis, since the last teem of
the court1 and on his motion for the appointment
of a committee to draft resolutions expressive of
the feelings of the bar on this melancholy event,
the court appointed F. E. Macmanus, J. IS. Givens,
R. J. Kleberg, Stanley Welsh and G. R, Scott such
committtee, who subsequently reported the follow-
ing resolutions:
Whereas in the inscrutable dispensations of His
divine providence it has pleased the Almighty God
te call from the late scenes of his labors and use-
fulness our brother, the Honorable Edmund J.
Davis, ex-governor of the State of Texas; and it is
fitting that his brethren of the bar should mark
their sense of this sad event by an appropriate ex-
pression of their feelings on its occurrence; there-
fore, be it
Resolved, that in the death of the Honorable Ed-
mund J. Davis the bar of the State has lost an up-
right, vigilant and painstaking counselor, and a
fearless and faithful advocate; his friends-a loyal,
devoted and manly adherent, and society a trust-
worthy. tried and conscientious member.
Resolved, that in all the various relations of life,
the character and conduct of our lamented brother
were distinguished by a stern and unyielding ad-
herence to principle, a tender and intelligent re-
spect for the rights of others, and a chivalrous
championship of the cause of the weak and op-
pressed against the overreaching and arrogant de-
signs and pretensions of the proud and strong.
Resolved, that in this community, where he re-
sided during many years of his checkered and
eventful life, his death is deplored as a public
calamity, and leaves a painful void in the hearts
of hosts of friends, to whom he was endeared by
the simplicity and modesty of his demeanor, and
the winning frankness of a genial and sympathetic
manner, that never failed to inspire confidence
and secure respect, even from his adversaries.
Resolved, that we deeply sympathize with his
family in the severe affliction and irreparable loss
they have sustained in the unlooked-for death of a
tender and devoted husband and a wise, provident
and affectionate father.
Resolved, that as a mark of respect for the
memory of our deceased brother, his honor the
judge bef requested to adjourn the court until
Wednesday morning; that these resolutions be
spread upon the minutes of the court; that the
clerk be requested to transmit a copy of them,
under the seal of the court, to the family of the
deceased, and that the press of the district: and the
Galveston News be requested to publish them.
After feeling tributes to the memory of deceased
by the members of the bar, the court adjourned
till "Wednesday, as requested.
V-i "HE A RE NOW PREPARED TO FURNISH IN
\ \ quantities of 20,006feet per clay, KILN-DKIED
DRESSED LUMBER, from our Excelsior and Chi-
cago Dryer. For beauty of finish, this lumber has
no rival; neither will it'shrink, stain or mildew*
Parties requiring high grades of lumber, or odd
sizes, will lina it to their advantage to order from
us. as we will have bills sawed to order, and thor-
oughly kiln dried, on short notice.
Our process will dry lumber as thoroughly in ten
davs as the atmosphere will in twelve months. We
employ best skilled labor only, and guarantee our
workinaanhip equal to the best.
Long Co.'s O. K. Shingles, kiln-dried or air-
dried; Plastering Lath, ki!n-dried or green: best
Louisiana Cypress, by shipload or carload, direct
from the mills ou the Teche. or by smaller quantity
from our mills. Long-leaf Pine Timber or Lumber
in any quantity not less than carload from here or
Lake Charles.
Orders from Dealers Solicited-
Beaumont Planing Mills Comp'y,
Trustee
DMBYS PROPHYLACTIC FLOW,
For the prevention and treatment of
DIPHTHERIA SCARLET FEVER. SMALL-POX,
TTELLOW FEVER, MALARIA, ETC.
The free use of the FLUID will do more to arrest
and cure these diseases than any known prepara-
tion.
Darbys Prophylactic Fluid,
a safeguard against all Pestilence. Infection. Con-
tagion and Epidemics.
Use as a Gargle for the Throat, as a
Wash for the Person and as a
Disinfectant for the Honse*
Neutralizes at once all noxious odors and
gases, destrovs the germs of disease and septic
(putrescent* floating imperceptible in the air. or
such as have effected a lodgment in the tirroat or
on tne person. Removes au offensive odors.
a certain remedy against
all costtagious diseases.
PA'ffJPErWl' I SKt* MJ\r±
ou fmarjar.
j. b. zsilin & co..
Proprietors. Manufacturing- Chemists.
P HIL AT > ELHI A.
PRICE, 50c. PER BOTTLE: PINT BOTTLE, $1.
groceries—uauors.
CIGARS - CIGARS.
We. have a large assortment OF
Cigars, selected with (treat care, which we
are offering at very low figures, consisting of the
following well-known brands, viz:
Zenobias, Perfection, IiaKosita,
Princess, Exquisitos, Lucille,
Incognitos, Countess. La Seina,
Son Carlos, Twins, Applause,
Landmark, El Commercio, Lotus,
and Sweet Innocence.
G. SEELIGSON & CO.
WHISKY!
11ST BOND.
GOLD DUST BOURBON, Spring 18S0.
GOLD DUST RYE, Spring 1S80.
SNYDLR SOUR XASH. Spring 1880.
HIGHLAND RYE, Spring 1880.
BOWEN BOURBON, Spring 1881.
leaving a Large Stock, we offer the
above in lots direct from Bonded Ware,
house at Very Reduced Figures.
1. RATIO 4 CO.,
Wholesale Grocers and Liquors.
Read This.
Having secured th.e Agency
of the celebrated Aurora
Beer, tlie finest now handled
in the market, we will
cheerfully send sample lots
to the trade free of charge.
MILLER & ENGLISH
galveston.
Y Virtue of powers vested in me by deed of
.3 trust, made by C. W. Adams, February 17,1877,
recorded Galveston county, book pages 22C'-:>-4,
given to secure his nine promissory notes
of that date, one principal note for $->000 and
nine interest notes for each, payable to Mrs.
Mary Ann Hill, and also pursuant to supplement-
al" v agreement extending the maturity of suid prin-
cipal note to March 3,and fixing the rate of
interest at 10 per cent, per annum; at the request
of the owner of > said principal note, and for the
payment of the amount due thereon. $ j."kJ0, with
interest from July 3. 1883 (t-no aforesaid interest
notes having been, paid), on FRIDAY, Cth of April.
18S3, at 12 o'clock m., I will sell at public auction,
in front of the door of the Courthouse, Galveston
county. Texas, lot No. 12, in block No. 550, in the
city of Galveston, for cash, to the highest bidder,
and make such title to the purchaser as I am au-
thorized to do by said conveyance.
ROBT. G. STREET, Truetee.
DEPARTMENT OF INSURANCE, i
STATISTICS AND HISTORY, v
Austin, Texas, February jsb'3. )
To all whom it may concern: This is to certify
that the LANCASHIRE INSURANCE COMPANY,
Of Manchester. England, has in all respects fully
complied with the laws of Texas as conditions pre-
cedent toiis doing business in this State^ind that said
companv holds a certificate of authority from this
office entitling it to do ousiness in this State lor
twelve months from the 1st day of January, 1883,
to the tflst day of December, 18^3.
Given under my hand and seal, at office, in Aus-
tin, the day and ilatelirst above written.
H. P. BREWSTER, Commissioner.
BEERS &TKENIS0N,
Uesidcnt Agents,
GALVESTON TEXAS.
)
successors to successobs to
MOOM,S'lRAnON&CO. M.MM1&BR0.
wholesale
GROCERS
And Importers,
cotton factoks
and
General Commission Merchants,
Corner Strand and 22d Streets.
NOTICE.
We will discontinue our
Branch House, at Houston,
under firm name of focke
& wilkens, Cotton Fac-
tors, at)Out April 1st, and
would request our friends to
make their consignments of
Cotton, Wool and Hides from
now on direct to us at Gal-
veston, assuring them that
it will "be to tlieir interest.
All consignments receive
our personal attention
7F\T0
WHOLESALE GROCERS AND COTTON FACTORS,
notices.
A. W. & Z>. T. SMITH,
General State Agents for
Daniel Pratt's Improved Revolting
Head Cotton Gins, Feeders and
Condensers. Smith's Hull & Seed
Separator Gins.
Strand9 Galveston, Texas-
N otice.
OFFICIAL DRAWING
LOUISIANA STATE LOTTERY
S/.V/J /. r: .yp.n m k Jf— rjutss r.
Drawn at Now Orleans, on Tuesday,
March 13,1803.
Ho. Prize No. i'nw No. Prizp-'No, -Prize
All ORDEItS ok complaints, xo
receive oromptr attention, should be left at
the office of the Company, in the Brick Building, on
Market Street, * Soi ween 24th and 25tb
Streets,
Between the hours of 6 and 12 o'clock a. m.
AICi, bl'ttlari Secretary.
CATTLE BUSINESS.
Some responsible parties having a large and one
of the most desirable ranges in new Mexico, are
desirous of meeting with an experienced and thor-
oughly practical cattle man who will engage with
them, and take the management of the business
for some years at a good salary. The party en-
gaging must be able to put in at least $j>0,000 or its
equivalent in cattle at a fair price, and the parties
advertising wfll put in a considerably larger sum
in cash. No agents or inexperienced parties, or
tjiose lacking the full amount of capital, need ap-
ply. Address: cattle business,
Care c. p. Crawford. Silver City, New Mexico.
To Consignees.
offjce of
the texas express company,
any, i
eh 0, 1883. )
Gai/v£.ctox, March
The Texas Express Company hereby gives notice
that all unclaimed freight, of every description,
remaining: in this office, will be sold for charges, at
public auction, commencing
thursday, april 12,1883.
a list of consignees may be seen at the com-
pany's office, southwest corner of Tremont and
avenue a.
j. c. stuart, Agent.
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fa Hit in curing
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cbasits. banker#,
Ladies and all
sedentary einploy-
b>«*tcaus«sXervou9
prostration. Irregu-
larities! of th<* blood,
stomach. bovreU or
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require a nerve ton-
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BRIDGEFORD & CO
DEALERS 11ST
HARDWARE, Cutlery, BRINLEY PLOWS, Harnes, Trace-
Chains, PLOW-STEELS, Barbed Wire, Clocks, LYONS'9
PATENT HEEL-STIFFENERS, Granite and Agate Ware,
Plain and Galvanized Sheet-Iron, STAMPED WARE, Tiir
Plate and Metals, and MANUFACTURERSot TINWARE;
also, the following- Celebrated Cooking- STOVES, viz:
American, Pride of Texas, New Magnolia, New Pilot, and
Echo. OUR STOCK IS THE LARGEST IN THE STATE.
OUR PRICES ARE THE LOWEST. Catalogues and prices
furnished upon application, by mail or otherwise.
GALVESTON, TEXAS.
J. S. BROWN & CO,
wholesale hardware; merchants,
GALVESTON. TEXAS,
EXHIBIT THE LARtSKST AXD BEST SELECTED STOCK OF
STSXZL PLOW SHAPES
ever disftfaj-ed in tiie Southern market at Prices which "will please the most disconsolate.
P. J. WILLIS & BRO.,
COTTON FACTORS,
Importers and Wholesale Dealers in
Groceries, Dry Goods,
Boots, Shoes Hots Gats am Notions.
GALVESTON, TEXAS.
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CHEAPEST,
SAFEST, MOST CONVENIENT
to use.
BEST BLUING III THE WORLD.
osisikal
LITTLE HAVANA
(Gould & Co.'s)
• _ d&c-ded fl*
Koyal Havana Lottery
class 1125. march 21, 1383
Xuaib»r for rrJir' rr prize for prize, with fiso
additional prizes. 23,000 ballots—1204 frizes,
schedule:
1 Capital Prize...,
LeGierse & Co.
agents,
galveston.
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1 Capital Prize
1 Capital Prize...
1 Capital Prize.
f2 Prises of s£>0 each...,
90 Prizes of $50 each
942 Prizes of f 10 each
2 Approximations of $100 each...*
9 Approximations of $50 eaeu-
2 Approximations of $25 each
974 Prises, as above, beingr the full number
in the Roya! Havana, and
230 Additional Prizes of $5 each to the 230
tickets having as e&ding numbers the
two terminal units of the number
drawing the Capital Priae of $9000..,.
$9,000
2.500
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500
1,000
9.420
200
100
50
1,156
1,264 Prizes, amounting to $25,420
Tickets, $2 halves, $!•
all prizes paid os presentation.
CAtrrros—See that the name GOULD & CO. is on
your ticket; none other are original or reliable.
SKIPS*E"aT COMPANY, Gen- AgtS
1212 Broadway. or 6s East Randolph «t.,
new york citt, chicago.
For information apply to w. w. walling,
San Antonio, or j. d. sawyer, Galveston.
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APPROXIMATION PRIZES.
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GERMAN MILLLET, HUNGARIAN CLOVER,
And fulf stock of
grass seeds.
rL£E'£l & CO.
1000 numbers ending with 64, being the two last
ligures of the number drawing the capital
prize, $75.000
The subscribers having supervised the Single
Number Drawing, Class c, Louisiana State Lot-
tery. hereby certify that the above are the num-
bers which'we r« this day drawn from the 100,000
placed in the wheel, with the prizes corresponding
to them. • ^
Witness our hands at New Orleans, La., this
Tuesday, February 13, 1ss3.
j" a kIklyegard' [Commissioners.
Prizes cashed ia full without deduction.
Payable on presentation .by Registered Letter,
Express c. o. w.. or any liank for Collection.
No. 8,504 draws capital prize, $75,000, sold in
St. Paul, Minn,, Allentown, Pa., and Handsoms
Depot. Va. No. .29,667 draws second capital prize,
$25,000. sold in Houston. Texas, Morristown, Tenn.,
and Ocala, Fla. No. 93,395 draws third capital
prize, 10,000. sold in New Orleans and Chicago.
Nos. 64.710. 91,172, sold in New Orleans, Chicago
aud Washington, d. c., draw each Nos.
1745, s2s4, '*j5.010, 25,678, 72,847, sold in Chicago, Lou-
isville, Washington, Norfolk, Va., Auburn, n. y.,
Keokuk, Iowa, Newburyport, Mass., etc., each
$•.'000.
Class d, Tuesday, April 10, 1883,
Under the Supervision and Management of
m. (1 T. BE.VtR» AND J. A, EARLY.
capital prize, $75,000.
Whole Tickets $6; Fifths in Proportion
Address xs. a. dauphin,
now Orleans, x<a,
FINANCIAL.
C. D. & J. II. LEVERIGH,
b a oxers,
No. 31 wall street, new york,
•
Buy and sell u. s. government bonds. Stocks and
investment securities dealt in at the
new york" stock exchange,
also,
Scrip of the Atlantic ZSutual Insurance
Oo. ol mow Vork. this scrip or divi-
dend amounts to 40 per cent, for year
xet-'i, certificates for which will be is-
sued on and. alter x 2.033.
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Galveston,
Sole Agents the Southern States.
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This is the only lottery ever voted on and indorsed
by the people of any State.
Louisiana State Lottery Comp'y
Incorporated in 1868 for 85 rears by the legisla*
tare for Educational and Charitable purpose®—with
a Capital of $1,000,000—to which a reserve fund o|
over $550,000 has since been added.
By an overwhelming popular vote its franchise
as made a part of
adopted December 5
was made a part of the jn-esent State Constitution
adopted December 2 a. V i £79.
a StoiD OPPORtOlTl TO US a fortekk.
Its Grand Single Number Drawings will take place
monthly. Ix >ev£jt Scales Postpones. Look
at the following scheme:
Grand Monthly Drawing, Class d,
AT NEW ORLEANS,
tuesday, april 10, 1883,
Under the supervision and management of
Gfciils. g. t. beauregard, of Louisiana,
and jtibal a. early, of "Virginia.
CAPITAL PRIZE $75 000.
100,000 Tickets at five dollars Each; Frac-
tions, in fifths, in Proportion.
list of prizes.
1 capital prize
1 do do
1 do do
2 phizes of
5
10
90
100
300
500
1,000
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
$6,000. .^rv.
2,000..•f.iX.
1,000
600
£00.,.,. a.
ioo.:n.._
50........
25..
appro xiv a tion prizes.
9 Approximation Prizes of $t50
9 do do
9
do
do
5o0*.v.y
250..*./»•.
$75,000
25.000
10,000
12,006
10,(w0
10,000
10.000
3U,0U0
£&
25,000
6,750
4,500
2^50
1,967 Prizes, amounting to..., - £265.500
Application for rates to clubs should be made only
to ine office of the Company in New Orleans.
For further information, write clearly, giving full
address. Send orders by Express, Registered Let*
ter or Money Order, address only to
m. a. dauphin, Kew Orleans, La.
Or, j. d. sawyer, one door west of News Of-
fice, Galveston.
~$30.000FOR
Popular Monthly Drawing
jipjp-
Tn the City or Louisville, on
saturday, 9xabch 31, 1883.
These Drawings occur on the last day of each
month (Sundays excepted). Repeated adjudii
cation by Federal and State courts have placed
this company beyond the controversy of the law,
To this Company belongs the sole nonor of having
inaugurated the"only plaij by which their drawings
are proren honest ana fair beyond question.
n. b.—The Company has now on hand a largo
capital and reserve fund. Read carefully the Lis#
of jfrizes for the March Drawing--
1 Prize $30,000! 100 Prizes $100
1 Do 10.000 each.... $10,000
~ acly.10,005
1 Do...
5,0"
10 Do. Si000eaeb....l0,
20 Do. "
£00 Do. f 50 each.
600 Do. $20 each.. 12,0
ioOO each.... 10,0)0' 1,000 Do. $10 each.. 10,000
9 Do. $300 each, Approximate Prizes.^....... 2,700
9 Do. s2o0 each, u 1.800
9 Do. $100 each, 44 44 ... 900
LIS IT! LOOKOUT!
1,960 Prizes, ' $112,409
Whole ticEeta, $2; half tickets, 51; 27 tickets, $50?
55 tickets, $100. Remit monev or bank drafp in let-
ter, or send by express- do^'t sent> by regis-
tered letter or postoffice order. or*
ders of $5 and upwards, by express, can be sent at
our expense. Address all orders to r. 31. board*
man. Courier-Journal Building, Louisville, Ky.. or
to j. d. sawyer, 111 Market street, Bookseller
and Stationer, Galveston.
FOR SALK
Imported sir roger t., No.^938, a. J. jc. c.
h. r.; one of thelugest, finest-looking, best bred
j Jersey bulls in the United States; color, very dark
i gray, black points; soft silky hair aud golden skin;
: bred by John Le Brocq, well-icnown breeder of St.
Peters, Isle of Jersey; dropped October 10, 1878.
j Sir^VictorP. s., No. 143, j. h. b.; winner first prize
i ana silver cup, St. Peters, 1877 and 1878, andflrsfi
i prize over all Jersey, 1879. Dam Stella f., No. 7501,
i a. j. c. c. h. r., and imported august 6, 1878, ot
' equally noted strain. Price, $500 (not half his valiie)t
and for further particulars, etc., address
j. c. turner, Longview, Texas.
the grand opening of
"FTATTN & CO.'S
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OLD NEWSPAPERS IK PACKAGES OJ* ONE
Hunilrea. at 25 cents. Call at Nem Counting
Boom.
160 Tremont Street,
Will take place some time this week. Opening
day will be announced in all daily papers.
BILL BROTHERS,
Importers and Jobbers of
MILLINERY GOODS,
625 BROADWAY,
Between Houston and Bleeker streets.
wn. h. hill,
8. C. HILL,
s. b. hill.
NEW YORK.
BALLINGrEIl & MOTT
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125 Poaloffle Street,
GALVESTON, TEXAS.
Proposals for Army Transportation.
HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF TEXAS,
Office of Chief QuARTKRUASSFXa,
San Antonio, Texas, March 1. IS8&.
Sealed proposals, in triplicate, subject to
the usual conditions, will be receive^ at this of-
fice until 12 o'clock, noon, on the 17th day of Aprils
1SS3, at which time and place they -wfll be opened:
In the presence of bidders, for the transportation^
of Military Supplies on the following described!
routes, in the Department of Texas, during the
fiscal year commencing July 1,188a, and ending
June 30, 1834:
Route No. 1.—Wagon Transportation.—From
Abilene, Texas, or any other point on the Texas
and Pacific railroad, between tlie 22nd and 25th
dtgrees of longitude, west from Washington, to }
Fort Concho, Texas, and return, and between any'
two points within 150 miles from the route of
termini, as set forth.
Route No, 2.— Waqon Transportation.—From
Toyah, or Marfa, Texas, or any other point on the
Texas and Pacific railroad, or on the Southern
i Pacific railroad, between the 25th and 28th degrees
I of longitude, west from Washington, to Fort Davis,
i or Camp near Presidio, Texas, and return, and be*
! tween any two points within 150 miles from the
! route or termini, as set forth.
! Route No. Z.—Wagon Transportation.—From
J Fort Mcintosh, or Laredo, Texas, or any othefr
J point on the International and Great Northern rail-
road west of the 21st degree of longitude, west from
Washington, or any other point on the Texas and
Mexican railroad to Fort Ringgold, Texas, and re-
turn, and between any two points within 150 milej
from the route or termini, as set forth.
Route No. 4.—Steamboat, Rail and Wagon
Transportation— From the ship's tackle, on wharf,
or in warehouse, at Brazos Santiago, to Forts Browa
and Ringgold, Texas, and return, and between any
two points on tho water, rail and wagon routes*
embraced within the termini, as set forth.
Blank proposals, form of contract, and printed
circulars stating the estimated quuntities of sup*
plies to be transported, and giving full information
as to manner of bidding, conditions to b« observed
by bidders, of bonds to accompany proposals, and
terms of contract and payment, will be furnished
oh application to this olfice.
No proposal will be considered unless accom^
panied by a bond, made according'to the form
prescribed.
The government reserves the right to reiect any
or all proposals.
Envelopes containing Droposals should be marked
44 Proposals for Transportation on Route No
and addressed to the undersigned. * *
j. g. c. lee,
Major and Chief Vuarternvarfer,
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The Galveston Daily News. (Galveston, Tex.), Vol. 41, No. 308, Ed. 1 Friday, March 16, 1883, newspaper, March 16, 1883; Galveston, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth462738/m1/2/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Abilene Library Consortium.