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Only a Few Copies
Remaining of the GENERAL LAWS of regular
Sessions Sixteenth and Seventeenth Legislature®.
Price for either session as follows:
Paper Co vers, - • • $2 00.
Combined, ...» 3 50.
Hound in Leather, * • 3 50.
Combined, .... 0 00.
Orders accompanied by amount to cover will re-
ceive prompt attention. Address
A. H. BELO & CO., Galveston, Texas.
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iilBestmv
Office of Publication : Nos. 113 and 115 Market Street, Galveston, Texas. Entered at the Postoffice at Galveston as Second Class Matter.
tTB ARE fREPAHEC
pro Offer Special Inducements in
RIO COFFEE,
LOUISAIXA SUGARS andl
LOUISIANA MOLASSES#
i Having an Immense Stock on hand, purchased
prior to present advances.
Le Crierse «£ Co*
established 1842.
galveston, texas, sunday, april 22, 1883-price 5 cents.
vol. xlii-no. 31.
leon & h. blum,
Importers and Wholesale Dealers in
Staple and Fancy Dry Goods,
hats, boots and shoes, notions, etc.,
CORNER MECHANIC AND TWENTY-FOURTH STS.,
GALVESTON, TEXAS.
REBATE LABELS.
FOR Tobacco and Cigars, as prescribed by act of
March 3, 1883. Printed on Gummed Paper, in
Red Ink. with Name and Address of parties.
PRICE, 1000 to 5000 $1 5» per 1000
5000 and upwards 1 00 per 1000
CLARKE & C OUSTS,
Stationers and Printers,
66 and 68 Tremont st.. Galveston.
D. Freeman,
Galveston.
Wm. Park,
Liverpool Eng.
William Parr & Co,,
importers of
liverpool salt.
Large stocks of Liverpool coarse and fine salt
always on hand.
Also Pocket Salt in all sizes.
CL.OSING OUT SA
Beino- about to make a change in our business, we will begin MONDAY, April 16,
to close out our entire stock of DRY.GOODS and READY-MADE GOODS
AT AMD BELOW COST FOR CASH.
Our New Spring and Summer Goods have but just arrived, and are all included ill this sale. On MOXDAY, April
B3 we will offer in every department several lots of special articles, wliieli we are desirous of closing out during the
week at FIFTY AND SIXTY CENTS ON THE DOLLAR. Our friends will do well to call as early as possible, as these
goods will sell very rapidly.
SO^ISTENTHEIL & LION, Tremont St.,
Galveston.
BUKDITT MINERAL WELLS.
THE WEST TEXAS HEALTH RESORT, NEAR LI!LING, TEXAS.
£ures Liver, Kidney and Female Diseases,
Dropsy. Dyspepsia,
Indigestion, Constipation,
Chronic Diarrhea. Diabetes,
Brlght's Disease. Scrofula.
Rheumatism aud all Malarial Diseases.
It contains Sulphuric.
Oarbonic. Silicic, Boracic.
Hydrochloric and Posplioric
Acids: Iron, Potassium,
Sodium. Manganese,
Calcium. Magnesia, Strontium and Aluminium.
Address J. K. MOCKS, Xmling.
AMUSEMENTS.
Real Estate.
GEAND PICNIC,
SUNDAY, APRIL 22, 1833,
AT LAFITTE GROVE.
[On Texas-Mexican Railroad.]
Trains leave—
ITInnTe and Ninth at 9 a. m. 12 m. and 3 p. m.
Center ana N at 9.15 a. in., 12.15 and 3.15 p. m.
Garten Vereln.... at 9.:20 a. m., 12.20 and 3.20 p. m.
iThirty-fifth and N. .at 9.25 a. m.. 12.25 and 3.25 p. m.
Returning will leave Lalitte Grove at 1.30 p. in.,
6 p. m. and 9 p. in.
Prizes for Dancing-, Fat Pflan's Race,
Etc., Etc.
BRASS AND STRING MUSIC IN ATTENDANCE.
IjX)R SALE—Comfortable five room dwelling,
' with JUj lots, including corner lot. Price, $2100;
terms—$500 cash, balance one to five years, at 8
per cent, interest, ac buyer's or.tion.
II. M. TRUEHEART & CO.
Real Estate Agents aud Stock Brokers
Tickets, 50-cents; children half price.
Tickets to
And N.
Tickets for sale at ticket office. Center street
W. J. HOULAHAN, Manager.
Help Wanted--- N1 ale.
BM HAJiDS WANTED—Apply at once to J.
.7. WALTERS, Virginia Point, or
T. K. THOMPSON. Broadway and 33d St., city.
V* 7 ANTED-A NigL.
VV Capitol Hotel, Houston. Apply, in own hand-
writing, stating age, experience, etc., MUR1SON &
HAUN, Houston. Texas.
Wi
JTANTED—Two first-class coat and pants mak-
ers; highest prices paid: half railroad fare
from any point in the State. Apply to
J. H. HENDERSON,
Care A. Fox Bro., Tyler, Texas.
W
ANTED—A first class carriage blacksnlith.
Apply to J. W. ROSE & CO., •
Houston, Texas.
"TT rANTED—Two first-class white barbers, imme-
VV dlately: $18 per week guaranteed. Apply to
L. B. ANSON, Waco.
"VT7"ANTED—By a wholesale grocery house, an
VV experienced salesman for Southwestern
Texas. Apply to letter box C, care News office.
\\TANTED—Two competent book-keepers, one
VV or whom will be required to go to the country.
Permanent situations to the right kind of men. Re-
ferences required. Address
LONG & CO., Beaumont, Texas.
Wi
ANTED—A competent vegetable gardener
to take charge of a market garden. Address
J. W. BARNES,
34 Travis stre*., Houston, Texas.
r A DAY GUARANTEED—A salesman wanted
J In each county in Ttxas. W. A. N. WILL-
dtJTT & CO., 34 Commerce street, San Antonio,
Texas.
Help Wanted—Female.
"w
ren, i _
mended. Address Box B, News office.
TANTED—A middje-aged German woman to
V keep house for a gentleman and two child-
, aged 8 and t>years: 'must come well recom-
"V\7"ANTED—A steady white woman to do gen-
V V eral housework. Apply at n. w. corner Post-
office and 29th streets.
WANTED—
A GOOD COOK.
Apply at n. w. corner avenue 1 and 11th st.
"^y-ANTED-A good cook; also house servant,
B66 Ave. H, between 17th and ISth.
ANTED—A Girl, white or colored, at 226 Post-
office street, between 20th and 21st.
WANTED—Some gooc
A. ROSENYVALD'S, fashionable dressmaker,
U04 Winnie, bet. 2uth and 21st streets.
G
^ OOD WHITE SERVANT
WANTED.
204 Church, corner Center.
W
ANTED-A HOUSE GIRL.
Apply to MRS. J. M. BROWN,
24th and Broadway.
WJ
-A good cook. Applv to
Mr*. ISAAC HEIDENHEIMER,
Corner 28th and Avenue H.
Situations Wanted.
A\
A/"ANTED—A widow, willing to work, wishes
situation as housekeej»er._ Reference good. c
WIDO *»V. News oflicr:
RELIABLE MAN who understand Gardening,
.Horses. Cows, and who is willing to work, seeks
A-
l situation in a good private fauiilv. Apply to
H. ROSENBERG. Banker.
A TTENTION -WANTED—A situation as clerk.
£\- collector, or any steady employment, by an
nduatrious young man having six years experience
n a seed and fioial establishment; can speak and
write German and English fluently, and willing to
work. Best of references. Seedsman, this office ,
~v\ TAN TED Situation as collector, canvasser, j
> V clerk in book-store, or tabacco house. Willing •
to work for nothing until needed. Best city refer-
ences. Adress Box O, care News.
T7H>R KENT OR LEASE—Laud on beach near
J' Pavilion, wes* of 19th street; -'540 feet front, be-
ing n. e. quarter of outlot 119. property of Gulf Land
company; good location for bcth-houses, saloons
and places of public resort. Apply to agent, 706
Market, between 10th aud 11th streets.
70R SALE—Several cottages; cheap, on easy
terms. Titles warranted. Apply to
P. H. MOSER.
lpOR SALE—A pretty, raised cottage and lot;
1 cost §4200: ljear Haas property, purchased
by MeJIer lately for $12,000. Price 2nd terms rea-
sonable. G. A. MEYER, Real Estate Agent.
j
. OR SALE—Dr. Fuller's recently improved resi-
' dence, western part of Beaumont. 2^ acres with
entirely new dwell log-bouse, stables, etc. Conve-
nient to business.O'BRlEN A: JOH N .Beaumont.Tex.
~L^OR SALE—Choice residence corner, at $c000,
J being lot 8. on n. w. cor. av. K and Center street,
with two-story house, containing 9 rooms, all plas-
tered aud in fair order: large briek'eistern and some
outhouses, said property being oflered but for a few
days. G. A. MEYER. Real Estate Agent.
.T7X)R SALE—A Cottage and three-fourths Lot on
P Avenue K.between Thirtv-fit'th and Thirty-sixth.
Apply to ABBOTT ARNOLD. Houstou.
Tj^OR SALE—Lots 12, 13 and 14, in the southeast
JJ quarter of outlot 87—high ground; also lot 2, in
block 207, on ave. I. between 27th and 2Sth streets.
I. LOYENBERG.
.Notices, Etc.
YOU GOING ABROAD?
IF SO, YOU WILL NEED A PASSPORT
Aprly to WM. R. JOHNSON.
B
>UILDING LOTS OF SMALL AND LARGE
dimensions, east and west; some with cottages
thereon. For sale or lease. SAM MA AS.
J.
Real Estate Agents.
MOORE & GRAY,
Land Agents. Temple Texas.
T STEWART CLEVELAND—
cJ . Attorney at Law and Land Agent,
Brownwooa, Brown county, Texas.
Land business attended to in all its branches.
On receipt of tax funds, tax receipts will go for-
ward to owner by return mail.
References—Pecan Valley Bank. Brownwood,
Texas; H. M. Trueheart & Co., Galveston, Texas.
PETER G. RUCKER & CO., Belton. Texas. Land
and Loan Agents. Sole proprietors of the Ab-
stract of Bell County Records.
Austin Real Estate Agents.
"T A WRENCE & EDWARDS, Austin, Tex., dealers
1 J in Land aud Land Scrip. Will attend to land
business in all branches, pay taxes, locate, buy and
sell, examine and report on titles, etc.
M. THOMSON, Austin, Texas, Dealer ia
-I7V. Land and Land Scrip. Large bodies suitable
for ranches for sale. Correspondence solicited.
rpEXAS STATE AGENCY—Attends to land and
-L other business anywhere in State. Johns &
Spence, Austin, Tex. C. R. Johns, former Comptrol-
ler. J. Spence, former Com.missioner Gen. Land O.
ril W. FOLTS, Austin. Texas, Dealer in Ex-
_L • change and Texas Lands and Land Scrip.
Business with State departments transacted and
Srompt returns made. Correspondents: Ball,
Etchings & Co., Galv.; S. M. Swenson & Co..N. Y.;
Loekwood & Kampman.San Ant'o: 1st Nat.B'k.Ho'n
WVON ROSENBERG. AUSTIN, TEXAS.
. Land Agent, formerly principal draughts-
man in the general land office, has twenty-six
years experience in land office business, and offers
to examine and report on land titles, as shown in
the archives of the general land office.
J NO. K. DONNAN, Austin, Texas, dealer in
Lands and Land Scrip.
Correspondence solicited.
For Sale.
TT'OR SALE—A good-paying Grain, Lumber and
Coal Business, established in I860. For full par-
ticulars call or address J. S. HEDGES, Fairfax,
Linn county, Iowa.
jT^OR SALE—Horse, Dray and Harness. Apply
7 corner 41st and Winnie.
JOE MENDO.
1jX>R SALE—Fruit stand, with privilege. Cause
of selling is ill health. Apply on premises,
34th, between Postoffice and. Church sts.
QMALL ENGINE, SAW AND SPLITTING MA-
O chine, small Corn Mill and Corn Sbeller. Shaft-
ingandPulleys. J. J. LEWIS & CO.
b">OR SALE—From 2000 to 3000 stock cattle; from
200 to 500 stock horses. Address
W. J. SETTEGAST & BRO.,
Houston, Texas.
TV
Miscellaneous Wants.
"ANTED—A well-furnished south room, for
geuth m in and wife: permanent.
Address PERMANENT, News office.
WANTED—Two comfortable summer rooms,
adjoining and furnished, convenient to street
cars. Address Box F, News office.
~Y\7"ANTED—To buy a house aud ground, not
VV more than eight blocks from Tremont or Mar-
ket. Address, with price. Box A, News office.
TJOHOYO-POHOYO — POHOYO — Cures ueu-
_L ralgia. toothache and headache. For sale by
THOMPSON <fe OHMSTEDE, Galveston. Texas.
TOOR SALE—Sweet skimmed milk everyday at
_|j 15 cents a gallon.
J. H. FORBES.
T AM MANUFACTURING AND SELLING THE
1 best PATENT DRY AIR REFRIGERATOR,
with Water Cooler attached, ever invented. Call
at factory, 160 Postoffice street, between 21st and
22d streets, and examine them before purchasing
elsewhere. J. LEE BURTON.
AV
OPLENDID WHITEWASH BRUSHES, Painters'
O Dusters. Blacking, Ralsomining Seam. Hair,
Tooth, Cloth, less than regular prices. Labadie.
"W
ANTED—One or two unfurnished south
rooms. Reference exchanged. Address
J., News Office •
ANTED—Day boarders: also meals furnished i
by Mrs. E. P. BURCHARD. I
460 East Church utr^t
pOR SALE—Thoroughbred Jersey bull calf.
1 Price, $30. Call on or address
A. M. SHANNON.
"\A7"ANTED —A furnished cottage of lour or live
V V rooms.
Address A. B. C., this office.
ANTED-A SMALL FURNISHED COTTAGE
by first of May. City references. Address W. K.
D , News office. Prefer near the beach.
SECOND-HAND PIANOS, from $25 00 to S150 CO.
THOS. GOGGAN & BRO.,
corner 22d and Market street. Galveston.
DISSTON'S SAWS. BAILEY S PLANES, BAR-
ton and Butcher Chisels. Bits and Gauges—fine
tools, at J P. Lalor& Co.'s. Market, bet. 24th & 25th.
Lj^OR SALE—A fine lot of shelving, tables, couii-
_T tens and gas-tixtures, at M. SCHRAM'S, 111 and
113 Tremont street.
*pECANS WANTED—
Address, E. C. HARPOLD
No. 9 North Third street.
St. Louis, Mo.
□^OR SALE — Pure (unregistered) Jersey cows
_L and heifers. All due to calves soon. This is
the chance to secure a family cow that will yield
cream. Call on or address A. M. SHANNON, Galv'n.
^A^\ ED AND SPLIT "VjfOOD—Delivered, loads
j of Si 50, $2 00 and $4. or at $8 per cord.
J. J. LEWIS & CO.
WJ ANTED—At the Galveston Bone Mills, 1000
VV tons dry bones. Address BAUGH i SONS,
222 Strand. Fertilizers for sale.
V7~ANTED - Every one to know that ROSE has
V V bought all negatives made at the Blessing
gallery between the years 1868 and 1881. Duplicates
can be had from them or any negatives made by
Rose.
Gallery, 159 and 161 Market street.
I THRESH GRITS, CREAM MEAL, HOMINY?
bolted meal, cracked corn, feed meal and corn
bran, always on hand, at
GALVESTON HOMINY MILLS.
Found.
P^OUND—A RlVG. Owner may have same by
proving property. Apply to J. S. PARKER,
frith Le Gierse &. Co., cor. 24th and Strand.
Miliint
ry.
MAYFEST.—We make the largest an. I best
selected stock of trimmed and untrimmed
Hata in the city, and are prepared to till orders on
the shortest notice and guarantee perfect satisfac-
tion. Old Feathers cleaned or dj'ed like new.
MARIAN LALOR. Postoffice street, near 20th.
rUST RECEIVED—A lar^'e assortment of Hu-
man Hair, all the latest st3rles of frizettes and
other novelties too numerous to mention.. Mrs. J.
M. ROGERS. 203 Market street.
For sale-in store and to arrive-
10,000 bbls. Rosendale and Portland Cement
50,000 Firebricks. Plaster. I^ths, Drain Pipe, Stone-
ware. Marble Dust. While Sand. Cedar Bayou
Bricks. Full stock of all kinds of building materials
GEO. H. HENCHMAN,Importer and Dealer.
EELECTRIC RED ANT EXTERMINATOR—Guar
j anteed to do the work quickly and effectively.
County rights for sale. For particulars, address
TUCKER & WILLIS, Druggists,
Sole Agents for Texas. Waco.
TPOR RENT-
J? Api
and
For Rent.
A north front room, facing south.
S- W HALEN, Church, between 27th
Apply to Mrs.
2Sth streets, lower new cotta:
Personal.
H
AYING PLACED ORDERS FOR 50.000 Ci-
gars. also complete liue^f other goods, to be
shipped us 1st of May. and desiring to discontinue
handling our present stock brands, will close out
same at greatly reduced prices. A. w. SAMUELS
& CO.. cor. Strand and 22d street.
Plants, Seeds, Etc.
TPRUIT TREES EVER(tREEXsi Etc.-We"have
J? now planted and growing on our grounds s>l00,-
000 worth of young nursery stock tor nex; tall de-
livery. Agents and planters are invited t" inspect
or correspond. WILLIAM WATSON, Rosedale
Nurseries. Hr. i.li.r-i. V.. -hingt'.n county. Texas
Gr
Fish, Oysters, Etc.
^ BTMARSAN & CO.,
JT. DEALERS IN FISH AND OYSTERS,
Orders solicited from the country.
VL. MELNJEi:. WHOLESALE DEALER IN
. FRESH FISH and OYSTERS.
Central Wharf. Galveston.
Horses, Carriages, Etc.
IpiOR SALE—A top-buggv. almost new, and
1 harness. Apply to JULIUS WEBER. 112
£trand.
A
CHANCE FOR EVERY ONE To RIDE.
Open buggies. $40; top bugeies. S'<0. at
^ J. S. BROWN & CO.'S.
Machinery^
COTTON GINS—Gullet's gins. Lummus or im-
proved Taylor gins. Coleman's mills end
presses, lvens's douole-quick presses and Atlas en-
Zin* j. DAVIS. Gen. Ast., Galveston.
JpOR RENT—Up stairs south room, at
No. 452, corner 16th and Church sts.
^>OOMS—Furnished and unfurnished rooms.
Cor. Center and Winnie sts.
~pVAY BOARDERS
±-J Can find accommodation at the s. w. corner
avenue I and 22d street.
UNE northeast room and one south room, fur-
nished or unfurnished,at SlOper month, H. 17th
and l&;b st., house formerly occupied by Dr.Watts.
IT^OR RENT—Two or three unfurnished pleasant
rooms, second floor, no other boarders, central,
respectable locality. Address V, News office.
KVR houses, one $15, the other $16.
1 Apply to FOX BROS.. Market, between 19th
and 20th.
PTPR KENT—Five-room cottage, corner avenue
JL1 I and 12th street.
A. H. CASTEEL, Avenue H and 19th.
1T°R KENT—A two-story house, containing 12
on Churcli street, near Tremont. Applv
to M. A. KIKa.LAND. b. W. cor, lhth and Brcadw y.
TT^OR RENT—100 acres of land on Galveston bay
J between Edwards Point aud the mouth of Clear
creek; 30 acres under fence; dwelling aud out-
houses; rock springs; permanent fresh water
H. .VI. TRUEHEART & CO.,
. Real Estate Agents.
L^OR RENT—The Three-story Brick Bui!.;
1 covering lot 2, block 622 south side Strand, u
east of Tremont street.
ting
.. next
G. OPPERMANN.
T/'OR RENT—Twq cottages on 8th and K. One
.Plottage on H, between 9th and luth. Inquire
of T. DIG NAN, or A. ME\ ER.
Rooms and Board.
TT*OR RENT-Two south bed-rooms., partially
-T furnished. Also dining-room and kitchen. Elev-
enth and Winnie. GEO. E MANN.
T^OR RENT—
1 rooms, with
-One or two elegantly furnished south
ith or without boaixl. for ladies or gen-
tlemen. Nor thwest corner Winnie and 11th.
FLR1SHED ROOMS flT RENT, WITH OR
without board. 51 WINNIE ST..
corner 24tn st.
rpHE OWNER OF A COW can get her by applv-
_L ing to J. E. HOGAN and paying for this adver-
tisement and her feed.
MAIFEST—Just arrived from Europe—The finest
Toilet articles and Perfumery, at the lowest
prices. Werner's Little Drug-store. 174 Tremont st.
J^F ygu want the original McClosk3y's Mead, go to
SWEENEY'S.
"TTTE SHALL RECEIVE IN THE EARLY PART
\ V of next week a car of choice apples, different
varieties. WM BARNES A CO.
I REMOVAL—On and after 2«in ihstant, Mrs C.
ii Meich, dealer in hair and fancy goods, will
carry on her business at 156 Postoffice street. Pix
building.
T71UPION OIL
.1li is the safest and best of all the illuminating
oil?. It furnishes a clear, bright light, is crystal
white in color, inodorous and free from deposit or
sediment. It burns freely, does not crust the wick,
and is absolutely safe
We recommend it above all other oils for use in
oil stoves.
TEXAS LAMP AND OIL CO.
Business Notices.
JUST RECIEVED—A full assortment of side
brackets, chromos, engravings, albums, pocket
cases, eb. and walnut tables, birthday cards, fancy
baskets, etc., by N. S. SABELL. manufacturer and
dealer in picture frames, window cornices, and
photograph frames of all kinds, 69 Market street.
IRE Cloth for Screens. Fly and Mouse Traps.
. . Door Springs. Enameled Water Coolers. Ice
Cream Freezers, Lemon Squeezers, etc. Labadie.
W
rpHE COLDEST AND BEST SODA WATER,
_L with sirups from pure fruit juices, Sparkling
Mineral Waters, at
C. W7. PRESTON & CO.'S
Drug Store,
175 Market street.
J. L. Williams Hfrso Sachs.
T L WILLIAMS &. CO., Globe Planing Mill,
f J . Beaumont, Texas. Manufacturers of dressed
lumber, mouldings, counters, shelving, etc. Large
assortment of sash, doors and blinds. Office, bar.
counters and all kinds of cabinet work a specialty.
TUST RECEIVED—The largest and best selected
U stock of willow ware, baby carriages, toys, ve-
locipedes, bicycles, swings, parlor-brackets, vases,
toilet sets, bisque ornaments, picture frames, look-
ing-glasses, shades, cornices, etc., at
I. C. LEVY'S.
I>EFRESHMENTS—The Board of Trade, patren-
V ized by the elite of traveling public. Billiards,
etc. Purdy & Randell, cor. Main and Austin, Dallas.
WEST STRAND IRON, BOLT AND NUT
Works, manufacturers of lag screws, bridge,
car and key bolts, nuts, washers, etc., and dealer
in iron pipe, fittings, steam pumps, syphons and
cast-iron Bridge washers. Estimates promptly fur-
nished. JESbE AST ALL, Galveston. Texas.
BLESSING, the Photographer, 170 Tremont st.,
makes negatives instantaneously, therefore ex-
quisite portraits.the best expression. Frames cheap
Professional.
R
S. GOULD, JR.,
Attorney and Counselor at Law,
BRYAN, TEXAS.
H
C. THOMPSON.
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
406 E. Houston street, San Antonio, Texas.
Collections a Specialty.
TARLTON, JORDAN & TARLTON. LAND
Lawyers and Real Estate Agents, Hillsboro,
Texas, have a complete abstract of all surveys in
Hill county. Special attention given to buying
and selling Lands. Perfecting. Titles, etc.
Chas. L Evans.
VANS & HARDWICKE,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW
and
LAND AGENTS.
ABILENE, TEXAS.
e
S. P. Hardwicke.
j.
M. PEARSON,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
McKINNEY, TEXAS.
Particular attention given to collections and real
estate.
JAMES M. RICHARDS ATTORNEY AT LAW,
W eatherford, Texas, will practice in Parker
and adjoining counties, and give prompt personal
attention to the payment of taxes and collection of
claims.
Correspondence solicited.
H.
W. PATTON,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Masonic Block,
CLEBURNE - - - -
Collections promptly made.
TEXAS.
HORTON BOBO & CEO. HARRIS,
Attorneys, Wharton, Texas.
Will practice in all courts in Eighteenth Judicial
and First Federal Districts of the State.
r. h. morris. w. g. Ratcliff.
Morris a ratcliff,
attorneys-at law,
Nacogdoches, Tex.
K
Charles Miller.
ENNEDY & MILLER,
John Kennedy.
REAL ESTATE BROKERS AND GENERAL
AGENCY BUSINESS.
Houston. Texas.
House Furnishing' Goods.
We have the largest retail stock in the city,
comprising Shelf Hardware, Tinware, House
Furnishing Coods, Glass and Crockeryware. We
can sell lower than any and invite competion in all
of the above-named lines of goods. labadie.
IAND SEVENTY-FIVE CENT Window
Shades, Best Quality; complete with fixtures
ready for hanging, at the Galveston Art Gallery,
221 Postoffice Street.
J. H. FLETT, Proprietor.
Remember the Old Stand.
QTOVES—STOVES—We are selling Cooking
O Stoves at from $6 50 to $45 00. Also, a full line
of House Furnishing Goods, which we will sell
cheap. D. A. KEARNEY, Opp. Tremont House.
INSURANCE OIL. 25c. A GALLON; KEROSENE,
16c. a gallon, delivered free. J. P. LALOR &
CO., Markei street, between 24th and 25th.
• Musical Instruments.
Knabe.
mathushek.
new england
pianos.
FELIX schram,
169 and 171 Tremont street.
BEATTY'S Organs, 27 stops, $125; pianos.
$297 50. Factory running day and night. Cata-
logue free. Ad. Dan'l F. Beatty. Washington. N. J.
Sewint;' Machines.
ir
OUSEHOLD,
NEW HOWE.
CROWN-DUPLEX,
WHEELER £ WILSON.
H. BLAGGE. Agent, 131 Postoffice street.
LIGHT RUNNING, most durable aud best.
NEW HOME AND
DOMESTIC.
A. CUSHMAN <£ CO., Sole Agents,
107 Postoffice street, near Tremont.
SEWING MACHINES REPAIRED.
Sportsmen's Supplies.
J^lSHING"TACKLE— "
Our new stock of Fishingr Tackle has arrivecf and
we are prepared to till all orders.
Call or write for prices.
W. J. HUGHES & CO.
Brenliam Advertisements.
CENTRAL HOUSE, Brenliam—Mrs. L. Biesen-
bach. Proprietress. Rates, $2 per day. Largest
and best hotel in city. Large, airy sample rooms
11 TRAVELERS- -\\ hen at Brenham don't fail r-o
_L visit the SANTA EE REFRESHMENT SALOON,
at depot. Lunches and refreshments of all kinds.
Building Material.
TO ARRIVE 9x9 and 12x12 EcgUsh Pav-
ing Tile; 25,COO White aud 50,000 Blue F;re
Brick; 1500 bbls Portland Cement tin store-; Li ne,
Laths, Hair, Piaster. Fire Ciav and Rosendale Ce-
ment, Stoneware Flower Pots. etc. W. H. POL-
LARD &. CO.. Importers and Dealers. Galveston
.Banks and £>ank:ers.
~\ LEYI & CO. r ~
-a. bankers,
Collections a specialty.
VICTORIA, TEX.
Billiards.
Our New Cigarette,
TASTE
Sweet Tasting, Delicious and Fine.
JAKE DAVIS & CO.,
Importers and Liqaoi Dealers.
tobacco
CLE VELAND-S Celebrated 7 as. Twist.
SPRING NA VY, 15 az., 7 1-2 and 8s.
CINDERELLA, 9-inch, p.
PUCK; 9-inch, U 1-Ss
CALHOUN'S SAILOR KNOT, Gib.
and 10 lb. Caddies.
HONEYSUCKLE, lS-inch, is.
All who have tried these vranas of
Tobacco will admit that they ctrn not be
surpassed in their respective lines. lam
Prepared to Jill all orders or make con-
tracts for shipments afterMay 1. Leaf
Tobacco is cheaper now than it will ever
be again this season.
Wm.D. CLEVELAND
HOUSTON.
I^T STORE:
6000 BAGS
Rio, Cordoba and Java Coffee,
2000 Mils. Sugar,
s00 Bbls. Syrup s Molasses,
And a Fnll Line of Other STAPLE and
FANCY GROCERIES.
Kauffman & Runge
Whisky in Bond
ANXIOUS TO CLOSE OUT OUR
entire stock
OF
SELECTED BRANDS
We efier same to the JTOBBX2TG-
THADE at Low Prices.
MARX & KEMPNER
GALVESTON, TEXAS.
ill CM DEALERS
HANDLE
stac helberg's
CELEBRATED
Havana Cigars.
XjeGIERSE Sc CO.,
Sole Agents for Texas,
I. Lovenberg,
NOTARY PUBLIC
AND
Insurance Agent.
XXI. SABS AFABILL A,
THE GREAT BLOQD PURIFIER.
It has no equal. Never fails. Try one bottle for $1.
J. J. SCHOTT <fc CO., Galveston.
M.D.CONKLIN & CO.,WholesaleDruggists,Houston
JUST RECEIVED
BASS & CO.'S PALE ALE.
GUINESS'S STODT.
ROSS GINGER ALE.
Imported SARDINES in
TOMATOES.
SENS YOUS ORDERS TO
CHAS. HEIDENHEIMER & CO.
M . S. CONXL1N tl CO.,
WHOLESALE DRUGGISTS, HOUSTON,
offer all goods in the
DRUG LINE AT BOTTOM PRICES.
Try them, and save time and freight.
T. BANCROFT & SONS,
Manufacturers of
QTA17DARD QTANDAHD
OHINGLSS, OHINGLIS,
Railroad Timbers, Cross-Ties, Etc.,
ORANGE TEXAS.
Dealers will please write for prices.
C. O. CASWELL,
Manufacturer of all kinds of ROUGH AND
DRESSED YELLOW PINE
LUMBER & SHINGLES.
Railroad Timbers a Specialty.
BEAUMONT TEXAS.
Send for prices.
Dressmaking:.
T-SEMOVAL-
rv
KLE-.N
HAS MOVED
to ur. of Center and Winnie.
inty; Sims vs. the State, from Bastrop
ec inty; Me *
w'.coanl.,
eel j vs. the State, from Dallas coun
ty Appeal dismissed: International and
G eat Northern railway vs. Samora, from
Tiavis county. Reversed and remanded:
TLomas vs. the State, from Dallas county: Van
Noy vs. the State, from Fannin county;
B«, Jikoher v$. the State, from Guadalupe coun-
ty , H eddies ton vs. the State, from Bexar coun-
ty Motions to .dismiss overruled: Seeligson &
C<. vs. Forster & Co., from Travis county;
B< wder vs. Kelley et al., from Travis county.
Ri instated: Home Bitters Co. vs. Daniels &
Cc ., from Travis county.
POWDER
Absolutely Pure.
This Powder never varies. A marvel of puritv,
strength and wholesomeness. More economical
than the ordinary kinds. Sold onlv in cans.
ROYAL BAKING POWDER CO.. 106 Wall St., N. Y.
NEW YORK.
RSGUX.AH DAILY COTRlSXEXtCIAX.
DISPATCH.
Texas Railway Securities—>Sunting--
ton Faying- for the ICZorgaa Purchase
—Sterling Dull—Coffee Quiet—Sugar
Easier—Hides asd Wool Dull.
[Special Telegram to The News.]
New York. April 21.—Sales $23,000 Inter-
national firsts at 110^; $10,000 Fort Worths at
72; $30,000 Texas and Pacific incomes at 65;
$20,000 Rios at s3>£; 5000 shares of stock,
averaging 403^; $15,000 New York and Texas
land scrip at 35)£ to 3G}£.
Huntington made the first payment of $3,-
691,000 od account of the ilorgan purchase last
evening.
Sterling is very dull. Brown's bills sold a
shad© over 4.82>£; commercial on Baring sold
at the same price.
Coffee quiet: cargoes, to &2£c.
Sugar declined l-10c; standard A, 8 5-16c;
granulated, S 3-16c.
Cotton is kept steady by holders.
Wool is very dull and manufacturers indif-
ferent. Northeastern buyers have purchased
moderately of the Texas clip. Sales here 30,0c0
pounds spring at 22 to 24c.
¥fides duB Snd weak.
OVER THE STATE.
Lake Charles Lumber Company,
C-ELLCASISU, LA.
(Successors to Platz & Moss.)
We are prepared to furnish rough and dressed
Water-Seasoned Calcasieu Yellow Piue.
In quality, material and workmanship we can
not be surpassed.
Have both ru.l and water transportation. Solicit
orders for ruiirorul timbers and dealers" supplies. »
rp.S. E. :-IOO£E, Fc.stiicnat.le Dressmaker, 67
_LVj_ Church fc>e:t. bet-.re* a -3d «nd ^'4th streets,
T.-etnsui sfc-iel. Galrt><wa.
Ponitry. Eyg-s, Etc.
, I » joi'Lim— f"iy-
rpHE H. W. CALLENDER CO. jS wcrid le-
X nownod billiard tables and material of every
description. J. J. MOORE, Agent. Tremont Hotel.
Educational.
TSLANI) CITY BUSINESS COLLEGE, Joss <fc
JL lienish, Proprie-.o*s. Galveston. Apply tor our
32-page illu^u-.'.ted ca'-a'crue.
.Rubber Stamps.
3U2UF.R STAMP S>OlfNOTARIES AND MER-
_ V chants' use. Headquarters »"or notary aud
lodge seals.
FRED. A. SMITH.
i Loteis.
rpHOMPSON HOUSi:, Victoria. Texas—Mrs. J.
_L H. Thouipsou A Son. Proprietors. New house,
new furniture and everything rtrst-class. Transient
custom a specialty. Rates-S-', 5- 50.
.« » a 5«;.scialty. Eggs
.r .. ». d«Kvore*l in Galves-
ton. CHAS. N. ELKV.iaiiru iS.at. Chambers Co.,
Texas. WM. C*. NELSON, Jil Center street, Gal-
veston. is n:y ag- at.
As many as 1153 packages of tea were seized
last year at the custom-hous?, as on lit for con-
sumption. Of these, 50') were faced green teas,
5^0 composed.chiefl.) of leaves other than tea
leaves, made up to imitate the green tea known
as imperial, while the rest coi.sisted of decay-
ing congu and faunings. All the teas de-
stroyed, as well as the packages turned back as
not absolutely unfit for use, though not good
enough for consumption, were China teas—a
fact which can hardly fail *o stimulate the al-
ready fast-growing taste for ludian teas, which
tea driukers, who hav * once learned to like
them, never forsake for their Chinese rivals.
On the Portrush railway to the Giant's
Causeway, in Ireland, a train-car, driven by
^electricity, ran ten miles an hour steadily, and.
but that the speed is limited by act of Parlia-
ment, could easily do twenty-five miles an
hour. Six tons were taken 4* up an incline of
one in thirty-five."
TRANSMITTED BY WIRE BY SPECIAL CORRESPONDENTS.
AUSTIN.
Farther Correspondence Between Oor-
ernor Ireland and Ex-Comptroller
Brown—San Jacinto Day..
[Special Telegram to The News.1
Austin, April 21.—When Mr. Brown fur-
nished the correspondence between himself and
the governor last evening to the press, he
omitted the following letter from the governor
of yesterday's date. It reads:
Dear Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge the
receipt of your letter of this date, addressed to me
as president of the penitentiary board. If I stated
to you in my note of the 19th that Mr. Brahan nad
been appointed, it did not convey my meaning. I
think 1 saicl (and I know I did verbal-
ly say to you) that Mr. Brahan had been
agreed upon or selected. The facts are tbat
upon the passage of the late act on the subject of
tne penitentiary management I called a meeting of
the board (the old board» aud between that and the
signing of the act yesterday we had a number of
meetings and discussed the management of the
penitentiaries, under the new act, in all its bear-
ings. for 1 wished to get the assistance and advice
of the old board before it wats dissolved. My signa-
ture to the new act, of course, dissolved the old
board. In these meetings Mr. Brahan had been
agreed upon as a suitable financial agent. In my
note, and in speaking to you personally. I did not
distinguish between boards, nor was it supposed
that the action of the old board will be binding on
the new; but ouly persuasive. Even the new-
members of the bJard were discussed aUd agreed
upon by the old board. It Is proper now to state
that on the assembling of tne new board this
morning that the names of yourself, Mr. Breeding.
Mr. Brahan and others were placed before
the board, and that the claims of each
were fully discussed, and Mr. Brahan was
selected without the slightest knowledge
the part of any member of the new board, except
myself, of what the old board had done. Tne un-
derstanding reached bv the old board was not dis
closed to the new board until your letter of this
date was handed to me. this long after the new
board had selected the financial agent. So that you
were placed before the new board and the selec
tion reached unintluenced by anything done by the
old board. I noted the fact that at the time your
note was handed to me, this morning, there was
also placed in the hand of the other
members of the board a note to each by the same
messenger. You are also pleased to say that you
ascertained 4* positively" that the bill was "not
signed until yesterday. There never was any doubt
as to when the bill was signed. It was made
matter of record, and sent immediately to the sec-
retary of state. You will pardon me for remarking
that in writing and conferring whh you about this
matter. I did not suppose that I was conferring
with one with whom I had to be precisely correct
in the use of words, and to whom so much explana
tion would be required.
John Ireland, Governor.
Austin, Aprit SI.—Hon. John Ireland. Governor
—Sir: Your letter of the 30tli was handed me last
night, at a late hour, on my return to mv lodgings.
It is a subject of regret to me that my iixrd habit
of aiming to be " precisely correct in the use of
words." should have caused your excellency any
anuoyance or inconvenience. I may now presume,
however, as you recognize my 'disposition in this
respect, that in this last letter of yours, to save all
necessity for possible further explana-
tions. you have chosen words with
careful reference to their ordinary, api>a-
rent and proper meaning. Assuming, then,
that you have advisedly employed the word con
firming to characterize our interview on the 19tli
implying a confidential interchange of ideas about
the financial management of the penitentiaries with
me as a friend, sought out by you for that purpose,
I must remind you that the interview was a casual
one on the street.of not more than two minutes.re-
lative to my application, in which interview, after
inquiring whether I had read your note, you in-
formed me of the want of success of my said ap-
plication. Equally with the note it was
an official communication, and I was entitled to
regard your language as dictated by your own
mind. With official propriety and precision. Could
it be supposed that one official would unbosom
himself in friendly conference on penitentiary
management with a man whom at the moment he
was notifying that his application to be trusted
with the management in part of those very affairs
had been for good reasons determined upon
adversely? We did uot confer, in your note of
the 19th you stated unqualifiedly this appointment
has been tendered to Mr. Haywood Brahan, and in
the interview you said positively the board, several
days ago, appointed Mr. Haywood Brahan. The
words are indeilibly imprinted on my memory and
are in harmony with and corroborated by what
you said in your official note. You are now dis-
posed to think you said, or meant, that Brahan had
been agreed upon or selected. I follow you then
to this new line to which you fall back and find
you fortifying behind the old board. It was the
old board, it seems, that agreed upon Mr. Brahan.
Now either you meant to impress me that it had been
agreed upon in tli * sense of conferring or lender
icg an appointment, or you you meant that the
old board had merely agreed within itself to
recommend him to the new board. The former,
by your acknowledgment, was beyond their legal
authority; the latter construction is contradicted
by your statement that the old board, in tender re-
gard for Colonel DeMorse, Mr. Breeding and my-
self. withheld from the new board all knowledge of
what had been agreed upon. If this action,
though not binding on the new board, was intended
tc- be persuasive, how could it be persuasive*
when kept in the dark? We outsiders,
in our ignorance, applied, it seems, to
the wrong board. 1 have information that Hon.
F. R. Lubbock recommended Colonel S. H. Darden,
though Colonel Darden's name was not presented
a<? an applicant. If Treasurer Lubbock did not join
in the preference for Brahan, the old board, in its
action in his behalf, is narrowed down to yourself
and Superintendent Goree. and it would therefore
appear that by occult influences, not exactly de-
finable, as you would not give toe commissioners
the slightest knowledge cf the "selection." the
business was satisfactorily adjusted by yourself and
Major Goree, and the commissioners, who are hieh-
lv esteemed as worthy gentlemen, just appointed
and without experience iu their new field, were
played upon ajpuppets and gently pushed aious a
predetermined line without consciousness of the
di-parasrement practiced upon them. You intimate
a violation of propriety on my part iu sending to
Messrs. Tips and Searcy each a note of application,
at the same time I s^nr you my letter of the 19th
instant. As justification I will state that although
you presented my name to the commissioners you
never did submit to tliem my letter ef application,
add essed through you to the board, choosing
to present my case in your own language,
though your fixed prefererce was for another.
Major Searcy stated to me after the appointment
that he was governed in his acquiescence in the
appoinUnent of Mr. Brahan largely by tne recom-
mendation of the superintendent and the old hoard.
Comment is unnecessary. Very respectfully,
W. M. Brown.
The government offices were closed to-day,
as were also the banks aud most business
houses. The postmaster, by direction from
Washiugton, gave his employes a holiday in
honor of San Jacinto day. The new artillery
companv fired the usual'salute and the fire de-
partment had a procession and picnic at Press-
lers garden. Mr. Dudley Wooten made them
a short speech, and races and otner amuse-
ments, with dauciug aud beer-drinkiug. ren-
dered the garden a lively place during the
afternoon. To-night Washiugton steam fire
company gave its banquet, which was at-
tended by the families and friends of the mem-
bers of the company. Austin takes great
pride in its fire department, which, for
thorough organization, discipline aud efficien-
cy. has no superior in the State, as rates of
insurance will show.
The Higher Courts.
Austin, April 21.—The Court of Appeals.
Affirmed: Dresssen vs. the State, from Guada-
lupe county; Hilliard vs. the State, from
Travis county; Edwards vs. the State, from
Travis county; Jones vs. the State, from
Travis comity ; Acosta vs. the State, from
Hays county ;*Herrera vs. the State, from VVil-
S1N ANTONIO.
Hennions—Swindler Sentenced— Seri-
ously Injured — Personal—Knights
Templar Return — Picnic — New
X>odge—Races, Etc.
[Special Telegram to The News.]
Ran Antonio, April —To-night the Bexar
Be levolent association is having its annual
reunion and banquet at San Pedro park. Five
hundred persons are present and a large num-
ber of members and their lady friends are
dancing in the pavilion.
John Sutton, who represented himself as the
manager of a large Northern land company,
atd swindled Baker and Boroughs, of the
Stjck Exchange, out of $200, will enjoy the
hospitality of the State, at Huntsville, for four
years, having been convicted last evening, in
the District Court.
To-day being the forty-seventh anniversary
of the battle of San Jacinto, the Veterans here
who did not get away to Belton to the re-union
there, Leld a private reunion.
Yesterday morning, about daylight, J. P.
Warren was attacked by his cook, William
Kelly, who slipped up behind him and struck
him with a stone on the head, knocking him
insensible and leaving him in a critical con-
dition. Warren had accused Kelly of theft
and held a portion of his wages to cover the
cost of stolen articles, which he supposed Kelly
to have taken. Kelly escaped.
Judge J. F, Crosby, ex-president of the
Texas and New Orleans railway, returned to-
night from a trip to El Paso.
All of the trains leaving here to-day were
crowded with Knights Templar, nearly all of
whom hav1* >*t. The knights express them-
selves as being charmed with their sojourn
here, and are profuse in their praises or the
people and city ot San Antonio. The knights
complimented The Galveston News highly,
by stating that it was the only journal con-
taining a complete report of their proceedings
ai 1 the best description of their encampment.
Eminent Grand Commander J. C. McCoy
has delegated to Passed Eminent Deputy Grand
Commander Johu E. Elgin the power and au-
thority of selecting his staff, and going to
Gi liad, where on next Tuesday he will institute
a new subordinate commandery, called Fannin
Commaudery No. 17. A number of past grand
officers and members of subordinate com-
manderies will accompany him. and one among
the party will be Congressman J. F. Miller,
past grand commander. Acting Mayor Storey
extended a great many courtesies, and was
very hospitable to the knights.
An excursion f^?ty, comprising Miss Wilson
Austin, Mi^s Kate, daughter cf Judge Thos. J.
Devine, of San Antonio, and Mr. and Miss
Albertson, of Houston, left this evening for a
jaunt to El Paso.
To-day over a thousand children, pupils of
public schools, held a picnic at San Pedro
Springs park, and their merry peals of laugh
ter attested their enjoyment.
In the District Court Solomon Brassfield,Jr.,
was convicted of theft, and his penalty is two
years confinement in the penitenitiary.
Assistant Surgeon Porter, U. S. A., has been
assigned to temporary duty at this point.
The following is a correct list of the Texas
veterans who have gone from this point to at-
tend the reunion at Belton: General John R.
Baylor and daughter; S. Cayce and wife:
John B. Brown, wife and daughter: A. B.
Dodson, one of Austin's colonists of 1S20; H.
P. Bee and wife; William Caruthers, A. C.
Hyde: Elijah V. Dale; Thomas James aud
wife: William Kon and daughter: Sam Mc-
Culloch; Dauiel McLeod; W. A. A. Wallace,
(Big-foot): Joseph Williams; John Pollan, of
Live Oak; Owen Hardeman and wife: W. S.
Dedmau and wife.
To-day being the forty-seventh anniversary
of the battle of San Jacinto and a public holi-
day, all of the offices in the city hall, and those
of all the county officers and the banks, were
closed.
At San Pedro Springs Park race-track this
afternoon there were three races. The first
was a mile dash for $200 stakes, with two
entries: R. Arthur b. s. Keno; and G. Blumes.
b. g. Dick Swiveler. Won by the latter.
Time—2 minutes.
The second race was half a mile; trotting
heats; best three in five; purse $100; £00 to
first aud $40 to second horse. J. H. Riley's
bay gelding Roscoe, 2, 1, 1; F. B. Knapp's bay
gelding Billy McKay, 2, 2, 2: C. E. Calvert's
bav mare Lady Armstead, 2, 3, 3. Time—
L3S, L30. 1.34.
The third race was half a mile dash and re-
peat; $100 purse; $75 to first and $25 to second
horse. H. McCafferty's black mare, 1,1; J.
Vanderberg's sorrel filly Eva Britton, 2. 2; W.
J. John's bay gelding Keno, 3, 3. Time—
0.5fi?i and O.oG.
DALLAS.
Meetings Postponed-—Searching
Elopers-
£»r
IKEarriage Licenses-
[Special Telegram to The News.l
Dallas, April 21.—Several heavy transac-
tions m real estate, principally business pro-
perty, took place to-day.
To-day being San Jacinto Day the banks
were closed and the courts adjourned. Other
wise the day was not observed here.
Two meetings of citizens were called for this
afternoon, but both were postponed till Mon
day. One meeting was to take action on the
street-paving question and the other was in
reference to renewing notes of subscription to
the Texas and St. Louis Narrow-gauge rail
road.
M. M. Craft, living near Groesbeeck, is here
looking for his wife and a youug man named
L. H. Hickman. Craft made complaint to the
police that his wife and Hickman eloped last
Monday and are supposed to be in Dallas.
Officers are searching for the couple.
The following are the marriage licenses, as
issued the past week, by County Clerk W. M.
C. Hill: W. H. Garretson and Carrie S. Har-
ris; B. F. Crowley and A. L. Hob^ood; ,C. C.
Barber and M. J. Teel; Jerry O'Brien and
Catherine Gill: J. P. McNabb aud Catherine
Smith; T. S. Floyd and Lydia Gilroy; Gabriel
B. Knight and Katie Gibbs; H. C. Cherry and
R. J. Parks. ___
Oistrict Court—Business, XStsr
[Special Telegram to The News.1
Orange, April 2L—District Court met here
last Monday, and has been iu session since,
with Judge Ford presiding. The following at-
torneys from abroad are in attendance: Judges
Wm.' Chambers, of Liberty, and G. H. Wells,
of Lake Charles; S. P. West, of Tyler; A. S.
John and J. F. Lanier, of Beaumont; K. B.
Seals and Q. Spolarr, of Jasper. Local attor-
neys are all present. The only cases disposed
of were State of Texas vs. Anderson Barnes,
colored, charged with assault with intent to
murder; verdict, two years in the peniten-
tiary. The case of Jesse Dyson, un-
der charge of murder; verdict to-day,
two years iy. the penitentiary. The State
vs. Albert Neyland, charga of murder
is set for the JiOth instant. The case of the
State vs. John Strickland, under charge of
murder, is set for the 27th. There have been
no civil cases tried yet, but many important
ones are set for the "coming week. The grand
jury have found three bills only in the past
week, which speaks volumes for our county and
its good order.
The Pearl River is here, loaded with brush
for the jetties at Sabine Pass.
The wind all day has been high from thet
southeast, with falling barometer.
WSATHEBFORD.
Parks XXurder Case—Storm*
[Special Telegram to The News.]
W eatherford, April 21.—The District
Court room to-day has been crowded by those
who desired to hear the arguments of the
seven attorneys whose names were sent The
News yesterday as being employed to repre-
sent the State, and defendant Merrill Parks,
on trial for the murder of Frank Hegan. The
case has been stubbornly and ably conducted
and has been of great interest to
spectators and eager listeners. Colonel
J. L. L. McCall closed the argument
for the prosecution at 5.30 p. m., and the jury,
after receiving the charge from the judge, re-
tired, and in four hours returned a verdict of
murder in the second degree, and fixed the pun-
ishmeut at fifty years in the penitentiary. The
verdict is considered as beiug very light, in
view of the facts. The defendant will take an
appeal.
This section was visited by a severe wind and
lightning storm last night, but the damage was
slight to shade trees, fences, etc.
FORT WORTH.
Various Criminal Notes—Suits Filed
Racing Association Organized.
[Special Telegram to The News.]
Fort Worth, April 21.—The banks closed
doors to-day, in honer of the anniversary of
the battle of San Jacinto.
Mrs. F. P. Brown to-day paid $250 as a fine
for keeping a disorderly house.
The officers complain of more thieves and
other bad characters being in the city than
usual.
Fred Klein is charged with having run
away with G. l£. Barnes's watch last night.
He waived an examination this afternoon, and
was allowed bail in the sum of $500.
R. H. Bowles's residence, adjoining his store,
was entered by a burglar last night and some
money taken.
Monroe Simpson, caught on a charge of
theft, gave bond in the sum of $200 this after-
noon.
Jack Crosby reports that he was defrauded
at a gaming-house to-day, and lost $200.
Suits filed in the Couuty Court to-day: W.
T. Hudson vs. Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe
railway, for delay and injury to cattle shipped
from this city to Louisiana; also John C.
Diartes vs. same road, concerning some cattle:
damages for refusing to allow nim to travel on
pass or for pay; claim, $10t>0.
Filed in the District Court to-dav: E. M.
Orick and wife vs. Stadford Easton et al., in-
junction to prevent selling property, claiming
it as homestead.
The City Council this afternoon held an-
other secret session.
The Three-Race association of North Texas,
composed of delegates from Dallas, Gaines-
ville and Fort Worth, met here this evening.
They have a premium capital of $24,000. J.
K. Ashley was elected chairman of the associa-
tion for the ensuing year; A. L. Shephard,
secretary; F. R. Sherwood, of Gainesville,
assistant secretary. The races will begin at
Dallas the second week after the meeting at
Memphis and continue one week. The next
week the racing will be at Gainesville, and the
week afterward the Fort will be given a week
of racing.
BRSNHAM.
Various Court Notes, Etc.
[Special Telegram to The News.]
Brenham, April 21.—The following prisoners
have been convicted of felonies since the dock-
et of the District Court was taken up several
days ago: Prince Dever, murder, two years in
the penitentiary; Beverly Jones, horse-theft,
five years; Bob Carothers, assault to ccmrnit
rape, four years; Judge Williams, murder, life
sentence. This boy, about sixteen years old,
killed his father in cold blood, several months
ago. George Hackett, murder, fifteen years.
This prisoner was convicted at the last term
[ the death penalty assessed. The Appel-
late Court reversed the case and sent it back
for trial. All the prisoners are negroes.
L. T. Eldred, a white man who married a
negro woman, has beeu in jail several months.
The case came up for trial this afternoon. -A
large crowd was in attendance, aud expected
to hear some interesting .evidence. A flaw in
the indictment was discovered by the defend-
ant's attorney, which the court ruled was fatal.
The prisoner, comprehending the situation at a
glance, made a break for the door, and hastily
mounting a horse was soon out of the reach of
the officers. Eldred is a blonde with very red
hair, and the damsel he married was very
black and wears a No. 9 shoe. Two more cases
will be tried next week, which concludes the
criminal docket for the term.
The Commissioners Court yesterday elected
Mr. Paul Fricke as constable "for th6 precinct.
He had nine competitors.
The gas compauy of this city have quit light-
ing the street-lamps, because the city council
made no arrangements to pay them, tconomy
seems to be the rule now.
GAINfiSVILLE.
Heavy Ranch Transaction, Etc.
fSpecial Telegram to The News.]
Gainesnille, April 21.—Yesterday J. W
Saera bought a one-fourth interest in tl|e
Stone, Wilson & Hall ranch, near Wichita
Falls, for $150,000.
Our city is again talking of waterworks.
A heavy storm last night rattled the signs
around at a lively rate, but uo damage was
done.
Most of the young people of Gainesville at
tempted a picnic to-day on Red river.
Miss Spencer, the genial telegraph operator,
who has had charge of this office for a year,
leaves for her home in Illinois in a day or two.
Her place will be filled by Mr. P. M." Waters
who is a fine operator and will no doubt give
satisfaction.
The people generally approve of the course
of Senator Davis and "Representative Barrett,
from this place.
W. W. Foreman, our venerable justice of
the peace, is dangerously sick.
ROSENBERG.
Improvement Notos-—Personal, Etc
[Special Telegram to The News.]
Rosenberg, April 21.—The past week has
been one of the most admirably adapted for
farmers and gardeners. They have taken ad
vantage of the fine weather and all available
hands are at work. Good stands of crops are
reported.
The work of Improvement still goes on. The
new hotel is nearly shingled, and is thought
will be ready for occupancy ^bout the 1st of
May.
Eight more carloads of large walnut logs
passed through on the Galveston, Harrisburg
and San Antonio railroad this week, destined
for foreign ports.
News of the appointment of a postmaster,
with an office here is anxiously looked for and
hopes are entertained for a ferry across the
river. A gentleman was here a few days ago
who is willing to do the work.
Messrs. Alex. Eastou, Joe Atkins and J.
Lieberman, of your city, were here this week.
Hunters report an abundance of plover on
the prairies.
A special train on the Santa Fe railroad
passed down this morning from Brenham with
six passenger coaches, all crowded, -on their
way to Galveston. Many ladies were noticed
among them.
LONGV1EW.
Railway Equipments—Improvements
[Special Telegram to The News.l
Longview, April 21.—Brad. Barner, presi-
dent of the Galveston, Sabiue aud St. Louis
railway, has purchased the necessary amount
of first-class machinery for the best kind of a
machine-shop.
Nearly 200 houses have been erected in Long
view during the past year, and arrangements
have been made for that number to be built by
next Jail. Lots that two months ago sold for
$200 ffjw can not be bought for $500, and pro-
perty of all kinds has doubled in value.
The railway companies at the junction are
damming a creek three-fourths of a mile from
there, by which all the water they may want
can be brought to that place, there being a fall
of thirty-two feet.
A three-story brick hotel is under contract at
the junction.
TTLER.
Heavy Storm—Court Session, Etc.
[Special Telegram to The News.]
Tyler, April 21.—Another heavy rain and
windstorm passed over this section early this
morning, doing considerable damage to tele-
graph lines in all directions.
It is learned that Judge Morrill has not as
yet made an order for a jury for the May term
of the United States Court, and it is under-
stood that no court will be held here at that
term. This is probably owing to the ill health
of Judge Morrill.
Dr. W. H. Park, of this city, will deliver the
address of welcome to the Texas Medical asso-
ciation, Tuesday morniug at 9 o'clock, at Al-
berUnn's Opera-house.
GREENVILLE.
A Physician's Terrible Death.
[Special Telegram to The News.]
Greenville, April 2L—Our prosperous city
has again been made to mourn. I *st night,
Dr. J. H. Young, a prominent physicitk i, and a
most estimable citizen, was killed by a pet colt
that he had raised, aud was very fond of. I'e
had gone to the stable to feed the colt aud was
kicked so as to stuu him, and was trampled to
death. His wife missed him and went to the
stable and there found her husband dead and
his body bruised ancLmangled. He was buried
to-day by the Odd Fellows.
BASTl^aP.
Found G-uilty of Thoft-
[Spe -ial Telegram to The News.]
Bastrop, April 21.—Lee Nichols, colored,
who- was indicted by the grand jury for the
theft of cattle from Osburn & Gill, was found
guilty this morning and sentenced to the peni-
tentiary for three years.
The grand jury adjourned this evening.
Your reporter did not ascertain the number of
bills found.
san saba.
Xleavy Rain—Small-Pox, Etc*
[Special Telegram to The News.]
San Saba, April 21.—Yesterday a strong
wind blew all day. At night it increased tc? a
perfect hurricane, which continued until 12 p.
in., blowing down trees, demolishing signs aud
fences, after which the wiud changed, bring-
ing a light rain.
The Commissioners Court to-day declared
quarantine against the small-pox,hiring guards
and isolating the cases, by which it is thought
no further danger need be apprehended. No
change in the condition of the little child.
The ladies realized $43 from their ice-cream
festival last night.
SULPHUR SPRINGS.
Weather —Improvements —Assign
meat*
[Special Telegram to The News.l
Sulphur Springs, April 21.—This ha3 been
a good week for the farming interest, and they
are fast getting in cood shape. We had a fie#
rain this morning all over the county, which
will be very beneficial to the crops.
Our town still improves. A contract has
just been let for a block of four two-story brick
buildings on the east sida of the square. Busi-
ness firm and health geod.
D. L. Smith made au assignment to-day to
H. H. Garrison, for the benefit of his creditors.
Liabilities about $4000, assets $2000.
HUBBARD CITY.
City Election—Death* Etc.
[Special Telegram to The News.]
Hubbard City, April 21.— Our city election
passed off very quietly and but little interest
was manifested. Mayor F. A. Taulman, Mar-
shal J. M. Amonet, Aldermen A. O. Speaker,
W. A. Putnam, John Newton, Geo. W. Bishop
and W. G. Ralston were ail re-elected.
A seven-year-old son of S. P. Rugle died last
night after au illness of several months and
was buried to-day.
A terrific windstorm, accompanied by rain
and lightnfbg, visited our city last night" Sev-
eral unoccupied houses were blown down. Thu
weather pleasant to-d^y.
■Fry a » „Ji*n«M«*0|oq!»I
I cAAo VLikhmivo.
CELEBRATION OF THE ANNI-
VERSARY.
The Parade and the Orations—Inter*
esting Incidents of the Day.
[Special Telegram to The News.]
Belton, April 21.—The veterans with their
wives were up betimes this morning, gathering
in the court-house square to be photographed.
general group was taken, except survivors
of the San Jacinto battle, who preferred, in
face of all the gentle persuasive hints used, to
be taken iu a group of themselves. The crowd
of aged men and women, the former, with heads
uncovered, presented a picturesque scene—
somewhat tinctured with oddity, owing to the
sprinkling of numerous traveling bags held in
the hands of many who want to go from the
exercises to the trains leaving town. The pro-
cession moved at 9:80 a. m. from the square to
the Baptist church; a large crowd, including
many citizens. At the church confusion oc-
curred. owing to suddenly changing the place
of meeting from the opera-house to the church,
and many were unable to enter the church so
great was the crowd. Citizens gave way to the
veterans and their wives, who were finally
seated.
Rev. Allison, a veteran, prayed for a blessing
on the venerable host. The Waco band, un-
der the leadership of Till Downs, played
Nearer my God to Thee. Officers and orators
being seated on the platform, General Robert-
son, as general master of ceremonies, presented
Belton's mayor, D. A. Chamberlin, who. in
pointed words, told the veterans that they
were welcome to the freedom of Belton.
Judge X. B. Saunders, for the citizens of
Belton. made a speech, recalling in well-round-
ed periods of prettily chosen words and poetie
quotations the history of Texas from her first
occupation and wilderness to the present, and
her remarkable commercial position. He ran
over the historic events of the Texau struggles
from S. F. Austin's time through Goliad. Ala-
mo and San Jacinto independence day, draw-
ing now and then au apt comparison with
events of the old world, struggles for freedom
and romantic examples of bravery. He paid
grand tribute to Texan women. A brilliant
and feeling reference to the advance of death
in the ranks of the veterans, softened the
hearts of the old meu aud women, and many
handkerchiefs of all colors and sizes came sud-
denly from their hiding-places. This emotion
was quickly changed to universal applause
over the sentiment pointedly expressed, that
Texas should remain undivided.
After- the address and music Judge Saun-
ders came forward with a handsome bouquet,
the handiwork of Miss Annie Hollinsworth.
daughter of a veteran of Bell county, offered
by her to the veterans. Judge Saunders, to
decide the disposition of the bouquet, called
for the youngest widower among the veterans.
George Wenefee, of Jackaon county, came
forward and took the flowers amid great ap-
plause and mirth.
Guy M. Bryau. a descendant of Stephen F.
Austin, responded to Judge Saunders's address
in brief eloquence, saying most emphatically,
teach your children to preserve Texas undi-
vided. He voiced the veterans in their thanks
for Belton's hospitality. In answer to the pub-
lic charge that the veterans were increasing in
number every year instead of decreasing, he
explained that the increased traveling facilities
offered by railroads, and free courtesies by the
same, were euabling veterans from remote
points of the State to attend meetings of the
association, and to prove up their claims. For
the information of all He would say that vete-
rans. to be members, should show recorded
proofs of service.
Jos H. Stewart, Esq., of Austin, was'intro-
duced as special orator of the occasion, 6reu-
eral Robertson saying of him that he had ac-
complished with State legislatures in behalf of
veterans mere than any other man here.
Mr. Stewart spoke as follows:
Texas Soldiers of 1S35-36. and the Widows of
old Texas Soldiers—Ladies aad Gentlemen . 1 feel
at this moment as if I were at some holy shrine.
What an honor, standing here almost in my youth,
to be calied upon tu speak to you.
When quite a boy, 1 visited the Smithsonian In-
stitute, at Washington, and. alone and without a
companion, prompted by curiosity, entered the va-
rious rooms and apartment* of that institution. At
length I found myself ushered into a large room,
perhaps eighty feet square, and fifty feet from floer
to dome, and saw the whited walls hung
with the pictures of distinguished In-
dian warriors, adorned with war paiat and
feathers aud human scalps dangling fromwampum
belts Each eye seemed firmly fixed on me, and
felt in my boyish fear as if confronted by living
red men. At that moment I remembered all the
thrilling accounts 1 had heard and read of these
men of the forest. The occasion inspired the re-
membrance and reflections. Looking into jour
faces. I am alike impressed with this occasion.
These wrinkled brows, snowy heads and trembling
limbs, these sunken eyes, gleaming yet with the
sunbeams of patriotism, impress me with the mag-
nitude of this presence: and I realize that I am at
this hour standing in the presence ef the grandest
living heroes of one of the greatest political
revolntiens hitherto knowh aineng the children of
men. Such a collection of the living portrait* of men
of three score years and ten, penciled by the very
master haud of the universe, it has rarely been the
privilege ef men to behold since the days of the
prophets and patriarchs of the olden time.
I shall uot allude in detail to the historical events
in the early days of Texas—that grand temple
erected by you aud the dead heroes of the young
republic, within whose walls all the liberty-loving
men now living and to come hereafter may gather
courage and inspiration, and upon whose polished
walls your pictures will hang when nails are eaten
with rust, wheu cords and tassels are broken, and
when marble structures are crumbled into
atoms aad dust. Yes, that temple of imperial
structure whose foundation stones are laid deep
and sure on the roctt of ages, and whose dome now
grows and swells toward heaven and. eternity. I
would onfly wipe the dust frem its plain, old. noble
urns. Every nation has had its heroic period and
its heroic race. The heroes of Bexar, of the Alamo,
of Goliad, of San Jacinto and the Texas revolution
furnished the heroic race for Texas, and the revo-
lution of 1835 and 1S36 was her hereic period. The
heroic a^e is that time distinguished above all
others by a concurrence of grand agencies with
grand results—by uncommon examples of the
rarer virtues and qualities of man, tried by an
exigency that occurs only at the beginning
of new cpochs. when the great bell of
time sounds out'another hour. The heroic race is
that one in the course of history which is recog-
nized as the great agency to kindle aud feed the
mtfral imagination, move the heart and command
th» intelligent wonder of the world for all time to
come.
Such an age was the Texas revolution: such a
race was that which fought the enemy upon her
th«n trackless prairies. That was not the age of
the looking-glass, of dainty appetitos and of gentle
manners. Sam Houston, like Achilles, sometimes
cooked hLs own scanty meal; meu then, and wo-
men, too. wore blue denims and buckskin: they
may have seemed to possess no ray of* fancy, no
emotion of taste. Others may have had a quicker
eye for the beautiful in art. may have
contributed more wit. more song: may have woru
more decorated armor in battle; yet their lives and
deaths have been a whole Iliad in action—grandly
sweeter, of more mournful pathos, of more puri-
fying influence than anything yet sung by old or
modern bard. Iu 1635 Mexican oppression aaJ
domination became so insupportable that revolt
an t arms were the only recourse for free citizen-
ship within the borders of Texas, and the few
colonists and settlers staked life aud fortune upon
the hazard of independence. All brave and loyal
hearts throbbed in tenderest sympathy for the
little band struggling for life and freedom. Ten-
nessee sent her Ed. Burleson, her Davy Crockett
and her Ja*.H.Swisher: Georgia her Ward and Rusk,
her Lamar and Fauuin: Connecticut her E. M.
Pease: Mississippi her Step'u. Darden; South Caro-
lina her Travis and her Ben ham: Louisiana her
Bowie and her Sam McKneely ; Kentucky her Ben
Milam: the Old Dominion her Stephen F. Austin,
her William L. Hunter, who now sits l>efore me,
bearing the leaden and bayonet scars of Labardie—
his head ripe with years and honors—and she sent
her Frank Johnson, una there he sits, presiding
over your association like an old and honored
prince* of the royal blood: the land of the Teutons
sent her Kleberg: and hundreds of true hearts
gathered aroun I them, and braver and more loyal
men never defended a woman's honor or espoused
a country's cause. They came from the South,
from the "North and the East, from the banes of the
flowing Rhine and the land of the green shamrock,
to contest the palin with the imperious acd eager
foe. They came uot for pelp or sordid gold, for
the infant republic was
Too poor to possess the precious ores.
And teo much of a stranger to borrow
The world, in ail the ages, has furnished no
grander exemplars of chivalry, self-abaegatioa and
odlik3 manhajJ.
Young man just in the untold delights of a honey-
moon hissed their tender brides a sad farewell a*a
left to join trte patriot band th*t were thee here
fighting: for freedom. A legend tells of an impetu-
ous young husband and father who heara the tales
of woe aad Uan««r that went out freiu the weitsc
and children of tbis land: for a moment he looked
down into tne cradle upen his first corn, that had
just learned the first lispia? accents of babyhoed,
on beaded knee he kissed tne tender child. aro-«
an j wiped tne tears at parting, from the eyelid* of
his feci wife, and then, sneechiesi with emctien
turned his fa^a t&ward Texas and wita quickened
footstep*, sought ta« gory tis.d et Ln.ue H« new
sleeps upon iae banks ef tic* Salado river, aad at
eat'b nightfali a vauratns asfc tre* s;ng» his re
quiem; and fer eeariy half a century a weman,
now grav. of a^eet face buv sad expressiea, clad it
the weeds of mourning has made annual pilgrim-
ages to that haliowsd spet.
~1 see now troops gathariag a.en; the baaks ef the
Tennesete and tka tertueua Chataheoe'aa, away uj
on (La St Lawrenoe, in the gieai of Shetland ant
cn tae blue turf of Kentucky; I hear tkt long roll
of th#!ke:t!edrum, and the shrill blast of the bugle
and the tocsin ef Texas is seunaing ,-Te there#
cue: " Laving mothers are saying to brave and
dut.fu! sons. CJeedny; $od bless yen." Loving
listers are "ipia* watery eyes aad sayiag. with
quivering lips. "Farewell brother." Swesthearts
are locked ia warn embrace, aad eaca~
•• Breathing out the tender tale,
Beneath the milk-white them that scents the
e*'n;ng gale."
And some hepaiess. sad, but br.'ght-eyed, maiden
is saying:
"My Hps refuse te say farewell;
For in thai word, teat fatal word,
Hewe'er we proaaise, hope heiieve,
There breathe* despair."
A theusand prayerful lips and swellinr hearts are
invoking God's choicest blessings: for naenths, aye
years, teader hearts yearned for tha departed loved
ones: sorrowful yet hopeful eyes each day eagerly
watch at the gloaming aloa* the old-accustenaed
nath.s. anticipating a return of the departed—and
^hu» many a sad to-morrow came and went. And
did the husband return to his fond wife, the son to
a prayerful mother who had confided his keeping
to the God of armies and battles, the sweetheart to
the bosom he had so often rested upon in the full
fruition of a requited love? Sound tne mu?ter-roll
aud let the silent responses answer. The dry bones
at Goliad, the Alamo and at San Jacincto teli their
own brave but pitiful atory. But you and those
imperisbablo dead bones planted here the tree of
liberty, and thus it became watered with the blood
of human hearts. Though for a time swayed by
adverse winds, that tree sent its roots down below
the drouth and frost of anarchy;, its trunk
went up erect, not ri^en by tho storm;
soon the evergreen enfolded its branches
and it now affords a welcome shade for the op-
pressed and liberty-?oving of all the peoples of the
earth. And where lies the true greatness or grand-
eur in the civilization itself, or the primal human
agency that produced it? It is to them that striae
the first blow and blaze the road to progress and
civilization. The character of Martin Luther will
live in history when Henry Ward Beecher is quiet
in oblivion; the name of Gutenberg w ill be cher-
ished when the printers aud type-setters of the
present civilization are clothea in the dark garb of
utter forgetfulaess; the name of Columbus
will be a towering monument when that of the
commander of the steamship Great East-
ern is crumbled into impalpable powder;
the name of Morse will electrify the coming ages,
when those of the presidents of the Western
Union and other omnipotent telegraph corpora-
tions are blotted from the minds of men The
names of Austin and of Fannin, of Bowie and
Frank Johnson, of Stephen W. Blount and Sam
Houston, of Wm. L. Hunter and Deaf Smith, of
Davy Crockett and Ed. Burleson, of Moses Austin
Bryan and Walter P. Lane, and of the men now
before me. who blazed the road to our advance-
ment and civilization, will be spoken with venera-
tion aud blessings a hundred generations after the
great men of this day in Texas are discarded from
tho pages of history. Then, whence came these
choice blessings to Texas, what human agency
poured this priceless treasure into the very laps of
the two millions of people that now dwell
within these borders? You and your com-
rades, in the early days of Texas,
were the instrument, under tho direction
of a wise Providence, to create this civilization and
unfold our destiny; you and the courageous wife
that followed your fortunes, made these prairies,
these rivers, these hills and valleys almost sacred
by your woes, your privations, your heroisms.
Men then, footsore and hungry, marched dailv with
feet unshod ana nightly rtept "upon untented "fields;
women ef high birth and of gentle manners gather-
ed no thornless flowers of comfort and ease, but
they challenged the howling blasts of the prairies,
the tomahawk of the savage and the very welcome
of the solitudes. It. airs, is to vou and those of
your Spartan band who have crossed over the riv-
er. that I owe the proud privilege of breathing to-
day this balmy Texas air, of resting in the soft
rays of her bright sun, of looking down upon these
valleys which might seem to have been hollowed
out for the very hame and dwellin?-pluce of liberty.
Forty-seven years ago, this day. a vanquished foe
liesbleeding on the banks of the San"Jacinto: a few
hundreds of ragged and hungry men are the vic-
tors over almost as many thousands of skilled
foreign soldiers already surfeited with treasure
and human blood—their proud general on bended
knee asking that quarter and mercy so foreign to
his own heart and so little in keeping with his own
mode of warfare. On that evening the very
heavens smiled and for the first time tae sun went
down on tf * free and liberated sovereignty.
In its bro sense. Texas was then free.
From that f >ur these people have been gov-
erned by ni ites of their own selecting, under
laws frame* jeir own agents. The so-called
Napoleon o» West no longer dictates your poli-
cies and c« ands vour battalions; here now
smiles an in^^ andent" peaceful, law-abidiEg. well
governed commonwealth.
Thousands shall spring from your loins and trace
back with pride and lineal love their blood to yours.
Centuries hereafter. In great cities, fropi tribes of a
common Israel, shall come together the good, the
eminent, the beautiful, to remember you aud learn
the lessons of your unexampled heroism. Your
influence will endure here for ages. and. until
the morning stars sing together, your names
will be spoken with gratitude and veneration.
And shail the "State refuse to outstretch her arm—
once weak but now strong and made so by your
valor—to tender that bouuty your noble achieve
menu so richly earned' Shall the millions remain
locked and boiled in the State treasury while the
widows of dead Texan spartans are almost with-
out food and raiment? Just here 1 will state that
it was my pleasure to prepare and have introduced
and earnestly labor, before the legislature just ad
journed, to procure the passage of the law grant
ing you the ^meager pension of $l"-0
a year. and.
creased if accurate information of deaths was
at hand.
artillery picnic.
■Among other amusements of the day came
the annual picnic of the Galveston Artillery
company, an organization well known and
very popular. This year this company had ar-
ranged to entertain their friends at Lafitto
grove, a beautiful resort some fifteen miles
down the island, on the Texas-Mexican rail-
way. At 9 o'clock in the morning, when the
first train left, but few friends of tne company
were brave enough to undertake to endure the
threatening aspect of the weather, but the af-
ternoon train, which left Center street and
avenue N at .*»:30 o'clock, was laden with a
large number, who sought refuge in a quiet
retreat for at least one afternoon. Arriv-
ing at^ the grounds about 5 o'clock, tfco
order of entertainment was sufficient to satisfy
a variety of tastes. Some sought pleasure in
rowing upon the lake; others in meandering
through tho park; others in gathering speci-
men flowers of almost every hue and variety
upon the broad, blooming prairie in close
proximity. For their own amusement as
well as that of their friends, the company had
previously planned a shooting match, target
125 yards, the score of which is given below.
This score embraced three shots to each mem-
ber. the highest (being fifteen) to take ths prize,
which included the sum of all entrance fees:
Crutcher...
Ange'.o.
0
0
3
2
3
2
Redding
Pond
McRae
Root
Casteleton
Turner
Forbes
Robinson
11
. 0
Rodigues. ..
Reed
Ratto
Settle
Owen
Hamsconib
Eaton it
In the shoot-off between Forbes and Eaton, 1
the former scored 12, the latter S; in the shoot-
off betweeu Redding and Castleton. the former
scored 2, the latter uone. After this the leather
medal previously presented to Mr. Walter Rob-
inson years since, and long worn by him, in
emblem of his reputation as a fine marksman,
was presented to Mr. T. P. Crutcher, who up
to this date is not known to have come within
range of the target. The remainder of the
evening was spent in dancing, and after hours
of enjoyment, the train with the company and
their friends arrived safely in the city.
CORSICANA.
Major Brahan's Appointment—Rain*
[Special Telegram to The News.]
Corsicaxa, April 21.—The appointment of
Major Haywood Brahan, as State financial
agent of the penitentiaries, is a source of much
gratiiiation to his friends here. A numerously-
signed petition went to the governor from this
city, asking the appointment of Major Brahan.
A line rain fell last night and just in season,
as it was much needed.
strange to you as it may seem, many obstacles
were placed in the way: the men of gray hairs and
tottering footsteps, with exceptions, opposed your
demands against the State, while a large majority
of the young men—and be it said to their honor
were your friends, and stood between you aud tl
older members like i-a pillar of cloud
by day and a pillar of fire by night.*' The
oldesi member of the .Senate refused to recog
mize your rights, while Mr. Matlock, the youngest
was vour earnest advocate. The lower house fur-
nished like examples of gratitude and patriotism,
on the one hand, and niggardly economj- and base
ingratitude on the other—the eldest member voting
against your just demand^.and the yeungest stand-
ing by you with unsheathed sword, battling for
your rights.
You. sirs, merit of Texas her highest honor and
richest rewards. She may offer her bounties and
pensions in simple morsels, but she can not circum-
scribe the memory of your gallant deeds and
achievements. There is now no marble shaft up-
risen in the pass of Thermopylae, but Leonidas and
his brave band will live when the lawmakers of
Athens aud Rome are in double oblivion. Nothing,
save " the wreck of matter and crush of worlds."'
can destroy the monuments reared to your valor,
for they are and will e»er be in the hearts of men.
I can not forget that this is your festival, which
veu have journeyed so far to keep. 1 have, there-
fore. spoken briefly. Until this hour I never
looked into so many of your faces, and. perhaps,
but few of you, until now. ever looked into mine.
It is likely we may never meet each
other agaia in this life, face to face.
You* golden sands of life are nearly run
out, mine are but midway the glass.
Many of you are uow leauing upon
your old and" well worn staff, and the next ^
union for some now before me will not be in tfiji-j
beautiful city, but in the great city beyond t^Q
stars, there te hold converso with Bowie a *.o
Crockett and Houston and Rusk, aud other kindr "L
spirits, to celebrate another and a grander iud'eg
pendence day. " V
Heaven bless the grand old Texas soldier and the
noble wif« who shared his privations, his fortunes*
and may no man ever be permitted to dwell upon
Texas soil, to rest his head upon her generous bo-
som, or to sleep beneath her green, velvet sod,
whose heart does not vibrate with swelling emo-
tions of gratitude to the veterans, living and dead,
of the Texas revolution.
When referring to Judge Hunter, one of two
survivors of Fannin's massacre, Mr. Stewart
requested that person to stand up so as to be
seen, which he did amid much sensation. The
aged, white-headed man, bent with years,
leaned on his strong stick and cried over the
appalling memories of nearly fifty years ago.
Mrs. Bella French Swisher followed Mr.
Stewart Jwith a poem on the Fame of the
Alamo, recounting in smooth, and at times
quite fanciful and eloquent language the oft-
told story. After so much jurose spoken on
the well-worn theme of Texas struggles, the
poetic painting by Mrs. Swisher, applied to
the general subject of the hour, was received
with renewed interest.
Miss Tenuie Wilson, of Gonzales, a native
Texan, read an address to the veterans, giving,
in confident and vigorous style, a winning
account of the subject of the occasion.
She referred to San Antonio as of age
and interest, Galveston as unborn in 1S30,
and Houston as the enterprising city. The
address showed considerable political insight
and enthusiastic Texan patriotism. A plea
for railroads was entered. She said while
railroads sought to enlarge their benefits, they,
at tho same time, developed Texas resources.
Let them grow together. Sectionalism was
denounced, and designers against Texas as a
whole were characterized as impious.
Rev. M. V. Smith announced the departures
of the trains aud free rides to the depots, after
which the Baptist quartette, composed of Miss
Allie Smith, organist and soprano: Miss Sadie
Moore, alto: P. S. Turner, bass: Eugene Hay-
slip, tenor, sang an ode to the veterans.
The*more notable veterans. Bl.int, Horton,
Bryan, Wallace, Hunt, Pease. Johnson, Cooper.
Swisser and Forbes were called to the platform
so as to be seen as heroes of the oresent as well
as of the past. Mose> Austin Bryan recited
the interview between Houston and Santa
Anna after the battle of San Jacinto. He was
interrupted with enthusiastic cries of " that's
so. I was there." George Wenefee recited a
speech of General Mosely Baker on the eve of
tho battle, in answer to loud calls. This effort
was a decided success. Then followed a gen-
eral haud-shaking aud telling of the old, old
story ot battles, triaLs and scenes. Meu met
who had not seen each other for thirty-seven
years. The meeting ended with great good
feeling, and probably the most thorough in-
terest ever expected by the veterans as an asso-
ciation. A business meeting was announced
for o p. m.
The association met at 3 p. m. Owen Har-
deman, of Caldwell, offered a resolution to ap-
point a committee to confer with authorities
charged w ith purchasing the Alamo, in order
to dispose of the Alamo in a way to satisfy the
ideas of the veterans and the people generally.
Ex-Governor Lubbock informed the veterans
that the law authorizing the purchase made
the governor agent of the Stato to secure a
safe bargain, for which $20,000 was appro-
priated, also to see to the care of the property.
S. Casey, of San Antonio, was in that city
when the legislative committee visited the Al-
amo, and the law providing for the purchase
contemplated that the mayor of San Antonio
should be charged, with special care of the
building. Judge W. L. Huuter, who, in com-
pany with Colonel F. W. Johnson, was very
active before the recent legislature to secure
the veterans their rights, moved a vote of
thanks to Senators Patton, Matlock and Kle-
berg and Representatives Acker. Douglass and
Armistead for their work in aid of the vet-
erans' pension bill.
The committee on application for member-
ship reported in favor ot the application of W.
D. Irvine of Kaufman county, basing their
report on the affidavit of Win. Siturlock. of
Safciae county, who swore Irvine was in Lia
company from July till October, 1S30. In the
absence cf record of tho proof of Irvine's
claims, the committee made him a member on
the statement of one veteran; and the asso-
ciatioa overlooking section 2, article 2, of their
constitution elected him.
Big-Foot Wallace, in his new broadcloth suit
and laced shoes, was calied to the platform,
wfcera he was cheered. He sat silent, reflec-
tive and mellow, with those feelings which,
unfortunately, during recent years, overcome
him too often for his own good. Ho was not
in one of his anecdotal moods. It was decided
te pay Moses Austin Bryan $300 per year as
secretary out cf the funds of the association.
It was voted to admit the Ladies' Veteran Aid
association as part of the Veterans1 Aid asso-
ciation. Their officers were chosen as follows:
Mra Wilson, president; Mrs. F. F. Duff an,
vioe-presideni; Miss Shipperd, secretary; Mrs.
R. L. Gordon, treasurer.
Charles Ggsbury, ex-editor of the Cnero Bul-
letin is one of the veterans. Citizens of Beiton
raised $5c. and presented Big-foot Wallace with
a fine pair cf shoes and suit of clothes. Mri
Isabella McCrocklen the lady who made the
bag* for the cartridges used in the celebrated
twin-sister oannona at the rejoicing at Nacog-
doches, over the battle of San Jacinto, was in-
vited tc a seat on the stand, amid great ap-
plause. Being interviewed, she said she was
born in Virginia in 1812, came to Texas frcrn
Daris county, Ky., in 1&33, settled in Wash-
ington county and lived now in Blanco county,
with her husband (Colonel J. L. McCrocklen)
who is ¥3 years of age. Her maiden name
was Harris. Stephen F. Blunt came to Texas
from Georgia in 1835 with $1000, and to-day
has fourteen farms rented out,owns S5,000 acres
of land, hasfthreesons. two of whom have been
to the legislature. He> is a hearty man to-day.
Eight veterans paid dues to day, making £>2
in attendance. Secretary Bryau has compiled
in a book much valuable information regard-
ing veterans and early statistics. His figures
show that out of 7000 men who served '1 exas
betweeu 1S20 and annexation in 1S45. there are
uow alive 470 of the first class and 253 of the
second class. This makes 723 veterans now
alive, but this number might be slightly
LITTLE RGCK, AR2T*
Cattle Notes—High Prices and Active
Demand—Sensational BXurder Trial-
[Special Telegram to the News.]
Little Rock, Ark., April 21.—Advices re-
ceived here from the Indian Territory are to
the effect that the extraordinrry demand foi?
cattle has run the prices up higher in the
ranges through the Territory than the^ ever
attained before, and from the hosts of buyers
found everywhere through that country at
this date they are destined to go higher. The
grass is coming, but slowly, and man^ poor
classes have no place with sufficient grass to
keep their steck. Yet they buy anything thai'
bears the name of cattle. Wm. McClure sold-
his herd of 375 head of mixed cattle, ranging
from yearlings to three-year-olds, for $25 per
head; The purchaser takes them on the range
on North Canadian river. C. C. Rooks, of
Stonewall, bought of James Perry 000 bead
of country cows, yearlings and two-year-
olds at $'24 per head, the purchaser to tako
them on tho range. This wonderful demand
is not confined to the Indian Territory, as
through the river counties of Arkansas border-
ing on Texas and Louisiana, such as Little
River. Miller, Lafayette, Columbia, and oth-
ers, are all traversed hourly by cattle buyers,
who will buy anything that bears the name ot
cattle. In the above-named counties the grass
is pretty well grown, and owners feel a little
careless about selling, yet the high price stock
now brings induces many to sell out and rent
their grass lands to those who may have herd.-
and no grass.
I heard of a herd of about GOO that is now m
rew county, this State, that are eagerly
jght after by Texas parties, and negotiations
-a now going on for the sale and purchase,
his herd is considered exceptionally fine.
The conclusion of a sensational murder trial
.5 reported from Clarendon to-day, the case
being that of John Taylor, charged with kill-
ing Colonel lgram, a prominent citizen of
Monroe county. Accused was found guilty and
sentenced to be hanged May 25. Taylor killed
his victim in 1SS0. He was arrested, but es-
caped aud fled to Texas, where he was recent-
ly captured. He conducted his own defense in
a measure, selecting the jury which sent him
to the scaffold. He has written for the press a
lengthy and dramatic history of the murder
and of his own career.
texarsana;
The Matthews-HIill Fire-
i [Special Telegram to The News.]
TTexarkan'a, April 21.-
pron
meii
with]
auin
if d<J
the 1
-Later, and fully re-
liable information of the burning of Mat-
thejws's mill on yesterday evening, puts the
losi at $50,000; insurance, #15,000. The saw-
milll did not burn, but the lumber yard and
pla ling-mill, with about 3,000,000 feet of lum-
ber | are a total loss. _
a earitime intelligence*
ThdiCity of Chester. •
L >ndon\ April 21.—The steamer City of Chester.
froi l New York, via Halifax, where she put in dis-
abU d, passed Quednstown this morning on her way
to i iverpool.
■Arrived, Saileds Etc.
L erooN, April 21.—Arrived out: Steamers Can-
ada And California.
\- tw Orleans. April 21.—Cleared: Steamship
Nev York, for New York. Arrived: Steamships
Lor line, from Baltimore; Juana, from Liverpool;
bar c Alfa, from London.
Prohibition Amendment Decision.
Bcqrx, April 21.—A decision in the coustitu-
d prohibition amendment case was filed at j
ck this afternoon. The opinions are volumin-
the majority covering eighty-four pages of le-
ap and the minority consisting of Judge Beck 3
Be, covering 113 pages. The majority opinion
J harmony with that rendered at the first hear-
■declaring the amendment null and void.
le opinion of the court was delivered by Chief
■ice Day. The only uew question raised in the
iLment for rehearing, that of the jurisdiction of
lourt. is positive that the courts are instituted
he purpose of adjudicating acts of tlje legisla-
- The court says the petition for a rehearing
■presented in this cause and the whole case has
% reargued by eminent counsel.
iew of the great interest which has attached
3 question, and of its public importance, it
ted not onlv proper but necessary to examuio
considerable fullness the leading points relied
a3 necessitating a conclusion different from
,ne reached in the foregoing opinion. It is as-
d iu the petition for a rehearing that tho
•ial department of the State has no junsdic-
ver political quesuons. and can not review
tion of the Nineteenth General assembly and
i people in the matter of adoption or ameud-
of the constitution of the State.
us petition practically amounts to this, that the
isions oflthe constitution for its town amend-
*are simply directory, and may be disregarded
impunity. For it is idle to say that these re-
ments of the constitutions must be observed,
rtiuents charged with their observahce are
e iudges as to whether or not they have been
ed with. This proposition was advanced for
t time upon a petition for rehearing, and ir
it is of course, au end to the controversy.
J this branch of the case counsel cite Lu-
Borden, 7 Howard, 1. As this case ha.-^
Jly been relied ui>on by the advocates of
tv now under consideration and has beep
l -reat prominence in the discussions which
taken plWc. the court presents its facts with
■ree o! tuiltess which, uuiier ordinary circum-
STVoum perhaps be considered unnecessary
e end that the degrte of its applieabilitj *
TesSnt caso n.av h= fully underst.^d. I dere fol-
full statement of the fact, :u tne Luther
and tho iiw questions raised.] Of uio
'Ctne=s ot thai decision no one can
:r:r, .he nl.adow of a doubt, but the dilter-
and this, says the ...u.:
o many aud so evident as to deprive it of ..ii
5 asan authority in the present controversy. Iu
lease an entire change :u tae form of g"-'*e
was undertaken , this is sm.r.y an amend-
in no manner affecting tae special authont
lose acting under a -orerBment whictu ^
ht to incorporated into the exjsUn„ ^onsti-
l In tliat case the charier provnueu no means
s amendment; in this the raoue ot amend
. la specifically provided. . -
[thai ca-i th« authority of the cour. v as .a-
d for the admission o». ora. evidence to over-
i* the existing government and establish a new
its place; in This, that autnouty is ir.vo.eji
- to preserve tne present consuicUt! jn intact,
apparent that tLo reasoning emp-oyed
• case can ha*e no application whateve. tt,
icndment to ibe constitution, which d^es not
ta. form of eovernmeat or the judicial pow-
elistine courts.
case of Luther vs. Borden gives no coun^-
whatever to the doctrine that the soverei^u-
the people extends rightfully to the overtui n-
eor-titutior.s and the adoption of new ones
it ree»rd to the forms of existing provisions,
true that the rigW. uader our iorai of gov-
int exists, but It is revolutiunary,;and n t a
fTtutional njbt. When that right is invoked a
"jQn arises which is above tke ccnstjjutioii and
. the court, and which contending factions
dene determine by an appeal to the dernier n=-
In such a case as that, mi»ht makes n-at,
w been -M'i that changes in the constitution
hs iatroduc.d in disregard of its provi^iuns;
ifthe majority of the people desired • chants
aiority must be respected, no matter how tna
i may be edected, and that change,
■evolution, is peaceful revolution; bus
"tion is peaceful only upon assumption that
.rtf opposed surrenders its opposition anil
.tarily acquiesces; if it objects to a cnange
the question arises which can be determined
"to on. of two metnoda-by arbitrament o£
J Disguise the question a* vre will, theorize
t'it as we Div. this is a fact with which wa
tlart brought face to face, and wisdom die-
th« iu dreadful possibilities should be appre-
led aid appreciated. We fear, aa>s the court,
U. of this doctrine in their zeal to ac-
blTTend which a majority of people de-
?ha« looked at but one phase of the question.
E complete costume of a fashionable lady
Friendly Islands has lately been pre-
i to the public library ot Wobum, Mass.
i^nare blanket, tattooed with various
made from wood-pulp, or rather
tip- m
British oculist, writmg for a Lo^°»
aical journal, says that as culture of intel-
Iincreases, tlie human eye grows smaller,
I gazelle-eyed sirens Junos vau-
—i sacisti.
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