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Thursday, October 4.
It is uo longer the old Bay fState, but the old
State at bav.
All. the indications ar»:
wield the gavel.
that Carlisle will
The Arthur administratiou is still loafing
around the country.
Mrs. Hayes's husband has been invited to
preside at a Republican meeting at Fremont.#
Ohio. ^
The character of harmony in the New York
press is like that usual in the parties—growing
red hot. ^
The enforcement of the vagrant law* in this
State might prove an effectual preventive of
race troubles.
It would interest the general public to know
whether the civil service commission believes
in hell or not.
Iron has been sold lately as low as $20 a ton,
and this price has caused somo speculative de-
mand for iron futures.
It was not a very good day for the Massa-
chusetts politics1 pha?i$ess when Ben Butler
was endowed with the gift of gab.
Turkey is in financial diiticulties, as usual,
and the installment of the Russian war indem-
nity, now due. is not foi thcomiug.
The New York World thought it causcd the
Times to come down, but Cincinnati Judaism
glories in feeling that a blast from Dr. Isaac
M. Wise did it.
Rev. R. Laird Colli er has been to a horse-
race in France, and was surprised with its do
cency and the great proportion of reputable
people he saw there.
The Chicago Times finds that "Butler and
reform, but don't make it too strong of re-
form," is the resounding war-cry of the Massa-
chusetts Democrats.
Mr. Hendricks need not be too enthusiastic
for the old ticket. Mr. Tildeu has ten years of
life in him yet, and the chances of vice-presi-
dential succession are slim.
The Esquimaux have advanced so much in
civilization of late years that their statement
to the effect that Lieutenant Greely and party
have perished, must not bo too much relied on.
The New York Sun announces that if a ma-
jority of the Democratic parcy favors tariff
reform, it will march with the procession.
In the words of Brother Jasper, " de sun do
move."
For a high moral Republican and ardent
prohibition governor, Sherman, of Iowa, falls
down pretty often." The Associated Press,
with its usual discernment, however, calls it.
apoplexy. ____________
If the electric passenger car comes into use
fn cities, one of the greatest blessings resulting
will be the substitution of silent locomotion for
the noise attendant upon transit by steam,
horse and mule power.
J>4lr. Crotty, an Irish landlord, had had the
prudence to emigrate after he was wounded on
previous occasions, he might have escaped
"being shot dead. Absentee landlords will have
made a note of the case.
The well-dressed roughs who can afford to
pay $10 admission besides fare to see a couple
of bruisers mall each other are brutish enough
to feel betrayed unless one or the other of the
bruisers is hammered to death.
There is nothing sensational about the free-
trade leagues, but each meeting, like that at
St. Louis, serves to remind the politicians that
a serious issue is being prepared by the irre-
sistible logic of trade conditions.
Judge Fuller-ton and General Roger A.
Pry or have been employed as counsel for the
defense of O'Donnell, the slayer of Carey, by
the Irish-Americans. This will add new in-
terest to this already famous case.
Mahone threatens to reorganize the Vir-
ginia contingent in the government depart-
ments at Washington if the clerks don't take
more interest in the pending campaign. Ma-
hone is seemingly too big for his breeches.
General N. P. Banks is to enter the cam-
paign in Massachusetts against Butler. This
relieves the Democrats of all fears on the ra-
tion question, unless Banks has improved his
record since he fronted Stonewall Jackson.
Mr. Hoadly, having measurably recor
©red his health, comes into the canvass at the
right time to enable his supporting newspapers
to spread his last speeches before the people.
The effect ought to be good enough to make
Foraker sick.
ONE part of the ceremony at Niederwald was
to have been a review of the Uhlan regiment
at Strasburg by the German emperor; but a
report says it was omitted in deference to the
irritable condition of the French mind. Give
JSmperor William credit for that.
The Independance Beige is enabled to affirm
that the recent letters from Congo, published
by English and American journals, represent
simply the personal views of the writers. It
6ays that no modification of the plans of the
International African association is contem-
plated. As it is in a good position to obtain
the ideas of the king of the Belgians, the prin-
cipal supporter of the International associa-
tion, the item is probably an indication that
the king wishes to express disapproval of Stan-
ley's idea of a British protectorate over the
Congo country.
The New York Herald prints a long tele
gram in the German lan guage, giving an ac
count of the unveiling of the statue of Germa
nia. The Sfcaats Zeitung has not yet been
heard from. If it claims a monopoly it will
perhaps make things hot for the fence-cutting
Herald. ______
The Denver Tribune thinks that if James Rus-
sell Lowell keeps on purging himself of Ameri-
canism, and improving his Englishism, he
will soon stand a chance of being appointed
British minister to Washington. The Tribune
need have no fears. England never sends
abroad a diplomatic dude.
The Empress of Russia ordered a fall cloak
of sable, trimmed with gold and jewels, the
whole to cost $4'$,000. The imperial motto
evidently is " while we live, let us live; for be-
fore we know it the nihilistcometh,7' and then,
snperfious to remark, the occupants of the
czarovian wigwam must go.
The News is officially informed that at a
late meeting of the Free-thinkers Association
of Bel! county, held in the city of Temple, it
was resolved that the friends of liberalism
throughout Texas be invited to assemble in
convention in Waco, Sunday, October 2b, IbSo,
to consider the propriety of organizing a State
liberal association.
John Bicelow, who was secretary of state
of New York when Mr. Tilden was governor,
and has been since a close personal friend and
confidant of Hie Greystone sage, if he has any
such friend and confidant, says that if every
man. woman and child in the United States
petitioned Mr. Tilden to accept the presidency,
he would decline. Does this settle it?
Mrs. Oliphant has written for the Novem-
ber Century a paper on Queen Victoria, which
will be more particularly devoted to her life
as a happy queen and mother before the death
of the Prince Consort. The frontispiece of the
number is an engraving of an original oil study
of the queeu, made from life by the young
American artist. Thomas Sully, in 1S3S.
The grand jury of St. Louis, Mo., indicted
JXT. McChesnev. the alleged head of the
gamblers' ring. Stories of official corruption
are agitating the city. The report of the grand
jurv says that the chief of police has been
marked for removal solely because be is effi-
cient, honest and fearless. The report calls
upon the governor to order an investigation.
it would obviate much litigation if a law-
were j sssed declaring every person incompe-
tent to bequeath his money away from his
nearest relatives. This would also obviate much
hard swearing designed to convince juries that
the successful men and fortunate women were
mostly insane, and that their friends were so
charitable as not to mention the matter till af-
ter the insane people's death.
Corvkltus Tobin threw a lighted lamp at
Mary Monegan, in South Boston, in December,
1STT. killing her. He was sentenced for life,
but became a raving maniac, and after five
years was discharged to support his need}'
wife and children. He was haunted by the
memory, and, he said, by the ghost of his
victim, and finally drank paris green in a glass
of whisky, from which he died.
ar. i ant-gi n;:ral King tells the stock-
men < Western Texas that the pseudo milita-
ry arm of the State government can not be
used to catch fence-cutters until they are found
out and warrants are issued for their arrest.
This is about as practicable as would be the
proposition to entice them all into San Antonio
to commit suicide. No one doubts the result if
the nestlers could be collected in the Alamo
city, but getting them there is the trouble. It
is a case of throwing salt on the bird's tail, and
the question is whether this operation shall be
performed by the State authorities, who have
been furnished with the salt by the tax-payers.
The adjutant-general, like other grave seniors
from the time that the children coveted birds
and the saving quality of salt was known,
throws the responsibility of the difficult appli-
cation upon the importunate urchins.
The protective bureau of the Bankers asso-
ciation exposes the plan of a gang of swindlers
who have been operating on banks in the north-
western Stales. One of the confederates enters
a bank and purchases a draft, at the same time
asking for a duplicate, or first aud second of
exchange, in the usual way and form. The
rea- oii alleged for this request is t hat the money
is ' > it to a brother, a cattle dealer in
New Mexico or some other place. Having by
such means obtained the draft and the dupli-
cate, or the first and second of exchange, the
swindlers go oil to the next place, and dispose
of tlTo duplicate or second of exchange, wait-
ing until the bank drawn upon is telegraphed
to know whether the first draft has been paid.
The answer being in the negative, the swindlers
get the money on the duplicate. Without de-
lay they go on to the next place and sell the
original or first of exchange, and in the mean-
time they keep business good b3r continuing to
get new drafts as before, and disposing of
them, always selling the duplicate or second of
exchange, while the original is retained by the
swindlers, who wait until they realize on the
In plicate, and then get the original cashed by
he next victim. This trick has been played
along the Mississippi, at Keokuk, then at towns
above, the operations reaching to St. Paul,
taking in Waterloo, la., and other towns in
the contiguous States. Banks will be obliged
to be careful about cashing drafts on distant
points for strangers, and may even be driven
to refuse to open accounts with unknown
parties.
XIIIIL ISM IN TEXAS.
The lawlessness induced, as it is alleged, by
statutes permitting extensive iuclosures of pas-
ture lands owned by the persons building wire
fences, and owned by the State school fund,
appears to be unchecked. If there is any other
cause for this trouble than these large iu-
closures, it has never been stated. The spirit
that induces so many men of small means, hav-
ing small landed or stock interests, to engage
in such violence, however, may be regarded
as something new and worth in-
vestigation. Ordinarily, the people of
this State are with respect to property
rights as law-abiding as the people of any
country. Were the fence-cutting confined to
newly settled counties where the occupation of
large blocks of land prevented the laying out
of roads, and prevented the stock of nestlers
from grazing upon public and school lauds,
Adjutant-general King's review of the animus
of the fence-cutters would be satisfactory. But
the fact is shown that the worst phase of this
new kind of lawlessness is found in well settled
counties. In Limestone county, for instance,
near the center of the State, in a fine agricul-
tural county, where there have been
established for twenty-five years all the
public roads required, and where the
voting population reaches into thousands, it is
so prevalent and powerful that the local au-
thorities admit their inability to cope with it,
and have accordingly sent their county judge'
to the governor for help. Also, in Hamilton
county, a well-settled district, the wail is
heard, 11 for God's sake, governor, do some-
thing for us." Evidently such a state of vio-
lence and disorder is not the outgrowth of the
settlement of the frontier counties'. Neither is
it the assertion of the rights of the poorer
classes, trampled upon by greedy cattle kings.
Large and small pastures are alike visited by
the fence-cutters in the wilds of the West
and iu populous districts of Middle Texas.
If the true cause is ever known,
it will be found somewhere in the
anomalous political teachings of recent years
in Texas. It is easy to connect the ideas of the
old Democracy cited by Adjutant-general
King as having somethiug to do with the be-
ginning of this lawlessness; ideas respecting
monopolies and class-legislation, implying, it
would appear, that the ownership by fair and
open purchase of a larger tract of land than
eighty acres, 800 acres or 8000 acres, is an in-
tolerable if a permitted monopoly. It is equally
easy to connect this distortion of Democratic
doctrine with the agrarian and anti-monopoly
views of some of the latest Greenback leaders.
It may be that imperceptibly in rural
districts the extremists of the old
Democracy and the new nationals have
come together on a common platform which
is crossed by these wire fences. This would
not be perilous, and it would not be contagious.
But .the first petition from those who are iu-
jured is answered by a political plea which as-
serts in effect that if communism reigns in a
community there it must prevail, for local
sentiment in the community, and the local
forces controlled by local sentiment, are respon-
sible to the injured persons for t"hoir losses and
for the enforcement of the laws instituted for
their protection. It is gravely announced that
a change in local public opinion is the only per-
manent restorative of law and order. According
to this doctrine, the people of a county settled
with Mormors or Mohammedans could practi-
cally annul the penal code of the State; the
people of a county settled with communists
could divide up the property of the property-
holders, and the people of a county, such as
Kimble once was, largely inhabited by a dom-
inating band of outlaws and robbers, could in-
definitely levy contributions upon settlers and
travelers so long as they avoided interference
with the United States mails. According to
the young Democracy as represented by Adju-
tant-general King, it is beyond the lawful
power of the State to interfere in any vase
where the local authorities do not first act by
issuing process and attempting its execution,
and the extra lawful power of the State au-
thorities will only be used in case of im-
minent danger to the peace and safety
of the community at large. In other
words, the State's forces are not to be lawfully
used unless invited by local authorities acting
against overpoweriug local public op'nion—a
case that never exists—or when law-abiding and
awless elements are so nearly matched in
power as to endanger the peace and safety of
the community at large. It follows from this
that where public sentiment sustains the sus-
pension of laws instituted to protect life or pro-
perty, and the minority are too small to make
resistance,and endanger'the peace aud safety of
the community at large, such a minority are,
as to personal and property rights, as com-
pletely at the mercy of the lawless element as
if Juhand his Apaches ruled in the locality.
Unless they can force the local authorities to
act, or unless they can endanger the public
peace, they must quietly submit and not
trouble the State authorities. They are in-
vited to a fight or a foot-race, to get up a
bloody muss or surrender their property rights
and leave. Such are the conclusions of the
adjutant-general's young Democracy logic
when confronted with Texas nihilism.
CHIME IN CONNECTICUT.
The Connecticut authorities are still investi-
gating the mysterious murder of Rose Ambler
at Stratford, and are still seemingly as far
from a genuine trace of the murderer as they
were on the morning when the body was
found. About twenty detectives are em-
ployed on the case, and nearly every male
citizen in the village where the murder was
committed, has been at intervals under sus-
picion of complicity in the crime. Connecti-
cut, which was formerly known as the land of
steady habit3, is rapidly earuiug the trtle of
the land of sensations. Of late years
she has contributed liberally to the Criminal
calendar of the country, and the crimes report-
ed are always marked with peculiar atrocity
and cowardice. Within three years she has
given us three celebrated murder cases, a hand-
some young woman being the victim of each.
First, the lifeless and mutilated body of Mary
Stannard was found, and the Rev. Herbert
Hayden was accused of the crime, tried and
acquitted. Next the lifeless body of pretty Jen-
nie Cramer was discovered on the shore by
some fishermen, and post-mortem exuminations
revealed the fact that she had been poisoned.
Two wealthy young men, named James and
Walter Malley, were charged with the offense,
confronted with a concatination of circum-
stantial evidence, but on trial they were also
acquitted. About a month ago Rose Ambler,
a pretty divorced widow, was murdered one
night at Stratford, and a coroner's jury, as-
sisted by all the power of the State, and a
batch of New York, Boston and Philadelphia
detectives, have been unable to fasten the
crime on any one as yet. This is a
very bad record for the old Blue law State,
aud gives the conceited morality of New Eng-
land a severe black eye. The last case brought
to light is possessed of features of peculiar re-
pulsiveness. The murdered girl was engaged
to be married to a man named William Lewis,
and she left his house alone about 9 o'clock at
night, intent on returning to her home. Her
lifeless body was found next morning about a
150 yards from Lewis's, house, and though,
more than a score have been indirectly ac-
cused of the crime,evidence of sufficient strength
to warrant the arrest of auy one has not
yet been elicited. The strongest suspicion
rests upon William Lewis, aud he has virtu-
ally been under cross-examination for the past
month. The difficulty seems to be in finding
a motive for the crime, but a late develop-
ment might give a clew to that. It is alleged
by a witness that the murdered woman was
criminally intimate with a prominent citizen of
the town,'who met her the night she was killed
soon after she left Lewis's house. If
Lewis should, by any means, have
discovered her faithlessness, it would
at least produce some motive for
the perpetration of the crime. The de-
tectives have not started on this theory as yet,
but it seems more practicable than any clew
they have followed so far. However the in-
vestigation may terminate, there is no doubt
that the murderer covered his tracks well, and
that it will require considerable labor to con-
vict him. The case also brings to mind the
fact that it may be a dangerous thing to be a
pretty girl in Connecticut.
RECALLING OLD MEMORIES.
The fiftieth anniversary of the organiza-
tion of the first abolition society in New York
was celebrated on Tuesday night at the Broad-
way Tabernacle, and many of the old-time
fanatics were present. Of course speech-mak-
ing was a strong feature of the affair; con-
gratulations and self-glorification were not
absent, and love for the colored brother was
expressed iu generous quantity. Is it not
about time that this mischievous clamor over
morbid memories and unhappy histories
were brought to a close? At this stage,
no possible benefit can accrue from a
reopening of old sores, and a retelling of old
tales. The negro is free, the South is prosper-
ing, the country generally is tranquil, and the
people are returning to the normal train of
thought that was wont to exist before fanati-
cism forced the sections to a bloody and fra-
tricidal war. The long-haired individuals
who comprised the mutual admiration society
at the Broadway Tabernacle, Tuesday night, it
is suspected, were unconsciously subserving
somo political design in their effort to recall
the partially forgotten past. A presidential
election is approaching, and the Northern heart
needs firing, and Republican politicians
can afford to provide a free lunch
for the firebrands of society of fifty years ago
in anticipation of a revival of the bloody shirt.
But the effort, it is trusted, will fall fiat and
unprofitable. The issue is over, and these re-
miniscent heroes of evil days, because they
were on the winning side in a dubious contest,
can scarcely ruffle the public mind by shrieking
invocations to the spirits of the past. Why can
not these alleged enthusiasts expend some of
their philanthropy at home? The New Eng-
land factories can furnish a fine field for a
new crusade against slavery, unless
the color of the slave is not of the regulation
hue. Let these so-called philanthropists or-
ganize a society for the liberation from thrall-
dora of the Lowell, Fall River and Chicopee
factories' operatives. Let them try to abolish
the fine art and exquisite barbarism of tanning
negro skins at Tewksbury, and help Governor
Butler to give freedom to white men in the old
Bay State. In the South the negro is a voter
and a citizen, even though in numerous, if not
in most, instances he is an ignorant va-
grant. In Rhode Island, an industrious,
educated white man can not vote
unless be is possessed of a property qualifica-
tion. Give the white man freedom. Or is the
New England Caucasian a degree below the
Southern Senegambian ? It would seem so in
the minds of the venerable crusaders who
celebrated their dotage on Tuesday night.
Their agitation cost this country'enough in
blood and treasure. They unsettled society for
nearly forty years. In their day they advo-
cated war upon the constitution, war upon the
constitutional Union, insurrection, rapine and
murder. It is high time that the}T gave us a
rest.
DEATH OF ANOTHER OLD GALVES-
TONIAN.
Hon. R. D. Johnson, a well-known citizen of
Galveston since 1S3S, died at his residence, on
Postoflice street, yesterday at 1:30 o'clock. He
was born in Charlottesville, Va., Decembers,
1812, and was educated iu the University of
Virginia. He emigrated to Texas in 1S37, and
was among those who settled on the island and
founded the city of Galveston, in 1S38. He
served as chief justice of the county and post-
master for many years. He was twice mar-
ried, his first wife having been Matilda, a
daughter of the famous Methodist preacher,
John Newiand Maffitt, and a sister of Mrs. Hen-
rietta Lamar, wife of President Lamar, of the
republic of Texas. Two sons were the issue of
that marriage. One was Freddie Johnson, who
grew to manhood, was married, and went
down at sea with his wife in the ill-fated
steamer Varuna on a voyage from New York
for Galveston. The other son survives in the
person of Wm. R. Johnson, the well-know not-
ary public and business man. His second wife,
who survives, was Miss Mary Rogers, and of
this marriage there are six living children—
Philip, Lucy, Madie, Sidney, Fanny and La-
mar. The deceased was a man of quiet and
exemplary habits, retiring and domestic in his
tastes, and enjoying a large number of friends
among the old citizens. For some years his
health has been failing, and he had long been a
confirmed invalid, suffering intensely for some
months past, and enduring such pains as few
could have survived so long. Worn out at
last, he sank quietly to his rest, after a long
and honorable life, leaving a name that is a
valuable inheritance not only to his family,
but to the city which he saw grow from a
solitary hamlet on a lonely island to a com-
mercial mart numbering its inhabitants by
tens of thousands, and its wealth and trade by
tens of millions." Less than a score of those
who cast their lots in Galveston with him, sur-
vive to drop a tear to his memory and think
how soon they will follow him to his rest.
THE FREE-TRADERS ASD THE DEMO-
CRATS.
The free-traders at St. Louis have offered the
olive branch to the Democrats. If the Demo-
cratic party should give itself over to protec-
tion—incidentally or otherwise—the appear-
ance now is that the free-traders would, sooner
or later, abandon all efforts at political com-
promise—all talk of a tariff for revenue only—
and would go straight against tariffs and all
indirect taxation, deeming that if the vice of
in justice is not inherent in such systems, it is
practically inseparable from them. The Demo-
cratic party probably has now the deciding
voice as to what shape the free-trade demand
shall assume, whether it shall be simply anti-
protectionist, but saving the revenue features
of the tariff, or whether it shall be for a clean
sweep of the tariff system, and the substitution
of direct levies or excises on present and
visible taxable values, at uniform rates, and
regardless of their place of production,
whether foreign or domestic. Let not
the politicians laugh. A government cer-
tainly needs revenue, but there are ways
of raising it directly from property and in-
comes. The demand is now that protectec-
tionism must go. If this is not heard, the next
demand will be that its nesting place must be
destroyed—that the tariff must go. The earn-
ings of the people of this country under free
trade would be prodigious in the aggregate,
and they could with perfect ease sustain a just
and economical government by direct taxa-
tion.
Professor Culver, of Bishop college, Mar-
shall, Texas, denies the accuracy of some state-
ments contained in the special correspondence
of The News from that point, recently pub-
lished. The professor deuies that any of the
white young girls employed as teachers at his
college accepted the escort of negroes to and
from church. Some of the best people in the
town informed the correspondent that they
had witnessed such a thing. The professor
deuies that the white girl teachers familiarized
with the negroes. When asked that question
by The News correspondent, ho said he never
observed it, except in the. case of one young
girl named Miss Simmons, and that he had not
employed her this year. Her name, however,
appears on this year's catalogue as a teacher.
When asked by the correspondent if he be-
lieved in the social equality o f the races, he
said that, iu his opinion, education and not
color made the gentleman and lady; there
were many white men that he would not asso-
ciate with, and there were many colored gen-
tlemen with whom he would associate. Ho
said he had frequently invited colored clergy-
men to dinner and tea. When asked what
effect higher education had on the negro,
he said that it made him arrogant almost and
spoiled him in many instances. He noted a
case. There was a bright young negro living
in the town whom he appointed an assistant
teacher at the college. Before he was a week
in the position he wanted to manage the entire
institution, and it was necessary to discharge
him. The professor said he did not talk for
publication, but The News correspondent in-
formed him that he had no private use for his
views, and only sought him to get information
for the public. A college professor, a clergy-
man, and prima facie a gentleman should
have a better memory and pay more attention
to facts.
stats press."
What the Interior Papers Say.
The Paris North Texan remarks:
One of the most sensible things we have seen
lately, coming from a colored man, is an address
from one J. N. Johnson, of Houston, iu which he
informs the colored people that he has withdrawn
all suits against the Houston and Texas Central
Railroad company for the denial to colored people
of seats in the ladies' car. This writer seems to
appreciate the surroundings, and it is hoped that
his words will be heeded. That railroads should
afford first-class accommodations, separate from
that provided for the whites, is a fact that can not
be denied. They pay first-class fare, and should
have first-class passage.
The Athens (Henderson county) Narrow
Gauge consoles its readers by saying:
The timbered section has a great advantage over
the prairie country. We have no wire fences to
war and spill blood owr. We have not even had
screw-worms in this section.
Abilene Reporter:
An interesting case is apt to come before the
courts in the matter of the nineteen carloads of
sheep held and offered for sale for freight charges.
The sheep seem to belong to A. J. Pepper, J. F.
Alexander aud J. E. Straut. The}- were consigned:
three carloads to Smith & Steffens, four to J. T.
Alexander, four to J. E. Straut, and eight to A. J.
Pepper. Alexander was here a week airo and
asked the agent to give him as long as possible to
raise the money, and then went away. Mr. Thos.
Davies received a telegram authorizing him to pay
charges and sell the sheep, but as Mr. D. did not
have the bills of lading, Mr. Riddell, the agent, de-
clined to turn him over the sheep. As yet the con-
signees and bills of lading have not been found.
The railroad attorney came, and the sheep are ad-
vertised in the Reporter for sale.
The Nacogdoches News remarks:
The negroes of Texas may have some just griev-
ances. We do not. pretend to say they have not.
What class of our citizens have not in some way?
But thit they are such as to justify a general mass-
meeting in the dead hours of night, the purchase of
fire arms aud other threatening measures detri-
mental to the quietude of society can be truthfully
denied. The white people of this country should
act justly and fairly toward the negro, and we be-
lieve that as a rule they have. The protection of
the law is given to both faces alike: the taxes are
levied without distinction, and every bene-
fit from a political standpoint received by
the whites is bestowed upon the blacks. In view
of these facts it js a matter of surprise that there
should be any foundation for the many rumors
afloat throughout this section. We advise our col-
ored population to dismiss at once and forever
from their minds any all such thoughts as are now
generally attributed to them; to remain at their
homes, pursue their legitimate callings, labor, pay
their debts, treat their white neighbors with con-
sideration. and it' agrieved, ask through the proper
channels for redress, and we have no doubt that
all will go well. But if they will not do these
tilings, and precipitate a rupture between the races
then wQe be unto the descendants of Ham.
The Seymour Cresset says that Judge Wil-
liams, in charging the grand jury of Baylor
county, speaking of wire-fence cutting, said:
I am somewhat at a loss to know what to say;
but it is an unlawful practice, and offenders should
be dealt with to the very fullest extent of the law.
If they are injured themselves they should take re-
course to the law.
The Victoria Advocate thinks:
The recent speech of Fred Douglass is the act of
a demagogue, who recklessly jropardlzes the in-
terests of his race in oqtler to attract attentiou to
himself. He must know that his demand for so-
cial equality can not be acceded to by the whites,
aud its discussion will only result to the disadvan-
tage of the negro. He chooses to ignore the fact
that the sentiment he announces appeals only to
those of his own race, and that race the least ca-
pable of any of estimating the full import of the
tremendous social revolution he proposes.
The Breckinridge Texan prints the report of
the grand jury of Stephens county, which
says:
We find that there have been but four cases of
wire fence-cutting in the county, and sincerely hope
that it is now a thing of the past, but inasmuch as
tTTat offense seems to have been perpetrated to the
destruction of much property in adjoining coun-
ties, we here state that such offense meets without
positive disapproval, aud we earnestly recommend
that the officers and citizens of our county positive-
ly discountenance and promptly suppress, as far as
possible, any and all offenses of that kind. We
further find that the inclosing of largre bodies of
land with wire has caused great inconvenience to
the citizens of many portions of our county.
We find that in several instances tiie
public and recognized roads of our
county have been, with but little notice, and in all
probability without giving the matter due consid
eration, changed aud placed on worse ground and
increased in length, adding much inconvenience to
the traveling public ami the citizens subject co work
on the public roads. We further find that in sev-
eral instances the first-class public roads of our
county have, for the benefit of individuals and cor-
porations, been changed to third-class roads, and
said individuals and corporations allowed to fence
said public highways and furnish narrow gates or
narrow lanes, as their convenience and interest may
suggest. We further find that this dealiug with the
public roads causes great dissatisfaction among
many good people who feel that they are wronged
by these changes, and we fear that reckless and
evil-disposed persons will seize upon this apparent
wrong as a pretext to justify them in the destruc-
tion of private property.
The Albany Star prints the report of the
grand jury of Shackelford county. It is sub-
stantially and for the most part identically the
same as that of the Stephens county jury.
Both suggest that the proper remedy for them
is by petition to the Commissioners Court, as
provided by law, regarding the opening and
maintaining of public roads.
Alluding to that part of the State constitu-
tion which makes heads of departments inde-
pendent of the governor, the Laredo Times re-
marks:
The executive of Texas ought to have the author-
ity to 4* tiro out " a corrupt or inefficient official.
As it is his hands are tied. In the meantime he is.
nevertheless, held responsible for the scandals of
the lunatics in charge of bureaus, etc. Amend-
ment!
The Times also remarks:
As universal collegiate education is now the de-
maud made by many teachers and educational
journals, it may be well to pause long enougli in
our headlong career to inquire if we are not riding
this hobby, like others, too far. A very respecta-
ble percentage in every population must delve and
dig. and every college graduate may be regarded
as forever alienated from all species of manual
labor.
The Waco Examiner has interviewed Major
Penn, the revivalist:
He stated that at his meetings held in the States
of Texas, Louisiana, Alabama, Tennessee. Ken-
tucky, Missouri and California, though principally
in Texas, between 20.00J and '21,000 persons had
confessed conversiou. All oi these, however, had
uot joined the Baptist church, many having joined
others. He has been engaged in holding meetings,
as an evangelist, now over eight years, and is
grateful for his success.
The Clarksville Times remarks:
Boyd says that some people will smile when he
calls Paris the " Athens of Texas. Boyd is right in
this instance as he frequently is."
Why Paris should bo called Athens also does
not appear. When General Houston called
San Augustine the Athens of Texas, iu 1838,
and appealed to Colonel Grayson whether the
town did not deserve the name, the latter re-
plied that there was a resemblance in the sandy
formation of the ground.
Another East Texas town boasts as follows.
The Henderson Times says:
Henderson is blessed with fine health, a surplus
of dogs, razor-back hogs and a few gentlemen of
leisure.
The Rockwall Gazette's innuural is almost
as brief as Punch's advice to people about to
marry. The Gazette says: 44 We'll try." Punch
said: "Don't."
It is saiil that old colored men object to being
called uacle since they have been freed, but
from the way the papers have of l>estowlng it
on white citizens it does not appear to be con-
sidered a term of reproach. Some old fellows
do not like it, however. Old age is honorable,
but most men are so modest as to eschew the
honor. •
The Abilene Reporter prints the proceedings
of the meeting of the West Texas Wool-grow-
ers' association, held at Abilene, on Saturday,
23d September. They declare in favor of a
protective tariff, aud say:
That the production of mutton and wool is one
of the most essential industries of the nation and of
agriculture, and is of viral importance to both.
That as such it is the duty of the government to en-
courage and protect the"same.- That a reduction
of the duty on wool bv the last Congress was not
called for by the exigencies of the country, but
wasagarnst the best interests thereof, and an act
of injustice to agriculture at large, and more par-
ticularly the mutton and wool producers That
we herein emphatically protest against any further
reduction of duties on "foreign wool and earnestly
request our representatives in Con-
gress — Senate and House — to use their
"best exertions for a restoration of the former rates.
That the exigencies of the general government
do not require anv revenue from taxation of
home products and home manufactures. That cer-
tain articies of home production and manufacture
being articles of luxurv, extravagance and folly,
such as tobacco and intoxicating liquors of all
kinds, are not articles of necessity, aud a revenue
derived from taxation of such articles of luxury,
extravagance aud folly is more easily raised, will
be ou articles best able to bear it, and will meet
with the unqualified approval of the people. That
said taxation, to be uniform throughout the sev-
eral States, should be levied by the general govern-
ment. and when so levied and collected should be
distributed among the several States in proportion
to the number of school children therein between
tne ages of eight and eighteen. That the several
States should expend said revenue in a technical
and industrial education of the youth thereof.
That, in short, we believe the government should
be supported by duties on imports.
The Christian Messenger says: " The deg
that bit Brother Caskie at the State meeting
has since died of hydrophobia. That is pretty
hard ou Brother C, and pretty hard on the
dog."
The Seymour Cresset adds: "We knew it
would go hard with the dog."
Brother Caskie is not the only frothy wander
ing guerrilla of the pulpit whose intolerance and
malice obscure his religion, and who charges
upon the secular press as Don Quixote did on
the windmills. Elder Clark Bradeu and Rev.
Jacob Ditzler are a pair who covet notoriety
through the press-puffs when they can get
them, but notice any way. Brother Ditzler
takes up the refrain of Elder Braden, and
writes to the Christian Advocate, "the curse
of Texas is its irreligious press, ied by
The News." Brother D. excepts a few
papers which have given him taffy»
but says the mass of the papers in South Texas
seem tainted with the spirit and style of The
News. Then he warms up with his work, and
asks, "why is it that the great State of Texas,
alone of all our States, is cursed with the
christian-hating, whisky-loving, Sabbath-
condemning and contemning, lager
beer guzzling, profanity encouraging
News, Statesman (?) and their imitators?"
This is a fair sample of Brother Ditz-
ler's style, except when he speaks of himself-
He complaius that The News does not give
religious intelligence with the same fairness as
other matters. The readers of this paper know
better, and so would he, if he would examine
the paper and give facts as he finds them, in-
stead of allowing his vanity and chagrin to
warp his utterances. As to the general tone
of the Texas press, it is fully up to the stand-
ard of that of any other State in its fair, mod-
erate and moral tone. The funny part of his
article is the example of secular papers he
holds up for imitation. Some of them are better
examples of profane levity. IJow that The
News has given him a short notice, he may
reciprocate the favor and do it a service by
another tirade. He might, however,
employ his time aud opportunities to
quite as much purpose by assisting the news-
papers in their efforts in behalf of law and
order, and trying to make men better citizens,
and to cultivate peace and good will; above
all, a spirit of charity and tolerance among
people of all classes and denominations. Sec-
tarian bigotry is quite as great a hindrance to
religious progress as anything that can be
charged to the secular press, to say nothing of
fantastic tricks of the class of irregular
preachers of whom those named abovo are not
the worst.
A Statoment and a Correction.
fTo The News.]
Houston, October 1, 1SS3.—In your paper of
the 22d ult. appears what purports to l>e an
expression of my opinions, through your Hous-
ton reporter, regarding the alleged race trou-
bles in East Texas and elsewhere in the State.
I did not know at the time I was talking with
your reporter that it was that gentleman's in-
tention to make use of the conversation for
publication. I am sure he did not make any
notes at the time. Had he done so I should
have objected, because I do not wish to make
myself conspicuous upon the subject. His re-
port was entirely from memory, and in several
particulars does not properly represent me nor
give the full spirit of my sentiments. I recol-
lect but two questions he asked. One was as
to the character of the colored lawyer John-
son, and the other as to what I thought would
be the results of the so-called race troubles.
These two questions w ere reported very cor-
rectly, with the exception that I am repre-
sented as throwing the whole blame of what-
ever trouble there may be upon colored leaders
who were seeking notoriety. I am thoroughly
satisfied that it takes two to make a quarrel,
and that bad white men are as much to blame,
if not more so, than bad colored men. I ex-
press the opinion that there are good men
enough of both races in Texas to fully solve the
problem, and enable us all to live together in
peace and mutual advantage.
I am also misrepresented in saying that the
Houston and Texas Central railroad was the
principal railroad in the State denyiug colored
people the right to ride with the white people,
generally in the rear coach. The meaning I
intended to convey was that the competition
between rival lines had in many instances im-
pelled drummers for their respective roads to
offer inducements for the colored travel and
traffic to the extent of disparaging the prac-
tices of each other, remarking there was more
liberality shown by the Missouri Pacific than
any other road in the State, and instancing the
case of Milton Baker and his wife, who were
denied first-class accommodation atter buying
their tickets on the Central, but readily ac-
corded to them on the former train at Denison.
I am also misrepresented in making a broad-
cast statement that colored preachers have
been secured as advocates, and that colored
pulpits had been subsidized. I have no recol-
lection of making any statement of this sort,
and think your reporter must have inferred it
from some casual allusion I made to preach-
ers who used their sacred offices to aggrandize
themselves at the expense of their flocks.
There are many most excellent colored men in
the ministry. Fir be it from me to detract
from their merits or seek to impair their influ-
ence. That there are some very bad and im-
competent ones is uufortunately for the good
of my race too true.
As the publication of the interview in ques-
tion has thus placed me in a false position,
please publish this explanation, and oblige
yours respectfully, Richard Allen.
A. Statement from President Culver.
rTo The News.1
Marshall, Texas, October 1, 1883.—I wish,
as a matter of simple justice, to say to all who
have read the paragraph of your correspondent
in regard to myself and the faculty of Bishop
college, that the statement that our young
lady teachers 44 have permitted negroes to es-
cort them to and from church," had not the
shadow of a shade of foundation iu truth; that
no " Ohio and Indiana girls" have hitherto
taught in Bishop college; that the statement
that the college or myself stand committed to
the doctrine of " social equality," is utterly un-
true, and that I said that 44 education spoiled
the negro," has not so much as the remotest
suggestion of truth in it. I said to your corre-
spondent, when in my office, precisely the op-
posite. Christian education is the only thing
that can save the ignorant of any race. There
is no nobler, better, or more useful work being
done in this world than that which is being
done by Bishop college and kindred institu-
tions. The faculty came hither by appoint-
ment of one of the noblest missionary societies
in existence, and therefore with an indorse-
ment as to social and christian character and
stauding, the very highest possible in this
world. S. W. Culver,
President of Bishop College.
The San Saba County Cattle Troubles.
[To The News.J
Milburn, September 28, 1883.—I read in
The News, of September 20, a San Saba
special telegram, that will leave with strangers
the impression it would be dangerous to even
pass through our community in safety; but,
however unjust and untrue the report is, it
will certainly bear its weight to a great ex-
tent. In justice to ourselves I can not allow
the idle report to float through the minds of
thousands, and thus remain without an ex-
planation and a true statement of the affair,
so please permit me to consume a few moments
of your worthy attention, aud I will give you
the" details to the best of my ability, aud let
your patrons have the benefit of the truth of
the matter.
On September 15, the day appointed for the
general round-up, the cowmen, some forty or
fifty in number, from Coleinau county, came
down to Milburn, accompanied bvitheir sheriff,
Mr. Pittman, for the purpose, wr/f thought, of
hunting drifted cattle, but, to alfeappearances,
one would suppose they were Jeady for the
war-path to light the red man t§jm the man-
ner in which they were arnBd, as they pos-
sessed weapons ranging fronLJU.'Winchester re-
peating rifle to a twenty-t#io-'aliber blinker.
They sat aud talked in squa'Sk -round through
the dav, aud as they rode thrli^gii town to their
camp that evening an observje; would not have
taken them to have beenf the quiet, peace-
able men the telegram from San Saba rep-
resented them to be, but, on the con-
trary, would have called them Indians
instead, as their yells were^ hideous aud their
pistol-shots numerous. Where was their
sheriff? some one asks. Answer, along be-
hind. On the 16th, the following morning,
stud party commenced to round up the cuttle
"in that much-talked of northwest corner of San
Saba county, ; and succeeded iu gathering a
good herd, but failed to find what they sought
most, i. e., burned and blotched cattle. ITie
party were so sure of finding a goodly bunch
that one can scarcely picture their intense dis-
appointment on not finding any crookedness
whatever. But .so eager were they in their
search to find those blotched and burned cattle
they continued the hunt for several days,
taking in the one water hole in the
country at that time, on Richland creek,
where thousands of rattle watered daily;
also a thorough search was made through-
out the postoak timber between Milburn and the
above-mentioned water hole, and every other
nook aud crook were raided by these injured
and much abused men, so to speak, but it was
too bad that they were again disappointed. It
looks like they were a poor outfit, and managed
badly to have gone to all the trouble they did
and then did not succeed iu bringing some of
our crookedness to light Now, jf there are so
many cattle driven in here aud burned and
blotched, it would appear as if they could have
been found by these eager, hungry men, who
only want their rights. It is one of the same
old fish stories as of old; and it, too,looks strange
that they raise so much smoke, and yet they
can not find a single burn. The Calla-
han and Coleman county cowmen have
never been treated in auy "way disrespectful
by San Saba nor McCulloch county men ; nei-
their have they ever had trouble in the past,
but with one exception, and that time they got
the animal they claimed; but the matter was
managed in such a way that all parties inter-
ested were satisfied. I thiuk the Coleman
rustlers dispersed feeling much sadder, but
wiser, perhaps, than when they came. Some
went to the round-up on the Colorado river
above here, while others gave it up entirely
and went home satisfied. Your reporter was
incorrectl}* iuformed as to the men finding
burned and blotched cattle and having to re-
turn home for necessary arms and lawful pro-
tection to take their rights, as he stated in his
telegram to The News; and as I have said be-
fore, the entire thing is a fabrication from be-
ginning to end, and it is my desire that all
parties interested, and the public iu general,
shall hear the straight of the matter from head-
quarters, who only wants Justice.
The Fence Troubles Discussed.
[To The News, i
It behooves every honest and brave man,
who is interested in the government and laws
of his country, his State and his county, and
who is sufficiently unselfish and just aud good
as to take interest in the welfare of his neigh-
bor, to speak out in an unmistakable and un-
equivocal manner on this all-absorbing ques-
tion. Every citizen has the natural and com-
mon-law i ight to egress from and ingress to
his land, homestead, ranch or farm, and no
person, corporation or joint stock company,
have auy legal rierht, either by statute or com-
mon law, to imprison him or his animals,
whether sheep, horses, cattle, or hogs
thereon. If any person, firm, corpora-
tion or joint stock company does so im-
prison him by building around his premises
a high and insurmountable wall, fence or struc-
ture. or does so imprison his stock aforesaid by
erecting around his land or premises a barbed
wire or any other kind of fence, he has the
lawful right to use such force as is necessary
to get out from his premises and return thereto
with his family, his stock and his products,and
it is lawful for him to cut a fence to accomplish
this purpose, otherwise he mignt be imprisoned
for life. Every man has the above rights as
the law now is, and every person who attempts
by any means to prevent him from exercising
those rights in so doing, violates the law.
The above are private rights of way, and
are dependent upon principles of law and jus-
tice, distinct ana different from the law regu-
lating public roads and highway^. The former
right of private way is for the individual, the
latter for the geueral public. The former is
not regulated by statute but by the common
law: the latter is provided for by statute.
I maintain, first, that the above are sound
propositions of law; and second, if they are
not, our constitution aud statutes should be so
framed as to embody the principles stated in
them.
Is it lawful that a man must ride along a
running stream, and only separated by a
barbed-wire fence from it, and let his horse
die of thirst t
Is it the fact that such is the law that in that
section of a county where no public roads are
laid out by the County Commissioners Court
uo person can travel on horseback or in ve-
hicles?
Suppose I own land beyond my neighbor's
laud and barbed-wire fence, can I not lawfully
go to survey it or to see it except by walking
and climbing his fence?
Suppose I own cattle on my own land or
ou the commons beyond my neighbor's barbed-
wire fence, can I not lawfully go to drive some
of my cows home to milk, and to herd aud
brand and care for my cattle?
Every disinterested man will answer these
questions iu the affirmative. The people so
answer and the fence-cutters so answer.
The lar&e pasture-owners, or large fence-
owners with often little land; the large land-
owners who expect to use or sell their lauds
for pastures, and their hired scrivners and
emissaries answer no.
Can a man lawfully drive any cattle off land
not his own, and then erect a barbed wire fence
on his own land to keep them off, and thus de-
prive the general public of the use of the com-
mons? He that drives cattle from their accus-
tomed range without lawful authority violates
the criminal law, yet these pasture-claimers
(for in nine out of ten cases they do not own
all the land they fence) can do indirectly what
is a crime to do directly. The injured cattle-
owners can not cut the fences they place there
to let their cattle return from whence they
were illegally driven, but would be guilty of
crime in the prevention of crime. This is the
logic of those who are crying out loudest
against the fence-eutters, and calling them
rustlers and nestlers. The poor men who own
small tracts of land and small stocks of cattle
have not the money to go toAustin to inform the
State officers of the various and numerous ways
iu which they are being robbed of their lands
and cattle, and oppressed, and invaded and
insulted by the pasture and cattle monopolies of
the State. They have not the means to employ
counsel to resist by injunction the intrusions
of these insatiable monopolists, or to employ
able advocates to present their grievances in
the lobby or in the public prints, but they have
courage to resist force by force, to cut the rope
that is strangling them, to cut the fence that
imprisons them and their families and animals,
and to cut the fence that prevents them from
going to mill, to cotton gin, to church, or send-
ing their children to school, or going to town
to court, or to buy provisions, or for a physi-
cian in sickness, aud the just and good people
of this State will see that they do not suffer
for exercising these, their natural and legal ^
rights. A general law should be passed mak-'
ing an open way every two miles from all run-
ning streams and gates every mile in every
fence:
The State can not take property without
paying for it, but it can regulate the use of
property so that it can not be used to fence up
the people that are here and thereby drive
them from the State. It is time for the great
mass of the people to speak iu thunder tones,
so that their voice can be heard in all parts of
this great State, when the great monopolists
are calling on the military power of the State
to uphold them iu robbing and oppressing
theni with their barbed-wire fences.
Every man, resident or non-resident, who
owns land inclosed within these immense
barbed wire fences—every merchant, farmer,
editor, publisher, lawyer, physician, laborer,
drayman, butcher, small stock owner, and all
others, regardless of what is their profession,
calling or occupation—are interested in this
great question, so vital to the material interests
of the people. I do not believe that eternal
Providence created land for cattle to live fat
and people to starve.
The plan the fence owners now pursue is to first
fence in small farmers' land and cattle owners
and then inform them that they must accept
such price as they offer, or move. It remains
to be seen whether Governor Ireland will up-
hold and protect them in this with the State
military. E. Hawes.
Iiettor from Alexander.
LTo The News.1
Alexander, October 2, 1SS3.—Since my last
communication steady progress has been the
order of the day. A two-story hotel and four
residences were started last week and others
this week. Every carpenter, in the town and
county is employed.
Cotton is coming in at the rate of seventy-
five bales per day. Eight hundred bales have
been shipped to date, which is four times the
amount shipped last year at the same date.
The crop is surpassing expectations, and the
prospect is now far more than a half crop.
Two steam gins and oue flouring-mill are in
operation, and the Alexander Mill company's
mill will commeuce operations in a few days.
The volume of business is at least one-third
greater thau last year, as evidenced by the re-
ceipts and shipments of the railroad.
The school-house is fitted up and the school
under the supervision of Professor Lattimore,
is improving continually. There are numbers
of families that can scarely get washing done
at all. there being so many young men that
the washer-women have all the washing they
can do, and refuse to wash for a family where
there are children. A John Chinaman could
do a good busiuess here.
Mr. Moore, of Dallas, has bought out J. R.
Smith, and will arrive with his family in a
few days. Dr. Haynie, of Freestone county,
has purchased a dwelling and is due here now.
There is not a house or room to let in town, aud
many are anxiously awaiting the completiou
of the new hotel. The lumber busiuess is still
booming. Religious revivals are prevalent.
Occasional.
The 2&oxican Woman.
[Kansas City Sunday Times.]
Kansas City, September 29.—The Mexican
woman is tho real priestess of her home : her
home is her temple, there is her pedestal; there
is the tabernacle of the immaculate pages of
her history. The home of the Mexican woman
has no boudoir; it has a sanctuary, and enter-
ing it, one must bow his head and kneel down.
I shall never forget the most agreeable im-
pression 1 felt, entering for the first time a
Mexican home. It seemed to mo that I was
all at ouce removed from the icy north to the
warm breezes of the south. In such a home
w ill not bo found gilded slaves of fashion, nor
enamels of capricious futility, nor filigrees of
life of pleasure or reliefs of coquetry. The
Mexican woman knows nothing o£ all that, is
particularly ignorant of coquetry; in her home
breathes everything of piety. While in
other homes the creoie is removed to the
farthest corner, it occupies the place
of honor in the home of the Mexican woman—
it is the altar where the family represented by
the mother is immolated. The sudden traus-
formation which the Mexican woman uuder-
?oes when she shakes off the golden powder
rom her butterfly wings to clothe her bridal
dress is astonishing. As soon as she assumes the
august character of the priestess of her home,
shs changes her costume, her love for society
extinguishes, she becomes calm, her passion
for ostentation deadens. The Mexican
woman does not care to reign at feasts, nor
to dictate fashion or hold a court of admirers.
She only thin Its of creating the happiness of
her family. It is useless to look for the mar-
ried woman outside her family circle, you will
not find her; while women of other countries
will dazzle frivolous society, the Mexican
woman remains at her post as the guardian
angel of her home. She can not
be compared to the heroic women of
Sparta, for she would never consent to
sacrifice her children on the altar <»f
her country, for her family means her coun-
try. Speak of the cold heroic deeds of these
brave mothers of antiquity to the Mexican
mothers, and they will answer you, that the ties
of Jthe family are not formed by the laws but of
the heart. The Mexican woman will never di*
tinguish herself by civic or ostentatious virtues,
she will always shine by her modesty. She is
indeed the inhaustible torrent of motherly
tenderness, the impalpable exhalation of self-
denial, which she sheds over all who surround
her like invisible steam, as a fragrant essence
and like a mysterious melody. She is quite a
difficult study for the man because she escapes
analysis as soou as a masculine look pretends
to study her. She is a poem w hich the thought
of man is unable to analyze, and which is
only understood by the heart of a woman.
Even chaste in her love, her resplendent eyes
emitting igneous brilliancy,'* do not glitter
sparks of voluptuousness, her look is sweetened
by soft tints of virginal candor. The Mexican
woman is eminently* Catholic, there may exist
fanatics, but certainly no impious women.
The disease of atheism has as yet not pene-
trated in their homes. She is inflexible in
moral opinions, parlor coquetries which women
of the beau monde permit themselves in other
countries would be impugned in Mexico
with the greatest severity. The Mex-
ican woman possesses a moral which
has not been taught to her; it is an in-
stinctive moral, born within her, logic, vigor-
ous and inflexible. Her soul is more
tender than ardent, for that reason she
suiters her adversity nobly anil with-
out any complaint when she sees her-
self abandoned by the t>eing who makes re-
double the palpitations of her heart. When
she is offended by ungrateful neglect she
makes no use of imprecations, twisting her-
self in the arms of despair, but bears her
fate with heroism, and offers to her companion
of life, as a corrective, the sight of a silent,,
dignified and tranquil resignation, the sight of
a conduct exemplary and irreproachable. No
woman knows better how to pardon than a
Mexican. She returns a smile for a scorn, a
word of love for a rude one, a caressing look
for a hard one. To her heart dwell all virtues,
but principally abnegation. She is the sublime
type and perfect ideal of a mother.
IRexican Items.
[From the Two Republics.]
Much alarm has been caused in the State of
Durango by the operations of the surveyors
connected with the Zacatecas company, winch
obtained a grant to determine the boundaries
of the public lands with a view to colonizing
them. Some large land owners do not like to
see surve}-ors near 'their properties because
they do not know precisely the limits of then-
vast estates, and are unwilling to subject their
titles to scrutiny.
A waterspout caused great havoc in some of
the streets of Orizaba.
The State of Coahuila has a population of
144.000.
The crops in Hidalgo will be abundant, so
says a paper of that State.
The recent heavy northers in Ver^ Cruz
have impeded work on the port improvements.
General Remedies Mesa lately died in Ma-
zatlan of yellow fever.
At Tlaltizapan recently Mr. Jose Vasquez
died at the advanced age of 10S years.
A floating dock at Campeche will be in-
augurated on the lGth instant.
Uncle Tom's Cabin was recently performed
at the Doblado theater in Leon.
At the Progreso hacienda, near Pachuca,
two firemen were recently burned to death.
Over 10,000 children attend the primery
schools of the State of Coahuila.
An American was recently robbed of $400 in
San Luis Potosi. Owiug to the activity of the
police the robber was arrested and the money
recovored in a few hours.
The coffee and vanilla crops will be splendid
near Atzalan. So says a paper of that place.
A man, so says a Sonora paper, has arrived
in Hermosillo, from the Santa Gertrudis
placers, with a nugget weighing seven pounds.
The cost of the Puebla penitentiary when
completed is estimated at §150,000.
The three Italian colonies in the State of Pu-
ebla are said to be doing well.
A. K. Owen, engineer, and William Rogers,
attorney, with his son as secretary, the ad-
vance guard of the corps of engineers of the
American and Mexican Pacific railroad, ar-
rived at Guaymas, and will depart for Topo-
lobampo, their initial point on the Pacific
coast, as soou as the balance of the party ar-
Charlotteville, Va.—Mr. C. H, Harroan. Presi
dent of the People's Bank, testifies to the value of
Brown's Iron Bitters for relieving indigestion.
Count Napoleon Bertrand, son of the
companion of Napoleon I at St. Helena, used
to hire a room in a hotel and go to bed for
three months, after having given orders for
food to be brought to him ouce a day, and
not a word to be spoken by the servant. He
was asleep during the siege of Paris. One
day the bread was so abominable that lie flew
into a rage, and forced the waiter to tell him
the reason, which was that the city was be-
sieged by tho Prussians. Count Bertrand was
stupefied for a moment. At last he got up
and waudered about the hotel for a time,
saying to himself: 44 Paris besieged? besieged?
what ought a Bertrand to dor" And, after a
few minutes reflection, ho said: 44 I'll go to
bed." And he went to bed and slept out the
sieze.
IR. 13. 13.
„ READY RELIEF
The Cheapest and Best Met.i-
ciue for Family Use iu
the World.
Coughs, Colds, Sore Throat, Inflam-
mations Cured and Prevented
By Radway's Ready Relief.
Rheumatism, Neuralgia, Headache,
Toothache, Asthma, Difficult
Breathing- Helieved in a
Few Minutes by
radw ay's ready eelief.
MALAEIA
In Its Various Forms.
FEVSR Aran AGUE.
There is not a remedial a^ent in the world that
will cure Fever and Ague, and all other Malarious,
Bilious. Scarlet, Typhoid, Yellow and other fevers
(aided bv Radway's Pills) so Quick as Radway's
Ready Relief.
Looseness. Diarrhoea, or painful discharges from
the bowels are stopped in fifteen or twenty minutes
by taking Radway's Ready Relief. No congestion
or inflammation, no weakness or lassitude will fol-
low the use of R. R. Relief.
ACHES AND PAINS.
For headache, whether sick or nervous, tooth
ache, neuralgia, nervousness and sleeplessness
rheumatism, lumbago, pains and weaicness m the
back, spine or kidneys, pains around the liver,
pleurisv. swelling of the joints, pains iu the bowels,
heartburn aud pains of all kinds. Ra 1 way's R^ady
Relief wIII afford immediate ease, and its continued
use for a few daj s effects a permanent cure. Price,
50 cents.
DR. RADWAY'S
SARSAPAPJLLIAN RESOLYENT!
The Great Blood Purifier.
Por the Cure of Chronic Disease, Scro-
fula or Syphilitic, Hereditary
or Contagious,
Chronic Rheumatism, Scrofula Glandular Swell
ing. Hacking Dry Cough, Cancerous Affections,
Syphilitic Complaints, Bleeding of the Lungs, Dys-
pepsia, Water Brash, White Swelling, Tumors. Hip
Diseases, Mercurial Diseases, Female Complaiuts,
Gout, Dropsy, Bronchitis, Consumption. For the
cure of
SKIN DISEASES
ERUPTIONS ON THE FACE AND BODY, PIM-
PLES. BLOTCHES, SALT RHEUM. OLD SORES,
ULCERS, Dr. Radway's Sarnaparilfian
Itc»olvent excels all remedial agents. It purines
the blood, restoring health aud vigor; clear skin
and beautiful complexions secured to ail.
Liver Complaints, Etc.
Not only does the Sars.iparillian Resolvent excel
all remedial agents in the cure of Chronic Scrofu-
lous, Constitutional and Skin Diseases, but it is the
only positive cure for
KIDNEY ami BLADDER COMPLAINTS
Urinary and Womb Diseases, Gravel. Diabetes,
Dropsv. Stoppage of Water. Incontinence of Urine.
Bl ight's Disease, Albuminuria.and in all cases where
there are brick-dust deposits, or the water is thick,
cloudy, or mixed with substances like the white of
an egg-, or threads like white silk, or there is amor-
bid, dark, bilious appearance and white bone-dust
deposits, and where there is a pricking, burning
sensation when passing water, and pain in the
small of the back and along- the loins.
SOLD BY DRUGGISTS. Price, $1 00 per bottle.
RADIiH REGCLATING FILLS.
The Great Liver and Sttfmach
Remedy,
Perfect purgative, soothing aperient, act without
pain, always reliable and natural in their opera-
tions.
.4 vegetable substitute for calomel
Perfectly tasteless, elegantly coated with sweet
jrum, purge, regulate, purify, cleanse and
strengthen. *.
RADWAY'S PILLS for the cure of all disorders
of the Stomach. Liver, Bowels, Kidneys, Bladder,
Pain in the Back, Loss of Appet:t.\ Langour,
Nervous Diseases, Headache, Constipation, Cos-
tiveness, Indigestion, Dyspepsia, Biliousness, Fever,
Inflammation of the Bowels, Piles, and all de-
rangements of the Internal Viscera. Purely vege-
table. containing no mercury, minerals or delete-
rious drugs.
A few doses of RADWAY'S PILLS will free the
system of all the above named disorders.
Price, 25 Cents Per Soz>
SOLD BY DRUGGISTS.
READ "FALSE AND TRUE."
Send a letter stamp to RAD WAIT & CO.,
No- 32 Warren Streot9 New ?ork>
Information worth thousands will be sent
to you.
TO THE PUBLIC.
Be sure and ask for Railway's, and see that
the name of iiadway is ou what you buy.
P. J. WILLIS &BRO.,
Notion Stock Complete,
Comprising FURNISHING GOO 1)6, HOSIERY, GLOVES,1
RUBBER GOODS, OIL clothing, LACES,
E M IIIIOIDERIKS AND
Fancy Notions of ail Descriotions.
Accompanying the visual severe, inclement summer
weather generally appeal's "lassitude of business subse-
quent to a normal coudit ion of patronic minds, but we
however, are happy to recognize a very remarkablv ac-
tive demand tor goods in our vai'ious lines during tlie
season just closed, yet. notwithstanding this ia< t, verily
assure our customers of the extreme completeness! of our
stock in every special department, so that the pedple
should have no hesitation to continue iorwarding their
orders, which shall meet prompt execution, as well as the
latest beneiicial market changes.
J. S. BROWN & CO.,
GALVESTON. TEXAS.
Mitchell db Scruggs
DALLAS, TEX., Manufacturers' General Stato Agents for Parm and 2VH11
machinery and Agricultural Implements. General State Agents
lor Browa Cotton Gin Company-
IN STOCK—Hay Presses, the cheapest and best in the
United States; Bay State Engines; Brown's Celebrated
ummus Gins, Chicago
screw Cotton Presses,
Knowles & Blake Steam Pumps, Pulleys, Beltfhg, Brass
Fittings, Pipe, John Deere Plows, Cincinnati Barbed
Wire, Turnhull Wagons, "Pride of Texas" Corn Mills,
Bolting Cloth.
Will furnish plans and specifications for Flouring Mills, etc. Seud for\,i ices aud terras if
we have no local agents in your vicinity. Our motto is small profits aud quick sales.
Gins; also Cotton Bloom and Li
Scales, Reynolds's 4 and 5 inch
C. A. KEATING.
Dallas Resident Partner.
GEORGE J KEATING.
Kansas City, Special Parmer.
C. .A.. KEATING,
WHOLESALE 1BRICIILTDML IMPLEMENTS
GINS AND MILL MACHINERY.
StateAprent for FITRST & BRADLEY M F'G CO. Plows. Culti-
vators and Sulky Rakes. ERIE CITV !*.• >N WORKS. nes,
j Rulers and Saw Mills. J I. CASE. sie,*. .i and Horse-Power
Threshing Machinery. OHIO STEEL BAltB l-T.NCK tFISH
* BROTHERS F arm and Spring Wagons. RICHMOND CHAMPION
|GRAIN DRILL.
dallas. texas.
R. V. TOMPESNS,
CORNER COMMERCE A2ID LAMAR STREETS, DALLAS, TEXAS,
EXCLUSIVE STATE AGENT FOR
SKINNER SFARKLESS ENGINES,
STEARNS'S STATIONARY ENGINES,
OTTO SILENT GAS ENGINES,
REMINGTON TYPE WRITES,
ZIISBSERiaAN ERUIT BSYES,
COLUMBUS ALL-STEEL SCRAPER,
HUGHES'S SUL3Y PLOWS,
HAFuOOC'S PLOWS, and
DEDERICK'S PERPETUAL HAY PRESSES.
I also handle Miller's Buggies. Champion Hay Riclcers and Loaders, Fairbanfes's Scales. Victor Scales,
Wood Reapers, Minnesota Chief Threshers and Eutriues. Victor Cane Mills and Cook's Evaporators.
A LETTER PROM
11. Dudley Coleman, Esq.,
The well-known Machinery Manufacturer
of New Orleans.
New Orleans, August 6, 1SS3.
Messrs. G. R. Finlay & Co.:
Dear Sirs—I have had occasion to test Brooks'
Anti-Malarial Tonic in my family with very satis-
factory results. My son. Willis P. Coleman (seven
years old), had been suffering for several months
with chills ana fever, and, although 1 tried several
remedies, prescribed or recommended, all /ailed
with him, and he gradually became weak and deli-
cate. A friend suggested Brooks' Anti-Malarial
Tonic, stating that if taken according to directions
it would in all probability effect a cure. I am
pleased to state that it acted beautifully, and my
son is now in good health, bright and active as
ever.T used it for intermittent fever with my eldest
son, and it cured him also. I feel confident that
where Brooks* Anti-Malarial Tonic is taken ac-
cording to directions it will prove successful.
Yours truly. H. DUDLEY COLEMAN.
Brooks' Anti-Malarial Tonic is for sale by all
druggists.
G. R. FINLAY & CO
PROPRIETORS,
TsTF.W ORLEANS.
NOTICES. _
"^yTE HAVE THIS DAY ADMITTED
MR. FRITZ STRAUSS
as a partner in our firm. Liverpool, New Orleans,
Savannah, Galveston.
September 1,1883.
STRAUSS & CO.
DIED.
JOHNSON—Judge R. D. Johnson, born Decem-
ber 8. 1S12, in Goochland county, Va., and died in
thf* city of Galveston on the 3d day of October,
1883.
Funeral from his residence at 10 o'clock a. m.
Private. ^
WATERS—Yesterday, October 3, 18S3, at 10
a. m.t Mrs. Mary A. Waters, relict of Chas.
Waters, deceased, in her o5th year. The remains
will be sent to New Orleans for interment.
Funeral services will be held at the residence, 804
East Market street, To-Day (4th instant), at 2 p. m.
New Orleans papers please copy.
HEMSWORTH—On Tuesday. 2d instant, at 9 a.
m.. Thomas Heinsworth, in his 17th year; a native
of \ orkshire, England, and emigrated to Texas in
1835.
SPECIAL NOTICES.
A Meeting of the Galveston Base ball Park
association will be held for the election of perma-
nent officers at reading room of the Tremont bote!
at 8 p. m., Thursday, October 4,1883.
Galveston, October 3, 1883.
Notice to Consignees—^The steamship RIO
GRANDE, Burrows, master, from New York, is
now discharging cargo at Williams wharf.
Consignees will piease pay freight and receive
their goods as landed, receipting tor the same on
the wharf. All goods remaining on the wharf after
4 o'clock p. m. (not receipted for) may, at option of
steamer s agent, be placed in warehouses or cover-
ed with tarpaulins on the wharf, but they are en-
tirely at risk of consignee or owner. All claims for
damages must be adjusted before the goods leave
the wharf. J. N. SAWYER, Agent
MALLORY S. S. LINE.
CJenoral Average Notice-—The steam-
ship GUADALUPE, from New York, September
15. having been ashore on Bolivar Peninsula and
assisted off by towboats, has incurred General Av-
erage. Consignees will please call at this office,
sicn the Average Bond, furnish copy of invoices,
mate deposit of 15 per cent., pay freight and re-
ceive an order for their goods. Respectfully,
J. N. SAWYER, Agent.
"yy'E ARE NOW SUPPLYING STOCK AND
filling orders for MR. M. SCHRAM, of 111 and 113
Tremont street, from our stock of men s, boys',
youths' and children's clothing, and commend him
to those who have heretofore purchased our gooJs
from the late C. E. BROLTSSARD.
CARHART, WHITFORD & CO.
New York, August 30, 1883.
C. Altltman, Pres. C H. Jackson. Sec. &Treas.
A. Hurforo. V. P. E. J. Landor. Engineer.
\TTROUGHT IRON BRIDGE CO^ OF CANTON,
VV OHIO,
MANUFACTURERS of ALL KINDS of WROUGHT
IRON and COMBINATION BRIDGES.
For plans, specifications and general information
address
HARRIS & LEVERSEDGE. Agents,
Dallas, Texas.
Excursions to Mammoth Cave.
rpHE cheap Southern Exposition coupon tickets to
1 Mammoth Cave, comprising railroad, stage and
hotel fare aud cave fees, now enable every one to
visit this most interesting natural curiosity in the
world. Tickets for sale at the principal offices, or
at Southern Expositio^pr Louisville and Nashville
Office. Louisville excufl^n rates. The hotel, under
the new management, provides for the comforj and
pleasure of th^. jruesxs.
W. C. COMSTOCK, Lessee.
DOUGLASS GRSENo
16 Sl 18 Exchange Place, New York,
BROKER IN
STOCKS, BONDS AND FOREIGN EXCHANGE.
Orders for Cotton Future* promptly «xecated.
(GILBERT H. OREEN k CO.. NW Orleant.
RmMXCJS ■! CHARLES GREEN 8 SOS A CO.. S.»aan«i.
( O. D. BALDWIN, Prm't 4th N.l'l B.nk, N.w Y<*t
CORRESPONDENCE SOLICITED-
IN otice.
THE GAlIEMlilS COMM.
All orders or complaints, to
receive prompt attention, should be left at
the office of the Company, in the Brick Building, on
Ularket Streets Between 24th and 25tli
Streets,
Between the hours of 8 and 12 o'clock a. m.
a u g. b uttla r. Secretary.
Z. King, President. Harley B. Gibbs, Sec y.
Jas. A. King, Y. Pres't. A. H. Porter, Engineer.
King Iron Bridge
AND
MANUFACTURING COMP'V
CI. 15 TTJE OHi o.
Manufacturers of all kinds of WROUGHT IRON
and COMBINATION BRIDGES.
Plans, specifications and estimates submitted
on application.
OLIVER & ALEXANDER
General Southern Agents.
Office: Room No. 10, Fox's Budding, Houston,
Texas.
)
Continental Meat Co. 1
FORT WORTH and VICTORIA, TEXAS.
At F. HIGGS, President and G-oneral
Manager.
This Company is now delivering
Dressed Beef, Mutton and Veal
at our Refrigerator Rooms, TWENTY-SECOND
AND AVENUE A, and the public are invited to m
inspect the same.
AYERS & CANNON, '■
GENERAL AGENTS.
^Y STOCK OP MEN'S, YOUTHS'. BOYS" AND
children's clothing, furnishing goods and hats is now
complete, and I especially solicit the trade of those
desiring first-<^ass goods, as my efTorts will be to
satisfy the demands of that trade previously sup-
plied by the late firm of C. E. BROUSSARD & CO.
M. SCHRAM.
AUCTION SALES.
AUCTION SALE.
WE WILL SELL THIS DAY, at 10 O'CLOCK
a. m.. at our sales-room. Strand—
Men's, Bors' alid youths' Calr. Kip and Bull
BOOTS. Congress GAITERS, BALMORALS, etc.;
Ladies' Buff and Curacoa Kid, French Kid and Goat
Button SHOES; Men's and Women's Rubber Over-
shoes, Goat Slippers and Buskins; also. Satinet. 0-4
Wool Cassimere, 100 dozen Handkerchiefs, Hosi-
ers, Gray and White Blankets; also, 100 sks Flour
and Miscellaneous Groceries; Furniture, BUGGY
and harness. lynch & penland.
Wm. y. Hamlin,
eeokefl is southern lands.
Offices, 40 Campan Building-,
DETROIT, MICHIGAN.
WANTED—Pine- aud hardwood lands; also
ranches and grazing lands. Must be In large bodies,
cheap and well located.
OOO KIEFFER S LECONTfe
B? A. Pi O Equal In pro01
b r* O to the Orange,
-ally Itliffht-proof. onlv,oa
tJieir own roots. All other Pear
[stocks are eubkst to blight.
'Trees and rooted Cattiring
, at reasonable pries*. Full as-
, «2£t.?S.1u of Fr"it Trees and
. Fruit Plant*. Catalomiefree.
McCAUSLAND £ EX ALL, real estate agents, 3d
street, opposite court-house, Lampasas, Tex.
Special and prompt attention given to collections.
Correspondence solicited.
We still pay the lu^Tiest
market price for same, or^
gin for tlie seed, supplyvj
Bagging and. Ties free.
Galveston Oilcomi
notice.
Sale of Valuable Gentle Stock Cattle—
A Thoroughbred Jersey Bull, Two-
year-old Heifers and Yearlings.
OWING TO THE SEVERE DROUTH AND
fires in the woods and swamps in Livingston and
Tangipahoa parishes, the undersigned offers for
sale
Thirty ^iead of G entle IVIilch-Cowsj
Two-year-old Heifers and Several *
Yearlings-
These cattle can be shipped from my landing on
Natalbany river, per schooner, direct to the New
Basiu. at a very low rate of freight, or per carload
by Chicago, St. Louis and New Orleans railroad.
I am instructed to advise that several of my
neighbors are also disposed to sell off all their sur-
plus stock for similar reason.
Apply to JOHN HUGHES.
On Natalbany river, five miles west of Ponchatoula,
Or to EDWARD IllCKEV,
37 Kenner block. New Orleans.
N OTICE.
WE HAVE THIS DAY SOLD OUR INTEREST
in the butcher business of Poole &. Robinson
to d. Freeman.
v. b. poole,
J No. H. ROBINSON,
September 28,1883.
Referring to the above card, i ke-
spectfully beg to notify the public that I wul
carry on the butcher business" heretofore belonging
to Poole & Robinson, at the old stand, and solicit
a part of your patronage. „ . .
The business will be under the direct efficient
management of Mr. A. P. NORMAN, a gentleman
fully conversant with the wants of the public in
this line, and especially the shipping.
The business will be known uuder the name ot
THE GALVESTON MEAT CO. ^ ,
I am prepared to deliver dressed beef, mutton
and veal, etc., at tbe market corner Mechanic and
Twentieth, at any time during the day. Orders re-
ceived by telephone will be prooiPW attended to.
Respectfully, D1- FREEMAN.
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